The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 14, 1907, Image 3
RAISE THE DEAD.
Prof. Poe Has Wonderful Machine
Which Will Do It
PUMPS IN NEW LIFE.
Mwliral Men and Other Piofession/
I
al Men b "vitly Interested in
d
the Mod ,i he New Machine,
For Which the Inventor Claims
Greut Things, and Upon Which
II e Has Hxpcrimcnted. !
Almost sightless and semi-paralyzed,
Prof. G ^ge Poe, living the life
of a reclust^^a backwoods farm in
Norfolk co\ \ ^ya., claims to have
solved the lV)em of raising the
dead by mcfo V>f his "respirator,"
as he calls h * machine which he has
invented for the purpose. Tests of
it have already been made in the
presence of Norfolk and Portsmouth
city physicians, asphyxiated or
smothered dogs and rabbits being
the subjects. In each case the animal,
after being pronounced dead by
the physicians, was brought back to
life by Prof. Poe's device, and soon
afterward was frolicking around in
the full joy of living.
A ten-year-old boy, Arthur Ostrander.
son of the man with whom Prof.
Poe lives, acted as his eyes and hands
in the construction of the machine,
which injects the air of life into the
lungs as it pumps out the deadly gas
es. The inventor e'aims that the machine
will resuscitate persons killed
by asphyxiation, poison or drowning;
prevent death by an anesthetic
while a patient is being" operated
upon; prevent "fnfant asphyxia" at
birth; make drunken men sober in a
few minutes; revive men electrocuted
or hanged, the latter only in cases
where the neck has been broken; pret
vent freezing to death even in the
\ Arctic.
Prof. Poe had long been studying
the problem, "When does life really
leave the body?" One day, while he
was illuminating the centennial of
1879, an employe brought in a trap
containing a huge rat. After the rodent
had been killed the professor
said: "Stand asike, boys, and I'll
bring it back to life." He pumped
oxygen into its lungs until he actua1y
did revive it, so that it leaped from
the table and escaped in a hole.
Ttaiu Pivif I-'rifi nnd tin
x iiikJ v i iv\/ vxx \ i a. i vxi x v^v y ituu uv |
redoubled his efforts to ascertain ''
exact moment when life ends. His
interest in it was stimulated by i.u
fact that a young1 sister who had
been pronounced dead from typhoid
fever and placed in her coffin had revived
within two hours of the time
set for a burial and lived to be the
mother of a family.
Several years ago Prof. Poe, strick
en with paralysis, was advised by his
physicians to live in the country. He
went to Norfolk county, and it was
while in seclusion on the farm of his
friend. A. C. Ostrander, that he
evolved his artificial respiration aoparatus.
The hoy, Arthur, of whom
the professor was fond, assisted in
assembling the model and in doing
what the professor's dim eyes and
palsied hands could not alone accomplish.
The professor's model is simply
that of the human heart. The problem
in the case of persons drowned,
suffocated or dead through anesthei
X. xl it.
Lies was lo remove uie num or uie
poisonous gases from the stomach or
lungs, and at the same time pump
life-giving oxygen in. So Prof. Poe
began experiments on what he calls
double larynx tubes and two tubes
to connect the nostril:----o le for inlet.
Studying the action ol tie heart, he
saw that it was that of a double cylinder,
or, rather, two cylinders;
right and left ventricals and right
and left auricles. With the assistance
of young Ostrander he built a working
model in lint' with the construction
of the heart, a simple machine
with two clyders, each having an inlet
and an outlet valve. The plungers
of each cylinder are made to work
simultaneously.
The machine will in a very few
minutes sober up a drunken man who
has fallen into a stupor. It is the
slow respiration caused by liquor
that makes a man "drunk." By the
help of the respirator the? respiration
ly would be quickened, and, the poison
thus carried out of his system, mind
and body once more resume their
normal state.
Thomas Black, a retired business
man of Norfolk, on being shown the
plans obtained permission to exhibit
them to Dr. Francis M. Morgan, a
physician of Norfolk. Dr. Morgan
immediately saw that it promised tc
be an Immense boon to humanity,
and he induced the professor to demonstrate
it before a committee ot
Norfolk county and Norfolk city doctors.
They witnessed the smothering
of rabbits and dogs to the point oi
what they declared on their profas
sional honor was absolute deaih, ant
then saw them resusoiated.
