The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 27, 1913, Image 1
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One Dollar and a Half a Year, BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1913. Established 1891.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Letter from Old Timer. <
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w Wanderer's Rest, Nov. 24.?Au- .
Br tiimn leaves everywhere, yellow and -1
W gold and brown and red, all shades 1
* and tinges and hues, beautiful au- '
turn leaves to charm and teach the 1
truth that beauty even in a dead leaf ]
i<i ETAatpr if nnssible than in life.
See one wandering in a forest, wad- 1
fing in leaves up to the shoe tops, 1
what fallen grandeur greets the eye; 1
bare limbs and branches overhead <
but a carpet under foot more beauti- 1
ful than any under the feet of Kings j
in their palaces perhaps. On the j
v. wanderer goes more and more '<
charmed each step as the leaves 1
|p grow deeper, the colors heighten, and ]
rapture leads him on. Here he stops \
to look at the trees silent and grand,
all lit up with a light brighter than
an electric light, but so soft is it
that the eye is not dazzled but the
; onlooker as one entranced stands and
Views the scene. Yes, trees; trees
beautiful trees, so bare and grand,
stand silent sentinels over the scene. '
On goes the wanderer, new beauties
on every hand to enhance the scene,
landscape so grand rolling in a gentle
swell like a summer sea. Ail at once
a sudden turn brings to view a low
* -x sink of many feet. There the leaves '
are more beautiful and the descent is
begun, down goes the lone one and
he is spell bound by the grandeur, ?
down he goes, soon a flutter on the
steep incline draws the attention of 1
the lone one as he stands amazed,
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when lo, in the beautiful leaves he
sees as in a little basket all of leaves \
a little cup full of sparkling water, 1
clear as crystal, and in this little mite 1
of water two fish at play, and as they 1
sent the drops of water in the air 1
they sparkled like diamonds in the 1
strange soft light. Here was more
beauty, such fish, red and yellow and {
gold. Soon the sides of the sink was 'c
alive with fish, each pair in their '
little socket or basket of crystal, all *
? floundering and playing, how fresh (
and happy they looked. From whence
came the water, only a little, but all \
so fresh and bright. Then the va- 1
rieties of fish, none the wanderer had ]
ever seen before, all colors, shapes ?
^ and lengths, each kind by twos in
& their own little home of the sparkKf
ling limpid water, so snugly kept for
P each little pair, each home made of j
^ the varied autumn leaves. While the :
wanderer stood spell-bound by the f
matchless beauty of all but intent in ,
the interest made by the fish and ?
their homes nothing else was noted, ,
when all at once the whole vale was 1
all life, beautiful creatures of all j
kinds began to move, each in har- .
mony with the other, then was he
made to feel here Is peace, sweet
peace, coupled with elegance and
beauty. How enrapt, how eager to
see, to know whence all this scene.
But alas, like all earthly beauty, it
soon was to fade.
While thus he was held in the
revelry of his eyes, the lone wanderer
among the autumn leaves and all 3
things beautiful he felt the touch of (
something on his shoulder. Startled, (
> he turned, and there stood a beauti- (
ful woman of deep thought implant- (
ed on her brow, her long dark hair (
streaming below the waist line, her (
two hands clasped as in supplication. 1
W whispered to the rude intruder: "Go
on, go on; this is enchanted ground." 5
When lo, the wanderer awoke to find
that he was in his own room and
'twas only a dream. Not so with the
leaves, they truly are here, and while
^ not as the dream, are beautiful, beau- (
* tiful to behold. OLD TIMER. ,
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NO MORE MIXED CREWS. ,
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Stephens Says Negro and White Mail (
Clerks Will Be Separated. 1
"Negro and white mail clerks will 1
be absolutely separated. The de;
partment in fact, has taken steps ^
already toward that end," said Alex- '
ander H. Stephens, general superin- 1
v tendent of the railway mail service, 5
fit to a conference of chief clerks of the
eleventh division here to-day.
"We have found that mixed crews
do not give satisfaction, but in separating
races,' he continued, "we are
proceeding so that no injustice will
i be done and no men demoted. We
will simply work with all white and .
all negro crews in the future."
