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. *?-' "?v- "PfW'TW"** Hpf - - '?' * 3fa> PitfotT HerM^y ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1909. VOL. 15, NO. 40 . L PREACHER MEETS DEATH AT MAIN ST. CROSSING. :..y ? Circus . Train Speeding ;, Through Town at 40 Miles 1 an Hour Crushes Life Out V of Rev. Jno. McRae Sunday Morning. Preacher was on His Way to His Charge. Caught bv a circus train speed- . inc at thp ratp nf Jn miioc nn .V iinivo au 1IWUI , ( Rev. Jno. McRae, a well-known ' colored preacher, was struck and 1 gTound to death at the Main street ( crossing of the Atlantic Coast Line . ^ at an early hour Sunday morning. Death was almost instantaneous 1 and the buggv in which the unfor- 1 tunate man was riding was crush- ; ed into kindling wood. The tragedy was witnessed by i several gentlemen who were on their way to the postofhee for their early morning mail. Rev. McRae was on his way to Sellers where he had several churches at which he was to preach that day. rfe Teft his home and drove down Main street in a leisurely way. As he approached the Main street crossing of the Atlantic Coast Line li I--* - nt wua icaumj; mh Dime, presumably looking over the texts of some of the sermons he was to pr.ach that day, and was so deeply absorbed in the book that he failed to notice the swiftly approaching train. Just as he reached the crossing the train bore down upon ! him and he was seen to throw up y hands and make an effort to jump ( but the train was upon him and before he could move the bug- 1 gy was dashed into fragments and he was thrown 20 feet to the side of the tracks. Bystanders ( rushed to his assistance but he 1 never regained consciousness and after gasping once or twice his lifft fliplrprpfl nnt- TKo WiKlo ? vuw. * 14 V. XJ1 U1V- 111 which the unfortunate man seem- ' ed to be so deeply absorbed was found lying unopened near the ( body. The horse he was driving was uninjured. The train was the second sec- ; tion of No. 78, the morning passenger, and was carrying the Johnny Jones Carnival Co., which is to show at Timmonsville this : WPPIf WitriPCCPC Af + trn/Yn^?? ?- ?? .W..VMUVO v/i uuu ti | said that the engineer pave the J usual signals but the train was . moving- at a rapid rate. The en- i g^neer saijl just as he reached the / crossing: he looked ahead and saw the front part of the buggy and j borse but before he could touch , the emergency brake the engine was upon the vehicle and the next 1 | ) moment there was a fearful crash ' f - that told of the tragedy. Rev. McRae was about 60 years : old and had been preaching in this l community for a number of years I i He was pastor of several churches ( near Sellers and his popularity j amolig his parishoners was evi- ! ( denced bv the laree number of , colored people who came up from < Sellers Sunday morning: after; learning: of the tragedy. I He was a prominent Odd Fel-!1 low and the members of his order gathered from far and tnear to lay '. the body at rest Monday afternoon, i 1 He w4 a thrifty man and had ac- * cumulu|ed some property. He leaves several children and I ( a host of friends among: both races to mourn his untimely and tragic j taking: off. j !1 Mr. R. S. Rogers, a popular young: man of Gaddys Mill, left1 for Woodruff, S. C., Friday night I ; on a very happy mission. On J1 Tuesday night he was wedded to i Miss Bruce Parsons, a popular 1 young lady of that town. After ( a brief honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. ! Rogers will return to Gaddys Mill where the young bride will ' receive a very codial welcome from the groom's many friends. I Mother. "Time has scattered the snowy Hakes on her brow, plowed furroughs in her cheeks?but is she not sweet and beautiful now! The lips which have kissed many tears from the childish cheeks are the sweetest lips in all the world. The eye is dim, yet it grows with the rapt radiance of a holy love which can never fade. Oh, yes, she is a dear old mother. Her sands of time are nearly run out, but as feeble tts she is she will go further and reach down lower for you than will any man on earth. \ou cannot walk into midnight where she cannot see you; you cannot enter a prison whose bars shall keep her out; vou cannot mount a scaffold too high for her to reach and bless you. In evidence of her death less love, when the world shall depise and forsake you?when it leaves