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| Wm. A. N1CHC
, What His^Keal Name Was-Oave Himself
the Name of Robinson Crusoe.
The
name Robinson Crusoe has
a merry jingle to the ear of every
American boy or girl who has,
lead the great tale from the pen
of Daniel De Foe. The author,
as is generally known, founded
his story on the adventures of
Alexander Selkirk on. the island
of Jtian-Fernandez, cff the coast
SPS% of South America, and the original
gun that Selkirk used when
BfaJL living his Robinson Crusoe life,
says Percy Trenchard, in the
"American Boy," has come into
; the possession of Miss Huldah
White, of 201 North ThirtyR'.,
. Four Street, Philadelphia. While
RgX traveling in England recently j
. ^she learned that the famous gun, .
^Jwhiph had been an heirloom in
Selkirk family, was to be
^ sold at auction. She sent an
agent to attend the sale, at Edinburgh,
Scotland, and he managed
r .'(ft secure the coveted prize for
:, I thirty-two pounds eleven shil?
or about one hundred and
in So ii urutiov- V-- . . ,
taken to America, there was a1
tremendous outcry, and Miss
White was besought to sell the
relic to one of the many English
'.bidders. Miss White entertained
some offers, but the would-be
purchasers were so slow in coming
to time that she at last sailed
without reselling the gun.
In the catalogue of the sale at
which the relic was purchased
by Miss White, it is described as
follows:
"Robinson Crusoe's (Alexan
> der Selkirk's) musket, a fine ok
specimen with long barrel, ok
flint-lock and beautifully balan
ced. The Robinson Crusoe fire
lock is referred to in Sibbold'
'Fife 1803' as being in the pos
session of a family in the neigh
"borhood of Largo. James Gilles
aged eight, in 1895, informe
General Briggs that his moth<
was a grandniece of Alexand<
Selkirk. She gave the gun '
the late Major John Lumsdain
of Lathallon, about the begi
ning of the century."
It was in consequence of tl
death of Major Lumsdain^'s h(
* - l-.-i rl
that the gun came It' IJC OVtU
auction. Miss White return
with it to America and it is n<
in her possession.
It is a curious old weapon,
most six feet long, and althou
quite two centuries old, is in p
feet preservation. The flint-h
still works on its hinges and
swers to the touch of the trigg
The wood has worn away fi
the barrel and is kept in place
pieces of tape, which are wr
ped around the barrel at the
and around the stock near
trigger.
Comparatively few boys
girls really know the storj
Alexander Selkirk, the Robii
fintion. Selkirk
Urusuc v/i ..v.
a Scotchman, son of a tanrn
Largo, a seaboard town of ]
shire. He was always in trc
when a boy and ran away t<
to escape the consequences
youthful prank. He appea
have been as hard to get i
with afloat as ashore, for he
to be the original Robinson
soe through a quarrel with
captain of the ship. He wa
N wrecked, as De Foe causes
i-) ^ soe to be, but was sent ash"
|l his island, with a few pei
? effects and the famous gun
T For four years and four m
1 Selkirk lived his lonely li
, Juan Feraanto. He
NTEREST*!
DEPOSITS. I
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Arrangements Made to Hold the Annual
Meeting In Rock Hill, at Winthrop
College, on July 4 and 5.
I
Columbia, March 17. ? Special:
A' meeting of tfie executive committee
of the.. State Teachers'
Association was -held on Friday
evening. The following members
were present: L. T. Baker,
of Winnsboro, chairman; Prof.
A. G. Rembert, of Wofford College,
E. S. Dreher, superintendent
of Columbia city schools, A.
H. Gasque, superintendent of
education of Florence county,
p Superintendent of Education
O.^ B. Martin sat with the committees,
and assisted in arranging
the programme and place of
meeting for the annual session of
.the State Teacher^' Association.
An interesting programme, L
which will be published in a few
days, was agreed upon for the
coming meeting, which will
probably be the most important
in the history of the association. !
