Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J-n* ' ? - ' - ' : - . . \ JACK. ftrnnger, you ask accommodation. Say.? 1 ain't 110 grouch, but then it's jest this way: You come a-steamin' up in thet big car O'yourn?dod blast the thing. You've traveled far. Cot far to go. an' ask itip for the night To put you up. it ain't my style?net quite! ? To grudge a traveler a bed an' snack. But?well, stranger, say: I hain't forgot | Jack! Who's Jack? Oh. jest a leetle yal'er cur? Ttn*- r?ii- <yjl lr??-fwl hitn nn' we boll) Inved ! her. Wc shore did, stranger! Mary died at seven. Jest sort o' went to find her ma in heaven. An' that left me an' Jack?jest him an' me. Jack?cutest ]i1 tie pup you ever see, Bright as a button, busy as a bee. An' even-thin' I'd left in Clod's good world? Cyme limpin' in one arlernoon an' curled Up in my arms?you never sec sech eyes! I done the host I knowed how, doctorwise. Bandaged the bleedin' paw?big tourin' car Bone it?an' then, jest prayed an' waited. Far Inter the night I held him. Then I saw Poor Jack was swell in'?lor "twa'nt jest the paw. Like I'd be'en hopin'?Jack was hurt inside. Injured internal like. Midnight, he died. But I'm keepin' vou. Stranger, 1? shot dark' Then, somehow, suthin' hit ir.e; things went hiaclc. Xexl day?right over there by vender i tree? 3 dug another gravo; there?don't, you see. Three graves arowAn' this yere cabin's mine. Folks call me Crazy Bill, an' I opine They ain't so fur oh. Mighty out o' date, j Thinkin' dogs has souls! Well, it's gittin' ' late. < j An' 7 don't b'lieve there's no use stoppin' ; here, \ Stranger. It sort o' seems like 'I don't ! keer For company, for somehow?I'm sort o" I queer! ?T., in New York Sun. ! j 4$ ^ I A MISUNDERSTANDING. I j 1 - ^ . 1 ! j v Helen's Forethought Almost | Shipwrecked Engagement. $ ^ fr"' I took in the situation at a glance. Helen had two fellows on the string. It wa'3 pretty hard to come 200 miles to find that out?especially ! when, a month before, I bad bid !Helen good-by at the station in j town, and there was a lock in her : eyes?well, that seemed to be for me alone. It had given me a com- ! fortable feeling all along, and especi-j ally as Helen's letters seemed to ex- j j hale a certain atmosphere of dis- ' consolateness?just as if she really missed me. We came into the inn from the station on the buckboard. It was a j two-mile drive. The road was the j kind called corduroy?and we got j some heavy jolts. Still, I managed i to take Helen's hand, and she didn't j i * minfl A ff aw oil mn iu miuu. aiici ciii, au uiac juivj- i ment it seemed quite worth while to ! have come all that distance. There i was the first embarrassment that always comes to lovers long separated?but our eyfcs told volumes. I was glad also that we were surrounded by forests. There would be chances for me to have Helen all to I myself in such a wilderness. 1 had scarcely registered, however, before, as I turned around, I overbeard a buzz of conversation. The two had come up. Helen introduced them rapidly. "Mr. Pollard, Mr. Castleton, Mr. Bertrand,( Mr. Castleton." They nodded cheerfully. I could i feel myself growing uneasy. "Say, Miss Helen," said Mr. Pol- ; lard, "can I have the first dance tonight?" "And," broke in Mr. Bertrand, "I i claim the second." These two chaps were immacu- ! lately dressed in white flannel suits, j They were apparently cast in the j same mould. vj 1 didn't dance myself?I hated it. j Her answer made me desperate. "I suppose so," said Helen. She looked at me as if to get my sanction, or as if she had really done something of which she expected me to approve. At any rate, I didn't T OOnlfl fool TTlVCOlf TATV? ! tajjyiUYCt X V/VU1U A.WA Q. V .. I ^ ' ing warm with rage. To think that I had come two hundred miles only to find that the girl I counted on was as fickle as that. "I must see about my room,'' I said, and broke away and went upstairs. When I came back they were all three sitting together. It was in the front hall. Helen got up. "Shall we go for a row?" she said. I want to show you the surroundings." "Let's," said Mr. Pollard. "Let's," said Mr. Eertrand. "How jolly!" exclaimed the voice St of Mr. Pollard. "Delightful!" cried Mr. Eertrand. "Let's make up a party," said Helen. "Come Jack: take us ail. i . You row so splendidly!" They piled in, and, there being no help for it; I went along. Hf. Next day the affair progressed in about the sane fashion. We all