The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 09, 1905, Image 4
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FEARFUL DEATH
A Woman Falls from a Soaring
Balloon in Anderson.
^ INSTANTLY KILLED.
The Woman's Husband Makes a Successful
Flight. A Crowd of One Thousand
People Witnessed What
May or May Not Have
Been an Accident.
A most horrible death occurred at
Anderson on last Thursday afternoon,
when Mrs. Maude Hroadwlck, wife o
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\juaucn nrutlUWICK, HCri lloatlt Willi
Rlddell's Southern Carnival C( d pany
fell from a balloon and was instantly
killed. Mrs. Rroadwick was an expt r
lenced balloonist herself and had made
two ascensions while here, but was
not to go up this afternoon. Her bus
band was to make the ascension and
parachute drop, and she was standing
by to give the signal to cut the ropes
when all was ready.
She gave the signal all right, and
when the balloon shot up into the air
she was seen hanging to the ropes between
the balloon and the parrchutc.
After, she had reached a distant of
200 or 300 feet she dropped to the
earth, striking on the hard ground and
was instantly killed,
The balloon went straight up into
the air and she fell within a few feet
of the spot from whore she started A
crowd of possibly 1,000 persons wit
nessed the tragedy, llroadwick, who
was fastened into the parachute with
a belt, went on some distance higher
and then cut loose and descended in
safety.
Most of the carnival people are Included
to the opinion that Mrs. llroadwlck's
death was due to suicide rather
than an accident. They say llroadwick
and his wife had been quarreling
for a week or more and this together
with the fact that she was an expert
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projecting ropes about tbe balloon harness
liable to entangle a person, lead
them to the sulcirle theory.
broad wick admits that he and bis
wife had quarreled, but says the>
made up, as they had done before. lie
says though that she knew all ab >ut
balloons and that he does not see how
she could have been accidentally en
tangled in the ropes. He lias been In
the balloon business 16 years and says
his wife had been in the business
eight years and that sire was quite as
expert as himself. He says that as she
fell she called to him to catch her,
but that he could not do so.
He thinks It was an accident and
not suicide. Broadwick says Cincinnati
is his home. He says his wife's
people live there, but that they were
bitterly opposed to her marriago ^nd
have never become reconciled to their
daughter since her marriage, and fo\
that reason lie lias not uotttied them
of her death and wlil have the inter
ment take place here Saturday. lie is
almost completely prostrated. Mrs.
Broadwick was about 22 years old and
was very popular with the members
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wi tiic uurmvai company.
C'ont'tiBHf'8 Ilia Crime.
At ValdoBta, Ga., J. G. Rawllngs
has made a confession of hiring Alf
Moore to kill W. L. Carter, tut he
says that the killing of the children
was not in the "trade." He says
that he particularly cautioned the ne
gro not to harm the children. Joe
Ilently and Mitch Johnson made a
trade with Alf Moore to do the bloody
work and Joe Hently and Alf Moore
wanted to kill Carter on Sunday
night before but that they could not
get a buggy at IIahlra to go to Carter's
house lie says they tried to
hire a buggy but that the liveryman
would not hire it to them unless they
would tell him where they were going.
Rawllngs says that his confe^sio
came without knowledge of his lawers
as he had reached the place where
he could not keep quiet any longer.
He says that he is thoroughy indifferent
to the supreme court bo far as he
is concerned but he wants hiB sons
eaved.
Whlekoy In Marlon.
The people of Marlon county have
written to the governor in regard to
the selling of whiskey In thai county
after the dispensary has been voted
out. The letter was received from
G. P. Penny, who says that the people
are trying to enforce the Brlce
law, but the whiskey agents, representing
foreign houses, are all over
the country and are doing a big business,
The governor could do nothing
under the clroumstar ces as the law
gives an agent, representing a foreign
whiskey house, the right to take orders.
A Good Spook.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister
of former PresldeLt Cleveland,, is
now a wealthy woman. A score of
years ago she invested $4,500 in an island
off the Maine coast near CamdeD.
ashlon has turned Its eyes in that
direction, and Miss Cleveland has just
sold part of her island for $200,000.
