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The Washington herald., 1910-09-18


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~ERrA1NLT
rrin@s were as brilliant as thew usually are IN msseason and
though at none of the phouss' WAS the attendance up to- the stand
fneI onere
week. i audiences
aGii.oaly
- all who
hne tendencies it aG i rht tsar P f pahy
nS AN onsnt testimony to its value as work Of art The author Mr.
studied the dramatic
Oanee
seeing The Little DANCER is not hard to understand the plays big success
London why King
before him and his court less than four times
= 4 AHAaEn L
lVk doubtless by the large increase poparpced eaters and NOV
pertinent be a he
mansss from Is cents 800 However during period covered by
prices Of the notable offerings the
who have never appeared in washington at less than the 81 scale the
is some hone thar tb, foadow return t ts. %
revival of Henry v made Herbert Beerbohm would
that the this shaken something
much than Shakespeare 1t described spectacle
audiences for 5 s Hsnoo p' international % @ n ds~ a
this
three These
them with their absence effects
appreciation understanding shakepears
nee again the genial CRATER has come into his own The people who
euekled with the exploits walngfOrd
G Huah for crime ooood analysis Of the pias woa
&
Here we saw stranded lnunus adventure Of suaye Methods hood
winkng eredulous
respected business His erstwhne similarly
principles
and bit shAky about their the straight
always 90 OF e iaI or the curtain the ignomou
retreat OF Rufus and his
forced applaud their triumph
- ECENT reports the big producing managers New York tell Of
decided
stunning amazingly
most SIS are now 500 70 sos and in not fs anstsvs ." OF at the
the value of
chorus man. The
predict VIII be entirely snued out They furthermore
himself
sterling comic .-rba
Handkerchief
The ,ara 80
Florodora The silver slpn" and this iass
these hence was
quickly developed mildly nothing
less than femnae They
did arise principal part
CURED and thus modern musical
nave le te out almost entirely For instance
Dollars which chorus
nIetev Covered mn ~ - t e ies and they are SO com
in f
The Washington herald., 1910-09-18

seen in the role Of Lizzie. which is said
10 be one OF the most laughable feminine
role on the stage to-day
The Washington herald., 1910-09-18

New Pictures at Alhambra Theater.
Among the many recent pictures thar
have been made by the Great American
B!ograph Company of New York. and
one that has just been put on the mar
ket, is the picture entitled In LIES
The Washington herald., 1910-09-18

Other TheatricaIs on Page 7.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14
AN HONEST NEGRO
Refused to Accept Pay for Four
Bales Of Cotton When He had
Sold Only Thee.

Yorkville Enquirer: There is
a negro up al Glover, who goes
by the name of "Little" Andy
Jackson, the "Little"s being
used tn distinguish him from an.
other negro of the same name.
Little Andy is we'll known to all
the whites OF Glover and vicinity,
and is generally held in high es
feem ss q straightforward, hon.
est negro, who is always polite
and obliging as we'll as being
thoroughly honest.
A few days ago, Little Andy
went into the bank OF Glover and
handed Mr.. J. A. Page, the cash.
Ter, a check, with the requ uest
that it be cashed. Little Andy
cannot read; but when he heard
Mr.. Page announce the amount
offAa cheoh 20 s25e, he pricted
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14

ne Gains, to intimidate him.
The father closed in on his son.
cutting vt him with his knife and
In a scuffle the pistol went off.
killing the older Mr.. Ferguson
a most instantly. An open knife
was found by the side of the de-
ceased. The testimony showed
that the son did all he could to
avoid difficulty and that the
father was the aegressor.
The wife and children of the
dead ma" joined in a petition to
'he court, asking that the peti.
tloner be admitted d to bail. After
hearing arguments of council,
the court decided that the peli-
'loner was entitled to bsil and
fixed bond at SO 600 which a.
mount was not objected to by
the attorney general who repre-
senied the state.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14
THE GOVERNMENTS ESTIMATE.
According to Crop Reporting Board
of Department of Agriculture
the Total Production of Cotton
For 1901 Will Amount to
5,646, ,597 900 Pounds.

