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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-11-20
SUMTER s. G." WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20 1907
SUICIDE GIVES ADVICE.
SAYS ALL YOUNG MEN SHOULD
GET MARRIED.
Young Student In Atlanta Says Not
Being Married Was the Cause of
His D0wnfall.-A Rather Strange

His Downfall.-A Rather Strange
Case.
Atlanta, Nov. 15.-"To all young
men-get married now. Not being
married was the cause of may down.
fall"
This was the substance of a letter
written by T. U. Palmer, just before
his suicide in Williams House No. 2
Tuesday afternoon. Palmer after
wards tore the letter into bits and
scattered them on the floor, but the
fragments were picked up and read by
friend Of the unfortunate dental
student.
In addition to the note to DR.. Bost-
wick, Honea Path, S. c.. left in the
MOTEL room, the young student wrote
three other letters, one Of which ad-
vised young men to get married, and
explaining that his failure to marry
was one Of the causes Of his down.
fall.
One of the letters the young man
had written to his mother and an
other to the proprietor of the hotel.
Palmer had carefully written the let
ters and then, before firing the bullet
into his brain, had changed his mind
and torn them into bits throwing the
fragments onto the floor.
According to the letter addressed
ITO All Young Men," Palmer seemed
particularly impressed with matri-
mony and it's Importance to young
men. 1t is stated that in the letter
he urged all young men to marry and
declared that one Of the causes of his
rash act was his failure to marry. No
further explanation was made.
In the letter to the hotel proprietor,
it is stated, Palmer explained that he
had registered under an assumed
name, and asked that his brother in
Blythe, Ca, be notified of his death.
1t is said the letter to his mother gave
no reason for his suicide.
Mrs. Palmer the mother Is very ill
at her home in Augusta, and was not
notified of the death of her son until
Wednesday, a short time before the
body was taken to Augusta
Friends of Palmer state that he
had been in a very nervous state of
late and had been unable to sleep. He
is said to have expressed the fear that
something was latter him and seemed
respondent.
To one OF his friends he is said to
have remarked
Il haven't slept ten minutes dur
ing the past ten days."
Although Palmer is said to have
been on a spree. his friends state
that he had been sober during the few
days preceding his death.
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MURDER IN COLUMBIA.


Neg~D Stabbed t. Death on Main
Street IN Columbia.
Columbia. Nov. 16.-Standing on
the corner Of Main and Richland
streets tonight, about o'clock, No
Ian Davis alias charleston" colored,
was stabbed to death by Henry Eel
lon. alias Gold" Fellon.
Davis and several other negroes
were standing on the corner near a
negro restaurant one block north of
the postoffice when Fellon came up.
From statements made by the wit
nesses 1t appears tina. Fellon began
cursing Davis and struck at him with
a knife. Davis turned, erd while
bleeding copiouslv, walked ar ,und the
corner Of Richland str.mt r"r at,u.
40 feet and fell deal 1T the foot OF a
tree. The knife had penetrated the
large artery just above the heart.
Fellon walked one block to the
postoffice. where he surrendered to
the patrolman on that beat and was
taken to the police station and later
to the Jail. He seemed Indifferent about
the matter and hummed a tune as
he was being =, ken to Jail. He has
been in Jail before on charge Of
beating his wife.
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and create stringency by boarding
their savings instead Of trusting per-
fectly the banks" The presidents
letter to Secretary Corteiyou under
date Of November II. follows:
Washington. November II 1907.
my Dear Mr.. Cortelyou: Ihave con-
sidered your proposal. l approve the
issue OF the fifty millions OF Panama
bonds. which will be Immediately
available. as the basis for additional
currency. also approve the issue Of
slOo.o0o,ooo or so much as you may
find necessary. of $50 8 per cent inter-
est-bearing government notes, the
proceeds Of the sale Of which can be
at once deposited by you where the
greatest need exists. and especially In
the West and South where the crops
have to be moved. / have the assur-
ance that the leaders OF congress are
considering a currency bill which will
meet In permanent fashion the needs
OF the situation, and which. l believe.
will be passed at an early date af-
ter congress convenes. two weeks
hence.
what Is most needed just at pres
ent Is that our citizens should realize
how fundamentally sound business
conditions in this country are, and
how absurd 1t Is to permit themselves
to get Unto panic and create a
stringency by boarding their savings
instead OF trusting perfectly sound
banks" There Is no particle of risk
involved In letting business take its
natural course. and the people can
help themselves and the country most
by putting back into active circulation
the money they are boarding. The
banks and trust companies are SOL
vent. There Is more currency i'm the
country today than there was a
month ago. when the supply was
ample. Fifty-five million dollars in gold
has been imported and the govern
ment has deposited another $50. .OOO.-
900. These are facts ana appeal to
the public to co-oscratc with us i'm re-
storing normal business conditions.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-11-20
OKLAHOMA ADMITTED.
FOIfTY-SIXTH STAR ADDED IN
THE AMERICAN FLAG SAT-
URDAY.

