The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 22, 1903, Image 8
mun FIRST INVENTION
lt Worked While He Slept Till He
Lost a Joh by lt.
A statement that has been going the
donnas of the press of late relative to
the great number of inventions patent?
ed by Thomas A. Edison makes no
^mention of his first labor-saving de?
vice, which, though it cost him dear?
ly, was never sent to the patent office
or placed upon the market, though it
?id the work perfectly for which it
^was designed.
This invention, forgotten " by all
save a few old telegraph operators and
the wizard himself, was thought out
in the days when Mr. Edison earned
his daily bread operating the Boston
"3*ew York night wire of what is now
the Western Union Telegraph Com?
pany. The pay was not particularly
large, but . the work was light-io
. light that New York, in order to make
sure that the man on the Hub end of
the wire was attending to business,
.arranged for him to call up every
hour, after midnight, give his official
call and sign, it being argued that
this would keep him awake. It did
keep Edison awake", for a few weeks.
Sien he set about utilizing his spare
time on a device which would beat the
"smart ones" w?o ruled the New York
--office. x
The result was all that could be ex?
pected from Mr. Edison's successes in
later life It was an arrangement of
a battery with a clock and a circiut
breaking instrument which, at the
proper time, would give New York the
?ooked-for signals. For weeks, it
was the marvel of Mr. Edison's friends
that he got along with so little sleep.
Then the denouement came in the
. form of a call for Boston from New
York with a very important message.
p? Though Boston had signalled but a
iew minutes before, it was found
impossible to "raise" that city when
it was necessary to send the message,
dearly an hour later, the New York
^operator was pounding away when the
circuit was ;iS?ened and the sounder
gave off "Bn. ?; O. K" Immediate
? the call for Boston was renewed,
>: but no answer came for an hour, when
the magic signs* was again repeated.
All night long, the wire was watch?
ed, and, .when morning came, the
manager at Boston was asked to ex?
plain the mystery.
The manager-a canny^ Scot-knew a
thing or two, or at least he thought
he did, and, without saying a word to
anybody, examined the clock and Edi?
son's locke:.*, finding there the tell?
tale wires and mechanism. That night,
when the future "Wizard" showed up
for work, he found that the manager
had decided tog^ehim "30," which,
in telegraphic tal}?, spells discharged.
Edison kaew well enough what he
was discharged for, and so left the
next day for New York and the career
which has since made his name a
nousehold word the world over.-Phila?
delphia Ledger.
Cotton Mills Shut Down.
Providence, R. L, July 16.-The
cotton mills of Tyhe Coventry and Quid
nick companies located in the towns
Jor which they were named, the Bernon
mills of Georgiaville and one or two
smaller concerns, shut down today
until next week on account of condi?
tions in the cotton market. Some of
the mills are controlled by Robert
Knight, in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, and it is expected will be placed
upon a four days per week schedule
2?ter.
Prof. Jacobs' found that, while
among Englishmen the number of
insane is 3,500 per million and among
Scotchmen 3,400, the number among
the Jews equals 3,900. Servi found
one lunatic to every 291 Jews in Italy.
Mayr states that to each 14,0G0
Christians in Germany there are S.6
insane, while .among the Jews the
arumber reaches 16.1. In Bavaria the
proportion is still greater-9.8 among
Christians and 25.2 among J Bws. Rjaz
"nnsky gives his experience ol ten years'
practice In a small own, Dagd, with a
population made up of 1,014 Jews
-and 32S Christians. Among the Jews
he observed 7 cases of nervous and
mental diseseas, while, on the other
hand, not a single case of mental un?
balance occurred among the Christians.
There is every reason to believe that
the nervous strain under which the
Jews have lived and still live in Euro?
pean countries aided by the intensi?
fication of predisposition by close in
-termarriage, is accountable for. the
prevalanee of insanity in this race.
