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i^v|ifJ(LE Successor to the Cheraw Reporter which was established July 9, 1885, and entered as Second Class matter at Cheraw, S. C. e ? tl J. N. STRICKLIN, 11 Editor and Manager. * Subscription Price $1.00 per year. Editor, Publisher and Business Mgr. * s d A counterfeit ten dollar bill as c ? . ~ - 1 1 rlofonf Wo tl anoat. oaia iu ue uaiu m have no fears on our part?don't handie that size denominations. a I" I b While it is true that some of the t( streets of the town are pretty rough tl because of the putting in of the water tl and sewer pipes, drivers of automo- ? hies ought not be allowed to take to a 1he sidewalks to avoid the rough places. a n Cheraw people are long suffering * o else they would not put up with the ^ telephone service they are now get-/ ting. There is an interesting story in connection with the telephone busi- I ness in Cheraw and just as soon as some papers, that are temporarily m splaced, pgfl be had The Chronicle is going to publish it. 1, Don't be a chump. Give your trade a to the merchants who keep store the A r v year around. Ally of the man who \ stands at your side at the tax collec- j tor's counter. Buy of the man who j is .your neighbor, your acquaintance, < your friend. Buy of the man who * is a factor in the town you live In, t who helps to make a market for the ( things you have to sell. Buy of the ^ home merchant that advertises in the newspaper and let the home printer do youCrjob printing. ~ 7"' Her Needs. He?"She has everything she needs to make her happy." She?"But it's fiie things she does not need that a v oman needs to make her happy."? Rochester Times. At Least the Majority. "I am an opportunist," said a defendant in the New York supreme court "I make money when I can." Come to think of it, the world seems to be populated exclusively by opportunists. IT = Beans, j Cabbage Cantaloup Watermel Fresh Just rt Eggs, Chickens ah Catawba G< Creamery E Guaran Stricklin's Phone 151 'REDICTS A TOOTHLESS AGE iritish Doctor Gives Out Opinion That Soft Foods Are Working Havoc With the Race. What our dentists have from time to Ime been saying has been at last takn up by a London doctor, namely, bat our teeth are less solidly set in be jaws than they should be for tho eason that civilization encourages us d eat soft foods. "Biting is becoming lost art," says this British doctor. The surest way to save your teeth rom extinction is to bite hard subtances. Growing young people of toay should be given a diet of hard bisuits and chop bones." He points out hat the jaws of today are narrower ban those of our ancestors?ana tnis pplles to America as well as to Britin?and that unless some changes are jade In our mode of life evolution will reed a race that will be practically oothless. He gives as the reason for be narrowing of the Jaws and that bey are less powerful that they are ot sufficiently exercised; tlMt we do ot use our teeth to crunch hard foods s did the early Britishers. He notes bat wisdom teeth, owing to the genral narrowness of the jaws, are cut t all manner of times, and tells of a lan of fifty-two who had just cut a risdom tooth owing to the removal of ther molars which at last allowed it 5 show itself above the gum. RVING WAS NOT ALL MIND inglish Actor One of the Moet Lovable of Men, According to Lifelong Associate, It has been said of Irving that he acked feeling, that he was all mind ,nd no heart. Speqkjng to me. Miss filled sai<!i "He is gentle, not ehdef;" the late Henry Labouchere rrote of hitn that "he was always actng." Greater errors could not have >een made. Wing knew enough of luman nature to know that It Is freluently selfish and in many ways Inlrm, and he realized that "there is 116 irt to Add the mind's construction in he fafte," but, essentially, he was one >f the most bring and lovable of men ?when ahd where he fully trusted. Id was singularly sensitive to klndibss, and any little token of rememjrance that reached him from a WlhdlrlHMft, if It wi?c6-eftly-?