The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 09, 1910, Image 6
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A QUEER YEAR"
Of to This Tiae We Ha?e Had Some
Most Remarkable Weather.
YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER
Are We Going to Have a Repetition
of the Year That Had Cold Weather
in Every Month and Had Hig
Snow Storms in the Month of
June.
The Augusta Herald says the seasons
so far this year have been most
peculiar. After a winter of rather
disagreeable weather spring apparently
opened up early, and during
March and the first half of April
the weather was most pleasant, with
absence of rain and the usual 'March
winds the distinguishing feature.
Then came a return of cold weather.
During the latter part of April there
was a heavy snowfall which extended
well into Georgia, and frost which
reached into Florida. And since
that time the weather has been cool.
Only a few days ago a heavy snowstorm
was reported from the West,
and within the past week overcoats
were worn on the streets of Augus
ta. Surely mosi remarnaoie weamer!
But it is not without precedent.
The year 181G was a year that must
have been similar to the weather
as we have had it up to this time.
Jt was referred to for years afterwards
as "the year without a summer,"
and so cold was it at times in
some sections that almost all crops
were a failure, and the year was
called by the irreverent the year
of "eighteen hundred and starved to
death."
A gentleman in Thomasville has a
copy of an old Virginia paper, published
shortly after the war, which
contains the weather conditions of
the year 1816 that was copied from
the Boston Globe, and which is of
interest now. This seems to be the
account of a party who had personal
knowledge of that abnormal summer,
and who had collected some
data in regard to it. He says:
"While every one is speaking of
the present season as being remarkable
in its characteristics, I have
gathered for your readers some reliable
facts of the year 1816, known
as the 'year without a summer.' Few
persons now living can recollect it,
but it was the coldest ever known
through Europe and America. The
following is a brief abstract of the
weather during each month of t.he
year:
January was mild, so much so as
to render fires almost needless in
parlors. December previous was >very
cold.
"February was not very cold; with
the exception of a few days it was
mild like its predecessor. !
"March was cold and boisterous '
during the first part of it; the re- '
mainder was mild. A great freshet 1
on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers 1
caused a great loss of property.
"April began warm, but grew cold- 1
er as Uie month advanced, and end- 1
ed with snow and ice and a temperature
more like winter than spring. *
"May was more remarkable for c
frowns than smiles. Buds and fruits were
frozen; ice formed half an inch 1
thick; corn killed, and fields again t
and again replanted until deemed J
too late. 1
"June was the coldest ever know
in this latitude. Frost, ice and snow
were common. Almost every green
thing was killed. Fruit nearly all ?
destroyed. Snow fell to the depth
of ten inches in Vermont, several in
Maine, t.hree in the interior of New
York, and also in Massachusetts.
Considerable damage was done at ^
New Orleans in consequence of the
rapid rise in the river. The su- *
burbs were covered with water, and '
the roads were only passable with l!
boats. *
"July was accompanied by frost '
and ice. On the 5th ice was formed (
of the thickness of a common win- J
dow glass througout New England, f
New York and some parts of Penn- (
sylvania, Indian corn was nearly all J
destroyed; some favorably situated
fields escaped. This was true of '
some of the hill farms of Massachusetts.
"August was more cheerless, if
possible, than the summer months 1
already passed. Ice was formed half
an inch thick. Indian corn was so 1
frozen that the greater part of it
was cut down and dried for fodder.
Almost every green thing was destroyed,
both in this country and in
Europe. Papers received from England
state 'that it would be remembered
by the present generation that
the year 1816 was a year in which
there was no summer.' Very little
corn ripened in the New England and
Middle States. Farmers supplied
themselves from corn produced in
1815 for the seed of the spring of
1817. It sold at from $4 to $5 a
bushel.
"Septemebr furnished about two
weeks of the mildest weather of the
season. Soon after the middle it
became very cold and frosty; ice
formed a quarter of an inch thick.
"October produced more than its
share of cold weather; frost and ice
were common. |
"November was cold and bluster
CAUSES MANY WRECKS
V
VESSELS IXXST AND SEVERAL
MEN DROWNED.
| The Disaster Was Caused by Heavy
Fogs Along the Coast of British
America.
