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The Dillon Herald published every thursday A. B. JORDAN KnTM. sukcnrnoh. blsb per year ks?.-rf *1 the |?>i(Wm at DIIImi. S. 1 ill-* \ OMm. $, Cm Pebnaary IB, IROf. Ntw System Succeeds. Every man who has ever sat u on the editorial tripod is famili with the excuse, "I would ha paid this (subscription) accou long ago, but it is such a litl thing it escaped my attention This is the song of the delinque subscriber when his attention Called to a subscription that oug to have been settled long ago. V ..(lon't know how nor when it ori inated, but no doubt its birth dat bac k to that age when the fii /. newspaper was published. -. As to how long it will live > * : Will not hazard a prediction, b it ia not its origin nor its ei . .that we want to discuss. It fv nishes such a good text for a s< moo on the "little things" of li ^hat we can't pass it by unnoticc - : The man who lets the * 'lit! things'* escape him is living wit <, out system and the lack of systc . ip one's life invites failure in an thing: one undertakes. There is in Dillon a man w lives by system. Something: 01 fealf a century ago he began 1 a Door bo v and at one time in 1 qareer his monthly earnings c . not exceed $4 a month. Tod he is worth probably half a m ^on dollars and the secret of 1 nccess is told in the systema - pet hods he has always applied his business affairs. The volui of business that passes throu ? his hands every vear exceeds ^barter of a million dollars, I none of the little details of that bu pess ever escape his attention. J has a day, an hour, a week I everything; his life is system silf. i? MMMM fe I fc: i I 1 I Zz: | < ^ | ! - ?? i E i ' i I I Es | E " I E I j E I : i 1 i fl I ^ SuUUiUiUl J .1 l | 1 As witaMi: The lest day of-the year this man of system sets apart as the day for paying his subscription to the several magazines and ? newspapers h e subscribes for/ Year in and year out as regularly as the day conies 'round he sends one of his employees to The Heraid office and pays for his town paper. He never fails. His sub script ion comes as regularly as the sun rises and sets. Although thousands of dollars are passing p- through his hands daily he never ar forgets the paltry $1.50 he owes ve for bis local newspaper, nt And herein is told the secret of :le his success. It is system. He works and lives by system. nt Like the cog wheel that fits into 18 other cog wheels and unerringly ht performs its part in moving a huge > e machine so does this man fill his sphere in the mechanism of hues man affairs. He lives in harmony "st with both man's and nature's laws. ve What a contrast is he to the ut man who "forgets" or who pays ad no attention to the "little things" ir" of life! He succeeds naturally iT~ while his unsystematic aud less 'f? fortunate contemporary looks on and wonders why it is. System spells success and without it no man can succeed. It 5m keeps a check o n those * 'little iy* things" which, if neglected, gnaw at the vitals of business like a h? canker-worm. er And; we are led to reflect, if all human affairs were conducted up118 on a perfect system life would be one sweet dream from beginning to pnd il- " " [lis tic "Guilty, with recommendation to to mercy" is becoming: quite as me common a verdict with the avergh age South Carolina jury as the a old verdict of "Not Guilty." >ut During the past week three men si- have been tried upon three of the He most heinous crimes in the history For of the commonwealth and although it- in each instance the evidence tended strongly to prove murder of the imiwrnw mrnimmmmmmmntmtmmm m Reference by Permission BANK OF DILL $ 5 C in hard, cc estate, 3-4-5-' DILLi Joi We write life, fire, health, uu ceirers. We will appreciate yoi * OEFICE McLAURIN Bl , . *1 iUmfflimmUWHMIHMMlHiWUi \ A first degree, each of the defend- it ia ants w a s * recommended t o tent the mercy of the court. In Union the county one Jones was convicted priv of poisoning his wife, butthever- fron diet rendered against him carried The with it a recommendation to mer- cone cy. Closely following the Jones