The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 24, 1908, Page SIX, Image 6
CLEMSON TRUSTEES MEET.
Experiment Station Located Near
Charleston?Several Professors
Elected.
The most important matter determined
at the meeting of the board of
trustees of Clomson college, which
adjourned on Thursday, was the separation
of the experiiniental station
from the .college. The are so many
agricultural students at the college
that the professors have been unable
to give the experimental station the
necessary amount od' attention. The
experimental station, which will be
located near Charleston, will be
known as Clemson. Mr. J. 10. Wann'ajnaker,
chairman of the committee
of .the coast work, is empowered with
authority to go ahead fit arranging Hie
site for tho station. ITe will attend to
the necessary draining and will have
-constructed the needed buildings.
A number ol* professors and assistant
professors were elected, hut all of
the vacancies haw not boon Tilled and
"Will not lie mil il II,,. July meelin- of
the board. Prof |). (). \'nrS(. VVJ|S 1
elected associate professor of animal
husbandry; |>ff |.\ Ir. Calhoun. pm_
fessor of urology and mineraht^v: M.
If. Power, veterinarian and Slate inspector:
Newman. associate
pro lessor <?f horl iculliiiv : ,J. M. Hurler.
assistanl professor of agriculture:
Dr. Knoch Harnette, assistant
veterinarian and Slate inspector. The
'experimental station will be manned
as follows: Director mid agricultural
professor, J. y. Harper; professor of
horticulture to he supplied later;
animal husbandry to he supplied lat*r;
en to"lology, l>rof. A. F. Conraddi;
plants and pathology. | r. W. Bond;
professor of chemistry to be supplied
later: treasurer. |)r. I'. I r. Sloan; secretary,
.1. X. I took; rorenian of experimental
farm. Hums Oillison : foreman
ol ('lemson eoasl station. \\\ ('
(t.a rrison.
An appropriation of $2.1(10 was
made by (he board for religious purposes.
The Haplist. Presbyterian,
iMelbodisI ami Kpiscopalian churches
are I,, r?'ceive with which to help
Pii.v their miiiislers. These a (.propria- !
t niiis are made on Ihe condition llial
Hie miiiislers conduct chapel services
at I'he college every morning, and also
d<> pastoral work on the bill. The re
inaining .^100 will be expended in
fuelling miiiislers of oilier deiioniinalVo.ni
a distance to visit the college
occasional I v.
Tin- following board of visitors was
elected: I). McK. l-'rost, of Charleston
: -I. li. Quincv. of (.'ranileville; ,1.
K. Durst, of (irccuwood. Slobo ,1.
Simpson, of Saprlaiilnirg; l-'.dw MeIver.
of ('hern w; J. 1,. Coker, of
I lai'lsville. ami ,1. |<\ Lever, of Peak's.
Air. \\ . ('. Tucker was elected head
(bookkeeper. The d.air of mathematics
will mil be filled mnl iI (h,. ,]M|y
meeting. An annex will be built oil
the Clems,,,1 rollege hotel. Mr. \.
ShilliiKr. who is in charge of (be
commissary dcp-irlmeiil of I'he college,
was given permission to .manage (ilcuu
Pr'ngs hotel this su-nwuer. provided
3| <l"es not conflict will, his duties at
the college. The board a I ihe barrack-;
was raised from .f(i.f>0 f , .f7,f>o iH.r
month,
Thornwell Orphanage.
Tho Th ron well Oirpbanagv. Clin1x111.
>S. ( .. has reconMy completed a
cottage, the. lunfcls for whicih were
presented by Dr. .1. Silliman of
1 ailesline, I'ex as, as a memorial lo
his lathetr. Dr. .lames Monroe Sillima'ii
formerly of York County,
?onth Carolina. The buillding is 'a
gnamnte struetiiire. All the gtraniie was
donated by Dr. N. G. hong of the
lA*ng Blue (iranite Quarries of Klly^rtou,
(!a. Tho .house is complete
with all modern innprnveiiKMits and is
fi'l,ling up wilh a family of lin,l(. or.
