Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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j HAS UNWATER / without. The greatest force, however, the forward magazine had exploded. explosion caused by a torpedo from the< Many will persist In believing that t In attributing the awful result to two was external and the cause of the second4 Is no Inconsistency between the court's by, and that the Sampson board, whic battleship Maine was sunk by a torpe final findings of naval oficers to the oip department. MAN AT THE C William Loeb, Jr., Is the collector af the Port .of New York. He is the Man at the Gate. Against him come yearly 300,000 tourists and a million Immigrants In the fleet of 5,000 ships. 'All manner of merchandise goes through his' gate-ifhore than a thou sand million dollars worth In 'a year. This man has to sort It and appraise It and tax It If It Is taxable. Of all -the people and the merchandise that enter the United States seven-tenthis come through the port of New York and Loeb stands there with a staff to take the toll for the government an all that stupendous amount of traf fic. Although he has been no more than 27 months In office he has In ,creased the gettings of the govern ,ment by more than $15,000,000. He has enforced the commandment. ."Thou shalt not smuggle" as fully .on the rich as upon the poor. He has locked up nearly a dozen Persistent smuAyrvin.Zederal pritsons.and has b tourists ,by having them arrested and Mr. Loeb says smuggling, even b a crime as counterfeiting or passing to be a crime Is as plain as daylight. Iistiaw htwstre v WebdcndtotoWlim ob geneal hndy an t ThedoreRoo iThrou h ghast forece, hweverh hina forwardlmaaitCinesdexl oedci explo mision ebytorhina fro thnet Snnttutn the pawflmeut to twom ewas exenl adsoecaue oft the seox Inote non vsemeen th oudr by an thatin the namtion oathe whrl ctlesher Mane more Bundby atrla .inding oftnaatnl oiesJstoura deat e. ihe nPai n will Lebsentis te colletra othPorta, and New Yor. tHeuh isl Mang teGte. Agarmin hrmcoe yalye300,00 aoitnd atillion Allomoner of merhaise gstpn throug his gT-oore tantonhoun the ilio dollar worthen f er.m This neer has t heri case afwoa te e.e a soumecndste sethat ene the Untdats seveta fEnth comethrough the profjet andrha anrLe tndscherle wth language tota ed inlo the governmennthe Alhog heila beenployd moep ta27mhs no oficy, the a ei craedteging of the m vbutwn mentbyisor tuhful5,y0,0nd aceu hasntereot.cdlare commanment "Tho shl not smugea fih uly S nterc on teator.a H hmorasc ofuA th~cer misnestandings 1 nrt bhn stem ofareaestean tob a rme i sn asdacligt. ED THE MAIN General Bixby, chief of the army en gineers, who has had charge of the un watering of the Maine, recently ex pressed the opinion that the destruc tion of the battleship was caused by the explosion of her magazines. No external explosion, In his judgment, could have caused the conditions ob served in the remains of the vessel. But General I3ixby added that the pri mary cause of the explosion would likely never be known,, so the mys tery of the Maine, unlike the hull it self, may never be revealed. General Bixby said that unless the fragment of a torpedo could be found there is no way of connecting an outside agency with the blowing up of the vessel. The destruction to the vessel was such, says General Bixby, and the de terioration has been so great that it is impossible to tell whether the ship was blown up from a force within or was from the inside, indicating that Vhether this was from a sympathetic Dutside may forever remain a mystery. he American court of inquiry was right distinct explosions, the first of which 1. Washington opinion is that there findings and the view of General Bix h decided twelve years ago that the do or mine, will be vindicated in the nion expressed generally at the navy USTOMS GATE umbled the. pride of a hundred defiant heavily fined. y nice people, is a crime-just as muel bad checks. The law that declares I r In 1909, in a somewhat dusty and cob ho had been for ten years secretary ani svelt. Loeb was to enforce this, and he aar for enforcing it. IS MODEST FEE John W. Foster, ex-secretary o state and known the world eve1 through his connection with the dip lomatic corps of the United States has come into the limelight througi t~he publication of alleged facts con cerning the collection of a clamn against ,thie Chinese government. 