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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-03-02

The subscription campaign inau-
gurated by the Osteen Publishing Com
pany for the purpose of increasing
the circulation Of the Watchman and
Southron and the Daily Item came to
a close Monday night at o'clock,
and when the votes were tabulated the
result Of the hotly contested and ex-
citing contest was known. Miss Edna
Hughson received 414,112, Miss Te-
resa Chandler 344,903, Mrs. Florence
Shields Thompson, 10,310, and they
were declared the winners of the
three prizes, aggregating in value
$500. Miss Hughson having received
the highest vote will receive the $4OO
piano, the grand prize; Miss Teresa
Chandler having received the next
highest vote of any contestant resid-
ing in the city of Sumter will receive
a $50 gold watch Of her own selection,
and Mrs. Florence Shields Thompson,
of Lynchburg having received the
highst vote of any contestant not a
resident Of the city will receive a $50
gold watch Of her own selection.
The last day of the contest was full
of interest and excitement to the con-
testants and they worked up to the
last minute. The result was not
kpOwu until tho ~ q n WOO roo;vod tbfc
morning, when the votes mailed last
night before o'clock reached this
office. -
The votes were carefully counted
and tabulated. A committee, consisting
Of Messrs. Geo. w. Hutchinson, ]. H.
McCollum and John A. Mcknight,
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Spain's Foreign Trade.

Spain is frankly protectionist
nation. and the tariff Of 1906, now in
force, was passed throuh the Cortes
by combine between Barcelona and
Bilbao, the two industrial centres of
the country.
Spanish figures show imports from
the United States to amout to about
$23,000,000 U9OO, of which over
1000 900. or 90 per cent, consisted
OF raw material or articles slightly
changed in the processes Of manufac-
ture. The item of raw cotton amount
ed to $17,O00,000: if this, petroleum
and tobacco, each $1,000, 900; parafin,
$S50,000; lubricating oils, s33O,OOO,
etc. This. as the writer has said else
where, constitutes "soil butchery" at
home and in no sense spells Internal
ional trade abroad. No American
can be proud Of such an Invasion"
Of foreign markets as this. AS
trader with Spain we are not very far
from being on an equality with Rus
sia, Cuba and Brazil. Great Britain,
the premier nation in Spanish trade
both ways, France. Germany, and
Belgium supply Spain with manufac-
tured goods she buys abroad.
Our figures show that exports from
Spain to the United States and their
insular possessions amount I'm 1907 to
about $13,000,O00. Of which from
$l.OO0,000 To- $2.0OO,OOO go to- the
Philippines. The largest item Of ex-
port consists of $4,OOO,OOO or $1,000
900 Of iron ores from the district
about Huelva. The prospect for
Spain's holding her trade with her
old colonies does not seem to be re-
garded here as bright-From "Spain's
Economic Revival" by Frank ID. Hill,
In the American Review of Reviews
for March.
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South Carolina Baptists.

The minutes Of the State Baptist
convention, held in Anderson last
December, have been printed and
are being distributed.
The statistics show that at the
close Of the last convention year
there were 497 ordained ministers and
1898 churches. There were 6,9S6
baptisms during the year; 4,S03 men,
bers were received by letter: III by
statement; 1894 members were re-
stored, making the total membership
127,129. During the year 993 mem
brs died, 4.594 were dismissed by let
ter, and 1,130 were excluded.
During the year the contributions
were $563,90S.69, divided as follows
Pastors salaries, $2f1,223.27; state
missions. $29,15741; home missions,
S2l.S64.46; foreign missions. $39,-
396.27; orphanase, $23,571.62; aged
minister's $5.7S1.56; education, s14,-
931.1S; miscellaneous $2l7.274.77.
The church property was valued at
$2,151,651.
Each item shows a substantial gain
over the year before.
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DARK CORNER.

