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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
VIEWS OF LONDON PAPERS
One Charges Roosevelt With "BrcocJ,
or International Manners"

London, June 1.-The London
newspapers editorially treat Col
Roosevelts' speech, at the Guild Hall
yesterday, without resentment and
his candid advice in rather a banter
ing spirit, as coming from privileged
person.
The Chronicle takes it as a compli-
ment to AnglO-American solidarity,
but doubts whether it would be wise
Tor British former premier to imi-
tate the performance in New York
or Washington.
The conservative papers are inclin-
ed to welcome the advice. The Stan
dard says:
"The speech was more piquant than
polite. 1t is put crudely, but may do
us good"
The Telegraph thanks the Colonel
for his bitter medicine" but believes
that the British people are sensible
enough to swallow the dose.
The Daily News alone seriously
takes Mr.. Roosevelt to task for "a
breach of international Manners
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
OBJECT TO FOREIGN DEMAND.
Cotton Buyers Association Protests
Against Using Port Bills OF Lad
ing.

Atlanta, Ga, May 31.-For the pur-
pose CT. appointing representative to
go to London to protest against the
demand that all Southern cotton be
shipped on port bills OF lading, the
Southern Cotton Buyers Association
Will hold a meeting in this city next
Thursday. The representative Of The
Association probably will be authori-
Zed to propose a surety company as
protection for through bills of ladiug
as now used.
The present demands of foreign
bankers is the result of recent failures
Of two big Southern exporting firms
knight, Iancey IL Co., of Decatur.
Ala, and Steele, Miller x Co., Of Cor
inth, Miss. by which the foreigners
lost in the ncighborhood of $1,000
600.
The question was discussed al a
meeting of the banking committee of
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to-
day and recommendation will be laid
before the Cotton Buyers Association
at its meeting Thursday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
NEGRO ESCAPES FROM UOSpI-
TAL.
constable Who Wounded Hin, = uo,s
FOR Appearance Before the Super-
ior Court.

Fort Mill, June 1.-Wu Ross ~.
hoegro who is alleged to have at
tempted criminal assault on a vounp
Nhl'e woman in this township on
Wednesday afternoon and who escap-
ed INTO North Carolina where he was
Shot 10y persuing constable, late last
"isht escaped from the Charlotte hos
pltal where he had been confined
since the shooting and is still at large.
J. J. Charlotte, the constable who
shot the negro, was arrested in Char
lo''e and is held under at $500 bond
lor his appearance before the Mecls-
Ienourg superior court next Monday
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
CENTRAL AMERICAN WAR,
NICARUGUAN FORCES BEATEN
BY INSURGENTS.
Last Few Days Marked by Severe En-
gagemcnts in Vicinity of BlueGelds.

Washington, June IA dispatch h
received today at the state depart
ment from Capt. Gilmer, command
ing the Padlcah at Bluefelds. is the
only information received by the gov
ernment of the recent engagement
there. This dispatch, which was dat
ed yesterday, stated that Gen. Lara
had been defeated by the Estrada
forces and was in full retreat with the
remnant Of his army, numbering
about 800 men.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
Bluefields Was in Danger.

