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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-05-03

Lancaster, April 26.-There were no
special develo opmeuts today in the mat.
ter of the arrests of persons charged
with the Kershaw lynching. General
indignation is expressed at the idea
that military company may be sent
here on Friday tor the preliminary
hearing. Sheriff Hunter says he is not
the officer referred to in publication
today as proposing to have the military
on hand. he is confident of his ability
to preserve the peace, and he, in COM
mon with other representative citizens,
think that to send a military company
here would be reflection on Lancas-
ter's good name. Magistrate Casker
saws he would resign before be would
hold the preliminary under military
guard, Sheriff Bunter was called to
Chester this evening by Solicitor
Henry.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-05-03
LYNCHERS ARRESTED.
Several Prominent Citizens of Kershaw
Placed Under Arrest-A Sensa-
ton Sprung.

Lancaster, Auril 25.-Greatly to the
surprise of all this section several ar
rests have been made in the case OF
the lynching which occurred at Ker-
shaw, this county, last October. The
men arrested are the most prominent
and influential men of Lancaster coun-
ty. They are:
John T. Stevens, manager of the
Kershaw Mercantile and Banking CO.
Stewart w. Heath, president and
manager of the Heath Supply CO.
S. w. Welch, also with the Heath
Supply Co., and son of the mayor OF
Kershaw.
Frank Hough, a beer dispenser and
member of a prominent family.
The arrests of the above were made
in Chester, where the men had gone
on business last night.
Warrants are also out for the fol-
lowing citizens of Kershaw; S. L.
Gardner, Jr., Burwell Truesdale, Hen
ry J. Gardiner, John Holden, VIM.
Croxton. Sr., w. E. Belk, Tom Jones'
J. W. Austin, and others. 1t is lle-
derstood that there are 40 warrants in
all, Is Of the men accused living in
the town of Kershaw and the other
in the country. Two other white men
and a negro are already in jail on this
charge. The warrants charge the par
ties with completely in the lynching OF
Morrison at Kershaw in October.
The warrants were sworn out be-
fore Magistrate W. P. Caskey several
days ago by H. B. Howie, a special
detective. The four men named above
had no notice of the intended arrest,
it is stated, and had gone to Chester
on personal business when the war
rants were served. All the parties
against whom warrants have been TAX
en- out will be on hand at the pre-
liminary which will be held by Mag
istrate Caskey Friday morning at this
place. 1t is understood that the citi-
zens Of the town Of Kershaw VIII sus-
pend business and charter a SPECIAL
train and take all who wish to go
free to Lancaster to attend the hear
ing. There is great confidence among
the people of Kershaw that the
charges will amount to nothing and
that the citizens will soon be at lib
erty. although it is intimated in some
quarters that one Of the number has
turned states evidence. The case has
been worked up by Detective Howie
and W. H. Newbold Of Chester. There
are large number Of affldavits upon
which the arrests were made.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-05-03

6-inch guns; coast defence vessel Sc
vianine GS94,3 carrying three 10-inch,
four 9-inch and four 6-inch guns;
coast defence vessel Apraxin (1S96,)
carrying three 1o-inch, four 9inch
and four 6-inch guns; balloon ship
Russ, repair ship Nenia and hospital
ship kostroma.
At vladivostock Russia has the
following ships: Armored cruiser
Gromoboi, carrying four S-inch, 16
6-inch, 20 12-pounders; armored crui-
sers Rossia, carrying four S-iEch, 16
6-inch and u 12-pounders, and the
- e-inch and y 12-pounder guns.
The condition of these ships for
fighting efficiency is uncertain; the two
former We're badly mauled in the en-
gagement Of Aug. Il, 1904, with Ad-
miral Kamarlura's squadron, where
their sister ship, the armored cruiser
Rurik, was sunk. The Bogaytr ran
ashore on a rocky point near Vladi-
vostok during the early part of the
war, ripping out large part of her
bottom, under her boilers and lifting
the latter, probably not in good con-
dition for steaming.
The japanese have seven unprotect-
ed cruisers of 1900 to 1.SOo tons, and
seven gun boats of 900 to 1000 tons.
Their fighting value is small, most OF
them being old.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-05-03
Great Boring Machines.

