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mf; 1 ' 3 RUSSIA IN AFGHANISTAN H0W ooqs mojHEm way ; THE 5 LUN |p | N STOCKS a rr'i. ^11 ■« 1 _ MANY PIANOS RUINED. A Plan to Increase ence In That C Her Influ- >untry. BE IN THE SWIM Give mt'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 W. U. Telegraph Office. FBIENDLY ADVANCES TO AFGHANS Wili.iam S. Hall.. Jh. jamehA. 'Villis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT HAW. STAR THEATRE BLDG. OvVI-ctctNl tCY. ». O. Notary Public in office. Prompt attention 'given to all business. XMutrnRt of the Huseovtte Said to Ilnse Acquired a I.csr neutralised Acerbity I nder I’reaent Ameer’a Pulley—nrilllant Move ot Caar'a Atfentn to Obtain tleprenentatlon at the Afghan Capital. Acivdlng to a late arrival from In dia with large trading connections in the northern provinces, it Is interesting to notice how the Russians in spite of (evidence That They Pnaaeaa Peeal- lar Power to Guide Them. In the old days of the James river I canal a line setter was taken by his master on a packet boat which was so crowded that the dog was put In the captain's cabin to be out of the way. says the New York Mail and Express His owner reached Ids destination aft er nightfall and had takeu so marft wine by timt time that he was carried off 'the boat, and no one remembered his setter. Next morning the captain took the dog on deck with him, but was much afraid he would Jump off to the tow- path and try to return that way, and so handsome an animal would have been | In danger of being stolen. Carlo, however, lay perfectly quiet, but with an air of listening that at tracted notice. Toward noon he beard tkanaan Flood < iittNed l,o»a of f200^> OOO In Mimical Inatrnmenta. Wall Street Situation Summa- Mure thou sou pianos were totally . . . TT nr.., ruined in the recent floods in Kansas nzed by Horace White. | aty Th „ of are busy tearing apart the water soaked FALL WAS INEVITABLE, HE SAYS ,nstrum ‘' nt8 * saving some of the hard- ware and sending the polished wood to the kindling heaps, says the Kansas i Financial . r , City Journal. Movement j "There is no salvage to a soaked pi- stock Kx- Hn()< " snid a prominent piano man the Reaponnlblc otlier day. "When they get wet up to the keys they are ruined. There were DOWIE’S NEW TEMPLE. Imposing Features of Proposed Tabernacle For Zionists. IT WILL SEAT SIXTEEN THOUSAND Well Known Writer <>• Topic* Belle* e» ilnll Myntlfled All In the change I n 111 Men Were llrvcnlcd — Then Fvery One Tried to Buy. Horace White, a well known New propably 250 pianos floating about In the flooded districts of Kansas City re- York writer on financial topics, who has a (dimmer cottage at York Harbor, One music company lost two car their preoccupations in north China are doing the utmost that lies in their pow- 1 the sound of the horn of a packet com ing from the opposite way, and as the Me., was asked the other evening as to ‘<>a‘ls of new pianos that had not been unloaded from the cars. They were fa- $ ML m m 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. “Office over National Bank. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, 1> E T I » T Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82. Ninety Per Cent of all chronic headaches are due 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 Fitted With Scientific Accu racy and all the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. For—^ Building and Plastering Lime, Goal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles. Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LimestoBe Springs Lime Worts CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone I sell and hang paper, paint carriages, wagons and buggies; also do house painting any where in the city or country. I use paint that has an iron-clad guarantee. Let me " ' your work. Prices as low as the lowest for FIRST -CLASS work. Yours for business, r>. >1. GiVIIVElS Ntxt to Pearl Steam Laundry. To Scbool Trustees. I can now make arrangements with the Central Campaign Committees to hold an iMucational Meeting, or Rally, in two W three, and possibly four different sections of the county. These meetings will be for all communities desiring to consolidate schools, build new school houses, levy special taxes, start libraries, or make any forward movement in the cause of education. If any school dis trict desires such help, please make it known to their trustees, and we can ar range a program. Through this committee I can aid the speakers to the extent of paying all traveling expenses. Now let us have a general educational revival as far and as much as we can. The children need it, the county needs it, and it is our duty to assist in anything that will help our youth. Everyone should