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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-10
The Lien Law Lesson.

1t Is possible that the lien law will
never be repealed; that at it's next
session the present general assembly
VIII repeal the act by which the law
is to come off the statute books next
January; but we should not advise
anybody to presume on such a con-
tingency.
In view of the fact that this law
has been a subject of controversy
more than forty years, we think lit
will be safest for every individual
farmer to consider the repeal bill as
final and that there will be no more
or the lien business after this year.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Now. suppose we assume as a fact
that there will be no lien business
next year, what is the best thing for
the farmer to do in the circumstan-
ces? We can suggest nothing better
than that every farmer prepare him.
self. as we'll as possible, to do without
the lien law and put himself in a po-
sition to reap such advantages as may
come.
The basic idea Of the lien law was
to provide means whereby prospec-
tive renters and troopers could pro-
cure corn and meat. OF course, the
means provided was extended to in
clude every other commodity; but
corn and meat were the main things.
The cutting out of the lien law does
not mean the cutting out of corn and
meat. These things cannot be cut
out. They will be just as necessary
next year as they were last year or
any other year during which the lien
law has been in existence, and the
thing therefore, for every farmer to do
this year, Is to put in as much of his
effort as possible in providing corn
and meat.
We do not like to be in the posi-
ton of attempting to prophesy, for
we know nothing about the future;
but as we see things there is nothing
else for it than that there will be a
more pressing demand for corn and
meat next year than there has been
for years and years, and that the
prices for these commodities will be
higher in comparison with other
things than they have been for quite
a long time.
Wise farmers this year, will raise
corn and meat.-Yorkville Enquirer.
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In July, twenty-one counties now
having dispensaries. will decide by
popular vote whether they shall re-
tain the dispensary system or expcri-
ment with prohibition. In this coun-
~. we suppose. the dispensaries will
Be retained. Every informed citizen
understands that dificulties attending
the enforcement of prohibition In
Charleston would be incomparably
xrsater than those that would con-
front the law officers In enforcing any
other mthod OF dealing with the traf-
NC In intoxicants. We hope that the
'referendurn" In Charleston will be
pcrfunctory In character for the OBJ
vious reason that from every point of
view the county dispensary system is
tbe bses LIQUOR system that the peo-
)ple Of the other counties are willing
for Charleston TO have at this time.
Howsver immoral. Pharisaicai and
foolish is the dictation OF others in
respect to the government OF this
county a. those matters which con-
cern only charlestonIans. 1t remains
. fact TO be taken into account.
Before the election Is held. the law
tespecting citizens Of Charleston
should ASSERT themselves and make
themselves . force to be reckoned
with. They should let II be plainly
undcrstood that even In the event of
ohs county voting for prohibition. de-
terlpined. positive and persistent en-
dssvors win be made to have the law
obeyed. A spirit Of respect for law
= moro important to Charleston than
y revenue or any other consideration.
end Il should be plainly understood
k1Dw that the people OF this city will
Not pNpinely consent to the supplant-
ing ef the dispensaries by prohibition
IN order that path may be cleared
for psrsons who have contempt for
law % enrich themselves by selling
whlsksy.
Usd<r the operation Of the county
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-10

