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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
ARKANSAS RIVER OVERFLOWS.
Railroads Washed Away and People
Are Homeless.

Trains blocked in lonely mountain
passes, tracks washed away and in
some instances pitched into canyons
hundreds of feet deck; families
driven from their homes to shelter
in higher places; these were some
of the scenes revealed at daybreak
Thursday morning along the over
flowed Arkansas river, says dis
patch from Denver, Col.
Alarmed at another cloudburst at
Four Mile creek near Canyon City
Thursday night, score of residents in
the lower section Of Pueblo and 9TH
er points passed the night in remov-
ing their household effects to safety.
The famous Royal Gorge with
walls a thousand feet high, has been
washed by the torrent for almost 4S
hours and the railroad tracts have
been destroyed.
Trains on the Colorado Midland,
Denver and Rio Grande and other
railroads. most Of them carrying
Eastern tourists, have been detoured
over long routes, and it is said that
the detouring of trains of trains will
be necessary for four or five days.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
DOING A GOOD WORK.
The State Laboratory Popular With
the Doctors.

The Columbia Record says num-
bers of physicians from all parts Of
the State are beginning to take ad-
vantage Of the recently-opened state
archaeological laboratory. DR.. F.
A. Coward. the physician in charge,
is kept busy making examinations.
Two hundred and fifty specimens Of
sputum, blood and fetal matter have
been examined since the first of July.
Two suspected cases of rabies
are now undergoing treatment, and
two patients have been but recently
dismissed. Six animals have been
examined for rabies. On some days
DR.. Coward makes as many as 16
archaeological examinations, which
is hard days work for one man.
The latest addition to the labora-
tory apparatus is cool biological
incubator, which lowers the temper
ature to 20 degrees Centrigrade. 1t
Is used in making gelatine cultures
of germs. Gelatine makes splendid
culture medium for germs, but, on
account of the fact that it melts at q
low temperature, it must be kept
very cold. The germs thrive as we'll
at low temperature as they do at a
higher The cold makes no differ
ence to them.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Or Practically So, As Only Six
Counties Are Wet.
TUESDAYS ELECTION
Left Only Aiken, Beaufort, Charles
ton, Florence, Georgetown and
Richland Counties in the Wet
Column-.All the Other Thirty
s;x Counties Are in Dry Column.
Six Counties Are in Dry Column

Further returns received from the
dispensary elections held in the varl-
GUS counties Tuesday have removed
all doubt as to the result and show
that fifteen of the counties went
.sdry" and six "wet" The balance
in Florence, Georgetown and Beau
fort was cast for the dispensar1es'
and in Kershaw for prohibition, SO
that the lineup is as follows:
For Dispensary-Aiken, Beaufort
Charleston, Florence, Georgetown
and Richland.
For ohibition-Abbeville Bam-
berg, Barnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun
Colleton, Dorchester, Fairfield,
Hampton, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington
Orangeburg, Sumter and Williams
burg.
In a few of the counties the re-
turns are not complete. but those
vet to be received will not affect the
general result in any county.
GEORGETOWN went wet by a major
ity of only 80 votes, Florence by
Al and Calhoun went dry by only
IA votes. The only serious talk OF
a contest that has been reported Is
in Richland, where the Prohibition
lists are not satisfied with the result.
As a result of the elections Tues
day thirty-six counties in South Car
olina will be dry within few weeks,
and in the six above mentioned the
dispensary system will be re-estao-
lished as soon as the necessary for
malities can be complied with.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
WEST POINTERS FIRED.
President Orders Dismissal of Sew
eral for HaZing.

BY direction of President Taft,
seven cadets were dismissed from
the United States military academy
for being involved in the haziDg of
Rolando Sutton. Cadet Sutton was
a brother Of James n. Sutton, Jr.,
Of the naval academy. whose death
was investigated at Annapolis recent
ly. The cadets ordered dismissed
are: John H. Booker, Jr., of West
Point, Georgia, first class; Richard
w. Hooker, Of Kansas City, Mo-,
third class; Earle w. Dunmore, Of
Utica, N. Y, third class; Chauncey
C. Devore, of Wheeling, w. Va,
third class; Gordon Lefebvre, Of
Richmond. third class; Albert E.
Crane, of Dawarden, Iowa, third
class, and Jacob S. Fortner, of Do
than, Ala, third class.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Dies Horrible Death.

