Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Lurton, of Tennessee The reputatio-a ma of the latter as an able' and upright au judge is as high as that Iof any man st< on the bench, but he has iiidieated by sh< his decisions a belief that the Consti- th< tution means what it'says. and that it an was. intended to safeguard the reserv- wh ed ,q'hts Qf thp States and so he was shc passrd ove $oi a man whosei.lgal at- kn tAigAmet a' been something of a a joke in Washington. Bpi nill Wi-ofa Soutl4ern man, for the De mocratic nomination for the Prest- gi3 dency is becoming general in Wash- i ington as a result of the peculiar con- hol ditions that prevail in the ranks of ab( the party in the -North. It is split in- lin to at least three factions all over the North, and in some States there are even more. First there are what may fl be termed the conservatives and the lef radicals and the hopelessness of get- ol ting them to pull together for any Northern candidate was illustrated In of the Bryan and Parker campaigns.i Then the radicals are still further di- sli vided between the supporters of Mr. an Bryan and the followers of Mr. a Hearst and neither one would receive n the loyal support of all the radicals wh while either would be antagonized by t. the conservatives. The oply solution w that can give hopes of success at the !h polls in the nomination of a man from i1 the South who has not been involved an in aiy of the factional difficulties of if the Northi and who can unite Lis party f,c and bring it back to its old lines. James S. McCarthy. te cas BETSY SIMS, MOONSHINER. ly tl< Pretty Tar-Heel Lass Languishes Be- ce hind the Bars in the Shadow of wi Tryon Mountain.-Her At- cll tempt to Escape. PC Pll Nashville American. WO ''Tile best looking gal in the moun. tai tains,'' Betsy Sims, ''queen of the moonshiners,'' is now languishing in ag the big and lonesome jail at Colum- p( bus, the high up little mountain town tre which is the county seat of Polk, one shi of the smallest and most isolated of tiu the North Carolina mountain countie. bo What to do with her is the problem ?d puzzling the authorities. Ju( Betsy, though only 22, is as dar- to, ing and well versed a woman, both in of the ways of making whiskey and of do selling it as one could find in that OP wild country, even in a full day's ha ride, and she is as pretty as she is w adroit and daring with a killing pair :isi of eyes, bright and well-filled cheeks' da and hair which defies conventionall- Ju ties. Betsy has cut no little figure In anl Polk couUty since she was 16, for a even at that early age she began her tIc work as a seller of contraband whis- th key. She made herself such a figure, P1 in fact, that even the older moon- So shiners began to loop up to her and in fo their rude way to idolize the plucky girl, who had been bred all her life 1Y to think the selling~ of whiskey was an thi act of the very best sort and that the hIl ''revenooers'' were a race of people '." who deserved only death and whlo Je: we're sent as oppressors of the peopleC. mi Such is the faith which is literally the id backbone of Betsy's point of view an1 and that of her moonshiner compan-- be ions and well-hidden 'hollowvs in the at mountains, through which run streams te whpose wvaters are laways just cool Bi enough to give the distillery wormsw the right touch, in Betsy has year by year become P~ more and more daring and more beau- sli tiful. A fewv months ago she became of extremely bold in her sales of whis-. e. key, going to and from the stills, N sometimes alone and sometimes with P' f w (s, and If you ,are one of the n< ot il at PELHAM'S P5HARMACY CC wedding things ever brought to we will save you money- thi w riety, w ess variety,t ts, Salad Sets, H q1 ats, Jewel Boxes, t th of nspection of our wares.w & Sor s, Newberry, S. C. OUR WASHINGTON Lr.TTE. Labor Conditions In the South Stringent Vagxancy Laws Sug gested-Southern Man for President. Special cor. Herald and News. Washington, Nov. 7.-The last do6 gress undertook to put a stop to the abuse of heads of bureaus and undei, officials in the Executive Depa dnkinU using the Departmental horses and carriages for themselves and their families vith messengers paid by the government acting as coachmen. It was supposed that the wife of a bu reai chief would not be willing to drive to social functions in the fash ionable section in a carriage lettered with the name of the Department In wliieh her husband was employed and it was provided that these public vehicles should be thus lettered. The' men who have benefited by this par tiCular form of graft easily got around this requirement, however, by having'the names of the Departments painted on the carriages in such sinall letters that no ond can see them without looking for them. If the families bf these officials are to be compelled to ride at their own ex pense Congress will have to try again. A review of labor conditions in the Southern States published here shows that the great need of the South at the present time is an adequate sup ply of efficient labor. It is pointed out that with such a supply the amount of cotton manufactured in the mills of the South could be increased by 300,000 bales next year, that the iron and steel business of the South could be -doubled in five yetirs, and that the railroads could increase their facilities so ad to be able to handle the constantly growing traffic of that section.. It is not only in the mills and factories that *the lack of labor is felt, but on the plantations as well for not only have many of the ne groes left the plantations, but it Is estimated that the average ~ offici low dives, and saloon, which exist ency of the negro laborer has decreas ed at least fifty per cent. Condi tions are being improved in some sec