The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 16, 1908, Image 8
RABENS GIVES UP '
V
MAN CONVI(TKl) IX OCOXEK ON
SEltlors CHAIK.E.
11?* Was Convicted ?>!' Roocivin^ Stol<n
Cioods in Connection Willi l*ostdlliro
ItobluTies.
1!. Rudolph Rubens of Charleston,!
who was convicted in his absence at
Oconee county of the charge of receiving
jj^olen goods, and for whom
a sealed sentence was left with the
clerk of court of that county. Thursday
morning walked into the ofuce
of Sheriff Kay at Walhalla and surrendered
himself. lie was quietly
placed in a cell, and the bars were
seen redly placed behind him.
flattens was convicted of receiving
the stolen gods seemed by the yegga
recent "term of criminal court of
111 fii wnen \'ley blow open the safe
of the Courtney Manufacturing company
utv Newry several years ago.
He was<4"rrested on the charge severi
al mentis before the case came to
trial, and he was let out on bail of
$.i,()00. When the case was called
for trial he did not put in an appearance.
It will be recalled that the
reformed safeblower. McCarthy, testified
against. Habeas, and upon his
testimony a verdict of guilty was returned.
Notice of appeal to the supremo
court was given, and lie was
let out oil a $5,000 bond, pending
the appeal. The supreme court confirmed
the verdict of the lowercourt.
Since then Habeas has been at large,
and the olllcers of the state, including
1 t r?fll nDi' Incim/.l"" 1 1 ''' "
............. .\ nn ii. i . *,r?>gory i
unci other postofllce inspectors, have
been on the watch for hini. The
surrendering act must have been a
prearranged one he! ween Habeas
and the officers' for Postofficer In
spector Gregory was present to receive
him when he entered the sheriff
s office.
Habeas is quite a noted Charleston
character. His reputation oxtends
all over the state, and the majority
of the people of South Carolina
will be interested in his arrest.
Notice to Farmers Cnion.
The State Convention of the
South Carolina State Farmers' Cnion
will convene in the House of Representatives
hull in Columbia on Wednesday
duly 22nd at S.I 5 p. in.
Where the county Cnion is formed,
the basis of representation is one
delegate at large and one delegate!
for every hundred members or majority
fraction. Where there is no
pnilll I l' firaoin'/nfi/in ifeinli 1/w?ol 5e
entitled to one delegate. It' you have!
not already done so, have a called
meeting and elect your delegates.
Application has been made for reduced
rates on the railroads. Please
ask for that rate, and where you
cannot get it, please ask the agent
for a certificate.
13. Harris, President,
S. C. State Union.
Another Star on the Flag.
After July 4, all flags made for
the use of the government wll contain
forty-six stars in the field, or
union, to conform in number to the
states.
The additional star follows Oklahoma's
admission to the Union, in
conformity with an act of congress,
1*11111111^ lllill Oil I 11 < (to III IMMOll III il
new state, one star is to be added to
the union of the flag, to take effect
on thet i#bv<tfth of July next, succeeding
such admission.
Okklahonia came into the Union
on November 1G last.
The forty-six stars are to lie in six
rows, the first, third, fourth and
sixth rows to have eight stars, and
the second and third 'rows seven
stars each. The stars will lie on a
b'ue field.
A great many flags now flying
ficm govern n> nt buildings will havo
to be altera I 10 meet the new cor.ditiens.
That Republican policies have produced
fiuXiness panic and depression
is shown by Rradstreet's re
port or Y,5ti(J failures in me ursi
half of this year with total liabilities
of more than double any year
since 1 807.
The Taft chairman has to be acceptable
to the trusts, the railroads
and other corporations that are expected
to furnish the boodle.
? ^ The price of beef would indicate
? ^Fiiat the Packers Combine do not
A nr the Republican plan of trustbusting.
A woman's "no" doesn't mean yes
when she says it to the wrong man.
If you have a good friend don't
try to conv' t him into a good thing.
