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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-10-21
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE.

COUNTY TREAsURER's OFFICE, |
Marion, S. C. Sept. 10, 1909. J
The books for collection OF
State, County and Road Tax will
be openfrom Oct. Is, 1909, to
Dec. Sc, 1909, those who prefer
to do so can pay State and County
taxes in January, 1910, with l per
cent additional; those who prefer
paying in February, 1910, can do
so with 2 per cent additional;
those who prefer paying in March,
1910, to the 18th of said month,
can do so by paying an additional
7 per cent. (After said date
the books will close.)
= Road Tax can be paid during
the fall but if those liable prefer
doin4sso, they can pay the road
tax during January, and Febru-
ary. The Communication tax is s.
for 1910.
Taxpayers owning property or
paying tax for others will please
ask for 4 tax receipt in each town
ship or Special School district in
which he or they own property.
This is very important as there
are so many School Districts.
Those who do not wish to come
to the Office can write me mot
later than December 25th) and l
will furnish Their: the amount due
and they can remit me by check,
money order, registered letter.
Please do not send me cash
without registering same, as it is
liable to be at sender's risk.
THE LEVY is AS Follows:
State tax 54 mills
Constitutional School Tax 5 mills
Road and Bridge IA mills
Poor House, Poor, etc. IA mills
Salaries 2 mills
Total General Levy l3A mills
Rcaves Township Road Fund
2 mills
Carolina District Especial
schooD 3 mills
ESPECIAL SCHOOL,
Little Rock 3 mills
Rccdy Greek 4 mills
Hamer 2 mills
Dillon 8 mills
New Holly ) mills
Bingharr 2 mills
kentyre mills
Union 3 mills
Pages Mills mills
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wastes blossom and bloom and bring
forth good fruit?
Mayhap before the realization of any
of these ambitions thus far mentioned.
science will have seen materialzed an
other of it's long fostered hopes-that OF
producing the superman. Since the ancient
Spartans commenced this experiment by
killing off weaklings by out Muldooning
Muldoan in the rigors of their gymnastics
and by surprising Stanley Hall in their
crusade against the decentralization of
boys" various individuals have taken up
the problem. Frederick the Great-seeing
only the physical side of the problem
secured Europe for men of gigantic stature
and after kidnapping them enlisted them
I'm his Potsdam Guard and kept them in
peonage as breeders OF future generations
of herculean warriors. And eight years
ago under provision of the will of the
eccentric Count de Pierrecourt of Rouen,
France. that city commenced the build
ing of hundred-and-sixty- thousand
dollar institute for the propagation of
giants, a score or more of such couples
to be housed therein and their progeny
to be under the observation of anthropolo-
gists
Previously sixty years ago-in
our own country, John Humphrey Noyes
had ScandaliZed the good people of New
York by establishing in that state human
stock farm, known as the Oneida COM
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polar exploration-have been solved. Now
that these goals have been won, many
others which man has striven for in vain
loom up through a brighter sky. cleared
of the mist in which yesterday they ap-
peared as but hazy chimeras, cloudy
visions Of overzealous minds.
The conquest of the south pole is the
great feat which, in the logical order of
events, we shall expect next, and within
this present year our young British
new world record for the nearest approach
TO the very bottom of this old spin
ming top on which We whirl about.
of the sphere to receive upon his
broad brow the laurels for having
penetrated 100 miles farther than
the previous record and within but Ill
miles of the southernmost goal-as near
as Hartford is to New York. and ninety
was to his when he made his last known
"farthest north" Lieut.. Shackleton, who
served his apprenticeship under Capt
Scott in 1901. DR.. Cook served his un-
der Peary nearly decade before sailed
August :. 1907. from Torquay in the MINI
rod. fortyyear sealer which pulled
him out CO New Zealand a year ago last
New Year day. To save his coal he had
steamer tow him across the Arctic cir
Gle. and he bore with him a portable
house. team of Manchurian ponies to
help his dogs with his Norway sledges:
also an automobile with a chauffeur
which he used to lay his depots along the
sea ice. And a year and nine DAYS after
his start from New Zealand-or on Janu-
airy of the present year-he planted
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SEAT OF ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.


