Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Pi?E FORESTS GOING. Till" \ W VI, STOltlS INDUSTRY I V* KS V CltlSls Pro?? i t Methods of "Boxing" ?ml "Scraping" Responsible for Forest Drftcriorntloit. 01 ? I n. August 1.?Lack of con*er\.ition of the pine forests of the south?wasteful methods of "boxing" and "scraping" the trees In tut tlning operations and the recklessness of tv yelb>w pine maufacturers? rtave brought the country face to face with a crisis In the navat stores In? dustry, according to reports from operators In this section. The present shortage in ho production of spirits turpentine and rosin, a Ith the con? sequent high prices, bis resulted In serious consideration being given the suggestion that subst'tutes for these products must, before many years, be placed on the market. Hlgheet Prices Known. The quotation} on spirits turpen? tine and rosin have been higher this season on a legitimate trading bf If than the trade has ever before known. Turpentine hat ranged be? tween 68 and 71 cents per gallon the past week, cloning here yesterday at ?8 1-4. while the average price for rosin in that period has been about $8.18 per barrel. A decade ago, be- j fore the development of the yellow pine lumber Industry in the south, turpentine was selling for one-third I this price, with a glutted market, 1 whereas rosin was so cheap that It , was allowed to go to waste around , the stllla where great beds of It lay | for years untouched. The present price of turpentine represents an In? crease of more than 10 cents a gal? lon within the past month, while rosin has jumped more than 81 a barrel In that period, gecord Prices Attributed to Scarcity. The present record prices are at rlbuted solely to scarcity of supplies nd not to any speculative element i the market. Last year's surplus as been entirely wiped out and the -ade Is forced to depend upon the urrent crop to supply the demand, hhh has been steady to strong 'r>m the opening season. The once unbroken belt of long ?af pins which extended from Vir Inta to Texas, has been so depleted i y the destructive method of lumber >8? and boxing that "onservatlv*? ?stl istes glv* the supply of timber no-v j reliable for turpentine operations as I isufnch et to tnpply a normal de- j ?*n#* ?4?r more than fifteen year.; ' if, longer are \a?i iuua q| virgin, dne available for turpentining be? ans* of the great depreciation in ha value of the trees for lumber purposes after being boxed. It is etlmated that 75 per cent, of the vlr tn pine forests of the south are now leid by lumber companies, who re? use any concession to the nava' dores operators, and It Is not doubt? ed that much of the remaining 25 per ?ent will eventually go to the 'um :>cr Interests. Industr) Scorns Doomed. As the productive life of a tree under present methods of boxing ?s shout eighteen years. It will be seen that the na.al stores Industry will be limited to the present acreage un? der cultivation or In possession tt ?he turpentine Interests, unless a more conservative method of treat tog the tre?s Is adopted. Several years sgo the forestry bureau *.f the government made an effort to adduce the naval stores operators to sdopt a system of tapping the trees much after the style of that pri - llccd by the maple sugar open* >????, hut the same old primitive, harmful eictV.d of cutting three to four deep boxes near the base of the tree and then "scrapping" the surface from year to year until almost a tb'rd of the f ine's body was a mass of ooafU? lated sap. has continued. This n ikes the mnln body of the tree "fat." or "pitch pine." which Is not available for the manufacture of the I esf trad' * of lumber. < ori?.cr\aM\e Method* Urged. It bis been suggested that the In? troduction of more conservative ?nethods of boxing may pagsjlt !n nuch of the preset acreage of pines ?? Id by lumber cornpalnes nelng nude r"-allahln tor the na/1 stores rn.le for several years working be ore U I trees are cut Into lumber. \t the meeting to be held In Atlanta. I<lobes 7. for the purpose of organ *lng the Southern Conservation as orlitlon. the question of a change n the method of working trees for urp? ntine Is to be one of the princi? pal topics for discussion. The tru** heart of vorunnho ?d knows \ h* re Its own splere Is and never res* |e :rav l.