Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, May 12, 1909, Image 2
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j Where ffinely Thousand
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By Madge C. Jettison
HE law in Berlin requires that^wii?h some variations accord
. lng. to-the. height of his building, the width of the street,
and .the quarter a man shall build upon only, two-thirds, ol
his land, and leave the rest for a court. In the hpusW or
middle class, trees, flowers, and statuary fill these courts.
Sometimes little fountains spring up in them. And if in
the average , tenement .the court hi bare and dreary, it is, in
the greater number of buildings, paved and orderly; and as
clean as asphalt can be swept. ;Far more of light' and' alr?
iaf m0Tii ?* cleanliness, the owner of tenement-house building must give his
tenants h Berlin than in New York. One need never light a match to And
tlie light shaft, as a te?ement-house commissioner with a sense of humor
sometimes.does in New York. There are no rows of buildings like our dumb
bell tenenients, with ten rooms out of fourteen on every floor dark, and the
?as hurting in them night and day. Even/ in places where people were dying>
of "starvation, the sunlight lay in a block upon the floors The halls were
scoured white; the rooms were'clean, and the people themselves.
Nevsr, indeed, did any place wear a better outside than Berlin. It ls
said that Frederick the Great, when he presented his people with building
sites, st.pulated.thRt-, however modest the buildings erected, they must pre
sent a splendid aspect to the street. Even the old cheunenviertel, "the place
of barn's"-which has been the stronghold of thieves and cut-throats, lies there
full of s m, with its house fronts gay and trim, and at almost any hour of the
day one may. find it glistening-from its bath. It is the subterranean and inter
nal, life ot this imperial city of Prussia, behind the walls iind under the earth,
vhich is yet unreached by regulation.
For over ninety thousand people live underground in Berlin, burrowing
trader the earth in the cellar tenements. Pale girls and boys issue out of
these dian, chill holes; and paler men and women; and old people yet more
pale,.who have spent in this darkness all tbeir'lives, one may see borne out
from thom at last Into ,other.. cellar tenements, eternal and more still. The
children from the cellar tenements have a st: ange look of the blood not flow
ing-in them,.but a still life,like that in the ground. We have cellar tenements
in American cities, but in no such numbers as this. The new, tenement-house
law in Berlin forbids them, but it cannot touch the old buildings.. This in
something anyone-may see.-Harper's.
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%^-^Migmting^ Americans r
In the Middle States ike Mobility of the
People Has Been Constant
. By William Morrow *
N 1890 the President of Harvard College wrote an article de
scribing a very staid, not to say hidebound, ' community in
New England. It was one from which n? one ever moved
away, Into which no new blood ever came.
Ia closing he used language^ like this: Due allowance
being; made for difference in soil, climate, diet and the like,
that is the way thirty or forty million 1 people live in
America, .' --
I take it that the further back we go in point of time
the more persistent in conduct would be the people at large. I was wondering
how, then, that in the decade from 1850 to 18(50 there was such an extensive
change in the domiciles of our people. California'increased her population
fivefold during the ten years; Ic wa gained fourfold; Illinois, Michigan, Wis
oonsin, Missouri, nearily dr quite doubled their population. Oregon became a j
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.?f?SL Ott ir families moved in to, fill the gaps In part, A brother of mine, old
*er by some years, can count up twelve habitations that have been obliterated.
Where did all those families gol Ask the wild winds that blow from nearly
every State and Territory toward sundowc, Making due allowance, for differ
ence in soil, climats, diet and the like, that is the way it has been going on
over a great part of the Middle. States. I often meet men past middle age
who say that they have acquaintances in nearly, every State west of us.
Universal Brotherhood
Ey Washington Gladden
E assume that there^ is a social crisis. The church bas, or
Wi ought to have, a say in this crisis, because sooial order ls
in. unstable equilibrium. The condition of life in the cities
is becoming, more and more serious every day, and yet
many people are opposed to exposing this condition -of af
fairs. The rapid increase of population living in the cities
is due to the fact that country people find work in the
cities easier to get than in the small towns. Politics ls
one of the carnies'of the social disorder, and especially city
I>olitics. The cures for'these .municipal conditions must be in the ho rn es,, i
schools and churches. That tho home is not doing Its share in wiping out
these disorders is manifested by the fact that many homes have been broken
up, and hence home life bas become, decayed The schools are aiding mate
.ially in this work by their broad teachings, but the Churches are disaffected
.where they are most needed. The cures for these conditions depend upon
the church, which has not responded to the call, and I appeal to you people
to enlist' yourselves in this society of uplifting, and improve these disgrace?
lui conditions.
