Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DIPLOMAT AND WOMAN. Engage in a Little Scrap in the National Capital. South American diplomacy is again prominently in the public eye in the person of Senor Don Alberto Xin Frias, the secretary and charge d'affaires of the Uruguayan legation, who, because his whilom iaay love, Mrs. Florence Garland, swatted him over the head yesterday with her parasol has ungallantly had the lady arrested on a warrant charging her with assault. Don Alberto, says Mrs. Garland, was engaged to marry him as soon as she got a divorce from her present husband. He boarded at her house and they became friends, she says. There must have been some trouble about two weeks ago, because Don Alberto got a warrant : out for Mrs. Garland then, charging her with taking two rings of his- . , So far as anyone can understand " ?2 Ik n t "ITAfil Q XT tilt? BilUitllUU it seems iuab j cob&i uuj Mrs. Garland called on a friend of hers, and when she went into the parlor she found her gentleman friend, Don Alberto, seated at the piano playing a merry air. In view of the fact that when last seen at her house Don Alberto was the lady's fiance, so far. as he could be when she had not. yet obtained her divorce, Mrs. Garland not unnaturally wanted to know what he was doing-in her lady friend's house. South American diplomacy apparently could not arise to the occasion. Ssf Indeed, it is charged that he rudely fep ' snapped the lady in the face, where> upon she smote him with her parasol. When the Uruguayan diplomat had collected together enough shreds of ^ his silk hat to make a passable apparance on the street he hurried to the nearest police station and obttained satisfaction in the shape of a police warrant. Mts. Garland wants a jury trial, and says there will be interesting revelations. Whatever may be the p outcome of the trial there will doubtless be a change in the Uruguayan legation.-?Washington special to Baltimore American. Modem Political System Boasted. New York, Dec. 29.?The "modern political system, so far as the average voter is concerned, has come in for some hard knocks at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, which is in session at Columbia University. , ProX. Charles A.. Beard, of Colum-, bia University, told the delegates that the Northern and Eastern States, are; |y *' . : tending towards more appointive officeS, while the South and West favor I more small elective offices. The latter arrangement, he said, puts the control of minor offices more thoroughly in the hands of the politicians. Prof. Richard S.-Childs discussed the "need for ballot simplification," and said: "Under our present system undoubtedly 95 per cent, of the \ voters do not record their real wishes. Politics is so complicated that it -has become a profession and shuts - out ^ully 95 per cent, of the great nnbribable mas sof the peoprle. There $1} must come a simplification if we are pr" to have popular control of government?real democracy instead of control by politicians." frpi Negro Race Conference. The Negro Race Conference of pfj South Carolina meets in Columbia g^: January 11-14, 1910. Through the columns of the journal I wish to notiH|p" fy the colored readers that the race . South Carolina meets in Columbia I; - January 11 to January 14, 1910. Special addresses will be delivered on agriculture by Col. E. J. Watson, Mr. Ira Williams of the United States agricultural department, Mr. J. H. Kinard of Ninety-Six, S. C. Mr. Wm. H. Bailey of Greenwood will speak on' gardening. Some of the other white speakers who have promised to P speak on other subjects in interest of \g-. education are: Governor Ansel, Superlhtend^nt of Education J. E. Swearingen, Jas. A. Hoyt, Judge pf' Robert Aldrich, Judge Gage, Col. Alfred Aldrich and other prominent /. white and colored speakers are on the programme. Reduced rates will be given on all railroads on certificate plan. Tickets good for a week. Delegates who > come, those who are strangers in the city, please call at No. 1014 W. Lady i street, Columbia, S. C. It is hoped that many of the colored farmers will attend the conference. Btt RICHARD CARROLL, President. ANTHONY ROBERTSON, Secretary. Adopted State Dry Laws. Birmingham, Ala., December 30.? By unanimous vote the city council of Birmingham has adopted the Statewide prohibition laws as regular city ordinances. Heretofore the city acted with the State laws, but a decision of the Supreme Court knocked out ail convictions. Many men working on the city chain gang will have to be released from arrest. f IF? i" OFFICERS KILL BANDITS. Two Die as Result of Meeting With Marshals. Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 31.?Five men who intended to rob the bank and the post office at Harrah, Okla., early to-day ran into a party headed by United States Marshal "Jack" Abernathy. . As a result two of the bandits are dead, one is in jail at Guthrie wounded, and two others are held in jail at Oklahoma City as suspects. Frank Quigg, of Atchison, Kan., son of a wealthy mother, a former baseball player, was shot dead. FrankCarpenter, another robber, was mortal^ wounded and died late to-day in jail, and J. C. Dilbeck, a third bandit, was slightly hurt during the fight ,with the deputy marshals. The robbery, was well planned, but Carpenter told some one of the plot and postoffice inspectors. learned of lV- Unvckol A Knmothv TXrfiC tut: aua.ii. luaiouai uui.u,r advised and when the robbers reached Harrah he was ready for them. The officers waited until the robbers began breaking in the rear door of the bank and then charged. The robbers ran and the deputies fired, wounding Carpenter and Dilbeck at the first volley. Carpenter in ante-mortem statement said that "Red" Rogers and Pearl Wilson were the men that escaped. He and his associates had, he said, recently robbed the Golden, Col., postoffice of $3,000. Dilbeck said that Rogers and Wilson were on top of the bank at the time of the raid, keeping watch, and thus escaped the bullets and fled from town after the fight. Quigg"s brother, George, was a member of Roosevelt's Rough Riders rn the Cuban war and- died in the National Soldier's home at Leaven worth, Kan., a year agao. Train Plunges Over Bank. Trenton, Mo., Dec. 31.?Three per^ sons were killed and 45 injured today by the derailing and partial burning of a westbound Rock Island passenger - train South of Trenton which was probably caused by spreading rails. While the train was running at a high , rate of speed the locomotive and tender plunged over a five-foot embankment, dragging two baggage cars, a mail car, a tourist car and a standard sleeping car with them. While passengers in the wrecked cars were struggling to escape from the debris fire started from the fire box. The splintered cars burned rapidly and the three slain passengers were partly burned. Scores of persons were rescued as the fiames were scorching their clothing or burning their flesh. David Siegel, of Cleveland, Ohio, was held by the wreckage for an hour while the fire burned within a few feet of him, but was eventually rescued, although he may lose an arm. TJ ami r> roormoa roprp nnmcroilS. Men and women who escaped unharmed rushed into the burning' | wreckage to'rescue the less fortunate passengers. The ground was covered with snow and a raw wind was blowing. The men collected coats and protected the women, and women tore strips from their linen to make bandages for the wounded. The most seriously injured were taken to Trenton while the other passengers were taken to Kansas City, Mo. The greatest havoc was wrought in the chair car. It was in the debris that the bodies of the two women were found. Conductor David A. Clemens owes his life to the fact that he was in the baggage car when Via nrronl' n^nrr^H Wp U'flS hlirlfid through an opening to safety. He was severely injured. j Death's Door. The door of death seemed ready to open for Murray W. Ayers, of Transit Bridge, N. Y., when hi3 life was wonderfully saved. "I was in a dreadful condition," he writes, "my skin was almost yellow; eyes sunken; tongue coated; emaciated from losing 40 pounds, growing weaker daily. Virulent liver trouble pulling me down to death in spite of doctors. Then that matchless medicine?Electric Bitters?cured me. I regained the 40 pounds lost and now am well and strong." For all stomach, liver and kidney troubles they're supreme. 50c at Peoples Drug Store, Bamberg, S. C. A layman's meeting, embracing all the denominations, will be held in Columbia Jan. 17,18 and 19. Between one and two thousand delegates are! expected to attend. A Wild Blizzard Raging brings danger, suffering?often death ?to thousands, who take colds, coughs and lagrippe?that terror of winter and spring. Its danger sig nals are "stuffed up," nostrils, lower part of nose sore, chills and fever, pain in back of head, and a throatgripping cough. When grip attacks, as you value your life, don't delay getting Dr. King's New Discovery. "One bottle cured me," writes A. L. Dunn, of Pine Valley, Miss., "after being 'laid up' three weeks with grip." For sore lungs, hemorrhages, coughs, colds, whooping cough, bronchitis, asthma, its supreme. . 