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l? * ' ' \ ~ ' 'v . vl' ' s ? ' '1M ^ -v VOL XLIV MO 68^ ^ ?To. WfiSDAY^JULY 23.1907. ' TWICE A WEEK. SI.50 A YKAli ^ TEARFUL TRAGEDY. Michigan Farmer Kills Son, Wife and Her i^ter Father.?Is Himself vrV.t Dead. Nunica. .July 21.?Henry Scutcheon, a Warmer mboutoO years , old, living near/this, village, to,lay ran amuck with a$ axe killing his .invalid son, his wil'e and her foster father. Scutcheon was later shot >by Henry Mcdellan, a neighbor, whom the crazed murderer had also attacked.1 The dead: Henry Scutcheon. Polly Scutcheon, his wife; Scutcheon's lS-year-ohl son, Geort>e A tilting, Mrs. Scutcheon's foster father. The scutcheon farm house had apparently always been a happy home, except for the cloud which the sun's invalidism cast over the family. Today, with no warning, so far as is known. Scutcheon suddenly murderously attacked his sop with an axe. Ill crushed the boy's head frightfully. "When his wile interfered he turned on her and pursued the frightened, screaming woman from her house to the road, where he knocked her down with bis weapon. lie ;hen rushed back to the house and murdered his foster fat Iter-in-law. Next he tried to destroy himself. I'lw? maddened man gashed his throat and wrists with a razor and took some Paris green. His wounds did not weaken him ajid the poison did not take immediate effect. Axe in hand, be returned to the road, where he had felled his wife a few moments before. The first blow did not kill her and she had been carried into the house of Henry McCIetlan nearby. McClclian rushed to another neighbor's for help. When Scutcheon found that his wife was i?i the MdCleihin home alive be smashed a window with his axe, jumpL?. ed through it, and again ataeked her. This time he crushed her skull. He then left the Model Ian home and rei turned to his own house, but when Mr. v Medellan returned from his search ^ for help, the crazed man came out and started over toward him, savin"1 "I want you." / "T will shoot if you come across the road," replied McClclian, who had armed himself with a shot gun. Despite the warning, Scutcheon came across with murder in his glance.: Mc.('lellat) thereupon shot him. Although Mr. Medellan fired ihe charges from both barrels of his shotgun into the crazed man's chest, Scutcheon lived an hour afterward*. C orotic1 \\ alkley, <>! (Irand Haven, says lie believes it was the wounds Scutcheon inflicted on his onw wrists and throat which killed him. As he lay writhing on the '.'round after he bad been shot and neighbors had lied him so that he could not in ;i hist despairing effort attack anyone else. Scutcheon talked about his neighbors making statements thai he watered his milk. It is said that he had brooded over the death of his I wo children and also over the fancy thai his neighbors were down on him. lie had not been prosperous in a financial way. A large scalp wound was found on his head after his death, and it is supposed that when he attacked his son, Mrs. Scutchc- ! came to the boy's defence and struck the mad matt with a wagon boll. The son, Willie, was a helpless paralytic. THIRTY KILLED. > ' Fearful Wrcck on Pere Marquette Excursion Train. Salem, Mich., July 20.?Thirty people are dead and more than 70 injured, many of litem seriously, as the tf?Kult of a head-end collision today j|between this village and Plymouth, when a Pere Marquette excursion train bound from Ionia |o Detroit crashed into a westbound freight in a cul located at a sharp ejarve about a '! mile east of Salem. The passenger train of 11 cars, carrying tflPe Pere Marquette shop entB ployes of Tottia and their families to the Michigan metropolis for their annual excursion, was running at high I speed, probably 50 miles an hour, K down a steep grade. It struck the lighter locomotive of the freight train H with such terriffic force as to turn B the freight engine completely around. LAYING HEAVY