Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, August 10, 1910, Image 2
Oldest Paper in South Carolina.
EDGEFIELD, S. 0.
- A store of unpracticed piety in tho
ieart' warns the Chicago Tribune,
soon paralyzes iL
The man. who never tries to do
things seldom feels the hammer of tho
i?fc^*'knocker>" observes the Commoner.
No matter how intellectual she may
fee, sneers the Philadelphia Record, af
ter a woman reaches a certain age
she feels that almost any man is a
match for her.
\
One of the first ways in which an
opportunity to earn money was open
to women came in the days before the.
sewing machine, relates the Christian
"Register, when hundreds of thousands
S of linen bosoms were sent throughout
the country to be stitched by hand for
the ahirtmakers of New York City.
Notes the New York Evening Globe:
China in her ruling classes is now
committed to progressiveness. Civ
ilization has won its. victory. What
will it do with it? If not in a military
way certainly in an economic way
. China must in the near future be
reckoned with. The Chinese are in
dustrious and intelligent and the un
loosing ot the latent force of its mil
lions will have effects now seen only
hy men of imagination.
An ambitions barber, having im
proved his idle moments by studying ,
medicine and surgery, and having
graduated in that profession, opened
an office and waited for patients, re
lates the Argonaut. The first one had
appendicitis. Deftly the surgeon per
formed the operation, then, after the
patient had recovered from the effect
of the anaesthetic, inquired. "Won't
yon have your leg cut off today, slr?
looks as if it needed it"
Says the San Francisco Chronicle:
So far the automobile as a luxury,
has had a more complete demonstra
tion than the automobile as a utility.
Still, the sale of auto trucks, deliv
ery carts and even hearses is grow
ing. With the perfection of the mech
anism it will probably grow faster;
for when there is no longer any peril
of delivery wagons being stalled be
tween store and customer we shall ex
pect to see a great increase in the
commercial demand for them.
Observes the Louisville Courier
Journal: There Is no quarrel between
tiie average motorist and the law, or
between the average motorist and the
pedestrian. No one is more constantly
in danger from the "Joy rider" than
those who make sensible use of auto
mobiles. The interest of the pedestri
ans, the drivers of horse drawn vehi
cles and owners of motor cars in the
Observation upon the road is common,
and the various elements should make
common cause against joy riding.
The Poe cottage at Fordham is now
owned hy S dentist In this little dwell
ing, with its shingled roof and gabled
ends, that gifted man Edgar Allan
Poe lived from 1846 to 1849. Tho
cottage contains only three rooms, but
here it was that Poe wrote "The Rav
en" and "Annabel Lee," in musical
meter that still casts a spell. Perhaps,
suggests the New York Mail, in the
very room where "The Raven" was
written down in words that can nev
I
er die the groans of patients will bear
witness to the torments of toothache.
In this day and generation there is
no time nor place for romance. Even
the Poe cottage has had to be com
mercialized. Listen a moment to the
subway guard: "Step a little lively
please!**
A "school of matrimony," having
for its object the inculcation of "the
prime essentials of wedded happi
ness" bas been instituted In Boston,
repo ts the New..York World. To teach
- a Boston giri how to be a happy wife
seems like attempting to paint the
-jellly, and there is reason to suspect
that the academy in question ls a form
of the educational philanthropy for
which the Hub is noted. A school for
wives is no doubt a perfectly logical
extension of the widened scope of
modern education. In what school the
Roman-Cornelias, the resolute matrons
who embarked on the Mayflower and
the millions of happy American wives
of today learned the art it might be
invidious to ask. But it is assumed
that the school ia established in re
sponse to a demind, and that being
flie case it is eminently proper that it
should be opened at the country's
leading education ai centre. It is tine
that the proportion of wives, happy or
unhappy, ts smaller In Massachusetts
than In any other American state and
: the proportion of unmarried women
larger. But this may be due merely to
tn insistence on higher matrimonial
Ideals. If theory and practice db not
agree in Boston, that is not necessar
ily the fan!* of the theory.