The life that will not bear inspectlon
often displays a large lino of
religious logic.
The tongue of gossip never grows
rusty.
A man who yells at the top of his
voice seldom wins an argument.
It is possible to acquire a round
sum in a square deal.
OREGON AO \TK.
A Home Industry In Which We Can
Excel hut Which is Overlooked.
Walter H. Whitton of New'* rg
Ore., speaking of the mineral resources
of Oregon, sold that thN ?'rst
re?h i?\v t}-,. 4 vr r. |
?i oti lit-' Olegou cuiu>( aL N\ >
per'
"The winter Is tho best time to fl"i
tlmm, for during this season the
ocen.i current changes its direction
and washes away tho surface sand
clear to the gravel, in which deposits
the rough agates or all sizes may
he found. Sometimes the agate season
last; hut n couple of weeks, depending
entirely upon the Inexplicable
caprices of the sea. tho winds,
the tide and currents. The pure
gta\Ish white silica gives us the cornelian
ami the jasper, and where
both iron and manganese occur we
have tho moon stone. The coral and
tho cloudy are tho finest and ntud
delicate of tint and suggest purity,
whle the carnelinn ami tho jasper are
the warm, rich, glowing stones, perhaps
the most valuable and most
oagvly sought. Tho agate making
Is a home industry entirely overlooked,
and one in which we can not only
excel the foreigners In tho reality of
tho raw material but in the variety
and supply."
Tree Life.
Brazilian cocoanut palms live from
60n to 700 years, and the Arabs as
sort that tho date palm frequently
reaches the age of 200 to 300 years.
Wallan's oak near Paisley, Scotland,
Is known to he more than 700 years
old, and there are eight olive trees
on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem.
whir h ore known to have been
flourishing in 1099. The yews of
Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, were
old t ecs when in 1 132 the abbey was
built nno a redwood in Mariposa
drove, California. Is a manifold centenarian.
liaobab trees of Africa
have been computed to he more than
5,000 years old, ind the deciduous
cypress at Chautepec Ir considered
to be of a still creater age. Humboldt
said that the Dracaena Draco at
Orotava, on Teneriffe. was one of
tho oldest inhabitants of tho earth.
OHO Esperanto Societies.
A publication just issued by the
central Esperantlst office in Paris
shows that there are 039 Esperanto
societies throughout the world, 38
Journals are published specially de
voi10 i lie propagation or me language,
there are Esperanto consuls
or agents at 170 towns and the language
has been accepted for use by
11 different congresses.
Production of Precious Metals.
Despite the great falling off in the
goid product of Colorado during the
year 11)06 that State still holds the
lead of all the States and Territories
of this country, including Alaska, in
! the production of precious metals.
The figures for the year 1906 were
| $23,2 L0,621), a decrease of $1,813,I
344.
Mr. and Mrs. LaFoIlcttc Lawyers.
It Is not generally known that the
w'fe of Senator LaFollette took her
university degree In the same class
with her husband. As Miss Hoi lo
Case sue vanquished "Bob" LaFollette
in .a joint oratorical contest at
the Untversity of Wisconsin. Before
her narriage she had been admitted
to * .e practice of law.
Freight by Itnil or Water.
lie cost of transporting freight
by rail is 71-2 cents per ton-mile,
l while the cost of carriage by water 's
| from .1)2 of a mill on the Great Lakes
I to 1. mill on the Ohio and Mississippi
| rivers. Transportation by water Is
also more rapid than by the average
fr. ight car service.
Business Witli Cuba.
Tr 1 90 6 we sold Cuba a million and
a half more than we sold her in the
; previous fiscal year, and we bought
$12,600,000 more from her than in
the previous fiscal year.
Government Kmployees.
The various Status and other possessions
of the government employ
28.94 7 persons In the civil service
in the District of Columbia, to whom
the annual payment in salaries aggregate
$3 1 1,5 4 4,225.
Olilonns Government Clerks.
Ohionns employed by the Government
it) the District of Columbia
number 1,077, and they draw annually
from the treasury the amount oi
$1,386,206.