Take a nay cir auu look around
your farm with your eyes wide open
and see how many improvements
could be made without the spending
of very much money. Let all the family
join in and help. Then go to
work with a vim.
CHINESE DOCTORS POPULAR.
Have a Lucrative Practice In Western
Cities.
The method of treating sick persons
in some cities is similar to that Of ths
other physicians of the United States
and those of Croat Uritain. They depend
much, nowover, on the examination
of the jmlse. Their sense of touch
is so wonderfully developed that it is
said they can determine the condition
of the heart, as well as some of the other
organs merely by the feebleness or
strength of tho beats; but they say
there are no less than twelve different
movements of tho arteries in the human
body, nil of which can be detected
by feeling the fingers, wrist and
arm, says an exchange.
When a patient calls on him for examination,
the doctor first presses the
arm, wrist and fingers, touching nearly
every part. Sometimes ten or fifteen
minutes is occupied with this examination.
Then lie may oak if the patient
is married or single, and also his age;
but this is about the limit of the examination.
Apparently lie can tell the
nature of the disease without questioning
further, and if tho caller wishes a
prescription he writes one in the ordinary
Chinese characters on a generoua
sized square of paper.
Kinging a bell, ho hands the prescription
to the Chinese attendant who enters,
for each physician has his own
shop, filled witii the ingredients which
he uses in treatment. If he lias a large
practice he may employ a native chemist,
who makes up the prescription.
One of the curious features of Chinese
medical treatment is the way la
which tuo physicians administer their
remedies. Nearly all the offices of the
principal doctors have what may be
called a tea room attachment. This la
a spacious apartment, well lighted, freQUentlv
ornamental win.
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tery and pictures, and containing small
tables, each with two or three chairs.
If the Invalid does not wish to take his
medicine at home, lie is ushered into
this room, and, while seated at one of
the tables, drinks his prescription as he
would a cup of-tea or a glass of wine.
With but few exceptions the medicine
is in liquid form, and served hot in
dainty Chinese bow la, for most of it is
composed of a decoction of herbs.
Each table contains a bowl of raisins,
and when the attendant brings in
the medicine ho also brings in a glass
of tepid water. If the drink is bitter,
as it usually is, the patient can eat
some of the raisins to remove the taste,
while with the water ho rinses his
mouth and throat. Then lie is ready to
go home, returning the next day for
another examination and dose.
Charities of Joe Jefferson
"There need be no surprise at ths
comparatively small estate left by Joseph
Jefferson," said A. L. Erlangor.
"To be sure, the immense earnings
from his many seasons in 'Hip Van
Winkle' and his keen sense of business
led tlie public to believe that there '
would bo millions of dollars left when
the great old man ?f tn? Amnrw.nM
stage died; but to those who knew of
the charitable side of his personality,
and the free hand with which ho gave
money away to members of the profession
who needed it, there should be no
surprise that this is not the case.
*'1 was associated with Mr. Jefferson 1
for many years, and knew, probably,
more about his charities than any one :
> else. In fact, I distributed thousands
of dollars every year for him, without
j being asked to account for it in any
wky. At the least call for aid Mr. Jefferson
would say, 'hook up this fellow
?I ilsod to know him?and if lie needs
the money let him have it; only he's 1
kind ot proud, so don't let him think
it's charity.' 1
"If 1 wanted to, I could toll you the 1
names of u dozen or more actors, some
o? them now living, who received regular
weekly amounts from Mr. Jeffer- 1
son, ranging from $25 up to $100. The
late G. \V. Couldock I used to pay $100
every week, and it was Mr. Jefferson's
orders that Couldock should never
want for anything.
"Couldock was a peculinr old man,
honest and candid, and a little thing
like $100 a week did not prevent his
saying what he thought of Mr. Jefferson.
Once Jefferson bought am apart
meni nouae lip in iiariom, a fine, new
building, then very fashionable and
well appointed.
" 'Couldock needs a good place to
live," he said to me. 'Furnish a nice
apartment in the house for him, and
tell him to occupy it, rent free, with
my compliments, just as long as he
wonts to.'
