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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-24
Her Friend.

There is nothing like a stanch
friend. At a home" in the country
which the children Of the slums are
allowed to visit for a short term In
the summer, the following incident oc-
Cured. A party Of a hundred Of the
youngsters were on their way back
to the city. The attendant noticed
that one Of the girls, Rosie, was WALK
ing clumsily. A writer in the New
York Tribune tells the story:
When the attendant heard a chorus
of gibcs all aimed at little Rosie, she
saw that the girl was wearing a pair
of shoes of large size. Then the at
tendant remembered that Rosie had
had a new pair of shoes, and the lit
tie girl was asked about it.
"Well," said Rosie, you see, the
shoes amt mine. They're Katie's. +
know they're awful big, but her NAM
ma amt had any work lately, so she
couldn't buy her a new. pair. She
just gave her own shoes to Katie
"Katie felt awful bad about it, and
cried all the way to the station. The
girls all laughed at. her. So I just
lent her my new one and took hers.
'"You see, teacher" said Rosie,
raising her eyes to the attendants
face, "Katie's ny friend"
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Congress Will Make the Ceremonies
Attending the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Taft and Vice-President Sher-
man Solemn and Dignified.

Washington, D. C.-The joint com.
mittee of the two houses Of Congress
purpose to make the ceremonies at
tending the actual Inauguration OF
President Taft and Vice-President
Sherman as solemn and dignified as
BELTS 81 important an event. Joy
and music and the spirit Of f~estivity
will mark the inaugural parade, and
the genes along the streets will be
as brilliant as ever, but in the Capitol
and on the inaugural stand erected on
it's east front solemnity and dignity
will dominate. The details are al
ready perfected, and every official,
every employee understands the part
he is to play.
The Senate will complete the work
of the last session of the SiXtieth
Congress about 1890 a. m. on March
4, and will then take a recess so that
the scenery may be set for the i'm
portant act in the great drama of the
Republic so soo to take place.
Shortly before noon the Vice-Presi-
dent will call the Senate to order.
The Secretary Of the Senate will an
nounce the arrival Of the Speaker and
the House of Representatives, and
they will file into the Senate Cham
Der and take the places assigned to
them. Next in order will come the
Supreme Court of the United States,
headed by Chief Justice Fuller, and
then the ambassadors and ministers
plenipotentiary Of the foreign nations.
Following the heads of the diplomatic
corps will come the heads of the ex-
ecutive departments, who will take
their places Immediately back of the
seats assigned to the chief figures in
the drama.
Following the Cabinet the Vice.
President-elect will be formally an
nounced, and will enter, accompanied
by his escort, Senator Frye, president
pro tempore of the Senate, and Rep
resentative Young. The President
elect" will be the next announcement,
and William H. Taft, accompanied by
Senators Knox and Lodge, will enter,
and, finally, the President of the
United States will enter alone. At
each announcement the entire assem-
blage will rise and remain standing
until the person so announced is
seated.
When all the dignitaries have ar
rived, the Vice-President will deliver
his valedictory and will then call to
the rostrum James S. Sherman, to
whom he will administer the oath of
the Vice-President of the United
States, after which he will declare the
Senate adjourned without day. Hav-
ing been sworn, Mr.. Sherman will as
cend the rostrum, and, taking the
gavel, will call the Senate to order
for the new session, and will ask that
new members of the Senate come
forward and take the oath Of office.
Presumably there will be sixteen new
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HOOTNG FROM A SOUNDLESS, SMOKELESS GUN
Hiram Maxim Shows the Noise Killer at Work-.It Fits on the Muzzle Of Any
Gun and Breaks Down the Vibrations From the Explosion -.
Until the Ear No Longer Recognizes Them as Noise.

New York City. - Patents having
been obtained on it in twenty-four
countries, Hiram Percy Maxim gave
a demonstration and explanation of
his silencing device for rifles before a
large number Of representatives of
newspapers and scientific publica-
tons. BY the use of a sandbox tar
get the inventor made a series Of eX-
periments by firing a variety of rifles,
ranging in power from a .22 calibre
up to the new Springfield 80 calibre
military rifle. They were fired both
with and without the "silencer," and
the /spectators-or perhaps it might
be better to say auditors-marvelled
at the effect of the little device. 1t
is said scientific tests show that nine
ty per cent. Of the noise of explosion
is eliminated.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-24
FOLLOWS MURDERED SON.
George Sampson, Brother of the Ad.
miral, Found Dead in Rochester.

