Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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L . . \ j'~ liiK i-'ALI. OF TliK OAK. ] Wi'i f-.-o:.* waje*tie o'er hi* fellow* lifted. j Three hundred years he watched the I dawn coiup h\ Turn Hs iong lam-es on the night-mists j ?tr:fled. Ami ?'Oj:e bv slope tlie world to daylight j ' win. j Tro jraunl gray figure at its vitals striking j Seems but an infant to the ancient tree j Whoso youth looked down on grandsons o! i the VikJii'sr And rough newcomers from an unknown sea. * He saw YVinonah's wigawms careless j pi nsler Where now the corn-shocks camp in ordered file*. And heard low thunders of the bisons' muster Where clouds of sheep now fleck the fertile miles. , Much. much has passed him down the ages j ranging. Old names of men. old towns and States and wars? The fields, the ways, the very earth went changing? He only stood?he and the steadfast stars. And now. alas.' low. fr>w behind him wheeling Sinks the red sun he shall not see go down. And his own crest, in strangest ruin reelis ir,?> Droops not the slowlier for its long venown. The woods look on in silent grief attend" The winds no mourning make around his stemToo weak their wailing for a giant's ending? The oak's own downfall is his requiem. And now begins: his great heart-strings are breaking: His branches tremble; now his mighty head He stoops, and then, the hillside round him shaking. "With whirlwind roar falls crashing prone and dead. And watched afar by many a frowning column The woodman homeward moves while shadows run. And leaves behind him in the twilight solemn Three hundred years" of life and work undone. ?William Hervey Woods, in Serifcner's. v min K f ' WMIV 1 | | Birds of a | I J Feather. | |; vy P. v/'My dear Everard, it's perfectly preposterous.", The Duchess of IIlingstown sighed and leaned back in her chair. "I cannot think what the world is coming to, or what the poor Duke would have said." The Dowager Duchess of Illingstown had only lately come over from lllingstown, where she had spent the last few years in strict retirement on her Irish property after the old Duke's death, when her son, the , present Duke of lllingstown, had married. The Dowager Duchess had made the excuse of widowhood a rea , son for her seclusion. Now, however, the young Duchess having been very ill, she had consented to come and stay with her three little grandchildren while her son had taken his fe.- wife abroad. The Dowager Duchess, a great and dear friend of my mother's, was oldfashioned in her views, and belonged to that nobler school of dignity and gentlehood that one sometimes fears is becoming extinct?not that there is any real need for fear, as it is, of cpurse, only the blatant and vul gar few who apparently submerge the more retiring and refined of their sex. It was a matter of horror and amazement to the Dowager Ducliess to find that several-of her younger relations had either opened or gone into shops, and it was this discovery which had elicited her angry remarks j to me. } "So many people are in trade nowadays," I murmured, apologetically. "Certainly?why not?" said the Dowager Duchess calmly; "but they should not expect to be in society, too." "But they are," I murmured. . "They were not in my day," said the Duchess stiffly; "and the way they tout for work is absolutely scandalous. Just look at this bundle of letters. Here is Sophie actually ask ing me to go to her shop and buy a bonnet, and Edward asking me to buy milk from his dairy?and the worst of it is that several of the letters have been sent to the housekeeper. I felt positively ashamed of some of my relations?just look at this!" She handed me another letter. It was from Lord Ernest Illingsworth saying he had bought the "Fresh , Rosebud" laundry, and hoped his great-aunt would give him a turn. "What an expression," sighed the Duchess?then she smiled a sour but - J T +>,,*.,1, I'll rr5-../v ti2>ililiC uui x j. n toi,^ them all a turn, my dear Everard; those sort of people want showing their' place. Just make a complete list of them for me, and put the different businesses under each of their names." She rose with dignity, and turned toward the door. "By the way, will you lunch with me on Thursday at 1 o'clock? Good-day, my dear hoy," and, smiling, she dismissed me and slowly ascended the great staircase, her head erect, and her figure as upright as ever, in spite ef her age. It was 12.35 when i presented myself the following week at Illingstown House. 