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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-07-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Items of Interest Condensed and Par.
agraphed for Quick Reading.

Luke Scott, of Union, attempted To
commit suicide by drinking lauda-
mum.
w. j. Aiken fell from a scaffold in
Columbia and broke his left arm
and leg.
The Rikard Knitting Mill AT Iex.
ington will begin operation this
week.
Robert Jeter. colored, was killed.
by Southern passenger train pea,
Union last week.
James Harrison and A. H. s. Jaw.
we'll known citizens of Trenton. s.
C.' are dead at their homes.
Experiments have shown that Jan.
anese mating rush may be success
fully grown in this State.
j. E. Jeffries has been apno,ntef>
auditor of Cherokee county to serve.
out the unexpired term of Col. w.
d. Camp, deceased.
A trolley car in Columbia got
away from the motorman and crashed
into freight train. Several passen-
gers were slightly injured.
Two colored women OF Charleston
became involved in a quarrel and
one bit off the right ear of the other.
James Henry Rice of the Audubop
Society, has sworn out warrants for
the arrest of three prominent citi-.
zens OF Orangeburg, charging them
with dynamiting fish i'm the Edisto
river.
The postoffice department. has no.
titled the county officials that the
public roads must be improved or
the rural delivery mail service will
be discontinued.
A gang of crooks and fim-fiam ar
fists are said to be operating in CO.
lumbia.
Five fisherman have been arrested
in Beaufort county on the charge of
violating the fishing laws
Seven hundred young women or
South Carolina took the examination
for scholarships on July 8.
There were three fires i'm Rock Hill
Monday. The barn of Pride Ratteree
was destroyed, loss $500; the resi-
dence of Mr.. A. Friedman. was .tfan-
aged to the extent of $4,000, and the
kitchen Of Ed Garrison was partially
burned.
Joe Herring, white, was drowned
Sunday afternoon at Camphells
bridge, near Latta.
A number of business men OF
Charleston have purchased the stock
of the Coleman Wagner Hardware
Co. The new company will be,
known as the Enterprise Hardware.
Company and will be capitalized at
$4,000.
j. M. Weeks, a we'll known citizen
Of Elloree and for many years dis
penser at that place, is dead at his
home after a long illness.
The Eutaw, steamboat worth
$4,000. sold at auction i'm Charleston
for s105. The steamer Planter was
bid in for $500.
Congressman Lever, Commissioner
E. ]. Watson and Col. M. ". Richards
OF the Southern Railway addressed a
meeting Of farmers at Union Monday
Will Suber, colOred, shot by d. c.
French at Williamson Saturday az
ternoon, is dead from the gunshoe
wounds. French is in Jail.
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Edward McIver, OF Cheraw. special
master to take testimony and report
Ia holding a reference In the case Of
N. Il. Dial vs. the Ware Shoals Manu-
featuring Co., at Greenwood.
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SUMTER s. c.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 22 1908
New Series-VOl. XVII. NOht


a pickaninny, blind, feeble. and not
considered valuable as a slave asset.
so Tom was thrown in" by his
mothers former master. He was a
vey small boy and when he discoveed
that for the loss Of his sight and
the blight upon his mind his Creator
had endowed him with a gift so
strange and yet so productive of hap
piness to him that he has, in a way,
been living subject for marvel dur
ing the last half century.
The boy began by repeating words
that he heard about him. mimicking
every one and trying to initiate all
sounds that fell on his ear. When
he first heard a piano played every
note of the music was stamped in his
mind, and, cropping to the instrument,
he found that he could reproduce the
music he had heard.
With the instrument he could imi-
tate the tinkling water in a fountain.
the fall lof rain, and the noises of the
storm. His own composition, which
gave him the most delight, he call
ed What the wind and the waves told
Tom."
While he was always known as
Blind Tom," he was never totally
blind, and could always distinguish
between light and dark. Mentally, he
was never little better than an i'm
beetle, and those who saw him on his
first concert tours, nearly a half GEN.
tury ago, will remember that he would
always stand up from the piano and
clap his hands with the audience.
which was applauding his remark
able skill This was a trick which
he retained as long as he appeared in
public.
Blind Toms" death has been an
nounced many times. It was said
that he perished in the Johnstown
Hood and several other times, but
those who saw him when he ap-
peared in the Circle Theatre in 1904
recognized in tAe aged white-haired
man the same wonderful pianist they
had seen years before as a boy pro-
Dizzy He had appeared frequently in
vaudeville during the last few years.
After one of his recent concerts
Tom sat for some time as a target
for questions. They came from all
over the house, AID Tom answered
them without hesitation, except for a
certain hesitancy which evidently be-
longed to his speech rather than to
his memory. He spoke two or three
words and pause-rather au-
tomatically-and never was known
to fail to take a civil "sir" on to
every one Of his replies.
Among those who questioned him
was E. D. Gallon, Of Washington.
D. c.. but formerly of Lynchburg.
Tell me, Tom, did you ever play
in Lynchburg?"
"Yes, sir.''
What year was it?"
1T was-in 1913, sir"
$50 it was; so it was-in the sum-
mer, wasn't it,"
mo, sir; 1t was in--January--
sir!"
Hes perfectly right" admitted
Mr.. Gallon, whose trap had failed.
w. r. Brackville, Of Be!lfonte,
Pa, tried his hand next at the mysti-
flying Of this mystery.
"Tom, were you ever at BellfOnte
Pa?
"Yes, sir"
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HERE'S THE VILLAINS DEAD TO RIGHTS

