The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 09, 1907, Image 6
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THE LONG AGO.
Some Reflections on the First
Settlement at Jamestown.
THE NATION GROWS.
The Greatest Imposition and the Lessons
It Will Teach and the Lessons
It should Have Taught Instead.
Dm* People Should lie Taught
The Arts o f Peace and Not of
War.
Three hundred years a^o, says the
American Farmer, counting from
the 13th of this month of May, several
boatloads of Englishmen rowed
up the James river, landed at a spot
some thirty miles above the present
city of Norfolk,'Va., and established
what proved to be a permanent colony.
That was the beginning of the
United States. While men had previously
visited parts of the coast and
tarried awhile, but until the little
party stopped at Jamestown was
there a settlement that abided. The
outlook was dreary and the hardships
great for many years after the
landing. King Powhatan, with his
warlike Indians, controlled all that
section of the country, and resented
the intrusion of the Pale Faces.
Wars and massacres were numerous.
The little colony was often on the
brink of starvation, and would surely
have been exterminated but for the
occasional arrival of recruits from
Europe. Hunger forced them to
utilize as food certain plants and
fruits which they found growing
wild, but with whose properties thev
were hithortn nnai'imnintrwl Tlimr
learned from the Indians that a tuber
which produced a purple flower
after running its roots in the ground,
was of an edible nature, and though
a rather poor and scrawny affair,
was betted than nothing to allay the
pangs of hunger. They dug it up,
planted it in their gardens and in
time greatly improved its quality.
This was the first cultivation of the
potato in North America. Another
important discovery was made destined
to exercise a potential influence
in the agricultural world and contribute
enormously to the wealth of
nations. An aromatic shrub, growing
wild in the savannahs and
swamps aronnd the Chickahominy,
was plucked by the Indians, dried in
the sun and used to make smoke in
pipes. The settlers observing this,
gathered, replanted and cultivated
what in time became the celebrated
tobacco of commerce.
Thus it will be seen that Americar
agriculture had its beginning here
an infant industry, indeed, but orn
which in course of years was to re
suit in something to amaze the civil
ized world. Four years after th(
first arrivals stepped ashore a ship
load of cattle was sent over fron
England, and this was the germ oi
live srock industry of the Unitec
States. They were not the fine cat
tie we see now, only the commoi
scrub cattle of Europe, which wer<
the best the world then afforded
but poor and scrawny as they wer<
they proved a blessing to the infan
settlement on the James. By degree;
the Indians were conquered or beat
en back, and the colonists were abb
to snread out their farms as fai
back as the falls of the great river
but fully a century elapsed befor<
white men were able to cross the A1
leghanies and find lodgment 01
streams that flowed to the west
Much history has been enacted sine*
the fateful arrival of the three boat
loads of men. Revolutions, wars
rebellions, the making and overthrov
of governments, in fact the mos
marvelous achievements of the hu
man race occurred between the da
tes of May 18, 1(507, and May 13
1907, when this number of the Amer
ican Farmer* goes out to tell abou
it. Three centuries is not a lonj
time in the life of a world, merely i
span when measured with eternity
but no similar space of time has beei
fraught with events of such impor
tance to the human race.
And now a great exposition is ii
progress to emphasize and celebrat
what has occurred during this mem
orable interval. One would thinl
that it would be devoted to showini
what had been done for the educa
tion and uplifting of man, what fo
his comfort and happiness, what ad
vance had been made in the arts o
peace, and especially the growth an
development ot agriculture. Un th
contrary, we learn that the "entic
ing splendors of war" have bee
placed to the fore, magnified beyon
all measure. The original appropr
ation of $200,000 for the whole shoi
has been almost equaled by the oui
lay upon the military part of the e?
position alone. Even the memoric
of the civil war, something better t
be forgotten, are to be freshene
by a spectacle of one of its mos
tragical battles simply to attract an
and amuse a crowd of careless spec
tators. Guns and gunboats are gi\
en a primacy as the exponents i
these three hundred years. Whs
would the founders of the Republi
say to this amazing program? D
we not know well, have we not thei
solemn word, that it is treason to a
for which they labored and to whic
they aspired? It was precisely t
help the world away from these banc
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THIEF YIELDS
Surrenders His Loot to Girl on
Promise of Liberty. | A
Miss Mlslo Holmes, of Brooklyn,
Kinds a KohlxT Looting Her Home
And Stops llim.
Miss Elsie Holmes, a pretty young
woman, who lives with her father,
F. M. Holmes, at 675 Decatur street,
! Brooklyn, told an interesting story
j of how she came upon a burglar in
her room and agreed not to give an
alarm after the thief had surrendered
her dead mother's ring.
