Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, May 23, 1907, Image 4
f THREE MEN HELD!
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For the Murder of R. T. Westcott
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f In Columbia. I
TWO ARE NOW IN JAIL j
1
Jim Gardner, Jr., and J. It. Hoy
Charged With the Crime and T.
C. Jones Wanted as a Witness.
The Authorities Determined to
Hun Down the Guilty Purties If
Possible.
The State says Jim Gardner, Jr.,
and J. B. Hoy are in the Richland
jail as the result of the inquest into
the cause of the death of R. T. Wescott,
and the coroner's jury has recommended
the arrest of T. C. Jones,
who is said to know something of the
matter. Gardner was arrested the }
il 3 1 i
oiinuwii ui tut* muiuei anu nas
been in jail ever since. \
Hoy was arrested last Friday night ]
week after an adjourned session of
the coroner's inquest, and was released
Wednesday of this week, but ,
was rearrested Thursday night. He
was with Gardner the night preceeding
the killing of Mr. Wescott.
Tom Jones' connection with the
matter is that he has declared that 1
he has information which would im-_ '
plicate some one. He made this j
statement to Mr. Jesse Thomas, the ]
father-in-law of Mr. Wescott, and
the jury had the information the J
night of the homicide, it having been <
conveyed to them privately. But Tom 1
Jones has been seen only once since '
that time. 1
irM mi ? -1.-1 A A ^ At
mr. xiiuiiios siaiemt'iii 10 mi' jury (
was that Tom C. Jones had come to ,
him the afternoon of the homicide ,
and had stated that if inducements
in the form of rewards should be of- l
fered he would give information
which would incriminate some peoSle.
That is all that is known of Tom
ones' connection with it, but the of
ficers are very anxious to get him
and find out what he knows. Coroner
Walker stated Thursday night that
he has an idea where Jones is and i
that he may get hold of him Friday. <
The inquest convened Thursday I
night at 6:30. This was the third sit- 1
ting. After having heard the testi- '
mony of several witnesses the jury
deliberated about an nour and (
brought in the following verdict;
"That R. T. Wescott came to his
death by gunshot wound at the hand
of party or parties unknown to the
jury at this time. We, the jury, recommend
that Jim Gardner, Jr., J.
B. Hoy and T. C. Jones be held for
further investigation.
"George A. Burns, H. E. Watts,
C. L. Sliirh, H. L. Creighton, R. L.
Murreii, G. M. Miller, F. C. Grigsby,
P. M. Malone, W. S. Brown, W. F.
Stieglitz, T. I. Harris, J. D. Popwell."
The coroner's jury also recommended
that the grand jury be apprized
of the conditions in this county
with the view of getting mounted
rural police. This very interesting
action was expressed in the following
language:
We, the jury empanelled by the
coroner to investigate the death of
R. T. Wescott, after rendering our
verdict do resolve:
"That the coroner be and is hereby
requested to appear before the
next grand jury to Richland county
and give an account of the murders
recently committed in our suburbs.
"That he express to the grand jury
and desire that they carefully consider
the pressing needs of a mounted
pountv nnlipp s?>ruipp onrl mol-n
recommendations as will promote the
inauguration of such police protection.
"George A. Brurfs, foreman; H.
E. Watts. C. L. Sligh, R. L. Murrell,
P. M. Malone, F. S. Grigsby, H. L.
Creighton. G. M. Miller, W. S.
Brown, T. S. Harris, J. D. Popwell."
At the inquest several interesting
things were brought out. Coroner
Walker so handled the case that Hoy
was confused and contradicted himself.
He was very much worked up
over this and was quite unruly at one
time.
It will be remembered that Mr. R.
T. Wescott., a butcher who had a shop
on Taylor street and lived in Waverley,
was found dead by the school
house in Waverley on the morning
of May 2. By his side was found a
32-callibre revolver with two empty
phnmhprs a n rl tVw? cninwln
w Mlivt MIW OU1V.IUU UK'UI jr W a*
at first indulged by some. But later
developments indicated foul play.
While the bullet which produced
death was a 32 calibre, yet the wound
was such that it was wellnigh impossible
for Mr. Westcott, a man with
one hand, to have inflicted it.
The homicide occurred about 5 a.
m. That afternoon Jim Gardner, a
rather notorious young man of Waverlev,
was arrested on suspicion. He
had be en seen hanging around the
Shandon dancing pavilion until about i
2 a. m. or later, and he was again
there about 7 a. m. and knew all of
the particulars of the homicide
which had been discovered an hour
or two before.
