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The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-18
Whv He Fretted.

Amatcrg Sportsman Wfter shooting
mis- best friend TOO bad, too bad! But
Thought you were a deer. The VIC
tim-Dou't fret Amateur Sportsman
Don't flcN Why, man, | promised my
wife pair Of horns.-1llustrated Bits.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-18

"Ougli we not to do something more
FOR the preservation of our forests"
ooh. what's the usc?" answered Sen
Htor Sorghum impatlcntly. "Trces
can't vote. Washington star.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-18
ConsiRtent.

The people who say that women pre
inconstant and Inconsistent" declare
the philosopher of folly. "are dead
wrong A few years ago girl told me
she was just twenty-five, and she
sticks to the same figures today
Cleveland Leader.
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THREE STATES SUFFERING
Long Drought in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia.
Streams May Be Disease Carriers at
End of Drought-Pittsburg Coal
Barges Stranded.

Pittsburg, Pa.-The drought held
Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio
and West Virginia in its grasp for
more than two months. Each day in
creased the seriousness of the situa-
ton. It's effects thus far may be sum-
married. as follows:
Losses aggregating several million
dollars from forest fires, heavy dam
age to crops and live stock, the loss of
a number of lives in fighting timber
CONGREGATIONS, the enforced idleness
of thousands of workmen, owing to
the suspension of manufacturing es-
Establishments because of lack of water,
anticipation of a serious epidemic of
contagious diseases by health author
tiles, and the drying up of many
small streams.
A serious phase of the situation is
the threatened disease epidemic. In
habitants of Western Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia are
even now suffering from throat affec-
lions caused by the great accumula-
ton of dust and the heavy clouds of
smoke. In this city, accustomed to
smoke, the sun is almost obscured by
the smoke from forest fires miles
away, and persons in the vicinity of
these fires are experiencing difficulty
in breathing. The health authorities
have warned the public to boil all
drinking water.
The enforced suspension of nu-
merous industries and the throwing
out of employment of thousands Of
workmen, many of whom had just re-
turned to work following the recent
depression, is another effect of the
drought. While in the Pittsburg dis
trict the water supply is sufficient to
carry on all business, the low stage
of the rivers has caused a congestion
of river coal traffic. Every available
barge and float has been loaded with
coal, and with almost 10000, 900
bushels in P%ittsburg water, the river
coal mines have been compelled to
shut down for the want of shipping
facilities. There are about Is, 900
miners employed in river mines along
barges is for the supply of point West
and South. The probabilities are
there will be a coal famine, especially
in the Northwest, should conditions
prevent the shipment of the coal be-
fore cold weather begins.
In West Virginia, lumber plants,
glass factories and iron and steel
mills located along the rivers are
closed because of lack of water. In
Eastern Ohio the same conditions pre-
vail. 1t was feared the great iron and
steel mills at Youngstown, Ohio, en-
ploying over 10000 men, would have
to shut down unless the drought is
speedily broken.
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Whiskers and Language.

How long does it take you to
shaver asked the man with the
brushwood whiskers.
About ten minutes, usually" an
swered his fellow traveller, who was
trying to land a few scrapes between
the lurches of the Pullman car.
And how often do you shaver"
Every day of my life."
Have you eve thought that if you
devoted this time to study you could
learn a foreign language in two
years."
NO; l never did. That's rather
interesting. How long have you been
wearing a beard?"
TITS sixteen years since a razor
has touched my face"
That makes eight. Well. you
beat me. am professor of modern
languages in a college, and so / have
had to learn French, German, Span
fsh and italian. l suppose you be-
gan with those, too. What four did
You take up after that-Portuguese,
Greek. Russian. Swedish?"
"Ah!-that is--to tell the truth. I
never had a head for languages. They
wouldn't do me any good IL / had
New York Tribune.
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WORSE sCOURGE THAN WAR
KILLS 100000 EVERY YEAR
CorteIyou Tells Doctors Of the
Horrors of tuberculosis.
LEADS THE BUBoNIc PLAGUE
Roosevelt Regards the International
Congress as in the Interest of
Universal Peace-Scientists As
sembled at Washington, d. G.

