The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 25, 1906, Image 6
The Horry Herald,
CONWAY, S. C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1V00
"much booze
Captured by the Constables in
the City of Charleston
AT EXPRESS OFFICE.
Packages Consigned to Holders of Reve
nue Licenses Confiscated and Shipped
to Columbia. Nearly 400
Gallons of Various Kinds
of Booze iu Office.
The Charleston Post says Chief of
Constables W. lb IIbit.met shipped to
Columbia Thursday mornlru/ a record
breaking haul, made lato Wednesday
afte rnoon at the ? dice of the Southern
Express Company, on Hasell street,
where under his orders, District Chief
Holmes, in the name of tho State,
took possession of nearly four hundred
gallons of liqu rs and wines that have
hem banked up at the cxpres? cilice
since December.
Chief llammet said Thursday to a
reporter for The Evening Post that
he had consulted the Attorney Qener
al about tills case, and had made the
Fe'zure of tho liquor In the express
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VJ-lllA ) Vy IU 1AJCLI J II I III1 1 CD LU 1 J
holding revenue Accuses, with the advice
of the Attorney General along
this line of procedure. He further
stated that if tl c company wished to
contest the se xuie, that the State
was prepared to meet them half way
Mr. W W. Allen, agent of thecxpn
ss company fcr Charleston, said
that he did rot know what would be
d< lie ah( ut the mutter by the ccmpai
y, ai d that ho waa in no posltkn to
n ake.a statement on the sul ject.
Chief Hamme.t came to Charleston
Wednesday for the pu peso of cairy
1) g out the seizure of the stoll, and
gave the directi:n for its furrral
m zure late Wednesday afternoon^
There were ninety live packages in the
lot taken, averaging from three to ten
gain) h In size, and tl 6he coutlscated
bo( zp bundlis weie shipped 10 CclumU?
Tl urtd&y n ornlng.
For over three mouths, between the
hours of sunrise and sunset, Chief
CorstaMe II Initshas had from one 1
to two ( r thri e men stationed at the
11press < tlioo cn 1 fasell street, guard
it g the accumulating packages of li
quor that were shipped to the 'tigers' J
oi the city for the Christmas trade. !
In several casts the 1 quor was loaded
cn the express wagons for delivery,
and st rt to tlie eddresses on ti e pack- 1
ages, lut they wtre not rectivid h> ]
tl e cot Hgtees, for bthh d the wagcus '
liaihd constables on wheels, aid the
llgi r. wen afraid to unload the goodb
fn m the ( xi rcss wagi i s.
CiDSiquint'y the i qu r was returned
toilet xpiess ctlh e and piled up to
rbiivry. Many attempts have 1
leii n a t b) the consignees to get 1
tit- < uo ftioi the i illce wa ons oi
tl e i 111 it to their places of business,
l ui i i.m f< r the mo? t part have failin,
; no ro Hie p.cktges of whiskies,
hiai dtts, wines, Ci ratals and other
alcoioiic htviragei, have colleete. 1
u lb, whin the Stlzurj was mane
Wtoncsday, close to a hurdrf d pack '
ages of 1 qu r had accumill ited at the
i 111 e, vuiuid at between $1,000 and
$2 000, and atam ing fur twice as '
much pri tit to the cealc rs.
Ti e liquor I as been 1} log for many
wnks unitized. As lcijg as the packi
ge via- in the posatbsh n lof t) e expr?
bb icmpany li e ccn tables have
not hertuf re touched ar y consignment
to a ki out tiger, but have con
tetictd th mselves with keeping it under
noard, and iu the pos h.ssIou of
tl e cariler cou pany. Chief Hammet
has takin the position, back d by the
c c s on cf Atti-rncy General Guuter,
ti ai ihe siulf can be seiz.d at tin
very i fflce of the company, and with
ti if, iu v.?vw came 10 C arieiton Wediiesf
ay lo IT ct lb? hi .zu?e
The ci against tue delivery of
further slop u nib is maintained as
u ual, il.ur.dav, and a c nsiabielsin
fn ut of Luc ellloj ready to follow any
mi pu ious pack ge. Thursday morning
two kega wtr he aid, af?, r b.bng
thrown overot a d by a luunoa smugpier,
and stor. o ut the bea' quarter:
of the c aista >les which showed tha
they wsruoij the alert on all std s.
