Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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0AV~ b3it WATRY GR~AM1S Heroic Swedsh 'E'isherman Bravqd Storm d spe4 ea Frew Ahask OerAin'Death.. Atlantio City, N. J., Aug. 24.--Dur ing a sevei-e northeast .torm which pr-evailed today along the coast oie pe n Wats: drowied anid sevenl others Imud ial.1r01V escale)C froimi death inl the wavwes. The drownied nm wats L.ouis Simpkins, formerly of Philadelphia. lie anld two conipailliolis were oi a fishling trip ilt a launch. Off Brigan line City they were caught inl a whirl pool caused by cross currents and the storm. In trying to avoid a big wave Simpkins lost his balanep and fell in to theo sea. DIespite Aieir daige-r Simp kins' companions made a brave 'effort to pick him up, but before Qiey were able to do this lie sank and was drown ed. As his body came to the. sur face they managed to drag . it into tle launch. Shortly after this accident. five young meii who canc here in the sloop yacht Virginia from Island Heights left, the inlet for the return trip up the coast. P1rofessioail yachtmen tried to persuade them not to attempt, to go to sea, but they did not heed the warn ing and sailed away. In miakiig a long taek toward llrigantine Beach the yacht was CArried on the dangeronls bar (utside tle inlet. The mast snal) ped off and the boat. began pounding on the sand. The captain of a large yacht saw the accident, lit liaving i board a number of passengers lie did not care to endainger their lives by going too near the bar. while the five mIen were elinging to their craft, momentarily expecting to he washed to their death, a hero in the person of .lohn1 Jolhnison, a Swedish fishlermnii, went to the rescue in a frail gasoline launch. le did not falter inl the face ot' the storiml antidafter a hard strug gle in which his little boat wais tossed -1hmout by the waves he imanaged to get alongside the Virginia and took J..e five men off. The rescuied men r-ewaIrded IJohnson handsomely. Ilater in the afternoon Thomas and lloward Butler, sons of Conlgressilian lOtler of Pennsylvania, were rescu ed tram drowning by the government ite saving crew alfter their lit tle boat u1d hIeeni overturtied in a heavy sea 41T I,in-port. Boti swam to the cap sized craft but were being ca1rried out to sea in the strog current when their calls for help were heard by the life ;avers. They were mucli exhausted when rescued. - Why Poe Left West Point. everal arny olicers were sitting in a New York hotel, receitly, dis enssiing (djo t imes at West Point. ie talk turned on the instrinetors who ise(d to put them through their paces. I shall never forget old Profes r Church, ' ' exelaimed' one. "tHe always impressed me as being about a humdred years old, and14 I guess the was pretty wvell along, because onie dlay, up1 in the libirary, wheii I hap peiied to be looking at a partrait of Edgar A lIen Poe, lie informed me that lie had taught. the poet. mathe mat ics, and1( explined( ho0w the young man came to leave. "It was as muich atf a crime in hose days as now tar a cadet to be off limits wit hout permissioni. It meant dismissal. Poe, being ain uii tamiedl spirit, couldn111't resist the temp tat ion to take a c'hanuice now andi( thea and( run down to at.. resort at High land Falls. He andi~ four other en (ets stale otf late, one night, and were hav'ing a higl' old 'time, when thev heardl a sqIuadl from thle Point. Coming dowvn the. road1. . You enn imagine the, wild'scattering. Tw~o cadlets sought, the cella.r, and twu moreiN the rooms above ; Poe was small and was lifted into a conveni ient sugar barrel. The four other fugitives wvere 'nuickly discovered. . It was an after thought. on the part of the lieutenant iig commianid to lift lip the lid of the sugar barrel. HIe dragged Poe out, off to the guard house. IHe had offended before, and was iregarded as the ringleader in the e.scapade, and so his career as a solier came to an end.'' ''And a mighty good thing it was,'' exlaimed one of the listeners, ' for the wvorld of let.ters.' The Euburbanite 's Garden-' 'I 'ye been figuring u'p the garden account, Agnes. I find that it has cost, for seeds, $6.50; for fertilizer, $9.50; labor, $12; implements, $8; garden at, $28. So far, we've had only a oss of string -beans ''"''Oh-but, utherford, you forget t.hat cunning ittle eneumber we had earlier in the eason I ''-New Tork Press. E STILL HAVE TBBI LAUlRBNS Steam Laundry agency at The Her ald and News otiee. The basket is sent Thursday at 12 o'clock and is returned (aturday at 3 p. m. Thel work is gua*anteed to give satis faction in every way. Give us *) ,tria. News