A dispatch from Halifax, N. S.,
Days thick fog and a quickly born
southwesterly gale are said to have
resulted in the wrecking of six vessels
and the loss of eight men at
various points along the rocky coast
of the Atlantic Wednesday night and
early Thursday.
While most of the crew of 25
were asleep below decks, tne t<reucn
brigantine Mauve, a fishing vessel,
piled up in the fog an Point Blanche,
at the entrance of St. Pierr harbor,
Miquelon, Thursday morning, and six
men on deck were hurled overboard
and drowned. The remainding 19
made their way to shore in small
boats and rafts. The Mauve is believed
to be a total loss.
The Norwegian bark Borghild was
driven on Castor Ledges, off Port
Bickerton, N. S., and at once began
to go to pieces in the heavy
sea. The crew of nine men launched
t.heir small boats, but all of them
were batered to pieces on the rocks
and two of the men were either
drowned or hurled to death on the
ieugt*s. i ne reiimiumg o^v^n, tunning
to the wreckage of the boats,
were rescued by fishermen.
.Half a mile inside of Port Nova,
N. S., the BritisJi steamship Hen
Cruachan bound from Baltimore to
Chatham, N. B., struck the beach
so hard that it is doubtful if she
can be saved. Her crew of 2G men (
were rescued. Captain Boswell, it (
is said, mistook the Louisbury fog
sii^11 for the Scattarie w.histle and
steered a wrong course, landing in
the breakers. Several steamers and
tugs have gone to the scene of the <
wreck. (
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"i can't explain:"
I
Holstlaw, Illinois Senator, Talks Of
His Confession.
"I'd rather be known as a boodler
than a liar," said Senator Duniel
Holstlaw in an interview at his home
at Inka, 111., Wednesday, speaking of
his confession to accepting a bribe
of $2,500 as a legislator.
"Maybe," he continued, "I took
the money because I saw everyone
else doing the same thing?I can't
explain."
"I made the confession because
I could not tell a lie."
"I don't know?I don't underetaml
" Y\e *nid with a honeless air
answering a question of why he, a
man owning property worth a quarter
of a. million dollars, would accept
bribe. i
"All I want is to sink out of sight. (
I knew the indictment charging ma
with perjury was a bluff, and it did '
not frighten me. But when they
asked me whether I was paid for
noting for Senator Lorimer, I had *
:o tell the truth."
(A daughter of Holstlaw followed (
.he interviewer out of the house.
Breaking down, she exclaimed:
"To spend years of toil in buildng
a name and then to destroy it at
>ne blow. Oh, how could he do it?
dy mother is prostrated. We have
lot said a word to father about the "j
rouble, for it would break his heart,
lo could not have been in his right
nind." J
BONK IN THROAT KILLS.
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^cgro Man at Bntesburg Dies in a }
Peculiar Manner.
At Batesburg Wade Brooks, a nejro
man, who lived on Mr. N. A. I
Bates' place, died Wednesday under (
leculiar circumstances. About ten ,
lays ago Wade w?s eating a piece of
i Guinea fowl, and in some way he J
,rot a piece of bone crosswise in his
hroat. T.here it remained for a
lay or two, when a doctor was sum- (
noned. The doctor, it is said, took
in instrument and pushed the bone
lown. Instead of relieving the ne- j
?ro it made matters worse. The ,
3one was lodged further down and .
:he man died Wednesday. ^
College Moved.
Harbinson college, the colored institution
at Abbeville whose main
building was burned down by an incendiary
first several months ago, has
decided to move to Greenville.
ing. Snow fell so as to make good
sleighing.
"December was mild and comfortable.
"The above was a brief summary
of the 'cold summer of 1816, as it
was called, in order to distinguish it
from the cold season. The winter
was mild. Frost and ice were common
in every month of the year.
Very little vegetation matured in
the Eastern and Middle States. The
sun's rays seemed to be destitute of
heat throughout the summer; all
nature was clad in a sable hue, and
men exhibited no little anxiety concerning
the future of this life.
"The average wholesale price of
flour during hat year in the Philadelphia
market was $13 a barrel. <
The average price of wheat in Eng- ;
land was 1)3 shillings a quarter." <
STRUCK BY CYCLONE
HIGH WINDS DO MUCH DAMAGE
IN AUGUSTA, GA.
