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I f Queer Law Case. iffl. t Not long ago a trial was re ported where a man sued a medicine concern which had ^ffered $100 for a case their remedy could not cure. The man had taken the remedy but had not been cured. The defence was that he had not taken the medicine long enough. He did not get the $100. We allude to this because we want to show that Vinol does not give a slippery guarantee. If the user comes back with his empty bottle and says, “I can’t see that it did me any good,” we say, “ Sorry you happen to be among the few— less than two in one hundred— here’s your dollar! ” ; Vinol is a non-secret pleasant compound of cod liver oil, (greatest medicinal food known), iron, and mild table wine. CHEROKEE DRUGICO DRUGGISTS WANTED: To buy your milk, fat or poor cattle Will sell milk cows on installment or for cash, whichever you desire. Will ex change milk cattle for beef or yearlings. 4-7-imo W. I). KIRBY & CO ANIMALS SETON KNOWS 1 A.m Here! The goods are here, and I want you to get a move on yourself and come here, too I've ot everything for the inner man, and all of lie very best—Fancy Groceries. Fine West ern Beef, Hams. Souse Meat, Sausage, ( hick- fens. Eggs. Butter, and everything for the table. GI ve me a trial and you’ll come again W. J. MANESS, Grenard Street. Williams. Hall. .Ik. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT GAW. ST A It THKATKK ULDO. KY. S. O. Notary Public in|otlice. Prompt attention given to all business. J. EMILE^HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, paffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE •r. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. 'Office over National Bank. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and Davenport. Office andJUesidenoe .Phone. Or. C. T. LIPSCOMB, x i s t Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. i, J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office JOver The Battery. APRIL SPECIAL During the month of April with each order received for New Plate and 50 Cards, styles to he selected from our sample sheets, we will give in addition, Free Of Charge, a Two Quire BoxJ of Paper Embossed with any 2 or 3 letter mon ogram from any of our 10 different styles of stock dies, with Two Packages of Envelopes to match, (not embossed.) :: :: :: This Offer is Limited .to the Month of April.. Let us have your order early and it shall be filled promptly. Remember we give you absolutely free of charge the two quire box of paper and envelopes. I , CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Lover of Wild Beasts Declares That They Do Talk. IGN0BES BUBBOUGHS’ CBITI0ISMS. Well Known Author Relates Some New Stories and Saya W’olvea Have a Moat Perfeeted Form of Conver- aatlon—Telia Why Partrld»ea Sleep In Snow and Mlnlta Slide Down Hill. Ernest Thompson Seton, whom John Burroughs, the famous naturalist, re cently denounced as a sham in the At lantic Monthly, said the other day, ac cording to a Milwaukee special dis pa tcli to the Chicago Inter Ocean, that the attack of Burroughs was unjust. “I have not seen the article,” be said, “and do not want to, and further than a denial of the accusations Burroughs makes 1 do not wish to discuss the question. The attack is very unpleas ant to me and unfair, and I cannot un derstand it. Mr. Burroughs and 1 used to be good friends, and this sudden change is beyond me. I know nothing about the particulars of the attack, and I do not care to investigate them.” When told that Mr. Burroughs said that it was untrue and absurd that a fox sought safety from a pack of hounds by jumping upon the back of a sheep and riding several hundred jrards, Mr. Seton said he had nothing to say. Mr. Burroughs also said in his article that it was all bosh to think that a fox or a skunk reasons pro foundly or that these animals use mi raculously analytical strategy or that a bear philosophizes soulfuliy. He also says that the animals Seton has known have been known by no one else and that Seton has so deftly blended fact and fiction that only a real woodsman can separate them and that Seton has been palming off a lot of ridiculous statements. Mr. Seton insists, how ever, that wild animals reason and talk, saying on this subject: “It is often asked if wild animals have any mode of conversation, and I answer unhesitatingly that they have. Out on the stretches of prairie In the heart of the Dakotas I have made ex tensive studies of the wolf. I say un hesitatingly that it has u most perfect ed form of conversation. There is the rallying cry and the hunting song, the plaintive yap-yap-yapping of the even song and the triumphant call of the view halloo. “All are