The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 11, 1909, Image 5
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"he talks ouT
Bishop Candler Takes a Shot at John D.
Rockefeller's Gift to
* ERADICATE HOOK WORM
Ho Ikies Not Like the Movement
ami Classes it With Oilier* Made
to llumllitate aiul Belittle the
South and Says We Can Take
d\ i
v-?i v ui uiu^vivrH.
Bishop W. A. Candler calls attention
to the following article which
appeared iu the New Orleans Picayune
the morning after the press
dispatches announced the formation
of Mr. Rockefeller's vermifuge commission
:
"The necessity for creating sectional
prejudices against the Southern
people and States did not stop
with the end of the civil war of
1 Sti l-'GT).
"The old hostility engendered then
has passed a way so far as the men
who fought were concerned, and the
rallying of the young men of the
South to the national flag iu the
Qr\n n ic h w q r* n? K/i r K o r? a uVinnl
n t.Tii " ni , n m*:i r v 111;^ n\uv./u nuvui
der to shoulder with the men of the
North, went far to extinguish the
ancient sectional feeling against this
part of the country.
"Hut lor some reason not fully
understood It has eorno to light
that self-professed and self-appointed
philanthropists have taken it upon
themselves to discover and pro
claim conditions in the South cal*
culated to create further prejudices
against the States and people of the
South so as to diverse immigration,
to alarm the resident population
(and to place this section of the
country before the world as an afflicted
and accursed region.
"No sooner had the South begun
to manufacture its cotton on an extensive
scale when It was given out
to the world that most of the work
was done by youths of both sexes
and largely by children of tender
age, and at such pitiful wages that
the manufactureres of the North,
who employed persons of full age
at high rates of compensation, could
not by any possibility compete with
them, and such a hubbub was rnlsed
i, ' in the North about it that Senator
Deveridge, of Indiana, offered in
congress a bill to prohibit transportation
by interstate railroadB of the
products of Southern cotton mills
1 where such alleged conditions obtained.
"A great deal of exertion was
required to establish the falsity of
such slanderous statements against
the South, and this section has not
fully recovered even yet from them.
^ Next an outcry was raised that the
Southern people had become the
victims of a deadly disease named
'pellagra,' which was charged to the
use of Indian corn that caused it.
The disease has been traced to
Southern Europe, where it is common,
and inter information goes to
show that it was imported in the
persons of immigrants.
"lint the pellagra panic having
failed ot the expected effect, now
comes a howl about the 'hook worm.
A non-professional writer has devoted
many pages and many pictures
to the hook worm in the South in
MeClure's for October, lie says:
" 'All through the South?the Carolinas,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi?these abnormal people,
' the "dirt eaters," have been known
for a century, and anemia is a universal
malady S'tuth of the Potomac.
"It's something these people
eat," is the favorite explanation
I of
"'One's first and .dtcngest impr?s
sion of the poor whiten in of their
shiftlessness. I remember 1>oa*
dreadfully it used to depress no
years ago when 1 spent my vacat! >n
in the North Carot;nn m ?uiiMins.
I have been in littlo w:ndowi"s.?
st-oveless, one-room cabins, the home
of at least ten jrersons, wnero all ?he
cooking was done the primitive
open fire?except when it roi.'.ecl
down the chimney and pot the tiro
out; then there wasn't any cooking
till the rain held up! Aand as i
talked with the women I was always
asking myself, "How can people live
tlikie this? Why don't they go 10
work and fix up things?"
" 'It is estimated that scattered
* over the Atlantic, seaboard from the
Potomac round the gulf# to the Mississippi
river, there are today 2,000,000
of these poor whites?our
native-born whites?suffering with
ailemia, and hardly one of those
2,000,000 knows, or even suspects,
that he is really suffering from on
internal parasite?that this disease
is caused by the hook wrm.