Dark Corner. Feb. 25.-The wind
blows and the rains fall, has been
falling ever since some time last
night, and Is still falling at noon with
no hopes of its ceasing soon. Every
thing Is at a complete stand still as
our lands are too wet and will be for
several days to plough. Almost every
body Is behind with their farm work.
We have had but one pretty day this
week. Last Tuesday was an ideal
day.
Mr.. Merry Christmas is still very
feeble. also Mr.. Barwlck and Mr.
Avin.
Mr.. Graham Pritchsrd. formerly of
Privater. but now OF Pinewood. has a
very sick son. Harry. with bright's
disease and heart trouble.
A colord woman. Dillsey Brown,
dropped dead at her home at Pine
wood last Monday night. She had
just said her prayers and got up and
started to retire TO her bed and fell on
the floor before reaching II. She had
been suffering with heart trouble for
some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Weeks and
granddaughter. Miss Nell Phillips Of
Sumter. spent two or three days with
w. J. Ardis and Pink Weeks last
week. returning home Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. Nj. f. Mcintosh has moved
from w. J. Ards to NJ ,. p. Broad
ways place with her son, j. T. Chill
dsrs.
Mr.. Joe NJ. Ar1is and his two sons.
John and Joe, visited w. ]. Ardis last
night
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Bliss Carman editor and author.
told at & dinner in New York a story
about James Russell Lowell and a
pad boy, says the Washington Star.
"A Boston woman" said Mr.. Carman.
asked Lowell to write in her auto
graph album and the poet, comply
ing, write the line: What is so rare
as day in June Calling at this
Woman's house few days later,
Lowell IDLY turned the pages of the
album till he came to his own auto
graph. Beneath is was written in a
childish scrawl: A Chinaman With
whiskers.' "
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JACKSON BORN IN THIS STATE.

A. S. Salley, Jr., Discovers Paper
Tending to Prove South Carolina's s
Claim.
Columbia, Feb. 26.-while Mr.. A..
s. Salley, Jr., the secretary of the
historical commission, was filing some
claims against the State of South Car
olina for services rendered or supplies
furnished by individual citizens OF
South Carolina during the Revolution,
he found a very interesting appraise-
ment OF horse furnished for public
use by William Crawford, of Camden
district The appraisers, who esti-
mated the value of the horse to have
been one hundred and and fifty
pounds currency, were Robert Craw-
ford and Andrew Jackson. Their APP
praisement was sworn to before Robt
Montgomery, j. p, and was dated De-
cember IL, 1888. At that time Am
drew Jackson was nearly seventeen
years old. The signature is in nearly
the Identical hand writing Of "Old
Hickory in his mature years. Rob-
ert Crawford, his affiant, was his fos-
ter father and kinsman, upon whose
plantation, in what was then Camden
district, but which later became Ian
caster district Jackson was born as
repeatedly asserted by himself and
others. This is possibly the first Off
cial paper that Jackson put his hand
TO in this State.
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AN HONOR TO HER RACE.
A Distinguished Colored Woman Visit.
Ing DalzeIl.