distinctly marked, and the one brings fortli the responsive note of the other. There is the call of the mother to her young, the male to the female and the answers in each case. There are at least five distinctly sepa rate notes which 1 have recorded. And 1 have tried them in the zoos of Cin cinnati and New York, and in each case the one call brought out its response as though the heat and bustle of the city were miles away and in Its place stretched the reaches of prairie land with its cover of snow. "I have conversed with plainsmen 011 the subject. All agree with me. So common are these events and so mat ter of place have they become that their significance has been lost to many of the men. But when I inquired and directed their attention to this matter they agreed with me. Dr. Garner has noted twenty-six separate noises used by the chimpanzee In conveying ideas. He has conveyed those ideas to them by their use. I have done the same with the gray wolf of Dakota. If we can recognize a number of sounds used in animal land for purposes of conver sation, it is probable that they have three or four times as many which our ears have not the finesse to grasp. Ani mals can talk. Their language is more simple and very rudimental. Man is the only animal that can converse as we understand the term. But animals have a means of conveying ideas one to another by means of sound. “I am often asked,” continued Mr. Seton, “why the partridge sleeps bur ied in the snow in the winter in Mani toba, why the mink slides down hill in stead of running down, why a deer never passes a tamarack tree if he can help it and why a fox has a big, bushy tail. “Up in Manitoba, where I made my observations, it is extremely cold. The partridge knows instinctively that if he attempts to sleep on the branch of a tree in the awful frost he will be fro zen before morning, and so he burrows into a snowdrift and sleeps warm there. “The mink slides down the hill be cause he is in a hurry. By turning himself into a toboggan he gets down the hill In a second where it would take three minutes to run down. I have traced the mink for miles and invariably noticed that he has slid down the hills. “A tamarack Is a danger signal to a heavy animal because it grows on the edge of or in the midst of a bog. The bog is not solid enough to support an animal as heavy as a deer, and the lat ter Instinctively knows It “The fox’s big, bushy tall Is fur nished him to protect his feet and nose, the five spots that are not covered with fur. The further north I go the bigger is the fox’s busby tail. My shanty in the northwest was on a prairie in sight of a winter runway for foxes, coyotes and occasionally a gray wolf. Hunting most of the time, the fox only sleeps by snatches and takes his naps by daylight on exposed places to provide against surprise. In variably he curls up and throws his four bare feet and the tip of his nose close together and then puts his great bushy tail over them to keep off tbs bitter wind.” ENGLAND’S MIMIC WAR. Army Corn* to Ilnttle Over Seven Tbouaitntl Square Mllea. The old Roman camps and barrows on Salisbury plain in England will be the scene of grand maneuvers in the autumn, writes the London corre spondent of the Philadelphia Press. The First army corps will be pitted against the Second corps, bringing into toiimic action about 45,000 men. The maneuvers will commence toward the end of August and will last well into September. A wider area of ground has been al lotted by order of council than that provided for the last great maneuvers in England in 1898, when the big transport experiment was carried out by civilian contractors. The area will lie from the north of the county of Ox fordshire to the English channel and east and w r est into the shires of Dorset, Somerset, Gloucester and Hants, em bracing an area of about 7,000 square miles. The work will probably form the most important peace training ever carried out by the army and will in clude the use of heavy batteries, fa mous 4.7 guns, and the Marconi system of telegraphy. The generals in command will in clude many famous Cape leaders, among them being Sir John French, Sir George Marshall, Sir Bruce Hamil ton, Sir Charles Knox, Sir Leslie Bun dle, Major General Paget, Major Gen era) Douglas and Major General Plu- nier. Lord Roberts and Major General Baden-Rowell will both be present dur ing the operations. CZAR GOT HIS LESSON HERE Colonel Snowden Says He I'ledget! RtiMHian UaborerM U. S. Comforts. The announcement that the Russian czar had granted religious freedom In his dominions came ns no surprise to Colonel A. Loudon Snowden, formerly United States minister to Greece, .who frequently met the present emperor In Athens when as