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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-02-17

| y ID uDu llSllU Uiiuo Oiio DShAoSi"eAN
measure should be refused in this
boasted seat Of principle.
| Senator Hardin asked Senator
Sharpe to Withdraw his motion to xii!
| the bill SO that an amendment might
be read. This was assented TO for
the time being. Senator Hardin's
motion was that in counties or COM
muntieS where there are no diSpen-
sarieS and where the officials will not
enforce the laws as to illicit sale OF
! liquors, the government shall enforce
! the law at the expenses of that com
munity or county. Senator Hardin
Offering this amendment said that
though he had been one of the com
mittee who reported the bill unfavor,
ably, he would feel that he must vute
for it il it was not so amended.
Senator Sharpe'S motion to xii! the
bill WAS then put to vote, res ultlng
as follows:
Aye, Senator Aldrich, Blake, Dean
Gaines, Herndon, Hydrick, Sharp,
Williams, s.
Nay, Senators Brice, Brown, But
ler. Carpenter, Douglass, Hardin,
Holiday, Johnson, Marshall, Mccall,
McIver. Mcleod, Peurifoy, G. W.
RagSdale, Raysor, Sheppard, Stack
house, Standard, Talbird, vonkolnitz,
20.
Those not present when the vote
was taken were: Senators Davis,
Dennis, Forrest, Goodwin, Hay, Hood,
Hough, Manning, Maytield, Mower,
J. w. Ragsdale, Walker, Warren, IA.
On motion Of Senator Raysor fur
ther debate on the bill was postponed
and the bill was taken up Wednesday
night and passed to third reading.
When the bill came up on Thursday
for a third Tea0inI senator RaySor Of
fered an ameuimu'.1 IS follows:
provided. Il tax vi one-half mill is
hereby levied upon every dollar of the
value of all taxable property in al
counties having no dispensary, and ir
all counties voting to remove or close
the dispensaries Us above provided; fol
the purpose of defraying the expenses
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-02-17

Is it a burn? Use DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. A cut? Use DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. At your druggists.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
If You Do Not Know,
 You Ought to Know That

Her resources are many but very undc- veloped. The Germans are awake to the possibilities in Spain and are doing the best to get her trade. It ia a splendid field for American enterprise and capital for the country has a pro- ductive soil tremendous though un- touched coal deposits and she Is rich in other minerals and fine fishing abounds along the extensive coast
 The stamina and fine condition of the apanese troops generally is shown by their record during the troubles in China in 1900. The per centage of sickness among the Russian troops at that time in China was S.75, the French 5.42, the German 5.33, the English 5.22, the American 4.1S and the Japanese but 2.51.
 We are using for fiavorins, food and general manufacture 50,000,00O cocoa nuts a year in this country.
 We slaughter 1s.ooo geese. so.o00 hogs and 37.000 sheep every day in the year in this country.
 The Mississippi River discharges sio,- 900 cubic feet of water per second the Ohio River 15S.000.
 There are 3o.ooo laps and s2,oo0 Chi- nese in San Francisco.
 Our beck strike has, so far, cost us s15,000,000.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
A w0MAN,s PRIDE.

Lives on Picnicskers' Scraps Rather
 Than Ask for Bread.
 New York. Sept. 2.-The arrest of Harriet Barnes in Central Park has developed a peculiar case of destitu- tion. The woman is thirty-three years old. a stenographer. and says her par ents reside in Toledo. Ohio. Three weeks ago she ran out of funds, and since then had lived in the park. sub- sisting on craps thrown away by pio- nickers. When arrested for vagrancy she was almost famished and slightly out of her mind from exposure.
 Miss Barnes said she came here . year ago and worked steadily until April, when she lost her position. Un- able to procure another. her furniture was soon seized for debt, and finally she found herself homeless and penni- less. Too proud to seek the assistance of friends. she wandered about Gen. tral Park and finally was driven by hunger to pick up remnants of lunches from the ground. During threc weeks she spent in this manner the woman slept in out of the way places and washed her clothing in the lakes at night. The mosquitoes bit her in a frightful manner, and when she was received at the hospital the doctors said the insects had caused serious in- jury by their poison.
 Soon as her plight became known friends came to her aid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth Con-
 corning the Famous
 Dispatch. PARKER'S REASONS EXPLAINED. Hitherto Unpublished Details Made Public by the First Man to Whom the Judge Reveal
 ed His Action.
REASONS EXPLAINED.

