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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-05-03

Miss Matte Lyon, who is as
amiable and lovable as shu is
beautiful, closed her school near
Wedgefeld in Samter county on
Friday last and cas- come home
to spend the summer vacation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-05-03

Miss Rhett Sheppard is sojourn-
ing this week with friends in the
capital city. From there she will
attend the State Federation OF
Wnmen'a clubs in, Union, and
thence to the musical festival in
Spartanburg. She willremain i'll
the latter city uutil the gradua-
lion of ber sister, Miss Maxcle,
y he completes the full course at
Converse this year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

the place ot admiration; for the tactics Of the battlefield as taught at these maneuvers are pronounced to be those of a past age and utterly unfitted to the requirements of the present day. 4 firing line seven or eight desp, he says. with supports advancing within effective artillery range in fours, or even in quar,er-column, forced one al- most to the conclusion that tine wars in South Africa and Manchuria were a dream. not reality. Battalions of infantry c,:arsing forward to the att tack with the band playing, regiments of cavalry galloping about in squad ron column, artillery retiring under close range infantry fire al q walk, generals attended by enormous staffs riding gently to and fro in the deadli- est zones. made a martial picture in- deed, but a hopelessly bad imitation Of the reality of the modern battlefield
 The reason given for this perform ance is decidedly interesting. The writer says: The fact is. the German officers do not trust their men. They despair of turning them into soldiers, so they turn them into automatons in- stead. To achieve this end their whole system is deliberately framed; it is based upon distrust of the material out of which they are asked in two years to make the military pawns which their stategists know so we'll how to move on the board. The object of th=ir drill and their iron discipline is to hammer into a man during peace l time, not intelligence or fighting in- 1 stincts, but habits of unreasoning obedience, in the hope that these hab- it's will become a second nature to him, and in battle prove stronger than fear. | By clinging to the close formations, which alone make minimizing obedi- ence possible, they practically admit that the hope is vain. The automaton
 cannot go forward in battle unless he is within reach of his company com mander; he ceases, moreover, to be an automaton at all directly the herding into close order with other automatons 1 is dissolved.
 Perhaps when the test comes the
 German army will be found to be be- hind the times, and what a surprise
 such a finding would be.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27
GENTLE.

The gentle reader would not always remain so if the author were within reacb.-Puck.
 Lieutenant A.-"Were there any lions at the judges reception?" Lieutenant B-"Yes, and he fed them--with daugh- ters. .'-Translated for Tales. r,,
 Jealous Husband-'I want you to paint my wife's portrait all right, but if you don't stop squinting at her that way every other minute I'll punch your head. .'-Translated for Tales:
 Dr. Lubbig had passed on, and many of his patients were employing Dr. Pond. A little girl who had a good many brothers and sisters, proudly an- nounced to a neighbor: ''We have a new baby at our house." "A new baby ? Where did you get it?" Well, we used to take from pr. Lubbig; now we take from Dr. Pond. Life.
 "Yes," said the beginner at golf, tell ing his troubles. "the caddy was so sarcastic and impertinent I felt like cracking him over the head"
 "Well, why didn't you?" asked his friend. 4
 q would have done it, but you see, I didn't know which would be the proper club to use for that purpose ''-PhiTa- delphia Press.
 Young TIuggins (timerouslyl-"Ro I was going to-er-er-ask your father
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27
4 rHronE ANp 4 coNDITIoy.

They have some municipal ownership of public utilities in Boston. and though they like sounding phrases there they are not stuck on the public printing utility. The Press and Print CT there describes the situation: Clerk Campbell of tine superior civil court has stopped giving the printing for his department to the city printing plant. Last year the printing bill Of the department was el4,OO0. and MT. Campbell says the work can be done much cheaper by a private concern. Every possible effort has been made to make the Boston municipal printing plant a business success. Some of the city's ablest men of business, serving as trustees without pay, have devoted time and energy to make the plant at least self-supporting. If the action of Mr. Campbell is. to any degree, indica- tive of affairs in general in connection with the city's printing business, it shows plainly that the last of the mu- nicipally-owned utilities of Boston is travelling on very rough road.
 Little things like this don't discourage those who know that municipal owner ship of public utilities is a success. They know, and that's cnough--for 1 them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27
WHICH IS WHICH?

