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TO PAY TAFT'S EXPENSES.
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Augusta Organization Offers President
$5,000.
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Washington, May 28.?A protest
against the action of certain Democratic
members of Congress in opposing
the appropriation of $25,000 for 1
the president's travelling expenses,
covering the president's last Southern
trip and an offer to make up the
deficit, was telegraphed to Speaker
Cannon today by the Augusta (Ga.)
Chamber of Commerce anl Cotton
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Exchange and the Georgia-Carolina
Fair Association.
At a joint meeting of the three organizations
"It was unanimously
agreed that we respectfully tenv
. der, through you, to the government
of the United Steves the $5,000 necmm,,?
moot thp rtofiriencv of the
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President's recent trans-continental
trip, which did much to cement the
ties between the different sections
and bring the nation and the nation's
Chief Executive in closer touch and
sympathies with each other."
( Representatives Hardwick and
Bartlett of Georgia denied that the
telegrams in any way reflected on
their action. They stated that they
took part in the House debate only
after Representative Tawney ' had
criticised Southern hospitality and
charged that President Taft had
been forced to pay for his board
while in Georgia. They characterized
that attack upon Southern members
in Congress and upon the hospitality
of the South as unfair.
When President Taft t(>-day received
the telegram from Augusta it
gave him great pleasure and gave
5?^ - - him to understand that the kindly
v feeling for him in the South had in
no Way been impaired by the con#
troversy in the House over his travel'
'* AVTVAn f?An
(Ug CApCUO&O.
The President could not possibly
&;? ' accept the offer of the Georgians.
He intends to pay out of his own
.pocket the $7,000 or $8,000 deficit
in his travelling expenses for the
fiscal year.
The Baby Razor.
A man with a reputation for originality
was accustomed to shaving
himself. He used a different razor
jjg'^V each day in the week, and named
them his Monday razor, his Tuesday
razor and so on. Ultimately he marm
ried and when tho babies began to
? . - arrive in numbers he changed the
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names of his razors to Helen, Susan,
; < . Tommie and so on down tho list,
|jf' 7 ' , Finally a little one came and he had
no razor left.
In his perplexity he had a happy
thought He decided to buy a finish.?:<
> ' > ing razor to use only on state occasions
and he would name it for the
J baby.
He bought the razor, but they had
?. <: it . not named the new baby, and he
simply called it his Baby razor. One
day he wanted it and sent one of his
children down stairs after it, saying:
'"Tnimmia trpt Pana his Babv razor."
Tommie rushed down stairs and
cried: "Oh Mamma, Papa wants
K- you.
Timely Succor.
An itinerant Methodist minister
V; in the Tennessee mountains, was beloved
by his people, and they decided
to make him a gift of money. The
deacons collecting, reported on the
Saturday before the Sunday on
which the gift was to be presented,
that they had fifty dollars for the
pastor, a munificent sum in that poor
community. They were congratulating
each other, when up came another
deacon and announced that
the preacher's wife had presented
hi^m with a fine baby boy.. They
were all rejoiced, and one of the
; , deacons wagered that the minister
would speak of the baby first in his
i sermon the next day. There was an
lUiiiieuxcLie uivisiuu m iuc vuv
faction maintaining that he would
speak of the great gift first, and the
other that it would be the boy.
The controversy took the form of
a wager and they lined up the next
morning on the front seats waiting
anxiously for the minister to speak.
' The preachcir came out upon the
platform and at once began to pray,
saying: "Oh, Lord, we thank thee
for this timely succor."
It was decided that it was a draw
bet.
Hampton Treasurer-Dies.
Charleston, May 29.?The body of
Henry Stokes, treasurer of Hampton
! county, who died last night at the
Riverside infirmary after an illness
of a couple of weeks, was taken tonight
to Hampton, where it will be
interred to-morrow. Pleurisy was the
cause of death.
? Mr. Stokes was of a prominent family.
He was a son of the late Gen.
William Stokes, and is survived by
his mother, six brothers, three sisters,
and two small children. He
f lost his wife last September.
One of his brothers is Capt.
Stokes, U. S. A., at Clemson College,
and another is Rev. Peier Stokes, of
Trinity M. E. church, this city. Mr.
Stokes was.35 years of age and was
serving his first term as treasurer of
Hampton county.
