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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18
Father Escapes Only to Hear Death
Screams of HIS Loved Ones.

Altoona, Penn.-Five persons, q
mother and her four children, were
burned to death in Gwin Station on
the Wopsononock Railroad, three miles
north of this city. The hus band es.
capped with serious injuries. The dead
are Mary C. Burk, the mother, who
was forty-two years old, and her four
children, Adam, sixteen years old;
Mary, thirteen; Joanna, eleven, and
Joseph, eight. The husband is Carl
w. Burk He is seriously burned about
the back.
Mrs. Burk and the children, except
Adam, retired at the usual hour. Mr..
Burk, who was in Altoona, did not get
home until late. The lamp was burn
ing in the kitchen for him. Before
he went up stairs he turned it low.
A lunch was left on the kitchen table
for Adam, who was a stage hand In
the Altoona Opera House. It Is not
known what time Adam came home
About 1.30 o'clock Mrs. Burk was
awakened by q dense smoke in her
room. She awoke her husband. He
dressed and hastened down stairs
Opening the kitchen door, he found the
room was ablaze. Burk's clothing was
ignited, and he sprang outside and
rolled in the snow to eXtingulsh the
fire. He then called the aid of neigh
bors, but there was no hope of saving
the house or it's inmates.
Burk, in a mad frenzy, tried to rush
through the flames, but was prevented.
Meantime the asoniSing screams OF
the inmates could be heard. For one
brief second Mrs. Burk appeared at an
upstairs window. In her arms she car
ried a child. Then the flames rose
about her and she sank back and was
seen no more.
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It is reported that the yield of maca-
roni wheat will be from thirty-hve 10
forty bushels per acre. which is one
J. third more per acre than the average
WELD Of the regular wheat from this
section.
The establishment of this new wheat
industry will be Of incalculable beneht
to agriculture in the semi-arid plains.
a million or more of acres can thus be
given to profitable wheat raising
which. on account Of drought have
heretofore been entirely idle.
Macaroni wheats differ radically
from the ordinary bread wheats. The
grain Is much harder, and in the best
varieties contains an unusual amount
of nitrogen and correspondinS!y
small amount of starch. The quantity
and quality o. the gluten make it eX-
ceedingly valuable for making maca-
roni.
Z The area outlined by the Department
$ of Agriculture where macaronl wheat
will succeed best is long belt extend
ing northward and southwark through
the great plain from North Dakota to
the Texas coast. In width 1t embraces
nearly the whole Of the two Dakotas,
? Nebraska, the greater part of Kansas.
Oklahoma and the eastern sections of
Colorado, New Mexico and of Central
Texas.
The most remarkable thing regarding
macaroni wheat is this: 1t Is not only
true that 1t can be grown in dry dis
tricts, but it must be grown there IN
! order to produce the best quality of
grain, and up to a minimum of about
fen inches of an annual rainfall the
! drier the better. q.
<: Probably the most important an
: nouncement from commercial stand
point as q result Of the new wheat in
dustry Is the fact of immediate mar
ket for these wheats. The entire pres
ent crop of this year, which will be
about 100000 bushels, was contracted
for even before harvested at q good
average price. Another important
business enterprise may be brought
into existence, for the reason that the
macaroni wheat from Southern Eu
rope is succeeding SO we'll in the great
plains as to warrant the establishment
of macaroni manufacturing. About
100000 pounds of foreign macaron
is imported into this country eacf
year, solely because being made from
true macaroni wheat It Is considered
: to be Of better quality than our domes
tic macaroni, which Is made almost
entirely from bread wheat. All the
costs of the imported product can no"
be saved to this country If the farmers
and millers will furnish our factories
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DiAcoYered Guncotton.

In a notice of a recently published
biography of the eminent chemist
Schoenbein, a writer in Science says:
No one Of the discoveries made by
Schoenbein made him more popularity
known than that Of guncotton, des-
tined to play so important a role in
international, as we'll as industrial en-
terprises. This dates from 1916. Its
value as q substitute for gun powder
was at once perceived, and eXperi.
ments with firearms were instituted
as early as May OF the same year. 1t
is a sad commentary on the unprofita-
bleness Of pure science from the mon
ey point Of view that this prime dis
covery brought to Schoenbein only
eighteen to twenty thousand dollars,
while Alfred Nobel gained through it
more than ten million dollars.
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Antiquity of Stonehenge.