What is truth?" said testing Pilate. So might anybody say in earnest while reading about the new and studying woman. First and most we are told that she is great student, and there is fear that she will study so hard that she will cease to be a real woman, such as men think they like. Just as men get thoroughly scared by the prospect along comes a professor in co-educa- tional college and says the other thing He has taught there dozen years, and at first was strong advocate of the system. Now he says he would like to see. women banished from the universi- ty, or would like to receive a call to 8 mans university. And the reason he gives is what he calls the American woman's passion for turning everything into a social affair This, in his opin- ion, dominates the situation. He is sure that usually the woman student has mo genuine intellectual interests, no enthusiasm for knowledge that would lead her to make great sacrif1- ces,' and he describes her position as that of being sent to the university as she was formerly sent to the finishing school. This professor describes in de- tail the social functions of the women s side of the college, the development of the taste for formal society, the dress parade, as he regards it, and closes with the declaration that the few who can take high rank as students will before long go abroad, where wom- en students really apply themselves to study and do not think about society at the same time.
 Can and do such things be? Isn't woman losing her real grip? We feel like saying oh joy, and we would say it if we knew the professor wasn't preiudiced.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27


 It is only when We see him tEudging by the knife grinders cart that We realize our mistake.
 We have favorites among those itin- erant merchants, those whom it is hard to turn away. so that We some times rather load ourselves up with eels or egs and butter because We can not say No to tn little mahogany aced old women.
 Occasionally we get other things than provisions. Yesterday it was a couple Of plausible fellows. gipsy faced children of the sun with a long cart full of chairs. the new varnish all gleaming in tine sun. They leap on the chairs to prove that they are ''trts solide," and an excellent test it is' for they are great and brawny, even by those sons of Anak, our fishermen. Or it is a tied-up bundle of silk bed spreads and embroidered table centers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

she thanks us volubly-at least Be take it to be thanks-and we notice that she lays aside our selection of a caterpiIlar-ridden lettuce for better one. At Tuesdays market she takes charge of us. We see her watching over us from afar. Not any longer does she pick for us the hardest and greenest peaches.
 Thsre is a delightful little old woman who comes from Cape GTisnes with a donkey cart full of butter and eggs. The butter, swathed in cabbage leaves under a white cloth, is delicious, past the best Devon of London shops. The eggs are brown and new laid. with three or four warm eggs on a platter, asking a few sous.
 Again, there are those who appear at the door with a shrieking and misera- ble bullet, or duck, with its legs tied together. Or the baker, like conjur- CT. will produce a rabbit from amid his lon, brown loaves. Go, again, there is the woman with gateaux, her little brown face in it's wide frilled white cap as brown, golden brown, as her wares.
 Once there is a misunderstanding. The boy of the knife grinder has been hanging enraptured over the oyster man as he opens the oysters for his customers. Presently the boy appears in our open door. "Combien pour une douzaine?' We say in our halting French. "Un franc quarante," he re- plies. ''Very cheap" we say to each other approvingly, and straightway order two dozen. I've have not got them," he says, shaking his bewildered head. We produce long dish and thrust it under his nose. His bewilderment but increases. Pantomime fails. He leaves us at last still shaking his head. Those mad English! he says to himself, doubeless,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27
THE GERMiN ARMY.

