The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 19, 1906, Page TWO, Image 2
NEW SWINDLING GAIrE.
A Nzgro S 1arper His Gr--ild and
Engages Board for an Army of La
borers and Collecis Bonds as
Guarantee.
Greenville has been invaded with
a small army of flim-flam artists
for some time. but the game work
ed by Vill Brown, colored, among
members of his own race Saturday
and Sunday is per'aps the slickest
and most daring in this midst. says
the Greenville correspondent of the
Columbia State.
Brown struck this town Saturday
and went immediately to work, en
gaging lodging for colored la or
ers of the Western Union Tele
graph company, whom he stated
would soon be in this vic;nity on a
big job of work. Enormous prices
were paid by the company, he sta
ted. for board for the men and that
a bond was required of all who took
these men. The bond was fixed
at $25. Several. negro boarding
houses were caught by Brown's
scheme, and the bond money was
paid in advance.
He went from one house to an
other collecting money on his
scheme until a shrewd colored wo
man in Oscar street "smelt a rat"
and notified the police department.
Of course the Western Union. had
no such: man employed to secure
boarding places for its men and no
work is in progress in this vicinity
yway-. The. matter was placed
io*e hands of officers and they had
the maia aVTery.. few hours.. He
y4s givena hearing before Mayor
-1 -Aonad sentenced to .the works
jor 150 days, the extreme penalty
ofthe law.
9ayor Mahon says he is the
sickest negro he has ever had be
fore him. He secured money from
half a dozen good colored people,
who were innocently taken in by
his slick trick.
FORTUNES IN STAMPS
Some ot the World's Greatest Collections.
The Prince of Wales an Enthusiastic
Philatelist.
London Express.
Few people outside the ranks of
a.rdent philatelists have any idea of
the enormous growth of the post
age-stamp collecting craze during
recent years. It is a story full of
romance, the financial side of which
bristles with figures representing
fhuge fortunes sunk in the tiny
scraps of paper which speed the
world's correspondence.
Both as. a hobby and as a busi
ness stamp collecting has reached
proportions which give it a very im
portant.place among mundane pur
suits. There are many private col
d ections .worth from $i0,o00 to
$i pooo. and the capital 'sunk in
the stamip traffic is estimated to be
well over $5,o0,00.
The financial importance of the
trade is illustrated by the amalga
mation last February of two Lon
don firms with a capital of over
$585 .0oo. It wvas the autctioneering
department of this firm wvhich sold
Mr. Smith-Ryland's small private
collection a few days ago for $12,
oo a price which was considlered
to be very good for an auctio1i sale
especially as the collection off ered
contained comparatively few great
rarities.
But even here there were one or
two prices obtained for particular
stamps-.which at once show the
keepness of the collector and the
business importance of the traffic.
For' instance; a Saxony stamp of
iS89, witir an error of paper, real
ized $t8o; a penny red and blue
British Central Africa stamp sold
for $235; and a penny blue Cape
of Good Hope for $Igo.
Very often far higher prices than
these are obtained for single stamps
though it may be a long time be
fore a stamp realizes anything like
the $7,250 paid by the Prince of
Wales last year for a 2d blue Mau
ritius.
THE PRINCE'S SPECIALTY.
The Prince of Wales is well
known to be a very enthusiastic
philatelist; but it is not common
knowledge that he is a specialist,
collecting o.nly the stamps of Great
Britain and her colonies. His
starnns are worth many thousands
sciceof or stamlps. and has cleared 1
up several doubtful points thlrouigh t
information gathered in his phila- I
telical researches during his colon
ial tour. t
Two of his sons, Prince Edward t
and Prince George, have already <
caught the stamp fascination.
Prince Edward is specially inter-.
ested in the Prince Edward Island
stamps. of which he owns a com
plete set.
Recently a philatelic journal ask
ed its readers their chief reasons
for collecting stamps, offering a
prize for the best reply. A large
majority gave "as an investment"
as their first answer. and it is in- 1
deed true that postage stamps are
not only a safe, but also highly
profitable investment.
Experts say that British Colon
ial stamps are the best from the
investor's point of view, especially
those of colonies which have small
populations, and therefore print 1
comparatively few stamps.
TEN PER CENT.
It is stated to be only a moderate
estimated that the earning value of
stamps is 1o per cent. As instances
of earning value may be mentioned
the 1os Lagos, which was sold in
1903 for $3,000 and is now worth
$20, and the i pound Southern Ni
geria, whose market price three!"'
years ago was $6.25 but is now $40.
Mr. W. Hughes Hughes' collec
tion. made during thirty'-seven
years, at a cost altogether of only
$34. was sold for $15,o0o. An
other collection, that of the late 1
Mr. Pauwels, of Torquay, which
originally cost $1,800 was sold, af- I
ter being put aside for twenty
seven years, for $20,ooo.