Washington, Dec. 9.-The to-
tai production Of cotton tor the
United Sra'es tor 1901 will
am runt 70 5,646.597O0O pounds
(not inc udius liuters,) which is
equivalent 60 ii ,426,O00 bales Of
900 pounds, gross weight, W AS the
estimate ot the crop REPORTING
board ct the Uni'ed Sts tes ID =
parimeut of Agriculture issued
todav. The 1909 crop WIS TO-
OO4 ,949 bales anu ne 1908 crop
3,5S7, 800 tales The estimated
production by S at s follows.
Virginia $4,000; North Caro-
lima 675 900; South Cnroliua L.
10000; Georgia 1850 600 I;
Florida 5000; Alabama l ,l74,-
600; mississippi 1,lSO,OOO ;
Louisiana 26O, 900; Texas 3, l4O,-
600; Arkansas $4,000; Ten,es-
see 305, 900; Missouri 4S,OOO;
OSiahoms 900 900; California
$4,000.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14
Saved from Awful Death

How an appalling calamity in his fom,lv
was prevented is told by A. ID Mcdonald
OF Fayetteville. N. q. K. F.. u. No. s. "Mv
sister had consumption, he wriles. she
was very thin. and pale, had no aopet,tite
ana seemed to grow weaker every day, AZ
aii remedies failed. till DR.. Kings New
discovery was tried. and no com mpletely
with n cough since. It's the be At medic;na
ever ssw or heard off, For coughs. colds
iagr'ppe. asthma, Group. hemm oraqe All
bronchial troubles. 1t has no equal. 5Oo
81. WO. Trial bottle free Guaranteed bv
LTncaster Pharmacy Cr1wTor' Pr
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14
up his ears and said:
CIV hats dat bpssg'

up his ears and said:
Sc" hats dat bpss2'
"Two hundred and fifty-six
dollars" repeaied Mr.. Page.
I'D is wrong" d clared the
negro, ''cause daI's too much :"
At the suggestion of MIR. Page,
the negro produced his bill of
sale, which showed tour bales Of
cotton at 1856, and Mr.. Page
Insisted that everything was all
'ish'.
"But didn's have four bales,"
SAID Andy, 81 onl.: had three"
With this additional light on
the mystery, Mr.. Page called up
Mr. Jones, the G .stonia buyer,
who had given the check and ex-
planned the situation TO him. Mr..
Jones looked al his book and
announced ha' the number #
bales WAS right, the weigh 8
were r,s ht and the check was
right
Ll'tle A, DIV still insisted that
there aas something bad wrong;
that he only had three bales :;
that the amount of m,ney was
too much for three taes of the
weight of his at the price at
which they were sold, and he
would not take the money. Later
the trouble was cleared up at the
Gastonia end of the line. Mr..
Jones found that by a curious
mistake one of the tales had been
entered on his books twice byl,s
identical number and weights
and that he had counted and paid
tor four bales when he should
have paid for only three.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14
How A Georgia Farmer Made l95
Bushels of Corn on an Acre of
Sandy Soil.

The Southern Cultlvator.
MANY farmers have the notion
that you can not make as laree a
yield OF corn on sandy soil as you
can upon the clay lands. Others
think you can not make as large
yields far South AS you can in
higher la'itudes. But such ms
tances as the one we are chronic.
ling, go to prove that it is not q
matter Of l,cshiy but o, effort,
aud large yields OF corn eau be
grown In any section. Mr.. F. N.
Garter, of IAonas County, G or
eia, gathered 1876 bu shells OF corn
from an acre.by using $4,000
worth commercial fertilizers. He
used the following:
3 sacks S-2-2.
2 sacks muriate of potash.
10 sacks acid phosphate.
l5 sacks, or 5000 pounds OF
fertl,izrr. He turned under q
good crop Of rye on this acre,
plowed it dep, had rows four
feet and corn seven inches in the
drlll. His corn was a prolific
variety. Mr.. Carter Can make
an equally good showing on COTTON
Dur,ng 1909 he made $50 POUNDS
OF lint cotton on an acre. In
1910 he gathered 1885 pounds.
Last year he used
sack 50 2 guano.
sack kaipit.
l sack acid
sack SID guano.
This year he doubled the a.
mount OF guanO and increased d
his weld 355 p unds of lint.
The guano cost $18 10 and the
increased lint is 355 pounds al Il
cents, or $49.70-s pretty good
profit.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14
FERGUSON GETS BAIL
Abbeville Man Who Killed His
Father. Supreme Court Fixed
Amount of His Bond at $4,000
Story of the Killing.

Columbia, Dec. 1O-J. M.
Nickles of Abbevilie appeared
before Associate Justice Eugene
B. Gary, in the supreme court
room yesterday evening in q
habeas corpus proceeding for
bail for j. Fl Ferguson, who
shot and killed his father in
Abbevi!Ie county one day last
week.
The testimony at the inquest
showed that the father, j. =.
Ferguson, had gone to the home
OF his son, j. H. Ferguson, 10
arrange settlement in regard to
some land the son had sold the
father. In endeavoring to arrange
q settlement the father became
enraged and attacked hi, son
with knife, cutting his clothing
in several places.
The son retreated and in back.
ing from his father passed the
man'el piecs and picking up his
,isto' oreeertod ~ ot h,s father.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14
Ends Winters Troubles.

