The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 21, 1906, Image 4
WILL SHE HANG?;
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This Is the Question Being Ask- \
cd in Missouri
ABOUT MRS. M1YERS,
Who Cruelly Planned Her Husband's
Murder and Then Help .d llcr Paramour
Carry it Out, The Cowardly
Wretch Puts All Blame
on the Woman.
Quite cheerful, her behavior beyond
oritlclsm, young Mrs. Aggie Myers
Bits in her cell in the County Jail at
Liberty, Mo. Almost any other woman
in her position would believe that
she saw, written in letters of tire on
the whitewashed walls that hem her
in.
"This is your tomb. You murdered
ycur husband, who trusted you. Here,
In this cell, on June 29, you will be
hanged by the neck until you are
dead!"
Hut Aggie Myers, pretty and young,
sees no such in* criptlon; no such words
ring in ber mind'B ears. She cannot
believe that they will actually hang
her, though she knows she murdered
her trusting husband. She is a model
prisoner always cheerful, obedient; she
makes no complaints, has a pleasant
word and smile for all who approach
her, and sometimes she Blngs.
In another oell, not far away sits a
plain-featured, ungainly, middle-aged
man, who Is morose and taciturn. It
was with his heln. fur his s&kn. that.
Mrs. Aggie Myers murdered her hus
band. He, too, Is condemned to be
hanged on June 29, but he has no
cheerful Illusions on the subject.
TIIK WOUAM FLAN NED IT ALL.
It is not a pleasaut task to print
the details of any crime, especially a
crime so heartless, so incredibly cruel
and bloody as the murder of Clarence
Myers by his young wife and worth
less Frank Hottman; but to tind out
broadcast the story of such crimes, of
the arrest and trial aDd conviction of
the perpetrators, serves one of the
purposes for which the law metes cut
punishment?a warning to all who are
tempted to violate the law.
What is told here is substantiated
by the records of tho trial of Mrs. Aggie
Myers and Frank Ilottmau.
Myers was an honest, sturdy young
man, in every way the superior of
Hottman. Hut the latter was a visitor
at the Meyers home and, by one
of those straLge freaks of infatuation
which notody can explain, he won the
violent and reckless fancy of young
Mrs. Myers.
Frtm this time on the weman managed
everything. Hottman was like
v-ax in her hpn^s, srd she so managed
that her husband suspected noth
lng. The Meyers home was in Kansas
City, Mo. In May, 1004, Mrs. Meyers
J A 1 t- * - -
round tier nusuuna s presence go Hateful
to her that she resolved on putting
him cut* of the way. To this eud she
conspired with the weak Ilottman.
They finally fixed upon the night of
May 11 to do the deed.
Together they planned all the details.
Ilottman fabhioced a bludgeon
out of the heavy end of a billiard cue
with which to beat out the husband's
brains as be slept. At a little past
midnight Hottnan was to knock at
the bsck door of the Meyers residence,
Mis. Me} era was to admit him with
his weapon, lead him to the room
where the doomed man slept and
make sure that his blows were fatal.
It so happened that night that My-|
ers was In a wakeful mood. Mrs. Myers
had to retire first before he would
leave his bock, put cut the lights and
go to bed. When in bed he tossed
about uneasily, while his guilty wife
listened feverishly for the rap of her
accomplice.
It was less than half an hour before
Hottman's rap was caught by the woman's
quick ears that the husband appeared
to have really gone to sleep.
She roBe softly from his side, went to
the door and opened It. The door
creaked slightly.
"Aggie," sounded the husband's
olee from the bedroom.
She quickly drew her accomplice
into the room and closed the door.
"be quiet; he's waking," she said.
"Stay where you are."
"Aggiel" Both heard the husband's
Toloe this time.
Tut woman burrled back to her husband
t aide, lie was wide awake.
wo.at were you doing?" he
auv.
I w.o-jgbi I bad forgotten to fasten
\?* v./ec door," she answered.
'Jit *?? bftl now; go to sleep."
V/SIKKZ* "'tlX HACK TO BLUMJiKK.