News reached Mobile Thursday OF
the horrible death of ]. w. Harrill.
of the Lowery Lumber Company. one
mile east Of Ellisville, Miss, We'd
nesday morning. The logging train
on which Harrill was riding went
into burning trestle. the engine
falling through, Harrill being scald-
ed and burned to death. Engineer
Robert Strickland was severely burn
ed in irving to rescue Harrlll.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
MISS KIRK WINS CASE.
BOARD Of Health Can't Keep Her In
Pest House. 80.
Pest House.

The famous Kirk. leprosy -; case
from Aiken was decided in the su-
,preme court Thursday in favor OF
Miss Kirk. The majority opinion is
by Justice Woods, Justice Hydrick
rendering a dissenting opinion
against Miss Kirk.
The decision means that the Aiken
board of health can not, as it tried
to do. confine Miss Kirk to the coun-
ty pesthouse. The circuit courts's
action in the case is affirmed. 1t
came before the circuit court by in
junction from the action OF the
board of health. to contine Miss Kirk
in the pesthouse.
Owing to the peculiar nature OF
the case, and to the fact that MISS
Kirk, a missionary, who had con-
tracted the disease in Brazil, was
not only a woman of refinement and
education, but aged, blind and help
less, the case has attracted much at
tention throughout this and other
States, and the decision is of interest
particularly to local boards of health.
It is decided that the action OF a
board of health may be reviewed by
the court, although action for dam
ages will not lie against the mem
bers of the board for wrong deten7
tion or isolation, unless this is done
in bad faith.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Five May Be Lost.

The barge Shawmont with crew
of five bound from Philadelphia for
Portsmouth. n. H., broke away from
a tug off Shinnecock, L. l., Tuesday
and it is feared that she
went to the bottom with all hands.
Five other harges broke away and
floated helplessly for ten hours be-
fore they were picked up.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
SLAPPED HER FACE.
Because He Said She Sent Him Un-
seenly Post Cards.

AS an excuse for slapping his
wife's face, William Schenck, Of
Cincinnati, O., said that he was the
victim of postal card mania," and
that his wife had sent the cards to
him. Judge Hoffman, of the Police
court, dismissed the case and told
the wife not to send her husband any
more postal cards. The husband pre-
sented several cards to the court.
On one was written, "All in, down
and OUT" another showed hand
some young woman, with outstretch-
ed arms, and underneath the pic
ture, was printed the words, II don't
care if he never comes back. "
Another had written on it, Come
in; the water IS fine
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
YOUNG MEN FIGHT
AND ONE is SHOT AND KILLED
BY THE OTHER.
The Slayer Claims self-Defense but
Others Say That He Stood Behing
q Tree and Shot.

N. II. Hamlet, a young man, an
operative in the Langley mill, was
placed in the Aiken jail Wednesday
morning. Hamley shot and instantly
killed John Rhoden, another young
man, with whose brother Hamlet
had a disturbance Tuesday night.
The shooting occurred about s
o'clock Wednesday, morning in the
public park at Langley. Hamlet was
immeditaly taken in charge and car
lried to Aiken. Deputy Busbee
met Mr.. John Clockley, in whose
charge Hamlet was, at Graniteville,
en- route to Aiken.
John James and Oscar Hhoden,
three brothers, moved to Langley
some years ago and kept bachelors
quarters there. They are well
known young man, having splendid
regulations for quiet and peaceful
ness.
Mr.. Hamlet says ;nat he regrets
very much that he committed the
homicide, but said that he was COM
PEELED to do so in slef-defense. He
said that Wednesday morning as
he was going to the mill to work,
he forgot his KEYS and started back
to get them. In the park he en-
countered John Rhoden and diff
ficulty took place then in regard to
the disturbance the previous night
between himself and James Rhoden,
brother of the deceased. He main
tains that he did not shoot until
after Rhoden fired twice at him with
a revolver. He then shot, he says,
in self-defense. He said he had nrv-
er had any disturbance with Rhoden
previous to this.
Several parties from Langley were
seen and interviewed and the gener-
al version of the killing appears to
be about as follows:
Tuesday night James Rhoden and
Hamlet had a disturbance at the
"merry-go-round" ,at Langley. The
cause OF this disturbance is not
known, but is said to haze been be-
cause Hamlet walked between Rhod-
en- and a young lady whom he was
escorting. The brother is said to
have prevented the two men from
fighting. Wednesday morning, it is
generally rumored, Hamlet walked
out in the park and getting behind
tree, waited for Rhoden to pass
going to work in the mill. When
the latter passed.. he stepped, SO the
story goes, from behind his place
of hiding and fired once, Rhoden
falling almost instantly, but, it is
said, firing once as he was falling,
or had fallen to the ground, this shot
going stray.
Tho deceased was an excellent
young man. He was prominent in
the fraternal world, belonging to
several orders, including Royal
Arch Masonry, so it is said, having
only recently taken his degree in
the Aiken lodge. The affair is deep
ly regretted.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Seized With CramDS,

