The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1909-1911, August 31, 1911, Image 2
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PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLNA.
Water your horses!
What are the hot waves saying?
Animals suffer as well as humanity.
The flyless city is an irridescent
[ream.
What has becdme of the old fash
oned sea serpent?
Alaskan ice is just now more popu
ar than Alaskan coal.
Parts has declared against statues
a frock coats. It may prefer pajamas.
Some think an electric light bulb
brows out more heat in summer than
n winter.
A Worcester boy killed 1,119,000
files in a contest, but they will never
be missed.
What has become of the old-fash
toned man who carried a palm-leaf fan
summer?
Do not try to Invent a new excuse
or going to the ball game. Any old
xcuse will do.
Doctor Wiley says that men who
smoke are liable to sunstroke. Do
your smoking at night.
A New York woman who lost $1,000
joked about it. E'vidently she didn't
have a husband to support.
Aviators now fly across the English
channel before breakfast as an appe
tizer. It is a humdrum trip.
We are told that a dog in St. Louis
has learned to smoke. He shows as
much intelligence as his teacher.
A hog out In Oregon ate its own
er's coat and $700 in real money and
seemed to thrive on the rich diet.
One of the dangers of being married
In an neroplane is that the first falling
out is likely to result disastrously.
Aviator Atwood is going to try to
fly from New York to Chicago. It Is
sincerely hoped that he may find the
flying good.
One way to keep cool in summer is
to avoid summer resorts. One is
likely to be prostrated when one pon
ders on the bill.
A New York boy who walked away
--oi\homo eight years ago to seek
bin fortino has spoiled a good story
by walking back.
An advertisement reads: "Wanted
-A girl to paste labels on." No self
respecting girl would care to' have
labels pasted on her.
A physician advises us to eat
onions and become henlthy. We know
from personal experience that garlic
is productive of great strength.
A man in New Jersey killed his
sweetheart wit an "unloaded" pistol.
So history, unmindful of the tragedy
of it, keeps on repeating itself.
We have congealed winter in the
form of ice to temper the summer;
now why not bottle up the heat and
release it on a cold day next winter?
A bullfrog may be a champion fly
killer, but ho is not what might be
called an ideal pet, especially if there
are nervous women around the house.
A committee of Chicago teachers
has decided that stenographers should
be taught enough of English to en
able themi to correct the boss's blund
ers.
A French scientist has devised as>
Instrument to forecast thunder htormE
but our amateur weather prophets
cling to the old, reliable rheumatism.
One man at least has felt the op
pression of great wealth-the em
ploy. of the San Francisco mint who
was buried under $9,000,000 in gold
coins.
An Omaha debating society has do
cided that a horse is more desirable
than an automobile. Notwithstanding
this we prosumo people will still go
on mortgaging their homes for the lat.
ter.
A Wisconsin judge has ruled that a
man must provide his wife with false
teeth if she wants them. This, bow
ever, is interesting only to the women
who want them.
An Ohio man boasts that he can
rock the cradle with one hand and
button his wife's dress with the other.
We presume also that the gentleman
has learned to speak distinctly with a
mouth full of pins.
Judging by the English, channel
aviation will soon become as common
as a ride on a lumber wagon in the
country.
Collector Loeb has seized $130,000
worth of furs. No one, however, cares
what becomes of furs in the present
weather.
We see by the papers that a Phila
delppia woman 80 years old is taking
cornet lessons. EDvidently she -has do
yeloped a terible grudge against her
e~ighbors.
A GIRL'S STRANGE
MENTAL PHENOMENA
NELLIE SMITH, 12 YEARS OLD,
-GIVES DETAILS OF HARROW
ING ATTACK.
AN INNOCENT MAN IS KILLED
Circumstantial Tale Arouses Whole
City and Brings Deadly Wrath of
Posse Upon a Fugitive, Whom the
Coroner's Jury Later Exonerates.
Hot Springs, Ark.-Some subtle,
elusive, psychological phenomenon in
a young girl's mind is blamed for the
death of L. L. Shockley, for whose
death Robert Ellis, a police office
clerk, and Herbert Smith, brother of
the girl, and members of a posse,
have been held. It is charged that
they shot him as lie was fleeing ar
rest.
