davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-10-01
Sheriff is Killed.

Frightened citizcns by this time had
ieIcptoned for Sheriff Iammc'i at
Fayette. Summonine Former Shprin
ellis to accompany him. Hammct
started for Harriston on horseback.
arriving about > o'clock \ small
crowd OF men were firing into the
seed house but no one had vcntured
TO lead the posses to the place. Taking
few men with him. Sheriff IIammctt
started toward the building sncing
this move, it is believed Walter Jones
crept to the tall grass nearby ana as
Hammett approached the negro fred
killing him instantly. a shot from tho
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-10-01
seed house brought down Gnlis.

seed house brought down Gilis.
BY this time the countrysid had
been aroused and farmers came pour
ing in from every direction. Everyone
opened fire on the seed house.
y call was sent to GOV. Brewer for
/ troops
Finding his hiding place too pre-
carious, Will Jones started to run to-
wards a coal chute nearby. but had
gone only few steps when bullet
ended his life, y rope WAS placed
around the body, it was strung up to
telegraph pole near the station and
became target for everyone not
shooting AT the seed house.
Soon after Will WAS killed Walter
with deadly aim picked Tom Weeks. a
negro. off the coal chute. Either the
bullet wound or the fall would have
killed him.
Negro IL l..nchcd.
Not long after Weeks was killed the
special train. bearing the Natchcz
Guardsmen arrived and this seemed
to have cowed the desperate. AS thny
were o''r''hihs me crowd rushed the
''o" "o"Se' No' shot greeted them
"''u "S ''' 'e"uerS went INTO the place
VIZ" "'""h Weapons theN SAW Jones
o"'P'c'''E uhherNed bnt not injured.
i"'! ""''NlH paced rope around his
"'" rushed MN to the "onl
>''"''' '"' rope was 100 small and as
'''' "'S'o WIS uraWh up the rope
''o"' anu ne 'e'i heaNlIN to the
. 9'o''''"' No' Worn or act OF pro
'''' '"''' 'ro" Jones as larger
'o'' " - ''ro"h around ms neck and
"s''' he was pulled up-and the
'ooN'" o" as uhe drug
''.u' ''''' "o"S swung uh'l' HE was
ne '''"" '"eh went TO TN" home
VI '''' "'SroeS' "here they found two
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-10-01

'N''Vi II w as assumed tnc death
list was nine the body of Teller War
rem, negro was found in a hut In
the negro quarter where Walter Jones
first began firing. Evidently Warren
was one of the FIRST victims but just
when he was shot is not known.
Twenty persons were injured, 16 of
them negroes. None of the negroes
were dangerously hurt.
Killed and Wounded.
The dead:
Sheriff G. B. Hammett, Jefferson
county, shot as he was leading posse
to where the negroes were hiding.
Former Constable Frank Keinstly.
shot at his hone after being called to
a door.
Claued Freeman. white. of Faycttc.
shot at railway station while waiting
for train.
Johanna Aiken, Tom Weeks, Jesse
Thompson and Thad Grayson, negroes.
Killed during promiscuous shooting.
Walter and Will Jones, negroes
lynched.
Teller Warren, a negro.
Wounded:
Orrin Gillis, former sheriff, shot in
shoulder and may die; Il. b. Oaplcby.
conductor of the YaZoo & Mississippi
Valley railroad, shot in breast. leg
and arm, dangerous William MEGA
lnh gh hnt -,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
EXPERIMENT STATION.

To provide means for research and eX-
perimentation state forest experiment
station OF 100 acres was established Just
south of Syracuse in April. 1912 The col
lege gives four and five year profess
SIGNAL course leading to degrees of Is. ;.
and NJ. F.: one and two year ranger
course on the college forest OF 1000 acres
at Wanakena. y. Y, and a state forest
camp of four weeks in the Adirondacks
This forest camp was held for the hrst
time during the n onth of August. 1913.
The writer was invited this summer oy
Dr. Hugh p. Baker, dean OF the College
OF Forestry. to visit the sophomore camp
on the Catskll Forest Experiment Sta
ton at Eliza Park and found there
twenty-six or more men applying the In
struction they had received during their
first two years at the university. Asice
from the daily routine work In and among
the trees and grounds, lectures and IN
formal talks were given every morning
and afternoon. questions were asked and
answered. there was judicious blending
of the practical and technical. and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
FoResr SERVICE HUNTER 81 BlLLT MEADOWS,
OREGON, WITH SpEcIMEN' Of BEAR az OTHER.
ANIMALS KILLED

