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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-09

Milwaukee, 2; Minneapolis, i. Louisville, 2: Indianapolis, 2. Columbus. 8; Toledo, 1.
 St. Paul, {: Kansas City. ..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-09
Great Western circuit.

St. Paul. Minh.. Sept. s.--1n spite of a heavy track and intermittent show CTS, a good card was offered at the Great Western circuit meet here today. Donlin. after finishing eighth in the first heat of the 2:17 pace, took sec ond in the next and first In the next three heats. winning first money.
 Ivan c won the first two heats and second money.
 The 2:30 trot was won by Countess Hack and Watsie won the 2:10 pace. Results.
 2:l7 pace-Donlin won the last three heats and race; Ivan c won two heats and second money; Banzai, third. Time.
 gao trot: purse. s1.0oo--countess Mack won three straight heats and the race; Dulc Jay took second in all three heats and Gertrude Elliot third in ali three. Time. 2:l4 l-2.
 2:l0 pace: purse, $l,00O)Watsie Wave won, taking first two heats and finishing second In the third sham, second; Dick White, third. Time, 2:09 1-4.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-09

OLD QUAKER IN BOND. Something New. Four Quarts $500 Express Paid. Grei1 Trading Go. Pensacola, Fla.
 -(3)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-09
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit Is Beaten

Detroit, Sept. 8.-Apart fror, cohh none of the Detroit batsmen could do anything with Falkenberg today.
 Erratfs fielding was mainly respon- sinIe Tor the first three runs scored of nlm. Detroit used three pitchers and Works was the onl yone who was eff fective. Donovan retired because of a lame arm. Willett went out to let an- other man hit. The game was long and tiresome, the fielding of Bush and LaJoie alone relieving the monotony.
 Score: RH E Detroits. 0O2 900 OIo-4 Cleveland .....003 103 00O-7 2 and Schmidt and Breckendorf: Falken- berg and Clark. Time. 1:65. Umpires, Perrin and Evans
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-09
American T.enwua

Cleveland at Detroit. New York at Philadelphia. Boston at Washington. Chicago at St. Louil
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-09
MARINE NEWS.

Mobile. Sept. s-Arrived: None.
 Cleared: steamer-Harry T. Inge (Nor.l Sannas. Bocas del Toro.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
FLYER" CHECKS OUTLAWED.
House Passes Senator Mauldin's Bill
With Amendment.

Columbia. Feb. 2T. There was a
long fight at the session Of the house
yesterday on Senator Mauldin's bill
to prevent fraud by giving worthless
checks. Mr.. Fraser moved to recon-
NIT the bill. For nearly two hours
the bill was debated and by vote
of So to 3S the house refused to re-
commit the bill and by a vote of 81
to 3S the bill was sent to the senate.
The bill reads as follows:
Section 1. That from and after
the approval Of this act, any person
who shall draw and utter any check
on draft on bank or banking house in
which he has no funds, or not funds
sufficient to pay such check or draft;
and who, on being notified of refusal
of the bank or banking house to hon
or such check or draft, shall fail for
30 days to deposit funds sufficient to
meet the same, shall be deemed guilty
Of a misdemeanor, and, upon convi1n
tion, shall be punished by fine or inn
prisonment, or by fine and imprison-'
ment, In the discretion Of the court. y
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
CURE YOUR KIDNEYS.
DO Not Endanger Life When a Sum-
ter Citizen Shows You the Cure.

Why will people continue to suffer
the agonies of kidney complaint.
backache, urinary disorders, lame
ness, headaches, languor. why allow
themselves to become chronic in
valids. when certain cure is offered
them?
Doan's Kidney Pills is the remedy
to use, because it gives to the kidneys
the help they need to perform their
work.
If you have any, even one. of the
symptoms of kidney diseases, cure
yourself now, before diabetes, dropsy
or Brights disease sets in. Read this
Sumter testimony:
S. c., says: II have no hesitation in
recommending Doan's Kidney Pills as
they proved beneficial to me. I used
them FOR kidney trouble and they
helped me more than any other rem
edy L had previously taken. NV back
ached nearly all the time and I had
severe pains in my kidneys. The kid
ney secretions were irregular i'm mas
sage and when allowed to stand con
tanned a dark sediment. / finally used
Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at
Chinas drug store and they regulated
the passages or the kidney secretions
ana removed the lameness from my
BACK. L have had no return of the
trouble since and l know from ex-
perience that they are remedy that
can be relied upon."
For sale by all dealers. Price 30
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
'ahe no otner. No. 1.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
OBSCENE LITER.
AZURE.
Tillman Would Bar Messages From
Mails.

