Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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w OBJECT TO MIXING 4 WANT SEPERATE CARS FOR BLACK AND WHITE ? NO MIXED PULLMAN CAR - Carolina Railroad Commissioners Address I/Otter to Pullman Companjr Solicitor Condemning Practice of Soiling Ilerths to Negroes on Interstate Trains. Sever? condemnation of the Pull'inaii Company for Rolling negroes bearths in Pullman cars with white people was voiced by the South Carolina railroad commission Wednesday night in a letter addressed to F. It. Daniels, the general solicitor of the company in Chicago, by John G. Richards, the chairman. Mr. Richards ards, the chairman. Mr. Richards tells the Pullman Company that he is aware of the fact that tho train on which he found a negro man in a Pullman car was an interstate train, but warns against the company continuing to aggravate the white people in this manner or else an appeal will bo made to congress for relief. The letter, which was made public Wednesday nieht. follows: "On May 14, 1913, I boarded a Pullman car at Hock Hill, S. ., for Columbia, S. C., and was assigned by the Pullman conductor to a berth or seat No. 11, and was shocked to find that llerth No. 1 2 was occupied by a negro man. Practically every reservation upon this car was occupied by white ladies and gentlemen. "Southern Railway Train No. 31, as, of course, you know, is an interstate train and is under national control. South Carolina, however, has on her statute books a lnw which undertakes to separate races in travel upon all trains operating in this State. There aro "separate coach" laws in every Southern State through which this train operates and carries your Pullman cars. While we may not be able to reach your company for having violated the letter of our law, you most certainly aro guilty of a violation of its spirit and purpose, and the railroad commission of South Carolina feels that it should express to you in no uncertain terms its condemnation of your conduct in selling passage to negroes and affording them accomodations on the same coaches upon which you have white women and white men passengers. "As you are aware, the Pullman Comnanv onnrntinfr in 1 ftmith ia sustained almost entirely by its white patrons, nnd these do not propose to submit to conditions which will permit negroes to occupy the same coaches. "We know full well that national law requires your company to give equal accomodations to both whites and blacks, but there is no law which prevents your furnishing separate accommodations for the races, just as our 'separate coach' law requires the railroads to do in South Carolina. There are many legal ways open to your company, that if resorted to, would remove the necessity for your company forcing this indignity upon your white patrons in the South, and the people of South Carolina will most certainly expect you to provide accommodations in future that will effectually separate the races. "Through the exposure of this recent occurrence, it has been brought to our attention that your company has frequently within recent months violated the spirit of the South Carolina law. With the opening and closing of the negro college at Orangp burg, S. C., wo have been informed that your company sells to negroes reservations on the cars that you know are occupied by white ladies and gentlemen. "The railroad commission of South Carolina is aware of the fact that it may entail some additional expense upon your company to provide separate accommodations for the races while you are operating within this State, hut we are of the decided opinion that if you do not do so, and speedily, you will sustain far greater loss through those who will positively refuse to patronize your company. "Wo wish to impress upon you this fact: That we propose to continue to give this matter our personal supervision and see to it that the people of South Carolina are kept thoroughly informed as to what your practice is in future, and if you do not voluntarily give us the relief, we will appeal to our Representatives In Congress for national legislation that will compel you to meet the demands f\f f lin *?