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T.AL1.KS WITH PROUD WIVES OF NORTH POLE CONQUERORS A King Among Kings, Says Mrs. Cook of Her Husband.-But She Doesn't Like Peary. Casco Bay, Maiue. Sept. 9.--- "How will. Dr. Cook feel and act among ngs?' I asked the brave little wife J the north pole discoverer. "Just like one of them!" came the proud answer, her eyes flashing. I had arrived an hour before at this (niet little refuge of Mrs. Cook and her children-a refuge to which they had fled when privations in the great city on Long Island threatened them. I found Mrs. "Cook radiant with joy and wifely pride. "How did I feel when I heard the news?'' she said. "Well, I can hard y tell you. On the afternoon of Sep tember 1 I saw a newspaper extra at Lewiston. It told me of my husband's success. I was stunned, but said nolhing. And when I came home there was the cablegram from Fred. Then I.knew that the whole terrible dream was over. Of course I was hap Py *Dr. Cook is a quiet man -and un effusive. When he says 'My world is in my little home,' it means volumes to me. He signed this message to me 'yours cordially,' but ,that means much. His self-control is .perfect. If you knew him you would realize he is the kind of a man to find the pole." The news of the success of Peary .or. Cook's rival-was spreading among the villagers and resorters. "Peary is not sincere," said Mrs. Cook. "I know because my husband has been with ihim. You've seen Peary's pictures in ice deserts, haven't you? Well, he always gets a big chunk of ice between his eamera and his goat, so the picture will make the situation look desperate. "Why, when he met me at the Are tie club C.noiet in 1907, he said, 'Ah, Mrs. Cook, n-fe of Dr. Cook. He's in the MO-Eh now, I hear.' Then he walked away. He was very patroniz ing. I saw him treat Mr. Fiala, the Italian explorer, the same way, too. "Peary never let his men talk. He always wanted aH the glory. Never any credit for anybody but himself. I'll admit my husband and Peary are not friends. "The Esquimaux hated Peary. That's why he didn't take Mene along when the boy wanted to go back. He was afraid Mene would tell the Esqui maux the truth about Peary 's stand ing in .LDis country.'' A week of delight over sucecess has made Mrs. Cook forgetful of what she herself calls her terrible dream. Just how terrible her experience has been few of her close friends know. A few days before her husband's memorable message Mrs. Cook was sitting beside her little cottage at Casco. Mrs. F. E. Yore, an old friend, was calling on her. "Marie,'' asked Mrs. Yore, "what are you going tot do this winter?'' "I'll have to ta.ke up work as a stenographer, I'm afraid,'' said the explorer's wife. "I've got to do so~ething. I've done that before. Oh, if I only knew.Fred were alive!'' Mrs. Cook was down to her last $100 bill. The best of a small fortune she had spent on her husband's ex oloratons. I Always Knew He'd Win, Says Mrs. Peary of Hers.-She's Been to the Arctic Herself. South Harpswell, Maine, Sept. 9. "I'm tihe happiest woman in the world.'' Tt was Mrs. Robert E. Peary, a lit tle brown-eyed woman, with just a trace of zray in her hair, who said this. And she meant it. Her husband-her big, brave hus had-was sate. He had accomplish ed his life desire--he had found the And no woman in tihe world realized better than Mrs. Robert E. Peary just what her husband 's feat cost. For Mrs. Peary herself has been into the Arctic circle. She has made a dash to the pole. It was under ,the Anzti.e sun that she gave birth to little Manie Ahnighto. the white baby of the north -now a pretty girl of 16. "I know what it means-mf the po ar sa-.'' said Mrs. Peary, 'and yet I didn't suffer much hardship. elt may sound strange. bu: it didn't seem cold. I have had lots more trouble with the cold in Brook iv than with the intense zero weather of the Arc.tie. It's the climate and ne dryness of the air that makes the difference. "We didn 't suffer, except on occa sions A look suggesting some terrible memory came into her restless brown eves. She probly~)l was 1thinking of :ow whee in- was--a ont,.d- Iit the range of communication. couldn't. write, I couldn't cable. All I could do was to wait-just to wait and hope. People used to pity me for my sus pense. but they