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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-29
TIIILMAN TALKS.
Is Opposed to Breaking Of the Solid
South.


New York, April Ex-senator
BENJAMIN R. Tillman talked on the
Taft policy Of breaking up the solid
South tonight before dinner of the
South Carolinians at the Hotel
Knickerbocker. Senator Tillman
does not approve of it and he said
80 without making much ado over
it.
I'm not the Sort" said he, that
likes to throw bouquets at anybody.
I'd rather throw rocks instead" Then
he got to it. There is one thing
that is on my mind, and it stays there
most of the time. It boils up once
in while and when I'm called on to
make speech, why, it just naturally
comes to the surface: 1 mean the
problem, the South's problem, the
problem of the Sphinx.
why is the South solid? Why
does it always vote the Democratic
ticket? We are in the minority.
Why should the other fellow be COM
ing along now and try to bamboozle
us and lead US off after false gods
after all these years? Why the Dem
ocratic ticket-the Democratic ticket
in this day and time? Why do I vote
for the Democracy? Because I'm
white man. That's why.
taft thinks seriously and earn
estly that it would be good to have
the South split up. It would be a
great thing for the Republican grab
game in Washington. He says the
election laws that the Southern
States have passed have made US
free of this black peril, and that it
would be well for us to get some of
the goods that comes from being
members Of the dominant party?
"You might think, if you only
think on the surface, that there are
benefits to be derived from what Mr..
Taft urges
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-29
HEMPHILL AT WHITE HOUSE.
Editor of The News and Courier Calls
on President Taft.


Washington, April 24.-Mr. ]. c..
Hemphill, editor Of The News and
Courier, was in Washington to-day on
his way home from New York. He
made call at the White House and
was cordially received by the Presf-
dent.
When Mr.. Hemphill reached the
executive Offices, just before noon,
much of the available space was oc7
cupied by delegates to the D. A. 4.
convention, but in few minutes the
South Carolina editor got to see Sec
retary Carpenter. When the president
heard that Mr.. Hemphill was there
he had him taken in Immediately,
and though there were many others
present at the time, stopped every
thing to welcome him.
Mr.. Hemphill received most cor
dial invitation to dinner.
He also saw Senator Tillman and
other South Carolina friends during
his brief stay in Washington, and
left for home this afternoon.
Just as Mr.. Hemphill was leaving
the White House the president said
that he thought as much of him as he
could think of any Democrat, and
Mr.. Hemphill replied that he thought
as much of the president as he could
Of any Republican.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-29

Old newspapers for sale at The
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Cheapest kind of wrapping paper.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
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OBITUARY NOTES.

WINIFRED S. SPENCER. postmaster Of
New Rochelle, dropped dead yesterday
from apopleNy at his home In New Ro-
chelle. Mr.. Spencer was a Republican, ap-
pointed TO succeed the late Charles Ear
wicker. who also died in office. He was ex-
tensively interested In real estate in New
Rochelle.
MRS. OPHELIA ". DARLING died at
her home In Brooklyn on Sunday evening,
after brief illness. She was the daughter
of Richard /. Wells. of Hudson. Her hus-
band was the Rev. DR.. Henry Darling, for
ner moderator of the General Assembly.
for many years pastor of the Fourth Pres
byterian Church, of Albany, and in his
later years president of Hamilton College.
Since his death she had lived in Brooklyn.
where she identified herself with the work
of the Memorial Presbyterian Church and
many literary and philanthropic activities.
DIR. c. II. OFT. a we'll known surgeon.
died at his home in Sayre, Penn. on Sum
day night.
DIR. BENJAMIN F. BATCHELDER. one
of the Oldest dentists in New York, died
al his home. No. 80 West 1o4th street,
yesterday, after a short illness. DR.. Batch
elder was eighty-three years old and had
no relatives in the city. He is survived by
a brother, who lives in Havernili, Mass
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02

