The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 03, 1911, Image 2
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tThe perils of bringing ft
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H<? made a part of a menage]
: . :^rtb by the thrilling expe^nce of
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ease, rocked the'steamer
.", i M. side;g; This r^lHng: frfghteij
?tflSe land female, of the big
'3|f and'" tho former :\ exhibit
4S?ee'OF throwing' his body
#? woollen bora which' aeid
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^tott traa devoted to roaj
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?aoand . in his cell landing
4k?tttd this minute and on
-mj-rt and with a regsla
all the bravado out
Bound to get out and see
"tawuble. wa3 Mr. Lion mad
{tttexao effort and pushed
. tjg-fen, and'-then started to e
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give aw?y to day and
??wie. too distinct An E;
9iiilor was spied splicing a
-,' "Sefore he could stir the Hol
*?aj*t of him tearing him. w pieces-1
SJeath must have1 been inetdRaneous |
s&om shock. While the 1? -stood |
,; Jawing, into the face of tifidead a
:J ".fjtonp of seaman saw him Sid fled.
y-\'.-r\.!fbo first, second and thin ofllcers
" .v>i to their rooms and proSring re
&?ft&mn sought out the best, sehsl-|
i'-MlW getting a deck above, tfairln the j
"Staterest of safety. Three
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' -itio beast In the belly, throwlag him
?t? his knees when he ralled>over
; ;; 'OB8 lay kicking for a f?S seconds.
; ISasalalag his feet the animal ran
3&8> length of the de?i. tumbled- over
igSSfl rolled- in the- soap per?: ? uj^-ags-in
I. iajftd eaek toward, the deck U> which
y-?ks?l?cerehnd returned.
ISndiag ha couM not leap, upon
^Seco, he Jumped lato*-* well and rah'
f. * tnjs 'a companion way. ?whtfr? the offl
??tier? otood firiar. -fa' th? meantime
."tfca latter once more- sought the rig
. igSttg. ^-Tho audacious Quadruped
.?PtBaed^ revenge, .end' soon .*? shot In
"?e?'?head sent him'-stumbling along
tus&adf legs.'
, f&e?'he ran up to the deck, 'where
?safeguards do not. run along the
- <<aBge, roared mightily, peeped into the
./raea, affdV straightened himself out,
, ?Jumped overboard. I He'undoubtedly
^ flftade a good meal for the eharks fol
;'..I?wlng-the vesseL -J;
t^e ^loness never"v"|eft her open
?' 4age> and a brave ship earpenter ven
^?^ansd hear it and natlecl up the brok
-cm bare which let touft her foolish
. ?te.
W?BIM DAILYi TRAIN.
Attotte Coast
Lia* Satan?
in addition to the n ew eervte? ui>.
^snnced by-the Southern, the ?B>.'
. attxneeihent now com^s from Hr. W.}
-7. Crafg, Oeaeral PtasBenger jajeai
<tf the Atlantic Ooesj > Line, tlntl tie
<3co2t has com pleted aTra&^o
-meats -ior putting oa a double daily
passengeriservice bet ween New ?ars
md A?Vusta,'"tne 'aei r service ta ije*
'?Btae effestiva JaniLtry 9. aM fesj
?isontiaaed through thai winter' satooiiti;
:Jr. -Craig says tbA servk? and
-^affaipnient will bo tb a best the n?d j
lied ever operated l or a travel 'Co j
? rrj3iich'; it particu^r 1^ caters. A*!
important feature o f-the scbefiaSel
-arrangement, which: is a factor fa<
tbe handling, of :wlat? ?r travel, is tbfl-i
'Tednctfon in time cor turned in TijuS
5&ii the trip by an h Dur and a ftalf
TSa schedules are as fcfollows:
Leave New York CWty at <10:19 ?
.-an., arrive *n AugttstsK:2S a. m. Ihf
?ti^ltfwlns day. .ThoH train, retun
r/ftir, leaves Augusta Bt'2": 90 P
orirlTihg in New'Torfflat-1-50 p. bb
lOtiseryation cars, andPbroileT servie*
? "Wty be'operated on t?iis1 schedule
The'second daily *s|fervioe, which U
.t* fast train, leaves>N<8w York at 3: 31
&. m., arriving'in7 Alugusta at 3:1?
p. * m. Returning, lejaves Augusta 4,
p. tm., arriving in i?ew York Citj
?xt 2.31 p. m.' Full [dining car ser
?fee will be malnt&infla on this, train
aC the way thron^ls
>Iaa-Found
An unknowr. mal
'Sound 'Sunday momii
"tfee 'Southern railwaj
Sbaw ^Plains: Tenn. * f
Cpocket^waa found1 a ci
?addresB1''Julian *Ft
tSea, S. C, 22 Ash ton!
