The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 11, 1917, Image 6
FANTASTIC BAKU. j
Odorous, but Beautiful, and Only Mil- !
ionaires Can Live There.
I'm afraid that I shall have to tell
my great-grandchildren that the
Casp:a:i is very little to look at. at
least from Baku. It has no color,
and it smells outrageously of kerosene,
writes II. G. Dwight in the
Century.
Baku, however, is something to
look at. (Baku is the Russian Transcaucasian
seaport on the Caspian
sea.) It is a kind of Pittsburgh
dipped in Asia, and it tickled me beyond
measure. Not so long ago it
was a wretched fishing village inhabited
chiefly bv Persians and Tartars
who were too stupid to sell
their land to prowling oil prospectors.
So those same Persians and
Tartars now roll in gold. And they
don't know what on earth to do
with it. The consequence is that
nobody but a millionaire can afford
to live in Baku.
But what a fantastic hodgepodge
of civilization and barbarism! What
types! What costumes! What morals!
Above all, what motorcars, satin
lined, emblazoned, gilded, jeweled,
skitchering there on the edge of
Asia!
It's too good to be true, but I
fhan't tell you about it. What I
want to tell you about is a park the
Russians have made there on the
shore of their Caspian. Thej always
do those things well, you
know. No green thing will grow
for miles around Baku, but those
Russians have coaxed a few trees to
eprout in tubs in that tidy little
]?rk, and bands far better than I
ewer heard in Central park play you
Tschaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakof,
not to say Wagner and Verdi and
Bizet. And you should see the extraordinary
crowds that listen?the
Russians, the Persians, the Armenians,
the Georgians, the Lesghians,
the Tartars, the wild, the sVarthv,
the fiery, the rainbow colored! My
_v._ j?Vi. ?
run, wuuu 1x1 uuuui gv wj uoau.
I sat there in their park one afternoon
sniffing their Caspian, tapping
by foot in time to their
"Glinka," when I suddenly made a
discovery:
That coon song we used to sing
when wo were young, "Lou, Lou, I
Love You," came out of "Life For
the Czar."
Th? Third DagrW In Japan.
Medieval torture for securing
confessions from criminals is, it
eezm, ctoug w uj ricuuum j?uuv;e?
men in Japan, although distinctly
against the law. It is recorded in
the daily papers that two Japanese
detectives, Jihei Fujikura and Kumataro
Takedo, who extorted a
false confession of murder from Sosoke
Komori by means of torture,
were each sentenced to three
months' imprisonment in the Yokohama
district court recently. They
were given one year's postponement
of the execution of the sentence.
After being imprisoned for many
. months Komori, the victim of the
overzealous "bulls," was recently released.?East
and West News.
Salt Sea Superstitions.
Iceland fishermen considered
sneezing a sign that some evil was
about to happen to the ship and
used to salute the man who had
sneezed to atone for his act. Spitting
to the windward, which is unaeamanlike
for a very obvious reason,
was also considered as a sign
of ill omen. A reasonable explanation
for this superstition is that no
ship was safe as long as she had
members of her crew who were so
ijnorant in such an elementary
principle of seamanship. Chinese
atilors consider it good luck to cross
toe bows of foreign ships, and in
eeking good fortune cause a great
deal of trouble in narrow channels
and congested waters.
QI?m Room In a Hoapital.
The hospital of the Hebrew Infant
asyhim in New York contains
? room bnilt entirely of gl?6a. It is
A.rided into twelre compartments,
each hawing glass ?des, through
which the nurse cam see the baby at
aid times without going in. B*h
compartment is ventilated separately,
states the Southern Hospital
Becord. A child baring a communicable
disease can be cared for
L. one of these little compartments
without any possibility of infecting
the baby m the next one, although
vi may be only three feet away, ana
the children smile at each other
llirongh the glass.
Rarbart Spattear'a Odditiaa.
Herbert Spencer hated clocks
which strike, especially out of doer
clocks. When staying in lodgings in
A Berkshire Tillage he sent a re3nest
to the owner of the principal
buse there that the stable clock,
which struck the hours, might be
topped. He was not a good cora panion
to go out for a drive with,
aa, if he did not feel well, he would
ascertain how fast his pulse was;
heating and if it was not satisfactory
would instantly girt the order
to return home. '<
9 L? J I .
The Prefect
Of Police
I O, 1__ \T__1.1
Otory 01 a ocoien i>ecK.iat:e
In Valparaiso.
By GEORGE CATHERWOOD
It was 011 board the steamer Atlantic,
sailing from New York to
Soutli America, that we first became
acquainted with Jim O'Rorke,
a young fellow of twenty-five, who
had just enough blarney and brogue
in his talk to be true to his name.