New York. Sept. S.-The following will appear in the Brooklyn Dail Ea- gle of tomorrow:
 (From a Staff Correspondent.)
 Esopus. N. r.. Sept. 3.-The Repub- lican campaign text book for 1904, is- sued by the Republican National Com mittee. contains an attack upon the good faith, the character and the hon pr Alton B. Parker. the Democratic candidate for president. It devotes all of ten pages to what it calls the "St. Louis Esopus Episode" and in the course of its attck insinuates that the telegram sent by Judge Parker to Mir. Sheehan at St. Louis. on July g, was prearranged. It calls the platform and the telegram a joint performance" ito deceive the voters of the United States" Neither deftly nor skillful- ly, yet maliciously, 1t seeks to convey the impression that Judge Parker was a party to a trick and makes this point: Then at II o'clock on the 9th, about thirty hours after the commit tee had taken the fatal step. about eighteen hours after the convention had ratified 1t, about nine hours after he had been nominated. Judge Parker sent the following telegram to the con. vention, addressed to his friend, Will lima F. Sheehan:" It seeks to convey the idea that prior to Saturday morn- ing Judge Parker was informed of all the occurrences at St. Louis, knew that reference to the gold standard had been omitted in the platform and says in these exact words that it seems im- possible to suppose that Judge Parker could have failed to receive this infor- nation very early in the day on Fri- day" The entire effort of the ten pages is to show that Judge. Parker had been guilty of trick" that his telegram was, sent to St. Louis by pre- arrangement and with the foreknowl- edge of his friends in St. Louis.
 The high character of Judge Parker and his widespread reputation for high -mindedness does not protect him from this wanton attack-an attack made in the full knowledge that it was based on untruth. It must fail In its purpose. for there is no truth. even in a slight degree, in its asser- tions. Its only effect can be to show that those who are responsible for the management of the campaign of the Republican candidate feel that a blow
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

tiou 1t would have been if prior to the casting a the vote of the convention, he had proclaimed that unless the platform said this or omitted that he would not stand on 1t. His attitude was elevated and should be appreciated even in these strenuous times of hust- ling seekers after nominations. In- deed, had he spoken as to one he must have done so as to all questions and ended in an attempt to dictate the plat form. Such would have been utterly repugnant to the principle he expressed in the Creelman letter-that the office should seek the man. not the man the office. ?
 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle is in a position to affirm the above assertions, and to maintain the affirmation. and, as we'll. that Judge Parker in the prep aration and sending of this dispatch consulted with nobody--with not a sin gle soul; that he took the action he did on his own initiative and after realiz- ing the situation at St. Louis.
 Let the facts be knowra-let "the bright sunlight of publicity" shine on this act, and the brighter the light the more resplendent shines that act
 The True StoRy of the Telegram.
 On Friday night July 3, at 10:3O CLOCK, the usual nOur or ret1reme n { for the Judge, at time when the con vention was still in session, and when but the most meager news had been received as to the action of the Com mfttee on Platform. the Chief Judge, saying to his Secretary. Arthur Mo Causland, that he was about to retire and did not wish to be disturbed during the night, went to his chamber and closed the door. In the gray dawn cf the morning. the news was received that the nomination had been made and that Judge Parker had been named practically unanimously Secretary Me Causland forbade an effort to inform the Judge, declaring that it must wait until the Judge got up"
 At o'clock on Saturday morning waiting newspaper men, gathered on the veranda of the house. saw the Judge issue from his bath house on the river side. The extraordinary man had aris- en at 6:30 o'clock. had stolen out of the house unobserved. following his usual routine. and gone for his bath with out even stopping to ask what was the news. With a single impulse the gath cred newspaper men sprang from the veranda, dashing across the lawn and to a point on the bluff, where they could call to him. shouting. You've got it!" Then they hastened to where they could meet him on the winding path first question was as to the platform no news of which, however. they could give him. He passed on. without com
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

