Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WORKING FOR VOTES CAMPAIGN THIS FAI?L IS UNUSUALLY VIGOROUS. . ? "toimc.H That Are ttet:;:uasil>lc For I'olUKnl A< iit ii) ? *trtv Con:;ro:.; klonnl tUlricta ? Tom Juiiimou'i I Lnl<iue Itlca. * * Not its many years, except ia a prosljJorrHjil ampNfcit, has there Keen so ?T<v?* ,**v?m?7s! Iriteccrt aroused fn * poUtlcsU battle r.s that which bow *Ia 5ms the attention of the public. Timr* are several reasons that have '-served to excite the Keneral Interest. <Dno of these is the red ist rioting? of the eoveral states, car.sail by the npporjMonuient of representatives under tho rt\velf(li censtas, which adds twenl.v?!jio members tw the lower hftuse of congress. Tints in several of the dis- i briefs peculiar conditions liavo arisen. *Tho refusal of Speaker Henderson, 1 *vho for tty years lias represented ! \ ? Iowa In tli>' nutioxal legislature, to accept a rcnomirntiun has on used wide rprcild cnmmt nt. j'ho lulling of the f.ent formerly hel l ; "i.y Srereary of the Navy Moody and ^the addition of a now congressman are caeiting unusual political activity in Massachusetts. while in Wisconsin, Minnesota. -Washington. Missouri, Illinois and New York the various contests will he at fever heat until the ' ,-A;otes are cart. lint nil these | ale into insignificance ticsldo Tom .Johnson's campaign for ' fi TOM JOHNSON IN Ilia AUTO. the control of Ohio. Mr. Johnson Is entirely original, and his methods cl' reaching trio voter lire the most unique ft:nl unusual ever attempted for a like purpose. Ilis campaign partakes of all tin* features of a circ us -the tent, seat3, ."wagons, bauds of music, horses, etc. Mr. Johnson lias two tents, with a Renting capacity of Ci.bUO people each, v lie takes Imt one with him, the other being held i:i reserve. He carries his paraphernalia?tents, boards for seats te.wl -?14- - - * 1 * ?i.w .!<>.? fsiriiiu'H inr i:it; nunes?j:i ton huge circus wngons, each twenty feet high and big in proportion. t.C. .7. TVr.gnor of Now York, an old rjSfrrW.iw. #i irifcnagcr. Under 1dm ere a (joss ennvasman, boss sent ifcin and boss animal man?all experienced men. and each lias a bis farce in his department. All are uniformed in khaki. A bis band of forty pieces travels ,wlth the show. The caravan started from Cleveland. .SAt Us head in his bis rod automobile T Ire People rode Mayor Tom. as ho Js called in Cleveland. With him were liis son T.oftcn, who acted as chauffeur, Ond .his valet, Tyler. Next in line was putting tr tnu uig tent. n small runabout, in which sat Manager Wagner. Next came the ton huge Nvrgor.s. and in the rear was a tally ho carrying the bandsmen. Johnson tried to get automobiles for the entire circus, but no factory would agree to build tiieni within six months. Ar, Boon as the caravan readies the i. > .... W.1M Ml ? IIU'II u IS SCIICUUICU to SHOW - ^be irsrn rush work on putting up the l>it? tent. It i.; done us systematically, deftly and quickly as i:i any hi;; circus Iti the country. All 1 lie latest machinery is nerd, oven to the electric wiring. After dinner at <? p. in. the hand parades the town, i :;l to gather the crowd, for th.it gathers Itself, hut to "make some noise," r.s Johnson puts it. When the concert is over, the big ,> show begins. With Johnson arc all the state en:idid;:t< s. who travel hy train. .r. I.ocal candidates are also invited to speak. The show is scheduled to keep "'*4- on until liie night of Nov. The entire expense is home by Mr. Johnson. The out ti t cost $125,000. and ? its cost per day is about $2,500. Hut !ld ay or Tom is rich and can afford it. | On mi rH;nr. 1 Focfltijc. ^ ... "Yes." I.oa led an Knglishman In the .west: "I have Tudor l lood In my veins from my mother's side of the family 0 and I'lantagenet blood from my father's." "Is that soV" said a citizen. "My blond Is a III lie mixed too My grandfather was n Jersey tenderfoot an' niy grandmother a Idgger Indian squatv. We're both half breeds, stranger. Jjfiuke!"