Why wrong great question;
The light of Biblical history,
Professor Zuebn authorities unite
testiyng that the at the bottom of it all
Let detectives searching the Universal Criminal take
simplicity
both of morals the wreck behold
We gumshoe into primorda history and observe
pied fgeaf by the wayside
Ha! clew! Hist
follow which unskill
whom Thou gavest with the
and did Thus says primeval
Aha! the plot hickens!
pass a day So Chicago having
distance from Eden Here lecture hall observe
hghbrow desanting things particular
We prefer We
in the presenc of Professor Zeubn
AS might expected Zueblin
confdes as to
Candor compels learn from Zuebn what
Adam hned-Z confirming A in wonderful way Woman is
hypocrite! "A smooth, hypocrite! Thus Zuebln
Once All! and again, Hist! The trail grows warm!
Now Mrs Mabel lbish Des Moines enters L. u E. and
cnche the She that Adam right his laying 1t
wrong default
fault womens
have to rights! e what
dead rights but prac
cally The having Eden and
being smooth hypocres of the
world by through men,
Amt it awful, Mabel?
When you to your chalk
on coat it's wifs hypocrisy When call
the phone ask when Someone coming downtown it's
wfes deviy that makes wfes that
makes the bad bust
been convinced 10!
that the unselfhness of
eliminated this world would be left would be
bankrupt goodness that would capital for establish home
for the irreclaimabebut the Nlainess unmasked
Pshaw Let's forget it, try be good enough to
sociate with mothers! Zuebn andno
Hbish woman; Ind hanged They're as
full of prunes Adam apple
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THE GIVING OF MERE MONEY