ministered in the now famous Tweed
mouth letter. which led to the removal
of Lord TWeedmouth from the post of
had much to do with his subsequent
mental breakdown. Lord Esther wrote d
letter to the Navy League setting 1t right
in the usual Esher style on a question of
policy, and making a reference to the
kaiser's naval ambitions. The kaiser
read the letter and wrote to Lord Tweed
mouth assuring him that England need
not worry about his fleet. and remarklns
incidentally that Lord Esher might bet
ter confine himself to looking after the
himself with questions of high politics.
Lord Esher could hardly get back at the
kaiser, but he punished the kaiser
friend. Lord Tweedmouth, by throwing
him out of the admiralty.
Another man who tried to snub him
was Cen Smith Dorrien, who was then
communicating chief at Aldershot. One
day. Gen. Smith Dorrien received a telc-
gram signed Fisher which read some
thing like this: Come W to town at
once and see me- Gen. Smith-Dorren
replied: SORRY. don't know YOU" The
next day the general received peremp-
to Secretary Haldane. and when he ar
rived in Whitehall Mr.. Haldane presented
him with smile to Lord Esher and told
him that he was 70 give his lordship any
information which he desired. This Incl
dent became known n some mysterious
way throughout the army. and since then
the officers of either service have been
chary of getting at loggerheads with Lord
Esher.
Another case Of man who tried to
snub Lord Esher and lived to be sorry
for it was Sir Charles Hardinge, perma
nent secretary a. the foreign office.
Things were rather strained at the time
between England and Russia, and one
day Sir Charles received note from Lord
Esher asking for some papers bearing on
The situation. and saying that the king
wanted to see them. Sir Charles replied
that if his majesty wanted the papers and
would ask for them they would be fur
nished without delay. The same day he
received a personal order from the king
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David Todd of Amherst. now proposes
to mount our atmosphere in a balloon
to place above the disturbing currents
Of air wherefrom he can get a more
favorable view of Mars than has yet
been afforded man. At the same time
hundreds Of thousands of dollars have
been given by a Los Angeles millionaire
for the building of giant telescope,
with a reflector 100 inches in diameter,
that would bring the Capitol building
into view upon the moon. Solemn AS
tronomers. the world over. who deny the
existence of a scintilla of evidence sup
porting the belief that Intelligent crea-
lures exist in other worlds. and who re-
fuse to dignity the hypothesis by discuss
ing it. nevertheless ponder over it OF
nights while restlessy tossing upon their
pillows But while science lends half
serious ear to the proposition that in
habitants of other planets may some
day be discovered. the sheer lines flank
ing its inuustive nose deepen at the
mention of signaling to these crea-
lures and making them understand any
code arbitrarily devised by man.
Nor shall We overlook perpetual mo-
tionists. still risking reputation and rea-
son in search of an engine which. with
out any supply of power from without.
can maintain its own motion as long as
as skeptical of De La Hires proof of
the mechanical impossiblity of this prop
osition.. made as early as 1873. as they
were when the Marquis OF Worcester and
the Councillor Orffyreus succeeded in de-
ceiving many others besides themselves
with alleged devices Of the kind. will
become apparent to anyone who will but
interview the patent Office examiners in
IL f,,1y> n
which such schemes naturally drift; and
it is somewhat of a joke on Uncle Sam
himself that in the old days he once
granted a patent for perpetual motion
hidden in the maZes Of a spiral railway.
whose car. like Tennyson's brook. was
to go on forever. independent of power
out side the mechanism. These perpetual
motionists are almost all laboring under
the impression that they are but reviving
lost art And is il as sure death
itself that it is a mechanical impossible
ity? Yesterday we were revering the
law that matter was composed of inde-
structible atoms. Today We are being
told that It is builded only Of perishable
electrons!