went J on a tiresome picnic and I cooked the ! dinnbr. "Trior nio-1i* to U'PJ'P Til! tired -Ifld ! went to bed early. But I woke up j at midnight, and, thinking it ail over,! and Helen's cruelty, I made up my i mind to give the affair up. The next morning I made my arrangements to leave on the' first train. I took an early breakfast; then I started down to the lake for a last look. On the way back I came face to face with Helen. She betrayed anxiety. "I've been looking for you every- j vhere," she cried. "Surely this is ; not true?you are not going? The clerk told me." "Yes. 1 am." There was a rustic seat in a bypath. and we both sat down. "You've been horrid to me," said Helen, "ever since you came. You haven't " "1 haven't been any worse to you than you have been to me." I replied. Helen began to cry softly. "You told me once," she said, "that?that you loved me." "I do," I replied. I was beginning to feel rather queer myself. "Of course I love you, Helen," I said. I had to put my arm around her then. It seemed the most, natural thing to do. "Haven't I told you I loved you?" I went on. "Haven't I said that you were the only girl I ever thought about? Didn't I come 200 miles so I could be with you? And when 1 got here what did I find? That I couldn't even get near you?" Helen looked up and smiled through her tears. "Don't you understand. Jack, dear?" she said. 'I wanted to tell you before, but " She blushed. "No." I replied, bluntly; "I don't understand. What is it? Why do you tolerate those?those Words failed me. "Why, because they are so smartlooking and handsome, and have such perfect manners. Only, Jack, dear, from the way you have been treating me. I was almost afraid that it really wasn't going to be necessary to cultivate them." "Necessary!" I repeated. "What do you mean? Explain yourself." "Why. Jack," replied Helen, "have, you, or can you have, the faintest, remotest idea of. how hard it is to get good-looking ushers nowadays? Look at Bessie Billings' wedding. What awful-looking things she had. And don't you see, Jack, dear. why.I want to keep on good terms with Mr. Pollard and Mrf Bertrand?" Then I understood.?Judge. ROOSEVELT TO EDITORS. Says No Other Body of His Gountrymeii Wield Such Influence. Editors from all parts of the United Slates assembled in the Auditorium Building at the Jamestown Exposition. They were members of the National Editorial Association, which held its annual convention there. The chief feature was the address of j President Roosevelt, who spoke as follows: I "It is of course a mere truism to J say that no other body of our coun- ; trvmen wield as extensive an influ- j ence as those who write for the daily i press and for the periodicals. It is also a truism to say that such power implies the gravest responsibility, and the man exercisingit should hold himself accountable, and should be held by others accountable, pre- j cisely as if he occupied any other position of public trust. | I do not intend to dwell upon your duties to-day, however, save that I shall permit myself to point j out one matter where it seems to me j tnat tne neea 01 our peopie is vuai. It is essential that the man in public life and the man who writes in the j public press shall both of them, if they are really good servants of the people, be prompt to assail wrongdo- i ing and wickedness. But in thus assailing wrongdoing and wickedness there are' two conditions to be fulfilled, because if unfulfilled harm and not good will result. In the first place, be sure of your facts and avoid everything like hysteria or exaggeration; for to assail a decent man for something of which he is innocent is to give aid and comfort to every scoundrel, while indulgence in hysterical exaggeration serves to weaken, not strengthen, the statement of truth. In the second place, be sure that you base your judgment on conduct, and not on the social or economic position of the individual with whom you are dealing. There are good and bad men in every walk of life, and their being good or bad does not depend upon whether they have or do not have large bank accounts. Yet this elemental fact, this fact which we all accept as self-evident, when we think each of us of the people whom he himself knows in his business and social relations, is often completely ignored by certain public men and certain public writers. The men who thus ignore it and who at tack wickedness only when found in a particular