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ING ON A WARSHIP The Fare That Uncle Sam Serves to His Bluejackets. CoQTS THIRTY CENTS A DAY. The Food Is Good. Plenty and Varied anc Better Than Many Civilians Get. Th'r, Officers' Meals and the Different Mc.-ses-The Paymaster's Work. Flo many housewives would like to hve to cater for a family for 30 cents a head a day? That's exactly the sum it costs Uncle Sam. and he has something like 30.000 bluejackets to feed at his man-of-war table. Even on ordinary days a sailor sits down to a fare no civilian need sniff at, says the Home 3Magazine. Eggs. boiled potatoes, bread and butter and cofee form his breakfast one morn ing. Perhaps the next he has sau sages and corn bread. Roast veal with gravy, boiled pota toes. succotash. bread and butter. gin gerbiead and coffee is an ordinary din ner -nenu. while fried pork chops. bread and butter, apple sauce and tea is tha bill of fare submitted by the steward to the paymaster for the same day's evening meal. Timat the fare agrees with him is at test(-1 by his hospital record. Seldom more than five to ten men are sick at a tiha from the ship's crew of 550. No all the seamen are brought up Aear the sea. Mlany of them are in land boys who run away from home for il-e life on the brine. The books of th- Virginia. for instance, bear this out ' ith a record that of the 850 sail ors '0 have enlisted from states as far I land as Idaho and Wisconsin. Ev -'y minute of the day aboard ship is 1i d according to rule. At 5:30 o'clo' : in the morning the sailor is arou, td by the call of three bells. Thir- minutes is allowed him for lashi g his hammock, etc. After that he is allowed to take it down only by spec I permission. There is no sneak ing. off for seductive little naps in the ty. Hit breakfast is served at 6:30 o'clok ". five bells. Twelve seamen mess at one table, one of their own nurmni r receiving an extra stipend of $3 mnthly from Uncle Sam for wait ing c.. his comrades. T1E- assignment is now generally made in rotation. Jack tars have been knoni to come to blows in their zeal to se':ure it. Then, again, when sta tione I in warmer climes it was not easy 1o find men willing to officiate. r 'e Sam sets seven tables, in ac cor( ace with his rules of class dis tinct )n, which are as fixed and un swer ^!ag as the laws of the Medes and iersians. There is, first, admiral's mess at which the head officer is served in solitary state; second, cap tain's mess, at which the presiding offict:- enjoys the same lonely distinc tion: third, wardroom officers' or jol lifice.ion mess, so called for the good timez enjoyed by the tableful of com miss: ined officers below rank of cap tain: fourth, junior officers' mess, con sisti:: r of midshipmen, the young grad~ ates of Annapolis, who, having been educated at Uncle Sam's expense, are :ow getting their first maritime expe' ience; fifth, the chief petty oficee -s' mess, for those in rank below the .:idshipmen; sixth, the warrant office:t mess, who, by pull, special abili; or act of prowess, have raised them teves from the enlisted ranks; severath and last, but not least, the gene:-al or mess table where the lusty appetites of the rank and file are as suaged. Uncle Sam's officers want the fat of the land and supply it from their own purses. By special clubbing ar rangements among themselves an offi cers' mess is provided at a cost to each officer of $30 a month. Even a colored chef is retained. His souffles and his salads are true works of art. The key of the wine chest 'he guards with jealous care. But all t~s is a matter of reckoning be tween. him and the officers. Uncle Sam enters not at all. Unese Sam's head housekeeper, the paymaster, indeed, has quite enough on his mind trying to keep nearly a thou sand lusty men satisfied with their .rub :and at the same time keep his bills -down to the satisfaction of the navy ]epartment auditor at Washing ton. it is no light undertaking. The paymaster in truth must be a man :.f rare parts and is rightly es teeme& one of the ablest and most hon ored officers in the service. Take the qualities needed to make a successful hotel mian, add to them those to- make the p-pular leader, throw in intense pride mnd loyalty to the service, sea sonedi with untiring zeal for the inter eats e his men, and you get the kind of m: