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The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
PANAMA's FIRST MACADANf.
Through Efforts Of Canal Official,
There Arc Now Two Miles.

N
Across the Isthmus OF Panama nc
road wide enough for q cart has OK
issed In many a year says G. Nor.
ton Dame In Good Roads. Pathway
through the tropic jungle, trail,
brood enough to permit the passage,
of horse and rider, have served tn,
purposes OF those who had to 20 &c
places there which we're not along
the railroad or the rivers.
The first step toward the construct,
lon OF II good road here was that o!
the Canal Zone officials. They hay.
thrown open a public highway from
Culebra to Empire City, a distanc,
of two mics.
Before this was opened to traffic
no way Of going from one of these
places to the other was open, cXce9,
n mere path beside the railroad; ans
that was by no means easy.
Much traffic has. gone OYER tn.
road since 1t was opened TO the PUB
lie. Some one has written THAT tn
road is absolutely useless, except 10
pleasure riders" This Is untrue. IN.
road is a necessity. Among otut!
uses, It, affords tho 'oilly way D..
which meat may be brought from tn,
slaughter:house, which is beside thu
road. 1t will serve many other use;
necessary to expeditions business
here. 49,. so:
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
Stnrfieh 80 Eek Re

Prof II. S. jennings or aohn. Hop
kips University, who h:s hren con
nected with the university Of Caliror-
MIA i'm a number of c>nc"iilents or
several months dui alto" at ~ uI,-
versity's marine l|ioiosical l'hora-
tory at La lollo, HIS l%iscovryel that
no an,mal known is 50 low ' .hn star
fish. lie has demonstrates til /, the
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
How to Clean Rronzos.

1t Is not a good plan to clean bronZcs.
as the polish is very easily spoiled. but
IL necessary nothing is better than
cleaning them with water and am
monia. using a stiff brush like a nail
brush. Dry carefully after rinsing
thoroughly. They should be carefully
busted every day with n soft cloth and
Il feather brush. and a little sweet oil
may be rubbed on occasionally. 10 re-
TO- stains from bronze make the
article very hot by dipping 1t in boiling
water. Then rub 1t with q piece Of
nannei dipped In sudS made from yell
low soap. rubbing clean with soft linen
cloths. "a.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
The Cotton Acrcngc.

How about the cotton acreage,
farmers? We know you arc advised
SO much that YOU pay little or no at
tcntlon to the advice that is volun-
tccrcd to you, but still We deem it
our duty to point out certain facts
to you so as you will be Informed Of
the situation. A bumper crop of
cotton this year means low prices
next Fall. There is no market for
goods. The mills cannot sell their
products and in consequence they
have been compelled to curtail pro
duction. A big crop this year
means six cents for cotton next Fall.
A $1,000, 900 bale crop at six cents
would be worth only $500, 600, 600,
while q 10, 900, 900 bale crop at ten
cents would be worth $500, 000, 900.
In the face Of these facts, farmers,
don't you think it would be q part
Of wisdom to reduce the cotton
acreage and increase the food crop?
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

with Attorney L. -.
Tended M. w. JoIley, a former po-
lice sergeant, who was arraigncd for
selling whiskey in the Virginia no.
tel.
Mr.. Brand is not the author Of
the l%conoclast, but he used icono-
elastic methods Friday. He called
DR.. Broughton's assistant an infor-
mer and spy. Mr.. Peacock. it will
be remembered, gave the informa-
ton upon which they arrested Jollcy.
{. Mandcl, proprietor Of the Virgin
ia hotel. and another man, on Feb
ruary 20. Jo!lcy was tried Friday,
found guilty, and fined 81 900 by
Judge Calhoun, with the alternative
of II months in the chaingang. Jol-
ley will appeal.
"Of all the capcrs that ever were
cut said Mr.. Brand to the jury,
the capers Of this man PcafoWl are
the limit. He goes around in the
most despicablc form known to man
that of an informcr and spy. AS a
Christian minister he hounds out
some poor man, has him arrested,
brought to court and fined. He is
IeacOcK tne aVenRef. How inherent
from the meek and lowly Saviour,
who went to mcn and said: Go thy
way, and sin no more!'
If the ideas of this lawyer were
carried out there would be
another conviction Of a criminal in
any of u courts. In his eyes any
witness who testifies to the guilt Of
a man who is violating law is a spy
and informer. Away with such
stuff. 1t is the duty of every honest
man to help convict law breakers if
he can do SO by telling what he
knows before a court. The mar who
called Rev. Mr.. Peacock an inform
er and spy accepts money to shield
a man that he kno rs to be d violator
of law. What would you call him?
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
FORTIFIED CROWNS.
What Heirs to Thrones Have SacrI.
feed to Love.

