Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

REPLIES TO ( APT. SOXDLEY. Governor Blease Makes Statemenl f. Commenting I'pon the l'arr is Parole and ( apt. Sondlej's Statement. B- Columbia, Dec. 29.?"WLiei: the siarej?| meat of Capt. W. H. Sondley. of 'lit State penitentiary, as puMi.-he-l ii The Herald and News and other n^ws papers, was called to the attention ol | Governor Blease this morning the governor said: "Since I paroled a negro convicl who was brutally whipped because he I spoke to me, during the last sessior of the legislature, at which time the committee called the convict and others before them to testify, in the hall of representatives, for some reasor Capt. Sondley has been very bittei against me. It has been repeatedl} reported to me by some of my friends that it is disagreeable to be in his company at the Elks' club, or at th( Commercial club?that he always makes it a point to bring me up in his conversations and is very bitter towards me in his remarks. The actior I took then was not directed at Mr Sondley, but was taken for the sake of humanity. I presume that the public will understand his hatred of me and I feel that he can do me no injur} by anything t. at lv.? says. T an: verj glad indeed thai he has made this out k burst, because he puts on notice those whom he would attempt to influence against me jaext summer that he is nn f political and personal enemy, and tho\ - will therefore know why it is that is attempting to criticise and injure me. "As to the Parris boy, Capt. Pressley, one of the truest men I have ever known, and one of the most perf feet gentlemen, and who has beer connected with the penitentiary fo; ^4 many, many years?possibly twentj or more?sat in my office 'and hearr HI ovprv ivo-^r? tr-st Parris sqid. Cant Pressley knew Captain Sondley anc L he knew Col. Griffith, and after 'hearV ing me read this letter of Parris tc W him, and after hearing Parris' stafeW ment in full, Capt. Pressley did no1 open his mouth in correction oi denial of what Parris said. I bef lieved then, and I believe now, thai every word Parri^ said was the truth V Had it not been, I do not believe thai as honorable man as Capt. Presslej is would have sat silent and allowec ?CoI. Griffith and Capt. Sondley to hav< been misrepresented by this boy. "There are a good many other instances which have come to my attention, by letters and by statements i'rom convicts, which, if I were tc give them to the public, might possible show the public that Capt* Sondley is I by no means the great humanitariar that he professes to be. Some o! these letters will be presented to th? general assembly at the coming session, when I hope the general assembly will make a proper* investigation and not merely call before them the officials of the institution." I HOME OF THE JfEERSCHAOT. Ori?ianl]y From Asiatic Turkey am: Is Supposed to be Petrified K Sea Foam. g?:: JSski Sciiier, Asiatic Turkey.?Yot cannot travel by night on the Bagdac railway. Every evening tihe train stops | to wait for the morrow's sun, and you m . must go to a hotel to eat and sleep Not at all a bad idea if you have plenty of time. And you do have time ir Turkey, or at least feel that you have otherwise you would not stay there very long. I was in no hurry when ] set my face toward the east. So wher k , the train on the first night out frocr A Constantinople rested at Bski Schier' ] I/n Arv fr\y r% /-loir rvf Itth fueviurru L(J ijwy iVJ a, UUJ U4 But Eski Schier has one unique claim upon your interest, and if yoi are a smoker the claim is a compelling one. It is the home of the meerschaum. Meerchaum in abundance is found only on the plain of Esk: Schier, and this city produces all the marketable meerchaum in the world Meerschaum, as the name implies, is I* supposed to be petrified sea foam, anc B has been discovered floating on the W Black Sea. Aside from the Eski Schiei minflt" it r\r- r> 11 to in d.TC*&o& SnTTlfiS lUllX^O) X Is WV/U40 v.4 vvvvj. Spain, Moravia, Utah, Pennsylvania (at Nottingham, in Chester county) 1 and in conjunction with serpentine, ir . Norway and South Carolina. The ancients are said to have used it for decorative stone in buildings, and this R seems to have been confirmed by the recent excavations in Corfu. It is sofl W and whitish and becomes malleable * like clay when soaked in water. Meerschaum used to be considered e mere curiosity by the Turks, who hac no other use for it than as a