To many. winter is q season Of trouble.
The frost bitten toes and fingers. ohapped
hands and lips, chilblains, cold sores. red
and rough skins. prove this. But such
troubles fly before Pucklen's Arnica Salve
A trial convinces. Greatest healea OF
Burns, Boils, Files, Outs, Sores, Eczema
and Sproins, Only 25c at Lancaster Phar-
macy, Crawford Eros. W
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1910-12-14
GOOD FARMING In CHESTER
COUNTY.
Remarkable Crops Raised this Year
by Former Lancaster County
Farmer on Poor Sandy
Land.
The Southern Cultivstor.


We often hear me complain,
that we write too much about
what rich farmers do," and that
"the Cultivator is d good paper
but | can moi follow It's teachings
1t will break any poor man to
follow it, &C." Well, there is
but one standard to set tor aay-
one to toll ", aud this is high
ope-the pest. Then it is up t.
the individuals to follow it as
best they eau. N,w, the truth
Is there Is not only "more in the
man than there is In the land"
but there is almost all in the pur-
pose of the man-in the am bition
one has-in the eff ,rts one puts
forth. While over in Ches ter
County we met Mr.. F. D. Greg
ory. Mr.. Gregory is a poor m An,
just renter, but he is not poor
Ia efforts he makes or in the plan
of farming he carries out. This
year on poor sandy land he made
Ill bushels and 53 pounds OF
corn on an acre by using 1000
pounds of commercial fertilizer
and 200 pounds of nitrate of soda.
He will make this year 35 bales
Of cotton on laud where only
three bales were made last year.
This is certainly remarkable
showing, and shows what high
standard and good work will do
for a renter. What Mr.. Gregory
has done others can do. The
way to success, Is not barred to
the renter or to the small land
owner, but Uhosoevsr would
win it, must use the methods and
the means that alone can win it
to any high degree. You can
not win by standing back, but
you can by going forward, If you
will only go In the RI ght direction,
and this always calls for extra
effort and more assistance iu the
way OF preparation of soil, liberal
fertilization and good cultivation.
The only question is, fare you
willing 10 pay the prices'
Then many of our farmers are
ever ready to complain OF the
Unsatisfactory labor condi-
tions," and instead of getting
down to right matters they glide
along on the duwngrade, letting
the land grow poorer and the
yields less from year 10 year.
But merchants, even. are going
10 farming and many are making
quite q success. So with MIR. S.
M Jones, a merchant doing u
large business in Chester. He
told us that he nad picked PIG
bales of cotton from 200 acres
and would get from 60 to rs
more. He useu 600 pounds Of
guano per acre and q little nitrate e
of soda. tie says he:wouid have 9
made more had he used q larger
amount of soda. Mr.. Jones SAID:
81 have one old negro that has
picked % bales of cotton from q
two-horse crop and will get five
CT six more" He did not add
but We wiil,-this- negro left 10
his own directions would not
have made more than halt this
amount, Out alded Dy the plan.
ming OF Mr.. Jones and guided by
the directions of competent
ovorseer, you see the results; no
room tor complaint and money
eLough for all. Things in this
world do not move just to suit
any mans wishes We must
learn TO adjust ourselves to
changed conditions. Other farm
ers are making Is great success
as Mr.. Jones. but they are not
the "giviDg up" kind.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

to numerous thefts. Then after Ian
gushing In jail for a time sufficient to
restore her poise she gave the details OF
the tortures to which she had been SUBJ
jected. Detectives visiting her cell IN
relays dragged her about by her bare
arms. called her vile names and threat
ened to hang her, she alleged, II she
did not admit all OF the crimes Of which
they accused her. Hysterical. terrified,
almost insensible from loss OF sleep,
she finally answered yes to all OF their
charges. simply to end the tortures Of
her hideous inqulsition. Thereafter re-
covering her normal senses she admit
ted that she had committed several
thefts, although she had confessed to
many more In order to escape the third
degree"
Uncanny Ordeal of Poor Ind.
A little girl picking dandelions on
the outskirts of New York was some
time before this stabbed In the throat
by an unseen hand. The police could
find no clue to the crime. but as a last
resort arrested Henry Becker. poor
youth, known to have loitered in the
neighborhood on the day of the murder.
He denied all knowledge of the crime,
but the detectives devised for him
special third degree ordeal terrifying
to even a normal youth unaccustomed
to death and to It's horrible associations.
They took the victims corpse to dark
loft and stretched 1t where the slanting
light from small window would IL
lumine 1t and make 1t stand out in
CHASTITY relief against the black
shadows
The shabby lad was taken to the loft
and walked up to the spot where the
corpse Law He did not see 1t UNTIL by
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
.on ION n1aHr, VIII osD CASE PROVOKED THE INQUIRY.

