Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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RED MEN OF AXPEIiSON. , Ready for Session of South Carolina ' Great Council.?Will extend most Royal Welcome. American Red Man. The enterprising and thriving city of Anderson, S. C., very much re sembles a beehive at the present time, owing to the fact that the local tribes | i , of Red Men and the councils of the I Degree of Pocahontas are making the most, extensive preparations for the entertainment of the tlsiting Red ' Men and sisters of the'Degree of Pocahontas. who will trail to the hunting grounds on the 8th sun of Plant Moon to be preserft at the great sun sessions of the Great Councils of both % the Red Men and tht Degree of Poca^ hontas. ^ TJri Past Great sacnem uuo n.ieuuu is, of course, putting forth his best k efforts to make the session a rousing success. For many great suns he has given of his time- and energies for the advancement of Redmanship in the Palmetto Reservation and throughout the United States as well, and whenever there is a meeting to be held or j any work to be done for the good of the Improved Order of Red Men, Brother Klettner will always be found upon the job. This is not the first time the broth | ers and sisters of the city of Anderson have had the pleasure of entertaining the Greaat Council of their Reservation, consequently, the brand of hospitality dispensed by them is well known throughout South Carolina and those who will attend v the! Great Council sessions are looking forward to their visit with great expectancy. That the session will be a memorable one goes without saying, I for the good people of Anderson are m^ de .mined to surpass their splendidj I record, established on former occa-1 sions. W Past Great Sachem C. E. Tolly, whom Great Incohonee Carl Foster.' appointed a member of the Committee! on Indian Memorial and Museum at; the Charleston session of the Great! Council of the United States, resides! in the hunting grounds of Anderson j and is one of th# city's most busy j Red Men just at present, getting evk erything in readiness for the session. Brother Tolly is one of the hardestf working and most popular Red Men in the Palmetto Reservation, and the j brothers know that something extra-! ordinary is in store for them with' em h a zealous Red Man on the' I ? ground and taking such an active interest in the preparations. The Great Council of South Carolina has held some excellent sessions | i in past great suns, but the Twentyfourth Great Sun Session. whose | council fire will be kindled on the 8th sun of Plant Moon, promises to eclipse all previous meetings in -en-! thusiasm, helpfulness and the amount of important Legislation enacted. To add to the enthusiasm and brilliancy of the present meeting, South Carolina's most Dopular Governor j and Past Great Sachem, the won. k Cole Blease, will grace the occasion | with his presence. Brother Blease rarely misses a session of the Greptj r Council, having been one of the most zealous Red Men in the Reservation j for many great suns and the wise and? able counsel he will render in the so-1 lution of the problems before the 511 1 f 1 meeting win De one ui wwivuiawK benefit. By far th>e most important of the questions that will be settled at tins k time and the one to which the mem-j bers of the Great Council will give' their most careful thought and consideration is the adoption of a plc-n \ for the maintenance of South Caro-j lina'S"-orphans. At the last report | madp to the Great Council of the; United States the Reservation ha.J I twenty orphans upon the list, for whose care and maintenance t!vj Xa-J tional Body contributed $920.40. Since the control of the orphan question has been left entirely to th? various-! State Great Councils it nas b co'uo! necessary that legislation b3 enacted at this session and plans w.'l! be sub-j mitted along the lines of the Model Orphan Uw as drawn by tho Xdtional Orphan Board. Great Sachem James Gr. Jr., will close a most seccessful admur:tration when he turns over the toma- j hawk of authority to his successor.1 Brother Long has had the consisten* | support of a wide-awake a ad prcgres-1 sive membership as well as tin assistance of a splendid set of Gr?-:u Chiefs and he has fully demonstrated his ability to lead the Order rn ro cm-vAflCC When the report was made to the Great Council of the United States at its last session there :ne-nber^ of the Improved Or.ier of Kcd Men in South Carolina and that this number has been material1}- increased the report at this sessixi will siiew Seventy-five tribes w-?re regularly kindling their council fir,'>, and the*' had adopted 1.202 palefaces during the : pr< vious great sun. 1) iin^ the yea * just closed a special effort has ^ en made to reduce the sih;>'-lsion li&?t | to a minimum and in this th-i brothers i have b en very succe^SiVl as tL-y j have also been while scoJtiii:* the iori est for palefaces and they ecnhdently i expect, if not by the ti'ii i ol tii? pres1 ent session at l?ast wiiiiii the ne-*t j few moons, to pass the :>.