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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-07-24
TUE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF NEW YORK.
F.. H. Hyatt, Manager for s. C.

Figures Never Lie and Here are the
Figures OF the Mutual Life Insur.
ance Co., OF New York.
For the month of May, 1909, the
South Carolina Agency received ap-
plications amounting to $1s4.037.O co.
Cash Dividends declared to South
Carolina policyholders for July settle
ment. $10.100.32.
Since April 20, 1909, the following
death claims have been paid to South
Carolina policyholders $33.76O.OO.
Proofs Of death are being prepared
by claimants for $53,300.O0.
These figures are so plain and con-
vincing that 'He who runs may
read
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-07-24

When man has nothing else to
worry him he thinks about getting
married.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-07-24

JAS. ID. Graham, Agent, Sumter.
j. E. McFaddin, Agent, Sardinia.
NJ. B. Lesesne, Agent, PincwoOd.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-07-24

In the course of time the oldest in.
habitant becomes a survivor
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-07-24

Suspicion is the poison of friend
ship.-St. Augustine.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-07-24

A good woman pleases the heart.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-07-24
ISAAC NJ. LORYEA.

ISHAO M. LNJItI EA,
Special Agent Clarendon and Sumter
Offices at Manning and Sumter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING
Conference of Baptist Workers of
Three Cities VIII BE Held
I'm Omaha.

The second annual conference and joint
Sunday School Institute of the American
Baptist society will be held in Omaha jan
uary 3, 4, 8, 6 and Z, together with a tri-
city Sunday school conference for Omaha,
South Omaha and Council Bluffs. The aft
ernoon conference will be held each day
at the Young Mems Christian association
for all Sunday school workers Of all de
nominations. The evening meetings will be
held as follows:
Monday-At Calvary. South Omaha, Ben
son, Olivet, Emmanuel and Council Bluffs.
Tuesday-At First, Calvary, Grace, I'm
manuel, Olivet and Council Bluffs.
MISUNDERSTANDING in all the churches
T~hursday-Mass meeting for all at the
First Baptist church, Omaha.
The Baptist ministers Of Omaha decided
upon these meetings and on request the
American Baptist Publication society has
arranged for these prominent men to bt
present: Rev. Hugh T. Musselman. edu.
c~ational secretary, Philadelphia, Pa; Rev
]. d. S%pringston, superintendent Sunday
school work for Kansas; Rev. f. NJ. steph.
enson. superintendent Sunday school worl
for Colorado; Rev. T.. II. Hagen, superin
tendent Sunday school work for South Da
kota; Prof. j. A. Baber, superintendent Sun
day school work for Nebraska; Rev. 10,
+, Jacobs. secretary western district. Kan
sas City, Mo.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01

wholesale dissemination of delusion, false
hood and mistaken judgment of an indus
trial and economic situation, as has marked
every outbreak of the kind this year, and
certainly nothing can be gained by a 10 or
2O-point rise, manipulated by rich finan-
ciers, only to be followed by a sudden and
almost equally large decline, with conse-
quent losses imposed on the unlucky specu-
lators and investors. These Wall street IL
lusions may not, except for a few isolated
moments. lave led astray the serious mer-
chants and manufacturers of the country
but 1t is at least a possibility that they
have stimulated what they have at all
events reflected-namely, a stubborn unwil-
lingness of a good part of the community
to recognize the facts of the situation.
Two differences from 100
In one way or another. there has been
this year a good deal of the Prosperity
league" in the community's conduct-it has
displayed itself no more in the constant
assumption that business must be good be-
cause stocks were rising in Wall street,
than in the steel combinations argument
against price concessions, on the ground
that nobody ought to cut prices when there
is no business. or in the copper comblna-
tion's marking up of prices in the face of
unsold stocks on hand increasing far more
rapidly than consumption, or in the rail-
ways demanding higher rates because they
are getting an unsatisfactory amount of
traffic. All this political economy upside
down has in reality been no less of a now
city than the Sunshine propaganda. and it
has been the marked characteristic of the
year.
On the other hand. and after all this is
said, there is the other possible Inference
that, underneath all these strange demon.
strations of perverted reasoning, there may
be a substratum of resources, and genuint
confidence which will at any rate make the
second and third of this generations after.
panic years something different, even in tn,
real things. than the corresponding year:
after 1893 and 1874.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
PUBLIC SCHOOL STATISTISC
Enrolment for the Year Borders on
Twenty Thousand.
ATTENDANCE SIX THOUSAND LESS
These Represent Increases yer Pre-
cedIng Year-HaIf Million Dol
lars Spent and TO he Spent
in improvements.

