Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Part ii $2.00 A YEAR s t $ t The n i t t t t 1 t i \ t t t Table Dai: * t J t * $ t Ladies t I AT THE 1 Mr. A. B. Cheatham, manager of th<i Grand Opera iiouse, announces | that he secured the use of the Mayor's office on show nights for the purpose of a Ladies' Cloak Room. A maid will be in attendance to take charge of tVirk uT'.ino Thio vx/111 Kci u \i'ijlr?amla ii\_ novation to the ladies. The management urges thai all who attend the theatre be iu their places on time, as the curtain will rise promptly at the appointed hour. The moving picture shows will con tinue as heretofore on nights that no other attractions are holding forth at the Opera House. The pictures have affordrd much amusement during the summer season and will no doubt continue to draw a good audience. | "MADAMS SHEUBY" TO-NIGHT Because everyone all over the couo- ! try is humming, singing, or whistling' some number of the score of the big sensational musical success "Madame Sherry" which will be at the Opera House Wednesday, September 25th, the impression is current in some quarters that the production's charm is in the greater part, musical. As a matter oi fact, the mirth qualities of the play are no less encaging than its score. The love of a man for a maid under odd circumstances, love or the soulful, romantic sort, love that bios Boms in the heart of youth and flour ishes as true love ever does, when, things do not go smoothly, is the reigning spell of the production, ac cording to report, but this love, this courtship is so beset on so many sides, and attended by so many misadven tures. that while itself remaining an appealing interest, all its accessory "flEN OF PAST Congressman Aiken Takes Exception to "The State's** Remark?What South Carolina Has Done. To the Editor of The State: In an editorial headed: "Statesmen Warren of Wyoming," which apppared in The State of the 18th instant, you lugged in the South Carolina delega tion in congress, to "adorn a tale" in a rather uncomplimentary way. After speaking of Senator Warren's ability for looting the national high way treasury by way of appropria tions for his State, you say that this has become in a large measure the S--M JL JL .I lost complete ur Ready-to-V/ Is full of the newest rt Coat Suits, Cloaks anc son's most popular sh here. Our line of Misses' and than ever. If you car we will be pleased to 5 or not. nask 25c to $1.25 y E<vei 3', Misses' and fHEATRE | situations arouse amusement. Some I idea of the fun developed may be | gleamed by a summary of the charac 1 ters of the play which besides the lov ! ers, include an Italian house janitor, his Irish wife, a lively fun-loving ac | tress, a Sew York man-about-town, | an excitable Venezuelan, an amusing : ly whimsical uncle of the maid In love ! and others, including the popils of a i danc'ng school ami the guest of a yaehting party. ' Madame Sherry Beal French Vaude ville wnen is vauaevuie not vaoaevnmy i [ Tbis conundrum is definitely nailed to a standstill by the reply: When it i is a French vaudeville. An evening of [ farce studded with musical numbers j which do not hinder, but are genuine stepping stones in the plot?there is the pocket definition of a French vaud eville. ".Madame Sherry" the comedy with music which is to be at the Opera , House, Wednesday, Sept. 25th, is de scribed as the first "French vaude ; ville" to vault to American shores. It i is prodcued by H. H. Frazee and George W. Lederer, the arrangements of the production in the hands of Le derer who made the "revue" style of entertainment famous and planted the seeds of "musical comedy" as now es ; tablished on this bustling continent. Lina Abarbanell of "Merry Widow" fame, heads the cast of players and the novelty that makes "Sherry" a vaudeville is said to be the absence of a regulation electrotyped chorus. Sub stituting the usual throngs of mascu j line and feminine poseurs ana aance acrobats will be an assembly of young, actresses, whose duties, although min or, will none the less be legitimately j connected with the stage topic. AND PRESENT standard of service, and even in this, "in comparison with Warren, every mother's son of them (the South j Carolina congressmen) is a 'piker' or' a 'tin horn sport.' " It is rank injustice to the repre sentatives in congress from this State to attempt to create the impression that their standard of efficiency is their ability to secure public appro priations. ff the congressman neg lected this part of his duty, you would undoubtedly criticize him, and justly so, and if he has been active in getting his part of public appro priations, you ridicule the service as stock which ^ ==is now re, umamubmmmm? ??mm*mma?a j .1,1 ?. 