Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jWORKING FOE VOTES1 CAMPAIGN THIS PALL IS UNUSUALLY VIGOROUS. ' I- ? I Thai Are Responsible For IPolMcal Activity ? Near Cvnicrei* iMitil Districts ? Tout Johnson's Una* Idea. * ? In many years} except In n presi- ' campaign, hns there Ween bo gr*atf gtbtrtl Interest aroused in a (political bnttlc ns that which now claims the nttcntlou of the public. There are several reasons that have served to excite the general Interest. ! One of these is the redisricting of the i ererol states, caused by the nppor- I tlonmcnt of representatives under the twelfth census, which adds tweqty- . nliAr'-mcnibers to the lower house of 1 congress. Thus in several of the districts .peculiar conditions have arisen. *li^ refusal of Speaker Henderson, I p*hO Tor twenty years lias represented In the national legislature, to accept a renouilnutlon has caused widespread comment. Tho filling of the seat formerly held by Secretary of the Navy Moody and ! th^ addition of a new congressman are exerting unusual political activity In lATdWsartiuscttp. while in Wisconsin, ^Minnesota. Washington. Missouri, Illinois and New York the various contesta. will he at fever heat until the SroteS are cast. I hat all those pale Into InsigtilflcnDce beside Tom Jolmson's campaign for ! ~^a> TOM JOHNSON IN HIS AUTO. the control of Ohio. Mr. Johnson Is entirely original, nud his methods of Teaching fno voter nrc the most unique and umiBnal ever nttompted for n like purpose. His campaign partakes of all the features of a circus?the tent, scats, {wagons! hands of music, horses, etc. Air. Johnson has two tents, with n seating capacity of 0,000 people each, lie takes but one with him, the other l>e!ng held in reserve. lie carries his paraphernalin?tents, boards for seats pnd 500 settees for the ladies?in ten huge circus wagons, each twenty feet nd big In proportion. , C.~ 5. Wagner of New York, an old ft the aftnager. Under Jihn ' ore a boss cnovastuan, boss sent niftn and boss animal man?all experienced incn. and each has a big force in his department All nro uniformed In khaki. Avblg band of forty pieces travels (With the show. 1 Tha, caravan started from Cleveland. 'At it* bead In bis bis red nntomobile The People rode Mayor Tom, (is be Is called In Cleveland. With lilin were bis son Lofton, who acted as chauffeur, ?nd his valet, Tyler. Next In line was ruTrixo cr the mo tent. ft small runabout. In which sat Manager Wagner. Next came the ten huge (Wagons, and In the rear was a tallyho carrying the bandsmen. Johnson tried to getsantoinohllcs for the entire circus, but. uo fnrtory would agree to build them within six months. Af soon ns the caravan reaches the towh lu which It Is scheduled to show the uich' rush work on putting up the big fub't. It Is done as systematically, deftlMtml quickly as in any big circus In thrcountry. All the latest uinchlu cry I* ufced. even to the electric wiring. Ator dinner at U p. m. the hand pa- j Mdc^.tlie town, not to gather the ( crowd? for that gathers Itself, but to . 'make some noise," as Johnson puts It When the concert is over, the bfg show begins. With Johnson nrc nil the statejcnmlldntes, who travel by trnln. l.ocnl' candidates nre nlso Invited to fcpenk. The show Is scheduled to keep on uuttl the night of Nov. 3. TJAjyitire expense Is borne by Mr. JotiuJwiL The outiit cost $125,000, end JU cost per day Is about $2,500. But JdiWcj^Torn is rich and cnu afford It j On an R?in.nl Footing. "Yes." boasted an Hngllshman in the 1 .weST*' l have Tudor blood In rny veins , .from n>y mother's side of the family ; end I ye nt age net blood from my fa* ! 1 ther'sg "li^Rmt no?** wild n citizen. "My 1 hloodjty a little mixed too. My grandfnthefavns a Jersey tenderfoot an* my grAdifluther a Digger Indian squaw. Wers both half breeds, stranger. ;Bhak?r~ Washington Tim sol ur-y* | THE PLAY WAS STOPPED. nt It Wni Hot b/ the Orders of th? French President. M. Bnrdou, tbe Fremh playwright, once profited by a joke that Goner.".! Ladinlranlt, who was at the time governor of Paris, played on M. Thiers. Bardou had written "IUbagns," nud the play had been given its drees rehearsal "In camera." It was displeasing to Thiers, aud he undertook to stop its public performance. As General Ludiulrunlt was dressing for dinner, about 0 In tbe evening, an officer entered bis dressing room and tendered a dispatch, wliicb, he said, had come direct from Versailles. The olllccr went out, and the general, continuing his toilet, sold to himself that he was certain that that dispatch was the interdiction of "Rabagas," and, having