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INSPECTORS KILL 225 FOWLS. S( Only Means of Support of a Family. M Fowls Said to Re Infected. One of the most interesting articles we have read in some time is repro- T. duced below, being taken from a of Boise (Idaho) newspaper. The ar- ri !e oe fnllnwc I til UVlt UO 4V44V " With a woman and her three chil- T< dren in the house crying as if their of hearts would break as every crack tr of the rifle told them that the State st health department was taking away ca from them one of their best means la of scanty livelihood, James B. Wallis, deputy sanitary inspector, and of Dr. J. H. Weber, State veterinarian, Jc yesterday killed a flock of 225 chick- m ens, guinea hens and turkeys at the iff home of T. J. McCorkle, near Me- ki ridian, every one of the fowls being he declared by officers as thoroughly in- ki fanioH Tirith tnhprnnlnsis in its most advanced form. G( Into a home already making des- cr perate struggles to provide the ne- he cessities of life, the State inspectors ne brought a new difficulty when they tri took away the entire flock within a few minutes' of time yesterday after- a noon. Living three miles southwest ed of Meridian, the farmer was able to it supply the markets there and in th Boise with butter, eggs and chickens, hii and he was building up a good busf- up ness when the visit of the State officials put an end to the prospects in wl that direction. W So affected were the inspectors by hi] the misery that they had created in re order to protect the lives of the peo- wl pie of these cities that they intend to w< start a subscription list to tide the ha family over until next spring when Mi they will be able to take care of ni< thomcolvps nn their 40-acre ranch. Heretofore they have depended solely m< upon their livestock, which has now pl< been killed and so tied up by the on State department that they are for fo the next few months with little means th of revenue to make both ends meet, ed Law Should Cover Point. ce "There certainly oughtHo be a law be in this State to provide for just such of emergencies," said M. S. Parker and tai J. B. Willis yesterday. "The State lal should in a measure reimburse the fei people when the health officers have to kill off the stock that way. It means ruin to some of them and terrible hardship on others. The de- ^ partment should be provided with a ^ fund that it could spend in that way t and the department would know bet- ^ ter than anybody else whether a case ^ pe deserved such help from the State or not. That is one of the worst features of our work. Had we not taken ja that step, it is probable that within a short time innumerable cases of ^ po tuberculosis would have broken out su here and in Meridian. At the same wa have broueht hardship to , r the family. ^ "Samples of the vital organs of the po fowls showed them honey-combed ve with the disease. Capsules with the tubercular germs penetrated every na ; one of them until they were swelled all to several times their natural size, Worn away until they'could be crushed in the hands, rthe disease had ^ such a firm hold on the fowls that W( they might have caused one of the worst plagues of tuberculosis in ^ Boise in a short time in the world. ve The flock could have infected hun- 4<j dreds of homes within a short time. This is the first time that such a condition has ever been found in Idaho. , , ISi It is not a new thing for other States, California and Colorado hav- . ing had frequent examples of it." Cremated Bodies. The inspectors shot every one of f1, KI the farmer's fowls and put their , 1st1 bodies on the top of a pile of sage- ' sn brush,, pine boards, boxes and other sh material that would make a quick hot flame and burned them to ashes. 1 Not a trace was left. The fire, which ,ra |p< covered a space of 20 square feet, 8 was as hot as the inspectors could , be make it with selected material, and , y he they believe that they did a good job of it. The roosts and all loose ma- . terials around the chicken coop were torn out and destroyed. All straws, 8 n boxes, nests, and nest eggs, everything that could be taken out, was \ i ce burned in a general-clean-up boa-; fire. Chickens that had made their or nests in the hay stack or had escaped si] under the house were hauled out and shot and their bodies added to others i(* in the flames. nc cb Five of the chickens broke through Dt a hole in the fence and escaped down * thp mad about half a mile. Believ ing that these fowls were completely Ufc infected with the disease and could spread it. Deputy Inspector Wallis chased them as hard as he could that ^ distance shooting tfiem as he went until the last one dropped dead by the road-side. ^ Returning, he picked them up and sp consigned them to the flames with in the rest of them. Dr. Chas. Gardner, le a deputy State veterinarian, made ti] a careful inspection of the cattle and cl found that they were not in the least nc infected by the disease. He, how- pi ever, quarantined four of the hogs ot until it could be learned whether cc they were in that condition or not. in Instructions were issued that the be 3HRY SHE KILLED SON-IN-LAW. rs. Godau Expresses Remorse to Sisters of Cliarity. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 3.?Mrs. Mary r Godau, self-confessed murderess her son-in-law, Policeman Fredeck Wasserlaben, to-day for the first me expressed remorse for her crime. > Sisters of Charity, who called to fer consolation, she said she was uly repentant, but reiterated the atement that the killing was be.use of advances made by Wasserben. Mrs. Stephen Connert, a resident Cottage Hill, where the murder of seph Godau took place in 1902, ade the statement to a deputy sher' to-day that Mrs. Godau had aclowledged the murder of Godau to ir and had stated that Godau was lied for his insurance money. Willie Green, a son or Mrs. )dau and alleged accomplice in the ime* still refuses to talk, but says ' will tell all he knows on the witss stand when the case is called for ial. An active search is being made for negro, Tom Williams, long connectwith the Wasserlaben family, who, is said was seen in the vicinity on e night of the crime. It is believed s capture would result in clearing i many points of the murder. Depty Sheriff James McKenzie, 10 escorted Mrs. Theresa Virginia asserlaben to the funeral of her -1 J XT XT ?_ rv?.. 4-~ An-.T iSDana on i\ew ieai s uny, w-uaj ported to the State solicitor that lile on the way to the cemetery the )man told him that her husband id died cursing God Almighty, rs. Wasserlaben has heretofore deed all knowledge of the murder. The police authorities secured )re evidence of an alleged poisoning 3t, when J. E. Haley, who had been . the same beat with Wasserlaben r several months, reported to-day at he and" Wasserlaben often dividtheir lunches and that twice rently, when eating part of Wasserlan's lunch, he called the attention the latter to the peculiar odor and ste of the lunch. He says Wasserben complained of being ill and sufring pains in the abdomen. About Leap Year. Monday began another leap year, e time when maidens are supposed be liberated from the usual cusm of sitting back and waiting for e wooer to come along, and she is rmitted to take the field on her m account. The origin of the idea seems to be rgely clouded. A lady was relested to loop up the facts in the se and the paper below is the reIt: The astronomers of Julius Caesar ! B. C., settled the solar year at '5 days 6 hours. These hours were sition of the extra day; for on the ars made a day which was added the fourth year. The English .me for the bissextile year is an lusion to the result of the intersition of the extra day; for on the th of February a date "leap over" e day of the week on which it )uld have fallen on ordinary years. ius a birthday on June 10, a Mony, will in the next year, if a leap ar, be on June 10, Wednesday,gaping over" Tuesday. Of the origin of the custom for wogn to woo during this year no sat'actory explanation has ever been :ered. In' 1288 a law was enacted Scotland that "it is statut and orint that during the rein of his aist Blissit Megeste, for ilk veare lowne as lepe yeare, ilk mayden pde of bothe highe and lowe estait all hae liberte to bespeke ye man e likes, albeit he refuses to taik r to be his lawful wyfe, he shall be alcted ine ye sum of ane pundis or 3s, at his estait may be; except and tis gif he cain make it appeare that > is betrothit to ane ither woman ? shall then be free." A few years later a law was passed France, and in the 15th century e custom was legalized in Genoa d Florence. The latter part of the year preding leap year must have been all e desirable "maydens" snapped up, a general exodus ,of all the derable men to parts unknown. The ea of fining all the men who did >t marry before leap year sounds aracteristic of the canny Scots, and obably originated ii? the brain of me undowered and unlovely may-1 in" of that nation. The rainy wet weather continues is week. .Monday was a very dis;reeal)le day. Rain fell steadily all ty, and it was intensely cold. licken coop should not be used until ring and that it should be painted side and out and should be sprinkd with crude carbolic acid several mes during that period. To top the imax, the inspectors ordered that )thing should be sold off the farm oduced from the hogs or cattle or her live stock until the owner uld present good certificates showg that he himself is free from tuircular trouble. ONLY DEATH WILL DETEK