The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 21, 1912, Page 6, Image 6
AN INTERESTING
FRO!
"Be it Ever So Humble,
Home"?Entertainii
Trip to the I
Wanderer's Rest. March 1~?.? v
Home, sweet home seems to be deep 1
down in the human soui, for be it t
ever so humble there is 110 puace like v
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home. This thought must still linger a
in the memory of a man who dwells s
in a little cottage painted red in a j t
city not far away who has this sign s
hung in front "Board and lodging, j 1
jusl like home." c
Some men will get drunk and y
rtnn't sppm to mind, but ashamed of i
the place where they stop if it is
small and unpretentious. Heard one r
say not long since that if a man saw f
where he was to stop would decide a
that if a man was anything, had any-1 n
thing, or ever expected to be or have b
anything would never stop where he J v
was going to get off the train. That i i'
place is a pretty little town in South j t
Carolina where birds sing and flow- j p
ers bloom. i a
An Irishman suffering with tooth j c
ache called at a physician's office and s
asked the doctor if he could draw ! b
his tooth without pain, explaining r
that he could not bear pain, no t
rihnot-or niver. The doctor told him r
he could, so Mike took a seat, open- r
ed his mouth, and in a jiffy the tooth j
was drawn, just as the tooth came J
out the 'doctor had a boy to stick a
pin in the calf of the patient's leg.!
Said patient slapped his leg with,
both hands exclaiming, "Bedad, doc,j *
I niver knew the roots reached so1 ^
far." That doctor had discovered t
the fact that it takes a new sorrow i p
to forget an old. E
There is a gin house in this State jt:
that has in large letters Josh Vth j1
on it. Judging by the old man sit- i v
ting on the steps if he was Josh the
fifth they must have been long life a
Joshes. There is a town in South i
Carolina that must have derived its;s
name from the appearance of the Ip
traveler's eye as he strives in vain |t
to find the town. Which one is it? I
At White Stone we learned of the a
that foil in Cherokee! ^
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county a few days ago that turned j
the ground black as it fell. Was it n
not singular that we had to be at *
White Stone to learn of black snow9 , f
But some strange things happen. j
At Carlisle, the town of classic j
name, was seen an old colored man a
with a very small pony hitched to an a
old wagon with at least fifty pounds
of red clay on each wheel. The! *
wagon was old, sides of body very |r
low, fore gate very tall and inscribed d
on the front "Lightning Express," j
in flaming colors. As he looked and
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read a certain old man had to cough *
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low and wonder what next?
Eli Perkins once went to Spartan- j ^
burg to deliver an address. Said on j s
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alighting from train he saw a man's 1 v
hat in middle of street, soon saw it j
was moving, presently a man's head ?
bobbed up, then a mule's ears, then 1
others, and to his great surprise if
came out a man driving four mules ^
hitched to a loaded wagon, all safe i
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and sound but well stained, wnat ~
would he think could he land any- J
where in the old State now? Rain. '
rain, and water, mud and slush *
everywhere!
Uncle Sam is very tall, lean and it
thin, much given to scraping his feet,
pulling his hat and bowing, all the j
while saying in a weak and wheezy |
tone, "Yassah! yassah;" all along as,
he bows and talks. Is much troubled ;
with asthma. Said asthma he calls i ?
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his sickness. He is a kind of pen- j t
sioner on a large plantation in South 1,
Carolina, lives alone in his little r
shanty, gets wood, brings water and j,
does light jobs around the house!
and yard. Ask him some bad rainy I
morning how he feels and he always j
replies: "Yassah, yassah; had a mity j
bad nite las nite, yassah, yassah, my j,
sickness done come down on me las ,
nite, yassah." Hat in hand and he
bows himself out of the room to ,
make fire in another. Before thei?
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new cook came, a dusky maid of 1
about thirty summers, Uncle Sam
would late in the afternoons ask per- |,
mission to go to his shanty to pre-! 1
pare wood for the night, saying as j j
he pulled his hat and bowing very j 1
low, "yassah, it ben very cole and I i (
ole and my sickness is mity bad,
yassah." Permission was always j,
given, but when the new cook came
wood for his#shanty was forgotten j.
and no cook anywhere receives as '
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much help and attention as that one. j ]
and the boss says he reckons Uncle i <
Sam is now willing to freeze.