1 was shown into a email sitting-room, and the Dowager Wuchess received me with an air or \ V VPfSfti' -w . ;../ v'' : ! ceremony that, alas! Is becoming rarer every d2y. "Mot do yon Jc. Everarv?a fine day?sit here." She waved me to a sear. "I am giving a party tc-day to some poor people?we will see them after luncheon." The Duchess's philanthropy was a byword on her Irish estates, but I wondered how the innovation would suit the younger Duchess' retinue of servants: what they would think of having the lower classes at lllingsI town House. The Duchess was in high good huj mor, and had momentarily forgotten i even her anger against the wayward j doings of the modern generation. I highly cultured woman, she entertained me with many pungent remarks on matters of moment, and it was with regret that I arose at her intimation that it was 2 o'clock, and her party of people must have arrived. I am not very good at philanthropical entertainments. The Dowager Duchess led the way to one of the smaller drawing-rooms, and as the footman flung open the | door, in my amazement I almost fell I over the Duchess, for there before | me, looking almost as astonished as i I, were Lady Sophia Verulem, Lord | Ernest Illingstown, Sir Edward Erj ington and several other of the Difchess' relations, and standing confused and awkwardly about the room were a great many extremely ill-assorted and strangely attired people. My aunt, greeting no one in particular, bowed graciously to all, and stepping slowly forward, went up to Lady Sophie first. "How do you do, my dear Sophie? this is Mr. Banks," the Duchess turned to a short, fat, red-faced man. "You doubtless know my niece, Mr. Banks," she continued, "for her shop I believe, is in your street?hats, you sell, do you not, my dear Sophie, or is it milk?"?she paused?"Lady Sophie Veruiem?Mr. Banks, my greengrocer." From one to another the Duchess moved to her different guests, the footmen standing motionless and expressionless by the door. Apparently unaware that we were all petrified, the Duchess graciously introduced her ill-assorted party, and then she turned for a moment to me: "Are you coming out with me. Everard? then let us go." And once more she turned to Lady Sophie Veruiem. "You will look after your friends for me, my dear Sophie; I am obliged to go out, but you can show them the pictures, and I dare , say they would like to see the miniatures." She bowed and slowly left the room and. crossing the hall, stepped into the landau and signed to me to follow her. "I hope my guests will have a pleasant time," she said, as we turned into the Park; "there is so much art, my dear Everard, in mixing the right sort of people. But, you see, being altogether in trade, they will have so many interests in common."?R. Neish, in London Daily Mail. NO MILLIONAIRES IN ALASKA. Governor Hoggatt Has Never Met Any in the Territory. An interesting visitor in Washington at this time is Wilford B. Hoggatt, for seventeen years an officer in the United States Navy, and since last spring Governor of Alaska. He is here to submit to the Secretaries | of War and Interior reports of the I northernmost Territory, and will lay I before committees of Congress such information about Alaska as they I may wisn. Governor Hoggatt, while I unwilling to discuss in advance the recommendations contained in his reports, was willing to say something to-day about the weather of the Territory he governs. "In all of Alaska,." he said, "there is not a millionaire nor a semi-millionaire; in fact, I do not know of any man who is worth $250,000. The stories of fabulous sums made there in placer mining have been exaggerated. Money was made, to be sure, but when they n?ade it, most of them left the Territory to invest or spend it in the United States. The Klondike region had 50,000 people in it five years ago, to-day it has only 7000. In Alaska $20,000,000 in gold was taken out this year, as compared to $14,000,000 last year. But this does not mean that any man is becoming a mining king. The Territory is a pleasant, healthful place to live, and it has opportunities; but it has no greater opportunities than are to be found in the States. "Though there are more than five men to every woman, ac in all new countries, we have a social life which is up to the average. Copper mining '' ? ^/v,"r./? lacf" VPSV IS UC1115 r tiujjk.u 1 u^iu>/ 1 >uw? j we turned out $500,000 of it; this year $2,000,000. With the extension of railway lines up into the copper territory, which is 400 miles long and fifty miles wide, the output will be enhanced, as the Alaska copper fields are said to be among the most valuable in the world. Coal mining is another industry that is developing rapidly."