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EppFiiNT, Mich., Jan. 9.?Going to bed with the advent of rigorous Sg^yeather late in the fall and remaining there until the temperature moderates in the spring has been the \ voluntary and peculiar practice of sB&i&ter O'Connor, an old resident of i, for the last thirty years, nor. is 87 years old and is home with a nephew. He renounced aversion to cold and at present is observing d custom of spending the nsconced in blankets on a cot vithin a few feet of a stove i -a fire is constantly kept tair New York Letter. prize fighters or others in ntests, survive and revive er a ''knockout" blow, kelton Williams, the wizard ad circles, has proven one of that know no such word as and out for good." The as, in the early days of the [ Air Line, a director of one begral roads, and his associai John Skelton Williams then xx give some facts of inters' this time, limited though st be because of lack of said of Williams that as a an, clerk * in his father's Richmond, that he was eclad few associates, walked t.afone,. always absorbed in ight or in his work. His swinging gait and manner Iuie impression uiat nc ds in his head." So he >t the wheels commonly in the above expression is ut car wheels, railroad systems, bonds, millions, arking in the bank, he article on recuscitating ailroad properties, many ingin a bad way finans article was read by some >wners of a bankrupt road ith, and they immediately hat if anything could be euscitate, the author of was the man to do it. illiams assumed charge, nly on its feet, but pulled lying basis. From then roperties were secured, maging all with the same result, and ere long John Hams' name was on every e as the railroad king of The great Seaboard Air e product of his brain; : a slight slip, likewise [lie & Nashville would 1 his hands. As a railte, financier, milHonaire, >n became as well known >uth,~ and his fame exEurope. . Ryan, a foe of old, tided in "downing" him in )f the Seaboard Air Line, ses to stay down, and toically master of the, sitt. The Seaboard passed ds of receivers last week, h is Williams' brother, tory of this system if all would include some striking features in this lancial world, ton Williams was^ presiilroad at twenty six, and !ter mingling as a peer rpont' Morgan, Thomas asr-'MT Kvan ann Edward H. Harriman. The Seaboard Air Line is over ?|? 3,000 miles long, skirting the Atlanseaboard from Washington to fe.Tampa% darting westward in two ^ long divisions to Birmingham and 'fe Montgomery, and gridironing with sprits branches the States of Virginia, |!Uf|iorth Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Whip Hams has been the chief factor in the Seaboard's career in the past and will be for the future. As some one has said, "he was the man of imagination who saw in the little bankrupt Southern road, that began nowhere and ended nowhere, the great |, system of today and the still greater system of tomorrow." He was also i / the man of action who made the *} ;- dream a reality. Control of this great line was wrested from him, but the present condition of affairs shows the need of Williams at the helm again, and will be the happy r termination of the complex condi' % tions they now have the road in. Williams is a picturesque fighter; v ' he has never let up on Ryan and never will until he is given the con; trol his great faculties fit him for. C The appointment of the receivers is looked upon as a victory for Wil) - . liams. H. W. Finlayson, 450 Broadway, New York. The five "yeggmen" arrested in Lancaster county last week are still being held. Post office inspectors have visited Lancaster, and it ap*V x --tf j-i -i pears mat some ox mew at ic<?o <uc old offenders. The Whirling Dervishes. Those spirits on the hunt for "sensations" in Constantinople will wish to "take in" the dervishes. The whirling clan have a convenient convent on the Grand Rue, where their circumnavigations may be witnessed at 7:30 o'clock on Friday evening for the admission of 10 cents. This weird performance personifies the solar system and is exactly ordered in all its phases. After preliminary circuits of the ring in single file to the discordant accompaniment of flute and tambourine the robed and turbaned dervishes commence their j turning. With arms outstretched, the right palm upward to beseech blessings, the left depressed to signify mercy bestowed, the head is bent upon the right shoulder. The rapid revolving upon