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A Negro's Brutal Outrage oo a White Woman
io North Carolina.
HE HELD HER FOR HOURS
The Daughter of a Former Residing
Near Rose Hill, N. C., Brutally
Assaulted by a Black Fiend, for
Whom Search in Being Diligently
Made by I'osses..
I..atn Wednesday afternoon a voune
lady, about twenty-one years of age,
the daughter of Mr. J. W. Judge, a
well-to-do farmer, residing about
twelve miles from Rose Hill, in Duplin
County, N. C., was criminally assaulted
by a negro and is reportod
as being in a serious condition.
Posses searched all last night for
the negro and scoured the surrounding
country today. This afternoon a
negro was arrested at Magnolia who
filled the description of the negro,
but there was doubt about him being
the man wanted.
Miss Judgo had started from her
liome to visit her brother and while
passing along the road, walking, was
met by the negro, who compelled her
to go into the woods near the roaa.
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afternoon and the young woman remained
in the woods from that time
until 8 o'clock last night, when she
made her escape, there being a heavy
rain most of the time and the weather
very cold.
Owing to the inclement weather,
the negro left Miss Judge for a few
minutes in order to get some material
to make a covering to protect
them from the rain, and the young
woman took advantage of the momentary
absence of the brute to make
her escape, although she had been
told that she would bo killed if she
moved.
When she reached home most of
her clothing was torn from her body.
When the news reached Wilmington
and other places great indignation
was expressed, and posses sot out to
f /Innm f U a Finns!
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A Young White Woman Assaulted
Near Due West.
An unknown negro attempted to
assault a prominent woman, near her
home, at Due West late Wednesday
afternoon, and that town is crowded
with indignant persons who are making
a thorough search to catch the
brute.
The nesro suddenly attacked the
woman from behind, snatching her
shawl from her shoulders and throwing
it over her head. The woman
scroamed and the negro became
frightened and fled. Some people
were in a nearby fleld and they were
attracted to the scene, hut not bolofe
the negro had disappeared. He ioiu
the shawl and part of the garments
of the victim.
Because of the suddenness of the
attack and because it came from hehind
her, the woman did not get a
good look at the nogro.
She has furnished a meagre description,
and the towns in the neighborhood
have been notified to look
out for the man.
The assault was made near the
creek about one-half mile from the
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church.
Sheriff Lyon and his deputies are
on the scene and great excitement
prevails.
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Must He New Hoard.
The work of wjndlng up the affairs
of the old State dispensary has
not been completed, and it will be
necessary for Governor Blease to appoint
a new commission, since he has
dismissed the old members, who have
for the past four years worked so i
faithfully In the interest of South i
Carolina, and who have saved from j
a wreck approximately $500,000.
AIRSHIPS OF HISTORY.
The first birdman of whom there
is any definite record was Simon
Magus, who, according to Antonius
Hyerlink, flew high in the air over
Rome during the reign of Nero from
54 to 68 A. D. The account of the
adventure is very brief, but not
more so than was this pioneer's career
as an aviator, for it is recorded
that his evil genius became displeased
with him when he was aloft and
suffered him to fall and dash out his
life.
The fate of this first martyr of the
air seems to have discouraged experimenters
for many centuries, for
we must turn over a thousand years
of history before putting our finger
on the next birdman to ,be definitely
mentioned. This was Elmerus, a
Thirteenth century monk. Taking
the flying squirrel for his model In#
gave successful exhibitions from a
tower, soaring sometimes above a
furlong through space.
The first birdman to flay a considerable
distance appears to have been
John Babtiste Dante, a Ffteenth century
mathematician, who lived in
Perugia. He framed a pair of ingenius
wings with which, it is narrated,
he amused his fellow Perugians. One
of the most successful flights was over
Lake Trasimene, that body of wated
with no outlet, on whose northern
shore Hannibal annihilated the Romans.
But the aerial career of Dante
or Perugia was cut short one day
when "he fell on the top of St.
Mary's Church and broke his thigh."
That the great Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519) was a birdman as
well as a painter, sculptor, musician,
architect, engineer and mechanician,
is stated by some authorities.
