Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 23, 1909, Image 4
ALONEAT POLE
Peary Accompanied by One Eskimo Made
Final Dash Over the Ice.
APPEARED AS FROZEN SEA
Peary Endeavored to Get Hounding*
But at l,ftOO Fathom* Got no Bottom?Correwpondenta
May Take
Explorer Aboard Steamer to Hurry
Home.
A dispatch from Battle Harbor,
T,?hrarfnr. nava the following details
of Commander Peary's Journey to
the North Pole have been gleaned
from members of the expedition on
board the steamer Roosevelt:
The only men to reach the Pole
were Commander Peary and one
Eskimo, Eging Wah, by name. The
other white members of the various
parties that left Capt Columbia
were sent back one by one as Mr.
Peary drew nearer daily to his object.
Mathew Henson, Mr. Peary's
negro attendant, and three Eskimos,
the only other members of the reduced
party that made the final dash,
were left on the march south of the
Pole.
At 85.38 the party consisted ol
Mr. Peary, Capt. Bartlett, Matthew
Henson. a negro man, who has been
Mr. Peary's personal assistant on so
many of his expeditions, the Eskimos,
seven sledges and sixty dogs
and the journey north was resumed.
The ice was perfectly level aa far
as the eye could see.
Capt. Rartlett took the observation
on the 88th parallel on April
3, and then reluctantly returned,
leaving Mr. Peary, Henson and the
Eskimos with provisions for forty
days to make the final dash to the
Pole.
This reduced party started on
April 3. The men walked that day
for ten hours and made twenty
miles. Then they slept near the
89th parallel. The Pole was reached
on April 6, and a series of observations
were taken at 90.
Mr. Peary deposited his records
and hoisted the American flag. The
temperature was 3 3 degrees below
zero.
The Pole appeared as a frozen
sea. Mr. Peary tried to take soundings.
but got no bottom at 1,500
fathoms. Mr. Peary stayed at thf
Pole for thirty-four hours and then
started on his return journey on
April 7.
Hasn't l>r. Cook's Records.
A dispatch from New York Bays
the following wireless and cable
message has been received in thai
city:
"Rattle Harbor, Labrador, via Cape
Ray, N. F., September 12.
"I have no knowledge of Dr.
Cook's having given Mr. Whitney
any records. There are no Cook
records on the Roosevelt.
(Signed) "Peary."
In Copenhagen, Dr. Frederick A.
Cook declared that be had given to
Harry Whitney, the wealthy young
big game hunter, part of the records
of his observations on his return
from the North Pole to Etah, Greenland.
Dr. Cook asserted that Mr.
Whitney would bring the irecords
to this country.
Commander Robert E. Peary on
his return from the Pole, a year
subsequent to that of Dr. Cook,
picked up Mr. Whitney at Etah, and
was bringing him south on the
Roosevelt when they met the relief
ship Jeannle, to which Mr. Whitney
was transferred to continue his
hunting for a few weeks in Hnflln s
bay.
It was confldentally expected by
Dr. Cook's supporters here that Mr.
>\ hltney had turned these records
over to Commander Peary, and that
the latter would bring them to this
country with him.
While it is rprluln thul ? 1
_ ...... ?. uuv <uuui Iilrtliucr
Peary will receive a notable reception
on his arrival in New York
City, all plans are merely tentative,
as nothing definite is yet known as
to when he will reach that city. One
report states that the Roosevelt will
be able to leavo Rattle Harbor before
the end of this week, while
another states that it can hardly depart
from there before the end of
the month.
In any event, New York anticipates
the livliest few weeks in many
years, when the rival explorers do
come. Dr. Cook Is due on September
21, and four days later the HudsonFulton
celebration begins, and in
this, it Is expected, that Polar argument
will be forced to a conspicuous
position. The illfeeling between the
more ardent supporters of Commander
Peary and Dr. Cook is characterized
by much bitterness and harsh
language. Many of them are urging
the publication of accusations
and recriminations and the fight
promises to create much enduring
unpleasantness.
Yachtsman Prownfrt.
By the capsizing of a small yacht,
in which he and R. H. Ripley were
sailing. Frank Richardson, of Portsmouth.