DeadL j, ?
's ' body was
lying beeide
,y ? trajcks near
In bW vest;
ird bearing the
[Durne/ 'Charles-*
street." . 1
EMES: A WEEK.
PLACED OK WHEELS AND HAUL
ED ACROSS PRAIRIE.
?' ? ? - ? ??
With Bask Open, Meals Served In
Hotel und Clerks Working in
Courthouse.
Lamro, S.. D., has been put on
I wheels and 'moved. to Winner, where,
aa the result of . a bitter county aeut
war and agreement lietween the ? two
towns, It has consolidated with Win*
ner and as ls town ceased wholly to
exist
? Large store, buildings with their
valuable contents were moved Intact.
Banks/, with their cash lit the vaults,
were put on; wheels and made the
trip across the prairie while the
clerks continued to. work and money
was received and paid out ot" cus
tomers.. ';;
Without disturbing the offlcials'the
county court house was hitched to
two ' of the largest "tr?etlon ""engines
ever built, and it was dragged from
Larmo to Winner. I where ft was plac
ed On a fouada'ttbn. i;>evlcusly prepqfr
ed 'for 'it' The Larmo hotel,' drawn
by: 72 teams' Of 'horses, made the trip,
without so much as ceasing business
a'single meaL . \
1 Tha bourtvhoDse, a big twoetory
frame building, waij the first to be
moved,' sinco It was necessary that
the big house be pet In place before
smeller houses blocked the way. The
big traction engines were hitched to
It, and across tbo prairie It went,-the.
big engines >u?a$ and ?nortln; like'
Mogul locomotive*. Tat? distance was
three tifllea; and, thlls was covered In
just two tours. 1 So evehly was the
"job" carried on that clerks,, writing
a' their desks were undisturbed.
After the court houBeand'jail were
moved resideacea "went over In reg
ular flocks. When nightfall overtook
a house which watt >*lne moved the
structure wui left by" the roadside
for the night and (.bo* family nr>eupl
ed It Is usual.
Then the movers began on the
business houses, and store after *tere
was taken to ' Winner . without
being Interfered with., Ba nka were
removed without the money belvtr
looked'up, and deposits were receiv
ed and checks paid without a halt.
tiThe big school house was taken
ovec-for fite" day, only half, a day be
ing; lost by Btudents. Although
the^men tn'Vharge of th^rtnginesi
.riiTexed ' to.
drtn-ah'dvallf tbeVauthorlfJes' 313 not
car*r tO'riak we collapse of the bulfd
ing when It was occupied by so many
children. '
,lSs9^?ef^(?t * ofRoving-: varied - from
^50 for ^S^M^^^j^^??^^,
iStore filled with goods. It cost near
ly $1,000 to take the court house
toi the new towr and . put it ia the
position It now occupies. *
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' 74 "VEfeS?LS ' LOSS '
Aad Fifty-three People Out of 1,463
. ' lest. Last Tew.
Out of a total of 6,361 persons In
volved In 1,463 disaster* to vessels
of all classes within the aeoge of the
United State? life saving service, on
ly fifty-threa were lost, and about
seventy-four vessels were completely
destroyed, according to- the annual
report of S. L. Kimball, general" su
perintendent, of the service, for the
fiscal year, which ended June 30 last.
The next expenditures for main
taining' the service for the year were
$2,249.375.65. The enactment of
the', bill passed at the last session
of Congress by the Senate providing
for retirement pay for members of
the life saving seiwiee und others of
the field service and others of the
field service incapacitated for duty Is
'urged In the report. -
Of the 1.648 vessels of all kinds
which""met with accidents, the' life
savors rendered service to 1.047, val
ued with their cargoes at $10,179,
280. Other succor rendered' by the
life saving service Included the res
cue-of 137-person* from, drowning,
surgical aid to 60 persons suffering
'from gunshot wounds; broken limbs
or bruises and the recovery of l&o
bodies of pereons who had met death
through los or in other"ways. Nlae
of this number were euleldea. ?
