Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ti I* n Published Weekly. PICINS, SOUTH OAROLINA. Beware the grip. DQ not let it get a hold on you. Pride has many a fall these slip pery mornings. Baseball talk has moved on from postmortems to forecasts. An extraordinary duel was fought Jn France the other day. One of the duellists was hurt. Chicago is the gem center of the world, but there is such a thing as 'wearing too many. .Baseball bids fair to girdle the globe. The Japs and the Cubans are rtaking kindly to it. One man's attempt at suicide is at tributed to too much housework. Is this a sign of the times? We are told that an Illinois woman has put an end to herself by jumping into a cistern. well, well! What do you think of a hen that laid 4,000 eggs in 22 years and never brooded? Can you beat it? The houso eat carries germs in doors and indulges out of doors in an excess of vocal expression. Florida has a bride seventy-eight years old. And yet there are women of forty who have given up hope. A New York publisher tells us that poor music sells best. So we should judge from the music we hear those days. That proposed half cent coin would be about right for most of the things you get by dropping a 1 cent coin in the slot. Now York is to have a fifty-eight story building. Tenants on the top floor will be reasonably safe from porch climbers. A new play in New York is called "Bought and Paid For." However, many a writer of vaudeville sketches has no such luck. A Chicago man was dhot for step ping on another's corn. 'Anybody who has ever nursed a pet corn will call it justifiable homicide. A London man who was a contrib utor to Punch has just died, leaving a fortune of $6,000,000, and we'll bet bis jokes weren't worth It. We are told that there will be no bibes in these United States after the year 2020. Another reason for protecting our infant industries. During the last 3-4 years, says an eastern paper, we 'iavo lost $5,000,000, 000 by flre. Even at that 01(1 "inade quate water supp1ly" is still doing busi -ness. Trnutsk, the capital of Siberia, is described as the wicekedest city in the world. It is nowv up to New York, Chicago andl Pittsburg to renew their efforts. Aviator Pauihan, wh'lo has made $200,000 out of his aeroplane, says he is going to retire from the game. This looks to us like knowing exactly when to quit. Curing paralysis b~y artificially in ducing fever reminds one of the in genious practitioner who always threw his patients into fits and then cured the fits. It is had enough to he a deaf' mute, but wvhen one so afflicted is sued for slander, it. is carrying the thing toc far. Some persons9 evidecntly "Just can't make their hands behave." Pupils at Wellesley must learni howv to spell before they are allowed to graduate. It may bo a goodl innova tion, but we fear that it will de(tract from the quality of Wellesley fudge. An army officer has invented a muli tiplex telephone, and it is claimed for it that ten persons can speak over one " line. As if we didn't have troubles enough already with the four-party wire. Mount Etna continues to smoke, hut the innocent bystanders have come to the conclusion that there is nothing doing in the way of lava. Many a time andl oft have we hoard of persons who "ddidn't know it was loaled." Paris has decreed wvar against rats. This does not mean a battle against the rodents, but the' downfall of the present style of dressing ladies' lhair. But while the hobble skirt remains Paris fashions will not lack for etrik. ing features. Another instance of the hardiship'of ilitary duty is the decree that mem bers of the Now Jersey National Guard must ref rain from Wearing patent leather pumps at drill. H-owever, there is no order against chewing ginnj or using powder puffs. A Cleveland man wants damages for having to answer telephone calls thait were not for hir, and'for ,the' tide he' has lost in waiting to get the. numi bhers. he wanted. Wie will reqeffe. a darge amiouht l ieh symnathy: be~er gets ~b$g else. IPno N POLICU JUDE Judgo to the prisoner, "and you will r( each week, that I may judgo whether < you sign this pledge I will withhold se late this pledge within the year, I will you to the workhouse for six months." The prisoner signed the pledge at So was born the famous "Pollard Pled world. The man who had beaten his was created became a model citizen. was willing to give him a chance. The Pollard Pledge plan of dealing is strong drink is now followed in mi 'which it originated, and has been eve: aact of parliament. Vermont has incoi n Australia and New Zealand the plat "JIM MARTII actually heen enigagedl In politics. As unusuial record. Defeat after defeat daunted him~~, aalashdte ticket. As afarmr, M. Mrtin notonl Ctdalr Brookis nae in theoldtest As Amerian famer, migt. bte nrod of.y bwtsh admoted to lhe barown asecembert teet judrcial leftrone of owao fins 1890 was euectewto as ngres tikn Ntvembrer, redenat1ives onenousf the ht iti Ameica failymigt egh od f Z~tDEIn ri A SOLOMON The author of the famous PollarA Pledge is William J. Pollard. He Was magistrate of the Dayton Street po. ice court in St. Louis, when one day a. man was brought before him on the