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NEGRO SAVES WHITE LAD.
Performed Heroic Act in Face of
Great Danger.
Spartanburg, May 28.?Reynolds
Smith, the 10-year-old son of Elmore
Smith, of this city, owes his life to
*?SOyce l-anasay, a lo-^car-uiu UC51U
delivery boy. The negro displayed
great nerve and presence of mind.
Young Smith was riding a bicycle
and did not see three empty box cars,
which had been cut loose from the
remainder of the train, and were j
running at a pretty fast clip 'around
a curve. The engine was going the
other way and the cars were making
practically no noise. Reynolds
Smith, when in the very centre of
the track, saw the cars and lost all
control of himself, he was so frightened.
He fell on the track and could
not get out of the way .before the
cars would have hit him.
At this time, according to what
eye-witnesses say, the cars were ten
feet away. Boyce Lindsay was
standing nearby with flour and sugar
on his shoulders, when he realized
the seriousness of the situation. His
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went to the assistance of the white
boy. Just in the nick of time he
reached him and pulled the youth
from the tracks. A second later the
cars would have killed him, they
were not three feet away. The bicycle
was torn to pieces. Several other
persons were standing nearby and
none but the negro made any attempt
to save the lad.
Mr. Smith and his son feel deeply
grateful to the negro, who himself
can never realize what a heroic deed
he performed. A movement is on
foot here to get a Carnegie medal
for this bc^y.
To Have Another Cotton Mill.
Abbeville, May 27.?Abbeville is
to have another cotton mill. J. Allen
Smith, President of the National
Bank of Abbeville, will be the president.
-A subscription list of $100,00
has been raised and turned over to
Mr. Smith.
^ charter was applied for today.
Options on various sites have been
secured and the mill owned and controlled
by Abbeville money is a certainty.
Mr Smith is one of the wealthiest
as well as one of the best business
men in Abbeville County; he has
made a success of the National Bank
and the stockholders in the new
mill feel sure that their money will
be in good hands..
A cotton' mill controlled locally
has been the crying need of Abbeville
for years and the place will take on
new life now that such an enterprise
Is assured.
Fight in Spartanburg.
Spartanburg, May 28.?In an altercationbetween
Tom Cannon and
E. B. Dean in the rear of Ray's pawn
shop, Cannon drew a pistol and fired
at'Mr. Deanr The ball went wide
of its mark. The police arrested
both parties under the charge of disorderly
conduct. They gave bond
promptly. * The matter will be aired
in Police Court Monday morning.
The officers tonight could not find
out anything concerning the nature
of the trouble. The shot was fired
about 10 o'clock, and, being in the
hejfrt of the business section of the
city, created a great deal of excitement.
E. B. Dean is a well-known livery
stable man of the city. Cannon
words at Ray & Co.'s pawn shop.
An Experienced Waiter.
At the first meal on board the
ocean liner, Smythf was beginning to
feel like casting his bread upon the
waters. His friends had tojd him
that when he began to feel that way
he should stuff himself. He tackled
a cutlet first; but it didn't taste
right. He observed to the waiter:
"Waiter, this cutlet isn't very good."
The waiter looked at his whitening
face, then said:
"Yes, sir; but for the length of
time you'll 'ave h'it', h'it won't matter,
sir."?LIppincott's.
Ambushed by Greasers.
Spartanburg, May 27.?Capt. P. C.
Hundley, of Clifton, received a telegram
this morning that James Dar1%wAfV\Qr_i'nJoTir
horl VkQon om_
Willy 11 lO ui Utati-iu-ian , uau mvvu uiu
bushed and killed at' San-Benito,
Tex., Thursday, while on his way to
work.
The remains will be brought to
Spartanburg county for interment.
Mr. Darwin was about 35 years of
age. He was superintendent of oil
inspection for a large concern in
southwest Texas, and had been
working in the business for the past
ten years.
Mr. Darwin was born near Woodruff.
His mother, Mrs. Sallie Darwin,
now lives at Blacksburg. Mrs.
P. C. Hundley, of Clinton, is his sister.
He was a nephew of Munroe Pilgrim,
of Woodruff.
The details of the killing could not
be learned here.
UMBRELLA USED EFFECTIV ELY.
Woman's "Weapon" Plays Part in
Spartanburg Scrap. '
Spartanburg, May 30.?S. A.
