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V V K Limestone College Official Programme Wednesday, May 29,1907. PROGRAMME PART I Movement of Concerto in D Minor Mozart Solo Piano, Miss Lonlie Potter, Gaffney, S. C. Second Piano, Miss Churchill Vocal Trio, The Winter Hath Not a Blossom - - Reinecke Miss Nan Wilburne, Union, S. C., Miss Erin Hnff, Enoree, S. C., Miss Blanche All, Allendale, S, C. Movement of Concerto in T) Minor Haydn Solo Piano, Miss Lydia Jenkins, Kline, S. C. Second Piano, Miss Dew Vocal Duet, O, That My Love ... - - Mendelssohn Misses Blanche and Bessie All, Allendale, S. C. Sherzo in E Minor Mendelsshou Miss Isabelle Free, Blackville, S. C. Polka de Concert Bartlett Miss Angelle Andrews, Asheville, N. C. PART II Valse in E Major Moszkowski Miss Mary Alice Dew, Greenwood, S. C. Etude (known as Butterfly Etude) Chopin Miss Mary Alice Churchill, Buffalo, New York Aria From Merry Wives of Windsor Nicolai Miss Edna von Vliet Higley, Castleton. Vermont (a) Native Sioux Indian Song, recorded by Mr. Loring, direct from Indians of the Sioux Tribe, on the Oglala Indian Reservation, South Dakota. (b) Prelude in C Sharp Minor - - . . Rachmaninoff Harold A. Loring, Portland, Maine Tan Oxfords for Men, Women and Children. Long Gloves, new Hosiery, Ribbons, Fans and many other things suitable f6r this occasion. Carroll & Byers BMQUCTTO HOBOES, Chicago Vagrants Feasted In Aid of Science. NO MOVE TO REFORM GUESTS mmmmmmmmn: I Watch For The Ice Man 1 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 Cotton Oil Comp’y HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family atpremium 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. C* 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. x x x It is every man’s sacred duty to carry life.insurance for the benefit of those de pendant upon him, and all.mjn know this. But no South Carolinan need go out of his own State to get ~ x x The Southeastern Lift Insurance Company is a home institution, chartered by the State of South Carolina and subject to the South Carolina; laws governing Life Insurance. It is directed|by men whose homes and interests are in this State. It is an old line, legal reserve. Straight Life Company of tae soundest kind,'and should have the support of the people of the State. x Southeastern Life Insurance Compy, ELLIOTT ESTES, >. General Agent, Mar IKtb. 1M8 Spartanburg, S. C. a'The Cheap Store' SELLS ALL KINDS OF GROCERIES « T. Davenport. Motherhood Welfare Association Ten dered Bounteous Repast to Knights of the Road With View of Learning Their Needs and Adding to Sociologio Knowledge. A banquet to Chicago hoboes was given the other night at the Wlndaor- Clifton hotel under the auspices of Dr. Benjamin L. Reltmaa of the Brother hood Welfare association, says a Chi cago special dispatch to the Philadel phia Press. Ninety guests were invited and attended, while 9,000 sought Invi tations. No attempt was made to re form the guests by making it a dry banquet The purpose of the banquet was to learu Just what these men need, ac cording to Dr. Reitman. He said: “We have no right to tell of the needs of men whose lives we do not know. We will let them tell their stories. They will tell us the truth, and they will tell many other things. Sociologists can learn much from the statements of these fallen men." From the lodging houses, the barrel houses and the gutters gathered the guests. There were men who have beaten their way In almost every coun try of the globe. There were thieves, who told in speeches at the dinner of their thievery, and ex-convicts, who made postprandial remarks about their penitentiary experiences and explained how hobodom is the only field open to an ex-convict. There were men who told how they had never worked and didn’t want to begin. Among the most notable of the guests were “Strawberry Shorty,” Scranton, L’a. Nearby was “Bum Mitt Casey,” who vowed eternal hobo friendship to “Slim and Fat, the Traveling Twins.” Around them at other tables through the banquet hall drank and ate 120 more prominent representatives of the “soldiers of misfortune” — the men whom the “wanderlust” has called to the life of the tramp. Before pro ceeding to soclologlc discussion the guests made surprisingly short work of a bounteous menu. When cigar and cigarette smoke be gan to rise Toastmaster John II. Drake —In a dress suit, who declared he used to he a tramp himself—rose too. “Order,” said