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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
Why SHE WANTED TO DIE.
Young Woman Scores Certain Newt
York Men She Met.

Miss Vera Fitch, the young Cali
fornian who shot herself in the H..
tel Astor, in New York on August
20, has given her reasons in an un-
usual interview. She said she hop
ed for reincarnation in a more moral
world. The case has been surround
ed by much mystery. The young wo-.
mans relatives have refused to ad-.
nit her indentity and the only hint
of her motive was cleaned from a
letter to her mother, in which she
wrote:
"The fourth estate has proven too
strong for me. 1t is really deplor-
able that a girl cannot succeed hon
orably in New York. In some things
! might have succeeded had / ac-
ceded to the wishes Of men, cuTtur-
cd usually, moneyed usually, hut
minus morals. Death Is preferable.
1t was known that she had litera-
ry ambitions. Lying in the hospi-
tai, where she is convalescing, Miss
Fitch said: II dreamed Of better
day when such men could be un-
known. When the world would have
one moral standard for both men
and women. In the belief, I might
live again in that purer time, I tried.
10 kill myself" Miss Fitch was
born in Oakland, California, twenty
four years ago.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
MIN1sTTR AND WIFE sEPERATE
Presiding Elder o'Dell Makes State
ment About 1t.

Presiding Elder O'Dell of the Rock
Vile District, gives out the follow
ing statement in reference to Rev.
H. R. Mills, who is stationed at ROCK
Hill:
"Inasmuch as the press will In all
probability send out reports concern
ing the unfortunate affair involving
the Rev. H. r. Mills, of the South
Carolina conference, / deem 1t my
duty to the church and to Brother
and Mrs. Mills to give the facts to
the public.
ION Thursay, September %, Bro
ther Mills came to me and told me
that he was in trouble; that he and
his wife could not live together any
longer and asked that I release him
from his work, as he would feel a
delicacy In appearing before his con-
gregation under the circumstances.
Having no authority to release him.
| told him that the best and only
thing to do was to have the matter
Investigated in due form by a COM
r1ittee. To do this he readily con-
sented and expressed desire that 1t
be done as quickly as possible. l
appointed an investigating commit
tee, consisting of Revs. Matthew
Moye Brabham, D. Melvin Mcleod
and S. D. Bailey. They very careful
iy investigated the matter and re-
Corted that trial was deemed nec-
essary. There was nothing OF a
scandalizing nature charged by eth
e1 Mrs. Mills or Mr. Mills, the sole
specification in the charge being that
MIR, Mills had separated from his
wife, for other than the Scriptural
reason. The. above is in brief fair
statement of the case"
Mr.. Mills and his wife came to
South Carolina about four years ago
from Kentucky. They arc both
young.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29

meet me? Who shall criticize lab
or organizations for combining and
demanding higher wage? VINO
shall criticize the producer OF the
raw material for COM bining and de-
manding a higher price, and by their
numerical strength and their necessi-
ties to mankind forcing a recogni-
ton Of their rights, when the law OF
the land is giving that opportunity
to the manufacturers, who have i'm
poverished and are imporerishing
the masses and creating the colos-
sal millionaire Of America?
IT do not believe in class legisla-
ton or class discrimination, but do
believe in equal rights to all and
special privilege to none under the
law. And so long as the law gives
special privilege to some, 1t is the
manifest duty of those discriminate
ed against to protect themselves
against this unjust discrimination.
And the best way to defeat the In
famous doctrine of protection is by
the farmers and laborers protecting
themselves. The Republican party to-
day is being defeated and driven
from power because its doctrine, car
ried to its last analysis, has forced
such prices that the wage-earner and
the salaried man cannot live.
1.-THE farmers Of the South would
be willing to take less price for
their stuff if they might buy what
they need under the same circum-
stances that they have to sell their
produce. They have to sell under
free trade and buy under protection.
And it is their duty to themselves
and to their country to do all IN
their power that Is legitimate and
ihordorable to Offset this legalized
robbery under the American system
of protection.
II had some vague conceptions OF
the enormity of the Republican pro-
lection system, but never did l dream
of its unblushing effronter y aud
boldness until l became a mentor
Of the United States senate. And il
the people of America could realize
rather than vaguely know, the blat-
ant injustice being practiced by the
law, they would a long time age
have swept the whole system out
of existence.
In conclusion, invite the atl>d'
ton of my critics to the prices op'
tanning for wool, flax and silk under
protection, as against cotton with
out it."
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
lNfAN Tile PARALYSIS
HAS TAKEN MANY LITTLE ONES
DURING LAST YEAR.
This Disease Attacks Mostly White
Children, Very Few Colored Chill
dren Ever Have 1t.

