Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LAST OF .ILLY, THE MINISTREL. Almost Forgotten in Life, but His Coffft Was Piled With Flowers. New York Times. "Billy" Black was buried Thurs day. Some people called him Wil liam Hart, but to most folks he was just "Billy." the last of the old time black-face comedians. He died last Monday morning of a hemorrhage. He had been ill a long time in a quiet house in 15th street. Nobody renenbers the number. You see people had lost sight of Billy for the last twenty-five years, and it was only when he died that people recalled that there had been such a man in the old San Francis co minstrels, a dulcet tenor con temporaneous with Billy Birch, Raymon Moore, Hughie Dougher tv, Willis Sweatman and the rest. He had no relatives left. He had friends, but they had drifted-like all friends on the road. They had met on the Rialto. They shook hands and said: "You? Why, I thought you were dead long ago. .Somebody told me you were dead, like all the rest of 'em. Good joke, eh? Let's have a drink." Last week Billy Black, or Hart, was playing with a burlesque troupe down in 14th street. He did not turn up one afternoon-that was Monday-and when they inquired why, old Billy was dead. The burlesque company which liked him found what was left of him in the undertaking shop. He looked quiet and he smiled as he always had. Somebody wondered who was going to pay for the fun eral. But Frank Campbell, the undertaker, had told the Rev. Dr. H. M. Warren, the hotel chaplain, who always does the right thing by people in Queer street. Dr. Warren found the money. Thursday when 9 o'clock came, when Billy was to be buried, at least 300 of "the profession" had dropped in and dropped flowers on the coffin. And when Billy Black~ -or Billy Hart, wvhichever name was best beloved-went to Ever green cemetery his coffin was piled with wreaths and there were four teen carriages. Who was in them? Nobody knew-but Billy. COLLECTS CORNER STONE DATA. Odd Occupation of an Illinois D)eputy Sheriff. Chicago News. - One of the oddest occupations followed in this age is that of the professional collector of data foi cornerstone boxes. .?robably Bloomington is the only town it -America that is able to boast of such an expert, to whose mind and hands the packing of all boxes that are buiried in the town is turned over. Deputy Sheriff Stevenson is the name of the man who likes to en gage in this kind of work, and he *seems to have all he can do. With in a short time he has packed boxes for the new county court house public library, Livingston building and several park structures. He is now engaged in preparing data foi three copper boxes that will be placed in the corner stone of a pan pavilion. The boxes and their con tents will weigh fifteen pouxlds. Mr. Stevenson has some queei ideas about what kind of stuff should go into a corner stone box The daily and weekly papers are al ways included, but there is a grea variety of other things. He collects a number of trade catalogues tha1 show what the people of this ag eat and wear, how they have then~ huses furnished and whether the' ride a horse, bicycle or in an auto mobile. One hundred years or less hence, should a cyclone come along and lift the buil'dings of the towi from their foundations, the peopl~ of that time will have a great time in studying over the odd things tha they will dig out of the foundations Not long since the town suffered a great loss of business houses by devastating fire. Some of the 1oun dtions of buildings that had beei built a long time ago yielded ui some valuable historical facts tha kept the town interested for week aferward. The residents becam -ough1 enthused on the subjec ot corner stone boxes and in the re- v building of the town almost any r kind of structure had a copper box b filled with historical material stow- t ed away in the masonry. The I. E. Avery Booi. Charlotte Observer. The first copies of the book of se lections from the writings of the t( late Isaac Erwin Avery. at the time tl of his death city editor of the Oh- ) server, were received in Charlotte vesterday and many were sold. It is an attractive volume. and will be prized by all who came into pos session of it. The selections are from the "Idle Comiimenits." which gave Mr. Avery so great reputation. They were made. speaking broadly, by a board of editors. but .the bur den of the book fell upon Dr. Ed- b win Minis, of Trinity college. who did all of the detail work. and to whom the public is indebted for the faultless arrangement. The result proves that it could not have been C entrusted to more capable hands. In the volume is embraced a great t variety of topics-scenes, incidents, a descriptions, reflections-sugges- ' tions of all the things that engaged t the fertile brain of this remarkable man. In this book he speaks again. , It brings him back, sometimes with startling vividness, to those who were his associates on this paper. y and who recall the circumstances under which this or that "Com ment" was written. It is as if they were face to face with him again, looking into his supremely hand some countenance, his laughing eye and listening again to the music of his voice. At another time there i will appe4r in these columns