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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-11-30
Education Board to Nee. Next Month.

The state board Of education has
been called to meet in the governors
Office on December at 10 o'clock.
This is the regular winter meeting
and the board will have little except
routine business to consider. j. s.
Wheeler, superintendent of education
of Newberry county, rendered his
resignation on November %. The va
cancy must be filled by the board.
Several prospective applicants are in
terested in the position and will very
probably present their claims when
the board convenes. Several appeal
cases from Lexington and Anderson
counties will be heard and several ap-
plicants for teachers certificates pre-.
sented. W. H. Hand, the state high
school inspector, will present his re-
port upon which high school appropria.
tions for the scholastic year 1911-'12
will be based. Any patrons or citizens
who wish to be heard. the purchase or
exchange Of textbooks should COM
municate with the governor, the ex-
oficio chairman, or the state superin'
tendent Of education. the ex-oficio sec
cretary, of the board.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-11-30
South Carolina New Enterprises.


The secretary of state has issued
commission to the Arthur Hard
ware company of st. Matthews, with a
capital stock Of $4,000 to do a gen.
eral hardware business. The petition.
ers are G. w. Arthur, G. A. Baxter
and James w. Haigler. A charter
was granted to the Lancaster Light
and Power company Of Lancaster, with
capital stock OF $4,000. The officers
are Leroy Springs. president; T. Y.
Williams, vice president; Waddy c.
Thompson, secretary and treasurer.
The company proposes to furnish light
and power. A commission has been
issued to the Carolina Lumber com.
pany OF Columbia with capital stock
Of $4,000. The petitioners are T. L..
Outlaw and C. j. Cook. The company
will do a general lumber business. The
Georgia Horse and Mule company with
capital OF $4,000 has been commits
stoned. The petitioners are c. F. Par.
ker and J. B. Johnson. A commission
has been issued to the Real Estate
Holding company Of Sumter with a
capital stock Of $4,000 to do a general
real estate and investment business.
The petitioners are D. r. McCallum,
Jr., and David z. Noise.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

head and body. and caudal appendace
something like that possessed by the
majority of well-known fishes. Its
mouth IS on the under side and it can
only feel the way TO it when feeding.
But the real curiosity about the narcine
brasiliensis is the fact that it carries
ITS own storage battery with il on all
It's wanderings and that it has the
power of recharging the thousands of
NIUE cells when they become exhausted
using Its power over and over again
There are really two batteries. They
are located where one would naturally
expect TO find the breathing apparatus
OF the fish TO the right and the left
Of the beady black eyes and back.
They are kidney-shaped occupviug per
hapss one-third of the upper part OF
the body.
When at peace with itself and the
rest Of the world the torpedo fish
swims around at leisure or rests in shal.
low water, burrowing in the sand at
case. but if attacked the battery Is
discharged and the enemy is glad 10
call 1t drawn battle if it can swim
away. 1t gets its prey by using its
batteries to supply the necessary cur.
rent TO kill, but it must first complete
contact with the object of its at.
tack
Men have spearcd these torpedoes in
shallow waters and have caught then,
in nets, but on handling them have
been very glad TO call it OF and avoid
further shock. Fisherman have been
| repeatedly knocked down by a contac.
with them.
The species is common along the
south Atlantic and gulf coast. the elcc.
tric ray in the museum coming from
the west coast of Florida In bulle,
tin 2S of the American Museum of Nat
! ural History j Russell Coles says;
They can give a powerful shock
and | have been knocked down many
tlmes when experimenting with this
fish, vet could make no record Of this
peculiar form of electricity, as it had
no effect on my battery testing needle
and II would not light little electric
lamp that required but two and hal1
| volts.
Several barefooted fishermen have
! been knocked down by stepping on the
electric ray In the water. They re.
main soft and rubber-likc in formalin
solution that hardened other spcci-
meas.
There is one adult ray and fourteen
| little ones in the division. The little
rays in life are capable Of numbing the
human hand by contact.
| Mr. Barton a. Bean and Mr.. Alfred
| C.. Weed OF the division of fishes have
written paper on the fifteen rays
which has been published under the
title of ~ An Electric Ray and It's
Young From the West Coast OF Flor.
ida Proceedings United States Ma,
tioral Museum, No. lS1G. with eS-
cellent photographs of those wonderful
| specimens.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