His announcement was cheered Dy
the delegates, all of whom were
white clerks.?Little Rock Dispatch.
25 head well broke mules for sale
by J. M. DANNELLY & SON, Ehrhardt.
Weight 1,000 lbs. and up,-ad. '
TURNS HAIR GRAY.*
Farmer's Daughter Seriously Frightened
by Big Black Snake.
Miss Mabel Murdick, eighteen
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvestei
Murdick, who lives on a farm near
Mendham, N. J., is in a serious condition
at her home as a result of a
fright she received a few days ago.
Her brother Harry went out with a
large top basket to gather ferns tc
be used to decorate the dinner table,
rhe boy gathered the ferns and went
to a pond near by to spend an hour
B6hing, leaving the basket open.
After catching a few sunfish he returned
to the basket, closed it and
took it home. While Miss Murdick
was filling the fern dish she pulled
3ut a large fern from the basket and
from it fell a black snake. The girl
screamed and swooned. She has had
attacks of hysteria for three days
md refuses to eat or drink. Her
hair above her ears has turned gray.
Doctors have been unable to find a
successful treatment for her.
Young Man Kills Self.
Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 20.?Details oi
the death of Gordon Bennett, whose
hodv was found lying in the yard oi
his father's home, near Cecil yesterday
afternoon, with a shot-gun by
ais side, indicate unmistakably that
:he young man killed himself.
Evidence before the coroner's jury
today showed that he had repeatedly
threatened self-destruction and only
i few days ago told his mother that
ae intended killing himself the first
:ime he was able to get hold of a
ru r? *
The father and mother went to a
leighbors home yesterday morning
leaving the young man alone, but
:ook the precaution of locking the
shot-gun in the "smoke house" before
leaving. The son evidently saw
:he mother when she hid the weapon,
md afterwards broke open the door
>f the house with an axe and secured
;he gun.
Bennett took off one of his shoes,
md sitting down with his back
igainst a box, placed the muzzle of
:he weapon to his temple, and pulled
the trigger with his toes. His
ieath was instantaneous.
Young Bennett was 25 years old
md unmarried. His mind had been
impaired for a long while and he
lad formerly been an inmate of the
state insane asylum.
Robbery at St. Matthews.
St. Matthews, November 24.?Last
light robbers invaded the home of
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Dreher, one block
Irom the business thoroughfare,
vhile the inmates were asleep, and
stole some money, clothes, jewelry,
md a mileage ticket. Bloodhounds
were put on the trail early this mornng
and went to the house of two
:olored boys of unsavory reputation,
without the least hitch. The eviience
against them was so strong
:hat they were carried at once to
jail. The hounds were anxious and
jreated much excitement.
Lynching in Georgia.
Athens, November 24.?It is reported
here to-night that a lynching
jccurred three (Jays ago in Walton
lounty, but was kept quiet. "General"
Boyd, a negro, was hanged for
jntering a fanner's house and, it is
charged, attempted to seize the farm?r's
daughter, who fought him off,
aowever, and fired at him as he fled.
Boyd previously served a sentence
in the penitentiary for seizing a
white woman by the foot.
A 3,000-Pound Catch
Three thousand pounds of fish in
Dne day is a pretty good catch for
sne boat and a small crew, isn't it?
That is what Capt. C. W. Morse and
his crew did at Murrel'js Inlet one
lay last week.
Weather conditions were ideal and
the fish were running in schools.
Capt. Morse used a surf sein, such as
is employed in surf fishing for mullet.
The catch included principally
school bass and sea trout?the spotted
fellows, not weakfish, which are
so frequently miscalled trout.
The catch was brought to Georgetown
and sold to McDonald & Co.
which firm iced them and sent them
to the larger markets.?Georgetown
Times.
FLORIDA STRAWBERRIES.
Shipped to Chicago, Netting 75c Pei
Quart.
