University of South Carolina Libraries
*Pardon Deere Prevent J a -. n r* T> SICZJUn UI Sjuuzrfiur m xvtrotc 1,500 Men Freed "On Gc National Cle The Columbia Record, 10th. Forestalling any effort that mi--lit have been made by his success >/s to return to pri>?>a for ser.'"ee the remainder of :.-eir sentences, Oov. iiloase signed yesterday a decree -*-* ? .? M rtrvn \'i "i gl'SIllillg lull UWJl ly ?l 1 \;u IK'W of tie State and various countios whom he had previously granted paroles "during g0v>-.l b-.*ha -or.'' T.;ie governor accepted as approximately correct the est'imte uaj? his oif.cs that iLi:* rnanke: pi'den would persons, wi/.o ra* 1 oeer; collectively convicted of p:ovJb!y every crime on the caleujar. Tlds estimate appeared somewhat iigh co other Slate officials, and at_ t* laches of the office cf secretary oi State and newspaper ai3u placed the number effected between 1,000 and 1,200 persons. Those former prisoners who were paroled upon the condition that they ne". er return to the State, ne^er again fak-c a 'rink of intoxicating liquor and apon other conJ**-LS i "/-r/-vrv,3 h lhiivinr " anions, save ui swu kvu?..v., , were not affected by this pardon. Tlie official document stated that all persons paro.'ed "upon good bohawor" by Gov. Blease "during the years one thousand nine hundred and eleven, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, a *- j ?" 1ran dflH k and on? in ou sun a unit uuuui^u fourteen'' were granted fulf pardon. This decree plainly stated, however, A that none others were affected. PP Gov. Blease greatest act of clemency came without warning. With one stroke of his pen he returned to those .ormer prisoners their rights of citizenship which ttieir convictions for c-riLits against the State had taken away. Though the exact number given Jfull pardon by tnis comprehensive document was not established yesterday, he number is known to be sufficiently large to give to Gov. Blease the distinction of granting at one time a number of pardons in excess j of that ever granted by a chief ex-) ec.:tive of any State of the Union. Thousrh the nresent administration ? Vill continue only 10 more days, at fe' ]east 3,000 pe.-sons have received ex-i ecutive clemency from Gov. Blease, and it is probable, according to best information obtainable here yesterday, i that he has established a record higib j mark in total number of acts o" clemency. Individuals numbering 1,- I 664 had, when his office closed last, received clemency ifrom Gov. Blease s Mr/>luRivA of the number affected by I the pardoning decree. i This latest action by the governor came as a climax for the record of i liberality in the granting of pardons, paroles and commutations of sendees to prisoners of tlbe State, coun-1 Im and cities. This document was1 fcied by Got. Blease about 12:45 Brock in the presence of his prile secretary, W. F. Blackburn, his Biographer, Miss Lucille Parrott; Kch Q. Boozer, State electrician, and Representative of The Record. | None knew cf the governor's intenon save himself and Mr. Blackburn, +t^o. o-iSv^rr>r;r'c assertion when Luc ^ ~ k^laokhurn gave him the docu fo-.* hi* signature that "This is I Hon for them all'' caused amazeI among- those present. Gov. I exercised marked deliberation j I Kiing the blanket pardon. He selectca a pen, dipped it in ' - signed, in bold, rourd letters, his full name, "Colour man Livingston Blease." ." j Gov. Blease explained last night, in an exclusive interview, that this action was taken to prevent any of his L "'paroled convicts'' being forced back into prisoa His explanation follows. "I had noticed in a Sumter paper recently where it was heralded to the world that, within a limited time after Blease had retired from office and when Mr. Manning bad become governor, a very large percentage of Blease's paroled convicts would be returned to toe penitentiary. I had also heard the remark made by Mr. Man/ mng'j friends tlat this would be the course pursued. Believing that Mr. Manning and many of his friends ( would be willing, at the expense of "Humanity, to do things which would I make I?lease's paroled convicts vio^ " 1 * ? ? ? ^ ^ ^ xri nr" A f ifit? me "during gt/UU i/cuanui ui their paroles, and would be willing to ?ause suffering to these poor, lhelpless ^ human beings in order to herald to the world that another one o^lease's paroled convicts was returned to prison, and in order to prevent Wk that, among other good and sufficient reasons, this 'blanket pardon' was isHffigsued.'' |l?