and Notes of 'Sport. More bad luck for the Boston Am icans. Jesse Tannehill is laid up w a bad ankle and a strained my4see his left arm. Once upon a time thle' New Yc Highlanders were great extra inni wininets, but 'now they seem unal to win when the game goes ovei' I ninth. - The Washington club has releas WIllachi Kittredge and signed Ja Warner. One veteran takes the phi of another ''old sport.' For jumping contracts or tle I scrve clause sixty-eight players ha beenl barred by tile National Conn sioln from playing with niatif.nal agr( metit clubs. The list includes fort one minors, twenty-two National a five American leaguers. The Philadelphia Nationals ha been trying hard to get out of t first division, but neither Cineitn nor 'Brooklyn appears disposed to ta' file Quakers' place. The Cleveland club has taken brace and is still inl the Americi league race. Cineimaati is a grand old ball tov aHd it is a good bet that the ''Red w.:uld tbe nlear the top if the Oih town belontted to the American leagi The Queen City would go wild over club that had i chance tfor the pe nanat. Several ma1:1jor, league clubs are aft Dirminglham, the star outfielder of' t Al J. & (11. lub of the New York Sta league. This is the pace traveled by I Western association: Topeka .58 Joplin .564: Leavenworthi .50 Springfield .500, Oklahoma City .50 Webb City .464; Wichita .455: Hntc inson .429. The 1H1ustonl club inl the South Tv as league won 1A straight games ti season. The Mani1g clbof tle Smuth 0 ,Iina league los-t the first 25 um played. soniids like a record. Johnlistowl leads the Tri-State lv gle inl attenldanee with al average0 1,669 persois for each game. l,i the Boston Americans the Joinistox club is a tail-endter, but both maiia to do the business. It is rumored that ('overnor.Hi gins will permit six-round, no-decisi bouts at boina fide athletic clIbs New York state this fall. The wolderful patin.g 1iiare. t Broneho 2.02, is certainly worth t price of $10,000 recently put pl) her owners. A yacht in the Marblehead rat named Skidoo had a racing.number and finished 14 in one race and i9 another, which makes 23. Is it loyalty to the club that repr< ents tIheir city, ori are the fanis sue ers, to support a second-division tail-end team season after season? is the same gag with all these pho: out fits. Each spring the manager a owner begin to) shoot tle bull abi what the team is going to (10 the.coi mng se'asona. 'We are not claiming the pe nant, '' says the manager, ''butt chlub iait w'ins it will have to beat us Anti the club that wins the flag de heat them, something like 17 out 20 games. Nearly every leaigne, mnajor or mi or, has two or more of thlese ' 'spri ehiampitons. '' andt they aliways quiit seasonl ill thle same old plaice. St ill falls have toI have baseball of sur sort or. -anothlier, and after all they a able to see a penniant wiiner no0w a: thlen-whlen they come to towan. FIFTY CENTS GE'TS THE DAILY REOORD. of 'Columbia, S. C. For ten Weeks; Which covers t Campaign. In The Record will be found dai reports of the campaign meetings J. WILSON GIBBES, a veteran at such work. His name : tached to the reports is a guarani of their fairness and accuracy. For nine yeairs The Record has a vocated the dispensary. Editorial it daily sets forth the reasons w the dispensary should be retaini Every friend of the dispensary w wishes t;o keep posted with argumer to meet the op)position should re The Record. The Record ten weeks for 50 con absolutely in advance. THE RECORD, COLUMBIA, S. ( SCHOLARSHIP! .A chance is still open to the you men of this county to get a Norn Scholarship in the University of Sou Carolina. An examination for ti pidrpose will be conducted by the Cour Superintendent of Education, Frida August 31, 1906. Write at once for application blanka BENJAMIN SLOAN, President, Columbia, S. C r!EARTHQUAKE BUREAU URGED ith Seisanotista Want an katermational society to vope With. Perils. Pro6f#so Herbert H, Turner, who rk occupies the chair of astronomy at Ox ford university, Professor John Mile, the fatnous seismologist, and other )l leading English scientists have seized lie the opportunity offered by the San Franeisco- earthquake to tirge the es ei tablishinent of an iInternatiolal organ ek lzation to seek means for coping vith e e selsnic perils. says a London special cable dispatch to the Chicago News. It Is Profesor rinner's belief that ,e- wider and mure careful observation %e will determine the t'ies and places of i- earthquakes and enable people to take e- precautions for the preservation of life and property. He says tat, although little eneour agement hitlfto has been given