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VOLUME XII. CAMDEN, 8. 0.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1909, NO, 45. 3acVo-?ctnlorn. In the ple&aant cornfield. All tho lummer through, Such a funny playmate Waited long for you. Bnuuly housed and hidden Where the gay, green leaves, Rending elose together, Mado bin rustljng oaves. When the?orn Wftfi gathered, When the flowers were dead, From the lonelv hillnido Peered his gAldcn head. Now at last behold him, With hw open face, * Smiling broad and cheery In the. darkest place. Hear him forth in triumph Through the autumn night, Jollv iacK-o'-hintcrn Wjth his eves bo bright. Comie little fellow, ? >. ? Come to make you fun, When in gray November Bummer spoils are dona. HANKSGIVING IN OLD NEW YORK BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER | L.oiik ueforo Now York boro its English narao it was worthily christ ened New Amsterdam by the brave Dutch colonists who were Its earliest cottiers. In 1613, the vast cosmo politan city now known as Greater New York had for its nucleus four little houses, occupied by people whose business It was to collect beav er and ottor skins and sell them to traders from Holland, whose ships had dared the wide ocean in search of profitable ventures. At that period Holland led the world in commerce ( and the Dutch, then as now, were dis tinguished for shrewdness, sagacity, enterprise and an unconquerable love of liberty. The word "Dutch" signi fies folk or people, and contains, strangely enough, a prophecy of the cosmopolitan character of the town that in 1614 was named New Amster dam. In 164 4 Now Amsterdam was taken by tho English and re-named Now York. ? Archbishop Fenelon said long ago r of New York: "When one beholds this city, one is inclined to believe that it la not the city of a particular peoplo, but the common city of all the peoples of tho world, and the centre' of their commorce." New York itself is a collection of ' cities, as it were, merged Into one, under a single government. It is cos mopolitanr and tho stamp of Its char acter was given it away back in tho early days of New Amsterdam. A Itone's throw from thoao residential parts of tho city that are the chosen -Rhodes of wealth and fashion we And crowded quarter? where the older In habitants speak foreign tongues, and the children piiljr are familiar enough with English to use It In preference to the language of their parents. There are French, Swedish, Danish, ..Finnish, Italian, German and Hunga rian quarters in the great city of New York, and more and more in~ recent, years has it become sought by an im mense and steadily increasing rein forcement of Hebrews, who And here a refuge from the persecutions of centurieB, and a place where their peculiar commercial genius may And room for expansion. The beneficent agency of the public schools, more than any other, brings to bear upon the children of the foreign population tho spirit of American liberty and trains them in the elements of good citizenship and in ardent love for tho flag of thQ republio. One is sometimes tempted to won* der what Father Knickerbocker would think, could he visit to-day the city of Peter 8tuyvesan{. Fancy the ghosts of the people In our picture trying to find the localities with which they were once familiar. Few Uaces linger In the New York of the twentieth cenfury of New Amsterdam In the seventeenth. The hurrying, bustling crowds, the hurling forwat-d of the motor cars like the rueh of me teors fiercely projected through space, the dcmorriac clang of electric cars, the nevo^eeaaUte ebb apd flow of pe destrians, and moro than all else, the towering structures twelve, fourteen, ' i i ii , i ? i ? ?W'l) . II . | . i) ' sixteen, twenty stories high and more, woult? amaze any visitant who left the earth when New Amsterdam wan a little trading village. Imagine such a ghost in tha neigh borhood of the Flat iron Building. It might feel more at home on the Bat tery, but Broadway., through lis en kept In America f?oui tlie tlma of 1U Introduction by devout Now Kngland* or?, hap boon not only an occasion when we recognize what we owe to Almluhty Coil, but as well a time of good cheor end abounding hospital" Ity. Kinsfolk hatdon from fftr and near thai thoy may sit together at tho family board on Thanksgiving Day. Parents and children, grandparents, uncles, uunts and cousins and mom Ili'iiiging Home a Fine Thunltfglvlug Turkey, ? \\ ill (J. Ilchvig, Ohio, iu l.eslie'fi Weekly bora of the clan to the remotest do gree unite in the colebrntlon of this peculiarity American festival, rather Knickerbocker again, and any of the Immediate circle of the Pilgrim Fath ers, would he horrified beyond meas ure could they observe the absence from church on Thanksgiving Day of younger peoplo who have seized upon the holiday as especially appropriate to outdoor games. College football Interferes not a little with the mid day dinner once universal. Notwith standing this, which we may hope Is transitional, our churches are open and goodly congregations assemble OLD-TIME MINSTRELS IN NEW AMSTERDAM. tire length, would prove n bewilder ing spectacle. What wotild a matron or maiden of the leisurely ways and generous hospitality of that quaint period think of modern apartment buildings, rich beyond compare in their appointments, but often stinted for air and sunlight, whero families live In successive layers of brick and stone, like the cells In a vast hive, and where a guoat chamber or any provision for entertaining friends has become traditional? Maiden Lane was once the favorite haunt 6f young people, and many a troth-plight was changed there. The Bowery was a place of gardens and farmsteads. The most rapid growth of the city, how ever, and its almost miraculous changes, have taken place in the last 100 ye&r?. Instead of bridges span ning the E&ftt River, a century ago people crossed in row boats, and as for tunnels beneath the rivers and underground railways they were not thought of In the wildest dreams of those who lived In New York so late ?8 1807. Certain characteristics bestowed [wpon the town by the Dutch are still 'Ineffaceable. The city Is fearless, friendly an J far-sighted. It plans a! ways'TdF the TutimFf It rtHt-*eepr| Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year very much as those days were kept by tha fathers an$ founders. In ? one sees minstrels going |o door, slngtng to the of Almighty God, while their | over the threshold to a Hearty the to listen to patriotic addresses frore the lips of eloquent clergymen, ahd to sing with heartiest devotion, "Mj County, 'Tls of Thee." House par ties fly from tho city to the countr> to spend Thanksgiving, but they sel dom lose the distinction of belonging primarily to kith and kin. The life of the Dutch In Manhat tan was full of homely Joy. Domes tic fidelity was the rule and there jWai a great deal of wholesome hllaflt> around the fireside. The ladles wert fond of rich dress and wore It ot state occasions, as did their good men. Mrs. Amelia E. Barr, In hei beautiful story, "The Bow of Orange Ribbon," has painted a realistic pic ture of social life In old New York. The book. Is of perennial attractive ness. In this year of grace shall we not And that the list oF mercies sent to us straight from God is by no means shert? Wo /thank Qod for health and strength, /ror honest, work and honest wages, for free schdols and open churches, for good .government, for the love of kindred, for the smile on the face of the mothor and the clinging hands of the little child. Alike for the son who reaches his l manhood and thebaby who laughs] fn the cradle we offer thanks to our Father In Haavan. When the bsrn sad hire are safe, when have bowed 'neath harvest's told. When cluster* rich haw drooped from - - mm ^ ***' ht" p^iiSsr*wful ***** ** toM To Bfiywho ovm the waiting earth the '..1.?. ' *t*-The Christian Herald. * asxyraagiaaa BBSS 11 II I Jill SIM Sheriff Stvpp et al. to Serve Term. END OF FAMOUS CONTEMPT CASE As tho Result of tho Lynching At Chattanooga, Tonn., of a Negro Who Had Been Convicted of As saulting a White Woman and Sen tenced to Hang, Former Sheriif Bhipp, His Jailor and Four Others Must Serve Terms For -Contempt. i . Washington, Special. For i be Hint time in A* erica u history, six men uro in prison 1'or contempt of I In* Supreme Court of (lit? I 'nii?*<l States For the first time, loo, tlio Federal government lias placed iihmi behind (he ham as an outcome of the lynch ing Of II liegJO. At the I'nited States jail in this city, Captain F, Shipp, former ulier itV at Chattanooga, Tenn., Jeremiah Gibson, his jailer, and I. nt her Wil liams, Ni'ek Nolan, llenr.v Padgett and William Mayes of the same city. Monday nfiornehii began serving term's of imprisonment imposed a few hours before by the Supreme Court of the United States. Bhipp and Gibson had been found guilty of failure to protect from a mob Kd .Johnson, whose legal execu- | lion for rape bad been stayed by the Suftreino Court until it eon hi- review the ease. The others had been found guilty of pnrtiejpat ion in the lynching of a Federal prisoner. Shipp, Wil liams and Nolan were given sentences of 00 c'ayfl' imprisonment each, while Gibson( Padgett ami -Mayes each re ceived 00 da.\ s. As the big barred doors of the jail swung open to receive I ho prisoners Monday afternoon immediately after sentence had I ecu imposed, Warden McKce stood before them. "At least we are in the hand of a soldier," exclaimed Captain Shipp, as he espied a CI. A. It. button in the lapel of Warden Molvee's coat. Then turning to bis five fellow prisoners lie said: "Hoys, it will be all right." Warden McKee has inaugurated methods c^L punishment nt the jail as hurnanihirmn as the various classes of prisoners will allow, and he was prrpaicd for the reception of the six men from Tennessee. ?About a year ago, <1 u ii n^r the im 1 piisonrr.ent of an unusually large lumber of women, the warden had fitted up a store room on the fourth floor, of 1 1.* jail as quarters for fe male prisoners. It was in this large loom perhaps twenty by thirty-five feet that he locked the six prisoners. ! Origin of C.se. The tase. originated in the court's decision in March, 10015, to consider the appeal of Johnson, from a ver dict of the Tennessee courts holding him guilty and sentencing him to be hanged c.il a charge of assault. Tho night after the determination of the Supreme Court to review the proceed ings was wired ^Jo Chattanooga, a mob 8tormed .lheja.il, took the prisoner out. I and lynched him. The cpurt was much incensed by I the lynching, and nt its instance t ho Attorney General instituted proceed ings against Sheriff Shipp, Jailer Gib-., son and twenty-five others supposed to have been implicated in the lynch ing, charging them with contempt. Many of the accused were exonerated, and in the end only six were found guilty. - . The Lynching. In investigating the case, the Su preme Court found that Johnaon was removed from Chattanooga to Nash ville before his trial, because of fear that he would be lynched. He wan brought back for the l,egal execution. When the Supreme Court stayed the execution, the court has held, Shipp made no effort ami gave no orders to. have the deputies or others guard t lie jail, but left the night jailer, Gibson, there alone, That evening a white male prisoner was removed from tho upper floor of the jail, leaving only Jahnson and a white woman on .-.that floor. The couit pointed out , that this same man had been removed in the bame way at the time of the first attempt to lynch Johnson, which had been frustrated by the removal of tlip negro. * * Imprisoned Miners Dead. Cherry, 111., Special. ? The throe hundred or more miners who were entombed in the St. Paul coal rnino by last Saturday'*! fire are dead. Somo of the hodiea lie buried beneath 44HMt*and?-of- 4<m?- of earth which raved in Mpi them, aud it is doubt ful whether many of the bodies can ever bo recovered. Thin was the opin ion expressed Monday night when reseue work wu temporarily aban doned. Fires in the miue, which broke out with" renewed n fierceness early UoncTay "made- TurTbev descents by rescuers Impossible. ...'-....'sU. whif itafif fn 1 Dcnble Murder. Rttssellville, Ala., Special. ?Tom Robertson, who two weeks ago killed his wife and his mother-in-law and dangerously wounded his wife's fath er, was Monday found guilty of mur der in the circuit court here and sen tenced to be habged December 16. r?TUatV too long -tot me to UrtJI CTcWM^Hdbinwn, when tb^lat?; ~ ' - v . . ? ' : V THE. COLORED STATE FAIR. Attendance is Large, Kxhibita A.r<\ Qood ?nd Crowd is Well-Behaved. Mateshnrg, Special. Tin* colorcd Sink' Fair took 1'nlcr.lnug by Mlnrui, Tint whole tiling was o success. Tlio town was full of colored prople. Wednesday wjis the third day of the Koir and a mow orderly ciowd of peo ple never assembled in any pla<e. There had not been an arrest of auv one so fur. (Jood order is the watch word, and it is being carried out to porfeetioit, There are quite a num ber of prominent negroes here from various parts of the State, and they seem to be prosperous and well be haved. There was a <o.loied man by the name of Walker here fiom Sumter, lie is a credit to his race; every time ho speaks he says something that has a meaning to it. liis (ouu>el io the negro** is alon;< the proper linen. lie tells them t<> stick to agriculture and try to piodut e something, lie takes the. position that towns n:ul cities have a tendency to lower and demor alize tho colored race. The Hev. Richard Carroll is one of the moving spirits a t the "Fair, Ho its president, and what lie says lias weigh I. lie is opposed to siile shows arid carnivals at the fairs, lie takes the. position that carnivals and side shows are a menace lo any town. The exhibits at the Fair are very good, and speak volumes, for a rare of peo ple that have heen free for only a little over forty years. The field props of all kinds were Ihere in abun dance. The stoek was goodr-such as horses, mules, rattle and hogs. The ait and household department was well represented. President Carroll sele< ted ? judges from the white citi zens .of the town to pass on the mcr its of tlie various exhibits. Fi. D. Bigham Declarer Phyelcian Has Not Left Greenvillo. Greenville, 8pe.eial.~- Dr. (1. Righam, ronvicte<l of manslaughter for tkejiilling of his wife near Gr org to why who has heen out on bond of $lj.r>00 pending appeal of his ease, but who has been searched for in vain for the past few days by the sheriil of Florence county, who wished to arrest him, is at present- in (Jreen ville and has l:een here for the past three weeks, lie has a number of. relaitvcs in this section and has been spending the time visiting them. On" account of a delay in tiling the notice of appeal in the rase, which delay caused the notice of appeal to be void, the sheriff of Florence county was or dered to apprehend Bigham and Avant, who jointly were convicted of the killing of Mrs. Bightyn. Avant, lcarninir that lie was wanted/ <ame in and surrendered, and is now in .jaii, but the sheriff's search "Tor Hicham was fruitless. At that time it was supposed Unit he had (led the State, but it now develops that he is in Greenville and has been here for some tlmp past. Bigham was convicted and sentenced at the last term of court to three years and a half at hord labor. The bond fixed for the men while they were waiting appeal in the case was each, having been reduced from $'2,500 after the conclusion of the trial. Killed on tbo Track. Newberry, Special. ? Logan Berry wart killed Thursday about 1 o'clock by n Columbia, Newbeiry an<l Laur ens passenger train while walking on the track abont four miles east of Newberry. Joe Lawrence, who was with him, was at ruck by tlu? train, but not seriously injured. It seeing that Berry and Lawrence were walk ing on the track just below Mr, F. P. Wicker's, where the Southern and the Columbia, Newborrv and Laur en8 tracks are very close together. They were making their way from Columbia to Clinton. ?' Hughes Will Go to Penitentiary. Bamberg, Special ? After being out two hours in the case of Peg Leg Hughes for t\> killing of W. B. Causey, clerk of tbc court of Iiamp ton county, the jury returnod a ver dict of guilty of murder, with reconw mendation to mercy. A motion tot a new trial was made, but withdrawn foon afterwards, .Judge Gage im mediately sentenced Hughes to liftr imprisonment in the penitentiary. K is understood that the jury agreed or. the first ballot, tho foreman merely stating his opinion and asking all who agreed with iii mto step, on the .1 it Tlgtlte " "It* ' ' "M" Big Ingar Plant For Charleston. Branchville, Special.? Tho Amerl. can Sugar Refining ~ compa wil[ establish a plant at Charleston to cost some millions of dollars?that is the rumor that one hears on rai trains. The rumor may be a one and exaggerated, but it is .. that even n<rw arrangements are ing made to obtain sncl I by way of charter or I 1* ncccv *ate> Prison For Former Hunker. Now Orleans, l.a.? Wyatt II. In gram, defaulting trunt officer of the Hlbernla Hunk and Trust Company, wa? sentenced to serve twelve years In thtf penitentiary. Ingram's abort* ago amounted to about $100,000. ' _ ?' T. IV O'Connor Iteaclio* St. I.ouifl. St. Louis. ? T. P. O'Connor, leader of tho 1 1 lull Nationalist movement, who in touring the United States ou bebalf of tho Home Hulu movement, epoke at a mass meeting bore. Flames ltou.st 11,000 Chicken*. IiutchinsOn, Kan. ? Eleven thou* sand chickens wore burned to death when fire destroyed tho plant of the United States Packing Company here. j,okh, $r>o,ooo. Xnh< Chinese Smuggled ?h Freight, I St. Louis.- Four Chinamen, who had been smuggled into the United I States Hlid Canada and billed to St. Louis as "mpi'cbnndlae," wore taken from a freight car in the yards of tho Wabash P.aHroad here. They told th? police that < hoy had bccu placed in tho car at Montreal. l!elt Kills Flying Hurler Chlllicol.hr. Mo.- A freal; of light ning at thu .homo of Jacob liruuer, a farmer residing eouth of town, killed ;i flock of wild ducks that was flying pant. lOvery duck was klllrd, Mr. Uruncr picked, up fo;ty-?ix birds. Virginia 1 tie Insurance Tax Void. Hichutoud, Va. ? Judge Daniel Qrl nan. of tho Caan'cery Court., hu hand, cd down a decision in whlcljf^he de clares ' unconstitutional tho act pro viding for a tax of ono per cent, on the revenues of Are Insurance compa nies doing business in Virginia, tho tax to.g'j to tho support of disabled 11 rent en and their dependent families. Grcjitckt Halllexhlp Afloat. Qtilney, Masf. ? H was announced . hero that tho new battleship North Dakota was in a class by herself as far as steaming radius is concerned. Sugar Trust Man Arrested. I'rooklyh, N. Y. ? James F. Render nagcl, former general superintendent of the American Sugar refinery, was arr .itfd on t'. chargo of conspiracy in connection with the sugar weighing frauds, and Inditfments wero found against other former employe?, (j'otnpcrs Attacks Wright. Toronto, Canada. ? Samuel Gom pers, who Is attending tho convention of the American Federation of Labor, mad a an attack on Justice Wright, who sentenced him to jail in tho Suck's stove case. Henry T*. West Resigns. Washington, D. C.? Henry Litch field WcBt, one of the three Commis sioners of tho District of Columbia, handed his resignation to President Taft. Coast Kprvey Suspensions : Washington, D. C. ? Officers of the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur vey, Assistant Superintendent Frank W. Perktps and .John Gilbert, (tU.e hy^. drographle- and top were chained Tvlth lrreguiaritlpB. For Navy' in . ? Washingto^ffc- C. ^Assured of President!*^ a jrpifev at ofpila genera! plans for tiffc icorganfaatlon of the navy yards and the bureaus ot the Navy Department, Secretary- Meyer began In earneet to work-out the d*? tails, Theft in Postofilce. Washington, D. C. ?Fifteen letters containing paid money orders And 91500 in cash disappeared from the desk of H. L. Johnson, superintendent of the money order division of the city poBtofflce. l Forbes Takes (Governor's Chair. Manila. ? W. Cameron Forbes has assumed the office of Goyernor-Qen cral of the Philippines. Kngliwli Cotton Curtailment. Manchester, England.? The Man chester Spinners' Federation has rec ommended tfcat the time curtailment now in force In the cotton mills be continued until the end ot February. I Bribery in Philippines. , " Manilla, P. I. ? Protests have been made in several provinces, the spe cific allegations including the misuse of money In South Manila and throughout the Province of Laguna. The Nationalists were generally suc cessful, in the election of Assembly men and provincial Governors. For a Hi rd Reserve. Honolulu, 1f?%alt7wc&s Japanese and other poachers were slaughtering large numbers of birds for their skins on Laysan Island, an order was re ceived from Washington. D. C., di recting that the lighthouse Under Kukul proceed to Laysan to patrol It and other Islands northwest of Hono of Hono Wus tiUsMn ytiutt* the birds. Japanese Baron to Tour V, B, Victoria. D. FOOTBALL MIES FATAL University of Virginia Student Dies of Concussion of Brain. Young OlirJrtlgn, tifglttem Years of Ag?*, ? Harrlflcr to I lie (.'.uac ?vt Georgetown Uulvntji}. | Washington, D. 0. ? Archer .Chris tian, Jr., eighteen years old, the UnU verslty of Virginia footbull player who was Injured in the gamo with Georgetown University, died without regaining consciousness for laoro than a few moments. Death was duo to cerebral hemorrhage following concussion. The uthlotlc authorities of both Institutions have cancelled their remaining football gataer. Mr. Christian's father, mother and brothor wtro with him at the lavt. Mr*. Christian had not witnessed the game, but had cdme ovov. simply to be present in cgso of accident having a premonition that her ion would b" Injured. 8bo was at the Uaiet) 8ta tlon, on the poln of returning to her home in Rqanoke, Va , when ojf* called up the university to make s.iro all wbh right. She was told that her con had been Injured and huiriod to tho hospital. Mf. Christian was turn* moned from Richmond, Va. Young Christian died JYoot con cussion of the brain, sustained by a fall after ho was tackled by cno pf (leorcgotown's man. The play was a inaa?r^>jutBldo of tackle, and. It Is rbjtfught that the dead man was fatal ly hurt when ho waa first thrown end not was made. Ho w^r p^^d>"-e)Jr tfre operating tablo afid for, three lioura tho physicians worHSfea over*. him, removing at least three blood clots from the brain. Ills parents. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew ' Christian, and tiis brother \ver<j with him when tho' end came, Sincere sympathy is manifested for them, and in the university 'chapel th& eaijnr" undergraduate body. knelt to, pray for tho repose of tho souVof yougg tlan. N ' V Columbus, Ohio. ? In \ho toa#f0!O&. Kamo between Ohio State University and Vandcrhllt Untvarelty teams Meizgor, of Vandcrbllt, waa injured in the first half, his leg being broken Just above the ankle. Grand Rapids, Ohio ? Roy Vogel, \ schoolboy, Injured two week? ago In a football gamp, is dead.. A bipod vessel In his head was ruptured and he waB unconscious for thirteen days. Chicago, III. ? Tho Chicago Tri bune's annual list of football acci dents, which Ib not yet completed, al ready shows twenty-three dead and forty seriously Injured. * "*/? Money F?? F ortlgn Mlntoiw. Tht flmirdT commlt^Ue ogfore1 mm * Aibloy fwont ***;*" tan $126,000 for work in U? m onar f ftld* of tho world. ?