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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-03-11
SPECIAL TERM TO BE HELD.
The State, 8th.1

The State, 9th.
Solicitor Wilson reached the CITY
last night and conferred with the
governor in regard to the special
term of court promised by the sher-
itf of Florence in the case of tho me-
gro raplst. After the conference it
was announced that the term would
be held and that the proper stops in
the matter would be taken this morn
ing.
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able to discover how they were put to-
gether.
The only man who has yet been sue
cessful in taking photographs in color
was a martyr to his discovery, the Sc
cret Of which Is lost. Some years ago
Dr. Herbert Franklin, Of Chicago sub
mitted a number of colored photo
graphs-of a somewhat crude nature it
is true-to the leading American scien-
tif1c institions, and the encouragement
he received was such that he built him
self laboratory, proof against the
wiles Of spies, at a cost Of $4,000,
wherein to perfect his invention. In the
preparation Of his plates he used q
charcoal fire, and one day when at work
he omitted to open the ventilators and
was found asphyxiated. He had re-
Trained from divulging his secret to
any one and in consequence, although
some partially finished plates that hid
the secret remained, the way they were
prepared is a problem that has baff1ed
scientists to this day.
Another victim to his secret was
Adams, the inventor of tallium, the
greatest discovery In the metals Of the
age. Adams was confident that metal
could be produced which, although as
hard as steel, was only half it's weight
and price, and after five years exper-
imenting with an electrical process tall
lium was the result. The invention was
taken up throughout America. and Or
ders for thousands of tons of the metal
began to pour in from the leading rail-
way companies.
But 1t was too late. The enormous
mental strain he had undergone, coup
led with the sensation of finding mil
lions within his grasp, took away his
reason, and he was confined in the
asylum. He left no records to explain
the process, and no amount Of persua-
sion drew the secret from him, which
perished locked up in his brain when
two years later he died helpless luna.
tic.-Tit-B
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KAHN's BEET YARN.-Representative
Kahn, of California, used to be an actor
and a good one, before he became
statesman. Once at a dinner he began
a speech by saying:
when I was on the STAGE
who were you driving for?" broke
in an irreverent listener. and Kahn sat
down.
That was in Kahn's early days In con-
e.ress. Now it would not be so easy tc
6isconcert him.
Somebody asked him one day If 1t is
true that watermelons grow to weigh
500 pounds in California.
II do not doubt it," replied Kahn
although, to be strictly truthful,
have never seen any that weighed more
than 300 pounds. However. I do not
live in the watermelon section. They
grow beets in my part Of the state
Whenever farmer wants an artesian
we'll he plants a beet seed and sits back
for three months until the beet has sent
it's taproot down far enough to strike
water. Then he pulls up the beet with
a six or eight horse team, and there ne
has an artesian we'll, filled with clear
cold, flowing water"
Water was sparingly used in the GER
emonies that followed.-Washingto
Post.
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GASTON.
WHY ARE THERE CANNIBALS.

