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THE FORT MILL TIMES
VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11.1909 *o. aa
HE TALKS OUT
Bishop Candler Takes a Shot at Job D.
R#cWeflit'? Gift |*
ERADICATE HOOK WORM
.
Mr Does Not the NoraaMit
and Clausen <1 frith Others Made
r1 *??oto
HumillUrtc* and Belittle the
Honth nnd We Can Take
Caw* of OhdhIm.
Bishop W. A Candler call* attention
to the ft>l wins article which
appeared in the l>w Orleans Picayune
the mornin after the presB
dispatches aunom,><) the formation
of Mr. ItockofclleB vermifuge commission
:
"The n?*C6Ksityfor creating sectional
prejudices tainat the Rnnth.
crn people and Sues el{<1 not stop
vlth the end of be civil war of
t S61 -'t>&.
"The old hoBt III'engendered ttoen
li'is passed away far aa the men
v ho fought were ncerned, and tjhe
rtllylng of the j ?? nien of tlbc
South to the natia^ fla^ in tjbe
Spanish war, wberhojy stood ?bou:
cer to shmyf' with the men of l|v<
* * -i>drth, went far to extinguish tfce
i ancient twWonal feeling against this
part of the country.
"But for some reason not fully
understood it has come to light
that self-professed and self-appolnt(1
philanthropists have taken it upon
themselves to discover and pro- ,
claim conditions in the South calculated
to create further prejudices
against the States and people of the
South so as to diverse inimiaratlon, (
to alarm the resident population
:>nd to place thiR section of the ,
country before the world as an af- |
Dieted and accursed region. I
"No sooner had the South begun |
to manufacture its cotton on an ex- i
nsive scale when it was given out ,
to the world that most ot' the work (
was done 1 y youths of both sexes ;
and largely by children of tender
age. and at such pitiful wages that ,
the manufacturers of the North, j
who employed persons of full age ]
at high rates of compensation, could ,
not by any possibility compete with ,
them, and such a hubbub was raised
in the North about it that Senator
Itevoridge, of Indiana, offered in |
congress a bill to prohibit transportation
by interstate railroads of the
products of Southern cotton mills
where such alleged conditions ob- ,
taincd. . i
"A great deal of exertion was ,
required to establish the falsity of
such slanderous statements against ,
the South, and this section has not \
fully recovered even yet from them. .
Next an outcry was raised that the
Southern people had become the ,
victims of a deadly disease named
pellagra," which was charged to the
use of Indian corn that caused it.
The disease has been traced to
Southern Kurope, where It is com- 1
mon, and later information goes to 1
show that it was imported in th?>
persons of immigrants.
"But the pellagra panic having
failed of the exported effect, now
comes a howl about the "hook worm.
A non-professional writer has devoted
many pages and many picture* !
to the hook worm in the South iu
McClure's for October. Me says:
" 'All through the South-?the Carolinas,
Georgia, Florida. Alabama,
.Mississippi -those abnormal people,
the "dirt eaters," have been known
for a century, and anemia is a universal
malady s nth of tho Potomac.
"It's something these people
oat." is tho favorite explanation
of it.
" 'One's first and ,.t congest impr-?s
sion ot tne poor wnites is ot their
shiftles&ness. I remombpr o? *\dreadfuliy
it used to deptess myears
ago when I spent my v.tcati >r
in the North Carol.i.;: 111 miiMlna.
I have bei'ii in littlj ?indowb's.KtovelesK.
one-room cabins, .'he linnu
cf at least ten persons, wnere all ihe
cooking was done over the primitive
open fire?except when it rained
down the chimney and pot the fir<
out: then there wasn't any cooking
till the rain held up? Aand u* i
talked with the women I wua alway*.
asking myself, 'How can people live
lllce this? Why don't they go 10
work and fix i*p things?"
" 'It is t-xtlraated that scattered
over the Atlantic aeaboard from the
Potomac round the gulf, to the Mississippi
river, there are today 2.000.000
of these poor whites?onr
native-born whites?suffering with
arpmla. and hurdly one of tbdae
2.000,000 knows, or even suspects,
that he Is rnallv Hiifferinc from an
internal parasito?that this disease
lb caused by the book tfrm.