There has been a lull in the activities
of the rain makers, but doubtless this is
but calm before another storm. Twenty
years ago our Gen. Dyrenforth was shat
tering the window panes and terrifying
the cattle about Washington by explod-
ing balloons high in the air. while learn
ed meteorologists watched their barome
tiers planted in the green meadows safe
below this celestial bombardment But
the heavens refused to weep upon the
generals tall hat. More lately the wealth
er makers have turned their energies to
the diffusion Of fogs in vineyards and
the prevention of frosts in other asricul-
tural areas, by exploding bombs and
distributing smoke - all witt! greater
promise of success But who can pre-
=: ~
another entrance upon the stage of ma
tional endeavor and make the welkin pop
until the f1ood-gates of the celestial deep
have been unloosened to make desert
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for the papers and a few days later they
We're returned in person by Lord ESher-
This incident made .he officials of the
various branches CT the civil service think
that Lord ESner was a man whose COM
mands had better be obeyed. With the
exception of the kaiser story these in
cidents have never appeared In print be-
fore. There are many reasons why they
could not be printed in England, but L
have them on unimoeachable authority.
Jus. now Lord Esher is engaged in the
fight Of his life with the Duke of Con-
raught. King Edwards brother, and for
the first time the fight seems TO be a
fairly even one. He succeeded in getting
the duke out Of the post of Inspector gen.
eral Of the forces to make place for his
friend, Gen. Sir John French. He sent
the duke to Malta against his will to oc-
cupy useless appointment, and when
the duke rebelled and came home he
ousted him from the selection board Of
the army as punishment, and now he
is moving heaven and earth to get him
sent abroad again. The gossios say that
Lord Esher does 10. want the duke in
England because he alone Of all the Of
ficers in the army is strong enough to re-
fight him to stantst,ll. Be that as 1t
may Lord Esher is trying to persuade
the king to send the duke to another for
eign post.
Lord Esher has a nice place In Windsor
forest. called Orchard Lea, but by no
stretch of the imagination could 1t be
called a great house His town residence
is a modest little place In Tilney street,
Mayfair. just round the corner from
Dorchester house. the residence Of White
law Reid, the American ambassador In
fact. it might almost be said to be in the
backyard Of Dorchester house. He seldom
goes into society and his own entertain
ments are small and infrequent. but there
is no house in London where A larger
number of really important people can be
met
He has written a couple Of rather
charming books. one 'The Footprints OF
Statesmen" consisting chiefly Of personal
anecdotes Of Queen Victoria and her prime
ministers. The other. THE Yoke of the
Empire is consideration of number
OF imperial problems, but no one pretends
that either is serious contribution to
either history or literature. His chief
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upon his 'farthest south a Union Jack
that he had received from the queens
own hands.
The finding of the missing link" mid
way between man-like ape and ape
like man, is perhaps the next great feat
which is to elevate the finder unto the
topmost pinnacle of fame, there to share
the same lofty pedestal with Harvey
and Newton. Archimedes and Pythagoras.
1t was just fifty years ago that Darwin
gave to the world his Origin of the
Species" and ever since then naturalsts
have sought this ape man, so badly
needed to fill the gap in the chain of
evolution stretching from the most in
flnitesimal protoplaSmiC form to the
most enlightened specimen of the homo
sapiens.
Only half dozen years after the Oar
winian theory had thus been launched
to startie the world. the skull of the real
missing link was believed to have been
found in a cave in the Neander valley,
near Dusseldorf. The creature to which
this Uranium had belonged was named
'NeaHderthal man. and even today
naturalists are publishing portraits
as reservations of the monsters head.
Next, in 1871. there was discovered in
BruX, Bohemia, another primitive skull
believed to have belonged to the much
sought creature. but an AK found with
it was declared to belong to period
too modern for that hideous creature.
