Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mun on l -??9l?iT?j? Vi ^ ICBM AK. Sttt?b!l?h.d Apr?, I860? 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Alms t at be thy Country's thy God's and Truth's. THE TBC S SOCTBROK. Established Jen?. IS? Oesolidated Aug. 2?1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1906. New Series-Vol. XXV. No. 14 Pt?li&ed ST8T7 W8dZLfiS?&7s -BY^ OSTEEN P?BLISH?NG COM PANV, SUMTER, 8. C, XS&K8 : (1 50 per ann am-io advance, 4DTE2??81I1IT: O ?e Square first in9ertfon...?.............$l CO S'erv subsequent ioser?cn....... ......... . 50 Goa tracts ?rot three" months, or longer wiii b . - :>-d aced rates. AU ccfsir^^uicatioos which subserve preste interests seearsred foras ad versements. Gblttter??s *nd tributes of respects wid bo Usharked for ROOSEVELT IX FLORIDA. Met By Immense Crowd and Noisily Welcomed in Jacksonville. Jacksonville, October 21.-On the way south from Atlanta the president's train,' far into the night, passed groups of people who had gathered at every cross road station. At one * small place where the train was stop? ped to coal the engine about 200 per sons were gathered about the station. One old negress anxious to see the president and when she was informed that he had gone to bed she wanted him awakes ed. She said she had nev? er seen a president and if she could see him she could die happy. I "When the special reached Jackson ^ ville the governor of Florida, the may~ or of the city and the citizens' com? mittee of one hundred escorted thje president from the train. An artil? lery salute of - 21 ?guns and a great || chorus of factory whistles and bells w greeted the president. At noon Pres? ident Roosevelt made an address to one of the largest crowds ever gather? ed in the city. After a review of the military and civic bodies at 2 o'clock the president took luncheon with the board of trade. BEMAN'?E?' TEX CENTS. Banie, Georgia, Farmers Fix the Price for Their Cotton. The following dispatch in the At lanta Constitution gives an interest- " < ing account of a" recent scene in Rome, t*?a,: "Pay us 10 cents for our cotton or we will haul it back home." Such was the ultimatum issued to the local cotton buyers by those farmers who brought their cotton to Rome today. Spot cotton opened at nine and three? -quarters, then, while great quantities came in, it was soon apparent that none was to be had at that price. The farmers stood around the street and talked among themselves, but any price offered less than ten cents met with instant refusal. It was ten cents ^ or nothing. Plead as the local buyers would, it did not alter the case in the least. Ten cents was the upset price, and any? thing mentioned less than ten cents ?was liable to inaugurate either a fight . or a flow of language less religious m than emphatic or eloquent. Matters stood in statu quo until I about 4 o'clock this evening, when the mers} their wagons loaded with tton, assembled on lower BroaJl str* ~ formed the parade and march I - tb principal streets of the city I until a late hour. A bugler and a drummer were procured, and a big banner bearing the sign, "Pay us ten cents for our cotton or we will haul it back again," waved from a pile .)f bales upon the front wagon. The streets were soon lined with people, and the farmers were cheered f to the echo at every corner of the streets. It was evident to the most . casual observer that the sympathy of the people was with the plucky farm? ers. A feeble attempt was made upon the part of some buyers to guy the a parade, but it did not work at all. The people cheered as the wagons. j all heavily laden with bales of fleecy staple, rolled by. The most remarkable circumstance ? of the whole affair was found in the culmination of the parade, however. Just as they were about to disperse ^and haul their cotton back home, some of them, as far as 15 miles, a prominent buyer of this city stepped to the leader and said: "Good men, I admire your pluck. I will take every bale in this parade nt ten cents." It was sold, every bale, W at the price named by the planters. I Thus ended one of the most remark I able scenes ever seen in Rome. ?agi- . ? ? . - i * DISASTER OX THE LAKES. I Loss of Biggest Steamer With Crew of Twenty-Three Reported. Cleveland, Ohio, October 23.-Fears are entertained at the headquarters ol the Gilchrist Lake fleet that the 475 foot steamer S. J/Hecker, one of the hi^?r?ot ~* Lake fleet is lost. 23 men. She was Friday passing .-.;gn . river. THE CIVIL SERVICE. VAST ARMY IX THE GOVERX MEXT EMPLOY. They Have Short Hours, Easy Work, Many Holidays and Big Pay. Some Inside Facts. Special to The Daily Item. Washington, Oct. 23.-The United States government differs from the governments of other- great powers in that its civil service far exceeds in per? sonnel its military or any other great power. With them there are far more soldiers bearing arms than clerks wielding pens and the United States government is further peculiar in its extensive employment of women in clerical work. In no other coun : try except Russia is the civil service establishment so much in need of re? organization and' reform. A great re" form was doubtless effected when ad? mission to the service was made de? pendent on a competitive examination requiring certain educational attain? ments. The service under Roosevelt is decidedly better thanet was under Grant. But the fact that ? man or woman has proved by an examination that he can spell, write and knows, something of arithmetic do^s not prove that he is willing to work or will not take advantage of the many opportunities to r?