Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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* ****** * * * * * * b * * The Old Settler Takes a Fish *d With His Friend. * an The old -ettler walked his piazza ya a pedantie air and sanup a olo d) iseordant notes. It wZas a quad- Iis ssia'Sunday. and the lental fast bu just begun. The xr,at metal- hi oated bell of the fashioniable Iurch in tIle ciy had peal.d its last P. .ote. and its vibrant tone was still, x.hile t.he others still sang in unison. pe The patter of receding footsteps of do -the devout was fast fading away. as sti they hurried on to do homage to their a : avatar. Gentle zephyrs played list- (w lessly through the foliage of the pop- rro] lars and pines, while a song bird, \ar< which had escaped the sling shot of 'er t1fe bad boy, lazily warbled his last niE lay of the morning in a neighbo.,ing -we hedge. The slanting rays of the sun were growing more direct, as it rose ba 1igher in the great eastern areb, its " shimmering rays of oragne and emer ald easting reflugent light over the earth. th he Old Settler's churoh was not in for sion this day, but the balmy air lia spring put ihim in harmony with his an .hildhood days, and he smiled to him- W -elf, as memory carried him back ov- his r the three quarters of a century of Mi mile stones he had passed. He thought to wistfully of the days when he had tihe tempted fate with a rod and pin fish ihook along the babbling brooks. while his elders footed it miles away to church; Those were days of purest ed bliss to the Old Settler. 1 The penman across the way walk- ye ed his veranda's length with a low and measured tread, casting querulous me glances in the direction of the home of the old derelict. The man of the fleecy staple sat on his porch on the ma opposite corner, reading thle tariff d'ebat.es. and fighting valiantly with the/flies as they buzzed around his troubled head. Jun "Hey, you. therie, say,' called the 4 th ancient in a whispering tone to the penman: "ain't it a great pity it's a - n to fish on Sunday. Gewhilikens, ouldn't fish bite today, though!" He The penman continued his modulat- inx ing steps, casting ominous glances up inl towards the silver spirals on the A wa R. P. church, turned and whistled a Ch bar or two of a barcarette, but spoke ch< he never a word. The man of the wh fleecy staple threw his head sidewise, en< in a listening attitude, looking anx- toe iously down the street, toward the en1 minister's house. we "I've got a couple of the bestp limbrick hooks that ever struck wat- thec er,'' said the Old Settler'irn a cautiousp tone to the penman, "and if I only wa knew 'where I could dig a little edi bait-'' ou1 "Oh. pshaw,'' says the man of the pui quill, shaking his 'hand behind him, in "plenty over here. The folks pour of slop and eoffee grounds in the back no lot. and there is bait there to make tr~a your head dizzy. Say, you, if I 'had rmt a hoe or a mattock-'' , wo "Oh, good gr'acious, man, hold on; W, I'vye two over here,-wait.'' ala They the two got together. They. were going behind the kitchen with a ans pick and hoe. tel "Hello there, you boys,'' called the cotton man; "what 's up? can 't in I get in? I'm so lonesome; my folks g, have gone-''w '"Go on. go on:'' said the penman htir to the old1 settler; ''two is company:; three is a crowd.'' a The man of the quill begim t)> wield ti the piek, while his comrade gathered E the bait in an old tomatto can. Just lik then the cotton man. with flushed bir cheeks and heated breath, turned the o, corner. att "Boys, let me in. Make i-t three; So never a word from me:'' but seeing die the penman about to pull in two a t.o; large squirming angle worm: "Look out there-don 't do that; dig it out, th< don't break it.'' tra Then, jerking the pick ft om the in- thi eperienced hands of the penman: "Let me at it. Never break a bait. wxh Alawys dig him o-1t. Jeeminy crim i! what a b%it!