"I sent for Couldock and gave him
the glad tidings. His gratitude was
something surprising. He stormed,
fumed and swore, and finally blurted
out In his most approved 'You are no
longer a chee?lid of mine' tone:
" 'What! Live In a tenement on that
old miser's bounty! No, sir. No, sir,
Never-r-r-r-rl'
"He stalked out of my office, pounding
the floor with his c&ne, and I never
dared mention the subject to him
-
again."
The Power Behind the Puree.
Tho determining factor in all modern
life is money. The hand that holds the
puree rules the world, though the spirit
must regulate it Man is the wage*
earner, but the purchasing power of
the nation is in the hands of the worn*
an?that is, among the only women
who are of any aocount In the empire,
the women of the middle (in all its
tiers) and the lower classes.?London
Mall.
Liberia exports about 60,000,00.0 gallons
of palm oil a year. It la made from
the outer part of the palm nut. not
i from the kernel.
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In Bangkok you travel from the
steamer to the hotel on the back of an
slephaut. ^
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WOMAN STALKED BY LIONS.
Adventure with Six of tho Big Brutea
In Africa.
Mrs. L. Hlnde, whoso husband is
subcommissioner of the British East
Africa '-Protectorate, has had the remarkable
experience of being stalked
by lions, and still more remarkatie
fortune of living to tell the tale. It
w?son the Uganda lUilway, in a spot
historic for the ravages of man-eating
lions, that Mrs. Ilinde met with the
thrilling adventute whlon she relates.
Camping out, the party in whl h
Mrs. Hlnde was could hear with horrid
regularity the screams of the
wretched victims as they were carried
off for the man eaters' nightly repasts.
The camp was seventy miles from
the nearest connecting link with tie
outside world, and c >mmuuleation had
to be kept up daily by native mail carriers.
It was the habit of the lions
to keep pace in the long grass with
the runners on the track, and having
selected the most appetizing mttubc r
of the partv. to pounce upon him and
carry him c IT Into the bush.
On one, occasion, when out map
making, Mr. and Mrs. Illnoe earn
upon a party of a d< zin ii<?ns, possibly
the man eating troop Mr. Hlnde
tired twice, dropping two of the
beasts. He then suggested that Mrs. '
Hlnde should ride bac k to camp, while j
he approachod the two lion-, who ;
might he dangerous, even though raor. '
tally hit.
After riding for half an hour Mrs. j
Ilinde looked back and saw six of the ;
lions following her. The twu native |
gun bearers ran away, leaving her un- !
armed, alone with her sais, an hour
from camp.
She set (IT at a fast gallop, the sals
running by her side. In ttielr path
arouse an angry rhinoceros, which lied
from them on to the lions.
Mrs. Illnde reached camp in safety,
while Mr. Htnde was held up by the
rhinoceros, on which he did not venHire
to tire for fear of turning it on
Mrs. Illnde.
"Talking Saloon."
In the article we publish below, wp
clip from the baptist Oturier, Mr. WA.
Christopher gives his reasi ns for
being opposed to prohibition, lie says:
"ltut it is our intention not to discuss
this question but one far more
serious in Its nature, and that is the
walking, whistling, talking saloon;
the kind that strolls the roads and
by-paths of our counties by dey and
by night and calls out our cltzans and
our boys and sells them the accursed
stutT. These walking saloons are tLo
most daugerous factor with which n o
have to deal in the counties when
the dispensary is voted out. They
are worse than the dispensary aiftl
open saloon combined, because they i
go to the homes of our people with
the tempting "block'1 and thereby
cause some of our people to drink and
become druukards who were never
known to darken the dooj" of the ais
pensary. It is to my mind one of the
greatest temptations to our boys that
we have to contend with; and surely
onere ought to be something done to
stop it. With no dispensary, which
means practically no law and no constabulary,
these walking saloons will
run riot over our country- They like
the secret reptile, hkl under the bush
to some extent while we had the dis
pens&ry and would sally forth to drive
their poisonous fangs In our countrymen
only when there was not much
danger of being caught. But now
like the migrating reptiles that bit
children of Israel they have glided
out and, encouraged by patronage,
they become more bold untlll ere
long their poisonous fangs will be
driven into the llesh of our people and
the poison wTl permeate the whole
population of our country."