His own contradictory statements
about his acquaintance with the de- '
ceased and his knowledge that Wescott
was dead caused his detention
on suspicion.
J. B. Hoy was arrested on suspic- 1
ion also, lie and Gardner were very i
thick. They had tried to "hold up" i
ex-Magistrate E. A. Larick once, and 1
when they saw that their identity 1
was known they passed it off as a
joke. Likewise they held up a boy I
named Shull in Waverley one night. <
and when he called their names they
again passed this off as "just for i
fun." Hoy and Gardner were re- i
Bjrted to have been seen together on ?
eidt street the night before the c
- homicide.
So far no direct evidence has been c
produced, but the conduct of the two s
men has excited suspicion. t
Thursday night Coroner Waiker j
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IMPRIBONFJ) IN AUTO.
Phree Women Have Narrow Escape
From Possible Death.
Practically imprisoned in a runaway
automobile, three women had a
larrow escape from possible death
it Bryn Mawr, Pa., recently.
The machine, a big touring car.
>ccupied by Samuel W. Colton, Jr.,
Sirs. Colton, Harold Colton, Mrs.
Harrison Allen and her daughter,
irove up to the railroad station at
3:30 o'clock. Mr. Colton and his son,
who had occupied the front seat,
eft the machine and entered the sta
Lion.
They had hardly dissapeared when
the machine started off. It headed
straight down the road that leads to
the tunnel under the tracks of the
railroad, gathering momentum as it
sped on. The woman, seated in the
rear of the car, were unable to reach
the mechanism to shut off the power,
and to jump means serious Injury or
death.
After going a distance of about
100 yards the machine swerved from
the roadway and crashed into the
stone wall that abuts the sides of the
road at this point. The iron rail
itlong the wall was broken down and
Lhe fore part of the car pluuged over
the gap. Luckily the rear wheels
jamed into the network of the iron
railing and held fast.
Tho women, frightened to the
verge of hysterics, were thrown to
the floor of the car, but sustained no
gainful injuries.
SAVEI) THEIR CXIMRADES.
riirilling Experience in the Hold of
a Burning Oil Barge.
At New York half a score of fire
men risked their lives in saving six
:>f their comrades who had been overcome
by smoke in the hold of a burning
oil barge lying at a pier In the
Hudson river.
Six had gone into the hold when
Lhey thought the Are had been overcome
and were cutting away a partition
when a terrific burst of flames
smd smoke swept through the opening
and enveloped them.
The men dropped unconscious and
the flames were pouring over them
svhn their comrades braving the Are.
und choking smoke, rescued them.
The rescued men were seriously
burned but will recover.
11A11V IN PAWN.
The Mother Must Pay Debt To Get
Her Cliilu.
A little baby boy, Johnny Knicks,
Is held at Ilerkkley, Cal., for a debt
of $X7.50, which the mother must
pay before she can get her little one
out of pawn. This is the ultimatum
of Mrs. Jesus Alcantara, who, while
curing for the boy while his mother
was away learned to love him as ner
own child.
Mrs. Knioks came to the conclusion
that she wanted her boy with
her again and tried to get posession
of the child. But Mrs. Alcantara was
firm. "No money, no child," she said,
and now the courts have been called
upon to decide as to the proper disposal
of the boy.
introduced a witness, W, F. Cartar,
who conducts a store at the corner
of Gervais and Heidt streets. He
swore that between 8 and 9 o'clock
the morning of the homicide a young
man came to him to borrow a nickle
with which to get up town to collect
some money. The man was Hoy, for
Carter, after remonstrating with the
yuuiiK man iur nut wuriung, loaned
him the 5 cents and wrote Hoy's
name on the wall.
He contends that about an hour
later Hoy came back, repaid the loan,
went to the back of the store and
took a drink. Carter mentioned the
matter of the killing of Mr. Wescott.
Witness' testimony on tbis point
is:
"He went in and took his drink
and came back out, and I mentioned
something of the tragedy and I noticed
he seemed somewhat affected,
a change in his complexion at the
mention of it, and there was no conversation
after that between us, and
he soon left and went on."
Hoy had been kept in ignorance of
Carter's presence and testimony.
When brought into the room where
the inquest was held, Hoy denied
that he knew W. F. Carter, denied
having borrowed the 5 cents and denied
that he came into Columbia before
11:30 in the morning, and swore
positively that he did not take tho
car that morning.