-John R. Proctor, president of the
<t:ivil service commission, was in form?
er years State geologist of Kentucky
and has traveled all over the mountain
sections of that State. Hearing of
-Senator Blackburn's remark that the
peophs living in that section are the
most incomprehensble creatures on
earth, Mr. Proctor said he was once
riding through Breathitt country,
when, tired and hungry, he came to a
farm house. Pottering about a wood
pile near the gate was a man about
?O year? old, long and lanky and with
the mountain sallow, but his face was
bright ar d a quaint little smile seem?
ed to be dodging in and out of it as he
looked up on my approach. "Good
morning," said Proctor, reining in.
"I'd like to see the man of the house. ''
Thar ain't none," he replied very
jrravely. "The party you wanter see
is my wife, I guess."
Augusta, Me., July 15.-Mrs. James
G. Blaine died at the Blaine home?
stead here today. She was 76 years of
age. From Washington, a short time
ago, she came to the old family resi?
dence on State street. She was in an
enfeebled condition and had been un?
der almost constant medical attention
since.
WANTED.
TO SELL-or excliange for Southern
Books or Magazines published before 1868:
History of the Reformation-Daubigne. j
Several different Church Histories.
Annals of The Persecutions in Scotland.
Sir Walter Scott's Blistery of Scotland.
The Huguenots, "by Samuel Smiles.*
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The Writings of Washington, 12 vols.,
nicely bound in calf.
Many other good books.
Adores* T. E. RICHARDSON,
P.O. Box 74, Sumter, S. C.
KENTUCKY REPUBLICANS MEET.
-
Roosevelt's Candidacy Endorsed
With Enthusiasm.
Louisville, Ky., .July 15.-Spectacu?
lar in the extreme was the opening
session of the Kentucky Republican
convention at the auditorium this
afternoon and the situation is full of
possibilities for more interesting
events. The two salient features of
the afternoon session were first, an en?
dorsement of President Roosevelt's
candidacy in 1904, and second almost
a stampede to former Gov. "Wm. O.
Bradley, who is not an announced
candidate, for governor.
The endorsement of President Roose?
velt's candidacy in 1904 upset the cal?
culation of several shrewd leaders,
who it is alleged were figuring on ig?
noring that point.
Chairman Barnet announced that
the State central committee would
waive its right arbitrarily to name a
temporary chairman and called for
nominations. Maj. Wm. C. Owens
was named by the Belknap forces,
while Charles Blanford received a
large part of the combined strength of
the Wilson and Pratt forces. The re
suit was a vote of 1,571 to-875 in favor
of Owens. This vote cast in the con?
test for governor would enable Belk?
nap to win even should he lose the
contested Louisville delegation's 249
votes.
Brutal Crime in ,Nsw Orleans.
New Orleans, July 16.-Just before
2 o'clock Alfred Hunter, a British
subject, who owns a bar room and
restaurant was summoned to his door.
When he opened it three men con?
fronted him and one shoved a pistol in
his face, and the three then .pushed
their way into the saloon. The rob?
bers tok all the money Hunter could
find for them. Then they threw him
on a bed, tied him to the posts and
knotting an undershirt, gagged him.
Having secured him the robbers went
into the bar room and set it on fire.
His screams for help brought assist?
ance and he was 'gotten from the
building in safety. The fire depart?
ment extinguished the flames after
considerable-damage had been done.
Chicago, July 16.-The city council,
by a vote of 5 to 14, has passed an
amendatory ordinance giving the Illi?
nois Telephone and Telegrapph Com?
pany the right, to construct and ope?
rate for twenty-six years tunnels for
the transmisssion of parcels -and mer?
chandise as well as for a telephone
business.
Bonner Springs, Kan., July 16.
Four persons lost their lives in a fire
early this morning, which destroyed
Bonner Springs Sanitarium, at Bon?
ner Springs, seventeen miles west of
Kansas city. Dr. A. E. Rogers, stew?
ard, lost his life in an attempt to save
a woman patient. There were thirty
inmates in the building, but ail es?
caped except four.