&glect and shirk his -work. The departments are incum bered with employes who have been placed there on account of their polit? ical services or on account of their relationship to senators or senators' wives or mother-in-law. They have held fast through many administra? tions successive cabinet officers as heads of departments hesitating to dis? place clerks so respectable, so venera? ble and of such formidable antece dents. These clerks so well entrenched have a most demoralizing influence. They have long drawn pay doing little or no work, and are adepts in all the arts of shirking work and making thc most of their sinecure. The president and the cabinet officers have long been cognizant of this state of a?fairs and at a cabinet meeting just previous to the president's departure for the South it was decided that the president and cabinet officers should be entitled to the right to .dismiss peremptroily any civil service employee known to be in? efficient,-or obstructive to the govern" ment service. In such a case the dis- j missal should be final and the dis charged employe without recourse or j appeal. The howl that his arisen in j the departments in ?Washington de- \ monstrates better than anything else could the number of heads that should fall. The efficient, honest and indus? trious clerk has no'.hing to. fear from the order and it is conservative to es? timate that thirty per cent, of the government clerks are shaking in their shoes at the present monier.:. It Is not to be supposed that thirty per cent of the civ.il employes will be dismissed nor that a third of even that propor? tion will go, but every man and wo? man with a guilty conscience is con? scious that he or she is in range of the lightning that may strike at any mo? ment. The government clerk does not have a hard time. He is asked to work seven and a half hours six days in the week. He has thirty days an nual sick leave and thirty days annual vacation. He has as many holidays as a patriotic people can devise rea? sons for or find dead heroes to honor, including Labor Day. During three months of the summer he is dismissed every Saturday at noon. And for all of this he gets a salary higher than would be paid by any private corpo? ration and" paid with a regularity that nothing can interrupt. And does he tn exchange always give efficient and honest services? Xot by any means. The majority actually steal from the government in time, service and sup? plies more than they are worth to it, and the manner and diversity of their evasions and speculations would take a book to describe. In the small in? cident of receiving visitors during of? fice hours it is impossible to compute how much of their time the govern? ment loses. Some clerks are permit? ted to receive visitors until 2 o'clock of each day and it is no common sight to find the toilet room for the women clerks filled with the clerks and their guests until that hour. Ev? ery bureau has a messenger who Is there for the better communication of the different bureaus'. It is no un? common thing for him to act on occa? sions as the janitor, butler or coach? man of the bureau chief whom hf is afraid to offend for fear of losing his place. Hundreds of clerks are en- [ gaged in literary work which they do in office hours with the aid of the gov? ernment paid amanuenses, employing data collected by the government us? ing department stationery, ink, pen? knives as private property to their homes is so great as to be the rule rather than the exception. In the mat? ter of vacations tlx ir subterfuges for obtaining more than they are entitled to would give lessons to diplomats. If a clerk divides his thirty days and takes one at a time he may by careful management get sixty in the year, that is by lopping a half day from the day he leaves and a half day from the day he returns he gets an extra day with full pay. For sick leave he can obtain a physician's certificate that he has been ill enough to need a pic? nic. These are the smallest of the of? fenses of the clerks and so common as to be considered outside altogether the question of. a clerk's honesty or efficiency. The greater ones that may possibly come up for rectification un? der the new law are too numerous and of too widely a varying character to make description possible. Sufiic jm example or two. A chief of a bu? reau is an habitual drunkard. He has a trusted clerk who feels his own position more secure or his chances for promotion better if he humors the chief. The chief leaves with him his signature attached to blank document papers of all variety when he goes for a spree. The clerk fills them in and they go to the secretary and occasion aly even the president is honored with one which the chief has never seen ex? cept when he attached his name to the blank. His clerk keeps him informed in a general way of the office, if he can be found and If his absence caus? es too much comment he generally has sufficient control to sober up and come back until quiet is restored. An? other, the correspondent of a powerful newspaper wrants his "ladyfren" kept in office. It is both more respectable and more economical for him. She hasn't had the