Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SAFETY IN THE CONGO /White Sultana" Almost Worshtppei by Natives. WOMAN HUNTER GIVES EXPERIENCE! Stampeding EfepHants Not as Dan geroua as Broadway Autos?Shoot! Lions, but Balks at Shooting Ante lopea. X. Y. Evening Telegram. Gibbering gorillas are safer thar New York thugs. Stampeding elephants do not oflfei the terroVs of a Broadway traffic jam A eamju bed in the Jungle can offci mum .*?eurttv. desDite the roars of the lions on its outskirts, than a downy couch !n a New York hotel or apartment. So iiays Mi"-". Mary Hastings Bradley, first American wmnn to enter the jungle In African Congo, gnd she gives this as her reason for taking her little six-year-old daughter, Alice with her. Sultana at Play. Dainty, little Alice?she of the flaxen curls, the-sea blue eyes, the clear tanned complexion and nimble childish feet?In the McAlpln Hotel worked off just about six months of 'pent-up energy by turning somersaults over the foot-board of the bed, sliding down the helter-skelter in the hotel playroom and emphasizing In every way the American child's inherent right to play, even though she had been crowned Sultana of the Juhgle. Anxious to glean a child's Impressions of life in the jungle, the reporter asked Alice: ? "Wtiot .lia vnn host?" "London," came the unexpected answer, 'and the black boy who took care of me all day long1 while we were going through the jungle." To many Americans, it will seem strange that a loving mother and father calmly took their infant child to brave the terrors of a hunting expedition in an unknown territory. But the natives of Africa took it as a matter of -course. Here was their version of the presence of the little white fairy on the expedition:? Easily Explained?By Natives "Of course, the white man?Mr. Bradley?brought his favorite wife along. He could not do without her. And she did not dare to leave her beautiful daughter behind. Why'/ Because the jealous other wives would have poisoned the little thing in her absence." Seb.h! However, here is the reason that Mrs. Bradley gives, which sounds at lea9t more reasonable to monogamous Americans: ? "Mr. Bradley and I are not explorers. He is a law.yer, and I write. We have made trfpk in the Rockies just for ^hs''.piua?tice of iti and when Dr. Akeley invited us to take this trip it seemed too good to be true. Of course. we had to lake Alice, brie is our only baby, and we were out of communication with the world for three months at a time. Think how I would have worried about her if I had left her behind. ?, v? "She never was in any danger. The bkick boys guarded her every minute, for she 'was sacred to them. She is in more danger right in New York here ? with this terrible traffic than she ever was in the Congo. And she is bigger and stronger than when we left, and hasn't had an ill day in the whole six months." Crowned by Native Chief. It was the Kesaci of the Watussi, a tribe of seven-foot blacks in the very middle of the jungle who gave Alice tho title of "Sultana." He crowned her with precious jewels and made her a present of his ivory bracelet, which was the acme of tribute, inasmuch as ivory is so scarce that it is even withheld from visiting chiefs. "He was surprised that her long curls didn't come off," Mrs. Bradley relates, "and he looked upon her as a child-god who had come to bless his camp." But it was a little white boy, the son of a French trader, just inside the jungle, who paid the most marvellous tribute to the fair-headed little queen of the Jungle. He came upon her unexpectedly as she was sitting in the lodge. Grovelling at her feet and crossing himself, he murmured In his native tongue: ? "Jesus Christe!" Horrified, Mrs. Bradley demanded to know if he realized what he was saying. Through an interpreter he answered:? "It is the Christ child. I have seen his image at the mission of the White Fathers. I knew him instantly. The image his come to life." Placed Gift at Her Feet. And he laid his gifts at her feet?a luiiti' IImIm hfmk'Pt ho hiifl fitdhinnnil with his own hands, some stones and some jungle fruit. The boy finally had to be carried from her presence, and outside the lodge he waited with dogged persistency for her reappearance. Alice has brought back from het adventure in wonderland enough animal skins and furs to make many a Fifth avenue belle writhe In envy The valuable stones and ornaments she has would make a fitting embellishment for an heiress's trousseau. However, Airs. Bradley, probablj had the most exciting and thrilling experience of the expedition. Sht shot a lion. Feminine Lion Shooter Modest. T* rAolltf ttrnc. ..nUn /w.o.f oU,? ?A h-.tes, "I simply took aim and fired ant over he tumbled and lay absolutely still. "They thought it would