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The San Francisco call., 1910-02-25
sALEsMEN and SOLICITORS WANTED

statesmen and SOLICITORS WANTED
WE want a few solicitors of character for San
Francisco and Oakland and outside counties;
men who do not use liquor tobacco In any
form; men who will work faithfully; men who
can sell goods; we control staple line in con-
stant demand; best values ever offered; abso-
luteiy guaranteed by eastern factory: liberal
commission paid. Address with full particu-
lars for an Interview WALTER g. TUCKER,
50I Mission St, San Francisco.
''IVEY WOOD,
Salesmans Opportunity.
We want 10 live, red blood lot statesmen who
are capable of earning $500 per month"; prospects
furnished Iveywood sells itself.
See Mr.. Eggeston.
MINNEY- MORSE COMPANY,
1853 Broadway. Oakland.
statesmen wanted-No experience needed: hun
dreds of positions open; paying from 500
10 5000 monthly; If you want a good position
our free book. "A Knight of the Grip, will
show you how to get it: write (or calll for ii
today. Address National Salesmen's Training
Association, 1019-C Metropolis Bank building
San Francisco: branches-Chicago New York,
Kansas City. Minneapolis Atlanta
SALESMAN-A1 resident man desired by New
fork clothing house commission basis must
guarantee nj least 100000 business a season;
references required. The SOL NELKlN CO..
40 Broadway. New York.
PICTURE agents-Stock frames and framing.
rACiFiC FRAME CO.. 324 Hayes st
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
ENDORSE TUBERCULOSIS Sun
DAY.
President Taft Heartily i'm Accord
with Worthy Movement.

New York, April 17.-President
Taft approves Of making next Sun
day" In a letter received here TODAY
day" In aletter received here TODAY
by Livingston Farrand, executive
secretary of the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis, President Taft writes:
Il sincerely hope that the move
ment which you have inaugurated to
make Sunday, April "a, a 'tubercu-
losis Sunday on which day ministers
are requested to call the attention of
the congregations TO the importance
of the tuberculosis problem and to
give such simple information regard
ing it as may be feasible, many prove
TO be successful.
THE amount of good that can be
done in saving human life by a uni
ted effort in a community and in re-
spect to such a disease as tuberculo-
sis can hardly be exaggerated"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
KILLED AT SCRANTON.
Mr. Lee Was Unloading Car Of Brick
and Evidently Jumped Directly in
Front of Passing Train.

Scranton, April 17.-This town was
shocked last night when 1t became
known that Robert E. Lee, we'll
known citizen and business man, had
been struck and instantly killed by
the second section Of the southbound
passenger train No. 80. passing here
about 10 o'clock.
Just how the tragic accident occur
red can not be clearly explained, as
there were no eye-witnesses. Mr.. Lee
was supervising the unloading of a
car load Of brick and was working
late in order to complete the Job. The
car was standing on the side track
on the east side Of the main track
and a gang way extending from the
door of the car across the main track
was being used in the unloading.
When the train blew the station sig
nal one Of the laborers left the car to
remove the gangway, leaving Mr.. Lee
In the car. When the train had pass
ed. Mr.. Lee was missing and on in
vestigation was found lying dead
against a telegraph pole, some dis
tance away.
1t is supposed that he attempted
to leave the car and jumped imme-
diately in front of the rapidly moving
train and was killed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Dr. Walter Cheyne left this morn
ing to attend the State Medical Asso-
citation. which convenes in that CITY
on Wednesday. DIR. Cheyne had to
go ahead OF time to make some pre-
iiminary arrangements. he being Sec
retary.
A very instructive programme will
be carried out at this meeting
among the prominent physicians to
attend from a distance will be DR.
Charles Hunter Dunn, Of Boston;
Dr. southgate Leigh. Of Norfolk, Va.
who will read a paper on THE Pres
ent Status of Cancer Education" and
DR.. John L. Dawson. DR.. Allen j
Jervey. Of Charleston. will make a re-
port on the epidemic Of Beriberi
which has broken out In Charleston
county.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
VIRGINIA'S OLD DEBT.
Report Of Special Master is That West
Virginia Owes Virginia Between
$3,OOO,OOO and $8,OOO,OOO.

