Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fVr T ^jld by druKRlsU. iir.*.idLji*m BE IN THE SWIM Give mo your clothes to clean, press or dye and you will always look nice and stylish. Old suits made to look like new. Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. Over \V. U. Telegraph Oftice. William S. Hall. Jk. jA«fKs A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, attorneys at law. STAH T1TEATKE BLDG. o a ». Notary Public In office. Prompt attention given 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 AUSTRIAN’S NOVEL FEAT. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. "Office over National Bank. Or. C. T. LIPSCOMB, i) ic is: t i«'r Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82. Trundllngr Htn Family Around the World In u IVrumbnlator. With the avowed intention of cross ing the American continent in less than a hundred days, there arrived in New York recently on the steamer Teutonic Anton Hanslian, a plucky little Aus trian pedestrian, accompanied by his wife and daughter, says the New York World. He has wheeled wife and child in a perambulator all over Europe and is now wheeling them around the world. The route he has chosen is from Jer sey City to Buffalo, then west to Chi cago and on to San Francisco. He is a circus rider and expects to do some bareback riding en route and to deliver lectures on his travels to pay for food and shelter. At the time of the Paris exposition Hanslian fashioned for himself an un usually strong perambulator and wheeled his little family the entire dis tance. He found this mode of travel ing so pleasant that he decided to tour Europe in the same manner. Two thousand dollars was put up as a prize by a European sportsman, and the con ditions were that Hanslian was to visit all the principal cities of Europe in two years, starting without a penny and working for his own and his fam ily’s living. This he did, selling sou venir postcards on the way to pay ex penses. At Ellis island he told of his adventures. “Fifty thousand postcards wore sold on this journey, and I earned money, too, by giving exhibitions. We were obliged, I must confess, to take fre quent advantage of the charity of kind hearted persons along the route, and. withal, we were often hungry and cold. “In England we had to spend most of the nights out of doors and often were without food. STUDS OF AFFAIRS the MlDvm islands IN WASHINGTON BOER LANGUAGES. OREGON’S PAUL REVERE Three Strong Delegations in National Congress. An Estimate of Their Value to the Pacific Cable. BIG SAVING IN COST OF MESSAGES TEDDY IS CRITICISED. Some Strong Men In CongreM mid Othern Who Have Done Little—President Koose- i velt Is Severely Criticized for His Course In the Postofllce Investigat ion. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, D. C., July 13—The three strongest delegations in Con-! gress, as delegations, are the Iowa, the Missouri and the Texas delega tions. Nearly every man from those three states is a strong man and stands pre-eminent for marked abili ty in some peculiar line. In writing these sketches of public men in fu Fare I will take them up by State del egations. Many members of Con gress, in their relation to the general public, can be disposed of in very few words, for they have done very little to attract general attention, although they are good men and good legisla tors. Their work is done very quietly and in the commiotee rooms, where most of the effective work of a mem ber of Congress is performed without the emission of hot air, without fan- farronade and blare of trumpect. The Toll* Will He Hod: cd From *1-00 »o 50 Cent* n W< .-d—Without « the Midway an a Land.us Place For the Cable Only Six Tv'orda Could Be Sent a Minute In- • *-nd of Twenty. ' Both Inland* to He Improved With Rich Soil. With the open mg of the Pacific cable, which directly connects the government at Washington with the insular pos sessions of the United States to the west of tae national capital, attention is called to the important part which the first and smallest “insular posses sion'’ of the country, the Midway is lands, is to play in bringing Manila within a lew minutes of the White House, says a Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune. Without this little group of coral, which pokes its nose out of foe brine to the north and west 'of the Hawaiian Islands, the en gineering features of the Pacific cable would have been entirely different and negotiations for a cable station on the Pacific possession of some other gov ernment w r ould have-beeu necessary. The value to the government which this first colonial possession has now become can readily be realized when It is said that without the Midway ns a A Season of Danger Y’ou’re wise if you ha\ e an Insurance Policy safe and sure. f you have not, you run a good deal ( risk. The ex cessive heat and the ngers of travel at this season all mak' life A Little More Uncertaini Get your Insurance arranged by the Aetna Life Insurance Company, then your work or your vacation will be more care-free. Jones J. Darby, Agt. . GAFFNEY, S. C. day without food I saw a dog and In my desperation shot him with my re volver, impaled him on a stick and cooked him over a roaring fire of twigs. We ate him with a relish. “One iiot afternoon near Budapest, my wife and child having fallen asleep fn the perambulator, there appeared in the road a huge tiger, who ‘ graced fiercely into my eyes. I fired at the beast with my