THE DARK DAYS
Tillman Tails tha Story of the
Struglas of 1875
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
An Address Delivered by Senator
Tillman at the Red Shirt Reunion
at Anderson, S. C., on August 25,
in the Presence of Several Thousand
Enthusiastic People.
The Hamburg. Riot.
Tl<rl<rs> AM.I.k 1?'
>uubc niui l\,u IUIU JUU I HO L Ulglll
that he could tell more about the
Hamburg riot than I could because
he would not have to criminate himself.
As for that I have nothing to
conceal about the Hamburg riot. I
told the Republicans in the senate
that we had to shoot negroes to get
relief from the galling tyranny to
which we had been subjected and,
while my utterances were used in
the Republican campaign book for
J 900, I think my very boldness and
the frankness with which I explained
conditions did more to enlighten
and disarm the fanatics than anything
else I could have said. Even
Senator Hoar was so impressed that
he became my warm personal friend.
Because of the potent influence in
arousing the white men of the State
to their duty, 1 shall give you the
story of the Hamburg riot in full,
not dealing at this time with the
two Ned Tennant riots and the
Ellenton riot.
The third of these disturbances or
riots occurred in Hamburg in July,
1876, and this tragic episode in the
rtruggie for white supremacy caused
more widespread comment throughout
the north and was more far
reaching in its influence upon the
fortunes of the white people of South
Carolina than anything of the kind
which ever occurred in the State.
Congress appointed an investigation
committee to take testimony and the
bloody shirt was waved by the
northern press and politicians from
one end of the country to the other.
The two preceding disturbances, of
which I have spoken, while causing
great excitement atjd uneasiness,
had resulted in no blood shed other
than the wounding of two negroes,
near Dr. McKie's, but the Hamburg
riot caused the death of seven negroes
and one white man. while two
negroes and another white man were
seriously wounded.
The cause of the trouble, as in the
two r\ea lennant riots, was the ne
gro militia. The town of Hamburg,
opposite the city of Augusta, and
thirteen miles below where I was
born and reared and was then living,
had been a prosperous mart of
trade between 1840 and 1860. At
one time it had a population of between
3,000 and 4,000 and did an
immense business with the South
Carolina planters . Owing to its
liability to overflow by the Savannah
river it had begun to decline and at
the time of which I write it was
occupied almost entirely by negroes.
The white population consisted of a
few families. The number of stores
was small. The negro population
in 1876 probably numbered 1,200
and it bad become an harbor of
refuge for all of the cow thieves,
cotton thieves, house burners, and
other types of crimiuals among the
negroes. Owing to the fact that
the municipal government was composed
of negroes, the town marshal
was a negro. Gen. Prince R. Itivers,
an ex-Union soldier, commander of
the negro militiu. State Senator from
Aiken county and Trial Justice, lived
there and the negroes were exceedingly
insolent and it was dangerous
for white men to go through the
town unless they were well armed.
A negro militia cotunanv of about
one hundred men had been organized
In this lawless den and one Dock
Adams was captain. On the afternoon
of the 4th of July, 1876. thiB
company was drilling and parading
on Main street and as was usual
a very large proportion of the negr >
population were admiring specta^
tors. A young man, Thomas But;
ler. whose father lived on the Li/h
| hill two miles away, returning home
from Augusta whither he had been
on business found the street blocked
by the negro militia company. The
militia were inarching "company
front" and the line extended from
sidewalk to sidewalk. As young
Butler approached, instead of throw:
ing his men Into "column of fours"
or "column of platoons" or wheeling
them out of the way. Dock
Adams gave the order to "chargo
bayonets" with the view no doubt
of showing ofT before the assembled
negroes and to compel the young
white man to turn his horse around
and flee. But he was not of that
I kind, and knowing he had a right
to the highway, as th? annrAaem?-?r I
_ . - ? ? v/?V/U4U"Jj
line of leveled bayonets came forward
be stopped bis buggy and
reached for his pistol, cocked it and
shouted. "I'll shoot the first, man
who sticks a bayonet in my horse."