: PREACHER ACTS AS FLAGMAN.
Grabs Keadfcercfatef and Warns
Tri An of Wreck.
....-- ?-. ? .......... . - ? >?? ?
The moment he emerged from the
day coach where ho was riding at
Mafrsot, Tenn., late 'Friday after
noon, ivev. J. A. Baylor.-pastor of the
State ' Street Methodist Church,
South, of Bristol, and formerly of
Chottanooga. Instantly grabbed a
handkerchief and ran a half mile up
.the track to flag any oUier trains
that might be coming. Mr. Baylor,
who is one of the most prominent
ministers In the Holston conference,
wa3 forweriy a locomotive engineer
and .this was his first impulse. He
was injured In a passenger wreck
some years -ago while railroading
and before entering the ministry. *
\ Chewed Up Money.
After a vain Bearch for a wallet
containing $i29, which M< bad been
carrying In his hip pocket, Frank
Hoover, "a butcher of-Bellovista, Pa.,
declced as a forlorn hope to staught
er>a hog w^th'whkh had been wok
*lng before missing the/money. In-1
' side the. stomach of, the animal" he
!discovered 'his, roll, of- hills, chewed-"
: Into a mass with the leather of the
'wollet- ' . ;* **:
OBANGBBXJBG;
CHEAP COTTON GOODS
MAKES THE SITUATION UNSAT
ISFACTORY TO THE MILLS.
H ? ? % '
Mannfeetuers Claic That With Price
of Cotton so High Goods Can Not
be Mode Profitably.
A New York . dispatch says ' the
year closed 'with the cotton goodb
market steady but quiet Prices ap
pear to be firm, but they offer mills
ho margin/for proflton many of the
staples, while cotton rules high. In
manufacturing circles curtailment of
production is -being urged and in
mercantile houses it is felt that pro
duction is running ahead of demand
for the time being.
The volume of export trade. with
China in the last weeks of the year
reached at least 10,000 bales and
the market is firm oh a basis of 6 1-4
cents for four-yard E"S by 60s. The
demand for', 'ginghams and- fancy
"wash fabrics1 of- cheor j const:uctlou
holds good:' " " %
Staple-prints have ' sold well and
are being delivered1 .freely -for the
spring trade: -Blea^el?rV^eesQAgs'' are
hel^ firm on a basis of 9 cents for
frQltxf-the-loom, but the'demand, is
of a hand-to-mouth charoeter.
i Colored cottons -have- been sold
fairly well on the low grades.' but
mill agents complain of a lack of
profit at present prices.
The demand for plain constuctlona
of fine cloths is lighter and in fancy
goods, silks and cottons sell rather
better than other lines.
Th e cotton yarn market contin
ues-quiet ? with values held fairly
steady. Of the 1,75,000 pieces ot
print cloths sold in the last week
of the year at Fall River about 75,
000 c- listed of 27 In 56 by 52s for
substitute count print.
The mills in that city are carrying
comparatively small stocks and are
discussing;' the need of curtailment
when January contracts begin to ex
pire.
EXTEND OVER FIFTEEN YEARS.
rostormi Official Makes Statement
About: New Orleans Saigar Fradd.
"When'the grand jury now inves
tigating the sampling of sugar at
New Orleans finishes'Its work, it-will
be; found that the frauds against the
^f^^nS^t^n^l^^m^ going"
on "or at? least fifteen yej?."
VliI? statement' was mcK -Friday
by an official of the customs service,
who . declared all the suspected
frauds, would be found in the samp
ling of sugar and in the tests which
determine' the-saccharine -contents
upon which the importer^ pays duty.
An investigation of alleged; "draw
back"fraus at San Francisco is al
so imminent- In fact, it is-known
th^fit a preliminary investigation has
furnished evidence which leads treas
ury officials to believe that the
frauds at San Francisco will' eclipse
those-?ttsNew York, which the Amer
ican. &igar Refining^ Compaj-jr recent
ly ordered to se$fo tor 9700,000.
Bvidienee solledtsd by the customs
service Is said to show the 'Govern
ment hoe for years zeen paying
"drawhack" on Philllplne sugar,
vhich came into the United States
duty free, was used In the preserva
tion ol' California fruit and later ex
ported as sugar Imported from, Java
on which duty had been paid.