-triflfcs., is inconsiderable as a cravat or a :igar case?waa treasured br him vith a gratitude almost pathetic. But le did not "wear his heart upon his ileve," and he did not trust many >ersons. He had suffered much, and le was lonely to the last. He was vno nt tho mniit intnllpptual nersons hat ever trod the stage, but those vho knew him best could testify that lis sympathy was as wide as the videst experience of mankind and as leep as the deepest feelings of comlasslon and tenderness that ever lossessed the human heart.?William Vinter, in Collier's Weekly. >es, Ions shipment :ceived. vays on hand. em totter teed to please. Grocery Second Street PUT BEST FOOT FORWARD No Better Advice Can Be Given Than to Present a Brave Front to the Worid. If every pair for whom wedding belle are to ring this June would take to heart the thought that their private affaire are their own, not to be told to outsiders and not paraded to the world, they would Insure and safeguard their self-respect and the permanence of their home. The temptation may arise when first there Is a little friction to seek sympathy from mother, sister, or intimate friend. That temptation should be trampled under foot. Confidential friends are not invar riably to be trusted. With or without the best intentions the third party Intruding In the affairs of a married couple is In peril of making mischief. Make It a rule to -confide wholly without secrets or reserves In one another from the hour that you become husband and wife, and you will have little to fear, though the four winds should blow around your house. It will stand against any tempest and is -x? - a i 11 a prove luseii. inruug uuu uunuweu, your sanctuary awl your castle, If you confide in and defend your union. Never let a quarrel last over night. Present a brave front to the world. There Is common sense In the homely advice to put the best foot forward. GREAT NEED FOR LOVELINESS Commercialism ThreatenP to Destroy Much That la Beautiful In the World. In our terrible haste to p^ke a living nowadays we are apt to forget that it la even more important to keep life worth living. The desire for Wealth and for comfort; the forgetfulhess of beauty and art, Which began as symptoms of & purely American disease, are spreading rapidly over the world. Ruskin and Matthew Arnold only a Century ago expressed feari that America would vulgarise the world. Whether we have done it or not, at any rate it is to a great extent accomplished. Imagine a modern Mpas lonate pilgrim" who, reaching the far fat&fed, much sung Como and, raising the glance from the dome of the cathedral, finds in large black letters Across" the mountain* an advertisement of Tot?a digestive tablet?and of vermuth I There could be no finer work in the world today for women than to band themselves together Into a league for the preservation of loveliness. For you may take It as fact: all that is noblest and best In the human spirit, all that Is gentlest and strongest and bravest, feeds upon loveliness. How the Koreans Talk. A Korean convert committed to memory the Gospel of Matthew. When he was asked how he did it he FAnllori- "T hod rrent dlfflmiHv In making the text stick, but one day I decided that as I read It and tried to commit It by memory I should practice it verse by verse upon my neighbors, and I found that aa I practiced it somehow stuck." When a Korean wishes to know whether he should take his medicine before or after meals he says, "Shall I put this medicine under my rice or on top of it?" A Korean Sabbath school secretary in his report Instead of giving the average attendance gave the average absences. Such Is an Illustration of the difference between the Korean way of thinking and Bpeaking and ours.?Christian Intelligencer. Had No Right to Dodge. A witness in a civil damage suit over the breaking of a plate glass window in a German town testified that as he was passing down the street he saw a stone come whirling through the air and had just time to dodge it to avoid being hit The witness was questioned as to whether the stone that broke the window would have struck him had he not dodged it, and the magistrate held: "inasmuch as if the witness had not unfortunately ducked his head the glass would not have been struck bv the stone he is hereby adjudged responsible for the > breaking of the window and is ordered to pay to the owner the value of the same." Youthful Courtesyi Prof. William Howard Taft of Yale had a practical Illustration of personal popularity a few days ago. He was a passenger on a trolley car on his way to the golf llnis. It was not a "pay-as-you-enter" car, and when the conductor came within his reach the ex-presldent-professor offered his fare, which was rejected with the remark: "That's all right; a lad on the platform paid