Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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OAP'N. BILLI SMITH. Tin* Veteran Conductor I* Yet on the Job-Some Keuiinisccnces. ? Columbia State. > Perhaps the oldest passenger train conductor, continuously In active ser. Vice, in the United States is Capt. "Hilly" Smith, who for more Mian 50 years has had the run on the South ern road between Columbia and Greenville, On his sleeve are ten qjtpvrons, each stripe representing five years' honorable service. "Capt. Billy," as he ls affection ately called by the railroad em ployees and by thousands of passen gers who have como to know him in traveling over the road, ls approach ing 80 years of age. yet no detail of a conductor's duty escapes bim. In his long service he bas especially en deared himself to the lady passengers who travel over lils line. The old gentleman always makes lt his busi ness to see personaMy to the com fort and convenience of the passen gers, and no one who has ever rid den with him has been carried past u station by mistake. On his train there ls no Indistin guishable yell that nobody under stands except Hie yeller thereof. When Capt. Billy goes through the train every passenger knows what the next station is, and at junctions he is particularly careful to make the train connections known. This ls one reason why ladies like to ride on bis train. They don't make any mistakes. .I* * * Capt. Smith is one of the first men to run on the Southern road. He bas had the one run, from Columbia to Greenville, for more than half a century. His reminiscences of old time railroading are extremely Inter esting and entertaining. He was running a train before the war and he tells of Incidents that occurred before Secession wns declared. On ene occasion, the day before South Carolina seceded, he was standing on Main street In Columbia, and there was a great crowd In front of the Nicholson Hotel, calling for Senator Chestnut. The war fever ran high, and Senator Chestnut, was ono of the leaders who fanned lt. The Sen ator appeared on the balcony and made a speech in which he declared that South Carolina would secede from the Union; that the South was right and Its enuse would prevail. "The Northern people," he said, "are too busy making money to go to war; If an army ls raised lt will bc an army of the rabble and the slums. They will not light. One regiment of South Carolina soldiers can whip a ten-acre lot full of them. I cnn drink all the blood that will be shed in the war with the North. Go in boys, and will fame and glory." That is the way Capt. Billy tells it. He says ho was standing on thc street near w here the skyscraper now is and heard tho speech. Capt. Hilly was not in favor of the war, and sahl to himself. "You know not what you say." Hut, Capt. Billy was au in tense Southern partisan, just thc same, and ls to-day a good deal ol un "unreconstructed Bebel." Thc other day when he carried the mili tia on his train he could not recon cile himself to the sight of soldiers from the South carrying the bag that ha'f a century ago was carried In thc van of the forces that laid waste In bis State. * * * Capt. Billy told how, wluui thc Southern soldiers returned after tilt war, the women at the various sta tions along the road from here tc Greenville prepared tables Ulled witt things good to eat, and dressed thc soldiers' wounds. Th veteran's way of telling about these things is in teresting in the extreme. Ile told of one soldier who had eight children and an invalid wife He had come home on a furlough tc see his family, and had done som< w ork to get I hem provisions, and hf knew to go back to the army meant starvation for them. He overstate I his time, and the provost came af toi him and compelled him to return With them shackled. When Hu train they were on reached Colum bia this man in desperation, mana clod as he was, got possession of hit knife and slashed open his abdomen and tore out his entrails by handfuls He was abandoned for dc nd, but n doctor put the vital parts back sewed up the wound, and the man got well. Capt. Billy said he knew this of his own personal observation, hut did not know whether the man went back again to the army. ?J. .