Men and Houses
By G. JG Chesterton ' ?N?
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* .>?>?>->?>**v* N all'our modern Industrial development there is the note of
a dehumanized monstrosity; our millionaires and our men
dicants are like the stunted dwarfs and toppling giants in a
fair: We are a museum of freaks with no spectators, and
this unnatural spirit breaks out even in our architecture.
Our houses are either giant houses like the flats of New
York or dwarf houses like the villas of Brixton. That there
is a normal1 hum?h size for a family house has been entire
ly forgotten. But these little houses beyond Clapham Com
mon carried 'yet a step further the parallel o? Barnum freaks, for they were
semi-detached villas. They were built in the revolting image of the Siamese
twins.
The man -who lived in such a modern house, or rather half-house, was
ntjt isolated, like a brave man, In his family fortress; nor was he welded into
a manly and military community like a man in monastery or a barracks. He
was linked by a link of brick as loathsome as the Siamese link of flesh to one
.Other-accidental man, generally to a man whom he disliked.
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Grateful.
A. patronizing- young lord wa? seat
ed opposite the late \ James McNeil
Whistler at a dinner one evening.
During a lull In the conversation lie
adjusted his monocle and leaned for
ward toward the artist.
"Aw'y' . know. Mr. Whistler," he
drawled, "I 'jahssed 'your houso this
aoawning."
"Thank you," said Whistler, quiet
ly. "Thank you very much."-Every
body's Magazine. ?
Foredoomed.
Ther is a man in a miduand town
whose name is Burst. It is a mlsfort
'une that would not have . attracted
much attehti?n if he had not called
his two children Annie May and Ern
est Will.-Tit-Bits. '
Now that the chemical manufac
ture of indigo has made the natural
product unprofitable, only 12 districts
in Burma grow the indigo plant, and
chiefly for local 'dyeing purposes.
Every Man in the Place is
Slain.
RESCUE OF WOMEN DANGEROUS
Women and Children Spared-Letter
From Widow of Clergyman Tells
Horrible Story : of Condifcions-^
Having Nothing to Eat, the Survi
vors Are Living on Grass Like Ani
mals-Moslems Are Trying to Force
the Women to Become Mohamme
dans.
Mareah, By Cable.-A letter re
ceived by messenger from Horni, says
that every man there has "been killed.
Only women, girls and boys under
10 years of age have been left alive.
The churches and houses we * plun
dered and most pf them were Dumed.
- The letter, which is from the widow
of a clergyman^ says:
"We have nothing to eat or wear.
We are living on grass like animals.
Worse than this, the moslems are try
ing to force the women and girls to
become Mohammedans'. Already
some of the women have been carried
away."
Lucius 0. Lee, a missionary here,
says:.
"We are trying to send food to
Harni, although it is dangerous, and
to bring away the; women as well."
Much excitement has been caused
here by the attempt of the authori
ties to arrest some of those who have
murdered Christians.
At Hadjin, notwithstanding the
presence of the troops, tho situation
is desperate owing to the lack of food
and medical supplies. The troops ar
rived just in time, as the besiegers
had succeeded in setting fire to a
.house on the edge of the city. The
fire spread, but as the breeze was
blowing away from the town, only five
buildings were destroyed. A heavy
rifle fire was kept up against those
who tried to extinguish the flames.
The Mohammedans outside the
walls who seemingly numbered many
thousands, pushed their attack ener
getically against the inhabitants, kill
ing-and wounding many. They wero
so eager to get inside the city and
plunder the place that they din not
observe the approach of Toufti Bey
and his troops until they were close
upon them, whereupon the Moham
medans fled precipitatedly, carrying
off all the cattle outside the city.