Killed Himself.
Geo Roueche, of Ilamilton, Mo.,
killed himself at Covington, Ga., by
slashing his throat and wrists with a
razor at a private boarding house, in
this city, Wednesday night. Roue
che, who came ihere last week with
the advertising force of Sells &
Dows' circus, was dirgercusly ill
with double pneumonia and his physician
had pronounced his case Incur
able. Ho was apparently thirty live
years old and has a mother ih Meadvill,
Pa , and a brother in Chicago,
lie was a member of the American
Benevolent association of So. Louis.
Mrs. G. W. Moore, wife of a well
nuunu nuu MlUn^lDlUUS UJL'UllttUU UU |
Peachtree road, near Atlanta, was as |
saulted by a negro Thursday morning.
The track hounds have been following
the negro all day, but at a late hour
Thursday night he bad not been captured.
The county police continue the
search and a large posse and all members
of tho oounty police foroe will
take up the hunt. There is considerable
exoitement in the community,
where the crime occurred, and it is
feared the negro will be lynched if
caught. Mr. Moore has offered $200
reward for the capture of the negro.
Took llle litre.
A. Marvin Carter, time keeper at
the Poe mill in Greenville, committed
suicide on Thursday evening by shooting
himself through the head with a
pistol. He was 25 years of age and
was lately married to a daughter of F.
S. Mosher, superintendent of the mill.
He was in poor health.
A very conservative estimate puts
the yearly loss fn m insect depredations
in the United States at onetenth
of all the farm crops, and this
amounts to the enormous sum of $300,000,000
and this is only about $52 for
eich farm.
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A11 Of MANY IMS
Germany Has an Abundance
lOf Legal Restrictions.
DRUG STORES LIMITED
Government Regulates Number of
Apothecaries?Strangers Have to
Register at Police Station?Newspaper
Slights to the Emperor Punishable
by Fine and Imprisonment
A correspondent writing In the Chicngo
News says: The law keeps close
track of everybody who comes into Germany.
Strangers must bo registered at
the police station, at mo latest within
three days after their arrival in any
place, so that it the police have occasion
to want them, they will know
where to look.
Wage earners arc obliged to have reports,
amounting to recommendations,
which each of tholr employers must
sign and yyhich every new employer
may, and generally does, ask for. This
is a custom excessively hard on both
parties concerned.
The law requires that employers and
employes give each other notice of a
full month's tiiue when either intends
to discharge or to change his position,
as the case may be. Hasty discharges
must be paid for by the employer.
Everybody knows, of course, how extraordinarily
careful people must be in
speaking or writlug about the emperor.
An ipsult or derogation is punishable
by a line and imprisonment. Editors
must be on the constant guard, but as
it is impossible for them to be respectful
under all and any circumstances,
they not infrequently find themselves
in trouble. And in order that the right
person may be punished if there be any
such occasion, all publications bear the
name and address of the one responsible
for the contents.
The railroads in Germany have been
n \\r ? ? n/i h?? - - - ? ? ?A - ' 4 '
v.. uvu uj me fcuv viumoiil since III?
years immediately following the
Franco-Prussian war in 1870-1. At th^t
time it was found difficult to transfer
the troops and to prevent another such
situation the government took over the
management of trains, so tiiat it could
have every train at its disposal in case (
of war. It has succeeded wonderfully
well in this undertaking.
