Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SOME QUEER CUSTOMS. They Order Things After Quite Another Fashion Across the <K'ean. One of the most interesting features of an American's first European tour is the comparison of transatlantic customs in hotels and in railway with those of the land of the brave and home of the free, says a writer in the New York Tribune. Many things that to the seasoned traveler became commonplace long ago strike the tourist on his initial trip as highly amusing. Col. Brotherton of Kentucky, for instance, had boon rono til nmn a quiet Italian hotel. Returning late from San Carlo, where almost every tourist goes on his first night in Naples, he was amazed in passing along the corridor to see outside nearly every door in addition to the boots on the floor sundry dress skirts and trousers hung upon large, branching brass hooks. A garcon, who was sitting in the corridor tried in broken English to explain tnat it was the custom for travelers to leave the clothing they had worn during the day outside their, doors to be brushed. But the colonel was incredulous. "Never saw ciijimiiK nKf il in -America. ne said. "Likely as not it's some sort of skin game, and all those fools will wake up in the morning and find their clot her stolen. Not I! I'll brush my own." So he turned in, not even daring to leave his boots out to be polished, so many stories had he heard of the dishonesty practiced abroad toward unsuspecting American travelers. Awakening early in the morning, he peeped out cautiously, fully expecting to see a row of empty hooks. But every garment was in its place, every pair of shoes shone with a polish equaled only by the face of a small boy that has been scrubbed with soap. Very cautiously lie set his own boots outside and turned back for another cat nap. But his trousers still adorned the straight-backed chair. 1 have another -pair of boots." he thought, "but I have only one pair1 of trousers. It took three days or more before the colonel dared to trust his precious jeans to the suspicious hook. Miss Clarisse Blvthe of Vermont, was perfectly astonished at having her chambermaid rush after her as she carefully deposited the key of her room in her beaded reticule and exclaim: * "But Madame! Please leave yur key beside the door. 1 must have it to go in and do your room." ' But where is your pass key?" she demanded. "1 have none," she replied. "See," she said, pointing to the hook at the side of the door, the same hook dedicated to skirts and trousers, you must hang your key here when you go out." Mis3 Clarissa cast upon the maid a look of withering scorn. "Not if 1 kno v it," she said. "1 haint got much, but I don't want to be. robbed of that little. That's a pritty note. Might just' well leave your door unlocked as fer's 1 kin see. Anybody can take the key and walk in. No slr-ee. You don' catch me that way," and replacing the key she walked downstairs and sailed out through the office majestically. When she came home to luncheon her room was not done up. And not until sk^ had reported the poor maid to the concierge did she really find that such was the custom of the European hotel. I An Englishman who was sailing from Boston not long ago was re va UWU IU Ullf \t l II Ui I Villi* V.UW11VM I able boots. These he placed outside his door to be polished on the eve of his departure and he woke in the cold gray dawn to find his boots gone and not a porter in the hotel who could tracerthem. He was forced to descend in slippers and buy a pair of stiff, uncomfortable boots to wear to the steamer, and to this day he has not ceased to curse American hotels. * In Germany one of the up-to-date hotels has a little locker in every guest room between the bedroom and the corridor, with a door on either side. He opens the door in his room, puts in his trousers and boots or whatever clothing needs attention. The valet passes along the corridor opens each door with his pass key and removes the - clothing to brush it and locking the ' door carefully upon it and when the owner awakes, he has only to open his little door and there are his clothes all ready for him. L The European bed always strikes ^ the uninitiated American traveler as a huge joke. In France they conimence to impress him with their freight and narrowness and he looks thibiously at the enormous Turkeyprtl cotton "couvre-pied" of eiderdajKn, which looks something like a Aftentain, and he wonders how he /er going to bear all that extra weight on his person. But when he has slipped between the sheets and the grateful warmth communicates itself to his cold bones?if it is winter they are sure to be like icicles ?he discovers that is is deceptively light and deliciously comfortable. In Switzerland the beds attain a, little more heighth, but it is in Ger-i * many that they become of such an altitude as to necessitate a pair of steps to mount them. One tourist1 finding that one leg of the step lad- ( der