" 'Then years ago even the foremost
physicians did not know the
anemia of the South was caused by
the hook.worm; but today, thanks
V^lafgely to the tireless efforts of one
man?Charles Wardell Stiles?the
whole medical profession a^d many
of the laity are awake to the vital
issues of the problem and are preparing
a crusade that shall reach
from the worst regions of the barrens,
whore nearly the whole population
is suffering to the farthest
"cove" in the mountains, and stamp
A FIEND LYNCHED
AND TWO OTHElt FIENDS DEI NO
rLRHl KD BY CITIZENS.
A Trio of Nortoos Strip, Tie and
Whip a Virginia Farmer and At*
tatk His Wire.
A dispatch from Sutton, W. Va.,
says two organized parties of men
are scouring the hills of that county
searching for two negroes believed
to havo aided Charles Lewis, also
a negro, in a dastardly assault upon
Mrs. Mary Lock hold, wife of a prosperous
farmer Wednesday near the
small settlement of Kxehange. If
the negroes are caught, lynching it
not improbable. Lewis, the ouly
known member of the party of three,
who are thought to have been implicated
in the deed, is dead, having
been shot and killed by a posse
of men late Wednesday while endeavoring
to escape.
According to Deputy Sheriff Williams.
the three negroes late Tuesday
night went to the home of Geo.
.Lockhold, living but a few miles from
Sutton, and after tying the fariuoi
to a tree and whipping him on his
bare back with willow switches, attempted
an assault upon Mrs. Lockhold.
Persons who happened to be
passing the l,o?'.khold farm heard
the screams of the woman and the
negroes lied at the approach of tin
passers-by.
A posse of farmers was organized
within a short space of time, and
after a twenty-four hours hunt.
Lewis, one of the supposed ti io ot
the negroes, was apprehended. As
he turned to flee from his pursuers,
after being ordered to throw
up his hands, ho was shot and instantly
killed.
Late Wednesday night news reached
Button that one of the pursuing
posses had surrounded the two negroes
in a swamp near the scene of
the crime. The courier who brought
the news of the imminent apprehension
of the men said lynching could
not be averted if they were caught
alive.
At midnight a telephone communication
was received from Oassaway
stating that two negroes thought to
have been implicated in the assault
on Mrs. Lock hold had been captured
near that place and placed in
jaii. Men with rifles are said to be
guarding the jail against a posibb
lynching party.
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BltKAKS TIIK ItlXOIUL
Lieut. Lahm Makes a l/>ng Flight
in an Army Biplane.
Breaking "all former endurance
records on the government aviation
field, at College Park, Md., Lieut.
Lahm, in an Army aeroplane, remained
in the air during a single flight
Monday fifty-eight and one-half minutes.
This exceeds any continuous flight
made by a pupil of either Orville or
Wilbur Wright in America, although
their nunils abroad hav?? irreatlv <>v
ceeded this flight in duration.
A Wright machine has been kept
up over three hours by Orville ami
two hours and a quarter by Wilbur
Wright, both of these records being
made abroad.
Respites Condemned .Murderer.
Following the attempted suicide
late Thursday of Dr. J. M. lOlllott
of I Grange, Ua., sentenced to liang
Friday for the murder of Geo. 1,.
Rivers, Gov. Grown, who was in Savannas,
telephoned another reprieve
for two weeks for the condemned
man.
out the disease.'
"In the face of such statements,
illustrated by sensational cuts, it
is useless to contend that the Southern
people possessed vigor enough
to show up with able crops of statesmen
and great and gallant soldiers
from the time of Washington and
Jefferson and a host of others up
to the eminent civilians and the
grand soldiers of the civil war. The
South is represented to he filled with
a wretched brood of dirt eaters.
Who that knows the South can for
a moment believes this?
"Hut now comes the prenomenally
wealthy .Mr. Rockefeller, the oil king,
who proposed to give $1,000,000 to
cure the people of the South of
hook worm, and a commission is to
ii?- iornien, n u nas noi own already,
to spend the money.
"Well, the South can only submit.