be, I believe, interested in this matter. I will get the very best practical speakers available— preferring local talent. Let me hear from any district wanting such aid, es pecially the large school districts—Nos. 15, 12, 4, 16, 22 and the smaller ones where there is only one white school. I am sure a few meetings like this will be of great benefit to the entire people. J. L. Walker. OFFICE DAYS. Until further notice I will be in my office on Friday and Saturday of every week and every first Monday. J. L. Walker, tf Co. Supt. of Education. er to permeate Afghanistan with their influence and subvert that hitherto ex- j ercised by Great Britain in the country, says the Pall Mali Gazette. Their opportunity undoubtedly came when death removed the Ameer.Abdur- ; ruhmun. who, jealous as he was ready to show himself of every fancied Brit ish encroachment, was nevertheless an inveterate opi>onent of the aggressive power on his northern borders, whose offers of amity he so well knew how to estimate at their true value. When he I died the dread and hatred of the Rus sian to a great extent lost that vitality in Afghan policy with which it hml al ways beeii inspired by Abdurrahman's intimate personal acquaintance with the methods and aims of his former Jailers. Consequently those points of discus sion with the Indian government which were iflwuys subordinated to the su preme distrust entertained for the Mus covite have under his successor acquir ed a less restrained acerbity. Propor tionately, too, the increasing friendly advances by the Russians, to the Af ghan government in particular and to the people generally, have not of late encountered anything like the same un compromising attitude as in former times. Everywhere in the bazaars of India, those mysterious receptacles of news, there Ls talk at the present moment of increasingly strained relations between the Indian government and the ameer. And there is now little doubt in official circles that the recent seizure and de tention of Colonel Yate was due to di rect inspiration from Kabul or that the incident forms a very unpleasant indi cation of the disposition of the proeent ameer toward the Indian government. While this feeling of hostility has been developing fortune has proved sig nally favorable to Russian attempts at closer intimacy. The recent Increase of famine In the northern districts of Afghanistan afforded an excellent op portunity, which the Russians have not allowed to pass, of posing In the guise of generous benefactors of the people : In their hour of need. They have thrown open their stores of grain to the starving people and pro vided them with the necessities of life free of all charge. That such highly politic action will go unrewarded by a corresponding Inclination of Afghan sentiment Is highly improbable. The gratitude of hungry men is not largely swayed by considerations of high policy which they do not altogether under stand. And Russia may congratulate herself on an achievement which is likely to boar excellent fruit. But this is not all she bus been doing in this direction. For some time she has jKTRistently endeavored to obtain representation at the Afghan capital. Hitherto she has failed, but that by no means implies an abandonment of the attempt. Russia abandons nothing. The desire to establish a Russian «m- boasy in Kabul, apart from the suspi cion with which it was always regard ed by the late ameer and in a second hand fashion by his son, is a project which England could never permit. But that by hook or by crook her agents should go to Kabul, whether officially accredited or not, Russia was fully de termined. Accordingly she has set about It in her own characteristic way. Carefully selecting her men some months ago, she sent them, to the num ber of five, in the guise of ordinary travelers through the country to the capital. Here for a short time they were placed under a sort of arrsst. It wns not long, however, before they ob tained their freedom. Their next bril liant move was to embrace Mohamme danism and become subjects of the ameer, after which no further natrto- tions were placed on their grtng and coming among the Afghan people. They have approved themselves most sedu lous and devout followers of the proph et, and, with the Judicious backing of the Russian government to assist tbam, this surreptitious crusade prosecuted under the happiest boats passed each other ho made a leap and was next heard from as having got off at the place where his master had stopped and as having gone at once to the house where he was a guest. €-ould human intelligence have sur passed that? This same dog lay on his master’s grave and refused food until he died from*starvation. But I do not give this as a case in point. A