be fine foi me to have my picture taken with bin ?victor and the spoils stuff, you know So I sat down by him, pulled his heat * WILL ATTEMPT EUROPE jl^^H * "?y Cuno Rhedan. a designer and tempt to cross the Atlantic in A seven years in planning and bull him on the trip, which he expects four hours. Rhedau's machine Is lift and a high rate of speed, 4 over in my lap, the camera man set up his tripod, I started to look pleasant, when?a mighty roar ct.me from the wide open jaws of my 'dead' prize. I got up in a hurry. None too quick either. I'or the shot had merely stunned him, and he was full of fight. A volley ol shots finished him, but I didn't care about posing for my picture after that." Shooting gorillas was an easy task, according to Mrs. Bradley. They are actually afraid of men and show no fight at all. "That was one place wc had to leave Alice behind though," she says. "We t-limbed up 10,000 feet on the 14,000 foot high Mount Mikero. The gorillas lived in a veritable Garden of Eden. The foliage was a deep green. There were millions of flowers, looking like wild orchids in their abundance. Altogether the party got five of the gorillas. Dr. Akeley has .brought the i skins back to the American Museum of Natural History, and he will mount them. A Tender-neartea uiana. "I helped shoot elephants and lions, but I couldn't harm the pretty antelopes. It was necessary to kill them for' food for our porters and boys, you know. But I always let somebody else do it, missing my shot rather than harm the beauties. Incidentally, here is a piece of news of interest to housewives, which Mrs. Bradley gives. There is no profiteering in the jungle. "Many times we had to buy food for our boys," slic tells the story. "We actually had to pay as much as three and a half cents for a whole bunch of bananas, and when we got short of meat and had to purchase an ox from a tribe, they had the audacity to charge us as much as $1.G5." "Never Had More Fun." Miss Priscilla Hall, a cousin of Mrs. Bradley, who is just beginning to turn her flapperish, bobbed hair irp under a net, was also a member of the expedition. "I never had so much fun in all my life, and I'd go again tomorrow if I had the chance," she says. "I have ?\nnfor>flrr \w?ll nrnh-thlv hn.VA lost 1" HVVV1J "V.., F?v,.,??v a few pounds ,in weight from walking but my health has improved 100 per cent." Mrs. Bradley estimates they walked at least 1,000 miles on the expedition, while little Alice was carried most of the way in a basket cliuir arrangement by her black boys. Miss Martha Miller was another woman member of the party. All returned in excellent health. MARY'S LITTLE LAMB Historic Pet Belonged to Girl in Massachusetts. There is .perhaps not any children of school who have not heard of Mary's lamb. And again there are not man> that have heard the history connected with the little poem. Mary B. Sawyer was horn March 22 1806, at Sterling,Mass. Mary was sever years old when twin lambs were borr to an ewe that belonged, to her father The sheep mother refused to care foi one as her own.' So Mary look it ant raised it with a mother's care. Wher the lamb was seven month:: old i followed Mary to school one day. Hel fore the teacher came some of tin mirthful boys suggested that they pui : the lamb in Mary's desk, which thej did. And the little lamb went to sleep but waked up and began to kick ant scrambled out of the desk. This i: what made all the children laugh ant play to see the * lamb in school. O Course the teacher put the lanib ou hut never scolded Mary in the least She only laughed with Mary and tin 1 children. The iamb stayed all day a r schoul and went home with Mary tha night never t<> return to school again r Hut that day was sufficient to gnii 1 fame for the immortal little la ml: . For some time later John Roulstonc 1 a Harvard student, was visiting tin > . * AN FLIGHT IN 24 HOURS. S p *wgm i? pilot of airplanes, win make an atprll In a plane which he has spent Ifllng. Three flyers will accompany i to accomplish In less than twenty-, unique. In design, with a powerful I ? teacher and he heard of the lamb ai school and sat down and wrote: Mary" had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day, Which was agrinst the rule; It made the children laugh and play To seo the lamb n school. ! C3rt ((.a f, nnSm* It Ollt But still it lingered near; And waited patientlv about. Till Mary did appear. This little historic lamb lived onlj two years. It was gored to death b) i a cow in the barn of Mary's father The wool of the lamb was spun anc knitted into hose for Mary by hei mother. Mary never would-wear th< stockings, but kept them in memory of the lamb. History says many years later the OM South church in Boston was aboui to lie 'sold for debt, then