" 'Then years a so even the foremost
physicians did not know (be
anemia of the South was caused by
the book worm; but today, tbatiks
largely to the tireless efforts of one
man?Charles Wardell Stiles?the
wholo medical profession and many
of the laltv are awake to the vital
Issues of the problem and are preparing
a crusade that shall reach
from the worst regions of the barrens,
where nearly the whole population
is suffering to the farthest
"cove" In the mountains, and stamp
out tho disease.'
"In the face of such statements.
Illustrated by sensational cuts, It
Is useless to contend that the Southern
people possessed vigor enough
to 5fc<yw up w ttfc able crops of jtato#- -
A FIEND LYNCHED
AND TWO OTHER FIENDS IIKINU
PURSUED BY CITIZENS.
A THo of Xogrow Strip, Tie anil
Whip a Virginia Farmer and Attack
Hit* Wife.
:
A dispatch from Sutton, W. Va.,
says two organized parties of men
are scouring the hills of that county
searching for two negroes believed
to have aided Charles Lewis, also
a negro, in a dastardly assault upon
Mrs. Mary Lockhold, wife of a prosperous
farmer Wednesday near tin*
small settlement of Exchange. It
the negroes are caught, lynching is
not improbable. Lewis, the onlyknown
member of the party of three,
who are thought to have been implicated
in the deed, is dead, having
been shot and killed by a posse
of men late Wednesday whiiu endeavoring
to escape.
According to Deputy Sheriff Williams.
the three negroes late Tues
day night went to the home of Qeo.
Lock hold. living but a few miles from
Sutton, and after tying the farmer
to a tree and whipping him on his
bare back with willow switches, attempted
an assault upon Mrs. Lockhold.
Persons who happened to be
passing the Lockhold farm heard
the screams of the woman and the
negroes fled at the approach of the
passers-by.
A posse of farmers was organized
within a short space of time, and
after a twenty-four hours hunt.
Lewis, one of the supposed trio of
the negroes, was apprehended. As
ho turned to flee from bis pursuers,
after being ordered to throwup
his hands, he was shot and instantly
killed.
Late Wednesday night news reached
Sutton that one of the pursuing
posses had surrounde 1 the two ne
groos in a swamp near the scene of
the crime. The courier who brought
the news of the imminent apprehension
of the men said lynching could
not be averted if they were caught
alive.
At. midnight a telephoue communication
was received from Gassaway
dating that two negroes thought to
have been implicated in the assault
nil Mrs. Lockhold bad been captured
near that place and placed In
jail. Men with rifles are said to be
guarding the Jail against a posibl
lynching party.
Feared to lk* lturied Alive.
Fearing that he would lie buried
alive, Dr. William J. Dodd. of Jersey
City, made a request in his will,
which disposes of an estate valued
at $250,000, that following his death
un/t Knrlnl i*o/llnl
be cut by a surgeon. In probating
the will I)r. I>odd executor has re
ported to the court that the artery
was cut as stipulated.
Vk-tiin of Queer Accident.
Charles Dennett, six years old, is
dead as a result of a peculiar accident.
While his family was attending
his father's funeral the lad's
foot was caught in a rope tied to
to a bull on their Long Island fartu.
jrhe bull ran away dragging the
hoy a half nple before the rope
broke, cautfing injuries which resulted
in his death.
Turned Upside I?o?n.
At Des Moines, Iowa, twenty-five
people were hurt, one probably fatally.*
when the heavily-laden street
car on the University line jumped
the track while the car was headed
for the down-town section of the
city early Wednesdny. The car turned
upside down.
Itutclier's lLurvible Crimes.
One of the worst tragedies that
ever shocked that county occurred
at fine drove, Pa., Wednesday night
when Daniel Schoke, a butcher of
that place, cut o(T the h'-ads of his
wife and twelve-year-old daughter
and then committed suicide, oy shooting
himself.
men and great and gallant soldiers
from the time of Washington and
.fefttrnoh and a host of others up
to the eminent civilians .and the
grand soldiers of the civil war. The
South is represented to be tilled \\itli
n wretched brood of dirt enters.
Who that knows the South can for
a moment believes this?
