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DRIXKS BROUGHT FAME. The Part They Have Played in th? World's History. The proposal of the Dutch to erect at Zutphen, a statue to Sir Philip Sidney recalls to mind, says Tit-Bits, the "world famed episode of the dying soldier, with which his death is inseparably connected. It occurred when the paladin, oc September 22, 1SS6, received his death wound before the walls of Zutphen. Parched with thirst, he called for a drinfc. As he was putting the bottle to his mouth his eyes fell upon a desperately wounded soldier, who, as he was being carried past, threw upon him longing glances, which Sir Phillii perceiving took the bottle from his lips before he drank and delivered tc the poor man with these words, "Thy necessity is greater than mine." In the murder of Edward the Martyr in 979, a cup of wine played a tragic part. Wearied with hunting, the young monarch was persuaded to seek refreshment at Corle castle, in Dorsetshire, the abode of his stepmother, the widowed Queen Elfrida. Upon his entrance she greeted him with a kiss, and then, as he resisted her invitation to dismount, brought from the castle a goblet of wine. Even as the king raised it to his lips, ane of her retainers drew his dagger and plunged it into his back. During the naval engagement at San Juan, the Jesus, which was under the command of Sir John Hawkins, was attacked by almost overwhelming odds. Both by word and deed did the admiral encourage his men. and once, when their spirits seemed to flag, he bade his page fetch him a cup of beer. This was brought to him in a silver goblet, out of which he drank to his "ww "willinp- rhp eninners to stand V* V " ' tT v" v O by their ordnance like men." Scarce had he finished the draught and held the cup aside when it was struck by a ball from one of the Spaniards' ships and carried away. At the battle of Ravenna, in 1512, when the allied Spanish and papal forces were defeated by the renowned Gaston de Foix, Dumolaird, one of his captains, played a conspicuous part. After a gallant charge, by which he had driven back the enemy, he determined to publicly drink the health of his country's brave ally, Jacob von Empser, the leader of 5,000 German lanquenets. Wine was brought upon the field, and, having sat down, each hero filled a goblet. At that moment, while they were in the very act of pledging each other's health, a cannonball from the enemy's lines killed them both. Every June the quaint old town of Rothenburg celebrates by a costume festival, which goes by the name of "Miester-Drank," the mighty feat of a former town councilor, who, in 1631, saved the town from destruction. In that year Rothenburg fell before the arms of the savage Tilly, who at the head of his forces entered the vanquished town, where at the town hall he gave orders for the execution of the civic magistrates. Before, however, the doomed men were led forth to the scaffold, the burgomaster's daughter presented herself, bearing an immense flagon of wine, out of which the conqueror drank and pas-sed it round to his officers. All quenched their thirst, and yet the flagon was only half empty. Seeing this the fair Hebe remarked that one of the councilors present was able to empty the stoup at a draught. "If such be the case," cried Tilly turning to the condemned magisr trates, "I will pardon you all for the drinker's sake. Fill the flagon to the brim." This was done, and then one of the city's magistrates, stepping forward, seized the vessel, raised it to his lips, and neither drew breath or set it down until he had quaffed its contents to the last drop. Then only did he reverse the flagon in proof that the feat had been accomplished. Tilly kept his word, and every year, in commemoration of their deliverance, do the citizens of Rothenburg enact over again this famous event in their town's history. Blease Pardons McManus. Columbia, April 12.?Dr. W. C McManus, a prominent physi"cian of McBee, in Chesterfield County, who shot and killed anothei white man, J. P. Wallace, on Christmas eve, last, was today granted s full pardon by Governor Blease. Dr McManus was tried at the March tern of Court for Chesterfield County, wa* convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in the State Penitentiary or on the chain gang o Chesterfield County. Fro-m the testimony at the trial ii seemed that the two men were shoot ing Roman candles on Christmas ev< at each other and the row and subse quent killing grew out of this. See those wire wall baskets at Th< Herald Book Store. RAILROAD STORIES. > | Old-Timers Have Them On Hand to Satisfy Public's Craving. ' i mere is a great aeai 01 romance woven about the business of railroad* ing. Books have been written of it, poems sung of it. When one sits at ease behind the brass-railed platform of the observation car, it is quite easy L to think