/11o ^ p A 1. I ? riA - * - ? i-iio mule |?rujnw wi VIIIS OlllK!, and of the South generally." Helps Charleston Out. The Post says the pay roll of the civilian employees at the Charleston navy yard continues to grow with an increasing number of mechanics at work, pressing close to 900 men, with an expenditure for salaries and wages of nearly $00,000 a month. The yard continued to be one of the most active industrial establishments of that section, with much work in progress and more coming up, to maintain the size of the working force and the amount of the pay roll. SOME PLAIN FACTS ? 4I10W1NU 1IOW PHOHIMTION HAS PAID KANSAS. What It Has Done for That Stale it 1IMII % ? " - nui i/o ior iihs and other States is Sot Out in tho Following Article. Hon. John S. Dawson, Attorney General of Kansas, delivered an address at Chicago, April, 1912, on "What Prohibition Has Done for Kansas". The constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture! and sale in the State, of Intoxicating liquor except for medical, scientific, and mechanical purposes, was adopted in November, 1 880. It has, therefore, been in operation long enough ot afford a reasonable test of the effects of State-wide prohibition. Mr. Dawson acknowledges that for quite I a number of years the law was openly defied in many of the larger towns and cities. It took a long bitter fight for the people of Kansas to convince the law-defying liquor interest that they were really in earnest about banishing the infamous traffic from their State. Hut they are convinced at last and for some time the prohi-I bition laws of the State have been as consistently enforced as those against other common forms of criminal conduct. In estimating the results of prohibition, however, allowance must be made for the delay occasioned by this protracted battle against anarchy, and yet, in spite of this, these results, as summed up by the Attorney General, are thoroughly convincing. Here are a few of the more important of them: 1. Illiteracy has been reduced from 4 9 per cent, to less than 11 per cent, and this is confined almost entirely to the foreign element in the southeastern portion of the State. 2. Eighty-seven of the one hundred and five counties of the State, have no insane, fifty-four have no feeble-minded, and ninety-six hare no inebriates. There is only one pauper in every three thousand population. Thirty-eight poor farms have no inmates. In July, 1911, fifty-three county jails were empty, and sixtyfive counties had no prisoner serving sentence some counties have not called a jury to try a criminal case in ten years, and a grand jury is so uncommon that half the people would not know what it is. 3. In 1880 the bank savings deposit in Kansas were $30,000,000; to-day they are $200,000,000. The State is now the richest per capita in the Union, the average wealth being $1,700, whereas the average for the nation is only $1,200. Missouri, which adjoins Kansas and is rich in natural resources, has an average of less than $300. During the panic of 1 907, Kansas sent $50,000,000 to New York to relieve the money market, while Missouri sent nothing. 4. In 1880 the death rate in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas was practically the same, seventeen to the thousand. Since the death rate of Kansas has gradually fallen till it is now only seven and one-half, while of the other States has slightly increased. f>. The per capita cost of intoxicating liuuors in MlanrmtU 5a ?9 a i w , ....MWV UI i IO Y w'l , 111 Kansas is $1.4 8. G. It has demonstrated that the saloon is not a business, but a parasite on business. 7. It has taken politics out of the saloons and the saloons out of politics. Every political party in Kansas now stands for prohibition, and keeping joints, dives, and brothels out of cities as much the business policy of the average city ns keeping the streets clean, water pure, and the public parks attractive. In answer to the question as to tho realtive value of prohibition and high license as a means of abolishing tho evils of intoxicating liquors, Mr. Dawson says: There is no relative value. High license is not a means of abolishing tho evils of intoxicating liquors. The only solution of the liquor business is a had business. It is a had business, and