Nearly $4,000 was expended in improve
ments for the public schools of Omaha in
1908 and other work was begun which will
require the expenditure Of 100000 more.
The year has also seen an increase ( nearly
1900 In enrolment OF pup Is in the schools
and an increase in the size of the teaching
force, 461 teachers now being employed.
One new school building and additions to
three others have been completed. The new
building is the Vinton school, which cost
approximately $4,000. The addition to the
Lothrop school, which makes 1t the largest
largest graded school in Omaha, cost $4,000.
On the addition to the Franklin, $500 was
expended, and on the Farnam, $4,000, APP
proximately, in increasing facilities,
In addition to this expenditure, additional
ground for Lothrop school was byught for
81, 900, additional ground for CASTELAR,
school for 5000, a new site for Omaha
View school for $500, and a new site for
Forest, for $500.
Work on the south wing of the High
school and on the new Omaha View school
have begun, the former to cost approx
mately $4,000. and the latter 100000.
1t has cost the city of Omaha S596, 1913 to
maintain the public schools during the
year, the sum covering all salaries and
running expenses.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
GRAY HAIRED YOUNGSTERS
Carrying Signs of Age Years Before
They Are Due TO Arrive.
OMAHA FOOLS THE osLERTTEs
Mebraskans Learn the way to Restore
Gray, faded Hair to the Color OF
Youth, To Arrest Badness
and Preserve Hair.

There goes Bob White and he's as
gray as a badger! He looks as IL he
were trying to catch up to Methusaleh,
but / know he's only a young fellowr'
This is just an every day observation.
Every town and hamlet in the country
has its "Bob Whites"-old-young fellows
who are carrying around the signs of age
years before their time.
Gray hair is not welcome in many
quarters. Some Oslerized souls look upon
Il as a business handicap. Nowadays no
one really need be gray,
The presentation of Or. Motifs Q-ban
Hair Restorer has created widespread
interest. There have been hair restorers
of more or less virtue for centuries. but
nothing that filled the the place which
this discovery of DIR. Motifs has lone
Gray hair. faded and streaked. is trans
formed by its use TO the luxurient color
and freshness Of youth. One thing It will
surely dearest badness and help pre-
serve the hair you have. About 80 pei
cent OF bald heads will yield TO right
treatment for renewed growth OF hair. In
many cases seemingly hopeless DR.. Motifs
Restorer has proved just the preparation
nee6fuL
The Hessig-Etlis Drug Company-the
big Memphis house. which has secured al
OF DIR. Motifs standard formulas-is so wei
satisfied that DIR. Motifs Hair R~estoreI
does give results claimed. that the Ten.
nesseans are behind the guarantee OF IN,
Myers-Dillon Drug Co. to return the entir,
cost Of treatment II three bottles will no.
restore to gray hair its former natura
color. One bottle Is given absolutely free
Ak about this.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
STORK DEFEATS GRIM DEATH
Nine Hundred Twenty-Five More
Babies Born Than Persons Died.
OMAHA IS COSMOPOLITAN CITY
Eight Hundred Twenty-FOur Birth
During Year of Foreign Parent
nge, Germans Leading, with
with BOhemians Second.

Omaha's population during the year 1908
increased over 1000 from natural causes,
the net gain of births over deaths, as
shown by the record of vital statistics kept
in the office of the commissioner of health,
being s29. There were 2,375 births during
the year, 1,l77 being boys and Liz being
girls. the girls thereby having the best of
the boys by two. Deaths during the year
totaled to L.
While most of the children were born Of
American parentage, the record shows that
Omaha is a cosmopolitan city. as $40 of the
babies born within the last twelve months
were of foreign parentage. In this the
Germans took the lead with 157 babies, the
Bohemians next with 1856 babies and the
Russians next with 113 babies.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
CURIOUS FINANCIAL YEAR
A Glance Back Over the Completed
Story of 1908.
OTHER AFTER PANIC YEARS
One striking Analogy and One Strik-
ing COntrast--What Place VIII
1t Hold in Financial
History.