NO Ceremony Whatever Attended the
Signing by President Roosevelt of
the PrOclamatiOn-Used Pen Made
From Eagles Feather--Act Took
Place I'm Cabinet Room.
Washington, Nov. ia new star
was added to the American flag to-
day by the admission formally into
the Union of the State of Oklahoma.
President Roosevelt at 1O.16 O'Clock
this morning signed the proclamation
admitting the Territories of Okla
noma and Indian Territory jointly as
one OF the American States.
Little formality attended the cere-
mony, which meant 20 much to the
people of the two territories. In ap-
pending his signature ID he procia-
nation the president used q uen form
ed from quill plucked from the
wing of an American 'sagie. The pen
will be deposited with the Oklahoma
Historical society.
There was absolutely 10 cercmonv
connected with the signing # the
proclamation. The act was done IN
the Cabinet room, to which had been
admitted Senators Carter and Dixon,
OF Minnesota and Warner, of Mis-
souri,, besides number Of residents
OF Oklahoma, most Of whom are con-
nected with the government depart
ments in Washington, and newspaper
representatives.
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The yeggmen who cracked the safe
in the postoficc at Seneca several
nights ago in their hurry to set
away failed to find $175 in the safe.
George Davis and George Robert
son, who have been held in iail in
GreenVlllc for two months on suspc-
ION IN connection with the murder of
r. Wilson, have been released.
The diSpenSary At kingstrec was
broken into several nights ago and
robbed Of $+2 in cash. 1t is not
thought that any of the stock was
taken.
The Baptist state Convention meets
in Orangeburg on Dec. 9Th to 14th.
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The government will see that the peo-
pie do not suffer If only the people
themselves will act in a normal way.
Crops are good and business ,condi-
tions are sound, and we should put
the money we have into circulation in
order to meet the needs Of our
abounding prosperity. There is no
analogy at all with the way things
were in 1898.
November 80, Of that year there
was in the Treasury but 1851, 100000
On November 16 Of this year there
was in the Treasury 1904, 100000 of
gold. Ten years ago the circulation
per capita was $2323. 1t is now $33.-
23. The steps that You now take. the
ability of the government to back
them up. and the fact that not a par
ticle OF risk is involved therein give
the fullest guarantees of the sound
condition Of our Treasury All that
our peopl" have To do now is to go
a normal fashion. and the whole diff
Guilty disappears; and this end will he
achieved at once # each man will act
as he n"mally does act. and rs the
real conditions Of the Country's bust
ness fully warrant his now acting.
Sincerely yours,
(Signcd) "ThcodOrp Roosevelt"
Hon. George B. COrtelyou,
Secretary of the Treasury"
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Young Man Shot Pretty Girl Because
She Would Not Wed Him.

Philadelphia, Nov 16.-Emma
Kearney, aged l. plump and attrac-
tive was shot and killed by Frank
Weneke, aged 21 on Frankfort street
this morning. He is locked up. She
refused to marry him last night. After
leaving her he armed himself and
waited on the corner near her home
until she came oHt this morning.
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bryan WILL ACCEPT
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
FOR PRESIDENT.
VIII Not Seek Or Ask For the NOmi-
nation. However, And II Another
Gets IL VIII Not be Disgruntled.