A few years before the civil war
broke out Mr.. Wesley Moore Of Dar-
llngton Co.. S. c.. father of the late
Il. r. Moore. who was accidently kt,id
ed In a gin here. and the writer pur-
chased a small colored girl, named
Charlotte.
When the war closed and Emanci-
patton was declared she had become
so attached TO the Moore family that
no amount Of persuasion could in
duce her To leave.
She had become very useful and
soon became a sklilful and pains
taking cook. hence her old mistress
knew nothing whatever OF kitchen
affairs. She never left that home for
a single day. only as visitor. from
the day she was set free till now.
She never was hired for wages, but
remained as a member Of the family
and yet she has a very decent bank
account; having snug little sum OF
money now drawing interest. Not
withstanding the fact she has always
been on very friendly terms with her
colored friends. she has never as
ISOLATED with them to any extent. II
q good old colored family negro dies
she usually attends the funeral with
n beautiful wreath OF flowers.
She was perfectly devoted to her
old master and mistress and her un-
firing devotion TO them during their
last illness, a few years ago, demon
strated the fact that her love for them
was very sincere indeed. After their
death. Mrs. A. f. Skinner the eldest
living daughter. moved to the old
homestead Charlotte remained with
them and still occupies the same
home she has for about half CEN
tury.
She attends the Methodist church
regularly and takes much interest I'm
church affairs Notwithstanding her
long and intimate association with
the very best white people OF that Sec
ton. she has no claim whatever TO
social equality. Occasionally she
spends a week or two out among the
family connections at Bishopvnie and
Dalzell. where she Is now visiting.
she Is always n welcome guest and
the children and grandchildren all
deem II a privilege and pleasure TO
make her presents. such as shoes,
dresses etc.
speak the sentiment Of the
family when I say any OF US would
intrust To her any amount OF money
we might possess and feel as safe as
tf e were I'm a National bank. | dare
say no northerner with their boasted
love for the colored race. can induce
her for any amount OF money to leave
her old home and friends, One of the
last acts Of her. old mistress was to
pre- Al 20 her y12e.oo ~ sold, as 2
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suggested by the representatives of the
two leading candidates, recounted the
votes and checked the tabulation, af-
ter which they signed a crtificate at
testing the correctness of the count
The prizes are ready for delivery
and will be turned over to the sue
cessful candidates whenever they
shall call or send for them.
The contest has been highly sue
cessful and satisfactory and has ad-
ded large number of names to our
subscription lists, consequently we feel
repaid for the expense incurred and
the work that the contest imposed
/ upon the office force.
Our thanks are due and are hereby
extended to the several candidates and
their friends for the efforts they have
put forth for our benefit while work
ing for the prizes offered. We trust
the handsome prizs that reward the
three successful candidates for their
efforts will long be to them a source
Of pleasure. We have but one regret
that we cannot give a handsome
prize to each of the candidates who
remained in the contest to the finish.
The following is the total vote, as
shown by the tabulation, of the six
candidates who stayed to the finish:
Hiss Edna Hughson. -. :. ..414,112
Miss Teresa Chandler. :. ..344,9O3
Mrs. Florence Shields Thomp-
SON.. :. :. :. :. :. :. 10,310
Miss Julia Welch :. 7,345
Miss Maize Mcleod. :. -. 7,345
Miss Inez Wells. :. :. 80. $3.50
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COUNTY correspondence.
REwsY LETTERS FROM OUR sPE-
CIAL CORRESPONDENT


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENT
Mail your letters so that they will
reach this office not later than Mon
day when intended for Wednesdays
paper and not later than Thursday
Cor Saturdays issue. This, of course.
applies only to regular correspond
snee. In case Of items of unusual
news value. send in Immediately by
nan. telephone or telegraph. Such
ssws stories are acceptable up to the
heur Of going to press. Wednesdays
paper = printed Tuesday afternoon
aa6 Saturdays paper Friday after
neon.
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parting token Of her appreciation for
faithful and devoted service. When
the last child had left her mistress
casket she clung to it and had to be
literally carried away. For these
faithful and devoted services she de-
serves and will no doubt have a monu-
ment erected to her memory.
S. F. Moore,
Feb. 2S, 1910. Dalzell, S. G.
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Letter-Writing BY Wire.

While the proposal Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company to adopt
what is termed a might letter SER
vice may appear at first glance to be
fraught with very little interest to the
general public, it may in time accom-
plish something of a revolution in
the worlds system of correspondence
To business men especially it offers
an opportunity Of no trivial moment.
In the very nature of things an
electric age is impatient of the slow
er methods of communication. The
expense involv d is the only thing
which has restrictd the use of the
telegram to the more important de-
mands of commerce and civilization.
But when the tariff is reduced to such
an extent that 50-word messages can
be sent for nominal tolls, it is said
to predict that the telegraph wires
Will be given no small percentage of
the business which is now intrusted
to the mails.
AS an investment for the Western
Union Telegraph Company it will also
10 doubt net substantial results.
For under existing conditions there
is little use made Of the wires during
the dull hours Of the night; and the
effect of the proposed innovation
would be to augment considerably the
volume Of business between dusk and
dawn.-Atlanta Georgian.
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Rather DiScOnccrtine