nee< casj was another wife-murdfer and trial over in Aiken county in which the a man named Lowe was convicted pern of strangling his wife to death. whi< The evidence showed that it was of ji a most brutal murder, but Lowe fror was recommended to the mercy of the the court. The day after Lowe's whi< conviction a man r?amed Driggers "A was convicted in Clarendon coun- vert ty of murdering his sister, but the son sympathies of the jury were with ing, him and in lieu of the death sen- ery tence he received a life term in or k the penitentiary. When ^ man and is arraigned for poisoning or a cc QffQTKylinor HlC txrifn r?r c V?rvr\t in rr I ^ n TT*1V VI OMWl Ulj^ Itin his sister h e i s either gruilty plac o f murder in the first degree or not guilty at all. There rj can be no middle ground- "Guil- tQW ty" in either instance shows that pro he has done murder and the stat- me| utes of this state say that "murder" is punishable by death. The juries that tried lones and not Lowe and Driggers should have yQU returned a verdict of "not guilty" or they should have returned a |s verdict carrying with it the death te^ penalty. But now the question tQO arises, why were they derelict in e(ju duty? Hanging is something hor- ajye rible, but the deliberate taking of con h"man life is more horrible. Each ja(j; of the defendants in the above iaiw noted cases had spent the major maportion of their lives in the coun- gon ties in which they were convicted. ta^ No doubt they had mingled with ^ and in one way or another hadbeen jief intimate with some of the mem- yQV bers of the jury that tried them for ^ their lives and few men are strong ? enough, or courageous enough j in the discharge of duty to fix are the death penalty upon a man they tim have known from their boyhood. I It is astern duty that causes ^ the stoutest hearts to recoil and a c 0 N ) , O >ld cash to lc; 5-7 and 8 ve? # - J " )iV INSUR/ i Cabell Davis, General Mc 1 accident insurance and* furnish ir business I = fOE CABELL D JILDING. IWHMWIUWMWIlMMMMMMi . * t quite natural that the juror of htg ler sensibilities should turn to tion "recommendation to mercy" mor ilege as an avenue of escape men n such an unpleasant task, ente se deductions lead us to the ed Y dusion that South Carolina not Is a change in the jury system pays there is no better solution of that problem than the measure now *et ding in the general assembly the ch has for its aim the selection kno mors to try capital offences mus n some other county in which coui crime was committed or in mor ch the defendant has lived- drai lite for a life" is man's se- the ?st law, but for that very rea- hus: it should be the least unyield- stor the most inflexible. And cv- Coti time sympathy or friendship croj :inship e.it.is ih.* jury room in f cheats the gallows by forcing culs unpromise verdict society suf- and a s? t back and human Hfe is sha :ed in greater jeopardy. big the i, _ will he young' ladies (if a western , . . , do n have organized a league to nea mote refinement among young ^ 1, and among other things . i J * in^ e resolved to marry no man > drinks, smokes, chews or does ^ ^ take his home paper. The ^ ng ladies assert that when a a does not take his home paper ; evidence of a want of inigence and that he will prove 1 stingy to provide for a family, cate his children and encour- . , . - . in f institutions of learning in his c , . ?f ( lmunity. We agree with the ies. The man who refuses to ^ e his home paper will never Ice a useful citizen. There are ner le young men in Dillon who e The Herald and there are eve ers who don't. And right cot e we want to give notice to the ing ladies and gentlemen, the maids and bacnelors, the young lows and oid widowers of Dil- ^ that our subscription books Qr open for inspection all the ^ le. wo ~ cei Ve are Still of the nnininn thnf thf ?? ompress will make Dillon the vol inmmmmmmmmmmmmii F P E O O . :m on first n irs. \NCE AG mager, Office McLaurin Buil bonds for public officers, gu A VIS, Manage ------ '^W: " est cotton market ill tips see- now | of the state arid will contribute count e to the commercial