Strange to relate, the heroine
neither fainted nor screamed when
she came across the burglar.
Miss Holmes is a brunette and is
twenty years old. The burglar got
into the house while she was doing
some shopping. This is her story:
"I went into the house on my return
from shopping. Father had gone
to his oflice and I was alone. I went
up stairs to my room to remove my
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wiapo, tuin, ti^ i y^moceu in ine mirror,
! saw the reflection of a man's
face. I was very much frightened,
but I did not faint or scream.
"1 looked around for the man, and
as 1 did so he ran over and caught
me by the throat and forced me into
a chair.
" 'Keep (piiet,' he said, 'and I
won't hurt you. I want to explain
my presence here. My wife and children
are starving, and I have been
forced to steal to provide them with
food. But if you do not alarm the
police 1 will give you back everything
1 have taken and will go away.'
"I told him that if he would do
this 1 would let him go away without
warning the police. Then he began
to take from his pockets a lot of
jewelry he hhd taken from a drawer
in my dresser.
"One of the things he took from
his clothes was my dead mother's
ring, I begged him not to take that,
even if he took everything else, as it
was my mother's ring; that she had
been dead eight years and that it i
would break my father's heart if he 1
lost it."
" 'Miss,' he said, 'I will not take
the ring or anything else. I was a
gentleman once, and my mother loved
me. She does not dream that I
have come to this. But, as you value
this ring, so do I my liberty, and I
want you to swear to me that you
will not try to have me arrested."
"I thought of his wife and children
and of his promise, and I assured him
i that I would not put the police on
i his track.
"I walked down stairs and opened
1 the front door for him. As he went
i down the steps he lifted his hat to
me and walked rapidly away. I felt
i very sorry for him. He was a young
, man."
J After the polite burglar had left,
- Miss Holmes telephoned her father.
- Mr. Holmes did not take so charitai
ble a view of the matter as had his
- daughter, and he notified the Brooki
lyn police. They are looking for the
? burglar.
_ FOHTFLLS 10 AIMHQ lT A K K
1
2 American in Mexico Was Warned by
^ Parrots Screaming.
i- It has been advised that the Mets
eorological bureau of Mexico ought
~ to supply Its stations with parrots,
~ since the recent earthquake shocks.
Ij. C. Crutclier, an American conduct?
5 or on the Mexican Central railroad,
- says he was warned an hour in adi
vance that there would be an earth
quake by the srceaming of parrots,
Mr. Crutcher arose when he heard
the parrotts in the house giving forth
' their yells of distress, and, dressing,
v went out on the street. When the
t tueinors came the parrotts yelled
- louder than ever and never ceased
- until the last quake was over. lie
, said he never knew parrots to fail
. to give warning of an approaching
^ earthquake.
? BOAT CAPSIZMI).
a
^ Two Young Ladies Were Drowned
ami Men Saved Themselves.
q A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C.,
e says a boat on the Catawba river
_ capsized Thursday and Misses Fulbright
and Coble were drowned. Another
lady was rescued and two men
? of the party saved themselves.
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ful old vanities and wrongs that they
^ founded the American Union. Washington's
words concerning war,
c "with all its enticing splendors,"
were: "My first wish is to see this
n plague to mankind banished from the
(j earth." There is no criticism upon
j. a proper display of military and na^
val ships as an incident of the exposition
l?nt to nrrancro it nvufneoltr
^ v? V'? V?V? VV MA A 1 U V./V J/l t-OO 1 J
(_ as a festival of war instead of a cei>s
ebration of peace is a woeful ana0
chronism. It is especially abhorrent
(j and out of place at the very time
.t The Hague tribunal for the settle^
ment of all international disputes by
arbitration is in session, and when
the World's Peace Society is meeting
n and debating means to stamp out
forever that curse of all curses to
c the human race, that crime against
0 civilization involved in the wholesale
r murder of the people of one nation
II by those of another in order to gratis
ify the barbarous taste for blood
n and the ambitious desire for what is
called "military glory."
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TERRIBLE PICTURE
Drawn of the Conditions of the
Upper Congo
lly a Preacher Who Had Just Returned
from That Tiihappy oiul
Much Abused Country.
The Rev. Charles Pad field, of the
Congo Balolo Mission, who has Just (
returned rrom the upper Congo, lias
made the following interesting statement
to a representative of Router's
Agency at London.
"I have been three and a half
years on the Congo, mainly in what
are known as the Abir and Lulango
territories, which were visited two
years ago by the Congo commission I
of inquiry.
