Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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wammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaammmmmmmmmm 'THE LITTLE DONE, THE VAST UNDONE." The little dene sustaineth no man's soul; 3t knows it for an atom of a whole.* A tinv atom scarce worth heaven's seeing. Or-' man's acclaim or e'en a moment's being: And this although a fellow or a State Hold the accomplished thing as truly great. Nay, not the thing that's done, but what's undone Gives strength and comfort underneath the ? sun; The noems that, the poets never write. Yet dream and drink through many a sum. mer night. The statues chiselled when the imperial mind Js by no need of handicraft confined. The vast that beckons, stoops, but never yields Its fuller brightness in these earthlv .fields? ***?! flio 1 Innce ^ l-i rt f 1?ff i In a c*r\i vi i no J. JIVQV/ Ui V VUV l-Ulll^O ViiCIK ?li V HJV r't'i* IV Ml/ And plac? unto its lips the living cup. That give unto the sou! of man the strength To bear with all the year's injurious x ' length! ?New Orleans Times-Democrat. yr?v- ~?<j' fSOUTHERN ROSES 1 and NORTHERN LILACS I "Oh!?Oh!?Oh!" The woman in black turned and saw Helen drop to her knees. She was at her side in a moment. "Beautiful!" Helen was saying into the depths of the creamy roses. "Where did they come from?" "From Virginia; came by mail yesterday," said the woman in black in a soft Southern drawl. Helen noticed *?'. , \ the accent, and thought.it sweet. She ? 4 did not know it was Southern. "You put them here for us?" "I put them here for him." The v - woman in black pointed to the name on the marble slab. 'He did me? did us?a very great kindness years I ago." v She was on her knees now, beside Helen, helping to arrange the white lilacs. "I love them so, the flowers," she said. A robin was caroling overhead. Faintly there came to them the thrum, thrum of a drum, and far down the road a cloud of white dust was rising. "It was a beautiful day, just like to-day," the stranger was saying, in > her soft, Southern drawl. "Nature was joyously, exuberantly happy, but our hearts were heavy and sad. It seemed to me as if mipe was broken, as if I could never be happy and "ilierry again. Down in our pasture, tents were pitched. From our side piazza we could see blue coats moving about them. I hated those bluecoated men ? marauders ? I called them by every despicable epithet I could think of. I hated them because they were quartered on us without invitation. Only a few weeks before, a party of them came into our garden, and one of them went along and smashed the sashes of our hotbeds with his heel, and they helped themselves to our radishes and early vegetables. When old Tom called to them to 'leave 'em thar, we wants 'em to eat,' they laughed at him and retorted: 'We want 'em to eat, too, old Mr. Blackbird!' p "To tell the truth, we had not very much to eat in those days: we were short rations often, and now I reflect they must have been, too, those boys in blue. I hated them most, I think, because only a few days before they had killed and eaten my pet heifer. . ' "Oh child, those were hard days, cruel days! But hardest on us in whose homes and dooryards the fierce, bloody battles were fought. Our house was watched. I'd seen the men picketed about it. We were suspected of harboring an escaped prisoner, a spy, they deemed him. A squad of blue coats came riding up ou lane one morning. They were coming to search our premises. We'd expected this for several days. They dismounted and tied their horses to the garden fence. Ono of them came to me. I was sitting on a bench ; ^alongside the house. Over it I'd spread a rug I'd fetched from the hall. % "Ihe officer explained, or attempted to explain to me that he had seen v detailed to the painful duty"of searching our house. 'Don't,' I interrupted, 'make any apologies; they're quite cut of place at such a time, and from you. Our permission you do not need ?we are at your mercy, sir!' "I could have struck him dead, standing there, cap in hand, had I / been able. I think I looked my hatred. He looked embarrassed, pained. At a signal from him the men entered the house. He had bidden them give as little offense as possible and be quick. He stood there, irv Honrl TL-hilp fhp mpn U'Prp in side?it seemed to me they were ages inside. His face was partly averted. It was a fine, noble face, a face to win confidence. He may have a mother at home, or a sister or a sweetheart at home, I thought. I had never associated these tender ties with my hated enemies before. The men came out and he went toward them, and it seemed, led them away from me. 44 4All right,' he said, 'I was quite sure there was no one concealed inside that house.' Did he emphasize the word inside? I thought he did, was sure he did, and the thought froze the blood in my veins. 