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wake up those within There were
ing with which to fight fire in case
of such an occurrence as happened
last night
Those who were in the hotel at
the time of the fire We're: III. G..
Mcllvine, E. Y. CHM, C. P. Williams,
Charles f. Dorkey, II. b. Freeman
and wife, l.. r. Tindal, L. j. At
kins, j. G. Reynolds, M. II. Swim
mingfields, II. c. Sternberger, Nor
ris Cohen, e. II. Lewis, j. c. Stead
man, II. =. Lee, j. J. Lamb, E. N.
Gooseman, Fred Murgott These
were transient guests; besides these
a number Of business men Of the city
had rooms there.
The injured We're: Mr.. f. S. Yer
noy, burned about the arms and cut
with glass in trying to wake up per-
sons in the building; Mr.. Charles K.
Beidenkopf, badly burned about the
head and hands; Tom Bradley, a
fireman who was knocked down and
bruised by hose on which he was
trying to put nozzle when the hose
was under high pressure He was
carried off from the grounds. but
later recovered and was able to be
about today. Herbert Morris was
also knocked down by the hose and
bruised but not seriously injured.
Those to lose possessions in the
fire were Glenn Anderson who had a
room and office in the building and
all that he had. Mr.. Beidenkopf al
so lost everything that he had with
him, barely escaping with his life
He lost a diamond pin worth 5000
a ring worth $210, watch, $5S in
cash and all his clothing except a
pair of pajamas which he was wear
ing at the time Of his escape. II. b.
Freeman lost all of his money. There
were several more who lost various
belongings whose names could not
be learned.
Mr.. Beidenkopf was the only oc-
cupant Of the building who was at
any time In danger of losins his
life and he had a close call. escap-
ing when 1t seemed impossible for
him to be saved. 1t seems that he
was in room 80 on the third floor of
the building and was not awak-
ened, as he is very hard of hearing,
when all the other occupants were
aroused. The first he knew Of the
fire was when he awoke with the
flames shooting over the transom
and scorching his hair and almost
blistering his skin. He at once
jumped to the window and tearing
out the wire screen with his hands
he called for help. At first no one
heard him and after they did hear
him they could not help him for
there was no ladder anywhere to
reach up that high. Some one did
in his excitement bring up a step
ladder about six feet high, but this
was no help to him. He then climb
ed out Of the window on the pipe
that carried water from the gutter
on the roof Of the building to the
ground. He remained here for some
time but the heat dove him off and
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ground where he was caught and
carried off to the other hotel and at
tended by a physician who dressed
his wounds. Mr.. Beidenkopf is
from New York, and travels for the
Root Newspaper Association and the
Dry Goods Economists
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I'm the Police Court.

Two cases came up In the Record
er's court Tuesday. Pink Burress. for
violating hack ordinance. plead
SSuilty and was fined 81.
Julius zuell for cursing. drunk and
disorderly conduct. was not present
to answer to the charges and forfeit
ed his bond OF $40.
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|Hoarseness in a child subjecr to
Group is a sure indication of the
approach of the disease. If Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy is given at
once of even after the Group c3ugh
has appeared, it will prevent the at
tack. Contains no poison. Sol5 by
w. w Sibert
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-10-22

The cotton In many parts of the
county has been badly damaged by
Hthe continued rains OF the past three
days
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-10-22

/ For Sale: Four thousand bushels
Of seed oats at prices that will cause
you to wonder how we can do IL.
Booth-IIarby Live Stock Co. Sumter.
y. c. 1O-2Ost
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For Sale: Four thousand bushels
Of seed oats at prices that will cause
you 10 wonder how we can do II.
Booth-Harby Live Stock Co. Sumter
u. G. 10-2Ost
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Just received car of mule, as
hne "a ever came TO Sumter. Also
n car OF horses. Three extra fine
horses. Call and see them, also
another car OF IL. M. F's. Shaw and
Drake. I&W10-2O-3t
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Cut


We have just received a large
sample line Of Cut Glass-All Sc
lected articles and many hand
some pieces-that we will sell
at very low price. If you want
anything in this line it will pay
you to see what we have.