Wth a million of money and a sensational
press engaged in portraying
our section of the union as an accursed
country, we can only accept
the situation and wonder what other
slander is to be fulminated against
it/'
The editorial of the Picayune
shows both sense and self-rcsepct.
It is time the Southern people had
begun resenting this officious disposition
to take care of thorn which
certain parties are addicted to.
Donations may easily, as dum-dum
bullets, wound where they hit and
leave a mortal poison in the hole
they make after being received. We
are certainly able to get ourselves
clear of worms without Mr. Rockefeller's
million-dollar dose of vermlfugo.
WILL GO HIGHER
Frank Hayne Says Fifteen Cents is Too
Little for Cotton
THE CROP VERY SHORT
The llig Cotton .Man, \VIm> in a Native
of This Stale, is Optimisfie.
iiiul Hoviews Hecent Market HI ?
lory and lH'(liicc> Strong lklicl
in Vet Higher Price Irvels.
Mr. Trunk H. Hayne, a South Carolinian
now living in New Orleans,
who has labored consistently for ,
his her prices for cotton this season,
has outlined his reasons for saying i
that fifteen cents is too little for !
cotton as follows.
"When tho government bureau!
report, issued on August 2, showed a
condition of 71.9 per cent, I felt convinced
the crop could not possibly
reach 12,000,000 bales, and that cotton
was selling far below its real
value. When the government report,
Issued on September 2, showed a condition
of 011.7 per cent, I felt satisfied
that 11,000,000 bales was the
maximum possible for the crop and
at that time received a telegram from
Mr. J. N. Wisner of Now Orleuns,
asking Mr. \V. 1\ Iirown and my soli*
to telegraph him in full our views
on the situation. .Mr. Urown was
absent, so I replied to Mr. Wisner
by telegraph as follows:
" 'We look at the situation as follows:
Discounting every favorable
condition that can a rise until December
1. the government report indicates
a maximum crop of 1 1,250,000,
and with unfavorable conditions
might easily be 1,000,000 bales less.
Consumption last year, 13,100,000,
in spite of short time in England
and continent. With largest American
crop ever produced the price
advanced $20 a hale while being
marketed and the visible supply is
far less than two years a so. With
a certainty that 13,500,000 will really
be needed by the country and that
probably less than 1 1,500,000 will
be grown, an eveiftual advance Is
simply unavoidable. Under normal
conditions the market should have
certainly advanced to 13 cents yesterday,
hut was kept down by the
enormous selling of the hear clique.
These sellers base their action on
the supposed helplessness of the
South, thinking the South will be
forced to sell Its cotton at any price
the spinners are willing to take it
at. We consider that the competition
between spinners who will
certainly require 1,100,000 bales
monthly will take care o fthis socalled
distressed cotton. If the
hankers of the South will help th<-'
farmer to market his cotton slowly, !
we firmly believe it will be worth :
15 cents in the next 60 days. The
weakness in our opinion of the)
hears" argument is that, although the
producer may be foolish enough to j
he willing to sell his cotton far be- !
i
low its actual value, we hardly think j
t nut t he spinner will be foolish j
enough, when he fully realizes tin
facts of the ease, not to start buying
fro- Iv at these prioes ami thus
avoid the scramble for spot cotton
that will surely take place some time !
during the season.
"The Southern farmer has sold at :
least ">.000,000 bales of cotton or. j
which he realized probahlv $350.-1
000,000. It was very hard to con i
vince the farmer that 1 li 'tents was
not an extreme price for his pro- i
duct, but through the efforts of a
few Southern men, they finally rea-'
lized the fact that they were sacri-I
licing their cotton, and I believe that j
at least $50,000,000 more has been!
obtained for the cotton marketed
to date than would have been If it
had not been for the efforts of this
small coterie of Southern men.
