Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' | %.':?,fr i ?!?p itllon foralfc. ^ ESTABLISHED 1804 THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2. 1020. ' 1 -'- - - i ' TEETH'S BIG FGE Pyorrhea Responsible for Im mense Amount of Suffering Infection of the Gume Which Frequently I* Not Suspected Until Much Harm Has Been Don?-? i How to Recognize It I l W (Supplied by the United States Public 'tv J Health Service, Washington. D. C.) , ^V Pyorrhea Is an Infection of the gums I* or tooth-sockets. It begins beneath I A {he edges of the gums that have been 1 " Injured and especially where there has . been an accumulation of tartar or llme-deposlt As the Infection pro- | gresses and destroys the membranes i that attach the root of the tootn io j the socket, a pocket is formed around the root and the tooth becomes loosJ eced. It Is said that this disease is a; \ responsible for far more loss of teeth than is decay. But this is not the only evil. In 3 the pocket pus is continually being ! formed and discharged into the mouth and swallowed. Also, as the teeth $ rise and fall in their diseased sockets : i V"< in ordinary chewing, bacteria are forced Into the circulation and may be carried to distant parts, where they work harm according to their nature, selecting tissues for thetr operation in which they can best thrive. It was formerly supposed that the ni effects from such conditions as dental abscess and other pus fod were wholly due to the toxins or poisonous products thrown Into the blood-stream - by the bacteria at the focus. It is now * known, however, that the bacteria migrate Into outside tissues through the blood and lymph-streams. In Joint affections they clog and obstruct the small blood-vessels. Interfering with rthe nutrition of the Joint-tissues, causing deformity and enlargement, as In arthritis deformans, as well as in | acute Inflammation, such as rheumatic fever. Indeed, this condition of subinfection, or "focal infection," is coro^ Ing to be recognized as a far more iMM^nortant cau8e of disease than the M^^^^^^^^-honored autointoxication, a term HH^SlB^pch has been greatly abused and i fl^SflH^Bused. QMU Wanted an Audience. j^B^^^^^Buring my vacation I started in a IHBoe one afternoon on a four-mile aorncg tha Into Thoro hnH hsan Iard storm the night before, and lake was quite rough. The wind led me out of my course, the canoe i ed water with every roller, and is soaked and terrified. When I hed the opposite side I decided I would never go back until someg more substantial should come g and pick me up. n hour later one of the finest J | boats on the lake docked at the < ftL I boldly asked the pilot to 1 ne back to the hotel. On the ^Ktrip I entertained him with Be of chatter, and as we came hotel I noticed that there SB few guests out. and nsked H^^wvould mind going on a litcoming back when there | pBB an audience to apprecl- | ftj^Bressive home coming. When , BEeH'1 get out of his boat I of^^^ the 40 cents, which Is the MB for hired hoat service on Oj^rThe most embarrassing inolife came when the guests ^BHformed me that I had been i BH one of the most Important 1 ^HBed political figures of rhe ! flB^lad a summer estate near B^^Bj^^B^Hp|Vs"st Known a question, the Scien- j says: Is the which H^Hng|^B9^^^Buum would he a complete would retain or exclude HBHBHHHAitely. The common therjj^HHnHS^^n^Bs of the for keeping I'quids either Heat retained in hot Hg^^HflBflBH^Bpt liquids. ^HflH^^H^^JBH^pere a difference hea white hot hod.v like HHpfVon electric lamp and heat H^^trorn a liquid or solid such as may he Wjm contained In a thermos hottle. The Intense heat from a white hot body will pass easily through the best j j vacuum man can make, as witness the 1 TCP heat given off hy an Incandescent lamp ; HA hnlh. which will char and set paper l B on fire. A vacuum wift restrain heat i A. of low intensity*, but not heat of high j (F~ Intensity." Krupps May Build Plant in Spain. Spain is one of the great iron-ore cel. of the world, shipping ore j heuviiy to other Kttropean countries i as well as to the United States, and j while It has some large iron and tceel j works. Its output of the finished product has never heen commensurate with lis ore developments. No-.v. however, according to the London letter of Ike Whnley Raton Service, there s n ? defined project of the Krupps to up a great branch at Bilhoa. Spnin.