Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A GEORGIA SEGRO S HARD LUCK STOKi Sold His Hounds and Started for a Land of Milk and Honey, But Found a Purgatory. ? The following clipping from the Detroit News shows clearly the trouble the negroes are running into when they go in search of the pot of gold at the end of the Northern rain JOOW. ' The article in question, headed ''Seek Eldorado; find Purgatory." is 0 so good it is printed below in full. The subhead to the story is, "Jerry isn't getting $5 a day. Nor Living at u ~ ? Tha nrtiplc* in full lite ruutuau aw. iuv ? 7 follows: "Jerry Courtwriglit came to Detroit from Georgia. He lived in a slab house in the pines not far from Waycross in Pierce county; he owned 3 coon dogs and a yellow mule named Jinny, and on the rear of his ten-acre farm there were?and are four pecan tres. He is two shades lighter than ink and he can tell "quality" folks as far as he can see them. But the same token he has a supreme ^ contempt for white 'wash, and when he gets to heaven if he doesn t mm me * Col. Tooze Preston sitting at the right hand of Abraham or in the immediate vicinity of the golden throne he is go ing to be mighty surprised and disappointed. 'Jerry is middling old and a little bent from toting 'cawn' sacks and run . ning a cross-cut saw through tne mm* die of yellow pine logs. His ten acrss didn't keep him busy all the time, especially after Tom, his oldest boy grew up. Folks that had lived down in Georgia or anywhere along the Ceneral or Eastern South know hundreds of old chaps like Jerry and they then W too. W "Jerry is shiftless and admlcs that he is a "natchal bawn liar," and the "watermelons that graced his table on the nights of chitling dinners did not grow on the vines of his landed ec k tates. But lavsey massey, Jerry would go limping barefoot to help out I his white friends and sit up all nigat to nurse a club-footed houn' dawg or H ailing colt, and he never trifled with I "Ho mn fairlv happy and content fed down there in Pierce county, and lie was right smart way toward being a deacon in the Eberneezer Bap-' tist church (Southern). A white man appeared down there about a month a go with a picture of the Hotel Pontchartrain and a scrap book of news I paper clippings' that told about motor T factories paying $5 a day, regardless of race, nationality or previous condition of servitude. The hotel, he explained was a 'boarding house for colp-Antlfimen.' Jerry doesn't know VI VU QV?^? yet who sent that man down thre among the pines, but he w*ould like to ltnow. So would several scores oi Detroit negroes. : '"r'nii man Dasesd on, but not until he had left directions as to railroads and steamboat lines and a hazy Lif warm colored picture of a great city waiting in strained impatience for Jerry and his kindred to come and get $5 a day fcr sweeping up odd corners V S / This Man Smi] ly'T LIB money ) W I * <1 gone fart! tlian his neisrhbo A He has bought ^ r?the greatest dollar dollar value there i tires. HehasFiskQ I ity, Fisk Serviceand I I Mileage at a fair p jS I \ * * I d?l ^res^ 1 m^r the fisk i I if | General Offic H TunS?n?f'*t Fisfy Branches k?? i ,n ?i i?????????w???w?? ? of automobile factories. Jerry gave | his hound dogs to his brother-iu-ia* J and packed up a few quarts of -'ecan j nuts from last year's bearing and :i | hairtop trunk w-jth everything from i1 ? > '.it- /.f vo/} flnimol "nr | IXtJW a 'J.a wi itu uuiiuv* * ?? j the 'rheumatiz* and 'miseries' in the j back. He landed in Detroit with his j wife and four children two weeks ag'.>. "Well, by gracious, if old Major i Waterfield down in Georgia e\er j krew what happened to faithful o'sl j .Terrv he would take down the long , squirrel rifle from behind the turkeywings over the fireplace and come up North a-gunning?he certainly would. "There is no use of going into details now. but Jerry found that he j would have to live with three other | families in a four-room tuhiblcd | down insect-ridden shack on Catherine j St. and pay $6-a week for it. too. "He found 10.000 of his race jammed and crowded into a space less | than a mile long and four blocks wide j and rents prevailing that would pay j for the finest house in 'vV'aycross. He I found disease stalking everywhere ' especially the