Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throught the World. A fire in \\ilkesbarre. Pa.. caused by the cr-sing f two cctric wircs destroyed property worth ,;oo.ocr). Josephine Carr, a 13-year-old girl, killed a baby in Toronto. Ont., to get the carriage. Jahann Hack. accused of the mur der of his wife in Chicago, was on Friday. sentenced :o hang. The result of a riot in Chicago on Sunday was a negro dead and a white man mortally wounded. Frank Julian and his son were kill ed in Berry, Ala., on Saturday by a tree falling upon them during a storm. In a pistol duel between Lucas Green and W. I. Smith. on Saturday in Brunswick. Ga.. Smith was fatally wounded. The warehouses of the Standard Oil company were destroyed by fire Saturday, and the remains of Wil liams Strickland. the night watch man were found in the ruins. A workman who was trying to avoid two detectives in Warsaw. on Thursdav. fell and a bomb which he carricd exploded, killing the work man and the two detectives and in juring many others. President Roosevelt was on Satur day requested to take cognizance on the . -uation that has been brough-t about by the Equitable Life Assur ance Society trouble and to institute a national investigation of the in surance business as now conducted. Three diamonds, cut from the world-famous Excelsior stone, and valued in the aggregate at $go.ooo 'disappeared from the shop of Tif fany & Co., in New York, on Satur day. It is believed that they were stolen by one of the employes. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More of Lees Interest Con densed Outside the State. Mack Johnson. colored, shot and killed his brother, Lewis, on Sunday, at Campobello. . Pearson was shot and wounded in Greenville on Saturday night by -an unknown negro. -< monument to cost Siooo is to ?be erected to the memory of the late Col. Jas. L. Orr. at the Orr Mill in Anderson. * Little Miss Annie Smith. 13-year old, was accidentally shot by Her bert Ai-spini in Marion on Friday. The dispensary was killed in Pick ens on Saturday by a vote of more -than 3 to 1. Greenville N~as chosen as the next - place of meeting of the general as sembly, of the Southern Presbyter ian chn irch. EDIBLE BIRDS' NESTS. T he Way They Are Gathered by the . . Dyaks In Borneo.. Edible 'birds' nests are found in the clefts of rocks or in underground caves which are frequently of great extent. John MacGregor in writing of a bird nesting experience he had in Borneo says: "Off we went with about a dozen Dyaks,, as the little bronze aborigines of this part of Bor neo are called, for guides. The en tytnce totecave wvas so small and so elevated that I had some little diffi culty in reaching it. After we had traveled for some distance we came acfoss the inevitable stream. The ground, which was to a great exte:ut cEmposed of the bed of the stream, was rough and irregular. We were lighted on our way by torches carried by our Dyak guides. At last we came to a passage that seemed a veritable eye of a needle, so hard it was to en -ter, for it looked so narrow and con fined that I despaired of ever getting through it. When I fairly got squeezed into the breach I couMd force myself neither upward no? downward-for that was the direc tion of the passage-and there I was, suspended like Mohammed's coffin or a trussed fowl. By din: of wriggling. however. 1 at last found myself on the top of the passage. minus a certain amount of skin and some buttons from my tight fitting khaki coat. "St ill on we joggedl for thie best part; of a mile, when. lo and b)ehold, the cavs in which the birds wvere breed ing and which were to be the limits of our underground wanderings! A .] faint glimmer of light could be seen i through a rift in the rocks far above us, and it was through this small r;ft. w>ich was a Sealed passagc even to tle Dlhaks themsclves. that the birds ua-s ed in their jou n s to and 1ron, I the-ir nesing grounds. Otir ar:ival. f course, disturbed whatever birds were there, and they disappeared as best t..iv could. And there, for a time, we watched the Dyaks going through their gymnastics of robbing 1 the birds' nests, with their ropes and long poles creeping along the high ridges and ledges in the lurid light of the torches like unearthly specters. "These peculiar nests are built by a species of swallow. The nests con sist of shallow. cup.shaped cavities,, truncated at one side, where they are attached to the rocks like brackets to a wall, and forming something like a two-thirds segment of a circle. It is not always easy to get at them, as they are sometimes glued to the per pendicular sides of the solid rocks high overhead. so that the nest hun ters have to scale these crags with i ropes and