The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 22, 1910, Image 7
A SADIIFt MOKY
HOW A BEAUTIFUL LOVE SOXG
CAME TO BE WRITTEN.
Tho True Story of "Loreim," One of
I
the Most Popular StMigs of Its
Day, and "Paul Vane."
We print beiow a true, but very
ead love story of tne long ago:
Tho years creep slowly by, Lorena,
The snow is on the grass again;
a,,,,',, i?w rlown the sky. Lorena,
I ur ouu o iv? ? ? ? .
The frost gleams where the flowers
have been.
Hut the heart throbs on as warmly
now
As when the Summer days were
nigh,
The sun can never dip so low
Adown affection's cloudless sky.
A hundred months have passed, Lorena,
fllnco last I held that hand In
mine;
And felt that pulse beat fast, Lorena,
Though mine beat faster far than
thine.
A hundred months, 'twas flowery
May,
When |up the hilly slope wc
climbed,
To watch the dying of the day
And hear the distant church-bells
chime.
We loved each other then, Lorena,
More than we ever dared to tell;
And what -we might have been, Lorena,
Had hut our loving prospered
well!
Hut. ah 'tis past, the years are vone,
We'll not call up their shadowy
forms;
We'll say to them: "Lost years,
sleep on,
Sleep on, nor heed life's pelting
storms."
The story of the past, Lorena,
Alas! I care not. to repeat;
The hones that could not last, Lorena.
They lived, hut only lived to cheat,
I would not cause e'en one regret
To rankle in your bosom now ?
'For if we try, we may forget,"
Were words of thine long years
ago.
Yes, these words of thine, Lorena?
They are within my memory yet ?
They touched some tender chords,
Lorena,
Which thrill and tremble with regret.
*Twag not thy woman's heart which
spoke?
Thv hpnrt wns nlw.avs true to me:
A duty stern and piercing broke
The tie which linked my soul with
thee.
It matters little now, Lorena,
The past is with the eternal past;
Our heads will so on lie low, Lorenn,
Life's tide is ebbing out so fast.
But there's a future, Oh, thank God!
Of life this is so small a part ?
'Tis dust to dust beneath the sod,
But there up there 'tis heai.t to
heart.
? Rev. II. I). L. Webster.
One of the most popular of American
sentimental songs is "Lorenn,"
and almost equally so its companion.
"Paul Vane; or Lorena's Reply."
The sad story told in the words of
this song is a true episode of human
life and human love. During the
Civil War it was sung everywhere?
in parlors, in concerts, on the street
and in camps. It. was equally popular
in the South as In the North.
In portraying the fate of two lovers
It is emotional to a hi"h degree, and
In its truly pathetic tone, perhaps,
its chief charm lies. It was so popular
during the dark days of the war
that, a steamer on the Ohio river was
named Lorenn. engines on the Western
roads were called Lorena, and
many mothers called their daughters
Boronn out of sentiment for this favorite
sone.
The author of "Lorena." Henry de
Bnfavette Webster, was horn in
Oneida county, New York, in 182 1.
, Ills father, v.*nr.
lineal descendant of John W?"d)?ter,
who was Colonial governor of Con*
norncnt in t ?<.?<> ami ini'-r. nonrv
vas tbo youngest child in a faml'v
of five daughters and three sons, lie
died In Chicago on November ?>
1890. In I8?S his father move 1 tr
I.oain eountv, Ohio, and located
about three miles south of K1ynrt
whore lie worked for nianv years al
bis trade, that of black smith.
The author's onpert unit ies for ae
quiring an education were limited
and as lie grew in verirs he was ?'e
quired to do Ills share toward tin
support of the family, so that fell
In? trees and work In the forest was
perhaps, his best aecomplishtnent.
Hut. he was studious and in spi1
of his limited opportunities, even
tunllv had acquired suffleient know)
edge to teneli school. Later, thronel
hard work in a store and as a tutor
he was able to pav bis way throu?!
the collegiate institution In Oolum
bus, O. He thon read law until hi
attention was attracted to some the
ologleal dlseussion. This led bin
to investigate the subject, with th
result that bo soon avowed himsol
a Universalist, laid aaide the ia\
and prepared himself for the minis
try.