It was decided to hold the meeting
at Winthrop College, on July
4 ahd 5. Some of the most
prominent educators of this and
otherBtates ill take-part, and,
f of the most vital educa- j
tional qxifiationsjyLUl
be in session at Winthrop during
the meeting of the State Teachers'
Association. This school
will begin on June 20, and close
on July 18. An unusually strong
| faculty, with several new de
[ partments, is now uem&
ized, and full announcements
will be issued from the depart;
ment of education about April 1.
i
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clothes from skins when his own
- were worn to rags. He killed
\ goats with his musket until the
i powder gave out and then per
j force he killed the goats by hand,
j becoming so fleet of foot in time
s; that no animal could outrun him.
j- j Tiring of the loneliness, he movec
i- heaven and earth to escape fron
3, his island, building fires nightl:
d and keeping a close watch fo
?r passing ships. But he was fa
>r from the beaten track, and it wa
to years before a ship came tha
e, way to rescue the strange lookin
n- scarecrow in the skin clothes.
Selkirk was the sensation c
hp the day when he returned !
iir England, and he told his stor
at over and over again, and tl
ed newspapers of the day devot(
3W entire pages to his adventure
When Selkirk returned to h
al- father's house the habits of fo
igh years of solitude were so stroi
er- that he built a cave in the re
>ck of his house and lived alone
an- this place, taking long wal
,per. along the lonliest part of t
om coast and avoiding every 01
! by He went to sea again and d
ap- on the Weymouth, a British vv
end ship. He left no children, 1
the there are many descendants
the original Selkirk family
or eight boys still living in Scotia
r of On the spot where Sell*
ison nightly built his island sip
was fire a tablet has been erect
* i '
ir Ol rcmuiiK
Pife- "In memory of Alexander
tuble kirk, mariner, a native of La
;> sea in the county of Fife, Scotli
of a who lived on this island in c
rs to plete solitude for four years
ilong four months. He was lai
came from the Cinque Ports palle:
Cru-1 tons, 18 puns, A. D. 12Febri
i the ' 1709. He died lieutenant oi
.s not IM. S. Weymouth, 1723, ape
Cru-, This tablet is erected near
ore to kirk's look-out by Comma
rsonal Powell and the officers of I:
|S. Topaze, A. D. 1868."
lonths "Robinson Crusoe" was
fe on 'lished in 1719, seven years
i*uule Selkirk's story wgs first tol
SEANATOR TILLMAN TALKS
ON DISPENSARY FICII
He is Too Busy in Washington at Th
Time to Attend a Convention, But
Has His Eyes Open.
Washington, March 16.?Sen)
tor Tillman says that he knov,
nothing of any plans to hold
convention of the friends of tl
dispensary. "I have scarcel
had time to give such a thing
thought,'' -he said today.
conies and the fight is on, I e:
pect to be in it, whether it bi
gins before the opening of tl
campaign or after."
"Do you expect anything \
be done before the opening <
the regular campaign?"
"Well, I say, I don't knov
To hold a convention or to orgai
I7P 99 tViftv r?nll if wniiW toto
iot of conferring, and a lot c
correspondence, and so far as
am concerned, I haven't the.tin
to do it. I wouldn't even ha\
time to attend that convention <
conference or anything else, i
long as I am swamped, this way.
Then he turned to a pile of ps
pers on his desk, called a cler
and added: "Why, man, I fe<
like a fellow down in a deep wel
I can't begin to see dayligh
All I can see is a little gleam (
light which will get bigger ar
bigger as I climb out of this wel
But you know when a fellow
down in such a hole as this, tl
sky looks about the size of a dc
lar and he can't see even tl
sides of the hole he is in. Ho
in the name of sense can I s<
outside to organize dispensai
forces or anything else at home?
"Oh, yes, I'm watching it,
he concluded.?Zach McGhee, i
The State.
yatimv
I UJIiVl x<
For several years we have tri<
to impress the Church with tl
importance of training the ch
dren for future usefulness in t
Church when they have tak
the place of their Fathers a
Mothers. With the same end
view, the General Assembly h
changed the date of Childrei
Day for Home Missions fr<
September to the last Sabbi
in March, in order to secur
more general observance of t
day in all of our Sabbath Schoi
>1 Appropriate exercises h
been prepared and sent out
i all the Superintendents in
l various Churches. These e:
^ cises have cost some thought
r trouble, and are intended to 1
r special spiritual benefit to
s children, as well as to give j
X eral information in regard to
g great work of Home Missi
. The time has been purpc
>f fixed for the last Sabbath
March, because that is Re1
.y day in the Sabbath Schools,
ie it it will not interfere with
teaching of the lesson.