While making the careful observations
on which he based his "Treatise
on the Light of Birds" he so
thoroughly fathomed the secrets of
flying as to be able to build a pair
of mechanical wings with which, according
to Cuperus' "Excellence of
Man," he practiced flying successfully.
Soon afterward came an "artificial
eagle," which Johann Muller, bishop
of Ratisbon and a noted German
mathematician and astronomer,
built at Nureml>erg during the generation
just preceeded Columbus' discovery
of America. This aerodome
is reputed to have flown out to meet
the Emperor Charles V. and to have
accompanied him back to town.
In 1510 an aviation exhibition was
arranged for the amusement of
James IV. of Scotland and his court,
the Tongland. After the court had
all assembled the prior mounted one
of the lofty battlements of Stirling
castle and donned an elaborate arrangement
of wings and feathers.
Then he leaped forth and fell ingloriously
onto the dunghill.
A daring flight from the Steeple
of St. Mark's cathedral, Venice, is
mentioned by the Lord Bishop but
history does not perpetuate the name
of the aviator who performed the
feat. The same authority mentions
another unnamed man who made a
flight at Nuremberg, the same city
from which Bishop Muller's artificial
eagle went out to ineen the emporer.
One of the most noted birdmen of
this time was Allard, a tightrope
performer who appeared in France
about 1660. Wearing wings he
made a number of flights from various
heights. But while performing
before Louis XIV. he got a bad fall,
and seems to have thereupon quit
the flying business.
The most successful birdman of
these times appears to have been one
Besnier, a locksmith, who succeeded
in flying at Sable, France, a few
years after Allard's aerial career had
ehded so painfully in the presence
of the great Louis.
According to the Journal des Savants
of Sept. 12, 1078, Besnier flew
with winss consisting of four rectangular
surfaces, one at the end of
each of two rods passing over his
shoulders. With those he would
raise himself from one height to another
until he reached the top of a
house, from the roof of which he
would pass over the neighborhood
houses. Finally working himself up
to a great h^ght he would make a
downward alhop and cross a river
of considenfflK breadth.
Successful flights were made at the
same time by one Baldwin, of Guibre,
who built 'Resnter's flrst pair of
wings. Bo and his disciple were
birdmen indeed. They flew only by
their God-given means of locomotion.
The monoplane is flrst met with
in a picture from Faustus Veroutius,
10*05, showing a flying man supported
by a rectangular fabric stretched
upon a frame from whose four corn- 1
ers depend ropes passing under his
arms.
During these latter years of the
Seventeenth century Francis Lana, 1
a Spanish Jesuit, designed an airship,
which was to consist of a boat
shaped body from which rose a mast '
and sail surrounded by four globes 1
of very thin copper, each containing ;
a vacuum. Needless to add this con- .
trivance never worked. ]
A generation later (1736) a Port- <
ugese nam^d Yte Gasman is said to ;
have "made a wicker basket of about >
seven or eight feet in diameter, cov- <
ered with paper, which basket elevat- 1
ed itself as high as the Tower of i
IJsbon." This "basket" is believed t
by some authorities to have been h
wicker frame supporting a paper vessel
filled with heated air. If so, the <
apparatus probably was the first bal- s
loon. However this may have been, c
the introduction of the balloon Inli
COCA-COLA CASE
DR. KERLER GIVES EVIDENCE
AGAINST THE DRINK.
Serious Witness in Government Suit
Makes Charges Against Beveridge
and Its Manufacture.
In the hearing of the case of the
United States against a certain number
of barrels and kegs of coca-cola
in the federal court at Chattanooga,
Tenn., Wednesday, some of the most
interesting testimony yet brought out
was given by Dr. Lyman F. Keblcr,
chief of the drug department of the
bureau of chemistry, Washington, D.
C.
Dr. Kebler is the chemist who
made a test of coca-cola and he testified
that coca-cola contains caffeine,
declaring that to each eight ounce
glass there were one and one-fourth
grains of caffeine, which he says is
poison.