white plague, and he found jobs were not numerous and far, far. from the promised $5 a day. "He found 20 men sleeping in one room, hundreds of his race hungry and living on charity. He found men and women sleeping on the floors of a mission and a hundred sharper* looking for his money with the eye3 of an eagle and the heart of a vulture. f His little fund is going fast, he has a j job at $2 a day, and it isn't going far ' to feed six mouius. .yiui cu?? ."But you can't picture what Jerry is up against unless you go visiting over in the district. And every day j a hundred more of his race are com j ing into Detroit, victims of the wiles J of employment agencies from the ( Xorth and repeated by careless newsAs folks down there would say: 'It certainly is a burnin' shame.'" NOT AIMED AT MIL LEYER. Greenville News. In the News of July 28 appeared a cut of Represntative A. F. Lever with the following statement under it: "This is the chairman of the kouse Committee of Agriculture to whom the president wrote a sharp letter of criticism for adding an amendment to the administration food bill, asking for a joint committee to supervise *u.r expenditures." This may have caused an entirely erroneous impression to the effect that the "sharp" criticism was. directed at Mr. Lever. The inscription was J * .v.if v.. r q m o V ore tfvf UUIUI lUiJlillCij put uy tu& jjuuAkvt ^ w the picture. Mr. Lever did not put the objectionable amendment into the Food Control Bill. He has absolutely nothing to do with it. It was int sorted into the measure in tne senace by Senators Weeks of Massachusetts and Owen of Oklahoma. Thereupon Mr. Lever wrote the president asking what his attitudof was toward the * + /\ f h ia amendment, it was m w ?.*wo letter that the President wrote Mr. Lever in "sharp" criticism of the amendment, (not of him), at the same i! time thanking him for his courtesy in regue^ting his -views and uiging s m * ^&v. ^S-.v^S-v^" ? ?-*'~rt<^ &???&* ..**** 3&vv or Sa/e By All.Dealers ||p? Rubber Company feh of N. Y. E&W es: Chicopee Fa^s, Mass* J 5 in More Than 125 Cities hi:n in addition to do all he could in conference to strike the objectionable provision from the bill. It germane to call attention here to the fact that 31 r. Lever's work in connection with the P^ood Control Bill has elicited much favorable comment. One of the most recent eulogies is % th?.t of tl'.e Chaiioite News which ? ays that "South Carolina has a right foci proud of its distinguished son. f 'o?: -esi-man Lever, who ranks high ( in .'A ashing ton, not only as a fear. la? fdvnrltn nf thp nHrr.inistration. but j as sttesmn of capital ideastdooffcp j as a statesman of capital ideals. Par' ticularly in connection with the food ' measure, which his committee had the 1 v j honor of writing, did Mr. Lever do j effective service for this country and in doing such service for his fellowcitizens, he did it ?or the whole world that is fighting the Prussian foe. Mr., j Lever is in hearty accord with Presi-i j dent Wilson's policies and not infrei nnpritiv has he been called into the counsels of the president. He wields1 I a wide influence in congress and In j ; his endeavors to have passed a food' measure that is in keping with the1 wish of President Wilson, he hasj performed a service for which he de: serves high praise." | NUMBER 258. I J J The number 258 is now a part or i I the history of the United States, j I There are many famous numbers ini i I the history of all lands. Some of I them are dates, some refer to distance, | I some to length of time and some to i groups of citizens or soldiers. But I 'I j among them all No. 258 is unique. It j is the first number drawn in the se- j lection of an army of more than a' half million men from a total of overj ten millions, to meet the tide of German brutality and autocracy which' i i ->atho npsi.rvp of IlilS "dii c<au> uioiui uvu <,~v* * f the world and which threatens the liberty of generations yet unborn. I That is what No. 258 means in the story of America. When it was taken from the glass globe by the secretary of war, pasesd along to others and finallj read aloud, 4,557 Americans stepped to the front and ansewered "Ready." Four and one-half thousand men?the first line of defense of the great new national army?replied to the call of No. 258. < More than half ! of these will probably be selected for ' - - 'c*? Mn rfit the na St?rvice. j?cw uxbu ? tion's appeal for deefnders when it comes to them first. It gives them a place which they would loa.'