Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r 1 ?? Ifa? Ways of Club Women. The ways cf clubwomen differ from those of clubmen, and an illustration of this is supplied by a notice in the billiard-room in a ladies's club requesting members not to put cigarettes on the billiard-table. It reminds one of the notice in the South American Club requesting members not to -shoot the marker.?Vanity Fair. Work of a Girl Farmer. Miss Ada Glatfelter, 17 years old, bas just completed the task of planting thirty-five acres on the farm of her father. She is the daughter of the late A. H. Glatfelter, who was killed a short time ago by being caught in the wheels of a threshing machine. The only male member of ----- * i i I the family is a cnppieu uruuiei, anu the work of farming 150 acres was left to the young man and young woman. For the Debutante. A charming summer evening gown Tor the debutante has a tunic princess ?kirt of mull, with tiny tucks fitting the upper part of the figure. The two flounces have eyelet work and embroidery, and a band of embroidery finishes the upper edge of the corselet. The bodice is a dainty affair of the mull with three bertha-shaped ruffles, and ruffled sleeves, the low neck being finished -with insertion to match that on the skirt. Clubwomen Active. Georgia clubwomen are very active in educational work. They support three model schools in the rural districts and recently opened an industrial school. They also support an art-craft worker, Miss Lyon, who travels among the mountain people to teach the production of salable handwork. They have pushed the traveling and circulating library movement until it is said there is not a rural school in the state which has not some library facilities. The Consulting Dressmaker. We are all cognizant of women who -are simply without the feeling for dress. They are capable of wearing * monstrous chiffon picture hat with ? short tweed cycling skirt, or a motoring cap with a muslin frilly frock. "When young they wear the heavy mantles of age; when "getting on" they will take suddenly to the most ,fjrlish flipperies. They do their best selves an injustice. The consulting dressmaker is doing much to help women o? this type. French Taste. Whatever rumors there may be to the contrary, Paris still leads, and Is likely to lead, the world in all matters pertaining to fashions and feminine frivolities. True French taste is seldom bizarre and always effective?though, owing to atrocities mistitled "Parisienne," some English women have the mistaken idea that anything French is outre, whereas costly simplicity is the keynote of the Paris fashions, and one's eye is never offended with multitudinuous trimmings and colors, says Home Chat. True, many of the -colorblends are daring in the extreme, "but they are so skilfully arranged that the effect is never crude, but always, in fact, harmonious. Women Politicians in France. The prominent part taken in recent elections by women politicians would not surprise anybody in France, where there are three flourishing leagues of rfeminine -political enthusiasts, says a foreign exchange. There is the '"Lique Royaliste," presided over by the Marquise de MacMahon; there are also the "Lique des Femmes Francaises," and the "Lique Patriotique des Francaises," the last championed by the Baronne Rene Reile, granddaughter of the Marechal Soult, "et d'un temperament fle mmhat" in rnnsennence. Thev form local committees, distribute literature, organize campaigns, and so on. That the speeches sometimes contribute to the lighter side of electioneering may be gathered from the .poetic simile in one of the recent -open-air speeches, in which the fair speaker likened the woman who -offers the man a voting paper to Eve offering Adam the apple.?New York Globe. She's a. Four-Foot Pioneer. Dr. Mary Green, of Castile, N. Y., gave a dinner party recently in honor of Miss Mary Esther Benedict's 80th "birthday. Miss Benedict was born in East Henrietta, and was the eldest .child of Ezra and Lucy Brown Bene-dict. She has two sisters living, Miss ! Loomis, of Chicago, and Mrs. Warren of Castile. Her mother was over 90 years old when she died. Her father was only 4 feet 3 inches high. Miss Benedict is 4 feet in height and ! . ~ 1 weighs 100 pounds. When two years old she moved with her parents to Castile and has resided here ever since. She remembers the site of the village when it was a forest with several small houses. There were no streets, only footpaths from house to house. Sixty-five years ago she joined the Baptist church and has been an active member