The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, September 16, 1909, Image 1
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|> ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 16 1909. \ Vo|?J5^m-99~
? ? MILLIONS IN MONEY |?
^ BRINGS UNHAPPINESS. m
|p> Corey, the Steel King,
ji*, Divorces the Wife of His sl
^vcouth and Marries An**
other whom His Millions se
s Cannot Make Happy. ix
** The Chicago-Record Herald so
prints a story concerning Corey, R
^ the steel king, that points a mor- ki
al. It is a readable story and C1
The Herald reproduces it not he- P
^ cause it is tainted with vellow j
journalism and borders on the ci;
sensational but because it co
I* is such an eloquent argument
^ against the general belief that
, riches biing happiness. It is a ju
story from real life and is worth ca
^ the reading: co
"Almost any woman would be
^ ready to cry her eyes out with
sheer envy if she could see Ma
belle Oilman Corey's gowns, jewels
and the thousands of luxuries
P with which her husband. the
steel king, has surrounded her. J?
Even the most serious-minded
of women, those who usually are
not carried awav by the follies and ;TU1
cAiiavajjances 01 uic ricn, would 1 '
feci their hearts beat quicker if
|K they could wander at will through "
the- great French palace where W(
* the former actress now lives and
see how her husband's wealth has
** poured out the sack of the whole ca
world at her feet. She has money ot
* untold; she emulates royalty in [
0 the magnificence of her surroundings;
an army of servants wait on a
0 her. There is not a single wish
that money can gratify that she ot
0 has let pass unsatisfied. m;
"Yet Mabel Oilman Corey is av
* unhappy. She has been unable nii
. to buy social recognition. The ve
people she wants to know do not
call. She is surrounded with the
glitter of every luxury, but she is
alone. She longs for applause
and flattery from people in high Clt
society; she would be a leader
among the socially elect, but they *'
will not look at her. ~
"Mrs, Corey's years of life on w'
the stage have made applause as ^'c
the breath of life in her nostrils,
and she misses it now. Surrounded
by every magnificence, she 1
finds the days dull and lonelv- .
She is now sure that the future 'V
holds no promise of a change. ai<
To her such a life is as uninspir- ***?
ing as playing a part in a bril- j ?*
nanny lit tneater with not a soul
in the audience. That is why so
she is unhappy, and that is why t"1
she desires to go back to the stupe,
whether her husband likes it or sn
not. In the theater she will find
companionship. She can be a "ll
leader in the social set there, at
least. Her husband's money can
make her a star, and that will tai
give her a commanding position wc
among a small coterie, which is no
something that she has been unable
to attain thus far elsewhere. ^1
In Paris, usually the easiest lca
city in the world for money to
buy enjyyment and for the people
who have wealth to obtai social .
recognition, she is surrounded tl<J
by a swarm of parasites. True, rethese
leeches bear resounding cia,
- names and titles. They talk
fllu?ntly and intimately of royal to'
ties and nobilities, but they have stii
no standing whatever except
among the army of boulevardiers
who !i"e by their wits.
The facile flattery of such as jU},
these has palled at last on MabHle
Gilman Corey. She has t 1
learned how little it means, she
has heard how these men and set
women gibe at her when her back th<.
is turned, and she longs to get ^,jc
back to her old life on the stage.
She knows that life thoroughly 1)11
iL. and she feels that she will be hap- w'"
'Ofpy there. tht
Only a fortnight ago in Paris ba
she confessed all this to an Amcr- cr(
ican woman who has just returned
to New York. They met casually
at the races To this woman, an an
1 ?#- *
oiu int-nu, aars. i^orey poured out ai
her tale of disappointment. She ha
had to teli so.ne one, and she
craved sympathy. She told how
it was lonf* before she fully and tcl
finally understood that her social a 1
ambitions never could be realized, col
At first she thought that there it
might be a little difficulty in getting
an entrance into societv, but
that the Corey millions would be ye
ttye magic key to all thai she desired.
She told of her disappoint- T1
& -
ents and her uespair.
''The only society that calls on
e is the riff-raff of the pinchick
nobility. Whether they are
hat they claim to be or not, the
ily thing that I am sure about
em is that they all want money."
ic moaned to this woman.