'ear Dept. md most up-to-date line 1 Serge Dresses. The s ades and styles are sho 01 ? 1? . & V^lUcliVd IS lcUj e to look through this 1 show you, whether you t d?Doilies 50c to $ Cases?Sheetin in i J 1 Infants' She V 11 Li. ? 0 Of the Week ? W. Gibson, a lawyer, was held wltho death while boating with him on Gret his standard of statesmanship. It is a case of "damned if you do and damned if you don't." Most of the members of congress from South Carolina have been active in bringing to light needed tariff re forms that have brought the old Re publican party to the brink of defeat, and opened the way for Wilson's elec tion. Democrats from other States have broken away from the ranks, but not the representatives from South Carolina. The members from South Carolina have been in their places battling against the rapacious greed of trusts and monopolies and are en titled to a full share of credit for awakening the public conscience to their encroachments. No one man can claim credit ior placing uemoc racv on its vantage ground. It has boon a battle of 25 years against Republican misrule/ but the men who through all these years have stuck I consistently to their colors despite ! Republican taunts and tyranny, and ; who have at last brought Democratic i3<ui?'b squarely before the peopie, do ! serve to bo classed as something bettor than mere boodlers. i Newspapers generally hold in con tempt the politician who seeks to pop ularize himself by abusing"the press." Our sense of fairness will not justify an unwarranted attack on any paper ive have ever ady for your i ?er ine ! juy 4 dozen?Lace Cur ig?Counterpanes * 2- for t >es of every S We will be | /. w 1 dertrilt coo face, tbe American dutomo Blood" Howwtta and Teftie Louis" Ko ie roundup ot tbose accused. Dr. Vllbjal klmos. Katberlne Wallace swam aero ut ball by Judge Herbert ftoyce fl.t Mid > nwood lake. by public men, so long as that paper is just, but if the paper unjustly criticises it may expect criticism in return. Victor Hugo Raid in substance: "I hate that oriticis<m which like the flesh fly skims over that which is sound to light on that which tainted." Is there not something in the records of South Carolina congressmen that is worthy of favorable mention? Tne service of South Carolina con gressmen is untainted and it is thor oughly loyal. If it has not been mark ed by that brilliancy which character ized (he times of McDuftie, Hayne and Calhoun, it has been more productive r\9 hAnAfls?io1 rocnltc If it has not hppn marked by the dignity that character ized Hie services of Hampton and But ler, it has at least been more active. Times change; methods change and men change with them. Democracy has never been in the ascendant more than at present, and "every mother's son" of a representative has been a loyal factor in bringing about that condition. I would not detract an iota from the glory of our illustrious dead, but that they would have served the State more faithfully in the fevered events of national legislation of recent years, 1 respectfully deny. ?PTffMBEK 25, 1! offered to the inspect ion= l Dress Goods We have everything th; We are offering a line per yard that can't be makes the most serviceal have the most complete in Abbeville. tains all prices?Hi md Blankets. he He itvle and Pric / jlad to see yoi hite i bile classic, was run at Milwaukee. Ral senberg were arrested In Jtaw York for fh mar Stefansson returned from tbe Arctk? 8s tbe Delaware river at Philadelphia wl dletowo. N. for the murder of Mra. R I am not one of those who want- , only abuse newspapers. I grant ( lhem. a place, and a very high and , honorable place In directing the af faire of popular government, but to irect the people effectually they must . treat thr> servants of the people fairly. , Wyatt Aiken. , CONGRESSMAN AIKEN PROTESTS i The State. 