The cause of the constantly recur-
ring famines of Anhui and Kiangsu is
the sitting of the rivers, which have
for centuries and have choked their
outlets and raised the levels of their
beds. The Chinese in their ignorance
and lack of forethought have depleted
the natural forests of the country
which should hold the SHOWS. In China
science is only beginning to find a
place, and the so-called paternal gov.
ernment is only now waking 10 its
responsibilities.
Among the missionaries and other
foreigners who are working at the re
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

teacher, Are you not coming to see
our misery? We are sore distressed.
Our house is empty We are death
hungry. Your heart is broad. Be,
Iieve usl Compassion! Do not pass
us by!'
The heart Of the famine e-relief work
er who hears such appeals as this and
must pass on is wrung with distress.
He feels criminal not to have cart
loads OF grain and be able TO give
back life TO these living dead. And
it would require only twelve pounds
Of rice to keep one of them alive dur
ing the forty days TO the harvest of
the spring wheat.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

lief of the present famine sufferers
there is a great plan afoot for tbs
opening of the rivers and for other
wise controlling them. but the enter
ing, requiring the expenditure of so
much money that it would seem the
Chinese government alone can under
take it,
Hitherto the Chinese gentry have
looked upon pestilence and famine as
necessary evils of nature designed 70
reduce the surplus population. But the
present years are showing that the
ideas of the west are at last making
headway in this ancient empire.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18
Typhus Adds Horror

AS we got further along the ridge,
away from the high land towards the
wheat fields now covered by water, tine
extremity of the people became more
intense. The trees mad been cut down
and sold as firewood in last effort to
raise money-the bark having been
stripped off first. Wood. always com
paratively scarce in China, is this year
in this district half its usual value,
there being good supply and few 10
purchase it, Roofs of houses here have
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

rice for which the enumeration was
being taken was still ten days off
The happy sunniness of the people
of Nangsu is far from this Anhui
| famine region. Death is stalking IN
every village here, over a track of
country 200 miles long and more than
100 broad, 1t contains about 100000
people, of whom the famine holds in
its grip approximately 100000.
Flood upon flood has ravaged this
district. AS though not content with
its work of last fall. carrying away
the crops that were about to he har-
vested, the rivers have again this
spring washed over the land, destroy
ing in some places as much as 40 per
cent OF the spring crops which alone
stand between many of these people
and starvation.
weeks of rain are TO be seen along
the Tientsin- -Pukow line, by which l
came. The road, now under construc.
ton, is already running to Lin Hwai
kuan. ninety miles north of Marking,
into the borders of the famine region.
In one five mile stretch of low country
just north of Marking the high road.
bed has slipped away in places, re-
curing constant rehllipg At Lin
Hwai Kuan, the junction of the rail
way with the Hwai river-the princi.
pal waterway of the region-the river
is ten feet above its usual height.
flooding in upon the wheat While
most of the land [ saw about this dis
trlct Is not under water, there are to
the north of the river submerged
stretches in some places. according to
report, twenty miles long.
Eat Roots of Trees
At Lin Hwai Kuan | walked along
ridge wide enough for a single line
of mud houses, extending from the
dry fields out to the water In front
OF the first house, that nearest the good
land. an old man, shriveled until one
would think the spring wind might blow
hlm to dust, was carrying an armful
of the bark of trees and their roots
not his firewood but his food.
1t Is not question to the relief
workers as TO who is hungry and who is
not. but one of deciding a race with
death. The problem is which of the
people can possibly last until the har.
vest, forty days off, without help. and
which must surely die unless help is
given. This old man could last. He did
not have the yellow in his skin or the
pallor that warns Of death g approach.
a woman in the next hut was pre-
| pairing bark for eating. She had boiled
it after grinding it TO pulpy flour,
so that now it was a brown, fibrous
| glpe-llke stuff Every hut had small
| bunch of weeds for food water weeds
dried in the sun, looking like black ex-
celsior. Not kernal of grain was visi-
Bile. There Is 2 little nourishment in
these weeds if mixed with some rice
but eaten alone and constantly they
bring on a swelling of the abdomen and
body that results in death,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18
Electric Fish Fights
Foes With Shocks

