The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-31
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
Items of General Interest Quilted
From Our Exchanges.
Every time you nention q third
term Mr.. Roosevelt smiles clear across
his face.
Mr.. Fairbanks reception to bis
eloping son WAS only coldly cordial.
How natural!
ATLANTA bankers think real cotton
is better security for loans than pipe.
dreams like Segal's or large part Of
the security the big banks accept.
Raymond Townsend, aged 16, was
drowned In Z pond at the Brogon
mills, Anderson, on Saturday. He
and other boys were Ia q boat Thich
upset with them.
THE governor has removed Sheriff
M. N. Limehouse, of Dorchester Coun.
tY pending bis trial on the charge OF
malfeasance In Office in giving up q
prisoner to be lynched.
Allen Denton, tho young negro who
stole into tho room Of Miss Worrell,
In Charleston, at night, was convict
ed on Friday and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for five years.
IN 1900, there were more than ton
million farmers in this country.
There are not half Gczsn farmers IL
Congress to represent the agricultural
interest. Isn't there something wrong
about this.
General Fred Grants calculation
that bad liquor accounts f1r 80 pei
cent of army troubles may be said to
be substaniated by popular experience
with the stl # in civil life, 1t is NO
respeotor Ct occupations.
IT's too bad We can't annex Cubs
jlst to quiet Senator Beveridge's
n rYes, i.ssead of allowing him to
make speeches the Republican party
could better afford to pay his
expenses at Sanatorium.
Ex SENATOR j. R. Burton Of Kan.
sas began bis six months sentence pit
Ironton, No., Monday. He was
convicted of practicing before gov
eminent department while q member
of tho United States senate.
An interesting ard little known
item taken from an exchange Is that
merchants handling cigars must de-
stroy the cigar boxes as soon as the
contents are Bold, and not give the
boxes away al was customary In the
past. A recent law requires this.
ROBERT CLARK, alias Dan Dove, q
negro, was lJnched on Sunday neal
Mobile, Ala, BY crowd Of three hun.
dred men, who had followed him
from jackson county, Miss, wherr he
had attempted to assault white wo'
The Union Times says: "An idle
loafer, bs he white OF black, is 8 mon.
ace to any city or community. 1t is
up to the authorities to make these
vagrants move on, or put them to
work"
The Cherokee News says: "There
never was . time when labor was
hardar to get than it LIS now; yet
there are men, white and black, loaf.
ing on our streets who never pretend
| to work" The Same Is trua of this
town.
THOMAS Alexander Phelan. with
money In bis pocket and several ttou.
sands in bank, committed suicide in
Now York on Thursday by shooting
himself in tho head with = pistol. he
had spent s300,0 900 In the last five
years.
lis tho democrat party dying?'
plaintively queries the New York
World in the same issue wherein 1t
booms Grover Cleveland for senator
from New Jersey. The World seems
awfullv anxious to furnish tho AFR
native answer to its query.
In Z speech ut Terre Haute, Ind,
last week Bryan said: II am here in
Indiana not as a candidate for Office,
for I have insisted it is too early te
know who ought to be nominated by
either party. But I am here in the
interest of those who are candidates.
This year we have to lay tho founda.
tions for the ne1t two years work. "
Mr.. Hughes, in bis spsech accept.
ing the Republican nomination fol
governor of New York, declared that
be and bis associates had become
tho trustees Of the conscience and
sober sentiment Of the State" His
associates are Woodruff, Sheldon &
90. backed by the corporations. Fine
keepers Of public conscience, truly.
THE Washington Star asks If There
is any excuse for the further booming
of Mr.. Roosevelt for q third term.
But then the Star, since the Mrs.
Miner Morris incident has taken q
greenish colored view Of the occupant
of the White House, although the
Star Is a Republican newspaper and
o-,11ono pooot onvfhtpn that tho