A dispatch from Gadsden, Ala,
says while hurrying home to join
his bride of a few weeks, Sam Wood,
prominent young man of that
county. was drowned few days ago.
Wood in his haste undertook TO swim:
the Coosa river and was seized with
cramps. The BODY has not been re-
covered
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Sues for Large Sum.

Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey OF
the Third judicial circuit Thursday
fielpd ult l.. o Jackson county c:I
cult at Newport, Ark, against 65 in
surance companies doing business in
Arkansas, asking penalties amount
ing to s65,0O0,000 for alleged viola
tion OF the Arkansas antitrust laws.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
A SLICK CROOK.
Worked Slick Game on 4 Private
Detective.

Thomas D. Stewart, the head OF
private detective agency in Pitts
burg. has reported to the Chicago po-
lice that he was robbed OF $500 in
money and jewelry while stopping at
a downtown hotel in the lake city.
He went to Chicago in company
with a man who had offered 10 lead
him to the man who, he said, was
responsible for the dynamIting Of
the Pennsylvania railroad bridge
near Pttsburs several months ago
and for whom there is a reward of
$4,000 offered. The detective and
his guide slept in the same room at
the hotel, and when the former
woke up one morning he found his
companion and all Dis ralnables
gone.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Heat Kills WeeVi1S.

Reports from many sections of
TeXsas indicate that the extreme
heat of the past few days had not
injured cotton in the southern portion
of the state, but has practically eX-
terminated the boil weevil so that
the late crop will be improved rather
than injured. Heat has caused the
weevi to fall off on the ground by
thousands.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Dead Body Found.

Will Long and Will Gilreath, two
mOuntaineers, were pailed at Green
vile on Thursday night on a serious
charge Of seriously injurine a white
man by the name Of Marvin Rey-
nolds, whose dead body was found
mntiiated by the side of a railroad
track in the vicinity Of Tyron. ". c.,
but on the South Carolina side OF the
border.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Plague of Mosquitoes.

Great herds of cattle are s:anuin .
in the Gulf of Mexico and starving
to death owing to a pest of mosque
toes that has struck Texas. Out
door work along the coast has been
suspended and railroad passengers
must cover their faces if they wish
to travel in comfort.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
PROGRAM ARRANGED
FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT Oh
PRESIDENT TAFT
When He Visits Columbia in Novem-
Der Next-We Will be Given a
ROyeI Wa1cD1oa
Royal Welcome.

