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'hoe Monroe journal VOL. 19. No. 36. MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1913. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. THE T Mil IF HI II. KH.XF.II. IVrhltlrnt WHmiii a Happy .Man When lie ' Hi Nam? I 1 1 The First Step in tlx- I'lutcre t.t lie-form Mud a Se-eeli. The first (treat step In the e.ii of reform exported under the W.t son administration was completed last Friday night when at the White House the President attached his name to the tariff bill that had just paused both Houses. A happy group of legislators, members of the rablnjt, and friends encircled the President as he smil l.igly sat down and slowly affixed his signature with two geld pens. He presents the pen that had written the word "Woodrow" to Representaive Indt rwooel and the one that e-onipUttd his name to Senator Simmons, both of whom bowed their appreciation. PRESIDENT MAKES SPEECH. In Impressive silence the Presi dent rose and delivered in easy nat ural tones an ' extemporaneous speech that brought prolonged ap plause. Il declared the journey of legislative accomplishment had not l-eell completed; that a great service had been don for lh rank and tile 't the count i...; but that the second step in the emancipation of business was currency reform. U,. earnestly ..i.i... i.men upon ins coiieiigucs lo go me rest ed the Journey " with fresh impulse, (eiitlcmcn. I feel a vcr peculiar pleasure-." saitl the Proti- dent, "in what I Irtve just done by way of taking part in the com pie' 'ion of a great pie-. rf business. It is a pleasure w lilch Is very hard to express in words which are inade quate to express the feeling; be cause the let ling that I have is tha: we have done the rank and file of the people of this ccuntry a great servie-e. It Is hard to speak of these things without seeming to go off Into campaign eloquence, but that !s not my feeling. It is very pro found, a feeling of profound gnitl tud that working; with the splendid men who have cirricd this thing through with studious attention and doing jn.-tlce all round, I should have had part Li serving the people of this four. try, as we have been striving to serve tin in ever since I can remember. TELLS OK AMBITION'. "I have had the acconiplishmcn' of something like this at heart ever since 1 was a boy and know men standing around me who can say the same thing, who have been waiting to see the things done which It was necessary to do in order that there might be justice In the United mates; atnl so it is a solemn mo merit that brings such a business to it conclusion atnl 1 hupp I will not ie thought to be demanding too much of myself or of tny colleagues, cfg. They chatted and Jested with the President in an ante-room while waiting for the full group to appear. Vice President Marshall was usher ed Into the President's office fol lowed by Speaker Clarke, Represent ative I'nderwood. members of the cabinet, members of the Senate Fi nancial and House Ways and Means committer, and their friends. Xo photographers were admitted, as the President thought the occasion too solemn to be disturbed by flash-light apparatus. The guests crowded about the President's desk. "I chose 9 o'clock." explained the President slowly, "on the advice of the attorney general that the bill might b e signed after business transactions everywhere, including San Francisco, which has closed for the day." SPANKING FATHER. BY Pit. (Copyright, FRANK CRAXE. 1913, by F. Crane.) Ol'K UKA I TIKI I, (HTOISF.K. Month ln.mlse Kahr and I an All. Itound trtonl One Indian Summer and Harvest Memo. Now the farmers need dry and fair weather, not only to gather cot ton, but to prepare the land and seed the next year's grain. The fol lowing article from the Charlotte Observer applies equally well to this section: October, the month of so-called Indian Summer and the "Hunter's Moon" with its attendant beautiful lllftflll.llt nlvhld la ,inu. In f..ll e-U.. I , ' . " '. M.f,...., ,o nun ,uii n . nererniiitii tirtmi an. ,11 i.ih.u i iib uieseiu lliuillll. Hccoruillg ID In hail KKOM UVI.Vt; TOM II. when I say that this, great as it Is the aeeoiuplishmi at of only half 'ha j.Miniey. We have set the bus iness of tills ccuntry free from those conditions which have mtdo monop oly not oniy pcssiute, nut in u He-use easy and natural. Hut there is no use taking away