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TETAINMENT AT OLBMSON. oege Press Association Had Splen did Meeting. NeWberry Ollege, May 14.-Of I things for which southern people e noted their hospitality is the chief, d this chawwteristie was never tter exemplified than in the enter ment of ithe Sout(h Carolina Press sooiation by Olemson College Fri y and Saturday of last week. There e tender places in the -hearts of ach delegate, whether boy or garl, or Clemson and the Clemson boys. The trip around the grounds, the onerts, the parade end the dances were enjoyed, and every one was t"),smade to feel at home and among fiende. The crowning feature of the meeting was the banquet, which would -have done credit to a large city. In the gymnasium, amid tasty decorations in College colors and pen nants, the tables were set, aqd the Clemson Band played While the dele gates feasted. But banquets are not successful without .toasts, and we were very fortunate in the speakers called upon. All the toasty were en joyed and all were happily given. Clemson left no stone unturned to 'give the delegates the best possible time, and they succeeded most ad mir1bly, deserving the thanks andi best wishes of her sister colleges. But let it not be supposed that otr time was given up entirely to fe1asting and merriment. Far from itt We had work to perform, work which required- thought and deliberation. In our two~business meetings we are bold enough to say we accomplished mord than we expected. Many dis puted points were settled, and at the end harmony prevailed, a condition absolutely necessary to the success f our Association. Some may ask what was the object 7of our meeting. Our Association has a great and glorious end: it is for the purpose of upbuilding the college magazine of our beloved state, the most negleeted out most important feature of college life. Further, we wish to bring these magazines into closer connection, 'to have meetings of the delegates from the various staffs where various phases of mag azine work may be discussed to the mutual help of all. -It is also intend ed as a protection to magazines as a strong central body to look after their interests. This is indeed a commend able work and it should succeed. Although our meeting at Clemson was Ak reAt success. Everyone who at tended has been benefitted, and it was with sad hearts that we left our hosts. As Miss Wallace's toast runs: Happy shall we part; and happy meet been. H*ppy shall we part; and happy meet again. -News and Courier. South CareGina Notes. * Chester has organized a chamber of commerce. * Un favora'ble seasons have greatly injured the erop prospects in the southern part of the state. Green, a negro, died in Chester from the effects of a kick from a horse. He lived several days after being kicked. At the T. P. A. convention at An derson Ex-Govern or Hey ward was talked of for senator and Mayor Rhett of Chiarleston for governor. The peole of 4a portion of Darling ton county have filed a p)etition witi the governor, asking to b)e allowed to attacb their district to Lee county. 0CBAN CABLB NABS WHALE. Catchs Huge Boast In South Atan tic Waters. In November last, says a New York otter, an officer of the Central and outh meri'can Telegraph company Iled on the director of the New k Aquariiun with a letter from electrical engineer of the com y, who desired to know to what epthi a whaile icould 'descend ymnd hether an air breathing mammal could stand a water pressure of near ly half a ton to the square ic. The ,inquiries were prompted by n interruption of the submarine Ca bi. betwea'i Iquique8 and Valparaiso, Chile, which occurred on August 14 last, and 'which was )aused by a large whale that was afterward drawng .to the, surface by the repair steamer *Faraday from a 'depth of 400 fathomzi. An article in t.he New York Zoologi eal Society's Bulletin for April, an aqi4arium number, from which the above facts are taken, continues: SThe cable in which the whale was entangled weighbed in the air, .while wet, 1,715 tons per nautical mile, and hadl a breaking strain of 6.06 tens. The -cable's weight in 'salt water was 1,005 tone per nautical mile. Hf the whale came to the surface to blow, he must have held two or three miles of cable- in suspension. This however, is unlikely, since it had four turns of the cable around its body, one being in its mouth. When the trouble with the cable