The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, February 18, 1909, Image 4
The Dillon Herald
published every thursday
A. B. JORDAN KnTM.
sukcnrnoh. blsb per year
ks?.-rf *1 the |?>i(Wm at DIIImi. S.
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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.
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| 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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<
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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
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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
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ter's coft
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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
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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,
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friends will n,ia,Uc o( tlle
refusal to exf
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Isubmit to you
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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 ^
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or this nottoelfused to pay M
aif their recovery.keen:s Hood *
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