The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 30, 1906, Image 4
HELP THE Ti ACHEK, ;
HOME ADVICE TO PARENTB OF
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
"Which, if Followed, Will Help to
Make Fchool Work Eaeier
for All,
We demand, says the New York
American, on behalf of the tohool
ohildren and the school teaohere of
to-day, that mothers and fathers cooperate
willingly and Intelligently in
the work that the school teachers have
to do.
There is much talk, in homes, of
the sohool teachers' short-comings.
There Is far too muoh readiness to
listen to the stories of children excusing
their own poor work with oritiolsm
of teachers.
The matter is most serious. The
teacher cannot possibly do his best
work and give the best results unless
the parents co-operate with him Intelligently.
Let us oonslder what the
duty of parents is, and what the
teachers have & right to expect.
Fathers and mothers know what an
atrcolous th.ng a spoiled child is. You
pity the father and mother that must
control one spoiled child. Don't fail
to pity the school teacher who is expected
to control, by kindness and intelligence
delusively, a dcz.n or more
Bpolled ohildren.
The first thing for you fathers and
mothers Is to see to it that you do not
Fend spoiled children to the schools
Remember that the most Intelligent,
conbcientious, devoted teacher can
see all of his work made useless by
overpettlng of a ohild or foolish severity
with a child.
Vq theVQ A VI rl VmA^UaVA I *r% A maamIam
?. nvu?io auvi u.uiiicio 111 aiiifjnuo
demand, properly, that a teacher shall
not strike a child. They should send
to the teacher children that do not
require blows. Fathers and mothers
demand that In school their ohlldren
shall be controlled by moral persuatlon,
appeals to their better nature
by Intelligence. Let them send to
the teachers children that are accustomed
to be controlled In that manner.
Realize that the father is a teacher's
partner In education, and that
the mother Is the teacher's ally. How
Impossible it is In a family to bring
up the children properly if the father
adopts one method and the mother
another.
Ilow many ohlldren are required by
contradictory orders from father and
mother. Think what a task you put
before the teachers, when you expect
them to control so many children who
at home are too often directed In opposition
to a teacher's wishes and
even encouraged to disobey the teach
er.
We emphasize this point: Control
your children by kindness and Intelligence.
You have no right to send
I 4- II- J -
vuuuiDii ubiiarwiuu uonorunen to tno
public sohools. If you say, "1 have a
boy that I o&n only control by whipping
him, or "I have a girl that must
be whipped once In & while." IIow
have you a right to say, "I will not i
allow a teacher to touoh my ohild?"
If you cannot control one child
without brutality, how can you expect
a pi b lo school teacher to control forty
or fifty children by kindness? Remember
that we do not excuse under
any circumstances the brutal treatment
of a child by a teacher.
Every human being has the same
rights In this world. It Is an outrage
according to our law for a man to
strike another equal to him In
strength. It Is an Infinitely greater
outrage for any human being to wilfully
stlke a weak child that Is defenseless.
This newspsper, with pleasure, will
always share In the prosecution of any
teacher or of any human being guilty
of wilfully striking a helpless child if
effective prosecution can possibly be
brought about. But we do tell parents
they should be frank with themselves,
and honest to the teaohers.
It Is a disgrace to send to the pub
jig i-cnooi cnuaren mat rave bean
made the victims of blows and brutality
at home and expect the teacher
to do the hardest of all work, the instilling
of education, without recourse
to the only kind of persuasion that
the child la eocuBtomed to cbey.
Nowhere in the world is paternal
love more highly developed than in
America. Nowhere are greater saoritioes
made for the ooming generation.
The sight of a father working
himself to death for the sake of his
family in so common In the United
States that it excites no comment.
The mother slaving day in and day
out tl at her daughters m ay have what
she could not have, that her sons may
have for their education the money
that she ought to spend on herself, 1b
the rule, not the excention. But too
iDdulgenfc or mistaken i flection ruins
the child.
Never encourage a child to speak
disrespectfully of a teacher. Never
encourage a child to put blame upon
a teioher. There are def? ctive teachers,
of course. And it does happen
that the ohild may bring to its father
or m >ther truthful tales of shorlocm
logs on the teacher's part.