WILLIAM SEYLOR ION RIGHT), VIII
sttion pulled off covering ana re-
vealed the dead girl in her white
shroud, the red wound gaping in her
neck At the same time words sug-
costing that the boy had committed
the crime were shouted at him. ana
he foil to his knees. placing his hands
over his race. Next he was dragged
to his feet and commanded to place
his hand on the forehead OF the corpse.
which no did. trembling from his an
gu1sh. He collapsed the second time,
only to be roughly dragged to his feet
again, ana while forced to stroke the
hair and cheeks of the corpse was bonn
barded by suggestion after suggestion
that he was the murderer. And now,
completely hypnotized. he not only at.
frmed all that his inquisttors suggest
| ed but in his dazed state OF mind add
| ed details to hds untrue confession.
Hanged, hut Now Thought Innocent.
| How many innocents have been con-
vicred and hanged or electrocuted on
/ the testimony Of such false confessions
cannot be estimated. Dr.. Hugo Mum
sterberg, professor OF psychology at
Harvard, who has been studying these
phenomena of late, believes that Rich
ard WINS. the youth hanged not long
ago for the famous Hollister murder.
On Chicago. was hypnotlzed during the
third degree ordeal into making Just
such n false confession as that wrung
from Henry Becker. Mrs. Hollister, 1t
NAV be remembered, failed to return
to her home after attending church.
and next morning her body was found
in a neighbortng alley with "a piece OF
Il wire tightly fastened about her throat.
The police had little evidence against
4 Young WINS until he was subjected to
Il the prolonged fortunes. OF the third
| degree The sudden flashing in his
face OF q highly polished revolver is
believed by Professor Munsterberg to
have thrown him into state OF hyp-
L nosls, during which he confirmed all
OF the suggestions which his inquisitor
roared at him.. Later the nerve wreck
ed youth protested his innocence hut
his confession" was accepted by tho
Jury and no had to pay the grim PEN
(, atty OF the law.
The plot OF a stirring drama was
built upon Professor Munsterberg's
4 study Of this case. This was Charles
Klein's Third Degree whose mosr
thrilling, scene rehearsed the hypnotic
II ing or young IVlnS ny the revolver
flashed In his face. Tho psychologist
accused the playwright of embodying
paragraph after paragraph of his mon
ograph into the dialogue Of the drama
But in the play the third degree victim
was acquitted of the crime.
strange Mental Phenomena.
strange phenomenon which psy.
biologists term INSTRUMENTATION has q
!, bearing on such cases, That those
subject to 1t confess to crimes merely
read of or heard described at trials
shows what pliable mental matsria
the third dsgres artist often has "
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

at the psychological moment, and Sem
ator Borah, after vninly striving to
have the investigation authorized. had
little difficulty In having the motion
carried.
Little aid from police officials Of
cities wherein our worst third-degree
scandals have been stirred UP can be
counted on by the committee.
Tho sweating or third degree sys-
tenn L. an simagfnary something de-
rived from tho brain Of some bright
news writer" was the answer OF VIII
Liam B. Baker, police commissioner of
New York. when he was asked con-
oerrtng the extent OF the system. And
his predecessor, General Theodore "A.
Bingham defined the practice in these
terms:
There Is notion In some quarters
that this (third degree) Is care
| fully concealed dreadful divice OF the
|Inquisition This idea has been, nour-
ished and spread and exaggerated by
the newspapers So far as New York
lis concerned 1t is an entirely false
idea"
But mote what two college pro-
fessors, who have been studying the
subject have to say concerning It.
Let Prof Munsterberg speak first:
What Two Professors Say.
There are no longer any thumb
screws. but the lower orders OF the
police have still unoounted means to
make the prisoners life uncomfortable
and perhaps intolerabIe, and to break
down his energy.
"a rat put secretly in a wonan's
cell may exhaust her nervous system
and her inner strength until she ID
unable to stick to her story. The
dazzling light and cold water hose and
the secret blow seem still to serve
even IL nine-tenths of the newspape,
stories of the third degree are exag.
gerated Worst~of all are brutal shocks
given with fendish cruelty to the ter.
rihed imagination Of the suspect. Al
all times innocent men have been ac-
cused by the tortured ones; crimes
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ton for release from the sweat box !"
Hence the term Sweating" q suspect,
now applied in the fgurative sense to
describe third degree" ordeals, more
modern, but often quite as brutal.
Given Insomnia and starvation Ordeal.
Following the discovery OF Elsie
Stegels body in trunk placed in a
room over a Chinese restaurant in New
York, a Chinaman suspected OF knowl-
edge Of the crime was arrested, and
chief Of detectives was quoted as CIV
ing his men the following instructions
for the treatment of the prisoner:
Turn the strong light on him!
souse him With the cold-water hose!
Starye him q cople OF days! Deal him
q blow from an unseen hand! GIVE
him no water to drink for DAY! dise
him the third degree In It's most stieh-
uous form, and maybe nc VIII ten d
story"
So the terrified Celestial. it is alleged
derived ofsfood and sleep for thlr-
8ty.six hours, during which he told three
distinct and contradictory stories. each
given that his tortures might be emo
ed and none of which threw any light
upon the case.
Living confessions are the frequent
fruits of such diabolical methods, ac-
cording to penal reformers and psych-
ologists, who are now giving the third
degree" their attention. And here IS
another case IN point:
Latest Victim Child.
A few weeks ago Annie Slakus. six
teen-year-old child of foreign parent
age was arrested In Wilkesbarre. Pa,
on the charge OF robbery. and after
coming out OF the third degree ordeal
a physical and nervous wreck. was ae-
cused by the police of having confessed
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

