Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PRAISES FOR THE PRESS. What the Editor of the Episcopal Church Organ in South Carolina Has To Say of It. The Rev. W. P. Witsell, in the Dic cese. The Diocese is now a full-fledged member of that organizatior of good ly men whose name is written above, (the South Carolina Press associa tion.) The last annual meeting of the association was held at White Stone Lithia Springs July iith-14th. It was the most largely attended meeting in the history of the organi zation, so we are told. The Diocese was admitted inro full fellowship and was represented by the editor. We greatly enjoyed associating with the ladies and gen tlemen of the South Carolina press. They make up a fine body of work ers. We were proud and gratified to see the high tone and the exalted purpose and deep and patriotic ear nestness which found expression in papers and speeches before the as sociation and in private conversation as well. The newspaper men-and women, too-of South Carolina have a high conception of their opportuai ties, duties and responsibilties, and we believe that for the most part they are nobly determined to strive ear nestly to realize their opportunities, discharge their duties, and be -crue to their responsibilities. In every way we enjoyed mangling with brethren of the press, and look forward to next year's meeting with keen antici pation. EXPENSIVE WHIMS. Some That Cost Fortunes-Bits of Luck That Brought Millions. "The sultan presents his compli ments to the engineer in charge and wishes him to open the bridge in course of erection in Constantinople in order to let a ship from the dock yard pass through a once." When this message was delivered into the 1,ands of the contractor responsible for the construction of the bridge he was thunderstruck, says London Answers. He had beer working on the bridge day and night, and when the orders for its opening came from the sultan it was not half finished. He approached the minister of marine and finance and said it was impossible to obey his majesty's command, as he would have to pull everything down, and it would take months to replace the scaf folding and pile driving machines. "It cannot be helped," replied the minister. "If :che sultan says the bridge must be opened it must be done, or we shall lose our places, if not our heads." So the bridge was opened, arrd the ship came out of the dockyard at a cost of over $5oo,ooo. It af terward transpired that the sultan had found his infant son crying bitterly in the harem because he could not see the flag hoisted on this particular ship from the nursery win dows. To .humor the child's caprice the sultan ordered the bridge to be open ed at once and a large ironclad to be brought out of the dock yard and moored in front of Dol mabagtcheh. 'This no doubt pleased the boy, but it caused enormous inconvenience to the people of Con stantinople, to say nothing of the waste of money which had indi rectly come out of their pockets. The state of Massachusetts lost $3,ooo,ooo 'because a man living in Boston left his window open over night. He was a silk grower, and in the hope of producing a new brand of silk he experimented with some gypsy moths that had been sent to him from France. He left the moths under a glass shade by an open window one night. and next morning they had all disappeared. The shade had been overturned and the draft blew the moths into the street. Eighteen months later Massachu setts was swarming with gypsy moths and they ate the leaves off every tree and bush fcr miles around. The damage done in two years by the insect totaled S3,ooo.ooo, and the state authorities spen: another $75. ooo trying to exterminate the: pests. One of the worst famines ever known in lower Egypt was caused* 1 by a couple of John Bull's gunboats. The vessels went up into the marshes beyond Khartum, to capture 3lave traders. The slavers, who had made up their minds not to be caught easily, I made a bold bid for freedom by :utting channels through the mass of vegetation which lined the main stream of the Nile. The majority of them escaped in this way, but the channels they :ut in their anxiety to get away brought ruin and famine to lower Egypt. The current carried The mass es of loose vegetation down the river, and so completely blocked