he. “I want to make an announcement from ‘W T ashIngton Fat,’ known to all 'hoes. He was to have been toastmaster, but he Inter viewed the police and has left for St. Louis under a freight car. So I’ll sub stitute. The programme will now get moving.” The tramps cheered, clinking beer glasses together in approbation. They cheered louder yet when “Gloomy Gus” was Introduced to speak to the topic “Fourteen Carat Misery.” With a broad smile showing above a collnr- tess red shirt “Gloomy” spoke In this wise: “I can’t get no work. They told me to wash windows, but I ain’t able to hang five stories above the sidewalk on the end of a rope—am I now?” “Of course you ain’t,” thundered the chorus. “Well, there you are. ’Ere’s the dope is 1 see it. I’ll work if I can. If I can’t work I’ll bog.” “Hot Tamale Kelly” demanded at tention from the chair. He declared he wished to make an Important speech. It was made brief by inter ruptions. He said: “I came from Pittsburg, and I’ve tramped in China and South Africa and everj'where else. But I come from Pittsburg originally.” “Do you know Corey?” yelled Fatty Johnson. “IX* you mean Mike Corey or this steel clerk Corey?” “Steel Corey.” was the answer. “N’aw, I don’t know him. He ain’t respectable enough," declared the Pittsburg citizen. He sat down, and Fatty Johnson caught the toastmaster’s eye. Fatty was garbed in a collarless yellow shirt, with a plaid tie around his neck. “I’m called Fatty Johnson because I weigh ninety-seven pounds with my Jewelry on and ubiety pounds with it off,” he pronounced. “I only got up to say 1 can’t wait no longer, for I’ve got to smoke a cigar in me library at 11 o’clock, according to me wont.” In the howl which followed he van ished. Just at this moment “Shoestring Ar my” Chase, who admitted tp being a professional lieggar, spied an opportu nity to do some business. He got up and began to circulate among the newspaper men and other onlookers, with a dilapidated hat outstretched. The “nerve” of his proceeding as an invited banquet guest drew enthusi astic approbation from the ’boes and money from those to whom the hat was offered. Then “Shoestring” re turned to bis beer and cigar, a good evening’s work accomplished. Among the addresses received with particular applause was the speech of “Pittsburg Joe.” who discussed the sub ject “How I’ve Lived Without Work.” John Smith, who has served fourteen years In Jail at various times and ad mits he never uitll recently did n day’s work except under compulsion, told “Why the Criminal Has a Hard Face.” “Why I Hang Around Barrel Houses” was the topic selected by a speaker who Is known only as “Fred the Bum.” The banquet was brought to a close hy an address by Dr. Kelt man. who spoke on the motto of the Brotherhood Welfare association, “Kindness and No Red Tape.” NOVEL ROCKEFELLER HOME. Impervious to Heat, Cold and Moia- turo, as Woll as Firaproof. Percy A. Rockefeller, son of William Rockefeller and nephew of John D. Rockefeller, is building a country home in Connecticut which Is unlike any other ever planned, says the New York Times Perhaps the most extraordi nary feature of It is a confined air apace In the walls, forming a non-con ductor of heat, cold or moisture. The air space, It Is said, will make the house wai mer In winter, cooler in sum mer and drier all the year around than any other man’s home, rich or poor. The house Is being built Just outside of Greenwich, overlooking Long Island sound. It is near the estate of the owner’s father. In the three stories and basement are about sixty rooms. Including more than a dozen for serv ants. There are ten bathrooms and in numerable closets. In the basement are a boiler room, a room for the motor that runs the elevators, a laundry and a big space for carriages, besides room for the storage of coal and everything else not provided for above. The owner has lavished money to obtain one particular result—absolute safety from fire. The walls of the bouse have not a piece of wood in them, being constructed of hollow terra cotta blocks. Altogether there are 67,000 square feet of these walls, or more than 800 tons. On the outside there Is an eight Inch thickness of the hollow blocks, then comes the confined air space of four Inches, and then the Inside thickness of four Inches of terra cotta. Thus, In effect, there are two walls four inches apart, constructed of material through which moisture cannot be absorbed. It Is