Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cake Got Him Out of Asylum. Prisoner's Wife Baked it and Pui in: Screwdriver, With Which He Made His Escape. Having twice escaped from Kentucky madhouses with the aid of a screw dri%-er baked Into a cake by his wife, Samuel Blair Clay was found hiding in Cincinnati. He said he would not be taken back unless chloroformed aud carried over the state line. Clay acts sanely and says he Is sane and that he has been confined in" asylums for sev eral years as the result of a family con spiracy. He is a brother-in-law of W. L. Lyons, head of the brokerage firm of, W. L. Lyons & Co., .43 Exchange place, New York city, and a few years' ago was prominently identified with Wall and Broad street law firms in that city. His troubles date from May. 1002. when, while traveling for the Nash ville. Cbatt'tanoogo and St. Louis rail road^ between St Louis and Kansas City, .he met a prominent woman, who. In the Planters hotel in SL Louis, ac cused him of having taken from her stocking $1.700 In currency. He stout ly denied the charge; but although the woman dropped the case for the time, it was* reported she signified her in tention of suiug the Clay family, which is prominent in Kentucky. "I agreed to follow the counsel of ray family and make affidavit as to what really were the facts in the case." said Clay, "but when I got into court they quickly had me pronounced in sane and hustled off to an asylum in Lexington, where I stayed some time. "1 got out and went to New York with my wife. Two years ago I met i with an automobile accident in Nyack. N. Y., suffering a slight scalp wound. About that time my father , urged me to come home, which I did. and 1 was arrested on a lunacy charge. Finally the day before my brother, Rogers Clay, delivered the opening address at the Jamestown exposition. I again was pronounced insane. I wrote to my wife to send me a carpenter's screwdriver imbedded in a. cake, and with that tool I took the Iron frame out of a window and escaped. "By clever rases I made my way to New York and went to Mr. Lyons for advice. He told me the thing for me to do would be to go home. Lyons told me my people wanted me to come and there would be no more of this asylum business. Put yourself in my position and think how you would have felt when you got off the train at Lexing ton to find two asylum attendants and a deputy sheriff waiting to take you back to the madhouse. % ' "My wife called on me at the asylum last Sunday and told me she had beer promised fare to Denver, the home of her half brother, on condition that she take no steps to release me, but sbe provided another cake, and here I am No power on earth will get me back into Kentucky again if I can help it" SUMMER TERM ? will begin soon. Great reduction in price is offered. The work in either course may bej completed in three months. You will be able to pay for course out of first month's salary. Write for Particulars Orangeburg, S. C. THE PLANTERS BANK CAPITAL. STOCK FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY WITH US OFFICERS SAVINGS Department Interest Wm. C. Wolfe, President Dr. L. M. Duntoo, Vice-Pres't w.-'G. te*?,- -: " V 1 Cas DIRECTORS Wm. C Wolfe Dr. L. 51. Danton W. G. Seaso W. F." Sfcu?t ? w..ifc&*si:^ A General Ranking Business Conducted. Every Possible Courtesy Shown Our Patrons Give Us a Share of the Business ORANGEBURG - - - SO. CA. CLOTHING, SHOES AND MEN'S FINE FURNISHINGS. ?B ULLETI N? 500 Mile State Family Tickets, $11.25. Good over the Atlantic Coast Line In each State for the head or de pendent members of a family. Limited to one year from date of sale 1000 Mile Interchangeable Individual Ticket, $20.00. Good over the Atlantic Coast Line and 30 other lines in the Southeast aggregating 3.0.000 milas. Limited to ont yaar from date of sale. 3000 Mile Firm Ticket, $40.00, Good over the Atlantic Coast Line and 30 other lines in the Southeast aggregating 30,000 miles. For a manager or head of firm and em ployes limited to five, but good for only one of such persons at a time. Limited to on* year from date of sale. 1900 Mile Southern Interchangeble Individual Ticket, $25.00. Good over the Atlantic Coast Line and 75 oth?r lines in the Southeast aggregating 41,000 miles. Limited to one year from dats ef tale. All mileage tickets sold on and after April 1st, 1908, will not be honored for passage on trains, nor in checking baggage, (exeept from non-agency stations not open for the Bale of tickets) but must be presented at ticket ofllc? and there exchanged for continuous I raft* 15 cents