The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, February 05, 1920, Image 2
TELLS HOW NEWSBOY
WAS BOBBED ON TRAIN.
Traveler Describes Gambling on Train
Saturday Afternoon ? No Arrests
AVer? Made.
The State.
"It was an outrage, someone should
have nabbed them," said an excited
yassenger, stepping from an A. C. L.
train at the union station Saturday
afternoon.
Before the reporter could interrogate,
the man, who is a minor state
official, continued: "Yes, sir, the police
arrest white newsboys or little
and big niggers for playing at 25
cent games of craps in a fence corner;
but barefaced robbery on a railway
train goes unwhipt of justice."
As soon as the irate traveler cooled
down, a reporter persuaded him to
make a statement, which reads, in the
main, as follows:
'I left Florence this morning by
the Coast Line, seating myself in the
smoking car. After reading and in
wardly digesting The State in preference
to another paper which the newsboy
poked under my nose three
times, X was momentarily attracted by (
the courteous remark of a loud mouth
ed fellow t0 his friend:: 'Well, sir, I
am fully persuaded that all men are;
liars, except you and me, and some-'
times I have my doubts about you.'.
But soon the monotony of travel was.
broken by something more attractive
than The State newspaper or the amentles
of train talk. I noticed a young
fellow ahead of me and across the
aisle shuffling cards over a newspap-;
er on his knees, and asking the men
near to guess whether the next of j
three cards he turned up would be!
blaek or white. That kept up for a1
while, but there was 'nothing doing' !
??i. . stranger from the!
tin in a ivu ? _
next car dropped into the seat in front j
of the card sharp. He, too, was asked
to gaess as to the color of the card.
He showed only a languid interst at
first, but gradually warmed up and, |
after guessing with varying success1
several times, at last bet $10 he could
name the correct color.
"The card sharp (whom it did not
require a Conan Doyle to see was bis
partner) readily assented and the
stranger won. The next bet he won 1
again. He then rather loudly express-J
ed surprise at his big haul; called'
God to witness that he was no gambler.
and intimated that he would I'ke
to return the money. The dealer, his
pal, assured him that the money was
his by rights; hauled out a fat roll
of bills, and said that he would
be glad for other to try their luck.
None of the 12 or more passengers
'bit.' They probably saw, as I did,
two sordid gamblers trying the old'
aam? of three card monte. I havej
never seen that delectable game,
though fairly well acquainted with l
the night side of things in my callow
youth, but the acts of those precious
rascals seemed to fill the bill.
"Now comes what point there is 'n
my story. Among the speculators off t',
and on, of this bluff card play was
the young rosy faced 'news butcher.'j
a boy, I take it, of about 17 years. ,
Every time he passed through hej
would linger longer, around the card
sharp, who appeared to offer far bet-'
ter chances for 'big money,' that the;
salted peanuts, oranges, bananas,
candy balls, apples and Columbia1
States which he had for sale.
"At last h could resist it no longer.
He saw the dealer shuffle, expose
the three cards, ana then turn1
them down; he was absolutely cer-'
tain that one card was black, and |
backed his judgment by a bet of 15.'
Probably he was right but as he fumbled
in his pocket for the bill the gam !
bier by a swift trick of legerdemain
exchanged the card, and the boy was
horrified to see a red turn up where
he had seen a black one. Again he
tried his "luck," and won. But gam-1
bling, as the moralists tell us, is the
child of avarice and the brother of
despair. Three times inore he tried
and three times lost!
"A few minutes later, a few miles
from Sumter, he came back to the
card sharp and offered to sell his
wrist watch for $15. the amount of,
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nis losses, aajiuf, u*r u>u v? ,
returns when he reached Columbia
and had to have the money. The salej
was effected.
'I could not hear the conversation
from where 1 was sitting, but the man
in front of me did. I saw the card
shark fingle and examine the wrist I
watch and put in in his pocket.
"At Sumter the card sharp and his
pal got off the train doubtless to sell
or pawn the boys wrist watch and
continue their depredations in 'fresh
fields and pastures new.'