said that If all the windows and doors were closed on a hot sum mer day, air being Introduced only through the basement, the temperature would b. from 15 to 20 degrees lower Inside the house than without On the outside the terra cotta w'alls are to bo covered with stucco and on the Inside with plaster. The floors and all other parts of the bouse are to be equally indestructible by fire. Mr. Rockefeller hopes to move In late In the summer or early In the fall. PRIZES FOR PARK BRIDES. Claveland Policeman Plana to Boom Spooning In Hit Precinct John Goldsoll, patron of lovemaking, whose occupation is chief of the park policemen in Cleveland, O., recently an nounced that he would give prizes to couples wiio become engaged In the parks and afterward marry, says a Cleveland special to the New York World. A short time ago Goldsoll an nounced he would throw open the city parks to couples who wished to make love. In fact, he Invited cooing maid ens and lovesick swains to his baili wick and promised them immunity from Interference. He forthwith In structed his cops to look the other way if a young man should kiss a rosy cheek. They were ordered not even to smile when couples strolled through the parks hand in hand. “A photograph and a statement of the circumstances surrounding the pro posal must go with the prize park bride application,” said Goldsoll in ex plaining his offer. "Notices of park engagements must be sent to me with out delay, and a second notice should be sent the day the marriage license Is Issued.” When asked why be had made such an offer the chief replied: “To encourage spooning In the parks. That’s what the parks are for— a place for the lovesick. They’ve got mother’s front parlor beaten all hollow for love- making.” TREES TO PROTECT SHIPS. Grove of Eucalyptus as Windbreak«on Western Coast. According to a Santa Rosa (Cal.) cor respondent of the Sacramento Bee, State Forester G. II. Lull has been ex perimenting with the planting of euca lyptus trees around the hills back of the harbor of Fort Bragg, In Mendo cino county, Cal., so as to afford a windbreak for the ships that enter the harbor. The trees grow very rapidly and In the two months have grown several Inches. Hundreds of trees will now be planted. The big lumber companies have de cided to plant thousands of trees on the vast areas from which the lumber has been cut. The planting of trees to protect ships U decidedly novel and Is an experiment that will be watched with considerable Interest everywhere. A Big Wolf Hunt The largest wolf hunt ever pufled off In McPherson county, Kan., was held recently south of Windom, says the Topeka Capital. At the appointed time over 1,000 men were in line and surrounded sixteen sections of land, the tract being four miles square, and all moved toward the center. Wolves and Jack rabbits were started up, and when the men finally came together in the center there were thirteen wolves. Those with shotguns began shooting them, and then the dogs were turned on them. During the fight six out of the thirteen wolves escaped, and after the fight was over there were seven dead wolves. There are a great many wolves left yet in the same territory, and another hunt is planned. To Reopen Sevastopol. The Russian ministry has raised the question of reopening for tradlug oper ations the port of Sevastopol, which has been closed since 1900. NICKEL STEEL BAILS, Their Use Would Remedy Break age Problem, Says Schwab. New Thrille. About the only thrilling stunt left for society to take up. say* the Philadel phia Inquirer. Is the submarine boat con petition. PEMAND BY PUBLIC URGED. Human Life Too Valuablo and Trans portation Too Important For Econo my In Equipment, Says Former Steel Trust President—One Train Broke Twenty Rails In Long Trip. Charles M. Schwab, ex-president of the United States Steel corporation, in a recent interview at Pittsburg declar ed that the trouble with broken rails which the railroads of the United States are having would never be rem edied until a nickel steel rail costing three times as much as the Bessemer rail now in use was adopted, buys the New York Times. “When I was with the Steel corpora tion several years ago,” Mr. Schwab said, “I advised that preparations be made to meet the need which the rail roads of the country are now experi encing. As I remember, It Is about five or six years since I came to the posi tive conclusion that a better rail was going to become