< . J mark iu : membership. ? ^ - - - ot t? i_r When Great senior sagaiuuie u. Aul!, of Newberry, ,s el-r*ct<\i to in* chieftaincy of Great Sacoeyi h" wi.l enter upon his duties with th-e Oraer in good working condition and in a most healthful state in all parts of the Reservation. Brother Aull is in every manner eminently fitted to assume the leadership of the Order. By his splendid work in past great suns he has demonstrated his ability to take the initiative and has won the* confidence of his fellow Red Men. With so able and enthusiastic a brother at the helm, great things are in store for Redmanship in the Palmetto | . 9 I Reservation during the next great sun. , | During the great sun now closing considerable progres has not only been made in the way of increasing the membership but the financial condition of the tribes has also continued to improve. The last report showed that the total receipts of the the tribes had been $21,806.77; for the relief of members $5,239.27 had ' been expended; $2,227.84 had been contributed to the burial of the dead: +Vio WPFH i oilier e.\jjciiocs ui I $14,546.18; in the tribal wampum belts there were $12,365.72. Past Great Saj chem B. C. Wallace, the most efficient | Great Chief of Records, who has added another great sun to his many | years of excellent service for the Order, will have his long talk prepared in his usual concise and compreh:iisive manner that will clearly set forth the splendid condition of the Order. Great Prophet J. P. Carlisle, who made such a splendid record as G"eat Sachem and who is universally iov*?i an/* ac+ppmed bv the membership throughout 'the length and breach of' the Reservation, has continued to render the most able assistance durir.g the past great sun and has materially ?ided in the success that has bee.i achieved. ? j The brothers of South Carolina hsd hoped to have the pleasure of having Great Incohonee Carl Foster, wh J has been with them on previous occasions, present at this time, hue Redmanship's great leadr will be upon the bounding billows returning from his long trail to the Isthmus of Panama. The Great Incohonee will b-"! represented at the session by Great Minewa Dan H. Russell, of Louis.ot.,} thj hrnthprs of the Pa'metto VlilC) aiiu w* ^ v.. w? State are greatly pleased at the prospect of having with them a brother) who is well known to them, and who! is so well qualified to advise w?:h j them and aid in the deliberations of the session. South Carolina is closing a most prosperous great sun. The Or ler is in a good, healthful condition. Prospects for the future are most brilliant. Her Great Chiefs are all that could be expected. The membership is enthusiastic and united. The prob'ems coming before the Great Council will be handled and disposed of to the credit of Redmanship. Then mav herj success during the great sun j.ust en- j -*-1 h hautl ! tering surpass uiai wmtu .no attained in the great suns tliat have gone before. APRIL BIG MONTH. Hundreds of Nominations to Cuius j From President.?New York Stato Situation. Washington, March 30. Lo th'se who k-eep their eyes cl >s:j t:> th? TT ?.?*! Ml -llis Willie nuust;. uan ~ - ! takable signs that the month of April i is destined, in many resT.) ;./ >, 10 "he1 the "big" month of th^ Wiisori ad- j % I ministration. It is to be -i oig month- j in more ways than on?. Besides j the many hundreds of ncm' iatioi>s, j some large .and some sina.l which | will be scattered all :>v*;r tao country ? ~ l'mrni ir foreiaa I X'dugiiig 11 ?m wv ..... _ _ | post to the most unimp -> -;mf fourth 1 ! class postoffice, many questions 01 party principle are to be determined. Among the most intere"'.ing questions to be settled, aside from purely local matters, will be who is to control New York State patronage afI fairs, and just how loud the Tam! many tiger is to growl will also be among the interesting events of the ! n*?xt few weeks. i When Gov. Sulzer came to the inauguration'it seemed to be well settled that he had formally retreated I ^ | down the patronage gangway in favor of Senator O'Gorman. It was said then, that, judging by the number of applications which had up to that time, reached the New York senator, that he would be tagged as the Empire State patronage dispenser and jthat none who failed to get his "0. ! K." n- ed apply, it was said that be-: twee 11 Montauk Point and Niagara it was generally conceded that O'Gorman was to be the man with the handy dish of White Hc^s fruit. Since that time little i>as been hoard; from Gov. Sulzer, and from CongressVit 7 or&ra id not ;i sound has | 111C411 1 _ come. If Fitzerald has even so much as darkened the White Housedoors it has been so seldom that it I has occasioned little, if any, notice i t from the press. Staff men who came to the inauguration to cover the news for their papers predicted that O'Gonnan was to be the real thing in Empire State affairs, and although littie has been " A a;?? - ' * in +-V-I a Hie- I I done in tnai secuou jcl 111 U1U I tribution of offices, he will undoubtedly show his hand soon in a way that will make the country take notice. From a Southern standpoint the coming month should be especially' interesting. Taking the States of the South one by one, there is enough in sight to keep every one awake for some time to come. Cross the muddy Potomac river and step on the soil of the Old Dominion. What the Virginia people want ?