Most Men Eaters Are Ashamed of
the Practice-NOt Hard to Break
Them of 1t.
A missionary in New Guinea recently
wrote letter to a London newspaper
in which he said it was difficult to COL
lect facts that will clearly explain why
it Is that the Papuans eat the flesh of
human beings. He said it was the expe-
rience of missionaries that when the ma
tives are in the state Of cannibalism
white men are not sufficiently in touch
with them to know their language we'll
and discuss the question Of cannibalism
with them. BY the time the whites are
able to talk fluently with the natives
they have abandoned the practice of
eating human flesh and when they have
once given up the custom he knew
nothing of which they were so much
ashamed. Being ashamed of it, they
do not like to discuss it.
This is exactly the experience that
white men have had with cannibals in
other parts Of the world. The most
degraded man eaters of Africa have al
ways tried to conceal the evidences of
their indulgence in this food when first
they have come in contact with white
men. They have rarely indulged in the
practice in the presence Of white men
unless these strangers showed plainly
hof Ind n
the natives ate or unless, after they be-
came acquainted with the whites, they
were convinced that they might eat
what they pleased without censure' or
punishment.
When Stanley passed through the
greatest hotbed of cannibalism in the
world, on his first descent of the Congo
River, he saw nothing of this evil.
Later, when he spent five years on the
river, the natives were always careful
to conceal evidences of their indulg-
ence in this food. He could scarcely
help knowing Of the existence of the
practice but he did not collect sufficient
evidence with regard to it to think 1t
worth while to allude to the matter in
his two volumes describing the founding
of the Congo Free State.
1t was only after later explorers had
become intimately acquainted with
many of the tribes that they were able
to appreciate the extent of the evil and
give many facts about it,
What the New Guinea missionary
said about the shamefacedness of the
Papuans when they had once given up
the habit is also true of the cannibals
of Africa. 1t is not difficult to stamp
out the practice in any tribe as soon as
the whites become influential among
them. The natives hold to fetichism
and the practice of sacrificing human
beings on the graves of important per-
sonages far more tenaciously than they
do to cannibalism.
The Bangala were among the great
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WITTY AND PRoFANE.-J. Pierpont
Morgan never posed as humorist and
his witty sayings would not make
very large book. The trust promoter
however, can joke on occasions, al
though his wit is not always far re-
moved from coarseness.
One morning several weeks after the
coal strike began, Russell Sage and Mr.
Morgan were riding down to business
on an elevated train. The conversa-
tion naturally turned to the coal strike
chances of the output, prices coal would
bring, etc.
MIR. Sage was telling of their good
luck in procuring lot at moderate
cost per ton. Mr.. Morgan bantered
him about the quality. claiming he did
not get the real article at the price he
mentioned.
"Oh, yes" said Mr.. Sage, that coal
is all right; the real article. I know It.
for each piece is stamped 'Lehigh.'
That's a good one," answered the
arbiter Of finance; but I'm thinking
Uncle Russell" as he slapped the sage
Of Lawrence Beach good naturedly on
the shoulder; I'm thinking that the
next lot you or anyone else will get
instead of being stamped 'Lehigh, the
chances are that it will be stamped D
high.'''
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SECRETS THAT KILLED.
Some Public BenefactOrs Whose
LiDs Were Sealed.