logue made this statement: "A science Is
not taught with q view to the training of
scientists: II IS taught with the sole view
10 the training OF practical workers.
The topics treated In the classroom are
invariably and Immediately worked upon
in the woods-a combination Of classWork
and Woodwork. that necessitates a con-
tinuous soiourn OF the entire forest school
In the forests.
IumoeriuE timber cruising. engineer
ing and sawmilliug arc studied in the
Southern forests. In the lake states ana
on the Pacific Coast forest planting and
the development of forests raised by
human aid are studied In Germany and
in the Adirondacks. and 10 these I'VE
headquarters the entire school Is taken
during the school year. During the
winter months the school is situated at
Darmstadt. Germany. the historic birth
place OF forestry. through Hartig, Hun
deshagen and Heyer and here. In the
midst OF forests. between the pineries OF
the Rhine Valley and the hardwood
forests OF the hills skirting II, the school
studies the Black Forest and the Spessart
Mountains. famous for their primeval
white oak. here are state forests. town
forests and private forests. and here the
German lumber market and the export
and import of lumber into Europe are
studied
In the early spring the school Is brought
back TO four weeks study OF the
Adirondacks; in the carly summer 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
q CAMP Of FORESV
SERVICE TIMBER eSTiMArO0S
az EAST SLOPE OF CASCADE
MOUNTAINS, ORsGOk

LEGISLATURE esta blished a New York State
College OF Forestry at Cornell University.
owing to unfortunate circumstances aris-
ing from the management of its lands In
the Adirondacks the college was closed
IN 1903. For several years following the
closing OF the college at Cornell there was
an increasing feeling that the state should
not be without "A strong college OF for
estry. and I'm July, 1911. the Legislature. by
special act created the college at syria
cuse. The organic law of the college obli-
gates il not only TO carry on profess
sional course at Syracuse University and
a ranger school OF one and two years on
the COLLEGE forest in the Adrondacks, but
requires also that educational work be
done throughout the state wherever the
people are Interested in the forests or IN
their animal life lnyestigative work must
also he carried Oh for the purpose OF
solving problems connected with the pro-
lection and management of the state
forests and the reforestation OF waste
lands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07

much older than themselves. Here are
the facts. Listen.
Robert Louis Stevenson's wife was old
enough 10 be his mother. Anne Hath
away was seventeen years older than
Shakespeare. Dr. Samuel Johnsons wife
was double his age-he was thirty, she
sixty, when they married.
lie ordered another beer.
THE BARONESS Burdett Coutts was
forty years older than her American hus-
band Mime. Recamier was seventy-two
when her husband was twenty-four. Lady
Randolph Churchill has just divorced
George CORVALLIS West, who is twenty
six years her junior"
But. Tom" said his wife, "Burdett
Coutts and NJ. Recamier and CORVALLIS
West. have they achieved any literary
fame"
III they haven't they ought to have" he
answered. 1T all bears out my point.
IT will help In the article. one more
beer, waiter, and not so much froth this
time"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
SLIGHTLY ADUlTERATED.

NJ Andre de Fouqueres, the celebrated
Partisan cotillon leader, talked TO "A group
OF reporters before his departure for
France about the American woman.
1T is a mistake to suppose that the
question Of money plays an important part
In American marriages" said VI. de Foul
auieres. THE love match is not rare In
deed 1t is much more common here than
with us"
Smiling. the F'ronchman added:
II believe there are few Americans girls
who would answer. as the candid New
York debutantc did when asked IL she was
marrying for pure love.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
VERY LIKELY.