was broken solved his difficulty by going to the extreme end 01 the room, taking a running start and landing with a flying leap in \ * the midst of the turkey-red elderly down. He crawled in under the ^ croched counterpane, and was soon fast asleep. Some time in the night he became sleepily aware of a consuming thirst and started to get out of bed for a drink. A startled shriek, followed by some swear' A words that even the thick-headed German watchman understood, penetrated to the remotest chamber in the inn. "I was half awake," he explained' afterward, "and had been dreaming of standing on Table Rock, in the Yosmite. I started to get out of bed and began to fall. Naturally I supposed I was plunging to the bottom of that precipice, and 1*11 v leave it to you if any one wouldn't let out a yell when he thought 1 was going to be dashed to death." THE lit)VE OF flu KliTY. Itumiiig Men at Stake We ('? "Savagery"?Pounding the Liv Out of Tlieni in the l'ri/.o King "('ivili/.at ion." Sunday American Journal Examin Ladies and gentlemen of the ol en days amused themselves wi "sports" in which men butcher* each other. That was thought to be nobl legitimate sport, calculated to mal men brave. It has passed away. Gentlemen and ladies of Atneri until recently amused themselv with pigeon shooting. The bir were butchered as they were re lea ed from the cage, some were kill* outright and others left with bro en wings to die in slow misery, series of newspaper editorials pu lished throughout the country d stroyed that "sport." Certain le islators, defending it, said that would be a sad day for Ameri .. .??rn nit- i-iii?f us couiu not ue the sight of l>lood." Apparent they are doing fairly well witho the sight of pigeon blood. Gentlemen of good old Englii days enjoyed hull baiting. The bu dogs were trained to seize the bi bv the tender sensitive tnuzl Sometimes the bulldog was gori and smashed to death, sometim the bull was horribly torn. Aiwa the onlookers greatly enjoyed tl bloody "sport." and that was su posed to be a good thing for tl courage of England. But it h passed away. l>og fighting has disappeare cock fighting hits disappeared except occasionally when erimiiiii and drunkards gather in a vile r sort and refresh themselves with t brutality which their natures cra\ Even the rat pit has disappeare That gentle sport is now forbidde and a "gentleman" may no long amuse himself by putting one hu (lrpfl rfit? in !? nit tuiflt ?? . * ? - i ^ "' watch the terrier kill the rats. In short, what certain class contemptuously call "moralists ai goodv-goodies" have interferred vt much of late with the so-eall "innocent amusements of health natural men." It has gone so far that "gent men" may not even organize thei selves in a racing association ai open a public gambling hell in t name of sport and pay the expens of amusement by taking in at t! gate and through their partners, t "bookmakers," money stolen clerks or taken by fathers fee the children that need it. Truly, the "manly sports" are i terferred with. These are days petticoat government, days wh the "moral busybody" triump amazingly. In 110 civilized country is mi permitted to take two miserable, i ferior animals and set them fighting and tearing each other f his amusement. But, strange to say, in this la of civilization prize fight promote may still take two human bein and set them to fighting each ot er- after navintr an admission f ten times that charged for t greatest opera. And degraded h inanity enjoys intensely watching process in which two men in t pink of physical condition fig brutally until one, bloody, bruise battered, conquered in body a spirit, is knocked senseless to t floor. This is a spectacle of which t United States was recently the the ter. The administration of one enti state disgraced itself ?prostitut itself for a little profit?and w< corned the collection of criiuina thugs, fight promoters, pickpocke gamblers and general worthlessnc that was willing to spend mon for the pleasure of seeing a ma fight. Great events were ignored whi attention was concentrated on brutal, contemptible, inhuman spt tacle. A black giant in his prime w selected to amuse the nation and make a few schemers rich by batte ing down a white man weakened 1 the drunkenness and the disei that always accompany the prl fight career. And idiots who talk* about the supremacy of the rac and men calling themselves intel gent solemnly theorized as to tl importance of the victory on tl white side or the black side. It would have been just as impo tant, just as full of meanine. f more appropriate, if these pri fight schemers had gone into tl sewer and taken out one brown r and one black rat and set them fight, for the supremacy of the bla< or the brown race among tbe rat at least, physical supremacy wou mean something. There are those that ask, " there any harm in boxing, any bar in the manly art?" There is perhaps no harm in bo ing, although there is no reasf