'J m s z ne 11 ade ut t e express < f
iice la r coid bri akir g in pulnt of s z
ai wed as in lift natuie, and seems to
end u e cu?i>Ur of the Curls.m es liquor
s.ory lor the pre.ent.
One would thlpk lh< L xuive idta
in a c .ugh syrup bin ula nave oec n advai
coo lobg before it was. it seem:
ti.? i my rational remedy for Ctui/i a
bi d Co.ds would bo lo m jve the bowels
and clean ihe mucous mtrndrunib
Cl the throat and iung> at the sane
time. Kenmdy'h Laxati\e ii uty
and Tar noes this. It is the Original
Laxative Cough Syrup, the best
know 11 remedy for Coughs, (John,
Ccoup, Wrn oping Cough, etc. Ta?Uia
good haimless. Soul by Conway
Drug Co.
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A FIBJJD HANOBD.
A llrutn l'ayn I'onalty on Gallows for
K' voltlng Crime.
Andrew Thompson, colore] was
handed at. Qreeoville S. 0., on Kri ,
day. After the trp was sprung only
a few convulsive movements of Thomson's
body was noticed and he was
pronounced dead In ?x\ctly fourteen
minutes by County Phjslcltin llext
II. Perry. The crime for which
Thomson's 1 fe paid the penalty was
probably the most revolting In the
annals or criminal court history In
Greenville Couuty. The like of it is
not parallelled anywhere iu the stateOn
December 18, 11)05, amontfab< ut
sundown, Taon s >n in a half drunken
frei zy committed a criminal assault
upon the penon cf Mrs. Frank Jarne ,
wife of a well known farmer living
two raues soutn or xayiors on tne
main lluo of the Southern lViilway.
The crime was heinous. The helping
woman was at home a^one on the evening
of tho assault. TnomphOii rap
port at tho front door of the Jam s
home and asked fur Mr James. When
told he was away from home the negro
attempted to ontor tho house
Mrs. James ran out of her home In l
the dlreotlon of a n lghbor's but was
caught and overpowek a short dls ]
tance away from her house, whore .
the brute accomplished his purpose. J
Mrs James has never recovered
from the elTects of tho asamilt. She .
is twenty-three years cf ago and he- ,
longs to ono of tho brst families of
the county. Following tho assault j
the negro escaped but was capture i ,
late in the night. Magistrate Junes ,
spirited him away from an angry nub
bringing him safely to Greenville J ill ,
where he was kept for two days
Sheriff Gllreath fearing mob violence
removed eho prisoner to Anderson,,
where he was kept until the trial at'
the January term of the general sessions
court, where he was oonvlo^eq
after a fair and Impartial trial before
tho court. lie was sentenced by the
court to be hanged Friday and no
effrrt was made to stay the sentence
by his attorney, John J. McSwaln,
who was appointed by tho court. The
hanging of Thompson Friday Is the
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II1 nv; V AVAJU UUU Hi UfOl'UVIilO wuuiy ? I [
history fur the crime of rape. There j
have been few legal executions elsewhere
In the state. (
RAVAGES bY BOLL Wjl;JUVIL.
1 iihcot ll*h ()i hU'uji (I Ten Million
DollarH Worth of Cotton.
A Bpeclal dispatch from Washing- 1
ton to the Charleston Post ssys ligures
have been laid before the II u-e com (
mittee on agriculture by which it is
estimated that 200,000 bales of eotton r
have been destroyed to date by the
b'11 weevil, a sum equal to $10,000, ?