Investigate these things if you will.
But Investigate them for yourselves,
remembering the tendency of childhood
to exaggeration.
Don't he made foe llsh by the fact
that It Is ytur own child that talks.
Find out for yourself, without encouraging
the child to disobedience)
by listening too etgerly to its story. ;
Then, If you find that your child has
tpoken absolutely truthfully, take
auch steps as you may please.
Don't laugh at your child when It <
tells of tht "amart things" thai It
does at school to bother the teacher
or to bother other pupils.
Never try to it fluenoe the ohlld
against the teacher under ary conditions.
You hurt your own child Infinitely
more than you hurt the teach
er when you enooursge the ohlld to
rebel against necessary discipline.
Remember that the work of school
teachers in the DOblest and the hardest
work in the world. Remember
that it is infinitely the most impor
tart, work in this world,
i You ask of the teacher a devotion
that oan only be given as a result of
the highest possible moral oharaoter.
Instinct oompels us to make great
sacrifices to the ohildren of cur body.
Nature attends to tbat, the human
race would die without it.
The school teaoher Is not the father
or the mother of the children sitting
on the benohes. Yot we a*k of
the teacher a devotion greater tbao
that of any other public servant.
We demand tbat he give every ounce
of his ability, of bis intercut, to ohildren
that will not thank him whose
success he will not live to see or share,
exhausting his vitality in return for
extremely poor pay.
Fathers and mothers, be conscientious
partners cf the teachers.
For your ohildien's sake especially,
and for the teaoher's sake as well, put
yourself In the teacher's pl?co. Impress
upon your child the great, noble
work that the teacher does. Till the
child bow cfoen it has happened that
men successful in this world have
owed their suooess entirely to their
school teachers.
Impress upon them especially the
fans. r.h?r.
?-wv wguv/u uicu AIJU OliVAiCDOl Ul ULiCU
have always been etger in childhood
to show gratitude for the work that
the teacher* do.
You can easily impress the obi-d in
the right way. Make it your sokmn
duty to lighten the burden of ihe
men and the women in the public
schools, upon whom you defend fo;
your children's welfare.
Do not negVot this.
WITHDRAW HlbKfcblGNATlON
And Will Remain at tho Head of Col*
orod College.
The Columbia Record says "Thos.
E. Miller will remain at the head of
the State Colored college at Orangeburg,
as Is the wish of every white
and colored frieud of that institution,
which was born in his brain, xiven
life through his work and made a success
by his untiring and unceasing efforts.
This result was arrived at
Thursday at a meeting of the trustees
of that institution, at which
every member but one was present.
"The trustees without exception
requested President Miller to withdraw
his resignation, which he did,
ocoause he was requested to do so by
white and colored people In nearly tv
ery oounty of the state. lie mad*
his tight for high morality in schools,
schools, but, regardless of the
conduct of the two women teachers,
their white friends In Charleston
requested their retention
aud the trustess yielded to this pressure
from Charleston and retained
them.
1 'President Miller said that he felt
that he owed something to the two
races which had been so loyal to the
institution and himself in the past
ten years, henoe he yielded to their
request. He thanks every newspaper
in the state, white and colored, that
has sustained him in this light, and
will continue to do his very best for
the Interests of the gchoolas long as
he is at its head.
Another LjiiohlnK
A dispatch from Batesburg says
Ben Ethrldge, the 13 year old negro
who criminally assaulted little Elean- i
ora West on Thursday, was lynched
in a grove about nine miles from i
there Monday. The boy had been
captured in Summerland and at that
point was put on a train, presumably
to be taken to Columbia, the state t
capital. Near Batesburg he was taken
from the train bv two mi?n a
posse of more than two nundred then
took charge of the negro and he was
carried several miles to a email woods
where a rope was placoed arourd his
neok he was asked to make & statement.
The hoy confessed. lie was
swung high on the limb of a tree and
his body riddled with bullets. In his
confession the hoy described his crime
and all the Incidents leading up there
to. He said the little six year-old
girl was at play In her father's yard
and that he went to her and joined
In the play, after which he enticed
her to an empty stall In a stable and
there attempted to sssnult.
Wtfo and Child llrown.