{. In a Georgia town as a youth Capt. Billy knew a boy whose name was Tom Lawson. .Ins' after the war lhere appeared in Newberry a man emaciated and rick from camp fe ver. He was on his way to Georgia, his nome, and Capt. Billy recognized him. The war was over and lt was in the days of Reconstruction. In some way lt became known that the man had been a Southern spy within the Northern army. The Northern sm; SHOT HF.K M>VF.IL Augusta ?.iii Shot >luu Three Times. lie Will Probably Die. Driven to desperat ion hy lier Jeal ousy and mad with rano because she thought he had tried to put her off, Miss Elmira Todd, a beautiful young woman of Augusta, (?a., walked into the Central of Georgia freight office in that city just before noon last Wednesday and opened lire with a revolver on Richard I). Watson, for two years her accepted lover. She shot six times, throe bullets taking effect. Railroad Detective Hall was near Hie scene at the time and rushed Into the office Just as the young woman stuffed the revolver Into her wats! and was hurrying away. He took her Into custody and escorted her to the barracks, where she broke Into hys terics and raved like a lunatic for an hour. Ret ween her sobs she told a heart rending story of love, and a subse quent life of shame with the man she shot because she feared he was about to put her off and become en gaged to another. More than two years ago. she said, .'.oung Watson niel her and she grew to lose him. His attentions were tender, she said, and she continued her rela tions. Hut of late they drifted apart. A few d.'.ys ago she iw bim again, lind he sent her to Atlanta with a promise to meet here there. She wailed, but he did not come. Then she returned and shot him. Watson is a handsome young man, 25 years old, who ls well known In Augusta, and was universally popu lar. He held a splendid position. He ls at the city hospital In a des? perata condition. One bullet entered near the heart, another pierced the abdomen, while the third struck the collar hone and ranged downward as he cowered be hind the door of a safe In his office to escape the woman's deadly fire. People with chronic bronchitis, as thma and lung trouble will find great relief and comfort in Foley's Honey and Tar, and can avoid suffering by commencing to take lt at once. J.W. Bell. Walhalla; Stonecypher's Phar macy, Westminster. soldiery we ?j running things with a high hand, and lt reached the ears of the commander of the Northern troops. He Issued un order for this man Lawson to he brought to him dead or alive. In some way Lawson became ap prised of the order and tried to make his escape. Ill as he was, he ran about twelve miles up the railroad when three I'nion soldiers overtook him. Lawson Iud behind a hush,and when the soldiers pursuing got near enough Lawson sprang out and wrenched the gun from one soldier's hand and was about to shoot ano ther of them when tl:e third shot him through the heart. The dead man was carried hack to Newberry on Capt. Hilly's train. * * * Tho veteran has been through many wrecks, "a couple for every mlle on my run," he says. But he never sustained serious Injury. H pon one occasion he was running a train with some coaches attached to some cattle cars. The cattle cars were open on the top in those days, and as the train moved and swayed the cattle in the cars would lunge about. He feared they would break the door and escapo, and though he had not slept for three days he tried to keep awake, watching the catv, ahead from the platform. Pinding him self going to sleep on his feet, and fearing he would fall from the train he went into the car and sat down, and that was the last he remember ed until he fell a violent jar, which awakened him. He discovered that the rear cars had broken loose from the train and turned over and were lying oil their sides heside the track. The cattle ears were empty. The cnttlo had been spilled and bystand ers told him that the last they had seen of he cows they were going over tho hill with their tails in the air. .I? * * Por two hours Capt, Billy enter tained a reporter of The State on the way from Columbia to Hodges with reminiscences along these lines. Sonic years ago it is said that the railroad company laid him off on full pay, suggesting that he spend the remainder of his life in ease, but Capt. Hilly's heart was nearly bro ken, and he begged io be allowed to continue his active service. He said he would rather run on the road without pay than not to he allowed to run. If you are all run-down Foley's Kidney Remedy will help you. It strengthens the kidneys so they will eliminate the impurities from the blood that depress the nerves, and cause exhaustion, backache, rheuma tism and urinary irregularities,willoh sap the vitality. Do not delay. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy at once. J. W. Bell.Walhalla; Stonecypher Phar macy, Westminster. TWO "Mi MCI : DUI CA DNA! (Ml TS. Bids for Their Construction Opened at Washington. Two more dreadnoughts, the Wy oming and the Arkansas, authorized hy Congi* ss, took tirst shape at the Navy Department in Washington last Wednesdny when bids for their con struction were opened In the pr?s eme of numerous representatives of Bhlp-bullding thins anxious to obtain the contracts. These vessels each are to cost $6.0f>0,000, exclusive ot their armor and armament; are to make a high rate of speed and are to be eiiulppcd throughout with the latest improvements. The vessels are to be of 26.000 tons each, the largest ever under taken by the naval establishment, the increase in tonnage in this class of vessels being from 20,000, the size of the original American dread naughts, the Delaware and the North Dakota. The Utah, now under construction by the New York Shlp-Bulldlng Co., and the Florida, now being built at the New York Navy Yard, are the two remaining dreadnaughts, their tonnage being 22.000. The naval officials expected lively competition for the contracts for the Wyoming and the Arkansas. ' William ('ramp & Sons, of Phila delphia, were the lowest bidders for constructing the battleships Wyom ing and Arkansas, bids for which were opened at the navy department last Wednesday. Only one ship can go, however, to any one linn of build ers. The rew York Ship-Building Co., of Camden, N. J., made the next lowest bid nt $4,675,000. The Bethlehem Steel Co., the Car negie Co., and the Midvale Steel Co. submitted Identical bids for furnish ing the main portion of the armor for the battleships. Their figures were for class A, $4 25 a ton for 11, 4 85 tons. Anderson Tribute to Ix?e Strlbllng. (Anderson Mail, 19th.) Lee Strlbllng, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Strlbllng, of Westminster, died at the home of his parents shortly af ter noon yesterday, lils death being due to typhoid fever. Mr. Strlbllng was 19 years of age and was a young many of many noble parts. He left behind him many friends and rela tives who bemoan his untimely de mise. Mr. Stribling was a nephew of Mrs. H. E. Todd, of this city, and was well known herc. Less than a month ago he visited Anderson as a representa tive of the Westminster Y. M. C. A. in the athletic meet held here, at which he won the prize In the high jump. His friends here are much shocked by his death. No matter how long you have suf fered, Foley's Kidney Remedy will help you. Mrs. S. L. Bowen, of Wayne, W. Va., writes: "I was a sufferer from kidney disease, so that j at tunes I could not get out of bed, and when I did I could not stand straight. I took Foley's Kidney Item, edy. One dollar bottle and part of tue second cured me entirely." It will cure you. J. W. Bell, Walhalla; Stonecypher Pharmacy, Westminster. Feeds 'Km Hot Potatoes. "I had heard it said all my life that If you want hens to lay, feed them pepper and other hot stuffs," said Congressman Johnson to a Spar tanburg Herald representative, In discussing chickens, "so I concluded that hot potatoes might do just as well. I had an abundance of sweet potatoes-more than we could de stroy-and last winter I took to bak ing n ?e\v in the oven of the stove each day and feeding them to my hens. The hens began laying last November, and have been laying ever since. You can take that for what lt's worth, but I believe B's due to the potatoes." For Indigestion and all stomach trouble take Foley's Orino Laxative, as it stimulates thc stomach and liver and regulates the bowels and will positively cure habitual consti pation. J. W. Bell. Walhalla; Stone cypher Pharmacy. Westminster. Open Saloons bi "Dry" Kansas. Wichita, Kan., Aug. 2n. After four months of enforced idleness the saloons of Wichita are again running on the wide-open plan. Beer can be obtained at a large number of re sorts, and whiskey ls also served. Thc "weis" are happy and predict that gool times have returned to stay. But one restriction is placed on the deniers and that ls they must operate on the second floors of build ings. The chief of police says he cannot stop the resorts because the law allows them to sell near beer that ls, beer containing less than 2 per cent of alcohol-and that it is impossible to tell the near beer from the real thing when the labels aro removed. It ls also declared that If real beer was found lt would require a chemical analysis to prove it. This they consider too much trouble. "IT PENETRATES? OUR GUARANTEE If Noah's Liniment feils to do all claimed wo will gladly refund your money, and authorize any dealer to do the same. Be sure you get the Genuine Trade-Marked Noah's Liniment, with Noah's Ark on the package. You do not havo to fill any blank or return the bottle. Isn't that fair> 25c, 50c, $1,00 of your dealer. Sample by mail. No*b RtneJt Co., Richmond, Vs., & Bolton, M?o. NOAHS LINIMENT Guaranteed and Sold by Rr. J, W. Hell, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca THE HARVARD SCHOLARSHIPS. $15,000 Left to Kstablisb Scholar ships for Southern Boys. Harvard University has received from the widow of James Augustus Rumrlll. A. R. 1800, of Springfield, Mass., the sum of fifteen thousand dollars to establish in his memory three