The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 29, 1909, Image 6

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HALXEY'S COMET. The OnlonJsUkins and Prediction* of the Gr-et Astronoi From the London Spectator. Whether we view Halley'e comet from the standpoint of the historian or the astronomer. Q. F. Chambers, In his new book, "The Story of the Comets." reminds ue that It must be, regarded as by far the most Interest? ing of all the comets recorded In history. HaJley. with whose name the comet has been associated, ow? ing to his prolonged calculations of Its orbit, found that it was one with the comete of Uli and 160 7. This was after its reappearance in .?8 2, which thus gave It a period some? where about II 1-1 years. Yet Hal ley was very greatly troubled by certain disciepanctee between the known facta und the result* of his reneonlng; but finally, by an effort of Imagination, Usted by prolonged cal? culation, he discovered that the In? fluence of th? planet Jupiter had affected tbe velocity of the comet, and thus shortened Its orbit. He ven? tured to predict that It would re? turn about the end of 175 8. and wrote , concerning it. the following almost pathetic sentence: "Wherefore if It should return ac? cording to our prediction about the yen* 1761, Impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that thla first discovered by an English It did return, and was first seen on the night of Christmas Day. 1768, by an astronomically Inclined farmer Pnlltaach. living near Dres And, a? Hind has remarked, posterity has not attempted to de? prive HaJley of the honors which were his due. Indeed, only thla very year It was announced that the Ad? miralty has decided to repair his tomb at the fubllc expense. The comet wan seen on the morn? ing of Aug nt 6, 1835. And no,/ we are ax pec tin a It to make Its \pircar ance again In our ski en Aa we write we cannot but ponder how some aged man may look at It with tired eyee? ?4 the same strange light In the aky which, some 76 years ago, he viewed wonderlngly, aa a little child. This la a thought that must arise in many n mind when the comet arrives. And nwny In the agea 160 B C. It la now certain that thla same comet was visiting the earth. Survival of the Flghtlest. ?hundred and fifty years ago, land, .<J^s born a man, whoae r enbe^ejiej^ ca ?er waa aboalutely unique, lift was John Adama, a eon of lowly parents, who became a com? mon sailor and acquired at an early Me a reputation hardly enviable. While a member of the crew of H. M. 0. Bounty. Adams Is said to have been the ringleader In a plot which resulted In a mutiny. The ship waj then between Sou fa America and Australia, far from the track of 'rav? el. The mutineers landed on Plt oulrn Island, a solitary speck of land to the Pacific, after having carried off a number of Tahltian women and ate men. Pitchalrn Island la only 2 1-2 miles long and one mile broad, but It ap? peared desirable In the eyes of the mutineers who feared to return to civilisation The Tahltian men and the mutlneera were unable to llvo to? gether In peace and amity, the wo? men being a source of contention. So they murdered each other at frequent Intervals, until In 1800. ten yearit af? ter they began settlement, only John Adams was left of the men. Howover, he had a harem of eight women ond n number of children and many more arrived before hla death to continue the populating or the Island. All of the present population are descended from this Adams. After the death of his male com? panion, Adams abandoned his mur? derous ways and became a good Christian, educating all his wives and children In the faith, so that today a more pious community cannot be found than Pltcalrn Itland. The Island belongs nominally to Oreat Britain, but the Inhabitants are practically Independent and aloof from the world. A British steamer viaita the laland at Intervals of from one to two years. The Island Is high? ly productive and yields nearly ev? erything the simple descendants of John Adams desire. ?T?TE Or OHIO. CITY OF TO? LEDO, aa LUC A 8 COUNTY. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A Co.. doing bualneas In the City of Toledo, County and State nforeeatd, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LvARS for eaci and every caae of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the nee of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FF.ANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 6th day of De? cember, A. D., lilt. (Seal.) A. W. OLEASON. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken Inter? nally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY ?s CO.. Toledo, O. Bold by all Druggists, 76c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con etrpetlon. THE APPETITE OF KINGS. Emperor An Enormous Enter?Bour? bon Monarch? an Trenchermen. (From the British Medical Journal.) Whether they reign by divine right or by the will of the people, Provi? dence would seem to have endowed royal personages with appetites In proportion to their exalted position, j According to Motley, Charles V was n enormous eater. "He breakfasted 5 on a fowl seethed in milk and dressed with sugar and spices. After this he went to sleeep again. He din? ed at 12, partaking always of 20 dishes. He supped twice?first, soon after vespers and the second time at ldnlght or 1 o'clock, which meal waa perhaps the moat aolid of the four, After meal he ate a great quan? tity of paatry and sweetmeats and he Irrigated every repast by vaat drafts of beer and wine." Roger Aacham, "standing hard by the Imperial table at the feast of the Golden Fleece," watched with won? der the Emperor's ateady progress through '"sod beef, roast muttoi, charred hare," after which "he fed well of a capon.' Ascham adds that Charlee drank "the best that ever I saw; he had his head In the glass five times aa long as any of them, and never drank leaa than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine." Naturally the nemesis of gout and dyspeela's overtook him; bur, says Sir William Stirling, even In his worst days of suffering from theee diseases before setting out for Flanders, the fullness and frequency of the meals which occurred between hla spiced milk in the morning and hla heavy supper at night so amaxed an envoy of Venice that he thought them worthy of special notice in a dispatch to the senate of hla republic. In hla cloister life eating was the only physical gratification which the emperor could still enjoy. To the last he continued to dine on rich dishes, and the supply of his table was the main subject of the corres? pondence between the major-domo and the secretary of state. Spain and Portgual were ransacked for Ash, partridges, sausages and other dain? ties to pleaae the worn-out palate of the Emperor, and presents of game, venison, beef, veal and other pro? visions were showered upon Charles In hla retreat. The Renaissance Introduced Italian cooks and paatry into France, and the banquets of Henri III recall those of Hellogabalua. It Is related that at one of them Catherine de Medici, the Queen Mother, ate so much that she was 111 almost unto death. Louis XIV had a truly kingly ap? petite. He often took at one meal four platefuls of different soups, a pheasant, a partridge, a large plate? ful of pastry, fruits and hard-boiled eggs. It is no wonder that the Jour? nal de la Sante du Rol, a diary kept by his physicians till within a few years of his death, is a long record of indigestion, intestinal storms and at? tacks of gout, with constant physick? ing, blysters and bleeding. Fagon succeeded in getting the King to submit to dieting, but even then he would eat, In addition,' to toast and pigeon soup, three-roast chickens. The Bourbons were nearly all mighty trenchermen. In our own day there are or were royal personages worthy to feast with Charles V. In "An Onlooker's Note Book.'' attributed to G. W. E. Russell, which appeared some years ago, there Is the following passage: "An Illustrious couple arranged |0 pay i. two nights' visit at a country house of which the owners were friends of mine. For reasons of ex? pediency we will call the visitors the duke and duchess, though that wan not their preclae rank. When a thou? sand preparations too elaborate to be described here had been made for the due entertainment of them and their suite and their servants the private secretary wrote to the lady of the house Inclosing a written memoran? dum of his master's and mistress' re? quirements in the way of meals. "The day began with cups of tea brought to the bedroom. While the duke was dressing an egg beaten up with sherry was served to him not once, but twice. The duke and duch? ess breakfasted together In their pri? vate sitting room, where the usual English breakfast was p ided. They had their luncheon with their hosts and the house party and ate and drank like other people. "Particular instructions were given that at 5 o'clock there must be some? thing substantial in the way of eggs, sandwiches or potted meat, and this meal the Illustrious couple consumed with especial gusto. Dinner was at 8:30 on a limited and abbreviated scale, but let no one suppose that the Illustrious went hungry to bed. When they retired supper was brought up to them In their private sitting room and a cold chicken and a bottle of claret were left In their bedroom as a provision against emergencies." Constitutional monarchs may be gluttons without much harm to any? one but themselves, but It would be Interesting to trace the connection between dyspepsia and despotism, be tween gout and mlgovernment in the arbitrary sovereigns. JEWS THE COMING PEOPLE. Fulfilling Their Destiny and Proving Bible's Divinity, Dr. Young Says. The Rev. Dr. S. Edward Young, pastor of the Bedford Avenue Pres? byterian church, in Brooklyn, deliv? ered a sermon yesterday morning in which he hailed the Jews as the coming nation of the world. Dr. Young took for his text this passage from Deuteronomy: Thou shalt become an astonish? ment, a proverb, and a byword among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other. T will get them praise and fame in ev? ery land where they have been put to shame. In his sermon the pastor said: "One million sermons establishing the Bible's divine authorship are New York City's one million Israel? ites. Here bear they wltneas?a na? tion for 2,500 years without a gov? ernment of their own, for only 700 yeara out of 3,000 years united and independent; exiled all from Pales I tine by Emperor Hadrian, earlier driven from