"Perhaps I should have called the,
conductor's attention to the bare faced
robbery on his train. He passed
through several times while the rascals
were at work and possibly was
engrossed with his duties and did 1101
catch on. I dare say he is a first class,
conductor, but I am certain he is not,
a detective.
"Here endeth the first lesson.'' j
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OIUOIN OF THK BOWIE KNIFE.
New Light On Invention ol' Once Famous
Weapon.
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The hitherto accepted accounts of'
one of the great American inventions,
the Bowie knife, have been so convincing
in their detail that historians (
may hesitute to receive a completely |
new version. It is said in the cyclo-.
paedias that the weapon was not
only the favorite lethal instrument or
James Bowie, who died at the Ala-!
mo, but that he devised it. Even the i
time and place of the knife's eleva-j
tion to fame is stated on the pages of i
pioneer history; August 1827, on the
great social occasion of the duel be-l
tween Dr. Maddox and Samuel Wells
on a sand bar near Natchez. The prin-j
eipuls failed to wound each other,,
whereupon their friends engaged in J
general human destruction the score'
being six dead and fifteen wounded. |
Bowie, shot early in the affray, isj
described as drawing a knife fashioned
from a blacksmith's file and!
killing with it Major Norris Wright.
Afterward says history, the weapon,
described by Bowie as more trustworthy
than a pistol in the hands of
i strong man," was adopted gener
'ally or at least among particular people
as the advertisements say, as a
handy means to certain ends.
1 That, as we have said, is the story
accepted until now; the new ana putatively
genuine history of the Bowie
'knife appears in the Arkansas Gazette,
"from an unpublished manuscript
by the late J- N. Smithe,"
most of whose account is devoted to
quotation from an article also publish
ed for the first time by Dan W. Jones,
Governor of Arkansas from 1897 to
1901. No one of the Bowies says the
Jones manuscript?neither James nor
Reason nor John?was the inventor
of the knife; that honor belongs to
James Black. And s0 Governor Jones
went on to ten tne story 01 me iragedy
of James Black's life and the loss
,to cutlery of a secret which may have
been as valuable as the vanished arts
of Toledo.
James Black was born in New Jersey
on May 1, 1800. When he was 8
he ran away from home and stepmother
and went to Philadelphia,
where, being taken for a boy of 11,
he was apprenticed to a maker of
silver plate who was named Henderson.
Released from his indenture at
18 he went to Louisiana and later to
Washington, Hemstead county, Arkansas,
where he went to work for
the village blacksmith, Shaw. In 1830
he married Shaw's daughter, Anne,
and started a blacksmith shop of his
own. He made knives for the frontiersmen
and there was a great demand
f?r them. Some of the blades
he plated with steel or silver but the
quality of the Bteel was ris best advertisement.
It was Black's rule says
Governor Jones' manuscript, "after
shaping and tempering a knife and
before polishing it to cut very hard
wood with it, generally an old hickory
axe handle which had been used
for a long time and had become quite
tough and hard. This he would do
for a half hour, and then if the knife
would not easily shave the hair from
his arm he would throw it away. i
About 1831 James uowie, wno
had heard of Black's skill, went to 1
Washington and ordered a knife made
from a pattern of his own saying that
he would call for it in a couple of
months. Black followed directions 1
and made what really was a Bowie
knife. Then, believing that there was <
a better pattern, Black fashioned a <
knife after his own ideas. When Bow- 1
ie came for his knife Black laid both l
weapons before him and told him to 1
take his choice. Bowie took the Black, 1
discarding his own pattern. Soon af- 1
terward Bowie killed three desperadoes
with the new knife. After this, 1
when any one ordered a knife from 1
Black, he would order it to be made i
like Bowie's, which finally was short- 1
ened into 'Make me a Bowie knife." 1
James Black became blind in 1839 I
as a result of an attack by his father-in-law.
He was taken into the
home of Dr. Isaac N. Jones, the father
of Dan Jones, and remained with
the family for thirty years. During
this time he told the future governor ,
about the Bowie knife. On May 1, '{
1870, Black's seventieth birthday, he J
told Dan to bring pen, ink and paper j
and take down the secret of obtain- .