Rochester, n. Y.-George Samp-
son, father of Harry Sampson. whose
widow, Georgia, was arraigned at Ly-
ons for the murder of her husband,
was found dead in bed at his home
at Palmyra.
He was a brother of the late Rear
Admiral Sampson, and was an i'm
portant witness for the prosecution of
his daughter-in-law. Mr.. Sampson
had grieved keenly yer his sons
death.
There was no sign of a struggle;
nothing that looked like either foul
play or suicide. He had been for
some years a sufferer from heart
trouble, and it is believed he died
Of heart disease.
Mr.. Sampson is reported to have
said that the story Of the killing Of
his son told by Mrs. SIMPSONS fam
lily, the Allyns. to him, vas not the
n told to the Coroner's jury by
them. This the Allyns deny.
At all events the death of George
Sampson is looked upon as removing
an important witness for the prosecu-
ton.
Mrs. Harry Sampson, after her ar
raignment, was locked up in the
Lyons jail.
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| faces in the Senate. Each new Sena-
tor, accompanied by his colleague,
will step forward and take the oath.
This done, the entire assemblage will
proceed to the inaugural stand.
The sergeants-at-arms Of the Sen
ate and the House will lead the state
ly procession. This is an innovation,
as heretofore it has been led by the
marshals of the Supreme Court and
of the District of Columbia. Those
present in the Senate Chamber will
fall into line in the same order in
which they entered the Senate, and
the entire company will march to the
inaugural stand. q
The troops gathered in front Of the
stand will present arms as the Pres
ident and the President-elect appear
at the main door of the Capitol, and
when they have arrived at the front
of the stand Chief Justice Fuller will
step forward and administer to Mr..
Taft the oath of Office, following
which the new President will deliver
his inaugural address, which is un-
derstood to be unusually brief. From
the stand the President will descend
a flight of steps to his carriage and
drive Immediately to the White
House, where he may snatch a brief
luncheon before taking his place in
the reviewing stand erected in front
of the White House grounds, from
which he will view the great parade
in his honor.
The Vice-President and the mem
bers of the Senate will return from
the inaugural stand to the Senate
Chamber, where certain brief routine
business will be transacted and adj
journment taken.
Ex-President Roosevelt, on leaving
the inaugural stand, will enter his
carriage from another entrance to the
Capitol, and, escorted by the New
York Republican County Committee,
will drive Immediately to the Union
Station, whence he will start for New
York, accompanied by the members
Of his family.
There, will be a slight change this
year in the order of the progress Of
the President, the President-elect
and the Vice-President and the Vice.
President-elect to the Capitol. In
view of the close relations of Senator
Lodge to the President he will ride
in the carriage with the President
and the President-elect, as will also
Senator Knox, who as chairman of
the Committee on Arrangements is
the personal escort of the Executive.
The Vice-President will have as escort
Senator Bacon and Representatives
Burke and Gaines, while the Vice.
President-elect will be accompanied
by Senator Frye, the president pro
tempore of the Senate, and Repre-
sentative Young. Heretofore only
one Senator has accompanied the two
chief figures in the ceremonies:
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The tests were made in the Offices
of Redding, Greeley G Austin, coun-
sci for Mr.. Maxim, on the eighth floor
Of the Potter Building, in Park row.
and it was cause for wonder among
those presen! that the noise made by
the explosion of the rifles without the
''silencer" did not arouse the other
tenants in the building.
The "~silencer" is a metal tube
about seven inches long and an inch
and a quarter in diameter, which can
be fastened quickly to the end of a
rifle barrel which has been provided
with a thread for that purpose.
1t is declared that the velocity OF
the bullet is not lessened in the least
degree, as the gases have done all
their work on the .%projectile before
they reach the 'silencer."
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NO MEDICINE
But q Change of Food Gave Relief,