poles to get at them. In substance they consist of an elastic, semitransparent, mucilaginous ma terial, which is said to be a secretion, or macerated food, from the crops of the birds themselves. "As robbing these nests for com mercial purposes forms a part of the Dvaks' means of livelihood. the birds have frequently to build twice or even three times during the season before they are able to hatch their offspring and it is noted that each successive crop of nests deteriorates in both construction and composition. The nests built at the beginning of the season are bright and transparent and are consequently known on the mar ket as 'white nests,' but when they are robbed the next crop is not nearly so pure in substance." His First Live One. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "During one of my trips through Europe" says Charles Hawtrey, "I found myself in a small village with no razors. They had been. packed in my handbag, which I left at the hotel where I had stayed the day 'before. There was no barbershop in the place and I was in a quandary as to how I might get shaved. The inn-keeper told me that there was a man in the village who occasionally shaved peo ple, and I determined to risk a cut or two and send w.,d rim. The amateur ~ barber arrived and after a little hesi tation he said to me: ' "Will you please, sir, lie down flat on your back while I shave you, sir-' "Thinking that it was probably the I custom of the country, I stretched out comfortably on my back and nearly wvent to sleep while the fellow shaved me, so light was his touch. When he t had finished I said:1 "'I am 'curious to know why you b asked me to lie down to be shaved?' ~ -'Because, sir.,' was his ingenuous a reply, 'I never before shaved a live i man:' "I may add that I sent for no more rj amateur barbers to shave me during '1 my trip." Southern Ra.ilway Excursions. The Southern railway will sell round trip tickets to the following jn points for special occasions: h Tuskegee, Ala., Commencement ex- jg ercises Normal and Industrial Insti- I tute, May 21-25, i905. Rate: one and h one third fare, plus 25 cents,, for the h round trip from all points, a Niagara Falls, N. Y., Ancient Ara- t< bic Order of Mystic Shriners, Im- F proved Council, June 20-23 , 1905. a Rate: one fare, plus $1.oo for round t: trip, from all points. Toronto, Ont., Account of Inter national Sunday' School association, $ June 20-27, 1905. Rate on certificate b plan. h Hot Springs, Va.. Annual conven- h tion of the Southern H-ardware Job- it bers associtaion and American Hard wvare Manufacturing association. ti June 6-9, 1905. Rate: one first class fare, plus 25 cents for rouind trip from 'L all points.a Calhoun, S. C.. South Carolina. State Summer School. June 21, July 10. 1905. Rate: one firs: class fare,1: plus 25 cents, for round trip from all points in South Carolina. Athens, Ga.. Summer School, June 27 to July' 28. 1905. Rate: one nrst class fare plus 25 cents for round Knoxville, Tenn., Summer School. ine 20 to July 28, 1905. Rate: one are pluS 25 cents for roun-id trip. Natshville. Tenn., Peabody Summer ;chool and Vanderbilt B31bical In ti: lUte. June 14 to August 9. 1905. Zate: ,ne rare plus 25 cents for round .\heville. N. C.. Annual COnfer nee Y. .l. CA.. June 9-25. Rate. .ne fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Asheville. N. C., Conference of koung People's Missionary associa ion. June 25 to July 2. 1905. Rate: me fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Denver, Col., Account International Epworth League convention. Rate -cry low, and will be given on appli :ation. Asbury Park, N. J.. Account of Na :ional Educational association. July -7. Rate very low and will be given )m application. Baltimore, Md., Account of the .nited Society of Christian Endeavor [nter-national convention, July 5-io, 905. Rate: one first class fare, plus $.oo for round trip. Buffalo. N. Y., Annual meeting of :he Grand Lodge of B. P. 0. Elks, fuily 11-15, 1905. Rate:-one first class are, plus $i.oo for round trip. The Southern railway can o4er 'nany other attractive rates. For ,ull information consult any ticket igent, or R. W. Hunt, D. P. A.. Charleston, S. C. Confederate Reunion. The Southern railway announces -ery low rates to Louisville, Ky., and eturn; on account of the Confederate eterans Reunion, from the following >ints: t Charleston ... ....$14.05. Anderson .. .. .. .. 0 Io.oo Blacksburg io.... 1015 Spartanburg.. .... -.55 Greenville ........10.20 t Greenwood ....--..-10-90 Columbia ... --.--.11.45 Chester .....--.-.