< v >ti'l It. ? Ifawthornc. Thtrj Nam ? HHIaHa Purpeee, ?Fr?b?v Kidney Pills give quiet] re. irf in eaeas el aid nay and bladder iiments Mrs ftoee olaser, Terrs laute. Ind., tells the result In her ns?* "After nwfferlm: for rrrmv years rnm a serious case of kidney trouble nd sex nding much seoney for so ?slled cures. I found I' >!ev K1 ' *IHs th#? onlv medicine that gave ru k permanent cure. I am again able o be up and attend to mv work. I hall never h??dtnte to r- Commend hemIlberfI Drug Store. BURNED BY ACID. Two Children Killed and Two Criti? cally Injured by Acid From Broken Carboys. Philadelphia. Aug. 2.?Two children are dead and two others are critically Injured and seven more are terribly burned as the result of the upsetting of a truck loaded with carboys of 1 vitriol on which they were riding to? day. I The driver of the truck and eight other men who helped to rescue th?? children from the fiery fluid are suf? fering from severe burns. A fire department supply wagon carrying four 15-inch gallon carboys of vitrollc acid and 10 children, broke an axle as it was turning out of a street car track to let a trolley car pass at Eighteenth street and Ridge avenue. The breaking of the axle upset the vehicle, spilling the chil? dren and carboys. The carboys broke and In an instant the 10 youngsters were covered with the deadly acid. Their screams were frightful as the acid burned off their clothes and ! began eating away their flesh. The driver of the wagon, Richard Grear, passengers from the trolly car and a policeman promptly went to their rescue and tore the 'clothes from the children as best they could. Every one who touched the children was burned, some so painfully they wore unable to help the suffering children more. Great excitement prevailed and ambulance calls were sent In. In the meantime all sorts of passing vehicles were stopped and the chil? dren and their rescuers were placed In them and hurried to the* nearest hospitals. Five of the children on the wagon belonged to Grear. Their ages range from 5 to H years. The other five were their playmates. Grear was giving them all a ride in making a circuit of the Are sta? tions. The acid was being taken to the Are stations for use In chemical engines. $500,000 MAY BE 1111 > I > I \. No Record of Wldcr's Allegeil Wall Street Transcatlon. New York. Aug. 1.?After making a thorough examination of the book? of all the brokerage firms with which Erwin Wider, cashier of the local branch of the Russo-Ohinese Bank, dt l 1 islness in disposing of the $6S0, f the bank's assets In specu In Wall street, the autborlii . ?y have failed b> fill I any record alleged transactions. ^..^ conclusion has been forced up on them, it was said, th t Wider hai perhaps $500,000 of the bank's funds <eer?*ted somewhere ?>? ?} \ ; he Wll keep them in hiding in the hope of receiving an offer of Immunity for the return of the money to the bank. This hope probably was awakened after the self-confessed thief found himself In prison, but It Is argued by those familiar with the case that now. even If there Is no chance of a com? promise In consideration of the res? toration to the bank of part of the funds. Wider will retain the money, which, In some quarters b? is credit? ed with having, ' t ?ke 1 medicine" for the alleged lm< an ! i him self in proaperouf clrcum 1 ices up? on regaining his liberty. Bver since Wiier named the con ?rni with which he had been doing buatnt ss In his Wall str< el transact lone, attaches of th< i'.strict Attor? ney's Ofl ?? hav< I ? er going over the books of these f.rru- d it Is re? ported that while m< v purchases have been (barged up . gainst Wider, ihe total found does not amount to more than $200.000. Wider Is credit? ed with saying that ha has not yet named ail of tie- firms with which he did business in using the bank's as? sets in the effort to accumulate a pereonal fortune, but there are '.hose who believe ho has named them all and that he will not be able to fur? nish any further satisfactory expla? nation of how he came to dispose of the money. Among other theories advanced Is one to the eff * ?hat Wider has taken the monev out of the State and has placed It somewhere In a safe deposit vault, where he will permit it to re? main pending developmenti in his nese. it has been suggested that this wai dorn? a week ago when he dashed out of town In an automobile. The District Attorney's office will renew It-- ? fh for the missing money and securities again tomorrow, but It I* understood ?b.