Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAINTING WAY ROUND WORLD New York Times. An artist from Holland who is working his way around the world by means of his art to win a legacy of 50,000 guilders, equal in Holland at present to $50,000 of American money, has arrived in New York. He has three years in which to com plete his circle of the globe. His name is J. Monnickendam and he is accompanied by his wife. The trip is the result of an agree ment the artist aiyi a friend, S. De J- -J.I. T__ T>:u..k2ilr a v IHiiUC WIW1 U4U xjiiuci vwn |v? wealthy man of Dordrecht, Holland, who was a patron and admirer of the arts and wished to do something to encourage young artists of hfs coun try. He made a contract with Degen and Monnickendam that if they worked their way around the world, he would pay them 50,000 guilders, but with the conditon that they must not sell or exhibt their work through dealers. The two artists left Holland, each with 50 guilders, January 1, 1919. They worked their way through Bel gium and then to Paris, where they had such a hard time that Degen be came ill and died. Monnickendam and his wife went*on to Italy, Spain and London. In Italy he won the Prix de Rome on May 6 last year' with the portrait of a woman, which he sold. The money enabled him to go to London. . In the meantime Bilderback, his patron, had died, but left a will which stipulated that the money was to be paid Wften MonniCKenaam com piled with the contract. In London the artist obtained through Holland official an audience with King George who commissioned him to paint several pictures. The money was sufficient to pay the pas sage of Monnickendam and his Wife to New York. They arrived nearly out of funds, but sure tney could get the rest of the way in the three years that are left to them. They' must complete the circling by Janu While drilling for oil near San An tonio, drillers discovered a thick bed of phosphate of high commercial very Weak "After the birth of my baby I had a back-set,'1 writes Mrs. Mattte Cross white, of Glade Spring, Va. ,fcI was very ill; thought 1 was going to die. I was so weak I couldn't raise my head to get a drink of water. I took. . . medicine, yet I didn't get any better. I was constipated and very weak, getting worse and worse. I sent for Card ui." TAKE Ainitiu The Woman's Tonic "1 found after one'bot tle of Cardui 1 was im proving/' adds Mrs. Crosswhite. "Six bot tles of Cardui and ... I was cured, yes, I can say they were a God-send to me. 1 believe I would have died, had it not been ibr Cardui." Cardui has been found beneficial in raany thousands of other cases of womanly trou bles. If you feel the need of a goOd, strengthen ing tonic, why not try Cardui? It may be just what you need. PI All PI ^ Druggists 2 Branl HUGE GORILLA HAD REMARKABLE BRAIN John Danield the dead gorilla, had no "funeral" yesterday. He had so endeared himself to the circus "big top" that officials wouldn't think of it. Instead of a farce procession the tvvrlv was sent unobstrusively to the American Museum. of Natural His tory. There in a few months John will join in mounted form Jumbo, P.1 T. Barnum's famous elephant, which died a hero in rescuing an other elephant at a Canadian rail road crossing many years ago. The gorilla is pronuonced the best specimen of the species obtained by the museum. H. E. Anthony, asso ciate curator, said other specimen's were only infants in years to the lamented John. "Mister" Daniel, he predicted will look splendid when mounted. ' The brain was removed after im pressions had been taken of the face feet and hands by Prof. L. Casama jor, neudologist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia. Only the skin was kept at the muse um, but later, after serving medical research, the frame will be returned and John Daniel reconstructed. Brain a Splendid Specimen "There is no doubht of the Dar winian theory," said Prof. Casama jor. "This animal's brain?-a splendid specimen?will be a step in the study of motion formula, what prompts action, and prdbably in the search to determine the gorilla's in telligence." Not since the days of Jumbo has the. circus had such a loss, for John nromisp of usurDine Jumbo's ft*"v jt- ? * w throne in public popularity. But, for once, Dexter Fellowes publicity head of the shows, did not care to make meat of the incident. He called it a tragedy, aside from the financial loss, for John is reported to have cost $20,000 saying the animal was so nearly human he had captivated all who saw him particularly Mr. fellowes. ' * Director Hornaday of the New York Zoological G^den, who aided in the vain fight to save John's life, said he was as sorry as when Dinah, a female gorilla that lived at the Zoo near a year, died. She is now mount ed at the museum, and a bronze statue and an oil painting of her are in the administration buildng of the Bronx wild animal's home. "You can say for me," said Dr. Hornaday, "that loriesomeness and homesickness bring on death to cap tive gorillas. It reduces their vital ity and leaves them prey to disease.l New York's climate, I believe, is not the real cause, homesickness is. Yes, I think John Daniel might have lived a long time with Miss Cunning ham, whose pet he was in London. He evidently became attached to her and did not feel depressed while near her. ? Zoo Had a Chance to Buy Him "We had a chance to buy the go rilla," but, like London zoos, did not want to take the chance. Our expe rience with Dinah and another of her kind was enough. It's