"My prediction on September 3 of j
1 ."> cents in the next 60 days has now
come true, but sit that time I thought j
the crop would be from 1t,250,000
to 11,500,000 bales. 1 now feel confident
that the maximum for this'
crop is 10,750.000 bales. The probability
is that it will be under 10,- J
500,000 bales; and there is a pos- j
nihility of its not reaching 10,000,000
bales. Under the present conditions
I now feel that 15 cents is
as much too cheap for cotton as 12
1-2 cents seemed to nie on September
3.
"In 1903-'01, known as the 'Sully
year,' the crop was 1 0,01 1,000 bale.1
and the consumption only 10.0X3.
000 bales, and last year the consumption
increased 3,07 4.000 ' bales,
or 30.4 0 per cent. The visible sup
ply on the 1st of September, thbseason,
was 1,4 7 2,000 and on th*' l.-r
of September, 1 903, was f? 17,000
bales or only 955,000 bales less,
therefore in the 'Sully year,' with a j
visible supply on September 1 of
517,000 bales and a crop of 10,01
1,000 bales, the world had 10,528,000
bales of cotton, of which
they used 10,083,000 bales. The
visible supply on the 1st of September
this year was 1,4 7 2,000
bales. If the crop should only prove
1 0,500,000 bales, the world will have
a supply of only 11,97 2,000 bales,
while last year It actually consumed
in spite of short time In England
13.157.000 hales, or a deficit of 1,185,000
bales.
I THEY SHAKE HANDS
TIIK I'XIQl'K KATKKIKXCK <>l
TWO SOIJUFKS IN TIIK WAIL
<ill Christian and Captain Kauri
Mwt For the First Tliiio Sinc?
Thry Tried to Kill F.juIi Other.
Standing in tin- lohhy of a hote
during the late visit to Richmond
Va., of the I Vnnsylvanians who attended
the unveiling of a monument
J Cold llarhor, several days ago,
{Captain 12. 1). Christian, a well known
I veteran of the Forty,first Virginia
I regiment, who was entei taining a
number of the visiting I*? <!? ml veterans
with an uccount oi a duel hi
I had In 1SG2 with a PennsyIranian
j iicur what is known as "Tin I'ow|
pens," now the Mcchunit sville 1 K?*.
I "In Borne way," said Captain
i Christian, "we were coming through
j a field cut apart by a long line ot
rail fence. As we approached lh
fence we saw coming toward us a
line of blue-coated soldiers. liefore
I knew it 1 was face to face with
a Yankee who was sending balls at
inc. but luckily aiming wrong. 1
loaded my musket time and again
and we had it there face to face.
Presently the Yankee mounted tin
fence to get a better whack at mi
for I was as bad a shot as lie in
the excitement of that duel. Well,
gentlemen, down came the rail fence
and down came the Yankee, sprnwt'
ing on the ground. He managed to
I get up as my old musket banged
away, hut the bull never touched
him.
"Wait a moment," interrupted one
of the visitors, "and I'll tell you the
rest of the story." All eves turned
toward the military form of Captain
\Y. H. Ranch, a l'hiladelphlun, who
was the centre of the listeners to
Captain Christian's story.
"Well," continued Captain Ranch,
"the Yankee Just took to his heels
at that and you after him. "You
fired as lent? as he was in sight
and ho ran as long as his legs would
hold him up. The only reason he
did not fly was because he was a man
and not a bird."
"That's about right," said the Confederate
and then the two men faced
each other with eyes glued on the
faces that had seen the changes of
nearly half a century.
"Hell, man," Captain Ranch cried,
finally breaking the intense stillness,
"are yon the Johnny Reb that had
that duel with nie and came near
making me a prisoner or putting me
out for good?"
"If you are the man who jumped
on that fence and fell, arid then got
up and ran while a Confederate soldier
sent bullets after you to help
move, I guess we have met before.'
"If any other man had been in
my palce and had not put up a good
run," replied Captain Ranch, "he
would have been a fool. Why tin',
old tiling you were handling looked
is hie :ik .*1 cannon and sounded liU.
two or throe of them."
