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PROVIDED BY NEW YORK'S SUBTERRA NEAN RAILWAY IS MORE SWIFT. GRUSOMt DUD Fearful than Any Conceived in the Imagina tion of Edgar Allen Poe. "Two killed in mo Subway." "Track-walker? run down y tra?na." Every day or two auch headlines aa thcBe appear in the New York newspapers. Who are these track-walkers whose lives aro sacrificed at the rate of three or four or more a week? The track-walker is the human safety device of the great Subway system, who faces constant doath in tho dark for twonty-one couts an hour. His duty is to patrol night and day every foot of the four tracks over which two express trains and two local trains are speeding past any given point in the gloomy tunnel every few minutes in opposite direc tions. Ile carno? a wrench with which to tighten any loose holts and a sledge hammer to drive back any loosened spikes which threaten a thousand lives in those rushing trains. Every minute or two, in front or behind him, comes this roaring death in a cloud of dust, if his mind is one instant confused. Much has been written of tho great Subway that tunnels under the city of New York and tho five huudred thousand passengers a day that it carries swiftly thu length of tho great city down among tho oellars, flying like an arrow undor crowded thor oughfares where there ts scarce room for man or beast. Pages have been dovoted to the engineering feats that have been performed to dig this huge trench under the busiest arteries of the me tropolis, of the ?40,000,000 the Sub way cost, of tho block system and of tho emergency train stop on each platform. The public knows that if the motorman should fall dead at his post the brakes would be auto matically applied. It regards the motorman as the man most responsi ble for tho safoty of the passengers and surrounds him with a sort of glamour. It pictures him in his little cage, his hand on the lover, tensely watching tho signals as they fly past, and peering out ahead into tho twilight of thc Subway on the alert for danger. MOST IMPORTANT KAKKTY UBVtOK. Hut almost no mention has been made of the most important safety device used-the track-walker, who t arns twenty-one cents an hour. The slightest error on his part, a moment's carelessness, the least in attention, and nothing else can avail to gave some flying train with its hundreds of passengers. At home there is tho wife and her cbidrou, They must: be fed and clothed. Twenty-one cents an hour will not provide a brownstone palace, nor silks, nor jewels, nor automobiles, but it keeps the wolf just outside the threshold ol* a hum?le home. Soin tho gloom of the Subway this toiler of tho darkness wends his weary round, week after week, lan tern in hand, risking his lifo six hun dred minutes every day, for thc meagre means of livelihood. The traok-walkor doesn't consider himself a hero, and the publie doesn't consider him at all. Yet in thu safety of half a million lives every day he is far and away thc most important tactor. The least flaw in a rail, a broken bolt, a spike bent ever so little out of its place, a bit of car framework loosened from its fasten ing and lying with one end on the third rail and the other across the traflic rail ; let his eye miss any one of these, and seores of precious lives may pay thc penalty of his momen tary relaxation. Step down with him into thc great underground highway and follow him in his task. Patiently plodding, a'ways toward tho oncoming trains, lie pursues his silent course. Herc he is tapping at some rail that strikes l.is eye as doubtful, now stopping to tighter: a holt with a long wrench ho carries, and again with ready sledge driving homo to it? placo some spike that has started from its bcd in the .sleeper. Walled in on either ??do by cliffs of cement, his vista one perpetual colonnade of steel pillars, overhead \ the roar and rumble of the surface oars aud trucks, and ever flying past him, liku huge dragon? in a dusky oaveru, long trains that rush at light ning speed, boaring thousands of human souls. In safety-or to dis aster? It all lies with thetraokman. Tho first sensation as one