gentleman who lived a hundred miles from a city moved there with all ills possessions, including a bulldog which had been raised at his father’s home, where he had hitherto resided. He was locked up in the car with the furniture and In the bustle of unloading disappeared, and two days afterward he reached ids former home, coming by an inland route, as was known by par ties who recognized him, so that he evi dently marked out his own path with out reference to the railroad on which he had been carried away. THE OMNIBUS. It Waa Introduced by Blaine Paacal, the Noted Mathematician. No less a personage than the famous mathematician, Blaise Pascal, is said to have introduced the vehicle which we call the "omnibus.” Unlike most other men of learning, Pascal was more or less interested in the affairs of prac tical life. Ke was the inventor of the pushcart that now perambulates our streets, says the Scientific American. In 1061 be had large wagons built for regular traffic In the heart of Paris. He allied himself in this undertaking with several Influential friends, among whom was the Duke of Roannes. In 1062 Louis -XIV. granted letters patent to Pascal, in which it was said that these carriages were Intended for the comfort of poor people who had to go to courts of justice or who were sick and so poor that they could not af ford to pay the two plstoes exacted by the chairmen and the drivers of coaches. At first the use of the vehicle was not generally permitted. A - royal ^de cree forbade its use by soldiers, pages, lackeys and other liveried servants, as well ns artisans and porters. Pascal, in spite of the fact that he only lived to be thirty-nine, is said to have made no inconsiderable sum out of his invention. After the vehicle had been in use some sixteen years it was abandoned for various reasons. It was not until 1812 that it was again Introduced, this time In Bordeaux, which city was fol lowed in 1821 by Nantes and In 1827 by Paris. The vehicle was Improved and rapidly became popular. Now it has been almost displaced by the tram way. In modern times the vehicle was called an omnibus simply for the rea son that It was intended for the car riage of all, without any restrictions as to lackeys, pages or footmen. his opinion of the cause of the recent slump in stocks, says the New York Herald. "Looking back at the bull move ment.” Hu* said, “which carried prices of securities to such a height that a corresponding fall became inevitable at some time, it will be remembered that Wall street was for a long time com pletely mystified by it. Nolnxly knew who was under the market till mouths afterward. It was eventually discov- ered that the lifting power was sup plied chiefly J. P. Morgan and J. J. Hill on the one side and by E. H. Har- riinan and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on the other. "The movement began with an at tempt on the part of the former to ac quire the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad as an annex to the North ern Pacific and Great Northern roads by purchases in the open market. That move, though it failed in its main ob ject, supplied a great lifting power to the market. The operirtors and the public generally, being ignorant of the purposes which lay behind it and not knowing .who furnished the steam for it, concluded thiH it was a sign of gen eral prosperity dpd hence that it was a good time to buy stocks. So they tunnKl and bought also. It was Im possible to boom St. Paul in such a fashion without booming other proper ties more or less. "This was only the beginning of the boom, however. When Morgan and Hill found that the control of St. Paul coukl not be bought in the open mar ket they turned their attention to Burlington and adopted better tactics. They went to the large holders of the stock, mostly Boston men, and nego tiated with them. At the same time the buying of Burlington shares was continued on the Stock Exchange. “The upward movement of the latter excited the suspicion of the Union Pa cific people—IlaiTiman, Schlff and others. They soon found out what was in the wind and. as It was too late to prevent Morgan and Hill from get ting control of “Burlington, they sot out to acquire Northern Pacific. The speculators and the public generally soaked and rendered useless in the boxes in which they came from the factory. Then there were approxi mately 350 rented pianos in the fiood. These are a total loss to the dealers who had placed them in the various homes. It is the intention of the companies who have damaged pianos to make some experiments with the better ones in an effort to find out whether it be possible to rejuvenate the instru ments. But every piano house in Kan sas City has announced that it will nev er send out for