it hat the Nile flood failed. United States Senator George L. Turner, of Washington, lost his for une and poverty stared him in the ace. Turner was a lawyer, and >ne day a party of miners, well cnown to him, who had struck a ode up in British America, near Vic :oria, came into his office and asked im to make out some papers for :hem. "We can't pay you cash for your ervices, Mr. Turner," said one of -he party, after the business had been transacted, "but we will give rou some stock and call it square." At first Turner refused to take the tock, as his clients were old friends >f his and he. preferred to do -Ehe &,ork for nothing, but on being press d he took the certificates and tuck !d them away in his safe. Two years later Senator Turner was a miliionaire through these min ng shares, and the mine that broughlt im the money and made the fortune f his friends is the famous Le Roi, yne of the richest in the west. Two tourists camped on the ridge )f a mountain lake near Como, a nining town in Colorado. Wihile in vant of something else to pass the ime one suggested that the other ;hould dive into The lake and try to iscover the bottom. His friend tripped and dived in. He came up ialf a minute later, saying That he iad found the bottom with his head. After he put on his clothes he be gan to rub his head with his hand cerchief. "Look at the sand," he said laugh ng. But his friend, who had been a rold miner, sprang up with a cry of ;urprise. "George," he shouted, "iE's gold!" And gold it was. The man who dad dived into the lake had struck i gplacer gold mine of the richest kind. Today the little lake neat Como is the finest placer mine in :he whole west, and perhaps the most remarkably discovered one on rec >rd. The President. harlotte Observer. It is learned with no surprise that the desk of the private secretary of the president is piled high with con gratulatory telegrams and that rhe number is being increased as 'rapidly is the telegraph operators at Oyster Bay can take them from the wires. [ there was ever a man who de served congratulation and laudation t is President Roosevelt in this hour. he real figure of the peace confer mce, the one which looms high albove hose of WVitte and Komura now md will loom yet .higher in history, s that of the president of the United State's. He has appeared of late ~ears in a new light; it would be more exact to say that he has pre ented to the public a new and hith arto unsuspected side. He has been regarded as a rough rider; a man who arried things by storm; whose meth >d was the charge and the onset. His settlemen: of the anthracite :oal strike, a delicate and dangerous ;roblem, and now bringing to an end, hrough his good offices, of a war >f world-wide moment, proclaim him diplomat, a negotiator and a paci ~icator of the first order of ability. He is indeed, after all his theatri al performances are discounted and ill his foibles and errors of judgment reckoned with, a great and many sided man, and nowv, w.h.en all the orld acclaims him, every American :itizen may wvell lend his voice to the miversal applause. Reflections Of A Bachelor. \ew York Press. No man is wise to his own children. A man can gain a lot of public con idence by not going into politics. Most family rows arise over each rying to prove the other makes :hem. WANTED--A JOB Of dressing lumber anywhere in the coun-ty. Will go to anybody's place of business for 20,000 feet to dress, and will go anywhere in the state For ioo,ooo feet to dress. Will dress For 15 cents if party will furnish en gine and labor; or for 25 cents and Furnish everything. Will do -good work, if not cut price. Apply to P. R. HALLMAN, Newberry, S. C. WANTEDI Your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry to be re - paired. Satisfaction Guaranteed, J; W. WHITE. Just received 2 car loads of Buggies. I 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. W ORK BY A Newberry Steam Laundlry 00oa (Schedule in Effect April 16, 1905.) So. 52. Daily. Lv. Newberry............1236 p. mn. ar. Laurens ...... ... ... .50 p. mn No. 2. Daily. Lv. Laurens............. 1.50 p. mn. Ar. Greenwood ............2.46 p. mn. Ar. Augusta.............. - 5.20 p. mn. ar. Anderson ............7.10 p. mn. No. 42. Daily. L. Augusta... . . ...............2.35 p. mn. Kr. Allendale................... ..