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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Suing Railroad For Damages.

Greenville, Special.-Several suits
against the Southern Railway which
will be heard in Magistrate Stard-
ley's Court this week, are further re-
minders of the great freshet last
August. On the Columbia and Green
vile Railroad several miles below the
city, calvert gave way before the
rush of the waters during the flood,
and as result several acres of land
were flooded. it is claimed. and the
crops on this land ruined. The plain
tiffs alleged that the company was
careless in not having a culvert that
would stand the pressure of high
water; that such a culvert could have
been provided for by the railroad.
The railroad will claim that this cul-
vert had carried the water since 1872 ;
that the flood was unusual. an act of
God, and that the company should
not be held liable for damages be-
cause of the extraordinary high
water. One case has already been
tried, and in this the jury found for
the plaintiffs in the sum of $T5. the
value of the corn destroyed. Three
cases will be tried this week, and it
Is said that several others are pend
ing.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Gen. Butler Holding His OWE.

Columbia, Special.-The friends of
Gen. M. C.. Butler will be rejoiced to
know that ne is doing very well, and
that the reports are that he is "hold-
ing his own" Gen. Butler is, however
a sick man and suffering as he is n
chronic trouble, his family and ply
sicians are particularly careful. Gen.
Butler has been here at the Infim-
ary since the first of February, and
before that he was confined to his
home, and being a man of unusual
activity this confinement is not to his
liking. Gen. Butler reads the news
papers regularly and he is keeping in
close touch with everything, but he
would like to be up and about. Gen.
Buffers son, Capt. Butler. is here
from Kansas City, and his sister,
Mrs. Carson, il; here with him in ad-
dition to the other members of his
family who have been here for some
time. Mrs. Butler is constantly at
the side Of her distinguished hus-
band.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
SOUTHCAROLINANEWS ITEMS
News OF Interest Cleaned From All Sections the State and
Arranged For Busy Readers
Will Succeed Crum.

Washington, Special.-The Presi-
dent Tuesday sent to Senate the NOM
nation of Edward w. Durant, Jr.. as
collector of customs for the district
of Charleston, S. c. The appoint
OF Mr.. Durant ends the contest which
was. waged for so long over the selec-
tion of DR.. VIM. ID. Crum. AS the
only objection to DR.. Crum was based
upon the fact that he is a negro, it
IS presumed that Mr.. Durant s nomi-
nation will be confirmed in due course
of time, although his nomination was
allowed to lie over when the Senate
met in executive session Tuesday.
while other nominations, which we're
sent IN were promptly acted upon.
DR.. Crum's nomination had been be-
lore the Senate at each session since
January, 1903. While he has been
in Office all this time, he was never
but cnce confirmed by the Senate.
The one confirmation took place in
the Fifty-eighth Congress. The re-
mainder Of the time was covered by
recess appointments. The selection
OF Mr.. Durant is generally accepted
rs the introduction of President
Taft's announced policy of appoint
ing white men to Federal positions of
responsibility in the South.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
INSURANCE DEPOSITS
An Important Ruling on Insurance
Bonds.

In regard to the recent enactments
of the legislature requiring all COM
panies TO deposit with the commits
sioner bond or securities in the dis
cretion of the commissioner, Commits
sioner McMaster has made the fol-
lowing rulings: Either the principal
or the surety must have on deposit
securities to the amount of the bond
or must have in South Carolina prop
erty liable to attachment to the
amount of the bond. This amount is
$4,000 for life insurance companies
and $4,000 for all other companies
A surety company must have on de-
post securities to an amount equal
to the amount of the largest single
bond which it will give, but should
it have one deposit, it will be re-
ceived on the bond Of other COM
panies to ten times the amount of the
deposit it makes. That is to say that
to give a bond for a life insurance
company surety company must have
on deposit $4,000, and in this case
would be received on a gross ag-
gregate of bonds to the amount Of
100000. The commissioner, for tie
present, will receive any good secu-
rites but he will expect the COM
panies making the deposits within a
reasonable time to secure domestic in
vestments, such as State bonds,
county or municipal bonds, or real
estate mortgages in South Carolina,
or some such domestic securities.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25

