The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, September 01, 1908, Page SEVEN, Image 7
I MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
( KILLED BY LIGHTNIN
Fountain inn. Any. 28.?Mrs. l)a>
Siins and her infant daughter v.v
struck l?y lightning and instant
killed at their how Monday afte
noon. Mrs. Sims leaves a liusbai
Und three small children. Mr. Sin
is'a farmer and lives about two and
1 half miles from Fountain Inn.
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If MULE KILLS FARMER.
Isaac Durham Tails Frohi the Anim
and is Stamped to Death Dragged
Two Hundred Yards.
Pickens, Aug. 2fl.?Isas'* Dnrl???
a prominent farmer of th'.n conni
who lives in the Six Mile section, wi
kil'ed yesterday evening by a mil
>:? I.ad be * : / ' iwing. Tn trying
alight from the mule hi*' lei' becan
entangled with one of tV* 1 rare chaii
and the mule ran about n.00 \-;rds. I
| running Mr. Durham wji?> jerked c
der the mule and stampel i ) death
"Blind Tom."
J Henry Watterson in Louisville Con
' iol'-Journal.
Tidings of the death of "Bin
Tom" at lloboken, "where he lu
been living in retirement," the win
A tell us, "and subsisting on charity.
* reach at least one heart that lov<
and pitied him. and summon fro
the land of shades and dreams mat
a ghost of days and dear ones loi
departed. T must be his oldest livii
/* friend. It is not true, as I lnr
sometimes seen il stated, that T taugl
him what little he knew of musi<
bul T was at the outset of his strain
career and am familiar with all i
beginnings.
y I lies! heard of liiiu through H
bert Heller?William Henry l'ahm
?best known in his day as a pop
lar magician. bul a most aeeoiuplis
i e?l pianist. !l was at Washing!*
i and in the autumn ? t" 1S(?0. l'alui
had just come up with "Blind Tom
in Louisville, 1 think, and had bet
of course at once perplexed and ama
! ed by his extraordinary eharacteri
I lies. !lis crude, often gro(e-one. a
tempts t.> imitate whatever fell nix
i liis ear, either vocally, or on the ki
| board, were startling. 1 le na<1 heat
Judge Douglas speak and graphical
reproduced a few sentences. He h;i
heard a reigning prima donna sii
, and repeated her soprano in a fe
bars. The Bethune girls, daughte
of Gen. Bethune of Columbus, (?:
his old master, had taught him a fe
jingles, which lie rattled off upon tl
piano, lie knew nothing very eomp
cated, or very well. But he was blii
' and clearly an idiot: in short, he w;
a prodigy.
Il'almer gave hint several "lessons
? that lie played over and over )'
11iin -ueh pieces as Thalberg s "lloni
i Sweet Home,'' Mendelssohn
"Spring Song," and the salient pa
< ijes out of some of Li/I s trai
scription>?. Kxcepting a few additioi
al "lessons" of this kind had lati
along from ftugene Baylor, wl
taught him his famous " Margrax
'? Da use," Tom made little further pr<
gress and learned nothing new.
He would spin about 'lie piati
like a baboon, mumbling to liiinse
whilst Palmer, or Baylor played, an
if they stopped, he would rush heai
long to the instrument and try to fo
low after them precisely as they h.i
phrased. Two. or three, ot such "le
sons" sufficed, and though he learno
nothing accurately, nor played wit
any other expression than they ha
rendered, what he did was surprising
even to those who knew the proccs
and the limitation.
There was in the Tennessee line
certain Maj. Maeconico, who had
great baritone voice. He taugl
Tom to sing "Rocked in the Cradl
of The Deep," very much as he sail
it. There was a tailor in Griffin, Ga
by the name of Hanlon, whose tone
voice was fetching, and he taugl
Tom two or three love ditties, whio
Tom repeated in rich though rat Ik
? gut'ural tones, yet in undoubted tei
or. It was something more than
phenomenon of memory. Though bliiu
he could handle the key board readil;
whilst his vocal imitations from bay
to treble, from deep baritone to mezz
soprano, were sufficiently accural
and individualized to be recognized.
