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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-10-23

dred finds pleasure In the society Of
the negro Bishop OF Liberia II Is his
privilege to entertain him at dinner or
In any other manner he may see fit
Is simply mateer of taste, and
Bishop Potter's subway saloon and
other sensational escapades should
have convinced everybody that he is
a gentleman OF Indifferent Judgment
and execrable taste.
In the early part Of the season the
impression was prevalent that the To-
cal banks would not lend money on
cotton and some farmers are said to
have sold on a declining market with
out ascetaining that they could ware
house their cotton and borrow on the
receipt. The fact Is the local banks
are lending money on cotton and are
In a position to take care Of all that
may be stored In the local warehouse.
In view OF the fact that, as far as hu-
man foresight goes. cotton will sell
ro- much higher prices before the
next crop Is planted 1t seems to be
folly tn sell now when tho market is
declining and every bale sold helps
the spectators to succeed in the eff
fort to rob the farmer Of his just
share Of the profit. Remember that
the cotton mills have their entire out
put sold months ahead at prices that
leave them a satisfactory profit even
though they pay Is to 16 cents for
middling cotton, and but for the folly
Of those farmers who, last spring,
sold their crop for September and Oc-
tober delivery at ten or eleven cents,
the market price would now be some
where between thirteen and fifteen
cents. This folly has cost the South
many millions and will cost still more
perhaps. sixty to seventy millions all
told. for the season, but the farmers
who still own the cotton they grew
this year. can recoup some Of the ap-
parent loss by holding until the price
advancea
Practically all the politicians whose
fortunes were wrapped up In the
state dispensary are now out and out
prohibitionlsts and are as rabid
against the Carey-Cothran system a.
the anti-dispensaryites were against
the State dispensary. Which teaches
that politics 10 devious game. We
cannot understand this sudden and
furious enthusiasm over prohibition
pure and undehled Extraordinarily
that possesses some OF the dyed-in-
the-wool dispensary people. We still
believe that the State dispensary sys-
tenn. II II had been honestly admins
tered by commission composed Of
men Of the same type as those who
are winding up the state dispensary,
would have been an Improvement on
the county dispenssry system. and
rsore profitable also we still believe
that prohibition is impractlcablo un-
der exisslng conditions and when II
comes 70 choice, between prohibition
and county dispensary we shall ia
vor the latter. II the time ever
comes. however. when congress shall
enact a law forbidding the shipment
of liquors. into prohibition States. and
we believe and hope the time Is not
far distant. we will support q prohi-
bition movement most sincerely for
we are convinced that South Carolina
would be better of without liquor
han with It.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-10-23
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mere IS no department of our business in which we take
greater interest than Clothing and our efforts are being
Tor each year shows decided increase over the
one 1hls departn ent the special pet of our Mr.
Chandler who has absolute control over it. buyng what he
ana Wherever ne can get it to the best advantage and
o Ills experience OF twenty years association with u.s. he
g 70 oe as we'll versed the requirements of the reooe of
Sumter and surrounding counties as any man in tho otho
business ~ Ne
Were we m pos tcn to make the display of our Clothing
stock that other houses could probably sell hut
space foblds that however those who have bee hvno
Clothing ON for years do object going to the bac mart
OF our Dry Goods Department their selections for
they know from experience that
Our Guarantee is Back Of Every Dollars Worth They Buy.
Our leading line of Mems Clothing is the celebrated
RISE SHOE BRAND.
The Horse Shoe generally good luck but in this case
we know it means
GOOD WEAR and PERFECT FITTING.
We are showing complete line of these goods in black
GRANTEES, thbes black and blue serges black unfinished
worseds and fancy worsteds in plaid stripes at
$1,000. $3.50, $1,000, $4,000 and s22.50.
We showing an excellent line of
MEMS CRAvEANETTE COATS At $1,000 TO $3.50.
Our line of
T0uTAS ANDB0YS CLOTHING
will be found very attractive to
STYLE. QUALIFY And PRICE.
0'DOnnell Company
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-10-23