However, he was an expert in his
line and at the time was on his way
to Brazil to buy diamonds for a
New York firm.
Tom Hargraves and I had planned
to spend the winter months in
the tropics, so when the steamei
reached Panama we said goodby to
our friend O'Korke and went ashore,
but the torrid heat of the day and
the cold nights made the climate
disagreeable, ?o we soon went on
southward, and the following month
we reached Chile.
Hargreares and I put on cool
white suits, such as are worn in
South American countries, and
went down to the late evening meal,
the fashionable one of the day at
Chilean hotels.
As a waiter bowed us to a table
we unexpectedly came on our old
friend O'Rorke, who was dining
with another American. When he
caught sight of us his good natured
Irish face broadened into a smile.
"Hello, fellows!" he cried, shaking
hands cordially. "I'm certainly
glad to find you here."
"I thought you were in the wildi
of Brazil," I said, laughing.
"I was for awhila," he answered,
"but I'm going home now. I came
over to Valparaiso to 6ee my friend
here, the consul/' And, turning to
his companion at the table, who bad
risen, he introduced us.
"Mr. Cuthbert, two friends of
mine from the States, Mr. Hargraves
and Mr. Moore."
The consul greeted us heartily
when a messenger appeared and
handed him a note.
"I have little time of my own,"
said the consul, and, excusing himself,
he left the room.
Through a nearby window the
evening air came in with delightful
coolness after the heat of the cav,
and in the gay surroundings the
meal passed happily. The majority
of the tables were surrounded by
wealthy natives, and the chatter of
the Spanish language sounded incessantly.
Many of the women wore jewels,
and as we passed out our attention
was attracted especially to a corner
table near the door, where a man
in uniform sat with one of the most
beaitiful Spanish women I had ever
seen. I think her beauty first attracted
me, though all noted the
elegant necklace that encircled hei
throat and the large diamond that
formed its central ornament. In a
moment we had passed on, aDd a
screen separated us from the couple
at the table.
"Did you see that woman ?" exoteimed
Hargraves.
"Yes," I replied, "and her diamond
necklace."
"I got only a glimpse of it," said
O'Rorke, "but it was a beauty."
We stopped in the doorway, and
as a waiter approached O'Rorke motioned
toward the screen and asked,
"Who is the lady at the first table ?"
The serrant replied in broken
English, "Senora Garcias, the owner
of the Pasaje."
"And the gentleman?" O'Rorke
pursued.
The waiter looked surprised- at
the question. "The prefect otf poll*/^
" ho cnid in ?n Awod whisuer.
We sat cm the veranda smokfeg
until it was late. Tten Jim remembered
a stiletto be had bought as a
souvenir and went up to his room to
get **
A few minutes later a disturbance
came from within. A woman
screamed, and a man's voice called
tut in Spanish.
Eargravee and I rushed in with
the other guests that had heard the
noise, and at the foot of tha stairs
strange sight met our eyes. Lying
proetrate on the floor vm the beautiful
Senora Oareiaa, with eyes dosed
and hair disheveled, while around
her neck' was a red band, almost
bleeding, as though the necklace
had been snatched off with violence.
TJp on the stairs the prefect grappled
with OTtorke, and as they
swayed back and forth with uncertain
footing the light gleamed from
a stiletto in the tatter's hand.
It was the prefect that had called
inr heln and before we eould
reach them to assist O'Borke a half
dozen of the hotel servants appeared,
and Jim was overpowered. The
prefect disengaged himself with difficulty
from Jim's embrace and
stood panting.
"Lock this follow up until polie
come from the city," he orderec
But Hargraves and I interposed.
"What's the trouble, Jim?" I call
ed to O'Borke.
The prefect tried to keep hit
from replying, but Jim cried: "11
stole the sonorn's necklace. It's i
his noeket."
I
At this the prefect turned on hi:
with a string of oaths. "Villain!
he hissed. "Von took the neck
lace, and if it had not been for in
the senora might have fared woi>t
Thank heaven I arrived in time t
1 save her from your stiletto."
The retainers wrenched the knif
, from O'Korke's hand, and the crow
> surged up hissing, for nothing es
, cites the Latin mind like the sigh
of naked weapons. The affair wa
! becoming desperate for O'Rorki
' but luckily at this moment Mi
Cu#ibert pushed through the crowc
1 which fell back sullenly as the
recognized the consul.
"Hold on there!" he called as th
wallers irieu iu urag uim a?aj
"There must be some mistake, pre
' feet. I know Mr. O'Rorke quit
1 well, and no doubt we can settl
this affair in a moment."