RAILS. The Southern Railway Improving Its ] Road Bed?A Depot For Dyson. I Iti' following in regard to improvements being made anil to he made on 1 the Southern, between Columbia and 1 Greenville, is from the Columbia ( State: I Superintendent Simpson has also been giving alenlion to the Columbia i and Greenville, lie has laid 12 miles i of steel rail bed between Piedmont and i Helton and five miles ol' new track Ibis side of Ninelv-Six. Including the 1 2.) utiles of superb track between Co- I luinhia and Alston there is less than \ 100 miles of the Columbia and Green- ' ville to be rebuilt and Mr. Simpson < says that the material I'or this has all < been bought. lie hopes to have I his ' also a very fine piece of roadbed ' within 12 mouths. On the Columbia and Greenville he has built several ' miles of passing tracks. What Mi'.. Simpson is peculiarly 1 i proud of in connection with his ad- i | minis! rat inn is the fact that the pen- < |>le aloim- the Columbia and Greenville ' I have banished that old saw about the trains never being on time. One old 1 citizen had told Mr. Simpson that for ' IS years lie had watched the trains on ' that line and they are now keeping better time than ever in the history 1 of !he road. i This is not due to any falling off in ' passenger business, for there is an in- 1 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 schedule upon arrival at destination, and last week there were only two freight trains off schedule. This was caused in one case bv an engine breaking down. Since the first of the year an additional 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 schedule and all of them are making it now. One reason for the length of ' the trip is the fact that he has put in 1 dinner stops on all trains. He is a < stranger to the division and can not 1 at once divine all of the needs along < the lines, but he acts promptly upon ' every good suggestion. Some time auo complaint was made hat the Greenville train did not give ' time for breakfast here to the parson gers !"<r '.he early morning train from i t T.arlc-i' u. Mr. Simpson has remc- 1 li?-d * i:*t matier. At lirst he issued 1 ? '???1 tin hohlinv the trains until the pa><enyer department could make out ! a new schedule. One of the dinner I slops was ir.oved from Greenwood to : Melton in order to i<>i passengers from < Abbeville and Anderson on their way ' to Greenville <jet dinner, and those t who had come from below Greenwood had expressed a desire to have llie < eat ills.!" point ehunued, as ;l,e train ar |< rived at (ireeuwood at an hour when they were not ready for dinner. ] Mr. Simpson has obtained pcrmis- i sion to erect stations at I'ookman and at Dyson. The people Of those com- I munilies had brought the matter bei fore the railroa<l commission and it had been stated by the commission, after examination, that the business at those points would not justify the railroad in building stations. Rut Mr. Simpson brought the matter to the attention of the general superintendent, Mr. J. M. Scale, and the depots will be built any way. The lumber! lias been ordered. ' Those who know Mr. Sunoson state that lie is a verv careful man. is very proud of his division, and that havl ing w.'i!:?-d up from the ranks lie is i ' j a man of experience, l! is believed I ' i tint within 12 months his division I will be ore of the best on the entire j' Souther'; system. , . ( ?Tot a Circumstance. j Chicago Tribune. I f "nidn I the thunder storm disturb; ( i you last ni^ht?" ( ''Thunder storm? I didn't know I j there was one." j i. ''You didn't? Where on earth do i , you sleep ?" | "Xowhere on earth. I sleep within, three feel of an elevated railway ' track." ' : I f ' . "THE REAL HERO." Paper Read at the State Firemen's j Convention by Miss Earhardt, of Newberry. Tlic following ?i>?ipev was read at ho State Firemen's assocition in Anlerson by Miss Farhardt, daughter of "'hief .Jno. W. Farhardt, of the Nowicrry lire department: There is a saying t'hat "Peace hath ts victories as well as war," It can ilso be as truly said that peace hath Is heroes as well as war. The general public lias always been oo proiu> to look for its heroes among j hose who have distinguished them- ] selves in battle or in war. huildi'ig nonunients in bronze and marble to | ?onnnemorate their names and deed.