A striking discovery has been made
during excavations which were neccs
sary to raise one of the monoliths in
the famous prehistoric group at Stone
henge in Wiltshire, England, inc
an upright position. The men engaged
in the work have found numerous neo'
lithic implements, which had evidently
been used in cutting and squaring the
stones, and, when blunted, had been
turned into the bedding on which the
stones are supported.
The discovery is held to prove that
the unique spectacle of Stonehenge is
anterior to the Bronze age, and that
the structure still visible was certain
ly built before 1900 B. c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18
GOVERNOR JENKINS OUT
President Roosevelt Removes the
Chief Executive of Oklahoma
Charged With Improper Connection With
Coatract-Thomas B. Ferguson
Territory's New Governor.

Washington D. C.-President Roose.
velt has appointed Thomas B. Fergu.
son Governor of Oklahoma, vice Will.
lam NJ. jenkins, removed. The Presi.
dent attached to the papers this mem.
orandum:
Governor Jenkins, Of Oklahoma, is
hereby removed because of his i'm.
proper connection with a contract be.
tween the Territory and the Oklahoma
Sanitarium Company.
lone of the duties Of the Territorial
Governor Is to enter into contract
with some person or corporation for
tory. Governor Jenkins made such q
contract with the Oklahoma Santa.
rum Company, corporation the pro.
moters of which reserved $4,000 of
its stock for the Governor and subject
to his orders.
"In the Governors explanation of
the affair he says he told the promo
ters at the time they desired him to
sanction the contract that it was an
important contract and that had
some friends whom I would like to
have interested in the company to
whom I owed some political obliga.
tions which would not be able to pay
by an appointment or anything of that
kind"
1.-THE stock was delivered to a bank,
subject to the Governors order, and
was turned over to those friends,
whose political services the Governor
thus sought to reward.
"The extent of the favor to the Gov
ernor or his friends is suggest-d by
the fact that the only known sale OF
the stock since the contract was given
out was at double the price paid for It,
"The Governors confessed relations
to the matter disclose such an entire
lack of appreciation Of the high fidu
ciary nature of the duties Of his Office
as to unfit him for their further dis
charge.
"a sound rule Of public policy and
morals forbids q public servant from
seeking or accepting any personal ben
eft in a transaction wherein he has 8
public duty to perform"
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THROWING THE BOOMERANG.
Flight of the Australian Weapon Ana
lyzed by a.Scientist.

Flight of the Australian Weapon Ana
lyzed by a.scientist.
The wonderful flights of the BOOM
erang, described by travellers, are sell
dom seen to-day, and, though there are
many natives of Australia who can
make boomerang go to a distance OF
240 feet before it returns to them,
there seems to be only one trustworthy
account of a much more sensational
throw. According to this account q
boomerang described five circles in
the air, travelled to distance of about
270 feet from the thrower and rose to
q height CT 135 feet.
There are two principal types of
this weapon, as described by recent
experimenter. The first, shown in
figure No. /, is bent almost to a right
angle, and has the cross section shown
in No. 9. The cross section diminishes
slightly toward the ends, and the
weight is abo; 230 grams. The arms
arc twisted from the plane, like the
sails Of a windmill, being rotated in
the direction of q righthanded screw.
A boomerang of the second type is
Shown il figure No. 3. 1t has cross
section similar to that Of a boomerang
CT the first type Its arms, however,
are twisted in the opposite direction,
and thus involve lefthanded rotation.
Cn both types one side is more round
ed than the other.
a boomerang of the frst type is held
with the more rounded side to the
left. and the concavc edge forward,
and is thrown in a horizontal direc-
ton. AS much rotation as possible
is given to it, but instead Of remaining
parallel to it's original direction, "the
plane of rotation has an angular veloc-
ity, first about the direction Of trans
latiOn, and second about line in its
plane perpendicular to this. The eff
Icct of the latter is that the path
curls to the left, while owing to the
former the plane of rotation inclines
over to the right, j. e., rotates in the
direction of the hands Of clock fac
ing the thrower."
After it has described nearly COM
plete circle the boomerang goes more
slowly, and finally falls near the feet
of the thrower. In figures Nos. 4 and
5 its fight is illustrated by means Of
projections on a horizontal and on a
vertical plane. Until the velocity be-
comes small the up hill path is nearly
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with the right kind Of material, and
the factories are anxious to have the
same.
The area of wheat in the United
States id 1899 was over 44,000,OOO
acres. At the lowest estimate, there
fore, if the average yield Of wheat is
increased only one bushel per acre we
will have an Increase of $4,000, 900
bushels, worth at the former price for
19OO-nearly sixty cents per bushel-
about $26O00,000. These figures will
give at least an idea Of the possibili-
ties for the new macaroni wheat indu-
try.-New York Herald.
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Statue From whisky Money.

