Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fe >5*: THE WAGON OF THE NIGHT Every morning when the sky is taking on a tint of gray, . And the sparrows 'round the window-sill are crying for the day; While the city slumbers soundly, and the morning air is sweet, There's a welcome little wagon rolling through the stony street. fw With its jostly jars of icy milk; with noisy hub and tire. What activity amid the quiet dawn docs it inspire! , Oh, it brings a fellow comfort?makes him feel as fine as silk? For a lonely hour is banished by the wagon with the milk. You can hear it as you lie there in a moment of unrest. For its rattling rends the stillness, spicing daylight with a zest: And the dreary dreams of darkness soon begin to vanish fast, ? ? J ? >_ 1-_1. I .W filJe a million aawning mem rm im*. me morning with the past. . . From away beyond the billowed brick and mortar of the town Comes a vision of the homestead with the - sun a-beaming down; Where the little old red wagon clattersover furrowed grounds, !And the music of the cow-bells 'mid the C;' " * sunny hills resounds; KV.y*: " Out among the verdant, cattle-dotted pastures of the farm, ! "Where the bees and birds arc merry and are singing to a charm? 3fow it takes a fellow dreaming back tc happy days of yore. When the noisy little wagon with the milk i$ at the door. ?Remsen Crawford, in American Home Magazine. f i Tiir nr i 1 A I ALL lif A || | [ MOTOR Hl'NABOUT j D O . The way to figure it out is this," said Witherbv. "We can get just as much pleasure out of a runabout motor car as we can out of a four-cylinder touring car. We may warer just > ' a little bit on the hills. But what of that? We can go as fast as the law allows, and it isn't nearly the trouStS We." Mrs. Witherby sighed. ;v "As long as you are getting one," she said, "why not get a decent one?" "But this is decent. It's just as reliable as a bigger one, only smaller. It will carry us anywhere." j?* "The Paysons, next door, have a French machine. The Burts, on the other side, a big four-cylinder forty horse power. And they keep a chauffeur. How shall we appear?" * "Fine! Splendid! You wait and see. It's all false pride." The next day when the trim little runabout was delivered Mrs. Witherby gazed at it silently for a long time. -"Well," said her husband, "how <c fr _ "Dinky!" "Umph! Just like a woman. Full of vanity. Everything, for appearance." "But, my dear, you must admit that it is a trifle humiliating for us, especially with our position. Teeterday, when Mrs. Burt heard it was coming, and what it was, she congratulated me. What do you think g?|. of that?" . "Rise above such things! What * nonsense! Come, let us go out for a spin." At the end of a week Wither by said: "I have a business friend coming to dine to-morrow. He's from the West." "Very well. I will have a nice din ner." Witherby fidgeted uneasily. "By the way," he observed carelessly, with an elephantine attempt at indifference, "don't say* anything to him about our machine." Mrs.. Witherby opened her eyes. "Why not?" she asked. P"Well, if you must know, dear, he has two or three big cars, and I thought?I didn't?that is " "Ah! So you know how it is, do you?" Witherby blushed. "But he's a valuable customer, and in this case " "Don't say any more. I understand perfectly." The next few weeks the Witherhvs ! were drawn together by a silent bond of sympathy. Each had had experiences; each tacitly understood the other. Under cover of the darkness they surreptitiously enjoyed their new machine. They rode in side streets and sought the unfrequented 'byways. It was a subject they never mentioned. Every ride was like snatching a fearful joy. "Ah," said Bender one morning at the station, as he slapped Witberby on the back, "I see you've joined the great majority. Didn't I see you puffing along in a runabout yesterday?" Witherby acknowledged the charge. "Nice little cars, those," said Bender. "I keep one on hand myself as a kind of supplement to my touring car. By the way, old man, what is your car?" "That is," said Witherby, with a sudden spurt of courage. "You have no other?" ! "No!" "Oh! Certainly, of course; beg pardon. Nice little affairs?I see Jones waving to me." He was off, much to Witherby's relief. But if that gentleman had his trou bles, what must be thought of Mrs. Witherby's v One day, in a moment of forgetfulness, she attended a meeting of the woman's club. Mrs. Linnet, just in front, leaned over enthusiastically. ''How do you like your little car, say dear?" . " v.J'Tery ^ ^ , "They are very nice. Since I've 1 seen you