revolver, but missed. My wife and child awoke and shrieked so shrilly that the tiger took fright and fled.” Some people have an idea that un less a man shows up every day in the lamfTng place for the cable its long Congressional Record with a speech stretch from Honolulu to Guam could of some sort that he is no good as a Congressman, when, the truth is that Once on our third just the opposite makes him the good IN A SCIENTIST’S HONOR. Ninety Per Cent ! I of all chronic headaches are clue to eye strain. Go to Dr.',Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fltted;,With£Scientific Accu- racy and all the diseases£of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Treated according to the latest and most approved methods. Building and Plastering Lime Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles. Portland Oement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps. Ctll on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON CHARLESTON S. C. iiSthyear begins skptkmber 25. Letters, Science, Engineering. One Scholar<f6ip to each County of South Car olina. Entrance examinations held at Gaffney byjCgunty Superintendent of Ed ucation and Judge of Probate on July 10. Tuition $40. Board and furnished room in Dormitory, $10 per month. All can didates for admission are permitted to compete for Boyce Scholarships, which pay $100 a year. For catalogue, Address HARRISON RANDOLPH, President. Move to Reinter at Wanhlnirton Body of Smlthnonlan Inntltnte’n Founder. James Smithson, Englishman, who founded the Smithsonian institution in WashingtOH, died in Genoa in 1829 and was buried there, says Harper’s Week- ■ ly. The cemetery wherein his bones He has been abandonetj, and the land is to be used as a stone qnarry. All the bodies In it axe to be removed. The regents of the Smithsonian propose that James Smithson’s remains shall be brought to the United States and reinterred in'the grounds of the insti- ; tution which is so noble a monument to its founder. James Smithson was the illegitimate son of Hugh Smlthpon, who became Duke of Northumberland. From the family of his mother, a well born woman, lie inherited a fortune. He became a noted scientist with a strong political preference for republic an institutions. He never married and when he died left nearly all his estate “to the United States of America to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian institution, an es tablishment for the increase and diffu sion of knowledge among men.” The money, £104,900, was sent to the Unit ed States in 1835, and the institution was established by congress In 1846. and effective member. No matter how good a speaker a man may be or how well qualified to speak on any given subject, he can not say a word unless he gets the permission of the Speaker, and then he is allotted only a certain number of minutes and must limit his address. Very few men can ex haust their subjects in the time allot ted to them; cannot do themselves justice; and that is why so few men make speeches. The House of Rep resentatives has emasculated itself by the rules it has adopted and no longer is a deliberative body. There are some men, however, on both sides of the House who by their intel lectual force have made themselves felt and deserve recognition. Take the Missouri delegation, for instance. I have already mentioned the Hon. Champ Clark and the Hon. David A. DeArmond. There are other strong men on that delegation, and one of them is the Hon. Charles Free- mont Cochran, of St. Joseph, Mo. Undoubtedly Mr. Cochran is the most versatile and widely read member of the delegation. He is “loaded for not be broken, and instead of being able to send twenty words a minute the speed would be reduced to six words and the service made proportion ately less satisfactory. W’hat benefit this isolated cable sta tion in the center of th'e Pacific may prove from a strategic pqint of view may be demonstrated some ,day by timely orders to a fleet of battle ships. That the station is considered valuable from this point of view and many oth ers is shown by. the determination of the navy department to fortify the is lands in thejfuture for the protection erf the cable station. The islands also af ford a snug harbor and in an emer gency might be used as a base of mrvai operations. The Different Kind* of Dutch Spoken In Sonth Africa. It seems a strange thing to say, but there are three Dutch languages in South Africa. The earliest Dutch set tlers at the Cape were largely Dutch sailorsjind others belonging to the low er orders of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and other Dutch seaports. Their lan guage was a low Dutch dialect to be gin with, and although the sprinkling of Dutch‘Tiflicers at the Cape did their best to preserve the language of the Netherlands they could not prevent the dialect of the settlers from still further degenerating iflto a l ere collo quial patois. Its 'degenera ion was doubtless largely brought abcat by do mestic servants and slaves—Hotten tots, Malays and Mozambique Kaffirs— who spoke it very imperfectly and in troduced Into it many strange words and idioms. This, then,' is the genesis of what is variously known as “Caj|)e' Dutch.” "Kitchen Dutch,” “Patriot Dutch,” “Afrikaans” and “Afrikander Taal.” Its basis is Dutch, but the nouns ha\e lost their declensions and the verbs their conjugations, while grammatical gender and syntax gener ally have gone by the board. To the educated Hollander of