didn'lt know and un derstand. "But now it's all over," and The Woman Who Had Faith smiled. "Child life among the Esquimaux is the most interesting.'' she said. "About the only toy the children can play wit'h is a football made from walrus hide, which is very toZugh. They kick and throw this axound on the ice. "I don 't see how the babies there can stand it. They wear hardly any clo,thes. even in the coldest weatvher, until they grow up. Then they leave parts of their bodies thinly covered. '"But that's what makes them so strong. I suppose." she explained. "The Esquimaux have been a help to my husband, of course,'' Mrs. Pearv added. "We are thankful for all he has done, and now when he is so near home I feel t'hat he belongs to us all the time. I don't think he will go back to the pole. The north tried to claim him, and even his life, but! we have him agaiu. and he has made .-ood hi; word .hat he would find the nortl pole. In the Peary family Marie is still a dyed-in-the-wool polar enthusiast. The hazy memories of her childhood in the far no-rth still make the adventurous career of her father one of great ro mance, and to her at ,east all his per ils have been forgotften in the enjoy ment she feels. NEW TREATMENT FOR TYPHOID Important Paper Read Before the Greenwood County Medical Society by a Member of the Senior Class of the Medical College of Charleston. Greenwood, Sept. -9.-Local physi cians are very much interested in a new treatment of typhoid fever, which may be one of greatest importance. A paper on the subject was read be fore the county medical society Mon day by the discoverer of the treat ment, Dr. W. T. Lander, and the mat ter was freely discussed. The usual procedure in such matters is, of course, to have all publication first made in the regular journals of the profession and then they can be pub lished by the lay papers. This treat ment is being freely discussed, how ever, now, and it will not be amiss to tell something abou;t it as the paper read by Dr. Lander will not be pub lished for a month yet in the State Medical Journal. Dr. Lander was for a number of years a professor in his father's college, Wiliamston Female College, now Lander College. Three years ago he entered the Sout'h Caro lina MedicalCollege, in Charleston,and has one more year before his gradu ation. He is a man of mature judg ment, and has always taken great in terest in the work of the county med ical society, and it was at the .request of the society that he prepared the paper on typhoid above referred to. Dr. Lander does a considera.ble amount of work in the ehemical lab aratory at Lander College, making tests of blood, etc., and is frequently called on to make tests for p'hysicians. In .this work he has to have fresh cultures as in the case of typhoid bacteria they do not work 3o well if over two days old. Some time ago hej was making up a new medium in which to place a new growth of ty phoid bacteria, and while engaged in the work was interrupted. He states that in sue'h cases one is not always accurate because of the interruption and such was the case with him then. There is a reg-ular formula for this mediunm i-n whic-h to grow .the germs. It is really a s:)rt of weak beef broth, but has to be made according to a reg ular formula. He discovered after a lit tIe while that the cultures in the newv test with the supposedly correct me dium weve not doing so well, not grow ing as tihey should. The idea.then occur red to him that if a similar condition should be brought or could be brought about in the human system, great progress would be made in -the fight against typhoid fever. He began to investigate to find out what was the matter wi:h his medium. The result of his ivestigations were that tihe typhoid germs will not grow in a1 medium more alkiline than the prescibedone.Too uchi acid does not seem to affect the growt:h. but an alkaline prpneac does affect the growth. it retards it. This then. in brief, is the basis of tihe discovery, as it canl be told by a layman to laymen. The idea is to develop an alkaline eon ditioni in the system of a typhoid fe ver, patient so that na.ture can be aid edi o: backed up1 in her tig-ht to choke down the typhoid( fever grerm. Asi I Lin; 1tha t will hel nau re w1 * ,it Its weapoiis of defense. Of course such treatment must be in the hands of a physician and must be administered as .the individual indicates. Some man has written to Dr. Lander telling him lie had five ea-ses of typhoid fever and wants to get the "treatment.i. To him. as to all ot-hers. Dr. Lander writes that lie must cmsult his physi cian.and if the physician cares to write to him he will be glad to tell him the results of the tests made here. As said above, the matter is being freely discussed by the physicians here, and apparently satisfactory results have been had in such tests as have been made. In other towns around, too, the physicians are testing the treat ment. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By virtue of Delinquent tax execu tions to me directed by John L. Epps, Esq., Treasurer of Newberry County, I will sell on Monday. (Salesday) t'he fourth of October, 1909, at New berry Court House, at public sale the followinLg property. viz. for delinquPnt taxes for the year. 1908: Two lots of land in Township No. 1. containing 13 acres., more or less, assessed Newberry Knitting Company. khown now as The Ashley Manufac tr.ring company, bounded by lands of Theo Johnstone, estate T. Q. Boozer, Caldwell road leading from Newberry to Dairy Farm now owned by Geor.W. Summer and by the street on back intersecting said Caldwell Road in front of Tabor Hill dwelling place and leading into town ,by lands form erly owned by Wi. Langford, also A tract of land in Reeder township, No. 5, assessed to L. C. Sheely, con taining one hundred and thirty (130) acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Dorothy Davis, estate W. F. Kelly and Henry Kinard. Terms of Sale: Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. M. M. Buford, Sieriff N. C. Sheriff's Office, Sept. 13, 1909. NOTICE TO JURORS. By order of His Honor S. W. G. Shipp, I am authorized to notify all Jurors drawn for the Court of Com mon Pleas whiceh will convene on the 13th instant that they need not at tend, as no jury cases will be tried at this term. John C. Goggans, Clerk of Court. Sept. 6, 1909. 2t. Florence. S. C.. Sept. 4, 1909. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Newberry, S. C.. My Dear Sir :-At the request of the Newberry Bar, communicated to me through Hon. 0. L. Soh.umpert, there will be no jury cases tried- at the September term of your Court of iCommon Pleas. Only equity matters and default cases will be called. You will, therefere. as far as you are able to do so. notify the jurors drawn that they will not be required to attend court. Yours very truly, S. W. G. Shipp, Cirenit Judge. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By Frafik M. Schumpert. Esqui-re, Probate Judge. Whereas. Z. W. Bedenbaugh haith made suit to me. to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Lucy C. Bedenbaugh These are therfore .to cite and ad monish all and singular thbe kindred and Creditors of the said Lucy C. Bedenbaugh deceased, that t'hey be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate. to be -held at Newbery. S. C.. on September 29th, next after publication thereof, at 11 o 'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administra tion should not be granted. Given under my Hand, this 9th day of September Anno Domini, 1909. Frank M. Sdhumpert. J. P. N.C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Newberry. By Frank M. Schumpert, Esquire. Probate Judg~e. Whereas. M. (C. Morris hath made suit to me. to grant him Letters of Admuinistraltion wi;ih thte will annexed of the Estate of anid effects of .1. C. These are therefore to .eite and ad mnonish all anrd singular the kindred and Creditors of the said J. C. Moore deceased. that they be and appear be fore me. in the Court of Pro'bate. to be held at Newberry. S. 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Extensive and new Equipment of Shop, Mill, Labo ratories, etc. New Library and new Chemical Labo rStudents received at any time during the year. Next 11sesson begins September 22, 1909. K. G. MATHESON, A. M., IL. D., Pres., -Atlanta, Georgia. YOUR BANKINQI THE NEWBERRY SAVINGS BANK, apital $50,000 . - Surplus $30,000 No Matter How Small, rio Matter How Large, The Newberry Savings Bank iii give it careful attention. This message ~ppies to the men and the women alike. AS. MiNTO H. . E. NORWOOD.