Former Warden John NJ. Fox is au-
thority for the statement that ma
1ority of the men imprisoned in the
Workhouse - probably seventy-five
per cent.-would never have been
there could they have found employ
ment. In this connection one magis-
trate said:
MY experience is that there is
more distress among the worthy poor
now than at any time in the last
twelve years. / have committed,
chiefly at their own request, more de-
cent men this winter than l have sent
there before in any five years of my
term as magistrate"
Distress Among Women.
Mary E. Dreier, president of the
Women's Trade Union League. said:
This year the distress among
ever before. 1t is pitiful. The saw
ings of years have been exhausted,
and to this misfortune is added a
woman's constant dread Of sickness.
Others constantly fear being thrown
out Of work, and this is too often the
case. Manufacturers do not now lay
in large stock which will keep these
women busy. They fill orders on
short notice. They want fifty girls at
once. The girls complete the order
in two days, and are then dismissed.
This is true in all branches of gar
ment trades. This high tension is
making the women Of New York ply
steal and nervous wrecks. 1t is a
most deplorable condition OF affairs"
Frank Julian Warne, whose efforts
for bill now pending. in Albany.
creating a 'mmission to inquire into
the causes and effects of the unem-
ployed in New York State, and to sug
gest remedies. are meeting with gen.
eral appreciation from all organiza-
tions, said:
mot wishing to be sensational, but
as truthful as possible in our limited
way Of getting accurate figures on
present industrial conditions, it is ab-
solutely fair to say that more than
900 men are looking for work in
,, New York City alone.
Crowded to the Roofs.
Look at any city institution to-day
where the INDECENT get I'D. They are
crowded to the roofs-the city can't
care for more. The hospitals are
filled and SO are the insane asylums.
Where will New York place her un-
fortunates In another year II the pres
ent ratio of unemployed keeps up?
1t is terrible question to face.
when a city's wardens turn out
2700 prisoners before their terms
have expired to make room for incom-
ing crowds, you may imagine what
demands are made on the city's insti-
tutions."
Professor John Bates, of Columbia
University, in suggesting a remedy
for the economic Ill, says:
Loss Of employment by large bod
les Of men personally fit is due to
mal-adjustment, since there is never
4 time when there is not within the
limits of society to which these men
belong a need of their labor and a
chance to dispose of its produce. The
trouble would now be relieved by a
migration from populous centres to
the country"
Percy Alden, NJ P, in "The I'm
employed" says: "There is a rapidly
growing feeling that the community
has a responsibility for the unem-
ployed and must discharge that re-
| sponsibility. not by inficting pains
and penalties upon the genuine work
] er, but by enabling him to find work.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Memorial Window Commission

Columbia, Special.-Gov. Aansel
has named the commission to take
charge OF the appropriation made by
the general assembly for a memorial
window at Blandford church, near
Petersburg, Va. The commission con-
slsts OF Senators Weston of Richland,
Johnstone of Newberry and Repre-
sentative Rucker of Anderson. An
appropriation of 1850 was given by
the State for the memorial window in
honor OF the South Carolina Confed-
crate soldiers who fell near Peters
burg during the conflict on the battle
fields Of Virginia.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Charged With Soliciting Hands.

Lexington, Special.-Will Lorick,
a negro, was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Miller on Friday night upon
warrant sworn out by Mr. w. w.
Barre, lumber manufacturer of this
town, charging Lorick with violating
the law governing the soliciting of
hands from enc State to another. 1t
is said that Lorick had secured the
promise of several negroes and was
arranging to secure transportation
for them to go to Florida to work
on a turpentine farm. So far no
effort has been made to secure his
release.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Train Kills Centenarian.