Dr. Kebler cited many authorities
in proof of his statement that caffeine
is a poison and cited a number
of deaths reported as being caused by
its use. One of these writers had
reported a case where four and onehalf
grains of the drug had produced
death and he declaredd that about
three glasses of coca-cola contained
this amount of caffeine. Dr. Kebler
testified as to the finding of vermin
and bugs in the vats as the result of
his inspection of the coca-cola plant
in Atlanta.
He also testified that caramel and
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their opaqueness tended to conceal
impurities in the coca-cola syrup.
I)r. Rushy, for the government,
testified along the line of the name
of the drink coca-cola and stated that
no other product bore the name or
either "coca" or "kola."
Government chemists stated that
coca-cola contained neither coca nor
kola and the effort of the government
will be to prove that the drink is
misbranded. *
Peeking the Chicks.
The chicks need no feed for the
first two days after they are hatched.
It is better to leave them in the nest
with the hen the first day and move 1
to the coop when one day old. A
light feed may be given the evening
of the second day, and the next
day give three feeds and increase one
feed a day till they are fed five times
per day.
If the chicks can not get on the
ground where they can get eh irp
sand, they should be given a little
with thfi fl r?t food Oat flnlraa Ar
pin-head oatmeal makes a very good
fed for the first day or two. Some
prefer to give bread or cracker
crumbs wet w^th milk and squeezed
as dry as possible. Either of these
feeds will be all right, but do not '
give too much of either. Feed a
little at a time and often; never try (
to coax the chicks to eat. If they are
not hungry when feeding times conies
they have had too much at the last
feed and it is better fo let them go
without till they are hungry again.
After the first couple of days finely
cracked grains should be added to
the ration. This can be bought ready
mixed for chick feeding, in most
towns. When I make my own mixture,
I use one part of corn, one part
oats and two parts wheat.
The corn must be quite finely
cracked and the wheat should also
be cracked. For the first two weeks
I use oatmeal and then hulled oats.
Corn bread can be used to good
advantage for two or the five feeds.
I make it out of equal parts of corn
meal and wheat middlings, mixing
either with milk or water. Cook
thoroughly and do not feed till cold. 1
If you have infertile eggs, boil them
hard and feed with the bread, using
four parts of bread to one part of
egg. Do not give more than two i
feeds of this per day, making the
first and last of the grain.
This can be continued till the
chicks are from four to six weeks old.
From that time the purpose for which
you want the chicks will determine
how you should food them. If they
are for breeding stock, gradually
substitute a dry mash for the bread,
and the grain may* he changed to ,
larger size as soon as the chicks can <
eat it. If for market as frying-size
chickens, more fattening feed should
he given and they should be given all
they will eat and should not have too <
large a range.?J. S. Jeffrey, in Raleigh
(N. C.) Progressive Farmer. *
this same century caused experimenters
generally to abandon the man- '
flight problem for more than 50 1
years, or until Or. Miller and one (
Hensen, both Englishmen, resumed
experiments.
It was early in the last 4 0*s that '
England excitedly awaited Henson s '
"aerial steam carriage," whose great 1
bat-like wings were to be waved by
i steam engine of extreme lightness. J
fvn inclined piane was uevisod lor tlie
launching gear, but was never need- ?
3d. And meanwhile Dr. Miller was (
it work on his "aerostat, ' with '
vhich ho made futile efforts to ref
iiscover the lost art of the ancient
jirdmen, the lost art of really flying ?
vith wings waved by human muscles
he lost art that still remains lost. *
The time for shooting doves is >
>ut, and it is no longer lawful to f
ihoot these birds. It is said that 0
loves are much scarcer than they C
vere some years back. '
WRECK NEAR AIKEN
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FREIGHT TRAIN RAN INTO BY A
PASSENGER TRAIN.
The Fireman on the Freight Train
Has His Skull Fractured and is
Expected to Die.
A special to The News and Courier
from Aiken says several persons
were injured, one seriously, in a
head-on collision on the Southern
Road, about 11 o'clock Thursday
night, the scene of the wreck being
about a mile below the passenger depot
at Aiken.
