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HE TALKS OUT"
Bishop Candler Takes a Shot at Job D.
Rockefeller's Gift to
ERADICATE HOOK WORM
lie Does Not Like the Movement
and Classes it With Others Made
to Humilitate and Belittle^ the
South and Says We Can Take
Care of Ourselves.
Bishop W. A. Candler calls attention
to the following article which
;<;>peared in the New Orleans Picaytiue
the morning alter the press
dispatches announced the formation
of Mr. Rockefeller's vermifuge commission:
"The necessity for creating sectional
prejudices against the Southern
people and States did not stop
v\ 1th the end of the civil war of
l*61-'6r>.
"The old hostility engendered then
h is passed away so far as the men
who fought were concerned, and the
rallying of the young men of the
.v'outh to the national flag in the j
S.tanish war, where they stood sdoui*
c'*r to shoulder with the men of the
North, went far to extinguish tho
ancient sectional feHing against thin
jmrt of the country.
"But for some reason not fully
understood it has come to light
ti?at self-professed and self-appoint?
i philanthropists have taken it upon
themselves to discover and proclaim
conditions in the South calCiilatod
to create further prejudices
against the States and people of the
South so as to diverse immigration,
to alarm the resident population
?ud to place this section of the
country before the world as an afiiicted
and accursed region.
"No sooner had the South begun
to manufacture its cotton on an extensive
scale when it was giveu out
to the world that most of the work
v.as done by youths of both sexes
and largely by children of tender
age, and at such pitiful wages that
the manufacturers of the North,
v. ho employed persons of full age
at high rates of compensation, could
not by any possibility compete wim
them, and such a hubbub was raised
iu the North about it that Senator
Heveridge, of Indiana, offered in
congress a bill to prohibit transportation
by interstate railroads of the
products of Southern cotton mills
where such alleged conditions obtained.
"A great deal of exertion was
required to establish the falsity of
Fuch slanderous statements against
the South, and this section has not
fully recovered even vet from them.
Next an outcry was raised that the
Southern people had become the
victims of a deadly disease named
* ti'Kioh uuc a fo thp
yvuagtcn n mvu " UW .....
use of Indian corn that caused It.
The disease has been traced to
Southern Europe, where it is common,
and later information goes to
show that it was imported in the
persons of immigrants.
"But the pellagra panic having
failed of the expected effect. now
comes a howl about the "hook worm.
A non-professional writer has devoted
many pages and many picture?
to the hook worm in the South in
McClure's for October. He says:
" 'All through the South?the Carolinas,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama.
Mississippi?these abnormal people,
the "dirt eaters," have been known
for a century, and anemia is a universal
malady s?'Jth of the Potomac.
"It's something these people
eat." is the favorite explanation
of it.
" 'One's first nud jticugest impr-ess^pn
of the "i>oor whites" is of their
shiftles&neb8. I remember now
dreadfully it use-i to depress nct-oora
ai?n U'hpn ! htMMl* HIV VrteatI>D
in the North Carouui*. inu.iiMinB.
I have be'-n in lltt! > v'ndowle?.?
stoveless, one-room cabins, the hom<
of at least ten persons, war re all the
cooking wari done over the |.*rit)ntivt
open fire?except when it raided
down the chimney and pet the fin
out; then there wasn't any cooking
till the rain held up! Aand as .
talked with the women I was always
asking myself, "How can people live
like this? Why don't they go 10
work and fix up things?"
" 'It is estimated that scattered
over the Atlantic seaboard from tht J
Potomac round the gulf, to the Mis- j
sissippi river, there are today 2,-!
000,000 of these poor whites?our i
native-born whites?suffering with
on/1 hr?r?11v nnp of thost
<11 ICUiJU) UIIV4 ?? * w ? ?
2,000,000 knows, or even suspects,
that he is really suffering from an
Internal parasite?that this disease
Is caused by the hook wrm.
" 'Then years apo even the foremost
physicians did not know the
anemia of the South was caused by
the book worm; but today, thanks
largely to the tireless efforts of one
man?Cbarles Wardell StJies?tbewhole
medical profession and many
of tbe laity are awake to toe vitai
issues of tbe problem and are preparing
a crusade that shall reach
from the worst regions of the barrens.
where nearly tbe whole popu-.
lation is sufferiug to the farthest
"cove" in tbo mountains, and stamp
out the disease.'