Overheard on the way: It is funny!
to watch a woman shopping, always .
on the lookout for a bargain, even
in matrimony and afraid some other
will get a better bargain by two cents '
than she. Only to-day, while lean- j i
ing against a wall in a city postofficeii
musing, rushed by a stylishly dress-! j
ed young lady with all the marks j:
of refinement stamped on her brow, j
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M "OLD TIMER."
There's No Place Like
ig Incidents of a
Jp-Ccuntry.
nth rosy iips and cheeks, raven
ocks and diamond rings, walked up
0 one of the clerks, asked if stamps
rere* sold there, on receiving yes as
1 reply said she wanted to look at
ome. "What kind?" asked the asonished
clerk. "Two cent ones,"
he said. The clerk handed over a
arge sheet of them, after looking
>ver them for quite a while the
oung lady said, pointing at the one
n the middle, "I will take that one."
Rain again to-day in torrents,
tothing done on the farm and the
armers are wondering where they
re at. The old man has to fight
uosquitoes with his hat already, and
lis song of woe begun before the
oice of the turtle dove cooing for
ts mate is heard, makes for fever
his summer, not a pleasant prospect.
But the violets are all smiles
nd with laughing eyes seem to say
heer up sad hearts the sun will
bine and an allwise hand is at the
elm, all is well, things will be all
ight in the end if you don't plant
oo much cotton. For hope, like the
ain bows of summer, brings the
pomise of wealth at last.
OLD TIMER.
Once Rich, Now a Vagrant.
The New York World says Col.
Vayne Belvin, who was a vice-presient
of the Northern Pacific under
be Henry Villard regime, and later
resident of the Port Angeles and
Eastern Railway, was locked up in
he West Thirtieth street police staion
Tuesday night on a charge of
agrancy.
His arrest followed an appeal for
lms to Detective Lynch of Ispector
<ahey's staff. Belvin described himelf
to Lieut. Mulligan as a railroad
resident and gave his age as fiftyhree.
Only one or two of the older men
t the station house recognized Belin,
although he was a conspicuous
gure throughout the Tenderloin for
iany years. He inherited $600,000
rom his father, and with it came
rom Richmond, Va., to New York
wenty-five years ago.
Villard took him into his office,
nd Belvin was rated as a millionire
within a short time thereafter,
n 1899 his luck had swung so far in
he other direction that he was arested
for a debt of $143 to the Wal
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orf-Astoria, wnere ne naa maae ms
ome for a long time.
Belvin sued George C. Boldt for
160,000 as a result of this arrest,
'he case was never tried, but Belvin
;ot a taste for such litigation. He
ued David H. Moffatt, of Denver, for
200,000, which he said was due him
n some mining deals. In the course
if the next few years he was arrested
n Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago,
or threatening like suits against
irokers. James A. Patton, the wheat
iroker, was one of the men he pickd
as a defendant.
Last December Belvin persuaded
Jagistrate O'Connor to send him to
he workhouse for a month on a
harge of intoxication. He said then
hat he couldn't afford to live at the
Yaldorf any more, and that he was
iappv nowhere else.
Two Women Arrested.
Asheville, N. C., March 12.?Two
idditional arrests in connection with
he Myrtle Hawkins case were made
lere to-night when Mrs. Nora Brit.t
md Mrs. Lizzie Shaft were arrested
)y two of the sheriff's deputies, the
vomen being charged with having
juilty knowledge of, or being active
participants in the criminal operation
vhich resulted in the death of Myrtle
Hawkins last September. Mrs.
Britt was lodged in the Buncombe
county jail, while Mrs. Shaft was
:aken to Hendersonville jail pending
l preliminary hearing Friday morning
pefore a local magistrate.
The warrants for the two women,
svho have been under suspicion since
:he finding of Myrtle Hawkins's body
in Lake Osceola last September, were
taken out on affidavits made by T.
C. Brown, a local citizen, who was
?iven data for the warrants from the
sheriff's office.
The county authorities say they can
produce a witness who will swear
that .Mrs. Britt told him that she had
been hired to perform the operation.
Still another witness will swear that
.Mrs. Britt had told him that she
(Mrs. Britt) had been hired by Mrs.
Shaft to perform an operation at
Hendersonville.
The first primary for the new
county of Jasper was held on Tuesday.