>" 0. "Oth, don' talk,'' said the old set tler. "'there i bait enough hereabouts tin to cause a panic in the S,anhedrim. lik Look oat. put dirt in your can, they rin will erawl out if you don 't. Cover up W the fresh ground; we 'ye got enough. m Don 't let your wife see where we 'ye th~ been diggi.ng. Come on, come on.'' H They hied away to Scott 's creek an and inl a leafy dell, where the crystal al' waters fell ov-er the mossy stones in w rthmi c melody, low and sweet, eddy- axn ig away in a silver pool, they pre- f pared to east their lines. The pen- er, man, in his eager haste, was the first bo to bait his hook, and was just in the I act of throwing it in, when the old Pf settler threw out his hanad. "Hey, there! What are you do- hi ing? -_ ''Throwing in my hook.'' hi ''And not spit on your bait ? Wel he well: if that don 't- ' But the man of cotton cut in with fo a scowl at the innocent quillma.n: b "Why, man, you ought to hav~e th TIIe .ere nII\\w all set I led, eail xionIl :() tell his l t ries. E:.1-hl )xved, im 111patiei e at Iiz nei.g,,hIbiIr S r-1. t hI at tisle'rm11an is there that esn 't like to tell of his wonders in Hlg'. The penman began his story. t a liorny-head kept toying with hook. and caused delay. Ialk Iast. ymmg alii. sald I le S.; tie s getting away. WVell, vou see,' at last said the uman. ''where I eamre from we .' t fish with I hooks mueh. We go ikin. Get a piece of hlo() iron oot (r two long. get a good torch e always go striking at night), I up your breeches. and there you . Have a negro behind you with a 'cus sack to pick up the fish. One :ht in Shaker creek, I remember, killed more than three thous--'' [hen lie landed a silveir side, re Ted his hook and began again: Ve killed more than three 1thous-" Fhen another jerk. A long pause. 'Look here. you never get farther M "three thous-," said the cot I man; '' that reminds me of Wil mn Cromer, when lie was first made litor. A hair-lipped fellow up in ll's country come down to give in property. His name was Jess ler, and lie couldn't pronounce S save his life. William commenced stereotyped question: 'Subject to poll? Any horses-? les, sheep or goats? Hogs?' 'Three thous, and pigs, '' answer Jess. 'Three thousand pigs?' fairly led William. ''No! No! I don't mean that; I an three thous and pigs.' 'Mereiful Heaven. Jim, you and ir whole people never had that ny pigs in all your days.' 'You don't catch me. William: I an three thous. and three pigs. No, lon't mean that, either; I mean,' iping to his feet in desperation, ree thous and -theven thigs. Now - it, you understand that, don't Did I ever tell you of the fish Bill ler caught once in a trap of his -en tion. .N'-iid 'xu ention? No? Well it was this v. Bill Heller, Dan Werts and a.rlev Dickert invented a cotton >pper, a great big box concern, with eels a d frails with shoes to the I, to chop out the cotton. They k it to Washington and got a pat on it. But it wouldn 't work at too fast, or something, and cut one row while it was chopping out. other. So the other boys threw the sponge. Not so Heller. He' a an ingenuo-us fellowv, so lie turn it side -ways, and made a fish trap of it. He 'took off the hoes and gi fish hooks in their stead, hay a wire about -a foot long in front these frails, to tie on the bait. He d a kind of flutter mill .to the eon ption, and when it was anchored in ming water the bait and hooks aldI go round at a terrible rate. 1, sir, he set it one day. I was ust then the penman gave a jerk I tangled his line up with the man ting -tuhe story. 'Look out, man, don't bother me my story. -Well, you, see, when a' i would grab at the bait, blam uld come the hook behind and gig a in tre tail. Well, sir, when wxe there next morning, it looked like .lozn turbine wvheels in rapid mo n. Such ehurning up -ihe water. ery hook had- a fish, and it looked e a whole school -was t:here gra.b g at th'e bait as it went round and md, the loose fish making savage aks upon those that were hooked. we began frailing with our pad s, and I know we killed and caught ~ether more than three thous-'' 'Oh, cut that out. I have -heard storv. Heller has got that same .p now below Columbia and catehes 'Hist!'' said the penman; ''see at noise is that over in the field?'' 