and your husband in one, ! I'm really thinking of following your example. Just for myself, you know. Our big one is so unwieldly, and they say a child can manage one like yours. You haven't been far, have you?" "Oh, no." ' ' This and more. 1 The next morning Mrs. Witlierby rose, pale but determined. She spent the morning in town, getting together all her available resources. She went to her bank, to her safe deposit ; she even visited her father. Armed with the results of her work she forthwith purchased the largest, most luxurious automobile she could find, onH rtrrio-rori if rlolivprPft at the CaT- ! ilest possible moment. Then she calmly waited for her husband. "Ha!" he exclaimed. "Glad you're home. It's late, but let's go out for a spin. Who cares? We've been foolish about our dinky little motor car. Come, dear, I'll tune her up." "All right," she said, "I'll do it. I don't care, either. Only listen. I've teen to town to-day, got all my money together and bought a big one. I just couldn't stand being humiliated any longer." Her horrified husband sprang back. "You did, did you?" he exclaimed. "Why, in heaven's name, couldn't you wait until to-morrow?" . "Why should I wait." "Because, my dear, I went off today and did exactly the same thing!" ?Philadelphia Ledger. A STATE IX PAWN. Nevada Said to Have Been in That Condition Five Years Ago. Five years ago Nevada was a State : in pawn. She had been stolen, says I Successful American. The entire ; population was not sufficient to constitute a third rate Western town and it was decreasing. It might well have been asked then, "What's the matter with Nevada?" * The trouble grew out of Nevada's public land grant, amounting to 2,000,000 acres, which Congress had 1 carelessly authorized the State to se- j lect as desired. The Nevada T^gis- j lature practically put the laud up at j auction, and the result was that a few j stockmen bought land enough to shoestring and surround and absolutely control every river, lake and water hole in the State. By doing so they became virtual possessors of the rest of the State. No one else could-use the public land j or make settlement because of their ! control of all the water, and in Ne- j vada water is the lifeblood of the i land. Sixty million acres were con- ! trolled and in effect owned by about a ' million acres, and not an opportunity for a single 160 acre homestead. Fire years ago this was the situa- . tion?a hopeless one. Public spirited ; men had attempted to induce immi- j gration and to encourage the development of their 8tate, but their work had come, to naught and they had quit. There was no chance. Yet all the time there was still a great water supply running to waste annually. The perennial flow of the rivers and streams was entirely util- j ized. but the floods from the melting j of the mountain snows swept away 1 uselessly to the sea. Viewing the situation as it was then, who would have dared to predict that with the Dassasce of the na- i tional irrigation act co-aid have occurred the great transformation and development in Nevada, and if it had been predicted, who would have believed it? Of the thirty-seven million dollar Government reclamation fund Nevada has thus far received her fair share, and the completion of the great project upon which the Federal engineers are now working will more than quadruple the already increased population of the State. The first section of the TruckeeCarson project has been completed and the settlers are now farming the fertile land in eighty acre homesteads. By nex. year 150,000 acrtfi of this project will be under irriga? tion. Improved Divers' Helmets. Divers who go down to examine wrecked vessels or assist in repairing them are often able to stay under water for half an hour or an hour-at a time. Air is supplied to them thuough a flexible rubber tube from a boat or other place on the surface, a simple air pump being used for that purpose. So lohg as there is no special current to disturb the tube there is little danger of trouble. Some times, however, in a strong tide, the tube gets snarled and the flow of air is shut off. A similar result is occasioned, too, if the diver is too venturesome in walking around and into the vessel. It is now proposed to supply oxygen, the life giving element of the air, in another way and to dispense with the tube entirely. A diver always wears a heavy waterproof suit, having a peculiar collar of metal, to which can be secured an immense helmet that completely covers his head. The operation of fastening the helmet to the collar is performed by some