Lynch, proprietor of a vaudeville
house, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Howard,
two artists, who had been engaged
by the theatre to play, became
involved in a difficulty last
night at a late hour. It seems that
Lynch got the male star on the
ground and was administering a
severe licking, when the wife and
the umbrella took a hand in the encounter.
Lynch got several hard blows on
the the t6p of his head with the umbrella,
which was swung with great
force. The case was tried in the
police court this morning, and the
theatre owner was fined $10 and the
vaudeville artists were discharged.
Reminiscences of 1876.
The steadfastness of the colored
Wallace Democrats seemed to daze
the Mackeyites of both complexions
and the conversion of Thomas Hamilton
and N. B. Myers, who had been
bright and shining lights in the Republican
camp, perplexed their former
political allies. Hamilton was
coal black in color but had almost
perfect Anglo-Saxon features. He
i. dressed in black, always wore neat
linen and was an effective speaker
before the emotional people of his
race, for to the skill of the natural
politican he added a fervor that
would have given credit to a reviva
1 list preacher. Still he was a lover
of race horses. Myers was more of
a mixer and his looks and manners |
indicated a worldly prosperity that
the less well to do looked up to with
longing to be in his class.
The speaking by members of the
Waliace House from noon until mid
night was Gen. John B. Gordon's
plan of battle. People soon grew
tired of listening to two men simultaneously,
a Democrat and a Republican,
and turned fheir attention to
conversation, smoking and the consumption
of peanuts.
One of the most effective of these
deadlock speeches was made by
Representative L. W. Youmans. It
Hall the Mackey House and seated
went home like a solid shot and for
a time a shamed silence prevailed on
the Mackey side. And this was the
circumstances: During the absence
of the Wallace House in Carolina
the Republican candidates in Barnwell
County for the Legislature.
Casear Cave, colored, of Great Cypress,
was one of their candidates,
but his good sense kept him away
from Columbia and he never occurred
his seat. Somebodv answered
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to Caesar's name on the roll calls,
and when Col. Youmans exposed the
fraud the character of Mackey &
Co. went below political zero, and
they realized its significance. While
that succession of Speeches probably
changed few opinions, it had the
good effect of keeping members occupied
and so preventing ennui and
the irritation that might have made
trouble. Of what was being done
by their leaders the high privates of
the Wallace House had little idea,
but they patiently hejd the fort. As
time passed and some of the olde?
and less robust members were almost
ill by loss of sleep, unhealthy
air and lack of exercise, they were
so fortunate as to get night substitutes
of proved sobriety and
courage, and these weary members
went to their boarding houses and
slept in preparation for the session
of the following day.
Speaker Wallace kept his chair
for as we remember, over two days
and nights, wide awake, watchful,
and as calm and unruffled as could
be expected of one who hadf led a
brave brigade in Virginia a dozen
years before. Then, that he might
get some sleep, 'during thfe latter part
of the night time when nothing was
doing 'he delegated members to preside
in his stead. It was our turn
to be waked as day was breaking,
and that was one time that we were
not a pipe enthusiast. As the preceding
occupant of the Speaker's
chair arose we slipped under him,
and were greeted with a whiff of
strong plug smoke from the ancient
pipe of the Mackey pro tern speaker,
a sea island "brother in black."
Even since that hour we have had
a lasting aversion to short cane pipe
stems. Our two hours as speaker
passed without our having to speak
a word or use the gavel.
As stated in a previous article
the Wallace House having accomplished
all that was intended and
hoped for in securing a majority of
the membership of the House re
turned to Carolina Hall satisfied that
the victory had been secured and
that only time was needed for the
surrender of the opposition. So we
made some more history in the dingy
little hall built of bricks and
bats gathered up after the burning
of Columbia eleven years before by
Sherman's army. All arrangements
looking to the sure operation of the
Hampton government until the tottering
Chamberlain regime should
collapse completely were made and
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with clear conscience and steady
hopes the regular session came to a
happy close. For we were sure that
Governor Hampton in his little second
story executive office on Main
Street, meagerly furnished with not
over three dollars' worth of chairs
and table, was and would be master
of the situation. He had said so,
and with Dr. Girardeau's sermon assurance
added every doubt was
dead.