1100, and that the pest Is going east *
ward at the rate of lifty miles pe r *
yi ar.
Last yoar $85,000 was appropriated
to the bureau of entomology, ai d 1
$105,000 to ihe bureau of plant iudus '
iry. An (if ?rt has been made recent t
ly in the committee on agriculture to
cut down the llrst ite m by $20,000, 1
bub Representatives Bowie, of AJa 1
bama, and Lever, of South Can 1 Da,
have secured the consent cf the com- -L
mlttce for It to remain without
charge for the next yiar. t
Mr. Lever ban also secured a sira'l \
addition to tiie fund to be used in the d
growing of medicinal herbs. The gov
i rnment has a small farm cf this na r
ture in Florence county, and the pen a
pie of that section have been hopefui
that enough money would be secured 1
to extend its operations.
.Secretary Wilson asked for $3 000 t
additional for this purpose, and f it re
were some meml-ers of the co niilf te.
opposed to making the addition. Mr.
L ver, however, succeeded in securing
$1 000 m ire for the work and a pari
r?f this he hopes to have used on tn t
Florence farm. *
Ho is interested at this time in the
question cf securing an appropriation <*
sulliciently large to warrant the gov i
eminent in making experiments in <drainage
and showing the farmers of
the South how to use their lands to
rhe best advantage where they are ?
scuce of water. lie believes that the J
Southern States are as much deserving
of help ah ng this line as any <
otner part of the country.
CrookH Caught. j
A broad way house was raided Id I
Atlanta on Friday and nine pretend d
uggers were taken into custody. The
r om occupied by two cf the men, C <
11. Clark and Tuomas Newman, wai
s a cbocl and a atchel was disovered
containing a omplete safe-cracking
outfit. Clark is apparently the leader
of the gang, and be was placed under
i $5 000 bond in pohca court perxlin;/
fur her inv? 8 igatlon of the matter.
O'trk and Newo an were also raeasur
?d by the Bertllll >n # xpsrt at the federal
prison and photographed. Seven
of the men were sent to the stock de
and held for the higher court. The
ther three will meet a slmlliar fate.
Some of the men are curiously mitnr ed
and said they were professional
beggers.
Wanted to Die.
Maria It rower, a negro woman, attempted
to commit suicide at Greenville
by pouring a gallon of kerosene
oil over herself and applying a maicti
Wi en found she was without clothing <
arid her body a m iss of burns. Bjfort j
trying the oil method, the womau j
threw herself in front of a train, but t
was driven away before the locomo ]
live reached her. Sho is a cocaine s
tlend. ]
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TIMELY RESOLVED,
which wholcd i?i. l(UAI) and
ACT LID ON BY AL.L?.
They Will BriDg Better ard Happier
Timea to /ny Fanner
Who Observes Them.
I will have a money crop, but I will
not go wild over any one staple.
1 will an nearly as possible keep an
accurate a< count of my receipts and
my txpenc s.
1 willsvudy tho exp rlencesof other
farmers and the counsel of agricultural
scientists, and will prollt by
these labors.
1 will tflve my children the besteductlh
rial ad vantages 1 can alford, and
i will ry to make that education bear
dhect y on their life work.
L will try to get my neighbors to
start a movtimnt for better roads,
and will ace tuat our present laws are
rifci ily enforced.
If p aslblo, I will organize s?mo
kind of farmers' cli.b at my scuoOiliouse,
ho tnat tho farmers and their
famillaa may meet every t*o weeks
fur social and Intellectual Improvement.
I will o-operafce with my brother
Farmers as much Mi possible lu the
purchase of supplier a- d in all other
:nat,ttrs whloh reward united eotiou.
I will ntu1y the fortilis r problem,
uid see If 1 cannot expend my guano
nouoy more economically.
1 will look into the matter of im
proving my breeds of horses, cattle,
iog8 and poultry, and co-operate with
n> neighbors to this eod.
I will try to get the b^st mail serrice
p< saiblo for our rural dlstriets.