^K manufacture agricultural machin^H for the purpose of driving our of |Hg market American companies who n^H hove a large share of the !>::< Manufacturers' Record. SENDS OUT ADVICE ABOUT STOCK MEN McSwain Gives Some Valuable Suggestions. The State. W. A. McSwain, insurance commissioner, has issued some timely suggestion^ to the public in reference to buying stock and being taken in by 'blue rkj" men. His circular lette', in part, is given below: "Property owners should be careful in placing insurance and deal only with agents and companies authorized to transact business in this staie. All licensed companies list tbi-i: agents with this department and the insurance commissioner shall have power to revoke said license after 30 days' notice and examination whenever it shall appear that said agent has violated the laws of this state or has willfully deceived or 1 * - -*** - ? iUl. dealt unjustly witn a ciuzen ui ium state. "All companies licensed to tranced act business in this state are required to execute a certificate signed by its executive officer that the said company has not violated any of the laws of the state of South Carolina and that it accepts the terms and obligations imposed by the laws or this state as a part of the consideration for the issuance to it by the insurance commissioner of the said state of a license to do business in the state. In addition every insurance company of other states or foreign countries, is required as condition precendent for receiving license to do business in this state to appoint the insurance commissioner as its attorney to accept service in legal processes arising in the state so long as such comftMiies may have outstanding policies in this state and until all claims of every character, held by the state or any citizen of the state shall have been settled; also to deposit with the insurance commissioner approved bonds or approved " J'" ? nav. |securities conaiuuueu upun iuc *,?*.> ment of any judgment entered up against any such company in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state and such judgment shall be a lien upon the bond or securities. Deposits required as as follows: "Each legal reserve life insurance company $20,000; each fire accident, casualty or surety company $10,1000; miscellaneous, not specified above, $ 10,00(T. "Mutual companies are exempt from the deposit of securities. . All classes of companies, except mutual companies, are required to pay a tax ;on gross premium receipts, less return premiums and cash dividends, of 2 per cent, which may be reduced by investment in South Carolina securities. "Fire insurance companies are required topay a n additional tax of 1 per cent, on premiums collected in certain cities and towns known as the fire department equipment tax; also one-tenth'of 1 per cent, on all premium receipts known as the fire inspection tax. I "All companies are required to pay state license fees of $100 except mutual cimpanies, and in addition the following departmental license fees: life $50. fir^ $40, accident $40, mis cenaneous lurcign mutual iumpnnies including fraternal benefit societies, $25, farmers' mutuals, $10. "To do business with unlicensed companies you deprive the state of the revenue that would accrue under the above. You are deprived of protection afforded you by state laws." o Mr. Kirklaad leaves the Advocate. Dillonites will be interested in the announcement that Rev. W. C. Kirkland has severed his connection with the Southern Christian Advocate and is succeeded by Rev. R. E. Stackhouse, a brother of Dr. Wade Stack house, and former union county citizen. Mr. Kirkland served the Dillon Methodist church as pastor for four years and has scores of friends here among all denominations by whom he is pleasantly remembered. During bis six years as editor of The Advocate he has built in Columbia a new home for the paper and added materially to its mechanical equipment. The paper is on a sound financial basis. It is not known where Mr. Kirkland will locate, but wherever b( goes he will always carry with him the pood wishes of his scores of Dillon friends. Primrose Keeps Good Time. In the garden of Charles D. Emery of Hornell. X. Y.. is an old-fashioned English primrose which opens its How ers. Mr. Emery snys. promptly at eight o'clock every evening and keeps them ::;:cn exactly one hour, tine even ng urfew. which is siip|>o->ed to ring at nine o'clock was two minutes early tttit tlie primrose was not fooled ft took the ext.