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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29
CHAPTER XIV.
Return Of the Wanderers.

Miss Carney came down the gang
plank followed closely by Miss West
on. and greeted me In a way that was
plainly sincere.
"Oh' ] am so glad to be home
again!" she exclaimed joyously, and
her face lighted up with pleasure
as she glanced about at the crowd
Of expectant people that choked up
the pier.
so is Annie. tool" she laughed. lay
ing hand on Miss Weston's arm and
patting IL piayfully. She was dread
fully III all the way across and scarce
ly left her room until we reached
Quarantine this morning. / don't know
what seasickness is. myself. and ]
simply lived on deck. Why. how do
you co. Mrs. Randolph am so glad
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crudely and awkwardly done and am
sure we have heard the last OF it."
Il hope we have" she rejoiEed.
earnestly. II am very fond OF Carney
Croft. and. while 1 don't believe In
ghosts. and shouldn't fear them IL
did, cannot say that fancy the idea
or having human providers about the
place know that we can get rid Of
them sooner or later. bat trust they
won't cause US any annoyance at al"
Il said what could to reassure her.
and, as was going away. she offered
her hand and held mine while she said
softly:
You have been very thoughtful Of
my interests and happiness. Mr..
Ware. and ! appreciate It more than !
can tell you"
The pressure OF her fingers tighten
ed for an instant and made the blood
course through my veins until my
whole body finxled and my breath
seemed to catch in my throat mum,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


Words never fail a smooth hypo-
critic.
A funny story gets more applause
than sensible talk.
There's always room for a few more
at the bottom
It's woman's plain duty to be as
handsome as she can.
Jonah was the first man on record
to get inside information.
Popularity IS an article that isn't
displayed on bargain counters.
It takes a fool to fool himself into.
the belief that he isn't foolish
It's up TO a married man TO be a
husband-not merely an ex-bacholor.
When a society woman attempts 10
put on style It looks much like
take-on
No. Aionzo. a man seldom puts his
foot In IL when he takes step in the
right direction.
Female sufragists. Cordelia. are Just
plain women-and the palmer they are
the more they suffer.
IL is far better for a girl to remain
single than marry a Eood-looking man.
for he Will monopolize the mirror
Chicago Daily News.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29
DYsPEPTIsMs.

Tell a secret 20 a woman II You
want IL syndicated.
Our sins also have an uncomfort-
able habit OF finding US in.
4 lot OF sympathy IS wasted on the
under dog and the old maid.
A peck of trouble is easier 70 get
into than a pint of happiness.
II marriage is a lottery, aiimony
must be a sort of gambling debt.
4 girl must be very intellectual not
to be able to tell what another girl
has on.
4 fellow asks for a girls hand, and
the first thing he knows he is under
her thumb.
When a man boasts that he never
did anything he is ashamed of, 1t may
merely indicate that he is lacking in
a sense of shame.
The poor man who can't afford an
automobile can console himself with
the thought that a mule doesn't cost
as much, and is almost as dangerous.
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bled a commonplace reply. and pulled
myself together with an EFFORT in or
der TO avoid making my exit like n
boy in bis teens
Before reached my Office. however,
had convinced myself tsst Miss Car
ney's behavior was due only to her
simple. unaffected. generosity or dis
position. coupled with her delight at
returning home. and that was no
more than a conceited ass in attach
ing any other significance TO Il.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29
FROM THE PENCILS POINT.

A reckless chauffeur is a sort or
automaniac
A woman is always looking on the
bright side-of mirror.
Any man who doesn't want what he
hasn't got has all he wants.
Just now the open season for coal
cnuting is drawing to a close.
Never Judge the dimensions of a
woman's brain by the size OF Der hat.
1t is necessary TO show some people
the open door in order to shut them
up.
With the exception of the under
taker few men finish all they under
take
It is fortunate thai che best man at
8 wedding is content to take second
place.
It takes a man to explain to a wo-
man things that he doesn't understand
himself
Some women marry I'm order 10 be
independent. and some men get I'M
married for the same reason,
Most men appreciate the nonsense
of a pretty woman far more than they
DO the sense of homely one
No, Alonzo, don't think because q
woman is swathed in an automobile
veil that she is the owner OF motor
car.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29
COMMERCIAL PROVERBS.