The financial editor of the New York
Evening Post, in a review of the events
of the year, interprets the signs of the
times in these words:
With the ending of 1908 there passes
into financia history a very curious
financial year, concerning whose true re-
lation. both to the years which preceded
it and to those that will follow 1t, nobody
can at the moment speak with assurance,
The year has witnessed substantial re-
covery; 1T is not wholly easy. however,
20 determine whether that recovery has
or has not been more rapid than is usual
in the twelvemonth following a panic.
There is, for instance, the familiar test
of iron production. Rise in the weekly
output from 232,652 tons, at the opening
of last January-the low level of reaction
to 3Sl, 1O2 at the beginning of the pres
ent month, shows how we have regained
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
BUILDINGS FOR THE YEAR
Total Construction for Omaha Cos
Four and IA Half Million
Dollars.

-Four and one-half million dollars. This
is the 1908 building record.
Not since 1883 has there been as much
building in Omaha as there was in the year
which came to a close last night. Building
operations were thought to have reached
the high water mark in 1897, but the rec
ord for 1908 passed the high mark set by
the preceding year by over $4,000.
An even LOCO dwellings were built during
the last year at an average cost of $2,6lS.IS
an unusually high average for dwellings
but an average which shows that the people
of Omaha are comfortably situated and are
not suffering from the financial furry OF
one year ago. The average cost of dwell
lings erected in 1907 was ~S2,362.77.
OF the dwellings erected in 1908 40 cost
$500 or more. OF these S72 are frame and
ninety-elght are brick. Twenty-Five ware
houses and factories costing each $500 or
more were erected during the year. the
most costly being that of the o Deere
Building company. This cost $4,000, Flf-
teen store and office buildings were erected
each of which cost over $3.50. Six apart
ment houses, each costing over $500, were
built. and permits were taken out for SIX
school buildings, and four churches and NV
hospitals We're built or work begun.
Records for Two Decades.
The building record for the last twenty
years, as shown by the books in the Office
of the city building inspector, c, IL. Win
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
SNOW AND COLD IN NORTH
Drop In Temperature TO Thirty Be-
low Zero Experienced in Brit y
Ish Territory.

ST PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 3L-The old year
is closing with the coolest weather OF the
season in the northwest. In st. Paul today's
temperature was only s degrees below zero.
but to the northwestward the cold was
increasingly severe. At Saskatchewan It
was 80 degrees below. Edmonton is enjoy-
ing a temperature Of % below. Calgary /.
below. Havre, Mont, IA below and Helena
6 below.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
FEDERAL JURORS EXPENSIVE
Half of Appropriation of Fifty Thou
sand Dollars Goes to Pay Grand
aud Petit Jurymen.

Scarcely $4,000 has been expended during
the last year in the maintenance OF the
United States marshals office. There nave
been no long sessions of the courts, but
the greater expenditures Of the office dur
ing the year 1908 have been in the payment
of grand and petit juries, with witness
fees coming c
The receipts and disbursements OF tho
limited states marshal's office during the
year 1908 were:
Amount collected and paid to clerks. l'6l5.SC
1880 IL. - inll.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
Totals ......l,177 l,l9S Totals

aH"rHsAHAAa - AbA1A9 81 Iva
While the records In the office Of the
health commissioner show 1,6H deaths. but
LAS ri%ghtfully belong to Omaha. OF the
total record, S32 were residents of other
places who died in local hospitals and
ninety-six were persons who died elsewhere
and brought here for burial. The mortal
ity record shows the greatest number OF
deaths among infants. under the age of
l year. The next greatest mortality is be-
tween the ages of 40 and so years. This
record follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
Official Birth Record.
The record of births according to nation
nML.. ~ nnrnntnnn L. % fnllnuu-.

Twenty nationalities are represented in
this showing with a record Of 2O45 births.
No nationality is given of the parentage Of
the other $50 babies born during the year.
The increase in births over last year was
Al, the record for the two years, month by
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
Serious LaceratIona

and wounds are healed without danger Of
blood poisoning by Bucklen's Arnica salve,
the healing wonder. &C. Fol sale by
BGaton Drug Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
ENROLMENT Per school.