class are always unsafe and are sometimes very dangerous leaders. Distrust equally the man who is never able to discover any vices of rich men to attack ahd the man who confines himself to attacking the sins and shortcomings of rich men. It is a sure sign of moral and mental 'dishonesty in any man if in his public assaults upon iniquity he is never able to see any iniquity save that of a particular class; and this whether he is able to see the crimes of arrogance and oppression in the rich or the crimes of envy and violence in the poor. He is' no true American if he is a respecter of persons where right and wrong are concerned, and if he fails to denounce the demagogue no less than thp cnrruntionist. to denounce alike crimes of organized greed and crimes of brutal violence. There is equal need to denounce the wealthy naan who swindles investors or buys legislatures or oppresses wage workers, and the needy man who inflames class hatred or incites mob violence. We need to hold the scales of justice even, and to weigh them down- on one side is as bad as to weigh them down on the other." The most expensive cigars made cost sibout $7 each. 1 ! I F. !; Palmetto State News I y vt y f f v ?> y v v y I Petitions Fell Short. | After carefully checking ike names ! appearing on the petitions calling for . an election on the liquor question in j Newberry county, with these contain: pd in the registration books of the | county, Supervisor Wicker has ani nounced that the petitions fell short j of the required number of names of j registered voters by about two kun| dred voters, and the prayer of the petitioners was therefore refused. * $ * . Want Gov. Ansell's Views. An interesting report of the boom I that is being launched for Governor i ! souiod uoiysniuiou inijuaptsaau oifueoo i * mop aqt joj uuiiojbo quox jo uuoo trom a telegram received for Governor Ansel Monday morning from the New York Times. It was as follows: "Can you favor the New York Times with a telegraphed expresion of your views on the North Carolina situation and on Governor Glenn as a democratic presidential candidate? Dispatches say the state will put him forward in the convention and Bryan will support j him." * * * Lunatic Shoots Constable. A Columbia dispatch says: Monday, Magistrate J. I. Valentine of Cope, OrJ angeburg county, sent bis? constable, ? ? ? T5 T3 H. E. Valentine, to ai rest i\. ?. Franklin^ a negro, one a charge of larceny. Franklin lives on E. S. Spire's place, about four miles from Norway. Constable Valentine pressed into service W. X. Carter, and both went to Franklin's house to arrest him. On arriving at the house, Valentine went to the front door and go; in, and the negro drew his pistol and fired at him. The ball entered his left side and penetrated the siomach. The negro wrenched Valentine's pistol from him, and it fired, striking the negro in the shoulder. Valentine was 'fatally 7/ounaed. The negro is still at large, and is j being chased by a pesse of men. I . * V * Lumber Plants May Close. j The lumbermen of North and South j roaa. I * j * * Meeting of Farmers' Union. j The state convention of the Farmers' j Union of South Carolina was held in l Greenwood, and was a success in ev* ery feature. I j Mayor Baker of Greenwood deliver! ed the address of welcome. The initial j session was occupied in routine work j and the appointment of committees, j Warehouses, fertilizers and the immi, graticn question received due considj oration. The principal feature cf the Cflc-cirm wac iVio m n rrni f1r?<?r? f Ilioi ua; i ? v*.o ?.uv- ? v?s?*^w^^v address of Chas. S. Barrett of Georgia, national president of the union. The address was well received and frequently interrupted by applause. G. M. Davis of Georgia made a strong speech at night. At the second day's session the roi _ uaronna met m ouxxncr nwu. The meeting was held behind closed doors and the only statement given out was to the effect that the separai tion of the South Carolina men from j the Xoth Carolina Association was not I mentioned. It was decided by the mill j ; men of both states to close their mills for thirty dr.ys to secure better prices and conditions. It was also decided to hold a meeting of the representatives from both states at Norfolk, August j G, when an effort will be made to extend the general movement for betI ter prices into Virginia and Maryaldn. | Should the mills close down thousands of employees will be thrown ou: of v.