you by the wayside to die unnoticed?the dear old mother will gather you up in her feeble arms, carry you home and tell you of your virtues until you almost forget that your soul is disfigured by vices. Lovu her tenderly and cheer her declining years with holy devotion. The State Railroad Commission cors.nosprl nf Mcccw j?? v 001 o. uuiu v an, Earle and Caugham arrived in Dillon Monday and were met by Supt. Hancock of the North & South Carolina railroad who took them over the new road on a tour of inspection. The party was taken to Little Rock on a motor car where they boarded a special train and were carried over the road as guests of Supt. Hancock. As the road has not been graded into Dillon the line was inspected only as far as Little Rock, but it will be only a few days before they will begin to operate trains out from Dillon. The load is now in full operation from Little Rock to Hamlet, a doubly daily service having been put on Monday. A representative of The Herald accompanied the commissioners as the guest of Supt. Hancock and The Herakl will soon haye something' interesting to say concerning the territory through which the new road runs. Here is a minister who appreciates the editor. At a recent editorial convention he offered the following toast: "To save an editor from starvation, take his paper and pay for it promptly. To save him from bankruptcy, advertise in his paper liberally. To save him from despair, send him every item of news of which you can get hold. To save him from profanity write vour correspondence plainly on one side of the sheet and send it in as early as possible. To save him from mistakes, bury him. Dead people are the only ones who never make mistakes." m A word to you sonny?you little twelve or thirteen-year-old boy who is smoking cigarettes on Lhe sly. What do you want t) be when you grow up?a stalwart, healthy, vigorous, broadsnouldercd man, or a little, puny, measly, no count wcakminded dude? If you want to be a man, strong like a man, with hair on your face, brains in your head and muscles in your limbs, you just let those cigarettes alone. If you want to be a thing, pitied by your folks despised by the girls, and held in contempt by the fellows, keep right on smoking and end your iays in the insane asylum. We got so many new subscribers last week, after ordering our paper, that most of our exchanges had to be slighted. We would say by way of apology that we hope the same thine mnv hannon o J :>ften. A gentleman said the other day that one of the ft rst things the New County ought to do after the county machinery is put in motion is to clay the sandbed over the New Bridge and The Herald heartily endorses the suggestion. Quite a large volume of trade comes to Dillon from the territory over the New Bridge and | by claying this sandbed the volume of trade could be increased. The fact that many farmem haul produce over this sandbed to reach the Dillon markets argues well for Dillon as a trade centre. Colcock is Right. The following: kind words froi a good friend in Columbia will t appreciated by The Herald's reac ers: Columbia, S. C., Oct. 27, 190 Dear Friend Jordan: Allow me to congratulat you and the good people ot Dilloi 1 know you will have a Ne County now. Prof. Colcock di the right thing and I told even body in advance that he woulc Here's wishing you every su< cess." The above is from a well-know South Carolinian whose name wilhheld for obvious reasons, bi who keeps up closely with th trend of events. Sunday morning a large crow of people of different denomim tions assembled in the Methodi: Church, the occasion being tb Memorial services of the late Di James H. Carlisle, President En eritus of Wofford College. Th choir rendered some very swet music, prepared for the occasior and after a few words by the pas tor. Rev. W. C. Kirkland, Hot P. B. Sellers, a Wofford Colleg graduate, delivered a very abl address, telling of his association with Dr. Carlisle, and of thegres influence of the "grand old man.' Hon. Jas. B. Gibson, who is als a graduate of Wofford, spoke mos feelingly of Dr. Carlisle and ho^ his heait to heart talks with th great educator guided him ove the rough roads often found i college life. Services closed wit Dr. Carlisle's favorite hymn, fo lowed by the doxology* On Tuesday afternoon at o'clock Hon. E. C. Edwards, wa married to Miss Nannie Lewis ? the home of the