Viol mm0 ?r? V10 oinnl
lug IUC iciupci Iliac TTUO 1U IUV nvvvi ,
of the famous blade. "In the first (
place," he began, and then rubbed his |
forehead. "Come back in an hour,"
he said to Dan Jones. This was three (
times repeated and at the end of the j
third hour the blind man burst into .
tears. "There were ten or twelve pro- j
cesses through which I put my knives, j
but I cannot remember one of them. ,
When I told you to get pen and pap- ]
er they were all fresh in my mind, (
but they are all gone. My God, I ,
have put it off too long!''
The steel master lived two years '
after that, but he was imbecile. He |
is buried in the old town where his
forge was, and with him, wrote Governor
Jones, "lies buried the wonderful
secret which God gave to him and ;
was unwilling for him to impart to '
others." We still have Bowie knives, '
as every real boy knows, but we
doubt whether any of them will shave
hair after it has had a bout with a 1
hickorv helve.
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Warehouses for Cotton. '
(By W. W. Morrison.) i
There has been much in the news
of late about political disturbances in :
the far Eajst. It has had a reactionary
effect on the cotton market.
Such disturbances were to have
been expected. As a matter of fact,
it would be almost a miracle if the
people of both far and near East, un
trained as iney are tor me responsibilities
of organized government, had
gone forward in their new career
without unheavals of some kind.
Hence, a recurrence of these disturbances
at intervals can be expected and
it is reasonable that their reactionary
effect will continue, though the
tendency will doubtless be tor their
influence on values to gradually diminish
as time goes on.
Let us keep in our minds, however
that civilization is solvent. It liquidated
the war. It will triumphantly
liquidate the after-effects of the war.
The masses came out of the struggle
with a clearer vision as to what is
right atuong men and a vast gain in
the courage and in the spirit of sacrifice
necessary to defend and perpetuate
the truer conceptions of that
right. There is something really wonderful
in this new vision and in this
new exaltation of the soul of the people.
It is an obvious and reassuring
guarantee that what is best in our
civilization will finally prevail. This
ie iko ofop nnl/Milntinn Thprp is no
doubt about that.
It has been evident for a long time
that the changes taking place in
world conditions would impose on the
producers in an increasing degree,
the necessity of carrying large lots
of cotton for extended periods, and
probably at times the entire crop, or
of selling it at a great sacrifice. Every
important world event, during the
last five years particularly, has made
this plain and so have these recent
disturbances. For it is clear, that
jwhen these disturbances develop tlie
'only protection the producers have
is to withhold their cotton from the
market and wait until the urgent
nerds of tfie world enforce the solution
of the problems they pose, as!
jthese needs have always done, and!
t
can be expected t0 always do, in the1
end.
What do the producers need toj
meet this situation? The answer is
plain, warehouses, not money. This
distinction should be especially em-!
phasized as the producers are now
able to carry practically every bale of
the crop for an indefinite period, and
any other view of the matter is misleading.
Based upon a rather extend-'
ed personal experience, the writer
feels warranted in saying that a hun-|
died bales of cotton is forced 011 the
market from a lack of sufficient
warehouse facilities to protect it from
damage, to where there is one forced
011 the market from a lack of sufficient
money to finance it. The rec-,
ords unquestionably support this
view.
What is being done t0 meet this i
situation? It can be said that the
American Cotton Association anj allied
interest, are now engaged in a
campaign having for its object the
building of a great system of warehouses
to be located at convenient^
points in most every cotton producing
county in the belt. What has already
been accomplished gives definite
promise of the success of the undertaking.
It is well to state here i
that events points to those who own i
these warehouses, regardless of who \
they may be, as wielding the most 1
powerful influence of all others in
determining the price of cotton fori
many years in the future. It is mostL
important, therefore, that these ware. L
houses should remain absolutely in j
the control of the cotton growers. L
This is meant as a warning.
It seems a fair estimate of the out- J
look to say: It is reasonable that the (
prospects of a large acreage will con- ,
tinue to be emphasized, that every '
disturbance of foreign politics and
foreign exchange will continue to be "
exploited and that, the effect of deflation,
less money and more fertilizers
will become more and more a feature
of the market news. This will no
doubt be reflected in, more or less,
extensive recessions in future contracts,
for which every trader should
be fully Drepared.
