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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25

County Clerk Asked to Hold mp Com
missions of An Negroes and Notify
Governor.

County Clerk OF Court L. /. Par
rott Tuesday received a letter
rom Governor Cole L. Blease asking
him TO make sure that no colored per-
ioaE registered ou bis hooks 1a no
iarios public. lie said that 30 case a
perp2u ~ shis coios ~ scmo chance
teccfvcd q commission from his d.
See please 90 hold II up and let him
know Immediately. AS soon as ne
heard OF II he would take steps TO re-
move the official head Of the colored
party holding the commission.
This notice probably means that
Governor Blease removed all notaries
from office so that he could leave all
negroes out OF that Office In his re-
appointment OF notaries. II being an
once which the incumbent holds at
the pleasure OF his majesty. the gover-
nor and II being the governors pleas
ure that no negro notaries be appoint
ed. II seems a difficult proposition for
any OF them TO get around. No ne
gro has as yet applied to Mr.. Par
rott TO register IN his Office as no.
tary public.
In the past week tfteen more no.
taries have registered in the county
Clerks Office. two or three coming
each day with their newly filed out
commissions TO sign up during the
pleasure OF the governor.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25

We thinke no greater blisse than
such
To be as be we would.
When blessed none but such as be
The same as be they should.
William Warner.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25

1t Is announced that last year we
imported s2OO,OOO,OOO worth of en-
proiderles.' Please note how we
blow In our money just to please some
folks we Observation-Disclosures Star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25
ROMANCE OF OWEN KILDARE
East Side Orphan Newsie and Prize
Fighter Became an Author OF Note.
Through a Woman's Love.

owen Kildare, who wrote INV
Mamie Rose, and who was sometimes
called the "Bowery Kipliag," died last
week at the Manhattan state hospital.
Beyond question, he was one of the
most remarkable Of all the remark
able men who have come out Of the
tenements. My Mamie Rose" the
w'rk which made his reputation. was
an autobiography of his rise from il
llteracy to the position of a man who
earned his living by writing, and it
may truly be said that the widest
flights Of imagination could not have
framed a more original story. AT 30
Kildare could not read or write. He
was a prizefighter, bar tender and
"bouncer" by profession, His only
friends were the men and women of
the BOwery. Then, by a romatic meet
ing with a young school teacher.
whom he saved from the insults of
gang of his own friends, the course
Of his life was entirely changed.
or course, he was not to blame for
his early life. He was born in 1854 on
the top floor of a tenement in Cath
arine-st. His father was Irish and
his mother was French. She died
when he was born; his father had
been dead three months. What would
have becopse of the child is not pleas
ant to contemplate had it not been
for a kindhearted Irish couple on the
floor below. When Kildare was seven
years old, he received his first pair Of
shoes and on that same December
night, when snow covered Catherine
st. AID the Bowery. his drunken foster
father took the shoes from his feet
and kicked him out into the street.
Near midnight he crept back to the
door and felt about in the darkness,
because he knew the love of Mary
McNulty, who, when his own mother
was dying, had. refused to allow him
to be taken to an institution" The
shoes were there, although it had cost
her beating to recover them for
him.
An hour later he was in Park Row
warming himself in the steam which
came up through the sidewalk graf
N hn
newspaper buildings. While he shiv-
cred in the dim. light, a boy. little old
er than himself approached.
Coin to sell pOipers?" the boy ask
ed.
Yes" was the reply
"t.- .r- more
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25
SWIFT INCREASES CAPITAL.
Additional $f5,OOO,OOO Voted by
Stockholders Brings Total to $751;
100000.