50c, $1. Guaranteed by Peoples Drug Store, Bamberg, S. C.. :'! . ..... SOUTH HAS XO RIVAL. J i World Will Xever be Independent of Southern Cotton. G l Frequently reference is made in yeai 1 dispatches from Europe and other cres foreign sections that cotton is going key to be raised at this or that point Ore* outside of the United States. : These the statements come tnicKer wnen tne m v. Southern cotton farmer is getting a hun . good price for his product. cut The following from the Columbia loca , State will be interesting reading on hun this point;. /-. hav In a recent 'address on the general and subject of "Packing for Export" cori i,Charles M. Pepper, special agent of , E , the United Statfes, gave it as his thir i opinion that there is no ground for stro apprehension that the cotton cr9P of up ; the South would ever meet with sue- sine ; cessful rivalry abroad. Mr. Pepper loca ! has traveled all over the world in- the i vestigating for this government the prol conditions of agriculture and commerce in other countries. He paid i particular attention to experiments ! of cotton growing in different parts i of the globe and his conclusions on this subject are worthy of the closest ^ . . consideration. He said: "This matter of foreign shipment has an. especial interest to the South. ^ - * ' * " ? ~ Q Q The time is not coming when the ' world will be independent of the Southern cotton crop. Efforts of foreign goverments to increase the cultivation in various tropical countries may meet with some measure of sue- . cess, but, as you know, the applications of cotton are increasing all the time, and the crop of the Southern States is more and more essential in ? , Its meeting the wbrld's demands. This is true , whether they are supplied in ' the form of raw cotton for mills in _ The foreign countries, or whether a larger proportion of the cotton is worked up here at home, as all of us hope to see done." . - 1 Mr. Pepper is right; the world can not raise the sort of cotton, or at least in sufficient quantity to affect seriously the Southern crop. The n steadily increasing demand for our cotton, will more than offset the harvests of a few favored regions. 1 It is well, however, to remind our cotton growers and cotton exporters of another point made by Mr. Pep- a per?as to the careful packing of cotton for export. The South should, he said, be able to work up its cot ton for export in manufactured form, as well as ship it abroad in such condition as to appeal to the foreign buyer. On these points he.remarked: "In coming down from Washington and seeing the mills that are going d up, and the additions to what only a nigt few years ogo were new mills, I the have been deeply impressed with the here prospect of working up a larger pro- year portion of the cotton near the fields ing where it is grown. Also I have been feed impressed with the possibilities that the. lie before your Southern mills fn the 15 \ way of meeting the demand, not only t here at home but abroad, for manu- the factured goods. You are only at the min threshold of your industrial possibili- four ties. It is, therefore, of unusual im- aboi portance that your mills understand at ^ the requirements of the foreign mar- wag kets and should study and practice was the details of packing for foreigm ]jfe. consumption." thei: The South need have no fear as to aboi the future of its great crop. If we/ftodj protect it from ravages of all sorts T! at home, we shall find that the mar- stat( kets of the world will be always open he v to it. obed hav BEER CONSUMPTION GROWING. ence Larger Tax Receipts on Poor Man's Drink Show Country's Prosperity. ^ For Washington, December 29.?That The the brewers of the country are recovering from the slump in the con- is sumption of that beverage which characterized the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, when the internal p0rg revenue receipts fell off nearly two and half million dollars, is shown presi by the November treasury statement, giving such returns from all sources. Tc During November the taxes on beer increased $606,947 over November, L 1908, which means that Just so many perc more barrels were taken from the breweries for ultimate use. For the i8 w first five months of the current fiscal year the increase in beer tax receipts st over the corresponding period of the fiscal year 1909 amounted to $777,- L 658, the summer months of the cur- Sligl rent year showing an increase, while in September and October there v as The i a falling off. Internal revenue bureau officials say an increase in con- Oi sumption of beer is an indication of Le prosperity, as, being a poor man's We i + n IIOA O Ortll r?o fckl TT roflppfc flip Ul iLLiY, ito uot avvuiawij ?vwwvw v**v trend of industrial conditions. How The interesting fact is also brought out that the retail liquor dealers' L? special tax for the past five months of the current fiscal year shows a de- Le crease of $282,779, as compared with Wor the corresponding period of the previous year, which, the officials say, And is due to the wave of prohibition which has swept over various por- Ai tions of the United States. HANY STILLS DESTROYED. t Whiskey-Making in Greenville Increasing. reenville, December 30.?The r ending tomorrow finds a big inLse in the amount of illict whis-making in the "Dark Corner" of enville county. So. marked has increase been that alarm is felt Joyernment circles. At least two dred large distilleries have been to pieces during 1909 by the ,1 raiding officers and about two dred thousand gallons of beer e been poured out.. Several thousgallons of mash,'< 16w wines and i whiskey have been confiscated, luring, the month of December ty-one distilleries have been deyed. Last week the officers cut-] ! ten big .outfits in three days and - e Monday five more have been 4 ted and destroyed. They attribute increase of this illict business to libition. How Ho You Fight. you tackle the trouble that pame your way rith a resolute heart and cheerful? hide your face from the light of day v . i /ith a craven soul and fearful? . trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, r a trouble's what you make it, . it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, ut only how did you take it. 