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A EESS03MX ADVERTISING. Mow Henry W. Grady Convinced a Georgia Merchant. The practical joke on Sam D. Jones, the manufacturer, which has af? forded so much amusement in Atlan? ta, vivdly recalls a prank played on exactly the same lines Henry W. <Grady thirty years ago. Henry Grady was at that time liv? ing in Rome and edited the Daily Commercial of that city. Following the hard lines "which always encom? passed the pathway of daily journal? ism in Rome up to the present hap? pier time. Grady, althongh editor-in "Chief, was also one of the most dili? gent advertising solicitors in Rome, k Tie made a special plea for the Rouns |*s ?.villes, one of the largest business houses of the Hill City, who were Tather coy and not overly disposed to oe liberal in printer's ink. But they stoutly asserted that nobody read ad? vertisements, and that it would. not pay them to advertise their business in the Commercial. Henry Grady stoutly argued the other side, and finding the merchants obdurate, finally left them with this statement: "Well, I will insert a small advertisement for you free in the ^Commercial tomorrow, and if the re (Ijfsult does not prove that people do read advertisements, and that adver? tising pays, I will' promise never to truoble you again, and if you'll prom? ise to advertise in the Commercial if the result proves to you that people do read advertisements?" To this the Rounsavilles consented, and the editor withdrew. The next morning there appeared in an obscure corner of the Commercial ' a brief want advertisement declaring that the firm of Rounsaville Bros., were anx? ious to secure before the end of the week, as many cats of all kinds and ?f?of all ages as they could get to their store. When the heads of the firm reached their office on the jnoming .following the advertisement the scene was one which they are likely never to for? gets Wagons were ranged for 40 or 50 yards up against the platform which made entrance to their store and men, women and children, from the city and from the country, with bags in their hands and cats in their arms, mounting way past the hun? dreds and up into the thousands, jr stood there clamoring for the atten? tion of the proprietors to their answer to ' the want advertisement Mr. ? Grady had inserted the ?day before in the Daily Commercial. Such an array or collection of cats had never before been seen in Rome >r in north Georgia. Gray cats and "black cats, tom cats and tabby cats; old cats and young cats, cats in arms, eats in baskets, cats in cages, cats quiet and cats mewing, cats with backs arched; and cats softly purring; all there and waiting for the Rauns ?? avilies. - The news of the incident had spread over tho town, and nearly one-half of the population had come to see the Rousavilles convinced by Henry Gra? dy that advertising paid. It only remains to be said that out ? of the overwhelming mass of proof f furnished by the farmers* of Rome and of Floyd county, the Raunsavilles did not take long to discover the truth of Grady's proposition, and the columns of the Commercial from that time forward were never without the fe announcement of the big and pros perons firm that has done business there for so many years. BR. JOHN H, MORSE, I VETERINARIAN, 207:*I.??AIN ST. - SUMTER, $! C. -TELEPHONE 388.-r Indigestion Causes Catarrh of the Stomach? 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Substitution* and Imite tina*. Jiuy- of jour ft-'n?K?. nT ?rB^ 4C.-Jn fftl*?**^ Tct'monj.I. Mi "Keilet f?r L?I?JC?,'*?'? Urttr. i>r re? turn Mull. Ji?.?-/0 l>?ttuu.ni?!. <.V, bj Land Surveying I will give prompt attention to all calls for surveying, platting, terracing hill sides draining bottom?, drawing Mortgages Title?. Prcbatingr, <fcc. BANKS H. BO YXIN. D. 3., Oct 19-0 Catena:! S. C. Compensation for Fa?se Imprisonment The question of providing by law i for the compensation of innocent per? sons who have been condemned by I sons who have been condemned and imprisoned for crime committed by j another is attracting attention. Not ! that it is possible by any pecuniary grant to make good to such a victim the frightful wrong he has suffered at the hands of society, but it is felt that the reproach to our boasted hon? or and justice, of providing no rem I edy in such cases, should be done away with. Why it has been so long neglected, it is impossible to under? stand. The renewed discussion of the matter has doubtless been brought about by two or three distressing cases in Western states of men who had been imprisoned for life on what, after a long term of confinement, turned out to have been false charges, and who were turned out upon the world, in their declining years, broken, friendless, and with no means of support. The recent case of Adolph Beck, in England, twice wrongfully locked up for fraud, has also attracted much attention, and served to emphasize the necessity of legislation which in England, as well as here, does not exist. It is to be said, however, for the English govern? ment, that after Mr. Beck's second release, it offered him a solatium of $25,000, and in some very flagrant similar cases parliament has made grants or from $5,000 to $25,000. We know of no instance in this country of anything of the kind having been done, either by Congress or any State legislature. While in England, ?schere, there is j no provision by coifimon law or stat? ute covering such cases, the subject is being discussed, and something is J likely to be done. Sir Samuel Romily, j the great law reformer, proposed j clothing the courts with power to give compensation in some cases, and Lord Cockburn speaks of the suggestion as wise and humane; but the Anglo-Sax? on race moves slowly in such matters. J Other countries are in advance of j us. Germany in 1898 passed an act giv- j lng any one who has been acquitted j on a rehearing compensation, and this right very justly was made to cover J those dependent on him. In 1894 this act was extended to include innocent J accused persons imprisoned during in- J vestigation, and those dependent on j them. In some other European coun- J tries there exist provisions for rem- j edying judicial mistakes. They are j found in some of the cantons of Switz- J erland and in Norway and Sweden, J and under the Indian Criminal Pro- j cedure Code