"Hut now comes the prenomenally
wealthy Mr. Rockefeller, the oil king,
who proposed to give $ 1.000,0(?0 to
"cure the people of tbo South of
book worm, and a commission Is to
he formed. If it has not boon already,
to spend the money.
"Well, the South can only submit.
Wtb a million of money and a sensational
pross cugaged in portraying
our section of the union as un accursed
country, we cau only accept
the situation and wonder what otb*?r
slander is to be fulminated against
IT.
The editorial of the Picayune
shows both sense and self-resepct.
It la time the Southern people bad
berun fesentlug this officious disposition
to take care of tberu v^hich
certain parties aro addicted to.
ItooiitIons may easily, as dutu'-dum
bullets, wound where they hit and
leave a mortal poison In the bolo
they make after being received. W?
are certainly ablo to get ourselves
clear of worms without Mr. Roeket1
feller's million-dollar dose of vermifuge.
W. A Caodlcr
a?a?amiiBii? Miami?i
WILL GO HIGHER
Frank Hayne Says Fifteen Cents is Too
Little for Cotton
m l
THE CROP VERY SHORT
The llig (Vlton Man, Who is a Xafive
of This Slate, is Optimistic,
and Reviews Recent Market III -a. I
tory and lHtlum Strong Belief
in Yet Higher Price Levels. 1
Mr. Frank B. Hayne. a South Caro- 1
linlan now living in New Orleans. 1
who has labored consistently for '
higher prices for cotton this season. 1
has outlined his reasons for saying 1
that fifteen cents Is too little for 1
cotton as follows.
"When the government bureau (
report. Issued on August 2, showed a ?
condition of 71.9 per cent, I felt con- t
vlnced the crop could not possibly f
reach 12,000,000 baleB, and that cot- i
ton was selling far below its real f
value. When the government report, 8
issued on September 2. showed a con- r
dition of 63.7 per cent, I felt satis- i
fled that 11,500,000 bales was the 8
maximum possible for the crop and i
at that time received a telegram from f
Mr. J. N. Wisner of New Orleans, f
asking Mr. W. P. Brown and myself t
to telegraph him in full our views g
on the situation. Mr. Brown was a
absent, so I replied to Mr. Wisner i
by telegraph as follows: g
" 'Wo look at the situation as fol- 8
lows: Discounting every favorable t
condition that can arise until December
1, the government report indi- c
rates a maximum crop of 11,250.000, r
and with unfavorable conditions i
might easily lie 1,O0",0On bales less. \
Consumption last year, 13,100,000, v
in spite of short time in Kngland <
ami continent. With largest American
crop cv-r produced the price
advanced $*_'0 a bale while being a
marketed and the visible supply Is f
far less than two years ago. With a
a certainty that 1 .".,500.000 will real- ^
ty ih; needed by tin* country and that ,j
probably less than ll.oOO.OOO will a
bo grown, an eventual advance 16
simply unavoidable. Under normal f
conditions the market should have
certainly advanced to 13 cents yesterday,
but was kept down by the n
enormous soiling of the bear clique.
These sellers base their action on fl
the supposed helplessness of the
South, thinking the South will be t
forced to sell its cotton at any price ?
the spinners are willing to take it 0
at. We consider that the competition
between spinners who will Q
certainly require 1,100,000 bales Xl
monthly will take care o (this so- ^
called distressed cotton. If the n
bankers of the South will help the
farmer to market his cotton slowly, ?
we firmly believe it will be worth r
1F? cents in the next 60 days. The v
weakness in our opinion of the c
bears' argument is that, although the a
producer may be foolish enough to t
be willing to sell his cotton far below
its actual value, we hardly think j.
that the spinner will be foolish t
enough, when he fully realizes the j
facts of the case, not to start, huy- >
ing freely at these prices and thus (
avoid the scramble for spot cotton T
that will surely take place some time ^
during the season. ,
i 11* o''Hi nt I ii i? I HUT UHH hoici HI
least 5.000.000 bales of cotton on
which lie realized probably $350 .000,000.