A RECENT addition 10 the di-
~ vision of fishes in the new ma
n tional museum in Washington
has proved one of the most
interesting specimens in the entire col
lection. 1t is the electric ray, known
in the language of the scientist as the
narcine brasiliensis. harmless enough as
TO name, but capable of repelling its
enemies in q manner peculiarly its
own, which gives il its common title
Of the torpedo fish.
The electric ray is of the skate va
riety. with broad, fiat, nearly oval
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18
People Are Passive

Such argument in China is called Ii
Geason). The long inuremeut of the
Chinese TO repeated years of suffering
and their long centuries of training in
the doctrines of Confucius have given
them an iron.hke power of control. So
now they sink their own terrible per
sonal distress and bow 10 "rea son
Surely ! do not exaggerate when | say
such treason in our land could not
long prevent rioting and pillage, fire
and sword
ON one mound, as we approached
close to the path leading 10 it, q man
and his wife appeared weakly moving
towards us. We passed by their path
and their hope was gone. Then they
called out despairingly: Foreign
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18
,scribes Horrors of the Chinese Famine District
Where Two Million Human Beings Are Starving

sutttfe1ugs of nat,ves told in grabh,c
bhrase by uOeN k,poaon American author and trav-
|ky-7Ae unbearabs silence Of the PATIENT starring
born of the uery dregs Of human
after flood has svebt an0ay the CROPS
ewed bark the only safe food 1ft-Watey needs that
oduce fatal s0e1bng of the body raue,pousy eaten
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

disappeared. Tho straw and reed
thatch have been sold for food money.
! Typhus. which, with an intermittent
fever prevails, has added it's horrors to
the burden of these people
The last dwellers on the ridge were
a family of three-a father. mother
and son. Their hut was hole in the
ground. covered with ragged part of
sail, patched with straw; their food,
nothing that could be seen; their field
the boy pointed TO the water at the
foot of the ridge
The father lay partly inside his hut,
his head in the sun at the low entrance
way. He was suffering from typhus.
He did not move. not even to open his
eyes though it had been noised about
that the foreigner was around. and sucn
news brings the hope OF food Later
he did painfully crawl TO a changed
position, when the bones of his neck
fairly protruded through the skin. He
could eat weeds no longer; he was be-
yond this. The reaper already had him
in hand and the end was close.
Effect of Eating Weeds
The mother was told by her wizened
son--a gentle-eyed boy of comely face.
unutterably sad-that the foreigner
o..
she could not see. for her long starva-
tion and the eating of weeds bad
swollen her eyelids until they closed.
Her whole face was likewise painfully
puffed out. kneeling 10 us she bowed
her head to the ground but said not a
word; then sat quietly before us as
though she knew that her visible suf-
femngs were her best appeal.
IT Is terribly saddeniug to turn away
from these people without Immediately
helping them Looking back upon them
we saw them patiently, sorrow
fully following us with their ewes as
we departed. not offering the slightest
resistance to our going, though their
maddenlng hunger, were they western
sufferers. would surely drive them to
murder one who could but would not
help.
The dibac local district father
talked to them back behind us few
yards. We could hear him saving that
we had come 10 see their pitiable posi-
ton and possibly write their names on
the list of those who would receive
grain which might come within week
They must not beseech us. thew must not
hang upon us and hold us back: for we
knew their misery. he told them. and we
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

suiYerings of the hordes Of
) natives In times Of fam
1s always awakened a sym
& interest in western
lea, In particular, has sent
iouB times, scores Of ship
& grain, and millions Of dol
assist the stricken multi
tie last famine Of them all
ipped the people of Anhui
Is told in this article
young American traveller,
ck Moore, author Of 1.-The
Trail" specially for The
Ike Tribune.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