^^ Well informed officials at the capi e Issiied To ailing) Paroled )r'mg Citizenship to Possibly )od Behavior Probably Sets mecy Record. ^ f tal yesterday Expressed the opinion ' that this document held a unique place, and that a precedent for all States o-.' the iJnion was probably established by ijie governor's latest ac lion. J | FI LL PAJyDON TO OVKK 1,000 (Governor Sais He is Seriously Considering (opening Penitentiary i Doors. irier. Columbia, j Jan. 9.?All convicts [ paroled "during good behavior" by the | present chiff-f executive were granted j full pardcni by a blanket pardon is- j j sued by Governor Blease this after| noon through a proclamation filed in the ofRcp of R. M. McCown, secretary of State. It is estimated that over 1,000 affected foyr this action, citizenship rights being restored to fully than; many by Governor Blease with one* strnkp of the r>en. , Since \assuming office in January 1911, the) present governor has exercised clepency in 1,662 cases, over one tf:ousandl of which were paroles issued during good behavior. This proclamation issued today gives all of these unconditional pardons. (The proclamation is printed elsewhere in* this paper.) Clemency List. } Later in the aiternoon uoyemor ! Blease sefrt across to the secretary I of State ar-other list of thirty-five paroles and commutations, bringing the total number of cases in which he has exercised clemency up to 1.662. / 1 AERIAL (TRAIL BREAKING. \ Amazing Spee'd and Endurance of the Wild Swan In Flight. It is impossible for one who has seen only the conimoin mute swans floating about in the artificial lakes of city parks to imaging the grandeur of a flock of the grea* whistlers in their wild state. In ^*ild Life and the Camera" Mr. A. R.^ Dugmore says the sight is one of the jrnost impressive in nature. As the hugo> birds rise into the air it seems It? an aerial regatta were being sailed overhead, the swans, each with a wing spread of sis or seven feet, moving like yachts under full ? sail. Once the s^.-nns are fairly under way their speed is amazing, nearly a hun- t dred miles an hour, and that. too. with no apparent effort, for the slow wing motion is very deceiving. Their en- g durance is as surprising as their speed, d for they are said to travel a thousand n miles without alighting. e The flocks are usually led by an old sj and experienced swan, and it is said u that as one becomes tired of leading, o or it might be called aerial trail break- tJ ing. his place is taken by another tl whose strength is equal to the.task, u and so they ecutinue until they reach E their destination, the southern feeding ti grounds of the winter or the northern E breeding places of the summer. Occa- C sionally they stop to rest in the region t< of the great lakes. Not many years e ago, while on their way north, a large li i u ~ iKatto VilTQWl fl i Iq h uuLuuer a. w??<> ? and more than a hundred were by some extraordinary miscbinee carried h over the falls and killed in the surg- e ing waters. C Whether the swans prepare in any e< special way for their southward jour-,0 ney is not known, but before starting! ^ north they indulge in the curious habit s known as "ballasting"?that is to say, they eat great quantities of sand, for c what purpose no one knows. In tbe faraway Arctic ocean is their! breeding place, and it is believed that | J they mate for life. As with so many; ' of the water birds, the swans protect I their ecgs witu h covering of down tj I C1 scratched from their own breasts, so, i hirdo 1 AO X7Ck tho np?t fh(?i j lliai u UCU UJC wu U.O ivu f v V?W - I ^ j two to six large, yellowish eggs are j bidden from the eyes of possible ^ thJeves and protected against any sudden changes of temperature. ' It is many years before the swans are clothed in the feathers of immaculate