TAFT. President in the Race Until Nominee is Chosen. Washington, Jan. 3.?"Nothing but death can keep me out of the tight now." President Taft is reported to have made this statement to White House callers to-day and to have added that he had no objection to the statement being made public. It undoubtedly was intended to set at rest all reports that Mr. Taft might withdraw from the race for the Republican nomination for president in favor of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The president is said to be thoroughly aroused to the gravity of the situation in the Republican party, and determined to let his attitude be generally understood. He has declared that under no circumstances will ne witnaraw nis name irom consideration by the Chicago convention next June and has asserted that his position with respect to the nomination has not changed in any particular since he first entered the White House. In to the Finish. Mr. Taft has told friends and party leaders from the first that if he should be called upon to stand for re-election he would be glad to do so; that he felt under obligations to the party for having made him president, and was willing to abide its decision in the convention. He adheres to this position, according to announcement to-day, and will not quit the race until the nominating ballots are cast at Chicago. The president was urged by a number of his closest friends to make a definte statement as to his position, and agreed to do so in the language quoted above. With this statement as their inspiration, it is said the , Taft supporters will begin an active campaign in his behalf at once. Open Break with Roosevelt? It was stated to-day that some of Mr. Taft's friends have gone so far lately as to advise him to openly break with Col. Roosevelt and to challenge the latter to make plain his intentions. The president has declined to do this. The White House has been fairly flooded with callers lately who havebrought word to President Taft that Col. Roosevelt so far has declined to say that he would not accept the nomination if it were tendered to him. It also has been reported to the White House that Col. Roosevelt believes an organized effort is. being made to "smoke him out" and he declines to be "smoked" either by the Taft or LaFollette forces. Xo "Messengers" to Colonel. The president has listened to all of these reports with an indulgent smile, but has refused to indicate whether or not he believed them. It is vehemently denied at the White House, however, that Mr. Taft has sent any "messengers" to Mr. Roosevelt "on any subject whatsoever." The president has been urged for weeks to make a more progressive campaign in his own behalf. He has replied that he did not think political activity comported with presidential dignity. He now has consented that his friends carry forward the fight as vigorously as they desire and he will lend what assistance he properly can. LaFollette also to Stick. Kalamazoo, Mich., Jan. 3.?When asked for a statement relative to president Taft's statement that "only death" could keep him out of the presidential campaign this year, Senator Robert M. LaFollette, who delivered his last speech in Michigan here to-day said. "It won't? Well, all right. I have nothing to say." The statement was given out by Walter L. Houser, chairman of the national Progressive Republican campaign committee, and was as follows: "Once for all, I wish to set at rest the reports that Senator LaFollette ... . 11 win wnnaraw oi" m<ti ms n icuuo nmi withdraw his name as a candidate for president. The campaign for his nomination will continue until the gavel falls, declaring who is the nominee of the Republican convention for president." v HUSBAND'S BLOOD SAVED HER. 0|>eration of Transfusion Performed at Columbus, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 4.?For the second time in the surgical history of central Ohio, the operation of blod transfusion has been performed successfully here, and the life of a woman has been saved by the giving up of blood by her husband. Mrs. Harry L. Brown, whose life yesterday was despaired of as a result of abdominal hemorrhages, to-day is recovering because of transfusion of her husband's blood into her body. Mr. Brown, a contractor here, suffered a vein in his arm to be opened and a tube inserted, conencting a vein in the arm of his wife. Within ten minutes after blood was pumped from her husband's body into hers Mrs. Brown showed signs of reviving. / WOMAN DIES OF INJURIES. Mrs. J. H. Smith, of Central, S. < Hurt in Collision with Freight. Greenville, Jan. 7.?Mrs. J. Smith, of Central, S. C., who w brought to Greenville hospital Sati day night from Central, where s received injuries when a buggy which she was driving