The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, August 05, 1909, Image 3

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f palmetto] / Things Doing And Happ Told In Condensec Model Farm in Chester. Chester, Special.?Col. T. J. Cunningham is one of Chester County's M iarmers who is always endeavoring " to find and apply the best and most modern ideas in farming, and a visit to his farm, a little more than a mile wrest of the city, is always interesting and refreshing. It was the writ er's privilege Friday to accompany Col. Cunningham over a large pari of the plantation and see what it going on. Col. Cunningham is, above nl things else, a scientific farmer?noi a farmer who jumps from idea l? idea in mad succession in the futih hope of finding something more sue cessful than the old beaten tracks but a farmer who is actuated by gom sound reason, and who plants on. crop one year and another the ncx on the same piece of land, becausi the soil demands a certain suceossioi of crops, and because certain crop following each oilier in a certaii succession build up the soil. It fol lows, therefore, that one sees on thi farm no vast acreage of cotton, an< cotton alone, but diversification am ' a general assortment of the crop that this section of the South is bes adapted for. Col. Cunningham i giving his attention largely this yea to hay, and the many acres of fer tile meadows on his home place am the 275 acres that he is farming 01 the opposite side of the road ar yielding him a golden harvest of tin hay. He is confident of getting 20' tons of hay this year, and a ver conservative estimate would place th yield at much more than that. Th second cutting is now in progress and the uncnt portions of the iusl meadows show how fine the yield is Col. Cunningham is not much of i believer in terracing. His met lux for eradicating gullies and washes i by planting cover crops, which no t only stop the washes, hut at the sam time lay the foundation for a fer k iilitv T-T o ic nuttiim 1*1I'Ij" *% * operation on what have been hereto i fore badly washed fields, and alread after only one such crop the field 1 show a noticeable improvement. The cotton patch that Col Cun > ningham is conducting under the di rections of the agricultural depart ) ment at Washington, is showing u * nicely, while two patches of corn tha ' are being worked under the direc tions of the experiment station ar 1 also showing up well. One is bein worked with the hoe alone, while tii other is being plowed. Other con . ditions are the same. At this stag there is not much difference bet wee . the two, the advantage, if there i any, resting with the latter patch, k Col. Cunningham is also niakin ' use of some ?>f Ins fertile meadow | as pastures for a large number o oattle that he will put on the tnarke | this fall. He also has several Cites ter county raised horse and iiiul | oolts that are growing fast and giv promise of making fine stock. It i ^ his idea to make his farm self-stt| plying as much as possible, and th | intelligent and orderly conduct o affairs, coupled with his past sut | -cess, shows that lie will succeed. * Finds Skull of Missing Man. Aiken, Special.?The little town o J Kathwoood on the southern edge o ^ "this county is stirred with excite r ment over what appears to be tli t most foul murder that community r has ever known. Levi Chavous wa L brought to the Aiken jail and chnrg " ed with the murder of C. S. Pringle: | A hat identified as Pringles', a tii ' can used when fishing and a skull an * the only remains of the apparently " murdered man. | Guilty, Says Jury. Barnwell, Special.?The famoui W 'Chester Kennedy case came to a closi ^ Thursday morning at 6 o'clock, whei P the jury returned a verdict of guilty t.