The earning power OF a dollar de-
ponds on the brains of the man back
of it.
Feed your mind-the fellow who
feeds his body only keeps on shovel
ing coal.
The greatest combination in the
world is ability, ambition and initia-
tive, seasoned with honesty.
A thousand men do a thing $3.50
and exist on liver to one who does IL
we'll and commands his own price.
When lily stops growing it's beau
" begins to fade. and when a man
quits studying his brain begins TO
shrivel.
Putting up money on chance IA
gambling-whether in the money
market on stocks OF at the race track
on horse
II you want to succeed, either work
at the thing in which you are interest
ed or cultivate an interest in the thing
at which you work.-Cent Per Cent.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29
Mas a Postnan.

Spencer-Miss Winston told me that
her father was a much travelled man
OF letters.
Ferguson-So he was. He had the
biggest round OF any postman In the
district.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29
A FrIahtfui Rumor.

Cecil-Poor Algy Darlington is on
the verge OF complete nervous prostra-
ton over a criminslly stupid rumor.
Percy-My word, It's the first ia
heard of H. What agitated the dear
boy so?
Cecil--Some anonymous writer has
declared that in the very near future
Wallets win no longer be fashionable
Puck
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29
Animals That Roam.

Now, Johnnie" asked his teacher,
when you go TO the country in sum
mer what animals. do you see rowing
about?"
'Boarders." was the prompt reply
Judge.
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Tramp looks like a tramp. ma'am.
but amt I'm a sailor. ma'am. 1
was wrecked and washed ashore.
Unsympathetsc Lady OF the House
Well, you amt been washed since. III
wager.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29

A reckless chauffeur is a sort or
automaniac
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29

Any man who doesn't want what he,
hasn't got has all he wants.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29

A woman is always looking on the
bright side-of n mirror.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29

Just now the open season for coal
chuting is drawing TO a close.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29

4 fellow asks for a girls hand, and
the first thing he knows he is under
her thumb.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29

Never judge the dimensions of a
woman's brain by the size OF her hat.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29

4 girl must be very intellectual not
10 be able TO tell what another girl
has on
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-06-29

Feed your mind-the fellow who
feeds his body only keeps on shovel
ing coal.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-12-14
Notice of Election.

BE il ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of.the Town of Lancaster,
in Council assembled, and by the au-
thority of the same:
That an election for IA Mayor and
Six Aldermen. for the Town OF Lam
caster. II serve for the ensuing two
years, is hereby ordered to be held in
the said Town OF Lancaster, at the
Guard House in the said Town on
Tuesday, the l7th day of December,
1907.
That the polls shall be opened from
O'Clock in the forenoon and to be
closed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of
sal day
That J n Crockett, G.. w. Jones
and } Y Amos are hereby appointed
managers TO hold said election.
That when the polls are closed the
said managers will proceed to count
the votes, and certify the result TO the
Town Council forthwith.
Ratified in Council assembled this
Bird day of Dec. 1897.
X +. Wylie,
Mayor.
Attested by
John Crawford,
Clerk Il Treas
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-12-14

We believe in friendly
competiotion, and therefore,
even if you are trading else
where, do not hesitate to
come in and get posted by
inspecting our goods. Here
you will find Holiday Pres
ents, Birthday and Wedding
Gifts, ideas wrought into
things to please and amuse;
novelties attractive and in
expensive; a splendid stock
of Jewelry, including many
articles of value as we'll as
those of medium and low
price.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-12-14
WE ARE HERE

Evaporated Apples,
finest quality IL lie
per pound
People who never
ask any questians new
er learn very much.
Suggestion rules the
world, so tell yourself
the truth about Thom-
pson Brothers store.
1t is the best place to
trade.
Competition gives
us a spirit of spunk
and hustle that makes
the day too short for
our purpose.
New York State
Cream Cheese II 1-2c
per pound.
Innubators were not
invented to give the
the hens more hours
of leisure but to ena-
BILE them to keep on
laying eggs.
The man who has
the courage to tell the
truth usually has the
bravery to defend it.
Time is always too
short to the people
who improve it.
Progressiveness is
looking forward intel
ligently, looking with
in critically, and NOV
ing on incessantly.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-12-14