Tom seemed a woman-hate:
Whether it was pure misogyny, or
kind of shyness manifesting itsel
boorishly, T know not. T well rcmeir
her in Atlanta, where a party of n
had him with us off and on for tw
or three months, a young lady one da
sat down at the piano and began t
play. Tom was at the dark end r
the chamber, spinning upon hand
and heels, and mumbling to himscl
1 He caught the sound of She insln
incut. He .stood for a moment sti
and upright. Then, like a wild an
mnl, he made a dash and swoope
<*
d?wn upon !kt. TornI'r.e poor!
G uii'l shrieked ami ran. while the* rest I
of tis held hint. wriihiutr and Iron- ) -e
with what ?te.ned (?? he rage. ( I
>"e "She stole my harmonies," he cried j
l.V over and over, "she stole :nv harato-1
nies," and never ."g in <1 i?t ho allow I
id her t ? 'en-no :se-?r hi:n. If .-lie were |
|S even*in the room he knew somehow J
:l ami became restive and anyxy.
In I lie antnmn of IS!!". Tovi reappeared
at the North under the manattoment
of his old motor's fvnih.
quite impoverished by the war, and an
attempt was ma(do to "liberate" hi:n
from what some mistaken mkI owzealous
humanitarians called his "enslavement."
Hnppilr. this failed.
n? The case showed for itself and Tori
l.v was left with those who had oired
** for him from his babv'ao wi h::l Wei
1? most kind to him, and knew. a-; none
1? others could, his real wmu'< and needs.
ie The notion that the Rethnnes had a
cold mine in his perform-toees w,-,o
'11 not true. Th*y made at '!v : i _?!.-f of
ii- his popularity hardlv r ?? i move j Ward
than a livinir, and 1 that cv- j Ward
ontuallv thi sfailed them. Thev must Ward '
be all of them dead :?ow. How Tom j Ward '
r- came to live in \mit at Iloboken, Ward
just how he was < ?i..ira<".1 from hi-; Ward J
1(j old friends and how he i:-.<|>! e.i out of 1 Tolcxxi
l(| public notice, T can not s !V. l|js ]fn,.jf0
[lf. mother was alive as late as :'i<- ea; ly .Jt,linst<
?> eighties: but T doubt if -lie. or anv (};inna,
of the Rethuno familv survive. ^
m The last time 1 -miv IV'md "en va< M'nlber
iv in London, awav hr)?'-c in !S ; >. (Sci,. Mt. I'l<
ic: Pinkney Howard and one "f the Moth- Maybi)
i?r line hoys had (trough! l.im o\-?r. It Whitnv
,-e bad been then nearl " ?'.? ,. > vear- Lone I
lit since I had been with 1mm i'i .Van' . I .falapa
c; From the beginning of -air :?? i?:i-s:.*- !<"*?
;e Tom had been <rreatV >. r?---e.l !' ;. ; !,\vu'v
ts with a maimed hand T i '1 1 :!" Trinitv
strike a few chords and -a an o:-taw 1 Oh! M<
on the kevhoard. To ha! '- ^-lada
i,|. hit mind il seemed ? mirac'". l :> '?'h;'nt?<
Sunday afternoon I ? ;-n 1 ;i!<. i!e lit- \ Yanirhi
I,, tie ii.-. 11 on or neai I..0,0.1 J I
)n where Tom was to ai-oe t *. !!e wa ; | I >e <! I
[>r ba? i: the scenes <; : ia- i;<a d j Ea<{ li
' hand over heel, and inumblint: to him- | Pro*pe
M1 self. As we came :. < -taye S;. Lul
z_ (Sen. Howard said. '* i.? ! ;i- v. i ?.-i; Sab-da
s_ er lie knows you.*' f .." ! him. i!e j' > 'Noal
j_ slowlv uncoiled him-elf and !i-:ev.ed. : S-.viltoi
,n 1 called him airain. lie -> i -d irresn- j T. 'bi-rt v
,v lute, then ran across the broads, seiz- > \f in!ic
ed my hand, assured himself of the I.ittla
|v withered stump and j-iyoa-lv called jl'nion.
