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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31
EXCURSION RATES VIA
southern Railway Company.

Meridian, Miss Account Sunday
School Congress Of the National Bap-
tist Convention (cOlored.) Tickets on
sale June 5th and 9Th, final limit
June 14th, 1911.
Philadelphia, Pa. Account North
ern Baptist Convention and Baptist
World Alliance Congress. Tickets
on sale June 9th, 10th, 18th, 10th
and 9th, final limit June 29th, 1911.
Extension Of final limit may be had
hy depositing tickets and payment Of
fee $1.00, until July 31st.
Asheville, y. G.. Account Southern
Students Conference, Y. W. c. A.
Tickets on sale June Sth and 9th,
final limit June 2Sth, 1911.
Black Mountain, y. C. Account
Southern Students Conference, Y. NJ.
G. a. Tickets on sale June 18th and
10th, final limit June 2Sth, 1911.
Charlottesville, Va. Account Univer-
sity Of Virginia Summer School. Tick
cts on sale June 18th, 18th, goth,
23rd oath. 26th, and July 3rd and
10th, limited fifteen days unless ex-
tended at Charlottesville, until Sep
tember Goth, 1911.
Knoxville. Tenn. Account Summer
School of the South. Tickets on sale
June 18th, 10Th, oath. 25th, July 1st
Sth, 9th and 18th, limited fifteen
days, unless extended at Knoxville
until September Goth, 1911.
For information as to rates. etc
apply to Ticket Agents or address,:
j. l.. MEEK,
Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent.
Atlanta, Ga.
w. f.. MCGEE,
Division Passenger Agent
Charleston, s. G.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31

The state Board of Health and the
counties. cities and towns of the state
spend large gums annually vaccinating
and quarantining against the spread
OF small pox. and other large sums
are spent in the effort to prevent the
spread OF other preventible diseases;
and yet Gov. Blease is freeing tuber-
culosis convicts by the wholesale and
scattering them broadcast over the
State In the face of the absolute GER
tainty that each one OF the disease
doomed unfortunates will become a
source OF infection. We are not lack
Ing in sympathy for the unfortunate
eonvicts who are suffering a linger-
ting death In the penitentiary, and
would do nothing TO add to their suf-
fering. but IL is our firm conviction
that the State and the Governor Of
the State owe a higher duty to the
hw-abiding and honest citizenship of
the state than to the criminals whose
svn misdeeds caused them to be in
sareerated In the penitentiary. We
do not advocate or approve of keep
ing convicts shut up in a disease
polluted prison. but we do contend
that Il is altogether wrong to turn
bose ON the state these tuberculosis
eonvicts to communicate the disease
10 their families and friends. The
stato owes a duty TO these convicts.
a majority of whom contracted dis
ease in the peniteitiary. and. instead
OF shirking this dmy and abandoning
them 10 the generous charity Of in
dividuals. the penitentiary officials
should either care for them In the
ps1'tert'ary inhmary or else estab-
hsh an open air sanitarium where
they ;an be cared FOR and treated ac-
eordinS TO approved methods The
eonvicts would be better Oft In a hos
vital OF camp, ard whatever the cost
might be. II would not be TOO great,
IN comparison with the benefit to the
public al large that such an enlight-
ened policy would confer. state Board
of Health. the doctors OF the State
and the whole people should protest
against the policy Gov. Blease has
adopted I'm dealing with the tubercu-
bzss epidemic I'm the penitentiary. 1t
In scandalous that such a condition
exists In a State institution. but IL Is
q condition that can be remedisd
without subjecting the balance OF the
State 90 the danger OF the spread Of
n disease that annually claims far too
many victims. The convicts should
be Isolated and cared for until cured
or deah n relieves them from their
suffering; they should not be given
freedom. liberty and license to spread
the disease. III these convicts had
email r2x. the bubonic plague, chol-
era, yellnN fever or any one Of a half
dozen communicable diseases, Gov.
Blease would not turn them loose on
the State u infect the well. and he
has no right 10 pursue this policy
with those who have tuberculosis-a
disease that kills ten times as many
people each year as any other dis
ease
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Some Random Thoughts.