ever since. She sang in the choir nearly fifty years and taught a class in Sunday school. She was not known to be absent from church attendance in five years. Miss Benedict is in good physical health and showing in an unusual degree the preservation of mental faculties. Only by the calendar's record can Miss Benedict be associated with old age. Sue lives alone and rises at 5 o'clock every morning. She has a fine collection of plants and spends much time in caring for them.?Register Post-Express. Wall Papers and Nerves. There has lately been a suggestion that black wall paper might have a soothing effect on the nerves of those to whom the overgilding and decora tion of rooms has become an anathema, but it is more than doubtful that such sable surroundings would ever become popular. Our walls have more to do with our good spirits than many, people imagine, and I know of one instance recently where the head of a household, not very long a benedict, has taken an inveterate dislike to his abode. Though he is not aware of the fact, the aversion is no doubt inspired by the dining-room paper which he himself chose, over* riding the opinion of his wife, whoso achievements in regard to drawingroom and bedrooms were all marked successes. The dining-room, dark in aspect, to begin with, is papered in a dull, dark blue paper, artistic enough in its way, but not by any means conducive to hilarity, says Woman's Life. In London, sunless for so many months, we need all the light and simulation of sun obtainable, and many a wall paper is to be had which combines artistic feeling with cheerfulness. There are few things harder to choose successiuiiy tnan waii papers, so many things have to be considered. Fashion Notes. Silk muslins, some flowered, some with fancy weave and flowers are seen. The cotton taffeta checks make very pretty, inexpensive shirtwaist suits. They are mercerized. A beautiful ruche is made of white coque feathers and fringed box plaited cream white silk in alternate rows. Robes of white embroidery and lace, all ready to make up much cheaper than one could make them, are on sale. Some of them are charming. Some extremely pretty effects are made in point d'esprit and other nets, with little flounces piped with colored velvets and a band or sash to correspond. A long pair of white kid gloves, embroidered on the back of the hand in pastel shades in small flowers and some distance up a row of hemstitching and more flowers is very striking. There is a very handsome handbag in srreen enameled leather, having: a slender vine in gold running across the bottom, from which came flowers in purple enamel and green enameled leaves. A very charming dance frock for a young girl was made of painted muslin, the design pale yellow roses and foliage, and hemmed with soft ivory duchesse satin, the top finished with inch-wide kiltings, both of muslin and satin. A charming form of trimming, and one which should appeal to the econ-; omically-minded woman, is the piping with bands of satin or velvet. This form of decorations costs much more in time and skill than it does in money. An economical as well as effective fashion is that of providing muslin or voile skirts with a crossway hem of silk. This is generally about four inches deep, and may be headed by a tiny frill, either of the same or of the material composing the dress. It is several years since straight silk belting has been worn. The reason for the revival is ostensibly with snug little coats the belting defines the waist line trimly, yet not obtrusively. But the real reason is probably only that it has been "out of style" long enough to be new again. Odd makes of tussor silk and rough, wooly-faced satins promise to be among the early dress fabrics; and I do not think I have yet mentioned the curious zibelines, consisting of a rough shot or flake, on a very smooth surface. These in black are considered especially smart; also in purple, black and gray, though for summer they'll be a trifle warm. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. It is hard tt> down an upright citizen. No man ever shares the self-esteem of his neighbor. Thick tongues are responsible for a lot of thin ideas. Use your mind as a storehouse, but not as a junk shop. It's impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. A man may save money but he need not hope to be saved by money. Men have faith in what they believe only when they want to believe it. It's easy to be content with what we have; it's what we haven't that worries us. It isn't so much what others say about ycu as they way they say it that hurts. An ounce of confidence in yourself is better than a pound of confidence in others. Most men are better acquainted with Faith and Hope than they are with Charity. The man who attends to his own affairs has no time to laugh at the mistakes of others. After a girl gets to be about so old she tries to forget that she once wanted to marry a poet. Even a poet is able to distinguish between the fire of genius in his bosom and the gnawing of hunger in his stom! ach. It's a fortunate thing for the weaker i sex that the average man isn't more I than half as attractive as he thinks ! he is. Of course it's a disgrace to get rich by making others poorer, but the chap who is gathering in the coin looks at the matter through the other end of I the telescope.?Chicago News. TUBERCULOSIS AND MUMMIES. Dp. Sorgnac's Idea That Disterment Set Free Deadly Germs. "Egyptology versus Health" was the title of a monograph received at the headquarters of the Tuberculosis Institute of Chicago, in which it was alleged that the great spread of tuberculosis in Europe and America in the last one hundred years found its causation in the disinterment and shipment broadcast over the land of the mummies which had reposed so long in the tombs of tbe Pharaohs. The monograph was written by Dr. Rafafelle Sorgnac, one of the lecturers at the Sorbonne in Paris, who was an interested visitor at the recent tuberculosis exhibit in this city. "That the disinterred mummies started the spread of the tuberculosis germs in Egypt cannot be doubted," says Dr. Sorgnac in his monograph. "These germs live for thousands of CrOSS-tJAcHLHUCi, oava juawa iiuigo, auu it was a shrewd witness wlio could circumvent him. On one occasion at least, however, the laugh was turned on him by an innocently intended answer. He was cross-examining a witness in regard to certain hoof prints left by a horse in a sandy soil. "How large were the prints?" asked the learned counsel. "Were they as large as my hand?" holding up his hand for the witness to see. "Oh, no," said the witness honestly; "it was just an ordinary hoof." The examination was temporarily suspended till order could be secured in the Court room. Reversed. Chicago Girl?I understand that you attended the orchestra recital last evening. Weren't you deeply impressed with the delicacy and soulfulness of the leading 'cello soloist? Boston Girl?No; he was bum!? Somerville Journal. years, as has easily been proven, and the exhumation of the bodies, even the well-preserved ones, caused an epidemic of consumption among the workmen and scholars who first exhumed the cases. It is also well known that the keepers of the mummy cases have been subject to the disease. The start of tuberculosis in France in a serious sense may be traced to the great importation of mummies and mummy cases at the time of the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt, and this start gave the disease its first great foothold in Europe, whence it has spread all over the Western world. Dead bodies may not secrete the germs, but dead bodies are undoubtedly a favorite lodging place for the tubercular bacilli." A Cook's Contempt. The wife of a well-known navax officer in Washington recently advertised for a cook. Though the estabishment presided over by the officer's wife was in accord with their undisputed social position, yet it is by no means pretentious, for the naval man has no means aside from his salary. Consequently when one applicant for the position of oook announced to the wife that her price would be $50 a month she was told that such wages were out of the question. The cook, not deigning to notice the remark, went on at length to give her superior qualifications, touching especially on her ability to get up smart luncheons and dinners. Again the lady of the house said that she would not pay $50 for a cook. Seeing that her determination was unaltered the applicant for the place prepared to take her departure. As she was nearing the door she remarked, patronizingly: "I see! You are trying to live within your income'" An Unhappy Comparison. < Sir Charles Russell when he was practicing at the bar was a noted ? ? ? ? J*? ? ? T ? riM \T/^+ao nrl WAR ON FANATICS Holly Roller Gang Provokes the People of Seattle. .TO BE DRIVEN FROM CITY Recent Double Tragedy Leads Author* ities to Take Action?Erratic Esther Mitchell Glad She Killed Her Brother. In consequence of the recent killing of George Mitchell by his sister, Ethel, the authorities of Seattle, Washington, have resolved to drive the "Holy Rollers" from the city. The leader of