--- 4 30 p- mn. Ar. Fairfax .. ... ... ............-.... . 4 p. mn. Kr. Charleston...-~...................... 7.40 p. mn. r. Eeaufor.......................... . 63 p. mn r. Fort Rcya1............... ...... 6.40 p. mn ar. Savannah... .................... -- 6.45 p. mn ar. Way'cross.............. .....-...... Io.oo p. mn. .r. ac -sonville.. ............................ No. 1. Daily. L:. Laurens......... .....--.-........ 2.07 p. m r. Spartanburg... ....:................... 20 p. m No. 52. No.s7 Daily. Ex. Srn. r.Laurens............2 09 p. mn. s.oo a. in.I Ar. Greenville........... 3.25 p. mn. 10.20 a. m Through Pullman Car Service be :ween Augusta and Jacksonville, Fla. 2. H. Gasque, Agt., Laurens, S. C. eo. T. Bryan, Gen'l Agt., Greenville, S. C. usta, Ga. I. M. Emerson, Traffic Manager. O W !l'9, i 'SNT FREE to all d ~ is $00hII as!:ers of niorpM~ne, 'AI~LESS Ipu.r'ianfa caincrwniaty,r Jsanlatorlunite - me'.nt. A ddrs Dr.I SAND js. .M w~oo :,' Whisk re JA *i - Reduced Rates For Your Summe Vacation via Southern Railway. The Southern Railway compan] now has on sale summer excursiox tickets to a great many mountain and seashore resorts. Until September 3( these tickets will be on sale daily gooi returning until October 31. The following rates will apply fron Newberry to a few of these points other points in proportion: Chick Springs, S. C., $4.45. Saluda, N. C., $6.oo. Tryon, N. C., $5.60. Flat Rock, N. C., $6.30. Lake Toxaway, N. C., $9.30. Hendersonville, N. C., $6.40. Brevard, N. C., $7.90. Asheville, N. C., $7.05. Hot Springs, N. C., $8.oo. Walhalla, S. C., $5.60. Seneca, S. C., $5.20. Isle of Palms, S. C., $7.90. Sullivan's Island, S. C., $7.9o. For rates to other 0oints, schedule, and stop overs, etc., phone or call oi us. J. P. Sheely. Agent. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. Notice is hereby given to the stock holders of The Pomaria Oil Mill that by order of the board of direc tors a meeting of the stockholder will be beld at the said mill at ?o maria, S. C. on thC 13 day of Septem ber ai 10 o'clock a. m. to consider reso;ution to authorize the presiden to borrow thirteen thousand do:a.i for the Pomaria Oil Mill, and to se cure the same by executing its bon( and mortage of its franchises an property, real and personal. All stocl holders are urged to be present in per son or by proxy. Ben. M. Setzler, President. .SEAE AIR - LINE NORTH - SOUTF Two Daily Pullman V Between SOUTH FIRST-CLASS DII The Best Rates and 19 Via Richmond and Norfolk and Stes Nashville, Memp Louis, Chicago, N Points South and Sou1 and Jacksonville ai and Cuba. POSSITIVELy THE S NORTH A: WsFor detailed informati man reservations, etc., ap board Air Line Railway, or Passenger Agent, Columi C. F. STE WRT, SAVAN1~ W. L BURROURSTra SOUTH ERh THE SOUTH'S GREA TEST UNEXCELLED DINING CA: THROUGH.PULLMAN SLEI 'I RAINS. CONVENIENT SCHEDULES WINTER TOURISTS' RATE points. For full information as to rates, Railway Ticket Agent, or R _ W. T-UN IMiss Hattie McIver Leavelf. (B. . of Womn's Co'le, RICllon, Va. Pupil of Virgil Piano School of New York, N. Y. INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. Studio over Mower Go.'s Store. School Opens September Ist, 1905. Special Attention to Beginners. Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - - S. C.. OVER NATIONAL BANK. Best Mineral As ph-.At Roofing.' C. H. CANNON, Near C., N. & L. Depot Newberry Gollege: SEMI-CENTENIAL YEAR. Courses in Science, Classics, Philosophy, and Engtnearing Thorough Collegiate Training under positive Christisn in fiuences at a minimum of of expense. Next Session begins Sept. 27. Address ~ JAMES A. B. SCHERER, President. IQARD - RAILWAY. I - EAST -- WEST. estibuled Limited Trains nd NEW YORK. ING CAR SERVICE. ~oute to all Eastern Cities Washington, or via ~mers.--To Atlanta, his, Louisville, St. ew Orleans, and All hwest-To Savannah id all points in Florida [ORTEST .. INE BETWEEN N~D SOUTH. :>n, rates, schedules, Pulk pqy to any agent of The Sea Jos. W. Stewart, Traveling la, S. C. sst.G~en1. Pass. Agt., IAH, GA. v. Pass. Agt. Columibia S C [ RAILWAY SYSTEM. t SERVICE. PING CARS ON ALL THROUGE ON ALL LOCAL TRAINS. S are now in effect to all Florida routes, etc.; consult nearest Southern T,' Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, . C .