Washington, D. C.-Tuberculosis
in the last four years has caused more
than three times as many deaths in
this country as occurred in action and
from wounds during the Civil War.
The statement was made by George
B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treas
ury, in officially welcoming, in the
name of President Roosevelt, the del
egates to the sixth triennial Interna-
tional Congress on Tuberculosis, in
the National Museum. Mr.. Cortelyou
said:
ESPECIALLY am / commissioned by
the President to assure the delegates
from foreign lands that our people
gratefully appreciate not only the in
terest but the spirit of cordial good
will which their governments have
shown and which their presence here
testifes.
"The menace of tuberculosis from
an economic standpoint is demonstra-
BILE in many ways. 1t is remarkable
that yellow fever, Notwithstanding
the many panics it has produced, has
not caused in the United States in the
past lis years as many deaths as
occurred last year from tuberculosis
From figures given by the United
States it is estimated that since the
year 1898 there have been approx
mately 100000 deaths from yellow
fever. whereas tuberculosis is esti-
mated to have caused 10000 deaths
last year alone. The mortality of
tuberculosis is further emphasized
when compared with the bubonic
plague in India, which has not, since
its first outbreak in 1896, caused as
many deaths in that country in pro-
portion to the population as were
caused by tuberculosis in the United
States during the same period.
statistics show that tuberculosis
in the last four years caused more
than three times as many deaths in
this country as occurred in action and
from wounds received in action dur
ing the entire period of the Civil War.
1.-THE above facts are of great sig
nificance and have contributed to a
better understanding of a need of pre-
ventive measures. These congresses
have at the same time contributed to
a saner attitude with respect to the
victims Of the disease, its contagious
ness and the method of dealing with
it.
I'VE can hardly overestimate the
Importance of such International
medical congresses. This congress
in its several sessions has stimulated
the crusade against tuberculosis in
England, Germany, France and Italy,
in each OF which countries it has been
held, and from these countries it's
influence has been extended in great
er Or less degree to many others. In
our W country the necessary prep
arations for this gathering have al
ready had q most wholesome effect in
awakening interest and enlisting sup
port in every State of the Union.
.T, IT. . .s
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POLITICAL RIOTS IN CUBA.
Many Injured at Conservative Meeting
Negro Party Rally Broken Up.

Havana, Cuba.-Political disturb
ances have begun to assume some
gravity in Cuba. A Conservative
meeting at Sancti Spiritus, in Santa
Clara Province, was the occasion of a
riot at which many were injured, and
In Havana a meeting of the new negro
party, headed by General EstenoZ.
was broken up by Liberals, who kept
up a continuous shouting.
Sancti Spiritus is the home of
General Jose Miguel Gomez, the for
mer Governor of the province, and
the present candidate of the Miguel
istas and Zayistas for the Presidency.
The Mayor of the town and the police
are members of the Liberal party.
General Mario Menocal, a former
Liberal, but recently nominated by
the Conservatives for the Presidency,
arrived here on a special train, ac-
companied by a large number of fol-
lowers. Thousands of men, many OF
them on horseback, met the Conser-
Rative leaders, and it was evident
from the start that trouble was brew
ing, as Menocal did not entirely lack
supporters among the crowds.
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Weather Bureau Reassuring.

Washington, D. C.-Reports to the
Weather Bureau announced the
breaking Of the prolonged drought
throughout the country. Rain has
fallen generally throughout the Uni
ted States, and Forecaster Garriott.
of the Weather Bureau. announced
that it would continue for several
days throughout the Eastern States
and be followed by clear and decided
ly cooler weather. The rains now
prevailing east of the Mississippi
River started in the Far West several
days ago..
A drop of mor than thirty degrees
in temperature occurred in Chicago,
following a heavy rain. and wind
storm. The mercury went from
eighty degrees to f%ifty-nine degrees,
and early next morning was down to
forty-seven degrees.
Ohio has had much rain within the
past twenty-four hours. The farm
ers have lost heavily by reason of the
prolonged drought, and the rain
comes too late to do them much good.
Heavy frosts are reported from
Oklahoma and Northern Texas. The
thermometer dropped forty degrees
in t~wenty-four hours at points in Ken
lucky and Tennessee. st. Paul's
temperature was only three degrees
above freezing. Killing frosts are re-
ported in all the country north of
Omaha.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-10-02
Canine Intuition,