Following this tin* veterans shv-k
hands and Captain Ranch took Chiptain
Christian in tow to introdnc
hint to his wife. Then Captain and
Mrs. Ranch had to get into Captain
Christian's automobile and the end
was that Mrs. Christian cot a t.-lv
phone call to have dinner ready foi
two extras. The party spent tin
evening In the handsome ho.ee or
Captain Christian, who had to p.utilise
a visit to the Ranch home ir
Philadelphia.
Before leaving Richmond Captain
Ranch declared that he would no
have missed meeting Captain Christian
for all his worldly possessions
"I have never forgotten that rebel,"
said he, "and I see him now in my
mind's eyes with his big old-time
musket plugging away at me as
though 1 were of no more good to
the world than an ordinary animal ''
I'mrcd to 11^' Itui-H'd .Alive..
K. ariiiR that ho would be ithriod
alive, Dr. William J. I)odd{ ol' Jersey
City, made a request in his will,
which disposes of an estate valued
.at $L'f>0,00(), that following his death
and before burial the radial artery
be cut by a surgeon. In probating
the will Dr. Dodd executor has re
ported to the court that the artery
was cut as stipulated.
Miners llehl by Water.
Three hundred miners were imprisoned
by water rush'ng into the
Tareni coal pit tit Ystal Y - For a,
Glamorganshire. One hundred and
fifty miners were rescued alive. The
/xt U.vHi. ? t t 1 U.I .1 I... 1
umri n ni u rsini HVIU jM'IbiMHTS UJlil
the water is rising.
"Whjr, if in the 'Sully year' the
crop had only been 7,f?00.000 to 8,000,000
bales, the situation would
not be as acute as it will l>e if this
crop only turns out 10,500,000 bales,
yet in that year cotton sold for ov? r
18 cents. If every American mill
was to run half time from now until
the end of the season, I do not consider
there would bo enough cotton
to go around.
"The spinners' takings to Octoner
29, this year, were 1,92,8.000
bales, against only l,8Oi,000 bales
samo time last year (which had l>ecn
the record takings of any year up
to that time) and against 1,148,000
bales the same time in 190,8-'04.
"Who can tell what nrlce will discount
the above facts?"
" HOW TO STOP IT
English Physician Reads interesting Paper
on Pellagra at
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COLUMBIA CONFERENCE
I
' I>r. Siniih\il< li, of 'T?''K Mow
Italy, N\ In r<> I'rlliiKra is \\ idelj
l'ro\alent, lias II4<<I1100<I Moi'nnt.v.
Many Cases I'ound ,\tt,oii,^ !._vp*
flans?I j?<?s l*i'?'v*'iitaf ivo l?uh\
T!ie following |?api-r r?y l>r I". M.
Sandwich, of Ixmdon. Mnglt.ul,
(ireHham professor of phy.sj. s was
read al the pellagra ronlervn m
Columbia Wednesday aftornooa ; "I
1 feel that my lirst words most bo
those of cungral illation and eu. jurngement
to the many phyao-'u as 11
tho Southern Slalom who are now
wo! king at tho various problems con
nected with pellagra. Cong'Jtuiu
1 tion in the tirst place, bectiUN! tho>
have discovered the cxtstunee of ?h>
disoaso, because tin y have impress
od this discovery upon others b-;
that tho presence of pellagra is now
thoroughly recognised.
"It" I venture also to oncourngo
1 American co-workers, it is not with
1 any improper desire to draw attention
to my own work, but txK/.auso 1
happen to bo in the unique position
(with regard to this out; disease), ot
being able to appreciate their diflicult
its.
"In spite of denials from American
authorities on medicine 1 hav?
always Hus|)oototl that pellagra might
exist unrecognized in the South, and
at one time I requested my ti e nds
to put me into communication wit it
the poorest folk of the maize eating
districts. I was referred to a
settlement in Kastern Virginia torpauper
negroes, but on investigation
1 found that the inmates lived in
stone houses, on pork rations, and
I came to the conclusion that the
word poverty represented no condition
in America, which could compare
with the misery of the impoverished
peasants of Italy, Houmania
or Kgypt.