*- .with recommendation to the mercy of the court. The case went to thi a jury a little after 1 o'clock Wednes * day and after deliberating for 1" jk hours they agreed upon a verdict o! ^ffuilty with recommendations t< f * #ercy. vother Water-Power to Be Develop ed in Spartanburg Section. K * Spartanburg, Special.?The Elec ^ trie Manufacturing and Power Com t pan}', which owns the power plaut a ? Gaston shoals on Broad river am the street railway system here, ha V about completed negotiations for tin * purchase of another large water-pow er in this section. The oflicers o h the company have not announced tin location of the water-power for tin $ reason that a few details are to be ar ranged before the purchase is com Sy Accident Child Poisoned at Oreei * Greenville, Special.?The youn] ft? son of Dr. James, a prominent phy * aician of Greer, died early Monda; EL- 'morning in most excruciating agon} The father hurriedly leaving horn ft Sunday afternoon accidentally drop 31 p*1 a bottle of morphine on th ft porch and the little fellow picked i up and, when dieovered by hi % mother, had eaten the greater pai " of tho contents of the bottle. 4 atomach pump was applied too lat< NEWS ITEMS ening In Sunny Carolina. 1 And Pithy Phrase. Little Girl Has Awful Experience. Fort Mill, Social.?A more extras ordinary and terrifying experience ; comes to few people than that which befell the family of Mr. C. Cook, an . industrious farmer living five miles ! east of here. While playinjr on the curbing his little 7-year old dauirhrtter fell into their well which was [ walled with 12-iuch terra cotta pip? in<j which is barely wide enoujjli to let the little body down endwise and | smooth as {rlass on the inside, alTor.1j injr apparently no means whatever j of recovery. What is even more r j - markablc than how the child tnan" ajau.1 to fall into such a stuall open^ iih' is the manner of her escape. t When she arose to tire surface of the c water instinct prompted her to throw i out her hand and knees ami in this s manner pressed her weight against i the sides of the piping with a death . clasp that nothing but brute force s could move and this was applied in \ the shape of a pair of steelyards and \ the little body forcibly recovered s after more than two hours of fearful t effort. 8 During this time no amount of perr suasion or threats could compel the _ girl to loosen her grasp sufficiently j to grasp the rope dangling around, u Whether is was fear, not being able e to understand from .'10 feet above or e a wise Providence that justified her [I is not known, at any rute for more v than two hours this little girl remaing ed in the cold water in a dark well, e with nothing but the glassy sides of 4i.? i ? >t ? *= iu press nerscu against I, for support. . She is now Aife and not much tlie n worse for her horrible experience. (1 The feeling of the parents ami neighs bes in this trying experience cannot I I. imagined, e Youths Mysterious Death. (J Union, Special.?Louis Vanderford the lG-vear-old son of Mr. Ashmore v Vanderford, a prominent citizen and s progressive planter of tin* Mt. Tabor section of this county, killed himself Monday morning about 8 o'clock in (_ a patch of woods about lot) yards from his home. Whether the shootp ing was done accidentally or intenj tionally is not definitely known, as the whole alTair seems to be wrapped e in mystery, the family apparently being unable to thrown any light g upon the cause of the very sad tragedy. It was the sound of a rifle g shot from the patch of woods that n attracted the attention of Mr. Ash5 more Vanderford, father of the young man, and caused him to go ,r to the spot and investigate what was s the matter. On his arrival he found j; his son with a bullet bole through ? his heart and lungs, which had nro dueed instant death. The bullet was e fired from a .3*2-20 Winchester rilie. e which had been in th" house, but s which Mr. Vanderford did not know that his son had taken out with hiui. e He was a young man of good habits ,f and was in good health. Finds Gold Nugget in Gaffney County Mine. Gaffney, Special.?Mr. Samuel f Whelchel, who is operating a gold f mine on a small scale on lands belonging to the Gaffney Land and Ime provement Company, Thursday took f out a nugget of gold which is worth s $43. Mr. Whelchel has taken quite . a number of valuable nuggets from s this mine. Arrangements will soon u be made to operate the mine on a g large scale as the owners feel sure y that it will pay to put in machinery and a large force of hands. Farmer Dies While Ploughing. 