Some Public bene1actOrS "hohs
Lips Were Sealed.
The maxim which states that silence
is golden has cost the world some Of thu
greatest discoveries of modern times
for not a few Of the inventors whose
names would have been handed dowr
to posterity as public benefactors have
been killed by their secrets before they
would consent to divulge them to theil
fellow beings.
In 1895 all Europe was startled by ths
discovery of a new explosive called full
minite, which it was believed woulo
revolutionize modern warfare. 1t was
the invention Of an Exeter scientis,
named Sawbridge, and samples Of the
explosive, which were tested by the
government revealed the fact that Its
power was three times greater thar
that Of cordite, and in consequence II
would treble the range Of rifle bullet
The German government offered Saw
bridge 100000 for his invention, which
he patriotically refused until the home
authorities had had the first option OF
purchase. But, just as the latter were
about to seal contract with him, the
news came that his laboratory had beer
blown up and himself with it. Unfor-
tunately he left no records whatever
and although some of the leading ex-
perts of the day minutely examined the
debris they failed to discover the Sc
cret, which is probably lost forever.
Forty-two years ago an italian prizes,
named Luigi Taranti discovered
method Of making stained glass, the
coloring of which was declared equa
to that made by the ancients whose Sc
cret has been lost. Taranti abandoned
holy orders and set to work to execute
the hundreds of commissions he receiv-
ed in the secrecy Of his work shop al
Ostia, near Rome. The finest stained
glass windows in Italy were made by
him and he guarded his secret we'll, fol
when a year later he was found dead
Of blood poisoning set up by the pig,
ments he employed it was realized thai
he had carried his secret with him. The
cleverest workmen were called In tc
examine the ingredients, but they one
and all failed to penetrate the dead
mans secret.
The person who could make compost
tion billiard balls equal to those of ivory
would quickly qualify as a millionaire
and it is not an impossible task, for II
has already been done. Less than
decade ago a Scotch manufacturer pu,
composition billiards balls on the mar
ket which were as good as but only q
third of the price of those already ir
use. He refrained from patenting his
invention, and made all the balls HIM
self. even his family being prohibited
from sharing his secret. But just as ne
was beginning to taste the fruits Of his
experiments he was one day mortallJ
wounded by an accident in his work
shop, and died before he could make any
statement. Experts were given speci.
mems of the balls to analyze, but, ir
spite of the fact that they succeeded
in tracing the materials used, they have
long since given up all hopes of being
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DIPLOMATIC SoLUTIoN.-Major Gener-
al Sir Frederick Goldsmid of the Brit
ish army, now an old man Of "a, when
superintending the construction OF a
telegraph line many years ago success
fully solved dispute which threatened
to assume international Importance.
Between the frontiers Of Turkey and
Persia there was a tract Of land seven
teen miles wide which each country
claimed. The engineering stores or the
two countries differed. Turkey having
wooden poles and Persia iron ones, and
consequently each disputing country
would not consent to the others poles
being erected on the territory In ques-
ton. This delicate matter might have
caused a serious delay to an important
line, but Sir Frederick got out of the
difficulty by erecting over the disputed
territory iron and wooden poles alter
nately all the way across.
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ONE QUESTION He COULD NOT AN
swER.-Mr. Brownlow, of Tennessee,
has among his constituents an timer
ant preacher who is not only an elo-
auent preacher, but in his opinion, has
a knowledge of the Scriptures second 10
no ones. So confident is he that he can
make clear the most obscure passages
that he invariably asks his hearers to
bring him any puzzling text they wish
explained. says the Washington Post.
At the close of very large and sue
cessful meeting a country pumpkin sit
ting in the back of the hall, in response
to the pastors invitation, announced
that there was matter, very import
ant matter, he would like to have un-
raveled. ,
Happy that an opportunity to show
his erudition had come at last, the Wise
man encouraged the fellow to come u
the front and present his problem:
What I want to know Is, SAID the
bucolic, lis whether Jobs turkey was a
hen or gobbler.' s
And when the preacher turned req
and coughed to hide his CONFUSION ms
interrogation remarked in a voice that
was audible through the whole nan:
I'll be burned if / didn't stump MIN
the first time!"-EXchange
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8a1aoroas department.
Would Not Confess.

physician, called to attend an in
jured Irishman, gave his wife minute
directions respecting the medicine pre-
scribed, which he insisted the patient
must take in a recumbent position, says
the Baltimore Sun. The puzzled woman
confided her delemma to the husband.
Tim, dear, here's yer midicin all
roight, but the doctor do be after say
in yez must take it in a recoombant
posishin', and never wan have we In
the house."
Tim met the situation with the sug-
gestion that she might borrow one.
Theirs Missis O'Mara, now, she do al
ways be hevin' things comftable an
handy loike.'.- =
So the more. provident neighbor was
appealed to.
"Missis O'Mara, me Tim hez bin
hurted."
THE poor SOUL
"Yes, an he's that bad the doctor
says, Civ him his midicin in recoom-
bant posishin, and Missis O'Mara we
hevn't one in the house. W'd yez
moind givin' me the loan Of yours%
Faith, an yez can hev it an will
come; but me friend Missis Flaharty
hez it; she borrowed it Chewsday week
-jist around the third corner beyant
forninst the pump"
The quest was continued:
Misses Flaharty, excuse me fr trub-
blin' yez, me being stranger entirely
to yez, but me man is hurted and the
doctor says: No hope of savin' him
onless yez CIV i'm his midicin in a re-
coombant posishin" Meself didn't hap
pen to hev one, so I stepped over to
borrow Missis O'Mara's an me takin'
it the while, me Tim bein' so bad?"
"Moind? Av coorse not! but, sorra
the day, Flaharty-he be moighty un-
stiddy betimes-he drapped it on the
f1ure last night and broke it."
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Saturday, September 6, 1902.
goan and sariags $aak,
YorlxvIlle, -. G.
VXTITH ample resources for the pro-
w lection and accommodation of