"In tbe face of such statements,
illustrated by sensational cuts, it
is useless to contend that tbe Southern
people posseseed vigor enough
to show up with ah!** cron* of placemen
and great and gallant soldiers
from the time of Washington and
Jefferson aud a host, of others u?
to the emln^ut civilians and the
grand soldiers of th*? Hv?i "
South is represented to be filled with
a wretched brood ot dirt ra.*
Who that knows the South can for
a moment believes this?
"But now comcs the prenomeTialljf
wealthy Mr. Rockefeller, tie oil kia^.
A FIEND LYNCHED
AND TWO OTHER FIENDS BEING
PVRSUED BV CITIZEN'S.
A Trio of Negroes Strip, Tie and
Whip a Virginia Former and Attack
llis Wife.
A dispatch from Sutton. W. Va., ,
says two organized parties of men
jare scouring the hills of that count)
searching for two negroes believeo
to have aided Charles Lewis, also
a negro, in a dastardly assault upon
Mrs. Mary Lockhold, wife of a prosperous
farmer Wednesday near th?
small settlement of Exchange, li
the negroes are caught, lynching it
not improbable. Lewis, the onlj 1
known member of the party of three, \
who are thought to have been im- .
plicated in the deed, is dead, hav- ,
nor K^on oKnf anH trfllori hv a nr>KSt
of men late Wednesday while en- 1
deavoring to escape. c
According to Deputy Sheriff Williams,
the three negroes late Tues- r
day night went to the home of Geo. c
Lockhold, living but a few miles fron; v
Sutton, and after tyin^ the farme; r
to a tree and whipping him on his t
bare back with willow switches, at- v
tempted an assault upon Mrs. Lock- '
hold. Persons who happened to be J
passing the Lockhold farm heard A
the screams of the woman and the n
negroes fled at the approach of the a
passers-by. ^
A posse of farmers was organized a
j within a short space of time, and t'
I after a twenty-four hours hunt, 0
I Lewis, one of the supposed trio of &
| the negroes, was apprehended. As b
| he turned tx> flee from his pursuers,
after being ordered to throw 1<
up his hands, he was shot and in- &
atantly killed. b
Late Wednesday night news reach- c
ed Sutton that one of the pursuing a.
posses had surrounded the two ne- n
groes in a swamp near the scene of C
the crime. T&e courier wno Drougnr "
the news of the imminent apprehen- a
sion of the men said lynching could Cl
not be averted if they were caught a
alive. 11
At midnight a telephone commu- ^
nication was received from Gassaway a
Rtating that two negroes thought to
have been Implicated in the assault P
on Mrs. Lockhold had been captur- )
ed near that place and placod ir.
jail. Men with rifles are said to be
guarding the jail against a posiblo :'{
lynching party. -<
m m m
AUTO KILLS TWO MEN*. r
? tl
Two North Carolina Men Are Vlc? S
r<
tims of Accident. t]
Near Greenville, N. C., J. L. Flem- 1
inc. State Benator from Pitt county,
and Harry Skinner, Jr., son of Unit- c<
ed States District Attorney Harry 11
Skinner, were killed in an automo- j11
bile lote Friday afternoon. '
Mr. Fleming was thrown from the
machine, breaking his neck and dy- *
ing almost instantly, while Mr. Skinner's
skull was fractured. *
Being rushed to a hospital in J
Richmond, Va., he died before the j*
train reached Wilson, N. C.
Those in the machine at the time c
it was wrecked were E. G. Wlanagan,
J. L. Fleming, Harry Skinner
Jr., and S. C. Wooten. In trying !'
to pass a lumber wagon Mr. Flana- 11
gan, who was driving the machine, a
lost control and crashed with terrific
force into a tree by the roadside
The machine turned a somersault.
Mr. Flanagan was caught under
the machine and badly crushed, three *
ru?s netng nronen ana internal injuries
sustained. * *
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SHOOTING BAFFLES POLICE. d
'<
Killing of J. J. Rwd Proves Mystery j.'
to Authorities of Winston-Salem. a
o
T J. RfM?d, a local merchant at t<
Winston-Salem, N. C., who was founu ^
on me northern outskirts of town g
on Monday of lam week with a bullet
wound in his left breast and on j
his right temple, died at the hospital c
Friday. I'p to the time he lost (
consciousness on Wednesday Reed t<
hold to the belief that Ernest I)y- fi
mott, a wnite man, who is in jail, c
shoi and robbed him ot' $5. Officers, a
lowever, have a pistol owned by Mrs. 5
Reed which was found a few feet s
from where the wounded man was y
mnrl anrl hAlinf ic nilitP ffl'llPml J
thai Reed shot himself. Dymott will a
ue given a hearing later. 1
It is one of the most mysterious 3
cases the police of that town havt
ever encountered. *
Respites Condemned Murderer. ^
Following the attempted suicide s
late Thursday of Dr. J. M. Elliott 0
jf l.aG range, Ga., sentenced to bang
Friday for the murder of Geo. L. s
Rivers. Gov. Brown, who was in Sa- r
vannas, telephoned another reprieve j
for two weeks for the condemned t
man v
" 5
who proposed to give $1,000,000 to C
"lire the people of the South of ?