The business of soliciting orders
for the sale of whiskey in this State
is to be made dangerous. The gem
eral assembly has passed the follow
ing: Section /. That each and every
person, whether acting for himself or
as agent for any person, firm or cor
poration, who shall conduct the busi-
ness of liquor drummer, soliciting or
receiving orders for interstate ship
ment within any county within this
State, except as now authorized by
law, any spirituous, malt, vinous fer
mented, brewed, whether lager or
rice beer. or other liquors or bever-
ages, or any compound or mixture
thereof which contains alcohol and
is used as a beverage, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor. and on conviction
fined in a--sssm not exceeding one
thousand dollars, or imprisoned for
not exceeding six months, or both
hne aud imprisonment ip the discre-
ton OF the court.
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dispensary system, any man who
Graves whiskey or beer can get It, II
the method be inconvient, the incon-
venience affects all OF us alike, and
bad though the plan be as compared
with high license system. one man
In Charleston Is no more entitled to
immunity from 1t than another. The
dispensary system at least allows the
city and the county to derive con-
siderable revenue from the liquor
traffic. Prohibition would transfer
that revenue to the pockets Of blind
tigers" Doe. a taxpayer, would sim
ply pay ten dollars additional in
taxes in order that Roe. a lawbreaker,
might have ten dollars additional in
his money drawer
The voluntary adoption Of prohibi-
tion for Charleston is scarcely to be
thought of as possibility. and it
could be adopted only through the in
strumentality of persons bent on eva
sion and violation of the law. 1t would
be surrender of the city to the ene-
mics of law. To meet such danger,
an organization OF citizens should be
formed. In ths' event that circum-
stances as they develop advise 1t. with
the declared purpose of enlisting and
uniting the energies of those citizens
willing to elect municipal officers,
members Of the legislature and coun-
ty officials who could be relied upon
to do their utmost to enforce what
ever laws and ordinances be on the
statute books.
In every community there Is good
citizenship dangerous to lawbreakers
when 1t Is aroused. and 1t can be
aroused In Charieston.-The News
and Courier.
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Scores Of New York women are
taking out licenses for hunting moose.
But they let their husbands hunt the
mice. e.A-Pittsburs Gazette Times.
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You cannot bless men until you be-
lieve In them.
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Send us your Job work.
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observation-disclosures

Which has stood the test for years.
H We quote herewith copy of gnar;
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backed by one of the largest factories !
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-28
HOW PLAYERS FEEL
WHEN TRANSFERRED
Cullen Has an Interesting Talk With
One Who Has Figured in
Trace in Big League
Baseball.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-tSpeciai
Correspondence does oah
PLAYER feel when. being shifted from
one team to another he has to turn
smack-dab round on the day following
the SHIFT and perform aginst his little
playmates of the day before.
This problem has interested me more
ar less. I've heard various and sundrE
ball PLAYERS hand out their replies 10
the question when it has been put 10
them; but none of the replies seemed
to cover the matter: the answers didn't
gat down to the cuticle of the situation
and beneath it.
Rut the other evening l corralled a
certain well known player OF the Ma
tional league who was transferred from
ono of tbe main teams of that league
- y los. important club last June, and
who had To turn around on the oos
following the switch and play against
a foam he had been with for more
than six wears. This man exuded some
stuff about that situation that sounded
raol IN me. and that's why I'm gong
to quote him.
.J didn't like the thing little DIT
tn fell the truth" was what he saio
wba 7 asked him how he felt aDou'
rho thing of walking up to the dlsh anu
swinging at the stuff of a pitcher ne
haen bunking up with for years III
fact. it took me quite speh -
used tn it. and I'm not exactiH useu
to it vet. That is to say, Wheii l 80 uf
a ainst the team mates that IL gre"
so.ond nature for me to associate anu
cbum and pal with / have sort OF uh
cannv feeling that something's Wrohs
or not the way it ought TO De. l 'a'
exact,v define the feeling. but II
there.
~ didn't mind being switched 10 III.
c,uh I'm with understand Ihe ie'-
lows of the club I'm with no" aie
ares. PLAYERS that Eve known anu
mated with for years. So didn't starr
in with any, crabby feeling when | De-
gan to ,wor,. with my present ou'n'
Rnt on the very next day foiio"ins
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$500 900 DEAL ON
FOR CRYSTAL MINE
Deeds in Escrow for SiIver-lead Prap-
erty North of Spokane