?Washington Times. j _. u ... A . . . * THE PLAY WAS STOPPED. It XVr.u Not by the OrOer* cl (hJ I I-'reueh PrrtkCmt. M. Snrdou, the Krent'i playwright oiire prolitcil by n jo!;?.' that lienor.-, i i -.udinirauli, who was at the- time pmv- ? trior of i'aris, played 0:5 M. Thiers, fcinlou had written "Itabajrus," and i the p'ay hail been ;;iwn its dress re- t lienrsal "in camera." It was displeasing to Thiers, and he undertook to stop t its public performance. r As (leneral Luduiinuilt was dressing I for dinner, ahout 0 in the evening. an officer entered his dressing roam and ji tendered a dispatch, which, he said, \ had conic direct from Versailles. i The oVilcer went out, and the ;.o::ernl. continuing his toilet, said to himself j; that he was certain that that dispatch r.r.s the interdiction of "Italiairiis.'' ami, bavins a friendly feeling for the natbor. the general left the dispatch unopened when ho left the room. The next meriting came a messenger posthaste from Versailles. " Tkibngus' was pt rf? rined last night." "Without doubt," negligently replied the general. "But the dispatch?" "What dispatch V" "From SI. Thiers, interdicting the performance." "Goodness me!" replied the general. "I left it unopened on the table. See. there it is, the seal unbroken. Still, that makes little difference. Everything passed off well. They nearly hissed the play off the stage, and it will he the samo at every performance. Tell M. Tlders that he has 110 cause for alarm." "Rnbngas" was "withdrawn, but net by the orders of M. Thiers. Morse nu:l tlie TclcscrnpU Operntor. Immediately nft<r 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 bad occasion to send a telegram from a small town in Ohio to his home i:i Now York. lie wrote out his message, presented it to the operator, who ran- ! ! idly cheeked it oft with hi:-? pencil ami curtly demanded a dollar. "Hut," Raid the venerable inventor, "I never pay for messages," and, seein;: an inquiring look in the operator's ' ryes, addid, "I am, in fact, the father of the telegraph." ! ' "Then," said the operator, firmly convinced that ho was being imposed upon, "why don't you sign your own ' name, Cyrus W. Field?" Professor Morse when telling the I 1 Glory used to say that lie was too hu- i initiated to answer. I At Sea on I.nnd. ' A clergyman who had neglected all knowledge of nautical affairs was I asked to deliver an address before an ' audience of sailors. 1 | He was discoursing on tbo stormy 1 ; passages of life. Thinking ho could ' nmke his remarks more pertinent to his ! hearers ky metaphorically using sea [ expressions, he said: "Now, friends, you know that when you are at sea in a storm the thing yon do Is anchor." A half concealed snicker spread over tie room, and the clergyman knew hat lie had made a mistake. After the services one of his listeners enmo to him and said. "Mr. , have you ever been at sea?" Tlio minister replied: "No. unless it was while I was delivering that address."?Now York Times. I.lKlitnlnrc'N AflliiKy Per Oak. Electricity in the clouds, like its companion lower down, loves to seek tlie earth, the great reservoir of all electricity, and it finds the most available way to do so, choosing always the best conductor, conspicuous among which are tlie much maligned lightning rod, the high trees or the elevated steeple. It has its choice of trees as well as other things and will leap over half an acre of trees to tiiul an oak. for which it appears to have a special attraction, and it will pass a high point to find a building that has metal about it. OltlCHl Treo In 4lie TVorlil. The He v. \V. Tuck well In "Tongues and Trees and Sermons In Stones" says: "The oldest living tree in the world is said to be the Soma cypress of Loinbnrdy. It was a tree forty years before the birth of Christ." lint Alpliouso Karr in his "Voyage Autour de : Mon Jardin" says of tlio baobab (Adan| son la digitala), "It is asserted that ; some exist in Senegal that are 5,(J00 I years old."