the conditions of monopoly if we do not take away nlso the power to create monopoly; and it is financial, rather than a merely circumstantial and economic power. "The power to control and guide and. direct the credits of the coun try is the power to say who shall n ml who shall not build up the In dustries of the country, In which di rection they shall be built, and l.n which direction tiny shall not be built. We are now about to take the sect ml step, which will be the first step in setting the business of this country free. That Is what we shall do In the currency bill, which the lions' has already passed and which I have the utmost confidence tho Senate will pass much sooner than some pessimistic individuals believe, Itecause the question, now that this piece of work is done, will arise all over this country. For what do we wait? Why should we wait to crown ourselves with oonsu- niate honor? Are we so self deny ing, that we do not wish to com plete our success? (Jl'OTiCS SHAKESPEARE. "I was quoting to some of my col- leagues In the Senate these Iine3 from Shakespe-ire which have til ways nppciled to me 'If It is a sin to covet honor, then I am the most offending alive,' will I am happy to say that I do not covet It for my self alone. I covet It with equal ar dor for the men who tire associated wliih me and the honor Is going lo come from them. I am their usso elate. I can only complete the work which they do. I ran only counsel when they ask for my e-onnsel. 1 can come In only when the last stages of the business are readied. And I covet the honor for them quite ns much as I covet it for myself, and 1 covet It for the great party of which I am a member; because that party Is net honorable unless it re deems Its name and serve the peo ple of the I lilted States. "I so feel tonight like a man who 1h lodging happily In the Inn which lies half way along the journey and that in the morning with a fresh impulse we shall go the rest cf the Journey and sleep at the journey's end like a man with a quiet consci ence, knowing that we have served our fellow men and have thereby tried to serve Cod." It was an unusual spectacle which a'.temled completion of a legislative reform that had been seven months in Congress and embraced a tariff revision of a far-reaching character. Happy and Jubilant, the Invited guosts came to the executive offi- The country was agitated some days ago by the news of a gentle man from Indiana, a preacher, loo. who had deemed it needful to spai.k ids pa. Although I have enrolled my nunc en the ll.'t of them who do not be lieve in spanking children, and have thereto set down many and cogent arguments, I do not "wish to be taken as being opposed to spank ing per se. Spanking i.s a most wholesome and hoilth-giving eexerclso, and it is not without lis mental and moral advantageous by-products. Fathers often need it, and they are fortunate if they have sons hus ky enough to give them what they are suffering for. Whv, also, when Innumerable chil dren are being daily pounded a pos teriori ir.d nobody seems to think It's anybody's business to Interfere, should all Hi's hullabaloo arise when one child prncieds to turn the tables and rastlga;e dad a tilt? What are we coming to? Where is our personal liberty? Where the Invi olability cf family secrets? What next? There are a lot of people who need spanking. Let nie call a few to your mind. There Is the college youth put ting In his nights ami. diivs in ac quiring a set of ruinous habits and cultivating an ussorttne nt of snob notions, when he ought to be trjlng to l"nrn something in return for the money his parents are advanc ing. He Is going to be a gilded honchead, simpl) because there I.s no proper official to turn him over the knee and whale some sense Into him. There Is the ilowii-and-outer, the m in who thinks the world against hi mi, who can't try again, and who believes there is nothing now left for him but to go out Into the gar den and rat worms. There's no use talking to him. The only remedy for his case le n tough hickory lath and, a strong right arm. There are the women who are so sorry for themselves, who have ev ery eli-ee:ise l hey lies' r of. whose com plaining whine is as the unceasing Xovemlier rain upon the window. Of course we would not strike a v-.o-tnnn: there ought to be a spanking machine. I indeed, mere is the whole army of self-pity; the