* Hilt I : is now almost ancient. mswiuu? what they may get is another matter. One thing seems to be certain, that aside from the usual routine apJ pointments, that State is scheduled I to get at least one big foreign post j early in April, and possibly two. Split the fourth circuit judgeship with | South Carolina and there is a possij bility that Virginia may land there | also, though the Palmetto State al- j j ready has this place on the safe side j * ? iiTiynt is. in store I 01 tne leager. ??uai. ? for Virginia is, of course, not known, but it is safe to say that Virginia will not be forgotten while the plum ! tree is shaking for others. | Then there is South Carolina, j | where interest is keen in postmasterI ships, the question of who is to be j district attorney and marshal and other places which will be parceled out in the near future.' South Carolina, like Virginia, has hopes of securing a foreign post or two, and it is not improbable that she may land. North Carolina and Georgia wert never known to be backward in asking for what they want. The two | Tar Heel senators?^Simmons and I ?oro tnnwn to Dull excel KJ V Ci uiaxi t** v . ? _ _ ^ lently in double harness, and if there ,is anything tbeir constituents want and don't get it will not be for lack of effort on the part of the senators. Georgia is almost certain to land at least one foreign post, that desired for Col. P. A. Stovj1! of Savannah, i Senator Bacon has declared that, al! though vCol. Stovall may not go to: ? j __ lilro fn <"lo. ! j Switzerland, as nc wvcuvi imv ?,. i h-B is almost certain to get an ] I attractive berth. Two other Geor- \ I gians also?Andrews of Atlanta and Johnson of Rome?want to serve the country abroad and they, too, may annex their names to the government pay roll in the near future. Then there are Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and all the other States of | the solidly solid Soutfi. To them, also the month of April will bring showers of spring fruit. Senators TTWrher and Bryan and ail the other members of the upper house of conI gress are ready with the han<Jy basket to gather the plums that fall with the April breezes. TRAVELS OF A JOKE. Once Started 3Ien Steal Them and j Pass Them as Their Own. j If Solomon had not "slept with the f-11?Urti-r Writ style of saying i j Icilllf I C5 JLX\JiJ Tl * ?v that a man was dead?and had contin- j ued to ladle out his wisdom to the j generation now in business or on vacation he might still bo writing or rewriting or thinking of that paragraph somewhere in the first chapter or Ecclesiastes, towit: "The thing that hath been, it is that shall be. * * * There is no new thing under the sun." And Solomon wrote tins wuui ( had seen a whole lot. It was at the close of his splendid and eventful career as monarch of Israel. I If still living, and if lie read the "funny" departments of the publicaI tions of the day?dailies, weeklies, [ monthlies and quarterlies?he would j probably add "especially in jokes," j Dearly beloved, as the minister frei quently begins the announcement of j his text, this will not be a sermon, artide or essay on the antiquity of any ! ?-??* hnnrh of iokes, rearrange J Uiic jv/xvc; ?^ _ | ed, reconstructed or refurnished and sold at schedule rates. It is a story of a story, its origin and travels and of its reappearance to the man who, created it as he made pil- | j grimages up and down this verdant j earth. j A traveling correspondent of a realj ly great newspaper was returning from a journey that had taken him far from the home office. By some slip | he had failed to connect with a R| For Results OYSTi through train on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. He boarded the next train, which was some sort I of a local mix-up with a chair car attachment. The enginf-er was doing j Vito hoer to make 2T00d a lot Of lost ! time. The correspondent was hungry. He had traveled over the line many times and knew that there was an eating house at the station not far ahead. In a moment of near-starvation he hailed the sable whiskbroom wielder, wno was even then in a state of gleeful anticipation of the time when he would, reduce the funds of the lone occupant of the coach. "Does this train stop at Harvard?" gasped the solitary traveler. "No, sah, she don't even hesitate.". - - - i.U ^ The answer was as quiCK as uic powder flash that makes a snapshot saleable. It was a hair-trigger return, i Its originality was not debatable. The ebony grafter didn't know it, but he J started something that beat Puck's j scheme of putting a girdle round about the earth without, of course, any expectation of beating Puck's proposed time. This story started ever so many1 years ago. The correspondent put his head against the toweled rest of the chair and closed his eyes. The Senegambian reply stuck in Ms brain like a feather in a bucket of tar. It appeared in the next Sunday issue of the correspondent's paper. it hit the town, and a big city it was as far back as that?Chicago. Before night the story was read and told in hotels and clubs. Did you ever hear of Billy Mason, a United States senator from Illinois?