The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 05, 1914, Page 3, Image 3
WANTS A THOUSAND CHILDREN.
Oklahoma Millionaire Has Built Or- ]
phans' and Widows' Home.
Charles Page, multi-millionaire oil
man of Tulsa, Okla., has 70 adopted <
children and wants to adopt 1,000. i
In addition to 1,000 poor boys and I
girls he is preparing to care for 100 '
poor widows. <
For the care of the 70 children he i
has built a laree home on a wooded :
hill. It is crowded to its capacity with i
boys and girle. He is getting ready to
build this winter another home that i
will house 200 children, and when i
that is finished he will begin to i
build more homes until he has ac- i
commodations for 1,000.
He has already built eight houses
for poor widows, has four more under 1
f?rmetr?oH<vn and will have 100 built
this winter.
The 70 boys and girls have an 80,acre
park for a playground, a lake of
14 acres for swimming and boating, a
wading pool for the smaller ones, a
hospital, a zoological garden, a
kindergarten and a graded school
and a $40,000 high school.
Mr. Page will build this winter a 1
hospital that will be in charge of
great surgeons and specialists. He
plans this hospital to be as good in
every way and as famous as that of
the Mayo brothers in Rochester,
Mfnn.
And who is this man Page who
has more adopted children than any
other man in the world?
Forty-five years ago, when Charles
Page was a boy of 10, his father
died, leaving a widow and seven chil^
dren. His father had been in the
tanning business in Stevens Point,
Wis. The widow, with the house full
of small children, had a hard time
of it.
One day while she was doing the
washing for a neighboring family, '
and had stopped a minute to rest, the
boy who is now a millionaire, stood
before her and watched the tears
running down her cheeks.
"You just wait, mamma, till I get
to be a big man, and rich, and you
won't have to wash any more, nor
any other woman won't either. I'll
take care of all the poor widows
and orphans," the little fellow said.
Edward Page, brother of Charles,
says he remembers well that incident,
and of how his mother grabbed
Charles in her arms and hugged him
to her and wept all the more.
When he had grown big enough
Charles became a messenger boy for
the Wisconsin Central railway, and
then he became a brakeman and
later a railroad fireman. Every dollar
he earned above living expenses
in those days went to his widowed
mother and her fatherless children.
Charles drifted west to the Pacific
coast, worked in the gold mines in
Idaho, was hungry many a time, and
penniless for weeks. He drifted eastward
to the oil fields of Colorado and
seven years ago, came to Chandler,
Okla., with $5,000 in cash, which he
soon lost in the oil fields near Chandlor
Then oil was discovered in the famous
Gleen Pool field, south of
Tulsa, and Page went to the spot
near there with $3,000 he raised by
mortgaging a piece of property in
^ Colorado. He got an oil lease on a
small tract of Indian land in what
is known now as the Taneba .field,
and put down a well. When he
struck oil he spent the next few
weeks in getting oil leases on the
land surrounding his well in all
directions. The first was a wonderful
well. It flowed"2,000 barrels of oil
a day and every barrel of it was
worth 35 cents in cash at the well,
^ an income of $700 a day for Page,
minus one-eighth of the" product,
which went to the owner of the land
as his share.
He drilled other wells on the land
he had leased and they were good
producers too and one day a syndicate
of financiers of N*ew York, led
by Commodore Benedict, James King
Duffy and Clifford B. Harmon, of
fered him $1,000,000 in cash for his
I leases. Page asked $500,000 more
and the sale was finally made for $1,250,000
cash, which v.as paid to 1
Page.
Speed Record Broken.
Two Irishmen employed on a
man-o'-war, finding things a bit slow
one morning, decided to liven them
up a little. So Dennis, instructed by
Mike, placed himself astride one of
the big guns and held a deok-pail
over the muzzle, relates the Pathfinder.
"Now, said Dennis, "let 'er go!"'
r Whereupon Mike touched her oft*
and she went, sure enough?likewise
Dennis and the pail. When the officer
in charge came running up. he
said: "Michael, what has become of
your friend?"
"Oh, said Mike, "he just went af
ter a pail of water."
"I see, but when is he coming
back?"
"Well," answered Mike, "I'm sure
I can't tell exactly, but if he comes
back as quick as he wint, he'll be
back yisterday!"
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HOW LAWLESSNESS GROWS.
Blame Rests on Better Classes Who
Would I)o as They Please.
One great trouble with us in South
Carolina?one reason why this State
is so far behind other States in so
many respects?is the little respect
we have for the law. A great many
of us do not pay any attention to
a. law that we do not like. We are
not deliberate lawbreakers; we just
ignore the law.