Dr. Morgan Wednesday describee
a demonstration given in his office bj
Prof. Poe and his machine in th(
presence of himself and Dr. J. P
1 Jackson and Dr. N. G. Wilson. Or
' 1( the operating table was the little
'' brass machine, composed of tw<
small cylinders about a foot high ant
six inches in circumference, with j
pump-handle. Pipes led from a tanl
of oxygen to the machine, and fron
it tubes fitted with nostril piece
were to be fastened to a rabbit.
The rabbit was put on the table
and one of the doctors injected two
grains of morphine into its leg, after
which four ounces of ether was given. *
Of course the rabbit was dead after 1
this, and the doctors applied every
known test to discover signs of life.
No life was there and the doctors
agreed that life was positively extinct.
The Prof. Poe applied the tubes
to the rabbit's nostrils and, pumping
out the poisons with one cylinder and
pumping oxygen into the lungs with
a simultaneous movement of the val- t
ves, within three minutes the rab- j
bit, but lately dead, was breathing
naturally, and within six minutes it f
was running around the room. It t
showed no sign of nausea, proving i
that the ether was entirely out of the _
system.
Next a dog was placed in a box
containing a heavily charged atmos- '
phere of acetylene gas, one of the \
most poisonous gases known, and i
smothered there for forty minutes.
The dog was then taken out and doc- N
tors examined him and pronounced him
dead beyond hope of resuscitation.
Rut the little machine got in ^
its work, and the dog, after four or J
five artificial respirations, begais t
breathing naturally, and soon his (
pulse was beating normally.
HKA1X LKAKS 1
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lli-ight Haying" of \Y. M. Dauphin in
Iiryan'8 Commoner.
An ounce of will is worth a pound
of wish. I
The true Christian has seven Sundays
a week.
Credit is the grease on the runways
to bankruptcy.
It is a disgrace to be poor if it is
your own fault.
A "fashionable church" is a vestibule
to perdition.
Infidelity makes no converts at the
mouth of the tomb.
Profanity is the drum major of
the whole parade of sin.
The recording angel never has to
strike a trial balance.
When you can fully realize the
depth of a mother's love you are
just beginning to realize the depth
of God's love.
Real sympathy is always accompanied
by the helping hand.
The seed of duty well done protlin
u/o r?ull now:
The weight of the trangressor: <
Fourteen ounces to the pound. ,
It is awfully easy to be good ,
natured when things are coming
your way.
The man who is doing his whole
duty has very little time for grumbng.
ine wife who really loves her husband
will always laugh at his jokes.
A whole lot of husbands have forgotten
how they courted theii
wives.
A man cannot raise a crop of
brains by irrigating his stomach
with booze.
Satan always keeps a large force
busy coining excuses for not doing
right.
There is a great difference between
having fast friends and friends
that are fast.
When you meet a man who has
the itch for office it is a good time
to "scratch."
A lot of people give God promissory
notes in order to have cash on
hand for Satan.
Law aiul Morals.
A Missouri graduate in law, says
a politician of that state, wrote to a
prominent lawyer in Arkansas to inquire
what chance there was in that
section for such a one as he described
himself to ho Mo said* "I am a ro
publican in politics and an honest
young lawyer." The reply that
came back seemed encouraging in its
interest: "If you are a republican,
the game laws here will protect you,
and if you are < n honest lawyer, you
will have no competition.
A Sharp Trick.
Our readers should keep their
weather eye open for fakirs and
swindlers, they are numerous and
work every scheme to catch people.
The la est swindle, worked by a
( sharper In one of the cities recently,
. is an apt Illustration of the ability of
, these dead heat fakirs to catch not
i only the ignorant hut all others who
i ire not constantly on their guard.
This swindler walked into a jewelry
store and selecting a $12.r> watch left
a check for $G00 drawn on an out-of'
town hank, with instructions that
the watch be regulated and that he
L would come after it and his change
i a week later. On returning he was
> informed that his check was no good
. "Well, that's strange," ho said,"It's
; the second time the hank has done
that thing to mo. Hut here's the monp
ey for your watch," and he counted
[ out $125 in currency and started for
. the door. "Oh, yes," he said, turning
1 round, "you'd hotter give me that
chock." It was willingly handed
I over to him. On the back was the
1 l<uvAli?r'? onrlnrunnmnl WHtK
JW.. x/.V. M W. .. U. M Itll t?I IO
1 tho man went Into a bank, got it
. cashed and was never heard of af^
terward.
2 Five miles of one of the rural mail
J routes out of Townville in Anderson
l County have been cut off by tho de<
partment bcause tho road was impassable.
Let us remember this
O
and keep our roads In good order.