czarowitz the Russian was visiting his relatives, King George and ids family, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Times. Colonel Snowden said he was con vinced from many conversations with the young man that he was a genuine reformer at heart. The czarowitz had heard from his uncle, the Grand Duke Alexis, concern ing the homes in which Philadelphia la boring men live, and once, while he and Colonel Snowden were lunching together in Athens, lie ask(Hl the latter to describe the dwellings to him at length. This the colonel did, and when he had finished the prince said: “It is a blessed country that can give its la boring classes such comforts as that. I'll give them to my people if I ever find it possible.” Colonel Snowden thinks that the czar’s move will work for good and that it will he followed by other re forms, but that it will probably create friction.- UNITED STATES THE MECCA Yonnic Europeana Are Coming: Here to Study Science and Art. “The time is speedily coming when young Europeans will visit the United States, just as Americans now visit Europe, in order to perfect themselves in all branches of science and art,” says Professor Herman of Freiburg, who has just returned from a long tour in the United States, writes the Berlin correspondent of the New York World. “In surgery and medicine America has made strides which place her far be- young Europe. In dash, readiness, re source and manual skill the American surgeon is unsurpassed.” What impressed him most was the brightness, the alertness, of the young men, their readiness to take the field for themselves at a comparatively early age. “When the young men of Germany are laboriously working in a university or a technical college,” he says, “this youthful American is in business, carv ing out a fortune and picking up al most intuitively the technical, special knowledge which the German can only acquire after years of study. American young men have a genius, an insight, not to he found elsewhere.” NEW HARVARD DORMITORY. Lansdon Rail la Intended to Snr- paaa Any In Cambridge. Harvard is to have a mammoth new dormitory, surpassing any in Cam bridge, Mass., today, says the Phila delphia Press. It will contain seventy-eight suits and will be called Langdon hall, after President Langdon of Harvard. Built of brick and limestone, with a central court, it will be one of the handsomest buildings in Cambridge. Fear is felt that the yard rooms, which have none of the comforts of the modem dormitories, will go beg ging, and steps will be taken during the summer to Improve the campus rooms. Spring Fever. When Dame Nature gets spring fever, Then Dame Nature gets to work. And that bird or bud would grieve her That would e'er its duty shirk. So she goes abroad and hustles, Clothes the trees, makes birds to sing; Aye, she strenuously tussles With her fever In the spring. When a woman gets spring fever. She will take the carpets up. Hubby dams like any beaver; On the porch he has to sup. When the carpets say, “Come, tack ms!” Then he swears like anything. For he knows he's reached ths acms Of her fever In the spring. When a fellow has spring fever, Love to nature he will make; In hie heart he will receive her. And the woman gets the shake. With the daffodil and daisy He'd fain loaf awhile and sing. For It makes him very lasy. Does the fever In the spring. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Invention Which Keeps All Kinds of Tabs on Engineers. SIMPLE AND AUTOMATIC DEVICE. It Is Attached to Locomotives Just In Front of the Cab and Over the Boiler — Constantly Cheeks the Driver and Keeps a Record of the Track's Condition. A company is now being organized in Milwaukee to finance an invention which, its Inventor claims, will pre vent many of the wrecks and acci dents which now affright a world with their grewsome record when its use becomes general, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. This company will control in the United States the patent rights of the “railway chronograph,” as it has been styled by its inventor, H. G. Sedgwick, formerly of Beloit, Wis., but now a resident of New York city. The machine which is to do this won derful work is but a small affair, an iron box about twelve Inches square and three inches thick. It is devised to keep a record of the work of the locomotive to which it is attached and of its engineer. The mechanism is such that it re cords on a tape every blast of the whistle, together with its exact time and place; the speed of the triiiu at every moment of time, the time and place any accident occurs, the speed approaching, the arrival, the delay and the departure from any station, the number of miles and the amount of time consumed in