The program Tor the entertain
ment of President Taft on the occa-
sion of his visit to Columbia in Nov
ember was outlined Thursday at a
conference held in the governors
Office, at which were present Gov
ernor Ansel, Mayor Reamer, Messrs.
VIM. E. Gonzales and Jas. A. Hoyt,
Of the Chamber of Commerce exc
cutive committee, and Secretary
Moorman of that organization.
The program as outlined Is as fol-
lows:
Arrive Union station, from Au-
gusta, Monday, November Sth, 1880
a. m.
Breakfast at the governors man
sion, II o'clock.
Public address, from the portico
of the State capitol, noon.
General reception in the State
library, at the conclusion of the ad-
dress.
Luncheon at the Colonia hotel,
$3.50 p. m.
From the Colonia hotel the presi-
dents party will go direct to the
union station, where the train for
Wilmington, leaving at sos p. M,
will be taken.
Mayor Reamer received a tele-
gram from Private Secretary Car
penter, at Beverly, Mass, stating
that the date of the presidents visit
would not be changed and that he
would come here from Augusta the
morning of the Sth. Secretary Car
penter requested that the program
for his stay in Columbia be submit
ted at once by telegraph and after
the conference In the office of the
governor Mayor Reamer sent the
following message:
"Mr. F. ". Carpenter, Private Sec
retary, Beverly, Mass.
Replying to your telegram 18th,
program arranged today for enter
tainment President Taft in Columbia
on Monday, November Sth as fol-
lows:
Arrive 1920 a. M, union sta
ton.
Breakfast Governors Mansion,
II o'clock.
Public address portico State cap
itol, noon.
General reception at conclusion
Of address in State library, Capitol
building.
Luncheon 2::SO p. m, Colonia
hotel.
go from Colonia hotel direct to
union station.
Leave for Wilmington sos,
union station.
please notify if this is accept
able.
w. S. REAMER, Mayor"
The details of the entertainment
will be worked out later, and a num-
ber of committees will be appoint
ed to take charge Of the arrange
ments. These committee will have
the active cooperation of Governor
Ansel, who is personally acquainted
with President Taft, and of Mayor
Reamer.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Young Hero browns.

Claude Goddard. aged seventeen,
and his brother Matt, aged fifteen,
were drowned in the Tennessee riy-
er. near Dayton, Tenn, Monday
morning. The older boy ventured
beyond his depth, and the younger
lost his life in a heroic effort to
save his brother. They sank clasped
in each others arms. The bodies
were recovered.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
MUST ho,'S:K!!ss
STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT
SAYS 1T IS VERY BAD.
The Young People of Iowa Don't
Take Kindly to the Crusade Made
AGAINST kissing

Against kissing.
Iowa, the greatest agricultural
State in the Middle West, has de-
cided on a new venture, and will
now raise a crop of unkissed girls.
1t Is not a freak determination, or
a desire of the State to get its name
in the papers, it is simply part of
its crusade against the great white
plague. Someone banbooz!ed the
State legislators into believeing that
whenever two pairs of lips met about
100000 germs held high Inks,
and they promptly passed law Gre
ating the Office of State Government
Lecturer on Health and then decid-
ed to pay Aretar Edward Kepford
$500 a year if he would carry it
around with him.
The neighbors all said that Mr..
Kepford was a nice fellow, but that
he did have some funny notions
about kissing. He not only had them
but he has succeeded in foisting
them off upon the rest of the people
in the State, for the State Govern
ment Lecturer on Health" in his war
upon the great white plague in his
State is laying great stress on his
anti-kissing campaign.
But this isn't the worst of it.
Prof. Kepford's crusade against os-
culatiol is growing. OF course it
is not exceeding any speed limits
among the young people, but it is
with the babies and in the younger
grades of the public schools that it
is being waged fercest. Mothers
and fathers have pledged themselves
to bring up their children unkissed.
Schoolteachers have sworn that the
dangers of osculation shall be as
carefully presented to the pupils as
the daily portions of geography or
arithmetic. Of course it is little
early to tell what the children them
selves will do about it when they
reach the age where the kissing bug
gets in its greatest lick, but they
ought to be pretty well trained by
that time.
Two thousand schoolteachers have
pledged Mr.. Kepford their earnest
support in stamping out the kissing
habit. They never had it, and don't
see why any one else should evince
a willingness to acquire it. IIep-
ford has had thousands of little
signs, bearing the words, Don't
kiss me-" and he's getting rid of
number of them among the parents
of very young children.
Crusader Kepford started out to
fight the great white plague, but the
object of his quest seems to have
been diverted to a systematic fight
on kissing. His critics do not con-
tend that he is off the track, but
they do ask the true meaning Of his
effort to have a number of local
philanthropists offer prize OF 500
to each unkissed girl of Is, with an
added prize of SIS annually for every
year she goes unkissed until mar
ried. AS yet the philanthropists
have not materialized, but Crusader
Kepford has hopes. Men, philan-
thropists and otherwise, are study
ing this particular phase of the
great crusade.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Murder and Suicide.