the right heel Is effected by employing the left toes as motive power. As the circling accelerates, the long i white skirts dilate until they stand out 8tiff after the manner of the attenuated ! garment of the premiere danseuse. ] ' Very little space is allotted to each priest and it seems strange that there are no collisions. The dance ceases in an hour or so with the men exhausted. ?Travel Magazine. Boys' Use of Barometers. Every English schoolboy who can afford it has a barometer that he keeps hidden under his bed or in his trunk, for in all English schools barometers are strictly forbidden to the pupils. Why should they be forbidden? "Why should they be desired? 1 Through the autumn and winter the English schoolboy plays football every afternoon, weather permitting. He i must play two hours each clear day. These two hours are taken off his rec- . itations. They make his school tasks two hours lighter; hence when he knows beforehand that the next day , will be clear he may spare himself J two hours of useless study the night hpfore. His barometer pointing to , "fine" saves hinT a lot of toil. But * when the Instrument points to "change" then the schoolboy knows 1 that there will be no footbalL Thus a boy with a barometer has a big advantage. He often sells weather pre- < dictions at a penny apiece.?Philadelphia Bulletin. Giants Not Long Lived. Giants are not long lived, says Dr. Woods Hutchinson in the American Magazine. "Of nearly 100 names recorded I have been able to find the ages at death of only eighteen, as follows: Lewis Wllkins....* 28 The Giant Constantin 30 Charles Byrne, the Irish Giant 22 Cornelius McGrath 23 James Toller....... 24 Thomas Hasler. .' 25 The Minnesota Giant 18 The Norfolk Giant/. 43 Patrick Cotter 45 Clerk in Bank of England 32 C. Munster 45J. Winckelmeier..". 22 . The Kentucky Giant. 22 Lady Aama IS S. Botis 37 Peter Tuchan 29 ; The Peruvian Giant 39 Antonlus of-Syria 25 "This makes an average longevity of ( barely twenty-eight years, or only a 4 third as many years as they had inch es. A giant living to a good old age ts a thing unheard of." America's First Book. , The first book printed in America : was "The Eccale Espiritual Fara Flegar al Cielo" (Spiritual Ladder For * Reaching Heaven). It was printed In ! the City of Mexico in the early part of , 1537 by Juan Fablos on a press J brought from Europe by Fra Julan de j Zumarraga, first bishop of Mexico. The first attempt at a newspaper in Amer- ( ica was the Mercurio Volant? (Flying , Mercury), Mexico 1693. The first Indian school was founded in 1534. and 5 industrial schools for Indians date ( back to 1543. "Half a century before ] our overland pony express was inau- ' gu rated there were regular monthly mails the length of Spanish-America? * from Paraguay to San Francisco, a ( little matter of 5,800 miles."-M. A. ] Lam bug in Scottdale Independent v Howler and Healer. Rokitansky, the father of the well known operatic singers, was professor 1 of pathology at the Vienna university. Besides the two singers he had another couple of sons, who had acquired a i certain celebrity as medical men. One ^ day when the old professor was asked how bis sons, were gerang on ne re- , plied, shaking his head: !) "You see. friends, two of them heal i and the other two howl, and the howlers earn four times as much as the healers!"?Loudon StandardThe Philosophical Father. The old man had finally succeeded in marrying off two of his seven daughters. "Your girls have been blessings," said the officiating clergyman after , the double ceremony. , "Yes," the old . man huskily asserted, "they are the sort of blessings , that brighten as they take their flight" , ?Cleveland Plain Dealer. * Couldn't Take the Job. An inland graduate came to New York to seek employment Through a friend he received an offer of a place as shipping clerk to a certain firm. In reply he wrote as follows: "I regret that I cannot accept your kind offer of a position as shipping clerk, but ths fact is that I am always sick when on the water."