Four of the big shields to be used
in boring the great tunnels of the
Pennsylvania railroad between the
Hudson and East rivers in its costly
entrance into New York city are fast
approaching completion at the Leets-
dale Works Of the Riter-Conley Man.
ufacturing Company. The companys 8
workmen have been engaged upon
these for months, and the task was so
unusual even for a company accus-
toned to handling great things that
special air-driven tools for the boring
and roaming of the steel had to be
made.
The boring machines consist OF
enormous steel cylinders twenty-four
feet in diameter and sixteen feet long.
Each cylinder without the machinery
weighs $50 tons, and the machinery
will weigh equally as much as the
shields. The cylinders are made up
Of three thicknesses Of half-inch steel
plates riveted together. Within this
cylinder is s>placed the boring edge Of
cast steel, the diaphrams. air locks,
and other apparatus necessary to drive
the tunnel beneath. the rivers. The
cylinder moves with the cutting edge.
It will be necessary to assemble the
boring machines here and then knock
them down for transit to New York
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-05-03
Eool;shness in indiana.

The average person of common
sense hardly knows whether to laugh
sfse Indiana anti eigarette law, or
set aaig,sant at the makers ard Ell
forcers OF It. II is, Of course. an ah-
ssurd thing, ana If anybodys cares to
carry through a test case it certainly
cannot stand in. any court with an
ounce of ssgumption. . 1t would be
lust as reasonable for the legislature
and the governor to undertake to in
sterdict sstogy cigars, ham sand
s 7wiches and circus lemonade, all OF
which are more or less harmful if they
are not taken into the system with
Z due regard for gastronomic laws and
conditions. The Indiana legislature
should uext provide for special po-
lice supervision over nocturnal res
taurants where corn beef and cabbage
are served after midnight. Partakers
of such provender should be kept
moving till daylight, since it requires
about four hours for cabbage to di-
gese. There should also be close ex-
animation, by a responsible officer of
the cast-iron doughnut counters in the
station restaurants. and cheap joints
where enough eggs are cooked at one
boiling to last for a fortnight. This
Job might be assigned to the governor
himself, who is understood to be an
enthusiast for the anti-cigarette law.
It might be even argued that there is
no other field in which The present dis
tinguished executive could be so faith
full and useful Seriously, the anti
cigatrette law is piece of folly that
will rapidly die out. It is pity,
though, that the good people Of so
great a state as Indiana must live un-
der the humiliation Of having legis-
Iative power so rivolous--cincinnati
Enquirer
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The Commonwealth Of Insurance.


Mr. Samuel E. Mofett, writing Tor
CoiIer's of April % on .'The Empire
OF Insurance Billions, . says:
.sThe nearest approach hto that Co
operative Commonwealth of which the
Socialists dream has been made theo-
retically in the business of life 1nsur-
ance. Here are the most gigantic
combinations of capital in the world,
with the widest diffusion Of ownership.
It IS safe to say that a clear majority
of the sixteen million families in the
q United states are joint owners OF the
insurance capital Of the country, con-
stituting the most colossal co-opera-
tive Organization ever built UP in the
world history
Any Wild notions about the danger
TO the policy-holders may be dismiss
ed at once. These huge American in
surance companies are now the
strongest financial powers on earth
very much stronger and more solid
than the Bank OF England. Their fail
- r1re would be inconceivable. Now that
the business has passed the perils of
infancy, life insurance companies in
America do not fail. If Lawson's
alarm bell and the Hyde-Alexander
mud batteries should put an instant
ston TO the issuance Of new policies,
and If half the present policy holders
should drop out, the businese would
go oa without a jar, automatically
providing for the remainder. Che sys-
TEN is inpregnable.
Nor is the speculative element in
s insurance investment altogether bad
thing for the policy-holder # the
companies were restricted, as the Mu-
tua1 was by its original charter, to
mortgage on real estate in New York,
United States o,lds, and New York
State and city bonds, their returns
would be so small that the policy
holders would have to pay considera-
Oily higher premiums for the same
amount Of insurance, and the field
OF possible Investment would soon be
exhausted. The restrictions Of the
savings bank law would have a similar
amect. Under the present arrange
nents there is a certain amount Of
gambling, but It is gambling with
soaded dice. The insurance compa-
mes are not at the mercy Of the mar
they control it.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-05-03

