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AS HE SEES US A Northern Man's Views of the Chain Gang in ORANGEBURG COUNTY. Mr. lteers Engaged In tlio Lumber 1 Justness in Orangeburg County Writes an Interesting Letter to a Conneetieut Newspaper. He Thinks We Have Solved the Problem fur Healing With Lazy Negroes. The Hartford, Conn., Courant says Mr. Geo. A. Beers, formerly of Bristol, Conn., but now engaged in the lumber business in Rowesville, S. C., writes interesting of what he has seen in South Carolina with reference to the manner in which the whites deal with the idle or vicious negroes. The chaingang, he thinks, is adapted to the needs of that section and is operated without inflicting undue cruelty or hardship upon the men sentenced to serve time in its ranks. After living in the South for two month in a community where the whites do not number over 200 and the blacks are at least 1,100, and after having had an average of 40 negroes employed for that time. Mr. Beers puts forth his ideas in regard to the negro on the chaingang. The negro will not work more than he is obliged to in order to keep body and soul together and he has no idea of the future and no care for it. If he has a reasonable amount of rice and honey today with a little pork fat to help it out he is all right and the morrow may take care of itself. It goes without saying that in every community in the South there are a large number of idle negroes who will not work under any consideration and in many cases, most for that matter, they are young men. The old time plantation darkey has practically ceased to exist and there are grown up in his place a modern negro who was taught to believe himself as good, or p little better than the whites, and it is from these the vagrant class is drawn that make up the men who work on the chaingang. From vagrancy to the commission of small crimes is but a step and it seems Mr. Beers says, that the South has solved a question as to what to do with a class that will not work and is a constant menace to the civil welfare of the communities, in a way that is right for this section. The North is considering the question what to do with the "rounder" and the idle moderately vicious persons in order to escape constant conviction in the courts with the attendant expenses. The judge of every local court in South Carolina corresponding to Connecticut police and justice courts imposes an alternative sentence for the crimes that come under her jurisdiction. He give $10 or 20 days on the chaingang, or a proportionate penalty for the offences that come before him. When a negro goes to jail he is kept there only long enough to fit him out with a striped suit and then he is turned over to the county commissioners, who place him on a chaingang and he is sent with his gang to some piece of country road and put to work. Practically all the roads in South Carolina are country roads and, until recently, were not much better than cartpaths, but during the last few years many of the roads leading from one large town to another have been put in fine shape. It is no great job to work roads in South Carolina as the land is practically level and all that is necessary is to run the .road machine along the highway and scrape the sand into the middle of the road and then, with the men on chaingang, open the ditches down to clay and cover the sand with a coating of clay, which hardens and makes a good road surface. The gang operating in one part of the State put into good shape in four days nearly a mile of road. There were 15 of the men chained together, four trusties wearing the stripes, but no chains, and four white men who acted as roadmakers and guards. The county of Orangeburg owns the equipment, which consists of one big wall tent, 16 by 20 feet, a smaller tent for cooking, two old stoves, bunks for the men, eight mules, the i necessary wagons for transportating baggage from place to place and a road machine. Altogether the invesmtent on the part of the county may be $2,000. Four men are paid wages but even white men do not earn big pay in this county and county commissioners, who by the way are elected by the people, receive $400 a year except one of their number who is road commissioner and who is paid $700. It was Sunday when Mr. Beers visited the camp arfd the men were resting on their bunks, which were ..A _ 1 A.