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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-13
DARK CoRNER.

Dark Corner, December Swell,
1t is raining and the wind is blow
mg.I will seat myself by the ireside
and write a line or two. There is
nothing Of importance to relate, 1
think, though that we felt an earth
quake here this morning between s
and 9 o'clsck. Something caused my
kitchen to shake while we were at
breakfast, during a lull in the wind.
w. Scott, who lived near Gains
Savannah this year, has moved here
Oh the. Pink Weeks old home place.
Ashby Kelly, who lived in Northeast
Privateer the first Of this year, moved
here a few weeks ago and will work
with old man ]. L. Ards next year.
Mr.. Hamp Scott who lives near
Ramsey, hast moved his family for a
few days to his mother-in-law's, Mrs.
II B. McIntosh's home, and he is cut
ting wood for r. D. Kolb.
There is great deal Of talk Of cut
ting wood hereabout at this time. I
want to have a, few carloads cut my
self
have no sick to report now.
Mr.. L. N. Barwick, ST., had some
sick children last Sunday, but they
were better at last accounts.
I have heard that two negroes on
Hon J. E.. Tindalrs place, near Cal
vary church. got into row one night,
when one named Singleton killed the
other, whose name was Richarasca.
So much for the hip pocket, which is
generally full either with a gun or
Aask and both viii kill their maR-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-13
MAX.

Max, December 11.-Mr. Joe Ba-
ker an elder of the Beaulah Presbyte-
rian church, after long illness diei
Saturday and was buried at the Pres
byterian church. Rev. B. K. Truluck
preached the funeral to a large and
attentive congregation.
Some of the machinery for a large
saw mill and ginnery and other works
nre on the ground near Bethel, which
viii be owned and run By stock
company of the enterprising residents
rf that section.
The recent rains have filed up the
Woods mill pond which has been too
low for grinding corn for some time.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-13
Hot Supper.

A hot supper and barbecue for
painting the new Bethesda Methodist
2Sth inst, at Mrs. C. B. Atkinson's,
Louellen, S. C. The public is invited.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-13
COUNTY correspondence.
NENsY LETTERS FRoaf OUR sPE-
CIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
zsesns of interest From all Parts OF
Sumter and Adjoining Counties.

NoyICE TO CORRESPONDENTS
Mail your letters so that they will
reach this Office not Later than Tues
nay morning. When the letters are
reeeived Wednesday it is almost an
.ampossibility to have them appear in
the paper issued that day.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-13
n Chester.

ITOHl CnesleI.
Mr.. c. c. Slaughter spent few
days in orangeourg last week.
Mrs. H. S. Gaii!ard returned to
Sumter on Friday morning after q
short visit in our midst
Mr. prank 2. Burgess spent Sunday
at home.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

subject, that rather than attempt to
define such assemblages as are called
euchre. clubs l would suggest that tho
name be changed to euchre stilettos.
combination of words which 1 believe
is correct in etymolopv and fact.
The Times cannot and does not
agree with the views here expressed,
and will not even print those parts
Of the letter which refer to the ladies
as social banditti deftly wounding
with poisoned poniards while they
smilingly ask questions which the
i'll Informed would consider not only
polite but kindly" The best friends
The Times has are the ladies', God
bless them! and nothing ever said
or written by any cynical misogynist
can swerve us from our conviction
that American women are as lovely
as their faces and as gentle as their
voices
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
EXHIBIT OF HENRY MOSER'S
WATER C0LORS AND OILS

An exhibition Of water cc'ors and oils,
painted by James Henry Moser. is being
held In Morrey's galleries, 1925 G street
northwest.
This is the first time Washington art
lovers have had an opportunity to view
Mr.. Moser's work collectively. The ex-
hibit, which will continue until April
10, is attracting much attention.
Included in the pictures ia a canvas
in oil, 4x5 feet, OF little scene called
Clearing Up" The picture is a COPY
of small water color 10x14 inches The
fine treatment which Mr. Moser has
given the study in reproducing it in oil,
and in much greater size accentua te.
the earnest aims of this Washington
artist.
The two pictures hang near each other.
They occupied prominent place in the
exhibit in the New York academy in
1902. and will also be sent 20 the Car
negie exhibit in Pittsburg in the fan
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
GENERAL HARRlES TO
ADDRESS CITIZENS