The young Prince OF Wales has been
forced by his mother to resign from the
Burlington Club OF oxford University,
this organization being a little too profit
gate to suit the straitlaced Queen.
Apropos of this incident, John G. Wing
field. "A Rhodes scholar, OF Denver. said:
oxford is a funny place. Magdalen -
pronounced Maudlin there. Full term
means three-quarters OF term. Cen
eral admission day is the day not when
YOU enter, but when you leave. An 'ordi-
nary degree is one obtained by a special
examination An inspector OF arts Is not
an Inspector. but a student.
Confused by these things. new
Rhodes scholar said at a tea shop in the
High:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
AT THE SHORE.

Henry r. Law. the Denver sociolosist'
was Ieoturing at Atlantic City on
eugenics.
ITS a had thing for eugenics he
said. when ii rich old man IKE "opsd
Code marries a young ana peau'ilu VI
chorus girl. It's bad for eugehics-lt
also bad for the rich old man.
"Gobsa Gode sat alone on vino
swept pier the other night when TWO
gossips from the hotel Joined him.
"'Mr. Golde.' said gossip, 1'l tell
YOU. IL YOU wish. the names of all the
men who have kissed your wife during
your brief stay here.
.Humph' said the aged plutocrat
how many names do you know
Six the gossps answered in
chorus
oh, get on with YOU, said Goosa
Code. I know eight myself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
1T EXCITED HER APPETITE.

The banality of sea poem by Alfred
Moves led Philadelphia sonneteer At
the Franklin Inn to say:
This poem OF the sea reminds me OF a
young woman from Illinois who saw the
Atlantic for the first time last week at
Cape May.
"As she stood on the windy beach, gag
ing dreamily out over the vast blue ex-
panse OF tumbling water. | said to her:
so this Is the first time you've ever
seen the sea, eh?'
Yes, the very first time she an
swered.
And what do you think of ito |
asked.
All she said. with an ecsta;ic smile.
II smells Just like oysters
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
IN THE FAR WEST.

In Montana, Idaho. Washington ana
oregon large lumber companies have
taken a very progressive attitude toward
the question Of fire protection, organizing
timber protective associations and en-
ploying trained men 10 put into active
effect systematic plans for the protection
az the timber under their charge. The
mmbermen i'm the Northeastern Maine
and New Hampshire-have gone further
and have begun to reforcst their waste
lands. Here is the opportunity for the
trained forester. who must be prepared
TO estimate standing timber, determine
the best method OF cutting. estimate the
future growth and participate in the act
nal numbering and milling operations
even TO laying out roads and railroads.
1t is just these positions that the young
men trained I'm the forestry schools are
best fitted to fill The Biltmore Forest
School. the oldest of these schools in this
country is soon to begin it's sixteenth
year. Barring the New York State
school. recently opened in connection with
the Syracuse University, IL is the only
school OF purely technical forestry In the
United States. In its original announce
ment. sixteen years ago, the school cata-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07

moves again to the Southern Appalachian
Range. In North Carolina, In the late
summer the young men are taken To the
lake region and quartered Ia logging
camps I'm Michigan. In the late fall the
school moves again to the giant forests
of the Pacific Coast. where numbering is
conducted on d gigantic scale. and here
the problems confronting national for
estry within the national forest are
studied In detail. Even this travel is not
sufficient for the thorough principal Of
the school and. SO on their way back
from the West the young men are
stopped at Washington and hear special
lectures on special subjects connected
with their work. delivered by the national
authorities on tho general subject OF
forestry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
REALLY DELIGHTFUL.

William H. Maxwell the superinten-
dent of New York's public schools, quot
ed with no little zest at a recent dinner
composition based on a moving pict-
ure play that had been written by boy
Of ten.
The composition was very long and
very delightful. The best paragraph
ran:
THE villun curlcd his mustsrsh and
seeing the pure vurgin shreeks Ina ha
be mine or deaths blud is on my head
this dagger stabs thee To thy utermost
sole ha ha vengunze vengunze. But the
good hero kurses and says hevins
hevins stur won step and thy ded body
lies AZ my door. lay won parm on the
virgins korpse and IL was better If you
was drownd with a milestone. Avarnt
avarnt from this sweet korpses presume"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
SOME SALARIES

Graduates from this Bitmore school OBJ
tain salaries ranging from SIS TO $50 a
month. Some OF them are already looking
At positions with salaries OF sl,0c0 a
month-whch will BE within their reach
before long. To-day over thirty-hve Bilt-
more graduates are employed I'm the for
est service. "A dozen In state forestry and
some seventy-five I'm private employment
these last at excellent salaries.
The New York State College of Forestry
at Syracuse University was designed eS-
tabished and supported by the state as
the institution for educational work In
forestry in New York. In 1898 the state
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
IN THE PRE.sLAsH PERIOD.