crushing in it's effect. had been dealt their cause by that act of Judge Par ker "a splendid manifestation of honor and courage"
 There could have been no "prear- engagement" and no "foreknovvIedRe," because the situation which called forth the dispatch was anticipate or fore-een by nobody prior to the as- semblfng of the convention.
 The situation made by the final act of the Committee on Resolutions, at the close of its sixteen hours session, was anticipated and fOreseen by nobody in St. Louie or elsewhere prior to the net itself.
 From the time of the assembling of the Committee on Res0Iutions until af- CT the Convention had finally acted by rntifying the stand taken by Judge Parker in his dispatch to William F. Sheehan, by that vote of 774 to 181, Judge Parker had no communication whatsOever, with any leader of the New York delegation, with any leader in the convention, with any person of that convention, or with any person i'm the East on eny matter which could he construed as political.
 The action of the Committee on Res- Olutions on the Sth was not final and conclusive. Before its report was made
 
 sary for the convention to approve and adopt 1t. It was widely known that ont one man, hut several, stood ready to offer a resolution in the convention affirming the establishment of the gold standard if there should be q failure upon the part of the Committee to do Not until the afternoon of Friday did any one, even in St. Louis, know what the platform would he. And what was not known fin St. Louis could not have been known elsewhere.
 Judge Parker did not have and could not have had knowledge of the events as they developed on Friday and Fri day night in St. Louis, until about o'clock Saturday morning, when sew erai reporters informed him of his nomination.. But not until 8 o'clock that morning did he learn the history of the money question, and then from the morning papers which reached him at that hour.
 Though Judge Parker did know that his name would be presented to the convention for consideration. he did rot know that he would be its nomi- nee. At this time, when the over whelming strength of the sentiment in his favor is realized, it may appear as if every one should have known what the result would be. Before the dem onstration. however, it was by no means certain. At no time did Judge Parker by word or act assume that he was to be the nominee. Assump-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
THE TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY
 OF JUDGE PARKER'S GOLD TELEGRAM


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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
Found Remain. of Dinosaur.

Miles City, Mont. Sept 2.-w. 1T. Utterback, representing the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburg. Pa, has arrived in town with portions of petrihed dinosaur. called the Triceratorps. which were exhumed on Hill Creek, In Dawson County. The load weighed 2.500 pounds. The remaining portions will weigh about the same and it will take until fall to excavate them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
MACON AND ATLANTA t
 VIA A. BIRMINGHAM.
Senfemher Rfh.

On Tuesday September 9th. the At. lantic and Birmingham Railway VIII operate another of it's popular person. ally conducted excursions to Macon and Atlanta. The round trip fare from Thomasville to Macon will be $2.50; to Atlanta, $4.00. Tickets will be good returning up to and including Satur- day, September 10th. Special train will leave Thomasville TAO a. m, running through to Macon and Atlanta via Montezuma and the Central of Georgia Railway without change adv--tf.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

High grade half tones and zinc etch- ings for all commercial purposes. Tho Advertiser Engraving Co.,, Advertiser Building. Phone Ss7. v. H. Hanson. Mgr. adv-tf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

The last fiscal year Spain imported S172.735. .000 worth of all sorts of pro- ducts and exported $164.90o.000 de- cided increase over any years show
 ing since the war with this country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

The longest stretch of straight-away railway without curve, cutting. or em- baukment is a section of 211 miles of the Argentine Pacific Railway from Buena Ayres to the foot of the Andes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

Today there are still on the pension rolls the names of two widows and three daughters of Revolutionary sol diers who served .in 17S3. and as relics of the war of 1872 we have one soldier and 1,500 widows of soldiers.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28
Gold swens.

