Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SEPARATE RACES SAYS TILLMAK Negroes and Whites Ought tc be Divided at Capitol CIVIL SERVICE LAW BEING ABUSED Senator Tells Why There Are So Many Negroes Now Employed Washington, May 12.?A question which is more or less agitated in Washington rights now is the segregation of the races in the Government departments. This plan is favored by Senator Tillman of South Carolina and Senator Vardaman of Mississippi. In discussing this question Senator Tillman was asked why there 1 ~ ~ -3 l'n were more coiureu jjcisuu? iu Civil Service than whites from the South. It is said that there are 22,000 negroes in the service. Senator Tillman answered the question with characteristic frankness. "I think it is due to the unwillingness of the white women and white men of the South to go to school, as it were, alongside of negroes," he said. "The white people of the South are not much in love with the equality implied by the Civil Service examinations. They therefore neglect to take the examination and get on the eligible list. These lists are humbugs, of course as we all know because the certification of the three names at the top from which the appointing officer must choose and failing to find the proper material for the clerk in the first three can call for another. "If President Wilson," Continued Sen ator Tillman, "and the Cabinet Officers under him use the proper corrective, and it need not be drastic or revolutionary, I should think in three or four years we would have a very radical change in conditions in the Civil Service in Washington." Separate the Races. Whether the Civil Service reforms advocated will be carried out or not, it is a fct that some of the Cabinet officers and their assistants are seeking to separate the negroes and whites in the service as much as possible. John Skelton Williams of Virginia, Assistant Secretary of the Theasury, in paying a visit to the Bureau of Printing and Engraving a short while ago found the white and negro employes eating lunch together. He ordered it stopped at once and insisted that separate places be provided. He said that it might be necessary for them to work together but it was not necessary for them to eat together. Removes Member of Dillon Board. Dillon, May 10.?Tuesday the board of commissioners of Dillon county, with one exception, resigned. The exception was T. W. Berry, of Latta. An appeal was made to the governor for remedial measures and today a letter was received by the clerk of court for record, which refused the resignation of the ones who resigned and dismissed T. W. Bgrry from * * " J rv T +1% /\ f Vlfi tne D03.ru ior csuse. iu cue iciwi cu^ governor excoriates Berry for the contention he is said to have made from time to time and for his alleged misconduct in the sessions of the board, which, it is charged, prevented their executing the duties of this responsible body. The members of the board who resigned but whose resignations were refused are: Dr. W. Stackhouse, W. J. Adams, L. A. Manning, Hiniard Rogers, Arch McCallum, Stephen Bethea, J. D. Coleman. Wants to Bury With Whites Washington, May 7.?An appeal was filed in the supreme court today on behalf of John B. Gaskell, of Chicago, a negro, from the decision of the supreme court of Illinois, refusing him a writ of mandamus to compel the trustees of Forest Home cemetery, Chicago, to accept the body of his wife, Pinkie, for burial in the cemetery which is the burial place of whites. Gaskell has four children buried in the cemetery. They were buried there before the trustees imposed the rule that only whites should repose in the burial ground. Gaskell offered to buy a lot and the trustees refused to sell him. He then took his wife's body to a receiving vault and turned to the courts for relief. He claims that his civil rights, under the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution are being abrogated. MOKE HEETER CHARGES. Accusations Come From Other Towns I Against Pittsburg Educator. Additional charges are heaping up against Sylvanus L. Heeter, superin- 1 tendent of the public schools of Pittsburg, concerning his conduct in | Lagro and Converse, Ind., and St. 1 Paul, Minn., where he was an educa- i tor before he accepted his position in Pittsburg. He is now racing cnarges i. preferred by two Pittsburg girls after i his acquittal on charges filed by a < former nurse girl in the Heeter ? p household. 1 Meetings of the citizens are being h held in protest against the proposed i secret sessions of the committees of I i citizens appointed to investigate the 1 Heeter charges. Thousands of children are still on strike because of < ; Heeter's return to duty, though he is 1 now in North Manchester, Ind., his < old home, where he was summoned 1 because of the serious illness of his t mother. i The investigators have completed t an outline for their probe, but will s not start to work until Heeter re- i turns to Pittsburg so that he may be t present and defend himself in person, c if he so desires. TWO THRILLING WRECKS. L ~ ? Fivers Which Passed Through Hairc raising Experiences. j It was midnight, and train No. 29, * the famous eighteen hour special, r westbound for Chicago, was an hour ^ late, says the Railroad Man's Maga- 1 zine. With only eighteen hours to I 1 cover 1,000 miles, the loss of an hour t near