today it is a lit erary atrocity, and he cannot away with it, but to the Afrikander it is his mother tongue, the language of his home and his childhood, the exponent of all that^ he knows of humor and pathos. It is full of expressive idioms, pithy proverbs and pawky expressions, like those* so dear to the lowland Scot, and yet it is not a language, for it has no literature. The second of the three Dutch lan guages referred to might be called “ec clesiastical Dutch,” or, if you like, Af- , rican Dutch. It is the language of Hol land as that language was" written about 200 years ago. It is the language ot the Dutch Bible and^very much re sembles mir own authorized version in its simplicity and directness of style. It is the language of the Dutch psalm and Gesaug books and of the devotion al works of old Dutch divines, which make up the balance of the Dutch farmers’ literature. In it are also writ ten many tracts* arid a few dovotionaJ works by'living ministers of the Dutch Reformed church. To the Boer wherev er ypu find*him it is the language of his church and of his religion. This is the Dutch language which the- leaders : of the Dutch Afrikander party are de termined to preserve. It is never spo ken by Afrikanders among themselves, How Leslie Matlock Saved Two Hundred Lives. SHOUTED A WARNING AS HE RODE Since their discovery in 1859 by Cap tain N. C. Brooks, an American sailing however, and it is never written gram- from Honolulu on a sealing voyage niatically by them in their correspond- under the Hawaiian flag, and their re discovery and possession in'the name of the United States in 1807 the Mid way islands have been more ot less neglected - by this government, but never to the extent of being allowed to pass ■ into the hands of any other government, although Japan on sev eral occasions .made inquiry of the Hawaiian monarchy regarding their title, with, propositions to annex or lease them. They were used for a time, thirty years ago, by the Pacific bear,” so to apeak, on almost any subject that comes up for debate io the House, and when he gets through with an opponent his antagonist looks Mail Steamship company to the extent like a fodder stack after a cyclone had toyed with it. He never makes a speech without adding to the sum of human information. In his capa city of lawyer and newspaper editor he has read everything and he has a memory like a tar bucket; everything 'hat gets in it sticks. His pet hob bies in the past two Congresses have been the war in the Philippines and the Boer war in South Africa. On those two subjects he has hit the of storing there a hufee pile of coal. It is to Rear Admiral R. B. Bradford that credit is due for discovering the utility of the Midway islands as u ca ble station and to his representations that the two tiny specks on the map of the Pacific were transferred from tho jurisdiction of the interior department to a possession of the navy of the United States. The Pacific Cable com pany secured the right to break its long stretch of cable and land on one ence. The' Boer has no fear that his “Huis-taal,” Cape Dutch, wifi die out, but fears that his children wNl forget or neglect to .learn the language of his church and of his forefathers. The third Dutch language might be called modem literary or “high Dutch” —that is, the language written and spoken by educated Hollanders of to day. It is florid, involved in construc tion and very artificial in style as com pared with the language of the Dutch Bible. Its pronunciation has also changed *eonsfclerably in the interval, and even an educated Dutch speaking Afrikander listening to a voluble Hol lander can hardly make head or tail of what be is saying.—Scotsman. A Legend About Cat*. The ancient Greeks thought that all creatures except cats had souls and that that animal lost its soul through a bargain made between a bridge archi tect and the devil. The architect had besought the devil to get his help in republicans more bard licks than any of Gie two islands. The United States constructing an exceedingly, dangerous two men in Congress. Another big man in the Missouri * 7 k , delegation is the Hon. William S. Smithson once wrote: “The best blood ^ ? . . of England flows in my veins. On my father’s side I am a Northumberland, on my mother’s I am related to kings; but this avails me not. My name shall ’ive in the memory of man when the Itles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinot and forgotten.” He hitched his wagon to the right star, and his forecast is well on the way toward fulfillment. His bones should come to Washington. Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, one of the regents of the Smith sonian, strongly advocates bringing them over seas and has offered to pay the expenses of removal. Cowherd, of Kansas City. He not only is one of the best debaters in the House, but one of the best lawyers. His cogent reasoning and invincible logic compel admiration and knock down all barriers. There was an at tempt in the last Congress to put will fortify this island sufficiently to protect the cable station, and hereafter there will never be a question as to who is the rightful owner. The Islands are both of coral forma tion. One of them, Sand island, con tains 850 acres, while the other. East ern island, has 328 acres. A quantity of rich soil is to be carrisd to the is lands in order that the forces who will bridge structure, and bis Satanic maj esty only consented to lend aid bn con dition that the first creature to cross it should lose its soul. This was agreed upon, the bridge finished in due time and the devil sent to the opposite side to await his prey. The shrewd architect took good care ter send a cat over before any human be ing was allowed to cross. On learning through a steal of about a half million liave t0 take the,r turn ln “annlng the 0 f the bargain the cat recrossed the The Reluctant Reqnent. Edgar—Ethel, I’ve left my umbrella downtown. Ethel-Well? Edgar—I’m afraid you’ll* have to lend me the gold handled umbrella you gave me on my birthday. — Detroit Free Press. A Notable Oeeaaion. “Quite a stormy time at the theater this week,” said the jocose manager. "What happened?" "The lightning caksnlator performed to thunders of applaaae.