Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i&F>■ • >•' t* '. that «±s-. tomUyi • Ml Pam of William Waldorf Aator boaw i avenua haunted? ty. Iblel ia the query and aome of tha anaarm that hare boon floaUnf about If«n UMM itmwwm* inmvu* *h« tine, and Summer colony at Kewport thia jrmn bmi WiD *’ * Da «eaorlta not known jar / ;—*-r tho Now York American that one of the BeUerue ateene mansions, which has had As* Vanderbl idea ten and Vanderbilts for iteoooupaota, could naUy fm^hauhted," Ilka an old-fashioned New England country home, fend locked at askance by all faaMn by, seems peat belief. Yet tQoh a tradition is attached to ’'BeaulleQ,” the big brownstone ai brick house that stands Just sooth of the famone marble bouse owned by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The taking of ‘ Beaulieu” early In July by the Thomas'F. Walabee of Washington, lately of Oolorado, re- Tired all the mysteries and tltiftlitions i cling round this boose, which is the oldest of the mansions on BellsTue avenue. It has long been quietly told on ahaded varandu in Newport that a "hoodoo” hangs over what is common ly called the Wallrof Astor bouse. Death, mlsfortuna, loss of riches and other calamities have befallen the long succession of residents on this estate during the put forty yean. F. L. Barreda, who built it in 1862, then the flneei bouse in Newport, made a fortune almost in a day in the guano businemln South America—and lost his money and-his bouse almost aa quickly. - In the quarter century that followed before the property was bought by William WaJdorf Astor, tbs "Barreda Palace,” as it wu then called, had new owners end renten who osms and disappeared in successive seasons, al most as rapidly u dwellers In a city tenement. « When Mr. Astor bought the estate it wu thought that then at lut the "luck” of the house and its occupants would be changed. That wu atk ut 1890. But the^Asters occupied It only three or four seasons and then went abroad. Soon after that Mrs. Astor died at Cliveden, England. ■CUPSK or TDK BKICJB FAMILY. ' The Senator Brloes leased it for sev eral seasons, bringing with them their 110,000 a year obaf, a big retinue and all the other evidences of oatentatious wealth. Then Senator Brloe died—hie re puted millions proved but an illusion, Ms family dnippei from sffluenca.al- most to penury. This and Mrs. Astor's untimely death revived tbe story of tba "boo doo * that bung over tbe cc.upante of the "Barreda Palace,” which the pres tige of an Astor could not wipe out. Mra. Potter Palmer next occupied the bones during the Summers of 1890 and 1900. She entertained lavishly and brought her social campaign to a olimsx by the wedding of Julia Qiant and Prince Michael Cantecuiene of Russia. i_ This ceremony, performed within the walls of the "Barreda Palace,” wu one of tba most spectacular functions ever scan iq America. It wu like a royal wedding in Europe. Representatives of all the European fiourts were present in the gold lace uniforms and costumes of their coun tries. Yet, while tbe public wu being dmled by such brilliant displays, it Is said that Mrs. Potter Palmar, oool headed, practical woman of the world, ae she wu, trembled within the walls Of the old "palace.’’ The ghost of the Barredu, It wu hinted, had returned, and wu haunt ing the. halls and rooms of its u«u .. home, j * .. ; ■ Mrs. Potter PaMer, it is said, Al ways fell a shiver usbe went through the big dark front hall, after the guests had gone. Every door opening out of it had to be locked at night, u well u every doer that she passed on tbe way up to her sleeping room For noises were heard at night like tbe rustle of., silken skirts, as If the unbidden guest of the put were pass ing In and out the rooms and halls and opening and closing doors. Tne climax came one night goon af ter the Grant wedding, when Butler White wu putting out the tights on the lower tt or. In half darkness, he saw an appari tion, in white ball costume, with Spanish mantilla thrown over her hud, at if she had stepped from heated ball room out upon the lawn and been suddenly chilled by the night a|r and mist flowing in from the i TQM BUTLKB KKLL IN A SWOON. Tbe figure In white glided In through the closed doors, swept put the terrified butler, with a silken rustle and passed up tbe broad stair r