Out Of an estimated school population
Of 2S.OOO, there are enrolled in the schools
1925 pupils. This enrolment Is divided
among the schools as follows:
High school (grades 8. 10, II, 12)...... 1883
Grammar (grades 5, &. 7, S......"... 6,2Si
Primary grades /, ?, 3, D..."."""..,. $500
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01

was the -centenarian. She died on April
1 at the age of 1O2 years.
The record of births and deaths for the
past ten years is as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01

Under the age OF l year ..................31 $40
Between the ages OF ! and S years.. SO
Between the ages OF 5 and 10 years., 81
Between the ages of 10 and % years.. Y
Between the ages of 20 and 30 years.....175
Between the ages OF 90 and 40 years......1 62
Between the ages of 20 and so years. . g. 2f5
Between the ages of 80 and 60 years. ISL
Between the ages of 90 and 20 years. ..... lS9
Between the ages of 20 and 80 years. IA
Between the ages Of 80 and 30 years. ... so
Between the ages of 80 and 100 years.. 5
over the age OF 100 years. ............... /
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
Total

In the figures for night schools the en-
rollment given, LOIS, is the actual number
enrolled. In getting the average number
belonging, the average daily attendance and
number of teachers, the total number OF
days membership, attendance or teaching
was divided by 1SS, the number of days
the day schools were in session. This was
done so that the figures for the night
schools might properly be combined with
the figures for the day schools and a true
total obtained. During the time the night
schools were in session the actual average
number belonging were 449, the average
daily attendance Si1 and the average num-
Der of teachers employed sixteen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01

WOman's oldest Death Record.
Fannie Litvenow Of 211s Nicholas street,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
Records for Two Decades.

The building record Tor the last tWehIy
years, as shown by the books in the office
of the city building inspector, c. II, With
neII Is as follows.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30

Many amusing stories are told OF
ways In which postoface officials, In
citned 10 keep too vigorously to the
letter of their regulations, have been
thwarted. On one occasion a man
asked for 24O penny stamps and ten
dered payment IN copper. The official
declined to receive it, whereupon the
man began buying and paying for one
stamp at a time. Before he had got a
dozen in that way the postoff1ce official
had surrendered. 1t must have been
the same man or a near relative who
one Sunday went into postoff1ce that
was open for telegraph business only.
He handed in a sixpenny telegram and
asked to be supplied with two stamps
besides. No, he could not have stamps;
telegraph business only was transact
ed. Innocently he asked II be might
have his telegram back for moment
TO add something. He added four
words to it and rendered the additional
twopence. The form was returned to
him with the stamps to aft1x. Cross
ing out the four additional words, be
affixed the sixpenny stamp, pushed the
telegram under the counter rail and
walked out with his two stamps.-Lon-
don Taller
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30
Tn. Nature studsnt,. Story.

sTn my boyhood | once captured a
nest Of three young thrushes. put
them In gilt cage by an open win
dow. and their mother came and fed
them regularly with worms and grass
hoppers-"
The speaker. a nature student, sigh
ed
THE mother" he resumed, must
have expected her little ones to be
soon liberated. She fed them, as l
said, regularly for three days on flesh
food Then one evening at sunset she
appeared with sprig Of green in her
mouth. She thrust the green In
through the gilt bars. Then, singing
a sweet. sad song. she few away.
And she never came back. Her off,
spring the next morning lay dead, side
by side, on the bottom Of the cage.
The sprig she had brought them.
which was nearly consumed, was a
sprig Of the deadly larkspur. Free
dom or DEATH Death or freedomp
That is what must have been the bur-
den of her farewell song"
The narrator paused, and from his
listeners low murmur arose, MUIR
muir perhaps of sympathy. perhaps Of
angry disbelief
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30
Az American Grammar.

Robert r. Hitt, who at the time rep
resented our government In Paris as
a secretary of legation, went to Egypt
in regard to a matter involving the
life of a Greek American subject. He
landed In Alexandria and went to the
Hotel Europe and found the rooming
clerk busy assigning rooms to the new
ly arrived passengers, a regular poly
glot in languages. He heard him speal
Arabic, Greek, French, Italian and
German. So when 1t came Mr.. Httt's
turn to register he loosely said. ID
you speak Americana The clerk
promptly replied: "A leetle. Der vas
one American here lately who CAV
me an American grammar" Mr.. HIT
asked to have look at the book. The
clerk promptly told one Of the garcons
to get the book out Of his room. and
while the book was being brought the
clerk said, de grammar is phonetic.
When the book was brought, 10 and
behold, 1t was a copy Of Petroleum
V. Nasby's letters. D. R. Locke while
in Egypt had presented copy to the
clerk, telling him it was an American
grammar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30
Ex.r.m. observation-disclosures.