The North Washington Citizens As
sociation will be addressed tonight by
Gen. George II. Harries and the Rev.
John M. GIL, pastor of Rhode Island
Avenue Methodist Church. The subject
of General Harries address will be
along the line of his personal experience
In presenting the demands for local I'M
provements before the committees of
Congress, and suggestions In reference
to local improvements. The association
Is among the latest Of the citizens or
gantzations, and is said to have secured
many improvements during the last two
years. 1t was formerly known by the
name of the Bloomingdale lie Droit
Park. and Reservoir Heights Citizens
Association. but after spirited con-
test. It's new name was substituted
Among the matters to be discussed at
the next meeting are the resolutions
adopted by the committee of fifteen, re-
lating to moral instructions in public
schools. .s-.a. ~. s.-s.s..--.4 -..--s..
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
FISHERMEN TO FIGHT
4 LOBSTER TRUST
Have Organized a Union On the Maine
Coast and Hope to Enroll
$500 Members.

ROCKLAND. Me-. April 3.-Deter-
mined to fight the Lobster trust. form
ed to control the industry in Maine and
the maritime provinces, the lobster fish
ermen on the Maine coast have begun
to organize.
Stuart Reid, ortanizer for the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, has organized
the first Lobster Fishermen's Union In
the United States, at VinaI Haven. A
charter Of afiliation has been granted
by the American Federation of Labor
Vinal Haven is one Of the principal
lobster centers on the coast Il has a
large fleet OF fishing boats engaged sole
ly In lobster fishing
Reid says several other local unions
will be formed 5uring the coming week
The union at 1zual Haven started off
with a membership CT one hundred, and
1t Is said that $500 men will be taken
into the new organization during the
month
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
DISTRICT FEDERATION
OF W0MEN'S CLUBS MEET

The March meeting of the District
Federation of Wnmen's Clubs was held
Saturday evening at the Cumberland
Miss Frances Graham French presiding.
reports were made by the cilairmen of
the various committees, and on motion
OF Mrs Charlotte E. Main, OF the reci-
procity committee. a committee on
household economies was formed
This new committee viii adopt in the
District the work outlined by Miss
Parloa for the Gibbs Of Connecticut, ard
has for Its object thc lettering of con-
dltions in the home. 1t this connection
Mrs. Sarah s. James announced that a
Sctaol, on April T. av Mrs L. D. CLARK.
wIiC is organizing raining school for
young colored girls IL housekeeping and
cooking.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
EuChre Stilettos.

A student Of mankind, whose style
is tinged with polite but cynical
purlsm.. has written to The Times to
request that change be urged in
the name OF certain social function.
The Times does not pose as an
arbiter of society, but is interested
in whatever men and. bless them
women do. 1t must decline to en-
ter too seriously into these light
and frothy discussions, but It NAV
quote in part. from the critics
letter:
Whoever heard of a euchre club with
out women? Euchre may or NAV NOT
De played. and the club spirit is mostIv
aozen tgeawts wn,,en Dy nn, It's absence but If a
the Lord before their eyes, band to-
gether TO meet at stated intervals for
the stealthy pilfering OF character and
secret assassination Of reputation, they
invariably disguise their nefarious de-
signs by calling their assemblies e,lchro
clubs. The game that has solaced the
weary brains OF en1perors and philoso-
horse of the lovely creatures VINO
trump their partners ace, forget which
suite is trumps, and revoke. This is
nothing; truly. 1t would be hard in
word euchre even though they maltreat
the game, but when they also debase
the word club 1t is time to call a halt.
Some one has suggested that the cor
rect definition Of euchre club is a gath
ering where all the rules of euchre are
broken. as. with q club, and that the
word club has a further significance as
tndicatin0 the knocking and ''hammer-
ing which obtains among the members
This ! am inclined to reject as not only
far-fetched. but also as sayoring OF
slang. which / abnor l. seems to me.
after much painful thought upon the
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
IOWA is A NETWORK
OF TELEPHONE WIRES
Nearly Every Farmer Is a Subscriber
and Uses Lines With Advan-
tage and Profit.