phan gin-Is urnler the age of ten. This
building increase the number of orphan
children actually under the shelter
of the Thorn well Orphanage to
-?0. The care and education of this
number of children is, of course a
heavy draft on the Presbyterians of
South <'arolina, fieorgia and Florida,
who uuil,. i,, its support, but the
work is a. noble one an<l is returning
s lo jne Stale and to the church
a splendid body of young people t hat
would have otherwise grown up in
ignorance. The Thorn well Orphanage
was founded in IS7H, being opened
lor Ihe reception of children on the
1st day ol October of tn;i<t vear. It
has been wonderfully enlarged since
then, (ill now there are 22 stone and
brick buildings. Nevertheless Ihe demands
on it are much greater than
e\et lie I ore. It does not confine its
benefits to Presbyterian children,
but considers only Ihe fad l/hat Ihe
child is a needy and deserving orphan.
lis schools are on a high grade.
both literary and mamin.-l and its pupils
when liiey leave are thoroughly
able to lake care of themselves. ft deserves
ihe helping hand of all genvr<>us
people in ibis great work thai il
is doing so well.
CHANGING STYLES IN WEAPONS
The Loaded Cane and the Derringer
of Fifty Years Ago.
"It lias always seemed a little
curious to me," said an 'ex-police official
who was better known a dozen
years ago tlian he is now, that the
law forbidding citizens to carry concealed
weapons has not been pro- ,
nonnccd unconstitutional. Doesn't (ha
const it ill ion declare that a citizen .
has a perfect right to boar arms? j
"Passing over that question though, 1
did it ever occur lo you to think how (
many reputable eitizens ignore them
and how the police seldom interfere ,
with a man for carrying a weapon (
unless the man is wanted for soma j
other reasons? You Jiave thought of
that? Well, did yoi ever think how j
the custom began and what curious
fashions I here have been at different
limes in |lie style and character of (
the wen pons most commonly carried?
"I should say, speaking in a gviieral
way, I hat. Anu'rican citizens in y
lliis pari <il IJu! country began to '
carry concealed \veapnns?as a habil
.just before I lie lmginniiigp I* the last
ball ?> I | be last century, and thai lire
habil grew for some!liiiig like twentylive
years and alter that became gradually
less prevalent, until now pro- *
bably no more (ban one man in ev- 1
cry ten carries a deadly weapon, v
whereas forty yeans ago probably ev- "
cry third man did so. '
"Two things wholly unrelated to '
each oilier happening about the sam?
time gave rise to the habit. Gold was
discovered in California in and |
| some persons succeeded in putting a
revolving pistol on the market just
when the eastern men who started *
J westward in the 'hope of picking np
the gold decided till at it would not do !
lor them to go mil in lire wilderness .
unarmed.
"<M course I don'I forget the bo vie
knile or the derringer which was
' be original bulldog pistol. || was L
before 1 l!i ihal soii'herners vs-| j
pecially. seeing I he merit of ilicL.
knile Ihal < ol. Howie made Tannins, | (
adopted i|. ;nnl even net'oiv that Ibelj
ugly, e<niveuietiI little big bore pis- L
to| eoiild be found in (he vest pocket ' |,
| of almost auy southern gentleman. II j
was looked upon as a decided step in ,|
the progress ol invent ion when fiese n
derringers came to lie made double |,
barreled. I'hey discharged tremendously
heavy bullets with deadly ac- f
curacy and were peculiarly effective
weapons ;il short range. >.
' Hi those days I here was a n
wide difference between liie north ami c
s"Ulh. and I hough ttu> earryi.ig of concealed
weapons was almost univer- I
sal among southern gentlemen there I
were lew reputable men in I lie north j
who ever went armed on ordinary oe- <
canons. j,
" I lien came the emigration to Ihe I
held and every man who went i
thoughI he had I<> carry a knife ami ;i
a pi^lol or two. | be old pe'pper box j t
revolver was tlu> la.tesl thing' in pistols
and was supposed to be the best <11
because you could shoot six times g
,u ill' it before reloading, so everv a
mother's son of them bought a revoi- e
nei. It was, in fact, one of the poor- t
est weapons ever invented, being o
eluinsy and bulky, and unreliable, n
heavy, badly balanee'd and inaccurate, s
11 w.\s gross flattery to accuse one of |
them *>t being a eoivcealed weapon, I
for if t was put in a pocket it made n
a Mi in > any one could see.