.h to relinquish to another. From all sections of the country have come reports of the satisfaction felt by those men whom No. 258 called to the colors. And they may well be proud of the distinction. When the war is over there will be ?~B "1^/vwno Kni- thp "Society j fiociciitra ui toiciauo, j of 258" will top them all. And later ! on the Sons and Daughters of No. 258 will come and they, too, will perpetuate by thedr organization, its glorious memories. ? Spartanburg Journal. THE HERALD AND NEWS ONI 7EAR i*OR ONLY SL50 1 i|jt I J ^,^^Wr7\/ .^1 ??-.&-?*?,. >,? '. ibt-.TrZl. J? s - .- eft * J J? \'>v: ;i#l #t tw/ / ?8?<y i v C j~i / *Ml c? : V- -.-.' v .v ;- v;v^?v?v?-^\^V/3? r'' \ i i 3i ,i * } fr : / ".".*< "'* ^-'^^jrV^3v3v'-.':'?-^a ? '& ^L,-i -Kv/^ ; WILL OFFER BFLL TO GRANT DITORCES I j Representative Stafford Is Preparing | Measure f?r Introduction at Next Session of General Asesmblj. Gieenville Piedmont. ' A hill to nermit dlvo/ces in South i Carolina?the onlv state in the union I } which does not now- have such a law j ?will be introduced in the next ses! sion by the South Carolina General | assembly by Represntative Walter B. Stafford, member of the Greenville j county delegation, according to a j statement from Mr. Stafford today. I A.T ? Q t ff r, r* rl eovs that V> n T'oc marlp | *vi i . ULUiiUi VI ou; O lilU I ilV/ auo uiuuv : a conscientious study of the divorce ' question and South Carolinas need i for such a law and is thorough!} con! vinc-ed that South Carolina cannot afford to delay her entrance into the divorce column of "domestic conditions that unquestionably exist and can only be solved by the enacting of a divorce law." I Mr. Stafford .plans to make his proposed divorce law stringent enough 1 .L* . _ - +Vi a ' tO 6IXipii?LS4ZC li.'fj 5f I'lUU&lxcsa vjl t,uc marriage oath and sufficiently lax to prevent it from being ineffective and use-less j All of the details of the law have not been workd out as yet, -but Mr. Stafford has decided on the general principles and provisions that he will incorporate in his divorce bill. j His bill will provide that the action for divorce shall be by petition and process as in ordinary suits, filed and served as in other cases, unless the defendant be a non-resident ol! this State, when service shall be perfected as prescribed by the South Carolina rode in causes of equity. Grounds for Divorce. I .Mr. Stafford's bill would provide the following ground as sufficient to warrant the granting of a divorce: 1. Mental incapacity at the time of marriage. j 2. Force, menaces, or fraud in obtaining marriage. 3. Adultery in either of the forties after marriage. 4. Wilful and continued desertion by either of the parties for the period j of three years. 1 k Thp conviction of either of the (/? parties of moral turpitude. 6. Cruel treatment. 7. Mutual agreement on seps ration between 'both parties. Question of Alimony. The'.question of alimony presents an interesting feature of a divorce law and Mr. Stafford's bill would have permanent alimony granted to the divorced xrife in cases of volnnfcarv separation, in cases of desertion, and I in cases of moral turpitude. How | ever, he thinks that the coilrt snoum | take into consideration the peculiar j financial necessities of the wife in each case and govern his allotment oJ? alimony accordingly. This would involve the question of whether or not j the wife had an estate that afforded | her an income, and the compirative ' income of the husband would also be taken into consideration. The terms of Mr. Stafford's bill will stipulate that the custody of the cttilI dren shall be given to the party not in default. The court for special reasons, however, could make a different deposition of the children, wit'idrawI ing them from the possession of * * ? onAp. | either party and give tnem iU <1 oj>vv ial guardian to be appointed by the I court.. \ J Mr. Stafford thinks that the wife I should be granted the restoration of j the name she bore before her marriage if she so desires. j Mr.