Wobe ner accomplice cowered with
hie bludfeoo in the outer room, waiting
for Ltr aignal, tbe wife soothed her
husband into number again-smoothed
bis hair, cooed into his air?this woman
who was thirsting for his blood.
There was a dim light in the room,
barely light enough by which to dis
tloguish the outlines of objeots. Mrs.
Myers made cartaln that any one
would be able to see the dark head of
her husband outlined upon tbe white
pillow. Her husband no longer stirred.
Softly again she rose from his
aide. Still he did not stir.
How she walked silently in her bare
feet into the outer room and to where
Hottman stood, not daring to mote
ixoept by her direction and took him
jy the arm.
"Come," she whispered, "he sleeps
aow. I will remain with you. You
will see his head on the pillow. Remember,
your first blow must be
iUTt !"
These things Hottman told at the
trial.
Silently the wife led the man with
the blungeon to the side of the bed
she h8d just left. She showed him
the dark bead outlined against the
white pillow. Then, with one moment
of womanly weakness in strange contrast
with her latter behavior, she
turned hei face. away.
1 lottman struck with all his might at
the dark head on the pillow. But there
was no dying gasp from the husband's
lips, as he anticipated. The bludgeon
had glanced.
"Burglars!" shouted Myers, reaching
out wildly and seizing the arm
that held aloft the bludgeon. "Burglars!
Aggie, where are you?"
8TAUHKI) HIM WITH IIKU SIIKAK8.
The two men were struggling over
the bed on which Myers half reclined,
blinded by blood that flowed from his
torn scalp Into his eyes. The sDeo
tacle maddened the woman, who
knew that her husband was the
stronger.
Silently she slipped around to the
other side of the bed, snatching from
her work table a pair of shears. Leaning
over the bed so that her unfastened
hair brushed her husband's face,
she savagely plunged the sharp points
into his body.
"Stop, Aggie 1 Honey, it's me you're
stabbing. Here's the burglar on this
side. I have him fast," screamed the
doomed husband.
Breathing hard, the woman struck
with the shears again and again. With
a mighty effort Myers leaped from the
bed and seized Hottman by the throat.
Mrs. Myers, seeing that her husband,
in spite of his wounds, was getting
the better of her accomplice, tore a
slat from the bed, rushed around to
the other side, and rained blows upon
the man she hated. Again he called
out to her:
"You're hitting me, honey. Just
leave us alone; 1 can manage him."
The husband had not the faintest
idea of his wife's faithlessness. She
knew this, and the thought increased
her fury. Around the room and over
the furniture the awful struggle continued.
Myers was saving himself
from Hottman's bludgeon, but lie
could not avoid his wife's blows with
the bed slat. In the deep gloom of
the room it was impossiblB for him to
see that she was aiming thoie blows
at him, and he never thought so.
And so this terrible, inhuman comhal".
Iri t.h* rinnlr nront nn
A bed slat Is an awkward weapon.
Mrs. Myers could get in no (.ffeotlve
biow with the one she held. Sue t-aw
that Ilottman was nearly overcome.
In a moment her husband would
understand their murderous plot,
would have them both in his power
and would learn of the terrible lie she
was enacting.
BELIEVED IN I1EU TO THE UND.
She groped about and found her
shears. Creeping close uuder the arms
of the struggling men, she struck
savagely for the heart of the man in
the white night clothes?her husband.
"Oh, Agglt! Hone) 1 It is I," he
moaned a last time, and fell to the
carpet, dead.
Hottman, trembling in every limb,
fell over on the bed. Mrs. Myers drew
f'own the blinds carefully and turned
up the nignt light. The room was like
a shambles?blood everywhere, on the
bed, on the overturned furniture, on
her nightdress. Ilottman's cuffs, even
his hat, were covered with blood.
The woman stepped over her husband's
body to a dresser, found a pair
of cuffs and mnt.lnnpd tn Tfnt.t.mnn fn
put them on in place of his own. She
went to a closet and found one of her
husband's hats. This she put on Ilotman's
head. Then she said calmly to
her trembling accomplice:
"Go. Get to St. Joe before the police
can arrest you."