I will see if lhe town nrarest me
-vqvild i ot purohaso certain supplies
vlvioh 1 can raise, and pay me a larger
than I gat from staple crops.
% will nend for catalogues of farm
wBaprt. sers, and make better tools and
k&c \inery do some of the work that
V' u'd otherwise require high-priced
abor.
Seeing that my health Is my capi,al,
L will look to lis preservation by
Ivmg temperately and according to
he c immon laws of health, and not
jy dosing with patent nostrums whose
ngrtdUnts I know nothing of.
J will encourage the study of agriculture
in the schools.
Besides trying to have the best farm
[ will try to have the happiest home
n the neighborhood, and will try to
jet the help of my wife and children
o this end.
1 wl 1 improve 8nd beautify the
lome buildings and grounds.
1 will get the best books and papers
or my f imily to read.
1 will take a short vacation with
ny wife after the cropi are laid by.
I will try to lighten the housework,
is well as the farm work, by improved
mplement.s and atp lances, arm 1 will
lave the water supply as convenient
is possible.
1 will not let slick-tongued agents
iorsuade'me into buying articles 1 do
ot need, or into paying two prices for
diose I do need.
I will not be humbugged into paying
wo prices for foe d for my slock mere*
v b ciuse it is put up in gayly ooloiid
packages and boosted with highi
r '1 In.. ??,.* I ?
uuuuu^ bVaLJLUUUlifcJS.
L will net waste money for finery,
Kit 1 will not h lp the ccm'c cartoon
sis by being boorish or careless in my
Iress.
1 will visit ray neighbor and try to
n ke the community an attractive
c al center.
I will put ray brain as well as m>
niis \i Into evt rything that I do.
Not only will 1 try to u-.e the mcs*
r< gr salve fa:m!ng methods, bull
Hi also endeavor to interest my
?,rra 1 borers in better methods b,
laving them Teadgood literature.
1 will raise a* many vegetables in
he garden as the family can u-e, and
w us save the buying of high-priced
: rcKv rl a.
1 will lake an interest in politics
ind will trv lo get my party to support
tna heat men and the best pohi
bs, and I will not abuse those who
.iff r vhth mo.
I will get us many of my neighbors
is I can to read the farmer's bulletins
ind farm papers so that they may co
p rate with me in bringing about
letter farming methods.
I will investigate the profl's my
wife or akes cn poultry, ai d stedf the
inc u *ry could not be profitably ex
[.ended.
1 will try to keep plenty of fruit,
n ilk and < ggs, for family use and will
snlargo my orchard.
I will encourage the planting of
flavers about the house, and every
reus mabie cifort to make home beautiful.
As a farm's be t crop, after all, Is
Its crop of strong, sturdy men, and
puro, sweet women, 1 will do all I cm
both by precept and <ximp!u, t>
r In my children for useful, happy
liv p,
L.sily, I will not worry. If any
t vil oau be. re mi died, I ^ ill remedy it
jO. i k' i o time in worrying: if it cannot
be remedied, 1 w 11 not make It
doubly evil by worryii y about it.
Toe above from \be It drlgh Progresaiv
Farmer and Cotton Plant is
full of many geed niggesticns, whiob
will bo i si fv) to f> rrr< rs if f< llowed.
A HoiiHfttlon in Marion.
A special from Marion rass former
bounty Superintendent of Education
Ltaymond Perry, under $2,400 bond
'or cmb zz'.ii g i-cbool funds, failed to
ippear at ills trial set for WednesdayVddltlonal
warrants having been
iworn out against him on Tuesday,
.e loft that night f?r parts unknown
REVIVAL OF THE H0R8E.
For Years the Trolley and Automobile
Lessened tho Demand.
Flfteou years ago the bottom very
suddenly dropped out of the business.