A .Jew officers were nominated,
and a second race for the others will
be held the"J2Gth. The legislators
will be nominated in August.
buiasi: to pbobk ly\v{nsa.
G ovevu'u* Kxpros.-'cs Keg ret K"v?v
i5;i:is:i?*i County A hair.
j Columbia, "larch 1~?. -Governor
;}31iase said this afternoon that lie
'was going to investigate into the
! :aets sit iron n:i in g ti.e lynching of
the three, negroes at Olar on Wednesday
night, the coroner's jury having
failed to fix the blame of the mob
I of 7"> men who took the negroes from
j the constables while they were 011
! their way from Olar to the Bamberg
jail, and lynched them.
"1 am sorry the negroes were
lynched," said Governor Blease in
discussing the affair. "I am going
to look into the matter closely and
lay whatever evidence I may gather
in the hands of the solicitor."
This was the second time since
Governor Blease has been in office
that a lynching has occurred, the
other occasion having been the lynching
of a negro at Honea Path,
charged with attempted assault on a
white woman last year.
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Murderer is riangeu.
Laredo, Tex., March 15.?J. B.
Compton, who was hanged here today,
murdered G. J. Levytansky, a
jeweler in this city last December.
Lonnie Franks was an accomplice.
The murderers robbed Levytansky of
$12,000 $15,000 worth of diamonds.
Franks fled, but Compton
remained in Laredo, being one of
the first to enter the jewelry store
next morning when the crime was
discovered and one of the loudest
in decrying the cruelty.
Well acquainted with Levytansky,
he went to see his friend's body at
the undertaker shop, commenting on
how little death had altered his visage.
Keeping up his apparent unconcern
two days after the murder
Compton married a young woman of
this city. The police, suspicious of
Compton frorp the first because he
had been seen near the store at
about the time of the murder, arrested
him three times and were
twice forced to release mm iur men.
of evidence. Franks was apprehended
in San Ahtonio and made a confession
implicating Compton. Shortly
afterward Compton also made a confession.
Franks was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Because Compton was married so
soon after his crime is believed to
have turned public sentiment here
against him and when he made application
for a commutation of his
sentence he was unsuccessful.
Escaped Convicts Sought.
Lincoln, Neb., March 15.?No definite
trace had been found early today
of the three convicts who escaped
from the Nebraska State prison yesterday
during a blinding snow storm
after an outbreak in which the warden,
a deputy warden and an usher
were killed outright and a guard
slightly wounded.
The escaped prisoners were clad
only in their prison suits. It is bev
lieved they were assisted by confederates
from outside the prison.
The posse which pursued the men
yesterday returned to the city last
night exhausted by their struggle to
get through the deep snow drifts.
The weather was clear and cold this
morning and a further pursuit of
the convicts was planned.
Reports and rumors that the three
convicts had been seen in different
parts of the country were sifted down
this forenoon without result. Additional
posses have joined in the hunt.
The escaped convicts were bank
robbers and each is said to have been
an expert in the handling of explosives.
They were known as Morley,
Taylor and Dowd. The first named
is said to have served time in Missouri
for a murder.
WATSOX SAFE, SAYS BLEASE.
Governor Declares He will Not Name
Commissioner's Successor.
Columbia, March 15.?Governor
Blease stated this afternoon that he
had no idea of appointing anyone to
the office of commissioner of agriculture,
commerce and immigration,
which means that Commissioner
Watson will hold on until his successor
is elected by the people at the
next election, as provided in the ac*
making the office elective. Commissioner
Watson's term expired yesterday,
but the go'vernor's statement
means that Mr. Watson will continue
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10 nil tne auues 01 uie umce uuui
the election, he, of course, holding
it under the law until a successor i?
. appointed and qualified, and as none
will be named, he will continue just
as at present. This sets at rest rumors
that someone else was slated
, for the place.
Two negro men and a negro woman
were carried from Marlborc
county to the State penitentiary or
Wednesday for safe keeping. Thev
are charged with being concerned ir
the murder of two small white boys
nearly two years ago.
K An ad. in The Herald will bring recults.
Try one and see.
MISS mOTT i.vu i;Ki>.
Oil Kve <>?' stalls and S-Vact'lris
A most i>:i In fill accident happened
to Mios Alice !licit Fridav ai'tor?