Rome; banished from I England in 1200, from France In lr 395. from Spain in 1492; every klng I dorn, empire, and republic against them officially, socially, commerclal I ly, ecclesiastically, until the Declara I tion of Independence at Philadelphia I In 1776, and the majority of man? kind against them today; their land I never ruled by them since 586 B. C; I their twenty times taken city, Jeru I salem, In the hands of enemies dur I Ing these past seventy-five genera I tlons; for nearly two millenniums no centralized religious system?yet be I hold the Jews as numerous as ever, distinct, known as Jews wherever they go; their ancient Ideals still cherished; their beliefs incorporated into Christianity and Mohammedan? ism; their progenitors the writers of the thirty-nine books of the Old Tes? tament and the twenty-seven of the I New, Jews fast becoming the leaders j of our twentieth-century world! I "Fulfilled are the multitude of I prophecies of woes and wanderings I uttered by Moses and the seers of I Isarel in entire opposition to what I the people would have wished them I to predict, fulfilled in every smallest detail. Beginning to be fufilled are those prophecies that declared: 'I I will get them praise and fame in ev I ery land, where they have been put to shame.' Do not Hebrews this j minute hold the balance of power In j this city in business and at the vot I ing booth? Is not their birth rate I highest, their death rate lowest? I Their diseases produced by drunken I nesa and immoral vices?are they not I fewer than those of other races? In I proportion to population do not Jew | ish graduates of our schools /and I winners of prizes far outnumber J Gentiles? Who own most of the de? partment and minor stores of Ameri? can cities? The cotton trade?elimi I nate Hebrews therefrom and where would the market be tomorrow? To whicVi nationality belong the men I Who control European finances?the Rothschilds and the rest? Who loan to each nation hard up for funds? Jacob's descendants, i "Cart away every book and maga? zine article produced by Israelite tal? ent?what a void In literature! Run l an anti-Semite pruning hook throughout Christendom's education? al fcrces?the educators we would lose! Even the Mohammedan Seml I nary at Cairo, Egypt, was raised tc Its present glory by President Ab basl, a Jew. Can you figure out the mathematical Improbability that all these prophecies reaching across three millennulms should just hap? pen to be fulfilled? Could any one else than the Almighty speak them? Shall we not rely absolutely upon what God says in the rest of His [Book? Shall we not trust every promise of the Great Master who said: 'Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulflilled'?"?N. Y. Times. Mme. Jeanne Schmahl is the pres? ident of the French Union for Wo? man Suffrage which has Just been organized with headquarters In Paris. She declares that the campaign to obtain votes for women is to be a peaceable one. They have begun by I asking for the municipal vote, with eligibility of women to muncipal councils. Mrs. Angeline E. Newman, widow of Bishop John P. Newman, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, became I d eply Interested In missionary work after her husband's death, ten yeara ago, and went to Jerusalem, where she organized a kindergarten. Al? though past eighty, Mrs. Newman was actively engaged In the work un? til her death, a short while ago. What? Mrs. O'Leary's cow didn't start the Chicago fire by kicking over a lamp? Go to! Pretty soon somebody will be denying that Co? lumbus made an egg stand on Its end, or that Newton saw an apple fall, or that Franklin went kite flying in a thunderstorm.?New York Tribune. ? THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN. Something Said to Him by Dentist Set? Him to Thinking. From the New York Sun. "My dentist tells me," said the middle aged man, "that my teeth will last a3 long as I do; and when he said that to me I was at first pleased, because then it seemed to mean simply that I still had pretty good teeth, good for a long time yet, and I thought that some day I would say to him, sort of half Jok? ingly: " 'Doctor, you tell me my teeth will last as long as I will?about how long do you think my teeth will last.?' "In that way, you see, by indirec? tion I am going to get a line on how much longer he thought I was likely to live; and as I thought that over I smiled to myself, thinking that was a pretty bright idea, but do you know that when I came to think It over again I didn't ask him finally? I didn't. "Because I think he knows. I have been going to him now for years and he knows my teeth through and through. He knows by them how old I am and he knows their rate of wear exactly and how much longer they will last and he could tell me how much longer I will last. But I haven't ask od him because I don't want to know, I don't want to know at all. "As a matter of fact I think that when we come to my time of life we don't much fancy dwelling on that; though there are times when It seems to Intrude Itself when we realize that the years ahead of us are not so many as?well, as they were some years ago, when life seemed to ua interminable. Any actuary could tell us what our expectation of life may at the present