The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 02, 1908, Image 2
MATTERS POLITICAL
FROM WASHINGTON.
PROGRESS OF PANAMA CANAL-POLITICS
SEETHING IN WASHINGTON
-CORTELVOU'S BOOM
COLLAPSED.
Washington, Doeember 30:?
Ex-Senator Blackburn, now Governor
of Panama, is in Washington on
leave and brings back a radiant
account of the progress being made
on tie Isthmi & "Col. Goethals,
the Chief Engineer and the Chairman
of the Isthmian Canal commission,
is making wonderful progress
with the construction of the
Canal," said Senator Blackburn today.
"It is perfectly amazing the
rate at which they are digging the
big ditch aud the satisfaction and
contentment of everyone connected
with the work. Colonel Goethals
is an ideal man to have charge of a
big project. He is always perfectly
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the situation. Secretary Taft is a j
most satisfactiory man to have general
supervision of the work. He
has the capacity of selecting the
best men and then allowing them a
free hand to push the project His
* trips to the Isthmus have done good,
for Big Bill has a smile that won't
come off and his handshake is an
Inspiration to every man on the job.
Asked how living on the Canal
Zone compared with living in Kenj
tucky the Senator said that apart
from the friends he had to leave behind,
life on the Isthmus was decidedly
pleasant,a delightful climate,
a pleasant circle of people and the
latisfaction of knowing tbatcneis
connected with one of the greatest
undertakings of the age, and an
enterprise which is going to benefit
the Southern States incalculably.''
Politics is seething in Washington
just pow, but it is chiefly Republican
politics. Pour years ago
* there was no certainty whatever as
to who was going to be the Democratic
candidate, while the Republican
selection was all cut and dried.
Now the situation is entirely reversed.
Mr Bryan is generally conceded
to be the choisce of his party,
while the question of a Republican
presidential candidate is still in the
air, although during the last week
the progress has been all one way
and Taft looks today like the almost
oertaiu Candidate of ^Republicans.
However, there are plenty of Republicans,
especially among the
pohticans, who have their scalpingknives
sharpened for Taft and if
tb?y can catch the big Secretary
^ with his back turned they will knife
[ to m sure as fate.
The President has just precipiaated
a pretty row in the Navy depart
ment by his order that a naval snrgeon
shall command the hospital
ship Relief. The line officers of
the navy are violently opposed to
permitting a doctor command a ship.
Thev sav that whenever the navi
gating officer reports a squall in the
offing the captain-doctor will order
Calomel and consult has anatomical
charts. Senator Hale, chairman of
the committee on Naval Affairs, insists
that no doctor should command
a ship and threatens to introV
duce a bill prohibiting it. The
army officers are greatly rejoiced because
they have had to stand no eud
of chaffiing over the army surgeons
who have received preferment. For
instance, Major General Ainsworth
was a doctor and is said to have recsived
his first promotion because of
his skill at keeping the feet of the
infantrvnipn in cornl sliane. Thpn
j ? 0 r ?
there is General Leonard Wood who
secured a regiment and special promotion
over the heads ot hundreds
of other officers because he was Mrs
McKinley's family physican and
President McKinley never could refuse
any favor asked by his wife.
Now the army officers are addressing
very naval officer as "Doctor" and
every naval surgeon as "Admira.l"'
Surgeon Geniral Rixey, who puts
his name in the telephone kook as
"Admiral" Rixey, although be has
been forbidden to use the title of admiral,
and who is family physican
to the Presidents'8 family, is responsible
for the President's decisi
! sion in the present case.
Frank II Hitchcock, first assistant
postmaster general, who was
the loudest Cortely ou shouter in the
Republican camp less than two
weeks ago, is now shouting for '
Taft and applied recently for the !
positiou of Tuft cainpaigu mauagei. ]
The insignificance into ivhich the i
Cortelyou presidential boom has '
hruken is enough to make the unfortunate
secretary weep. In his ,
connection a story has bieu going ]
! the rounds to the effect that Hitch- ]
j
cock was to succeed Vorys, Taft's 1
Ohio manager. Of course there is
no truth in the story. Vorys has j
done too good work in Ohio to have i
anyone placed over him by the as- <
tute secretary, but the story served 1
to worry Vorys and that is what it }
was printed for. ,
The Philippine government re- j
cently sent to Washington an order
for the smallest and yet the most j
expensive shipment that the govern (
meut has ever been called upon to (
make. Its order was for one thous- 1
audth of a gram of radium aud the
price paid for it was ?3.000. The i
Insular bureau, which has charge of \
the shipment, is wondering how it 1
can send the tiny fragment of min- j
mil without danger of its being lost, f
The Pbilipine Bureau of Science (
wishes to use the radium in a series 1
of experiments it is conducting. And '
the poor Philipinos pay the shot f
Representative Hobson, who is al- j
ways a hustler and constantly
springing some new idea, has hit j
upon a novel one. It consists of a 1
bill providing for the weekly publi- j
cation of an official journal which is \
to give briefly the important events g
in every department of the govern- *
ment, the important official acts of *
the president and the pooceedings of |
congress; not 111 full, as is the easel
with the congressional Record, but j
summarized for busy readers. There .