?W ashington correspondence Boston Transcript. Farm Life. The cry of "back to the farm" which is heard on all sides these days, sounds good enough to us, and is bound to have a salutary effect. Farm life is the most independent existence^.; and the wholesome sentiments whicbf sprung from the freedom of life out of doors are the strongest safeguards of a democratic government.?Chipley Banner. . Count Eoni de Cast.cllane has been offered $10,000 a year by a New York restaurant keeper if ho will ; come to this country and bsconie head I waiter in the restaurant. " / ? *&ri y^rST. *,? V' ~ ... f?? *' .. . - , ..,- - .. c:'4 \- "' The Benefits. We have several times, when talking -with would-be settlers, made the remark that it would be better to pay a good price for land within a short distance of a railroad station or wharf on river or other navigable waters, than to take just as good land, two or three miles away, as a fr?e gift, writes the editor of the Florida Agriculturist. We are still of the same opinion, unless there is a aood hard road on which a load cai I be hauled. The following from the TimesUnion gives another editor's view of . the matter: Florida's two greatest needs are good roads and immigrants. Good roads would do much to secure immigrants, and the class that would be most influenced by them is the very best. An ignorant, thoughtless man will not appreciate the difference that hard roads make in the value of property. The wideawake, progressive man understands the difference-, We have railroads all through Florida, but a vast amount of energy is wanted or time, valuable in money, lost in getting products to the railway stations. It is safe to say that if the farmers would make a careful estimate of the time consumed in hauling their products to the railroads or in hauling their supplies from them they would find that this costs them as much as their railway transportation. With good roads it would not cost half so much. Suppose some measure were before the people of Florida that would save them half the cost of transportation both ways. They would work for its accomplishment. They would spend much more money for it than it would cost to cover the State with a network of good roads. The producer who is far from a railroad cannot compete with one who is near. It would cost less to haul products ten miles over a hard road than five miles over one deep in sand. The effect of good roads then would he to practically bring each man nearer to town?nearer to his shipping point. One million dollars a year could profitably be spent in Florida in making permanent roads in addition to the repair work done. New Im{flement For Read Making. A patent was granted to William L. Baker for a machine for improving gravel and dirt roads. This machine is destined, it is said, to revolutionize road making in this country. An effort is being made in the rural districts to induce farmers to improve the roads along their own premises without charging their time to the township. When this is done there will be good roads, as it is possible for every mile of road in the State to be improved in one week if all use the drag. It is said that the township trustees are willing to furnish this simple machine in sufficient quantities for all, if the people will agree to use them. As they are used when t"*e roads are wet, the farmer can improve the road at a time when he could do nothing else. The drag is said to work equally well on clay, gumbo, sand or gravel. This machine costs but a trifle, fifteen dollars, and it will practically last for years. The process of making an improved surface on a road by dragging is not new, as it has been tried and found an admirable plan,.but this machine i<5 npw and. no doubt, solves the problem of good roads for the future. Something must be done if the people would retain their rural mail delivery, and the rural carriers who are traveling a million miles a day on the rural routes think that Mr. Baker has solved the problem. Good roads are one of the inventor's fads.?Indian* apolis News. Why Try to Deceive? Never before has there been such a general cry from one end of the country to the other for the betterment of the road, and in all of this agitation for improvement the automobilist unavoidably is a prominent factor. Once upon a time it might have been good policy for the autoist to keep in the background in good roads agitation, for his activity then jnay have offended the farmer, who now is coming to a realization that good roads are more than worth while, no matter who is resposible for their building. Furthermore, this same farmer is beginning to look upon the autoist as an ally and not as an enemy in securing something which is mutually beneficial.?The Automobile. Illustrating Interdependence. Road commissions and highway officials iii several States are in communication with the Postoffice Department' on the subject of better country roads. The rural carriers assist<the State authorities by reporting the kind and condition of roads on their routes, the materials used, the materials available, and other information. This' illustrates 'interdependence of public improvements and of the authorities whose duty it is to promote them.?Youth's Companion. i /' '* * ' : V-'-,' r,.