The S~mtsr HatcAsaa vas founded In
eeso and the True Soathrvs In 1866. the
~s>eAmas and Sowthroa now has the com-
etned circulation and influence Of both of
ohs sit papers, and is manifessly the beat
oovertisinx medium I'm Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-10-23

town OF Pinewood NhJ 80 ura inS
this change. and without counting {, e
cost they go ahead. secure ,ignatlres
to petition and Urtpy .Hn s'gners
haven't given thc matter serious
thought, nor has 1t been explained to
them. So far as we are personally
! concerned, and so far as the county
seat Is concerned it makes, from a
commercial standpoint, very little diff
ference to US, If the change Is made;
Clarendon to lose Fulton may be the
gamer, but 1t would be a decided loss
to have Calvary leave us. If the pro-
moters Of this movement will send us
copy Of that petition we will gladly
publish 1t so the rest of the county
can know some Of those who are de-
sirous OF severing their county rela-
tion with Clarendon. We have an idea
II the petition Is published it will dis
close the names OF some who receiv-
ed honors and emoluments from Clar-
endon. AS we understand the propo-
sition. tho section sought to be cut eff
and attached to Sumter runs from
the Sumter line north to Cain Savan-
nah road ON the East, thence South
from w. r. Davis store to Santee
River. making the river the western
boundry-
Sumter has been looking with COW
etous eyes for this slice of Clarendon
ever since the formation Of Lee coun-
ty, and now that Sumter has loaded
herself down with debt; the building
of $150,000 court house, and the is
suing of bonds for other improve
ments, territory Is wanted to help
cough up this money, and we urge
our readers in the threatened section
before casting their votes to weigh
well what they are doing, and ask
themselves If the additional burden
they are asked to take will be COM
pensated for in convenience. and pos
sibly in the political preferment OF
some few citizens who imagine they
are born to rule"
The above publication in the Man.
ming Times was news to the people OF
Sumter. So far as the writer has been
able to ascertain by inquiry today few.
II any. Sumter people were aware Of
the effort being made by the citizens
VI Fulton and Calvary townships to
have that section Of Clarendon county
annexed to Sumter county. until the
Manning Times article was called TO
their attention. A year ago a rumor
was prevalent that the people Of west
ern Clarendon were desirous Of an
nexation to, Sumter county; but nothing
came Of the report and Sumter folks
concluded that there was nothing 1t
1t. While the movement for >annexa-
ton 70 Sumter county originates with
ari rs fostered by the peoply most Vi
tally interested-the citizens of Fulton
and Calvary townships, Clarendon
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-10-23

The ernswspapers OF the South have
undu'y nagnlhed the latest escapade
- Bssh"r Pytter OF New York. II the
ooepherd OK New YorkB -Four Hun
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-10-23

The News and Courier and other
apoicg:sts for Attorney General J.
vspser Lyon nav be able to ind good
usw 10 support the contention that Il
K NJ, the 6uty ~ the attorney gen
cTsi a. prosecute tho state dlspcnsary
Grafters. but Will some OF them kindly
- just a step further and tell us
what Nr. Lyon really meant when
~ said on the stump: Make me at
tornsy general and I will put stripes
on the men," Not once. but many
times during the campaign did ne use
words to this effect In seeking to In
0uence the people to vote for him.
Dsd he mean anything OF was II mere
~ . vote-catching device.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
WAR On TnE TiuE1s
Catches Well Known Citizens at q
Crap Game-Jailor Locked
Up in His Own Jail.

Cincinnati, May 13.-As a result of
ti-gambling agitation in Newport,
KY, shortly before midnight Saturday
Chief Lickert. assisted by nearly every
member of the police force. raided a
crap game almost opposite the police
headquarters. Theproprietor and about
twenty-five well-known citizens were
caught. several of whom claimed TO
be only spectators. and every cell in
the jail was crowded.
City Jailer Ben ploeger was among
those captured and he experienced the
unusual sensation of being locked up
in his own Jail. It was found neceS-
sary TO release Ploeger on bond first
so that he could in turn officially re-
lease the others as fast as bond was
offered
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
WENT STRAIGHT TO DEATH
Father, Son and Daughter Killed by
Gas in a Coal Mine-Wife Dis
covers the Fatality.

Bismarck, \. D., May ID. - Word
has reached the city of the death by
asphyxiation in a coal mine of John
Lynn and his son and daughter. Lynn
is a farmer living two miles east Of
Wilton, and close to the Washburn coal
mines. He has a small coal mine on
his farm. from which he gets his fuel.
He entered the mine for coal, and not
returning in a reasonable time his To-
year-old son went in TO look for him.
The son not returning a 10-year-old
daughter followed None Of them re-
appearing the mother, fearing some
thing had happened, went into the
mine with a lighted lamp. A short
way in the lamp went out, and the
woman realized what had happened
and aroused the neighbors, who finally
secured the bodies.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
NAME OF THE NEW PRINCE
tino Observation-Disclosures and
Child Doing Well.

