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C. jo VOL XLIV IW.98 ~NEWPBERRY S. !O., TUESDAY' NOVEMBER 2n. 1907. TIEAEKS.0 ER "IT' S ALL WRONGT." Senator Tillman Says This of Roose velt-Cortelyou Scheme--Helping Wall Street-Hughes for - Presidency. Senator Tillman was in town this morning, says the Columbia Record of Saturday, and while here discuss ed briefly a few of the livest topics of the day. Replying to questions regarding the fin aneial situation, and the Roosevellt-lCortelyou proposition to relieve the tension, by the issuance of $50,000,000 in Panama bonds and i $100,000,000 in ",eertificates of in debtedness," he said: Helping Wall Street Sharks. "The Panama issue is all right. That money's going to be used in digging the ditch. But the other is all w:ong. It is an extension of the puiblic debt in time of peace. The section authorizing the issuan'ee of these securities was enacted at the time of the Spanish-American war and it was never contemplated by congress tha:t these certificates should be-issued in time of peace, to relieve an emergency merely. They were intended to be resorted to on ly in ease of war-and serious iwar at .that. I do not recall the exact terms of the section, but I am sure that the putting out of these certifi cates at his time is a direct violati, of the spirit of the law. It may be a violation of the l'etter of the law, too, for all I know. "But event if it is legal, this pro cedure is morally wrong. The ad ministmtion has no right to add a hundred million dollars to the na tional debt, just to help a few Wall Street sharks out of a hole that their own cupidity and hoggishness got them into. The country is perfectly sound and prosperous. South Car olina is on a splendid basis aid so is every other seetidn tlat I have vis= itei- in my ruther extensive travels Hughes fort e Presidency. "Whom do you regard as the most Wkely Republican nominee for the presideney?" the senator was ask ed. "Oh, Hughes, by all neans," he 1 said. "Hughes is, the people's 'man. Cortelyou is Vhe man the corpora tions want. The 'great vested inter-~ jests' hate Roosevelt and Brya equ-. ally, and will have none of either. Thiey want a mati they can run." "And you think they can run Cor telyou?"'] "Huh! Ain't you been reading the papers? Don't you know what he's been doing with public funds at the baek of Wall street? Could they ask Sfor anybody thiat they could more easily?" "But, senator," some one said, "oyou notthink thlat the president igoing tornagain, and that his final announcement to t.hat "will scare heother Re'pulbIicans out of the ~"Well, Roosevelt will certainly I run if he thinks he can get the nom ination," -was the senator's reply d'e-1 livered in a tone which indicated plainly thiat Mr. Tilhnan doubts whther the War ILord could get the noikination now, under any circum stances. Endorses Brewer's "Roast." "What do you think, se,nator, of the ioast that Mr. Justice Brewer, of the United States supreme court, handed; out in New York the other night for the president?" a reporter asked. The senator hadn't read the, press reports of the speech. He was told thiat the associate justice had in timated, among other things, that the president had been resorting to the old politician 's trick, in his relations with the corporations, of being "for the la,w, but against its enforce mnt."' "My opinion, exaetly," said Mr. Tillman. "Roosevelt is the biggest grandstand player in the United Sta tes." Better Salaries Desirable. Se,nator Tillman is glad to know that a bill proposing an increase all round in the salaries of the state of fiials will be introduced at the next legslture. "When I was governor," ie said, "I thought the sa-aries about -ig'ht. But at th t 'time cotton was mly five cents a pound and we were 1at of our backs. Now the goose is ianging high and everybody is pros )erous, not to speak of the fact that ;he cost of living has increased fully :wenty per, cent." Senator Tillman's Plans. Senator Tillman has been busy ecturing for some months. He spoke t Clarksville, Tenn., .last Friday, and >peaks Monday night next in Wash .nton, Penn., thirty miles south of ?ittsburg. From then unitil the open .ng of congress the following. Mon lay he will be lecturing through the Appalachia.n states and in New ork. "After congress opens," he ;aid, "I will be right down to my ork in Washington until the ses ion is over: I will not be in South arolina again until the Christmas iolidays." The senator