The czar thinks it would injure t4le
prestige of the Russian arms If he
made peace; but we can assure him
that everybody outside of Russia
knows what has happened to the Rus
sian army in Manchuria-Memphis
Commercial-Appeal.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
LITERARY WORKS OF JOHN HAY
TO BE PUBLISHED BY lis DAUGHTER

The country approves of John Hays
selection of his literary executor. The
work of preparing the former states
mans papers for publication was be-
queathed by him to his daughter Mrs.
Payne Whitney, who was Miss Helen
Hay. She has Inherited much of the
high literary talent of her father and
has been frequent contributor to the
leading periodicals of both prose and
verse. 1t will be her pleasant duty to
prepare for publication the many un-
printed manuscripts from Mr.. Hays
facile pen.
Mrs. Whitney's first published vol
ume of her own was collection or
poems which appeared in 1898. Quite
lately, and principally through the in
fiuence of her children. she has col
lected a series Of charming stories for
little folks. Many of these have at
tracted critical attention through their
easily recognized smack of childhood's
hours. AS a possible explanation OF
how she was able to portray things so
genuinely from the childish standpoint
she has said that she has endeavOred
always when writing them to bark
back to the scenes of her own child
hood, and to assist her recollection and
Imagination she has thrown herself on
the floor with pencil and tablet, getting
as near actually as possible to the
youngsters point of view.
At the National Capital Miss Hays
true worth made her a great favorite.
and both there and in London her
learning, wide reading and ready SYM
pathy with her father made her of
great assistance TO him i'm his work.
Her husband, Mr.. Payne Whitney, was
a classmate Of her brother, the late
Adelbert Hay.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20

son avenue and it is long block from
the park. But it is on the "east side"
and fashionable. The third street be-
yond it is roaring day and night with
the flight of the elevated trains, and
beyond that lies one of the poorest sec
tions of New York City, where the
children swarm like ants.
West of Central Park, the apartment
buildings are still bigger, not so eXclu-
sive. and the prices are lower. On
Broadway, above Columbus Circle, or
Fifty-ninth street, where the Park be-
gins, fairly comfortable seven-room
apartment in one of the smaller build
ings. without elevators, may be had
for 500 a month and upward. In the
bigger twelve and fifteen story struc-
lures, where the apartments range
from eight to twelve rooms. rents run
from $500 a year up to $1,000 or
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20

miliar surroundings; here are the
square-built palaces of Vienna and
Budapest. The Russian suffers no
inconsistencies here are the narrow
streets of st. Petersburg and Moscow
Only the native American, with his
lungs full of country air, and his mind
filled with the picture of sunny, cot
tage-lined village streets, stiles in the
dust and noxious gases, gapes wonder
struck at the sky-scrapers.
Fit Only for Paupers and Minionaires
1t is these new comers, too, who do
their share toward changing the ap-
pearance of the city. Wherever they
congregate, and the migratory impulse
seems to CARRY them no further than
the foreign sections of the cities in
which they land. they make life intol-
cradle for the American-born, and thus
drive out the moderately prosperous
from the less expensive localities, until
ii is only the paupers and the million
aires who can afford to live in New
York.
Seven thousand dollars a year for an
apartment in New York is not, by any
means, the highest price. There are
buildings on Fifth, Park, and Madison
avenues between 59th and 10th streets
in which some of the apartments rent
for $4,000 a year. Yet, with the ex-
ception of Fifth avenue which runs
along the east side of Central Park,
these avenues are not particularly beau
tiful. The electric cars run ON Madi-
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20

room and kitchen. All light rooms, the
says. The dining-room
is very pretty. There
is big square alcove window, but
coming up in front of it to darken the
meal hours is another big steel and
stone structure. The bedrooms look
out over the city, but already the con-
tractors are tearing down the neigh
boring houses and the blank white wall
of still another giant hive will soon
shut the air and light from the Sleep
ing rooms.
Washington is a city of such mag
nificent distances that people who
could otherwise afford to build in the
suburbs are obliged 10 move into apart
ments in order to be near enough to
their offices TO insure punctuality in
business hours. In addition, for some
unaccountable reason, property even on
the outskirts of the capital is by no
means cheap.
Chicago has a passion for fat life
and sky-scrapers. Even San Francisco,
the city of shingles, is turning her
streets into canyons of brick and NOR
tar.
The American traveller who asks
why" of the monotonOus streets of
Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Madrid. that
stretch between endless walls broken
only by window or fantastic balcony
may find the answer In the changing
character of his own cities-saving of
space, money, time.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
Ben Butler and New Orleans.