Mrs. Geo. Watkins and child were .
drowned Saturday afternoon, near .
Mountain Rest, 12 miles west of W&lhalla.
Mr. Watkins and family attempted
to ford a swollen stream ,
when their wagon was overturned by .
the current. Mr. Walker saved two
of the children and tried in vain to
save his wife, who clasped her Infant
in her arms. Mr. Watkins lives in
the lower portion of Oconee oounty, .
and he and his family were going to .
visit relatives at their former home
and had almost reached their destination.
They passod through Walh&lla *
at 2 o'clock. V I
Killoil * our Alen. 1
Henry Greggs, a white man, is held
in jail at Canton, Ga., awaiting the
arrival of the sheriff of Louisiana, a
Or eggs is said to be wanted in that }
State for the murder of four men in ,J
New Orleans. The governor of .
Louisiana baa offered a reward of $1,- t
700 for the capture of the man who t
committed these murders.
poison in this pot.
ADVANTAGE OF BKINO A LIVEAT-HOME
FAHMEH.
411 Other People Bave to Tat Tood
that Contains Poisonous
Matter.
e
Arguments for preferring farm life
to all others are r<oeivlng additional
impetus in these piping days of investigation
and exposure. The
oharms of rural life, always a favorite
theme of the poets, have been so added
to on the practical side by modern
invention that all hands were about
to agree that there was no txlstence
to be compared to that on "a little
farm, well tilled," located near a
trolley line, strung with telephone
wires and in touch with the rural
free delivery, but if any doubt
lingered it has been dispelled by the
advocates of the pure food bills and
the muck-rakers who stuck their forks
into the mysteries of the packing
yards. The farmer seems to be the
only man that is safe in these days of
miasmatic mixi.ures and devilish
adulterations. The only way to be
sure of >our meat is bo raise it yourself,
do all the feeding, the killing,
the skinning and tlio cooking. Yv u
must not take your eye off the animal
at any stage of the prooess until It has
been landed in the stomach. If any
middleman step? in at any conjuncture,
if be Id allowed to work hlB game
at any turn in the process, you are
not safe.
Here we were innocently and unsus
piolouBly devouring the steaks and
hams and sausage and souse that was
set before us, undisturbed by duubt
and uLrulllid by lack of confidence.
We supposed things were what they
seemed, but, alas, there has been a
rude awakening. If an article now
before us, by a Kansas City expert, is
to be taken literally, It Is practically
Impossible to get any pure food In
this country. The butter Is covered
with ooal tar dyes; the meat has more
or less embalming Hold; the catsup is
colored with ooal ayes and has salicylic
acid in it. The lard In which
the potatoes are fried probably contains
portions of hogs that have died
natural deaths and not been slaught
ered under sanitary conditions; posal
bly it died of some disease. The
bread is full of alum; the lea and
coffee contain oopper; the vegetables
have different varieties of artificial
coloring. As to pepper, we are gravely
Informed, anything pure in that
line Is out of the question.
Either the trees nave quit growing,
the berries have ceased to ripen, or
the trophical people have quit ship
plug to market for lack of demand.
It". tO 11 *l /ih/\n v.rt- ~ * *
xu in tuuuu V>UC*|^UI IAJ LUtlKU lb Ul
oocoanut shells, sawduat and clay,
and of these toothsome ingredients is
the pepper of commeroe. Kven the
apple does not escape, but Is made
as deoeptlve as the one growing on
the Dead Sea, which is beautiful to
behold, but a fraud to the bite. The
nice red apple on the stand is rosy because,
nine times out of ten, it is
painted with ooal tar dyes. At least,
though, you will say, we are not to
lose the cherished illusion of new
potatoes. Vain hope. Old potatoes
are freshened up In alum water after
being soraped, and thus passed oil as
the real thing, just out of the patch.
The gorge rises as we proceed, and
the fond ejaculation, so often uttered,
that we would like once more to have
a good, old-fashioned farm dinner,
tnmes forth with additional emphasis.
Purely the farmer himself escapes all
these dangers. Oan he not be sure of
his vegetables by pulling them up
right in his garden and following
them to the table? Can't he catch a
chicken running on the grass that has
uever seen a coop or head of a cold
storage house, behead it, pluok it, and
have mother to serve it for dinner?