'These millions will sweat them
selves considerably in the hold Of the
ship" said mint official as he super
intended the slowing Of an export OF
gold.
Gold sweats," he resumed, "and It
sweats particularly hard at sea. When
this gold reaches the other side it will
be little lighter than 1t is now IL an
inexperienced hand should weigh 1t
over there he would say that some OF
il had been stolen. 1t won't be handled
in Europe by the inexperienced though.
1t will be handled by men who will
know just what allowance to make for
sweat.
Gold sweat-the phrase has an at
tractive sound. Ell? If you and could
sneak down into this ships hold each
day of the coming voyage. If we could
gather up the sweat from the gold be-
fore 1t evaporated and was lost, would
that be stealingi
well, anyway, gold does not sweat
visibly. Its sweat Is impalpable, and
you can't collect II. Attrition 10 the
name given to 1t by the scientists"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28
The RnlInnn nlnn4

One of the curious devices of nature
for scattering seeds Is seen in the bal
loon plant of California. The fruit
is yellow and is little larger than an
egg. 1t has the appearance of an emp
ty bag, but 1t contains watery sub
stance, which evaporates or dries up
when the fruit natures. sort of gas
taking Its place. This gas. is lighter
than air, and the fruit dips back and
forth in the wind until 1t finally breaks
loose from its slender stem, rises into
the air to height OF from seventy five
to hundred feet, and sails away to
fall in some distant spot and thus ex
tend the growth OF it's kind.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28

As an example of the humble atti-
tude OF the Japanese wife Mrs. Hugh
Fraser relates this incident: "A mid
die aged man on the upper floor was
suffering terribly from heat. and his
little wife seemed greatly distressed
about him. All the screens had been
opened. but it was GREATNESS day.
and no breeze came to ring the little
glass bells on the hanging fern wreath
ON the veranda. The man sat with
his head I'm his hands grooming. while
madam, kneeling on the mats behind
him, famed his back and from time
to time rubbed him down with blue
towel. an expression OF the deepest re-
spect and sympathy on her face When
he seemed little better she busied
herself with preparing ten, which he
drank eagerly and of course made him
self frightfully hot again, when she
went back patiently to her tanning and
rubbing"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28

The scenic tunnel under the Horse
shoe falls of Niagara, which has Just
been completed, was undertaken for
the Niagara falls Queen Victoria park
commission in order to provide per-
fectly safe view of the cataract from
below. A shaft was sunk 127 feet, and
from this tunnel was constructed,
curving out under the Horseshoe falls
BOO feet. From this laterals were run
into the gorge, where large observation
rooms will be constructed of glass
where tourists can sit in easy chairs
and look out A large electric elevator
has been put into the shaft, and from
the bottom a large board walk has
been constructed to the mouths of the
various tunnels.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28

TIE MILK SICK WEED.
Mysterious and Deadly Plant That
Grows In Tennessee.

Myw0GEAOu@ ana D&A0Ay RANT Vh@t
Grows In Tennessee.
From time to time in the past FIVE
decades Tennesseeans have been STIR
red to profound sense OF interest in
the states mysterious malady, milk
sickness" as its deadly temperance
In certain sections Of the state has been
followed by fatal results to human be-
ings and to stock. No one has ever
discovered the cause of the malady
from which death relieves the victim
after such physical agony as almost
deprives the human species of the pow
er Of speech, and dumb brutes express
their sufferings by frenzied search for
water to cool the thirst which con-
sumes them. Once by stream they
plunge or fall into 1t and quickly drink
themselves to death.
The fatal sickness is known to linn
tied extent in several sections Of the
state, but exists principally near Spar
Ia, In White county. 1t is contracted
through drinking the milk Of the cows
that have eaten certain weed known
as the milk sick weed" which looks
somewhat like clover and grows thickly
on the infested land. But what consti-
tutes the poison in the weed is no more
determined today than 1t was when
first located by the keen witted, ma
ture wise mountaineers, who have been
Its chief victims. 1t has been ascribed
ut various times to minerals whose
poison is absorbed In the roots Of the
milk sick" plant, to vapor from
some fungous growth and to the action
Of the dew producing, in connection
with the life of the plant, a certain
poisonous acid. But all OF these the
cries have failed under tests applied
by practical science. On the largest in
eected section known to exist In the
limits of the state, MIX Sick noun
TAIN" In White county, no mineral
whatever exists. Cattle which ate the
milk sick weed" after the dew had
dried died in agony just as those who
ate 1t when the dew was fresh and
sparkling, and the strictest search fail
ed to find any fungous growth what
ever.-Louisville Courler-Journal.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28
Minninninni Pearls.