ture Uncle Sam has to find be fore 1- appoints his paymaster. Whc- a he is loading up for an eight weeks~ cruise no wonder his brow is knotte L. Making out the next meal's order while in port is one thing-sim ply a confab with his steward as to whether it shall be 500 pounds of fish or 250 pounds of pork and a barrel and a half of beans. By The ship's regulations every man is all..wed a daily stipend of one and three- iuarter pounds of fresh meat For the long voyage, however, it's a differt. at matter. The stipend must be redued and more salt meat consumed. The .ship's cold storage capacity is 10,000 pounds. Her> is where the paymaster's real oppor.unity of generalship enters. Ever: thing his men will need for the next sixty days must be planned to meet that capacity. And meantime there :s Ice to be manufactured with If . au have catarrh rid your-self of this rcpulsive disease. Ask Dr Shoop of Racine. Wis., to mail you free, a trial box ot his Dr. Shoop's Catarrh Remedy. A simple, single test will surely tell you a catarrh truth well worth your knowinag. Write today. Don't suffer longer-. W. E. Brown & Co. Books Bound in Lead. A b .kbinder was 'putting a binding of le::- on a book "W- lead?" a visitor asked. "TL. ." the binder answered. "is a nava: -ode book for use on a battleship. All suc-h volumes are bound in lead." '"But why?" --So that in the event of the ship's destruction the books will sink with it, for they contain secrets of immense value, and every precaution must be taken to keep those secrets dark." A Substitute. "Youre rather a young man to be left in charge of a drug store," said the ft:'ssy old gentleman. '-Have you any diploma?" "-Why-er-no, sir," re plied the drug clerk, --but we have a preparation of our own that's just as ona"-?hlnalnhin Press. out infringement of Uncle Sam's pro hibition against any form of ammonia plant aboard. There are some 10,000 gallons of distilled water to be pur chased (it is cheaper to buy this in -trt than to) hwc it distilled aboard) an,! son nr pouuds of meat to be No hotel kitchen could be more uip to date in its equipment. Electricity plays no slight role. There is electricity to heat the irous in the up to date laun dry for the otficers' clothes. Electricity turns the grinders for the Hamburg steak. Electricity mixes the dough in the ship's bakery, where 1.000 loaves are baked dailv. Electricity. too. heats the coffee in the great brass caldrons (in construction ex.:-tly like the French drip coffee pot on your own table, madam, only each of them holds 150 gallons). Nor is any hygienic device over looked. The paymaster is responsible for the health of his men. The very cups in their water tank must be germ proof. After drinking each man is required to rinse his cup in a special tank filled with antiseptic solution. I When under the weather he is per mitted to use only such medicines as are supplied by the ship's doctor. Even the contents of the canteen. his own private supply shop where he buys his luxuries. are carefully in spected by the paymaster with a keen view to excluding liquors or any other article deemed injurious to the health of his men. The man-o'-war seaman must be a jack of all trades. Very early in his career he learns how to sew on his own buttons. in son'e cases even makes his own clothes. For the clum sier fingered there is the ship's tailor. Uncle Sam's price for the material and fashioning of the regulation navy blue sailor suit is $7. Once the uni form is provided every man is held strictly accountable for the condition of his wardrobe. The more enter prising of the boys have their own sewing machines. and very deftly do they learn to ply them. Cleanliness is another maritime vir tue early instilled. Friday morning is general wash day-occasion. for swabbing down decks and scrubbing of clothes and ship's canvas. It might seem to be a case of "water, water everywhere." but as a matter of fact fresh water for cleaning purposes is the scarcest article aboard. At sea a bucket a day is eac'h man's allowance, doled out ,o him by the master at arms. On that stipend he must keep his clothes, himself and the contents of his locker immaculate or stand in danger of a reprimand or the curtailment of his privilege of going ashore. And so his life goes, at every point hedged about with red tape and rou