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minds his adversaries, that the will Of
the majority really rules. and it dis
poses of the question whether the
Speaker does, like a colossus. bestride
the world" whether with him IT is a
case of let there be light and there
was light"
Up comes Il bill for the presentation
of the kaiser with d replica of a statue
of Won Steuben. and SulZer of New
York offers an amendment substituting
statue of Washington instead: but
against this the Speaker sustains u
point of order.
rs George Washington, the father
of his country, out of order mere:
asks the outraged SulZer.
In the present company he most de-
cidedly is" says the Speaker; and the
next measure is taken up.
The gavel is handed to a trusted lieu
tenant and Mr.. Cannon now takes a seat
on the floor. The regular appropriation
for replacing worn White House furnish
ings is up and a democrat is uttering the
usual TRADE against the Wanton lavish
ness with which old White House proper
ty is knocked down at scandalously low
prices. There was Mrs. Hayes sacred
temperance sideboard. What's become OF
that? And what's become OF this. what s
become of that sacred relic associated
with sich and such a President?
"Cncle Joe" now springs from his seat
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ing i'm violence until the first week OF
March
Not for half generation have condi-
lions in this pressure zone made for such
ideal thunderstorm weather. Each day
tho tension tightens between the republi-
can and democratic sides, and presently
the lightning will commence to fash back
and forth between these oppositely sur
charged bodies. Around this storm vortex
will loo waged a war of wits waxing
warmer and warmer each day until the
clock hands double upon the middle of
Ma chs first Saturday.
Let us have riproaring field day in
the House. just to see how its warriors
upon the floor today can parry and thrust
Uncle joe" in ruling on point of
order. remarks that the member raising
IL has cited in its favor 1.-THE whole ocean
OF claims from the time of the birth of
Christ to the future supposed death of
the man with the horns and eleven
boots
The democrats are filihuStering. First
they make the point of mo quorum
then they move adjournment, and final
" they shout NO quorum again.
"Pelion has been piled on Ossa.'
shouts the chair. There are no more
words in the alphabet: there are no
more mountains to pile. One hundred
and ninsty-two members are present
a quorum.
Insurgents and democrats combine
and overrule the Speaker. but he is
not perturbed, 1t but proves. he re-
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Eccentric Ways of Great Chess and Checker Players

club. He visited this eccentric member
/ am telling you OF at about the hour of
noon, and found him at breakfast. He
our friend yonder-was cordially invited
to partake of the one dish on the table. a
huge mess Of oatmeal porridge, and was
assured that there was plenty mere OF the
wholesome. If simple, food in the house.
But the invitation was declined.
Judge Smell. then a police court jus
tice, was a member of the club in those
days, but he resigned abruptly, and the
cause for this action on his part was
the blunt-spoken member. The latter
expressing his opinions of the various
moves with great freedom AS Smell
made a certain move at chess the critic,
who was very near-sighted, put his coun-
tenance close to the board SO as to get
a better view. and then raising his head,
he remarked:
"'Why. no one but fool would make
that move.
"snell was man of very hasty tenn
per, and 1t was with manifest difficulty
that he controlled himself. He remark
ed to a member subsequently that he
was compelled to resign SO long as the
outspoken one remained Il member. as,
in the event of his losing his temper
reduced to the anomalous situation of
being in justice. obliged to take himself
into custody and to sentence himself to
five dollars OF thirty days
"Ihere Is a member OF the club al
present who, though totally blind. is
one of cur best players. both at chess
and checkers. BY the way, perhaps the
most wonderful exhibition of blindfold
playing was given here about ten years
ago by the late Harry PiIlsbury. Mr..
Pillsbury played twenty-four games,
eighteen Of chess and six OF checkers,
simultaneously. debating his moves with
wonderful rapidity. and. of course, not
looking at single board. He sat look
ing out Of that window there, and smok-
ing cigars during the entire time. He
offered to include Il number OF whist
games at the same time. but this offer
was not accepted. PlIshury's unfortu-
nate end resembled that of Paul Morpiy.
who was the most picturesque player
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which were used for grain grinding, and
the remains of amphorae. or huge jars
with necks and side handles, which were
buried i'm the earth and kept to hold wine
covered with white glaze, and some OF
it has vertical stripes of yellow painted
upon it,
AS to the buildings. the stone walls are
built without angles. the cracks being
filled in with smaller stones. The
work was done with tools of bronze,
and that some of it dates back beyond
history. The heart of the city is on an
egg-shaped plateau just above the plain
of the Jordan. So far about $500 has
been extended on the work.