weepers who rule their husbands by the "tyrannv of tears;" the naggers, hiimin mosqiil tots, anil "the female of the species Is more deadly than the male;" the drunken loafers who "can't quit making beasts of themselves; the gentlemen content to let their wives tarn the living; the dudes and mashers who infest public ways, whose eyes Insult every decent wo man passing: the lackadaisical daughters who lounge about read ing novels or manicuring their nails while mother washes the dishes; the egoist perky ns a bantam roos ter, and lis pin-hendid; and t he whole dawdling set of Idlers, who never dream of doing any of the world's work, nre content to amuse themselves spending money other people have earned, and who, strange to say, look upon themselves as the superior class. Those to the shingle tind the slip per! Let us have no "cruel and un usual" punishment, not the boot nor the wherl nor the .Maiden of Nu reniburg! Xo. Turn them gently up. am! with the hair brush or other handy Instrument, and upon 1 1 1 place the Creator specially design ed for correction unto the soul's health soak 'cm! The question may arise, Who Is going to decide which individuals are to be spankere!? Tha answer Is siiinplp. If no one has any other nomination to offer, 1 will decide. the records which have been In Charlotte for a period of thirty five years, by "I'ucle Sam's" faith ful cllmatologist, commonly culled i tic weatherman, should be one with the finest weather of the vear. The average temperature for this month la b 1 degrees. The afternoon temperatures during past Octobers, nave formed an average of about Tu degrees, while the night tempera tures have averaged about 51 de grees. Such temperatures are suf ficient to give enjoyable outdoor weather during the day. and a sort of autumnal crispness to the noctur nal atmosphere. The month, normally, has been one with comparatively light rain fall, the average being but a little ever three Inches. Only one month, .November, usually excels in scanti ness of precipitation. Frosts usually visit this sec ion during the next four weeks, wilh more or less severity. The average date of the first light frost worth notlcii'g, Is October 13, and Hie av erage dale of the first heavy frost Is October 25th, while the first freeze or killing frost has not made Its first average visit to this sec tiiti in past years until shortly af ter the first of November. Local Forecaster Atto, when asked last night if such conditions as these were likely to prevail during the mouth, would promise nothing definite in the way cf fine weather beyond the customary thirty - six hours, but gave out the foregoing figures merely as a sort of index us to what might happen In the way of weather during this month. INDIAN sr.M.MER. Miner Who Stayed I'ndcrgruund Kigbt Hay t ame Out in Fine Ctmdilion. Centralis, Pa.. Oct. 4 Thomas Toshesky, prisoner since Friday of last week in an abandoned chamber of the Continental mine of the Le high Valley Coal Company, walked into the open air a free and com paratively well man at 22 minutes before 8 o'clock this morning. He was taken to his home ill Central is, three tniUs away, from his un- put apparently none the worst About We inn ii Shut H r Neighbor dickens. Enraged over u dispute with a neighbor woman concerning the hit ter's chickens. Mrs. Ho Steadman. a widely known reside ut of Springfield Mo., shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Ira Patterson. Roth women are 35 years old, the victim of the shooting has six small children, and Mrs. Steadman Is the mother of four. Immediately after the shooting Mrs. Steadman went to bed an' when the police arrived she feigned Illness so well that the officers ar rested another woman and were about to take her o jail on suspi cion of being the assailant, when one of the children of Mrs. Patter son declared, that the crime had been committed by Mrs. Steadman. This term Is onegenerally applied to the autumnal days following the rainy period during the latter half of September. The sky during tills pt riod hi usually hay In appearance and often for the greater part of the time, entirely devoid of clouds. Hut the period of Indian Summer belongs properly, according to the best authorities, to the month of .November. This period, with the Indians, consisted of nine days in November, during which they har vi sled their corn, this being