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IP "loss by fire" Amount to Over One Million Dollars Per ( Day, Says Report. MORE CARE IS NEEDED -Geological Survey Prepares Report Showing Contrast Item eon Saudi Losses by I'ire to Government ami lCnormous Losses Reported from the Country as a Whole. Owing buildings that cost more than $300,000,000 and spending moro than $20,000,000 for new ones, and not a cent of fire insurance from one year's end to another Is Uncle Sam's way of doing business. Just how this is accomplished is interestingly told in a story from the Geological survey: Tests to determine the strength and lire resistance of building materials are now made by the United States Geological Survey, and, although these tests are designed primarily to meet the needs of the Government as the largest consumer, their results are also available for general uses. The results already obtained show that cheaper fireproof materials can be used and that the difference in cost between fireproof and inflammable buildings will soon become so small that it will cease to encourage flimsy construction. They indicate that three to six times the necessary amount of material is habitually used in structural work. They also show the necessity of better building codes in cities and especially of a better enforcement of tho codes already enacted if the present enormous fire losses are to be diminished. The contrast between the small losses by fire to Government buildings and the immense losses reported from the country as a whole led the geological survey to make an Inquiry as to the fire losses In the United States and as to their exact cost to the people. Tho results of this inquiry are presented in the Survey's Bulletin 4 IS, just published, ttflllnb P'lii nht n f\wr n n plying to the director of the survey at Washington. The report is entitled "The fire tax and waste of structural materials in the United States," and was prepared hy 11. M. Wilson and J. L. Cochrane, of the purvey. Thelnquiry covered not only rh? yalue of the property destroyed Hiy firt?/ hut also the cost of main tabling fir<? fiepartmcnts, the amount of insurance premiums paid less the amounts returned, the cost of protective agencies, the additional cost /of water supplies, and other elements of til e fire loss. The Investigation disclosed the fact that the total cost of fires in the United States in 1907, excluding that of forest fires and the marine losses, but including excess cost of fire protection due to bad construction and excess premiums over insurance paid, amounted to over $4 5 6,4 85,000, a tax on the people exceeding the total value of the gold, silver, copper and petroleum produced In the United States in that year. The cost of building construction in 1 907 in forty-nine leading cities of the United States reporting a total population of less than 1 8,000,000 amounted to $661,076,286, and the cost of building construction for the entire country in the same year is conservatively estimated at $1,000,000,000. Thus it will be seen that nearly one-half the value of all the new buildings constructed within one year is destroyed by lire. The annual fire cost is greater than the value of the real property and Improvements in either Maine, West Virginia, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alabama, Louisiana or Montana. In addition to this waste of wealth and natural resour 1 A A II 1, ill.wl o,,fl r. _ t't*a i , 'H f jiim awnn wii ^ n iii\;u uuu i 654 were injured in lires in the ' United States in 1907. The direct loss by fires in this country is eight times as much per capita as in any country in Europe. The actual fire loss in the United State .due to the destruction of buildings and their contents amounted to $215,084,709, a per capita loss of $2.51. The per capita loss in the cities of the six leading European countries amounted to but 33 cents. Comparisons of the total cost of fires, which includes the items already stated, show that if buildings in tho Tinned btatf's were as nearly Areproof as thosQ in Europe the annual fire Q(jaS ivottld bo $90,000,000 InWad of $4 56,000,000. The report states the method ol gathering the statistics collected _i?j.. ~? ii.? n..