book worm, and a commission is to t
be formed, if it has not been already, \
to sp^nd the money. t
"Well, the South can only submit. V
Wtfc a million of money and a sen- ]
sational press engaged in portraying a
our section of the union as an ac- \
curbed country, we can only accept i
the situation and wonder what oth-T l
slander is to be fulminated against ]
it."
The editorial of the Picayune c
shows both sense and self-resepct. (
It is time the Southern people had i
bes?jn resenting this officious dispo- <
sition to take care of them which j
certaiu parties are addicted to. ]
Donations may easily, as dum-dum i
bullets, wound where tboy hit and i
leave a mortal poison in the bole <
they qpake after being received. We I
are certainly able to get ourselves
clear of worms without Mr. Rocke- i
. feller's million-dollar dose of verin>-,
(UgO ':
WILL GO HIGHER"
TH
Frank Hayne Says Fifteen Cents is Too
Little for Cotton
*
THE CROP VERY SHORT ;
t
<
The Big Cotton Man, Who is a Na?
dui
tive of This State, is Optimistic. \?a
and Reviews Recent Market Hl*?
Col
tory and Induces Strong Belief
V/ft]
iu Yet Higher Price Levels. vet
Mr. Frank B. Hayne, a South Caro- res
inian now living in New Orleans, nui
vho has labored consistently for era
ilgher prices for cotton this season, ^ac
ias outlined his reasons for saying Des
hat fifteen cents is too iittle for Pec
otton us follows.
"When the government bureau Chi
eport, Issued on August 2, showed a a f
ondition of 71.9 per cent, I felt con- rau
iuced the crop could not possibly ;en
each 12,000,000 bales, and that cot- nn<
on was selling far below its real for,
alue. When the government report, a -j
isued on September 2, showed a con- rae
ition of 63.7 per cent, I felt satis- ioa,
led that 11,500,000 bales was the an<j
maximum possible for the crop and pr*
t that time received a telegram from f?n
Ir. J. N. Wisner of New Orleans, for
sking Mr. W. P. Brown and myself the
o telegraph him in full our views gen
n the situation. Mr. Brown waa an(j
bsent, so I replied to Mr. Wisner {Dg
v tple??r?nh ajj follows: trot
" 'We look at the situation as fol- awi
)ws: Discounting every favorable
ondition that can arise until Decern- <
er 1, the government report indi- 0f |
ates a maximum crop of 11,250,000, re8j
nd with unfavorable conditions tow
light easily be 1,000,000 bales less.
bnsumption last year, 13,100,000, wafi
a spite of short time in England
nd continent. With largest Ameri- "
an crop ever produced the price
dvanced $20 a bale while being
larketed and the visible supply is flre,
ir less than two years ago. With an(j
certainty that 13,600,000 will real- hol<
r be needed by the country and that (jjj
robably less than 11,500,000 will an(j
e Krown, an eventual advance is <
imply unavoidable. Under normal
Dnditions the market should have eacj
ortulnlv arfvnnwH to 13 c?nts ve&
irdav, but was kept down by the nea
normous selling of the bear clique.
hese sellers base their action on gna
ae supposed helplessness of the .<ar,
outh. thinking the South will be tjja(
>rced to sell its cotton at any price mnl
le spinners are willing to take it out
t. We consider that the competion
between spinners who will on
?rtainly require 1,100,000 bales Up
lonthly will take care o fthis so- ^iei
illed distressed cotton. If the mo,
ankers of the South will help the .
lrnier to market his cotton slowly, my
e firmly believe it will be worth run
5 cents in the next 60 days. The wol
eakness in our opinion of the 0jd
ears' argument is that, although the ^ |
roducer may be foolish enough to jwo
e willing to sell his cotton far be- j
>w its actual value, we hardly think ^an
aat the spinner will be foolish tajt
nough, when he fully realizes the
icts of the case, not to start buy- iIrf.
ig freely at these prices and thus chr
void the scramble for spot cotton wag
jat will surely take place some time p^0
uring the season. two
"The Southern farmer has sold at eve
>ast 5,000,000 bales of cotton on Qap
hich he realized probably $360,- jse
00,000. It was very hard to conince
the farmer that 12 cent9 was j
ot an extreme price for bis pro- ^ai
uct. but through tho efforts of a jjav
?w Southern men, they finally rea^ tjar
zed the fact thai they were sacri- ..j
cing their cotton, and I believe that paj(
t least $r>MOO.tfOO more has l*>eu ^
btained for the cotton marketed mU|
> dat.? than would have been if it (|j0
ad not bmi for the efforts of this
nmii rninrip of Southern men.
