The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 22, 1906, Image 4
HB11 Ml
Engineers Can Not Prevent
Spreading Rails.
WATCH TRACKS CLOSE
Road* Working For a Device to Deduce
Pressure?-All Section* Carefully
Examined Daily?Allowance
Made For Work Done in Zero
Weather.
According to railroad men who*?
business It Is to look after the
tracks, only about one In twenty of
the wreck* are duo to iuu kinks,
ays the New York Press
"Iff like the doctor's heart failure,"
said one track engineer. "After
the wrack the track Is torn up
and the oar* lie In pieces. Then
somebody ask* tho conductor or
the engineer what did It. They
don't know half the time. They
couldn't know. Sometime? I am
called upon to Investigate the cause
of a wreck, and, after the most exhaustive
examination, I am forcod
to say that I cannot find out. But at
the scone of the wreck, when tho re
porters oome around and ask questions,
thore Is always somebody with
the easy answer?sun kinks.
"Of course wrecks nro caused by
the action of the sun's heat upon the
rails," said another track engineer.
"It Is very hard to guard against
them absolutely. If the rails are
Jald, say, In aero weather, about a
half an Inch Is allowed between
them. It they are laid when the mercury
Is at 40 or BO, approximately a
quarter of an Inch Is allowed. If they
aro put down in the hottest part of
the summer they are laid practically
land to end.
"Maybe the calculation that Alls
the expansion of most of the rails
Will not fit three or four that happens
to be near one another In a
tretch of track. Then a hot summer
day oomoe. The track walker
tind section gang do not nee that the
rails aro getting too close together.
It happens also that the ballasting
Is not quite as good as It ought to bo
at tlio point where there Is the most
strain. The rails got together and
expand still more. Something has to
to give way, and the rails buckle outward.
Maybe the track buckles so
much that a train will run off. Maybe
the next train Is coining so fast
that the engineer doesn't notice it in
time. There are some other maybes.
' Thore you have the circumstances
of a wreck really duo to sun
'kinks, as the newspapers calls them.
You seo the number of things that
coincided to bring about tho wreck.
You must understand why it is, too,
that a real, dyed in the wool sun
Idnk Is a thing of rare occurrence.
"Several years ago I was riding on
m frleght train, and looking ahead,
caw that the tracks had buckled outward.
The train was stopped and I
saw a real case of the sun kinks.
"I couldn't find anybody on whom
the blame oould be laid. Tho rallc
vrero spiked and bolted properly, the
ballasting seemed to be fairly good,
and the rails a little further down
the line were properly spaced. It
may have happened that somebody's
miscalculation as to the expanslveness
of one or two particular rails
bad caused the kinks.
"The public doesn't know how
closely the trackR of a big railroad
are watched. Even down South and
out West, railroads have the walkers
to lnspeot every foot of the tracks
once a day. In addition to that, the
section gangs are bound to go over
sdmost every foot of the track each
day In going to and from work on
the handcars. The longest section Is
not more than six miles, and on a
two or four track system the sections
are very short and men are
constantly going over them.
"Neverheless wrecks do sometimes
result from the development
of sun kinks end railroads are now
experimenting with thirty or forty
different types of anti-creepers. An
anti-creoper is designed to reduce to
the minimum the chance of a track
buckling on a hot day. The tracks
usually buckle outward, and the
anti-creepers are designed to exert
force, In a pinch, against that. The
antl-creepcr's heavy shoulders roet
against the side of a tie and are oolted
to the rail. When the tendency
comes to buckle It Is met by the
combined strength of the antl-crepera,
there being two or three to every
rail.
4 I T* i. ? At. ? M A i M A?- -
Duv wven tnen, oonunuea t.ne
track engineer, "the force of the
buckling may be go enormous that It
tear* the anti-creepers loose and
awlngs the track outward. No road
that I know of has as yet decided
that they are of sufficient help to
justify their adoption all along the
line."
Monkey That Wears Glansea.
In the zoological gardens at Breelau,
Germany, there is a spider monkey
which was operated upon for
cataract and now wears glasses, says
Exchange. For more than a year after
it was received at the zoo it was
very healthy and lively; then It became
very quiet, ceased to play, and
crouched In a corner. It was examined
and found to be suffering from
cataract, so it was Immediately takon
to the eye hospital and operated
upon. In less than a month it was
fitted with a pair of spectacles, which
It wears with becoming gravity.
One hundred and twenty India
rubber faotorles In the United States,
ismploying 15,000 workers, produce
<80,000 tons, valued at $200,000,?00
jper annum.