an ad equate review of this most engag ing volume, which one taking up lays it down with difficulty. Its tl master spirit "touched every chord of human passion with the witchery: of words," and lovers of that litera ture which has to do with the things that touch their lives and puts into most delightful language the un expressed thoughts which are in all a of our hearts, will number it among their treasures. a *This brief quotation may be ap- t propriately appended. Avery lives in it again-it is so like him; it is so akin to the thoughts of the hearts of all the hard-worked and weary: . ' No big pompous tombstones,. ;b no high sounding epitaphs for me, said A. B. WVilliams, editor of the Richmond News Leader. All I a want 'em to put over my head is:a "'"Copy all in."' t "To me that expresses every thing-the end of the game. YouI know what it means, of course. At the end of so many weary, weary nights I have scrawled the words as the finale of toil and as the good- t bye to my men. 'Copy all in'-andb sleep. That is all-the last of life,t and then-the rest." seceder Piano at Abbeville. a Charlotte Observer. In the appended editorialMao John Calvin Henmphill, editor of the' Charleston News and Courier, an unexceptional Seceder, an elder in that church and a religionist who greases his shoes with tallow-ex-A cept that he wears boots-comes perilously near to rendering him self obnoixious to the charge which he prefers against Parson Brown- C low-that of making game of a a particularly fine people :" but his n touch is so delicate, in what fol- 14 lows, that we are not willing that f the Observer's readlers should be ii deiedl the privilege of seeing him i when he is at his best. To abridge f this editorial wvould be to mar it: to fi add a word to it would be as an at- c *tempt to adorn the lily': c "The Associate Reformed Pres-. bterians b)elong to that sect of J Christians who were described by '~the old reprobate, Parson Brown-'$ *low, of Tennessee, some years ago, f as 'a very deserving people, who n jsing David's Psalms, plow with b double lines and grease their shoes i with tallow.' It was not to be wvon- I dered d.t that so miserable a creaturea should have sought in this way to make game of a particularly fine e people. who have ever stood valiant- I lv for the faith once delivered to t the saints. "This particular sort of Presby- 1. terian has always held to the use of i: Ste Sriptural Psalmodv. although1 :e must say that. in comparatively ecent years great changes have een made in the poetical construc on of the ancient songs of Zion. Lt one time not so very long ago it bas possible for almost any one -ho could sing to 'raise a tune,' the salms having been almost wholly n)nfimed in their metrical version Scomnion metre songs. but now ie poetry has been so changed that iere are all sorts of metre in the )ok until it requires a degree of >iritual insight to determine from e mitusic that the Psalms as they re sung today are not the works of minian conposition. so readily do Iey conforn to requirements of Iodern musical composition. "Last week the Associate Re )rnmied Presbyterians at Abbeville eld a congregational meeting Sab Ith evening, at which the subject f buying a piano or organ was ful (discussed. We are informed by ie Press and Banner that Mr. J. [ayne McDill explained to the ngregation that a good subscrip on had been raised. and 'that the pportunity of buying a nice piano a reasonable price was presented; herefore, he would move to ascer tin the sentiment of the congre ation by a rising vote as to wheth r or not we ought to buy a piano.' 'he motion was carried by a rising ote and without a single dissenting oice, although one of the more iutious members of the congrega on refrained from voting. His :ruples, if he has any, are supposed ) have been removed after the for ial vote of the congregation and it said that 'all who were present rere in favor of buying the piano.' 'here seemed to be a doubt in the id of some of the congregation 3 to whether or not the Due West eople would approve the action of ie Psalm-singers at Abbeville, but wever that may be,'the Abbeville eceders were unanimous in their pproval of the piano purchase and e instrument has now been estab shed in the church. One member f the Abbeville congregation, we re told, said that, wvhile he would ree to the piano, he would draw ie line at a fiddle or a cornet. But 'hv should he do anything of the rt ? There is authority, we be eve, for the use .of an instrument ten strings, and for the harp, and e timbrel and high-sounding cym als, and sackbut, and' psaltery, hatever that wvas, but there is no uithority, we believe, for the use of piaio. We doubt, however, that le use of an instrument wvith a few :rings, more or less, would great Saffect the acceptability of this a't of lhe service. Scme of the iore o!d-fashioned adherents of i Seceder church miight object to ie piano innovation at Abbeville, ut the trend of the times appears >be towards the adoption of many 1de'n methods in the service of 1e church. If the "improvements" re to continue, it will become more nid mo're difficult for the untrained ul to determine the exact differ nce between a church with a piano nd a church with an organ." THOSE