5 Aiken. Special.?News has reach* ? ed the city of the sudden death of ! Mr. H. B. Stringfellow, of White y Pond. Mr. Stringfellow was plough* y ing in his field. About sundown, his ; horse came to the house, without his . master, and members of the family j began to search for him. Finally his f body was found in the field, where , he had evidently dropped from his plough handles. Will Try to Collect. Rock Hill, Special.?In a recent - meeting <*f the town council the foi lowing action was taken: t "Resolved, That the city attor1 neys be instructed to prepare a wars rant charging 0. S. May with embeza zlement of city funds; that the city - attorneys be also instructed to take f steps as they may deem proper to sec cure the city the deficit in May's B books.'' T? it. - -! ? ai i? me mit-iu inn 01 me cny au. thorities to push the ease against May to the limit. Will Address Red Shirts. ? Anderson, Special.?The committee to select speakers for the KeU wi.;rt ] reunion to be held in Anderson e August 25 announced Monday that N Senator Tillman, Former Gov. Shepe pard and Judge Robert Aldrich had x accepted invitations to be preseiit g and tuake addresses. Each of these ^ took prominent parts in organising k and leading Red Shirt companies in , 1876. "MY WORD, BUT THE! %*!r> ''y ?Ca WORLD RKCORDS Flight with passenger?1 h< 27. 1909, by Orvllle Wright, at F High flight?360 feet. Octo Mc.ns. France, in which he won 1 Duration and distance fllgh covering about 7 7 miles, Januar; Mans, France. Records For t * ?? 1 * * - v^tu&s uwuuiry ui^nis oy lie] Blerlot and Hubert Latham. Cross Channel flight by Lo NEWS fiBQUT FLYIN In tlic Realm of Avic Thick Washington, D. C.?Events In realm of aviation are crowding tl and fast. On the same day Orv Wright made a new aeroplane rec at Fort Myer, Hubert Latham m an almost successful attempt to ci the English Channel. Again the motor of the French ( ator failed, and this time at a ci cal moment. Five hundred ya from the English coast the eng stopped and he fell into the sea. 1 second failure may disappoint, will hardly discourage, such a plu man. At Washington Mr. Wright ( ceeded in making a new record flight with a passenger. In the p: ence of President Taft and a dis guished company he flew with LI tenant Lahm almost an hour i thirteen minutes, thus fulfilling terms of the Government contracl respect to duration. During this i iod he compassed a distance fi double that betwen Calais and Do That showr. the meaning of this sp] did performance. DESCRIPTION OF WRIGHT MACH The machine used by the Wrig at Washington consists of two plai one five feet above the other, i measuring thirty-six feet from tit tin Thii cdQt tlw? placed In the centre of the lo plane, off to the left of the mo The passenger sits on the other ? of the motor. The motor Itself is a product of Wright brothers?a four-cylini thirty horsepower, water-cooled f oline engine. The gusollne is pum directly into the intake pipes, tb being no carbureters. The tips of the planes are flex1 for the space of about twelve f By means of a lever they can turned in a curve, resembling a he cold, the wings moving in opposite rectlons. A second lever controls twin rudders, which are supported a brace ten feet from the rear of planes. By working the two le^ together the equilibrium of the i chine is maintained. Ten feet in front of the operati seat two planes resembling a box 1 about fifteen by three feet are u for controlling the ascent and desci Two propellers about nine feet in ameter and revolving In opposite rections are used to thrust the a< plane forward. The weight of the machine, Incl lng both operator and passenger, I trifle under 1200 pounds. M. BLSRIOTS AMBITION. London.?Following the farev dinner given at the Hotel Rltz by Aero Club, M. Bleriot and his v left for Paris. The aviator exp< to return in October to attemp flight from London to Manchester a prire of $50,000 offered by a L don paper. The distance Is miles and the prize was offered 1907. It is open only to heavier tl air machines owned by members < recognized aerA club. At the dinner a letter from L Roberts was read. He said: I Bleriot mav be ipnHimr tim v n " eat changes in the conduct of Makes Balloon a Parachute and Lands I'crfcc Conway, Maes.?Parachuting balloon at the height of more t two ujiw. v?y loosening the appei oord and allows. lower par the balloon to rise into um nott Dr. 8. S. Stowell, of Plttsfleld. in first trip as pilot, made a droj earth In the balloon Plttsfleld. experiment was probably the firs this nature ewer tried in this ct try. A perfect landing was effe without the ralre oord ever b touched. 