Hottman fled.
Early the next morning neighbors
found Mrs. Myers lying on the back
porch of her home. She said that two
negroes had attempted to rob the
house and had killed her husband after
a terrible struggle. She had crawled
as far as the porch, seeking assistance,
and then had fainted.
The police were summoned, and to
them the woman added that certain
jewels had teen stolen. When they
found these articles hidden in a bureau
drawer they they arrested Mrs.
Myers and began a search for her accomplice.
Neighbors told them of the visits
of Hottmtn. Hottm&n was missirg.
Fie had followed Mrs. Myer's orders.
They traced him to St. Joe, thence to
lligglnsvllle, Mo., the former home
of both himself and Mrs. Myers, aud
from there to Walla Walla, Wash.,
where he was arrested. Fie was still
wearing the hat and cuffs of the murdered
man.
Being brought back to Kansas City,
Uottmanconfessed everything In Mrs.
Myer's presence. The woman laughed
In his faoe, denying every detail. (
The pair were tried separately.
Ilottman was speedily convicted and
awarded the death penalty. Mrs. Myers's
case was continued half & dozen
times. The final verdict was the same
as In the case of Hottman. Both cases
were appealed to the Supreme Court,
where both verdlots were Indorsed.
Then came, ten days ago, the sentence
of both to be hanged on the
same day?June 29?she In her cell, In
the county Jail, where she is oonflned
at Liberty, Mo., for she will be the
first white woman to meet that fate
In the State of Missouri, where there
Is a strong sentiment against executing
the death penalty upon a woman.
11 hope for Mra. Aggie Myers now
rests la Governor Folk. But that 1
hope Is so strong in her that she Is as
cheerful as though the Jury had believed
all her denials of guilt. To In
tervlews she says, with au easy smile:
"Hanging? I have never given the
subject of hanging any thought. Why
should IV 1 know that 1 shall never
be compelled to die in that manner."
She is a strange woman?she seems
not to know the meaning of the word,
"nerve9." She is the favorite prisoner
in the woman's ward, always the
peace-maker in case of brawls, and s
great assistance to the matrons In
maintaining dihc'pllne.
It Is evident that pretty Aggie Myers
*)as no expectation of being hang
ed, on June 29 or any other day, Id
her cell or elsewhere
YV ho Uoi 11 ?
Ex Constable M. N. Bahr of
Charleston and Chairman J. M
Ravlinson of the present board of
dispensary directors were on the
stand before the dispensary investigat
lug committee Wednesday. Bahr
testified to seeing a big roll of big
bills, aggregating probably 92,000
tossed on & table at a Columbia hotel
on one occasion by a whiskey drummer
for members of the board of control
present, but says be did not stay
long enough to see who got the
money. lie said L. J. Williams.
Dudley Haselden, Chris Robinson and
probably M. B, Cooper of the purchasing
board then in cff.cj were
present. He also test!tied to being
in a bar in Augusta when a whiskey
drummer threw down a big roll, with
9500 to 9700 In It, in front of Chair
man 11. II. Evans, Chris Robinson
and L. J. Williams, saying there was
no use to go homo, but to stay and
enjoy the carnival going on In Augusta
at' the time, that there was plenty of
money to give them all a good time.
But he could not give the name of
the drummer, and eld not remember
who picked up the roll.
, Formula lor Suooohh.
The formula for success In life
which the late Baron Alphonse Roth- 1
child laid down for the youDg men
i of France and distributed by means
of printed cards was: Shun liquor,
i Dare to go forward. Never be dlsi
couraged. Be polite to everybody.
1 Employ ycur time well. Never tell
' business lies. Pay your debts prompt
ly. Be prompt In everything. Bear
' all troubles patiently. Do net
reckon upon chances. Make no useless
acquaintances. Be brave In the
struggle of life. Maintain your lntegi
rlty as a sacred thing. Never ap>
pear to be something more than you
are. Take time to consider, then decide
positively. Carefully examine
every detail of your business.
llryan tho M?n.
