Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Prompt attention driven to all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. Oriffin of a Carious Custom Observed by Bulflrnriatt Masons. Nine master masons who were en gaged in building a citadel in the time of the Voivoid Neagoe found on re turning to their work each morning that the portion of the wall which they had completed the day before had fall en to pieces during the night and was lying in a heap of ruins in the ditch. Manol of Curtea, the head mason, in formed his comrades one morning that a roiee from heaven had warned him in his sleep the night before that their labors would continue to come to naught unless they all swore on that very morning to immure in the struc ture the first woman, be it wife, moth er, daughter or sister, who should ar rive with the rooruing meal of one or either of them. They all took the oath, and the last man had hafclly been sworn when Manors own wife appear ed, carrying her husband’s breakfast. The oath was kept, and the woman, known in the legend as “Flora of the Fields,’’ was murdered and her blood and flesh incorporated with the wall of masonry. A curious practice of the Bulgarian masons (the above scene is laid in Bul garia), ■which survives to this day, tes tifies to the vitality of the legend. To insure the solidity of the houses they build they measure with a reed the shadow of the first person who passes after the digging of the foundation has been completed. When the foun dation is commenced, this reed is buried under the first rock, usually the corner stone. “Office over National Bank. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between 14. A. Jones and Davenport. Office and Residence .Phone. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Disr** T 1ST Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone: No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. >ffice? Over The Battery. ’Phone 82. Old Mnidn find (Tlmnte. The unenlightened frequently make the mistake of thinking that lack of op portunity Is responsible for the exist ence of single women, but I lay most of it to climate. The New England cli mate is not conducive to matrimony or even kovemaklng. And even after the crucial moment lias passed and the single woman has drifted from girl hood to spinsterhood, a (*old climate, raw winds, chill rains and snow’ tend to increase the loneliness of it. There may be old maids in the south, but I never heard of them being called by that name. 1 have known some single women, schoolteachers, anywhere from seventeen to fifty, and some of their grown boy pupils w’ere eternally and perennially In love with them. A sin gle woman who has made up her mind not to marry has a hard time to keep her resolution in the south, for she is always assailed to break it. The very climate breathes love. Ah, there it is! As I said, old maids are surely a mat ter of climate.—Harper’s Bazar. THE CUP CHALLENGER. Shamrock III. the Swiftest Yet Built, Says Spears. A SCOW MODEL, SUBE ENOUGH. A Season of Danger ^You’re wise if you have an Insurance Policy safe and sure. If you have not, you run a good deal of risk. The ex cessive heat and the dangers of travel! at this season all make life A Little More Uncertain Get your Insurance arranged by the Aetna Life Insurance Company, then | your work or your vacation will be more care-free. ' J. Darby, Agt. GAFFNEY. S. C. Ninety Peii Cent The Polar Bear. The animal par excellence which the hunter, the amateur arctic traveler and the young explorer hopes and dreams of killing Is the polar bear. The reason for this Is the magnificent trophy which the great w’hite skin makes. This feeling was no less strong centu ries ago than it is now, for we read that one of the early Icelandic sea rov ers to Greenland quarreled with and killed his bosom companion because he had slain a large bear instead of .leav ing that honor to his chief. With the modern repeating rill? the bear stands no chance against Hie hunter, no mat ter under what conditions they may meet, and if he is hunted in the native way, with the assistance of dogs, there is hardly more excitement than in kill ing musk oxen, except for the wild, belter skelter dash over the ice to over take the animal after the dogs strike the hot scent.—Leslie’s Monthly. of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr.'Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and j have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. (Masses Fitted With|Scientific Accu racy and all the diseases£of the Eye, ar, Nose and Throat jtreated according [to the latest and most approved methods. ITor- Building and Plastering Lime Goal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles, Portland Oement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Gaps, call on London’s Iltfcheat Level. The highest part of the city of Lon don is the middle of Pannier alley, run ning between New’gafe street and Paternoster row. Ben Jonson tejls us that In his day this was a stand for tripe sellers and earlier still for bakers. The exact spot is Indicated on tlie east wall by a stone monument consisting of a boy sitting upon a pannier, or baker’s basket, holding in his hand a bunch of grapes. On the pedestal is the following inscription: When ye have sought the city round, Yet still this is the highest ground. Aug. 27, 1688. Were we to include Greater London then Hempstead heath would be the spot, for it is 424 feet above sea level, or 84 feet above the cross of St. Paul.