It was very hard to con
vincp the farmer that 12 cents was
not an extreme price for his product,
but through the efforts of a
few Southern men, they finally realized
the fact tiiat they were sacrificing
their cotton, and I believe that
at least $50,000,000 more has been
obtained for the cotton marketed
to date than would have been if it
had not been for the efforts of. this
small coterie of Southern men.
"My prediction on September 3 of
15 cents in the next fio days has now
come true, hut at that time ! thought
the crop would he from 1 1,250,000 1
to 11,500.000 bales. I now feel con- '
fident that the maximum for this
crop is 10,750,000 bales. The prob- '
lability is that it will lie under 10,- '
500,000 bales; and there is a pos- {
nihility of its not reaching lO.OoU,- '
000 bales. I'nder the present con- '
ditions I now feci that 15 cents is '
ns much too cheap for cotton as 12 '
1-2 cents seemed to me on September '
"In 1903-'04, known as the "Sully
year," the crop was 10,011.000 bales
and tbo consumption oDly 10,083,- (
000 bales, and iact year tho coo- '
sumption increased 3.071.000 bales,
or 30.40 per cent. Tho visible sup- 1
ply on me 1st of September, tntr
season, was 1,472,000 and on the Is: 1
of September, 1003, was 517.000 1
bales or only 055,000 bales less,
therefore in the 'Stilly yeor," with a
vlslblo supply on September 1 of
517,000 bales and a crop of 10,01
1,000 bales, the world bad 10,528,000
bales of cotton, of which
they used 10,083.000 bales. The
visible supply on the 1st of September
this year was 1.472.000
hales. If the crop should only prove
10.500.00o bales, the world will have
a supply of only 11.072.000 bales,
while last year it actually consumed
In spite of short tiiuo In England
13.157,000 bafes. or a deficit of 1,185.000
bales.
"Why. If In the 'Sully year' the
crop had only been 7.500.000 to 8.ooo.nnn
hales, tho situation wovild
!> as acuto as it v1ll bo tf tUis4
THEY SHAKE HANDS
THK UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF
TWO SOLDIERS IX THK WAR.
Captain Christian and Captain Itaueh
Mwt Fop the Find Time Sliur
They Tried to Kill Each Other.
Standing in the lobby of a hotel
luring the late visit to Richmond.
Va.. of the PennsyKanians who attended
the unveiling of a monument,
Sold Harbor, several days ago, was
Captain E. D. Christian, a well known
reteran of the Forty.first Virginia
regiment, who was entertaining a
aumber of the visiting Federal veterans
with an account of a duel he
rad in 1862 with a Pennsylvanian
rear what is known as "The. Cow- 1
jens," now the MeehantcsviUe Pike.
"In some way," said Captain '
"thrlnttnn "w? w?ro v.
" v ? V? v. VUIUU^U
l field cut apart by a long line of i
'all fence. As we approached the ,
enee we saw coming toward uh a
ine of blue-coated soldier*. Reore
I knew it I waa face to faoe with .
i Yankee who waa sending balls at
ne, but luckily aiming wrong. 1 1
oaded my musket time and again
tnd we bad it there face to face.
Presently the Yankee mounted the
ence to get a better whack at me
or I wbb as bad a shot as he in
he excitement of that duel. Well, '
gentlemen, down came the rail fence
md down camo the Yankee, Sprawlng
on the ground. He managed to
;et up as my old musket banged
iway, but the ball never touched
dm.
"Walt a moment," interrupted one
>f the visitors, "and I'll tell you the
eat of the story." All eyes turned
oward the military form of Captain
V. H. Rauch, a Phlladelphian, who
ras the centre of the listeners to
Captain Christian's story.
"Well," continued Captain Rauch.
the Yankee Just took to his heels
,t that and you after him. "You
ired as long as he wsas in sight
nd he ran as long as his.legs would
lold him up. The only renson he
lid not fly was because he was a man
nd not a bird."
"That's about right." said the Con
ederate and then the two men faced
ach other with eyes glued on the
aces that had seen the changes of '
learlv half a century.