W. r. Hosac. of the Chicago Dress
makers club, was condemning the
slashed ski.t on the score OF its sus'
gestiveness.
Relaxing moment from his serious
vein, Mr.. Hosac told the following story
~ was very much astonished,' said
one man to another, to hear that Blanc,
the rich old bachelor, had married the
Widow Starr at Atlantic city. | thought
he was only flirting with her
"'IIe thought so, too was the reply
And this said Mr.. Hosac. ''was in
pre- slash days, mind your
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
A FAILURE EXPLAINS.

Like all literary failures, he laid the
blame on his wife.
Yes" he growed. over his ninth beer
and twenty-fourth cigarette, "yes, you are
too young for me. I'm forty-four, you re
only thirty. That means YOU amt seri-
GUS. I've wanted to work. you've wanted
e. sport Result, no fame after all these
years"
Eyes. Tom she said. but hadn't VIC
better be going nOw?'
wait till I've had three more beers
M said taking a notebook from his
pocket II want to tell you about an
article I'm getting up--an article to prove
that successful authors must have wives
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
HENCE ITS ORIGIN.

Every superstition, or nearly every
superstition. can be traced back to some
thing sensible and rational Take the
Friday one, for example"
The speaker was Mayor Reuter- OF
Lansing
Take the Friday superstition" he re-
sumed "One Lansing clerk said to an
other:
Would you start off oil your vacation
OH Friday Bob"
"'You bet your life ! wouldn't Bob
replied.
What superstitious ass you are
"Bob"n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
THE GERMAN FORESTS,

seven years ago a canvass Of the Ger
man forest. covering an area Of over
100000 acres, showed net annual yleiu
of 81 20 an acre. practically representing
a capital OF $50 paying per cent interest
Tho German government is deriving
very considerable part OF her revenue
from ner forests because she has an eX-
pert to care for each $500 acres OF her
forest lands At this rste our national
forest. amounting 10 approximately $780, =
100000 acres. would require 10000 mem as
against present force Of about 1000 But
the annual yield Of our forest averages
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
THE WORK BEFORE US.

when We consider these bits OF con-
crete knowledge about our torests "'
should also remember that by reasonspe
thrift We can produce a constant timber
supply beyond our present need; tns'
under right management our forests WIZ
yield more than four times as mucn d.
they yield to-day; that We can reou'e
waste in the woods and in the mill anu
can practically stop forest fires. anu"
we act vigorously and at once-"e can
escape permanent timber scarcity ="
this we can do II we can but interest 'e
Young men OF the country In TINS Wos'
fascinating study of forestry. with then
help we can gain place OF adVdn'ase
second TO none in the world. ana 'H"'
benefit will become not only nauo""
and state benefit but will also multipH
tho value. as well as the beauty, OF the
forests of the individual owners W pe'
cent OF whose property is no" oe"'s
wasted. For every million acres OF io'ee'
I'm public ownership there are more t'aa
four million that are privately Owned,
the saving OF the one-tifth OF public u"
her be of Yalue OF bow much srea".
value will the conservation OF the o'"''
four-ifth belonging to private o"n.
ship? There are approximately S'"o
OF these private owners In the I"'''D
States. Now. what does all TINS Inea
to the young forester? Just THIS "o'
steady pay to all beginners; rapio su
vsncement TO every brainy worker enV
nous incomes to those who work out a.
vantageous plans to preserve and oesu''.
the estates Of our millionaire owhe''
forest lands. and even larger incoih''
the few who shall be enabled TO 80 "
serve the timber lands that they mag
used to the best possible sdvantase
manufacturing purposes. :.
This Is the field for the young NV"
to-day. We have but begun our prep'.
tory class in our universities put
wise youths will be those VINO eH'e' -.
forestry classes now. BY to-morro" -.
demand will be far ahead OF the supp',
and happy the man who mas "'
ready to MI the position offered him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
OUR FRENCH.