Va? was drowned in the
Elizabeth River Sunday. The tragedy
was caused, it is said, by swells
caused by a passing steamer.
I Another Terrible Flood. >
1 Another terrible flood has visited
I the Jamillepec district In the State
I of Oaxaca, Mexico. Sugar plantaI
tions and mills lUTt been destroyed.
I hundreds of head of cattle have been
I killed and scores of farm laborers
I have lost their lives in the water.
\
LEAP TO ESCAPE FLAMES
J
HUNDRED HAVE CLOSE CALL
P<
WHEN HOTEL BURNED.
Entire Ground Floor Is Ablaze When
Flames Are Discovered ? None
A 1
. Hurt Seriously In Jumping.
A dispatch from Edgemere, Long
Island. Bays in a fire which destroyed
the Holmeshur8t Inn there before
daylight Monday morning seventyfive
guests and twenty employees experienced
exciting and narrow escapes.
The fire, which the proprietor
said, was of incendiary origin, started
in the basement and worked up
through the frame structure so rap- t
idly that the entire first floor was p
ablaze before the guests were given f
the alarm.
While moet of the guests were '
able to leave by stairways, half a s
dozen, among them two women, leap- v
ed from a second-story balcony, but 1
were not seriously hurt.
The guests were cared for in
neighboring cottages. The hotel (
building was valued at $75,000. 1
William Holmes, son of the owner,
ran to his mother's room on the j1
i second floor and found his escape
cut off by a wall of flames. They 1
. were forced to Jump, but were not
hurt. An elevator boy ran his car
, until the flames stopped the car.
METHOD TO MARKET CROP. '
New Orleans Cotton llealer Has |
' i
New Plan. (
A dispatch from New Orleans says
v?. r?. i noinjiBon, president of the '
New Orleans cotton exchange and
head of the cotton firm of W. It. 1
Thompson & Co., of that city, has '
issued a circular letter to farmers,
wherein he offers a new plan for '
the marketing of the cotton crop. 1
He urges farmers to market their '
crops at the rate of 10 per cent a 1
month. According to Mr. Thompson 5
this would create a stable market 1
for both buyer and seller.
Mr. Thompson says in part:
"Let the producer of cotton mar- *
ket 10 per cent of his crop each 1
month for 10 months. An instant '
of reflection will convince any
' thoughtful man that whether the (
crop on the market be large or small s
and whether a hundred planters or 1
a hundred thousand employ the
method, the result will be better
' than If the crop were sold at once 1
or the attempt made to hold it all. }
If the plan is good for one planter. 1
1 It is good for all, and If all or any 1
1 great number of planters adopt it, '
the problem of marketing the crop 1
is solved."
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1 WANTS HIK NECK BROKEN.
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A White Fiend Attacks a Young
i Xc(fnt (iirl Twice.
I
A special to The News and Courier (
from Spartanburg says an unknown
white man attempted to make a
criminal assault on a young colored
girl at East Spartanburg Saturday (
afternoon. He was caught by the j
father of the girl and given a ,
severe whipping and then released |
and told to leave the country. It
is said that this is the second attempt
of the kind by the man, and j
the white people of the community
I
regret that the girl's father let him j
gel away, claiming that he should (
have been turned over to the au- t
thorities. The assault caused the q
report to be circulated in the city |
that a race riot was on, and the ,
deputy sheriff and a large crowd of ,
citizens hurried out to East Spartan ^
burg to prevent trouble.
CITY MARSHALL KILLED ,
By a Blow From Young Man He tl
Had Put I'nder Arrest.
n
At Jesup, Ga., Marshal O. B. Pope, v
was killed Saturday afternoon .by >1
a blow over bis heart in a desper- f
ate struggle with Edward Tyre, t>
Brantly Tyre and James Tyre, proml- t'
nent young white men, whom he was
attempting to arrest. is
It is not known which one of the 11
Tyres inflicted the fatal blow. All tl
were arrested as they attempted to II
escape, and lodged in Wayne conn- li
ty jail. u
Intense feeling exists against the t?
young men. The officer was attempt- b
ing to arrest them on charges of w
disorderly conduct. p
Brantly Tyre and "James Tyre are n
sons of County Commissioner Geo. t(
Tyre. Edward Tyre is their cousin, tf
m
TWO BLACK FIENDS SLAIN.