**—Washington Star. lis: Tan Shoes are all the rage. Why should you not keep up with the style? We have them in Queen Quality and cheaper grades. :: :: l. S. Lipscomb Shoe TSa Shoe Store. dollars, and it came from the Commit tee of the District of Columbia, of which Mr. Cowherd is a member. With his trip hammer logic and unanswerable argument Cowherd pro ceeded to hit it in the bead, and when be got through talking it was dead as Hector, the republicans even refusing to vote for it. Mr. Cowherd has a future. Look out for him. * * * The President of the United States is just now coming in for some severe criticism in the political circles in the capital of the nation which is causing democrats to smile audibly and administration republicans to wince perceptibly. There are several reasons for this criticism. One is the “gag rule” applied to the Postofflce Department investigation promul gated by him before be left bis sum mer home at Oyster Bay. That means simply that the investigation will be a farce from this time ou and that the details shall not be given to the public for fear of hurting the party of public plunder. No bouest man or party ever was afraid of^ioveatigation or of being watched. It is the thief that is afraid of espionage or public ity. Only a short time ago President Roosevelt was lustily proclaiming from the stump and through his mes sage to Congress that “publicity” was the panacea for the trust evils that now beset the honest consumers of the country. If “publicity” is the specific for trust evils, why is not publicity good for the evils, the boodleism, grafting and unheard of corruption that honeycombs the Post offlce Department? If he will recon cile those two divergent opinions of the benefits of publicity I will apolo gise for any criticism aueot the mat ter I may have made ooncernlug him. Chab. A. Edwards. Subscribe for The Ledger. puns of the fortifications may have some occupation to divert their atten tion from sea and rock. Naval officers who have visited the islands say that the Midway harbor constitutes the finest fishing ground in the Pacific. The coral formation in closes a lagoon of depth enough for anchorage, but more shallow than the surrounding waters, and makes an at tractive feeding ground for fish, seal and turtle. The fish belong to the mul let, perch aud mackerel families. Many of them of brilliant colors seem to belong to the dolphin family. The fish attract the birds, and the islands are covered with plumed tenants. Under the new order of things the Islands will be made to bloom with fruit trees, vegetables will be raised, and, with the ideal climate, the shel tered bay, the splendid fishing and the direct connection with the world by cable, the cable operators and forces who man the guns will have an assign ment which will doubtless become the envy of the service. What the improvement Is to be in the cable service between the United States and the Philippines may be seen by a comparison of the present route and cost of a message from Manila to Washington. The tolls will be reduced from $1.68 to CO cents a word. By the old route a message leaving Manila for Washington goes first to Hongkong, China; to Labuan, Borneo; to Singapore, Malay penin sula; to Suez, to Port Said, to Alexan dria, Egypt; to Malta, to Morocoo, to fenzance, to Valentla, on the Irish coast, to Nova Scotia, to Canso, to New •York. The total distance by this route Is 14,000 miles. By the new cable the distance will be only 8,000 miles. The cable tolls paid by the government alone for one year in Its communica tions with the Philippines amounted to $400,000. Under the new rate at least two-thirds of this amount will be saved. bridge and eyes out. scratched the architect’s Naming a Town. According to a local tradition, proba bly Invented, Sayville, N. Y. t received its name in a peculiar fashion. .The settlers were gathered in debate upon the'shore, trying to agree upon a name for the place, and one after another proposed his suggestion with, “Say, how ’ll this do?” After many sugges tions had been rejected some one bar ren of imagination but sensitive of ear proposed that Gie oft repeated word “Say” lie made the first syllable of the name and that “ville” “be added as the second syllable. The idea took, and, says the legend, then and there -the settlement was christened Sayville. Favored the Clarinet. “So ye’re goln’ ty make yer b’y a mu sician,” said Mr. Rafferty. "I aui,” answered Mr. Dolan. “Pm goln’ ty have ’im learn ty play the clarinet.” “Why don’t yez learn ’im the vi’lin?” "Because I want ’im ty have every advantage. A vi’lin makes fine music, bat a clarinet is a heap more ty be de- pinded on in a scrimmage.”