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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
JOYS OF H COUNTRY.

The country bred boy has a great
advantage over his cousin, brought
II in the city, for he may move into
he city, and absorb all the ways OF
he town; but the city man can never
iecome a true c%ountryman, however
much he may be dissatisfied with his
ity life, or long for the country. Per-
laps mankind takes to ..he woods in
budding spring or golden summer, for
he simple reason that his ancestors
lived there. But while the longing to
;et close to nature during the open
eason is nearly universal the instinct
or enjoying the wilderness is much
ess widely distributed. Some persons
ire happy at getting away from civil
cation, others who fancy that they
want to leave the town behind are
made perfectly miserable by the lack
# their accustomed conveniences-
The splash of the water on the boats
ides or the hum of the reel to such
persons is no compensation for the
ack of ice, the porcelain bath tub or
comfortable beds and rocking chairs:
Your true son of the woods. city
)red though he may be, counts all the
suffering that belongs to life out OF
loors as not g~revious, but joyous. The
liscomforts are not to be compared.
n his opinion, to the delights Of
camping and fishing and hunting
Perhaps the difference in tempera-
nent may be traced back to child
lood. A person may be made almost
lnything if he is taught young
enough. The psychologists have a
heory that all kinds of instincts man
fest themselves for a time in the
growing child and then disappear, un-
ess special attention is given to their
development. This may account in
,art for the diversity of feeling to-
ward nature that exists so unaccount-
IDLY among men and women OF 9TH
.rwise co~ngenial tastes. The woods
nay lure, put they aren't likely to
.aptivate Unless the devotee early
earned their ways. The taste for
,ut-of-door life may be cultivated to-
ZONE degree, but unless it was devel-
,ped in youth it is not apt to prove
.obust.-G. E. NJ, in the Indiana
Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27

Dallas, Tex, Special.-Oscar B
Colquitt, an anti-prohibitionist, was
Saturday nominated for Governor by
a plurality which will probably reach
$4,000. Cone johnson and William
Poindexter, the proliibitionist candi.
dates, have only about a thousand
votes difference between them. These
are now in favor of Poindexter. but
may change as some heavy ohnson
counties are yet to come.
Former Attorney General Davidson
is about 10000 votes behind Poin-
dexter and Johnson.
The proposition to submit to popu.
lar vote a prohibition amendment
to the constitution has carried by
probably 10000. This presents the
situation of al anti-prohibition
Democrat being nominated with a
party demanding the submission OF
a prohibition amendment confront.
ing him. This was caused by tie
prohibitionist split on candidates.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
President Appoints colored Man

Washington, Special. = Whitfield
Mckinley, a negro real estate agent
of this city, has been appointed col.
lector of customs here, the technical
designation of the Office being the
port of Georgetown, D. C.
News of McKinley's selection by
President Taft was received here
Tuesday from Secretary Norton at
Beverly. 1t is stated that the appoint
ment signifies the recognition of ne
groes in important Federal positions.
Mckinley came to Washington
from Charleston, S. c., in 1884. and
has taken an active part in politics.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Hit Rank for a Million.

Louisville, KY, Special.-August
Ropke, assistant secretary and book
keeper of the Fidelity Trust Com
pany, one of the soundest financial
institutions in Louisville, is believed
to have made away with $1.14O,OOO.
the entire surplus of the concern.
according to a statement made by
John w. Barr, president of the COM
pany. Ropke is in the county. Jail.
where he has been fec ten days, un-
able to furnish the sum of $4,000.
Ropke was a heavy Spectator and
lost large sums, it is said, on Wall
Street and the Chicago board Of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
The Explanation.

Washington, d. c., Special. =
To the failure of a safety mechan-
ism to operate when a sudden and
powerful pull was given by an ar
t~illeryman iii attaching the lanyard.
is now laid ire responsibility for the
accident wkic!i cost the lives of II
men at Fort Monroe, Va. during
battle practice. Such is the con,
%clusion of Gen. C'rozier, chief of ordi-
nance, U. S. ~, who attended the
practice and who has been in touch
with the inquiry made by the investi.
eating board.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
To Make Insecticide Rules.