younger man should take the leadership OF
the college department The trustees aC-
cepted the resignation.
Dean Van Amringe in 1865, five years
after his appointment to the faculty, was
made a professor of mathematics. He soon
became head of the department, and in 1888,
when Dean Henry Drsler of the college
retired. Professor Van Amringe succeeded
him. Ten years later. when President Seth
Low was appointed member of the Hague
Peace Conference and went to Europe,
Dean Van Arlringe was appointed tenn
porary president by the trustees, When
President Low resigned to accept the nomi-
nation for Mayor on the fusion ticket the
successor.
Van Am" he is known to genera
tions of Columbia graduates, has been the
most popular among Columbia men, even
from his undergraduate days. He always
stood for the students and their rights and
won the undying devotion of Undergrad
yates and alumni alike by coming out
strongly in opposition to DR.. Butler when
football was abolished at Columbia four
years ago.
Dean Van Amringe was elected president
ganization. and is the only president the
club has ever had. He is also president of
the Columbia University Alumni Council.
It was largely through his efforts that John
Stewart Kennedy was induced to give the
half million dollars for the erection of
Hamilton Hall four years ago.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
ASToR DIVORCE CASE.
Referees Report Will Be Filed in
Dutchess County.

1t was definitely learned yesterday that
the divorce action brought by Mrs. John
Jacob Astor against Colonel Astor is a
Dutchess County proceeding and that the
report of the referee. Charles II. Young
and all the testimony taken Will be filed
in the Duchess County Clerks office at
Poughkeepsie Referee Young has prac-
ticalIy completed taking the testimony.
but it cannot be learned when he will sub
NIT his report to Justice Mills.
Justice Mills will begin holding trial term
in Rockland County on next Monday, and
will sit at the court house in New City
il is regarded that the findings of the ref
cree will be submitted to him there next
week.
The suit brought in Duchess Coun-
" because the Astors have their country
home there The 9th Judicial District. in
which Justice Mills holds court, takes in
Duchess County, and for that reason it
is in his jurisdiction TO sign the order ap-
pointing the referee. Justice Mills said yes
terday that the referee had not Yet made
a report 10 him
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
M. b. CONFER ENCES
PLACE, Date and Bishop to Pre-
SIDE at Spring Meetings.

hInghamton. Nov 1.-The first report of
the proceedings of the Methodist bishops
Vi the world who have been meeting in
executive session in this city since last
oeSday, was made to-day. when the an
houncements were made for the spring con-
ference III all parts of the United States.
With the place, date and bishop to preside
as follows:
Arkansas. Mcna. January %. Smith: Bal
timore, Baltimore. March so Goodsell: Cen
ffal ff pennsylvania. no place fixed, March
51ty, April 6, Spelmeyer: Delaware. Phila-
deIphla, March Il, Anderson; East Ger
Fan East MaTrence Mans Mass April s. Moore
Eastern Sweden. Providence, April .,
MIeeley: Florida, Ocala. January 20, Berry
2 Hughes; kansas Atchison, March .,
smith; Lexington. Maysville. Ky, March
50 Cranston: Lincoln. Topeka, Kan. March
Ark Ark February 2, Smith; Louisiana. New
place fixed. April l3' ,Quayle; mississippi.
England. Westfeld. Mass. April 6. VIII
son; Now England. Southern. Attleboro,
no place fixed. March &c. Quayle. and New
Jersey, Atlantic City, March .. Spellmeyer.
ren; New York East. Middletown, Conn,
March 80, Moore: North Indiana. Bluff
ton April 6. Cranston. Northern New
York York Watertown, April -; Gocdsell; !;
90 Mcdowell: Philadelphia, Reading.
sions. san Juan. +. r.. no date. Hamilton
St. Johns River, Eustis. Fla. January 13,
Berry; ST. Louis. Eldorado. Mo. March 30.
Speilmeyer; South Florida Missions, Or
lando. Fla, January 20. Berry; South Kan
sas. Fort Scott March 16. Smith; South
western Kansas, Wichita. March Is. Nc
Dcrell; Troy. Saratoga Springs, n. Y.
April s, Mcintyre; Upper Mississippi. Kos
ciusko, Miss, January ), Anderson: Yer
mont, Island Point, April 13, Mcintyre
Washington, Pittsburg. March 23 Warren
Wilmington, Salisbury, Md, March is,
Hamilton, and Wyoming. Binghamton, n.
Y, March 90, Berry.
Bishop Neulson Will preside at the Mexi-
co conference.
Chancellor James r. Day Of Syracuse
University was elected ministerial dele
gate and United States Senator w P.
Dillingham;, of Vermont, was elected lay
delegate to the General Conference of the
Canadian Methodist Episcopal Church.
Bishop Goodsell and the Rev. Joshua
Stansfield, OF Indianapolis. were appointed
federal delegates to the Wesleyan Confer
ence of England and Ireland: the Rev
Naph1ali LuCcock. of Kansas City, and
former Governor Hanley of Indiana as fra
ternal delegates to the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
and Bishop Walden as the fraternal dele
gate to the General Conference of the Col
oTed Methodist Episcopal Church.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
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GOMEZ OPTIMISTIC
CONDITIONS IN CUB1.
Promise of Great Sugar Crop
-FinanciaI Outlook.