q
Chicago. ILL.,, Feb. 15.-Net pfSfts
OF Swift & Co., for the fiscal year end
ed September 80, 1910, were, accord
ing to the figures presented at the an
nual meeting yesterday, $1,000, 900.
This is equal to It's per cent on the
outstanding capital Of 100000, 900.
These profits compare with 1856 per
cent earned in 1909 and 1850 in 1908.
The company paid per cent in divi-
dends. leaving $2,S5O,O0O to be car
ried to surplus. which item now stands
at $24.S5O.O0O.
The stockholders voted to increase
the capital to $75.OOO,OOO. Share
holders Of record January 16 will
have tn right 30 sal s,r... }l .ro-
portion 20 their holdings oua share C..
new stock FOR each four shares ps--
yo1siy held.
The financial statement submittec
at the meeting Of stockholders show
ed an increase for the year Of $4,000
525 in cash and $685. 700 in accounts
receivable. The inventory jumped
s6.74s,471. being $3s.795.4SS. against
S27,O46,017 the previous year.
Among the liabilities, bills payable
increased $1O.622,55O. This Of course,
Is offset by the gain in quick assets.
l.. F. Swift, president of the COM
pany, said among other things to the
stockholders:
Swift & Co.'S result sheets show
less than per cent profit on sales
during 1910. A profit is made o. by
products, which were wasted before
we had learned how to utilize them by
the aid of modern machinery and
scientific handling.
There is no industry in which the
selling price follows the cost more
closely aad with so small a margin Of
profit.
During periods Of plenteous SUP
ply. and lower prices for live stock
and finished product, the producer
may be dissatisfied, and criticises the
packer.
During the periods Of short sup
ply. and consequently higher prices
for live stock and finished product,
the consumer may be dissatisfied and
criticise the packer.
Thus it is seen that the packe.. is
iadeed a "middleman." but the fact -
lost sight Of that with varying costs
and selling prices the packer re-
ceives a uniformly small margin ..
profit on sales. While Swift g. Co.'S
profit is under 3 per cent on sales for
the year, we believe, considering all
conditions. that this result Is satisiac-
tory.
The report shows that a reccr 1
corn crop has been harvested in the
united States, which should be graft
rying to cattle raisers and packecs as
dependent upon the crops OF the coun-
Try and l believe the prospects are
+ sonably good for satisfactory bust
ness for the year to come
we are obliged to pay higher
prices Tor raw material than formerly,
aAd IL takes more money to do busi-
ness now than in times past 1t also
taxes more capital for construction Of
plants and buildings and the operation
OF facilities necessary 20 handle and
Keep our various products up to the
nigh standard requirements, and your
board OF directors think it advisable
that the capital stock be increased
from $6O,O0O,OOO to 5000, ,OOO."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25

II Is easy to believe anything that Is
Of no Importance.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25

Yours may be a bed of roses-but
beware of the thOrnS
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25

Columbia. Feb. 21.-"Hold remit
titur in Wash Hunter case until fur
ther order Of Court" Associate JUS
tice Eugene Gary has telegraphed
Clerk Brothers Of the Supreme Court.
Hunters appeal to the Federal Su-
preme Court was fruitless and the
State Supreme Court has upheld the
court below, which gave the defend
ant sentence of eight years for man.
slaughter. The stay of the remittitur
Keeps the case within the purview of
the Supreme Court.
Governor Blease yesterday parolled
Hunter until July, when Hunter ex-
pected to make an application to
the Circuit Judge for a aew trial on
the ground Of after discovered evil
dence. Such motion could not be
made until the remittitur should be
sent down. because until then the case
would be in the hands Of the Supreme
Court.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-02-25


and his new-found friend was Little
Tim" Sullivan.
In seven years, Owen Kildare was
the champion of the Park Row, new
sies," and was rapidly developing
into pugilist of merit. Two years
more added weight to his body and
gave his figure time to knit and he
graduated from the ranks of the
"newsies" to become a full-fledged
prize fighter.
One Of the first places he worked in
was Steve" Brodies dive, on the
Bowery, and after that he became
"bouncer" in the dance hall kept by
Fatty" Flynn, an ex-convict, at No.
"a Bond street. In those days one
Of Kildare's best friends was a youth
known as skinny" Mccarthy, who
was no better and no worse than him.
self. They passed a good part Of their
time loaflng just outside the salooas.
and the principal diversion they ha d
at such times was insulting any wo-
man who happened to pass by. One
day when Kildare aad Skinny" and
few more OF their kind were stand =
ing in front Of one of their favorite
haunts, Kildare idly listening to the
remarks of his companions, he sud-
denly heard a woman say: AID you
are menu
He looked around and saw a slend-
er girl with look of contempt on
her face staring back at skinny
McCarthy's flushed face. Why he did
it, he did not know, but before Skin
ny had chance to give voice to the
words on his lips, Kildare knocked
him down. Then, with a sweep Of his
arm, he cleared a space around the
girl. and stepped to her side.
I'D better walk with you a little
way he said gruffly.
He walked with her t. her door.
name and an account of his life. Her
name she said was Marie Rose Deer
ing, aId she was a school teacher.
Without her knowing it, he would fol-
low her about the East Side to see
that she did not come to harm. But
finally one day he plucked UP cour-
age to station himself in her path
when she was on her way home from
school To his vast establishment she
stopped and said:
How do you do, Mr.. Kildare?"
From that day he was her slave. He
was willing to do anything she asked
of him. And when one night she in
Vited him to church entertainment.
and gave him a card for it. he con-
Sented TO go.
Where is it?" he asked.
Il don't remember" she replied.
but the card shows"
Instantly her face was crimson.
Whether he held the card upside
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19
CHAPTER +