Washington, April 16.-The States
of est Virginia and Virginia today
filed in the Supreme Court of the
UnUited States exceptions to the re-
port Of Charles E. Littlefeld, special
master to ascertain facts as a basis of
arriving at the proposition of the debt
of Virginia before the organization
of West Virginia, that the latter
State should pay to the former. Ac-
cording to the report, West Virginia
may be called upon to pay between
100000 and 100000 to the
mother State.
The principal exception tc the re-
port is that made by West Virginia
objecting to the master including in
the aggregate amount of ordinary
expenses of Virginia from 1923 to
1850 the sum of $1S.OOO.OO0 as in
tarest on the public debt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

That Mr, r. I. Manning would be
mary this summer has been a State
wide belief for many months, and
the fact that he had not formally an
nounced his candidacy has not caus-
cd any Of his friends and supporters
nor his opponents for that matter
to doubt that he would be a can
didate. But now that the State con-
vention Is only a month distant, 1t
appeared to Mr.. Manning's friends
and neighbors that the time had ar
rived for him to make positive de-
claration Of his intentions, and for
the purpose of obtaining an authori-
tative statement, a representative
Of The Item Monday called on Mr..
Manning in his office In the Bank of
Sumter and asked II he had reached
decision as to his candidacy for
the governorship.
He replied that he had been asked
the same question wherever he had
been In the State; that he had re-
ceived many assurances Of support;
that he was very grateful for the
kindness of his friends, but that he
had decided not to enter the race.
In answer to a further question he
added that he was not now prepared
to discuss his future political course.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
Warning Against the "White Plague

New York City. Boston. and Lon
don have already cut In half their
death rates from tuberculosis.
Why should not the smaller cities
and rural communities. where condi-
tions are more favorable. do like
wise?
To cut in half the death rate from
tuberculosis In New York State. out
side of New York City. would mean
an annual saving of 5000 human
lives Even to stamp out this Gisease
annum In the Empire State Is within
the range Of possibility. This is the
excuse for the strenuous efforts which
are being made to secure the fullest
and heartiest cooperation of every
agency, public and private. and Of
every citizen In our State to carry
out the programme OF No Uncared.
for tuberculosis in 1915.
No tuberculosis in 1920 is put forth
as a hope only. Yet some are opti-
mistic enough to believe that 1t ex-
presses a hope made to come as near
as may be possible to it's realization
A Roll OF Honor has been established
including those cities and counties
which are making provision for the
control of tuberculosis, and to the
people of the Empire State the Com
mittee on Prevention of tuberculosis
Of the State Charities Aid Association
Ia saying:
Let your city and your county be
the next on the Roll of Honor. why
wait Ave years? Human lives are
at stake. No other opportunity for
social well-being compares in impor-
tance with the prevention of tubercu-
losis. Duty is measured by knowl-
edge and opportunity. Every day OF
delay means death."-From mo Tu-
berculosis I'm New York State in
1920!" by John A. Kingsbury. in the
American Review of Review for
April
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
WOULD GUST HARVESTER TRUST
'isso"ri Attorney General Files
Brief i'm Proceedings.

Jefferson City, April 17.-Attorney
General Major today filed with Spec
ial Commissioner Judge Theodore
Brace the States brief in the pro-
ceedings to oust the International
Harvester Company from Missouri.
In his brief the Attorney General
says:
1t is we'll within the power of this
company in the absence Of any nat
ural or business cause, to increase
t..e price on binders and mowers to
any extent it sees fit, and the public
is powerless to do other than raise its
hands that its pockets may be looted.
IF this be not monopoly the term
Is meaningless and but catch word,
valuable only for lulling people into
a sense of security while they are in
the midst of danger"
The respondent company has thirty
days ir which to file is brief. and a.
report of the special commissioner is
expected before the Supreme Court
adjeurns in June. The case has been
set for argument at the October term
Of Court. sitting en- banc.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Columbia Jubilant Over Success OF
MOvcment-$S5,4 400 Raised,

Columbia, April 15.-There was
prolonged applause in Craven Hall at
II o'clock tonight, when the an
nouncement was made that $500
had been raised for the erection of a
Y. M. c. A. building. The brilliant
~ lighted clock on the Carolina Ma
tional Bank building a few minutes
later blazed out the limit of it's ca
pacity in figures-"$S5,0O 900" 1t was
a whirlwind finish, for up to
o'clock nearly $4,000 was needed to
reach the $S5,O0O mark
Mrs. Woodrow announced today
that she would give an additional ten
feet of land for the building. The
largest subscription tonight came
from A. E. Gonzales, president Of the
State Company, who gave $1,000.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
BANDITS IN CALIFORNIA.
Bandits Rob Mail Train and Turn
Locomotive Loose.

