The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, July 29, 1909, Image 8
M My Life #
vjrt .on Ji. Mil as 5
.ect one's life may be Innumerable. The
win along the pathway of life affect us for
leave their lasting Impressions upon the
C* 1 * lights inspire and elevate; the shadows
and protect us. In the same way our pres?
If ence affect the lives of others either for good
superior and transcending all other Influences
X.ne beneficent presence of those true and pure
*<3 *o have accompanied me on this Journey of life.
-A e soul of honor, whose integrity was as sacred as
. the truest patriots I have ever known. He had the
VlV one, frank and manly in expressing his opinions and
affairs; as brave as a lion yet as kind hearted and tenWiJ
oathed a hypocrite. Intrigue and deception were foreign
jQVj ideas of truth and duty were inspiring and ennobling. A
V | J nose blessed influence from the time she first taught me to
S'jj s the true light and guide of my life. The tenderest affection,
a .monition, the deepest love, the sweet melody of her sacred
J forever impressed the better chords of heart and soul,
Juence was ever present as a true inspiring and cherished memjplendid
influence of a noble brother who was the highest type of
I .n character and citizenship; also the refining Influence of two debaters
who were the light and joy of a happy home.
^ast, but not least, and embodying all the good influences of those above
.tloned, was the companion of my life, who made life with all its struggles.
, conflicts, its adventures, and achievements as far as possible a romance
.nd a success. To these influences I would attribute whatever there is of mv
life that Is commendable and satisfactory.?The Circle Magazine.
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? Are Tubercle Bacilli ''
| Friends, A[ot Foes? i
^ By Charles ? Page. M. D. ,
T is about time, as it seems to me, for us to restore the peoX
w Ple 10 thelr wits, from which the bacteriologists and germ
X I x theorists have frightened them by means of scare tales
# # concerning the alleged danger from "germs." When solx
x dlers go Into battle It Is manifestly important for them to
tftlllHH know friends from foes. Instances have been known In
# which squads of the same army, in the dark or In the smoke
ftllKlill of have fired Into each other, causing a bloody sacrifice
and at risk even of utter rout by the enemy. That
the 6ame sort of thing may occur?that it has, In fact, occurred?in war
against disease is susceptible of proof; and I would cite the experience of
three eminent physicians, after quoting the remarks of Professor Jacob! that
"it may be possible that we can learn how to poison and exterminate the socalled
germs, but In so doing we may kill the patient!"
The experience of Drs. Babl. Perron and Glmeno (Lancet, April 30, 189S)
la of great significance in bearing out Professor Jacobl's dictum: "When
dealing with tuberculosis of the lungs, the microscope having revealed the
presence of the Koch bacillus, but the patient is without fever, night sweats,
or yellowish green sputa, the results from experiments with serum from
donkeys were somewhat amazing as well as disastrous. Treated with the
aerum, their general health seemed to Improve (poison stimulation, says the
present writer), and the number of Koch bacilli decreased in notable proportions.
In two cases the last sputa examined showed that the bacilli had
entirely disappeared; but with the disappearance of the specific bacillus of
tuberculosis hectic fever set in, and one patient died In eight days and the
other in ten, with the symptoms of septic poisoning."
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Man Incomoetent I!
S ' ^'
| He Cannot Support His Daughters an !
} Forces Them to Work *
| By Benjamin Macmahon *
?? < N my opinion it is adding insult to injury for women to be
? told, as by Bishop Doane, that they have "elbowed" their
V way Into the Industrial world, and by obtaining work have
? 4 + deprived men of it. As truly might it be said that the 400
unfortunate Englishmen and women elbowed their way into
? ? the Black Hole at Calcutta. They were driven in; and the
iltltltttt little girls (for statistics show that 92 percent of female
? ??? ?? workers start before attaining the age of 16) are equally
driven from home and school into Industrial and commercial
life.
Par from being able to protect and support their females, men have unmistakably
shown that they cannot protect themselves. They have allowed
themselves to be robbed and despoiled of everything beyond a mere living.
