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VOL XLIV NO 68NEWBERRY, S. C , TUESDAY'JULY 23,.1907t. WE..0AYA FEARFUL TRAGEDY. Michigan Far"'Ir Kills Son, Wife and Her F,pstei 'ather.-Is Himself ' Shot Dead. Nunica. Mich., July 21.-Henry Scuteheon, a farmer about5o years old, living near this village, today ran amuck with an axe killing his invalid son, his wife and her foster father. Scutcheon was later shot by Henry McClellan, a neighbor, whom the crazed murderer had also attacked. The dead: Henry Scutcheon, Polly Seuteheon: his wife: Seutcheon's IS-year-old son, George Anning, Mrs. Seutcheon's fos ter father. The scutcheon farm house had ap parently always been a happy home. except for the cloud which the son'. invalidism cast over the family. To day, with no warning, so far as is known. Scutcheon suddenly murder ouslV attacked his son with-an axe. H( crushed the boy's head frightfully When his wife interfered he turned on her and pursued the frightened screaming woman from her house tc the road, where he knocked her dowr with bis weapon. He zhen rushec back to the house and murdered his foster father-in-law. Next he tried to destroy himself The maddened man gashed his throal and wrists with a razor and- took som( Paris green. His woumds did noi weaken him and the poison did nol take immediate effeet. Axe in hand he returned to the road, where he ha( felled his wife a few moments before The first blow did not kill her and sh, had been carried into the house oJ Henry McClellan nearby. MeClellar rushed to another neighbor's for help When Scutcheon found that his wif( was in the McCleilan home alive hf smashed a window with his axe, jump -ed through it, and again atacked her This time he crushed her skull. H( then left the McClellan home and re. -turned to his own house, but when M! McClellan returned from his searel for help, the erazed man came ou and started over toward him, saying "I want you." "I will shoot if you come acros! the road,' replied McClellan, who hai armed himself with a shot gun. Despite, the warning. Scutcheoi came across with murder in his glance McCleillan thereupon shot him. choughMr. McClellan fired th< erges from both barrels -of his Lshotgun into the era,zed man 's chest rSetheon lived an hour afterwards Coroner Walkley. of Grand Haven says he helieves it was t.he wounds Seutcheon inflie-ted on his onw wrist: and throat which kil.led him. As hi lay writhing on t-he ground after h< had been shot and neig-hbors had tiei him so that he could not in a las despairing effort attack anyone else Seutche6n talked about his neighbor making statements that he watered hit milk. It is said that he had broodel over the death of 'his two childrei and also over the fancy that his neigh bors were down on him. He had no been prosperons in a financial way. J large scalp wound was found on hi: head after his death, and it is sup posed that when he- attacked his son Mrs. Sentehe, came to the boy' s de fence and struck the mad man wit] a wagon bolt. The son. Willie, was helpless paralytic. THIRTY KFJJmLE. P~' earful Wreck on Pere Marquetti Excursion Train. Salem. Mieh., July 20.-Thirty pec pIe are dead and more than 70 injur ed. many of them seriously. as th result of a head-end collision toda; between this village and Plymouth when a Pere Marquette excursioi train bound from Ionia to -Detroi crashed into a westbound freight in cut located at a sharp eirve about mile east of Salem. The passeng'r train of 11 car-s, car rving t& Pere Marquette shop em ployes of Ionia and their families t the Michigan metropolis for their an nual exeursion. was running at his speed. probably 50 miles an lhom: down a steep zrade. It struck th li2>bter locomnotiv- of the freight trai: with1 .ac 1errif2ie foire as t' tu:r LAYING HEAVY RAILS. The Southern Railway Improving Its Road Bed-A Depot For Dyson. The following in regard to improve ments being made and to be made on the Southern, between Columbia and Greenville, is from the Columbia State: Superintendent Simpson has also been giving atention to the Columbia and Greenville. He has laid 12 miles of steel rail bed between Piedmont and Belton and five miles of new track this side of Ninety-Six. Including the 25 miles of superb track between Co lumbia and Alston there is less than 100 miles of the Columbia and Greeu ville to be rebuilt and Mr. Simpson says that the material for this has all been bought. He hopes to have this also a very fine piece of roadbed within 12 months. On the Columbia and Greenville he has built several miles of passing tracks. What