saved in passage fare by purchasing local ticket from our ?genta. | ATLANTIC COAST LINE. W. J. ORAIG, T. ?. WHITE, Passenger Traffic Manager, General Passenger Agent, WILMINGTON, N. O. Debauch of the Nation's Elect orate Must Csace. NEED OF THE PUBLICITY LAW Shameful Methods Employed to Fill Coffers of the Republican National Committee?Mr. Watson and the Populist Party?True Moaning of the Democratic Filibuster?An Attempt to Force Needed Legislation. By Willis j. abbot. To my mind the mosjt important po litical event in the United States of recent date occurred not in Washing ton, but in New t'ork. It happened when Thomas P. Ryan, who is attempt ing to control the Democratic p.irty of Virginia, testified before the grand jury that prior to the 1900 campaign he,'William C.-Whitney. Thomas Do Ian. Widener and Elkins contributed $500.000 to the Republican national committee. The treasurer of that committee, Cornelius N. Bliss, strenuously denies that he received this contribution.' It may be remembered that this same Bliss denied when Judge Parker was a candidate for the presidency that the Republican committee had received on behalf of Mr. Roosevelt any funds from trusts, corporations or life insur ance companies. When Mr. Roosevelt's dear friend. Governor Hughes, took hold of the investigation into the life insurance companies it'was discovered that $145.000 had been taken out of the pockets of the people who were paying for Insurance and turned over to the Republican national committee for the benefit of-Theodore Roosevelt. The recollection of Treasurer Bliss at that time was singularly faulty. It may be that the mere matter of $500, 000 given to him by five men, two of whom were nominally Democrats, may have escaped his mind as completely. But It is worth-while to call attention to the fact that the story is told by Thomas F. Ryan, and told under oath. Where the Half Million.Came From. Don't for a. moment think that Mr. Ryan or Elklns or Widener or William C. Whitney or Dolan put up the $500, 000 turned over to Bliss to debauch the" electorate of the nation in 1900. Men of that type raise money, but they do not themselves furnish it. They organized a street railroad company which has never run enough street cars to be at all noticeable on the streets which it is supposed to traverse. They put out the stock of this com pany and offered it to trusting Investors. They stocked it for an amount of money that if It had been" honestly used would have built a street railroad from the Battery to the Harlem river, and I use this illustration because New York Is doubtless better known tr. the people than any other city. . The stock was sold. The bonds were placed. The promoters of the wholly fictititious road pocketed large profits. And then, if Mr. Thomas F. Ryan, the would be controller of the Democratic politics of Virginia, is to be believed, they turned $500,000 Into a national campaign fund. Mr. Bliss denies that it went into the Republican campaign fund. But as It so happens that I have some knowledge of the amount of money possessed in 1900 by the Demo cratic national committee, though I had no connection with either the col lection or the dlbnrsement. of that money. I am able to say that the en tire amount did not reach the $500,000 which Thomas F. Ryan says was con tributed to a national committee. The Cure For Such an Evil. There is pending in congress a bill offered by the National Publicity asso ciation and most ably and enthusias tically pushed by the Hon. Perry Bel mont, some time since a member of congress, which would provide that contributions of this sort should be made known before the election and not painfully dragged forth after they had done their - nefarious work and when publicity*could no longer correct their evil effects.* ? - -'. The:< bfH- for-pnblielty' of campaign' ?ontributio?s^ls before committees in rhotk house"^and- senate. 