-a wo .ii!iitle< anil folded Irs n itio hour, toninrkerl I x ?t ? It it' an oi server. Marriage Promotes Long Life. Marriage. according ro Doctor Schwartz of I'-rin. is tjje most til wortant factor of longevity. <>f ever (in persons w 10 reach tlie age of forty -ars. 12ft are marrietl and 7."> unmar PihI. At fixty the proportions are 4t ^ 'i.': to years. 27 to ii: and at Fifty centenori B^^Utnd all hten married. TWO-SWORD MEN OF JAPAN With Their Disbanding, Comparatively Few Years Ago, the Secret of Blademaking Disappeared. As late as 1SC8 there were some 400,000 two-sword men In Japan, highly trained fighters attached to the nobles of the land In bands ranging from two or three, to on entire army. When the revolution came the work of the two-sword men was done, the nation was made Into a solid unit and the strength of the blade carriers was needed ut plow and bench. WlTh this dlRbandlng, an exchange explains, the trade of the swordmnker I was also lost to the vnst number following lt? and with them, as the years * a# t\\e\ wqi?. passeu, uieu uic acticio ui ?ui rlor tools. Swords can he obtained In Japan today whose blades ar^ so keen they can cat through a veil or a sofa cushion, and also can be driven through a bar of Iron, provided the wielder has the strength. Others have blades covered with a beautiful and Intricate tracery that disappears and reappears at odd tiroes, and no one can solve *the "why" of It. One moment the blade Is a" smooth and unmarked as a mirror and the next the design leaps out before the eye of the startled beholder and cnn even be felt by sensitive fingers. Yet other blades are colored red. blue, sliver or gold, and while seemingly an alloy, a chemical analysis shows nothing but steel, Yet others ore coated with a poison | that Is unseen, but beyond all other poisons deadly. In large part It consists of decayed human blood. RACE SOON TO BE EXTINCT * -Ms In Wake of Civilization Have Spelt Doom to the Polynesians of South Seas. fihat modern civilization Is bringing death and extermination to the splendid race known as the Polynesian, is the claim of all travelers who havs spent time on the beautiful southern Pacific Islands. Charles Bernard Nordhoflf, In the Atlantic Monthly, In sorrowing over this says: "To say that Christianity was their nndolng would be absurd; they died and are dying under the encroachments of the European civilization ol which Christianity was the forerunner. Everywhere in the South sea* he story ha* been the same, whether rold by Stevenson, or Melville, or '.mils Hecke. We hronght them dls use; we brought rlioin cotton cloth ng (almost as great a curse); we sup treated the sports and merriment and petty wars *vhb h pnablpd the old smnners to maintain rneir imeresi m ;ife aimI In si I.v. we brought them an illen rode of morals. which succeeded i hlefly in making hypocrite* of the men whose souls It was designed to snve. Today there Is nothing to he said, nothing to he done?the Polynesian race will soon he only a memory." Mew r* Identification. Noi only a.e the finger prints of evtv human being different hut the pn sitioii of the hones of the fingers, and also the shape of the nails are differ wit. Doctor P.oelere. a well-known student of r^dl.utilizes this far' in a ne- i: 'hod for Identifying crlml mils Tin* ,'po-i.,,,) ,.oii?;f"'s in making an *\-f'v photograph of the hand. <h?e n.' t!ie holies and the fingernails iird r Iv ?iieh a nhorogrnph would not show rl?o Mesh. hut tn oritur tha' Mto r?" i?'tl ">nv I t- fomnlr?t?? thp fingers 'aru in tin opaque salt. by mean* of which ; !! 