The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 29, 1913, Image 6
OaroUn* Railroad Oommiulon-
era Addraaa Letter to Pullman Com-
Solicitor Condemning Prao-
Hee of Selling Bertha to Negroes on
btentate Trains.
Serere condemnation of the Pull-
man Company for selling negroes
bearths In Pullman cars with white
people was roiced by the South Car
olina railroad commission Wednes
day night in a letter addressed to F
B. Daniels, the general solicitor of
the company In Chicago, by John O.
Richards, the chairman. Mr. Richards
ards, the chairman. Mr. Richards
tetls the Pullman Company that he
Is aware of the fact that the train on
which he found a negro man in a
Pullman car was an interstate train,
but warns against the company con
tinuing to aggravate the white peo
ple in this manner or else an appeal
wfll be made to congress for relief.
— The letter, which was made public
Wednesday night, follows:
“On May 14, 1913, I boarded a
g ear at Rock Hill, 6. C., for
a, 6. C., and was assigned by
man conductor to a berth or
11, and was shocked to And
th No. 12 was occupied by a
shpegro man. Practically every re-
gj^ervatlon upon this car was occupied
. ay white ladies and gentlemen.
"Southern Railway Train No. 31,
foiaa, of course, you know, is an inter-
Ijqi/ate train and is under national con-
ol. South Carolina, however, has
her statute books a law whioh
t° P r dertakes to separate races in travel
whaton ail trains operating in this
of th/ 1 * There are "separate coach”
. | *0 In every Southern State through
*}ch this train operates and carries
Mr. Htr Pullman cars. While we may
are gli be able to reach your company
• vir» haT,n * T l ol * te<1 th ® letter of our
^ . you most certainly are guilty of
P^^lolalV” 1 purpose,
fl'tie railroad commission of South
trollna feels that It should erpreea
you in no uncertain terms its con-
vnatlon of your conduct in selling
sage to negroes and affording
-m accomodations on the same
chus upon whioh you have white
.men and white men passengers
you are aware, the Pullman
operating in the South is
sustained almost entirely by It*
white petrous, and thees do not pro
pose to aabmtt to conditions which
will permit negroes to occupy the
“We know full well that national
law requires your company to give
squal accomodations to both whites
and blacks, but there Is no law which
prevents your furulshlng separate ac-
oommodattons for the races. Just as
our ‘asperate coach’ law rwrulre* the
railroads to do in South Carolina
There are many legal wdyi ojjm
your company, that If Vcaorte^ro.
would remove the necessity for your
company forcing this Indignity upon
your white patroas in the South, and
the people of South Carolina will
moot certainly expect you to provide
accommodations in future that will
effectually separate the races
•Through the exposure of this re-
cent occurrence. It has been brought
to our attention that your company
bos frequently within recent months
violated the spirit of the South Caro
lina law. With the opening and clos
ing of the negro college at Orange
burg, 8. C.. we have been Informed
that your company sells to negroes
reservations on the cars that you
know are occupied by white ladles
and gentlemen.
‘‘The railroad coromlsaion of South
Carolina is aware of the fact that It
may entail some additional expense
upon your company to provide sep
arate accommodations for the races
while you are operating within this
State, but we are of the decided
opinion that if you do not do so, and
•peedtly, you will sustain far great-
w loss through those who wilt posi
tively refuse to patronize your com
pany.
•‘We wish to impress upon you this
fact: That we propose to continue
to give this matter our personal su
pervision and see to it that the peo
ple of South Carolina are kept thor
oughly informed as to what your
practice Is In future, and If you do
not voluntarily give us the relief, we
will appeal to our Representatives in
Congress for national legislation that
will compel you to meet the demands
of the white people of this State,
and of the South generally.”
—
Helps Charleston Out.
The Post says the pay roll of the
civilian employees at the Charles
ton navy yard continues to grow with
an Increasing number of mechanics
at work, pressing close to 900 men.
with an expenditure for salaries and
wages of nearly $60,000 a month.
The yard continued to be one of the
moat active industrial establishments
•f that aection, with much work In
and more coming up, to
tha alsa of tha working
and tha amovnt of tha pay roll.