Can't he butcher his own beef, dress
his own mutton, gather his own
roasting ears, snatoh his own apples
from the trees far from the maohlna
tions of the middleman and proof
against ma wiles or toe packers?
Admitting the worst for denizens of
the oltlea, agreeing that all ordinary
oonsuDuers are at the mercy of food
frauds, there are still millions of
homes where the prying manipulator
Mid the audacious adulterator cannot
*et In his work.
There Is plenty of good food in the
sountry; the farmers are raising it b>
the hundreds of millions of tons
Much of it, we are sure, reaches the
consumer without contamination,
tnd there is no reason why all of it
ihould not be delivered in satisfactory
shape. lt? is the rascally felloe
who "sits at the reoeipt of customs"
in the elite", tarries at the ha.f-way
house to drop his fly in the ointment,
Lhal needs hont.t.iin/ i it wwn
? - _ w, x ??| II 1VU Wiuot
UHpecliuu, bcicntltic tests and heavy
tines for adulteration, the principal
part of the evils may bo avoided, and
til tho ra.soAvti put out of bu?lneso.
rheac measures have been too long
loiayed, and we Are suffering for our
iasy, hupp)-go-iucky way of attend
ng to buoh matters. It needed a
*ude awakening to brlDg us to our
ienaes, but now that we arfe aroused
[ here will bo no further use for anybody,
In city or oountry, any longer
laying that it Is Impossible to get
pure food. The conditions are bad?
rery bad, indeed?but as frequently
happens In the a Hairs of lifo, aro not
3tar so dark as painted.
Why does tho sun bum? Why does
i mosquito stingy Why do we feel
inhappy in the Good Old Summer
rimeV Answer: we don't. We use
)e Witt's Witch JIazel Salve, and
hese little ills don't bother us. Learn
o look for the name on the box to get
he genuine. Sold by
Conway Drug Co.
HEROIC FISHERMAN.
Braved Htoim and lloaooed Beyeial
Men From Death.
A dispatch from Atlaotlo City, N.
J., say a during a severs northeast
storm which prevailed Friday along
tbs coast one person was drowned and
seven others had narrow escapes from
death In the waves. The drowned
man was Louis Slmpklns, formerly of
Philadelphia He and two companions
were on a fishing trip in a launch.
Off Brlgantlne City they were oaught
In a whirlpool oaused by crosscurrents
and the storm. In trying to avoid a
big wave Slmpklns lost bis balance
and fell Into the sea. Despite their
danger, Slmpklns' companions made a
brave effort to plok him up, but before
they were able to do this he sank
and was drowned. As the men were
about to leave the soene bis body came
to the surface and they managed to
dreg It into the launch.
Shortly after this accident five
yourg men who came here In thesloop
yacht Virginia from Island Heights
left the Inlet for the return trip up
theoo&st. Professional yachtmen tried
to persuade them not to attempt to
ku 1*1 ova, uub nicy uiu nov neen cne
warning and Balled away. In making
a long tack toward Brlg&ntlne Batch
the yacht carried on the dangerous
oar outside the Inlet. The mast snap
ped c ff and the boat began pounding
on the sand.
The captain of a large yacht saw
the aocldent, but having on board a
number of passengers he did not care
to endanger their lives by going too
near the bar. While the live men
were clinging to their craft, momentarily
expecting to be washed to their
death, a hero in the person of John
Johnson, a Swedish fisherman, went
to the rescue in a frail gasoline launch.
He did not falter in the face of the
storm and after & hard struggle in
which his little boat was tossed about
by the waves, he managed to get
alongside the Virginia and took the
live men off. The rescued men rewarded
Johnson handsomely.
Later in the afternoon Tbom&s and
Howard Butler, sons of Congressman
Butler of Pennsylvania, were rescued
from drowning by the government life
Raving crew after their little boat had
been overturned In a heavy sea off
Longnort. Both swam to the capsized
or aft hut were being carried out to sea
in the strong current when their calls
for help were heard by the life savors.
They were much exhasted when
rescued.
JOftjab Va. HKVNoON.
Two Very Int?mi>or*to Prohibition*
IntH Hooro Haoh Oclior.