was discovered, tests from Valpara iso and Iquique rdlaed the brek about thirteen miles frohn the latter place. On August 16, the Faraday left ' "I re for the postion of thle b-lk and commenced grappling in 342 fathoms, wibb 500 fathoms of rope out. The ca1ble was hove up, cut and tested to Iquique. The end was buoy ed, and the ship grappling further :;. pick.et -o the -.able when eani3 in badly twisted-and with increasing. strain. A large whale was brought to the surface completely entangled in the cable. Tha Ps,eh b-;.jg uiimi.n-ahle. the cable was cut close to the whale and the vessel moved to . the wind ward. Tests were made and Valpara iso spoken. The ship made four sou,ndings - in the vicinity ;hich showed a depth of 415 fathoms (2, 490 feet, nearly one-half 'mile.) It is extremely douAtful whether an air breathing animal can go as deep as 400 fathoms and as that depth is much below the limit of pelagic life, on which most whales feed, it is not likely that the whale d pene:te su(h a d p: h. T-ital darkness, moreover prevails in depths of 400 fathoms. According to the ry4ords of whalem,n. wh. .;. sosave been known to stay under water over an hour and after being harpooned to have carried out a mile of line be fort reappearing at the surface, al though this does not necessarily mean that the line was carried down verti cally. The Valparaiso-Tquique cable was laid on January 27, 1906. At first sight it seems unlikely that the whale entangled in this cable could have Iemind"hO - i lit montli, -- .1 Ut m oi plete disintegration or being gradu ally consumed by small forms of life on the bottln. T.e e-ep . . ,ever, is ';temely cold, the temperature being close to the freezing point of fresh water, and the carcass, unless actively at tacked by bottom life, might be ex pected to last longer than in the war mer surface waters. Since, from what -we know of air breathing animals, it is unlikely that the whale would descend 400 fathoms of its own accord, and as a deep sea cable is .not laid"very sla)k, it is doubtful that the whale cil.; hve fouled it at the bottoln. The logical conclusion is that it became entangled during the laying of the cable, eight months before, when there was a considerable sus iinsion. TP,.. t N . , Qd conditi ..-if ! stiff and heavy cable about the ani mal shows that the energy expend ed in the vain efforts to free itself must have been, enormous. Boston Loves Great. Down Boston way the people con tinuie to recognize and love their tircat, *tys Harper's Week4ly..En vious people say that the Boston neighborhood produces so few excel ling human specimens in these days that they hail with glee the appear ance of any neighbor or any neigh bor's child who gets Sn'to the front ranks. This is nice as it is, but no one knows better than Boston that it and its neighiborhood arc just as pro lific of great men .as it used to be in the (lays of the elder Adamises or Ru fuis Choate or Daniel Webster( both N'ew Hampshire men), or the Pome roy boy or EIlbridge Gerry or Benja mini F. Butler. At any rate, Boston is loyal to its great, and when Geral di,ne Farrar traveled there to sing in Mr. Conried 's cage, It took only one item in the newspapers to make many people pay as much as $8.50 a seat to see her, while a good many paid as nmuch or less to hear her. The item recalled the fact that she was from Melrose. ''Gee!'' they said, ''isn't she fine! It's worth the mon ey just to see her. Her father pitch ed on the Melrose nie' It was a great combination for stimulating Boston local patriotism, baseball and singi.ng, aind Mr. Conried and thp speeulators profited by it; penhaps nsatisfactory to t heboard, and which Geraldine (lid, too. A Permanient State. QId Uad Murphy, as lhe was affec tionately known to the boys on the road, was a conductor on a trunk fine transporting large shipments of live stock from the West, says Judge. Dad had been in the service so long that the rules of railroading had be come second nature to him, and th.e result of the superintendent's fre quent orders to the trainsmen to an swer with military brevity all ques tions and1( messages, especially those by telegraph, to reliev e the burden on the wires, had reduced Dad to ha bitually short, concise replies, even to his conversation. On a baking lot July day, when not a breath of ur was stirring, and the sun beat on lie car roofs till the pitch pulled the -oles off the brakemen's shoes, Dad, n looking over his train, discovered hat eight hogs had succumbed to the 'cat. When passing' the next tele raph station he threw off a message o the superintendent. " BU'hans, Supt.