stands, on tho bottom of tho Subway is a feeling of surprise at tho si/.e of tho oxcavntion. It seems suddenly to have grown twioe as deep as it looked from the station platform. And as it grew deeper, it roust have grown narrowor. BOAB LIKE AX AVALANCHE. Hero comes a "local," rumbling its steady way dow J toward Brooklyn Bridge. Its led and white lights glare fiercely aud it rushos along with an improssive air of irresisti bility. With a sudden sense of sniall ncrv., a feeling that the cars must suddonly have grown much larger, you shriuk into the uarrow space occupied by tho long line of pillars that divide the looal from the express and wonder if the train is intermina ble. It really seems as if it uever would pass. And just as you realize its last car is near thero is a sudden shook, a roar liko an avalance, a swrirling whirlpool of air that almost throws you off your foot. You cling to a pillar, wondering with a sudden numb, curious sensation in tho brain, what awful oatnstropho has hap pened. Surely it must be a wreck. Seores of times it happens to him sach day. Whenever he steps out of tho way of an incoming traiu ana the oars aro beaton and buffeted by the roar, his eyes must do duty to ajuare* him from the ever-present .langer of tho express from tho oppo site direotion, flying at forty miles an hour, lost it dash down upon him unseen and unheard and shatter him in fragments. So with every sense alert he plods steadily along in the dusk, his head beut as ho soans the rails, keenly alive to his surroundings, the danger und tho darkness. Ho is not careless, for tho prico of carelessness is death. Ile is not talkative, for tho roar of tho Subway soon begets silence. Above ground he walks bent-shouldered, for long hours of careful scrutiny in the depths of tho Subway have made it a habit. Thc lines of his face deepen, and strengthen. Around thc eyes como those tiny wrinkles that betoken keen sight, striving to pierce tho dark-such eyes as aro given to pilots and engineers. Tense nerves soon show in tho face, and tho anxious look bogot of ton hours a day soon becomes tho fixed expression. Thc strain shows. Darkness and danger and death-at twenty-one cents an hour-soon write their story on tho human countenance, and thc man becomes for all lifetime what ho is for those terrible ten hours a a day-ono long, living agony of suspense. DEATH HOVERS CI.08B. In daylight it would bc bad enough, bul in the Bomi-darkness thc strain is almost beyond compr?hen sion. For tho fear that comes with darkness is an inheritance from all the ages, and thc man of to-day is descended from the man who lived in a cave, and worshipped thc sun for its heat and light, is exactly like his prehistoric ancestor. Ho could not tell you why, but he, too, is afraid of the ?lark. Like prehistoric man he tears, yet knows not what. Death hovers AO close to him that by-and-by he b'conics accustomed to the constant companionship of thc grim spectre, and his mind and body act involuntarily. Dc docs not feel thc strain. Ile will not oven admit thal his OOOnpation carries with il any responsibility, but all unknown thc strain is lhere. Only a few ?lays ago some track workers wore at one of tho stations when a local train stopped at each platform. Thc men were on thu ex press tracks in the eenter when, just as thc locals had drawn almost to a standstill, an express from up-town dashed thunderously around a curve. Thc men jumped for thu other track and were almost run down by an ex press coming from thc opposite direction, which Ihey had not heard because of thu noise of thu first. They had just time, to leap between Lbo pillars separating the expresses and cling for safety. Thu suction between two trains is Lerriftic. Standing on almost any station platform thero is a rush of lir noticeable as a train approaohes, pushing a huge wave ahead of it. j Imagine two trains driving into a station at the same time, und then two expresses passing each other ex actly between the locals, and you will have ?orno taint idea of the terrible atmospheric swirl set up botwcun the flying expreses. A few y< irs ago a party of eight workmen were all killed in tho Now York Central tunnel that brings trains to tho center of New York city. Tho track-workers in the ?Sub way hud a narrow escape from a like fat?