Lincoln. Neb.. Nov. 14.-William
J. Bryan will accept the Democratic
nomination for president In 1908, but
he will neither ask nor make a fight
for Il. He says that for a year or
more he has been pressed to answer
the Questioa VIII you accept the
nomination" and he believes the pub
lie is entitled 20 an answer and to
know the position he occupies. The
question that ought to weigh most,
he says. is whether his norniuation
will strengthen the Democratic party
more than the nomination 'of some
one else. Not only will he not seek
or ask for the nomination but he will
not assume to decide the question Of
availability. and II the prise falls to
another he will neither be disappoint-
ed nor disgruntled. At the same time
he denies that he has waited this long
In q desire to see whom the RepubA-
cans arc likely to nominate. or to as
certain the chances OF victory. -
Mr.. Bryan says In part:
Now that the election OF 1907 10
past and plans are being made for
next years campaign Mr.. Bryan feels
that a statement Ia due to the public
Those who prefer another candidate
are entitled to know his position and
those who favor his nomination have
right to demand an answer to the
question SO often put, will you accept
a nomination. His refusal to an
swer the question has led to the cir
culation Of many false reports and
unfriendly newspapers have taken ad-
vantage of his silence to misrepresent
his attitude.
"Mr. Bryan will nox ask for or seek
nomination and he will not assume
to decide the question of his availa-
bility. He has been so amply recon-
pspssdrty Ms pasty-sor what he has
done and for what he has endeavored
to do that he cannot claim a nomina-
tion as a reward; neither should his
ambition be considered, for he has had
honor enough from his party to satis-
fy any reasonable ambition. The only
question that ought to weigh with
the party - whether the party can be
strengthened and aided more by his
nomination than by the nomination
OF some one else. II he can serve the
party by being its candidate he will
accept the commission and make the
best fight he can. II. however, the
choice falls upon another he will not
be disgruntled. His availability Is a
question to be decided not ny him. not
by a few leaders. not even by the
leading newspapers that call them
selves Democratic. but by te Votes Of
the party, and to them he entrusts the
decision OF the Question--they are the
Supreme Court In all matters concern.
Ing candidates. as they are in all mat
ters concerning the PLATFORM"
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PROHIBITION MASS MEETING.
Petition to Be Circulated Asking for
Election on Voting Out the Dis

pensary.
A mass meeting Of those persons
interested in voting the dispensary
out Of Sumter county is hereby call
ed to meet in the court house at IL
o'clock on Monday, Dec. I'd, 1907, for
the purpose Of effecting an organiza-
ton and taking steps to secure the
necessary names on d petition looking
to an election at the earliest practica-
BILE moment.
A. B. Stuckey.
P. NJ. Pitts.
j. E. DuPre.
w. o. Cain.
Chas. L. Cuttino.
E. G. Haynsworth.
H. S. Timmons.
j. w. Daniel.
John J. Dargan
r. j. BrOwnfield.
H. L. Thomas
r. O. Purdy.
r. e. McElveen.
j. w. Mccoy.
Joel f. Brunson.
S. d. Cain.
B. d. Mitchell.
H. l.. Scarborough.
L. w. Dabbs.
s. d. Bailey.
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WILL Be BIG EVENT,
THANKSGIVING MEET OF SUM.
TER TURF ASSOCIATION.
Ihe Official Programme of Events
And the Large Purses Offered
Special Rates on Railways-Biy
Crowd Coming.

The first meet Of the Sumter Turf
association will be held on Nov. 26,
~ and %, as advertised by attractive
posters on the streets yesterday The
1oHowihg official programme of the
tnree days events has been issued
by the management:
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rive per cent. entrance fee. Five
to enter, three to start; IS, 25 and 10
per cent.
1t can be seen from this that the
purses are large and that the events
VIII be very interesting Col. r. C.
Richardson, president of the associa-
ton, is we'll known throughout the
State and all horsemen and the pub
lie generally may depend on this oc-
casion being a most successful and
satisfactory one in every way. AL
ready good string Of horses is at
the track and assurances of many
more coming have been received.
There will be a good football game
OF Thanksgiving day between Charles
ton College and probably Welsh Neck
High school of Hartsville. This game
will attract large crowd and should
be drawing card for the meet.
Secretary Reardon of the chamber
of commerce, has the matter of re-
duced railway rates in his hands and
mas assurances that they will be grant
ed. Altogether everything points to
a big event during these days men,
toned. More particular will be
given later.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-01
BR|DEGR TAKES
BRIDE BY HALVES
Couple Stand on New York-Vermont
State Line, and Two Pastors
in Two States Unite
Them

Special to The Herald.
WHITEHALL, N. Y, March 81
Joseph Chalmers and Emily Norton
were married a. East Bay while stand
ing in an open field directly on the line
separating New York state from YER
mont,
Two clergymen, one a New York
state minister and the other a YER
monter, read the ceremony.
The couple sought to be married with
the bridegroom on the New York side
of the line and the bride on the YER
mont side, their hands clasped and
reaching from state to state. But as
a New York minister cannot perform
a legal marriage ceremony in Vermont
state, nor a Vermont clergyman in
New York, it was necessary for both
parties to stand directly and accurately
on the state line.
With one-half of each person in this
state and tine other two halves in Ver-
mont, the clergymen, Rev. Mr.. Newell
of Birthstone Corners, VT, and Rev.
j. G. Irving of Wrights, n. Y, tied the
knot. One clergyman united part of
the man to part of the woman and the
other dominic Joined the other halves.
When that part OF the ceremony was
reached in which the bridegroom takes
the brides right hand in his, Chalmers
reached over her right shoulder.
1t is asserted that the marriage is a
legal one.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-01
EASTER LILIES
DECORATE AFFAIRS
Christ Episcopal Church Follows An.
nuaI Custom and Produces Most
Beautiful Effect of City
Churches