feed to Love.
The marriage Of the Countess Nom
tignose With. Signer Toselli the un-
pretcntic,s musician, recalls how
many Australian .oyalties have for
teited their thrones, or tne.r prospects,
OF sovereignty, for love. There was
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir
to the throne Of Austria, who threw
his regal prospects to the winds to
marry the woman he loved. He fell
in love with the Countess Chotek, a
handsome, high-spirited woman, but
socially his inferior. The news Of his
neDhew's infatuation reach-~ the ears
OF the Emperor Francis Joseph and
he swore the marriage should never
take place. lie sent for the archduke
ana polnted out, in terms of command
me advisability of the youths ally
ing himself with Il. princess OF one or
the European royal houses. IF you
persist me said, you will forfeit your
right to succeed to the throne OF Aus
tria. The line Of succession shall be
ho.nr,o 49,. n,, >'""Ne r''' SN"'i
this =, ,..,. ,,,.a. o. VI
dnE. n,r io, 49,,
n,n,o, ~ III
Il unionshas lived happy ever atter.'
lie Volutarily and. Sormally iclln-
.qNisEcd all claim to the Austro- Hun
nnlo,~nJ ,,N, ~. 49, h,n'..'l
s,c,idn, tx """So n''oe NO
.,hc. nocd rmr,. h"" i u"ss
~. ;1oo,, .'Np'Iu "nu
HE .,cn,. "''''t "!on'"Ne "S
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
DOG. GIRL, AND AIOON
Tho Little Maid Was Forced To Give
Vent To Her Feelings.

A very large mastiff at one N OF
a leash and a very small girl at tho
other end formed q combination
which attracted the attention Of a
casual Pedestrian In a quiet side
street.
The little girl doubtless thought
that she was taking the dog out for
an airing, but the big animal himself
appeared to have the impression that
he was the leader OF the expedition.
and, beyond question. the balance OF
power was entirely on his side. He
dragged the girl along, despite her
scolding II e~1postulation. at a
pace which kept her breathless.
Suddenly, either from a'whim OF
his own or because somebody had
been In the habit OF taxing htn
there, he darted through the swing
Ing doors Of a corner saloon. Tne
little girl looked Mortified, but. cling
Ing determinedly TO her end or tlS
leash, she followed her charge, and
as the doors swung shut behind her
the casual Pedestrian heard this OK
a~sperated remonstranee:
oh, darnfound 1t! Don't you
know ladies don't go there? It's only
a place for mane!"
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

A New York minister with plenty
Of time to- figure out things'',said
recently that it was more dangerous
to be a railway brakeman than to be
a murderer, And he goes on to
prove his assertion with statistics,
showing that only n murderer in
70 is hanged, while one brakeman in
every 80 is killed.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

James Foster. a young white boy
OF Cherokee Springs, ~Spartanburg
county died last week from blood
poisoning caused by h point Of a
lead pencil. He was running around
with a lead pencil in his mouth, and
in falling the point of the lead stuck
in his mouth. Parents should warn
children about putting lead pencils
their mouths.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
a SANDER Resented.

He could moi stay away long from
the abode Of his lalylovc and called TO
make inquiries about her on one occa-
sion. She had charge of the dairy, but
her master answered his timid knock.
"llow is the milkmaidt' asked the
haSlrul one f~altcringly.
Bat the farmer angrily replied as he
shut the door in the strangers face:
"Onr milk isn't made. It's got from
the COW -~pcarSOn'S Weekly.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
Nuluc OF lircrds.
Guard Against Field Mice.