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Till
man today astonished the senate by
the Introduction Of resolution in
structing the committee on postoffices
and post roads to inquire whether
messages and reports recently sent to
congress by the president should be
excluded from the mails as obscene lit
erature unfit for circulation. The res
olution was, on motion of Mr.. Till
man, referred to the committee on
postoffices and postroads, it's reading
in the senate and reference causing
no discussion.
The resolution includes not only the
presidents message. but the report of
the commission, and the committee on
postoffices Is directed to consider
whether the use Of the mails should
not be prohibited to the entire matter.
The resolution refers to the pres.-
dents home commission, dealing with
homes in Washington. to the message
on the commissions report and to
the report itself, which treats of con-
ditiOns In the alley homes of the city
in plain language.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

Senator-elect E. D. Smith has just
accepted an invitation from Mrs. Ed
ward Burton Williams, president of
the New York chapter United Daugh-
the principal, Grafton on Hampton
day. at the annual celebration of the
South Carolina Society on March 20,
next. The address will be delivered
after the dinner at the Waldorf-As-
toria hotel
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

On Monday, near Ora, in Laurens
County Eugene Rowland, young far
mer in attempting to prevent his
brother, Ernest Rowland, from firing
second or third shot at a negro with
whom he had an alteration, was
himself shot through the thigh ac-
cidentally receiving the bullet intend
ed for the negro. The negro escaped
unscathed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

London Daily News.

London Daily News
Mr.. Roosevelt is clearly determined
that his long term of office shall not
end tamely. 1t has been a period of
active and successful administration,
which will live in history. But it has
had another aspect, which we are
now forced to consider. 1t has been
period Of big talk, ringing plati-
tudes and furious personalities.
The recent election broke all the
precedents of American constitutional
practice. for the president, who is
supposed in theory to leave party
behind him when he enters the White
House, nominated his successor and
supported him through the contest in
series Of heated attacks upon Mr..
Bryan, enforced by charges of cor
ruption against his lieutenants. A few
weeks later Mr.. Roosevelt was round
ly describing several of the more
prominent American editors as liars,
II nothing worse, and involving him.
self In a rather obscure controversy
over the morals of persons connected
with the Panama canal purchase. It
seemed indeed as though Mr.. Roose-
welt had abandoned, as his term Of
office drew to it's end, all sense Of
restraint and responsibility.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
TAFT'S CABINET COMPLETED
~" statement by Mr.. Taft But There
Is No Secret About His Selec.
tiOns.

New York, Feb. 25.-All oualifica-
lions OF uncertainty in the prediction
that Franklin ItacVeagh of Chicago
mas been selected by Mr.. Taft as his
secretary of the treasury, are hereby
removed. Mr.. MacVeagh accepted the
place yesterday and thereby the Taft
cabinet was made complete as here
tofore announced.
NO official or unofficial declaration
or Mr.. MacVeagh's appointment is 70
be made by Mr.. Taft until he pro-
mulgates his entire cabinet. But in
this case, as in other notices of an
pointments, the facts are known to
be correct.
The cabinet as complete with the
selection of Mr.. MacVeagh is as fol-
lows
Secretary of State--Philander c.
Knox of Pennsylvania.
Secretary of the Treasury-Frank-
lin MacVeagh Of Illinois.
Secretary of War-Jacob M. Dick
inson Of Tennessee. &
Attorney General-Geo. w. Wick
ersham Of New York.
Postmaster General-Frank H.
Hitchcock Of Massachusetts,.
Secretary Of the Navy-George Won
L. Meyer, of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Interior-Richard
A. Ballinger of Washington.
Secretary Of Agriculture-James
Wilson of Iowa.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Charles Nagel of Missouri.
With his postmaster general
Frank H. Hitchcock, Mr.. Taft took
a five-mile walk through Central park
In the biting wind today. He saw a
number \of New York city financiers
during the day, but said the calls
were those to express friendship and
had on other significance.
There was a genuine reunion of the
Taft family tonight at the Henry w.
Taft residence.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
NATIONS MONEY GONE.
Hale Says Government Bond Issue
Is Ia Sight-Funds Spent Reckless
ly