11 wvas .he claim of the heirs of Freder ick T. Ward, an American soldier oj fortune, who was killed in 1862 whil4 in the military service of China. China paid to the United States more thar $24,000,000 indemnity for outragea during the Boxer outbreak. Of this less than $11,000,000 was awarded t< claimants by this government and thi remainder was returned to China with the exception of $2,000,000 re served for belated claims. Mr. Foster received for this worli a fee of $180,000. The matter is nosw in the hands of a congressional com. mittee for investigation. The amouni paid the claimants was $368,237. state department and our minister tc is whom he had known when on a dip on with the settlement of the war be persuaded the Chinese government to mut of the $2,000,000 reserve, though the or claims. WORLD PPERZ egito4a will be employed. Transient ver'yt ng will be considered from the etwee people are due to pa 'lal and ulch a -ers of internation 't t ions eling reas PLAYING , By CLAUL (Copyright. igan, by Ai Miss Cleo Gates was visiting her sister, Mrs. George Marshall. Mr. Mar shall was general manager of the de partment store of Moses & Wainright. Therefore, Miss Cleo heard much shop talk. About the only thing that interested her, however, was the talk about shoplifters. The store was constantly troubled with them, and it was only at long intervals that one was caught, although a store detective was supposed to have her eyes every where. One night when the manager came home to say that goods worth $200 had been lifted that day from un der the nose of the store watchdog, who was a young woman of 25, and that she would be discharged at the end of the week, Miss Cleo announced, in a very serious tone: "I am a natural born detective." A laugh greeted the words. "I have solved several difficult cases." More laughing. "A year ago when this diamond ring was suddenly missing, father and moth er said it was a case that would never be solved. After devoting one day to thought I walked into the kitchen and told the cook she was the thief. She broke down at once." "That is, she confessed?" said Mr. Marshall. "No, she did not confess. She turn ed red and white and burst into tears, and within an hour she skipped out." "And the ring?' "I found it on the shelf over my lav atory. She, of course, had placed It there on finding that. she was sus pected. Father said the police could n't have worked the case better." "Keenest, brightest thing I ever heard of!" replied khe manager. "If t eat P1.ieUpOeAtrAohr PickeduUp Onve trAfte Another. wer onlyhad cases. tHerstore had cou stante ofabeek."eupt cra thing, however, and next day she pr< ceeded to carry her plan into execl tion. With no hint to her siste who would oppose it, she made It way to the store of Mnoses & Wal right. She wanted to get an eye o the afternoon shoppers. She had feeling that she could tell a shopli1f er on sight. The criminal might l> a well dressedl woman with diamond In her ears, and she might pretend t be at ease, but there would be a fu tive look, a something in look or wal to give her away. Miss Cleo passed from counter t counter, looking for guilty parties. Shi spotted and followed two or thre~ about, but they seemed to receive mysterious warning and kept hand off. There wvas one old dame whi might have pocketed three yardsc lace if she hadn't lookedl up an caught the girl's eye on her-. Mis Cleo finally retired from the stor with the feeling that if she had cause no arrest she had at least frightene a number of shoppers into being hor est. At dinner that evening, sh didn't feel so self-satisfied, howevel Mr. Marshall reported that never ha the shoplifters been so busy. Ther had been