#? l/.uu in inaKCB an HHKiyHia ui mu m<3 ??o0 .. city and country and on frame and brick buildings, and contains tablet showing the Increased cost of flr< protection due to faulty construe tlon. The predominance of fraim buildings is set down as the nios Important cause of the great fin waste in the United States. I)efec tive construction and equipment con jv stltutc a second cause. A Freak Hill, pi; Representative J. H. Foster ha Introduced a hill prohibiting washet women from wearing their patronf y clothes. ? _ A WHITE FIEND Arrested for Brutally Murdering a Fourteen Year Old Girl. WHO WAS CUI TO PIECES Tlio Knife With Which It is Sup |H)sc(l the Fiendish Crime Was Committed and Moody Clothes W as Found in the Koom of the I toy Arrested. Following the finding of tin* horribly mutilated body of 14-yearold Mary Tedder at the home of her father at Glen wood, Fla., Saturday afternoon, Irvin llanchett, a 16-yearold white boy, was arrested Sunday morning. He was immediately spirited away by the sheriff to escape the enraged citizens also in search of the murderer. Additional details received from the murder are horrible. A bicycle, which the girl was riding, was found 100 yards from where her body was discovered, indicating that her assailant had struggled with her for this distance after knocking her from the wheel. The body of the girl showed 65 knife wounds. She was lltorally cut to pieces. That the girl's assailant had other motives than murder is believed from the condition of her clothing. She had been beaten about the face before being stabbed. Following the organization of posses of citizens ill snnrcli nf ji noirrn supposed to have committed the crime, the sheriff secured bloodhounds and followed a trail iu the oratige grove of William Woolsey, where young Iianchett was employed. After a careful investigation the hoy was placed under arrest. In his room was found bloody clothing and the knife with which it is believed he committed the murder. When he was arrested he seemed unconcerned, but strenuously denied that he had committed the crime. The boy came to Glen wood last October. Previous to this he had been confined in a school of correction at some point in Connecticut. The boy is said to be of an unusually vicious tempermament, and as soon as it was learned that he had been arrested on a strong chain of circumstantial evidence excitement was intense. He was spirited away in an automobile, and is believed to have been carried to Jacksonville and placed in jail. III0K LAST LK Fl'LIt. Woman Killed !>y the Fumes of lturncd Natural Gas. Lying on the floor, face downward, her arms stretched toward the door she could not reach, Mrs. Caroline Pretzler was found dead in her home in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday night. She had been asphyxiated by the fumes of burned natural gas. On a table was a letter which she had been writing to her brother, the Rev. Frederick Kretz, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The last lines that she had written read: "I am beginning to feel very tired. Something is wrong." Here the writing wavered. The last words were almost illegible. "I am getting ill," she had written. "I am unable to write more tonight," the words trailed off, irregularly downward. "I must put it aside and finish cit torn?" Apparently at this point she had arisen from her chair and tottering toward the door for aid had fallen and died. THIEF MAKES HAUL. (irahs Stark of Hills from l'ostofilce Stamp Clerk. While J. A. Dial, stamp clerk ir the Birmingham post olllce, was counting out his money to make hi; purchase of necessary stamps for th< day, two girls walked up to the win dow and asked for some one-cen stamps Friday morning. As he be gan serving the stamps, a white ma1 walked up hurriedly, grabbed th stack of bills on the counter an made away with it. Mr. Dial cried out: "Stop thief, and jumped through the window an made after the robber. Others joit ed in the chase but the robber ha ' the start and got away after belli followed for six blocks. The ell detectives and federal authorith wo immediately notified and ai > working on the case. More thf eight hundred dollars, ranging , bill from one to fifty dollars, wo: I Btolcn. i ? ? j Robber Identified. Mrs. Jerry McAuley of McKeespoi 3 Pa., was shown a picture of a mi t killed two weeks ago, while robbii n the postofflce at Tallahassee, Fli - and she Identified him as that - her husband, who has been missii for nearly a year. When dying t! robber continually muttered "M Keesport." s m m What a man likes about holida i is how glad he Is to get back business when they are oyer. WHAT TO TAKE j SOME SUGGESTIONS TO TIIE OLIV AS WELL AS TIIE YOUNG. Give Them a (i(K)(l, lloncst Trial uurf Sc?? if You Aro Not licncllttcd by Tlu'iu. I ho virl van lavo ta lin vaiir wife, if she is willing. 