One of the officials of the treasury
department Friday said: "The
troubles of the sugar Importers have
only begun. The disooveries of the
fraudsi havo only" started." ' ?
PEACEMAKER THE VICTIM.
AsheriQe Citizen Receives Periu&a
? Fatol Wounds.
WH:h a knife blade, stuck in his
right lung to a depth of four inches,
and 8tiH protruding from the wound,
John Davis, a well-known eitidfe of
West* AshevlUe, staggered -into his
home early Friday morning and in
formed his wife that he had-been
eut The Injured man: did not know
the knife was still' embedded in hid
lung until it was pulled out by his
horrified'Wife. The stabbing result
ed from aa affray between the young
son- of Davis'and h young man sawed
MWMahon, In which the father was
endeavoring to act as* peacemaker.
After the cutting, which is alleged to
have been done by McSiahon, the lat
ter made his -escape, - but later was
captured and returned to Aaheville.
DskVrs's condition is critical.''' ??
Was Playing With Gun.
Having ju6t returned from a hunt,
aud while pointing the gun at each
other in a playful manner, the gun
In the hands.o_f Ales Dona boo was ac
cidentally discharged and 0. B.
Lynch was Instantly killed The en
tire load took effect in'the top of his
head, which was "literally blown off.
Both boys are about 17 years of age
and sons of well 'known and prosper
ous farmers. The accident occurred
Just over the North Carolina line,
and the coroner of Polk County held
an inquest ? j
. Find Rody of Rnby.
While .searching for the body of
Cornelius Corbelt, who was drown
ed in an heroic attempt to save tho
life of a young woman who had fal
len -from ?a -ferry boat crossing the j
Chattahoochee. ?River,! ? searchers
found the'body'of a baby.-' The body
was lying tn a* shallotf pool of water
and was^ weighted down.
S. C, TUESDAY, JANT
TWO AiORE DIE
VerM fienewn?! Aviators Meet Death
Instantly by FaJfing
MISJUDGED CURRENTS
?'i- ',' ? ?
Molsant, at Novr Orleans, Falls Hun
dreds of Feet and Has His Neck
Broken?Horney, at Los Angeles,
is Dashed to. Earth in Aeroplane
and Crushed by the Machine,
John B. Mpliiant and Arch Hoxsey,
aviators extraordinary, were killed
Saturday. Both fell , out of the
treacherous air; currents frith their
machines?neither from a vast
height?and -? Moisant'e remaining
minutes \ of Ufa. were so ifew as to
count as naught;. Hoxsey - was killed
instantly. ?'? '? 1 '?
Molsant met his death at 9-66 a.
m:. attempting to alight in a'field a
few mlled from New Orleans, La:-'
Hoxsey, -who went- Into the air-early
in the afternoon' at Los Angeles,
Cal., lay at 2:12 p. m. a crushed,' life
less mass in view of the thousands
who were watching the aviation
tournament. ?'?
Thus the last day of 1910, in
bringing the total number of deaths
of aviators if) thirty, capped the list
with' two of the most illustrious of
those airmen who have b?*n writing
the history of aviation is. the skies
of two continents.
Molsant, a Chlcagoan by birth, af
ter an adventurous life in Central
America, became interested in avia
tion in France less than a year ago.
After soaring into public -recognition
by bis plucky bight from Baris acrosB
the English Channel to London, with ;
a passenger, Molsant's fearlessness!
and resourcefulness were exhibited'
frequently. Finding himself without'
a machine, he purchased one from
a friend for $10,000 and within ten
minutes, starting on his winning
flight from Belmont Park, N. Y.,
around the Statue of Liberty, win
ning a prize of $10;000.
Today a Budden puff of wind
caught him within 600 feet of the
earth, turned his machine over and
a broken neck, terminated his ca
reer.
Arch^ HOTserWafterJa' year of unk
form Bucce&wlth the Wright aero
planes, hacV'sa'lned a name for dar
ing and. competence In the air. Only
within the week he had set a new
world's altitude record of 11,474
feet, and then to show bis contempt.,
for the earth, had sailed majestically
more than 4,000 feet above Mount
Wilson. Today he ran afoul of the
same kind of boiling, treacherous
wind when some 500 feet from the
earth, and i?> minute later a horrified
crowd; aroused from its shock, was
rushing madly to where a broken
mats of humanity lay beneath a 'ton*
bit of canvas and some broken spare.