(tie hops is en t. i t i'm. d of finding any Of them, at I least in quarters win re securities are a ? pted as collateral In brokearge li insect lone, wider will be arranged In the Court I of General Beastoni tomorrow to I plead to the charge agalnat him, and a surprise awaits three who expect to pas a man who Ii starving himself to death and w ho |i a physical w reck. \t the Tombs prison ? reporter was ? Informed tint the talk of Wider being either * mental or physical wreck u absolute nonst nse, i *To beep your health sound; to I avoid the His of advancing years; to [conserve your phyatcal forest for ? rip" and healthful old age, guard I your kidneys by taking Fob ' Kld l ney Remedy, Blbert'i Di ig Store. WIDER PLEADS GUILTY, Penniless Cashier Admits Stealing Banks Securities?Remanded for Sentence. New Vork, Aug. ?Erwin J. Wid? er, t young cashier who today pleaded guilty to the indictment found against him In eonneetlon with the embeailement of the fund of Russo-Chlnese bank was remanded to the Tombs for sentence August 10. The indictment charged him with stealing stock valued at $11,400. On his plea of guilty to this indictment he can be given an Indeterminate sent? ence of from five to ten years. The district attorney's office, however, has intimated that it might ask Wt'der'f! Indictment on the other larceny charge against him in connection with his wholesale stealing of the bank's securtltles. Wh'le watting In the prisoner's pen to go back to the Tombs after his plea today, he took occasion to deny the report that he hnd made a profit in his cotton speculation and had money hidden away. OLD LETTERS FOUND IN CABIN. One. Dated 17!>2, Is From ''Light Horse" Harry Lee. Roanoke, Va., Aug. 3.?in an old abandoned cabin, formerly the prop? erty of and Inhabited by General An? drew Lewis, of Revolutionary Wai fame, on Bent Mountain, 20 miles from here, W. W. Webb and Mr. Cole, his companion on a long walk, un? covered a number of old papers and documents which, from their age and associations, are a valuable historic find. The papers contain letters writ? ten by many prominent men of the time, and among them is one, clearly legible, despite the age of over 100 years, froth Light Horse Harry Lee to the County Clerk of Russell coun? ty, ami under date of "15 August, 1702," instructions are given to the American settlers in protecting them? selves against the Indians. The let tor Is of considerable length. The find was made In a dilapidated old trunk in a corner of the musty garret and the receptacle was falling to pieces. Curiosity caused the men to enter the cabin, which is almost completely hidden by tall weeds, cov? ered over v ith thick, soft moss, and almost Indistinguishable, its walls ;^re gaping and rotten and Its mossy roof I " ? ids a strikingly picturesque iic. \\ hlle only bats, owls and" wild things inhabit the house of the once famous Lewis. SPANISH AMBASSADOR DEPARTS. No Retaliatory Measures Yet By Vati? can. Home. August 1.?One hour after presenting the note of Premier Cana Jai the Vatican, officially announc :g that Marquis De Ojeda had been called to Madrid for a communica? tion from the Government/' the Span? ish ambassador to the Vatican left K ?me. This was early this morning, and as yet no retaliatory measures have been taken by the Church, and Monslgnor VlCO still remains in I Madrid as Papal nuncio. Tiie statement issued by the Pre- j I mier yesterday bearing on the con? troversy between the Church and State, has been carefully pursued by the Vatican officials, who wish it clearly understood that that part of the statement In which it is declared that the Holy See intended to con cede to the Spanish Government less than what1 was agreed to in 1904, Is without foundation in fact. It is Canalejas, thej declare, who now wants greater concessions than those of 1004, on the plea that they were granted to them then Premier Maura anO that Canalejas believed them to be at that time Insufficient. In answer to this, the Holy See re? torts that it deals with the Spanish Government, not with parties on the Cortes. The convention between the Holy Bee