Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PRESONAL INJURY GRAFTERS A Railroad Detective's Work in Damage Suits. The chief detective of a great Southern railway system had ad journed to the smoking compart ment of the Pullman for a final cigar before he climbed into his up per berth. He had just finished a job of clever sleuthing and was in a talkative mood, which quickly brought the half dozen other smok ers to attention. "I suppose in the beginning I was supplied with as much confidence in human nature as the average man," he. began, as he settled back into the cushions and put his feet on a chair, "but after spending twenty years in finding out just how much the truth is stretched every time somebody sues the company for damages for personal injuries there isn't much left for it. "I hadn't been wearing railroad gumshoes very long before I was turned loose on a case where a six teen year old boy wanted $ioo,ooo damages because he was deaf and dumb as the result of a railroad wreck. "I worked on the case for two years, 'during which time the suit was postponed from one term of court to another, until finally it had to be tried. The sum total of all my knowledge was that the boy hadn't spoken nor apparently heard a word for two years. "On the morning of the trial I advised the company's lawyers to settle fo,r, $25,o6,- which they offered to,o. The plaintiffs counsel refused tho bffer, so the ~case was called. "The evidence was. so completely one-sided that .the case -would cer tainly have been finished and gone to- the jury before night but at noon I had an idea. I thought that if we fad one more day something might turn up to us. I conferred with the company's lawyer, and at about the hour when the case was ready for the jury our leading attorney was taken suddenly ill. The judge ha4 no alternative but to adjourn court until the next day. "That night I went Lo tne pain tiffs counsel and explained that we were ready to settle but wanted to make a physical examination of the boy first. He had no objections, so we rented a room ini the local hospi tal and took the boy there. "We put him upon an operating table around which were gaihered four white coated, white whiskered men, alleged to be eminent surgeons, but in reality the company's lawyers. "After baring the youth's bosom over the heart, thd chief surgeon grabbed an ugly looking knife, and solemnly said: "'Brethren, there is just about one chance in a hundred that the pa tienit will survive this operation. Are you willing to take the chance?' "'We are,' answered the others. "The words were hardly spoken before the boy let out a yell, and cried. 'For God's sake, don't kill -me. "Then he snapped his jaws togeth er and became dumb again, but the few words he had said were mighty costly for him, for his lawyers im mediately threw up the sponge and asked for the dismissal of the case the next morning." Then the detective relighted his cigar, and remarked that he always had more trouble getting the truth out of a woman than a man. "A few years ago a Buffalo wo man. who was known to us as a member of a fake injury syndicate, put in a claim for $50.ooo against us for alleged paralysis of all her limbs, cc.d.~inued the detective. "She pre tended that her spine had been jerk ed out of kilter in a little one horse wreck down in Tennessee. "I was positive that the womanl was as sound as a dollar. but I couldn't prove it. So I had to move to Buffalo and camp on her trail. Finally I managed to strike up an acquaintance with another wonmar, who was on very intima:e terms with the supposedl paralyzed one. "I professed to be a member of a band of personal injury grafters out in Chicago. of whom she knew some thing, and I showee such an. exten sive knowledge of t.he gang that she believed me. Of course, she want tic the first thing, and I was for it strong. "She gave me a very effusive letter of introduction, and I started out on the warpath. When I found the wo man I wanted, she was propped up in bed, and was certainly doing the helpless act to perfection. When I sprung the letter she warmed up, and we were soon merrily discussing our experiences in taking various kinds of falls out of railroad treasuries. "When I arose to go I suggested that her friends in Chicago might like to read a little note from her, which I would be pleased to deliver within a couple of days. Never sus pecting for a moment, she hopped jauntily out of bed and dashed off a few. lines in no time. "Then I sprung my detective's badge on her and she suddenly be came the most active woman I ever saw. She made a break for a gun, but I pulled first, and had her in a cell in less than an hour. "She was arrested not long ago in Chicago for trying to flim-flam an other railroad." TPYE THROWN AWAY. Daily Paper Given a New Dress Every Day. The leading paper of London has a new dress every day. Every morning before the compositors commence their daily work a quan tity of new type is brought into the place, and the old, which. was used only the day before, is carried out and melted over into new. ~This