THE GREENLAND EXPEDITION.
Dane's Hereditary Interest In the
Arctic Regions.
Even since the old Boaadlnavian
vikings visited the froeen north the
Danes have had a hereditary interest
in the Arctic regions; and the MylinaErlcheen
expedition fitted out to explore
Greenland, and to make one
more attempt to reach the Pole, is an
Indication that Denmark doe# not neglect
her colonies. The funds have
been raised partly by a government
grant and partly by private eubscription;
and even If the Role Is not
reached, a result we can hardly hope
for, in view of the many previous failures,
much Interesting Information as
to the interior of Greenland should be
brought back to Europe. Tradition
has it that the country was much warmer
when it was first discovered some
centuries ago; but it is unoertala
whether it really wan Greenland that
the vikings touched at, or If perchance
they reached the eastern coast
of America without knowing it. Such
a mistake could easily have arisen, for
in those days the only means of steer,
ing were by the stars and the flight of
birds; and it would not be possible to
keep a very exact reckoning in this
manner. If Greenland., however, is
gradually becoming colder, there must
be some signs of tbe earlier period left
for scientists to discovor; and as the
inland of the country is practically
a terra incognita, the world will naturally
believe, as it always does until
it is undeceived, that something wonderful
must bo hiddeu there.?London
Globe.
Police In "Boot?."
The resourcefulness of the Blrmlnipham
police has been vindicated, oven
if their equipment haa been proved to
bo not all that it might be. We learn
from the Dally Mail that the chief ooustablo
recently created a panic among
the members of the force by ordering
a surprise inspection of their kits, an
extreme measure for which, apparently,
there was no precedent. Two pai^s
of boots per man wore a necessary
part of the display, but the policemen
knew perfectly well that they could
not produce that amount. However,
all went well at the Inspection, every
policeman allowing his extra pair?
until somebody looked upder the tuble,
when it was discovered that only one
man really had the necessary extra
pair, which was being passed along,
much n? in a game of "hunt the slipper,"
from man to man. Probably the
Btrminghom police are not deeply
read students of auoient history, und
have never read the old story of c!tizons
who showed the name brilliant
array of sold nn.i fliivai- n i <>? ? ?!.? ?*>
after night in different bonnes, to convince
their visitor** that wealth wm
universal in their city. The transferable
pair of boots waa, 110 doubt, an
original idea of their own. But the
acute chief constable who thought of
looking under the table was more than
worthy of his men, and we hear*11 y
applaud the proposal to raise his salary
from ?800 to ?900 a year.
Strange Work For Women.
"Girls are displacing men in wulks
of life undreamed of only a decade
ago," said deputy factory inspector ot
Sheboygan. "Up in my own city girls
have been working in the varnish
rooms of the ohair factories for almost
twenty years and within the lost ten
years many others have found employment
In one of the foundries enamelling
kitchen utensils. Barring the intense
heat In the rooms, the work is
comparatively easy, though it does
seem strange to And women In foundries.
"The bottling departments of ths
breweries also employ girls In preference
to boys, and the,rwork being almost
entirely automatic, where other
conditions are wholesome, little criticism
can be made.
"It was not until I entered upon my
present duties that 1 learned that g<.'!<*
are also being employed in tanneries.
I am a tanner by trade, so that it wi.s
quits a surprise to me when I saw
frail women perform work which roll
to sturdy men in former years. These
girls are principally employed in tne
chrome departments. In northern
Wisconsin some of our inspectors
have found women smployed in saw
mills."
Side Lights on Hletory.
Sir Isaac (Newton had discovered the
law of gravitation.
"I'd llks to see anybody get around
that!" he said.
Consulting the records, and satisfying
himself that no supreme court
ever had declared It unconstitutional,
he proceeded to divide it Into sections.
?Chicago Tribune.
But He's Keeping Cool.
The fear Is expressed that Peary is
loot In the Arotlc regions. Maybe*he
has simply struck a fashionable summer
resort up there and has had to
pawn everything to pay his expenses.
?Louisville Post.
The Bounder.
*Tls only proper to advise
Some youth about this town
TTntil ho settles down.
That no man can expect lo rise
Philadelphia Presa.
A Little Different.
He?So your father asked you what
you saw In me to .admire?
She?Oh, no; he asked me what I
Imagined I saw.
Hen JUST RULE OP LAW.
Why Natlva Races Accept Eng*
land's Control of India.
