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THE PLANTERS LOAN AND HAVINGS BANK AUGUSTA, GI. Pays Interest en Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Haine, President. Chas. C. Howard, Cashier. [THE NATIONAL BANK OF fiUGUSTR I L. C. HAT>"K, PrtM-t F. G.FOKD, Caanler. f Capital, $250,000. Surplus . Undivided Profits $125,000. I Facilities of oar magnificent Kew Vault I (containing 410 Safety-Lock Boxes. Differ-1 lent Sizes are offeredlto our patrons andi I the public at $3.00 to.?10.0C?per VOL. LXVIIT. EDGEFIELD, S.C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEB, 21, 1903. NO. 43 FIGHTING DISEASE WITH DISEASE By ANDRTW WILSON, Author and Scientist E are receiving scientific news of a character well calcu lated to create intense interest in the minds of all ?who have the welfare of the race at heart. From Vienna comes news tkat Professor Behring has suc ceeded in rendering the cow IMMUNE TO THE ATTACK OF TUBERCULOSIS, and from the Jenner institute in London emanates the intelligence that Dr. A. McFadyean has produced an antitoxin calculated to be of great service not only in curing, but in preventing, typhoid fever. These two diseases are, of course, responsible for a large amount of present day mortality. It is true the death rate from tuberculosis has been decreasing since public attention was directed to the ways and means whereby the distribution of the germs of tubercle can be arrested. Typhoid fever has also been considerably limited through our knowl edge of its propagation by polluted water and allied media. . ACTING ON THIS KNOWLEDGE, WE DECREE THAT INFECTION OF WATER 8HALL BE STOPPED, AND IF THIS SOURCE OF TROUBLE COULD BE EFFECTIVELY TACKLED WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO REDUCE THE AILMENT TO A MISERABLE MINIMUM AS COMPARED WITH THE PRE8ENT RATE OF ITS OCCURRENCE. ?' *. n Much has been done of late years in science to attack disease with ITS OWN WEAPONS. My readers may know what is meant by..the "serum" treatment. It represents the attempt of science to hoist microbes with their own petard. A horse is inoculated with the microbes of diphtheria. The ' animal remains strong and well under this treatment. Then in blood drawn from it we find devel oped in course of time what we call the "antitoxin" of the disease. Thb germs multiplying in the serum or fluid of the blood have given rise to this new substance. When the latter is inoculated into a child suffering from diphtheria it cures the little patient. The anti toxin acts upon the microbes causing fell disorder, produces reaction in the child, with the result that the DISEASE IS CHECKED and recovery made possible. * *. 1 Now, there follows upon this res^ilt another of much importance in respect of human health and protection from tuberculosis. It seems that cows so treated develop in their milk some principle or other which has the effect of RENDERING CHILDREN FED UPON IT INSUSCEPTIBLE TO TUBERCULAR ATTACK. If we can be assured on this point a great advance will have been made toward the prevention of the disease in early life, assuming, of course, that tuberculosis is capable of being caused in young children by the giving to them of milk from cows whose udders ar6 affected. Whether the same result would follow in the case of adults is a matter awaiting further investigation, but at least a great gain would, accrue to the civilized world IF TUBERCULOSIS WERE .^DE. I>EPOSSIBLE OF CONVEYANCE -threagh &e medium ? of a fluid so universally used as milk. WHEREIN OUR COLLEGES DO NOT EDUCATE * By Rev. W. E. BARTON of Oak Point, III. 4 AM no pessimist or believer that the past has been bet ter than the present, nor do I lack faith that our col leges are to send out men fitted for large responsibili ties, but I confess my own conviction that the COL LEGE LIFE OF TODAY IS RUNNING TOO MUCH TO FRATERNITIES AND SOFA CUSHIONS; too much to a course of training whose result is either the dilettante pedant or the muscular bully and not enough to the discipline of the mind, the culture of the-soul, the pursuit of knowledge and the establishment of character. THESE ARE THE REAL THINGS FOR WHICH COLLEGES EXIST. Athletics and fraternities and