} He was familiarly canea uuiy uamc he put on the toga and it sticks to him. He caught a good story quicker than the champion behind the bat. He knew such a story on sight and when he repeated it you thought it was original with him. He took this Senegambian story as a fish takes the fly. Or as a woodpecker surprises a worm. The story got another send-off in a Washington newspaper. The paragraph began "Senator Billy Mason,, of Illinois, while in the cloakroom today told a new story." Then followed the SenegaiAbian reply,; and of course, Senator Mason was the traveier to whom the reply was made. The correspondent was hurried to Galveston, Tex., while waiting, for his johnnycake for breakfast he looked over a morning print of the CJty. He read n that "Representative Bailey (he was not then s-enator) arrived In the city last night from Washington. He got here twelve hours sooper than he expected because his train did no-: "hesitate." Then" the story was told by Representative Bailey, what the porter of his car said to him.etc. The correspondent thought it was about time for him to rope tne yarn fiiT-thor hp pia&or-! Deiore n wciil auj ated the yearn and rushed it to a New York publication that was then paying five cents "the word" for good originaf stories. A few weeks later lie received a check for $5 and something 'over, enough to pay exchange. The story was in the first person, singular, and the writer's name was printed at the bottom. He lookad at himself in a mirror and his face reminded him of something he had heard about a certain little Jack Horner. He reckoned that he ha" that story lashed to the mast at last. Something happened in Philadelphia and he was sent there to unravel such an unsual thing. It was the day of Mr. Bok's publication of that wonderful mix of high-brow fiction, layouts of lingeries and stories of Famous People. The story of a colored porter of a Pullman "sleeper," as related by Senator Depew, was the Abou Ben Adem of the page. The correspondent chanced to look at a calendar. It was the day before New Year. He sat down and wrote his wife: "I shall swear off tomorrow, not to drink any more, for drink I never | do, but ever again to make a iunn> story. I can't run counter to Chauncey Depew. He has kidnapped my first born, and there's no use." A few weeks later he was in Detroit, the city made famous by M. Quad and Mayor Pingree. He read in the Free Press: "Mr.?, the well-known story writer and author of several in dialect, got to town last night. He told the following to the reporter, and it is nrnrth tpiiine. for it is new. Coming in to the city on a Michigan Central train, he asked the colored broomist if the train made any stops." Th-en followed the story that he had started, and which had been credited to Senator Mason. Representative Bailey, and flagged by Chauncev Depew, In 1908 the correspondent was on v (1 & ^I QUALITY PR] We Want Members $1.00 P? Pressing Suit Cleaning and Pressing Suit., Cutting Off or Lengthening ] Making Waist Larger pr Srm Dry Cleaning Ladies' or Gen Dyeing Ladies' or Gents' Su Cleaning Hard Straw Hats.., Cleaning Soft Straw Hats.., Cleaning Panama Hats Cleaning Felt Hats Cleaning Derby Hats Suits Made to Yo Phone No. 243 the road with a lot of spellbinders who were talking for Mr. Taft. One of them was Senator Dolliver, of Iowa. If anybody could tear a page from Joe Miller's book and hand its contents out as "off the bat" it was Dolliver. A night stand was made at a crossroad town in Indiana. Introductlnon of Dolliver's speech: "Fellow citizens, we were afraid that we would not be here. Some mites back I ask-ed the conductor (not the Senegambianj in his train stopped here and he said, 'Sorry, Senator, but this train don't even hesitate at the town you mention/" After the meeting was over, the correspondent asked Senator Dolliver where he got his story. Dolliver told him he got it from Senator Stone, of Missou/i and that Stone got it from Jim Sherman and that Sherman stole if from Mark Twain. "You see" said the sly Iowa orator, "the story nas i quite a pedigree." And the poor corespondent hadn't j the "sand" to claim his own progeny.. Job ^Hedges, wit of the New York ! bar, used it on the road and- he got the. credit for it for quite a whiie in the! boiler plate matter sent out by the1 American