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Bp CAPTAIN OF I KB *A Canadian by IJirtli, as a Koy He J Came to the States and JJecanie the World's Misrlitiest Power lit the Railroad Deveiop cient World. St. Paul. .Minn., .May 29.?James J. Hill, railroad builder, capitalist and most widely known figure of the H i Northwest, died at his Summit aveR nue residence at 9:30 o'clock this morning c.s the result of an affection due to bowel trouble, aged 77 years. B . ' James J. Hill discovered "the bread basket of the world" in the great ^Northwest; he led in its development from a wilderness into what now Br comprises six wealthy states dotted with 4ft0.rtft0 farms: and he blazed ia trail for transportation which reached eventually from Buffalo to Asia, with a total mileage of rail and steamship facilities that would nearly girdle | the earth. That but roughly spans i the histcry of his achievement. Near Guclph, in Ontario, where James Jerome Hill was born, September 16, 1838, the son of an IrishCanadian farmer, who died when the boy was 15, there stands a tree stum)) labeled: "The last tree chopped by James J. Hill. It marked the lad's resolution to! ISO to the United States. He had been prompted by an odd incident; according to the story that is told, a strange traveler had stopped at the Hill farm to take dinner, and left his horse at the gate. Young Hill caw the animal was tired and he carried it a pail of water. The stranger was pleased with the lad's thoughtfulness, and as he drove off he tossed . him a newspaper from the United States and called out gravely: "Go there, youngMnan. That country nesds youngsters of your spirit".. He Chopped His Last Tree. Hill read the paper carefully. It contained glowing accounts of opportunities in the states. He resolved J tn investigate for himself. It was the next morning that he chopped his | last tree. As a mere roustabout lad of IS, he fl toured from Maine to Minnesota, I AVhen in 1S56 he disembarked from a B Mississippi river packet at St. Paul, that place was a frontier town of 5,000 B inhabitants. At the sign of \Y. J | B Bass & Co., agents for the Dubuque j & St. Paul Packet company, he found B a job as both stevedore and clerk. I | In the fifteen years that followed I ' he seized every opportunity to study the whole problem of river transK portation. He gathered no end of if experience and a little capital, with which he launched his own firm 011 Hill, Griss & Co., which promptly I V displayed its initiative by bringing (the first load ot coal tnat nuu e>ci i i been seen in that section into St. j Paul. Two years later, with a flat- ; bottomed steamer, he established the j first regular communication with St. Paul and the Manitoba ports of the fertile Red river valley. At about that time ?St. Paul was having its first experiment in rail road building. Eighty miles had been laid to St. Cloud and 316 miles to Brecken ridge, both of which terminals were at the southern end of the Red. river valley, and there were about 100 miles of track "which began no- [ whero and ended in that same indef- j inite spot". This venture ran up a debt of $33,000,000 and collapsed, I with its only asseis ueing a M stre.-.ks of rust and right of way". * Bought Dead Railroad. -Hill had had sufficient success in the region to be seized with a con- j suming desire to purchase the de-j iunct property. After five years of! ^ financial dickering, including the sale of all his other interests, which netI ? ted a fortune of $100,000, he and a syndicate of thrae others?Sir Donald A. Smith, George Stephen and NorI man W. Kittson?obtained the object cf this desire. The St. Paul, Minnesota & Manitoba railway was formed to operate the property, with Hill as gener:>,l manager. When in 1883 Mr. Hill was elected president he undertook the extension of the road from its r Dakota and Minnesota homestead to It- the Pacific ocean. He was confront- j f ed by three great competitor - to the south, each of which had received big bonuses as government aid, whereas i the "Manitoba" or the Great Northern - a ha tnnvvn did not have I " as 11 cumc L\J uv I a doilar of government subsidy or an j acre of grant to forward its progress ; i'rom the .Minnesota boundary to the | A sea. flBt In this light, Hill's plan was widely i a" deemed pure folly, but he pressed it to conclusion by building and popI ulating as he built. For several I years he laid rails westward at the IUSTRY AWAY AT AGh OF 11 rate of a mile a day, and at a cost of $o0.000 a mile, and as he went he left a trail of embryonic farms by the railside. Turned Empire Builder. With the line to Pudget Sound once laid, he turned empire builder. He introduced the livestock industry into vast areas of bunch-grass plains, and developed them by importing