SOME PLAIN FACTS
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4HOWINO HOW PROHIBITION
HAS PAID KANSAS.
*—
What It Haa Done for That State It
Will Do for This and Other States
Is Set Oat in the Following Article.
Hon. John 8. Dawson, Attorney
Oeneral of Kansas, delivered an ad
dress at Chicago, April, 1912, on
“What Prohibition Has Done for
Kansas”. The constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale In the State, of Intoxicating
liquor excapt for medical, scientiflc,
and mechanical purposes, was adopt
ed in November, 1880. It has, there
fore, been In operation long enough
ot afford a reasonable test of the ef
fects of State-wide prohibition. Mr.
Darwson acknowledges that for quite
a number of years theilaw was openly
defied in many of the larger towns
and cities. It took a long bitter fight
for the people of Kansas to convince
the law-defying liquor Interest that
they were really in earnest about
banishing the infamous traffic from
their State. Hut they are convinced
at last and for some time the prohi
bition laws of the State have been as
conaistently enforced as those agffinst
other common forms of criminal con
duct. In estimating the results of
prohibition, however, allowance must
be made for the delay occasioned by
this protracted battle against an
archy, and yet, in spite of this, these
results, as summed up by the Attor
ney General, are thoroughly convinc
ing. Here are a few of the more
important of them:
1. Illiteracy haa been red
from 49 per cent, to less than 2 per
cent, and this is confined almost en
tirely to the foreign element in the
southeastern portion of the State.
2. Eighty-seven of the one hun
dred and five counties of the State,
have no insane, fifty-four have no
feeble-minded, and ninety-six have no
inebriates. There Is only one pauper
in every three thousand population
Thirty-eight poor farms have no in
mates. In Jufy, 1911. fifty-three
county Jails were smpty, and stxty-
flve counties had no prisoner
Ing sentence some counties have not
called a Jury to try a criminal case
In ten years, and a grand Jury is so
uncommon that half the people would
not know what it is.
3. In 1H80 the bank savings de
posit in Kansas were $30,000,000;
to-day they are $200,000,000. The
State is now tha rlcheat per capita tn
the Union, the average wealth being
$1,700, whereas the average for the
nation la only $1,200 Mlsaouri. which
adjoins Kansas and is rich In nstarai
resources, has an average of less than
$300. During the panic of 1107,
Kansas sent $50.00g.000 to New
York to relieve the money market,
while Missouri sent nothing
4. In 1 880 the death rate in Mich-
igaa, Wisconsin. Iowa and Kansas
was practically the same, seventeen
to the thousand. Since the death
rate of Kansas has gradually fallen
till it ia now only seven and one-half,
while of the other States ha* slight
ly Increased.
6. The per caplle coet ef intoxi
cating liquors In Missouri Is $24. In
Kansas Is $1 48.
6. It has demonstrated that the
saloon is not a business, but a par
asite on business
7. It has taken politics out of the
saloons and the saloons out of poll-
tiem. Every political party In Kan
sas now stands for prohibition, and
keeping Joints, dives, and b.cthels
out of cities as much the business
policy of the average city as keeping
the streets clean, water pure, and the
public parks attractive.
In answer to the question as to the
realtlve value of prohibition and high
license as a means of abolishing the
evils of intoxicating liquors. Mr. Daw
son says: There is no relative value
High license Is not a means of abol
ishlng the evils of intoxicating li
quors. The only solution of the li
quor business is a bad business. It
is a bad business, and a tax upon a
bad businesa, a cruel, vicious, and
wicked business, means that the
State says to the rum seller: You
are corrupting the morals of my peo
ple, you are undermining the man
hood of my young men, yotL are rob
bing the cheeks of my young women
of their bloom, you are poisoning the
blood of my babes, you are wrecking
my homes, filling my Jails, and fur
nishing a spawn for the brothel
You are at the back of all the vil
lainies of the age, and are turning my
people into drunkards, lunatics, and
suicides, and you make a very large
amount of money out this infamous
business, and I shall require you to
stand and deliver to me a very con
siderable portion of this dirty money
which you are making in this villain
ous fashion.”
Does prohibition prohibit? “Of
course not,” answers Mr. Dawson.
