Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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F DON'T THINK that every sad-eyed woman you meet has loved and lost; perhaps loved and ^ot him, or perhaps husband is so stingy that he won’t let her buy that nice piece of Furniture or China that W. V. Humphries & Co. have in their new store. Our store has been open only about two weeks and we are glad to say that we are very much pleased at the liberal patronage we have received so far. Quality of goods with the right sort of prices will tell, all that we ask is for you to come and see us and we will convince you that we have both. Remem ber that we do not handle Furni ture alone. We have in stock a good line of Stoves, Trunks, Mat tings, Rugs, Crockery, China, Glassware and lots of Novelties too numerous to mention. Come to see us. W, V. Hiimpliries & Company’s /•W RUSSIA’S WAR HERO. Exploits of General Kuropatkin In Former Wars. ' Furniture Store. sam Next .to .GaffneyTLtve;!Stock .Co. Stables. low for tire Now Year! Start it rigiit by com ing to us for your. :; Staple and Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods, CigarsJobacco,Fruits, and Confectioneries. Our lines are ntill complete and contain nothing but the fresh est and the best. HAMLIN.& RADFORD. * 4 •i con !** , t: tn lv ten discovered produce Malan... 1) i • in the intestines and hnr i ■ ■ 1 e.ul throughout the s\>t< i means of the blood. This fact c.\ :.r - why Malaria is hard to cure b;> <i method of treatment. Quinn t • 'i, etc , stimulate the nerves am i d up the blood, but do not destro\ e g» • ;ns that cause the disease dale's Tonic has a specific effect " ; ir intestines and bowels, freein" •t 1 otn all disease breeding nn- ■ ib-s. It also kills the germs that ■< i the veins and arteries. Itdrive- • n the blood all poisonous matter makes it rich and healthy. RY DALE’S TONIC is a blood m r. a nerve restorer, and a Malaria < er. Try it. it will not disaj> out you. GAFFNEY DRUG CO. We believe thoroughly in advertising. To prove it we are going to use thi* space for our own pur poses. We have advertis ing space to sell, and we know it will pay a good return upon the price we charge for it if it is prop erly used. Our paper goes into the best homes in this community. It has been going week after week and year after year until each issue is welcomed as an old friend of the family. Tne news it brings is news of neighbors, of per sonal affairs in which all have more or less of a com mon interest. If one of our readers called upon you, a merchant, you would do the best you could to con vince him that what you had for sale was the best he could buy. You would show him the new things you had got in recently. You would tell him why he should have them and why they were better than he could procure elsewhere. You probably would make a sale. Your effort, however, would b« con fined to one person. You could tell the same story just as effectively to every reader of this paper in each issue. You do not believe it would have the same ef fect? II you told the story in the same way it would. We an ready to do our part to prove it Do yon cart to try it? SXOBELEITS EIGHT HAND MAN. lupl.l.'iita of IIIn Service uh the Ku- mouN ItusNiun Military Leader’). Chief Lieutenant In Central AkIw 1 and at i'levna—ilia llunliilcntlona For Supreme Command In the i’rea- eut War. General Alexei Nleholaevitcb Kuro patkin, the commander in chief of the Russian land forces, is probably the most trusted, most powerful and most faithful servant of the czar, says the Chicago Chronicle. Long ago, when Kuropatkin was a young man, he was sent into Turkestan with the Russian advance and spent his youth in high adventure and in winning for himself honors, decorations and promotion. When he had served his apprenticeship in the marches and bivouacs of the east he returned to Europe and resum ed his studies in the schools. At Paris he won the Legion of Honor and was the first Russian otlicer to do so. This was In 1874. The year following he went to Kokand, fought in the Pamirs - the "roof of the world”—and in the country of Kublai Khan. He rode 2,boo miles on horseback, came back, wrote a book and won the gold medal of the Geographical society. He enter ed the war witji Turkey as a lleuten- | ant and emerged from it a colonel, i “For God, czar and country” was the motive of all his deeds, and this faith fulness was not without its effect. Slowly he rose on the ladder of ad vancement until in 1898 he was made absolute* master, under the czar, of the armies of all the Kussias. Kuropatkin, who was the right hand man of Skobeleff, tin* famous