l^he backward glance given St ascended the stairs, while the mantilla fell from her head, jeveakd a face of dark Spanish beauty. That much Butler White »w, then fel prostrated on th^Iiall floor Two footmen, hearing his fall, Op from the basement am up tbe batter. They said he id UJkra dead manu he lay then arms wide outstretched, hands bite, wit with wide open, bat apparently sight- gardener’s 1 .oat to theoatslde. Then the query rose, what could lie of the haontteg of the old i recalled that during the let- I tl* Vi It tar part of tba oftbahonaa a Cuban syoung s bad bun brief own- in and bean- have a relative of Mra Barreda, or Sonora Barreda, who wu herself a Cuban and one of the handsomest wo men that ever graced Newport socle- TWM BMKOaiTA DISAmAKH). ’ For aome reason that wu |iot cr hu never for, the young disappeared. She have gene away from tbe olty, nor wu she m again seen in or about the house. Soon after Urn final collapse of tbe Barreda fortnne aama. departed and ever after ▼iSV. Seuor Barreda. the Spanish American who had dauled Newporters with a fortune estimated at fifteen millions, % fabulous sum In thou times—who bad held the position o: United States Minister to Peru, and was afterward sent on a diplomatic mtHton by the Governrfisnt to Eng fend and France, bfoime all of a sud den a common bankrupt. Ten or fifteen years ago he died penniless In a small town in New York State. His widow went baqk to Cubs. It Is believed, though no one seemed to think it worth while to keep track of her. Everybody thought her deed, 1 when thru or four years ago sbe reappeared at Newport. She wu an old. broken down woman with snow white hair, the very ghost of tbe radiant beauty of former years. For a few days sbe stopped at an unfuhlonable (hotel, visit* d tbe old mansion In the guise of a stranger and went to see her old retainer Gardner Williamson. Then sbe dis appeared, telling no one whence, or But ev it is said that the < Im. Vs 'lif the* lyeat otl dwporters are whether the hud-headed king and his family, risen infiu the time-light of sooletn will escape the Barreda Might that hu fallen, in on# form or another, on every occupant of the old palace. Mr. and Mte- Walsh Miss Walsh have come from ton after a brilliant social season In their handsome brand hew bouse, Which te quite the mo^t daxzlingly fitted op mansion in the capital. , usDse or tbe ^Mrytbing In it is spotlessly new— tCT f.Jii. eq MW u to carry with It the smell of wu kstto TO*®* andtheupholstorer’s shop. The Wi tbe Columbia eyes, staring at tbe celling. * . poais the butte#] watief fhiei in^ha house. #hy she came nor whither she wu going. ' But her visit served the purpou o reviving the old traditions about the ‘‘Barfed* raac*” and the ghriet that hu been t-upposed to haunt It recent years. It raised again the question of what really did become if tnebeKU.ifulsen erlta who mysteriously disappeared so many years ago, and wu It really her ghoet that Butler White saw, or his superstitious fancy? But even these startling queries soon died c ut again la the ru*h and whirl of Newport’s short summer sea sons. The cottage oilony quickly for got all about It. Only In the guden er’s family the tradition wu kept alive. Gardener Williamson Is s canny Scotchman. Never a word does the Inquisitive Summer visitor get out of him shout the traditions of the house or tbe Astor family. Of all the army of servants that come and go, season after season, with tbe different occu pants, hea'one stays on Winter and Summer. He "goes with tbe estate, u the uylng is. He is Mr. Astor's special custodian and retainer, like the old family servants on an E iglUb estate. In the Summer Mr. Williamson and his family live at the lodge near the gateway. In the Fall, after the Sum mer tennants of the big bouee are gone, tbe gardener and his family move into the basement for Winter quartera Rarely io they go Into the upper part of the bouse, which is then deeo late and gloomy enough, with bare floors and chandeliers and furniture swathed In gbutly white wrappings. But on Autumn and Winter nights they bear atrange noises overhead, u If heavy pieces of furniture were be lug moved, and doors opened and doted. At such times, yean ago, Gardener Williamson and his wife used to take lamps and grope their way through the upper rooms and