one else, and is the last thing done before the wearer of this queer suit goes down. It is into the helmet that the air tube has hitherto led. Experiments have been made in England recently with a chemical, called oxylithe, which ! evolves oxygen, a small quantity or it was adjusted properly inside a diver's helmet and emitted enough ga? for respiration. Hereafter it will enable divers to ?iijoy greater freedom while at work.?New York Tri? bune. Prinee Bismarck of GdrmaRy would never sit down to & dinatr j with thirteen at the tabi* - | Palmetto State News; i w v * w wipivwvhpw i Will Sign Anti-Hazing Pledge. The rebellion of South Carolina University students over the new antihazing pledge is over. The students all at a meeting agreed to give way to the authorities. A committee is to wait upon President Sloan and inform him that the pledge will be signed. * * * Hnnstinn from Mrs. Jeter. Mrs. Ann H. Jeter, wife of the late Governor T. B. Jeter, of this state, has announced that she would donate $13,000 to the University of South Carolina, for the purpose of building an infirmary as a memorial to her nephew, the late A. Wallace Thomson, an alumnus of the university. The donation was accepted by the trustees. AU I -\? . 9 ' : -t-idt I-sif Autoists Must Obey Law. Mayor Rhett of Charelston has essayed the task of forcing the automobilists to obey the speed law and several plain clothes policemen have been provided with stop watches and instructions to make out cases against the violators of the ordinances. Ten miles an hour, with four miles crossing ocrners, is the speed limit and Mayor Rhett declares his intention to * it. ^ lAnf eniorce me iaw. Uphold Gotham Yacht Club. Charleston yachtsmen, in discussing the LiptOD challenge, are in accord with the action taken by the Xew York Yacht club in declining to accept the proposition of racing for the America's cup with sloops of 63foot rating. The races are matters of great interest, but the statement of the reasons for declining the challenge seem sufficient and excellent to followers of the sport in Charleston. * * * Resort Proprietors "Scotched." j The injunction proceedings against Proprietors Riddock & Byrns, of the Isle of Palms resort, restraining them from selling liquor and thereby comTY,ittinsr fln alleged nuisance.under the '"" ""a w common law, has carried terror in the heart of the blind tiger element and the dealers generally are looking for Attorney General Lyon to make good his threat to secure a similar order from the supreme court for the numerous other alleged violators of the dispensary law, ? * Dispensary Business Grows. j Reports to the county board of conj trol show that the business of the j dispensaries will be still larger for j September than for August, and the j profits will be in excess of any SepI tember in the history of the dispenj sary system of liquor control. Several j hundred cases of liquors have been | sold so far in addition to the retail ! packages, showing that the better class j of people are now patronizing the dis Trith I pensaries and storing iiu.u goods purchased in the legal way through the dispensaries. * * * > Sentence and Fine for Berry. ' G. Raymond Berry, former superin| tendent of education of Marion county, i this state, was selitenced at Columbia the past week to six years in the pen {itentiary and fined $100, having plead ed guilty to the charges of forgery and embezzlement. After committing the crimes for which he pleaded guilty, Berry went to Tampa, Fla., where' he lived for some time under the name of R. H j Whitney. He was brought back tc I Marion only a few days ago. Berry i has an invalid wife and three children His own health is impaired on account of pulmonary troubles, and on this account his sentence was made sis instead of seven years. In passing sen^ tence, Judge Dantzler said he was forced to make the sentence severe as a warning to other public officials, a nrominent Berry is a mcmud r family in Marion county. * * * Warehouse for Sea Island Cotton. Planning to raise a fund of $30,000 with which to build a big warehouse and have money to buy in long staple cotton from planters who have to sell, J the sea island farmers of Charleston j have again made a move for a closer ! union, the end in view being to hold : all their long staple, the best in the j world, until they can command the J price. Each farmer is to give two dollars for every bag of cotton he sells this season, to build up the fund. A i - ~ i9 orm to j5.000 bales . IUil CIUIJ ui . _ j is expected, which will give the desired fund. * * State