indeed a great pity the Ringling shows could not have exhibited the gorilla for a few months more all over the coun try." John livd the longest in captivity of any gorilla?something over two years and was four years and five months old. Dr. Hornaday said there never was a case of offspring of gorillas in captivity. Some of them .live forty years or more in the jungle. As John lay in death on his cot in -* - if. J? Ci rt 1 xne xowei 01 iuaaison oquare uraruen early yesterday morning, his hairy arms folded like a human over his chest, a circus official declared it was positive, uncanny. "It shook me, I tell you," he said.?N. Y. World. WOOD ROW WILSON ATTENDS THEATRE Washington, April 23.?Woodrow Wilson attended the theatre tonight for the first time since he retired from the Presidency. It also was the former President's first visit to the vaudevlle house, where he once was a regular weekly attendant since his illness of September 1919 Arriving at the theatre tonight af ter the preformance had started the former President with Mrs. Wilson Miss Margaret Wilson and Ran dolph Boiling, his brother-in-law, walked unnoticed into the building and was seated in the rear row of the orchestra and witnessed the per formance without more than a half dozen persons recognizing him. | EGG PROOF POLICEMAN IN COLUMBIA Standing in the city court room yesterday morning was a member of < the city police department who ate ; 28 eggs, one apple, one orange find < drank three glasses of water Friday J night for his supper. When asked : how he liked bananas the big officer < said, "I always calculate on eating < j 18 when I start." The egg consump tion was the result of an argument . which ended with an offer of one j policeman to furnish three dozen \ i eggs if the other officer would de- , Ivour the lot at one meal. The eggs , i were brought to the appointed place j and scrambled. In less than half an hour 28 had been cleared from a huge plate. The (officer still lives and , the mystery deepens. ?The State. MAY BE CANDIDATE Washington, April 23.?The ex pected has happened. Some man has come forth and nominated Col Theo dore Roosevelt, Jr., assistant secre tary of the navy, for the presidency of the United States. I -S Of course that man was coming ^orth. For young Roosevelt is assist ant secretary of the navy, just as his father was. Likewise, he should be president. But there are intermedi ate steps which Roosevelt tnust take. He must head the New York police and then become governor of New York and vice president. All of which is possible. Roosevelt was nominated for the presidency by Col. Neyle Colquitt of Georgia, at present engaged in the practice of law in Washington. Col quitt was speaking , to the Colonel and Revolutionary societies of the District of Columbia. Just why he interpolated the., nomination is not clear. But it was .interpolated. There was applause, and some of ! those who applauded were? said to I be of Southern extraction. The im presses made on Roosevelt was un certain. SIR PATRICK SPENS ^The Knk of Scotland sat drinking in his palace in Dunfermline. He had contracted a marriage with the daughter of the King of Norway, and was making arrangements to send a I ship to that country to bring the prin ! cess to Scotland. "Where shall I get a good sailor to sail this ship of mine?" asked the king. An old knight who sat at the king's right knee ans wered, "Sir Patrick Spens is the j best of all those who sail the sea." i So the king wrote a letter and sent it to Sir Patrick Spens. When the letter reached Sir Pat rick, he was walking on the strand. The first line that he read, he laugh ed and then tears came to his eyes to think of having to go to sea at that season.'When he told his meni to get ready, one of them replied that he had seen the new moon with the | old moon on her arm and that hej fe?areri a storm. Sir Patrick Spens had fulfilled his 'mission and was half way home to ^ Aberdeen, when the storm came. The ( Scottish nobles hated to wet their j 1 j clothes but before the storm was over ( their hats swam above them. Their ladies sat a long time with their fans ^ in their hands and their gold combs 1 in their hair waiting for their lords; but they saw them no more. ?Margaret Harrison. . ^ ROBERT E. LEE. " . Robert Edward Lee was born in Virginia in the year 1807. He was the ( son of Henry Lee, a soldier of the j. Revolution who was known as "Light i ' TT- TT >! T I xiurse non v ucc. i i1 When a young man, he was very I kind to his mother who was an inva-j: lid. He went to West Point and was made a lieutenant. After he gradu- , j ated, he married a Miss Curtis. He served as captain during the | Mexican war and when John Brown , ! began making raids in Virginia he was sent against him and succeeded j, I in capturing him. When the War j Between the States broke out, he was j offered a commission in the United ; States army but would not figlit ( j against the outh. He then joined the ! Southern army and commanded it ; with gallantry during the war. , After the war, he was president of < Washington University, a position j which he held till h's*death. He died . I nonorea ana respected uy ms coun- i j trymen and the college of which he < I was president was called Washington < and Lee University in his memory. 