North Carolina Newspapers

' V 3 -v':.' IT- .;l v "s ' s ' VOL. I NO. 7 SYLVA, N: T f JUNE 25 1915, $1.00 THE YEAij:m ADVANCE -- -- "v; - - - - -- - .. 1 1 1 NH S SENTENCE COMMUTED TO LIFE I" sr BENT. 11 Atlanta, GaM June 21. Leo M. Frank's sentence this morning was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Slaton. Frank was taken ! secretly to the state prison arm at Milledgeville. Frank was-to be hanged here tomorrow for the mur der of Mary Phagan in April, 1913. Governor Staton was still at his country home this morning when lie announced his decision by teie phone to the Associated . Press. In his announcement the Governor dictated the following brief state ment: "All that I ask is that the people of Georgia read the statement of my reasons for commuting the sen tence of Leo M. Frank from death to life imprisonment before they pass judgement. Feeling as I do about the case, I wouia be a mur derer if I allowed this man to hang. It may mean that I must live in obscurity for the rest of my days, but I had rather be plowing in a field than to feel for the rest of my life that I had blood-on. my hands;' Governor Slaton is completing a lengthy statement giving the rea sons for his action ana he said this would be maife puSilkter:" HOW FRESH AIR' CURES TUBERCULOSIS i A patient in a tuberculosis sana torium writes to the State Depart ment of Health to ask, "What is the effect of fresh air upon the germ of tuberculosis in the lungs?" Reply. There is probably no di rect effect of fresh air upon the tubercle bacillus in the lungs. The fresh air affects the patient and makes it easier for him to fight off the disease. The healthy human body has its "fighting edge," which enables it to hold its own against the tubercle bacillus if it is given a chance. Great numbers of people become in fected with tubercle germs who do not develop actual disease because the germs cannot gain any foothold. It is the people who live in over heated rooms and breathe the air of dusty factories and get too little food and sleep who fall victims to tuberculosis. Dissipation and at tacks of other diseases also prepare the way for it. Life in the open under medical advice, breathing fresh, cool air and surrounding the body with fresh, cool air these things somehow stimulate the system to resist the invading germ, build up it- vital resistance, so that the patient who has just begun to develop tubercu losis succeeds in overcoming the germs and at last gets well. In every case of tuberculosis and in most other diseases as well there are two sides, as there are said to be to a quarrel. It is just as im portant to strengthen ' the body as weaken the germ, and this is what fresh air does. Indeed, we cannot by medicine or in any other way attack the germs of tuberculosis. GBQWiH eUJLOSWirSE ANiLPREy NTION BY THE OLD BOY. M From the cradle to the grave is a brief span at best, for death seems a part of the plan of nature. But death, as understood by " most peo ple, is a termination of some dis- ease, or else is the wearing out of the body through. years of weakness and decrepitude. -Some trees die when they are a hundred years old; and examination shows that they have succumbed to disease; while millions of other trees live to be a thousand years old, and -show no sign of coming death, - We pass people on the, streets who a few years ago were in mid dle life; now they are bent with years and seem feeble; so the re mark is made that they are getting old. The next we know of them they are housed by infirmatives and cannot get out at all; but must be waited on by others. They are nearly helpless. Most psople hope o ;Jie before they are broken down. This kind of old'ae is wrong and unnatural. Everv night the human race en ters that state known as sleep. No person lives who has not slept. If the faculties are normal and the body in healthy, the i iglt's dumber comes on easil,T and is welcomed. Sleep is the type of death; it is the forerunner of the iart repose; and there should be no difference be- tv'een one and the other. If you ! uovc dr tn t-i i nKGTrl U i wV i priyeio uie; u5erM.yu?facuUies . .; , !