1 The loyalty of Representative Aiken < to Democratic principles and policies Knnn nnncHnnoH hv Th P I Uclo IICVC1 V|UVOtiVUVu M,r State and The State is quite willing ' to concede thai the South Carolina ' members of Congress have rendered i the Democratic party valuable ser- < vice. Nevertheless, energy and suc ceaa in getting appropriations have, i in our opinion, been emphasized and exaggerated by members of Con gress from South Carolina and by their constituents, too. The average < speech by a South Carolina Congress man seeking reelection reeks with enumeration of what he has gotten for his ditsrict and the average South Carolina voter, when ho boasts of his senator or representative,"points with pride" to the Federal building that has been erected through the Con gressman's influence rather than to his identification with any great 912. ESTii people of Abb it one could wish to sc of colors in a Serge at 5< beat. It is all wool ai ble dress imaginable. V stock of Domestics shov emmed Sheets air mse 5e. a in our stor< Co. pfi t>e Palma drove one of the em. e nrorder of Herman Rosenthal, *onv aod told of his discovery of a tribe of Itb her bands and feet tied. Bnrtoo osa fczabo, a dleol of his, who met G Aft ? LilUtLDL1I C ui HULiuaai AC0ioiai.iv/u. uvu ator Tillman's remark about "South Carolina's share of the stealing" is quoted to this day all over the United States as a formula by which a large class of Southern Congressmen ; are gullded. Probably the people are uot less at fault than the Congress men, for it can hardly be denied that they impose upon their representa tives enough work in the matter of appropriation-getting to absorb most 3f their time and attention. Meanwhile,''Congressmen who should be the leaders of their people in na tional affairs, are as a rule singularly silent about them. Last spring a convention was held in Columbia to elect delegates to the Baltimore con vention. Our recollection is that not a member of the Lower House was a member of that convention, and we believe that neither of the Senators was present. The plain truth is that our Congressmen are kept so ever lastingly busy "looking after their fences" that they are cut off from ac tive and aggressive participation In politics at home (except as it relates to them personally) arid can usually prove an alibi when there ie any the borders of the State. The people thing of acute interest on foot within of the State remain uninterested, and uninformed as a consequence, in re L lBLISHED 1844 t eville ? t d Pillow fiS J I t ipect to national questions. Beyond he borders of South Carolina the two South Carolina Senators are classified is belonging to opposite groups of Democratic opinion, Senator Tillman is a "Conservative" and Senator Smith a "Progressive," but not one ft ten South Carolina voters prob ibly is aware that the distinction is nade. Outside of newspaper dis cussion, there is scarcely such a thing Federal' politics in this State. We repeat that we have not the lightest criticism to utter against Mr. Aiken's behavior t? Congress, but we protest that bis friendship for his :olleagues betrays lum Into loose and scarcely defensible assertion when he Bays that the "service of South Car Dlina Congressmen ie untainted and thoroughly loyal." If that be true a3 to the votes of some of them on the lumber schedules, then Mr. Aiken's position would require ex planation?and we bold that Mr. Aiken was -thoroughly loyal" to the Denver platform In his votes on that question. At this particular time, Senator Tillman to the target of se vere criticism outside of South Car olina for his position on lumber and Lorimer?fet it deems that Mr. Aiken wooM have Mr. Tillman's con stituents to take for granted that he is infallible and above and beyond accountability to his own people; that is what Mr. Aiken's insistent un derwriting of the virtues of the dele gation would mean. Our Congressmen are industrious and watchful; generally they are faithful to the Democratic platform, hut it is idle to dispute that the func tion of appropriation getting by Con gressmen has been exaggerated in South Carolina?at the cost of useful ness on the part of Congressmen and to the great loss of their constituents in education on national subjects. A SMILE rV~~ Nothing on earth can smile but man! Gema may flash reflected light, but what is a diamond-flash compared to an eye^flash and a mirtn-flasnv Flowers can not smile; this is a charm that even they cannot claim. It i9 the prerogative of man; it is the col or which love wears, and cheerful ness and joy?these three. It is a light in the windows of the face, by which the heart signifies it is at home and waiting. A face that can not smile is like a bud that can not blossom, and dries up on the stalk. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight that hovers gent ly between both?more bewitching than either.?Henry Ward Beecher. I | j