why a brutal exercise should 1 chosen?one most brutal and us less?when other exercises wortl of human beings are so plentiful, is not mere boxing skill that dra\ crowds to prize fights. It's fighting, the love of brutalit the hunger for bloodshed of tl half-educated savage. It is the survival r?f the nlnfii so graphically described in a fe words by Francis Parkman in h life of La Salle: "Soon after their arrival a par of warriors appeared with a youi prisoner belonging to one of tl tribes of that region. Gallnee war ed to be or buy him from his ca tors, but the Senecas had other i tentions. '1 say,' writes the prie 'the most miserable spectacle 1 ev beheld in my life.' It was the pri oner tied to a stake and tortur< for six hours with diabolical inge uity, while the crowd danced ai yelled with delight, and the ehie and elders sat in a row smokii their pipes and watching the oontc tion of the victim with an air of s ren enjoyment. The body was last cut up and eaten, and in tl evening the whole population occ pied themselves in scaring away tl angry ghost by beating with sticl he against the hark Bides of th lodges.'' What has a modern prize fight t do with that scene in the wild Nort American forest two hundred year .. ago? Everything to do with i1 Those "Seneca Indians ' wouldn V* sell their prisoner beta use the s wanted the happiness of torturin him. They wanted to see hli t.r bleed. They wanted to see hoi much he could stand. They want ! wanted to know how "game" h 11 was. The old men and the wome . and children looked on. while th young "braves" exhausted thei e ingenuity in horrible cruelty, ca What is the long struggle of hu es manitv, with the teachings of it js various religions, but one ion effort to substitute justice, broth erly love, kindness and law for bru k- tality? A What can be more irreligious o b- shocking than the argument tha e- any question can be properly solv g- ed with a blow in the face? it What is the task of a race tha ca has come up from universal catini ar balism to our comparative stage o ly balism? Is that task the develop ut ment of the spirit or of the body or of brute force? sh Could there be anything rnor 11- idiotic than the father who on Sun ill day solemnly reads to his child th le. story of Christ, who turned the oth ed er cheek, and on Monday says n es 'he same child, "If Willie Jone ys does that again, hit him in th lie nose?" p- It ought not to be necessary ti lie offer to any man an a^gumen as against a so-called "sport" that i brutal, degrading, always accompan d, 'ed by dishonesty, vice and disease ? Yet there are those who defend it ils calling it manly, just as the medi e- cine man of the Senecas would prol he ablv have defended the fortune ?> e. the voting warrior, d. What is it that keeps t ight in n, alive? Fighting is kept alive b er fighting The instinct is kept aliv n- by fightimr talk bv ;nl llirntinn fn id I fighting, by encouragement of fight ing. What the prize fight. tin- fie es figltt the personal encounter, is t ml the individual what war is to th >ry nation. You cannot destroy war i pd a nation while there is brutalit iv, and fighting in the individual, I not fighting, war the most destrut le five and the most expensive ? m- all the curses of mankind? ad Do you know what wars, pat lie and to come, mean?what it cot es the country last year? Five hut he dred million dollars! he Every year for pensions?reward by for those that were compelled t 1111 fight in the past ?and for the nav and army kept ready for futur n- fights, the people of this couutr of alone are taxed five hundred mi eu lion dollars a year, lis Think of the total, six thousau millions of dollars, spent in Amei ica already on war on our army an lin navy. An expenditure of five hut n_ dred millions a year now, and ej to penditure constantly to increase u or till national bankruptcy shall call halt. luj Five thousand millions of doilai .rs at least we shall spend for war i the next ten years, b-| De ycu know w-irtt h.i" means ee ' Twice cvt-iy year the nation cml he cuiia ir.c Panama canal with tti u. money tint would be saved hut fo a the cutst* of war. he With tlie men and the mone wasted 011 war, roads could he buil >{j throughout the country every yeai nd That vast sum thrown away, tha he Sreat amount of labor wasted! Th skill, intelligence and loyalty of ol l,e ficers and engineers and soldier ,a_ would irrigate the deserts, reclait the swamp lands, give homes, happ re ness and wealth to millions. e(j As tlie nation spends money lav ?j_ ishly and wrecklessly for wars pasi Is, ^or equipment, for possible war i Is! the future, so you see the indi iss vidual spending recklessly for th ey fierce pleasures of brutal fighting The man who paid fifty dollar to see a negro fight a white ma ile would most probably have refuse a five dollars to his own brother. ,c_ The fighting spirit must cease he taken out of the individual; th a8 love of brutality must die. by lac! to of gratification. ,r_ Neither the animal body nor th by minial craving can live unless i be starved to death by the lack o hrntnl ' ?ri, ./. .. 