charge of having beaten his wife. The case against him was clear and he wgs sentenced to six months to the work house. Then the wife began to cry and to plead for the ian she had brought before the court. "le is the sole support of my six children and myself," she said. "If you send him to jail, Judge, we will starve. I would rather take his beat. ings and have food for my little ones. Please, judge, let him go." Judge Pollard was in a quandary. He looked at the brutal face of the prisoner, and he gazed at the tearful wife. lie picked up his pen and wrote a few lines on a sheet of paper. "I lia-.': written here a pledge by which ycu promise to abstain com pletely from the use -of intoxicating liquors for one year from date," said the port to me at iy home two evenings or not you are keeping the pledge. If ntence upon you, but If you ever vio send a policeman after you and send d left the court room with his wife. go Plan" that has swept around the wife nine years ago when the pledge He kept his word with the judge, who with unfortunates whose besetting sin my cities beyond the municipality in a enacted into law in England by an 'porated it among her laws and even L is in operation. IE OF JERSEY One of the picturesque figures ir. the next United States senate will bd James E. Martine of New . Jersey. "Jim" Martine is now Jersey's first Democratic senator in 16 years. He is a man of many mannerisms thai have caused some persons to call him eccentric, but it is claimed that Mr. Martine is not an eccentric person by any means. The fact is, in his home you would take him to be a southern er of the old days. On the streeta 9f Plainfield you will see him stroll. ing along, wearing his fedora hat (Kentucky colonel style) shading his eyes, and calling to first one mar, and then another. Like all men who enjoy mingling with the public, Mr. Martine has his hobbies, and his pet ones are politics, farming and oratory. The last-named came to him as a birthright. As for politics, Mr. Martine is a politician for the love of it. Of his 61 years 43 have a political sticker, Mr.. Martine has an has followed his battles, but nothing satisfactioni of running ahead of his fell into that occupation by inheritance f the soil. When his father died the niost valuale estates in Plalnileld, anid fell upon the broad shiouilers of "Farmer st prlde in keeping it up. The house at. Iewv Jersey andi has a history that any JUDGE NAMED The recent appointmnent by Pr'esi dent Taft. or Rtelpresenitative Walten lnglew:ood Sit~h of Iowa to be a judige of the eighth circuit of the fed. eral court to succeed Judge Van Da vanter, promoted to the supreme court bench, has created conisidlerable stih in piolitical circles. One of tile principal reasons for political interest in the appointment of Judge Smith is conlnectedl with tihe fact that a candidate presented by progr'essives for the samo position was Represecatative. George W. Nor. r-is of Nebraska, insurgent leadler, who directedl the revolution last March whichl n.esulted in the ousting of Speak er Cannlon from the rules conmmittee. Judge Smith has been in congress since 1900. .Judge Smith was born in Council Bluffs, July 10, 1862. He received a common school education, studied law, 1882, and wvas electedl jurdge of the Fif ,and~ re-elected in 18941 anid 1898. He L900. lie has been In the house of rep me and was re-elected last November. MESSEDEDTOR Luike Lea, practical owner of the Nashvi lle Tennesseean-Amnerican, and youngest leadinag politician in Tenneos sece, has been named by the general assembly to succeed to the seat in the United States senlate held by James B. Frazier. His election is the last echo of the tragedy in which ex-United States Senator Carmack was killed. At the time Carmack was shot lhe was edlitor-inl-chief of the Tennessee an. Lea is generally spoken of as "the man who made Governor Patter son" in the first place, andl the one who contributed more subsequently than any other in defeating him, after he had pardoned Colonel Cooper, im prisonedl for the Cairmack killing. Lea is 32 years of ago, a graduate of the University- of- thle South at 2e wanee, and is thio'sevond Luke Lea tc attain .pronihiene in the politics of Lea,.a descepdenrt Of Angirew Jackson in. ,19015 when iok -~charge. of the i,te Cumbetr , M4eiphone conipany STONE M STORYI Movement Begun to Restore Angle-Tree Monument. Ancient Mark on "Frontler" of the Plymouth and Massachusetto Bay Colonies is In a State of Neglect. North Attleboro, Mass.