— London Standard. Taking Care of the Heart. A physician writes: “Life would be prolonged by a little more attention to the heart, by paying a little respect to the most fidthful servant we ever have. Much good might be done also If par ents would tench their children the danger of overtaxing the heart. They ri.MAj.4ji.iA OmmImXa v 1m.a 117a.u. should teach them to stop and rest a LlflHJStOflC Springs Llinfi WOriS few moments during their play when they begin to feel the violent throb bing of their hearts against the chest wall.” CARROLL & CO., Lessees/ kleobone I FOR HEN WITH SHORT, THICK FEET | I at at OR BROAD FEET. ^ We have just gotten in a line of Shoes that will suit you. Don’t crowd your feet when you can get something to fit. :: :: :: :: :: IR R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. Judging From a View of >ih« New Yacht’n Top Sides, the Yachting Ex pert Picks the Reliance to Win Races—He Says Llpton’s Boat Is “a Dream of Beauty.” A look at the new cup challenger, Shamrock III., as she recently lay at anchor off Tompklnsvllle, must con- vlnce every experienced observer that the reports of her dimensions and the descriptions of her model printed in the British yachting periodicals and cabled to American newspapers were mere fairy stories designed to amuse the American yachtsmen, says John R. Spears in the New York World. For instance, the London sporting papers assured the sailor men of the world that Shamrock III. was just 22 feet G inches wide. As a matter of fact, when the new challenger lay at anchor, with the Shamrock I. a short distance to north of her to aid the eye in making estimates, It was plain to see tnat the new ship is not far from the width of the old one. Records give the old Shamrock a width of 25 feet 5 inches, and it is a 2 to 1 wager that the new ship is nearer twenty-five feet wide than she is to twenty-four. Another Interesting statement, hav ing source among the Scotchmen, Is to the effect that “in her design the boat is distinctly British. The heresy of the scow has been cast aside.” As a matter of fact, u stern view of the new challenger shows a better scow model than Columbia can boast and it Is at worst as good as that of Constitution. The breadth of beam on deck has been carried aft in graceful Hues and the under water lines brought up to it In exact scow fashion. In fact, the most Interesting feature of the ship Is the steru, because in that view she looks most dangerous. The reports that she leaves the water, even at high speed, with but a tiny ripple are undoubtedly true. The difference between Shamrock III. and Shamrock II. is remarkable in tiie lines of the stern, for the stern of Shamrock II. was notably narrow. As we all remember, Shamrock II. failed in windward work as compared with Columbia, even in smooth water, although in smooth water she fairly beat Columbia before the wind. It Is therefore safe to say that Mr. Fife took warning and so gave his new design not only a longer overhang, but a much broader one. The stories about her speed to wind ward are no doubt true, and her broad scow stern is in a great measure what holds her up to her work. In any other view of the bow than that directly abeam it Is plain to see that it Is but a modification of the bow of Shamrock I. The overhang is longer (it stretches twenty-three or twenty-four feet over the water), and the lines have been made as much finer as the extra length pennitted, but are otherwise like those of the older ship. A dead-on-end view of the bow sug gests the bow of Columbia even more than a broadside view, but the bow is fievertbeless a refinement of that on Shamrook I. Another feature of the model noticeable in the end-on view is a slight Haring In the frames from the water line up. She is broader on deck than at the water line by two or three inches. With these facts In mind a consideration of bow and stern to gether leads to the conclusion that when heeled to her sailing lines she is from six to eight feet longer on the water than Shamrock II. was. And this shows why she is able to make superior speed In windward work. Coming now to a general view of the broadside of the new challenger, It must be said that she is a dream of beauty. Nothing that ever went afloat has excelled her in this respect. Co lumbia has hitherto stood as the Amer ican type of grace and beauty, and Shamrock III. must stand as the un surpassed beauty from over the sea. There is a gentle sheer in her rail— a just perceptible sweep from stem to stern. The lines of the upper part of the hull sweep Into the water in a curve that appeals to the eye. But a closer look at those lines of the over hangs that dip under water show’s that In one respect this hull is beyond ques tion “distinctly British.” Where they meet the water the angle is certainly wider than that, made by similar lines on Reliance, f .igh somewhat sharper than the one mane by Columbia’s lines. She Is deep hulled and has a larger dis placement la proportion to her sail area than Reliance. But to leave details to consider once more the entire model of the hull, one would say from an examination of her—as well as from her brief record of trials with Shamrock I.