In the year 1848, being then 24
years of age, and full of poetry and
romance, he was enjoying his first
pastorate In Zanesville, O. His leading
parishioner was a wealthy manufacturer,
whose residence was upon
one of the hills which surrounded
that smoky town. The house was
about half a mile out, and the eminence
upon which it was seated was
the one referr ?d to In the song:
" 'Twas flowery May
When up the hilly slope we climbed."
There lived In this family a young
sister of the manufacturer's wife,
who was the leading singer in the
choir. She was 19 yearB of age,
small of stature, had blue eyes and
light hair, and was not only a sweet
sinver, but she was as full of romance
as her pastor, and they soon
became very much attached to one
another. Their loving, however, did
not "prosper well," for the family
was proud and aristocratic, and had
higher ideals for^ the girl than to
have her marry a poor preacher. As
she was dependent upon them for a
home, she was compelled to yield to
their counsel, and the lovers were
obliged to give each other up.
It war, hnwpvpr. the strong will
and proud a pi r i t of the sister, more
than the opposition of the brotherin-law,
that separated them, or rather
that kept Lorena from marrying
Webster. The minister saw her for
the last time at her home, learned
of her sister's unconquerable opposition,
heard his fate, and took a
quiet but painful farewell, very little
being said. That night she wrote
him a letter, in which she used the
words, so well remembered by those
familiar with the song:
"If we try we may forget."
The effect of the separation was to
crush the young man, and, writing
J to a friend 2(5 years after the oc|
rurrenee, ho said :
"I doubt if even to this day all
I dirk lines are erased from my
j heart."
| Ho resigned his pastorate and
sought another field, smothering his
pain under hard study and work.
And the only sign of that pain the
world ever saw was the heart-cry in
the song of "Lorena." In 1 856 Rev.
Webster was residing In Racine, Wis.
where he met .1. P. Webster, the composer,
who, though of the same
name, was not related to him. They
soon became very intimate, J. P.
Webster was doing considerable
writing of music, but had trouble
finding appropriate words for songs, j
The Rev. Mr. Webster told him he
would write him the words for a
song and In two days he produced
one entitled "Bertha," a mere fancy
name. When the composer came to
set the music he wanted a name of
three syllables, accented on the second,
and the author made up the
name "Lorena." The young lady
who called out the words of this
sentimental song was not Lorena,
nr?r Pertbn but P1b? l<~!ln IUnr'W<;nm I
Tho "Lorena" of the song later
marr'ed Judge \V. W. Johnson of
Ironton, Ohio, a member of the supreme
court, of the State. Mr. Webster
subsequently married and lived
j in Xeenah, Wis., where he became
,the editor of a local paper.
because "Lorena" became popular
during the war many people were
' under the impression that it was
composed during that period. The,
early copies, however, hear the in- j
scription, "Rntored according to act
of congress, 1 Sf)7."
The song was a groat favorite
with (Jon. John H. Magruler and
probably got into the army from his
headquarters in the Peninsula in
1 802. The tune was a plaintive one
and easily within tho capacity of the
' average amateur and this added to
i i t ? unmilnril v
j VU 11 J
I Little less ;i favorite than "Loi
rena" was the heroine's reply, en!
titled "Paul Vane," and the history
: of the first sons would hardly he
completo without the words of the
, second.
Paul Vane.
The years are creeping slowly by,
dear Paul,
The Winters come and go;
The wind sweeps past with mournful
cry, dear Paul,
And pelt mv face with snow.
1 Rut there's no snow upon the heart,
dear Paul;
'Tis Summer always there;
1 Thoro early loves throw sunshine
over all,
And sweeten mem'ries dear.
,'I thought It easy to forget, dear
, ! Pa til;
I.ifo grow'd with youthful hope;
' The glorious future gleamed |yet,
. t dear Paul,
i And bade us clamber up.
^ j They frowning said "It must not?
ran noi do;
\ Preak now the hopeless bands!"
And Paul, you know how well that
bitter day
y i bent to their commands.
I've kept you ever In my heart, dear
Paul,
n I Thro' years of good and ill;
t Our souls could not be torn apart
dear Paul,
i They're hound together still.
. ; I never knew how dear you wore tc
h . n,e
Till I was left alone;
s I thought my poor, poor heart wouh
break the day
n They told me you were gone.
(*
f Perhaps we'll never, never meet
v dear Paul,
Upon this earth again;
#
VHKY PHCUIJAK CASK.
Young Woman Swallows Llzzards and
Slowly IMes.