A railroad eating house in Southern
Georgia, which enjoys the reputation
of being one of the worst places of
its kind in the State, has an ancient
darby who dinner to the
incoming passengers by ringing a
huge bell.
One day the old negro was accom-
panied by a sad-eyed, long-eared
hound, who at the first ringing of the
bell, lifted up his voice in a most dis
NAL howl.
The old darby stopped and gazed
at him for a moment, and with a
Hush yer mouth" started ringing
again.
Again the old hound with nose in
the air SEN forth a long-drawn howl.
This was too much for the bell
ringer, and, turning on the hound, he
remarked:
Nov, what in de worl' is YOU
maxim sech a fuss erbout? You don't
have ter eat here lessen yer wants
ter."-Harper's.
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BATTLE FOR TEMPERANCE
A Three Days Fight Closes $50
Saloons in Ohio.
Crusaders Win an Unexpectedly Com
plete Victory-Children View
"Horrible Examples"


Columbus, Ohio. Two hundred
and eighty-aine saloons in Ohio were
knocked out in one day in eleven
county local option elections. This
following the two elections in which
fifty were put out of business is per-
haps the most stunning blow the
liquor interests have received in OPP
ton elections.
Although it was expected the drys
would win, probably their most ar
dent workers did not expect them to
carry all the eleven elections held.
The majorities were overwhelming.
Elections will be held within the next
two weeks in fifteen other counties.
The results of the days elections
follow:
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This woman says Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
saved her life. Read her letter.
Mrs. T.. G. Willadsen, Of Manning,
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
II can truly say that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound saved my
life, and L cannot express my gratitude
to you in words. Fer years 1 suffered
with the worst forms Of female cora-
plants, continually d~octoring and
spending lots Of money for medicine
without help. wrote you for advice,
followed it as directed, and took lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
it has restored me to perfect health.
Had it not been for you I should have
been in my grave to-day. I wish every
suffering woman would try itn
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-10-02
EDWARDS ARMY OF IDLE.
Raised Through United King
dom Against Starvation,

1on.-The Government author
itimate that the number of per-
1T of work in the United King
ill be greater the coming win
IN in many years before, and
e studying the problem-of pro-
occupations or relieffor them.
ide of London, where an enor-
umber of men have nothing to
editions are worst perhaps in
", where $4,000 men are idle.
ierland there are $4,000; Biz
M, 10000; Liverpool, $4,000;
,ster, 5000, and other cities
900 to 5000 each.
e figures do not include the
lrmy of strikers in the Lanca-
otton trade.
'ess funds are being raised
bout the country.
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The National Game.

Hummell is the only BROOKLYN
player to have made 100 hits this sea.
son.
Mike Donlin is getting a good many
hits by his f%eetness in getting to first
base.
The playing of the New York
Giants on the road must be seen to he
appreciated.
The New York team contains ex.
college players in Hickey, MsIlveen
Cree and Blair.
There is no truth in the report al
Joe Kelley's return to the Toronto
Club mex year.
Dickey Bayless, the fast little ont.
fielder of the Dayton Club, Joined the
Cincinnati Reds.
Manager CANCEL, of Cincinnati
has superseded shortstop Hulswitt
with Hans Lobert.
On their last trip the Giants won
sixteen out of twenty-five games
played, a remarkable record.
Manager Camel, of Cincinnati, saw
there will be ~thirty-five members in
the Red party that will go South next
spring.
In difference to Manager Chances
request Arthur Holman has post.
poned his marriage until after the
season:
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NrwsY GIeaninss.


Rabbits and quail are plentiful in
lower Delaware.
The annual report of the Wabash
Railroad showed a decline in earn
ings.
Eucalyptus growing in Lower Cali
fornia by the Santa Fe Railroad has
proved q success.
The American battleship fleet left
Albany, Australia, on its Journey ct
$500 miles to Manila.
The new negro party in Cuba held
It's first meeting in Havana, attract
ing general attention throughout the
island.
Chinese merchants became o
aggressive and outspoken in thei,
poyeatt of japanese goods.
Foreign military observers highly
praise a iency of the French
troops in the fent
The Inter- jiamentary Union. in
session at Be Ia, accepted an invi
tatlon TO meet9t Quebec next year.
treat Britai has sent a diplomatic
agent TO JutiaI to report the move
= os Germ. warships in Danish
waters
Hr I.e of yellow fever anc
lne are convinced that tht
als city has been sup.
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fuauial % Important