Plant City, Fla., Nov. 25?The firsl
strawberries of the season, two car
loads, left here to-day for Chicago
The farmers netted 75c per quart
The berries are large and fine.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Joseph Summers was arrested in
, Columbia Wednesday for trying to
pass a forged check for $45 on the
Bank of Columbia.
A ten-year-old negro boy while
playing in a room filled with seed
. cotton, near Lamar Tuesday, was
[ caught by a cave-in and smothered
to death.
1 Thirteen freight cars of a through
i train, running 25 miles an hour,
1 jumped the track on the Coast Line
1 near Kingstree on Tuesday and were
1 completely wrecked.
The statement that Chas. H. Hen- i
ry, late of Spartanburg, now of At-'
lanta, intends to start an evening
paper in Greenville is denied by his
relatives in Spartanburg.
A number of- game wardens have
f recently been appointed by the gov?
ernor, for various counties of the
: State. Let us hope the game and
- fish laws will be enforced. \
York county officers captured a 60:
gallon still between Hickory Grove
and Smyrna on Thursday and destrnvpd
400 srallons of "mash." The
operators of the still made their escape.
Frank Dukes is in jail in Barnwell
' charged with the murder of Mose
' Priester, both colored, Saturday
night. Priester was shot in the back
' with a shotgGn and his skull was
; crushed with a club.
Josh and Jesse Jones, colored,
brothers, got into a fight in Marlboro
county Saturday night over
money matters, when Jesse struck
| Josh in the eye with a scantling,
from which he died on Tuesday.
The dead body of Duncan M. Carmichael,
a young man of prominence,
was found by the track of the Coast
Line road near Florence Thursday
. morning?supposed to have been
killed by a train Tuesday night. A
bottle of whiskey was found near the
body.
Consent verdicts to the amount of
i $32,225 were taken at Chester court
i on Thursday against the Lancaster &
Chester railroad in damage suits
growing out of the wreck at Hoopers
creek July 30th last. A large
number of other suits are still on the
; docket.
J. L. Finch, an electric lineman,
was painfully injured at Clinton Monday.
He was standing op a raised
ladder'about twenty feet from the
ground and touched a live wire. He
was knocked to the ground and con1
siderably bruised, hi6 right hip being
fractured.
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Four mules, a horse, farm imple.
ments, forage, grain, etc., were burn,
ed in a fire that destroyed the barn
of W. H. McDade near Sandy
Springs, Friday in Anderson county.
The total loss is about $3,800, with
$1,500 insurance. It is not known
how the fire originated.
Miss Mary Mood attempted suicide
in Spartanburg Sunday night. She
inflicted an ugly wound on her left
wrist with a pair of scissors and lost
considerable blood, but she will recover.
She lived at her home alone
and had recently been ill, and loneliness
and despondency caused the
act no doubt.
D J. Griffith, superintendent of
k ' I
the penitentiary said Saturday that
the chair factory would very probably
begin operation this week. Hfee
factory will be located in the buildL
ing formerly occupied by the hosiery
mill. The building frill be placed in
sanitary condition under the direction
of Dr. J. A. Hayne, State health
! officer. Superintendent Griffith said
Saturday that A. D. Martin who is
to act as selling agent for the chair
' factory, would arrive in Columbia
} this week from Frankfort, Ky.
Over 100 convicts will be put to work
in the mill.
BOYS ARE ARRESTED.
. Bennettsville Lads Charged With
, Burning Barn.
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t Bennettsville, Nov. 23.?Two
young white boys, Alfred Sanders,
aged 9, and Arch Marshburn, aged
11 years, were arrested yesterday i
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aiternoon, cnargea wim uumiug mo
'barn of Policeman Charlie Peele.
The building was found to be on fire
about 3.30 p. m. and soon thereafter
t the boys were placed in jail. The
- facts upon which the arrests were
made will be developed Monday morn.
ing, when a preliminary hearing will
be given before the magistrate.
ULMER MAIL CARRIER VICTIM.
Edgar P. Phillips Killed by Grover
Harter, Who is in Jail.
Barnwell, November 24.?Edgar F.