There's a Reason.
Rabbits, says a naturalist, have
vhite tails so that the young may b?
able to distinguish their mother in
| case ol pursuit. The color of the
rabbit is so like that, of the ground
i that this would otherwise bo difficult
if not impossible.
Moonlight and Accidents.
An examination of serious automobile
accidents in the last year show?
that over 100 hannened at nierht hall
of those when the moon was shin in?
brightly. Of these probably 2,r> weia
brought on by optical Illusions caused
by the moon's deceptive light.
Electric Funeral Oar.
A funeral car operating on an elevate4
railroad is something of ar
Innovation, for all that surface lines
have long had such cars in service. .A
Chicago "L" line has put In use i
funeral car, however, and finds It ir
considerable demand.
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OFF FOR THE POLE.i
I'OMM.WDKlt PKKKY SAILS FROM
NHW YOHK,
1
Famous l)\plover Feels (oiifldent
Thai II** W ill I?o Fattier Than Any
Previous Attempt.
Willi the I'eirv Arctic cluli's pennant
fluttering from her main tmck
and the Stars and Stripes at her niiz- i
zen, the Arctic exploration steiimer
Roosevelt left her pier at New York
Monday carrying Commander Robert
10. Peary, who is to head another expedition
in quest of the North Pole.
The Roosevelt, accompanied by a
government tug. proceeded to near
City Island, where she anchored for
the night to permit the adjustment
of her compasses. Tuesday she will
go to Oyster Pay. where President
Roosevelt will hoard her to hid goodbye
to her commander and crew. The
Roosevelt will then head for Sydney,
Cape Proton, where she will stop to
coal.
Pefore the ship left Commander
Peary said:
"I have done too much work in
the Arctic regions to believe that I
can make the pole without strenuous
work. I am not foolish enough to
say that I ant going to do or die hut
I am certainly going to pur int ) this
trip every hit of energy? mental,
moral and physical?that I have itt
order to succeed in my undertaking.
1 know inv path will he hedged in by |
many trials and undoubtedly many
disappointments but I feel confident
as my ship leaves New York today
that it i do not roach t!i?' pole itself,
at. least I will carry the American
flag farther north than it. litis heen
carried by any previous explorer,
t'l.less unforeseen circumstances intervene
within the next year, I hope
to plant the Stars and Stripes at the
pole."
As the Koosevelt swung out into
the ICast river, a few minutes after
1 o'clock a crowd on the pier cheered
good-bye, while thewhlstles of river
craft joined in the farewell.
On hoard th Roosevelt., besides,
Commander Peary, Mrs. Peary and
their children, Marie and Robert. K.,
Jr., wore a number of members of
the Peary Arctic club, including its
president, Thomas D. Hubbard; its
vice president, Zenas Crane, and its
secretary, Herbert L. Hridgman;
several memoers 01 uie rjxpiorcr.s
club ;iiul friends of Commander
Peary. Madame Arclowski, wife of
Prof. Henry K. Aretowski, who was
meleoroh gist of the Helgian Anaretic
expedition of 1^97-99, was one of
a party of ladies on hoard.
The eiew was kepi busy up to the
hour of departure, stowing away
stores in the hold, including largo
quantities of books and magazines
and a billard table. .Inst before leaving
21 Hibles were received aboard,
the gift of the New York I'.ible society.
The Daughters of I lie Devolution
presented to Commander Peary
a peace tlag with the request thai he
carry it wPh him to the pole "as
a shield and buckler against all disaster."
KKCLl'SK I'OK FIFTY YKAKS.
French Woman (irieved for Husband
Who Died on Wedding Day.
For?-fifty years No. 19, Houlevard
Poisoniere, in Paris, a house of four
stories, has been closely shuttered,
and yet it has been continuously inhabited.
Servants were seen to enter
and leave the building and the
1 other day it was dressed in the black
and silver trappings which usher
Vance's citizens to their iast resting
place.