The success of our rule In India la
perhaps more misunderstood than
even In the days when Macau lay
turned out his Inaccurate, but still instructive,
essays on Clive anu Warren
Hastings, says the London Globe. We
are prone to think that we hold lncl*a
by force. "Without force we certainly
could not hold it, but as certainly wo
do not hold It by force. lx>rd Curzon
showed this In his speech to the Hardwicks
soolety. If we remain in India,
it is mainly because the millions who
Inhabit the peninsula are willing that
we shall abide there. The acquiescence
is due to no admiration for
either our religion or our character.
East is still East, and West is still
West, and probably none of the conquerors
of India has touched the souls
of the populations that inhabit it less
than wo have done. Nor can we find
the explanation of this strange acquiescence
in the material prosperity
of the country.
It is true that we have done a great
deal to ease the lot of the toiling native;
but we have not yet freed him
from the scourge of famine, and our
taxation Is not to his taste. Why
then, we ask, this acquiescence? Lord
Curzon gives us the answer. Our system
of law and judisprudence, imperfect
as it may be, is the one thing that
stands between nationalities of millions
of souls and anarchy; for we
alone of the modern rulers of India
have brought some sense of security to
every dweller in the land. The excellencies
of our legal and administrative
system in the peninsula may be
ascribed to an enlightened view of our
own self-interest. Mohammedan and
Hindoo, however, are well aware that,
as they never obtained such blessings
from the governments that' preceeded
our own, they would bo unlikely 10
obtain them from any conceivable
Hindoo or Mohammedan regime that
might arise on our disappearance, indeed,
the words that Mocaulay wrote
in the days when John Company bore
sway probably in their essence represent
the native Inuian feeling today
more truly than at the time when they
were written:
"A hostile monarch may promise
mountains of gold to our Sepoys, on
condition that they desert the standard
of the Company. The Company promises
only a moderate pension after a
long service. But every Sepoy know?
that the promise of the Company will
bo kept; he knows that if lie lives 100
years his rice and salt are as secure
as the salary of the Governor General;
I and lve knows that there is not another
state in India which would not,
in spito of the most solemn vows,
leave him to die of hunger in a ditch
ae soon ae ho had ceasoi bo useful.
The greatest advantage wntch a government
can possess is to be the one
trustworthy government in the midst
of governments which nobody can
trust." |
The creeds and races of India today
can trust the British government as
they could never trust each other, so
that without loving their conquerors
they are willing to obey and to defend
them. So our rule in India reposes on
the same foundations on which the
Roman Empire rested. Like Us prototype,
it haa given fin Mommsen s
words) "to much-tortured nationalities
a tranquil evening after a sultry
day." Whether the Pax Ilritannlca
will effect more than this, whether the
fact (of which Lord Curzon reminded
ue) that today the working of this
great system of law is largely in the
hands of the native Indians points in
the remote future to an intellectual
reconciliation between Eastern and
Western Ideas, it would bo idle to
speculate.
I>et us assume that the establishment
of an alien order and justice is
our sole gift to our strange dependency,
the fact itseif will give us a
place second only to that of Rome
amid the imperial nations of the earth
Had wo not been an imperial race, |
it is certain that wo could never have
kept India. At the same time in considering
our success, let us remember
that our very difficulties have in a way
been our advantaaos. KW pvumnio
had the climate of India been more
favorable than It is to our race nn<l
the native population less dense, tne
temptation to attempt colonization
would have been irresistible, and if
this had been tried, the blackest phase
of the Irish tragedy might have been
reenacted on a colossal scale. Supposing
again that the natives of the
country had been a white race professing
a Christian faith of a different
type from our own. we should n?v?r
have troubled to understand them and
00 should have ridden roughshod over
their prejudices, until we had excited
in them an exasperation that would
have blinded them to the better qualities
of our rule. Fortunately for ourselves
the faiths and civilizations of
India wore so strange to our ideas
that we felt instictively from the first
tfcat here we were face to face with
a problem, In the solution of which
prejudloe must have no place. The
realization of the problem called forth
our imperial qualities.
Plausible.
"What was it the poot said was
'sorrow's crown of sorrows'?"
"I don't know. Maybe he meant the
aching 'crown you have the morning
after you try to drown your sorrow."
Always In a melting mood?the loe,
MALAYAN BULL FIGHTS.
Less Exciting Than in Spain, but <
Lot? of 8port for the Native*
A Malayan bull fight, in contrast to
a Spanish bull fight, is a comparatively
tame affair, says the P&ll Mall Gazette.
