Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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RECORD OF THE TURK Has Won and Lost More Land Than Any Other Nation. ONE TIME A WORLD BUGBEAR. Then the Tide Turned, and One Great Misfortune Followed Another Till He Was Almost Swept Out of Eu rope by the T.-eaty of Berlin. The "Terrible Turlk" who may be taken as typifying the empire of the sultans, holds one record at least which he is not likely to be deprived of. He has won and lost more terri tory than any other nation. There was a time when the sultan was the bugbear of the world. Even little children in England shook in their shoes when they heard his name mentioned, and those people who lived anywhere near him dared not call their lives their own. But at last tlre tide turned. The Turk began to lose, and one great mis fortune followed another. Spain was the first big bit of the Turkish empire to break free. The Moors, who were subject and paid tribute to the sultan. were driven from province after province until :ft length they were cooped up in the solitary kingdom of Granada. The last Moorish king to reign in Spain was Boabdil-el-Chaco, or Boab dil the Unlucky. In 14S2 Ferdinand and Isabella, the king and queen of Aragon and Castile, declared war on him, and in 1492 he had to surrender everything. Hungary. which now forms half of the dual monarchy of the Emperor Francis Joseph. was a province of the suftan for 150 years. Then it was torn .from him by the sword. After this came the turn of the czars. The Russians. whom he once despised, have been the Turk's worst enemies. They have either robbed him themselves or encouraged others to rob him. Peter the Great set the example, but was not, on the whole, very successful In his wars against the Moslems. At one time the Tarks could have cap tured and massacred Peter and his ar my, but were frustrated by the slave girl. Catherine, whom Peter had mar ried. Catherine the Great tore the Crimea from the unhappy Turk. together with thousands of square miles of territory along the shores of the Caspian. In 1821 the Greeks, who had been slaves of the sultans for many centu ries, rose in rebellion and drove the Turks out of the country. But then the Greek leaders began to quarrel among themselves, and civil war fol lowed. The Turk took the opportunity to seize the country once more. But the massacres and other horrors which followed aroused Europe. In 1827 the Turkish fleet was destroyed at Navarino. The combined feets of Britain. France v:d Russia took part in the operation. In 1828 Greece was acknowledged as a free and independent kingdom, with a king of its own. For nearly a century Egypt, which the Turk conquered in 641, has been part of the sultan's empire in little more than name. and.since 1882, when the English occupied Pharaoh's coun try after Arabi Pasha's rebellion, the Turk has had practically nothing to do with Egypt. The Moorish corsairs who had their lair in the pirate city of Algiers ac knowledged the sultan as their suze rain, but were deflantly Independent as regarded all the rest of the world. Their swift sailing dhows preyed on the commerce of all Europe. and from start to fmnish they seized many thou sands of white captives, many of whom they ransomed, while others they doomed to slavery. When asked to keep his piratical subjects in order the sultan declared himself helpless to do anything. The freebooters went on doing as they liked for a long time. Then France became weary of patience and forcibly took possession of the city in 1830. Since then she has annexed 307,980 square miles of f~lgerian territory once subject to the sultan. Then came the Turk's worst time. Russia made war on him, and the Bal kan states, which had been held as provinces by Turkey for hundreds of years, revolted, flew to arms and did everything they could on the side of Russia. Had the czar been left to him self the Turkish empire would have been practically destroyed. The other great powers, however, were afraid to see Russia too powerful. They insist ed on summoning the congress of Ber lin. By the terms of the treaty of Berlin the Turk was almost swept out of Eu rope. Bosnia and Herzegovina were handed over to. Austria to keep in or der. Roumania, Servia and Montene gro were declared absolutely independ - ent of him. Bulgaria was created into a pri'ncipality, nominally under the sultan's suzerainty, but in reality free. And then Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.-Pearson's Weekly. The True Bohemian. "A true bohemian is a man who bor rows a dollar and then invites you to lunch with It." "Wrong again. A true bohemian is a man who invites himself to lunch with you and then borrows a d.'llar." -Kansas City Star. I think there is success in all honest endeaeor and that there is some vic tory gaine'd in every gallant struggle that is mnade.