tions by immigration from Europe and from the North and the railroads of the South- are constantly bringing the opportunities of that section to the attention of workingmen in all parts of the country. Enact stringent vagrancy laws In the Southern States and enforce them with mounted constabulary is the so lution of the race problem proposed by William 11. Council, President of the Agricultural Mechanical College, a negro school at Normal, Ala., it an address in Washington in which he did not unde-take to defend the law less members of his race but insisted that the Aniglo-Saxons of the South were responsib)le for the laws and should enact and enforce laws that would drive ft mu the land negro brutes, the produu-t of gambling hells, low dives, and sai ons, which evist by permission of the w.hite men who make and enforce the laws. President Roosevelt's dlecision to appoint Attorney General Moody to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court Bench is due to his determina tion to have on that tribunal a man in harmony with his own views as to centralization in governinent and the building up of the power of the President at the expense of the States and of:.Congress. He hesitated for a time between Mr. Moody arid Judge Wedding A There are rumors of wedding favored you would do well to cs and see the handsomest lot of Newberry. And what is more Cut Glass in endless va Japanese WAre in endi Chocolate Sets, Tea Se Cake Plates, Carving S Comb and Brush Sets. We invite.close and critical I Peham Reliable Druggisti le companions. Finally the State thorities decided it was time to p her, so they sent three deputy .riffs for Betsy. The deputies had i good fortune to find her on foot I very near the South Carolina line, ich she knows perlectly well. When -saw the three deputies coming she )w they were not friends and made bold dash for the line. As a inter she is a success and her run ig was like 'that. of the Grecian Is who competed .in the ancient rmpian. games. The deputies did e chase and dashed across the ite Kne, coming up with and taking d of the stout and charming Betsy mit 100 yards over in South Caro 3etsy was nearly out of breath m the run, but had voice enough t to give a signal, which brought of the thick bushes nearby five gh looking moonshiners, any one whom was ready and willing to die Betsy any time. Betsy had a good Ad revolver slung about inr waist I very poorly concealed by a check d apron, but her moonshine friends do no concealment of the pistols ich they had in hand and while y fingered these they parleyeI h the detaining deputies, letting m understand that they were will to pay cash for Betsy's appear -e at "co't,'' and that they were ,illin' to put up $25 in greenbacks Betsy could be set free now and ar at C'lumbus next term." rhe deputies thought it wise to porize and decided to take the I which the moonshiners gallant put 4p, and Betsy retired with in, looking back archly at the offi s, her charming eyes sparkling I defiance and the roses in her eks deepened until they were like mnies. Her face was framed in a k- sunbonnet of the\type which is rii on week days by all the moun n1 girls. rhere were three indictments tinst her, but she contrived, on one a or another, and by means of a iendous lot of swearing by moon ncr friends, to get the cases con ned, always putting up a cash id for appearance. She thus invest $200. Then the attention of the Ige was directed more particularly vard her and he found the extent her work and the damage she was ing in parts of two States, in her 3n violation of the law. She must ve felt in the very air something s wrong, for when the judge took seat on the morning of the fourth y Betsy failed to show up. The Ige passed a bench warrant for her d she was found at 'the home of moonshiner not far from the lit town, brought back and tried and 3 judge decided to make an exam of the bold young creature by iding her to jail at Columbus for ir months. rhe moonshiners were simply part .edl by the sent.ence, for some oW em, in an outburst of admiration d said on the third (lay that she muld ''come clar'' and that ''nc lge an' no jury can tech her in my n'.'' But Betsy had not quite reach the limit of her resources. Th< i at Columbus is an old-fashioned rn of a structure three stories higlh d of brick and is generaly slimly tianted. It so happened that when tsy first entered its walls a mari Ls there on his wvay to the peniten iry, to serve twelve months for th< actice of the gentle art of man mughterinig, lie having' in some kin a mix-up slain a fellow mountain r with a knife and ''gettin' ofi tht,'' as. the other side of the cas. it it. Betsy was put on the secon~ >or of the jail, this prisoner, wvhos< Line is Chalmers, being on the flooi eove. A rather rude flight of step: ads through the second to the thiiri or through a wellh-locked trap-doo1 wood. The weather was cool and therl Els a fire in Betsy's room. She dik >t feel equal to the task of gettang Lt of jaid upa.ided, so she sought th< mpanionship of Chalmers. Thel Iked to each other, commonplace! nile the jailer was anywhere withir aring, but business when lie wa! it of the way, the business being e best means of getting out. Betsy Els the more resourceful of the two ,taking a '"chunk of fire,'' sh< mnt up thne stairway and set fire tC e trapdoor, burning a hole thereir rough which Chalmers descended e and Betsy, after they were ac ainted,- decided on the mode of ae m and then Chalmers fell to worl4 make a hol& through the 'side ol e jail, While Betsy inaide a rope oul blankets and bedding, and arrang such goods and chattel as she had th her in shape for quick removal nalmers with true gallantry -decided at it was best for him to go through e bole first, thus testing the latter d incidentally the rope