-ork. The lumbermen will not discuss the matter, save to say that nothing will be dons until the association considers the proposition next month. I * * * Restriction to Be Tested. An interesting suit has been started | in tire state circuit court at CharlesI ton to test the legality of the restric* i xi lion placed upon its employees uy cue Atlantic Coast Line, which requires them to join the relief association and 1 forbids them from entering suit for j such damages as they may receive, i The point is to be made in the case of Norris S. Neville, who was burl in j the capsizing of a flat car in pro! ces of unloading. In this case, the sec! tion master is also made a party to ] the suit for the purpose of preventing the railroad company from moving the j cause to the United States court, frej quently done under the non-resident j provision. ! On account of these two questions, ! the suit becomes one of great importance, although brbugh: only for the j sum of $10,000, for a victory for the | plaintiff will probably prove the breakj ing up of the relief system and the i liling of many actions against the i j perls of the committees on warei houses and fertilizers were received. The report of the committee on warehouses shows a number of warehouses now chartered and in full operation. The report of the committee on fertilizers was full and comprehensive. J. C. Stribling of Anderson was elected delegate to the national convention, which meets in Little Rock, September 3. W. C. Moore, with others, will represent the Farmers' Union of this state at the spinners' and growers' convention to be held in Atlanta in October. The following officers were elected to serve lor tne ensuing year: u. jr. Goodwin, president; T. T. Wakefield, vice president; B. F. Earl, secretary; J. B. Black, chaplain; H. T. Campbell, doorkeeper; C. W. Dickerson and W. E. Hopkins, sergeant-at-arms. Executive committee is as follows: J. B. Pickett, John T. Boggs, J. C. Brown, \V. L. Kenedy and W. L. Anderson. The convention was, in every way, most successful, and shows" the strength of the Farmers' Union in South Carolina. More than Half of tVio pniTvtioc nf thp statp have oraanl zatious, and the work is progressing rapidly and satisfactorily. The outlook for the present year gives promise of every county in the state being fully organized. The officers elected express them- . selves as being confident that almost every person in the state who is eligible for membership will become connected with the union during the year. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Noted by Georgia,, and Alabama Industrial Index. The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index says in issue of the past week: "News of plans for the building of more cotton factories and more interurban electric railways and a typical purchase by Ohio and Pennsylvania capitalists of a large tract of South Alabama land upon which improvements to cost $100,000 will be made are interesting features of advance reports to the Index this week. "A $200,000 cotton mill is projected a Junction City, Ga. At Douglasville, Ga., a company which is to build a $200,000 cotton mUl, has effected organization, will subscribe the entire capital stock and by January 1, 190S, expects to have a 10,000 spindle factory in operation. 'Electric railways between Blackshear, Ga., and Waycross, Ga., and between E^tonton, Ga., and Madison, Ga., are projected. Organization will be effected in a few days by the company which will build an electric railway, previously * reported, between Quitman, Ga., and Valdosta, Gra.; surveys are being mode for the line projected between Griffin, Ga., and Social Circle. Ga.. and contracts will be awarded and construction begin in a j few days upon the electric railway between Macon, Ga., and Albany, Ga., via Americus, Ga. "Besides the development of war ter power and the supplying of electric energy for the manufacturing purposes, no one factor promises mere for the upbuilding of Georgia and Alabama than the building of interurban electric liines, by bringing great resources into close touch with markets, will increase the rural population so that one town and village with [ its schools, churches and smaller industrial enterprises will hardly leave off before another Degins, eveuiuauj. j CAUGHT BY AN OLD SWINDLE. Indian Territory Banker Paid $10,000 for a Gold Brick. J. C. McAllis:er, president of the