has been made possible only by the invention of a new rotary type-cast ing machine, which -does. its work so rapidly and so economically that it is cheaper. to throw the type away than to distribute it. While this is practically true of the linotype, which is in general use in this coun try, it has not been the custora here tofore to throw away the product of the individual type machines now on the market after a single use. Most of these machines provide for the mechanical distribution of the pieces and their use over again for a num ber of times. The inventor of this machine is a man named Wicks, and he is not an engineer by profession, but a jour-I nalist, and was formerly a member of the gallery staff of The Times. His original invention has been vastly improved in the course of years' ex perimenting. Before the invention and perfection of this wheel a type making machine which could turn out 6,ooo types ~an hour was consid ered rapid; the rotary wheel casts 6o,ooo with ease and 40 per cent. more cheaply than the old machines. Al! the calculations, and they are pe culiarly complicated, since, to com ply with the traditions of printing, the unit is 1-72 part of an inch, are carried out to six places of decimals, and the men who grind the punches or make the wheels work to 1-10.000 of an inch. The care taken.and the quality of the machinery employed may be guaged by the fact that the little punch-cutting machines, which each cast nearly 5,ooo are bedded, to avoid vibration, on a depth of six teen feet of concrete, which in its turn is laid on oak piles five feet long. _______ I Birthdays in Japan. The Japanese hav'e a queer way of celebrating birthdcays: Instead of a party in September for little 0 Tatsu, and a party in December for little UJme, there's a party in February in honor of all the little girls and one in May for all the little boys. In F'ebruary every little girl re ceives from all her grown-up rela tives and friends gifts of dolls. and besides these dolls her mother takes out of the closet many of the dolls she had when she was a child, and some of the older dolls that the little risganmither had when she was a little to', and I dare say there are dolls that belonged to the little girl's great-grandmother-quaint dolls in faded clothes of a hundred years and more ago, and care.fully handed down frmmther to daughter ever since. Thn tthe first of May comes the boys' festival--the fi1h festival, it is called. Every family that's lucky enough to have a boy p)uts up a flagpole in the door-yard, or perhaps several families combine to use the same one than one family could afford. U1 the top of the pole is a gilt ball, o: else a basket with something brigh and tinsely in it. And flying fron the pole, in the brisk spring winds is a whole string of carp, made o oiled paper or cloth, painted in brigh colors and anywhere from five t< some fifteen feet long. Each fist belongs to some particular boy, an< the carp is chosen because it is , big, Etrong fish, and not only cai swim against the most rapid cur rents, but in its eagerness to get ul stream will leap straight up water falls. The gold ball means a treasure which the carp, leaping and strug gling, buffetted by the wind, is for ever trying to reach. And th4 whole thing means that the boy whei he's a man, will have to battle hi way as the sturdy carp up the river A Tip in Advance. A small boy who had been forbid den by his mother to go in swimming ran away from school and had ; bully time at the old swimming hole When he came home his mothci whose suspicions were asoused, tool him to task: "Jimmie, have you been in swim ming?" Looking her straight in the eye th< boy said: "Mother you may lic me, but I won't lie to you, I was. Remembering the story of the Fa ther of his country, the womat thinking she had for a son anothe Washington, clasped him in her arm and said: "My boy it was wrong to disobe] your mother, but I am .glad that yot will not lie to escape punishment. An hour after the boy's brothei asked him why 'he had owned up s< promptly. "Huh," said the boy, "that littli tittle tale, Jim Snoops, was in wit us and I tied his shirt up into sb knots and he said he was a comin over here to tell mother where I'< been and I figured that if I didn' tell her, I was maybe in for threo lickings, one for goin' in swimmin one for lyin', and one for .tyin' then knots. I hadn't nuthin' to lose an< everything to gain by workin' thi George Washington business oi other." To Keep Young. Keep in the sunlight; nothin beautiful or sweet grows or ripen: in the darkness. Avoid fear in all its varied form: of expression. It is the greates enemy of the human race. Avoid excesses of all kinds; the; are injurious. The long life mus be a temperate, regular one. Don't live to eat, but eat to live Many of our ills are due to overeat ing, to eating the wrong things an< to irregular eating. Don't allow yourself to think oi your birthday that you are a yea older and so much nearer the end. Never look on .the dark side; tak< sunny views of everything; a sunn: thought drives