Mr... Simpson is peculiarly proud of in connection with his ad ministration is the fact that the peo ple along the Columbia and Greenville have banished that old saw about the trains never being on time. One old citizen had told Mr. Simpson that for 38 years he had watched the trains on that line and they are now keeping better time than ever in the history of the road. This is not due to any falling off in passenger business, for there is an in creasing passenger business. Mr. Simpson has in his office reports to show that in one week not one local freight train was a minute off sche dule upon arrival at destinationg and last week there were only two freight trains off schedule. This was caused in one ease by an en,,ine breaking down. Since the first of the year an ad ditional train has been put on be tween Columbia and Greenville and while it is true that some of the trains have a slower schedule, yet all of the trains have a very fair sche dale and all of them are making it now. One reason for the length of the trip is the fact that he has put in dinner stops on all trains. He is a stranger to the division and can not at once divine all of the needs along the lines, but he acts promptly upon every good suggestion. SSome time ago complaint was made hat the, Greenville train did not give time for breakfast here to the passen gers~ for the earvly moring train from Charleston. Mr. Simpson has reme ied that matter. At first he issued a bu!letin holding the trains until the passenger department could make ont a new schedule. One of the dinner stops was moved from Greenwood to Belton in order to let passengers from! Abevlle and Anderson on their way Sto Greenville 2et dinner, and those who had come from below Greenwood had expressed a desire to have the eating point changed, as th~e train ar.* -rived at Greenwood at an hour whenI they were not ready for dinner. LMr. Simpson has obtained permis sion to erect startions at Bookman and -at Dyson. The people' of those com munities had brought the matter be fere the railroad commission and it Shad been stated by the commission. Safter examination, that the business at those points would not justify the railroad in building stations. But Mr. Simpson brought the matter to the attention of the general superintend Sent. Mr. J. M. Seale, and the depots will be built any way. The lumber has been ordered. Those who know Mr. Srmpson state that he is a very careful man. is very proud of his division, and that hay ingw-akedupfrom the ranks he i a man of experience. It is believed tt within 12 months his division will be <me of the best or the entire Southern system. Not a Circumstance. Chicago Tribune. " 'Didn' t the thunder storm disturb voyo last niiht?'' Thunder stormc? I didn't know; ithiee was one.' Y ou didn 't ? Wh~ere on earthI do y ou '-leep?' Nowhxvere onl earth. I -leep witin "THE REAL HERO." er Paper Read at the State Firemen's I1 Convention by Miss Earhardt, of (h Newberry. in B1 The following paper was read at ca :he State Firemen's assocItion in An- er lerson by Miss Earhardt, daughter of he Thief Jno. W. Earhardt, of the New- ai >erry fire department: ro There is a saying t'hat "Peace hath ai ts victories as well as war.'" It can zi ilso be as truly said that peace hath h ts heroes as well as war. m The general public has always been 'i oo prone to look for its heroes among ai hose who have distinguished them- fi 5elves in battle or in war. building hi monuments in bronie and marble to Wl eommemorate their names and dd entirely forgeiting "the real hero," w] who always stands ready to risk his be x.ealtli, comfort. limbs and even to h yield up his life. in defense 'of our ar homes, property ai !iv . This hero m we always have with --too often th only pari'ally tfnipped. at public ex- di .1nse. for actoal zervice: depreciat- in ed by those who are geneially the,bi beneficiaries of his noble service and ar eroi& deeds-those not obligated or thi reularly enlis-ted for service being n< xiven the honor for victory and re-jb ward for service-and w1ile it is pro- G -r and right for us to honor our heroes of the land and -f the sea, it fi is none the less right and proper that 1 of we should equally honor and esteem yg tfhe virtues of our real. hero-The " American Fireman. tl The man who risks his life under re the impulse of bcoming cannon, the rc waving of flags and the inspiration m of battle, for his own glorification, is a at best but human; whilst the man wo 'risks his life in order that anoth er may live: is as near divine as hn manity ever attains. rc