And that this tendency is just as
strong among those who like to
think of themselves as belonging to
the better classes?those of us who
are educated and intelligent and are
fairly well-to-do?makes it all the
worse. We speak of the "lawless
element," when as a matter of fact,
there is little, if any, distinction.Some
depraved people violate certain
laws deliberately, while others, who
would resent being called criminals,
just ignore certain laws they do not
like and let it go at that. They
argue that it is an unwise law, .or
one that would cause great inconvenience
if obeyed literally, so why
should they bother with it?
We do not like a law against the
sale of whiskey, therefore we encourage
the blind tigers. We do
not like the law against carrying
concealed weapons, therefore we go
around with a pistol in our hip-pocket.
We do not like the law against
gambling, therefore we meet with a
few congenial friends and play poker
or other games for money. Or
we may argue that these are good
enough laws for people who do not
know how to restrain themselves and
should be enforced as to those people,
but they were not intended to
apply to us and our friends who
know how to behave, and so we will
just go along as they apply to us.
And so it goes. We ignore the
law that we do not find it convenient
to obey, and other people ignore
the laws which they do not approve
of, and it goes on down to those
whom we call the "lawless element."
They violate laws that we think all
people should be made to obey and
we rail at the officers for not enforcing
the law. We declare in our
wrath and shame that it is a disgrace,
and that the State is being
ruined. And that is true. But the
ruin is not being wrought by the
lower classes; it is being wrought
by those of us who know better, but
who do not do better. We cannot
expect the ignorant people, those
who have not had the advantages
that we have had; to do better than
wo do ourselves. When they see
us ignoring one law it is perfectly
natural for them to feel that they
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P.3VC H. rigiiL III Uican uiu^i iunu.
And?mark you, this?when we set
out to enforce the law against them,
and allow the privileged few of our
own set to go free, there is going
to he deep resentment and we need
not be surprised if there is serious
trouble^ If the trouble comes it
will not be the ignorant classes who
w^ll be so much to blame; those of
us who have set ourselves above the
law will be to blame.
It may be said that there are unwise
laws on the statute books.
That is probably true. But who can
tell whether a law is wise or not
if it has not been observed? If a
law is strictly observed, its unwisdom
can soon be determined, and
then it can be speedily repealed. A
law not enforced is dangerous, for
it brings on non-enforcement of
other laws?laws admitted to be necessary.
It is better to submit in
patience to a bad law than to bring
about the non-enforcement of all law
and we are rapidly approaching the
latter condition rigftt Here in souin
Carolina.
This is a matter that the people
ought to be thinking about and trying
to bring about a change. If we
do not soon bring about a change
we are going to have some very bad
times indeed in the State?much
worse times than any we have yet
experienced.?Anderson Daily Mail.
BARGAIN MOB WRECKED STORE.
Crush So Great That Stock Was
Stolen and Ruined.
Pittsburg.?Bargain hunting women
wrecked the dry goods store of
John S. Hooper here, and $1,000
worth of stock was stolen or destroyed
in the rush of the mob at the
opening of a closing out sale. The
police were powerless.
Hooper closed his store for a week
to get ready for the sale advertised
to open yesterday. Women gathered
about the store at 6 o'clock yesterday
morning and blocked traffic for
a WliPn the dnnrs wpre
opened they rushed the place. Those
who could be served paid for goods.
Others took up armfuls and walked
from the store without leaving any
money.
When counters were emptied, women
climbed on them and pulled
stock from the shelves. The doors
were closed and locked and persons
were allowed only to leave. Women
then crawled through basement windows
into the store. Much was destroyed
by being tiampled.
STILL LANDS GOOD JOB.
Blackville Man Gets Clerksliip in
Document Room.
Washington, January 31.?At the
instance of Senator Tillman and
Congressman Byrnes, Mr. Leroy C.
Still, of Blackville, has been appointed
to a clerkship in the docum nt
room of the house of representatives.
He will enter upon his duties February
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MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
Indiana Native Spends Life Crossing
and Recrossing Atlantic.
Like the character in Edward Everett
Hale's "A Man Without a Country,"
Fred Elfer, an ex-Anderson
man, may be condemned to spend the
remainder of his life crossing and recrossing
the Atlantic ocean without
going on land, unless Elier's friends
are able to prove that he is a citizen
of the United States.
Two months ago Elfers was sent to
Germany by the Anderson Aerie of
Eagles, where his brother offered to
provide him a home. On board a
White Star steamship between New
York and Southampton he became
violently insane and was landed at
Southampton. His brother in Hamburg
was cabled and went to England.
The English immigration authorities
ordered him deported and
it was found that on account of his
condition he wojld not bte allowed
to land in Germany. He was taken
aboard another White Star steamer
bound for New York and the
steamship company is making frantic
efforts to obtain his naturalization
papers from this city, in order that
he may pass the immigration officials
at New York.
