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LIFE IN BIG LONDON. SOME OF THE THINGS AMERI CAN VISITORS SOON LEARN. Frequent Blowing of Cab Whistles Puzzling at First-No Bootblack Stands in British Capital Women Cannot Clean Windows. New York Tribune. Americans sojourning in London are Often p.juzzled in their first few hours there to account for the frequent lowin(Z of mouth whistles in their vi vinity. resembling the blas'ts of sound with which the New York postman acconpanies the ielivery of mail. A Yankee arrived in the British metrop olis o(ne sunmer. night greatly fa tigued by his journey retired early at his 1odgings. but was kept awake un til midnight by the unaccustonel and continuous blowing of whistles, which sugested to his drowsy brain that let ter carriers were calling every few minutes at the adjoining houses. At breakfast the next morning he remarked that he had often heard of London's frequent mail deliveries, but he had never supposed there were so many of them as he had heard the previous evening. "Heard'" inquired his seat mate. "Yes: didn't you hear the postmen blowing their whistles every few min utes until after midnight?' The English are too polite to laugh in one's face, but a suppressed snick er went around the table, breaking in to audible laughter as another New Yorker, who had been in London twenty-four hours longer than the new arrival, explained glibly: "Why those were cab calls you heard. Every London house has a cab whistle. One blast brings a han som, t'wo a four wheeler."' Cabs are essential to London, where antiquated stages are the only means of going in many directions, and they serve as express wagons as well as conveyances. Few persons send their baggage ("luggage,'' it is called over there) in advance to railway station or steamer pier.'' A cab is called at the last moment, and the cabman puts truink or valise on the roof of his ye hiee. If one's parcels are numerous a .four wheeler or omnibus is employ e'd. On arrivng with luggage the same method is used to carry it to one's home or lod?gings. As the baggage covered hansom bowls along two or three ragged dirty men or boys may be seen running be side. If any distance is to be tra versed, it will be noticed that some of these drop behind .one after an other, while others take their places. They are "runners,'' usually men on their "uppers,'' who earn an occa sional shilling by following cabs to their destination and carrying the luggage upstairs for the arriving pas sengers. It would not occur to .the average Englishman to seek a bootblack out side his own home for his morning "shine." Shoes are generally , pol ished in the house by the maidservant, if one lacks valet or footman, an,i the bootblack stand is conspicuously ab sent from the British capital. Boot blacks, often aged men, bearing; the label "Licensed Messenger'' on their coat sleeve, have. foot boxes at the chief intersections of the principal thoroughfares and ply their trade for the benefit of transients and foreign ers. They are seldom patronized by the London householder. One of the first inquiries made by Americans who settle in London is for a washerwoman. But it is soon found that this useful person is not td be had. Very little washing is done at home or taken out by washerwomen in London, all the soiled linen being sent to a laundry. The result is that Americans, accustomed to the weekly visit of the family washerwoman at home, find their laundry bills not a. small item of expense on the other side of the ocean. A surprise is in store for the new householder in London who asks the maidservant to clean the windows. "Indeed, ma 'am, I'd be arrested if I did,'' explains the girl as she ref'ises the task. And, sure enough, it is learned that owing to accidents to wo men cleaning windows from the out side the authorities have ordained that women must not risk life or limb at window cleaning. The penalty for disobeying the regulation is a fine of $5. So men employed as porters in furniture stores and similar shops earn many odd sixpences and shillings by spending their weekly half holi days as window cleaners to household ers lacking men servants. Most of the small London shop keepers and their assistants take a half holiday