IT is difficult in wandering through these
ruins OF mud, brick and rough stone to
realize that Jericho was magnificent
city. The one of Joshua was not so in
our sense of the word although II covered
a large area and was thickly populated
There are no remnants of great marble
columns, and il is said that that Jericho
had disappeared long before Christ came
and that another had taken its place sit
uated in this same Jordan valley. The
Jericho Of Christ had a theater, q circus
and university. 1t ranked with Jerusa-
lem as one of the important places In Pal
estine. 1t was surrounded by irrigated
gardens. and was known as the city OF
palms. 1t had grown up in Roman times.
and Mark Antony thought so much of 1T
that he gave ii as a present to Cleopatra,
who collected quite a revenue from the
balSam groves near there which furnished
the gum OF commerce. Cotton was raised
here at that time, and this region was
then a winter resort for Jerusalem. Herod
the Great had palaces in Jericho. and 1t
is said that he died here, although he was
buried somewhere near Hebron.
We know that our Savior came To
Jericho, and here He healed the blind. He
did not stay in the city. but dwelt outside
In the house of Zaccheus, who was a col
~ ha ~
ment and therefore not popular with
the Jews. | refer to Zaccheus the dwarf
He was so short he feared he would not
be able to see the Christ, over the heads
of the crowd, and as you remember from
the verse in the old primer:
''Zaccheus he
Did climb tree
His Lord 10 see.
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just about fourteen miles from Jerusalem
as the crow flies 1t lies on little
PLATEAU. right under the mountain upon
which il is said our Lord was tempted
by the devil and promised the world. 1t
Is about three miles from the present
town OF Jericho. where | am stopping, and
within easy access of it by foot, horse Or
carriage. | have spent day with the
excayators. There are 800 peasant men
and women digging up the ruins, and the
Austrians have laid down a railway to
carry the dirt outside the walls. They
are using steel cars. pushed BY hand.
They are finding all sorts of relics and
are unearthing new historical facts.
The work began about three years ago
under the Austrian ministry of educa-
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ONCE, Where newspaper man asks him
how he feels about the latest insurgent
doings.
IF you turn to the journeys of old ST.
YOU will find that he struck an attitude
and said: I have been impoverished with
strifes: / have met robbers on land; I
have been shipwTecked on sea: / have
fought with the beasts Of Ephesus Yet
none of these things have moved me.
y
And the mentor Of the republicans and
tormentor OF the democrats returns to
the House and to his gavel.
In his symphonious southern voice
Champ Clark Of Missouri. the democratic
Speaker-to-be. is singing the praises of
the land Of his constituents. He is
red-necktied as always, and a business
suit Of gray covers his giant figure.
Mr.. Speaker he Notwithstanding his
rs pass without biting them-"Mr. Speak
err the last time the distinguished gen
tleman from Maine was in my district
he took up handful of our soil and
after smelling It. and fondling 1t and al
most tasting it. exclaimed:
If We had such soil in New England
We would put it up i'll packages and sell
1t for Seed.
And. later, while paying his respects
to the folly Of carrying the flag to the
vulseS the House:
I'm my minds eye I see the gentle
man from the Fiji Islands rising in his
place on this floor and. with watering
mouth, gazing upon the Speaker as some
thing good to eat"
Then, viewing the wreck of an inter-
rupter whom he has just squelched and
who had, with folly. invited his own de-
struction, the democratic leader parallels
'Once a tenderfoot hit the west. look
ing for grizzly. and they told him grizzly
was so plentiful out there that all he
had to do was to whistle for 1t and it
would come. So he went out on the
trail in all the panoply he had brought
on from the east. Two days later they
organized relief expedition. found the
few chawed remnants of his body. and
erected a tombstone on which was this
epitaph:
He whistled for grizzly, and the
grizzly came
Up jumps John Sharp Williams of Mis-
sissippi, who on March will ascend to
that realm at the other end Of the Capt.
tol which Tom Reed defined as 'the
place where politicians go to when they
die"-the United States Senate.