A Beirut dispatch says: The situ
ation at Suadia and Deurtyul again
,is critical. Further anti-Christian
outbreaks are feared iz~?&?J
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.which was :really remarkable as a test
of physical endurance alone and
which attracted the attention of hun
dreds was that of Henry Williams
who, after being hyponitized Monday
night about 10:30 o 'clock and being
put to playing a piano iii the window
of the Stone & Barringer Company,
continued to play it until near 8
o'clock Wednesday night, when he
was stopped by force, being taken to
the tent. For nearly twenty-two
hours, for sot a second did he let up
his pounding- of the keys on which he
had played scores and perhaps hun
dreds of compositions. He struggled
to get back to the stool and when on
the street fought desperately with his
four companions until the band start
ed up. He then walked away peace
ably to be awakened. He played with
close-shut ?yes.
Roosevelt Bags Two More Lions.
Nairobi, British East Africa, By
Cable-Theodore Roosevelt went lion
hunting again Wednesday, and before
the chase was over, two more big
lions bad fallen before his gun. These
animals wore encountered and killed
lin the tall grass. Mr. Roosevelt now
.holds the record for lion killing in the
.protectorate. Since Saturday of last
week a total of five lions and one
lioness have been bagged by him.
Killed Negro in Cell.
Albany, Ga., Special.-Ely Holmes,
a desperat?! negro prisoner in the Lee
county jail, at Leesburg, was shot to
. death Wednesday afternoon in a hand
to hand fight with Deputy Sheriff H.
D. Logan, in a dark cell in the jail, a
fight in which the loser could not
leave the ceil alive. Both men real
ized this, according to Deputy Logan
and when his chance came he killed
the negro. He had entered Holmes'
cell and the negro attacked him, it
was said with a stool, beating the of
ficer unmercifully .before the latter
could draw his pistol.
Changes in Turkish Cabinet.
Constantinople, By Cable.-Hilm i
Pasha and Mollas Sahib were Wednes
day installed respectively as Grand
Visier of 'the empire and Sheik-ul
Islam, or head of the faith. The for
mer succeeds Tewfik Pasha, and the
latter Zia Eddin E?KTldi. The" chan
ges in office were made -with the usual
ceremony. In the'imperial hall or
dering tho chances the Sultan ex
pressed his firm desire for the restor
ation and maintenance of peace.
Kidnapers on Trial
Mercer, Pa., Special.-James H.
Boyle; charged with the abduction ot
Willie WMtla, of Sharon, Pa., was
placed on trial Wednesday afternoon
Court adjourned for the day one hour
later after a jury had been selected
temporarily. Little difficulty was ex
perienced in securing a jury. Each
man was closely questioned and only
27 were examined before the box was
filled. It is believed the trial can be
concluded before the end of the pres
ent week.
THIRTEEN ? HANGED
Among Those Executed Were Major
Youssef and Three Other - Mern
Who Killed the Syrian Deputy-A
Large Placard in Turkish, Setting
Forth the Sentence of the Court,
Was Pinned on the Breast of Each
Criminal'
Constantinople, By Cable-^-Thirteen
civilians and soldiers sentenced by the
military courts (to death for murder,
were hanged in different parts of
Constantinople at 4 o'clock Monday
morning^
Major Youssef, his son and)three
other men who killed the. Syrian
deputy, Emir Mohammed Arsrand, in
front of the Parliament Building,
were executed on the spot where they
committed the crime. Five others
wore hanged at the entrance of the
ministry pf war, and three men at
the Stamboul end of the Calata
bridge. Upon the breast of each
criminal bad been pinned a large pla
?ard in Turkish, setting forth the sen
tence of the court. Around the foot
af the gibbets on the bridge, the early
morning buyers of fruits, flowers and
vegetables proceeded as usaul, while
the bodies were in full sight of the
great crowds that made their w?y
over the bridge between Stamboul
and Gala ta.
Documentary evidence has been dis
covered among the records of the
telegraph office here of the knowledge
af the Constantinople authorities that
massacres had been planned for
A.dana district, and they were to
coincide with the political events
bere.
Other papers have been found indi
2ating also that the conspirators at
che palace acted in the Sultan's name
in preparing the military mutiny of
A.pril 12. Lists of houses, with notes
Df the kind of loot to be found there
in, were, discovered on some of the
prisoners . now in custody. The ar
rangement's included a general mas
sacre of foreigners- in Constantinople,
including the diplomatic representa
tives on April 24.
The Tur?h Cabinet resigned Mon
day. Tho political situation is be
wildering. No one can tell wftat the
outcome will be.