on Thursday instead of Saturday. as in New York, the butch ers closing up Tuesday afternoons. This practice causes inconvenience to newcomers until guarded against by arly purchna. A Unique Exposition. pa}ers I1llI r 1, 11 I l e c'lilit11l'y simply beHAte nii a-eine purposes to i tih e lel b ition a gn-it natiwnal 1li<.l y--zin exposition 1114i al 'u eitirely 'tferelit lines from tIose preceding it. The Washington. .1) C.. Post says the killowing editorially: rIivi, it' we were not aware that tle prOpo(sed Jamestown Exposition of 1907 differs radically in every in a11i1a11ble respect from the various Iares. etv.. which have preceded it. we Shilnl hesitate to speak in its behalf. Keenly a~ we reconize Wtho vast im p"IrtZalice of the episode it is intend 1 veh-brale. . ma well as We realize I'' lll'isIec\lt hes '.'Olls( llee 11s . WvZ11el a W lil tildls s 4 till' i le l tll >1 it>?)t(11t':l1 ir wte w 'e lit t sur'e that I tle lJnestwn Expositoll will be a llovelt-v ill eCvy sellse of Ille word. To state the ease briefl., we may say--as is the simple truth-that this is the first celebration of any conse q1uience to be held upon the seashore. The location, therefore, is ideal. There is no heated, overcrowded city in the neighborhood, where the pa trons will be herded in rapacious caravansarie's, fed on "refrigerated" food. compelled to travel long dis tances in swarming and uncomfort able street cars. and charged extor tionately for a maximum of discom fort. The Jamestown Exposition is to be situated far out in the midst of a salt water and breezy environment. Hamlpton Roads, Chesapeake Bay, the Atlantic itself will hem it on every side. If there were nothing else, the visitors would at least have a seaside outing at one of the most desirable points on the Atlantic coast. Thous anIs treat themselves to that recrea tion every summer with no extra in ducement, so every additional at. traction will be fhat much to the good. They will have ocean prospects and environments-bathing, fishing, sea food, yachting, sailing, etc..-and be sides, the most splendid naval and military pageantry ever witnessed in the world.. Even .if it stops short there the patrons of the celebration will have had more than they could get elsewhere on the same terms-. more than they ever got before from any excursion to the seashore. That there will be inany other at tractions, we are promised by the management, and have f.aith that the pledge will be abundantly redeemed. All the grea.t nations have accepted President Roosevelt 's invitation to participate. It is, therefore, safe to count upon a naval and military dis play of surpassing splendor and im portance. It will constitute, indeed, a spectacle the like of which has not been witnessed in this or any other land. No doubt the management will in due time and with appropriate elo quence unfold to the country the en tire scheme .of the enterprise they have in view. For the present, we think it well enough to point out cer tain features which of themselves con fer a special attraction and induce Iment. JUROR SAVED A PRISONER. One of the Most Remarkable Oases, of Circumstantial Evidence. London Standard. Very eminent legal authorities agree that as to the fact of a case the jury is more likely to be right than the judge. This week, however, we have had another addition to the lengthy list of instances of the judge censuring a jury upon its findings. "As clear a case as had ever come before me,'' he said as he ordered the jury to go home. Possibly the judge was right. It is well, to remember, however, that had all the cases, which have appeared so clear to the judges gone as their lord ship desired more than a few inno cent men would have been sent to the <rallows. An instance comes to mind, one of the most extraordinary in the history of our legal system, the ac count of which we owe to the man who tried and presided over the trial, Lord Chief Justice Dyer. This was a "clear case'' of murder. The vic tim had been found stabbed to death in a field wood, by some one with a fork. The man who owned the fork was arrested and the blood stained suit he had worn was found hidden in a mattress. Short of testimony from anyone who had seen the crime actually comn mitted, there was