Madrid, May 13-At II q. m. yes
terday the ceremony of inscribing the
name of the newly born prince Of the
Asturias on the city birth register took
place before the minister Of justice,
the first notary Of the kingdom. The
prince received the names Alfonso Pho
Cristino Eduardo. The christening
which was originally fixed for next
Tuesday has been postponed to date
not yet fixed, the king wishing to make
the ceremony as imposing as possible.
The Duke of Sotomayor, chief of the
royal palace, has received and sent re-
plies to 5000 kilograms OF congratula-
ton up to the present time. Both the
queen and the infant prince are off,
cially reported in excellent condition.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
The car was filed almost entirely
with Reading people when the wreck
oocurrad
INCIDENTS OF THE HORROR
Some Pathetic, Some Heroic All of
Them Tragic.

There were countless deeds of cour-
age and heroic self-abnegation. A
d. Hagerman. of Reading, Pa, refused
the aid Of his brother mobiles after they
had dragged him, fatally hurt, from
the wreck. Il am dying" he said, ''go
help the women" Sander Deabald, OF
Cleveland, worked herolcally but I'M
ayailingly to save the lives of two wo-
men pinioned beneath the diner. He
got one out, but she died in few min
utes.
A. d. WATSON, Of Buffalo, was eat
ing at a corner table. He was within
six inches OF the hot water tanks.
When the rescuers neared him he
yelled encouragingly. Dragged from
under the range Of the scalding steam
he murmured Thank Cod and died.
Charles NJ. Tyson, of Buffalo. IS i'll at
the Potter hotel here, completely I'M
nerved by his experiences. He faced
death many times, dragging from the
debris the bodies Of friends. He final
ly collapsed under the strain.
When the relief train arrived at SUIT
ton on the way to the wreck Miss
Maria Fuller, 10 years Of age, of Los
Angeles, jumped on board. Il want to
go with you to the wreck" she said to
Or. w. a. Taylor, the Southern Pacific
division surgeon, whohad charge of the
train. You cannot 60" replied the
surgeon. Ten minutes later when the
train was clipping miles at the rate of
fifty miles an hour the girl was dis
covered clinging to the brake-beam of
the tender. When brought into the car
she said: Il really had to go. I an
a member of South Gate Eastern Star
and I am pledged to give aid whenever
[ can"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
KISSING THE PoPE's TOE.
Custom of Obeisance Originated with
the Ancients.

The custom of kissing the feet OF
persons whom ii was desired to honor
originated with the ancients. The
people Of oriental nations used to kiss
the hands and feet or hens of the
clothes of the persons they wished to
show respect for.
The ancient Egyptians got this Gus
tom from the Assyrians. and later the
Greeks adopted the habit from the
Egyptians. The Romans followed the
Greeks, and then Pontifex Maximus
had his great toe kissed by celebrities.
The story will be remembered OF the
old Briton ruler who appeared to do
homage to Roman monk after the
conquest of Britain. He was told that
1t was customary to kiss the foot of
the holy father. He hesitated for a
moment and then, bending down, he
suddenly seized the monk by the
ankle and, jerking it up to his lips.
toppled the worthy father over back
ward.
The toe of the sultan of Turkey is
kissed by subjects of high rank. Those
OF more lowly position are merely al.
lowed to touch the fringe of his gar.
ment to their lips, and the poorest
classes must be content to make low
| obeisance in his presence.-The Sun
! day Magazine. :
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
Dyer Given a New Job.

st. Louis. May 13.-It has become
known that David P. Dyer, Jr., for
merly a teller in the St. Louis sub
treasury, and recently acquitted of a
charge of emebezzlement, is on a spe
cial foreign mission to which he was
appointed by President Roosevelt He
was commissioned to go to Sweden
and bring back Charles F. Grotefend,
formerly a bookkeeper in the Wash
ington National bank, indicted by the
federal grand jury on the charge Of
embezzlement.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
THEODORE E. BURTON.

