The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, September 01, 1908, Page SEVEN, Image 7
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
KILLED BY LIGHTNING
Fountain Inn. Aug. 2S.-Mrs. Dave
Siins and her inf:"nt daughter v "ere
struck by lightning and instantly
killed at their home Mnday after
noon. Mrs. Sims leaves a hu-;bai.d
and three small children. Mr. Sims
is a farmer and lives about two and :t
half miles from Fountain I!n.
MULE KILLS FARMER.
Isaac Durham rails From the Animal
and is Stamped to Death Drag
ged Two Hundred Yards.
Pickens, Aug. 29.--Isaan Dt1rbam,
a prominent farmer or h' eounty
who lives in the Si' Mile se:tion, wai
kied yesterday evening by a mule
h" Lad be: wIwing. Tn. tryinz to
alight frott the mule hi- !e:: became
entangled with one of tiA 4rave *hr-ins
and the mule ran about TO v: eis. In
running Mr. Durham wa jerke'd in
der the mule and stampe i> ieaih
"Blind Tom."
Henry Watterson in Louisville Cour
ierr-Journal.
Tidings of the death of "Blind
Tom" at Hoboken, "where he had
been living in retirement," the wires
tell us, "and subsisting on charity."
reach at least one heart that loved
and pitied him, and summon from
the land of shades and dreams many
a ghost of days and dear ones long
departed. I must be his oldest living
friend. It is not true, as I have
sometimes seen it stated, that I taught
him what little he knew of music;
but I was at the outset of his strange
career and am familiar with all its
beginnings.
I first heard of him through Ro
bert Heller-William Hen: Palmer
-best known in his day as a popu
lar magician. but a most accomplish
ed pianist. It was at Washington
and in the autumn of -1860. Palmer
had just come up with "Blind Tom"
in Louisville, I think, and had been
of course at once perplexed and amaz
ed by his extraordinary characteris
ties. His crude. often grote,que. at
tempts to imitate whatever fell upon
his ear, either vocally, or on the key
board, were startling. He nrad heard
Judge Douglas speak and graphically
reproduced a few sentences. He had
heard a reigning prima denna sing
and repeated her soprano in a few
bars. Thie Bethune girls, daughters
of Gen. Bethune of Columbus, Ga.,
his old master, had taught 'him a few
jingles, which he rattled off upon the
piano. He knew nothing very compli
cated, or very well. But he was blind
and clearly an idiot; in short, he' was
a prodigy.
Palmer gave him several "lessons"
-that is. he played over and over for
him such pieces as Thalberg's "Home,
Sweet Home,'" Mendelssohn's
"Spring Song,'' and the salient pas
sages (out of some of Lizt 's tran
scriptions. Excepting a few addition
al "lessons'' of this kind had later
along from Eugene Baylc'r, who
taught him his famous "Margrave
Danse,'' Tom made little f'urther pro
gress and learned nothing new.
He would spin about the piano,
like a baboon, mumbling to himself
whilst Palmer, or Baylor played, and,
if they stopped, he would rush head
long to the instrument and try to fol
low after them precisely as they had
phrased. Two, or three, of such "les
sons'' sufficed, and though he learned
nothing accurately, nor played with
any other expression than they had
rendered, what he did was surprising.
Seven to those who knew the process
and the limitation.
There was in the Tennessee line a
certain Maj. Mae'conieo, who had a
great baritone voice. He taught
Tom to sing "Rocked in the Cradle
of The Deep,'' very much as he sang
it. There was a tailor in Griffin, Ga.,
Sby the name of Hanlon, ivhose tenor
voice was fetching, and he taught
Tom two or three love ditties, which
Tom repeated in 'rich though rather
unttural tones, yet in undoubted ten
or. It was something umore than a
phenomenon of memory. Though blind,
he could handle the key board readily,
whilst his vocal imitations from bass
-to treble, from deep baritone to mezzo
soprano.- were sufficiently accurate
Sand indiMdualized to be recognized.
Tom seemed a woman-hater.
Whether it was pure misogyny, or a
kind of shyness manifesting itself
boorishly, I know not. I well remem
ber in Atlanta, where a party of us
had him with us off and on for two
or three months, a young lady one day
sat down at the piano and began to
play. Tom was at the dark end of
the chamber. spinning upon ha nds
anid heels, and mnumblinz to him;elf.
He eaught the sound of the instru
ment. He stood for a moment still
and upright. Then, like a wild ani
--a1 he made a dash and swooped
r1 -11ri('1;!d an r... 1':1't h i e t"i- t
"She stole my hr:mnie' le m . rled
1ver" aind oVer, "he Zti e :nV h::r-no
n!ies.' and Ile (". ,1. Z 1 l (1i' !'el' iW11
her t'' co-ne :n 'r hi:'. If e vWE
evens in the roo:n he k:w .:nehoi:w
and be(.:!me re(stiVe and ::nIry.