CHINESE PRISONS.
rerrible State of Men and Women
Confined in Them.
tome of the Tortures Inflicted on ,
Prisoners Are Almost Beyond Belief
The East of Asia Magazine says
he first thing which impresses the
European visitor to the Chinese pris>n
is the absolute flimsy character of
he structure itself. If one gets pernission
to visit the prison in Canton
?and shoals of globe trotters do
vend their way thither after they
lave seen the execution ground?it
vill be found to be a ramshake buildng
of no pretence whatsoever.
The question will be asked: "By
vhat means are the prisoners held in
safety if the structures in which they i
ire incarcerated are so flimsy and in-1
tecure?" the answer is brief. With- j
>ut exception the prisoners are fet-'
ered. Many have chains on the legs
>nly. These are the less dangerous
incl have been guilty of the less im>ortant
crimes. Others, in addition,
lave letters on the arms, which make
t impossible for them to escape. 1
T I v n fnu; nri?i\nnrc u.'oi'n r\iit
inly manacled on the ankles, but
a*ore a chain around their necks, at j
:he dangling end of wichh was at-1
Lached a block of granite. The pris-!
iner would walk from place to place
within the court yard, but ere he
eould move beyond the length of his
ehain he must stop and lift the stone
ind, carrying it in his shackled arms, i
drop it again where he wishes to
stop.
In addition to the chains worn by
lay, all the male prisoners are further
shackled at night. By means of
two heavy beams, in which holes have
been made for the ankles of the pris- [
mers, a rude but effective method is
discovered for detaining the prisoners
in absolute security.
The prisoners, who during the day
iave been loafing in the court yard,
ire in t le evening driven into the
wards and made to lie side by side on
x raised platform. The upper of the
two beams is then raised and each
man is compelled to place his ankle
into the hole made to receive it,
whereupon the upper beam is replaced
and the prisoners are held by the
fo<->t i?> n"'o stocks. rphere is
no possibility of escape. They are
ai 10??v.c* ^iiv,ks xor pillows, .tod in
l : ? ^ _ 11 _ .'i __ ?_ ...
i us uncomioriame position iney pass
the hours.
In addition to this however, special
c uelties are perpetrated on certain
prisoners who, for some reason or
other, are exempted from c;t+utal
punishment. Prisoners there are
whose appearance becomes as wild as
the beasts of the forest, who, with
heavy cangues on their shoulders, are
incarcerated in a fifthy dungen for
the term of their natural life. 1 have
seen them moving to and fro like
caged hyenas in their dens at a menagerie.
Their appearance is revolting.
Night and day, as far as I remember,
both asleep and awake, this
heavy burden rested on their shoulders,
though how it was possible to
sleep therein I was unable to understand.
On the other hand, in a prison
I visited for a few weeks ago, I
was informed that the cangue was
removed at nights that the prisoners
might sleep. A crowd in the prison
quadrangle, with their unshaven
heads, their unwashed faces, their
clanking fetters, their hopeless looks,
their diseased bodies and their bebruted
souls can never be forgotten.
But although under the recognized
system of punishment Chinese prisoners
must live a life which to us of
the West would be unbearable, it
would not be so to them if they were
fairlv treated and were saved from
the exactions and barbarities to which
they are exposed at the hands of their
rapacious keepers.
When a prisoner first goes into the
wards the warders claims his clothes
and his money and he is left with the
barest rages to cover his nakedness.
He is robbed of all his cash, as a matter
of course. Those who are condemned
are compelled under a threat
of the whip, to write begging letters
to their relative s, requesting them to
forward money.
If the unfortunate man hesitates
to accede to this demand the warders,
assisted by some of the oldest
prisoners?for it appears that inmates
of more than 20 years' residence
have accorded then certain privileges?take
the man in hand during the
night. The hands of the prisoner are
fastened by a rope, and the other end
of the rope is then passed through a
ring which hangs from the roof of
tho ward.
The warders then hoist the unhappy
wretch, who is left hanging in mid
air by the hands. Should ho attempt
to cry out, his mouth and throat are
filled with ashes. When the breath
has almost left his body and he \a
choking he is lowered, and under the
terror of renewel of this torture he
is eager to promise almost anything.
Many die under this ordeal. Hut as
it is assumed among the mandarins
that mortality must be high, and as
no official probing is ever dreamed
of, a general statement as to natura
death is sufficient.
Charles Howard and Thomas No
lan, alleged yoggmen, were acquit
ted at Marion of burglarizing the
Bank of Mullins. They had no law
yer and gave no testimony. It payi
sometimes to koep your inoutl
closed.