tine, but within those limits as care free and happy go lucky as the danc ing waves about him. Should there be war tomorrow-all the better. That means action. As to any national issues, why bother his head about them? The Jack tar is hired to do Uncle Sam's bidding. In return Uncle Sam does his thinking for him. Friendly Monkeys. I have read somewhere a statement that the anthropoid apes prefer our company to that of their fellow mon keys of lower degree, and I saw it proved once in Calcutta, says a writer in Ornithological and Other Oddities. The late W. Rutledge. for many years the leading animal dealer there and a mine of natural history information, had a young one in his yard, and at my request opened its cage one day to let it choose its society, when, quite disregarding the other monkeys, it im mediately came over to him and climbed into his lap. A fair sized female we had at the Calcutta zoo also was a most affec tionate creature. When I paid a visit to her she would always put her arm affectionately .around my neck and while being caressed and played with would drop any food offered by other visitors. But I think it was on my very first introduction to the orang that the hid den humanity of the creature most im pressed me. This was many years ago. when Abraham Bartlett was at the London zoo. He gave me e private interview with' a little orang which had just arrived. The first thing the little imp did was to climb on my knee, take off my hat and put it on his own head, after which it proceeded gravely to pinch one of the superintendent's eye lids. In short, it examined us with a scientific curiosity which in a lower animal was decidedly impressive. This little man of the wvoods could not have chosen a more striking way of claim ing kinship so often denied. The Cussedness of a Sail. Sometimes a sail is only playful, and willful at the worst, and after a slight show of resistance will succumb to your arts, but at times they get ma lignant and cruel. They will fight you fiercely, hitting back viciously, spite fully battling for every inch, taking most treacherous advantage of any relapse of alertness or looseness of clutch. When a canvas has got that devil in it, look out for yourself. That Is when it fights to kill. That is when it hurls men off yard and boom to their death. At times you can only conquer after a steady and well gen eraled fight. At other tinies a bit of trickery will succeed. I have cursed a sail and turned away pretendingly beaten, when, thrown for a moment off guard by my apparent carelessness, it has opened its defense. A tiger spring, a turn of rope, and the vic tory is won. But I tell you It makes a man of you. a fight to the finish with a sail. Every nerve tingling, every vein flushed with blood, you take the last turn, and wtth a "-Hang you, you're fast now." go aft and report all snug. -T. F. IUay in Outing Magazine. A weak stomach, means weak stain ac nerves, always. And this is also true of heartand kid neys.It's a pity that sick ones continue to drug the stomach or stimulate the heart and kidneys. The weak nerves, not the or'gans them elves needi this help. This explains why Dr. Shoop's Restorative has and is promptly helping so many sick ones. _It oes direct to the cause of these dis eases Test the vital truth and see. V. E. Brown .Co. Effect of Whistle on Rattlesnakes. "Shotld you ever encounter a rattle snake and he shows fight just begin to whistle softly and the reptile will un oil and lay wvith his eyes closed and body quivering." said a Tennesseean. -On more than one occasion I have run across rattlesnakes and have al ways taken the fight out of them by whistling. The snake seems to become absolutely helpiem: -:hen lie hears a soft whistle and wvill i:::ke no attempt to spring upon you. i. whistle u pears to soothe his anger sum himi of fighting power. I saved my i:. one occasion in thii.; mauner'. Try i and you'll find that I tell the truth." ilk~A I% M:4 C.7 .X. .j Big Crops \-?'Poi Mean Bigger ' Pois~ - sig pro: fromn cotton, tobacco, ard i uch gardica crops a * corn, tomia:Ocs, cabba.:e. luttace, be :d all oth-:r vcget:. Les and fruits depentd upon their muifor~n -' an rapid grov~th. Ing ~4 ,r crops adquickr an arer gowtar iositively assured thrughi 0h ftlzation~ wih piroved byteexperience of Mr. D). M. Grim::. 1). 