follow ed by appropriate feasts and cere monies. "IIPXTER'S MOON. The "Hunter's Moen" belonging to October, Is the one in which the aborigines made their nutuniiial hunting expedi. Ions, preparatory to Hie ell) ing and curing of their whi te r supply of meat. The present 'i w moon now waxing, is the "llun tr's Moon." It will be note'd wliedi the moon becomes full that the usu al .In-minute pcri:el in the delay nt the time of rising, is considerably shortened, and the full moon will be seen to rise on several successive evenings, with a period of retarda tion of only forty minutes each even ing. The present month was, in earlier days, one of great jolifle atlon, the dance, the apple-paring and the quilt fug-bee being occasions of many social gatherings and enjoyment. These events have given way to the fair, the street-carnival, and that which brings joy to the heart of every boy, the circus! ! To the commercial world, October is more than welcome been usee it. In variably ushers in a period of re newed business acthlty. Especially Is this true of the presnt year which was marked by a period of ul traconservatlsm during the summer months when the tariff bill was still In its embryonic stage's and calam ity bowling was being indulged In lo some extent for selfish purposes. Now that all uncertainty has been removed, and the National Adminis tration has established itself In popular confidence far more firmly than the majority ever expected, with crop movements adeeiuately provid ed for, wilh business again in full swing, and, with weather that not only permits one to take a new in terest In life but that Inspires ev ery one with snap, ginger and con fidenre, October Is Indeed a happy month and thrice welcome to the Industrial world In Charlotte and everywhere else. It's a great month this October! tor nis remarkable exneriem-e. It was 7:15 o'clock when the last barrier of coal was driven away aud Toshesky crawled through the open ing from his prison chamber into the tunnel which had been steadily driven toward him by eager willing' rescuers. Seven minutes later the' first intimation was given to the j outside world, that the big task was completed and the prisoner was freeJ This w as when a miner craw led to1 the mouth of the tunnel and called to the lop of the pit for blankets and hot water to be se'tit down. The work of getting the man ready fcr his exit ooeupie'd the next few minutes mid lit ":.!X o'cleick a file of men emerging from the heading heraleled the approach of the hero eif the occasion, Toshi s ky came fremi the hole with u gray blanket wrapped about his shoul ders. Hack ef him was a niiiie'r hands tipralseel. ready to assist if he shoulel be needed, but Toshesky walked with astonishing iigility con sidering his experience. When he stepped Into the wood en platform just outside ot the mouth of tho narrow tunnel and was first able to stand upright b paused for an instant and looked upward, as if in greeting to the world or scanning the steep and muddy zig-zag path which led to the opening of the mine breach His miner's cap was on his head when he crawled through the op cnlng of the tunnel and greeted his rescuers. His lamp was in plae upon bis cap and burning. Toshesky wore the usual rough clothing and shoes of the miner The most noticeable thing about him was a pallor, which showed through the grime on his face, con trasting strongly with the other blacke ned miners, whose ruddy col or showed even through the coat of dirt. Toshesky cliiued the pith to the liln of the pit almost un nidrel. A stretcher had been taki'ii to the foot anil there were plenty of willing hands to carry him, but he would have none of It. His whole attitude from the time of the rescue until he disappeared beneath the lilankets of his own bed at home was one of semi-stolidity. Toshesky was glad to get out eif his prison, but be acted as if it we re an old story to him and noth ing over which to make a great fuss. Once before in his career as a mi ner he had bei'ti entonied for nearly 4N hours. Half way up the pit Tos hesky was stopped and posed for a photograph, togi'tlur with Dr. II. C. Former, who had been In almost constant toiiedi with him since ceiin inuiileatlon was established Tui'sday ni-iht and to whom i.i largely dn the geod health of the num. To.s. hesky wore Hie broadest smile of any person in the- vicinity when he was