44,,He came back and stood guard over me. What did he mean to do next? Oh, how anxiously I studied his face while his men searched our outbuildings. And when they had done, he pointed to their horses, then turning to me, cap still in hand, he said: T hated to make this search, hut we have to obey orders. Say to f them, to your people, that you will not be subjected to this annoyance again while I am on duty, but I shall be relieved of duty here at S o'clock to-morrow morning?S o'.clock tomorrow morning,' he emphasized. "I know what he meant. I knew he meant 'get your house in order before that ' Tears sprang to my eyes, tears of gratitude, tears of relief. I would have sprung up and gone to him and shaken his hand, had I dared to get up. 'Oh sir, thank you, thank you!' I murmured, and reached him a couple of roses off the bush that grew beside me, the parent of that bush." The woman in black pointed to the creamy roses on the soldier's grave. "He came and took them from me, bowed low, and mounted nis norse. I Then I saw Benny's feet sticking out | from under the rug, Benny, for whom they were searching. And I knew that that officer had seen them, too. I'd been literally sitting on Benny all that time?making 'Cbench of him." "Oh, he did see them, grandpa told mo he did," broke in Helen, "and he told me how sorry he felt for you, and said he kept the roses a long time, a very long time And you were the beautiful girl?" The woman in black blushed and looked very beautiful to Helen. "1 was the girl," she said. "And Bennj ! said I nearly crushed the breath out of him, I was so heavy." I "Benny was your brother?" "No, he was my playfellow, and afterwards my husband. "We got him away that night, in old Tom's clothes." "Grandpa said he hoped you would, for your sake. And he is " "Dead; has been these many years." The woman in black touched her somber dress reverently. The thrum* thrum, thrum had been sounding louder and the cloud of dust had been coming nearer, along the road. The little procession of veterans turned up the avenue of the cemetery. The woman in black and the girl in white put the last lingering touches to their floral tribute, the roseL from Virginia, and the lilacs from York State, on the Federal soldier's grave and passed down the little narrow walk, arm in arm, as the little procession of veterans came up the driveway.?American Agricultui* ist. FORESTS TURN TO PAPER. Acres of Trees ^ Consumed Daily in Epfiemeral Literature. If one asked "the man In the street" what paper was made of, writes R. K. Duncan, in Harper's Magazine, he would almost certainly say "rags," and for the fair white sheet upon which I write this would be true, but for paper in general the answer would be absurdly inadequate for there exists not one one-thousandth part of "rags" that would be necessary. Our civilization exists largely on a paper basis, and in England alone it requires 650 mills, pro ducing some 50,000 tons a week, to fulfil our needs. To feed these mills science laid her hand on cellulose, whic^ cannot, make, but can only take fronT plants. Tn the plant ~t!ie cellulose of the cell walls, with the exception of cotton, which is unique, does not stand up pure and free and uncombined, but exists always incrusted chemically with some other substance. The substance of woody fibre is thus always cellulose X, and the problem for science was cither to manufacture paper directly out of cellulose X (lingo cellulose or wood fibre) or to devise some practical method of extracting the X substance from the cellulose and thus obtain it pure and free for paper. Both methods are practiced to-day. Paper boxes, wrapping paper and almost all the newspapers of the land are made, not of rags, bpt simply of disintegrated deal boards pounded and mashed and amalgamated into paper. Any one of the large London or American daily papers consumes eacu day fully ten acres of average forest Such paper does not last. The wood fibre out of which it is " - -111 maae is, umiKt; puie icuuiusc, aticu upon by light and air and water and the organisms of decay. This is bad, but not wholly bad, for most of the literature appearing on this paper is made as mechanically as the paper itself, and it is fitthig that it should be as ephemeral in fact as it is in nature. But sometimes Literature (with a capital L) appears on tills ! wooden foundat^on^-and that Is a tragedy. Had Mr. Pepys written his admirable dairy upon what we call I "scribbling paper," we would to-day I haye no Mr. Pepys. England alone I every year imports some 350,000 tons of this mechanical wood pulp to turn it into paper. She imports also some 200,000 tons of what is called "chemical wood pulp" ? i. e., wood froir which the incrusting impurities have been removed and which consists o.