The report of the United States Bureau of Labor shows that the averse
wage of odult male labor during 1907 (the latest fleures jLv?iinhi<?\ oo
per week.
No one who realizes how email is the purchasing power of this sum in
the human necessities of shelter, food, and clothing can reasonably deny my
contention that the average man has shown himself unable to protect himself
as head of a family. He is therefore compelled to drive his children out
at the earliest possible moment to make their own meagre living.
And the worst of the whole matter Is he is satisfied with himself. Instead
of realizing that he 1b economically (and spiritually, too) "poor and
blind and miserable and naked" he is puffed up with a sense of his importance
as a voter?an importance whidh he refuses to share with his women,
kind.
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| The Senior Senator On f
} Stilts I
I CSenator Bradley, of Kentucky?From th+ j
r Congressional Record) H
OW, Mr. President,. I do not want to talk anybody to death.
NI have tried to be as modest as I could. I know that a Junior
Senator atanda mighty little chance in this body. When
I came here one ot my old friends in the Senate came to
me and said: "Be careful, Senator; remember you are noth#
ing but a Junior. l?eep quiet. If you venture, these senior
^ Senators win take you in out of the wet." I have heard ray
i?tmmm?mS mother talk about the-bogy man and all that sort of thing,
bat I will tell you honestly that I have been alarmed ever
Staee I have been la Washington, and what I stand In dread of is the presence
ef the senior Senators in this body.
^ There are a great many dangerous things In this world. Automobiles are
isisrnas things; they are liable to run over you and kill you. Electric cars
are dan parous things; they are liable to run over yon and kill you. Bat there
Is nothing est this earth that earn oompare la point of danger with a senior
Senator whan ha stands properly est his stilts.
Wf' '
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Items of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events of More
or Less Interest at Home and
Abroad.
A court of inquiry is in process at
Anapolis to determine the cause of
Lieut. Sutton's death. Once before
the court decided it was suicide but
it seems he had been greatly abused
in a fight with another officer.
The infant child of Sylvester Corter,
of near Seven Pines, Va., was
attacked by rats Wednesday and was
so severely injured that it will be
disfigured for life, even if it lives.
The people of Northern Vermont
flTP nil in nrmc ni?o? 1 *
... ?..u? u.ci iiic i|uanenn((
of tbe Tenth Cavalry (colored) at
Fort Ethan Allen.
The Employers' Liability act passed
by Congress April 22, 1908, has
been declared invalid by the Connecticut
Supreme Court of Errors.
A singular and questionable feature
of the Seattle Exposition is the
setting apart of July 20 for the baptism
of all babies bom in Washington
State during the month of June.
Babies were baptised bj' their own
local pastors and each received a
handsome loving cup.
At Easley, Ala., last Sunday, a fire
man's team got beyond the conrtol
of the driver and dashed into
church door severely injuring one
lady and throwing' the congregation
into a temporary panic.
.1 F,1irnr Smith J * -
?. ?? k/uiitu iciumcu IU I11S
home in Brunswick, Ga., Inst Sunday
after an absence of a year. He had
presents for all the family. He was
showing a fine pistol bought for his
father when it fired and killed his
favorite sister. He believed it unloaded
and the action that caused it
to go off, he says, was purely accidental,
not intended.
Through money orders sent abroad,
the United States now sustains a
net lo6s of $60,000,000 a year.
Wilmer Lane became violent and
stabbed to death Emmet Hoe, a fellow
patient at the Staunton, Va., Insane
Asylum last Monday.
Big new oil wells have been opened
in the Shinston (W. Va.) field.
Sixteen people were drowned in
New York City last Sunday. Six of
the victims, including five women,
were lost by the capsizing of a boat.
Most of the victims were swimmers.
Oscar Maloney, 16 years old, fell
overboard in the Schuylkill river at
Philadelphia last Sunday and was
quickly rescued, but could not be
.vuuoviiUkvu. 1'utiun mum lit; wua
soared to death.