We complete in this issue a very
interesting account of the Maryland
Produce Exchange. 1t is worth
careful reading, and we should not
rest until our Union Brokerage Com
pany Is as well organized and equip
ped for the business of our section as
the one described is for Maryland
The Union has invited a speaker
from a county that has done some
good work in a cooperative way and
we trust to hear him at the county
meeting at Salem school house on
Friday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31

Messrs II. r. Broadway OF Man
ming. William Darlington. OF Sum-
merton; II. II. Bamble. Of Turbe-
Vile; X. J. Lamb. Lake city; Il. NJ.
McLure. Bishopvllle; G. u. Smith.
Lake City; r.. n. Truesdale. Bethune:
o. III. Purvis, Tlmmonsvllle. were
some OF the recent graduates In med
icine from the South Carolina Medica,
College In Charleston.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31

Miss Kate Lyman, Of Atlanta. IS
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Nen O'Donnell.
having come through the country
with them in their car.
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w. r.. MCGEE.
Division Passenger Agent,
CharlestO s. G..

The Charleston baseball team un-
der the management of Ed. Ransick.
Is apout to go to pieces and unless
charleston people raise $4,000 the
franchise will he forfeited.
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TOBACCO TRUST 0U1LAWED.
COMBINATION DECLARED IIIy-
GAL BY u. :. SUPREME
COURT.

Ordered to DisintcgrHtc in Harmony
with sherman Act Within Six or
Fight Months on be Denied Priv
le%e OF Inter Stale Commerce and
Have Receiver Appointed by Court.
Justice Harlan Again Opposes Ap-
pliCatiOn Rule of Reason"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31

The Farmers Bank and Trust Conn
pany are preparing to make some
improvements on the front of their
building.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31

~ ~Ft AAAA S1s -
-
Irish potato crop with stock grown
in northern Maine. Every season
since the exchange has sent it's own
representatives, to Maine to inspect
the growing crops, select and buy the
choicest lots, supervise the sorting
and sacking of purchase for shipment,
and by all other available means in
sure a seed supply for the utmost
possible trueness 20 variety and free
dom from disease. Members have
been furnished as many as 10000
sacks Of such selected seed in a
single season at exact cost, and at a
price frequently so or 70 cents sack
below what nonmembers were paying
their dealers.
Again, except by general notice to
the contrary in certain exceptional
brief periods Of extreme weather con-
ditions, the organization guarantees
to the individual grower payment in
full for all goods accepted by it's in
spectors and sold by it, and itself as
assumes the burden of all losses in
transit, allowances made to buyers
and losses through failure among it's
customers or from any other cause
whatever. But probably the most
striking application Of this principle
is found in the inevitable multitude Of
controversies with transportation and
! transmission companies.
Claims Settled Satisfactorily.
During the Il years Of its existence
the exchange has collected some
$500 claims, ranging in amount from
80 cents to $500 on a wide variety of
complaints against the various rail-
road, express, steamboat and tele-
graph companies with which it deals.
Last year it filed 293 such claims, ag-
gregating in amount $5,51473. Prob
ably 95 per cent of all such claims
are ultimately collected. If a men,
ber consigns a dozen baskets Of peas
to an exchange selling agent in Phil
; adelphia, and one package is lost by
! the carrier claim is promptly filed
for his benefit, and if necessary. the
| services Of the general counsel of the
exchange are at his disposal without
| fee for its collection.
1t is safe to assert that the larger
part Of the money thus collected
represents an absolute saving due
solely to the principle of cooperation,
since in the great majority Of such
cases the individual grower would
| lack the persistence, exact ,informa-
ton or means requisite for fighting
his claim through to a successful
termination, fact of which the
| claim departments Of the big rail-
roads are generally not slow to take
| advantage
Internal Makeup.
What has been said deals chiefly
with tn outside activities Of the cX-
chang. a few significant details ~
To its internal mahe-up cannot yyoll
j." 1vrrIooted. The general s,ruc-
| ture comprises 90 local divisions,
each with at least one shipping point
as a nucleus Each division elects it's
| own director to the general board,
which, Of course, exercises the usual
broad functions Of control over the
corporations activities.
(We regret that the balance Of this
interesting article was misplaced.
But it only gave a small part of the
details of the organization, and
enough has been published to prove
what we have always contended for,
viz. That a produce exchange is
practical and is the proper way to
handle farm produce. Editor)
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31

Eight frame houses were burned in
Friday, loss $4,000.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31
WEINBERG WINS MEDAL.