dren Ever Rave IL.
There was $50 deaths from acute
anterior poliomyelitis, or infantiie
paralysis; 116 from pellagra, SO from
rabies or hydrophobia, and 9 death.
from leprosy in 1903 In the death
registration area of continental Unit
ed States, which comprises over 80
per cent Of the total population, ac-
cording to the census bureaus forth
coming bulletin on mortality statis-
tics for 1909.
1t is reported that, of the 569
deaths from infantile paralysis, 5oz
were of white and only II of colored
persons. There was a somewhat
greater incidence of disease among
males and an increased mortality,
in August, September and October.
The bulletin states that no statls-
tical segregation of infantlle paral-
ysis as a case Of death has been
made hretofore, but the increasing
importance of the disease and ITS
wide prevalence throughout the
country in the form OF local epidem-
les render statement Of the mortal
ity important.
Like meningitis, which it some
what resembles, it is difficult to op-
tain an exact separation OF the
deaths from the specile infectious
disease, acute anterior poliomyellt-
is, from other infections of similar
nature.
Acute anterior poliomyelitis Is de-
scribed by the bulletin as an acute
infectious disease chiefly affecting
children in the first five years OF lie,
and. while not infrequently fatal is
of even more seriou sconsequence as
the cause of more or less permanent
paralysis and atrophy of muscles.
Numerous outbreaks have occurr-
ed in this country, the most impor-
tant of which were those in Yer
mont, in 1894, and in New York
and Connecticut, in 1907. The 569
deaths complied for the registration
area for 1909 were widely distribut-
ed, and indicate endemic or epidem-
ic prevalence in many parts OF the
country.
It should be remem bered, the bull
letin points out, that the census da-
ia relates only to registration
sources, and that for the non regis
trat States the deaths are only
those returned from the registration
cities contained therein.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
IDEAS KICKED OUT.
j. w. TOLBERT TO HEAD REPUB-
LOAN PARTY OF STATE.
T. L. Grant, Charleston County
Chairman, Charged That He Was
Robbed of vice-Cllairmanship.

The State says following the hours
of haranguing and exhortations, the
Republican State convention yester-
day elected ]. W. Tolbert, chairman,
and ]. R. Levy, who is negro, vice
chairman. The action Of the con-
yention was an overthrow of 2. H.
Deas, a negro, who has held the
Craftsmanship for several years.
There were about 80 delegates pre-
sent, and about 81 Of these were ne
groes. There was an entire absence
of prominent Republican leaders.
The matter OF congressional candl-
dates will be left to the respective
districts. 4 EI
Declaring that he had been robb-
ed of the vice chairmanshlp by a
niiscount in the votes, T. l.. Grant
of Charleston, negro Republican,
left the convention hall, saying that
they would hear from him later. The
vote for Grant as announced by the
teller was A. The vote for Levy
was 46. Grant contended that he
received 81 votes. There were four
candidates for the office of chair
man-R. H. RICHARDSON, ]. W. Toll
bert. J. R. Levy and G. M. English.
All OF these, except Tolbert, are ne
groes. Tolbert received 81 votes
Richardson 4; English II, and Levy
21 for the craftsmanship.
On the surface of the convention
there appeared a bitter dislike fo1
the administration of President Taft.
Seyeal Of the speakers, when there
was not an election on, tried to make
speeches about ''reclaiming" and
purifying the personnel Of the party
but these words were drowned in
the din of the floor leaders who tried
to swing the more reticent delegates
from side to side. There were no
fights this year.
The negroes had the convention
all to themselves, and the many
hours which the body was In session
were spent in haranguing and ask
ing thousand or so questions. Far
liamentary rules we're hammered In
to a pulp by the chairman. The
most important feature and the big
noise" of the convention was the
".big stick" used by the negro acting
as chairman for Deas, the State
chairman, who has headed the or
ganization for several years. Deas
was at the meeting but did not par
ticipate in any Of the jumbled dis
cussions on account of his Ill health
The report of the committee on
credentials was received and the on
ly contest before the convention was
the two delegations from Aiken
county. While the committees were
at work about 90 delegates to the
convention strolled about the hall On
Assembly street, chatted, crowded
around stand, bought peanuts, red
lemonade and fish sandwiches. There
were many visitors besides the del
egateS,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
AUTOMOBILE CAUSES RUNAWAY
One of the Three Young Men in
Buggy Fatally Hurt.