clubs and all the rest are of value in proportion as they promote these things. Wherefore, in no spirit of pessimism, but with a strong conviction of its truth, I send forth' this appeal for more of TRUE EDUCATION in our colleges. THE WIFE EARNS AS By. MRS. RUSSELL SAGE MUCH AS THE HUSBAND ?HE wife has her work to do. WHY SHOULDN'T SHE BE PAID? For a woman to manage a family iof children and at the same time preside over a hand some home takes as much energy and brains as for a man to conduct a large business enterprise. The duties of the "wife of a man of smaller means holds the same proportion to his, or even A LARGER PROPORTION. When it is considered that in the average American family no servant is employed and the wife has all the work of caring for children, cooking, mending and the rest, besides keeping the home as attractive as possible for the man who goes out and earns the money, it can readily be seen that the good wife really has been earning as much as he has, though in another way, and that A FAIR SHARE OF HIS CASH INCOME SHOULD BE HERS accordingly. SEVERAL WOMEN IN NEW YORK CITY WHOSE HUSBANDS ARE WORTH MILLION8 ARE DRIVEN TO BORROW MONEY FROM TRADES PEOPLE AND HAVE IT PUT ON THEIR BILLS. THAT IS AN OUTRAGE. Now,-here is a case which is somewhat different. It is an ex treme case, for it is that of a young New York woman who upon her marriage made the mistake of turning over all hor immense fortune to her husband and is now herself PRACTICALLY A PAUPER in her own luxurious home. is better equipped ?h? TYPE and NI sa AMERICA IS BECOMING SENILE By Count LEO TOLSTOI MERICA HAS LOST HER YOUTH-HER HAIR IS GRAY, HER TEETH ARE FALLING OUT; SHE IS BECOMING 8ENILE. Voltaire said that France was rotten before she waa ripe, but what shall be said of a nation whose ideals have perished almost in one generation? Your Emersons, Garrisons and Whittlers are all gone. You produce nothing but rich men. In the years before and after the civil war the soul life of your people flowered and bore fruit. YOU ARE PITIFUL MATERIALISTS NOW. What is needed in America is A GREAT RELIGIOUS- MOVE MENT. Truth will make your people free. When they abandon pleasure as an object of life they will not need so much money. Your workingmen can never win the fight against capital by labor unions. Capital will always have the government and the army on'( its side. True religion is this: If I believe that I have a spark of the divine in me, then I am a part of God, and I know my place in the universe, an J.I know that I have a duty to all other men. If I believe that I am simply an animal I will live like an animal and work for myself. THE MAN WHO BECOMES A TRUE CHRISTIAN HAS A CENTER FROM WHICH HE CAN SEE ALL THINGS CLEARLY. Why should Americans send a petition to Russia? We have a crime like the Kishineff outbreak once in a period of years. In the United States they have lynchings every year, every month, every week, almost every day. They hang negroes, shoot them, roast them. It is an ordinary thing in the United States. Yet they feel that they can address, a petition to the emperor of Russia regarding the Kishineff murders. Some one asked-Emerson what he should do if the sun should grow cold and thc earth die. He answered, "I think that I could get along without them." That was a good reply. It showed that he was sure of his spiritual life. Why do Americans neglect their souls for the sake of trade, for the Sake of money, for the sake of pleasure? Some one invents the automobile. At once everybody feels that automobiles must be used. But why should a man waste his time in dashing about the country in an automobile? As soon as you invent something to SAVE TIME you begin to WASTE j TIME by using it constantly and without reason. Five hundred years hence the descendants of the race will look J back with astonishment to a time when their ancestors wasted their j strength in building such nonsensical structures and devoted a large - part of their lives to preposterous rapid travel. I have but one ambition-I WOULD DIE A MARTYRS NEW YORK TO PARIS BY RAIL By LOUIS DE LOBEL, French Engineer ^TT"^"^OR years it has been my dream to unite New York and mi Paris by rail, and