NOTHING GAINED.
Mr. Brunson Compares the Old
and New Dispensary Laws.
Ho Does Not Where The Prohibitionists
Have (au in (Hi Anything
By Now Law.
To the Editor of The State:
1 do not wish you to think that
prohibition is dead, or that I am disgruntled
at defeat. The truth is, j
while I do not intend to again be a 1
candidate for any of lice, I shall continue
to vigorously oppose the sale of
intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,
and with this in view shall
lend a hand to the organization of!
the prohibition forces during the
next two years. To this end I hope
you will give me space in your columns
for an occassional letter.
The prohibitionists were chiefly responsible
for the enactment of the
old dispensary law and true to their
compromising tendencies they deserve,
in large measure, the credit
for the passage of the new dispensary
law. There has been much rejoicing
all over the State at the death of the
G. M. 1., but it behooves an intelligent
Christian people to examine
carefully and if possible see wherein
.the conditions have been bettered.
Will not the county dispensaries,
now being so eagerly established sell
just as much liquor as when they
were under State control? Will not
the stuff now sold by them make just
as much drunkenness and crime as
the stuff they sold before? Have not
the opportunities for corruption and
graft been multiplied by the number
of new county boards authorized to
buy liquors? Is the general distribution
of graft germs over the State
better than to keep them in a pest
house in Columbia? Is there something
peculiar in the soil of Charleston
and Columbia that will purify
the liquors there distilled; or was it
for some other reason that to those
cities was given the exclusive right
to establish new distilleries and breweries?
It is necessary in distillation
to have 20,000 people to watch the
process, or was it the object of our
legislators to give to the cities of
Charleston and Columbia the hulk of
the liquor trade of the county boards
throughout the State?
Under the Brice law we had all the
"local option" we needed and the
question was between prohibition and
the old dispensary with its established
corruption?a convicted criminal.
Now, under the Carey-Cothran compromise
we have only the same local
option and the question is between
prohibition and the county dispensary,
the corruption of which must
j develop as it is operated. Are we in
! better condit ion?
The old dispensary law gave1 us by
far a stronger, better organized system
for handling intoxicating liquors
than this loosely-jointed system of
county dispensaries can ever be; and
yet we saw every good feature of the
law violated, every restriction removed
and every barrier to corruption
broken down within a few years.
It should not be forgotten that the
county dispensers under the old system
were entirely free from temptation
in the matter of buying liquors?greatest
of all the temptations
?and yet about 50 per cent, of all
those employed had to be dismissed
for shortage in their accounts or
other crime. Can we hope for better
results with increased temptations?
I believe the time will soon come
when the authors of the Carey-Cothran
compromise will be as much
ashamed of their product as certain
others should now be of the old dispensary
law.
Joel E. Brunson,
Greenville, S. C., March 4, 1907.
t'l.lf MlK.ll Uiv,.<l
Suit for divorce was filed in Cloveland,
Ohio on Tuesday by Elizabeth
Gordon Hanna, wife of Dan R. Hanna,
only son of the late Senator Mark
Hanna.
Hanna is accused of gross neglect
of duty, abandonment and extreme
cruelty.
Mrs Hanna asks for divorce, ample
alimony and the custody of her
daughter, Elizabeth, aged five years.
The plaintiff is Hanna's second
wife, her first husband being Walter
Dos Maud, ari Englishman. She was
divorced from him in 1900, and on
Fedruary 19 of the same year she was
married to Dan Hanna
Hanna has also been married
twice. Dan Hanna's first marriage
was to May Harrington. She obtained
a divorce in 1898. She has since remarried.
Hanna's present wife is the
daughter of the late Charles W.
Gordon, a millionaire, who bequeathed
to the city of Cleveland Gordon
park.
liriital Murder.
i Whon he returned from his office
1 Friday niprht, Herman W. Quern1
heim, president of the Quernheim
Hardware Co., stumbled over the
' lifeless form of his wife in the front
' hall of his residence, M720 Vesta aveI
nue. one of the fashionable residence
. streets of St. Louis. Mrs. Quernheim's
throat had been cut, she had
been shot once and her body had
. been brutally torn and bruised.
Scattered about the floor were numerous
jewels and several hundred
3 dollars in currency. The only thing
_ that was mis in# was a pair of dia
mond ear-rinys which had been torr
3 from the dead woman's ears. Noth
1 incr has been 'earied as to the identity
of Mrs. Quernheim's assailant.