-' J'1*'" ' B WMW? ??????? > Ai rffc l?i !* A at I Palmetto State If ewsj r T V f f M' < Negro Reformatory Burned. The Jenkins reformatory farm building lor negroes at Ladsons was burned to tho ground a low days ago. All ihc children were saved. The loss is about $2,000. The inmates are now homeless 1 ' 9 * '* Work on Court House Under Way. Contractor George W. Waring cf Columbia. S. C., who has teen awarded the contract for Newoerry county s new .$45,000 court house, lias put a large force of laborers to work on the job. This court house, when completed, will be one of the handsomest buildings ot its kind in the state. * * Will Act Independently. South Carolina Sea "sland cotton planters at a recent meeting in Cbaileston decided not to enter the Valdosta Long Staple Association. They will meet May 2 for the South Carolina Association with the object of keeping seed at home and controlling prices. * * Negro Confesses to Assault. Nathan McCleary has been lodged in the South Carolina penitentiary at Columbia, having been brought from r-> _ 1 ,~-U A W naitri?il opw.;ai jwijuij i.y. | Wiggins of Dillon by order of Governor Ansel. He will remain in Co-1 lumbia for safekeeping. McCIeary made a confession to Mr. A. J. Betliea, the governor's private secretary, at the penitentiary, of having attempted the assault upon Miss Pittman, the Marion county school teacher. He talks of implicating oth-* er negroes in the crime. ? * * Interpreter Skipped Out. Leon Goldburg. a native of Austria, but recently of Canada, who has been acting as interpreter for many cf the immigrants now in Columbia, is a fugitive from justice, it is claimed, under charges preferred against him by an immigrant girl, about 12 years of age. Accoiding to the story told the immigration department, Goldburg has been conducting a boarding house on Main street and took advantage ot the girl's age and fright to*accomplish his design. As soon as the matter was repoited Goldburg is said to have left the city, and the police and sheriff have telegraphed all of tne surrounding towns to be on the watch * i i ? id mm. > * * t Navai Dry Dock Completed. The contract on the Charleston navy yard dry dock was completed a lew clays ago, when the last stone in ihe basin was laid by the N^w York Continental Jewel Filtration company. The* dock was begun m Novenicer, 1902. The first stone was laid in March, lf-05. There are 10,000 stones, weighing 19,000 tons, in the do<?k. 1 Sixty-threo thousand yards of concrete was used and the extreme lengt.i ?? the dock if. 603 feet; width 80 feet, depth 42, capacity roughly estimated at 25,000,000 gallons, and cost a million and a quarter dollars. The dock will nut have the approaches completed and receive ships 1 within twelve months yet. * * 1 Due West Railroad Organized. , The Dae West and Doualds Itail- ' vend oonmanv has been organised at Due Wast with a capital sleek of $23. J (iff. The object Of this 30iiipany is tc ^ bin Id a spur of track from Doualls tc Due West, a distanoa of four n-iles, joining :he Southern railroad at tlio ^ former place. v The people of the section, realizing the need of such a line, and after ' vainly endeavoring to interest either ] the Southern or the Seaboard Air Line ! in such a project, organized this in- ' dependent company. The company ex- . poets to install an up-to-date system. They are going to run auto cars in connection with the regular passenger and freight service. The lint) was surveyed some time 1 ago by T. C. Anderson of GreenviJie, and the contract lor grading has been let tc W. O. Willard of -Liberty, who : has already commenced work. This J contract calls for the grading to be ' done by April the 20th and Willaid i? pushing the work with all rapidity. ' As the route is Comparatively level it will not take the contractor long to 1 finish this part of the work. As the ' company hopes to have its line m operation by June they are urging the work on with all forced. ** # McLaurin Boosts Roosevelt. A Washing! m dispatch, in part, is as follows: Ex-Senator John L. McLaurin. of South Carolina is the latest advocate of a