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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-06
ADMIRAL EVANS DEAD.
Suddenly Stricken, Fighting Bob
Passes Ont TO Sea of Eternity.

Washington, Jan. 3.-Rear Admiral
Robley d. Evans, Fighting Bohy t.
an admiring nation, died suddenly
late today at his home in this city.
Acute indigestion ended the career Of
one Of the most popular officers in the
navy. He was i'll less than two
hours.
Admiral Evans. born 65 years ago
in Floyd county, Virginia, arose to-
day apparently in better health and
spirits than he had enjoyed in some
time. For years a sufferer from old
wounds sustained in the War Between
the Sections and from recurrent at
tacks of rheumatic gout, the aged
hghter seemed to have shaken off the
burden of his advancing days. He
displayed high spirits a breakfast
and ate a hearty luncheon at noon.
While in his library at O'Clock,
the admiral was stricken. Instantly
his family sent for DIR. 6. s. Adams
who, on his arrival. found the patient
In great pain. After trea ment Ad-
miral Evans fell into a restless sleep.
and ii was thought that the dAnger
had passed shortly after o'clock.
however. he awakened and, raising
himself with difficulty. announced
that he was choking.
Il can not get my breath" he said
and sank back. At 4:45 O'Clock he
died, conscious to the end.
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which is itself fifty-one feet high.

which is itself fifty-one feet high.
The greatest change, however, will
be made in the building now used for
the manufacture Of ice. This is at
present wooden building. 1t will be
thoroughly overhauled and remodel
ed. The frame work Of the new
building, when. it is completed, will
be OF iron and all Of the foundations
OF the building will be Of masonry
with concrete flooring and wire
glass windows The office will be
erected in front Of this building. so
that 1t will not be seen from
the street except a sma,! por-
ton OF the side. + change of i'm
portance made here is the cooling Of
the ice house by direct expansion of
ammonia. which has recently been
found to be much better than the
older method of pumping brine
through the building. BY this means
the Ice which has been manufacture
ed will he kept from melting and
ready for the market
Sum,er Is at present one of the
best lighted towns Of its size any
where in the state and the people of
Sumter will hear will gladucss Of any
changes which tho Sumter Lighting
Company has made or proposes to
make in order TO add to it's facilities
and the efficiency Of its already ex-
collcnt service.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-06
BRYAN CAUSES STRIFE.
UNDERWOOD REFUSES INVITA-.
TION TO SPEAK.
Bryan Given Last Jiace-These Two
Facts. Coupled by Wise-acres, Lead
% Stir Among Democrats I'm Con-
gress.

washington, Jan. 3.-The decision
of Oscar w. Underwood. Democratic
leader. not to attend the jackson
day banquet here next Monday night,
which became known today imme-
diately after the announcement that
the managing committee had given to
William jennings Bryan. at his own
request. the last place on the speak
ing programme. threw Democrats in
congress into furry.
Mr.. Underwood declared he would
not attend the banquet becaufe of his
recent attack OF threatened append
cities. His physician. he said. had or
dered him to attend no banquets and
particularly to make no speeches nor
do anything requiring unusual exer-
ton.
II will not have any speech to be
read at the dinner" added Mr.. Un-
derwood. IF We're there to make
a speech would desire to deliver 1t
myself"
Nevertheles>> the prospective alb
senco of q majority leader of the
house from q national Democratic at
fair. az which other leaders of the
party and men who are mentioned as
candidates for the presidential nomi-
nation are to speak. aroused discus
sion. particularly In connection with
the so-cailed break between Messrs.
Bryan and Underwood.
Mr.. Underwood's letter to tho COM
mittee. announcing ne would not at
tend. was sent after II became known
that Mr. Bryan was to speak last. The
arrangement did not meet the ap-
proval OF many leaders. but 1t will
etAud. Some Of Mr.. Underwood's q
lslends pointed out that Mr.. Bryan.
nktug last on the programme.
IA be in position Of decided ad-
>oDe TO- make declarations which
M rpf necessity remain unanswer-
lthet spcA a contingency was
teaos ~ NJ Others said Mr.. uh-
|dsrwood did not wish to enter an ora
toricai centsst with Mr.. Bryan.
The controversy between Mr.. Bryan
and Mr.. Underwood. which developed
over the wooden schedule, the secret
caucus and other party affairs at the
special session OF congress last year
was recently renewed when Mr.. Bryan
practically referred to Mr.. Under
wood as Wall streets choice for the
Democratic preferential nomination.
Mr.. Underwood never has denied
that his political views differ much
from Mr.. Bryan's but many Of Mr..
Undervood's friends recently have de-
clared that he has no hesitancy 70
express himself concerning Mr.. Bry-
ans position.
Mr.. Underwood had a conference
with Speaker Clark today, but II the
jackson day affair was discussed the
fact was not announced.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-06