substitute -c ? rrr- ? xl j lor luuers soap. slwi j i uus tuai the Turkish ambassador at the Austrian court, back in the eighteenth century, was a native of Eski Schier Wanting to help his city at a time ol great poverty he took samples of this H queer stuff to Vienna, thinking that the Franks, as all foreigners were thei called, might have some use for it. 0 The Germans were quick to see it* utility for pipe bowls, but declarec that ifc was good for nothing else More than a century has confirmed this judgment, or who has discovered f any other use for mee'sdiamn? Foi pipe making it is the ideal raw material. Here is a stone.which is ea-ily ( moulded when wet and when dry be; c omes hard and resists lire. At Hrst meerschaum was used only 1 by certain Viennese and Bavanan i firms. To them it was merely a goo.} - raw material, whose merit was in the T ease of manufacture for the fancy ; pipes to which Germans have always j been addicted, rather tlian in any inL trinsic superiority of the manufactured particle. In time men began to enjoy i the fun of coloring a meerschaum ? bowl, and tourists spread this report -1 among the elite of all nations. After I i its introduction to American smokers t j the meerschaum rapidly became the * aristocrat of pipes. Prices went up r accordingglv, and the mining and ex> port of meerschaum became a boom ; for Eski Schier. ; In the early days of meerschaum ; mining Sultan Selim III. gave an im> perial firman to the inhabitants of . Eski Schier and its neighboring vili ! lages, granting to them of mining the ..exclusive privilege of minig the mini eral. Ever since then a large po: tion of -1 the population has been engaged in , | the meerschaum industry. The :nin> ; * fifteen miles from the city, have al ! way si been work. : Turkish fa.^nio;.. -; without any system whatever, j! There is no possibility of a "trust" 5, or even of the introduction of modern - methods of mining. Each man is fo ; himself. None has any capital. The j , prospecting and mining go on over an j1 increasingly large area and I am told ' that about 5,000 shafts have been sunk. - most of them branching out into innu) merable horizontal galleries at dif ferent levels.' The shoring is so crude \ jthat I did no; care to risk going down. - , That f orn the collapsing of galleries r: and the frenquencv of poisonous and i I 11 explosive gases, meerschaum min. ing exacts every year its toll of human t j life. Safety lamps are unknown. j Meerschaum is found in lumps of > : rathe** small size, ranging from n man's fist to four time a man's fist, t (That is how they measure it, foi i centimeters and inches, plain, square j or cubic, are unknown to the miners.) t There is still much dirt clinging to the | lumps when they are brought to town t! on donkey back. The miners sell to local merchants; ' j who are mostly the third or fourth J: generation in the business. The merI j chant must estimate the value in its ' (rough form, and, in spite of inherited '! skill and knowledge, he finds his buy5; ing somewhat a lottery. ?For there are )! twelve distinct qualities of meerjschaum and the lowest is worth onlj 5 one-sixth the price of toe highest 1 The quality is determined by specific f gravity, color, and, to a more limited ' j extent than with precious stones, by ";its size. The rough outer surface is scraped off with a knife. Then the 1 meerschaum, still damp and safe, ie 1 eet out to dry. When it becomes hard lit receives a second scraping and is rounded off. The finishing operation is to polish it with wax. The better grades are snow white and take a very high polish. The poorer grades, even when dry, are so soft that they can easily be indented with the finger 1 nails. Thus prepared for market, the | lumps are separated into bins according to quality. Once a year they are packed for shipping, with cotton, ir l i boxes which look like orange crates | On first sight one would think he ' | was looking at ostrich eggs. The J! -whole output of Eski Schier is shipped '; to Trieste, and the merchants go tc l | Vienna to sell their goods. This is r the sole market ! i The Turkish government gets nc ?1 revenue from the mines, but charges L (a fixed export duty per case. The .; duty used to be on the ad valorem . basis until the Turkish authorities j discovered the suspicious fact that ^ while the higher grades seemed ^ never to be exported, they were always plentiful on the Austrian market, The total annual sales in Vienna j amount in 1912, to about $600,000 of which more than half was purchased | by American firms. Tn nrdpr to nroteot the eood name of meerschaum the Turks absolutely forbid the sale or export of scrapings. As far as I can find out this law is observ* L ed. At Eski Schier the waste is thrown out. But in Europe and America, when th.e raw material undergoes further treatment and is being manufactured into pipe bowls and cigareete holders, the scrapings are sold. These scrapings are actually listed in Vienna at two francs the kilo1 gram. Unscrupulous manufacturers I v.