A llvo lizzard, six inches In length,
and the head of another llzzard was
discovered in the stomach of Miss
Lovio Herman, 19 years old, who
died early Friday ir.orning at her
home at Akron. Cleveland physicians
and surgeons are interested
In the case and a number of them
will attend the post mortem examination
to be held at Akron. Miss
Tlorman had been I'll a year from a
disease which had puzzled many
specialists. Last Monday the attending
physicians succeeded in bringing
from the girl's stomach tho live lizzard
and the head of the second one
but too late to save her life.
The family formerly lived near
MiVrrsburg, O., and drank apring
water. It is supposed the girl swallowed
the lizzards when small, while
drinking and that they gradually
grew and killed her.
BUY AN WILL BE THERE.
Will Re Imitetl to Attend the Haiti
inoro Mooting.
Plana for the Democratic conference
to be held In Baltimore on Jan.
17 to frame plans for the course
of Democratic efforts during the next
two years were discussed at a conference
at Washington on Monday,
participated in by Senators Smith
and Rayner of Maryland, Gov. Harmon
of Ohio and other leading Democrats.
Gov. Harmon is expected to
attend the Baltimore conference, as
is Governor-elect Wilson of New Jersey
and other national leaders of fhe
party. Senator Rayner said that an
invitation certainly would be sent to
William J. Bryan.
Advance the Colors.
We take the following from the
last issue of The Commoner, owned
and ed'ted by William J. Bryan:
Belle.'ing that democrats do not
desire to engage in a sham battle
The Commoner confidently lays
down those propositions:
The .democratic party must he
progressive.
No Wall Street candidate can
nope to noin trie (leiiiucrrtui:
Democracy must go forward
and meet present day problems
boldly in the spirit of Jefferson
and Jackson.
The democratic victory of 1910
is the result of fourteen years of
democratic tight for reforms.
The party cannot retire now.
It must go forward.
We heartily agree with all Mr.
Bryan says above. It would be suicidal
for the Democratic party to
adopt any other course In the next
campaign. The'people have turned
I to the Democratic party for relief,
[and if the party fails them now, it
I deserves and will be disastrously defeated.
Advance the colors to the
tiring line, and let every Democrat
rally to them, and victory is sure.
.
Treat All Alike.
Every now and again some of the
large city dailies poke fun at the
country press for their "Town Talk,"
or "Social Happenings" columns.
Doubtless some of the items that co
mto those columns are insignificant
and puerile, but in what respect are
the city dailies any better? Where
any difference exisrs it Is usually in
favor of the country papers, for with
them there is less of paste and snobbishness.
They insert Items concerning
people in every walk of life and
! therefore are democratic in their atj
titudo.
I ? *
Nearly all the fine colored postanals
used in this country up to a
Vw months ago were male In (ler|
nany, but the duty imposed on them
I ay the new tariff law now shuts
'hem out, and dealers are now coin)elled
to pay a hifrher price for inferior
cards made in this country.
I Possibly this is one of the reasons
i vhy Oermany has put a one dollar
i >er ton tax on potash.
I ? m *
It was heralded all over the countv
just before the election that
: President Taft had appointed a Hos'on
ne^ro to a very important otllee
| n Washington. Now if is intimated
'hat his nomination will ho withtrawn,
as the ollice to which he was
ippointed will be unnecessary after
rho present incumbent serves hi*
I 'line out. At least that is what
fTncle Joe Cannon says.
Teddy has climbed hack on the
irandpat Republican hand-wagon b\
araising President Taft in a public
?peoch, The Democratic landslide
sp^ms to have sobered the great bins
'eror.
?? ^ ^ ? ?
If the Fdisto project fails it wil
not bo any fault of Mr. Lever. 11 <
has boon on the job over since it was
troposod, and is still on it. We hop*
ho will vet win
, Hut there where happy angels f reef
clear Paul,
You'll meet Lorona there.
> Together up the shining way
We'll press with hoping heart?
Together thro' the bright eternal da;
i And never more to part.
While "Paul Vane" was not a
melodious as "Lorena." yet in tin
, old days where the words of the on
was found In the home the othc
invariably was also found. '
MILLIONS INVtSTLD
LAIIGB INCKKASK IN NKW CAPITAL
IN THIS STATK.
Total Amount for TIiIh Year is Over
j $11,000,000 According to Figures
Prepared by Secretary of State.
One million dollars represents the
approximate Increase In the amount
~e no.iitQi In new enterprises
V/l .
in this State for this year over 1909.