no less than seven case right under the noses of the br-ightes salesgirla. Should that report discout-age a nal ural born detective? Not in the slighi est. It should stimulate her to greal or exertions. That's what it didi Miss Cleo Gate's case. Sho had bee put on her mettle, and she woul astonish her brother-in-law and oti ers. Very few good looking youn women who have set out to astonfs folks have made a failure of it. was back to the store the next afte: noon 'for Miss Cleo. A bright t oughi struck her as she crossed the esl old. From all she had read ar the shoplifting business wa to he sex. The store dot hee nr )ETECTIVE 1INE SISSON suclated Liten ary Press.) face; then she saw he was lookin about in what she considered a furtiv way. Then he walked up to the je elry show case and drummed on th glass. Then he went over to the pe fumery counter and asked the pric of a bottle of cologne. Thence b walked to the door and looked up an down, as if to see whether there was policeman about or not. Being sat. fled on this point, he walked back t the book counter, picked up one boo after another, and finally walked 0 with one in his hand as bold as bras It was a valuable hook. Miss Cleo should have stepped fo: ward at this moment and laid he heavy hand on the shoplifter an made an arrest but her heart falle her. -e would deny and resit Si would let him go and trail bl!ha an then report to her brother-in-law. Sh hadn't far to trail. With a quic glance up and down the street, th young man crossed. At the entranc to a stairway he paused a moment t look back, and then climbed the stair The girl had the criminal run to eartl She re-entered the store, was take up to the manager's office, and astoi ished him with announcing: "George, I have been doing dete< tive work downstairs unbeknown t you or Sarah, and I have caught shoplifter. He may be the head C the gang!" "You don't tell me! Where is lie? "I didn't want to create excitemen in the store, and so I trailed him t his lair." "Good girl! Where is it?" "Right across the road and uiI stairs. He can be arrested in fly nilnutes." "You'll have to come along an point him out." "Oh, I'll do that." At the store doors they picked u a detective. When the trio had crqs! ed the street and the stairway ha been pointed out, Mr. Marshall sal to the girl: "There are a dozen offices up ther and a studio or two, and we mustn bungle this case. Sure you can ider tify your man again?" "In an instant." "I can't believe that any of thes people are shoplifters. We'll look 11 on Paul first and ask him what h thinks. Right in here." T vio 'red a studio. At a des man 't-an opap.&u, before him. There were paintings easels and paintings on the walls. "Hello, George!" from the yot man to Mr. Marshall. "Hello, Paul." "That is the man and there is book!" exclaimed the natural born tective as she stood erect and poin an accusing finger. Ten seconds of intense silence, then they broke into laughter. "What--what does this mean?" manded Miss Cleo. "Mr. Paul Wainwright, this is wife's sister, Miss Cleo Gates, in to on a visit. Mr. Wainwright is son of his father, who is the Wi wright of our firm." d It took five long minutes to m: 'it clear that Mr. Paul WVainwright I borr'owed instead of shoplifted, t~ that there was not'iing coming to 11 o' in the wvay of punishment, and th< were apologies and "don't mentioni and somehow Mr. Paul got the k n that he must call on the young 1i and talk the case over, Hie is ec inlg yet. r, ______________ Something About Dreams, a Dreams are due to an increase a sensation and circulation over tl -which exists in profound sleep. e servations made uplon1 patients w~ acranial d erects show that when we e dreaming the brain is greater in r-ine than in deep sleep, and less ti2 k wvhen we are awake. Thus this 11nt mediate volume of blood would i1 o cate that dreams are an intermedi: e stage between unconsciousnessa e wakefulness, and their incomplete a irregular intelligence would indici a the same thuing. This increased cdr o lation is usually due to sensory