"At first I believed their claims
at they could introduce me into
e innermost circle of the royal
t in Europe. I know better
>\v. As soon as one lot disap:ars
antoher takes its place,
ime of these people are French,
mie English, some Italian or
ussian, and some the Lord
lows what. They form a soL*iy
of their own, and even in
at I have narrowly escaped beg
snubbed more than once when
have dared to question the soul
omnipotence of some near
?unt -or bogus duchess.
"1 can go into the shops and
ly whatever I please, gowns,
wels, anything. I can have
>rses and carriages and motor
irs. I live in a palace, and
iuld have a bigger one if I wartI
it. But no person of the kind
at I care about calls on me.
II I can do with my money is to
iv, ouy, buy?things that I realdon't
want."
"I can't stand this life much
nger," she said. "I am going
,ck to the stage. That is the
ace for me, after all. I love it
id I have never ceased to love it
aught never to have left it. I
re for it more than e,er now.
is the one thing that seems
arth while.
"Oh, I don't mind the money,
oney is a good thing, but it
n't hnv Itonrvinnco " 1 ? r
.. ? wmj uuppiiivao dllU tt 1UI OI
lit: things. I know by heart
c list of things that I haven't
en able to purchase, and it's
long one. I'm so unhappy."
Since William E. Corey, one
the heads of the steel trust and
iiny times a millionaire, put
/ay the wife of his youth and
arried Mabelle Oilman a few
ars ago he and his new wife have
?t been recognized by society,
ley tried to make headway by
dng abroad for a time, hoping
force an entrance to the social
adels of those who considered
emselves among the electley
failed. They saw actresses
from chorus girls up to stars?
10 had married titles and who
:re received in good society,
it society abroad would not acpt
the Core.vs.
'he story of Ccrey's early life how
struggled for fortune and won
largely through his first wife's
1 and counsel when they were
ung. is well known. The tale
how he divorced her in his days
prosperity also is well known?
well known that it followed
cm wherever they went.
Only the servants in the hotels
liled upon them. Those who
lied on them were mostly men?
siness friends of Corey, who
aid not afford to antagonize him.
few of these were able to eajole
eir wives into calling. But they
;nt under compulsion and were
t slo v to show it.
It was even worse than that
ten the Coreys returned to Ameri.
They stopped for a brief
ace in New York and then went
* a trip through the West. The
est caies less for social tradi>ns
than the East, but the Co>'S
had only themselves to assoite
with there as elsewhere.
Now she is ready to give up,
is the cards on the table and
irt all over again.
The editor of The Herald has
it returned from a trip through
: upper part of the state and if
; farmers of the Pee Dee could
; the crops of the Piedmont
;y would call themselves doub ly
:ssed this year. The crops in
r section are above the average
tile the production per acre in
; Piedmout will not average a
le to every three acres. The
>pin the up country got a late
irt, then the rains came along
d stopped farm work for seve rweeks
and the recent drouth
s completed what it is said to
almost a complete crop disas\
The Piedmont has not had
rain in five weeks and lots of
tton has not had a rain since/
was laid by. The Pee Dee has
i best crops in the state this
ar.
le Dillon Herald $1.50 a year
i frtliifilii' ii ivi-j
hree State News.
Mrs. C. C. Richardson, of (l
Lake City, spent a few days last
week at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Rojjers.
Mr. J. W. Rowland moved his v
family, to Dillon last Thursday. *
We miss them very much.
After a week's stay with vela- 1
tives in this section, Mrs. E. C. 1
Newton returned to her home in '
Bennettsville last Monday. 1
Mr. Darffan Odom and sister. ;
Miss Emmie spent Saturdav and :
Sunday with their aunt Mrs. An- i
drew LeCette.
Rev. B. F. Allen expects to c
leave Thursday for Denmark t
where he has accepted a call to ,
preach. s
Miss Virgic McLaurin, of MeI
Coll visited friends down here lsst r
I vuool*
Miss Lorcna Newton of Gibson ,
who has been visiting Miss Belle ]
Moore returned home this morn- ,
i
Mrs. D. E. Allen is visiting her *
daughter, Mrs. J. 1*. Wallace of
Harts villc. "Cor."