He was alone and there were more
than 100 negroes with Springfield
rifles and gleaming bayonets and several
hundred others looking on. He
knew and the negroes knew that
they could butcher him with great j
ease, but they felt certain he would
klil one or moro of them before
it. could be done. The captain
shouted "halt!" and opened the 1
ranks so that Butler could pa3& and '
in a little while dismissed his com- <
pany and went to Gen. Prince Rivera
and swore out a warrant hcarg- ?
ing young Butler with interfering p
with his company at drill. Butler 1
went on home and told bis father 1
wfeat had happened, and Mr. Robert 1
Butler, whose plantation lay above
Hamburg and who had a great deal
of trouble with negro' thieves and
was in every way a very pugnacious
man, hurried to ?the trial Justice
and swore out a warrant for Adams
for obstructing the highway.
The trial was set for the succeeding
Saturday. July .8 The incident
was noised about all over the counties
of Edgefield and Aiken in a very
little "while. It had been the settled
purpose of the leading white
men of Edgefield to seise the first
opportunity that the negroes might
offer them to provoke a riot and
tach the negroes a lesson, as it was
generally believed that nothing but
bloodshed and a good deal of It could
so well answer the purpose of redeeming
the Sfato f rnm noorrn ?n?l
carpet bag rule. Mr. Robert Butler
sent to Edgefield for Gen. M. C.
Butler to defend hiB son and prosecute
Adams at the trial. Col. A.
P. Butler, the captain of the Sweetwater
Sabre Club. summoned our
company to meet at Summer Hill,
three miles from Hamburg at 12
o'clock. It was our purpose to attend
the trial to see that young
Butler had protection and, if any
opportunity offered, to set the ball
rolling, and if one did not offer,
we were to make one. We did not
go in uniform and were expressly
ordered to leave our rifles and carbines
so that when assembled we
were only armed with plBtols. Various
schemes were presented and
discussed but nothing definite was
arranged except that we would go
to Hamburg in a body at 4 o'clock,
the time for the trial and see what
would turn up. The fact, however,
that we had assembled was made
known to Prince Rivers and when
the company reached Hamburg we
were Informed that the trial had
been postponed and it appeared
for a while that all of our trouble
and pains as well as the schemes
we had formulated would come to
naught. Dock Adams had assembled
his company in the armory of the
Sibley building, a two-story brick
structure on the corner of Main and
River streets. General Rivers had
disappeared from town.
There was much talking and planning
among the leaders, the two Butlers
and others of the leading citizens.
At about 5 o'clock it was de
i mfu mai me aemana should ho
made of Dock Adamms to surrender
his guns, and notice to that effect
was sent him by Gen. M. C. Butler
with the further information that
he had Bhown that the guns were
a menace to peace and good orde>aud
that the whites having lost nl!
patience were resolved to put an
end to his outrageous and Insolcn*
conduct. When the demand was
made he promptly and peremptorlally
refused. He was then told that
we would take them. When the
sun was about half an hour high
the little band of white men, num
bering about seventy in all, of whom
forty-five belonged to the Sw??-twater
Sabre Club, rode down Main
street towards the armory and
wheeling Into a cross street we approached
the river and halted In
the street which was oompied hy
the trestle of the C. C. and A railroad.
now the Southern railway.
The Sibley building was on the
southwest corner of the square. We
dismounted in regular cavalry fashion
and linked bridles. All of the
disengaged men lined up. Then the
order came. "All men having carbines
or rifles stop five paces to the
front." Only five responded. It
was now shown how great a mistake
had been made in ordering ???"
I left at home. The purpose of that
order Is easy to understand. We
did not wish it to appear that we
had come to Hamburg with malice
nforethought, but merely as spectators
at the Butler trial. Events had
shaped themselves so that the purpose
of compelling the surrender of
the arms by the. negroes once formed
th?re was no time to make new preparations.
Sixty white men (the
others were detailed to take care of
the horses) were about to attack
100 negroes who were armed with
the most approved army rifles, had
plenty of ammunition, and were fortified
ao to speak in a brick fort,
while the whites had shot guns and
pistols. But the difference in the
blood and the color of the skin far
more than made up the odds in the
armament. The five men to whom
the duty was assigned of opening
the attack were Henry Getsen, Banlap
Phinney, McKie Meriwether.
Thos. Settles and DemitriouB Myers.