the band in Seattle was Franz Edmund Creffield, who, although a married man and living with his wife, enticed Esther Mitchell from her home. It was to avenge his sister that George Mitchell shot and killed Creflield; when Mitchell wa brought to trial he was acquitted at a plea of temporary insanity. Esther Mitchell resented her brotk er's act; and she and Creifield's wid ow, with whom she was on the best of terms, decided upon revenge. It was agreed that the one who got the ! first opportunity should kill George Mitchell. The chance came to Esther in the waiting room of the union j depot in Seattle. George Mitchell I was going away, and his brothers, Perry and Fred, were there to see him off. Esther, who had refused up to that time to be reconciled to her brother, was invited to go to the depot and did so. Concealing her real feelings she shook hands with each of her brothers and chatted with them until traintima She walked be- ! ? . .. _? .11 _i.? r side George Mitcnen as tney an start- i ed for the train together, and as they j neared the door she stepped close | to his side, pressed a revolver against ! his head and fired. She had concealed ! the revolver in her coat. The girl says that the spirit of i her dead lover nrged her to kill her | brother. She says that it was blood atonement, and that the spirit of Creffield has not annoyed her since she killed her brother. Esther admits | that she and the widow of the "Holy j Roller" were in conspiracy to avenge I his death. "I am net insane," declared Esther i Mitchell, in discussing the affair. "Be- j | fore I killed my brother, Mrs. Creffield j | and myself talked it all over, and j [ we knew that we would be arrested j and the law would punisn us. "He," . coniinued Miss Mitchell, speaking of Creffield, 3rd in answer to a question, "was a holy man. My brother was of the world, and was [ defiled. It was right that he should ! be punished for what he did, and [ the law set bim free." Mrs. Creffield does not attempt to justify her part in the shooting on ! the'ground of religious training, nor does she insist that the Creffield influence is still alive. She was asked whether the spirit of Joshua had been j heard or whether she expected him to return to her but refused to answer. The "Holy Rpllers" got their name from the fact that they frequently roll on the ground when possessed of a religious ecstaey. The sect had its origin in central New York, that prolific mother of strange beliefs from which sprung the Mormons, the Shakers, the Oneida community and the Holy Order of Kneebenders. CZAR EXPECTS CIVIL WAR. Agrarian Question, Now Before the Dourra, Causes Wide Breach. A St Petersburg dispatch says: The adoption by the house of an address to the nation on the agrarian, it is feared, will precipitate the nar tion into civil war. All hope of a reconciliation is vanishing and the gov- | eminent is evidently preparing to take up the gauge of battle when it Is formally thrown down. MAY TIE UP PRINTER!E8. Chicago Allied Printing CouncH Joins Typos In Eight-Hour Fight. All of the printing establishments in Chicago promise to be tied up owing to the fact that the Allied Printing Council have decided to assist the i <fn4-ar= in f?nininer the eight-hour day, I JJiiUbVftW AM O --W for which thoy have been fighting several months. Bookbinders, pressmen, engravers and others are expected to join, and the probability is that the shops will be unable to operate, until an adjustment of the troubles has been aiy ranged. ROCKEFELLER COWING HOME. Oil Trust Magnate Sailed From Paris Friday to New York. John D. Rockefeller sailed from Paris Friday for New York on the Hamburg-American line steamer Amerika. He was accompanied by his physician and members of his family. Mr. Rockefeller declined to discuss the announcement of legal proceedings against him which are awaiting his arrival. RUSSELL SAGE NO MORE. I Grim Reaper at Last Claims Aged and Eccentric Multi-Millionaire of New York City. Russell Sage, aged multi-millionaire of New York City, died suddenly Sunday at his country home, ""Cedarcroft," at Lawrence, L. I. The immediate cause of death was heart failure resulting from a complication of diseases incident to old age. *!fiie veteran financier would have celebrated his ninetieth birthday on August 4. Mr. Sage had been in exceptionally good health since bis arrival at his summer home about six months ago. At noon Sunday he was seized with a sinking spell and collapsed, falling into unconsciousness about two hours before his death, which occurred at 4:20 o'clock. It is generally believed