The fireman has no battle hymn of victory to inspire him to noble deeds. No visions of the "Vietoria Cross," H nor badg'es of the "Legion of Honor" rge him to perform his -full duty; n nor has he the "Southern Cross'" as a battle flag to lead him to perform le his heroic deels. On the countrary, his ra matle hymi, is that drtad alarm that ro clangs- out upon the startled ear, whil-t his call to duty is but too often, I bi a woman's cry of agony; and his bat- - tle flag is that lurid angry glare that overpreads the midnight sky. The heroic deeds of these men, were st they chisled as are the deeds .of the solier and sailor. wiould render their T names immortal and would stamli them. in deed and in truth the ''Real T Heroes'' of our 20th century civili zation. And it is only because their herie deeds are so numerous and are being performed daily in the regular N avocations of life that they have be come so common as to only call forb ordinary newvspaper comment-read today and forgotten tomorrow.d Let me illustrate, by a si ngle in- li dent. one of the many heroic deeds h of those splendid specimens of our. w American manhood. as related to me o: y a' friend whonse life has been spent a in the fire service of his state: I "'Twas 3 a. m. on a cold night in m December that the firemen were sum- 'ir moned to a burnina' residence in the 0: outskirts of one of our sonthern eit- T ies. When they arrived the house was a2 wrapped in fl-ames, the rather and a s few neighbors were trying to save as o much as possible of the household a: goods. TPhe mother, and her little s children around her, were all shiver-h in in their night clothes--the devot ed mother was trying to wrap her lit tle ones up to protect them from the cold. the eldest being hut ten years of age. She suddenly realized that instead of five little ones that should ti e there, there were only four. The one next to the baby girl-her darling d baby bo. --hleinZ missing. With a cry of agony, such as only a mother can p give. she shrieked out: 'My God. my F. baby b)oy!' 'He was left upstairs in-s his rib!' Shrieking, she attempted to a enter the burning building, while strong hands caught her and held her, si for to have entered would have meant 11 certain death to her. A young fire- y, man just entering up)on his manhood. G stadn-r near'. heard her words: 'Up- 1i stairs in his erib. ' With the words. 'f it will save him or* die in the attempt.' xe daShed into the buil.dnr. up thle F taiwaybewem~ and amid blinding~ e SH13OOKING DB~ATL. Miss Julia Wannamaker Drowned at Sullivan's Island-Body Has Been Recovered. All Orangeburg is inexpressibly shocked and grieved at the news of the drowning on Sullivan's Island of Miss Julia Wannamaker, second daughter of Mr. T. Heber Wanna maker. Dr. E. J. Wannamaker of Colum bia, uncle of the young lady, was on I the island at the time and every known metliod of resuscitation was tried without success. Miss Wannamaker had been on the island for some time, being with the family of Mr. John Cart, who are summering there, and it is said that the beach oi this section of the is land was beautiful and considered perfectly safe. Miss Julia. who was about 16 years of age. was a strikingly beautiful girl, unusually bright and talented, and was a universal favorite not only with those of her age. but all who knew her. Mr. and Mrs. Wannamaker were in New York. The Habit of Not reeling Well. Few people realize that their ail ments are rarely self-induced. They get into a habit of not feeling well. If they get up in the morning with a slight headache, or some other trifling indisposition, insteat of trying to rise above this conditon they take a posi tive pleasure in expttiating upon their feelings to anyone who will lis ten. Instead of combating the tend ency to illness by filling the lungs with pure fresh air, they dose them selves with 'heiMache tablets," or some specific "warranted to- cure" whatever ill they think they are suf fering from. They begin to pity themselves, and try to attract.pity and sympathy from others, Unconseious ly by detailing and dwelling upon their symptoms, they reinforce the - first simple suggestion of illness by a whole army of thoughts and fears and images of disease, until they are un fitted to do a day's work. It is said that man is a lazy animal. We are all more or less prone to in dolence, ahd it is the easiest and most natural thing in the world for -young people to accustom themselves to ly ing down, or lounging on a sofa be cause t-hey think they are tired, or not well.