—that here Is the swiftest challenger yet built Whether she is swift enough to take the cup can be learned only by the actual races. A view of the top sides of a yacht is only the beginning of an examination of her lines, but this much can be said definitely and with emphasis, that If she Is able to carry off the cup the lines of her top sides do not show it Though broad of beam and flat 'of bow the Reliance shows lines that indicate greater speed. Whatever changes of opinion may be wrought by seeing the new challenger In dry dock and with her sails spread to a wholesome gale, it may be said now that by the present outlook the cap is safe. MISS SCHENCK'S NEW FAD. Newport Belle Attempts to Make Um brella* Infashionable. Not content with having stirred a nation by her “pigtail” fad, Miss Nathalie Schenck now attempts to make umbrellas unfashionable, says the New York Press. In the streaming rain in Newport a few days ago the lovely young woman paraded Bellevue avenue hutless and without an um brella. True, she wore a trim little raincoat buttoned closely at the neck, but her pretty face was drenched with j water, and her hair, too, was “sopping wet.” Her men friends proffered her their umbrellas, but she refused. Wo men who drove past stopped and and offered Miss Schenck a “lift,” but she shook her head and resumed her inter esting stroll to the villa of her mother, Mrs. Spottswood D. Schenck. Mrs. Frederick Neilson called to Miss Schenck from her cottage, the Nut shell: “What on earth are you doing? Why haven’t you an umbrella?” To ( this Miss Nathalie replied: "I like It Water never did harm any one, and I haye plenty other dothes at home.” And now It is expected Miss Schenck’s satellites, Miss Cynthia Roche, Miss Natlca Rives and Miss Evelyn Parsons, will do likewise. It might as well be admitted that Miss Schenck is the belle of the New port set. There are other girls more beautiful and many Infinitely richer, but not one enjoys her degree of popu larity. She Is Invited everyw’here, from Mrs. Astor’s down. She Is a born leader, and the other girls of her set follow her in all her “stunts” and fads. In appearance she is high bred and handsome, with fine coloring and a splendid figure. ALEXANDER'S BOYHOOD Servian King’s Likable Traits Described by Stephen Bonsai. ROOSEVELT’S NEW GIFTS. BEIGHT AND DETEEMINED YOUTH ROBINSON CRUSOE TO DATE AmualtiK Incident ot the Flood at Topeka, Kan. Among the amateur boatmen who went to the rescue of people In North Topeka during the recent flood were Probate Judge Hayden and Sam Zim merman, says the Kansas City Jour nal. They had an old Hat bottomed boat which might not have been con- veyed safely through the cross currents by even the most expert of oarsmen. Naturally they upset at almost the first cross current. Here they lost an oar, but regained their boat, which swept downward with the current. Presently they were tipped out again and lost the other oar. However, for the second time they regained the boat and went drifting helplessly through the water covered town. At last they were swept across Kan sas avenue and plump into a window of Billard’s mill. As they crashed Into this place of comparative safety they were astonished to find a soliLury old man sitting on a box and calmly smok ing his pipe. The old man stared at them a moment and then shouted. “Ry the Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, here comes Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday!” And over in TopeLa the boys are try ing to find out which was Robinson Crusoe and which was Friday. INVISIBLE UNIFORMS URGED African Traveler’ll SuvrireNtlonn to BrltiNh War Office. Writing on the subject of “Invisibili ty In Soldiers’ Uniforms In War,” Mr. Heyweod W. Seton Carr, the well known African traveler, points out the desirability of soldiers being clothed in uniforms of a color similar to that of the country in which they may be op erating, says a special London cable dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean. In Europe, for instance, the aspect of the country is usually green, while in India or the deserts of Egypt and Somaliland the suitable color would be a yellow ocherous gray. Mr. Seton Carr would have had English troops In Somaliland clothed partly In the color of the Somali desert and partly in that of the mimosa trees, with which the country is sparsely covered. Another suggestion is to vary the shades of the same uniform—to make the coat darker than the trousers. Mr. Carr thinks that by experimenting on these lines complete invisibility might be achieved ultimately. Queen Braga Scorned W'arnfngM. The Belgrade correspondent of the Lokal Anzelger sends particulars of the assassinations which were given him by Lieutenant Colonel Michitsch, the actual leader of the conspiracy. The conspirators, he says, were exclu sively Junior army officers and includ ed no generals among them. King Al exander received several warning let ters, one appointing Whit Sunday for the tragedy. When that day passed Queen Draga remarked to her maid of honor, “You see, these cowards write and write, but no one ventures to act.” During the evening before the assassination the conspiring officers as-1 sembled In cafes and restaurants ad jacent to the palace and created an impression of loyalty by frequently de manding that the musicians play a cer tain piece named after Queen Draga. Memorial to Dean Haaklne. A fund of $50,000 is being raised for a memorial to the late Charles Waldo Haskins, whose