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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is a home institution, chartered by
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