has been resting at is home in Trenton sin'ce his re ;urn from TennessEe. He came here Wednesdy to attend the Bunch )wins wedding, but went directly ack to Trenton. His visit to. Co .uia was. for the purpose of look .ng after the .insura-ace on his Tren Ton property. OLD MEN IN THE SENATE. William Boyd Allison of Iona, has >een in congress forty-two years, ey r since the second inauguration of k>rahapi Lincoln, says the Boston xldhw. For thirty-four years he has )een a senator and now he announces iimself as ready to receive a seventh erm. Already his record of sena orial service is unequaled, and if he ;hall serve out another term he will iave held his seat for forty-two rears and been in congress a full half entury.. The increasing tendency to con ;inue old men in the senate is a re narkable development of our polLps. Tt is surely not due to the softness )f the berth. The senate is the most nfluential and the hardest. working egislative, body in the country; in ther respect it has few equals in ?he world. Yet the men in it who iave passed middle age must consti ;ute nearly half of its membership. There are fourteen who are more han three-sleore and ten and half a lozen of these are MIbout 75. Five f the twive senators from New Eng and are septuagenerilans. At least swenty members have served more ;han two. terms. Half of the New England senators are in that favored vlass. Long terms in th'a senate of the Tnited States are a compaimtivelly 1ew fashion-. They are rare in the irst half of the 19th centurg. The iame of Thomas H.' Beniton suggests striking exception to the rule in Jose 'earlier days, for he sat in the enate thirty years. The truth is that a seat there was aot so much coveted then as now. Een: resgned it lightly. With three. exception-Htrong, Pickering and Varnum-no Massachuisebts senator antil Webster served the length of >n term. George Cabot and Samuel Dexter ~esigned, from the senate- to accept abinet places, and Harrison Gray Dtis threw up his phece even to be nayor of Boston. John Quiney Adams was so insulted when the leg islature indicated its preference for another as his successor that he re fused' to serve out his term. Benja min Goodhue, Dwight Foster and El Porter Ashmun resigned for no pub lic reason whatever. James Llyod, who was twi-ce elected, resigned each time. before completing his six years. When Webster had served four teen years he retired to enter Harri son's abinet. Being re-elected, he again retired after five years to ac cept a place in Fillmore's caibine t. Hoar's twenty-seven years and Sumner's twenty-three in the senate ave them the record from Massa ehusetts, and eaeh served until death'. Wilson had served eighteen years when he left to be vice n esidei1 Dawes, at the end of eighteen years, was forced out and his seat was tak en by Mr. Lodge, who has now been in fouteen years. RESUME CASH PAYMENT. Cooperation of the Government With the Banks and the Engage ment of Eighty-One Million Dol lars in Gold Have Relieved the Financial Tension and Normal Conditions Will Soon Prevail. Washington,- Nov. 24.-The events of tihe past week in the financial situation have centered' around the offer by the government to receive bids for $50,000,000 in 2 per cent bonds for Panama eanal construe tion and offers at par for $100,000, 000 in treasury certificates running one year at 3 per cent. The an nouncement of this project by Presi dent Roosevelt, in his letter to See reruiy Cortel:you, published on Mon day, has done much to restore nor real conditions in the mohey mark et. The premium on currency, while somewhat dbstinate, has been gradu ally deelining and the rally in the stock 'narket on, Saturday, follow ing the visit to Washington of J. Pierpont Morgan and -Geo. F. Bak er. indicates that confidece is being restored by the manifest cooperation be.ween the government and big fin a:eial interests in New York. Some mr.ert.ainty prevailed early in the week -regarding the terms of st:b scriptions and alXotments for the .t'ew 'securities,, but douitful points have been cleared up from day to clay by the statements of "Sgcretary Cortelyou and otther officials, and the manner in which offers' are being received for the new securities indi eate that they will probably be over subscribed. The mail offers 'from niational banks for the Panama bonds are very heavy. The envelop es will,not be opened until the time for recing bids eloses on Satur day next, but the number of bids received and