Jefferson ville, Ind., July 16.-Robert i
Lee, alias Lee Brown, who murdered !
Patrolman Louis Massey and caused !
the recent riots at Evansville and was
himself shot through the lungs by the ?
dying officer and who was taken to |
the reformatory here to prevent lynch-1
ing, has developed pneumonia and is '
thought to be dying in the hospital.
An Eskimo Love Story.
The dnke of the Abrnzzi has brought
back with him from his polar expedi?
tion a number of Eskimo stories. One
of these concerns a young Eskimo
who loved the daughter of an enemy.
The two huts of these persons were
close together, but one night the ter
rfic cold ripped a great crevasse in the
ice, and the y.oung man's house was
left isolated. * A gorge 100 feet deep
and 20 feet wide separated it from the
igloo, or hut, containing the girl;
but there was a narrow bridge of ice
left across the crevasse, and this, the
young man fonnd woald bear his
weight.
Eskimos sleep in bags. The lover
decided that he would that night
cross the ice bridge, steal the maiden
he loved, bear her to his hut, and then
break down the bridge, so that he and
she together might enjoy their honey?
moon unmolested. He planned very
successfully. He crept, in the dead
of night into his enemy's hut: he
snatched up the maiden in her sack
without awaking any ene ; he bore her
over the ice bridge safely, and when
he opened the sack to embrace his
bride. But, beholding its contents,
he gave a loud cry. He had bagged
the old man !-London Society.
A WORD TO FAM TOILERS.
PAINE'S CELERY
COMPOUND
The Home Friend of the
Farmer and His Family.
After the labors and toils of the summer time,
and harvesting of crops in the early autumn,
many of our farmers, their wives, daughters,
and sons, find themselves in a condition ol
health demanding careful attention if suffering
is to be avoided later on. Many experience
kidney trouble in some form; with some the
liver is torpid; there is biliousness, nausea, and
vomiting, with loss of appetite and depression
of spirits. Thousands who have been exposed
to cold, damp winds and rains while toiling in
the harvest fields, now feel the twinges o?
terrible rheumatism; others run down bj
worry; overwork, and irregular dieting, are
tormented with the pangs of dyspepsia.
To the thousands of run down, sickly, and
half dead men and women in farm homes we
recommend with all honesty and confidence
the worker's iriend, Paine's Celery Compound,
fte only medicine that can quickly and full}
restore strength to the weak body and vigor tc
the muscles. Paine's Celery Compound tones
the stomach; It removes poisonous acids frcm
the blood which cause rheumatism; it feces
the weak and diseased nerves and banishes
neuralgic tortures; it' purifies the blood and
gives true vitality and life. The use of Faine?s
Celery Compound in autumn means the estab?
lishing of a perfect physical vigor to withstand
the rigors of a severe winter.
ft
for children's clothes arc rnost serviceable. ? They "
j color jackets, coats, espes, ribbons, stockivrz, (,
g as -weil as dresses. Ko ether dyes C.-.I??1 D:.-- j
mond Dyes in variety cf uecs; t^c^| ?eyer <?
disappoint. p
Wc bave a epccial department of odv?c?,, nnd ii
will answer free any questions atu?ut c?yel;:?-{
Seed sandle of goods v.vcr. ?jess?lblc. K
Directior. bock and -!? ?ved car?j?os ?:-e<?. S
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Effective June 21, 1903.