Newberry, Specialized Kinard,
an old colored man, said to be no
years old, was knocked down and
killed by freight train at the South
ern depot, Wednesday about l
o'clock. The old man was leaning
against a box car when a shifting
engine backed up and showed against
the one on which he was leaning,
knocking him down and then run
ming over and killing him. He was
slave of Gen. III. H. Kinard in
slavery days and was a pretty old
negro when set free.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Puts Union Above the Law and
U. s. Judge Refuses CitiZenshI

Danville, Ill.-U. S. Judge Wright
refused naturalization to w. Strong,
a member Of the United Mine Workers
of America. When asked IF 1t came
to the point that the union and the
laws Of the United States differed
which should you follow" Strong
answered: "The union, of course"
Judge Wright says: 81 can never
grant the right of citizenship in the
United States to any man who follows
the dictates Of his trade union rather
than the laws OF our land"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
MN IUhh UIl lDLL HhMI HULUDLu lcUIUUU UNIUN Min
Startling Figures Furnished Organizer Robnson
Not Due to Strkes---Vast Percentage Of Cases
Due to Depression in Business. -;

10000 unemployed and cannot work in
York City.
have Blackwel's Work
before of their make others
willing
1907 number
Workhouse
City Magistrates
me- from
their organizations lack of funds dues.
withdrawn savings
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
a man willing to work and
unable to find work is, perhaps,
the saddest sight that fortunes
inequality exhibits under the
Carlyle.

New York Clty.-Suppose a parade
of the unemployed in Greater New
York should start from the Battery
to-day. How far uptown do you sup
pose it's van would extend before the
last man wheeled into line? The an
swer vouched for by the noted charity
labor workers of New York gives
Central Park at least unanimously,
or a distance of about six miles.
Herman Robinson, general organ
izer Of the American Federation of
Labor, states that at least forty per
cent. of the members of the labor
unions in New York City are unem-
ployed The latest report of the State
Department of Labor gives the mem
bership of labor unions in this city
as 100000. The present member
ship should be we'll above 1000,
more than 40,000 union men to lose
their membership cards.
10000 Idle Union Men.
According to Mr.. Robinson there
would then be at least 120, 900 union
men out Of work in New York City.
OF homeless men and vagrants the
number is. under ordinary conditions,
about 10000. From such meagre
facts rs may be collected the total
number of New York's unemployed Is
more than 100000. Imagine such a
host-enough to populate a city al
most as large as Rochester.
That the cause of the astonishing
number out of work at the end of
1908 was not due to strikes or sick
ness. but rather to the depression Of
business. 1t is represented by the
following table:
Idle on account Of 1905 ESo l9o7 1905; BOG
age ..,... .....,.... 10000 1,O53 s4l
Other reasons ........ 2,coO 266 GA
A Stupendous Army.
Never in the history Of any great
municipality has such q stupendous
| army Of unemployed been collected
at one time, according to the eco
nomic statiscians who have COM
! piled the above figures. and others,
for the information Of the Legislators
at Albany.
The number Of families applying
for assistance to the Association for
Improving the Condition Of the Poor
for the last six months is fifty per
cent. more than for the corresponding
months Of year ago. In three
months, November, December and
January, 900 able-bodied men, will
ing and anxious for work. came to
this society for aid. The year pre-
vious only nineteen such requests
were received.
Savings banks in the poorer section
OF the city report extraordinary
drafts in recent months. The actu-
airy of one of the largest insurance
companies says:
Raise Cash on Policies.
GAS compared with the season of
1907-190S, the loans for the season
of 190S-1909 have increased thus far
over seventy per cent, while the num-
ber of lapsed policies increased to
more than fifty per cent. The above
figures speak for themselves, and
prove conclusively that the holders
OF smaller policies are terribly af-
fected by the present hard times"
This condition is general among in
surance companies.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Awaiting the Verdict

Nashville, Tenn, Special.--W
no indications that the II men are an
where near an agreement, the op;<a
begins to prevail that a mistrial~sD
be the termination Of the TO
case against Col. Duncan B. c.
and Robin j. Cooper and John i
Sharp for the staying of former Uni
ed States Senator Edward w. O.
mack. Judge Hart at 4 p. m. Wednt
day adjourned court and started 4
his country home. u
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Eight Months Coal Supply
One Company Has 2,5OO,OOO Tons.