'The hearing of, the Ryan testimony upon this bill Is evident and scandalous. It may well be submitted to the reader of this ar ticle whether, if he had known in the year 1900 that Thomas F. Ryan, head of the tobacco trust, had put Into the McKinley campaign fund $500,000 he would have looked with quite as much respect upon that campaign as he then did In ignorance. And, again, when Judge Parker de clared that the campaign committee which was pressing Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy in 1904 was accepting con tributions from doubtful sources and Mr. Roosevelt himself Indignantly and somewhat vitnperatlvely denied it, if there had been a publicity law which would have shown - at that time, as the Insurance Investigation after ward showed, that Judge Parker was right and Mr. Roosfevelt wrong, would not it have had some effect upon the outcome of that election? Tha Need of the Publicity Law. There are few issues before the American people today of more vital Importance than this one of publicity for campaign contributions. These two Incidents ahow how thoroughly vital t? the integrity of our 'elections this publicity hag become. It happens that I have seen the work of three na tional committees on the Democratic sidt, aad I oaa testify that for per fottry laclkiaiats purposes money in larje amtsiti la aecowary. I de not b?II?T? that a presidential oanpaiga eould be conducted with th&a $PC9,O0e, but I da aot believe that a prcaVaoatkl ejection can be carried by the people for the candidate whom they desire to elect If an organisation gIv?o over to plutocracy possesses $8.000,000, $10,000.000 or 815,000.000. a? | it is rumored and believed was used I by the Republican national committee In 18?6 and In lesser degree in 1900. Tfat Democracy w u?rd to making lta | oampalgns with little funds. What it auks now is that the contributions made either to the Democratic party or to the Ropublloan party shall by law be mad* p?bll* both as to amount asi as H the names of tha donors, j But it woart ho dona by this Repub Haan ooaapoaa. Like t$e tariff, nu* j everything else, it Is ?om?rning that must go over until after election. Tho Populist Ticket. Newspapers of a certain sort that for twelve years have done nothing except denounce Mr. Bryan as a Populist are t.orlay shouting with glee because the Populist party, with every one of its members assembled In convention at St Louis, refused to cither nominate or to indorse him. Fie himself neither., sought nomination nor indorsement. The real voting members of the Peo ple's party long ago came over into the Democratic party and will there re main unless the Democratic party should commit the error of going back to reaction and Bourbonism. It is Interesting to find Tom Watson of Georgia nominated for the presiden cy. Thomas is an able citizen. Wheth er he is u statesman is' yet to be proved. He has compiled some books on the history of France and the life of Na poleon that almost approach brilliancy. His life of Jefferson, while renrlable. does not go far toward the brilliant. But one wonders whether an apostle of the people who was willing for the mere purpose of putting out a personal magazine to enter into financial rela tions with Colonel William D'Armon Maun, the owner of the somewhat no torious Town Topics of New York, can be quite at heart devoted to a popular cause. Of course in the part of the country where Mr. Watson has his po litical strength Colonel Mann is uot kuown. but sooner or later the intelli gence that Watson went from his home in Georgia to New York and entered into a relationship which was not cred itable to a man making his profession of devotion to the cause of the common people will be known even there. That his essay in attaching himself to the "swell" journalism of the rich set in New York proved unfortunate was only to be expected. Nobody probably de plores it more than he does today. But the man who was willing to tie up with Town .Topics for journalistic purposes might tie up with other curious institu tions or characters for political pur poses. The Populists might well look out for Watson. . The Filibuster In tho House. The word "filibuster" has not a good significance among the people of the country. What it really means now is that the Democratic minority in the house, headed by John Sharp Williams, have determined to see that either leg | islation demanded for the good of the people, legislation; asked for by Mr. Roosevelt, shall be enacted or else that nothing shall be done. The five men who really constitute the governing power of the United States?Speaker Cannon', Representa tives Dalzell, Payne, Hepburn and Tawney?are now standing pat on the proposition that nothing shall be done during this congress. They will not pass any bill affecting the interests of the people as a whole?neither the bill demandiug free paper and free wood pulp in the interests of newspa pers nor any other measure of general public interest. The ordinary private pension bills go through without much dlscpssion, - but few bills' of national importance ever emerge from the com mittees. That is why the Democratic minority has begun to fight. The position of the minority, as Mr. Williams frankly expresses