I think it will eventually bo realized. A company has been formed to carry through the project. THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT HAS BE COME INTERESTED in it and has granted conces sions to build a line from Irkutsk to Bering strait. We are now trying to secure privileges from the Canadian government to build on its land, with the right to hold Pacific tertninals. I think these will be granted. The road as planned will open the Alaska mining region. Fifty million dollars has been promised to begin the under taking. SIX YEARS WILL BE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE LINE, and when finished the trip in cars from New York to Paris can be made in fourteen days. I have personally explored the entire route as proposed and am confident the road can bo built. The route is from Irkutsk to Jakoutsk, thence to East capo and from rhere direct to Bering strait and thence to Yukon City. The greatest feature of the road will be A TUNNEL UNDER BERING STRAIT, as a ferry is not practicable. This will be the most ex pensive part of the work. I estimate the entire line can be built at a cost of $200,000,000, which will include everything. KINDERGARTENS and DEMOCRACY By RICHARD WATSON GILDER, Pott and Journalist A MERICA is bravely attempting to be a true democracy, and the American kindergarten is forever STRENGTH ENING TxIE FOUNDATION OF THAT DEMOC RACY in its influence upon the children and through them upon the people at large. In our social life of today there are influences that strongly militate against what have hitherto been thought to be the fundamental principles of this de mocracy of ours-namely, open and fair dealing between men and the protection and preservation of rights through public and estab lished agencies. Today there is a reign of ILLEGAL PROCEDURE AND GHASTLY BRUTALITY in connection with the suppression of crime. There is, too, an increase of selfish violence not only as between the supposedly opposing interests of labor and capital, but also as between the interests of various groups of labor, and there is an alarming extension of the violence of venality in thc domain of local and other government. Along with this there is a BRU TAL DISPLAY OF UNSOCIAL LUXURY, tho semi-insanity of irresponsible wealth. THE PRINCIPLES, THE TEACHINGS, THE HABITS OF THE KINDER GARTEN ARE ALL DEVOTED TO THE CORRECTION OF THE TEMPER THAT BRINGS THESE EVIL8 UPON oDCIETY. IT8 INFLUENCE MAY NOT ACTUALLY PREVENT THEM, BUT IN IT8 NATURE ITS WORK') TENDS TO BE PREVENTIVE OF THEM. ing out FIRST SW SUPPLY OF MATER! us your orders. Satisfaction Guaranteed. OUR WORD 1 mi 1$. : "UNION LABOR IS BADLY ADVISED AND IGNORANTLY LED" By General HARRISON GRAY OTIS, U. S. V., Retired ?Y far the worst phase of the labor problem lies in the fact that so called "ORGANIZED" LABOR IS SO OFTEN BADLY ADVISED AND IGNORANTLY LED. Too many of its leaders have shown in con spicuous instances an utter disregard of the lawful rights of that far larger body of workmen who are nb| up in the ranks of the labor leagues. fThey have shown themselves to be NOT TRUE FRIENDS OF LABOR, broadly speaking, but its narrow and deluded enemies. They have proved themselves to be blind, UNSAFE leaders. They have exhibited small knowledge of the true principles of industrial economics. By this course in promoting strikes and consequent id?pness they seem to say to workingmen: "Idleness is better for you than employment. Stop work and live off the others." 8UCH ADVICE 18 FOLLY AND MADNESS CONCENTRATED. THE MAN WHO ADVISES ANOTHER TO REFUSE EMPLOYMENT AND WAGE8 WHEN HE NEEDS THEM IS A BAD COUNSELOR. I We oppose the impudent pretensions on the part of those who wsould establish a labor oligarchy and create an INSUFFERABLE MONOPOLY in a universal commodity. It is an unjust, an inde fensible, a destructive doctrine. Carried to its ultimate conclusion, i?would undermine our republican system, sap the foundations of the government and substitute the uncontrolled will of the few for tfce lawful rule of the many, for true it is that the great body of labor in this country is unorganized, that it does not seek to organize and in the very nature of the case must remain