out, side of Japan, the-feismologlsts of that ,e country have located the chief danger 1e p6ints of the-globe, and have ascertain ti ed- that earthquakes are apt to happen ce coincidently with the accelerated rota tion of the earth due to exceptionally a heavy spring tides. Professor Turner says that if the nations co-operated in promoting seismologic study these gen eral discoveries would be followed by m1 the more specific and more definite 1.1 knowledge necessary to forecasts of ij) the highest human and commercial value. Professor Milne, who established the seismic survey of Japan, embracing " 968 stations, Is the foremost student of earthquakes in England. He has lo er eated forty observatories at important ie points. so as to cover the world, and te ha; carried on the correspondence re quired to keep tiei in communication with .one another and to co-ordinate the records. le has called attention to the fact that at the Imperial univer ; sity in Tokyo a platform has been con ; structed on which mooels of masonry, - wood and metal have been subjected to seismic shocks. He added that this X platform had been to the builders of Japan what the testing fank dockyard had been to the constructors of ships. The result Is buildings which stand V- earthquakes that 'ould raze ordinary es structures. The professor says that Germany is embarking in a large way on seismoloric investigations and that the matter (annot longer he neglected by other countries. It is expected that a great meeting n of qcientists will shortly he called to e force the question upon the attention of the British ministry. WEIGHING OF THE EARTH. Anierienn Scientixtn Will Uste the Great P1yranmid In the Job. lie Twentieth century science is dissatis hie fled Willi the accepted tigures qf the )y enrtl's weight, says The World Today, and Americans are planning to weigh it agt"ain. 13 'fhe last time it was done was "more than half a century ago, when, under m Airy's direction, pendulums were swig at the top and the bottom of an . English coal pit. k- The vomparison of their times of swin--g :hiwed how heavy the whole earth waus compared with the outer most thin shell, a shell of the thick 1Y ness of the depth of the coal pit. Since id geologists were able to give a fair esti ut tnate of the weight of this surface shell y the weight of the entire earth became a mere matter of multiplication. The same exp)erimlent is to be repeat U- ed by a scientific expedition from the lie survey department at Washington. "Pendulums are. to be swung at the es apex of the great pyramid of Egypt and in the chambers at its center and base. From the swing of these pendulums "~ the comparative wveights of the earth ig and of the pyramidi canl be learned; lie and, the weight of the pyramid having lhe been estimated, the weight of the earth lie will again be a meore matter of multi idCanadian Boy a King. A strange story recently came to light about a young Ontario boy, and it is to the effect that he has become a king among the South Sea islanders, says an Ottawa~ correspondent of the Chicago (Chronicle. His name is Thom as Darling, -and he is the son of a small farmer at Sparta. Ont. It seems that he had a fancy for going about without any clothes on, although sane and ra tional upon every other subject. lie went to Honolulu, but was transported from ther'e to San Francisco on ac count of this fad. lie was a student t.at Stanford university for awhile and etwas known there as "Barefoot Bill," on account of his queer antics about d- clothing lhe went to Tahiti and has now ly, become a virtual king among the South Sea landers. The Spirit of Forty-nine. There wasn't no Pacific heights when me .t and Jim came here; RdJ The salt sloughs ran on Mission street, with sand dunes far and near. I'here wan't no brioks nor payin' stone. nor railway systems when We set old F'risco on the sands-and we'll .set 'er there again! -When doubters said, "Impossibil" we laughed their doubts to scorn. 'Twas pack train through the desert lands and cutter round the horn. We lined the beaches with our dead, the hillsides with our bones; When Frisco was a rearin' camp we Ia.id the cornerstones. th 'Twas us that plowed the thoroughfare. at and built the wharfs by day; ty "Pwas de that formed the vigilant. to drive the wolves away;.. 