Mine, de Provigny, its occupant for
i fifty years, was dead. She was tin
old lady of seventy, tmd for the last
i half century she lived in that closed
snot shuttered house without news
paper, without an. open hook, without
a flower, and without a word to
her from any living soul. For fifty
' years Mine, do Provingy wore white
( satin. She wore it on her wedding
' day and always dressed in white to
the end.
Fi ty years ago Mine, de Provingy
died They had been married in the
morning, and the young husband
die'1 of applexy an hour after the
i ceremony. When she recovered from
the shock, if, need, she can he said
f ever to have recovered from it. Mme.
d*? i'rovigny bad the house shut up,
hi she retai led ler serv uPs on condition
that they were never to con)
front her with a living being and
? never to speak to her again. She did
^ . i 1. m a .? ? V. a 4 /I /-. i' n? ? 1 vl I Airnni a
I IlOl KIIOW IIIO Ll't'llll Ol llliuiiv;
? Motor cars wore unknown to her.
I She did not know whether France
t was a republic. She had never
heard of the Dreyfus case, of the
death of Queen Victoria, or any nation.ii
or international event. In her
. will V<-e. do Provlgny left her
i whole fortune to men and women agf
ed over sixty years of good characj
tor. She left a large house in the
i country as a home for them and $U,I
One, hoi) for ii s support.
Protectlonallsm, in its Inst analysis
is socialism. If our President
. and our Congress hae become too
i meddlesome the cause may be direeti
lv traced to the Socialistic protective
l system. The Republican party has
i created the Socialistic movement,
i and II will bo destroyed by that
movement. The Democracy has op/
posed it, and will throttle It.
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LYxniiNci ri:.\HKi? IN AIKF.N.
Much Kwlin^ (ii'ous < bit of Killing
of White Man l?y N? gro.
A dispatch from Aiken to Tim
News and Courier says on last Monun.
night Sheriff Unborn i e^oivcd a
message from Wagoner asking that
lie conic at once to that, point, as
trouble was brewing. The sheriff
went to Wagoner in an automobile!
as soon as possible, and found that
the cause of the trouble was the
shooting of Policeman Henry Salley.
at Salley, bv (Jeorge Moore, a negro,
it lias been learned that posses are
after the negro, armed if he is raptured
a lynching may result. t'p to
i liis time lie lias not been captured,
but it is said that lie is being diligently
searched for by friends of Salley
and t he olllcers.
From the stories told by parties in
the city from that section if appears
tha Salley and a man named Poole
had been in Wagoner Saurday, and
when they were on their way home
near Wagoner they whipped a negro,
and further on they struck up with
a brother of Moore, whom they alleged
owed one of them a nickle. it is
stated that they struck him and afterward
lired their pistols at him. lie
ran home and the men came on toward
Perry. Moore's house is on the
road. When they reached it they got
out of the buggy and threatened the
negro. When they were advancing
toward the house (Jeorge Moore stepped
out with ( shotgun and fired at
them, most of jjn load striking Sallex
in tho thigh and hip, and one or
I wo shots striking Poole*. Salley toll I
11(1 tho negro struck him twice witn
the Kim. Salley then got up and tho'
negro 'i t nut of tho way. Pooh* 1!
is said, wont ; w.iv, leaving Salley
wlion t ho shot was flroil.
Sal ley's wounds were dressed, ami
it is not thought that he is seriously
hurt. It appears that here is a great
difference in opinion upon the affair,
many being in sympathy with the
negro, alleging that the two men
were under tho influence of liquor.
At the same time others appear to
lie infurated about the matter and
have a great deal of feeling against
the num. The sheriff was unable to
locate the negro. He returned to
tin* city late that afternoon. Talk
of lynching is still being indulged in.
As to llot Weather.
The torrid wave now sweeping over
the North is playing the mischief.
Many have been pros!rated bv the
excessive heat and not a few have
died. That section of the country is
to he commisserated.