the beginning meant that somewhere farther on there was going to s be rapid traveling, and a little" of it r was going on. Even Mineral Point, 1 eight miles from Johnstown, although a bad curve, lost some of its terrors in the anxiety to get on, and the ] special struck it with a trifle more ] speed than it could stand. The rails groaned under the strain, ] the spikes stirred uneasily in their wooden beds, and then, with a pull, \ they came out and the engine began | pounding the ties. When it first went off it was going so fast, the crew say, that it did not j + Knf tnro nn I c swerve iiilu mc uutu, u u u ^^ , 500 feet of track before it careened and began tearing out the telegraph poles. The train happened to be filled ? with rather well known people that night, and for many hours rumors of a terrific loss of life went out, and a lasting impression was given that ] there had been a frightful catastrophe. In fact, no one on the whole j train received more than a severe jolting, although three cars were i badly smashed. The escape had been so miraculous ( that a shudder went through the whole company. The three smashed cars, although extremely expensive and not broken beyond repair, were piled up beside the track and burned. On March 4 the Pittsburg Flier was taking Altoona at its usual gait of 50 miles an hour when the con- c cussion caused by its passage in some t way shocked a carload of dynamite i into activity. It began as the first baggage car r was passing, as near as could be \ gauged. Some of the crew insist that a it was abreast of the engine, others maintain that the train had passed \ half way, but the fact that the win dows were all knocked out of the j forward smoker tells its own story. p However, it does not do to start an C argument on the subject in certain v quarters. It was not one terrific detonation, but a series of half a dozen, C each louder and more destructive s than the one before. The train was ( in full swing, and there would not I have been any sense in stopping, but s as each car passed it caught a broad- r side that smashed every window, a practically tore the framework out c from floor to roof, snapped off the steps, and wrecked the vestibules. i By the time the last car got its i share the train was a mere tattered c fragment of rolling stock. And yet it did not leave the rails and not a r passenger was seriously injured. That whole era of the first six t months of 1907 has left a deep im pression on the Pennsylvania's men. ? Many of them firmly believe that they t were protected from the wrath, and c some of the occurrences surely point ? to that conclusion. I Didn'e Get Freedom. It was his first visit to America, and he was anxious to see as much of it as possible in a short time. In * a brief visit to the South he met an v f aged negro who had been a slave. "How interesting!" he remarked. ^ "And after the war you had your 1 freedom?" 1 The old man looked at him half 3 sadly, half sheepishly, shook his c wooly head, and said: 1 "Xo, sah. I didn't git no freedom?I went and got married."? ( Troy Stories. 1 m e Try one of those new stationery ? packages at Herald Book Store. j I GRANT'S MOTION OVERRULED. Negro \Vante<l in Edgefield Loses Oi in Pennsylvania Courts. Lexington, May 12.?George Be Timmerman, solicitor of this circui is in receipt of a letter from th deputy clerk of the United Stat< uourt at i^nnaaeipma, in wnica n states that the United States Distrk Judge has overruled the motion c Joe Grant, the negro who is wante in Edgefield county for the murde af J. T. Durst, of Johnston, in 1 90( and remanded the negro to the cour ty prison to await further develoj ments, the attorneys for Grant ha\ ing taken an appeal to the Unite States Court of Appeals of Pennsy! rania. Solicitor Timmerman has not bee 'dvised as to the date of the hearing aut will at once get into communi nation with the Pennsylvania authori :ies, and will ask that he be permit ;ed to file a written argument in be lalf of the State of South Carolina :nus saving the State as much as pos >ible in the way of cost. This decisio: neans that Grant has lost out befor .he Pennsylvania State Courts an ilso in the United States Court. Mi Timmerman felt confident all alon hat the decision would be against th legro and in favor of the State o South Carolina, and is just as confi lent now that he will win in th' Jnited States Court of Appeals, an< hat the detention of the negro onl; neans a stay of justice, and tha Jrant will, soon be brought back t< his State to face trial at Edgefield. Solicitor Timmerman stated thi ifternoon that he intended to figh he case to a finish, and that, if neces ary, he would return to Pennsyl ania to be present at the hearin: ~ +v.^. T'nJtQfl Qtatoc Pnnrt nf Anneals II Lil^ L 11 x I.VU k/vw, WW VX'V. v r r "SO TIRED." am so tired, dear; full well I know should be made of sterner stuff and go flight bravely through the mist o silent tears, Jntil the pathway narrows down, an< nears God's pasture green. 