the shadows. Be a child; live simply and natural ly and keep clear of entangling alli ances and complications of al kinds. Cultivate the spirit of contentment all discontent and dissatisfactio: bring age furrows prematurely to th< face. Form a habit of throwing off be fore going to bed at night' all the cares and anxieties of the d,ay everything which can possibly caus mental wear and tear or deprive yoi of rest. Women have a queer way of ap proving the taste shown by othe As a general thing, women lool with suspicion upon the man wh< treats them with silence. NOTICE. The customers of the undersingn ed banks and the public generall: will please take notice that they wil close daily at 3 p. in., beginning Jan uary 10th., 1905, and that no busines will be iranacted after that hour. National Bank of Newberry, by T. S. Duncan, Cashier. Commercial Bank. by Z. F. Wright, Cashier. Newberry Savings Bank, by J. E. Norwood, Casir. eamer 2a, re4. AUDITOR'S NOTICE r I -OF 1 Assessment of Personal Property f For 1905. t I or an authorized agent will be > at the following named places for 1 the purpose of taking returns of per I sonal property for the year 1905: 1 Maybinton-TueFday, Jan. 10. I Glymphviile--Wednesday, Jan. Ir. - Walton-Thursday, Jan. r2. Pomaria-Friday, Jan. 13. - Jolly Street-Monday, Jan. 16. Little Mountain-Tuesday, Jan. 17. O'Nealls-Wednesday, Janu.ry 18. - St. Luke's-Thursday, Jan. 1g. Pro.p.rity-Friday and Saturdav, January 20 and 21. 1 And at Newberry until February 2o, after which time a penalty of bfty per cent. will be added against part es failing to make returns. While on the rounds named above my office - will be open for the purpose of tak ing returns at that place. The law re L quires a tax on all notes, mortgages and moneys, also an income tax on gross incomes of $2,5oo and upwards. There shall be -i capitation tax of 50 cents each assessed on all dogs, the proceeds to b: expended for school p.irposes. All males between the ages of 21 and 6o years, except Con federate soldiers or those persons in capable of earning a support by being maimed or from any other cause, are liable to poll tax, Don't ask that r your return be taken from the books the same as last year. All personal property must be relisted and sworn 'to. Parties moving out of towsships in which their taxes were paid last r year should so state to assessor, so as to avoid their names being enter ed in two townships. Name or number of school district must also be given. There will be no assessment of real estate this year, but be sure to make t transfers of all lands or lots bought or sold since last return. Wm. W. Cromer, Auditor. & COME SOO *Whenever you start out on a s *iThis plan will save you many a * time.. If we haven't just what S We shall not urge you to buy, *goods as soon as you can. It i t every way to make selections b - +MAYES' DR SEABI AIR -LINE iNORTh - SOUTH Two Daily Pullman Ve~ Between SOUTH ai - FIRST-CLASS DINI - The Best Rates and Roi -Via Richmond and .\ Norfolk and Steam Nashville, Memph - Louis, Chicago, Ne r Points South and South' and Jacksonville and and Cuba. PossiTIvEty THE SHOE NORTH AN - gFor detailed information man reser;dions, etc., appi' board Air Line Railway, cr J Passenger Agent, Columbia, C. F. STEWART, A SAVANN) HINDIPO. RESIORES VITALrTy % Madea Well Mal, TH.Of Mo. GREAT .. - URENCH REMEDY produces the above rest L'n 3 dys.Cue Vevous De6,ltIj*tm "brcoceir, Failing Alemm~.Stp a "rn4 ,osses caused by errors of youth. 01t vwrds off Isip ~aiyand ConsUpton. Youn~eteanMn =and Old Men recover outhful Vigor,Jt pives vigor and size to shrunken prpons, i0dflUS Li=an for business or marriage. FAsiy Cal k3 he vest ket. Price 6Bxe'& mail, in lain pack rautteu guarantee. DLSz&T1w'h;R&M Dr. R. M. Keurtedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - - S. C. OVER NATIONAL BANK. Brick! Brick!. For Sale by C. H. CANNON. Doctor Knew it Could Not Be. Collier's Weekly. Dr. W. W. Keen, the Philadelphia 5urgeon, has a number of scrap books filled with anecdotes about phy sicians. These anecdotes are odd, from the fact that they all throw up on physicians a most unflatteri light. . To illustrate their character, Dr. Keen quoted one of em'recnt "A physician was driving thxojgh the street," he said. "A freon - ped him. "'Doctor,' said the friend,' axioil ly, 'have you heard that.e. h9pble story -about Williamson?' . 'No,' said the doctor. 'What story it that?' - 'A story to the effect that hewas buried alive.' 'Buried alive?' said the'docir. 'Impossible. He was one of my pa tients.' N AND SEE dopping tour come here first~~ unnecessary steps and much you want then look elsewhere. but we do wish you to seeor vill be to your advantage in efore the final rush begins. UG STORE. -RAMLWAY. - EAST -- WEST. sibuled Limited Trains ~id NEW YORK. NG CAR SERVICE. ite to all Eastern Cities Vashingtonb, or via ers.--To Atlanta, is, Louisville, St. w Orleans, and All vest-To Savannah all points in Florida !TEsT EINE BETWEEN D SOUTH. ,rates, schedules, Pull r to any agent of The Sea os. W. Stewart, Traveling S. C. (H. GA.