The Rev. W. F. Lloyd, of the Walnut
Street Methodist Church, Louisville; Ky,
made an attack from the pulpit on Messrs.
[. w. and B. Bernheim, distillers, who
recently gave a bronze monument of
Thomas Jefferson to the city of Louisville.
He said: ,-.
"The city Of Louisville is is eongraTtallat- Tl
ing itself on the statue of Thomas Jet1er-
son, presented by two wholesale whisky
sellers. The money with which this was
done was blood money, wrung from bleed
ing hearts of innocent women and chll-
iren. It represents tears Of orphanage
and 90 and Us sSf and
dsp5eidln dsIppesd msnhood Sa ss'Fcfss Jefferson hd
ments strongly antagonistic to whisky, ,botn
in its drinking and sale, and it was enough
to make him turn over in his grave at tne
thought of having his statue presented to
the city by men who had made their for,
tune by preying on helpless drunkards and
innocent women and children"
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describe a second circle in front Of
him, he must cast it from him with
much greater force, so that after one
circle has been described it may still
have sufficient velocity to make q
second one. Moreover. after the weap-
on has described the first circle and
while it is over the thrower's head the
axis of rotation must point in an up
ward direction in front Of him. for If
it points behind him the subsequent
path will be behind his back, and a
figure of eight will become possible.
If a path with second loop in front
of the thrower is desired, boomerang
with much twist and we'll rounded
should be chosen, and the thrower's s
body, while throwing it, should lean
over to the left.-Chicago Record-Her-
sid.
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Labor World.

Two years ago in Maine there were
two woodsmen to one job; now there
are two jobs to one woodsman.
The Paris newspapers generally
agree that the threatened strike of fhe
French coal miners has been arerted
for the time being.
La Resistencia Union has officially
declared the Tampa (Fla) cigarmak-
ers' strike off. This ends the long
struggle. which started last July, De-
tween the cigarmakers and manufactu'
rers. The latter have not yielded
single point.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18
Newsy GleanIngs

The present population Of Manila l.
estimated at 244, 1872.
1t costs 81 for ten words by the new
telegraph line to Yukon.
Norway's railroads belong almost ex-
clusively TO the Government.
Texas oil producers have ordered an
OIL ship larger than any now afioat.
The lawy ers of Kentucky have or
c-:,nized their State Bar Association.
Eighty-two postoftices have been es-
tablished in Minnesota within year.
1t Is a remarkable fact that few saw
ages have ever been known to STAN
mer.
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to his daughters assistance. In the

to his daughters assistance. In the
meanwhile the intrepid horsewoman
had gotten her steed under control.
President Roosevelt turned SO quick
ly that the horse seemed to stand i'm
movable, the rider sitting erect, like a
sentinel on guard. An orderly in uni
form was half a square behind.
President Roosevelt has purchased
the original drawing of Bernard Par
tridge's recent London Punch cartoon,
representing the President as Rough
Rider. A reproduction of the famous
picture is shown on this page.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18
TI,a Crusade in Brief.

