The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 15, 1927, Image 6
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VOI'NC* SI'Y A ilKKO
Hnu* Davis, on Callowa, Refused to
Hot ray Confederate Commander
Sam Davis was a s hoolboy in
Nashville at the outbreak of the Cm
war. He put aside his books an i
joined the hirst Tennessee Infantry,
relates tin* Krioxvillo, Term., N'ivvSentinel.
Within a short time lie wa<
picked as a member of a < mipany of
scouts by C<-n. Biaxton Bragg.
This company was known as "( ap*.
Coleman's S- ouis," taking their name
from the assumed name of their captain,
II. H. Shaw, who, under disguise
of an itenerant doctor, scouted behind
tjjo federal line n Middle Tennessee
during IXb.'l, win n that part of state
was already in the Hands of the federal
armies.
In Novemlx r, Isb.'n the Union (Jenoral,
(I. M. Dodge, had started from
(a>rinth, Miss., to Chattanooga, to re
inforee (Jen. U. S. (Jrant. Reports of
the movement of these troops carried
to (icii. Bragg by pilcman's scout were
resulting in disaster to the federal
troops, and the Seventh Kansas
cavalry, nicknamed the "dayhawkers,''
was assigned the task of running
down and capturing Coleman's
scouts.
iSum Davis, proceeding through the
federal lines to Rragg's headquarter*
with letters, reports arid maps hidden
in his shoes, and in the seat of hisaddle,
fell into the hands of the dayhawkers
on November lib
The papcrs*\vcrc discovered and Davis
was haled before (Jed. Dodge at
Pulaski. (!en. Dodge repeatedly urged
the young -out to disclose the name
of the one who had given him the
messages. Co n. Dodge's object was >
discover and capture "Coleman," and
he did not know that H. B. Shaw, capturtnl
and imprisoned "the same day,
was t.he famous "Coleman."
"Davis met me modest iy," Oeti.
? Dodge said. "I tl'ied to impress , >1
him the danger he was in, and .1only
a nn ssriiger 1 held out to him
t.he hope of lenient treatment if h
would answer truthfully my questions.
1 informed him he would be tried a- a
spy otherwise, and that the evidene
would surely convict him."
To (leu. Dodge Sam Dave* icplicd:
"1 know, (iencral. that I will have
to die; hut 1 will not tell whore 1 got
the information and there is no power
on earth that ran make me tell. You
are doing your duty as a soldier, and
if I have to die 1 shall be doing my
I duty to (iod and my country."
And Sam Davis never wavered in
I his determination, despite the plead|
ings of Federal soldiers who came to
! him in his eel! and begged him to save
his life by revealing the identity of
j the man who had committed the cap
lured papers to him.
lie was tried as a spy and sentenced
i to hang one week from the day of his
! capture.
During the last minutes the Federal
i I'rovost Marshall, ('apt. Armstrong,
' said to him: "Sam, 1 would rather die
| myself than execute sentence upon
! you."
; ( apt. ( hickasaw, another Federal
1 offici , rode up swiftl.s to the gallows
1 and la gged the youth to change his
mind and tell the information demanded
of him.
"No, I cannot," was Sam Davis's
answer. "I would rather die a thousand
deaths than betray a friend or be
false to duty."
His last words, when he had mounted
the steps to the trap and the rope
was looped about his neck, and Cap*.
Aimstrong had offered a prayer, were
"I am ready."
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Doses File Trying to Sa\e Dog
Maplewood, N. J., April 7. Stuart
| I. Weill, general sales engineer of the
j Western Flcctrie company, today lost
: his life in an unsuccessful effort to
i save a stray dog. He was killed is
I trying to coax the animal from the
; path of an approaching express
i train. The dog was struck by th<*
I '.rain and so badly hurt that it had
j t o be shot.
Weill was waiting at the station
to take a tiain for his office in New
1
York when he spied the dog wander!
nig along the track, and giving no
i heed to the onrushing express. Weill
j leaned over the platform, -houting <u
I t he dog in an effort to st art' it from
j danger and wn> struck by the train
and decapitated.
P. A. Wettstin. New York diamond
]-alesman, was robbed of $40,000
j worth of diamonds by bandits in <"h:j
t ago on Tuesday.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
When Jumcs E. Herrick, Civil war
veteran, wait buried at Harrison,
N. Friday, his widow and fifteen
children stood about the grave. One
son, whom tin* father had not seen
in twenty years, reached home before
the death of the aged man.