Field mice do not attack old trecf
2 they can get the bark OF young
cces, but they sometimes do much.
'amaGe to orchards. Wrap the Tree,
nth tar paper, extending the pa
j,yeral inches into the ground. ?li
method not only prevents the depre.
cations OF mice, but also serves to
rotect against the borers. The pap.
er need not extend over O foot above
ground.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
CAROLINA HONEY WANTED.
Jahnz Says Thousands Of Barrels Are
Sought by Germans.

The Post says if anybody in or
about Charleston would like TO sell
Il thousand barrels of honey, or one
hundred thousand barrels, Imperial
Consul e. II. Jahnz should be com
municated with at once because he
has received q communication from
Germany from distributors Of that
product in the Fntherland asking for
an unlimited supply Of American and
particularly South Carolina honey.
The Germans use lots of honey
each year, so much in fact that local
apiaries,N and even nc bee plants Of
the n~eighbOring countries, fail to
supply the demand for honey that
comes from hundreds Of bakers of
Germany.
1t would seem that use could not
be found for the vast amount of the
honey produced in Germany and i'm
ported annually, but the supply has
not yet equallcd the demand, for the
Germans have Il sweet tooth and
like nothing better than htcir "homg
uchon' or. honey cake, a kind Of con
@fertion that IS. widely popular and is
and low Germans.
N distributors vii. buy
M onCy in any shape, Herr
l.,Ii said recently, in dis
aQncst which he has re
Germany. The bitter
onvcrtiblc into a prime
'I, e.. ~ the honey cake as the
purcst sweet honey. STRAINED or un-
strained the honey brought is taken.
Letters addressed to the German
consul at Charleston from prospcc-
will be forwarded to Germany and
prices quoted hy the distributors
there. lhcy Will give the highest
market prices for honey.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
TOO Strenuous.

"My son tells me you've dis
charged him." Said The office boys
mother, and | think that's strange:
you advertised for a strong boy, and
he's certainly"
Hes too streng. madam" inter
rupted the employer. In the single
day he was here he broke all the
rules of this Office and some OF the
furniture. Catholic Standard and
Times.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

TIE person who fired the shot
that killed EX-Judgc O. w. Buchan-
an while travelling in a railroad car
committed a most incXcusablc crime
and should be severely punished for
it. People who travel through our
State in railway trains must be
made to feel that they are not liable
to be shot to death by some fend or
fool.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

EIGHTEEN days after he murdered
a priest at his altar the Denver an
archist was sentenced to death. Had
he committed his awful crime in
South Carolina the chances are he
Woul dbe out on q bail bond.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

Dencn." ms is a mistake. Abial
Lathrop, Esq. is an able lawyer and
a honorable gentlemen. He would
make a better Judge than Pritchard,
and as good as Mccullough or any
one else who would depend on
Pritchard's influence with President
Roosevelt to get on the Federal
bench.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

,-.~n ne ATE. | didn't know 1t was
wrong, but [ have learned since |
grew older, and l. inclose 20 cents in
stamps, which will fully repay YOU
Tor all loss by my act
No name is signed to the letter,
but thc writer adds: You do not
know who am but if We both go to
~diunapO.lS News.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
) NItGi,ESS KILLED.
She Was Crawling Across Railroad
Track Under Car.

About halr-past two O'Clock Fri
day afternoon Selma Groom. Il col
or"d woman, who is employed at
Clailin University as Il servant, was
instantly killed at the Southern Rail
'ay freight station, Just opposite the
invcrsty. 1t a Il sad accident and
made a deep impression on the col
red people of Orangcburg,
The facts, us developed at the in
uCst, wore about as follows: The
roman and Il companion were cross
lg the tract while a freight engine
r 'Ni~~~ ~~-No "hiftin~ rho COM
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

IT begins to look now as if those
receivers appointed by Judge Pritch-
ard will never get a chance to di-
vide out any Of the States money
among themselves.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
Defending BlindtigcrS.