I will always remember with sadness
an incident which took place
just at this time. Young McKie Meriwether,
belonging to the sabre vluh,
but his father did not. The older
man, Joseph Meriwether, it will bo
remembered, was the manager of
Shaw's Mill two years before, who
had manipulated that ho* ana
ed the negro majority into a white
majority. He had heard of the
trial and had brought hi9 Wincester i
rifle with him. When the elder
Meriwether joined the squad, which
was to take position behind the 1
abutment of the railroad bridge, i
diagonally In front of the Sibley <
building and some seventy-five yards '
away, his son, a very handsome 1
young man, about 2.S years of age, i
came running towards him and un- i
buckling the pistol as he ran. he <
handed the two pistols to his fatb- '
er and said. "Here. papa, take these <
and let me have the rifle." The 1
exchange was made and the elder !
man took bis place in the rankB. 1
while tbo younger, along with the 1
other four, stepped off at a lively '
pace towards the end of the bridge. '
They marched in full view of the 1
negroes who could aee them from 1
the windows of the Sibley building. 1
The rest of the men were deployed s
:>n the other two sides of the square, '
being on the north and eaet sides 1
Df the Sibley buildinr. which had no 1
windows on those sides. In fact. It <
bad no windows at all exdapt on the ?
front towards the river. At ? be '
onged to th* $r&t vet of fo\ird, I, <
was detailed along with Pierce Butler
and James McKie and one other
whose name I forget, and placed In
position at the northwest corner of
the square directly In the rear of
the Sibley building. The square,
I will state, was a small one, with
sides probably seventy-five yards
long. The entrance to the second
story of the Sibley building where
the negroes were in hiding, was by
a pair of steps running up on the
outside from Main street to a landing
in front of the door on the west
side.
The sun was just setting when orders
were given to the sauad at the
bridge abutment to begin firing on
the building. The other whites were
stationed up and down the sidewalks
on the northern and eastern sides of
the square, while the western side
was left unguarded. As both side3
were using breech-loading guns notwithstanding
only five white men
were doing any shooting, the fusilade
of shots was very rapid. The armory
had five windows and the negroes
were firing from these, but most of
the shots must have been fired while
they were squatted below the window
sills and their guns were elevated
as there was littlo or no signs
of where the bullets went. The
marks of the bullets on the sand
stone window sills are still to be seen
though filled up level with cement.
The noise of the battle, if it may
be termed one, was of course heard
in Augusta and soon a considerable
body of men gathered on the Georgia
bank, but as some stray bullets
from the negroes" rifles at the winlows
gave them notice that they
were in danger, they very soon retired
out of sight. However, It was
not long after dark before men belonging
to the military organizations
in Augusta and others began to pour
across the bridge with arms to take
part in the fray. The square on
which the Sibley building stood had
two or three other stories on the
Main street side. The old bank
building was on Jthe southeastern
corner and there were several small
wooden shanties on other pans of
the square. As soon as darkness
fell the whites began to search all
of these buildings and very shortly
a negro man was discovered in hiding.
He was dragged out while
quailing at the top of his voice
through fright. He was shot by
some one who in the excitement
and anger forgot himself and
thnilD'h n r\t carinnaN* J LI
UUV Dutiuumj nuuuucu UIH
screams and cries resopndcd so as
to be heard for half a mile arodnd.
Just alK)ut this time we were all
shocked and enraged by the news
from the bridge abutment that McKie
Meklwether. the brave young
man whose exchange of arniB with
his father, I have mentioned, had
been killed. There has always been
some mystery about his death. He
along with the other four riflemen,
had been firing at the windows when
his brain was pierced by a ball which
entered at the top of his head. It
was never known whether he was
shot from above by some one who
crossed the bridge or was struck by
a ball from the armory which hit
some piece of iron of iron and glanced
downward. If the white men
were determined when they began
that bloody business, this sad and
unexpected death added ten-fold fury
to their feelings. The men who
I were holding the horses had hitched
them all by this time in a vacant
lot and without orders from anyone
and apparently without plan they
joined in. A? soon as it was entirely
dark the negroes in the armory
took advantage of the opportunity
to make their escape down the steps
of which I have spoken and to flee
UP the river Snmo '
ui Uicuin were
too much frightened to make this
attempt arul sought concealment in
the cellar and other hiding places in
the stores. Some of them ripped
up the floors and hid under them.
The whites from Augusta brought
over at Gen. Rntler's request a
small piece of artillery which was
loaded with pieces of iron (no regular
balls were available) and fired
off in the front of the Sibley building.