stir if lat ion affecting the vasomnotor cen dI and causing a return of blood( to s head, with resultant incr'easedl c< e seiousntess. Contr'ar'y to p)opular d1 lief, dIreamns in themselves do not ec dI tribute to light or broken sled) -. which they ar'e present. Such a c< o dition is duo to the cver-present sti .nil which, according to their strenj d or the degree of irritability of ' e cells, maintain even in sleep a vs. s lug degree of consciousness of whl t the dreams are merely a manifestatil Therefore tihe fatiguing effect ofteni L- so attributed to dreams is not duo L' them, but to the lighter degree sleep and less complete cell-resio 5 tion which they accompany, andl whi a are due to some irritation.--redi d Eastman, in the Atlantic. IVIim Well Applied. t club in New York about a charge .plaigaism that had been broug Sagainst Mark TIwaint. 1 "A big man like Twain steali j from a little man like Blank!" st t Mr. ilowells. "This, surely, is a ca for applying the 01ollindoo prover TOWN NAMED TAFT I 1 Only Three Residents in This Indiana Burg. e..nal Tower That Is On the Map and Has Politicians As Neigh. bore-Telegraph Operators g Total Population. Indianapolis, Ind.-Pr.'sident Taft e On his recent trip to this city passed r- through or rather by Taft, Ind., for 8 the first time. lie, however, prob e ably did not know it unless he was d reminded of it. a There was only one inhabitant of 3. Taft out of bed the night President o. Taft whizzed by the original station It of Taft. That one inhabitant was C. ff A. Newlin, a telegraph operator, who had out a green light, which meant a clear track for the President. r- The President, ia all his travels, r had never before been through Taft, d Ind. While conducting iis presi d dential campaigni he visited Anderson o one October evening, going in from d the east, and was dien routed by way e of Rushville to Indianapolis. His re k cent trip was the first time the' Presi e dent has ever traveled over the Big e Four railroad between Anderson and o Indianapolis, and int is why Ie al i. ways nissed Taft, Ind. 1. This Taft, Ind., is not a joke or a n1 creation since William H. Taft be I- came President. The place or station was named while Mr. '."rt was a real dent of Cincinnati and preparing to * go to the Philippin ; as governor of a Che islands. Some bie in the general f offices of the Big Four soon after the Spanisi-American war, when it became neceasary to give names to t new towers for interlocking signals 0 a-d other devices for safety along the Big Four railroad between Anderson and Indianapolis, ahose names of per sons and ships then in the public eye. e First one toF..er was named Taft. Then one between Pendelton and In d galls was named after one of Dewey's good ships of war, Raleigh. Dickey Wainwright, w'ho had not then be ) coe a rear admiral, bat was making 'i.story while fighting the Spanish, was honored with the name of a tow er at the southwest corner of Ander son. Wainwright and Taft are next t a oin rag de ted - . de- . my wn, the The "Town" of Taft. tin door neighrbors as towers. At thre Lke east end of the l31g Four yards in mad Anderson another towver was named mnd Gr'idley. unm It is well known that tire first town re west of Pondleton Is Ingalls, named ts" after M. E. Inigalls, but that was be lea fore Taft was namied. J. Q. VanWin idly kle, formerly of Anderson, was gen all- oral superintendent of tire Big Four road at that time arid it Ihas always been surmised that Mir. VanWinkle named the towns Taft, Gr'idley and of Raeigh. rat Taft, ind., is onr thre official rail 3b, road tral) as issued by thre Indiana ith railroad commission. Taft Is inrport ure ant to the Big Four road. It is a 0o1- guard, a sentry against any danger an of collision of tr:'inrs or lors of time or- in switching and passing, di. Traft is a twenty-four-hrour place, Lto that is, It Is never depopulated. Thtree rid telegraphl oper'atot's woi'k eight-hour .ndl shifts. S. D. Solorion Iras tire fir'st it "trick" from 12 mi. to 4I a. mi. J. W. cui- Stephena