~ Much so-called ''invalid sm'' is simple laziness. There is a reat danger that girls who are deli 'ate while growing up. and lounge aound the house and lie down when they feel the least 'bit out of sorts, will form a haibit of invalidism wheli they reach maturity. How often do we' see such girls '''brace up'' at once whenever anything happens which interests or excites them. An invitation to a reception. or a par tv. cr any other pleasant social oe ea%.'n. acts like a tonic. For the time beng an instantaneous eure is ef feted. They are as well as anybody -until after the entertainment Sucess. Big European Banquet. The 1900 Club banquet to the Col onial Ministers, at the Albert Hall, Iwith its 1.600 guests. is certainly of imposing scale, -but it is scarcely, as stated by a contemporary, the ''see ond largest on record,'' the premier place being awarded to Lord Stratch ona 's Aberdeen dinner, at whic'h the guests numbered 2,400 says the West Iminster Gazette. Some years ago the late lady Bur dett-Coutts feasted 2,000 people' at Iher house at Highgate, King Edward einz among her guests. A little lat er hIs Royal Highniess (as he then Iwas) was one of 3.000 guests who sat down to a dinner in London; 2,500 were present at the banquet in honor Ljof the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, in Waverly Market, Edinburgh, some time aeo. But even such gargantuan feasts Icannot compare wit.h the banquet in 189 at the Palais de l 'Industrie, Paris, which was enjoyed by 13,000 maors of French towns, in addition to 2.000 other dinners: nor with the Ifeast Sir Watkin W. W::nn once gave in Wnnstay Park to 15.000 neigh ors, a banq1uet 'at whieh 9)6 hozs heads and 1.440 bottles of ale were coanmed. Y heat. lie groped his way to the ib wherte lay the sleeping child. stily wrapping him up in the Ibed >thingI to protect him, to took iim his ani, and hastened- to return. this time the stairway by which he me up was wrapped in flames, and erv other outlet was cut off. To sitate meant certain death to'him d to his little charge. With a he ic effort he dashed into the flames d down the burning stairway, hug ,1z elose to his breast the precious midle in his arms. His comrades nr him at the door as he came out, th fis clothing, hair and the bed n! around the child a mass of mes and fire. Qni(kly drenching m with water he and his bundle re horne a few yards away to the ri:kin and agoized mother, to ose :nms was restored the baby v. n, w wide awake, safe and un rmed. itt how about that heroic d splendi-l sneeincr of American anhood, who had ri:.ed his life that e baby boy might live? Alas! the eadful flames,. that he had inhaled his lungs as he came down that irning stairway. had dine its work, id notwithstanding all that sympa etic and loving hands could do, his >ble heart s)on. ceased its heart -ats, an- his spirit returnd to the d that gave it." Was there ever a soldier on the lI of battle? Was there a soldier the "Old Guard" of Waterlool as there a soldier in that immortal Gray line'' at Gettb.,nr_? Does e history of any f .-.i people cord aobler, braver' or more lie ic aet then the one described? A an who has given up his life that ba:be may live! iBut- enough; this one act is only Le of many, very many, that are be performed by the brave and he ic men in the American fire ser ee and were I called npon to draw *-'iicture of thb "Real American ero" it would not be one represent g n admiral upo' his battleship. >r a general witih swbrd drawn lead g a brilliant eharge, nor a lone artil ryman-his comrades - all killed, onming home his last charge, but ther would it be a picture repres ing a fireman coming out of a irning bui.ldi,:7. with a hab, cl:sp I to his breast, wir- 1'-e he had ved at the risk of his Own, and T ould write upon the pedest.al of the atec t11ese words: be Real Hero-An American fire' man, he Defender of our lives and om homes. Patience is Anti-Suicide. ew York Herald. How to prevent suicide has always ten a puzzling quiestion. After all e must at least allow that the fun imental difficulty in answering it as in the faulty make-up of mar mself. In many ways he is a misfii ith his environment. The discipline disappointment- is taken by him as punishment rather than a lesson That t'he weak man needs is a little ore stesiess fo)r present and com .gshok?. .All mu~st talke their shart misfortune one.. way or the other, he common lot should be the bear >le lot. The end of all things come5 on enough. At the worst there is 1y need for little more patience id a little more submission. If the iicide had stoppedito