Of the total amount invested in companies
according to data prepared by
U. M. YcCown, the secretary, the
sum of $1 1,441,850 has been invested
up to December 1. This has been
invested in banks, mercantile companies,
cotton mills, fertilizer plants,
building and loan associations.
The figures do not include railroads
and increase of capital stock.
The total amount invested last year
was $10,824,000. The increase for
last year were $7,000,000. Th's
amount will be far exceeded durin?
the present year. There was invested
In railroads last year the sum
of $1,350,000. A much larger
amount has been put Into new roads
this year.
! The present year has been one of
the most prosperous in the history
of the State and has been marked by
the inauguration of many small industries.
There has been especial
activity in the fertilizer mill construction.
A number of new banks
imnn r-Tiirtorpfi in the smaller
towns of the ?tate.
j The great amount Invested in new
enterprises was in Orangeburg county
with $ 1 .fin0.000. The amount invested
in Charleston was $1,0SO, 100.
There was not a now companv char
tore! in Kershaw countv. Richland
lmd $082,000 with more to come.
Dillon, a new county, has an encouraging
amount.
] The following amounts have been
invested in the various counties of
the State:
Abbeville $ 82.000
Aiken 252.000
I Anderson 102.8 0o
Ramberg 22.000
1 Darn well 4 0,000
! Reaufort 42.000
Berkeley 15,000
j Calhoun 7,500
Charleston l,0S0.1OO
(Cherokee 05.000
Chester. . . . . 25,000
: Chesterfield 62,500
Clarendon 22.500
j Colleton 25,0 00
(Darlington 225,200
Dillon 105,000
Dorchester 82,500
Edgefield ' 22,000
Fairfield 22.200
Florence 117.150
Georgetown 240.000
f~l , n n n ? 11 1 r? 7 7 4 7 0 0
Greenwood 54 5,'oOG
TTnmpton 2.? ooo
"orrr 15.1.000
Korshiw
I.oncnstor " 1M Mll
l.aurons 1,130.inn
r'pp 20.100
f.*vtnaton 74 noo
Marlon 211.000
Marlboro .(fl ???
NVwborry 4, ???
"oofoe RJ;oon
Ornnrphurg 1,05 0 000
432.000
niPhlnnd 932 000
15.000
Snortnnburg 718.500
S u m 1a r . . . . 21 2,500
TTnion 60 8.000
Williamsburg 148.000
i York 505,5 00
? ?,
Sri Fire to ;i flarn.
Hon Hibbs, a negro, about 21
years old, Tuesday confessed that
he sot fire fo the barn of W. H Martin,
near Septus, Anderson county.
Friday morning. The barn, with
contents, was burned to the ground,
entailing a loss of $8,000. The negro
said he set the barn afire because
.a son of Mr. Martin heat hftn.
j The barn was about the largest in
the county and cost $2,500, The
barn eontnfned enncldrrable feedstuff
Snuill I toy Killed on Kail.
Arthur Miller, aged 18, son of
Dora Miller, was run over and killed
1 about 9 o'clock Tuesday morning at
C.astonia by the Southern switching
; engine, which was switching cars* a
- short distance west of the York
j street crossing. The boy's body was
; fearfully mangled, one arm and one
leg being entirely severed from his
body, and many bruises being sustained
* j ^ ^ ^
i\ ii umj i rom a iihmisii,
F. Kevin, a prominent merchant,
, operating a general merchandise establishment
two miles from Fori
Mill, was shot from ambush about f
o clock Monday afternoon, dying almost
instantly. Xo cine as to the
perpetrator is obtainable. Nevin wai
shot from ambush and seriously in
' j in red h vr?-i r q
Among the Missing.
The steamer Arkadia, of the Nrv
y York and Porto Ilico Navlgatloi
(Company, has been added to the cat
aloguc of "Missing Ships." 11 is sup
3 posed the Arkadia went down In tin
a hurricane which swept the gulf atu
a the Atlantic off the southern coas
r last October. She was a 300 foo
steel steamer.
A New Cotton Compress.
The world's progress during the
past two centuries has been largely
a history of labor-saving and timesaving
inventions, says the Atlanta
Journal. To this wonderful record
another chapter has been added by
the perfection of a cotton compress
that reduces the size, improves the t
quality and greatly economizes the 1
transportation cost of the cotton
bale. It is called the Neeiy compress
and, according to every indication,
it means higher industrial advancement
for all the south. A full
* A L 1 - .. ... 11 ii mill. <
description or tuns prrou
lished in The Times and Democrat I
several months ago. i
Perhaps the most signal gain niado
by this invention lies in the fact
that it does away with recompressing.
