Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 04, 1913, Image 3
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PHRASES YOU HEAR
Expressions of Noted Men That
Have Become Common.
^ "While There'* Life There's Hope,"
* "New Broome Sweep Clean" and
Many Other Old Favorites
Mark Historic Epochs.
London.?No less a person than
Cicero first made use of the expres- I
alon, "VVhild there's life there's hope." |
in a letter He wrote to Attlcus. "We I
are in the Banie boat" is not modern
slang, but occutb in a letter written
by Clement I., bishop of Home, to the
Church of Corinth in the first century.
This letter is extant and is one of the
prized documents of the early church.
"I never put off till tomorrow what
I can do today" waB Lord Chesterfield's
explanation of how he managed
to do so much work. "Whatever is
worth doing at all is worth doing
well," he wrote later in the famous
Letters to His Son.
In some of the expressions we use
habitually may bo crystallized an
epoch of history. Such is the motto
of the Order of the Garter, "Uoni soit
qui mal y ponse" (shamed be he who
thinks evil of it), which was given ,
by Edward III. of England. Wishing
to draw the best soldiers in the world
to him he proposed a revival of the !
Round Table of King Arthur, holding
a tournament at Windsor Castle on |
New Year's day, 1?44 After the contest
of arms, the guests were enter- ,
tained at his expense at a round table.
Philip, king of France, was jealous
over the interest this aroused, and
forbade his subJectB to attend, at the
same time misrepresenting Edward's
motives. Several years later, when
Edward founded the Order of the Garter,
he chose a motto that seemed to
challenge his rival raonurcli to think
wrong of it If he dared.
Later English history has not been
laggard in Increasing the supply of 1
apt remarks that have grown Into
everyday sayings. Lord Eldon, lord (
chancellor of England during the tlrst !
26 years of the nineteenth century, J
continually mispronounced the name
of Henry Brougham, afterward to be
a successor ?o the chancellor's office. j
Rrougham objected to being called i
Broffam, and in this regard Eldon
was the chief offender. Once, after
Brougham hnd made an excellent I
apeech Eldon, by way of apology, pronounced
his name correctly and made
a proverb. "New brooms sweep clean." i
The Bame expression occurs fre- >
quently to different people who could
have no knowledge that their thought
had been given utterance before. "No
^ man is a hero to his valet" has been
paraphrased by scores, from Madame
du Cornuel, a witty Frenchwoman of
the seventeenth century, to Dr. Johnson
and Napoleon. The llrst record
! Beautiful Ne
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Is One of the Great Show Places of
the Atlantic Coast?Much
Wealth Here.
Newport, R. I.?One of the great
show places of the Atlantic coast la
the sandy 6tretch of beach at Newport,
R. 1? the summer home of those whose
wealth is reckoned in millions and
whose names stand for society In Its
highest and most exclusive form. Dot
Newport's Beautiful Beach.
ting the heights that that border the
beach in the form of a horseshoe, are
the pretentious bungalows and mansions,
which for a few brief months
of the hot spell, are the center of the
social whirl. This picture is the best
made this year, and shows the famous
resort as it really is today.
* SHOT TOOK PIPE FROM MOUTH
Fisharman Off Sandy Hook Haa Extremely
Bad 8cara In Mock
Battla.
Naw York.?The Gleaner, a twomatted
fishing smack under the command
of Capt. Robert Tapper, brought
a badly frightened crew to the dock
at Pulton street. The captain acted
a bit excited himself, and the boat
looked as if It had gone through a
South Sea typhoon.
The block was broken off the main
C*ff. the down haul had been cut
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GREAT SOLDIER M
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Br ,ys>
This Is a new photograph of Gent
Itulgarian army, and his beautiful ai
accomplished the difficult tusk of drii
Asia, this modern Napoleon is blame*
of the Hulgurians and. disgraced and
for the defeat of the army which but ;
dorfui success.
of it, however, is found in Plutarch,
who states that when llermodotus addressed
a poem to Antigonus I., king
of Sparta, hailing him as son of the
sun and a god, the monarch replied,
"My body servant sings nie no such
song."
it was Diogenes, the cynic, who de
clared that "habit is second nature."