Here in tin* South it has so far
been pleasant. Wo have had one or
two warm days, but nobody has been
made sick. The nights, without exception.
are cool. When we read how
people in the tenement district of
.Now Vol l< city have to crawl on t no
"!ro escapes : t ubpht to got a b ? ;i * 1:
of air and pmci-ico a lPtlo i i?- ?i
running 1 ho risk of fating off (o I ho
pavement bolow, wo begin lo realize
iliat wo know very lifilo about
lu>l weather. One of the most d:sagreonble
suniinors we ever spent
was in a Northern oily. \Vo longed
lor the cool nights and breezes of
| ho Sout h.
Take it year ir and year out, and
i all the year round we have about
the finest eliminate to be found anywhere
in the world. The winters arc
mild and th summers are generally
far pleasanter than in latitudes farther
North. What a charming spring
was the one of this year, and what a
glorious winter we had! And although
the summer is more than
half over, few feel the need of going
to the mountains or to the seashore.
Those who have gone did so,
not because a change of climate was
necessary, but simply because it is
their custom to go somewhere for a
vacaton. The rest of as who staid at
home have been about as comfortaDie
as we would nave ueen had we
gone to the mountains.
One lias got to travel about a
good bit before lie appreciates the
really niagniflcient climate of the
South. We who have lived here all
our lives don't value it as we ought,
When It gets a little warm we imagine
that if we could get up North
wo should find it cooler. Perhaps;
though the chances are that wc
should find if not near so cool. Hai
Harhor, Nnhant, Castino Littleton
Narraganzet Pier, Shelter Island and
other places of resort during thr
summer season can he as hot as tlu
hottest places one ever saw.
Yes, we are upon the whole pretty
well satisfied with the South and Its
climate in spring, summer, autumn
and winter. We know one may gc
much farther into higher latitudes
and fare a great deal worse.? Columbia
Record.
Democrats Forced to Contribute
The paper trust has just reporter
to the Xew York Stock Exchange
that its gross profits for the past tci
months were $1 7,187,009. For whirl
good showing the Trust must 1?<
thankful to the Republican part\
which has protected it from com*
tition through high tariff raf
When the trust makes its eontri
ion to the Republican campaign f>r
every Ret ocrntic newspaper pro
prietor at least, will unwillingly I
the indii donor of part of the boo
die to < t Taft and Sherman, an<
another Republican Congress, whirl
would. ' successful, perhaps revi.-i
the tari " higher, instead of abolish
Ing the Ririff on wood pulp am
print paper.
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orsT <;khmh
Tubert ulosis is 'transmitted IhroiiKli
( 'crins Flying in the l>ust.
One germ found in dust needs especial
mention. Tuberculosis,
which may t??? classed among the
dust diseases ravages our country
beyond all other tuberculo bacilli.
Kvery time the consuni|dive sends
forth sputum where it can mix with
the dust of streets or room he sends
forth hundreds and thousands of living
tubercle bacilli. Once mixed
with that dust, deposited on sand or
other cutting particle, the poisoned
weapon Hies upward ready to <011
through and enter lite body through
the lesion formed in the lungs. in
case after case we find in the lungs
of perfectly healthy persons small
tubercular lesions which have heal- 1
I'd, showing that they were able to
combat the poison when attacked.
Kill how about the time of low re- :
sistance? How can the citizen tell
when that time may come to him
or to bis family? The magnificent
crusade against tuberculosis is doing
much to convince the individual of
the necessity of care against contagion.
'Idle municipality can do almost
as much towards the stamping
out of the plague bv a steady constant
struggle to achieve the clean
possi mo si root.
In tho dirt of tlio assembly hall,
I of the theatre, of I ho 11 < > t * I and the
railway oar wo find conditions in
| which tlio difllcnll ics which exist in
tho private house are fourfold multiplied,
l-'or hours the crowds of people
in such places sit breathing the
accumulated dust brought from the
streets which, rising from the tloor,
tloats in clouds into the air and set
ties heavily on the antiquated plush
still in high favor for such places.