American National bank of South McAlester, I. T., has been swindled into payfcig $10,000 cash for a worthless brick offered by a man representing himself to be a miner. It was taken to Muscogee, appraised at the government i office and stated to contain 80 per cent I of pure gold. Af:er the deal was ! completed the McAlester banker, * v ? Wn -o-ivpn an imi I iouna max ixt: iiau wv-tw o- ? ? tation instead of the brick the appraiser had examined. CLERK AND CASH GONE. i 1 Exprecs Company is Minus Two Pack. i ages Containing $5,000. | The disappearance of two packages l containing in the aggregate $5,000 from ! the Paris, Texas, office of the Wells! Fargo Express company, and the un! explained absence of the clerk who re| ceiipted for the package, Albert Richj mend, has resulted in a warran; being sworn out by the agent of thf i i i JAP PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED. ! j i ! Was Taking Pictures of Uncle Sam's J Batteries in Action. MVC. I A dispatch from ausuu, 1 caud, ca;c. | A Japanese was taken in;o custody Friday at the state military encampment. It is charged that he was taking photographs of batteries in action and other features of the camp. He is being held pending investigation on the part of state and federal military au thorities. I -: * ~1 - - UNDER THE F ?Week's Cleverest Cartcon LULL IN ATTACK ON TRUSTS. ?urdy, Author of the Injuction-Receivership Method, Goes to Europe For a Rest. Washington, D. C.?Milton D. Purdy, assistant to the Attorney-General and author of the injunction-receivership method of dealing with the trusts, has sailed for Europe for a vacation of six weeks or two months. It is probable that there will be no great activity in trust prosecutions during the next two months, for Attorney-General Bonaparte spends most of his time at his country seat in Maryland, Solicitor-General Hoyt is already in Europe and Assistant Attorney-General McReynolds, who prepared the case against the socalled tobacco monopoly, accompanies Mr. Purdy on his European journey. Only two more anti-trust suits are in immediate contemplation. The case against the Du Pont Powder Corporation is in print, ready for the final approval of the Attorney-General, and the papers in the case have been submitted to bim. me omer proposed action is against the International Harvester Company,, which is declared by the Government officers to be a monopoly in restraint of interstate commerce. The investigation of the Harvester Company has never been completed, although the preliminary examination, which was enough to satisfy officers of the Department of Justice that some action should be taken against the corporation, was completed some time ago. The prosecution of the Harvester Company ^may possibly go over until the autumn. An experiment w'Ul be made in the suit against the Tobacco Company, which is charged with violating the Sherman law. An injunction will be asked against it to prevent it engaging in interstate commerce, and the court will be asked to appoint a receiver. SJ&KE TONO MAX FOR 70 YEARS. Oldest Maiden in Indiana Never For- . gave Sex For Faithless Lover. Lawrenceburg, Ind.?Miss Sarah Ann Daniel, ninety-five years of age, died a few days ago at her country home two miles north of this city. She is believed to have been the oldest maiden in Indiana. For nearly seventy years she had lived in the samp neighborhood and had refused absolutely to have any communication whatever with men. Tradition has it that Miss Daniel was one of the most popular girls in the county when she was sixteen and that she engaged herself to a youngman who was teaching* school in a distant part of the county. He visited her regularly, but at the close of school term he left the county without a word of explanation and Miss TiaoBi. >icoi-h from him asrain. UdII1 Cl ug vgi iivui u a.4 ? ?w She was never afterward seen in company, and when her father died, and later her mother, she was so heavily veiled at the funeral that her face could not be seen. She continued to occupy the old homestead, but ^11 business in connection with the farm was transacted through neighbors-of her own sex and it is said that she never spoke to a man after her lover disappeared. VERY MUCH A GRANDFATHER. Captain J. E. Ryan Has Three Grandchildren in as Many Hoars. Louisville, Ky.?To be made a grandfather three times in little more than that number of hours is the unusual experience of Captain