develop* wort! it of the town than any other . irprise that Could be establish- g( lere. The compress itself is a paying enterprise, but it s big dividends indirectly in s< it builds up the cotton marand brings new business to local merchant. ft is wellwn that the southern town it draw its trade from the ^h try surrounding it and the , ... , , for si e of this trade the town , Ars away from its competitors t5t"re greater will be the volume of P^anl iness passing through the Lien: es and banks of that town. Mort ton is recognized as the money Tjt]e 5 of the south?the only crop . . . . Bills act that puts monev into cir- , Arr#?' ition and stimulates business? the only way to get a big Com: re ot that business is to get a App< .. V..... ?r ?U? .A-... TIT! dlldl v* Ul LUC LUllUU. VV IIUIC I fanner sells his cotton there j ^ he transact his business and his trading. He tnav lire ^cv' rer another town where goods eatoi just as cheap or where bankfacilities arc just as good but banking and trading will be e at the best cotton market. T1 ompress will save Dillon ship- ticc 1 s 75 cents per bale in freight W1^ the nearest seaport. We do keen , ... , , COUli know what the saving would to New York, but no doubt it auth ild be still more. The saving deer reight plus the market value ter 1 :otton would make Dillon the !>nl" t market in tliis section of the our" :e. The town without a com- our ss would have to lose 75 cents artei bale on cotton to enter the j-je] rket as a competitor on an n basis The farmer sells his ton where he can get the most it and as time seems to be ait the cheapest thing in this A1 intrv there would be economy Mnri hauling five bales of cotton five ten miles further to save 75 ngni its on the bale. A compress * uld increase Dillon's cotton re- DilU pts to 30.000 bales a year and it would mean three times the | 0 , lume of business the town is Swi ifmwmmmmmmmwmmmi Reference by Permission OPLE'S BANK ~Q~Q lortgage rea EACl ding ardians, administrators and i r UUUiUlUtUlUiUUUUliUUUiUiiU V * " r> ' L<. II - i-- ..... -jro CMRiom GGS|?hoota Dm J. O. II of Oantral Haiti se ^?Vmi Relations the * i* C., Special.?Mr. ft for many years ^ ftd with the businera ftptte, was shot down Bf vers in front of thee follo\tw minuteg after l? lie at Iv&orning, and diet. **1 ftiites after the flrsi V regained conscious . ter's coft s on croWeident K?teB ha,t ' ? s> on cro* but wieldod hi, ; gages, ft- 'vjiL Bok place at clos? s to reatg within three o of Sale .ft when he opened . iit ft^e third shot, an . st Warrant be sidewalk we mitmentftile ? part of tfc I was mingled wit iarancehft streaming frou. Brers' pistol pass le Desiffntlr of the Central Btercd a pane of cw of **e\F gjn<j within four at The tSThead. The same Tk Tryon street 'Sate plass in the N |of the Southern WO Lnd Trust Comie public vLotinp Hood was .hat hereaf^tended forward, l"-" suiu uii ? shoot him, this t so muchmhat was patherits where til that took place, i made by sjistol in his left ority of thefc"?re at Hood, n it only bu?*v P0?n- wild, 0 sph schnol hus. Ihe sec. ' This r?!| : and we trf 1 c","nnB ^ .. . , ..(about an inch friends will n,ia,Uc o( tlle refusal to exf r the publican reached tho RALD BOol Bi.^e.rS W8S I |i with his pisSTJrninp to tho M Isubmit to you * ,B1. Hood has N t-L w'^0 an,l 1*01% years and I ^ 1 persons indebtV&d to do. I tha Jackson, deJhere you say fled to make pay! io resist." pd; aud all perA lms;nrss to- nst said estate a! Bi|nrers hat] inme with the hiil ., . , ittorneys, Living l*ie "J00*1 ^ >u. S. C., within P" . Believiw or this nottoelfused to pay M aif their recovery.keen:s Hood * It Willfs. probably f Imicide. ??f ? 'Thomasville. )7i ?? ? >7' Jired in the mbstance of feet that V completed I to have a j ceepted it ^3 |<1 had ve ?;* Riomasv.il? ^5 Hid already ^3 fed' meeting ZS ready at ZZ told valoa ^3 informaZZ ? reliable j ZZ lthis case. ZZ {ter Dead. 33 I Oliver, M 1 ZZ lenrt digI ZZ rife at a *ne Bluff. L^jjj X 3 (and ijjl fsanized. 33 ial.?Ad- f ZZ 'om New ? 1 < ?* i-| ? ! 3 33 I i ^*1 1 3*4 41 e- .is 'J -** 4 -V? ^ a ^mmm - ?3 ^ ' '/ .jgjJI uummM Bp