Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CAP'N BILL SMITH. * * The Veteran Conductor Is Yet * On the Job. * Cohmbia StaIe. Perhaps the oliest passenier tram vc.in the Unitedl >ta:e-- i-s (apt. " ill '' " 1m i _h111e,m oelh a 50 years has had the run on t:e Southern road between Columbia ani Greenville. On his sleeve are ten, chevrons, each stripe representing five years' honorable service. "Capt. Billy," as he is affectionate. ly called by the railroad employes and by thousands of passengers who have come to know him in traveling over the road. is approaching 80 yeari of age. yet no detail of a condueto'S duty escapes him. In his long ser vice he has especially endeared him self to the lady passengers who travel over his line. The old gentleman al ways makes it his business to see per sonally to the comfort and conven ience of the passengers, and no one who has ever ridden with him has been carried past a station by mistake. On his train there is no indistin guishable yell that nobody under stands except the yeller tihereoL. When Capt. Billy goes through the train every passenger knows what the next station is, and at junctions he is particularly careful to make the train connections known. This is one reason Why ladies like to ride on his train. They don't make any mistakes. Capt. Smith is one of the first men to run on the Southern road. He 'has had the one run. from Columbia to Greenville, for more than half a cen turv. His reminiseences of old-time railroading are extremely interesting and entertaining. He was running a train before the war and he tells of ineidents that occurred before Se eession was declared. On one occasion. the day before South Carolina seced ed. he was standing on Main street in Columbia, and there was a great crowd in front of the Nicholson hotel, calling for Senator Chestnut. The war fever ran high, and Senator Chestnut was one of the leaders who fanned it. The senator appeared on the balcony and made a speech in whieh he de clard that South Carolina would se cede from the Union; that the SoutVh was right and its cause would pre vail. "The Northern people,'' he said, "are too busy making money to go to war-, if an army is raised it will be an army of the rabble and the slums. They will not fight. One regi ment of South Carolina soldiers can whip a ten acre lot full of them. I can drink all the blood that will be shed in t!he war with the North. Go in, boys, and sin the fame and the glory.'' That is the way Capt. Billy tells it. He says he was standing on the street near where the skyscraper nowv is and heard the speech. Capt. Billy was not in favor of the war, and said to himself, "You know not what you say.'' But Capt. Billy was an intense Southern partisan, just the same, and is today a good deal of an "unre constructed rebel.'' Tihe other day when he carried the militia on his train he could not reconcile himself to the sight of soldiers from the South carrying that flag that half a cen tury ago was carried in the van of the forces that laid -vaste his State. Cant. Billy told low when the Southern soldiers returned after the war, the women at the various sta tions along the road from here to Greenville pre.pared tables filled with things good to eat, and dressed the soldiers' wounds. The veteran 's way of telling about these things is inter esting in the extreme. SHe told of one soldier w:ho had 8 children and an invalid wife. He 'had come home on a furlough to see his family, and had done some work to get them provisions. and he knew to go back to the army meant starva ion for them. He overstayed his time, and the provost came after him and compelled him to return with them shackled. When the train they were on reached Columbia this man in des eration, manacled as the was, got posse5sion o)f his knife and slashed onen his abdomen and tore out his en trails by handfuls. He was abandoned for dea-d. but a doctor put the vital parts back, sewed up the wound, and the man got well. Capt. Billy said he knew t'iEis of his own personal ob servatitfn, but did not know whether the man went back again to the army. In a Georgia town as a youth Capt. Billy knew a boy whose name was T omn Lawson. Just after the war h.ere appeared in Newberry a man emanted and 5iek from camp fever. He was on his way to Georgia, his home, and Capt. Billy recognized him. The wvar was over and it was in the I ann, anId I reaeIed tie ears of e iimmander of the No Irthern roops. He issued an order for t'his !an. Lawson. to Ie rou1 i Hlo 1.1 had or alive. In nme Wi lWs'll rev'ailie ap ill('o 'i Il Ae l.d all(I tie (I o Illake SespI. Ill a. he waS, he ral about 12 miles up tie railr A when three Cnion uIdiers overtook him. Lawson .i'll bV11i"11 I IMS11. Z11id w 1en S0e1~o diers pursuinig got near eOIIuI.rLb Law on --prang out and wrenched the 'gru from one soldier's hand and was about to shoot another of them when the third shot him through the heart. The dead man was carried back to Newberry on Capt. Billys train. The veteran has been through many wrecks. "a couple for every mile on my run.'' he says. But he never sus tained serious injury. Upon one oc easion he was running a train with eoaches attached to some cattle cars. The cattle ears were open on top in those days and as the train moved and swayed the cattle in the cars would lunge about. He feared they would break the door and escape. and though lhe had not slept for three days he tried to keep awake. watching the cars ahead from the platform. Finding himself going to sleep on his feet, and fearing h.e would fall from the train he went into the car and sat down, and that was the last he remembered until he felt a violent jar. w1hich awaked him. He discov ered that the rear cars had broken loose from the train and turned over and were lying on their sides beside the trPek. The cattle cars were empty. The cattle had been spilled and by standers told him that the last they had seen of the cows they were roing over the 'hill with their tails in the air. For two hours Capt. Billy enter tained a reporter of the State on the w.i from Columbia to Hodzes with reminiseences along these lines. Some years ago it is said that the railroad company laid him off on full pay. suggesting that he spend the re mainder of his' life in ease, but Capt. Billy's heart was nearly broken. and he begged to be allowed to continue his active service. He said he would ratfher run on the road without pay than not to be allowed to run. The man who lives by his wits is not always a high liver. A FAMOUS BEAUTY SPECIALIST Gives Advice to Women Lacking in Energy and Vitality. Thousands of women are using toi let preparations unsu.-essfully. Cosmetics fail to improve their thick, muddy complexions or to ban ish the pimples, blaecdbeads and crow 's-feet. No wonder. Their trouble lies far deeper than the skin. They 'have bad blood, and bad blood in 90 per cent. of the cases arises from inflammation of thie mucous membrane. Their blood is filled with poison which is certain ,break out in unsightly humors and blothes--while pale, drawl. fdees, deep circled eyes, stooping shoulders and weak backs complete the story of suffering and despair. Inflammation of the mucous mem brane is eatarrh. Banish catarrh and complexions will clear as if by magic, pains vanish, eyes will birghten, faces become p)lump and shoulders erect. 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