When the Legislature met in special
session in the Spring of 1877,
under the call of Governor Hampton,
Columbia looked like a city politically
swept and garnished. The Republican
State officials had disappeared
and their Democratic successors
were secure in their seats.
'But there was much and serious
work to be done by the Legislature.
One or tne nrst ana most important
of the duties of the House was a
needed inquiry into the legality of
the titles of quite a number of those
who had been given certification of
election after the battle of the ballots
at the polls the previous November.
The findings were against
quite a number and they lost their
seats. Their places were filled by
others in due form and* time, and
the House re-enforced most materially
by the coming in of some of the
already most distinguished Carolinians
of that time, and others who
- afterward became eminent to the po-,
litical arena. Among the new members
welcomed were these: From
Charleston?C. G. Memminger, former
Confederate States Secretary of
the Treasury, Charles H. Simonton
and William H. Brawley, afterward
United States Judge, R. Barnwell
Rhett, former Editor of the Charleston
Mercury, J. F. Ficken, afterward
Mayor of Charleston.
From Orangeburg?Samuel Dib
ble, afterward Member of Congress.
From Newberry?Y. J. Pope, afI
Phief Tnstirp
; From Chester?John J. Hemphill,
! afterward Member of Congress.
From Union?R. W. Shand.
i But we haven't time to catalogue
all.?Barnwell People.
SUICIDE OF KERSHAW MAN.
Suffering from Terrible Disease, Mr.
George Knight Kills Himself.
j Kershaw, May 28.?Mr. George
Knight, of Pageland, killed himself
yesterday morning about 12 o'clock.
' Mr. Knight had suffered for about
two years with a cancer. Yesterday
his pain became so intense that he
"resolved to put an end to all. His
wife, thinking that he was unable to
lea"\# his bed, left him and went tcr
dinner. Mr. Knight took advantage
of her absence and committed
the fatal deed above named.
Mr. Knight is survived by a wife
and six children?four boys and two
girls. He is said to have lfved an
exemplary Christian life and Jwas
much beloved by a host of friends
and relatives.
The Children's Table Manners.
"After a long illness in the hospital,
I returned home to find that
oMi/iron'o foKifl mdnnori! V) a H nnf.
U1J tunuicu o lauib uiuuuviu ...
fered a complete demorilzation,"
says Woman's Home companion for
June.' "They 'gobbled,' used knife
and fork indiscriminately and always
awkardly, regarded their spoons
as shovels and, in short, were perfect
little savages.
"In order to remedy this quickly
I started a series of 'company uncheons,'
at which ? was the hostess and
the children the guests. I set the
table as prettily as possible and made
funny little place-cards. The children
played on delightedly, took
grown-up names and even washed
their hands without a murmur. We
made a set of simple rules: The
guests who behaved perfectly rej
ceived three pieces of candy, the
[ guest's who made one mistake received
one piece of candy, while any unfortunate
guest who committed three
breaches of table etiquette received
no candy at all.
"Questions on table manners were
in order at any time, to be answered
by the hostess.
"I chose dishes for these lunchi
eons which.are not always easy to
eat elegantly, and I yas very happy
to see how quickly the children improved
in table manners and other
manners as well, for our 'company
luncheons' seemed to help general
courtesy quite wonderfully. The best!
of it was that there was no nagging
nor cross words. It was all good
j fun, and my four youngsters can
now go anywhere and eat anything
I and mother has the proud consciousness
that they will always appear to
i good advantage."
Attempted to Wreck Train.
Asheville, N. C., May 29.?The
discovery of a nine-inch iron bolt
driven firmly into a switch frog at
Balfour on the Southern railway 12
miles east of tliis city, indicates a
well-laid plan to wreck train No. 10,
for Spartanburg to-night.
Thp inHine- of tho ears as thev
passed over the obstruction attracted
the attention of the train crew
and the train was stopped for investigation.
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Statement of the condition of theJ
Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of busi-i
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts ?4.74&5S
Banking house 2,250.00
Furniture and fixtures 1,396.47
Due from banks and bankers 74,531.71
Currency ? 2,000.00
Gold 67.50
Silver and other minor coin 659.47
/?och It^mc 16.65
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Total ' 8115,557.381
State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg.
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the books of said bank.
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Surplus fund 3,000.00
Undivided profits less current ex- -Vv
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Individual deposits subject to check 80?75.4& ' ^
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