1 /4(1 ?? Uiai p|/CVL<UH:s. e(j The prize fight ring in this coun eg try is doomed?it is safe to sa; li- that. he And honor is due to those win he have made this fight against it, t the officials, governors, mayors, pu ,r_ lice chiefs, clergymen and all other ur who have realized that men wer ze put here not to fight each othei he hut to conquer nature, and to es at tablish on the earth a great broth to erhood of peace and happiness. s, A MA<; XI FK'KXT t'OSTl'MK. Id Worn by tJie Queen at t'arona tion. Is lAjndon, June 2?3.The dres m worn by Queen Mary at the coro nation on July 22nd was in x- deed worthy of the occasion botl >n for its beauty and magnificence >e Made of rich white English satin e- it was fashioned in princess style iy A narrow border of oak leaves ani It acorns in dull, deep gold, orna vs mented the hem all round, am avobe this, with a small blank in y, terval to emphasize the effect, wa ie a deeper border of hrnUon linos <? bright gold, representing wave re and intended tb symbolize the im iw perial seas A locus lilly, the In is dian symbol of long life and happi ness, and its foliage was embroid ty ered in the centre of the waves ig Higher up the skirt, in the eentei lie the star of India was raised in goh it- with the f've points set in a guar p- of flumes, representing the mott n- of the Indian empire ? Heaven' 8t light our guide, er A striking and handsome de is- sign typifying the United Kingdor sd of Great Britain and Ireland ros n- at each side of the skirt, showin id Tudor roses in bright gold, thistle sfs partly in dull and partly in burnish ig ed gold, and shamrocks in rich an >r- dead gold, with the foilage of eac kj- interwining in light gold thread! at 'This embroidery was continued u tie the bodice, in the center of whlc u- stood out a Tudor rose with tw tie thistles head downward below. Th lu low neck was bordered all roun # e gold, and there was a wide tucker ? ? with a design of shamrocks in dull ot filniv gold lace over white silk > 1,1 tulle. + Thistle iuiiI Shamrock on Sleeves. t The sleeves were embroidered * t with. thistles and shamrocks in v the same design as those on the pj skirt, and gold lace was utilized to > u|cover the openings. The back of *:* jv I the bodice, which was hidden by .' long train, was also richly wrought > *. i ill gold. The skirt was very full i, land train round. A wide box pleat .j. e j opened like a fan from the waist- > r I line, later merging into the train. The train of purple velvet, erj mine and gold was perfectly regal it was attached to the dress at the % ' shoulders by rich cords with tas- .> _ sels. It was lined with ermine :* ~ dotted with black tails. Hound the *:* outer edge was a narrow border of ermine and then a single * r line of burnished gold embroidery, * 1 while a second border was of " acorns and oak leaves raised ill 4 I <1 u 11 gold, intercepted at frequent * 1 I intervals by mcdalliun bearing tlie .J. ~ ruse, the thistle and the shamrock > I in truth. At each side of the train * where it was turned at the hot- ! . toni was a larger medallion and > there more of the same size in the ? e center at the end ',?, Over the train at the shoulders e the Queen wore an ermine which ? reached out quite to the waist ? Vium'ii's Cypher in Itejwl Cold. s The design of roses, shamrocks ' and thistles raised n dull and bright gold, was carried out ail ovII ir the train, enriching the effects 1 of the purple velvet. Near the s center were also worked in <?ld Knglish lettering the Queen's cv' pher in dead gold. and this was transfixed by tin slender Latin i" cross with a trefoil at each end in '* bright gold. Above this was the f crown in gold. Altogether the robe presented s an appearance of great magnit'ie>' enee and all persent agreed that e the picture of queenly dignity was complete when Her Majesty wore ] . i crown after the ceremony ??t il anonting. e TALK OK < !{. %FT IN NEW VOKK. n v s New Man Iicmntulcd S.'idO ;unl Might Have Had Slo.tMMI. ?f This is a little story of New York graft, according to the Newit York correspondent of the Cineinu ati Times-Star. Unfortunately, the i- names may not be used, but it has been the custom of a corporation in Is this city to pay a sort of retaining o fee to the holder of a certin poy litical office, jtist to be let alone, e The corporation heads did not ask v anything else from the officeholder. 1- They merely did not want to be prodded by crusades which presumd hlv had an origin in a desire for r- reform. The grawt payment for d years had been $10,nop. "We'll | i- likely to have to pay more, now, |j i- So-and-so is in office," said they, 9 n when a certain man was elected, a "He has the name of being very grasping." s So they sent an intermeditary to w n the newly elected officeholder, with R powder to negotiate. They were I ' willing to pay $15,0o0 if necesd ?ary, not a penny more. The e usual preliminaries were gone gj >; through. "Your company will have to eoiue over," sai/1 the officehold- _ y er. "I'm no ehesm mim i inwm It you've been paying right along, and r. you'll have to pay me more than t you have been giving up to this ol'e fiee in the past. When 1 go gtal'tr ing 1 go right.