The stieot car system in the cities
changed with slight warning from
hoi so power to cable and electricity,
and uot only threw upon the market
thousands of horses that bad been in
uso upon street car lines, but deprived
of value many thousands of other
tlnee, four and live-year-olds that were
upon tho breeding farms in readiness
for tho succeeding years' demand.
Most of those animals were sacrt*
fi< t vi. In Philadelphia, New York and
Chicago they wore sold at about $10 or
$ 12, their actual valuo for rendoring
purposes. Following this cuino tho
panic, and In addition to the disappearance
of tho market for horses for goneral
purposes there was no longer any
demand lor carriage or saddle horses,
which are always tho llrst to be cut oil
in the days of adversity.
Hundreds of breeders wont out of
business, but tho pluckier oues scut
agents to Europe to seo If a market
could not bo secured. They found the
European tramways still uslug horses,
and in a short time American animals
were supplantlug the scrawny stock in
uso abroad. Later many horses were
disposed of to European armies, and
when still later eanio a few wars the
business was again upon its foot.
'1 housands of animals were sent to
Cuba soon .after tlio American occupation
'I'lmr. (a a I 111 <> fr.w?l ^
?.!?# *. i nut m Lis ouit < unuitiini
there for tho lighter animal a, which are
uaod fur gardening, truck raising and
small farming. Tho south also was induced
by the low price of horses and
tho high price of mules some years ago
to buy many of tho lightweights lor
use iu tho cotton field.
The Boar war created a demand for
nearly a hundred thousand animals.
Eighty thousand were shipped in 0110
year by the English, and ike western
bronco became a familiar sight as an
English cavalry horse.
Business men no lougor buy the
streulora for their own use. A alreoter
is a uorso that once was popular lor
light wagons, cars and general use.
Those have been supplanted in most ol
tho cities by the slook, heavy draft
horses, products of tho breeding of imported
stallions and native mares.
Not the least interesting feature of
the horse business is tho annual visit of
buyers to France and Belgium, where
pure bred stallions, raised by experts
under government supervision, arc
yearly purchased by thousands. These
are later resold to wouteru farmers and
breeders, who tiling nothing of paying
from $1,000 to $1,000 for a pure breed.
From seven to eight thousand coach
and draft horses arc yearly imported
from Europe. These animals ore
brought over in bunches of from 25 to
150, and they are all being absorbed by
the breeders. As many as i,5u0 horses
a day are disposed of at the larger
marketing points in this country.
Dealers declare it to bo a fact that
the price of horses has increased in the
past live years at the rate of $10 a
year. While the standard car horse
price in New York, botoro cables and
trolloys came in, was from $110 to $11.5,
horses of the same grade now sell at
from $150 to $200, and are scarce at the
new figure
The outlaw horse, the bucking bronco,
is becoming scarcer each year. Ten
years ago such horses were as pientilul
as jack rabbits, but they will soon join
the buffaloes in retirement.
The outlaw comes train the poorest
blood on tho range. He is said by cowboys
to be a horse degonorato, a criminal
by nature, just as men go wrong
who have poor blood in their veins.
His parents are In nearly every ease
mustangs, and the stock is the same as
the wild horse of oaily plain days.
Cowboys say that nearly evory horse
will buck if turned loose in a pasture
for several months, but he will soon
ciulet down. Tho outlaw will buck no
matter how long or how often ho has
boen successfully ridden. Famous
buckers are rare now. The bettering
of tho blood sounded the death knell of
the outlaw.?New York Sun.
Education In China.
Education in China la free to all
males. Hundreds of thousands compete
for the honor of being a mandarin,
as from that order alone the highest
civil officers are chosen, such as
viceroys or governors of the eighteen
provinces.
These men have almost unlimited
power, out every mree years tney are
called upon to make an exact roport of
all the affairs of thoir province, Including
in that report a truthful account of
their own faults. If this is omitted a
committee of investigation at once
looks into it and the viceroy, If found
guilty of hiding anything ho should
have confessed, suffers degradation, and
sometimes death, if his offense is a
grave one.
