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I FIND SHIP IN HEART OF CITY f. Hull Buried in San Francisco, Records She- , Is a Relic of the Gold Rush Days. San Francisco discovered nn old wooden ship under the streets of its business section recently, relntcs Popular Mechanics Magazine. Contractors, excavating a deep foundation for a new skyscraper with steam shovels, were hindered in their work by strange massive timbers found 30 feet below the surface. They had accidentally stumbled upon the preserved remains of some strange burled craft. The bronze-slieathed and copper bolted hull mensured 100 feet In length by 30 feet beam, and great Interest was aroused by the puzzling location of the relic a mile from any , water. \ The city's history revealed. 1 however, that It was the Euphemla. a bit of whose historic and romantic ^existence Is as follows: the Unys of '49, when the mad stampede around tlie Horn to the new California gold fields was on, numerous ships were abandoned by their ^rawg at the end of the journey, and "Meft to rot on the mud flats of San Francisco bay. But, In forming the municipal government of the fastgrowing city by the Golden Gate, the first town council bought the Buphemin, and converted It Into a prison ship. Those were "rough" days In San Francisco and this, the first Jail the city could boast, was tied to a wharf, and soon filled up. An old sketch of the scene at this part of the water front reveals another ship, the Apollo, converted Into a saloon and lodging house. As the city grew and forced the waters of the bay back from the spot by filling in the shallows, the novel spectacle was formed of a strange ship sticking up out of the ground in the heart of the city, surrounded by substantial stone and brick structures. During the next .">0 years, the city attained great size. Then it was suddenly half leveled by a great fire. And had It not been for the necessity ot a deep foundation for the latest edifice to rise over the spot, 72 years after the Kuphemia became a jail, the old hull would have slumbered on for nnortier fifty or one <uudred years. As It was, the contractors experienced considerable difficulty in removing the mud and sand-locked skeleton with modern steam tackle, but made a small ] fortune out of tlie sale of the heavy copper and bruss Junk found on It. Revival of the British Beard. A young man about town walked j down Bond street in London recently, and the sight so shocked the sensitive British public that the London Dally Chronicle saw tit to run the Item as a news item. He was elegantly dressed, says the paper, and cnrried the familiar cane of Piccadilly, while a monocle reposed In his right eye. But his beard was the masterpiece of the outtit. It was very dark, it recalled the pictures ot the Stuart kings, and created a sensation wherever it was seen. The young man, except for his beard, was unmistakably English. "I don't think that beards for young men are likely to he popular outside the West end," a hairdresser in the neighborhood of Bond street told a Chronicle representative. "But certain young men about town appear to be tired of looking like stage heroes, and have decided to Crow beards. A beard makes some men look younger, and a man who has a weak mouth and a chin which slightly recedes should wear both mustache and beard." Sailing by Signs. ' Silence never has been considered a characteristic of the deep sea captain, hut a 60-day voyage was recently completed during which the ship's captain might Just as well have been deaf and dumb. Capt Darwin E. Stevens, who has Just returned to this country, took the new steamer Josepha from Duluth to Barcelona, there delivering her to her new owners. His crew was made up of Spaniards, none of whom could speak a word of English. The result was that Captain Stevens had to do his talking with his hands, giving orders by signs. After the 60 days were at an end the skipper found himself so In the habit of making signs that when be finally arrived among people who could speak a language that he understood he had malfP nnnonol ? ~ w.iwwm?. viiui i, iv ic&ioiu iruiu using the sign language.?New York ..World. Airplanes Sold f>r 60 Cents. The British government recently sold a nnmber of airplanes for 60 cents apiece at the Lincoln airdrome disposal sale In London. The machines had become out of date after several years of service and had been Junked, the wings and the engines being removed. Nevertheless, the purchasers who paid 60 cents for an airplane received the body of the machine with the copper fittings and pipes, which in all originally cost several hundred dollars. The purchasers, for the greater part, were anxious to buy the planes to break up for firewood during the coal shortage. Small boys dragged their fathers along to buy a plane so that they might get the wheels to use on scooters and home-made autoinoMles. Lover's Quarrel. Betty (turning ut door)?**T think yon are perfectly hateful, and I'm over going to speak tc you again, so there's no use coming Into the music room after me?hecnu*?; I shell b" la the hammock at the ft' end ef piazza."?Evening Tnu ?.