it, is that it believes a Re? publlcan congress, with a Republican president hack of It, should do some business. Mr. Williams says very can didly that the mere passage of private pension bills is hot doing public busi ness. When the president bombards congress with messages asking for such measures as the employers' lia bility bill, the amendment of the anti trust law, the revision of the tariff and the abolition of tariff on wood pulp, it does, not seem quite in'accord with the duty of congress that it should give its attention to every trivial mat ter which the president has not urged. It is this that Mr. Williams; leading the Democratic party in, the house, has tried to make clear. And.his'insistence that the Republican, party must either enact the legislation of importance which their leader in the White House has put before them as the most Impor tant issues or else do nothing because of Democratic opposition is-logics}*"and rl|fbt. > . ,;*?&? c A filibuster, In oongre^fi?nnfJy.-. have" |wo purpos^.-.Gne.sl the-end of ?a ?con gressional session can be utilised to prevent legislation which is unjusti fiable, ex'ravagant or unwise, A river and harbor bill was talked to death by a Republican filibuster four years ago. The force bill was defeated by Sena tor Gorman years before that time through fillbusteringmethods. The pres ent fiir .ister in the house of represent atives Is directed against the purpos? of the majority to ignore the measures which have been urged by President Roosevelt. It is the one device that the Democratic minority can adopt to com pel the presentation before the house of these measures. The present Demo cratic filibuster, and it is a filibuster, Is intended not for purposes of delay, but to compel the Republican majority, a majority in the house and senate, to' bring hefore congress the measures which are essential to the well being of the paople of the United States. Washington, D. C. The finest Coffee Substitute ever Dr: Shoop of Racine, Wis. You don't have to boil it twenty or thirty min utes. "Made, in a minute" BayB the doctor. "Health Coffee" is really the closest Coffee Imitation ever yet pro duced. Not a grain of real Coffee In It either. Health Coffee Imitation - " made from pure toasted cereals or grains, with malt, nuts, etc. Really it would fool an expert?were he to unknowingly drink it for Coffee. A. L. Dukas. Twelve cadets have been suspend ed at the Porter Military Acadamy in Charleston for vandalism. Thonsands Periuh. Thousands peri?h every year from consumption resulting from a cold. Foley's Honey and Tar cures the most obstinate raking coughs and expels the cold from your system and prerents consumption and pneumon ia. It has cured many cases of lnoip ient consumption. A. C. Dukea. Governor Charles JE. Hughes, *f New York, haB been endorsed for president by the Republican conven tion of that State. DISTRICT JUDGE U. S. COURT Recommends Pe-ru-na as an Invigorating Tonic. Judge John W. Bixler, formerly United States Circuit Judge, now United States District Judge, of Kansas, endorses Peruna, Pe-ru-na Testimonials. When any man or woman, out of pure gratitude, writes us a letter, com menting upon the benefits he has rece ived from the uso of Peruna, when he does this without any solicitation or remuneration of any sort, and fur nishes us a recent photograph, so that bis identity and responsibility in the matter is beyond question, then do we consider a testimonial available for our advertising purposes. 'We are at the present time publishing many hundreds of testimonials. We give the name and address in full of each one of these people. We have no use for, nor would we publish for any sum of money, a fraudu lent testimonial.. To do such a thing would be dishonorable from amoral standpoint, and commercial suicide fron a business standpoint. } Tonic and Appetizer. W. H. Parsons is ex-State Senator and on-Special Judge of the Supreme Court of Texas, also Brigadier General in Con federate Army. Id a recent letter from 925 fi St., N. W., Washington, D. C, this prominent gentleman say?: "Upon the recommendation of per sonal friends and many strong testimo nials of the efficacy of Peruna in the treatment of the numerous symptoms of the grip, with which I have been affect ed for four months past, I have been in duced to undergo a treatment of this justly celebrated formula "My numerous friends in Texas, where 1 have had the honor to command a brigade of her Veteran Cavalry, in a ionr-year war, may accept this volun tary testimonial to the merit of Peruna} peared, and 1 