'E by rail across Kiangsu
kovince from Shanghai &c
mixing one afternoon recent
the odors of clover and the
eenness that prevailed every
We one the quiet happiness OF
the midst of spring time. Thl.
Kiangsu is a fertile, happy
beauty. Crops are always
Re and blights are unknown
IS of yellow lowered tsal w
seed) are like strips of gold
he green. as though some god
m the tops of the hazv blue
poured down streams of gold
heat, high even at this early
0vers the land so thjckly that
cn of brown earth is visible
glorious sheen of the tsai VI
|reaks the prevailing tint. The
oo, are as sunny as the buds
ers. They have a refreshing
|nness. The women are deli
|aceful. rosy of face. and self
h bearing splendid people
ely country. Yet they are
ally comfortable, not wealthy
nowhere rich.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18
Famine

your eyes over the hundred
railway north OF Marking,
Efze mort, and YOU will awake
ring, hungry faces peeripg into
Eyes. big and glisteping, in
a deathly rallor, drawn by
Rer of months. seem to look
you, and something gnaws al
irt. They do not complain noI
these bitterly starving people
1e silence of their suffering
,eir meek and patient gentle
n out Of the very dregs of hu
cry. that are unbearable.
ices of two women stand out
mind among hundreds / have
hey were evidently sisters and
of good birth, A crowd OF
"a or more once honest farm
ioT IN the most bcggarly rags
fhered in the village street be
of the foreigners OF the relief
Be, and among them were
fers. They kept on the edge
<owd but they were part OF
might mean food.
neither hopefully nor de
-, they kept their eyes on the
and obediently went where
age elder bade them. Their
ore white and seemed to be
INTO their great long suffering
did not seem that they could
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18

could see their suffering and would
send them help if we could.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
Handsome Hand BAGS

We will offer some very special
values in fine hand bags. Includ-
ed are the fashionable alligator,
Seal and Walrus grain, Suede and
Cork feathers in black, brown and
grey. Various shapes and styles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
POLICING THE WHITE HOUSE
NO OTHER BUILDING IN AMER
ICA so CLOSELY WATCHED.

FOrty-Two Men Besides the Secret
Service Officers Who Guard the
Person of the President Are ON
Duty Daily.
Probably no other building in
America is so we'll policed as the
white house. 1t takes AZ men to do
it daily If any mischievous stranger
should seek entrance he would not
get far. Twenty-four men guard the
outside of the building and IS the
inside. Eight are in the executive
ofhces. Fourteen guard the white
house within and without at night.
Inc number Of men enumerated does
not include the secret service men
who guard the person of the presi-
dent and who are sometimes in SER
vice to guard the members of the
presidents family.
Every door to the white house has
its policeman constantly on guard.
There are always two in the base
ment of the executive offices, where
there is large door leading to the
street for the reception of supplies,
There is always policeman at the
kitchen entrance. Two men in liv-
cry, not policemen, guard the main
entrance into the white house at the
north porticO. In the daytime there
is a policeman in the east room and
one each at both stairways that lead
to the private apartments of the
president and his family on the up
per floor. There is a policeman al
ways in the basement, the entrance
to which is from the east wing of
the mansion.
At night a policeman guards the
basement corridor of the interior,
another the corridor of the main
floor and another the corridor of the
upper private floor
Outside there is constant vigilance
in front and in the rear, if the white
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

