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4AYAUi VOL LVINO.64-NEWBERRY, S. C.. FPRIDAY. A UGUST 13. 1909 CLEMSON TRUSTEES. Meeting Held Last Night to Consider Resignation of President P. H. Mell. It was announced in the daily pa pers of Wednesday that the trustees of Clemson college would meet on Thursdav to consider the resignation of President P. H. Mell ,and that P.resident Mell would be asked to re consider his resignation and to retain his position as president of the in stitution. T!e Herald and News yesterday af ternoon telegraphed Mr. A. M. Car penter. editor of the Anderson Mail, askino what action had been taken by the trustees. In reply, Mr. Car-. pent E- stated that the trustees of Clemson would not meet until last night. THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Cherokees Won Two Ball Games. Personal Mention. -Other Matters. Prosperity, August 12.--Mr. Gar rett Moore, who lives in the 0'Neall community, brought to your corres pondent on Wednesday two bolls of cotton. One was almost open, and the other Mr. Moore says his little boy ha<d picked, but it showed that it was perfectly ripe. We congrata late Mr. Moore on what we believe to be some of the first open cotton around here. These specimens can be seen at The S. S. Birge Co. Prof. Lawrence A. Sease returned on Sunday from Cornell, where he 1.as been taking a course in mat;he maties. Dr. Etheredge, of Leesville, came over in his auto Wednesday. He re ports that the roads are almost im passable. William Hatton, of Pomaria, is visiting Marks Simpson. Judge and Mrs. T. S. Sease, of Spar:anburg. Mrs. Dr. Julian and daughter. of Lake City Fla., and Mr. J. L. Sease are visiting at Dr. Wyche'h Miss Mary Lizzie Wise is visiting in Newberry. Misses Marie and Mary Lathan, of Little Mountain, and Miss Corrie Boineau, of Columbia, visited at wise hotel. Paul Whitaker, of Newberry, spent a few days last week at his parents'. Mr. and Mrs. "Pink'' Cook, of Co l.umbia, spent a few days with rela tives near Prosperity. Mrs. J. F. Browne and little Eliza beth visited Mrs. Lathan at Little Mountain. Misses Maud Hopkins and Lilhie Mae Russell made a short trip to Co lumbia. Misses Rosa Nichols and Edith Willis and Messrs. W. C. Stone, Jas. -Wiheeler and G. W. Nielhols, of Sa luda, visited Miss Mary Willis last week. Robert Fengle and Claude Sease, of Little Moun:ain visited Hal and Roy Kohn on Wednesday. Ed. Hendrix. of Concord. N. C., visited at Wise hotel last week. Th fs ir=t one of the camping parties to return from the mountains was Mr. S. L. Fellers. who returned by rail. The others are expected soon. Rey. Mr. Groseelose, of Ehrhardt, is visiting Mrs. N. L. Black. Miss Ida Riser, of Saluda, is visit ing Mrs. M. B. Bedenbaugh. Miss Mary Wheeler will entertain on Friday night at an at home, in honor of her guests, Misses Sudie Dennis and' Julia Jo'hnstone, of New berry, and Miss Ada Wheeer. of Ex eesior. Misses Bessie Mae DeVore, of Nine ty Six, and Elberta Sease, of Little Mountain, are the charming guests of Miss Gertrude Bobb. On Wednesday the Cherokees met and defeated our team. in what prom ised to be a very good game until the fifth, when errors were responsible for our defeat. WVyche pitehed a great oame until his surpport wealeneal yThis same team played a night game also, which was very funny, but whic!h our team also lost. A large nmer of people attended both oames a'nd were repaid for they saw a team of full blooded Indians who can play ball some. The Cherokees leave our town with two more tsealps to their already ong string. WAS WOMAN KILLED FOR $4.00? Explanation Lacking for Tragedy in Detroit.-Suspected Man Not Arrested. Deroit. Mie;h.. Aug. 9.-After 24 hours of diligent work the authori ties are no nearer a solution of the mysterv surounding the murder of Ars. Miartha Galahan, whose bod y was found in a clump of bushes in Hamtrack vesterday. than they were the hour following the discovery of the body. Suspicion to-day pointed to a girl hood sweetheart of Mrs. Galaihan, with whom rumor connects her name. This man the officers at once set out to find, but they have been unsue cessful in their search. The missing man is married and to-day his wife. while admitting that she had accused him of improper relations with Mrs. Galahan. admitted that it was she who appraised her husband that he was wanted by the police*and advised him to keep away. She stoutly maintains that her husband had no conection wit:h the murder of Mrs. Galahan and b;4ses her opinion on a statement made to her, she says, by her hus band. A motive of the slaving of the wo man by this man is lacking, and the authorities admit that the mystery is as deep as ever. The attention of the officers was di rected to tihe missing man by Fred Galahan. husband of the murdered woman. who after identifying the body, told them of his wife's alleged relations with this man and suggested that he be apprehended and question ed. Saturday morning when Mrs. Gala han left her home she had, according to her family, about $4 in her purse. When the purse was found near the body the money was gone. No further motive for her murder is advanced by her family. LEAPS INTO WELL Warren Guyton of Anderson Takes His Life.