The fact remains, however, that
the demand of labor has now become
the rMef factor in determining the
cost of production, that labor will
cost the coming season around $100
per month, and probably more, and
that cotton, it is clear, cannot be
grown at current prices unless the average
yield is above 250 pounds of
lint per acre.
This is the outlook as viewed by
the growers and allied interests in
the South. They are a very powerful
group. Their vision is clear and their
resources are vast. The records testify
to this. Is it safe to challenge their
interpretation of the outlook?
New Orleans, Jan. 24, 1920.
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Census Takers Use Aeroplanes.
Everything from aeroplanes to
mowshoes is being used by the agents
of Uncle Sam in taking the 1920 census
of the United States. About the
only modern method of transportation
either on, over, or below land or
water that has not been empioyea in
enumerating Uncle Sam's nieces and
nephews seems to be the submarine.
Aeroplanes have come in handy in
enumerating the dwellers on the islands
off the coast of Florida; yachts
md rowboats have been used in the
harbors of the country; native canoes
have been in demand among the Ha- ?
waiian Islands; "flivvers" are being
used everywhere; the tried and trusty
mule team has carried the census
takers out on the desert regions; and
snowshoes have become the trusted
aides of the census gathers in the
northern states and Alaska.
Kiuimerator Tunis Ilescuer.
In the central part of New York
state, near Oswego, a few days ago
an enumerator making his rounds on
snowshoes arrived at an isolated
Farm dwelling only tQ find that a able
bodied man was needed more than a
census gather as the man of the family
had been sick in bed for several
days and the farm animals were suffering
for lack of food and water.
The census man, like any good neighbor
would, stopped long enough to
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the deep snow and put things in shipshape
order before continuing his
journey.
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I'nclaimed Liquor Seized ruder Federal
Law May Be Sold by Court.
Washington. Jan. 2ft?Methods by
which intoxicating liquors may be obtained
for medical purposes and detailed
regulations governing their sale
were made public tonight by the Bureau
of Internal Revenue. Announcement
also was tirade that the bureau J
had complied a system of permits pro-:
viding a definite and fixed channel )
through which all intoxicating liquors)
must move, and hy which hereafterj
the government will know the loca-j
tion of every gallon of distilled liquor
within the nation's boundaries, except!
that stored in private homes.
In setting forth the ways in which I
liquor may be procured. Commission-!
er Iloper took occasion to issue aj
warning against profiteering in its t
sale. The commissioner declared that;
exorbitant charges for liqnor for medical
purposes "certainly places the disnpnsprs
thereof in the class with prof
iteers and they will be investigated.!
To He Sold Under Permit.
Mr. Roper also announced (hat nil|
liquor seized under federal law priori
to last October 28 unless claimed under
the sixty-day ruling. would be!
sold by order of the court under the
jurisdiction of which it is sold. It
must be sold, however, to a holder of
a permit to use it either for medical
or non-beverage purposes.
Both the physician who prescribes
and the pharmacist who sells liquor
the regulations provide, must have a
permit which may be obtained from
the federal prohibit ion director. Other
details of the method by which liquor
for medical purposes may b0 pur
chased follow:
One l'int Limit.
"Any physician duly licensed to
practice medicine and actively engag-j
ed in the practice of such profession,
may obtain a permit to prescribe in-.
toxicating liquor and may then issue
presscriptions for distilled spirits,
wines or certain alcoholic medicinal
preparations for medicinal purposes
for persons upon whom he is in J
attendance in cases where he believes!
that the use of liquor as a medicine!
is necessary. In no case may spiritu- J
ous liquor be prescribed by one or;
more physicians in excess of one pint;
for the same person within a period,
of ten days.
"All prescriptions for intoxicating'
liquor are required to be written on
prescription blanks provided by the
mireau, except inai m emergen^.* i
cases physicians may use their regular
prescription blanks.
Itegistered Dealers Only.
"Proscriptions for intoxicating'1
liquors may be filled only by regis-j
tered pharmacists who hold permits
authorizing them to do so. or who are
employed by retail druggists holding |
such permits. Pharmacists and druggists
holding such permits will pro- 1
cure their supplies of intoxicating liqours
from manufacturers or other '
persons holding permits authorizing
them to sell liquor.