Tn every Methodist church in New
Zealand Intoxicating, wine mas oeeh e.
GUIDED from the Lords table.
Some parents who set Intoxicating
Iiouors upon their table wonder Where
tbe;r children learned to become drunk
ards.
DR. Ganser, a Dresden physician and
alienist, has found hypnotic suggestions 3
GREAT aid in retaining drunkards anu
stealing their will.
The Temperance Permanent ,bullolne
Society has S5l5 members, and last year
loaned 81 500 900 - the largest sum ad-
vanced by any building society IN Eng
land. 49,,
4 vigorous crusade against liquor joints
;s in progress at Mount Vernon, ~. ihres
local dealers have been fined S2OO ana
costs for selling liquor on Sunday, the max
imum fine under the law.
A Columbus (Ohio) saloon keeper, who
placarded his establishment as ooidlerE
Rest" was notified by the soldiers at the
garrison that the name was ofenslfe an ano
that it must be removed Immediately Inc
sign came down.
The battle against alcohol is the most
significant phenomenon OF our ages; mort
important than all political action, wars
Professor of Physiology, University OF
Wurzburg, Bavaria.
The "Gideons" is an organization OF conn
mercial travellers in Chicago who neither
drink nor play cards, 1900 strong. :,
The opinion Of physicians, hyglenlsts and
moralists on alcoholism may be summed
up in the words of Gladstone: alcohol Is
a more devastating scourge than the
scourges of history, plague, war and lam am
inc; more than all these, it dee!mates hu. aa
manity. 1t does more than kill, 1t de-
grades"
The London Lancet says: 1--WE look to
the medical profession to be brave ana
courareously defend the facts which they
are so well acquainted with, and rise above
the sneers and cheap criticisms which
would call them cranks, because they urge
total abstinence and tenounce alcohol a
a beverage"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18
BANK TELLER A OEFAULTER.
The First National of Ballston Spa Closes
Its Doors-Shortage 100000.

Saratoga. N. Y.-The First National
Bank of Ballston Spa has closed its
doors. Edward ]. Graham. of Albany,
National Bank Examiner, posted on
the main entrance an official notice
stating that "this bank is closed pend
ing an investigation by the Controller
of the Currency"
1t soon became generally known
that United States Commissioner
Charles NJ. Dawson had issued a war
rant for the arrest of the teller, Chas.
E. Fitcham, who is accused of being
an embeZzler to the amount Of more
than 100000. 1t is said that his pee
ulations have covered IN extended Pc
riod. he having been connected with
the bank for over a quarter OF CEN
fury.
His plan of operations is said to have
been to manipulate certificates by
making false entries and appropriate
ing balances, all OF which came under
his personal supervision. When the
interest came due he managed to pay
it out of his own pocket, which aided
him in concealing his line Of action.
What disposition Fitcham has made
of the misappropriafed funds cannot
be learned. He lived in good style at
Ballston Spa, and his salary was only
$1,000 per annum. If he had been en-
gagged in stock operations it is not
known, and his friends are at a loss
TO account for what he has done with
the amount alleged to have been stolen
by him.
Fitchams wife and daughter are re-
ported not to have known anything of
of his conduct until he was placed un-
der arrest. and the result Is that they
are Frustrated with shame and grief.
Fitcham has always commanded the
greatest respect in Ballston Spa, and
his defalcation has proved a great
shock to the entire community.
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"On SIGNING the Pledge"

tme Mnx IN do Sebating points Which are not de-
hatahIe9 I What nonsense has recently
been written and spoken about the
Sethies OF pledge.signing!" Would the
temneranee movement have ever attained
its present position without pledge,sissnn-
ing? While we are waiting for temper, temper
anee legislation, and while the , public
@ house reformers are Matching. out their
erns. let every earnest worker keep peg
ging away enlisting pledged abstaineEs: r..
Those who wish to see quick returns TOT %,
their work and abiding results, will stu
90 on entreating men and women to sign
the pledge, no matter how many ioglei;
choppers declam against oiaIdSn,ouse I1d ia cer.
methods. In some things tne oio 10 .e
tainly better than the new.
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She Did.