-Jumps Into a Deep Pit. Anderson, Au.g 8.-Warren Gty ton, a w:ite man 35 years of age, committed suicide at an early hour this morning by jumping into a' well 3 feet deep. He had been suffering with hemorrhages for five years and doctors gave him no encouragement. His ill -health was responsible for his self destru,etion. Guyton had been baggage master on the W. & A. road between Atlanta and Chattanooga for several years, and had accumulated some property. At 1 o 'clock this morning a mem ber of his family administered to rnim a dose of medicine. A few minutes afterwards he wa5 missed from his room. The police department was notified and a search was instituted. His hat and coat were found near the well at 4 o'clock and on investi eaion the body was discovered afloat on the water. He was dead. The body will be interred -here to morrow. Mrs. John Kay of this city is a sister1 of the deceased. He was unmarried. DRAGGED TO DEATH. Fatal Accident to A. C. Floe, a Re spected Farmer and Citizen of the Neighborhood of Lancaster. Laneaster. Aug. 3.-Mr. A. C. Floe, who lived on the farm of Judge Jones, three miles from this town, met a Ihorrible death on his farm late this afternoon. Mr. Floe had finished his day 's work and was returning to his home rding a mule with the gear on when the animal became frightenged at a passinz negro. riding a bicycle, and ran, throwing Mr. Floe from the mule and catching him in the trace chain. In this condition Mr. Floe was draged a considerable distance to his 'home. The mule continued to drag the unconseious man through his v.rd. relatives being unable to stop the frightened animal Mr. Floe was dead when the mule was stopped, his head being crushed and his body badly bruised. He leaves a wife and nine children and was a good citizen. The funeral services will be held tomorrow. REPLY TO MR. WICKER. "Countryman" Takes Issue With Mr. Wicker's Article Against the Road Bond Issue. Editor Herald and News:-There were some pretty good articles in your paper of the tenth, especially one from Mr. J. C. Neel, who would have thought it, coming from such a big, easy-going. good-natured fellow like John Neel, and he a prohibition ist at that ? Every one of his points in favor of good roads and the bond issue was braced by undeniable an-d uncontroverted facts. Mucb can be said on both sides of the question. In far-t. anything goes on the popular side, it matters little what forcible arguments may be made on the side of the minority. But Mr. Wicker. I must confess, said but little on the popular side, and he was like a great many people. even news ape.r editors, w'ho want everybody to took zt things as they see and want them. sinply because "I said so." It is barely possible that some few may differ with these self-appointed cen sors of public officials and directors of public and p*rivate morals, and personal rights and prerogatives as well. Now. let us look at some.of Mr. Wicker's arguments against good roads and the bond issue. Listen to him, this self-opinionated, this great "e,o." this great "I": "We are not making the proper use of the money that we now have." How ,do you know we are not? Is it just because "I rise to say it." Do you think the supervisors think like Mr. Wicker. or did you ever give them the credit that they di-d what they thought the best at the time? That they might .have :reasons of their own for doing as t'hey did, or as they are now doing? Monroe Wicker and Trvin Fe-gle are pretty good fellows, and it will take more than Johnny's say-so to con vince the people that they would be guilty of wrong *doing wilfully. Now. as to Johnny's figures, they look mighty crooked to a cross eyed man. I never was any hand at figures, and the way I got the most of my answers to sums when a boy wa-s to '"forge them." as we called it. John uv 's answers to his sums look ex atlv like mine did to me. I fight shy of his figuring. "Are we working the