A staff correspondent of the Rich
mond Evening Journal Interviewed
Democratic Natlora' Committeman
Norman E. Mack, In Buffalo, N. Y.,
on the democratic outlook. Mr. Mack
said: 4'1 here has been no time bince
the result of the 1904 election was announced
that I have not believed that
William Jennings Bryan would continue
to be the leader of the democratic
party In the nation and
Iien no time In that period but what
have believed that Bryan would be
nominated for the presidency by ao
amatiou in the next democratic condition."
lie also says the South
111 name the candidate lor Vice
resident.
Flayed In Lion's Cage.
A sensational performance has
tken place at the Stoke Hippodrome,
here two local billiard players arra^gd
to play a match of twenty live up
i the center of a lions' cage, says
he London Mail. Ihe lions, which
rere under control of a lady trainer,
at around the cage on pedestals
ihortly after the game had begun
ne of the animals gavo a loud roar, I
rhich so frightened one of the playirs
that he drop bis cue. As the
[am ?proceeded the lions grew excit
d at presence of the stingers, and
lashed around the cage in an alarmng
manner. The match lasted some
en minutes, aDd the players were
oudly cheered as they left the cage.
PerllH ol Lino Dree*,
A peril of fine clothes was illustrated
recently In Central Park says The
New York American, whon an aristocratic
spaniel was slain by a distinctly
ill-bred bull deg for no other reason
than that the victim wore ohamols
boots a blue silk blanket and a
leather collar. The spaniel was dls
porting itself on the grass when the
bull dog came along. One look was
enough Calmly, dispassionately the latter
fixed his teeth In the spaniel's neck,
shook It a few times, seemingly more In
pity thaniln anger, and then threw
the limp victim against a tree.
It was dead. The only clue as to the
owner of the spaniel was the Initials
"G. II." on the blue silk blanket.
Pillar of Fire.
Eighteen million leet of natural
gas ate being consumed each day by
tire at the little town of Burnt House
I in Itltchle County, W. Va. The
tlames are rislLg 500 feet in the air
and the great fountain of fire at
I night lights the surrounding country.
The fire is watched by thousands.
, The well was drilled In last Friday
and the tremendous pressure made it
( ImposHible to cap the hole. Saturday
afternoon workmen were endeavoring
to stop the how when they saw a
, tuuudersr oirm approaching. Hardly
t had they quit when a flash of lightning
Ignited the gas.
The sword of Damocles is suspended
1 over the heads of .the meat, packers,
1 but it will not be allowed to falli un,
less these wholesale poisoners refuse
to contribute liberally to the Republican
corruption fund for use in the con<
gressional elections next fall.
THE TRUE CAUSE.;
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Not a Moral Revolution But a ]
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Tremendous Disclosure
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OF TERRIBLE FACTS
Has Caused the People to See the <
Rascalities of the Trusts and the
RepuDlican Party as Pointed
Out by Bryan Ten Year*
Ago. I
The Wall Street Journal says:
"A tremendous moral revolution la
taking place. Many practices which ten
years ago, tlve years ago, one year ago,
and even six months ago, were In favor,
public opinion having no condemnation
for them, are now held to be
odious and even criminal. This Is,
perhaps, the most notable development
of the day, namely, the creation of a
higher standard for the conduot of
American business."
In reply to the above The Commoner
says:
Ten years ago! That wa* 100 years
after the American fathers agreed
upon that great constitution whloh
they deolared was ordained to "establish
justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare, and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity."
Ten years ago! That was 120 years
after the signing of the Declaration
of Independence.
Ten years ago I That was nearly 2,
uuu years arter Christ walked the earth
and taught those moral principles
which, in other lands than our, are
presumed to rule In the hearts of men?
Yet we learn from the Wall Street
Jou-nal that ten years ago the American
people had not progressed far
enough to know that It was wrong to
steal and wicked to kill.
Ten years ago I That was In 1896.
The Wall Street Journal's "tremen
dous moral revolution ' notwithstanding,
there must have been?even in
1896? some great moral principles at
work in the hearts of many Americans.