--Charles Dickens. No Need of Them Some Day. At a monthly examination a boy of fourteen failed to spell 15 per cent of his words correctly. The tutor told him this was surprising and must not happen again. The boy replied that he thought he had done pretty well on the whole. "You must study those words over and over again." replied the tutor. '"This must not occur at any future time. Study themi so that you can re member them forever." The boy stood still in silent contem plation for a few moments and then remarked: "-I was just thinking that I wouldn't live that long."-Harper's Weekly. Revolts at Cold Steel. "-Your only hopie.'' said three doctors to Mrs. M. E. Fisheri. Detroit. Mieb., sutfering from severe rectal trouble. lies in an operation." "then I used Dr. King's New Life Pills." she writes. "till wholly cur-ed." They prevent Appendi citis, cure Constipation, Headache. 25e. at Dr. W. E. Brown & Co., and J. E. CAVE HOUSES. France is Dotted Al Over With These Curious Habitations. "There are no fewer than 2.000.000 cave dwellers in France," writes a traveler. "Whether you travel north. south, cast or west you fInd these cu rious imitations of the homes of prim itive man. They stretch for fully sev enty miles along the valley of the Loire, from Blois to Saumur. and as the train proceeds you can catch a glimpse from time to time of their pic turesque entrances, surrounded by flowers and verdure. As likely as not you will see the inhabitants standing or sitting in front of their mysterious looking caverns. and unless you have learned the country you will be In elined to imagine that they possess some of the characteristics of the troglodytes of old and that their homes are mere dens. Not so. as you will find on visiting them. "They are nearly all well to do peas nts. owners perhaps of some of the vineyards that deck the slopes on all sides. and their habitations are, as a rule, both healthy and comfortably furnished. These singular houses are remarkably cool in summer without being in the leat damp. while in win ter they can be warmed much more easily and better than ordinary -apart ments. The health of the modern troglodyte is. as a rule, excellent. and It is not uncommon to find centena rians among them. TlgIs, however. is by no means surprising when we con sider that their homes are not only healthful to live in, but are also com fortably furnished and fitted up. "In tha majority of cases these rock houses were not excavated for the spe cial purpose of being inhabited. but with the object of obtaining stone for the building of houses. At Rochecor bon there is a rock dwelling carved out of a single block of stone, and the Ingenious owner. in addition to making a two story villa therefrom, has pro vided himself with a roof garden, from which a fine view of the valley can be obtained. A similar house ex ists in Bourre. in which locality the disused quarries are said to date back to the days of the Romans." WAYS OF THE ARABS. Dodging 'the Evil Eye and Tests of Filial Piety. Very curious to the occidental mind are some of the ways of Arabia and other Mohammedan countries. A trav eler says: "One of the objects of the most anxious solicitude for Moham medan parents is the shielding of their children from the evil eye. Any person expressing admiration for a child ex cept by pious ejaculation or the invo cation of blessings upon the prophet fills the heart of the parent with ap prehension. When children are to be taken into the street their faces are often even smeared with mud or greasy substances lest their comeliness should attract attention. and in order that the person of the child Itself should escape attention gaudy and glit tering ornaments are hung about it and writteri charms sewed into leather medallions suspended from its neck. "One of the best of Arab character istics Is that of filial piety. Sons and daughters of deceased parents takE upon themselves all sorts of irksome tasks accounted as expiatory of thE minor faults committed by the depart ed ones during their lifetime and dis charging faithfully every payment ox obligation left unfulfilled by dead par ents, for has not the prophet said that martyrdom even will not atone for at unpaid debt? "Eloquence is accounted the greatest of all possibie gifts. According to Arab tradition. the most superlativE degree of eloquence was attained by King David, such being the beauty of his diction, added to the poetry of his words, that when he declaimed the Psalms even birds and wild beasts were spellbound, while on some occa sions as many as 400 men died from the excess of delight induced by his reading."-Chicago News. - Fumigating Library Books. The library subscriber sniffed suspi ciously at the copy of "The Three Musketeers" which she was about to take' home. "Carbolic acid," she said. "Have you been fumigating the books?" "No. we haven't," said the librarian, "but some subscribdr has. Many of our patrons like to do their own fumi gating. Usually they use carbolic acid. At times when a good deal of sickness is reported the fumigating craze is es pecially severe and one-third of the books brought into the library smell to heaven with carbolic acid."