SPANISH WAR CLAIMS. tcorney W. Boyd Evans Has Qnite a Batch of Them. :olumbia Record. Mr. Boyd Evans, who has b)een iade the state agent for the col ction of Spanish war claims, has led an interesting lot in WVash 1g~ton. Practically all of those romi the First and Second and rom the Heavy Battery have b)eenl led andl constitute the bulk of the laims, but there arc a number of thers. Mrs. Watts, mother of the late ohn Garv WVatts. former adjutant *enral, has filed a claim for about 1,1o. This she says is due her or the time her son served as comn ander of the troops of this state efore they were actually mustered to service under the government. us rank during this time was brig dier general. Mr. C. K. Newmnani has filed a laim from this city. He states that is pear orchard was ruined by the r-oops camping near Shandon and hat the compensationl allowed Iinim ly the government at the time wxas rndequate. A clam was asoa filed1 by Maj. Havelock Eaves. Major Eaves cam, to Columbia with a company whicl was afterwards turned over to Cap tain Sawyer. He then served as recruiting officer with the rank o captain, but did not receive any pai as such. Afterwards, when th< troops were mustered into the gov ernment service, he was given th( rank of major. Major Eaves claii amounts to about $5oo The claim of a number of Colum bia merchants for equipment 0: blankets and bedding amounts tc something like $6,ooo, and Mr Evans is satisfied that practically al: of this will be allowed. . All of th( claims have to be in by January i. "I am hurt more than you." said the father. "When I punish you. son," and thereat the boy raised his head as he so)bingly said. Well, there'y some conoclation in that."-Vo man's Home Companion for Janu ary. It sometimes happens that in get. ting out of a rut a man finds himseli in a hole. A family row is as bad as a church row, but the limit is reache' when they are mixed up. State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. By John C. Wilson, Esq., Probat< Judge. Whereas J. H. Singley hatl made suit to me, to grant him Let ters of Administration of the Es tate of and effects of G. Melvii Singley, with will annexed. These are therefore to cite an( admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said G Melvin Singley, deceased, that the, be and appear before me, in thi Court of 'Probate, to be held a Neiberry on Friday, January 19 next after publication thereof, a 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to shov cause, if any they have, why th< said Administraion should not bi granted. Given under my hand, this ? day of December, Anno Domini 1905. J. C. Wilson, J. P.N. C. Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - -S. C OVER NATIONAL BANK. Wood's8Seed Bool lOR 1900 is one of the handsomest and most valuable publications of the kind issued. The useful and practical hints contained in the annual issues of Wood's Seed Book make it a most valuable help to all Farmers and Gardeners and it has long been recognized as an up-to date authority on all Garden and Farm Seeds particularly for southern planting. Wood's Seed Book mailed free to Farmers and Gardeners tipon request. Write for it. T.W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmell .RiCHMOND, -VIRGINIA. We solicit your orders direct, for both VEGETABLE and FARM SEEDS. if your merchant does not sell WOOD'S SEEDS. (Schedule in Effect April 16, 1905.) .o- 52. Daily. Lv. Newberry. ........... 12.36 p. mi. Ar. Laurens ...... ......1.50 p.mr No. 2. Daily. Lv. Laurens............. 1.5 p. m. Ar. Greenwood ........... 2.46 p. mn. Ar. Augusta.............'5.20 p. m1. Ar. Anderson ........... 7.10 p. m. No. 42. Daily. Lv. Augusta.......... .......... - ... 235 p. E Ar. A11endale...................... .. 4 30 P. l Ar. Fairfax. ........................- 4.41 P-. 2 Ar. Charleston......................... 7.40 P- 21 r. Beaufort........................ ... 6.30 p. : r. Port Royal................... . -- .40 p. Ar. Savannah. .. ........... .......--- 6.45 p. 1 Ar. waycross .. ............. ...--..-. 10.00 P- I Ar. T acksonville.... ...............--------- --- No. i. Daily. Lv. Laurens.......... ......------... 2.7 p. Ar. Spartanlburg ... . ..... . ....----.. 3. p. t No. 52. No. S7. Daily. Ex. Su, Lv. L.aurens..............2 209p.. mn. S.oo a.n! Ar.. Genve.....m.3.t25 1. 11. 10.20 a. NOW IS 1 TO SUBS, The Herald 48 Columns Each Only $1.5 Lomax Dis DISTILL Fine Wines, Whisk Quality and Fla Mail orders promptly supervision of our Mr. receipt. Remit with all orders decline to receive Whis Establishet Lomax Dis 24 South Atin YISOUTHERN Through Puilma on All Thro Convenient Sc] Local I ~Winter Tourist I effect to all F For full informal Routes, Etc., C 'ISouthern Rs -Ager Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, -Atlanta, Ga. SEAB AIR - LINE NORTH - SOUTH Two Daily Pullman Vi Between SOUTH a FIRST-CLASS DIN The Best Rates and R< Via Richmond and Norfolk and Steal Nashville, Mempi - Louis, Chicago, N< Points South and Sout] and Jacksonville an, and Cuba. PoSSITIVELy THE H NORTH At wsFor detailed informatic man reservations, etc., app board Air Line Railway, or Passenger Agent, Columbi C. F. STEWART, Ai SAVANN W. 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