Heard on a Street Car.
Conductor (collecting fare)-This
fi a bad dime, sir.
Passenger (coolly)-Is that BO!
Neeer mind the change, then,
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VOL. 75. ' '^SSF; I _? . _!- "
Congressional Investigation of
Charges by Senator Gore,
MR. VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN
Accused of Being "Interested" in
. Unholy Conspiracy to Defraud the
Indians Out of Many Thousands.
Muskogee, Okla., Special.-What
happened in the private office of
United States Senator Thomas P.
Gore at Washington, at noon last
May 6, formed the basis of sensation
al charges involving the names of
Vice President Sherman, Senator
Qharles S. McGuire of Oklahoma and
others, in a hearing before a special
Congressional investigating commit
tee here Thursday. During the thirty
or forty-minutes of ? conf erence held
in that office, Senator Gore testbed
that be had been approached by Jake
L. Hainon, former chairman of the
Oklahoma territorial Republican com
mittee and also former chairman of
the Oklahoma State Republican com
mittee and ?hat he had been offered
a bribe of $25,000 or $50,000 to re-,
move certain legislaiton pending in
Congress so that $3,000,000 might be
paid to J. F.- McMurray an attorney
at McAlester, Oklaj, and his asso
ciates.
? . The money was,to represent "at
torneys fees" of 10 per cent of $30,
000,000 which ' was to be' secured
from a New York syndicate for 450,
000 acres of coal and'asphalt lands
now owned by the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indians in this State.
Vice President Sherman's name
was mentioned by Mr. Hamon, Sena
tor Gore testified as being interested
in the land deal to the extent of fav
oring the app .?val by Congress of
what are k.jown as the McMurray
contracts with the Indians.
Congressman Greager supplemented
the testimony of Senator Gore. Con
gressman B. S. McGuire is brought in
to scandal.
The committee headed by Con
gressman Charles H. Burke, of South
Dakota, chairman, is composed of ;
Congressman Phillip C. Campbell, of
Kansas, Charles B. Miller, of Minne
sota, John H. Stevens of Texas and
E. W. Saunders of Virginia.
Senator Gore further testified:
That Hamon told him Senator Cur- |
tis of Kansds was interested in the !
deal.
That Hamon told him Congressman
McGuire of Oklahoma was "interest- /
ed" in the deal. !
That Hamon told him, an employe
of the Department of Justice was :
"interested" in the deal; that he j
J (Senator Gore) knew the name of the \
employe, but-would not divulge, his
name^ or the name; of his informant
especially-4>ecause ?he latter would
.lo'se his position.
That former Senator Long; of Kan
sasi; acting as counsel for McMurray, ]
had gone to President Taft oh Apiri
28 to urge the . approval ' of the con- ^
tracts but that the' President had [
said:
"It would take a good deal of argu- j
ment tb convince him that the Mc- .
Murray claim was justified."
vice-President, Shermani, .'Senator'
Curtis and Congressman McGuire | ^
have indignantly, denied the charges I j
of Senator Gore.
To Pay $5,000 For Lynching.
Springfield, Ky., Special.-Geoi-ge '
Bohon, of Harrodsburg, has qualified *
here as. administrator of Carl Eth?r
inuton, the young man hanged by |
mob art Newark, Ohio, on July 6\ He
executed bond for $5,000. This is the <
first legal step toward the recovery of ,
the $5,000 indemnity for which coun- .
ties in Ohio are liable for every per- ]
son 'lynched in their counties. The '
administrator will at once proceed to !
collect the claim. .i
Bryan's Editor Withdraws. *
Omaha, Neb., Special.-W. R. Pat
rick, of Omaha, has announced that ]
he has forwarded to the Secretary of '
State his withdrawal from the race ^
for the Gubernatorial nomination by <
th> Democratic party. Mr. Patrick is
an avowed advocate of county option 3
and has been supposed to have tine j
backing of William J. Bryan.