excellent book, ‘'House hold Accounts,” was published by Har per & Bros. Just after tbs author** re cent death. The fund will be used for the endowment of a professorship in the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York university, to be known as the Charles Waldo Haskins ’professorship of auditing and history of accountancy. Ten thousand dollars of the fund has already been sub scribed. A Fmmons Tree. Although lately thought to be dying, the famous tree in the gardens of Gray’s Inn, London, planted by Fran cis Bacon, has revived and is In full bud. Correspondent Who Acted me His Swimming Instructor Says He Gave Promise oC More Than He Accom plished—Lacked Some of the Bril liant Qualities of His Parents, bat Possessed Some Mach More Endur ing Characteristics. Reading the shocking details of King Alexander’s assassination and that of his wife, Queen Draga, who was un fortunate in many senses of the word, takes me back to that sultry summer, only a few years ago, when the boy king, for he is dead on the threshold of manhood, wanted very much to learn how to swim and Captain Doug las Dawson, the British military at tache, and I were Intrusted with this branch of his education, says Stephen Bonsai in tiie New York Herald. With this end In view and In full enjoyment of a lull In the political world of the Balkans, we spent many pleasant afternoons outside of Bel grade In the cool vale of Topsheda, “the place of the cannon,” where Ser vian royalty maintains not a summer residence, but a summer house, to which the boy king gladly went every afternoon to escape from the presence of his father and mother, who were then living in distinct wings of the little Belgrade palace with a want of harmony even on public occasions and a sense of what was due to the con ventions of life that suggested, In royal abandon, the legend of the Kil kenny eats. The little boy whose life is ended in such shipwreck was an apt learner. “I will sink or swim!” he would shout as he jumped into the water, splashing his way from Dawson to where I stood, and he generally sank. But we would pull him out and with the good courage that he certainly possessed it was not surprising to find him swim ming—well, If not like a duck, at least well enough to paddle along—within ten days of the time after the date that the task had been intrusted to us by the regents. I found him then, as I did more re cently in Biarritz, a bright, a merry and a very determined little fellow— surprisingly so, for no one was more unfortunate in the burden of heredity and the unfavorable environment of his young life than he. He gave prom ise of more than he accomplished, but any one acquainted with the conditions of political and court life in Belgrade can well understand the reasons why he fell short of the hopes and the aspi rations which those who liked him had for the unfortunate youth. M. Hltrovo, the Russian minister, than whom there never was a more saga cious diplomat placed on guard in the Balkan European powder mine by Russia, told me repeatedly, and with no apparent political object, that the Servians, when the years of the re gency—the regency of the “tarnished” generals, as they wore called—had ex pired, would find in Alexander a king M ho M’ould rule them, and not a sec ond Milan. The little boy loved the simple coun try house in the “vale of the cannon,” and those who had his welfare at heart liked to keep him there as much as possible away from the atmosphere, unhealthy In every respect, of the pal ace. I can see very clearly today the bright, boyish face and the glad ex pression with which he would start out in the morning on his outing and the kindly thought of those M’ho M’ent with him, M'hich would load down his ad jutant and his tutor with boxes of choush, grapes and giubek cigarettes, together with basket after basket of the sickening sweets with which your Servian demonstrates his hospitality and M’hich you must, alas, eat to shoM’ your appreciation of it. The little Alexander Inherited neither the beauty of his mother. Queen Na talie, nor the charm and personal mag netism, if I may call them so, of his vagabond father, King Milan. But he had solid qualities M’hich he Inherited neither from his father nor his mother, and these, under favorable fostering circumstances, would have carried him far In the world. No boy ever grew’ up, hoM’ever, under more unfavorable circumstances or in a more unfortu nate household. His mother, the former queen, in the days of her wid owhood did not merge her life in that of her son. Indeed, there were times when It seemed as If she cherished political aspirations that were fatal to his popularity and perhaps to his reign. His father, King Milan, after having put the best face he could upon an abdication that was forced upon him, went to Paris, to Spa and to Alx. where It was hoped by every one In Servla that he would remain. Hom’- ever, It costs money to live as a king in exile Is expected to live In these places, and when his money gave out and all he could beg or borrow was exhausted King Milan returned to the little palace on the cliff above the Danube, where there m’»s hardly room for him physically as well as politically speaking. Here he remained month after month, ev^ry now and then raising money by threatening to raise a row and limn returning to his •ccustomed haunts in the gay M’orld of sport, where he shone