The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, September 02, 1913, Page TWO, Image 2
END ANNUAL SESSION.
Twenty-rive Executives Conclude
.Meeting?Dunne Alain Speaker.
Colorado Springs, Aug. 29.?Governors
from 25 States who have been
attending the Conference of Gover
nors, wnich closed a three day session
at noon today, devoted the last
lew hours of their stay to studying l
the convict system of road bulding.
Following the closing of the conference
at noon, the State executives
were taken on an automobile tour ovor
several miles of highway mountain
road constructed by convicts. Tomorrow
the governors will leave for
Denver.
The feature of the session of the
Conference for Governors today was
an address by Gov. Edward F. Dunne
of Illinois, who spoke on the growth
of public control of utilities. His
address was an extensive treatise on
ttie development 01 tne pian in uie
various States of tne Union, more
patricularly since 1905, when the
movement began to show itself in
definite form.
"The tendency is plainly in the direction
of the control of public utilities,"
he said. "The inovement is advancing
by leaps and bounds and I
believe that within a few years there
will not be a State which has not
a public utility commission empowered
by law to control the service of
the corporations of the State. If the
control shall fail, as I believe it will
not, then the only alternative left is
publfc ownership and operation of
utilities."
"I would send every United States
soldier into Mexico to protect Amer- j
ican women, if necessary," declared |
Gov. 0. B. Colquitt, of Texas, in a
speech at a banquet in connection
with the conference here last
night.
"I know that I am treading on.
dangerous ground, but the United
States should cot stand idly by while j
Americans are being murdered and i
outraged in the rebellious republic."
Gov. Colquitt sprang the sensation
Df the evening with his utterances on
the Mexican situation, which were in
marked contrast to the statements of
Secretary Franklin K. Lane of the
interior department, praising President
Wilson and his cabinet for their
work.
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Interest in the "Big TVind'' Grows1
With Increased Population.
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The weather bureau at Washington
has been collecting statistics and
facts about cyclones and tornadoes
for many years, and the experts
have succeeded in securing considerable
valuable data about the big |
winds; but, after all, the freaks of
the storm are the things that give itj
? special interest, and if all these were
properly classified some remarkable;
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reading wouiu uc iuiuw^u.
visitation of a tornado adds to this
valuable storehouse of queer freaks.
It is not uncommon for the whirling
wind to cut a house in half, demolishing
one side and leaving the
other undisturbed. This happened in
aa Iowa tornado, and the part that
was left intact was so little disturb+viot
thp clock on the mantel con
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tinued ticking as if nothing had happened.
In the Texas town of Sherman,"
which was visited by a tornado
in 1896, two houses were picked up
and carried into the air, where they
exploded. Every one in them was I
severely injured except a baby,
which did not receive so much as a
scratch. A man milkin-g a cow in a
shed saw7 the cow and shed carried
up in the air, but he was not so much !
as touched. Not a drop of the milk
m his pail was spilled or disturbed.
In the St. Louis tornado ot ine
same year, a carpet in the parlor of
one house was pulled up by the twister
and carried away a few hundred
yards without so mucn as a rent be.ng
torn in it. The tacks had been
pulled up as neatly as if extracted by
a careful carpet layer. In another
house the bed clothing and mattress
was lifted from the bed, and the bedstead
was left intact. A resident was
"arripd through the roof of another
house with the bed and dropped a
quarter of a mile away without injury.
The mattress saved him in the
fall, and he picked himself up in a
vacant lot to dress, without knowing
exactly what had happened to him.
The "twisters" have been known
*.o pull nails out of shingles and
hen go on to pick up a chimney bodlv
and carry it through the air. In
Kansas one picked up a buggy and
landed it in the branches of a tree.
\t another time it ripped the harness
completely off a horse and left horse,
buggy, and man uninjured. In Louisville
in 1908 a tornado carried the
roof off a house and pulled a child
from the mother's arms and carried
it safely to another house six blocks
away.
But these are merely among the
harmless freaks of the big wind.