--, jntirely forgeiting "the real hero." J lvIio always stands ready to risk his icalth. comfort, limbs and even to vield up his life, in defense of our lomes, property aii'l !iv?. This hero ive always have wi*.h loo often >nlv pariially equipped. at public ex M'lise, for actoal service: dopreeiat: (! by those who are generally the leneficiaries of his noble service and I eroi?' deeds?those not obligated or J regularly enlisted for service being* riven the honor for victory and re-1 ward for service?and while it is pro-J r and right for us to honor our , leroes of the land and I the sea, it; is none the less right and proper that J we should equally honor and esteem i lie virtues of our real hero?The American Fireman. The man who risks his life under lie impulse of b( omitig cannon, the vaving of flags and the inspiration :>f battle, for his own glorification, is it best but human: whilst the man ivlio risks his life in order that another may live: is as near divine as hu-1 Tianity ever attains. The fireman has no battle hymn of victory to inspire him to noble deeds. STo visions of the "Victoria Cross," nor badg'es of the "Legion of Honor" urge him to perform his full duty; nor has he the "Southern Cross" as i battle flag to lead him to perform | lis heroic deeds. On the countrary, his inatle hymn, )s that drtad alarm that dansis out upon the startled ear, ivhil-t his call to duty is but too often,) i woman's cry of agony: and his bailie flag is that lurid angry glare Ihari iverspreads the midnight sky. The heroic deeds of these men, were' hey chilled as arc the deeds of the' ?ohlier and sailor, would render their names immortal and would stamp', hem. in deed and in truth the "Real lleioc>" of our 2<Mh century civili-1 '.aI ion. And it is only because their1 ie: \ i' deeds are so numerous and are ?eing performetl daily in the regular lvocations of life that they have he-1 ome so common as to only call for] ordinary newspaper comment?read j odav and forgotten tomorrow. I Let me illustrate, by a single in ideut. one of the many heroic deeds f tho>e sph ndi.l specimens of our American manhood, as related to me! >y a friend Whose life has been spent j n the fire service of his slate: " Twas ? a. in. oil a cold night in December that the firemen were sum-i noned to a burning residence in the; uitskiits of one of our southern cites. When they arrived (he house was vrapped in flames, the 'ather and aj Vw neighbors were trying to save as j liuch as possible of the household roods. The mother, and her little hihiren around her, were all shiverng in their night clothes?the devot'd mother was trying to wrap her litle ones up to protect them from the old. the eldest being but ten years >f age. She suddenly realized that nstead of five little ones that should >e there, there were only four. The I me next to the baby girl?her darling! >abv bo\? being missing. With a cry ?f agony, such as only a mother can rive, she shrieked out : ' My Ood, my >aby boy!' 1 He was left upstairs in lis crib!' Shrieking, she attempted to liter the burning building, while strong hands caught her and held her, 'or to have entered would have meant ertaiii death to her. A young firenan. just entering upon his manhood, standing near, heard her words: Tp-i <tairs in his crib.' With the words, 'Fj vill save , \r or die in the attempt,' ie dashed ii the bnildng, up the -ta'?rwav lie \\<*::t and amid blindim; j moke, roaring flames and blister ing licai. Iu? "roped lu* way to (h ci ih where lay the sleeping child Hastily \\ lapping iiim up in the bei clothing :<> protect him, to look i\iu in lii> aiin.