Should he not be able to land on
this side the steamship company will
n/xmrtnlla/4 + boon him m nVlTl f
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back and forth across the Atlantic
for the remainder of his life.?Anderson
(Ind.) dispatch to Philadelphia
Ledger.
Woman Claims Husband Made Her
Draw Plow.
Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 30.?Mrs. Laura
B. Porter, in her action for 'divorce
against William Henry Porter, testified
here to-day that her husband
had worked her at drawing a plow.
She said that during her early married
life near Plainfield, she was
compelled by her husband, who
claimed it was impossible to obtain
horses, to draw a plow he held. In
eighteen years, she said, she re->
ceived only $10 from her husband.
Her work included field labor,
clearing and grubbing, loading, splitting
and crosscutting logs, some
heavy enough for three men. As
joint sexton with her husband at a
Plainfield church, she charged she
did all thS^jvork. Her sister, Mrs.
George Shetron, supported her testimony.
Fire at Converse Does Damage.
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Spartanburg, Jan. 29.?Fire of uncertain
origin caused excitement at
Converse College this morning and
destroyed fifteen hundred dollars
worth of property before it was extinguished.
The blaze was discovered by servants
in a closet under the stairway
in the main building. Classes were
at once dismissed and the girls ran
out on the campus, while members
of the faculty got out a hose and
played it on the flames.
There was so much smoke that
some of the young women thought
the building was doomed. They ran
up to their rooms on the second floor
and began throwing wearing apparel
out of the windows. When the fire
department arrived the girls were reassured.
It took about a half hour
to put the fire out.
His Unappreciated Courtesy.
"Will you take my seat?" he asked.
, She was clinging to a strap and
she was almost beautiful, according
to the Chicago Record-Herald.
"Thank you," she replied.
He got up rather reluctantly, and
she sat down. Then he clutched the
strap directly above her, bumping his
knees against hers.
"I am very glad to be able to give
you a chance to ride in comfort," he
said.
"It is so good of you," she answered.
"There seems to be a few men who
are willing to stand for the sake of
ladies," he continued.
"Yes," she assented.
"I always am glad to offer my seat
to a lady who appreciates my courtesy."
"I am sure the ladies must always
do that."
"Xo, I am sorry to say that they
don't. They generally say thank you;
but that is easily said."
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ne looKeu uuwn as n ne e.\ptticu a.
further assurance of her gratitude.
She returned his gaze for a moment,
and then coldly asked:
"Well, did you expect me to kiss
you?"
WOMEN AND PRICE OF BUTTER.
Housewives' Insistence on Finest
Grades Blamed for High Cost.
Chicago, Jan. 29.?The general
custom of women of demanding the
most select grades of butter has
caused the retailer to put prices up
to a point not justified by wholesale
prices, according to a statement
by J. R. Mitchell, president of the
Chicago Butter and Egg Board.
"The actual difference between the
most fancy grades and the next
grades of good butter is so slight
that the purchaser frequently pays
a 25 per cent increase in price for
not more than 2 or 3 per cent improvement
in quality," he said. "The
new tariff law has resulted in the importation
of butter from foreign
countries. Because of the open winter,
the fresh production of butter
has been unusually heavy and to-day
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U'C IcUlCltlSl gldUC UL UUllCl IS DU1U
by jobbers at 27 l-2c a pound, and
it should go into consumption at not
over 32c. Then, there are large
quantities of good table butter, both
fresh and storage, not good enough
to grade as 'extra,' but fine enough
to grace any man's table, that sells
at wholesale at 24 to 26 cents-a
pound and which should retail at
from 29 to 31 cents a pound.
"If the housewife could get out of
her expensive habit of asking for
only the best, the retailer could sell
the next grade below extra at from
two to four cents under what he
would ask for the best, and the consumer
would be just as well satisfied."
LA1> KILLS FATHER.
Shot Him to Save Lives of Mother
and Others.
Natchitoches, La., Jan. 27.?Fearing
for the lives of his mother and
other members of the family, John
C. Clark, Jr., aged 13, *to-day shot
and killed his father in their home
here, according to testimony before
the coroner's jury. The elder Clark
it was testified threatened to kill
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started to attack his 15 year old
daughter, when young Clark shot
him down. The boy was not arrested.
Liars.
She found her dearest girl chum in
tears.
The situation was unexpected, being
rather common and vulgar. But
the patrician girl was sympathetic
enough to inquire, just as any other
girl might.
v "Why, dear, what on earth is the
matter?"
"Men are all liars!" sobbed the
broken-hearted one.
"Oh, don't say that!" protested the
other. "That's too broad a generalization."
' "Well, I suppose there are some
good, honest fellows who are not.
But all the really nice men are!"?
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