washington, Feb. 25.-The closing
days OF congress are being enliyened
with severe criticism of the Roosevelt
administration. Much of the time at
each end of the capitol today was de-
voted to onslaughts upon the admin
istration. In the senate the agricul.
tural appropriation bill opened the
way for bitter criticism of the presi-
dents commission on homes. on the
methods Of the forestry service and
the increase Of military expenditures.
A proposition in the agricultural
Dill to authorize the publication of
the reports Of the country life COM
mission was adopted by vote of 48 to
19, after an exciting discussion. in
which Mr.. Bailey exhibited to the
senate copy Of the report of the
presidents commission on homes and
declared 1t was unfit to go through
the mails" on account of the space
which the report devoted to certain
social evils AS he lifted the volume
aloft, Mr.. Bailey said: II cannot read
extracts from this document without
asking that the galleries be cleared,
but do hope that any other presi-
dental commissions detailed to make
Investigations of this character will
submit expurgated reports"
Senator Carter made a terrific as
sault upon the forestry service, charg-
ing 1t with reckless expenditures of
the public funds and other evils. He
spoke for nearly an hour, and so
fierce was his denunciation that Sena-
tors Dolliver and Nelson felt con-
strained to come to the rescue of the
administration. Mr.. Carter said
large sums of money were spent in
sending representatives Of the fores-
try service all over the country to de-
liver lectures. Mr.. Carter called at
tention to an estimate of a deficit of
$140, 100000 in government revenues
the coming fiscal year.
In regard to the reckless expendi-
ture Of money Senator Hale said: "I
want to notify the senate and the
country now, as 1 have done before.
that at the rate at which we are now
going there will soon come a day
when the treasury Of the United
States will be swept as clean as a
country contribution box. That time
will soon be here, and when it arrives
we will be compelled either to borrow
money or issue bonds or impose extra
taxes in order to meet the expendi-
lures Of the government. These ex-
hibits Of expenditures which the sem
ators have been reading show the re-
markable encroachment Of the exc.
cutive power" Mr.. Hale pointed out
that these expenditures were made
from lump-sum appropriations, and
he said that the expenditure of money
for the travelling expenses Of lecturers
must cease. He regarded it as a grave
abuse Of the executive power.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

The Yorkville Enquirer says that
the Kings Mountain monument will
be only eighty-seven feet high instead
OF 115 feet as was originally intend
ed. This Is because Of the difficulties
that developed In connection with the
foundation. 1t was at first thought
that 1t would be necessary to excavate
only few feet for the foundation,
and the unexpected trouble encoun-
tered here Is to be taken off the
height of the monument. unless there
is an additional appropriation.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

wanted revolver simply to satisfy
MS friends. This counsel on both
sides argued and the court held with
the defense.
Later In the day when Leigh
Thomson was questioned almost the
same question arose and the argu-
ment began anew. Judge Hart said
ne would render his decision tomor-
row but intimated that unless the
State had discovered some new au-
thorities to support It's contention, he
would rule out the testimony.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

Marked Tree, Ark, Feb. 23.-Six
persons were killed, more than a
score We're injured, several seriously,
and practically every building in the
town of Fisher was wrecked by a tor
nado, which swept through the north
western portion of this county early
today, according to advices received
late this afternoon. .
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
TAX NOTICE.