bride's fathei Mr. A. C. Lewis, near Mullins The ceremony was witnessed b only the friends and relatives t the bride and groom and was pel formed by RevxJ. L. Daniel an Rev. Dove Tiller- Mr. and Mrs Edwards left immediately fc Raleigh where Mr. Edwards goe as a delegate to the Farmer' National Congress. Mr. Edward is a popular member of the Mario delegation and has many friend over the county who offer hii their congratulations. Inspecting the New Road. Monday morning commissioner B. L. Caughman, J. M. Sulliva and Maj. John N. Earl on thei arrival in Dillon were met by Cap1 Hancock, general superintendent at the terminus of the road o Main street with his splendid mc tor ear. Soon the party were skin: ming along at a lively pace ovc what will soon be the popular oui let for the growing wealth of thi God favored land. In a short while the new depot t Little Rock will be completed. Hei our friend D. N. Oliver was hole ing down the telephone hitched t a post, and dispatching and receiv ing freight. His genial smile di not leave him while the bosse weie in sight. Next the little motor steame out to Mentor the second depo from Dillon 4.9 miles distant; her near the margin of Donaho ba; flip comp r*looo rvf ? *? ^ - I..V ouaiiw viaoo Ul UCJJOL was in Tin condition presided over by Mi Meadows, son of the well knows presiding elder. A ginnery ha been established here. The con crete wall for the cotton platforn has been filled with sand hauled distance of 35 miles. All this mean permanency and will hold goc through the ages. Mr. Boncaljoin ed the party here, making six ii all. Clio the next depot on the roa 5.8 miles distant, reaching thi place in front of E. Sternberge Co., the party alighted and sough Mrs. Evans hotel where an ampl repast had been provided and wa in waiting for these hungry tra\ elers. The commissiorfers were irt pressed with the panoramic vie they had of the many luxuiiai fields of cotton, corn and cane a they speeded over the iron rail! j The talk was all of railroads an the produce that would keep thei at work. Here the party separated, con missioners taking: the Latta ros for Columbia, Captains Hancoc and Bonsai continued the journt McCall-ward, while ye scribe d< fleeted his course at Red Bluff, at by strictly private conveyance tun bled in on his hospitable kinsraa half mile distant, and by the Latl road reached Dillon the day afte feeling: deeply impressed. This po tion of the old Palmetto state hi a gloiious future before it, What Southern Soils Need Most. i- t i q If any one need of Southern soils could be singled out as the v e greatest, then unquestionably that \ j greatest need would be organic j ^ nitrogen?nitrogen ? supplied ^ ^ through the agency of decaying j vegetation. That nitrogen /is j needed on almost all oijr so?s, * thousands of experiments and/al- ^ most universal observation p?ove s n beyond doubt. That farmersI re- v js cognize this fact, is also proved t lt by the millions of dollars anmualie ly spent in the purchase of pom- 1 mercial nitrogen. I v v Dr. J. F. Workman of Charleston has returued to Dillon tot resurae his position as prescrijrion V [C clerk at Brunson's Pharmacy. \ ^ Quite a Mistake. ie A lady visitor at Blackpool was t it bathing: and was on the point of i, drowning: when a boatman, who is <. >- a local wag:, went to her assistance. ^ i. Later in the day he called where ( e she was staying: and saw a gentle- v e man, who, seeing the lady in diffi- r is culties, had offered ?20 to anyone Lt who would rescue the lady. This ^ conversation took place: o Boatman?I am the man who c >t saved the lady, sir, and I thought ? v I'd call and see about the jQ'l0. ? e The Gentleman?Y-e-s, I know ?. :r but when I made the offer I thnmrht n it was my wife who was in danger h and it turned out it was nr. wife's c 1- mother. r Boatman?Just my luck! Well, a sir, how much do I owe you??Lon- ^ 5 don Tit Bits. , is > ^ Before you purchase your fall * goods look over The Herald's y advertising columns and you will ^ find that the merchant who adverj tises has something attractive to ^ . offer in the way of bargains. It >r will save you time in making your :s purchases and then by patronizing a the merchant who advertises you ^ are certain not to get shelf-worn n r [s goods. As a rule the merchant n who advertises has something to offer just a little better than the "other fellow's'' and