Streets Were Blocked With Trees
and Wires and the City Was in
Total Darkness.
A dispatch from Augusta says that
the entire city has been in darkness
since 10.13, every street is congested
with uprooted trees and disabled
wires; every telephone is out and
trolleys are disabled, as a result
of a cyclone lasting about eighteen
minutes Thursday night.
So far no fatalities have been reported,
but half a dozen or more res
Idences have been more or less
wrecked, and two or three warehouses
blown down.
The Casino building, at Lake View,
where a nLglit performance was just
concluding, was completely wrecked,
but the audience escaped uninjured.
Every night enterprise depending
on electric power is tied up, and all
business .houses and residences using
current are in darkness.
The entire fire alarm system is
disabled. The cyclone passed over
into South Carolina touching Aiken,
Orangeburg and other places.
HEATS THE KECOIU).
Englishman Flies Across English
Channel and Hack.
A Dover, England, dispatch says
the Hon. Charles Stewart Ilolla. captain
in the London section of the
army motor reserve, driving a Wright
Kttxl rv tirt til r> inn tn/1 A ti oln-Qn von il pi'
UlJJiailC) viuuivaicu nilgiv> uunux UX/.
Dualities by crossing the English
channel twice Wednesday evening
without alighting. He made the
round trip between Dover and Calais
in ninety minutes.
.While two Frenchmen, Louis Dleriot
and Count de Lesseps, have crossed
the channel in an aeroplane, it
remained for an Englishman, in an
American machine, to perform the
double feat. The distance across between
the two points named is 21
miles, so that .his over water flight
of 4 2 miles without a stop establishes
a new record.
Capt. Rolls left Dover at G.30
o'clock. The atmospheric conditions
were excellent. He lost no time in
manoeuvres, but after describing a
circle, headed toward the coast of
France. In anticipation of the flight,
torpedo boats steamed at full speed
across the Straits, but the pace of
the aeroplane was swifter.
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SMOKE CREATES PANIC.
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In the Subway Five Hundred *eei
Beneath the Street.
Five hundred hysterical women,
9creamlng children and panic-stricken
men fought their way through a
dense smoke in the Mott avenue subway
station in the Bronx, New York
city, early Thursday, striving to escape.
Only one elevator was available
to take them to the street, which is
B5 feet above the subway level at
:his point, and the crush to reach
his exit or the five flights of stairs
tvhich led to the surface increased
:he panic.
Fifteen persons were overcome by
;moke and two men were injured seriously
enough to require hospital
frMtment. Fire in an automatic
lumpinig station caused the smoke.
The damage was nominal.
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AUTO JJUItST INTO FLAMES.
Valuable Car of Lancaster Man Destroyed
by Fire.
At Lancaster the automobile of
dr. Ghas. 13. Skipper was practically
lestroyed by fire Thursday afternoon,
dr. Skipper had just lighted the
dlot light when flames burst from
Deneath the car. He had presence
)f,mind enough to push the car out
)f his carage, which was very close
to his home, and turn a stream
3f water on the car from the y.tru
hose. Otherwise, it is probable that
his home would have been destroyed.
The car is covered by insurance.
This is the second automobile that
has been destroyed by fire at Lai caster
in the past six months
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Requisition Refused.
Governor Ansel Tuesday issued his
decision on Governor Patterson's requisition
for Shep Pearlstine of Denmark,
indicted in Charleston, Tenn.,
for embezzlement, refusing requisition
and stating the legal ground at
A f/nn mnnt ho fiirn Hi v^m.
M IV U 111 V II 1 II u VI . . v/. ..
or Patterson of Tennessee disallowed
Governor Ansel's requisition of C. J.
Hebert, wanted for trial here in connection
with the Seminole swindle.
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Shot Self and Wife.
At Jefferson, Ind., with the words
"I don't believe you love me any
more," William Boatman, a former
employe of the American Car and
Foundry company, walked up to his
wife and shot her three times and
then killed himself.
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Snow in Pittsburg.
At Pittsburg, Pa., snow fell Tuesday.
The temperature was 2 9 degrees,
the coldest May 31 in the records
of the local weather bureau.