\. A 1 ? ? strung aiong tne two sides 01 the tent. As it was a cold day a stove had been put up in one end of the tent. The pipe was run along crotched sticks to the other end and the interior of the tent was comfortable. All the men wore chains attached to each ankle and these chains were attached to short ones, which in turn were attached to a long one and these held all the men on one side of the tent together. The chains are never taken off day or night. Practically all of the men were FORTUNE OR PRISON The Awkard Fix Confronting a ( Man Left a Fortune. Ilo In l'|i AkuIiinI a Forgery Indict- * nicnt If He Hot urns to Claim the Millions Ijpft Hint. With a fortune of millions of dollars awaiting him on his mere return to Lake county, 111., John Yule Smith, the only brother of the late "Silent" Smith, who died recently in Japan, is in a perplexing predicament. The whereabouts of the missing brother is not definitely known, but he is thought to be in Chill. But, whereever he is, he Js a free .nan, while, If he returns to Chicago to claim his share of his dead brother's $50,000,000 fortune, he runs a long chance of lauding in jail. Many of the residents of Lake county still remember John Yule Smith, find a great many of these declare the heir of the Smith millions will never appear. For 1212 years John Smith has been a fugitive from justice, having been indicted on several charges of forgery and later jumping his bail. The other members of the Smith family tried to forget the "black sheep," and as a result there was general surprise when, after "Silent" Smith's <: death, t became known that he had a } brother. In the last ten years before i his death the millionaire was not * known to have mentioned his brother's name, nor even the fact that he had a brother living. If John Smitli fails to appear in Chcago for liis share of liis brother's fortune it will only be becaiise of his own fear of arrest. The indictment still hangs over him, but he will not be prosecuted even if he does re-appear. The money which he fradulontly obtained was refunded by "Silent" Smith, who also reimbursed the man who went tlio fugitive's bond. Time has also softened the wrath of his victims and it is quite certain that none of them would seek to have him punshed if he should return. The official who caused hisarrest is now chief of police in Waukegan, and he says that if Smith should return to the State he would do nothing unless compelled by one of his victims, and that in all probability the indictment against him would be quashed. The crime for which John Smith was indicted was frauduletly obtaining money on worthless mortgages, lie sold a large number of these documents, and evaded suspicion for a long time by paying the interest upon them when it became due. When the fraud was discovered Smith fled but r a year later was arrested in Kansas, and after extradition papers had been secured he was lodged in jail in Lake county. He had considerable difficulty in securing ball, not withstand- ' ing the fact that "Silent" Smith ' worked hard for his brother's release ' When he Anally was set free on a < bond, he left the country, two days i later, and is at present supposed to 1 be located in Chili, where he had 1 considerable money, it is rumored. WOMEN OUT TO PIECES. Mutilated With lta/ors at their Home In New York. I At New York Mrs. Maria Vite and her mother, Mrs. Maria Brlgnoli were literally stashed to pieces with razors in their home. Gievannl Vite, the husband of the* young woman is under arrest, charged with the crime. Vite says that two men broke in and killed the women, and that he had a struggle with them in their defence. Mrs. Brlgnoli gave the alarm which called the police. An occupant vof a neihboring apartment hoard a tapping on the window. Looking out she saw Mrs. Brlgnoli on the tire escape in her night dress with blood flowing from her throat. She fell back dead. under 25 years of age and they did not seem to feel their degradation in the least. As a matter of fact a negro who had been released from the gang came into Rowesville, his home, Saturday night and went around shaking hands with all, both white and black, and did not seem to feel that he had been in a position at all out of the ordinary. The question was asked if the county could not get better service out of the men if they were not chained together, and the answer was that it would require a guard to each negro under these conditions as the men would run away and once lost in the swamps they could never be found again. In considering this question it must be remembered that the Southern negro has not the same sensibility of feeling that the white man has and he does not feel his degradation. Again, he will not work steadily unless he is made to. In a mill under Mr. Beer's care there are 40 negroes and not a Monday morning comes that half of the gang are not absent under one pretext or another and the slightest pretext is enough for him to stop work in the middle of the week. They receive $1 a day, and that is big wages for them when the cost of living is considered. Mr. Beers has watched them making their purchases of honey and rice, flour, sugar, pork and tobacco on Saturday night in the stores of Rowesville. These supplies were calculated to last a week and it was evident that