is grave question if Mr Hobson's
bill can become a law. but he is <
in deadly earnest, has published a \
sample copy of his proposed sheet. ?
and believes that great good could be '
accomplished by its publication and
distribution by postmasters through- f
out the country. His idea is, of *
course, to circulate it free. Inci- t
* i
dentally, he would have the paper 1
contain & guide for the use of peo- j
pie who visit Washinton. c
The chief Engineer of the Pana- '
ma canal has decided that two locks c
nearest the Pacific shall be placed ]
four mile3 further from the sea 1
than was originally intended. This *
will save $10,000,000 and incidental- 1
ly will remove the locks further i
from danger of an enemy's fleet.
Mortuary.
?
Little ller, daughter of Mr and g
Mrs John M Barrineau, of Benson t
postofiice, died September 30 and a
was buried at the family burying ?
ground at 11 o'clock on the follow- *
ing day. llev S J McCounell con- fi
ducted the funeral services. The t
deceased was 5 years and 9 days s
old. *
Farewell, sweet ller, till we meet c
a
again. Written by her uncle, ,
J T Burrows. h
1? on i nr\iy c
ueeeiuuei *v, ivvt.
Died?Near Taft, S C, on i
Thursday, December 26, 1907,
little James Levy, aged 5 years
and 10 months, son of Mr and |
Mrs Joe M Barrineau. He was I
sick but a short while till the 1
Lord called him away from us. *
His remains were laid to rest
at the Union church cemetery.
"Suffer little children to come (
unto me and forbid them not, ^
for of such is the Kingdom of
heaven." A Friexd. j
A Christmas Tree- t
The Christmas tree given by |
the Presbyterian Sunday-school
Friday evening, the 27th ult.,
was a very enjoyable affair.
The music rendered by the choir
(
and instrumental duets by Mrs j
Montgomery andMissErvin withthe
violin and organ much en- 1
hanced the pleasure of the occasion.
Mr D J Epps, who I
impersonated Santa Claus, ^
made things quite lively for the ]
little ones, whose hearts were
made glad by the many presents *
distributed. ^
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BONAPARTE AT JAFFA.
His Orders Regarding the Poisoning of !
Stricken Soldiers.
Professor Forgue of Montpellier
in a lecture on the respect that
practitioners should have for hu-:
man life told the story of Desge-;
nettes, which, though well known, J
is worth telling again, as it is toid t
by Desgenettes himself.
When the French were about to
evacuate Jaffa the question arose ,
what was to be done with the!,1
plague stricken soldiers in the hos- 1
oital. Pescjenettes says: "Shortly
t>efore the raiding of the siege?that j
is to say, on the 2?th?General I
['.onaparte sent for me very early j
n the morning to come to his tent, j
irliere he was alone with his chief '
)f the staff. After a short preamble j
is to our sanitary condition he said
to me, 'If I were you I should end
it once the sufferings of those
stricken with plague and should end j
:he dangers which they threaten us:
jy giving them opium.' j
"I answered simply, 'Mv duty is J
:o preserve life.' Then the general;
levelcped his idea with the greatest:
coolness, saying that he was advis- j
ng for others what in like circum-!
stances he would ask for himself.
"He pointed out to me that he
vas, before any one else, charged
vith the conservation of the army,
ind consequently it was his duty to '
movent our abandoned sick from
'ailing alive under the scimiters of
he Turks. T do not seek,' he went
m, 'to overcome your repugnance, i
>ut I believe I shall find some who }
rill better appreciate my inten- J
:ions.'" Pesgenettes goes on to
iay that opium was, as a matter of
'act, given to some thirty patients.
It happened, however, that a cerain
number rejeeted it by vomitng.
were relieved, got well and told
vhat had happened. The story !i:is!
>een told in various ways, and thtc
'act of the poisoning of the sick' b
oldiers has been accepted hy the
memies of Napoleon and denied by
he defenders of his memory. Desjenettes'
narrative bears the stamp
>f truth.?British Medical Journal. _
The Story of a Caxton.