unorganized. Even m the ranks of banded labor are countless scores of men who are unwilling subjects and chafe under an insufferable thraldom. *?. * *i The right to labor is fundamental and Inalienable. It antedates labor leagues and human laws. It is a PRE-EMINENT RIGHT fcf all American citizens and can never be taken away without first revolutionizing the government. But there will be no revolution. This sacred fight, vital to re publican liberty, will be protected, defended and preserved by brave freemen who prize it, and ALL WHO DARE ASSAIL IT WILL JBE FOILED IN THEIR WICKED ATTEMPT. Labor strikes, boycotting and picketing, proscription and abuse of other workmen-all these, with their concomitant evils, are inde-' fiensible and dangerous, and when accompanied by violence they 'become conspiracy. I The government, though it may travel with leaden heel, CAN NOT TOLERATE CONSPIRACY OR INSURRECTION. It moves, and must, move, when the overt act has been committed: In the last resort, when civic and industrial rf^'ts*"ar?~d?i???"d and invaded, when the law is defied, when violence breaks forth, when all other measures have failed, then comes the ultimate resort, MILITARY FORCE, for the law must be enforced by whatever effort; the public peace must be preserved at whatever sacrifice; insurrection must be put down at whatever cost. The government of the state and of the United States cannot and will not sit supine and see thc edicts of their courts defied, their laws trampled upon, private and public property destroyed or citizens maimed, murdered and maltreated. If such acts be permitted an archy ensues. BUT THERE WILL BE NO ANARCHY. OURS IS A GOVERNMENT OF LAW AND IN ITS SYSTEM RESIDES THE POWER TO ENFORCE ITS DECREES. PRISONS AS INCUBATORS OF CRIME By CHARLTON T. LEWIS, President New York State Prison Association |HE purpose of preventing future crime dictates, first of all, the abolition of every traditional institution and practice which tends to produce criminals. There is no doubt that the criminal class consists mainly of THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MADE CRIM INALS BY PRISON LIFE. There has been much improve ment in the discipline of prisons, but prisons in general are still schools of crime. Apart from the associations which they furnish the unnatural life in confinement is weakening to manhood, and it is always a degradation to its subject. Moreover, the improve ment has not extended in general io local jails. These are the class rooms from which the criminal class is chiefly recruited. ANY THOROUGH REFORM OF PENAL LAW, THEREFORE, MUST CONTEMPLATE AN IMMENSE REDUCTION IN THE USE MADE OF PRISONS AND JAILS. If a rational rule were formulated on the subject it would be: Put no man in prison unless his confinement is necessary to the safety of the community. Keep him there ONLY SO LONG AS THIS NECESSITY CONTINUES. . MOST MEN MARRY TO BE RESPECTABLE ES By Mrs. EDWIN KNOWLES, Former President of Women's Professional League |HY do men marry? may be asked. Setting aside those cases where marriage is merely the price of possession, most men marry because they have decided to "settle down and be respectable." It adds dignity to have a household. There is a standing that can be obtained in no other manner. BACHELORHOOD IS A SORT OF VAGABONDAGE, AND THERE COMES A TIME WHEN IT IS DESIRABLE TO TERMINATE IT. AND SO A MAN SAYS TO HIMSELF, "IT IS TIME FOR ME TO MARRY." He is much like that character in Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" to whom his father said, "Take a wife." The 6on replied, "Yes, father, hut whose wife shall I take?" '-CLASS WORK. NEW AL just arrived. 