3ut I am tired, dear, and all the wa; Seems to wind up and up?I may no stay To lean against you, nor to toucl your hand. Tis hard to journey on alone to tha strange land? The rest unseen. ^ i " ' ' :t must be just beyond; I will b< strong? shall not'faint now. True, the wa: is long, rhe path is rough, but one can res and pray; 5od will not let me falter by th< way? I need not fear. ?Annie Grier Callender The Value of Life. We have heard much of the higl ost of living, but we have not beei old much about the high cost of dy ng. Dying comes high. It means a pe iod of enforced economic disability vith little or no income and mucl tnd expensive outgo. This, in time of peace. In time o var the cost of dying is vastly mor< ;xpensive. In the Boer war it cos ust $40,000 to kill a man. In th< >resent Balkan war it is costing $10, >00. The average cost of dying ir rar runs from $15,000 to $20,000. In the Panama Canal Zone, Col Jorgas has reduced life saving to i cience and made it cheap. It costs :ol Gorgas just $2.43 for ev<>ry lift le saves. He has made life safe anc ecure for a year in one of the wors egions of the earth at a cost of wha in ordinary man spends for a week'; igars. In war, life is held cheaply, thougl t costs dearly. At Panama, Col. Gor fas holds life dear and makes its cos lirt cheap. The annual economic value of live! leedlessly lost every year in the Unit ;d States is estimated by actuaries tc >e worth $1,500,000,000. Would it not be well worth fo: jo-vernments to consider seriousl: he economic values of probable losse: )f life. In war with Col. Gorgas'i system of life-saving at $2.43 per?? Philadelphia Telegram. Disnensary Petitions in Barnwell. The time for filing petitions for ai lection on the dispensary questioi as not yet passed but t^e petition! ^hich have been returned so far wen iled with the Supervisor last week )n these petitions were nearly 1,60< lames. It requires only about 60( lames to secure the election, and ii is much as more than half of the vot rs of the county have affixed thei: ignatures to the petitions sent in. i ooks as if the voters and tax payer >f the county are anxious to be rid o he present obnoxious condition. Oth t petitions will be filed with th< supervisor before the first of June.? larnwell Sentinel. AGED WOMAN ATTACKED. it Gaffney Police Searching for Assail ant?No Clue Yet. 11 j Gaffney, May 8.?A brutal am t, murderous assault was made on ai e aged lady of this city Tuesday night ?s The affair took place at the home o ie the victim's son, on North Limes-torn ;t street, and occurred about 9 o'clocl )f in the evening. The lady in telling o d the affair, said just as she stepped oi r the back porch to get a drink of wa 5, ter she ran into a man who wa i- standing there. Before she coul< )- tell either who he was or whether h< r- was white or black, he had clutchec d her throat and knocked her to th< [- floor, whereupon he took to his heels Going out of the door he ran over ; 11 chair, knocking it out of the house r, This alarmed the people in the house i- and they rushed to her assistance, i- She had been hurled to the flooi > with such terrific force that hei i- mouth and face were badly lacerated l, and she sustained a great shock. Sh< is unable to give any dtescriptioi q whatever of her assailant, e Police officers were summoned t< d the scene and at once made an in \ vestigation. Tracks leading to a gat< g opening on a back alley were found e and it was found that the man wort f a No. 9 shoe, but thus far no trace 01 - the culprit has been found. e i Sea Postoffice. y ?? t Everyone is aware that a large 3 quantity of mail comes from Europe; probably most persons assume thai 3 it is dumped off the steamers in bulk t and sorted and routed *in the post. office of the receiving port. Such a _ system would result in hopeless con, gestion and practically all of the ; fifteen million pounds of foreign mail matter received at New York, on ar average of recent years, is ready sorted and sacked when the steamers make port. This work is done in the . cm nnsrnffipps ahoard the shiD. and means days saved in the time of def livery of mail matter intended foi land points. * In the huge mass of mail broughl into New York each year there are on an average, 80,000,000 separate pieces, many thousands with inade ' quate addresses; yet to such a degree t of efficiency has the operation of the sea postoffices been brought, and sc 1 carefully is the work done, that less than 500 errors are made annually t As the entire quantity of the ocean mail received in a year would fill 2,200 standard mail cars, an almost incredible accuracy is indicated?less 0 than one error of any kind whatever for .every four car loads of mail.? Harper's Weekly. t Smallest Book in World. 3 What the Library of Congress catalogues as the smallest book in the world is a paper bound volume, which . measures only two-fifth by two-fifths of an inch and will easily rest upon the thumbnail, it contains 4S pages ol Japanese paper upon which are print i ed an introduction and the complete i Rubaiyat of Omar Khayvman, a fam ous Persian poet who li^ed more than 1,000 years ago. Of this edition oi - [the Rubaiyat only 57 copies were , printed, numbered and signed.? i Popular Mechanics. ; Machinery For Sale J I am offering all my machinery for sale consisting j of one 70-horse power boiler, one 70-Iiorse power engine, saw mill, grist mill, rice mill, system ginnery, i. (three 70-saw gins), belting, shafting, two log carts, etc., all in good fix except ginnery. Easy terms. Call 1 on or write the undersignt ed if you mean business. ' D. O. Hunter Branchville, S. C., R. F. 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