When the first really weather of the fell the
city police white
$210 His it learned, jewey The had
professional
delaney.
S
the have
idea that to give all seeming distress is charity.
Indiscrimnate, giving charity.
The result that the professional the
helpless through fault of their
The bury vagabond who cZenthe miserbeg
police
be from wasting worthless
comforting real benefit those who helpless
charity o money but n
ing of sympathetic thought and investigation
The beyond of
his neghborhood
worthy
chances
That it is blessed a
only when bear mind that
SELF
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truth Of life," she repeated, very
Imply.
The Idler laughed triumphantly,
as one who loves life and it's red,
rich ways. 1T is not the truth
of all life," he declared. II have
lived here and there, in the corners
of the earth-and say it is not the
true way. You must bring your
hero chap back from the firing line
with yawning wound and let the
little nurse lady pull him back from
1.-THE shadows to life and love and
happiness.
The AuthOress allowed her gray
eyes to light up with pleasure, but
she shook her head. 81 have never
seen such thing" she objected.
The Idler came nearer and
looked at her with his great, dark
eyes. 1T is not your own way of
life he said, simply.
She waved her hands in depreca-
ton. Il have never" she began.
would you send me out to face
Gatlings and sabers?" he asked. rs
that your way of life?"
She shook her head God forbid
But you are not
Il love you," he said. Come,
| write your ancwer on the page OF
The End
| The Idler led her to the fatal
page of hearts torn apart; and for
five fearful, tremulous minutes she
wrote, quiveringly, disconnectedly.
| Then the Idler read of the pledging
of vows in the quaint old love gar
den of the first dear promising: and
the hero did not go to the wars at
all, and the heroine never entered
the walls of white mercy.
This is the true way of life"
said the Idler Then he kissed the
authoress again and again. Her
| eyes were very red.
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at her, so that she started. 1t was
not the cuckoo's way of life, at any
rate. al
The girl took UP the scattered
pages and glanced through them
At the earlier incidents, her heart
stirred-at the awakening of love
by the old garden gate-Eat loves
first kiss behind the palms while
the fiddles walled. These had been
the chapters of her dearest fancy
The girl author sighed again..
There was quick step on the
porch and ring at the. bell. II
was the Idler from the dcity, the
dark, tall man who rode and read
and hunted, doing nothing else. 1t
was not his first coming.
Your eyes are read" said the
Idler, who had a wonderful sym
patty; he was much like the hero
fellow in 'The Pathway of Pas
sion"
The Authoress shook her fine
head. at is nothing" she said. But
she did not fool the Idler.
When they entered the little par
lor, she tried to hide the tragic
sheets, but the Idler was too quick
"Ah!" he said, "the cause of your
sorrow. Let me read"
Somehow she could not tell hin
no; and the Idler skipped through
the immaculate pages. At~the first
tender pledges along the pathway
of passion, he nodded approval
though smiling a little tolerantly
/ Then he jumped to the page OF
"The End" and frowned.
"Mauser bullets for the knight
and microbes for the lady. This is
no fit ending for your pretty story,
he criticized.
She smiled sadly. 1T b what al
ways happens" she remarked. 80
must write the truth OF the way
of life"
The Idler regarded the girl with
eyes that she thought would never
turn away. Finally her own gray
eyes dropped and vivid blush
came to her cheeks. 1T is the
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you bet she'd be awake," he
howled. Shed be a pestiferous
nuisance. More headlines: Chaos
at the White House. Mrs. Wickle
bridge Drives Operator Frantic. De
mands Complete Tabulated Vote
from New York Before the Polls
Close"
Shame on you, Cicero Wickle
bridge. l wouldn't, either. But Ii
see that you did not shirk your
duty in the crisis, and held the
pulse of the nation till it ceased
throbbing."
ooh, very Welt" he roared. THAT
calls for more headlines: 'Presi
dent Masterful. Gains Hysteria OF
Screaming Spouse. Pours Bucket
of Ice Water Over Her Head ant
Cuts Telegraph Wires. Dares Any
body to Disturb Peaceful Quiet o.
White House With Bulletins, Til
Horns or Congratulations Unit
Week After Next Now shut up
Guinevere."
His bluff was SO strong that i
was two seconds before she real
lied she knew full well he wouldn'
act that way at all.
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till the writing of chapter XVIII
they had found the pathway very
smooth and lined with he'd roses
and jessamine. And then the fair
Authoress had penned the fateful
chapter of separation, sending the
stricken men to the forefront of a
riddled regiment and the poor, dear
maid to the lingering torture of the
fever ward. For this was art and
this was life, said the Authoress-
but her young heart panied just the
same.
Its an imperfect old world" she
groaned. land have tried to show
it as it is
The wooden cuckoo in the clock
on the mantel came out and hooted
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BLUFF DIDN'T STAND

TACOMA, Nov. 10.-Porfessing
to believe that the Northern Pacific
had stirred up the opposition to the
Narrows land deal and had enlisted
the commercial club and Chamber
of commerce to help bluff the city
council out of the Narrows prop
erty and then into such deal as
Jim Hill desires on the depot
proposition, the city council cut off
all negotiations on the depot mat
ter and wiped the thing off the
municipal slate and then voted
through the ordinance to go ahead
with the Narrows land deal.
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Use for Salt Sacks

Don't throw away the salt bags
they are available for many pur-
poses. Wash them clean, dry them
and lay them in one of the pantry
drawers as soon as they are
emptied.-
Some of the bags may be ripped
open and the thin material will be
found just the thing to lay over a
mustard poultice.
In case the water is muddy, slip
one of the bags over the faucet, Sc
cure with q rubber band, and you
ing the water.
The regulation jelly bag is of
flannel, but the cotton salt bag is
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&{,FR;|I I R',Ila3 \ tfia,I4lt
s L. 6r The DivUf