wbiteness that make them such u conspicuous objects of beauty. Not, $ indeed, until the fifth year does all trace of gray disappear. Their first feathers are entirely gray. Gradually they lighten, becoming mottled with white, the neck and bead remaining j ? gray until after the body is completely j white. j ^ a I What Shell Fire Is Like. T moritr off Amnfo fn i P II 12 <X V C icuu tuauj atLCLu^to tv uv scribe shell fire in a battle, but not one 1 j to equal the easy description of tbis ! young officer, who does not pretend to be a stylist Listen: "You hear a boom miles away, hard- ! P ly audible in the distance. Then a : * ; faint sigh, gradually rising to a scream a as the shell whizzes toward you. Then ! y | a flash, an immense crash and the air ; t ! is filled with thousands of bullets and I jagged lumps or iron, earn mating a i I different sort of shrieking noise. Then : i phit-phit-phit everywhere as they hit ; ! the ground. I 'T]*is is shrapnel."? London Sketch. j ? ' I 1 r= j ] Uneeda Biscuit ; Tempt the appetite, 1 please the taste and 1 nourish the body. Crisp, clean and fresh. 5 cents. [ ( tHK ? fiba ?? ! Baronet biscuit j t Round, thin, tender? j t with a delightful flavor j < ?appropriate for lunch- i i eon, tea and dinner. * 10 cents. i Graham j ; I Crackers j; Made of the finest ingredients. Baked , to perfection. The ( national strength i food. 10 cents. s Buy biscuit baked by NATIONAL BISCUIT ) ; COMPANY < Always look for that Name. i ^ ' SHADOW PICTURES. |i no Silhouette as the Origin of All ! Pictorial Art. < In the year 17f>9, when Etienne de ilhouette was minister of finance un- | . er Louis XV., a man whose name has ' ot been preserved started in Paris an i xhibition that he called Chinese i badows. This consisted in throwing j pon a sheet the black outlines of men 1 r obiects and making these shadows < ike part in a play. It so happened j aat at this time Silhouette was unpop- i Jar. He bad spent many years in 3 Ingland and had returned to his na- | ve country greatly impressed witb i , Inglisb methods of public economy. ! fndertaking to apply these principles i ) French finances, be met with decid- j < a disapproval by the Parisians. But ! , ttle thanks did he get except to have j is efforts branded as parsimonious. j j Some one recalled that M. de Sil- ! ? ouette bad written a book, "A Gen- j j ral Idea Fcr tbe Government of the j Chinese," in which he exploited his i ; coDomical theories. Tbe popularity , , f tbe Chinese shadows was responsi- i ' le for tbe jibe that Silhouette had is- ' ed tbe tx>ok as an advance notice for ! tie show; nence the shadows were I . <in/1 tun ndmo vrn? I ol i I trV-I dUUUIICll CO, auu I .r ,W . aturally extended to portraits that ] rere then coming into vogue, in wiiicii ,*ere presented only the outlines of i i ices and figures tilled in with black, j Though the fashion and the name of ( , tie silhouette are of comparatively re ent origin, the art itself is ancient It ras used by Etruscan potters eight j ' enturies before Christ and a classic J ?gend, which has been illustrated by j benjamin West in a famous picture j ailed "The Origin of Painting." claim- : 3 ' ' - " ? * ? ? * ? * + r? o f I T1 I Q LQill till piciuiiai HI L uugiuaicu IU I n attempt to paint the fleeting shad- I ws of men and women as they fell i pon a wall or a blank space.?Detroit { ! 'ree Press. Slitting a Pen. ( The center slit in a pen is cut by a i machine which seems almost to think, i , t consists of two chisels which barely i u oIi+- jc3 iriaHa I <ISS Cill'LI UI UCl w ucu cm iu LL.UUV., I ( nd the exact way in which the pen is j oised so as to place the chisels in the I, roper position for cutting is one of j he marvels of pen making. Shifting the Blame. I "Have you anything to say before I ass sentence?" "Yes, your honor. T would call your ttention to the fact that the fool law er who detended me was assigned 10 j he ease by yourself."?Philadelphia; ,edger. A Suggestion. "He's his own worst ensray." "Then he ought to apologize to himelf and start all over again."