Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ THE FORT WILL TIMES PufcH^wJ Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. Money Invested in a good vacation la well spent. Somebody should provide a vaccine for sunburn and freckles. Duck suits would bo better if they were oiled the way ducks wear them. Even hot weather isn't so bad when you can get plenty of good fresh buttermilk. ! It's a poor form of Sunday recreation that requires a week for recuperation. ?? Paradoxical as it may 6eem, the heat wav. was not Invented by a Paris hairdresser. When Sir Thomas Llpton gets tired of trying to lift that cup, he might try his hand at polo. The Joy ride continues to maintain its reputation nB being fully aB dangerous as any ride. Now that aviation has become a business, enthusiasm has quite naturally waned a bit. Hot weather is good for the crops. 1 And the dispute in the lialknns is good for the Krupps. Another foreign complication threatens. A Kansas court has decided that a pretzel is not a food. i No other business is quite so Impor- i tant as making the children happy and keeping them healthy. | An eastern court rules that tipping a porter is voluntary. Nevertheless It's an act of self-defense. They never throw old shoes at a bride in Chicago. A Chicago shoe is j classed as a deadly weapon. We suppose that in a couple of hundred years from new there will bo a society of descendants of those who came over in the Imperator. . Roy pupils who detest the decimal system Bhould be reminded that when they grow up it will come In handy in computing tho batting averages. Our old friend \Vu Ting-fang may again visit the United States. He will be warmly welcomed, no questions asked, but all answered, as usual. ________ "Ronesetter" Reese, called to attend a disabled dancer of the tango, left an Eisteddfod to do it. However, he was not at work on the Eisteddfod. New York is trying to check drink- j lng by the linger print system. With three fingers to consider in the averago case the experts are in for overtime. Every man knows no could do a better Job than the love-making scenes that are put on in the moving picture shows. A Chicago alienist snys that love is a form of lunacy. Rut Shakespeare said that long before him, so it is no use reviving the discussion at this late day. People nre still taking bichloride of mercury tablets in mlstako for headache remedies. This is a case In which it would pay to read the papers. Tho meanest man so far has been located in New Jersey. Ho left his who wunoui support, giving ns his excuse that Bhe wns suffering with tuberculosis. Sotno people piny tennis to keep cool. The happy medium praised by philosophers is so hard to realize that the bather Is too cold while In the water and too hot while on shore. An American woman has sailed for 1 Italy to find n singing bandit whom she would put In grand opera. He might be unable to keep his eye oft the box office. Though the modern college graduate knows all about everything, he Is discreet enough to conceal the fact from the crude person to whom he applies for a Job. Collisions between aeroplanes are a new danger of civilization. Apparently. there Is not room for similar ambitions even In the boundless space of the atmosphere. Some of our cabaret dancers should have been present the other day to take a few ler.rons from that rivetter I who dropped a hot bolt itiRlde the waistband of his work pants. In Justice to our domestic Industrios it must bo sold that home-Rrown sunburn cannot be distinguished from the imported variety. Our notion o' a strenuous athletic i performance at this season is to sit under an electric fan and read about the marathon race. Though a person may dodge the un- j muz/lcd canine and sidestep the de ceitful canoe, he may be unable tc avoid the ptomaine germ that lurkt here and there during the summer. 4 SCENE W'.r' " ( * "*~ Our Illustration shows a gene resulted in bloody battles with the i BY~ORDER Nicholas Savin. Adventurer, Released From Riga Prison. International Swindler. "Man of the Hour" In Russia, Now Earns Honest Living?Was Street Car Conductor in Chicago. Moscow.?Nicholas Savin, the notorious Russian adventurer who calls mmseir uount Nlcnolas do ToulouseLautrec. has been released from prison in Riga by the czar's manifesto of March 5. When the count came out of prison he had only three rubles in his pocket. He has earned 5,000 rudes so far. A Moscow newspaper is publishing his diary and a cinematograph firm has paid him $1,500 for films illustrating his life. In Russia he is the man of the hour. Ho is known to the police all over Europe and America as an exceedingly accomplished swindler, who speaks half a dozen languages and whose specialty Is the passing off t on the guileless of forged bonds and securities. He accounts for all the records of charges and convictions against him in various parts of the globe in two ingenious ways. Either they were crimes committed by a cousin who is remarkably like him or he says they were charges trumped up against him by the Russian secret police in order to get rid of a dangerous nihilist. According to his own story, he took part in the Russo-Turkish war of 1S77 Czar of Russia. and was severely wounded at Plevna. There is some ground for doubting this account, for he received no medal and no wound pension. All that Is known Is that in 187S he gave up his commission. When Savin was on trial at Pau In 1908 for swindling he told the same story of being wounded at Plevna as well as at Santiago de Cuba. The French court ordered the prison doctor to examine his "wounds." Tho doctor renorteit Hint th?rr> ?