1 J ?Dick Parker, Grade 7. ROBBERS GET $200,000 FROM JEWELRY STORE Chicago, Apr. 22?Two armed ban jits today entersd'the J. J. Reingold jewelry concern on the fifteenth floor i-f ji downf/rom Hiiilr1ino> anil flftpr forcing the owner and a traveling salesman into a private office, escap sd with ca9h and jewels valued by the >wner at $200,000. Mr. Reingold and LeRoy Present, son of the head of a diamond import ing company in Rochester, N. Y. and traveling representative J'or the con cern, were the only persons in the store when the bandits entered. Tbey were securely bound arid the ban dits spent sometime in ransacking the place. ? Chicago, April 22.?J. J. Rein gold, proprietor of a jewelry store in a downtown buildiflg, today re ported to police that two bandits to day robbed him and LeRoy Present, Rochester, N. Y., salesman of jewels valued at $235,000. Shortly after the report, the police arrested Leo Reingold, brother of the proprietor but refused to discuss his connection with the case. MAY ABANDON ROPE Washington, April 24.?The hor ror of the rope ishall be no longer perpetrated in the District of Co lumbia, if Senator Dial has his way. He has again introduced a bill doing away with hanging, and substituting electrocution. A similar bill was introduced in the last congress, but was lost. His J new measure has certain friends in :ongress it is understood. WOULD DRIVE SPECULATORS OUT OF COTTON MARKEJ Washington, April 22?(Committees to draft legislation for presentation to congress designed to drive specu lators out of the cotton ancl grain markets were appointed today at the convention here of the National Far mers' Union. A suggestion that spec jlation be made a "felony" was re vived by the convention with cheers The convention also appointed a committee to draft a co-operative "armers to deposit their money, under heir control and decide themselves low their surplus shall be allotted to )ther lines of business. A committee report recommending enlargement of he functions of the federal land bank 10 they would furnish, long time cerd t in sufficient volume and cheap mough in rate to enable every farm ir to own his own home also was ap proved. Another committee report adopted ecommended a federal survey of war yrofits with a view to levying on ;hcm a tax sufficient to pay for the lost of the war, including and ajust ?d compensation for soldiers. rHE METHODIST EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT That the educational institutions For which the Muthodist Episcopal Church, South, has launched the Edu :ational Movement to raise $33, 000,000 for endowment and better equipment are worthy of the great undertaking is evidenced by the in terest they hare aroused in the minds of men not only in the South land bfct in the North as well. The announcement which has just been made, that the General Educa tion Board has offered $200,000 to the endowment of Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C., provided $300, 000 is raised by the college between this and December 331, 1921, is hail ed with delight by Southern Metho dists. Wofford College is one of the in stitutions that is to be 'benefitted by the Christian Education Movement of the Methodist Church, South. The approved askings of Wofford amount to $500,000. Of this sum, more than $300,000 will go to her endowment! thus insuring the effe:: of the Gener al Education Board. Wofford College is especially fa vored by the General Education Board because it is against the poli cy to give the denominational insti tutons. Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, President of Wofford, however, pre sented the cause of the institution so forcefully to Dr. Wallace Butter ick, President, and Dr. E. C. Sage, Assistant Secretary of the Board, Lhey waived the rule, Dr. Butterick declaring that no other College's cause had so forcefully appealed to him as that of Wofford. Methodists of South Carolina can boast of other institutions jusrt as ' worthy as Wofford, and these, too, < will share in the $33,000,000 fund which the Methodist Church, South, ! proposes to raise May 29 to June 5, inclusive. On these dates Methodists i of South Carolina will be called up on to give liberally to the cause of education. The quota for the South Carolina Conference is $1,149,500. The quota for the Upper South Carolina Con ference is SI.117.500. This is a The Victrola is alwa> wKpflipr if K*? carl ftp at your home, you can, at? the world's greatest arti you with music "and sonj 0 and players will perforn '.Stop in and" let us si the Victrola and Victor work. RED I fu AIIT m \j it n u i 11 ATTRA< ZINCLU Dunbar's Wl 3AND AND M> N "Nothing Bui Sparkling Ame Artists === Four Stolofsky Con< Grobecker's 5 Beulah Buck rilVELYN 1 'Popular C IN "JOY NIGH Notable Lectures o 5-BIG [ Redpath C Due West :: Spasnn Tirlrpts ! total of $2,267,000 for the Metho dists for the State. The Methodist institutions of learning in Souiii Carolina wilk their approved askings are: Carlisle School, .Bamberg, $75,00,0; Colum bia College, Columbia, $300,006; Lander College, Greenwood, $300* 000; Horry Industrial School, Aj nor, $75,000; Textile Industrial In stitute, Spartanburg, $50,000; Wof ford Fitting Schftfl, Spartanburg* $75,000; Wofford College, Spaitm burg, $500,000.. .. .. .... ' ' \ i If our Meod r8 suited to your mood, ly. With a Victrola in a moment's notice, have ists soothe you or cheer y. Your favorite singers l for you at your wilL how you how perfectly ' records reproduce their t eEcho CTIONS 1 1 T3INGZ 11 lite Hussars M.E CHORUS t The Truth" irican Comedy Singer=Players :ert Company Jwiss Yodlers , Entertainer R ARHFI T artoonist T" PROGRAM m Timely Themes ) A YS - 5 hautauqua April 23=28 $2.50 Plus Tax