Both met. death In almost the sam<?
manner. EJach machine was head oil
for Uio earth md suddenly seemed
to otop, borer in the air, then "tun*
over on to Its nose," and dive heaa
long to tho earth?and to destrac*
tion.
Moisant'u aeroplane was a Bier let
monoplane, and In addition to the
heavy engine In front of the main
planes, he had fastened a tank hold
ing 35 gallons of gasoline. Aviation
experts believe a sudden puff of wind
stopped hi 3 machine Head In the air
and the heavy weight ahead dragged
the light ?ramework behind it, flip
ping the then useless rear elevator.
From hiB utiitlon partly back of the
ma'ln planer, Molsant was dipped out,
clear of the machine, and struck the
ground on his head, breaking hi*
neck. He died on a 3at car upon
wh'ich be was being n a hoi to New
Orleans.
Horsey, likewise ' woe returning
from a journey Into the clouds. He
was within five hundrtd feet of the
earth and cheers were going up to
meet the conqueror 'of' the :hlghej
air, when his machine seemed 'o
atop, shudder and whirl over and over
to the ground. As la the morning's
tragedy,' the rear elevittor, rendered
useless' when ' the momentum was
gone, flipped around, helpless to t.id
the fated ?? machine. Hoxsey vainly
endeavored to right his craft by
warping- the main planes and by use
of the rudder. Vain attempts, these,
for before sufficient momentum was
gamed the frail structure was crura
pled upon the earth, the heavy en
gine being torn loose.
Only a few fanners and aids saw
Molsant. hurled to his death, but
Hoxsey's end ci?& before the horri
fied gaze of th?4faands who had come
out In the pleasant afternoon to
watch the blrdmen darting here and
there through the air.
The day's pleasure ended when an
announcer, sadly lifting his mega- j
phone, droned out the message: ? :
? "Arch Hoxsey has been killed.
There will be no more flying today."
Mrs. C. M. HoxHey, of Pasadena,
Cal., mit-sed by a mere accident see
ing her .':on meet his death. She bad
arranged! to tako her first areopinnt
ride with her son today. Some do
tall of Importance In .her household
detained her and word of tho acci
dent was taken to her by Roy Kn.i
benshne and Thomas Jackson, of the
Wright Company.
Cold Ware Coming.
The weather bureau at Columbia
reports that a sudden change for
colder weather is to be expected.
'ABY; 3, 1911.
TOLL OF THE MOBS
FIFTY- SEVEN PEOPLE WERE
LYNCHED THE YEAR PAST.
Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas
and Texas Led in This Class of Vi
olent Deaths.
Only 57 lynchings were recorded
in the United States in 1910, a much
smaller number than in almost any
previous year in the last 16. In 1909
the total w?b 70 and in 1908 it was
65. All but five of the 57 cases of
lynching in 1910 were of negroes,
and ten of these cases were those In
which the charge against the' victim
was assault on white women or girls, I
In 11 of the remaining number the
charge was attempted criminal as
sault In the five cases of white
men; four were for murder and the
othey for aiding and abetting in a
loll delivery. Several of the cases
in which negroes were lynched were
based upon the murder, or alleged
murder of white women in which, the
question"1 of assault is implied. '
_ As la previous yeawaseariy all'tbe
lynching* were in 'Southern states,
Florida add Georgia having ten each,'
Alabama and Arkansas eight each,
Texas six. ' The only lynching In the
North ^occurred in Ohio, the victim
being Carl Etherington, and agent of
the Ohio Anti-Saloon league, who
met death at the hands of a sob la
Newark following als Imprisonment
la Jail on q charge of Berief murder
ed q salbenkee])er while making ?
raid en an alleged blind User. One
man has been convicted of having
paticipated in this lynching and givtn
a 20 years prison sentence.
Following is the record for 1910
by states: Alabama, eight negroes:
Arkansas, eight negroes; Florida,
eight negroes and two whites; Geor
gia, ten negroes; Louisiana, one
white man; Mississippi, five negroes;
Missouri, three negroes; North Caro
lina, one negro; Ohio, one white
man; Oklahoma,. one negro; 3c nth
Carolina, one negro; .Tennessee, two
negroes; Texas, four negroes and
two whites.