"Neither does a gun shoot nor a ship
sail nor a piano make music of its
own accord. It takes a man behind
the gun to make it shoot, a sailor to
to sail the ship, and an artist to play
the piano; so, too, with the prohibi
tion law. It will sleep away the
vears In the musty tomes of a law
book and never prohibit anything un-
lest there are faithful executives be
hind it.” It has been ahown in Kan
sas, he declares, that it can be enforc
ed even In a community where pop
ular sentiments is against it. ”It
THREE MEN KILLED
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NINE WOUNDED BT ACCIDENT AT
FONT MOULTRIE
A BIG GUN FLARES BACK
Privates Baxter, Chriatenaea and
Dalton Killed, Two Former Being
Cut in Two and Capt Hanna Re-
ported Badly Wounded in Side by
Fragment from the Block,
The News and Courier says three
soldiers were killed and 9 or more
seriously injured late Thursday n^ght
at Fort Moultrie when the breech
blew off a three-inch gun which was
being used for night target practice.
Privates Baxter, Christensen and Dal
ton were killed, the former two be
ing cut in two and dying Instantly.
Capt. Hanna, who was standing
with several other officers of the
coast artillery, was badly wounded
in the side by a fragment from the
exploded cannon, Sergt. Lamar, of
the hospital corps, was injured in the
right arm and hand. Several were
slightly wounded by the explosion.
It was stated by a resident of Sul
livan’s Island that several officers
were reported wounded. Capt. Hanna
being one of them. He said that it
was dlffcult to learn Just how many
were wounded when the fragments
of the cannon scattered among the
soldiers close by.
It was reported that the breech had
not been properly closed after the in
sertion of a cartridge and that when
the cap was exploded the breech was
thrown back with terrific force.
The wounded men were rushed to
the post hospital, where Immediate
attention was given them. Several
Charleston physicians, responding to
the alarm, went hurriedly to the fort
and assisted in taking care of the vic
tims
The men killed were members of
the Sixteenth company, which was
firing the guns of the battery A
hurry call was sent to Charleston for
■ nrgeon* and several responded to
assist the two army doctors In oare-
ing for the Injured
The semi annual spring practice
was begun that morning, starting
with the firing of the mortars at
Flattery Carpon. under the new army
regulations the practice Is to be en
gaged In at night as well a* day
The facts of the accident were hard
to get Thursday An officer who
was asked for a statement would not
discuss It except in a general waa.
since the accldewt will be a matter of
official Investigation by a court of In
quiry
liOVKD RKR TO THK KXT>.
I/eave Rig Fortune to the Children
of Old Sweetheart.
Although he lost the hand of a girl
he wooed In his youth. James Carey
Rusaell. head of a coffee brokerage
houae In New York, kept green the
memoriea of hla romance and reveal
ed them in his will In which he be
queathed $25,000 to each of the three
children of the woman he had hoped
some day to marry.
Russell died a bachelor and his
most Intimate friends were Ignorant
that he even had a boyhood romance.
When he left Norwichtown. Conn . as
a young man in 1 880. to seek his for
tune In New York, he hoped to go
back some day for Mary Walt, only
daughter of former Congressman
John Turner Walt. But it happened
that in W'ashlngton she met John
Howard W’elles, a nephew of Lin
coln’s secretary of the navy, and ac
cepted h!s proposal of marriage.
The Welles had three children,
John Phillip, who is now a cotton
broker in Norwich, Conn., Winnlfred,
aged twenty-one, and Russell, now a
student at Cornell, who was named
for James C. Russell. After the
death of Mr. Welles in 1907, Russell
took an interest in his rival’s chil
dren and on his own deathbed last
March he sent word for Mrs. Welles,
who was also dying, of his decision
to provide for her children. She died
two weeks ago.
Must Have Been Crazy.