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Bermuda Briefs. ]
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Dry weather still is in progress .
in this place and a good rain would 1
1 do lots of good just now.
| A. C. Moody of this place spent
last Saturday afternoon at the
home of his father. E. V. Moody,
of Pleasant Hill section.
I). W. Bowcn and family of Mt.
Cavalry were in this section Sunday
last.
W. C. McKenzie of this place
has been appointed Notary Public.
He received 1ii< cnmniicBi.i.. !....*
week and is now ready for business.
Private Liston Moody of U. S.
Army, stationed at Fort Scriven,
Ga., is at the home of his paivnts V
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Moody ot fiiis r
place. He has a furlough for r
thirty days. Glad to see you back ^
and to see you looking well. Liston.
Deputy David Miller of Pleasant
Hill was in this section last
Monday morning bright and early; J
he caught his bird. 2
Hurrah for the new county and ^
new railroad. OLD TOM. \
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A True Bill.
Pee Dee Advocate.
The Dillon Herald remarked r
some weeks ago that if the races t
were kept up they would break up s
the summer resorts, because peo- (J
pie would not leave the races to go
away. Does that explain why our
friend, J. B. Gibson, himself an s
owner of a race horse and a patron I1
of the track, is gcing to develop f;
a auuiMlcl 1CSUII MJflll 111 II1C CCI1*
ter of the Pee Dee Driving Asso- t
ciation?
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Prohibitionits.
Over at Newaygo, near Big e
Rapids, where it is so dry that
the "boys" habitually "spit cotton,"
there seem to be some ?
mighty dry prohibitionists, accord- 11
ing to a story that comes from the ij
desert.
A Newaygo citizen recently received
a letter from a Kentucky r
whiskey house requesting him to a
send them the names of a dozen it
or more persons who would like
to get some fine whiskev shipped
to them at a very low price. The c
letter wound up by saving: ij
"We will give you a commision
on all the orders sent in by par- n
ties whose names you send us."
The Newaygo man belonged to c
a practical joke class and filled in c
the names of some of his prohibition
friends on the blank spaces j
left for that purpose.
He had forgotten all about his y
supposed practical joke when Mon
day he received another letter t;
from the same house. He sup- ^
posed it was a request for more ^
names and was about to throw the ^
communication in the waste basket e
when it occured to him to send the j
name of another old friend to the j
whiskey house. He accordingly t
tore open the envelope, and came (1
near collapsing when he found a s
check for $4.80, representing his v
commission on the sale of whiskey ^
to the parties whose names he had
sent in about three weeks before.
?Detroit Free Press.
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TAKES THE WET COOPS.
Charleston, Sept. 3.?The praciee
among the blind tiger element
>t (Charleston of using the names
>t well-known citizens for the
impose of getting liquor and beer
tasscd into the city by police
guards may lessen when the
ieheme of a gentleman here heroines
generally known.
He arrived home recently to be
old by his 1 letter half that a bar-1
el of export beer had Iteen deV
ivered to him. The gentleman
tad ordered no beer, but he wis
atrprised to see a barrel of expert
iddressed to himself very plaihly
ind standing bodlv on his b?ck
torch.
H e got "wise" and cilrny
tpencd the barrel and extracted a
lozen "buds" for icing. The
text day a driver came t< the
louse and called for the beer,
saving the stuff had been delivered
'by mistake," but the person never
ippeared. \
The beer is almost gone totow.
This custom of getting liquor in
- i
II.IUIV.-M uiui rucu
laving it delivered by "mistakW'
nay be broken up by the sehcinS
jf keeping the gratuitous beverige.
YOL) DINNERS LOOK HERE.
We have just received a ear load
>1 the "Famous Stover Oasoline
lingincs, can make immediate shiplicnt
on >, 3, 5, 6, 10, 16, 12, <Sc
20 h. p. at the right price with the
kind of terms that you can meet.
Let us hear from you before they
ili go. Write us tor our prices
md guarantee.
rilL SIW1TFR IRON WORKS.
Lonj,' Distance Plione 237.
Su'Titer, S. C.
hor Compulsory Education.
Viultrsoii Daily Mail.