"In April, 190a, I had the good
fortune to he at itosfon during an
epidemic of corebro spinal meningitis,
ami the very first patient whom
I saw at the city hospital by the
courtesy of Dr. C. F. Withington, was
an Italian emigrant, who also displayed
a well marked pellagrous
eruption. This leads one to wonder
whether the I'nited States public
In-altli and marine hospital service
officers who examine the emigrants
at isapies and other Italian ports
should not include pellagra among
the prohibitory diseases.
"Now, that the diagnois of pellagra
has been tirinly established in
so many States, it would be well
to find out for certain how many
persons are attacked by the disease
in the South. In order to arrive
at any correct figures, it might in*
well to institute compulsory notification
of the disease at least as a
temporary measure. In Italy there
has been a law to that effect since
1X88. 1 would also recommend that
agricultural laborers should he examined
in the States where pe?l tgra
is known to be prevalent, such
as (Jeorgia and North and South Carolina.
This might be done in Kobruary
or March, when the eruption
is likely to be present.
"In 11101 and 1902 I obtained
permission to examine hoO Kgyptian
peasants who were actually at work
in the fields. They all stoutly do
nied that they were ill and their
rinplovers who w"re with them stated
they could all do a fair day's
work, hut iu every field I found j
early cases of pellagra, hearing from
15 per cent in well-to-do districts
to t>2 per cent in the inhabitants of
the poorest hamlets.
"The treatment of early pellagra
cases without mental symptoms can
be successfully accomplished by [Hitting
the patient on a liberal diet,
excluding maize and by ridding him
of the hookworms which are so often
co-existent, but the pellagrous
symptoms return if he is allowed to
resume a diet of musty maize. Various
preparations of arsenic are used
lu advanced cases but when the brain
is attacked there is a small hope for
the patient unless by serotherapy.
Pellagra is essentially a disease
which cries for preventive measures.
M I t u 1 e l\*r a?\ I *?/% ?*> (?>? V* ?? #.
mil; i>,? j>i* unniirc iiiraoili ll.irs
Kince 1888 reduced the mortality of
pellagra from 3,4 83 to 1,635, though
during the years 1X83 to 1907 the
in a i ze area under cultivation has increased
from 5.7 9 to 6.33 per cent
of the whole country. This points
the moral that it is the quality, not
the quantity of maize which is at
fault. There are certain general
exioms which prove true in Italy
and Egypt and it will doubtless be
, found that they hold good in the
United States also:
"First?In districts where no
maize is cultivated or habitually
eaten, pellegra does not exist.
"Second?There are many districts
where maize has been cultivated
for many years and yet pellagra
has not appeared.
, "Third? YVell-to-do people in pellagra
districts living on varied diet
and consuming maize as an occasiona!
and not as a staple cereal, usually
A GREAT EVENT . I
FOU TIIK CITY OF .SPAItTANDCAfl I
AND SOt'TM < AHOLINA. I
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Th?4 Olcbiatioii of (>??* 0|H'ttii?q < f I
Traffic of tin* Ourotiiui, ClinchA^M I
I
nod Ohio ICailway. ?
Last Friday was a j.*r?at day Jo? I
rh? ? it> <>l Spartan and lt?
I State of South Carolina, v%;. ?? that
ity celebrated the opening to trnJft'.
of the Carolina, Ciim ;itl? iii ami <)> *>
Railway. The railway had just be? >
com pit t to Spartanburg, anil tl>; i
progressive rity cel.'Prated tho ovi i
tit keeping with its iin)M>rtaiice . ?*
her own dignity as on* oi tin- grt. t
{ratio centers of Sni>?n Carolina ami
the South. Ceople fro at all over tbe
State hail gathered in Spartanbu?g
to rejoice with hi" at the consumption
of one of the greatest events
in her history, am) partake of I?m ^
generous hospitality. ^
i he great event of the oce.ix^ n
transpired on Friday, hut the iMglt
b? fore a protracted demonstrate n
was given that the road was cox*pii
ted by the arrival of a train
from Johnson City, T? na., and otf?* I
points, loaded wit h guests front 'C? n
nesnee, Virginia and North Caroline,
including the otllcinls of the m w railway.