The story of the fresh water pearl
fishing in the Mississippi and its trib-
ntaries sounds like a tale from 1.-THE
Arabian Nights" Since 1900 more
than S3,000,000 worth of pearls have
been taken, II Is said, from the waters
Of the Mississippi valley, chiefly In the
southern section. A boy found but
ton shaped pearl near Muscatine, Ia.
1t weighed 1853 grains and was beau
ty, and he sold 1t to a dealer in gems
Tor $2,188. The dealer sold 1t In New
York later for $4,000. 4 One sky blue
pearl from Caney Fork, Tenn, brought
e3, 300 in London. A pearl from the
Black river, Arkansas, which man
who was fishing for bait found acci-
aentaily, brought $4,000. And so on.
Ehellfish abound In the inland lakes OF
the Adirondacks, and II is said that the
quest for pearls is to be begun there.
Experts expect the search will be re-
warded by large and valuable find.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28
Elephant sausage.

In those lands where horses are the
food OF men all manner of flesh goes
the way of the sausage machine. Re
Gently there had to be slaughtered at
Client an elephant well known In Bel
GUM by the name of Jack, the last In
habitant of the geological garden, and
his flesh, which is stated to have
weighed $500 pounds, or nearly two
tons. all went to the sausage makers.
In addition there were 100 pounds of
bone; head, $50 pounds; heart, 30
pounds; liver. 100 pounds: tongue. 80
pounds; skin, 1000 pounds. and Wis.,
eera, 600 pounds.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28

During the rebellion which occurred
in Ireland in 1898. or II may be I'm
1903, Kilkenny was garrisoned by a
troop of Hessian soldiers who anus
ed themselves In barracks by tying
two cats together by their tails and
throwing them across clothesline TO
fight. The officer, hearing of the cruel
practice, resolved to stop 1t. AS he
entered the room one OF the troopers,
seizing sword, cut the tails In two
as the animals hung across the line.
The two cats escaped, minus their tails
through the open window, and when
the officer inquired the meaning OF the
two bleeding tails being left in the
room he was coolly told that two cats
had been fighting and had devoured
each other, all but the tails.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28

According to European folklore,
the clouds OF the heavens were nothing
but cows who were invested with the
duties of psychopomp. At times these
clouds descended to the earth and as
sumed their bovine garb, but their
duty remained the same; hence the SUI
perstition prevalent in many agricul-
tural countries that a COW breaking
into D garden foretells death in the
family. The psychopomp was merely
looking for a soul to escort to the here
after
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28

Few persons have any idea OF the ex-
iraordinary manner in which the popu-
lation of Europe has increased during
the last century. According to stats
ticians, this population, assuming It to
have been 1000 in 1900, had increased
by the year 1900 to 2.14S. In other
words, 1t had more than doubled itself
within hundred years. To this In.
crease the Latin nations of the west
and southwest contributed the least,
and the greatest growth was In the
east, where the people have not yet be-
come thoroughly saturated with the
Ideas of modern civilization. New
York Herald
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28
poiaon ivy.

There are so many cases OF poisoning
from Rhus toxicodendrum, or poison
Ivy, every year that the caution to
beware of 1t can hardly be repeated
too often. Remember this: Poison Ivy
has three leaflets and berries of dirty
white color. Virginia creeper, which
20 much resembles poison ivy in habit
Df growth and general appearance, has
Owe leaflets and purple berries. Just
10 bear In mind this simple distinction
makes all the difference between safe
b and suffering.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28

An old woman In Cincinnati brought
wornout Bible to a publishing house,
explaining that it had been in her fam
lily 200 years. She asked the publisher
to make her new one just like 1t. add
ing that she was then going to market
and would stop for the new Bible on
her way home, winding up with
query as to how much 1t would be.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28
upn and Downn.

Lady fwho is on visit to her native
town. How is Mrs. Gabb? | haven't
seen her in long time. Hostess She
is having her usual ups and downs.
Lady Visitor And what may that be.
pray? Hostess oh, running up bills
and running down her neighbors.--
Town and Country.