'lake care of your health. It i? the moat valuable thing you have. Take a hint when it is i'hen.led for you. Don't wait to be k io.jk d dow 1). Take flattery atf .an insult, and an honest compliment as some; king jo be grateful for. Take pains to be faithful and conscientious in business. It will v?rii#g you success. Take offence only at things wcvfh being offended at. ft is sure evidence of a small mind tritles. Take hold of any work that conic* to your hand rather t.h<?n ye idi'..-. Luck always waits upon the bns> < man. Take time to be polite and kind always. Rudeness never pays, ?.,ie boor may think so, but he is wrong. Take trouble like a man. Den'r go winning about when it c*>to<?8, !>nt sliut your moutli and stand iup under it resolutely. Take a trip now and then, and try to see something outside of the tow,: you live in. Travel is one of the greatest educators. Take pain in your work. The conscientious worker is the one who gets to the front?and the one that never needs be idle. < Take care that you make this day :? mourn ior an ino days to come-? and then copy after it. Live this day so that it will bring yon no regrets. Take time, young man, to go out with your sister. if she Is a good girl she is much more desirable com?pany for you than that other girl who flirts with you so desperately. Take the sunshine into your life as something to be grateful for; don't darken it with shadows of your own making. Trouble will come soon* enough without your coining it. Take your wife and children wil.n. you when you go out to lie amused. That is not a proper amusement for you that you cannot take your wife to?and you know it. Take* as much care of your money as you can, if your means are limit- . od; hut don't try to save your smiles or your kind words. The* more liberal you are with these the more yoir ' will have. Take a walk?several of them. It is healthful to walk, and if it is a nico moonlight night and somerich old man's pretty daughter is hanging on your arm, it is especially healthful. Take time, young man, to b3 kind to your brother. He Is onv of your j best friends, sure. He will protect .vou always. Take time to .>e good to him. Take pains to hear both, -sides of a story before you coine- to decision, .lumping at a conclusion,, one time and another, has filled the world with enemies and deluged it in blood. Wait to hear both sides of a story bo- I fore you speak. Tako a wife If you are able to support a wife, a very-, very stylish one. It is every able bodied man'** duty to help some good womat# t hrough the world. Where would yo ?j he now if your father had 1101 done this? Take heart, if you are ens* down Your luck will change; ere the yeair is out. What though the clouds; do cover you now, the sun will shino by and by. No life is made up. alto getber of shadows, and God never >"n wholly deserted a resolute man or a ' brave woman. Fight on and victory will come at last. Take a rest if you are able to afford it. Rest is sweet and you dor/t wear out while you are rest-frig. The Savior bade the weary come unto 5 Him, and He promised them?rent. * 3 ? 3 HOYS THROWN FROM TRAIN. 1 One Ik Dead and the Other Wave- a a Dying Statement. e rj Two boys riding from Toteda to Chicago on a Lak<* Shore freight train were Friday thrown from a (] coal car by a brakemau while the j. train was*running twenty miles an hour near Daporte, liid., according ,g to the dying statement to Coroner Osly borne of H. K. Carps, 17 years oi as age, of North Iloulevard, Atlanta r(> Ga., wno is in the hospital with h.fc in skull fractured and both legs broken In ins companion, unwara larnasKi,, o rQ Willow* River, Minn., was killed. ' XTnknown >lan Decapitated. At Atlanta an unknown man, o rt, about 65 years of ago, was run ove in and killed by a west Hunter stree ig car on Highland avenue Saturda; a., night. The man's hoad was late of found in a ditch several yards fron rig tho body. The only marks of iden he tlflcation about the body were th [C- initials "J. T. T. in the hat. Mr. Boney has severed his connec ys tion with the Laurens Advertiser ti to accept a position