Russian general, all through the Russo-Turk- ish war, was trained In a harder school than most modern generals and went through enough perils to satisfy the biggest glutton for adventure. After one of the bloody lights in the Shipka pass he was left for dead upon the Held. All night he lay there, sore wounded and unconscious. It was In | the bitter cold of a Halkan night, and he might have frozen to death had he not been almost entirely covered by j the body of a dying Turk, who bad fallen across him after he sank to the ! ground with the agony of his wound. In the morning Kuropatkin recover- 1 ed consciousness, crawled from under- | neath the Turk and made his way , slowly and painfully to the Russian camp, where his comrades received him as If In* were a ghost. Kuropat kin became the hero of the Russian army, second only to his great leader, Skobeleff, by his bravery and line gen eralship at tin* capture of Geok Tepe In 1882. When the Russians, balked In their dreams of winning Constantinople by the Rerlin congress, were making their great swoop through central.Asia to 1 the gates of Herat, Lord Salisbury told the Rritish public not to be alarmed for the safety of India. “They will not he able to conquer the Turcomans,” j he declared. "The Turcoman barrier I will last for our lifetime at least.” General Tergoukasoff, the Russian commander in central Asia, disagreed with Lord Salisbury. He told the czar that tin* Turcomans might la* con- , quered by three years’ hard lighting. "That Is too long,” said the czar. He recalled Tergoukasoff and sent Sko beleff to command the troops. Sko beleff pro aptly secured Kuropatkin for his cbi<*f lieutenant, and together they performed in a few weeks the task which the Rritish premier had declared w< uld take a lifetime. Geok Teoe, the great stronghold of the Turcomans, was carried by assault after a month's siege. The brunt of the attack fell on Kuropatkin, who commanded a body of light troops from Turkestan, it was u great vic tory, hut it sullied the reputation of both the Russian leaders. They order ed their troops to give no quarter to the Turcomans of either sex, and all the horrors usual when such orders are given wen* perpetrated. Spectators say that even when the Turcomans tied In a disorderly mob across the desert, men, women and children mingled together, no mercy was shown to them. Artil lery and cavalry followed in their rear and mowed them down until darkness put an end to the pursuit. In that few hours’ chase l.uqo pursuing Russians slaughtered 8,000 fugitives, while over (5,000 wen* massacred in the fortified camp of Geok Tepe. “The whole country was covered with corpses,” said Samuel Gouro- vitch, who acted as interpreter in ths Russian forces. "The morning after the battle they lay In rows like freshly mown hay, as they had been swept down by the mitrallleurs and artillery. Hundreds of women were sabered, and I myself saw babies bayoneted or slash ed to pieces. The troops, mad with drink and lust of lighting, were allow ed to plunder and kill for three days after the assault.” This is the single great blot on Gen eral Kurupatkin's record. It Is true that he was not in supreme command, but his Turkestan troops played the leading part in the slaughter. He Is a great leader of men. The march of his Turkestan contingent across the al most unknown deserts of central Asia, in order to Join Skobeleff for the siego of Geok Tepe, was as tine an acbl .ve- ment as Lord Roberts’ famous march to Kandahar. "Kuropatkin,” said General Annen- koff. who met him at the end of the imireli, "had been for twenty-six day* marching o\oi a sandy and waterless desert, yet his force marched In clean and trim and as fresh as a daisy.” Archibald Forbes, the war corre spondent, was fond of telling how ho met Skobeleff, the Russian general, after one of the iiercest of the many desperate lights before I’levna. "1 was sitting In my tent writing a dispatch,” said Forbes, "when the flap was sud denly drawn aside and in stalked the most terrible and awe inspiring ob ject I have ever seen in my life. It was Skobeleff, whom 1 knew well, but I had to look twice before I recognized him. His smart general's uniform was torn into shreds and stanied with blood and gunpowder from head to foot. His sword, which he held in his hand, was simply smothered in blood, and great drops of it fell on the lloor of the tent as he 'reeled me. There was u terrible gash across the top of his forehead, and his eyes still blazed with the tierce excitement of the hand to hand tight which he had Just had with hundreds of Turks. "While he stood there telling me about the battle, bis favorite captain, Kuropatkin, came up and called him away to decide about the disposition of some of the prisoners. Kuropatkin looked even more like a god of war fresh from the scene of carnage. He was bleeding from a dozen wounds, but he stood as steady as a rock when he saluted Skobeleff. The latter sug gested that he had better go into the hospital, but he curtly replied: ‘No, general. There is work to be done.’ “1 heard afterward that Skobeleff and Kuropatkin had fought side by side throughout the bloody day and had slain the Turks literally by doz ens. Their exploits formed the theme of many a story told beside the camp- lire of both armies throughout the campaign.” After the death of Skobeleff, in 1882, Kuropatkin was summoned from cen tral Asia by the czar and given one high military office after another at St. Petersburg, his special work being to reorganize the Russian army. He was regarded at tirst as a plain, bluff soldier, who would never meddle in politics, and, consequently, everybody welcomed him advancement. Rut, to the chagrin of the ministers, he de veloped into an ardent politician and gained great inlluenco with Alexander til., and later with the present czar. On the whole, mat intluence seems to have been wisely used. Many Rus sians deny the common statement that Kuropatkin Is the head of the war party, and say that, although he has al ways strenuously advocated Russian expansion in Asia, he has invariably opposed schemes likely, in his judg ment, to lead to war. Certainly he has often spoken against war, both pub licly and privately, declaring that he witnessed more than enough of its horrors. While governor of Trans- caspiu, from 1890 to 1898, ids policy was constantly peaceful, and he suc ceeded in pacifying several restless tribes with whom u bellicose governor would certainly have fought. Kuropatkin has the reputation of being an excellent judge of men and always on the lookout for keen young officers who banker after the post of responsibility and danger, as he used to do in his younger days. Such men found the path to promotion made smooth for them while he w’as minister of war. He seems. If his subordinates may be believed, to know something about the character and record of each individual officer in the army. As a strategist and military w’riter Kuropatkin enjoys a European repu tation. His works on the Balkan cam paign and the central Asian wars are in the library of almost every Russian officer, and an* widely read in other armies. They have been translated into several languages. THE FARM TELEPHONE WEEDS “secm^medicine. p rfift n , p , Ilniv ntt fnrwini** Mnv !!«• (I n I ii ^ “ V/l Li LLiLkJ SOUP AS A REFORMER. Its Influence on Rural Life In Many Sections. FAEMERS ARE MADE INDEPENDENT Virtue), of <i .lull DInIi Fxitlulned to Youuu t ul|>rltN. In sentencing four youths who plead ed guilty to larceny In the criminal court at Kansas City the other day Judge Wofford delivered himself of a homily upon "jail soup,” says the Kan sas City Journal. "There is no greater reformer In ihe world than jail soup,” said he, ad dressing the four culprits. "It has virtues that nothing else contains. Boys, I don’t know what It is made of, but I think it will do you good If you try It for six months or a year. I have sent a great many young fellows and old ones, too, to Jail, and during all the time they are there every one of them is good. The soup does It. It Is a most wonderful corrective, better than any reforming plan or institution I know of. I guess the court will have to try It on you. Do you think that six months on Jail soup would be long enough V” All of them seemed to think that six months would h<* about right, but could not screw out a smile at the soup Joke. A VnltuiMe Wood. Recent tests made In Chicago are said to have convinced dealers in fur niture and other line woods that the long despised tupclo gum, a wood that Is indigenous to the section of the coun try about Jackson, Miss., is very valu able, taking on a liner polish than ma hogany, says tin* Kt. Louis Post-Dis patch. It is smoother than poplar and much more valuable than cypress, which Is now quoted at $40 per thou sand. The tupelo gum tree grows In all the marsh lands in Mississippi and lias never before been considered tit for anything, not even firewood. April. The swallows clrcl-*. the robin culls, The lark's song rh s, faints and falls; Thn peach boUKhs blush with rosiest bloom; Like Khosis in the twilight the pear trees loom; ; The maples glow, and the daffodils Wear the Hitine hue that the west sky fills; The moon's young crescent, thin and bright, ! Shines In the blue of the