Of the five whites lynched, two
were Italians, who were lynched in
Florida. They were charged with
murder and with inciting the'slots
during the strike of cigarmakers in
Tampa. Another of the white vlltiw's
was a Mexican ( who j was shot and
burned at the stake near the Texas
border* ;foUowing-hlB confession that
he had murdered a white woman. Of
the.,62 negro victims, two were wo
men.* '
In many of the cases the lynchings
followed-the arrest or conviction of
the victims on the charges made
against them. In other eases the
victims met death while endeavoring
to escape from pursuing posses. In.
two i eases the negro victims were
lynched by mobs composed of mem
bers of their own race. In almost
every cote <(he victim, was summarily
hanged or. shot without burning at
the stake, sfeh as accompanied these
acts of summary vengeance in for
mer years. ?
NEffBS SOME HELP.
Awfal Treatment of ia Colored Girl
by a Fiend.
The Columbia Record says a small
negro girl, who Is twelve years of
age, lies In a critical condition at
the hospital of Dr. W: C. Rhodes,
corner of Washington and Park St.
Her left leg is shattered from the
knee to the ankle as the result of a
load of shot fired, so she says, by a
negro boy, Elijah WLUiaxne.
The shooting oceuVfed at the
Spigner place about eight miles dis
tant from the city, on Friday. Ac
cording to her version of the affair
she was shot because she refused to
obey the- boy whom she met. In a
dense wood as she and a female rela
tive were returning home from a
neighbor's
She says after he hid shot her he
directed his demands toward the
other girl; who through fear of the
consequeuoe? so forcefully illustrat
ed before bei eyes, yielded. The girl
tells a startling story, but her ac
count of the shooting and the other
crime was related in a coherant man
ner. She repeats the story every
now and then to the attendant at
the hospital.
The jail ireeord of prisoners does
no show that "Blljah Williams" has
beea arrested. It was reported sev
eral days j'go that an arrest had been
made, but if such was the case the
boy gare the ooastable a name oth
er than the one by which he was
known In the neighborhood. Such a
fiend as Williams should be Introduc
ed to some hemp as quickly as possi
ble.
Smuggle Chinese
Sixteen Chinamen, concealed In a
box car, were arrested at Ysleta, Tex.
this week, and two Americans,
charged with attempting to smuggle
them into the United States, were al
so taken into custody. Tho car had
beei- lined around the sides vrith bal
ed hay, lonvinz a space in the center
of the car in which the. foreigners:
were conw*ai*?d *
Beats Off Negro.
At Chicago Miss Ellen K. Miller
stroin, a nlnoteen-year-old girl, re
sisted a nego who attacked her last
evening in North Fiftieth avaaue.
After a struggle In which the young
woman returned the negro's blows,
scratching and kicking him, be
knocked her down, ran through an
alley and escaped.
TOLL OF AIR SHIPS ^
WHAT THE SOEBNCEI OP A VIA
TI ON HAS COST IN LIVES.
Every Country Represented in, the
List of Those Who Died in Efforts
to Advance the Science.
They hove pulled the aviation bal
ance sheet for the season just end
ed. One side is bordered with' gold.
tSixty-nlne heroes of the air have
won medals and thousands of dol
lars in. cash. The other side is pip
ed with black. Twenty-nine have
paid the final price of the hero busi
ness.
On the wide-stretched wigs of mot
or-pushed, man-built birds, intrepid
flyers have hung the. gay emblem" of
achievement 11,000 feet up in cloud
land. Others, reaching; out for the !
stars,'have'ridden aloft to the music
: of waving kerchiefs' and to a fata,
I which has the fooeral wreath for Its
.finality. ' 1 /' .?//!
?Everywhere there has been fetrlv-1
ingjtsucceedihg and striving, and dyi i
3ns -until the side of the aviation
sheet'which 1b piped with black bears
these ? harness
I -;Lefel>o>e/7erber,'Bossi, Hauyetti-!
! M ich el In,' Rob?, ? Speyer, Haas; Rolls,
Daniel Kin et. Nicholas Knet; Maaer
dydk, Polllot. Madlot, Kaghltti, John
stone, Fernandez,' Del a grange, Lo
?Bk>n, Joaely,: W?chter, Plochwan,
I Matiewltch; Waldern, Fa?ca, Vivaldi,
[Von Pitter. Hamilton, Chavia,. Blan
chard, Hehtel ?