ssThe oueerest case of absentminded-
ness that have ever known Of" re-
marked the night clerk of certain no
tel. twas that which happened at this
hotel early yesterday morning. Two
fellow boarders, one Jones by name
and the other whose name is Brown
occupied room on the third floor
"WeIl, Brown requested me to have
him Weakened at 8 o'clock so as to al
low him to catch the o'clock train.
He was awakened at the requested
time. and In his hurry to dress himself
he put on Jones' clothes by mistake.
He did not discover his mistake until
he reached the depot, and, would you
believe ft'-here the speaker paused
when he found out that he was wear
ing some one else's clothes he imme-
diately returned to the hotel and went
right to bed"
"I don't see any absentminde dness
about that" broke In one OF the listen
ers.
you don't? Why, he thought that
had awakened the wrong man."
A Revolutionary Puzzle.
These odd rhymes were written In
the early part Of the Revolutionary
war-about 1776. If read as written
they are a tribute to the king and bis
army, but If read downward on either
side of the comma they indicate an
unmistakable spirit of rebellion to both
king and parliament. The author is
unknown:
Hark, bark the trumpet sounds. the din
Of wars alarms
Ger seas and solid grounds doth call Us
all to arms.
Who for King George doth stand, their
honors soon shall shine,
Their ruin is at hand. who with the con-
gress join.
The acts Of parliament. In them much
delight
I hate their cursed intent, who for the
congress fight.
The Tories of the day, they are my daily
toast,
They soon will sneak away. who indie
pendence boast,
Who nonresistant hold. they have my
hand and heart,
May they for slaves be sold. who act the
Whiggish part.
On Mansfield, North and Butte, may daily
blessings pour,
Confusion and dispute, on congress ever
more,
To North and British lord. may honors
still be done,
I wish a block and cord, to General
Washington.
National Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30
kHRCS
Both Phones

GRADUATED SUGAR, 5K.
PLUM PUDDING.-The R. &
R. brand, one of the best. 25c for
one pound can.
Old-fashioned SCOTCH DAT
MEAL, 15c package.
SAXON WHEAT FOOD, I3c
a package. Both of these are put
up by the Quaker Oats Co., so you
can depend on them being clean
and all right.
PEANUT BUTTER, Heinz's
make, in trmblers, 15c. There is
none better.
EVAPORATED APPLES, in
packages, nice, white and clean, I &C
SOUR KROUT, Heinz's make,
cut very fine and packed fresh and
clean, with the proper amount of
salt. which makes the best there is,
&c quart.
DOMINO SUGAR, S lbs. in a
box, 45c. This is the purest and
best of sugar.
SAUSAGE and SCRAPPLE.-
We are selling more and more of it
every year. Our customers appre-
ciate a good article by telling their
neighbors of it. Hence the in
creasing sales.
Phil. Karg. H IN s. 81 f aa;l s.
MOUNT HOAAY
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30

what is gout?" asks a correspond
ent. Well, 1t is an infection If inner
tied, but is often a source Of pride
when acquired. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30
lrxECUToRs' SALE OF
REEL ESTHTE

The subscribers, Executors of the estate of
Anthony Bullock, deceased, will sell at pubic
sale, on the premises, on the south road lead
ing from Chesterfield to Ellisdale, about two
miles from either place, on
THURSDAY, DECEMBER Q, 1909
at O'Clock p. M, all that certain
FARM
known as the Hip Roof farm. now occupied
by Samuel Sagers, containing
ITO $500 ACRES
The improvements consist of a good frame
dwelling, stable, COW house, and other neces-
sary buildings in good repair. The land is In
a good state of cultivation and well adapted
to all kinds of farming and grazing purposes.
The farm must be sold to settle the estate
and is well worthy the attention of anyone
desiring good farm.
Two-thirds OF the purchase money may re-
main on the place to be secured by purchase
ELLIS B. POWERS,
WALTER E. BORDEN,
surviving Executors OF
Anthony Bullock, deceased
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30
The Real Victim.

After a man has been sick week
his wife looks worse than he does
from taking care of him.-Atchison
Globe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30

II you have pains in the back, urinary
bladder or kidney trouble, dizziness and lack
of energy, try Mother Gray's AUSTRALIAN
LEAF, the pleasant herb cure. AS regu
Iator it has no equal At druggists, or by
mail, 5Oc Ask to-day. Sample FREE. Ad
dress The Mother Gray Co., Leroy, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-30

And your shoes pinch, Aliens Foot-Ease, q
powder, to be shaken into the shoes, is just
the thing to USE Try it for breaking In new
shoes. Sold everywhere, Csc. Don't accept
any substitute.