Sale o- Foraker gave cr. a long
staten sAt defending MS course in
ac'us az attorney for standard Oil
when -- ggorg8ni4ed TO comply with
OhIO laws, quoting many letters, said
he refused to represent it in other
matters, and assaulted Roosevelt and
Taft.
Governor Charles N. Haskell, of
Oklahoma, has resigned from the
treasureship of the National Demo-
cratic Committee.
c. B. Squire dictated a statement,
sayingsh did not offer a bride to At
torney-General Monnett, of Ohio, in
behalf of the Standard Oil Company,
that hek did not name Governor Has
kell in the matter and that Monnett's
affidavit was false in its reference to
him. Monnett in a telegram denied
Squire's statements. -
TColeman Du PontIesigned as
chairman of the speakers bureau and
member of the Executive Committee
of the Republican National Commit
tee, because of criticism of his cam
paign activity due to his connection
with the alleged powder trust now be-
ing sued by the Government.
Arthur L. Vorys was disbarred as
an attorney by the Pension Office in
1882 for withholding money belong
ing to a woman client, paid the money
and fifteen years later was reinstated.
The executor of Grover Cleveland's
will pronounced the posthumous let
ter published by the New York Times
to be a forgery.
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Prominent People.

Hedin, the explorer, arrived
a, after a long trip in Tibet.
) that he made valuable dis
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-10-02
WEr LEAVES CAUSE sMAsH-Up.
'assengers Thrown From Trolley CaK

Passengers Thrown From Trolley CaE
at Hartford, Conn.,, and Injured.
Hartford, Conn.-Wet leaves which
meade trolley rails slippery caused a
ilision between a work train and a
I'd interurban trolley car as a
of which half a dozen passen-
e thrown out on the asphalt
ent. Two of them, A. w.
of Worcester, Mass, and Wal
Brooks, of Springfield, an in
for the Postofice Department,
a critical condition in st. Fran
>spital.
work train was loaded with
md neither motorman was able
TT the collision, as the locked
slid along the slippery tracks.
injured less seriously are Carl
a small boy living at Wilson
a; N. S. Palmer, his wife and
of New Haven; G.. A. Dunbar,
nington, Del, and Mrs. Void,
son Station.
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He Favored a Whistle.

A local church appointed a COM
mittee to getsubscriptions for a chime
of bells. They had seen nearly all
the congregation. When they went
to see a rather poor member they told
him they would like a small amount
toward it. He promised to give as
much as he could, but he said, Don't
you think it would be cheaper to put
a whistle in?"-Argonaut.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-10-02

Francisco, Uai., a..
treasury.
Lynn (Mass.l bulldog trade unions
are getting together for one central
council hat will incltde all.
The Legislature d Massachusetts
increased the limit of work for wom-
en- and children in factories from
fifty-four hours a week to fifty-six
hours.
There is a movement under way to
organize a building trade section of
the American Federation of Labor
in Fargo, N. D..
The American section of the boot
and shoe workers International body
o has more than $1,000 in its
emergency fund.
The International Brotherhood of
Painters and Decorators of America
has increased its Membership more
than 5000 since April l..
The 1900 hridge and girder work
ers OF strike at Wolverhampton, Eng
land, recently resolved not to return
to work on the terms offered.
According to a recent report Of the
Associated Blacksmith (, Son,atv
Great Britain, the 81
the organization amol
$4,000.
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Not Pierr.
Those who aspire to

Those who aspire to tfr7-a-
or who are in anywise pun
pride and vainglory becaus3
come to them may be surprls H.
find it is not a thing which is ell
and coveted by all men, for in a c.
tain French journal there appeared
recently the following announcement
inserted by a rat-trap maker of
Lyons: ITO All Whom 1t May Con-
Germ: M. Pierre Lott, of Lyons, sole
inventor of the automatic rat trap,
begs to state that he is not the same
person and that he has nothing in
common with Pierre Lott, a wri-
ter of romances." We should have
liked to have seen the face of zone
Pierre Lott when he read this notice,
and hope that any tendency which he
may have shown toward sinful pride
may since it appeared have been
chastened to a becoming humility
The Taller.
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FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female Ills,
and has positiyelycured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fbroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
tor, dizziness ornervous p~rostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She mas guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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coverles.
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke returned
from Europe with valuable additions
to the treasures of the New York Met
ropolitan Art Museum.
observation-disclosures Baden-Powell,
speaking at a meeting in London in
connection with a crusade against
cigarette smoking, said that 915,000,-
900 ($75, ,000) a year was spent
on cigarettes. He thought this could
be easily saved.
The Italian Government paid a
great complimentto William M. Chase
when it asked for his portrait painted
by himself to hang in the Ufizi Pal
ace.
Lemuel G. Trott, one of the best
known horsemen in the country and
long connected with turf publications,
fell from a train in Winchester, Mass,
and was probably fatally injured. He
is about sixty-four years old.
Sanchez Bustillo, former Minister
of Finance, who resigned that office
only recently on account of i'll health,
died in Madrid. Senior Bustillo was
appointed Finance Minister In place
= Osma Y Soul, February 23, 1903. !.
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NEW PARTYS CANDIDATES
Nominations For State Officers
of New York.
Standard Oil Letters Read by w. II.
Hearst Exposing Effort to Defeat
Tillman, of South Carolina