mv name. : -F.dlv 5ii
What was it ? Memory ? Yes. it was P"'
w memory without doubt: but what i rf'n,,'sl
rs else? Whence the hand power that en- /'"n
i., abled him to manipulate the keys, tinw
vocal power that enabled him to inii-I ^ '
ic tate the voice? Po-uavi
'1_ When he was a to) of -} or "> ye irs
>d id<l he strayed from the ne?ro cabin
| into the parlor id' the mansion and hid I
liim<elf whilst the children were hav- wa
" in-j a concert. When tliey had irone. j
<r leaving' i lie room, a- :hev -ummo-. >j
e, ?j i i 11? omiity. they heard tiie oiano
s tinkle. They ran hack, and iliere. to
s- their amazement, sat the chubby liitl<?
ii- black tuoiikev mi tlie stool, baimiii'_' I
ii- away tor dear life, yet not without < ^
sequence and ritlini, tryi'iu to -cneo j
m what they had. ,-ust been inuinu and '
*o playinir. 'From that time onwar 1 he LV~A]
|>- was the pel of the family.
1 can not trust <rr -elf n wlto of
0, him as I f'ool. It i- : irussy. am
11 well loved mastitV? -mu:c !> ,; al fcc- ffiS jfia
il, tionate?closely associated with the
1- dead and none?had been suddenly
1- recalled to he as suddenly taken away, "w i
td I he wires that flash his deaili liirhton
s" a picture gallery for me of the old, JJLU1-ttM
' familiar faces. What was he? Whence j
1 came he? Was he the jirince of the n ?
' fairy tale held by the wicked en
ehantress; nor any beauty?not even IRf 0^
>s the heaven-horn maid of melody?to [ j H
release him? Blind, deformed and | ^
R black?as black even as Erebus?
a idiocy, the idiocy of a mysterious, per- _
petual frenzy, the sole companion of Y
1? his waking visions and his dreams?
whence came he, and was he, and
i wherefore? That there was a soul
)r there, be sure, imprisoned, chained,
in that little black bosom, released at 1 w
last; gone to the angels, not to imi- j ?
M' tate I ho seraph-songs of heaven, hut ,
to join the choir invisible forever and ; {.ho (
a forever.
' ; Th
Corking Time. than
e. Tit-Hits. Cc
An Irishman entered a country inn
,. and called for a glass of the best that
a Irish whiskey. After being supplied o|*?/a
^ he drank it and was about to walk
1. out when the following conversation
[R took place: f
o Landlord?Here, sir, you haven't 3
v paid for that whisky you ordered.
o Irishman?What's that you say? <1
f Landlord?I said you hadn't paid I
Is tor that whisky you ordered.
P
Irishman?-I>id yon pay for it? r~?.
!. Landlord?Of course I did. '
II i
j_ Irishman?Well, then, what's the j |Ug
(] good of both of us pay iffy for it?
OFFICIAL Fi
Newberry County's Vc
First Primary, Tuesda
United Slates Senate. (Jovernor
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^icture Frames
A, nice lot of Oval Picre
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AYES' HOK STORE.
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ien You Purchase your FALL
GOODS FROM US. I
e bought wh^n eoo d s were at the LOW EST !
we sell at much LOWER PRICES th-m
everlasting Bargain Day Sellers.
e nimble r.ickei is more appreciated by us
the slow dollar.
mpare quality and you will invariably find
the greatest GENUINE BARGAINS are j
lys to be found at
< KLETTNER,
"he Fair and Square Dealer.
st shipment of fall goods arrived.
ver no better, nor cheaper. COME.
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Ledgers, Gash Bo?:
tracts, Talcum Pow
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see us before making
HERALD?& NEWS
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EVAHSVILLE, I HQ.
able, Light Draft.
led Shinpiece, Interlocked
ias Face Chill, Wide Edge
d Extension and is the
LE Chilled Point made.
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