The girl had aroused this whole
city by a circumstantial tale of an
attack upon her by a horseback rider
who, she said, had chloroformed her.
She gave a minute description of the
horse, a description that fitted an ani
nal owned by Shockley. After the
man's death she positively identified
his horse as the one her assailant had
ridden.
,Yet at the coroner's inquest it has
been shown conclusively that Shock
ley could not have attacked the girl
at the time she gave, and that his
horse was then somewhere else.
Shockley's attempt to escape is ex
plained as duo to a misconception on
his part that he was wanted for boot
legging in Oklahoma. He discovered
that omcilers were after him, although
ignorant of the accusations of the girl.
The girl is Nellie Smith, 12 years
old, daughter of a prominent coal
merchant of Hot Springs. This is not
the first time she has flgured in thrill
Ing adventures, which she either ex
perienced or imagined so vividly she
thought she had experienced them.
The morning Shockley was killed
Nellie, who had started to a private
school, went in an hour late, trem
bling with excitement, and told a har
rowing story of an attack. She had
been walking along Ouachita avenue,
she said, when a tall man, with gray
cap and brown shoes, ha'ing red hair
and freckles, rode up to her on a
gray spotted horse.
"The first thing I knew," said Nel
lie, "lie called to me to stop. He
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A Girl's Imaginary Experience.
pointed a big revolver at me, threat
eniing to shoot. T1heon lhe reached
dlown and grabbed me by the shoul
der. He lifted me on the horse in
front of himii andc galloped off. Tihe
moment weo started lie placed over my
face a cloth that had chloroform on
it. At least I thought it was chiloro
form, I became unconscious. The
niext I kneow I was awakcened by some
one0 slapping me in the face. I don't
know what the man said. lie dlidn't
try to hurt me, anyway, except to
slap) me. After I had gone a little
wvay, when he had told mue to leave,
I found a handkerchief around my
neckc and a note which saidl, 'Don't
you tell anyone wvhat has happened.
If you (10 I will kill you.'"
When the child had told her story,
a story strongly reminiscent of a mo
tion picture film, hei' teachers sound
ed the alar'm. Immedliately from po
lice headquarters the order to find a
man ridinig a gray-spotted pony was
flashed. A posse began forming.
Deputy Sheriff Hlardie Hinton was
riding near the fair grounds when he
saw a bare-logged boy on a spottedl
gray horse. The lad rode lip to the
tent where Shockley and his family,
who are wvandering horse traders,
were living,
Scarcely had the boy dismounted
when a man rushed out of the tent
and sprang on the horse, "Tell your
ma the marshals are after me and
they won't get me alive," he shouted
to the youngster. The man was
Shockley.
Hinton reported this incident to the
city police; they took up the trail,
accompanied by Smith, and seen came
upon Shockley. When the fugitive
saw the posse ho turned from the
main read into a country lane on the
banks of the Ouchita river, He de
fied the calls to halt and was shot.
At the coroner's inquest it was es.
tablished that Shockley could net
have attacked the girl nor could his
horse have been seen by har
MURDER TRIAL ENDS
IN A LIFE SENTENCI
HENWOOD GUILTY OF KILLIN4
AND WEALTHY WOMAN RE
VEALED AS CAUSE.
Denver, Colo.-Harold Frank He
wood, slayer of George E. Copeland
Victor, Colo., who was shot accider
ally by Henwood when the latt
killed Sylvester L. Van Phul, the E
Louis aeronaut, was found guilty
murder in the second degree and se
tenced to the penitentiary for life.
Never in the history of local t
bunals have the presiding judge ai
prosecutor been subjected to such i
excoriation as that pronounced 1
Henwood when asked what he had
say "why sentence should not be pi
nounced." He characterized his trei
ment by the court and prosecutor
"persecution."
The trial of Henwood was repIe
with sensational features. Like ma
other sensational tragedies there w
a woman in the case; and while a
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wias on the witness stand in the mi
der trial her lawyers were in anoth
court asking $300 a month alino
in a divorco suit instituted by h
husband. The suit for divorce w
the sequel to the tragedy in the hol
and was won by the husband.