-New York Press. A Raw Recruit. Corporal (to town recruit on stable guard for the first timie)-Now, you've got to patrol these 'ere lines an' 'am mer in any pegs that get loose an' gen erally look after the 'orses. Recruit (whose knowledge of horses is of the slightest)-And what time am I to wake the horses in the mornin'?2 London Tit-Bits. Off Guard. "How did it happen that your f'riends got the best of you?" queried the in quisitive person. "They got busy while I was watch iig my enemies," explained the mat who had got the short end of it.-Chi ago News. Simplified Spelling. "Write me an example of simnplified spelling, children," said the teacher, and Tommie wrote: "The man who carves monuments urns his living." New York Times. Man's great fault Is that he has so many small ones.-Richter. An Easy Jiob. Indifference displayed in the face of the uncertainties and dangers of 1-ife is characteristic of the Wessex dwellers in the "Islands of the Vale.'' according to Eleanor G. Hayden. the author of the book of the title, who supports her statement with a story of humorous A certain cottage and its old mistress had improved so greatly in comfort and appearance that a visitor shrewd l surmised that the son of the' house, a lazy ne'er do well, had turned over a new leaf. He inquired about it. "Yes, sir, my son's in work now.' s'id the smiling old mother. "Takes good money, he does, too. All he has to do is to go twice a day to the circus and put his head in the lion's mouth. The rest of the time he has to him Foley's Honey and Tar clears the air assages. stops the irrxitat'on in the throat, soothes the intlamed membran es. and the most obstinate cough disap. pea's. Sore and inflamed lungs are bealed and strengthened. and the en~lr i expelled from the system. Refuse anrj but the genuine in the yellow package, SPEARING A BEAR. Bruin's Sharp Teeth Bit Through the Copper Sheathed Weapon. "Twice in niy chase of -bruin I have made use of a bear spear as my weap on of attack," writes Count Eric von Rosen. "and I may take this opportu nity to maintain that the use of a spear entails no greater cruelty than any other mode of attack and that every hunter should be armed with one in reserve, since these powerful beasts :ave a vitality that triumphs over a stray bullet or more unless lodged in a vital region, and when wounded their retaliation is redoubta ble and easily fatal. In Karelia, Fin land, the bear is yet regarded as a noxious horror. The great black haired 'slagbjorn,' or killing bear, is still ram pant there. and a couple of winters back I was able to wreak justifiable vengeance on some beasts that had killed over a score of cows and nine horses. News had been brought me that some of these rascals were hiber nating on a small marsh bound island. "We found no difficulty in locating their lair, and I took up my post at the entrance to it, armed only with my spear. I mcg explain that a bear spear consists of an ash staff some two yards long and about a couple of inches in diameter. There is a blade of steel about twelve inches in length, and the shaft is copper cased as a pre vention against the teeth of bruin. As soon as my gentleman appeared I tried to stick him in the throat, but he par ried adroitly, and I missed. I made another lunge and succeeded in driv ing my spear point through his breast. "He started roaring furiously and snapped at my copper cased staff. then made n- . ttempt to strike at my arm wit. '. huge fore paw, so that I m,,_ :?,. drop my weapon. The powerful brute hung on to my spear at the one end, while I as grimly held on at the other end. His bites went through the copper plate, and he started shredding the wood beneath. Strenuously I checked his further advances, and gradually, for his wounds began to tell, his resistance weakened, and he dropped at last over the aperture of his den. "I pulled out the spear, but so much strength still remained in him that he seized the blade and bit it with a force that left deep indentations in the steel. My companion then finished him off with his own weapon. This struggle from start to finish covered five minutes." QUEER ENGLISH TAXES. Babies as Well as Windows Used to Help Swell the Revenues. In 1695 a tax of 2 shillings had to be paid by the parents of every "little stranger" born in England except by people in receipt of alms. Curiously enough, a measure proposing a tax on babies was introduced some time ago in the local parliament of the German princedom of Reuss by which it was proposed that the parents or mother when registering the birth of a child should in each case contribute c. sum amounting to 10 cents. Some time ago a good deal of merri anient was aroused by a measure in troduced in the legislature of New Jersey by which it was proposed to tax beards, but even this is not an original proposal. Queen Elizabeth put a tax on every beard of a fortnight's growth, while a couple of centuries ago Peter the Great insisted that all nobles who wore beards should pay 100 rubles for the privilege. As chancellor of the English ex chequer Pitt rendered himself -ery uin popular by the extraordinary means to which he resorted in order to im prove the state, of the country's ex chequer. He it was who first intro duced the income tax, and he also levied a tax upon horses, which caused a certain farmer to use a cow for the purpose of riding to and from market] Even more dissatisfaction, however,] was caused by Pitt's increase of the window tax, first imposed in the year that the tax on babies was enforced. This window tax caused property own ers to wall up as many windows as possible, in order to reduce the amount for which they were liable.