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UROl-GHT UF 1845 VERY DISAS- .\ T HOI'S. w ri Prayres of People Answered After Uncommonly Long l>ry Spell. if During the last ten days thou- t{ sands of people in some sections p, who are trying to live in harmony li; with God have no doubt been pray- ti ing for rain. The most sincere Christians have been quietly and ^ silently desiring to have that spirit of meekness, faith and patience V( which prepares them to accept 0 cheerfully and thankfully any con- Q, dition of weather which comes to n our lot. j But there are many people who J ai believe that God, the unchangeable, will alter his plans to give this section a shower of rain, and another n one dry weather. s, Over about Beaufort, N. C., the j n truckers were holding prayer meet- ., ings for rain last week. Their s< crops were drying up for the rains p had been very light since last fall,: sayB the Spartanburg Journal. It is t right to pray for rain, or anything w else we need, not that the spoken u prayer changes the plans of God.iC, but constant and earnest prayer, w which need not be audible, puts 18( the person praying in tune with the i ni All Wise God, and makes him much jr more ready to receive and enjoy Q] Ul? 1 *- " - ' * ins guis nucu iie semis xnem. p Sixty-six years ago (1845) there was a long continued dry speli in !(| this State. ? There was moisture ! p enough in the land to bring up, n; corn and mature wheat, but from cj the first of May until some time in ; c( the fall there was not rain enough j to muddy the small streams. Creeks : ^ the size of Chincapin and even i d< larger ceased to run. Many farmers I n did not pretend to gather corn, for 1 they made none to gather. That j p fall and even in the late summer e( hundreds of wagons were driven to ! e( the coves and rivers of North Caro-; V) lina and loaded with corn and | ]? brought to this State. At first, if )j we are not mistaken, it was bought for thirty-seven cents a bushel.it> Then it began to rise by degrees, , Cl and soon reached fifty and perhaps 8? Beventy-five cents. U There were two small churches or ^ meeting houses in town then, hav-j ing been built after 1839. The peo- , i pie of the village and county un-1 ^ ited in a call for a prayer meeting for rain. Quite a number came in al from the country. They met in the d Methodist church and they were much hum!bled by the long eontin-; ued drought. They prayed long and earnestly for rain. Those who y came in from the country did not get home before clouds, much larg-, er than a man's hand, rolled up and a bountiful shower came down.! w There was no more lack of rain1 g that fall. Seed time came and the g ground was in fine condition for }> sowing wheat, which made a good n yield the following spring. x\ Those attending that meeting, q certainly believed that their prayers, j, were answered and never did peo-1 h pie take a wetting more joyfully than they did that one. Perhaps t* ere axe not a half dozen persons e, living to-day who attended that 0 prayer meeting in 1845 and few ! n persons remember the hard i ' e, farmers had that winter to keep! h horses and cattle alive. It was a j memorable year. 3| ? H Florence, S. C., June 3, 1911. g To the Citizens of Dillon County: j8 In accordance with a resolution e) passed by the Eastern Carolina jr Good Roads Association, at a meeting held at Dillon, S. C., June 2nd,jni 1911. You are requested to hold a 8. meeting at Dillon your county seat, f? Monday June 12 and to elect three a] citizens to represent your county at jj] a meeting of the E. . G. R. Associa- d tion to be held at the pleasure of y, the president, and have the secre- J d tary of your meeting to officially 1 u notify the undersigned of said meet-1 n, ing and election, together with the 0j names of those so elected. Said cit-; izens when elected are to become ( members of the Executive Committee of the Eastern Carolina Good K Roads Association, ai The object of this Association is; re* to build and maintain a causeway g; and bridge across the Great Pee Dee A river, or near Mars Bluff Ferry | tt rt*. auoK a ? I v? ou\^u jn/jui us w in utr mum ichbi- : ti - ble. |C Please elect only thoBe who wllliw attend and lend their interest and et i support to the movement. ' ei Hfy order of the Association. f< J. W. McCown, President". cl Henry H. Husbands, a Secretary & Treasurer n WOODROW WILSON'S PItAiSK. jp 4 r? (Jevcnwir of New Jersey Says Demo- vv crat.s are Doing Well. Washington, June 5.?After a day, ?. of political conference, Gov. Wood-! row Wilson, of New Jersey, left A Washington last night to resume his Gubernational duties at Trenton,; following a tour of the West and * South. His visitors were from all o sections of the country, including