Many persons are learning that
drugs are not the thing to rebuild
worn out nerves, but proper food ia
required.
There Is a certain element in the
cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which ia
grown there by nature for food to
brain and nerve tissue. This Is the
phosphate of potash, Of which Grape.
Nuts food contains a large proportion.
In making this, food all the food
elements in the two cereals. wheat
and barley, are retained. That Is why
so many heretofore nervous and run
down people find in Grape-Nuts q
true nerve and brain food.
81 can say that Grape-Nuts food
has done much for me as a nerve re.
newer" writes a Wis. bride.
"A few years ago, before my mar.
riage, I was a bookkeeper in a large
firm. l became so nervous toward
the end of each week that it seemed
/ must give up my position. which l
could not afford to do. .
N1OIASl pUlSudSeu SOLut GTdpG-
Nuts, and we found it not only deli
cious, but l noticed from day to day
that | was improving until I finally
realized l was not nervous any more.
Il have recommended it to friends
as a brain and nerve food. never hav-
ing found it's equal. ! owe much to
Grape-Nuts, as it saved me from a
nervous collapse, and enabled me to
retain my position"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, THE Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's a Rea-
son."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
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table. I will never be without this
medicine in the house. SAM'L
LEE, 1923 Fourth St., Louisville, Ky.
Another Operation Avoided.
Adrian, Ga.-"I suffered untold
misery from female troubles, and my
doctor said an operation was myonly
chance, and I dreaded it almost as
much as death. Lydia E. Pinkhamss
Vegetable Compound completelycured
me without an operation. LENA W
HENRY, B. F. d. 8.
Thirty years of unparalleled sue
cess confirms the power of Lydia =.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to
cure female diseases. The great vol
ume of unsolicited testimonyconstant-
ly pouring in proves conclusiyely that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is a remarkable remedyfo Cor those
distressing feminine ills from which;
10 many women suffer.
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Among the Workers..

A New England district council of
retail clerks unions was formed at q
convention of thirty-two Of the
unions.
A great victory is recorded in ia
vor of industrial peace in England by
the constitution of a Cancellation
board for iron founders throughout
Lancashire.
Minnesota railway men are particu-
larly interested in the proposed semi
monthly payday bill and an employ
ers' liability bill, and the union work
ingmen the State over are also anX-
ious to secure both.
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Nuggets of News.

Wireless telegraphy brought aid to
the Scotland Lightship and a schoon-
er that had run into her.
Admiral Sperry's ships were well
coined to Gibraltar with memorable
cordially.
It was shown that radiuE could be
produced from the refI3e Of a Corn
wall mine. !
Cortlandt Field Parker, president
CT the Aero Club of America, an
nounced plans for an airship race
from New York City to Albany in
connection with the Hudson-F'ulton
celebration neyt fall
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Prominent People.

z. H. Hartman returned. to New
York City from the South. and said
he intended Ito look after the New
York Central" to the directorate Of
which he has been elected.
Justice Gavnor, in 4 srccch 1t New
Rochelle. N. y. criticised the courts,
the administration of the city under
the present charter and the reform
administration of Mayor Lev.
The American consul ut Gibraltar,
S1r. Sp:ague, is the third successive
generation Of lis family to hold the
post OF consul, his grandfather and
his father having held it before him.
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N MEN DROPPED.
sevcnty.iVe Engineers Fail to Get by
the Examiners,

Ithaca, N. Y.-"Bust" notices have
been received by 1853 Cornell students
as a result of the midwinter eyamina.
lions. The number of students
dropped on account Of deficiencies
totals mor than ever before in the
history of the university. Last yeal
ninety-seven students were dropped.
The athletic fields will not suffe,
this winter as they did last, as only q
few mediocre athletic men failed tt
pass. The engineers suffered the
greatest losses, forty falling in the
mechanical engineering department
and ,thirty-1ve in civil engineering.
Arts come reXt with thirty-one
The number who failed to pass il
other colleges are: Agriculture, TWEEN,
ty-fve; law, fourteen; architecture,
four; veterinary. three, and medi.
cine, one.
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BATTtESH|P DELAWARE
LAUNCHED FOR NAVY
She Surpasses Any Vessel Built
or Building.
ONE OF FOUR SISTER VESSELS
Displacement 1000 Tons Greater Than
British Dreadnought and $50
More Than Vanguard-9OO Men
For the Crew.

