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9 i 14 Limestone College Official Programme Tuesday, May 28th, 1907. PROGRAMME lUcrt—Prelude in C Minor Havdn—Sonata in D Major, first Movement Schumann—Selections from the Carneval, Opus 9 V Schubert-Tausio—Marche Militaire Chopin—Scherzo in B Flat Minor G R1 EG—Papillon Schuett—V'alse, a la bien aimde PaderEW. xi—Melodic in B Major Haydn—First Movement of Concerto in D Major (Miss Dew at the Second Piano) We have a complete line of Shirt Waist fronts, Ribbons, Fans, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Shoes and Hosiery and other things suitable for this occasion. Carroll & Byers RIVALS III DASH FOR SOOTH POLE, American and British Explorers to Use the Automobile. WILL START NEAR SAME TIME. 1 J. W. Tolleson White Pique for Skirts from 10 to 25 cents the yard. White Linen finish Waistings 10 to 25 cents yard. Bargains in Embroider ies. White Linen for Skirts, 90 in. wide, only 98 cents yard. India and Persian Lawns, 10 to 25 cents yard. Just received lot new Laces. Dr. Frederick A. Cook to Use Especially Designed Machines—Motor For Lead* er of British Expedition Will Draw Sledges—Hopes to Make Sudden Dash After Reaching Ice Edge, Relying on Manchurian Ponies. In view of the report cabled from New York to London that Dr. Freder ick A. Cook has made preparations to explore the antarctic regions and make an effort to reach the south pole, using motor cars for the purpose. It Is Inter esting to note that the British expedi tion to the south pole under command of Lieutenant Ernest H. Sbackleton, announced In February last, Is now al most ready and will start from the Thames about the same time as Dr. Cook does from America—namely, at the end of July. About that exposition a New York Herald correspondent recently had a talk with lieutenant Sbackleton. He was much Interested In the American expedition, especially as the automo bile will play a prominent part In his plan, though the lieutenant Is not re lying on the automobile entirely. “It is not stated In the cabled report about Dr. Cook,” remarked Lieutenant Sbackleton, “where Dr. Cook Is going to land and whence he will start his journey to the pole. We of course shall land on King Edward VII. Land and explore around the Boss Quadrant, which lias hitherto been the British sphere of exploration since It was dis covered by Sir James Boss In 1842. “Of course the prospect of going south from King Edward VII. Land Is yet hypothetical, because no one has landed there since It was discovered during the national antarctic expedi tion in 1002. But we have decided to land there for certain reasons. We have a good staff of strong, scientific men, numbering twelve in all, men who are not only expert geologists and meteorologists, but are able to put a strong band to sledging In case of trouble. “We have Sir Philip Brooklehurst, who will be invaluable to the expedi tion in sledging work. Mr. James Murray is a well known biologist. He has been for the last five years en gaged with Sir James Murray on lake survey. Lieutenant Adams is our me teorologist, and we have a splendid i JJDI mechanical engineer and eluili^eur in Mr. James Muir. “Our prene’-n! st-’ff will Join the ship at New Zealand at the cud of the year. Our automobile—for we shall have only one—consists of a framework of specially manufactured steel and is a very simply constructed affair. It will carry separat * <ets of wheels to unit the varying conditions of the surfaces over which we shall have to travel. “For instance, In soft snow the two front wheels will require to be taken off and sledge runners substituted. There is no water circulation to cause trouble through freezing, and the en gines will Is* air pooled. Wo shall car ry no weight on the automobile—at any rate, no more than necessary. The chauffeur will be the only passenger, the car being used merely us an en gine, as It were, to draw the train of sledges which will carry the members of tlx* expedition and provisions. “Arrangements have already been made for us to ship a number of Man churian ponies at I.yttleton, but these are not to do any work unless the au tomobile breaks down. Then they will be used to draw the sledges. My rea son for adopting the automobile us a locomotive to draw sledges is because I do not think a heavily laden automo bile would be so serviceable as the method 1 propose to adopt. “It Is a well known naval saying that the speed of a fi«*et Is the speed of the slowest ship, and our speed will be the speed of ponies, which should be about twenty-five miles a day. We shall also take some dogs with us, but not for our Journey to the pole. These Manchurian ponies, which are very hardy animals, can each drag as much us eighteen dogs, and they each eat only about eleven pounds of food us compared with eighteen for the dogs, so you can understand what a saving that Is not only in the matter of food required, hut In the weight of stores carried. “As to our prospects? Well, the dis tance from our winter quarters to the south pole Is nlumt 730 miles, and on our last sledging trip we covered some thing like 270 miles as the crow flies. I am quite confident that the automo bile will l>e able to draw our train of sledges quite that distance without be Ing called upon to fall back on ponies. “Then for the remainder of the dis tance, If we have to rely on the ponies we should be able to do from fifteen to twenty miles a day. If we have level ground, there should be no difficulty In reaching the south pole. But If