A Liurens meeting Mr. Jones wai
one of the tlrat gubernatorial speakers.
In the last part of his speech,
he alluded to the unfortunate incident
at Greenville which has brought
him so much notoriety. lie gave as
his reason for slapping Capt. Brunson,
and the conversation just before he
did so, practically the same account
as printed in The State in an inter*
view with him. He repeated, that he
was undecided whether or nob to spit
in Capt. Brunson's face or to slap
him. "As he is a one-handed man,"
he said, "I slapped his faoeas bard as
I could. If I lose votes by defending
my honor I can't help it."
Mr. Jones met with a very frigid
reception, so it is said, but at the
close of his i-peeoh there wero cne or
two handolaps of a subdued nature.
Mr. W. A Edwards spoke next,
' and Capt. Brunson, having then ar
rived, made his address to the voters.
During the last part of his speech be
scored Mr. Jones with a scathing rebuke.
in speaking of Jones, Oapt.
Brunson said he had no need to touch
him But the time will come.
"Fie knew the crovrd was around
him and he knew I cculd not reach
him. It was a low, cowardly, brutal
act."
When he said this there were loud 1
cries of "Hurrah for Brunson" from
all sides of the hills, and loud hand
olaps. |
"Without cursing," replied Capt.
Brunson, "I think I can characterize
this man: If you take the Q.illp of
'Bleak House' you have his i*r?ed of
tfolu, If you tak? Carker of 'Dumhey I
and Son' It represents his hypocrisy, I
if you take Arbaocs of the 'Last Days
of Pompeii' you see his shrewd cun <
nlntf, 11 you take Judas Iscariot from 1
the Gospel of Luke it la a picture of 1
his treachery. Wrap them all In a i
human skin and 1 present to you
Adam Crane Jonetl'' 1
The crowd fairly roared at this 1
denunciation of Jones and one man
yelled, "lie tfot you then, Crane."
Mr. Jones whs horn in Laurens. 1
llatkoll Cornered. I
To the Editor of The State:
In your paper of Aug. 23, in the
report of the Hopkins meeting, Col.
Haskell intimated that I had had my
house repaired more than onoe. This
1 positively deny; the only time it
ever was repairen was in 1898 when 1 1
had no connection with the dispensary.
1
Col. Haskell says that my brother- 1
in law, W. H. Caldwell, Is a very un- 1
reliable youn^ man. In reply to that 1
I wish to say I will believe Caldwell 1
as quick as I will Haskell.
1 do not see how Col. Il&skell or
any one else could have heard Caldwell
say that 1 nad "shamefully rob- '
bed him" la the settlement of his :
estate and that liquor men were then
paying my bills when the estate was
settled four years before I became con- 1
neoted with the dispensary and a year 1
before the dispensary was established.
Wilis Jones. 1
fcHOULU MS KILLFD.
WAH SHOULD BF MADISON THIS
MOSQUITO
And the Little Annoying Pests Priven
From Every leasehold in
the County.
We know It would cause joy to run
through every household In this
mosquito-ridden community to know
tbatthe llttlle pests can be destroyed.
With the exoeptlon of the salt water
variety, every species of the buzzing,
bitting pest can be exterminated by
Individual or local effort, with comparatively
slight expense of time and
money. The secret of success of Individual
or communal warfare on the
m( squlto lies in the scientifically
proved fact that the mosquito In
variably lives, buzzes and bites very
near the place of its birth, unless, of
course, It Is carried away by a strong
wind. Therefore, In order to wage a
successful war of extermination on
the moequito, it is necessary only to
discover the breeding place or places
?always standing or stagnant water
?and to remove them entirely either
by draining and then filling in the
depressions, or, If that Is impossible,
or impracticable, by coating the surface
of the water with kfimannn nil
Right here let It be known that the
search for stagnant water must be
thorough, if relief from rnofquitoes is
to be obtained. They breed in the
most unsuspected places?in old tin
cans, rain-filled hollows of trees well
up from the ground, crotches of trees
and hollow stumps, broken bottles,
hidden by grass or topping stone
walls as ornament; pitchers of the
pitcher plant, closed sewers, the
female entering and leaving through
the perforated traps; ilower vases in
which the water is not changed daily;
Jars of water insulating the legs of
refrigerators, roof leaders that are
not properly graded. Obvious breeding
places are uncovered rain water
barrels, open cisterns and wells, the
pits of outdoor water olo6ets, ground
depressions, unused household water
recc p^ acles, still water along the edges
of streams, pools formed by uoderorush,
pools fed by springs, water
along the edges cf swamps and In the
swamps, watering troughs Infrequently
used, and the pools formed underneath
by drippings.