*".j-? THE DILLON HERA] I Weevil Doesn't Like Wide Rows. "I am convinced." remarked W. H. Stanton who farms the P. L. Bethea Dothan place, "that one of the best ways to fight the boll weevil is to plant cotton in five foot rows and give it plenty of sunshine. We did not hear much of the boll weevil in Dillon until cotton got thick and the wet spell came along. Then he began to show up in armies. We had laid by our cotton and the boll weevil had full swing because the most of us could not go back in it with a plow even if there had been no rain. 1 have a negro with me who has four acres of cotton from which he will gather live bales. His rows are five feet apart. He worked his cotton late and it is clean. The boll weevil has attacked cotton on other parts of the place and is doing it some damage, but he has not made his appearance in the fouracre patch. It may be just a happenso, but it has made such an impression on me that next year I am going jto plant about 5 acre8 to the plow aim pui me rows 5 or 6 feet apart. And I am going to make anotherrexperiment. In one of the fields I had a field of tobccco alongside a field of cotton. Five rows away from the tobacco field the ^ weevils did not touch the cotton, although they were playing havoc with the top crop all over the other part of the field. I gathered all the tobacco and cut the stalks and raked them up. In a few days the weevils were just as thick in the cotton next to the tobacco field as they were anywhere else in the field. Next year I am going to experiment with six rows of cotton and two rows of tobacco. In addition to I this 1 am going to plant a couple of 'rows of tobacco all round the cotton. |There may not be anything in it and II would not advise anybody to plant !a full crop under these conditions jwith the expectation of getting a normal yield. Hut I believe from what 11 have seen this year that the experiment is worth trying." I Another Boll Weevil Remedy. "The boll weevil," said \V. E. Culdjwell, manager of the Southern Oil |Co., "reminds me of the time when tne rill was raging all over the country. Every other man you met had a remedy, but somehow the flu kept on raging and took its toll of death before it wore itself out. I fancy it is going to be that way with the boll weevil. It is not coming; it is here and next year there won't be enough cotton made in the county, provided we uo not change our methods of farming, to clothe an orphan boy. Various ways of combatting the boll weevil are suggested; some of them I appear to be practical while others are visionary. A man who owns quite a lot of cotton land in Georgia told me a few days ago that one man down there had a plan which so fathad been effective. The boll weevil did not seem to cut his yield down to any great extent and his neighbors tbegan to investigate and found that he completely surrounded his cotton 'with fields of corn an(j on the outiside of the corn he nlanted pnnnpti cotton for the weevils to feed on. His theory was that the boll weevil does no fly very high and when he left a patch of cotton looking for new fields to destroy and got into the corn he turned back. Anyway, this limn claimed that the plan was sucIcessful and other farmers had adoptied it. But I am passing this story along for what it is worth. I don't want anybody to plant a normal acreage under this plan and then expect to make a full crop. The best way to fight the boll weevil is to quit planting cotton, but we can't do this until we find some other crop. It appears to me that it would be a good idea to get farmers, merchants, bankers and all other persons interested in the well-fare of the country into a meeting and decide on some definite plan of action. If we could get enough farmers to agree to plant a certain number of acres of peanuts we could change the machinery at the oil mill and crush peanuts. But these things can't be done unless we get together and agree on something." o Boll Weevil Straws. Calhoun Times. Gabe Aiken, manager of the splendid farm of Mrs. Simpsie Sellers in Lyons Township, planted considerable cotton in March. As two main public roads traverse the plantation, it was easy to watch results. On the early cotton it has been plainly evident that the boll weevil was getting the worst end of the deal. Conservative calculators estimate that he will ni/?lr of 1 onr,* ??? '?1 * 1 ' ..... r.vo (U .can i. Uiic-imil Date 10 the acre. The late cotton will fall far short of this. This bears out advanced reports that the earlier the better. In fact that Is about the on-] ly thing to do. The pest has already accomplished one wise reform. Nobody sees any stubble land cotton now. o AN EAltLY FALL. Charlotte Observer. One cannot drive through this section of the country in any direction without seeing signs of an early Fall coming down the pike. The crimsoning of the gum trees is the first indication. The leaves are "turning" at least two weeks in advance of the usual time, while the hedges along the roadsides are being dotted with the pluming heads of the goldenrod. All of which is a token that before the people are aware of the fact the gin houses will be opening up and the farmers will be coming to town with a bale of new cotton for pin money. Cotton will be on the market much earlier this season than is ordinarily the case. o I It 1s better to feel the sympathy of I God's heart than to find the Sword of 'His hand. LD. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, LOUD OF BEAUTY Traveler Writes of Art Treasures n Old Mexico. Among Them, Cathedrals and Churches as Fine, or Finer, Than Any Found Elsewhere. The guileless tourist who throngs European picture galleries, because he Is told It Is the proper thing to do, will, some day, when he has got It out of his head that Mexico Is a nation entirely Inhabited by murderers, find that there are artistic treasures Just as worth while only a little way across the Rio Grande. There are n hundred great churches and cathedrals more beautiful than any yet dreamed of In his own country; there are pyramids that rival Cheops and hns-rellefs as str'Mng as anything Nineveh could show; above all, for those In search of beauty In common things, there are a dozen handicrafts, the products whereof would drive collectors mad with rapture If they were bought In Naples or Ishpnhan. The1 blanket sernpes worn by the men are familiar, chiefly through machlne-mnde Imitations; less so the rohosos worn by the women; of n special Interest ns showing the blending of East and West Is the native pottery, as for oxample, the beautiful Talovera and Mudejar ware. Although the Introduction of this Is usually ascribed to the Dominican monks. Its Spanish or Arabic influence Is, In actual fact, merely overlaid upon the very much more ancient native craft of which examples are still preserved in the 41 I It Mill 1 llimt-lllll 11114 1 I'lM-WIII'll'. It is safe to say that not one in a hundred persons if asked to name the three finest equestrian statues In the world would -know that at least one of them is to lie found in Mexico. It represents King Carlos IV of Spain and is said to have been the first bronze statue ever east in America. It is without any question the finest, ranking second only to that of Bartolommeo Oolleoni in Venice, yet I mention it here, loss for what it is than for what it represents. The Mexican people unfortunately for their reputation live In a country of unparalleled fertility and wealth. Were they only more enterprising and business like they would long ago have sacrificed Its beauty to the benefit of their own pockets and thereby gained the admiration of their neighbors. Their cities, today mines of beauty in which you cannot walk 100 yards without passing some noble church or palace fit for the "Sleeping Beauty," or quaint detail of quainter public life, would he rectilinear nightmares where skyscrapers and factories and elevateds and smokestacks fought with each other which should most openly show its contempt for mere humanity. Perhaps if the advo| cates of progress and efficiency at the expense of your neighbor have their way, that day may still come. It will j be a bad day for Mexico; it will he an even worse day for the rest of the western hemisphere, for it will herald the final victory of materialism in the ' new world and the permanent disappearance of thnt religion of beauty I which is called art.?Oliver Mndox Hueffer in the North American Review. safety First." The following "Rules of the Road" have been forwnrded by an English resident In Japan who has copied them from the central police station at Tokyo. At the rise of the hand of the policeman stop rapidly. do not pass nun ny or otherwise disrespect him. When a passenger of the foot hove In sight, tootle the horn; trumpet at him melodiously at first, but If he still obstacles your pnssage tootle him with vigor and express by word of the mouth the warning "HI, III." Beware the wandering horse that he shall not take fright as you pass him by. Do not explode an exhaust box at him. Go soothingly by. Give big space to the festive dog that shall sport In the roadway. Avoid entanglement of dog with your wheel spokes. Go soothingly on the grease mud as there lurks the skid demon. Press the brake of the foqt as you roll round the corner to save the collapse and tie-up.?London Punch. Eruption of Flamo* on the Sun. There was recently the biggest dis turbance on the sun that astronomers have ever happened to observe. It seems to have been an enormous eruption. during which masses of flames were thrown to a height of hundreds of thousands of miles! A gigantic arch of fire, spanning a large section of the sun's edge (as seen through the telescope), rose, upheld, as It were, by two columns, one at each end. Itlslng still higher, It finally hroke, assuming thereupon a spiral form. The arch was at least 200,000 miles high, and lasted four months before It disappeared. Another eruption of flames, which attained n height of 300,000 miles, occurred soon afterward, stretched like a rubber band, the middle part rising rapidly and the sides straightening so as to form almost an Isosceles triangle. For the Literati. As a llternry gent, my friend Abe says he don't en re a hang about the week's best sellers. But he adds, without e b!n-'> he's open to an Imitation to *",v !?.: < -eiass cellar.?Klchmond Tir e--1 ?' r'm < h? rWJKSDAT MORNING. SEPTEMBER ! FINE FOOt) AT CHINESE INN _? ' Delicious, Abundant