his grasp before commencing to mold
1t by his uggestions. with which no
unwittingly shapes thoughts and con-
jurles up hallucinations with the dex-
terity OF the hypnotist. In other
words, II the human mind Is frail
enough to receive such Impressions OF
self-guilt without the connivance of
the police, think how easy 1t is for the
inquisitor to nelp the process along.
"A case of this kind cropped up some
time ago In Philadelphia at the time
that city was wrought up over the
Lewis murder mystery, which to this
day has never been solvsd Mrs.
Lewis the young and pretty wife OF q
travelling salesman. was found muir
dered in hall closet OF her house
while her husband was on business
trip in Western Pennsylvania. The
house had been opened while she was
at work inside, and the tobs OF her
baby attracted neighbors TO the scene.
probably some hours after the crime
had been committed. While the police
were securing the city for possible
clues, John G Prlce, young man.
came forward with an elaborate con-
fession of all of the details OF the
murder. DuC ANSoSAes
showed that he had had no hand In the
matter.
1t is said that when one reads he
mentally substitutes his ego for that
Of the personages depicted by the mar
rator. Prices mind extended this pro-
cess beyond normal limits. and he saw
himself enacting the crime according
to the methods which the detectives
described as having been employed py
the unknown murderer.
Two Cases This Year.
A more recent case was that OF tne
young man who lately came forward
With a full confession OF how ne
murdered Nine. steinhell's husbano
ana mother, the victims of par1s's IA a.
nous "Red widow mystery" :.
me particular case, which proYoKea
the senate of the United States into
nassinr the legislation constituting tho
Brandegee committee was that OF WI,
liam seyler, the man who was accused
of numbering Miss Adams by pushing
her off pier at Atlantic City some
months ago The brutality of. the
detectives of that resort In applying
! the "insomnia test and other mental
| tortues to seyler was exposed Just
Il
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which were never committed
been confessed, infamous lies he
invented to satisfy the demand
torturers."
And Prof. W. L. Burdtcl<. in
rent number OF the Yale Law
describes some more OF the gri
lures Of tho ordeal under tfl1 Z
ton.
"a woman Is arrested for n
he states. "At midnight tho co
tho Victim ID brought to her c.
the dramatic horrors OF the see
compel her to confess. Anothe
oner is denied food, another IL b
beaten-'slugged IL the word-u
is forced to speak. Other att
are practiced, such as highly
the food and denying water
victims, placing them in solitars
flnement or in bitterly cold cells
the weather aids. or in frig
superheated rooms at other til
Red pepper has been blowa
their cells and other indignitiE
numerous to mention perpetr7t
order that q confession may b
tured from the helpless wretahe
But. after all. the worst that Z
said OF these third degree barb,
Is that they are Illegal. The
stitution OF the United States (
cruel and unusual punishment.
the underlying spirit OF the law
presume all persons innocent
proven guilty Tho third d,
amounts to the enornity of an
premature trial held before the s
has been given an opportunity t
cure counsel and before he IL
under Indictment. His testimo
obtained under duress and ge,
when he is suffering from TEN
emotional insanity The major
the victims of the system are
aliens, ignorant citizens OF you'll
do not understand their legal
and who are afterward afraid
pose their persecutors.
4 (Copyright, 1910, by John
Watkins.)