?Detroit PreS;S. i i MYSTERY NOISES. Di Unknown Origin, They Sound Like Muffled Thunder. COMMON IN THE OLD WORLD. rhese Curioys Boomings, That Puzzle Science. Heard at Times From Australia to Ireland, Are Akin to the "Moodus Noises" cf Connecticut. It is a hot and tranquil summer aft- 1 )rhoon on the Belgian coast in time of peace. Strolling along the shore you 1 ire startled by a mufhrd detonation j that seems to come trom somewhere i far out at sea. Can it be thunder? I'here is not a cloud in the sky, and rou remember that thunder is rarely uzdible at a greater distance than if teen miles. A man-of-war at target j practice, perhaps?far in the offing. At j fhis noint vour Belgian friend ex- i plains. It was tbe "mistpoeffer," be 1 says, and a sign tbat tbe weatber will continue fair. But what is the mistpoeffer? If you j :an answer tbat question you can also ! ixplain tbe mysterious Barisa! guns of 1 [ndia (Barisal is tbe name of a town j n the Ganges delta), wbicb have puz- ; sled scienunc men ror uau a ceuiurjr. icon can explain also the strange rumblings that in certain parts of Italy seem to come from nowhere in par:icular and are known to the peasantry inder forty or more local names, the iesert sound of the Australian wilderness, the water guns of Lough Neagh d Ireland and the aerial detonations :hat occasionally startle CalLfornians ; luring the warm season. For example, in September, 1896, to ; 3uote the Santa Rosa Republican, "a j :remendous explosion, presumably in , :he air, occurred near Cazadero. It! svas heard by me dwellers of the' nouutain region over an area of 900 square miles." All noises of this kind resembling thunder, but not traceable to that or i iny other knowu agency, are now gen- J ?ra!ly called in scientific literature; brontidi, a name first used by Profes-j sor Tito Alippi, who has made a spe-1 rial study of these phenomena in! Italy. The "Moortus noises," familiar to old residents of Moodus and East Had3am. Conn., are probably kindred phenomena, although they seem to be somewhat more definitely associated nrrim enl.turrn nofln PJirth shocks than IT I ULI OUUlVi ?i?uv?4M ?? ire typical broutidi, and the same may j je said of the gouffre of Haiti, which? j it least in some cases?is easily recognized as of subterranean origin. Although systematic investigations Df brontidi are of recent date, occurrences of the phenomena have been re?orded from early times. Lord Bacon mentions "an extraordinary noise in the sky when there is no thunder," and similar sounds were known to j Humboldt and Houssingault Captain Sturt. a pioneer explorer of Australia, svrote in 1829: "About 3 p. m. of Feb. 7 (during the Australian summer) Mr. Hume and I rrere occupied tracing the chart upon the ground. The day had heen re ooarkably One. 'mere was noi a ciuuu i in the heavens nor a breath of air to j be felt On a sudden we heard what seemed to be the report of a gun tired it the distance of between five and six miles. It was not the hollow sound of in earthly explosion or the sharp crackling noise of falling timber, but in svery way resembled the discharge of a. ueavy piece 01 oruuaucc. "No one was certain whence the sound proceeded. Both Mr. Hume and j myself thought it came from the northwest 1 sent one of the men up a tree, j but he could observe nothing unusual, i'he country round him appeared equally flat on all sides and thickly wooded, i Whatever occasioned the report, It made a strong impression on all of us, and to this day such a sound in such a situation is a matter of mystery to me." Science has not fully solved the mystery of brontidi, but it can hardly be ioubted that t!ie origin of these sounds Is really subterranean. From a focus far underground the jar of settling rocks sends vibrations to the surfacenot at one spot, but over a wide area. Then if the overlying air is calm and homogeneous it also is set in vibration, and if the vibrations are of the right period to be audible ttoe result is a booming sound of altogether Indefinite in/wfinn it io oimnlv *Mn thA nir."? 