A tract of 25,000 acres or more of
forest lands between Southport ami
Lock w ood Folly, N. were swept
by fire during Friday and .Saturday.
Henry Ford, more or less injured
in an automobile accident about two
weeks ago, is not improving as rapidly
as hi* family and friends bad
hoped for at his home at Dearborn.
Torn ligaments are not healing as I
they should.
(leneral L. C. Andrews, in charge
of prohibition enforcement, has made
plans for strengthening the prohibition
patrols along the Canadian border,
when the liquor laws of Canada
are lightened up on May 15.
Paris F. Singer, New York society
salt llite, has been placed under $20,000
hond at West Palm Beach, Fla.,
on a charge of obtaining $1,500,000
from the public under false pretenses
in real estate dealings.
Albert F. Fall has sufficiently recoveted
from his leeent illness to give
promise of being present for the
op.-i:ing <?f the trial against h.mself
and H. F. Sinclair it Washington, this
month, for ulleg.-d conspiracy to defraud
the government in the Teapot
Dome oil leases.
llcnry Doll, 5u, prominent . ports- ;
man of Buffalo, N. 5'., has been senile
need to two year in 4he A'huPu
federal prison, on a plea of gftilty to
the charge of rhceiving $ I 20,<)0ij .
stolen from the mails.
I .Miss Clarissa Spencer of New York,
[one of the eight women founders of j
j the modern Young Women's Christian
association, died at Joplin, Mo., Saturday.
Francesco Caruso, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
man has been sentenced to the electric
chair for the killing of a physician
a few weeks ago, after his son
had died following the giving of a
dose of diphtheria antitoxin to the j
hoy. Caruso believed that the doctor
had killed his son and in turn he
killed the doctor with a butcher
knife.
Three alleged blockaders are on
trial at Sanford, N. charged with
the killing of Sheriff .1. L. Turner
of l.ee county,, at a whiskey s: i 1' las:
Jan uary.
Fifteen masked and armed bandit* '
raided the plant of the Elgin Watch
j Case company at Elgin, lllinoi-, early
ISatu* lay morning and got away witn
j gold and valuables amounting to
j lit I oo.tUJti.
| Fuur bandits held up a crap game
I in pit gress in a Republican social
I club in Pittsburgh. Pa., early Friday
! morning and got away with $10,000
! in cash. There were about >00 crap
shooter.- in the club rooms.
Ogden Mills, former New York congressman,
now assistant secretary of
the federal treasury, suggests that
thrift be Cue slogan of the next. Cool|
idge presidential campaign, against
Smith extravagance, in case AJ Smith,
is nominated by the Demo rat - for the
presidency.
; Senator Edwaids of New Jersey.
1 predicts the nomination of Governor
i AI Smith by the Democratic convenI
tion for the iWcsideney ::i P.I2S.
J Edwin Wide, a Swede, won the inj
tenia? i -na! I I J mile foot race in
[ New \ oi k Saturday night ly coverling
the distance in 0 minutes, J 3-5
- c lowering the record f Paav.i
Num.i of F.ntand, by 1 3-5 seconds.
A uigio fislmtman caugh" a 337pc-un.i
sturgeon in- Cape Fear river,
mar Wilmington. N. Saturday.
A coal mine du>t explosi in in a
mine near Cokesburg, Pa.. Saturday,
caused the death of sin miners. Four
hundred other miners in the mine at
the time, made their escape by the
main shaft.
Oliver Gill of DeSoto county, Miss.,
was killed Saturday in a battle with
prohibition officers who were raiding
a large still near his home.
The Indiana senate on Saturday
rendered a verdict acquitting Judge
j Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, on
charges of corruption and other high
crimes following an impeachment
trial of several weeks.
State Senator W. R. McDaniel of
Blountstown, has submitted his resignation
as a member of the Florida
senate, following a question as to his
qualification because of his conviction
in Pensacola of conspiracy to violate
the national prohibiton laws. He is
now under sentence of a year and a
day in the federal prison in Atlanta.
His case is on appeal.
Following a verdict of guilty of
shooting George Oldham, a road contractor.
to death, Mrs. Anna Mae
Wilkerson. at Memphis Tenn., was on
Tuesday sentenced to serve five years
in prison. The jury returned a verdict
of involuntary manslaughter
after 22 minutes deliberation.