moment. "We expect, of course, that we are going to live longer, to be the ex? ception, but even if we should so prove we can count the years still coming to us without using many figures. We are getting to where we can see the end if we look that way, and I can't say that I have any fear of it, but I certainly don't find any pleasure in contemplating It; I'd rather stay. "So I haven't asked the dentist be? cause I don't want to know. The thought of it does drift in on me once In a while, but when it does I shunt it off and get bu^y and keep plugging and take a cheerful view. "I'm glad my teeth are good, any? how." HOW A GRAND OPERA STAR FEELS THE FIRST NIGHT. Mnrie Rappold Had to Wait Seven Years for Her Opportunity. I had been kept In such a constant state of happiness, that the night of my grand opera debut seemed like a beautiful dream, writes Marie Rap? pold In The Delinetaor. I was eager ?not fearful?to come face to face with the audience. Heinrich Conrled came to my dressing-room. He had promised me a surprise for that night, and there he stood in the doorway in the costume of a chorister, so that he could be near me on the stage. II there was a trace of anxiety left, that dissipated It. The muffled sound of the orches? tra was rising. Somewhere a call boy cried my name and Mr. Conrled led me into the wings. I heard my entrance cue. "Watch the conduc? tor," he whispered. Next moment 1 was on the stage. Faces everywhere and reaching to high heaven?thai was the moments impression of my first Metropolitan audience. A wave of welcoming applause that swept the house was kindl> meant, but disconcerting. It caused me to lose track of the orchestra But the conductor's eye was on me. In a moment I caught his nod and was singing. The faces grew blurred and distant. A consciousness of the audience as many in one came over me. T found myself singing to that one I had so wanted to sing to it, dreamed of it. My dream had come true, and 1 sang with Joy in my heart?a Joy that overflowed when I stood dazed and spell-bound by the volley of ap? plause and cheers. "Famose!" boom? ed the voice of Mr. Conried behind me, and I drank life's ?'veetest draft from the cup of success. The end of the night was like the beginning. I remember it only dimly. But the three weeks of preparation, I shall never forget them. Oscar Sr.dnger always said I would sing in opera. But he insisted Just as firmly that the right opportunity would not come until I was perfect? ly ready. It took me seven years to learn that lesson, and I advise every young one to take It to heart. ?If you are suffering from bilious? ness, constipation, Indigestion, chronic headache, Invest one cent In a postal eard, send to Chamberlain Medicine Co., Des Molnes, Iowa, with your name and address plainly on the back, and they will forward you a free sample of Chamberlain's Stom? ach and Liver Tablets. Sold by W. W. Slbert. BIG INSURANCE PROFITS. The Heads of Insurance Companies Await 1909 Totals Anxiously? They Look for Big Profits as Peo? ple Have Forgotten the Insurance Scandals. New York, Dec. 22.?What will the 1909 totals of insurance be1* This question, which is keeping heads of old line companies in the Ejst on the tenterhooks right now, is their v-rsion of the "what shall the har? vest be" brought up to date by Wall street standards. It has in it the makings of a more widespread inter? est but not everybody knows it. The insurance totals of 1909 will gauge prosperity but also gauge the pub? lic's memory concerning certain par? tial disclosures regarding its own ex? ploitation as "risks" e*n masse. Whether the expected jump in revenues of the old line life and cas? ualty companies has taken place per schedule in spite of certain changing conditions in the insurance field will soon be known. Last year January reports showed totals which indicat? ed subsiding indignation and return? ing prosperity?both of which meant big dividends for 1909. There was then in force life insurance in New York State alone that totaled $1, 653,311,894, in Illinois 3813,954,120, in Kansas 3129,682,691 and in South Dakota 386,268,878 exclusive of fra? ternal insurance. In the "casualty" field, which nowadays covered two score new and ingenious underwrit? ing plans, the last January 1 reports showed some stupendous figures, for the premiums alone in Massachusetts were over 39,160,000, Jn Illinois 35, 838.990 and New York 317,232,310 of which tho losses required on an av? erage about 38 per cent The 49 "casualty" companies even in 1908 made a gain, their surplus earned above dividends being 310,234,972. And the dividends were something ornamental, as nearly everybody con? tributed somewhat down the list of underwriting ncvelties. The size of the increase of reve? nues and profits is what the captains of the "regular " casulty concerns are awaiting, not doubting there was an increase as in every year since it was begun. Also they are bothered by an experiment in co-operative in? surance in Chicago which has mr.de revelation* regarding the profits made Jn their field. The older fra? ternal and mutual forms they had competed with and still prospereJ, by charging high rates, but the Chic? ago project has let everybody into the game of exploiting themsrf~i*W aad v*v*iir ?rioTi^ p.??