Mama, said little Ethel, with a
discouraged look on her face. "I
amt going to school any more"
why. my dearie, what's the mat
ter?' the mother gently inquired.
Cause it amt no use at all 7
can never learn to spell. The teach
er keeps changing the words on me
all the time.-"Success Magazine"
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lagos by the European Jew settler,
whose modern agricultural imple-
ments and methods have made the
land produce harvests never dreamed
Of by the natives. The Anglo o-Pales-
tine company a Zionist banking and
commercial enterprise, is pushing the
cause Of Israel with energy.
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PIANO CONTEST CLOSES.
Very Large Vote Polled the Last Day and
Much Interest Manifested.
MISS EDNA AUGHSoN WINS THE PIANO, The GRAND PRIZE

Miss Teresa Chandler Wins the Gold Watch for the Cty
of Sumter, and Mrs. Florence Shields Thompson of
Lynchburg, the Gold Watch for Contestants
Ontsde the City. The Osteen Publish
ing Company Makes Distribu-
tation of $3.50 in Prizes
in Subscription
Campaign.
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Al Kubiak Loses.

Paris Feb. 26.-Sammy McVeagh
the American heavyweight. knocked
out Al kubiak of Michigan in the
10th round Of a scheduled 2O-round
fight here tonight.
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MARRIED..

Married at Rev. II. l.. Coles and by
him on February Goth, Mr.. Clinton
Ross to Miss E. A. Hawkins, all Of
Pbgah. S. c.
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Consider the poor actor. how no is
made immune by the high price of
eggs.
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The barn ard four head of stock
or Henry Gallup of Lancaster were
destroyed by fire
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-03-02

General Washington, a negro, shot
and killed Pinckney Rush, also a
negro, at Florence.
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It's wise trust that isn't being
probed or dissolved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
EATERS OF HUMAN FLESH
Erperiences and Dissertations
Among South Pacific C0nnlbaLs.
BY Lewis r. Freeman.