' .i rt
They Entered a Lady's Room and is
tl
Shot and Killed Her. |l(
News of the killing of two negroes,
following the staying of a white P(
woman, was received from Bellamy, "
a lumber ramp 20 miles west of tc
Hemopolis. Ala . Two negroes,
Robert Gully and John Holly, Sun- {f
day night entered the home of a
man named Gray. Mrs. Gray was OI
awakened, and when she failed to 31
heed the order to stop screaming was rf
shot and killed by Gully. Gray
brained the negro with an axe, but ^
not before Gully had shot him in '9
the leg. Holly was captured later 'a
and was made quirk work of by a n<
poi-se of Gray's neighbors. ar
gr
Puts Ban on Cigarettes. 'h
By the will of W, H. G. Gravel.
filed for probate a few days ago, his
grandson. Grevel W. E. Arker of In
Atlantic Highlands. N. J., is to re- lh
ceive an estate valued at $25,000
provided he does not smoke a cigar- In
ette from now until he Is 25 years m
old. The child Is now 3 years old. .of
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AWFUL DISEASE
illagra is Spreading Rapidly Throogh
the Sooth and West.
EW MENACE TO AMERICA
ledk'al SclnuT In Working to l>iv
cover the Secret of the Terrible
Plague Tlnit Has Invaded the
United States and Which is Chuned
by Hating Corn.
Appearance in the United States ol
hat mysterious disease, pellagra,
racucauy a new ana nuneno un
amiliar kind of leprosy, and which
hough introduced but recently, i<
preadiug with great rapidity, niaj
veil excite alarm, says Rene Bach*
a the New York American. It i!
l disease,among the most frightfu
mown to mankind?which already
laims ubout one million victims
?ow surviving, in the Old World.
Over there it pursues, in nearl:
ill instances, a slow course, klllin!
he sufferers very gradually. Bu
n this country it becomes uniqui
ind is often a swift destroyer, ?h<
lymptoms being "telescoped," as otn
night, ray, so that the whole cours<
>f the malady may be run within i
ew weeks, terminating in death.
To call it a "new brand of lepro
sy" is by no means inappropriate
Jut, in truth, it Is worse?mucl
vorse. Not only does it transforn
he skin of the body in to a yello\
ind parchment-like covering, crack
?d and beset with foul and nlcerou
sores, but it directly assails the tern
lie of the mind, reducing the patien
0 a condition of insanity or idiocy
Until recently the disease. it
tamo compounded from two Italiai
voids, "pelle," skin, and "agra,
ongh?ha* been regarded as pe
suliar to the Old World}, thougl
1 few sporadic cases of it have ap
leared from time to time in Mexic
ind South America. Suddenly am
inexpectedly it invaded the Unitei
states?the 11 rat sickness of th
cind being reported only a few year
igo in Georgia. Now quite as sud
lenly it has spread throughout nios
if the Southern Stales and, wors
(till, because of the difference ii
llmate, it has attacked the Middl
West.
Fifty cases have been found a
he Peoria, Illinois, State Hospita
ilone, and Captain Joseph F. Silet
>f the Army Medical Corps, sen
here to investigate. has reporter
o the government that he beileve
he malady has long prevailed, im
>nly around Peoria, hut throughou
Illinois and the great corn growin,
states of the West.
For it is in corn tlint the caus
if the disease, whatever it may be
urka.
The malady is neither contagion
tor infectious. That is to say, on
lerson cannot "catch it" or "tak
t" from another. Each Individua
ase originates from the moldy cori
llrect. In all likelihood, tho mis
hief-making fungus starts its worl
n the cornfield, where its spones fal
tpon the ripening ears and grow
Jut even this is not a certainty.
It may be asked, why does no
rooking kill the fungus germs? Si
n all likelihood it does. Hut th
loison manufactured by the fungu
s what makes the trouble, and ap
>arently this is not deprived of it
oxic efficiency by high temperatures
That boiling does not render it harm
ess is shown hv ?h?> <n"t
Mentioned, that Hlroliol distillei
rom spoiled maize will came tie
lisease.
