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We operate our mills, and own our enable us to offer hig See us before y "Buy of h AUGUSTA I AUGUS The Cream of Specially imported; New Orleans, Ai Capital; speektty p proof, dust-proof, fi a VERY SPEC! perfection told b in this town. xt VU1 AD At its price you cann twice its price you < recommend and se! l. w. kel: The DA We have just receive new and beautii Sterling Silver and F No trouble at all to from our stock, be delighted to i We Would Parti Pleased to Show Set of Wa Dargs c >x rf Vu j House Bills :ed Free your plans or builder's late on your complete from roughest boards sh. columns, newel posts, nouldings, etc., offer a ice, ana we also mill own saw and planing own stumpage, whicn ;h quality and low cost, on hnild. he Maker" .UMBER CO. ?TA, GA. the Coffee Crop aoeciallv DTeoared ill ' * I * m erica's Good Coffee racked in dainty, daoip eshness-preserving cans; tAL coffee of top-notch y only one dealer Coffee iot duplicate its quality; at :annot find a better. We [1 tikis coffee exclusively LER & BRO. >d another big shipmen hi 'ine China also here in a find just what you wai because our lines are s show you. y& yg PW8?:'i\. 2} LYA.tU.it/tlUJ O 1?-m ? Are the "last w embrace every mm have some that im Enterpris \\\^\ If it is a Stovi \V\V show you a St positive guarant *? >j cularly Be You this ire. in-Kii " i i in i?i?ilrinilii<tM? ^ca - . <r^.yf. i "A No. I," KING OF HOBOES KILLED Met Death on lCnilrond in Texas ? Was in Al?I?e\ille Recently. Readers of The I'ress and llaiiucr will' rein em bw an article published several monthB ago with regard to A No. 1," the Hobo King, who paid a visit to thi6 town several months ago and lett his trademark on the old furniture factory. "A No. 1" was killed recently qu a railroad hi Texas. The following story of his tragic death Is told in the fol lrtu-incr rlionat/'h frnm Houston. T?lXa? : "A No. 1" tbe King of Hoboes, is dead. Slipping from the rods of a pas senger train on the Louisville & Nash ville Railroad, the man who boasted that he had traveled more miles and paid less fares than any traveler of his generation, was caught by the trucks of the heavy coach and literal ly ground to death. "Chicago" White, his companion of the last year, brought the news to Houston. "Chicago" and an old priest had stood uncovered by the shallow grave that held the fragments of flesh and bone that could be found. i'A No. 1." was a puzzzle, even to the men with whom he had roamed to all partB of the world. He told no one his name, his birthplace or of his family. He was merely "A No. 1," the j king of tramps. From Maine to Cali ?u?i? ic nuintpH nr f-arver 1UI Ilia ma iiaiuv ~ on box cars, water tanks, railroad sheds: in fact, everywhere "A No. 1," could find space down went the queer signature.'It was his name, in big letters, and two arrows, pointing in the direction the hobo king was travel ing at the time he "signed up." lie was known to every railroad man in the country, especially the railroad workmen of the smaller towns, where "A No. 1" would frequently rest a day or two. | A Tramp by Nature "A No. 1" was tramp by nature and king of all wanderers by virtue of a determination, reached early in his ca reer, to travel 1,000,000 miles without paying toll to any railroad, llis great est cross was the memory that iu an unguarded moment he gave up $7.50 ' to pay a Journey?an offense which he never repeated. I Like many another tramp, hiB de cision to adopt a life vagrancy came . from what he regarded as an unde j served punishment in school and once | inured to the hardships of a wand?r , er's existence, he found his greatest 'joy in riding the rods and beating thi t t ? 1 % rwutfc j (JllUU L>agga&t;, wiui uvtaoiuirn. in Borne hoboe3' resort until the end I which he had predicted for himself, came to him in Texas. Hfffan When 11 Years Old San Francisco, Cal., was the birth place of this unique traveler, where his parents were persons of moderate means and some culture. He was born forty-one years ago, and when 11 years old the incident that changed 'him from a mischievous school bo> into the nomad de luxe of all tramp dom, occurred. Rather than submit to !an unmerited penalty for some viola 'tion of the rules of the school, he ran 'away to New Orleans, La. Central and South America were the next coun tries the lad visited and then, with a yearning for home and a willingness to take (he promised thrashing, he began to retrace his steps. j Fortune cast his lot while still IRG CO. EES t of Gut Glass. It is pets and odd pieces. it for a Wedding Gift o varied. We would Etanges rord" in Range building. They feature of all good Ranges and are peculiarly their own. e Stoves e you want come in and let us ove at a moderate price with a ee. ig Co. i.mwxvn*, making iioltinvani Willi ilia! of it, grown up Iriimp known to I ho hoboj world as "French.' who adopted the ., boy and taught him the rudiments oi' \ f;cieriti(ic living without toil and of \ travel without a ticket. "Frenchy" fell ? into the hands ol' the law eventually, j; and as he was being led to prison he \ called to his young companion: ? "Vou'll bo a turnip all your life, and I want you to he A No. 1. Just put \ that mark wherever you go and when I get out of jail I'll catch up with you somewhere." That was the last the boy ' ever saw of his friend, though he al- , ways cherished the hope that some day "Frenchy" would find the "moni- 1 ker" or signal which he faithfully left ( at every stopping place for thirty years. ' In all these years he never disclosed i his true name to any person nor did, tie ever near rrom ins parents aiiu me title conferred upon him by Ins tutor ( in trampcraft became the only desig- | nation which differentiated him from ' the rest of the army of hoboes of \ which he was a shining member. Ev ery part of the.country has been vis- 1 itcd by "A No. 1," and thousands oni water tanks