moun tains Intervene, then our operations will require to be modified. If the slopes of glaciers are too steep for our ponies to climb, we shall have to leave them behind. They are very hardy, sure footed animals and grand climb ers. But If they cannot do the work we shall haze to haul the sledges up the heights ourselves. That la why I said the members of our expedition were not only expert scientific men. but physically strong men. ready and able for the hard work they may have to undertake. “Doing as we purpose and supposing we do the 270 inBes we covered before J. W. Tolleson I Watch For The Ice Man I And let him supply your needs for the day. We will not be able to visit the residence portion of town but once a day, owing to the extended territory we have to cover. Buy tickets in order *# to get prompt service. : : : | Victor Gotten Oil Gomp’y | "The Cheap Store” SELLS ALL KINDS OF GROCERIES bj the aid of oar automobile, on onr next expedition we should start anew as easily as from the ship. “Captain Scott, you remember, went an eighty-four days’ Journey over the mountains to the west of his winter quarters. But ns the crow files, we must travel nlxmt twice as far south as he<sJld on that fonner occasion if wo are to reach the south pole. How ever, taking our former experiences into consideration and trying to profit by them, If we do twenty miles a day on the trip we are contemplating we ought to reach the south pole In about thirty-five days, always supposing of course that no serious obstacles in the way I have Indicated bar our way. “At the same time It must l)e remem bered we are not going for the mere purpose of attempting to accomplish the feat of reaching the south pole. We are going for general purposes of geographical discovery and do not ex pect to get hack to our base before Febuary, 1909, when we expect to meet a ship from Lyttleton to pick us up and carry us back to New Zealand. “I ought to add that we expect to make use of the large hut built at the winter quarters by the Discovery expe dition, that will be very useful, for It was very solidly built and should only require to be dug out to find It quite available for our use.” Dr. Frederick A. Cook of New York, who is preparing to make a dash In automobiles for the south pole, Is known chiefly for his ascent of Mount McKinley, in Alaska, the highest peak In North America. Some remarkable machines to be used In Dr. Cook’s ven ture are being constructed at Middle- town, N. Y- says the New York Times. No one excepting the workmen are permitted to see them. Dr. Cook believes that by the use of specially constructed machines a dash to the pole will be an easy matter. It Is understood that the automobiles will be fashioned like a motor boat and be so constructed that speed can be made with them either on land or ice. Dr. Cook recently announced his be lief that automobiles could be used ef fectively In the antarctic fields of ice and snow and declared that balloons were impractical for such purpose. Dr. Cook is forty-two years old and has had much experience in the arctic and antarctic. He was Peary’s sur geon in 1891-92 and was associated with the Belgium expedition In 1897-99, the latter being the first expedition to enter the antarctic in fifty years. Captain B. 8. Osbon, one of the old timers in arctic as well as antarctic explorations, suggested the auto as a means of reaching the north pole at a dinner of the Arctic club In 1904. He called attention to the fact that gaso line is unfreezeable and that an auto mobile can be made Into a bouse. KIU Hi CLOVER. T. Davenport. INFANTILE PRODIGY. Illinois Tot Said to Road Shakespeare at Three and Likes Dickens. Charles Boss Buchanan, the three- years-and-three-months-old son of a farmer living near 8t. Francisville, 111., recently completed reading “As you Like It,” but says he likes Dickens bet ter than Shakespeare. This Infantile prodigy began talking at the age of six months and learned the alphabet when he was less than two years old, says a St. Francisville special dispatch to the New York Times. He now reads about four hours a day and asks startling questions In cessantly. His mother was a school teacher until her marriage. The boy hi' ! an abnormally large head and says he expects to become a railroad man when he grows up. He is much Interested, his mother says, In trusts and railroad legislation and reads the newspaper reports about railroad legislation with much Interest and remarkable understanding. Salton Sea to Dry Up Soon. Frank H. Bigelow of Washington, a meteorologist connected with the United States weather bureau, and C. E. Gronsky, consulting engineer In the government reclamation service, ar rived In Kansas City the other day. They are on the way from Washington to Yuma, Arlz., to conduct evaporation tests for the government In the Salton sea, says the Kansas City Star. “The government Is trying to find out the rate of evaporation,” said Mr. Bigelow, “and we will make extensive tests and conduct ex|>erlments In this great In land sea—the Salton sink—to determine how fast the water evaporates there. The United States weather bureau hopes by the tests to be able to tell Just how goon a given body of water In this Arizona and California country dries up. It will lie of great value in connection with the reclamation serv ice. In my opinion the Salton sea will completely dry up In about eight years.” Italian Vlllagert, Lad by Fanatical Old Woman, Treat It at Miraculous. A fanatical old woman In the vil lage of Saij