Bandits Rob Mail Train and Turn
Locomotive Loose.
Benecia. Cal, April 1.-THE Chi
na-Japan mail, which left San Fran
cisco over Southern Pacific for the
East at 9 o'clock Saturday night was
held up by two masked men at
Spring, two miles east of here, at
1890 o'clock this morning and rob-
bed of nine pouches of registered
mail.
The train carried no express mat
ter. Four Of the pouches have been
recovered. but the robbers rif1ed the
others and now are hiding in the
hills and canyons between Martinez
and Oakland. Sheriffs posses from
two counties, detectives and postoffce
inspectors on horses and in automo-
hiles are engaged in the man-hunt
The robbers were we'll armed, and a
battle is expected. The passengers on
the train were not disturbed, and sew
eral of them did not learn of the rob-
berry until this morning.
After getting the sacks, the rob
bers cut the engine and sent it wild,
the throttle open. down the main
track to the East. The engine was
thrown into a ditch in the nick of
time to prevent its colliding with an
caSt-bound train.
The train robbery is the first in
California in several years. 1t was
planned and executed in a most dar-
ing manner.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
What knowledge Really Is.

When "Josh Billings" said. "Its
better not TO know so many things
than TO know so many things that
ain't So" he crystallzed one of the
greatest truths OF all philosophy.
wish that he could be called back to
squeeze into another sharp pointed
little bur for the memory the fact
that II Is less important 10 know
things. knowledge ought not to be
thought of as building a prison about
the mind. but as tearing down old
jails and letting the sunlight into
dark places. Wisdom is not walls
but wings.-The Delineator.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
Trapped.

The perpetually clever man listen
ed solemnly to the tramp's hard-luck
story.
That's the same old yarn you told
me last week." he said, winking at
his companion.
Maybe 1t is," admitted the weary
one as he started on. "I'd forgotten
having met you. l was in the peni-
tentiary last week."-Success Maga-
zine.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
TRAPPED BRIBE TAKERS.
How the Exposure of Fittsburg
Grafters Came About.

Bishop Guerry Of the Episcopal
church paid his annual visit to An
with some friends while here he told
of the plan laid to expose the graft
ing in Pittsburg. which Is now being
aired In the courts. the man who
planned the exposure and who direct
ed the accumulation Of evidence be-
fore the exposure Is 4 friend of Bish-
op Guerry. His name is Daniel and
he Is a brother Of the former presi-
dent Of st. Andrews Brotherhood.
Bishop Guerry said that Mr.. Daniel
was sure that grating was going on
among the aldermen of the city coun-
ell of Pittsburg, and he decided to
make an exposure. He decided to ac-
cumulate the evidence In a systematic
way. and In such a way that there
could be no flaw. Stenographers were
| placed behind closed doors and took
down the conversations of the alder
men when opportunities were pre-
sented. And in one instance a flash
light photograph was made Of an aid
erman while he was reaching over
| to receive some money.
When Mr.. Daniel and his small
band of assistants had gathered what
| they deemed sufficient evidence they
| secured warrants against the graft
| ers. The city was thrown into confu-
sion. The public was not aware that
the evidence was being collected for
the indictments. In fact few besides
the bankers who gave the graft and
the aldermen who received the graft
money were aware that graft was 60
ing on. The issue Of the warrants
naturally, then. caused lot Of ex-
element and surprise.
At first the councilmen treated the
charges lightly and attempted to put
on the face Of matyrs. They ridi-
culed the idea Of any one accusing
them of grating! They held their
heads high and defied the law to
show its hand. They retained this
way OF acting until Daniel and his
associates showed their hand. Then
there was a rush to see who could
first confess. The evidence had been
so we'll secured. that there was no
chance to be acquitted If a trial re-
suited.
While collecting his evidence Mr..
Daniel came across q trail which led
to the door of one of his best friends.
They had been friends for a life time.
Mr.. Daniels daughter had recently
waited with this mans daughter in q
wedding. The two families were the
best of friends. This would have
caused some men to turn back. TO
quit the trial. But Mr. Daniel was
not OF that class He had entered
the game to finish, and he went
ahead collecting the evidence. II
was sad blow to him, and he says
that he staggered when he found that
his friend was In the web of graft.
The result Of Mr.. Daniels work is
that some forty-one or forty-two
CounCilmen have confessed to graft
ing. and many Of them have been sent
to penitentiaries. Other sentences are
to follow.-Anderson Daily Mail.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