At Sparta, W’is., William Hogue,
seventy years of age, beat his aged
wife to death with a poker, fatally
shot his daughter, Mrs. Guy Wilson,
wounded his son-in-law Wilson, then
took his own life, by cutting his
throat. Hogue, angered at the turn
he fancied family affairs had taken,
first killed his wife, then attacked
the Wilsons in their home half a mile
distant. He returned to his dead
wife’s side to commit suicide.
takes Just three men,” be says, “to
do it, a judge, a sheriff, and a pros
ecuting attorney. These three aqd
no more, who fear God and nobody
else, and determined to enforce the
law—not all the saloon keepers and
brewers and all their followers and
sympathizers can prevail against
them. Most important of these three
is the Judge, and that is the officer to
whom the liquor Interests give the
most attention and the temperance
people the least. You must have a
Judge, or your law enforcement is
bound to be luefficieDt.
orb jsia M. &&
Your Home
and loved ones should be protected from the every-day
aches and pains by always having on hand a bottle of
NOAH’S LINIMENT—the Best Pain Remedy.
NOAH’S LINIMENT is for internal uses as well as for
external application. Absolutely pure and clean to use,
made in a modern laboratory and compounded as carefully
as a physician’s prescription, -
NOAH’S LINIMENT does not contain any chloroform,
ammonia, alcohol, naptha, benzii.c or poisonous drugs.
Noah’s Liniment
la an excellent remedy for rheumatism, lameness, stiff joints,
backache, neuralgia, strains, sprains, cuts, bruises, pains in chest
and side, sore feet. etc. Penetrates and requires very little
rubbing.
NOAH’S LINIMENT Is one of the best remedies for sore
throat, coughs, colds, colic and cramps. A few drops on a little
sugar will usually relieve these troubles Immediately. For
toothache there Is nothing better—a little on cotton In cavity and
applied externally.
Look for Noah's Ark—trade-mark—on every genuine pack
age: beware of substitutes.
NOAH'S LINIMENT Is sold by all dealers In medicines In
the cities and out la the country, In three sizes, at 26e, 60c and
$XM a bottle. Send for booklets and testimonials.
Noah Remedy Co., las., Richmond, Va.
Wwt ■ nmmwmigtm.
—"I hav« b..n using NoshA U£-
ment for mor* then e yoer.
find it the l*.t I bev*
tor rheum»tl»m. neurelgl*
ache* end peln* of eny klnjt —
Mr* A. M. Doylo. Richmond. V*
For Cold* end Hooroeeooe*
••Noah’* Liniment quickly r«Ueve*
cold* end hoar*ene**, and I hev*
carried a hotUe with me for
^traveling W. T Burton. WU-
Backaehe a»d , »tWI
■m have used Noah's Liniment for
backache and •cift Joints and pain*
and find it to be the best liniment
I ever used.”—Mrs. Saliie Young.
Palii Following; CkllU.—“My
little girl was suJTeniig with chin*
and for the pain following I us< d
Noah's Liniment, and it gave in
stant relief.’’—A. a Greenwood.
Richmond, V* , ,
For Sore Feet^- M Sufrerlng foi
a month with rheumatism in my
ankle, instep and toes. I com-
menccd to us£ No&h ® Lainlincnv*
and my foot has improved won
derfully, and can now walk with
x ,i) little Inconvenience. —C. A.
James, Portsmouth, Va
For Pal* la the BacJu—“I Buf
fered dreadfully for ten year* with
pain a to back. Less than half *
bottle of Noah’e Liniment
perfect our*"—Sir* ^ XX
FOUND A BIG SNAKE
COILED IN A CTIARIJCSTON PRI
VATE MAIL BOX.
and Part of Body Out nt Slit
Intended for lidter*, but Mood of
Snake Inside Box.
To extend one's arm to place some
11 In a perf*trtly Innocent looking
mail box and have a three foot snake
grin in your fac* Is not the pleasant
est experience that can occur to one.
the average man will admit. The
News and Courier says this wa* exact
ly what happened to I/ett'-r Carrier
Charlee H Claussen WeJneod*)
■ornlng The Make. It la said by one
who aaw It, wa* probably harmless,
but It was certainly vicious In appear
ance and for a time •hlvere were
coursing along several of the spine*
In the Immediate nel^hhc-hood of
the snake, which waa finally killed
by two negraes
Letter Carrier Claussen'* route
takes him to lower King street.