a tax upon a had business, a cruel, vicious, and wicked business, means that the State says to the rum seller: You are corrupting the morals of my people, you aro undermining tho manhood of my young men, you are robbing tho cheeks of my young women of their bloom, you are poisoning the blood of my babes, you aro wrecking my homes, filling my jails, and furnishing a spawn for the brothel. You are at the back of all the villainies of the age, and are turning my people into drunkards, lunatics, and suicides, and you make a very large amount of money out this infamous business, and I shall require you to stand and deliver to me a very considerable portion of this dirty money which you are making in this villainous fashion." Does prohibition prohibit? "Of course not," answers Mr. Dawson. "Neither does a gun shoot nor a ship sail nor a piano make music of its own accord. It takes a man behind the gun to make it shoot, a sailor to to sail the ship, and an artist to play the piano; so, too, with the prohibition law. It will sleep away the vears in the musty tomes of a law book and never prohibit anything unless thero are faithful executives hehind it." It has been shown in Kansas, he declares, that it can he enforced even in a community where popular sentiments is against it. "It THREE MEN KILLED NINE Will)MILD NY ACCIDENT AT; FORT MOULTRIE j ? ? i A BIG GUN FLAKES BACK1. ? ? Privates llaxter, C'hristcnson mid Pulton Klllnl. Two K/irniai. y - w v mmm^yrn a #\l 11^ j Cut in Two and Ca|>t Haunu Heported Badly Wounded in Side by Fragment from the Block. The Ne^-s and Courier says three soldiers wero killed and 9 or more seriously injured late Thursday night at Fort Moultrie when the breech blew off a three-inch gun which was being used for night target practice. Privates Baxter, Christensen and Halton were killed, the former two being cut in two and dying instantly. Capt. Hanna, who was standing with several other olheers of the coast artillery, was badly wounded in the side by a fragment from the exploded cannon, Sorgt. Lamar, of the hospital corps, was injured in the right, arm and hand. Several were slightly wounded by the explosion. It was stated by a resident of Sullivan's Island that several ofllcers wore reported wounded, Capt. Hanna being one of them, lie said that it was diffcult to learn just how many were wounded when the fragments of the cannon scattered among the * soldiers close by. it was reported that the breech had not been properly closed after the insertion of a cartridge and that when the cap was exploded the breech was ( thrown back with terrific force. The wounded men were rushed to the post hospital, where immediate attention was given them. Several Charleston physicians, responding to | the alarm, went hurriedly to the fort and assisted in taking care of the victims. The men killed were members of the Sixteenth company, which was firing the guns of the battery. A hurry call was sent to Charleston for 1 surgeons and several responded to 11 assist the two army doctors in care- a ing for the injured. c The semi-annual spring practice ^ was begun that morning, starting ! with the firing of the mortars at 1 Itattery Carpon, under the new army 1 regulations the practice is to he en- ( gaged in at night as well as day. The facts of the accident were hard to get Thursday. An officer who v was asked for a statement would not t discuss it except in a general was, a since the accident will he a matter of c official investigation by a court of inquiry. I ? i t LOVED HKU T<) THE END. *?~ ' c Tx?ftvo Dig Fortune to the Children I o of Old Sweet heart. 1] h I Although he lost the hand of a girl q ho wooed in his youth, James Carey s Russell, head of a coffee brokerage r house in New York, kept green the v memories of his romance and reveal- t ed them in his will in which he he- r queathed $25,000 to each of the three t children of the woman he had hoped v some day to marry. G Russell died a bachelor and his ^ most intimate friends were ignorant s that he even had a boyhood romance. v When he left Norwlchtown, Conn., as v ' a young man in 1 880, to seek his for- ^ tune in Now York, he hoped to go j, back some day for Mary Walt, only r daughter of former Congressman John Turner Walt. But it happened ^ that in Washington she met John Howard Welles, a nephew of Lin- ^ coin's secretary of the navy, and ac- ^ cepted his proposal of marriage. The Welles had three children, . 