We had been coming to the Marquesas all
night and when at daybreak the scarped and
I,1,trressed summit of the unmistakable Cape
Naretens began taking shape in the dissolvins
mist there was something definite to go by By
rI7idafternoon we had doubled the gaunt black
point for which had been steering, to be
suddenly confronted with the unfolding pano-
rama of the rnatchless Bay Of Taio-Hale
Pursuant to Instructions we ran up the Jack"
n the fore and stood off across the entrance
waiting for the pilot, without whom. so we
read, there was heavy penalty for entering.
Long we waited. but got no sign Of life
Perhaps the pilot has oversight on his siesta
to-day" the captain remarked drSiy' anu Il
that's the case our anchor gun may wake MIN
up"
We went in neatly and eXpedlt1ousiy' dropping
anchor a quarter of a mile off the rlckeIy WHAT
The firing of our little signal cannon might have
been the setting off of a mine under the "hoie
village so electric was it effect Dark ngures
snrang uD from nowhere and darted hither and
t,jtber and following the appearance or cor
DuleDt figure in pajamas at the door Oh "haI
seemed to be the official residence the liiooof
Of France went Jerking up To q "appS N-sp
Down the front street soon came toiiiiis f'
derous figure in brass helmet ana "Li'e I'M
form followed by a trailing sword and haif d
dozen natives carrying oars on their Sho
Two other foreigners-aso white ciao anu '
helmeted-joined the procession as IL pa''e0 ~
what appeared to be a trading store anu Inc
three proceeded in company TO the "haii "1'N
put off in d whale boat.
Driy en- by the erratic but powerful stroh0n "
the big natives, the boat was quickly ae
and the official looking man came puiii'e f
the ladder which had been hastily ~"
assist him He was Brigadier BouIiif""' "
nounced between gasps in broken Eiis 49,
other men following him over the rail were re-
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spectiveIy Herr Cramer, a German trader, and
Nj McGrath, an American trader.
BY the way, where's your pilot, NJ. lie cap
tainc," asked the captain after the brigadier
had examined our papers and admitted the
yacht to 'practique', hasn't he oversight this
afte~rlror?''
"7oe .ri,ate! He ees no'-and at this point
With .0ld rolIings of the eyes and fierce tug
Cines Of the mustache the brigadier relapsed
into French so volubIe and excited as to prove
unite unintelligibIe to our unframed ears.
THE brigadier." explained the blond Cramers
in his exact Teut0nic English, as the excited
Freedman paused for breath, says that the
last pilot but one was killed and eaten by reIa-
tiyes of a trading schooners crew that was
drowned when the craft was piled up on the
beach through the pilots careIessness. A sim
liar fate also overlook his successor, apparently
for 10 other reason than that the Office had be-
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come an unpopular one with the natives. Since
that time the government had been unable to
find any one willing to fill the position under
any Inducements
So our anchor gun did not awaken the Sleep
ing pilot of Taio-HaIe after all
The Marquesas are the only islands of the
eastern groups of the South Pacific where can
nibalism has not long since ceased This does
not mean that one is likely to be bounced upon
and eaten as soon as he sets foot ashore, but
only that under certain favorable conditions,
when there is small chance of its being brought
to the attention Of the government this bar
barity is still resorted to.
Cannibalism is practised in the Marquesas to-
day only when the conditions such that the
chances of detection of the slightest. and
never under any circumstances with the Cere-
r,ony which attended the rites of two three
decades ago. The long pig" may be cut up
quietly and distributed among hundred fam
lies in half a dozen different villages, or the
nautiated body may be buried after only a small
Lortion has been reserved for eating
Just previous to our arrival in Nukahiva a
body from which only the hands were missing
Y as washed ashore at Anaho during heavy
Southwestern. Investigation showed it to be that
of one Tcona, a resident Of Hatiheu, a native
who three days previously. had, according to
the story Of his companions fallen from their
canoe and been drowned. The latter, after four
days confinement in u dark cell at Taio-Hale-
the EXTREMIST torture TO which a Marquesan
can be subjected-confessed that they had killed
Teona during a cocoanUt wine debauch, and
after cutting OF his hands FOR distribution in
tiny portions at q tribal feast had weighted the
body with stones and dropped it out to sea.
CanniEalism, which has always been practtsed
in the Solomons. owes its persistence not TO any
particular predilection of the native to human
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
BRIDGE 1CROSS HUDSON
Hitb Making Of BoriHgs 4ncient
TjyiCn Begins 10 Take Form.

For years the suggested bridge across the
75-+- -...... --- - vi st. - ~ -.
sev has -esern5Ee.i a castle IN the clouds. Men
have had visions Of the advantages Of such 4
link h--. 70 Use The slang phrase. they We're all
u II +a- air. The rroaosi-far now however Is
... ,..- - - 1918 - - ,t+--7 -.
Y5r.v was arpraDrtate5 IL the last session Of
the S-.-e Legislature for borfngg and the col
lection u general engineering data and the
counties ~ New Jersey oDrosire New York have
constituted money in the hope Of being n On
The e----s 7eo- 50 IN sneak when = sta is
finally selected and nov The horings ara being
made. THAT statement ought TO be in red let
tiers n is something tangible. It means bust
ness
L is r-+ certain however What site viii he
selected s- -- ---fal -f7=-ias ara thar II will
Dc above 7oa-r street The one which has baen
most favored is The --e- oir7- hitting ont into
the river from For vv7zrfrr+on F0srL, AZ the
foot a. 7-r-H street toward -ha Palisades on
The ~.- side Tho -4--a- fs -,arrov-ae* there a
farr t.a- r-zs discovered F-- the American en-
glreers IL the F--gI-5-5., v-Ha7 -F7azy constructed
boom across - -- r-fe -sr.+ Nth the idea of
preventing me Ts~fr4-H from -aeejnp m To Al
ba--- r Is trr,-er.- that "a brfdga could be
thrown .--r== --a-. rr- s7aoaanno a sum al
least .-a--r.-s lass -.-r II ,vo7l1d cost else
W1e--
Tie ---. .- ..-.sra r..s NOT been selected