an average of $1 purchases all the food that the family will need for a week. As nothing has to be spent for fuel and but little for clothing, it will be seen that the negro does not have to work much. i GOOD JOBS OPEN. iivil Service Places Seem to go Begging In These Parts yommissioiicr Mclilienny's I'ndertnking Strolled by President. Thinks Prejudice is living Overcome. An effort is being made to popuarize the civil service among the teople of the South and it is underitood that it was with that idea in liind that President Roosevelt a few nonths ago appointed J. A. Mcllhenly< one of his rough riders, as civil service commissioner. It is known that the President has lot been satisfied with the class of leople who enter the civil service ists from the South. Inquiry devel>ped the curious fact that among the letter class of people in the South, here existed a real prejudice against he lower grades of the government service. In a measure, at least, this irejudice was due to the fact, doubtess, that many, perhaps a majority, if the supplicants for civil service lositions from the South were ne;roes. lu the opinion of Commissioner dcllhenny this prejudice gradually s being over come. The people are leginning to understand that poliics cut no figure n a civil secvice exunination, and that, although the itepu 1)1 lean party has heen tn nationil control for many years, the submllnate positions in the government km*vice are open alike to persons of ill shades of political opinion, if they satisfactorily demonstrate their camel ty to till them. Commissioner Mcllhenny is conduced, too, that an important rea1011 for tlie receipt of so few application from young white men and wonen of the South through the Civil lei vice is that that section of the lountry is experiencing a phenomenal ndustrlal development. This lias ifforded both men and women of food capacity exceptional opportunlies to better t hemselves in a material vay and the government service does lot offer them so many attractions is it might offer them if the condiions were different. Practical steps have been taken, lowever, to induce well equipped 'oung white men and women of the killth to enter the public service, Jome Southern educational instituions are now preparing their stulents particularly to take civil service examinations, and it is expected hat this will have an important inluenee in improving the class of apllicants from that part of the county. >11ijLIOXS to his widow. robacco Magnate Who Wed Nurse Ii?st tJCtODer IM'IUI. By the sudden death of Charles H. Halllwell, vice-president of the American Tobacco Company, the bulk of liis great fortune will go to his wife :>f a few months, who, before her marriage to him, had been Ruth A. Coles, a pretty train nurse, dependent upon her labor for her daily bread. He left, it is estimated, $20.1)00,000. The fatal seizure came to' the Tobacco Trust magnate while he was at dinner in the Holland House with his bride and his neice. He was telling the two young women a humorous story when liis face suddenly became swollen and flushed and ne fell from his chair unconscious. Some hours later he died. Apoplexy war given as the cause of Mr. Halliwell's death. It was last October that he married the handsome young woman who had nursed him through to convalescene following an operation for appendicitis. His physicians had ordered him to Virginia. Miss Coles chanced to he the nurse who was detailed to accompany the Ilalliwell party. Later, while he was recuperating in Maine, Miss Coles went along, still in the capacity of nurse for the ailing millionaire. Long before he became convalescent he had fallen in love with the woman. Before he went with the trust, Mr. Halliwell was the head of the big tobacco firm of Liggett & Myers, at St. Louis. T HE DUALLY ALTO. Woman Loses Control of Machine and Is Killed. While racing with a Jersey Central railroad train between Point Pleasant and Asbury Park Wednesday, an an lomonne in which Mrs. ueorge h Boyce and Miss A. Wilda Mass, ol Point Pleasant, were riding, was overturned, and Miss Mass was killed instantly. Mrs. Boyce, wife of an automobile dealer in New York city, was rendered unconscious and was taken to hei home in Point Pleasant. t Mrs. Boyce was operating the ma chine. The train had just left Poini Pleasant, (bound for Asbury Park where the automobile, going at i terriile pace, came along the road way, which parallels the railroac tracks and attempted to pass tin train. Passengers in the train witnessed tlie accident and crowded to tin platforms and windows, cheering tin two women as the machine steadll; forged ahead of the train. .hist as the automobile was abreas of the locomotive, and when botl were going at the rate of 5 0 mile an hour, Mrs. Boyce lost control o the automobile. The machine swerv ed front the roadway, went over