From the Buffalo Express.
1t would have done Ben Butler good
if he could have lived to see the day
when New Orleans would welcome
Federal control of yellow fever
epidemic with such enthusiasm that
the citizens themselves would raise by
popular subscription the money to pay
for it as was recently done. General
Butler established Federal control of
sanitation as of everything else in New
Orleans during the war. He was
rOundly abused for it, but he proved
the efficacy of cleanliness and strict
quarantine in preventing yellow fever.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
Heading orr Lotteries.

Information has been received at
the Post Office Department alleging
that lottery ticket selling is again
nourishing in the United States.
which has led to an investigation and
recommendation of 4 fraud order
against T.. BogelSang. of Hamburg.
Germany. who is stated To be conduct
ing i'm the United States the Hamburg
state Lottery. the brunswick state
Lottery and the IIessian state Lottery.
Circulars intercepted at the New York
Post Office, apparently mailed at
Hamburg, solicit remittances for ticket
drawings in the above lotteries ana
direct that remittanccS Ice made I"
Rogelsang. at Hamburg.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20

the fifty years of his absence. He
asked her to write. Mrs. Moir did
write at once. She. too, had kept the
photograph of young Clay which he had
given to her when boy. Further let
ters followed She had no children,
while all of Mr.. Clay's children had
homes of their own.
Forgot That They Grew Old.
Throughout the correspondence the
two old people remembered each other
as they were in their young days ana
from their photographs. Neither pic
tured the other as old-thcy were again
the swecthearts Of their youth. And
then it was arranged that they should
be married. Mrs. Moir, siXty-three
years old, started West to meet her fu-
ture husband. Reaching Omaha. she
received two kilograms. one that he
was very sick, and as she was prepar-
ing to hasten to his bedside another
came saying that he was dead The
old lady was stricken with grief and
taken seriously i'll. As soon as she is
able to travel she will visit the grave
of the man whom she says she has
loved all her life.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20

$1,000, at least. In the best known of
these creamy white fifteen-story
building. adorned with innumerable
grilled iron balconies painted green,
one may secure a bachelor suite, con-
sisting of parlor bedroom and bath.
unfurnished, for the mere pittance of
$1,000 year.
Tiny Hives for Homes.
On Riverside Drive rates are lower.
The Drive is the most beautiful resi-
dence street in the city. but it is far
from Fifth avenue, and the wind blow
ing in over five miles of bay and river is
distressingly harsh during the winter.
Here for $1,S00 one may find an apart
ment comprising parlor, Il library (by
courtesy SO called), three bedrooms,
bath, dining-room, pantry, servants
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
MAGAZINE SECTION.
MODERN CLIFF JEWELLERS.
THE SKY SCRAPERS OFBIG CITIES
TAKING PLACE OF HOMES.
Not Only Used for Office Buildings,
But Occupied by Thousands of
Families.