Reading, Pa. - Figures computed
here show that there is sufficient an
thracite coal on the surface to supply
the trade for the next eight months
at least.
1t is said that the Reading Com
pany has at least 100000 tons of
coal ct It's storage yards at Abrams,
Landingville and Mahanoy City. and
that nearly a million more tons will
be added by the end of March, II q
strike does not interfere with the
plans.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Entombed by Well Caye-in.

Laurens, Special.-Entombed in a
caved-in well for five hours and a
half, John Fields, a negro we'll dig.
ger, was finally rescued without fur
ther hurt than a few bruises on the
face. This accident occurred late
Saturday afternoon when Fields was
descending the walls of the we'll in
the backyard at Mrs. Eloise Shell 3
residence on Main street; rock was
dislodged by the mans foot, precip-
itating general cave-in.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Columbia Clubs Raided

Columbia, Special.-Chief Con-
stable Dickson and Constable Ogg
and McSwain Thursday raided four
social clubs and placed the managers
under arrest. Thursday night Hunt
Brothers restaurant, on Gates street
was also raided, and clerk named
hammer was arrested. The cases
were worked up by detective named
Wilson, from Atlanta,
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
One Fatal Case of SMALLPOX.

4orkville, Special.-Kirby Pugh,
an operative at the York Cotton Mill,
died on the mill premises Just out
side the town limits of YorkviIle
Sunday night, of smallpox. There
have been no other cases nor is
there any others now. The mill man.
sagement and the local physicians
have taken every possible precaution
to prevent the spread Of the disease.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
y. D. @. Take up the Matter.

Columbia, Special.-The legislature
has appropriated $4,000 for the Con-
federate Home. The management.
asked for $4,000. In order to equip
the home, it will be necessary to raise
some money. The Daughters Of the
Confederacy have taken the matter
In hand and propose to raise the
money. Mrs. Robert ID. Wright, of
Newberry, president Of the South
Carolina Division makes q pathetic
arpealto the various chapters.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Bullet Brings Down Thief.

Chester, Specialize Feaster, col
ored, was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded at 2 O'Clock Thursday morn
ing by Officer j. G. Howsee, of the
city police force. Feaster had brok-
en- into the store Of T. H. Ward, col
ored, and was coming out of the rear
with his plunder, when Officer How
see, who had been attracted by the
noise, endeavored to halt him.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
Technical Training in Public Schools

Charleston, Special.-Dr. Charles
w. Elliot, the former president of
Harvard university, delivered an ad-
dress here Wednesday night before
a large audience, in which he de-
plored the fact that the public school
systems do not sufficiently consider
the necessary structure of democratic
society and of those industries which
constitute the vital interest Of the
community.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-25
THE new Tariff BILL
Will Bring Annual Revenue of
$3OO,OOO,OOO.
A few IMPORTANT CHANGES

The Payne Bill Expected to Wipo Out
the Deficiency Coffee Still on Free
List, Sugar Little Reduced. Wool
About the Same, Paper Cut in Half,
Graduated Inheritance Tax.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-17

Should you wish TO spendka day or
two away from home it will not be
necessary for you to seek the services
of someone to give your pets their
Fdaily care, as you would undoubtedly
find it necessary TO do in the case oil
almost any other live creature.
Some who are successful hold that
they should receive care in minor mat
tiers that are not mentioned here. so
thai a woman who has had no ex-
p~erience in raising them would be very
unwise to invest in igh-priced speci-
mems without first experimenting with
the common variety. In the case OF
loss, she can ascertain the cause and
renew her efforts without an expert
ment thai has proven costly.
A dealer is quoted as saying h a the
annual sale of gold fish in this countr
is 1000, 600, and the value amounts to
$500, 900. | have quoted this figure to
give some idea of h profits of this
industry and encourage those who may
be interested.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-17
Continued From Yesterday,


