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THE PAGEHlb JOURNAL
Vol. 4 NO. 43 PAGELAND. S. C.. WCTMBBIp MORNING, JULY 8, 1914 $1.00 per year
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More Railroad Talk. has COIlsiriprOfJ E?ir1e /- A A nnn I -r- --
Albert D. Oliphant of The
Sttfte contributes to The Manufactures
Record of Baltimore the
following article on the coal terminal
building at Charleston for
the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio
railroad:
"After a period of conserva
tive and steady business expan- j
sion covering the last few years?
Charleston's industrial growth
will be accel erated by the coming
of a new railroad and the
building of huge coal terminals1
on the water front. Last Saturday
a contract was signed bv
offiwrs ?f tVio
w. ..iv jl Avrioiuii corpora |
tion and by Mayor John P.
Grace for the city of Charleston
under which the corporation
agreed to begin the construction
of coal terminals on its Town
creek site within 60 days from
July 1 in consideration of the
transfer of a 60-foot right of way
for a railroad to the Norlina
Construction company by the
city. The Holston corporation,
of which Mark W. Potter of
-Nfcw York is president, is a subsidiary
of the Carolina, Clinchfield
& Ohio railroad, extending
from Spartanburg, S. C., to the
rich Clinchfield coal beds in
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signing of the agreement for the
construction of the terminals by
<he Holston corporation makes
>it absolutely certain that Charleston
will be the port of these extensive
colli fields.
"The Clinchfield coal, it is believed,
will be brought to Bostic,
N. C., on the Carolina, Clinchfield
& Ohio, taken through
Charlotte, N. C., to McBee, S. C.,
J^^^on the Seaboard Air Line, transto
the, cargiiaa.
Atlantic & Western railroad and
carried to Charleston through
Hartsville, Darlington, Florence
and Poston. The link in the
Carolina, Atlantic & Western
which is to connect Charleston
and Poston is now under construction.
W. R. Bonsai of Hamlet,
president of the road, expects
the line into Charleston to be
completed in time to move the
oext cotton crop, although this
is, of course problematic. About
1,000 laborers are at work on the
Carolina, Atlantic & Western
between Andrews, S- C., and
Charleston. The line from Florence
to Poston was completed a
. few weeks ago, and is now in
operation. The Carolina, Atlantic
& Western railroad was recently
formed by the amalgamation
of the North & South Caro
linn C
.ma, me ouuui Carolina Western
and the Charleston Northern
railroads, all of which were
under the direction of Mr. Bonsai,
who is one of the big railroad
men of the South. His enterprise
is doing much to develop
Charleston and the Pee
Dee section of the State. C. C.
Graves is traffic manager of the
Carolina, Atlantic & Western,
and J. E. Hancock is general
manager, both of them veteran
railroad men.
' "President Potter is credited
with stating that contracts
amounting to nhont ci iaaaaa
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are required in connection with
the purchase of properties and
the construction of these coal
terminals. Preliminary work
was begun on June 29 by the
Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Dredging
company of New York to
construct large dykes around
about 70 acres of the terminal I
site. It is understood that the
construction involved will in
elude dock 850 feet long, with
deck of concrete cap on concrete
piles; fill retained by concrete
sheet piles; dock anchored to
base of concrete tunnel, supporton
wooden piles. Mr. Crosby |
uiuo UH UVV,VW
squar vards of dredging required;
storage bins to have capacity
of 650;000 tons coal; capacity for
loading vessels to be 1,000 tons
hourly; plants and specifications
by J. W. Frazier company,
Cleveland, Ohio; en^ineec^ has
considered bids on dock."
.Two Firemen Lose Lives By
Dynamite
Charlotte, N C., July 1.?Fireman
\V. B. Glenn was instantly
killed and J. H. Wallace, chief of
the Charloitc fire department,
was fatally injured bv an explosion
of dynamite while fiirhtinpr n
fire on Cedar street this morning
at 9 o'clock. Responding to an
alarm the firemen found a barn
burning briskly. It was while
jthey were fighting the flames
that dynamite stored in a house
nearby exploded.
I Chief Wallace died at 12:20
o'clock in a local hospital, where
he was rushed just after the
accident.
Three other members of the
department, Randolph Erwin,
Clyde Todd and Robert Barnes,
were also more or less painfully
hurt. The dynamite was being
used by a contractor who was
doing some street grading for
the city. The origin of the fire
is unknown, but there is a strong
suspicion that it was of incendiary
origin.
Claud Blackwell Pardoned.