collided wi a Southern Railway train, died ear Sunday morning. The body was cs ried back to Central to-day for i terment. From reports filed at headqua ters of this division of the Sout ern, it seems that Mrs. Smith ai two little boys, one a son and t other a nephew, were about to dri across the railroad track at Centr when a local freight train shifti: at the station backed upon the] Mrs. Smith was thrown from t buggy and terribly mangled. H little son was seriously hurt, b was alive this afternoon. The ot er little fellow, who was standing < the back of the buggy, saw the ii pending danger, and leaped in tic to escape injury. Mrs Smith is the mother of : living children and a member of oi of the most prominent and 1 wealtl families of that section. Half Million Settlement. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 6.?The payme to-day of $500,000 to the F. S. Roj ter Guano Company, through the attorneys, Anderson, Felder, Rou tree & Wilson; King & Spaulding ai C. J. Collins, of Norfolk, resulted the withdrawal of that company's si for $752,541 against the Intern tional Agricultural Corporation, New York, for failure to carry out potash contract. This is one of the suits growii out of the German potash contr yersy, in which a sttlement was reac ed recently with the understandn that all suits would be compromise The defendant company had co tracted to deliver to the Royster co cern from ten to twelve thousai tons of potash annually for two yeai beginning January 1, 1910, with t privilege to the plaintiff of exten ing the contract for five addition years. The levying by Germany a prohibitive export tax prevent the carrying out of the contrac and the plaintiff alleged damages the amount of the suit. Other Girl Stops Wedding. Philadelphia, Jan. 6.?A marria that was about to be solemnized the parish house of St. Paul's Prote: ant Episcopal church here was pi vented to-day when Eleanor Roga a young woman, appeared and c clared that the prospective brid groom had promised to marry h< The Rev. Edward S. Carin, rector the chruch, demanded proof, b when a city detective who had accoi panied the girl to the house produc a warrant for the man's arrest on serious charge, the clergyman c clined to proceed with the ceremoi The man in the case is J. R. Sene( a marine attached to the Philad phia navy yard. The girl whom was about to marry lives with h parents in South Philadelphia. T mariner secured a license to mar the girl under the name of J. P. Ha but the other girl in the case lear ed of the intended ceremony a obtained the warrant. . "Grittiest Patient/* Boston, Jan. 3.?Doctors a nurses of the Boston City Hospii united to-day in calling Joseph Cahalan, of Rochester, "the gritth persom that ever came into the h< pital." Drs. McCullen and Holt ha forwarded to the Presbyterian H< pital in New York the X-ray plat and operation history of the patiei There he will undergo his foi teenth operation since June, 19( since which time he has spent ov 33 months within the walls of \ rious hospitals. Dr. William Mayo, of Minnesoi will make a complete study of 1 case and for that reason has ask for all the records at the hospii and at Harvard University medic school. Gameness has been the only thi; that has kept Cahalan ailve for t last four years. He was a compe tor in a Marathon race and he fi ished in twenty-sixth place. T following year he trained again f the event. Before he haa complet twenty miles he collapsed, havi: displaced a number of intestinal c gans through overexertion. Killed by Train. Fairfax, Jan. 4.?James J. Bessi ger, 58 years old, was run over a; crushed to death within 200 yar of the union station here yesterd; by passenger train No. 84 on t Seaboard Air Line Railway. X Bessinger attempted to cross t railroad track when the train w within a few hundred feet of hi] Being very deaf, he could not he it, and as it was raining and he w carrying an umbrella, he could n see it. JONES LOSES APPEAL. CM Anderson Wile Slayer's Death Sentence Affirmed. ' H. Columbia, Jan. 6.?John J. Jones, i as the Branchville attorney, must ser*Te , lr- ten years and thirty days in the State ; he penitentiary for hilling Abe Pearl- 1 in stine. The Supreme Court, in a deth cision to-day by Chief Justice Jones, ly affirmed the findings of the Orange- . ir- burg county court and the remittitur n- will be sent down within ten days. Jones was convicted more than a year i tr- ago and following the passing of sen- < h- tence was brought to the State peni- " ad tentiary, where he has remained as a j he detention prisoner. His appeal to the ] ve. Supreme Court was filed several al weeks ago. ag Due Dilligence Not Exercised. aa. "The failure to exercise due dil- i hp I litrpnpo " cave thp nninirm "in thp er use of easily