Bluefields, Nicaragua, May 81, via
New Orleans, June with attacks
directed upon it from three difteren.
directions by the troops of the Mad
riz government, Bluefields. the pro-
visional capital and stronghold Of the
Nicaraguan insurgents, finds itself to-
day largely in state Of seige. With
in the last few days Gen. Estrada,
commanding the insurgents, has re-
pulsed the enemy behind Bluefields
and at Rama. but has lost the bluff
and the custom house through what
he believes to have been a piece Of
treachery. This has been the blood
lest week of the war and the total of
the casulties on both sides will run
up into the hundreds, including sew
eral Americans who had cast their lot
with the revolutionists.
The first attack by the Madriz
troops was made at Rama early in
the week. Rama is the most boasted
stronghold Of the insurgents up the
Rama river. so miles or more from
Bluefields, as the crow flies. Estrada
now believes that a we'll arranged
plan made sometime ago by Madriz
called for the first attack at Rama, SO
that the Madriz troops who were com
ing up behind Bluefields, along the
coast, would find the garrison at the
town largely depleted by the with
drawal of men for the defense at Ra-
ma.
AS the enemy advanced on the
coast one of these mines was exploded
and a company of Madriz men, not
observing the open order plan Of at
tack in their advance, was almost
completely annihilated Several 9TH
er Americans were handling some
rapid fire guns behind the fortifica-
tions at the same time and the ranks
or the advancing army wavered and
then broke for cover. That ended
the fighting behind Bluefelds for that
day.
That night Gen. Estrada brought
800 men down from Rama to rein
force his troops behind Bluefields,
lid large searchlight, erected and
operated by Guy Maloney, a New Or
leans boy, and Samuel Thomas, a
Boer veteran, was kept playing in the
direction Of the enemy until a solid
shot from one Of the guns of Gen. La
ra's artillery put it out of commits
sion.
In the fighting at Rama, William
Ross, said to be from Milwaukee.
WIS.,, and to have served either in the
United States army or navy. was kill
ed.
Another American named Mason
was also reported killed at Rama
but this could not be confirmed. He
was last seen in a trench between the
Madriz army and the insurgent forti-
fications at Rama.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
TWO NEGRO WOMEN KILLED.
Farm Hand Commits Decd After
Quarrel With Paramour.

Augusta, May 3i.-Two negro wo-
men. wife and daughter. of Washing
ton Brown, respectable negro farm
er living near Bath. $. c.. a short dis
tance from Augusta, were shot down
and killed this morning hy Jim Rob-
inson a young negro farm hand.
while all were at work In the field.
Robinson escaped.
The tragedy followed a quarrel
with the young Brown woman. with
whom Robinson was on intimate
terms.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
THE BOTTOM DROPS OUT,
COTTON BEARS HAD INNING
TUESDAY.
Prices Go Down and Bull Spectators
Fail to Support the Market-July
Futures Declined Nearly Cent
Pound

New York, May 31.-There was a
sensational break in the New York
cotton market today with trading
more active and exciting than at any
time since the series of drastic de-
clines which carried prices down about
cents pound last January. It was
the last day Of trading in May con-
tracts, business in that delivery end
ing at midday.
During the morning the bull lead
ers made some show of supporting
the market by bidding for large
blocks Of May delivery, but as soon
AS May contracts were out of the way
there was a rush of selling orders
from all directions under which July
deliveries melted away to 14.1S or "A
points under the closing figures of
last week and &c points under the
high level of the season, which was
made last December.
selling through houses with West
"rn connections was particularly
heavy and the further weakness of
grain early gave rise to rumors that
ia mes A. Patten was liquidating his
holdings OF all commodities in prep
aration for his retirement from busi-
ness on July /.
Southern bulls gave the market
considerable support on the scale
down and when the new crop had
shown a net loss of about As to SIS
points, with October contracts selling
at 1922 against 1872, the closing
figures of last week. the liquidation
seemed to be pretty we'll completed,
but the old crop Continued very ner-
vous and while final quotations were
some Is or 20 points uo from the low
est the improvement seemed the re-
suit Of shorts covering for profits
rather than of renewed confidence Oh
the bull side
| The New York market for spot
cotton suffered even more severely
than did futures. The price Of mid
ding cotton was marked down 80
points or about 81 a bale, and pre-
suming that the control of the local
stock, amounting to 100000 bales.
still rests with the bull leaders. who
are credited with having taken up
another $4,000 bales today, the loss
on the spot cotton alone. as measured
by tonight's price, would be in the
neighborhood of 100000, while it is
estimated that at least 100000 bales
of long contracts were liquidated dur
ing the day
With today ends one Of the most
sensational months in the history of
the New York cotton market so far
as deliveries Of actual cotton are con-
ecrned. July is the next active month
to mature. 1t Is claimed that the
bulls have not been able to market
their spot holdings as rapidly as ex-
pected and that the amount of cotton
brought here for delivery on contracts
has exceeded their expectations. Spot
sales in the New York market report
ed today were 25,5OO bales and the
official report showed $4,000 delivered
on the last of the May contracts.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
SUMTER. S. g., SATURDAY. JUNE 4, 1910 New
LET PEOPLE CHOOSE SENATORS.
SENATOR OWEN SPE AXIS FOR
SUCH PROVISION.