for you, Mr. President." For a moment Mr. Taft looked puzsled, but then he [ smiled broadly and evidently appreciated the courtesy. / PHILOSOPHY OF THE TATLER Remark? Wise and Otherwise That Nave a Bearing on Ufa as a Generality. Lovers may be divided Into two classes, amateurs and professionals; and loving is one of the few things the amateurs do better than the professionals. A woman will sometimes forgive a man for stealing a kiss from her, but she will never forgive him if he falls to return one she has given him of her own free wllL A woman who takes the downward path gets more attention than her sister because there are so manyi more men going her way. Some men fall for want of a woman and others through wants of a woman. We believe almost anyone who tells us that we're right, but no one but ourselves can convince us that we are wrong. Some girls make themselves out to be greater fools than they are by pretending to have refused chances they've never had. Human beings love warning other people, and other people love Ignoring warnings and being human beings. The good are seldom as good as they think themselves, and the bad are never aa naa as tne gooa uiiu& them. Some men borrow a flver, and behave forever after as If the only thing they owe you la a grudge. I WOMAN IN POLICE SERVICE Country la Slowly Realizing How Valuable She Is In That Kind of Woffc. One of the surprises of evolution has been the discovery that women have an appointed work waiting for them in the police service. The smashing aerision that used to find a special point of application in the Idea of "the woman policeman" is yielding, ginger, ly but rarely, to the realization that the country needs women as police rather more than the women need to be police officials. The realization seems to be a part of the general realization of the human Interest mixed up in the crlm' *l's case, the realization that you n't finish with that case by. merel#_ preh ending the^djnlnal and affixm^the thumb- serBSs?? and the further realization that the case may be one of many sides and one of two sexes. A desire to reach the case having followed upon the realization, it was perhaps inevitable that women should be available instruments of salvation. In Los Angeles, the "woman policeman" has been installed in response to a distinct need in the handling of woman and girl criminals. In Maryland, she has been applied to for official help to enforce the curfew law in an effective manner. In Chicago as matrons women have long been asslating in the problem of handling the criminal. Very recently these matrons have been placed in the rank of patrolmen, and their salaries have been increased from $1,000 to $1,400 a year. OWNS A SEAGIRT KINGDOM ' ^ ? M..I? A..?. iwarcnioneu ot uranam nuin v/m Nearly 5,000 Subjecta on laid of Arran. Arran, an interesting Scottish laland kingdom, is ruled over by a lady, the beautiful marchioness of Graham, wife of the eldest son and heir of the duke of Montrose. It was as Lady Mary Hamilton that the 'marchioness inherited this little mon! archy from her father, the late duke of Hamilton, whose only child she was. As sole owner of this seagirt kingdom, the marchioness rules wisely and well over loyal subjects numbering in all nearly 5,000, says the Wide World. The island, which Is some nineteen miles long and ten and a half broad, with an area of a hundred and sixtyeight square miles, has had a romantic history. Along the cliffs of the south coast there are several large caverns, one being known as ?? w -1 a tne Kings cave, were nou?n iuo Bruce Is said to have hidden himself, for some time, while it was from Brodick bay that Bruce sailed to Carrick on his expedition for the recovery of the crown. There are many i Interesting ruins, too, such as Loch. ranza castle, once the residence of , the Scots kings. Then there are the ; cairns, standing stones, and stone clri cles. A few years ago several stone I coffins were found in a cairn 200 feet i in circumference. Broderick castle, , tie owner's residence, is on the site [ of an old and historic structure, but it has been rebuilt within recent times in Scotch baron style. Situated upon the northwest shore of | Brodick bay, its position Is an excep> , tionally fine one. In 1902, when cruising in these waters, King Edward paid, a vlitlt to ttfe Cffiktfe. NOT IN THE LEAST ALARMED Colored Girl, Unused to Railroad