s> j The object of Children's
iig is two-fold:
? i 1 ~To erive the children ai
ur I ?
ng portunity to assist in the j
ar work of evangelizing our
in country and erecting hous
kg worship in destitute places,
he ' 2. To train the children 1
le. selves in the work of the Ch
iecl May we not urge upon P;
ar- and Superintendents to co
but ate with us in this matt
of properly observing the
of Many Sabbath Schools ol
nd. the other appointments (
cirk A 'embl.v, but neglect the
cnat object of Home Missions,
ted, any wonder that our Chur
suffered so much in the pa;
Sel- is it any wonder that thei
rgo, much indifference in rej
and, the aggressive work o
:om- Church? If the proper a
and tics will co-operate with
ided rnatter. within a few ye
/, 96 feel sure that the Chur
lary, reap a harvest from th
f H. sown in this way. If the
d 47. of literature and prograr
?5- 1. nlnaaa nrHpr r
Sel- sumcient, \J icaov. va v?v?
inder once from our office.
I. M. | Praying God's blessin
all our Sabbath Schools,
pub- the work of the Church i
after fort to win our county fo
(J, j S. L. NOiUUS, Seci
UNION LOSES GOOD CITIZENS.
T. Z ,r
Mr. A. P. H. Walker and Family Go t
lis Tennessee,
Mr. A. P. H. Walker an*
family have gone to Spring City
a_ Tennessee. Mr. Walker has live*
in Union a rtumber of years an*
rs * is well known and liked by th<
a people. He was for years th
ie head bookkeeper for the firm o
|y Foster and Vyilkins. After sever
a ing his connection with this firn
he went to Missouri and engage*
in ato^;^ For the pas
gLjfco?-$><arsne has lived here an*
iej was the first bookkeeper for tin
Union cotton mills, retaining tha
3_ position up to the time of the re
"organization of the mill compan;
ie a feW months ago. In Tennesse
he will engage in the lumber
to coal and lime business, givinj
)f some of his attention to stocl
dealing. That portion of th*
State to which he has gone i
Jm very fsHile and abounds in cor
l~ Nmd irdn mines. We wish fo
? him the success in his new horn
j that a gooef citizen and busines
1 man deserves. He and famil;
ie are quite popular here and wil
e Be greatly missed in the socia
^ and business circles of Union. '
South (Carolina as She Was.
k
si There was a time?long ago
' and still within the recollectioi
of some fid men now living?
when the/courts of South Caro
1(i lina wepejranked as the best ii
1? the country; understanding bi
's "best''fwhen applied to court!
ie those in which even-handed jus
ticeftvas most unwaveringly dis
ie penafed There was a time, whei
w to com nit a crime of any sort ii
Je South Carolina, the offende
;y would be surely tried, am
whether he was rich or poor, b<
pupiah^d a$~the law directs
in Wealth, Social station nor politi
cal pull child not stay iiTG" han<
fbii^we3 h?^ut5:-?^
And may she not again reach tr
he proud preminence which one
Vi was hers, when in purity of he
h~ courts she headed the sisterhoc
on I of states, and it was not Jersc
nd Justice" which was quoted i
in the quintessence of legal admi
ias istration. Let us hope so.?A
fi's gusta Herald.
om ?
ith OffiGial Notice of Children's Day.
e a
The General Assembly in 19(
3ls* to secure a more effective a
aYe extended observance of CI
1' j dren's Day for Home Missioi
1 e changed the time for such e
<ei*71 from the last Sabbath in S
aad ; tember to the last Sabbath
30,a March. As was required of i
tlie j in view of the change of dat
^,n" last year called the attentior
the , the churches throughout the
on,s* 1 sembly to the change. But
^ prehensive that the churc
1. ot have not fully as yet come
^iev^ know of the change of tim
aPd ; ventured once more to call
1 tlie tention to it, and, for the Ass
n bly, to express the hope thai
uaY may have a larger and gro\
observance of this day in
1 dp" Sabbath Schools, to the end
great ^jg vjtal cause may have
owl) place in the affections of
es | youth of our Church that it
' I gen?y demands.