The phrase "circumstances over 1
which ho has no control" was used i
by the duko of Wellington in a letter !
concerning some affairs in which he
declined to interfere. Dickens also
used the expression a few years later
when he had Micawber write to David
Copperfleld, "Circumstances beyoud
by individual control?," etc.
"Conspicuous by their absence" has
been used on many occasions in modwport
Beach
riRiu ui naives, besides a lot of other
things that a landlubber couldn't understand.
"No," said the captain, "we haven't
been through a storm?we've been
through a naval battle. And right off
Sandy Hook at that. I thought, with
all this talk of peace, an old fishing
vessel might ply up and down the
coast without being tired at. but she
can't. When we were about a mile
off Sandy Hook, there was a shriek of
a cannon ball in the air. The right
side of my face felt like it does when
a barber Is scraping it with a dull
razor?something took the pipe from
my mouth. Before I had timo to realize
what had happened, the whole
boat trembled from a tremendous
shock.
"The shell, which came from the
Fort at Sandy Hook, had grazed the
end of the main gafT, and had cut the
down haul In halves. And it had actually
knocked the pipe from my
mouth, for I found myself chewing
the broken stem."
BABY WITH A RARE DISEASE
Kansas City Physicians Puzzled by
Strange Case?Very Young
Child.
Kansas City.?A case rare eVcn to
tho older physicians of Kansas is attracting
the attention of members of
the resident and visitir.g staffs at a
hospital there. A baby one month old
has suffered half its little life with
streptococcic polyarthit is. which
translated into less technical terms
means an inilammatatlon of joint ravatles
caused by germs known as strep
tococci.
The disease produced in joint cavities
by these germs is not so rare
among older persons, and UBitnlly is
not very difficult to cure. There is un
anti streptococcic serum which is generally
used with good effect, but In
this case the wonder of the physicians
Is the age of the infant.
Five places are Infected. Two weeks
ago the disease started in the baby's '
right shoulder and spread to the knee,
wrist, the Jaw nnd a place on its head.
The baby has been li\ hospital only
one week, but it is much improved,
and there has been no further spread
of the disease. Fhysicians say it has
a fighting chance of recovery if it can
stand the long strain of eradicating
the germs with the Benim.
It Is not known when Infection was
started and no trace of the disease has
been found In the Infant's parents. The
baby no longer cries and Its temperature
is about normal. It nurses regularly
and Is in all respects, outside lta
ttrange and unaccountable disease, en- ,
, tirely normal.
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ADE A SCAPEGOAT
ral Savoff. commander-in-chief of the
id charming daughter. After iiaviug
ling the Turks from Europe hack to
J for the present unlooked-for losses
discredited, may be court-martialed
1 little while ago he led to such wonern
oratory. It was first used by
Tacitus In relating that in the funeral
procession of Julia, niece ot Cato. sister
of Hrutus. wife of Casslus. many
of the images of the most famous
families In Home were seen, hut "Cassius
and Itrutus shone pre-eminent be
lauae uicir images were not dlsplayed."
"Those who live In glass houses
should not throw stones," was said by
James 1. of England. when Ills favorite,
the duke of Buckingham, complained
that a mob had broken his
glass windows, which were at that
time a luxury.
"Mind your P's and Q's" is said
to have been taken from an old
French phrase at the time of Louts
XIV.
PERRY'S SHIP, THE NIAGARA
Commodore's Famous Old Flagship as
She Looks After Being Raised
From Lake Erie.
Fair-port, O.?Perry's old flagship,
the Niagara, rebuilt after having been
raised front tint buttom of Lake Erie
where she had rested for almost a century,
came through the storm which
buffeted and threatened to send her
to the bottom, victoriously, and with
the old watchword of Perry. "Don't
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Niagara, Perry's Flagship.