A special; via London says the, Tur
kish Cabinet has resigned and that
Hilmi Pasha will bo the new Grand
Vizier..
An official dispatch confirms re
ports of the complete destruction of
the Jesuit iMission at Adana. The
sisters, however, are safe.
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Yearns of Fearful Storm.
Montgomery, Ala.,, Special-A spec
ial from. .[Giles county, Tennessee,
says: Eighteen funerals as a result
of the'fearful storm of last week, oc
curred in one village, of this county,
Sunday, .sijsi persons being buried in
one grave, land four in another. Mrs.
McCraw aiild five children were buried
together_aiid Mrs. Duffv nnA rwn rhil
Dor, wnere sne gave the alarm and
asked for help, saying that she would
be dead. in a little while. Within a
few minutes after uttering these
words,' she fell to. the ground and ex
pired.
Straus Made Ambassador.
Washington, Special. - Oscar S.
Straus, former Secretary of Com
merce and Labor, has been sheeted
'?oT-cjnh??sc:ador-to Turkey, and W. W.
Rockhill for ambassador to Russia.
Mr. Rockhill was formerly Assistant
Secretary of State and latterly minis
ter to China. Mr. Straus was twice
before minister to Turkey. He suc
ceed? Ambassador Leishman, who
goes to Rome in place of Lloyd S.
Griscom, ;who has expressed a desire
to come horne* Mr. Rockhill succeeds
Ambassp 'or Riddle at St. Petersburg.
Troops Escort Negro.
Savannah, Ga., Special.-The Geor
gia Hussars, 32 strong, commanded
by Captain McIntyre, left here Tues
day on a cross country march for
Clyde, Bryan county, having in charge
Brunswick McRae, a negro, who is
to be tried in the Bryan county Su
perior Court for the murder of Zenas
Wainell, a turpentine operator, sev
eral months ago.
Plea Against Free Lumber.
Wasington, Special-A plea against
free lumber and a story of Oriental
labor figuring in the difference of
cost between the two sides of the
Canadian boundary line featured a
speech by Senator Pyles, of Washing
ton, in the Senate Monday. Mr. Pyles
contended that a tariff sufficient to
save to the manufacturer the United
Sates market for his low grade lum
ber arid shingles will make it pos
sible for him to utilize every part of
the tree. Free lumber, he said, would
stimulate the development of Cana
dian provinces and be a detriment tc
the business interests' of the country.
Charges Against Two Judges.
Washington, Special.-Making seri,
ons charges against the conduct OJ
Federal Judges John F. Phillips anc
Smith McPherson, of the western dis
trict of Missouri, Renrescntative Mur
phy, of that. State, introduced a rcso
?~hrtion Monday providing for an in ves
tigation of their conduct in the litiga
tion between thc State and the rail
road companies over the maximun
freight law and the two-cent passen
gerrate law of.thal State.
Wellman To Try Again.
Washington, Special-Walter Well
man announced Tuesday that he wil
this summer renew his effort to read
the North pole by means of a dinga
ble balloon or airship. All the prepar
ations have been made, and Mr. Well
man will sail next week for Paris anc
Norway. This expedition will be un
der Mr. Wellman's*individual owner
ship and responsibility. The capita
has been supplied by Americans wh<
aro interested in the enterprise sold
en scientific and patriotic grounds.
Items of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events of More
or Less Interest at Home and
Abroad,
Simon Bilstein celebrated his 100th
anniversary in St. Louis, Mo., Sun
flay. He worries about nothing, drinks
e gallon of whiskey a week, with
never a drunk and smokes and chews
tobacco.
In the storm along the upper waters
of Long Island Sound and along the
Connecticut shore Monday night, four
men were drowned, four barges went
to the bottom and three barges wera
piled up ashore.
At Birmingham, Ala., early Sun
day morning Mrs. W. E. Leodford
was instantly killed and her daugh
ter fatally hurt by a runaway team,
which veered and threw them just
in front of an approaching car.
Twenty-five men narrowly escaped
and 25 mules were"" burned to death
in a coal mine at Smithdale, Pa.,
last Sunday.
The principal feature of the Con
federate veteran reunion in Memphis
will be the unveiling of the statute
of Gen. Stephen D. Lee.
Criminal proceedings are to be in
stituted against the Sugar Trust.