Carter was brought in and confronted
Hoy, identifying him at
once. Hoy then admitted that he had
borrowed the nickle but declared
that it had been in the afternoon.
Hoy gave a rather indistinct account;
of his movements in Columbia,
but it was brought out that he pawned
a pair of shoes to Goldstein for
$1, got a quart of X iiauor for fiO
cents and then went home. He could
prove by Steve Gardner that it was
5:30 in the afternoon. He claimed to
have the pawn ticket at home. He
said that he and Jim Gardner had
bought a quart of whiskty in the
morning and he had bought this other
in the afternoon.
The coroner asked: "Did you buy
whiskey twice that day?"
A. It was three times, I think, two
or three times.
Q. I)o you usually buy it that way
every day? A. No, sir.
Q. Seemed to be worried that day?
A. Had nothing to worry me.
Q. You and Gardner didn't usually
come up that many times a day
and drink, did you? A. No.
The other witnesses examined
Thursday night threw no light on
the subject except that a negro woman
named Scylla Moore testified
that very early the morning of the
homicide she saw a man at the Shanion
pavilion and when he saw her
and another woman approaching he
turned his back. She could dot identify
him.
A young man named Montz testiied
that Jim Gardner had had a 32lalibre
pistol.
Coroner Walker stated Thursday
tight that he will urge Gov. Ansel to
ncrease the amount of reward offer
?d from $ 100 to $250. The city has
)flfered $250,
When Hoy was rearrested Thurslay
night by Constable A. P. Richardson
of Waverley, he was disposed
o be quite resentful at first, but was
laced in jail without difficulty.
MANY FLAGS
Followed by RQajor-General Henry
Ronald Douglas Mclver.
A ROMANTIC CAREER.
A Soldier of Fortune Who Fought
For Klghtcen Countries Died Last
Week In NewYork. H? Had Many
Adventures, On? of Which Was
the Killing of Major Toniiin, of
Yicksburg.
Maj. Gen. Henry Ronald Douglas
Macher, of the Servian army, major
in the Confederate States army, and
with rank varying from the highest
to the lowest under eighteen flags,
who died in a lodging house in New
York last week; was facing grim poverty
when he went to his rest. His
battle-scarred body was found by his
landlady, Mrs. Mabel Campbell, who
forced the door open after raping on
it in vain,
The general had been heard moving
about his room in the early morning.
The night before he had com
plained of feeling cold and Mrs.
Campbell had sent him a drink of
whiskey, and later a cup of tea. A
fellow-lodger went to his room at
midnight, and asked him if he needed
anything.
"I thank you, sir," the general replied.
"I need nothing." The police
of the Twentieth street station, taking
an inventory of his belongings,
wrote it down that the soldier of fortune,
the warrior who had fought
under eighteen flags for the mere
love of fighting, had 46 cents in cash
and his clothing. If the general hastened
his end, it was done so carefully
that no one suspected it. "Apparently
natural death" was recorded
on the blotter at the station.
Mrs. Campbell said that her lodger
was ready to start for Washington
several days before his death, but received
a letter which kept him in
New York. Gen. Maclver was sixtyone
years old, but showed few signs
of his age.
He was waiting for Richard Harding
Davis, who has written so much
about his fighting career," said Mrs.
Campbell. He was expecting Mr.
Davis in a few days, and told me
about it. We all know that the old
gentleman was a great soldier. He
looked it."
Gen. Maclver's scant belongings
consisted of uniforms, his welT-cared-for
street clothes and a trunk full
of papers telling of his life of adventure.
The general was born on Christ
mas aay. iao4, in nampton Koads.
Va., aboard a ship seeking a harbor.
His father was Ronald Maclver, a
Scotchman. The son went to Italy
! and fought under Garibaldi. He served
in the Ten Years' war in Cuba, in
' Crete, in Greece; twice in the Carlist
revolutions in Spain, in Bosnia. He
returned to Virginia, when war on a
' gigantic scale was framing. His
1 sword was offered to Gen. Robert E.
Lee and was accepted. He fought
1 with Stuart and Stonewall Jackson,
and was four times wounded during
the great conflict.
At the close of the war there was
much dueling between the officers of
the two armies. Maclver was in one
of there affairs outside of Vicksburg.
His combatant was Maj. Tomlin, of
the Vermont United States artillery
volunteers. They fought with
swords, Maclver running his opponent
through the bodj and cleaning
his blade with his handkerchief.