1VV.O UVU? Ai ? Youth's Companion. French Officers Made Thrifty. The French army officer has to be a thrifty man to make ends meet on bis salary of a very few francs a day, and borrowing or running into debt is an offense against mUftary law. An officer couvicted of debt is suspended by the war office for three years, and at the end of that time his reinstatement or dismissal from the service is decided by a kind of court martial, comprising five officers of his corps, one of them of his own rank. Antiquity of Tin. We 6nd that brass, and consequently tin, existed in Tyre, the great seaport town of the Phoenicians, on the coast of Syria, about 1000 B. C. They are frequently referred to in all works relating to tin or to Cornwall. The Phoenicians were merchants and carried on an important trade from the ports of Tyre and Sidon. These cities rivaled each ot&er in magnuuue, mine auu antiquity. What I want to try to do is to judge my fellow human being as kindly as I do my dog.-Gerald Stanley Lee. Box I Slightly damat was 25c and Now SEE MY WIN! Maves' B Variet; w The House of t WHISTLER AND HIS GROCER. An Overdue Bill, a Threat and a Payment Not In Cash. Whistler's financial affairs were tbe mingled joy and terror of his friends, i and tbe Pennells, in their "Life of I Whistler," give a most amusing glimpse into lie's side or' tlis life. On one occasion lit- had actually run up a bill ol ?000 \virLi a Clielsea greengrocer, who at last called to insist upou payment. Whistler came out strong on that occasion: "How?what? why-why, of course, you have sent these things?most excellent things?and thcv have been eaten, you know, by most excellent people. Think what a splendid advertispmpnt! And sometimes, you know, the salads are not quite up to the mark ?the fruit, you know, not quite fresh. J And if you go into these unseemly discussions about the bill?well, you know, I shall have to go into discussion about all this, and think bow it would hurt your reputation with all these extraordinary people. I think the best thing is not to refer to the past?I'll let it go. And in the future we'll have a weekly account?wiser, you know!" The greengrocer left without bis mon ey, out received iu payiueui iwu uw | turnes, one the blue upright Valparaiso. ! A Calamity. Five-year-old Tot's mother was tell-! ing the youngster the story of herself! and her twin sister. "One morning when we were a week old the nurse was bathing us, and she took the blue ribbon off Delia's wrist and the pink ribbon off Stella's wrisL | | When she was ready to put them on again she could not remember which nnp of us was Delia and which was; Stella, so she took us in to mother, but mother could not tell either, and no one ever did know whether or not we had our right names. Then wben we were seven years old one of us died, and nobody knows whether iti was Delia or Stella." Little Tot burst into an agony of tears and sobbed out. "I just know it j was my own mother that died wben she was seven years old!"?Youth's i companion. A Rhineland Legend. There is a Rhineland legend of three German robbers who, having acquired by various atrocities what amounted to a very valuable booty, agreed to divide the spoil and to retire from so dangerous a vocation. When the day [ appointed for this purpose arrived one I of them was dispatched to a neigh borI ing town to purchase provisious for I their last carousal. The other two ( secretly agreed to murder him on his r return that they might divide his ! share between them. They did so. But I the murdered man was a closer calculator even than his assassins, for he had previously poisoned a part of the | provisions, that he might appropriate * ,i? -Ll ?r,U/\I/v yv-P cnnll Thic | ro mmseir tue >vquit: ut iuc o^un. i precious triumvirate were found dead together. A Different Reason. "What bright eyes yon have!" said the visitor to five-year-old Tommy. "You must get plenty of sleep." "Yes'm," he answered. "My mamma makes me go to bed every night at 8 o'clock." "That's to keep you healthy," said the visitor. "No, it ain't," replied the youngster. "It's so she can mend my clothes."