Not Only Used for Office Buildings,
But Occupied by Thousands of
Families.
When the United States Consul in
Europe says to his visiting countryman,
Come over to my house this afternoon
and have a cup of tea with u.s." the
listener makes Il careful memorandum
of the address. and towards five O'Clock
goes out in search of an unpretentious
dwelling such as the modest salary of
consul might warrant. What he
finds at the address given him is big
square building, into which he is ad-
mitted by an unseen porter, and the
innumerable stairs of which he climbs,
examining brass doOrplates at every
landing, until at last he comes to the
apartment of his host.
Mr.. w. j. Bryan, on his recent trip
abroad, finding one of our Ambassa
dors similarly lodged, the only differ
ence being the increased rental, in
Weighed against it as being un-Ameri-
can. lie wanted to know why a nice
American home wasn't provided-such
house as would give the unlucky for
eigner some idea of how we live in
America. Mr.. Bryan overlooked the
fact that in our own big cities his
ideal American home" is rapidly dis
appearing, and that long before our
metropolis is One-tenth the age of the
European capitals, increase of popula-
tiOn and greater need for economy will
have rendered unattainable the mod
est individual home, and will have
driven city dwellers together under one
roof in apartment houses whose size
is limited only by the confines of the
block and the building laws regulating
height.
Private Homes Disappearance:
Twenty-Five years ago the New
Yorker who possessed an annual in
come of $4,000 lived in his own house
and kept a carriage. The New Yorker
of to-day with only $4,000 a year
hunts an apartment for the mere rent
of which he expects to pay not less
than $1,S00, and he cannot afford a
carriage. The trouble is that on the
island of Manhattan there is not room
for its millions to live in the old-fash- |
iOned way and the cost of living has
increased enormously.
They must suspend their dwellings
high above the ground, every foot OF
which is worth kings ransom. |
There is no room for the stately homes |
of revolutionary days-they are swept |
away for the warehouses of great mer-
camille companies. There is no room
for the smaller brick houses of the past
generatiOn-their fronts are pulled off
and replaced with the immense plate
glass windows of the exclusive import |
ers." There is no room for churches
they are torn down to make space for
annexes to the mammoth apartment
houses.
New York, which offers the best eX-
ample of the metamorphosis, is, of
course, the most un-American of Amer
lean cities. The Italian walking up
from the Battery finds himself at
home; here are the high tenements of
Naples, Genoa, Venice. The Austrian
and the Hungarian land among IA
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
Country Merchants Forced Our.

"ThiS means" continues the
Trade. drought down to bare facts,
a parcels post. 1t means that the big
mail order houses will be enabled To
send their goods 10 farmers through
the mails at cost so little that it will
he absolutely impossible for the coun-
try merchant 10 compete.
"The result will be one or more big
department stores, according 10 the
size of the place. in each town in coun-
try districts. ana these will have a
hard time 10 compete with the mail
order houses. even though they VIII
be able TO get their goods in large
quantities at first hand.
1T is. therefore. at once apparent
that il is aS much 10 the interest Of
the manufactures and wholesaler to
fight the parcels post scheme rs it Is
for the small merchant
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
Japanese Reason for Success.

Baron Komura ascribes the success
which Japan has had TO just cause,
absolute honesty in the administra-
tion of her affairs, and extreme SIM
plicity of life among the masses Of her
people.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
Danger in Door Knobs.

A dirty door knob, says the Lancet"
is an obvious offense against sanitary
principles. Constant contact with the
hand means contamination sooner or
later. 1t is conceivable that dirty
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
Corks Made From Oil.

From the Washington Post
The MELONS. PittShurg bankers.
started an opposition To the Standard
Oil Trust, and were promptly plugged.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20

loor-handle would convey disease, and
there is thus ample reason why door
handles should be kept as clean as
possible.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-20
PART ,.
THR PARCELS POT.
MOVEMENT TO SECURE ENACT
MENT or SCCH 4 LAW.
1t Would Drive to the Wall all Local
Stores-A Mooted Question Mheth-
er Mail Order Houses Are Real
Benefits.

Stores-A Mooted Question Mheth-
er Mail Order Houses Are Real
Benefits.
The est. Paul Trade" sharply disa-
grees with Ebert Hubbard in his
ideas of the value to the country of
parcels post system. Mr.. Hubbard
writes convincingly i'm the "Philistine"
that the parcels post would be a splen-
did thing for the country at large, but
the "St. Paul Trade afiirms that such
a system would result in an enormous
concentration and congestion of busi-
ness in the few large cities which
would entirely drive out of business,
not only the small merchant. but even
the department stores. The "Trade'
says:
THE great mail order houses Of the
country. selling direct To the customer,
are behind Il manufacturing organiza-
tion which has started at work an
endless chain scheme to secure the
united support of the manufacturers
and wholesalers of the entire country
for an amendment To the postal laws,
providing for two classes of mail mat
ter. one. the first class. to consist of
letter postage at one cent and the sec
ond class To consist of all other classes
of mailable matter at a rate just sufii-
cient TO pay expenses.