G Senators, Representatives and pri- o vate citizens. Senators Martine, of tl soaring at a lofty height a monstei gray eagle attacked the aviator swooping down on the aeroplane, beating the aviator with beak and talons Gilbert's aeroplane required all his attention because of the treacherous air currents over the mountain. The airman was at a height of 1,0"0 feet with the country lying dim beneath him. The great bird circled around and around the aeroplane, evidentl> thinking it a new and monstrous member of the bird family. Finally CJilbret managed to draw uis revolver and fired 2 shots at the eagle, driving it off. When tne aviator landed, lie declared that the aerial battle with the giant bird had given him the most exciting moment of his career. At one time the eagle attacked Gilbert so fiercely that the aviator had to take his hands eff the lever.; and momentarily lost control of the machine It was this time that the intrepid airman drew nis revolver. The first shot went wild, bat frightened the bird, and the second ew Jersey, and Gore, of Oklohouia, ere among the first calling on the spective Presidential candidate. All the conferences were open. 0 the members of the House, purcularly. Gov. Wilson expressed re-! eated congratulations. He said the I lanner with which the House had j iken hold of its work had inspired it- country with renewed confidence 1 the Democratic party. The aeon of the caucus of Democrats in I oting for a reduction of the tariff , n wool only to 20 per cent ad valrem received his hearty commendaon, despite the fact that William , Bryan had warned the Democrats gainst any other course than taklg the duty off. What the governor had to say in gard to the Democratic caucus was iimmarily into these words: "The ?solution passed by the caucus in frank statement and justifies it;lf by showing that the Democratic arty is trying to do the best that i possible and practicable in the ircumstances. I mean that when e are revising a system, such as iriff, as a whole, we can make }inpcnsations of revenue along the hole line. But in revising it. hedule by schedule, we cannot lake compensations, excepting the (dividual schedules. That is one f the penalties of the step by step rocess. "It does not seem to me that lere is any abandonment of priucile in the action taken. It looks to ie as though the I>emocratic prinples had been reasserted. Of jurse 1 am In favor of free raw laterials, including free raw wool, ut every Democratic platform has eclared for gradual tariff red neon." He reiterated his belief in tin rogressive movement as inaugurat1 in the West. The reforms adopt1 there, he declared, and proved ?ry satisfactorily. Along this line e spoke of the progressive Repubcans. "I do not see any difference beveen the Democrats and what we ill progressive Republicans," he lid, "except possibly on the tariff." e reiterated his approval of the anadian reciprocity agreement. "Will it help the Democrats in 912," he was asked, "or will it elp the Republicans?" "The party that thinks of itself ad not of the country is going own in defeat," he said. Kiiii ItlUNCiS HIM SJW.OOO. iilke.s-lta.rre Man Regan Correspondence and is Remembered in Her Will. f Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 3?While orking in the kitchen of Ryan brothers, at Plymouth, Charles dig, a cook, found an egg which ore the name of Miss Bertha Garstt, of Huntsville, Madison county, rk. This egg brought him the acuaintance of the young woman, her >ve and now a legacy of $3,000 at er death. Although h< had written her onr a half dozen letters, and had not ven heard he?* voice, she decided n her deathbed that Dilg should be jmembered, and attorneys for the 3tate are arranging to carry out er bequests. I'pon linding the egg five years go Dilg went to his boarding house ie sat down at once to write the irl of his discovery. A short time iter he was delighted and surpris1 to receive a letter from the girl, i which she said she was the aughter of a wealthy hardware lerchant at Huntsville. Her letter lid she had a girl friend whose ither was in the poultry business tid while there she conceived the lea of writing her name and adress on the egg. This was five sars ago, and in the meantime ilg had forgotten his experience ntil it was recalled by the anouncement of the girl's death and f his inheritance. m m operation without knife. lectric Light in Throat as Sub stance is Removed from I^ung. Philadelphia, Pa., June 1.?I>eleates to the convention of the merican Laryngological Associaon witnessed a remarkable surgiil operation here to-day when Dr. hevalier Jackson, of Pittsburg, ithout the use of a knife, reraovJ a brass paper clip that had been ntbedded in a young woman's lung >r eight years. The