Claud C. Blackwell, who was
convicted in the Mecklenburg:
count}* court of manslaughter
find sentenced t^> two years was
last week pardoned by Governor
Lock Craig and returned to Kerggihaw?SatUHlay
Kuoin'mg." iT-'Jg*
charge for which he was convicted
was the killing of Dr.
| Fred Meisenhcimer at Charlotte
two years ago, during the 20th
of Ma}r celebration. He had
served just about half of the sentence
given him by the court.?
Kershaw Era.
The Chinese For "Honk, Honk."
"If you can't talk, make signs,"
is an admonition cften given to
those who do not seem able to
make themselves understood.
nni
i ne western Christian Advocate
tells of a woman who had a
s~mewhat similar expedient, s
when she was in trouble and
failed to find the necessary
word.
A large German woman held
up a long line of people at the
monev-order window in the Boston
postoffice the other day, and
?ii i : - -
(in uecause ner memory went
back on her. She wanted to
send some money to her son, a
s. ilor on a merchant steamer
then in foreign waters, but when
she presented the application at
the window the clerk noticed
the address was lacking.
"Well wherp' do you want to
send it?" he asked. "We can't
give you the monev-order unless
vou know the name of the
place.
"Yah, dot's de trouble," she replied.
"I didn't bring his letter,
und I can't remember der name
of der town, but it's some place
out by China dot sounds like
der noise an automobile makes."
The two clerks looked at each
other dubiously.
"What kind of a noise does on
Y"
automobile make?" asked one.
"Honk, honk," suggested the
other.
"Yah, dot's it!" exclaimed the
woman. "Honk, honk, dot's de
place."
"Fill in Hongkong," said the
clerk, and she paid over her
money with a smile of relief.?
Exchange.
? Ut ' ' fiH'1 - ' 1
i ame Meeting At
The state candidatemjjugM^K
Chesterfield last
fore An audience of
hundred people aMHflfl^mH
the court room. C0ip9HH[^RN
man M. ]. Hough
Rev. J. L. Tyler ()ff^P9?^BHjH
vomtinn '
The meeting was
terized by any particwfi9^1g|lf-e?ting
features. It
able that nearly evorFBpppe
clared that he was raiSM^ffoe
farm, is a self-made man anrTis
now dearly in love with jthe
pee pul. If the :haracter Hnd
caliber of the candidates ccfaald
be judged by the account e^ch
man gave of himself an unwise
selection would be impossible,
for judging by these accounts, a
more honorable, consciencious
and worthy set of men never
offered their services to a poor,
J - ? *
uown-iroacien people. Tkeifc/>n
the other hand, if the accounts
as given by each other are true,
a more unworthy set would be
hard to start.
Candidates for lieutenant governor
were led by Andrew J.
Bethea, who was followed by
W. M. Hamer, A. J. Hunter and
B. F. Kelly.
The five candidates for railroad
commissioner made their
usual speeches. They wet^J.
H. Wharton, C. D. ForWL
Frank W. Shealy, W. I. Wit^^P
spoon and George W. Fairle^H
Candidates for adjutant ge^B
al, W. M. Mooie seeking re-^Btion,
and M. C. Willis, spoife
next, followed by Attorney Goo-v
eral Thomas H. Peeples andmis
opponent, A. G. Brice. 1
The 11 candidates for
nn^Jolk>*l|W 0>udiar<is^fl|BS
scales. Manning and the \fvo |
Smith's were the most popular.
"Mr. Clinkscales' plan of^State
wide compulsory education is
an impracticable thebry incapable
of being put into execution,"
said Richard I. Manning,
who was warmly greeted by the
audience.
"I asked Mr. Clinkscales to
answer in his speech today
where the money is coming
trom to run the schools and pay
the teachers if Slate-wide compulsory
education is put into
effect."
^ In Chesterfield county, Mr.
fanning said that a third of the
?oys were not in the schools
and quoted the county superintendent
of education as the authority
tor the statement that it
would take a levy of 15mim to
pay the salaries of the teac'iers
and the running expenses of the
schpote, exclusive of erecting
new ouildings, should all the
children he forced into the
schools now. <
"If you adopt Mr. Clinkscales'
plan you will give a backset to
education because you will not
have the money to make Statewide
compulsion effective," urged
Mr. Manning after he presented
his plan for local op ion
school attendance-"
"I glory in the spunk the
governor showed when he or lered
raided the Columbia club?
the Metropolitan club and
rich men's clubs," declared Wt|i
The speaker said thae-I^H
Browning and he were the <raly:]
human beings in the race|foFJ
governor.