that Mr. Sage's vast interests will not be seriously affected by his death. Brief Sketch of His Life. Russell Sage, nestor of American financiers, was born on August 4, 1816, in Verona, Oneida County, New York, where his parents, Elisha and Pendence Sage, members of a little company of pioneers from Connecticut nad halted while on their westward march in quest of a homestead. At the age of 12 years Russell Saga began his career as an errand boy in the grocery store of his brother, Henry, in Troy. At the age of 22 ; he established a wholesale grocery of his own in that place. In 1857 the ! young merchant had acquired a fortune estimated at almost half a million dollars, a vast amount for those days, and determined to retire from active business life.. He had, however, j already Become interested in rail-1 roads, which he kept up through life, J bei$g at the time of his death an j | officer . and director in twenty-five j j great railway and telegraph corpora- j tions. An incident which startled the whale country occurred in Mr. Sage's office in the old Arcade building, No. 71 Broadway, on December 4, 1891. On that day he was visited by Henry P. J Norcross, of Boston, a man of. unbalanced mind, who demanded an immediate gift cf $1,200,000. When the demand was refused Norcross dropped a dynamite bomb upon the floor, the explosion of which decapitated 'Norcross, killed one of the clerks and wrecked the whole office. Mr. Sage was only slightly injured by the explosion. One clerk who was injured claimed that he was used as a shield by Mr. Sage, and brought suit to recover damages. Mr. Sage fought the case, but the clerk finally recovered damages. Mar.v stories are told of the eccen tricities of Mr/ Sage. He was re* puted to be a hard man to part from his money. He was never well dressed, and it is said that he always ordered the cheapest lunch possible. It has been said that Russell Sage and Hetty Green were the two hardest persons In the United States to get monet out of. Mr. Sage boasted that he .never took a vacation, and that he was always the first man at his office. ANOIHER BRYAN WELCOME To Be Pulled Off in Louisville-?Prominent Men Will Be Invited. William J. Bryan will be given a puhlic reception and welcome home by the democrats of Louisville, Jty., and the entire south soon after the New York celebration. A movement has been on foot for some tinw to make the reception a big event. John W. Vreeland, member ?of the democratic state central committee from the fifth district, has charge of the arrangements. It is hi3 iTi+onHrm tn Invit-o nil thA dpm/?>Plt3 in the south. The reception is to be held in the armory which will seat 17,000 people. Invitations will be extended to Senator J. W. Daniel, Senator Carmack, Senator Frazier, Governor Cox and Senator-elect Taylor of Tennessee, John Sharp Wiilliams, Senator Money and Governor Vardaman of Mississippi, Senator Morgan, Senator Pettus. Richmond P. Hobson and former Governor Johnson of Alabama, Hoke Smith, Clark Howell, ex-Governor Candler and Senator Bacon of Georgia, Senator Tillman and the governor of South Carolina, Senator Bailey; Senator Culberson and Governor Lanham and former Senator Mills of Texas, Governor Jefferson Davis, Senators Clark and Berry of Ala* ? ? ? J >? KAra AF Dama, [lie guveru^r <U1U uicuiu&io v? congress from North Carolina, Florida and Maryland and other prominent democrats. OPINION WELL EXPRESSED. By Georgia Legislator in Denunciation of Cigarettes. "1 had rather have my boy stronglimbed, clear-eyed, self-respecting and God-fearing in the chaingang than weak, weazly and shriveled-up from smoking cigarettes on the outside." The above statement was made amid applause upon the floor of the Georgia house of representatives by 1 Mr. Williams of Laurens during an earnest appeal in behalf of a meas- j ure to make it a misdemeanor for any \ minor to be detected smoking cigarette or with cigarette materials :n , his possession, except he disclose t>- J name of the person who furnished J j the same. I - : /y > A STEEL-LINED BLOUSE. Pound by Philadelphia Police in Probing Chinese Shooting. Complete verification of the statement that -members of the warring factions in Chinatown wear coats of mail to protect them from the bullets and knife thrusts of their enemies was found recently when the police in investigating the shooting of Willie Lee York, found an armored coat in the room of Lee Pock his alleged assailant. The coat is made after the ordi-~ nary style of a Chinaman's loose ^ blouse and is of blue jean or heavy drilling. On the body it looks