/irt<ilnl? were scars visible, but they wero received in battles other than those of war. After a thrilling escape from the French gendarmerie he fled to the Ilalkans, where he enlivened proceedings by presenting himself as a candidate for the Mulgarian throne. His schemes, however, wero frustrated by a Moscow barber, to whom he owed money, and who. happening to be in Constantinople at the same time, gave information to the Russian emhnssy as to Savin's identity. The luckless adventurer was sent to Narim, a desolate convict settlement in Siberia, but within three months he succeeded in escaping. Afterward he lived in Chicago, where he worked as a car conductor and was naturalized as an American citizen. He was married in Canada and arrested and sentenced there for dealing in forged bonds in 1900 and has since been arrested in New York, Lisbon, Finland and I'au. He tells OF BLOODY STRIKE I ' ^ ral view of Johannesburg, South Afrit soldiery and police. The Inset shows a rOF^CZAR wonderful stories of escapes from Siberia and is, in fact, the most brilliant artist in modern fiction. WAR WHEN THE WHALE COMES So Think the Superstitious Ones Who Watch Over the Delaware Bay. Chester, Pa.?Superstitious people of this city believe that the whale 1 which was recently seen in Delaware bay is a precurser of war. They re fer to past omens of a similar charm ! ter. reciting that the whale whlc? came up the Delaware river in 18D was a precurser of the War of 1812, i and that in 1860, one year before the i outbreak of the Civil war, a whale ! came up these waters to Philadelphia. 1 This latter whale Edward Culen, a vetI eran fisherman of this city, avers he ! saw. lie Riivfl "It was JuBt this way. It was during the summer of 18G0. Horace Davis and I were out in a boat Ashing. It was a little dark, and we had a lantern. I was drawing in the net and Dnvis was hanking it. All of a sudden Davis said: "Ned, there's vessel upside down out there.' I looked and saw a thing tjiat had the appearance of the hull of a craft upset. 'See howswift the tide speeds by It,' said Davis. "We'd got pretty close to It then, and 1 lifted tho lantern to take a I good look. J list then there w as a | terrible splash nnd the water went clear up into tho air out of that thing. I Just as though a powder magazine had ! busted. "1 dropped the lantern, and Davis and I grabbed tho oars, and we didn't stop until we got ashore. There wasn't any steamboat on the river that could have beaten us that trip. When COYOTES ARE N *?'l Closed Ranges and Bounties on : Scalps Causing Extermination of Animal. Cottonwood Falls, Kan.?According to stock raisers and farmers of this j county tho coyote seems to be fast be' coming extinct. The fencing up of i the big pasture districts in this and | neighboring counties, where practically every acre is now stocked with cattle. has robbed the coyote of Ills once free and open range. Re-cause of his depredations on young ami helpless domestic stock a bounty has been set on his head and he luu; long been a fugitive, hunted and Killed by every farmer. The bounty of n dollar which is paid by the county for every coyote scalp turned in probably more than any other cause is responsible for the decreasing j wolf population. In order to get the reward many farmers, and especially the farmer j boys, not only trap and kill coyotes whenever the opportunity comes, but have made a practice of hunting the j coyotes' dens and robbing them of their young. For the scalp of a baby wolf, though only a few weeks old and innocent of any wrongdoing, is the same in yio eyes of the law as ( would bo that of a veteran chicken i killer. Only a few years ago the county : money paid out In this county alone for coyotes ran as high as $.100 or $400 annually. Now. It Is said, the number will hardly reach 100 a year. The bringing In of a dozen or more scalps by one farmer, which was onco I so common, no longer occurs. The greater part of these bounties are collected In the spring months ! before the mother-wolf has left her I den with her family. So persistently have the farmers carried on the warfare of extermination that the coyotes which rear their families in safety must be cunning indeed. Though this I inay seem cruel, yet from long experience the farmers have found that in a stock-raising country the coyote ; has no place. Were they left to multiply even for a few years so great I NOTING \ ;a, where the Btrlke of miners has typical crowd of colored miners. that whale was caught up near Ken ! sington she had fishermen's nets 1 around her to stock two or three shir < stores. She had dragged them off the i bottom of the Delaware as she crawl j 1 ed up toward Philadelphia." i i LAUDS AN AMERICAN SCHOLAR ; Temps Devotes Its Leading Editorial to the Visit of Harvard University President. Paris.?The Temps devotes its principal editorial to the visit of Dr. Ab- ' bott Lawrence Lowell, president ol Harvard university, describing him as '' "one of the leaders of American 1 Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell. < thought whose presence among us will ' still further tighten the bonds of mu- j tual esteem and ardent sympathy between France and the United States." The Temps points out that the advent of Dr. Lowell In Harvard coincided with the reaction in favor of French methods. Previously German meth j ods had reigned exclusively in Araer ( ican universities. EARLY EXTINCT t? \ would their numbers become as to b? a scourge to the country. NAP RUINS JUDGE'S DIGNITY , "Is That You, Eugenle7" He Asks , When Roused from His Slum- ( ber In Court. t Paris.?"Oh! sleep, It la a gentlt thing, beloved from pole to pole!' I , But people who Indulge in forty wink! . at the wrong moment get into trouble . sometimes. . Two Judges of the Seine tribunal . are inflicted rather badly with the judicial habit of napping, and the oth er day during a case in which thej ! were on the bench in company witb : the president of the court the Influ ence of the heat wave combined witt the tedious plendings of an unlnter j esting case sent them into a profound sleep. According to a report that ha! aroused much merriment In legal clr 1 cles one of the Judges, being rousec { by the toe of a colleague gentlj pressed against his calf, murmured "Is that you, Eugenie?" and awoke tc wonder why the court was dissolved In laughter. \jiu nuusc lias VYindOWS. Ix>ndoi?.?Tho Into Ixird Northamp | ton owned one of tho show places o1 England In Compton Wyn gates, It Warwickshire, one of the finest exam ' pies of a half timbered house to bf ' found In England. It is a splendid ( 1 specimen of Tudor architecture, witl battlemented towers and inullioned ( 1 windows, and has been preserved in i " tact from tho days of Henry VIII. | * | whose arms appear over the gateway i ^ Nt two of its chimneys arc alike and f ihere are r.6f? windows I First Woman Jury's Verdict. San Francisco.?The first womai Jury to appear in a felony case in Cal J ifornla returned n verdict of not guilt} after two hours' deliberation in th< case of a woman on trial for an nl d I leged attempt at blackmail. c c *: / iVffMSS He Twists Letters Like nr ASHINGTON- Frank B. Willis. fT the rising young statesman from Wool Town. Ohio, who pulled down the spelling laurels tn the recent Press L^ubs ladies' night entertainment, had better study up that bluebacked speller. because there's another chap In town who can twist the letters round tils tongue like a Mexican greasor juggling a lariat. This same fellow is VVrisley Brown, special assistant attorney general of the department of justice. Some time ago a correspondent who purported to be a college professor wrote a letter to President Taft complaining that the recurrence of crime waves was due to malign thought impulses hurtled about by detectives of the department of justice. Then the detectives would issue forth and arrest these law breakers, according to the writer. In this way working up a reputation for efficiency. The writer also said he had appeared before the senate "third degree" committee, and that his views were greeted with loud How John Burroughs Fc JOHN BURROUGHS, accompanied by two well known naturalists, Krneat Thompson-Seton and Glenn Buck of Chicago, was a recent visitor to the capitol. At the capitol Mr. Burroughs gazed with thoughtful eyes directed toward the imposing, glistening white, marble senate ofllco building. "Beautiful building, isn't it?" he was asked. "Hugh! Yes," was the slow re sponse. "Hut." ho added. "I would a whole sight rather gaze at a ecene I remember so distinctly. I had visited a small hamlet in a state that was dry." "1 looked about, but could find no place to sleep. It took only a few minutes to traverse the settlement. There was only one place where a light could be seen. The nature of Llie business being transacted there was apparent to all who cared to un [lorstand. It was a so-called "blind tiger." "Seeking rest there was out of the question, hut 1 was tempted to enter and ask for information. As I was hesitating, a faint light in a building Calamitous Cessation 1 IT is an admitted fact that Mary hnd a little lamb, but it may be news to tho general public that Hobby Hlank. tvho lives out Georgetown way, had mother. Leastwise, he had. until the >ther day, when his ownership came 'o what one might briefly call a calamitous cessation. Hobby had been week-ending with a ittle cousin who lives out in the county two hours by wagon, on a hill, off :he pike. Little cousin owned a pet amb. and when the wagon was waitng for Hobby he, somehow, managed :o sneak pet off and get