an accused person who j has been cleared is given compensa- J tion. j It is a reproach to both Great Brit? ain and ourselves that we should be J so far behind these countries in leg? islation which the plainest dictates of justice demand. j Not only, it appears to us, should j those who have been wrongfully im- j prisoned, or in a-ny way punished, be J provided for, but every one who has j been falsely accused and put to the J expense of a trial and defense by the agents of society should be sa far as J possible, compensated by society for I the wrong done them. Referring to the freed suspect, the j acquitted man, an article in a recent number of Everybody's Magazine says: "Stripped and broken, bruised by foul handling, scarred by suspicion, pallid from death's shadow and sear? ed as by hell fire, the acquitted man stands dumbly impotent of moral re? dress or physical indemnity. And the public, having scourged him as a vi . carious sacrifice, expects him to be thankful because it did not kill him. "A man accused of murder con? fronts persecutors who bring to their paid efforts an implacable purpose to build or preserve a personal reputa? tion. So horrid is the charge and so keen is the hunt that prisoner is driv? en to his utmost resource. He may no longer rely upon presumptive in- J nocence, for the innocence has been and may again strangled by circum? stantial evidence. He enters upon a defense which becomes practically a deadly trial by the accused to prove himself innocent. Along with his name, his pride, and his life, he tosses in his own fortune or pittance, and possibly the possessions of his friends. "At the end a jury foreman declares him 'not guilty,' and financially, he stands stripped. He has exhausted his resources to keep hismself from be? ing killed, and he stands; alone with his rescued life. 'Through taxation he has borne part of the expense in? curred by the state of its defense against its confessedly wrongful at? tack." We commend the subject to the careful consideration of all legislators and all lovers of justice.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Hartford, Conn.. May 5.-Frank I Bosworth Brandt-gee has-been nomi-j nated by the caucus* Republicans f-<r the United States senate to'succeed j the lat?- Senator Orville H. Platt. The j contest lasted about eleven hours and j he was nominated on the thiriy-scv- j en th ballot. i tffHSr m \ LWBBH I % JP* ?0?^ .- BB I Soda Crackers arc becoming more arid more ^- S ? Ft Fi. w Mm K f fill -*v.- . M Mm Mm. 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Petersburg, May 4.-Admiral Rojestvensky, the commander of the Russia Baltic fleet, has written to rel? atives here in which he pictures the condition "of his fleet. He complains that it is impossible for him to fight with material at his command. The lack of discipline is most complained ot Russian Transports Damaged. London, May 4.-The Evening Star reports that two of Rear Admiral Xebo?ratoff's transports, the Marie sham and Hermine Hessemuller, have put into Sabong on the north coast of the Island of Sumatra. The vessels had apparently been in collis? ion as their bows were stove in. Fleet at Hainan. London, May 4.-A news agency has reports from a Chinese official source that the greater portion of the Baltic fleet arrived at Loongsoi Bay on the southeast of the Island of Hainan on May 1. Neboga toff's Squadron Reported. London, May 4.-The correspond? ent of the Star at Singapore, Straits Settlement, wires that a Russian fleet was reported 200 miles north of Sin? gapore this morning. Presumably this squadron is that of Admiral Xebo gatoff. St. Petersburg, May 4.-Gen. Line vitch reports that a detachment of Cassacks on Monday discovered a squadron of Japanese and attacked them. One Japanese officer and scores of dragoons were killed. Eleven pris? oners were captured. FATAL HOTEL FIRE. Five Prisons Burned to Death in Du? luth Hotel. Duluth. May 4.-The Fifth avenue Hotel here was toltally destroyed by. fire today. It was a frame building and burned fiercely, fanned by a high wind which rendered the firemen helpless,. Three 'bodies have been re? covered anil two others are said tn hr buried in the ruins. John Weiss was one of-the victims. The others are uhk?ibwii. CORNERSTONE CAMDEN COURT HOUSE LAH) Grand Master Bellinger Used the La fayette Trowel in the Masonic Ceremonies. Camden, May 4.-" With the same silver trowel need hy Lafaette in lay? ing the cornerstone of the monument to Baron DeKalb, who was killed in the Revolutionary bartle of Camden, Grand Master John R. Bellinger 01 the grand lodge of Masons in South Charolina today laid the cornerstone of Camden's court house." In addition to the fact that the same trowel was used which had done Masonic duty in laying the corner stone of monument to DeBialb in May 1824, it may be of interest to some of our readerrs to know that Col. Abram Blanding who was then Grand Master of Masons in South Carolina, acted officially in the Masonic ceremonies and also delivered the address on the occasion. Onr fellow townsman Col. J. D. Blanding, although not yet a nonogearian, ?till the oldest citizen of our city and one of the eldest of the county, says he well remembers see? ing his father when delivering tie address and of throwing flowers for Lafayette to walk on both in Camden and shortly afrerwards in Columbia. This was just 81 years aco; that he bad the original manuscript with a pro? grame of proceedings endorsed there? on ; also his father's Masonic jewels used on the occasion. But sad to say they were burnt when his residence with everything in it except a wife and ten children went tip in smoke, Apr.l 1866, as a first anniversary cele? bration of Potter's burniog his mills, barns and outbuilding, (the negroes saved the dwelling houso) and of the big battle of Dingle's mill aud the little affair at Appomatox. Want Better Sen ice. Bennettsville, May 3 -Efforts are being made along the Coast Li nf, between Sumter and Fayetteville, to get two passenger traits a day via Darlington, Bennettsville, McColi, Maxton, Red Springs and Lumber Bridge. Delegates from these towns will meet here on the evening of Tues? day, May 9th, at 8.30 o'clock to con? sider the matter and send representa? tives to confer with the Coast Line officials. 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