Censors nlso, at any time and always
unannounced, arrive and examine the
affairs of each province. If, under this j
examination, anything is unearthed
contrary to the approved standard, the
offender is at once punished. Therefore,
as you see, a good education according
to Chinese ideas is the open
door to the highest official places in th?
land. Nothing moro is required.?Sunset
Magazine.
Belgium's 190,000 Saloons.
Belgium, where public libraries arc
almost unknown, has 190,000 public
drinking houses. That means one public
house for 36 inhabitants, or ons
public house for twelve men above 17
years of age, the publican included. In.
the last fifty years the population has
increased 50 per cent, tho number of
public houses 258 per cent.
The I.ondon police have a collection
of more than seventy thousand sets of
finger prints of criminals.
TO SPOT OOTTO* HOLD1&S.
They Are Advlnud to Hold tor Fifteen
Cents.
Mr. Ilarvie Jordan, President ol
the Southern Cotton Association, is
ocnfldeut that cotton wi:i go "P a
little later, and In comxquence ho ad
vista all spot holders of cotton to hold
on. Here ia what he says: About the
middle of last N vember the Southern
Cotton Association advised all spot
ho'ders to d> mai'fi tif'een cents <,e>
pound, basis middling, for tht balance
f tl e unsold portion of the present
crop ann plodp" s were ssked for nine
j d ijs. The Marnnit u h Cotton Con
mention held at N:w Orh ans, Li..
J ,nuary 11th?13tb, 1906 passed a
rvat luiicn ui an in ously ei dorslrg tin
bolt in# ok vt rnr 11 for Hfr? 11 cuts,
at d advocated tl o continued holding
f tl a urn,old portion of the crop for
that prroo indf p* t dent of the DO da
p ee tfiDg. 11 e Executive Committe'i
f li e AsscclMU n hut>M que ntly etorsed
the action of the Conventlor
and all rpot boldi rs were earnestly
iBk' d to stand tirm until a maxlnurn
p?ic cf tifteen cents wes c if -red. R
mi mber t no year ei/o c t'on k Id a
sev? n cents per pe ur.d in February and
advaLcecl to over ten cents early in
July In the Lee of a 14,000 000 bale
crop. This year the crop is 3 500,000
bales 1< ss. ConsumptU n is far Kreatet
this year tl an last, and prices of all
lines of cotton ko< abr ormallv hix/h.
If Diet mall balance of the cotton now
i.fid bo Knd for fifteen cents, the
whole crop will not average over 111
ct uta rer pound. Receipts will soon
drop ( ff heavily and a stronger market
will be had. I)j not rush your
cotton on the market, but hold it auo
win out in the great struggle that Ik
cn bt tween the spot holders on the
one side and speculators, spinners and
buyers on tho other.
Irfr#fe?l I'oi k HillrO H< ven.
Rufus Woods of Collins, Ga , the
survivor of the wholesole poisoning of
poisoning of pe< plo fr? m eating pork
in wl lcii trichinae existed, and who
has been in a hospital at Savannah
under treatment for several days, has
.io far rcc< vered as to be able to talk.
He says that In addition to the live,
already reported as haviDg died from
eating the iufectid meat, there were
two others who ra-1 similar fates from
H e same carse. They all eat of the
poisoned substance before Christmas,
and riled a few ('ays before or after
the holidays. Tn? y all expired on
varying dates. The two not before
r< ported were Mrs. Lena Smith of
Eianuel aunty, and Mrs Fred
B.ackwell of S'atesboro. They were
(dstt rs c f Mrs. Woe ds, who also died
and were visitii g their parents at
Collins when the poisoned stuiT was
. aten.
Don't frrwn?look pleasant. 1
\< u are m IT ring fiom the indigestloi
or tour ston ach, tnke K >dol Dyspep
sla Cure. Ikn. Jake. Moore, of Allanta
Ga.. say: 'T si A' red mor<
her. 20 years with indigestion. /
friend ncct mended K doi. It rellev
d me in or e ray aid I now erj n
be; i er hi alth than for ma <y years.'