Mary with other young ladies got up a sale foi the benefit of the church. Mary unraveled the stockings made from hei .pet lamb, cut the yarn in one yard lengths and wound it on cards or which she had written her name. The yarn and card were sold for 25 cents each. The sale of these stockings alone brought $200, which saved the old historic South church of Boston from the sheriff's hammer. Yes, Mary Sawyer married, we are told. She married a man by the name of Tyler. She lived in Somerville Mass., until 1S89 when she died. History tells us that she was buried in Mt. Auburn cemetery near Boston i And that her tomb is beside that of th< 1 famous poet, Longfellow. Mary's hus! band died before she did so after hei ; death their home was turned into ? playground for the children of Somerville.?Monroe Journal. j BUSTING THE BUCKET SHOPS Little Gamblers Swept Asido by thi Big Ones. Newspapers and "stock exchanges' are carrying on a bitter war agains the "bucket shops" and curb broker' , ages in which the common people arr fleeced in stock speculation. Practically the only difference between a stock exchange and a bucket shop is in clientele, one being exclusive whih the other invites the hoi polloi. Th( ' elements of the. gambling are the same There is this, perhaps, that many b< said of the cheaper concern, that be cause of the opportunity more swindlers in proportion are bucket shopping but the sheep are shorn in Wall Stree by the same methods in both places It makes little difference to an inves lor whether he is "sold out" or his de posit is stolen. The tiled floors o ma rble palaces in the financial dlstrlc i have seen more men end life witl ? bullets than have the less pretentioui ' establishments now under the ban. I Back of both stock exchange am bucket shop is a greater power thai . either, a power that holds the desttniei i of both in a grasp so tight that it ii i able to crush at any time. The sami power has present control of the fab i" of legitimate business as well as o I the speculative markets. That power through its ability to control the mon t ey volume, can rule or ruin as i pleases. III 1 <UI7 ll-1'it nntver hrnncrht <m ; t panic as suddenly and as unexpected ' ly as if a bolt had fallen from (t clea . j sky. New York banks refused to hon I or the drafts from their country cor s i respondents and the whole countr; II was thrown into a turmoil. Wal f Street went wild. Money commands almost any rate. The power, ropre scnted by an international uankinfj in st it jit ion held "the street" in suspens almost to the closing minute, thei ' turned loose a. stream cf money it hai ] obtained in ample time to have busi ness hours before. The fjrip of that power has not les soiled since 1907.?Dearborn Independ eilt. WHERE EAST MEETS WEST Vladivostok as the City Stands Today. v. VFRY MICH HKF SMI FRAMflSfft V Ull IIIVV? mmmmrnrn MiiKvawww / - * # ^ ? ' ' Terminal of the Longest Railroad in the World?Demoralized ' by Frequent Changes of Government? 1 Cost of Living High. "On the eight-day trip from Mobcow she had told fellow passengers on the trans-Siberian railway of an Englishman who was dta&PPOJated because he spent ten days in Now York and had not seen an Indian. "Just before alighting at the terminal city of the longest railroad in the world she inquired, 'Is there much danger from wolves in Vladivostok?' "Not only is there about as much danger of meeting a wolf in Vladlvost k as there would be of encountering a mountain lion in Sa.n Francisco; but there are other likenesses between these port cities, especially if the Vladivostok of just before the tfrar be compared with the San Francisco of its earlier, Barbary Coast days," according to a bulletin from the Washing ton, D. C.. headquarters of the National Geographic Society. Compared to San Francrtco. The city of the Golden Horn is younger than our city of the Golden Gate, having been founded in 1860. ;Had its normal development not been interrupted by this war, its hinterland* beset by Soviet: forces, unsettled by rapid changes of government and now reported to be left without any because of the attacking Chita troops, Vladivostok might soon have rivalled our own coast city in population and' beauty. " 'Living ia extremely dear," .said the _ Baedeker of 19*12; and of the Vladit vostok of 1922 it might be said with equal truth that human life Is very cheap. The city warranted a Bret Harte's attention for its bizarre and colorful atmosphere during the war times, but for the variety of people who made up its transitory population it outdid any earlier experiences of our own frontier towns. Normally It has fewer th??n 50,000 people; by 1918 its residents numbered nearly 200,000. The influx was made up of human gradations between victims and