he wants the ^ public to know it. s a r Learning From a Negro. v We ran across an old negro the 1 other day who can neither read nor e write, but who has kept his eyes e open, and has reached some pro- ^ ,r gressive conclusions that ought to . make some of our white farmers js rather ashamed of themselves by u comparison. o llfl t- ~ 1 1- J ' * v* ncu iic nauiea ms cotton to i< market the other day, this negro a j_ got a better price per pound than , Q our white farmers have been get- f r_ ting, because the buyer said it was 11 ^ about the best bale that he had ti >s seen this season. The old negro fj never lets a bale lie out in the ti ^ weather, but keeps it housed, and t when he gins his cotton he always e instruct i the ginner to put good 1* bagging on it. 1< e 4'I have always noticed'' s^id the c old darkey in talking to us, "that t ^ anything that looks nice and good s no matter what it is, fetches more e money. The good bagging that ti a I put on my cotton costs twenty a cents a bale extra, and I believe I n g sometimes get $2.00 more on acjj count of the neat-looking bagging, not to say anything of the better n Q price I get on account of keeping ^ ^ the cotton dry and under shelter." fi s ? P T. Draws Plan for his Coffin. n >t e Spartanburg, October 28.? q a Special: J. B. Bates, convicted of r' murdering Mrs. Docia Boiter and sentenced to be hanged October s l" 29, and whose case has been ap- s pealed, addressed a letter toL. A. t k Justice, house builder and enclosed ^ 5 plans and 'specifications for his ^ coffin. The drawing was made 'd on the back of an old envelope, s 111 and on the other side was a note r asking that the coffin be made as a cheaply as possible, as he did not wish to pay more than $20 for the casket. lie directed that it be y painted with shoe blacking, and t that pieces of rope be used for the 1 handles. Bates silggestea that * a- the cof&n be brought to the Jail e n night, and that it be w~pped up s ta so as to keep i* secret from the t public. r- 1 is \ 1 M The Dillon Herald $1.30 a /ear. < LEXINGTON ROMANCE Lexington, Oct. 27.?One c he most romantic marriages thi las. perhaps, ever occurred i vhich a Lexington county youn krtSman was a principal figure ha ust recently ?.omc to light- Th oung woman is Miss Anna Coi ey. daughter of Mr. and Mr; 5aul Corley of near Lexingtor >he left her home a few weeks ag aying that she was going tc Co unbia to visit a friend. Howevei he family was a little suspicious >ut there was no objection t^lfe 'isiting her friend. It has/sine leveloped that she stopn^T in Co imbia only a few hoiu^T and the oardcd a nortld^find trainee Yashington, wjAre she jpt?\ he kince, thearrtn she,b?*{fr>een coi witk^fur more tha hreexyeilT's7 The Mount Vernon Herald c >kagit county. Washington, c October 14, has the followin ery interesting account of th carriage. "Married on Monday, Octobe 2, by Rev. H. G. Ward, paste ?f the M. E. Church. Mr. S. I ihillinger of Skagit county an ^iss Anna B. Corley of Lexingtot >. C. "The above paragraph is tl ulmination of a b e a u t i i u omancc that began three ycai igo with an exchange of lettei >etween a hardy and prosperoi Vestcrn ran per and a beautifi 'oung lady of rare accompli si nents from one of the line ol amilies <? f the sunny Soutl riu'y commenced correspond in n a desultory sort of way, an inally exchanged pictures. An hat was when Cupid's arrow'wei traight to the mark. Shillingt aw a face that he was willing t it opposite to at the table for th text 100 years, and watch herpoti offee and cut the pie; and sh aw the features of the uncor cious tenant of her heart eve ince it had began to flutter an ,nd yearn for a mate. "But to make sure that Cupi vas not playing a prank upo hem, they kept up the correspond nee for three years, learnin ach other's tastes and methods c lousework, farming, and proba ?ly with the practical idea pecul ar to Western men. learning eac iU? ?i J liici a vn-"W3 its IU wnose QUty 1 3 to start the fire in the mornin; nd split the kindling at night tnd all the time Cupid was draw tig the silken cord tighter an ighter around their hearts, unt nally the willow and the oakhe North and the South?cam agether on this Western shor ist Friday afternoon, as the x>ked into each other's eyes an lasped hands, each realized tha heir souls had been searching fc ach other since their reincarna ion. "Saturday