-Philadel phia Ledger. Buddhist Ceremonies. Some Buddhist ceremonies present a striking analogy to certain Christian rites. An old missionary says: "The very titles of their intercessions, such as -goddess of mercy,' 'holy mother,' 'queen of heaven,' with an image of the virgin having a child in her arms holding a crescent, are all such strik lug coincidences that the Catholic mis sionaries were greatly stumbled at the resemblances between Chinese wor ship and their own when they came over to convert the natives to Chris tianity."-London Standard. Despite the Jokesmniths Groeers never put sand in sugar. Architects often build houses within the original estimates. Coal dealers usually give a little overweight. Telephone girls are nearly always courteous. Salesladies ditto.-Washinxgton Her ald. A Recommendatio. 5Sver been in jail?" "Countless times. But that's no det riment to a man in my business." "And what is your business?" "I'm a chauffeur."-Louisville Cou rier .Tournal. Like a Streak. "Was his auto going so very fast?" "Your honor, it was going so fast that the bulldog on the seat beside him looked like a dachshund. -Houston Post ___ A Diffieult Task. One of the greatest puzzles. said a member of parliament, is how to con cede the most worthy and honorable intentions to an opponent, how to pro fess an unswerving and unfading be lief in his uncompromising veracity and bona fides and at the same time to convey a distinct conviction that he is an impostor and a humbug of the~ first water and an accomplished Ana nias carrying a welter of thirteen stone seven pounds in the mendacity handi cap.-London Opinion. His Reasoning. Bobby-I believe you are engaged to Mr. Snooks at last, sis: Sis-What makes you think so? Bobby-Because he's stopped giving me pennies!-Lon-] dou Opinion. Foley's Orino Laxative cures consti padon and liver trouble and mnakes the bowls healthy and regular. Orino is superior to pills and tablets as it does nogripe or nauseate. Why take any EXPLOSIVES. How They Are "Set Off" and How They May Be Handled. There are two ways in which an ex plosive may be set off-by burning and by detonation. The burning process is progressive from oue parUicle to an other, as of fire in a grate, only Infinite ly.more rapid. This process is adapted to gunpowder, requiring, as it does, a very short time for the burning up of the explosive body. The other form of explosion, the detonative, being at once throughout the mass, is unfitted for use in guns, which would be smash ed to pieces, but i4nadapted to shat tering or breaking purposes, such as blasting rocks in mining operations and bursting charges in shells, torpedoes and submarine mines. Substances of the latter sort are termed high explo sives. Some examples may be given of the safety with which the most dan gerous explosives may ordinarily be handled. For instance, a considerable quantity of gun cotton, such as pure cotton treated with nitric acid, may be set afire and will burn quietly, but if a sufficient mass be set afire the heat and pressure on the surface of the burning body will cause the whole to be ex ploded. A torpedo filled with wet com pressed. gun cotton will not explode If a shell from a cannon should penetrate it and burst in the mass of gun cotton. Even nitroglycerin will burn like oil in small quantities, and a stick of nitro glycerin -ay be set on fire without dan ger of harm.-St Nicholas. A CHARMED KEY. Its Refusal to Work and What Might Have Happened. You may be interested to hear of a thing which happened to me In Brit tany last summer. I had to sign some railway transfers before the nearest British consul, who was at Brest. I locked up the papers and railway stock In a Breton cupboard as high as the ceiling and very solid. I kept the key in my pocket. When my cousin and I were ready to start, I took out the key, and it would not open its own cupboard. The servants came in turn and tried in vain. We had to miss our train to Quimper, which was our first stage to Brest. Now, our village locksmith was very rough and ready, so the next morning I said I would try the key myself once more before he perhaps ruined my lock. 