ai ombankmeht into a swamp and over turned, crushing Miss Mass. Ex-Senator Patterson of Denve has been fined $1,000 for eontemp of the Colorado supreme court, am it seems that he is not satisfied wit having his feeling of contempt pu on the counter at such a bargai: price. SCARED TO DEATH. When the Gentleman Got His Silver Ear Trumpet The Negro Hotel Porter Thought It Was a Big Horse Pistol ami Han For His liife. A laughable mistake occurred one night last week at the Piedmont, one of Atlanta's big hotels. The following is the story as related by the Atlanta Journal: A shattered cup of coffee, a porter frightened almost into hysterics and a narrowly averts panic on the se cond lloor of the Piedmont hotel wae the result of an effort by Grand Commander John J. Seav, of Rome, to employ his harmless ear trumpet as a means for communicating with a negro empl jye at T>:30 o'clock Thursday morning. Grand Commander Seay who numbers his friends by hosts in other organizations as well as Masonry, Is compelled to use Ills ear trumpet on nearly all occasions. This little black trumpet Is a most harmless instrument In the eyes of his friends. To the porter this same ear trumpet was a means of terror and it required much persuasion to convince the negro who had taken refuge behind the elevator shaft and was peering with wide anxious eyes at the trumpet Mr. Soay held in his hands. The grand commander was not able to sleep well Tueday night on account of a severe headache. IInable to secure any relief he thought that a cup of black coffee might he used us a remedy. He telephoned to the night, clerk and asked him to please send up the coffee. Realizing that he would not he able to hear the porter knock at his door when ho came with the cup of coffee Mr. Seay left, his door slightly nnon with thn nun Innnnflnci'pnt liftit turned on. When the negro came to the door Mr. Seay saw him in the half dim light. He sprang from the bed and started rapidly toward the dresser where his ear trumpet was. As he renehed out his hand for the trumpet there came a piercing shriek from the negro and as the grand commander turned he saw the cup fall from the negro's hands and shatter on the floor, the black coffee spattering the walls. Then the negro fled to the elevator shaft, and wrestled vainly with the door to escape by means of the shaft. Mr. Seay with his ear trumpet followed. Seeing the negro's alarmed condition Mr. Seay called to him, telling him he did not intend to hurt him. "Well then, lloss, for Gawd's sake, put down thut big Colt's pistol you have in your hands." \Xl Lii (iKT HIGH Kit PAY. Schedule of Increased Salaries of ltural Mail Carriers. No branch of the public service is of more interest to the rural population of the country than the rural delivery of mail matter. It has had a pm'uomtMiui development, aiui careful administration and efficient management has brought with it increas. ed responsibilities for the rural carrier. These employes are required to perform services in a suitable conveyance which they must furnish , themselves. The postoffice department, having | these facts in mind, succeeded during the last session of congress in securing substantial recognition for , the class of employes through an increase of upwards of $6,000,000 in the appropriation for the next fiscal year. , The calculations incident to a proportionate distribution of the amount appropriated under authority of congress?to Increase the maximum sal. aries of rural carriers to not exceeding $000 per annum?necessarily | required most careful consideration. The work has been progressing under the immediate supervision of the fourth assistant postmaster general and the superintendent of the rural | delivery. Postmaster General Meyer has approved the detailed adjustment and the new schedule, which will become effective July 7, 1907, will make a graded increase in the compensation of carriers of from 9 to 2 5 per cent, based upon the number of miles traversed by carriers as shown by the records of the department. The re1 adjustment adopted will involve an expenditure for rural service during the fiscal year of nearly $35,000,000. The schedule is as follows: Routes. Per Annum. ' 2 4 or more miles. . . . $900 22 to 24 miles $864 1 20 to 22 miles $810 18 to 20 miles $720 i 16 to 18 miles $630 - 14 to 16 miles $r>40 * 12 to 14 miles $604 10 to 12 miles $168 8 to 1 0 miles $4 32 t 6 to 8 miles .$396 ; SENSATIONAL CIIAKGEN. 