is Prosperous. A Columbia dispatch says; Excepting Georgia, the condition of cotton in this state is the best in the country, and the estimated yield of 1,200, j 000 bales is expected to fetch the ! grower $72,000,000. The oil mills will ! pay the cotton farmers another $8,000,j 000 for the cotton seed, making a to| tal of $30,000,000 for one crop. While South Carolina has on three occasions won the world's contest for corn production to the acre, not much attention has heretofore been given to corn I ' cultivation. This year, however, 50 per cent more corn than ever produced before has been grown. Credit for much of the increase is due to a new method of planting and cultivat, ing, known as the "Williamson plan," i whereby the yield is doubled and treb led on light lands. The value of the corn crop is $22,000,000. While the trucking industry shows . marked and continuous development, while tobacco growing has increased in < importance, and rice planters are more ! cheerful than for years, the two prini cipal farm products in a state with less than 1,300,000 people, are worth j $102,000,000, or fully $68 per capita, i The net profit from these two crops this year will not be less than $25 for every man, woman and child, black and white, in the state. At the same time, South Carolina is the largest j cotton manufacturing state in the I south, standing second in the union. 1 Her mill will consume this year about l 700,000 bales of cotton, the raw ma terial being worth at prevailing prices, $45,000,000. It is not surprising, therefore, that the people of the Palmetto State are ! in peaceful and cheerful mood. Nowhere is there less friction between the races; indeed, about all that is heard here of such strife is what .sifts . in through reports of speeches delivered from .the lecture platform In other sections , of the country. Inquiry made recently developed ; the fact that at the last session of ! the legislature there was no sccialis| tic legislation proposed and nothing ( was done toward the regulation of rail> road rates. South Carolina's attitude . towards railroads is almost unique. The board commissioned by the legislature to "wind up the affairs of the state dispensary" has concluded its labor. It has followed a constant trail of graft, but the tracks of individual offenders are so well covered that it is uncertain whether prosecutions will be gone into. It will probably never be known whether South j Carolina lost one million or three mil, j lion dollars through the operation of , these grafters. But the dispensaries taught a lesson about "government ownership" that will not be forgotten > in a generation. It was the only in. stance, state or municipal, where South . Carolinians have attempted, through a government, to control any business. The dispensary got into politics at the outset, and corruption and mismanagement were so glaring that finally, in spite of Senator Tillman's taking the ! stump in advocacy of the system, it - was overthrown. i This is the first state to establish an immigration department for the en couragement of select immigration, i And Americans are more welcome than i foreigners. I The way'is bright for South Caro; lina, and the pessimist has no stand ing here. i A 8TRENUOU8 BALL GAME. Detroit and Philadelphia Play Each Other to a Standstill'. In one of the greatest baseball games ever seen in the ^Quaker City, Detroit ? and Philadelphia, who are making a * sensational fight for the American League championship, played each other to a standstill Monday. The game went seventeen innings, and was called because it was too dark to play longer. - It is estimated that fully 40,000 persons were packed in and outside the I nm'H attendance gruuuus. iuc uwviui ' was 24,127, but several thousand more per^bns gained admission on passes or otherwise. ' ROOT IN MEXICO CITY. . President's Emissary Gets Another , Rousing Welcome. Greeted by several thousand persons, . among whom were many members of the American colony, Secretary ol State Eiihu Root arrived in Mexico City at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon on the special presidential train which , brought him from the border as the , guest of the Mexican government. Ac, companying him were Mrs. Root and Mi:w Edith Root. As the train pulled into the national station the artillery band played an American patriotic air and the statesman was given a rousing welcome. AGAINST STATE PROHIBITION. Governor Comer of Alabama Sets at Rest Mooted Question. Governor Comer of Alabama sets at rest all the talk about his incorporating in