SIOUX CITY. Iowa. April 3.-Iowa
leads the nation in rural telephones. It
has 80 per cent OF all the rural telephone
lines in the country and Is per cent Of
the mileage of wire used by rural tele-
phones There are more miles of rural
telephone lines IN Iowa than there are
of railway lines In the country. There is
a telephone instrument for very ten per-
sons in the State, or one for every two
families.
These and other interesting facts have
recently been gathered by the census Of
ficfals- There are 21.57 separate rural
lines in operation, ,asing s592O6 miles Of
wire and 2s6. .ssS instruments There are
whole counties in which one may talk
from the county seat to practically the
entire farming population. Iowa farm
telephones are very cheap. and the "teI-
ephone habit is becoming stronger.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
Where Diplomatic Corps
VIII Spend the Summer
New England Resort to Be Headquarters Of
at Newport, Lenox, and Bar Harbor.

Washington diplomats are already
making their plans for tfis summer. Not
long will Il be before eyabassiss and ie-
cations are transferred temporarily to
seashore and mountain side
Because of the war IN which Russia
is engaged. Count Cassini. the Russian
Ambassador. and dean oS the Diplomatic
Corps, will again remain in this coun-
try this summer. His plans are not def
niteiy made. but he expects TO De In a
New England resort during all the hot
months.
Countess Cassini Home.
Count Cassini will not have his
daughter with him this summer The
countess left Washington today for st.
Petersburg, where she will be for sew
eral months. She will visit a sister-in-
law of the ambassador.
1t Is expected that the German Am
bassador and Baroness Speck Won Stern
burg will again take up their abode this
summer at Lenox and Will establish the
embassy there.
The British Ambassador and Lady
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Durand have leased the cottage iu
Lenox last season occupied by the Ger
man Ambassador and Baroness Won
sternburg, and will spend the summer
Go to Bar Harbor.
Baron Giskro, Austrian charge deaf.
flares, viii remain here until quite lata
In the summer. when the Ambassado,
and Nine. Won Hengelmuiler Will return.
Ihey viii. as usual. go to Bar Harbor.
The French Ambassador and Nina.
Jusserand will spend the warn, months
In Europe, but NJ. des Portes de Ia Fosse
az charge d'afyaires. will establish the
embassy in Newport, with which resort
ne and Nine. des Portes became familiar
last summer when they were in Nara
gansett Pier.
me Italian Ambassador and Baroness
mayor des Planches expect to 90 to Man
chester by -the-Sea. where they have al
ready spent two summers. Later in the
season they viii go abroad, leaving Sig
nor Montague to conduct the affairs of
the embassy in Manchester
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
Mr.. ELLIOTT DANFORTH
SOMEWHAT IMPROVED

Elliott Danforth, the prominent New
yorker, who is confined at the Provi-
dence Hospital with mild attack of
typhoid fever. continues to improve.
and is expected within a reasonable
time to be up and able to leave the hos
pital
DR.. Magruder, the attending physician.
was with his patient for more than an
hour this morning, and reported that
Mr.. Danforth was doing as we'll as could
be expected. He is not critically i'll, and
will recover. Beginning this morning
DR.. Magruder will issue daily bulletins
concerning his PATIENTS progress-
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
MUST TAME AUTOS
IN CITY OF PITTSBURG
MISS CAIoLA MAI

PITTSBURG. April 3.-Superintendent
Of Police Alexander Wallace of Pitts
burg. has issued imperative orders to
his subordinates regarding autos in
Pittsburg, Not an automobile will be al
lowed TO move inside the city limits at
more than eight miles an hour.
Among other things. this order will
check the morning and evening run of
II. c. Frick along the Grant boulevard
at about 80 mics an hour.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
0HAV SHULUM OPPOSES
RELIGION IN SCHOOL s

A new resolution against the addition
of religious instruction to the curri-
culum of the public schools has been
circulated, signed. and prepared for
presentation to the Board of Education.
1t was drawn up by the Brotherhood
OF Ohav Shulum, an organization hav-
ing about 135 members. and a special
committee. appointed at their last meet
ing, will further the work The brother
hood puts itself on record as being op-
posed TO reformation of the schools at
the hands of the clergy.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
Under the Umbrella.