o friendly feeling for the author, the general left the dispatch unopened when he left the room. The next morning came a messenger posthaste from Versailles, " 'Rabagas' wus performed last night." "Without doubt," negligently replied the geuernl. "But the dispatch?" "What dispatch?" "From M. Thiers, interdicting the performance." "Goodness me!" replied the general. "I loft It unopened 011 the table. See, there It Is, the seal unbroken. Still, that makes little difference.Everything passed off well. They1 nearly hissed the play off the stage, and it will be the same at every performance. Tell M. Thiers that he has no cause for alarm." "Rabagas" was withdrawn, but not by the order* of hi. Thiers. Hone nod the Teleiraph Operator. Immediately after the successful completion of the first transatlantic cable and the consequent celebrations, In which of course Cyrus W. Field bore a prominent part, Professor Moysc had occasion to send a telegram from a small town in Ohio to his home in New York. He wrote out his message, presented It to the operator, who rapidly checked It off with his pencil and curtly demanded a dollar. "But," said tlio venerable Inventor, "I never pay for messages," and, seeing an inquiring look in the operator's eyes, added, "I am, In fact, the father of the telegraph." "Then," said the operator, firmly convinced that he was being Imposed upon, "why don't you sign your own name, Cyrus W. Field?" Professor Morse when telling tjie story used to say that he was too humiliated to answer. At Sea on Land. A clorgymnn who had neglected all knowledge of nautical affairs was rI'a/1 tn flnllrM n n nHilrAsi hnfnra An audience of sailors. lie was discoursing on the stormy pnssngos of life. Thinking he could make his remarks more pertinent to his hearers by metaphorically using sea expressions, he said: "Now, friends, you know that when you are at sea In a storm the thing you do Is anchor.'* A half concealed snicker sprend over dhe room, and the clergyman knew that he had mnde n mistake. After the services one of his listeners came to him nnd said. "Mr. , have you ever been at sea?" The minister replied: "No, unless It was while I was delivering that address."?New York Times. lilghiBlaE'i Affinity For Oak. Electricity in the clouds, like Its companion lower down, loves to seek the earth, tho great reservoir of nil electricity, and It finds the most available way to do so, choosing always the best conductor, conspicuous among which are the much maligned lightning rod, the high trees or the elevated steeple. It has Its choice of trees as well ns other things nnd will leap over half nn acre of trees to find an oak, for which It appears .to have n special attraction, nnd It will pass n high point to find a build ing that has metal about It. Oldeat Tree In the World. The Rev. W. Tuck well lu "Tongues and Trees and Sermons la Stones" says: "The oldest living tree in tbo world is said to be the Seraa cypress of Lombnrdy. It was a tree forty years before the birth of Christ." Bat Alphonsc Karr in his "Voyage Autour de Mon Jardin" Buys of the baobab (Adansonia dlgitata), "It Is asserted that some exist in Senegal that are 5,000 years old."?Notes and Queries. , Saperatltlon Tbnt la Ancient. In many parts of Great Britain the superstition still survives that It is folly or madness to save a drowning man, s he will sooner or later 4o an Injury to the reseuer. The snperstitlou comes down from our ancestors, jet traces of , it exlMt ntlinnir lha HUh* o.wl ntlio. I dlnns, who seem to have inherited it . from aboriginal sources. The belief is i most prevalent In Cornwall ami varl- ' ous parts of Scotland. No Leaser Necessary. j "Do you still rely on your burglar ! alarm?" "Oh, no! We have a baby now, you know, and if any bnrglar can find a time during the night when some one Isn't up with the baby he's welcome to all he can get."?Chicago Tost Aansrlss Delays. May?Oh, 1 hate these magnsine se- ' rials! Edith-Why? May?You can never tell how the story ends nntll it is finished.?Town j and Country. (j Did it ever occur to yon that the soles of your shoes go awfully fSst after the first break occurs? A man Is like a pair of soles In that rcsiwct.? Atchison Globe. /1 THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE. | Hott n Patient Carried Oat Ills Sag. creation*. Once upon n time n very nervous ! mail called on his physician nixl asked for nicdleal advice. "Take a tonic and dismiss from your 1 mind all that tends to worry you." said the doctor. Several months afterward the pntleut received a hill from the physician asking