'The key fitted perfectly, the cup board opened easily, we got the pa pers, and we went But, imagine, we found at the station placards posted up telling of the awful wreck of the Brest train the day before, and it was the train in which we should have been but for the olstinacy of the key. We saw the carrizges all fallen into the river, and the dead and dying were In the hospital at Quimper. We feel this to be a preservation wrought from the next world that is so near. Mrs. Hodgson Pratt in Light. Savage Crabs. The most savage specimen of the crab species is founad in Japan, seem ing to dream of nothing but fighting. to delight in nothing half so much. The minute he spies another of his kind he scrapes his claws together in rage, challenging him to the combat. Not a moment is wasted in prelimina ries, but at it they go, hammer and tongs. It sounds like two rocks grind ing against one another. The sand flies as the warricors push each other hither and thither until at lr -t one of them stretches himself out in the sun. tired to death. But he does not beg for mercy or attempt to run away. only feebly rubbing his claws together in defiance of the foe. That foe comes closer, and, with his claws trembling with joy at his victory, the conqueror catches hold of one claw of the van quished crab, twists it until it comes off and bears away the palpitating limb as a trophy of his prowess. Such is a battle between warrior crabs. Arctic Dog Life. Nowhere in the world has the dog such unrestricted right of way as in our most northerly possession-Alaska. In winter, when the more than 600,000 square miles of terribory are sealed up in solid ice, dogs are almost the sole means of getting from place to place in fact, they seem necessary to life It self. The aristocrats of arctic dog life are the mall teams in.-the service of the United States government. They are today a superior breed to the dogs em ployed some half dozen years ago be fore great gold discoveries demanded increased mail service.-Lida Rlose Mc Cabe in St. Nicholas. A Useful Tree. The carnahuba palm of Brazil may be said to be the world's most useful tree. Its roots make a very valuable drug, a blood purifier. Its timber will take a high polish and is in demand among cabinetmakers for fine work. Te sap becomes wine or vinegar. ac coding to the way it is prepared. and starch and sugar are also obtained from this sap. The fruit of the tree is a cattle food, the nut is a good coffee substitute, and the pith makes corks. Sarcastie. Mr. Smith (after ill tempered speecli by Brown)-Mr. Chairman and gentle men, following the example of Mr. Brown's luncheon, I shall venture to disagree with him.-Punch. A Logical Conclusion. "The old time sailors do not seem to think much of steam vessels."~ "Well, it is only natural for an old sea dog to stick to his bark."-Balti more American. Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.-Confucius. A Surprise For the Thief. Herr Hager. a rich and influential iner. frequently had watches picked from his pocket. At first he had re course to all kinds of safety chains; then one morning he took no precau tion whatever and quietly allowed himself to be robbed. At night, on returning from his business, he took up the evening paper: he uttered an exclamation of delight. A watch had eploded in a man's hands. The vic tm's hands were shattered and the lft eye destroyed. The crafty bank er had filled the watch case with dy namite, which exploded In the opera t~ion of winding.-London Telegraph. C R. Kluaer, the Jeweler. 1060 Vir ~inia Ave., Indianapolis. Ind., writes: I was so weak from kidney trouble that I coud walk a hundred feet. Four bot ties of Foley's Kidney Remedy cleared my complexion, cured my backache and the irregularities disappeared. and I can now attend to busmness every day, and recommend Foley's Kidney Remedy to all sufferers, as it cured me after the doctors and other remedies had failed." W. E rown & Co. I Genuine Pert ~ Untouched ~ ~4For co . ....Peruvi' A CAR OF FINE ULES and some fine driving HORSES just received. Come and get your wants supplied. F. C. Thomas. BANK OF CLARENDON, Manning, S C. patronire this safe and strong bak F or yiears ton siue a dola hand operation without the loss of as mnuch customer come and see us about itad tell us why. If you are oat and see us anyhow. It is never too late to Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. SBANK OF CLARENDON, Manning, S. C. he la.e.e aail orde Book hse in the world. 4years in bss. g Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup, La Grippe, Asthma, and Lung Troubles. Prevents Pneumonia and Consu: xvian uano by the Chemist or the eManufacturer TOBACCO - TTON, TRUCK ! an Guano Corporation i CHARLESTON, S. C. jIWWWWWWWUIWWWWWjiWWWWWWWW Lower Prices than we quote mean but one thing the goods are of inferior quality Remember, "The best is none too good.' And the best is the cheapest be it Dry Goods or Groceries. IWi 21 STRUSS-ROGAN COMPANY SUMMERTON, S. C. .BRING YOUR 4cJ OB W OR K TO THE TIMES OFFICE WHEN YOU COME alcs~lmysud~addr~lht TO TOWNKCALL AT Wauan~eRemdy W ELLS' RELEVE WHN THES FIL SHAVING SA LOON EOIE13fEJIT~~I~iAJRWhich isi lited uip with an - top the couhandhalslUngs eye to the comfort of hi custouners. .. ... 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