-tr eimnk' cr arid Vn pa din 2" to UJ OilXi-Jk/AJ ?? VV?V.?0 ' gether these scrapings produce "*'orth less meerschaum. t ' | But there is worse than that to tell. Plaster of paris, or plaster of paris mixed with a potato preparation and ^ skillfully treated with stearine is the 5 secret of the great meerschaum "bar? gains" one sometimes sees in America. 1, But I do not want to make you feel uneasy when you glance at the meer5 schaum pipe on your desk. And we are 1 getting pretty far away from Eski . Scnier.?Denyer Republican. Honor K<>11 .Newberry ("if\ SHiooN. Following is the honor roll of the . i Xew berry schools for t!:e term ending Dec. ">, 1913: , Ilicli School. Eleventh grade?-.Jennie Morris, Maude Epting. Tenth grade?Taressa Mavbin f>s.L\1 W >iy Croiuer Kosaloe S .:r* n-, 94.1. Cora Lopiinaok M :d j Abrams 91.6. Heyward Ewart ,;!J. I.ucile Lathan 90.6, Marie Evans 1*0.4. : Ninth grade?Kathryn Harms 97.'!, Ruth Digby 97.r>, Henry Rikard 97.2, i Harry Wimberly 95.1, Mildred Ev;ins 9-1.4, Elise Peterson 92.7, Vinnie Eleazer 92.6, Eldredge McSwain 92.6, William Halfacre 92.1, iFannie Eleazer 91.3. ; j Eighth grade?Jack Dunstan 99.1, i Annie Kinard 98.2, Bertha Gallman i, 97.6, John Floyd 94.3, Ernest Digby 93.S, Roberta Lominack 93, George Rodelsperger 92.3, Forrest Dic-kert ; 91.3, Ralph Langford 91.1, Kathleen "Wendt 91, Lee McSwain 91, Joe Vigodsky 90.7, Ruth Porter 90.5, Edward Davis 90. Speers Street School. Seventh grade?Emily Hoof, Nan-' cy Fox, Annie Dunstan, Estelle Kib- i ler. Joel Wertz. Sixth grade?Marguerite We tz, Susie MauUe Wilson, Abbie Gaillard,"! L'aggea Norwood. iviwin Sotzior. Sue iv'la Peterson. Lola Taylor. Mar-j guerite Jacobs. .Fifth grade?Mary Alice Suber, Au- \ brey Tilley. i Fourth grade?Otto Gregory, Car- : i oil Garrett, William McSwain J i Blanche Sale, Nellie Lake, Susie Bu- j nr.. 1^1, w?lvs,,r Pnl-'p RIposp 1 IUX U, VVCtV.il tuiuui, vvi.v .. Third grade?James Caldwell, John Co!1 ins, James Dunstan. William Eddy, John Epps, Elizabeth Harms, Ruth ' Harrell, Rosalie Hodge, Manning Ja cobs, Burr James Kibler, Marie Long,: > Essie Robinson, Mildred Reed, Hu- I I bert Setzler, Cortez Sanders, Etha! Taylor, Severne Tilley, Caroline j Weeks, T oxelle Wright, Leland Wil- j \pon, Griffin Williams. Second grade?Benetta Buzhardt, t Gladys Havird, Margaret Farrow, . Edna Sanders, J. W. Earliardt, Zeddie | Berry, Mildred Perry, Leila Chappell, j i Ruby Reddick, Ross Wilson, Lawrence I Spearman, Herndon Sample, Azne > Whitaker, Carolyn Epps, James Xoi bles, Tom Sligh. i First grade?Ruth Long, Edna Jacobs. Eugene Derrick, Effie Player, Travis Melton, Julia Eleazer, James Lambright, Otis Whitaker, Chappell , Teague. Boundary Street School. Qovonfh prmdp?Azile Parr. Mary , Frances Cannon, Frances Houseal, Roberta Mann, Ruth Schumpert, r Sophia Nell Crotwell. Sixth grade?Hattie Mary Buford, , Eunice Dickert, Mary Klettner, Callie i Boyd Parr, Robert Schumpert, May . Tarrant, Ellis Williamson. .! Fifth grade?Janie Delle Paysinger, > i ? Fredna Schumpert, Mary Frances , Jones, Frances Jones, Cla^k Floyd, ^ Alliene Dunn> Nell Wimberly, Mildred , Tarrant. Fourth firade?Clara Stewart, Eliz. abeth Mims, Marie Schumpert, Elizabeth Kinard, Legare Tarrant, William Jones, James WTallace, Everett Hipp, ! John Chappell, Harold Hipp, Lillie . Johnson, Henry Lommack. Third grade?Margaret Kinard, T. W. Smith, Martha Lathan, Garland j Taylor, Buford Cromer, Boyd Wheeler, ; Ruby Sligh, William Matthews, Augustus Pifer. ' ^~^ ^a.?."Paulino Boozer. I Ot/CUlIU 51 ciuv "A v*/ v* * ^ 7 Ella Bowman, Albert Boyd, Philip [ Crotwell, Lula Mae Fellers, George I-, Fulen wider, Maxie Lever, Louise ' l Roger, Thomas West. I First grade?Sarah Mary Pitts, '; Carolyn Tarrant, Henry Adams, George Martin. ' West End School. 