The County Treasurer's office in
Court House building, will be open for
the collection of taxes without penal
ty, from the 18th day of October TO
the 31st day of December, 1908. The
levy is as follows:
For State, 8 1-2 mills.
For County, ordinary, 3-4 mills.
For Sinking Fund loan of 1907.
mill.
For Sinking Fund loan of 1908. Ia
mill.
For Constitutional School, 5 mills.
Polls, s1.O0. Capitation Dog tax.
SO cents
Also Special School tax as follows.
School District, No. 1, 2 mills.
School District, No. 2, mills.
School District, No. 8, mills.
School District.-No 4, mills.
+ School District, No. s, l mill.
I School District No. IL. mills.
School District, No. IL, 3 mills.
School District, No. 13, 8 mills.
School District No. IA, mills.
School District, No. 16, 2 mills.
school District, No. II, 8 mills.
School District, No Is, . mills.
A penalty of l per cent. added for
month of January, 1909. Additional
penalty of l per cent. for month OF
teDruary, 1909. Additional nenoltv
OF per cent. until 18th day of March,
lSo9, when the tax books will close
FOR the collection OF taxes for fiscal
year. 1908.
T. w. LEE,
co. Treas. for Sumter Co., s. c.
1o.7-mch16,0s
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
Capt. J. A. Peterkin Dead.

Fort Motto. Feb. 25.-This morning
at o'clock Capt. James A. Peterkin
died at his residence at Lang Syne af-
ter brief illness Of pneumonia.
His remains will be Inferred at ST..
Matthews Episcopal church GENE.
terry. two miles from Fort Motto, at
IL o'clock Saturday morning.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
A DANGEROUS MOTH.
Ehtomoiogist Says Pest is Being
Bought Into South I'm Imported
Trees.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 26.-In a circu-
lar prepared for immediate issue, E.
L. Worsham, State entomolOgist
warns the fruit growers Of this State
against the brown-tail moth, known
scientifically as the euproctis crysor-
rhae He states that the dangerous
pest Is being brought into the State
by means of imported trees and
plants. Efforts are being made to in
spect all such importations in order
to detect and destroy the parasite on
arrival.
The insect Is one little known in
the South but widely prevalent
throughout Europe and Asia, and in
some parts Of New England 1t has
gained a firm foothold.
While apparently unimportant, the
insect contains great possibilities for
ruin and disaster: 1t Is of the cater
pillar variety and very prolific. It
Is usually found on pear and apple
trees. but will take to any plant ex-
cept those Of the pine family. It is
not only dangerous and damaging to
the plant life. but annoying to the
human species. A fur is cast off from
It's body, and when this comes in con-
tact with the skin Of q person it
causes a serious disease. It has been
known, In this way, to depopulate en-
tire communities.
"At this season Of the year." says
the entomologist, "the insect is in the
caterpillar stage and hibernates in
winter nests. These nests are made
Of leaves and webs spun by the cater
pillars and fastened to twigs of trees
that they infest. The caterpillars
that have been found in nursey stock
shipped from Europe into Georgia
were from one-third to one-half
grown. When they are full grown
they are one and a-half to one and
three-quarters of an inch long. The
head is pale brown and body dark
brown or black and covered with
long reddish brown and white hairs.
There may be as many as five hun
dred to one thousand individuals in
single nest. They emerge in the
early spring and feed on the swelling
buds and new leaves until fully grown
and then change into moths. These
moths are perfectly white with the
exception Of the abdomen which is
brown. The female has a tuft of
brown hair on the tip of the abdomen
and 1t is from this that the insect gets
Its name. Egg laying begins as soon
as the moth emerge. The eggs hatch
within few days and the little cater
pillars begin their work.
"We are making every effort to To-
cate all shipments Of nursery stock
into Georgia from foreign countries"
concludes the bulletin, making in
spections of the same, destroying all
infested stock and burning all winter
nests before the insect bcomes es-
tablished, but there is dangr of its
becoming established in Georgia, and
If parties purchasing plants from Eu-
rope find any insects Of which they
are suspicious of being the brown-tail
moth, they should enclose specimens
In wooden or tin boxes and send at
once to the State entomologist for
Identification"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

Supervisor Miles OF Spartanburg
will advertise for bids in the near fu-
ture for bond issue OF $25O,OOO to
pay Off the floating Indebtedness of
the county. The bonds will be issued
under an act Of the legislature and
just as soon as the money is in hand
all outstanding claims against the
county will be paid of.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
1t Saved His Leg.