One of the most elaborate decorative
schemes Of the city churches yester-
day was that of Christ Episcopal
church, which, according to its annual
custom. decorated it's altars with a
mass of Easter lilies. Extending down
the main aisle we're five arches, twined
with Easter lilies and marguerltes,
and suspended from each was white
dove. The pulpit was banked with a
mass of lilies and over 1t was q cross
Of pink carnations. The room screen
was banked 18th lilies, jardinleres of
flowers being placed in tie arches.
The musical program was elaborate
and included "The Lord is King as
offertory, which was dedicated to the
choir of Christ church by Frederick
Stevenson, the composer, and which
was sung yesterday for the first time.
In the evening the choir rendered the
sacred cantata, easter Eve and Morn"
The program was as follows:
Organ prelude (GuilmanD.
Processional-Hymn No. 1858.
''Kyrie," No. 460 (Gower).
Gloria Tibi," No 1884 (Anon.).
Anthem solo, "Hosanna" (Granier),
Mrs. Wankowski.
Hymn 40. liz.
offertorium, "The Lord Is King" Fred-
ericl5 Stevenson).
The choir:
dedicated to the choir of Christ church
by the composer and presented for the
first time).
Offertory sentence.
hymn No. 345
"Sursum Corda," No. 4S1 (Gower).
"Sanctus," No. 462 (Gower).
"Agnus Del" No 1853 (Gower).
GLORIA in Excesis,' No AGA (Gower).
Amen, No. 465 (Gower).
Processional-Hymn No. 4S3.
Organ, finale (Vierne).
EVENING PRAYER,
Organ offertory (Batiste).
Processional-Hymn No. 519.
GLORIA Patria."
Hymn No. 450.
Cantata, Easter Eve and Morn" (Ste-
venson).
The choir:
Offertory sentence.
Amen, No. 465 (Gower).
Professonal-Hymn No. 500.
Organ toccata (Widor).
John Douglas Walker, director OF music.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-01
NOT DYNAMITE, BUT LIcORIcE
But There Was Fright in JeFome's
Office When an Italian Took
X ThAFA

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, March 31.-An elderly
italian, trembling with excitement and
carrying in shaking fingers a paper
parcel in which were what appeared to
be two black cylinders like strips OF
rubber hose, walked into the dis
trict attorneys office. Mac" Jerome's
lighting policeman" could not UNDER
stand the man, who spoke no English.
and turned him over to Victor Fontana,
an Italian interpreter.
Fontana looked over the parcel, heard
the Italians story, and gasped af--
frightedly: ..alasi
"Dynamite!"
Then Mae" ran hurriedly down tho
hall. Fontana was right behind him
with the italian. carelessly swinging
his parcel. a bad third.
Assistant District Attorney Paul
Krotel heard the rumpus and in mo-
ment more the cause OF it. He made
rapid time to the other end Of the
corridor, where from behind locked
doors he shouted his advice that the
man be se.It to the bureau OF combus-
tibles, in East Sixty-seventh street.
Fontana eagerly hurried off the per-
picked Italian. Neither Krotel nor Fon-
tana bothered to inquire the mans
name.
The man said he had found the black
sticks in his stove when he went to
light his fire in the morning. That much
he had told Fontana.
At the bureau OF combustibles In
spector Wolf examined the sticks and
then he asked the mans name His
visitor was Giovanni Banielli OF 22O3
First avenue. Inspector Wolf showed
Banie.i to the door and returned his
package.
the inspector remarked, they'll prob
ably like 'enl. for they're licorlee
sticks"
Mac" Fontana and Mr.. KroteI, how
ever, have not yet been persuaded that
they did not have a remarkable es-
cane.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-01
SPOOKS DELIVER
CHEERFUL TIDINGS
PERFORM BEAUTIFULLY AT
MEETING
Gulllble Listen to Ballot Reading and
Appear Almost to Believe
It the Genuine
Goods