Under the old system the far- (
mer's wagon load of cotton must be <
hauled to a ginnery, wnence after it
had been ginned and loosely packed,
it must be shipped by rail to a steam
compress, frequently over a long distance,
to be compressed again. Then
it must take still another trip to
the port. But under the Neely system,
the wagon load of cotton 1b
compressed at the ginnery itself. It
comes forth ready for shipment to
the remotest point in the world. |
This, it is estimated, means a saving
of not less than $5 to the bale for
the cost of recom pressing and rehandling
le wiped out, while the cost
of rail freight, marine freight, bagging,
tare and many other items is
greatly reduced.
In addition to this the new ginnery
compress vastly improves the package
in which cotton is shipped from
the south. For long years the Amer- i
icnn cotton bale has been a sore vex- I
ation to the foreign market. At the J
International Cotton congress, held I
some years ago at Manchester, Fngit
w:is declared: "The lOng- I
lish, French and Gorman vocabularies
have been ransacked in vain
for words strong enough to denounce
the American bale."
The new ginnery compress satisfies
this very need. The bale It turns
out is rectangular in form and measures
eighteen by thirty by fifty
inches. With a density of thirty
pounds per cubic foot, it Is so compressed
that the bale Is freed from
air .thus becoming well nigh impel vious
to fire and water and proof
a.'ainst the wear of transportation.
It can girdle the globe and still bo
in prime condition. Such a system
means money saved for the farmer,
the ginner, the carrier, the insurance
companies and for the spinner. It.
is of local Interest to note that this
mechanism is the invention of a
southern man, Mr. Samuel .VI. Neely,
of Chester, S. C.
Tariff For Kevcnue.
No definite plan of tariff revision
was arrived at at the conference
in Washington Wednesday night between
the Democratic members of
the ways and means committee, the
Democratic members of the Kentucky
delegation, George Harvey of
New York and Henry Watterson, according
to a statement issued by Mr.
Watterson Wednesday night.
"Some brushwood was cot out of
the way and a clearing made in the'
labyrinth of confusion and misunlerstanding
which always guard the
approaches to the robber castle of
J protectionism," said Mr. Watterson.
lie declared that "tho principal ol .
revenue opposed to the principle of |
protection as the bedrock of whatever
plan the ways and means committee
of tho house would adopt"
was the general idea of those present
at the meeting-. He said that
tentative committee on ways and
means soon would confer with the
newly elected members of the house
and the work of collecting data,
which "can not be obtained by the
government and must be relegated
to experts employed for the purpose"
would bo begun at once.
Weather Prophets.
The season of winter is the golden
>* riod of tiie year for tho weather
rophots. To forecast the winter j
venther seems to give even greater i
satisfaction than the predicting of
n early or late spring. The man j
vho savs we are going to have an
old fashioned winter," lie who says
he winter will be open, and the j
\ isencres who pin their faith on corn
I usks, voose bones, flying birds and
urry animals are all in their ele orit
One thine Is oortnlr
I 'hat when spring begins to dawn ev!
eiybodv is agreed that the winter
{ was long enough and cold enough.
Senator La Folette, the great Tnj
*urgent Republican, gave out when
j he reached Washington tho other
lay that he had been operated oil
luring the recess and cured of a
trouble that had impaired his activities.
When Crane, the stnndpat Republican
Senator from Massachusetts
heard this, ho threw up his
lands and exclaimed: "Rood Lord!
(f La Follette was sick all the time
he was kicking up those rumpuses in
the Senate the past three years, what
ire we to expect now that he is
well?"
. .
In putting a tax on potash of one
lollar per ton, Germany is uiving the
United States some of Its own medii
line. The only trouble about the
ax is that it falls principally on the
farmers of the South, who suffer as
much as the Germans do from the
1 iperatlons of the tariff on which they
t ire retaliating by putting this tax
t en potash. Thus it Is the farmers are
robbed coming and a-going.