Press association. Finally; it got on the expurgatorious list and ;! th^n it was captured or rescued Dyj being credited to various well-known men. * The Vanishing Birds. Our lawmakers and Andubon societies seem to think that the birds have only one enemy which is thinning them out and that is the hunter. There is another cause for their disappearance which the wise friends of birds have not explained. They gradually disappear in neighborhoods where there is neither hunting nor trapping. ~ '* **- 1- ^ ! Some of tne oiaer peopie ui m <= x | mont may remember a time back in | the forties when wild pigeons came i ! to this section by the thousand and ' ten thousand. It was a common thing I to hear the honk of the wild goose aa I he was flying southward. It was j usual for them to stop on some stream j and remain a' dav or two to pick up j foe*. Some of the smaller migratory j birds visited us and remained through j the winter until the warm days of' t spring warned them that it was tun* to muster their forces and seek simmer homes farther north. Smal1 birds of every hue and note could be seen in forest and field. The plough: man in the spring of the year was never out of sight of blue bird, wood- j packer, dove or some othcr feathered | friend ready to destroy any worm or j grub his plough turned up. But al? j that is changed. No morning concert now cheers him as he turns the furrow. He may not see or hear a bird for days, ^hey have simply disap- j peared. Two years ago the writer was \ ? ^-i--? /->n q farm near I W a ICllIIig LUC UUUJ U" u, -.? ? Gaffney, He allowed no one to shoot or trap them. There were no bird hunters on adjoining farms. There were two hundred acres or more of woods, fine old fields, swamps and thickets. Small grain was raised on the farm, i In February there were about ten j covies of partridges on the farm that could be located. There may have been more. It was expected that there would be hundreds of young ones in the fall of the year. But there were ( J Cs1-1885 r? LIZERJ mm ojiB MMMM 1 V - i to Join Our Club J jr Month. *<c ,7.rc Pants 25c all-r 25c ts' Suits ..$1.50 its $2.00 to $2.50 35c 50c 75c 5()C 25c ur Measure Here Over Arcade. LITTLE BOY BIDE ? With his staunch and sturdy toy dog appealed to all lovers of children because of the vacant chair and the toys he left All of us love our children, and all of us owe them a duty. One duty is to protect their health? and croup and colds often take them uml -1 J ?ft mliiAh away. me augei ui cam ui *? Un,u Field spok? comes unawares?and while the doctor should always be consulted, a bottle of Gowans in the home makes you feel secure. Gowans will renter inflamation. You just rub it on. No dangerous drugs and the subject wich a view to determine! all we claim. Buy a bottle today?$lr 50c and 25c.?Adv. fewer than in the spring. They had just wandered away. Last spring there was only a covey or two on the farm and not'a single one to be seen in the fall. The dove?, woodpeckers, and sapsuckers have all gone. It is seldom that a blue bird is seen. Even the house martens and bee martens are never seen, and they are great friends of the farmer. After harvest small grain left on the ground will remain until winter because there are no birds to eat it. Foxes and rabbits have also gone with the birds in many sections. The crow, which was once very abundant, has been greatly thinned. Only a few are seen now. - v.. It is easy to understand wu> unuo are very scarce when all the land is cleared and there are no breeding and hiding places. Those which nest in holes in dead trees will leave a farm where there are few trees of any sort. The partridge and many smaller birds will not stay where there are no secret nooks and corners for "making their nests. Legislation and bird protection societies will not prevent the gradual disappearance of our feathered friends. These facts are given for the information of the people who think that hunters and Wrappers are the only agents in the destruction of birds. Charles Petty. Spartanburg. S. C. " * KITES 0> LAW OF PATENTS. Federal Courts ,>Iay Act When Patented Articles are Sold Below Cost Fixed by Patent Holder. Washington, March 24.?The supreme court today held that federal courts may take jurisdiction over suits for alleged infringement of pat ents when patented articles are sum below price fixed by the patent holder. The case before the court was that of a manufacturer against a Chicago store which was alleged to have sold patented gas heaters for $1.25 when the . manufacturer had fixed its sale price at $1.50. The federal courts of the Seventhcircuit are said to have held in other cases that such sales are infringements. Whether this is good law will be considered on its merits in a case to be argued April 7. It comes from the District of Columbia, but is expected to settle the much disputed question of cut rates for the entire United States. Always open oven doors wh^p lighting oven burners of gas range.