on The News an< Courier. A .i.' ,.tJ ! , m \ BRAY OF AN ASS" Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, Makes an Exhibition of Himself j WAVES BLOODY SHIRT lie Protests in Vuin Against the lies- olutiou to 'jend (jioveri&iiieiit Tents [ for Use at Aliflmma Confederate ^ Veterans' Reunion?All Other Senator* Voted for the Resolution. ( Protesting against loaning Government tents for the use oC the Confederate Veterans at their annual reunion la Mobile, Ala., next April, Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, in the Senate 1jM? Moaxlay night, made the m sharpest comniemt upon the* issues of the civil war thati has been heard ItsCongress 1? twenty years. He inveighed aflptinst men in "rel> *1" uniform' being: permitted to oc- t <ni>py government property, *?r the it "r^bel" tlag being allowed trr float p a to-ve it. Finally her drifted inV> the f <1 nuation of honoring: men by pricing ^ theilir statues In the* Congressional f, hall 'iff fame, ;t*id by unmistakable c inference condemned the action' of 0 Virginia in sendi rg thosftatue of G'?n. ^ Robert K. Lee to Washington. 0 "TaUf it away and vrorshlp it if Al yon pleai*e," h<> t;Kunde/.ix!r "but dlft ]] not inrnde it upon ;3he piwple who d'P ? not want If." Democratic Sena?eta mowd uneasl- 7^ yl about the floor, conversing with lie i?aeh otheror sat frowning and anger- -j cd. Finally when Steiator Heyburn c, had concluded, Senator Bank head 0 said: ' t( "I am suit? the Senator frrvao Idaho i * feels much' better, aiuf I aHft for a f] rote." & "Hy roll'call," shouted: a diszen or more Senators, and bauds- w^ut up jj iir a second iV? that request: from ev- j, ery part, of the Senate < hmanbers. s] When the' rote was hrfrifl on the 81 tent loaning measure all of t.lie Dem- R ocrata and all!of the Uepiit/Mearixs, except Mr. Hejrihrm, voted for it. His ^ nesrative vote was uttered iii a loud u amr defiant tone. a This measure was reached near the g, close of the session. Mr. Heyburn was a prompt to raise an objection, .and Mr. r Hankhead just'as alert in mo.rims the ^ consideration, regardless of the oh- j, jecfion. It immediately was^avidont j} that1 the objection roused soi:ae feel- ^ infor with a finished face and ani- tj mated voice, Mr. Hailey declawd that if this meamre was to he. ruled out of order not other business cowJd be ^ transacted. The Hanlthead motion being: undo- ^ bateahle, the Senate immediately proceeded to arayo aard nay vot# na the question a:? to whether the resolution should' be Ucfcen up, and it was adopted unanimously, Mr* HXyyburn hktnself reitainitijf-from voti**?. With tlto resolution adopted, Mr. f, fib y burn look JihJe floor; mcude a gj speech ill which h'e went om many g] of the ifc8V\ies of'ttie-war and'declared f( himself a? much a patriot r.awr as he g Pad been in 186^1863-181141. Ir The Southern Senators held' a burried consultation, while- the- Idaho ^ Senator was proceeding a&tl! decided ? to make oo reply. . It- cltumiced thart.-Mr. Heyvjuwtfs colleague, Senator Borah, of- Idaho, was tho lil-st of trte Republleuna to be reaches!" in the roll-call.1 IJY? voted In favor-off tho nfoption oVftjlhs- resolution. Never before, perhaps, has the | SonivttJ* listene t!to a maweiinwasslonod plea from a Member of that dou/. Startling his remarks by declaring' ! that' he spok? only \v.?lil the best in-, j tent ions, thf jrhe harbored malico to I ward none, and tlnitt whatever coin struetion night be placed upon lus !c woitla by tbx> press-.oftrhc South, that * he wouln continue* to. speak and up*- 1 poae such movement^ as the one jon- 1 'Uemplatedw 1 The Idnrho Senator made the words i I "rebel" s?nd "traitor>' fairly hhts and i thunder aroumV tho Senate chamber. 1 S Flo dee tared tAut it the purpose of 1 the resolution were carried oib those Alabaicra "relfttdV* clad in tire clothing off "TohcdH," would he marching undeir a flag; of a rebellions section and one off the Union at tho same timo, and would firmly plant that of the Confederacy squarely above tho property that the Government would loutn thorn. Asking if the men of the present day were less patriotic than those of the. ftp's, and paying a glowing trt- i , i but? to the memory of the G. A. R. "men, Senator Heybnrn passed on to K the matter of Ueo's having left the 1 United States Military Academy to " take tip the cause of the South. Ho K declared that the statue placort ?n the Capitol by the.