This train reached Spartanburg
between eight and nine o'clock
Thursday night and was greeted J 3 ' 1
thousands of people who had 1 i 11 * rf
the track to welcome it to Spartanhu
g. The train, as* it Onwlv unc*. .?
- * ' ' * J WV* '4 J
fo the Pnion Station, gave one loi?g !
continuous whlstl\ which was
iinswcri'd by tbo cheers of the assembled
thousands.
Friday morning everybody, * ?
nearly everybody, wept out to tieFair
(Jrounds, where a hrst-class fair
was in operation, and where the hrrival
of that train was to be celebrated
in a style betlrtin^ its great
j importance to Spartanburg and the |
rest of the State. The weather waM
ideal, and everything else seemc<|,
to be groaned for the occasion, 10
smoothly did everything pass of*
The crowd numbered many thdo
sands, and every one seemed to be
happy and entered into the celebration
of the occasion with vim ai-l
enthusiasm.
Spartanburg was happy, and s>
were all whp had gone there to rejoico
with her on the great occasion.
A little after eleven o'clock the
meeting was called to order by Dr.
H. N. Snyder, President of WotTord
College, who presided with his usual
grace and ease. lie introduced the
speakers who wore to make addresses.
As a preliminary, Dr. Snyder
paid a glowing tribute to President
(ieorge L. Carter, of the Carolina,
Clinch field and Ohio railroad, who,
he said, had made tin1 c?*lohratlO)>
possitde. lie declared that the linking
of the rally would bring ii)M
closer relation, not only commercially,
but industrially, the people of the
Cast and the West, so long barricaded
against each other by what,
seemed to be an insurmountable
range of mountains.
Judge A. A. Phlegar, vice president
of the new railroad, was tho
lirst speaker upon the program, headdress
being delivered extemporaneously.
lie declared that a brighter
sun never shown than that whi> v?
speeded the departing trains from
Johnson City, and that a warm# t
welcome never greeted a party ? 1
travelers than that which th*:j
had found in the city of Spartanburg,
as the train pulled into the
station Thursday evening.
Judg- Phlegar declared that tho
welding of the rails binding many '
States together, not only cement* !
commercial and industrial interest*?
of many States, hut were love-th u
between the various sections of the *
country. And he prayed thai these
love-ties might he everlasting. Judg'*.
Phlegar touched upon tho great ok
ton mills of this section, giving
statistics.
Admitting that the railroads were
often in the wrong, Judge Phlegar
pointed to the fact that sometime i
fh?> public, too, being human, wan
at fault, and ho askod of the people
a square deal for the C., C. & O,
railroad and promised the same id :
I behalf of the road. Cheers rent the
air in resj>onse to this utterance.
Mayor Rhett, of Charleston, and
other speakers, wore introduced, who
made appropriate addresses. Then
came the barbecue, in which about
twelve hundred guests participated.
It was one of the best managed and
conducted affairs of the kind that
wo have any knowledge of. The
barbecue ended the celebration, anil
after it was over the large crowd
that enjoyed it dispersed. The whole
celebration was happily conceived *
and carried out without a hitch.
Twelve Are Killed. 1 .
A MOfirfh -
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flight in the mine of the Cambria
Kt'-rl Company at Franklin, Pa.,
where an explosion occurred Sunday
evening, failed to increase the number
of fatalities. Twelve men were
kill o<l outright, one is dying and
three are seriously injured.
escape pellagra.
"Fourth -It is not good maize or
good maize Hour which products
pellagra; the disease requires for
its production a habitual use of
damaged maize in some form."