-' And he swelled s up and looked very important. The n intermediary was frightened. He i- asked very humbly how much the officeholder would demand. "Not a penny less than $5o0 a t, year." said the officeholder, sternn ly. i- The sum was paid, and itwas not e of office for months that he learnf. until the officeholder had been out s ed the scale on which previous payn inents had been made. The informad tion actually sent him into decline. He grieved so over it that he ac\ tually lost his health. If one mene tions a large sum of money in his k presence nowadays he's apt to burst into tears. 1 VISITOR'S IMI'KKSSIOXS <?1 f DIliLO.N'. y Clio Correspondent of I'ee !>ee AdVWttte Says it is a Oriuid Town o Clio, June 20.?It was my pleasu ure to attend the joy day at Dillon i. on Monday and met many old s friends and shake hands with the a Hkmerable W. J. Hryan, whose t speech was the grandest ever heard. . as he is the grandest man ever seen . in this county. Dillon is a grand town, with city airs and aspirations, with its great hearted mihlic-sidrittxt mon o.wi ?i<i men who have pulled together to make the Dillon of the present day i and are pulling together to make' B Dillon greater, while the days are going by. 1 find Marlboro county I men and women prominent in public u affairs. The mayor, N. B. Hargrove, , is the son of a Marlboro county man. When the new court house and jail are built Dillon will be in j full bloom but not nearly grown ! met Mr. Thad Bethea who is proinj inently connected with Dillon's growth and prosperity, a son of Esq s Dave Bethea, as good a friend as 1 "j ever had, and one of old Morion's s best citizens. 1 accepted an invitation to dine with Rev. A. G. Buckner's pleasant family, whose excellent wife was Miss Mary McRae, of Red Bluff, who has a home de. lightfully refined. Nearby is our former Mine I'nra \IcBui XI r? J. N. Hargrove. l)r. J. H. David, an-, (j other Marlboro county man, is lead0 ing spirit in the town's growth. It is s delightful to see the town grow !- FOR SAI/K ? THRKF HI NDRKD n acres of land with about lt>0 0 g cleared and in good state of culs tivatlon, five miles from Mullins, i- two and one half miles from A. C. L. R. R., and one mile from j Seaboard. Can make terms. For p particulars address Rox 202, Mulh line, S. C. LC o C-22-2t d The Dillon Herahl, $ 1.50 a Year. 5< > > > > .> > > > >.> > > > > > > >* > > > > > > > > > > } > A SQUARE DEAL FOR DILLON COUNTY } 5 sk At least one Life Insurance Company has kept faith with * its South Carolina policy-holders. X 4c When the South-Atlartic lcj.;.n to solicit business in * ji South Carolina it- ret |*.stritativ?s v.*. re authorized to state 41 that every dollar of stnplus ft cm ; nn u.n: rtceij ts would be * invested 111 the communities in which the premiums were * eceived. * 4c The South-Atlantic Lite Insurance O-mpunv nas loaned in Dillon County three tin.es its total premium receipts from < policy-holders in that County. Is it not your business to help the business of a Company *? w hose business helps your business? South-Atlantic Lite Insurance Company | Edmund. Stkvdwick, Prest. RICHMOND, VA. MAX FASS. General Agent, Dillon, S C. ;i; U!IIUUULLLLJIIi ii A Constant Protection A telephone on the Farm affords the Farmer's family freedom from isolation as well as protection in the absence of the men. Mr. S. S. Lee, of Blanch, N. C., writes: "Some time apo one of our friends' husband was compelled to be off until ten o'clock at * * in<;ni. inuring tijai rime no one was in trie house but his wife. She talked to us all up and down the line, and each family was readv to go to her at a rfl.'nute's notice. She said she was so glad she had a phone, as she would not feel at all lonely*" Write for our free booklet and see uOw little it costs to have a telephone on your Farm. Address Farmers Line Department SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE 0 jfij i & TELEGRAPH COMPANY \L4QtkQ South Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. imichelin! ^ "C It-'" ' '|||) Anti-Skids'(^) ! Look for o leading tAi* sign jji M ^ MM g aragtt The X J / hardened Steel \ / Leather tread I Anti-Skid j ^ (* tough, fleaiuk.', ^ te"? \ i P / ?3*L C5L \ * ' -1 1 IN STOCK BY Williams Motor Car Co. H. L. WlLLlAM-5,^ MANAGER, ? ? ? n.?..?, / ?i? - Eacily laid can be lmd right over wood shingles if necessary? I Fireproof?Stormproof?Last as Jong as the building t-nd never need repairs. For further detailed information apply to >CAL DEALER.5 OR CORTWRIGHT METAL ROOFING COMPANY D N. 23RP ST. PHIJ.FDELPH1A,* PA.