Says Amendment Would Prevent Cor
ruptiOn OF Legislatures and I'M
proper Use of Money by Ambitious
Aspirants for Senatorial HOnOrs,
Many States and All Parties, Ex-
cept Republicans, Favor Direct Vote
OF People.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04

colonel Bryan says the Democratic
party has its eye on a Western candi-
date' from which the conclusion NAV
ne uraWn that Colonel Bryan may still
be reached by letter sent in cara of
the Commoner.-St. Louis Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04

When the awning frames no long
or obstruct Main street the next move
will be to get rid of the telegra oh.
telephone and electric light poles. but
this is a long time in the future as
Sumter is not yet ready to put the
wires underground
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04

large crowd went on the picnic
at Pocalla Springs. given by the Sun
day school of the First Baptist church
Thursday
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
COMMENCEMENT AT BISHOP.
VILE.
Dr. Synacr OF wofrord Makes Address
To Students OF School.

Bishopviile. June with the
graduating exercises and literary ad-
dress by Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder.
president OF wofford College. the
Blshopvilie high school commence
hNent exercises closed last night.
The exercises began on Friday
evening. when the contest for the de-
chalmers medal was held. The con-
test was keen. The medal was award
ed to Miss Tallulah Moore. special
mention being made Of Miss Louise
Manning. Miss Moore also received
the local history medal which is an
nually offered by III. 8. Cunningham.
Miss Maud Donald was the winner
of the essay medal. presented by the
banks OF Bishopville.
Instrumental and vocal music add
ed TO the evenings entertainment.
On Sunday morning the school au-
dltorlum was filed to over-fiowing
when Rev. w. e. Thayer Of the First
Baptist church of Laurens preached
the baccalaureate sermon.
On Monday evening a large audi
ence assembled to do honor to the
graduates.
An invocation by Rev. III. r. Muir
Gibson opened the exercises. Then
followed the pressntatlon OF the
schalarshiR g;edal offered. by s Prof,
rxlbier. "A % Mis- ros,ss sl,I.plss
this medal srds awarded TO those
pupils of the school who were neither
absent nor tardy during the term,
the trustees had provided a prize.
There were a number to receive a re-
ward for their faithfulness.
Next on the programme was the
salutatory by Miss Jessie Wait Nc
Leod.
Miss Olive stuckey Dixon read the
history OF the class.
James Couser read a well written
essay. Miss Florine May Smith was
the prophet and foresaw wonderful
careers for her classmates.
Miss Anna Elma Bradley read the
class will
Liuet. Gov. Mcleod then introduc-
ed DIR. synder, the speaker of the
evening. who delighted the audience
with his cholarly address.
After the address Rev. III. r. Mur-
Gibson. on behalf OF the board OF trus-
tees. awarded diplomas TO the follow
ing: Misses Olive Stuckey Dixon. An
ma Elma Bradley. Jessiie Wait Nc
ma Elma Bradley. Jessie Wait Nc
lish Couser
At the conclusion Superintendent
c. +. Brooks presented to each mem
ber OF the class a beautiful Bible.
bearing the recipients name in letters
Of gilt.
A song. The Graduates Farewell. -
closed the evenings exercises
The school has finished one Of the
most successful sessions II has ever
had. The faculty for the session were
superintendent. c. +. Brooks, Grey
Court; o. G. Kibler. Newberry; Misses
Mary Hughes, Chester; May Blanken-
ship. Fort Mill; Matte ID. Leach.
Greonville; Florence Brown, Iancas-
ter: Fannie Hearon. Grace Dell
James. Edith McCutcheon and Louise
Baskins OF Bishopvlle.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04

The baseball outlook Is encourag-
ing. az the committee Is gradually ac-
lSSanuGno the club.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04

l would give all my fame for a pot
of ale and safety.-Shakespe
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04

TURN over a new leaf, f,-Middleton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
WINDSOR IN FOREIGN EYES.
What One Enthusiastic Pastor From
Germany Thought Of It.
From the London Chronicle.