Then. in 1886. another such Uranium was
found in cavern at Spy, Belgium, and
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Ireland. TIL,

lairds who are really uncrowned kings
in their own country. but We have never
had an uncrowned King of England. The
average Englishman somehow feels, that
it would not be quite respectful to Ed
ward. the regular royal king. to con-
fer his title. even in jest. on any Of his
subjects. and so. no matter how popular
a politician has become, he has never
been brevetted to royal rank.
Now, however, we have something
more than an uncrowned king in Eng
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A Thousand Artificial Diamonds.

A Thousand Artificial Diamonds.
age-be amputated. And many medical
men are taking this savant seriously. In
deed, he is in the forefront of the pha-
lanX of scientists who are fighting the
sable-cloaked and grim-visaged visitor
who comes to us last of all.
Quite as jealous are those men of
science who are now reaching farther
and farther outward into the vastness
Of interplanetary space to snatch from
the heavens the answer to the much
mooted question:: Are there not in all Of
this heavenly space other intelligent crea-
lures into whom nature has breathed
the breath of life? Our wealthy as
tronomer, Prof Percival Lowell, from
his observatory high on mesa top at
Flagstaff. AriZ., claims to have seen
through the transparent air above him ir-
rigation systems on Mars that must
have been laid out by highly enlightened
beings, and his brother savant, Prof.
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WILL 1t Be the Missing
" Link, Artificial Dia-
mond, Gold From Baser
Metals, A Century Span of
Life, Communication With
the Planets or the Dead, Per-
petual Motion, Rain-Making,
the Super Man or Artificial
Propagation of the Species?
The Progress of Science
Toward All of These Goals,
Any of Whose Winners Will
Gain Immortality.
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crying Eureka But the modern world
has only laughed at all such claims, de-
spite the possibility that the genius who
learned this secret of the ages might keep
it hidden from his felloW-nan and like
the possible diamond maker. prefer the
greed of gain to the bubble Of fame.
And upon the elixir of life which the al
chemists sought in potable gold the mod
ern chemists are still at work. promising
the world at large a century span Of life.
For this purpose Roger Bacon quaffed
many dose of gold dissolved in nitro
hydrochloric acid, and urged it upon the
attention of Pope Nicholas ". Prof. Ellie
Metchnikoff, now of the Pasteur Insti-
tute. Paris. claims to have found the real
elixir of life in the Tactic acid of certain
fernents of milk drunk by the lonS-lived
peasants of Bulgaria. and this he is press
ing upon the world at large along with
his theory that the large intestine-the
human incubator for the bacteria of old
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sionally produces very ape-like charac-
teristics in modern skulls, nothing like
universal satisfaction has yet been
aroused among scientists by any Of these
finds, and man must still wait to see the
bones of his grandsire.
The artificial diamond Of commerce
blazes with blue fire from above another
goal toward which men of science are
Flooding onward through slough after
slough of despond. A little while ago
this prize was viewed by serious minds
as a, mere chmera, but now it's lure has
set afire the brains OF profound savants
and the world must not be surprised
to hear any day of its perfection. AS
a matter Of fact, artificial diamonds are
already a reality, their chemical and
mined stones. but as yet they are only
microscopic sparks too minute for any
practical or ornamental use. The mineral
ogist who first learns to make them
large enough for mounting in jewelry Will
have the wealth of Croesus within his
grasp. Moisson. a Partisan mineralogist,
is toiling to enlarge his tiny artificial
stones, which he manufactures by dis
solving carbon in molten steel at enor-
nous temperatures and then suddenly
chilling the mass until it reveals the spar
king gems in more or less abundance. Ras
sci of Germany obtains such sparks from
ordinary hard SteelS produced under high
temperature and cooled under great pres
sures, and another German method of
yielding encouraging results is the stirring
of melting olivin OF chrysolite with
graphite rod. After the mass has cooled.