The spores of the fungus star
ninnies in the intestine, and th<
nison they produce is taken up b;
ilond and thus carried to all parti
if the body. It is in effect a drug
articularly injurious to the hraii
nd nervous system generally?
i*hence the profound effect of th?
isease upon the mentality. This ef
ect, like the purely physical synip
mux, is progressive, and frequently
erminates in Idiocy or insanity.
When it is said that the disease
? due to something in moldy 01
lusty corn nearly all has been said
hat is really known of the cause
t is true that at. the Meridian
lospital, in Mississippi, a new and
nknown bacillus lias 'been Isola
id after investigation into a mint
er of cases of the disease, bu!
bother this is the real microbe ol
ellagra, whether there is a mic>be
or whether the malady is due
> some vegetable growth that enm*?
the blood through the corn, is
ot actually known.
Nor is it likely that an effective
>niedy will he found until the cause
definitely ascertained. The Italian
leory, and the one commonly acjpted,
is that it is caused by "a
ingus parasitic on maize or l?y a
oniaine developed by its putrifac
en. ruiiKiis and ptomaine remain
? be discovered.
Nobody that has ever handle,1
>rn can have failed to notice that
'casional ears are moldy. Perhaps
11 y a few of the grains are affected,
id. as a matter of fact, these are
moved in process of preparation
>r the table; or, if the grain be
lelled by hand, only the good part
taken for the bin. This, in the
tter case, is a precaution obviously
ycessary, inasmuch as a small
nount of moldy corn may do a
eat deal of damage in the bin,
rough the spreading of the funis.
It is in the Southern States ami
the Middle West that the bulk of
e cornmeal output Is consumed,
iniparativly little of it is eaten
other parts of this country. Porerly.
in both sections, the supply
corn meal came entirely from
/
small local mills, the grain for
which was "shucked" by hand. For
this reason none of it was moldy;
and consequently the flour made
from It was wholesome, containing
no disease germs. Those who ate
it were safe from "pellagra."
Today, however, there is a very
different state of affairs. The South
has giveo up growing corn on any
extensive scale, and is planting cot.
ton instead. Hut the people of that
section are still eating as much corn
meal as ever, obtaining the product
from the North, where it is made in
great mills in Chicago. St. Louis.
1 Cincinnati and other cities, by machinery.
Tho ears are "shucked"
by machinery, which pays no attention
to bad ones, and throws the
moldy grain In with the rest, to be
afterwards ground.
; Formerly the corn used for making
meal in the South was never
kept in big bulks. Today, on the
other hand, it is customarily handled
> in enormous bulks?600 bushels to
5 a car, and thousands of bushels in
r one bin. Under such conditions, esj
pecially if any moisture be present,
i the mass is liable to "heat," and
1 the fungus from the moldy grain
/ spreads with great rapidity. Thus
, is may be taken for granted that the
cornmeal whloh comes to market
f nowadays is more or less liable to
? be infected with fungus. No wonder
t then, that in the States where corn8
meal is a large item of the daily
8 diet a disease positively known to
b arise from the eatinc of moldy corn
r should have made its appearance.
* It is by no means to be supposed
that the fugi which attack corn are
- all of them, or even most of then*,
i. dangerous. Presumably, they are,
ti as a rule, quite harmless. But
a among them there must be some
v species of a "pathogenic" character.
- which produces the disease known
s as pellagra. When sufferers from
- the malady in its early stages are
t deprived of corn, and fed on other
'. grain, the symptoms disappear.
s Summed up, the symptoms comprise
progress! -e emaciation, brittleness
of the bones, fatty degeneration
" of the internal organs (especially
the heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and
lungs), inflammation of the brain
? and spinal cord, nervous troubles
* and the frightful affection of the
^ skin already mentioned.