A sad accident occurred at Abbe-
Vile on Sunday afternoon. Lem
Reid, a young man, died Monday
afternoon from injuries received in
the accident. Young Reid. with his
brother and Clif King, were In a
buggy driving down Trinity street
when their horse became frightened
at an automobile. Must as they got
past the automobile the bride broke
and as the horse bolted all three
young men jumped. Young Reid
fell and the back Of his head struck
the curb. He fingered until Monday
afternoon but never regained con-
sciou6ness.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
HAS LOST HIS GRIP.
That is What Horny Man Says
About Tillman.

In an interview given to the Char
lotte Observers Washington corre-
spondent, DeVaux Porter. of Horny
County talks Interestingly of Sena-
tor Tillman and another term in the
senate. He predicts that Senator
Tillman will never again take an
active part in the Senate proceed
ings, and will not be reelected when
his term expires.
1T is common talk in South Caro-
lina," said Mr.. Porter, "that for
physical reasons alone there would
be little likelihood of Mr.. Tillman
ever again being able to take up &C.
lively the work of political lead
er. Before this last attack he had
an illness that sent him abroad for
months in an effort to recover, and
since his retrun, though he seemed
about normal, he has dropped into
the background. All through the
tariff fight he seemed to be drifting
dlOuS- uo liuln 49, AAAAoh 0IAo
lost his grip on the state.
Ever since he defeated Hampton
for the senate his position had been
undisputed, but at his. last election,
when there was no candidate who
dared oppose him, fifteen thousand
men scratched his name on the ballot
just to show they. did not like him.
That was straw In the wind. It's
strange, but even at the height of
his power he never has been able to
name office holders in the state, and
the dispensary, which was his fav-
orite issue, has been legislated out
of existence, In spite of his strenu-
Gus defense of it."
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
Governors Secretary

Alexander Rowland, auditor OF
disbursements for the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens railroad, anil
one of the most popular young men
in Columbia, socially, has nc ~ ted
the offer made to him 10 he private
secretary to Coleman Livingston
Blease, Democratic nominee for
Governor.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
WRAPPED IN MYSTERY.
The Body of Young Lady Found
Badly Mutilated.

A special from Goderich, Ontario
saws Elizabeth Anderson, aged 16,
regarded as one Of the most beautl-
full girls in the city, was found MUIR
dered Tuesday in a deserted house
in the outskirts of that city. Her
father led searching party, which
found the body in dark corner OF
the cellar under a pile of clothing.
Her throat was cut from ear to ear
and the body was horribly mutilated.
She disappeared Sunday, after being
seen in conversation with a stranger.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
FRANK SALOON KEEPER.
HE TELLS WHAT BIS LIQUOR
WILL DO FOR ITS USERS.
The Remarkable Card Used by Il
Tombstone, Arizona, Barkeeper 70