The injured were given attention
hy local physicians and later taken
to a hospital in Augusta.
It seems that passenger Train No.
17, from Charleston to Augusta, was
about two hours late, and after leaving
Aiken was running, as the engineer
expressed it, "pretty fast," when
it ran Into an extra freight, which
was coming around a curve without
a headlight.
The freight was running at about
a five-mile rate of speed. The engineer
of the passenger did not see the
freight until the headlight of his own
locomotive revealed the situation.
He immediately applied the emergency
brakes and yelled to his fireman
to jump, intending to do the
same himself. However, before either
could jump the crash came. It
developed that the freight engineer
was stooping down in his cab and did
not see the approaching passenger.
The fireman on the freight had his
skull fractured and the engineer was
considerably bruised about the head.
On the passenger, the engineer,
fireman, ticket collector, and Pullman
conductor suffered various
bruises, as did also six of the passengers,
all men. The only serious
injury, so far as could be learned,
was to the fireman on the freight,
who may die.
Both locomotives were badly damaged,
one .being partly derailed and
several of the passenger coaches were
considerably torn up. The injured
were placed in a baggage car and
taken to Augusta, an engine, in the
meanwhile, having been sent from
that city.
HUMOROUS.
"I ish I had the toothache."
"Why such a wish?"
"Well, I've got a lot of other troubles
that I'd like to forget for a
while."
Now Helen pink, the papers say,
Is Washington's new hue;
Well, if the shade has come to stay,
That must make Alice blue!
Alice?That girl is pretty, but she
hasn't any brains.
Lorraine?If she's pretty she
doesn't ned any brains.
Miss Elderly?What would you do
if I should tell you my age?
He?Double it.
"I have a remarkable history,"
began the lady who looked like a
possible client.
"To tell or sell?" inquired the
lawyer caoutiously."
First Tramp?What do yer t'ink
of dis "pure beer" idea?
Second Tramp?I wish dey'd jest
make me one of de inspectors.
Farmer?-Here's a letter from city
folks answerin' our ad, Miranay.
They want ter know if there's a bath
in the house. What'll I tell 'em?
His Wife?Tell 'em the truth.
Tell 'em if they need a bath they'd
better take it afore they come.
The Collector?Are you Lawyer
Miggs?
The Lawyer?Yes.
The Collector?Want to know
Vfui will mi v tlUa 11 f
The Lawyer?Never? Two dollars
for the advice, please.
Ilaojoiv?T '.understand your wife
never does things by halves,
Egbert?That's about right. She
cither leaves (he door wide open or
else she slams it.
HOTEL MAN A SUICIDE.
Wounds Friend, Misses Another,
Then Shoots Himself.
Henry P. Powell, proprietor of Ihc
Powell House at Sanford, N. C., committed
suicide in the crowded union
lepot at Raleigh Thursday afternoon
>y shooting himself, after tiring wildy.
Powell was at ltnleigh as a mem
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or railroad service and was talking
o two friends, D. 10. Mclver and C.
^V. Smith, of Sanford, when he sudlenly
stepped back, pulled two pisols
and began shooting. One bullet
itruck Smith in the arm and shoulier,
and the other missed Mclver.
Jowell then turned the pistol to his
lead and killed himself. Powell was
>0 years old. Temporary insanity is
;iven as the cause for the deed.
Fireman Was Killed.
At Milwaukee the M. Hilty lumber ]
ard was practically wiped out by i
Ire Thursday. The loss is $200,- i
>00, partly insuraced. Fireman Fred 1
Mark was overcome by the cold and i
ell from a ladder and waa killed. *
ICY DEATH FOR FIFTY.
Many Drownings in New England
During Past Winter.
Half a hundred persons, a majority
of them children under twelve
years of age, went through thin Ice
to their death in New England and
the maritime provinces of Canada
during the winter just closing.
There were several double drownings.
Many instances of heroic attempts
at rescue were recorded,
some of which resulted fatally to the
would-be rescuers.