hiiu to remit $18 and answered ! it thus: "Dear l>o?or?I have taken a tonic j and ^our advice. Your bill tends to i worry me, and so I dismiss it from my mind." Moral.?Advice sometimes defeats its giver.?Philadelphia Tress. . Connlntent. He?I should like women IxHter If they weren't ro fond of contradicting. She?But they nren't. find Ilia Donbfs. "I suppose," said the visitor wiio was being shown through the newspa- j per office, "that the red faced, rough j looking Individual who is lounging on the desk over there Is the person who writes the woman's page?" "No," answers the guide. "That department is written by a lady." "And that slender, consumptive appearing man over there ? doesn't ho write tlie guides to health?" "Why, no. A practicing physician does that." "But surely that prizefighter who is smoking a cob pipe is the society editor?" "Wrong again. Tlio society page is bandied by a young -woman of great gentility." "And that?look here, young fellow! Don't you try to fool me. I guess I know about newspapers. 1 have read all nbout how they are edited In the funny papers. I don't believe this Is a newspaper office at all."?Baltimore Amcrieun. May De the llcnaon. Flo was talking to the pessimistic, sharp tongucd damsel. "Have you noticed," he asked, "that, as a general thing, bachelors are wealthier than married men?" "I have," she replied. "IIow do you account for it?" he Inquired. "The poor man marries and the rich one doesn't," she answered. "A man is much more disposed to divide nothing with a woman than he is to divide something." Thereupon he deckled to let the subject drop.?Chicago Tost. Still I'nilcr (lie Siirll. Mrs. rowers?IIracklali, If you were to live your life all over again and it came to the matter of choosing a wife, do you think you would choose me? Mr. rowers (submissively)?There's no doubt about It, Maria, provided you wanted me.?Itlchmond Dispatch. Fnino. "When I prow up," remarked Bobby Toughmusclcs. "I am going to be the people's choice." "Pugilist or president?" asked Tommy Sliarpboy.?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. > Scarcely Coartfoun Himself. Newrich?I have no time for anything common. Wigwag?No; not even common courtesy.?Philadelphia Record. A Walker. j B Mr. Banker?Ton say you walk a great deal? Mr. Barnstormer?Yea. Mr. Banker?When you ore playing golf? Mr. Barnstormer?Sometimes wben I am playing golf and sometimes wbsn I ***!??* w1 SPENCER'S AIRSHIP. Il?n the Rew English Machine Differ* Prom Santoi-Duniont'a. Stanley Spencer, tl;c English aeronaut, who recently astonished the world by HIr wonderful Might of thirty ! , miles over lamdun in his airship, has put M. Santos-Duniont completely In ' the shade. The newest dirigible balloon Invented by the Spencer brothers Is much like that of M. Santos-1 lament. The iftain |K>int of difference lies in the . wooden screw, which Is fixed in front 1 of the body of the machine and pulls or sucks It forward through the nir In- j stead of propelling It from the rear, ns In the Brazilian's airship. The frame- j work Is entirely of bamboos, lashed i and bolted to one another, and. with 1 the exception, of course, of tlie motor and steering board, there Is practically no metal on the whole machine. The result of this is shown by the scales. The total weight, with every- 1 thing fixed, is under 300 pounds, the frame accounting for 123 pounds of STANLEY SPENCER. this. The car Is novel, inasmuch ns the place of the usual basket work Is I uim'ii vy i;uuiuuo crossuars aim netting. The framework, which Is fortylive feet long, is in three parts, for convenience in transit The driving power Is furnished by a Si turns petrol motor of thirty-five horsepower. The gas bag Is seventy-five feet in length. Mr. Spencer is nl>out thirty-five years old and possessed of wonderful coolness and resource. Before Ids recent extraordinary flight he had already won fame as an aeronaut. In 1808 he ascended 27,000 feet above I.ondon in a balloon. This was the highest ascent ever made, lie was accompanied by Dr. Ber8on. The two kept alive by breathing oxygen from tubes. TAMMANY'S NEW LEADER. linn on Whom the Mnntlc of Richard C'rolifr Ilna Fallen. Three times within a year has Tommany Ilall, the famous political organisation of Now York city, changed leaders. Bast January I/cwis Nixon, the shipbuilder, succeeded Richard Croker. Nixon in turn was succeeded CIIABLE8 ^V. MUnrHT. by n committee of three, and now Charles F. Murpliy, after being duly elected, is hulled and acknowledged chief of the Tammiiny braves. Charles Francis Murphy was born In New York city