These conditions become progress
sively worse. There are evidences of
~ mental weakness, with great depression
of spirit. Children are sad of
I>
~ face and look like old men or wo11
men. Young women rapidly take on
0 the aspect of ancients. Emaciation
sets in. with increased physical
1 weakness. The skin becomes red,
l' with sensations of burning and itch
ing. and usually some pufflness.
ltlisters appear, scattered over the
'' surface; the spidermis dries and
s falls In grayish scales. Eater on tin
1 skin becomes thickened and of a dir1
ty yellow or yellowish-green color,
B hard and rough, with painful crackr
and crusts, or even ulcerations.
e Finally, it becomes parchment-like,
'? with entire loss of elastictiy.
The condition, in a word, so far
s
as this feature of the complaint is
concerned, is what a layman would
describe as leprous. It is not leprosy,
however. A suggestion has been
made to the effect that the leprosy
described in the Bible was actually
I pellagra, but there is no reason for
such a theory. Undoubtedly pe'.lngra
is a modern disease, corn having
t been unknown in ancient times.
Maize, of course, is of American
^ origin, and it is safe to say that
the Indians, who were large users
of corn meal long before the days
of Columbus did not uso moldy grain
in its manufacture.
In the later stages of the malady,
v sufferers become either partly imj
becile or deranged. Sometimes they
R entertain delusions of persecution or
of religion. Melancholia leads to
t dementia, and they try to commit
9 suicide, or in some instances exhibit
a homicidal tendency. Not infres
fluently they refuse food. Their
heads tremble and their gait is paraj
lytic. East scene of ail is a combination
of starvation, helplessness,
, heart weakness, dronsv and Heiiri..~.
ending in (loath. Occasionally blood
poisoning, or even galloping ronsumption
of the lungs, sots in at the
close.
Pictures have been sent to Dr.
- Kile Metchnikoff, the famous RusI
sian scientist who is now studying
. it. It in also under investigation
i at .lohn Hopkins University in HalI
tiniore. Such is pellagra?certainly
one of the most frightful physical
. afflictions known to mankind.
LITTLE GIRL IS MURDERED.
Two Other Chldren Hadly Wound1
cd?No duo to the Crime.
i A dispatch from Utlca, N. Y.,
i says a crime for which there, at
present, appears to be no explanation,
was committed against three
Italian children there a few nights
ago.
Tl.r... ?
...... om urreHH rroeipo. seven
years old. who is dead, shot through
the heart; Fannie fnfusino. six years
oid. badly wounded in the arm. and
Freddy Infusino. two and a half
years old. shot through the bowels
ami will die.
There appears to be absolutely no
explanation as to whv the children
were shot. The children had been
missing since 7 oYlock Sunday
evening, when they were seen talking
with an unknown man.
Head in His Huggy.
Mr. .1 Warren Blakely, one of the
most substantial citizens of Laurens
county, was found dead in his buggy
late Tuesday afternoon, the news of
which spread rapidly over the city
and county and caused many expressions
of regret. Death was in all
probability due to heart failure, as he
was well when he left home. He was
73 years of age. I
GOOKJEIZED
Peary's Boatswain Confirms Cook's Statement
of the Looting of His Stores.
PEARY BADLY EQUIPPED
I>r. (book's and Franke's Cullrrtinn
of Hrltcti Were Taken by PearyAdmiral
Scliley Endorses I>r. Conk
as I lot's Capt- Osborn, Secretary ol
the Artie Club.
A dispatch from St. John's, N. F.,
says Alan Whitten, who was boatswain
of the Peary auxialiary steamer
Erik in 1905 aud again in 1908,
adds his quota to the polar controversy.
On his expeditions he saw
much of Peary and knew of Peary's
plaas. lie was also on the Erik in
the summer of 1907 when she laj
for a week in Sydney alongside th?
schooned J no. R. Bradley, in whlcl
Dr. Cook was starting for the pole
Whitten says that the Bradley was
abundantly equipped for Cook's ex
podition. having supplies for at leas1
three years. He confirms the chargei
made by l)r. Cook at Copenhaget
that Peary's people took Dr. Cook'i
provisions, adding that not only die
the crew of the ship take Cook'i
stores at Etah, but that boats wen
sent to Annatok. thirty miles distant
to remove Cook's provisions whicl
were stored there.