Read down Read up
No 42 JSro40 No 41 No 43
2 15 pm 7 00 am Lv Sumter Ar 9 lo am 4 00 pm
ll 40 am Ar Charleston Lv 3 20 am > 7 30 am
11 35 am Ar Columbia Lv 7 20 am
12 30 pm Ar Augusta Lv^ 7 00 arr
6 10 am 8 15 pm Ar Atlanta Lv ll 45 pm
11 45 am 5 33 am Ar Birmingham Lv 4 10 pm
8 30 pm ll 10 am Ar New Orleans Lv 9 20 am
12 35 am 3 10 pm Ar Spartanburg Lv 10 35 am
1 30 am 4 25 pm Ar Greenville Lv 9 40 am
7 15 pm Ar Asheville Lv 7 05 am
8 15 pm Ar Louisville Lv 7 40 am
7 30 pm Ar Cincinnati Lv 8 30 am
4 15 pm Ar Camden Lv 2 00 pm
7 00 pm Ar Rock Hill Lv 10 50 air
9 20 pm s Ar Charlotte Lv 8 10 am
7 40 am Ar Washington Lv 9 50 pn,
2 00 pm Ar New York Lv 3 25 pu
Trains 42 and 43 make close connection at Samter Junction with 1? going Nort
via Camden and Rock Hill.
Train? 40 and 41 make close connection at Ringville for. Columbia and at Colum?
bia wiin solid Pullman trains composed of elegant Dining Car?, Pullman Compart?
ment, Club Library, Observation and Drawing-room Sleeping Cars to and from Flori?
da points.
For full information or reservations apply to any agent or address :
S. H. Hardwick, C. H. Ackart,
General Passenger Agent, J. R. Clack, General Manager,
Washington, D. C. Agent, Washington, D. C.
W. H. Tayloe, . Sumter, S. C. R. W. Hunt.
Assistant Gen. ?ass. Agent, . Division Passenger Agent,
Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. C.
JKlantie Corni Line.
Effective May 24, 1903.
Passenger Trains arriving and leaving Sumter
Train 35 Florence to Augusta Leaves 4 40 am
** 54 Columbia to Wilmington u 8 20 am
" *57 Gibson to Sumter Arrives 9 40 am
** 52 Charleston to Columbia and Greenville ? Leaves 9 50 am
" *46 Creston to Charleston (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) tfc 9 50 am
tc 53 Greenville and Columbia to Charleston " 6 20 pm
" 32 Augusta to Florence u 6 18 pm
" *56 Sumter to Gibson " 6 50 pm
" *47 Charleston to Creston (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) " 8 20 pm
" 55 Wilmington to Columbia " 9 30 pm
Freight Trains carrying Passengers.
Train *11 Florence to Robbins Leaves 1 00 pm
? *24 Sumter to Hartsville " 10 00 am
I? *12 Robbins to Florence " 3 25 pm
M *25 Hartsville to Sumter " 7 40 pm
Northwestern Railway.
Train *70 Camden to Sumter Arrives 9 00 am
? *72 Wilson Mill to Sumter " 12 30 pm
<{ *68 Camden to Sumter " ? 45 pm
* *71 Sumter to Camden Leaves 9 55 am
? *73 Sumter to Wilson Mill " 3 30 pm
" *69 Sumter to Camden " 6 25 pm
Trains marked * daily except Sunday ; all other trains daily.
For further information, apply to
J. T. CHINA, Ticket Agent A. C. L.
Self-Defense.
The following suggestive little
dialogue appears in the Home Com?
panion. A touch of surprise tends to
fix the attention, and so to assist the
memory.
"Do you think it would be wrong
for me to learn the noble art of self
defence?" a religiously inclined young
man inquired of his pastor.
4'Certainly-not," answered the min?
ister. "I learned it in youth myself,
and 1 have found it of great value dur?
ing my life."
"Indeed, sir! Did you learn the old
English system or Sullivan's system?"
"Neither. I learned Solomon's
system. ' '
"Yes; you will find it laid down in
the first verse of the fifteenth chapter of
Proverbs. 'A soft answer turneth
away wrath. ' It is the best system of
self-defence of which I have ever
heard?"
Of "THE STORY O? ?IT T.ZTT,
WORK," By I>ooker T. V.'asliiu^ion.
Sard TS vonr samo nrt<5
a?Jrccs." V.vra;.: yon
to have a copy ol this,
autobiography oi tho
greatest livia? Z-'t-?ro
for the purpose of in?
troducing,' iz In your
community. Is .Vis c.
remarkable seller, V.z
profit; arer.ts urs rr.-..
ing from C-V to SIG per
day. Will you intro?
duce it .by celling or
getting us an acer:?