- State of Virginia should never have been there, and again thundered and hissed at the f thought of such a thing. He talkod r along this line for almost an hour, t frequently using the name of tho y Deity to emphasize his words, and at r the expiration of his time asked for a ft vote. No one objected. Sixty-two senae tors answered to their names, and of that numbor sixty-one voted for the passage of the resolution and one on ly?Heyburn?voted against it. This o action in the opinion of Senators on d both sides of the chamber will do more to forevor stop such fepeeches ,1a.. i ' r _ I ~ VS} Will Dye ^adle9' or Men's Garments Cleaned Cleaned a 11 C. C. Laundry a COLUMN I Southern States lYIechrnery Plumbing 1 iTiJiHT'i fii CO L-.U M E ninj NEW i KKHLimt. A A discovery of far-res#chlig lmpor- | ance to the? farmers of fh? aJouth 1? he new fertilizer whl<rh ha* been ierfected on ??e of the felandfs near Jharteston, S. C. It has long been Qovn that lime Is an essential food or plants of all' kinds am? that they ftM-not live when- ft has bet*' exhrtnstd' from the scrfl1. It has alfeo been miwn that old won-out ^ourls art ' xtremefy deficient In lime, wid thai our*, badly-drained lands hswe tbolv Ime Is a for mtLar is not ueeble b? ,1 rowing crops. Farmere' Bulletin No. 12 4, U. 8 )ept. of AgrlcuiUire, says: * * A1 tie applications of Un? Increas ed th? leldB ' * 9 The besf. yields were ! btaluect wtth the dhie In the flbrm ; f carbonate, the flitely ground oyp- ' rr shelliB standing fl'tat Hthe'j i r*th fertilizer was :nor?> profitable tian depending u4?n fertilizer IOHBC. ' ne\r fertilizer Thie'fc present*' m? in itt rnosrt usabl?"fbrwr t* mail*'5 e j a new i>noe?*? .of ttortiMlff oyster k' bell* and a buvtmr Bhai can } uppS* potajvHi The rortttlt Sir a high rad-? fertiliser costing' ttae 60?Humr onfcy $7.(W p>?r ton. It Rectalm? rorn-zmt lantfb Sjj a inaiVeld'te man er Iff applied hr*<m!0casUtwn< ?rM??n* J head of am anorf'.tfced gooahi 11' weet*otag eif&ot* on s< <mt Hunts Is lmos?n magical!. Chapltieloni freight ates aip-ply ou- tits new fertilizer 'he ftotory lb? Iwated on Y'*,nng'i? aland ,.S. C., '1uD all letrnrs should I e addressed tfc.>ffi_ L?. Coiuuiina> Sales .gent, Meggettt, S. C. F ree descrlpIve ciranlara wdiT be sent *o aay one n reqaest. JAN TUBERCULOSIS 1JB CUKKIM . ? i iccor^teg to Mntement looked bj | the Mirhigaa DepastiiMBt of j Hrstth, It (la* Be Cttr?>?# a*d Pr* reiM. | I, tile undersigned, hereby eerti- | r that. I have 34iffered i *Jbghtly for ; Bvertsl years, a ad endured! pains ano ; pitting of bloMi from. izcrborculosl#. j >r the past year. Having taken th*?) a agtismolnen Remedy- for thre*. | lonViks. I feel aayself perfectly welb } 'wo-doctors, after caretfal examine )' Ions, have prcoaounoed aoe fully r?* j ovMvred. I Signed) Nor testimonials andi terms, wrKv l? ..Dhe Sunstuiaoinon Remedy Co*, South Range, Mich. li*. M. Power. M. D.. In charge. fUTlCLAH; TO DHK IN CHAtiB;. h*rth Carolina Negro Found (iaiKiy of Firwfc Degree Burglary* At Newhern, Jioss Whitehead,. col>red, changed with burglar.lfcing, a lumber ct houses in the ciyy in the i?a*t throe movnths, and in. whose louse al out $.r?.d0 worth ot loot was round ai few days ago, vv.as found guilty of burglary in the KJirst degree, vnd sentenced by Judge- Peebles to lie el eo croc u lied on April 29. Whitehead was caught by tho atevrr work of tlw city police, and at first admitted his guilt to the- officers, but afteivrards denied it. * Kleven Miners. Killed. Ten Hungarians and one American is the death toll of a gas explosion Monday in the Nou 2 slope of the Rrnest mine of the Jefferson -t Clcvlleld Coal Co., five miles north of , fndiana, Pa., The explosion occur-' red in a (leading where 12 workmen w<>re located and one of these, Andrew Krazecr. escaped by crawling on liis stomach to evade the noxious gases. than anything else that could possibly happen. "There is not the least doubt," said one Senator, "that the waving /vf *h ^ I- 1 1-- - ? ^WmPfTTTTWiy hIui'L 111 Ihe Senate has boon stopped for all time by the overwhelmlng and crushing defeat administered to Senator Heyburn today." - -V r XT ~ 8 2j For You or Dyed to look like new. Ha|* id Blocked. ( nd Dye Works, * A. 8. O. Supply Company <mS>u r>r>J 1 3ni>x>lietai tELW/Bw m*i '? < . vttu i/^/tviKvW HA. S C. 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