'h'1 lines nnd mnrkf are Hearty shown. Doctor Rcclcrp pons'.lore that the possibility afforded hv h's discovery of keepins n reconi of nulls ns well us of finger prints should prove of the greatest one in Identifying criminnls. Vast Wealth In Liberia. The Sun and New York Herald a few weeks ago was probably the firs) newspaper In our country to announce that Liberia, in West Africa, had just come into view as very rich in natural ! resources, both agricultural and mineral. It is nearly as large as the stat? | of New York, fronts on the AtlaatH i for nhoot 300 miles nnd its coast bell j Is only nbout twenty miles wide : North of the const belt the wholt j country Is n vnst forest, through I which Sir Alfred Shnrpe of England ! has recently penetrated. lie has In | formed the Royal Geographical so i ciety of the enormous population ol ihis. till now. unknown forest lan? and of the unexpected resources, in eluding cold and other minerals, that await development there. Radio Control for Airplanes. I There e;:n be doubt that if the wnt >ad lasted a few months longer w. wujld have witnessed the leading nr mies rMiijdoy'rur great Meets of hir planes comro'led hv radio means. The fulled States army had progressed pretty far alone this line when the .riaistiee whs declared. The snm< an he said for Germany. Now ?? 'earn that tlie Freuch have demon sfrsitetl that five or six small and in expensive IMnhing planes, without pi lot. can hafctccessftillv guided by a "s!iepherd"^^^h larger plane through the means i^^^Kian waves.?Scientl FOREST LONG UNDER WATEF Submerged Petrified Trees That Mue Be Centuries Old Removed as Menace to Navigation. When the government ship can.-: that connects Puget sound with Lak Washington was opened, the waters <? the lake were lowered 12 feet. Whil wire-dragging the lake, says a con , tributor, the United States coast an< geodetic survey discovered a subinn i ripe forest The tops of the sufc merged trees were so close to the sut , face that they were a menace to nav igation. Under-water logging opera tions to clear the lake were thera i fore started. T* f nrncf !q npp XI 19 lllUUgUL luai Ult tvivuv .w r.. i historic, a remnant of one that gre\ In the Lake Washington area In th days when It was dry land; or tha i great landslides In remote ages cai f rled the trees Into the lake, i The trees were without branche | and stodd vertical, or nearly so; the I were semipetrlfled. The longest trun > removed was 121 feet 6 Inches. Th top. 10 inches thick, rose to within feet of the surface of the lake. Th ( butt was 5 feet C Inches in diametei ( and the roots, firmly embedded In th bottom of the lake, had a 20-foo i spread. It was found 1,500 feet fror , the shore. Off the south end of Mercer islam In Lake Washington, nearly a hundre i trees were destroyed. The cleanu ' gave a count of lucre than a hundre trunks during the first three month of 1920, off Manitou point. The larj e6t trunk In that area stood In 121 fet of water, 1,100 feet frpra shore. Th tree was 111 feet long, with a 5-lnc t top and a 3-foot butt. artiorovof nnccilue the treps wer pulled out by the roots. Fastening were made to the trunks by draggin , the bight of a cable through the watt at the required depth. When th ( bight touched the trunk, one end ( , the cable was passed through an e> ! at the other end, and the loop forme I was run down to the trees. When th , trees were hauled up, they were ct into 4-foot sections and thrown bnc . into the lake. Since they were wate I logged, they immediately sank. Sometimes a trunk was caught tht 1 could not be uprooted. Such tre< were blasted off at the top until ve i sels could pass safely above ther An idea of the extent of the submerge forest and the difficulty of reraovlc the towering ancient trees may be d tennined by the time?three years ar six months?that it has taken the ei I gineerlng corps, working steadily, i make the lake safe for navigation.