< cellulose almost pure. Testing Missionary's Patience. The Rev. Frederick B. Bridge' man, the noted and successful mis' sionary to the Zulus, was talking ir Philadelphia about missionary work "I am very hopeful of it," he said "I may be a little too hopeful be cause I have had such good success It is better, though, to be too hope ful than too doubting. "Much depends upon the charactei of the people one works among, anc I can sympathize a little with a mis sionary who returned home fron China in a very despondent mood. "A Chinese convert stole this mis sionary's watch and then came bacl to him the next morning to lean how to wind it up."?Boston Globe FORTY-TWO DROWN [ I In Night Collision of Ships ! on Puget Sound. ONE VESSEL GOES'DOWN Disaster Came With Such Suddenness That Passengers Were Caught Off Their Guard ? Most of the Victims Were Women. A special from Seattle, Wash., says: Paget sound, so prolific of marine t disasters, had another Sunday night ' in a. collision between the Alaska steamer Jennie and the Seattle-Peri Biakely steamer Dix, in which fortytwo people were drowned. Those lost *\erp all passengers of the Dix j and many residents of the mill town of Port Biakely. Thirty-seven were ( saved. The unfortunates were sent to their awful death with scarcely a mo; meat's warning. Saddest of all, they ' gave their lives through the crimi; nal recklessness of one Charles Dennison, mate of the Dix. This strong statement is practically that of Captain P. Lermond and Captain Masca, masters, -respectively, of the Dix and Jeanie. Both charge Dennison with having ' been responsible for the enrollment of so appalling a death list. The Dix is a total wreck. The Jeanie was not injured in the least, and no member of her crew was lost. The master of the Dix was saved. The collision occurred while the sound was tuiuusi :is suiuuLii ;ts a win puna. ana i after the boats had been steaming within sight of each other for a quarter of an hour. The Jeanie was backing, in an attempt 1o avoid the Dix when the collision occurred. Thc#impact was veryslight. The Dix was struck abaft of amidships on the starboard side. She listed heavily to port for a brief pe. riod, righted herself, then sank stem first. There was hardly time to launch life rafts or boats before she was almost entirely submerged. Passengers jumped from the decks into the water; women screamed and ouicers and men called orders that could hardily be heard above the din. The passengers from the Dix who could ?wim made their way to the sides cf the Jeannie and were dragged aboard. The Jea.nie wc.s act moved until after all who had reacheded sher had been hauled aboard. Then she cruised about picking up several who had managed to stay above water. The collision occurred at 7 o'clock, and it was after 10 o'clock before the Jeanie left the scene of the catastrophe and steamed to the Virginia street dock, Se, sttle, with her thirty-seven survivors. # The Jeanie of the Alaska Coast r.Y.nnsnv h^ri finished 'unloading; at the Great Northern docks at Smith's Cove* and had started for Tacoma shortly before 7 o'clock just about the same time the Lix left the Flyer dock for Port Blakeley. There were no passengers on the Jeanie. The Dix was making the last trip of the night and was well filled with passengers. When within about tow miles north of Alki Point, the two steamers were within7 short distance of each other, steaming along on converging lines. The ca'ptain of the Jeanie says he signalled to the Dix to- pass him and his whistle was answered. The Dix wr.s then within speaking distance of the Jeanie and to the port i of her. Suddenly Mate Dennison, who was at the wheel of the Dix put her i hard over starboard as if to cross in front of the other vessel. Captain Mason of the Jeanie, who was on the - bridge, saw that an accident was 1m1 minent and called out a warning to 1 the man at the wheel of the Dix. Captain Mason gave the signal to reverse his engines and his vessel 1 was slowly hacking away when the r two came together. I 1 "AN UN S U S P ECTSAVAGE." i : ; : Judge Speer So Characterizes Vagabond Negro in Charge to Jury. Judge Emory Speer delivered, in [ some respects a sensational charge to [ the federal grand jury at the opening t of the United States court in Augusta, 5 Ga., Monday. Judge Speer discussed I the crimes of the negro against white women and declared that lynching is no deterrent. He declared