Travel, Thought Accident Mara* ly the Regulir Mode. A writer relates the following Incident: A few years after the war he had occasion to visit Richmond with his family, and, living at the time in the county of Patrick, 50 miles from any railroad station, very few of the darkies in that county hall ever seea a railroad train. A nurse was a necessary part of the family equipage and he had secured the services of a coal-black specimen about fifteen years of age, who was as quick-witted as usual, but was as.veritable a Topsy as ever "growed." The party took the train at the nearest station and after a few hours' run a broken rail threw the train oft the track. Some of the cars made a revolution down an embankment and some were lodged on its incline at an angle of 45 degrees. Great consterna*tlon, of course, ensued. The men. were shouting and the women and ?*%(?%<? A Af* frrofl f uuuureu o^icauiuig. axict culty our party scrambled out of the coach on the steep Incline of the embankment. Finding no bones broken with the wife or little one, the writer,, who was surprised at the placid, undisturbed appearance of the nurse,, who, holding the baby In her arms,, looked upon the scene as If nothing; had happened, said: "Mllly, were you much frightened?** "No\ Bah," she said. "I thought It always stopped that way."?Harper's Magazine. ' Dogs on Menus, H ? The note of black In dinner table, decorations Is the dominating note oil this season's hospitality in Paris. One* finds In It dainty menus and name> cards, with a silhouette of the fashionable chow, Pomeranian, or pug; dog in jetblack adorning the top, and: these are seen on all the most fashionable dinner and luncheon tables in. Paris just now. Another new Idea, in table stationery is a menn card which shows a delicately colored silhouette top of * couple dancing the two-step, the turkey trot, and thebunny hug. New Ideas in name carda are to be noted in- some exquisitely dainty gilt baskets filled with miniature artificial flowers?rosebuds, violets, May blossoms, or^bnroses?set A in moss, with a caj?varlng the \ guests' name stand^^g} from - center of each. - 'wee Traveler's Measured John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was talking, on his trip home Crom Panama, about tips on ocean liners. "There is a fixed unit of tipping, $2.50?or, at least, there used to be," he said, "before everything went up; nnd mnot travelers eo above rather than below the unit. "Travelers, as a class, are generous., and at any rate I have no patience* with the stewards and waiters who complain. "A steward on an ocean liner onco said to me at'the end of a voyage: . " 'Mr. Blanc ain't worth much?I cam. tell that.' " 'How can you tell?* said L " 'Oh,' he answered, 'it's easy for us stewards to take a man's measure.' "T suppose,' said I, 'you meaaurs. him from tip to tlpf " SMALL VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE. According to Legal Decisions FewMen Need Have High Opinion of Themselves. That "human life is cheap" would' appear from a study undertaken by; a well known lawyer of the legal decisions handed down in this country with reference to the "eash value" of ' a man. It is estimated that at ten years, of age a boy of the laboring class Is worth $2,061,42; at fifteen, $4,263.46; -* a.,a tR ACS (W fmm which m LWCU LJ *u TC, fU|1UU|VU, ? WM? time the decline it steady, a man of seventy, by this legal decision scale, rating at only $17.13! By the same practical method of computation one eye Is worth $5,000; one leg, $15,000; two legs, $25,000; one arm. $10,000; one hand, $6,000; one finger, $1,500, and ? permanent disability, $25,000. This, It h is pointed out, Is merely an average at I! far as decisions have been examined. ' It should be added that the estimates of the value of a man's life are based upon an Idea not of hit value to himself, but of his value to the community. The figures in in dividual cases would vary greatly with reference to the fact whether or not the person's death caused hard- ship to others who were dependent upon him, t The value of a man to himself ls? It 1b further pointed out, unimportant after he It dead?from a legal point of view. His value to society at large cannot- be considered In a cash estimate, since that kind of value depends upon other than physical resources. His value to those who look, to him for support can alone be estimated, on, the. material aide. s