blooded stock; he sent demonstration trains through the country with men who showed the people how to raise more wheat to the acre: he made an outlet for the grain by establishing a cheap rate by rail and steamship to Buffalo where ho built great elevators; in fact for upwards of 20 years he left nothing in his power undone to deI velop the country where he had staked out his claim as the great common i ! carrier. But at the Pacific tidewater he was for hp saw in the Orient 11V/ L Ottt4k'^vv?, ? still further opportunities. He organized a fleet of Pacific steamships for the commercial invasion of Japan and China. Japan at the time wanted steel rails, but proposed getting them from England, as the rates were less. It is related that when John W. Gates, the steel magnate of Chicago, came to Hill with the proposition of getting American rail to Japan, the latter replied: "I will make you a rate of $S a ton from Chicago or Pittsburg to Yokohama. If that is too much, I will carry it for the axle grease .used on the locomotives and freight cars; and if you can't stand that, I will carry your freight for noihing". At the $8 rate named, the American manufacturer was enabled to secure the Japanese contract. American Grain to the Orient. The same, tactics were adopted in getting American wheat and flour into Japan and China, where rice was the staple food. His faith in the Far West was rewarded as liberally as that in the Northwest. It is estimated that the Pacific fleet now carries nearly 000,000 worth of products to the Orient every year. iT-n 1 ?? 1 * r? f Willie Mr. rim umu u;> and liis- .associates an immense fortune. he also helped to create for the settkii. along his line a wealth of over billion dollars in real property, which is represented by the value of the 400,000 farms and their 65.000,000 acres of improved land. Upon his retirement, at 69, the "streak of rust" he had bought 30 years had expanded to more than 6.000 miles and it was earning gross profits of more than $66,000,000 a year, and carrying 15,000,000 tons of freight annnsiiv. He still retained a hand in the Great Northern's policy as chairman or the <?oard of directors, while his son Louis, who had worked up from the humblest position of his father's railroad, became president. The secret of the Hill success was no secret at all, according to Mr. Hill, and he had no new recipes to offer. 'The man with the big opportunity today", he said, "is the man in the ranks". But the secret of failure he frequently declared to be extravagance. He regarded this as a national tendency, against which he strongly set himself,- particularly as concerned the natural resources. Attended to Details. During his active supervision of the Great Northern system, Mr. Hill over saw almost every detail, to the wonder of all employes with whom he came in contact. Patrons of his lines have liked and disliked him in rapid alternation, for it was his point to have his way, not only where his road should run, but where his patrons should settle. This was part of his economic policy. He carried out a singuiar regularity in the location of branch lines, giving a minimum of short lines on which light trains were unavoidable. The principal tflvt of his railway gospel was low grades, heavy power, large capacity cars and big train loads on his main lines, and he began to preach this at a time when these things were held as visionary by most railway men. In contact with the late E. H. Harriman, who outdid him in the extent of railway ownership, Mr. Hill was not only the financial head, but the practical head, of his great railway system. He was the chief promoter and president of the Northern Securities company, organized with a purpose to bring the Northern Pacific and Great Northern under one ownership, to which such opposition developed that a suit was brought in the rirruit court, which L anv 4 i^vv*vvV decided that tlie acquisition was an illegal combination?affirmed in March 1904 by the I'nitcd States supreme court. Loved Home. Books and Art. Although always an extremely busy man, and occupied with matters of i . . \ NT' : i :*':t::C< to ?COiiin onv.e;:i:h. .w;. iiii! omul tinir to I?