More Than Vanguard-90O Men
For the Crew.
Newport News, Va.-The great bat
tleship Delaware was launched sue
cessfully from the yards of her build
ers and was witnessed by 5000 per-
sons.
Among those present were Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy Satterlee,
Governor Pennewill, of Delaware, and
his staff, Lieutenant-G Governor Men
,dinhall, a delegation from the Della
ware Legislature and Rear-Admiral
,Taussig and other naval officers.
There also were present several hun
'dred prominent people from Della
ware, including the Delaware Repre-
sentative in Congress. The battle
ship was christened with champagne
by Miss Anna Pennewill Cahill, Of
~Bridgewell, Del, niece of the Gov
ernor, who had as her assistants Miss
Florence Hazel, of Dover, and Miss
Ellen Coleman Du Pont, of Whining
ton.
Compared with the battleships,
completed or under construction, Of
any foreign country, the Delaware
surpasses all. She is n of four sis
ter ships authorized by Congress. The
other vessels are the North Dakota,
being built at Quincy, Mass; the
Florida, which will be built at the
New York Navy Yard, and the Utah,
to be built at Camden, N. J.
The Delaware will have a speed of
twenty-one knots and the highest
practicable radius of action. The ar
rangement Of her main battery guns
is such as to permit a broadside fire
Of twenty-five per cent. greater than
that Of the broadside fire of any bat
: tleship o built or under construc-
ton. =, o.,
The contract was placed August s,
1907, at s3~,987,000, to be built in ac-
cordance with the departments de-
sign for both hull and r~eciprocating
machinery. Her keel was laid No.
vember II, 1907. The Delaware Is
$40 feet in length on load waterline,
IS feet 2 inches in breadth and her
mean draft to bottom of keel at trial
olSpioSCLnChI dUOuI q . ASCt. ou0 WILL
have triple expansion r%eciprocating
engines and will require nor than
900 men. ~
Her armament will consist of a
main battery of ten twelve-inch
sbreech loading rifles and her second
airy battery will be fourteen fve-inch
rapid-ire guns, four three-pounder
saluting guns, four one-pounder
semi-automatic guns, two three-inch
field pieces and two machine guns of
80 calibre. She has two submerged
torpedo tubes. .
The Delaware will have a displace-
ment on trial of 10000 tons, or 2100
tons more than the British Dread
nought and $50 tons more than Great
Britain's latest vessel of that type,
the, Vanguard. -
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ROOSEVELT SCORES -
SENATOR PERKINS
Declares He Has HaInpered Up.
building of Navy.
POLICY OF WANTON INSULT
Says So in Telegram to Governor Gil.
lett-Senator Says He Has Fav-
ored All Proper Naval Increase
to $135, 100000.

lett-Senator Says He Has Fav-
ored All Proper Naval Increase
to $135,OO0,0 900.
Washington, D. c. - President
Roosevelt has declared open war on
Senator Perkins, of California, for his
connection with the anti-Japanese
sentiment on the Pacific Coast. In a
telegram to Governor Gillett, of that
State, the President denounces the
Senator's public record and excoriates
him for advocating, in the present
] 7anese situation, what MI. Roose-
welt terms "a policy of wanton in
suit" Senator Perkins declined to
discuss the attack at any length, say
ing he preferred to leave the decision
of the American people with his pub
lie record and work.
The telegram sent from the White
House, inspired by the passage of the
antt-Japanese legislation by the Cali
tornia Legislature, is as follows::
To Gov. Gillett, Sacramento, CAL:
81 am astounded at George C. Per.
kins' conduct. He has for the last
seven years done whatever he could
% hamper US in the upbuilding of the
navy, and has acted against the real
advocates of the navy. Yet now he
advises a policy of wanton insult.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
. The telegram was not given out
here, but a copy Of it was telegraphed
pack from Sacramento and submitted
10 Senator Perkins. MI. Perkins
smiled grimly when 1t was read to
him. For a moment his face flushed,
but be controlled himself and made
q quiet and unimpassioned statement.
He made no direct mention of Presi.
dent. Roosevelt. :,
II have never believed, and never
will believe" he said, that 4 treaty
with a foreign Power takes away
from the sovereign States the right
to regulate their own affairs. We OF
California believe that with ourselves
rests the decision of how the State
shall be policed and how its domestic
affairs shall be regulated. I do not
believe that any n will question ou1
assumption of those rights.
"As for the navy, I have always
been its friend and have worked hard
for its upbuilding. When I Joined
the Committee on Naval Affairs IL
1898 our expenditure then, for the
naval establishment was a little O
than $23,000,000; the bill which viii.
be reported from the committee this
week will carry more than $135,0O0,
O00.". ~
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Halls of