CHURCH GROWTH
Larger in Proportion Than the Increase
in the Population.
INCREASE VERY GREAT
There Are Many More Women Than
Men Included.?In the Larger
Cities Catholics More Than Double
Protestants, but the Latter Is
Said to be Oreatly Understated.
Church growth in the United
States has been greater than the ii crease
in population between Uie
years 1900 and 1906, according to
the special census repo'-t on the census
of religious bodies for 1906. In
the principle cities of the country^
the growth both in the number of
religious organizations and communities
was greater in the years mentioned
than the increase in population,
w.hile in the area outside the
principle cities to the rate of increase
in the number of new churches
established was approximately)
the same as the rate of population j
increase, although in the number of ,
communicants the increase in the
outside area, as in the cities, was
in excess of that in population. |
Out of every 1,000 people in the
160 principle cities of the country?j
that is, those which had a population
of more than 25,000?there
were 469 church members w-hile for,
the area outside these cities there i
were 3 64, and for the entire country
there were 391. As compared to 18 90
the report sJiows a gain of ninety
communicants in each 1,000 of population
for the principal cities and a
gain of fifty-one outside of them.
Female members in 19 06 outnumbered
the male members by 3 2 per
cent in continental United States, |
while in the principle cities the excess
of female members was proportionately
less, being 960,526, or
23.5 per cent.
The aggregate number of 32,936,445
communicants or members of all
religious denomination in continental
United States was reported. Of
this grand total the various Protestant
hnriioK renorted 20.287.743. and
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the Roman Catholic Church 12,679,1
42. |
For purposes of comparison the
census authorities divided the prin- '
cipal cities into four classes, those
having in 1900 a population of 300,- J
000 and over, constituting the first
class; those of from 100,000 to 300,000
forming the second; those of '
from 50,000 to 10,000 making the
third; those of from 25,000 to 50,- 1
000 forming the fourth class.
Of the protestant aggregate there
were 1,478,145 or 7.3 per cent, in
the first class cities; 4.7 per cent in ^
the second; and 7.4 per cent, in
the third and fourth classes combined,
while 80.6 per cent, were outside
the principal cities.
Of the Roman Catholic Church's *
total membership there was 3,375,453
or 27.9 per cent in first class
cities; 1,361,132 or 11.3 per cent in
the second class; 1,570,944, or 13
per cent in the third and fourth
classes combined, with 5,771,613 or ^
48.8 per cent, outside the principal
cities.
It is seen, therefore, that the num- ^
her of members of the Roman Catholic
Church reported in cities of the *
first was considerably more than double
the number reported by all the ^
Protestant bodies, while outside of
the principal cities the number reported
by the Catholics was only a
little over one third of the number g
credited to the Protestants. It is
pointed out in the report that the j
strength of the Protestant bodies, as
compared with the Roman Catholic g
Church, is ereatlv understated.
Only two of the Protestant bodies i
reported a majority of their membership
in the principal cities, i. e.,
the Church of Christ, Scientist, 82.6
per cent., and the Protestant Episco- *
pal Church 51.2 per cent; while of
the membership of the Jewish congregations,
88.7 per cent are in the ^
principal cities, and of the Eastern
Orthodox churches 70.7 per cent. ?
Of the total number of communicants
or members reported for the *principal
cities by all denominations,
6,307,529 or 60 per cent, belonged to
the cities showing the largest proportions
of Protestant communicants
are Memphis, 84.1 per cent; Toledo,
70 per cent; Kansas City, Mo., 66.2 6
per cent, and Indianapolis, 62.1 per f
cent.
The cities showing Uie largest percentages
of Roman Catholic communicants
are Fall River, 86.5 per
cent; San Francisco, 81.1 per cent;
New Orleans, 79.7 per cent; New
York, 76.9 per cent; Providence, '
76.5 per cent; St. Louis, G9 per cent; (
Chicago, 68.2 per cent., and Philadelphia,
51.8 per cent.