<1 bt^s fair to succeed because the big profits arc in the investments of large sums and not in the underwriting. Cutting the underwriting rates to cost by mu tuals has not pleased the insurance captain, but giving the public a share of the investment profits "is differ? ent,"' and far more serious to them, the public benefitting. The life insurance totals increase! in 1908 over 1907 ciuite sharply espe? cially in the agricultural States like South Dakota and Kansas where good crops have been the rule during recent years. In South Dakota, the insurance in force jumped from $35,? 904,949 to over $86,000,000 and in Kansas the gain was a larger percen? tage of gain than was achieved In eastern States, although the gain in New York was about $65,000,000 and in Massachusetts about $42,000,000. This rule held true in Minnesota also, the gain being from $187,597,530 In 1907 to $196,612,682 in 1908. Illinois increased its insurance in force near? ly $25,000,000. Canada's heavyweight citizen was buried at Quoyon, Quebec, Wednes? day, when in a special designed cof? fin J. J. Muldoon, a farmer, aged fif? ty-five, of Muldoon. Pontiac county, nerr Ottawa, was interred. Muldoon weighed 461 1-2 pounds. J. W. Swartz, a saddler of Dan? ville, has completed a coonskin robe for Charles K. Beyer, of West Hem? lock township, Montour county, which is a marvel. The robe con? tained twenty pelts, each one with a tall of the coon still attached. The robe is steel gray in color and is most exquisitely wrought while the dangling tails add much to the ef? fect. foleyfe Honey and Tar Will cure a cough or cold no matter how severe and prevent pneumonia and consumption. A Guarantee. This is to certify that all druggists are authorized to re? fund your money if Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or cold. Contains no opiates. The genuine is in a yellow package. KFV&E SeWlTlTO SIEBERTS DRUG STORE. WOMAN WHO WAS GREATER THAN FLEET. Although Unknown to Fame In America Her Ideas Influence the World. There is hardly anybody, outside the active tempreance ranks, who knows who Mary H. Hunt was, writes Minnie J. Reynolds in The De? lineator for January. Mrs. Hunt accomplished a peculiar work. She altered the system of public education in the United Slates and whoever does this alters tc a certain extent the whole racial type. From 1879 to her death in 11)06 Mrs. Hunt made her home at Dorchester, Mass., a headquarters of scientific temperance instruction and information. With trained assistants she gathered and catalogued data of scientific temperance research all ov? er tne world. She had prepared and published a series of textbooks, suit? ed to different grades, teaching the effects of alcohol uopn the human system. Year after year Mrs. Hunt went up ap.d down the country ask? ing legislatures to pass laws requir? ing scientific temperance Instruction in schools. One by one the enact? ments were secured, until in 1901 this instruction became compulsory in every State and Territory, and in every school under Federal control. Then the world began to come to Mrs. Hunt for instruction. Her sys? tem spread to Great Britain, Ger? many, Sweden, France, Finland, Bel? gium, Switzerland, Hungary, Rou mania, Canada, Mexico, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, South Afri? ca and mission schools in Burma, China and India. Much has been said of late about making America a "world power" by means of a great fleet. This one American woman. Mary Hunt, did more to affect the civilization of the world than all the fleets that Amer? ica ever built. When a Prussian minister of education had her course of study translated for the use of Prussian teachers, when fifteen thou? sand British physicians petitioned Parliament to adopt her system for British schools, Mrs. Hint's own country began to sit up ar.d take no? tice. CONGRESS ADJOURNS. Washington, Dec. 21.?Both houses I of Congress adjourned today until January 4. In the Sens.te Important initial step* Were taken towards a coweressional investigation of the Rorig existing*, controversy between Secretary Baliinger ?*w3 "Chi??? v^ra* ter Pinchot. A resolution by Senator Flint, call? ing for all of the papers bearing up? on the case, was adopted. Senator Jones read to the Senate a letter from Secretary Ballinger, practically demanding an inquiry, which he said he courted, and also expressing the belief that the investigation should be broad enough to cover the "per? nicious activity of officials" in the forestry service as well as the alleged basis for any charges against the ad? ministration of the interior depart? ment. Mrs. Mary Hanna, the third rich? est woman in Cincinnati, died at her home there. As the widow of Henry Hanna she was left a fortune of $7,000,000. Mrs. Hanna was ninety one years old. One daughter In? herits the estate. K3L.LTKEC 26JGH seine's iCGVEW UCHSrnr?50*a$tx>0 OLDS IrTRlalWfTlgrRg AUTKftO?TASsD L?flGTROlBlfS G(JAffANTE?D SAT/SFACTOPy rs> ri PATENTS procured and defenDID JJSJSSH drawing or photo, for expert mutvh and Tree report Kree ?Jvioe. how to obtain patetta trade mark*, copyright*,etc., ( kj ail countries. Business direr/ with Washington saves RSB*>| money and often the patent. 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