Washington, Special.-A board of
Government officials has been appoint
ed to carry out the law of the last
session of Congress to prevent the
ad~ulteration and ~misbranding of in
secticides and fungicides.
A series of regulations governing
the manufacture of articles covered
by the act will be prepared. In
ci~dentally the Treasury Department is
interested in the matter for the rea-
son that tobacco, which is subject to
an internal revenue tax, is one Of
the ingredients of many Of the pre-
partitions of the character coming
within the scope Of the law.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Bow Dives Upon a stingaree

West Palm Beach, Fla, Special
Death in an almost u~nheard-of form
waited for Laurence S. Baker, an
11-year-old Jacksonville lad, when he
divcd from q boat while in Lake
Worth Thursday.
A stipgaree, o huge, iat-bodied and
gruesome species of warm-water fish
was lurking under the boat. One Of
the barbed spines which this fish ear
ries on its whip-like tail, pierced the
boys neck, cutting into the juglar
vein. He rose to the surface. CRYING
for help and bled to death within
four minutes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Sheriff Kills Seven With Two Pistols.


Elliott, Miss, Special.-Five ne
groes were killed and two others
were mortally wounded Thursday
when Deputy Sheriff Cauley, who was
endeavoring to take them into Gus
tody on a minor charge, advanced
Oh the officer with farming nipple.
ments as weapons and with the avow-
ed intention of "cutting rim down.
Bearing a warrant charging the
seven with assault. Cauley and two
citizens, ,9eputized to assist him,
went to the home of Henry Beck, 8
coloped farmer, near Elliott. AS the
posse approached, the negroes ceased
their work in the field and grabbing
pitchforks and other farming tools.
made for the deputy. Cauley, how
ever, opened fire with two ~revolers
before the billigerents came within
striking distance, and. before the
others of the posse had gained their
wits five of the attacking party were
dead and the remainder wounded.
The deputy surrendered.
Several days ago an attempt was
made to effect the capture of the ne
groes but the arresting officer with
drew when they employed similar
tactics to those of Thursday.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
DEMOCRATS in DIVISION.
Two Congressman Nominated in Sixth
North Carolina District-Godwin
Faction Independent -aeprbh-
cans VIII Enter Field.

Wilmington, n. c.. Specialize
cause the chairman Of the executive
committee, and temporary chairman
of the sixth district congressional
convention in session here, refused to
recognize delegates from New Han
over and Cumberland counties for the
reason that they had been "appoint-
ed'' instead of elected, in violation of
the Democratic plan, it is claimed,
the executive committee, during a re-
cess of the convention, deposed the
chairman and reelected another
chairman who admitted the delegates
from the counties in question.
Oscar L. Clark, Of Bladen, was
nominated on the 143d ballot at LEO
a. m. Friday, defeating Congressman
Goodwin and the other three candi-
dates.
The Goodwin faction held a econ
vention" Friday morning and by de-
claring that Goodwin should have
eleven of New Hanover's votes and
six of Cumberland S, nominated Han
nibal /. Goodwin Of Harnett on the
first ballot.
Supporters of Goodwin declare that
no matter who makes the race for
Congress in this district H. L. God
win will be in the fight and that no
!. effort will be made to have the mat
ter submitted to the State executive
committee.
There is no doubt about the Re-
publicans putting out o nominee and
it now looks like q threc-cornered
fight. Godwin's forces declare that
he can win out over the field no mat
ter how many are in the race and in
fact this declaration YVES made by J.
C. Clifford of Harnett in placing
Goodwin in nomination.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
same EVERYWHERE
Patriotism and Ideals of People
Noted by Traveller.
PRESIDENT TAFT TALKS OF IT.
Chief Magistrate and Family Cruising
Along Coast of Maine-First Visit
of a President to That Section.