New York City = Independence
party convention nominated this
State ticket:
Governor-Clarence ] Shearn. of
New York.
Lieutenant-Go vernor-Dr. Daniel
w. Finnimore, of Potsdam.
Secretary of State-Frank 0. Stew
ems, of Nassau.
Comptroller-Williard Glenn, of
Onondaga.
State Treasurer-William I. Siro-
vich, of New York.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES A. De
Ford, of Albany.
State Engineer and Surveyor-M.
J.. Cafiero, of Kings.
Associate Justice of the Court of
Appeals-Reuben ROBBIE Lyon, of
Bath.
Pending the arrival of w. R..
Hearst, who is State Chairman of the
independence party, at Cooper Union
Hall, Morris Block, a delegate from
Ulster, called the convention to order
and introduced James A. Allen, a for
mer Republican, as the temporary
chairman.
There was a dramatic moment
when MI. Hearst read letters to show
that John D. Archbold, of the Stand
ard Oil, had sent money to South
Carolina for the defeat of Senator
Tillman, and these same letters
proved that Tillman's colleague. SEN
ator McLaurin, was on confidential
terms with the Oil Trust. Then
Hearst declared that Archbold used
the Standard Oil money to elect a
Democratic Senator in West Virginia
at the same time that Archbold was,
through the aid of Representative
Sibley, debauching Republican Sena-
tors in Washington, D. G.
After recess James A. Donagap,
chairman of the Committee on Gre
dentials, reported that the contestants
of three Assembly districts had been
seated. Temporary Chairman Allen
was made permanent chairman and
J.. J.. Howell was made permanent
secretary.
Clarence J.. Shearn, chairman of
the Platform Committee, read the
platform. That part of the platform
putting the new party on record as in
AoFOl VI NOA1dh ouu1dS0 was lOuQIy
applauded.
The candidates were nominated by
delegates on the floor. Only one man
was named for each office, however,
and in each instance the secretary
cast the unanimous vote of the dele
gates.
The platform demands:
An honest election law and a cor
rupt practices act.
Laws providing for a reasonable
transfer system and a single fare
within any city or town.
The platform iaclares for:
A law conde : as illegal the
blacklisting T e~i4JiDres.
Enforcen 1t Of he employers liza
bilities an eigaehcgl Tork day.
1t "cr .teaDs the ara cary use of
the w "a o2 iaiguction.'
ft@ se lls party s port
ri thz ,2.e platoon 10 the
H'tna department 4chlns III,
ga s-lal. -.s platform ssys:
Ia tss event ct tas -!,hTc~ G.
sac present e~igh-y-cept & ,w. we
pledge Ilrs5i9es ~ foe a.ai- uu-
a-tne4, d "a eighG .-seDa aas
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Saloons

IN tHTee dayS 3 saIOOns nave
been knocked out.
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Five Men Blown to Death.

Five men were blown to bits by an
explosion of dynamite while working
at Cross Keys Cut, along the Lacka-
wanna Railroad near Tobyhanna, Pa.
The Americans are Harry Broadhea6,
married, of Tobyhanna; John Walsh,
married, Firthcliffe, Pa; Godrick
Coyne, eighteen years DID, Kingston,
and two unknown Italians. The five
men were tamping a hole containing
eighteen inches of dynamite, when
it exploded. The bodies were assem-
bled by a of matching the cloth.
ing of the victims.
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MADE 200 STUDENTS ILL.

Discharged Chinese Cook Doctored
the Food at Stanford University.
Stanford University, Cal.-Angered
because he was discharged from his
position in Stanford Inn, a Chinese
cook, with a vindictive and ingenious
disposition, placed a powerful irritant
in a large mass of -four and made 200
students i'll. Two students were taken
to Guild Hospital.
Professor Swain, of the chemistry
department, will make an analysis
of the poisoned food to discover what
ingredient was used by the angry
cook.