oorrlden to make sure that no robbers bad entered But no trace of a burglar wu ever found—and tbe gardener and his wife gradually settled down to the convic tion that It wu the ghoet of tbe Bar redu that wu revisiting its old home and ought not to be molested. So of late yean when tbe nolsu up- stain are beard the gardener and his family only huddle together closer round the hearthstone. If a chance family friend la visiting them the ghoet story is retold. One such visitor suggested that Mr. Williamson put chalk on the rollen of the furniture, so that next day it might be seen Just what pieces bad moved during the night by the marks on the polished wooden floon. WHAT ABOUT TILE WAUQES. It wu also conjectured that this might reveal a secret p&nnel behind some picture or tapes try, in which some ghoet or living intruder might be lurking. .?> Another friend of the frrdeeer 1 * family expreued the bellefthstlf tbe house were ever torn dowoVlfye ton of tbe senorlta would within the walla of the loweretCrw. The parts of the house lu whiletrabe ominous noises and apparltlodfinost often occur are on the ground floor. The main ball, through which the ghost sums to past, is s big dimly tit pusage, finished in dark Flemish oak. Out of this opens a reception room, the library, almost u dark and aom bre u the hall, a rather gloomy drawing room and a brilliant morning room, finished in white; and gold, a on the floor. Into the morning a flood of light ‘tiQM'lbe walled conservatory on the aide, v As Mag Potter Palmer left hooulonoosheMiald to ban dared that under no would aha over paro another Mason in that bovijpr la Newport, and flba How they will enjoy entering into tbe poncnlon of something very like an old English estate, with a gardener and a ghost that "go with it,” la a matter that is now exciting tbe live liest disoaftston in certain select social circles io Newport’s bummer oo'ooy. Whether the mystery of the strange no!see and apparitions seen in the grand old heme will ever be solved Is another question, which possibly Is better fitted for the Boston Society fox Phycbloal research to take up than for the ordinary layman to attempt to solve. Crashed to Deatb. A special dispatch to The State from Williamfton tells of a horrible aooldeut that occurred at the S- ulh- ern station there on Wednesday after noon, which resulted in the dLatb of James J. M- Ket zle, flagman on train No. 72, a through freight beaded for Co'umbla. Tola train had just ar rived at Williamston and the brake- man had detached the engine and eight oars from the train and wu coming in the siding to pick up s oar. when Mr. McKenzie attempted to couple the car to the eight others to which the engine wu attached. He _ THRU til Wflffl^ff jW: -TBiartBftWOTWp* otths eklstlhg gave a signal to tbe engineer to poll ahead and u the train moved ahead about a half yard’s length, the unfor tunate young man walked over in the centre of the track to adjust the knuckle of tbe coupling to which he intended to couple the car he wu picking up. As be wu walking back wards with his face towards tbe en cine, he failed to observe that tbe oar he wanted to pick up wu slowly rolling towards him and thus before be had adjusted the coupling and stepped from tbe tnck, u wu bis Intention, the two cars moving in op posite directions caught him, the an tomatlc ecuplings striking him with deadly force, crushing his left lung Into s jelly, breaking his ribs In and bruising both arms terribly. Charged to OareleaaneM. The findings and opinion of the court of Inquiry which investigated the fatal explosion on the gunboat Bennington has been made public by S cretary Bonaparte. Tbe court ex presses the opinion that the explosion wu caused by excessive*!team pres sure in her boilers, resulting from dosing the steam valve connecting with tbe guage. Tbe court says that D. N. Holland, the fireman on duty closed tbe valve. Tbe court finds En sign Charles D. Wade of tbe engine department of theahlpat fault in fail ing to see that the steam and safety guage valves were closed at the proper time, having accepted the report of subordinates that this bad been done Id March. He was declared negligent in the perform ooe of duty and that be should be brought before a court matlal. ronomoe slime'in b—, atives and friend*. "I wu appalled *» somt facts given me in tbe Arlington hotel bra Sooth- era man stopping there,’’ Mid Mr. Llebar te Tht “and the rtateaubte am Mob that they shou d recelws the earnect atten tion of tha hast aMnUng neonle of the Uni led States Tte«5£man said that he had been informed that physicians in many portions of the South, especially where prohibition is in force, had found that Me cocaine habit wu making s avu of the negro raoe- ■tT ~ ■ They were prevented from sat tsfylcg their appetites with beverages of some kind that would stlmolate and they bad turned to cocaine, which wm being consumed in Immense quan titiee, generally being put in elder or tome other drink. Phystclaoe had told tbe gentleman who had informed mg that the Jong continuance of the habit would prove more destructive to A Put of Uold Found. A pot of gold, suppoeed to have been buried by Cspt.^Kid, hu been dug up oq Sullivan’s Island. The Charleston Post says "the gold wu found near the Chimney of the Buckley bouse on Saturday night, being turned up by one of the laborers wbo wu raising tbe house to make room for the ex tensloQfllthe barracks of tbe army post. The laborer who laid clai m and made Off with the money could not be learned, but be wat, DOt a souvenir hunter, being content to take the gold and leave the rusted. metal pot, Including a number of old Spanish dotibloons, valutd at 116 each, pistols. Louis and jotber, coins, and the ex citement which the find hu made among the native "'Islanders has u (turned no small proportions.” —4f Walla Oollapae. At Pittsburg, Pa., Sunday the walls and first floor ceiling of the Avenue Theater building, which-'had been burned some time ago, and was being wrecked, preparatory to the construe tlon of a new building, fell with a cruh, carrying down about twenty Italian laborers, burying a number under the debris. In the confusion It is impossible to say how many are killed or wounded, but six badly wounded persons have been taken out so far. Warns to l< , i«ht. The New York Tribune says Vena suela hu placed orders In Europe for torpedo boats, guns and ammunition at the cost of about 12,500,000, a lar ger amount than that tittle South x pended kiT An American, who hu Just returned from American republic hu ever ex at one time for war material An Venezuela, says that President Cas- startilng oontrut to thp other rooms wo leoently declared that he wu go ing to fight the Yankee, which plains the unnsually large order shlpB, arma and ammunition. to* ttiUs MlmeetQ I Howett, a yoeman on the ship Franklin, at the Nor- r yard, committed suicide Wo negro nee than anything on the ten of the earth, inumuch u it not only wrecked them physically, mak Mem despise-work, but would kill theag off quickly. In the Washington Post of July 31st wu an Interview with Mr. E. J. Bowen, of Little Rock Ark., who gave utterance to precisely aim liar’views He Mid that where co caine could not be obtained lemon ex Iran wu being used In prohibition communities. Ha said be knew a man who used to drfek It Incessantly until It killed him. There is often a brisk trade in perfumes, red ink and nearly anything that could be used u a sub stitute for stimulating drinks. "I know of my own accord, ’ went on Mr. Lieber, "that In many prohibi tion counties In tbe country men and women have begun the use of opium and drugs that will satisfy theecavlng for stimulants of some kind. It seems to me that this is s fearful argument or ms of prohibltich. Now, I believe in tem perance myself, but I do not know anything more foolish than to deprive people of stimulating beverages of some kind. Personally I would not object to rigid prohibition against wbb key In any community, but I be lie vs all sensible people will admit that bur and the lighter drinks should not be shut out of any commu nity. Let us take the.very oommunl ties where good authority says the people of a race are largely tornlng to cocaine and other drugs, and the probability Is tbe same state of affairs exist all over tbe South and in other portions of the country. Suppose the prohibition laws should admit beer and the drinks that do not produce drunkenneas unless used to the gross est excess? These negroes would not desire the awful drugs that they now use. Tne small percentage of alcohol In b3er would satisfy their appetites, and they would