takes tire second "trick," as in. they call it, f'r'om 8 a. in. to 4 p. mn., ter and C. A. Newllir fr'om 4i p. mn. to ire 12 mn. M. WV. IHuirmel, repair man for Lai. tire tower inrterlockuing switches arnd be. semanphtoro siginals in tire vicinrity of? an. Anderson, is air occasiona' visitor to in 'Taft, ind. Mr'. Stephens and Mr. on. Ihummul wvere at TPaft when a corre m. spondenrt visited Taft, Ind., for a plc ~th tureo of trio pla1ce. It Jeromro Brown, former county corn r'y- miissioner', and D~ory hiddle, who quit cic inewspapcir editing to turn farmer, areo Samronig tire neartest residents of Tfaft. al. Hirovnr .s a htepuiblican and( Diddle is to a Decmocr'at. Sid Conger visited Taft of frequently while he owned a farm r'a- that adjoins Taft. le recently sold cli thct farmi to Carl von Ihake, of tire W. Marion county board of commission ers. Former Gove'ror WV. '. Durbin owned the farmi before Conger bought it, so there has been more oi' loss of an atmosphere of politics ab~out Taft ed ever since it was established. or Doff Coats In Church. ht Pittsburg, Pa.-The llev. Charles T.. 10. Cartwrighit, pastor of tire North ng Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, rid iras notifled ihis congregation it will b)e .5e -'good form" during thre war'n weathi. b:or for women to come to Sti lay even omsrvices without their Ii a nnd fr THE PIL ACT on Torpi ;rquick to he wiie h fooi that gosto", heartburn dyp epeat slid other disorder@ arlsin o n a the stomach anid Impure hlood. Mandrake is thetbest known specaIc of the i1%,(r amd .41o. It fort ilie basis for Dr. DeWitt's Maudra Is. Keep You in Good Realt WI Not Gripe the Now PrIce, 25 Centa ' The W. J. Parker Compa4 Manufacturing DruggUegs Baltimore, Maryland - - - U. S. A. It your dealer does not sell this remedy. write ss. D I R to e":d i;: , ties Net.U cieas, ornamental. cony. hent,cheap. Lastsail seases. Cantopile tip over. will not %om or injure anything. Guaranteed efect. lye. Ot qii dealer.. sent prepaid for 20c. h1l 60. DoKab Ave. - .Drekta. N.LE STUDENTS WANTED To learn the veterinary profesionlo. Illustrated catalog sent, free. Addresis VETERINARY COL. LEGE, South 3rd Street, Torre Haute, Indiana SMALL ST can earn 8to 10% on their SALmoney In all excitialvo California Moanu facturing Company. (hifirittto bcurlty. Interest Walld mnthy ad monny back when wanted. Full partioulars, F.A.LoxxI , 104 Market Bt., Ban Fraaeise.,Ca1. Atlanta Directory KODAK " IEIta?,VELOPEDrF1 Mail your roll and write for earners, catalot to This 00111ege "co-op,", shelley Ivey, Mgr.,A taata KODAKS oAre G ad cial Attention. All I' r up piell. Be li" PHOTO STOCK CO., ImpossIl. "George icts like a "No. An actor could close to nature as thiat." . Life. For COLDS and G1RIP Hlicks' CAPtUiimte IS the best remedy-re lievem the aching and feverisiness-cures the Cold and restores norimil conditions. It's liquid-efreets iunediately. l0c., 25e., and 500. At drug stores. Disappointed. Knicker-Was Subbubs disappoint. ed in his house? Bocker--Yes; what the henhouso turned o , bungalow. "Boy Scout" Moveme ..The "boy scouts" rclsgd *itho . Malay isl Itnoa Singapore is to have a fin tion undur the patronage o ernor and chief justice. It thing in many ways, aside military training, and bids becomeo one of the permane most p~oplar institutions of th sula. All through the Biritish "boy scout" organizations ar formed. DECIDED NOT TO OPEN I Caller-I was thinking about open ing a drug store in this neighborhood. Do you think one is needed around here? Resident-Great idea. There's no place within ten blocks where a man can buy stampis or see the city direo tory. A Triumph Of Cookery Post Toasties Many delicious dishes have been made from Indian Corn by the skill and ingenuity of the ex.. pert cook. But none of these crea tioris excels Post Toast les in tempting the palate. "ToastleS" are a luxury that make a delight ful hot-weather economy. * Thc first package tells its own story. "The Memory Lingers" Sold by ^.rocers POSTUM CERECAL CO., Ltd., Battle Creek, ich., U. S. A.