"He is dead; we must go." called
one of Maclver's seconds.
A negro brought up the horses of
Maclver and his seconds.
"My friends are in haste." said
Maclver, turning to the seconds of
the man he had slain. "Is there anything
I can do? I hope that you consider
this matter settled honorably."
Then he mounted and rode away.
After the civil war Maclver, with
other Southern officers, went to Mexco.
He fought under Maximilian
there. When the fighting was over
he went to Egypt and then to France;
everywhere that cannon were hot
and the caravans of war were plowing
up the roads Maclver was to be
found.
Maclver was appointed United
States consul at Dania, Spain. The
man he was to succeed declined to
get out, and the soldier of fortune
immediately suggested that they go
to the outskirts of the city and settle
the matter with pistols or swords.
Stephen Bonsai, the present correspondent
of the New York Times in
St. Petersburg, who was then the
charge d'aftairs at Madrid, was sent
to adjust matters. He adjusted the
matter and Mclver was installed
without bloodshed.
The daring of Maclver was best
exemplified, perhaps, when he took
part in the Cretan struggle against
the Turks. He was received more
than gladly by the Cretans, who gave
him "full power ty make war on
land and sea against the enemies of
Crete, and particulary against the
Sultan of Turkey and the Turkish
forces, and to burn, destroy or capture
any vessel bearing the Turkish
flag." After getting through this
proposition alive he went to Athens,
and later put in a few months trying
to exterminate the Grecian brigands,
fighting in the mountains and doing
so well at it that he was given the
highest decoration that the king of
(ireece could confer upon him.
It was in Servia that Maclver attained
his highest rank as an officer.
He received a commission from the
prince of Servia to organize an independent
cavalry brigade. He left
Fleet street, London, for Belgrade,
and got busy gathering men who loved
fighting, lie got the right men
and trained them well, commanding
a legion of a thousand cavalrymen
of 4tusso-Servians against the Turks.
He received the cross of the Takovo
order for gallant service, and was
CURES AF
RHEUMACIDE has c
had failed. Rheumacide
Johns Hopkins Hospital, ti
of Salem, Va., and D. H. i
remedies and the doctors
Almost a Miracle In This Case.
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Bobbitt Chemical Company:
Gcnilemen:?in September, 1W9. I took
matism in a very bad form (inflammatory),
month after the diseasestartcd I had to gi
mv work and no to bed. It continued to
worse until my arms and hands were I
drawn so much so that I could not use t
My legs were drawn back till my feet ton
m> hips. I was as helpless as a baby for u
IS months. The muscles of my arms and
were hard and shriveled up. I suffered t
many times over. Was treated by six difT
physicians in McColl. Dillon and Marion
none of them could do nie any good. until 1
P. Ewing. of Dillon, came to see mc. H?
nie to trv your RHEUMACIDE. He pot mi
bot'.le of the medicine and I began to tal
and before the first bottle was used up I t
to get better. I used 6H bottles and was
p.ctely cuti'd. That was vears am am
health has been excellent ever since. I
had no symptoms of rheumatism. Will
further that I began to walk in about six
ifter I began to take RHEUMACIDE will
aid of crutches: in about three months a
pegau to take it I could walk as good as
oody. and went back to work again.
Yours truly. JAMES WILK
Tlieir Pay liaised.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
pay of conductors over the entire <
system of the Atlantic Coast Line has
been granted by the officials, effective
May 1, in response to a request
made by the general adjustment
committee. ?
The raise will apply to freight as ' i
well as passenger conductors, and
will practically meet the request 1
made by the conductors, who had
prepared a schedule of salaries for
the conductors, computed on the
number of miles traveled by them.
The argument used by the commit- j
tee in sustaining their claims for an i
increase of pay was that the price of i
living has greatly increased and they
are requested to do a great deal more
work than formerly over the same
amount of mileage, the railroads
getting the benefit of n.ore work for
the same amount of pay a mile.
An order has been issued granting
the increase, computing the salaries
that will be paid to conductors according
to mileage and time. This
schedule bears a uniform increase of
10 per cent, and totals really more
than was asked for by the conductors.
The management of the road
seemed perfectly willing to conm to
an agreement with the conductors,
and after being shown schedules of
prices paid in other sections of the
county readily agreed to the advance.
inu x\ot Mean It.