No collection of valuables occu
pies such a little space as postage I
stamps. The small strong room at<
one representative firm's head
iuarters contains more than $375,
ooo worth of stamps.
There are 40,000 names of cus-*
tomers in all parts of the world on
Ithe books of one firm, the Prince oft
Wales, with a standing order for all]
new colonial issues, being among I
the most important. For these cus-i
tomers albout 12.000 catalogues of I
British and 10,000 of foreign (
stamps are prepared annually. The I
stamps) sold in a year run into mil
lions. and the albums to at least
30000- C
RARE STAMPS. I
Rare stamps, such as some of the
Sandwich Island. Mauritius, andj
Australian issues. valued at about
$2,0oo each, are constantly coming
into the markets, and are never
kept more than a week. ,
As collectors are increasing an
nually, especially in the public 1
schools. and prices and takings are t
always rising, the traffic generally I
must be considered to be in a very c
flourishing condition.
But one does not wonder at. this
wvhen it is stated that many wealthy
collectors spend from $5,000 to
$50oo a year on their hobby. and I
that one-Philippe la Renotiere, of .I
Paris, the greatest collector in the
world-has spent $1,oo,ooo smnce i
1870. His stamps are wvorth nearly
$ 500.000, and his annual expen
diture with one firm alone averages t
from $13,000 to $20,000. He em- '3
plos secrataries, one to look after
his stamps and the other the post
cards, envelops and wrappers.i
Mr. H. J. Duvene, of New York.
has a collection valued at $40,000:'
Mr. W. B. Avery. of Birmingham,
owns stamps wvorth $250,ooo; Mr.
M. P. Castle; vice president of the
Philatelic society, sold his stamps
five years ago for $150,ooo; andj3
several American collectors have'
stamps worth from $1 50,000 to
$250,000- t
In Russia the most important
collector is Mr. F. Brietfus, of St.
Petersburg, who has been collect
ing for forty-five years, and is said1
to possess the third finest collection
in the world. Italy's most famous
collector is Prince Doria Pamphilj,
and philatelic place of honor in
Germany is occupied by Herr Mar
tin Schroder, the Leipsic merchant.,
The Earl of Crawford and Bal
carres is an example of a collector(
who, once smitten with the fascina
tion of stamps, has pursued the
obby with such keenness that in a t
I I
I' V
he stamps of the British Epire.
he United States and the Italian
;tates, and his remarkable collec
ion is all the more interesting from
he fact that it is based on histori
:al lines.
ANCIENT LIGHTHOUSES.
leacon Lights For Mariners Coeval Wiht;
the Earliest Commerce.
Beacon lights to guide the wave
:ossed mariner to a safe harbor
nust have been almost coeval with
:he earliest commerce. There is
)ositive record that lighthouses
ere built in ancient times, though
ew evidences now remain to us
rom old writers or in crumbled
uins. This is not strange, for
ight towers, never the most stable
rchitectural form, were exposed
o the storms of sea and war.
The Greeks attributed the first:
ighthouses to Hercules, and he was
onsidered the protector of voyag
rs. It is claimed by some that
omer refers to lighthouses in the;
ineteenth book of the "Iliad."
Virgil mentions a light on a tem
)>e to Apollo which, visible far out
t sea, warned and guided mariners.
rhe Colossus at Rhodes, erected
Lbout 3oo B. C., is .said to have
hown a signal light from its uplift
d hand.
The . oldest towers known were
)uilt by the Libyans in lower Egypt.
rhey were. temples also, and the!
ightkeeper priests taught pilotage,
iydrogra-phy and navigation. The
amous tower on the isle of Pharos
t Alexandria, built about 285 B.
., is the first lighthouse of un
Ioubted record. This tower, con
tructed by Sostratus, the architect,
vas square in plan, of great height'
nd built in offsets. An open bra
~ier at the top of the tower contaiu
d the fuel for the light. At Dover
nd Boulogne, on either of the.
nglish channel, were ancient light
iouses built by. the Romnans. PBut
he lighthouse at Coruna. Spain.
uilt in the reign of Trajan and re
:onstrctedl in 1634. is believed to
>e the oldest existing lighthouse.
A clerical correspondent of one
f the London church papers re
ates that a certain prelate had
~reat difficulty in suppressing his'
aughter at the consecration of a
hurch the other day owing to the
levice on one of the school banners
vhich were carried in the process
on before the service. This banner
vas adorned with a very fierce
ooking lion, with terrible claws and
eeth, wvhile underneath him was the
egend, "Suffer little chidren to
ome unto me."
Roosevelt's Late t Ambition.
The first intimation President
oosevelt has given of the plans
i mar have formed for the time
.ftr he retires from the Presidency
ras afforded a few days ago in~
-onversation with a friend at the
,hite House. The p)residlent said
hat it was his present intention to
'isit Central Africa as soon as pos
.ible after his retirement from
ffice. on March 4. 1909. for the
urpose of hunting~ tigers and ele
>hants.