the declared purpose of sceme of the large New York and hic-ago banks to sdbseribe with the pury.se of increasing their note is sues, leaves little doexbt in the minds of bankers and treasury officials that the loan will be .covered. The fact that the one year certificates can be availed of to secure new bank note drculation and that such circulation can be retired within a year, is hav ng an effect in drawing offers for these securities; indeed, Secretary Cortelyou, in main,. allotments, is reeeting many offers wihich, he does not think, will tend. f.o materially benefit the monetary situa'tion. By permitting issues of bank notes to the full amount of the .bonds and certificates taken by -national banks and then redeposi'ting the proceeds of the sale of the securities to the amount of 75 per cent in the baniks, there is opportunity for increasing the amount of' curren'cy in circula tion, by a net amrount equal to three quarters of th~e new .security issues. It is not expected that the increase will 1e so .great as this, since some of the short term certifieates' will be taken by private investors. There is dolb(t also whether -anyt such in rease wi:ll be needed if the corner is turned in the - monetlary pressure when the bids fo,r the Panama bonds ars opened and offers for the certi ficates are closed at the end of next week. The importaition of $81,000, 000 in gold, now arivd on the way, or engaged, adds so greatly to the monetary resources of the country that it is anticipated that there will soon be a plethora of circulation rather tlhan too litt'}e.. The fact that the gold which has-I thus far arrived has not intereased permanently the New York reserves1 i declared by New York bankers to be suffieient evidence that every thin r is being, done whih is possi ble by New Yor'k. to aid the banks; . roughout the country. Reports from the south indicateI that the eot ton -erop is moving withI a fair degree of facility at the pres et time and that the deadlock whi-ch threatned at the outbreak of the c~ri-i:- has~ been~ broken. lit is hop 2d that i1 win soon be pos;sible to re.ru eash rayments at all princi al eentera. Rankers from Chicago, New Orleans and other leading eities declare that they are ready to re sm~e as soon as New York will give~ 'the si-nal. THE NEWS OF PROSP.ARITY. [nteresting Talk With Mr. Nichols An Octogenarian-New :Cotton Chopper. Pr, sperity, Nov. 23.-Your cor resptndent had the pleasure to talk withannele Andrew Nichols an octo ;enarian. Uncle Andrew was 82 vear$ old on last Monday, Nov. 18th. [n talking with him he says he re nembers seeing in his boyhood days an old revolutionary soldier named ;etsinger who made his home with David Rankin, the grandfather of Jack and Henry Rankin. In his boyhood days he said there w*e no buggies or vehicles of any kind and no mules. People went to ehureh and Sunday school on horse back or on foot. The first vehicle e ever saw at S't. Lakes chuch was a two wheeler called a gig and was owned- by Capt. Natl;an Hunter. In his younger days he said there were no courts such as we have now. Court only sitting about once- a year and then only "or a week or so. All petty offences were tried by magis trates and no negro eases were ear ried to the "big court." The whip ping post was in vogue and the lash was applied to compensate for out raged law. Horse stealing was a eapital offence and he remembers one white man who was found guil ty and sentenced to be hung, but had his sentnece commuted to a cer tain number; of lashes, so many to be given each week until the 'full quota was .eceived. our correspondenit recalls that when a boy she- saw a number of eerses of poetry (doggerel) compos ed -by one-Billy- Files who had stolen a..horse and was hanged for it. Hn man life was cheap in those days. A man worth no more than a horse. Uncle Adnew says that the mak ing "both ends meet" is harder now thar in the good old times be fore )he war, and that there are. 50 people now to where there was five then. Conditions have changed and the people have chianged with them. e was a gallanft Confederate sold ier and was on the ill fated vessel that sunk in Charleston harbor in 1862, in which 60 or more men were rowned. The. Captain was drunk an&went contrary to orders and got in range of Yankee gunboats and they opened fire on them. The Cap tan had forethought, enough to run his ot aground or all the soldiers would have been lost. He speaks of. this casast'rophe with corrow at the