?Notes and Queries. Sti]>crn1 Ition 'flint In Ancient. In many parts of Croat Britain the | superstition still survives that it is foll ly or madness to save a drowning man, ! us he will sooner or later clo an injury to the rescuer. The superstition conies " 1 down from our ancestors, yet traces of it exist among the Sioux and other In- I i (11:;lis, \vlr> seem to have inherited it from aboriginal sources. The belief is ' i most prevalent in Cornwall and various parts of Scotland. ??? No I.nnnfr Xeccssnry. To you still rely on your burglar alarm ?" "Oh, no! We have a baby now, you know, and if any burglar can find a time during the night when some one isn't up with the baby he's welcome to nil he can get."?Chicago Tost. , j Annnyltiw ItplnjN. May?Oh, I hate these magazine serials! Edith?Why? ? May?You can never tell how the j story ends until It Isf finished.?Town ( and Country. . t I)ld It ever occur to you that the ' soles of your shoes go awfully fast ( f after the first break occurs? A nan is I like n pair of soles In i: le.ipect.? . f Atchison Globe. -j 1 I ' JA THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE. I How n Patient Carried tint III* S:ir> Eo ardiun.i. Once upon n (lino n very ncrroua *5 nun cm!loci on his physician aiul naked ,1!U or medical nth ice. T' "0, ' Take a tonic and dismiss from your rn'' nh.d all Unit tends to worry you," said r'd lio doctor. i'1" Several months r.ftcrwnrd the pa- * lent received a l-ill from the physician cr^ [Skins hiui to remit $18 and answered t thus: "l)car Do Oar?I have taken n tou'o ^t*?< tr.tl your advice. Your hill- tends to vorry me, anil so 1 dismiss it from my 0;' f aintl." Kl"J Moral.?Advice sometimes defeats its 1:1 ' fiver.?Philadelphia Dress. Vf': ( and Cnisxlstonl. ' *'1e^ ' i lie?I should like women hotter 11 iliey weren't so fond of contradicting. She? Rut they nren't. limt IIJ.m Doubts. "I suppose." said 11.e visitor who was leing shown through the newspaper otllce. "that the rod faced, rough looking individual who is lounging on the desk over there is the person who writes t'.ie woman's page?" "No," answers the guide. "That department is written" by a lady." i "And that slender, consumptive ap- ! [tearing man over there ? doesn't he J" write the guides to healtii?" "Why, no. A practicing physician J. ' Joes that." I lM "Rut surely that prizefighter who ,n< is smoking a cob pipe is the society NCI iditcr?" vr "Wrong again. Tlio society page is !)'? handled l>y a young wciuan of great j ?: ! gentility." ' ! 1 "And that?look here, young fellow! Don't you try to fool mo. I guess I n.?' lenow about newspapers. I have read ill about how they are edited in the wfl PllOllV IVlllll"! I .1.l-ni:-"? newspaper cflice at nil."?Baltimore n ' American. I>r May rie the Itpr.non. bl't IIo was talking to the pessimistic, sharp tongucd damsel. *y "Have you noticed," he a-shod, "that, as n general tiling, bachelors are Mr wealthier than married men?" "1 1 nve," she replied. 1 "IIow do you account for It?" he In- in: quired. i?::i "The peer man marries and the rleli Iwi one doesn't," she answered. "A man tin is much more disposed to divide noth- Cr In*; with a woman tha'n he is to divide *something." Thereupon he decided to let the subject drop.?Chicago Post. Still fader (!io Mrs. rowers? IIcr.eklah, if you were to lire your life all over again and it came to the natter of choosing a wife, do you thir'i you would choose me? Mr. Powers t.stlhmisslvelvl?1There's no doubt about it. Marin, provided jou wanted mo.?-Uichnioml I.ispatch. Fr. n>??. "When I prow up." reninrfcod IV>bby Tor.j;lunnsclo3, "I am p.in^ to be the people's choice." "Ihipilist or president?" asked Tommy Kharpboy.?