and the Spanish Govern? ment, igr.od to In 1004, it is pointed OUt , bad .already been approved by the Senate and was i >ut to pass the Chamber of Deputies, when the Maura Cabinet fell, This, however, was due to matters having no relation to the convention or the religious question. Why, then, the Vatican :isks, should greater concessions be granted to Premier Canalejas now? Cardinal Merry Del Val, the Papal iccretnry of State, has prepared all the documents in the controversy for publication in n white book, if the Permler Issues a red book on the sub? ject. ?The Real Hour of Life Is when you do some great deeil or discover some wonderful fact. This hour cam, to J. It, Pitt, of Rocky Ml . N". C, when he was suffering In? tensely, ns he says, "from the worst cold i ever hnd, I then proved to my great satlsfatclon, whnl ;i wonderful Cold and Cough cure Dr, King's New Discovery Is, Por, nfter t iking one bottle, I v is entirely cured, You can't sny nnythlng too good of ? medicine like that" it-; the surest and best remedy for diseased lutes ' beniorrire . ??. laerippe, asthma, hay fever nny thront or lung trouble. I ROe, 11.00 Trial bottle free. Guaran I t? ed by Blhert's Drug Store. wa it Against the house cat. _ i Official! l inos Thai These Animals Carry I Iscaee to children. Washington. Aug. 3.?l?tter war on the house cat has been declared ' b> the departm nt of agrilculture. Ex- ' p< i ts in the biological bureau of that | department are making exhaustive ' investigation! of the cat as a spread or of disease. Already they have found I out enough to convince them that as much danger lurks in a cat as a rat, and rats are known to he fatal as distributors of the plague. Upon the completion of these in? vestigations efforts will he made by the federal authorities to have cat li? cense laws passed. It is much more desirable they say, to have a license for cats than a license for dogs. "We know that cats carry disease, said h. W. Henshaw, chief of the bu? reau, in discussing the fight against tabby, but we do not know to what extent. We are practically certain they carry diphtheria, scarlet fever and ringworm and we suspect they carry tuberculosis. All this we want to find out. Of course the fight to bring about a cat license will be a hard one. Such suggestion will be scoffed at. But in time people will come to realize what a menace cats are. That Is what we hope to do? bring the people to such a reali? zation." Dr. A. K. Fisher of the bureau of biology is at work on a bulletin on the house cat. He has been studying the question for years and knows the general habits of cats thoroughly. "There are a lot of fallacious the? ories regarding the usefulness of cats," says Mr. Fisher.. "As a matter of fact they do almost no good and a great deal of harm. The difflcuhy in following the question of the ex? tent to which they carry dieseases is measured by the difficulty to follow? ing the cat. And yet there is no doubt in the world that many a child who, for no apparent reason and from no discernable cause, develops a case of diphtheria, or scarlet fever owes Its Illness and often death to the cat it has been fondling. Moreover, cats are as susceptible to hydrophobia as dogs. The highly pampered pet cat of the luxurious household never falls to get out and roam around with the ordinary alley cat, which prowls all night long with the pet cat, has spent the day sleeping in some hut or hovel in an alley where small pox, diphtheria or tuberculosis Is hid. The disease is transmitted from one cat to another and thus carried Into homes where everything but the pet cat is sanitary goes without saying. "Recently there has been much at? tention paid to rats and the harm I they do, both as destroyers and as I spreaders of disease. In this connec I tion the cat has been pointed out as a valuable aid In keeping down the rat. This Is an error. "I can state from my personal ob? servation that only about 5 per cent of cats are really mousers. I have seen cats that would tackle the biggest rat going and kill him, hut such instances are rare. As a rule a cat cares little for a conflict with a rat. "Next door to a house I once occu? pied in Wa^hin&ton there were half a dozen cats. Back of us was a livery stable filled with rats. I frequently saw my next door neighbor's cat