\ul :? model l.cnie lil'e. I!e was always foiiu of books and a great lover of art. In his magnificent residence in St. Paul lie had one of the finest private i i collections of paintings in the country, containing many priceless master: pieces of old masters. Eight miles .north of St. Paul he had a fine farm! ~ l" ? ? ? * 1 AAA o ^/ \o /".ollor? ! UI illlji'y lilclil T,UUV UVI VOf wuvu i "North Oaks", where he devoted himself to scientific farming and stock breeding. He did not derive any | profit from his farm, however, as he : sold the young stock to farmers and ! breeders along his railroad lines for prices ordinarily demanded for common unimproved stock. Hill Left a Fortune of More Than $200,000,000. Mr. HiTs wealth is estimated at from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000. He was probably worth between $200,1000,000 and $250,000,000. He had t^e absolute control of the First National [tank and Northwestern Trust company which have a combined capital and surplus of $6,500,000. .Mr. Hill j !was a lorge holder of stock in the; 1 Ptiop.i X'otinnal r>f Xf\V York. I j f : First National bank of Chicago and; ! the Northwestern National bank of j .Minneapolis. He was a large owner of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship company. The greatest portion of Mr. Hill's j wealth, however, was in the stocks j and bonds of Great Northern, North-; ern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington! |& Quincy railroads. .Mr. Hill's last public bequests were gifts for .the advancement of educa- j I tion. in which he was deeply inter- j I jested throughout the latter years of jliis life. I ! TANLAC'S SUCCESS IS j DUE TO MERITS I ? . j I "HOT AIR WILL FI T I P A BAL-! | LOON, BUT IT.WON'T KEEP IT j I P,*' SAYS A NOTED ADVERTISER j { j TANLAC'S RECORD IS SUPREME i J Should Value He Lacking, the (Jeneral Public. Long- Apo Would Have Lost FaitIi in Tanlac. \ This is ah age of advertising, and everyone is familiar with the popular saying, "It pays' to ad.ertise." Advertising is a business force. So io +v.q ^hnrm cast bv its spell pULCi.it 10 Lav ^ 1 it has been known to perform marvelous feats a::d to accomplish phen-, omenal results. It cannot be truly, said, however, that everyone who advertises suci ceeds for unless full value underlays the article advertised the advertising would ultimately fall of its own weight. In this connection we must not forget the words of the immortal Lincoln, who said: "You can fool some of the people all the time; you can fool all of the people some of the I time, but you cannot fool all of the j people all of the time." So if there is not behind every advertisement a dollars and cent-? -value to the article advertised, no amount of advertising i will stimulate the sale on such an1 article beyond a certain point. This I applies to every line of business and J the modern business man or firm can ' only succeed through honest advertis- j ing and fair dealing. j One of the* most successful adver- j tisers in America today is L. T. Cooper, the manufacturer of the new med-1 icine, Tanlac. On one occasion Mr.! Cooper said: "Hot air will put a balloon up, but it won't keep it there." When 1 offered Tanlac to the world i something over a year ago, I did so with the firm conviction that I was | offering to the people tne oest aim purest product of its kind on the American market today and I did not hesitate to expend vast sums for advertising because I knew the more the people knew about it the more! they would buy it. The success of the preparation was immediate, and the people everywhere were quick to recognize its genuine merit and wonderful curati've powers. I have never claimed j Tanlac to be a "cure all" or that it wo;:Id perform unheard of wonders but I stated facts, stated them in a straight-forward and business-like way and in a manner that has com- j manded confidence in the conservative claims set forth. I'nderlying these claims has been real value, not from a dollars and cents noint a o. o but from health as well. The pheomenal success the preparation has now achieved is familiar to everyone. Xo matter where you go Tar lac is a household word. It has brought a new romance to the modern business world. It is a story j of an acceptance and appreciation of | merit, m-ver before <. i>T;i:! 1 - < 1 dv a ' i j ; re; \ci:?ry medici e Conservative - mc:\ to whom the actual . u ?es 4>i* tl:e production of Tanlac1 :\r.e been presented, have scouted ;ke;n until the proof was shown. 'i ':<* production of Ta lac now snndx ?t the rate of almost ">.000,-! 000 bottles per year, or to be more j corre.i 4/'00,000. The sale of 1,000,000 bottles during the first nine! months probably exceeded any record j |e-er before made by a proprietary! Kio'iicine. Through the -'Atlanta office alone J approximately 400.000 bottles have' | * I been sold and distributed since De- j cember 1st, and the South alone now j requires over 1,000.000 bottles per. year. The?e enormous sales mean but! o. e thing, and that is merit. One j bottle is sold in a neighborhood! through advertising, but ten more are j sold after the first bottle produces j results. People are always willing to tell about their ailments, but they j are more than willing to tell others i of any medicine that helps them. It is somehing they can't keep to them' selves because the impulse to sym- j pathize with fellow sufferers and I ; I want to help them is one of the: strongest as well as one of the big- J ! gest things in human nature. 