Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE MAN WHO SAVES MONEY. Available Cash Is the Greatest Force In All the World. Ready cash is the greatest moving force in the business world. Many a man can date the beginning of his life's failure from the day he first felt the dire need of a little ready cash, and was forced to borrow it. Others, 4 who could not borrow, missed che great opportunity of their lives to get a start on the road to independence and wealth. Commodore Vanderbilt worked v night and day, saving every penny ' until he had $3,000, then, with this amount in cash, he was enabled to buy the business that was to be the cornerstone of his imniense fortune. When the children of to-day are . being regaled with the tfme-worn story of George Washington's little hatchet it would be a splendid plan to vary the theme by telling them of J V George Washington's littlce account book. From boyhood he kept the % strictest account of his expenditures, being careful each week to show an Increase in the "cash on hand." The boy or man with some ready money has a feeling of healthy independence to be secured in no other way. How many are there who can i not recall the time when we have been forced to say, "Oh, if I only had a little money to start with, I could . make a fortune?" "There is a tide in thejarrairs 01 men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." Ask the great financiers of to-day whether they doubt the truth of the statement. Our mer; chant princes, our mine owners, our land holders, any and all of the men who have accumulated great wealth will tell you that the first change in the tide of their affairs was due to ? the careful investment of a little money. How would the late Marshall Field have bought an interest in the firm tv \ , by whom he was employed if he had not saved and accumulated a few V thousand dollars of available cash? John Wannamaker is another man who from a salary of $1.50 a week, saved ten cents a day car fare by SK walking four miles to and from work, laying the ten cents away, hoping . some day to have enough money to 0$ v ; buy himself a business that would al? -:V'. low him to ride in his own carriage. Not all c*n be Vanderbilts, WanaiT 7 makers or Marshall Fields, but the 7 i experience of these great money ^ f kings points out the way to moneymaking and mohey keeping, and % most people can, if they will, go to a reasonable length in that direction. i.There are philosophers that contend that the greatest curse in the world to-day is debt, and this debt is ted and nourished by the great army ,*ot spenders, who prefer to be con?*ATif1-<r fiaraaapH hv dftht than to lav up for the future by paying and saving, with cash. Such a course always spells failure. ? Our Low Yields of Cotton. ^ V The average cotton crop of the |'||i whole Cotton Belt is less than 200 pounds of lint per acre, a good deal less. And yet, when we know that all over the South that there are here and there men who seldom fail to / make 500 pounds, and a smaller number who mal^e more than this, and i: ! ! '- now and then one who makes a thous& and pounds, it is evident that to make this low average there must he many who are growing cotton at an actual loss, for 200 pounds hardly pays more than the cost of growing it. In fact, it does not pay the cost of those who are carried by a merchant. If every farmer in the Cotton Belt made a .. hale an acre, it would not take half H \ the area to make the usual crop, and the remaining acres could be growing something to feed the land or the cattle, and helping to improve the land sfi that one-fourth of the area now planted would make the crop. ? I may not live to see it, but the time is coming when a Southern farmer will be ashmed of a crop of half a bale an acre, and will be disappointed at less than a bale. The leaven is working, and as the young men come to take charge of affairs, there is going to be a general breaking away from old methods.?Progressive Farmer. k' ? Rivers' Bridge Memorial. ' ' The Rivers' Bridge Memorial Association will observe Thursday, April 28th, as memorial day. The Rev. C. C. Brown, of Sumter, will deliver the memorial address. To these services the public is cordiaaly invited, and the ladies are especially requested to bring flowers. Committee on grounds and order of the day: J. D. Jenny, J. C. Kinard, H. W. Chitty, J. A. Peters, W. D. Sease, W. H. Ritter, Stacy