1'ho men who knew what weapons t
really were, used to say sneeringly J
that the only way to kill a man with y
one ot these things was to throw il
at him, and (he tennnrk became a v
stock joke, but thousands of men knew 1
nothing about weapons, and wanting <>
the best suddenly bought the worst, p
because they were tire newest, and so o
the inventor, oral least (ho manufac- t
.hirers, got rich. Moreover the original ]
idea of tihe revolving pistol was after- c
ward elaborated into the wonderful |
weapon ol today that is carried by j
thousands of people'who are not sus- <
peeled of going armed. j
''It was a dozen years after Ibat f
before the civil war began, and the s
habil of going armed at all times,
whether it was necessary or not, was \
suddenly stimulated, but in the inter- (
val the custom bad gained ground (
even here in the east, and there were \
some curious outgrowths from it. j
"1 suppose you would call the re- |
voiver the national weapon lodav, i
probably, but at Hint lime, as I have |
explained, the revolver was far from being
what i( is now, and there was
even a prejudice against it. Many men
wanted weapons who were not satisfied
with the eld i'ashioncd single o;' '
double barreled pistol or the bowic
knile. and they tried various things.
'It was ipiite a fad one time to
carry a swordstick. The stick itself ;
was of course merely a scabbard bid. '
li.v pressing a concealel spring the
scabbard was loosened and could be I
shaken off, having a naked blade 1
from six to thirty inches in length. i
\
"The swordstiok 1'a.^liion did not
lust long, though 1'or a time it was
very prevulont. The authorities were
generally very solvere in cases in
whieh people were arrested for carrying
these particular weapons, and
there were a good many such arrests,
but 1 do not think it was hccansc of
the reprobation of the courts that people
stopped carrying swor^sticks. I
prefer to think that it was because
blre American view of it was that n
weapon of this sort was one tihat only
a cowarl would use. Its chief value
lay in the surprise it gave the oih?r
fellow.
"Still, as T said, there was a dcnand
for some kind of small arms that
;ould be carried conveniently by the
ndividunl, and the revolver had not
,'et arrived. So the next thing that
lad a run was a loaded cane.
"I don't mean the real gun disguis'd
as a walking stick. Thera wc.'e i
,1)1111' of (hose |>111 on the market, and
i few were actually carried. They
fere loaded \Vit'll powder and ball and i
mi could liiv them ofl' wit limit even i
railing l?> remove I he ferrule tirst, ii' ;
on were in a hurry, but they newr <
tad any vogue. <
''Tin* loaded cane r mean was ivalv
a slingshot in another form. If :
nil can recall I tie time when vulcan- :
zed iiulia rubber was a novelty you <
kill probably rennmiber among various
articles made of hard rubber the I
>olishcd black walking stick. It was
fiiite fashionable for a time, being a
ovelty. but it seems to be forgotten. |
"Von could imakc a cane out of
ubher alone of couive, but it was
iridic, and so they used to make :
lienn with steel rods inside for
trength. Thev were very flexible,
nd it was not long before it was dis_
overe.l that loaded heals were put on
hem they made formidable weapons
11 tin' hands of anybody who knew
low lit u.-e them.
"(If course these loaded sticks were
ml in any 'sense of tir.' word cmiealed
weapons, and there was no pr.""e.\t
on which the police or the court*
oulii interfere with a man's carrying
me. I have sometimes thought that
iiat might have been one reason
rhy people didn't care to carry them,
i!it although they had a short run
hey are as much out of date now as
he sword cane or the still less comiion
umbrella with a dagger in llio
landle.
''It seems strange now, but it is ,i
act that more than a few reputable
American citizens carried these
liings right here in civilized comiiinilies
forty or fifty years ago, and
arried them habitually. Probably die
real war and 1 lie return of imil.iudes
of volunteer soldiers to civil 1
i f,? accounted for it but I don 'I j
liink the laws against carrying conealed
weapons had much to do with
lie passing away of the custom. Pubic
opinion was opposed to it ami tli'i
mprovemcnt of the revolver was als-i
n influence in so far as it changed i
he character of the weapons tha' i
/ere carried. As I said, a irreat many
>ore men carry revolvers than is!
enerally supposed, but Americans as
rule don't carry these old fashion<1
things nowadays and more than
hey do the stilettoes of the Italian
r tli.' razors of the darkies. As a
latter of fact the police don't try to
ta.mp out I'ho custom except among
he classes they fear and distrust.