It is hut a year or two ago that the
newspapers considered briefly the I
dangers of that bacterial paradise, I
the Pullman sleeping car. A brief
spasm of remonstrance passed over
the country and disappeared as suddenly
as it came. The peril from
such sources was. however, recognized
two decades ago hv more than
one, and a quotation concerning the
presence of tuberculosis in such places
from Dr. Mitchell Prudden written
almost two decades ago, holds as
true today.
"Sleeping cars and the staterooms
of steamships and hotel bedrooms
are almost always liable to contain
infections material. if they have
been recently used by uncleanly
consumptives or those ignorant of
the danger of their expectoration.
When the infectious nature of con
sumption becomes generally appro-1
elated, hotols nml transportation I
companios ovor long routos will bo
compelled fo provide special necornodaiions
for such persons as are
known to bo thus affected." ? Mollis
(Jodfroy in Atlantic.
SWALLOWS POISON 1\ (Ol'HT.
Young l-'reiicliman Declares lie Prefers
Death to Dishonor.
A young Frenchman of Paris determined
that his family name should j
not be dishonored. M. Mureau, a man
of good position and education,
handed to his son in the dock of a
Paris court an envelope containing
poison, which the young man was to
swallow if he wore convicted. The
prisoner was found guilty with others
of complicity in an insurance swindle.
As his counsel was absent to plead
extenuating circumstances, the young
man stood up in the dock and desire*1
the barrister to he silent. At the
same moment lie put the envelope to
Ids lips and swallowed the contents.
A few seconds later ho fell heavily,
foaming at the mouth.
A doctor who was in court attended
to him instantly with a stomach
pump, while one of his fellow prisoners,
Dr. Laeombe, did his best to
help by inducing artificial respirat
ion.
ITtiniately, after two hours, the
, young man, who had taken a large
, dose of digitalis, recovered and was
brought into court and sentenced to
a year's imprisonment, while Dr. Lncomhe
was condemned to two years'
, hard labor. The prisoner had told
ids father that lie preferred death to
. dishonor.
WAITS \ VKAIC I OK FUHillM';.
I'Yoiich Soldier Losses Ills Winning
Lottery Ticket.
A private soldier named (Maret, oi
Paris, some weeks ago h- uyht a
nickel of four lottery tlckc .. known
as. o 3tit prise, for half a ' . lie
noted the numbers of ets and
- then lost the envelop-' i which he
had placed them.
Fortunately I written hi*
name on H" !;?i)e, which wa*
I found aiw' * d to him in barracks.
'' " ie of the tickets was
, missi" - i-' that ticket won $ 100,,
00O
' wrote to the lottery man
it and the ticket has beer
< d. He will now have to waii
year ind a day before lie will en
r into possession of his fortune.
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I'mbe/,/.liMl From Fraternal Or<lor.
An i:ideterminate sentence, not. t<
' be more than five years, was givenW
i Wilson at Port Huron, Mich., foi
i embezzling^75,000 from fraterna
& order.
1 Woman's tears and a dog's linn
are not always what they seem.
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BATTLl FLEET SAILS.
i?.\ssi<:s i hiumch coldkn cjath
ON fTS VOYAfiK.
I 'lit* Nebraska Led I i n<] oil /\o*
coiiii! of Scarlet i'Vevr l-iipdcmic,
\\ ill Join Klrci at lloiiolnlii.
Fifteen 1 hi tleships of the Atlantic
licet sailed Thursday from San Francisco,
en the voyage that is to tako
thetn around the world and end at
Hampton Uoads, whence they started
last. December. The sixteenth
member of the fleet, the . .ebraska,
was left behind because of an outbreak
of scarlet fever among the
crew. She will bo platted in (|uarantine
three days and thoroughly fumigated,
after which sin; will join her
sister ships at Honolulu.