Postal Bank Scheme Developing.
Washington, D. C., Special.-A cen
tral clearing house in each State is a {
feature of the Postal Savings Bank ,
I system adopted hy the committee of <
officials that will make recommenda- (
tions to the board of trustees. For \
a long time the committee faced the c
necessity of providing some method ^
for the settlement of accounts of de- \
posdtors in the postal banks that
would avoid delay incident to the
transmission of all such mutters to
?his city. The idea of having State
central clearing houses was discuss
ed at length and has been adopted
as the best solution of that problem.
Swindlers Will be Punished.
New York, Special,-? even officers
of the United Wireless Telegraph \
Company, most of whom had pre- 1
viously been arrested,;1 were ingoted 1
by the Federal grand jury Thursday
on two counts-one charging con- j
spiracy to defraud by (the use of the ?
United States mails, the other charg- j
ing conspiracy in devising a scheme j
to induce investors to; buy worthless j
stock. , 1
Family of Three Murdered.
Santa Rosa, Cal., Special.-A gen
eral alarm was sent put Thursday
for the apprehension If a Japanese 1
boy, Henry Yamagach?, in the hope (
of obtaining a key toi a gruesome <
triple murder enacted ion a lonely t
ranch. The crime was fevealed when 1
county officers investigating the dis- 1
appearance of a family of three dis- t
covered the charred bejies of Enoch 1
Kendall, Mrs. Ura Kenall, his wife t
and Thomas Kendall, [heir son, in i
the vard of their canoi home north <
of Santa Rosa. j, S
PATTERSON_MEN LOSE.
Patterson's Men Defeated by Inde
pendent Ticket-Outlook Gloomy.
Nashville, Tenn., Special.-The In
dependents elected their judicial
tickets in Tennessee Thursday in one
of the most exciting and hard fought
political contests ever known in the
State.
The Independents represent in a
large measure the State-wide prohi
bition element of I the Democratic
party which has been vigorously op
posing Gov. Patterson since his mem
orable campaign with the late ex
Senator E. W. Carmack,for the guber
national nomination.
It took on added strength; when the
State committee ordered a blanket
primary for nomination of both judi
cial and State officers. These mem
bers of the supreme court, Chief Jus
tice Beard and Justices Neal and
Shields, and Judges Wilson and Tay
lor of the. court of civil appeals re
fused to enter the primary and the
independent movement was on.
Judges McAlister and Bell of the
supreme court entered the primary
and were on the regular ticket. Judge
Barton of the court of civil appeals
was also a nominee for supreme
court.
Gov. Patterson entered the lists for
the regular ticket and stumped the
State for it. His enemies lined up
solidly with the Independents.
The indorsement by the Republi
can committee of the Independents
was followed by a break in Repub
lican ranks and 'the negro vote, it
was alleged, was solidly for the reg
ular ticket. Negroes were registered
more freely than ever before and they
paid their pdll taxes. The revolt in
the Republican ranks was led by
Jesse Littleton and many of the
blacks followed him.ybut it seems not
in the numbers that have been pre
dicted.
Enemies of Gov. Patterson claim
that the result Thursday will have
disastrous effect on hi spolitical fu
ture. He is a candidate for reelection
but as' yet the opposition has not
shown its hand as to what steps will
be taken in putting out a ticket
against him.'
In Democratic congressional pri
maries in four districts incumbents
were renominated.
Savannah Sunday Almost Blotted Out
.Sanvannah, Ga., Special.-Rev. W.
L. Pickard, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, has written Adjutant General
Scott pro-testing against the use of
Rose Dhue rifle range, the new mili
tary range near Savannah, on Sun
days. Ho says Savannah Las pander
ed to "foreigners''' so much that she
has almost blotted out hhe Sabbath. ;
. The adjutant general bas sent the
minister's letter to the Savannah mil
itary officers'asking that they be gov
?rn?d as they think best about it.