*. Only a few weeks since Charles Koepko and T. S. Nicholson were fellow-umployoes in the Subway. One night in February they were together at their task when Nichol son, busily employed in some trifling ropairs, found himself prone on the track with an express within a few feet of him. Ile could not save him self, but Koepke seized him and hy main strength dragged him from under the flying wheels, which grazed Nicholson's feet. Both mon wore almost overcome by the oecurrenoe, but resumed their work after a few moments' rest. Such things are a part of the trackman's life, and within an hour or two the first shock had worn off and tho men were joking ovor the escape. Little did they foresee even the most immediate future. Barely six hours had elapsed when the men wore again together at Ono Hundred and Twenty-second street. This time Koepko was on the fatal track. With a ory Niohoson sprang to his aid. His hands touched his jumper when the train struck Koepke, and tore him from his grasp. Before Nicholson's eyes lay the bruised and torn body of the man who had, less than six hours ago, saved his life from tho same over-present danger. On January 3 Louis Schmidt, a young man of 28, waa tostiug the tracks at Seventy-sixth street. The south-bound express speeding from Harlem dashed down upon him. With Henry Taffe, a fellow-work man, he leaped for safety. In the roar of tho Bridge express they did not hear the other avalanche of de struction, and Schmidt was crushed. Taffe barely escaped, thc cars grazing him as he threw himself baok toward the protecting line of pillars that separated thc expresses. Just a week before Koepko met his death in tho Lenox avenue branch of tim tunnel, Patrick Flynn, an other trackwalker, dazed hy the glare of headlights in the gloom and thc rush and racket of trains, made thc fatal misstep and lost his life at heighty'Seventh street. Tho express ran clear down to Seventy-second street boforo it stopped to lind whether he wa? dead or alive. The accident was then re ported, hut Flynn's body lay three quarters of an hour whore it had been thrown by the train before any one went to search for him. Kvcn if prompt aid could have saved his lifo, thc rules of thc Sub way wouldn't have allowed him t< live. Schedules must bo lived up to no matter whether the twenty-ont cents an hour man who risks his lif( ten hours a day wins or loses. BAVKD ANO THUM LOST. The gallant sold.er, the gallan fighter by land or sua, is suro o praise from thc populace. Bu what of the other man-thc mai who toils in tho shadow of tin valley of death ? Underneath tin ground he plods his way, cvorj sense strung to tho final point o strain, facing for ten hours each daj thc dread presence and, oftener than he cares to think about it, evading the grim hand hy barely a hair'i breadth. Then; comes another train. Wha of it? It is almost upon him, but In knows full well be has time to st riki yet once Again? and his task will Ix done. Why wait for the train t< pass. One moro blow, and ho leap lightly to tho other track. A glare of light blinds him. Hush Roar! and tho express tosses hi mangled hedy against tho Subwa; wall. No stopping. Thc station i a scant three-quarters of a mile away Time enough. It is only a track walker. In a little Last Sido tenement i broken-hearted woman wonders hos she shall fill thc mouths of tho babies but the man who gave his life fo twenty-one cents an hour is oasil] replaced. -- . -* . -- Walking sticks wore the faslron ii Greece. 1 AM DETERMIN! LIVERY B E PLANTS Al SE Cal iliaco Hunt s for Knie nnd now ready for deli ton I ..II Typo Wakefield," two earliest sharp-he "Huecos don." " A ililli st i Trucker" and "Short Stei t ii s ami hoad in rotation aa named. Fri?os : Bing 10,000 and over, $1 per 1.000. Terras : Cash with ol .