and later dissolved, the residue is found to
contain the minute gems. Recently held in
my hand a tiny glass phial containing
1000 of such artificial diamonds as have
been made to date They looked mere
ly like fine powder and scarcely covered
the bottom Of the phial. If he is shrewd,
the genius who first learns to manufac-
ture diamonds big enough for the. trade
will hold them in reserve and put them out
but gradually. Otherwise, he would knock
the bottom out of the market and share
the i'll fortune of the handlers Of mined
stones. And perhaps he would keep his
discovery hidden entirely, selling his prod
uct as natural gems. prererring fortune
to fame.
The alchemst's dream Of making gold
from baser metals might seem but lit
tie more visionary than this making Of
diamonds from common graphite. The
alchemists, who were to the chemists
what the astrologers were to the astrono-
mers, held this feat as one OF their two
prime ambitions, the other being the dis
covery of the elixir of life. The Egyp-
tians handed the vexed problem on to the
Romans. whose emperor. the cruel Ca
ligula, instituted serious experiments for
the production of gold out of sulphuret
of arsenic. Then the Arabs took up the
puzzle and passed 1t on through Spain
into the rest of Europe and no less
a light than Roger Bacon stewed his
brain over it. Even in our own genera
ton it plaques men of investigative
minds. In the last decade one American
named Brice came splashing into pub
Lefty by the announcement that he had
fathomed the secret. and within the pres
ent century Philadelphia alchemist with
the same hobby leaped into the limelight
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british Army Has Dis
l. covered That He Mostly
Runs the Army-Navy Has
Discovered That He Mostly
Runs the Navy-Rest of Eng
land Has Discovered That He
Mostly Runs That, Too, and
Now Everybody Wants to
Know Who This Man Is,
How 1t All Happened and
What the Meaning of It All
Is-Mystery of a Quiet Per-
SON Who Holds No Office
of Consequence, Makes No
Speeches, Has No Great
Wealth and Has No Visible
Means of Influence, and Yet
Is the Strongest Force in
British Life Today.
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his genius for organization. These
things gained him the confidence of
royalty. and another feature of his
work gained him the respect of poll
ticians. The planning and erection of
the wonderful series of new govern
ment buildings which now line White
hall happened to coincide with his
term at the office of works. Now, the
old idea of government buildings was
that they should be beautiful on the
outside, no matter how announcement
they might be inside. Lord Esher has
different ideas. He thought that gov
eminent office was primarily place 10
work in. and he sent for the architects
and told them that he would plan the
inside of the buildings himself and that
they might look after the shells. pro-
vided they confined themselves to
uniform and simple design. The result
is a series of buildings that are beau
tiful and stately on the outside and on
the inside ideal for the purpose for
which they are used.
In 1903 he became one of the commit
tee of imperial defense. an unofficial
body whose duty it is to talk in a gen
eral way about military and naval mat
tiers and advise the government and the
heads of the fighting services. Lord
Esher, however. did not see IL In quite
this way. and it was soon found that
J.. was taking very active interest
in the personnel Of the services and in
al, that pertained to them. ohcers be-
cain TO hear that Lord Esther had SAID
this and Lord Esther wanted that done
.rd thew began to join in the chorus
of "Who is Lord Esher:" The query
was not answered. but the men who
failed to take note of what Lord Esher
wanted and see that it was done soon
found that their advancement in the
service was blocked in some my sterious
way.
Lord Esher has been accused of in
trigue and underground wire pulling
He has never replied to the charge In
deed, he has never shown in any way
that he was conscious of criticism. He
seems to have acted on the theory that
he was the heavensent governor Of
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. are used in this
country to talking
about uncrowned
kings. Lloyd George
Is popularity refer
red to as the I'M
crowned King of
Wales, and John
Redmond is known
to thousands Of
Englishmen as the
uncrowned King of