The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 26, 1912, Page 3, Image 3
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FORMER JUDGE A SUICIDE.
Chicago Man Kills Himself in Jacksonville
Hotel.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. IS.?H.
W. Knight, a retired judge, of Chicago,
who had come to Florida to
spend the winter, committed suicide
in a local hotel this morning by
shooting himself in the head.
Poor health is given as the cause
for the suicide. A check to pay his
funeral expenses was found by his
bed.
ABOUT DIPTHERIA.
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What It Is, How to Detect It and
What to Do for It.
Diptheria is a dangerous communicable
disease. It is more prevalent
in cold weather than in summer. This
is because it is highly contagious
and because in winter we lock ourselves
up close in airtight houses,
. v school rooms and churches, where it
is more easily transmitted. Diptheria
is caused by a specific germ prop
agated in the Human ooay. rne aisease
is harbored in filth and usually
transmitted tnrough air, water, milk,
food, clothing, by means- of playthings.
The disease usually effects the
throat, but it may spread to the
mouth or nose. The first indications
of diptheria are sore throat, loss of
appetite, headache, feverish, hot, dry
skin, soreness and swelling at the
angle of the jaw, and, frequently,
profuse secretions with offensive
^ odors. A white coating or membrane
in the back part of the mouth and
throat is almost positive proof of
diphtheria.
When children evidence some of
the above symptoms, do not be misled
and neglect it as ordinary "sore
throat," tonsilitis, or laryngitis. Find
* out about it by calling in your family
doctors. Failure to recognize diphtheria
early, oft-times results fatally
or becomes tbe cause of extensive
epidemics. As soon as diphtheria is
discovered, the health officer should
be advised, in order that he may be
on the alert to forestall an epidemic
among others who have been exposed.
The generally recognized method
of treating diphtheria is by use of
antitoxin, which is administered in
small doses as a preventative to those
who have been exposed to the disease.
The law requires the State
board of health to arrange for the distribution
of diphtheria antitoxin from
a number of points throughout the
v nVivc-iVionc nan obtain it
* Oldic n ucic oivmuo vuu
without paying the outrageous prices
charged a few years ago. Formerly
the smallest dose cost sometimes $2
or $3. Now it can be obtained through
the State board cf health for 50
^ cents. This is the best price obtainable
from the manufacturers, though
it really costs only about ten cents to
make it. It is hoped that the next
legislature will see its way clear to
require the State board of health to
make a reliable antitoxin and distribute
it free to all cases in the State.
Such action is not only a wise business
investment but in numerous
cases, deaths and epidemics of diphtheria
would be prevented.?North
Carolina Board of Health.
Won't. Marry Unless Man Has $5,000.
Chicago, Dec. 17.?Answer was
Hvpn to-Hflv hv members of a Young
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Men's Christian Association here to
' marriageable girls, who a short time
ago organized a "young1 woman's
$5,000 club," the object of which
was to pledge themselves not to
marry a man who made less than
$5,000 a year.
Briefly stated, the answer was:
"Let father pay the $5,000."
Resolutions were drawn up setting
forth that it was agreed that it was
impossible to meet the demands of
the average wife on an income less
than the figures named and placing
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the men's organization in the following
deposition regarding it. "This
V club demands that in cases where
parents have trained their girls to
need $5,000 a year on which to live,
the parents be required to pay the
amount to their son-in-law, who,
_ marrying the girls, must shoulder
the consequences of such training."
Twelve Will be His Guiding Star.
Atlanta, Dec. 17.?The twelfth
baby son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Echols,
of this city, is to be christened
Twelfth Echols in commemoration
of the fact that he is the twelfth
child and that he was born December
12, 1912 at the hour of twelve
? on Twelfth street, and weighs exactly
twelve pounds.
The proud father truthfully remarks
that a thing like that couldn't
happen again in twelve thousand
years, and he thinks it ought to be
commemorated by naming his boy
Twelfth.
It is somewhat interesting to speculate
on the future remarkable baby,
in the event that the numeral
twelve becomes his guiding star of
destiny through life.
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MOTHER ASKS FOR CHILI).
Charleston Woman Makes Appeal to F
Pennsylvania Officers.
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 18.?Mrs.