It was In 1896 that It was oharged
by the rep?e .eutatives of the great
democratic party In convention assem
bled in the city of Chicago that se fish
Interests were at work In the sff-vlrs
of our government, and that the pur
pose of these selfish Interests was to
exploit this great nation for the benefit
of a coterie of men and at the expense
tf the masses of the people.
Then it was asserted that a tar if sys
tern which breeds trusts and monopo
lies is dishonest. Then it was said
than an Income tax whereby mnn pay
for this support of a common governmr.r?y
4 n ^ * u " 1? xj _
iuiuu iu ^lupuiviuu iu tuv utmeuts
they receive is in line wit-b justice.
Then it was claimed that the burdens
of taxation should be equally and im
partially laid; that differences between
wage payers and wage earners should
be settled by the peaceful method ? f
arbitration; that railroads and other
great corporations should be riquired
to do justice to the people by whose
law they were created; that public of
fleers should be economical iu handling
the money; that courts should
not use arbitrary autbarity for the op
pression of the weak aDd the helplese;
that government should be administered
for the greatest good to the
greatest number.
Yet we are told by the Wall Street
Journal?and this is but a fair sample
of what we read in many republican
newspaper today?that in 1890 the
American people dl 1 not have the
same conscience which prompts' ^hem
to denounce the infi miesVat-. have
been recently exposed.
There has been no moral revolution
in the sense meant by the Wall .Street
Journal. There have b( en exposures
and the very large number of people
who were misled by republican ne wspa
pers ar>d republican leaders now know
that the charges made by the democrats
in 1896 were true; that the special
interests were even then preying
upon the people and since then have
taken advantage of their great vietory
in that year to impose upon the people?as
though republican victory
meant license for these men to do their
worst.
aw auouiu 1W1 [/UUUUAVIUUD ll&t?
the Wall Street Journal to talk about
"the oreatlon of a higher standard for
the conduct of American business" or
that the things which we now hold to
be "odious and even criminal" were a
few years ago really in public favor.
Long before the editor of the Wall
Street Journal was born men knew
that theft was theft. While the men
of our earlier days had their faults, It
is safe to say that they would not have
tolerated one-one-hundredth of the
Impositions to whioh the men of today
have submltteed.
If one- tenth of the facts revealed
during the past six months had been
known to the American people In 1806
tne republican party would nave gone
down to an ignomioous defeat.
Did the republican party win because
the people were without morals?
Did the republican par*v because
the people were indifferent to the
sohemes of trust magri tag * No. These
men who are now expoocu as common
rogues posed then as defenders of na
tlona) honor. And republican editors
?the editor of the Wall Street Journal
among them?stood sponsor for the
rasoals.
When George W. Perkins, Richard ]
k. McCurdy, James H. Hyde or anjther
insurance magnate issued an interview
in behalf of the republio&n i
tloket, we were told that that was
the opinion of a successful man whose
)nly concern was that the "business
interests of t he country be protected "
When the proprietors of the packing '
houses Ismed interviews in support of
the republican ticket, we were told
that these men were "oaptalua of in
riu try" and entitled to load good clt
izens.
When Bigelow, the Milwaukee
banker, and Andrews, the Detroit
banker, spoke In behalf of the republican
ticket, ?hey were pointed out at
dlslnterested patriots who wculd willingly
shed their blood for the public
Interests
Ev-^ry speech delivered by Chauncey
M. I) pew, by Joseph JR. Burton, or
any o' the other republican senators
or members of congress was pointed
to as the utteranoe of a far-seeing
statesman who would as quickly
desert his own party had his own
party attacked the public Interests
QQ Khn rlnrmnprq f in no rt.xi wtii hhmn
MO UIIV UWIUiUVtUUlV V/ "WJ t# UV4J
obarged with doing. And a considerable
number of people really believed
that these men were defenders of
national honor. They really believed
that they were men standing for the
best course for the whole people.
Several million men went to the polls
and voted the republican ticket under
the Impression that that party was
the "God and morality" organization,
rather than the party of peculation
and plunder?as they now know
it to be.
Docs ?Dy one believe that the
things complained of in the Depsws
and the Burtons would not have beeu
condemned by Americans ten,
twenty, tifby, or a hundred years ago?