-10-75 Equally as low rates from other )oints. Tickets on sale June 10-13, inclu- I ive; final limit to Jun, 19, igo. An S xtension may be had to July 10, by } lepositing ticket with joint agent at .ouisville, and upon payment of a ee of 5o cents. Side trips from Louisville to points n Kentucky can be made at very low r ates. C For full information as to rates, e ime tables and Pullman reservation. C onsult agents of Southern railway, r r R. Wv. Hunt', D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. C F THE PACIHIC MUTUAL le Insurance Cnmpany of California- .. Organized 1868 on "Old Line" Plan. Read what one who is recognized au ority on the subject, has to say: "Of te the magazines and daily papers ave had much to say by way of criti ism of certain Life Insurance Compa es, and especially with regard to-'the legal Organization of such Companies, nd of the manner of their control. 'hese CRITICISMS do not apply to 'he j Pacific Mutual, but DEMON- c TRATE the Truth of the Assertion ' fat "for POLICY-HOLDERS The pacific Mutual has the BEST Legal rganization." It is not controlled by b iNE or Two men, having no pecuniary iterest or responsibility save as policy-. olders, or recipients of salary; But it i controled by a BOARD of fifteen ~irectorA, not mere dummifies, but Stock- E olders in their own right, holding a at arge amount of the Company's stock, ~ ad Policyholners as well. The Direc >rs of the Company are men of high inancial and Commercial standing, and s( r'e by LAW made RESPONSIBLE for e acts of the Officers of the CORPO ATION. "The Company has a capital stock of >00,000 Fully paid up in GOLD coin, at while this Cap:ital and the Stock :lders' responsibility afford to Policy " alders the GREATEST possible Secur- 4 y, it Costs participating Policyholders 'OTHING, but every dollar paid into 4 ie Cmpany by them and the ACCU [ULATION thereon, is applied to 4 ieir BENEFIT. There is no Other IFE INSURANCE COMPANY trans :ting business in Ameurica whose Pol-4 yholders, by Legal enactment, are so afe-guarded as are the Policyholders The Pacific Mutual." Call on or write to me, ROBERT NORRIS, GenI. Agt. for S. C., New berry, S. C. Office over Post OfBece. Fifth o f t Dhoice TCNI MEAL AN: Just RE While it last Best Patent, cottc Best Half Patent, Best Straight $4.' (ill-dried Meal, sound, i f Hominy " These goods loaded in car al oing to jobbers and laying in y Lnd then shipped out. Everythi MOSELE Nhy Rob Yourself of More Than 3 Cents per Pound On Cotton? Do you want to get from 10 > 11 cents for cotton next fall rhile other cotton only brings 1-2 to 7 cts? Do you want to grow cotton hat will bring a difference in rice sufficient to more than ay for the picking and fertilizer? n fact will almost cover the en ire expense of makingithe crop? f so, I can furnish you the eed. Every ten bales will ring $125.00 to $150.00 more han other varieties. 50 bush Is will plant 50 to 60 acres, hould make 40 to 50 bales, ut in your pocket from $500. 0 to $750.00. One year's xperience with these seed will onvince you that this stale ent is true. I am planting nly Florodora this year. Well bred Berkshire and oland China Pigs for Sale. J. A. BURTON. Just a OF i Time, I We wish to call your pring and Summer G< A dollar expended with us will d< We offer the trade our best efforts est. The prices the lowest for the We offer some dainty Mer<.erized price from ioc. to Soc. yd. We ~1ave nice line Knickerbock S imities, Ducks, DeL~aines and othe e dreams for waists or dresses. S iverside Plaids, Southern Silks, Cl Our Shoes are built to wear. On: l1 Groceries. Get prices and see s S. S. BIl P'rosper COME SOO SWhenever you start out oL a s. This plan will save you many Stime. if we haven't just what We shall not urge you to buy.I goods as soon as you can. It y every way to make selections b M A YES' DR Car -hat lessee Flour D HOMINY kceived. s it goes for in $5.85 cotton $5.00 90 resh and sweet 75c. bu. " "9 " 1.75 sack: mill coming direct to us, not varehouse getting old and musty ng guaranteed fresh and all right Y BROS. Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - - S. C. OVER NATIONAL BANK. Just received 2 car loads of Buggies. 1 car load of Wagons. and a lot of up to-date and first class Harness. All to be had at REASONABLE PRICES at 'A T. BROWN. Minute 'OUR 9lease. attention to our line of >ods. >double duty. Try it. in selections. The styles are. the best goods. Waistings, Skirtings, &c., ranging uitings, Brouisse Stripes, Callalettes, tr dress goods. Our Tussohi Silks pring and Summer Prints 5c. yd. ieviots, Cottonades, &c. r men's Shirts are beauties. We tyles. Yours anxious to please, rge Co. N AND SEE aopping tomn come here first. * unnec.ssary steps and much0 you want then look elsewhere.* at we do v~ ish you to see our0 7ill be to your advantage in fore the final rush begins UG STORE.