In speaking of the trial and con
viction of a man for running a blind
tiger in Atlanta the Atlanta Journal
says:
Rev. E. H. Peacock, Rev. Len G..
Broughton's assistant. and as relent-
lessNa hounder Of sin as ever sma h.
N,''' ~ - Lu"naA q dock
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
Paws For Stolen AnpIcs.

Horace Richardson, for many
years Il leading grocer, but o re-
tired. is in receipt of a letter mailed
in tlie oit" "
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

WE believe that the United States
Supreme Court will sustain the de-
cision Of the State Supreme Court
in the dispensary case. We hope SO
at least.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27
NInd boz lite Kills.

Little jennings White Russell, son
Of Mr.. Il. p. Russell, Of Newberry,
died in Atlanta Tuesday from a bite
of a mad dog received there some
days ago.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

Successful men possess either abil
ity or nerve.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

1t tickles some men almost to death
when q congressman spocks to them.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

It's a poor tool that can't be work
ed both ways.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-03-27

Corner Post Set in Concrete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
And Our Own Ancestors Too

RUI what about our own puritan and cavalier
- ancestors? Were they not more averse to paying
tribute to the goddess of Chance. Let history
make answer About the year 1900 1--WE quoting
from MacMasters History of the United States)
there wheel in every town large enough to
boast of court house jail. Wherever clumsy
bridge to be thrown stream. public
building enlarged. school house built, street
paved, road repaired manufacturing company
to be aided, church assisted. college treasury
replenished, lottery bill passed by the legis-
lature. wheel procured notice put in the papers,
and often in few weeks the money raised.
Massachusetts developed her cotton industry
with the money collected from the sale of lottery
tickets; in the way the city hall
larged in New York. the court house built at Eliza
beth. the library increased at Harvard, and many
OF the finest buildings put up in " Washington. Mac
Master gives long list of lotteries held in factories
grammar schools, academies, churches: lottery
to procure a bell for the German Reformed Church
(Maryland). lottery enable the Hebrews to
pay the debt on their synagogue (Pennsylvania).
lottery to build a city hall at Philadelphia,
The result, he says, very in furious to industry
and business. Farmers and artisans. tradesmen
and merchants were neglectng their businesses
to watch the drawings of innumerable wheels.
An English officer who has written two ponderous
volumes gambling among the various nations,
makes this observation about :" 1t is not
prising that people intensely speculative,
citable. and eager as the Americans should be des
perately addicted to gambling Indeed the spirit of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

more furious!" asked Juvenal that unrelenting
censor of public morals. " Nowadays not content
with carrying his purse to the gaming table. the
1t IS there that. as soon the gaming instruments
are distributed. YOU witness the terrible
tests. Is 1t not mere madness to lose hundred
thousand sestertii and refuse garment to slave
perishing with cold?'
Looking westward. we see Saxon warriors, even
their clergy1nen and bishops, rolling the bones
with their Roman neighbors; and several hundred
years later hear that the canker of gambling
surely eating into the very heart of the nation.
Nor is the history of Germany. France. Russia
Italy, Spain any better in this respect French
writer OF the eighteenth century tells of German
who being compelled to fight duel on account of
quarrel at the gaming table allowed his adversary
to fire at him He missed. Thereupon he said
to his opponent, L never miss. bet YOU hundred
ducats that break your right or left just
you please. The bet was taken. and he won. -
have found cards and dice" the same writer con-
of bread have merchants and artisans stalk
ing gold by the handfuls A small farmer has just
ganbed away his harvest, valued at three thousand
francs
The history of Monte Carlo, with its yearly
of about twenty -fve million francs. too we'll
known to be repeated here. OF Spain, English
traveller said that 1t impossible to meet good
company there unless willing to leave a
purse of gold the card assemblies of their nobility
Impecunous society danes and widows of great
lived the profits of the card tables in their
houses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
A Passion with the Ancients

GAMBLING is not product of civilization; ;
~ on the contrary it is a passion old as the race
itself-"the characteristic of the human biped all
the world over" On old Egyptian walls there are
legends tell of rajas rich than Crcrsus losing
their possessions and finally their wives and per-
sonal liberties the ancient Persians INDUCED in it
with oriental abandon: the Scythians staked their
lives single cast of the die; and China, the in
ventor of playing cards, is to-day. she has been
for centuries past. one big gambling den, in which
whether they shall get two cookies or none for
their penny. Excavators digging among the ruins
of Greece and Rome constantly turning up dice
reformers we learn that the Emperor Ciaudius had
the interior of his carriage arranged that he could
gamble on his journeys, and that Caligua played at
dice on the day of his sisters funeral
when the madness of games of chance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