you Will probably be about right. Be
ware OF being assailed by one and
praised by the other
Ono Of the greatest operations
OF the year IN Secretary NageTs de-
partment was the completion OF the
18th census
very important investigation on
tho cost OF llvlLy is now helne car
ried ON by the bureau Of labor. "The
report promises to provide basis for
intelligent discussion Of this much
mootcd question:" says the secretary
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-06
RAILROAD MATTER ADJUSTED.
RAILROAD CONCILIATORY AND
COUNCIL GIVES IN FROM ITS
FORMER POSITION-SET.
ELEMENT IN THE Ma.
TURE OF A COM
PROMISE.

City to Have Work 1t Desires Done
and Railroad to Pay Half of Costs
Railroad Gives up Claim to Mary
Street and City to Mulberry and
Owens Streets; Many Officials of
the A. c. l.. Railroad Present.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-06

IN - y a. ~ VI a e
\ - fn.<hs standard W snd Amer
1H 1e1eeco companS easss have
1voGrAt forcibIy 70 me public stten-
IN . fact rspsatsdly presented In
~ yeports OF thi6 dspartmsnt--ths
isnDcFa<tve need Tor the positive ad-
mlnlvfre1ive regulation OF great IN
1oetr1A1 corporstiona.
''rh recent decisions and reorgan-
bations which followed have made It
clear that another imperst tive stop
ramatns to be taken and that this Is
the establishment. by appropriate leg
islstion. OF. board system Of su-
psrvtsion and publicity for all those
inAuserlal and commercial organiza-
udns engaged IN Interstate and inter-
nAtsonAl business.
whether this shall be done by
nssans Of federal incorporation or by
federal once or commission exer-
cizing powers Of regulation ana su-
pesyieIon may be secondary ques-
(&Qn-E The nrst consideration appears
- - the establishment Of perma-
nont administrative publicity. regula-
tfon ana supervision. The time Ia
PECULIARLY ripe for such action. Pub
u opinion and the views of many
evaporation managers are as one."
Secretary Nagel recommen liz that
t'he bureau of corporations be devel-
opsd to take up the form Of super
vision he suggests. 1t would be but
. Ieg$cai expansion Of the bureaus
operstions and policy. which. ne says.
have relied solely on publicity for the
hast eight years and have demon
strated beyond question what a sys-
tenn Of permanent supervision can do.
Mr.. Nasers report In full deals
with tho years work in the many
bureaus and divisions over which ne
presides
In connection with the immigration
service the secretary recommends
that any amendments TO the immi-
grafton laws tend to relieve immi-
sy--ts of undue hardship without let
sine cown the bars against undesir-
abiss Large discretion should he
iodEed with offlcials. he thinks. TO ad-
~: unfortunate members OF incom-
ms families where II IL shown that
soeiety would be protected against
burden and danger. He recommends
also that examinations OF immigrants
bc inadc before they embark for this
country and that the time for deport-
fng confessed criminals be extended
Secretary Nayei refers In passing
20 recent criticism OF the immigra-
ton service. He says the bureau has
erdeavored TO obey the general man
date Of the law and relieve the in
dividual OF hardship wherever the
statute allows u.
'1n the meantime. Lincolu's advice
A nn1s renewed application" SAYS the
|Dscfe<ary. quoting the words. III both
lkctfsns. or neither. shall abuse you
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-06
WELCOME NEW YEAR GIFT.
IMPROVEMENTS ESTIMATED AT
$4,000 TO BE MADE BY SU..,-
TR LIGHTING COMPANY.