his call for an extra session of the legislature the question of considering a general prohibition bill. "In the call for an extra session," | says the governor, "'I would not emj body a prohibition call and would not . advise a state prohibition law." ANOTHER RAIL HORROR. Eight Killed and Score Injured in Crash of Express and Freight on Baltimore and Ohio. Eight men were killed, four fatally injured and seventeen more or less injured late Saturday when the Chicago and Wheeling express train No. | 14, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was wrecked in the yards at Bellaire, Ohio. A freight train had just taken a siding for the express. The passenger train, however, failed to pass over the switch and crashed into the freight. The wreck was due, it is saia, 10 the failure of an operator to throw a switch. The west-bound freight had received orders to meet the passenger at the limits of the Bellaire yard, and was moving slowly along the siding. At the point where the wreck occurred there is a very sharp curve, which prevents the engineers of the easV bound trains from seeing more than a few feet ahead. The passenger train swung around the curve very rapidly, being three hours late, and should have gone on in safety on the main line. The switch to the siding, however, had not beer turned, and the train shot on to the siding and into the freight. There wag scarcely time to apply the brakes, and no time for the enginemen to jump The two big engines were reduced tc junk by the impact, hut the wor?1 damage was done to the smoker, whioi was telescoped so completely by th< baggage ear that every seat wai thrown out of the coach. Every occu ! pant of the smoker was badly mjurea I The passengers la the other daj coach and the two Pullman cars wen tumbled from their seats, but not s?? riously kijured. Engineer Galbraith was burned to 2 crisp by escaping steam. The injure* were taken to the Glendale, West Vir ginia, and Bellaire hospitals. General Manager Fitzgerald,. wh< was in the neighborhood on an in spection tour, and General Buperin tendent W. C. Loree of Wheeling per sonally superintended the rescue work Great difficulty was experienced in re moving the injured passengers fron the wrecked smoker. Work wae slov because every movement of the debrii j caused someone to shriek with paii I as the victims were entangled in 1 I mass of timbers and twisted irons, j Among the passengers on the wreck j ed train were the members of Richan ! Carles' "Spring Chicken" comic opera which was to hare played at Wheel ing Saturday afternoon and evening All the menJbers of the eonypany ee j eaped serious injury except Atfrei ; Bolby, the musical director. It wai | found necessary to amputate his righ arm, thus ending his career in bti profession. He was riding in the sme ker, and was found with a heavy tim ber binding him by the arms. At the office of Superintendent Lore< it was said that they were not ye certain which operator is to blame to: the aocident, but a thorough investi gation was under way. A curious feature of the wreck 1: that the baggage car and the smoke were the only cars on the paseenge train damaged. Engineer H. A. Lipsoomb, on th | passenger train, underwent probabl; i the most heroic surgical operation ii modern times. Caught beneath his ei gine, it was found impossible to rc move the broken iron from his bod; on account of the way in which on' I of his legs wa6 eunui? steam across his face made it impos sible to administer aD anaesthetic am as a result physicians amputated th leg as he lay there conscious. It 1; feared that he will die. Thanksgiving services were heh Saturday night by every member o "The Spring Chicken'' eompany of 71 people, from Richard Carle himsel down to the humblest chorus man. ROOT GUEST OF MEXICO. Secretary Welcomed at Monterey wit! Martial American Music. At r o'clock Sunday morning Seore tary of State EHhu Root crossed th< Rio Grande river at Monterey and be came the guest of the republic of Men ico. The train drew into the little sta tion on the Mexican side to th< strains of two military bands, whicl played lively American airs. When I came to a halt, General Rincoln Gal lardo'in the name of President Dia; and the people of the republic of Mex loo tendered the distinguished visito: the freedom and hospitality of the ountry. PRESIDENT WILL APPROVE Oklahoma Constitution, Though Hii Opinion is "Not Fit for Publication." President Roosevelt announced or Thursday that he would approve tb< Oklahoma constitution. His personal opinion of the doeu ment, the president laughingly said