like an ordinary laundryman's working blouse but when the police picked it up they found out differently. ' i The garment from hem to neck was * ^ padded with steel in the shape of i pieces about an inch and a half square. These do not lap like scales but are brought together, edge to edge, and held with loops of wire. That the metal-lined coat might conform to the body the pieces of steel were pound- ^ ed and made slightly concave. Across, the body of the garment back and front is apparently a seam, bat exam- .jr ination showed that the coat was^ made of double thickness in the lower ) portion, and underneath the apronlike flap in front there was a long pocket like a holster. The garment weighs all told about fifty pounds, and is about three-fourths . of an inch in thickness. It was turned over to Supt. Taylor and will be taken into court as an exhibit in the f case of Lee Pock who was 'held at hearing before Magistrate Gallagher to await the result of York's injuries ?Philadelphia itecora. The Hardest Blow. An artist who has attained fame ^ and an income was telling some friends of his early struggles. "I had f spent eight weeks on the picture," he 4c: said, "and had put my very soul into it, and we were penniless. My wife ;4 was hungry and in rags, the baby was sickiy, and I was discouraged. I ^ hawked that picture about town desperately, only to bring it home 'at ; night. No one would have it" "I suppose that was the hardest |sj blow of your life," suggested a sympathetic friend. "Oh, no, it wasn't either. I conM.:-^ Stand that. I knew I was right Bnfc.V^ next day I went out to answer every promising advertisement. The last y~* on the list read, 'Dish-washer "I felt secure of that, so saved It. for the last But w^ien I applied, the' 'greasy proprietor of the restaurant^: looked me over with a critical eye. 1^3 " *Ah, yes,' he said, 'and what experience as a dish-washer have you- m had?' "Of course I hadn't any, and would not take me. I've never forgiven him for that awful jolt to, wy I# pride." _ >. ; Getting HI# Rights. Mrs. Donovan had been recently wed to a "b'y from tome," ana rae^vfu proposed to have him promptly en- r, ' dowed with all the privileges .of his adopted land, which had been her 3^ home for about five months. On election day she took Terry Uri^S ly by the arm and led him to polls. She marched up to & poliee-4jH man who stood by the door, asii 4fy| jerked her prize, who seemed disposed to lag behind her, Into full i "This is Terry Donovan, me man," she said to the policeman, "and ^ phwat I want to know is phwattU I' do to have him made wan o* them* (indicating the voters) "an get his . J rights as an American citizen this day?" - V - ' J?1 BACK TO PULPIT 1 : What Food Did For a Clergyman. | A minister of Elizabethtown tells * liow Grape-Nuts food brought him"' back to his pulpit: "Some 5 years ago I had an attack of what seemed to be La Grippe, which left me in a complete state of collapse and I suf- ~ fered for some time with nervous prostration. My appetite failed, I lost flesh until I was a mere skeleton, . +a wio T 1 Acf Intor.-K . me wua a i/uiu^u iu x avw? ^jpt 7. est in everything and almost *in ; everybody save my precious wife. ' ., "Then on the recommendation of some friends I began the use of 7 Grape-Nuts food. At that time I was a miserable skeleton, without app+?-\ ^ tite and hardly able to walk acrosp .7 \? the room; had ugly dreams at night, no disposition to entertain or he ea-^p$j tertained and began to shun society. '-|j "I finally gave up the regular min- ;-|! istry, 'indeed I could not collect -my thoughts on any subject, and became almost a hermit. After I had been |p using the Grape-Nuts food for a short >time I discovered that I was taking. / on new life and my appetite began to 7* improve; I began to sleep better and my weight increased steadily; I had'7 % lost some 50 pounds, but under the new food regime I have regained almost my former weight and have 7 greatly improved in every way. ,7 *: "I feel that I owe much to Grape- , r Nuts and can truly recommend the C food to all who require a powerful rebuilding agent delicious to taste 7) and always welcome." Name given. ?7 by Postura Co., Battle Creek, Mich.%*/i A true natural road to regain health, 7 or hold it, is by use of a dish of urape-iNUis ana cream, iuurmng ana y night. Or have the food made into some of the many delicious dishes given in the little recipe book found ^ Ten days' trial of Grape-Nuts helps many. "There's a reason." Look in pkgs. for a copy of the ^ famous little book, "The Road to. ^ Wellville."