, is a necessity.
| don't care who makes the laws
so long as l have the lawyers on
my side.
After you are accomplished In
yielding to temptation you think
it Is temptation yielding to you.
Charon is complaining of tho
ing across the Styx, thus depriving
him OF SOW" "honest graft
Pr L his honor and II
will -~- i'm how /. tries to
dislodge him.
The reason some statesmen hate
to die Is that oil Is so infiam-
mable.
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/ his or her weight of meat annually.
1t is generally conceded that this
has been the most leapless leap
year ever.
Women's hats are to be smaller.
The price marks will remain the
same.
largest lump of gold came from
California and furnished 1O9
pounds and four ounces of virgin
gold.
Men are said most to admire
women when dressed in black. But
then, all women can't be widows.
She-The man wed, must be
very near an angel.
He--Here l am, very near one.
She-Oh, you dear.
Highest waterfall is the Krimbs
falls, Upper Prinzgau. The fall is
114S feet.
The first steel pen was made in
1880.
Good morning, sir" says the
lady entering the studio of the
famous portrait painter. Il wish to
engage you to paint my portrait"
81 shall be delighted, madam"
81 want it painted with my new
hat on
Pardon me, madam, but I am
not a landscape artist"
Plutarch, between 20 and 80. be-
gan to study Latin.
James A. Garfield's mother was
the first mother to hear her son
deliver an inaugural address.
Wonder what John d. is the rein.
carnation of?
| Society note--The earl and
countess of Warwick will visit the
| United States next spring.
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Man has seven ages-but woman
will confess to only one.
All the sinners that come down
to hades pretend they never liked
high attitudes anyway.
l am in favor of clubs for
women, but a slap on the wrist Is
usually effective.
Certainly women ought to
smoke. All the ladies In the in
fernal regions do.
l can generally tell politician
he makes himself at home the
minute he arrives. The only kick
he makes is that l make him smoke
campaign cigars exclusively.
Forgiveness Is virtue when 1t
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-10
IF the WickLebridges
We're in the White
House
BY FRED SCHAEFER

'Oh, It must be maddening, the
suspense of the president when
there's an election and the fateful
Returns are awaited" murmured
Mrs. Wicklebridge over her even
mg's fancy work.
ooh, don't know. It's not a
marker to the suspense tired cleo
Zion officer undergoes about a. m
the next day, when he's only got
about one-tenth of the votes
counted" snorted her husband, who
had been in just that fix.
But how much more vital II
must be to the head of the nation
10 know how the voters behaved
Coward him or his friends" pursued
Mrs. w. II hardly think you would
be equal to the strain. Cicero"
"Who? Me?" he laughed. "Why
u I were In the white house
wouldn't turn q hair"
"Oh, Cicero! When so much de-
tended?"
s'Bah! Id show 'em. Down in
NE corner of the election extras
you'd see: Sleeps Like q Babe
mare Philosophy OF Our Beloved
President. Wicklebridge In the Hay
~ 8. r. NJ, While Nation Frets In
useless Anxiety"
i "Ah. but your wife. sir!" she
Urged. "Your wife would be on
guard. awake for the tidings OF
rood or III. She
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rlIUh WKW OF ttHMEGlk 1rnllMGG

The girl wrote "The End" on the
sheet of snow white paper, then
leaned her head of fluffy gold upon
the table. She had just separated
two loving souls and the heart
within her ached at the odious task.
They had been two blithesome low
ers-the man and the woman in
THE Pathway of Passion"-and,
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BLEAK CHANCE FOR WEDDING

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10,-De-
claring that her prospects of mar
rage have been seriously ham,
pered through the designation of
her features by fall from one of
Pat Calhoun's cars, Miss Grace
Simmons seeks consolation In a
damage suit against the nickel get
ting corporation for $5323. which
was filed this morning in the SUI
perior court.
Her resume of her loss of beauty
Is as follows: Six front teeth,
slightly broken jawbone and a Sc
we're shock. Her expenses result
ing were: Dentist. SIP; physician,
$27; nurse, $25; hair comb demol-
ished. $40; purse lost, $40.
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SMUGGLING DIAMONDS