- Stafford is confident that his di| vorce bill will become a law as easily { as the legislative process will permit *? q vpars' time i and that "in le-^s man ?. | the people of South Carolina -won't j have to crowd the Georgia courts with i divorce petitions." I w j ANOTHER DEWBERRY CASE. j It Proves That There's a Way Out For-Suffering' >e wherry FoIks. i-annrt of a ease ill J usi anuiuci j. ~ _ _ j Newberry. Another typical case. KiaJ ney ailments relieved in Newberry J with Doan's Kidney Pills. G. W. Swittenberg, grocer, 1 10'.j j Boyce St.. Newberry, says: "Hara | work on the farm weakened my kid! neys. I had rheumatic pains a!i ! through my body and could hardy ! bend to put my shoes on. I suffered j intensely from backache and the kicij ney secretions passed too frequently j and were scanty and painful. The ; secretions also contained 'a heavy j sediment that looked like brick dust, j T got a^upply o^ Doan's Kidney Pills ' -4. .if n "viavr?ct* Drn]o- Store and the j HI M? . V. JIUJ v? ? j first box helped nie. I continued tak inp: them until I was cured." 1 Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't j | simply ask for a kidney remedy?.set i Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that j Mr. Swittenberg- had. Foster-Milburn j Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Thr Herald and News One Tfur for ' Only NUX-IRON-i i j I 3 POWERFUL | The New Remedy Now Kn< It Socthes the Nerves, Transfc i \\r i_*_ d c i auu vv uiucn iniu i cmcu j ? Stomach Abidii i READ WAAT MR. J Greater and greater grows the public interest in the new remedy, Ironi ized Paw?Paw. Never has such a demand for a new remedy been crea ' ted in a few days. People who hav3 been unable to retain any solkls in ' their s4 machs now declare that they i can eat a hearty meal without any discomfort. The most marvelous effect of Ironized Paw?Paw is its wonderful curative power upon the nerves. No better remedy was ever compounded for the blood and liver; it makes good, rich blood, which m turn strengthens and vitalizes the whole nervous system. : "Anybody in doubt as to the merits of Ironized Paw?Paw call on me," says Mr. John Deal, of 17 Taylor St., ' Baltimore. He said further, "After suffering from stomach) and nerve j troubles for many years and having been treated in various ways, I was unship tn find relief until I was ad vised to try a bottle of Ironized Paw? 1 Paw, which I am gladN to say gave ! me relief almost after the first dose. ! My stomach was in such a bad con1 dition that I vomited practically every| thing. My spirits finally became depressed?at times I "was irritable, I nervous and weak and felt absolutely i miserable. I "Thanks to Ironized Paw-Paw, I which I am indeed glad to recommend, j my stomach digests my food perfectly. I feel so good that I can hardly realize the change. In the morning I feel v fresh as a daisy and itard -work no terrors for me. I am going to tinue the Ironized Paw?Paw treatment; it is exactly what I needed.'' Thie reliable tonic. Ironiaed Paw ? Paw, is on sale and recommended by " - ni?ufflw3a* fPlonlWHlfl r JC? u^i*rom -r ? Xo. 158, where you can raeet the "Iron Han." who will explain and give you all information yoa may need. Formula on every bottle. Mail orders filled promptly. -Prise $L.&0. i I . j ! ?? / } J An Ambition and J 1 n??ds of the South arc kta f of the Sootbirn R^lway: theswwtfa / ? the opbuildia* of tic other. 1 JX The Southern Railway aoks no kurort I C J. accorded to others. \{ v The ambrtioa of the Socthem Railwa / ? nniiy of interest that w bora of oopeiati 1 f the railroads; to see perfected that fair a?d J ) ; neat of railroad* wdkq uivum uh. v~ I agencies; to realize that liberality of treal to obtain the addi* onal capital needed for tl j enlarged fcicHiric.. incident to tbe I sendee; and, finally? / To take its niche in the body politic ,/ other ereat industries, with no more, bet ) debts and equal opportunities. . j ^ ^Utiieri1 Ser^? j Southern*Rai i * ' i ! i Mo Pundure 1 >mimM T1111?of 15,000 UMM-Mr/M 8 withouta puncture ticnal, but the ordir . ? 4* : owners who have substi 0W- : $&?\ treacherous and expens ttySA : 'Jfr/y A acrents for ESSEX KAY, we ins ' ?01 : i service that positively assures i% 4? 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