that "our condition is worse than that of our forefathers of the frontier when the Indians were on the warpath. "For," declared the judge, "the savage is r at our door and is unsuspected. REPRIEVE FOR NEGRO TROOPS. * Further Dischargee Suspended Pend ing Additional Orders. r Acting under orders of Secretary 1 Taft, Major General Ainsworth, mil? itary secretary, has directed that fur1 ther discharges of the men of the three negro companies of the twenty fifth infantry, on account of the ? shooting at Brownsville, Texas, be 2 suspended pending further orders* > . V : i '" ny ZJ" i ' "1 . V / " STORM WAS DISASTROUS ! i j Details of Cyclone and Deluge in Three States Show Damage Dene Cver Wide Area. As mere detailed reports are received from these portions of Alabama, north and central Mississippi and west Tennessee, swept by the wind and rain storms of Saturday night and Sunday, the situation increases in seriousness. Practically the entire district is under water to a depth of several feet. Creeks and small streams are leaving their banks and many of the poorer white persons, as well as scores of negroes, have been forced from their homes by the rising waters, seeking retuge m iflKuy instances in iress. Every effort is being made to remove them to places of safety. Because of . the continued rainfall the vcrk of rescue is proceeding very slowly. To add to the seriousness of the situation, the weather is becoming bitter cold- and much suffering is anticipated. From Winona, Maben and Mat'nisten. Miss., more complete reports were received and in each instance the amount of damage is increased from that at first reported, a conservative estimate placing the total damage to the three towns at $300,000. Throughout the country districts beiween these towns many small settlements have been destroyed and historic plantation homes have been either completely wrecked or badly damaged. Wreckage of cotton gins, sawmills and, in fact, every kind of plantation structure, is strewn throughout this district. The precipitation continues with no sign of abatement. What unharvested crops were in the fields are now believed to be a total loss. In Memphis the preciptation from Friday until Monday afternoon had reached a maximum of 7.42 inches, and the continued rainfall has wrought great havoc in the city and the immediate vicinity. Miles of railway trackage and bridges have been wasnea away, telephone and telegraphic ' communication demoralized, and street car traffic blockade to such an extent that on several lines operations have been temporarily suspended. Wfrlf river, a small stream running eastward of the city, is out of its banks and flowing into the Missississippi' rive^ the overflow having already carried with it over ten thousand logs valued at $100,000. Rossville, a small town on this stream, is completely submerged. From present indications, it is believed that fully $100,000 damage has been done to the road and turnpike systems of the county by the floods. Fourteen bridges are reported destroyed and about nine miles of levees washed away. The monetary loss to the farmers throughout the submerged district will reach many thousands of dollars from the loss of live stock drowned and unharvested crops destroyed. GIVE WOMEN. THE BALLOT Is Request of Federation of Labor in Strong Resolution. The American Federation cf Labor, .in convention at Minneapolis, declared for woman's suffrage with one dissenting vote. The conventionadopted a resolution which calls on fife judiciary committee of the house of representatives to report the joint - ' / 1 ~ fA resolution providing iur suumiuwg the legislatures an amendment to the constitution of the United States allowing women to vote. vPEONAGE CASE IN TENNESSEE; Railroad ' Contractor Faces United States Court at Knoxville. Trial of the charge of peonage against R. B. Oliver, an extensive railroad contractor, was begun at Knoxville, Tenn., Monday in a special tern of the United States circuit court, Judge Clark presiding. The defendant entered a motion for a continuance, which was overruled by the court. CN CONSPIRACY CHARGE. Bank Officials Are indicted by Disj trict of Columbia Grand Jury. The grand jury of the District or Columbia Monday returned an indictment against Abner R. Clements, former cashier of the Aetna Banking and Trust company of Butte, Mont.; John T. Koag, assistant cashier of the same institution, in charge of the Washington branch, and Eveleth W. McCormick, for conspiracy. The indictment charges conspiracy by unlawfully procuring in the District of Columbia charters for corporations by false pretenses. SEEKS ADVANCE OF CASE. Georgia Attorney General Enters Motion Before U. S. Supreme