Havana. Nov. 1.-The Cuban Congress re-
convened this afternoon. the sessions 81
both houses being devoted to receiving the
Presidents message This document was
very long Its tone was optimistic. II dealt
mainly with a review of existing conditions
and did not make many important recon-
mendations.
President Gomez. in the early part Of his
message. said that the economic condition
of the country could not he more fattering
at the close of the greatest sugar crop In
Cuba's history. with the promise that the
coming crop would he even greater. Life
and property everywhere were secure and
the government was receiving the support
Of its political opponents and the entire
press. The message referred TO important
railroad extensions I'm Oriente Province,
the opening up of large districts for culti-
walton and the increasing demand for
labor. and recommended that Congress
should support this movement by eucOur-
aging immigration and establishing agri-
cultural loan institutions.
The message added that the condition ot
the Treasury was considered satisfactory.
compared with its condition at the begin
ming OF the present government. The last
eight months showed increased receipts
amounting to 81 $40. 303 over the correspond
ing period OF last year. When the Treasury
was turned over TO the government jan
uary 2s, 1909. 1t contained S.6S5.22s with
obligations amounting to ss.4Ois56. The
ceipts since then amounted to SIS, tSa, ,t26.
making a total of s2S.I2i.55L The expendi-
lures reached s27.OSe .S53. leaving in the
Treasury on September 80 a balance of
s1OS5. sol.
BY pursuing course of severe economy,
the President said, the country would soon
wipe out the obligations left over by the
government of Intervention
President Gomez called attention to the
discrimination against Cuban products by
several European countries. notably France.
which was contemplating an increase In
duty of 80 per cent on Cuban tobacco, and
recommended that Congress reform the
tariff, fixing maximum and minimum rates
at the discretion of the Executive. which
would place In his hands a formidable
weapon OF economic defence. He also urged
an appropriation TO keep UP the great sys-
TEN Of highways recently completed. The
health of the island was said TO be excel
lent. sanitary measures having been car
ried on with vigor and skill 1t was pointed
out that the only epidemic this year was a
slight outbreak of diphtheria in Pinar del
Rio Province. which was promptly checked.
The President announced that he would
postpone the presentation of the budget to
Congress until November 10.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
DANIEL CHURCH M'EWEN.

Daniel Church McEwen, a lawyer. died
yesterday from pneumonia at his home. No
$50 Sterling Place. Brooklyn. He was born
in Lawrencevlle, \. j., in 1873. He pre-
pared for college at the LawrencevilIe
Academy, tut having acquired knowledge
of shorthand he came to New York i'm 1854
and became a stenographer in courts and
on newspapers. Later he became Secretary
Seward's private secretary. and afterwsrd
was connected with The Tribune for two
years.
His intention had been to become law
yer, and later he studied law at the Column
bia Law School and was admitted to the
bar. But in 1869 he was appointed official
stenoSrapher of the Supreme Court. 2d Ju-
dicial District, outside Of Kings County.
He had full charge of the Supreme Court
official reporting in nine counties. employ
ing his own assistants. This post he held
for thirty-five years. when he retired from
active life. He was a member of the Mon
taIIk and Crescent Athletic clubs, the Thou
sand Islands Yacht Club and the Thousand
Islands Golf Club.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02

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MNE. HOMER SINGS.
Large 1udience attends Re
citaI at LYceum.