Whitten admitted however that hi
did not know if this removal was b;
arrangement between Fratike, wh<
was left in charge of the provision
and Peary or Peary's representatives
The boatswain also made th?
statement that both Franke's am
Cook's collections of ivory and skins
some of them very valuable, likewis
were taken. He said that the trou
hie with Peary's previous expedition
had been the lack of supplies. In
stead of remaining away for thre
years, Commander Peary was com
pelled to return after about flfteei
months, the real reason, Whitten de
clared, that he did not have enougl
supplies to remain longer.
Naval Officers Endorse Cook.
A dispatch from New York say
previous assumption that Comman
der Peary would have the Unitei
States Navy solidly behind him wa
not borne out in a letter from Rea
Admiral Schley, made public by Cap!
It. S. Osborn. secretary of the Arti
Club of America, of which Dr. Cool
is a member. The letter under dat
of September 11 from Pocono Manoi
Pa., runs in part as follows:
"I like Cook's attitude immensel
in this unfortunate, unnecessary am
unwise controversy. He certainly ha
been dignified and manly in th
stand lie has taken in this matter.
Capt. Osborn followed up his let
(nr frnnt od -??? -
tvi Iiuau iiif <11111111 <11 Willi it Il'l'UU
on "Who Discovered the Nortl
Pole?"
"Dr. Frederick A. Cook," he said
"was for two years my wife's phy
slciun. I saw him two or thre<
times a week and we chatted man;
hours. If 1 have ever known a mai
of integrity, probity, sincerity am
modesty, it is Cook.
"I have known also the other mai
?known him to depart from trutl
by large margins."
It is now admitted by Peary him
self, that only one Rsqulno was a
the pole with him. Cook had threi
with hi in.
Killed liy Lightning.
The Sumter Watchman and South
ron says: "Simon Mickena am
another negro man were killed b;
lightning Friday afternnoon whih
riding on a wagon load of cotton
which was being carried from th<
field to the gin house on the farn
of Mr. T. H. Clarke, near Mechanics
ville. Another negro who was lylnf
between the two, who were killed,
was shocked and burned but escaped
serious Injury. Two white hoys, tn<
sons of Mr. Bradley, who were riding
on the wagon escaped unhurt."
Criticises Peary.
The Paris Temps severely criticises
Commander Peary's "broadcast
accusations" against l>r. Cook. as
well as his "general grandiloquent
attitude," saying of it: "Peary's
patriotic declaration about taking
possession of the pole in the name of
the President of the Pnited States
contrasts strongly with the commercial
spirit he displayed in copyrighting
the story."
Negro Proves a Hero.
At Atlanta, Ga., the home of S.
W. Bailey, with its contents, was
destroyed by tire Saturday, the roof
falling when tho fire was first discovered,
The family of Mr. Hailey
barely escaped in their night robes.
After flie roof began crumbling,
Mary, the six-jcar-old daughter, was
rescued by the daring bravery of
Weldon Wray, colored.
Even the color blind girl thinks
she can tell when her love t? true
blue.
It was in this very cotti
from Birmingham, Ala.,
died of Fever. They had
son's Tonic cured them <
The two phy.Irian. here had 3 very ob?tl
were Italian, and lived on a creek 60 ya
month, .tending, their temperature rangln
thing In vain. I perauaded them to let me
ed matter and let the medicine go out In a j
feet In all thrre rase, wu Immediate and p<
wa. no recurrence of the I'ever.
Write to THE JOHNSON'S OHILL .
Southern States
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MjssJilssrs
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PELLAGRA DISEASE
SAID TO BE CAUSED BY THE USE
OF WESTERN GROWN CORN
It is Claimed That This Corn Has
Not Time to Mature Well Before!
it is Ground.