house may be conceived as having
any rear. The south front is as
beautiful as the north front and in
deed more so.
A policeman is always on guard
at the south porticO, and especially
so at night. One parades with the
regularity of a sentryman the half
covered corridor leading from the
white house to the executive offices.
That the white house should have
to be thus carefully guarded may
seem strange to Americans whose
chief executive is after all only
democrat who is citizen temporari-
ly holding a high public office. But
1t is necessary. Three presidents
have been assassinated, although
none ever at the white house. 1t
would seem none ever could be be-
cause of the vigilance kept there.
But fierce light plays upon the
white house and the occupants of it,
especially the president. 1t attracts
all kinds of people, and cranks are
ever dangerous. Many is the one ap-
pretended before he has gone far.
And in this land of liberty there are
also other people who have danger
Gus ideas centering on the life of the
chief magistrate.
Besides, Americans, and especially
American women, are very inquisi-
tive, and given much to vandalism.
They come in shoals to Washington,
and their first thought is the white
house. They want to inspect it from
bottom to top. They want to miss
nothing, and many of them would
like to take away mementoes. Their
audacity and lack of manners and
observance of other proprieties is
amazing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
CONGRESSAlENS STAND BY THEIR A1ILEA GE:
URGE THAT WE NEED THE MONEY!

WASHINGTON, D. Can at
tempt to cut down the amount of
mileage paid to members of congress
for their expenses in going to and
from Washington, and a controversy
over the extent to which democratic
economy should effect the clerkships
to committees, brought about a long
debate in the house this afternoon,
and resulted in the defeat of pro-
vision for nine clerks to committees,
entailing an expenditure of Sc per
day each.
Republicans charged the democrats
with not having thoroughly systema-
tized their affairs and with trying
now to add some of the clerks that
previously had been dropped when
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
A SURE ENOUGH "CLEANUP DAY" IN DAWSON

is of personal benefit when the very
life of community is involved. If
we ever hope to make this town what
it should be we can do nothing less
than join heartily in any movement
for the public good. No use to waste
time in dreaming of the splendid
things to be done in the future fill
we'll the niche where you are now"
The civic work needs you; not
your neighbor, but you.
The women of the club real
ize full we'll that they have under
taken a big job. Be glad if you can
help in the movement even little.
1t would be an inspiring sight if for
once we could see all of Dawson pull
ing together for the old town. Some
one has aptly said that woman is
the guardian of home," and those
behind this enterprise have very de-
cided opinions that they are keeping
right within their sphere pushing
along the movement for cleanup
day, which they hope will reach to
the utmost limits of our city. The
people took hold of the work fairly
well last year, and surprising
amount of trash was carted away.
Now that the civic work is better or
ganized far reaching results ere ex-
pected. Mrs. T. E. Gurr, chairman
of the Civic Improvement committee,
has carefully planned the work, ev-
cry member of the committee agree
ing to put her own premises in san
itary condition and enlist as many
others as possible. Friday, May 5,
is to be known as cleanup day,
but the chairman urges that the work
of collecting the trash be not post
poned till that day, but that all trash
be placed convenient for loading the
carts Thursday afternoon or Friday
morning. This is important that the
work be not delayed.
The colored people of the city
responded we'll to the call last
year and it is believed they will
do even better this time. We can
properly appreciate this when we re-
member the number of smallpox pa
tients the city handled last winter,
and much work is necessary to pre-
vent return of the dread disease.
A prize is offered the colored person
having the cleanest premises may 5,
Cleanup day cannot be a success
unless all unite their best efforts
The following committees will
have charge of the different streets:
General chairmen: Messrs. Tom
Harden and F. M. McNulty and Mrs
S. B. Gurr.
Fouth avenue-Mrs. T. S. Martin
chairman; Mrs. R. NJ. Stewart and
T. S. Martin.
Lee street-Mrs. J. G. Dean, chair.
man; Mrs. J. e. Wilkes, Mrs. ]. G
Parks, Mrs. /. P. Cooke and r. r
Marlin.
Sixth avenue-Mrs. M. H. Harper
chairman; Mrs. w. R. JONES and L
G. Durham.
Seventh avenue-Miss Mary Horn
ady. chairman; Miss Belle Cheatham
Mrs. E. r. Jordan, Mrs. L. Lamar
Mrs. B. M. Roberts and E. T. Jordan