available means of disut covering whether a juror is disqualih fied by age or from not being a quali3n fied elector, was fatal to the motion n- for a new trial." This statement is ae made with reference to the appeal on the grounds that one of the jurors 14 was over 65 years of age and that he ae was not a qualified elector, in that he tiy was registered in one township and lived in another. I Discussing the exception to the charge of the judge to the jury, the J nt decision states that the charge was .g_ general and did nothing more than lir require the jury to ascertain the truth " of the case from the testimony. It a(U is also pointed out that no testimony n was singled, out as true or false in lit the charge, and that there was notha_ ing to indicate the court's opinion one way or another. a Hyde Must Hang. Samuel N. Hyde, the Anderson " a? county white man, must pay the death ! penalty, at a future date to be assigned by the circuit court of that a<y county, for the death of his wife and i(i his father-in-law. The Supreme ? Court, in a decision this afternoon, , II- 1 n_ affirmed the verdict of guilty of mur- ] der found by the Anderson court. 1 ,s The opinion in the case is by Associ- J ke ate Justice Gary. One of the pleas . for a new trial was on the grounds of al partial insanity. When Hyde was of placed on trial, in the Anderson court, e(j he pleaded guilty to the charge of ,jg murder and was sentenced to death. t0 Greatest Canals in World. The greatest canals in the world are in the north country of America. By "greatest" is meant the most imge . portant in the economics of transpor tation, for these canals are not the longest or the deepest, or the most e costly, nor did their construction in| ' volve very unusual or spectacular feats of engineering. But in point i of tonnage passing through them and , " * their influence upon freight rates ; throughout the country no artificial i waterways ever made approach them, even remotely. It is a surprising statement, hut true nevertheless, that ^ these important canals carry a far greater commerce in eight months of the year than is borne by the Suez V canal, the Kiel canal and the Manel Chester ship canal in an entire year. If the commerce of the Erie canal, ier the Welland and the canals of the . he St. Lawrence system be added, the ry ... . _ ? I je aggregate win sun ian snort 01 ' reaching the enormous tonnage float^ ed by these inland waterways. It reached in 1910 a volume never dreamed of by the early navigators ?namely, 62,363,218 tons?an increase of 4,468,069 tons over 1909. nd The figures that tell of the prospecttal ive tonnage of the Panama canal, A. when opened to the commerce of the 3st world, seem insignificant when com3s pared with these. In fact, it is ve hardly probable that the commerce ds- through Panama, in present generals tions at least, will in a single year at. equal the commerce of these inland lr- canals at present?Cassell's Maga)7, zine. er * m > An Advertising Moral. . Once upon a time a donkey fell intf' to a deep hole, according to Cassell's 118 Saturday Journal, and, after nearly e(* starving, caught sight of a passing fol fox, and implored the stranger to help him out. "I am too small to aid you," said the fox, "but I will give you some hp . advice. Only a few rods away is a tl_ big, strong elehpant. Call to him and I1_ he will get you out in a jiffy." he After the fox had gone the donkey or thus reasoned: "I am very weak from ^ on nf M/MivicViTYiont TTvorv mnvp T Wailt UL UU U 1 lOUUl^/ii ii u r j , - - m ng make is just so much additional loss >r" of strength. If I raise my voice to call the elephant I shall *be weaker yet. No, I will not waste my sub? stance that way. It is the duty of n~ the elephant to come without called ds So the donkey settled himself back and eventually starved to death, ho ? Long afterward the fox, on pass- . 'r' ing the hole, saw within a whitened J hp " skeleton, and remarked: "If it be that souls of animals ' are transmigrated into men, that or donkey will become one of those who a? can never afford to advertise." ot m Legal blanks at Herald Book Store < r NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the estate of John J. Copeland, deceased, will file the same, duly sworn to, with the undersigned, at Ehrhardt, S. C., on or before the 23rd day of January, 1912, and failing so to do will be barred, and all persons indebted to said estate will make payment at once to the undersigned. JOHN L. COPELAND, Administrator. December 15, 1911. FARMERS' UNION MEETINGS. The local Bamberg Farmers' Union meets at the court house in Bamberg ?n the first and third Friday morn- | ings in every month. Meeting at 11 ^o'clock. 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