1'...s. or P.l.t C.ity, 7 who ays "Iwastrucking on a snmall s' .e. uapa desitlda 'would try a e sak ryour fertilizer. na ita cheap andI said C to e occa. .I put itu dejsmetomatoes by the side of soma other high. grad.. ier thzer wh - csme$15 a ton :nore, and in the same peroportlon per acre. I con - thin I xag-rat lathe least in sayi ng that the vield weelue Vrinia-Car~lina Fertilizers was i//creg bir. hat of where- I used th4thrbrand of so-called high-icradetri ayvaluable pointers on tr-uck farmin~-v -itten by gov'ernme'n an iaeauthorities, will be~ found in new~ Frmersi 'car Uookor ln~aac.Get a copy at you, ariie elr wrt oornearest sales oiiice. It i re Virginia-Carolina Chem cal Co. n m.-:. CDeic-.o.s.c Col=oa. S.C :mrM . A .. . cn;:mr. Ala. - "" - Lem a. Tn 4:' A 7 J$r nCa-Car jeanFB"-ri '0h J .r-L fts AN UNOPENED PADLOCK. Cs LThe GernmnS arc,: cooroul aaco wcl ienna's Strange Relic That Defied the educ.tted-cl.the pugE World's Locksmiths.lshblethtery emakow In 1510 a blacksmith went to Vienna eeyhn ol tpa ob xg nd locked an Iron band around a tree ated.:if ay judge from a Ge ith a padlock. What he did with the ey nto one knows to this day. There f te oerman ries o e is a mirthful legend to the effect that tion ut genea kol veg tw h he carelessly threv it into the air and sumte his cmay "W w that Inever came down again. At io per a on t rii ny rate, the key could not be found, usin.Tnsldesrpidta nd the Austrian government offered thug they faie t had ha prize of 0 ducats to any one whoused ould make a key that would turn the fthosewhowentintdetail olt in the lock withou breaking it. sidh ea o f im l 31any have tried to win the prize, I ut nobody has won it. Eventually it oddsrbdhma amnw ecame the practice among the con- kne erysg a thr put hnn estants to drive a nail in the tree and d asa of he heads of sonme of the nails bear Ia pe h rt citr i he initials of those who drove them.toy"afths"amicnofra The practice of driving nails into the clbiy"adasxha amn ree sealed its fate. The lower part (f faturer 't b he tree in a few years assumed the Thoas t o w ppe i'aance 0o a solid mass of iron.A ne spring the leaves failed to comeper.WsnistrGet. ut, and later a summer storm blew he top awaya. Rn' iteLvrPlswk plz i'r The historic stump was cut off andrt laced on a pedestal on one of the sl yTednigPamty rominent str'eet corners in Vienna. t the satie time the iron band was ut in two and put around the stump o hold it in its niche, leaving the pad- Dpns lok in its original position. And! Tei~ h tnso h eg here the old stump stands to this day o l g n a ohn ae ii n ob.iect both of the curiosity of tour-whctogadginthefurha ists and the veneration of the resi-'tlyiedawsdlf.Dotyt dents of Vienna. Incidentally, a street,a tock im Eisen-"Stick in Iron"-has "htdpns r o dacn een natmed after the stump.-Scrapthsaamolproiinori'yt Book sellingsoe sortso anSchilled su ThceGermasure otrosyawl A dches equrig alad'smai! eddaed peye butts pulhing i had n inerviw wih on, towhom verse athsow eenema Henowsi aftr h~'ig eamied er pperan e rthokis omd appancy." b ex - ' shesai, "f curs yo wil babertitled isn'teit ayWise-e from at' pGet -4 to dsoNE 'ar ightr's account, b l Sched inon ofThe Germans rees nofiul an exaina "Ohnys. SrneelicThatDeuied the girlted ht nt ism 's c panpy.-lWha E takescmeller?"than halfoanthourrto!ipal dressarld's air." is Tstio T n ler re that nkno "H11al lacksmith hour ty ea Itheothin y nmucid t adear d iee.--,-, andloke anirn andarun a tire rateed-fw mant judez ri ria Gen ith apaduc ocss in at of terr the n11''camch ide ai'cugete yout h to thE w at onirth thgen, soul I ef abl thatm i ene ra know Asmlede thc heltm to do withysef allin the aidr of th ieriho went hmintoda. Son wa thet itnever camde dvertagie. AtShle?--a-n fth rnia Nerve. anyrathiske Dgno. "Bynd qeths en ayliks cane youap, a'nd o urate thohern dayre 1 thaut hded fie lctby lat we'c' apive of astonicsng anwoer to anJ ut lost allet notin read monema cquiry after a ke)tatiswonlern hath. ftoewown nodtis n Well sin ' the lockp-% eaish ion. said that the author of "William Tell' Msometime rie anowi sometpimeswas the "inventor of printing," a sec I eel noo has wot betis we ond described him as "a man wh< Iknew everthing," a third put aini down as "a man of science." a fourtl eaeas a "poet who wrote Scripture his allwintheles of te fho e t ab tory." a fifth as a musician of grea The a te~ an cd from ito the round scelebrity." and a sixth as "a manu or aeeits cases more ouhs path offacturer of bells.