in mountains and on des- ( erts. barns in cities and hamlet are decorated with the sign that he had 1 been there with a mark showing whither his steps would next be turned. |i AX INTERESTING SKETCH OF PItOF. JAMFS WILLIAM THOMSON Southern School News Contains A Sketch of Ediiriitor Well Known J In Abbeville (Mrs. 11. L. Forbes in Southern School, News.) At Abbeville, South Carolina, on July l-'Sth, 18C3, James William Thom son first saw the light of day. His tether, Judge Thomas Thomson, was a strong .believer in education and spared neither effort nor expense in ;he tasks of educating his sons. So,' .hough times were more than hard and politics turbulent, young William ' was entered at a private school while still in kilts, on the very day he was five years oia. liiigru years ititer, m > 1876, he went to a boy's school con- j ducted by Mr. D. C. Webb, of Charles- j ton. Among his schoolmates here were the Hon. T. P. Cothran, of Greenville; | A. W. Smith, of Spartanburg; Prof. I'atterson Wardlaw, of the University of South Carolina, and L. W. Parker, of Greenville. This year under Mr. Webb, coining as it did, at a most im-; pressionable period of his youth, was i powerful formative Influence. Prof.! I'homson attributes much of his sue-! jess as a student and as a teacher to j vlr. Webb and the sound foundation if mind and character laid in his; school. In 1877, while still a mere boy, I ueing but thirteen and a half years ! >ld, William Thomson entered Ers kine college at Due West. From this ' nstitution he was graduated in 1881 .n the largest class that up to that' lime had left the college since the I war. In his class were Hon. D. M. Crosson and Hon. H. C. Patton, whose short and brilliant career is well Known to Columbians. Though the jlass of '81 was considered large for .hose times, stiu tne siuueiu uuuj i was small and the personal contact! oetween teacher and student was in tself an education. The faculty at the .ime of Prof. Thomson's attendance ?vas composed of Dr. W. W. Grier, Dr. K. L. Patton and others as well known. These two, however, became fast j riends of the young man and remain- j :d so as long as they lived. Prof Thomson accounts his friendship and ntercourse with Dr. Grier as one of j lie greatest advantages of his life. i Alter graduation, Mr. Thomson, j aow eighteen years old turned to the! irofession of his father and took up | lie study of law, under Hon. Armis- j ead Burt, of Abbeville. In 1895 he was I dmittcd to the bar and began prac-j ice. | It was almost an accident which , ;ave Prof. Thomson to the ranks of j he educators of this State. Shortly I xfter beginning practice of law he I .vas asked to coach a few pupils for j :ollege entrance. From this experi-: jnce emerges William Thomson, the , teacher, and William Thomson, the 1 awyer, is a thing of the past. For the | next six years he had charge of a i I >chool in Abbeville. This school was virtually the public school of the own, though not supported by taxes and having no regular trustees. After six years of hard work and j valuable experience in Abbeville Prof. , Thomson went to Rock Hill as su- ; perintendent of the schools there. His I .vork here was of such high order and j Attracted- such favorable notice that j <n 1898 he was chosen to fill the chair of pedagogy at Winthrop Normal and | Industrial College, at Rock Hill. This j position he still occupies to the emi- i nent satisfaction of trustees, presi- j dent and students. Prof. Thomson has had experience , V? r\r\\ u-nrlr qIca hfl Vin P" ! ill auiiuui;! oinuui ?< v/j . served under Hon. J. J. McMahan and ' Hon. W. D. Mayfield in the state sura- j mer schools of South Carolina, and | having taught several terras in the | Piedmont Summer School at David son College. He has been a good worker for the , State Teachers' Association, and since J joining has attended every meeting possible. Of his work at Abbeville and Rock Hill nothing need be said as his steady rise speaks for itself. Of his work at Winthrop College I can speak from personal experience as a student un der his instruction for two years. 1 considered him an exceptional teach er. His ability to create and maintain ! interest, to arouse ambition and to keep his pupils at work is the secret j of his good results. His fund of gen eral information and his capacity for j asking questions that showed our lack of it was a constant source of surprise to me. His almost inexhaustible store oi anecaoies uuu uiviucmo nmvu used as examples and to show appli cation of principles, kept his classes not only interested but eager. He was strong on the practical side of his subject and did not permit mere theories (o suffice. To him a grain of good hard sense was worth more than several pages of blindly quoted .Mc-.| Alurry. A great worker himself, he ex acted a goodly bit of labor from even the worst of would-be shirkers and ( skimmers. Space will not permit of j further details. Suffice it to say that | his work in a position of importance I and influence in his profession is more 1 than well done. Old Pro. Thomson it may be said i that he is a man of strong and vigor-j ous personality, of keen mentality, of indomitable energy, of deep and last- j ing affections and with a strong sense ' of humor. Speaking of the influences that j shaped his life, Prof. Thomson says j he counts none so great as that of the j community of Abbeville. As a young man he knew and was in contact with; the Hon. Armistead Burt, Judge Sam uel McGowan, Judge .T. S. Cothran, j Hon. W. A. Lee, Judge Eugene n.! Gary, Judge J. C. Klugh and Judge! W. C. IJenet. His companions and j schoolmates are now leaders in that community or elsewhere. Among his closest and dearest friends is Prof. Patterson Wardlaw. Cold weather is when it comes, for it with a con Overco Rair We are agents f kin's Boys' Sui Shoes, Underw< ings. A Nobt rp ? 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