'We built the schools, we made the laws, Sand them that wasn't square to Got settled with a shotgun, but they got it on the square. NOTICE OF ELECTIOit. Pursuant to the requirements of an SAct of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina entitled, "An Act to Authorize and Empower School District No. 52 in Newberry County, State of South Carolina, to Issue Ad ditional Bonds for the Completion of a School Building Thereon,'' Approv ed February 24, 1906, notice is here given of .an election to be held on August 29, 1906, at Whitmire in said School District No. 52 on the question of. issuing additional coupon bonds not to exceed one thousand dollars at a rate of interest not to exceed six per cent. in accordance with the terms of said Act. John P. Fant, Z. H. Suber, S. L. Gary, Trustees of said School District. TAKE A TRIP TO THE EAST via CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY Through Savannah and Steamship lines From Laurens, S. C. to 4 Baltimore, Md., and return $29.40 Boston, Mass., and return 39.30 New York and return .. .. 35.30 Philadephia, and return .. 33.40 Round trip summer excursion rates; Tickets on sale daily to and including September 30, with final return limit October 31, 3906. For full information call on or ad dress, C. H. Gasque, Agent, Laurens, S.C. 4 Geo. T. Bryan, Gen. Agt., Greenville, S. C. Ernest Williams, G. P. A., Augusta, Ga. CHARLESTON & WESTERN OAR OLINA RY. Schedule in effect June 3, 1906. Lv. Newberry(C. N. & L.) 12:36 p. m. Ar. Laurens 1:42 p. m. Lv. Laurens (C. &. W. C.) 2:09 p. m. Ar. Greenville 3:25 p. in. Lv. Laurens 2:07 p. m. Ar. Spartanburg 3:40 p.m. Lv. Spartanburg (So. Rry) 4:00 p. M. Ar. Hendersonville 6:35 p. m. Ar. Asheville 7:30 p. m. Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 1:50 p. m. Ar. Greenwood 2:48 p.m. Ar. McCormick 3:40 p. m. Ar. Augusta 5:25 p. m. Pupman Chair Cars between Au gustayi Latrens and Asheville, tri weekly. Leave Augusta Tuesdays, mrsday and Saturdays ;leave Ashe ville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days. Note: The above arrivals and de partures, 'as well as connections with other companies, are given as infor mation, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Cen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, Gen. Agt., Greenville, S. C. Low Rates to New York and Return Via Southern Railway. On account of the homeconinug of lIon. Wmn. J1. Brypln, the Southern raiilway will sell tickets to Newv York eity~ anid return at rate of one fare lusl .$2.25 from all coupon ticket sta tions. Tickets on sale August 28th and 29thI, limited to leave New York ret.urninug on.September 4th, 1906. The Southern operates on all through trains, Pul lmuan drawing-room sleepers anid Southern railway dining cars-highi back .vestibiuled coaches. For full information, consult any Southern railway ticket agent, or write R1. W. Hunt, D)ivision Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. G. B. Allen, Assi.. (ieera1 Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Coal! Coal!! Coal!!! I am making arrange ments to establish a coal yard and Will be in posi tion to supply your Wants for both hard and soft coal. Should you wish to buy your winter supply for August or September de livery I would lie pleased to quote you prices. See me before buying. I can deliver any time af ter August 15. S. B. JONES. BEGIN idnu.3ap we invii Buying to visit ou We have in stock )f early buyers Waists and Suit 3hadow Plaids .; .hecks, Mohair, .repe de Paris, :tc. We will sho% ngs in Cotton, Cq )uting, Flannel in Jesigns, also 36 Flannel in check lOc. thE HAIR &I WHY Why should yoi 0. KLE T No one will sell y at a lower price tin No one will tre squarer or better1I No one is more a to help and to No one will fill ar orders with mo or pleasure than We are not the' in business but al' us will tell youl the on earth to trade 0. KLET [I. C. MOSELEY, President. VI. A. CARLlSLE, Vice-Pres. THE PEOPLE'S Ni PROSPERI No. 6ty Surplu upnd rofits . Stockholders' Liability, Protection to Deposito1 DIRECTORS: Burglar P3 Md. A. CARLISLE.urara JOg. H. HUNTER.' We want R. L. LUTHER. We invite Ji.A. C. ILER- We do a e JOIIN Ii FELLERS. ciples. G. W. BOWERS. We receiv H. C. MOSEJ.EY. se.ni.ani INING Mornings e the Public r store. for the benefit new Silks for s, Pretty Gray and Shepherd Cream Serge, Vlohair, Batiste, v you new suit Aton Waisting, pretty Kimona in light Outing and stripes at i Yard iAVIRD. NOT? i not trade at TNI3I?'S. ou better goods ian 0. Klettner. at you fairer, :hanO. Klettner. villing and able favor you than 0. Klettner. d deliver your re promptness 0. Klettner. only merchant I who trade with it the best place is at TNER'S. W. W. W HEELER, Cashier. GEO. JOHNSTONE, Attorney. iTIONAL BANK, TY, s.0O. . $25,000 00 . . . 3,50 00 's .* $53,500 00 oof Safe. id Fire Insurance. prompt attention. rour business. investigation. >nservative buiness* Onl busineOss prin SAVINGS D)EPARTMENT. B deposit in this departmnent fron