'"All thought I'd lose my leg"
writes J. A. Swenson. Watertown,
Wis, "Ten years of eczema, that Is
doctors could not cure. had at last
laid me up. Then Bucklen's Arnica
Salve cured 1t sound and WELL" In
fallible for Skin Eruptions, Eczema,
Salt Rheum, Boils, Fever Sores,
Burns, Scalds, Cuts and Piles. Csc at
Siberts Drug Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
ROOSevelt's Nephew Killed.

Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 21.-Stew-
art Douglas Robinson, aged 10 a
nephew of President Roosevelt and a
sophomore at Harvard college, fell
from a six-stOry window in Hampton
Hall, a dOrmitory on Massachusetts,
avenue today and was killed. He was
son of Douglas Robinson.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03
How the Lien Law Works.


1t has been asserted that II the lien
law Is repealed there will be some
good but poor people, who will be un-
able to get credit and who will have
an awfully. awfully hard time because
thereof.
Here is an incident related to US by
Mr.. b. Harris. president of the State
Farmers Union. which may throw
some light on the matter. Mr.. Harris
says the incident came under his per-
sonal observation:
There was q mana middle aged
white man-in q county not far from
Anderson who got SO poor that he
could not give lien. He had been
giving liens for eight or ten years.
and had never been able to get any
thing ahead. Finally he began to
fall behind. He found 1t impossible,
with a growing family Of small chill
dren. to get along. although his wife
and the children who were old
enough worked In the fields with
him. Two years ago the merchant
who had been furnishing him for so
long declined to run him any longer.
NO." said the merchant. "you have
fallen behind now for two years, and
do not care to handle your account
again. You do not owe me a great
deal. but am willing to square Off.
But you Ecusr get some other mer-
chant to run you this year."
The man tried other merchatns for
a lien. but failed. The other mer-
chants. II seemed. knew that the man
had not been able for two years to
fulfill his obligations. and knew that
this was why the other merchant had
dropped him.
The man went home to his wife
and children in the deepest detection.
He told of his troubles and then his
wife counseled him. "You must hire
out as a day laborer," she said, "and
will stay home with the children
and we will try to make a little crop.
You can send US or bring us your
wages for us to live on. 1t is bad
arrangement. but 1t Is the best we
can do"
The man got job In a sawmill,
and his wife and children stayed on
the farm. The man sent his wages
home. and the wife lived on them.
while she and the children worked a
small crop. This was no great hard
ship on them. for they had been
working In the fields before.
At the end of the year the man did
not owe a dollar. His wife and chill
dren had made five bales Of cotton
and over hundred bushels of corn,
about seventy-five bushels Of peas,
besides potatoes. etc.. and they had
two large hogs to kill. They were In
better circumstances than ever be-
fore.
The man Is an illiterate cannot
read and write, and he had never had
much ambition. But the accumula-
tion OF so much wealth In one year
has changed his views of things. He
Is going to do better from now on.
He has enough supplies to run him
this year. with money ahead, and he
considers that his fortune Is as good
as made.
The man says that the efbest thing
that ever happened to him in his
life was when he got too poor to be
able to give lien. He got his nose
away from the grindstone. and he
began to see the world. II he had
been able to give lien last year he
would still be In a net, and his chill
dren would still be growing up in
ignorance.-Anderso Mail.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

The prosecutor Of the Sugar Trust
sugar and all wrong. Why not use
a longer and uglier word?--New York
World.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

Bennettsville. Feb. 26.--Frank Ha-
ney. the two-year-old child OF Mr..
and Mrs. B. +. Haney. OF Blenheim,
this county. met with a horrible death
yesterday afternoon.
The little child was knocked down
and run over by loaded two-horse
wagon and Its skull terribly crushed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

In Missouri they want to compel
the lobbyists to wear uniforms. Mis-
souri, will insist on being shown how.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-03

Though the Panama Canal Is still
dry, 1t Is drawing a steady stream of
money out of the United States Treas
ury.