of the romantic life of the 5 engineer ahead. If you should some time get per^ mission to ride on a locomotive and the fireman lets you feed the hungry maw of the engine for several miles, romance will take a seat some distance in the rear. There is nothing particularly romantic about shoveling a few tons of coal into the mouth of a ' flaming furnace, and if a hot cinder 1 pops out and flies down the collar of your shirt, that is not very romantic either. It is a source of constant amuse ment to seasoned railroad men to hear outsiders rave about "romances ' of the rail." To them it means toiling and sweating for a livelihood. But if a curious person is determined to find romances, the average railroader will be tickled to help him alon. The average railroader is a champion "bidder," with a wonderful fertile imagination; he loves to sit down with some open-mouthed, wild-eyed person and spin his supply of yarns, most of which would bring a blush of shame to the notoriouly inaccurate Baron .Munchausen. Any one searching for railroad tales was, sooner or later, sent to see "Uncle Xick," an antiquated stationary engineer, who was employed in the n'oKofV> of 'Vlnh^rlv AIn >> auaon luuiiunvuou etc v*v? , w. Uncle Nick had but one tale, but it was a good one. Here is the way it ran: "I forget the exact date, but the Wabash was the Old North Missouri in those days. We used wooden stringers for rails, with a strip of metal nailed on top of them. We used to name engines, calling them 'Vermont/ '.Mississippi' and so on. Finally, they got so numerous that it was decided to number them instead. I had the original No. 13. She burned sticks of wood instead of coal, and the fireman was called a wood passer. "On the day I am telling about I noticed that it was the thirteenth day of the month; that, with engine No. 13, made a combination that would scare a superstitious man stiff. To add to that we pulled out of Moberly just 13 minutes late with 13 passengers aboard. My wood passer was n/%r? Kn+ T inot Ion ctVjdH qt Ill i ^ II CU UU t x juot iuu^iivu MV him. "The Old North Missouri ran from St. Louis to Macon. We were running along nice and smooth with our trip almost over, when?bingo! A warped wooden rail sent us into the ditch. None of us were hurt, but, believe me or not, the first thing I saw when I crawled out from under the wreck was a mile post it said, 'Macon City, 13 miles.'" Uncle Nick told his story in a very convincing fashion, and it was quite a disappointment to find that mile posts were unknown in the days he described. But, worst of all, was the discovery that his experience had been confined to the kind of engine that has to be hauled by other power than its own. The only way he ever rode on a railroad was as a passenger. When a passenger hands the brakeman and conductor a perfectly good cigar and proceeds to get chummy, the two railroader^ know that they ora ahnnt tn hp nnrnned for a varn. Ui V/ u h/V v? V V ^ -V ? ^ _ __ _ ? __ w On a local freight one day a cigar won me the invitation to climb into the cupola of the caboose, a place reserved exclusively for the train crew, with a "Keep Out" sign for others. This is the story the brakeman told me: "He was slim, red-headed kind and we called him Splinter. He was night man at the signal tower at Ona, W. Va. The Baltimore and ' Ohio tracks go through the side of a hill at Ona and a cut has been made through solid rock. Splinter's tower was just outside Ona Cut, as it was called. "Splinter was a plug tobacco fiend; he always had to have his chew. One night just before the F. F. V.?that's the 'Fast Flying Virginia,' the road's crack train?was due, Splinter found . he was out of tobacco. The F. F. V. . was reported late, and he figured that by sprinting a bit he could get to the . store at Ona and be back in plenty of t time to give a clear board to the F. F. V. t "He figured his time a little too ; close, and as he got back to his tower . the F. F. V., flagged down by the red . light on his semaphore, was coming f to a stop. He rushed up the tower's steps and gave.the train the clear sigt nal just as the engineer was starting . to climb down and find out what i strange thing had stopped him at Ona . Cut. "To stop the road's no-stop train was a crime,and Splinter already con? sidered himself fired. Well, the F. F. V. slowly moved on. She was a heavy WHITE SLAVERS SEXT TO JAIL. Walter Pounds and Clarence Rhodes Sentenced for Violating Mann Law. Augusta. Ga., April 12.?Walter Pounds and Clarence Rhodes, two well known and prosperous farmers of Burke county, Georgia, were found guilty of violating the federal white slave act by a jury in the United States Court this morning. Pounds was sentenced by Judge Emory Speer to serve two years in the federal prison in Atlanta and pay a fine o-f one dollar. Rhodes was sentenced to serve three months in the