After two discharges there was
no further firing from the negroes
as all who could had fled and the
town was deserted. The square
which was entirely surrounded by
this time was searched thoroughly.
Every nook and corner of every
building was examined by the whites
who broke in the doors with axes.
Prisoners to the number of some
thirty or forty men were captured
and as soon as taken were placed
under guard on River street some
7 5 yards above the wagon bridge.
About 8:30 o'clock after a period
of intense darkness the moon rose
and began to cast its lurid light over
the strange and unaccustomed scene.
The number of whites had increased
immensely by this time and the
cnQrenlnn?
?pitrues worxed northward
from the Sibley building, which had
been the first one taken and thoroughly
searched. Two negroes who
had reasons to know that their lives
would not be spared if captured,
tried to make their escape by Jumping
over the fence on the north side
>f the square and running down tbe
street towards the trestle. The first
to do this was dim Cook, the tow*n
marshal!, who had in the years of
aegro rule, clubbed a great number
of white men and in every way Illustrated
his brutal and fiendish hate
af tbe whites as well as the delight
he took in degrading them. As he
sprang ove.r the fence tbe squad
to which I belonged was tbe first
to fire. We all fired once at him.
fie ran down the center of the street
?wards the railroad trestle, towards
:he moon so that It was easy to see
he whole performance. White men
were standing or sitting on both
sides of the street and as he ran
between these they fired at him. the
wonder being that as the street was
larrow tbe bullets did not wound 1
>r kill the white men opposie. It
seemed as though Cook was hound
6 escape as be had nearly reached
be trestle and none of the pistol
bullets appeared to have taken effect.
Fear lent speed to his flight
and the crack of the pistols, some
forty or fifty of which must have
been fired at him, sounded like so
many pop-guns. Suddenly the loud
reprot of a shotgun rang out and
Cook tumbled In a heap almost turning
a somersault. Pierce Butler and
I, hearing that it was Cook that had
been killed, had the curiosity to
leave our posts and walk down to
where be was lying and as the shadows
made it somewhat doubtful,
Pierce struck a match and being
very familiar with Cook's face, remarked
with satisfaction, "Yes, it's
Cook." This negro was more hated
by the whites of the surrounding
country than any other Individual of
the race. A large part of his face
had been torn away by the buckshot
which had laid him low after all of
the pistol balls had missed their
mark.
A while afterwards when the
searching parties had worked their
way through the different buildings
on the square another negro jumped
over the fence at the same spot, but
he had no time to run. Pierce Butler
and I, who had remained togethei
the entire night, were standing or
the back stepB of Lipfleld's store
waiting for him to bring us some wa
ter from the well. Two men fron
Augusta, whose names I never learn
ed. but who wore the uniform of th<
Clinch Rifles, had just obtained wa
ter and were standing on the side
walk. The negro leaped the fencr
at the rear of the store, but fel
dead almost instantly. The two ri
flemen had thrown their guns, whicl
gleamed in the moon light, to theli
shoulders and fired with deadly ef
feet. This was one of the negr<
militiamen. The moon by this tim<
was getting high in the heavens, am
it must have been nearly elevei
o'clock. The searching was ende<
by breaking in the front door o
Louis Schiller's store, which was al
so his residence. Schiller was a lov
Jew, who had joined the negroes
and had been given office by them
having held the position of count;
auditor until the county of Aikei
was set apart. We wanted to hani
him as the resentment against whlti
scalawags was intense. He had beei
born and raised in Hamburg am
had really sold himself to the ne
groes. We did not find him in th<
hnilRO loornn/i
..w-wv, v?.v .v?i avu uun ndiUH lUit
the poor wretch escaped us by climb
ing through a trap door which lei
out on the roof and that he wa
lying behind a parapet on top o
the house while execrations agains
his name and the purpose to swim
him was being expressed by tin
white men below. All of the worl
being practically finished the white
began to disperse and those fron
Augusta to retrace their steps acros
the bridge. Gen. Butler and Col
Butler had very quietly departei
some time before, without leavini
any orders and the mob. if it ma;
bo called such, rapidly thinued out
About this time Jas. Lanham, m;
neighbor, and Jas. McKie, who hai
been on the post with me a grea
part of the night, and both firs
cousins of young Meriwether, win
had been killed, came to where i
group of us were standing. One o
them asked the question as to wheth
er it was not a dear piece of worl
for us to lose one of our best mei
and have only two negroes dead ant
another wounded. It was agreec
that we could not have a story like
that go out as a record of the night's
work. Bantham said to me, "I hav<
no balls In mV nlaSnl an.* nn
?j , .iw >-?l LI lUfi'
es." I told him that I had only shot
once at Cook and had five balls loft
We exchanged pistols and he and McKle
soon found others of their way
of thinking. The party made thoii
way to the place where the ncgrc
prisoners were held and Henry Getson,
who lived two miles frotr. Hamburg
and who knew all the negroes
in the town and neighborhood, was
asked to designate those of thr
meanest character and most worthy
of death. As fast as he would select
from among the prisoners those
he thought ought to be killed?all
militiamen?they were taken off a
little ways down the street and shot.