early night, And over all. through all. April bears A hope that smiles at the winter's fears. Para Andrew Hhafer In Outlook For April. Country Districts Xo Longer Isolat ed—Stock quotations Oct There Fast, and There Is Hope of a Tele phone Letter S>*tem uml Evening Concerts by Wire. The telephone lias ceased to be a purely urban convenience, says the | New York Times. It has become an important factor in the rural life of many sections. A talk by wire with the farmer of New England is an every day occurrence. Calling up a planta tion owner in the blue grass region of Kentucky has ceased to be a novel ty and perhaps before very long the farmers of the far south will be say ing "Hello!” to New York. In Connecticut alone the telephone companies have established about 0,000 | farm stations and the number is rapid ly increasing. At a cost of $18 a year the farmer can place himself in con stant and immediate touch with the town and city, receiving market quota tions and advice every day, and sell ing or ordering goods without moving outside of ids own home. The farm telephone Is the outgrowth of a crude syst m, which had its in (•option in the discovery that the ordi nary wire fence could be utilized for telephone wires. Ry insulating the top wire of tin* fence messages could be sent from one part of the farm to another. Crude transmitters and re ceivers were connected, and in a short time farmers co-operated in extending their private wires. In the west, where many miles of barbed wire fences were used, contiguous farms were connect ed by telephone at comparatively little expense. Ry running wires over the highways, stringing them from trees, a pretty effective system could be ob tained. Hundreds of thousands of farms were connected by telephone through the co-operation of the owners, and the fence suddenly became an im proving factor that the manufacturers never anticipated. The telephone companies have now entered into partnership with the farm ers, and tin* rural service of many of the companies is more extensive and valuable than the town service. Ret- ter wires are used, superior instru ments employed, and better general sendee is maintained all around. The whole country is in a fair way to be gridironed with wires. It Is estimated that nearly a million farms have telephone service supplied to them, either by companies or pri vate wires. In parts of the west where the telephone systems were tirst Installed by the farmers it is not un usual to have a complete service sup plied for $:{, $4 or $."> a year. The in dependent telephone systems operated by the mutual process range in dif ferent parts of the country from $5 to $ir> a month, and those operated by companies do not cost much more. The fanner's telephone makes him independent of tin* rural free mail de livery and the railroad and telegraph companies. Market quotations are re ceived in tens of thousands of country homes only a few minutes after they are sent over the ticker to the offices of commission men. No bull or bear move on the market can be made by operators in grain, provisions or dairy products without instantly being com municuted to tl e producers. The fann service attempts to spread the news of the market each day so that the farmers can draw iheir own conclu sions respecting any violent break or advance In prices. To make the service more complete the rural companies have arranged for sending a complete gist of the day’s news happenings to their cus tomers. T hus a farmer al ter the day’s work can sit in his own home and listen to an intelligent description of the chief events in the world. A further step in bringing the farms into closer communication with tin town has been agitated by congress. This Is facetiously called the telephone mail and is intended to make rural free delivery antiquated and slow in comparison. When a farmer expects a telephone letter he directs the post master at the nearest office to open it immediately upon receiving It and telephone the contents to him. Tele phone letters can be sent with a spe cial delivery stamp attached. This In dicates that the postmaster is to open the letter and telephone Its news to the farmer, situated anywhere from a mile to fifteen or twenty miles away. If the telephone letter system Is established by the government, thou sands of miles of farmers’ telephone wires will be available Immediately for the purpose. There will be no ex pease on the part of the postolllce de partment In building wire* or estub Ushlng costly rural free delivery routes. The lines are already In existence and the farmers simply ask that the gov ernment co-operate with them In facili tating the delivery of Important loi ters. With these improvements effected, the fanner becomes an up to date Lm.