"My prediction on September 3 of
5 cents in the next 60 days has now
ouie true. l?ut at that tira<' I thought
he crop would be from 11.250.000 ^ ^
3 11.500.000 bales. I now feel con- 0Dl
dnnt that th-e maximum for this
rop is 10.750.000 bales. The prob- 0
bility is that it will bo under 10.00,000
bales; and there is a pos- su
ity o
ibility of its not reaching 10,000,Oo
bales. L'nder the present con- ^ro
itions I now fed that 15 cents is c Ul
PfiQ,
s much too cheap for cotton as II!
-2 cents seemed to me on September
"Iu 1903-*04. known as the 'Sully ,
n PA
ear,' the crop was 10,01 1,000 bales
nd the consumption only 10,083.- ^eE
00 bales, and last year the con- tng
too
umption Increased 3,074,000 bales,
r 30.4 9 per cent. The visible sup- ?
ilv on the 1st of September, thi? f
eason, was 1.4 72.000 and on the Is: 3
>f September, 1903, was 517,000 )rc
Kiles or only 95r/,000 bales less,
herefore iu the 'Sully year,' with a
isible supply on September 1 of ^
>1 7.000 bales and a crop of iu,- *
111,000 bales, the world bad 10,- a'^
28.000 bales of cotton, of which
hey used 10,083,000 bales. Tbe
'islble supply on the 1st of Sep- at
ember this year was 1,472.000 aD<
tales. If the crop should only prove be
0,f?00.0f>0 bales, the world will bavo
i supply of only 11,$72.000 bales, P01
vhilo last year It actually consumed wa'
n Knlte of short time In England
13.157,000 bales, or a deficit of 1,185.000
bales. ]
"Why, if in the 'Sully year* the of
:rop had only been 7,500,000 to 8.- He
)00,000 bales, the situation wdtjld as
iot be as acute as It will be If this she
:rop only turns out 10,500,000 bales, al
ret in that year cotton sold for over lef
18 cents. If every American mill for
*as to run balf time from now yptil i ma
be ?<ud of the season, I do not coo-.rat
sidr tb^re would be enough cotton ?
to go around. th<
"The spinners' takings to Octo- to
her L'9. this year, were 1,923,000 : ba!
bales. gainst only 1,801,000 bales
S3 iX'.- iUuo la&t year (wijicb Jjad co1
THEY SHAKE HANDS
IE UNIQUE EXPERIENCE
nVO SOLDIERS IN THE WAF
ptain Christian and Captain Rai
Meet For the First Timo Sii
rhoy Tried to KiU Each Other
Standing in the lobby of a be
ring the late visit to Richmo
of the Pennsylvanians who
>ded the unveiling of a monume
Id Harbor, several days ago, v
?tain E. D. Christian, a well kno
eran of the Forty,first Virgi
;iraent, who was entertaining
iiber of the visiting Federal v
ns with an account of a duel
1 in 1862 with a Pennsylvanl
ir what is known as "The Cc
is," now the Mechanlcsville Pi
'In some way," said Capti
istian, "we were coming throu
ield cut apart by a long line
I fence. As we approached I
ce we saw coming toward us
i of blue-coated soldiers. ]
e I knew it I was face to face w
fankee who was sending balls
, but luckily aiming wrong,
ded my musket time and agi
I we bad It there face to fa
tho YankM mounted 1
oe to get a better whack at :
I was aa bad a shot as he
excitement of that duel. W<
tlemen, down came the rail fer
I down came the Yankee, sprai
on the ground. He managed
up aa my old musket bang
ly, but the ball never touch
t.
Walt a moment." interrupted o
:he visitors, "and I'll tell you t
: of the story." All eyes turn
ard the military form of Captt
H. Rauch, a Pbiladelphlan, w
i the centre of the listeners
?tein Christian's story.
Well," oontinued Captain Rau<
? VonWoo Hnof trw-ilf to his h?*
that and you after him. "Y
d as long as he waa in sig
he ran as long as his legs wot
1 him up. The only reason
not fly waa because he was a m
not a bird."