After five had been thus dealt with
the little squad of white men who
were still remaining In town seemed
satisfied and it was decided that the
rest of the negroes, some 25 or 30
in number, should be allowed to
go. The permission was given and
they were told to go up the street
and you may depend on <it "that
they were not slow to move. When
they had got about 50 yards away
the crowd fired a volley over their
heads, but I could not Bee that it
added anything to the speed which
they were making. If young MeriWothor
HoH i-*? * * -
...... u.u uui iubi nis 11 ie i do not
think any of these last negroes would
have been killed, but the purpose
of our visit to Hamburg was to
strike terror and the next morning
(Sunday), when the negroes who
ad fled to the swamps returned
^ftome of them never did return,
but kept on going) the ghastly sight
which met their gaze of seven dead
egroes lying stark and stiff certainly
had Its effect.
One of those doomed to die es<wped
in a rather curious way.
Whether It was that the white men
were sick of the bloody work or
something el6e. I do not know. Being
the last of the Aoomed men.
they either aimed badly or some of
them did not fire at all at the word
of command. When the shots rang
out this negro fell as though dead
and as soon as the whites went away
ho crawled into the high weeds
which were near the road and thus
escaped with only a wound in his
thigh. He was afterwards the star
witnese against us and the means of
getting the names of some of the
men who were there. His name was
Pomp Curry and by a strange coincidence
he was the boy who. when I
went to school at Liberty Hill In
1861 and 1862 and hoarded with Mr.
Klab Edwards, oaado our fires,
brought wood, blacked ebbos, etc.
He disappeared, whether by death or
(right, 1 do not know. After the
election of 1876 1 never heard of
him again.
It was now after midnight and
the moon high in the heavons looked
down peacefully on the deserted
town and dead negroes, whose lives
had been offered up as a sacrifice
to the fanatical teachings and fiendish
hate of those who sought to substitute
the rule of the African for
that of the- Cancasion in South Carolina.
The party with which I left Hamburg
was the last to leave the place,
i We got our horses and when we approached
the outskirts of the town
we stopped at the famous Sipoui
' Spring, whose waters gushed from
i the bluffs back of the town. In the
better days of the town this BDrine
! had been provided with granite
coping and cover and was always
a place for travelers to slake their
) thirst as they came in or to guard
against it as they were leaving, the
> roads leading through a dry and
i sandy region. The names of the
? men in the party, as I remember,
were: Henry Getsen, chief of our
' drum head court martial, Milledge
i Home, who lived two miles below
> me, James Lanhan, Gus Glover, Joe
- Mays, Sam Mays, Henry Simpston,
i John Swearingen, Dunlap Phinney,
- William Cook and myself. Many
i of these are dead. When we had
- drank and washed, John Swearingen
- stepped up on tho bank behind the
3 spring and seizing the post upon
1 upon which was nailed a notice,
- "Five dollars fine for dipping any
3 unclean vessel in this spring," broke
r it off at the ground and threw it
- into the middle of the road, saying
3 with an oath, that Jim Cook would
5 never arrest another white man for
^ drinking at that spring.
3 Tills was an allusion to an Incident
1 of the preceding year when Kev.
f Mahlea Padgett, who was carrying
- cotton to Augusta, having no cup
v had stopped at the spring and drank
? and had been arrested by Cook and
? hurried before the town council,
y charged with having broken the or3
dinance of the town because having
5 drank from the spring he had dipe
ped an unclean vessel in it. He
3 was found guilty and fined five dol'
lars.