scholarships to be known as the James A. Rumrlll Scholarships. Two Undergraduate Scholarships. Two scholarships of $225 each will be offered every year to properly qualified students in their first year of residence as undergraduates In Harvard College who enter Harvard from the secondary schools In Vir ginia. North Carolina, South Caro lina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, or Kentucky. In the assignment of these under graduate scholarships consideration is to be given, In accordance with the terms of gift, "to the qualities of manliness, leadership, and well rounded development, as well as the scholarly attainments of the candi dates as shown by their school rec ords or their records lu the admis sion examinations, or both." The above scholarships will be as signed on or about September 15th for the academic year 1009-10. Ap plications should be tn the hands of the secretary not later than Septem ber 1. 1909. The assignment of the scholarships for the year 1910-11 will be made on or about June 1, 1910, and applications for that year should be in the hands of the secretary not later than May 1, 1010. Applications should state clearly the grounds on which financial aid is required, and they should be accom panied by testimonials from teachers and others regarding the qualifica tions mentioned in the terms of gift. For Southern t'?diego Graduates. A scholarship of $225 will be of fered each year to a properly quali fied graduate of a college or univer sity in the States above mentioned who desires to pursue his studies in one of the graduate departments of Harvard University. These depart ments are: Graduate School of Arts an Sci ences. Graduate School of Applied Science Graduate School of Business Ad ministration. Divinity School. Law School. Medical School. r:'*.e selection of the incumbent of this scholarship will be made hythe appropriate authorities at Harvard, acting in consultation with the au thorities of the institutions from wbch the candidates come. The above scholarship will be as signed on or about September 15th for the academic year 1909-10. Ap plications should be in the hands of the secretary not later than Septem ber I, 1909. The assignment of the scholarship for tho year 1910-11 will be made on or about April 1, 1910. and applications for that year should be In the hands of the secretary not later than March 1, 19 10. Applications should specify the department of Harvard University that the candidate wishes to enter, and should be accompanied by a copy of his college record and testimonials concerning his character and ability from teachers and others. The qual ity rather than the number ot 'ie tes timonials is important. For information concerning any of the departments of Harvard Univer sity in which the above scholarships r.,ny be held, the courses of Instruc tion offered, the cost of living, etc., application should be made to the Secretary, J. G. Hart, 20 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass. NOAHS LINIMENT I"IT PENETRATES" Few Reasons Why It Is Beat Gives relief for All Nerve, Bone and Mus de Ache* and Pain? more quickly than any other remedy known. Ila Peculiar Penetrating Properties are Most Effective. May be used with absolute confiden t? in its purity for Internal or External Uar .. lt ia Triple Strength. A Powerful, Speedy and Sure Pain Remedy-therefore, most Effective tn producing desired results. Not only contains the old-fashioned in gredients of pain remedies used by your grandparents, but also embodies the Latest and Most Important Up-to-date Discovcriea known and used in medical science. 25c, 50c, and $ 1.00 of your dealer. The Genuine has Noah's Ark on every package. Sample by mail free. Noak Remedy Co., Richmond, Va., & Bolton, Mass. Guaranteed and Sold by Dr. 3. \V. Kell, Walhalla; \V. J. l.unney,>?oncon $1,000,0(10 OF HOG US MOX FY. Dreams ol' Wealth Which Daxsled .lohn Roberta are Shattered. Louisville. Ky., AUK. 19--Dreams of wealth which reflected their gaudy hues from a brass-bound trunk con taining a million dollars in counter feit Mexican pesos were shattered for .lohn C. and Marlon Roberts here to day, when Deputy United States Mar shal William Blaydes arrested John Roberts In Shelby county with the money in his possession. Since the hour of the arrest this morning, there has been unravelled in the custom house of Louisville and In Central police station a tale of attempted financial buccaneering that puts into shadow some of the boldest exploits in the history of counterfeiting. He Will Plead Guilty. Roberts, sitting in the office of the secret service bureau here to-day, coolly said that he would plead guil ty at the October term of the Federal court, and seemed philosophic about spending a majority of his years In