The new tunnel under the Hudson
that places Jersey City within three
minutes ride of Broadway, was opened
Monday amid immense demonstrations
of delight.
C. Will Chappell, president of the
National Casket Company, was killed
accidentally near Canastota, New
York, Sunday night.
From New York to Jersey City in
three minutes was the time made
when the last McAdoo tunnel was
opened.
Mrs. N. C. Draner, of Zanesville,
Ohio, saved her husband's life when
both plunged into the river in their
automobile last Monday.
Mrs. A. P. Clark, of Freeland, N.
J., got up to quiet her barking dog
Sunday night and found her house on
fire. A dozen boarders had barely
time to escape. The dog's barking
through its instictive sense of danger
saved human lives.
A cloudburst late Wednesday night
caused heavy loss of all kinds of property
in Northern Wisconsin. It was
estimated the total loss will be $300,000.
Foy W. Dulanev. the circiut court
clerk of Washington county. Tenn.,
has left a shortage of ^20,000. He
promises if left alone he will try to
make good yet. He has a wife and
children, but his stenographer left
he dav before he did.
All trains are running on time over
the merered lines of Mexico and thus
far the strike of the train dispatchers
has had no effect on the operative
condition.
Washington News Notes.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee met in Washington
Monday and elected James T. Lloyd,
of Missouri, chairman.
Chairman Tawney, of the Appropriations
Committee, declared in the
House Wednesday that Francis J.
Heney, special counsel for the Department
of Justice, received $23,000
from the Government for which
he performed no service.
The needs of the inland waterways
system were outlined to President
Taft in Part 2 of the report of Herbert
Knox Smith, Commissioner of
Corporations on last Monday.
Foreign Affairs.
Moors at Melilla, Africa, have surrounded
a force of Spaniards and the
feeling is so , intense as to threaten
to involve the Spanish government in
riot.
The Chinese say they like Charles
R. Crane and are glad to have him
eome as minister.
Theodore Roosevelt has laid down
his gun for a while and is writing a
book in his camp near Lake Naivaaha.
STATUS OFJOTTON CROP
As Viewed By President Harvey Jordan
of the Southern Cotton Association.
Atlanta, Oa., Special.?The following
official bulletin was issued on Sunday
by President Harvey Jordan, of
the Southern Cotton Association:
"The present outlook for anything
like a normal production of cotton for
the season of 1909-1910 is worse than
any year since 1903. Reports which
have come to me from all parts of the
cotton belt from reliable sources, and
the result of personal observation
during the last thirty days, indicate a
very serious condition of the cotton
crop, especially in the territory of the
southwestern states. The long, and as
yet unbroken, drought in Texas, accompanied
by unprecedented hot
weater. coverinc the 1 nriroct
, o ?- c??? K"~?v"
iug counties of the State, make it impossible
for the crop there to recover
normal conditions, ev*n under the
most favorable weather, hereafter.
The same conditions have largely prevailed
in Mississippi and Louisiana.
In every State, except Texas, there
has been a voluntas decrease in the
cotton acreage by the farmers this
year.
"In all the states east of the Mississippi
the fields are generally grassy,
and many thousands of acres have
been abandoned and the fields planted
to corn and peas. Crab grass has
sapped the vitality of the cotton
plant, and absorved to a great extent
the commercial fertilizers. Black
root and boll worm in the eastern
states and boll weevil in the southwest
are contributing to make the
sitation all the more critical. There
is not a sufficient supply of old cotton
in the South today to last the
southern millo until *?* T
?...u muvu vv-iuuci urau X
anticipate that the forthcoming; August
condition report, by the bureau of
cotton statistics, to be issued August
the 2nd, will reflect the deterioration
of the crop in July, by several points
under the very low June condition report.
In most sections of the belt the
cotton-plant is small and grassy, and
in other sections too' full of sap and
weedy. These conditions forecast a
small yield compared to that of one
year ago.