-Hogs still dead, ice't heat ; advise. Murphy, No. 78.'' At the second telegraph office lie .-eceived his answer. "Murphy, Condr. 78.-What is the ,resent condition of the hogs? Ans, Ik. Burhans.'' D'ad grunted, shifted his quid of rine cut and wrote as follows: "Burhans. Supt.-Ioge still dead, ,u rphy, 78." Apples Flavor Cigars. LTew York Press. "Why do I keep apples in the riesk drawer with my cigars?'' said the elderly usiness man with novel deAs. "Because it gives them a fine Ead distinctive flavor and also im. pairts just sufficient moisture to keep the eiga'rs In excellent condition. I cliscovered the thing quite accident illy. Am fond of apples, you know, uM like to keep some around my lesk for a nibble or two occasionally. 3enerally I kept the fruit on top of my desk, but one day the d-ust was so bad that I resolved to place the fpples in a drawer. atliere wasn't a irawer sufficiently empty for the ap ples except the one in which I had 2igars. It didn't look like a good combination, apples and cigars, but into the drawer went the apples. "A couple of hours later I fell the need of a smoke. The delicious nlavor the cigar had surprised me. It vas of a make I had been smoking for years, but I never had noticed lint flavor before, and I enjoyed the moke so much that I hit it up with mother f.rom the same dra.wer. The result was the same, and then the >resence of the apples with the cigars miggested a smlution of the mystery. "From that time on I have kept iny eigars with apples, and have m1okes that are distinctive and a real lelight. Furthliermore, the eigars lever get dry when they are with the apIples, an,d, at. the same time, Iever' get too moist. Some of my rriends to whom I have explained thiw-.. have It I-ed othpr kinds cf t.r-ong fl'avored fruit instead of all )lesg. One manl insists that lie gets [he most delightful results from or inges; but apples suit me best, and [ stick to 'em.'" Rutherford School. Ur. Editor: liutherlford school picnie was wel aitteiided, and but for the exception .1 anl, accident. oil the ball grounds the day was nuch enjoyed. Revi. .1 1 1Ag anid Mr. J. B. O'Neall Hol. I(oway delivered highly entertaininig :id inis.ruct ive addresses upon char amnori builditng, and edlucationi. Mr I. olloIway is a c'hIampionl of' rura I.iJh sehnol andtt 'omuhllsory educat io: h.e advocates bot h in a most plausi ble maniner'. This wvas a successful sessioni; for ty six pupils enrolled. The following niames remainied up on roll of honor the greater part ol session: Gr'ade 1. Azile Sease, Mary Nance, B3essie L1ominiek and Horaei Liet.zsey. Grade 2. Hlorrie Dickert, Alvit Rawls, J. HL. Wilson, J. B. Leitzsey Anna Coe Weit t, Ba ckmnan WVicke andl Chas. Lominiek. Grade 3. D)rayton Nance, Lula Lom iniek, Ernest, and Louise Wiekeir an C~unninjgs Lever. Grade (6. Anmnie, Ola and Mary Ip~m liick, .Janie and( Jimmie Sease. Atmu McCollum, Jos. L. and Trout Keitt M4trie Syse and (Geo. Cablwell ' Iinames r'emlained' on roll of honor thei entire session-. Word making is one of our ''seal Oexeise.s, '' some1 puils made over f'our' htuntdred words from a wvord of six syllables. Pupils in grade 2 anm BJ masteredl the multiplication tables 'Those pupils making most decidei improvemenit ini penlmanship are Clara, Ida, Louise and Bartow Wick or, Azile, Marie, .Jan-ic and Jimmit Sease, Annie, Ola, Mary, Lula, Chas. and Bessice Lominiek, Jno. Wilson I. B. Leitzsey, Corrie D)ickert, Annr McCullum, Geo. Caldwell, Anna Coe Jos. and Trenit Keitt andl Cunningi Lever. Many a man does nothing but hope from morning tl~l night, theni sit: clown and calls it a day's work. A young widow always acts as il Ihe would have known just as 'much had she never married. Life in Ohio ought to satisfy th< most st rentuous of poli ticians. They (do not even inidulge ini construlctiv< recesses hetween fights out there. Washington Post, Removed at Last. A West Point cadet, some years ago was told by his instructor to draw up the plans and specifications for a railroad viaduct to connect two high h1ills, between which ran a small stream. In due course an excellent set of draivings was presented, one showing the brid-e in its completion with a sketch