Mrs. Taft. seated I'm the saloon OF thu
Rotterdam, spoke French so nuently that
Chicago woman ventured 10 congratu-
late her.
ut is fact" said Mrs. Taft. that
We Americans. as rule. either speak no
French At all or else we speak 1t very
badly.
Where did you learn French a
Partisan asked New York woman at
the Ritz.
From native was the proud an
swer.
"'Ah" said the French woman. A
native OF WHAT"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
OUIPS AND JESTS FROM HERE AND THERE

"How queer by lingo! How queer it
all isl And II | go TO the oxford depot
and ask for ticket by train to London
will they give me a passage By steamer to
Marseilles?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
WORK AT HOME.

Speaking Of the advantages Of study
ins the trees In the Black Forest IN
Germany and the big trees OF California.
one of the professors Of Columbla-"ho
WAS walking through Central Park at
the time-turned to the shrubs at the side
Of the path and said: why go so far
from home? Make up your mhd p"
spend two hours d day with the shrup'
man in this park. and by Septemoer-N
YOU have a tongue In your head ana
receptive mind-by September YOU VIII
have absorbed enough information ABOUT
forestry TO compel you to give Up any
other means of livelihood and ind your
self enrolled in the list Of students al
some one OF our good forestry schools
statistics are always more or less
boresome: nevertheless il is true that our
industries which subsist wholly or mainly
upon wood pay the wages OF more IMAM
/. goo men and women, and that these
industries represent an investment OF
more than s2.250000.0oo, and yield each
year a product worth nearly S.cpV"V"
II is also a fact that forestry Is prac-
tised on 20 per cent of the forests puo-
licly owned and on less than ! per cent
of the forests privately owned, or on only
Is per cent OF the total area Of fores's,
that while We have yearly growth OF
less than 1000 900 cubic feet OF lumber
We take from our forests annually
%. 900 COO 600 cubic feet that forest nres
burn millions OF acres and destroy
billions OF feet Of timber annually ana
that the young growth destroyed by nre
Is worth far more than the merchandise
timber burned and that no country taxes
poorer care OF it's private forests tnan
ours, and. on the other hand. no nation
has a more wholesome and enthusiasts
public sentiment for the right use OF tue
forest than our own.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07

Superstition be hanged" said Bob.
I wouldn't start off on Friday because
Sa turdaN's paNdaN''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
Pecos NATIONAL foResr
SuPeRvtso4s HEADQUARTERS.
CARRYING TELEPHONE UP-ro
LOOKOUT PART OF INHALATION

previous two years course was riveted
with practical examples Of the PROPOSE
lions studied during the winter. The
Young men were all hardy, sturdy speci-
mems of out-of-doors living. They had
keen eyes, hard muscles and an evident
enjoyment Of every branch OF their for
estry work and were all looking forward
! to remunerative. if strenuous. employment
In the near future.
TIL. entir. forestry question in the
State Of New York is in the hands OF the
! Conservation Commission. There are six
agricultural schools in New York State,
but the school at Syracuse is the only
one to which the commission is giving
/ substantial pecuniary aid Here some
/ thing like $4,000 has been appropriated,
soj0O 900 has been laid aside for suitable
| building and salaries aggregatng NolW
wear are and have been approved.
/ Columbia. without assistance from the
state, is starting in its department Of ag-
| riculture three lines OF forestry work; ID
/ Elementary and Fundamental SOL and
/ field crop-animal husbandry-and farm
management (2) Regular college courses
I'm Kings College; and 49, Graduate study
of field crops-agronomy-the study OF
soils and crops. The botany department
has a course i'm timber and woods Tor
engineering students and second course
/ on the farm wood lot DR.. Darling
has A class of ten. and the timbers class
numbers fully thirty. New York State
has many local problems Of its own such
AS the handling of small preserves like
the Palisades. county farms. etc POSI-
tons of value In this state require a
| four years course and postgraduate
work in soil botany and chemistry, but
these graduates are snapped up al $40
! and so a month and expenses. and In
| some cases have already been promoted
| 10 places paying $3.50 and 5000 year.