Wm. Bell, of Charleston, S. C., ap- li
peared before Mayor Lincoln in tl
Gloucester, and begged him to se- "w
cure possession of her three-year-old a
daughter who was taken to the home g
of a great aunt of the child's father. S
Mrs. Bell told the police that her li
husband had left her last August, li
taking the child with him. Later he T
wrote her to come North, and when w
she arrived a few days ago, she si
learned that he has enlisted in the e
navy and at present is on his way to g
Turkey. Action has been taken by e
the authorities to restore the child. L
f BOY DESPERADO.
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Asheville Ten-Year-Old Terrorized g
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School Room. ,
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James Boyd, a 10-year-old boy, h
succeeded in thoroughly terrorizing e
the Murray School in Asheville a few ^
days ago. drawing an ugly-looking g
knife and for nearly a half-hour hold- 0
ing at bay both his teacher and the ^
principal of the school: A police- r<
man was finally called into the ^
school and took the boy to the sta-1
tion house, where he was locked up | ^
on the charge of attempted assault ^
with a knife. ^
The boy misbehaved during the af- z<
ternoon, and when his teacher went
to correct him, the youngster backed b
up in. a corner, drew an uglv-loo.kig
knife and remarked that he did not u
propose to be corrected by any wo- ^
/ TT'
man. The teacher was non-plussed
by his attitude, and when he refused u
to drop the knife at her command,
she called on the principal of the 15
school. v
The principal came in determined 61
to teach the boy a lesson, but she, ^
too, decided not to get to closer 1?
quarters with Jimmie when she saw ^
the ugly-locking knife he had in his ei
hand. Both tried for over half an s<
hour to get the boy to drop the e
knife and when they saw that their n
efforts were wasted, the -principal 11
went to the telepphone and called for
a policeman.
The sight of the bluecoat and brass h
buttons took all the fight out of Jim?^
mie as soon as the polipeman arrived ^
on the scene and he cried bitterly as 11
o
he was taken to police headquarters. "
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Texas Prisons to Pay. n
That the Texas prisons will be made e:
to pay dividends within a short time ci
is the opinion of Gov. Colquit, after o
an inspection of the State peniten- b
tiary properties, says a Houston fi
(Texas) dispatch. He declares that fi
they would now be on a paying ba- ir
sis had it not been for the loss of s<
$300,000 by fire of the Huntsville h
prison and .the furniture factory at n
Rusk, and the further loss of more
than $600,000 on the cane crop be- ncause
of the early frost of last au- le
tumn. ir
"Humane prison reforms are an \z
accomplished fact," said the gover- n
nor. "The financial success of the tl
penal system will depend to a large Y
extent on the weather, but F^lTa^ye le
great faith in its development into I]
a successful institution. I hope to s<
turn over to my successor one of the ci
best prison systems in the United d
States?a system with prisoners tl
whose improved moral tone inspires G
them with hope for the future, and t<
? :ii- ? nri'Ha in thp nmn- PI
Willi H Qliw uiaicu ~ ~ i- ~
erties they are developing. ai
"We have resolved with the help b
of the legislature, to put the iron d
furnace at Rusk in operation unless w
we can more profitably lease it. The h
smelter at Rusk was splendidly built rr
and equipped by the Lanham admin- h
istration. It was abandoned by the si
Campbell administration. I feel that t
the State of Texas is able to own its n
own smelter, and demonstrate on its w
own account whether or not a furn- d
ace within its borders can be operated
at a profit. I believe it can be
done by the employment of experienced
smelter men, free from poli- ?
tics." k
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CHICORA COLLEGE REMOVAL. a
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rjnoiee rirsuyiery ngamsi x iu^.tion?Vote
Now a Tie. .
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Greenville, Dec. 19.?According to w
information received in the city to- t]
night, Enoree Presbytery, in session ^
at Spartanburg to-day^ voted against
the removal of Chicora college from
Greenville to Laurens. The vote
stood 18 against removal and 13 for
removal. Bethel Presbytery voted v
for the removal of the college in its r;
meeting at Rock Hill some days ago. tl
The vote on the matter, therefore, is h
a tie at present. i h
Pee-Dee Presbytery meets at Flor- j t<
ence Friday to consider the question, i d
Piedmont Presbytery meets Monday |
at Seneca. Charleston Presbytery
will meet the 27th. The dates for
the meeting of South Carolina and i r:
Harmony Presbyteries have not been J w
fixed. The question of moving the | c
institution will, therefore, have to be j t]
decided by the five Presbyteries that o
have not yet voted. It takes a two- A
thirds vote to decide the matter. s<
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WESLEY AND HIS WORK.
higlish Sketch of the Founder of the
Methodist Church.