The (iaffney Ledger tells this
lepressing story:
" It is the custom of one of the
iaffnev cotton mills to pay their
lelp off twice a month, and the
say master is accompanied on his
ounds by a negro boy, who lariers
the box containing the ]>ay
nvelopes.
"(>n the last pay day the paynaster
ean.e to a tine looking
roung fellow, and when he was
isked to sign the card aeknowedging
the receipt of the money,
vas informed that he could not
vrite. One or two ot the hands
n the vicinity were asked to write
lis name for him, but for various
easons they did not do so, when
he negro boy took the pen and
igned the young fellow's name
m the card. This illustration is
forcible argument for compul
ory education and can be used
irotitably by those who are in
avor of the measure."
This is respectfully referred to
Senator Tillman and the others
irho have been opposing compul ory
education.
The negro children are being
J% 1 n '
uucaicu?an 01 tnem.
Many of the white people, from
ne cause or another, are allowing
their children to grow up in
ijnoranceCompulsory
education would
lot affect the negroes, tor they
re getting an education without
t.
Hut it would help those white
hildren who are growing up in
jnorance.
In short, is not the State cuinduing
a crime against these white
hildren who are growing up illitrate?
rack Laying on N. & S. C. Railway.
IcCall Times:
The road bed of the North &
iouth Carolina Railway has been
raded to Dillon and the rails are
eing placed between Clio and
)illon- Mr. Bonsai says that he
xpects to operate trains between
lamlet and Dillon before (>etober
st. When this link is completed
he company expects to give a
nuch more satisfactory passenger!
ervice than at present as they I
vill then have exclusive p.assenfer
trains.
The Dillon Herald $1.50 a year.
V
Didn't Walk all the Way.
"Down in Alabama," said John
1). Feat-hake, in the Woman's Home
Companion, "there's a deputy
marshal who doesn't let any such
trifles as extradition laws stop
hi nyf < >ne day ho rode into
toyrn on a mule leading* a prisoner
whom he had caught in <ieorgia,
Vied up snugly with a clothes line.
/The prisoner looked as it he had
seen hard service.
"Why, for heaven's sake, Jim,"
said the Judge, "vou didu't make
him walk all the way from (ieorgia.
did you?"
'.No, sir," said Jim.
"1 hope not," said the Judge.
"No," said Jim: "part of the
way I drug him, and when we
eotne to the Tallaposa river he
swum.''
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Rattler Attacked a Boat.
Florence Times.
Mr Howaid Cnniim^was exhibiting
the rattles-^fa big snake
wllioVl 1
* uoai on mack
CTV?h. y<fC[erday. The snake was
mad. and asked no questions when
the boat came near where he was.
hut plunged in the creek and went
for it. Mr. Cannon fended it off
with his fishing pole until he
could get the paddle to kill it.
When killed he was surprised to
find it was a rattler instead of a
water snake, and it had 11 rattles
and a button.
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fee Pee Advoente:
Referring to the article about
E. 1. Watson originating the sand
clay road, the editor of the Advocate
was teaching school iti
Marion county at that time. Mr
Watson was a patron of the school,
and the road in question passed
by the school house. We jften
heard the comments of jteople
who passed along" the toad, and
they would not all do to go in a
Sunday school book. The principal
objection to Mr. Watson's
road was that he threw it up too
high in the middle, and vehicles
could not go down on the side of
the road to pass each other without
almost turning over. Mr.
Watson left Marion county on account
of the indignation of his
neighbors. In a year or ?wo the
| road settled down and became
hard, and .vas not so steep.
I Several years afterward Mr.
I Watson was offered a good salary
I to come back to Marion and superintend
the building of roads in the
county, but declined the position.
Mr. Watson, by the wAy. married
a Marlboro county Emanuel, and
is a brother in-law of Capt. P. L,
Breeden and P. M. Emanuel of
Ben nettsville.
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Stopped His Paper Por Spite.
(Kiiigf Mountain Hurulii.)
A couple of years ago a cranky
Sort of :in nlrl win n-mi..