The killing of Copeland was ac
dental and occurred when Henwo,
was shooting bullets at Van Phi
lonwood and Van Phul were riv
for the friendship of Mrs. John I
Springer, wife of a wealthy bank
and stockman. She had entertaln
both men in St. Louis, her forn
home, and at Denver hotel, where t
tragedy occurred. It was inevital
under the circumstances that b
reeling should have been engender
hetween them and (his fooling fou
its logical ending when the men a
in the hotel bar-room. There r
conficting reports as to the encount
between them; but there is no d
ipute as to the fact that Henwood sli
andl killed Van Phul, aLr.d in doing
inf[lictedl a mortal wound on Copehua
a young minier, whao had no part
all in their (quarrel.
Mrs. Springer's maiden n ime w
Patterson andl she was born in
Louis. Among her schoolmates then
was Van Phul. Later in life he wai
suitor fo'r her hand, but she mnarri
a man named Folk and dlivorcedl h
shortly afterward. Two years ago s
married Springer in St. Louis. Th
at once came to benver and M
Springer has been a social lead,
though much of her time was spc
with friends in St. Louis and at 11
Springs, Ark. The Springers' home
D~enver was on Washington street, 1:
they spent much time at their henau
futl country lace in Arapahoe coun
and also had a suite in the hol
where the tragedy took place.
HINDU IS CREMATED ON PYF
Countrymen Perform Religious Rlt
of Race and Scatter Ashes
on River.
Tacoma, Wash.--Deder Singh,
Hindu, committed suicide in Lyle,
hanging himself to a rafter in a a
tion house. Th~e body wvas crenmat
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of Asiatic chiolera In the gov
ernment's hospitals in New
York hiarbor, as the result of
infection brought from abroad,
resulted in calling to public attention
Iktwo Intensely interesting discoveries
er mnade in recent years in connection
ly with the disease.
er Theli first Is that the allment Is not
as nearly as likely to spread in centers
el where It Is not actually epidemic as
has generally been believed hereto
al. fore; the second Is the fact that
>d there are persons who are "cholera
i,. carriers," accounting In many in
.Is stances for a longer Incubation period
V. than the formerly accepted one, which
or was from a few hours to flye days.
ed These gains In knowledge should
or have a most reassuring effect on the
heo public mind. It has been learned that
>10 chiolera Is not carried along by the
ad wind; and persons whio hiave been in
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ever taken a direction different from
that of commercial or military move
ments. There is reason to believe the
poison does not enter the system
through the lungs or through any
other channel than the gastro-intesti
nal canal.
The danger of the introduction of
cholera from one port to another is
not so much by typical cases as the
mild or irregular ones, which often
pass unrecognized. Cholera may ap
pear in the form of a simple diar
rhoea, which excites little or no sus
picion, or it may appear in a more ob
scure manner, and simulate some
other affection. While certain articles
of food or drink brought from an in
fected district may contain '.he spe
cific organism of cholera and may
subsequently act as media of nfec
tion, there is reason to believe that
this is not of very frequent occur
rence.
There was some agitation in New
York last year as the result of the
presence of a few cholera cases at the
quarntine station, but the Inst real
cholera scare was late in the summer
of 1892.
In the 60 years preceding 1892 there
were five eide~mics of cholera in this
country, resulting in 15,000 deaths.
The first outbreak "was in 1S32, the
second in 1834, the third in 1848. the
fourth in 1854, and the fifth in 1865.
Asiatic cholera attacked with great
virulence the 1,0010 soldiers stationed
at Fort Dearborn (Chicago) in 1832,
the first year In which the East In
dian destroyer appeared in North
America, and 200 of them were ad
mitted to hospitals in eight or nine
days. The troops at this p)olnt were
young and in good physical condition,
but the poison germs had been brought
to the country in immigrant ships and
they had found victims in many Cana
dian and United States cities. Fatal
ities at the fort wecre large, but physi
cians by hard work got some 700 of
the men on their feet again, and in
September of that year they were or
dered to march to the Mississippi
river in the neighborhood of the pres
ent city of Dubuqiue. They had not
traveled 60 miles, however, before
cholera broke out in their ranks again
and before the command could reach
the river the percentage of deaths
was as great as it had been at the
fort.
France's cholera death roll in 1832
was 120,000, and of this vast number
7,000 passed away in Paris in 18 clays.