(Jive ?*p the Ship," flying from her
main spar, arrived at Kairport, O.,
towed by tiie U. S. training ships Wolverine
and Essex. In the mouth of the
Clrand river a big reception was held
and thousands inspected the old vessel.
Tfl crci/ ciikii/rm mriKMinr
iu oi_i_r\ oumr\ci>? incMdunc
Efforts Made to Recover Millions of
Wealth in the Navarino
Bay.
London.?A company ban just been
incorporated In London called the
Navarlno May Salvage company, to recover
the treasure In the May of Navarlno,
on the west coast of Greece,
where 63 Turkish and Egyptian ships
of war were sunk by the allied fleets
of England, France and Russia, la
1827.
Of these 63, 43 have been located
and buoyed, and as the water Is very
clear and no deeper thun 50 feet. It
la expected that a rich harvest will
be reaped. Many of the ships are
known to have gone down with specie
and Jewels on board, but aside
from that the guns and other things
which can be recovered wltbcut much
trouble have great value.
FIGHT PISTOL DUEL
AT A 60-MILE CLIP
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Mystery in Revolver Battle Which
Took Place Between Occupants
of Speeding Autos.
Hoip'wisrh. in.?Mystery surrounds j
t revolver battle which took place bef
PtMl the orrlltllllts of two ulimnHtlcr I
automobiles the other night, and the I
police are conducting a city-wide :
search for the participants in the affray.
It is believed that a kidnaping
might have been responsible for the
exciting chase.
Policeman George Jones was standing
at 100th street and Avenue E
when he heard the revolver shots
coming from Ewlng avenue, a block
away Two automobiles flashed by at
> speed of 00 miles an hour. The
llrst car contained two in mi and three
women and the second contained
three men Jones ran to Kwing avenue.
where spectators of the shooting
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Fired at the Pursuers.
said that just ns the first car reached
100th street ;i man in the front car
stood up nod flreil three shots at the
pursuers Some said that the tire was
returned by those in the rear car. hut
Jones declared lie heard only three
t shots.
Unfit ears continued at terrific
speed toward Chicago, and Jones tele
phoned 'o the South Chicago police
to have the 02nd street bridge swung
, open to prevent the autoniohilists
from proceeding further. The bridge
tender refused to open the draw, hut
stretched the chains across arid stopped
twenty automobiles. Jones was
unable to Identify any of these.
EEL DRAGS BOY INTO WATER
Fish Puts Lip Fight and Young Fiuherman
Only Is Saved by
F riend.
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Hastings on Hudson. N. V "Joe"
Williams, twelve years old. was at
tacked (lie other day by an eel when
fishing in the Hudson river. Williams
caught the eel Just hack of the head
He thought it was exhausted, hut the
eel was very much alive. It slapped
Its 'all around Williams' legs and
knocked him off his feet mid lie oml
the eel f*?l! into water three foot deep.
A companion of tiio fisherman managed
to got liim out of the water with
the eel's tail still around Williams'
right I?-g. The eel weighs f> yoimds.
Is :t feet long and 3 Inches in diameter
at the largest part.
BEANS COOKED BY LIGHTNING
Truck Farmer on Outskirts of ths
National Capital Almost OutSurbanks
Burbank.
Washington.? A farmer in Wash
ington's outskirts has rontrlhuted the j
latest aid to a reduced cost of living, j
lie is William Williams, a trucker,
who went out to gather some string !
hrans for the family table the other :
day Much to tils surprise, he dlscov- |
| ered that they were deliriously cook- [
ed He thought for a time that he '
had out-Burbanked Burbank, but a
little reflection divulged the reason.
In planting he had placed wires between
the poles, and during a recent
storm lightning struck the wires and
' cooked the beans.
Boy Slays Wolf In Fight.
Santa Fe, Kan.?In a fierce fight j
with a woir. nay Ward. aged twelve i
years. son of Charles Ward, was vietor
After a seven-mile chase he
seized the thigh bono of a dead animal
and battered the vicious beast to
death.