? vviv. ? ?*?? vauiv. Ill IU 11119
office and stopped his paper because
something in it did not just
suit his fancy. We have frequently
met him on the street
since that time and it is amusing
to note the look of surprise on the
old fellow's face that we are still
in existence regardless of the fact
that he stopped his paper. Some
day?and it won't be long either?
that old gentleman will turn up
toes His heart will be stilled
forever. Neighbors and friends
will follow his lifeless clay to the
silent city and lay them to rest
among the flowers. An obituary
| will be published in these columns
telling what a kind father, a good
neighbor and beloved citizen he
was?which the recording angel
will overlook for charity's sake,
and in a very short time he* will
be forgotton. As he lies out there I
in the cold, cold graveyard, wrapped
in the silent slumber of death,
he will never know that the last
kind word spoken of him was by
the editor of that paper which he
so spitefully "stopped." Did you
pause just a moment to think that
your editor, whoever he may be,
will write your obituary some day?
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The Dillon Herald $1.50 a year.
Edward H. Harriman.
Five years ago the average man
had no idea who Edward H. Harriman
was. When lie died at his
country home at Arden, N. V..
last Thursday the whole country
felt the shock and all the markets
were in a state of uncertainty.
"The greatest railroad organize!
that ever lived" he has been called,
and his meteoric rise to the
control of thu most extensive
system of railroads ever under the
direction of one man is certainly
'without parallel. He had large
interests in Western railroad*, and
the fir *i of Harrimai. <V Compajtt^
was a power in New Voj^r''1?anking
circles, when^-ftie death of
C. P. Huntjtjg<oh ten years ago
gave liiijkflchance to acquire contrjjk^of
the Southern Pacific.
'"Troiii that time on his life was one
story of acquistion and combination.
till at hi' death he was hv
force of his pers mality ami his
financial combinations, almost absolute
master of over IX.ooO miles
of railroad and two Pacific steamship
lines. His splendid construe
tive work in the re-orjranixation
of the various departments of the
roads he controlled, and his yjreat
faitn in the future of his systems,
. won b?r him the admiration even
of his enemies; but in his financial
operations he was merciless
and unscrupulous. Just how
much of his jjTeat fortune, estimated
at S50.000.000 to $100,000,I
Oo<). was due to his ability as a
railroad builder and an organiser
II and how much to hitfh-handed
financial methods may never be
known: but there is no denying
f hof lli? *? - i' ' >or? 'vf hrt . . A '
nauL in_ n .1.1 wilt til lilt
of ouf day, and his death at 61,
with some of his vastest dreams
unrealized?that of adding the
New York Central to his system
of roads, for example?leaves a
vacant place in the financial world
which no one man is likely to fill.
Raleigh <N. C. >?Progressive
Farmer.
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A little girl, the two years and
six months old daughtei of the
late Ragland Brunson, of Dillon
is in the Florence infirmary here
suffering from an unusual malady.
The child swallowed a 25 cent
piece ot money at her home i ?
Dillon yesterday afternoon and ;i
lodged in the esophagus, causing
much pain and suffering. D .
McLeod located the piece of m< iey
by means of an X-ray shor iv
after the child was entered in the
infirmary, but he is undecided as
to whether to perform an operation
or not. Should an operation
be performed it will libely be performed
this evening, sometime.
Since the above was put in type
an operation was successfully performed
the piece of coin removed
and the child is doing nicely.
The little two-year-old daughter
of Mrs. R. R. Brunson swallowed
a 25 cent piece Sunday night
and it is feared that the money
has lodged in her throat. Mrs.
Brunson took the little one to
Florence Monday morning and
a telephone message from there
Monday afternoon stated that she
was not doing so well.
There is nothing new in the
New County situation. So far
as can be learned Prof. Colcock is
making the calculations on his
test survey of the lines run by
Messrs. Hamby and Beatty and
it may be two weeks or a month
before he is ready to report to
the governor. If Prof. Colcock's
report is made within the next
month the;e will be plenty of
time to hold an election before
jan. 1. If an election is not held by
the first of the year it is not likely
that one can be held early
enough in the new year to get a
bill through the general assembly
creating the New County, and in,
that event it will be another year
before the New County can be
formed, provided it prevails at the i
polls, which is not all improbable,
if one is to judge by the sentiment
of the people. 'M