not a link missing from the chain of evidence against the orisoner. It was in vain that he plead ed not mguilty, everything was so con clusively clear against him. A ver (iet of guilty was expected immedi ately from the jurv. but the foreman asked as the life of a fellow creature was at stake the jury might be allow ed to retire. The judo-e did not undere:tand why they shoul do so in so siniple a ease: still the j iI 11,141 Its wish. It did not ret urn. The e nrt a<jotrned toi hwhI : the .inry did nit come back in the aft e iiinn in spite of several anx ioous i111urlies froim 1lie biich it had 1n4t. In de i p its- innd when the court rose for the day--there was one man holding out. The jury was locked up foi the night and in the iorning, was brought into court to return a ver diet of not guilty. This was a poser and the judge dismissed the .urv. say in(--: "The blood of the deceased lies at your door.'' Private inquiry by the judge elie ited the fact that the foreman, a man -,t if mbilleuislied reptitatiml1 and of (on silera"fle estate. I1adl beeil Ile e'llise (1f' the verdict which the rest hal been siiln-ve<l Into az1einvdgl.- The .ug sell for this g-eienlman and in his pri V:ite r'oom b eed1 him t14 eXp)lain the mysterV ()f hi.4 4JbdreIT-eV and the amazi 11n,"lindin of his fellow. first ple4.-ing himself to preserve inviolate the con4ideince which the other might repose in him. Then the foreman t4)ld him how he himself had met the victim for whose mur*Ieir the prisoner had been tried. how the man had sought to take ad vantage of his social position and ex act unjust tithes. how they had quar reled and fought, how the man had at tempted to kill him with a fork and how he (the foreman of the jury) had killed his antagonist with his own pitchfork. then fled. The prisoner, coming alon. had found the' man dy in,) and in endeavoring to succor him had got blood upon his clothes and in his confusion had 'taken the dead man 's fork and left his own in place. This was why the foreman had held I out and why the prisoner escaped. THE ATOMIC THEORY. A Mathematician's Proof of the Im mortality of Man. Dr. Ivan Slavonski. the eminent Russian mathemitician, who lied in St. Petersburg in December, 1887, left, among other curious and valua ble papers, one entitled "The Atomic Theory-A Mathematical Proof of the Immortality of Man." The learned doctor starts out by taking the position that the whole universe is made up of atoms and that theke atoms are not "innnumera Ible.'' but it can be shown that their number is limited. He 'further de clares that the words "infinite'' and "innumerable'' are only used to cov er ignorance, because it is impossi Ible for our minds to form a proper conception of a vast number of units. After making the above and other broad statements he sets himself to the task of proving that the atogis of the universe are constantly undergo ing changes and that the time will Icome w*hen all possible changes, comn Ibinations and permutations will have Ibeen exhausted. Spencer, Helmholz, Thompson and many other distin guished men, living and dead, believe and believed this queer doctrine. Thompson says that when these changes have been exhausted the uni verse will be at rest. When that day comes, the sun will cease to shine,.the planets will stop revolving onf their axis, and all the vast systems of worlds will hang perfectly dead and lifeless. But no, Dr. Slavonski does not propose to have a grand finale "wind up'' at that stage of the game. He declares that when these atom ic permutations have been exhausted nature will return upon its tracks. In other words, when the pendulum has swung to its utmost limit it must return again. If all the positions of the atoms of the universe must again repeat themselves Slavonski argues that there must come a time when all nature will again be in the track now occupied. The earth will again under go its geographical periods, and man Th1 c'rnt b btwen H itin andM Mssing is thed if t.er.n: e : eren :an A-- I:r.ne and an inac- urtAm rh'se ::v-discrimi:.r! G.t a STE~VEN.'