Charleston, where a large proportion
of the house# are equipped with
private mall boxes and some of these
boxes are of considerable dimension*
The letter carrier had. as usual.
sorted his mall according t) numbers
and was going his cheerful way.
when be came to such a box and.
taking the mall consigned for this
number from his pile, he was sbou‘
to Insert In the slit In the box It
was not Inserted for some time, how
ever The startled carrier s\w the
head of a snake sticking through the
slit In the mall box Said head was
waving nonchalantly to and fro and a
very businesslike tongue was pro
trudlng in a manner which would
have s^ken volumes to a mall car
rier or anybody else.
The greater part of the snake’s
body was Inside the box. as later In
vestigation proved. A portion of the
body and the head waa outside, com
ing through which mall ia dropped
into the box. Apparrently the snaka
had crawled into the mail box. no
other explanamation of its unwel
come presence there appearing likely.
When the mall carrier saw the
head of the snake pointing In such
a direct manner at him, he hesitated
about insulting the reptile by any
rude action, such as trying to squeeze
the letters in through the slit while
the snake’s head was occupying part
of it. But, of course, the letters had
to be delivered and the problem of
the snake in the box to be faced.
MeanwhHe the mail carrier’s di
lemma began to attract the attention
of passersby, who stopped to gaze at
the queer and unusual spetcacle of a
snake in a King street mail box.
They were careful, however, not to
stop too near to the box, because
there was no way of telling what fa
cilities that snake had for getting
out of the box, and since it had been
able to get in and appeared to be so
comfortable, it took very little rea
soning power to-, conclude that it
could get out the same way it got in
whenever it chose. So no one was
taking any chances.
No one, that is, until two colored
men, probably wise in the ways of
snakes, happened along the street
and saw the trouble. They ran to a
wagon which was passing, .seized a
heavy whip and, returning, made:
short work of Mister Snake. When
the reptile was killed and examined
it was found to be & fairly thick
green snake, about three feet in
length. The species of the snake
could not be ascertained, but it is
aald to have been harmless.
CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND
FARMERS EXCHANGE
RATE ONE-HALF CENT A WORD.
PLANTS.
“4'arolina Klee Meal”—The fins stock
food. West Petal Mill Co., Char
lesion. S. C.
For Sale—LooAoat Mountain Seed
Irish Potatoes,. $2 per bushel J. K.
Thackston, R 1, Powder Springs.
Ga
Nan« y Hall and Southera <Juem pota
to slip*. $1 2.* pw M Satisfaction
gusrante.»i Turffilln Farm*. Sails
bur). N C
Eastern Yam Potato Plants, $1 50 per
M special price to dealers Can fill
your orders promptly after May 10
W J Deal. Maiden. N C.
Sweet Potato Plant*—Early Trl
umphs. Nancy Hall. Porto Rico. Nor
ton. and Providence. $l 75 per 1.-
000. H H Thomas. Earleton. Fla
For Hale—Crystal White Indian Rus
ner dork egg*, stocks direct froa
Fisehel and Patton; the all whit*
egg strain. $3 for 13. O R. Hart-
tog. Greenville. 9 C.
ttatt'n Poor Eared Prolific Heed Cor*
— peck $1, bushel $3 Indian Run
ner Duck Eggs $1 per setting O
P Stallings. Enfield. N C.
Pra»—Clean mixed peas in good
aacks Best for hay Your last
chance to boy at $1 90 per bo f o
b Addreoa D W Watklna. Granite
Hill, Ga . or T. E Watkins, Belton,
R C.
For Hale—Nsncy Hall and Dooly
Yam Sweet Potato Slip# $1 50 per
thousand. Missionary and Ecelator
Strawberry Plants $2 per thousand
Write or wire. Southern Plant
Company., W: J. Hawklna, Mgr.,
Plant City, Fla.
White Leghorns, Bull Orpingtons,
White Plymouth Rocka Vigorous,
hardy stock. Eggs for hatching and
baby chloka. Mating List Free.
Bacon A Haywood. 205 Springfield
Are., Guyton. Ga.
. Uuu uu llarrvd ILw k-
Hamburgs. and Runner ducks. Eggs
at half price as this ad will not ap-
ar .iguiii Write [or circular Val
ley Head Poultry Farm. Big Rock,
Tcnn . Route 2 H
“Special Egg Sale” from first prise
Winners White OrpIngUns Import
ed direct from Englan 1 1 OJ fir 15.