The German government control*
drug stores. I was a good deal shocked
to learn this coming from a country
where almost any man can settle down
in peace in almost any business he may
choose. Far different is it with German
druggists, and far different lias it i
been, too, for several centuries. The
government decides the location of the
drug store, and does it in this way:
For every 10,000 people in each city 1
there must be a drug store, and for
every 1,000 people in the country. There
is a similar kind of arrangement in regard
to chimney sweeps, whose wages j
are paid them by the government out
of a special tax fund. These particu- <
lar drug laws apply only to Prussia. ]
The other divisions of Germany?Bavaria,
Wurtemburg and so forth?have
other, but similar, regulations. I
The Prussian laws are exceedingly
numerous and complicated. After the 1
yiuoijauvB umggisi nas passed nis ex- <
amlnation, lie must obtain a concession ,
from the government to open a place
of business. There Is a greut variety of |
concessions, too. When a man has j
opened a new place he must keep his
books In good order for inspection. Af- (
ter three years he is pledged to give
over to the government a specified percentage
of his profit, year by year, according
to his concession. The govern- (
ment also fixes the maximum profit
which a druggist can make on various
goods.
But what are the objects and results
of all this? The fundamental object Is
the security of the people, the secondary
object, security for druggists. For
tlfS profession is not dissatisfied with
all these laws and all this government.
On the contrary, the United German
Druggists' Association Is very decidedly
In favor of It. The business, which
very easily becomes overcrowded, is
kept In a normal condition. The Germans
have observed In other countries
that free competition in this as in other
lines lowers prices. By restraining the
freedom of druggists, the profession Is
made secure, because when there is
only one drug store to 10,000 persona
the owner la sure to bo kept busy, and
as he Is protected In demanding profit
?all his colleagues are doing the same
as he?he is assured of a livelihood.
But the public, generally at the mercy
of the apothecary, Is also benefited;
fraud and exorbitant charges cannot
uv inuav. civery coinmuniiy, l/OQ, IS
eure of having a drug store.
The "Coming Nation."
Now the American Immigration question
In Canada has reached a climax.
It takes only three years for an immigrant
to earn a vote in Canada, and
75,000 former Amerioan voters will
soon come into their Canadian suffrage.
There are, in round numbers,
190,000 males more than 18 years of
age In western Canada who formerly
llred In the United States, 150,000 of
whom are old enough to vote. There
are now between 760,000 and 800,000
settlers, with a possible voting population
of 240,000, a high percentage bocause
many cattlemen without families
are emigrating from Montana and Wyoming.
In eastern Canada thousands of people
believe that this Invasion means ths
ultimate annexation of wostern Canada
by the United States. It Is called "ths
coming nation."?World's Work.
Oalallth, or "milk stone," Is being
much used for decorating, and promises
to take the place of marble.
King Edward has appointed King Al?
fonsAa general in the British armjr*
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BACK IB THE PEN.
Ben Bennett, the Celebrated Criminal,
Brought Back From Macon.
The Columbia Record says Ben
Bennett, the celebrated prisloner
who killed his wife after being condi
tlonally pardoned for another murder
is again In the South Carolina penitentiary.
Bennett was brought In
by Sheriff Llghtsey, of Hampton,
from Macon, Ga.: where he was captured
several weeks ago. It seems
that Bennett was farrested In Macon
for drunkenness and aocording to the
story he told when being put in the
penitentiary, he was sentenced to
four months on the city ciiaingang.
Bennett evidently thought all
chalrgangs were easy marks, after
his rxperienoe in Hampton, and ho
tried to escape but the Georgia guard
was really on guard and he was shot
down beforo he could get away. lie
lias now one bullet in his back and
an ither in his hip, but he is nob so
bidly wounded that he could not be
put into a cell at the pcnitentlar)
when he was brought in last night.
Bennett, It will be remembered,
was pardoned by Gov. McSweeney
while serving a life sentence for murder,
the pardon being granted on condition
that Bennett would leave the
state and not return. After Governor
Hey ward became governor, Bennett
wrote to him asking that he be
allowed to come beck to the state to
see his wife at Hampton, but the ro
quest was refused as improper. Bennett
came, however, and while on
this visit to his wife shot and killed
tier, ms story was that while asleep
he heard some one at the window,
and thinking It was the sherllT come
fur him, he shot, the bullet striking
his wife, who had arisen .during the
night.
Bennett was tried for murder after
a redlculous verdict from the coroner's
jury exonerating hira. Ho was
convicted of manslaughter and sentenced
to live years' imprisionmet.
which under the laws of the state
sent him to the chaingang. He fotind
It an easy matter to i/et away from j
the gang In Hampton county and has
been at large a year or more until he
turned up at Macon, as stated above I
and was recogn zid as the man want- I
ad in South Carolina.