Isn't the German army what it has been cracked up to be? A correspond ent of the London Spectator, who saw the maneuvers on the Rhine last month, says it isn't. For the efficiency of the general staff of the German ar- my, it's science, businesslike oXacti- tude, intelligence and professional skill, perfection of drill, discipline and organization, in short. for it's manner of carrying out all the details which have to do with the bringing of an ar my into coi,tac: with an enemy, he has only words of praise. When this point is reached, however, anlazement takes
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

tonight for your sisters hand in mar riage. What do you think he will say?" Herr Lit1le Brother-"O5. he'll say Thank you! unless he's so rattled that he forgets it. But. now, don't be mad if it slips his mind, for you see how it is.''-Puck.
 No" said the passenger in the seedy suit, business isn't what it used to be. I've sten some pretty bad years, but this is absolutely the worst ever"
 To what do you attribue it?'' asked the passenger with the skull cap.
 'Ruinous competition"
 What is your line of business, may I ask?"
 I'm a rainulaker. Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

costly and beautiful. We have to see to the bottom oE the bundles. although
 re know full well that VIC shah net buy. Madame seems to find it a pleas ure to make the display. When at ast we convey our apologies she an- swers cheerfuIly that 1t Is all in the way of business. "Merci bien, mad aEle." she says. going out. Certainly they sweeten life, those excellent man. mrs Of cur Frsneh neighbors. Katha. rine Tynan in the Pall Mall Gazette
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27
THE EBW CHINA.

The new Chinese minister to France, Liu She-Shun, has been talking freely about the future policy of China to a French journalist. Doubtless, he said, the Chinese are about to Europeanize themselves. The Empress is resolved to, facilitate European enterprises in China, and the emperor is not likely to oppose them when he reigns alone. As to the so-called yellow peril and the million soldiers whom China could arm, he remarked that many are apt to for get the pacific character of the Chinese. In few years China will have an army and navy reorganized on European lines, but for purely defensive purposes. As to the rumors that Japan is resolved country with instructors and even agi- tators, he characterized them as news paper inventions and congregations. Japan and China, he pointed out, are different countries. The Chinese will Europeanize themselves independently of Japanese influence. They are send ing students to Europe, who when ma- tured by experience, will become the advisers of the Crown. There are 50 in France, 50 in Germany, 100 in Ger many, 100 in Belgium, 70 in London, and 10 in Austria, MT. Liu She-Shun is con- vinced that in the near future all China will be opened up 10 foreigners, but the latter, he says. will have to be amen able to the laws of the country, which will be remodeled upon the European pattern. In the new China foreigners would have to abandon the privilege of ex-territoriality which they have en- joyed for so long.
 China is waking up, and when she is fully awake she will be worth atten- tion, and quite likely will demand it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

< Three billions of arsenic tablets were
 swallowed by the people of New Or
 leans and the surrounding section in
 the belief that this deadly poison was "a preventive of yellow fever. The ar- sefic craze was of Minnesota origin,
 having ibeen started by MT. Reginald
 B. Leach Of St. Paul, in 8 letter to d
 New Orleans newspaper. He claimed that arsenic tablets taken three times "a day in one-hundreth-grain doses would prevent yellow fever or render
 an attack very mild. The medical so-
 ciety looked upon the idea as ridicu-
 lous Notwithstanding this hostility,
 popular fancy stampeded toward the
 'panacea" and the people swallowed the idea and twenty-six tons of tablets.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27
"EuthnnasIa |"

Crhere is q revival of the proposition to put incurable sufferers out of their misery by quick and painless death.) If your mothers old and sick,
 Bowed with rheumatiz and liquor, Do not hit her with a brick That will only make her sicker; Creep upon her in the night With an axe, and dc it right If your father has chill, Do not let the old man shlver, Don't prescribe liver pill
 He's not chilly in his liver. Build 8 fire and chuck your pappy Tn the stove, and he'll die happy. If your dear wifes life made sad By large warts on every feature?" That means that her blood is bad She needs to be bled, sweet creature Get a knife-theres, nothing suFer- Cut her throat; and it may cure her.
 Cleveland Leader,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