~ T Is queer. but Captain Cy him
self doesn't remember whether
III the day was Tuesday or
Wednesday Asaph Tiddltt's
records ought TO settle II, for there was
a meeting OF the board OF selectmen
thar day. and Asaph has been town
clerk 10 Bayport since the summer be-
fore the BaDtist meeting house burned.
But oo the record the date IN Asaph's
handwriting. stands Tuesday, May
10. 49," and. as It happens, May 10
OF that year fell on Wednesday. not
Tuesday at all.
keturah Bangs. who keeps "the per-
feet boarding house." says 1t was
Tuesday because she remembers they
had fried cod checks and cabbage that
day. ms they have every Tuesday and
neither Mr. Tidditt nor Bailey Bangs,
Keturabs husband was ON hand when
the dinner bell rang keturah says
she Is certain Il was Tuesday. because
she remembers smelling the boiled
cabbage ns she stood ~ the side door.
tooklnk up lnc ihuh 10 see II cllneT
Asnpb or Bailey was coming As for
Bailey, be says he remembers being
late 10 dinner and his wlfe's "startin'
~ heave broadsldes into him" be-
cause OF &c. but he doesn't remember
what day IL was.
AT any rate. whether Tuesday or
Wednesday, II IL certain that II was
quarter past II. according 10 the clock
presented 20 the Methodist society by
the Hon. Heman Atkins, when Asaph
Tidditt came down the steps OF the
town hull after the selectmen's meet
ing and saw Bailey Bangs waiting for
hip on the opposite side OF the road.
Hello. Aser' hailed Mr.. Bangs.
~Yon'n be late TO dinner II you don't
hurry. / was headin' for home, all
sail sot. when | see you. What kept
your
Town business. OF course" replied
Mr. TiAdltt. with the Importance per
tanning to his official position. What
kent you. for the land sakos7 Won't
ketury be In your woolT'
Bailey hasn't any wool" worth
mentioning now. and he had very little
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19
TO FOLLOW DINNER
SOME EXCELLENT IDEAS FOR
SUMNER DESSERT.
Apricot Charlotte One of the Best
is Splendid Favored With Good
Blend of Tea-Lemon Custard
Popular.

To vary the summer dessert course
some time, try apricot charlotte. This
is a worthwhile sweet that is not diff
ficult to do.
For ii you must dissolve third of
package of gelatin in cold water and
add, after stirring. a cup of boiling
water, also three-fourths of a cup of
sugar. juice of one lemon and a cup of
apricot pulp from which all traces of
stones and skin have been removed.
When it is cooled stir in a cup of
stiffly whipped cream and put in the
icebox until cold after which it is
ready to serve at any time.
Some day, for a change, flavor the
gelatin with a good blend of tea. Even
those who do not ordinarily care for
the cup that cheers are likely to fall
in love with 1t in this form.
Soak two-thirds of a two-ounce
package of gelatin in enough cold
water to dissolve. Pour over this one
pint of hot tea, made strong, add
scant cupful of sugar and the juice
of two lemons Strain and mold.
After cooling put on the ice to thor
oughly chill and serve with whipped
cream.
Cool jellies, rennets and frozen COM
p0HRdS tbat uSiiR- down easily and re-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19