! iuFLE:S. PisTOLS, SHIOTGUNs iki Telescopes, Etc. cannfO~otb:a.weCshipdi' - 'ruf::seavilhtrte I rescotofcatalog price. Ig t'I:;it..:'. YA.1 Beautif?d three-color AIm!:'.m Hniier will be for vaa ed for zo' nts in' o:'. J. STEVENS ARMS AND TOCL CO., Cnrc (IPP' . U. ~ A. Bi~ A given number < greater yield of cottc Farmers' Bone does the acreage and in, who uses has twenty-one yec 13,000 carloads of I This volume of bus LOO +IC 4..0 Norfolk, Va. Columbia,S.C. F 'ill again appear. each individual be ing precisely the same individual he is now. He will be born of the same parents, reared under the same cir cumstances that he now li*s and with those with whom he now lives and will finally die, as he wil die in a few ears from now. After another un. told 'age of eyclic changes he will "live again'' just as in his former ives. This is immortality. Don't forget that your actions are nasured as critically all through life s is the borrowed butter you~ return ts a n4iybjgor. ORK BY A Newberry Steam Laundry Co. !EarIeh ail Wstell Caro!1i By. (Schedule iniffect April 16, 1905.) bo- 52. Daily. v. Newberry............ 2.36 p. m. r. Laurens....... ..---- o p.m I !No. 2. Daily. v. Laurens... ............ 1.50 p. mn. r. Greenwood ...........2.46 p. mn. i - a'xgusta...............'5.2op. m. Ar. ...derson ............7.10 p. m.. No. 42. Daily. Lv. Augusta.............. -.-- - -- 2.35 p . . Ar. A11endale.-............---.----- 4 30 p. mn. Ar. F2airfax.......'....--------. 4.41p. m. Ar. Charleston...-...--.....---------- 740 p. mn. r. Bear.fort........ ..... ......------ . b. 3 p. mn r. Fort R yal.................6--.40 p. In r. Savannah.............. ..------. 6.45 p. m Ar. Waycross. ............---.-------- ooo p. m. Ar. Tacksonville.. .......-- .-- ---.-----.--. No. z. Daily.I Lv. Laurens...........--- ----- ---- 2.07 p. Ar. Spartanburg ......... ..----------320 p. ml No. 52. No. 87. Daily. Ex. Sun Lv. Laurens............. 2.09 p. mn. 8.0o a.m a rGreenlville...........- 3.25 p.Im. ro020La. BLUE RIDGE RAILliOAD. Time Table No. 5. In Effect November ::9, 1905 Between Belton and Walhalla. ASTBOUND. WESTBOU.ND. No.10 No.12 * No. Ir NO.5 .M. A. M Az. Lv. P. M. A. M 35 ro.-........ Belton.-.- 3 50 1o041 - 10 o0.. . A nderson... 4 22 11 04 9 25.---- Pendleton... 4 47 II 33 8 58-----eneca.....I 5 31 Io .. 3 5-..waha1a- 5 55 I 21! . R. A NI)RSON. Supt. ger YieI >f acres fertilized with Farmers in, than the same acreage with more than that. It makes it -rease the yield. Try it this Made With Fish rs of fertilizer experience bad Zoyster fertilizers were used on iness stamps Farmers' Bone th< K AT OUR TWENTY YEARS' RECOR 1885-250 TONS' 1890-1,500 TONS ' 1895-12,000 TONS \ 1900-58,455 TONS )05-130,091 TON! S. ROYSTER GUANO C QUICKEST ANI -I Savannah, Waycross, Jacksona and i Charleston and Wi Lv. LaureAs................. Lv. Augusta................. Ar. Savannah................ Ar. Waycross................ Ar. Jacksonville .... .... ...... Through Pullman Car Service Ib Close connections made at Jacks Round trip winter tourist excurs on sale. C. H. GASQUE, Agent, Laurens, S. C. ERNEST WILLIAS, Ge: SEAB AIR -LINE NORTH - SOUTH Two Daily Pullman Vi Between SOUTH, g FIRST-CLASS DIN The Best Rates and RI Via Richmond and Norfolk and stea! Nashville, Mempi Louis, Chicago, N< Points South and Souti and Jacksonville an and Cuba. PoSSITIVELy THE SHC NORTH Al WFor detailed informatic man reservations, etc., apt board Air Line Railway, or Passenger Agent, Columbi C. F. STEWART, ) SAVANN W. L BURROUGHS. Trai ds Bone produce a ordinary fertilizer. )ossible to reduce year. The man O of him. Over the crops of 1905. :best. 0 100 0. Tarboro,N:C. ) BEST ROUTES ille, il Florida Points, IA istern Carolina Rb. ............ 1:50 PM ................10:30 " ...................... 2:50 A. M, ................... 6:05 ................... 8:40 " etween Augusta and Jacksonvilhe. onville for all points South. on tickets to Florida resorts now GEO. T. BRYAN, Gen. Agt., Greenville, S. C. 2. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. QARD. - RAILWAY. S-- EAST -- WEST. astbuled Limited Trains Lnd NEW YORK. ING AR SERVICE. ute to all Eastern Cities Washington, or via ners.-To Atlanta, 'is, Louisville, St. sw Orleans, and All iwest-To Savannah i all points in Florida )RTEST .. INE BETWEEN J!D SOUTH. n, rates, schedules, Pull iy to any agent of The Sea Jos. W. Stewart, Traveling a, S. C. AH, GA. . Pass. Aget. Columnbia SC