"All the other candidates are
sanctified and ought to bi in
heaven." he insisted amid laughter.
Charles A. Smith recalled his
race lor lieutenant governor
against E. Walker Duvalh of
Cheraw, paving his opponent a
high tribute. He then developed
his arguments in favor of
submitting the question of St ate
. e
Jf
Rude prohibition to the people.
R "One of the candidates has
uied badly on this question/*
bid Lieut. Gov. Smith, referring
to Mr. Clinkscales.
| "Does Mr.. Clinkscales stand
for compulsory education
among the negroes?" sjsked
Lieut. Gov. Smith further on in
his speech.
. "It is an insult to the poor
man to put in a class by himself
and to infer that he is not as
good as anybody else," declared
Mendal L. Smith in the coufse
of a speech in which he advolocal
ODtion rnmnnlsnrv nrtn^o.
tion. Ilis condemnation of indiscriminate
pardons aroused
the audience to applause.
"I asked Mr. Clinkscales, Mr.
Manning and Mr. Smith where
they were going to get the
money to run the schools if any
one of the systems of compulsion
they advocate are put into
effect and they have not answered
yet," said Lowndes J. Browning.
He held that the constitu
tional State tax of 3 mills for
for school purposes should be
abolished in order to effect
other tax reforms.
"If you are going to iea^e the
3mill tax in the constitution,
then make it a State tax and
divide it among the counties
equally," urged Mr. Browning.
He said that the same principle
should be applied to the education
of children that now applied
to the pensioning of veterans. |
44rT"*l_ ' - -
i nere are jv,/vv white children
out of school while the
schools are running," asserted
John G. Clinkscales.
"South Carolina gives Clemsoj^
$300,000 a year to educate a
thousands of
cTollars to Winthrop ana this year
$30,000 to eradicate the cattle
tick, placing the tick above the
children." said Mr. Clinkscales
in taking up his opponents'
query about how compulsjry
school attendance was to be
financed. "Is this fair to the
thousands of children who are
out of school?"
"I counted further that many
thousands of children out of
school can be put into them row
without increasing the tax levy
one cent," insisted Mr. Clinkscales.
"You don't have to force the
negroes into the schools," declared
Mr. Clinkscales after he rid
iculed Mr. Richards' declaration
^iat he would never agree to
spending an additional dollar for
negro education until all while
children were given equal educational
advantages.
Robert A. Cooper, thd last
candidate for governor to speak,
contented himself with announcing
his candidacy and briefly
outlining his platform./ The
audience applauded hint with
vigor.
A Hot One
(Salt Lake City Times.)
After God had finished the
rattlesnake, the toad and the
vampire, lie had some awful
"substance" left with which he
made a "knocker." A knocker
is a two-legged animal with a
corkscrew soul, a water-sogged
brain, and a combination backbone
made of jelly and glue.
Where other people have their
hearts, lie carries a tumor of rotten
principles. When the knockor
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V.I ^uiin-a uuwil lilt; SI1CUI nonesi
men turn their backs, the angels
weep tears in heaven, and the
devil shuts the gates of hell to
keep him out. No man has the
right to knock as long as there
is a pool of water deep enongh
to drown his body in, or a rope
to hang his carcass with. Judas
Iscariot was a gentleman compared
to a knocker, for after
betraying his Master he had
enough character to hang him.self,
and a knocker has not.
;
t.
Were Failures Unless They
Could "Lick" Pupils
"When I was a boy," said the
old timer, "it was considered
necessary that a boy get a licking
at least once a month when
he was at home and not less
than once a week when he was
at school," says the Topeka
Capital.
"Teachers were hired more on
account of the beef and muscle
they carried round than on account
of what they knew. The
teacher who built up a reputation
foi being able to lick any
boy up to the age of 21 had a
cinch ' on getting a job teaching
in the winter.
"There were several young
fellows who attended school
?
cvcij wiuiei uum mey were
and it was the common thing to
give the teacher a whirl just to
see if Jie was man enough-for
the job. If he came out second
best he had to give up the
school, bat if he cleaned out the
bunch that generally settled it,
and he had no more trouble
after that.
"Some of the young men were
as big as the average sized teacher
and sometimes bigger. Then
they were used to out door work
and were stout as young bulls.
The teacher was up against a
hard proposition but he had one
thing in his favor. If the big
boys double teamed on him, that
is, came on more than one at a
time, he had the right under the
code that governed such cases to
use a club.