'OR IT. We Wantto TalK to.. . You About B 0 Y'S CLOTHES :o :. The Clothes question for the growing Boy is aperplexing pro position at best. Pariente, who have raised an assortment of Boy?, know all about it. The Boy must be pleased as well as the Parent. We have Boys Suits that will satisfy all hands and promote con tentm1-:!!! in the family circle. Our handsome Short Pants Suits from -3 to 16 yearp, in two or three piece styles, will FILL THE BILL EXACTLY $2.50, $3.00, $3 50, $4.00 and upward are the prices. The Suits are handsome and have style enough to please both the Boy and his Mother, as well cs {hat substantial wear his lather will insist upon having. |2ff*Bring the Boy here for all round clothes sat?sfa3tion. I c. LEVY'S SON & co Correct Diessers for Men and Boys. AUGUSTA, GA. SWEET POTATOES. An Evaporated Product That Keeps Well and Bear? Tranitportatlon. A recent bulletin of tue South Caro lina experiment station calls attention to the fact that, while sweet potatoes may be produced in abundance at small cost and furnish a cheap, nutritious and palatable food not only for man, but for domestic animals, they have fallen far short of the full measure of success as a market crop because, first, they are too bulky to pay for extended transportation, and, second, they can not stand rough bundling and exposure to freezing weather. The station, therefore, undertook to find a method by which the potatoes might be dried, with an Improvement of the keeping quality and no loss of edible quality. After numerous exper iments it believes that these results may be obtained by boiling the pota toes in an open kettle and drying in a fruit evaporator. The method followed at the station was as follows: By means of a derrick usefr4n the. cannery several bushels of green "pota toes were lowered in an iron basket to a large boiler uv which the water was heated by steam. To^secure uni form cooking the roots should'be nearly of the samesize. Those weighing from one to two pounds required an hour for thorough cooking. Six to eight hours were required for evaporating them at a temperature of 150 degrees B\. An ordinary laborer peeled and ?Heed a bushel per hour. The evaporated prodnct, it is claimed, "will keep for an indefinite time^and bear transportation to uny part of-the world at any season." It contained: "Moisture, 3.42 per cent; crude ash, 2.48 per cent; crude protein, 5.06 per cent; crude fat, .80 per cent; crude fiber, 2.08 per cent; nitrogen free extract, 86.16 per cent. To prevent hardenlng'of the j product it should be packed in close boxes as soon as practicable after re moval from the hot room." To prepare the product for table use "soak the slices in warm water for an hour and prepare as dressed or candied potatoes. The desiccated potatoes may also be used as are the fresh roots for puddings or custards." For the latter purpose they may be quickly ^prepared by adding a small amount of warm wa ter and boiling. Not more than fifteen miuutes will usually be required. ?ojnan can serve two masters un lessee is a low-down politician. ' A scient or of a cyclone foi Investigated the col it blew. INSURANCE. FIRE Insurance,HEALTH Insurance, ACCiDENT Insurance, Fidelity . and Indemnity Bonds pf all description issued. , Your Business solicited. GRIFFIN & MIMS C. A, GRIFFIN. E. J. MIMS Office Over May & May's Store. Groceries ! * PLANTATION SUPPLIES I am prepared to save you money on Staple and Fancy GROCERIES. Always get my prices before buying. I reprereut SMITH -? BROS., of AUGUSTA, GA., and cad supply you with Gro ceries at Augusta Prices. Give me a call. Respectfully, E, S. J O H NSONJj . _-_ ^. " i tn mn munn ADVERTISER 'BUILDING Augusta Bee Hive Has just received a full and complete line of FALL AND WINTER GOODS Consisting of CLOTHING for stout an 1 lean men; Clothing for Youths; Clothing for Men and Boys. Also a full Hue of Oveicoats for Men and Boys. The finest assortment of Men's and Boys Hatst A full and complete line of -?FURNISHING GOODS* My Dress Goods Departmeut consists of everything the ladies need in Plain and Fancy Goods. SILKS of all shades and prices. In Ready-to-wear Skirts and Shirts, I have the most complete line in the city. jN^illinei^jr Department My Millinery Department is complete in every detail. All the different styles nf Walking Hats and Dress Hats, of the finest quality and latest Parisian styles, Stioes. Shoes. iniJiiiifimiiifiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiini iniimiiiiiMimi niinijiiimmiii My stock of Shoes is loo well known to need any comments. I have for the tiny infants to the No. 14 brogans. All you ne-tl is to all at THE' AUGUSTA BEE HIVE to be convinced that this is the lace to get your bargains. ABE COHEN PRO.