Observation-Disclosures Clyburn,
Mary Moore.
Attendance--Maude Clyburn,
EfIie Culp, Zelma Johnson, Mar
garet Len Poag, Ruth Riddle.
George Fairey Poovey, Elmer
Sowell, EstelIe Milling, Eta
Sheltoo, Charley Cook.
7th Grade. Miss Marie Craig,
teacher. Scholarship: Highly
Distinguished, none; Distin-
guished, none. Attendance
Lucius Bennett, A. b. Ferguson
Arthur Outen, Hattie Payseur,
John Reed.
Deporiment--B Bessie Dabney,
Mary Dabney, May McNinch,
Ida Porter, Fred Black mon, Ben
ME Culp.
Sth Grade. Mr.. S. M. Busby
and Miss Ida Lee Hill, teachers.
Scholarship-Higbly Distingui-
shed-Nannie Hill Moore, Jessie
Lee Blackmon, Ruby Elliott,
Esther Byrd, Chalmers King.
Observation-Disclosures Ell
lott, Raymond Milling, Leila
Harper.
Attendance-Johu Boldridge.
Frank Boldridge, Melley Fergu-
son, Chalmers King, Jessie Lee
Biackmon, Mamie Hill Moore,
Beulah Sowell, Flonnie SOW
ell.
9th Grade. Miss Hill, Mr..
Banks and Mr.. Busby, teachers.
Scholarship-Highly Distinguish
ed-Mary Massey, John Banks,
Connie Porter.
Distinguished-LarkinC Carter,
Jeanette Poag, Robbie Porter,
Essie Jones, Gladys Jones, Kate
McManus, Mary Knight, Blanche
Craig, Eugene Elliott.
10th Grade. Supt. A r. Banks
and Miss Ida Lee Hill, teachers.
Scholarship Highly Distinguish
ed-Margaret Moore.
Observation-Disclosures Clark,
Belle King, Beth Brown, Marie
Horton, Pearle Mitchell, Ellrejda
Poag.
Hiahly Distinguished from 95
TO 100. Distinguished from 90
TO 95.
Enrolment to date, Central
school 351. Mill school 12O.
Total All.
A. r. Banks,
Supt.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-12-14

"T" is an innocent
letter, but it is always
in trouble.
Real economy is the
most beautiful word in
the dictionary. Do
your trading with
Thompson Bros.
Good straight Flour
$3.50 a sack.
A lasting and profit
able business is built
upon the foundation
of truth and fairness.
To know a "good
thing" is to be only
half wise. To know
it and use it is true
wisdom. Make your
purchases of Thomp-
son Bros.
High grade Patent
Flour $2.75 per sack.
Life is a sequence
this happened today
because you did that
yesterday. Tomorrow
will be the result of
today.
Don't be so unfair
to yourself as to buy
before looking over
our stock. Remember
the bank will not ac-
cept excuses to be de-
posted to your credit.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-12-14

Give us the opportunity
and we will convince you that
whether the goods you want
are to furnish the home,
ciothe the back, or feed tn
stomach, they can be bought
in this store at a percentage
in your favor over sending to
to the cities. What you buy
here is backed up and guar
anteed by your home mer-
chant.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-12-14
TO s 7 ny


We like the country; like the people, and
We are boosters for this section.
We believe in our goods, we believe in you;
Welihe our friends, we want more of them.
We believe in giving for evesy dollar dol
lars worth, and we want
The people of this community to feel way
down deep in their hearts that there are
no better values nor more desirable goods
to be had, than we carry
In fact our store is filled with the good
things that good people are looking for.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-12-14
Honor Roll of Lancaster
Graded School for First
Quarter---1eO7- 1908.

Katherine Wylie, Everett Hun
ter, Caroline Porter, Maude Ben
nett, Oscar Higgins, Johnnie
Wilson, Eunice Clyburn, Ez-
zelle Roddey, Ben Piyler, Mary
Ellen BIackmon, Charles Catoe,
Guy Skipper, Evelyn Mobley.
Attendance-Eunice Clyburn,
George Jones, Ernest Moore,
Johnnie Wilson.
2nd Grade. Miss Eva Hough,
teacher. Highly Distinguished
Toy Gregory, Walter Beaty,
Helen Derrick, Willie Reed.
Distinguished-Arthur Black
mon, Layton SettIemyer, John
King, Lee Porter, Pauline Mar
ion, Margaret Cunningham,
Ruby Crenshaw, Rosalie Fergu
son, Herman Poovey, leighton
Horton, Cleo Sowell.
Attendance-Eva Barton, Hell.
en- Derrick, Willie Reed, Cleo
Sowell, Irene Stewman, Arthur
Blackmon, James Boldridge, Toy
Gregory, John King, Herman
Poovey Layton Setlemyer, Eu-
gene Ward.
3rd Grade. Miss Bessie Har-
per, teacher. Scholarship
Highly Distinguished Emmie
Blackmon, Erline Mitchell, Jessie
Dixon, Ivah Nisbet, Marion
Moore.
Distinguished-Edna Bailey,
Olivette Blackmon, Louise Wy
lie, Vernon Payseur, Helen Viii
hanson, Maud Jordan, Marion
Allison, Mildred Green, Willie
B Kright, Ezra Creushaw, Mar
gle Clark, Beulah Thompson,
Ruth Wilson.
Attendance-Hacker Billings.
Erline Mitchell, Ivah Nisbet,
Vernon Payseur, Della Small,
Ruth Wilson, Margie Clark.
4yA Grade. Mrs. T. Y. Will
liams, teacher. Scholarship
Highly Distinguished-Dorothy
Moore, r l.. Crawford, Henry
BlacAmon, John Clyburn, Odelle
Horton, Ernest Beatty.
Distinguished Ruth Funder-
burk, Elizabeth Knight, james
Hough, Kenan Moore, Robert
Allison, Jessie Ferguson, Georg e
Payseur, Chauncey Gregory,
Claude Jordan.
Attendance-Ernest Beatty,
John CIyburn, Julian Giles,
Chauncey Gregory,James Hough,
Myrtle Horton, Claud Jordan,
George Payseur.
5th Grade. MIR. j. X. Con-
nors, teacher. Scholarship: High
ly Dstinguished-Orin Black
mon, Naomi Derrick, Anna Cas-
key.
D;stinguished-Fred Fereu
son, Leila Porter, Ira Cherry,
Frank Beaty, William Greene
Williams, Mary Crawford, Earle
Tlllman, ely Wilson, Henry
Moore, Crawford Culp, Mary
Louise Robinson.
The independent., 1907-03-21
Safeguarding Kingston