-i ness man, with all the facilities f .’ transacting l^s work with the coi; merclul world as expeditiously and promptly us the city merchant. Then will be no delays through washouts muddy roads and storms. Some of the most enterprising rum telephone companies are making ai i rangements to give entertainment i ; the farmers in their lonely homes b connecting the wires with concer’ 1 " and lecture pl.t forms at certain l’"c of the evening after the business of t day has been transacted, and when H wires are no longer m demand. How an Income May III* Obtained by Observant Farmers. A paper has been prepared by Allco Henkel, who is the assistant in drug and medicinal plant investigations of the department of agriculture at Wash ington. Her work is entitled, “Weeds Used In Medicine.” and In introducing her subject she says; "It Is a matter of interest, primarily to the farmer, that certain of the well known weeds now either generally or locally infesting the country are the sources of crui.e drugs at the present time obtained wholly or In part by im portation from abroad. Roots, leaves and flowers of several of the species most detrimental in the United States are gathered, prepared and cured in Europe and not only form useful com modities there, but supply to a consid erable extent the demands of foreign lands. Hence It appears probable that while weeds can hardly be made de sirable, still in his light to exterminate them the farmer may be able to turn some of them to account. Some of the plants coming within this class are in many states at present subject to anti- weed laws, and farmers are required to take measures toward their extermina tion. It seems, therefore, desirable to make these pests sources of protit where possible. In many cases when weeds have been dug the work of han dling and curing them is not excessive and can readily be done by women and children. "The prices paid for crude drugs from these sources are not great and would rarely tempt any one to pursue this line of work as a business. Yet if in ridding the farm of weeds and thus raising the value of tin* land the farm er can at the same time* make these pests the source of a small income in stead of a dead loss something is gain ed.” 8he then treats her subject with minuteness, giving complete descrip tions of all of the common Held weeds and of those which are not so well known, so that after a study of the work a farmer could readily distin guish the different species which may have been unfamiliar to him before. Among the plants described are the burdock, dandelion, dock, pokeweed, foxglove, tansy, mullein, hoarhound, jimson weed, boneset and many others. The work has been issued by the de partment of agriculture as farmers’ bulletin No. 188. THE JAPANESE SOLDIER. I'olutH About Ills Kutlons and His Ability as a Fiabtcr. The other day I spoke of rice and dried fish being the uniform food of the Japanese army In campaigning times, says a correspondent of London Truth. This is the way in which the rice is cooked: It is boiled until quite thick and glutinous. Next It Is placed on a ceramic slab, rolled out and cut into squares. The squares are then placed In the sun to dry and often turned. When hard as sea biscuit and greatly reduced in weight they cun be stored. A certain number are allowed each day to the soldier. All he h;us to do is to break up a square in boiling wa ter and u it add the dried llsh. In a few minutes he has what seems to him a delicious thick soup. If he cannot procure boiling water he simply eats his rice cake dry. In the fruit season he substitutes fruit when he cun ob tain It for the tish. The Japanese soldier, M. Plchon tells me. has muscles like whipcord, is a sure shot, has . a eye for landmarks and a memory for locality. He can do with three hours’ sleep out of the twenty-four. Is cleanly, attends to san itary Instructions, is ardently patri otic, holds bis life cheap and runs up hills like a gout, lie costs the state about V-j pence a day and thinks him self well off. are practically a thing of the past, although some Picture Agents claim that they handle nothing else. And some of them even go so far as to claim that they themselves are the Artists and make ‘be work right in your own. It is we'l to take such statements with a to dn of salt. Speaking of Free Hand Portraits, why are so few made at the present time? One of the principal reasons is with the improved methods of photographic projecture it is found that there can be gotten a skeleton sketch in Platinum, which