MISSIONARIES MURDERED.
Flvo AmorioaiiH Have Been Killed at
at Lilenohaw, China.
A dispatch from Hong Kong, China,
jays It is believed that a
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missionaries have been murdered at
L'.euchow, Dr. Eleanor Chestnut. Mrs.
0. 10 Machic and child and Mr. and
Mrs. Pearlo are the victims of tho disiiirbauce
at the Lieuchow Mission.
Lienchow is a town of 12.000 people,
situated in the western portion of the
province of Kwang Tung, at the head
3f the Gulf of Tong King, not far
from the treaty port of Pakhoi.
A dispatch from New York says.
Mrs. Machie was the wife of Dr.
Charles E. Machlo, of Ohio. She war
Miss Ella M. Wook, of Philadelphia
They had a daughter, Elsie, 15 years
old. Dr. and Mrs. Machie have been
stationed at Lienchow since 1880.
Dr. Eleanor Chestnut had uo home
In this country. She was appointed
a missionary in 1803. John Rogers!
Pearle was a uew missionary, who sail I
ed from this country last August. He
was born at New Rloomfleld, Penn.,
in 18Z.9. He was educated at the Laf
ayette College and the Princeton The:
logical Seminary. He married Miss
Gillespie, of Port Deposit, Md., last
summer before going to China in August,
In addition to four church buildings
the Lienchow Mission, which has 207
native Christians on its roll, has three
Sunday nchools and three establishments
for seoular education, one of
which is a boarding school with nineteen
pupils. It also supports a hosplt
al and a dispensary. Reports from
Canton says that the murder of the
missionaries took place on Ootober 28.
A Bad Failure.
The worst bank failure on record *8
that of the Enterprise bank of Pittsburg,
Pa. The assets of $2 800,00?
are so completely gone that the depositors
will not get over ten per centThe
man who grows on a farm all
that he consumes on it saves a double
transportation?the hauling home
what he buys and the hauling to market
of what he sells to pay for it.
These two items of cost help very ma
torially to make up the di(Terence between
profitable and unprofitable farming.
G jv. Ileyv"""1 accept )d the in
vltalion ylgit Orange urg on the
first di y of the Oarn, v*. and deliver a
short address. IIR til Cf/vwl
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TheCoveru,* i very popular In this
count;, And he will meet with a
warm recep&lon.
There are only 1,000,000 out of the
13 000,000 youDg men In the United
Stales and Canada who go to oburoh
What a shame! Cannot something
I be done to reaoh the men and get
I them Into the church?
A noted fashion authority has decreed
that pockets should be worn.
It is true that every woman envies a
man his luiuric us accommodations in
this line. Pockets may be conveniently
tucked away in almost any
gown, and patterns are now being
drawn that provide for this welcome
idea.
A Chinese newspaper has Just rounded
out the fourteenth liundrath year
of its existence. Subscribers who
stopped the paper with the idea that
it would have to suspend publication
J now see how foolish they were.
I COSI J Kill
War Grows More Expensive
But Fewer Are Slaughtered
HAS BECOME A SCIENCE ?
Battle of Waterloo Was One of thi*
Bloodiest Contests of the Century
?One English King Prevented
from Waging War Because He
Was Over $2,000,000 in Debt.
It costs far more to kill a man In
modern than it did in ancient warfare.
According to the best authorities of
ltussia and Japan, the conflict recently
ended Involved a total cost of $1,500,000,000.
Of tliis the Russians suffered
a loss approximately $t,0U0,000,000"and
the Japanese $500,000,000. The Russian
casualties amounted to 400,000 and the
Japanese to 200,000 men, says the New
York Tribune.
it may bo estimated, therefore, that
every man who fell on oither side in tho
recent struggle for supremacy in the
far east represented an expenditure of
$2,500. It cost $1,225 to vanquish one
Russian, and Russia had to spend $5,000
to overwhelm one Japanese.