"Persons to whom prescriptions for
intoxicating liquor are issued by phy-,|
3icians may procure the liquor prescribed
through pharmacists or drug- '
gists holding permits without obtaining
a permit.
May Obtain Six Quarts.
"Physicians may also obtain per- j
raits entitling them to procure not
tnore than six quarts of distilled spir- (
its, wines or certain alcoholic prepa-,'
rations druing any calendar year for,
idrainistration to their patients inj
;mergency cases where deiay in pro:urlng
liquor on a prescription thro'
i pharmacist might have serious consequence
to the patient.
WHOLE SYSTEM
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Quick liproiriment Is Noted After A Few
Dosis of ZIRON Iron Tonic.
Increase in appetite, the coming back
of strength, disappearance of headaches
and other ills, are a few of the many
good results obtained from the use of a
new remedy (Ziron Iron Tonic).
Mr. Sim urirasley, of Cordele, Ga.,
tried Ziron and has this to say:
"When I began to rake Ziron, it seemed
that mv whole system was run-down,
but soon after 1 began to take Ziron, i
could eat more each day and would fee!
a great deal better. Ever since it seems
that my health has been improving, as I
seldom have the headache or feel bad
the leas', bit."
Ziror is a new scientific combination
of pure medicinal inorganic iron, combined
with phosphorus, the active principle
of nux vomica and the hyDcphospnites
of lime and soda. It wiif help tr.
add more red corpuscles to your blood
resulting in more coior in yum uncmmore
vinllty Jn your system.
Try Zlron today; on the money-bact
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"Provision is also made in the regulations
for issuing permits to hospitals
and sanatorlums to enable them
to procure intoxicating liquor to be
administered for medical purposes to
patients at such institutions and also
for issuing permits to manufacturing,
industrial and other establishments
maintaining first aid stations, authorizing
them to procure such liquor for
administration to their employes for
medical purposes in emergency cases."
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
T~* ' " ? /\r/l{non/>. noaooH
r ui ouaui iu an ui uiuanv^ v*
by town council of the town of Latta
at its meeting on Tuesday night,
January 20th, notice is hereby given
that an election will be held at the
office of the Mayor on Wednesday,
February 18th, 1920 on the question
of issuing seven thousand dollars in
bonds the same not to excede six per
cent, interest for the purpose of retiring
all outstanding indebtedness
against the electric light plant of said
town and placing said plant in good
operating condition.
The polls will open at 8 a. nr.. and
close at 4 p. m. Those favoring said
bor.*L issue for the purposes ne.einbefci'v
nentioned will vote "'!es" an J
tbos* opposed to said bond lame will
vote "No."
The following managers of election
have been appointed: Jas. B.
Moore, L. D. Manship, A. L. Smith.
W. ELLIS BETHEA, Mayor.
5. E. FENEGAN, Clerk. ?2 5 2t.
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"I believe I had every ache and I
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John R. Lynn, of 1308 Laurel
street, Columbia, S. C. "My work
compelled me to be standing all the
time and my kidneys felt as if pins
being stuck int them.
"My rest would be so broken night \
after night that I would have to drag
myself out of bed in the morning.
My stomach was in terrible condition.
I suffered from gas and belching
nearly all the time. My heart
would beat too last from the &&s V
pressure, and when I would eat while j
in this condition food would lie like
a brick in my stomach.
"i nad been reacting aooui mis
new medicine Peplax for a long time.
Friends of mine tried it and got results
they were surprised, and they
insisted that I try it.
"Now, just lead me to a big steak
and I can g0 right through It. I
sleep so good I don't hear the alarm
clock half the time. My kidneys are
working naturally, and I have told
my friends that when they got me to
try Peplax they probably saved my
life."
Peplax Is recommended for stomach,
kidney and liver troubles, If you
are in need of a tonic-system and
blood purifier try Peplax. One bottle
will convince you that it will do all
that is claimed for it. Sold in Dillon
at McLaurin Drug store, and may also
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town stores: R. L. Phillips and A.
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