"Hell, man," Captain Ranch cried. '
inally breaking the intense stillness. '
are you the Johnny lteb tlint had i
hat duel with me and came near M
Halting me a prisoner or putting n?e *
nit for good?" 1
"If you are the man who junfped
>n that fence and fell, and then got '
ip and ran while a Confederate sol- (
Her sent bullets after you to help '
aove, 1 guess we have met before.' f
"If any other man had born in x
ay palce and had not put up a good
un," replied Captain Itauch, "he f
could have been a fool. Why tha* t
Id thing you were handling looted 1
is big as a cannon and sounded like {
wo or three of them." i
Following this the veterans shv-k '
lands and Captain Raurh took Cap- 1
nin Christian in tow to introdiic : '
tim to bis wife. Then Captain and '
I
drs. Ranch bad to get into Captain
'hrlstian's automobile ami the end 1
cas that Mrs. Cbristiaul got a tele
>hooe call to have diuner ready f'oi 1
wo eytras. The party spent, t'.u '
veiling in the handsome hn.ee of 1
"aptaiu Christian, who had to .i.oui- '
se a visit to the Ranch home u? '
Philadelphia. '
Hefore leaving Richmond Captain
ilauch declared that he would no. 1
lave missed meeting Captain Chris-jl
isn for all his worldly possessions j '
> nave never torgotten mat reutM, 1
mid he, "and 1 see him now in ir.y *
ulnd's eyes with his big old-tinm '
nuskut plugging away at me as '
hough 1 were of no more good to '
.he world than an ordinary animal.*'
? ? ?
Negro Preacher Killed.
At Dillon Rev. John McRae* col- (
jred. was struck by a swiftly mov- (
ng train and instantly killed at the (
Main street croasiug of the Atlantic (
Coast Line Sunday morning. The (
it'-v. McRae was on his way to his ,
church, near Sellers, where he was ,
to preach his regular Sunday morn- ,
ng sermon. Rev. Mcltnc was a good ]
colored citizen, and his sudden ;uid j
tragic death Is greenly deplored by j
both races.
Peary (lot There.
Commandor Peary was Wednesday
voted a gold medal by the Nat- ,
local Geographic Society for having
reached the North Pole. The board ,
of managers of tho society accept
ed unanimously the report, of the ,
subcommittee 6t scientists who bad ,
examined the explorer's records aud
proofs. aDd found them* to be conclusive
of bis claim that he bad
reached the Pole.
crop only turns out 1 0.500,000 bales,
yet in that year cotton sold for over
18 coots. If every American mill
was to run half time from now until
the ood of the season. I do not consider
there would be enough cotton
to go around.
"The spinners' takings to October
29. this year, were 1,923.000
bale?, against only 1.801,ooo bales
same time last year (which bad been
tbo record takings of any year up
to that time) and against 1,118,000
bales the same time in 1903- 04.
"Who cap tell what price will disfxyuot
the above fact*?"
how tojctop rr
English Physician Reads Interesting Paper
on Pellagra at
COLUMBIA CONFERENCE
Dr. Snndnikh, ?r I^ondon, Tolls How
Italy, Whore I'ellaxTK Is Widely
Prevalent, Has Itttlnciil Mortality.
Many Cases Found Anions IJfcyp
11aiis?4 rges Preventative ltnle.
The following paper by l)r. F. M.
Sandwich, of London, England,
Gresham professor of physics ?on
read at the pellagra conference in
Columbia Wednesday afternoon: "I
feel that my first words must l>e
those of congratulation and encouragement
to the many physicians in
the Southern Statos who are now
working at the rarlous problems connected
with pellagra. Congratulation
in the first place, because they
have discovered the existance of the
disease, because they have imprest
ed this discovery upon others so
that tlie presence of pellagra is now
thoroughly recoguized.
"If 1 venture also to encourage
\merican co-workers, it is not with
my improper desire to draw attenJon
to my own work, but because 1
happen to be in the unique position '
(with regard to this ono disease), of
t?eing able to appreciate their difIculties.