Phillips, of Ulmer, the rural mail
carrier of parcel post fame, was shot
and killed in the store of Willie
Brant, at Ulmer, Thursday night of
last week by Grover Harter. The
weapon used was an automatic pistol.
Two shots were fired, it is said, only '
one of which took effect. The ball 1
entered Phillips's body in the region 1
of the heart, causing almost instant
death. Harter has been arrested :
and is now in the county jail.
From what can be learned here 1
Phillips and Harter had been in- <
volved in some previous difficulty, as i
a result of which, it is alleged, the
latter made threats against the life
of Phillips. There was a clash be- I
tween the two men several days ago '
and a warrant was sworn out by
Phillips charging Harter with as- *
sault and battery. The case,was to
have been tried before Magistrate <
Williams, at Ulmer, on Friday morn- <
ing. ?
Philips was in the store of Willie
Brant Thursday night between 7 and :
8 o'clock making some purchases. As
he turned to leave, his arms full of <
bundles, according to eye-witnesses,
two shots were fired from the doorway.
Phillips cried, "Boys, he's got
me," and staggering a few feet, fell
behind the counter, where he died in 1
a few minutes.
Coroner Woodward held the inquest
and the jury brought in the 1
usual verdict?that Phillips came to
his death from gunshot wounds at
the hands of Harter. There were
several eye-witnesses to the tragedy, 1
among them being Messrs. Frank and
William Myrick, Herbert L. Dickin- 1
son, Hugh McMillan, Perry Harter <
and Henry Brant.
Mr. Phillips was the mail carrier
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tnat naa uie eAtuuug, e^encutc nuu
a wild cat several months ago while
delivering two babies by parcel post.
Among other articles in his mail was 1
a wooden leg, which he used as a
weapon of defence in beating off the
animal. Mr. Phillips is survived by
his wife and four little children. <
Harter is unmarried.
Another homicide occurred Saturday
night about four miles from
Barnwell. Jesse Corley, a negro,
shot and killed Luther Green, another
negro, the weapon used being a
shotgun, the entire load from which
took effect in Green's back from close
range. The wounded man lived about
an hour. Corley was arrested by
Sheriff Morris and lodged in the
county jail. The coroner's jury rendered
the usual verdict. It is said
that some previous difficulty led up
to the killing.
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Morality, Old and New.
Morality is always a generation or
two ahead of legality.
The number of offenses against the
moral and legal codes is increasing
constantly.
Moral principle never cut so large
a figure in the affairs of this American
people as it does today.
We have 20 moral qualms where
our godly ancestors had one. 1
vIt never occurred to them that a
lottery was wrong, or that it was
wicked to drink whiskey, or to whip
a child or a wife, or to enslave the
black man and cheat the red man.
Nine out of ten of the little conscientious
niceties of life are discoveries
of the last 50 years.
More societies to do all sorts of
good and work all kinds of reforms
have been created in the last two
orarniroHnno than had been formed
U(|4VUg VMWM
or thought of before from the beginning
of the world.
We are geting better. No doubt
about it.
But there is still plenty of room
for improvement.?Christian Herald.
ORANGES AT BEAUFORT.
Fine Crop and Fruit Greatly in Demand
Just Now.
Beaufort, Nov. 25.?Beaufort is
having a wonderful orange crop this
year. On every hand trees can be
seen loaded down with this fruit,
which is grown so successfully here.
One of the local gardens has produc
ed 1,500 for the first crop. These are
being handled by one of the fruiters
of the town and are very much in demand
on account of their sweetness.
They had scrambled through the
first dance on the program and he was
leading her back to a seat.
"I could die dancing, couldn't
you?" he asked.
"No," she replied. "There are
pleasanter ways than being trampled
to death."?Cincinnati Enquirer.
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T. M. EMERSON EXPIRES
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PASSES AWAY IN WILMINGTON
OF ACUTE INDIGESTION.
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Rushed Home on Special Train, Ap- .
parently Improved, But Later
Grew Worse Rapidly.
Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 25.?