With this lab Williams attacks the
chairman Of the committee on ways and
means-the republican leader on the floor:
Mr. Chairman-I have sometimes
thought. and / say it in all good humor,
that there is a large degree of COMPARE
son between my friend. the Hon. Serene
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Vivid at Least.

nR. HIRAM c. CORTIANDT. the well
- known theologtan Of Des Moines.
said In a recent address:
Thomas A. Edison tells US that he
thinks the soul 1t not immortal: but after
all, what does this great wizard know
about souls? His forte is electricity anu
machinery. and when he talks OF souls hs
reminds me irresistibly Of the young lady
who visited the Baldwin locomotive works
and then told how locomotive is made.
You pour, she said. a lot OF SAINT
into lot Of boxes. and you throw old
stove lids and things into a furnace. and
then you empty the molten stream into
q hole in the sand, and everybody yelln
and swears. Then you pour 1t out ana
let 1t cool and pound 1t, and then you PUT
it In a thing that bores holes in II. Then
you screw 1t together. and paint IL. and
put steam In II, and II goes splendidly:
and they take 1t to a drafting room and
make a blue print Of it. But one thing
fOrgot-they have to make a boiler. One
man gets inside and one gets outside.
and they pound frightfully: and the1
they tie il to the other thing. and You
ought to see IL 60.
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whenever he can SO that he cannot be
easily replied to-"
Then Mr. Williams complains that
when the people ask for more tariff re-
duction they are invited to go to the in
fernal regions, but by a subtle innuendo
which reminds him of this little poem
which a disappointed swain dedicated to
his heartleSs love:
when asked my girl to marry me, she
said,
Go to father;
She knew that 1 knew her. father was
dead;
She knew that 1 knew what life he had
led;
She knew that knew what she meant
when she Said
Go to father.
A too garrulous colleague, who has
lust opened his mouth only to plunge
his foot into 1t fatally deep, the hu-
morous Mississippian rebukes with a
grim yarn about two rich brothers i'll
the south who read an account OF an
unknown in the New York morgue,
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he satisfactorily concluded a
problem over which he had been
porting he glanced around the UMPIRE
tentious quarters of the intellectual or
ganization and remarked:
You know, we devote our attention to
checkers and whist as we'll as to chess.
Edgar Allan Poe. II you will remember,
in his preamble to his remarkable story.
Murders in the Rue Morgue, remarks
that there is greater scope for the exer-
else Of the analytical qualities in both
checkers and whist than is to be found
in chess 1t was this dictum-in which
l by no means concur myself-which led.
I believe, to a member OF the club. or a
former member. rather, for he is now
at the head OF big concern in another
city, to eschew chess entirely and devote
himself exclusively to checkers.
This member was wont to affirm that
it gave him great delight to play check
ers with an adversary who, unschooled
in the scientific aspects OF the game, had
acquired a reputation among his assoc
ciates as a champion No doubt to such
an adversary the performances OF our
checker devotee seemed absolutely mex
plicable.
by the way, We had the honor Of en-
pertaining a number of years ago the
greatest checker player the world has, in
all probability. ever seen. This was the
redoubtable Wiley of Scotland, who
never lost a game and seldom yielded to
a draw. Mr.. Wiley was, too, one Of the
oldest characters We ever had at the
club. and We have had q number. both
members and guests. In his younger
days Wiley had been a peddier-he was
we'll up In years when he visited us-and
he retained a. sort Of primitive simplicity
Of language and attire which rendered
his drol] stories. with their dry Scotch
humor all the more amusing
HE used to tell with great relish an
a IA
hardly have seemed to him enjoyable. He
was touring a wild, out-of-the-way region
in the highlands Of his native country.
and, as night draw on, he found . soli-
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II HAD 4 TURKISH SOLDIER TO
KEEP OFF ROBBERS,

Iion. and the uncovering of the mounds
showed the remains of a great fortress
city. which was undoubtedly the Jericho
of Canaan. This lies on plateau sur
Louhded bS great walls. some OF which
are of stone. IL had inner walls and a
citadel and was fanked With strong tow
ers. Tie heart Of the city was about 100
feet long and - feet wide.