That's about right," said the Cc
?rate and then the two men fac
ti other with eyes glued on t
?s that had se-en the changes
rly half a century.
Hell, man," Captain Rauch crU
lly breaking the intense stillne
e you the Johnny Reb that h
I duel with me and came nc
iing me a prisoner or putting i
for good?"
If you are the man who jump
that fence and fell, and then g
and ran while a Confederate s<
sent .bullets after you to h?
?e, I guess we have met befort
If any other man had been
palce and had not put up a go
replied Captain Rauch, "
lid have been a fool. Why tli
thing you were nananng iook
>ig as a cannon and sounded li
or three of them." v
"ollowing this the veterans ih)
ds and Captain Rauch took Cc
i Christian in tow to introdu
l to his wife. Then Captain a
i. Rauch had to get into Capta
istian's automobile and i'ie ?
i that Mrs. Christian got a te
ne call to have dinner ready 1
i extras. The party spent t
nlng in the handsome houm
lain Christian, who had to <>>0
a visit to the Rauch home
ladelphia.
lefore leaving Richmond Captf
jch declared that he would t
? meetinc Cantain Cbr
i for all bis worldly potssessioi
have never forgotten that rebe
1 ho. "and I see him now in i
id's eyes with his big old-tii
sket plugging away at me
ugb I were of no more good
world than an ordinary anima
Peary Got There.
Commander Peary was Wedn
voted a gold medal by the N
al Geographic Society for havi
ched the North Pole. The boa
managers of the society acce
unanimously the report of 1
committee of scientists who h
mined the explorer's records a
ofs, and found them to be c<
sive of his claim that he h
ched the Pole.
Victim of Queer Accident.
Charles Bennett, six years old,
,d as a result of a peculiar ac
it. While his family was attei
bis father's funeral the la
t was caught in a rope tied
a bull on their Long Island far
e bull ran away dragging I
r a half njile before the ri
>ke, causing injuries which
ted in his death.
Feared to Be Burieti Alive,
^earing that he would be bur
.*e, Dr. William J. Dodd. of Jeri
y, made a request Jo his w
fcb disposes of an estate vali
$260,000, that following his dei
> k^tnra Knrtal thfl radial art<
A wviv? w ww.
cut by a eurgeon. In probat!
will Dr. Dodd executor has
-ted to the court that the art
b cut as stipulated.
Bride-Elect Kills Herself.
Miss Maggie Windham, daugb
a prominent planter residiug n
idelberg. Miss., died, late Fri<
tbe result of pistol wounds wh
? Inflicted upon herself with sui<
intent Thursday. Miss Windb
t a note to her mother begg
giveness. She was to have b
irri^d wltbi na few weeks,
jse for the act is known.
5 record takings of any year
that time) and against 1,148j
les tbe 6ame time in' 1903-'04.
"Who can tell what price will i
Liut 'tie abo^e facte?"
/
HOW TO STOP n
OF
English Physician Reads Interesting Pape
on Pellagra at
aeh
- COLUMBIA CONFERENCE
tcl Dr. Sandwitch, of London, Tolls Hov
nd' Italy, Where Pellajp-a is Widelj
at,nt(
Prevalent, Has Reduced Mortality
'as Many Cases Found Among Ufej'p
wn
tians?Fixes Preventative Rul<\
riia
a The following paper by Dr. F. M
. Sandwich, of London, Eugla;id
Gresham professor of physics woi
read at the pellagra conference if
lan Columbia Wednesday afternoon:
>w- feel that iny first words must bt
those of congratulation and eu.-jur
n agement to the many physicians it
the Southern States who are no^
working at the various problems con
ot nected with pellagra. Congratuia
^e tion in the first place, because thej
a have discovered the exlstance of th*
disease, because they have impress
ed this discovery upon others br
at that the presence of pellagra is now
* thoroughly recognized.
l*n "If I venture also to encourage
ce- American co-workers, it is not witt
he any improper desire to draw attenme
tion to my own work, but because ]
ln happen to be in the unique poBltioc
5ll? (with regard to this one disease), o!
lC being able to appreciate their difAcuities.
t0 "In spite of denials from Amerl: k1
can authorities on medicine I have
ied always suspected that pellagra might
ovlof iinfKo Qnnth or*A
ne at one time I requested my frlendt
be to put me into communication with
the poorest folk of the maize eatl'n
ing districts. I. was referred to a
120 settlement in Eastern Virginia fo
t0 pauper negroeB, but on investigation
I found that the inmates lived in
stone bouses, on pork rations, and
0la I came to the conclusion that the
ou word poverty represented no condition
in America, which could comlld
pare with the misery of the impoverlshed
peasants of Italy, Roumania
an or Egypt.