"The failure o* the peach crop always
forecasts a .ortness in the production
of the coiton crop, such as the
case this year. With consumptions
assuming enormous proportions, and
the production of the cotton crop indicating
an unusual shortness, it is
impossible, at this time, to predict
with any degree of accuracy where
the maximum price of spot cotton will
reach. That we are now entering upon
an era of very high prices for the
coming season, there is scarcely any
question of doubt, and the slower spot
cotton is marketed at the opening of
the season, the asier it will be to
maintain high prices."
Storm Loss Increases.
O 1 "' * ?
uuuniuu, ici., opeciai?umer tnan
to .add several hundred thousand to
the monetary loss, Friday night's
despatches from the storm-swept
coast sections of Louisiana and Texas
and into the interior for miles add
but little to that already told of the
hurricane of Wednesday which rivaled
in intensity the storm of 1900. The
number killed is conservatively estimated
at 25, twice as many more or
less seriously injured, and the property
loss is estimated at approximately
$1,000,000. While belated reports
may add to the list of casualties and
the property damage, other than to
isolated points, communication has
been restored.
Late despatches add the towns ol
Rock Isiand. Wharton and Weimer to
those which suffered to an extent
from the sweep of the wind. At
Rock Island nine of the largest buildings
were either razed or partially
wrecked, the damage being estimated
at $75,000. Fifty houses were blown
down at Weimer and the property
loss will approximate $100,000. Wharton
suffered more than from the storm
of 1900.
I
Rattlesnake's Bite Fatal.
Hendersonville, N. C., Special.?
Pinckney Stepp, the 14-year-old son
of Mr. John Stepp, who lives about
six miles from this city on the Polk
county line, was bitten by a rattlesnake
Thursday evening and diod
Thursday night.
Pinckney and his brother were getting
tanb&rk near the edge of a field.
When going near a large stump the i
boy was suddenly struck on the outer
side of the ankle by a monstrous rattlesuake.
The brother succeeded in |
killing the snake and hurried home ,
with Pinckney, who in the meantime (
became very sick. The neighbors j
were called and all remedies known to (
the mountaineers were put in use.
It was four miles to the nearest telephone,
and required several hours before
a doctor could reach the house. ,
When the physician arrived the young j
fellow was in a sad state, and died ,
two hours later.
This is the first person who has j
been fatally bitten by a snakq this j
season. 4
General News Items. ]
President Taft went to a moving
picture show Wednesday and saw
himself in action on the canvas.
W- - ? -
mre. i att baa improved
1 since her arrival at Beverly and now ;
there is harly any trace of her illnesc
that caused the President so much
woipry.
A liberty pole 107 feet tall will be
erected on Antietam battlefield by
ij the Philadelphia Brigade Assoeia
Tafia?
Details of Terrible Ston
End of The Gulf To Tl
Desolated?Lower 1
Houston, Texas, Special.?Tl
West Indian hurricane, which swe|
from one end of the Texas Gulf coa
to the other Wednesday, claimed
toll of 12 human lives, fntnllv i
juring four others and serious
wounding 16, according to the detai
of the storm, which began to arrii
here late Thursday night. Who
towns were devastated and the wre(
and ruin to property will amount
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Trains, from 12 to 15 hours lat
crept into Houston Thursday ur
freight trains are lost throughout tl
stricken district.
The territory around Bay Cil
seems to have been the centre of tl
storm, which moved southwest fro
Galveston. For four hours there
70-mile wind swept across the coui
try, carrying everything before it.
About 50 per cent, of the businei
section was damaged, including tl
opera house, one bank, the cou
house, the new high school buildir
and the city jail. In the jail, tl
pflirpc urnro ln4'l -1- 1 *'
0.? ten MiuHimi; ana me pri
oners were exposed to view but wei
safe.
Velasco, a small town near Rs
City, is reported demolished, but wit
no loss of life and none injure
Every building was unroofed or par
ly demolished and the town Thursds
was in four feet of water. People e
eaped in boats from Colorado rive
a mile away.