Josephine Pizroski, thirteen years
old, looking from a window of her
home while changing her. wet stockings,
saw three other little girls fali
through the ice in the Chicopee riv
er. In her bare feet the child scampered
over the snow and, plunging
into <the water, rescued two of the
children. Her collie dog sought *o
save the third, but she struggled so
hard that the dog was forced to leave
her to die.
Get Enough lforse-Power.
I was once talking with a State
Commissioner of Agriculture, and remarked
that when I was farming 011
a large scale I used ten mules. He
said, "That is too many. A fourhorse
farm is all that one man should
have," and his idea of a four-horse
farm, was a tract of land on which,
where I now live no one would think
of using less than eight horses. On
such a farm as this man indicated,
every one of the four horses would
be hitched to a plow to plow the land
for the crop, and every plow would
take a man, and the plowing would
be about three inches deep, whilethe
eight horses would take no mormon,
but the team would plow at
least six inches deep, and the same
four men would cultivate a far largftr
arna iv i t t u'n.linron rlflilW I'lllti
vators. We need to get away from
the old idea of estimating a farm b>
horses, and should use all the horse?
we can make profitable.?W. F. Massey,
in Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive
Farmer. *
What Constitutes Soil Fertility.
What is soil fertility? What does
the term mean to you? What is your
standard of measurement? What
are the conditions or factors which
control or constitute soil fertility?
It appears that, to some, the quantity
of the so-called plant foods, nitrogen,
potash and phosphoric acid,
which are applied to or contained in
the land, is the most important factor
in measuring the fertility of productive
power of a soil. To others
the proper amount of humus, or decaying
organic matter in a soil, is the
measure of its fertility, or at least,
is the first essential of soil fertility.
Still others believe that tillage determines
more largely than any other
factor the productive capacity of
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scientists and investigators, have
claimed that soil fertility is almost or
entirely a question of a proper supply
of moisture in the soil, independent
of its chemical composition, except as
this chemical composition affects its
power to furnish a proper water supply.
That all soils contain sufficient
plant foods for the production of
large crops, or that the supply of
water is the sole measure of soil
fertility, will be accepted by few;
but if any one factor could be singled
out as the most important in determining
the fertility of any soil, it
would certainly be the one of a proper
supply of water. The lesson which
must first be learned is, that soil fertility
is dependent upon many different
factors, and that if we neglect
any one of the factors, or if we greatly
exaggerate another, we shall most
likely fall short of that full grasp ot
the subject necessary to the best soil
management.
If we admit that good tillage, sufficient
plant foods, organic decay and
bacterial life and a properly regulated
supply of moisture are all essential
to large crop production, or
maximum soil fertility, it is not quite
proper or accurate to state that any
one of those is, in the true sense,
tho most important; but since all others
of these are more or less dependent
upon one, water, It may be placed
first in consideration.
Most soils contain much more plant
foods than would he required to produce
scores of maximum crops; but
these are useless for crop production
until dissolved in tho soil water.
Organic matter decays through bacterial
activities, which break down
and render soluble plant foods in the
soil; but an equally important function
of decaying organic matter in
the soil is its value In preserving
a proper water supply. If, then, suf
ncient plant roods in sou, decaying
organic matter and proper water supply
are three most important factors
in soil fertility, it is entirely proper
to place the water supply as lirst in
importance. Organic matter would
he placed second because its decay
tends to render the plant foods al- 1
ready in the soli available to crops
and to regulate the water supply in i
which the plant foods are dissolved <
and carried to the growing plants. 1
These, then, are. our problems: (1 )
To control the water supply by drainage
and the introduction of organic 1
matter, and (2) to furnish soluble 1
plant foods by introducing organic '
matter which in its decay will supply 1
substances to dissolve the plant foods 1
already in the soil, and by the add!- i
Lion of other supplies of plant foods <
in commercial fertilizers.?Raleigh
(N. C.) Progreeaive Farmer. ?
TRIED TO TRADE
A Manslifer's Brother Offered Votes to
Get Bin a Foil Pardta
OFFER WAS REJECTED
J. W. Gall man, Who Was Sentenced
to Fifteen I'ears Imprisonment for
Killing n Man, Since l'aroled by
Gov. Please, Tried to Purchase *
Promise of Pardon.