Kearse. Friends are requested to bring baskets and lunch will be served on the grounds. DR. N. F. KIRKLAND, SR., J. W. JENNY, President. Secretary. Jenny, S. C., March 24th, 1910. i -- ' " i'1, ^'1 MIINf TRAIN_ ROBBERY BANDITS ROB THE SOUTHERI PACIFIC MAIL TRAIN. Nine Pouches of Registered Mail Se cured?Posses in Close Pursuit of Robbers. _ f Benecia, Cal., April 17.?Th China-Japan mail, which left Sa: Francisco over Southern Pacific fo the East at 9 o'clock Saturday nigh was held up by two masked men a Spring, two miles east of here, a 12.30 o'clock this morning and rob bed of nine pouches of registers mail. The train carried no express mat ter. Four of the pouches have beei recovered, but the robbers rifled th others and now are hiding in th hills and canyons between Martine and Oakland. Sheriff's posses fror two counties, detectives and post office inspectors on horses and ii automobiles are engaged in the man hunt. The robbers were well armed and a battle is expected. The pass engers on the train were not dis turbed, and several of them did no learn of the robbery until this morn ing. After getting the sacks, the rob bers cut the engine and sent it wild the throttle open, down the mail track*' to the East. The engine wa thrown into a ditch in the nick o time to prevent it colliding with ai east-bound train. The train robbery is the first Ii California in several years. U wa; planned and executed in a most dar ing manner. "We are not going to hurt you,' said one of the robbers. "All w< want is the treasure box." "Take us to the express car." When informed by the train crev that the train carried no express mat ter they said: "Then take us to the mail car."Arriving there, they threatened t< blow it up with dynamite if the dooi was not opened. Under this threat Herbert B. Black, in charge of the car and his assistant, Thomas W Clancey, appeared at the door. Th< robbers compelled the engineer anc firemen to enter the car and throv out the registered mail packages. Black started to toss out the news paper sacks, but the robbers detectec the ruse at once. They threatened tc kill the clerk unless he gave then the registered mail. Black complied The engine crew was then forced t< carry the nine sacks to the engine The engine and mail car were thei with sleeping passengers and rui uncoupled ffom the coaches flllec down the track two miles. Wild Engine. Here the mail pouches were throwi out, the engine uncoupled and iti throttle pushed wide open. The en gine dashed forward on its wild journey towards a passenger train coming westward to Tolenas, 16 milei east, passing the first section on t siding at Cygnus. As the engine passed the station at Suissun, tnc operator noticed it was runninj wild. He immediately reported tc the dispatcher's office at Oaklanc and received instructions to call To lenas and instruct the agent then to derail it. The second section o! the train No. 5, had just arrived a.' Tolenas under orders to wait then for the China-Japan mail. The switch was thrown and the runawaj engine, by this time pretty well re lieved of steam, ran on a siding anc smashed into a string of box cars. In the meantime the robbers wen making their escape across Sai Pablo bay into which the Sacrament< river empties. The news of the rob bery had gone up and down the lin< and posses were quickly formed. Fired Four Shots. Just before fleeing with the mai sacks, the robbers fired four shots t( frighten off immediate pursuit. Evei this did not awaken the passengers The porter heard the shots and lock ed all doors to the sleeping cars. The train lay engineless for som< time, while an engine was secure< from Sacramento. It then was hur ried into Sacramento, arriving at ( U U1WK biiia uutuiu^i A good description of the bandit was furnished by A man on the Por Costa ferry boat, who had observe< them as they hung about waiting fo: the train. They appeared to be rail way mechanics, and from their fa miliarity with the engine, it ii thought they are former railway em ployes. Crossing the Bay. , The trail has been followed to th< rough hill country between Martine: and Oakland, and it is believed the; are headed toward San Francisco an< had a good chance to escape. Near the place the bandits left th' engine, a road leads to the east ban] of the bay. The men ran down thi road to a row boat concealed in th bushes. The four sacks they am no take with them were found late along the edge of the track. The; evidently had fallen from the engin< after it had been uncoupled from th train. From the point where their boa ?' 