11 John Phillip, who is now a cotton broker in Norwich, Conn., Winnifred, 0 c aged twenty-one, and Russell, now a ~ t. /"? 11 ?I- ------ nuuicui n.u v/vrueii) who was named , for James C. Russell. After the 1 death of Mr. Welles In 1 907, Russell a took an interest In his rival's cliil- a dren and on his own deathbed last r March he sent word for Mrs. Welles, who was also dying, of his decision to provide for her children. She died 0 two weeks ago. ? ? ? t Must Have Ilecn Crazy. At Sparta, Wis., William Hogue, * seventy years of age, beat his aged 0 wife to death with a poker, fatally * shot his daughter, Mrs. Guy Wilson, s wounded his son-in-law Wilson, then ^ took his own life, by cutting his s throat. Ilogue, angered at the turn * lie fancied family affairs had taken, c tlrst killed his wife, then attacked 0 the Wilsons in their home half a mile a distant. TTo returned to his dead r wife's side to commit suicide. __________________________________________ c takes just three men," lie says, "to v do it, a judge, a sheriff, and a pros- * ecuting attorney. These three and no more, who fear God and nobody r else, and determined to enforce the s law?not nil the saloon keepers and a brewers and all their followers and v sympathizers can prevail against h them. Most important of these three s is the judge, and that is the ofTWr to t whom the liquor interests give the il most attention and tho temperance g pcoplo the least. You must have a 1< judge, or your law enforcement Is c< bound to be Inefficient. si Vaiim 1 I I vui I arvd loved ones should be pre aches and pains by always hi NOAH'S LINIMENT?the h NOAH'S LINIMENT is ic external application. Absolul made in a modern laboratory ; as a physician's prescription. NOAH'S LINIMENT does ammonia, alcohol, naptha, ben Noah's ! is an excellent remedy for rhevi backache, neuralgia, strains. spra and side, sore feet, etc. Penetr rubbing. NOAH'S LINIMENT is one throat, coughs, colds, colic and ci sugar will usually relieve these toothache there is nothing betterapplied externally. Look for Noah's Ark?tradeage; beware of substitutes. NOAII'S LINIMENT Is Bold tke cities and out in the country, $L.OO a bottle. Bend for booklet Noah Remedy Co., Inc., Itlcl 7 JBBBk ? FOUND A BIG SNAKE ( "OILEI) IN A CHARLESTON PHIVATE MAIL ROX. = ~ ii lead and Part of Hody Out of Slit Intended for letters, but Most of Snake Inside Hoy. I1 io exienu one's arm to place some nail In a perfectly innocent-looking nail box and have a three-foot snake ;rin in your face is not the pleasant- ^ st experience that can occur to one, he average man will admit. The lews and Courier says this was exact- _ y what happened to Letter Carrier K Charles 'D. Claussen Wednesday lorning. The snake, it is said by one vho saw it, was probably harmless, ? >ut it was certainly vicious in appear- S tnce and for a time shivers were oursing along several of the spines n the immediate neighborhood of ho snake, which was finally killed ~ >y two negroes. Letter Carrier Claussen's route akes him to lower King street, Charleston, where a large proportion f the houses are equipped with ? irivate mail boxes and some of these oxes are of considerable dimensions. 1he letter carrier had, as usual, asorted his mall according to numbers md was going his cheerful way, ~ /hen he came to such a box ami, aking the mail consigned for this , lumber from his pile, he was abon~ o insert in the slit in the box. It /as not inserted for some time, how- j ver. The startled carrier saw the ? icad of a snake sticking through the F lit in the mall box. Said head was /aving nonchalantly to and fro and a ery businesslike tongue was pro- 1 ruding in a manner which would lave spoken volumes to a mail carler or anybody else. ? rn u ? i? * - - x ut; part or tne snake's ** ?ody was inside the box, as later In- ' estigation proved. A portion of the iody and the head was outside, coning through which mall is dropped nto the box. Apparrently the snake 1 lad crawled into the mail box, no ~ ther