-, and hastened to return B,v this lime tin* stairway by which h cainc ui> was wrapped in flames, am every other outlet was cut oi'f. Ti hesitate meant certain death to'hin and to his little charm*. With a lie roic etlort lie dashed into the flame and down the burning stairway, 1hu> ging close to his breast the preciou bundle in his arms. His comrade met iin at lite door as he came ottl with Ins clothing, hair and the bed ding ar.'tuid the child a mass o flame.- and lire. Quu'klv dt'enchin: bini vvitli .vater he and his butull W( i" hnriie a lew yards away to (It kin*: and agonized mother, f whos amis was restored the hah; boy. :i. v wide awake, safe and tin harmed. 1'nt how abotit that heroi anil splendid sneeiniei* of .\mericai matdt'iod, who had ri l.ed ! i^ ilia the. baby buy might live? Alas! Ih dread fu! flames, that lie nad inhrle, in his 1 iuii?s as he came down tint bnruing stairway. had d.tne its worl< and not wit hstauding all that sympa t hot it- ami l??\*iut?- hands could do, hi noble heart s ion ceased its heart heats, ami his spirit relumed to th (i> d t hat gave it." \\ as :here ever a soldier on lit liel?? >>1 battle? Was (here a sohlie of the '"Old (lttard of Waterloo Was there a soldier in that immortn "({ray line'' al (leM' - burir? Doe the history of am . l peopl record ? nobler, leaver ov more he roic act tlmn the one described? i man who has given up his life lha a babe may live! But enough; this one act is onl one of many, very many, that are be ing performed by ihe brave and lit roic men in the American fire set vice; and were I called upon to dra> a picture of thc^ "Real America Hero" it would not be one represent intr an admiral upon his battleship nor a general wit'll sword drawn leac ing a brilliant charge, nor a lone arti leryman?his comrades all killet ramming home his last charge, hit rather would it he a picture representing a fireman coming out of burning buildi; . with a huh- ( !: ,{ led to his breast, v b. ! he ha saved at the risk o! ' ewn, and would write upon the pedestal of th statue these words: i The Real Hero?An American Iin man. Pic Defender of our lives and oti homes. I Patience is Anti-Suicide. New York Herald. I low | t prevent suicide has alwa\ been a pu/zling ?|itestion. Alter a We must at least allow that the fttt | dainentiil difficulty in answering i lies in the faulty make-up of nia hiin<elf. In many ways he is a misf: with his environment. The diseipliu of disappointment' i** taken by him ;i a punishmenl rallter than a lessoi What t'he weak man needs i< a lilt] more stea Mue-s I" r present and con ing shock . VI n:-'-! !:!'< !In i -hai of misfortune one way or the othe I I lie common lot should be Ihe beai i able lot. The end of all things conn .soon enough. At the worst there i | only need for little more patient' j and a little more submission. If th I suicide had stopped to think he migl I have been saved. Tea Smoking Centuries Old. j Minneapolis .lotirnal. "Willi your tea cigarett es.'' sai j the antiquary sternly, "you young-Is ! die.- think yourselves very modern an ' decadent. But look here." lie look front a porfolio a I'Vene print ol the seventeenth .*ciitury th: portrayed two men. with ciintbroi I silver pipes, charging the same froi a box of China lea. "This shows you," the old ma said, "the antiquity of tea smokim It was a common thing in France '.21 [years ago. Blegnt mentions it. an (irand d'A-ussav. in his 'Historic i la \ ie Privet* des I' rancais.' describi it in detail. "An old vice?a dead vice ?fur l! I' rench foun 1 thai lea sni<>kiii'j raid led the nerves: how very, very fooliI you girls are to have livived it." ej SHOCKING DEATH. I.I I Miss Julia Wannamaker Drowned at /! II Sullivan's Island?Body Has i. Been Recovered. [J All Orangeburg is inexpressibly j, [) shocked and grieved at I lie news oV 11 the drowning- on Sullivan's Island - of Miss .Julia Wannamaker, seeond s daughter of Mr. T. lleber Wanna- ! - maker. . s Dr. 10. ,J. Wannamaker id' Colums bin, uncle of the young- lady, was on (|( > the island at the time and every - known meltind of rcsuseitation was t tried without success. U Miss Wannamaker had been on the e island lor some time, being- with the ?