BLAINE. Wash, Nov. TO-
Charged with attempting to snug
gle 81 900 worth OF diamonds across
the line from Vancouver into this
country, Harry Field has been ar
rested. Vancouver is trying to Sc
cure extradition papers for the
prisoner, who is accused of utter
ing worthless checkc TO the amount
of the value OF the diamonds.
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Hetty Green has promoted her.
self to $50 hat. My, how some
people do splurge when they have
little money.
did those orchids reach you on
time, Miss Grace?"
"No.they did not. They reached
me G. o. d."
Will the mills of the gods begin
to grind faster now?
What's this Young Turk move.
ment we read so much about?"
ooh, that means that the farm.
ers will put all the tough old birds
on the market for Thanksgiving.
Ireland is about half the size of
Missouri.
Erie railroad will soon begin cleo
trification of its lines between Jer-
sey City and Suffren.
Shakespeare's vocabulary con.
sisted of $4,000 words.
Thomas Parr died after a dinner
party in his 152d year.
Statistics prove that every man,
woman and child in the United
States consumes. more than twice
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a good substitute, and il washed
each time after using, may be
made to last long time.
They make excellent bath bags
when filed with bran and pulver.
lied soap.
In making pickles, inclose the
spices in one of these bags and tie
loosely, then when the vinegar Is
sufficiently favored the bag may
be removed.
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START TRAMP LIFE YOUNG

CINCINNATI, Nov. 10.-Officer
Beers of the Ninth district Wednes,
day raided the den of the boy
tramps that he found hidden behind
a clump of bushes on the river
bank.
The policeman knocked at the
door of the den.
There was no answer.
With one mighty shove he
pushed down the door and there
was disclosed the tramp gang play
ing cards by candle light.
Five of the band were arrested
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Irish Stew.

Grease the bottom Of cooking
pot; place in 1t four pounds Of ten
der beef. Turn carefully until
nicely Drowned. Add four sliced
carrots. four sliced onions, two
leeks, six peppers, six potatoes, and
one pint hot water. Simmer slowly
until vegetables are thoroughly
cooked, then remove. Burn spoon
full white sugar till deep brown,
stir in gravy, add one teaspoonful
table sauce, season with pepper
and salt, serve vegetables on-se1e
dish. Do not thicken gravy.
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KINDNESS REMEMBERED

| wish to extend my appreciation
to the neighbors and friends for
their kindness in my hour of grief
in the death Of my husband,
Charles A.. Washburn. Mrs.
Charles A. Washburn.
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MIR. SKYJACK, FROM MARS

VISITS THE EARTH AS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AND
MAKES WIRELESS OBSERVAT NOTEBOOK
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Dr.. Sperry's Lecture Good.

DR.. Lyman P. Sperry, who came
here in the interest of the Bemidji
Summer school, gave a very interest
Ing lecture at the Methodist church
last evening.
DR.. Sperry lectured on the topic,
"Travel' bringing out the idea that
we should devote more of our time
in the educational line by travelling.
He also demonstrated that by a
little sacrifice nearly everyone could
do some travelling each year.
This morning DR.. Sperry gave his
lecture and talk on Physiology
and Hygine, to the teachers in
attendance at the summer school.
All those fortunate enough to hear
him at one or both of these lectures
pronounce DR.. Sperry among the
best lecturers they have heard.
DR.. Sperry left on the afternoon
train for Bagley and will speak at
that place tonight.
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Body of Paul Sullivan Buried.

The postmorten examination held
yesterday after noon by Coroner
Marcum over the body of Paul
Sullivan, who was found dead in his
popcorn stand Wednesday morn
ing, developed the fact that Mr..
Sullivan had died from eudorarditis
and inflammation of the inside of the
heart, probably caused by 1heuma-
tism.
The kilograms which were sent
to Necedah, Barren and Chippewa
Falls, Wis. in an endeavor to locate
any relatives were returned marked
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Barker's Drugstore

promise, PAGES IN nomination as the
standard bearer Of our party the man
who in the thrilling days of '96 and
1900 bore the battle SCARED banner Of
Democracy with fame as unsulled and
fidelity as spotless as the crusaders of
old. Nebraska presents his name be-
cause Nebraska claims his dwelling
place and proudly enrolls him among
her citizens, but his home is in the
hearts Of the people.
II obey the command Of my state
and the mandate of the Democracy of
the nation when I offer the name of
Americas great commoner, Nebraska's
gifted son. William Jennings BRYAN"