In the aiut:umn of 1;.i, To- re:-p
! e:led at the North u:der the m:m
a,ement of his old m1-ter 's fe"nil
quite impoverished by the war. and an
attempt was ma,de to "liberate' hi:n
from what some mistaken :nd ove
zealous humanitarians called his "en
sQvement." Happily. this failed.
The case showed for itcelf. arnd Tor:
was left with those whc had cred
for him from his babv'!d haI been
most kind to him. and knew. :; none
others could. his real w'n- :;nd needs.
The notion that the Bethunes hd a
gold mine in his rerforu::reQ w:
not true. Th y made at t'c .:.i.r;:t of
his popularity hardly r -- in." re
than a living. and I st, that eV
entually thi sfailed them. They must
be all of them dead :i,nr. Now T'1on
came to live in want at Hoboken.
jist bow he was se!.ar:atn.1 fro-n his
old friends and how he d.I-r1_,ii ont oI
public notice, I can nor v. His
mother was alive as late a, ' r e:,! l1
eighties: but T doubt if The. or any
of the Bethune family survive.
The last time I w P.'in lom wa=
in London. away hae in lSi Gcn
Pinkney Howard and one ;f :1,h' Beth
une boys had bronght Lim -x r. It
had been then nearl- 'hr,? :ear=
since I had been with h;1 in .V'a n .
From the beginning of :ulr :i'n
Tom had been great1 i'.ro1=E"l 1Vt.
with a maimed hand T "-" ,a 1
strike a few chords and :.1 an o't:r:
on the keyboard. To hi; w.".
hit mind it seemed n nurela. T'i," :1
Sundar afternoon I e-n, int. i::e ilt
t:( hall on or nea1 L i' -
where Tom was to :ipoo '. He wa.=
b::k ,f the scenes 1,4:11 As
hand over heel, and mumbline to him
self. As we came u;on e sife
Gen. Howard said. ".:et ;Is :1 wi:et':
er he knows von.i ' f -" him. ik
slolvlv uncoiled him=elf and li-tened.
I called him again. He st.;,d irreso
lute, then ran across the broaas. seiz
ed my hand, assured hims if of the
withered stump and joyously called
mv' name.
What was it ? Memory ? Yes, it was
memory without doubt: but what
else? Whence the hand power that en
abled him to manipulate the keys, the
vocal power that enabled him to imni
tate the voices
When he was a tot of 4 or 5 years
old he strayed from the negro cabin
into the parlor of the mnnsion and hidI
himself whilst the children were hay
ine a concert. When they' had gone.
leaving the room. as :hev suppose'd,
quite emotv. they heard the pia?no
tinkle. They ran back. and there. to
their amazement, sat the e.hubb': little
black mnonker on the stool. banginz
away for dear life, yet not without
seqence and rithm. trying to :-epe .t
what they had just been .inging and
playing. From that time onwari he
was the pet of thie family.
I can not trust m-. .,elf o w':Ic of
him as I Peel. It i~ s : i f ietrusyv.
well loved masti1d-mu1::e h.at affoe
tionate-closely associated with the
dead and gone-had been suddenly
recalled to be as suddenly taken away.
The wires that flash his death lighten
a picture gallery for me of the old,
familiar faces. What was he ? Whence
came he? Was he the prince of the
fairy tale held by the wicked en
chantress; nor any beauty-not even
the heaven-born maid of melody-to
release him? Blind, deformed and
'olack-as black even as Erebus
idiocy, the idiocy of a mysterious, per-1
petual frenzy, the sole companion of
his waking visions and his dreams
whence came he, and was he, and
wherefore? That there was a soul
there, be sure, imprisoned, chained,
in that little black bosom. released at
last gone to the angels. not to imi
tate the seraph-songs of' heaven, but
to join the choir invisible forever andf
forever.
Corkinig Time.
Tit-Bits..
An Irishman entered a country inn
and called for a glass of the best
Irish whiskey. After being supplied
he drank it and was about to walk
out when the following conversation
took place:
Landlord-Here, sir, you haven't
paid for that whisky you ordered.
Irishman-What 's that you say i
Landlord-I said you hadn't paid
for that whisky you odrd
Irishma n-D id yul pay for' it ?
Landlord-Of course I did.
Irishman-WVell, then. what 's the
good of both of us paviite for it ?
OFFICIAL RES(
)our)ty's Vote
rimary, Tuesday, A
d States Senate. Governor
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