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It is the best medicine to create | strength and for chronic colds I have I ever taken."?Mrs.Fannie E.Rodgers. j i Vinol, our delicious cod liver and iron ! tonic, is sold on our guarantee to benefit: I or your money will be returned. j Gilder & Weeks, druggists, New' berry, S. C. I Whenever You Need a General Tonl; Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless | chill Tonic is equally valuable as a : General Tonic because it contains the , well known tonic properties of QUININE ! and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood ana j ! Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. I , - - I | NOMINATIONS. For Congress: FRED DOMINICK IS A CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS SUBJECT mA mirn r?T-T TIC Ar TUP nvirn HI 1 ItJtj ililJifii? vr I Xllli xrXv.li- I CKATIC PARTY. ? ! I hereby announce myself as candidate for Congress from the Third District, subject to the Democratic Primary. JOHN A. HORTON. I announce myself a candidate for congress from the Third District I ! will ab?de the rules, regulations and j results of the Democratic Primary, j HENRY C. TILLMAN I am a candidate for Congress from the Third Congressional District, subject to the rules of the Democratic i Primary. A. H. DAGNALL. For Solicitor: I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Solicitor! of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina, composed of the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | and Newberry, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. B. V. CHAPMAN. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Solicitor of the Eighth ci^uit | composed of the counties of GreenI wood, Abbeville, I^aurens and Newberry and will abide the rules of the I Democratic Primary election. HOMER S. BLACKWELL. I j T. Frunk McCord is hereby an| nounced as candidate for Solicitor of jtlie Eighth judicial circuit, subject to J Democratic Primary. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Solicitor of the Sth Judicial District, composed of Abbeville, Laurens, Newberry and Greenwood coun- : i t subject to th?; r:I?s o! tin- i> 1:1 ocratie Primary. GEO. T. MAG ILL. For tlie State Senate: Alan Johnstone is hereby nominated for reelection to the State Senate, subject to the Democratic primary. For House of Representatives: I am a candidate for the House of! i Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic Party. J. WM. Folk, M. D. ! I H. H. Evans is hereby announced aj a candidate for election to the House of Renresentatives, subject to thi j Democratic Primary. For Clerk of Court: I announce myself as a candidate j for the office of Clerk of Court for j Xewberrv County, subject to the ac-! tion of the Democratic Primary. F. W. HIGGINS. 1 hereby announce myself as u candidate for reelection to the office of Clerk of Court for Newberry county, subject to the rules of the Democratic! Primary. JNO. C. GOGGANS. For Probate Jndee: The many friends of J. B. Baker I announce him a candidate for Probate .Judge of Newberry County .md pledge him to abide the rules of the Democratic Party. J. ?.I. K. Bushardt is hereby announced as a candidate for the unexpired term of Probate Judge for Newberry County, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. W. F. Ewart is hereby announced as a candidate for the unexpired term of Probate Judge for Newberry County, subject to the Democratic Primary. Dr. Van Smith is hereby announced as a candidate for the unexpired term of Probate Judge of Newberry County, subject to the Democratic Primary. For Sheriff: t am n randidate for reelection to i the office of Sheriff of Newberry county, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. CANNON G. BLEASE. j I hereby announce myself as a can-J didate for Sheriff of Newberry County,> subject to the Democratic Primary. j M. M. BUFORD. I j For County Treasurer: I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. CLAUDE C. SCHUMPERT. I hereby announce myself a candidate for treasurer of Newberry county, subject to the rules of the Democra-1 ~ j tic rnmary. JAS. F. EPTING. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection to the office of County Treasurer, subject to the Democratic Primary. JNO. L. EPPS. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of County Treasurer and will abide by tv." rules and! regulations of the Deme Viatic pri-| mary. E. M. LANE. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the jffice of County Treasurer, subject to the rules of the Demo-1 cratic Primary. If elected, T will en-1 deavor to discharge faithfully the du-j ties of the offics. I wi!l appreciate! your support. WILLIAM E. PELHAM, SR. For Auditor: I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the position of Auditor for Newberry county, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. W. R. REID. i 1 ^ 1 I hereby announce myself as a can- I didate for the office of Auditor for! Newberry county and will abide by the j rules of the Democratic Primary. J. MOODY BEDENBAUGH. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for election to the office of County Auditor, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. J. E. HALFACRE. For Superintendent of Education: J. S. Wheeler is hereby announced as a candidate for County Superintendent of Education, subject to the Democratic Primary. To the Voters of Newberry County: I hereby announce my candidacy; for the office of County Superintendent of Education, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic Primary. I seek the office "not for what I can get out of it, but for what I can put into it". CLE MS ON M. WILSON. I am a candidate for County Superintendent of Education for Newberry t - county r.r.d will abide the rules of the Democratic primary election. ELBERT II. A I'LL For Master: I hereby anonunce myself a crjididate for reelection as Master for Newberry county, subject to the rules of the Democratic Party. H. H. RIKARD. I hereby announce myself as a cxa didate for the office of Master for Newberry county, subject to the Democratic Primary. JAS. D. QUATTLEBAUM. For Supervisor: I hereby r.nnounce myself as a candidate for County Supervisor, subject to the Democratic Primary. HENRY M. BOOZER. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection to the office of Supervisor for Newberry county and will abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic Primary. J. C. SAMPLE. ror tounty commissioner: I hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection to the office o' County Commissioner of Newberry County, and will abide the rules of the Democratic party. L C. LIVINGSTON I hereby announce myself as candidate for County Commissioner of Newberry county, subject to the Democratic Primary. SILAS J. CROMER. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Sub-Commissioner of NewJjerry County, subject to the Democratic Frimary. FELIX A GRAHAM. For Coroner: F. M. Lindsay isjierebj* announced as candidate for reelection as. Coroner for Newberry county, subject -to the Democratic Primary. . I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Coroner of Newberry county and will abide the result of the Democratic Primary. G. H. RUFF. For Magistrate o> Townships 1 and 8: L. M. Player is hereby announced as a candidate for reelection as Magistrate for Townships Xos. 1 and S, subject to the Democratic Primary. I hereby announce myself a candi date for Magistrate for Xos. 1 and 8 Townships, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. CHAS. W. DOUGLASS. or Magistrate of Townships 1 and 8: D. A. Livingston is hereby announcd as a candidate for election as Magstrate for Townships Xos. 1 and S, ubject to the Democratic Primary. Magistrate For >"o. C. K. Alewine is hereby announced as a candidate for reelection as Magistrate for No. 2 township, subject to the ruies of the Democratic Primary Magistrate For >*o. 3: Joseph H. Adams is hereby announced as a candidate for reelection as Magistrate for No. 3 township, subject to the Democratic Primary. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Magistrate for No. 3 town- # ship subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. ttt tn nT^mrmn T7i/~\r? n VV. D. Jttu inriivr unu. For Magistrate >'o. o Township: The friends of Hix Connor hereby nominate him for Magistrate of Township No. 5 and pledge him to abide by the Democratic Primary. For Magistrate >'o. 0, '' Cary G. Johnson is hereby announced as candidate for Magistrate for Township No. 6, subject to the Democratic primary. For Magistrate >~o. 4; ^ I am a candidate for reelection to" V??i Affi/io nf Yfajristrntp for 4 IUV UWiVV vi. v Township, and will abide the rules of the Democratic party. R. M. AUGHTRY. For Magistrate 3io. 6 Township: J. H. Dorroh is hereby announced as a candidate for Magistrate of No. 6 Township, subject to the Democratic Primary. For Magistrate >'o. 7 Township: W. P. Allen is hereby announced as candidate for reelection as Magistrate fo. No. 7 Township, subject to the Democratic Primary. For Magistrate No. 9 Township: S. L. Fellers is hereby announced is a candidate for Magistrate for No. 9 township, subject to the DemocraticPrimary. For Magistrate No. 11 Township: I hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection as Magistrate for No. 11 Township, subject to the rule? of the Democratic Primary. H. H. RUFF. A fc %