rotary William II. Taft has said to me
by telephone that he desired the elm
nation Of Senator Joseph B. Foraker
from politics. He has never made such
statement. He has conscientiOusly re-
fused, however, to enter into any deal
under which he should have the sup
port of the Republicans for the presi-
dency and in consideration therefor
Mr. Foraker should be Endorsed for the
senatorship."
Washington, May Ex-senator For
aker has issued a statement on the
Ohio situation in reply to Representa-
tive Burton, saying that so far as he
Foraker) is concerned no effort what
ever has been made to make a deal,
bargain or a compromise with anybody
about anything.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
PRESBYTERIANS IN COUNCIL
First General Assembly Since the I'm.
ion with the Cumberlands to
Meet at Columbus.

Columbus, o, May 13.-The 10th
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States of Amer
lea will meet here Thursday. In this
assembly commissioners from the old
Cumberland church, which severed its
relations with the general assembly
about 100 years ago, and has now re-
united with the general assembly, will
be present.
The moderator, Rev. DR.. Hunter Cor
bett, having returned to China, where
he has been a missionary upwards Of
thirty years, Rev. Dr. Robert F. Coyle,
Of Denver, the last preceding modera-
tor, will preside until new moderator
is elected.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
NINETY MEN MEET DEATH
Fire in a Mexican Mine Means That
to Those Below-Thirty-F
CoIpses Recovered,

City of Mexico, May 13.-According
to a special dispatch which was re-
ceived from the city of Torreon,
Coahuila by the Associated Press nine
ty lives were lost in a fire which oc-
Cured in the Cornethas shaft of the
Ternera group of mines in the town of
Velaredena, state of Durango. The fire
started in an abandoned shaft.
At the time there was 107 men
working in another part of the mine,
and from what can be learned at this
time, but seventeen of them escaped.
Thirty-five bodies have been recovered,
but as the fire is still raging it is
feared that few others imprisoned will
be found.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13

system. For the first time since the
commencement of the strike cars were
run to the ferries. About 10000 pas
sengers, a majority of them women.
patroniZed the service.
There was very little disorder dur.
ing the day ncomparison with the five
days previous. Thousands of persons
evidently regarded the published in
functions and private warnings and
remained indoors, for the Sunday
crowds were much smaller than usual
Unquestionably the firm stand taken
by Governor Gillett when he an
nounced through the morning press
that he would judge the San Francisco
situation by the acts Of the people,
and would not hesitate a moment to
call out the militia If riot1ng should
be continued, had a SOLDERING effect.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
The Patient countryman.

In driving through a certain part OF
New England where a number OF wri-
tiers have bought farms and made
their summer homes / remarked to q
farmers wife who lived in their
midst that there seemed to be a good
many literary people in that neigh
borhood. Yes she replied. with a
certain air of resignation, there are
quite a few-but we don't mind
them"
wish could quote the tone of
voice in which this remark was made.
1t was that more than the words.
though the words are amusing
enough, particularly as Mark Twain
was one of the literary people to
whom she alluded-The Lounger, In
Putnam's Monthly.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
WATCHES FOR THE BLIND.
Simple Invention That Is Great Boon
TO SightIess Mortals.

The blind, like other mortals. wish
to know the time exactly, and as very
few of them are in a position to Sc
cure a good repeating watch. whose
cost is always great, they have to be
content with ordinary watches, and
taking the crystal out of the face they
ascertain the time by the angles and
position of the hands, which frequent
ly causes disarrangement of the time
piece.
In view Of these difficulties a for
eign firm has constructed a watch
for the blind. which represents the
figures in categorical manner. and APP
parently is very convenient. The
signs in relief are the following: One
o'clock, one dot; two O'Clock, two
dots; three o'clock, a triangle; four
o'clock, a square; five O'Clock, a five
pointed star; six o'clock. an elipse.
These same signs are repeated II
bas-relief representing the hours from
six to ~. The number of signs Is
therefore limited to six, and 1t is very
easy to ascertain from them the time
of day. The hands are very strons
and the watch has been used Will
good results.
Another watch for the blind ha
been invented by NJ. Pierre Tissot
Bersof, by which the blind can tel
not only the hour, but also the minute
The hours are represented by figure
of the Braille system.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
A Little Martyr.