Advertise His Business.
The Medical Journal prints the
following and credits it to an uni
Identified Lay Exchange. /"
Tombstone, Arizona, claims to
have the frankest saloonkeeper In
the United States. He keeps the
Temple Bar Saloon and advertises
his business in remarkable man
ner. He has had cards printed bear
ing the following words:
''Friends and Neighbors: I am
grateful for past favors and having
supplied my store; with fine line
of choice liquors, allow me to in
form you that I shall continue to
make drunkards, paupers and beg
gars for the sober, industrious re-
specable part Of the community to
support. My liquors will excite riot,
"They will diminish your COM
forts, increase your expenses and
shorten life. 1 shall confidently re-
commend them as sure to multiply
fatal accidents and incurable di-
seases.
"They will deprive some of life,
others of reason, many Of character
and all of peace. They will make
fathers fiends, wives widows, chill
dren orphans and all poor. I will
train your sons in infdelity, dissi-
patton, ignorance, lewdness and ev-
cry vice. I will cause as much tenn
poral and eternal death as I can. |
will thus accommodate the public; it
may be at the loss of my never-dy-
ing soul. But l have a family to
support, the business pays and the
public encourages it.
II have paid my license and the
traffic is lawful, and If don't sell it
somebody will. 1 know the Bible says
Thou shalt not kill, no drunkard
shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
and 1 do not expect the drunkard
maker to fare any better, but want
an easy living and have resolved
to gather the wages Of iniQuity and
fatten on the ruin of my species.
Il shall, therefore. carry on my
business with energy and do my best
to diminish the wealth of the nation
and endanger the safety Of the state.
AS my. business fourishes In proper
tion to your sensibility and ignor-
ance, will do my best to prevent
moral purity and intellectual
growth.
Should you doubt my ability, l
refer you to the pawnshops, the
poorhouse, the police court, the
hospital, the penitentiary and the
gallows, where you will find many of
my best customers have gone. A
sight of them will convince you that
I do what I say.
ALLOW me to inform you that you
are fools, and that am an honest
saloonxeeper."
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
FIENDISH ACT.
ruts Two Children in q Barrel and
Then Set 1t Affre.

Mary Gary, a negress, about 80
years old, Tuesday night, about ten
miles from Anderson, placed her two
little daughters, aged three and five
years, in a barrel, half filled with
water, rolled the barrel against her
house and set fire to the house.
She then went to the home Of g.
neighbor, nearly half mile distant,
and told what she had done. The
fire burned rapidly and in few min
utas the house was a mass Of flames.
The 5-year-old girl managed to get
out of the barrel and started off for
assistance. Before assistance came,
however, the barrel had become en-
rassed in flames and the little g.
year old girl was burned to a crisp.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
Fight at Fish Fry.

AT a fish fry in York County,
where there was much booze drink
ing, one negro attempted to carve
up another with a knife when the
other shot him with his handy pis-
tol. AS consequence, the knife
man was buried on Monday and the
pistol man Is in jail.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
Refuses all Food.

At Vancouver B. c., Inman Uhinn,
Hindu, under ten years sentence
in the provincial penitentiary, refus-
es to partake of the penitehtiary
food, which he says is "contaminat-
ed" because 1t is prepared by others
than those of his creed and caste.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
Sent Up Ten Years.

The trial of DR.. ". L. Vestel at
Greensboro, N. c., for performing a
criminal operation on a young Wo-
man at High Point. where he lived,
resulted in his conviction, and SEN
tence to the penitentiary at hard lab
or for ten years.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
SHOT BY GUN TRAP.
Which He Had Set to Shoot Expect
ed Burglars.

J. B. Beasley, a prominent mer-
chant and postmaster Of Rockport,
Miss. met death in a peculiar man
ner Monday. Several weeks ago
burglars robbed Beasley's store, and
tae postoff1ce In expectation Of an
other visit from the burglars Beasley
had set q loaded shot gun so that
when the door was opened the gun
would be discharged. Forgetting the
trap he had laid, Beasley attempted
to enter the store and the gun was
discharged. killing him almost in
stantly.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
LAWYER Drinks Poison.

Emmett Blackmore, "a years old,
member Of a leading eastern North
Carolina family and an attorney Of
Lenoir, N. c., committed suicide
Monday by drinking carbolic acid,
his body being found in his room at
Lenoir with note stating his p.ur-
pose. but assigning no reason for The
deed.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
Of Deaths by Suicide, Homicide and Ac-
cidents for Last Year.
FACTS THAT STARTLE.
The Statistics That Are Published
for the Registration Area as Conn
piled by the ureau shold Set
all of Us to Thinking and Hunting
for tie Cause.