Turn on the Light.
Had the Legislature passed the
Raysor-Mannlftg Rill before the hint
election the people would have stood
by the State Dispensary by a largo (
majority. The enemies of the Stute
Dispensary knew this, and that Is
the reason why the House of Representatives
refused to pass the purification
measure. The State Dispensary
as originally designed was almost
graft proof, but It had been s?. ,
changed by the Legislature that
graft became an easy matter In Its '
management. The ltaysor-Mnnnlng
Rill would have put the Institution
back where Senator Tillman put It
when he designed It, but? the prohibitionists,
the County Dispensary advocates
and the high license or barroom
element in the Legislature by 1
acting together prevented the pas
sage of the llaysor-Mannlng Dill
and thus prevented the purification
of the State Dispensary. They claimed
that the State Dispensary could
not ho reformed
It must be admitted that there
was considerable graft In the management
of the State Dispensary,
and the Legislature must be given
credit for turning out trio old board
of directors and electing a new onot
but the House of Representatives
refused to do what the friends of
tho State Dispensary asked them to
do. which would have made the
Stato Dispensary graft proof. When
the new board of directors was elected
It was hoped that its members
would so act that there would he no
ground for the slightest suspicion
of any wrong doing on their part,
but unfortunately this was not the
case, and very soon after the Legislature
met a committee investigated
them and the Legislature unaninously
recommended that they lie removed
from office, which to his credit
bo it said Governor Ansel very
promptly did. The revelations
brought out by the conunitteo doomed
tho State Dispensary,
It was brought out by the committee
that Mr. Black, one of the
members of the State Board of Dispensary
Directors, had placed a very
large order with one whiskey house
under very peculiar circumstances.
In repotting their findings the committee
said in reference to the case
mentioned above that they "found
that Mr. John Black, a member of
the Board of Directors, purchased a
large amount of liquor amounting
to about ono thousand six hundred
barrels, from Clarke Brothers & Sons
of Peoria, III., Black making the purchase
in person at Peoria. The committee
went on to say that the liquor
thus purchased by Mr. Black
from Clark Brothers & Sous at $1.60
to $1.76 per gallon, is a very inferior
quality of liquor, being what is
known as high wine, and it is not
worth more than $1.83 to $1.36 per
gallon and can be bought in the
market at that price.
Mr. Norfolk, the blender at the
Stato Dispensary under the old system,
testified that the rye whiskey
purchased of Clarke Bros. & Sons,
was nothing but "chlogne spirits"
worth but $1.82 per gallon in the
market, whereas the State of South
Carolina was expected to pay from
$1.60 to $1.76 per gallon, notwithstanding
the fact that the single order
aggregated nearly $100,000. He
declared that the corn purchased of
..his firm was about as cheap whiskey
as one could buy, and was worth
about $1.3 3, while the State was to
I ..n.r *1 r. a fnx It A s.tl./.,.n
I |Mi,y f i . u v iui a. /iw i it i i if; i?i tliv'nfj
tig tiros It appeared that the State
paid uliout tli!rty thousand dollars
too much for this one order. It was
just such transactions as this that
caused the downfall of the State Dispensary.
This matter should he probed by
the commission appointed to wind
up tlie ufTairs of the State Dispensary.
Let the commission hold up
all the bills of Clarke Brothers &
Sons until this transaction is sifted
to the bottom. They should be forced
to toll how much they were to
J pay for this large order and to whom
I If it should develop that some dispensary
oflieial was to get this rake
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wit 11*7 niiwiiiu ur |n Hi lilt
full extent of the law. Let an exj
ample be made of some old State
.spouse ry official If ho has been
l dishonest, and it will have a most
j wholesome effect da the officials of
the County Dispensaries throughout
the State. If the dispense. . system
is to stand it must be onducted
j honestly from top to b< ' m.
Sawdust Alcohol.
"Glorious Opportunities Lost" is
j the name for son# that the drinking
men of the country can sing with
much pal rtos, said Dr. Wiley, the
pure f-nui expert of the agricultural
depr> tment, Friday. The doctor expip
:-ned that science has discovered
that sawdust is a good material for
the manufacture of alcohol. "It's
! not wood alcohol," declared the exI'
pert. "Hut the genuine stuff cannot
be told by taste, smell or ana
| lysis from alcohol made from Indian
I corn. Just think of the millions of
: tons of sawdust that have gone tc
-1 waste. Sawdust alcohol is now bei
j ing manufactured commercially in
- Pennslyvania and the industry is ex
pected to spring up and thrive in all
sawmill communities."
uliul : hey Arc Few.