A minister's little daughter, who had
been to church for the first time and
heard her father preach, was ques-
toned by him on reaching home as
to how she liked his sermon. There
was an embarrassed silence; then the
little maid, tired out with the long
strain of being good" and yet anx-
ious not to offend in any wise, made
answer with a long-drawn breath of
patient resignation:
You preached awful long, papa;
but I barred it"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
Sister of the Kansas Senator Who
Saved Andrew johnson Talks
of Her Brother.
SAYS he COULD HAVE GOT RICH
His Vote for Impeachment Was VAL
ued at 100000.
So She Hints in Talking of the Great
Trial-Says His Name Will
Some Day Be Vindi-
Gated.

Kansas City, May 13.-N1rs. Whim- |
Edmund g. Ross, ex-United States
senator from Kansas, who died at AL
buquerque, n. NJ, Wednesday last, in
an interview here threw some new
sidelighrs on the stand taken by her
brother i'll voting against the impeach-
meDt of President Andrew Johnson. 1t
was Senator Ross vote that saved
President Johnson from impeachment,
and for this act he was ceDsured Sc
verely by his Kansas constituents.
Mrs. Whimple is 70 years old, pio-
necr KansaD, who came west in 1890.
He Could Have Got Rich.
She probably was more closely ASSOC
ciated with her brother than any other
person. and to her alone he appears to
| have coDtided the motives that prompt
ed his attitude in the Johnson episode.
Through his life" said Mrs. Whim-
pie, Senator Ross had every phase Of
dishonor melted out to him. He had
been burned in all the fires of persecu-
ton and public reproach. / remember
we'll the time of this great trial, when
an ordinary man would have sold out
and made himself comfortably rich for
life. but when he let the opportunity
slip by and chose rather the scorn and
abuse Of his countrymen.
offered a 100000 Bride?
''He said once. prior to the trial,
that some one had approached some
| IL, ~,
hopes Of discovering his price. The
senatorsaid little about what he might
have made out of giving in at the last
moment until late years, when he in
timated to me that it was in the neigh
borhood of 100000. He was an eX-
| tremely reticent man about matters re,
lating to himself This was the great
trouble about the President Johnson
affair No one knew just what he was
going to do.
Knew He Was Digging His Grave.
"A few days before the great trial
he told me that he was digging his po-
litical grave. I am looking into il
now he said, and in little while it
will be a reality; but am right, right.
He never seemed to me to regret the
attitude he took on that occasion, al
though years of actual want followed
years during which there was ut
friendly voice of encoura cement Oh
cheer. Every constituent he had il
Kansas turned fanatically agains
him" Mrs. Whimple concluded: "HC
will be indicated; know he will b,
indicated, and then the world will
know just how much he was patrio
; and a true man in times when sucl
were hard to find in Kansas"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-13
DEFECTIVE SWITCH ONCE MORE
Occupants of the Dining Car Supply
the Most of the Dead.

The wreck occurred at 2:35 p. m,
one hour and forty five minutes after
the conclave visitors. forming a merry
party, had spent all the morning sight
seeing at Santa Barbara. The special
plunged upon the defective switch, and
in an instant the big locomotive, bag
gage car. diner and Pullman coupled
with it We're hurled together in a huge
heap of wreckage. The engine shot
forward on the broken track, tearing
up the rails and ties and twisting the
huge iron spans into fshhooks.
The dining car. in which were thirty
two persons eating their noon day
meal, leaped into the air and was
thrown directly on top of the demol-
ished locomotive. Nearly every person
in this coach was instantly killed. The
terror and turmoil Of the scene was
indcScribable. Many of those who eS-
capped instant death by the first impact
were crushed by the rear coaches
hurled upon the wreckage Others. pin
! toned in the debris. We're roasted alive.
Engineer Frank Champlain was
pitched with his cab twenty-five feet
I beyond the engine. and got up and ran
i three-quarters of a mile seeking help,
/ before he discovered that his arm was
/ broken and that he was severely scald-
ed man standing behind his wife
in the baggage car was hurled through
/ 4 huge rent in the roof and alighted
II soft and yielding sand almost unin
inred The woman was forced through
the floors. and wreckers had TO hf
tons of baggage to get her body out
But the unfortunates who occupied
every seat in the dining car wer,
caught in a veritable death trap. !
last call for luncheon had just sounded
a few minutes before. Rajah temple
Of Reading. occupied the last car Of
the train, and its members were tn
last ones to go forward to the diner