If so, send at oreo fer
a sample,
{j. Ii. NICHOLS & CO.?
4* Atlanta, Ga.
Sellins Price 81.00. 015 Austell Building.
f*^?"HINDIPO
SEST0RES V,TAL^'
S WeH Man
THE ^S?^ of Me.
TJRENCH REMEDY produces the above result
lw in 30 days. Cures Nervous Debility. Impotency.
Vcricocele, Failing Memory. Stops ali drains and
losses caused by errors of youth, it wards off In?
sanity and Consumption. Young Men regain Man?
hood and Old Men recover Youthful Vigor. It
gives vigor and size to shrunken organs, and fits
a man for business or marriage. Easily carried in
the vest pocket. Price PA I*TC 6 Boxes $2.50
hy mail, in plain pack-QU U I O.age, witi
Witten guarantee. DR. JEAN CHARBA, Pari?
China's Drug Store.
*?P^&>0&^< TRASS f.:Ar.:;s
DESIGNS
. "*TffW* COPYRIGHTS &C
Anvone sending a sketch and description ir.ay
Quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an
invention is probably patentable. Communica?
tions strictijf confidential; Handbook on Patents
sent free. Oldest strency for securing patents.
Patents t;ken through ?luna & Co. receive
spe<r4d neile i, without charco, in the
Aa
/.handsomelyillusfi'ari-d weehlv. j.nrccst cir?
culation of any scientific joarpaL Terms. S3 a
rear: four months, $_ Sold by ali newsdealers.
Branch Office. S'S y St.. Wasn?M?ton; D. C.
I <
We claim to be the Lowest Priced Whiskey House. We really sell
?whiskey as low at $1.10 per gallon, and mind you, distilled whiskey-net a
decoction of chemicals-but, of course, it?s new and under proof.
"Caspers Standard" 10 year old whiskey is a liquid joy ! It is actually
produced by honest Tar Heels in the mountain sestion of North Carolina
by the old time process. Every drop is boiled over open furnace wood
fires, in old style copper stills, in exactly the sam?; way it was made by our
grandfathers a century ago. First rate whiskey is sold at $5 to $6 per
gallen, but is not any better than "Caspers Standard/' It is the best
produced and must please every customer, or we buy it back with gold
we are incorporated under the laws *>f N. C., with an authorized capital of
$100,000.00, and the People's National Bank and Piedmont Savings Bank
of Winston-Salem, N. C., will tell you our guarantee is good. This old,
honest, mild and mellow whiskey is.worth $1 per quart, but to more fully
introduce "Caspers Standard" we offer sample shipments of this brand at
half price (packed in plain sealed boxes), 5 Quarts $2.95, IO Quarts $5.00,
Express Prepaid Anywhere in U. S. All orders and remittances (in stamps^
cash or by check, etc..) as well as requests for confidential price list must
be addressed as follows :
W. S. CASPER CO., Winston-Salem, N. C., ?. S. A.
mm OFFiCE.AND WAREHOUSES : Nos. 1045-46 Liberty and 1,3,4 and 5 Maple Sts.
Containing the Mineral Ingredients of Glenn
Springs Mineral Water.
Glenn Springs Carbonated Mineral Water
a delightful table water, and positive cure for
dyspepsia. Gives immediate relief from indi?
gestion.
For sale by J. F. W. DeLorxne, The Sumter
Drug Co., A. J. China, and the Sumter Phar?
macy. May 27
SPECIAL LOW WEEK END RATES
From points on the Atlantic
Coast Line to Seaside Eesorts,
tickets on sale Saturday, good
returning including Monday fol?
lowing, attractive schedules, un?
surpassed service.