'On:y a boy with a cow,'' said thes 'Say, did I ever tell you,'' con -ed the 0. S., ''about the fish I e to 'have caught one:e in Broad -er? Well here is tihe way it was lived right close to the river, and old unce, who lived wit-l us, wvas powerfulest fisherman in the land. b) a itedlfo redl hrrse, you kniw, i wished with a bob. He would ays take me with him to help th the -hooks and keep tahe snakes ay. Well, one morning early, be e -the fog had risen from the wat my bob 'went down plumb to the ttom, and when I jerked I thought had hooked the whole of Henry ,rr's island. My uncle called out: 'on 't pull him, let him play, give n line,' but grea-t smoke ! tihat fish :m: away, pulling me in with n. My uncle said. ' Stand by him! will gieup in a minute. ' But no. , out in the deep eddy, over in the urare pond. down through the oad axe, he we-nt, me -hanging oni all time till my uncle saw I was in I I 1 III till l Alid l Y iIII tile' watel. a'! 1.ld tilme l aked the pellllall i a kepi cle tonle. Inll the water? \\lIy d. y-u think [ was doilng- that stunt with a fish on Iy land ? Did I ever hear f it any More? Oh, yes. they caught him in Fre"lhle' fall t rap. and doi my seat. if tinl fish had't swalloied my h(iok ;Ul] line. :11(1 all Myi ale blt one Joint, an 1 it weight (;ver .hree "Great hooky ! look coming up; the whole town is comning; lets run ftr it op eried the penman. "Stop and get your bait, man. Where is your fish? Wait!" But the cotton man and the penman were well under way, plunging through the water, up the creek, the old settler hopping on behind. When Ae g,od .wives reached home the e4t ton man was still wading through the tariff debates. The penman was sing ing: "I woud not live always, I ask not to stav Where ther 's never any fishing-but there's the dickens to pay." The old settler was striding through his piazza repeating to himself: "Oh I was once as pure as the beauti ful snow, But I fell, fell like a snow flake. from Heaven to Then the dinner bell. Curtains. X. Y. Z. VIGILANCE COMMITTEES. The Ku-Klux Klan, the Danites of Utah, the White Caps and the Night Riders. Ser-ret tribunals-the Vioilance Committee, the Ku-Klux Klan, the Night Rider and the White Cap-are the weapons to which some men re sort when social onditons arise whicih appear to them unjust or un enduirable, whether from the absence of established legal tribunals, or from apparently unjust conditions sanc tioned and sought to be enforced in te name of the law itself, says the Kansas Cirty Sar. It was the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 51 'that gave the name an': model for all the illegitimate tribunais that pro eted and purified, or terrorized and abused, as the case may be, almost very community of consequence in he far West. A series of fires kind led by thugs, in order to plunder tih.e on while it burned, led to the or anization of a committee of 200 cit zens who calmly took charge of thre affiars of the city, and what lititle >ppoitioni there was to them they as almly awed into silence. Gradually the vigilance idea spread hroughout California and committees riginally modeled on the lines of the San Fra.neisco body, 'hanged, brand ed or banished '"bad men,"' and some 1mes women. The Danites. The committee did not always ang; they sometimes whipped thiev es, and .sereral organization branded stock robbers with a great "H. T." orse thief. A famous secret organization which had many crimes charged against its name was ''The Danites,"' a Utah Mormon band. This grim and deadly company was supposed to devote its energies to the dJiscouriageemnt of un desirable immigration into tibe Mor mon ter'ritory, but it early earned a reputation for murder and pillage, practiced upon parties of pioneer set tlers and caravans bound for the Cal ifornia gold fields. In 1856 condi,tions in San Francis o became such that the vigilanee commit tee again seemed to be de manded, and it was reorganized. with Win. T. Coleman as president. This time there were