Robert Sims AycOck DccIaimers'
Medal Won in Interesting Con-
tcSt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-06
LOST HIS BATTING EYE.
Frank NIsxey. Once Topeka Catcher,
Explains Reason and Gets Divorce.

| Because his wife preferred the stage
\ to their quiet little home in Canada,
4 Frank Maxey, former Topeka baseball
/ catcher, secured divorce in Judge
Dana's court Thursday evening from
Maude Maxey, musical comedy artist
| Five years ago. Maxey, a quiet, unas-
Stunning Cannuck, won the love Of one
of the prettiest girls in Hamilton, On
tario. Canada. Life, for Maxey. was a
real dream for almost a year. The hus-
band held a good job in Hamilton and
at odd times he played baseball and
fairly drove the Canadian fans wild by
his sensational fielding and terrific
batting.
At nights VIXEN Maxey returned to
his little home. Maude played the piano
and sang-as MaXey declared-with al:
the accomplishments of the song birds.
Then one day early in the fall of 1867,
pretty blue eyed little heir arrived IN
the ball players home and Maxey's
batting eye that fall was better than
ever.
Each day that fall Maxey swatted the
horse hide until his record was above
that of any player in the league He
fielded like a demon and fairly drOv4
the crowds in the stands wild by his
SenSa tional work Maxey was proud of
his pretty young wife and of the little
tot that cooed to him at night. Then.
too Maxey was something of a. hero in
Hamilton and he had reason to be
happy.
1t was after the baseball season had
closed and Nancy had settled down to.
a winter of routine work in the little
city, that big musical comedy came
to town. In the local paper was an
classy. good looking girls. who could
sing and kick high and knew some
thing about how to dance. Maxey
thought nothing of the ad until the
next day when he returned to his
home and no one welcomed his COM
ing Maude and the baby were gone.
The ball player made inquiries. He
learned that his wife had Joined the
show and had taken the baby with her.
Maxey'S heart was broken. For
weeks the man tried to. get some word
from his wife. But no letter came.
Even the streets and old familiar faces
in Hamilton began to haunt the once
happy man. His batting eye failed
He was uncertain at the receiving post
and his popularity with the fans be-
gan to Wane. The fans hOOted him
when he made Hfeless swipes at the
ball and groans came from the grand-
stand when, Maxey struck out.
But the fans didn't understand Max
ey was thinking of a sweet voiced lit
tie woman and of the wee bit Of a
baby that was somewhere travelling
with its mother in a musical show
The heart broken husband wanted to
get away from the old friends and rec
objections of former days. He came
to Kansas and landed with Dick Cooley
on the Topeka ball team. That was
in 1870 But Maxey never got the old
pictures out of his mind aud sometimes
when the pitcher shot Maxey a par
ticuIarly fast one the back stopper
didn't see it at all and the heartless
patrons of the game roasted him. His
pathway on the Topeka team was COW
cred with thorns ard sharp rugged
stones and Maxey went to Salina to
manage the local ball team.
Last spFfna MaxFy fled suit for d.
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BIG DAM BREAKS.
One Near,La Crosse Gives Way
Today.
Structure Is so Feet High and
100 Feet Thick.
WARNINGS SENT OUT.
People Moving to High Ground
for Safety.
Black River Falls Cut Off From
communication.