Nine. Louise Homer appeared yesterday
afternoon at the Lyceum Theatre In re-
cital of songs by her husband, Sidney
Homer. The recital was given for the
benefit of the MacDowell Club students
fund, and Judging by the size of the audi
ence a goodly sum must have been OBJ
tanned
The programme, which was composed en-
tirely of songs by Mr.. Homer, set to words
by Stevenson, Tennyson, Henley, Holmes,
Browning, Christina Rossetti and Sydney
Dobell, was perhaps a trif1e long for
recital devoted entirely to the works of one
composer. but the audience seemed inter
ested and demanded numerous encores,
especially of the chldrens songs. 1t was
in the simple melodies of these childrens
songs, which have been heard often in New
York before, that Mr.. Homer appeared to
best advantage.
The winsomeness OF Christina Rossetti g
In the Meadow and Love Me. I Love
You was charmingly brought out by the
composer, and if the words themselves are
not poetry OF the highest order, at least
Mr.. Homers music went straight to the
heart of the audience The musical setting
to such poems as Browning's "Prospice"
was interesting, but seemed hardly TO
sound the depths of the poets meaning.
Mrs. Homer. however. seemed more sue
cessful in her husbands dramatic songs
singing "Prospice" and "A Woman's Last
Word" with admirable effect. She gave
forth her powerful voice freely. too freely.
perhaps, for auditorium the size of the
Lyceum's. this fault being due, no doubt,
10 her unfamiiarty with the theatre. A
good word should be said for her enuncia-
ton. In spite Of an occasional slurring OF
the vowes she sang the words SO that all
could understand them.
Mr.. Homer played his wife's accompani-
ments and shared the audiences applause.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
WHAT is GOING ON TO-DAY.

Meeting Of the Daughters Of the Confcderacy.
Hotel Astor. 1880 a. m
Professor Henry Ford Jones The Cost
OF the National Government Columbia
University. afternoon
Free lectures of the Board OF Education.
s p. m:-WadIaIGh High School. Hath
street and Seventh avenue ''Immigra-
tlcn. Advantages and Disadvantages
Dr Walter r. clark. Public School Il.
Mott and Spring streets, Volcanoes and
Geysers." William w tlendcnun; Pub
lie school 80. No. "a East Ssth street.
'"rh" Prevention Of tuberculosis" pr.
B@rtTam If Waters. Public Scnool c..
Ith street. east of First avenue. Electric
Lighting and Electric Furnaces" Fred
erICk ". Huntingdon Public school 1G9.
Audubon avenue and lGSth street. 'Thc
Voice; Its jrse ami Abuse" Purdon Robin
son: Museum of Natural History. T1th
street and Columbus avenue. The His
toric Alamo C'ty." X. CoruClius Rabv :.
Public Library. No. i0S West l3,,th street,
mysteries OF India Dr Arthur X. <.
ROY. ST Corneliuss Church. No. f23 West
t6th street. Prom the Atlantic 10 the
Pacific Across Canada" Dr.. Thomas <
Potterton.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
IDOLS" AT THE BIJOU.