Beyond Her Income.
London Queen Mother Alexandra
Is sa'd to have been living beyond her
Income of $r?00.000 a year; has lost
in some speculative investments and
her atTairs had to be straightened out.
He Watched the Man.
New York.?Policeman Godfrey
tfchlett is minus a gold watch and
; chain Ho stayed on an elevated train
to watch a man and the man in leavi
ln? tho train copped tho valuables.
Knew the Call.
I Now York.?An attendant in the of,
flee of Deputy Police Commissioner
said "come seven" and seven policemen
charged with shooting craps in a
; dormitory lined up for a hearing.
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Twenty-one New Animals
MMM.
WASHINGTON.?Twenty-one new
animals have Just arrived nt the
National Zoological park in Washington
from (Jieza, Egypt, where they
were purchased by W. II. Blackbourne,
from Captain Stanley Flower,
director of the Government Zoological
park.
The shipment includes three Arabian
camels, two elephants of the
form that occurs it) the Sudan region,
three Hatnadryas baboons, two cheetahs.
three lemurs, three Circassian
goats and three Arabian, one Korin
and one dorcas gazelles. Nearly all
are representatives of species not before
included in the Washington zoo,
and the cheetahs will be the only animals
of this sort in the park.
Tlmr.. la nt -
- ? ? .... iii uni) uiie eiepliant.
a male from India, and as he
la some forty or fifty years old, the
two now members of thla family,
which are practically babies, will be
valuable accessions. One of the elephants
is about four years old and
Eleven Dogs and a Crow
WHKN the lire bell sounds nnd tho
engines and trucks go dashing
up the street, nearly always there will
be seen, running and barking before
the steeds, a playful and Intelligent
dog.
There aro 11 such mascots In the
local lire department, and they are
just about as proud as can be; for In
a day or two Tax Collector Rogers will
issuo to them, without cost, bright,
new, glittering tags. These dogs are
the most intelligent and best trained
canines In tho city. They are faithful
to their masters, and, needless to
say. the firemen love them.
There are Tom. and Rags, and Hell,
and Nell, and Jack, and Teddy, nnd
Hubbies, and .Nig. and Hillikin, and
Nell, and Minnie. Among the most
Interesting of these Is Jack, a blackand-white
bulldog, belonging to Engine
Company No. 7. in R street Northwest,
between Ninth nnd Tenth
streets. And Jack has a companion?
a black one, and a very strange one,
too- a crow, named Jerry.
Now, some persons would naturally
conclude that there was not much
peace in a place where a crow and a
bulldog were put together?that Is,
not until after some feathers had
cemo out and some crow had disappeared?but
such is not tho case at
No 7. Jack and Jerry are tho best
Takes His Vacation in
/this is th\
A ft KERN ribbon of grass edges each
Hldo of a double ear track up
Capitol bill way. There are big, leafy
trees that make shady spots for children
to play under, and always?nearly
always?there Is a breeze.
Every morning a man comes with a
splint rocker and a pipe and props |
himself under a treo. Ho gets there !
about the timo the birds are awake
and stays until a small boy comes and
takes him away. That means break- |
fust
As soon as that Is done with the
man Is hack under a tree with a morning
paper. And there, in the comfy !
coolness of crash trousers and a china j
silk shfrt with no collar and a leather
thong belt to keep himself together,:
he smokes and reads and talks with
? in>t;v?T Happens niong. until the j
small hoy who bosses him shows up <
at lunch time and pilots the way to
borne across the sire-t. All afternoon, I
This Limestone Lion Has
IT is surprising how many animals
you may discover If you hunt
them among the cornices and balustrades
of Washington houses.
A limestone lion snarls at you from
the front of 18.12 I street. It Is a big
three-story and basement house. The
porch entrance and the first story are
of limestone and the higher stories
of red brick, with limestone courses.
On the east side of the front a bay
window starts from the top of the
basement and extends up two stories.