VIZ ITH ample resources for the pro.
w lection and accommodation OF
customers, this Bank solicits the bus.
mess of corporations. firms and individ-
uaIs, and will extend every accommo-
dation consistent with safe banking
Best Of facilities for handling the ac-
counts of out-of-town customers. coun-
try merchants and farmers, cotton
mills and other manufacturing estab-
lishments.
A general banking business transact
ed, and prompt and intelligent atten-
tion given to all business entrusted tc
our care.
fdT Interest bearing Certificates Of De-
posit issued under special agreement.
w. P. HARRISON. CASHIER.
s. M. MCNEIL. PRESIDENT.
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SMOOTH MANILA PAPER

q UITABLE for drawing plans for
y contractors and for pattern trac-
ing by dressmakers, A inches wide,
can be had at THE ENQUIRER Of
flee at 10 cents a pound.
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Schedule Effective June Is, 1902.

Chester-Southern Ry., s. A. L.. and I
& G.
YOrkville-S. C. & Ga. Extension.
Gastonia-Southern Ry.
Lincolnton-S. A. L.
Newton and Hickory-Southe. Ry.
e. F. REID. G. +. Agent,
Chester. South Carolina.
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FOR SALE.

THE undersigned offers for sale the
l. House and lot next to Presbyterian
church. For further information apply
to Mrs. RHODA L. FERGUSON.
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HAD THE LAUGH FIRsT.-An old gen
tleman was walking down one OF the
streets in Manchester when ne saw d
boy crying outside house, and thlnK,
ing he might comfort him, he asked
him what was the matter.
Fathers laying the c-carpet down.
We'll. and does that unpleasant task
make you cry?'
.No-no: he-he h-hit his thumb.
"Oh! You are sorry for your father'
I SUPPOSE"
MONO, I l-laughed!'
r. "Dey oughter pass law. salo
Hungry Higgins. nursing his leg, tel
compel people ter call deir dogs by
appropriate names.
watts de matter now?" inquired
Dusty Rhoades. ;,
why, q woman down de road said II
I didn't get out O her yard she'd call
.Fido.' O. coarse I laffed. Den she
called Fido. and Fido didn't do ting
He was n big brindle bull.
phia Press.
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Ledger, September 3: Died. Friday
afternoon August 29, 1902, the infant
son of Mr.. James Langley. OF CEDAR
Creek township. aged 3 months.
Mrs. Susan McManus, a sister OF Mes
srs. T. w. and G. w. McNeely' OF
Tradesville, and widow of the late Jno'
McManus, of this county. died at the
home of her son at Fort Mill last Sat
urday. aged about 65 years. She leaves
two children surviving her: Geo. NC
Manus. of Fort Mill, and Mrs. Sebborn
Stack, of this county,. Mr.. Fierce
Ogburn, of Chesterfield county, BROTH
er of Mrs. c. c. Welsh, of this county,
died at his home near White Plains, OF
gastritis, Sunday. August oath. He was
about Sc years of age. and leaves his
wife, who was a daughter OF Mr.. Jno'
A. Bird of Flat Creek, and large fam
ily of children surviving him. Mr..
A. B. Ferguson and family are moving
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Trains -113 and ia daily between
Camden and Marion; daily except Sun
day Camden to Kingville.
Trains run solid between Kingville
and Marion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-28

sympathy and soiicitude for King Ed
ward is characteristic of the Irish race.
However much they may resent politi-
cal conditions, however bitterly and
aggressively they may battle for
broader rights, they are always at
heart a sympathetic people quick TO
respond to the promptings of hu-
mainly. England owes much to Ire
land. The sons of the Emerald Island
have long constituted the flower of her
army, and have fought her battles on
land and sea with a dauntless valor,
that has commanded the respect and
admiration of the world. When Lord
Kitchener, in a recent speech took oc-
casion 10 pay a warm tribute to the
courage and devotion OF the Irish
troops during the war in the Trans
vaal. it was only a merited recognition
Of services which were predominant
factor in the ultimate success of the
British forces.
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Mt. Pelee and the Rainfall.