The Sumter Watchman and Southron
says Attorney General Lyon has
been in office nearly six months and
his pledge to put stripes on the State
dispensary grafters is still unredeemed.
If he has made any effort to
make good his promise, it has been
kept secret, and who would believe
that he would hide so good a bit of
political advertising as that. The lack
of developments from the inquisition
conducted by Mr. Lyon and the committee
of which he was a member
and by means of which he attained
the notoriety that landed him in the
office he now holds, induces us to believe
that the entire investigation
was a waste of time and money. We
have never doubted that there was
graft of the worst sort in the management
of the State dispensary, but
if any one harbors a hoDe that anv of
tho grafters will be punished we fear
they are domed to disappointment,
judging from Attorney General Lyon's
masterly inactivity. Our cotemporary
takes Mr. Lyons altogether
too serious. He did not mean onehalf
he said when he was a candidate.
All candidates, more or less
does the same thing, and Mr. Lyon
should not be blamed for following
in a well beaten path.
The St. Matthews county advocates
have published a letter from a
gentleman, who hold about the best
paying office in Bamberg County, to
Erove that the organization of Bamerg
Connty was a great blessing.
No doubt it was to the gentleman
with the fat office, and he could hardly
be expected to say anything else, 1
but how about the fellows whonon't
hold office?
made major general in command of
all of the cavalry of the Servians. (
The decoration was given him on the
eve of battle.
If Maclver was nothing else, he
was picturesque?always. He lent a
color to his surroundings, whether 1
they were the coridors and vestibule
of the Hoffman house, where he had
been a character for years, or whether
they were the table d'hote holes- ,
in-the-wall on the lower West Side, .
where all the patrons affect to be
I persons with mvsterious missions or '
with pasts. (
Maclver had fought as an officer
"under eighteen flags." In 1884 he '
got a newspaper man to write a book !
i of his tales, entitled "Under Four- ,
teen Flags." It didn't get into the
ranks of the ten best soldier of that t
day, but Mrs. Campbell's lodging i
house folk said that Richard Harding <
Davis had had the general in tow and 1
the two of them had planned to pub- 1
lish another book some time next
fall. They said also that Davis got ;
most of his material for his "Capt.
Macklin," from the experiences of |
the general. 1
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rER THE DO
ured thousands of cases of Rl
cured John F. Eline and ot
fie greatest hospital in the wc
Dlmstead, the Norfolk, Va., co
had given up hope. Rheuma
of rheumatism she ha<
ia Hughes, of Atkins, Va.,~i
There is a reason why it
ina* cal science, and while p
^row ?*the blood, it operate
badiy most delicate stomach.
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Iter I eur?? by removing the cause,
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BEST FOOD FOB HORSES.
Save Money and Have Better Stock.by a
I sinn Cotton Seed Meal.
At a meeting of the South Caro-ja
Una Live Stock Association, held at' s|
Columbia, S. C., on Feb. 8th and llth 'i
an address full of practical advice, 1
backed by scientific knowledge, was F
delivered by the eminent, l)r. Tait ^
Sutler, of Kaliegh, N. C., on "Practi- 8
cal Stock Feeding in the South." Dr. r
Sutler is a recognized authority on r
feeds and what he says should have e
special weight and infiuence through- t
out the entire south, and that part |j
of his discussion touching the feeding c
of horses, mules and colts is of spec- '
ial importance to the southern breeder.
j*
In the official report of the general ''
discussion which followed Dr. But- t
ler's address, this occurs. Dr. But- t
ler was asked: r
"You speak of feeding horses cot
ton seed meal. What, about the ^
muscular forming properties of cottouseed
meal compared to corn and ,
oats?" j '
Dr. Butler: "There is enough ?
known al>out feeding horses cotton | seed
meal for me to state that if you C
had a horse that you were feeding a
14 pounds of corn daily, that you t
could take out four pounds of that .
corn and put in two pounds of cotton
seed meal and get better results j
Not because corn is not the best food
we have for supplying heat and ener- , ;
gy, but there Is another thing needed. 11
When a horse that supplies you inus- , n
cular energy he is burning up his
muscles just as you burn coal in a'e
furnace to supply energy to run the n
machinery in your factories, and he ^
has got to have something to build'
up those wasted muscles, and corn
does not contain it in suflicient quan-1!'