explanamation of its unwol oine presence there appearing likely. When the mall carrier saw the mad of the snake pointing in such ' . direct manner at him, he hesitated .bout insulting the reptile by any 1 ude action, such as trying to squeeze 1 he letters in through tho slit while he snake's head was occupying part >f it. Hut, of course, the letters had o bo delivered and the problem of he snake in tho box to be faced. Meanwhile the mail carrier's di- . emma began to attract the attention ?f passersby, who stopped to ga/.o at ^ he queer and unusual spetcacle of a , nako in a King street mail box. "'hey were careful, however, not to top too near to the box, because _ here was no way of telling what fa- |< ilities that snake had for getting nit of the box, and since it had been ible to get in and appeared to be so omfortable, it took very little reaoning power to conclude that it 7! ould pot out tho same way it pot in 1 whenever if. chose. So no ono was akinp any chances. No ono, that is, until two colored non, probably wiso in the ways of nakes, happened alonp the street ^ lid saw the trouble. They ran to a | /agon which was passinp, seized a 1 oavy whip and, returning, made 1 hort work of Mister Snake. When 1 he reptile was killed and examined ? t was found to he a fairly thick ' reen snake, about three feet in mpth. Tho species of tho snake < ould not he ascertained, but it is } aid to have been harmless. t I iome >tected from the pvprv-dar iving on hand a bottle of n lest Pain Remedy. n internal uses as well as for J tcly pure and clean to use, iiul compounded as carefully o'j ci 5 not contain any chloroform, zii.c or poisonous drugs. Liniment imatlsm, lameness, stiff joints, d Ins, cuts, bruises, pains in chest '^! ales and requires very little *Bl R of the best remedies for sore ramps. A few drops on a little i troubles Immediately. For ?a little on cotton In cavity and fti U? mark?on every genuine pack- ' by all dealers In medicines In fr In three sizes, at 25c, 50c and i>? a and testimonials* "< Imond, Va. JOEL Ml :lassified column and 17 A DMUDC evrUAMrr inmuLiVij LAVH/\1>VJL IATK ONK-IIATjF CENT A WORD. PLANTS. Carolina Rico Meal"?The tine stock food. W081 Point Mill Co., Charleston, S. C. 'or Sale?Lookout Mountain Seed Irish Potatoes, $2 per bushel. J. It. Thackston, R. 1, Powder Springs, Ga. am y Hall and Southern Queen potato slips, $1.25 per M. Satisfaction guaranteed. Turfflin Farms, Salisbury, N. C. astern Yam Potato Plants, $1.50 per M; special price to dealers. Can fill your orders promptly after May 10. W. J. Deal, Maiden, N. C. weet Potato Plants?Early Triumphs, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico, Norton, and Providence, $1.75 per 1,000. H. H. Thomas, Earleton, Fla. or Sale?Crystal White Indian Runner duck eggs; stocks direct from Fischel and Patton; the all white egg strain, $2 for 12. O. Bw Hart7.og, Greenville, S. C. att's Four Eared Prolific Seed Corn ? peck $1, bushel $3. Indian Runner Duck Eggs $1 per setting. O. P. Stallings, Enfield, N. C. ens?Clean mixed peas in good sacks. Rest for hay. Your last chance to buy at $1.90 per bu. f. o. b. Address D. W. Watkins, Granite Hill, C?a., or T. E. Watkins, Helton, S. C. or Sale?Nancy Hall and Dooly Yam Sweet Potato Slips. $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and Ecelsior Strawberry Plants $2 per thousand. Write or wire. Southern Plant iir TV i uuiuynii;., vv. j. nawKins, Mgr., Plant City, Fla. ancy Hall Potato Plants. Buy direct from grower and get fresh plants. Orders filled in any quanity. $175 per 1,000 10,000 or moro. $1.50 per 1,000. A. G. Lancaster, Pine Castle, Fla. weet Potato Plants, N'ancy Hall and Triumph, $1.75 per 1,000. I can fill your orders in any quanity. Rive me your orders for prompt delivery and choice plants grown under irrigation. G. D. Moore, Hawthorn, Fla. Ingle Comb Rhode Island Reds, exclusively, eggs $2 for 15, $3 for 30, $8 for 100. Mrs. K. H. Hill, Washington, Ga. iliite Indian Runner Ducks?For 10 days will sell for $1.25 per dozen. This .ad will not appear again. S. A. Lowrance, Mooresville, N. C. DO White Indian Runners?To make room for 3,000 young stock, will sell for $10 a trio for next thirty days. Alabama Leghorn