Every country has offered its man
[?some two or three; you may tell by
the names. Some have died leaving
a word or two- an maybe a figure In
i the record by wbch they may be re
membered when the list has grown
lai-er. Some have died as from a
tumble from a houBetop?-a mean
taking off when you consider that
the setting Is bounded only by track
less space.
I Chavez died thus?hear the earth,
after he had marched over the Alps.
And some have died with department
orders signed and countersigned
thrust In their belts, as men who
serve the guns cr skirmish fatWbrhs
deep under the sea In steel bottles'
calhfed submarines have done before;
j'now:. - ? .'' ;v
Fifteen months ago the' season for
flying and dying asa double attrac
tion bad Its formal introduction at
RheImB;,iheancientelty^f-the-plains
! where the Kings-of France were wont
I to go to fit themselves witfc crowns.
The affair of Rheims was called a'
meet, a word taken from the vocah*
ualry of the foxhunt and .bicycle
riding.
'In territory the Hat is both brood
and long. Meets, with their cash
prizes and their life prizes,-became
popular. In the two lists to which
the names of aviators may be added;
the average la one dead to every
three living. The greatest amount of
money any aviator has won, the fig
ures being taken from his published
acrannin, is 582,000. Paulhan got
that, .duly-2 V have won more than
810,000. ?
PXiAJJTHRS StrPFER GKBATF1V.
Rix Million Dollars is the Annual
Damages to Peach Growers.
The fearful ravages of pests on ag
riculture, entailing many millions of
dollars' losftt arc outlined in a state
ment which Acting Chief Powell, of
the bureau, of plant Industry, has
submitted to the House committee on
agriculture .in connect ion with the
agricultural bill which the commttee
reported Monday::: *
Mr. Powell says that through the
use of a sulphur spray, the Bap tern
peach business has been made stable
for the first time. He says that the
estimated loss -annually from brown
rot on peaehes is 3^,000,000 and
from peach scab 81,000,000. virtual
ly all of which loss might be saved
by proper spraylngof orchards. ?
Blister rust on white-pine is esti
mated-to cause losses.of 81,008,000
annually and other -plants show be*
vy losses from diseases and Inafe.-iS.
Investigation of the cotton indus
try In Egypt has AadJcated that the
mixing of Hindu cotton with ? the
Egptlan cotton has entailed a Joss of
810,000,000 a year and that-strains
of the Egyptian cotton ean be bred In
the Egyptian cotton can be bred in
the United States which will not
show, th 3 conditions that cause these
enormous losses in Egypt. ?
High Living at Low Cost.
The Newberry Observer says: "Mr.
B. F. Mills butchered two hogs on
Thnreday that weighed 610 and 520
pounds. They were the Poland China
breed and were 18 months old. He
raised them from pigs, and they did
not cost him half as much as if he
had boug^ them from Tennessee.
The solution of the high cost of liv
ing Is that farmers raise their own
hog and hominy, and enough besides
to sell to their neighbors, the town
people. More and more of them are
doing this v?ar fov y*?ar. ?
Dynamite Explosion.
An explosion of dynamite at the
engine house of No. 13 mine of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company, near Easley, Ala., Friday
afternoon killed Joe Oswcll, engi
neer, and Will Hunter, fireman, and
an unknown negro. A second ne
gro was badly injured. The negro
killed bad brought some frozen dyna
mite from the mine tunnel to thaw
It out in the engine house.
?WO CESTTS PEH COPY
T0OK_POM
New York Banker Charged With Crte
Tries 'to; Kill Bimself
WHSLE GOING 70 COURT
Charged With Wrecking the Nort2s
era Bank of New York, the Prfs
oner Collapses Before Reaching
the Conrt Room Where he Wot? ?>
Have Been Arraigned.
. Joseph G. Robin, who wrecked 6u9
Northern Bank of, N?3r
Yo r k w h 1 l.e at its h
attempted to kill himself agafe? :
on Friday. - With head erect, shonlS-.*
ere; and eyes levelled at the bteerj
of cameras trained, on him, Josejjfe
0. Robin*- the,indicted banker,* 8te?K
ed from hie eis tor's home to face ar
raignment, calm in the kaowia$ga-- -
that'he had swallowed a dozen
lets of hyoscin, the subtle and doaffijr
alkaloid, with,whlch,Dr: Cripptrtk^Sh,'?<.?
ed his i wife, Belle. El more. H* cSJr -
lapsed before he could be taken.tot?