In the Weeleyan Church Record
8 a paper by Mr. WilliaiA, Andrews
>f the Hull Royal institution on L
'Curiosities of Book Collecting," in
vhich he tells the story of the un;arthing
of a Caxton at Thorneck J
iall? Lincolnshire. The butler was j
intrusted with the work of weeding
>ut the superfluous books. A per- <
ect copy of Dame Juliana Berner's p
'Boke of St. Albans" (1486) was ?
hrown carelessly aside and a little *
ater sold to a peddler for nine- J
>ence. He thought he was a lucky J
nan when he disposed of it to a t
hemist in Gainsborough for 3 shil- *
ings. It was soon sold to a bookseller
for ?2, who transferred it to ^
mother in the same trade for ?7. *
[t was subsequently sold to Sir
rhomas Grenville for ?80. At the
ime of this transaction Dibdin val- ?
led this book at ?420, and in 1882
1 perfect copy changed hands for
!(>o0. , ,
v An
Elephant'* Teeth. a
Whoever has looked inside an
tlephant's mouth has seen a strange
ight. Elephants have no front
ecth, and they never eat flesh or
my food that requires tearing
ipart. Eight teeth are all they
lave, two above and below on each
ide, huge yellow molars as wide as \
i man's hand and about two inches
hick. Over these hay or fodder is
4 V* /innnwnof n rrl incf
illiiuu UY t lie VjUtUVDij u^tivwv
ongue in the whole animal kinglom,
a tongue that is literally hung
it both ends, having no power or p,
novement except in tKe middle,
vhere it shifts back and forth from
ide to side, arching up against the I
oof of the big mouth like an im- ||
nense wrinkled pink serpent.
Proof Positive. C
Mrs. Perry thoughtfully regarded
;he package the maid had just
>rought in and then remarked to _
ler husband that 6he had meant to
>uy a mauve broche.
"What, did you get?" he asked.
"Pink louisine." j
Her husband could not quite conceal
a significant smile, and Mrs.
Perry went on hurriedlv: "I know
* ? V 11 i T
vhat you are thinking, doe?mar 1
lon't know my own mind. But I J
:an prove that I do.
"Did you ever know me to go to a
grocery and bring away a can of
>eaches instead of a bar of soap? 1
Certainly not!" she concluded tri- lmphantly.?Youth's
Companion.
Figures Won't Lie. j
Benjy came home from school
>ne day with "1776" pinned across
lis shirt front
"What does that mean, Benjy?" 1!
lis mother asked. \
"You don't know no more 'n
teacher," he grumbled. "That's iust
what she wanted to know." ]
"But what does it mean, 6on?"
epeated his mother.
'Those figures/' answered the little
man proudly, "stand for the j
Declaration of Appendicitis!'"?
Lippincott's.
Feline Ingenuity.
Short?I thoivrht you were going
to drown thst cat ?
Long?Well, they pay a cat has
nine lives, but this one has twenty,
I think. Why, I actually put that
cat into a tub of water and tied a
brick round its neck, and what do
you think ?
Short?Goodness knows.
Long?Well, this morning when
I went to look at the tub the cat
had swallowed all the water and was
sitting on the brick.?London Answers.
Why Corn Pops.
When the grains of maize or Indian
corn are gently roasted they
burst with a pop and turn inside
out. They are then known as popcorn.
This popping is due to the
evaporation of the oil contained in
the kernel. Ordinary wheat does
not pop so readily because the outer
portion of the kernel is more porous
and thus permits the escape of the
oil as it evaporates. In the case of
popcorn a great pressure is developed
in the kernel by the confined
oil, which is present in greater quantity,
so that the kernel is suddenly
1 3 3
eipioaea ana rerersea.
Stop That Cold
To check early cold* or Grippe with "Preventics"
Deans sure defeat for Pneumonia. To (top a cold
vith Preventics it safer than to let it run and be
iblired to cure it afterwards. To be rare. Prerentics
will cure even a deeply seated cold, but
aken early?at the (neeae sure?they break, or
lead off these early colds. That's surely better,
rhat's why they are called Preventics.
Preventica are little Qendy Cold Cures. No Quln.
ne. no physic, nothing sickening. Nice for the
Jiiidren?and thoroughly safe too. If you feel
hilly, if you sneeze, if you ache all over, think oi
Seventies. Promptness may also save half your
lMiafeslrkness. And don't forget your child, li
!:<*rvfc feverishness, night or day. Herein probi
:>!/ lies Preventics' rreatest efficiency. Sold in
?: boxes for the pocket, also in 25c boxes of 44
*reventics. Insist on your druggists giving you
Preventics
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