Court. A Washington dispatch says: Attorney General Hart of Georgia entered a motion in the supreme court of the United States Monday to advance the hearing in the case of tho Georgia railroad company against the state, involving the right of the state to collect back taxes on railroads. t j - : Palmetto State lews l r y vljy v ? Two Brakemen Meet Death. Two brakemen named Lloyd and Chesney vrere killed in a head-on collision between a freight and a work train on the Southern railway near Dent. Conductor Tripiett had a leg broken and Engineer Snipes and his fireman were injured, perhaps, fatally. ? > * * * Respite sisvea utt nanging. George Kenny, sentenced to hang in Charleston last Friday, was granted a respite until December 28. The case may go to the supreme court. Hds lawyers got the execution stayed. Kenny was convicted for the murder of Stockade Guard Slelle in August. * * ? Negro Bank Goes to Wall. The Workingmau's Savings afid Loan company of Greenville, the only nearo banking institution in the state, closed its doors a few days ago by order of the state bank examiner. Careless bookkeeping is said to be the cause of the bank's embararssment. Its capital stock was $14,000. * * * 9 Oil Mill Destroyed by Fire.' The T6wnville Oil Mill at Townville, Anderson county, was burned | rr-centlv with a loss of about $17,000, I covered by insurance. I Townville is ten miles from a rail- j road, and this is said to have been | the only cotton-seed oil mill in the j south so situated.- It has been run- I rang for several years, and has been i t-uite successful. * * * Head of K. of P. Dead. James H. Thayer, one of Charleston^ most prominent citizens, died last* Sunday night. He was supreme representative of the Knights of Pythias of South Carolina, past grand , chancellor, ex-president of the Hibernian Society and ex-county chairman of the democratic executive committee. His age was 52 years. .He was stricken with apoplexy. I * * * Pricleau Not Yet Free. A Charleston dispatch says: Aaron Prioieau, the negro republican, who - J. i-r, has been a contests.ut ior beat iu | congress from the first district for several years, has just completed a term of four months in jail for tampering with the mails, but in place cf being given his freedom, he is held or. a Warrant from Orangeburg, and will be delivered to an officer from that county, to be tried on the charge of forgery. 1 t * * * Plant Closes Temporarily. The Jordan Manufacturing company. located at Wellford, Spartanburg county, has been forced to close temporarily on account of a shortage in t/arn. The company manufactures towelings. i . While tAe mill is closed down the operatives will be given employment in Tucapau cotton mill. All of the operatives at the Jordan mill are experienced mill hands and will have no trouble in securing'' employment. * * * Mill. President Re-Elected. At a stockholders' meeting in Columbia a few days ago, Mr. L. W. I'p.rker of Greenville was rb-elected president of the Richland, Granby and Capital City cotton mills. The Ava/>iitivo work of these, corporations is dispatched from Columbia* A number of immigrants who came over on the Wittekind are now at work in Greenville mills, and they say they are satisfied with their surroundings. The new arrivals are mostly Belgians, while there are a few Flemish weavers among them. * Veterans Endorse Action. The Confederate Veterans of Spartanburg heartily indorse the resolution of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, doing away with maids of honor and psonsors at the annual" reunions of the veterans, and now the j heroes of the Lost Cause will have all the glory that is coming, to them. At the next meeting of Camp Walker U. C. V., it is expected that a resolution will be passed indorsing the action of the Daughters of the Confederacy, placing maids of honor and sponsors under the ban. * * Hampton Staue 'Jnveiled. Tuesday the equestrian statue erected to the memory of /Wade Hampton at a cost of $30,000 was unveiled at Columbia. Tli? principal address was delivered by General M. C. Butler, General Hampton's comrade in war and colleague in congress. Various buildings in the city were decorated in the United States and Confederate colors, and a large crowd was in attendance. Military-organisations throughout the state, old soldiers. representatives from the various colleges, school children and others were in attendance. The statue \; ' ' ' " ' - ' 'V "7 ' t -r<; 353 J\. ' j ;..y i g ?the work of Sculptor F. W. Rucks- 1 thul?is considered a very fine piece of work. It-was erected by the state of South Carolina, and its citizens, j$20,000 being appropriated by the legislature and $20,000 