"I'u get even wild 'em for dischairg>
in mel" mumbled the cook lady, lift
ing up the register and dropping a
pair Of her old shoes down the hot air
pipe just before she went away.
And those old shoes avenged her for
nearly q week before the family found
out what was the matter.-Chicago
Tribune.
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PRESIDENTS DAUGHTER
SHOWS GREAT PLUCK.
y; i: i: 4: S !: -. ::

While riding with President Roose-
velt, her father, Miss Alice Roosevelt
had a narrow escape in Washington
the other day. The horses were trot-
ting along Seventeenth street toward
the boundary, when. upon reaching
Rhode Island avenue, a numbering
herdic came upon them, frightening
Miss Roosevelts horse so that 1t
swerved suddenly.
The President was riding slightly in
advance. and was interfered with by
the vehicle and prevented from going
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18

Here are received all the official tele'
grams from the front and here are
posted the bulletins which The anthor-
ties see fit to publish. Ever since the
war began the street before the grim
old building has been crowded with
anxious relatives of the fighting men,
eager for news of husband, brother,
sweetheart or father, and many have
been the distressing scenes the war
officials have been compelled to wit
ness,
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RETURNED TO SEE MOTHER DIE.
Daughter, kidnapped in Infancy. Restored
to Her Parent After Years of Absence.

to Her Parent After Years of Absence.
McKeesport, Penn.-The daughter OF
Mrs. Jane Williams. kidnapped in in
fancy, was restored to her mother
while the latter was on her death bed.
The daughter never knew who her
mother was until informed a few
weeks ago by a relative, who, 1t Is
said, was instrumental in having her
taken away. Mrs. Williams's husband
died in Chicago in 1869, and when rel.
atiyes wanted to adopt their youngest
daughter, Mary, she refused.
The little one soon afterward disap'
Deared. Mrs. Williams came to this
city to live with her son.
She began to fail last summer, and
a relative sent her word that her child
was alive. The daughter, now Mrs.
Annie Madden, Of Liverpool. England,
where she was taken when stolen, was
sent for, and arrived week ago. The
mother died, holding her child's hand.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18
Cov.rnor Taft Called Home.

Governor William H. Taft, of tire
Philippine Islands. has been directed
by the Secretary of War to return to
the Unir..i States. This action IS
taken because Governor Taft Will be
unable to perform any duties for some
time, and will lie obliged to leave the
Philippines to regain his health.
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Convicted of Poisoning Her Children

Mrs. Elmer Quimby, ,at Ithaca
Mich, was found guilty Of numbering
her two children by administering
roisou. and sentenced to life imprison-
ment. The woman and her husDana
planned to rid themselves OF the cnll-
dren and poisoned them both. Inc
husband was convicted and sentenced
to life imprisonment.
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Price Of q Drink.

If it were necessary to describe in words
the evils and effectsso of intemperance, one
might use the thoughts of John B. Cough
expressed in one Of his lectures entitled
"Man and His Masters" wherein. he rep
resents a man overcome with the appe-
tite for Intoxicating liquors as pleading in
this manner: "Give me a drink! I win
give you my hard earnings for it. Give
me drink! I will pay for it: I will give
you more than that. I married wife; 1
look her from girlhood's home and prom
ised to love her, and cherish her, and pro-
teet her-ah ali! and have ave, driven l1Hsn her her
wages and I have brought them to You.
Give me drink and I will you them;
bread from the whits lips Of my famished
child will give yoI that if you, will give
me drink. More yet. I will give you my
health. More yet. will give you my
nanliness. More yet. L will give my hopes
of Heaven-body and soul; I will barter
Jewels worth all the kingdoms Of earth,
sor dram. Give it me"-Christian Work.
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uafr IN Spanfsh Prince.

The Princess Of the Asturias, sistel
OF the King, who was married on Feb
ruary II of the present year to Prince
Charles of Bourbon, son of the Count
of Caserta, gave birth to a son at
Madrid, Spain.
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men, says a writer in the New YORK
Herald, lie down facing each other.
Then a rope is passed over their heads
as shown in the illustration. TWO
chalk lines are drawn between the
contestants. The object is to draw the
opponent so far that his finger tips
shall be beyond the second line. This
rough pastime means sore necks and
bleeding ears, but it Is greatly enjoyed
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18
Robbers Get Miser's Hoard

John Brennan, Il miser. left his house
at Hibler. S. c., for few hours, and
on his return found his strong box
looted of $500 in cash and many val
uable papers, mortgages, titles to real
estate, etc.
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The Boiling Point.

It varies in different localities. On
Fifth avenue the pot can hardly boil
under 100000 q year, whereas IT.
Brooklyn it will boil for $1,000 year,
and on the east side from So to SIS q
week.-New York Times.