American millionaires. Huge piles of war r material were massed there before the r revolution came?acres of automobiles, . mountains of car, wheels, and square I I miles of barbed wire. Contrasts,are Extreme. ; "Even in ordinary times Vladivosf tok is a city of extreme contrasts, as might be expected ot a plsfce where Chinaman and Russian compete, where east literally meets v/est. Alighting at the European-looking station, from one of the most luxurious trains of any continent (1918 was the last year you could have done that) yOu saw trailers, automobiles, droshkies, carriages and j&rikishas. Russians, Japanese, Chinesfe and Koreans predominatedi with^raany Europeans, occasional Americans and Africans. "A tongue of hilly land thrust out into a land-locked bay constitutes the site of 'The Mistress of the East.' The architecture maintains the 6uro . j*ruu' i; ' v. <r. m i Granitoid Floor Paint Put it on today? f Walk on it tot ' morrow. Shines i like enamel. Kurfees Flat 1 I Tint ... I y A soft velvety finish of unsurpassed beauty for f walls and ceilings t 1 Kurfees makes c r Kur-Fa-Cite Enamels I Varnish Stain Auto, Truck, for floors, Tractor, Pi II furniture and Furniture, Ei woodwork. Woodwork. cc i.W?. pe&'n note struck l>y the station; which f makes the presence of Oriental people, C conveyances and customs all the more 1 exotic. You no sooner accustomed c yourself to the dreary routine of t bazaar buying:, flourishing: lotteries, and c Babel of tongues than you encounter- c cd the more familiar telegraph office, t motion picture theater, museum, club t and university. You may dodge a r PliirnnonYi rnHne* car iinHpr nn Amprt- -J can electric light, and run plump Into i a coolie burden bearer despite the ? Earning cries of a Russian policeman. \ The 'Golden Horn' restaurant was the f rendezvous of boh ^vivants of the a world. , c Break* All Civic Rule?. * "Small wonder living was extremely dear in the' old datys and Is an acute problem now, since the city subsisted formerly on supplies from China and | Japan, Europe and even America. Its growth seems due to some inexplicable exception that proves the rule that a city, to succeed, ShoPld be .self-sustaining, interchange products with the country around it, be thrifty, cultivate civic consciousness, be well governed, j^nd possess sdme racial, cultural, ^r patriotic unity. It owed'ltj commerce to the fact that it was the most nearly Ice-free port of Siberia, by .which virtue it became the terminus of the trans-Siberian railway, and to the military and naval establishments maintained .by the government of the Tsar. "Now its patron government has disappeared, its railway has been cat into units by the national entities along Us course, and Bolshevism looms as an economic as well as a passenger barrier along the far-flung, rail ribbon that nncp anmr> 7 flflfl mllAa to Calais. VIn the way of exports, ,ln Its palmiest days, It had nothing: more lmpor- f tant to give the world than sea-cab- t bage, trepang and a fungus gathered \ From a Brtd ; I .. 'Att, <f. V'? f ? f . ? "As a young hou two and one-h * perience I am gl - even we amat< successfully if 1 . Baking Powder* RO\ BAKING I t'C ( * -it t j| W-., ? I Absolute Contains No Alum Send for New Royal Q I Royal Baking Powder Co.* 1 : . i. .??' \ v*? ,' , .. - *;;'?. : v Pure Pi Reauires fewer \ ' 4 -'**> >+ t" <.* > f *. ' A . ' v .V ; ? ?* j-' LEAD has two virtues. ? It's the amount of lead termines its covering ( its the quality Qf lead that i life. Kurfees Paint contain gallon. Compare the form Pure Carbonate Lead * Pure Zinc Oxide * Tinted with Pure Colors, with Pure Linseed Oil and More pure lead per gallon mean face protecting-value in every gal of service. That is real economy than the ordinary kind, and i^ is quires to paint a house right. 1 tities for you and show thej b x Paint for every Purpose? Auto and Wagon Paint Porch Paint Carriage. Saves dollars All Colors lints and inrepairsand for porch tiamels. All replacements floors, ilors. HARDWARE CO CLOVER, - - S. C. ===== rom decayed wood for all of which rhlna was ?ts principal customer. Prepang is the dried body of the holithurian, more commonly known as he sea slug, more appealing to the :urioslty than^to the palate of the occidental. For this snail-like creature :an throw off, when frightened, its vial organs?digestive, respiratory and eproductive?and replace them all vlthln a few weeks. Nature here teems to hold that two can live more asily, if not more cheaply, than one. iVhen the sea slug: becomes too hunfry for comfort it .divides in two parts ind each, developing rapidly into complete units, goes on a search for ood." HAD RIGHT TO CHOOSE. Man Bows to Rules Laid Down by a Judge. As an alternative to going to prison or ten years for