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New .Orleans Firms Complain..
?' Washington, Special-Sev?raTTSTew
Orleans trading?pompanies have com
plained to the State Department that,,
because of the apparently ' indefinite '
policy of this government in Nicara
guan affairs, steamship companies
were adding 2 per cent to all charters
is a war risk. -The trading compan
ies complained that the extra charge
interfered seriously with their com
merce with eastern Nicaragua.
The State Department has replied
lo the companies that it can do noth
ing for them and reiterates its previ-1
DUS assurances that the United Statis
?viii protect American ships and
American cargoes against depreda- '
iions in Nicaraguan waters.
Uncle Sam Will Pay "Tips."
Washington, Special.-Government
ifficials and employes who pa<v tips to
ivaiters on shipboard as well as gratu
ities to other servants on boats may
charge the expense up to the govern
ment under a ruling of the Comptrol
ler of the Treasury.
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"All Boys Thieve3 at Certain Age."
Amherst, Mass., Special. - That
morality in country places is higher
:han ever before is the decision reach
id by the National Conference of
Dun ty Clergymen, which was in ses-;
?ion here.
Aereport of an epidemic of tbiev-!
ng among boys in Cape Cod, given by
me of the clergymen, led Dr. Wilson
;o declare that "all boys are thieves .
it a certain age."
Necessaries cf Life Decreasing.
Washington, Special. - Consider- .
?ble shrinkage in the commercial sup- ? I
>ly of some of the prime necessaries '.
>f life is indicated by the movements- 1
>f live stock and meat products in ;
;he United States during the first half <
)f the present year. This decline
vas shown bofh-in domestic and in <
foreign commerce. j
The shortage in the commercial i
?apply of live stock is best shown by ?
i comparison of the half yearly fig
ires, which totalled 16,463,756 head i
'or the first six months of 1910, as i
?ompared with more than 20,000,000
n the same period last year
Public Drinking Cups Dangerous.
Atlanta, Georgia, Special. - ]
Having for its purpose the pre- ]
mention of the spreading of disease i
.brough the fcse of common drinking i
..ups, a bill was introduced in the i
}eorgia House making it unlawful for ?
?ailroad companies, proprietors of <
lo'teis, office buildings, factories, i
?tores, etc., to furnish common drink- i
ng cups for the UM of passengers, <
jatrons or the publi? generally. Pun- ? ?
.shment for violation is provided fori :
is in cases of misdemeanor.
Great Parade Knights of Pythias.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Special.
At Milwaukee twenty brigades of
knights of Pythias paraded the prin
lipal streets, the feature bf the sec
>nd dav of the grand encampment of
;he Uniform Rank. At night a
?ythian reception, for the Supreme
'jodge, the Supreme Temple, the Sis
ers and all members was given at
?Vhite Fish Bay. The following day
here was more competitive drills and *.
mother big parade, made up of sub
?rdinate lodges and the Pythian !
Sisters. >
Gucrd and Protect Interests of
American People.
CAUGHT MANY CROOKS IN 1909.
Gigantic Swindles Uncovered by
Uncle Sam's Sleuth-Hounds--Post
office Detectives on the Alert.
Washington, -Special.-If the .in
spector's division of the Postoffice De
partment keeps up thc good work it
has done this year in smothering the
operations and bringing to justice of
the crooks who use the mails as a
convenient medium to fleece the guile
less, 1910 will be a banner year for
it. From small beginnings of several
years ago, this arm of the postal ser
vice has grown to be one of 'the:most
important in the government. Here
tofore its opsrations have been con
fined for the most part to the sup-,
?pression of the small swindler, but
in recent months it has turned its
energies to bigger game.