The question having been asked if musicians are actually laborers, an ex- change answers: Don't know about the others, but the trombone player certainty is.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

Occasionally something is said that ought to be said. For instance, a judge of the Appellate court of Illinois, which last week confirmed a sentence of picketers for violating the law against picketing, said: 'There is no such thing as peaceful, polite and gentlemanly picketing any more than there can be chaste, polite and gentlemanly vulgar ity or peaceful mobbing and lawful lyncling."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

TvesRED BY CARRIERS IN THE ErY. IA GENTS A WEEK. 50 GENTS
 MONTH, sS FOR SIX MONTHS. 50 YA YEAR THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES. 2 cENTa
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

She-"Parents should be careful of the names they give their children He-~'That's right. Many a boy who would have made successful business man has been ruined by having name given him that made him think he hpught to be poet. Rochester Demo- brat and Chronicle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

The mystery surrounding the release from jail of Maxim Gorki, who was ar rested in St. Petersburg as revolu- tionfst, is cleared. The novelist owes his liberty to Count Witte, president of the Council of Ministers, who drew up a report in which the following passage occurs: "A severe sentence or 8 long imprisonment might deprive the world and Russia of a creative genius from whom great things may yet be expect ed, The unprecedented sympathy of which he is the object is a proof of the attention with which the intellectual world follows the development of Rus sia. and of the regard which is felt for the Russian writer outside his own country
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

SsmusM ThuKaGays. One Dollar Ae"H
 ADVERTISING RATES.
 situations. Wants. Rents. and otnet urnaI advertisements. One Cent a Word each insertion. Five Cents word TOT a tnll week
 Display advertisements. per incn' one insertion, S1.2O; each subsequent inssr- ti6p 40 centsi one week. SS,zVs ons
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

James Branch Cabell, the author has been so annoyed lately by in- quiries from strangers as to how he works that he has adopted form of reply which he declares to be effica- cious. 'T find I do my best work" so runs MT. Cabells statement, flying at full length in marble tank filled with gold fish, with the water at tempera- ture of eighty to lessen the heat of in- spiration." As, a matter of fact, Mr. Cabell admits that he does not know his method of composition further than he rarely averages thousand words at a sitting, and that he works only at night.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

Argentine capitalists have obtained from the Bolivian government a con- cession for railroad from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to the Paraguay river, dist ance of 25O miles. The company will build docks and wharves on the river and run steamboats direct to Buenos ,Ayres, down the Paraguay and Parana rivers. The region that will be crossed lis of the richest character. It contains abundance of rubber, timber, cotton, coffee, cocoa, and rice, and has enor- nous pasturage. The climate is healthy and the country is rich in gold, silver, tin, coal and petroleum. The enterprise promsies to be one of the big. gest in South America.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

Burmah is stirred by the question of official dress. The Rangoon Gazette says that the younger generation of native officials, many of them educat- cd in Engand, are wondering whether native or European costume is bet fer for their career. ''If young Bur- nlese official adopts the European cos- .tllnle he is practically zabsolyed from the obligations of showing respect to his superiors in the national fashion. You can hardly expect a young man in correct western attire to take off his shoes, kneel down on the floor, or keep the open palms of his hands clasped on his stomach
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27

aE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB- LasHED IN CONNECTICUT.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-08-05
BUILDING NEW ROADS.

In the MESSENGER to-day the County
Commissioners advertise for proposals
for building a piece of road from Ber-
lin toward Hayes Landing. and a piece
between Snow Hill and Purnell's Mill
Pond.
Thus it will be seen that practical
steps are being taken towards taking
advantage of the State Appropriations
for the building of modern indistructible
roads.
Several other pieces of road have
been petitioned for and surveys have
been made of same, but the plans and
specifications of these are still in the
hands of the State Highway Commits
sion, and the County Commissioners are
not in position to advertise for bids
until they receive word from the Com
mission to do so.
We are sure the Commissioners arc
DESTROYS of seeing good roads construct
ed, and they will do all in their power
to foster the spirit of enterprise mani
tested by the people who are willing to
go down into their own pockets to i'm
prove the public highways. On the 22d
of this month the bids will be received
for the pieces of road advertised, and
then the Commissioners will ascertain
the cost of construction and determine
how far the county can goin the matter.
Good roads mean an increase in the
value of property and corresponding
increase in the county's income.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-08-05