Many OF the houses have been un-
'arthe'i- have walked through streets
which in use when Moses and
the lsraeilteS We're wandering In the
wilderness. and have tramped up and
down starcsses of clay which were built
hundreds of wears before Christ. In one
or the buildings, which Is supposed to have
been made twenty seven hundred years
ago, there was found an uncovered court
yard. The house seems TO have been
abandoned during a fire, and for some
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of his own colleagues gets UP and de-
nounceS ham as ali autocrat
ENtravsgance % the majority party. ar
ever fruitful source OF sarcasm from the
other side. kindleS the wits % Macon Or
Arkansas. who thus pays his respects to
the expense account OF the immigration
commission. which included an item for
carriage ride to the eatacombs:
THE commission wanted 10 find out
the kind OF immigrants that came to this
country from all these places. including
the catacombs. where sleep and decay tho
bones Of the departed. the stencil from
which is so great as to mean death 20
those who attempt to long endure II.
And. at length. u tactlesS young orator
from the west hobs UP and begins lighting
the civil war Owe. again, hut before lis
colleagues have chance 70 squelch him
Charles Lafayette Bartlett OF Cieoreia
puts him out OF business with this thrust
Let tie bloody shirt rest Let the
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waukee humorist. who talks like the
Rogers Brothers or Weber and Field and
who punctuates his remarks with polite
bows to the chair. @
Il resendt this imbeachment Of my
Ameriganism, Mr.. Shpeegar. Although
was born in Chermany / have chust as
much patriotism as you ~native-born
AMERICANS. none of whom came here by
his own free will, as l hat done!'
The inevitable tariff comes up again
and Sharp of Ohio shouts:
~ want protection for every industry
until it is able to stand on its own feet.'
And Ollie James of Kentucky yells
back: ,.-.--..
"Ill favor protecting industries until
they can stand on their own feet. but
don't feel like continuing that protection
until they stand on. everybody - else S
feet
This tariff talk inspires one Of the new
i1umorists OF the House. William Benja-
min Craig of Alabama.
Lead pencils for the school children
will be higher" he cries, but why worry
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the club a spectator, who had lately ar
rived and who seemed surprised to see
that the famous checker champion Of the
world should be such sinple-looking old
fellow, remarked:
why. can beat that old codger.'
He was advised by one of the men,
bers to try. and he sat down to play. or
rather. to endeavor to play, for his efforts
He's good player, Mr.. Wiley said
the member who had suggested the en-
counter.
'''Yis,' returned Wiley, who was evil
IDENTIFY thinking of something else at the
time he needs watchin'.'
"A very pompous and conceited member
was also obsessed with the notion that
he should prove more than match: for
stage of the first game with him, his con-
fidence gave place to an apparently puZ-
zled and mortified condition of mind. A
member, with sense of humor not dis
played by his gravity of demeanor, OBJ
served to Wiley:
pompous and discounted oneJ stayed
up all last night studying that game
The old Scotchman REGARDED his adj
versary closely, as though he were mi
nuteiy inspecting curiosity. Then he re-
marked impressively:
"'Ye'd have played betther if ye'd had
yer sleep!''
were more 9ratified by this dialogue than
was Wiley's antagonist. who darted all
angry glance. at the mischievous member.
I'VE had member once who surpassed
Wiley, and. indeed, any one else I ever
knew. in extreme bluntness of speech.
This man was somewhat advanced in
years when he became member and
was, SO far as was known. quite alone in
the world. He would appear in the rooms
regularly every evening at about
O'Clock, and would remain until the doors
were closed. Although it was known that
he was wealthy, 1t was said by members
who visited him at his residence that his
mode of life was simple and penuriOus to
miserliness. That member over there
(the reminiscent one indicated a gentle
man evidently profoundly engaged over q
chess probiem) is quite gourmet. ana is,
Hike myself, one OF the ancients Of the