Richmond county jail at Augusta and pay a fine of $.">00 The two men were charged with bringing from Bath, S. C., into Georgia three white girls for alleged immoral purposes. It was charged by the government that the girls were kept on the plantations of Rhodes and Pounds in involuntary servitude and that they were threatened whenever they attempted to leave. Re-1 peated efforts on the part of the rela-j tives of the girls to get them from Georgia were said to have been unavailing. In passing sentence the court gave the defendants a severe lecture and stated that it was the purpose of the government to break up traffic in females. Murdered Blind Child. John and .Mary Landy, negroes, of Seivern, this county, have just been placed in jail here, charged with murdering their eight-year old blind son, who was the stepson of the man. The woman has confessed her part in the affair, which, according to her storv. as seriously involves her hus band as it does herself. But the man persistently denies any knowledge of the affair. The woman stated that she married Landy about a month ago; that he conceived a mortal antipathy for the afflicted child, and several times demanded that she do it to death, else he would kill her; that he did shoot at her. The man admits suggesting that she kill the child, but that he did so only asa jest and tocast aspersions upon the boy. He also admits shooting at her, "but only in fun," he claims. The woman continued that he prepared match heads last Thursday, steeped them in water and ordered her to give the child the dose, warning her that her life would be the forfeit if she failed to obey him. Continuing her confession, she says ~1? + Vi+V10 futol dnQP sue uiu give liic viinu biiv iuiu> v*v,v that afternoon, while her husband was away, and that it died about 8 o'clock that night. Her husband returned about 9 o'clock, she says, and she informed him of her deed and the results. The body was enclosed in a cracker box and buried in the back yard, one of their little daughters assisting, she also declared. Having no idea of the enormity of the thing, it is said, their little daughter Saturday told a neighbor of the proceeding. Suspicions were aroused and an investigation followed, resulting in the exhumation of the body. The arrests followed and the man and woman were brought on to Aiken and incarcerated. The woman has asked for Solicitor Gunter, declaring that she wishes to confess to him her part in the homicide. John Landy also has asked for the solicitor. In the presence of her huband Mary sticks to her story accusing him of having forced her to the commission of the deed, and he as stoutly denies the essential points of her confession.?Aiken Journal and Review. Leaves All to Employees. New York, April 11.?By the will of Patrick F. McGowan, former president of the board of aldermen, who died last week, the entire assets of his business of manufacturing woman's apparel will go to two faithful women employees-, the Misses Kate and Anna M. Aume, sisters. Their reward will amount approximately $25,000 while the remainder of the $75,000 estate is left in trust for his son and only child, Frank McGowan, who is a member of the United States marine corps until he is 35 years old, and then only upon condi tion that he leaves the naval service. # train and it took some time to get up steam again. Just as she was crawling into the mouth of the cut and rounding a sharp curve just inside the the engineer jammed on the air brakes and reversed the engine. And it was not a minute too soon. They stopped within four feet of a big rock that had fallen on the track from the top of the cut. It would have meant a bad wreck. "Splinter told the truth about stopping the F. F. V. It happened that the president of the road was on the train with his family He sent Splint er a check for $500, saying, 'I hope this will keep you in plug tobacco for some time.' "?St. Louis Post Dispatch. j G. 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To all and singular the kindred and creditors of W. L. Mitchum, deceased: Take notice that the undersigned will apply to the Judge of Probate at Bamberg C. H., S. C., on the 26th, day of April, A. D. 1913, at 11 o'clock I A. M., for a final settlement of the estate of W. L. Mitchum, deceased, and discharge from the office of administrator of said estate. W. H. MITCHUM, Administrator. Dated 25th day of March, A. D. 1913. GRAHAM & BLACK, Attorneys for Administrator. LETTERS DISMISSORY. On Wednesday, April 30th, 1913, I will file my final account as administrator of the estate of Frances ? T "3 - Black witii (i. v. Harmon, .muge ui Probate for Bamberg county, and will thereupon ask for letters dismissorv as administrator of said estate * W. C. BLACK, Administrator. Bamberg, S. C., April 1, 1913. I THEY ARE HERE! 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