're beaten on earth? Well, well what's that? ?wrUV? o O m Hi n o far\C? UlliC U |J tvnu a ominug iav>y, nothing against you to fall down flat, ut to lie there, that's disgrace.. , harder you're thrown, why, the higher you bounce; .. e proud of your blackened eye! sn't the fact that you are lickea that counts; ;'s how did you fight?and why? . though you be done to death, what then? ,7, \ you battled the best you could, ou played your part in the world of men,.. 7hy, the Critic will call it good, th comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce nd whether he's slow or spry, sn't the fact that you are dead that counts, ut only how did you die. ?Edmund Vance Cooke. Smothered by Cotton Seed. arlington, Dec. 30.?Tuesday it while at work at the plant of Southern Cotton Oil company i, R. Richardson, a negro, 18 s of age, met death under a fall pile of cotton seed. He was ing the seed to another part of mill. The pile of seed was about feet in height. he first alarm given was when seed stopped coming into the Upon investigation it was id that the large pile had fallen it the spot where the negro stood rork. In a few minutes his body located and every effort possible made to get him out and save his All hands were called from r work and digging went on for it ten minutes, but when his = r was reached life was gone, tie negro had special orders, it is 3d, not to interfere with the seed ras feeding, and but for this dislience the accident would not ? happened. He was an experid hand. New Year's Thoughts. 3t us walk softly, friend; strange paths lie before us, all untrod; New Year, spotless from the hand of God, thine and mine, O friend! it us walk straightly, friend; = ;et the crooked paths behind us now, ~ utooHlor mirnncp nn I 3 Uil W 1 111 DCVUUiVA our brow, > better deeds, 0 friend! it us walk gladly, friend, hanee some greater good than we have known aiting for us, or some fair hope flown iall yet return, 0 friend! it us walk humbly, friend; it not the heart's-ease blooming round our feet; laurel blossoms are not half so sweet, lightly gathered, friend it us walk kindly, friend; cannot tell how long this life shall last, soon these precious years be overpast; it love walk with us, friend. it us walk quickly, friend; k with our might while lasts our little stay, help some halting comrade on the way; .. id may God guide us, friend! ?Lillian Grey, in Golden Rule. J ' Bargains in Real Estate, etc. ' Farms in small and large tracts, town lots and residences, mercantile businesses, mill sites, sale stables, and pole and tie 1 propositions, at low figures and on easy ' - .11 terms. Descriptive list sent on applica- k V'T| i **11 i _ v.( .ii uon. uan on or wrue, ? jj J J. T. O'NEAU jj p Real Estate Agent Oambe'f'g, S. C. ^|| HI 11 ioi lael Southern States Supply Co. f% H. L. HARVEY, President. _ Plumbing Supplies of all kinds : _ _ _ _ > * 510 to 818 Gervais St. Columbia, South Caroiltta CAVAfiE "mr\ \AfAVJL pri? It is "Savage Quality" all through .< While the -Savage "Junior" is : - | m til?/ a bolt action rifle, it is radical - ]y different than any other I rifle of this type on the mar- fl ket. Like all other Savage Rifles ,it is Idistinctly ingenious and workmanship | the best. Shoots short, long and long < I rifle cartridges. Perfect accuracy guar- k'l; : . anteed. If your jobber cannot supply g you, write us and we will tell you where I - : you can get this gun for stock. I I Savage Arms Co. I Catalog No. 509, Free Utica, N. Y., U. S. A) * 1-life ?? j No* More* 'Trouble| with that automobile, bicycle, gun or pistol if you will i? : ^ (ft, have me to put it in first-class repair. I am just as well M* (ft, also have in stock a well selected line of <*g which I will sell to you at closest prices. If I haven't "J* *rTTTT T ' V ? * ? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Hoover's Drug Store ^9 j 'i? * *.;/ ?/^1 fi We beg to call your attention to our new soda B fountain, which we have recently installed. We 9 have also overhauled our entire store and have 3 made it inviting to the most fastidious. .! We have a well selected line of Valentines. 1 I Sole agents for the famous Huyler's Candies. >' ,'- -I. 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