CdSGpOIty h1uAHe, oPN
ming his ten days. stay in Name
President Taft reached the northeast
corner of the United States Tuesday.
It was the first time a chief magls-
trate of the nation had visited this
section of the State and for Mr.. Taft
it completed travels to the four quar-
tiers of the country. He has not been
to Key West as President, but he said
that his tours of the United States
always deeply impressed him with the
homogeneity Of the people-their
aims, ambitions and the ideas of true
American citizenship being every
where tie same.
In his speech here the President,
after stating that the proper way to
understand the country is to so to
the four corners and the places be-
tween, said:
"Now l have been at Seattle, San
Diego, to the Southern-most point OF
Florida and now at Eastport, and l
have found the same people, the same
patriotic spirit, the same progressive
civilization at each of these four
points and also between them. When
i man has had that privilege he may
be said to understand the American
nation. 1t is true that they talk a
little more through their noses in this
part of the country than they do far
Their South, bit the style of woman's
bonnet is just the same here as it was
way down in San Diego.
~ hope that in this audience ]
am addressing there are some Canad-
ians. You are close enough to them
to know them and to value them as
neighbors. Canada is 9. great coun-
try and we are just learning how
great q country it is. Speaking for
the administration We are convinced
that a closer commercial relation with
Canada will be we'll for both coun
tries and if in the next year We can
come to :.ny agreements by which our
commercial relations will be closer
we shall think ourselves fortunate.
We have reached a time when neither
ought to be envious of the uthcr, but
each ought to be convinced that the
more prosperous the one the more
likely the other is to be prosperous
and hal the growth of the trade of
one means the growth of the trade
of the other. 1t is pleasant to see
that all the controversies between
Great Britain and the United States
Which in the past have been many are
now settled or are in course of settle
ment by arbitration. That is the first
time in the history of the two coun-
tries when that could be said"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Finger Nail Growing en- Nose.

Washington, D. c., Special. :
There was a man in Washington
Friday with a finger nail growing
from the end of his moss. His name
is y. B. Norris, and he halls from
News Orleans. '
Some months ago he had the create,
part Of his nose cut away, and the
surgeons endeavored to mend tie de-
feet by grating his little finger into
the gap.
After several months the root Of
the nail which the surgeons hat
failed to remove, began to sprout. ant
now the patient is afflicted with s
claw on the end of his phoboscis.
Hesleft fer New Orleans. where b,
will re-enter the Zorro Infmarv Il
have the surgeons rebuild. his nose
with their planes, saws, and chisels
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
To Fight open-shop Policy.

Organized 'abor in the District OF
Columbia has begun to lay plans fol
a systematized fight against the open
shop policy.
At a meeting Of the presidents Of
the 80 local trade unions and of the
executive committee of the Cenrta'
Labor Union, $4,000 was pledged as
the nucleus of a defense fund tc
carry OIL the contest against the EN-,
ployers' and various other ~associa.
tions which have been seeking t.
shop system.
The money will be given by thu
various unions, and mere will be
raised, as needed, by assessment.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Texas City Holds Record.

Among. cities of its size, San An
t%onion, Tex, holds the record Of I'm.
delivered mail matter.
Letters and packages found to bt
non-deliverable by the post-offiee dur
ing the last fiscal years reached the
tremendous total of 42,495 pieces. Oh
these 26,525 had no return address
and for this reason had to be sent tt
the dead letter Office. Most of the
pieces were letters, though there wert
also many packages and several posta
money orders.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
new CONGRESSMAN
On Census Returns. SouthfG Gets
Increased Representation.
NORTH WILL MAKE OBJECTION.
south's Population Figures Creating
sensasicn-P1esage Political
Power and Importancs--Probab
Fight Ahead Between Sections.