Americans as a people look on
with amused interest at the disturb
ance in Europe over the Kaiser's
visit to Morocco. The last of the
Barbary states means less to them
than Egypt, and they have been
satisfied to let England guarantee
order along the Nile as long as she
chooses.
But it begins to look as though
the Administration might not be able
to maintain the same indifference.
This business Of being world power
has a remarkable faculty of involving
q nation in nurlberless disputes
which are. none of it's business. 1t
is clearly because America has be-
come one of the powers in the
diplomatic sense that Ambassador
Sternburg Informed the President in
advance OF the plans for this visit.
And now. it appears, the German en-
voy made hay in that interview q
the following effect:
That Mr.. Roosevelt indicated in gen.
erai terms approval or the policy of
maintaining permanently In the dornin-
ions Of the Sultan Mulai Abdul Aziz that
equahty OF commercial privileges for the
citizens or subjects of all foreign pow
ers which 1t has become the fashion to
describe as the open door
Now the open door had ALREADY
been secured for all the powers by
an agreement executed by France
and England year ago this month.
The Kaiser's purpose, evidently, is
not to accept that benefit as the re-
suit OF an agreement between any
other powers, and this statement by
the President, which is supposed to
indorse the attitude of the German
government, is given thereby the eff
feet of opposition to the Anglo
French protectorate.
1t is the judgment of the New
York Sun that President Roosevelt
simply gave perfunctory assent to
the policy Of maintaining the open
door in Morocco, understanding it to
be already guaranteed by the French
English agreement and not for a mo-
ment intending to indorse a declara-
ton like that imputed to the German
Emperor, with which the execution
of the agreement by two great neigh
borly nations already made in the in
terest OF peace and order in Morocco
might prove practically Incompatible.
The Sun is ordinarily well inform
ed. This position will probably be in
dorsed as the true statement of the
administration attitude. America will
be fortunate, indeed, IL it is accepted
sincerely by our good friends, Eng
land and France. Otherwise we shall
have paid high price for our posi-
ton as world power when the Ger
man Emperor chose to sit for a day
in the shadow es Mulai's hereditary
umbrella.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
PARAGUAY PAPER WARNS
AGAINST YANKEE PERIL
Asuncion Journal Thinks Utited States
Is Contemplating Intervening Be-
fore an Alliance Is Formed.

ASUNCION, Paraguay. via Galveston,
Tex, April 3.-The newspaper FL Para
quay. commenting on the Yankee
peril, says the United States is con-
templa ting intervening IN South America
before the Latin republics make an al
lance against a common danger.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

II talking will do It. the New York
authorities will make A glaring success
of freeing Nan Patterson. But we should
remember District Attorney Jerome's re-
mark that there are few honest men on
the police force.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

railroad president has died from
meningitis, and the Chicago people claim
the Beef trust has caught the ailment.
The Beef trust still trusts to it's "ab-
sent treatment" to pull it through.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

The District Commissioners buy land
for the Street Cleaning Department and
narrow the streets in the northeast
which may be popular-in other cities.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Bryan says the people have a right
to have what they want in government. .
He's a proof of how they do with what
they don't want.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
TWO WEDDINGS
ANNOUNCED

Cards are out announcing the marriage
OF Miss Josepha Kaufman and Elliot
Strouse, of Baltimore, on March 16, at
the home OF the brides mother, Mrs.
Marx Kaufman
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mr.. Shonts will move the canal head
quarters from Washington to Panama
safe distance, both ways
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

It ig thought that Chfnas new navy
may stay above water IL the nations of
the world agree to make 1t neutra,
ground.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
MANY DINNERS
ON THE PROGRAM
Usual Function Tonight at
Italian Embassy
Won sTERNBURGs' RECEPTION
Whist Club Entertained at Home of
Mrs. Isaac Behren-Last
Time This Season.
Won sTERNBURGS' RECEPTION

The Italian Ambassador and Baroness
Mayor des Planehes VIII, according to
their custom, be hosts at dinner tonight
at the embassy.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Invitations extended fy the German
Ambassador and Baroness Won Stern
burg for reception last Tuesday even
ing suffice for their guests tomorrow
night, the reception having been post
poned from the former to the latter
date on account of the death o. the
Mexican Ambassador.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

IL We Must Part. Let Us Go To-
gether,'' the Russians favorite song
when on the retreat.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Some of those invited to the Republi.
can pie counter are evidently afraid
that they wouldn't be given time to
digest their slices.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Another minister doubts the honesty
OF Rockefeller's money making He
needn't bother. Kansas will settle that
point IL Kansas can
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Standard Oil had sixty suits brought
against 1t in one day. This beats Rus
sell sage's record in clothing for sixty
years.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mrs. Hansbrough, wife of Senator H.
c. Hansbrough of North Dakota, who
has been III at her home, 1755 . street,
for many weeks past. is now resting
easily, but her nervous condition Is so
serious that Saturday evening police
men were placed at either end of the
block in which the Senator's residence
stands. to prevent rapid driving in front
OF the house. Mrs. Hanbrougi: is great
favorite in Washington, and is the re-
cipient of much sympathy and many
attentions during her illness.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Woe to the next District bill, and like
wise gloom-SerenO Payne says there
will not be another Treasury deficit.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