tity. A little cotton seed meal i;
better than an additional amount of a
corn. When you are already feeding 11
your horse stover and ten pounds of h
corn, I would rather have two pounds:;)
of cotton seed meal added than four | a
pounds of corn. I would rather have ^
two pounds of cotton seed meal add- i
?d than four pounds of oats. Corn 1
is a splendid horse feed, but we are ,
wasting over two million dollars a **
year in South Carolina feeding an j t
all-corn ration. , t
"In what proportion would yon , n
feed corn and cotton seed meal?" | 1
Dr. Butler: "That would depend .
upon your hay." | (1
i-itruty ui any :
Dr. Butler: "An average ration for | L
a thousand pound horse doing real i
hard work, is about 1 f> pounds o! ' I
grain and 12 to 15 pounds of hay. |
In stead of 15 pounds of fodder and i
15 pounds of corn I would take f. 1
pounds of grapevine hay and 7 to 8 |
pounds of stover and then add lOili
pounds of corn and 2 pounds of cot-1 0
ton seed meal and get better results ,j
If I had oats and cotton seed meal at !n
all, because it is bud to feed unless j <
you can mix it with something **ise '
If I did not have any peavrne hay, I c
would certainly put some cotton seed s
meal in the ration of a hard working g
horse, unless 1 had plenty of oats, o
and they were cheap." y
This is important testimony from |(
the highest authority, and should in- j,
terest every farmer and horse owner j"
In the South. We send thousands of .
dollars into the northwest every year 1
for corn. We send into the north- c
west every year thousands of dollars e
worth of our cotton seed meal. No- 0
body is benefited by this but the rai - 1
roads, if we keep our cotton seed o
meal at home to feed it will help us, v
and I)r. Butler says it will help our t)
horses?and Dr. Butler knows.
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VOUR GRAND MOTHKK I'NKD IT. t
llut She Never Had Sulphur In Such ^
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Your grandmother used Sulphur c
is her favorite household remedy, a
and so did her grandmother. Sul- n
phur has been curing skin and blood t<
licenses for a hundred years.
But in the old days they had to j
take powered sulphur. Now flaa- t(
rock's Liquid Sulphur gives it to you ..
In the best possible form and you get
the full benefit. a
Hnndcock's Liquid Sulphur and t'
Ointment, quickly cure Fezema, Tet- a
ter, Salt Rheum and all Skin IJla- m
sases. It cured an ugly ulcer for
Mrs. Ann W. VVillett, of Washington,
D. C., in three days.
Taken Internally, It purifies the ;
blood and clears the complexion, j
Your druggists sells it.
Sulphur Booklet free, if yon write
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owerful enough to sweep a
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t if you send five cents for postage
4L COMPANY. Proprietors. Baltir
Unequally Distributed.
There is considerable complaint
bout the distribution of the pension
und. It is claimed that some counies
get a great deal more than they
re entitled to, while others are
hared out. Recently the Florence
Imes called attention to the correspondence
from Spartanburg to The
Jews and Courier about the pensions
iven out in that county. The corespondent
thought that the pension
oil in Spartanburg County was largr
than it ought to be. He seems to
hink that there are names on the
ist which ought not to be there,
partanburg County was given $20,(K)
of the pension money. Just
bout four times as much as Orangeurg
County was given. We think
here must be something wrong about
his distribution, but just how to
emedy it is the question.
Of course Spartanburg has grown
i population a great deal since the
lose of the war, and many cotton
ni 11 s have been built, and no doubt
orfoderate soldiers have moved in
r^ir. other counties and from North
'aro'.ir.a, but it hardly seems creditble
that they should have increased
he jK'nsion roll as much as it now
,pt;cars to be. Spartanburg County
ar about eight hundred names on
ii r pension rolls. The roll should
?e surged, as we are satisfied that
hero are names on it that should
lot bo there.
The Abbeville Medium, which is
dited by a gallant old veteran,
nakes a suggestion that each county
ake charge of its own pensioners,
,nd provide a fund for them. We do
lot know how this would work. Un_'s.s
the different counties would
4roe to pay their pensioners about
he same, such a charge would cause
great deal of dissatisfaction. Then
gain in some of the counties that
re heavily burdened with taxation,
he needy old veteran might be negated
and given nothing hardly. On
he whole we think it best for the
State to manage the matter. Then
he strong, rich counties can help
he weaker counties and pay the
tv.dy oKl veterans a uniform sum.
>:.t the roll should be thoroughly
urged in. every county, and the monv
given only to those who are entiled
to it. We are satisfied that
-.any get it now who are not entitled
0 it.