Hohsor. Head was killed near Hiddenite,
N. C., Saturday by the overturning
of a tractor that he was drivjng
when a chain attached to the tracj
tor and a log mapped.
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DI8REHPBCT NOW ABROAD |
Menace Idea in Diarexard For Principle#
Held Sacred by Forefather*
The greatest menace to the American
nation today iw not any sort of
"yellow peril" or poaxiblc war. Jt
in not the possibility of repeal of the
Volstead law or an amendment to;
prohibit the manufacture arid use of j
tobacco. It i? not the possibility of}
| a "wet" president or a Catholic pros- j
lident, nor even the power of the Ku
Klux Klan.
The greatest menace to he nation,'
to it.- institutions and to the freedom1
of a liberty-loving people is the!
growing disrespect for all that our'
lathers held sailed or regarded with
veneration?lack < f respect for ail
authority and law. The. Bible, the
constitution of the nation and the!
states, the moral code and the prin- '
ciples of good citizenship, including :
honesty and clean personal habits,,
taught the children by the fathers!
and mothers a generation ago?all'
are being not only disregarded but '
ven sneered at by an ever growing!
element of our people.
I It has already reached the. point !
that a man who had a pious mother'
| who taught him as a child the funda-{
menials of Christianity and good
I citizenship and instilled in his young'
mind the highest moral code would I
be ridiculed in many quarters today i
were he to admit that he still believed
in the principles she taught him. He
! would be regarded by many as in the
.same class with grown-ups who still I
believed literally in the child's inter-,
pretation of the story of Santa
( laus. And those who would point
the finger of ridicule at him would j
not be those alone who are regarded i
as criminal or "low brows" or "rough '
| necks," but also and more particularly
a large section of the perfectly
iespectable element of the population j
| ?those who have enjoyed educational ;
i advantages, and plenty of books, mag-1
a/.ines and newspapers to read and '
been reared within the sound of many!
church bells.
There is abroad in the land some- '
thing of a mania for tearing down '
the landmarks, for wiping the halo 1
from about the heads of heroes of
the past and for ridiculing all that
men of former years and decades
venerated and held sacred. There !'
are those who stand ready to ap- 1
i'laud those who undertake to cast:
reproach upon the name of George !
'.Vashington a'nd other patriots who!
; laid the*foundations of the peace and
. ticcdcm and prosperity we enjoy today.
1 here are those- who are ever
i ready to enjoy ;. good laugh when
I some one will : dictile anything that!
: men for genera*ions have revered.
| \\-u-h-?ari ever increasing multitude
I of respectable people even the insti-j
: tution c! marriage is a funny joke j
'and (. >n-p:euous violators of the mar|
i iage 'elation are regarded as de,
servi: g <if honor for the courage they
display if. smashing the conventions. |
la 5 some intellectual pervert write j
, a o? k portraying a libertine as aj
hcr?' >r a harlot as a heroine and tin [
cw: increasing number of perfectly!
i re-pe- table people will i ush to spend i
heir own money and that of their
credit >rs to swell the royalties of the
n.rho". Let some blasphemer write
a boek making a vicious attack upon
. tic Bible or the Church, or p >t tray
in* the ministry as entirely coupofe^
of hypocrites, adulterers and money
grabbers, and it becomes immediately
a "heat seller." l^et a minister speak
an unfavorable word about such a
hook, and immediately there goes uo
u chorus of denunciation of him.
Suppose the number of those who
have no respect# for the Uible, the
Church, the Constitution, the law, or
any constituted authority, continues
to grow until they constitute a decisive
majority of our population, as a
large element of our respectable people
seem to desire. Suppose the tribe
of the worshippers and followers of
Sinclair Lewises ami the Rupert
Hughes and the Karl Garrolls should
continue to increase us it hus during
tiie last five or ten years until they
become powerful enough to do away
with Constitutions and laws, churches
and Bibles. What then? What have
they to offer to take the places of
these civilizing influences? Nothing.
Back to barbarism and anarchy and
chaos?every man a law unto himself. !
Such would be the logical result.