-vt m H charges on money. Our plant beds occupy understand growing thom In the open air; tougn i injury, l'lants orated for shipment weigh 20 pour, prompt transportation by Southern Kxpress Co. ! than mino. 1 soil good plants. No oheap "cut-rat those that 1 ship to lie true to type and name, and two of tho most reliable sood houses in the United saltshed oustoiner at the end of the season. OUR COTTON SKI ; I ). Lint of our I^iig Stap Charleston on December 2 at 32o. per pound. Beet por bushel. My specialty : Trompt Shipment, Truo Varietli plant bust ios? thirly-flve years. Wm. C. Qeraty/l?TeCS JOB PRINTING SE The I3ent is Aiwa The "Mountain Parsonage." (Kev. W. M. Harden, in Southern Chris tian Advocate.J Dear Advocate : Perhaps it will be of some interest to write a few lines as pastor from this parsonage, as some mention was made of it by Brother S- and Mrs. Hogers last week. Some may not know exaotly where this parsonage is situated ; some of our preachers even know but little, if anything, about Wal halla and West Union. Having al ways lived in the lower portion of the State, we oould not expeot them to know. PerbapB there arc some moro of our good laymen who would doubtless be williug to assist in fin ishing up this lust payment if they but only knew the location, etc. Walhalla circuit ha* seven preach ing places, including Walhalla and Newry Cotton Mills. West Union is j nearly east of Walhalla. A stranger would suppose it was a portion of j thc same town. There are two dis tinct incorporations, where tho lawB are very rigidly enforced ; where, if a mau is seen intoxicated on tho streets, he is put in tho guard house at once. The Mountain Parsonage is situated near tho West Union depot. There are about two and one-half acres in the lot, with a good garden. The house has eight rooms, is good throughout, well under-pinned, and the timbers all in good condition. I am now trying to fence the entire lot, and hope to be able to do this soon. Tho fruit trocs have nearly all been nicely pruned, and wc aro looking for a good crop. We found tho parsonage without any furniture, but have been able to get some. We can now take care of our friends. It is proper that I should in a publia way acknowledge the amounts paid in by each church and those contributed by friends outside the work as follows : The church at Walhalla Mill, #15; Whitmire, #7.80 ; Fairview, #7.?J5 ; Oconoe, 25 cents; Zion, 40 cents ; Double Springs, #9.40. In addition to tho abovo I have collected as follows : Bishop W. W. Duncan, #20 ; B. G. Collins, Conway, #5 ; W. M. Jones, Spartan burg, #2 ; (4. C. Butler, Farmer, #1 ; M. M. Stanley, Farmer, #1. We hope to get all things in good shape this year-all collections in full. Now, Bro?her Rogers, you have for a long time left a promise unful filled, viz: to visit my work. Now, this is the year, and we want Sister Hogers to pay us a visit in our fruit and melon season [How about spring chickens V-Fds. ] and see this par sonage for the purchase of which she bas done so much. The people and pastor will always show their appre ciation by taking special care of tho !:::;;:;c, furniture, and premisos. Cuba's immigration last year was 20,000. Three-fourths were Span iards. BD TO DO THE USIN ES S for this community. Come on and get your teams. Hauling Teams, Single and Double Buggy Teams and Saddle Horses. Always on hand. Prompt and polite service at reasona ble prices. Teams sent out at any hour, day or night. - Phone 10 or ll for quick teams. C. B. HO I CH I NS, Walhalla, S. C. very. "Karly Jersey Wakefield" and "Charles ad varieties and hoad in rotation as named, ii Flat Dutch." the three I ?eat flat-head vario le thousand, fl.BO; 5.000 and over $1.25 per 1,000; -der; or plants sont C. O. U., purchaser paying 35 acres on South Carolina 8ea Toast, and we and hardy, they will stand severe cold without ids por 1,000 and wo have speoial low rates for t know of other plants you can buy cheaper o" plants shipped from my farm. I guaranloe grown from nigh grade seeds purchased from St.Ues. 1 will refund purohaso price to any dis le Variety of Rea Island Cotton sold last year tn 1 91.20 per bushel; lots of 10 bushols and over fl ss and Hatlsfiod Customers. I have boen In the 1-13 ? Youngs Island,S.C. orders for Sta Advertising Mat Courier and get