?Success Magazine. Persuasion. "I can't marry you," she said. "You are old enough to be my father." "Don't hesitate on that account Ten years from now nobody will suspect it"?Chicago Record-Herald. There is always reason in the mac for his good or bad fortune.?Emerson. \ TOTHE I desire to annou ers that i have soli Dannelly & Co. ai I will devote my ei ness, arid hope to s new stand. I will ? Which will includ \ Hardware, Groceri to quote you the may need. In thej lar to go as far as rience of ten years service. I am far when and where t all discounts, I car If you want good > ? Caa Ma Rafniv JIW 1T1W UW1U1I s. w. I PROHIBITION A UVE ISSUE. :# Several Senators Taking Great Interest in the Question. A special from Washington says: Prohibition has become one of the ivest questions before the senate of ?e United States in consequence of the earnestness of Senator Tillman and others representing prohibition md local option states, and in the! lext few days the fight to determine: fust how far the States may go in the lontrol of inter-state shipments of iquor sent into their borders will :ome squarely before the senate. r'lorr .vf ricw-vrrria whft ia oeuawx \jiaj y V/JL uvvtfi.., jacking Senator Tillman, and who is anxious to get the senate judiciary lommission to make a report on this proposed legislation, will try to force i yea and nay vote in the senate tonorrow. He will insist that senators ?o on record on this matter. He with jther senators does not like the somaolence displayed by the committee with reference to this subject. For session after session bills dealing with state control of inter-state shipments >f liquor have b^en before the committee, but they have been allowed to lie there without being reported upon. . . Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, who has been urging legislation dealing with the same problem, yesterday introduced the Dolliver-Hepburn bill in the senate. This bill is intended to meet the same conditions against which Senators Clay, Tillman and others from states that have prohibition laws are protesting. The resolution of Senator Clay directs the judiciary committe to report at earliest convenience a bill prodding that all intoxicating liquors transported into any state or territory, or remaining therein for use, shall upon arrival within the borders of such state before or after aenverery to the consignee be subject to all the laws enacted by the state in the exercise of its police powers to the same extent as if the liquors had been produced within the state. The resolution also directs the commission to report whether congress has the constitutional right to pass a! bill prohibiting the transportation of liquors from states, counties, or municipalities where such liquors are sold into places where local option or prohibition prevails. In addition to this it is probable that Senator Tillman; may make another speech at an early date attacking the railroads and express companies for violating the law. John?"What kind of tea do you like best?" Priscilla?"Go-tees, some, but Rocky Mountain Tea best." John? "Why Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea best?" Priscilla?"It speaks for itself, John." (Makes lovely complexions.) H. F. Hoover. I rape mce to my many f r d out my interest ii nd have bought 01 kt-ima ofi/1 offi L1L11V Liiuv unu % ;ee and serve all nr carry a nice line o RAL MERCHAN e Dry Goods, Clot! es, etc, I will be pr very lowest prices se hard times farm possible, and if m; is worth anything niliar with the be * s i 0 buy, and as I buj 1 afford to sell at i alue for your mon \ " * i Baying Anytf Yours for b COPEL EHRHARDT, S. C Some Good Paragraphs. j The best club for a married man is an armchair in front of a big fireplace at home. The story is told of a minister who Jooked down from the pulpit and wondered how the people could dress so well. Then, after he .had > passed the contribution box, he declared the mystery solved. A Georgia exchange has discovered the meanest man in the United States. It is said that he pumped water on his head, let his hair freeze, and then broke it off, rather than pay a barber for cutting it. A newspaper publisher at Wellington, Kans., says a husband at that place lingered so long at death's door that the wife was led to say that she supposed he was having his usual trouble finding the key hole. An editor of an Iowa paper recent ly stated that he had been kissed by one of the most beautiful married women in the town. He promised to tell her name in the first issue of hie nnnpr n#vx+. month. In two weeks r-r? ? ? the circulation of his newspaper doubled. But when he gave the name of his wife he had to leave town. Horry Court House Sold. I Conway, Jan. 8.?The commissioners of the new court house and jail sold the old court house and jail and1 the lots owned by the county at public auction Tuesday. The most