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. ______________ / Scarcely Conrloorn ITleiself. 'i Newricli -I linve no time for any- 'h thinp common. Iff, Wipwnp No; not evt n common eour- L tesy.?Philadelphia Itccord. by A Walker. ?1j Mr. Hanker?You gay you walk a tlrl jrent deal? or, Mr. Itnrnstormpr?Yes. elg Mr. Banker?When you are playing lea ;olf ? bill Mr. Barnstormer?Sometimes wlien I tak mi playing golf and sometimes when I wa un playing Hamlet. ^ [3 V ii.'trA jjgi .YtiV Tm . \ ^ ** * SPENCER'S AIRSHIP. w t>v Xpw nuttllnlt Mnclilno Dlf. <g fern From Sar.to!i?!)ii!iiont'i>. tanley Spencer, the English aero- ! it, who recently astonished the ( rid by his wonderful Might of thirty t ts over I<oud..u in his airship, has t M. Santos-Duinont completely in r shade. ^ he ue\Vcst dirigible balloon invent- | by the Spencer 'brothers is initeli j ? that of M. Santos Dane.at. The { in point of ill (Terence lies in the i idea screw, which is fixed J:i front ' { the hotly of the machine and pulls j tucks it forward through the air in- I t id of propelling it Irom t'ae rear, as 1 c lie Ltrazillan's aiiv.lilp. The frame- j ? k is entirely of bamboos, lasbed ; I bolted to one n not her. and, with n exception, of course, of the motor j, I steering board, there is practically ! T metal 0:1 the whole machine. j ^ he result of tills is shown by the 0 !e?. The total weight, with every- ' ^ ig fixed, is under ohO pounds. the ! . me- nccoiKiiintr for 123 pounds of ? -* ? 'I : I' I BTJVNT.EY CPEXCER. - ' 3. The car is novel, inasmuch as < place of U:e usual basket work is | i .en by bamboo crossbars and net- j t g. Tlio framework, which is forty- \ ? feet long. is in three parts, for coil- \ deuce in transit. The driving pow- \ is furnished by a Siinins petrol ] tor of tlilrty-flve horsepower. The < bag Is seventy-five feet in length. It*. Spencer is about thirty-five years and possessed of wonderful cool;s and resource. Before his recent raordlnary fiight he had already ( a fame as an aeronaut. In 1S08 he ended 27,riOO feet above I.ondou In ^ tullcon. This was the liigiiest ascent n* made. lie was accompanied by 1 . Iterson. The two kept alive by :atking oxygen from tubes. I AMMANY'S NEW LEADER. ] in on YVhori the Mnntlc o* Richard ' troker I!:tn Fallen. Three times within a year has Tarn- 1 my Hall, the famous political organ- ' 11 Ion of New York city, changed iders. Last January Lewis Nixon, ? shipbuilder, succeeded Richard okcr. Nixon ill turn wns ciicpoo?1.-/1 CHARLES F. MURl'lIY. a committee of three, and now r.rhs F. Murphy, after being duly cted, is hailed and acknowledged lef of the Tammany braves. Charles Francis Murphy was born New York city forty-four years ago d was one of a family of eight. Ills her was a poor man, but managed give his son a common school edutfon. After leaving school the fu e leader of a great political organtlon worked in John KoachV; shiprd. lie was athletic and handy with i fists, and in a couple of years ho n mi' iiciwiuwieugvu uoss 01 ln? boys the shipyard. "ouug Murphy then started n saloon d naturally drifted Into politics. In | s he was bo successful that ten i nrs ago Richard Croker made liitn ' dor of the Eighteenth district, where had always lived. In fact, he never 1 1 t'd anywhere else. lie has now suc'ded Croker. There Is nothing about Charlie Mury's manner or bearing to distinguish , 11 in a crowd. lie always dresses , black, his searfs are modest, and he i , rirs few jewels. lie is smooth shaved, .1 n derby Is his usual headgear, broker during the many years of his j dership in Tammany never took n 11k. lie smoked almost constantly j If not smoking, chewed on n black nr. So does Murphy. The new der Is not a teetotaler, like Croker, ^ t he drinks little. lie almost never j :es a drink In a crowd. Mr. Murphy ( s married culy recently. He Is re- , ,e?l to be worth about $280,0001 j - TRIVIAL, YET POTENT. I rise Tyranny of Hie Snir.ll anil