The State says last August or September.
after the first State primary
and before the second, a man who
supported Mr. Featherstone for governor
told a member of the staff of
The State that a man named Gallman
had come to Columbia that day
bearing a letter of introduction from
a resident of Union.
Mr. Featherstone was not in Columbia
and Gallman called to see
one of the men active in his campaign,
presenting the letter to him.
The letter said, among other things,
that Gallman, the bearer, had a
brother in the penitentiary and that
the bearer of the letter had large
political influence in Union, Spartanburg
and Greenville counties.
The bearer of the letter desired to
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kuow 11 ivir. r tjctuierslune couiu o?
depended upon to pardon his brother
in case of his election, provided the
influence of the bearer were exerted
for Mr. Featherstone's election.
Mr. Featherstone's friend promptly
told the bearer of the letter that no
pledges or promises would be made.
The Union man thereupon begged
that the matter be taken under consideration,
and left, showing some
anxiety to catch a train.
Of course the matter ended there,
so far as Mr. Featherstone and his
friends were concerned. The man
who told The State man about the
visit remarked at the time that in
any event he expected to keep an eye
on developments in the Gallman case.
Yesterday the announcement was
published that the governor had paroled
James W. Gallman, a prisoner
in the State penitentiary, convicted
in 1 907 of manslaughter and serving
a sentence of 15 years, during good
behavior.
James W. Oallmnn was convicted
in Union county in 1907 for killing
Sims Gilmore at Jonesville, in Union
county. He was sentenced to 15
years in the State penientiary. The
parole was announced by Gov. Blease
Townsend of Union.
The Heavy I^ice of Forestry Neglect*
Another thing that has burned itself
into my memory is the heavy
penalty China is now paying for the
reckless destruction of her forests in
former years. On this trip I have
seen river valley after river valley,
once rich and productive, but now becomo
an abomination of desolations
? covered over with unnumbered
tons of sand and stone brought down
from the treeless mountain-sides.
Whilo the peaks were forest-clad,
they held the rain-water like sponges,
giving it out slowly from the decaying
leaves, humus, and well-soaked
soil. Now, however, the mountains
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enormous rock-piles, the soil, completely
washed away, having laid
waste the country below; while other
mountains show the destruction still
gcing on, rent as they are by gorges
through which furious torrents rush
down, submerging once fruitful
plains with rock and unfertile gulley-dirt.
Usually the Chinese farmer
around here has nothing to do with
piddling little "patches" such as the
negroes havo made disgracefully
common in the South; he prefers to
cultivate in broad fields where the
plowman will not have to waste half
his time in turning round at the end
of garden-length furrows. In the
devastated valleys, however. I find
that John Chinaman is often forced,
against his will, into this sort of
patch-farming simply because it is
only here and there that fertile
streaks have been left unruined. In
these cases he has piled the rocks in
little heaps and saved some remnants
from the general soil-wreck.
Saturday I rode over the bed of a
once-deep river. Now it is almost
entirely filled up with sand and rock
and of the once splendid arches of
an old stone bridge. 1 found only
a iew ieei or ino upper part not yet
submerged in sand. Once the cleat,
deep, steadily (lowing water ran here
month after month, and all around
were well-tended lowlands; now
when a rain conies a mad fury of
waters sweeps over the lowlands,
leaving a ruinous deposit behind, and
later there are long weeks when the
river-hod is lirv rind (iounrf-iti,/. o ?
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it was when I saw it yesterday, the
old bridge itself standing amid tho
waste a melancholy monument to tho
gladness and fertility of a vanished
pra.?Clarence Toe, in Raleigh (N.
C.) Progressive Farmer.
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One thing is certain, and this Is
that the Southern farmers must as
rapidly substitute horse-power ana
machinery for so much human labor.
There are plenty of laborers if
their labor was made moro effective
through the use of machinery as is
done in the West.?W. F. Massey, In
Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer.