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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.