New Turbine Engine to Be Installed
Ice House to Be Renovated and Re-
modelled and New Office to be Built
Work on Cooling Tanks now I'm
Progress and Other improvements
to be Made I'm Next Ninety Days.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
Elements That May Combine to Form
the Human Face.


the Human Face.
numerical text form that will make
it transmissible by all telegraphs, with
or without wires. Finally, to effect a
topographic reconstruction of the
image.
THE first thing to do is to cut the
picture up into tiny squares. each one
of which has the tone of the part of
the image in which it is situated
which tone Is represented by con-
ventional figure serving for it's tele-
graphic transmission. But this process,
slow and uncertain, has been happily
replaced by Mr.. Mortier by the follow
ing, which may be called automatic:
THE picture to be transmitted is
first printed in an enlarged form sus-
ceptible of easy analysis. This ana
lytic print has two valuable properties
first, 1t is naturally cut up by grill
lage of fine lines; secondly, the
squares 90 not appear as more or
less gray or transparent elements
whose tone cannot be evaluated nu-
merically, nor as groups of points
whose light value can be stated in
numbers only after laborious meas
urement, but rather as black sill
houettes against a white ground or vice
versa, of forms so diversified as to
embrace an extended scale of shades
and so striking as to be identified at
sight.
These expressive figures arise spon-
taneously in the course of the manipu-
lations, simple enough, that turn out
the analytic proof. By what articles
has it been possible so to discipline
the actinic force of the light that 1t
shall express its own tonalities in
characters more discernible than fig
ures? The zoned cellular transpar-
ency, a simple sheet that has been
placed in the printing frame between
the original negative and the sensitive
paper, before the printing of the ana
lytic proof, operates this miracle by
itself alone. AT first sight this trans
parent sheet shows a simple marking
in squares, but under the microscope
the appearance of the network gives
place to an arrangement of square
cells of complex structure which re-
produce exactly the typical outlines
Of the symbolic silhouettes of the pre-
ceding illustration.
after the preparation of the print,
the analysis of it amounts to no more
than the simple reading of page and
the jotting down of the figures in or
der"
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IMAGE SENT BY WIRE
Recent French Invention That
Opens Great Possibilities.
Photographs Can Be Sent by TeIe-
graph With Great Accuracy and
Some Speed Whenever Nee
essary Apparatus Exists.

Paris.-It has been possible for
some time to send photographs by
wire with great accuracy and some
speed, wherever the necessary appa-
ratus exists. Such transmission has
for year or SO formed part of the
regular Paris service of an enterpris-
ing London journal Suppose. however,
that reporter finds himself at a
country telegraph station and desires
to send to his paper picture of some
kind in connection with his story
portrait, or the photograph of some
building or locality He is evidently
no better off than he would have been
century ago. A recent process, how
ever, the invention of a French en-
gineer named Mortier, would make it
possible for him to send his picture
over single wire, with the aid of the
ordinary Geographic instruments-or
rather, it would enable him to tele-
graph data from which the picture
could be built up at the receiving sta
ton. This process Is described by r.
Bounin in La Nature, where we read:
"Mortier's process requires neither
costly and delicate apparatus nor any
peculiar installation. nor a special
wire. 1t will work anywhere using
under normal conditions the existing
Geographic plant of the smallest To-
calities and without the least inter
ference with its ordinary administra-
ton.
What was necessary to obtain this
result? First, to take up in new
form one of the original conceptions
of Charles eros, about 1869-the trans
lation of images into series of num-
bers, then to give to the symbolic
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to
policies.
n
a
four
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
ABDUL HAMID STILL ALIVE