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T.:ere are others more heartrending. :
It has dismembered human beings, ;
and twisted the hair of women into j
and twisted the haid of women into ;
ropes. In Kansas it drove a piece of j
scantling six inches "mgh the
body of a hog. At another time it
blew in the door of a farmer's house
and carried the owner away on the
door, to drop him in the branches of
a tree. The tornado did not rnurt
him, but he broke his neck falling
from the tree to the ground. Xo one
has succeeded in measuring the full
force of a tornado, but it is known to
travel at the rate of 200 miles or
more an hour.
Tornadoes are exciting more general
attention than formerly because
of the greater number of towns and
villages located in the tornado belt.
Each successive one is more dangerous
than its predecessors, because
it is apt to find more human material
to destroy. Formerly it migh:: travel
half the length of a continent without
finding anything in its path to
destroy except grass, trees, and occasionally
the crops of a solitary farmer.
Today, if it followed the same
route, it might pass over a dozen villages
and towns.
The only thing that can possibly
break the force of a tornado is a
range of mountains. It may create
wild havoc among the trees and bowlders
of a mountain, but it cannot carry
the mountain itself away. It will
uproot giant forest trees, suck the
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twist and demolish iron bridges, and
carry up 'houses, but the mountains
are proof against the mighty force of
the wind. Until we know how to control
the tornado or find some means
of baffling it, its menacing danger
must always be a source of considerable
uneasiness in the great plain
sections ' of the' country. But, like
earthquakes, the tornado and cyclone
do not come every year, and sometimes
they defer their visit for a decade
or so, for -which we may be
thankful.?Harpers Weekly.
wen i?escr?cu Acuunct
A lady in talking to some of her
friends one day told of a well-merited
rebuke which a workman administered
to her once. She said:
"On several occasions I had missed
little things after workmen hr.d been
in the house. I had no proof that the
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made no accusations. One day a carpenter
came to the house to jnake
some repairs and it chanced that
some work in my room was necessary.
He and his helper came into
the room, and after they had looked
around I thought they had left. Mindful
of my former losses, I said to the
maid in a low tone: 'Mary, see that
the bureau drawers are locked before
you leave the room.'
"Just as I spoke I looked up into |
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tne mirror, ana 10 xuy uunui ? aa?
that the carpenter and his assistant
had not left the room at all, but were
standing only a short distance from
me. From the look on his face I saw
that he understood, but I was scarcely
prepared for what followed.
"Taking his watch from one pocket
and his pocketbook from another, he
turned to his assistant and said with
a significant air, as he handed them
over to the younger man:
"'John, take these things back to
the stop at once. It seems that
things ain't safe in this house.'
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'"Needless to say" continued me
lady, "I apologized to him and also
needless to say the bureau drawers
were not locked up. I concluded that
it wasn't necessary, and it wasn't."?
Philadelphia Ledger.
>~o Authority.
"I got into an argument one day
with my wife on the propriety of using
a certain word in a sentence. My
wife maintained there was no right in
favor of my usage, and I held that'
there was. So, to end the matter, I
took the Century dictionary and looked
it up.
" ' A Vi ' T eoirf 'horo ^ id With lUSt
AUy JL OCiXV^., "V* v/ ^ |
the usage employed,' and I read the 1
justifying quotation aloud.
"But my wife was still dubious
'Whose quotation is that?' she wished
to know.
"Again I studied the printed page.
'Why, it says "Howells,"" I responded.
" 'Oh,' answered my wife, with a triumphant
scorn, 'he's no authority.'"
Always Took Precaution.
Qono+rkT Varrloman at a liiTVChPnn
at the New Willard, said of a certain
trust's defense:
"The defense is worse than the offense.
It takes me hack to Bath
Beach.
"A young lady at Bath Beach had
occasion to complain about one of the
bathhouse attendants, an old fellow
who, in the hurry of cleaning up,
would sometimes burst in upon her
in the bath-house without knocking. ;
"One morning after this had happened
for the sixth or seventh time,
the young lady took the old fellow to
task.