TOne winter I went to a sort
of graded sctfool. There were
three teachers, including the
superintendent. He didn't have
*.o do much, teaching H?s ftrincipal
business was to do the licking,
and I never saw a man who
seemed to me to like his job better
than he did his. He had the
finest assortment of seasoned
guas I ever saw and for esnecial
ly aggravated cases he had a
rawhide whip that was a holy
terror. He 9tood about six feet
two and weighed about 220
pounds and he wasn't fat at that.
I think he could lift about half
a ton and when he made the
boy strip off his 'wammus' and
swung that whip he could make
the stoutest heart howl. The
other teachers were rather good
hearted and didn't care to see
the scholars beat up, but if they
didn't send so many up for licking
each week he complained
that they were lopfing on their
jobs and didn't amount to an} thing
as instructors.
"Nearly every boy in the
school made a solemn vow that
when he grew up he would lick
that prinqipal within an inch of
his life, but I never heard of one
of them doing it. I heard of one
boy who did keep his pledge far
enough to undertake it, but he
regretted it afterward.
"He was about 16 when he got
the licking that burned into his
soul, also into his hide. The
principal had an extra grouch
on thai day and the first gratifying
thing that happened to him
was the sending of Bob Williams
up for punishment. He made
Bob take off his 'warnmus'?all
the boys wore 'wammuses'?and
then he took down the rawhide.
The marks of that licking lasted
on Ik>b's back for two weeks.
Right then and there Bob registered
his vow to lick that teacher.
He waited five years till he
was 21, and then took some box
I inK icmuiis Hum a man wno
I claimed to have been a prize
fighter. Then he hunted up his
teacher who was not teaching
that year. He was running a
farm. Bob sort of figured to begin
with that maybe the principal
was growing old and stiff in
the joints, anyway he hadn't
trained in boxing. Bob discovered
he had made a miscalculation
about his former instructor being
muscle bound.
"When the fight was over
Bob was worse used up than lie
was that day five years before.
But he wasn't altogether discouraged.
He decided to wait five
years more and then try it again.
He waited the five years and
hunted up the school teacher
again, but there wasn't any evidence
of declining strength by
that time, but the way he blackKrvfli
^
vu uuni ui Duu s eyus, masnea
his nose and battered him up
was very discouraging: to Bob.
Bob never tried it again.
Tvventyfive years after that I
saw the old teacher. He war 70
years old and well preserved, but
he had changed his ideas about
school discipline. He married a
schoolma'm when he was about
50. They raised a family and
he told me that if any teacher
would beat one of his boys the
way he used to beat up the boys
when he was a teacher, he
would have the teacher prosecuted
for assault and battery,
and if that didn't work he would
go after him with a shotgun."?
Exchange.
Good Roads Maxims.
(Atlanta Journal)
The United States Good Roads
association has issued a set of
maxims in which the people of
Georgia and of the South should
be especially interested. Among
them are these bits of homely
wisdom:
If the roads around a town are
bad it might as well be on an island.
You. cctil Have any lv.ad cl a
road you are willing to pay for
the poorer they are, the more
you pay.
Good roads means that you
can come to town with twice
the load in half the time you
used to.
Good roads are easy on you,
easy on your horses, easy on the
wagon, easy on the harness.
A farm ten miles from town
on a hard road is nearer than a
farm five miles from town on a
soft road.
Good roads will increase health
wealth, happiness, education,
morality, civilization and prosperity.
Good roads will decrease ignorance,
poverty, discouregement,
back taxes, sheriffs sales and
grouches.
All talk a id no work will not
#
make good roads.
Go to road improvement with
the full realization that it is for
your own personal benefit and
profit, not merely a public duty.
"Mother," said a little boy, returning
from Sunday school, "I
can't understand the text we had
to studv this morning: 'It is more
blessed to give than to receive.*
What does it mean?"
"Mother would rather you
thought the matter out for vonr.
self dear. Think about it awhile;
then if you can't understand,
come to me."
Half an hour later mother inquired.
"Do you understand what 'It
is more blessed to give than to
receive' means now, dear?"
"Yes, mother, I think so. The
Bible ^nust be speaking of castor
oil."? Exchange.
ci i ~i : - 1- - ?
one?juiuiHiu ueeus u new
pair of shoes.
He?Why, saints alive! 1
brought home a pair for him last
night!
She?Yes, you did. Hut as it
took you fully six weeks to
remember to get them, it might
be well to start in now on the
next pair.?Ex,