Last spring it unearthed the big
frauds in the United Wireless Tele
graph Company, through which hun
dreds were being' swindled, and
biought the offenders info camp. Last
week it opened its batteries on ?he
firm of Steele, Miller & Co., a concern
conducting a gigantic fraud in the
cotton business with headquarters at
Corinth, Miss., and branch offices- in
various parts of the South and Eu
rope, and is rapidly gathering in the
crooks responsible. Just how much
these gentlemen have realized from |
their operations it is at present im
possible to say, but their loot will run i
into the millions.
Col. Roosevelt Among Poor People.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Special.-Theo
dore Roosevelt traveled for 150 miles
Wednesday among the mining villages
ir the Wyoming valley. He mingled
with people in ell stations of life.
The colonel had the same smile for
them all. He said his chief delight,
however, was in meeting the wage
earners.
An incident which was typical of
the day's' happenings occurred at
Wyoming, a mining hamlet/ a few
miles above Wilkssbarre. An old
Irish woman stepped rp to him and
thrusting out her, hand . exclaimed,
"Hello, Teddy. You're looking'
foine." The former President grin
ned with delight and said he was' glad
to see her.
"jYou 're looking fine, too," he
said. ".Yes, "indeed," said she. "I'm
strong as ye are and you're a foine
lump.'-'
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Standard Cotton Samples.
Washington, Special.--Sample boxes J
of Government standard cotton sam- (
pies; which comprise nine grades, J
are. being sent out by the depart- (
ment of agriculture. The standards
have been adopted by the Memphis
Cotton Exchange and have been ap- i
pjoved. and probably will be adopted
by the New York and New Orleans
exchanges.
The trade recognized a grade be- v
tween each of those adopted by the i
Government and three grades above t
and three below the Government r
scale. The original standard samples 1
have been placed by ?he' department y
of agriculture in vacuum tubes, so I
that .they will neither deteriorate or
change color. i '
Meeting American Bar Association. ?
Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.-The c
33d annual meeting of the American I
Bar Association will be held here/on t
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, ?
August 30 and 31, and September ?, ?
1910. c
80, She Whitewashed Barn
Rising Sun, Md., Special-Cecil
county is proud of two old "young" ^
women-Mrs. Sarah Tice, of Lam
bard, who is 80 years old and who has
just completed the whitewashing of n
her barn, and who can pick potatoes s
with any man, and Mrs. Amelia Ann (
Fulton, of Oakwood, whi is two years
Dider and who, without the aid of e
piesses, averages the making of a bed ?
comfort a month.
Arranges Funeral Before Death.
LaFayette, Ind., Special.-Lying on
bis death bed at bis cottage on Battle
Sirouud camp meeting grounds, the
Rev. D. M. Wood, one of the best
known ministers o:c the Methodist
Episcopal church, in Indiana, has
?ompleted arrangements for funeral.
He bas selected his pallbearers,
even the hymns he wishes sung, the
text for the funeral sermon and the
clergymen he desires to conduct the
services.
Rev. Mr. Wood has been critically
ill for several days and realizes he
must die.
Great Interest in Postal Banks.
Washington, Special.-'The First
National bank of Tarboro. N. C., sup
plied to the Postmaster General Sat
urday to be made a depotiory of
funds under the recent postal savings
ict. Thus far there have been
applications from 923 banks through
out the country to be made depositar
ies of these postal savings ^funds and
requests from 390 postmasters for the
establishment of savings departments
it their offices.
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Old Line Companies.
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EXPRESS RATES QUERY.
Commercial 'Organizations Want Rev
enues and Charges investigated.
Chicago, Special.-Filing of a, peti
tion -with the interstate commerce ,
commission at Washington Saturday
asking that body to investigate the <
charges and net revenues of express
companies, disclosed a well planned
fight to be waged by commercial or
ganizations throughout the country.
The pafcition i's signed by 124 associa
tions of commerce and commercial
clubs, who want a considerable re
daction in express rates.
Indirectly the attack on the ex
press charges hits at railroad revenues
as a portion of the complaint is
based upon the contracts entered into
between the railroads and the ex
press companies doing business over
their lines.