-- and unable to to take care of your self, you would think this a strange world. Likewise it is abnormal and u -aiurhl that you should take to your bed for the last time in this life, and die from the accumulation of infirmaties. One sleep is like the other. OLD AGE IS A DISEASE CAUSED BY AN EXCESS OF MINERAL MATTER IN Trfe BLOOD. Certain curious laws and rules come into effect as we contemplate this proposition. In the absence of mineral matter the body would be like jelly fish. The growing child is large or small in bodv according as the supply of mineral matter is great or little in he food. The size of the child at birth de pends on the growth of bones prior to that event; and the growth of bones depends on the amount of mineral matttr in the diet of the mother. Stunted childred have lacked a ; sufficient supply of mineral matter in the first year or more of life. Rickets or similar bone diseases are caused by an insufficient amount of mineral matter in the diet of the child that has begun to grow to normal, or average size. Where babes and young children have been given food that contain ed an unusually large proportion of mineral matter, the body has grown to unusual size, as size is merely bigness of bone structure. When growth of the body is at tained at the end of youth, the sup ply of mineral matter should be at once lessened. Some persons go on growing untillhey are thirty or forty years of age. There comes a time when the body will cease to add to its size, and its excess of" mineral then be- I gins to clog in the arteries. Mineraaeieii it clo:s ihs arteries; biile?istinct. barrier ' to the opeins:pBlfe. Stony de- posits in the Jsodohot only cause pain, but lead m:reak:down. i The veinahdSbiox)d vessels of vS iiv - u the heart, as wellias Us . artnes, be- come in tiintJfewith a thin deposit of R&e afiiother mineral matter, which- prevents the repair of the tisanSresurts'-in a thin- ness of the, parts that may ive away. It is in this manner that j i :..-'-v :v: sudden death, from heart disease often occurstvX1 - f The blod'-pa.s'f leading' to the brain is likewiseiMpgged and made thin and brittle, and give way easi ly under any strain; or pressure in the circulation, causing death from apoplexy more readily. Althrough the jiier veins of the brain itstif this rmieral cloggiag and coating is taking "place, harden ing ihe tissue arid-lessening the flexibility of - that organ. Memory is impaired, the power to think is weakened, and new ideas are never received. All beliefs, except those of earlier vears. are either denied or else enter onty ht t e shallow parts of the brain. r . ' j- (To be continued.) flf Calexico, Cul., Jme 23:" Martiai I .w has been declared h re and in , , .lexicali, Mexiccfefijst across ;;..that 1.5--Ivy- v,iiSjhrMF i &rrrT 1 n rvn.tr- Mk towns wThcn" rocr alter xmsfs earth shocks last night. Reports o! at least 12 killed and many injured, have been brought here by refugees from the Mexican town. Many build ings are in ruins and hundreds slept in the open. Los Angeles, June 23. -Reports - oe :--,.oro earth shocks which rcsiikcd ia tiifc death and injury of at least fifteen persons and consider able property loss by fire last night in several cities of the Imperial valley, covering several hundred square miles, were received here to day. Telephone and telegraph com munications in that district were interrupted and the information con cerning the quakes is meager. The1 greatest damage was at Calexico on the Mexican border, where the loss of life occurred. Early reports stated that the town had been destroyed by fire but telephone employes at El Centre, who talked over the wire, reported that the fires had been confined to three buildings. Many buildings in Calexico were shaken down. Two shocks were experienced at Yuma, Ariz., at the same time San Diego and San Bernardino were also visited by t vo slight shocks. Ga zette. . DEATH OF MRS. MOLLIE B1GHAM Mrs. Mollie Bigham, wife of Ex Sheriff David Bigham, and mother-in-iaw.of Ex-Sheriff Woriey, died at Mr. Worley's home June 20, 1915. She was buried Sunday, 21st, at the new Methodist' church near Mr. Worley's, A good congregation at tended the funeral service. She was a model Christian. We have a full sketch of her life which will appear later. The people of the en eritire county sympathize with Mr Bigham. FULTO 4 REPLIES TO MR. ZACHAHY . The Jackson County Journal,, Sylva, N, C. j)ear sirs ; , ' ; , . I have read the article on apple bliht by Mr.T. R. Zachary in a recent issue of jthe Journal. He has given a very good description 0f the insect iniurv caused, bv a partiCular species of beetle which ! . . ... injury is "similar to ba3tenal blight. , This similarity has caused some "people to call thebeetle the blight beetle. However the two troubles i are distinct, and anyone 'can tell for himself which of the two may be in his orchard by looking closely Both may exist together. , All the specimens I have seen from West ern North Carolina this spriog, in cluding several from Mackson county, have been the true bacter ial blight. Mr. Zachary has given the indi cations of the insect trouble. In the case of the bacterial blight you will not find the punctures at the bases of the fruit spurs, or the fruit spurs, or the extended burrows