K del d;g sis what you eat, relievet
( ur stomach, g\s on stomach, be'c -1
tt.g, ito. S lei by C pwav Drug Co.
Senator Tillman,
T1 e Washh gton correspondent of
be Charleston Post seys: '"Ben Tlllman's
lncre> sing prominence In the
Sena e. wh< re f( r the next month 01
< < re I e will be the strom center of
railroad h gislatlor ; his growing popuUriiy
Id the country at large, des Ite
is rcugh and tumbel habits; the pros
KC s that, he may be a big factor In
the future politics of the United
Sti'itis, make the question of his re
ctton a reuse. lntenatlng one.
P . m rent men of S u h Carolina,
ev^n m*uy who ('.hi ke Tillman and
ould like to see him defrated, serlusly
Oi ubt whether any man can be
brought, out. who can h< pe to prevent
nis return to the body he now sits
In."
The best saf< guard against head
acl h. c >nstipatb n and liver trr ubles
b I)eWitt's L tile Early Risers.
K ep a vial of li rec f?m< its little pills
n the house arid take a doae at bee
ime when y< u feel that the stomach
Aid bowels neeo cltansing. They
din'tgrife. S< Id by Conway Drug
Co.
Marit?>r?<l Ttiree.
Two armea m grots entered the
store < f Fiank Boue, an agad Ttal
I II Hi IlilVk P t. Miin.
A?r.h. La , cr Monday night and shot
Mm dead f taily vm unckd his two
nn, i>g?d 13 ar.n 14 and then robbed
the Htore
it lUu Aw*),
L eut. A?tt m H. Fnswater, of the
i v.eMv.i mth infaniry, who recently
11 d to Mix c from his array post In
i i xas, when he v-as c< nfrcDted with
c? a ges of t mi > zz:? ooent of orapany
fui.Oh and swii c 1 i g of enlisted men,
itf dripped him \he army roll as a
e> trier, havh g bei n at sent without
? ave for three n cut h. rlhe Depart
i ?lit r f JnS' lie ai d the State Depar
ii' w 1 in l h ax in i heir efforts tc
i ore t ? ft? hi 11 d ? x radllion 01
Lit lit F * * >
I f g i' i i* i ei cf a habit
1> i't gi \ lie libit, lake a little
K o- Dy p irla Cure after eating
loyiuwlllq it btlchlrg, puffing,
p Ipltatiig aid frowning. Kodol
D g< sis what >( u rat and makes the
< mach sweet'?Sold by the Conway
Ditg Co.
Few teais will be shed in the
Soi lM over the defeat of Grosvenor
for reni mlnation for a seat In Congress.
He was a oon*tant, abuser of
the South and her people. We aie
glad that he has been retired.
. I
GREAT TEST OF ENQIN KERINQL
Slmplon Tunnel Twelve and a Half
' Ml la? Lcng?Lives Lost in Work.
Thm joining of the two ends of
Slrapiou tunnel marked the comple,
tiou of ou? of the greatest engineering
feats of the time. The boring of
a tunnel lu miles long is In itself a
large undertaking, but tho engineers
In charge of this work have had to
contend with many extremely diQlcult
problems, auiong the worst being
the spr.ngs of hot wtater, which
lijially became so troublesome as to
necessitate the abandonment of on?
end of the work. Now the tunnel is
complete; In a few mouths trains will
be runulug through it, and a most important
link furnished in tho line of
communication between Italy and
Central Kuroi.^.