was "not fit for publication." Th? promulgation of his approval will b? made later. LAID TO NEGROES 1 ? .1 Mere Light Thrown on Alleged Conspiracy in Cuba. * IS A POLITICAL SCHEME Trouble Cue to Fact that Black Meito Are Barred from Offices?Three ;$j| Cuban* Generals Placed Under Arrest. A Washington special says:-War de- | partment officials, while admitting: ' .iXtSCIK3 that agitation is rampant among th?r negro population in Cuba, because off. their failure to receive their proper share of offices, discredit the proba- " % bility of any uprising against the pio~ " visional government on that account- % > The negro population, composing 90* - :a-*' t per cent of the people, who opposed. Palma's government, claim they have> not been fairly treated. A eontinua- ; ^ i tion of this agitation, it is admitted*. % i might have a serious effect in driving. Jj ' some of the malcontents to attempted. ' I risings in iuolated places, but- Gov ernor Magocn is said to be prepared ^?3 i to prevent anything like an insurrec- v; t tion. Acting Secretary of War Oil- ^ 0 mB 1 rer was at the white bouse Thursday* but he did not regard the stories of . a Cuban revolt of sufficient import ; a nee to bring it to the president's at- itl r j ten tion. Governor Magoon is keeping the war department advised of the situ- V ation and is consulting freely with 1 General Barry and other military om1 cers in Cuba. The agitation has been: 7/^ alive in Havana and Pinar del Rio J provinces, in the latter province be- V 3 ing among the lawless class, mainly negroes. In a large measure, the governnient is disposed to treat the whole 1^1 matter as not of any serious conse- v * quence, as the leaders of the last rer- f olution are actively opposing the pres- v|| 1 ent agitation. General Barry tele7 eraphed Thursday from Havana: 3 "Referring to newspaper accounts 1 agitation in Cuba, have been alive to ; ? 1 situation for some days, though nothIng has developed worthy of reporting.. All Intelligence officers and station 3 commandere have been alert and have* ' reported everything concerning it. Re- : ports from them show tranquility fa . ; " all provinces except Pinar del Rio? " where there is some light agitation among lawless class, mainly negroes. WS 3 Am satisfied any friction which may : ;v arise will be promptly and success- - ^ 3 fully handled." A special from Havana says: Tho - 1 f \ seoret police early Thursday arrested j General Maeso Parra and a little later 3 took into custody General Juan Dacassi and General Lara Miret, charged , r with eonspiring against public order. ^ General Parra is the alleged leader of the conspiracy to start a revolution : 8 against the Americans in Cdba, with r the use of funds supplied from or r brought from some firm on Broadway, New York. It is known that - 8 simultaneously with the arrival or 7 Parra at Havana three San Doralng3 aoe, well known on atcount of their 1 previous revolutionary records, also &<;; *" reached this port, and ft is stated-that 7 other Individuals of a similar charac8 ter are working in eastern Cuba. s The government has knowledge of ^ tie fact that General Jiminez, the expresident et Santo Domingo, has recently been at Ssmtlago de Cuba, but :M whether he was connected with the j conspiracy is. not jet known. It is known that the conspiracy f originally was batched in New York J by oertain Americans whose names, it is said, already are in fee possession of the United States government 1 secret service officers, and it is stated ' *? " - "Sd that the leaders here were simply professional revolutionists hired for the. ^ 1 job. In consequence of the arrests made .* here, it is beiieved the movement will s result in a miserable farce. '.'[tfe Governor Magoon-, however, is not - taking any ohanees. Re is amply prepared with 5,000 American soldiers - and 5,000 rural guards to crush any i movement an instant after it is i started. t A general atrike of the employees - of the United railroads and the Has vana Central raibroad was declared K * - Thursday. Trains are lunning with l-l r the help of the engineers only, with? out firemen or Conductors. A tie-up of . all the roadc the island is feared. " DIAZ READY FOR ROOT. ? Mexican President Will Spend $140,000 m Entertaining His Gueet. 1 Preparations are complete tn Hex- * 5 ico City for the entertainment of Sec- retary of State Roo^, President Diaz has urged that no expense be spared ? in the matter and it is" estimated that J > $140,000 will be spent by the Mexican J * government in entertaining the United States secretary of state. - ->- &