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Editors of a Half Century Ago. Fifty years. That is the length o time that James T. Bacon, editor o the Edgefield Chronicle, has bee wielding the pen and forging thund er-bolts for the people of Edgefield and the people have reason to b proud of so gifted a writer and a straight a man. It isn't often tha we find a man who has stayed i one place, and in the same occupa tion for fifty years. Mr. Bacon is on, of a thousand.- His writings are a erisp and as original today as the, were years and years ago. Our good brother Thos. B. Crew: has had a career as long as Mr. Ba con, and Providence has blesed him even as it has blessed Mr. Bacon with good health and a clear mind. One of their honored associates, o: fifty years ago, James A. Hoyt, re cently pased away, leaving an unsul lied record in a career of honor ani public service. In the years that have passed sinc Bacon, and Crews, and Hoyt begai careers of activity and gained foi themselves a plae'e in the public eye many a good man has finished hic -work and laid down pen and scis sors to enter upon that great sleel which men call death. There was Pucket and Davis and Allen ad Selleck and Lee and Ker7 and Farrow and Posey and Wi:iam Henry Wilson of Abbeville, all of whom have gone to rest. At Anderson there were Rice and Humphreys and Todd and others. At Laurens there was Stokes. At Wal halla was Robt. A. Thompson, who survives, enjoying the Indian Sum mer of a good life. At Newberry there was Giles and Riehard H. Gren eker and Thomas F. Greneker, Thos. P. Slider and James M.- Crosson. Of these Richard H. Greneker and James M. Crosson survive. The Charleston editors of fifty years ago have all passed over the river. The recent passing of Selby leaves no Columbia editor who was contemporaneous with Bacon's early career. All the Edge field editors of fifty years ago have gone to the spirit land. And few if any of these departed men have a place in the memory of the men of this generation. "A few short years ago and we were not. The busy world 'then thought a3 little of us as we now think of generations Syet unborn. IEn a few years more these hearts which now palpitate with the purple stream of life will balpi tate no more." Here's to the health and happiness of all the living of half a century ago. And for the dead, we would fill memory's cup to the brim.-Ab beville Press and Banner. The foregoing elipping from the Abbeville Press and Banner of recent date, and from the pen of that veter an editor, Mr. Hugh Wilson, is pleas ingly reiniscent, yet at the sames time tinged with a degree of sadness for those -who have gone .sbefore. Among the editors of the past, Mr. Wilson mentions Mr. Richard H. Greneker as still living. This was a very natural error, as it is his son, Mr. Richard H., Greneker, bearing tbhe same initials of his father, who survives him, and who is now asso ciated with this oLice. Riehard H. Greneker, Sr., -than whom no nobler Christian gentleman ever adorned the corps editorial or the society in which he lived and moved, died some seven years ago.-Ed. La.urensville Herald.. Would his Honor Oblige? The late Thomas Nolan, a well known member of the Bar of New York, was once retained as eounsel for a poor widow named Mulcahy, says the Philadelphia Ledger. She was suing a construction company for damages by reason of her husband's death, resulting from injuries sus tained in the company's service. The case had been frequently postponed, so that it was in a very disturbed state of mind that the widow sought the lawyer just before the suit came up for the eighth time. In court the next day Nolan's rich rogue was more than usually fervid as he fought against the further ad 'ournment of the case. "I am sorry," said the justice pre 'ding, "but, Mr. Nolan, your op nent has shown good cause for ad 'ournment. The case will, therefore, go over till next week." "Very well, sor," said the lawyer, sweetly, "but might I ask wan per sonal favor-r of this court?f" "Certainly," replied the judge. "Weill your Blonor kindly shtep down to my office and tell Mrs. Mul ahy that you have again adjou"ned he case." HURLED150 FEET AND LIVE]D f Worker in Belmont Tunnel Miracu I lously Escaped Death. 1, In an article on "Under the Rivei a Tunnelling,'" written for Appleton ': " Magazine by A. W. Rolker, occur an account of a strange bit of luck. I . What the actual death rate is it 3 underriver tunnels would be hard t< 3 say. But this is certain, it is so higI F that, regardless of expense, compan ies doing the work resort to all pos 5 sible means to prevent advertising the - dangers. One casualty report whic the builders of the Belmont tunnel, , denied is that more than three hun dred lives were lost in boring this I tunnel which connects Manhattar - and Brooklyn, and which recently - has been completed. It is well known i that, before the McAdoo management took hold of the mile-long tubes un der the Hudson, one life was lost foi every eleven feet of tunnel. To enter into details of some of the accidents that have overtaken the underriver tunneller would make reoding too grewsome. On one oc casion, before the emergency air lock was thought of, an entire shift of twenty men was buried alive when the river mud came thundering in while the men stood against the head ing door of the air lock waiting for it to open, the keeper within being too paralyzed with fear to take the chances. Similarly grewsome causualties are numerous, the unfortunates being dug out weeks afterwards, arms and.legs and hands and necks twisted, hand fuls f hair torn of the head and with other dread details common to those who are buried alive. But many instanges of heroism and devotion to duty brighten this dismal record and there is one narrow es cape which is perhaps the most mira culous and certainly the most sensa tional a human ever had. This took place about a year ago -in one of the tubes boring