This had been a momentous and
e strenuous day's work. We were all
1 tired but more than satisfied with
" the result. When wo reached Henry
Getsen's liousn li*> nnVnH
<jo V.V ?U|I
8 and eat some watermelons, which
f we very gladly did, and as all of the
1 others except Home lived further
? up the road than myself, we kept
0 company as wo wended our way
1 homward. The first streaks of dawn
8 were reddening tho east when 1
1 reached my mother's, where I had
s left my wife. My mother was taken
ill a short time afterwards and died
^ the latter part of August. Most of
< the men who had organized and cary
riod out this program lived in Edge
field county, but a t few were citly
zens of Aiken living along the Edgei
field line.
t
1 FEMALE COLLEGE BURNED.
3
1
f The l'ride of the Methodist in the
State Laid hnv.
c
i The Columbia Female College,
the pride of the Methodist of the
1 State, was destroyed by fire at half"
past two o'clock Thursday morning.
[ It was totally destroyed. It is supposed
the fire was caused by de.
fective electric wires.
The plant was valued at $250,000
and was insured for seventy-five
f thousand dollars. There was ten
. thousand more on the equipment.
( The property was bonded for sixty
thousand and twenty odd thousand
more in floating debt.
I .InnMotln- ? - - -
( nuuiu leave nothing
' but bare ruins and grounds, but
| arrangements are going right ahead
for the rebuilding and opening for
the present session In the Colonial
hotel property, tho former plant of
the college. The trustees are called
to meet next Tuesday.
COTTON HARVESTER.
To Ho Tried at Bennettsville in
Very Hliort Time.
Mr. Augus Campbell, representing
Mr. Theodore H. Price, of New York,
was in nennett8ville Wednesday for
the purpose of securing a field of
cotton to be used in the demonstration
of a cotton harvester. Mr.
Campbell found what he wanted, and
has purchased one hundred acres
from Ex-Stnator John L. McLaurin.
Tho cotton on this field will remain
unpicked until the latter part of
this month, or the first of October,
when Mr. Price and associates will
go there and the demonstration will
he made. Mr. Campbell Is the inventor
of this machine, and Mr. Price
sua oiners are Interested in promoting
and backing the proposition
The inventor is a native of Canada,
though he lived for a number of
years in Texas.
Bulletin Bubbles
Therms of court?"I love you!"
and "Will you be mine?"
The border drama often is not the
only one that borders on the ridiculous.
It was in this very cottai
from Birmingham, Ala., 1
died of Fever. They had I
son's Tonic cured them q
The two phynlclar.8 hero had 3 very obet In
were Italians and lived on a creult bO jure
months standing, their temperature ranging
thing In vain. I perauad6d them to let me t
ed matter and let the medicine go out to a, pii
feet In all three ca?es was immediate and per
vat no recurrence of the Fever.
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Qtme Bantams?Three varieties
also Sebrlght's. Car'isle Cobb
Athens. Qa.
Farms for Sale?630 acres 16 miles
from Columbia. Ask for particulars
and list. K. E. Prince,
Raleigh, N. C.
A good worm powder for horses ant
mules. Safe and effective. Sen
postpaid on receipt of 26c. T. 1
Wannamaker, Cheraw, S. C.
Fairview House, Clyde, N. C.?Fin*
view, good water, good tabl?
Rates $6 and up per week. N*
consumptives. Dr. F M. Davis.
For Sale, rhenp?One 31-2 h. p.
Erie Motor Cycle, 1909 model.
For particulars write R No. 1,
R. F. D. No. 6, Ilonea Path, S. C.
Wedding Invitations and announce
ments. Finest quality. Corree
styles. Samples free. James H
DeI,ooff, Dept. 6. Grand Rapid*
Mich.
Post Cards-?We will send you 10
beautiful post cards for oniv ton
cents or ten tinseled In gold for
15 cents. Send two cent stump |
for sample. The Anspooner Co., I
Dept. E., 62 4 9 Elizabeth street,
Chicago.
A Rare Chance for lovers of the artistic.
We have a limited number
of pictures, reproduced from famous
paintings, mounted and suitable
for home decoration. Six
for fifty cents, postpaid. Delaware
x u'ley Printing Company
Dep't L, Deposit, N T.