PROVIDENCE, March 16-Ameri-
cans are to have hand In the work
of making Kingston, the partly ruined
capital of Jamaica, greater and safer.
This Is one of the results of the Brown
university scientific exposition head
ed by Professor Charles Wilson Brown
the we'll known geologist, which start
ed for Jamaica as soon after the earth
quake as plans could be perfected and
which has just returned home loaded
down with facts, figures and honors.
This compliment paid to the Ameri-
can expedition is regarded as the eli
max of the reaction following the
Swettenham outbreak. The honor was
entirely unsought by the visiting SCI
entists. 1t was rather thrust upon
them by those who were apparently
glad of an opportunity to secure ex-
pert opinion regarding O difficult stu
alton. and, besides, 1t reflected the
popular sentiment which condemned
Swettenham's action.
While the expedition was conducting
its investigation into the cause and ef-
feet Of the cataclysm, which was the
most disastrous one experienced In
that quaky region since the seven
teenth century, when Port Royal was
destroyed, the local government solici-
tor and others concerned in the draft
ing of new and more suitable highway
building laws in Kingston consulted
with Professor Brown, who recon-
mended wider streets and the adop-
tfon of stricter regulations governing
The independent., 1907-03-21

ranean and Cafibbean~seas and then
little westward toward the Pacific.
Another belt embracing somewhat
more than fifty per cent of the earth
quake regions encircles the Pacific
ocean The few> remaining earthquake
regions are scattered over the rest of
the world. There are earthquake re-
gions both north and south of the
Panama canal zone, though, strange
to say. the canal zone itself has been
comparatively free from seismic
troubles.
What makes Jamaica particularly
liable to earthquakes, big or little, says
Professor Brown, is the fact that from
the mountain tops of the island to the
depths of the ocean abysses to the
east. toward Hayti, Is one of the
steepest declivities on the face of the
earth. In the course of a couple of
hundred miles there is drop Of about
six miles. This decline from high land
to sea bottom constitutes what is
known to geologists as differential re-
lief. Less than a hundred miles separ-
ate Jamaica from the coast line of the
famous battle-ground Of Cuba, to the
north, between Santiago and Caney,
and in this comparatively short space
the differential relief amounts to 27 900
feet. or more than FIVE miles.
Where the drop Oh. dteiiii iiii,vtiitts, IT,, is so
Jamaica, the result at sucfr~a point is
weak power of resistance against the
constant strain and readjustment OF
The independent., 1907-03-21