Abdul Hamid is alive. The former
sultan is in Salonica and has not been
secretly conveyed to Constantinople.
Those are the replies to two recent
w circulated reports which have told
of the former sultan's demise and OF
his having been spirited away during
the night to the capital. The latter
report was merely founded upon the
massage of a train full of munitions,
concerning which quite special precau-
tons we're taken.
If you want to set yourself diff
cult task it is in going to Salonica
and trying there to find out some de-
tails concerning the physical condi-
tion and mode of life of the deposed
Sultan. who for so many years was the
political chess player who kept the
diplomatists of Europe busy, and who
was so skilled in the game that he US
ually saw 20 moves ahead, while the
ambassadors at Constantinople saw
but two or three.
abdul Hamid in his confinement as
the prisoner of his people is enveloped
in Yildiz Kiosk at Constantinople, and
concerning him-most of them invent
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
Mean Peanle.

Henry Russell. the head of the Bos-
ton opera. was describing his foreign
tour in search of talent.
They we're mean people" he said
of the singers of certain city. Il
could do no business with them. They
thought only of money
Mr.. Russell smiled.
"They were as bad as the man who
discovered the Blank theater fire.
1.-THE first intimation the box Office
had of this fire came, at the end OF
the third act. from fat man who
bounded down the gallery stairs.
stuck his face at the ticket window
and shouted breathlessly:
"Theaters afire! Gimme me mon
ey back!'"
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
WIFE OF LEADING SOCIALIST

The Hon. Victor Berger of Milwau-
kee is the first Socialist in congress
and his wife deserves attention as an
educator and reformer. Since her ar
rival in Washington, when Mr.. Berger
took his seat in April, she has been
busy studying social conditions at the
capital as if she were a nember of
the house committee for tie District.
She visits the schools and learns their
needs, and many a Washington pupil
will have her to thank for some need
ed improvement. In appearance, Mrs.
Berger is typical GermanAmerican
woman, of the type one imagines in a
comfortable home, busy superintend-
ing the children and presiding over a
breakfast table. Yet there is another
side to her character She is an earn
est reformer, who has taken such an
active part in political work in Mil
waukee that she has been elected a
member of the board of education,
and has helped to put into execution
such ideas as penny luncheons, teach
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
BIG LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES

The largest amount of life insur-
ance held by any woman in the world
is now carried by Mrs. Charles Netch-
ter, head of a Chicago department
store.
Mrs. Netcher has just taken out
life Insurance policy for 100000,
which raises her total insurance to
s1,20o,000, more than that of any other
person in Chicago, it was announced.
Mrs. Netcher has followed a plat
form of her husband, who, when he
died in 1904, was insured for 100000.
After the death of her husband,
Mrs. Netcher assumed control of the
store and has conducted the business
ever since, building it up and con-
stantly increasing her holdings in real
estate as the profits from her bust
ness increased.
She soon became what is known in
insurance circles as ga good risk"
When she decided to take out large
policies on her life che various COM
panies extended to her the usual
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
mo- Sale.

chill work." replied the demon
strator, after Stiggins had inspected
the new car carefully. Hill work?
Why that's our strong point, Mr.. Stig-
gins. This car can climb tree"
Hal hum.'' demurred Stiggins.
"Then | guess TIL look elsewhere.
never saw car yet that climbed trees
that was any good afterward "-Har-
per's Weekly
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
"Rhino" on . Tear.

New York-Old Srailes, the two
horned Rhinoceros in the Central
Park zoo, has wild headache. He
got fighting drunk Sunday on a quart
If whisky given with quinine to cure
ais cold.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
MQ!|ININTNT PT0kT
~ 67s&- 3 - W.
STRONG MAN OF FRANCE

Raymond Poincaire. the new prime
minister, is one of the most interest
ing figures in the French republic. In
him are combined all that one under
stands by French culture, dignity and
charm of manner, added t., a feputa-
ton of stern integrity that is nation
wide.
This is the third time that the
French Academy has supplied the
third republic with prime minister.
The first was. the duke of Broglie in
1873, and the second was M. de Frey
cinet in 1890.
Poincaire comes to power with ripe
ideas on the subject of government.
He once expressed the triple wish,
which may be taken as the key to his
attitude, that deputies would fegis-
late without attempting to govern,
that ministers would govern on their
own responsibility and that justice
should know no politics.
The new premiers versatility is to
a. considerable degree a matter Of
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
Needed Reform.