-The presen tation of a bill in the Massachusetts legislature providipg funds for resto'r Ing the Angle Tree monument and for creating a small reservation about it, directs public attention for the mo inent to one of the least known his torical landmarks in the common wealth. Probably not one person in a thou sand in New England can tell what the Angle Tree monument is, or what it stands for, and tlyough it is in this town you may meet 'men on the street here who never heard of it. Yet there was a time when it marked the bound ary between the two pioneer common wealths of America, the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. Here stood two centuries ago a tree that the surveyors of the original Plymouth-Massachusetts Bay bound Rry in 1664 thought a good mark for a "station" in their line of survey., A it, therefore, they ended a long, straight line they had drawn across what is now southeastern Massachu setts, from Accord pond, at a point in the boundaries of the towns of Hing ham, Norwell and Rocklapd. The pond doubtless was named to commemor'ate a agreement on .the boundary. The line was 27.35 miles long, from the pond to the angle tree, and its di rection was west, 20.6 degrees south. From the tree it extended due west less than a mile to the Rhode Island border. From the pond Its eastern continuation was to the sea, along the boundary between the towns of Co hasset and Scituate. Here was the "frontier" of Plymouth colony. The tree selected as a mark by the surveyors in 1664, after their long and slow march through swamp and forest must have been. conspicuous among *iv, I41. (e--I Angle Tree Monument. those about it. But in the course of time the tree went the way of all trees and in 1790 the commonwealth af Massachusetts caused to be erected on the spot a slab-like shaft of slate stone 7.3 feet high, about seven inches thick andl about 18 inches across its race. On this was engraved two lengthy inscriptions. The passing of nearly a century and a quarter andi the ruthless hands of vandals have worked a sad change in the condition of the monument. One might expect to fall in with such a meglected monument in almost any ather state more quickly than in Mas sachusetts. But though Plymouth rock is housed in a granite canopy, nobody seemedl to know or care until recently what was the fate of this other Plym autch landmark, at the wvest border of the old colony. One glance at the monument is enough to showv the work of the van lal has (10ne more to deface it than :hie tooth of time. Names are scratched 'il over both faces, those of freshmen in a minor college most unblushingly prominent. The edges of the shaft have been chipped away by souvenir aunters. About three years ago the condition af the stone led a number of antiqua rians, including Major Horton of At tleboro and a few progressive resl lonts of North Attleboro, led by W. HI. Dell, chairman of the board of select men, to make a concerted effort to have the state restore the historic stone. To this end a bill was presented to the legislature by Representative S. M. Hlolman of Attleboro, who was chair. man of tihe committee on harbors and public lands. The bill was duly passed and became chapter 41 of the acts of 1908. It directed the board of harbor and land commissioners to take such measures as might be necessary for the preservation of thle monument and appropriated $500 for the purpose. It was found that to effect the improve pient desired land must be bought, both for the proposed reservation, and for the right of way to the monument rem the street. The present bill pro vides for the purchase of half an acre of land and appropriates $600 for tile mntlre project. At present it is not possible to pick out a complete sentence in the inscrip tions. The top of the stone is cut in the form of a disc, on the south face of which appears the word1s "Plynmouth Colony." Fortunately the full text of ~the inscriptionis is preservedl and may be found in the atlas of the town of Wrenthami, issued by the state. Trho .intggiptionls are complete historically, bu fOcuriosities in the art of in .4#onwriting. VASION AI IN W'man elaitne to HIVe 11, Ment j Picture of D0at to the Battleshlp. Washington.-Mrs. A. W. Frasor, who now resides in New York, claims to have mentally witnessed the d1 aster which befell, the ill-fated bat tleship Maine in Havana harbor thir teen years ago. Mrs. Fraser states that she Aistnct-, ly paw the sinking of the bidtleship before she was told of it. /A young man rushed to her in . her.. cottage, which was ten miles'from Washing ton. He told her to tell him what she could see. "It disturbs me to have some one challenge me to a psychic test," she Mrs. A. W. Frazer. said. "Nevertheless, I sat down and saw a. battleship in full regalia. It was black. Suddenly It collapsed and sank into' the sea. "Then I saw, near at hand, a man in uniform, with upraised sword, standing with a handful of men. He had a mustache and side whiskers. He said to the men, 'Reserve your comment till you hear from us.' As the vision disappeared, I heard a voice say, 'The Spaniards did not blow up the Maine.' "Then the young man told me that news had just reached Washington of the blowing up of the Maine and said he was sorry I had seen the ship black, as all our war vessels were white. I later learned that the Maine was the only black ship in the navy. "How did I see the ship black and how did the papers later on print a message from Sigsbee which in sub. stance was what I heard the man in uniform sa'y, -'Public opinion should be suspended until another report?'" OLD LODGE BUILDING RAZED Historic Structure 'At Williamsburg, Va., Torn Down to\Make Room for Improvements. Williamsburg, Va.