The loss will total thousands <
dollars and in some districts repor
state that the storm was worse tha
the disaster of 1900, which devastt
Galveston.
Eagle l^ake seems to have sufferc
on a parity with Bay City, hut vei
few houses escaping the fury of tl
storm.
Along the Brownsville rond fro
THETWRIGHT TJROS. FLY 1
Washington, Special.?In two sho
flights in the Wright aeroplane Wo
nesday afternoon at Fort Myer, Vi
Orville Wright closely approaclu
the world's aroplane speed recor
attaining an average velocity <
54 1-2 miles an hour as computed 1
Wilbui Wright, who held the stoi
watch on the machine for half a do
en rounds of the course.
On the first flight the air craft r
mained aloft only 1 minute and ?
seconds, the aviator being forced 1
descend by losing a cog wheel on tl
magneto after making his scnnr
round of the course. On his seeor
flight, after the cog hnd been replace
FRXIGHT^TR.AIN GOESl
Goldsboro, N. C., Special.?Consii
erahle excitement was caused when
it was learned that the Atlantic Coa!
Line Railroad bridge over Neuse ri
er between this city and Dudley ha
given way under the weight of a pas
ing freight train, and in a short whi
sevepal hundred peonle had gathert
upon the scene and were greatly r<
lieved when it was learned that by
miracle all the crew had escaped an
nobody was killed or injured.
The freight, which was compost
of some 40 loaded cars, had one of il
cars got safe across the river, bi
was approaching the bridge, the coi
sequence is that one of the worst mi
terial wrecks ever seen in this terr
tory is now piled up at the abo\
CLOUDBl R ;T CAUSES Dl
Duluth, Mum., Special.?Followir
the terrific rains of Tuesday, Wedne
day night's cloudburst caused a seer
of devastation in Duluth. The loi
it is computed, will reach $1,500,00
Three lives were lost. Two chi
dren were swept from their mother
side in Ninth avenue, one body beir
lost in a sewer, and another child wi
i?o? v ? ?
uoi in nccim b creeK at west Lh
loth.
PITCHED BATTLE BETWE1
New York, Special.?A pitched ba
tie was fought in Brooklyn Thursda
between immigration inspectors an
a band of 24 gypsies who were bein
deported to South America. TI
trouble had its origin in the refusi
of the gypsies to board the steam*
Verdi, which was to take them t
Buenos Ayres.
In the heat of the melee seven
; i .i ? ?l. i- i
.......mi ui me Dano were injured b
reason of their parents using them ?
shields. In several instances th
parents pushed the bodies of cbildre
against tha inspectors who were trj
ing to drivo them from a tug to th
PROTECTORATE TO BE ES
Mexico City, Special.?That th
Tnited States contemplates the foi
mat ion of a protectorate over the r<
publie of Honduras in the near futui
is the statement brought to this eit
by a secret agent of one of the Cei
tral American republics.
The agent, who would not perm'
the use of his name, left Panama o
the steamer Newport and arrived i
the port of Conn to, Nicaragua, Jul
SI HURRICANE.
,., 1
m Which Swept From One 4
he Other?Whole Towns *
Coast Suffers Heavily. *
i
le Kingsville, in parts, the desolation *
was nearly complete. Corn fields were
swept to the ground and harvesting
8* will have to be done by a hay rake,
a The cotton, however, withstood the
n- storm well.
jy At Elcampo, the electric light p?pnt ***
. is wrecked, all elevators are badly
8 damaged and almost every church in
fe town is either demolished or wrecked,
le In the oil fields around Markham,
k derricks were blown down and wells _
?0 stripped of their machinery. ' x
Six prisoners escaped from the jail
at Richmond when the windows had
<?? been blown in and while the guards m
id were repairing the damage.
ie At Palacios Mrs. Hogan and chil- A
dren were injured under the falling
brick walls of their home and were
*J later extricated by workmen. Their
*e injuries may prove fatal,
m At Galveston Bay the situation ia
a not as bad as at first reported. No ^
n_ part of the railroad bridge, which
spans the arm of the bay between the
island and Virginia Point, was washss
ed away, but some 50 feet of the ^
le structure was thrown badly out of
rt alignment by a huge barge and other
1<r small craft, which were washed from
their moorings and pounded against
ie the piling.