Would tiie American people of the
long ago knowingly have given their
approval to conspiracies in restraint of
trade, to monopolies In the neces
sarles of lift? Would Americans of
the long ago have looked with approval
upon an Aldrich did they
know that he stood in the senate as
the tool of special Interests rather
than as the representative of the people?
Has there been a period Id
American history when men would
not have known that the embezzlement
of depositors' money by the
Blgelows and the Andrews was
wrong? Has there ever been a time 1
when Americaus would not see the
evil when United States senators accepted
from private Interests fees for
their services In public sflairs? Dur- <
ing what particular period did Americans
so far forget the simple rules of
common honesty that they would
nave failed to recognizees stea ing
the appropriation of policyholders'
money for the use and benefit of the
republican party? During what
period would they fall to deteot iniquity
in the bribes given by coal
barons to railroad employes and ofll
clais in order that the coal trust
miuhfr. HPfMirA linHlia 'J
unuuu auTAiuagcr. I
When did they ever look upou rebates
as anything but unfair and dls
honest both to the railroad stock
holder and to the general public?
Would the sight of a Rockefeller
dodging iftloers of the law inspire
greater admiration among the Amerl
cms of the long ago than it does
am lug the Americans of today? Are
the Americans of today so much
brighter man their predecessors that
they can more quickly dcctet worng
in ti e action of Walsh, who, as ownei
of the Chicago Cnroniole advccatec
the election of the republican ticket,
pretending his efL.rts to b?, in defense
of rational honor wheu, as we have
reason to believe, they were in order
that he might be better able to
feather his own nest by the violation
of the laws of the land and the rules
of common honesty ? There has never
been a time when men did not. know
that wife abandonment, atr indulged
in by the head of the steel trust ano
oth ir ''defenders of national honor"
is riot "odious and criminal." There
nas never been a time in the history
of the American government when
men would not have known that it Is
a crime to deal out embalmed beef to
the sold ers and the sailors, and a
crime to feed the men, women ana
children of this land upon 6isea.t>td
meat. Would the men of the long
ago navo looked more lightly upon th?.-1
immunity bath to which our trus. I
magna en are treated than do the L
people of the presen.?
Don't oe deceived, Mr. Editor of I
the Wall Street Journal. Tuere lias
been no 'tremendous moral revolu
tton" a^ you employ the term. Tuere
have b<eu tremendous dieolokuns of
terrible facta. The hearts of the
people are right today as they Wore
riglu in 1896. They were fooled then
&a they were fooled before and an
they nave been fooled since. But
once let the real awakening come; lei
then know that they aro called upon
to take their stand on toe side of
trutii or on falsehood's side, and It
will be very readily st.en that by an
overwhelming majority they will take
their stand In line with those goon
old moral principles which thuy learned
at the mother's knee.
If the newspapers would only tell
the people the truth with respect to
these publio questions the popular
verdict would be more nearly corrtc.*.
Eveu uow tbere are mauy honest republicans
who really imagine that the
foreigner pays the tax, and because
of that false notion they are holding
up bue nana* 01 the "standpatters."
When the rank and file of the republican
party learn the truth with respent
to a republican tariff they will
hold that policy to be "odious and
even orimlnal."
Let the Wall Street Journal undeceive
itself. The praotioea which thej
people vigorously oondemn today they
would have oondemned in 1890 had
they not been systematically deceived.
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PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION.
Some Valuable Suggestions About
Ttils Oread Disease.
Oae in every sti or seven deaths is
3ue to consumption; and most of
them are due to carelessness. Wo
gather arc und their graves and talk
about the Lord's will when the Lord's
will was that they should have lived
twenty years longer ! In the tirst
place, consumption is always o&ught:
never born In one. With proper care
one can avoid catching it?proper
care on bin part and on the pari of
consumptives. Consumptives should
be told the nature of their i fn lotion,
and Instructed to oonduct themselves
with a view to protecting others.
They should, above all, be careful to
deposit saliva where it osnnot do
harm. But better t^an this, if one
has consumption he can cure himself.