peat los of life th:at could have been prevented so easily. Uncle Andrew had -a birthday, din ner and reception but he said he would h'ave been plowing if it had not. been \too wet. Although 82 years old we can say that he works every day and enjoys it. We wish him ganyhappy returns of? his natal djy and congratulate him on havihg passed so many milestones in' life's highway. One of our citizens is on the road to fortune if nolt to' fame and per hhp both. Mr. F, 'E. ,Shumpert has been at work for months on a otton chopper thati is practical and one thait will do the work needed 'by the cotton planters of the sonth. Af ter much experimenting and trial he ha's perfected what promises to be the very implemnant our eottoa plan ters have been waiting for for years. He has filed his application and he expets a patent in the near future. Mr. Scehumpert has quite a turn for inventions having patents for other irentions. We wish him success in the fullest measure. There will be than'ksgiving ser vices by Grace congregation on Thursday -at 11 o'clock a. m. A col lection will be taken for the benefit of orphan home at Salem, Va. Gifts in kind suc-h as canned fruits, shoes. stockings, wearing apparel and dry '-oods of all kinds will be reeei'vd hv Mr. A. M. Lester, who wil i the packing of the goodls nd Scwarding. ! n "nhar of the "Sboys and girls" frenm colle .e are expected home for thkslvine. -. The Sunday school of Grace con M. Did any of the farmers in New berry county try the Williamson plan with corn this year? If there are any in No. 9 or 10 township your correspondent would be glad to talk with them about it. Come in and tell me about it. .The Wm. Lester Chapter of U. D. C. will have their oyster supper on Friday evening, Nov. 29. Col W. W. Lumkin will address the chapter. The members are urgently re quested to meet at the city hall at 2 p. n. on Friday to decorate and arrange the hall. Mr. Ernest Sheeley and Miss Essie Summer were married by Rev. M. 0. J. Kreps on Sunday at Mt. Tabor church. All the stores in Prosperity will be closed on thanksgiving day. The day will be observed as has been the rule for a number of years. THE ISLE OF PALMS. Interesting Sketch of South Caro lina's Most Famous Re sort.' Rising from the waters of the blue Atlantic along the low and sandy shore of iSouth Carolina not far from Charleston, and forming one of the chain of sea islands for which that region is peculiar, there has remain ed urinoticed, until within the last few years, a certain island whose beach is unrivaled on the South At laritic coast, and whose history may be of interest to the many people who visit it during the summer season. Its formation is similar to that of the rest of ttese islands that abound along this coast; that is, they, consist of sand and other meaterials washed up by the sea, and may be regarded as encroachments of the Iand upon. the water. It has luxuriant growth of pines, palms and oaks, but of. no great altitude on account of the oceaa breezes to which they are eonstantly subaeeted. It 'differs from Sullivan:s IsIind in not being a mere sand bank, east up by .the waves at the mouth of the harber, its undulations being of a more fixed and perman ent nature, and not a suecesion of sand drifts and dunes at the mercy of winds and .Jves, mutch more re - sembling the ne'ghboring main, from whieh it is separated by a' stretch of curving creeks and mardhes. The beach, coextensive with the island, is fully twelve mniles long, affording a driveway unequalled by the best radrway in the world. This island, formerly known as Long Island, first comes into notice as having been the sene o~f the landing of the British roops during the American Revolu tion, at the time of the expedition against (3harleston, in 1776, by Sir Peter Parker. The deep inlet at the southern end separating it from Suh livani's Island isi the 'especial point of interest, as it was impossible to make the passage in the' face of hostile batteries, in order to attack Fort Moultrie from the land side, while the fleet attempted to run- the gauntlet of the fort itself. How fa mously this attack on Charleston was. repulsed by the complete defbat of the British, and how the vanquished squadron sailed away to New York is an oft told tale. For more than a century after this military visita tion this islarid lay quietly on the bosom of the restiless sea,- undisurb ed saved by occasional storms and the 'friendly visits of hunters in search of game and