think he might re been saved. Tea Smoking Centuries Oftd.' [inneapolis .Journal. "With your tea eigarettes.'' said ie ahtiquary sternly. "you young. la les think yourselves very modern anc scadent. But look here.'' He took from a porfolio a French rint of the seventeen.th eentury thai ortrayed two men. with cumbrou: Iver pipes, charging the same fron box of China tea. "This shows you,'' the old mar ld. "te antiquity of tea smoking :was a common thing in France 20( aars ago. Blegnt mentions it, anc and d'A.ussay. in his 'Historie de Vie Privee des Franceais.' describe: in detail. "An old vice-a dead vice-for th<t re cih fo uni 1 that tea smolikinl raek .1 the nerves: hlow very. veryW fooliSl on -il r to hmre rivived it.' .LA.LL J1 &NM~ I Correspondent Wants t6 Probe The Matter to the Very Bot tom. ;ditor The Herald and News: "Deeply as the board-of trustees md -the faculty regret any disorder, .t is a well known fact that in mili :ary organizations, it there is disor ler the fault primarily rekts with the ommandant. The board of trustees Look to the commandant for order, ind any man who has ever been in nilitary service knows that the effi iencv of the service is exactly com mensirate with the efficiency of the 2ommanding officer. If a commender is not a consistent disciplinarian, he annot correct resulting evils by a measure so drastic as to sweep out Dne-fourth of ,his command. The above, copied from the Press and Banner, is rich. It does not re quire a student of history to pass apon' the beauties therein contained. ind you, this happened in South Carolina, which is, being interpreted, the "Land of the free, and the home f the brave." South Carolina has seceded once, and whilst I was only ten years old. I took the time from my other, and seemingly more import ant occupations, to secede with her; and I hold myself ready to do it over, whenever it is proven to my satisfa - tion that there is a general interest in the matter; but to disrupt 'the Union, just because a boy thinks that dad's plantation is bigger than the state, doesn't exactly comply with my ideas of propriety. Clemson college was establishe4 to teach our boys to be men, to teach them to learn obedience first, so that they might be fitted for -command. rhere is no place, as I undersand it, in the curriculum for rowdy'ism. I do not expect boys to be angels,in this world-for 'e been a boy-nd am eonyeieit' with 'the fact that the indiseriminate use of the flail of times beats off budding -wings d gd yet I've lived to be old enough to ap preciate the fAet that I'm a South Carolinin; and, 'today, for the first time I am ashamed to acknowledge it before the world. Just think of it, the descendants of men wlio - followed Picket to the summit of the hills of lory, to be guilty of, what? I haven't a name for it. I know nothing of the conditions! that exist, nor do I care to know them. But I have this to say. "There's '' s3mething miserably rotten in Den ark.'' This something, whatever it is, shall be unearthed; for. Clemson, is the child of our heart's best. and as such must be treated. If "the com mandant is to blame, let it be known, -- -o that the world may take somewhat i lenient view of the situation; but, if not,..let us go to the root of the evil wherever it be, and tear it from t-he virgin soil of Carolina. ' - In conclusion, allow me to lay down a proposition. which is this: Whenever the time arrives that the state of South Carolina has not, with in its bounds, a sufficient number of men, who. may be fitted to act as trustees of her institutions. and young men who have not the sense to be ruled, then 'be it resolved that' all in stitutions affected be and are hereby abolished. R espectfully, F.W. H. Bogota, City Without Railroad. Youth 's Companion. We are apt to think that a great it. co-ntaining the comforts and ele aneies of modern life, cannot exist wthout railroads at its gates. Bogota, the Capital of the Republic of Colom- ' bia. is an exception. Having a popula tion of' 125,000, fine residences, ex ellent schools and colleges, literary, artistic and musical societies, ela.bs, polo, tennis, balls, dinners, elegant society that knows the Parisian fast ions. Bogota lies on a plateau which no railroad has yet reached. There is, however. a short railroad on the pla teau itself. But to get to it by the most used route one must journey two and a half days on muleback. An other way of 'approach, reducing the mule ride to seven or eight hours.,*re quires several days of river naviga tion. But the railroad is' coming, al thoh late.