Benham-We need reform in our
banking system.
Mrs. Benham-Yes; it's shame
that a wife can't overdraw her hus-
bands account.-Judge.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
For COLDS am. GRIP

Hicks CAPuDINE is the best remeey-re-
1ieves the aching and feverishness-curest the
Cold and restores normal conditions. It's
liquid-effects Immediately. 10e., Csc, and soc.
At drug stores.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

Love may not make the world &C
round, but it seems to make lot OF
people giddy.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

family
distinguished
Poncae
a little family university all
his private anything
reuse He he
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
On the Trail.

Does your fiance know your age
Lotta?"
partly. -Fliegende Blaetter
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
Alas

Wigg- Young Sillicus says his
heart is lacerated
Wagg-Who's the lass ?--Philadel-
phia Record.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

ITCH, ITCH relieved in 80 minutes b.,
Woolford's Sanitar..- Lotion At Druggist
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

Too often the man with the hoe gets
the worst of an encounter with the
man with the gold brick.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

A mirror often prevents a woman
from getting lonesome.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

The Jay-By Heck! It'd certainly
hurt Teller to fall off tibet History
building.
The Guide-Well, de last guy wot
did it never complained none.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

PILES CURED IN TO II DAYS
Your druggist will refund money If PAZO ONT
MENT fails 70 cnre any of Itching, Blind.
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 10 Ia DAYS. Soc.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

Some of us are born foolish and new
er outgrow 1t.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

sanitation schools
public their
studies
later in life the
taught
ters in mprov needed.-Famiy Magazine
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UP The SYSTEM lIsII EN-
CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle
showing is simply Quinine and Iron in tasteless
form, and the most effectual form. For grown
eeople and children, so cents.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15
MhM<
Read About These Three Girls. How Sick
They Were and How Their Health
Was Restored by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

Appleton, Wis.," take pleasure in writing you
an account of my sickness. told friend of mine
how felt and she said had female trouble and
advised me to use Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound, as she had taken it herself for the same
trouble with wonderful results. / had been sckly
for two years and overworked myself, and had such
bad feelings every month that could hardly walk
for pain. / was very nervous and easily tired out
and could not sleep nights. had dizzy spells, and
pimples came on my face. But have taken your
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and it has
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-15

Miss CECILIA M BAUER 1851 Lawrence St, Appleton Wis.
SCHOOL TEACHERS GRATITUDE:
Iowa have been teaching school for and
have neglected health because busy with work
attend myself properly suffered greatly month and
the verge of nervous breakdown
you condition and took Lydia Pnkham
Vegetable and the Blood Purifier recommended
done wonders for highly
widely recommend them to every suffering woman MINNIE
SHAVER r. f. D. No Geneva, Iowa, c/o Sam Erickson.
COLORADO GIRLS CASE:
Montroe Co"I troubled much with irregular periods
months would eapse suffered headache,
weak and nervous, could eat scarcely anything.
81 both Lydia E. Pnkam Vegetable Compound and Blood
Purifier and the result wonderful feel like another
hankfulnes for what they help
neghbors they SICK shall your
medicines Miss ELLA MoCANDLEss, Montrose, Col
Is it reasonable to suppose that medicine that did
SO much for these girls will benefit any other girl who is
suffering with the same troubles?
Does it the only sensible thing to give such a
medicine at least tra1 You may be that it do
you HARM and there lots Of proof that will do
you much good.
years Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable ESeS@RSSA
Compound the standard remedy FORTE NNVM
ailments
III V&\y
medicine made from roots and herbs it II ~ % w II
has restored suffering women to health " N
Eff OK \gI1 ~
MASS, advice. MN
by a and held in strict confidence. fI