SUMMER TOURIST TICKETS
To Mountain and Seaside Resorts
limited for return passage to Oc?
tober 31st, on sale until Septem?
ber 30th
The following week-end rates apply from Sumter to points
named : Charleston, 8. C., $3.85 ; Isle of Palms, S. C., $3.85 ;
Sullivans Island, S. C., $3 85 ; Waterloo (Harris Springs),
$3.95 ; Georgetown, S. C., ?3 ; Glenn Springs, S. C., ?4.10 ;
Greenville, S C., $4 65 ; Spartanburg, S. C., $4.10.
For full particulars, rates, etc, call on Ticket
Agepts, or write, W. J. CRAIG,
H. M. EMERSON, Gen. Pass. Agent,
Traffic Manager,
Wilmington, N. C. ?
... .^:.v.,:xv-:^^:v-;?vvw,-.v.-.. ... J_
up T0
And convenient Optical
Parlors kept open the
year round over De
Lorme's Pharmacy, 21
S. Main Street, hy
BB. 11 mmwi
Eye Specialist.
All difficult repairing
promptly done.
Feb 4-0
FIRST NATIONAL BUSK OF
SUMTER,
STATSa CITY AND COUNTY DE
POSITORY., SUMTER, S. C.
Paid up Capital -.? 75,0CC- CG
Sar pi aa ac ri Profits - - - - 25.0G0 GO
Additional Liability of Srcck
- bciders ?3 excess cf tfceir
SUSQk. 75. COO CC
To?a) protection tc deplore, S?75.C00 C 3
Transacts a Genera! Banking Buiioeas.
Special attection civec io coilectioc-s.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Deposits of Si arid upwards received. In
terest allowed a: the rare or 4 per cent, per
annauj, on aacnahi above $5 ?nc not exceed'
ing $300. payable qoiarterlf, on first days cr
January. April, July and October.
A. J. CHINA,
R. L. EDMUSDS, Pr?sident.
Cashier
QUN jg LOCKSMITH.
I take pleasure in giving no?
tice to my friends and the pub?
lic generally, that, having re?
gained my health, I have re?
opened my shop, and am ready
to do any work in the
line of Guns, Locks, Sewing
Machines, &c. Prices reasona?
ble, work done promptly and
satisfaction quarante ed.
Shop removed to No. 22
West Libert}' street, two doors
from Osteen'n Bcok Store.
Eu S. BRAD WELL.
le Largest ana 1st CoipM?
Es?alta! ?8?
Geo, S. Hacker & Son,
-MANUFACTURERS OF
DOORS, SASH, BUNGS:
Moulding; & Building
Material.
office end Wareroc ms, King, opposite C?.n
non Street,
CHARLESTON, S. C,
jS2?" Purchase our make, which we cruaranti
superior to any sold South, and
thereby save money.
Window and F^ncy Sloss a Specialty
October 16 -o
A PAINT SHOP
kept by a practical painter of
30 years' experience, wrhere can
be got Lead and Oil mixed any
color, also Ready Mixed Paints
and Paints for different use,
such as Floo::, Roof, iron, Var?
nishes, Bronze, Sandpaper, Put?
ty} Gold Leaf; Dry Colors, Calso
mine, etc. I want some work
painting and upholstering. I
will paint your house, Kalso
mine or paper the walls cheap,
for while at work I am very
apt to find a Sofa, Rocker, or
Sideboard tbat needs scraping
and varnishing, also upholstered.
I have some pretty colors in
Morocoline, Hair Cloth, Mohair
Plush, or I may find a Car?
riage or Buggy that I will paint
for ten dollars and give you a
set of harness free, or paint the
buggy for live dollars and no
gift. ' Buggy tops $9.00, fitted
on Wheels, steel tires, painted
and put on ready for road,
?10.00 per sett. Shafts, paint?
ed and trimmed, $2.00.
Agent for Council's Self-lu?
bricating A xles.
Office in Curtis Houses, No
326 South Main street.
H. IL CURTIS.
Thone 196. I paint signs,?