the United States prison in Atlanta, Ga. He had played a bold game and failed, he said, and he would have been rich beyond his dreams had it succeeded. Now he was poor and In the hands of the sternest law on earth, but he laid rather flattering unction to his soul that the scheme had been daring and romantic. It was through Marton Roberts that the counterfeiters were appre hended. Marion Roberts, some days ago apprehended a Louisville broker and made him the proposition that he dispose of counterfeit Mexican pe sos at a high commission. The bro ker notified Chief of Police Hnagor, who at once enlisted the secret ser vice men and the trap to catch Mar ion Roberts was laid. Marion fell into lt Monday, and since that time the police and secret service men have been extracting from bim the information which led to the descent upon his brother at Simpsonvllle to day. . $1,000,000 in Notes ht Trunk. When Marshal Rlaydes confronted John Roberts in the hamlet in Shel by county, the chief counterfeiter ad mitted that he was behind the plan to dispose of the Imitation pesos through the Louisville broker. He showed Blaydes a brass-bound trunk of the sort especially constructed to figure in romances, and this was filled with ?1,OOO,OOO in the crisp Mexican notes. Roberts said that he would have been in Mexico with the trunk a week ago had he not been awaiting the arrival of a perforating machine and a device for numbering the bills. "Did you suspect that the Federa officers were after you?" Roberts was asked In the Custom House office to-day. "If I had, I'd never been in Simp sonvllle," he replied, laughing. Will Koenig, a' printer, was also arrested in connection with the case. All three men will have examining trials before the United States Com missioner shortly. Roberts ls a bulky man, weighing close to 250 pounds, and when he was brought Into Louisville to-day. his clothing was spotted nnd frayed with hard wear. He says that he had manufactured all the pesos notes In this country, and that he had not Intended to defraud any/ one In the United States. "I merely wanted to get rich," he said. Roberts is a son of the late Judge Roberts, once a wcll-konwn Louis ville Jurist. His bond to-day was fixed at $15,000, and he nt once waived examination trial. NOAHS LINIMENT "IT PENETRATES" RECOMMENDED FOR Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lame Back, Stiff Jointe and Muscle?, Sore Throat. Cold?, Strain?, Sprain?, Cut?. Bruise?, Cramp?, Colic, Toothache, and all Nerve, Bone and Muscle Aches and Pain?. The Genuine ha? Noah'? Ark on every package. For Man and Beast. 25c. 50c, $1.00 of your dealer. Get the Genuine. Sample by mail. Noak Ra*** Cs., Richmond, Va., * Beate?, Maa?. NOAHS LINIMENT Guaranteed and Sold by br. J. W. I ltd I, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca TILLMAN WITH THK "DRYS." Wants Dispensaries Voted Out of the Six Wet Counties. Greenville. Aug. I'd.-Senator B. R. Tillman addressed a birgt* gather- f*?L H lng of farmers at Fountain Inn to-? y ,i day and spoke on general toi des. dis cussing the negro question In Rs re lation to the Republican party and compulsory education. Iii his speech be commented r.pon the results of the recent dispensary elections In the counties of thc State. In speaking of dispensary elections Mr. Tillman said that he was glad the State was going dry and hoped that the remaining six counties which are wet will go dry shortly. He remarked on the attitude of President Taft toward the South, and snid that Taft's purpose was to se duce enough white men to make up a respectable Republican party in the South and bring In the negroes as a balance of power. To mobilize the negroes In South Carolina, he said, lt was only n< i off enough white i ter as maney negro Any step toward bi ber of negroes wh" write, was, in his judyment. the height of folly. This brought him to the subject of compulsory education, and he stated that he was opposed to compulsory education for the reason that tho negroes would be educated along with the whites, since the Fif teenth Amendment would not allow discrimination against the negroes. The whites would pay the taxes for negroes' education. Mr. Tillman was applauded many times during his speech. The Sunshine Convention. *arj to slough und to repis as possible, .Mfg i .. ll ?I) ? ?Uli! ?v.id :;Ud 1 hope every one who ls interested in Sunshine, work, especially the pas tors and teachers 'of Oconeo. will copie to the Sunshine Convention to be held at Rock Springs church Au gust 28th. We will be glad to see those who are not Interested, too. We hope to Interest you before you leave. Mrs. Julia D. Shanklln, County Organizer. CANNOT SPLIT OR CURL UKE WOOD SHINGLES '"fm A;?:... ? 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