building materials and the style of
| architecture.
| The Brown expedition, made possible
through the generosity of friends of
the university, turned out to be re-
markable enterprise owing to the cir
| cumstance that it was the only one
! organized to make scientific study of
the tremendous upheaval Professor
Brown reports that owing to the faul-
ty construction or many of the Kings
ton buildings, due to the use of brick
foundations put together with poor
mortar, and the further mistake of
laying out exceedingly narrow streets,
the destruction of both life and prop
erty by the earthquake was much
severer than, to judge by the intensity
of the shock, should have occurred
The shock, he says, was somewhat less
forceful than that which upset San
Francisco nearly a year ago. The
well built frame houses in the capital
suffered only slight, interior dam
age, such as the cracking of plaster.
The white ants which infest Kingston
and some other parts of the island are
really dangerous foe to the foreign
woods generally used for building pur-
poses, but this difficulty. the scientist
believes, can DC overcome by support
ing frame structures either on cement
or on well constructed brick piers.
Kingston, like San Francisco, has
learned by costly experience that re-
inforced concrete is also a highly SER
viceable material for foundations.
This part which the Brown expedi-
uon played In the work of reconstr1lc-
ton now going on In Jamaica was
quite incidental to the main purpose of
the venture, which was TO gather ma
terial bearing on the origin and transit
of the earthquake. The expedition was
planned just az soon rs IL became evil
dent that the disaster was one OF ex-
traordinary proportions. Professor
Brown. who led tho expedition. In "A
member of the star OF the United
States theological survey. and IN that
capacity has made a special study OF
earth formations In the western hem
tsphero.
So far az observations OF the effect
OF the earthquake are concerned. the
expedition was remarkably successful.
The origin Of tho earthquake how
ever remains q myxtery. Jamaica lies
In an earthquake bcit embracing about
forty per cent Of the regions subject
20 seismic disturbances. fhL particn-
lar bclt exteads through the Meditcr-
The independent., 1907-03-21

the earth's crust, and hence the breaks
or faults" as the geologists term
them, due to displacement. AS in the
case of a landslide, such displace-
ment, reaching bottom, produces q
thud or jar, which in turn produces
the waves of vibra tions in the earth
which take the name Of earthquakes
Where the thud occurred in the case
of Jamaica is the mystery. In ali prob
ability, according to Professor Brown,
the fracture in the earths crust oc-
CURED under the waters Of the Calib-
bean, or perhaps little to the soutn-
west, for the cables lying in that direc-
tion were broken miles off shore. Fur
theImore, the angle of -emergence Of
the havoc-playing waves. together with
the comparatively small territory az
fected indicates, the - pert says, that
the origin or focus OF the earth
quake was neither far distant from the
island nor deep-seated. Probably it oc-
currec two or three miles below the
earth's surIace.
There is a direct relation, says Pro-
fessor Brown, between the depth OF
the seismic focus and tho extent of
the area affected Therefore, the con-
clusion that In the Jamaican case the
origin Of the earthquake was not very
deep-seated. In the case Of the San
Francisco earthquake 1t was much
deeper, for the waves caused by 1t
We're felt throughout an area with a
The independent., 1907-03-21
MARCH 81, 1907.

from the country houses Of England
and the continent.
For every chair or picture sold in
England the gentleman dealer" sends
across the water a dozen valuable
pieces. There is story of a fiat near
Piccadilly owned by one of these en-
terprising men in which four luncheon
parties and three dinner parties were
given in one week. At each party
there was a different guest. and ev-
cry time the host succeeded in selling
out the contents of the entire fat so
that it required a small army of men
to bring in new furniture for the next
luncheon or dinner party. The flat
was furnished seven times in one
week. The owner was SO hard put to
find new old things to dazzle the eyes
Of prospective purchasers that he had
to pay the dealers heavy premiums In
order to cope with his business.
It sounds easy, but it is not, be-
cause there is nothing more difficult
q more risky than buying old furnit-
ure, old prints, old china, or in fact
anything old.
The world is simply flooded with
limitations which to tho eye of any
but the most expert are supposed to
be perfect. If any one imagines he
can become a gentleman dealer
merely by taking an expensive house
in Bloomsbury as in the case of Mr.
Orrock, who made fortune out Of it,
or Mr.. Basil Dighton of Gowerstreet,
It would be advisable for him first to
listen to the story of the experiences
of others who have tried and failed
ANONYMOUSLY
Ii requires, first, most intimate
acquaintance with the old masters in
painting, in furniture, in silver and
china: secondly, keen business
sense which is not to be blunted by
the necessary but not always harm
less dinner parties; and thirdly.
courtly manner which does not sug-
gest buying or selling at every turn.
The independent., 1907-03-21

When Lenbach the great German
artist, was painting portrait Of the
herself UP in a native dress, which
herself UP ma native dress, which
did not at all please the eye Of The
artist. lie accordingly asked her 10
choose something more becoming, but
Wiihelmina who Is devoted to eycfy-
thing Dutch and delights IN wearing
native costume, replied sharply that
he must paint her as she was. Your
majesty can command your own sub
jects." said Lcnbach rising, but /
am q German, and beg leave TO With
draw" And Withdraw he did, and i9e
queens portrait remained unpain.ed.