Washington, Specialize amaz
ing growth in the South and South
west already is becoming the sensa'
lion of the 1910 census.
Fifty-one counties in Texas show
a population Of STATS in 1910, a:
compared with 552,9o6 in 1900, 8
gain Of As per cent.
This percentage maintained
throughout Texas will mean a gair
of l,4O3,606 people in the State. OF
q total population of almost 4,5OO,
900.
For Nueces county the Census Blu
reau reported a population of 2l,95;
in 1910, as against 10,434 ten years
ago, an increase of ITO per cent.
Knox county showed a 500 pei
cent advance, and Tom Green county
close to 400 per cent.
Returns from other States are
scattering. Without exception, the
figures from Oklahoma and from the
ssOld South'-Louisiana, Mississippi;
Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama
record startling increases.
On the present basis of represen-
tation in Congress, a member to every
10000 Of the country's population
the returns from only forty-one coun.
ties entitle Texas to another member
of the House. If the ratio of increase
IS maintained, Texas will get seven
additional members, and have a dele
cation consisting of twenty-three.
The scattering figures from other
parts Of the South and Southwest:
most notably Oklahoma, presage q
like advance in political power and
importance.
For this reason, talk of renewing
the Northern demand for limiting
Southern representation is becoming
general. The Northern Republicans
are practically sure to make anothe,
effort to pass a force bill, under which
representation would be based upon
the vote cast. instead of upon the
census returns.
A bitter sectional fight is sur te
follow.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Eight Hour Limit.

Washington, Special. Attorney
General Wickersham has ruled that
the eight hour limit will apply to
work done on and for 4 battleship in
the government shipyards. This decis-
ion allows the manufacturers of ar
NOR which is intended for q warship
to be built in a government yard to
work their employees on such armor
as many hours as the employees will
stand.
The attorney general holds that the
recent act making appropriations for
vessels to BE- capable of no other con-
struction.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
"Jobn DPS Place" Cause of Protest

Cleveland. o., Special.-Becausc
he placed in the window of his saloon
a sign reading "This is John DIS
place." John D. Schnapps was ar
rested.
The complaint was fled b. Frank
F. Marmann, who says he is u friend
of John d. Rockefeller.
Marmann says Mr.. Rockefeller Is
known as John d." and he asked
what the oil mans Sunday school
pupils would say if they CHANGED to
pass the saloon and say that sign.
Scnapps argues as his name is
John D., he has u perfect right tc
use it on his sign.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Well, What is "Fitten T'eat7"

Washington, Special.-Prosecutions
against manufacturers of ice cream
cones containing boray are to be in.
stituted by the government under the
pure food law.
= Large seizures Of cones were made
recently in different parts of the
country by inspectors of the depart.
yment of agriculture. Analysis of the
cones seized disclosed the ~nresenct
of borax, q property which has been
held to be deleterious to the human
stomach.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
A 1ramp's Gratitude.

Macon, Ga, ~Special.-Shortly be-
fore the Klondyke gold boom, W. V.
Miller, a motorman of this city, then
living IN Atlanta and known as
akid" Miller, met j. F. Curley, a
miner, stranded and without funds.
He took him in and fed hir, gave him
.naney with which to travel as far as
Birmingham. That was the last he
ever heard Of the bread cast upon the
waters, until he received word that
lgurley had died in Dawson City and
left him a fortune estimated at $780,
li)0O
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Negro League Secures Roosevelt.

New York, Special.-Booker 7.
Washington called on Col. Roosevelt
Friday to ask him to speak before
the National Negro Business Mems
league, which is to hold a session in
this city on August II, is and 10.
Washington is president of the league
Col. Roosevelt promised to make an
address on August 10. On the fol-
lowing day Washington is to sail to
Europe TO collect material for a
series of articles for a magazine on
the condition of the laboring masses
in Europe as compared with that o.
the negroes in America.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Postal Supplies Depot.

Washington, Special.--Brunswick.
Ca, has been designated by order of
the P~ostofice Department, as a gen.
eral distributing point in the South
east for postal cards, stamped envel-
opes and stamped wrappers. The
department will send, beginning All
gust l, these supplies in carloads to
Brunswick to be distributed to post
masters in that section of the South
as they may be required.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Woman Lawyer Scores a Victory.