be happy. Human nature demands something that stimulates, and the least harmful of all drinks is beer. "If the prohibitionists would deal with human nature as It Is and recog nize the demandfor something stlmu lating they wou'd insist upon the ex clusion of the ardent spirits and ad mit beers, wines, etc. Prohibition now results in the surreptitious sale of whiskey where poesible and the shutting out of wines, beers, ect., be cause they can only be handled In bulk. The effect Is disastrous. Men and women, especially the ignorant Does, turn to opium, cjoslDe* nicotine, ginger ale, with twice as much alebo- hol as beer; patent medieines, con tatning 40 to 50 per cent, of aloohol, and some of the soda fountain drinks that are bad as opium.” Adrift fbr Forty Hour*. - Miss Zelda Stewart and her fiance, John Ohartres, were found In an open boat forty miles out from Chicago in Lake Michigan late Thursday after noon. They were «hnost famished. They had been without food for fortv hours. Water they secured from the like by scooping it up in their hands. The couple left In a row boat from tbe foot of Mobtrose boulevard at 10 o’clock Sundav night for a boat ride on the l>ke. • When found both were unconscious in the boat, and at first believed the long strain and suffering had brought death. When Mist Stew art and her fiance were taken on a launch both were soon revived. Up to a late hour Thursday night neither bad revived sufficiently to give any of the details of their mishap. The Home Merehente. "Who is the home merchant?” Asks an exchange. He Is a man who helps pay for the streets on whleh yon walk; he helps to keep up the ohnroh In which you and yours worship; every subscription paper that la passed has bis name upon it; he la the only one who oannot afford to swindle yon, self interest if nothing else, would prevent this; be bears his share of the burden of good government and stays with you in sunshine and darkneM. Paste these facts in your hat, and then stop and consider whenever yon are tempt ed to send away for anything kept in your own town. Bartbqaeke Shocks. A dispatch from Chicago Bays Illi nois was shaken by an earthquake Tuesday night of last week. The shook! in the southern part of the State, especially In the legion sur rounding East 8t Louis, were severe enough to rattle dishes and furniture, dog* to bflkk and children to awaken and cry- tit many rushed out tat terror, tearing that the straining beaiM and joists tronld speed for duly ooostttutedkauthorlty. But I think yon Mite hdtPthe and the letter of Pjpe’s well ocuplet. He did not sty: "About form of law let fools te t. That law which is best administered is best." He was not fptaklng of legislative enactments but of governments and creeds as-they affect human and he Mid: "For forms [of contest. Wbate’er is best best. government let fools administered It there is Inherent vice In the law Iteelf, efficient administration of the law oannot cure it. Referring to the decision of the •jpeeme court, which you say I ' quote with great unction,” you mj, ‘‘The prohibitioDlsta hi general and yon, my dtar doctor, are thoroughly Imbued with the belief that liquor drinking is dangerous to Um morals, good order, health and lately of the people, ” etc. I am not a fanatic oa tbe subject, though you put me In a class with the "unco guid and rigid righteous” who think it a sin to drink liquor. As you My that you have not teat decision before yon, I take liberty of supplying a full quotetl in order that it may be seen tbet 1 have argued the matter not m a fa natlo bat from the point of view of the supreme court. You will recall that at the Novem ber term, 1893, tbe supreme court decided that tbe dispensary law wm unconstitutional. Mr. Jnatioe Mc Gowan concurring with Mr. Chief J ustloe Mclver In the decision, and Mr. Justice Pope dimenting. Toe next rear. 1894, Mr. Justice Gary having succeeded Mr. Justice Me- Go wan on tbe supreme bench, tbe Cjurt decided that the law wm oon stttutional. Mr. Justice Pope and Mr. Justice Gary concurring, and Mr, Chief Justice Mclver diaMnting. ] am frank enough to My that if I were hunting something that I could "quote with unction,” I could find it In the dlsaentlng opinion. Tbe following paragraph, found in State vs: Atken, 42 S. U., page 231, contains the ground work of the