That is why thoughtful people?I
people who look ahead and think of
the future and are concerned about
tiie welfare of their children and
grandchildren sometimes are dis
tressed icy the tendency of the time-.
s ... Obituary Note
W hile ye editor was gone on a
fishing trip last week our esteemed
assistant, the dumbest of Cod's creatures,
gummed up the parade as
usual.
1 ho ladies of Jinitown played a
bast ball game while we were away.1
Nine married women were matched
against nine single girls, and the i
Single girls won the game, due large-'
ly to errors made by the married ;
women.
I hat bright assistant of ours wrote
up the game and printed his story '
under the headline "Erring Wives."
He would have been twenty years
old next Friday.?The Jimtown Weekly,
Associated Editors, Chicago.
( harlotte Thompson Honor Roll
Grade 1 ?Albert Irby, Anne Clarkson,
Rowena Shiver.
Grade 2?Dor^gf-Workman, Shell
West, Ix?e West, Iva Lou Arrants,
Dorothy Creed, Annie Mae Hatfield,
Charles Smith.
Grade d Patrick Dennis, Thelina
Anderson, Lucile Deas, Verlie Truesdale,
Clyde Brown, J. I). Gillis, Boykin
Sanders, Polk Sanders.
Grade 1?William Rush, Stuart
Clarkson.
Grade 5?Pollye West.
Grade 0?Elizabeth Gillis, MaryLindsay
Pearce, Dorothy McLeotf, I
Howze Evans, Arthur Gaskins. 'I
Grade 7?James Seagle, Marion
Shive r.
Grade K?Elizabeth Workman,
Frances Dennis, Elizabeth Baker,
Blanding Clarkson, Needham Pitt-!
man. |
Grade if?-Maureen Sowell, Henrietta
Irby, Swannie Kinney, Bob
ClarksorwGrade
10-^-Eva Irby.
Grade 11?Mae Burgess, Alexander
( :arkson, Sarah Bruce.
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1 The Ford Motor company has closed
its commissaries or stores in Detroit
and at Dearborn, Mich., to the general
public and in future will sell only
to Ford employees.
How far
will your car go
before the miles begin to tell ?
If you buy a new car every 10,000 miles
or so, almost any car will give you satisfactory
results.
But if you want the same fine service on
through the second, third and the many
following tens of thousands of miles, buy
a Buick!
Accurate tests at the great Proving Ground
of General Motors, where all cars are
driven and examined, show Buick's sturdy
structure and powerful Valve-in-Head
Engine still gaining in efficiency at the
point in miles where other cars are distinctly
on the down grade.
Buy a Buick for years of exceptional service.
LITTLE MOTOR COMPANY
T. LEE LITTLE. MANAGER. CAMDEN, S. C.
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This remarkable J
starting feed b9
strong bones, JM
well-fleshed bo.luM
practically <
leg weakness, toe^H
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troubles. Raise
chicks with Ful-O?
Chick Starter.
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Sold by
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Camden, S. C.H
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Piedmont botd to Crcenvfll
Greenville, April n.__gafl
Greenville Piedmont, afternoB
newf paper by R. B. ChandlerH
Peace and associates became?
Mr. I eace, who is pcrsonilB
of the Greenville News becoml
lisher of the Pii-droo/it a/jdJ
Chapman succeeds Mr. ChindlM
its editor. A. P. McCain and cil
H. Garrison continue mail
editor and city editor, respect?
The Piedmont. I
The two institutions are tocfl
to operate as separate compa?
Keep in j
Trim! I
Goad EUmituuionlc^Essential I
' I VHE kidneys are the bki?l
X If they fail to function?
there is apt to be a retentions
poisons in the blood. A dull?
feeling and, sometimes, to^|
aches, headaches, and dial?
symptoms of this conditional
evidence of improper kidifl
tion is often found in bl^H
scanty passage of secretil^l
year more and more peOpl{^|
ing the value of Doan'i?
stimulant diuretic, in
Scarcely a nook or hamlet^|
but has many cnthusig^l
Ask your neighbor! H
DOAN'sl
Stimulant iyiurelic to
Fostcr-Milburn Co.. Mfu. Chem..^?
COTTON SEEM
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I We still have left a small amount <1
II Coker Cleveland Strain No. 5 Cotton Seel
II
I out of the car ordered under auspices
I the Chamber of Commerce. We reirM
I you that we are selling these at car loal
1 cost. I
I $1,772 per bushel I
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