ofW the surroundiWes, an on which sat two men, with their legs hanging over the side, fishing. Tie drawing was 'returned with the re quest that the men be removed from the bridge. Upon receiving the paper the see ond time the professor discovered that his instruction had been carried out, but that the two men were seated on the bank of the stream, still in quest of representatives of a finny tribe. .,ain was the paper returned, and this time with positive orders to re move the men from the drawing at together. Imagine the consternation which overspread the features of the ''learned instructor,'' upon receiv ing *the papers for the third time, to find two little graves and tombstones, with appropriate epitaphs, situated near the bank of the stream. His or ders :had been obeyed, and the men removed altogether. Needless to say that the cadet was forgiven for his breach of discipline, and the unintentional disrepect to his senior officer was overlooked. Harper's Weekly. Prodded His Memory. Mr. Urban was always late to din ner. He arrived home -on a certain evening, as usual, twenty minutes be hind hand. His wife was entertain ing Mr. and Mrs. Fortune. Greeting the guests with effusive cordiality, lie said: ''If I had known this pleasure was in store for me, I should certainly have arraniged my busine.ss so as to be at home earlier.'' ''Why, Harry,'' sighed his wife. ''I told You.'' 'I beg your pardon, love; but. you are certaiAly mistaken this time. You probablY forgot to mention it. On the whole, I'm glad you did. It is a delight ful surprise.' Mrs. Urban was a spirited woman. this unjust accusation come mar over throwing her courtesy. Her lips parted, theni shut decisively; but a slight frown lingered on her forehead. Little Tommy read her face. He knew all about his father's poor mem ory, ind she felt it his duty both to refreb' it and to defend his mother. ''Why, papa,'' lie piped up,'' ''donlj't. you recollect? Mamma told you to be sure to come home early tonight because the Fortunes were going to be here, and you said, 'Oh, the devil!' '' Analogous. A teacher had a very dull pupil whiom he found exitremely dimeiult to instruct in the letters of the al phabhet , says thle Bohemian. 'There is let ter A,' explained the joeer for' thle tenthI time, as lie Iwrote it dow~n on the blackboard. ''And this letter B,'' lhe wvent on, putting dowvn the second letter of the al,phabet. ''Now, my boy,'' lie began, kindly and encouragingly, as 1. turned to the stupid boy; ''let me see if you 1can remember them?'' ''What is thiis?I'' pointing to the itit1a let ter' of the alphabet. ''Letter A,'' came the slow~ res p)onse' from the dlense scholarI. 'And this?'' q1uestioned thle teach er' inidicating~ letter, B. 'Let 'cr alone,'' returned the pu4 pil instantly, his stupid face lighting up with pleasure at his own rluick re ply. Staying at Home. Southern Farm Magazine of' Balti more for May. Reasons for restlessness in the South no longer exist. Every one of the States showving a shortage in the shifting and drifing to population is makinig more or less special effort to retract pppulat.ion to assist in developing its natural resources. In more than one of them some of these resources have hardly been touched. Their very efforts to dIraw population from outside ought to result in a stoppage of the flow of their own na.tives to other parts. There are in dicat ions that such is the fact. Splenidd Isolation. A number of military men in a Washiinrtoni hotel were giving an ae count of an incident of t,he civil wvar. .A quiet. man who sitood by at last sad: ''Gentlemen, I happened to be there, and might be able to refresh your memory to the event just nar radled.'' The hotel keeper said to him: Siri, wha,t might- have been your rank?'' 