desirable lot on which the old court house is situated, 64 by 120 feet, was bought by the town* of Conway for $4,105, and other lots sold proportionately. The property brought in about $10,000, but some of the bids were rejected and several of the lots will be resold. The county officials will move into their new quarters within a week or two, and the old court house will be converted into a town hall and offices. Horrible Crime in Georgia. . Hawkinsville, Ga., Jan. 9.?A murderous assault was made on Mr. and Mrs. Martin Livingston at their home at Goldsboro in the upper part of the county last night at 9 o'clock by two negro farm hands on the place. Mr. Livingston was struck on the head with a hatchet and his wife's throat was cut. Both weredangerously hurt, and at last accounts were not expected to live. The deed was committed, it is supposed, for the purpose of robbery. ; Sheriff Rogers starfed at once for the scene, but was notified that the negroes had been captured and shot to death. There was a destructive fire in the business section of Ninety-Six last Thursday night. The loss is between ten and fifteen thousand dollars. - . -/ '. ' :^ ' ' ' ' r. ' :pw lends and custom= n the firm of J. Fl. it ricKenzie Bros, ention to the busi= y old friends at my f MSE, f ' hing-, Shoes, Hats, epared at all times k ' ''' v f ' ' " *. ' , on anything you ers want their dol= y mercantile expe= to you it is at your st markets, know r for cash and get i very close profit, ev cive me a call. ling You Need usiness, .AND, y X - - * To Pass Upon Contract Law. Columbia, Jan. 9.?Chief Justice Pope today signed an order calling an en banc meeting of the circuit and supreme judges here on January 16 to pass upon the constitutionality of the contract labor law involved in the case of ex parte Holman. In the Charleston case originating about the same time, Judge Brawley ?* IP/ulamnl nrtiii4 ^o/ilarod fho Ill r CU^iCU VV/VU V UWAU4 VVk VMV/MVV a form of peonage and therefore unconstitutional, but an appeal has been taken from this. K The Boy Guessed Right. They were getting a kindergarten lesson. The teacher taught them very simple subjects. She touched a table. "What isthis?" "Wood."' "What is this?" she asked as she touched the fender. "Iron." "What is this?", indicating a bottle. * "Glass." "What is this?" and she touched her watch chain. "Brass," said one small boy, and she changed the subject. A little fellow of six, whose father is one of the pillars of the church, and whose mother is an invaluable church worker, was asked on his return from Sunday schodl what he had learned. "Oh!" said he, in a bored tone. "They told us about the man who had so many children he didn't know what fo do." "What can he mean," said this perplexed xl " V,o+- "OH " IIIOUICI, YYiiau v/uiavuuu? said the little chap, "youjion't know much; the children of Israel/' Kills Girl's Brother. Ashevillk, N. C.f Jan. 8.?As the result of a tragedy at Marion,-N. C., which occurred in front of the First National Bank building, James Patterson was killed outright and Alfred Patterson, his brother, was picked up in the street in a dying condition. The shooting was done by Graham Finley, a well-known young man of Marion, and was over Miss Patter" J -^ t?nA ??on ha ehat \ son 3. sister UI U1C lwv uicu iiv, uuvv. Finley met Miss Patterson 'in company with Henry Moore, his rival, as the two were returning from church. He demanded that Moore surrender the girl to him and was met with a prompt refusal. A personal encounter ensued, and the girl's brothers, who were also returning from church with a party of ladies, appeared on the scene and took their "sister's escort's part, whereupon Finley drew his revolver and killed one of them outright and mortally wounded the other. He was arrested. It is said that the Atlantic Coast Line will also reduce passenger fares in this State, making the same rates as the Southern. >/ V 1 - I ' ' ' wr>xt' Ho Know Hop. The. conductor looked at the thin man. "Do you see that stout woman at the other end of the car, the one with the monkey hat?" he asked. "I think I se^ the one you mean," the thin man responded. "There, she's looking this way," said the conductor. "Well, sir, I admire that woman." ' x "You do?' - / "Yes, I do. She may have a squint and wear bad fitting clothes and big shoes, yet I admire her." . . & "Why?" "She knows how to get off a car the right way, and that's why. She's too stout and her hair is ratty, and she' hasn't any taste, but wfien she steps down from the back platform I never worry. I know she'll land all right Fm dead sure she isn't going to sit /InTrm In tho mnrt an/1 flair TT1A fflP mV number. That's why I admire her. Here she comes now. Watch her when she gets off." The stout woman came down the > aisle and briskly descended to the street/ And the conductor, with his X hand on the bell rope, winked approvingly at the slim man. Then the stout woman looked around. . j "Come, George," she called, and the ,."c. slim man meekly followed her.