It is estimated that 250 people were
killed in last week's storm with
double that number injured. The
property loss can hardly be even ap
proximated.
Mrs. Eugenia Greenbaldt, of De*
troit, is suing for a divorce on the
ground of desertion. She says her
husband continually cried for his
mother till he finally returned to the
mother and stayed.
Former Governor J. C. Beckham
has become editor of the Kentucky
State Journal, published at Frank
fort.
Foreign Affairs.
Castro now seeks to get damages
from the French Government, not
for expelling him from Martinique
(for it has a right to do that) but
for taking him to France without
consulting his wishes as to where he
would go.
Dr. Manuel Amador, first president
of the Republic of Panama, died last
Sunday at the age of 75.
It now seems certain that the new
turn of affairs in Constantinople was
hasiened to avert a plot to massacre
all foreigners on' Saturday, May 1st.
started on the 80-mile journey to |
thc western tombs. The body of the
Dowager Empress will remain in
Peking until fall; ;
The portrait of Christan ?4 ol
Denmark was sold in London lasl
! week for $330,000. v It is understood
J that the purchase was made fer an
{ American. It was painted 372 years
ago by Holbein. Under the Dingley
tariff it would cost $66,000 to ome
it into port. It will probably come
in free.
Several dump cars loaded with
earth fell from the Culebra track at
Panama last Saturday and resulted
in 9 deaths of alborers.
The' Wright Brothers, Wilbur and
Orville, have sailod from France
where they have been displaying theil
aeroplanes to return to their home
in America.
The Shah of Persia has announced
the grant of a constitution for Per
sia and steps are being taken foi
elections of delegates for the forma
tion of the instrument that he thinks
will restore order in the empire.
The German government has gene
to employing feminine sleuths. It is
thought that woman's intuitive qual
ities will serve her well in the detec
tive sphere.
Washington Affairs.
Miss Mary Thomas, 65 years old,
who was for many years an employe
in the department of Justice was
dismissed from the service to take
effect March 3rd. She died last Fri
day night, her friends say of a brok
en heart.
Unskilled laborers were called for
..last Saturday to supply about 250
places. There were about 4;000 ap
plications for positions ranging from
$250 a year to $650.
General staff officers and 100 sol
diers left Monday to study the
science of war from the battlefields'
of Virginia.
The treasury receipts for the last
ten months aggregate $92,405,000 less
than the expenditures.
The new tariff bill proposes to em
power ? the President to make rate3
higher or lower according to his idea
of fair treatment at the hands of
other nations.
The committee has returned "from
Panama and again it is reported that
thc Gatum dam is secure, thc work
is progressing pleasingly and . the
unanimous opinion sustains the lock
plan rather than that of a sea level.
School Book Contract Let.
Columbia, S. C., Special-The State
hoard of education at its meeting
last Saturday awarded the contract
for furnishing the books for the free
school libraries to Poole and L'Sely,
of Atlanta, Ga. The contract is to
go into effect July 1. Until that time
the contract with the Educational
Publishing Company will remain in
force. The list of books will be pub
lished about July 1.
The second National Peace Confer
ence met at Chicago on May 3rd.
?UrVE STOCK NOTES.
A'well-bred sire will often add two
to three pounds in weight o? flesh or
fleece over a common sire.
lt is very important to protect sheep
from wet weather, although they can
stand considerable cold.
Feeding sheep in Ic w, marshy places
ls aibout tte-most unfavorable oondi*
HER FIRST PARTY..
(Lucile, a carefully -brought up little
girl of five years, returned from her
flrst party in great glee.
"I was' a good girl, mamma," she
announced, "and talked nice all the
time."
"Did you remember to say some
thing pleasant to Mrs. Townsend Just ;
before leaving?" her mother asked.
"Oh, yes, I did," was the enthusias
tic reply; "I smiled and said, "I. en
Joyed myself, Mrs. Townsend ; I ?kd a
lots better dinner than I thought Td
have."-Bee Hive.
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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA.
AUGUSTA. GA.
. L. C. HAYNB, CHAS. -R. CLARK,
President. Cashier
CAPITAL $250,000.09.
Surplus & Profits $190,000.00.
The business of ocr out-of-town friends
receives the same careful atteottoo as that
of our local depositor?. The a'cconots of
careful conser*aMve people solicited.
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1 nov/ represent a strong
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