- One wonders wai thetre ina fw yarsassmedtheThomas Atkins 'would answer if in aparante ouh butolidmas.vited to state wlt he a I tha ere pakes r th ipeare.-Westinter Gazette. Es t er in Litte soe Piles ke of maoriers FoodandDru La to ontin eiter: the syste cand clea thog skif wiythn morpinechlrofo'm. piu noran old rpatge and etngverd tl thingh thatuarulaginnsretthefstallest chl. D. W E.Bron &Co.ruly-St Lovduiwste lobe.Deoat o twenwty-thre?"e look.h selng~ soesrd of thngeisr he saidt"Of clrsetym ewillbehabl o drssmharfre? "Oys"rpidth il i ee ksmemretanhlfaj o jato tb: 1- 1, 01.-I for. ppt: sa o1 "o Viht Ih mipi:t ]Nbe~l. MV:h.y," said the f That eveuing ait the supper table it '%as oljerved that Ne:1 declined to eat any bread. inl any shape. "Aren't yon eating bread nowadays, my bu )oy? hi.- mother asked. "No. in0ma." " Why' not':". "So papa'll give Ime 5 Cetnts."-Cleve Liu(d Plain Dealer. Might Start a Forest. A lady tol :a party of frionds that she had o::irreled with her husband nd had ph.nted a tree ini meontrv of Iheir frst falling oat. "What a s-plendid idea." :'hisipered another lady in 1r boi ad's ear: "If wve had adoptd t!:it ' we might hal've h:..i by i!0.': : 1 :ib nu, e of trees in our garden. Tax Returns Office of County Auditor CkaI. rnon'ouunty. Maunnng. S. C.. l.c. P) 190 The Auditor's oiee wi bt, open from the 1st. day of Jana:u-y 19I. to the 20th day of Feb:uarv 190. to re ceive returns of personlal prnoperty in Clarendon Count,. for the ya 1!)04. Taxpayers returu whart thy own On the hrst. day of Janoar:. 1908. All returns inu. h-- sworu no and no return will b( con.:iered ei her hy the County Auditor or boanis of assessors unless sworn to. A penalty If lift.) per cent. will be added after the 20th lLY of February. The Auditor w!i b1e at hI folving places in person. (r b V :-:. 1 e return.: WXorkman. Samar:y . t'.-. 15th.. JTorda. I!tuday. Feb. lih Du tie. old tore. Th n-. . h Foreston. W Vd:y. b 1. Wils on. Tirsday. Feb. 11th. I will impress upim tevery tapae the importance of makin- yonr taxre turns. 'You oug.ht to know ilt yout own better than the Towr i. p iBoards. who will imake your return for you. if you don't make it your-seLf. -o make your return and save voursel a11d otlir trouble. A. P. DURGcES.. Auditot. STATE OF :20 H GAlLu Ciarendon County. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. SUMMONS. George Gaymon. Octavis Gaymon. B-n iamin Gaymon.DavisGaynrou. Thomas Gaymon, Susanna Griflin. Feiix Gay mon. Mary Martha Gaymon. Plain-: ifagainst Margaret Gaynmo. Charl's Gavmon, 1any N. Gaymon. Defendants. To The Defendants: You tre hereby summoned and re quired to answetr the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith Iserved upon you, and to ser-ve a copy of your answer to the said complaint. on the Subscribet- at Summierton, S. C. Iwithin twenty days after the serv ice hereof, exclusive of the day ot such service: and if you fail to answer the comnpl aint within the time aforesnit, the plaintifis in this action wil apply Ito the Court for tihe relief demanded in the complaint. -J. Jf. CANTE:Y. Cou nsel fori Plal iti!Tf:. IThe defendant Rany N. Gaynmn will hereby take notice that the Summons and Conmplaint in the above .entitled action was 'filed in the odice of the Cler-k of Court for the County' aforesaid. on thme 11th day of JTanuary. 190tS. Jr. J. CA NT EY. Counsel for Plain tiffs. January 11. 1908. Eat and Grow Fat FRESH- ME:.TS AT ALL TIES. TO EAT'. Give as a Trial. Sures Colds3 Prevents Fntum2Onia EOLE:Tah dmTA for cAudren: c s, e-e. .rio o~aece Kodel Dyspepsa Our Digosts what you eat. Makes Kidneys and Blacdder Hight MADE -WITH FISH rS d~ sout The new Laxative Cures that does not gripe R Stomach and Liver or nauseate. ~ i4trouble and pleasant to talie. Uaxauve fui Syrop chonc Conipato The Arant Co. Drug Store. EAn LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP CONFORMS TO NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUGS LAW. An improvement over many Cough, Lung and Bronchial Remedies, because it rids the - system of a cold by acting as a cathartic on the bowels. No opiates. 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