5E MOSQUITOES ARE BAD!" % rtoon by Gregg, in the New York American. * ? HELD BY WRIGHTS. jur. 12 minutes and 40 seconds. July i'ort Myer, Va. ber 18, 190S, by Wilbur Wright, at L? the Mlchelln prize. t?2 hours, 18 minutes and 3 0 seconds, y 1, 1909, by Wilbur Wright, at Be he Wrights to Beat. i ary Far man, Loon Dclagrange, Louis uls Blerlot G AT HOME AND ABROAD it Ion Events Are Crowding : and Fast - J I I <4 . | tho M. Bleriot was presented with a ilc.k gold medal similar to that given by ille the Aero Club to the Wright brothers, ord M. Bleriot, prior to his departure ade for Paris, said In an Interview on M. oss Latham's 111 luck: "I am too sorry for words. He deserved success and avi- will yet succeed. He has pluck? rltl- everything?but luck failed him. He irds experienced the same awkward cur;lne rents of air off the Dover cliffs which This I encountered and they proved too but much for him. I was troubled by cky them, but was luckier. He Is a right worthy competitor and I shall yet juc- have the happy chance of congratufor lating him." res- ? tin- AN AIRSHIP WORLD'S FAIR. leu" Berlin, Germany.?What strides RRd have boen made in a brief period In the t?je scjence 0f aerial navigation is L _ borne in powerfully upon us by a '?i~ world's fair exhibiting the progress Jlly of airship construction and manlp*or illation, ylilch has opened at Franklen_ fort-on-t.he-Maln and will last 100 days. In September the crowning feature of the show will be the arINE rival of Zeppelin II. for a series of ex;hts hibltlon flights. ' ties, A million nnd a half has been spent I and on the buildings and grounds where- i ? to upon will be held contests between is | airsnips, balloons and dirigibles. I wer Every type of flying machine will be ' tor. shown. Prizes aggregating about >lde 180,000 have been offered by the In- < ternationale Luftsehiffahrt Austel- ] the lung, mercifully shortened to Ila, ( 3er, which Is the name of the lateat and . ?as- most Interesting of world's fairs, ped Passengers may take Joy rides In iere balloons and steerable vessels of the ' air, and a liberal education in the art < Ible of aviation Is promised In the readeet. ing of a series of papers by the lead- j be lug experts. There are twelve groups ( Uo- of exhibits: Balloons and balloon i di- manufacture, motor balloons, military the airship navigation and artillery, bal- 1 by loon signal service, production and the compression of gas, the science of ] rers aerial navigation, mechanical and ma- physical apparatus, equipment, motors, art objects and toys. Various or's competitions, aside from the actual 1 iclte races, will bring forth the ?iest in the ) sed specialized phases of tfcs art. ! ant. Germany expects fully 6,000,000 di_ visitors to go through the gates of 1 di- the Ila !n the period of the exhibition. ' >ro- Altogether It lo a welcome variation. < ud- CURTISS ENDS HIS FLIGHTS. < Is B Hammondsport, N. Y.?It was an- j nounced that Glenn H. Curtlss would ' make no more flights In this country before leaving for Franco August 6. 7ejj He Is now engaged in assembling the new machine which he will use In the international contest at Rhclms. acts t a TO BUILD BIG DIRIGIBLE. for | New York City.?Mr. Joel T. Rice on- j and Mr. John A, Riggs. of Hot I < 161 Springs, Ark., are In New York, neln gotlatlng with Captain Thomas S. 1 ban Baldwin for the construction of a I >f a large dirigible balloon, which they plan to use for exhibition purposes, ord making tours from city to city In the I "M. big airship. They have plans for a ( to balloon one hundred feet long, the fu- largest dirigible ever built In this 1 i Passenger Airship Also l*rovldes tly. For Water Propulsion. his Cleveland, Ohio.?An airship, cov- < han ered with waterproof canvas and ? idlx fitted with propellers at its bow and t of stern which will work In water Is lnK. being built by a company here. nit 'lntMo ?