Thomas Martin Emerson, president
of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Company, died late to-night at his
home here, following an attack of
acute indigestion at Dupont, Ga.,
Sunday, while on a trip of inspection
over the system with members
of the board of directors. Mr. EmerBon,
attended by his physicians and
friends, early to-day reached Wilmington
on a special train from the
South, and while it was announced
that his condition was improved, he
later grew worse and died at 11
o'clock. i
Mr. Emerson was born in Preble
county, Ohio, March 29, 1851. ?He
entered the railroad service in 1867
as a clerk in the freight office at
Hagerstown, Ind., and by degrees
forged his way to the front rank of
railroad men in the country. From
clerk in the freight office he became
night telegraph operator and later
chief freight and ticket clerk at
Marion, Ind., and Fort Wayne; Ind.
He later was general passenger agent <
of the Detroit and IndianapoKs j
"through line." i
Coming South in January, 1875, \
le became clerk in the general freight (
office of the Charlotte, Columbia and j
Augusta Railroad, and in July of the ,
same year was promoted to chief i
clerk in the general freight and pas- i
senger department of the Atlantic 3
Coast Line, in which capacity he served
until September 1, 1880, when for j
a year he was assistant general j
freight and ticket agent of the same ,
road. j
In August, 1881, he was appointal 3
assistant general freight agent of the ?
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, after- j
wards becoming :gfeneral freight and ]
passenger agent. From July 1, 1891, ,
to July, 1902, he wag traffic manager
of the Atlantic Coast Line, later he^ <
coming third vice president. About 4
five years ago he succeeded the late j
President Erwin, of the Atlantic 3
Coast Line. \
Mr. Emerson was taken ill Sun- ,
day at Dupont, Ga., while on an inspection
tour of the road of which ,
he was president. He was taken to j
Waycross, Ga., Sunday night, and j
spent Monday under the care of phy- 3
siriflna in a hosnital there. Last night ,
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he was apparently much better, and
v;as taken aboard a special train for (
Wilmington. A trained nurse and a j
physician accompanied him. When .
he arrived here to-day he was taken 1
to his home, his physician reporting ,
him practically out of danger. .
EDGEFIELD KILLING. 1
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John Scurry Fatally Shoots James ]
Burt and Escapes. 1
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Edgefield, Nov. 25.?Monday night, ,
on a plantation belonging to the es- <
tate of W. W. Adams, John Scurry
shot and instantly killed James Burt,
the parties being negroes. Some time
ago Scurry, it is said, killed a dog
belonging to a Mr. Wood, and, Burt '
informed the owner of the fact, 1
which, it seems, infuriated Scurry, ]
and, armed with a gun, it is alleged, J
he went on a hunt for the deceased
and, finding him at home, called him
from the house, and as Burt was ap- '
proaching the front gate Scurry fired,
the load taking effect in rhe neck and \
t hrnat After getting in his bloody J
work Scurry fled and has not yet '
been captured, although the sheriff is *
in hot pursuit.
Her Threat.
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A certain young couple who were j
married some months ago never had ]
a cloud to mar their happiness'until j
recently. One morning the young i
wife came to breakfast in an ex- i
tremely sullen and unhappy mood. {
To all her husband's inquiries she re- ,
turned snappish answers. She was '
in no better frame of mind when he i
came home that evening for dinner, {
all of which mystified the young hus- ]
band.
Finally, late in the evening, in reply
to his insistent demands to know
what the matter was, the wife burst ^
into tears and replied: Henry, if
ever I dream again that you kissed
another woman I'll never speak to <
you as long as I live!" j
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Our. Mr. W. P. Jones is now in the
West selecting another car load of 1
horses and mules, and they will ar- 1
rive the first part of next week. ,
Prospective buyers will do well ta
wait and see this load before they
purchase. We can suit you. JONES *
BROS.?adv. i
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IJH E IXJAUJiFlEljirs FKOliKHSS.
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rhe Status of the Work on Elkhorn
Extension. ^
Hanlrprc who havo in at rotnrnarl
rom an inspection of the Carolina,
Jlinchfield and Ohio Railway and the
lew Elkhorn extension to a connec- \
don with the Chesapeake and Ohio
report that construction work on the
55 miles of new line is about 75 per J
lent completed and that next spring
ir summer will see the new mileage :j|
n operation.