by popular sub scriptiou. if i '-? * * Shot Down by Assassin. Saturday night at Goldville, in Laurens county, John Atkinson, a young mill operative dt the Banna cotton -2 mill, was killed. He was shot at II o'clock, as he was passing between the mill building and the railroad oo his way home. One report is to the effect that he was in company with two other young men and was fired ^ upon by some one concealed behind a ,v. bnildin* . ' , . . On the other hand, it is stated that *% -J Atkinson was alone when the assas- .. sin got in his work. ^Jsjjj Young Atkinson killed his faths^-^^B John Atkinson, Sr., ?at (jOfdvStwy about two years ago while the old ;/ nan, who, in a drunken rage, was ? . whipping Mrs. Atkinson, his wife, and ' ||| mother of young Atkinson. At the vjj following term of court the grand . ? jury returned "no bill" against Atkin son. The killing of young Atkinson . makes the fourth murder committed in Hunter township since last spring, . two white and two colored, and the " ^ y1'. third assassination in Laurens connty within the past two months, one ",-S white and two colored. * 4 lira McDow Died of Wounds. Dr. E. S. McDow died at the Rock Hill hospital, as the result of the if wound inflicted by his brother-inlaw, John A. Bridges. The body was taken to his home in Lancaster and; |||% after the inquest was buried there.-. As previously published, McDow-.^^f r.nd Bridges met on the streets of Heath Springs and'Bridges shot with :}%^0 a shotgun and wounded his brother- $|||| i in-law. une ioaa euierea m? ivu and another load entered the right ? arm, necessitating the amputation of/- ^ hoth aims. McDow was a native of' * Tennessee and was about 36 ye*e&:::s?zM old. He was engaged in a fight sevi eral months ago with a young clerk fjp?g| named Witherspocn, in*Lancaster, and "rshot 1 Witherspdjon, who recovCTeff/ * There had been hard feelings between* McDow and his brother-in-law,* Bridges, for some time over family;^ ^ I matters. Dr. McDow' was a brother of the ; late Dr. T. B McDow, who shot and hilled Francis W. Dawson, thfe bril- \ h liant editor 'of the Charleston and Courier, fifteen years ago. "SLAYERS^H/UNKED B? Remarkable Verdict Ove^ ing of Asheville Negro Desperado. At the inquest held over the body of Will Harris, alias Rufe Lindsay the desperado, who was shot to death ^ by a posse of officers and citizens,* the coroner's jury at Asheville, N. C., returned the following remarkable ^ verdict: "The said Will Harris, alias Rufe Lindsay, came to his death at the hands of public-spirited citizens who -at the time were in the fearless and unselfish discharge of a public duty, that the law might be vindicated and -ri, ^ justice administered; that said WUi ^EbB Harris, alias Rufe Lindsay, at the time of his death was resisting ar-, ,;LJ? rest and attempting to shoot ami kill ^ the citizens, above referred to, conv sisting of the posse who were attempt .;. ^ ing under due authority of the.law , . to affect the capture of the said Wilt > j Haris, alias Rufe Lindsay. , "That the citizens'above referred to, eonstiuting the posse aforesaid", as well as others who participated In the >" search and spontaneous efforts to bring to justice this incarnate fiend. and savage desperado, are entitled to; the commendation and thanks of the ; whole community." < V" v'f, / -Y?; CRAPSEY GUILTY OF HERESY. * v '"^7 * 7;. J Preacher is Suspended for Denying Virgin Birth of Christ The Rey. 'Dr. Algernon Crapsey, of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal v.,?i church, Rochester, N. Y., ^ is con- y demned to suspension from the church as a result of the decision of ' ' the ecclesiastical court, which''was made public Monday. The court of v ":? review sustains -the decision cf the lower court which was that Dt. Crap- ! sey should be suspended for heretical teachings. ' t Dr. Crapsey, in his sermons and":' writings questioned the virgin birth ^ nf Jpsn??. He also contended that there ^ were fallacies in other beliefs and doctrines forming the foundation of ^ the Protestant Episcopal church. ' .-t.y J NEGROES SORE ON ROOSEVELT, . Protest Against Action in Dismissing' ' Colored Troops. -At a meeting of the Negro Baptist Associations of North Carolina in Salia- .' bury, Thursday, resolutions denouncing :)s President Roosevelt for discharging ,?. ^ three companies of the twenty-fifth in-, fantry, were adopted. the body - J "strenuously protests against the un-:Vv:;vprecedented and 1 arbitrary action of^fj|| President Roosevelt in punishing tho "V innocent and guilty alike. No one for a moment believes that these compa- " | nies would have been dishonorably discharged if they had been composed white soldiers" V . ?