>onllances have l>een added to to the airship for use In case It should The fall Into the water while on a crnise. t of The builder of the machine says he >un- expects to be able to carry from sit to ( ed twenty passenger In the airship. He sing will also provide an apartment tor . w. f WRIGHTS Mi Make The Ten Mile Fligt Seconds, Reaching Th ?President Taft, Ot Very Entl Washington, Special. ? Orville. Wright Friday evening attained the zenith ol' hard-earned success. In a 10-inilii cross-country Might in the I famous aeroplane. Imili by himself; and his elder brother, Wilbur, a.id accompanied by Lieutenant Benjamin j D. Foulois. an intrepid otlicer of the I army signal corps, lie not onlv surpassed the spot-d requirements of In* contract with the Failed States plV- ' ernmcnt. hot ...... I ? "I' ^l I diflicull timl daring llight ever plan- j ned lor a henvier-than-uir Hying machine. Incidentally la* broke all i speed records over a measured course. And lie established beyond dispute the practicability ot an aeroplane in time id' pence and in time of war. His speed was over 42 miles an hour; be made the Id-mile tliglit from Fort Myer and back in 14 minutes and 42 seconds, including the more than 20 seconds required for the turn beyond the line at" Slinter Hill. The outhern end of the course. Ho uttainiul a height in crossing the valley of Four Mile Hun. of nearly f?00 feet, and the average altitude of his practically level course was nlmnt ?11*11 feet above the ground. President Tnft, who hud beeomv an nti lmu? tie spectator id' the aeroplane trials, ah hough two years ago when Secretary of War he is said to have expressed to officers profound kvpti'-'sin as to the accomplishment of such a feat as that of which Friday he saw the completion, arrived upon the parade ground at Fort Myer just in time to see the aeroplane land POSTOFFICE INSPECTORS Washington, Special.?Inspectors ! of the Post-office Department have raided the offices of the American Civil Service Institute, and placed I under arrest the promoters of the; enterprise, J. A. MeXulty. president. j and II. Van YIect, secretary and i treasurer, on the charge of frudulent use of the mails. Complaints have prune from parries that they have been mulcted of various sums which they were induced to invest in the entcprise by the glowing promises of the promoters. The manner of procedure of the I promoters of the enterprise was an extremely clever one, although the post-office inspectors say that the scheme has been worked many times j before under various guises, ami always in different localities. The advertisement under which operations were conducted was inserted in nearly all of the great newsOancrs of film r\.- ?!< II..I.. i . . " ""I' Wanted Male" column, and was what is known to the postal authorities as a "blind" advertisement. It solicited the application of "bright, hustling men" in different parts of the country to act as "district superintendents." at a salary of .-rhino per year and the iruarantec of a three-year eontraet. In eonsideration of this salary the ''district superintendent" was required to purchase t"?00 worth of stock in the corporation as a guarantee of good faith. The company agreed to refund this sum to the investor on the expiration ?f the eontraet. This clause brought an enormous number of applicants, many of them coming to Washington in irtsoii. Even while the raid was in progress i man who had ?on:.' here from PhilMRS. FINLEY EXTENDS IW Washington. Special.?Mrs. D. E. Finley, wife of the representative front the Fifth South Carolina district,went to the White House Wednesday nt>:l invited the president to attend the unveiling ceremonies of the King's Mountain monument 0?tober 7. She extended this invitation in the name of the Yorkvill? r.hapter nnd other allied chapters of MEXICO SHAKEN FROM GUI Mexico City. Special.?With Cliilpancingo destroyed and Acapulco nartly raxed and the loss of life problematical, central Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from | Quarto on the north to Oaxacn, on I he south, an area of more than 1,000 ipuare miles, was shaken at an earlv hour Friday by a series of the most sever earth shocks felt in the region ; for the last quarter of a century. The I piake was severe ill Mexico City, but not prolific in destruction. J CONDITION LOWEST EVER Memphis, Term., Special?The crop condition report on cotton, up to July 25, was issued Wednesday afternoon by the National Dinners Association. It gives the general average at 71.7. The average by States follows: Alabama, 70; Arkansas, 76; Florida, 85; Georgia, 79; Louisiana, 62; Mississippi, 04; Missouri, 81; North Carolina, 73; South Carolina, 77, PAKE GOOD it In 14 Minutes And 