Mr. Roosevelt has hunted every
:nd of big game in this country,
Lnd expressed a desire to try his
1and at the larger and fiercer ani~
nals, which abound in Africa and
:ndia.
An Afghan is bound by custom
o grant a stranger who crosses his
hreshold and claims protection any
avor he may ask, even at the risk
f his own life. Yet apart from this
ec is cruel and reve'ngeful, neve~r
orgiving a wrong and retaliatin:
it the first oppo-tunity.
"He's bragging that he doesn't
)w a cent to any man in the
vorld."
"Well. lie needn't brag that he
oes not owe me."
"Whv not ?"
"I'm doing the braggmig~ for
Pt"-maha News.
f T'
,)\-ef 1j 1))on;ipartc. Napoleoii \va:
then commanding the arn iI
[taly and regrets his absence from
yiis dear little Josephine. The tonc
Df the whole letter is warm and pas
sionate.
It is not explained how the doc
ument found its way to l'erlin
where it has been purchased foi
$625. It is described as having
been in the Meyer Cohen collection
State of South Carolina.
County of Newberry.
Court of Common Pleas.
Caroline Jones. Plaintiff.
Against
Jason Jones, et al. Defendants.
Complaint for Partition.
By virtue of an order of Cour
herein, I will sell at public auctior
before the Court House at Newber
ry, S. C., on Salesday in February
1906, all that lot or parcel of land
of which the late Joseph Jones die(
seized and possessed, lying and be
ing in that part of the Town o:
Newberry, S. C., known as "Grave
Town," and bounded by lands o:
Guilford Snowden, Dr. James Mc
Intosh and the Southern Railwai
Co., fronting 63 feet on -Stree
a plat of which will be exhibited or
day of Sale.
Terms of sale: One half cash an(
one half on a credit of twelvo
months, with interest from day o:
sale with a bond of the purchase1
and a mortgage of the premises
with leave to purchaser to antici
pate the payment of the credit por
tion in whole or in part. The build
ing on said lot to be insured an<
the policy assigned to the Master
The purchaser to pay for paper,
and recording same.
H. H. Rikard,
Master.
Master's Office, Jan. 11, 1906.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Assessment of Real Estate an<
Personal property' for year, 1906.
I, or an authorized agent, will be a
the following places named below, foi
the purpose of taking returns of rea
estate and personal property for th<
year, 19o6.
At Newberry January 1st to 14th
At Whitmire Monday, January 15.
At Maybinton Tuesday, January 16
At Glymphville Wednesday, Jan. 17
At Walton Thursday, January 18.
At Pomaria Friday, January 19.
At Jolly Streetc Monday, January 22
At Little Mountain Tuesday, Jan. 22
At O'Neall Wednesday, January 24
At St. Luke's Thursday, January 25
At Prosperity Fri. & .Sat. Jan. 26, 25
At Longshore's Monday, January 25
At Chappells Tuesday, January 30
And at Newberry until February
?oth after which time a penalty of 5C
er cent will be added against parties
ailing to make returns.
While on the rounds my office wil'
se open each day for the purpose o1
receiving returns there.
The law requires a tax on all notes
mortgages and moneys, also an in
:ome tax on gross incomes of $2,50C
nd upwards.
There shall be a capitation tax o:
io cents on all dogs, the proceeds tc
>e expended for school purposes.
Dogs not returned for taxation shall
ot be held t#be property in any o:
:he Courts of this State.
All males 'between the ages of 2]
md 6o years except Confederate sol
liers, or those persons incapable 0:
ta.rning a support by being maimed
3r from any other cause are liable tc
>oll tax.
Real Estate is to be reassessed thi:
year. Each tract or lot of land must
be assessed separately, also state tc
assessor if you have bought or sold
any real estate since last year.
All property must be assessed "al
its true value in money" which is con
trued to mean "the sum of mone
for which said property under ordi
nary circumstances would sell foi
cash."
Don't ask that your property b<
taken from books the: same as lasi
year. All property must be lisred or
proper blank and sworn to.
Name of township and school dis
trict must be given.
WV. W. Cr omer,
Auditor Newberry County.
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STATE
Of the condition of the Exchange Ba
business, December 30, 1905. Publishl
General Assembly.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts. ...........$ 79,304 -12
Furniture and fixtures......... 3,251 75
Due from Banks..... ............ 11,61689
~ Overdraft .................. 46263
Cash nd cash items........... 23,505 44
$118,140 83
Personally appeared -before me M. L.
who swears that the above statement is
and belief.
Sworn to before me this 30th day of ]
Attest:
Geo. B, Cromer, Edw. R. Hipp, C. J.
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