University of South Carolina Libraries
* * WILL SEABROOK'S TRAVELS * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (By W. B. Seabrook.) Special to The Herald and News. Naples, Italy.-Little more than a month has passed since the destrue tion of Messina. and here at Naples the eatzstrophe is still uppermost in the public mind, is still the one reati concern of the day, to the exclusion of all ordinary interests and occupa tions. It is impossible to escape the obsession of such a horror, impossible to drive away the tragie visions evok ed by the pictures and dispatches which appear every morning in the journals, and which are made so ter riblv real by the constant arrival of wounded vietims and refugees. All this was of course to be expected in an Italian seaport only a few hours distant from the scene of the disas ter. but the feature of the situation, which has filled me with surprise, is the rapidity with which preparations are going forward for the reconstrue tion of the ruined cities. To counterbalance every column of reading matter conseerated to the dis aster proper. the newspapers are printing two devoted t, the plans for restoration. and on the streets lead ing to and from the harbor, the am bulances and stretehers, moving in their sad procession toward the hospi tabs. are passed by wagon-loads of building material destined for the earthquake districts, not planking for temporary shelters, (that work has been .finished) but brick, cement and heavy timber. Before the cataclysm, Sicily, with her emerald hills and glistening, snow white cities. was a veritable queen of islands. Today the queen is dead; her beauty is. ashes; and already the people ery. "Long live the queen!" New foundations are actually being laid while the earth' still trembles, and thus history again repeats itself, for this same succession of events has been going on in Italy from time im memorial. Ever s'nee the island of Sicily has been known to man, it has trembled beneath his feet, and with it has trembled the whole Calabrian coast; cie might imagine that this southern extremity of Europe, this peninsula is so often likened to a boot, is in reality a gigantic foot, resting on tip-toe, unstable in its equiibrium, poised as if preparing to begin otihar journeys. Time after time. cities in this volcanie zone have been devastated by seismic shocks, and as often have been promptly re built upon their old foundations: to cite one of the best known instances. Pompeii. at the moment she was bur had by the lava and cinder of Vesuvius hdjust recovered from the ravages of a preceding earthquake, had bare ly finished the rebuilding of her pal aos and temples. From Naples to Palermo, everywhere along the coast. are scattered vestiges of former eatas trophes. some of them well known to history. some of them long forgotten. This is particularly ,true in Sicily where the very railway lines are laid on lava road-beds, where the orange trees scatter their fragrant blossoms u~pon boalders that were once molten fire. and twine their roots among crevices that once opened straight in to the sulphurous bowels of the earth. The traveler, who ascends Aetna or Vesuvius is confronted at every pace by crater-mouths. perhaps extinct. perhaps only dormant, by fissures cold and silent today, but hot and rumbling yesterday, by frightful ex coriations marking the path ways of former lava streams. Every where the same spect acie: Ruin. Everywhere the same warning: Death. In the a.etual presence of these terrors, the foolhardy daring of the .little human beings who persist in building their ant-like habitations up on the slopes, becomes incomprehensi ble. The enormous mountains domi nate the landscape, powerful and ominous: down below, toward the plain, man rears his p)alaces and eit ies, raises his monuments of brass and marble, and justly marvels at his ow;n prodigious genius, but how tiny his work all seems. how 'like a Lili puti-an kingdom. compared with these great stone monsters, whose heads are lost among the clouds! How helpless when these sleeping giants awake! But if nature here is terrible. she, at least, is not treacherous; she does not pretend to be in complete repose. does not appear, as in other climes. mnan's humbIe and obedient servant. Beneath these mountains, the devil who dwells in all inanimate things is forever crouching, but never hiding. He shows his eloven hoof. The people of Mes sina and Reggie were warned, con stantly warned, as were the Pompe iians of old. Up tihere above the snowy summit of Aetna. a thin column of smoke rose ceaselessly night and day: further north, above St romholi, more sm.oke, and these two gray whisps floating in the serene azure of the Mediterranean sky advertised the Sie ilians that just below the earth 's thin crus were lurking forces before which, when once aroused, all human resources would count for naught. The menace was visible. It is still visible. True, the blow has again fallen, but the survivors have received no divine assurance of even temporary safety. and have no means of knowing wheth er the next shoek will occur in a year or in a century-yet they are alr,eady beginning to rebuild their fallen dwel fings. The terror lias just passed ov er their heads: "It will not soon re turn'': they cry, and set cheerfully to work. In the face of thees constant men aces for