more than 8,000 mem bers, with an executive committee of 40 whose orders were absolute. They took charge of the armories, organiz ed e-avalry and artillery divisions and even established a mari-ne battery. By this time the popular tribunal idea had reached other States and ter ritories. In Nevada people began to find dead men swingtingt from trees wvith a plaeard bearing the figures "601'' pinned ito their clothing. This was the number of citize~ns composmng otie of the early vigilance committees, but the mark was soon adopted as the "sign manual"' of all the lynching organizations of Utah or Nevada. Northward through Oregon, Wash ington and a:way up .into Alaska, the movement spread. Gold dust t,hieves, highwaymen, eattle and horse thieves, "bad men" and others who earned the ill will of the "regulators," were its game. The "XXX"' was as famous and feared in Idaho as the "'601"-w.xias in Nevada and Utah, though this comn mttee did not begin its work until two year's after its o,rganizatio)n. The first year of' its organizationm it 'bang ed 27 men, who~ were saidl to have bee co,nne in the murder of more RIATSUM :-: OF MILLINERY, LADIES' FUR At prices to make you buy. RemembE price at the time you most need the g Our Prices Are the Lowest. Quality as good All the We have the goods you need, and in your life to buy at prices lower than t] Flowers, Shapes, Rib ons, Neckwear, the goods must go. BIG LOT TRIIMED HATS 25 Trimmed Hats, Leading Styles, v 35 Trimmed Hats, Leading Styles, y 50 Trimmed Hals, Leading Styles, v 50 Hats, Beauties, worth $2.50. nov 75 Children's Sailors, worth 75c., n< Big lot Flwers at prices never made Big lot Belts, wotth 25 and 35 cents Big lot Wash Belts, Pearl Buckles, High BaCK Combs, worth 25c., now All small Notions half price. Come Big lot American Beauty Corsets, r All new in style. 75 American Beauty Corsets, worth 75 long, mediu-m and short Corsets, 100 good Corsets, worth 35c., now Your dollar will double here, no me Tember, we trim free. Mrs. Emr Lower Main 'St., than 100 persons. ~bacco beds "seraped,' Ku-Klux Klan. Iotherwise destroyed. T To Montana belongs the fame of Jbouses were burned, a aving maint'ained a vigila.nee corn- terror inaugurated. L mit tee longer and more effective than 1night rider made his any other State-from 1864 to 1870. A rkansas, and Texas. The Ku-Klux Klan originally was were burned, and farm the South 's weapon of resistance to to sell their cotton unti the regime of the carpet-bagger, seal- ed a certamn figure. wag and the lawless negro during The phase of night the reconstruction days. Wisely and which the public, is m< -nanely, or. roughly and cruelly and tihat 'around Reel Foot criminally, it did t'he work for wvhieh see, when Captain Q1 t was intended, was shot and hanged, *ai Originally the Ku-Klux Klan was a ion and law partner, (C ollege fraterni-ty, established at Pu- lor, escaped only by laski, Tenn., in Mfay 1866. The name swaip under fi're.. is simply the Green -word, Kuklos, a - irle or band. To this was added 'the President Finley Ad word klan. For the purpose' of mys- -Forest ManagE tery the word was split, and the word That the wise mana, lan spell with a ''K,'' making it Ku- forests is regarded by Klux Klan. It was not a serious af-- W. Finley, of the Sou fair to start with, and if coniditionsasancsiynthc had not been as they were, it wouldthSohistrnl probably have ended as it began, in hsrcn drs ot fun. o h nvriyo In the course of time many un- "nm pno, ecrupulou;s men a.nd organizationsFily"hecomc ommit t?d~ all sorts of -erimes in tib he magentfou name of the Ku-Klux Klan, andesso*atoeue brought the organization into disre- lretpeetpoi pute in, its latter days. Only two cop- ter.rsraii a ies of -the original ritual are known tmtd nadto to be in existence. One is in the li- ec pnsra b brary of Columbia college. New York, dmns h etic.v and one is in the archires of the State adt anan*ih of Tennessee. nvgto n o h All the later organization, like thepoeindysan, Whit Can andti Nigt Riers a fonatyi n the ou i modledpo