"In spite of denials from American
authorities on medicine I have
ilways suspected that pellagra might 1
?xist unrecognized in the South, and 1
it one time I requested my friends 1
o put me into communication with 1
he poorest folk of the maize eat- 1
ng districts. I was referred to a
>< ttlcmout In Eastern Virginia for '
uuper negroes, but ou investigation
found that the inmates lived in
itone houses, on pork rations, and '
ceo*) to the conclusion that the '
vord poverty represented no conlitlou
in America, which could com>are.
with the misery of the impovershesi
peasants of Italy, Houinania 1
>r Egypt. 1
"In April, 190&, I had the good I
ortune to In? at Doston during aft
epidemic of cerebro spinal menin- 1
Jtis, and the very first patient whom 1
saw at tlie city hospital by the
uuncuj 01 ur. C". K. Withington. was 1
in Italian emigrant, who also ills- 1
ilayed a well marked pellagrous !
eruption. This leads one to wonder
whether the United States public '
lealth and marine hospital service
>dicers who examine the emigrants
it Naples and other Italian ports 1
should uot include pellagra among
he prohibitory diseases.
"Now, thai the diagnois of polls- :
irn has been ilrnily established in
io many States, it would be welt
0 find out for certain how many
persons are attacked by the disease
n the South. In order to arrive
it any correct figures, it might be
veil to institute compulsory notification
of the disease at least as a
etnporary measure. In Italy there
jus been a law to that efi'iM-t since
1 NX8. 1 w ould also recommend th.it
igricultural laborers should be e\imined
in the states where peil i;ra
is knowu to be prevalent, such
is Georgia and North and South ('aiding
This might he done in Keb mtry
or March, when the eruption
s likely to he present.
"In 1901 and 1 902 I obtained
lermission to examine 500 Egyptian
jeasants who were actually at work
In the fields. They all stoutly denied
that they were ill and their
employers who were with them stated
they could ail do a fair day's
work, hut in every field I found
^arly cases of pellagra, bearing from
i.i |.?-r rem in wen-io-no districts
to 62 per cent in the inhabitants of
the poorest hamlets.
"The treatment of early pellagra
?ases without mental symptoms can
he successfully accomplished by putting
the patient on a liberal diet,
excluding maize and by ridding him
if the hookworms which are so often
co-existent, but the pellagrous
symptoms return If he is allowed to
resume a diet of musty maize. Various
preparations of arsenic are used
In advanced cases but when the brain
is attacked there is a small hope for
the pntient unless by serotherapy.
Pellagra is essentially a disease
which cries for preventive measures.
"Italy by preventive measures, has
since 188k reduced the mortality of
pollagra from 3.183 to 1.63S. though
luring the years 1883 to 1907 the
maize area under cultivation has increased
from .>.79 to 6.33 per com
r>f the whole country. This points
the moral that it Is the quality, not
the quantity of maize which is a*
fault. There are certain general
exloms which prove true in Itnlr
and Egypt and It will doubtless bo |
found that, they hold good In the
United States also:
"First?lu districts where no
mutzc Is cultivated or habitually
oaten, pollegra does not exist.
"Second?There are many districts
where maize bag been cultivated
for manv years and yet. pellagra
has not appeared.
"Third?Well-to-do people in pellagra
districts living on varied diet,
and consuming maize as an occasional
and not as a staple cereal, usually
escape pellagra.
"Fourth?It 16 not good maize or
good ujaizo flour which products
HMHHMHI
OBJECTS TO CLAIMS
MADE IX THE XE WHIMPERS BY
OVER ZEA LOIS FRIENDS
Of (X)nKn'y.nuiii Ix?vcr That He h
Entitled to tlie (Yedlt for Soil
Survey of This State.
Congressman I). Wyatt Aiken
takes Congressman Lever's pres.*
agent to task for g'ving the credit
for the soil survey in South Carolina
almost entirely to Mr. Lever,
and thoronirhlv nhnu'c ?n
uess of the claim. Here is Congressman
Aiken's letter, which explains
itself. I
To the Editor of The State: I
In an article which appeared in <
The News and Courier of the i.'1st ?
iust. we note the following: "H. |
li. Dennett, general field agent of (
the United States bureau of soils,
was in Columbia today, and will
very probably attend the conference '
of soil experts ir Lexington county 1
during tho week with Co igressman <
Lever, to whom the credit of the soil \
survey of South Carotin i chould be c
given." Then again, iu tho same i
article, the following appears: 1
"Congressman Lever, who Is o mem- i
her of the agricultural committee *
of the house of representatives, has f
done more towards securing a soil I
,oir\ey of the State than any oil. .