4 variation rather than version Of Will
lam J. T1oche's Idols by Ray B. Horni-
man, WAS produced at the Bijou Theatre
last night by moderately good cast, in
which Miss Mabel Roebuck, Lconore Har
ris Orlando Daily and n. J. Sheldon Lewis,
~ no took the relatively unimportant part of
Jacob Hart. did. perhaps, the best work of
all Leouorc Harris. Minna Hart, did
Nycll As n nnerCcnary woman who was ready
TO sacrifice everything for her Inheritance.
Alexander Frank. tic butler who com
mitted the murder. was good. The varia-
tion lacked tho artistry OF the original. II
was like a poor novclization Of a good play.
II lacked the larGcness OF purpose, the con-
listency and the logical development of Mr..
Locke's novel.
The theme of she author of the novel is
nc farrcaching effect on various lives of
= vulgar crime by two nameIess abject
roeues beneath the surface Of four
gentle lives train was smoldcring."
writes Mr.. Locke I'm his preface. "a flame
which was set ablaze by the murder Of
Jewish money lender The four gentle
lives in the story-and in the play-were
those OF GerarG Merriam, Irene Merriam.
his wife. Hugh Colman a friend. and
Minna Hart. daughter of Jacob Hart, the
money lender, II the book Merriam and
rol,7,a, were in love with the same girl
who naaliy married Merriam. But the
friendship Of the three continued through
The years They were gentle English folk
who trusted each other fully colman had
4 kew 10 Merriam's house and he came
and went as he pleased. In the play. how
eyer. Merriam Oh. J. CarviID shows in the
first lines that he speaks his jealousy of
Colnam and thereby spoils the nobility Of
character which made him one of the
Idols in the book In the play and the
book Colman marres Minna Hart deohore
Ifarris). They conceal their marriage from
Jacob Hart 1Sheldon Lewis, the girl
father. because of his opposition on racial
grounds. During night that toiman
spent with his wife in Iarts house the
Icw is murdered and Colman is accused OF
The crime.
IN the third act OF the play Colman is
tried for the crime No witnesses are
introduced IN his behalf. and he refuses TO
prove an alibi because he sworc never To
rcreal his marriage 10 Minna Hart. who
feared disinheTitanc". The Je~css tcstifies,
pui does not reveal her husbands inno-
p conec His life j., saved ~ Ircnc Mer-
rism tAiiss RoebuckD, who sWears falsely
that he spent the night with h1r She
swears this thinking tl9t her husband
would understand. Buf lie didn't; in the
book he divorces her. and. years lat"r, she
marrIcs Colman. But IN the play. after Il
stormy scene b@t%een Colinan and Merriam
G1at eo!nes ana aol ;elis OF her nisrT:age
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
TO ATTEND KENNEDY FUNERAL.

Chamber of Commerce, appointed yester-
day eleven men, formerly vice presidents
of the Chamber of Commerce with John
S Kennedy, the philanthropist, who died
a his home, No West 51th street, Sun
day afternoon, TO attend the funeral OF
their former associate tomorrow as a spe-
cial committee from the Chamber of Com
merce. The men appointed are j. Pierpont
Morgan, Jacob II. Schiff, James j. Hill,
George r. Baer, Gustav H. Schwab, Cleve-
land II. Dodge Joseph II. Choate, George
+. Seward. William Bayard Cutting. Cen
eraI Stewart L. Woodford and John CIalin.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
MANY SINGERS ARRIVE.
Liners Also Bring New Opera Con
ductor and Ballet Mistress.

Among the opera singers who arrived
yesterday on the French liner Touraine
were Nine. Marette Mazarin. Oscar Ham
mersteins new French dramatic soprano;
Jean Waller. his new French bass: Maurice
Renaud the barytore Charles Dalmores,
Armand Crabbe Augusta Doria and Clio
varni Folese. Another passenger was Os-
car AnseIme. the new Italian conductor at
the Manhattan.
Nine. Mazarin will open in Aida" the
opera in which she made her debut in
Paris Nine. Mazarin was the first woma n
to sing Strausss "Salome" In French
Among the passengers on the Red Star
liner Lapland Nine. Malvine Cava-
lazzi, who is TO take charge of the ballet
school at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Nine. Cavalazzi was at one time premiere
danseusc at the Academy of Music.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
NEW BRONX THEATRE OPENS.

Percy Williams opened the new Bronx
Theatre at 149th street and Third avenue
last night. The bill, headed by Albert
Chevalier' the English character actor. was
an excellent one The lobbies were deco
rated with floral emblems from the COM
panies playing at the seven other theatres
under Mr.. Wiliams's mana cement. The
beauty and comfort of the new house were
matters Of general comment. Mr.. Williams
made short address of welcome.