Deeds in Escrow for SiIver-lead Prap-
erty North Of Spokane.
SPOKANE, Aug. 2S.-Deeds indorsed
by the French consul at San Francisco
conveying the properties of the Crystal
mine to syndicate in Paris, France.
for 100000 were placed in escrow I'm
the Traders National bank of this
city today by Capt. John Gray, presi-
dent of the company. The agreement
is that when due notice of the approy-
al of the deeds and the filing of the
same in escrow is received by the
French syndicate, the first installment
of the purchase price is to be imme-
diately sent to Spokane. These are
the terms arranged by Captain Gray
and Henry Snamiska on their recent
visit To Paris.
OF the stock of the Crystal mine
fully one-half is owned i'm Spokane
and the rest throughout the country.
The Crystal is a silver-Iead mine.
and is located near Crystal City. Wash.
Is miles north of Spokane.
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severe financial wallop, but is discour-
ages the players of the trailing teams
and causes them to play listless ball.
particularly when they're line up
against each other
The trailing teams. of course. al
ways smoke up and dish out the best
they've got when they stack up
/, against the teams they are fighting
for the pennant. if only to show the
rag-loving fans, by winning if IT'S
possible. that the teams that are out
in front are not the whole cheese and
that they can be beat by trailers.
But when they're playing against
each other, the trailing teams. from
lack of encouragement on the part of
the fans who are all for the teams
that are booming along in the pennant
race, are inclined to sort of doze on
the job, with the result that the games
played earlier in the year. don't class
with the games played earlier in the
year, when every team still had a
chance for the bunting.
1.-THE ideal proposition. of course,
would be this: The strengthening OF
each club from the overplus of the
swell clubs as the weaker teams need
to be strengthened This. of course. is
only dream. but that's the case with
all deal propositions.
For example. if the base ball bust
ness wasn't so much of money
meaning thing as it is-and of course
it'll always be that-why. the club
, that hoped off at the opening of the
opening of the season and took long
lead on tne other clubs would be
required( under the terms of this ideal
scheme that / have in mind. to hand
team needing Strengthening moss. The
teams fighting it out for second posi-
| ton would be required to transfer
always of course, for a consideration
| in the way of money or some other
| form of trading-One or more of its
players to less fortunate teams; and
so on down the line. to the end that
teams acquire. say by the middle of
| the season. pretty perfect sort OF
balance. thus enabling them to sort of
! stretch across the track in a bunch for
the dash down to the tape. This would
keep the public's interest in all of the
| clubs sustained and make the race
/ vastly more interesting. But, as L
say. it's purely a hasheesh fantasy
! that I'm pulling now, for can you see
| any of the out-in- front teams hand
| ing over anybody that they need, for
any consideration whatever. to clubs
that need snoring up?
| But the pennant greed is injurious
| to the game. all the same, and I'd
ba glad to see the fans get down TO
more interest III the game for the
| games sake than for the sake of the
| nennant
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the switch | had to work against my
old gang. and it kept me batting my
eyes all the time to find out if | was in
the right Uniform or not.
Il had Il feeling on that first day that
l played against the bunch l was used
to playing alongside of that 1 was
simply dreaming; that it was kind
of nightmare that l couldn't break
out of, and that when | didn't manage
to come out of it I'd feel foolish and
have sheepish sort of a laugh over it.
But. as the game progressed, of course
the feeling that il was a dream disap-
peared and | had to see that it was "a
plumb reality.
Well then | sure felt gloomy. l
didn't know why. l don't know ex-
actly why yet. But gloomy is the way
/ felt. | couldn't dodge the feeling
that was sort Of putting over some
thing underhanded. if you get that.
/ felt skun:5y and measley and ornery.
as man is liable to feel after he's
done something mean and miserable.
OF course there wasn't a reason on
earth why 1 should have felt this way,
but I'm simply trying to describe how
the thing weighed upon me at the time.
L knew every kinl1 of every man
belonging to my old club, you see. and
it seemed to me that l was taking a
mean kind of an advantage of my in
formation about them.
"This sensation was emphasized
when the pitcher who was doing the
heaving chat day for the team to which
I'd been transferred boned me for in
formation about the hitting kinks of
the fellows of the other club.
THAT guy can't touch 'em. can he,
when they're up around his necktie?'
! the finger would say to me. mention
ing one of the players of my former
team. and. of course. being pinned to
the stick that way. | had to out Win
/ hin, and tell him exactly how it came
to the batting thing. Ny duty to the
team that | was with demanded that
come across with that information.
| Rut don't YOU ever believe that l didn't
feel like a sneak for giving up the
/ stuff that was boned out of me that
way. Couldn't get away from the feel
ing of disloyalty TO my former gang
! to save my soul
"But of course, was absolutely
wrong in looking at the matter IN TINS
| way. Base ball is business and
sport combined. and it's the bounden
duty of the player to give everything
/, ba has in the way of muscle, brain and
| information to the club he's drawing
his nay from. This is thing in which
| sentiment has mo part at all. The duty
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-28