Although more money is speut lo<fay
in war than in olden times, yet fVver
are killed. The great guns of mt'lern
Invention, costing thousands of dollars
to construct and hundreds of dollars to
lire, and the battleships, representing
expenditures of from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000
each, are loss destructive to human
life than the spears and arrows of
the ancients. At the same time that
men have devised more powerful engines
of warfare, they have goiie still
further in inventing more nearly invulnerable
methods of defense.
Some of the great battles and wars
of the last century seemed bloodier
than they actually were in comparison.
The battle of Waterloo was one of the
bloodiest of the contests of the century.
Of those who fought under Wellington,
and Napoleon in this battle,>25.8 per
cent gave up tueir lives or were wounded.
The battle of I.eipsic ranked next,
with 25 per cent of casualties. On the
ik'iu 01 uottysburg the percentage was
20.6. Judging, by percentages, the battle
of Moukden in the recent war was
bloodier than any of these. Its percentage
of casualties was 26.3. Taking
some of the recent wars as a whole, the
percentages have been: American civil
war, 6.4; Franco-Prussian war, 10.7;
Iloer war, 19.A
comparison of the cost of providing
a gun and liring it, ns it has grown
within the last century, gives a good
impression as to the increase in th?
cost of warfare. It is said that in the
time of the war for the overthrow o!
Napoleon Bonaparte, when solid shot
were used, a 32-pouiul ball cost only
five shillings, or $1.25. At the time ol
the Crimean war, in the 50's, those had
been replaced by 32-pound shells. The
shells cost, ready filled for firing, $5.
The charge of powder and wadding cost
$3 more. A 68-pound shell, powder,
etc., cost $9.50. The cannons weighed
from three to five tons, and cost from
$325 to $175 each. A 12-inch gun, an
inches larger than the great howitzeri
used by the Japanese at Port Arthur,
costs the United States government
$11,000. It weighs from 54 to 60 tons,
and each time it is fired the treasury
is mulcted of $140, or the cost of a cannon
less than 50 years ago.
That war relatively cost less in thg
middle ages than today is indicated by
the fact that, one English king was prevented
from going to war because he
was a debtor for $2,500,000 and could
borrow no more.
Two or three centuries ago it wag
discovered that money for warfarl
could be secured ^iore easily and in
larger quantities by bonding the nation
for it and taxing the people to pay the
interest. Wars began to cost more. In
less than 300 years, Great Britain has
spent on warfare $6,795,000,000. The
revolution of 1688 cost $156,000,000; the
War of the Spanish Succession, $220,000,000;
the Spanish war, $325,000,000;
the Seven Years' War, $535,000,000; the?
American War of Revolution, $725,000,000;
the war of the French revolution,
$2,360,000,00; the war against Napoleon,.
$2,930,000,00o. The Boer war cost Great
Britain in cash more than $800,000,000.
It is estimated that the ware of the
nineteenth century cost the world $17,922,000,000.
The debts of the chief nations of theearth
aggregate more than $34,000,000,000.
It is believed that three-tourtha
of this sum jvas swallowed up in warfare
and preparations for it. Nearly alt
the sum represented by the debts of
Great Britain, France and Germany
was spent for warfare. These countries
are spending annually in interest on
their debts nearly $390,000,000.
The Hotel on Wheels.
Old sleeping cars and parlors carsbring
good money in rental before they
are sent to the junk shop. They aro
chiefly wanted by showmen and traveling
photographers, who run all over the
country with them during the summer.
You And them sidetracked at all the
small towns. Some are used by medicine
men and agents of all kinds, whotrflvol
In lor era crrnuna 1 * -
au .?.&u b>wuyo. uvuica UI i nese \
cars are in the hands of strolling enter- j
tainers who don't want to remain idle ,
botween seasons.
The rental of these movable hotela
has developed into a recognized Indus- i
try. Af bond is required for the return /
of the car to the point where it was \
hired. From ten to twenty persons cam i
live comfortably on an ordinary show )
car. ? 1
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Clay modelling in schools is con?* I
demned by doctors as being worse than)
slates for transmitting infectious dis-/
eases. * .
Tea grows wild In many parts ?f m
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