| Youth's Companion. I The Span of Life. In making calculations on the nun her of years ahead of you it is vet necessary to take your occupation inl consideration. Fishermen have tt i healthiest Jobs on record. Putting tl j average mortality at 100. the flshe j man's percentage is 73. Deep sea fisl ennen have a higher rate, due to moi accidents. Jewelers have the very lo mortality of 7G. Among the more gel j eral occupations, farmers and clerg men are the longest lived of all pe I pie. Occupations concerned with ti 1 handling of liquor have a very hip death rate. Proprietors and superii tendents of hotels with bars who r not attend the bar have a rate of 13 while the rate for men of the sarr i class who attend the bar Is 17S. Whf the men are per cent or more ov< weight the rate In the first class rlsi from 185 to 171. In the second clai i from 17S to 'J37. The mortality rai ' ? nrtii nther nlact > OT wnnri> m ??? ? ...... where liquor is served Is 177. M;u I insurance companies have sharp llm i tntiotis iii Insuring these men, othe wise the rate would lie much higher. House C'erming Dispensed With. T!:e use of modern electric impl ments such as the pneumatic sweep* Is snid to have I icon the means of di , pensiug with the old time instituth of "house-cleaning." which was a we? I In the spring and autumn when tl . whole domestic establishment wi ( turned upside down and inside on while the corners and crevices wei i scoured and accumulations of dirt at I dust routed. Every week is cleanlt , j week In these days and the hnpi , j home is no longer turned Into a sect I j of chaos. We have now progress* . J to saner methods of doing home wor . | The proper thing now is clennir > j hours?the house kept clean throng I out the entire year by using the mo i ern electric cleaners, instead of savii t I up the dirt, so 10 speak, then makir I frantic efforts twice a year to free tl I home from the accumulation. i I What Bleaching Dees to the Clothe In some exhaustive laundry tes j directed by W. W. Farrngher It wi found that mens collars that we washed and also bleached broke cfti 1 from seven to nine turns through tl (laundry, while others which It: 1'i-ei washed hut not bleache stood twenty-five similar turns h fore they gave out. Cotton Hire; tiiat broke with a weight of 1,7.' grams was washed and blenched twe tv times by Hie regular laundry met o?i?j; ?!>? t broke with a weight i I ItiU grains. ^ ' WAS WEARY' OF LIFE'S BURDEN 1 * Despondent Mother Drowns Child h to Save It From Life a i of Toil. , i ; THEN TRIES SUICIDE NcVcr- LmfTnfl Care#, Heavy Labor, r and Lack of Sleep, Had Driven v Mother to Welcome the e Thought of Death, t Cleveland.?Life had dealt harshly with Mrs. Katherlne Mlkullc. Years s of hardship and suffering made her y wish to end It. and It was to save her k daughter from a similar experience e that she threw her flve-year-old child 4 into the water and tried to drown her(' self in Lake Erie. " With a sigh and a shake of her r head, she sat on her cot in the prison 4 ward at City hospital and told the n reasons which prompted her act "Yes, my baby's gone," she said. I "Now she won't have to suffer and ^ struggle as I have. Please give me II something so I can go to my baby. ^ "I want to die. Please let me die," 1S she pleaded as she pressed her hands to her temples. "This headache will 1 never go." e As if in a daze, Mrs. Mikulic sat, clasDine her hands about her knees, and sighed again. Her eyes were red e from tears, and she stared long at the * sheet. K Her hands were coarse, bruised and >r swollen. Her long black 'hair glistened as If still wet from the waters of the lake. ^ Although she says she is twentynine, Mrs. Mikulic seems nearer forty. ^ "John? He can take care of him* j. self bye and bye," she salfi when asked why she had not taken be? twelveyear-old son with her to the lake. it "Eight years I have this headache," she said, again pressing her hands to her temples. "Oh, I so want to die. "Four years I have worked every night, and every day I can't sleep. This headache never goes away. All day I walk the floor until it's time to go to work again. Never do I sleep." "Husband No Good to Me." t0 "My husband? He was no good to _ me. He worked a little, and then he won't work again. He spent all the money drinking." Mrs. Mikulic stared at the spoon q. which she took from a tray of food. y "Ten years ago my husband came to here. He left me in Croatia with my ie j babies. T^ o years I did Dot hear 10 ^ I (/I ^^ ^ ,v | Threw Her Child Into the Water. ' from him. Then I worked and saved Ml and afterward I came here. too. I ! had $o. I, ! "He worked .sometimes in a butcher ,1 i shop.