de cision wpholdlBg the oonsultnlionality of the law; "Before proceeding to a considera tion of the specific objections urged against tbe constitutionality of tbe act (jf 1893) we desire to state at tbe outset that, in our opinion, tbe fol lowing propositions embody tbe prln elpjea governing this o*s°: f, (i) That liquor, in Its nature, is dangercus to the morals, good order, health and safety of the people, and is not to be placed on tbe same foot ing with the ordinary c^r modltles of life, such as corn, wbeu, cotton, to bacco, potatoes, eto. "(2) Than tbe State, under its po lice power, can iteelf assume entire ojntrol and management of those subjects, such as liquor, that are dan geroui to the peace, good order, health morals and welfare of the people, even when trade Is one of the Ind dents of snob entire control and man agement on the part of the State. "(3) That the act of 1893 is a po lice measure. We are frank to say that if we are wrong as to either of these propo.>lvions, the act should be declared unconstitutional. We will now cite authorities to sustain these p»npnatetiMta M . _, i <■ ssssasssssss Note, then, that the language In whioh yon define the attitude of the prohibitionists Is exactly the language In whleh the supreme court defines the attitude of the law on the subject. That decision fixes the point of view from which the State is bound to re' gard the question; and from that point of view the State may take con trol of tiie traffic to police it but pot to profit by It. And if the view of Hugh Farley, chivalrous spirit, and others who were opposed to the profit feature had been adopted, the result might have been different. I admit that it is wise to "hobble the devil,” whom you art powerless effectually to ohalo; but having hobbled the devil, I protest that it is not right to make him yokefellow with tbe spirit of progreu Id our schools and open the way for onr children to embrace him ss an angel of light Returning to my historical parallel. I am noHnolined to press the lemons of the prohibition vote of 1892 unduly. After reminding me that 22,900 did not vote in that election, 'which yon denominate a "side show,” you my that "this la a government of m;Jqri- " True, but it is a government of mijoritlM that vote, and not of majorities that stay away from the polls. At that election, prohibition received In this county more then i.ooo Aotes, aaMjoiter of the total rate cut. Bat when they aame to fasten the dispensaryjtpon Newberry eonnty that rate of asore than 1,000* vegnanifisd by a petition of 79 free holders In the town of Newberry, 24 of whom wen negroes. The attitude of pubUe Bentimant towards the dJepenmrr tew la this Whiefce Habit, Oared 1119 Lads sejjJV Mages tbe law did not have a fair test. Fjt reasons tost need not be enumerated public sentiment wm re- and the law against Ullelt traffic In liquor wm not enforced. But violations of tbe law became so scandalously open and on rebuked that a revulsion took place in tbe senti ment of the community, and for yean the law hM been enforced. We have now arrived at the third phase, in which the sentiment of tbe communi ty seems to be crystallizing in opposi te the whole scheme,' owing ly, 1 think, to tiie faot that the Abe people. Is offended by tbe ooostant < ffort to Joetlfy tbe law by appaallng to Its revenue foat- ure; but owing also to corruption in the administration of the law. It wm not my original purpose and I now make no attempt to refute statistics or to argue the q uestion In detail. Ud less tbe conditions of two States are exactly similar It Is hard to arrive ate Just conclusion by oon- trestle g statistics of crime. But we might qu >te statistics until tbe peo ple are dizzy and still I believe that a large numoer of car counties will be Mtisfled with nothing short of actual experiment after the example of Marl boro, Greenwood aod Cherokee. We reach the parting of our ways at the concluding clause of your letter I q iota tbe paragraph: "I will not sav that your virion Is clouded by fanaticism but If ^it be true that ‘be wbo makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before Is a public benefactor,’ then is it not equally true that be who con ceived a scheme by which drunken ness wm reduced, temperance enoour- sged and decency and good order In creased end withal made tiie demon whiskey contribute to tbe edueatlon of the Ignorant masses, need he be Mhamed of bis work?” A 2o not admit that the dispensary scheme Dm reduced drunkenness, en couraged temperance and decency and increased good order. Mark yon, I speak of the effect and not of the mo tive. But It hM "made the demon whiskey contribute to tbe education of tbe ignorant masses.’’ And many of tbe advocates of the scheme vehe mently nige this m a Justifying faot ms of Men to* 25 Tease Mr Method of I am pocitiTsIr nstor weak i vitality aad all 1 want Is as opportssity Is eosvinoa yoa that I ea.. If yiu aie U a weak, dejected ooncUtijs, dieouuraged sal broken is health, ait right down aad writs as a letter and let me tall yoe is ay answer why my treatment will poeitively aad peesa nently reetore to you tha via ini' vitality yoa once poeeeaeed. I have gteea tbie condition Soedel itudy fee r twenty-flee yean aad I know, aad it hat C »ven by the lane number of people. wL ve cored, that I am capable of thoruugklv uederatending every ponuble treatment aa cording];. My wide experience hag aasht aa that fV—r ri lirrllj tire iseei nf Ihh Minks exactly alike, aad hence eaoh moat bs trends differently if a cure ia ever brooght ahootf prepare the proper treatment u ay e « laboratory to abet the demaade of av individual caee, all examination. My reault of all theee yean of oloea itudy m yean of «l< aed by these M»bdi •cfontifio ia to-day moognixed by the medical pro thorough a • The ignorant masses” love their schools but do not drew nice moral distinction*. The supreme court m stifle this vampire and threaten the health and life of tbe community; but tbe profit feature gives "the Ignorant maMes’’ ground to Infer that what the supreme court mistook for a vampire la in reality the gooes that lays the golden egg. And I repMt, any re striotive scheme that tends to make an Immoral traffic reputable and te a vicious and dangerous "Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistlet?” Geo B. Cromer. Newberry, 8. a, Aug. Ifl, 1905. Killed la Wreek. A dispatch to The State from Greenville says tbe loosl freight going to Greenville on the Greenville and Laurens railroad wm wrecked Wed nee day morning near Barksdale, four miles north of Laurens, at about 11 a. m. The negro fireman, Henry Jackson, wm killed and J. L. Bear den, tbe engineer, badly Injured. Tbe engine and tender and seven oars were demolished. There have been three wrecks at practically the same within the past six months. wm apparently nothing wrong with tiie track In either Instance and the opinion hM been advanced that some thing most have been placed on the track. A large Iron bolt wm ptokad up on the ground, whioh had Um ap- paranoe of having been run over by the engine. Railroad Oommlationer J. H. Wharton wm on the scene look ing into tbe matter. TBLBQKAPBY And R. B, AGENCY—Wc ~ Tta V.S SIGNAL 001 ) place Than iw the meet i for men. I have had iteet aaoeeee la corbff tee afflieded at a diataaoe. By the aid of a earn* pleta aystem of eelf-exammatioB Maaka I con diagnose a case at a diatanoe aad if yoa an Is tkia condition, or If you (offer boa aSy other " w. U > adt di i of e <*jgyc ire ath nature, write i look fore cure fax the many widely adveMfeed “ready-made’ medicinee, free treataaetl boa bhe medical oompaaiee, eta, eta, for will not only never be cured but youyriUbea in addition to loeiug the money d hesitate writing ae oa this aa- count. I have been established ia *» I —i»r Her *nd my reputation aa a skillful known to all. Be sure to write me for ay book for men, oatinii *Maatt- nee* Vigor aad Health” it ie abeoluUdy hue for the asking. Address J. Newton Hathaway, M. D, M many yean » specialist is tion of Interest vTo aU leaders of this , call or write for treatment tike next SO dare. I will cure them ef the ig ala ’ * log dlsei charge: [ILLS (1 Meases for ON B-i HALT ; are lost manhood; follow! usual RHE. GLEET, STRltTUS*. YaSl COCELE, RAPTURE, CATARRH and all OHRONIO mSEASNS, Of both sexes. Diseases of women without operation. PILES under guarantee without the an: m edrei I cured mer guarantee without the knifo et >7 tying or burning operation. Ooneuftationa, Examination, Afiv*: ItMs • ->* T. S. HOI LEYMAN, M. &, THE SPECIALIST. Rooms 421 and 422 Leonard Bulldti*. V.B. quickly at home. ^v.