brought out. "Hello!" he gre'eted everybod who spoke to him. Ills one re-ply to nmv-'tiomi as to how lie felt was "llully." Just before the end of the tunne was enlarged enough to permit the passage of his body the miners en gaged in the work were chatting with hlni. One asked what he w doing, "nil getting ready to move this is no board house, no geiod bed, no spring, no nice boarding missus," he said. Hem- tht Itritjvli Tat lnlH-ritancri The British Treasury received an unexpected windfall fretin the estate of the late Anthony .Nicholas Brady of Albany, X. v.. ho died In Lon don last July and. whose property in the 1'nited Kingdom has been val ued for probate at $6,577,640. Death duties amounting to $1.U5, U'l wUl be paid to the British gov ernment. The death duties on prop erty in the British Isles, whether be longifg to natives or foreigners, are progressive, ranging upward from 1 per ce-nt en estate's of le-ss than $25uii. 2 per rent on between $25(10 and IS, uiin, r, per cent between $5.- ' and $25.imiii to 15 per ce-nt on estate of Jj.imio.oiiii and over. There are also legacy and suce-es-sioei elutie-s, varying in percentage. kKKI'I.Vt; O.KAN. Crop Failures. I!KAT FAMINES OF HIS(itV. By Frederick J. I iat-kin. The reeord of terrible seasons oi hunger begins early in the wen-Id's history, and the terrific tedl famine nas taken e:t Human Hie can only j the m wlih eyis be approximated. Some famine's an,' lii-i.i.iiiin,." .. The He-t of AH ret-auti us Again- tling Sit k. Philadelphia Press. The mother is the real doetor of the family. This does not n.eau she can cure diseases or should trv her hand at doing so. It dejes mean, how ever, that she can very largely pre vent them, which is a much easier task and has no magic about it ex cept daily attuition to the rules of cleanliness. Dr. Hygiene, in on" word, means keeping e-ltan. U is one of the happiest signs of llies times that the best aiels science can give are brought to the ebwr of the humbUst home. But cleanliness doe-s not mean merely washing a child's face and hands. It must go in elown- j right rashion all through its habits land surrounelings. It means clean air. ; clean feiod. rliui clothing, t n things to handle with its deft and , busy fingt rs. It means a house e cleanly from top to bottom that a youngster will find it the hardest job imaginable to ge-t hi., "peek of elirt." It is no longer a sign of te- jnhis that a child can make uiudpies 1 in the gutter. .No mother wisher !ei see lit r e iii! ,elren pale, puny, weak and aiiiiw. j She lias gi nuiei' pride in siv.ug bi i-l.l as da! -i s r v.! th misrl.i- v- were enie to eiroliins, seme to (lol-jous laughter. The v can h; ve limbs llges. a few to war. and some to as clean i.s a fiber and the soul of isolation, any of them ee.uid never a sunbeam in their gaze. The ei eiecur under present met hods of com-; enlists who have swept whole terrl- transportation, auditories free of dre-ad plagues l.v s.ini- mtiuiea:ioii and it se-enis certain that the w idesnreael elistress and the great death lists of Hie past can never ree-ur. No land was exempt from them iti the first fifty evuiuries of human history, o o o Tlie nineteenth century, especially Ihe first eight decades of it, prob ably showed a greater death list from famines than any other two e'en.iiries together. l! was eliiring this century that the- Irish potato lanon tell w mil. is ge el lor a cju tilie'tit is good for the house-hold. pe-ople starved to death in Louden, alone. o o o One of tlu longest families tu '.ie history of the raev was during tbe; ; last part of the thirteenth e netuo. jwhi'ii, for twenty years togiher there was an uiihre ken chain i.i ere n famine stared the tides of Irish i failures, of prie-e s that we re all hut. immtgi-ati-.:!! toward Amerle-an shores pre hiluiive te: the noeir. iiml eif buti- aud demons' raw d that truly it is an ill ivind that li'ows no good. Am' it was also during this century that India and China had the worst vis itations in all their history, o o ei The Bible freiimntly speaks of famine's In Palestine and its neigh boring countries, and the seven lean years of Biblical Egyptian history are salel to have begun in 17U8 B. C. There Is evidence poiutii.g to the fa-t that this pe rle-d of starva-1 l;i:i2 tion extended also ove-r the whole' there of Palestine. From that time to the end of the nineteenth