This movement against the express
companies'was started bythe Chicago
Association of Commerce and the i.
New York Merchants association. .
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Dr. Crippen Has Friends.
Quebec, Can., Special.-Dr. Hawley
H. Crippen has friends in London who
believe he did not slay hislwife, Belle
Elmore, and tt|ey are willing to pay
for a lawyer to defend 1 n when he
is tried there for murder. He receiv
ed proof of this when i his jailer
handed him the following cablegram
from a London solicitor:
"Dr. H. H. Crippen, care of .In
spector Dew, Quebec.
"Your friends desire me tb de-,
fend you and will pay all necessary
expenses. Will undertake your de
fense, but you must promise to keep .
absolutely silent and answer no ques
tions and don't resist extradition.
(Signed) "Arthur Newton,
Solicitor, London."
As the case now stands the only
evidence in the hands of the police <
that may be construed as hostile to -
Crippen is the discovery of th? dia
mond rings and the brooch the police
took from him on the steamer. These
they say, belonged to his wife.
Insurgents Big Victory in Kansas.
Topeka, Kan., Special.-Cannon
policies and "stand pattism" were re
pudiated by the Republicans, of Kan
sas Wednesday. N
"The significance of the over-1
whelming victory is two-fold.
"First: It is a complete repudia
tion of both Cannon and the system
ry which he has robbed the people
3f free government in the House.
Scott, Miller and Reeder, were chair
nen of important House committees,
?vhile Calderhead. was on the ways
ind means committee. All were beat
m because they subscribed to the
bannon system.
''' Second : The - Kansas insurgent
rictory is an effort by the Republicans
)f Kansas, to say.'.with emphasis to.
the nation that the Republican party
if rKansas', by endorsing . Governor .
Stubbs:and the Kansas insurgents ia
Congress, ^stands for immediate and
iffective legislation framed to drive
?pecial and selfish interests out of
:ontrol in'American politics."
Esperanto at Baseball.
Washington? Special.-"-Tri Frap- :.
uno " is ' he cry that will ring out from .
i baseball umpire's lips for the first
;ime in tho history of the American
?ational game on the afternoon of
Thursday, August 18, when .the .
wishingion ' and Cleveland American
league teams meei here.
The words are Esperanto *for
'three strikes." They will be used
o indicate "batter out" on the af
erndon in question because the ,1,000
ir more delegates to the International;
Esperanto Congress in session here
hat week "Will be present at the
jame. For many of the foreign dele-,
rates it will be the first time , they
?ver witnessed a baseball match.
Congressmen "Small Potatoes."
Ironton, G., Special-Declaring
lis disguest because it was necessary
'to bow and scrape to all the powers.,
ip to the President,^' to obtain the .
lightest concession at Washington,
Congressman A. R. Johnson has reit
rated his intention to quit Congress,
ohnson has served one term and was
ecently nominated for a second.
"Peeping Tom" Got His.
Chicago, Special.-During a special
rip from Duluth to Gary, Ind., with
ve young women relatives of officers
?f the United States Steel Corpora
ion on board, the crew of the, ore
teamer Douglas Houghton mutinied
.rid?y off the Chicago harbor, and it
ook Captain John Parke one hour
rith .a revolver to quell the' mutin^**N^j
ers. It is said that the mutiny stari
d because a deck hand had been
ocked in the ship's brig for peeping
hrough a cabin window at the wo- .
len passengers.
OldesAperator Dead.
Nashville. Tenn., Special.-J. B.
Vatt, aged 62 years, died at his home
ere Thursday. 'Mr. Watt was one of'
he oldest telegraph operators in
oint of service in the country, hav
ig served over 45 years in the busir
ess. He had the distinction of hav-.
ig taken the messages announcing
lie assassination of Lincoln, Garfield
nd McKinley. For many years bc
ras Associated Press operator in the
ianner office, this city, but severaH
lonths ago was retired on tension.
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