thtKuKlu.outis srnl The Night Riders. Univemrtieof The ia Ridrs, r sient in ey Northe Atlanoic S gade cam int -exstene in1904 a s ate i o f ernitre ma an uxiiay u th drk obaco{li- ther poresain-'ean trit Pantrs'Prteciveassci ti mted. ulpIen tdditione of Kntucy an Tewesse. Tedaminst destuetiv ''Bac Pach'' n hic 'his''arkar followingtrah tobcco isprouce, lesnWstenavigastsintao r itheut Kentcky nd Tnnesee, nd drkoge-rl incdryeasns,th onode israsep o hee -lseinth dtries. wolThoght ds besent ronin the ohrAtanti St; the blue gras regiotnce wih produces ntes martre mn th auxiliary of tbe knark toasc bir- the musodwosred m relneys.rtcieasoito e supphes of thr'aw se Th Kenceovelr and imssee Theanms bexhauste about 'Btac ateward brogh riias,ar adopi ofoienthe ra pugis' an thg fnote orest bto the oes orbacco hesoued bes inetdrin lands obacc~'Itoi rsed nu.orils te igt tibeans lrl ahough if haen rw inr NIfCter TOodRa ne. ualit ~o obefueo knonsbr they thbe assreditrft as~oiat( f te Niht ide s upply B. Letei,re erw. htv aftrwippd orbeatght chrinas do-ion of steentf MER SALE 3 z NOTIONS NISHINGS r, we make an end of season >ods. as the best. Season's Latest Styles. tend giving you the chance of re lowest. All go in this sale Belts, Etc. We make the prices, AT MOVING PRICES. rorth $4.00, now $2.75 each. rorth $3.50, now $2.50 each. iorth $3.00, now $1.98 each. $1.39 each. iw 39c. each. before. now 10c., and 19c.ach. now 15c.Neach. 15c. each. and take a look. one better. Here they go. $1.00, now 75c. each. worth 65c. now 39c. each. 9c. each tter what your purchase. Re na Hair, Newberry, S. C. "salted'' or attested as required by law, to our heir barns and attofrneys, Mower & Bynum, at New d a reign of 'berry, S. C., '*ithout delay. Lst year the IKate G. Leitzsey, ppearance in B. B. Leitzsey, Cotton gins Administrators of T. B. Leitzsey, s warned not deceased. prices reach WATER AND LIGHT NOTICE. ~ riding with IThe law requires -that all bills for, st familiar is water and lights must be paid be Lake, Tennes- tween the 1st and 10Th of each month, ientin Rankin and if such bills are niot paid by the a his compan- evening of the 10th, the service will l. R. Z. Tay- be discontinued without further no swimming a tice. If 0. consumer allows this 'cut os,' and at some future date becomes a vdcte Wseconsumer; a penalty of $1.00 will be rocates ofs charged and collected for second of nent. th fence before this serf'ice will be given. ement ofth This charge being cost of cutting off Peient W.and on. - thern railway'. We therefore ask that you please veopmet in not allow this to run over the 10th; )rought ou nfor it will surely necessitate a dis s tudent body continuation of your service. x rsidentM. L. Speaman, aid resientChas. E. Summer, importanee of .W. F. Ewart, Southern for- Commissioners of Publie Wor1ks. rom them the 5-18-09-3t-t&f. m nsistent with __________ not hle overes- CHARLETON & WESTEEN CAE Lo their influ- OLINA EY. w, tending to Schedule in effect May 31, 1908. ness of floods Lv. Newberry(C N & L) 12:Mi o.m. water for Ar. Laurens 2:02 p.m. heyertheo Lv. Laurens (C & W C) 2:35 p.m. i-Ar. Greenville 4:00 p.m. odwrkng Lv. La.urens 2:32 p.m. ~'recent years Ar. Spartanburg 4:05 p.m. Ltes predoi- Lv. Spartanburg (So.. Ry.) 5:00 p.. ifacturing and Ar. Hendersonville 7:45 p.m. Lstries. Tim- Ar. Asheville 8:50 p.m. tion have been Lv. Laurens (C & W C) 2:32 p.m. hese industries' Ar. Greenwood 3:32 p.m. dly reced'ing Ar. McCormick 4:33 p.m. and West, Ar. Augusta 6:15 p.m. value of the Tri-Weekly Parlar Car line be -tween Augusta and Asheville. Trains * vorking indus- Nos. 1 and 2, leave Aftgusta Tuesdays, yerstocoe,Thursdays and Saturdays, leave oaconstnt Asheville Mondays, Wednesdays and material. This Fridays~. nly by the Note: The above arrivals and de methods of for- partures, as well as connections with our wood- other comnpanies, are given as inifor mation, and are not guaranteed. ___. Ernest Williams, DITORS. Gen. Pass. Agt., Slate 'Thomas Augusta, Ga. y required to Geo. T. Bryan, irdeands, th"enviB~e. S. C..