T ? weu# 4i.> i-4-j ?
xu utiei, cue varieties or m*qulto
that give the greatest troupe?barring
the salt water genus?will breed
anywhere in anything holding standing
or stagnant water. These varieties
are the oulez pungens, or inland
mosquito, the most common of all
the two hundred odd specie*; the
stegoocyia, or yellow fever bearing
moi qui to, which is found pretty
generally over the south; and the
anopheles, or malaria bearing mosquito,
whose habitat is the greater
part of America. It is the inland
mosquito that generally breeds In or
near a house, and owing to this trait,
it is often called the house mosquito.
The more cffunsive the water the
more prolltic this species. This is
also true of the stegomyla. The
anopheles prefers to breed in small
pools of unoontaminated water, but
which are frequently covered with
green soum. Tne edges of swamps,
ground depressions and sprlngfed
pools are favored branding places. So,
also, are unused receptacles about &
house; but, unlike the culex pungens,
the anophels rarely enters a house.
The best way to apply kerosene Is
with a garden sprinkling pot, after
the openings in the nozzle have been
enlarged somewhat. One pint of oil
to a water surface twenty feet in
diameter is the accepted proportion.
An application will suffice for about
two weeks, when it Bhoul i be repealed.
The method bv whioh the oil
destroys the larvae (wiggles) is not
tozlo, but meobanloal. A larva must
come to the surface every minute or
two for air. The inland larvae approaches
the surface at rlgnt angles
and gets Its air by sticking its tail,
equipped with an air tube, above
water. The anophels larva lies parallel
to the water surface and secures
air by putting its head above water.
In whatever way a larva obtains air
the oil obstructs its delicate respiratory
apparatus and rapid sLffication
results. An unbroken oil him will
bring death to all the Urvae in a
given body of water in a few hours
Care should be taken to keep the
oil ttlin continuous. Kerosene tends
to collect around water gass logs and
other foreign bodies in a pond, for ex
ample. Thus spaces of water surface
more or less extensive are left without
an oil covering, and the breeding
of mosquitoes g es on apace; the
time from eggs to winged m cquito
varies from twelve to twent>-tlve
days, according to the species. By
removing granges and all other ob
atructlons from a body of water an
unbroken ol1 til in can be obtained.
The edges of streams, springs and
ponds should also be kept o'ean, as
the presence of logs and grass tends
to standing water, in the shape of
little pools, and In these the female
b?IAV\V%*1ii *1 1' ha.- J - 1 * *
?iJupuoiB ijciikui<m bu ue posit nor eggs.
Amoni? the very few bodies of water ,
ibout a bouse that can not conveniently
be treated with kerosene are {
cisterns. These, however, as well as
open wells, can be screened, and in
this way kept from the mosquito. If
you are averse to putting oil on the
water in rain water barrels, tit them
with tight covers, with screened
boles in the center for air, and draw ,
out the water from the bottom by
means of a. spigot. i
There is no need to pub oil in a wa- ,
terlng trough in daily use. The animals'
noses, if nothing else, keep the
water well stirred up, and it is an eniomolcglcally
proved faot that if
ir
The Horry Herald,
CONWAY, ? C.
Thursday, Angus* 30. <006.
standing water, In whlob .there are
motqulto lsrvae, Is st'rrech up. the
larvae will die In a short t?due as a resuit
of the commotion. Srol1 or tegnan
t water, the montnt the
eggs are laid until the winged lnseota
are at band, la absolutely necessary to
the development of mosquitoes. Egg,
larva, bupae, then, In two or three
days wlngfd mosquito?these are the'
four stager. of morqulto development.