is inde structible and gives you a perfect re production of not only the hold out lines, but also all the finer features and peculiar characteristics of each original are faithfully preserved. Of course the Portrait is then finished by hand entirely over this sketch. With the old method the result de pended solely upon the accuracy of the artistic eye. With the new meth od it is impossible to be wrong. Our Portraits have attained quite a reputation both for faithful like ness and beauty of finish. W are pre pared to execute the work in an • of the following styles: Oil, Pastel, Wa ter Color, India Ink, Sepia or Crayon. Ail the newest patterns and finishes of frames to select from. Our .Mr. Day will be in your city in a few days and will call upon the representative citizens of both Gaff ney and those in the country. Save any orders you may have until he comes and we will prove to you that you have made no mistake in doing so. We have been established in your neighborhood 14 years. Our prices are as low as can be named for first class work. All work guaran teed. Ry permission we refer you to a few representative business men of your city who have been personally acquainted with Mr. Day for some eight years, most of whom have had work done by him. R. M. Gaffney, mayor. Fred G. Stacy, banker. J. I. Sarratt, merchant. W. C. Carpenter, merchant. J. F. Cline, livery-man. A. W. Doggett, Merchant. THE H. M. DAY CO., High Grade Portraits and Frames. Offices:. 13-14-15 Hunt Bldg., Charlotte, N. C. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN — SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the F!ye, Flar,® Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. jit IgTOflice in Cherokee Drug Co., BTdg. Gertnli-NN Hallway Sleeplnft Cars. Owing largely to sanitary consldcra tlons tin* Pullman company has adopt- < ed a now standard sleeper which little i resembles the ornate ears built a few years ago, says a Chicago dispatch. The new pattern ! ■; severely plain, be ing devoid of all scroll and grill work. The upholstery of the car has been re duced materially. and all tin* angles {xissible have been suppressed. Im ported mohair has been adopted as a standard curtain, and the decorations and furnishings are planned so as to minimize the work of cleaning the car and to prevent the lodgment of germs. All Pullman ears will be built on the same plan and pattern, so that uni formity in equipment will be attained. BUILDERS' SUPPLIES LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS, DOORS. SASH, BLINDS, FLOORING, SIDING, CEILING. ALSO A FINE LINE Ot Paints and Oils 60c to I1..J0 per K.’ll. L. BAKER FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE WINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. The HobHoiiM of Jiii»nn. In the glorious navy of Japan, Where the heart Is big in the little brown man. Their feats of arms are makl.ig, they say, A hundred Hobsons every day. There a navy of Hobsons think It sport To scuttle a ship and block x port, For they Hko the trick, and they turn It neat In tha very teeth of the Russian fleet. When the admiral says, with a stately boh, **I want a Hobson to do the Job,” A thousand Hobsons from Tokyo Step forth and holler, "Please let me go!” Ah, well for the nerve of the little brown man Who fights for the sun of a new Japan! He may smile at death, but I think he'll shun A Hobson's part when the war Is done. Can those thousands of Hobsons bravely stem The tide of the geishas waiting for them? Will their swart cheeks blanch at the sibi lant hiss Of a feminine nation's kiss, kiss, kiss? The broad lands shaks with the volley and roar Where the blasts of war on ths waters pour, But the skies will spilt with ths louder smack That will yreet ths Hobsons whsn they . come bnok. —Wallace Irwin In Hsw York Globe. Patronize Home Industry. Turnin'* over your laundry to basket goin£ out of the city you find a lot of incon venience, as it will tie de livered by hand and ex posed to the weather. Why not have our wagon call for your work? Satis- fuction guaranteed and ar ticles delivered promptly. PearlSteamLaundry. Homestead Notice Notice is hereby given that Mrs. E. J. Martin, widow of Jerry M. Martin, de ceased, lias applied to me by jx-tition to set off to her and children to wit, Louie, Hicks, Arthur, Harden, Yolney, Dirl and Clemie Martin, a jhomestead in the personal property of said Jem M. Mar tin, decease) f. A hearing on said petition will come up before me in my office at tin* Court House, on Saturday, April 30th, 1904, at 12 o'clock, m. J. Ub Jkffkkiks, Cl'k C. C l'”ifc. Gaffney, S C., Apr 4th. iq>4- Pub. Apr. 5-12-19-26th t