Pioees SPECIFY klO, ana ne is worth
looking at in any competition at his
game. But if there's a gink in the
same race who is supposed to be able
to put the 100 yards away in 10 fiat.
were all for that one, and the other
one runs for the end book. We don't,
! in other words, make much provision
for a losers end It's the win thing or
nothing with us, and this, particularly
with reference to base ball, is poor
proposition once you begin to scan il.
THE gang begin to lose interest in
ball club just as soon as they See that
the team has fallen out of line for the
pennant. OF course, there's always a
bunch of the faithful who stick around
and attend the games for the sake of
the game; but the great body of 'em
quit cold as soon as the team they
start in by being interested in shows
that it is not going to be anywhere
near the rag at the wind-up. The team
may be putting up an excellent arti-
Gle of ball, a sort of game that's
worth the price of admission every
time the ball yards thrown open to
the public: but it's not quite up to
the rag -snatching class. notwithstand-
ing its good average game. and that
lets it out so far as the major part of
the public is concerned. Folks that
are all for the pennant thing look
upon it as fiiv mime because it isn't
in the bunting grabbing race and the
in my opinion
Take the present situation i'm both
leagues There are three clubs in each
league that are away up there. and
five clubs in each league that are sort
of frivoling around. doing the best
they can-and it's a pretty good best
at that, day in and day out Well, the
in the fight for the rag are the whole
thing and the other five clubs of each
league, composed in many cases of
ball players who, as individuals. are
just as good as the fellows in the
three leading clubs. gain merely mild
sort of an interest from the general
crowd. even if the dyed in the wool
fanatics-a smaller class than is gen
orally supposed-do hang around until
the very finish
"Of course it would be simply i'm
possible to so balance all of the clubs
, of the major leagues so that eacn
club at this season of the year. We'll
say, would have a chance in the final
sprint for the rag. I'm not arguing
that any such thing as that would
| be possible But the prize offered for
very greatly from the interest which
would otherwise be felt in the playing
of each and all of the teams that
haven a chance to land at the top
of the heap.
Along about this season of the
year, each year of recent seasons, the
rag-loving fans have been able to
make up their minds that tne PEN
nants OF the two major leagues are
going to fall to one of two or three
clubs. respectively, of the leagues;
their heads they immediately lose sall
interest in the other teams. This not
ONLY lits the non contending teams a
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Horse Show at Syracuse.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Entries 1oi
tbe horse show to be held in cOnnec-
tiOn with the Syracuse state falr cos
ed today with Secretary ;. w. Iaylor'
of this city. The prize list aggregates
more than $4,000 William III. Moore
who won first honOrs with his string
,+ Iondon and Alfred G.. Vanderbilt
are among the entrants.
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Championship Polo.

NEWPORT. r. l., Aug. 2S.-A cham
pionship polo match was commenced
hore TODAY between a team composed of
]. S. Phipps. James NJ. Waterbury,
r Stoddard and Devereaux MllDufn on
one side and Allan Forbes, X Lid Moh-
tague Jr.. Hugh Drury and joshua
Crane on the other
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California Fair.