Construction work is very heavy,
lut everything is being done on a
permanent basis and according to the
latest accepted standards. There will
pe 21 tunnels, the longest more than t
i mile and a half long. In all, there
fvill be 20,000 feet of tunnels, and ? j
feese, in conjunction with heavy
grading'work, will permit of a maximum
grade of 10 per cent, or favorable
enough to permit of the operadon
of 100-car trains with the asdstance
of pushers where the m&ximum
grade opposes traffic. Cost will
approximate $150,000 per mile of r|J
road, but the importance of the new .'..p*
extension appears to warrant the
lug? expenditure.
When the connection is had with
Lhe Chesapeake and Ohio, the Clinchheld
coal from the 300,000 acres
awned in the Cumberland fields will '
have direct entrance "to 'Ohio River
crossings, an<4 the most of it will be
aauled through the Cincinnati gateway
by the Chesapeake and Ohio, and
turned over to other lines for general
iistribution. This outlet for the company's
coal will, it is expected, require
doubling the present output, which
now amounts to about 1,600,- -V&4M
900 tons annually.
now amounts to about 1,600,000 j&jfjH:
In addition, the new line will afford
a more direct and shorter route
from the Middle West into the South
Atlantic States, than any now exist- v
ing. It is predicted that the passenger
running time from Cincinnati,
Foiedo and Chicago, to Florida, can
be reduced between four and five
hours when this new extension is
joupled up.
The present 240 miles of the
Slinchfield's lines are earning in excess
of $12,000 per mile gross, largely
made up of revenues from movement
of coal to tidewater at Charlesfnn
A JUtln nna* o v actn 4+ nrfla - 'C-A
i>vu? a iivu9 v? ci 4 j cmi a^v *v n mm . ""' ' * "c>afl
earning only $8,000 gross per mile.
Industrial development along the
jompnay's lines has far exceeded expectations.
General traffic is increas- .
ing at the rate of 40 per cent over
that of a year ago. There are 150
salt mines along the company's lines, ' '3M
turning out anywhere from three
carloads a week to five a day. It is .
predicted that there will shortly he
200 such mills. Cement plants, fertilizer
plants, and hrick plants, for
which local conditions are favorable, .'**?9
ire being established. There is be- tween
20 and 30 billion feet of hard- .';r^?|
wood timber available in the company's
territory, of#which every mil- I
von foot will rot urn JnOOft in freight
revenue. The company will this y^ar
earn $1,200,000 surplus over all C
charges.?Wall Street Journal.
Tragedy of a Country Girl.
Atlanta, Nov. 20.?The tragedy of ' "^J?|
a, beautiful country girl, ruined by ,
the influences of glittering city life,
is epitomized in the hopeless appeal ^
made a day or two ago to the Atlanta
police by Miss Mabel Reynolds, -<13
who attempted to commit suicide in
% Chinese restaurant here. '
"Oh, why didn't you let me die?"
she cried. "Is there any hope in iife
for a girl like me?" And the matron
it the police station, knowing life as
she did, secretly knew what to answer.
. ( Miss
Reynolds, who is now only
nineteen years of age, has known
*nn??rh misery and disaDDOintment to
611 a long lifetime. "My husband
made me a bad girl when I was only
twelve years old, and married me five
twelve years old, and married me five
rears afterward only to force me to
support him by* a life of shame. What
;hance is there for a girl who has
been treated like that by a man
who above all others ought to protect
her? I want to begin again, but
[ don't know how." j
SIMMS CALLS. ON BLEASE.
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Has No Comment to Make on Gubernatorial
Race.
Columbia, November 24.?Mr.
Charles Carroll Simms, of Barnwell,
i candidate for Governor, and Representative
Mixson, of Barnwell, were
jailers at the office of Governor
Blease to-day. Mr. Simms had no
comment to make on politics, but appears
pleased over the reception his
candidacy for Governor is meeting in ~ vks
all parts of ttie State.