" 'See here, Peters,' she said, 'there's
no lock on my bath house, as you
know, and I must insist on your
knocking before you enter. It hasn't
happened yet, but it might very well J
happen, that you'd come in on me undressed.'
"Peters, with a chuckle, hastened
to reassure the young lady on this
point.
" '>'0 fear of that, miss,' he said
'No fear of that. There's a knot hole
in the door what I always look
through before I venture in.'"
Kiplinr's Queer Conduct.
At a tea the other day, a woman
heard the following remarks made
about her favorite author. She turned
to listen, amazed by the eccentricities
of conduct narrated.
"Yes, you know," the hostess was
saying, "Kipling came in ana oenavea
so strangely! At luncheon he suddenly
sprang up and wouldn't let the
waitress come near the table. Every
time that she tried to come near he
would jump at her.
"He made a dive for the cake
which was on the lower shelf of the
sideboard, and took it into the parlor
to eat it. He got the crumbs all over
the sofa and the beautiful rug.
"When he had finished the cake
he simply sat and glared at us."
The visitor finally could not control
herself, and asked: "Excuse me,
but are you speaking of Mr. Rudyard
Kipling?"
"Mr. Rudyard Kipling?" echoed
the hostess. "Oh, no; Kipling is our
dog!"?New York Sun.
Office Declined.
English as she is "spoke'' will ever
have its pitfalls for foreigners, though
some are not so deep as the following:
A Frenchman was forced to go to
a friend for advice.
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heem is?vat you call a pole bear?
Vot is a pole bear?"
"A polar bear, you mean."
"Yes, yes, vat is heem."
"Oh, he is a bear that lives on the
ice and eats fish."
"Mon Dieu! And one do that!
Nevaire! Nevaire!"
"You do it? What do you mean?''
"Veil, an man in de house vere I
leeve, he die, and dey say to me vill
I pe pole bear for heem. Live in de
ice and eat fish! Not even for a dead
man! Nevaire! Nevaire!"?Chicago
Record-Herald.
Impossible.
Pennsylvania Hungry and Jersey
Slim were waiting for a southbound
freight when a builder drove up with
n wa?nn and offered them Si apiece
if they would help him unload a car
of lumber.
The hoboes thought the matter over,
and, as $2 meant forty beers,
they accepted the offer.
The builder climbed inside the car
and pushed out a plank.
The hoboes lifted it up, one at each
en-d, but found that they were face to
face. Then they reversed themselves
and picked up the plank, only to find
that they were back to back. Pennscylvania
Hungry twisted his neck
and surveyed the situation in disgust.
Tossing the plank down, he
exclaimed:
"Aw, how can two men carry one
plank?"
And when the builder sought his
help they were on their way out of
the yards.?Cincinnati Enquirer..
Something rnusnal.
"You newspaper fellows are ordi
narily iiarcl pressea ior iunas, are |
you not?" asked the genial stranger, j
according to the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Our natural pride forbade us to
agree with this outsider's conclusion.
So we said:
"Why?er?not necessarily. What
makes you thirlk so?"
"I'll tell you. I am acquainted
with a member of your profession?
and a fine chap he is, too. The other
day I wanted to talk to him, so I j
called him up on the 'phone and
asked ?him if he would lunch with
me. He accepted, and at the appointed
hour we sat at the "cable. I
opened the conversation thus:
"'Well, what's the news? Anything
unusual in your line?'
""Yes, answered the reporter,
'this!'"
During the trial of a case, an attorney
was making a strong plea for
his client when an ass began to bray
outside the court room, the window .
of whiclh opened on a pasture, according
to the Philadelphia Ledger.
"Wait a moment," said the judge
calmly. "One at a time, if you
please."
The lawyer presently had a good
chance to retort. When the judge
was charging the jury the ass again
began to bray, this time at a greater
distance from the court room window.
"I beg your lorship's pardon,''
said the attorney. "May I ask you
to repeat your last words? There is
such an ec"ho here I did not quite
catch that sentence."
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