the c Kvlplrrnnvan of Mankind. Tlic "tyranny of littleness" Is the ruel despotism not of one muster, but h .f a multitude of small ones. Witness o ho Ironclad r.wny which any sovereign <ulor of the kitchen may wlclll over a i lelplcsa household. What happiness or Misery la bestowed lightly by one who $. urns n tea at or or brews a pot of cof- i eel We are nil slaves to milliners and nilors. The milkman holds us helpless u his clutches. The chore uinu orders is about. The mnld of nil work beckins. and we follow. We bow nud crape before the haughty plumber. ; We wbo would strike down nion- J rehs and measure swords with minsters cf finance, what sorry figures re cut in the community If slighted by !ia laundryniun5 We scarce can bold ur own against a surly railway porrr, and It la but by the courtesy of Ir.stcr Hoots that we emerge from ur hotel apartment. And who shall tnnd before the overwhelming power est i d in an ofTonded waiter? WjO . ... i.J annul even 1110111:1 :i irouey cor ir ^Ho oniluctor and uiotormnn choose to Igiore U3. The man who rules the Stock Exhange cannot rest r.t night because hn ufant's voice banishes dreams. He is j victim to the Insect world. Who rill abolish the tyranny of dies and of ; OOSJinitCCS? i ti Heboid the tyranny of horses, dogs s ind catsK to which tlie great majority t if mortals submit without n murmur, i iVhnt master is as exacting as a tight I ilioo cr a torturing collar? A parrot n >r a pet canary can sadly try men's . y ;ouls! Yes, "things are in the saddle | 1 ml ride mankind." j t Who will do Justice to the tyranny t >f the depraved inanimate taskmasters? S V diamond necklace changes the his- t ory of empires. A courtier's clonk i nay pave the way to royal favor. A ; ;lovo, a handkerchief, n glass slipper, | ivhat tliing3 to conjure with! Slaves J if the lamp! Slaves of the ring! j All, the supremacy of trivial things, | that one real tyranny to whlclr we all ^ iow down! Is there 110 hope Hint we c nay seme day. throw ofT the hoary j > roke? Well is it for us to meditate c upon tliis vital problem which touches ' > ?ach so closely. ( And as we meditate v sve may grow wise enough to brenk ' 1 some of the multitudinous sliackels j .imi uuiu us spiritless mm ueipiess m 1 '.lie power of tlie nreli tyrant, "Little , c Filings."?Caroline Tieknor fn Brnndur A Magazine. * ( FLAG LANGUAGE. v A i Tlio black flag is 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 salute a vesjel or fort. The yellow flag shows a vessel to bo in quarantine or is a sign of a contagious disease. A "Hag 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 means mourning. Fishing and other vessels return with the flag at half mast to announce the < loss or death of some of their crew. I < Flags arc used as tlio symbol of rank ' and command, tlio officers using them 1 being called "flag officers." Such flags ore square to distinguish them from J other banners. I ? The white flag Is a sign of peace. | 1 After a battle parties from botli sides often go out to the Held to rescue the wounded or bury the dead under the protection of the white flag. If the president of the United Stnte.s goes aboard, the American flag is car ried In the bow of his barge cr hoisted at the niast of the vessel on board of which he is.?New Education. Didn't Want Too Alach. A Lone Star State man tells the fol- , lowing story of a negro baptizing in Texas: An old negro preacher did tlie hon- . ors, and tlie candidate for baptism was a coal black negro woman. The preach- . er led his victim far out into the stream, . where she could be thoroughly immersed, and at tlie auspicious moment . he cried in a loud voice: "Re stiddy, sister, be stiddy, and r yon'll cum up whitr.h den snow!" "Oh, parson," she exclaimed, "dat's nskin' too much; a cream colouh'll do!"