(Signed) W. A. Alexandi
ul.ch- Stated C
astors
-oper- ~
er by Right of Opinion.
day.
aserve Very often, in this wor
)f the woe, you find the man w
i great very much opiniated - who
Is it ways shooting off his mout
ch has criticising others, but whc
at; and gets that the other fellov
re is so the same right to an opini
his critic. This is partic
u w ...?
f the true of citizens who talk lo
mthori- garding the conduct of
us in officials, and true, also, to a
?ars we ful degree of subscribers to
ch will papers who somehow get tl
ie seed into their heads that if the
! supply scribe for a newspaper it
ns is in- agree with them or it is n<
nore at j The world seems to forg
i all men have a right t<
ig upon opinion?and no man is fo
and all agree with the other felh
n its ef- less he is a truckler and ii
r Christ, ing for crumbs to fall froi
etary. fallows table.?Everythir
IF. M. FARR, President.
T i-3
Merchants and Plan
a
. Successfully Doing Busin
i
mi is tho OLDEST Ilunk in 1
p Ml has a capital nnrt surplus
H I is thoonlv N XTIONAL I
6 HI has pn lil dividends -mo
f H H pays KOUH por cont. ii
II is tho only Batik in Unim
II hns Hiu-tflar-Proof vault,
IB pays more taxes than A I,
t WE EARNESTLY SOLI
e jm i ???
l THE AVERAGE JURORS. (
y Is It Lack of Judgment, cr Indifference,,
e Which Gontrols?
9
? Because the jury in the Lamb i
K case at Wilmington?Lamb who 11
s was accused of murdering h 8 i
s mistress when he was drunk as a i
d fool, remained out seventy-nine ]
r hours and then returned a ver- 1
e diet of not guilty, many of the I
s papers are discussing the matter 1
v and naturally wondering how it <
11 was possible to remain out so c
d long and finally agree. In other \
words, it is suggested that some t
of the jurors who were for con- t
viction were simply driven to s
another verdict because of fa- c
tigue. That might or might not i
'? have been the case. The aver- I
1 age juror is perhaps open to con- s
viction and if there were a few f
" jurors in that case who at first t
1 believed that Lamb should have
* been convicted?and the evidence t
3 was surely to the effect that he
" was guilty, those who believed J
" otherwise might, by persuasive '
1 argument have induced the other 1
1 fellows to change their minds, a
'* But the presumption is that they t
1 all finally came into camp?prin- r
e cipally because the error under r
the sod was a frail woman who t
" had no friends and the error 1
above the sod had sisters to weep 11
e | and nibui n .V h:nv These~?ym-jc
ie 1 coifae^!?tiu*urs CQme in, and no I (
'.e 1 rtcitinn Mercv cries out.? ?ji
'V world has often been reminded
'a that mercy should season justice.
It has been suggested from the
as time the system started, that the
n~ jury was the one thing to stand
u" between the liberty of a man
and the state?it was the only
safeguard to the liberty of the
people?but things have changed.
If the newspapers are to be |
)3t believed, and from the evidence
n(j we could obtain their report was
1il_ correct in the recent long drawn
ng> out Samuels case, there was one
lay Jur?r who said from the start
ep. that he would never convict.
jn He set up the proposition that
ne, the government could ruin any
I man that it went after, and the
j of jury, after sitting the box for
As- | five weeks went out to deliberate
ap_ and found that it was eleven foi
;hes conviction and one against. Th<
I to' only way it reached a verdic
e> j was by letting the obstinate mai
at- ?the one who wanted to dismis
lem- the prisoner on general princi
: we pies, say that on one count,
ving ' charge of conspiracy, the defer
our I fiant was not guilty. And tb
that jury agreed to this?and the
that the verdict was promptly returi
the e(fi other words, one ms
g ur_ stood pat just because on gener
principles he thought he shoul
and rather than have a mistri
ilerk. th? eleven men agreed to wh
the obstinate juror said. If th
is true, and we have the best
reasons for believing that it
true, it certainly shows that t
Id of jury system is weak, defecti\
ho is It gives one man, either throu
is al- obstinacy, contrariness or ven
h and ity a chance to defeat the er
> for- of justice. What the jury shoi
v has do, and some day that will
on as the way of it, is to deliber;
ularly and then vote on the question
ud re- issue. And when a majority
public the twelve men find that a p
l pain- son is innocent or guilty, let t
news- j be the verdict. The en
le idea twelve may discuss it, and t
;y sub- may arrive at a conclusion.