an absolute necessity on account of the increasing speed and weight of the trains. “Very little was done at that time or has been done since by the Steel cor poration or any one else to anticipate the needs of the railroads except that our works at Bethlehem were equipped some two years ago to supply rails of basic open hearth steel, which the rail road men are now generally agreed is a superior rail and must supplant the Bessemer rail to a very great extent. “There Is something to be said against the shape of the rail now com monly In use as regards the breakage complained of, but It Is mainly that the shape Is lu a manner resi*onslble for the composition. The head of the rail Is too heavy and the flange too light, and the impurities which cause the breaking of the top of the rail are due to the fact that the rail has to be rolled while very h< t. The heavy t'>p is largely responsille for this neces slty. “It Is not to the open hearth rail, however, that the railroads of the country must look for a final solution of the problem. Its general use will be some help, but the railroads are too Important a part of our country’s wealth and human life Is far too valu able for either railroads or people to be content with anything short of the very best, and the best Is to be found In a nickel or some other alloy steel, which will cost largely in excess of the prices which are now paid and which at a guess I should say will cost three times as much. “Some rails of this kind have been used by the Pennsylvania railroad, and, while the results are not entirely satisfactory, they showed, I think, that a nickel steel rail of this kind can be produced which will surpass all oth ers. A few nickel steel rails made by the Steel corporation while t was with it are, I believe, still giving good serv ice on the main line of the Pennsylva nia railroad. “Getting the best Is merely a matter of paying for It. and presently the railroads will realize that they cannot afford to have any but the very beat rail which it is possible to make, no matter what the cost. While breakage can never be made Impossible, It can be reduced to a minimum, and that Is what both the railroads and the people of the United States both agree must be done as quickly as possible.” An official of the Carnegie Steel com pany declared that on a recent run of the eighteen hour filer on the Pennsyl vania railroad between New York and Chicago, twenty rails were broken by the speed and weight of the train. Old Rubbsrs For Graduation Expenses. Through united action and a little foresight the pupils of the Harvard school in Charlestown, Mass., have a school fund all ready to meet their graduation expenses, and not a cent of it was contributed by pupils or parents in the form of money, says the Boston Transcript. Knowing that the class needed money to buy a class picture, individual photographs and perhaps to pay something toward costumes that might be needed, Principal Henry C. Parker some time In April suggested that the pupils should bring In such old rubber shoes as they could collect, the accumulation to be sold for what it would bring. The result was some what surprising, even to the principal himself. Apparently the collection was made at the psychological mo ment, before housecleaning had set In. for the aggregation of old rubber brought to the school weighed 289 pounds. A sympathetic junk dealer paid $22.72 tor the lot. Speaking of shade trees—most family trees are more or less shady. A quiet wedding Is but a curtain raiser for a strenuous afterpart. A DARING RESCUE. How Russian Tsrrorists Got Ton of Thoir Brethren Out of Jail. Like the Invention of a romancer Is the following true iucldeut from au ar ticle by Leroy Scott In Everybody’s Magazine, Illustrating the resourceful ness and cool nerve of the Russian ter rorists: “In Warsaw a year ago one of the most skillful, most daring, of recent terroristic plans was consummated— without a shot or the loss of a drop of blood. Ten political prisoners In Pavy- ack prison were condemned to death, and a group of Warsaw terrorists de termined to rescue them or to die try ing. Toward midnight, about thirty hours before the time set for execu tion, the voice of the chief of police of Warsaw called over the telephone to the assistant prison warden: ‘Get ready these ten prisoners’—giving names »nA dates and arrest—‘for Immediate trans fer to the citadel. Gendarme Officer Baron Rudberg will call In half an hour with the necessary orders will take charge of the transfer.’ “That gruff, authoritative voice was Indubitably the chief’s (the Imitation was perfect), so the assistant warden began hastily to prepare the necessary papers. Within the specified half hoar ’Baron Rudberg’ was at the prison with six policemen. The latter were left Inside the yard, at the prison en trance — yawning, smoking, sleepily cursing the revolutionists. Baron Rud berg -very stiff, very Insolent—proceed ed to the assistant warden and* deliv ered the orders for the prisoners. The minutes while the warden was exam ining the papers were hours of rack ing strain to the terrorist beneath Bar on Kudberg’s mask. If there were any flaw in the forgeries be and his comrades would die with the ten. But the forger:**; were perfect. “The warden humbly begged pardon, but bis papers were not yet ready. Baron Rudberg abused his slowness with true official arrogance. An hour passed—two. This delay had not been counted on. Momently the baron ex pected some telephone call, some po lice visit, that would send them all to death. Rut finally the formalities were completed and the prisoners or dered from their cells. “The prisoners, of course, were en tirely Ignorant of the scheme for their rescue. When the ten were all brought together one of them recognized the baron, and so sudden was the Idea that here was a plot for their deliver ance that he could not mask his face. The baron saw the look and trembled lest others had also seen It. Immediately he burst into new abuse of the warden, which turned all eyes to that official and reduced him to cringing apology. “The ten prisoners were led down to the entrance, where the six policemen and the black prison wagon were In waiting. The policemen, with all the characteristic brutality of the Rusalan police, shoved Into the wagon the ten prisoners, still Ignorant of their fate— taking care that their comrades did not attempt a desperate dash for liberty. Then the gates were thrown open and the wagon rattled out. “As they were going through a quiet almost homeless, street one of the po- Itoemen on the back step called out: 'Hold! A wheel Is broken!’ The wag on stopped, and the driver climbed down and stooped to examine the Indi cated wheel. Suddenly he was caught by the throat and thrust in among thfc prisoners. Then the horses were driven to a secluded country house. Clothea, money and passports were furnished them, and immediately all concerned were hurrying toward the frontier.” Gold Noar Washington. Gold Is mined within sight of Wash ington monument. The heights around the capital are really a part of the Appalachian system, and before the outbreak of the gold fever In California all the gold produced la the United States came out of the Appalachian mines. Only the ores that contained free milling gold could be worked with the crude processes then known, saY* the Technical World. Then, too, be cause of the presence of subterranean streams mining could not be done at any great depth. Nevertheless gold mines are In profitable operation today in Maryland and southwestern Vir ginia, and these gold veins, badly broken and disintegrated, are being worked down through the Carollnas and into Georgia and Alabama. There is not a ravine or gulch in the environs of Washington city where, if a man dig down to the gravel and black sand that lie over bedrock, he cannot by panning get a color. It has not been found in sufficient quantities to make placer mining attractive, though many men have washed out enough gold to have a ring or charm made.—Washing ton Herald. Ban on Roller Skating. The co-eds of the University of Ne vada have been forbidden to roller skate, as contrary to good morals. The male students are expecting a similar order. -»8 IT O R A. L, PC One entire block on Depot and Logan stree s, with two 6 room cottages and a 7-room house on same. See me quick if von want a bargain in the block. This property must be sold. One city farm, containing 13 acres with good house on same. One lot just off Depot street, icoxiao, very de sirable location. One lot on Fredrick and Logan streets, 180x300, a beauty. One farm 8# miles out with be t im provements, containing 300 acres. One farm, containing W 140 acres, 4# miles ont. Snmter Littlejohn house, sit M rooms, comer Sumter and Johnson streets. , aj FOR RENT—Two dty farms. SAM L. FORT, Real Estate ftjd Insjfgqc? ;