Are the recent long continued and
heavy rains result of the cruptions Of
Mt. Pelee? The average citizen would
scott at the idea of any connection be-
tween them, but a number of scientists.
nevertheless, have arisen to insist that
dust clouds, hurled into the heavens by
the eruption of Mount Pelee, are not
only having most noticeable effect on
the light of the sun and the moon, but
that in addition, the volcanic dis
turbance is also responsible for the I'M
usual rains that have been noted in all
sections Of the country. 1t is stated
that tac records of the United States
Weather Bureau show very plainly
that in October of 1888, the second
month following the eruption of
krakatoa, near Java, the rainfall all
over the United States averaged three
and four inches heavier than in the
time and for many years afterward.
Professor Cox, the forecaster of the
weather bureau in Chicago, says he
does not wish to be quoted as saying
that the eruption of Mount Pelee has
been responsible for the heavy rains,
for he does not feel certain that such is
the case, but he does assert that dust
particles in the air, similar to the
clouds thrown out by Mount Pelee and
krakatoa. doprecipitate rainfall. Dust
particles draw moisture, and form the
nucleus for large quantities of water.
suspended in the atmosphere"
In most of the educational centers
where the well equipped schools and
colleges have observatories of their
own, especial efforts are being made to-
study the results of the eruption of
Mount Pelee, and it is possible that
within the next few weeks they will
have some every interesting Informal
ton to give out. Strange phenomena
may be expected; such, for instance. as
day when midnight darkness will
prevail at noon, as it did ON May 10,
| 1850, throughout New England, when
| the Connecticut legislature actually
proposed adjournment on the ground
that the day of Judgment was at hand
In the meantime, while the soil is soak
ing up the bountiful rains, we can all
u
happen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-28
HIS WAR RELIC
Not An EnviabIe One Was That Of
This Veteran.
1t Caused Private Draper Great Deal
of Misery-Fiow a Friend
Came to His Aid.

Charles j. Draper Of South Shafts
bury, VT. who served i'm Company D,
tn Pennsylvania regiment during
the Spanish-AmcricaR war, brought
home with him a relic which caused
him n great deal of misery. lie tried to
rid himself Of it but yas unable To tiI
50 until q friend came to his aid vita
what proved To be a valuable suggcs-
ton. Mr.. Draper tells Of It as fol-
lows:
During the encampmcut III. Georgia
became very III, probably from impure
water, poor food ana the climate After
eating even the lightcst food I would
bloat to Il great extent. nv bowels
were in very serious condition and
my heart was So weak that few
minutes walk would exhaust me. (
could only just drag myself around
aud sometimes | would have to stay IN
ned for Il few days. ] was treated in
Georgia ANA jim Porto Rico by o-r COM
pany surgeon and later by the doctor
at home. They both told mr. il would
be months belor. J could expect e. SEE
any improvements
Il had been in this state OF misery for
about four months when friend rcc-
ommcnded Dr Williams pink Pills for
Pale People. Tie had been benefited hy
them ara thought they might help me.
began taking them and fcit relieved
i'm three days. / took them for Two
months and they made me well and
strong. ] keep tho pills by me all the
time though I have had no need ~
medicine for 2 long while"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-28

People in other states smile when
Republicans talk of carrying Missouri.
Eut Missouri Democrats are not doing
any smiling at that sort of talk this
year.-Kansas City Journal.
One has only to note that more Re
publican votes We're cast in Missouri,
at the last national election, than were
cast in Maine, New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, Connecticut and Rhode Island
combined. to realize that the Republi-
can rarity in Missouri is an exceeding
~ healthy and active organization. In
1900 Mckinley received 3l4,092 votes in
Missouri. To be sure, Bryan received
351,92c, but the minority party is not sc
far in the minority that it cannot make
things very lively at election time
1t will be happy day for Missouri
when the Republican vote, which has
been fast increasing in recent years
becomes the majority vote of the state