, must to give one man the power to
> good, feat the ends of justice, espe<
et that ly in this age of corruption
) their great wealth, is to invite ras
reed to ty, and it should not be. A
nv un- jority of the jury should hold
3 loook- power, and in this way ju
m other would oftener be obtaim
g< i Everything.
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DBBBBHinHl
J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier.
ters National Bank,
ess at the "Old Stand."
[Tnlon,
of $10',000,
tank in lTiiion.
untiTiir to $^00 400.
ltorent oil <loi>"Kits.
11 tnaiHM;t?-?l by an o 111 cor,
, iirnl Safe with Time-I.nck.
if. the trunks in I'nion comliinod.
C1T YOUR BUSINESS. |
jommerGial Machiavellianism and lis
Cure.
There has been a pood deal
said lately about "Business is
business,1' "the end justifies the
means," "the battle to the
strong," and all that sort of talk,
it is likely that few have realized
liow far this dangerous spirit has
been carrying us ?not in the
business world only, but in everylay
life. The recent exposures
>f financial methods have shown
,'ou perhaps, that, a sorry sysem
of ethics prevails "down
own," but lias it made you
search your own conscience more
:losely? Miss Tarbell's "Comnercial
Machiavellianism" in the
darch McClure's brings the lesion
home to all of us, the little
ellovvs as well as the heads of
he big corporations.
There is something here to set
he money grabbers thinking,
diss Tarbell tells the story of
dachiavelli and his writing of
'The Prince," which has made
lis name a by-word of scheming
ind clever lying. Then she draws
he parallel between commercial
nethods of today, and the diplonatic
circuities of the 16th cenury
Florence. Miss Tarbell
mows both periods, that of the
Vledici in Italy and of our own
lay in America; and she tells you
beany how modern .
trielfeYi&TO achieved their sucsignificent
fact in tne~. ??
Signor Machiavelli, as the writer
points out, that instead of being
raised to great honor and power
by the Medicis, for whom he
wrote trie HCclUDC, vuioatuv,
brilliant, insinuating as he was,
he was left to end his life in loneliness
and without power. And
herein, says Miss Tarbell, lies
our safety.
"The truth is," she adds, "the
Machiavellian formula carries its
own death portion with it. It
cannot stand the light. Today,
as four hundred years ago, state
it bluntly and men disown it.
Why was Machiavelli repudiated
, by italy as soon as 'The Prince'
! | was published? They are willing
r to practice the formula as long as
i they can avoid hearing it; those
t who profited by their success
i have been willing to support
s them so long as they could deadi
en their intellects by repeating
a 'Judge not lest ye be judged,'
i- but when it came to defending
ie the Machiavellian creed aloud,
n they dared not do it. And herei
in lies our safety. The truth,
in nothing but the truth, ugly and
al cruel and relentless as it may be,
d, is the cure of Commercial Maal
chiavellianism."
at ?- Ctiicora
Girls Are Chewing Gum Galore.
is .
he Every Chicora college girl has
re. chewing gum to burn, and contfh
tented mastication is habitual
fll- ! +U/-V ni-nttv Qfnrlnntfi in blue
dg | W llll IIIC
| at the big gray college on McBee
l)e terrace.
ate | Meanwhile a young man smit
at with the charms of two of these
ruminant students is the joke of
|0j*. ?
liat the town. It all came about
tire through his very natural impulse
hoy to send over a couple of twoBiit
pound boxes of Huyler's. The
(]e_ druggist did it. He got the or;ial
der confused and sent up two
and1 two-pound boxes of the latest imcali
proved chewing gum, with the
ma-: y?ung man's card enclosed.
[ the I The ?irli5 wondered, but said it
stice was "perfectly dear of him and
>d.? ever so much better than sending
candy " - Greenville Daily New?, .
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