_ family ??I Mr. John ('art, who are i? summering- there, and it is said that V the beach on ibis section of the is laud was beaut i I it I and considered c perfectly safe. ( 11 Miss .Julia, who was about I(> years t o| age. was a strikingly beautiful " e girl, unusually bright and talented. 1 I and was a universal favorite not only I 11 I with I hose of her age, Inil all who1 :. knew her. j ' i- Mr. and Mrs. Wannamaker were ' s in New York. j?' '' The Habit of Not Feeling Well. 1 Few people realize I hat I heir ail- ' e incuts are rarely sell-induced. Tliev r get into a habit of not feeling- well. If ' they get up in the morning with a V tl slight headache, or some other (rifling- . s indisposition, instead of trying to rise ! e above this condilon they take a posi' live pleasure in expatiating upon!1 \ their feelings to anyone who will lis- * t ten. Instead of combating the tend- ' eucy to illness by lilling the lungs y with pure fresh air, tliev dose them- ' selves with 'Injhilachc ta'blets," or 1 some specific "warranted to cure" 1 - whatever ill they think they are suf- ' iV fering from. They begin to pitv ' n Ihemselves, and try to attract pity and ? t- sympathy from others. Unconscious- t >. I.v by detailing and dwelling upon I [ tlieir symptoms, they reinforce the ' |_ first simple suggestion of illness bv i? ' 1, whole army of thoughts and fears and > it images of disease, until they are un- I fitted to do a day's work. ( a It is said that man is a lazy animal. 1 ). We are all more or less prone to in- ' d dolence, and it is the easiest and most ' r la I u nil thing- in the world for voung- ' c people to accustom themselves to lv- uig down or lounging' op. a sofa be-1 ' ' ause I hey think they are tired, or! ""I well. Much so-called 'invalid-j| is simple laziness. There is aj: i! ileal danger that girls who are deli- ! ate while growing up. ami lounge | 1 ' ouud the house and lie down when ' j :!iey feel the least bit <>ul of sorts, } will liu in a habit of invalidism when . ^ they nach maturity, llow often do , II we see such girls "brace ii)?" at once whenever anything happens I which interests or excites them. An ; ^ '.nvilation to a reception, ?>r a par-| , j( 'i' any other pleasant soeial oc- > ca- on. acts like a tonic. I-'or the time ^ being an iiislantancous t urc is eff fected. They are as well a- anybody i ' ?until after the entertainment.? Success. i- i ,. j Big European Banquet. |._ I flic IfM?0 Club banquet to (he Col- ; ,s I onial Ministers, ;il the Albert Hall. |s J with its 1.1 if HI guests, is certainly of 1(, imposing- -cale, but it is scarcely, as .staled by a contemporary, ihe " secU I ond largest on record." |he premier place being- awarded to Lord Stra'.chcona s Aberdeen dinner, at which liie guc-ts numbered 2,10(1 says the West- , I minster Gazette. I Some years ago (he late l.adv linr' j -let i-Coilt Is feasted 2,000 people al "jher house at Ilighgate, King Kdward , j being among- her guests, A little lal- , er his b'oyal Ilighness (as he then ' was) was one of .'