man, and it iu largely through his c
efforts that tho federal government t
has taken so much Interest." e
Then, a few dayt later, we note 1
in The State: "Mr. Bennett has juHt i
had a conference with Director Harper
of tho State experiment station d
and leaves today for Lexington for r
a conference with Congressman Lev- i
er, who had the soil survey work n
started in this State and who has I
done much toward Its establishment
upon a practical basis, not only in i
South Carolina but throughout the s
United States." c
Th..s.. . i
- iliO f,v? IVA> Mil" 111 fl
claiming lor Mr. Lrvvr, and In reall- r
ty, arv calculated to do hint Injury, v
It is ci rtain that Mr. Lever would
not claim us much for himself. Un- b
rorluuately for th?. force of the v
statements made by the correspon- \
dent to The News and Courier, he c
published in the same article a tabu- /
lated statement, showing the work i
that has been done entirely in the n
matter of soil survey in this State. a
and the dates of the surveys. This u
shows that the surveys, known as
the Abbeville, Anderson and Oconee
surveys, embraced almost entirely the
Third district which I have the honor ^
to represent, covered an area of J.108
square miles. The survey 01
Omnctjbuj'K, Lee and Sumter, all
the work done in Mr. Lever's dlstriet,
covered 1,707 square miles. '
If this matter has been left extlu
alvely to Mr. Lever, as his t'rien-.. >
would do him the injustice to inti- f
mate, would the initiative have be?-u ?*
taken outside of his district and "
would he have favored other sections i
rather than his own? The first survey
made in Mr. Lever's district was v
the Orangeburg survey, made in <
tout, and the two other surveys i
were in Lee and Sumter in 1907.
The survey in Abbeville county i
was made in tOOi, while Senator >
Latimer was in congress, and before t
Mr Lever was a member of 'he ag- r
ricultural commitl'M'. Tin? surveys in f
Hurliugton and Horry were made tb?
same v.nr. while Mr. Scarborough r
wjik in congress. These men had (
been serving for some years when
(In* surveys were made, and both ol t
tlirni wen* known to be active and c
aid representntives. Mr. Lever was 1
then a new man in the house, and t
it is unreasonable to supjiose that t
these men of longer service would
appeal to him, even before his ap- 1
pointnient to the agricultural com- i
mittee, to have surveys made in their
respective districts. t
Without assuming to speak with ^
reference to the surveys made in
Lancaster. Cherokee and York. Mr t
Finley's district, which, to say the ?
least of it. he was competent to have \
secured on his own motion, I may i
and do speak detintely of the sur- f
veys iu Anderson and Oconee. 1 i
know that these surveys were made i
upon my request direct to the department.
nnd not through anyhodJ
as intermediary.
There were surveys at later dates j
in the dstrlcts of Messrs. Johnson
and Legare. They would probably
want some credit for having them
made.
This is written in no unfriendly s
spirit for Mr. Lever, who I esteem )
highly as a personal friend, and ap- i
predate as an able and faithful public
servant. And T do not holievo
mar jir. Lover would himself do <
InJuKtloe to his colleagues; but bit> i
friends. In this wholesaslo claiiu for
him. have overstepped the hounds
of reason, and do tnjustico both to
Mr. Lever and his colleagues. It
is not likely that soil surveys were
made here Immediately on the request
of any person, as preliminary
arrangements are always necessary.
And yet t>hero wore soil surveys hero
as early as 1002.
Mr. Lever is doing a good work
in his efforts to push the soil surveys.
If other members are not
equally successful. |t is not because
they are no equally interested.
Wyatt AikenAbbeville.
Oct. 25.
b ? ?
pellagra: the disease requires for
its production a babiOual use of
4<*193$o4 nuiso in soiipo force "
AGED MAN LOST
Tfcc Mysierious Disappearance of Mr. W.
N. Elder of Columbia.
VANISHED COMPLETELY
Ho Was Last Strn Walking Briskly
Along the Southern Hallway
Traek-s, Skirting the Canal?Came
From York County Where lie Was
Prominent Socially and Politically.
Mr. William N\ Klder. of Columbia,
formerly of York county, for
four terms a member of the York
*ounty legislative delegation, formerly
a trustee of Wlnthrop Col lego.