sale or hire any of the Instruments that have been flooded. The collection of damaged pianos in the Kansas City warehouses embraces Instruments from the aristocratic $1,500 symphony in mahogany to the humble $150 kind in imitation of some thing which it is not. And they are all valueless. Tlie salvage is not worth more than the cast of taking the in struments to piece*. “The hardware in them,” said one of the men at work wrecking pianos in some warerooms, "is all that can be saved. It is worth about 60 cents in each instrument.” The value of pianos destroyed in the Kansas City flood exceeds $200,000. WORLD’S FAIR BUG HOUSE. One of the Exhibit* Which Will Be Seen at St. Lon la. The officials of the bug division of the agricultural department are busily engaged in proparation for their exhib its at the St. Louis world's fair, says a Washington special dispatch to the New York Times. An importation of bugs was recently received from China, and these wRI be assorted, classified and made reedy for the bug house which will form part ef the depart ment’s exhibit at St. Louis. Mr. Busck, who will have charge of the bugs, is arranging those In one class which are regarded as beneficial to mankind. For instance, there will be an exhibit of silkworms that by a system of artifl- eial retardation of the eggs will be found feeding and spinning their co- were as ignorant of the causes of the gooug throughout the continuance of npward movement in Burlington and t j, c f^ jr Northern Pacific as they had been of Tho honeybee will have a special that of 8t. Paul. They ascribed these an( i a n fiyj latest inventions of also to the general waste of prosperity American Ingenuity in the line of upl and were confirmed in their opinion will be presented. Another spe- that It was a good time to buy stocks. c j a j f ea tu re ^vtu b e the exhibition of living insects feeding in glass cages on their natural food plants and undergo ing their transformations under the eye of visitors. The economically im portant insects will have predominance. Thus it is intended to have live grow ing cotton plants supporting the inju rious fauna peculiar to these plants; likewise growing fruit trees and grow ing vegetables, as tomato, cabbage, parsley, etc., with the particular Insect enemies of each feeding and develop ing on it. In connection with these exhibits will be shown machinery and insecti cides employed in the warfare against these curtailers of the profits of the agriculturist, the horticulturist and the forester. HU MUtake. "Once at a party,” said a Scotch cler gy mau, "there was a crusty old Scot seated at u whist table playing pas sionately, and his partner was a young woman, the daughter of a neighboring laird. You are to imagine this young woman’s surprise in the heart of the game when the old fellow threw down his cards and bawled at her: “ ‘What kind of a game are ye play in’, ye darned auld’— “And then, recollecting himself, he bowed and said humbly to the aston ished girl: “ ‘Yer pardon’s begged, madam. I took ye in the excitement for my aln wife.’ ” There to much, therefor*, nfNoriag the present relatione of India wfth Af ghanistan which In nowise can he mU to tend toward the continued Marriage and Crime. It la said that statistics prove that In every 1,000 bachelors there are thirty- eight criminals, while In every 1,000 been i married men the criminals number only eighteen. If this Is so, It surely proves that the present day members of the sex labeled coy and hard to please have at least an immense capability for keeping men out of mischief, sufficient nanoe of the close connection which has to outbalance perhaps even the nnMnd subsisted since Lord Roberts marched from Kabul to Kandahar and disoov- cred thousands of pounds in Rwhin gold, even hi those days a. conaptonous element In Afghanj^oOtica While the ameer Is, through his .peo ple, accepting Russian bospttattty fix the north and is himself admitting Rus sians to residence in Kabul, be is ir- restlag and Imprisoning British offioers on the Indian border fine. It is an ud- i pleasant conjunction of dretimstanoes which cannot but presage a fresh de parture from the settled ordsr of things In this direction which in so many parts of the world has borne witness of to the instability of human affairs. reputation banded down the ages by Mother Eve.—London Tatler. Readr For SaorfRee. Little Vegetarian—Papa, why do yos go away again. Why don't you stay home with mother and me? Papa—But I must go, little daughter, to get bread and batter for you. L. V.—Ob, papa, If you'll only stay home 111 eat meat!