In t.he five leading cities the proportion
of communicants to population
was: New York, 4 4.7 per 1
cent; Chicago, 40.7; Philadelphia, '
38.8; Roston, 62.6, and St. Louis, 1
4 6.6 per cent. It is stated that, in '
general, cities which have a rela- {
tively large Roman Catholic popu- 1
lation show a higher percentage of 1
church members than cities in which !
this body has a comparatively small '
representation. In Fall River 86.5 1
per cent of the total number of 1
members reported were Roman Cath- <
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Robert B. Scarborough,
EL L. Bock,
George J. Holiday,
We continue to pay 5 per cent inter*
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ROBERT B. BOARBOROUGH, ?
* President.
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Jfk B. G. Cotllins, H. L. E
2? M. Burroughs, C. P. Qus
Successor to the Bank of
jLt Horry County, and a pioneer
]y allied with the recent dev
(Republic. Backed by the (
jLi United States Bonds, we are p
WJ tomers any reasonable aecomn
Jk H. A. SPIVEY,
||f Cashier.
Must Keep Step.
Towns are like individuals, they I
must keep un with t.he progress of
the times, or they will soon be forgotten
and passed by as old foggies.
There was a time when rushlights
and tallow dips were the only kind
of lights available for private and
public uses. Rut the day of the
rushlig.hts and tallow dips is gone,
and any individual or town that
would adopt such a mode of lighting
when oil, gas or electricity are
at hand would be considered antediluvian.
But what is not done in
the matter of lightning is too often
done in other things. That is to say,
t.here is frequently a lack of public
spirit which prevent the introduction
and use of many things that would
embellish a town, make it more attractive
and draw people and trade.
People laugh at the idea of tallow
dips, but are content to endure
whetched sidewalks, abdominable
roadways, and unsightly spots that
detract from the beauty and convenience
of a place and therefore interfere
with its prosperity. In these
things many people are content to
ive as their fathers did, forgetting
hat if their fathers were now living
.hey would have too much pride and
mblic spirit to live as their descendants
do. We are glad to say
hat our little city ip up-to-date and
)rogressive, and the same may be 4
;aid of the other towns nearby.
LiAUGHIN'.
ling us something full of laughter;
Tune your harp and twang the
strings
"ill your glad voice chirping after,
Mates the song the robin sings;
joose your lips and let them fritter
Like the wings of wanton birds?
'hough they naught but laug-hter utter,
Lau.g.h, and we'll not miss the
words.
ing in ringing tones that mingle
In a melody that flings
oyous echoes in a jingle
Sweeter than the minstrel sings;
ling of winter, spring or summer,
Clang of war or low c" herds;
'rill of cricket, roll of drummer?
Laugrh and we'll not miss the
words.
dke the lisping laughter glancing,
From the meadow brooks and
springs, , 1
>r the river's ripples dancing
To the tune the current sings. }
ling of now, and the hereafter;
Let your glad song, like the birds, I
)verflow with limpid laughter?
Laug.h and we'll not miss the
words.
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%J Uill\>0 IT iiltwill U 1VMV j ,
The war against consumption
thould have the sympathetic co-operition
of everyone. That co-operation
nay be effectively given by close at:ention
to sanitation. Foul air is
me of the most prolific causes of
the disease, yet how many people
there are who seem to dread pure
lir. They sleep with the windows and
floors of their rooms hermetically
closed.
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The testimony in the BalllngerPinehot
investigation is all in, but
we sec no reason to chanre our opinion
that Nallinger is a complete tool
af the land grabbers and should be
kicked out of the cabinet.
Dlies and the church membership rep
resented 67.8 per cent of the population,
while in Memphis, where
34.4 per cent of the communicants
reported belonged to Protestant
bodies, the church membership
was only 30 per cent, of the population.
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Senator Lorimer, who is charged
wit.h bribing members of the Illinois
Legislature to vote for him for Unit
ea oiares nenaior, rairiy roamed at
the month as he abused the Chicago
newspaper that first published the
charge that he had bought his seat
In the United States Senate. Un-.
fortunately for Senator Lorimer,
several members of the Illinois Legislature
have confessed that they
were paid to vote for him. No newspaper
should be abused for publishing
the truth, matters not who it
hurts. If publishing the truth hurts
a public man, it is because the public
man has done something he
should not have done. If the truth
hurts it Js not the newspapers fault.
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With Rome men you cannot tell
how strong you are until they bear
the responsibilities of high public office.
And it is by the same method
that other men show their weakness.