2&S l' . . ' . ' - . was moored, the bandits rowed di* lectly across the bay to Bull's Head Point, one and a half miles east of Soi * Martinez, where they abandoned the boat. From there all trace of the men was lost; but before daylight a y horse and buggy were stolen, sup- gaj posedly by the robbers, from a stable ^ in Martinez. m0 Hears Them Pass. the e Between 3 and 4 o'clock in the Crj q morning, George Frazier, a farmer r living three miles east of Martinez, ad1 * hoard q hnrae and hueev driven nast ne] X UVM* U V* *AVr? ww ? ? uwv ? - ? ? t his house at a wild pace. This has a f t lent definite direction to the chase his i- which early in the afternoon cend tered in the hills and open country Bil leading to Oakland. off* Sheriff Veal of Contracosta counfy ' a was the first official to start after the (L e bandits. With a posse he left Mar- MU e tinez at 1' o'clock in the morning. At z They crossed from the west shore of the a the bay in a launch to the point Ba where the bandits embarked for the an< 1 west shore, and so accurate was the coi - pursuit that it is thought the bandits to [, and the officers passed each other in en< - the dark, and the hunted men were vio - warned of the presence of their pur- mo t suers by the noise of the launch. * era KILLED BY A. C. L. TRAIN. bui Robert E. Lee, of Scranton, Meets a ??j 1 Terrible Death. ] 3 th f Scranton, April 17.?This town Jar l was shocked last night whea it be- An came known that Robert E. Lee, a bef l well known citizen and business cot 3 man, had been struck and instantly tha - killed by the second section of the wit southbound passenger train No. 89, 4 ' passing here about 10 o'clock. "tt 3 Just how the tragic accident occur- anj rde can not -be clearly explained, as ? there were no eye-witnesses. Mr. Lee req v was supervising the unloading of a r - car load of brick and was working bjE late in order to complete the job. wai The car was standing on the side- <ja| ) track on the east side of the main 4 2 r track and a gang way extending from da] , the door of the car across the main 0f i track was being used in the unload- ? . ing. When the train blew the sta- cas } tion signal one of the laborers left ? I the car to remove the gangway, leav- <jra r ing Mr. Lee in the car. When the 1 train had passed, Mr. Lee was miss- gST - ing and on investigation was found gjv I lying dead against a telegraph pole, ) some distance away. jU(j 1 It is supposed that he attempted r . to leave the car and jumped immedi- q0, ) ately in front of the rapidly moving to train and was killed. un] 1 Magistrate 0. S. Baldwin, of Lake wai 1 City held an inquest over the dead ult 1 body this morning and the jury re- q01 turned a verdict to the effect that adc Robert . E. Lee came to his death by ? l being struck by the engine of a ter } southbound passenger train on the unj . Atlantic Coast Line. Mr. Lee was about forty years old rQ1 . and was engaged in conducting a liv- ha^ } ery stable business. He .held the gur i office of town warden, was a .member ? of the Knights of Pythias and of the > local Baptist church. He leaves a r widow and several children. The re- \ j mains were interred in the cemetery >] j at Elim in Florence county Sunday par afternoon, Rev. J. W. Truluck, pas- fro] ; tor of the Baptist church, conducted fcas f the funeral services. disl t m ~ Negroes' Boasts Prove Fatal. ? Ashburn, Ga., April 15.?Quite a by oQnootlnn maa /.rpfltprf VlPTP this TT1 orn- T 7 """ """""" / * ing when the news of the killing of wei I two negro men near Amboy, a little ma place about four miles north of here, the 5 reached this place. Later on in the jot 1 day warrants were sworn out by two aga j negro women charging five prominent white men in that section of the boi ? county with lynching. The negroes afcc who were killed were Albert Royall bea and Charley Jackson. The verdict j of the coroner's jury was delivered yoi] * sealed, and nothing is known about bin 5 their action. the 1 The trouble is said to have started m6 * over an affair which took place near r00 here about two weeks ago. Charley yoi] Jackson, one of the negroes, was ar- by 3 rested at that time, having been