no longer feel any of the Disordered Liver, Constipation. Mr. W.O. Clement, Assistant Manager "Rome Georgian," Rome, Ga., writes: "It affords me pleasure to voluntarily testify to the true merits of your won derful Peruna. "I have for several years been suffering from disordered liver and chronic con stipation, for which I had tried a great many remedies, but none did me any good. My whole system was so thorough ly overcome thatl was easy to catch cold and the consequence was that a chronic j ccH6 of catarrh was fast developing. "I have been taking Peruna for six weeks and am happy to say that It has had the desired effect. My liver is in good condition, constipation disap from a sense of obligation for its won derful efficacy." Appetite and Digestion Poor; Mr. Charles Schweihs, Lexington, Texas, writes: , "I suffered from catarrh of the liver. What I ate disagreed with me. I was weak and feverish. 1 slept very poorly, had ru?h .of blood to the head. I Was very despondent, and took no pleasr "I feel a decided change for the better j are in anything. My appetite was after using it only one week. It is es pecially good in toning up the stomach, and has a decided effect upon my appe tite. I therefore foel much' encouraged that I am on the road, to complete res toration. hangeable, digestion poor, "Your medicine made me well again, for which I express to you my heartfelt ihanks. I firmly believ.e that for all who imffer in like manner it would have the name good effect." symptoms of catarrh. "In truth I am now in better health and feel stronger than I have for several years and it ia all due to the wonderful effects of Peruna." Systemic Catarrh. Mr. Moses F. Merrill,Route 8, Colum bus, Kansas, writes: ? "The improvement in my health has been wonderful. My bowels are regular as clock-work. I can now eat like other people and my victuals digest com pletely. I think I am cured of systemic catarrh. "It has been a hard fight, but I came out victor. Many thanks for your kind counsel and management." mm$ mm The Gay Easter Time Is Almost Here A broad and mighty period it is for the merchant who prepared for this occasion like we have done. The hats, the dresses, the shoes; the stockings, the waists, the skirts, the ribbons, the embroi deries, t-e gloves,,the veija, the handkerchiefs, the patsols, the underwear, the bags, the combs, the belts, the purses, and hundreds of other subjects in multiplated variety have crossed our minds for al most a whole year b?ck. ' I4 The coming week will be to us, it will be to you a time of stirring activity. You will reap the fruit of our long peparation. , ? . ? -tvt'i^'-1 ^-xi :;':-.v<'"<^* :>".>r;yv- 6]i's8<p8 h>. ft -m-i ,Q bh .3 : . j: ?: $i \ i Important Easter Articles At Tempting Prices. i -j Our spring clearance sale of shoes Fernands your immediate atte^ Never before have we offered bargains like these. Sale will continue Jl week. Therefore do not neglect this opportunity. We give below an idea of the many bargains offered. Lot '711.?Fox's famous light weight, one strap Patent Pump, made with Piccadilly toe, a splendid $1.75 value ' Easter Sale price.$1.33. Lot 5240.?Fox's famous light weight two and three strap Patent Sandals, a pretty and dressy Slipper that combines comfort with wear, value of this slipper $2.50. Easter Sale price.$2.08. Lot 385.?Godman's Children's patent tip Idd Oxfords.absolutely solid leather throughout, soft and durable. Exceptional Easter Sale prices: Children's sizes, 5 to 8, at. . 69c. Girls' sizes, 8& to 11, at. . .70c. Misses' sizes, lift to 2, at..98c. Millinery Activity "Good Morning, Miss Saleslady, I want you to Trim me a Hat which I can wear to a party Tomorrow Afternoon." "Impossible to give it to you this early, our work room 'is busy day and night." That la the story told all daylong in the busy millinery department. Don't disappoint yourself by com ing too late .'or a pretty Easter hat. Give yourself time to hat? as do your work right, and you will be satis fled. The Tory beBt at all times. GLOVES? Very necessary for Easter, Koyser's guaranteed double tip silk gloves wrist length, 60c, Elbow length. $1.00, better grades in all colors, $1.50 to $2.25. Chamois glorea the kind that wash, 3 2 anl 1<J button length, $2.00 and $3.50. CHILDREN'S CAPS?Just received from New York. All ftyles lnsiilor effect and skull cap, white with anchors and the popular linen color, from.... .,.23c to 75c. NOTICE?Special inducement to introduce the Standard Fashion Book. A copy of thus periodical and a Standard Patern FREE for 20c. KOHN'S EMPORIUM, OEA S. O.