La Crosse, Wis, Oct. 6.-Telepho
advices Just received at the offices of
the La Crosse Water Power company
say that the west end of the main
dam is a solid concrete structure so
feet high and 100 feet deep at the
base. It was considered strong enough
to hold any flood of water which might
be turned against it,
Efforts are being made to coHfine
the torrent which has broken through
the dam to a canal and thus out of
the main river, but it is admitted that
the situation is desperate. Relief par
ties are being hastily organized here
10 go to the scene by automobile
Breaks have occurred in the upper
and lower dams of the La Crosse
the Black river, so miles northeast of
here, the whole five million dollar
property of this company is menaced.
a large district including the city of
Black River Falls is under water A
great district in the Black river valley
is also submerged
Breaks in the dams followed the ae-
emulation of water following a week
rain which filed the reservoirs to an
unprecedented extent Early today the
water broke through the EN- banknIent
at the west side of the upper dam and
before noon a break occurred on the
west side of the lower or main dam.
The dam proper is still holding, but
the waters have washed around it, and
are pouring through in tremendous
volume. At noon the telephone opera
tor at Black River Falls, a city of
1000 people. county seat of Jackson
county, ten miles below Hatfield, re-
ported to headquarters here that wa
ter was surrounding the telephone
building; that people were moving out
of houses in the lower part of the
town and that it was dangerous to re-
main longer. Thereafter it was i'm
possible to raise Black River Falls on
either telephone line connecting it
with La Crosse.
La Crosse relief parties are being
hastily organized here, scouts are be-
ing sent out among the farmers warn
hlg them to take to the highlands and
preparations are being made to combat
tins higher waters expected tonight
and tomorrow. All villages along the
Black river. North Bend, AIelrose. Hol-
mer. Onalasla and La Crosse. are stu
ated so. that the effect of the sudden
Black river will be felt tomorrow.
Several farm houses floating down
stream in the flood that is rushing
around the west end of the Hatfield
main power dam and sending water to
"A depth of eleven feet over the
top. struck and tore away the.
bridge at Black river falls today. The
families that had occupied these
houses IT is feared. have persisted.
Hatfield is under water. but it is
thought no lives we're lost there.
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LAURIER IS OUT.
Borden Takes Reins, but Doesn't An
nounce Cabinet.

Ottawa Oct. 6.-The Laurier ministry
has resigned and Prernier-elect r. l. Bor-
den has accepted the call of his excellency
to form a cabinet
Sir Wilfrid Baurier conferred with Earl
Grey for only a short period, after which
the governor general sent a messenger to
residence of the incoming premier and
asked him to undertake the task of form
ing a new government Mr. Borden. of
course, accepted and requested a few days
in which to complete selection of the new
ministry. 1t is now announced semi off
oially that the. personnel of the Borden
cabinet will be published on Monday
though it may come before.
COnnaught on Way.
London, Oct. 6-The Duke of Connaught,
accompanied by the duchess, sailed on
the steamer Empress of Ireland from
Liverpool today to assume the office of
governor general of Canada, in which he
succeeds Earl Grey. Prince Arthur and
Princess Victoria Patricia did not go with
their parents but will join them at Otta-
wa later.
large party gathered at the railway
station to bid the duke and duchess good
bye. A portion of the steamer had been
reserved for them and the dukes staff.
aides. secretaries and physicians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-06
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

News of the death of John Farms
worth. the young son Of james w
Farnsworth. formerly Of Topeka. now
living in ogden. Utah, has been re-
ceived by Fred Farnsworth. 22O0 West
Tenth street. The boy was killed by a
falling telephone pole while on his
way TO school. The Farnsworth fam
lily is old in Topeka. the boys grand
father being the late Major II. w.
Farnsworth.
Word has been received by Mrs r.
N. Risteen, 1916 Harrison street. Of
the death OF her mother. Mrs. ]. W.
Wormald, at her home in Spokane,
Wash, Wednesday.
Mrs. Margaret Anne Dooley. aged "A.
died at the home OF her daughter.
Mrs. Anne Shear. ITO North Van Buren,
street last evening The body viii be
taken to Meriden. the old family home,
for burial. Mrs. Dooiey had lived in
Kansas since 1858. She leaves a son
and daughter.
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MRS. DOBS0N HERE?
Hutchinson Man seeks Bride Who Left
When He tainted.

Hutchinson Kan. Oct 6--After
spending the night and the forenoon
hours of today searching for his bride
whom he has not seen since he tainted
at the close of the marriage ceremony
in a court room here, Horace Dobson
today retired to his home and said he
would there await her return
Miss Helen Taylor of Kansas City
came here to marry Dobson. The cere-
mony was performed by a probate
Judge Near the close Dobson tainted
and fell into his brides arms She laid
him gently on the floor and left the
room. saying to the judge
Tell him to come for me when he
gets over it,
It is said Mrs. Dobson has gone to
TonaLa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-06

able that all that is needed TO assure
the realization Of that idea IS the
demonstration that Trlpoli affords
profitable field for cultivation. The
Italians are a practical people. AMI
they are also patriotic. They come a.
America and they go to Argentina-or
did until their migration to Argentina
was stopped-chiefly for the sake OF
lettering their condition. II they couiJr
be convinced that Tripoi afforded them.
as good an opportunity many would
cheerfully go thither. They would be
under their own flag and scarcely out
Of sight OF their native coasts. We
may be sure that the Italian govern
ment would in such a case exert all its
fective potency of it's influence there
could be little doubt.-New York Tri-
bune.
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GIRL WIDOW TO BELOIT.
Mrs. Lille Hummer Is Sent to Indus
trial School.