SACRAMENTO. Aug. 2s.-Surpass
ing all it's predecessors in the extent
and value OF its exhibits. the Califor-
MIA State fair opened here today af-
fords the best display of California
products ever attempted. The hort
cultural section and the live stock
show are especially notable
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1 speak of finally arrived at this
view of it's far ahead of any merely
sentimental considerations involving
the players former relationship to
members of another club. There's no
treachery involved, as a simple mat
ter of course, in a players handing out
what he knows about his former club
to the outfit he's playing with, but. as
say, it takes quite a little While for
his nut.
"Of course everybody knows that, in
ball clubs always take into considera-
ton what is liable to come off when
this or that player becomes a member
CT this or that other club.
There are certain managers in
both leagues who wouldn't send one of
their players to certain other clubs of
the same league for any possible con-
SideratiCn. There are some clubs from
which players never are transferred
direc tly TO other clubs. They may ar
rive at the other clubs by roundabout
process of trading, but they are never
transferred straightout to such clubs
because the managers don't even enter
tain the idea of letting the other club
into the inside stuff of their outfit.
The base ball business, of course, is
becoming more and more a business
losing its purely sporting character.
But it will be a long time-probably it
will be never-before a player who has
any sort of sentiment in his carcass
can go to another club by the trading
process without experienC eing at the
outset anyhow, the feeling of orneri-
ness of which l speak when he goes up
against his former teammates. And
while we're on that subject I'd feel
sorry for the player who was not ca
pable of feeling this sentiment
Jim McAleer entertains the belief
which is shared in by lot of other ex-
perts in matters appertaining to base
ball, that the pennant business-the
hooray and uproar and storm and
strife over the big rag. that is to say
| really is harmful to the best interests
of the game.
1T makes the whole game said jim
a While ago, "subservient to the win
ming Of the pennant. Now don't get
me as saying this because I'm not
there with team that is Looping out
| in front with a chance to cop the rag.
| I'd been of the same opinion if my
bunch was way up there and in line
for the bunting. / was of the same
/ opinion, in fact. and so expressed my
| self. when the Browns were within
| hitting distance of the pennant last
| year.
THE pennant thing detracts from
the interest 'in the game itself as a
sport. We are a bit too keen in this
proposition. That is to say we don't
take exa tly enough interest in sport
| for the sports sake All that we think
about is the grabbing out of the big
prize. and We don't pay much at
| tention to the individual or the collec-
for the one main prize.
For instane, a boy who can stick
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-28

INEtANAPOLIS. Aug 2S.-Ctreater
safeguards against accidents and
changes in automobile racing rules will
result. it is believed. from the accidents
at Indianapolis in the contests w:lic'
naug .irated the newest and bigges
motor racing tracks. Seven Men CAV
their lives as part o. the price for tbs
lowering of records, and at icas'
teen persons met with injuries. II
one race the driver and his mechani-
clan were hurled against a fence when
something went wrong with their ma
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Caels Track Meet.

CHICAGO. Aug. 2S.-Nearly all OF
the famous athletes OF the irish Aneri-
seen in action here tomorrow at meet
can Athletic club of New York VIII be
to be held by the Chicago Iaeic as
ISOLATION
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SWIMMING Carnival.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2S.-Crack swim
mers of Princeton, and the New YORK
Athletic club and many otner orsanl-
cations will contest today in one of the
host meets of the aquatic outdoor sea
son. There will be l0o-yard novice
race and handicaps at so and 22o
Yards
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Bio Schuetzenfest.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2s.-Many
of the best marksnen of the west ar
rived in San Francisco TO-DAY ana more
are expected tomorrow to take part
in the golden jubilee shoot OF the san
Francisco Schuetzen Serein- Inc
tournament will extend through all
of next week.
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Bicycle Century Run.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2S.-Bicycling as
a sport will have brief vogue tomor-
row. when the National century hoau
CIub association will hold its annual
veterans reunion and century run
The route is from Brooklyn to Say
vile. l.. l.. and return to Jamaica,
distance of slightly over 100 miles
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Quebec Fair Opens.

SHERBROOKE. Que. Aug. Is
American manufacturers are we'll rep
resented at the twenty fifth Sherbrooke
fair, opened today. The exhibition is
the largest of its kind ever held in the
province of Quebec.