Make Your Own Will?Without th?
aid of a lawyer. You don't need
one. A will is necessary to proteci
your family and relatives. Form*
and book of instruction, any State
one dollars. Send for free liters
I ture telling you all about It. Mof
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Broadway, Brooklyn, New York
City.
For Hale.
Tho Canaan Plantation, comprising
1,400 acres. Is divided into 10
farms and is for sale to white farmers.
Lands lie in centre of Fairfield
county, from four to six miles
from WinnBboro. Springs of cold
free water; pine and other timber
for building and fencing, and cabins
on every farm. Address The
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Something Docs it.
It in either the Lazy germ, or the
Hook worm and Just old fashion
Malaria that makes half the men
and women unfit for work.
Throe Imttles of Johnson's Tonic
will drive out Malaria and put on
ten pounds.
WOOD. IRON AND STEM.
llrttln., Parking. 1-aclns. 1
LOMBARD COMPANY. AUGUSTA. GA.
The p
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weight 660 1\
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that three Italians nearly
>een sick 3 months. Johnuickly?read
letter below:
Uroofcatde, Ala., May 4, 190.1.
ate cases of continued Malarial Fever. All
la from my store. These rosea were ot three
from 100 to 104. The doctors had tried everyry
Johnson's Tonic. I removed all the printsin
bottle as a regular prescription. Ths etrosaeot
They recovered rapidly and there
6. R. 6HIFt,ETT.
Fives TONIC CO., sWannsh, Ca.
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This being our twenty-fifth year
of uninterrupted success, we wish 11
to be our "Banner year."
Our thousands of satisfied ens
comers, and fair dealing, Is bring
Ing us new customers dally.
if you are contemplating the purchase
of a piano or organ, write u*
at once for catalogues, and for our
special proposition.
MALOXE'S MIT8I0 HOUSE,
Columbia, 8. C.
The Cost of u Hoy.
Somebody has figured out that the
average boy who is dependent upon
his parents for a livelihood until he
reaches the age of twenty-one years
cost them four thousand dollars. On
this basis of calculation a brood, for
instance, of six boys would represent
an nuH-f -' * *
ui iweniy-iour thousand
dollars by the time they got away
from the home roost. The question
arises does it pay to raise boys and
are there no other crops that would
prove more profitable? If a boy
turns out to be a cigarette fiend
with a breath like a turkey buzzard
and a laugh that would make the
untutored donkey feel perfectly at
home in his society and with an untrammeled
and unconquerable desire
to avoid work, it is safe to say that
that his parents might have invested
their four thousand dollars at a
much better advantage. But if the
boy grows up to manhood with the
lesson well learned that wealth and
success grow only on bushes watered
by the sweat of one's brow, the parents
need not begrudge whatever
they have spent on him. for he will
b-? a source of increasing pride and
Joy to their hearts, and when they
v>c.w old and their hands tremb'o
and their legs wabble and their step
is slow and tattering they have two
strong .arms to lean upon and help
.hem over ail the rough places thai
lie in their twilight path.
Killed by Airship.
At Juvis sur Orge, France, E.
I.efebvre, the French aviator, was
killed by a fall in his aeroplane in
which he was practicing over the
aviation field Wednesday afternoon.
M. Lefebvrc sustained mortal injuries
when the machine crashed to
the ground. Aid was rendered him
but he died soon after. The cause
of the accident remains a mystery.
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.. .... num una no piay Is bad
for the children in the home, ns It
certainly is, it is also true that all
play and no work is just as harmful.
In many homes while the mother
weare herself out in doing the entire
household work the daughter is
always well dressed and spends her
time in idleness. And while the
father toils hard throughout the day
tho son struts around with a cigarette
in his mouth and his hands
in his pockets, to develop Into a
first-class loafer. Such a condition
is bad to both parents and children
and ruinous to home life.
Tl^ere seems to be a determination
on the part of some of Peary's
friends to try and make it appear
that he and not Cook was the first
to discover the North Pole. But
wo do not believe that the little
scheme will work.
a Shingle Mill.
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MOO to U>/X? shlnglss prr day. 4 to 10 H. P.J
?. Carriage has automatic return notion.
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UPPLTCO. . . COLrMBIA.P. C.
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