! A good way to make 1t is with
sauce, Favored with a different fruit,
| for instance. cherries.
Separate three eggs and beat. Add
the yolks to a cup OF sugar creamed
with tablespoonful of butter. Add
alternately -four and milk. The -four
should measure two cups and must
have three teaspoons of baking pow
der sitted in it. About a cup of milk
will be required. Flavor with a little
nutmeg and add more flour if neces-
sary to make soft batter. At the last
fold In the whites beaten stiff and one
quart of blueberries dredged with
-four Bake half an hour For the
sauce cream fourth cup of butter
with a cup Of sugar and add a cup of
stoned red cherries MIXED through.
For lemon custard sweeten two cups
Of milk with two ounces of sugar and
the thin grated peel of half lemon,
add two inches of stick cinnamon and
boil up. Beat we'll in a separate bowl
four eggs, then pour in upon them the
milk, little by little not having il too
hot. Strain through a fine sieve into
plain mold which afterward stand in
covered pan containing just little
water. Put on the fire and let II sim
mer for 20 minutes or until it has set.
Take out Immediately, cool and chill
near the ice.
Serve with cream and pass candied
lemon peel with 1t, or instead of the
cream you may use this very simple
sauce: Half pint of water sweet.
ened with two ounces of sugar and
boiled down one-half. Use very cold.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19

me are in for it now. Ase Tiddi.t!
! Twenty minutes late! She'll skin US
/ alVe!'
| Mr. Tidditt did not pause TO answer
| but plunged headong down the hill al
race horse gait, Bailey pounding al
his heels For born daredevils." self
confessed. they were a nervous and
apprehensive pair
The perfect boarding house" is sit
uated quarter OF Il mile beyond
whittaker's hill. nearly opposite the
Salters homestead The sign. hung on
the pole by the front gate. reads.
"Bayport Hotel. Bailey Bangs Pro
prietOr." but no one except the stran-
ger in Bayport accepts that sign seri-
ously When. owing 10 an unexpected
change in the administration AT Wash
ington. Mr.. Bangs was obliged to re-
linquisb his position as our village
postmaster his wife came TO the res
cue with the proposal that they open
a boarding house. 'Whatsoe'er you
find to do quoted Keturah at sewing
circle meeting. do IL, then, with all
your might! II when I'm laid TO rest
they can put on to my gravestone She
run the perfect boarding house III
be satisfied"
This remark and subsequent similar
declarations were widely quoted, and.
therefore, though casual visitors may
refer TO the "Bayport hotel" to us ma
tives the Bangs residence is always
"Keturah's perfect boarding house.
As for the signs affirmation of Mr.
Bangs proprietorship. that is consid-
cred the cream Of the joke. The idea
of meek. baldheaded little Bailey pos
ing as proprietor Of anything while
his wife is on deck tickles Bayports
sense of humor
To be Continued.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19

hlNs EhOA WASltlN TOM
more then. hut he mopped his fore.
head, or the extension above II, TAX.
ing or his cap to do so.
II cal'late she WILL" he said uneasily,
TEL you the truth, Ase, l was up to
the store, and Cap'n Josiah Dimick
and some more of 'em drifted in, and
we got talkin' about the chances OF
the harbor appropriation and one
thing or mother. and twas later'n
thought twas fore | knew it"
The appropriation from the govern
ment which was to deepen and widen
our harbor here at Bayport was a
very vital topic among US just then.
Heman Atkins, the congressman from
our district, had promised to do his
best for the appropriation and had for
a time been very sanguine Of securing
it. Recently, however, he had not
been quite as hopeful
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19
Foley's Kidney Pills

Are tonic in action, quick in
results. a special medicine for all
kidney and Ladder disorders. Mary
C. Abbtt, Wolfeboro, N. H., asys:
Il was afflicted with a bad caes of
rheumatism, due to uric acid thata
my kidneys failed to clear out of
my blood. 1 was so lame in my feet
joints, and back that it was agony
for me to step. 1 used Foley Kidney
Pills and recommend them to any
one suffering as l have" B. B.
Davis.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19

Side splitting humor and tear
compelling pdfhos struggle for
supremacy IN fhfs deiightfui ro-
nance Of Cape Cod. written by
son of Cape Gods oWH sandy
soil Read of the old sea cap
farm who b0s returned 10 spend
fhe remainder Of his days among
his boyhood friends read of
fhe quaint tfHe wdU who came
10 him unbiddeH and offhe place
she Won IN his hearth reed ofthe
pretty schooiteaeher. The sancfi-
u1onioHs congressman, The grown
up boys Asdpb Tiddih and Bat
ley Bangs read Of Returah and
CapH Josiah Dimick and Lem
ffyrtek and all the other quaint
f"lk of Rapport and you viii
find entertainment a-pienfy
There mas only one Charles
Dickens. but IN character de
Joseph C. Lincoln has
a touch worthy of the master.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19