The pref^st interrupted angrih
1 but the consul turned his back o
him and asked Jim to explain wha
had happened.
"I had gone up to mr room fo
this stiletto, a curio which I wishe
to show mr friends on the porch,
' Jim explained, "and on my^rofciir
' from the head of the stairs Fsaw th
senora in the hands of a man wh
held her by the throat. I shoute
; to him to let go and was surprise
to see it was the prefect, who b
that time had wrenched loose he
necklace and slipped it into hi
pocket. Then, realizing that he wa
caught, he rushed at me as thoug'
I was the culprit/'
The prefect stamped his foot an
1 shouted "liar!" But the consul hel
the floor, and Jim in proof of hi
' honesty turned his pockets insid
out. As he emptied his right ham
pocket a glimmering gold chain fel
from it, at the aight of which h
staggered as though he had oeei
. struck. It was the diamond neck
lace. But entangled in the meshe
of the chain was the prefect's polic
, whistle engraved with his ow]
name, "Pedro Mgnendos." Un
known to him, itnkd clung to th
, necklace during the scuffle wher
in order to throw the blame 01
O'Borke, he had transferred it t
the latter's pocket.
The face of the prefect blanched
but he feft back on the dignity o
| hi6 office. "This proves nothing,
, he said haughtily.
"It proves the necklace was ii
. your pocket!" Hargraves called oul
and what might have been a genera
riot was at that moment prevents
by Senora Garcias regaining con
' sciousness.
, For an instant 6he swept th
crowd with a bewildered glance
' then as her eyes fell on the pre
! feet she realized the situation and
with a cry of anger snatched he
, necklace from his hands.
"Oh, you ingrate!" she exclaim
ed. "You pretended to love me
but it was onlv for my jewels. I ow
my life no doubt to this youn,
, man." And she turned to 0' iforke
"He arrived just in time to sav
i i i 1.
me." men as tier nanas caugn
the police whistle she disentangle
it from the chain and hurled it ii
the prefect's face.
'It is a lie!" he reiterated, an<3
drawing the drees sword that hun]
at his side, he brandished it in
' circle at arm's length. In this man
ner he fought his way throigh th
i crowd and made his escape by i
rear door.
Later Qargrares and I laughing!
suggested that Jim might supplan
, the prefect in the senora's affec
tions, but he declared he had ba<
. enough of South American dealingi
and we left the next morning on i
Pacific steamer.
Twtfti Luck.
"I always was an tiriucky beg
, gar," said the pessimistic person
"The hoe great opportunity of m;
| life tm lost thi? way:
"Some years ago I was a membe
of a band, and one nigral among tfo
ndience were three men who hai
struck it rich and become millioa
| aires. They were in a hapny stab
and jnst in the himor to ai wka
! they did.
"After we coneloded the conoert
what do yon think ? I am a sinne
if those fellows didn't invite th
| whole band aeross the street am
( after a treat m the elnbhonse fiUe<
all onr instrnmente with money
And there waa I with a piccoJoP
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1 nave laaen a great many uume
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedyam
every time it has cured me. I hav
found it most effectual for a hackini
cough and for colds. After taking i
a cough always disappears," write
. J R Moore, Lost Valley, Ga. Obtain
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' In the Babel
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Keep is auad s few facts sad year decisisa wiO
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U We bare continued ia aa aabrokea liae ever siace
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t Methods scqaired in that long period art eajeyed
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Arrival al Paneager Trains at
Klnostrce.
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
has promulgated the.'following sched?
ule, which became effective Monday,
May 29, 1961:
North Bound.
No 80 - - - 7:25 a m
No 46 - - 11:33 am
No 78 ... 6:13 pm
South Bound.
tNo 83 10:40 a m
No 79 - - - 11:03 a m
No 47 - - - 6:47 p m
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Daily except Sunday.
+Stops on signal for Charleston, Savannah
and Jacksonville passengers.
Too many men live for the day,
thoughtless of the future, the past
forgot.
How's This?
W? offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm. 1
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Toledo, O.
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! acting directly upon the blood and mucous
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by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for sonatlpatioa.
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I am now equippsd to do this work satisfactorily
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readiac and distance vision ground in^each
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Trained Nurse,
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calls night or day. 'Phone 115.
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DENTIST,
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Office in Nexsen Building, 3 doors from
Poetoffice. Phone 78.
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DENTIST,
Lake City, S. C
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DENTIST,
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KINGSTREE, - 8.C.
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SURGEON DENTIST.
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Attorney-at-Law
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