THE BEST y? the O lie ape st,. John Parka Black, the 5-year-old Bon of Mrs. John Black, of Char lotte, died last week as the reBult of j burns received a few days before. The boy, with several playmates, was striking matches for sport. His clothing caught Uro and before as sistance could roach him he was fa tally burned. Ho died in great agony. THC HEGE LOO BEAM SAW MILL WITH HEACOCK-KING FEED WORKS ENGINES ANO BOILERS, WOODWORKING MACHINERY, COTTON GINNING, BRICK MAKING ANO S II INGLE AND IJATH MACHINERY, COHN MILLS, ETC., ETC. GIBBES MACHINERY CO.. Columbia, S. C. THE GIBBES SHINGLE MACHINE The TJllmann-Philpott Mfg. Co. READY MIXED PAINTS. COVERS MOST WEA KS LONGEST LOOKS BEST STRICTLY PURE MO"'1' ECONOMICAL NON.. BETTER MADE This Paint Guaranteed. Matheson Hardware Co., . Westminster, S. C. Carter Hardware Co., Walhalla, S. C. Write or call for 25 COLOR CARDS AND PRICES. FOR CHEAP RATES TO TEXAS, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, INDIAN TERRITORY, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO. UTAH, WYOMING, OREGON, MONTANA, | WASHINGTON, and Other Point? West, Northwest and Southwest, Writ* or Call on J. O. HOLLENBECK, District Passenger ?fft | LOUISVILLE &. NASHVILLE R. R. No. 1 North Pryor St., Opposite j Union Depot, Atlanta, Ga. . - re a Cold in On no Quinine Tablets. J& louth*. This signature, ^ J. H. MOORE, M. D.v Physician and Surgeon. Call? left at residence or J. H. Derby's. Drug Store will receive prompt attention, DAY OR NIGHT. Phones : Residence 98, Drug Store 18. 12-8-04 ______ WM. J. STKIBLINO. F 4 E. L. HBRNDON. STRIBLINQ _ I Attorney s-At-Law, WALHALLA, S. C. PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL BUSI NESS EN THUS run TO THEM. January 8. 1898. _ . J. P. Carey, I J. W. Shelor, Piokens, S. C. I Walhalla, S. C. CAREY & SHELOR, Attorneys and Counsellors, Walhalla, S. C. Will practice in tho State and United States Courts. Business entrusted to our oare will re ceive prompt and careful attention. Attorney-at-Law, WALHALLA, - - S. C. Bell Phone No. 20. Praotioe in State and Fodoral Courts. Business entrusted to my care rocoives prompt attention. 1-0? fTSillD. -Dentist OOice two doors above the Bank, In Carter's Pharmacy. Westminster, S. Dr. G. C. Probst, DENTIST, Walhalla, S. C. Office Over C. W. Pitchford Co.'s ; : : Store, : : : HOURS : 8.80 A. M. TO 1 P. M. AND 2 TO 6 p. M. DR. J. H. BURGESS, Dentist, SENECA, S. C. OFFICE OVER NIMMONS* STORK, DOYLE Bun.niNo. Office Hours: 9 A. M. to 1 p, M. " M 2 P. M. tO (I P. M. April 20, 1004. 16-tf Dr. W, F. Austin, DENTIST, SENECA,.S. C. Office Over J. II'. Byrd (fi ( ?. / AM NOW IN MY OFFICE EVERY DA Y. PHONE NO. 51. BLUE RIPEE RAILWAY CO. RKTWEEN RELTON AND WALHALLA. Time Tal>lo No. 8.-In Effect Jan. 0, 1905, BAST BOUND-? I.v I.v Ai Lv Lv I,v I.v Lv Lv Lv I.v A r Lv Lv Ar Walhalla. Wost Union. Seneca. Moneen. 'Jordania Junction - A il.lins. .Cherry. Pendleton . . *Autun. .Denver . .Wost Anderson. . ? . Anderson - PassDop Andornen-Patts Dop .Anderson-FrtDep Holton. WaSTBOUND Lv Helton. Lv .Anderson-Kr't Do Ar Anderson-Pass De Lv Anderson-Pass Do Lv ?Wont Anderson. Lv ?Denver. Lv .Antnn. Lv Pondleton. Lv ?Clinrry. Lv ?Adams. Lv *Jordanla .I unction. | Ar Seneca. Lv .Seneca. Lv Wost Union. Ar Walhalla. . Flag stations. Will also stop at tho fellowing stntlons to take 00 ami lotolT passengers: Phinney's, .lamcB'sand Handy Sprints und Toxuway. Nos. ll ann 12, llrst class paSHOIiKer, dnily; Nos. 0 and 10, dallv oxcojit Sunday; Nos. 6 nnd 6, Sunday only; Nos. 4 and 7, second class, mixed, dally oxcont Sunday; Nos. 8 and K, second class, mixed, dally. H. 0. BEATTIE, President, j. R. ANDERSON. Superintendent. THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY THE SOUTH'S GREATEST SYSTEM. Unexcelled Dining Car Sorvico. Through Pull man Sleeping Cars on all Through Trains. Convenient Schedules on all Local Trains. Wintor Tourist Rates aro now in effect to nil Florida points. For full information as to ratos, routes, ot^., consult nearest Southorn Railway Ticket Agont, or R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S C. e Day Cares Grip In Two May?, on every box. 25c,