Spirit messengers from the beyond
came back again and amused them
selves rapping tables and telling the
faithful you will have a piece OF good
fortune within the next year." at Bur-
bank hall yesterday, for the Peoples
Spiritualist society continued its fifty
ninth anniversary celebration of the
birth of modern spiritualism by listen
ing to the spirits rapping and impart-
ing generallties to mediums.
1t was a Heterogeneous collection of
humanity that crowded hot and tired
into the hall last night. On one side
sat two elderly women discussing as
trology and horoscopes. His guiding
star is Jupiter" one remarked. Two
seats ahead sat yourtg couple whose
guiding star was evidently Venus A
few seats away several grzzled men
were discussing in all seriousness slate
writing and trumpet mediumship.
Completes with Steam Plano
On the platform q man was practic-
ing on q violin, the while an automatic
plano across the street ground out the
familiar strain, waltz Me Around
Again, Willie" 7 a. while the steam
piano had the better of it, so he ceased
his exertions and let il lave the field
90 hloSISls "a JuuiiS WOllliu lGSllIu
the old favorite Saved BY Him"
These eXertions concluded, Brother
G. s. Sullivan took his stand for the
truth-also to kill lit+le time, that
Mrs. johnson, the medium Of the even
ing, would not have time to answer
many of the questions propounded.
Brother Sullivan told how he first be-
gan seeing things" when he was 8
years of age, Where, where, was
the Prohibition society in his day? The
first ghost that ever walked for Mr..
Sullivan was that of a little friend
who was born the same day as he, but
who died but when 3 years old Mr..
Sullivan, according to his statements,
used to talk and play with this little
spirit friend. Singularly enough, his
family supposed that it was some fancy
of Georges.
He was so dominated by the spirit
forces that he said and did many
strange things and finally had to quit
ccmmuning with the spirits because 1t
was hard on his health. Some of the
devotees of spiritualism have also found
It hard on the purse, although Brother
Sullivan did not complain of any such
trouble.
Knows "oId- Timers"
BY this time Mrs. Stanford Johnson
had an opportunity to go through the
ballots, examine their general tenor and
select the ones which bore signatures
of people on whom she could rely. The
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-01
SERVANTLESS EDEN
PROMISED SOON
DOMESTICS, ICEMEN AND 9TH
ERS BANISHED
co-operatiye Flats Like Those o.
Copenhagen and Stockholm May
Be Introduced In the
United States
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, March 31.-"No more
servants in fatsv' is the war cry of
Prof. Otto Flick a siX-foot Dane who
stepped ashore here yesterday from
Copenhagen to spread the doctrine of
domestic peace and happiness through
out the land of Uncle Sam.
The harsh yell of the iceman, the
frenzied shrek Of the milkman at the
bottom of the dumbwaiter shaft, the
crash OF crockery on the kitchen floor
all these and other trials and tribula-
tions which appertain to f1at-house eX-
istence under the present modus oper-
andi are TO give way to bliss, bliss,
bliss under Prof. Fick's schemes.
His idea, which he described with
sparkling eyes, is to build cooperative
lighthouses in New York like those he
has established in Copenhagen and
Stockholm.
Each building will be not less than
five stories high and will contain not
less than twenty-five families.
Most of the flats will be cozy little
three-room affairs.
Each tenant must subscribe to stock
in the building, to an amount equiva-
lent to what the rent of his fiat would
ordinarily amount to. He can turn his
stock over to his successor as tenant,
but is responsible for it as long as
mis- fiat remains vacant.
Servant Problem Solved
All the cooking is to be done in a
central kitchen by high-priced chefs
employed by the company owning the
building.
The company also keeps a corps Of
servants, who supply all the domestic
service required by the tenants.
Families that do not need a servant
all the time can hire one to come in
at any time-every Saturday afternoon,
for instance, to sweep, clea nthe VIM
dows and the like.
The meals are sent to the various
fats by means of dumbwaiters. Each
family eats In it's own fiat.
Also in each building there will be
kindergarten, where pepper and
mommer may leave their children in
care of one or more attendants While
they shop or visit or attend the theate?
1.-THE idea first came to me In 1895"
said Prof. Flick, "while l was head
master of my own school in Copen-
hagen. My wife and / had a servant
and the servant had a Swedish sweet
heart who smoked my cigars and wore
my trousers 1 refused to prosecute
him, but my soul revolted against all
servants and resolved they must go.
Under my plan a family may, OF
course. keep servants il they wish to,
but individual servants will not be
necessary in our apartment houses.
II am not going to build any houses
myself. l am here merely to spread
the doctrine and aid, il need be, in
financing the scheme"
What Scheme VIA Save
Prof. Flick estimates that in New
York, where servants are costly, his CO.
operative housekeeping viii save 20
per cent. for the families that adopt It,
and they will eat better, sleep better
and be fatter and happier than any
other fiat dWellars I'm town