There is not spark of honesty i'm their
contention. Once in the clutches of the
Republican party with registration and
voting made easy for every negro now
in the State and every negro who shall
come into the State, nothing short of
revolution will dislodge it from power.
Maryland will see Saturnalia of cor
ruption and sink into an abyss of de-
gredation and disgrace. This is no fancy
picture. no far-fetched imagining. Such
conditions existed only few years back
in States of this Union. States with a
large negro vote and scheming and de-
signing white men to organize and lead
that vote. We have large negro vote
n Maryland. Have we scheming and
designing white men to organize and
lead it None doubts this The States
which suffered and endured this humili-
alton have adopted measures like that
now proposed i'm Maryland so that it may
not again be their portion. Shall Mary
land suffer and endure as these States
have? Defeat the amendment and
Maryland will surely drink from the
bitter cup. mayhap drain it to the dregs.
Adopt the amendment and put aside the
cup. Adopt the amendment by all means.
-HdgerStorn Mail.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-08-05
WHAT THE PEOPLE ASKED FOR.

Two years ago the Democrats elected
the Governor in this State and an over
whelming majority of the Legislature.
The issue in that campaign was the
negro, and the Democrats promised in
their platform and emphasized it in all
their meetings that they would, ifgiven
the power, pass such legislation as
would limit negro suffrage to the low
est constitutionalpoint. The people took
them at their word on that issue gave
their candidates a majority that proved
that the sentiment of the State was in
favor of reducing the political rights of
the negro.
Agreeable to their promise. and the
pledges of their candidates. the Demo-
Gratis passed the Suffrage Amendment
and now it is before the people for
their ratification. Every man who voted
the Democratic ticket two years ago
upon the issues then presented, became
a sponsor of that amendment, and must.
if he is consistent, vote for it now. 1t
is intended, and does, as far as it is
possible, limit negro suffrage, and car
ries out the wish of the people as ex-
pressed in the election two years ago.
The character of the Amendment
complies strictly with what was prom
Used and authorized, and the only en-
ception ever taken to it was that it did
notcarry aproperty qualification, which
would have been at variance with the
wish and understanding of the public
and contrary to Democratic principles.
Its presentation is a clear discharge
of political promise by the Democrats
and is presented in good faith as being
what the people of the State said they
wanted, and what will prove to be a
political and social boom. -CccH D,mo-
crdt.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-08-05
SPENCE.

Mr.. Fred Pennewell, of Wilmington,
is spending the summer with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Pennewell.
Miss Mamie Givans, of Wilton, is the
welcome guest at the home of her broth
err. Mr.. Ernest Givans.
Mr.. Charlie Griffin, of Newark, made
short visit to our village Monday.
Miss Ethel Guthrie who has been
working in Philadelphia, came Wednes-
day to visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
William Guthrie
The mill owned by Tilghman and Pur-
nell is now being moved to new stand
on the Fairfield Farm, and will be in
working order soon.
Miss Viola Messick, who has been
very sick, is now out again.
Miss Eva Birch, of Newark, is visit
ing her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Birch.
Mrs. George B. Tilghman and chill
dren, of Cape Charles, spent a part of
this week with her aunt, Mrs. James
Pennewell.
Mrs. Sylvester Messick and daughter,
Myra, of Chester, who have been spend
ing some time at the home of Mr..
Jesse Messick, is now visiting friends
in Pocomoke.
A number of our friends enjoyed
themselves at Public Landing Thursday.