forty-four years ago and was one of a family of eight. Ills father was a poor man, but managed to give bis son a common school education. After leaving school the future leader of a great political organization worked In John Itoach's ship j-?ru. ue was ninieuc niui nanny with his fists, and In n couple of years lie was tlie acknowledged boss of tlie boys In the shipyard. Young Murphy then started a saloon hnd naturally drifted Into polities. In this he was so successful that ten years ago Ilichnrd Crokcr made him lender of the Eighteenth district, where he had always lived. In fact, he never lived anywhere else. lie has now succeeded Croker. There Is nothing about Charlie Murphy's manner or bearing to distinguish him In a crowd. He always dresses In black, his scarfs nre modest, and he wears few Jewels. He is smooth shaved, and a derby is his usual headgear. Crokcr during the many years of bis leadership In Tammany never took n drink. Iifesmokcd almost constantly or, If not femoklng, chewed on a black cigar. So docs Murphy. The new leader Is not a teetotaler, like Croker, but he drinks little. He almost never j takes a drink In a crowd. Mr. Marphy < was married only recently. He la rs? | nfltirtfo b^/50Cth about >20?'00Q? m r I TRIVIAL, YET POTENT. | The Tyranny of the Smnll aad the Kcl|ile??nrw of Mankind. I The "tyranny of littleness" Is the cruel despotism not of one master, but of a multitude of small ones. Witness the Ironclad sway which any sovereign ruler of the kitchen inuy wield over a helpless household. What happiness or misery Is bestowed lightly by one who tarns a toaster or brews a pot of coffee! I We are all slaves to milliners and tailors. The milkman holds us helpless in his clutches. The chore innn orders us about. The maid of nil work beckons. and we follow. We bow and scrape before the haughty plumber. We who would strike down mon- : nrchs and measure swords with ministers of finance, what sorry figures we cut in the community If slighted by the laundrymeu! We scarce can hold our own against a surly railway porter, and it is but by the courtesy of Master noots tliat we emerge from our hotel apartment. And wlio shall stand before the overwhelming power vested In an offended waiter7 We cannot even mount a trolley car If the conductor and motorman choose to Ig- . nore us. The man who rules the Btock Ex- J change cannot rest at night Itccause an Infant's voice banishes dreams. He Is | a victim to the Insect Avorld. Who j will abolish the tyranny of flics and of ' mosquitoes? Behold the tyranny of horses, dogs and eats, to which the great majority of mortals submit without a murmur, i What master is as exacting as a tight ( 6lioc or a torturing collar? A parrot or a pet canary can sadly try men's souls! Yes, "things are in the saddle j and ride mankind." Who will do justice to the tyranny of the depraved Inanimate taskmasters? A diamond necklace changes the history of empires. A courtier's cloak I may pave the way to royal favor. A j glove, a handkerchief, a glass slipper, i what things to conjure with! Slaves of the lamp! Slaves of the ring! Ah, the supremacy of trivial things, I that one real tyranny to which we all ; bow down! Is there no hope that we may some day throw off the heavy yoke? Well Is It for us to meditate upon this vital problem which touches I each so closely. And as we meditate we may grow wise enough to break ; some of the multitudinous shackels that hold us spiritless and helpless In the power of the arch tyrant, "Little rri.t..? ?? i-i ?? xiiui&n. ?vuruuuc AlCKIlor ID lirandUT Magazine. FLAG LANGUAGE. The black flag Ib a sign of piracy. To "strike the flag" Is to lower the colors in submission. Dipping the flag Is lowering It slightly and hoisting It again to 6alute a vessel or fort The yellow flag shows a vessel to bo In quarantine or Is a sign of a contagious disease. A "flag of truce" Is a white flag displayed to an enemy to indicate a desire for parley or consultation. The red flag In our service Is a mark of danger and shows a vessel to be receiving or discharging her powder. A flag at half mast moans mourning. Fishing and other vessels return with the flag at half mast to announce the loss or death of some of their crew. Flags are used as the symbol of rank and command, the officers using them being called "flag officers." Such flags are square to distinguish them from other banners. The white flag is a sign of peace. After a battle parties from both sides often go out to the field to rescue the wounded or bury the dend under the protection of the white flag. If the president of the United States goes aboard, the American flag Is car rled In the bow of bis barge or hoisted at the mast of the vessel on board of which he is.?New Education. Didn't Want Too Mncli. A Lone Star State man tells the following story of a negpo baptizing In Texas: An old negro preacher did the honors, and the candidate for baptism was a coal black negro woman. The preacher led his victim far out into the stream, where she could he thoroughly Immersed, aud at the auspicious moment he cried in a loud voice: "lie stlddy, sister, be stiddy, and yon'll cum up whitah den snowl" "Oh, parson," she exclaimed, "dot's askln' too much; a cream coleuh'll do!"