42 z Height Of 500 Feet ice A Skeptic, Now lusiastic. and to participate in the wild demonstration which welcomed the triumphant aviators. He sent an ollicer to hear his congratulations to the victors. ('limiting up. as it were on the air, hiuhcr and vet higher. Orville brought the machine at jircat speodfullv round the field. Then with a short turn he swept about and s.arted southward over the centre of the drill field. "They're o|T." 1,(1011 voices shouted as one. I.ike u trinit bird, circling the skv until it marks its prey, this mail-bird then darted ofT toward Siiuter llill, live miles to the south. l'nwaverin?r it kept its straight course, and seeiued to be rising ever hi?_'iier as it passed over the diverse and heavily wooded country in the distance. Soon it was a mere speck against the pearl skv above the I,..-;.,.. Suddenly the speck was lost to view, and as the seconds passed, a silence prew upon the crowd, a silence that spoke of deep concern. Suddenly the speck came in sight atraiti over the distant hill. A cry swept over the watching crowd. "There it i?." everybody said, and pave a sigh of relief. On it came, prowinp with the seconds. It prew and prew until at last almost every detail was ris hle. liefore you knew it they were home apain over the drill ground, living low. At a height id' perhaps 20 feet it swung round apain to the southward. and landed easily far down the field. The task was done, and in triumph. RAID PROSPEROUS-FIRM adelphia to invest in the company appeared at the ollice and was just in the act of paying in his money when the officers arrived. The man. whose lltim.l i< tlTll'Mitun /Innnetml vori? little sadder hut a great deal wiser. T'pon l?<*in?r questioned. J. A. McXultv put up a hold front and declared that the business of the concern was firing conducted on a perfectly legitimate basis and that $1 .">0.000 of the stick of the company* which was capitalized at $500,000. had been paid in and was invested in I'nited States government bonds and preferred stock of the I'nited States Steel Coropration, which were in a safe deposit box in a Washington hank, hut owing to the absence of the vice president, (J. M. Yunker. in lkiltimorc he was unable to get at the bonds. Vnder a sever1 cross-questioning, however, M<Nult\ was quite unable to remember the name of the bank in which the securities were deposited, and it later developed that they had never existed, except in the fertile imagination of the promoters themselves. The fact was also brought to light that <1. M. Yunker. vice president of the defunct concern, had never been actively connected with the business, being merely a dupe of MeXulty and Van Yleet. the promoters. MeXultv and Van Yleet were arraigned late Monday afternoon hefore I'nited States Commissioner \FII in* t iiiirp' in 1 i <u 111 iciii* practices anil wore hold under a $2,000 bond eaoh. wliieli was not forthcoming. Thev were therefore ordered to bo confined in the District jail pcmlinp a preliminary hearing before Commissioner Taylor, which was set f'jr August 4. IVITATION TO MR TAFT the D. A. R.. which inaugurated the movement for the erection of the monument. She was eroorted to the White House by her husband and Representative Webb. Who represents the district in North Carolina Just across the line, and who with fr. Finlev was instrumental in petting: congress to appropriate for the monument. LF TO OCEAN BY TREMOR Reports, tellinp of the loss of life, are meagre, but the official figures thus far given show 14 killed and more than a score mortally injured. While word <omes from G. l'oyros, an American commercial traveler at Chilpancingo, Guerrerofl that that city was destroyed and the inhahitans are living in the open, suffering from the elements, the loss of life is not definitely known. The shocks continue at Chilpancingo Friday with subterranean rumblings and tlashao of lightning, rain and hail. r KNOWN A1 THIS SEASON Oklahoma, 79; Tennessee, 77; Texas, 0(5. The report says: "This is the lowest condition ever known at this season of the year and indicates a crop of around 11,000.000 and unless good rains fall in the next week, throughout almost the entire belt, but more especially in Texas, southern and western Oklahoma and Mississippi, the crop will be under that figure." BUf .i , Hi ? 'tlrtiP