Few lives are better known in outne
than that of John Wesley, from
he outset of his career at Oxford,
*hen the name of "Methodist" was
pplied to him and to that little
roup of undergraduates who, as
outhey says, "professed to make reigion
the great business of their
ves," says a writer in the London
'elegraph. The word, meaning those
ho brought system into their
tudies, had been, however, employd
previously by Calamv in his bioforvVIt
r?f tho minictorfl whn <311 ffpTftd
jectment in 1662. A fellowship at
.incoln college preceded his ordinaion
and he accepted soon after the
ivitation to go to the colony of Georia
to preach to the settlers and to
He Indian natives. That the squables
and factions and petty jealousies
e encountered there, rendered this
xpedition something of a failure is
ell known, but what is perhaps forotten
to-day is that on the voyage
ut and afterwards he came under
tie very direct influence of the Moavian
church. "What can I preach?"
e asked one of their leaders.
Preach faith till you hive it and
tien because you have ir you will
reach faith," was the answer, and
lat surely colored mucn or ms later
sal. ^
Wesley's friendship with Whitfield
egan on his return to England, and
; was the latter who, at Bristol, first
rent out into the fields and highavs
to reach the people.. Here he
as joined by Wesley, who threw his
hole heart and soul into the work,
hen began some of the most aston>hing
manifestations of religious reivalism
in the annals of those occaionally
recurring demonstrations
lat pass from fervor to frenzy. It
i not necessary in these days to at?mpt
to offer explanations of the
motional phenomena that were then
d marked a feature among his hearrs.
Such have been seen, though
ot perhaps in so startling a degree,
1 later revivals.
But one of the results was that
Lesley had to obtain a "preaching
ouse," and on May 12, 1739, the
rst one was established near the
[ouse Fair Ground, Bristol. Later
i the year Wesley came to London,
nd addressed a huge open-air con
negation at Blackheath, attended by
lany who drove to it in their coach3.
His manner of preaching was exiting
wide criticism, episcopal and
therwise and he had definitely
roken away from his Moravian
iends. He parted, too, from Whiteld,
but meanwhile those in agreelent
with him had established them?lves
in a meeting house in Fetterine,
and Methodism had become a
ew force to be reckoned with.
One finds in his writing little retinders
of che stir and strife of Wes%
iy's days. But while he was preachtg,
now in Cornwall and now in Sc-ottnd,
facing riotous mobs in the
orth or backed by the cathedral and
le fairest of gardens at Exeter, the
oung Pretender had made his fruit;ss
efforts; Clive was winning the
idian empire for us, and Wolfe had
?aled the Heights of Abraham, searing
the Dominion; America had
eclared her independence; the bate
of St. Vincent and the relief of
ibraltar were steps toward the masiry
of the seas. No man, he believ-J
r./% ill itirnnil.-o tnllc
Li, ilau paiu OU IIIUL.i iu tuin^inv ww.m
5 himself, and there were few years
etween the laying of this first founation
s-^one in Bristol until he was
ell past his 80th year, that he and
is sturdy cob did not cover 4,500
files on the roads. He had founded
\
is organization, it had its well condered
financial basis, and he had
hought out the problems of the
laintenance of his lay workers as
ell as the education of th'eir chilren.
Georgia Woman Kills Assailant.
Dublin, Ga., Dec. 18.?Mr. F. M.
iightower was shot and instantly
filed by Mrs. A. L. Lynn, at her
ome about seven miles from Dublin
t 12:30. The woman admits the
filing and says Hightower assaultd
her, and she shot him in selfde3nse.
Her husband and children
ere in the field picking cotton at
le time and there were no witnesses
) the tragedy, except a 2-year-old
tiild.
Died Rather Than Take a Drink.
Union Springs, Ala., Dec. 18.?F.
7. Reid, aged 35, a native of Cheaw,
S. C., committed suicide here
ais morning. He was a salesman
l a mercantile house here. He was
eard yesterday making a resolution
) die rather than take another
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Outlaw Met Match in American.
Manila. Dec. 18.?Arcani, a notoious
outlaw chief in the Philippines,
as killed to-day in a personl enounter
with Lieut. H. Johnson, of
lie constabulary. Two other outlaws
f the same band were also killed.
Lrcani is known to have murdered
even persons during his career.
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