by their deeds they should be
known" says President Taft. They
are. There stand Nelson Il. Aldrich.
Joseph G. Cannon, Serene f.. Payne,
ana John Dalzell, declaring their ad-
mlration for one another, and the
United States is next" to the bunch.
Louisville Courier j Journal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Chang Sha, China, April 17.-An
the foreign owned buildings in Chang
Sha have been destroyed by fire with
the exception Of the British consul
ate. The buildings rented by for.
eigners have been looted. The Chi
nese officers issued a proclamation
that they were unable to protect life
and property, and thereupon foreign
ers made haste to leave the city. So
1ar as Is known. no foreigner has
lost his life. The governor, Hu Nan
OF the province of WI Tehung-Siu,
and his son, were killed and several
other government officials fled. Even
yet section of the city is in flames.
Six thousand foreign drilled soldiers
are stationed here and a. few of these
protected the governors house for a
time, but soon all Joined the roiters.
The riots began on April 13, when
the famine sufferers looted the rice
shops. A captain of police was
wounded while trying to restore or
der, but thousands crowded around
him and his assistants, and he was
obliged to flee to the yamen.
The rioters followed him there and
besieged the place all night.
The following day the disturbance
became anti-foreign, this being a
strong anti-foreign province. The
China-Inland mission and the Nor
wegian and Catholic missions were
burned. The other missions were de-
stroyed on April Is. The mission
| aries attached to the American Epis-
| copalian missionary alliance, the Uni
ted Evangelical church and the Wes-
leyan and Yale missions. numbering
Al in all, took refuge in boats. They
left all Of their effects.
The destruction of all foreign
| property, including the japanese
| consulate and the British warehouses
followed. The fate of the Standard
Oil Company's newly erected tanks
| is unknown.
The British consul detained two
steamers for the refugees, who in
clude 70 Japanese. Owing, however
to the shortage of provisions and the
hopelessness of the situation, it was
decided to start for Hankow.
The official buildings were DESTROY
ed the same day, the troops joining
the roiters, who numbered not less
than $4,000. Eight Germans attach
| ed to the Liebenzoll mission were in
Chang Sha when the trouble began.
They fled from the city and it is re-
ported that three of them while pro-
ceeding to Hankow in a junk without
lights were run down by the British
gunboat Thistle and drowned. An
other report says the men drowned
were Americans but this is not con-
fined.
The cause of the riots was the
scarcity and high cost of rice.
According to one report the COVER
nor of Hu Nan committed suicide af-
ter notifying the government that he
was responsible for the rioting.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
Snow I'm Middle States.

Chicago. ILL.,, April 17.-Mldwlnter
weather. with fall of snow. prevail
cd In many parts OF the Middle States
today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
RIOTS IN CHINA,
FOREIGN BUILDINGS IN CtIaNC
SHA ARE DESTROYED BY
MOB.
provincial Governor KilIed-His Son
Meets Same Fate-Three Germans
Said to Have Been Drowned Wb'
Fleeing From City.