sit? ting on the fence between our back? yards, watching rats play in my yard early In the morning. Yet they nev? er made a move to catch a rat. "As a matter of fact cats prefer birds to mice. They will spend twice as much time hunting birds. If one keeps count of a cat's quarry during a year he will find that the birds killed will far outnumber the mice. Little harm would be done if the whole cat tribe were exterminated, but there would he too much oppo? sition to that. Still we think that when some of the facts concerning cats are well known to the public many mothers will be more careful about allowing their children to play with cats. Dr. Fisher will have his bulletin completed within the next few I months. It will receive wide distrlbu I tion; and a bill to license cats In the District of Columbia and other terri? tories where the federal government controls will be Introduced In con? gress when It convenes. ?Dysentery Is a dangerous disease but can be cured. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remody has boon successfully used In nine epidemics of dysentery. It has never been known to fail, it is equally valuable for children and adults, and whon reduced with water and suot ened it is pleasant to take. Sold by W. W. Blbert. Fire escapes are being placed on th" Washington and Lincoln school buildings, and will greatly aid In sav? ing life in case of a serious fire. lento or Chronic?Which? ?No matter if your kidney trouble Is acute or chronic Foley's Kidney Remedy win reach your case. Mr. Claude Crown, Reynoldsvllle, III., writes us thai he suffered many months with kidney complaint which ? baffled all trentment. At bist he tried 1 Foley's Kidney Remedy and a few 1 large bottle! effected a complete cure, 1 He says, "It has been of inestimable 'value to me." Blbert's Drug Store. start to Break Up a Carriage Bought here and you'd have all the j.?l> you wanted. Our carriages are put together so they will stay put. That means they don't break down any easier than they are to break up. They are the safest carriages for you to buy because they are the saf? est for you or your family to ride in. We have them in extension and Canopy top, rubber and steel tires, and buggies* buggies, buggies, but they are going out daily. Hurry If you want one. Tire S. M. NEROON CO. -TT r DEPOSIT With First National Bank THAT'S ALL. The Farmers' Bank and Trust Co. Established 1905. Capital Stock paid in. $120,000.00 Stockholders Guarai tee to Depositors.. 120,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits. 46,00000 Deposits. 295,000.00 You can open an Account with Us with One Dollar or more. We guarantee careful attention, courteous treatment, and we want your business. The Y. M. C. A. Fund The first payments on Y. M.C. A. subscriptions are now due and payable. In order to facilitate collections and have these pay? ments made as voluntarily as were the subscriptions, ar? rangements have been made with the banks of the city to ac? cept same. We are therefore prepared and will be glad to receive and acknowledge any of these. Z5/>e Bank of Sumter. HEED 00? DAN GER SIGNAL! Stop putting your funds in stocks and bonds, banks etc where they are at the mercy practically of the management of the company or institution. Put your funds where they will earn a substantial return with absolute safety, \lz : No. 209 South Main St.. Lot ">0 by 208, eight room dwelling, all modern con? veniences, good >arn and stable. No. 2118 M a: n St., Lot SO by 808,8 room dwelling, all modern conveniences. This is Main Street Property and very ciose in. No. 881 W. Hampton Ave., nice six room dwelling. No. 9 North Salem Ave., nice six room cottage. We have some very choice country property for sale, that is worth hiTesti gatlng. would be pleased to show you any or all. For prices and terms, apply to SUMTER REAL ESTATE ? INSURANGE CO. Farmers' Bank & Trust Co. Bldg. Sumter, S. C. Birnie s Drug Store, 5 W. Liberty St. Sumter, S. C. -Dealer In Pure Drugs and Medicines, CHOICE PERFUMES AND FINE TOILKT ARTICLES, COMBS AND BRUSHES, PATENT MEDICINES AND DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, A FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. :: :: :: :: :: OUR MOTTO: PURE AND RELIABLE GOODS. Our stock is complete and we cheerfully solicit your patronage. :: :: ::