"The Congo administration has
now taken the territories of the Abir
Company under direct control, and
if you must know what in. a practical
sense this means. I will answer that
question in the language of a native
chief to me; If you call a leopard
something else, does he become some
thing else?"
"Ordinary commercial methods
are unknown and the native country,
or regular soldiers of the Force
Publique, takes the place of the
trader in more favored parts of Africa.
Some of my colleagues found
villages living under the shadow of
the sentry rifle. Their reports were
forwarded, I believe, to the foreign
ofllce. Owing to various causes I
have been unable to travel to any
extent lately; but heavy fighting in
the Upper Lopori and Upper Maaringa
lias been admittedly taking place
for several months past.
"I do not like to think of what is
going on there. Just before I left a
whole crop of rumors reached Baringa.
Of course, 1 am not in a position
to guarantee their accuracy, but
from what we have seen ourselves
at Baringa before the advent of the
commission, there is but too much
reason to believe in their substantial
I truth. Fighting and massacre, prisoners
shot, misery and outrage?that
is the burden of the story. A pathetic
message reached me by devi
WHO II <i,> o I l will cl IWUK IIIKUIIKH! llllillHl
as I was preparing to leave. Why do
not missionaries come up into our
country to save us from being killed
for rubber.? i
"When sheer robbery is the basis!
of everything what can the outlook
be? 'Atrocities' are only one aspect
of the question. The system itself is
simnly dibolical, resting, as it does,
upon forcible appropriation of everything.
"On my return home I made a
point of visiting Duala, in the German
Camerons, and New Calabar, in
the Niger protectorate, to see for
myself how tlie administration works
in those colonies, and more than ever
did I realize, as I saw and noted the
extraordinary and profound difference
between the principles of rule in
those places, that everything on the
Congo is a nightmare of brutal deunAtioin
onrl niMioltif "
mill rtllll \'l UCIIJ'
The Interview with Mr. Padfleld
was submitted l?y Iteuter to a highly-placed
official in Brussels, who
gave the state.
Oddities of the Calendar.
The first and last days of the year
are always the same day. October
always begins on the same day of
the week as January, April as July,
September as December, and February,
March and November on the
same day. May, June and August
always begin on different days from
each other and from every other day
in the year.
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DROWNING N10A11 HLbORlOlO
Young .Mi*. Irick Dosses Ills Life on a
Fishing Trip.
The Klloree community was shocked
when the news reached there that
Wroth Irick had been accidentally
drowned in Parsonage Pond about I
five miles from that place Friday afternoon
al>out G o'clock. Mr. Irick.
Ln company with Mr. J. H. Weeks
and Prof. J. D. Holler left Elloree
Friday afternoon to put out nets in
the pond. Young Irick and Weeks
were in the boat together and Mr.
I rich not lieing an experienced paddler
the boat in some way sank, in
ine cenire or (lie stream.
Mr. Weeks jumped from the boat
into the water aiul called to Irick to
do likewise. Mr. Irick, not realizing
the imminent danger stood up in the
sinking l>oat, presumably waiting for
his chance to swim to land. His
head was swept under by a wave and
it is thought he became strangled
and lost his wits.
Young Weeks went to his assistance
and he was seized by the drowning
man with a deathlike grip. In
the struggle both came very near being
drowned, Weeks doing all he
could to save him. He managed to
tear away from the drowning man,
and being exhausted of strength and
excited barely escaped. Mr. Holler
was at such a distance that he could
not lend assistance.
As soon as the news reached Blloree
a searching party was formed
and the body recovered about eight
o'clock and brought^ to Mr. Irlek's
home.
Mr. Trick was about 22 years old
and was in the employ of Mr. J. M.
Weeks, as salesman. He was a quiet
unassuming young man and was liked
by all witli whom he came in
contact. Besides his father and
mother and seven al sisters and one
brother he leaves a young bride of
two months.
Sliuior KllililOl)
By an Kxplosion of a Can of Dynamite
by Accident.
An explosion of dynamite at John
Linn's sheep camp in Trapper Creek,
Big Horn county, Wyoming, Thursday
night, killed 700 sheep and completely
destroyed camp wagons and
other possessions of the camp. Tho
story of the outrage was told by a
herder who said that a hand of masked
men raided the camp and after
binding him securely, arranged for
the work of destruction. A similar
attack was made upon a sheep camp
in the Trapper Creek section two
years ago. ,
T-K1UURLH HCFFEKIXG.
One Hundred Drowned by the Rising
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hills, leaving all the household goods
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