advantages of an ex? tensive education but she can dust books so she gets a place at 75 per month. She isn't always clean or al? ways polite or always sober but it is a dangerous thing to antagonize a powerful newspaper and the corres" pondent probably knows about other irregularities 1n the department that the chief who signs each month for her efficiency and good conduct would not have made public for a good deal more than seventy-five dollars a month paid by the governments But space forbids enumeration. The cab? inet officers have the right in their own hands now. If they allow the gov? ernment to be so persistently and systematically fleeced the public will know where to place the responsibility. A RADICAL OPINION. Assistant Attorney General Yonmons Stretches the Power of Dispen? sary Law. Columbia, October 21.-Assistant Attorney General Youmans today ren? dered an important opinion to the Law and Order League at Prosperity, in which he holds that liquor shipped in? to this State may be seized under the storing and keeping in posession clause of the dispensary law, though it is for personal use and regardless of how small the quantity. Measured by the decision yard stick, every club in tho State is violating the law. McCaw. A THIEF HUNT. Dispensaries Will Be Given a Thor? ough Checking Up. Columbia, October 21.-Commis? sioner Tatum has issued orders to the inspectors to make a thorough check? ing up of all county dispensers, the object being to do away with the per? functory manner in which this work has been executed heretofore. It is sought to thus reduce the number of dispensers going short. JERRY SIMPSON DEAD. The Sockless Statesman Pays the Debt of Nature. Kansas City, Mo., October 23.-Ex Congressman Jerry Simpson died at 6:02 o'clock this morning.^ FIRE IN JORDAN. Dwelling House on the Broughton Place Destroyed. The dwelling house on the farm of Mr. W. C. Broughton in the Jordan neighborhood was burned Sunday af? ternoon about 3:30 o'clock. The house was occupied by Mr. A. J. Ardis, who had the farm rented for the year. The origin of thc- fire has not been as? certained nor any particulars, only the fact that the house was a total Toss. It was valued at $1,200 and the insur? ance was only $500. A short time ago Mr. Broughton sold the farm to Mr. Joo\ Davis of Concord, to be delivered January 1st. Tit 1rs have not yet passed but a regu? lar contract <>f sale was drawn up and Mr. Davis made the first payment on the purchase price. St. Louis. M<>., October IS.-A cy? clone swept over Bond county this morning. Tho town of Soronto. Ills., ts reported wiped out. and at leasl four persons are known to have been killed. MAINE BANK ROBBED. Burglars Blow Open Safe and Make Small Haul. Phillips, Maine, October 21.-Bur glars last night robbed the Phillip National bank of $74 9 in silver and coppers. The vault was blown open by means of dynamite, but no attempt was made to break into the main saio where about $14,0 Ot) in currency was stored. There is no clue to the rob? bers. THE KING OF FORGERS. Alonzo J. Whiteman Goes to Prison for Grand Larceny. Buffalo, X. Y., October 21. -Alonzo J. Whiteman, of Dansville, X. Y., who is known as the King of Forgers, was convicted by a jury in the Supreme Court this morning of grand larceny in the first degree for passing a forged check for $750 on the Fidelity Trust Company. Whiteman once ran for mayor of Duluth, Minn. He has already served several sentences for forgery in other States. In two other forgery trials here the juries disagreed. INDIANA BANK LOOTED. A Town Held Up in True Jesse James Style. . Rid|reville, Ind., October 24.-Bur? glars early this morning blew open the safe in the Bank of Ridgeville and stole $6,000. After a running battle with a posse in which the cashier and two citizens were wonded, the bur? glars escaped. For more than an hour the town was practically at the mercy ol the robbers who openely walked the streets shooting at everything in sight apparently taking their time in leaving town. Two charges of dynamite were ex? ploded before the safe gave H>ay. The secenod blast aroused Cashier R. C. Ransom who ran into the street. As soon as. he appeared the robbers open? ed fire on him. This aroused other citizens. There were seven in the cracksmen's party. CAROLINA COLLEGE NEWS. Class Elections and Football Games-. The Big Game Thursday. Columbia, October 24.-The Third formal class has elected the roilow ing officers: President, H. . H. Evans, Lee; vice president, H. L. Baulware, Xewberryy; secretary and treasurer, J. T. Harris. Oconee; historian, W. F. Hiers, Bam? berg. The Freshman Class has fleeted of? ficers as follows: President, Ii. M. Cooper, Sumter; vice president, David Loring, Sumter: secretary and treasurer. J. Mabry, Hartsville; historian, J. W. Lee, Sum? ter; manager football team, W. H. Hughes, Lexington. ? The following are the officers of tho Clariosophic society for the ensuing term: President, W. C. Ta^flr, Greenville, vice president, J. P. Patton, Spartan burg; literary critic, F. W. Bradley, Greenwood" secretary, H. McG. Holmes, Charleston; treasurer, Vernie Cook. Kershaw; librarian, F. F. Cov? ington, Marion; sargeant-at-arms, H. V. Harris, Oponee; recorder, J. H. Lexington. The following are the officers of the German club: President, D. McKay, Richland; vice president, B. Hey ward, Richland* treasurer, J. R. Fant, Union; leader, R. D. Lee, Jr., Sumter; secretary, A. Jones, Richland. On