There is little of a show or pageant |
about it; no huge enclosed ring with
its tiers and tiers of seats filled with
fashionable Spanish beauties in graceful
mantillas waviug multicolored fans;
no poor blindfolded horses to be tortured,
no picadors, no dart planting
bandeiilleros, and no espadas to risk
their life in so-called sport.
In MaJ&ya the bulls and buffaloes
only follow their own natural instincts
and fight with their own kind, without
being goaded on to the combat hy having
darts plunged into them, and
horses not being used there are none
of tho brutal and disgusting sights too
often witnessed in a Spanish bull ring.
It is, in fact, bull fighting au naturel,
stripped of aJl artificial cruelties, and
if less exciting Ib Infinitely more sporting,
though to Spaniards, all elements
of personal danger being omitted, it
would doubtless soem a deadly dull
affair.
Bidden by the Sultan to a bull fight, i
I arrived at the appointed place due
to time, 2 o'clock, but the Sultan did
not put in an appearance until 4
o'clock, the lateness of hie arrival boing
really only custom, for whenever
any show of this sort in on the time
is invariably given about a couple of
hours too early. Just outside the old
chief's nouse, where we assembled,
was the ring, a primitive arrangement,
merely au open oarth space not fenced
in any way. All around the circle
squatted a motley crowd of about
three or four hundred natives, who
had put on their best 'bajaa" and "sa
longs" for the function.
Te bulls were led In by the nose,
each by a Malay, and when within a
few yards of each other let go and
given a shove. They met with a
crash, and then followed & pushing
match, their horns for the most part
being locked together, with a breakaway
now and again and then another
bump together. The two bulls In this
case were badly matched?father and
son, the latter a much more powenul
animal with stoutor horns. The light
lasted only about six minutes, when
"pa" bull turned tail and lied, chas ?d
by his son. A general stampede took
place, after an opening had been
forced, every one rushing after mo
bulls to secure them and bring them
back for their wounds, which were
very slight, to be examined.
Next day I went up river again to
tl?e place Axed on. This show gave
| much better sport than the other, as
I the buffaloes were immensely powerful
brutes and very well matched, the
light lasting about ten minutes before
one got a wound in the corner of his
eye and in consequence abruptly
turned tail and was chasod off the
ground by his opponent. In these
Aghts one buffalo always defends ins
home and will only light when another
cornea into his own particular
haunt.
iu n%?vriy every case the one defending
his home proved the victor,
spurred on, I suppose, by .patriotic
feeling. As the fight lasted only a
short time, the Sultan sent for another
couple of buffaloes, but when
they arrived, after a twenty minutes'
wait, they absolutely refused to fight
and were obliged to be led away again.
When buffaloes are really well
matched, as in the first fight, there is
gi*teat excitement among the Malays
bu,t in the ordinary way one buffalo
turns tail after a few minutes' charging
and the whole thing is over.
Divorce Among the Burmese.
The marriago eu&toms of the Burmese
are simple in the extreme. A
man and woman are married or are
not married, according to whether
they live as husband and wife or not
A man may have several wives, though
in practice he rarely has more than
one.
A woman may have only one husband.
Divorce is a matter for the
village elders. No court is necessary,
no decree, no appeal to legal or ecclesiastical
authority. Divorce is but the
breaking of a status. A wifo retains
control of all hor property when married;
she has a half shore in all property
acquired during marriago. If
she is divorced she takes hor own
property and half that jointly ae/iuira/1
^T^V* *'
Mu?cu. iiivic ih iuj Dienaing or ner
authority with that of her husband.
Sho may do what she will with her
own.
There is no rule of primogeniture
and no power of bequeathing property
by testament. All the children inherit
equally. No Buddhist may make a
will. Whatever a man or a woman
dies possessed of must be divided ac
wruiug u> in? rules or consanguinity.
There Is no preference of either sex.
All children are equal In this matter.
The eldest son shares alike with the
younger daughter.
Acclimated.
The flood of social Invitations that
Is pouring in on Mr. Bryan in England
may acclimate him to the popular
wnve in his favor that is sweeping
over this country.?Now Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Why Plants Droop.
When the warmth of the sun's rays
is withdrawn they turn downward and
receive the warmth of the earth by
radiation.
Sbnatob Kpox, who by jA^fttela- "
tarce of fha Pennsylvania.VaUroad
icd the geoeloua balp of thjk&Mdard
Oil Truita represents tbajpjMBratloDS
In tba Statrs nuflV?, baa
been eelled Into consultation at the
White House to know Just what ought ?
to be done by the numerous "and "
best attorneys In the country, to propare
the case against tba Standard
Oil Trust with unusual oars." It
might be suggested that most any ?
honest oorrtleld lawyer oould get
John D. Rockefeller In stripes, If the
Federal ludga and Jury can be rellsd
upon, but It would seem to a layman
that It would be advisable to keep
Knox out of the case.
Tub bedeviled policy holders of the
Life Insurance companies are now
being bled to eleot their c an officers
and only two years aero they were being
bled to elect Roosevelt. Their
lot oould be no worse if they were .
Federal cffloials.
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The best treatment for indigestion
ard troubles of the stomach Is to rest
the stomach. It can be rested by starvation
or by the use of a good digestion
which will digest the food eaten, thus
taking the work olT the stomach. At
the proper temperature, a single teaspoonful
of Kodol will wnolly digest "
3,000 grains of food. It relieves the
present annoyance, puts the stomach
in shape to satisfactorily perform its
functions. Good for indigestion, sour
stomach, flatulence, palpitation of the
heart and dyspepsia. Kodol is made
in strict conformity with the National
Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by
Conway Drug Co.
Arizona which is entirely under ]
the control of the Federal authorities
reports a lumber trust plundering
her people. Yea, it we fly to the
uttermost parts of thr earth the
trusts, under this Republican policy
of tariff festering, pursue us and even
under tb* pro'erf-VD of f^der^l offiolalr
appolnood.by President J Roose- ]
velt, the people find no rest from
trust exaotlons.
uive children a remedy with a pleasant
taste. Don't force unpleasant med- icine
down their throats. Kennedy's
Laxative containing Honey and Tar ?
is most pleasant to take. Children
like it, and as a relief for colds, coughs, *
etc., there is nothing better. Noopia- "
tes. Conforms to National Pure Food
and Drug Law. Sold by Conway Drug
Co.
Fines impeded for breaches of tbe
la*" on the Potomac aggregated
$465 in one week.
Here is our condensed opinion of the .
Original Laxative Cough Syrup: \
"Nearly all other cough syrups are
constipating especially these containing
opiates. Kennedy's Laxative, (containing)
Iloney and Tar moves the "
bowels. Contains no opiates. Conforms
to the National Pure Pood and Drug: ]
Law. old by Conway Drug Co.
(
Announcmer>t 1s rr atr of the ap* *
polntment of William K. Moody to
be Justice of the United States supreme
court, to succeed Justice
Brown. 1
]
"For years 1 starved, then I bought j
a 50 cent bottle of Kodol Dyspepsia <
Cure, and what that bottle benefited
me all the gold in Georgia could not J
buy. I kept on taking it and in two '
months I went back to my work as
machinist, in three months I was as
well and hearty as I ever was. I still *
use a little occasionally as I find it a i
fine blood purifier and a good tonic.
May you live long and prosper C. 1
ff. Cornell. Kodinsr. Ga.. Ana 9.7 <
Kodol is 6old here by Conway Drug Co. I(
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BANK OF
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DIREC'
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itk layinga banks to those wishing
Try our plea for laying your nicklea i
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Our Bank, being a local inetituti
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uing this policy wo take pleasure in
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Respectful
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T he Horry Ser aid
CIRVAT, S. C.
Thursday, NoYamber 22, 1904.
Professional Cards.
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SURGEON DFNTISTS, >
Conway, S. C.
I^Orer Bank of Horry.
H< H- Burroughs
Physician and Surgeon,
Conway, S* O
r H. WOODWA,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
CONWAY. S. C.
B. Wofford Wait,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Conway, S. C.
Office in Spivey Building.
R. BICARB ROUGH.
CONWAY, S. C.,
A ITOBNLY AT LAW.
Conway Market
Fresh Meats and^Sausage
always on hand.
Orders are taken and
promptly delivered
every day.
Geo. L. Marsh,
Propretor.
Need a good cathartic? A pill is
best. Say a pill like DeWitt's Little
Early Risers. About the most reliable
)n the market. Sold by Conway Drug
Jo.
Outlaws Killed.
A punitive expedition, whloh has
been operating in Kreutzterg district
Rusfia, for the last week, has killed
ninety peasants belonging to the rev)lutlonary
organization, termed Forist
Rangers, who levied tribute on
he surronnding country.
Good for everything a salvejis used
'or and especially recommended for
piles. That is what we say of DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. On the market
'or years and a standby in thousands
Df families. Get DeWitt's. Sold by
Don way Drug Co.
B" SHOE.
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