Farms Co., Mulga, Ala. oglstcred Berkshire Pigs?Ready to ship. From prize-winning stock. Big bone, short nose type. Write for prices. W. H. Hudson, Timmonsville, S. C. hite Indian Runner Duck Eggs from prize winning CarlisleFishel-Patton strains, $1.50 dozen; from Imported Penciled, $1 dozen. IV. O. Brownfleld, Opelika, Ala. iveet Potato Plants, express prepaid o South Cnrolina, 1,000 to 3,000 it $1.75 per 1,000, 4,000 to 10,000, M.fiB; Nancy Hall, Triumphs, Porto itico yams. C. P. Whitcomb, Umailla, PI a. k, Mk JBfe ( r?r lUranutUm and IfruralirU -"J have been using Noah's L.111I- h tent for mors than a year, and nil It the best i have ever tried jr rheumatism, neuralgia and all ches and pains of any kind."?.rs. A. M. lioyle, Richmond, Vu 'or Colds ?n?l llearnrnrss,? Noah's Liniment yuickl> relieves j 10 s and hoarseness, and I have irrled a bottle with me for years j i traveling.''?VV. T Burton. Wil>n N. C. ' 1'or llHckMibr sn?| Mlri Joints.? 1 have used Noah s Liniment for iickache and stift joints and pains fid itnd It to be the best liniment ever used "?Mrs. SallL Young dsrar, Va. ? '? ?r Pain KoltowinK Chills.? "M> ttle Biri was au ffering with chills, id for the pain following I d oah's Liniment, anil it kiivp inLant relief."?-A. II. GrcenwuuJ ichmond, Va. For Sore Feet.?"Suffering foi month with rheumatism In my nkle, Instep and toes, 1 cornirnced to use Noah's. Liniment, id my foot has Improved won rfully, and can now walk with r> little Inconvenience."?C, A. imea, Portsmouth. Va. For Pain In the Uaek.?"I sufred dreadfully for ten years with tins In back. Less than haJf a yttle of Noah's Unliwnt mads a irfect ours.**?ACrs, J. XX HlMaff y, Point Bastsrn, Va, k j|Ht jsmL White leghorns, BufI Orpingtons, White Plymouth Rocks. Vigorous, hardy stock. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Mating List Free. Bacon & Haywood, U05 Springfield Ave., Guyton, C?a. ii Reduction on liairrd Rocks, Hamburgs, and Runner ducks. Eggs at half price as this ad will not appear again. Write for circular. Valley Head Poultry Farm, Rig Rock, Tcnn., Route 2 H. 44S|>ocial Egg Sale" from first prize Winners White Orpingtons Imported direct from England 1.00 for 15. Rlack Orpingtons 1.00 for 15. \Vhlte Wyandots 1.00 15. J. P. lveilett, Fountain Inn, S. C. / Prize Winning White Indian Runner duck eggs, 11 for $3; 2 2 for Bronze turkey eggs, 11 for $3; 22 for $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs, $2.50. White Orpington eggs, 1.50 for 15 and up. Fawn and White Indian Runner duck eggs, $l.o0. M. B. Grant, Darlington, S. C. MISCELLANEOUS* Hartford's Koupe Cure? Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Eneads, Fla. Ask for Our Specials in Dinner Sets? Big money saved by our "factory to buyer" plan. Carolina Novelty Co., Box 474, Raleigh, N. C. Broken Auto?Crank cases, cylinders, transmission cases, or anything made of metal welded back as good as new. Prices reasonable. The Bridgers Co., Florence, S. C. Personal?Ladies, when delayed or irregular use Triumph Pills; always dependable. "Relief" and particulars free. Write National Medical Institute, Dept. 5., Milwaukee, Wis. Piles can he relieved at once?SenJ 15c for liberal sample, <T,ino Pile ! Remedy," and bo convinced. Large ' size, 50c, 6 for $2.50. H. M. Knight and Co., Manufacturing Pharmacists, Iyancaster, Penn. .Marry n you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has large number of wealthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal. Cier Married ? Matrimonial paper containing advertisements marriageble people from all sections; rich, poor, young, old Protestants, Catholics, mailed sealed free. The "Correspondent," Toledo, Ohio. I will teach you bookkeeping and the collection business. Appoint you my special representative in your own town. In your spare time. And help to make you prosperous. Write to-day for this offer. Brown's Correspondence School, Wilcoxon Building, Freeport, Illinois. ( w : jiN j ^ i^SPL?(%^y Vv Munler of Girl a Mystery. Although the police have five men under arrest In connection with the 4 murder of Brace Johnston, a school girl, on Monday near Blackburn, Pa., the detectives and State constabulary continue the search for the guilty party.