"In April, 1906, I had the good
fortune to be at Boston during an
e<* epidemic of cerebro spinal meninbe
gitis, and the very first patient whom
I saw at the .city hospital by the
courtesy of Dr. C. F. Witbington, wae
an Italian emigrant, who also dis581
played a well marked pellagrout
a(* eruption. This leads one to wonder
ai whether the United StateB public
health and marina hospital service
officers who examine the emigrants
e<* at Naples and other Italian port*
:ot should not include pellagra among
the prohibitory diseases,
"p "Now, that the diagnols of pella"
gra has been firmly established in
*n so many States, it would be well
to find out for certain how many
persons are attacked by the disease
,a* in the South. In order to arrive
ec" at any corrcct figures, It might bt
well to institute compulsory notification
of the disease at least as a
"k temporary measure. In Italy there
lI>" has been a law to that effect 6ince
|C" 1888. I would also recommeud that
Dd agricultural laborers should be exll"
amined in the States where peilun
gra is known to be prevalent, such
. as Georgia and North and South Carolina.
This might be done in February
or March, when the eruption
is likely to be present.
'al* "In 1901 and 1902 I obtained
permission to examine 500 Egyptian
peasants who were actually at work
11 # in the fields. They all stoutly denied
that they were 111 and theii
employers who were with them stat*
ed they could all do a fair day's
work, but iu every field I found
""*i early eases of pellagra, beariug fron;
15 per cent in well-to-do district.'
3S
to 62 per cent in the inhabitants ol
. .. the poorest hamlets.
"The treatment of early pellagr.1
eases without mental symptoms car
be successfully accomplished by put
es" ting the patfent ou a liberal diet
at" excluding maize and by ridding hiu
n*> of the hookworms which are so of
ird ten co-existent, but the pellagroui
P*" symptoms return if he is allowed V
?e resume a diet of musty maize. Va
a(* rious preparations of arsenic are use.
n(* in advanced cases but when the brair
}n" is attacked there is a small hope foi
- 1
ine paueni uniubb u? w*.uv?
Pellagra is essentially a diseast
which cries for preventive measures
"Italy by preventive measures, hai
is since 1888 reduced the mortality o
:ci- pellagra from 3,483 to 1,635, thougl
id- during the years 1883 to 1907 th<
d's maize area under cultivation has in
to creased from 5.79 to 6.33 per con
m. of the whole country. This point!
the moral that it is the quality, no
>P? the quantity of maize which is a
re- fault. There are certain genera
exioms which prove true in Ita 1;
and Egypt and it will doubtless b<
found that they bold good in th<
led United States also:
sey "First?Id districts where n<
ill, maize is cultivated or babltuall;
led eaton, pellegra does not exist,
ath "Second?There are many die
*rw?; u-hf>re maize has been cultlvat
Ing ed for many years and yet pellagr;
re bas not appeared,
cry "Third?Well-to-do people In pel
1agra districts living on varied die
and consuming maize as an occasions
and not as a staple cereal, usual!;
tor escape pellagra.
car "Fourth?It is not good maize o
jav good maize flour which product
jCb peltagra: the disease requires fo
.jtj. its production a habitual use o
<1EU damaged maize in som? form."
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rcn Butcher's Horrible Crimes.
One of tho worst tragedies tha
" ever shocked, tbat. county occurre
? at Pine Grove, ra.. Wednesday nigb
up when Daniel Schoke, a butcher c
MO that place, cut off the fc*?ds of hi
wife and twelve-year-old daughte
iis- aud then committed suicide, by shoo'
ics himself.
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\ OBJECTS TO CLAIMS
MADE IN THE NEWSPAPERS BY
f OVER ZEALOUS FRIENDS
Of Congressman Lever That He is
Entitled to the Credit for Soil
Survey of This State.
Congressman D. Wyatt Aiken
takes Congressman Lever's press
agent to task for giving the credit
for the soil survey In South Carolina
almost entirely to Mr. Lever,
and thoroughly shows up the falseness
of the claim. Here is Congress.
man Aiken's letter, which explains
- itself.
3 To the Editor of The State:
I In an article which appeared in
3 The News and Courier of the '21st
- inst. we note the following: "H.
l H. Bennett, general field agent of
f the United States bureau of soilj.