William Granlich, of Lansing,
Mich. shot and killed his wife Mpn-
day night. Immediately after the
shooting Graulich swallowed a quas
tity of carbolic acid. dying soon af-
terward. Both were 19 years Of
age. - l,hSSESS
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
FOUND CHECK IN RUBBISH.
1t Was for One Thousand Dollars,
in a Letter.

At Chicago postoffice inspectors
Thursday discovered letter contain
ing a check for $1,000 payable to
the Mary Thompson hospital in a
pile of rubbish beneath the flooring
of Station u, depot sub-station
of the postoffice. With this letter
were number of others, each con-
tanning smaller checks. The discov-
cry of the missing mail followed the
arrest of one of the employees at the
sub-station. The postoffice authori-
ties declare that many letters have
been rifled by the prisoner and that
those found by him to contain
checks and no money were not for
warded to the owners, but were hid
den.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Gave Up Fortune to Marry.

In order to marry William T.
Foley, q years old. of Evansville.
Ind, Mrs Louise V. Retz, aged fl
years. widow of John A. Reitz, Of
Mt. Carmel, H., abandoned life
interest in an estate valued at more
than 100000. Mrs Reitz has son
and three daughters older than her
husband.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Fatal Fcud Fight.

Addie Chapman and John Luttrell
are dead and John Chumlev and
wife, the son-in-law and daughter
of Luttrell, are seriously wounded
as the result of feud fight in Casey
county, Ky.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
TALKS HARD SENSE
SENATOR TILLMAN SHOWS UP
TAFT'S DESIGN ON US.
Says He is Trying to Debauch the
People of the South With Fair
Promises and Offices.

Senator Tillman spoke to nearly
! three thousand people at Fountain
Inn, Greenville county, on last
Thursday His audience was COM
posed largely of farmers, and gave
the Senator close attention and fire.
quent applause. He seems to be in
fine health and spoke with his old
time eloquence and power. He cap
tured the crowd, as he usually does,
with his hard sense and out-spoken
utterances.
The Senator discussed compulsory
education and other live topic, or, as
he put it after arriving at Green
vile, took a kind of general sub
ject," and said just what he felt like
saying.
Among other things Senator Till
man expressed his opinion on the re-
suit of the recent dispensary cleo
tion throughout the State and said
that he was glad to see that the
State was going dry" and hoped
that the remaining counties which
now are wet would soon vote out
the dispensary. The State and
News and Courier had educated the
people of the State to such height,
he said, that they are now ready to
vote the dispensary out in nearly
all the counties.
Let all drink water out of the
same gourd," said Senator Tillman
"or whiskey out of the same bot
tle," and he added, laughingly, ut
doesn't matter which"
In speaking of the relations of
President Taft with Southern peo-
pie, Senator Tillman said that Pres
ident Taft was trying to debauch the
people of the South with fair prom
ises and offices. He read over to
the gathering the Republican par
tvs platform or planks Of it, and
said that Taft's purpose was to Sc
duce enough white men in the South
to organize respectable Republi-
can party, bringing the negroes in
as balance of power.
Missouri and Kentucky were al
ready in the doubtful column and
West Virginia was gone. All that
was necessary to monopolize the ne
gro in South Carolina was to
have enough white men bought off
and to register the negroes that are
capable of being registered. There
FORE" Senator Tillnan said, ANY
thing along the line of increasing
the number of negroes who can read
and write and who could, there
fore, be eligible to register was the
height Of folly in his judgment"
If the white children could be
sent to school by compulsory law
without the colored children going
also, Tillman said, he would favor
such an enactment, but the 18th
amendment expressly prohibits any
citizen on account Of race, color,
etc. The negroes would benefit by
the compulsory law and the white
man would have to pay the taxes
for the negro's education.
Senator Tillman arrived in Green
vile i nthe afternoon and went i'm
mediately to the house of his niece,
Mrs. Rasor, on Buncombe street,
where he spent the night. He left
early the following morning for
Richland, in the neighborhood of
Seneca, where he attended a big bas-
ket picnic and made an address to
the gathering there
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-21
Born With Wings.

A woman Of Roanoke, Va, gave
birth, this week, to a child with
feathered wings istead of arms.
The baby, it is said, makes noise
like a chicken.