roads as we ought ? I say not." Just listen to him: "I say not." If that is a fact, why don't you go to Mr. Feagle at once, and put him wise C Then suppose this Mr. Feagle would have the effrontery to differ wit-h you, and say, "I am do ing the people 's work the best that can be done?" What would you do? Knock him down? Well, I don't doubt *he would deserve it. but I would not advise that. Go to the grand jumry, tell them all about it, and they will settle with Mr. Feagle quick enough. That grand inquest is, here just to attend to such cases as that, and with p9etry in the interim. Thier. again. Johnny asks ab)out the "'mac2inery we bought." ''Why is it standing still," ete? and goes out of his way. this Johnnyx does. good fel low that lie is, and graciously tells Feagle "to buy more mules," "'get scrapes," etc., "'divide the hands." and so on. I have no idea Feagle ever knew a bre ath about this ma --L.ery business, and Johnny, who is so lb eral wvith his advice, should have told uim about it and showed him ho'w u use it. The other mitter abo.e the srapes and mules, and dividing handk if Mr. Feagle doesn't act on tils ad vice, he would better keep his ear close to the ground. for something's going to drop. "He is too easy with them (the chain gang), don't push. allows too much talking. gets out too late, and in too soon-they are there to be punished. as they should be by all rules of right and justice." etec. et 3. Well, that is a serious offence of our last couple of supervisors, and should be attended to at once. They should slash them and work them like th3 dvil. But, theu, supp'se these super visors would say to you, Mr. Wicker: 'Did von not know that the cruelty and brutality to prisoners in Georga raised such a stench in the nostrils of the people and tihe cry for mercy from those poor chainedi wretches ascended so high to heaven,that kind Providence who eis al ajut cmause a revela tion to take place in that State. and the vile system to be swept out of ex istence? And. Mr. Wicker, while wihii for days gone by, wlie s1 pervisors and chain gang (ruard did their whole dut -.: :lat one of t'i convicts, while ioo sick to wori, was chained down an;i a lashed tiLi he only lived long enough to crawl to the friendly shade of a tree to die-d you know, Mr. Wicker, that it is an indisputable fact, the world over, that a man that will unnecessarily abuse one legally in his power and will strike a. man in chains and shack les. is a coward at heart?'' Now, if they would say these things to you, what would you say to them? No. Johnny, the great wave of good roads, like temperance and compul sory education, is overspreading the whole country, and when the people once understand the matter thorough ly. no such arguments as yours will stay or retard it for a moment. Don't be too quick to ru.Nh into print, John ny. Fools often rush in where wise men fear to trea.d. and if these few kind words should jar you any, take no notice of it. Don't try to cut back, for nothing you could say could dis turb my equanimnty. I have been chewed up, and cut up too much. in my time, to be affected by anything you may say. Next week I will have something to say about good roads and bond issue. if the editor will per mit: then you may have something to hoot at that's worth. while. Countryman. DR. JACOBS' INJURIBS. Knocked Down by Vehicle, Head of Thornwell Orphanage Lies in Washington Hospital. Washington, D. C.. Aug. 11.-The Rev. William P. Jacobs. of Clinton, S. C. head of the Thoniwell Orplhan age. who was knocked down by a ve icle on Pennsylvania avenue last ni.ht and rendered uneonscious, is resting tonight at the Enuggency Ugs pital. It cannot be stated yet what the results of Dr. Jacobs' inju-ries will be. He was picked up immediately after the accident and rushed to the hospi tal. a few blocks away, where it way found that he :had suffered a broken 4-ollar bone, a fractured arm. and had other bruises and contusions that may lter result seriously. WXhen seen by the News and Courier's correspondent to-day Dr. Jacobs was unable to state jus: how he had been hurt, but those who witnessed the accident say that in trying to cross Pennsylvania ave nue, he was in danger of being run over by a street car o'r some vehicle. Pedestrians shouted to him to be care ful, and becoming confused, he step ped back right into the path of the carriage that ran ovei- him. Dr. Ja obs insisted that nothing be done to the man driving t.be vehicle, saying that it was not the fault of the latter, but entirely his own. Several South. Carolinians called