robbing a store of 1600, Guy Robbing, farm hand, recently igreed to obey ten commandments laid lown by Circuit Judge Sentel at Urbaia, 111. The rules follow: Go to church once each week; give up :igarettes for ono year; stay from pool mils for one year; read books selected >y the public librarian; keep employed ionstantly and keep account of expenlitures; stay off streets at night; keep l11 laws of state, city or village; drink 10 intoxicating liquor; pay all court :oats in $5 monthly installments; rejort to circuit Judge the ftrst day of acfa court term. ? We have no rati-splitters now, but vhen we compare pacts and covenants t occurs to us thjrt we~ are now witty >ut hair-splitters. ? Americans are an efficient people, ind by making' forty or ilfty more rattles will manage to absorb ttye vhole of the league idea. , u e; isewife of only alf years' exad to find that sirs can cook we use Royal ft 1 & t *' f ? . f J _ Jf* If* ML fAL POWDER ly Pure ' I Leaves No Bitter Taste aok Boot?It** FREE 30 William St, New York " SS"""3!SJ32^55SS5C5ir535^^^^^B^PiB. i ffijjfrtfk 4fj{^fA3- W HSHHThii i' -S >;$ jiHiilliif: ? -i ifc1ft I MNtMMSiMM ^ '"' : n? ijg I gallons ; I It hides and protects.7 in any paint that deciding) capacity, and neasures its'length of is more pure lead per tt ulas?here's Kurfees: SO% I . . . . 20% 100% Id Ground and Mixed Drier?That's All 9 more square'feet of surIon. It means more years \ Kurfees costs no more surprising how little it re* Let us figure your quan* eautiful color selections* We have them Roof Point Leak-Seat, Coats less Stops Leaks, than new Makes roof* roofing. Watertight. MP ANY - . i/jif . r*. '"? *? ? Burbank may produce tame oats without hulls, but K is impossible to produce wild, oats without husks. I am the Oure VBUBiUB oH. . *1 R < *?.</. ;.V ?> ' vr*4 I- ' < V, y am a smart cap. I look * smart?and act it. I want you td like me, so I keep your head com tr foEtable.. (See illustration below.) When you go a-motoring or a-golfing, tighten me up. ; w' ; / \ Vt4f y ' V * ;ja If Fm caught in the rain and shrink on you just loosen me up. After your hair has been trimmed) just pull ir. the strep. . t.'x -:>?*; The day you buy me I , fit you with exactness ?and I. never become too large or too smiijt, like other cap do Fm no more expensive mM.frf- Mn uiau aujr auiu,i %, vhw made. But I'm muca mote practical. JL M -rj rti , Jj i am the "SURE-FIT? Cap. Get me! pleinvijibl/itrap, you uti/iafnu tottiwfciiai. 't *?. (No eteaid) "fT * /J ' W}'. ', NSfl SOLD AT BEST STORES \VL- L * a Which is mo re , ' ! fmnnrtant? r THE AVERAGE MAX can hardly sleep If he remembers that his buildings, stock of goods, or other property that ftre could destroy is not ads^natdly covered by fire insurance tvhlch may POSSIBLY burn, but he can and does sleep like a log, of rather ftke a dead man, when he knows that his life is inadequately insured or hot insured at all, and if he thinks*at all he knows that he la SURE TO DIH and that when he does the mortgage on his home is sure to be foreclosed and his wife and helpless children turned out to face the world, or it there is ito mortgage that they will be deprived of many comforts and privileges that be takes pride in supplying while With them. He never seems to realise that death does not wipe out his obligation to protect his family any more than it eliminates his obligation, to pay h(s honest debts, especially those that art secured! Now which kind of Insurance is the more important? GOOD Fire Insurance IS a fine thing to have, if needed, but costs money. MUTUAL BENEFIT Life Insurance Is a better thing to have,and is sure to be needed, and does not cost money. Ask us to show you why it does not cost thoney any more than depositing money in a bank does. Also ask us to show you why It has no competition. SAM M. & S. E. GRIST PEOPLES BANK BUILDING ' WWe also write Fire Insurance. fAiunnw nDiircTftPE' v/liilll/Ull JL/IIUU Jll/UJb YORK, . - 8. C. PATENT AND PROPRIETARY. MEDICINES? BESIDES giving special and particular attention to our Prescription Department and keeping It right up to the minute for SERVICE, we also eafry a very complete line of PROPRIETARY and LATENT MEDICINES that have real merit. When you want anything of this kind, let'us serve you. SCHOOL SUPPLIES? WE CARRY a very complete line of School Supplies, Including Pencils, Inks and Pehs,. Pencil and Ink Tablets, Ex?rr>iar> Rnnks Cnmna^ltlon Tahlfttn and Examination Tablets, Chalk, etc. Our prices are just right too, and we believe we have the BEST Fountain Pen* on the market. CIGARS. TOBACCOS, ETC. If you are a smoker or chewer of the weed, we can suit your taste in either Cigars, Cigarettes, Smoking or Chewing Tobaccos, and Pipes. CALHOUN DRUG STORE , - , At, ff ' 1 * v ***/ a 'Ar ' JH 3