- was in Columbia today, and will
very probably attend the conference
r of soil experts ir Lexington county
: durln? the week with Co isvesBwan
Lever, to whom the credit of the soil
5 survey of South Cardial ehould be
i given." Then again, lu the same
article, the following appears;,
i "Congressman Lever, who la a merot
ber of the agricultural committee
of the hniiKO nf rpnrp?*nfAtives. has
"" . * ?T
I done more towards securing a foil
i survey of the State tban any, other
t man, and It is largely througU^Ss
- efforts tbat the federal government,
has taken so much interest.""" ^
Then, a few days later, we not*
! in The State: "Mr. Bennett has just
: had a conference with Director H*r~
1 per of the State experiment station
i and leaves today for Lexington for
i a conference with Congressman Lev
er, who had the soil surrey work
i started in this State and who hap
one much toward its establishment
i upon a practical basis, not only in
i South Carolina but throughout the
1 United States."
i These statements go too far in
claiming for Mr. Lever, and in reali*
ty, are calculated to do him Injury.
It is certain that Mr. Lever would
. not claim as much for himself. Unfortunately
for the force of the
statements made by the correspond
dent to The News and Courier, he
published in the same article a tabu*
lated statement, showing the work
that has been done entirely in the
matter of soil survey in this State,
and the dates of the surveys. This
, jtinu's that th*' snrvMvs. known sk
the Abbeville, Anderson aDd Ocone*
surveys, embraced almost entirely the
Third district which I have the honor
to represent, covered an area of 2, 108
square miles. The survey of
Orangtjbiarg, Lee and Sumter, all
the work done in Mr. Lever's district,
covered 1,707 square miles,
(f this matter has been left exclusively
to Mr. Lever, as his friend
would do him the injustice to intimate,
would the initiative have been
taken outside of >hls district and
would he have favored other sections
rather than his own? The first survey
made in Mr. Lever's district was
the Orangeburg survey, made in
1904, and the two other surveys
were in Lee and Sumter in 1907.
The survey in Ahbeville county
was made in 1902, while Senator
Latimer was in congress, and before
Mr. Lever was a member of the agricultural
committee. The surveys In
Darlington and Horry were made the
same year, while Mr. Scarborough
l was in congress. These men had
- * - ? ' ma? wa mKnn
1 uoen serving ior wmc ;?id ?uv..
: the surveys were made, and both of
' them were known to be active and
able representatives. Mr. Lever was
then a new man in the house, and
; it is unreasonable to suppose that
' these men of longer service would
1 appeal to him. even before* his appointment
to the agricultural com'
uiitte<\ to have surveys made in their
respective districts..
1 Without assuming to speak with
' reference to the surveys made la
Lancaster. Cherokee and York, Mr.
Fin ley's district, which, to say the
1 least of it, he was competent to have
........nr> mh own motion. I may
J?CLUI*5U VU uim v ,
3 and do speak defintely of the Bur'
vevs in Anderson and Oconee. I
know that these surveys were made
' upon my requpst direct to the de1
partment, and not through anybodj
r as intermediary.
There were surveys at later dates
i in the dstricts of Messrs. Johnson
and Legare. They would probably
want some credit for having them
1 made.
1 This is written in no unfriendly
i spirit for Mr. Lever, who I esteem
highly as a personal friend, and ap1
predate as an able and faithful pub5
lie servant. And I do not believe
r that .Mr. I^ever would himself do
5 injustice to his colleagues; but his
1 friends, in this wholesasle claim for
him, have overstepped the bounds
of reason, and do injustice both to
2 Mr. Lever and his colleagues. It
is not likely that soil surveys were
3 made here immediately on the re '
quest of any person, as preliminary
arrangements are always necessary.
And yet there were soil surveys here |
as early as 1902.
1 Mr. Lever is doing a good work
in his efforts to push the soil surveys.
If other members aro not
, equally successful* It is not because
? i ..AvJ
" tbey are no equally iuiom>i?u.
y Wyatt Aikeo.
Abbeville, Oct. C5.
s
r Negro Preacher Killed.
f At Dillon Rev. John McRae, colored.
was struck by a swiftly moving
train and instantly killed at the
Main street crossing of the Atlantic
t Coast Line Sunday morning. Tbo
d Rnv. McRae was on bis way to bis
it rburrh. near Sellers, where be was
f to preach bis regular Sunday morns
ing sermon. Rev. McRae was a good
:r colored citizen. $hd his sudden and
t.-, tragic deatb is greatly deplored by
I p?CC6,
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1
AGED MAN LOST I
1W Mysterioos Disappearance of Mr. W.