at te hospital during the. day to ask af ter Dr. Jacobs, and many others have been in com~munication1 with the phy icians by means of the telephone. Dr. Jacobs' son from Clinton and other members of the family are on their way to Washington and will ar rive here some time during the night. . Man at Various Stages. . At 23 he thought fate was making a special offer to keep him down. At 33 lhe thought he miglh,t have done great things if his wife had not been such a handicap. At 40 he believed he would have been a great man if :his children had not made it neessary for him to cling to the sure things. At 30 he was positive that there was a conspiracy against him on the part of his fellow-men. At 60 he felt that if he could have been 35 again nothing could have stopped him. At 70 lie began to believe that he had failed because of a lack of cour age and inability to make the most of his opportunities. At 80 he was almost sure of it. Coming Back. "Your grandfather used to be my grandfather's hired man.'' "Yjes, and, your grandfather died owing him a .years wages. Eh, what'?' ' -Cleveind Leader. LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON. A Personal Sketch of the Man Who Nearly Found a Pole. Nearly two years have passed since Lieutenant Shackleton set sail from tie East India docks with his little ship the Nimrod and a gallant band of comrades bent upon the most dar ing enterprise yet attempted by ex plorer. the attainment of the South Pole by a desperate rush acss the ice of the gloomy Antarctic continent. And recently he comes back to Lon don with the glory of a great achieve ment fresh upon him. If he has not planted the British flag at the South Pole -he has really conquere'd it. He has looked upon it from afar, andlut for the accident which deprived his party of a pony at a most critical mo ment he would have reached it. The explorer comes of an old York shire family which settled in Ireland nearly two centuries ago and inter tnarried with Irish families until it has become practically Irish in blool. Among his ancestors have been men of some note. His great-great-grand father, Abraham Shackleton. founded the boaiding school at Ballytore at which Edmund Burke was a pupil, and one of Abraham Shackleton's sons. the poet Richard Shackleton, was a life-long friend of the great Whig orator. In 1886 he was sent to Dulwich college. but t-here he did not distin guish himself by his application. "He never rose high in the school or ap plied himself to his books," said his former master. "but his merits were always recognized as being out of all r'Aation to his place in form. He left too young, for I think he was not 16, to distinguisl himself in athlet ics. From t-he same authority we learn that he was a boy of energy and char acter-prelude to a life of action and a~ "lively an:d very pleasant fel low." On leaving Dulwich, about 1889, to gratify his roving disposition he went to sea, entering the merchant service and circumnavigating the world four times. During the South African war he took part in the trans port of British troops by sea to Cape Town. but his real chance of distine. tion came when in 1901 he was chosen as third lieutenant in theAntarcticex pedition which sailed south in that year under Capt. Scott. His deter mination and physique led to his se lection by Capt. Scott as one of the three who with 'himself were to make the prolonged and diffieult sledge journey south toward the Pole. On this occasion \ tihey reached a point some hundreds of miles further south than 'had been attained by any pre vious explorer. Lieut. Shackleton, despite his i-ron frame, suffered greatly on this ex pedition. He was attacked by snow blindness, which caused him excruci ating pain, and for some idays his health gave way completely. Appar en'tly at the very extremity of death, he had to be placed on a sledge and dragged by his companions. The party ran short of food and a curious story is recounted by him of how night af ter night they were haunted by vis ions of delicious food in their dreams. One nightmare incessantly beset him. He thought that he was continually <haseid by enormous slabs of pastry. On his ret.urn home in 1904 he was appointed secretary to the Scottish Geographical Society in Edinburgh. He had always had a fondness for journlism, having for some weeks been editor of the South Polar Times, Vhe little paper published for the de letation of Capt. Scott 's expedition, and he wrote occasionally for the press on his return to En 4land. .In 1906 he - resigned his sec'etarys!hip and contested