gadventure. It has times past been used by farmers for raising products more or less, as some portions of the soil are some what fertile, and toward the centre is, a swamp or lagoon which gives to the eye focm an elevation a pictures que contra.st to the surrounding scene. It is, however, in the las't de ade that it has come prominently into pu"'iei notic a~s a pleasure re sort, for which it is indebted to the advent of the trolley. During the mor months crowds throng the spaions pavili.'n erected there toI enjoy the music of the United States army post band, and to indulge in the luxury of salt water bathing. The 3'oard beach presents an animated spctcl at that time with i'ts mov ing panorama of bicycles and vehi yles of all sorts. Fronting the ocean ind in full view of the end of the jetties, there are vessels almost al ays in sight, passing in and out and adding to the variety of the scene. [n addition to the attractions 'of the pavilion a fine hotel affords ample accommodations for the guests that frequent it in yearly increasing num bens, not only from the city but, from the interior of the state and from the neighboring states as well.. The trip from the city is one of pe culiar and varied interest. Emerging from the -ferry boat the rustic village of Mount Pleasant with its oozy homes and shady lanes ir quickly traversed and the long bridge is soon reached, which is 'the third that has been erected at this point, the first in the Revolutionary and the second in the civil war. The trolley then threads gardens blooaning with oleander and other flowers amid the white sands of Sulliyan's Island, q-1 grazes an angle of historic Fort Moultrie, near whose portal lies the grave of Osceola, the Indian patriot and warrior, while apparently with in a stone's throw lies the other,his toie fort, Sumiter, su;rrounded by its moat of boundless blue water. Ap proaching the eastern end of the is land, the odor of the myrtle groves, from whose wax excellentt .andles were made -during the civil war, is very. perceptible. The changed aspect )n entering--the Isle of Palms is very striking; one observes little peaks of sand surmounted by palmettoes and is soon whirling through a variety of toliage, which becomes more dense, till, on nearing the terminus at the pavilion, a grove of live oaks sheds its perpetual sade down a sandy lope to a near: ereek: on the tear of the island. Thus has this now fav orite resort-ia bseurity. formore ha two centuries--becomaan a tegrat paet of the-soeial .life of 'the eity. and state, monopouizing . as it does so large a part ofr-.the pastime and pleasure seeking people of diflferent and distant parts of the eoun4try-Gustavus Menfming< r- Mid leton in News and Courier. WDrw'S GBEAT ST WEDDInG. - I)er Twenty Thousand Persons Mar ried by One CGeremony. The biggest wedding ever known~ to history was when Alexander the (reat and over 10,000 of his soldiers took part in 'a' wedding in the e;ourt of Darius, king of Persia, lfter the latter's conquest b.y Alexander. Twen'ty thousand, two hundred anid two persons were made husbands and wives in one ceremony. The facts are these, says the Chi. cago Tribune. After conquering g Darius, Alexander determined . ed Statiro, daughter of the con qered king, and issued a decree that on thzat oeesion 100 of hi blief effieers should marry 100 women$ fron the-hndblest Persian 'and Med ean ilies. He furt'her stipulated that 10,000- of his Greek soldiers should take to wife 10,000 Asiatie women. For this pargose a vast pAvilion was erected, th! pillars being sixty fe.et high. One hundred gorgeous chamibers adjoined this for the 100 noble bridegrooms, while for the 10, 000 soldiers an outer court was in losed. Outside of this tables ,were spread for the multitude. Each pair had seats and ranged tiemselves. in a semi-cirele round the royal throne.. As it would. have tak en severals weeks for.the few priests to have married this vast number of couples had the ceremony been per formed in the ordinary way, Alexan der invented a simple way out of the difficulty. He gave his hand to Sta tiro and kissed her, and all the re maining brideflrooms did the same to the women beside them, and thus. ended the ceremiony that united the greatest number of people at one time ever known.* Then occurred a five days' festival, which for grandeur and magnificence never has since been equailed. N~ot one pastor in South Carolina turns up his nose at clearing house -+ ertts- ew5 and 'Courier.