—Washing- ton Star. Coney’* Generoo* Gift. “When Mr. Casey died, be left all he bad to the orphan asylum.” “Indeed! That was nice of him. What did he leaver “His twelve children.”—Detroit Free Press. Literal. Mistress—What in the world are you putting ashes on the floor for,' Bridget, j Bridget—Sbure, ma’am, an’-dldn't yez 1 «ay to doost the parlor?—Town and Country. The sea anemone is one of the longest lived of humble organisms. One has flourished in captivity for fifty years. Hero of the Heppner Cloudburst Describe* Hi* Wild Night Ride Through Willow Creek Valley With RuHhing Wnter* lu Close Parsalt. Never Stopped In Hi* Nine Mile Gallop. Leslie Matlock, a hardy stockman of Heppner, Ore., saved the lives of more than 200 people after the flood on that fateful Sunday evening of June 14 last had overwhelmed the town and destroyed 300 souls. Chased by the flood, be saddled and mounted his sturdy mare and galloped for miles down the valley of Willow creek to warn the dwellers in three towns, Lexington, Pettysville and Douglas, besides others who dwelt along the creek road. Today Oregon is hailing him as a second Paul Revere. He tells the story for the New York World in part as follows: Any one man who knows the coun try as well as I do and who can ride a horse could have done the same thing. We none of us guessed what was coming. The people who live down Willow creek were spending Sunday evening quietly in their homes. We all wanted rain in the stock region, and we were getting it. We never expected It at Heppner. Pretty nearly every man, woman and child had turned in for the night. It had been raining, all day, but that was a good sign. Nobody had the slightest thought of danger. Then came that awful torrent of water—black, fierce, roaring water that made your knees tremble when you heard it and made men turn pale when they Realized what they would have to face. My father’s farm was among the first to go—buried under twenty feet of hissing water. The house, the barns, every stick of wood on tbe place—all was swept away before a man could think twice. People were drowning before our eyes, and we could see the bodies swept down in the front of the flood. Thank God, I remembered! "Willow creek!” I thought. “Hun dreds are down there who may drown just as others have drowned In Hepp- ner. Perhaps I can get there first.” There wasn’t a telegraph; there wasn’t a telephone. It was a case of riding down the valley ahead of that awful avalanche of water. I dbn’t think I ever saddled my horse so fast in my- life. Nine miles away were lives to be saved, and I the only man who could save them. Off we went, my bully good mare and I. Behind us came the water. You could hear it gathering strength. It rolled and roared against the sides of the valley like big cannon in a ’battle. Once when I looked behind I saw something big and white leap up into the black sky. It was the torrent hit ting a house and dashing up Just as the surf does when it strikes a cliff. Every time I came to a house I yelled: “Run for your life! The flood’s coming!” I never stopped. It would have cost me my life and the lives of all those 200 people farther down the valley. The road was so dark and stony that we stumbled all the time, but my plucky little horse never fell once or else It would have been all up with us. Closer and closer behind came the rush of that inferual water. There was-no time to pick your way. I Just hung tight and trusted to my horse to get me through al! right. The miles went by in the darkness, but nearer and nearer came that thunderous roar. More than once I thought it was all up with us. We were going close to Lexington now. Ahead I could see the lights. Not a soul in all those quiet houses guessed what was coming. Many peo ple had gone to bed. A few hundred yards behind you could hear the flood, louder and louder. My horse and I were racing the waters. We got there first “Run for your lives!” I yelled. “The flood’s coming! You’ve only got a min ute! Don’t stop to save- anything!” I never stopped galloping. People saw I was in earnest, thank God, and saved themselves. In about thirty sec onds, without stopping to bring a thing along, they went on the dead mm for the hills, fathers carrying their babies and mothers running along with the other little ones by the hand. There was plenty of high ground back of the town, and in five minutes they were safe. But there hadn’t been a moment to spare. Already the flood was tum bling in on the town, first two feet deep, then ten and then twenty. “Don’t forget Pettysville!” shouted one man to me as he took to tbe hills, carrying two babies and helping his wife with another. “I know'! I know!” I remember an swering as we tore dow’n the road. There were ranches on both sides of the gully and people in all of them. I did nothing but shout and try to hang on in the saddle. Behind me, faster and faster, I could hear the water com ing. Sometimes when it reached a wide place in the creek or a big hole It took n few moments to fill it up, and that’s the way I gained on the water. On, on we rode. The night was pitch black now and tbe rain was falling almost like a cloudburst I thought I’d never do It but I did. I got to lone and tbe telephone. That was better than my horse. I called up Douglas and then every ranch that bad a con nection, and tbe people bad lots of time to save themselves. If the poor people of Heppner had only bad the same warning they would all be alive now.