under the Hudson. Briefly, in the heading of this tun nel air began to hiss forth, auguring a threatening "blow out." The aper -ure widened with alarming rapid ity and there seemed . no time to throw up a breastwork of sand bags. In this emergency one of the tunnel lers threw himself bodily against the fissure. What happened was just what happens to a sand bag when thrown too late against a rent. Bod ily the pressure forced the man clear into the fissure, forced him up through the river bed and blew him eighty fcet up through'' the water, hurling him like a human shell thir ty feet into space. Through suffer ing from shock the: man otherwise was uninjured when picked up by a passing boat, and within three days he returned to work at his old stand. Immigrant Women. Atlantic Monthly. Wihat becomes of the ever-increas ing number of immigrant women who come to this country? Do they enter the ranks of laborers or of hrifters? Do they rise in the scale of human life and friendship, or deteriorate? The labor and vote of immigrant men are so valuable to the busines inter est of this country that there is much available information as to what,be comes of them, but no corresponding data for immigrant women. The Inter-Municipal Research Committea in co-operation with others, has set out to gather this information, par tieularly for the young 'and unmar ried women during the first three years of residence. This is the criti cal period of their life, and work during that time constitutes a great social, economic, and moral factor in the progress and development of this country and its people. Immigrant fomen, quite as much as immigrant men, belong to the exploited and disinherited group, and though ' we flatter ourselves that women are bet ter protected than men, immigrant women upon their arrival have no ad vantage in laws or trade over men, and are at a disadvantage political ly. The problem of immigrant women is not entirely that of immigrant men, for two main reasons. First, the la bor, the housing, and wages of wo men are more complicated by ques tions of sex and morglity, and sec ond, the field of domestic service, which takes great numbers of them, has an influence unlike that of any other occupation. It is a mistake to attempt to understand . or solve. the social, industrial, and moral ques tions arising from immigration with out considering the women. For the year ended June 30, 1900, 301,585 women, nearly one-half of the num Examined and Passed. A Boston lawyer relates how a - Canadian named Morgan was ap pointed to a government place which technically had to be occupied by a lawyer, which Mr. Morgan was not. The benchers of the law society, however, undertook te obviate the technicality, and appointed one their number to -amine Morgan to his knowledge of the law. "Tell. us, Mr. Morgan," said the. examiner, "what do you know about the law, anyway'" "To tell the truth," was the mod est response of Morgan, "I don't know a single thing. Whereupon the examiner intimated that the questioning was at an'end. He turned in his affidavit, where in it was stated: "I have examined Mr. Morgan as to his knowledge of the law, and to I the best of my knowledge and belief he has answered all the questions with entire correctness.''-Harper's Weekly. An Unerpected Meeting. New York Press. "Yes,'" said the Hoboken woman who has been entertaining friends Statement of the condition Newberry, S. C., Sept. 1 call of State Bank Examii Bills receivable....... $219,605 64 Overdrafts........... 5,18o 75 Fi xtures............. Cash on hand and due from other Banks. ... .$ 0,0193 92 $238,617 23 Watch us.grow. We pay 4 per ce ment compounded Semi-annually. THEEXCH J. D. DAVENPoRT, Guo. B. Ci 'President. I W. B. WALLACW We Len( BuyH We-provide easy ternm We enable borrowers in Monthly installments allowed to meet obligati it is.cheaper than payi to save money.to buy a I Contract. If you want to save mc take a Security Contraci Call on A. J. Gibson, A Treasurer, at office, cori streets, next door to Coj SECURiTY LOAN AN[ The People's I Prosperit Paid Up Capital - - Surplus and Individual F Stockholders* Liabilities For protection of deposi H. C. MOSELEY, President. M W. W. WHEELER, Cashier. G] Better a conservative interesi return when wanted, than a high about the principal. A National Bank is asafe Depc :nakes it so. Likewise our Boar< :>f prudent conservative managemn DIRECT G. W. Bowers. J. A. C. Kibler. R. L. Luther. M. A. Carlisle. J. H. Hunter. J. P. Bo We allow 4 per cent. per Department. interest pa from the south, "I tok them to ev ery place of interest except the poor: house. I didn't take them there be cause I was afraid I might find that some of my friends had become in mates of the institution. "Once, when I lived in Baltimore, I entertained friends from the West by a trip to the poor house. One of the first persons we met when we got inside the gate was old Mr. Peabody. I had known Mr. Peabody for many years. I shook hands 'with him eer dially. I supposed, of course, that he was a visitor there, the same.as our selves. "'How in the world do you hap pen to be here?' I asked. "I meant^how did he happend to come the same day we did, but he took me quite seriously. 'Everything went to smash,' he I said dismally, 'and this seemed the only place left for me.' 4 "My friends looked from him to me in astonishment. I felt awfully mortified and so sorry for him, poor old man, that I didn't know what to do." Let every bird sing its own note Danish. of The Exchange Bank of 1 7th, 1907, in response to ker. Capital stock........ $50,000 00 Surplus................ 6,460 74 Cashier's Checks...... 269 84 Dividends unpaid.......a 87-50 Bills payable......... 75,000 00 Deposits............106,799 15 $238,617 23 nt. interestrin our Savings Depart NOE BANK oXR, M. L. SPEARMAN, ttorney. Cashier. ,Asst. Cashier. I Money omes! s of payment. 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