s~ A special from Houston says while
re the city suffered a property loss estimated
at between $50,000 and $75,- ^
t,. 000 this entire section from a crop
. standpoint has been benefitted in a
1 1 most marked degree by the storm,
d- The cotton crop in central, south
t- and north-middle Texas was in a disty
tressing condition on account of the
s- drought. Wednesday night's rain exr,
tended from the Gulf to the lower j/f
part of the Panhandle right through
sf the cotton belt of central and middle- ^
ts east Texas, ntul formoro ?-? *
f W..U Auktuvto U1C ciaicu
in over the probability of pood yields. (d
A New Orleans special says eighteen
jjersons dead, and sixteen seri- id
ously hurt and property damage ex
y eeeding $1,000,000 is the grim record
le resulting from the destructive sweep
of the hurricane along the Louisiana
m and Texas coasts. -s
FIFTY-FOUR MILES AN HOUR s"
rt the aeroplane swift 1- circled a dozen -j*
d- times around the course, which is
i., five-sixths of a mile in circumference.
;d Certain changes had been made in ' ^
d, the gearing of the motor and propel- +
af lers to give the machine a higher
>v speed. The Wright brothers had de- ^
n- cided to give this speed change only
z- a 10-minute trial Wednesday, and the
aviator brought the aeroplane to the
e- earth after 11 minutes in the air. t
19 The Wrights signified that they
to would he through with their work at
le Fort Mver by next Wednesday, the
id day that the time limit expires. They
id do not anticinatc that any extension 4L
;d of time will he necessary.
rHROUGH A. C L. TRESTLE <
d- scene. The engine and some twelve
it cars got safely across the river, but ^
S? the derailed car took to the river, off "S
the high iron bridge, and 24 other
v~ cars followed it, piling themselves one *'*
l<i upon another over the bridge and into
s- the river. **
le The scene is something appalling
id to look upon. The steel bridge has **
e- given way under the fearful strain
a and while no lives were lost the damid
age will be heavy upon the railroad
company. A (Treat number of the
ul cars were loaded with lumber, which .
ts is now piled up pell-mell in the river *
it and vicinity. It will be weeks before
i- the wreck can be cleared and in the ^
?- meantime the passengers and other
i- traffic will be transferred on a gaso
e line launch.
WASTATION IN MINNESOTA
igl The entire hillside became prac
s- tically one great waterfall. The sewle
ers, already overflowing, were inade- ^
ss quate to carry off the rushing wa0.
ter, and the streets and avenues
1- quickly turned into torrents of water ^
's three feet deep.
ig Twenty or more houses were wash- is
ed away along small creeks in the
i- city suburbs and several narrow es- ^
capes from drowning are reported.
?N INSPECTORS AND GYPSIES
t- steamer. One little girl was uncon.y
scions when the vessel sailed with
d the gypsies. qg
g The gypsies believed they were to
le be returned to Russia, their home and
il when they realized that they must go
;r back to South America, which coun- g|
o try they had just left, their rage knew
no hounds. 49
il The women fought with more fury
y than the men. Onn a??
UUUI0 Ml
is used an iron camp kettle whenever ?
le she got within reach of a hostile head. J
n When the Verdi sailed, her unwillr^. |
r- ing passengers were huddled astern, ||
ie nursing their wounds.
TABLISHED FOIL HONDURAS 1
ie 22. Traveling with hira as a fellow I
r- passenger was Gen. Domingo Vas- 9
- quez, former President of Honduras, A
e who was exiled through the maehina- "t
y tions of President Zelays, of Niea- 1
i- ragua, in 1005. m
The Newport was met at Corinto
it by a United States gunboat and the M
u officers of the warship accompanied J
\t Vasqnes ashore to the offices of the . m
y commander of the port. rt^
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