BY virtue of an order issued by the
board of control. Lille Hummer was
today taken &c the Industrial school
for girls at Belodt. where she will be
given a chance to change her ways
The girl is but 16 years old, yet her
worldly experience has been more ex-
tensive than that of most girls much
older in point of years.
Last fall when Lille Caskey was but
IS years old. she was married to Ed
Hummer. q nurseryman. While Hum
nner and his wife were staying at the
Manspeaker last spring, the husband
committed suicide by shooting himself
Dom este trouble was said to have been
the cause.
After her husbands death. the girl
returned to her parents in North To-
peka. but they declared they could not
control her.
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BOYS Will FIGHT TOBACCO.
Urge Council to Enforce Ordinances
and State Laws

Winfield, kan, Oct. 6.-An anti
smokers league has been formed
among the school boys of Winfield and
an active campaign is being inaugar-
ated in behalf of the young men for
the suppression of vice and the en-
Iforcement of the law regarding the use
of tobacco by minors.
While the council was in session
working on a pool hall ordinance near
IN a hundred boys member of the
anti-smokers' league, went to the
council chamber and through their
Spokesman. Virgil Donaldson, asked
the council to assist them in their
work of suppressing vice and the en-
forcement of the antl-tobaeeo' ana
cigarette laws. The boys attention was
first called to the evil effects of the
use of tobacco by the study of physi-
oIogy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-06
AN OLD FLAG is SAVED.
Students RcprOve Trash Gatherers
Who Misuse II.


Chicago, Oct. 6.=Worlsme at the
University of Chicago will look twice
in future in choosing a receptacle for
the leaves and loose papers of the
campus.
Two of the men received lesson in
patriotism yesterday. when q. j.
Primm and H. A. McCauley, students
and members of the state militia. pro-
tested against the use of an old United
States flag as a carrier of trash. Primm
and McCauley saw the campus fore
man and his assistant Diling leaves and
grass into the flag. which has often
flown from the university staff.
They ran toward the workmen and
shook the flag free of its burden.
Il did not know what we were
using" said the foreman when asked
for an explanation. The workmen
promised not to repeat the offense-
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vorce He wants to be free again and
to forget the troubles of the past
Judge Dana helped the man as much
as he could when he granted a decree
to the once prominent baseball artist
But the court couldnt restore Maxey' s
old enthusiasm and return his lost
batting eye. Perhaps they will never
come back, but Maxey says he Will try
o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-06
TODAY'S BASEBALL.

Brooklyn. Oct. 6.-National:
First game-Score: R.H.E.
Boston 8 >
Brooklyn :. Observation-Disclosures 6
Internationally and Killing; Rag
on. Miller and Higgins Umpires-Bush
and Brennan
New York, Oct 6.-National:
First game-Score: R-H.E-
Philadelphia -----------.-.-.-
New York -1O--o .
Batteries-Shultz and Killifer; Ames
and Wilson. Umpires-Finneran and
Rigler.
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3. TARKINGT0NS QUIT.
Report Is That No Legal Action Is
Contemplated.

Indiana polls. Ind, Oct s--The In
.dianapoIis News today will say that
Booth Harrington and his wife have
agreed to live separately. The infor-
nation is said to have been made pub
lie by friends of the couple There is
no legal action anticipated. Tark1ng-
ton is said to be IN New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-06

Whatever else may or may not be eff
fected by this war. we may consider
Tripoli as henceforth lost to Turkey
and transformed into an Italian colony.
The significance of that fact to Italy
herself and to other nations, including
perhaps we should say especially
the United States. may prove to be
great. For it will provide new outlet
for the surplus population of Italy, or
for that part of the population which
for any reason seeks a new field of ac-
tivity and profit. and it is not impos-
sible that to it will be diverted a large
and even the major part of that stream
of migration which has for years been
nonic factor in the United States and
also in Argentina.
An Italian journalist in this city OBJ
served the other day that Italy needed
extension and expansion and that
TripoH was her opportunity. 1t is prob