below. P,etsy was going, too, but as she a half way +hrveigh the hole she it the rude dianos o.f the jsiler upon her and was hauled back into the room. The matter was at once reported to the judge, who ordered that she be placed in the strongest cell and close ly watched, and -at the next term of court she will be indicted for an as sault with intent to kill, not to speak of another indictment for attempt to escape. . Some of her moonshiner friends have in a quiet .way made threats that' she will not stay in jail long, but the county authorities say they can hold her. Chaos in Politics. Peter Pechin in Southern Farm Magazine of Baltimore for Novem ber: Consequent upon this union upon a basis of expediency in political action came a loosening of the grip upon fundamental theories of government and the inclination to opportunism in statesmanship depending upon a dl visiont of the opposition upon superfi cial issues or upon the corralling of various phases of the mob mind for the p-rnoses of a single campaign. That, of course, tended to confusion and chaos. Realization of that fact, together with the passing of virulent sectionalism, has revived the latent federalism of the South in the form of nationalism, and it is ready to iuite with nationalism in other parts of the country in the belief that in that way alone is a semblance of continuity in the life of Americanism to be mnin tained. But while this nationalism is grounded in the conviction that new occasions demand new dnties for fipm Federal Government, the centrifugal group asserts that the new occasions have been unnecessarily created by executive actioni overstepping consti tutional limitations; that acquiescenco in unconstitutionalism or supraconsti tutionalism can only give. Southern Farm Magazine. There is a great deal of talk, some of it wild talk, about immigration to the South, and much scuffling here and there over this or that project for a "Southern Conference'' on immi gration, as if such a conference could ,result in anything but more useless talk. In the meantime a number of individuals or organizations are mov ing practically for the promotion ot immigration. Most effective among these are agents of the several rail roads operating in the South. From reports of representatives among these workers the Southern Farm Magazine in its November issue esti mates that between 1.50,000 and 200, 000 settlers have been attracted to the South, and that between 2,000, 000 and 3,000,000 acres of land have been bought by them during the past 12 miontls as a result of the practi cal work which the railroads are do ing. This result, is to a large etxeit Cumulative, flowing from persistent work carried oi in sonic inst ances for 10 or 15 years and promising eveni <rreat er records in the near future. They have been gained through fol. lowing different polics. Some rail roadls have lands of t heiri own which have been dispolsedl of to settlers of their own seek ing or to- agents work ing in cooperation with them. Other roads, not land-holders, have directedl the newcomers toa available hion'e within their t erri tory, and( yet oi roads have combined industriali building withi agriculit urnl develop. ment. They have carried on a cam p)aign inl this country and in foreign parts5 by m-eans of the widespread circulation of literature descriptive of advantages of the South and its 01, portunities for tIhe Industrious and t.brifty, of exhibit.s of Southern agri euclitural and mineral products and ol personal contact with heads of famil ies who wold better their conditiori iln life. Estimating the value of a man to the community as at leasi $1000, thle adldit ions to- (he South ' wealth in one year thiro'ihd the ener gies of immigration agents of the rail. roads may be safely pl-'ed at $200,. 000,000, or about one-fifth of the in. creCase of its waelth in goods and chattels (hiring the same period. Thesc additions mean a mnuchl greater rat( of interest for thme South in material -things in the future and( an accelera tion of the movement o,f populatior from other' parts of the coiuntr'y to the( South. The Southern Farm Magazine tells of many of the means by which th( new-comers may participate in the increase in the South 's material wealth, and makes suggestions as to the. tuses of thme material wealth for the general betterment of the people. Its several regular departments are full,of suggestions for thme farmer, the housekeeper and the general country reader. The Southern Farm Magazine is published monthly by tile .Manufac. turers' Record Publishing Co., Balti more, Md. Its regular suibscription is $1 a year, but new subscribers ' - tween this date and January will re cqlv. it for 50 aants a var THE MAN CUT Pr IS STILL OI Our offer of 'cash discount $20.00 will b< for this week. ticle reduced i 8 oz. Wool Jeans 42 in. Dress Good Heavy Canton Flai 36 in. black Taffet kind at 69c. yd. Your money's Right Price Store. Hair &I Lower Mai Newberr Which we use are without ex We believe in PURITY. We constantly preach PUF We always practice PURF cIies. * PURITY counts, and couni *Ask your doctor. * MAYES' DRL JE~WELI tex of attratn e in n where Good Things are SDiamonds Waths Cer sale ~I take are or th4 Ye,we have the best line of hown in Prosperity. We have a Post Cards and Toilet Articles as We sell other goods also. *Yours for more bus THE S. IMtOUTH I AT THE E ITOflE1 5 per cent, on bills of continued Every ar n price. 1 9c. yd. s, All Wool, 39c. yd.: rinel 7 1-2c. y d. a Silk, the $1.25 worth at The iavird, n Street, y, S. C. ception the purest grade. ITh'. Y when preparing medi-* s for much, in medicines. OC STORE.+ ela sthe cen village stor, od 4 T HE slog argues for Ths done, the Jewelry arnd Watched evie li the novelties In this line well. Iness, S BIRGE CO.