Much of this bay window rests on
the lion's back. Perhaps that Is why
ho appears so fierce, for the window
Is an overload for a lion, moro reDowned
as a beast of heraldry than as
a beast of burden. That bay window
would be more than a load for a
mule, though brick makers and stone
dealers too often show a disposition
to make a mule haul enough brick and
stone In one load to build such a bay
window. The Hon rests his front paws
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for the Washington Zoo
Htands five feet six Inches, while the
other, the female, is six months
younger and is only about four and
one-half feet in height It is estimated
that they weigh about 700 and
900 pounds respectively, and yet the
cuii mil iuuiv une u pygmy oeside
the solo representative In the
park, which weighs In the neighborhood
of 11.000 pounds. African elephants
nre usually priced by dealers
at from $3,500 to $5,000 each, but
these cost considerably less, having
been bought from the government at
Gleza.
Arrangements for the housing of
the new arrivals has been under way
for some time at the Zoological Park.
Mr. Mack bourne, head keeper of
for some time at the Zoological park,
made a special trip abroad for the
purchase of these animals, say all
his charges are In good health, having
proved good sailors cn voyage.
From Boston the animals were
shipped, all of them boxed In strong
crates, except the camels, which were
forwarded loose. In stock cars, to
Washington.
The new additions will bring the
total number of animals or individuals
in the park to about 1,500, a
slight Increase over the number at
this time last year, although the total
number varies annually through the
death list of the Inmates.
Special Pets of Firemen
of friends, and play with each otaer
day after duy without ever getting
Into a scrap.
Jerry was presented to tho firemen
about a month ago by a friend, and la
now possibly three months old. Tho
crow's wtngH were clipped at first, but
now It Is unnecessary, for Jerrv Iotm
his homo, aiul hus no intention of leaving
unexpectedly. The bird does Just
about us It pleases; tiles around the
neighborhood, struts proudly up the
street, makes visits to the neighbors,
and plays with pigeons, cats, and dogs.
Hut alas! with all Its precoclousness.
the bird Is a kleptomaniac. The other
day one of tho firemen took off his
collar and necktie and laid them on the
window sill. Jerry came along, grabbed
the gaudy tie, and soared skyward.
Tho fireman has been looking for the
neckwear ever since. Nearly every
day the crow goes on plundering expeditions
In the neighborhood, seizing
any edibles he can lay claw to.
Rocker on Capitol Hill
until dinner, the man reads magazines
and smokes and dozes, and moves his
chair to a fresh shade-spot whenever
the sun gets around to him, and, once
in awhile, takes looks at the grass and
white clover and dropped oak loaves
through a magnifying lens.
In the evening he comes back to the
trees with a coat over his shirt and a
collar and tie. And a cigar. Later
on, his wife and the small boy come
over for a visit nnd the neighbors
drift out with chairs and camp stools,
while odds and ends of children play
all around. After they have laughed
and chattered the clock around to bedtime,
the wife and small son and the
neighbors and the babies drift back
to where they came from, but the man
stays on nnd on?until ho has the
night to himself. Tho sky full of stars
and tho bits of cool breezes, and the
silence, nnd tho dnrkness?streaked
now and then with whizzing cars.
What about it? Oh, nothing, only?
Tho man is taking his two-week vacation
with pay. Hefore this, he has
nlways gone to Atlantic City and come
home broke, and so dead tired from
ovorstrenuous efforts to enjoy himself
that ho couldn't got in working trim
for a month. This year he figured that
what he most wanted was a rest. Top
can't get rest at a seashoro resorta
24-Hour Steady Job
on the stone side of the entrance
staircase.
Tho writer has seen that overloaded
lion many times and always extends
his sympathy to him. He seems
always tc say that it is bad enough
for a self respecting lion to be cooped
up In a zoo as an exhibit for weak
mortals to gaze on, but to have a
steady Job. twenty-four hour*
holding up a atone bay window and
without even a chance that aome
mouse may gnaw him loose, la a ^
worse fate. 3B|
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