, The dread new disease which flrBt
i made its appearance in the South
i Beveral years ago, has Invaded sevf
eral parts of the North. Fifty cas)
es are now under treatment in Pei
oria, 111. It hac probably existed
. undetected in the North many years,
i Dr. Laviudar of the United States
- marine hospital service, has proved
t that pellagra caused the death of
3 two patients who were supposed to
? have been scalded to death in the
3 Bartonville. Illinois, insane asylum
1 In 1904 and 1 907.
3 They died in bath tubs and their
3 bodies looked like they had been
, boiled and the nurse who was in
i charge of the last case was dismissed
for supposed criminal carelessness,
e Dr. Lavlndur says the appearance of
V being boiled alive is typical of the
i disease of pellagra and that death
s in the bath tubs was a mere conci>.
dence. The result is that the nurse
b has been reinstated. Dr. Uavindar
i found forty cases in this asylum on
i, his arrival there.
e The Knoxville Sentinel, referring
- te the theory that musty corn causes
s pellagra, expressed the belief some
- time ago that the spread of the diso
ease was due to the use of care
lessly selected corn ground by steam
a rolling mills instead of the coarse
- ground corn meal of water mills of
h the South. The view has been growing
in strength. Dr. William T.
Wood ley. of Charlotte, N. C., has
s written The Observer on this sub
ject. lie blames the use of shock
d cured corn which, he says, is not
s given time enough to dry thoroughr
ly before it is husked and markot
ed. He says that sixty days longer
c should be allowed to corn in the
k shock than to corn standing in tho
o field.
The season In tho West is much
shorter than in the South and the
y farmers push their work so as to
d get through with cleaning (their
s fields before winter. I?r. Woodley
c jirupoKea, mererore, that mills he
required to use only corn that has
- been cured under supervision. Corn
e for the table should be cured withh
out stripping the fodder in order to
give the ears all the nutriment posit
sible. The amount of corn ground
- for human food is small compared
e with the total grown and it would
y be no great hardship to require the
i mills to be careful in selecting it.
1 In commenting on the rapid
spread of the disease, the Farmers'
i Union Sun says here in the South,
i whose people have always been addicted
to the use of corn-bread in
- some form or other, pellagra was
t unknown until comparatively recent
b years. Before the war and loug
afterwards, we never knew or heard
of a case that indicated any of the
symptoms of pellagra. It is as now
known and described a very modern
disease so far as it relates to the
' South, and Us present prevalence. If
' due to the. use of corn, may be attributed
wholly to the South's ahan
donment of the cultivation of corn,
! turning its attention to the single
1 crop of cotton, and depending exclusively
for its corn supply on the
' West, where the methods of harvesting
and caring for corn crops
' are such as to make corn an unfit
1 article of food for man.
We read the other day that it is
not an unusual thing for some
Western farmers to turn thetr hers
into fields of corn which was regarded
aa of inferior quality. We are
confident that much of this kind of
J corn or the meal from it is shipped
to the South and made Into
bread and eaten by the poorer class
of our people among whome, espeo- ;
ially those in mill districts, pellagra
has appeared. We don't believe that
Southern raised corn, harvested only
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when fully ripe, as was done in antebellum
times, and properly ground
Into meal, will produce pellagra.
If the disease is caused from corn,
it is this Western corn and its products
on which our people have been
feeding ever since they got the cotton
craze. Pellagra, then, which is I
said to be spreading rapidly through- I
out the South, is going to compel
"lit!
ige in Brookside, 15 miles
that three Italians nearly
been sick 3 months. JohnquickPy?read
letter below:
RrookMda. Ala., May 4, 190.1.
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g from 100 to KM. The doctors had tried everyi
try Johnson's Tonic. I removed all the prlnt>latn
bottle aa a regular prescription. The efsrmanent.
They recovered rapidly and there
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A collector for the Central of
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our people to go back to first principles,
In other words, force them to
cut out Western corn and raise their
corn supply at home. It seems that,
something just like this was required
to bring Southern farmers to their
, senses. Some people can be con|
vlnced only by knock-down arguments,
and pellagra is one that
seems to be of that kind.
The Sun Is right. Corn has been
I the staple food of the South too
long to allow any room for condemning
it wholesale as has been
done by hasty thinkers. Hut it was
home-grown corn that was eaten and
home-ground, too. until a few years
ago when the markets of the South
WO TO 1'" *u -
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the steam rolling mill. The housekeepers
who insist on getting the
coarse meal of the local mill will
probably make no mistake and may
rest assured that they are eating
one of the finest food-stuffs given
by Clod. In the meantime there is
no subject more urgent for the attention
pf the pure tfooil experts
than the corn meal on the market.
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