and Wholesome, and at Prices That Are Described as "Ridiculous." Your mouth will water If yov read the following delectable description of palatable food. We take it from an i article by -Mr. William A. Anderson in Truvel in which he describes the cooking lie found at an inn In the Chinese province of Chihli, says the Youth's Companion. In the chow room, he says, were | several huge clay stoves like coffee | percolators, except that the dry stalks that are used for fuel are where you'd i expect the boiling coffee to be; the basin-shaped receptalde on top tightly j confines the flames, which play about ; It. In the bottom of the receptacle, I which lias a wooden cover, is a little 1 wuter. Anything from egg omelet to i sharks' tins can be stewed, baked or j broiled in tlie basin. Personally, I very much like many I of the steaming messes ? broiled | o^uuurs, veueiaine coups, thick and II various; broiled duck, soaked In rich j brown sauces and so tender that the || flesh almost drops from the hones at ;i a touch; fried tlsli, as crisp as pastry |l on the outside, and as clear ami ;| smooth as a fresh mushroom within; crisp chips of mutton boiled iti lard; | crackling shrimps by tlie bucketful; i unleavened greasy tiread fried like butter*.d toast?an endless variety, in | | fact, of every conceivable sort of i | food, fresh, rich and wholesome. The tisli you order are taken flap- ij J ping from buckets of fresh or salt j 1 water; the fowl flutter, cackling or | cooing. about the yard: the meat and i the vegetables nre brought in alive 1 ami fresh by the farmers; the eggs are taken warm from the maimers; j the bread is made from whole wheat ! grown within a mile of the talde ami ground by hand Inside the yard; tie ' dates in tlie rich vellow cake are * plucked freui the trees that overhang t tlie village lanes; tlie bean curds are j pressed within tlie chow room itself, i Kvery thing is served piping hot. and the prices are utterly ridiculous. There are no tallies such as foreigners use; the eaters prefer the low j Chinese tables beside which they sit ' on tie- kangs. Strings of leeks, pep- j pers, garlic and lichens are suspended | from tlie sinoke-stnined rafter* as in j the country inns of Spain and Italy. ; Wine made from rice or the Juicy stalk i of tlie kaoliang is stored in huge clay- | lined baskets sealed at the top. It ' is served hot ill thimble-sized cups, j for it Is as potent as vodka. But no j one becomes intoxicated. - * -*? - r ojunwiwyy OT r\ISSing. I">r. Charles 10. Baker, the psychologist, is shamefully confusing the romantic issue. He says that after h man has kissed a girl he doesn't want her. "Withhold thy kisses, fair maid en," says tlds cruel sage, "more girls have been robbed of future husbands by the good-night kiss than for any other reason." "But how, oh, how does the dear chap know? Were they the spinsters who confided In him, or the kisssnatching bachelors? And is it the kiss Itself or the impression that the lady is too free with them that wrecks the prospect? On tlie score of decorum and exclusiveness the sage may he right in demeaning the value of the pre-marital kiss, hut it Isn't good logic. Most of the irrevocable spinsters I know were brought up on that coy theory and are apt to blame their spinsterhood upon it. ' What the gentleman really means Is that some other girl's frisky good-night kiss robbed those spinsters of their swains. But, of course, the other girl was probably careful to imply that this was her very first offense. It is much more likely that it is when he surprises her in conferring the good-night kiss on some other fellow that lie feels she is not the wife for him. That is why the "kiss-und-never-tell" doctrine is essential to gallantry.?Los Angeles Times. Arrangement of Searchlight*. Searchlights require movements of rotation about a vertical and a horizontal axis. At one time the control about the horizontal nxls was limited to a depression of about 30 degrees, and the elevation to about GO degrees. In later models the light beam could be raised to a completely vertical direction. Originally this was done by a system of link motions, says Popular Meclinnics Magazine, but this has now been superseded by a method of transmitting the motions electrically. In this apparatus, the projector Itself does not move, but the beam of light is reflected Into any direction by means of a plane mirror. On a ship the nrolectnr niav be mounted jit the foot of h hollow mast, with the beam of light projected to a mirror at the masthead eatable of rotation about Its horizontal and vortical axes, by menus of electrical control operated at any desired location. Radio Time Useful. How useful it would be to watchmakers and repairers to have a simple j wireless telephone outfit v itli which I to receive the dally time signals is ' brought out by H. (iernsback In the I Radio News (New York). He says: "If once tne Jeweler sees bow slta| pie It Is to work a time-receiving radio otttfit he will soon become enthusiastic, and. as many of his tribe have done, will even go so far as to put the outtit In a show window in order to attract trade. 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