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat Platinum. Platinum is dissolved by aqua regia, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids. No acid known to chemists, alone, will dissolve this metal, but these two combined, in the proportion of one volume of nitric and three of hydrochloric, will.?New York American. Safet' First. Bill Burglar?I ain't gonna rob no i poor lone woman, I ain't. Mike 'inner ? What's de matter? Gettin' soft? Bill Burglar?Soft, nothin*. Them lone helpless women's de kind dat half kills ye and then sends you to jail.?Philaj delphia Ledger. i 3aper red Box Paper, 50c per box, 10c LMJW DISPLAY look and y Store 1,000 Things. PROFIT IN GOLDEN SEAL A Woodland Crop That May Be Cultivated With Little Trouble. Speaking of plants that may be cultivated with little trouble and with profit to the grower, a writer in Green's Fruit Grower advises those who have a bit of unused woodland or underbrush to plant golden seal. He considers it one of the most remunerative of plauts to raise aod says that it requires very little c-are. The roots of this plant sold fifteen years ago at 30 cents a pound. The price has steadily advanced. The root is now worth $5.50 a pound, and the dry leaves and stems now sell for 25 cents a pound. It is one of the most widely used drugs known to the modern pharmacopoeia. At the end of three years you can sort out the mature roots from the young ones and wash and dry them for sale, while you put the young roots back in the ground. At the end of the three years the grower has a year ly crop of roots, and, beginning with the first year, he has a yearly crop Qt i leaves and stems. This is one of tb? crops on which tbere is an absolate | certainty of a market that will run after vou as soon as any golden seal buyer knows you have the goods t? j sell. Go and ask your druggist or your j doctor about the value of golden seaL j DAY OF THE QUILL PEN. When Writing Paper Was Poor and Envelopes Were Unknown. The constant mending required by quill pens must have proved a severe trial in the days when no others were available, says the London Chronicle. Alexander 1. of kussia thought it necessary to employ a man whose sole 1 J a? ^ --3 t * mi *-4-j n rr rinna F? A j Quty I'ouMMeu iu luiuuq I was required to hare a supply of not j less than 100 quills always ready. This number was by no means ex| cessive, for Alexander would never use the same pen twice. Even the writing of a signature spoiled a pen, In bis opinion, for subsequent use. Theqnlll ! cutter, who received a salary of ?340 * a year, accompanied the czar on all his Journeys, including campaigns against Napoleon. 0 Writing implements changed considerably for the better during Sir Wal ter Gilbey's long spell of life. "Though quill pens are still iD use," he remarks in his "Recollections of Seventy Years," j "I remember the time when one sel| dom saw any other kind. Steel pens | in their early days were expensive and i ill made, and few people used them. | The paper we bad seventy years ago ! may have been partly to blame. It had neither the substance nor the surface we take as a matter of course I nowadays. "1 remember when envelopes came into use, and what a boon they were considered after tbe old system of closing letters with wafers or wax. Before envelopes were invented letters | were always written with an eye to ihe position of the wafer or seal, a blank space being left to correspond with the space where thi3 would be put on the outside, lest the written portion should be torn in opening."? New York Sun. Pins. * It seemed as if it would take a wholf paper of pins to mend the torn dress The wearer appealed to her ear neigh . bor. "Have you any pins?" she askecL The woman had none, but passed th? query on, and in a little while ever} passenger was feeling along concealer edges and turning back lapels. In all j sixteen pins were produced. Fourteei j were contributed by men. "ttt ~thom q<a mnnh as th' VV e UCVCl ucxrvi iut.u women, but somehow we carry then and the women don't," said one of th? male passengers.?New York Post. i Curious Legend. At Painswick churchyard, a pretty spot between Stroud and Gloucester, England, there are ninety-nine yew trees. The hundredth always dies, though it has been planted many times. | A local story says that "when the [ hundredth lives after it has been | planted the world will end." j