N. Eider of Columbia.
VANISHED COMPLETELY
He Was Last Seen Walking Briskly
Along the Southern Railway
Tracks, Skirting the Canal?Camo
From York County Where He Was
Prominent Socially and Politically.
% Mr. William N. Elder, of Columbia,
formerly of York county, for
four terms a momKor r\4 *ha
county legislative delegation, formerly
a trustee of Winthrop College,
for several years a bookkeeper for
th^ State dispensary and recently a
land surveyor, has completely disappeared,
no tract of him having
been discovered since last Thursday
morning week ago at 8 o'clock,
When he left the locks at the head
of the Columbia canal for his home
in that city,* 1110 Pendleton street.
He'was seen about this time walking
briskly down the Southern railway,
tracks skirting tbe canal bank
fpr ^post of the four-mile distance
between the-locks and the city.
Jj?e of his sons, Mr. M. L. Elder,
of Pltufreld, Mass., who has led in
the' night and day Bearch since then,
said that the family did not believe
the old gentleman had fallen
into the canl.
They are of the opinion that under
some Sudden seiaure he lost his
reason and is now, perbafM, wandering
about the woods and fields in
a demented condition, if indeed he
s yet alive.
His groat height, six feet, two
inches, bis gray goatee and his
soldierly bearing make him a rather
commanding figure arid for this reason
it is all the stranger that no
clue whatever has 'been found to his
whereabouts.;' ; , ,
At the home of Pendleton street
he leaves his wife, Mrs. Sallie Elder,
with whom just now is the son from
Massachusetts above mentioned. The
other children are W. C. Elder, of
Alabama, and' Mrs. J. P.' Moore, of
Quthrles, York cotinty. The family
moved, to Columbia, about eight years
ago. "Tbis bids fair to be another
unsolved Columbia mystery. {}
WOMAN SEEKS DIVORCE
Because She Sajrs Her Husband
Kissed Her Too Much. /
v "Sjj
Because he insisted on kissing her
to a point of cruelty John E. McOrew,
a farmer living near Trenton, *
Neb., is made defendant in a suit
for divorce. His wife declares he
exceeded the limit and brought humllation
on' both him and herself
in the eyes of everybody. She declares
further that he neglected his
work, left the crops go to ruin and
that he did not raise enough this
year to "feed a chicken."
According to Mrs. McGrew's statement
she $nd John were married a
year ago. For six months she stood
the kissing without a murmer, supposing
th&t in time his osculatory
fever would subside. But instead.
the kisses have become more frequent.
The McGrews occupy a farm
of 100 acres.
Mrs. McGrew avers that the first
thins in the morning John insisted
on not one' but dozens of kisses.
Then he started out to the barn to
do tbework. Before he could set
the milk pails down on his return
she declares he had to have more
kisses. After breakfast there would
be several more rounds.
At 10 a. m. he would return from
the fields for more kisses. Noon
would not pas6 without a lot moro
and in the afternoon he would return
to the house and in the presence
of company or otherwise he
would have to spend half an hour
in KJssing. ; Mrs. McGrew alleges
this made her the butt of much talk
In their community and she does
not propose that it shall continue.
RULES FOR MARRIED PEOPLE.
Kansas City Spiritualist Outlines
Plan for Domestic' Peace.
A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo.,
says "The man who thinks he is
going to be happy in heaven, playing
a harp of a thousand strings
while his wife down here on earth
is playing a washboard in the kpy
of high O to support the five or six
children he left unprotected Is cer
tainly going to be fooled." this
j Is what A. 8cott Bledsoe of Kansas
City In a lecture at the State spiritualist
convention said.
MY. Rtedsoe's rule for keeping
"one's self unspotted from the
world." as. applied to women was,
"Make your husband think he knows
it all. Don't nag him. Man, according
to a scientist, is or should be,
only a good animal. You can do
more by making him comfortable
*'aan by all tho nagging in the
world."
To men his advice was. "Sever
do anything you wouldn't want your
wife to do; never say anything you
would not want your wife to say;
never go aiiy-wbere you wouldn't want
* - *- ?lit 1>aam
your wife to g*o. m uis wm ncvy
you unspotted from tbe world."
Turned Upside Down.
At. Des Moines. Iowa, twenty-five
people wej*p hurt. one probably fatally.
when tbe heavily-laden 6tre?t
car on tbe University line jumped
tbe track while tbe car was headed
for tbe down-town section of tbe
' | city early Wednesday. Tbo car turnled
upside do-a-a.
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