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i noon, wmlc on nei way nonie iron
! Vv'altorboro. She walked into town.
land returning, I'd I while renins over
a ler.ee in t'=c path. fracturing a ie ;
and dislocating "lie knee. The accident
occurred near her home. lie,"
physician was summoned and set the
injured limb.
This accident is especially to be
legretted as Miss Hiott was preparing
for her marriage. Her fiance,
Mr. Rowland, of Wavcross, Ga., came
Saturday and they were to have been
married Sunday and return to their
future home Monday in order to be
present at a big reception which had
been planned in their honor. This
accident necessitated a change in the
date of their marriage, and Mr. Rowland
returned to his home Monday.
He will return in the near future to
claim his bride.?Walterboro Press
and Standard.
Bill's Runaway With the Major.
Last week I gave your readers the
escapade of Shoofly Dick, and this
week I chronicle an incident that
happened one of those bitter cold
nights last January. There were two
actors in the comedy, (must I also
add tragedy?) and only one, an unknown
spectator. My good friend,
the major, was one and his hired
man, Bill, was the other.
The major is all right every way;
as a financier he has few equals.
Some years ago he came here with
only the clothing that he wore, and
his first crop was male on rented
land with an ox. By hard work and
good management, he is now rated
at over $30,000, and I have never
heard any one question his honor.
He owns several fine plantations
which he manages splendidly, and in
his own way. There he is a law
unto himself. His legal procedure,
as the lawyers say, is unique to say
the least. He has three ways of
punishing an erring tenant; by reasonable
fines, by flogging, and by putting
in the lock-up a day and night.
For many months his man Bill
had given him much trouble. He
had put fine on fine against Bill's
account, but Bill got worse. Forebearance,
with the major, ceased tc
be a virtue, so one of those cruelly
cold nights last January, he went tc
Bill's house, and gave him what he
had long needed; a good old-fashioned
whipping. After putting the
lash on Bill to his entire satisfaction
he tied Bill behind his buggy witt
a new pair of lines, and proceeded
toward the lock-up, Bill walking, 01
rather trotting behind the buggy
Now, on the way a steep hill, some
four or five hundred yards long, hac
to be climbed, and all went well 'till
the top of this hill was reached. A1
the brow of the hill the major"*
horse stopped. The whip was ap
pnea to tne norse, iue wuime-wet
broke, so did the harness, and th?
horse dashed up the road, leaving
the major in the buggy with Bill
tied on behind. In less time than il
takes to tell it, Bill was carrying
the buggy with the major in it dowr
the hill at a John Gilpin speed. 01
course the road was frozen hard, anc
to pull a buggy down grade was nol
much pulling, but keeping out of the
way of the buggy was no joke at all
but Bill was on the job.
For a while the major said noth'
ing but seeing danger ahead, h<
yelled out: "Wo Bill! Wo, I say
don't you see you're going to smasl
the buggy?"
There was no "woing" or stopping
in Bill, but faster and faster went h<
down the hill, the buggy rattling like
a train load of empty boxes over ai
open trestle. Seeing Bill gaining
speed at such a fearful rate, the ma
jor held on to the buggy for dear lif<
with one hand while with the othe:
he was lashing Bill with a new bugg?
whip. Some yards ahead, a tree wa
standing near the edge of the road
and Bill made a bee-line for thi:
tree. The major saw at once Bill'
intention and yelled out: "Gee, Bill
Gee! Don't you see that tree ahead.'
Rill Hiri ?pp thp tree with both eves
at that, the buggy striking the tre<
' with terrific force, breaking the fet.
! ters which bound Bill to the buggy
; and he with a 1.10 clip dashed on
' ward, leaving the major to his fate
' and the major was thrown headlon;
into a briar patch, some fifteen o
! more feet into the swamp, and whei
he took up a hatless and moneyles
' collection of himself, he was hean
; to say:
"I'll bet :dve hundred dollars tha
: that darn nigger can beat Bruc
Brown a mile dash any cold night.'
' I saw the major next day, and witl
the exception of some dozen patche
of court plaster 011 his hands, he wa
| none the worse for Bill's runnini
away with him down the hill. Th
buggy, however, was laid up for rc
pairs, and so was Bill.
A. \V. BRABHAM.
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works investigate the Fairbanks
Morse Eclipse Pumping outfit. WM
H. PATRICK, Gas Engine Expert.
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