The Slmplon tunnel pierces Mont
Leone, in tho Alps, making a straight
line from Brig, in Switzerland, to
Isvlle, In Italy. The boring was carried
on from both sides of tho mountain,
the work beginning in August*
1&98. The work consists of two tunnels,
a main and an auxiliary, parallel,
Willi 50 feet from axis to axis, and
et one point the borings are 0110 and
a half miles below the surface, so
that great heat had to be contended
witb. The tunnels are heavily arcnod
from end to end, to prevent the blocking
of the way by fragments rock,
yi'roin the Swiss side the borings rise
at a grade of one metre in 500, and
from the Italian side 1 in 143. Tho
summit is 9.572 kilometres from tlio
Swiss portal and 10.197 from tho Italian
end. By last November the main
Swiss boring was carried over til?
summit, and when It had reached a
point about 300 yards from the Italian
end it had to be stopped because of
.the difllculty encountered in the
fcprings of hot water.
The Swiss boring was carried to
the summit without much trouble, a*
the grade naturally carired off the
filtration of water, which amounted to
over 100 gallon* a ininuie. When tho
turn was made tha trouble began. In
"a distance of 1,000 yards between tho
summit and the fa>c? of tho boring,
the willow of water was 1,008 galloira
per# minute, and with the water
brought in artificially for refrigerating,
rock boring and other appliances
ike inflow was 3,672 gallons a minute,
which had. of course, to bo carried
off by pumps. Then, in tho last 600
feet of the main Swiss bore, thirteen
springs of hot water were encountered,
varying in temperature from
108 degrees to 117. In the Italian
heading there was a grade to carry
away tho water and no hot spring*
were being encountered, though tho
men worked in waterproofs, kneo
deep in water, with cascades playing
over them. Tho Swiss had a hard
problem. The hot rock and water
made the temperature unbearable for
the workers. It was necessary to cool
the water issuing from the hot springs
by playing jets of cold water into
tlioin, and also to keep up a continual
spraying of the hot rocks. This
water had to be piped Into the tunnel
a great distance to the workings,
and to keop it cool the pipes had to
be covered with brokon charcoal and
eased in sheet metal. As the face of
tho heading was carried on. tho problem
of getting cold water rjeenmo
more dlfllcu't, and naturally thero
came a time when the capacity of tho
boring became insufficient for the piping
needed to carry on tho work. I^ast
May tho engineers in the Swiss boritjp.
opened two hot springs yielding
480 gallons a minuto. At tho same
time an Alpine storm and landslido
CIt off the water sunply at the entrance.
The Swiss boring was stopped
nfter heavy iron gates hod been erected
at tho lowest point of the work on
Ine Italian slope to confine the water
and protect the tunnels approaching
Pom Iselle.
The Itali;^ borings, having the advantage
gravitational drainage
continued rapidly without special difficulty
until they reached last fall a
point about 300 yards from the abandoned
Swiss workings. Here tho hoi
springs were encountered. Tho first
of these discharged 900 gallons a
minute and had a temperature of 114
degroes. The drainage problem wa?
not so difficult as In tho last part, of
the Swiss work, but the same system
of cooling the rock, water and air had
to be introduced, and, consequently,
the boring proceeded very slowly.
When a thin diaphragm of rock to
mained between the two main tunnels,
the great volume of hot water
which had accumulated In the abandoned
Swiss workings between th?
summit and tho Italian headway wa?
trained off and the mountain wa?
pierced. The dispatches show that
the last blast that joined the two was
followed by a rush of hot water In
which several workmen lost their
Hvor.?New York Sun.
Rivers as Factors In War.
Aside from the siege operations at
Port Arthur, a large part of the heaviest
fighting has been along river
banks?rat the Yalu, the Al, the Taltae,
the Sha, the Hun or tho Hlao. The
positions defended havo been either
parallel to rivers or upon sites which
owed their strategic value to their
proximity to rivers.
The facts suggest In a striking way
one of the reasons why the boundaries
of states and nations from the
earliest times have been determined
so often hv river courses, without regard
to other considerations. The
rivers, by affording natural advantages
for defense, have fixed the limit
not upon what conquering nations
wanted to possess, but upon what
they were able to tako.?Chicago
News.
Mexican mineB turn out more sllvei
money than those of any other couiv
1 try in the wor'4. ^