.\ Wise taw.
One of the wisest things ever done
iy the Legislature was the passage
f the law giving the County Comnissi
oners the right to levy a tax of
ne mill to build good roads. The
aw wisely provides that the tax so
oliected shall be spent in the townhip
in which it is collected. We are
;lad that the County Commissioners
f this county has levied this tax and
re hope that they will continue to
ivy it until every road in the county
1 put in good condition. This is a
uxury that new counties like Lee,
)orchester, Greenwood, and others,
annot afford as they are heavily taxd
for ordinary county purpose and
thcr necessary expenses, such as
uilding courthouses, jails, and so
n (wuwl r/tQ/lu Qrn nnnooo.i?*i? If ?"?
. V/MV4U w? V. m vc rtoai J II W C
/ant to keep up with the times. The
ostoffice I)ei)artment requires the
ural mail carriers to travel only
hose roads that we keep in good
ondition. So it will Ik? seen how
mportant it is for our roads to be
ept up. Then, too, under our road
iw, there is no danger of the money
eing collected in one part of the
ounty being s|>cnt on the roads of
nother part, as it requires that the
loney collected shall l>e spent in the
awnship in which it is collected.
Bryan was elected President in
898. After using millions of dollars
? defeat him and failing, the Repubcans
then stuffed the ballot boxes,
nd in this way cheated him out of
he election. They can't do that
gain, however.
A Ciitalo
to any of our customers for the as
plumbng or hardware business, a
page eat ilngue which will be found
prices on anything in tire supply lim
:OLU.M BIA Supply
J -
!E FAILED.
;tors and all other means
he famous specialists of
de cured Austin Percelle,
snt large sums on other
orn, of High Point, N. C ,
theumacide cured W. R.
/ York specialists failed,
latest discovery of mediII
germs end poisons out
ods, does not injure thf
stem.
CURES
^haumatlsm.
clatlca. *
Lumbaio,
* Vhaumatlo Ooili
Indication.
- BLOOD.
the disease and Kldn.y froJjL
ds Rheumacide. L. 0Hpp.
to All Blood
Bore. Diaeaaes
1
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Ik!
The economy
cf special
treament
BY
Whi-n a man or woman, who ia WiM.
enters a lo.al controversy involving
a arg? inn mnt of money, do they Men
to eooi-- tui/.e in the matter cf coineetren
. co n 1?
Wou'ij it he economy to engage au
attr.rn nt$7."> who 1 st 'ho ouie, when
the o e who wanted flOOcou'd Lave
won il?
Wit-, the man or woman soft ring
from n lironi- or (leap seated ailnunt
there i much 1110 e at stake 'ban with
tho pait? wtio seeka the luwter.
Tli ? ry day there aret on-ahdaof 4.
men ami women ? ho are taking treet- _
ment f.-r tho wrong trouble!
Th?-< have gone to the homje phvvician?a
worthy nan, y t wlhose ox-JBf
perienco in deep - eated tr>Luhi a i??T!
enmp-tr lively lim.ted, eren aniorytfre*
of pract ce.
< )h, h -w aad it ia to t ee pat ieuta wait
until four or Ave A ft. r? K .v.. ni. ??
tvem up nd then com* to us w Lien It
ia too Into!
Thigh ppens lom tlires. But mort
often we have boon able to effect. a
coniple'e cure, even undersn.h Adverse
circum t n
In nearly nil of such cases i'? Lus
been Cir exper'encn that I lie root (f
the troub e has rever been discovcrrd,
and that b -t very little treatment
would I ave been necessary had we hod
the use a the b giuni ig
If you, reader, are not <njovin* tho
health tli.it Natuio Ltendei you
f)h' uld, write to ts.
In the n niority of cases it will be
cheaper i-> the end for you to evea
make n special trip to call ipon i s
for a
FHKE EXAMINATION
nrd cons Itntion.
After have een and had a god
long talk ith you, we often can handle
your case at your own home.
Send f r our jouri si. "Health."
Mailed free in nnprinled wrapper.
Dr llai away A Co,
-'-J S. liroad St, Atlanta, Gt.
PIwisp s?nd mn in unprinted envelope,
your book for iren, for which
there is no charge and which does
nut place me under any obligations
to you.
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Address
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j| strumenls. Xo Club Kates to j [
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I House, Columbia, S. C., for spe- (
^ | rial prices and terms. j |
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root mention your druggist.
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