in the pith, or the worm stage of the beetie in the stems. You will find a marked brown discoloration of the inner bark a ad outer wood of affected -parts. You will iind on many ot tne sappy oues or on young affected fraits of sticky sub-j stance, oozin& ut a the. sariace y in close' slit) WenT :vftk imSfri ovicfta': put the affected twigs in water over night and get this ooze on cuttin higher up and squeezing This ooze contains myriads of the bacteria. A little of it put under the bark of new green growth will produce, the blighted effect in about a week. Any one can try this in oculating for himself,, covering the puncture with wax to prevent drying out if done in dry weather. The disinfection of the pruning wounds with one to one thousand corrosive sublimate solution is to kill any of the bacteria that may, have been accidentally smeared there from the tools. Thif trouble is an old and well known one. A little can be found any year. When conditions favor the extensive spread at blossoming we have its worst effects, at this season. Very probably there will follow several years with much less of it. But no one can tell when there may be another epidemic. It is a wise thing to take every pre caution to destroy the infective material that may make further trouble. Old neglected trees of ap ple, pear or quince are the principal carriers of the disease through the winter. Do not let it work down watersprouts into the large limbs or trunks of ypur trees. While the trees look pretty bad now, and the ( loss in the fruit crop has been very severe, there is no reason for undue alarm about the future of the apple industry. If anyone has difficulty in decid ing between the two troubles re ferred to, specimens may be sent for identification to me or to The En tomologist, Department of Agricul-f ture, Raleigh, N. C. H. R. Fulton Agriculture Exper. Sta. West Raleigh N.C. HARVE SpMERD CAPTURED AFTER SH8RT FREEDOM. ? Canton, Jun;? 15 Harve Shep herd, convicted .of shooting Rev enue Oflicer;.. B. Slaughter at Franklin, Macn County and who Awards escaped while serving a sentence on.tlje Haywood County ...i. . T J v Au i . roads, was oaf tured here last night by W. A. MedW,. road supervisor of Hay woofr cbunty. There was a reward of $20i offered for Shepherd. Revenue - Officer Slaughter was deputized tb id in the arrest of Shepherd at ranklin last v Dtef and in attempting to take the man, the of ficer lwc shot several times. He was da ig&rouslv wounded at the time, a..d$. ;f.:erd, w jo was captur- ed, was held ftjr gome time to wait the outcome &f the officer's injuries ShepherdVas finally tried mid convicted of Assault with intent to kill, arid was jiven a term of t !ve rrfonths on the roads. ' As tie con victs are notiworked on the roads of Macon County , Shepherd was sent to the Haywood county roads. After a shortime he escaped, and had not beWiocated until captured last night, i ! i Shepherd s;people live at Canton, and he ha( evidently itaken a chance of be!ng recognized to come, here to see them. Road supervisor Medford will 'claim fhe reward of. ered for Shepherd.- Andrews Sun.- I mm Raleighmine 22 Charles J. Har ris, former republican candidate for governor and one of the wealthiest of Western Jlvfdrth Carolina men. headed ainoiig the list of charters issued yesterday a $200,000 corpor ation. I' . It is the ffarris Tannery company of Sylva, Jackson county, C. j. iiar ris, R. W.j Harris, S. W. Enloe of t)illsboro ap E. L. McKee of Sylva, being :he stockholders. Gazette. NORTON Our little: town is progressing very noticably. Vernon Detmere of As' evi?ie4ias put up a general merchandise- store heie. .We are glad to welcome him in our midst and we .wish rhim success in his new undertaking. ; R. L. McGuire and W. P. Stewart : spent the week-end with friends at Blantyre. Mrs. B, Norton went to Glenville Thursday.! R. L. Caldwell, his daughter, Miss Irene andlMrs. Detmere of Ashe ville, are spending a few weeks at this place." Mis es;ay Zachary and Winnie Norton are-attending the Summer Scho-1. :f W. F. flolden of Glenville, was here on bUsihess Tuesday. Preaulo Stewart has gone to High lands, wltere! he has accepted a po sition. 1-Vj. Dixie dnd Rogers Coward have returnedtq! ttieir home at Webster after speaking the early part of the summer 0fitM their grandmother. Mrs. B. Norton S. L. Mc6uie,'Jr., made a busi ness tript to Ufenville Wednesday. B. Nortop madea. business trip to Cullowhe ;the last of the week. JMr. aiiiiMrs. Mack Fowler of Glenville,yereihere Thursday. Jay Zee. II A: 5- -r.i t I 7 ' ? l! -'f fii V "M 3t VI It 1 t V , ) 1 r r ii ! t if i 'I ! t , Sir r T..-iW."'- V-1:.' -'.4 ' - :'.. 'U : . . . -T ; . - .- -i . - - - - ' ;..! .s- -,. '.'-,