Sometime <0 we heard a young
man making tun of religion. From
r>ur houI sincerely pitied him, because
we thought he lacked something
In his head. Ills mount ach
had Just hegun to sprout and Judging
from his titlk his mental faculties
were not as well developed as
his moustache. During our t>riof
*tuy upon earth we have seen many
lust such young men cold in death.
Wo have seen the atheist at rest in
his casket, but before consigned to
their last resting place they have
all been carried through the doors
of a church and had prayers said
over them. This young man could
scoff at religion in his strength and
beauty of health, but if the da: ' angel
Hhould get after hliu he uould
instinctively regret what he said and
look Into the future with fear and
trembling. When one stands beforo
the open door of eternity hir desire
to scoff at religion vanishes. ' o admit
there are bad men In the church
but even these black sheep the
flock might be blacker If th? , vero
side. N'o voung man. or ' '>no
either, should condemn the aoblo
enoi'ls of the army oi Chrlstli men
nd women aie making towards bettering
the condition of things, and
whether we attend church or not but
few of us would desire to live iu a
community where there was no
hurch. We thank flod that such
young men as we speak of abovo
tre rare.
Taught I lieni a Ih'khoii
The Southern membarn in Con
irress had nn opportunity last week
to a^ain show to tho'r Republican
friends ttk.it principle was worth
more to them than "opportunity".
It came about In the tight against
tho ship subsidy graft. In derision
the Republicans moved to strike
out the provision for a sip is id for
the one line from a southern port,
and were surprimal to note that to
a man the Democrats voted 10 striae
It out. As the Florenco Times says
the South might have gotten rich
long ago if her representatives had
shared the tariff graft with tho
North and let the principle of the
thing alone, hut they have never accepted
such doubtful benefits for
themselves nor been content to see
others doing the robher act. It is
very gratifying to see that there is
still some of that h'.gli principle in
Southern politics, we were greatly
fearing that the Southern Statesmen
were being "modernized" ho that
they considered anything that they
could get without being caught by
the police was right. In voting
against tho subsidy hill tho Democrats
gave the Republicans a lesson
| in honesty.
Hope Tliis is True.
A dispatch from Washington sayn
one of the most important devices
in the history of cotton culture practically
has been perfected by e\|>crtf}
of the department of agriculture. It
is a machine for the removal of tho
fuzz on cotton seed and for the seperation
of light from heavy seed,Tho
process has been in course of development
for about two years and it
is the opinion of the cotton experte
of the department that its universal
use would eff?H;t a saving of about
10 per cent, of the entire cotton ? rop
As the crop of America amounts to
$750,000,000 a year, it easily can ho
realized that such a saving would ho
of vast Importance. My the removal
of the fuzz from tho cotton f-eod
the seed may be planted with an ordinary
gravity drill. My the ease
witli with the smooth seed can ho
manipulated they can be planted in
hills, without unnecessary waste, and
tho plans so located can he tilled in
two directions. The machine, it in
stated, can oe made at very small
expense, and as the Invention Is irk
the hands of the government, cotton
planters who use it. will have to
pay no royalty for it.
'I tit* Pension army.
The oldest mem her of the (land
Army of t lie Republic, William
!i, aged 10 6, is dead, and tho
Grand Army is considering the dis ontinunnce
of its annul i
through Infirmities due to advancing
:<??. "PrehnpH," says the New York
Times in noting the hIxjvo fact,"tho
veterans will never again he seen 111
line wiili their tattered tings. It is a
pity, and there will be real loss in
tiie disappearance of such a wholesome
stimulus of patriotism. It in
a pity also that this sympathy for
the hrave and decrepit is marred t>y
tho wonder that although the Grand
Arinv r;tiiksj lire thiialhlnnliurthpffti'
from grand army of pensioners in
surprisingly healthy and superior to
every consideration of morality. If
the pension roster and Grand Army
roster shrunk together both classes
would be enshrined in the hearts of
their countrymen, hut what shall l>o
said when the pension roll grows
faster than the old soldiers die.?"
We congratulate the juries of
Cherokee County, and commend
their way of dealing with manslayers
to the juries of other counties. As
a result of their fearless* work a
white man goes to the gallows for
i murder.
i Brother W. W. Ball, of the News
' and Courier editorial staff, has declined
the honor of a position on
1 Gov. Ansel's staff, and Col. Coleman
has been appointed in his stead.