Giovanni, province of Fog- gla, Italy, declared recently that she had had a vision In which she saw a pig on the back of which was an image of the sacred heart Her statement was believed by the superstitious vil lagers, who sought until they found a porker which seemed to fill the bill, says a special cable dispatch from Borne to the New York Sun. It proved a line thing for the pig, which is now' not only reputed to be a miraculous animal and is revered as such, but Is housed sumptuously and fed on the choicest morsels. Its tri umph, however, may be short lived, ns the parish priest, who Is outraged by the veneration paid the beast, threatens to burn It. The villagers, however, pin their faith to the porker, and the priest, fear ing for his own safety, has refrained from meddling. Greatest Migration In History. No migration in history Is compara ble to the great hordes that bav* crossed the Atlantic during the last twenty years to enter out territory, says the National Geographic Maga zine. In 1905 1,026,499 immigrants were admitted. In 1906 1,100,735, and In the present year the total will ex ceed the record of 1906 by many thou sands. Since June 30, 1900, 6,000,000 have been admitted, of whom probably 5,500,000 have settled permanently in the United States Warpath to Railroad Presidency. A charter h is been granted for the first railroad that will have an Indian for its president, says the New York World. The road is the Indian Central railway, to Ik* built from I’onca City. Okla., to Paris, Tex., 460 miles. The Hero. The veteran of many acara Saluted paaains by. And gazed on that undaunted man With envy In hla eye. The bare handa catcher of the wolf, With hair upon hla breast. Uncovered to hla thrilling deed And leaser nerve confessed. The man who scaled the Alpen peak Or did the dip of death Would gaze on him in wonderment And, halting, hold hie breath. All mollycoddles, high and tow, Kowtowed to him thereat; He was tha hero bold who wore - The First Straw Hat. -McLendburgh Wilson la New York ■ur. Exposition of Barnyard Fowls. Baron Rosen, the ambassador of Rus sia at Washington, has Informed the department of state that La Societo Russe d’Olsellerle has organized an exposition of barnyard fowls to be held at Petersburg next autumn, with a section devoted to fowls raised In for eign countries, says the New York Evening Sun. The Russian government extends an Invitation to exhibitors from the United States. A Sog of Sprig. Sprig la cobig, well I dow; Balby breezes tell be so. Sood the buds will gladly swell Ad the birds their love will tell Where the bradches gedtly sway) Berry sprig Is od tha way. Dowd the furrows od the hills Rud the sparkllg little rills That bake rivers of the creeks. Ad I hear the happy shrieks Of sweet baldeds sklppig ropo— All the world is full of hope. Boys play barbies dow for keeps) There is rubbish piled Id heaps Id the back yards; frob the sklsa Cobs the old fablllar cries Of the wild geese od their wsy To sobe far off dortherd bay. Od the corder lots agald Baseball stars are belg bade; Od the Udes the rugs are hug) •ogs of sprig are belg sug. Ah, by dose, ’Us crlbaod bued— Yes, I took th#b off too sood I •B. E. Kiser In Chicago Record-HersM, Pure Fruit' AND Pure Fruit Juices Go into every drink we serve. : : : : We are not satisfied with making our drinks just as good, we make them the best. e e WHOLESOME HAVE YOU CATARRH? If you have catarrh, with offenalve breath, burning pains In the throat difficulty in breathing, raising of mu cous. discharge from the none, tick* ling or dropping from the back of the throat, coughing spasms, etc- begin the use of Hyomei at once. Its medication is taken In with the air you breathe, so that it reaches the most remote part of the respira tory organs, killing all catanhal germs and soothing any Irritation there may be In the mucous mem brane. The complete Hyomel outfit costs but $1-00; and the Gaffney Drug Co. give their personal guarantee with each package that money will be re funded unless the treatment does all that Is claimed for It. CHEROKEE DRUG COMPANY Pure Ice Cream made to order for any occa sion. NOTICE TO ADMINISTRATORS AND OTHERS. The law requires every Executor. Administrator, Guardian, etc., to make and file his annual return la the office of the Probate Court of the county, before the 1st day of July of each year; and as a penalty for fail ure to attend to this duty is Imposed by law, I respectfully urge compliance with the same. Let all such make their yearly return, without delay, and within the prescribed time, that Is, before July 1st. proximo, and thus avoid further notloe. J. E. Webster. Probate Judge. May 24, 31, June 7, 14, 21, 28. HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at'premium rates fixed on^the basis of the actuaries’tables of life expectation, and therefore, absolutely fair is the only kind of life insurance written by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Spartanburg, S. CJ No “deferred” dividends, no “participating” policies, no schemes for profit, no opening for speculation, no element of scandal, but strict and.straight Life Insurance of the kind that takes care of a man’s family by providing an immediate cash estate on his death, the time of all times” when they will need it most keenly. It is every man’s sacred duty to carry life-insurance for the benefit of those de pendant upon him, and all men know this. But no South Carolinan need go out of bis owu State to get it. 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