Chicago, Special.-Mrs. Mary e.
Miller, a woman lawyer, won a de-
cided victory before Judge Gibbons in
the Circuit Court when after an hour
and thirty minutes d%eliberation, the
jury that has heard her suit for $780,
600 attorney fees against the three
Lloyd brothers, grandsons and heirs
of John Bross, once Licutenant-Gov-
ernor of Illinois, voted for a verdict
of $32.500. This is the largest fee
ever granted a woman lawyer If
America. The Ease has been on tria'
for nearly three weeks.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
CAPITAL
interesting News Gathered in
the Districtof Columbia.
TIE AMERICAN CONGRESS-.
Personal Incidents and Important
Happenings of National Import
Published for the Pleasure and liz
formation of Newspaper Readers.

Must Inspect Bugs. !,
Chief bug Inspector of the United
States is the latest title acquired by
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.
1t is Up to the Secretary now, ae-
cording to the new bug law, to see
that all insecticides and funglcldes
and other brands of death-dealing con
coctions are up to the standard.
Just how the inspection of sundry
insect powders on the market will be
made is puzzling the Secretary.
A commission is now investigating
the manner Of enforcing the new law
which went into effect recently.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
1900 Michigan Men Join Strike.

Detroit, Special.-Tuesday night ii
was estimated that at least 1900
employees of the Grand Trunk in Mich
igan have struck or are OUT OF work
as the result of the strike inaugural
ed on that road Monday. Approx
mately 800 miles of railroad are idle
as far as freight traffic is concerned
and the passenger traffic is said to be
considerably delayed at several points.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Can Market Molasses Whiskey.

Washington, Special.-A complete
agreement has been reached regard
ing the way in which molasses-made
whiskey may be marketed by the in
ternal revenue officials and all that
is now necessary is the %perfunctory
approval Of Acting Attroney-General
Fowler.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Over 100000 Immigrants Admitted

Over 100000 Immigrants Admitted
Nearly $4,000 of the immigrants
who arrived at United States ports
during the fiscal year ended June sc
last were denied admission by inmi.
grafton officials and were compelled
to return to the countries from which
they came. Various reasons Were
assigned for refusing to allow then
to remain here, including those OF
physical defects and the probability
of their becoming public charges.
The fiscal year 1910 vas a emil.
lion immigrant year." the first fol
several years, the total number ad.
mitted being 1,041,570.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Bucks Stove Co. surrenders.

Cincinnati, O., Special.-A peace
agreement has been reached between
the Stove Founders National Defense
Association and President Gompcrs
of The American Federation of Labor.
This, it is believed, will end the pros
ecutions by the Bucks Stove Com
pany against officers of the American
Federation of Labor.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Young Men Needed for Soldiers

The United States needs an army
of young, aggressive men, is the
opinion of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood
who is in Washington getting in
touch with affairs before assuming
his new duties as chief of staff Of
the army.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
French Justice.

Tours, France, BY Cable.-A rag
picker named Joseph has confessed to
the assassination April p, 1910, of
FIVE children of a farmer named
Brierc, in she vicinity of Charles
The father Of the children was found
guilty of the murder and sentenced
to life Imprisonment. He died III
nrison
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Break Up Officers Foolishness.

Washington, Specials a conse-
quence of the report of a court of in
quiry that unsatisfactory conditions
existed in the marine corps largely
as the result of many officers having
been in Washington too long, the
headquarters staff with only a few
exceptions was Tuesday ordered to
new posts in different parts of the
world.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
Promine1t Citizen a Moonshiuer.

Nashville. Tenn, Specially dis.
patch from Admission, Ala, says Unit
ed States evenue officers have re-
turned from Cleburne county after
having destroyed one of the largest
moonshine stills that has been located
ia years in the home of Charles Pes
nell. one Of the most prominent cit
liens of the county, who lacked only
20 votes of receiving the nomination
for sheriff in the May primary. NJ
arrests were made.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
To Name Peace Commission Soon.

The personnel of the universal
peace commission, provided for in the
closing days in the last session of
congress, will be named in the near
future. Friends of the project still
are hopeful that former President
Roosevelt will accept the chairman
ship. Five members will constitute
She commission, all to be appointed
by the president.
1t must report within two years.