How does Windsor, which next week
will claim all eyes and hearts. well
as the presence of rulers of the earth,
impress the foreigner? When George III
was king there came to the royal city an
intelligent foreiSner-a German pastor
who was lucky enough not only to see
th> king, but lone of the mos. beautiful
landscapes on earth, rich and beautiful
beyond conception" One might imagine
that Rhineland must be fable. Every
thing he saw delighted him beyond ex-
pression-the venerable castle. st. Georges
Chapel and the gloomy depths OF the
great forest, which he likens to some
vast, Old Gothic temple.
This lorest" he deliberately declares,
..surpasses everything OF the kind you
can conceive" After that there is moth
ing left to say, except something in the
quaint German style concerning the place
where King Edward VII is to find a rest
ing place AT the sight of this fine old
building" cries the traveller, past GEN.
turtles seem to revive in my Imagination.
The surly fellow who, for a shilling, con-
Quoted me around the church. has nearly
by his chattering destroyed the finest i'm
pressions Henry VIII, Charles I and
Edward " are buried here" Since then,
however, many other royal personages
have here found interment. And really
the fellow. who conducts you Ground ana
wants the shilling is the nice sauce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03

1t was a prosperous town in the late SOS.
but within five years after the river
headed i'm its direction everybody had
left and practically all OF the buildings
had dropped into the stream. Three other
towns, located at advantageous fording
places on the river and Of pioneer i'm
portance, were chased by the river out
of the bottom lands to the bluffs, and the
transplanting proved fatal in each in
stance.
A large number Of the lost towns of
Nebraska were located along the great
overland routes. There were several OF
these roads The old Mormon trail
follows the Platte rivers windings. Later
there was the California trail, the line
blazed by the miners who took part i'm
the Pixies Peak gold rush. and the trails
followed by the freighters and pony ex-
press riders. All Of these converged At
Fort Kearney. midway across the state.
because beyond that was the hostile In
dian country, and safety lay in travelling
numbers When the Union Pacific rail-
road came through I'm the later SDs and
killed freghting on the plains practically
every one of the trail towns disappeared
within a few months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03

entertaining crowd with beforehand
after pantomime illustrative of the old
time collar button and the new one. He
was going through the cOntOrtlons that
indicate the stud that tried mems souls
when one of two passers-by said to me
other:
I've been wearing collar buttons for
a half century and never had an expert.
ence like that. Did you?
Certainly not. Some of these days
we'll be looking at some man in win
dow demonstrating the mother-in-lav
joke"
Tabloid tragedies:
If Jack had been sober at the time
he would be living man today. He
was a fine fellow. but
Yes. sir. 1 practically sold the thing
for a song and now it's worth millions.
We'll. / don't know il you could call
her happily married or not. Sometimes
she goes down the street locked armed
with her husband. and then again she s
home with a black eye"
'Oh. / suppose l ought to like Wash
ington. but I'd give half my life to be a
girl again up in the old Virginia noun
tains."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
LETTER C ATTACKED.
Unlike Othello, This Consonant
Never Had Real Occupation.

From the New York Times.
Etymologists, philologists and other
word sharDs so long ago thrashed out
every question connected with the super
fuous &C. which cumbers our misera bly,
defective and inadequate alphabet that
they will oe only amused to see that
quite a large group of Times readers
have suddenly plunged into a rather We
hement discussion Of the-for us-absurd
letter The controversy Is not a waste
of time however, for it will direct some
thing of public attention ito a subject
that is both interesting and important,
and il will tend to diffuse more widely a
valua BILE kind of knowledge which is now
confined within narrow circle contain
ing professional students of words and
their presentation to the eye.
The trouble with our alphabet, of
course. is that it is borrowed one. Just
how near it came to meeting the reason
able needs of its inventors. or rather of
latest adapters, we do not know. but we
do know that it served them vastly better
than it does us for while it supplied them
with sign for most If not all. the
sounds they used. we have TO burden
every vowel and not a few of the con-
sonants with anywhere from two to seven
or eight duties. The result is that our
spelling is an arbitrary thing. full of
strange anomalies and conventions, and
only remotely connected with prohunca-
ton.
The lack of an alphabet even approx
mately sufficient for our phonetic needs
Is what makes hopeless anything like a
real reform of our spelling, and even
the ''simplifiers' do not claim that by
following their suggestions the beautiful
ideal they have in mind would be at
tanned. But 1t certainly is outrageous
that, with far fewer letters than we need,
we ask nothing of &C. except to do a
part of the work which 50 and ''k'' are
perfectly competent and willing to per-
form The DIRECTORS to the suggestion
that &C" be thrown bodily out of the
alphabet ask how. II that were done,
words like cherry and "chump' could
be spelled. This question is amusing be-
cause 1t reveals such pathetic ignorance
of the fact that the first sound in all
| these words Is not that of ''c''-that is,
not of So or ''k''-but of It." and that
of &C. is no more needed for those words
than for any other. There is, indeed. a
historical explanation for every one of
our "c's." but the excuses for 1t are few
and weak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
ROCKVILLE.
special Correspondence ef The Star.