away with :he goods. The wise men who make the world ico round for -us assert that character changes with environment, and it nust be so, for, by the time the wagon Some Mighty Beautiful T JKNATOR TOM MARTIN of Vir 3 ginia is radically different from nost statesemen from the sunny iouth. Ho is not an orator. On the ontrary, he is usually so silent that le makes the Sphinx seem like the (tar book agent for an installment nibltshing house. As some of his conitituents like to say: "Tom takes ilB*n out in thinkin' and actln'." Hut while Martin snvs little he lis ens much. And when he does finally >reak into spef<ch Ids words lire to he point. Some time ago there came up, in he senate, a bill on which there was i bitter light. Straightway several of hose senators who have come to be mown as "constitutional sharks" leap>d to their feet one after another, in ilgh sounding and resounding protest "Shall we. unworthy as we are, dare o violate either the letter or the spirt of our beloved constitution?" they lemnnded. "Never never not one ota?NEVER!" Martin listened calmly until all had lone. Then he rose slowly and d rapid himself gracefully over one edge if his desk Mexican Juggling Lariat guffaws. In conclusion he said: 0 "They laughed, Mr. President," he wrote, "at the profundity of their own ineptitude." The letter was referred to the department of Justice, and Wrisley Brown was asked to prepare an indosement for It. There was a Bcream of laughter when Brown turned in a* burlesque opinion, couched In wordB which outranked the professors' ten to one. They say President Taft chuckled all day over it. And as for big words?Just watch: "After careful reflection." wrote j Wrisley Brown. "I concur in the physical theorems herein deduced by the 1 complainant. His conclusions regarding the auto-suggestion of crime are fully borne out by the history of human experience. Its Insidious efTect upon the mind has a pronounced tenI dency to bring on aboulomanla or cretinism of the will power, combined with a choreic condition of the faculties. "In some cases it has even been known to Induce katatonia or some more serious dissociation of the mental elements of a luetic character and Pfuribund developments such as. for instance. confusional enccphalomalucia. "The application of the third degree annilhilates the inhibitory powers of the average victim and plunges him into a state of volitional hypnosis, thereby breaking down the fundamental doctrine of free agency." tund a Place to Sleep In I opposite showed, and in a few minj utes the form of a man, partly dressed, appeared in the doorway and began : an unsteady course for the blind tiger. I "I did not stop him, but as he entered the place of liquor dispensing. I entered the place he vacated, blew out the light and cast myself into his bed, which was warm. "It seemed hours later when I was awakened by a reeling Swede. " 'Ah bane thanking you've my ? " bade.' he began. " 'Man.' 1 replied. 'You've been to the blind tiger.' "That was enough. The man was too dazed to think. He turned about, by degrees, and walked out of the | place. I don't know where he went, j but probably back to the blind tiger." For Bobby's Little Lamb had wheeled up to the home curb the small white thing that had been as docile as those other dear lambkins that skip on the forever-green grass in the way-back spelling book, took on a kiddish butting velocity. Hobby's mamma was waiting to welcome little son as he hopped out of the wagon, dragging the lamb at the end of a string. The first thing the I iwo Know the lamb had butted In and I sprawled them, mother and manchild. on the pavement. A crowd developed with a suddenness that suggested it must have swarmed up from the crevices in the bricks. The little lamb got busy and butted around at the human fringe with skillful Impartiality, until a particularly big man gave it what was intended to be a down-and-out kick. Hut it wasn't. Not for the little lamb. As for the man?but maybe he wouldn't like it mentioned; some people are so delicately sensitive?and, anyhow, maybe he would have done better if the little lamb had given him a second try, but it wasn't that sort of a little lamb. It preferred to streak off like white lightning?and maybe it is streaking I yet. hings in the Constitution ^~\ f THE Mas' \ |l> &\ beautiful of All i ? WQ A THOSE CLORlOii$ y I W0RP5, $i/H, WCiVlH'uS THE ^3^ ydwniD-y "Mistah President," said he in his soft drawl, "1 yield to no man, suh, in ( my respect foh the Constitution and its Cramers. They did well. They did , nohlv, suh?foh their time. Hut, Mistah President, those * gentlemen have been dead mo" than one hundred ! years, suh. and times, suh. have changed. We've got to remember | that. suh. "An" remembering that. Mistah President, what I started to say was this' There are some mighty beautiful things in our Constitution. It's a beautiful work, suh. Put, Mistah President, of all the beautiful things in all that beautiful work, to my mind the mos' beautiful of all are those glorious words, suh, giv{n' us the right i to amend,"