switching at any station, when and where the airbrake was applied, how long any engineer is on duty and every trip, just where the locomotive was at any moment and what it was doing at the time and how much steam is wasted through the “pop” or escape valve. The device is entirely automatic and simple to a degree. It is attached to the engine just in front of the cab and over the boiler. Various levers project from the machine, and these are at tached to the parts of whose action a record is desired. Inside the box of the machine is a seif winding clock, which records its time upon a tape that winds through the mechanism by punctured dots one- tenth of an inch apart. Each dot rep resents twelve seconds of time. The tape is about one and a' half inches wide and is always in motion. It is ruled off into seven columns, each one for a particular record, and designated respectively as the whistle column, the air column, the bell column, the pop or escape valve column, the time column, the one-tenth mile column and the en gineer's punch column. A rod from one of the levers is at tached to the crosshead of the engine, and every time the locomotive moves one-tenth of a mile this makes a punc ture in the one-tenth mile column. By the distances between these points the speed of the train can at all times be determined. Another lever is attached to the bell, and at every stroke of the bell it makes a record dot on the tape in the proper column. The same is done in the whistle column when the whis tle is used, in the air column when the brakes are set and in the pop column when the escape valve is opened. The last column is for the engineer’s record. By means of a lever in his cab lie makes a punch in this column when ever desired. He punches in the time of arrival at a station and his depar tures, as ordered in his rules. He can also mark ajuy other occurrence that he wants to have recorded. For instance, the inventor declares that on one of the test trips on the New York Central rail road a jam nut was dropped from the engine. The engineer made a record of it, and when Poughkeepsie was reached, eighty miles east, the place where the nut was dropped was com puted from the tape, and the nut was found by a section man. The same de vice serves to keep record of the condi tion of the track. If the engineer notes a bad section in the track, he makes n record of it, and its position is easily determined on the tape. From the time and one-tenth mile columns the place and time of the marks In the other column can easily be determined. The tape is renewed at the end of every run and is preserved for record. It acts as a check on the engineer at all times, thus preventing his doing things which he might do if he did not know that the little machine in front of his cab kept an unerring rec ord of his every action. By watching the escape valve it records the amount of steam wasted in this manner on each run. On one run recorded by this machine recently It was found that in eighty-eight miles this valve had been opened 794 times, a waste of almost six tons of coal. The record of the machine quickly caused a decrease In this needless waste of steam and power. The Fvchal* Fad. Apparently we are In for a fuchsia revival, though the flower never was shelved because It lacked In beauty or grace, bnt rather because the human eye craves variety even In flowers and so was turned to other beauties, says the Boston Transcript But King Ed ward and his queen are affecting the fuchsia now, not only In its natural freshness, but In trinkets where arti ficial flowers figure. In personal adorn ments and In Jewelry it is found very effective, and It is said that a fuchsia in brilliants rather ontsblnes most oth er objects reproduced in the same way that happen to be In Its company, all af which may be considered worthy of note by amateur gardeners and wearers of precious things. IMPRESSIONS OF LORENZ. FamonN Surgeon Faya Striking Trib ute to American Charity. “America is a splendid country, and those who inhabit it are splendid peo ple,” was the comprehensive way In which Professor Lorenz closed his ad dress to a large audience in Vienna on his impressions of the United States, says the New York World. The professor was most enthusiastic about American charity,saying: “Amer icans practice charity with the passion witli which other people practice some kind of sport. I am convinced that if I had said that the orthopedic hospi tals in New York were inadequate the money for a new one would have been subscribed the next day. I was much impressed by the simplicity with which the president of the I'nited States re ceived me. “ ‘Are you the famous doc tor from Vienna?’ he asked. ‘Let me shake hands with you. Just this morn ing Mrs. Roosevelt spoke of you.’ Then he told me the history of his family- how a younger brother, now dead, was a doctor, and told about one of his own boys who is not strong. Then he shook hands again and went back to the Ven ezuelan question. “The novelty of shaking hands with so many people 1 did not know impress ed me deeply. Sometimes I would be on a train, and the engineer and fire man would leave the engine, come up and shake hands. Ladies would stop me in the street and do so.” Professor Lorenz remarked for the benefit of the medical students present that dinner at their club costs less than it does to get one's boots cleaned in Chicago. He did not enjoy the delica cies in America. During the sumptu ous banquets given him be often pined, he said, for the boiled beef and kraut of home. Oysters were about the only American dish he really cared for. He thinks it very fine that American students do not drink or fight, but de vote themselves to study and sport. He told the Vienna doctors that in Ameri ca nurses are treated like ladies. Dr. Lorenz thinks America’s women are remarkable for their education, cleverness and artistic taste, but he does not think they can cook a dinner, and lie infers that that may be the rea son why they are shy when marriage is concerned. HELEN KELLER’S PLEA. FamouM Blind Girl Urgt*M Relief For Fellow Unfortunate*. Miss Helen Keller, known through out the country as the girl born deaf, dumb and blind, who lias achieved a brilliant education, was the center of attraction at a hearing held in the staleliouse at Boston the other day by the legislative committee on education, says the New York Press. The hearing was for the purpose of determining the advisability of appointing a commis sion to investigate the condition of the adult blind. Miss Keller said in part: “It is terrible to be blind and be un educated, but it is worse for the blind who have finished their education to be idle. Their very education becomes a burden because they cannot use it I remember the distress of many blind persons I have known who after finish ing their education could find no means of supporting themselves because no one helped them to find positions in which they could turn what they had been taught to practical use. “The greater their ambition to do useful work the more cruel their disap pointment. If this commonwealth will establish a commission to place the blind in positions of self support, it will be doing three things—helping the blind, relieving itself of the burden of caring for them and setting an exam ple to other states.” NOVEL FISH DINNER. The HoNtena Wore Wonderful Fiali Scale Gown. Miss Elizabeth Tyree, leading wom an of “The Earl of Pawtucket” com pany, gave her fish dinner the other night at her apartments in New York. There were twelve guests. Everything, from the miniature lake in the middle of the table to the won drous fish scale gown worn by the hostess, suggested the realm of the mermaids, says the New York World. The lake was inhabited by scores of hungry goldfish and by miniature sharks, whales and lobsters of wood In the mouths of the latter were pearl pins, for which the men fished. The souvenirs for the women were coral ornaments. The menu was printed on the mainsails of tiny yachts, which flew the flag of the New York Yacht club, in the miniature lake. The gown worn by Miss Tyree was of changeable green silk, covered with thousands of opalescent scales. It Is said to have cost $300. Sword* and Plowaharea. Instead of beating swords Into plow shares now the Boers of South Africa have thrown their swords to the scrap heap and ordered their plows from American dealers, says the Philadel phia Record. One dealer in New York has agreed to ship 17,000, it Is said, and orders for agricultural implements of all kinds have been received here. An Eaater Gift. A really pretty thing for an Baster gift is a collection of dried flowers and grasses with several bright colored but terflies mounted on white plaster and framed in black oak. There are clovers and buttercups, with the grasses at the lower part of the picture, and above, with spread wings, are the butterflies. Value of Bffrptlan Cotton. Experiments now concluded on the banks of the Nile show the quality of the cotton grown there to be the equal of any In the world. There are availa ble 15,000,000 acres of irrigated land, and only hands to work it are lacking. Egg Dyes and all the necessary egg dyeing phai apher- nalia so dear to the juvenile heart. Paas Egg Dyes are always ahead of others ; here you will find a com plete assortment of all that is new, novel and beautiful. :: :: :: S. B. 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