The only wise thing for the Equitable
policy holders is to let go the dinner
policy.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

II Roosevelt doesn't run for another
term. a lot of newspa per correspondents
ought to lose their Jobs
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

The British government is convinced
that Haggard is star rider of such
hobbies as country settlements.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

High Congressional pressure is the
only way to get high pressure fire sys-
tenn for this city
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
NOTE AND COMMENT
Of APRIL DAYS
Countess Cassini About to
Sail for Europe.
MRS. HANSBROUGH VERY Ill
Movements of Washingtonians and
Spring Visitors to Friends in
the Capital.

Countess Cassini will leave Washing
ton on one OF the late trains for New
York tonight, ard will sail tomorrow for
Europe.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mrs. Donna V. Seaver announces the
of her daughter. Grace Kath-
crime, to William Hedges Robinson. of
Pueblo, Col. at noon April /
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

New York's new subways Will carry
1885, people daily-as far as the first
cave-in.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mr. and Mrs. John r. Mclean enter
tanned a small company yesterday at
luncheon at their country place. Friend
ship, where they will remain through
The spring, having moved from their
street homo on Saturday
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Miss Margaretta Symons, daughter OF
Colonel and Mrs Symons, and a pros
pective bud of next season, has arrived
from Dobbs Ferry. where she is at
school, TO pass the. sprihg vacation at
her parents home in Lafayette square.
Miss Montgomery, of Portland, Ore.
also Dobbs Ferry student, is Miss
Symons' guest.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03
Westinghouse at Seashore.

'" "s-E1H11S tUAtiGlo dl- SUBSTITUTE.
Mrs. Donald c. Macleod is at the
Shalfonte. Atlantic City. for a visit.
Among other Washington people in At
iantic City are G. P. Clark. at the Arch
dale; Mrs. A. C. Mcintyre, at the Ell
wood, and e. Canderson and wife at the
Fredonia
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Welch and
John C. Lentz are guests at the Chal-
fente, Atlantic City.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Barnard and
daughter of New York city, are visiting
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Strauss. 597 L street northwest.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Kingsford. the
former a prominent business man IF
Lima. Peru, who have been the guests
of Mrs Irving B. Dudley. wife of the
minister to Peru. left washington today
en- route to England.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Miss Connor. of Eighteenth street
northwest. Saturday evening entertained
at dinner in honor of Miss Myrtle Gala
han. of Springfield, III. She is the
daughter of the assistant secretary of
state Of Illinois
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mr.. and Mrs Louis Keonigsberg. of
Chicago, are here visiting the latter's
mother, Mrs. Charles Kaufman.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mrs. Walker Fearn, of New York, has
given up the apartment she has occu-
pied at Soneleigh Court, and gone to
New York TO pass several weeks with
her daughter, Mrs. Seth Barton French.
before going abroad. Mrs. Fearn will
go to Paris for month, and later to
India
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Horace Washington, consul to Geneva.
will shortly join his wife. who is stay
Ing with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Williams, at the Portland.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Miss Margaret A. Rockhill. youngest
daughter of the minister 10 China and
Mrs. RockhilI. is visiting her grand
mother, Mrs j w. Tyson. In Baltimore.
Mr. and Mrs. Rockhill will leave Wash
ington Wednesday.
The Washington times., 1905-04-03

Mr.. and Mrs Isaac Behrend entertain
ed the Evening Whist Club, for the last
time this sea son last night. The out-of-
town guests were Mrs. 5. Fantl, of Sa-
yannah, Ga; MIR. and Mrs. Gleson Nord-
linger, of Baltimore. and Miss Stella
Levy, OF Savannah, Ga.
The junior section, Council of Jewish
Women. held a most interesting meet
Ing yesterday Sunday afternoon. IN
the vestry rooms of the Eighth Street
Temple After short business discus
sion. a clever program was rendered,
consisting of violin solcs by Miss Lillian
Coblenzer accompanied by Prof. Caspar;
recitations by Miss Selma Greenappie,
and paper, Marriage Contracts. read
by its author. Louis Cohen. Before the
meeting adjourned, refreshments We're
served.