instrument used was a bronhoscope, to which was atttached a tiny electric light, reflector and a linue forceps. The tube was lowered down the atient s throat and the clip was amoved after about and hour's ork. \<n i\<; AI'.It I N AI j APV KNTl'RK viator ami Fagle Fight High In tlie Air?Itind Was Finally llcpelled. Dispatches from Bugos, Spain, tell f a battle in the cloudB between llbert, the aviator, on his flight ver the Cantabrian mountains in le race from Paris to Madrid. While I t surucK it uilbert regained control of his machine just in time to keep it from crashing to the ground. THK < OI.ItFST VKT Coldest Temperature Obtained lly Man?Degree* Itclow Zero is the Vcrj Kottmii Thus Far. Extremely hot temperatures have heen within the reach of mankind for thousands of years; although it is true, that only with the invention of the electric furnace has man been able to achieve temperatures^ ranging up to thousands of degrees and approximating a state of heat equivalent to that which existed on the earth when this planet was u ball of molten material. On the other extreme, science has succeeded in producing temperatures far, far colder thau any that have ever existed 011 this earth and which w-jl] not exist in a natural condition until the earth becomes like the moon?a planet dead and stiff with the absolute zero temperature that exists in interplanetai space between the stars aud planets. The lowest temperature ever obtained by man is equivalent to 225 degrees on a centigrade thermometer and comes by way of liquefied hydrogen. This gas, which when mixed with oxygen turns naturally into water, the commonest of all liquids, is yet by itself most difficult to obtain in a liquid state. Still llie feat has been accomplished and when it is permitted to suddenly return to the gaseous condition it gives the coldest temperature known to science and probably the coldest temperature that it is possible to obtain, giving the condition that exists in the solar system. While liquified hydrogen is so inteiesting from a staJuVuint of pure science, its production is far too difficult and costly to admit ol its use in practical operations. Yet great cold is needed in a number of important manufacturing processes and science bas now supplied a method that gives a temperature seventy-five degrees below zero and at a very reasonable cost. This is done by means of methylchloride which is put into porous clay .lieusils, much like an ordinary red clay water filter. The evaporation oi the methyl chloride rapidly sucks heat from any and everywhere in its vicinity and reproduces a temperature seventy-five degrees f**how zero. This is sufficient for all commercial purposes that have so far appeared. in the chemical laboratory a lower temperature than this, say about 100 degrees below zero is easily and cheaply obtained by a mixure of solid carbolic acid and acetylene. For many experiment* extraordinary cold is demanded, and the last mentioned mixture fills the bill perfectly. The production of wonderfully cold temperatures on a big scale if produced in on building in Paris by means of a 20 horse power engine tuched to a complicated bit of machinery. The apparatus can turn out seven quarts of liquid air an hor.r, J.nd with liquid air temperatures running around 175 degree* below zero are easily obtained. The liquid air boils, thut is tt say, returns to its natural state at it exists on the earth at a temperature of about 175 degrees below zero. When it is allowed to evap orate by the removal of the tremen dous pressure that has liquified it ii i?i?t~*uny puns everything down t? its boiling temperature, j When the average individua says he is "boiling" he refers to s slate of extreme heat, but liquid ai boils at 17o degree* below the freez ing point of water a temperatun that would free any human beinj into a brittle piece of stone. S< scientific man has learned to worl with temperatures so high and s< low that if they were his masters instead of being subject to the 0011 trol of the human brain, the entir race of man would perish in thi twinkling of an eye . RAILWAY TIU\ KL IN JAPAN. I.isten to tin* Tale or Woe of Oik [ Who Has Trie?l it. The railroad journey iroin K.iot< I to Yokohama, despite the fact thai most beautiful country is traversed is not the pleasantest of experiences. One buys a railway ticket in Japan in installments. The ordinary ticket only enable* one to go by a train covering the minimum distance in the minimum time, so an extra express ticket i* procured, to enable one to board tiie train. The engine moves a little more quickly towards its appointed , K?al. Next a platform ticket must be . procured to enable one to board the train, and finally one has to fight OIli' K w:l V into ?? f i ?