London, April 1.-THE Times
Shanghai correspondent in his dis.
patch on the Chang Sha riots says:
Three American missionaries are
missing. Their fate Is unknown"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
SUMTER. S. c. WEDNESDAY APRIL 90 1910
IS NOT A CANDIDATE.
RICHARD MANNING WILL NOT
SEEK GOVERNORSHIP.

ter the Race Made to the Daily
Item Monday MOrning-With Mr..
Manning Not I'm the Race the Line
up Of the Candidates Will BE Ma
terially Altered.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Rock Hill, April 16.-In a quarrel
this evening at o'clock S. II. White,
a printer. shot M. Shines, an insur-
ance agent working for a George
town concern. White was cut in the
breast. White is painfully hurt and
Shines is seriously, but not fatally
wounded.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

He hopes the Democrats will carry
Indiana with a tremendous sweep
that Is. Congressman Dalzell hopes
so. And this Is the sort OF Republl
can harmony one finds In Washing
ton.-Springfeld Republican.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

However, it will be some time be-
lore the country can be brought to
regard the Hon. n. Longworth as the
Official spokesman for his illustrious
father-in law.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Italy never had quite such a splen-
diferous time In all Its life before.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

/ take the true definition of exer-
else to be labor without weariness.-
Johnson.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

If Roosevelt runs again. so will
Uncle Joe Cannon.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Has Pinchot "the smile that won't
come off?"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-08-11

apiece. She had one hundred eggs
to hatch August LIST, which she
had sold at the same price. We
don t know how many fryers she
sold, but we know il must be a
paradise for a hungry preacher or
editor to strike about meal time.
A lay on the Missouri hen, by
Selected: 1--WE have read of Maui
on a summer day, who raked, bare
footed the new mown hay. We
have read of the maid in the early
morn, who MIXED the COW with
the erumpled horn; and we've
read lays the poets sing of the
rustling corn and the flowers Of
spring; but of all the lays of tom
que and pen there's naught like
lays of the Missouri hen. Long be-
fore Maud had raked her hay the
Missouri hen had begun to lay,
and ere the milkmaid stirs a peg
the hen is up and has dropped ner
egg. The corn must rustic and the
flowers must spring if they hold
their own with the barnyard ring
If Maud is needing a hat or gown
she doesn t hustle her hay to town
she goes to the store and obtains
her suit with a basket full of fresh
hen fruit; if the milkmaid's beau
makes a Sunday call she doesn't
feed him milk at all, but works ny
eggs into a eustard pie and stllffs
him full of custard fry; and when
the old man wants a horn, does he
take the druggist load of corn
Not much. He simply robs nest
to town he goes-yOu know the
rest. He fingers there and he talks
Iperchance, of true reform and cor
rect finance, while his poor wifi,
stays at home and scOlds, but j:
saved from want by those selfsamt
fowls, for while the husband lin
gers there, she watches the cack
ling hen with care, and gathers
eggs, and eggs she II hide till sh,
gets enough to stem the tide. Thel
hail, all hail, to the Missouri hen
the grandest blessing of all to men
Throw up your hat and maxi
Rome howl! Corn may be king
but it's plainly seen that the Mis-
souri, hen is the Missouri queen.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-08-11
soME cAsH. soME NEWS.

Mrs. Birdie Carter renews for
the Message.
John Doerge puts himself ahead
for the Message.
b. G.. Dunbar, at Sandoval, ILL.,.
is a new Message reader.
Wallace Pearson puts himself
right for the Message another
year.
j. G. Lower, one of our good
friends down Rush Hill way, re-
news for the Message.
o. s. Alderman, a good farm or
friend down Rush Hill way, makes
good for the Message another
year.
Harry Galloway of Lad1Onia
was here to attend the Chautdu-
qua and put us down a PUNK for
the Message.
Judge S. c. Groves held the
Message man up the other day
Just like we like to he held up
and gave us a dollar for the Mes
sage. Judge Groves is all right.
VI. b. Paige and wife were in
town the last week looking for
wedding" of which they mad
notice was TO be. but they could
not find it. The Message may get
a chance to record it later. Mr..
Paige renews for the Message.
J. V. Willis was in to see the
Message the other day-tO get
the date of his subscription push
ed up. We came near picking M
relation to him; Charlie Beal, a
brother of the Message editor
married a cousin of Mr.. Willis at
Broken Bow, Neb.
Mrs. r. Edwards, who lives :
miles east of Mexico, was in :,
see the Message Saturday, renew
ing for the paper The family ex
poets to move into town in a few
weeks for the school advantages
The Edwards folks raised a crOI
of 100 acres of oats this season
They got a fair yield. What the!
sold they got % cents bushel FOR