M’lth un equaled radiance as long as his money lasted, which, unfortunately for him, was not long. It was In this atmosphere, haying to withhold and having every reason to withhold hi* confidence and his trust from both father and mother, that the solitary little boy grew op and was educated for his difficult role. Prearntn Given to the President Now Adorn White Honae. Numerous presents received by the president on his recent trip to the Pa cific coast have now been arranged throughout the White House as the tastes of the president and his wife have dictated, says a Washington spe cial to the New York Herald. The heaviest of all the gifts Is a large chair made from an elk’s horns, M’hich now adorns the private apart ments of the White House. The horns are from a single elk’s annual shedding In a park in Tacoma, Wash. They had been saved from year to year. The chair Mas so heavy that several men were required to move it. Another rather strange present given at Tacoma M’as a pair of totem poles, the combination gravestone and fam ily tree of the Alaskan and northwest ern Indian. These poles, erected over Indian graves, contain curious charac ters, M’hich furnish a history of the family of the dead. A splendid set of Indian pottery was presented to the president by Pueblo Indians near Albuquerque, N. M., and the same place also gave him a fine Navajo blanket, one of the best ever made in the west. San Francisco pre sented a magnificent gold and silver loving cup and Sacramento a silver and glass claret pitcher and a fine elgar ease. Colfax, Cal., gave the president a box of gold and silver ore. Stuffed deer heads, stuffed mountain sheep, pheasants, lizards and nearly all the other products of the M’est were given to the president at various points on his journey. There would have been a ear load of live animals had the president accept ed all the presents of this kind offered him. He brought back a small badger given to him by a little girl at Sharon Springs, Kan. She asked the president to name it after her brother, M’hoso name Is Josiah. Josiah is a particular pet of the Roosevelt children and has been taken to Oyster Bay, M’here he will spend the summer with the young sters. TASTES OF SERVIA’S KING. Knrnjceorsrevlteh Liken to Hunt and Play Chenn. Peter Karageorgevitch, the new king of Servla, is devoted to his children, especially to his son George, says the New York Herald. When the hoys were In Geneva for their summer va cation their father took them regular ly to the Greek church and carefully watched over their studies. He fre quently talked to their professors, In sisting that they should make the boys study hard, especially George, because he might be one day king of Servla, but he never discussed the situation with George. The children are reared very simply and have no Idea of political affairs. The son George said one day: “I don’t M’ant to be king. Servla is no fun.” King Peter’s greatest pleasure Is shooting, and he has many trophies in his home. He belongs to the Geneva Shooting club and has won many prizes at the target. He formerly rode a great deal, but has rheumatism and never rides now. He never kept a car riage In Geneva, and was often seen out walking. • He is a skillful chess player and played the game every night with his sons when they were in Paris. He kept open house for all Serviann pass ing through Geneva and generally had some guest at his home. As a young man, Prince Peter was a skillful fencer. He was not friendly M'lth his father-in-law. the Prince of Montenegro, but his inother-ln-law was very friendly to him and has visited him in Geneva. The queen of Italy Is his best friend In his M’lfe’s family. She is always sending the children presents, and sent bicycles to the boys last Easter. The king Is said to be a man of ordinary intelligence, but very honorable and highly educated In lan guages and history, but not In other things. Ills favorite authors are Henri Martin, Michelet and Thiers. He has studied deeply the lives of Bismarck and Catherine the Great. NEW AIR SHIP. Stanlej Spencer’s Model Claimed to Be One That Will Really Sail. Stanley Spencer, who saMed over London last year, M’ill make a remark able trial with his neM’ air ship from the Ranelagh club grounds July 11, says the New York World. The Jour ney M’ill not be dependent upon perfect weather conditions, the great power of this craft being sufficient, It Is calcu lated, to force it through winds which would stop smaller craft. It will have twenty-four horse power,’ while last year’s air ship had only four horso power. Mr. Spencer says a storm might delay the start, but that ordi nary summer breezes will make little or no difference. The air ship when finished is to bo ninety feet long and twenty-two feet broad In the widest part. Beneath a cigar shaped balloon will be suspend ed a bamboo framework carrying one or two passengers, a petroleum motor, a screw propeller and a rudder. Every thing will be worked from the car by an apparatus similar to the Bowden cycle brake. The maximum speed of the new air ship will be thirty miles an hour. That of last year’s was only ten miles. In the Initial trip across London Mr. Spen cer will be alone. Mew Work on Army Gnna. Professor G. C. Maynard, department of technology, Washington ha« In prep aration a volume on all the guns and rifles that have been used by the Unit ed States army. .....