?New York Times. Mnrrh of Refinement. "Now that 1 think of It," remarked the passenger with the skullcap, "there used to he a little place on this line they called Kiss Station, but It must be something else now. 1 haTen't heard the conductor call It out." "We're pretty close to It, I think." replied the passenger with the gontee. "Rut it isn't Kiss Station any more. They've changed the nnme, but retained the Idea. It's now"? "Ilappy Junction!" bowled out the conductor as the trnla slackened Its speed for the next stop.?Chicago Tribune. rjt Prond, "I want you to understand, sir, that my pride forbids me to accept anything froiu you after I marry your daughter." "How are you going to live?" "Well, I thought you might make some kind of a settlement beforehand."?Life. r jfal IV The Good Time Com!ear* "Jerry," said Fleharty, "phwat Is the m'nnln' of this worruil 'millIonium?* " "It manes that glad time n-com In'," said Jerry, "whin Ivery man tvlll be his own boss an' ahtuok on bid job."? NSWSU FOUGHT IN TWO WARS. Captnln I.ca(*o, Who Commando th? Xrw IJ:?tflc?Mi? Wnlnr. Captain Eugene II. C. I.ontze, who bnB Jurt been assigned to tin? command of the new battleship Maine. Ir a vet* oron of two warn, his tlrst service for Uncle Sain being in the civil war. Captain Letitxe Is n native of l'rus* ala. He entered the Naval academy In lSd.1. but In the following year ol>* CAPTAIN E. n. C. liEVTZa. tnlncd Ionvp of absence to cntor active service 0:1 the United States ship Menticollo, then on blockade duty. After liis graduation in 1S07 Cnptnln Leutze served on tlio European anil north Atlantic squadrons for several years. During tlie Spanish-American war he iyas in command of the monitor Monterey on her voyage to Manila from San Francisco. lie was promoted to the rank of captain on Oct. 8, 1901. UNCLE SAM BUYS CHINA. lfot (lip Celestial Rmplre, tint Hew Dishes I-'or Ills Tnblc. When the guests of President Roosevelt stretch their legs under the tables of the rejuvenated White House, they will lie served on a brand new set of clilna. Not since 1SS0, when Ilayes was president, lias Uncle Sam provided a china service, which was sorely needed, it Is said. Mrs. Roosevelt selected the design for the new china, which Is a simple colonial pattern In gold, with the diverse or face of the great seal of the United States enameled in color ns the decorative feature. It was made hy Wedgwood and covers the requiremonta nngeihk* LoHne Uion ..VUV. IUO.I VI I"" TUB KBW WU1TK ROUSE MNKER PLATE, others wnich wore submitted for her consideration. In tlio new china service tiius selected there will be 1,200 pieces, divided as follows: Fifteen dozen dinner plates, 10 dozen breakfast plates, 10 dozen tea plates, 5 dozen bread and butter plates, 10 dozen soup plates, 8 dozen after dinner cups and saucers, 10 dozen teacups and saucers, 10 dozen oyster plates, 10 dozen fish plates, 12 sixteen inch platters and 12 eighteen inch platters. NEW FRENCH EMBASSADOR. M. Jamerand, Who Sarcrrdn M. Cambon, Una nn American Wife, M. Joan Jusserand, who 1ms just boon selected ns embassador to represent France at Washington, like Sir ; Michael Ilorbort, the English embassador, has nn American wife. M. Jusserand until his nppointmont to this country was minister to Donmark. lie hns been a noted figure in French diplomacy since 1878, when he entered the diplomatic service as n member of the consulate at I-ondon. M. Jusserand Is forty-seven years of age. lie is a literary uian whose works M. JEAN A. A. J. JTJSSEHAND. have been approved by the French academy. Ills full name is Jean Adrian Antolne Jules Jusscrnnd. Mme. Jusscrnnd was n Miss Ellas Itlehnrds. Ilcr father, G. T. Richards, was from New England and Is said to have been one of the founders of tho banking firm of Monroe & Co. of Parla Mine. Jusserand's mother was a Miss Kcrnochnn, who was related to tho $ew York family of that name. Mme, Jusoerand was born In Franco, , j