1 Fourth grade?Jurn Davis, Erich i Jones. L | Third grade?Willie Mae Culbert! son. : | Second grade?fGeorgia Ammons, 1 Estelle Bouknight, Ora Caldwell, Cora Copeland, Bertie Inabinet, Rosa Rush I ton, Alphonso Campson, Ernest LayL; ton, Bennie Stevens, Boyd Robertson, , Earl Williams, Jimmie Stevens. I First grade?Carl Bridges, George | Clamp, Carlos Gardner, Carl Hall- | man, Roosevelt Jennell, Roy Padgett, ; J. P. Black, Aline Franklin, Arthur II Glenn, Pearl Bouknight, Vera Cald-. well, Sadie Jones, Marie Rister, 1 Louise Rodgers, Irene Stevens. Wonder If This Isn't Louis Shodair i Who Was Born in ?wberry Tears Ago. ; Greenville Piedmont, 18th. i For the first time in thirteen years, Mr. L. W. Shodair, formerly a Greenville citizen, but now of Los Angeles, California, is in the city for a few days stay. While here Mr. j and Mrs. Shodair are the guests of Mr. Stephen King. '.j A long number of years ago, Mr. Shodair conducted a general mer' chandize store on Main street, near the corner of Coffee. He left this . city, however, about thirty years ago, and has since prospered in Los Angeles, but has now retired from 1 active business. Mr. Shodair has i made a trip around the world, and is no^. on a tour of- the United States. ? I' ] | |i|i Mm \ lllvllCv I I Capital Si "TJie Ban! .i I i..! - ^ ?--.TT??meaw-svmnsnm9SBr?BM0K9fl _ IL^OU! I Yoi its safetv. I - ' the combi the stron county. it's safe. IIFE -J Kalan tiHHBB!3SS MUIUAI bank. 4?io i He was here last about thirteen years ago, and today "expressed surprise and gratification at the great growth of this city during this time. vATrrr AT? nppvrvc ROOKS OF ^VIIVJU VX , SUBSCRIPTION, Notice is hereby given that books of subscription to the capital stock of the Whitmire Supply company will be opened at the store of A. J. Holt in the town of Whitmire, S. C., on Wednesday, December 31, 1913, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The capital stock of the proposed corporation is to be ten thousand dollars divided into one hundred shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each. Said books to be opened by authority of a commission issued to the undersigned as corporators by the Hon. R. M. McCown as secretary of State of the State of South Carolina. J. D. Tidmarsh, Z. H. Sliber, W. H. Rasor, Corporators. December 29, 1913. 12-30-lt. ANNUAL MEETING. The regular annual meeting of the share holders of the Peoples National bank of Prosperity, S. C., will be held at the bank on Tuesday, January 13th, 1914, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the election of directors and such other business as may come before said mppfing' R. T. Pugh, Cashier. Dec. 30-Jan. 2-6 THE WORLD IS LOOIXG FOE MEJT. Gaffney Ledger. Who can act. Who never give up. Who can do things. Who have character. Who are never idle. Who can not be bought. Who can show results. Who see opportunities. Who have original ideas. t ^Q1 never get into % I dWrv Ravine :ock - r That Always Has Th rT[S^E^ if ?r-rr?v</ '' .it^i Copyright 1^09. by C -t. Zimmeimdti Co --n v # #* ? mAmAV K ??&rp? in iL liJLVlAVJ AW ?JV%A i don't have to wc for behind our ined resources o gest financial n Put your mone ; easy sailing if you h ce in a savings accoi on savings deposits. finwwvMi ? . ^ The Light tc ^ Children should never J light?it strains the ey ^ may be permanent. f The best lamp for stu A light is soft, clear an use it for hours at a ti ^ your eyes in the least. ^ The Rayo lamp is str m durable. Can be ligh ? ing chimney or shad< ^ The Rayo c Who carry out an agreement. Who are not afraid of work. j1 Who do something every day. Who never recognize defeat. Who can act without orders. Who can Bee their duty and do it. t Who accomplish vhat they begin. Who are not afraid to be leaders. i Who merit the confidence of othW i V / T p Bask ] ?? $50,000 e Money" BP 1 "i /j'iV'V4s. / our bank. >rry about bank are f some of len in the ;y where ave a good I , int with our / T 2 > Study By ? study under a poor 'esand the ill effects . ^ dy is the Rayo?its % d steady?-you can ^ me without hurting W V ong, attractive and kl f aA Tinflinii+ r?>mriTT_ <% ibu vviuiuui itmwv- i ? 3?easy to rewick. M :osts little, but you \ :ter at any price. r keeps the Rayo? ^ OIL COMPANY Jersey) Charlotte, N. C. flMORE CiurlMton W V*. GuHestos, S. C. Who can originate as well as folov. Who profit by the mistakes of othjrs. Wlho have ability, honor and inegrity. Wlio are not frightened by com>etition. Who do today the things that tould wait until tornenow.