ten * charged with criminal assault on a one ' white woman, but was released on ^01 ' bail. The other negro, Albert Royal, j is said to have gone on the bond for bac 3 the accused man. After having kept the * silent about the matter for the time the * intervening, the two negroes began He r openly to'boast of the brutal deed, ma and spoke of it with pride to their the fellows. They kept up their insulting 3 talk until the matter was brought to dig the ears of several white men in that tre, community. The two men were jn ' chased down and captured, and then a c ? the killing is said to have resulted. pu? 2 The local population is greatly ex- j y cited over the matter. It is not tha i known whether the white men compli- an<; cated in the affair were exonerated suc e by the coroner's jury or not. gut s f e Worse than Bnllets. St)? q Bullets have often caused less suf- yc fering to soldiers than the eczema dra 1 L. W. Harriman, Burlington, Me., ins r got in the army, and suffered with, tra y forty years. "But Bucklen's Arnica . _ ffnivp rnrpri me when'all else failed," he writes. Greatest healer for sores, , ulcers, boils, burns, cuts, wounds, bruises and piles. 25c at Peoples an< t Drug Co., Bamberg, S. 0.- Stc / ' VC..- - _sic. BITS OP SCOTISH HUMOR. me Examples of Repartee of Celtic Lawyers. rhe atory told In these columns, ^8 Tit-Bits, of the Scottish advo;e reminds a contributor of a few >re. A case was being tried before i late Lord Young?"Crabbe vs. abbie." "I may explain, my lud," said the -- -- A11A?I^ ViVv A lo <1 yUUttLC, luai ilijf uicui viauuc i.0 C phew of our opponent Crabbie, but ew years ago he dropped the "i" in name for the sake of euphony." "Ah," replied Lord Young, "he has Dlical authority for that?'If thy 'i' end the pluck it out.'" = The present lord justice general 4 ord Dunedin) was, as Mr. Graham v irray, plading before Lord Young, the time Mr. Graham Murray had } largest practice at the Scottish 4 r, but was also able to mix freely | I late in Edinburgh society. In the 4 irse of an argument, Mr. Murray, find a metaphor, made some referee to a ball he had been at the pre >ls night, or, rather, the same 4 Tning. 4 'I cannot understand, solicitor gen- 4 1," said Lord Young, "how you can ? rn the candle at both ends." 'Ah," replied Mr. Graham Murray, do that to make both ends meet." Lord Ardwell, one of the Judges of 4 ! Court of Sessions, is a man of 4 ge proportions. One day, as Mr. 4 drew Jamieson, he was pleading ore Lord Young, and the opposing msel interposed with the remark ? it he was not disposed to disagree h his friend. 4 'But, my lud," said Mr. Jamieson, I te lord advocate and I are not by I j means in the same boat." I 'VTrf-v '' r?i/1 T aw/1 V ah n rr 4,mii 11 I nu, saiu uuiu xuuug, j uu nui [uire one entirely to yourself." rhe late Mr. Lancaster had against a as a witness an Irish woman who b particularly categorical as to her ;es and how "this happened at 7 on Tuesday, this at 6.23 on Frii" and so on. At last the patience the advocate was exhausted. 'My dear woman,", said Mr. Lanter, "do you keep a diary?" 'No, sir," replied the woman,i "a un shop." i young advocate had pleaded his 9 t case and when the judgment was I en against his client he exlaimed; I am surprised at your lordship's " Igment." There was consternation in the irt, and something had to be done P| save the young counsel from his II ieard-of rashness. The matter N 3 submitted to the dean of the fac- 1 y of advocates, who, when the irt assembled next day, rose and Iressed their lordships. 'My young friend," he said, "yesday committed what may seem an forgivable indiscretion, but one for ich he, asks the clemency of the irt. Had he pleaded as long as I re I am sure he would never be prised at any of your lordship's [gmeuts." Boys Pat Oat of Hotel. ?he Spartanburg Journal sayir . A || ty of young men who came over II m Greenville with the Furman eball club were the cause of a = turbance at the Spartan Inn last ht and had to be ejected from the el according to a statement made Manager Johnson, t is understood that the boys :e in a most jovial mood and were king a great deal of noise during early part of the evening. Mr. inson warned the young men Jnst making too much noise and turbing the other guests in the ise. All passed off quietly until >ut 11:30 when more noise was ird from the room they occupied, dr. Johnson