century thi'i'e were nearly 4"(i famines extensive enough to be lis'eel in the literature of hungry people. o o o I'eune. early ill Its history, felt the pangs of hunger. In !;; II. C there was a famine so sore In the Eternal City that thousands threw Horses and saddles, hay and oth er feed stuffs Intended for the Mex ican Federal army or the revolution ists, nre not munitions of war and may be exported from the I'nlted States in'o Meexii'o without restric tion. This decision was given by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin in Interpreting of the Pres ident's proe-laniatlon of March 4th. 1912. forbidding the exportation of munitions of war to Mexico. Representative Henry Oeorge of New York, who de'slred to re-eom-mrnd several negroes In his district for appointment to Federal ' offices. called at the White House to learn President Wilson's attitude on such Appointments. Mr. Wilson told the New York Representative to ascer tain the sentiment of members of the Senate tn Hint r.uegtlon. Tin y arc Starting a Ci-eanu-i-y ill li-eele-ll. The suiTess eif the Catawba coun- tv iTi-amery at Hickory Is causing efforts to be put forth to build creameries in other localities. It takes about fiilu ceiws lo supply a successful creamery, and it) Imlell county a novel plan is being weirk ed. It has been deoldi'el to Imme diatrly place men in the field to work up und establish cream routes 'ending into Statesvllle for the pur pose of begin n ing shipments of cream to the Catawba Co-operative Creamery at Hickory. Those who will be sent out to establish the re ntes and get the cream wagons In operation have not yet been named, but it Is the purpose to assign erne m in to a certain route and let him make all arrangements for It. Once the cream wagons nre start ed, there Is little doubt that many mt;re cews In addition to 1hese al ready secured will be pledged Whenever the shipments to the Catawba Creamery are foutiel to lie suffii'icnt to support another cream cry, a h-ofil plant will be establish ed. Already marlv 500 cows have be en idgned up. I,M His Life- to Save (liililion. Edward Scully, suptrlnlendeiil In the Xew York street edi-aniug ele partmotit, saerificpel bis life to save a crowd of school children from n run-away horse. The norse, nticti- ed to a truek. was hwided toward a corner In Breoklyn occupied by two public se-hools. On the side walk were some 300 children. Scul ly dashed out of his office, seized the animal's bridle and turned it Into the curb. Although he check ed the runaway, he was carrieel. un der the horse's hoofs and killed. Ihe nisi Ives Into the Tiber to escape the pangs of starvation. In 1H2 A. D. Ireland was the se-ene of so great i famine that "hinds and housi s. territories and tribes were e-inpted.'" Tin a sand left their native Erin, and this Is saiel to be the f'rst tinw in his'cry where a great wave of e'liii gratfon was forced upon a people by crop failures. A century later England suffered the' same sort of a visitation, mid the people are said to have become' so famished that they knavvid the bark from iree'S like rabbits. Within a generation amit her f i mine overtemk England, and it Is said 4i',(Mlo people starved, o o o In nni A. D. Antloch was visited by a famine so serious that n bush i l of wheat brought "ell! pieces of silver, and a hundred years later Italy was the. se-ene of a scireity of fooel so great that many pare'ii's ate their children. In the years Imme diately preceelltig 700, England and Irelaml suffered a fate lis terrible as that of Italy, and Scotland and Ireland In turn suffered a like fate, while another time the ground of was "covered with dead boel ni! n ami beasts," starved to Wab s le-s of death. o o o The seven years of the lean klne of Egyptian History tedel about in the Iblii'iil history of Joseph, finel a counterpart In tne ramlite of Kgypi vviilt one In Russia. In 1 . A. D., whe-n the overflow minion neonlo iii. ,i ger throughout l he length mid breadth of England. Purllumciit, at. the? end of tins U-an ere, passe-el a law regulating pi-iies, ;,iul a rut;l proclamation was maiic forbidding i be manufacture of be-er. o o o lu lo2l England hail what is iv ganle'e! by most authorities as the last eif its serious famines. Hut tills was the beginning i'i a series of gruu crip snoring' s in Ireland. In whi'iit solel. lor flu a bushel A IimII' i.iitnrv ...t, l.i I" j 'was a famine of Hire, years in Eng land wnie ii was it t I'wititt d to tne boarding of corn. The mayor iiinl citizens of l.e'lleioll te t k out of the orphan's chest In their guile! ball money to buy corn and either f-nds beyond i-s setts, and provisien was made whereby the gi.ve rMiieut snid food to the poor at appeiiuti'd prie- s, where they were able to pay for It. atiel toeik notes payable s; vtr.il vetrs lie nee, where the-) were not alio lo pay cash. The English I'eor Law tlttis Ireiti I'lM! when liilee u Ulizahi ;h "t.l,s- r ing l lie general dearth ef corn ;-:.d oilier f.iotl.