Black Orpington* 1 no f jr I' White
Wyandota 1 Ou 15 J. P Kiulctt.
Fountain Inn. S C.
Prise Winning White Indian Runner
duck eggs. 11 for $2. 72 for
Bronte turkey etegs. 11 for $3. 22
for $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs.
$2 50 White Orpington eggs 1 50
for 15 and up Fawn and White
Indian. Runner duck eggs, ll.-u M.
B Grant. Darlington. R C
MIH4 KLLAMCOl H
Hartford'* Koape Care Guaranteed
50c delivered Poultry Remedy Co ,
Kneads. Fla
Ask for Oar Specials In IMnner Hex*—
Big money saved by our "factory
to buyer" plan Carolina Novelty
Co, Box 47 4. Raleigh. N C
Broken 4 utn—Crank case* cylin
der*. transmission cases, or any
thing made of metal welded bark as
good aa new Prices reasonable.
The Brldger* Co , Florence, 8 C.
Personal—Ladle#, when delayed or
Irregular nse Triumph Pills, al
ways dependable ’•Relief" and
particulars free Write National
Medical Institute, Dept 5.. Milwau
kee. WIs
Nancy Hall Potato Plants. Buy dir
ect from grower and get fresh
plants. Orders filled In any qu&n-
ity. $175 per 1,000 10,000 or
more. $1.50 per 1,000. A 0. Lan
caster, Pine Castle, Fla.
I*ilew can he relieved at once—Send
15c for liberal sample, ‘‘Lino Pile
I Remedy." and be convinced I^arge
site, 50c. 6 for $2 50. H M Knight
and Co, Manufacturing Pharma
cists, I/anc&ater, Penn.
Sweet Potato Plante, Nancy Hall and
Triumph, $1.75 per 1,000. I can
fill your orders in any quanlty.
Give me your orders for prompt de
livery and choice plants grown on-
der irrigation. G. D. Moore, Haw
thorn, Fla.
POULTRY AND EGGS.
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, ex
clusively, eggs $2 for 15, $3 for 3 0,
$8 for 100. Mrs, K. H. Hill, Wash
ington, Ga.
White Indian Runner Ducks—For 10
days will sell for $1.25 per dozen.
This ad will not appear again. S.
A. Lowrance, Mooresville, N. C.
100 White Indian Runners—To make
room for 3,000 young stock, will
sell for $10 a trio for next thirty
days. Alabama Leghorn Farms Co.,
Mulga, Ala.
a
Registered Berkshire Pigs—Ready to
ship. From prize-winning stock.
Big bone, short nose type. Write
for prices. W. H. Hudson, Tim-
inonsville, S. C.
Marry If you are lonely. The Reliable
Confidential Successful Club has
large number of wealthy eligible
members, both sexes wishing early
marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs.
Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal.
Ger Married — Matrimonial paper
containing advertisements mar-
riageble people from all sections:
rich, poor, young, old Protestante,
Catholics, mailed sealed free. The
"Correspondent,” Toledo, Ohio.
I will teach you bookkeeping and the
collection business.. Appoint you
my special representative in your
own town. In your spare time.
And help to make you prosperous.
W'rite to-day for this offer. Brown’s
Correspondence School, W’iicoxon
Building, Freeport, Illinois.
White Indian Runner Duck Eggs
from prize winning Carlisle-
Fishel-Patton strains, $1.50 dozen;
from Imported Penciled, $1 dozen.
W. O. Brownfield, Opelika, Ala.
SPECIAL
ANTB?
HIGH
SPEED
Sweet Potato Plante, express prepaid
to South Carolina, 1,000 to 3,000
at $1.75 per 1,000, 4,000 to 10,000,
$1.65; Nancy Hall, Triumphs, Porto
Rico yam*. C. F. Whitcomb, Uma
tilla. Fla.
Murder of Girl a Mystery.
Although the police have five men
under arrest in connection with the
murder of Grace Johnston, a school
girl, on Monday near Blackburn, Pa.,
the detectives and State constabulary
continue the search for the guilty
party.
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