Alicia watched the whole of the early
morning for some communication from
her husband in his locked room, only
two doors away from her, but there
was no message or letter. Senator
March's own bTougham always came
for him at half-past ten, and 1T was
| the same on this fateful morning.
| Alicia, looking out of the window, saw
some light luggage brought down and
| placed upon the 0 She turned to her
desk, and writing a few appealing
words, took them herself to the door
of the study and knocked loudly. She
could heal voices within-Senator
March giving his directions to his sec
| rotary and Watson, his man OF BUSH
ness. No attention was paid to her, not
even when she thrust the note under
the door. There was, however, a pause,
and she thought perhaps her husband
was reading what she had to say. She
did not hear another door of the study
pen and the three men pass quickly
down the softly ~carpeted stair, but
hearing the bang of the carriage door,
she ran toward the window and saw
her husband drive off alone. A wild
desire took possession of her to see the
tragedy brought about by herself
played to the end. She rang the bell
violently for her maid, and with great
agitation was dressed in the same sim
pie black gown and hat and thick veil
she had worn when going to Cole
groves hotel in the winter. AS on
thai day, she went out as if to walk.
not caring for her carriage to be seen
at the Capitol, and, calling n cab, d.
rected the man to drive her to the
d~ome-capped building on the hill.
She had feared being recognized, but
when seeing the surging mass of peo-
pie, those crowds of the unknown who
year in and year out swarm through
the Capitol, pack the galleries and
block the corridors, who seem stran-
gers to the town and to each other,
she realized that there was little dan
ger of her identity being known. She
Joined the surging mass, and was
swept onward to the public gallery,
where The crowd was c,amoring at the
and the doorkeepers We're holding
them back. Alicia, making her way
toward n OF the doorkeepers. whis-
pereds
II am Mrs. March and desire to SO
inside
Tile man recognized her instantly; he
-LA|
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-17

Once they are in the aquarium and
thriving it matters little how great a
change of temperature takes place in
the atmosphere surrounding it. and in
deed after this they require little care,
except in feeding them.
This is where a beginner encounters
her greatest difficulty. She imagines
that these pets are hungry. because
they come up to the top Of the water
so eagerly for the first mouthful of
food and proceeds at once to feed them
large quantities. much of which re-
mains uneaten, decays and contami-
mates the water. says the writer in the
Philadelphia Press,
AS a matter of fact. a gold fish should
not be fed oftener than twice a week
and then only with a piece of flake food
or especially prepared article for this
purpose.
They need SO little regular attention
that they are more Of a luxury than a
care.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-17

the epitome of the spring. She was
smiling and talking to the French am
bassador, who was leaning over toward
her. To Alicia's miserable eyes it
seemed as if Lady Carlyon were there
to haunt her happiness, her splendid
position, her youth n beauty, in the
face of the storm and shipwreck which
would that day befall Alicia March
and her husband.
1t was still half-an-hour before the
vice-president's gavel would fall, and
it was one of the most painful half
hours in Alicia MARGINS life. She cow
to be seen, while Lady Carlyon
seemed to court the attention of which
she was the object Precisely at IL
cred behind her neighbors and dreaded
O'Clock the senate was called to order
and the chaplain offered a short prayer.
Just as the prayer was concluded Sena-
tor March entered the chamber; except
for his deathly pallor. he gave nc in
.dication of what he had undergone, nor
of the ordeal before him. He walked
to his desk and sat down; every eye
was liked upon him, but there was some
p~retence of beginning routine business.
Niicn Ic tOSt anu tatNAiiie tiC WV
presidents eye. asked to be heard
upon a point OF the highest
privilege. the vice-president bowed.
and instantly silence like that
of death fell upon the Senate chamber.
senator Mar oh spoke in a perfectly
composed manner. and his voice. though
and agreeable, had a carrying pow
er which made it distinctly audible in
every part of the vast hall and gall
leries. He alluded to the publication OF
the charges affecting him and then de-
without a quaver. that there
was enough of truth in them to make
it advisable hat he should resign his
seat in the Senate. adding that he had
te~legraphed his resignation 10
the Governor of the State. He had
nothing to say in extenuation, and only
one thing TO say in explanation-that
he alone was concerned in the a.. F. &
transactions.
There have been certain innuendos."
he said, raising his voice slightly,
against an innocent person. a perfect
y innocent and helpless person. whom
[ now appear TO defend. To bring. even
by implication. the name OF this person
INTO this matter was most cruel and
injustihable, and I hereby protest
it with all my might. ask
no consideration for myself, hut | de-
il for that m~isjudged and blame