The ocst of mnqulto eztermiDatlcn la
trilling of lfte!f; and It sinks into utter
Inslgnlf oarce when compared with
the benefits resulting therefrom. Several
summers ogo a certain Maryland
village was aid rw, almost to a man,
with malaria. The following summer
forty dollars was spent In draining
the breeding place of the anopheles
and only one oasc of. malaria was reported
all summer. Whatever the variety
of moiqulto, science has pointed
out a sure way to * xterminate It. And
science says, and has proved It, too,
that the best way to be rid of one
hundred and ninety-nine varieties Is
for each individual and community to
wage war on the morqultoes bothering
him and it by draining, filling In and
oiling, me motquito less age is dawn
intf. +.>
HORRIBI.lt ACCIDENT.
A Young Man Terribly Mangloil In
Brickyard Machinery.
Probably the most shocking accident
that has ever ccourrod m tula
city, says the Gaffaey L idger, occurred
Thursday about 10 30 a. dq., with
Montie Curry, a young ecu of Mr. J.
11 Curry, as a victim. As this is
written his coudltion cannot ba determined,
althoug it is thought to be
decidedly grave.
Tne facts as learned by a Ledger
reporter who arrived at cue brickyard
of Mr. Ourrv a short while after tne
accident occurred, are about as follows:
It seems that Montie was working
at the drum used for culling up oars
of dirt fiom the pit. It was hi*
duty to mauipulate toe lever of the
machine that pulled up the cars of
olav. He was to do tnis when the
signal?the ringing of the bell?was
given. While waiting for the signal
tie had apparently gone over to the
other side from nia l?v*r no?r ?
swiftly revolving shaft, and was playing
with a small piece of old woru out
Oe.fciug, which he had wrapped around
the shaft, supposedly to see what effect
it wouiq have or to await for it
to get too hot to hold. Stray strlngs
from the belting finally caught the
shaft, and in turn o*ugni the boy. At
every revolution of the shaft the body
notouiy struck the ground bin struct
a large piece of timber winch was
n jar. Ilis clothes were lorn entirely
jrem his body an 1 when the frightened
hands reached him he was absolutely
without a stitch of clothing,
even his shoes being torn from his
feet. Oaearm, the right one, was torn
from the body at tbe wrist and waa
found some distance away. Tbe same
arm was broken above the elbow.
Both legs were broken above the knee
and it ie feared that internal injuries
exist. Physicians were hurriedly summoned
and Mr. J. H. Curry, ihrbrhk
contractor and father of the boy, was
soon on the spot. The unfortunate
lad was oarrled to his home, a short
distance away, and preparations were
made for an operation. Tne operation
is in progress at this writing.
The escape of the b >y from instant
death is marvelous. Small scraps of
olotnlng and batons can be seen
strewn around the git u ad where tha
accident occurred. The constitution
of the boy is excellent and will be of
great assistance at this time of need.
He was consoious wnen the physicians
arrived on the spot, and oouversed
with them as to his injuries.
IUNU8 MlfiEbjfii).
Chaliman Ot Democratic I'arty Galls
On Democrats For Aid.
To All Democratic Voters:
If there ever was a time in the history
of the Democratic party for the
manifestation of loyalty and patriotIsm
on the pain of its members, it is
right now.
If we are to win a vlctorv and aW*.
ii President two years hence, we must
first elect a House of llspr* ssDtatlves
t.hls fall. A Domocrauio Ilouso can
and will investigate every department
of the Government.
With ail of thrm honeycombed by
"Kraft*" the edg*s of which, only,
have been touched by recent exposure
and prose* utlons, there will be a
revelation of rottenness that will
astound the country and create a demind
for a DemocrRtlo administration
to clean the Government workshop.
To win the House we need money
to defray legitimate expenses and get
out our vote. We have no protected
monopolies from^Moh to draw to till
our coffers, an they do those of the "*
Republican party. We must, therefore,
appeal to loyal Dauiuorats for !
contributions.
Will you send us 11.00 at once, and
in return for this we will send you
copies of our oampalgn literature issued
by the Committee. Y>u will
have the thanks of the cntlie Democratic
party for your favorabie response
to our request.
Address all remittances to?
r J. M.. Grlvgi, Chairman,
Munsey Building, \
Washington, D. O. *