* But all tin* time he's drinking. ' and then lie lost his work. r? ij. "Knur years I worked every night. n< In the day time T could not sleep. I Last wittier he go sick and.stviMd L I did not see1 him when he died. Yes. :s I cried it little; hut lie was no pood t>i to me." -s | Had Often Wished to Die. rt | Continuing in her broken English. ''' she said she went back to work t< 1 nav for her husband's funeral, but did lf not want (< leave her baby. "I worked last night, but again I '' valid not sleep and still I had this " ; iacht?. I walked the floor, up and l( i'i and then I said: '1 will die.". . ' 1||(> die and go to Meditii^^^^Bj working tteur LoB Some h^BB^^^^^^^^^^BBH^Bj has <^^^BH^^HbH^H^B Her that was CnpL seadog whd^^B^BB^^^^BH^B ea tween t'o pt. U|H|^HH Gorges and (^^BB^BHB^B^B^^BB lege a wereBBB^^Bj^^BB^^^^B the London on terr^BHHB^B^^^^B^^B glnla Cape Cod, accoB^^^^^fl^^^BM^^I to discourage tB^^^^^B^^Bj^BH tllng near the they The ldent^^^^^^^^^^^B^^H Is IJlsBH^^Hp^B^^fl chusettB Hlstorlcal^Bfl^^^^^^fl|B^^| skipper was one C^B^B^BflB^^^^B trustworthy man. ^Bfl^^B^^S^^BB from Thorn ing his to \^BB^B^Hfifl| The coursKB^MHBBH colonial history may t^BBS^^K|^^BB| when the f^^^B^BHB^^B tered the shoals winds Cape Cod. destiny can ne easny Is here to Pilgrim colony fouH H the jurisdiction of the company. PRODUCES COTTON IN^B^B Southerner Has Succeeded In^B^^^^MHH Green and Brown Is menting on Black. A. W. Brabham has submffte^HHB^^^ Cotton exchange of SavannaM|^HHH samples of colored cotton?light dark brown, light green and green. They are the results of of experimentation. Mr. Brabharn saysHHH that other cbiors will appear when aB H number of cotton plants in his gardenj^^B that are not yet fully ?rown begin " KHj The botanist has not yet been ab?e||^H| to produce black cotton, but he says ^^B he will do so In time. It would hare appeared this year, he contends. If a ^B package of the seeds of a blue-tinted B cotton, mailed to him by p tyotanlst In ^8 Delhi. India, had not gone astray. Br. * Prnhhom hn? spnt for another nack- B age of these seeds, and he Is convinced that If he crosses them with certain of , 1 the cottons he has already grown the , result will be black. ! Luther Rnrbank once toTd Mr. Brabham that he would produce black cot* J ton for a million dollars. Mr. Bc9>" ham replied that he thought bfeonTd do It more cheaply, and thereupon" H started his experiments. H Process of Becoming Convinced. I Every day he called her over the telephone. Every day she refused to see ftlfn: I But his expeslence with women had! ^ taught him to understand their ro* j qnetry, und he knew that her refusal.' | was not sincere. ' One morning when he telephoned' J she said that she would he glnd to- ^ see him, but she was engaged for the' day. Thp no*t mornlii!? chn vrns nnrrv ft9 hnve to miss him again. but she did* not have n minute free. And the next dny she wished thnt he had telephoned sooner, for she hed just made nn engagement. Wonhl plense cull again? Ills experience with women tnnght^^RB him thnt her refusal was sincere.?^BH| From Life. Canada to Allot Land to Eskimos. It is announced from Ottawa rlmr^BB| the Canadian government has decide<)?^^BB to reserve for the remnant of the l?V kltnos a small part of the territory over which they formerly ranged at 91 will In the var.vlnp pursuits of flshlrrp and hunting, says the New York Bve-ning Mfill. The reservation Is to con sfst of Ranks and Victoria Islands. . north of the vast recion. wide as the i continent. known as Northwest terrt* f tory, and far north of the Arctic elr- ' tfl cle. ^ From this reservation, and apparent- " ly the waters Immediately adjacent to It. white hunters are to he exctud- 4 ed: and those who have be;run opera- i tlors on Ranks island will he ousted | Thus the resources needed to sustain 'i Eskimo life will he preserved. "** .. ^ I East Seventy-second street wlicn he heard a woman was in the lake. I'lunirin;: in fully clothed, he swam to when* she had disappeared. He dived and brought her to the surface ! Win n she repnined consciousness cried: "Why don't you let me die?" "My baby's in the lake." she said. , "please let me die. too." White swam for some time before ^^e? ove etl the child's body. iliknllc was taken to Mount to the A |H>!tnl. M