was neccessary tore love the dust of travel, and th uiet Sabbath gave them opportr ity to get used to each other and o londay thev sought out Cupid' amily physician, the Methodis Teacher, and the romance wa lade perpetual." The parents and friends of Mis lorley have heard from her sine he marriage, and she has de cribed many of the beautifi cenes, the snow-kissed mountai ops, seen on her journey fror Vashington to her new home nea nlount Vernon. She states tha he is well pleased with her sui oundings, as well as her choice < i man. A n unoccupied man cannt ae happy?nor can one who is in aroperly occupied. We have idlci imong tl?at is men who pui iue no useful occupation, an iponge their way, often enjoyin he luxuries of life, living upc he hard earnings of others. 1 his grand and glorious count! 10 one need be without an hoi arable occupation. THRILLING VOYAGES. >f / it Long Trips Made in Very Small Boats. n By what means will man >fext attempt to cross the Channel? LS The question naturaj^r arises as c one reads of the mam- curious and novel methodswhich men have tried of late/^ears to cross from '* Dover tu^alasis. It was only a ? day opiwo after Bleriot's sucpe<sfuMught across the ChipMlel that ' man named West talrcfannou need * his intention ofprtfesing una plank ' 2 feet widens inches long and ? e inches tJrfCk fitted with a mast and saij^rtid two empty old drums to ^-Jj'ive it buoyancy. Westlake. however, was picked up more dead :r than alive off the Belgian coast but still hopes to accomplish the n feat. A few days later Thomas Wek^ eral set out to row across the Chan^ nel in a boat of his own construe^ tion, consisting of two planks, with 10 sides a few inches high. He was ultimately picked up in the North ;r Sea and landed at Rotterdam. )r Some two or three years ago four old Etonians attempted to ^ row from Dover to Calasis, in a 11 four-oared sculling boat, but before they got halt way across the le Channel the boat was swamped ' and the erew nearly drowned. rs That is not impossible however, to rs cross the Channel in a very small 1S boat, was proved some time ago L1^ by a young Frenchman named 1- ! / M ? ren.% v^uauciKMS, wno. alone and unaided, crossed from Dover to 1* Calasi in a canoe in twenty-seven s hours, and seemed little the worse lf* for his adventurous voyage. Mention ot the Westlake and Wakerell homemade craft reminds :r one of the journey made last year ? by Capt. G. Johnson, a veter.m ie member of the Harlem River Rowir ing Club, U. 3. A., who in a frail ie racing shell a little under 21 feet l* in length, ingeniously made by :r himself from newspapers from all ^ parts of the world, rowed from St. Augustine, in Florida, to New ^ York, a distance of 12,000 miles. n The entire journey was for the most part of the salt water several R hundred miles of it being on the ^ open sea. In all. about 3,OOP L" sheets of newspapers were used in building the boat, being welded ^ together and made waterproof by lt shellac. ^ Mr. Jack London the famous novelist, accomplished one of the most remarkable voyages on rec^ ord when he toured the world in a l* tiny little yawl named the Snark, ~ which was only 45 feet long. e Some remarkable voyages howe ever, have been made across the y Atlantic. Two years ago a dis^ masted yawl named Catherine, with Captain Small, a mate and a ,r tailless cat on board, sailed into l" New York harbor, The tiny vessel had left Liverpool five months earlier, and had succeeded i n e crossing the ocean. The voyage reminds one of that n made by Alfred Johnson, who s sailed from America to Liverpool in an open boat only 21 feet long. IS When off the Irish coast Johnson's minature liner capsized in a heavy iS sea, but he managed to right the ? hoat Ho onmrv1ofo/1 witipivtvu Ilia JUU1 nuy in forty-seven days, covering a dis tance of more than 3,000 miles. n Two Norwegians in 1896 made 1 | " a successful voyage from New Lr York to Havre in an 18 foot boat, the Fox, which drew only 2 feet r" of water. The trip was made in ^ 63 days, after a most exciting experience the boat being overturned in mid-Atlantic, and everything >t she contained including her navix" gators washed overboard. They ps r swam back, righted the boat, and l{j a day or two obtained some victg uals and instruments from a pass?n ing ship, refusing to be picked n up.?Tit Bits. y . aThe Dillon Herald $1.50a year. * .9