Court, with the exclamation:. I*n o
dead man; I've taken poison 99k
lets.".
The ease was postponed In ??
greatest excitement, a stomach p-ec&jr
was hurriedly brought into play ?3BS
the sick man was carried first to ???
prison hospital, adjacent, and later'fea
Bellevuo, where he lies In the prisss?
ward. No charge of attempted s?i
clde is entered againit him, and tt I*
thought, he will recover, although
the action of hyoscin is slow, azD
much will depend on'hia vitality.
The time at which Robin took, to*
drug is approxiately fixed by the tes
timony of Dr. Austin Flint, retains?
for Robin by William Travers Jer
ome, his counsel; Dr. Louise RoM*
ovitch, his sister, and two deteotfvsB^' .
from the district attorney's offioci
who rode with him from his sistejSs
house to the Criminal Court bufidfifts;
Dr. Flint told the Court that as nato^
ly as he could Judge from the eysHa
tome, the poison had been in Robt? .
system about three-quarters ? on 'Baa
hour when he collapsed.
' The two detectives, were posWte
their prisoner BwaSowed' nothing tea
the' way to Court. Dr. RobinovtSEh*
said her.brojherwa^ioi the habit 6?
taking hyoscin in' small' doses. t?
counteract the effects "of inorphSstBw
which hie used to deaden the sta$b- .
ing pafss by which {$#1 'stones mai? .
themselves known. She kept the dn?:. j .
in her house and she thought her
brother swallowed twelve tablets. Et
Bellevue the ."Examining surgeons {es
timated that Robin had taken abo&x
one^-tenth of a grain.
Robin seemed in good health. Sat
urday morning, 'better than at fStXf
time since his troubles commenitfL,.
Th0 Qrst sigh of illness was when &?
staggered, on stepping from hie Stir
tomeblle to the Criminal Court bu22?- ;
Ing. : In the elevator hie weakened %?
rapldby that the 'detentives hod Jb> >
lift Mm to a couch. There he'sa?hc
I?o unconsciousness and was not. *&
ylv?d -nntil ' the sttfrnaoh piuap 1eb3
been worked vigordusty. Its praam*
nse undoubtedly saved hie life.
Oetslde the corridors of the Qft
mlnal Court building fairly hummed
with excitement, but in the Court tif
General Sessions itself Judge Crata -
was ' transacting business as usual ,
when Wm. T. Jerome stepped rapld&r
down the- aisle.
"Your Honor," he began, hurrfafc
ly, "I am here in the Robin case. It
appears that the defendant has ta&te*
a drug. He cannot be stimulated.
An ambulance has been called onX
surgeons are now pumping out Sfia
Bio mach. The circumstances ore ia
avoldable."
On Information that the prtsayer
could not possibly be arraigned, ?jc<
case was postponed until the reccfrjfe
of further advices to Robin's oantft
tion. '? ?-'? < "? \ .
1 Hyoscin is described in the text,
books as an alkaloid of henbane and
In its" action a cerebral and spinal
sen dative." Cases ore recorded Sa
which a dozen tablets of 1-2 5th gatau
applies' i the membranes of the cysa
have ,. ouced several general taste
symptoms.
hi Robin's frustrated attempt tetfies
the question of his insanity stlD 2jp
en. ?
There was no farther developxasttr
in connection with either the Kotfc
ern Bank of New York or the Wash
ington Bavinrh Bank, both of whHh
are In the hands of the State banking
department, but the State dep&it
me&t;'Of insurance took over the af
fairs of the Title and Guaranie?
Company, of Rochester, N. Y., and "&
large force of accountants are ax
work on the ledgers of the many T?
tewoven concerns whieh Robin pt&"
mo ted. >.
Cleaned Fp Family.
At Baltimore, Md., as a climax to>
a series of bitter quarrels between1
Wm. C. Strickles and his wife, tSa
former Friday shot and killed th&
latter and his 19-year-oW stepdaoghi
er, Eula Kile. Strickles, who was
employed as a fireman at a power
house, then fired a bullet Info hia
own teiPn'e >
Kills Small Child.
At Bristol, Tenn., Mathew Tlinn,
aged 8 years, was fatally shot Frhfjjjr :
night by Robert Hill, an old \nUQfc'
whom be had been persistently teas
ing. The ball lodged hear tho ohH?Ja?
heart and he died Saturday. HUE
was arrested. * ^