again warned the mg men, getting up out of bed lself to do so. He then went to office and waited for a few moats when a call came from the m next to the one occupied by the mg men. This room was occupied ladies, who said the men atlpted to get into their room and at _ s time they thought the door ~ aid be broken down. ? dr. Johnson heard what the ladies I to say and immediately went to j young men and told them to pack ir grips and get out of his hotel. I would not consent to let them re- j in until morning. The men paid ? ir bills and left. The Greenviile boys are highly in- j nant over the way Mr. Johnson ated them and say that they were I no way at fault. It is said that ase against the hotel man will be ! ;hed. dr. Johnson stated this morning j t he always kept an orderly house I that he would not stand for any I :h conduct on the part of any j ists. He looked after the welfare ! the ladies, who are visitors at the Lrtan Inn. and will take the most ? stic steps to see that they are not ulted by a party of young men veling over the country with a teball team. See the line of sample box papers I tablets at The Herald Book >re. Biggest values you ever saw. / / I THE SHOE HEEL of the average man strikes a 90 poui blow at every step. This is the kind hammering door varnish has to stand. KYANIZE FLOOR Fl^ISt is made with this fact in mind. It's ma to stand hard usage and it does it. Made in Clear and Seven Beautiful Coloi Good for all Interior Work as well aa Floor#. J. A. HUNTER, Agent, Bi S'n'o'Morel W with that automobile, bicycle, gun 2, have me to put it in first-class repai z prepared to do your work as anyone W cities, and my prices are about twia m* also have in stock a well selected lii f AUTOMOBILE & BICYC J which I will sell to you at closest pi what yon need I will get it for yon Z the next one. When in need of an Z don't forget me. All work guaranty IJ. B. BRI | The Repair Man X COTT< The ginning season is now about over, have the engine and boiler and ginning i tion for next season's work so that thei "starting up" with .the first bale. Let Works take your plant in hand, putting it and save you dollars and trouble both, paying out the cash for the work when aooac it, ana, "wn 10 one," mey wm ma the work done before the rush, and pay i do no harm to inquire about it anyway. The Denmark Machine Works, Denmarl * i ^ =? ai ii i oe Bargains in Real E ? '? J ? a Farms in small and large tra - and residences, mercantile mill sites, sale stables, and propositions, at low figures terms. Descriptive list sen tion. Call on or write, J. T. O'NI Real Estate Agent, - - - 1 11 1^^ _____ I have ji BV house nezi * DUtUlCS tu H I from now ness to sti M m. ^ A and ask f ronage, gn ice and < We will send around the ice wagon once house will be OPEN ALL THE TIME, I will always find someone ready and anxi HAY! HA1 I also sell No. 1 Timothy Hay at the ve in need of anything in my line call on or SIM'S SALE AND LI I J. J. 8MOAK, Proprietor i Do You like thi :? if 11* < 0 and Most Stylish Milli * jj Novelties, Silks, and j I? i r.n . if least niuiicy. v^cui u ! i: are better prepared to * ? i ? than ever. :? >? (? l! MRS. K. I. SHU : BAMBERG, S. ' : j? K. % * '$-" ^0:1 > \ I ??~ ' ?? imberg, S. C. rouble | or pisioi 11 you win yr. I am just as well At outside the larger ^ b as reasonable. I # :le supplies j i ices. If I haven't f just as prompt as ..'i: a ythlng in my line A^. M ckle! .. . Bamberg, 8. 0. on! j , and NOW is the time to nachinery put in condi* ~: i>M re will be no delay in ' ^ the Denmark Machine . in proper shape for you, -;r / If you do not fed like | done, see or write them mage it so yon can have for it next fall. It will 'M Just write about it to ai IB : ?1 ,cts, town lots iB 5 businesses, \)<-m pole and tie , | and on easy i ? J| t on applica- f, SAL, ' , f 15 am d erg, 9. v/jj ? 1st had erected an i?e I t to my Sale and limy , 'B;; ' id expect to handle Ice n ^ on. I am in the host* ^ 17, not for a short time, , |j or a share of your pat- IB laranteeing only the best X ' he politest of service. ? every day, and the ice I ^ )ay and Night, and you I , ons to serve yon. ry closest prices. When 'phone me at I ITCBV QTAR1F I I VLfUl U 1/11/1*4 V|;^ Telephone 08 'vI antumitiMiiiiiia J ; Prettiest I | nery, Dress ^ I at the very ]| M n us. We j | V please you ? 1 i I M V 1 ci too. J J eeeeeeeeel' ; P ' - > aftaBhw