;or several years a bookkeeper Cor I
.he State dispensary aud recently a I
and surveyor, has completely dlt?- I
tppeared. no tract of him having I
i>eon discovered einice last Thura- 1
lay morning week ago at 8 o'clock. I
vhen he left the locks at the head I
>f the Columbia canal for bis home 8
n that city, liio Pendleton street. I
le was seen about this time walk- I
ng briskly down the Southern rail- I
vay tracks skirting the canal bank I
or most of the four-mile distance ?
M>tween the locks and the city. I
One Of his sons, Mr. M. L. Elder. I
>f Plttsheld. Mass., who has led iu I
he night and day search since then. I
aid that the family did not be- n
leve the old gentleman bad fallen I
nto the canal. I
They are of the opinion that uu- I
ler somo sudden seizure he lo6t his I
eason and 1b now, perhaps, wander- ra
g about the woods and fields in I
i demented condition, if indeed he I
s yet alive. 9
His great height, six feet, two 1
nches, his gray goateo and his 1
oldlerly bearing mako him a rather I
ommnnding figure and for this re?- I
on it is all the stranger that no 1
lue whatever has boon found to his I
vh? reabouts. I
At the hoiue of Pendleton street
ic loaves his wife. Mrs. Sal lie Elder, I
nth whom just now is the son from
lassacbuHctts above mentioned. The
ither children are \V. C\ Elder, of
llabamn, and Mrs. J. 1*. Moore, of
luthries, York county. The family
noved to Columbia about eight years
go. This bids l'air to be another
unsolved Columbia mystery.
WOMAN SEEKS 1HVOIU-K
lecausc She Soys tier Husband
Kissed Her Too Much.
Hecause he Insisted on kissing her
o a point of cruelty John E. McIrew,
a farmer living near Trenton,
ieb., is made defendant in a suit
or divorce, llis wife declares ho
xceeded the limit and brought liltDilation
on botli hint and herself
n the eves of everybody. She delares
further that he neglected his
cork, left the crops go to ruin and i
lint he did not raise enough this
ear to "feed a chicken."
According to Mrs. MefJrew's statenent
she and John were married a
ear ago. Kor six months she stood
be kissing without, a murmur. hut>
losing that in time bis oscillatory
ever would subside Hut instead,
be kisses have become more freHjeDt.
The McCJrews occupj a farm
>f i 00 acres.
Mrs. McCirew avers tlint the first
hing in the morning John insisted
in not one but dozens of kisses.
Hem he started out to the barn to
!o the work. Tteforc he could set
hu milk pails down on his return
the declares he had to have more
tisaes. After breakfast there would
ie several more rounds.
At 10 a. m. he would return from
he fields for more kisses. Noon
vould not pass without a lot more
ind in the afternoon he would reurn
to the house and in the pres nce
of company or otherwise he
vould have to spend half an hour
n Kissing. Mrs. McOrcw alleges
his made her the butt nf imieK
n their community and she does
lot propose that it shall continue. i
IUI.ES FOK MAIlltlFI) PEOPLE.
kuiisns City Spiritualist Outlines
Plan for Domestic Peace.
A dispatch from St. Ixiuis, Mo..
;ays "Tho man who thinks he Is
going to he happy in heaven, playing
a harp of a thousand strings
while his wife down hero on earth
Is playing a washboard in tbo key
of bigb G to support the five or six ;
children be left unprotected is cor- ;;
tainlv going to bo fooled." ThlB ;
Is what A. Seoft IMedsoe of Kansas '
City in a lecture at the Htate spiritualist.
convention said.
Mr. ivledsoe's rule for keeping *
"ooo's self unspotted from the \
world." as applied to women was,
"Make your husband tbink be knows
it. all. Dou't nag bltn. Man. according
to a scientist, is or should be.
only a good animal. You ran do
more hv making blm comfortable
than hv all the nagging in the
w-orld"
T-"? men hi- advire war:. "Never
Jo anvthing you wouldn't want your
wife to do; never -ay anything you
would not want your wifo to say;
never go anywhere you wouldn't want
your wife to go. This will keep
you unspotted from the world."
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