—Brooklyn Life. "The word wns passed around that you couldn’t make a mistake in buy ing anything. This was really believed by many of the old and most cautious operators on the exchange. Advantage was taken of the speculation erase to launch swindling projects on the credu lous investing people or lift prices to an abnormal height in swindles pre viously launched. “When the Northern Pacific corner broke tbe stocks that had been bought at tbe prevailing prices were mostly In strong hands. They did not fall to their former level, but it was pretty certain that they would do so some time. That time seems to have come. ‘The fact that certain railroads of the first rank, such ns the Pennsylvania^ the New York Central and the Burling ton, have negotiated or are Reeking vast loans seems to me to be the immediate cause of tbe recent tumble In prices. Whatever money they take out of the boom market they take from other bor rowers, and chiefly from those who are currying stocks on margins. The banks must take care of their mercantile cus tomers first, and, when it becomes necessary to choose between different claeses of borrowers they will first call on the speculators to pay up. ‘The railroad demands mentioned are deemed essential as being a part of the country’s growth, already too long neg lected. The general business of the country, too, must be kept going. Those who ass carrying mors stocks than they can pay for must accordingly suf fer If there is really a shortage of loan able funds. ‘These are inferences wbfcffi I dsaw from reading the coarse of events In Wall street, but I do not pretend to have any special knowledge” As to the business outlook of the country generally Mr. White said: “The general business of the country Is In my judgment sound. I think It win not be affected by tbs decline In stocks.” Leo fUeepm. Beat cam* as to an intent tired with play, Most oatan and swask ScMhnsr tbs ve> THE KAISER’S LEGACIES. What He Doe* With tbe Money Left Him by Loyal German*. The emperor of Germany has recent ly been left a number of legacies by his devoted German ' subjects, and he seems to know how to make good use of these unexpected windfalls, says the Philadelphia Record. At tbe Italian villa to which he fell heir not long since he has founded a sanitarium for officers in bad health, so that they may escape when necessary from the trying winter climate of tbe fatherland. The 2*000,000 marks bequeathed to him by the late Baroness Oohn-Oppeo- heim is to be given to the funds of the new Prussian regiments, so that officers with small means can receive allow ances when needed. The older regi ments of the Prussian service have funds to apply to this purpose, but Che newly organized regiments have here tofore been without them. Two Hnndred Pernon* Can Be Bap tised at Once In the Bn*in, Wlilch Will Be Killed With KIowIuk Wa ter ComlnK From a Waterfall. Bulldlntc to Coat *600,000. John Alexander Dowie, head of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, near Chicago, has planned for his capital on the shore of Lake Michigan what he says will be the largest tabernacle in the nation devoted exclusively to the worship of ^od. The structure will cost half a million dollars and seat 16,000 persons. It will occupy a ground space of 330 by 340 feet and will be oriental in architecture. Leaves of Healing, the official organ through which Mr. Dowie talks to his followers and to the world, gives the following description of the tabernacle in part: “The great feature of the interior will of course, be the auditorium. The construction will be in the shape of a horseshoe and must solve many difficult problems in the arrangement of so many thousand seats, in ventila tion and, most difficult of all, in acous tics. The choir gallery will be' made to scat 1,600 persons. , The speakers’ platform is to be elliptical in shape, fifty feet long and eighteen feet wide. "The seats in the choir and officers’ galleries will be arranged at an angle sufficient to show the face of every one distinctly to the audience. Back of the choir and in line with the center of the building a groat pipe organ will be built. The organ will be so placed that the organist will face the au ditorium. “Two large galleries, in the shape of a horseshoe, will be built In such a manuer that the public finding seats there will be able to see plainly the face of every one sitting on the plat form. These galleries will seat about 8,400, the ground floor about 6,000, the choir and officers’ galleries about 1,600, giving a total seating capacity of 16,- 000 persons. “Elevators will be provided at the main entrance to lift the people to these galleries. On the east side of the galleries will be four stairways, three on the south side and three on the north side; one stairway at each one of the four corners of the building and two more in the rear of the choir gallery. These sixteen stairways