IOEI CuC SAuSCs
External causes, other than sui
eide, were responsible for 47,135 OF
the deaths reported for the census
registration area OF 1909, it is stat
ed in the Census Bureaus annual
bulletin on mortality statistics for
1909, now in press. The death rate
declined from 97.9 to 96.7 per 1907
900 estimated population.
The total number of deaths from
homicide, as reported for 1903, was
1854, a decrease of 149 from the
number compiled for 1908. Not all
deaths from homicide are specified,
so that the total number that actual
ly occurred would be in excess Of
that compiled.
The increase in the death rate, 5.9,
from this cause for 1903 over the
annual average rate, 2.9, for the five
year period 1901-1905, is probably
due largely to greater precision In
the returns in this respect
Among the causes OF accidental
deaths, in the order Of numerical
Importance for the year 1909; were
the following:
Railroad accidents and injuries,
6,659; drowning, 4,55S; burns and
scalds, 1892; injuries at birth, here
after to be classified under diseases
of early infancy, 3,50S; injuries by
horses and vehicles, 2,152, not in
Guiding injuries by street cars, L.
1873, and automobile accidents and
injuries 632; inhalation of poison
Gus gases, including eonfagration,
1,s37; other accidental poisoning, l.
779; accidental gunshot wounds,
944; heat and sunstroke, SIG; cold
and freezing, 25l; lightning, $50.
There were LIZA fatal injuries BY
machinery, chiefly in factories. but
the large number, 10,10S, of acciden-'
tai traumatisms Of unspecified ma
ture makes it necessary to consider
MANY of the figures given abovs as
only minimal, and it is important
that the means of injury be specified
in all returns Of death from acciden-
tai violence.
The slight numerical increase IN
the deaths, S,402 from suicide regis
tered fer 1909 over the number, g.
332, for 1908 is less than the rela-
tive increase of the estimated popu-
lation Of the registration area, so
that the death rate decreased from
1875 to 17.2 per 100000 population.
The most common means Of suicide
for the year was poison, 2,464, fol-
lowed by firearms, 1885; hanging.
1875; asphyxia, chiefly by illumina-
ting gas, 9S9; cutting instruments,
5s6; drowning, 507;, jumping from
high places 1856; crushing a.; and
other or unspecified means 58.:
Undoubtedly many deaths, from
suicide fail to be reported so, that
they can be complied under this
head, but the increasing precision or
statement of the natrue of the death
in cases of deaths from violent vaus-
es renders the statistics more accur-
ate from year to year and thus ac-
counts for some of the apparent in
crease in the death rate from sui.
eide.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29
VIII Decide Today.

Commissioner Watson is in Wash
ington, conferring with the President
as to his acceptance Of his recent ap-
pointment. He will decide today.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-29


II am not asking. nor have ev-
er asked, that there should be leg
al enactment protecting any one, In
dividual or corporation. But when
the government is committed to the
doctrine of protection by legal enact
ment, I think those who are the vic
tins should resist this unnatural
condition by invoking the law OF
God-which is the law Of supply and
demand-and, by standing solldly TO-
gether, force it's operation.
IF the price of manufactured ar
ticles is forced to artificial heights,
and the great body Of wage-earners
laborers and producers Of the ra"
material are forced to pay these ex-
orbitant prices, reducing them to alb
ject poverty, who shall gainsay their
right to combine in every depart.
ment of their life and demand such
remuneration for their labor and
their raw material as shall Offset the
price what they have to pay to rob-
ber barons Of the manufacturing
interests?
"Under the law, 1t is wrong for
me to carry consealed weapons, but
should some one threaten my life
and I know not where nor when /
may meet him, what jury would con-
vict me for preparing myself to de-
fend my life at any time or place
where this threatening foe might
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-01-19

is the one who always wears a frown,
is cross and disagreeable, and is short
and sharp in his answers. Nine cases
out of ten it's not the poor fellows
fault, its his liver and indigestion that
make him feel so miserable, he can't
help being disagreeable. Are you in
danger of getting into that condition?
Then start at once taking Billiards.
lIerbine for your liver-the safe, sure
and reliable vegetable regulator. Sold
by Perry & Thomas. Jim
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-01-19

Hogs are acting the hog" in price
just now. AT Chicago Friday they
reached the enormous price of 50. AT
Pittsburg they went to 1920. With the
exception of short period in 1882, when
swine sold at 1895 per hundred weight,
the so hog has not been seen here since
the Civil War Continued intense cold
impeding transportation and an appar-
ent hesitation of producers to market
their hogs are the primal causes of the
abnormal advance.