0NE of The latest sensations in the gambling
j world was the winning of three million dollars
~ in about three months by young man still in
his twenties. OF if Mr.. Rogers Mr.. Gates
or Mr. Lawson had done this it would have been
sensation at ALL but for mere youth who short
while before had been marker in a brokers' office
for him do it, that Strs the hope and fires the
imagination of every lad in the land The newSpa
pers realizing this Immediately sent their inter-
viewers ascertain how the trick done. But the
young man. true gambler that he is, refused to talk.
Fortunes and lost stories of wildcat specula-
tions and get-rich- quick schemes of frenzied
finance, trusts and rebates, graft and corruption.
of stock market bank, and insurance Investigations,
of bucket shop raids of bookInaking, dOped horses,
and crooked locke s.-these the all absorbing
topics of the day. The whole country seems to he
infected with the gambling itch On street cor
ners and in back alleys, the turf and grdiron.
in temples of finance, in dazzling drawing rooms
and dreary garrets, in mining camp and army
barrack, trains and steamers, yes, even in the
sacred halls of many bethel, you will the
votaries of Chance trying their luck. The names of
men who have amassed fortunes through gambling
are as familiar almost the names of some of our
foremost men. Even the fact that they are known
to have played sometimes, to speak, with loaded
dice and stacked cards does not prevent them from
being idealized by many. No wonder foreign
critic charged us with being gambling nation, and
WOrshiping the goddess Chance!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
Other Nations Have the Palm

Other Nations Have the Palm
out not SO fast. Are any worse in this respect
- than other nations? If history be trusted,
the answer is emphatiCally no: and much as some
enthusiasts might like to claim that the
greatest people the ever shOne on, even in the
matter of gambling, the palm must in all justice
be Welded to other nations and other times. We
who among them compare with that prince of
gamblers, Nero, who thought nothing of stalking
four hundred thousand seStertll, or the equivalent
of one hundred thousand dollars in our money, on
a single throw of the dice? And remember that
money was not nearly plentiful in those days
it is now. George w., it is said, lost four million
dollars at cards before he was tWenty-One. " hat
modern King Prince show such record?
Who among card sharpS can compare with
BaSSOmp1erre who won quarter-mlll1On dollars
at sitting; with his Italian friend Pmentelo,
whose income from card playing was half million
a wear! What patron of CantleldS won
million dollars. as did General Scott in English
club house; and what ever lost million and
quarter as did the Duo de Biron! Five-hundred
percent Miller Cassie Chadwick, and their ill
loom no bigger than ants beside the famous Scotch
gambler John Law, who became Controller General
of France and in time completely ruined six
hundred thousand of the best families in the land
through his gambling schemes The frenzy pre-
vailed so far, told, that the whole nation
clergy peers and plebeans statesmen princes, nay
even ladies-turned stock Jobbers.' Everyone has
heard of the Kelley motor Swlndle: but what Is 1t
but child'S play beside the celebrated South Sea
Bubble and the tulip mania in Holland, which drove
both England and Holland mad with speculation!
These only a few examples of the very many
while we may have eclipsed former generations in
a thousand different ways, when it comes to pure
gambling, it must be conceded that have retro
graded if anything.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-02-29

adjournment express its deep ap-
probation of ti3e long and faithful
service rendered to the party by
its Chairman, Hon. A. G. Allen,
who during his entire period OF
service As such has lead the party
from victory to victory and in re-
firing from said Office leaves the
party united and harmonious.
On motion duly seconded and
carried, That the Committee
through its Chairman, turn over
TO the new Democratic Executive
Committee OF this Parish all the
documents. money and papers, be-
longing to the Committee
There being no further business
before the Committee it adjourned
sine die.
w. II. LATHAM, Secretary.