the future and these multi plied relics of former disasters, I can searce believe my own ears when I hear survivors of this latest and worst catastrophe talking about a new Mes sina. I am told that for two or three days immediately after the shock, while the inhabitants who had not been buried ben-eath the ruins were huddled together on the water-front, half-naked and half-crazed with fear, they declared. "Messina is no more! Never will we return to these accursed shores!" But now, since they have been clothed and fed and rendered com fortable, they begin straightway to long for Sicily. I am commencing to wonder wheth er the peculiar religious beliefs, or, more properly speaking, the supersti tutions of the Calabrians and Sicil ians do not partially explain their presumptuous .confidence. These peo ple have never come to realize that the terrible forces, which from time to time overwhehn ithem, are blind, in animate phenomena of nature, which prayers and incense are powerless to affect. Forces guided by reason can be reasoned with; calamities specifi eally willed by a rational divinity can be averted by supplications and burnt offerings; in this ea.tegory the Sicil ians have always placed earthquakes and volcanic eruptions; -in ancient times, they prayed to Jove, while to day they pray to Jehovah, but the un derlying principle is still the same. Indeed it is not surprising that feeble humanity is filled with a holy super stitious terror in the presence of such forces, and attributes them to super natural origin. In classic ages it was believed that the Titans, vanquish-ed by Jupiter, were buried beneath the volcans of the island; when the Ti tans breathed, smoke and flames is sued from the crevies .among the rocks, and when they struggled to throw off the immense weigh-ts which had been piled upon them, the earth trembled . The simple, primitive in habitants of the region builded temn ples to the Olympian conqueror and sometim'es consecrated offeririgs of sheep or goats to the fallen 'giants, hoping 'thereby to render the former propitious and to moderate the fury of the latter, then prayed to them and fearfully adored them, as if sup plications could soften the brutal power of 'the elements or change the inflexible laws of nature, or placate forces which leave humanity only two alternatives--flight or destruction. Such was the attitude of the ancient Sicilians, and is the attitude of their descendants today. Th'e popular imag ination has not ceased to at tribute these .natural phenomena to a divine wilL T'he revelations of science -have here left untouched the mentality of the masses. The modern Sicilian is just as superstititious as tne antique he has changed the names of his gods, and vila tout: For him, it is still the sky that causes the earth to trem ble, still the sky that crushes man or permits him 'to go his way anharmed. Images of the Madonna and the s'ainLs have repl'aced the ancient statates, and in stimne of danger are adored or paraded through the streets by the hildish. frirhtened people, who rush to shrines with candles and offerings as did their classic forebears. -They have always 'believed and always will believe that pious devotion is a sort of lightning-rod capable of protecting them against thunder-bolts from on high., and it is surely possible that this blind faith, by no means confined to the lower classes, explains at this moment the readiness of the Italian people to underta:ke so cheerfully the reconstruction of Messina. But whether such an explanationL be 'true or merelv fanciful, the fact remains that a new eity' is 'destined to arise from the ashes of the old. And then the years will pass, little by little the scars will disappear be neath new grass and flowers, the for retful survivors wvill return to begin their lives anew. they- will address new prayers to their protecting saints, will laugh and live and love and dream-until the giants again awake. Magic of Her Name. Boston Transcript. Mother'-My other little girl is very frail, but I've taken precaution to have baby grow up into a big buxom Visitor-Indeed : and what have von done ? Jafc ther-I'ye had he:- chiristened~ Night......... A ps: -Water BXe, :a e:ws XN'4 tx ...........X :~ ~ LX. ALLETT R tDeFR whnds aork, s % th...... e hands,. in colored ii shrinkage "It Softens ha o equal for all washi werand tear of fine fabr bigand strong alkali soa dihwater-it sweetens and keeps : Fuldirections on every j Ask for it at Groce In 5c and 10J Increase the enjoyn your bath by sprinkli ---. in the water. Feels K ~LAVADUJRA CI *~' * ORIGIN OF THE RED SHIRTS. * * ** * * * * * * * * * * ** * Editor Daily Mail: I have read wXi interest the many good notices of the late Capt. A. J. Sitt-on. He deserves all the good t.hings that have been written. about him, and very much more could be said with perfect proi priety of his excellent qualities of heart and mi-nd. When a man like Capt. Sitton passes away the whole State is loser, for a life sueh as his was is far reaching in its influence, and we all mourn when it comes to an end. Among other things the papers have noticed was his connection with the origin of the red shirts uniform in the famous ca.mpaign of 1876. There seems to be some doubt in the minds of some of the writers as to whether he was the ori!inat or of the red1 shh t. T have no hesit atin in saxingt that he was. He was the cap tain of t.he Pendleton Red Shirt club, and there is no doubt that that was the first club in the State to adopt the red shirts as a campaign unifor mn. The first campaign meeting in 18i'6 was in Anderson, as was also the first meeting in 1878. And I well remen' er the Pendleton club as it appearert in the long column of mounted De mo'rats on that historie day. T,iri was a geat tlhrong in Anderson, alld the mounted column reached from the public square to the Univ -rait.s grounds, where the speaking occar red. The route of march was through MdnUme street. While a memh 'c of ........ V. .. .. ... .'Xx A Cl.e..S.S MMM. 1 t It1ave VVx gOC., S..an Cleanses I You Use: oonfuls of n it. It saves saves half the rs the Drogg sti : agoos,svs ent andobeneftsf. te Wae' ngCA pur ose. It saej h p: unedcsary . Us preerrdit sand bign thae ofisre dnga > ir hnds bst giand hite:. tepo aaeesinps y. a ngo oi t!r adDgs t a,adaln ihmn desed beit blac cotI n ht glttlues Lanaduwiethylokdnc gaan Sitn Thr ca bIn dfo)ut, iiem to Ie,thaf te(hno of Anrstaoptng club re wshit is th company cun. pbelongset thePn sItolband islader Caprea.n AkJ he unfrmo beth irlanle State, and serve to setae the ndeterm .inta tiontof thet pentple o f o St atetori themels they ndomatlon othen bothreos heh had beenoa ordy fob loin amTsue Anerso aremays weren tders, aonty whl w~eylooedee th andrin teyvenoft cmpain da tanrd shillcrtifoytth commete neos:of ath StatThere ca e.n dobtrieenvile t. e, hathe h7.n909 ffrtAoptngtH~edd.r a dSt.o.ns Repu b dilee. CatA.J So. ByDomon---selitt it eed ser. tolacntuegra the netthina Oll bte peaving of theSate ridm hemevso hanmntio h MEN ARE HELPLESS AS CHILD REN. When Taken Suddenly Ill-Here is A Common-Sense Safeguard. Big, strong man is as a helpless in fant when he is suddenly ill. The stardiest chap in town usually loses his self control, and is utterly unable to regard his condition with he e mon sense that ebaracterize iis every-day actions. For example: He comes home tir ed, eats a heavy dinner and sits down to read and smoke away a quiet even Suddenly he notices a weight on his stomach: then sharp pains around his heart. and a feeling( of suffocation. Thoughts of "heart disease'' rush over 'him. and in his agony he fears the worst. His trouble was acute indigestion. brought on by overloading his tired stomach. A couple of Rexall Dyspepsia Tab lets would have given him instant re lief-would have saved him hours of suiffering. Carrv a package of Rexall Dyspep sia Tablets in your vest pocket or keep them in your room. Take one after each heavy meal, and indiges tion can never bother you. Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets cure stoniach troubles by supplying the one element. the absence of which in the ,astric .jiiees. causes indigestion and dyspepsia. They enable the stomach to digest all 'kinds of food and to quickly convert it into rich red blood. We know what Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are and what they will do. We zuarantee them to cure indiges tion and dysp.psia. If they fail, we will refund your money. Price, 25 cents per ftfl1 package. Sold only at our stores or by mail Gilder & Weels, Newberry S. C. "0 - :30 0 V C Q0 ck 0 r Dggs-Quik! CDC 0 C= Quik! Mr. Drug&it--Qt6eck!-A box of Baeklen 's Arnica Salve Here's a quarter-For the love os Moses, -hurry! Baby's burned him. self, terribly-Johnnie cut his fooi with the axe-Mamie 's sealded-Pa can't walk from piles-Billie has boils-an~d my corns ache. Shre got ii and soon cured all the family. Its the greatest healer on earth. Soli by W. E. Pelham & Son, Newberry $. C. IA!. (G. Hiouseal, M. D Office Hours - {3 to ro a.m. L. A. Riser, M. D. Office with Dr. Houseal. (8 to 9 a. m. Office Hours - 2 to 3p. m 6.30 to 7.30 p. fl NOTICE or FINAL SETTLEIMENT[ Notice is hereby given that I wilj make a final settleinent of the estate of Luncindia E. Jones in the court ol .probate fo.r Newberry cou.nty on Tharsday, April 22, 1909, at elevr o 'clock in the forenoon, and immed iately thereafter apply for letters dismissory as administrator of said deceased. J. Y. Jones, Administrator. 3-23-09-1taw4 NATURE TELLS YOU As Many a Newberry Reader Knows Too Well. When ,theJidneys are sick, Nature tells you all atbout it. The urtine is nature's calendar. Infrequent or too frequent action, Any urinary trou'ble tells of kidney ills. Doan 's Kidney Pills cure all kid niev ills. Newberry people testify to this. F. L. Paysinger, 1831 Johnson St., Newherrv. S. C.. says: "I suffered consi derably from kidney and bladder tr'otble. About six months ago I had such a severe attack that T found it necessary to call in a physician. The pasaes of the kidney secretions were too frequent and often attended with pain. I was weak and nervous and felt generally run down. It was my good fortune to learn of Doan 's Kid ney Pills and I procured a box at W. E. Pelham & Son's drug store. Al though T have, not usmd them very lon'i. T a'n ranidly improving and kniow that mx. statem is beine e-leared of the urie nr'ison, which mnv kidneys t:evioulyl failed to remove.' For Ic! by all (dealera. Price 50 ('enits. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. New York, sole agents for the United Sto tes. Remember the name-Dean's- and take no other. Newberrq Hardware Compong 0) (DI NEWURR iiDWR 00PAY