Without ceremony or celebration
of any sort, the (1 fl.een big lighting
ships got under way promptly at 2
o'clock, on signal from the Connecticut,
Hear Admiral Sperry's Ib.g hip,
and. steaming in single column. !ow?
ly wended their way out. of tin '?ay,
where they had found audio ago
from time to time since their nr;ival
there two mouths ago. A tow small
craft, followed in the wake of the
fleet as far as (iolden (into and gave
the white ships a parting. salute with
their sirens, while on tho hills were
scattered groups of people silently
watching the departure, which was
in striking contrast to I ho cnthusfas
lie welcome on its arrivttl.
The vessels presented a beautiful
appeal mice as they steamed thtrough
I lie harbor. \s the Connecticut}
i be Hag ship signalled
for more speed, and the hows of 'ho
war sl ips were seen throwing up a
sea of white foam as they ploughed
through the water. It, was 3.10
o'clock when the Kentucky, the last
ship in line, passed the light house
at the entrance to the Golden (late,
and half an hour later the fleet was
lost to view in a dense cloud of blnck
smoke from the copse of funnels and
t lie thick water which was rolling in
from the sea.
The afternoon was one of busy preparation
on the ships, at II o'clock
Secretary of the Interior Garfield,
who arrived Monday night from
Honolulu on the St. Louis, hoarded
the Connecticut to pay his respects
to Admiral Sperry. He was saluted
with seventeen guns when he took
his leave.
On the water front patrols of bluejackets
with stout "billies" rounded
up a few belated stragglers from tho
various ship.
At 1 2.HO o'clock the last boat left
slioro wifh mail orderlies.
.Inst before the fleet sailed Rear
Admiral Sperry received a telegram
from President Roosevelt conveying
to the tleet. his heartiest good wishes
on the eve of its departure.
Proposed Forestry Law.
If the legislature of Loulstunna
passes tin' forestry law proposed by
Governor ltlunrhard of that State,
'and said to have the support of tlio
largest timber owners, It. will be the
most advanced step yet taken by any
suite to regulate timber cutting on
p.'ivato lands. Ily the terms of the
proposed statute, the cutting of
trees under twelve inches in diameter,
four feet from the ground, will
not bo permitted. The law does not
apply to those, who, in good faith
wish to clear the land for agricultural
purposes, or need the timber on
the grounds for roads or ditches, or
in case of an owner or tennant who
uses the wood for domestic purposes.
The lumberman will bo required
to fell his trees in a way to cause
least damage to young timber, and
the refuse must not be left whero
its presence will invite Are or otherwise
endanger the small trees. Tho
penalty provided for violations of the
proposed law is a fine of $25 to $100
for eacli offense, and imprisonment
may be added. lOach tree wrongfully
cut will constitute a seperato
offense. The proposed law not only
delimits offenses and names penalties,
but also sets forth the reasons
why such a law is thought advisable.
TTnber !s becoming scarce, it says
and ought not be needlessly wasted.
Forest destructon will carry with it
other evils besides dem-ib f\ P u/nn/1
II will cause destruction, soil erosion
and Increase Hoods and droughts, to
the damage of the whole people.
The forests ought not to bbe wholly
cut down, the proposed law further
says, because they assist in obstructjing
disastrous tornadoes.
The Supreme Court of Maine recently
ruled that that state may lawfully
restrict ti < clearing of private y
owned forest laud, if the public
would be injured by such clearing.
,! Loulsianna's proposed law goes still
, further in the same direction and.
follows the linos of the opinion rendered
by the Main Supremo Court.
It is worthy of note that the two
iStates wliti'h nrn flfjt
- ? ?** v in ov ivi i ?i\y cum au"
I vanced stand In forests protection
t' are flftoen hundred miles apart and
( have forests not at all alike In character,
different soils, climates with
few points In common, crops of wholly
d.fferent kinds, urography and
topography of opposite extremes yet
each realizes the immense impor11
tance of its forsts and how essen
tial their protection is to tlio contin'J
ued prosperity of its people.
Tt isn't necessary to egg a hen on
when she wants to sit.
It doesn't do muclf good to talk to
tho average man for his own good.