Special Correspondence ef The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. July 9, 1910.
James w. Slater. aged seventy-six
years, died yesterday afternoon at his
home in Potomac district. His death was
due to general debility and other troubles
from which he had long suffered. Sur
viving him are three sons and two daugh-
ters all of this county.
Mr.. Slater was a we'll known farmer
and was a lifelong resident of the county.
The funeral will take place at IL o'clock
tomorrow morning from the Southern
Methodist Church at Potomac.
Miss Pearl Burdette. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George F.. Burdette of Silver
Spring. and Walter r. Steward OF
Takoma Park were married "Wednesday
at Takoma Park by Rev. Francis NJ Will
cox.
The jury summoned to inquire into the
death of William Henry Brown. cOlored
who was shot and instantly killed by
Grant Hoy, also colOred, at the latter's
home at Lewisdale. this county. several
DAYS ago. returned verdict to the -effec,
that the shooting was done in self-de-
Tense. and was. therefore. justifiable. JUS
tice of the Peace Francis s. Gladhil
acted coroner.
The testimony showed that Brown and
Hoy had had trouble over a woman; that
Brown had threatened to get" Hoy, and
that the evening of the shooting he Wis
tied Hoys home and refused to leave
when ordered: that he told Hoy. after the
latter had entered his home and locked
the door, that he was coming In after
him. and that as Brown attempted &c
carry out his threat Hoy fired upon him
with shotgun.
Notwithstanding the verdict of the coro.
ner's jury. States Attorney Waters is in
vestigating The case. and says he will cal
il TO the attention of the November grand
jury. Hoy has not been arrested. but !,
is understood he can be apprehended
when wanted.
Mrs. Samuel b. Hege and daughter
Mrs. Mary Hege. have gone to Saranat
Lake. y. V, to spend several months.
Edwin s. Hege left today for Winches-
! ter. Va. to spend several days.
Kensington. this county. will have I
| safe and sane Fourth of July II the
police department. assisted by four spe
| cial officers. can accomplish II.
/ The town council several evenings ag1
| adopted a resolution prohibiting the dis
charge of fireworks of any character, o.
other usual noisy methods of celebrating
| the Fourth Of July" excepting within the
! territory lying Immediately west of De
| trich avenue. The resolution also author
| lied the mayor 10 appoint the four spe
| cial policemen.
| The action of the town council mean:
| that there will be no fireworks explo
| sions of any sort within the settled pOr
/ ton of kensington.
| The following are some OF the recen
transfers OF real estate recorded In thu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
The Kings Right-Hand Man.
the London Chronicle

Prom
Lord Knollys, who, after serving the
late king for forty years. has been ap-
pointed private secretary TO King George,
comes of a cingularly long-lived race
His father served as controller of the
Prince of Wales household until his
eightieth year, and lived for six years
after his retirement. and his grandfather
likewise attained a great age. His an
cestor, William Knollys, who also served
in the household of two monarchs, EliZ-
eighty-five, and, according to Dugdaia
rode a hawking and hunting within half
q wear of his death" Sir Francis Knollys
the distinguished statesman who founde
the family fortune, was eighty-two at
the time of his death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
Team Dashes Against Building.

Two horses attached to a wagon owned
by J. T., Adams of 900 street north
west became frightened on NJ street in
Georgetown yesterday afternoon and
ran away.
The team smashed into the office build-
ing of the Great Falls and Old Dominion
railway at 3jth and NJ streets No one
was hurt and the damage was Slight