-', resulting pi.r'itiil) re;:u eliMiilh but priiii-ipali) fi-otii the grieiliness of the e-oni masters, is siuil a pi'cclaiuai ion rceiiiiriiig uov-e'l-llliient relief lo be exteueleel by the justices of the peace to the pJ-d" of the ir coliimunilii s." o o o Otle of the fr t,u 'ii! e;.mp! tin's in Eng-laml w is lit.,' loo ittmh graia produced tin re v,;,s solel abroad, t'etikethi.ni sti.vs that in I7!m; "s hh aniire utlee s end oilier miiiiih nennie about the city of Lonele-n. be;ng pine-etl of their victuals more then they bad been aecustoiu. ei, toetk but ter from the market folks, ptivia;; bin 3 pence a pound w he-n the own ers could not ait'e ril to se II it untied' 5 p.iii'e a pound; for which disordeT the said young nun vtie punished cn Hie 27th of June, by vvhippl.u, the pillory and long imprisonment." It was al. out this time tli.it England became very sowre on all people who gave short weight, or e.tUe'f.vts.' texik advantage ef the biivers of ft Mill. o e o There were numerous famine .e in the seventeenth, e-eniiitv, beginning lu which a half Wars cans d ui nee .un- i.iieee hi , , ee ,ir,u ,iamill PS 111 ire anil SI II 1 1 lie ' 1 i III XViC to put III its annual appearance. tlii ee ntni'v ' in lT'.ee; nn-. ,i n,. Two provllii'os were entirely depop-1 ri.... , the'nriat fiimim.s if Inella lilated, and half of the people of of w,i h we have record. It Is es- seven: 1 other provlne'es. r re narrbd timated that il.non.iMio pi't.ple died away by death or emigration. Ilrrt'd dnrlne this famine. :,n,l Hi., e'.ii-i- went so high that only the very : nologers of llm iierloel sav ilmi the It. The poor re- after the air was so infe-o'ed by Hie odors of rie-h could afforel ei " " " '-"i--1 decaying undies mat It was scare'e- ply of rats and other vermin wiib... D,;Ssible to cn n broad without exhausted. People on the streets I .,I.,.,.i..ino 1. ,.nil u iihoiit hwirinir were kidnapped by men dropping I ..lu,, ,n fran.i,. ,.rl,.H of the vle- l.uge fish hooks attached to ,im!( r tllJ fa,inp w)l0 wrre ,.,. rrein windows ami caicningi.,. PV,,PV ... iivr!lll. Hnrt diNith. When the i hin or by the cloth- low n ropes them under the ing. o o e In 1 252 England, was the victim cf a driditli In which no rain fed) from Whitsuntide to autumn, and the prices of foodstuffs rose to un prei'eelpiite el heights. Only six ye'irs titer the I'oun'ry was again strick en, this time us the result of cold north winds In the growing season. Many thousands starved, and fifty shiploads of foodstuffs were prev cured from Ormany. Citizens of .ondon were prohibited from deal ing In this food. In oreler to prevent any one from taking advantage of the extremities of the people. In new crop in many c; cam so tt o grow Hi of nineteenth popti-ceiit- ileveltipin nt of spite of the legislative efforts that were made to hold down, the price of America fooel, wiieut sold for more than o,and the a nusnei as long as tnere was any, That wa, the last to sell and In the end some 20,0ti0 inii nf irelnnit forward In August had no owners. o o With the rapid lation during the tiry and the slow transportation fai'tlitle's, there were ilemaiiels for foot! that coulel not lie nut. India anil Ireland were the worst sufferers. Ireland's first great peitato famine occurred In 1822, and was repeated at Intervals up to IS46. During the Itittur year It was supposed that a quarter of a million people died. Parliament ad vanced nearly $50, 000. out) for pre tecting the masses frem starvatieen. More than a million Irish left for to escape the starvation pestilence which followed. of the great fam-
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
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Oct. 7, 1913, edition 1
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