third term for President Roosevelt. He has securely lashed himself to the thirl term- chariot. Senator McLaurin is overwhelmed with the idea of the appropriateness zi the suggestion of President Rocse O v -' . ' - _ ' veit as the candidate of the democrats. He thinks it would be too sweet for anything, out he declared that he thought it "too wise a suggestion ever to be adopted by the democratic party." Nevertheless he; pledges his personal support to the man whom he declares, in the fervor of his enthusi asm, "God Almighty has raised Theodore Roosevelt up to perform a great work." Senator McLaurin called at the white house to notify the president that he had been nominated for .. a third term. He made no effort to conceal his enthusiasm. It was outsppken. overwhelming, beyond all mete;j and bound and the power of control. "In my opinion President Roosevelt is the greatest man who has ever occupied the white house/' was the modest tribute paid by Senator MeIaurin. 'The people should disregard all party lines and renominate him for a third term He was honest and sincere when he issued the statement on mection night in 1901 that he would not accept the renomination, and I fear he will be too honest to disregard his pledge to the people.'' RAIL MAGNATES BALK. They Decide at Meeting in New York to Call Off Proposed Conference With President Roosevelt. Messrs. McCrea, Mellem, Hughitt and Newman, the four railroad pres laents lor wnose visit to me wnite house J. Pierpont Morgan arranged before his departure for Europe, met in New York Friday, canvassed the sii nation aud decided not to go to Washii.gton. It is understood that the* four gentlemen involved did not feel that they had any proper mandate from the railroad corporations to represent them. They feJt they cculd rot assume the position of a selfconstituted committee to formulate or represent the views of the hundreds of railroad companies owned by millions of shareholders. They recognized that the railroad managers of th3 United States are not themselves in perfect accord, and that until seme method could be adopted for securing a consensus of opinion, a visit to the president would be idle. At the conclusion of the conference the various presidents left for their homes. Thomas F. Ryan, when asked his cpinion about the. meeting, arranged by Mr. Morgan, said: "I nelieve that if Mr. Morgan's visit to the president is followed up as ii should be by all of our business Interests, if will dc much good. "I also believe that the president's lttiinde toward corporations is mueh misunderstood by the general public. It is unfair to assume that it is hl3 desire to hamper the business interests of the country. I am, however, convinced that he purposes to enforce the laws as he finds them upon the statute books, and I think the sooner the business interests of the country conclude tc aid the president in solving the problems that confront him every day, the sooner confidence v.-?ll be restored and the business of the country move on without inter' ruptiou. So far as Iho general business is concerned the only fault to be found with if is that it is too active " m " MULE WAS CASUS BELLI. Honduras and Nicaragua Started War Over Trivial /ffair. One mule, a mule belonging to Seaor Jreno Salgado, was the chief ODect of dispute between Nicaragua nrd Honduras when they began the quard which finally ended in the war that is threatening the peace of ali rentral America, according to the official communications exchanged by the ministers of foreign affairs for the two republics, copies of xwhich lav? been received in Washington. The controversy began when Seqoi Augusta Coella, the Honduran minister for foreign affairs, wrote a cole to Senor Jose D Gomez, the/ Nicaraguan minister for foreign, afi , Tairs. on January 26, protesting against the theft i:l a mule by thirtyfive Nicaraguan cavalrymen, who were charged with entering Honduran territory. OVERWHELMED WITH WORK. Commerce Commission Wiil Confine Hearings to Washington. The work of the interstate commerce commission nas grown so i : J ^ J 1;^ Heavy th.it IZ ha-3 Deen uetmcu w uis- jt continue the hearings which have been conducted by memoers of the commission outside of Washington. Hereafter, when it is found necessary in conduct investigations in other cities, special agents will take the testimony and report to the commission. HOME RUs-E IS DEMANDED. Porto Rico House of Delegates Declares for Self-Govemment. The Porto Rican house of delegates at San Juan has adopted a resolution demanding s<if-government icr Porto Jcico.' The resolution, which is to he forwarded to President Roosevelt, is to