No, it is no wonderful medicine. If
it were and cost $5 00 a bottle, thousands
would rake It who will not since
It is free. It is easy to cure consuo^p.
tlon in the tirst s ages. Be careful.
rmereiore, to discover it c?.r)y. Beware
of suspicious toughs. Have a specialist
to examino you upon the first Intimations
of the plague. Oace dlsooverfrdV
tight It. Live in Uie open
air, work out-of-doors, be careful of
your diet, take a general holiday; and
In all probability you will effect a
cure. If you die of consumption, you
die of ignorance or carelessness.
These remarks are not our o*n. We
gather them from a reading of the
current Bulletin f*t t,h? North Carolina
Board of Health, the loading
article being on this subject and by
C. P. Ambler, M D. You may bave
it free upon application to It. II.
Lewis, M. D., Secretary, Raleigh,
N. 0.
K* cwtvo* Ht? It** w*p'',
John Spencer Bassett professor of
li'jfljl' Trinity college, Durham, N.
resigned to accept a similar
chair at Smith college, Northampton,
Mass. About two and a half years
ago Bassett wrote an article for a
magazine in which he asserted that
with the exception of Robert E.
Lee, Booker T. \\ ashing ton was the
greatest man the Sonth had produced
in a hundred years. The article
attracted considerable attention
throughout the country and was the
object of adverse crisicism at the time.
Bassett tried to play the martyr act
by resigning, but the college authorities
declined to accept it, which nulltied
to some extent his demogogical
plans. He wanted to pose as a martyr
for expressing his honest. vir?w? nnri
be received in the open arms of some
big northern college that believes that
the negro is a little better than Jie
white man, but the Trinity college
authorities spiked hisguns by refusing
to accept his resignation. But the
would be martyr has at last been reward!
d by a Massachusetts college,
where he can extol the negro to his
heart's content. In time Bassettmay
reach the top notch of his ambition by
receiving a call to share honors with
Booker T. Washington in presiding
over the destinies of the Tuskeegee
Institute. Who can tell? Good luck
to him.
Dies from Dojc Bite.
As a result of the bite of a mad
dog inflicted four weeks ago, 4-vear-old
Bernard Buxton, of Glrard died
Thursday at the Baptist Tabernacle
Home and Infirmary in Atlanta.
When the child reached Atlanta hydrophobia
had already developed,
and the phys c ana could do nothing
but give the child opiates to relieve
his sufferings. It appears that Bernard
was playing near a saw mill
at Girard, four weeks ago, when
the dog came t:o him. The animal
was apparently harmless, although it
acten a little quetrly. Toe child
p'ayed with it when suddenly the dog
i prang at the child's face and bit him
on the cheMr
Him LiaMi .?ot,
J. M. F nt, Marshall of the town
of Morrlston, was stabbe d to death
Thursday by Gabs Priest. Joat bejfure
breathing his last Fant dr >w his
jj-volver nud fired twioe at Priest,
Hounding him, but not fatally No
details are given as to the cause of
the troubl*
There are an many diff rent kinds
of prepared food stuffs on the shelves
of the modern groo ;ry, that it almost
it ems as if city folks must live out of
pasteboard box s. How thankful the
farmer should be that he, day by day,
gets his living fresh from the earth
that bore it. No better place to live,
In all the writ*. t-h?m on ten t*r
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Smoot, the Mormon, will be allowed
to retain his seat in the Senate. The
Republicans need the Mormon vote in
the coming congressional elections,
will tolerate Smoot. If Senator
Burton had had a half dozen or more
wives he would not have lost his seat.
The man who is cieuei mined to do
something for his fellows must make
up his mind not to be disooursged by
being called 4 'grafter", or a
4 'sohemer".
IIkahst will be elected Gover r of
i>ew \ork this Fall, which will put
him In line to succeed Bryan as president
when lie serves his eight years
in that office. This prediction may .
cause some to smile but stranger
things have happened. >
i Opportunity knocks at every man's H
door but a lot of men are to busy doing
a little "knocks" themselves that
thay fall to hoar opportunity.
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