?New York Times. Knrrh of ncflncmcnt. | "Now that I think of it," remarked the passenger with tiie skullcap, "tliere used to be u little place on this lino they called Kiss Station, but It must be something else now. 1 haven't heard tlie conductor call It out." "We're pretty close to It. 1 think," replied the passenger with tlie goatee. "Kut it isn't Kiss Station any more. They've changed the name, but retained the Idea. It's now"? . "Happy Junction!" bawled out tlio conductor as the train slackened Its speed for the next stop.?Chicago Tribune. Proud. "I want you to understand, sir, that my pride forbids me to accept anything from you after I marry your daughter." "IIow are you going to live?", I "Well, I thought you might raako n some kind of a settlement before- j hand."?Life. t I The Good Time Comlnor. V "Jerry," said Flebarty, "pliwat Is the li m'nnin' of this worrud 'mllllnnlum?' " t "It manes that glad time n-comln'," A said Jerry, "whin Ivery mnn will be I his own boss an* shtuck on bis Job."*- J * (AdlanafioliB Neva. FOUGHT IN TWO WARS. nptaln L.?utic. Wto Comtuandi th? Now Unltlokhly "Inlnc. ^ Captatn Kugeno II. C. I.eutse, who V' as Just been assigned to the command f the new battleship Maine,, is a v'etran of two wars, his llrst service for hscle Sam being in the civil war. . Captain I.cutae la a native of Prusla. lie entered the Naval academy in S03. but in the following year ob CAPTAIN E. II. C. LKUTZA nincd leave of absence to enter active ervice on the United States ship Monicello, then on blockade duty. After his graduation in 1S07 Captain .eutze served on the European and orth Atlantic squadrons for several cars. During the Spanish-American war he ras in command of the monitor 3Ion? erey on her voyage to. Mauila from lan Francisco. lie was promoted to he rank of captain on Oct. 8, 1001. UNCLE SAM BUYS CHINA. tot tli? CeJcatlr.l Empire, bat Kett Dtatirn I'cr Hin Table. .When the gues'.s cf President Roose elt stretch their legs under the tables if the rejuvenated White House, tlicy vlll be served on a brand new set of lilna. Not since 1880, when Hayes vns president, has Uncle Ram prodded a china service, which was sorev needed. It Is snid. Mi's. Roosevelt selected the design or the new cliinn, which Is n simple olonlnl pattern In gold, with the oh? crse or face of the great seal of the Jnited States enameled in color as the lecoratlve feature. It was made by iVedgwood and covers the requirenents possibly better than any of the TOE KEW WniTE HOUSB MNXEB FLATS. ?thers which wore submitted for her consideration. In the new china servce thus selected there \vill be 1,200 deces, divided as follows: Fifteen dozen dinner plates, 10 dozen rreakfast plates, 10 dozen tea plates, > dozen bread and butter plates, 10 lozen soup plates, 8 dozen after dinner :ups and saucers, 10 dozen teacups nnd raucers, 10 dozen oyster plates, 10 107.011 dell ??1ntou lO ol~ -4 |,?.ivo, j_ ci.vufii men pullers nr.d 12 eighteen inch platters. MEW FRENCH EMBASSADOR. II. Jaxnern:-.<1. Who Saccccdi M. Cam> ben, Una un American Wife. M. Joan Jusserand, who has Just icon selected as oiuhassndor to reprcicnt France at Washington, like Sir J diclinol Herbert, tlie English embas- ? lador, lias an American wife. 3 M. Jussorand until ids appointment o tliis country was minister to Don- 9 nark. lie lias been n noted figure in 'rench diplomacy since 1878, when be fS intered tlie diplomatic service as a neinber of the consulate at London. "JS J. Jusserand is forty-seven years of Sfl ige. He Is a literary man whose works I IX. J KAN A A i JCS8EHAND. inve l>een npproved by the French endemy. His full name Is Joan Adrian Intolnc Jules Jussernnd. Mnie. Jussernnd \vns n Miss Ellsa llchnrds. Her father, G. T. Illchnrds, rns from New England nnd Is said t? inve been one of the founders of the mnklng firm of Monroe & Co. of Paris, fmc. Jussernnd's mot hex was a Miss Cernoelinn, who was related to the lew York family of that name. lime* usserand was born in France. ^ j .