be printed in several languages ar.d mailed to foreign countries for distribution there. i AOVIGE BY FINLEY President of Southern Makes Speech at Banquet; ~ , ? APPEALS FOR HARMONY 4 ' ' Says People and tne Railroad* Should Come to a Better Under* standing and Just Dealing Be Fostered. , -; ~ % . ' y* An appeal to all southerners to sU'Ud by ?he railroads for the sake 01 'he development of the south, war* made Friday uignt by W. W. Finiey. president of the Southern railway, at /j A business banquet tendered him in Nev Orleans. He said, in part: ?' "If railways of the south kro to be brought up to the standard require! by the expanding business of south- -i\ em communities the pe<ple of ;he ' south must be actuated by the same spirit of co-c juration they showed* in the early days of railway .building, when communities vied with each ether in offering inducements for construction. The day for governmental and municipal financial aki for railway lines has passed, and that many >. millions of dollars that will be required for additional track capacity . .* and terminal facilities must be ob- . J lained from private investors. This money cannot be ^ipplied in any great '}% amount from the earning of the | roads. The greater part oi the money must be borrowed- * Identified during most of my bust ness career with railways of the M south, 1 know the resources of ita ^ railways will be taxed to the utmost vi|< to provide the additional facilitiesthat will be required. The provision? /n i/\n o A AAwliAflf nAO ' Ui. uircr at uic triWe date is of incalculably more v -,| importance to the souths than any possible rate reduction or any proposition to penalize roads for fiiikue ^ to perform, services which are- bevcncl their present capacity. ' -'-iijwH "1 believe that it is to the interest of the railway and the people that a spirit of harmony and just dealings : l/-| be fostered. I believe that in the prescnt state of affairs, it is the patriotic duly of every man. whether connect- \s2g ed with a railway or not, to contriD- ^jjj ute his utmost towards bringing about these better relations." Mr. Finley unqualifiedly-urged the, ','-'^1 development of Mexican, Central affijpMB South An'eric an trade by southern ;<T.^ communities with their down* grade transportation lines tc the ?ulf. ' BOTH FIRE AND FLOOD . Harris Pittsturg and Qaise Fropprty ^ Loss of $200,000. ' '~-M Fire in Pittsburg destroyed ;dhe >|3 plant of the American Sheet and Tint v|? Plate company and slightly damaged ,-||? the bolt works of the Oliver Iroh andi Steel works, adjoining. The loss to ho tin plate company was about 000 and to the Oliver company $1,000. The fire originated from a car ot liiae, which was set on fire by the / g niga waier. Four business bouses and fifteen residences have been outned. Jto; the ' ground in the Mount Washington dis- - M trict, or twenty-seventh ward, acrossthe Monongahela river. T*vo attempts were made to stop the flames by dyn&~ i ?jgj| miting adjacent buildings, ,but the wreckage caught fire. " ''.o||S The firo practically burned itself out at noon. Insurance men est! mater .;J| the loss at $200,000. Twenty-five business / houses and-; % dwellings were destroyed or nadly*oamaged. BRYAN SPEAKS IN BOSTON, i - ^ Given Ovation at Banquet by Demo* *crats of Massachusetts. s William Jennirgs Bryan was the guest Friday of the democratic stale committee of Masaschusetts and at & banquet in Boston delivered an ad* dmco . 4n TirNirVi Via tnn/itirKl All VJfJ. ui IJU nuivu uv ivuv?*vu w*. ? % ?, - JS ous points ol democratic doctrine ' vhich he declared had been vindicate ed by recent events. - - ~ _____ 8HAW WILL* BUY BONDS. Ready to Turn Loose $25,000,000 for Government Fours. v S.' Secretary of tbs Treasury Shaw has modified his offer of December, 10,-;' Ui ana will now accept $25.UCO,OOo ofv..> United States fours of lf-07 at if)i 1-2 < for . both registered and coapcu. The notice states th;it holders of the bonds : r. desiring to avail themselves - of > this, nj opporttinity to sell their bonds to the ^al government should forwrj.i theiu to t'ne secretary of the treasury, division of loans and cui-fericy. ELEVEN MINERS LOo? LtFE In Frightful Gas Explosion "Whitf* Occurred in- Virginia Pit. An explosion occurred at -.he mluea- ^ at Greenough, Va., Saturday, "after v\| several miners had entered their working places. " JSleven are known co? be dead and three others re-piss- . 5 ing. The explosion occmTed l#50ff feet, "|| below the surface-and is* said; to: have;, VC| been due to inefficient work of thd. ^ 55S nine fan which allowed the gas to ac~ t . . ' *'9 cum j ate. ' . . ? - * * %< - : ' ' ''