PLACE
BY JOSEPH C. LINCOLN
copyrisht. 1908. by D Appleton g Co

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aoou' ,np app''p'i"'ion' is ne soin
" So
MT. Ilddltt paused before replying.
Iben' bending over he whispered In
ms chum ear;
lie never said one word about the
appropriation bni'ey' NOT one word
ne wanted 10 know II wed got this
year thAes on the whitaker place
ana II we hadnl what was we goin
10 10 hbout u. bailey' between you
ana me ana the mizzenmast. Heman
Atkins wants to get a-hold OF that
place the worst way"
He does! He does! For the land
sakes. amt he got property enough al
ready Amt IA palace like that
enough for one man without wantin'
to buy rattletrap like that?"
The first that" was emphasized by
a brandished but reyerent left hand,
the second by derisively pointing
right The two friends had reached |
the crest of the long slope leading up |
from the town hail. On one side OF |
the road stretched the imposing front
age OF the Atkins estate" with its |
iron fence and stone posts; on the 9th
er slouched the weed grown. tumble |
down desolation Of the ICY Whitaker
place" The contrast was that OF opu-
lent prosperity aud poverty stricken
neglect
Heman was our leading citizen. our
In Washington and the
towns philauthropist He gave the
Atkins memorial window and the At
kins tower clock 10 the Methodist
church. The Atkins town pump, also
his gift, stood before the town hall
The Atkins portrait in the Bayport
Ladies' library was much admired. and
the size OF the Atkins fortune was the
principal subject OF conversation at
sewing circle, at the table of the per
'ect boarding house" around the stove
n simmons store or wherever Bay
porters were used TO gather.
The ICY Whitaker place" faced the
Atkins estate from the opposite side
" the main road. but Il was the gen
rial opinion that il ought TO be asham-
M 10 fnce ~ Originally II had enioyed
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-01-19

T Is queer. but Captain Cy him
self doesn't remember whether
Ill the day was Tuesday or
- WednealnS Aaanh Tiddttf'a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-01
A Kino's Hobby,

The late king of Siam had an extraor ainary hobby-that of collecting empt. ma tc bboxes of all nations. h. this connection an interesting story is re lated. During one of his visits 10 Eng land the king while passing down Bond street one afternoon, accompanied b, two members of his suit. espied ai empty matchbox which had been t.l@. "arr'ed by its owner and thrown away into the middle of the thoroughfar. Without a moments thought the mon arch dashed into the middle of the
 rowded traffic. grasped the much coy- etrd treasure and was nearly run over " passing cab. The fact however. that ha was ahle to add now enpni men to his collection gathered under such circumstances more 1ban reri- pensated hiIn for the risk wbich he il..u fua London News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-01
DISLIKES INNOVATIONS.
Hence the Rhino Btnd.y Attacks kBy,
 thing New to Him.

asnos the Rhino Rlndy Attacks kny.
 thing Ncv, to Him.
 Sir Frederick Treyes. the distinguish. ed British surgeon. In his book 'Ugan- ia For Holiday las a word or tive Q say about the rhinocsros
 The rhineeeros ts the embodiment or blind conservatism" he writes. .Its aide is in,enetrable its vision is weak while its intellect is weaker. II hAs aowever ,wo marked QuaH;ics-coai onivenes9 aad a sense Of smell !, ta aroused ro ,s maximum energy by t1r orese2ea o' aything that is new. Thls o5'eet ne.@s aot he thing that is as .,resslye o- ineonvenien,. Us offensive cess depends upon the fact that 1t is 0nfa miliar, and the more onfGmnfa- he ohjeet is the worse the rhinoceres sets
 When 6 rhinoreros smeis q man ha sill charge Aim With maniaca - ience, although the man may he nefe- v sitting on stool reading Milton The massive beast Will dash at bir like torpedo or runaway locomo tive simply because the smell of hin is novel. Actuated by this insane hate of whatever savers of an innovation the rhinoceros has charged an Iron va. ter tank on the outskirts of 8 caFnT and has crumpled it up as biackslnHA you'd an empty meat tin.
 "A conservative rhinoceros with f senile dislike Of anything new one rharged train on the Uganda rniJwaN out with no more serious results than the tearing away of the footboarc ot \ carriage. AS regards the rhfnoceros fn ,his case 1t appeared surprised that thing composed, as 1t had imagined. of flesh and blood could be so hard. ', went of with an additional grievance and an increased swelling of the head"