The Senate Finance Committee has
declared that it is not in favor OF sup
porting President Roosevelt's~ trade
agreement policies.
Congressional leaders have in
formed President Roosevelt that
there is little chance of Statehood fol
New Mexico and Arizona at this ses'
sion.
Philadelphia Congressman ex.
pressed the belief that the Delaware
River survey would receive ample
recognition from Chairman Burton.
of the Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee.
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TEXAS GUSTS BOOK CONCERN.
American Company Agrees to Pay
$4,000 Damages.

Dallas, TeXas.-The oyster pre-.
ceedings of the State of Texas against
the American Book Company, in the
Fifty-third District Court, came to
an end by an agreed judgment being
entered in favor Of the State for
$4,000 penaltiea and custer from
the State. Penalties Of $4,000, 00G
had been demanded.
One Of the principal reasons for
the action Of the State for c%ompromis.
ing was that the company had no
property in the State which could be
levied on in case larger penalties
were obtained.
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Only Sixteen, But Invents a
Duplex Receiver For Wireless.

Plymouth, Mass. - Harold B.
Doten, sixteen years old, who has
been a student of wireless telegraphy
for the last three years, and who has
a small power sending station at his
home. No. 7 South street, has sue
ceeded in duplexng the receiving
portion of his plant so that two oper-
ators can sit and listen in" indie
p%endently of each other, the detectors
being in duplicate. This is done by
a process of tuning, and makes it
possible for two operators to work.
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Yorkshire Egyptologists.

Two Yorkshiremen were making .
tour Of the British Museum, and IN
due course reached the mummy
chamber. One, who had never seen
q mummy in his life, said to his pal:
whats yon, John?" @Yon's a mum
my" "a mummy What's a mum-
my?" why, a deid mon! well,
I'm fair capped! Never saw like OF
yon afoe! But, John, what's that
ere card behind 'im-B. c. 1877
"Er, tha's an ignorant beggar, Bill.
That's number O. moortc--car at
killed 'im!"-Tit-Bits.
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What to Do With the Boy.

What shall we do with the boy7"
they asked the woman. Let him
finish high school and then go to
college, or put him in business now?""
"T'd let him go to college," she
said, "but make them give him a
course in janitoring while he's there.
We've just got rid Of a Harvard grad
cate because he was no earthly good
asi a janitor. He couldn't run the
steam heat or the hot water boiler
or anything."-New York Times.
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Deficit For Seven Months Of
Present Year S.9S14,443.

Washington, D. C.-The monthly
comparative statement of the Gov
eminent receipts and expenditures
shows the total receipts for January,
1909, to have been s~4l.4S0,42S and
the expenditures s~63,024.26O, which
leaves the deficit for the month S15,-
543,S42, and for the seven months of
the present fiscal year S79,814,443.
The National City Bank estimated the
Governments deficit for the fiscal
year ending June 80 next at $780,
009 1000.
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Merger Saved Brokers.

Grant B. Schley, testifying before
a Senate committee at Washington,
D. c., said the absorption of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by
the Steel Corporation during the
panic of 1907 relieved Moore & Schley
of serious embarrassment.
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81, O New York Husbands
Have Deserted Wives.

Albany, N. Y.-That $4,000 hus-
bands in Manhattan and the Bronx
and 5000 in Brooklyn have been In
the police court, charged with aban-
donment and n%on-support of their
wives, is revealed in the preliminary
report of the commission to inquire
into the courts of inferior jurisdiction
in cities of the first class, made pub
lie by Governor Hughes.
The commission announces thai it
is considering the ACCESSIBILITY of a
special court for these cases.
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PUNISH RUSSIAN CRATER.

Part in Famine Relief. Scandals.
st. Petersburg, Russia. - General
Fredericks, former. Governor Of Nil
ni-Novgorod, whose trial on charges
of completely in the grand scandals
which attended the distribution Of
famine relief in 1906 has been con-
victed of negligence and corruption.
He was sentenced to dismissal
from the Government service and a
fine of $4,000 was imposed, in default
of the payment of which he will have
to serve a year in prison.