*Ct -olooe ??., Why do all the passengers in Japan take their luggage into the already small carriage instead of leaving it in the van? And why, again does a nation that is a password (01 cleanliness the world over possess a train service so shockingly dirty in every detail? We once, in a weak moment looked into a stationmasier's roon at a large station, and for pun dirt it could have given points to : pure dust heap. In the train car riages the floors are covered wit! , liie dirt of ages, cigaret ends, or aauuniril papers; ill III , tervuls ii porter saunters in with ;< brush and leisurely sweeps all tlu refuse into a corner, having firsi carefully closed every window thai no atom of discomfort or infeetioi , shall he lost. Finally he departs leaving he hind him the rubbish and an at inns phere charged with germs and an gry words. Truly a Japanese por ter's definition of clearing up is re moving rubbish from one place t< another. To change clothing in 'crowded carriage is merely a past 'time to a Jananese travler, anc one may happily heave a sigh o . relief if nothing worse happens. Wide World. LFXIXCiTON TKAtiKDV A I/KSS<)> lfeath of I'iiik Ikjuknight and Man tier of Killing Deplored. Ijcxington, June 8.?Special: Tin ; terrible tragedy, which was enact . i ed in the Dutch Fork on Monday night, when J. Pink Uouknight, otn , i of the best citizens of that sec tion of the county, lost his life a [ the hands of a negro, came as a so duel to a series of burnings, whicl I have taken nlneo in tn-it (luring the last few months. With in a period of about ninety days jfour barns have been burned, am Jin each instance the suppositioi i was that it was the work of an in ,! cendiarv. A few weeks previous t< | the burning of the burn of Joel Ful tner, two barns, the property of Mr . Ix)rick, who resides near the seem of the killing on Monday night ,! were burned. And only a few weeks i I prior to that two other barns wert destroyed by fire. As a result the people become en 5 gaged?engaged as never before? J and they decided to take the law in. | to their own hands something I'they disliked to do, it is said. S< far as is known 110 direct proof rest .'ed against the negro, Collins, bul [ the suspicions and circumstance* . iKiinted toward him as being the . I guilty party who set fire to Mr. Ful. mer's barn, it is stated. . I For what purpose the fifty or . more men went to the house of Col. 1 lins on Monday night?whether they only intended taking him out and giving him a whipping, or whethei it was their intention to lynch him ?of course, will never be known except to those who formed the par'; ty. The crowd was made up, it i said of the people of the entiri ^! community; that is, it was a repre ! sentative. They were sturdy ant 11 I determined to mete out summary ! punishment. Barricaded in tiis i home and doubtless fearing that ht , would be killed, Collins did what . most men would have done undei , similar circumstances, and it is understood that the tragedy will serve (its lesson and will go a long way ^toward causing the people in the future to appeal to the law instead of trying to take the law into theii t own hands. There are no better people in tin ^county or anywhere else than those ' residing in the section where the j tragedy occurred. They are law .(abiding, God fearing and upright and nothing but regret is heard or every hand that so good a man a: J. Pink Iiouknight, 52 years of ago 't should be one of a party to thut attempt to override the law. Not ire of Difaiiargr. i r J. A. McEachern having filed hp i-j final return in my office as admin e istrator of the personal estate of K SjW. McEachern, deceased, notice i: 3 i hereby given that Friday, July 7tli k! at 10 o clock a. in. him been ap o pointed by me as the time for de , j termining his application for a dis - charge of said administrator, ej Dillon, S. C., June Sth, 1911. e j R. A. Bruneon, Sr., | 6-15-4t Probate Judgt ; I A SQUARE DEAL FOR DILLON COUNTY ! . % 5 * At least one Liie Insurance Company has kept faith with * * its South Carolina policy-holders. jr !? :4c 1 | When the South-Atlantic bejtan to solicit business in * South Carolina its representatives were authorized to state * ' ? that every dollar of surplus from premium receipts would be * ' < invested in the communities in which the premiums were * 1 ? eceived. ? > > * % The South-Atlantic Life Insurance Company has loaned * in Dillon County three tim.es its total premium receipts from * l < policy-holders in that County. i % Is it not your business to help the business of a Company k|* whose business helps your business? *:* I < w I South-Atlantic Life Insurance Company | * Edmund Stkudwick, Prest. 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