J. E. Ryan, of Jeffersonville. The proud fathers are the Captain's three sons. John G. and Thomas F. Ryan, of Jeffersonville, and William D. Ryan, of Louisville. The children of John and William are boys, and Thomas' child is a girl. Tobacco Acreage Less. Tobacco acreage is less than that of last year by about 44,000 acres, or 5.6 per cent. The average condition on July 1 was SI.3, against 86.7 on July 1, 1906, and ST.4 on July 1, 1905. Farmers Hold Wheat. The amount of wheat remaining in the hands of farmers on July 1 is estimated at about 54.853.000 bush-i els, equivalent to about 7.5 per cent. J of the crop of last year. j * fECEIVERSI-IIP. $3S| by Macauley, in the New York World ' A MURDER OVER TELEPHONE ' . <3eS ??? A^? Official of Lowell, Mass., Heard Screams, Pistol Shot and * *M Falling Body. Lowell. Mass.?Hearing a murder . over a telephone was the surprising- y. experience of Bernard J. Gately, a j constable, who heard the screams and the shot when Mrs. Mary A. McBride, a milliner, was fatally attacked in her office. In her millinery shop at No. 229 Dutton street, before her helpless ~ employes, Mrs. McBride was shot $g! down by a man, wno rusaea in, nrea a revolver at her and escaped. The woman, at the St. John Hospital, re- v gained consciousness Jong enough to say:?"John Kelley shot me." ' \ The constable who had the re- .gsr markable experience was some dis- tance away at his office in the Cen- /it tral Building. He called the milliner by telephone , regarding a legal matter. The voice at the other end of the wire an- swered:?"This is Mrs. McBride, and I refer yon to my attorney, Daniel J. ' Donahue." Then the constable heard a scuffle and loud cries, "My God; don't shoot me! Don't shoot me!" Then he neara ciearjv over xne ephone a revolver shot, followed by a. woman's moaning, which grew faint- ' . ^ er, until all was still. Gately was paralyzed for a moment ' at the unusual sounds over the wire, *** but gathering his senses, rushed for the millinery store. He found Mrs. McBride lying un- ., ;:9 conscious with an ugly wound over '*vv her right eye. In one corner was Miss Vanasse, ' the milliner's assistant, half fainting ^ from the experience and moaning that Mrs. McBride had been kHIed.' -J The assistant explained that the shooting was done by John Kelley, ^ who was madly in love with the mar- *s ried woman. Kelley was found near the scene- v.. of the shooting and was arrested" V-ii charged with attempt to murder. ! DOWN ON CARTWHEEL HAT. --q Beauty Specialists Tell Women It ( ? ~ -,'i Causes Wrinkles and Bad figures. /? London.?Beauty specialists here- ' are trying to kill the women's so- 1 " called cartwheel hat, which has reached, enormous, tentlike dimensions. The specialists say the wear- " s ers are crushed by these monstrosities, which are ruining their figures. i To sit in a carriage in comfort a ' * woman would he obliged to put the feather of her hat out of one window, the bunch of flowers out-of the other and the bcw of ribbon through a trapdoor in the roof. As she cannot do this she sits crouched, with her shoulders huddled, her neck bent and that expression of patient resignation on her face which is the sure forerunner of wrinkles. V Double chins, bent backs and unno<>ir<! and figures robbed of 01&JLJllJ ? _ their natural poise will be the result if this ridiculous headgear is not modified. A great majority of the men of the present day want the women to keep them. CHARITY TO HONOR EMPEROR. Old Age Fund of $25,000,000 Proposed For Jubilee. Vienna.?The lower house of the Austrian Reichsrath to-day adopted a motion to appoint a special commit tee to drait proposes iur luc wicviation by the State of the sixtieth anniversary of Emperor Francis Joseph's accession to the throne. It will be suggested to the committee that $25,000,000 be voted to found an old age and sickness insurance fund. Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, was proclaimed Emperor after the abdication of his uncle, Ferdinand I. and -/ > the renunciation of the crown by his father, December 2, 184S. ^ Three Robbers Hanged. Three of the men who robbed * pawnshop in St. Petersourg, rtussia, > June 12, were hanged. The case of the fourth robber is to be investi* gated a second time. ' Increased Prices For Labor. Scarcity of farm laborers at this busy season is also reported from many sections, wages of $60 a month being offered -without sflccess in pro* curing help. _ ^