>,000 guests who sal j II down to a dinner in London; 2..">00 , is were present at the bampiet in honor . ,n jof the Hight Hon. A. .1. Ualfour, in , I \\ a veil y Market, Kdiuburgh, some . n | linic ago. j J I?ht even such gargantuan feasts ? "M cannot compare with the bampiet in ! ?' issp |>.,|.,js ,1(, | '| ndusi rie, j I '(' ' I'avis. which was enjoyed by l.'J.OOO ! i mayors of French towns, in addition I to "J.iMM) other dinners: nor wilh the ? fea?i Sir Wat kin W. W;vin once gave r in Wyni)sja> I'ark to I .">.00(1 neigh- < 'n bors. a ba11?juei at which !?C> hogs. | heads and I.I 10 bottles of ale were I consumed. , THE CLEMSON MESS. l Correspondent Wants to Probe Tho Matter to the Very Bottom. Alitor The Herald ami News: "Deeply as tho hoard of trustees ml tin- faculty regret any disorder, 1 is a well known fact that in miliary organizations. i4' there is disorer |he fault primarily rests with tho ommandant. The hoard of trustees >ok to the commandant for order, ml any man who has ever been rn military service knows that the etllicitey of the service is exactly comncnsiirale with the etliciency of the ominaudiiig ollieer. If a eotnmender s no| a consistent disciplinarian. he atinot correct resulting- evils by a Measure so drastic as to sweep out uio-lourth "f his command." I he above, copied from the Press Hid Manuel*, is rich. It does not roIitirt* a studeni of history to pass Ipon the beauties therein contained, dind you, this happened in South arolina, which is. being interpreted, lie Land o! (he free, and the home >t the brave." South Carolina has eceded once, and whilst I was onlv en years old, I took th" time fi'i'n ny other, and seemingly more importnit oecupalions, to secede with Iter; 11id 1 hold myself ready |o do it over, vhenevcr i| is proven to my sali-lacion that there is a irenoral interest n the matter; but to disrupt the nion, just because a boy thinks that lad's plantation is hinder than the late, doesn't exactly comply with niv deas of propriety. t'lemsoii college was established to each our boys to be men, to teach hem to learn obedience first, so that hoy might be fitted for command, 'here is no place, as I undersand it, n the curriculum for rowdyism. I 10 not expect boys to be angels in his world?for I've been a boy?and am conversant with the fact that ho indiscriminate use of t.he flail ofimos beats <>fi" budding wings irtd 'Oil I've lived to be old enough to apireciate the f/ict that I'm n South 'arolinian; and, today, for the tirst imc I am ashamed to acknowledge it lefore the world, dust think of it. the lescendants of men who I'ollowed Mekct to the summit of the hills of lory, to be ?nilly of, what? I haven't i name for it. I know not!ii11-_i" of the conditions bat exist, nor do I care to know them. Ml I ha\c titiv to say: "There's met hiie.: mi.-ei a My rotten ii l)cnuai'k. f lii- - !"! ; iiiii.', whatever it shall lie unea rt heil ; for. t'lemson - the child lit onr heart's best, and is such must be treated. If the coiiinandant is lo blame, let it be known, " that the world may lake somewhat I lenient view ..t the -iriation; but. I not. let ii- 'jn to (he root of the vil wherever ii be. and tear it from he virgin -oil of ('arolina. Ii: co!:ebisii-n. allow me to lav 11 w 11 a jiroposii i,. 11. which i- tin-: i\ i11*11**\er the time arrive- thai the tale o| Son 111 ('arolina has not. withti it- bounds, a siilheienl number of lien, who may be fitted ti> act as nistees of her in-lit ut ions, and young lieu who have not the -onse to be 'Uled. then be i) resolved that a!' ' 'titutioiis aflected be and are h''i'"bv iboli-iiet'. Ife-pect fully. V. w. ii. Bogota, City Without Railroad. I out |, \s ('oin pa nion. We arc aj>? to think that a meat > ' i''111'' ; )' colli 1 or!.- and cjo:a'ieic.>1 modern life, cannot exist railri ads at its gates. Uogota, tie ' a p; a I o! the I { p 11 b I i c >! (' o 1 o m >ia. i- an exception. Having a popnla"I 1 ?* ?. M M). tine re-i(leiicc>, ex1!ent schools and collc-jes, literary, uiistic and musical soeietie-, clubs, '"lo. tennis, l)alls. dinner-, elegant dciety that knows the I'ari-ian la-hoiis. Mo-jfota lies on a plateau which io railroad ha- yet reached. There is, lowever. a short railroad on the pla?'au it-elf. Cut to -el to it l,v the Host ii -cii route one innsi journey Wo an I a halt day- on iiiulchack. An'ther w.iy ot approach, reducing the mile ride to seven or civht hours, jeI"ire several days of river liavk'.a1 'on. I'ut the railroad is coming, alI hough late.