con nect directly with the outside and as exits will be of inevitable use in empty ing the vast % auditorium quickly and in an orderly manner should the occasion ever require. “The dome of the auditorium is to be constructed of steel and covered partly with glass and partly with sheet metal and at the highest point will be 160 feet from the ground floor. On the in terior the dome will measure 192 feet iu diameter, varying in height from 100 feet on tbe sides to 135 feet from the floor to the renter. “Electricity will be used in lighting the tabernacle. Thousands of incan descent lamps will be required. “One of the most unusual and at tractive features of the new Shiloh tabernacle will 1* the baptistry. On either side of the basement, directly under the choir gallery, robing rooms for the candidates for baptism will be arranged, on one side tbe women, on the other the men. Both rooms will be 70 by 58 feet in size. “On leaving the robing room the can didates go directly to the riverlike bap tistry by way of separate corridors, one for men and one for women, entirely hidden from public view until the large stairways leading into the baptistry proper are reached. Two hundred per sons may be baptized at one time, and so complete will be the arrangements that 1,000 can easily be baptized in one hour. “Candidates will enter the baptistry from one corridor and pass through an other on the other side to reach their robing rooms after tbe ceremony. “The baptistry basin will be twenty feet wide and sixty-five feet long. It is to be arranged with flowers and shrubbery, while tbe water will come from a waterfall under the speaker's platform. The water will fall in full view of the public, flow through the entire length of the baptistry and pass : out of sight under the floor of the au ditorium. “The building throughout will be a harmonious and symmetrical combina tion of great convenience and beauty.” Far to Os* As a means of obtalptag mousy for hfc cboMb a citorpanasB of IV, has aumnnosid tbot bf wfll the most summafal rntfritor of I fefel *• Small Amok. Blxtes—Do you know, Jlpsoa, that your play M positively improper? JlpeoD—It la very kind, of you to say so, Btxtorr, *. but whet's the use? T haven't been able to jot aay of the pa pers to denounce It as unfit to be seen. —Boston Transcript. Tbs annual consumption of wine hi France averages twenty-three gaUoos tor each person. Faffing through buoy him ta- With Upon tbe aye dlstixMOMfc eagh-ss ssowr when, looking Aovu the It one sunlit peak outsosr the A Won be, but lamb etaadtestir mtid; Fen rim and patient through the har ried years; How wofn he muet have been! His love codears Him to the world. That bier with honors ptied ff Has still a plea* tor our deep grief, our ffeep on, O Leo, even w a child. MhePonsM V> & on Barsfte M in PMta- Neee Temt For the Belle Isle. The okl ironclad Belle Isle, wblch tuu> already bad two smashlngs from the guns of tbe Channel fleet of tbe British navy, is to have one more, and possibly two, the seoond depending on her ability to survive the one now planned for her, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. She has been specially fitted out to he attacked by torpedoes. The result of the experi ment excites much interest both among those who favor the torpedo as a weapon of offense and by those who think little of it If the Belle Isle survives this test she will be ham mered again by great guns. Studying Witchcraft Awheel. George L. Burr, professor of the de partment of mediaeval history in Cor nell university, at Ithaca, N. Y., Is tak ing a trip on,a bicycle through New England in search of information on witchcraft, sqjys tbe New York Trib une. For several years Profe« or Burr has been deeply interested in the Salem persecution of witches and similar movements in the early settlements. By visiting the places where witchcraft is said to have been practiced he ex pects to gain large additions to the lore in his possession. July Scenes. lime where the Hoards run. the eoofchln’ field an’ plain; RlOpr sings in the brTltn’ sun, An* tbe white man prays for rain. Hammer time, but the cool wind blows Over the valleys deep; Whves a daisy, rumples a rose And sings your soul to sleep! —Atlanta Constitution. The “Towing Core." An eminent London doctor whose j nervous system had suffered severely through overwork recently took a trip from Staines to Oxford, having him self towed all the way, says London Truth. He Is now advising every pa tient whose nerves are unstrung to undergo the "towing cure.” The quiet there Is in a boat which is be ing slowly towed, tbe gentle ripple which follows the boat and the sooth ing motion, together with the fresh air. are said to have a wonderful effect up on the nerves. i « />- HQ