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Simple Minded Kurds. Some of the peculiar traits of the Kurds of Asia Minor are described by ' ; a traveler: "If it were possible to im- \ X agine two colors more distinct than X black and white it would be possible 'm to Imagine two characters* more widely differing than those of the Arab and Kurd. The pure Kurd is the most unsophisticated and gullible person in the world so long as you keep away from the material issues. His respect - ^ for a man who can read and write la'-.yjfeBg almost pitiable., The Kurds are on the <?-A whole blunt and somewhat uncouth, silent and quite Incapable of false- ' hood. If they do wrong?end they often do?they admit the fault In the simplest and most unaffected way. I had a muleteer who* was honest; civil and Incorrigibly Idle. 'Did yba ever kill a man? I asjked him one day. Yes; sixteen on the Khazat road when 1 was a deserter,from the army,' came the reply in a voice absolutely j unmoved. 'You were a robber? 4Yeer but now, praise be to "God, I am married and a muleteer.'n ."> No Chesterfield. A Boston man was praising the late Earl of Dunmore. 1 "Lord Dunmore," he said, ' "was a : ^ good man. Tall and robust and sup* pie, I can see him &ill with his short gray beard and his kind face. His only fault-* fault due to bis aristocratic upbringing, no doubt?was the exaggerated value that he set upon correctness. He Insisted in correctness in eating, In <fress. in everything. "At a dinner in Beacon street once I heard him tell a story about an incor* red sell made man, or *nouvean riche/ as ne caiiea nny. xuib gum vnumr ing one night to go oat. His wile battled into the room before be started to;'\"S look him over. .T " "Bat George.* she said reproach* '* folly, 'aren't you going to wear your diamond studs to the banquet?* "No. Whafs the use? George growled. 'My napkin would hide 'em anyway.' "?New Orleans States. | Proof/ of Brains. Mr. Travers, thi famous New York wit, once met at dinner a pompous ^ Englishman who was "doing" the States. He had letters a-plenty attesting his Importance?letters from Gladstone, Dilke, Salisbury and CharchiH. * J J He had talked everybody tired before the dinner began, and Travers jsaw visions of a bad meal when he discovered the Englishman to be Ui neighbor at the table. There was never a stop in the fe|low*s tongue. When the oysters were brought on he he-MM gan: "Now, it is a question as to whether or hot the oyster has brains* Scientists dispute the idea." "T-t-t-they i-l-t- I?? ?? HVauuw " f . wiamij uavc ovujic, "Your proof, slrP' challenged the Briton, eager for argument. "W-wh-wb* why, sir, the o-o-oyster knows h-hahhow to shut up.'' Uplifting the 8avage. We have received the following spicy : analysis of British civilizing procedures in Africa from a young Egyptian from Tanta, .who shows dramatic apt- 3 itudes. The title of his commtmica- . % cation is: A TRAGEDY IN SEC ACTS. . ^ Act L?The missionary. Act 2.?Whisky and pale ale. Act 3.?The Maxim gun.. . Act 4.?A newspaper. Act 6.?Cricket and football. Act 6.?Death of the last aborigine. . ^ Finis.?Band plays "Rule Britannia.1*, ' ?Egyptian Standard. . M Poor Consolation. "Oh, dear!" exclaimed the society woman. "I feel so wretched, and this Is my receiving day too! I do hope no one will call, for I'll be in misery all the time." "Well," remarked her husband facetiously, "I always understood that mioorv Invps eomnanv.' n ? ^thollc Standard. ' Her Bribe. Unattractive Maiden Aunt?Goodby, , Jottie. Come soon again. I hope you'll forgive my not kissing you, bat I have an awful cold. Jottie (aged six>?Never mind. Do kiss me, auntie. Mother said she'd give me 5 cents If Fd. let you.?Exchange. ^ . . Resented. \ __| The Scotchman (daring an argument) ?Hoot, man, hoot! The Irishman (hotly)?Shore an' OiH not hoot Do ye take me for a bloomln' owl??Lohdon Scraps. _ j v." ' ' V./ .. .1 .>?. . -