1 f ci ? i .1 nn ~ it if ? lynmcw nniu iu iiuvu imtii ! iirowu 3 Into The Sou. I It was reported that two sailors r> who escaped from the British steamV er Marori King which arrived at San Diego from Shanghai, make senst' tional charges of brutality against 1 the captain and otlicers of the ship, " Humors aro in circulation to the ' effect that IB Chinese were killed during a riot on board and their 1 bodies cast into t?.e sea. International complications aro likely to result, and it is believed that the most serious part of the charges ** remain to be told. I mmmmmmm?mmmammmmmmmmBm?mm?mmmmma d If the court should impose fines h against the Standard in the aggret gate sum of $29,000,000, we believe n it will be a sign that the price of oil is going up. DIED AT HIS POST. An Engineer Killed by Robbers for Defending His Train. Northern Pacific Train Held Up in Montana, Hut No Hooty Secured. One liobbcr Captured. North Coast Limited, eastbound train No. 22 on the Northern Pacific railway, was held up by two masked men near Welch's Spur, a siding 18 miles east of Hutte, Mon., at 2:15 Wednesday morning. Engineer James Clow was shot and Instantly killed and Fireman James Sullivan was shot through the arm. Without making an attempt to blow up the express car, as was evidently Intended, the robbers jumped from the engine and rau down tho mountain side dissapearlng in a gluch several hundred yards from the track. Sheriff Henderson of Hutte was notified and with a posse left on a train for the scene of the hold-up. Sheriff Webb of Yellowstone county was on the train with one of the the train ere started on the trail of the holdup men live minutes after the shooting. Bloodhounds were put on the trail and one of the fugitives was captured at Woodville, near Butte. Tho robbers left a telescope grip on the tender of the locomotive. The grip was full of giant powder, evidently intended for use in blowing up the express car. The men boarded the train presumably at the Butte transfer station, where a locomotive for the Montana division was attached. One mile west of Welch the men crawled over the tender and with drawn guns, commanded the engineer to stoj) the train, which he did. Engineer Clow, however, made a show of resistance and one of the robbers fired, shooting him through the body, killing him instantly. The other man shot at Sullivan, breaking his arm. Whent the train stopped Conductor Bert Culver and the train crew ran to the engine, where they foun a colored man, who related the circumstances of the hold-up. This man said that he had been stealing a ride and that the men offered him a third of the "booty" if he would assist them. He said he had refused and had taken no part in the hold-up. He says h can identify the robber, and the man is being held for this purpose. The posse with bloodhounds was joined at Welsh by R. If. Goddard, chief of the Northern Pacific detectives at Livingston; Deputy Sheriff Jas. Keon of Gallatin county, and .las. Latta of Boxeman. Keon and Latta are the men who tracked and captured "Ike" Gravett, who some time ago tried to force the Northern Pacific Railroad company to pay $50,000 blackmail. BEST TIME TO GET WELL. All Poisons Can Be Driven Out Of the System Now. Right now is the best season of the year to get rid of the blood, liver and kidney affections that have been troubling you. You need building up in order to stand the strain of the hot weather of summer. Let Rheumatism, Sciatica, Gout Catarrh, T r% /"J t OTAO f I f\V\ * ? % I l\/II U I \>WHOI A |Mll 1UII I llil through these months and they become chronic and hang on for years. A regular course of Hheumacide taken at the present time win thoroughly cleanse the blood, tone up the stomach, set the liver and kidneys to doing their normal work again, and will build up the entire system. While it is the most wonderful blood purifier, in the world, yet Kheniacide is a purely vegetable preparation thnt operates through entirely natural methods. It has been tested in the delicate stomach of a baby without the slightest harm. Hetter get a bottle today and start to get well. RheumitrUlc has cured hundreds of stubborn cases after all other remedies, noted physicians and even the great Johns Hopkins Hospital have failed. Rheuniacide has cured thousands of cases and we believe it. will cure you. 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After remaining under the lied for a short time lie started to come out, whereupon the fatal shot was fired and he was killed almost , instantly. The affair is deeply deplore! by the people In that section who know the two boys. Lawton was the older and unmarried. Preston Lowery was married. They lived in the same home and were farming together. Tnere seem to have been no cause at till for the homicide and it is at-^ tributed to the drunkenness of Law-W ton. who, it is said, was addicted not * only to drink but also to the use of morphine. Realizing next morning the enormity of his crime, it is said that the livng brother is now begging that he also be killed. The home of the Lowery boys is In the Panhandle section of Saluda coonty and close to the Edgefield line. They are sons of Mr. James Lowery. 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