Flkt5 IN IHh STATE 1
>KFHCTIVK FLUBS CAU8K (JKKAJ
MANY OF THBM. M
some Timely \Vor<ls of CritJciam ?n4 ^ ^
SugK^tloitb From Insurance Couv H
miss loner McM aster. S
"Maybe Nero would enjoy It, but H
i man who realizes the labor and V
Lime that it has taken South Carolina-.*. 1
to produce $2,^00,000 is distressed /
when he knows that so much was V
burned up in less than one year," j
Commissioner F. H. McMaster will f
say, in making to Governor Ansel ,fj|
and the general assembly the third
annual report ?or the State departr
ment of insuranccc. &
The reported lire Insurance losses
of South Carolina for the 1 1 months
ending December 1, 1910, were
$967,565.17. Says the commission- j
er: T*
"The actual losses, reported and
unreported, were probably three
times that much." The losses by
months were, as reported:
January, $26,699.94; February,
$100,320.24; March, $1 1 3,888.36;
April, $131,718.74; May, $76,520.02;
June, $33,1 54.77; July, $194,214.91;
Angust, ' $65,739.93; September, 4
$54,049.1 0; October, $87,162.02;
November, $84,087.18.
The largest losses in the State for
the year were: The Charleston conflagration,
8 firms, total loss $215,549,
insurance loss, $189,757; tho
l>. \V. Alderman & Sons lumber
plant, AIcolu, loss $53,600; the Santoe
River Cyress Dumber company
plant at Ferguson, loss $5 9,4 20;
Sumter, 8 firms, loss $30,000; Tiinmonsville,
7 firms, loss $13,500.
Out of 1,219 fires, 607 were of unknown
origin, sparks on roofs caused
93 and lightning is held responsible
for 76, while I ! are set down as incendiary.
Defective chimneys or flues
mused 89 fires. In 2 9 cases the explosion
of a lamp wrought the havoc,
Along this line, the commissioner
has some words of criticism and suggestion
:
"If, must be kept In mind that not
cmy are the uninsured losses a loss to
(he'State, but that the insured losses
merely represent premiums collected
from all of the people and paid to
those who suffered. If these losses
could be cut in half, premium receipts
could he cut in half relatively,
and would remain in the packets of
those who now pay them.
"It will be noted that 25 fires were
traced directly to rats and matches.
Anion? the G7'< fires from 'unknown*
causes a very large percentage of
I hcin were supposed to have originated
from friction matches by one
means or another. It Is believed that
it would he profitable for the State,
or for municipalities to forbid the
sale of the ordinary friction match.
"Eighty-nine fires came from defi
('live ft 11r*< ni'iv lw* rS:iri'<xt
to the incompetence of Die bricklayers
who made these flues. If the old
hnelish system of guilds was recognized
and enforced by law, and no
rue permitted to build a chimney
until he had served his .apprenticeship,
the people of the State would
he saved many dollars.
' Twenty-eight fires were caused by
sparks from chimneys. Ninety-three
more by sparks on roof?121 fires
chargeable to wooden shingles. All
cf these could have been saved, and
ower insurance rates would have. .
oeen paid if metal, slate or compositurn
roofing had beex used. These
elements, together with the extra
time needed to put on a shingle roof,
makes this the most expensive roofing
material.'besides being a constant
menace in extending fires from house
to house."
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Iteneflt of' <iood Komls.
Ttonds are to a city or village what
the arteries are to the human body.
Without them no community can exist,
and it naturally follows that the
better the roads the greater the prosperity
of the community. Many pro- J***pie
will go miles out of their way ^
to trade in some place to which they
i may travel over good hard roads, and
Jin -o do'rvr v. H avoid the town near
at hand to which approach is difficult
oecau.se of bad roads. Vet there are
many places so destitute of eood
sense and business enterprise that
they never improve the roads. These
are the places that vegetate and die
and whose people curse their fat?
and complain of hard times. Jr "
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lii I f IS UK' S>e.U |.
Robert. C. White, Democratic nominee
for Congress from Delaware at
( the recent election, has served notice
J of contest on his Republican compet>
! itor, Representative William U.
'Moald. White allegel that about
j 3,000 negroes were induced to vo'o
{for Uealci by money offers and that
rhout 3,000 white voters wre
bought to vote for Head, who otherwnulil
11 io for White.
Tight Shoo Causes Death.
Seburn J.Iones, a prominent farmer
of Kershaw county, died Monday
at his home near the town of
Kershaw, of blood poison resulting
from a slight abrasion on the foo*
caused by a tight shoe. The leg
was amputated at the thigh a few
days ago in the hope of saving hi*
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