Yobablv they could come pretty
ear it if they should try. I reme-mer
what a newspaper correspondent
old me once of hi.s experience in
Tennphis, Tenn., some twenty-five
ears ago.
"It seems the town had been pretty
roll stirred up over some part.icularv
harrowing tragedies and a stringnt
law ha<l been passed, under which
eople who were caught with conceald
weapons were sent to jail for tliiry
days or more, not fined, and this
aw was actually enforced. He, the
orrespondent, had a revolver in his
xieket. thinking it was only common
vrndonce to go armed while he travel(1
down the Mississippi, but he put
t awav in a hurry when he learned
Yom a friend that no Influence would
;ave him from imprisonment if he
should be caught carrying it. lie
voiild not believe the statement at
irsl, but oil inquiring he found that
he mayor of another Tennessee city
,vas then serving time in the Memphis
jail for that very offence, though he
lad been ignorant of the local law
ivlien lie offended the strenuous efforts
hail been made in his behalf."
?New York Sun.
WHAT A WATT IS.
rho Elcctrical Unit and its Equivalent
in Horsepower.
In the electrical world one hears
uid reads a great deal about "walls."
The cuivnt is measurede by watts, the
machinery is rated by watts and
lamps burn bv watts. To the ordinary
layman all this talk of walls is mystifying.
The man to wliom Ave owe Hie idea
of the horsepower was a Scottish inventor,
.1 nines \V;att, and when I ho
electric unit involving the idea of
working capacity came to be formulated
the name of Watt was chosen
to indicate this unit, just as that of
Volta has given us the term volt and
Faraday the farad.
Watt considered that, taking the
average, a 'Ixmdon dray horse was V
capable of doing the work of lifting E
.'W.000 pounds through one foot of ^
gravity. The introduction of this
time limit, the minute, gave the unit C
of power, or rate of performing
work. This or its equivalent has ever
since, been called a horsepower.
The electrical unit called Mic watt
is capable of being represented in
terms of the horsepower, and in that J
form it is perhaps more intelligible
to those who are familiar with mechanical
rather than with electrical E
expressions. The electrical
wait is the product of volts multiplied
by amperes, where'the volt is the
unit of .electrical pressure, and the
iimpeiv is the unit of measuring the
len-dty. or volume, of an electrical
nnvnt.
("a refill experiment.- "nave d? :u??nduitcd
thai 7 Iti watts per second
ire ctpial to ~?.~>0 foot pounds per sectnil.
or. to slate the | m?i?in its
usual form. 7-1(1 watts equal ono
lorsepower.
The form in which electrical power
is generally sold is computed on the
basis of kilowatt hours. The prefix
kilo comes from the (Jreek ehilioi,
1,000. A kilowatt, written also k. aw.
is therefore 1,000 watts. The kilowait
hour is the performance, or
work, at such a rate that 1.0000 walls
per second shall be delivered continuously
for one hour.
The kilowatt lu ur <lias a special interest
for tlie man who has his office
or bourse lighted by electric
lump.-, because the kilowatt hour i<
the unit upon which the power and
light companies base their charges.?
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Notice is hereby given 'hat all city lit
licenses must be paid on or before al
April iirst. 1 ;H)S, after which the ordinance
will be enforced to the letter, N
and those failing to pay dealt with
accordingly.
By order of the council. ti
J. J. Lnngford, tli
Mayor. ti
K. S. Werts, w
Clerk and Treasurer. O
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Schedule in effect November 3rd, 1907
'V. Newberry(C N & L.) 32:46 p. in.
ir. Laurens .1:52 p. m.
.v. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m.
ir. Greenville 3:40 p. m.
#v. Laurens 2:07 p. it.
k.r. Spartanburg 3.35 p. in. A*
.v. Spartanburg (So. Ity.) 3:40 p, m.
n'. Ilendorsonville 6:25 p. m.
ii\ Asheville 7:30 p. rn.
v. Laurens (0. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m.
n\ Greenwood 2:50 p. in.
r. MeCormiek 3:55 p. m. *-m
ir. Augusta 5:40 p. m'. J
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Augusta, Ga. %
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Greenville, S. C.
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