Dundee in the Unionist interest. "It is.'' he sai!d. " a fig'ht ~for another poll.'' punning on the Pole the conquest of which he has al ways had at theart. He was not fated to succeed, and there was a huge ma jority against him. He married in April, 1904, Miss E. M. Dorman. and :bas two children-a boy just four years old, who declares that he "is going to be a hero just like daddy.'' and a little daughter 2 years old. In appearance Lie.ut. Sha.ekleton is .a man above middle height, not 40 years of age, and young looking for his age. His eyes are steel blue, with a peuia look of determination, and Fthe lines of his face suggest will, per sonality and power of leadership. Any one seeing him for the first time would say, "Here is a resolute man." One of his hobbies is a love of the - ,poets, and his taste is fine, as he knows by 'heart all the greatest of Mwedith 's, Wordsworth's, Tenyson's and Browning's poems. He is not %above owning that he too has paid his tribute to Parnassus, though as a minor poet, he has not yet appeared in print. In 1907, after overcoming every kind of difficulty, he organized his famous expeidition to the Antarctic, which was to make so much history. The Nimrod was bought-a little whaler of ancient date but stout in hull-and admirably equipped. The experience acquired in the Scott ex pedition was turned to excellent ac count. Lieut. Shackleton took muAh lighter clothing than has been usual with Polar explorers in the past, as he had found furs to be a' distinct mistake. and the king, when he in spected the Nimrod upon her depart ure, was so surpris7ed at the thinness of the clothing that 'he asked whether it would really be warm enough for the fearful cold of the South Pole. Other departures from precedent by which Lieut.- Shackleton showed his resources were the substitution of Manchurian ponies for dogs and the specially designed motor car, the first ever landed on the southern continent. This was not an unquali fled success, though it was most use ful for laying iepots and conveying stores. In July, 1907, the Nimrod left the East India docks. "I have made my will," said Lieut. Shackleton, as the little vessel crejt out of the Thames amid tears and cheers, "but don't imagine that such a course betrays the slightest foreboding on my part." Nor was his confidence misplaced. As we all know, not a single life was lost his expedition, thus making what is really' a new record in an exploration of such magnitude and danger. At Cowes the Nimrod was inspected by the king and queen and the queen handed the intrepid sailor a silk flag which he was to plant in her honor at the furthest point south that he reae:hed. Proceeding by Cape Colo ny and New Zealand to the Antarctic, the Shackleton expedition effected a lauding at Cap'e Royd in early 1908 and at once .began its work of explora tion. 'After a long 'record of,work during 1908, on October 29, of that year the preparations for the rush to the Pdle were completed. A party consisting o~f Lieut. Shackleton, Lieut. Adams, Mr. Eric Marshall. and Mr. Wild left the base of operations with four ponies, Depots had been previously laid fo-r a considerable distance to the south so as to give supplies for the return journey. Each man in that Polar climate, where the bitter blizzards blew almost continuously, had to do his daily march. dragging heavy loads, on 20 ounces of foo:d. What this means can be understood from the comment of Mr. Bernacehi, another well known -Antarctic explorer, who tells us that ,the proper allowance is 36 ounces. The temperature fell to 70-degrees of frost, and the rarified air tried the 'daring explorers to the utmost. 'On January 9, 1909, they made their last day's march to the south.- At latitude 88 degrees 23 minutes, only rdinety-seven geographical .miles fromn the South Pole, t hf neare3' point to either Pole that man had attaine'd, they halted. The air was comnpaira tively clear as they gazed upon the mysterious region around the Pole. ''No mountains were visible,'' tele graphed Lieut. Shackleton. ''We saw now a plain stretching to the south, at an altitude of over 10,000 feet.'' Reluctantly they ret-:aced their teps and the blizzards now blowing behind them helped. them baek. But so closely had they cut the margin of safety that again and again food ran out just as the depots which they had left on their adva nc w":re rea ched.-London Mail., Something New for Harriman. It must be a novel experience to E. H. Harriman to find himself in the 'hands of p'hysicians to not only make him pay for advice but compel hini