--By order of Williamsburg lodge the historic old Masonic hall on Francis street of this city has been razed to the ground. This is the building in which the con vention was called for the organiza tion of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, on May 6, 1777, and in which the dec liberations endedl in the establish ment of the Grand Lodge of Virginia on October 13, 1778, it being the first Grand Lodge of Ancient York Rite Masons in America. Rev. John Blair, Past Master of Williamsburg, wvas unanimously electedl Most Worshipful Grandl Master. In 1784 the Grand Lodge was removed to Richmond, Va. Tho most prominent men and Ma. sons of early times attended lodge in Old Lodge Building Demolished. this 01(1 Masonic hall. George Wash ington was a membe~r of Williams burg lodge and manny times presided as master, occupying the famous chair presented by Governor IBatetourt in 1709. The chair is still in the posses sion of the lodge. In 1824 General Lafayette visitedl the lodge and pro sided( as master. For many years the 01(1 building has been unused, and it was fast falling to pieces when it was dleterminedl to tear it down to make room for modern improvements. Noted Cats of Maine. Lewiston, Me.-The feline pride of Maine is a waltzing cat, owned by Mrs. Lutie Rowe of 80 Lowell street, Lewiston. Prince, the oat, dances whenever he hears music of any sort. This clever feline is one year old and tips the scales at 11 pounds. lie is a fighter, and, thus far in life has escaped without serious injury. There arrived by express from Gal veston, Tex., at Hlallowell, Me., a few days ago, a cat that was the only com panion of Capt. 10. 10. Wall, who re mained alone on the der1elict schooner Holliswood until rescued. It is pure white and weighs 18 pounds. It wan billed by the captain to his wife. The cat was five days on the trip. On the box were the words: "Water Mes Feead me. Tom.'' Ia~~~ t. en. ba. .tf . ... gien o nts. tAls no morphln9, opium, Cocalne or 4rug to deaden ain. It eutrali the acid ad drive.' Cut aU rheumatic oisons from the sys tem. Write Pkof. ogny, 63d andJeal. erson ats., Phils. Pa. for medical ad, ,ice, absolutely free. Atlanta Directory KODAK egla pres chrEdr p~o' Wal yonr r~ land writ or oamota catale tnTh Coueget-oopt" SlxeUey Ivy, AM~r., tiants, or LIQUOR and DRUG USING Sscientific rnie ech has boena kiti i uand suoc stu calsoo late 01 1 t aa108Udlars. rhine In MM5 Add. n ist , 1s3 woodwant av., Atlanta, ea. RUBBER STAMPS ompl and properly made. Write e4r ~ 1o showing styles, typeae Trade eeka peialty. Dixte Seal & Stamp Co.. Atlanta $4150 1. C. SmithA ros. $ 50 "T7 TYPEWRITERS$4 5 EVERY MACHINE GUARANTEED Write for Catalog and Bargain List 8 AMERICAN WRITING MACHINE 00' 40 No.e PRYOR STRIT ATLANTAe GA RUBBER STAMPS eals Stencils ad Bu lies. stocooe Uticaloe a Specilaty, Write for Ctaloa Bennett Rubber Stamp & Seat Co. 19.21. A. St. Broad St.. Atlanta, Gas, Much moonshine goes into piois . talks about ihaking sunshine. Take Garfield Tea to arouse a sluggish liver-all dtuggists sell it. . He is a learned man that unders stands one subject; a very learned man who understands two.-Emmons. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY ke LA nOVn yROMO Quinine Tabol at rund mnoney It it falls to cnum ILW. BE ZsI gnature is on each box. I60. Didn't Care. Hewitt-I guess you don't know who I am. - Jewett-No, ai -14 I haven't any wom an's curiosity about it. Domestic Ameni ips. Father-I think the ba. y looks like you. Mother-Yes, it shuts its 'yes to an awful lot. NOT QUITE THE.S&ME Cf Hubby-Havo you noticed how much better I rest after a day's fishing? Wifey--No; but I've noticed how much easier you lie after .a day's fishing than upon other days. iT'S FOOD That Restores and Makes Health Possible. There are stomach specialists as well as eye and ear and other special ists. One of these told a young lady, of New Brunswick, N. J., to quit medi cines and eat Grape-Nuts. She says: "For about 12 months I suffered se verely with gastritis. I was unable to retain much of anything on my stomach, and consequently was com pelled to give up my occupation. "I took quantities of medicine, and had an idea I was dieting, but I con tinued to suffer, and soon lout 15 pounds in weight. I was depressed in spirits and lost interest in every thing generally. My mind was so af fected that it was impossible to be come interested in even the lightest reading matter. "After suffering for months I do cided to go to a stomach specialist. He put me em Grape-Nuts and my health began to improve immediately. It was the keynote of a new life. "I found that I had been eating too much starchy food which I did not di gest, and that the cereals which I had tried had been too heavy. I soon proved that it is not the quantity of food that one eats, but the qnality. "In a few weeks I was able to go beck to my old business of doing cler ical work. I have continued to eat Grape-Nuts for both the morning and evening meal. I wake in the morning with a clear mind and feel rested. I regained my lost weight in a short time. I am well and'happy again and ' owe it to Grape-Nuts." Name given by Postum do., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in Dkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new .ene appears froms time to time. They a genime, true, ad full of human Saeet