'I was a private." Next day the quiet man, as he was about to depart, asked for his bill. "Not a cent, sir; not a cent," an swered the proprietor. "You are the very first private I ever met.'' Philadelphia Ledger. Wanted a Door. In Rockville, Md., each year there is held a series of races ''for all com er.'' On one such occasion the sun was blazing down on a field of hot, excited horses and men, all waiting for a tall, raw-boned beast to yield to the importunities of the starter and get in line. The patience of the starter was nearly exhausted. "Bring up that horsel" he shbut ed; "bring him up! You'll get int4 trouble pretty soon, if you don't lI The rider of the refractory beast, a youthful Irishman, yelled back: "I can't help it I This here's been a cab horme, and he won't start till the door shuts, an' I ain't got no doorI'' -Argonaut. Perfect System. "If you go by our route," said the persuasiye railway -agent, ''you will find your journey absolutely free from annoyance or unpleasantness." ''I dunno,'' said the contemplative touist. "There's a whole lot of bad wrecks nowadays." "Ah," exclaimed the agent, un folding a birght new time card, "you will see that in our new schedule, which goes into effect today, we have 'arranged time and place- for each wreck, with daggers to indicate de lays on account of hot boxes, and st'ars to show the points where the train will merely be ditched.''-Judge The Oast-Off Baby. The stork had been a recent visitor to the home of Mrs. Smitih, who al ready was the mother of a year-old baby boy. A chance meeting in the corner market was -the opportunity for Mrs. Smith's neighbor, Mrs. Jones to break t,he news to her friend Mrs. Brown. Dorothy Jones, 5 years old, paus ed in her task of arranging tMe cov ers about her now doll. She lind ex pericnced diffieulty recently in find ing .in the persom. of a less fortunate neighbor girl a mod.ter for a doll HART Wood Manuf HARTSVI Manufacturers of Door Sash, Doors, Blinds, Ti Ornamental Wood Woi Flooring, Ceiling, Sidi the Building Material I We want your inqu grading and workmai prices are right. Hartsville Wood I HARTSVI RICHMC May 30th1 Rate $8 30 from Tickets on sale from points Carolina, May 26th to June scheduled to arrive at Richmori Final limit to leave Richmon 11lth, with privilege of extensio deposit of ticket with special ag of fee of fifty cents. Return portions of tickets r< ,will be honored from Norfolk if portunity of visiting the Jamest THE ATLANTI through car and train service most comfortable means of rea Write for beautiful illustratec Hotels, Etc. W. J. CRAIG, Pass. Traf. Manager, Wimirg with a broken nlose and one arm that had been her former fivorite and for which tihere was no room in her di minutive establishment when the new doll come. She pulled at her ipot-h er's skirts inquiringly. "Mamma," she asked, "did you may Mrs. Sii4th had a new baby?" "Yes dearie, a. brand flnew baby,'' answered tle iot1her. "Well mamma,'' came the unsat isfied query, ", what 's she going to do with her old one "--Chicago Tri bune. Prison Repartee. ,Senator Tillman was discussing a recent quarrel among financiers. "Those men threw a good deal of mud at each other," he said, smil ing, "and most of the mud stuck. It was an interesting squabble. It re minded me of an. incident in a south ern jail. ''[Phere 'were two prisoners in this jail. One was in for stealing a cow. The other was in for stealing a watch. "Exercising in the court yard one noning the first prisoner said taunt ingly to the other: 'What time is it ?' 'Milking time,' was the retort. Washington Star. Buys Six Coffins for 30 Cents. Bristol (Pa.) Dispatch to the Phila delphia North American. Six children's coffins, at 5 cents each, was the wholesale bid made by the father of a Bristol family of the size approved by Roosevelt, outbid ding competitors at the sale of the stock and fixtures of JoselAi Brels ford, a dead undertaker. As he put aboard his wagon the ei tire lot of lie smaller size of comns the presumably fond father was heard to observe. "It's always well to be prepared for the worst.' The score of larni comns wen. for ai cent uieU(ce till thle last half dozeni was reached, when the price was run to 25. 'They'.re 'worth more than that. for kindling!'' remarked the thrifty h'ousewife, whose afterthought hand caused the rise in price. A college education is good for a boy who can't do anything else. VILLE acturing Co., LLE, S. C. -and Window Screens, Arned and Scroll Work, rk, Mantels, Mouldings, ng, and everything in .e. iries and orders. Our iship Is good, and our Ianufacturing Co., LLE, S. C. ND, VA., :o June 3d, Newberry, S. C. In Virginia, North and South 2nd inclusive, and for trains d before noon of June 3d. d returning not later than June r of final limit to July 6tlh, by ent at Richmond and payment ading account above occasiorr desired, thus affording an. op own Exposition. C COAST LINE will provide the quickest and hing Richmond. folder, containing Maps, Lists, T. C. WHITE, Gen, Pass. Agt., on, N. C.