The disease crossed the channel to
Great Blritain in the spring and sum
muer of that year and sent thousands
to their graves in England, WVales and
Ireland. Firom Liverpool, Cork, Lim
crick and Dublin there sailed five
steamers filled with emigrants, many
of them having taken flight from the
epidemic, Cholera broko out on all
of them and 179 of their passengers
(lied on the voyage to Quebec. The
living and the dying were hurried by
the steamer Voyageur to Montreal,
w'here those who were able to travel
were scattered up the St. Lawrence
and to a half hundred inland Canadian
and United States towns, Almost in
the time that it takes to tell the story
cholera broke out at Kingston, Toe
ronto and Niagara Falls, and a comn
pany of United States soldiers aboard
the steamer Henry Clay took the
death-dealing epidemic to Detroit,
whence it spread along the great
lakes to almost every place of 100
people as far as the "See."
Eternal viglance is the price of
human life in the battle with the first
assistant to the undertaker. Cleanli
ness and alertness should be the
wvatchword of everybody. Hygienic
measures should be studied and disin
fection practiced wherever there
seems a possibility for the discee to
break out.
PRICELESS CORONATION B00
Uniqe Twelfth-Century Bible on
Which Many British Govereigns
Took the Oath.
London.-There is in the British
Museum a volume known as the Coro
nation Book of Henry I. All the kings
from his day to Henry VIII.'swore the
coronation oath on this volume. It
consists of extracts from the Gospels.
written in Latin interlined with 9axon.
The whole is written on vellum and
enclosed within deerskin-covered
boards. The most striking featurt of
the cover is the metal figure of Christ
finely chased. The cornerpieces are
of later date. As an example of Eng
lish twelfth-oontury binding it is al
most unique, and its value from a his
Coronation Book of Hensy I.
torical and archaeological point of
view is quite priceless.
Very interesting and beauthul is the
Bible and the Communion Services
which were prepared for use at West
minster Abbey for the recent corona
tion and were bound under the direc
tion of the Oxford and Cambridge
Presses at the Oxford binding house.
All three volumes are bound uniformly
in red-grained morocco, ornamented
with hand-tooled work in gold from
designs prepared under the advice of
Mr. Cyril Davenport, superintendent of
bookbinding in the British Museum.
On the covers appear the Royal Coat
of-Arms of England, with Garter, Col
lar of the Order of the Garter, the
Rose of England, the Thistle of Scot
land, and small Tudor roses, buds and
leaves.
WINS REPUTATION IN MUNICH
Work of Miss Kuehne Beveridge, Tal
ented American Sculptress, At
tracting Attenti Qiy4.
Munich, Bavaria. Miss Kuehne
Beveridge, the trlented Illinois sculp
tress, who created a sensation at Leip
zig some time ago with some passion
ato groups, has completed at Munich
the bust of Prince Ludwig Ferdinand
of Bavaria, for which the prince has
been sitting for her.
In addition she has finished a statue
of Amfortas, the kecpcr of th.+ Holy
Grail, which Munich critics declare to
be her best work. The model for the
statue was Clarence Whitehill of the
Metropolitan Opera, New York, who
created the role of Amfortas in Wag
ner's "Parsifal" in America and has
also sung the part in Bleyreuth.
Writing of the statue, a Munich
critic says: "The conception in sim
ple and yet powerful; it is dramatic
and yet elegant--the hands alone
Miss Beveridge and Her Work.
would make this work remarkable;
they are the hands of a strong man
and a gentle man; they aro wasted
by suffering almost to emaciation, but
their beauty of line and character re
mains." Miss Beveridge is 'i grand
daughter of John L. Beveridge, former
governor of Illinois.
Group of Statuary of Solid Gold,
Quebec, Can.--An eight-foot group
of statuary with all the figures carved
from solid gold will be erected within
the uext year in the famous Church of
Ste. Anne do Beaupre, near here. It
will tbe taken to Rome to be blessed
by the pope. The group will include
Saint Anne, the infant Christ and the
Virgin Mary and will cost $300,000.
Find Two Fine Pearls.
Bedford, Ind.--While digging muns
gels near his camp, south of this city,
F3leet Jackson, a mussel digger, found
two of the finest pearls ever taken
from 'White river in this vicinity. The
larger weighs 32 grains, the other 20
.rains. lie was offered $900 for the
earls, which were both taken from
ne shelL.