Friday Carolina defeated Bing" ham by the score of 18 to 6. Carolina team showed some improvement since the Welsh Xeck game. Bingham's team was strengthened by Jacocks, who played star ball with the Univer? sity of North Carolina. He coached Bingham and played left half. The line up of the two teams was as fol? lows: Carolina-McKay, (captain) right end; Wilds, right tackle; Sligh, right guard; Moore, Craft. Hamer, left guard, Fendley, left tackle; Foster, left tackle; Barton, left end; Harmon, quarter back; Swepston, right half back; Jacocks. left half back; Gordon, Lee. left end; Mabry, Holmes, quarter back; Swygert. Holmes, right half back; Hey ward, left half back; Hyde, full back; A. Jones, centre. Bingham-Lynch, (captain) right end; King, right tackle: Durham, right guard; Jones, left guard: Thurmond, full back; Simpson, centre. For Carolina Wilds and Holmes were stars. The whole team played good ball, especially when they held Bingham for three downs within one foot of the goal and to?d< the ball away throwing them hack twelve var. ls. The team is in good condition t< = meet ili<> A. & M. college Thursday of fair wei k. D. D. "0 7. THE DEMAND FOR COTTON. Many Million New Spindles in Man? chester. England. Special correspondence in this week's Manufacturers' Record from Manchester, England, notes that dur? ing the year 55 new cotton mills have been built in Lancashire representing 4.775,000 spindles, or nearly one-half the whole spindle equipment of the South, that mills idle for many years have been re-equipped, that others have been remodeled, and that other mills still in course of construction will soon come into operation. The correspondent says: Supply cannot, in fact, overtake demand, nothwithstanding the high high pressure at which the mills are working. I hear of mills a year, IS months, and even two years ahead in orders. The 'boom,' therefore, is not of the type which expanding bladder? like, speedily reached its limit and bursts. The end of the war, besides reopening markets which were prac? tically closed, will give a long impetus to cotton to repair waste as weil as to build up foreign stocks. "Now that peace has been declared, there ip general expectation that Jap? an will emphasize her progressive tendencies by making prompt head? way as a commercial and maritime nation. Korea she will certainly take in hand, and it is thought that China also will receive Western observers who look forward to the economic developments with a certain anxiety, fearing that the increasing activity of Japan in the markets of the Far East may prejudicially affect the trade of Great Britain, the United States and other countries. The suggestion ap? pears to be that Japan will not only make serious inroads into our trade with neutral markets, but will supply herself with those things which she was hitherto imported and want noth? ing from us. Of course, such fears are quite illusory. We may rest as? sured the more Japan develops her export trade and her sea-carrying trade the more mast she import in order to recoup herself. That which she does not import from us she will import from our actual or potential customers, thereby presenting the ex? change of commodities throughout the world, from which the profits of trade are derived. Xo country has traveled so far along that -oad of economic development upon which Japan is now setting as has England, and the end of it is that England to? day buys far more from the rest of the world than ever before, and not merely of raw materials, but also of manufactures. Even those markets which England has opened up for herself have become markets for oth? er countries also. In proof of all which our own protectionists have amassed abundant statistics. If. then. England's industrial and commercial development has benefitted thc world and eitfiched the traders of other na? tions, why .should the development of Japan do otherwise? "If Japan should succeed in pro? ducing an economic renaissance in China similar to that which she her? self has already experienced she will perform an estimable service to ali the trading and industrial people of the western world. The western na? tions have not been very successful in stimulating the hundreds of mil? lions of Chinamen to desire things which they cannot produce them? selves, and until such a demand :s created and the people of China are educated to want what they have hitherto been content to lack that great field for commercial enterprise will continue to lie almost entirely fallow. But before the Japanese can make very much headVay among the substantial traders in China they will have to learn that a reputation for straightforward dealings is of the first importance. It is curious fact that whilst the official Japanese seems to be the soul of honor, the commercial Japanese is not credited with being scrupulous overmuch, in China, indeed, he has the opposite reputation. This is no doubt a result of the traditional social prejudice against trade in Japan, which until quite recently made it impossible for the better class of the people to en? gage in commerce without losing caste." LIFE SAVERS MISSING. Gallant Men I?ut Out in a Gilo to Res? cue Crow of Sinking Ship. Erie. Pa., Much apprehension is felt for the safety of the members of the local life saving station and for those persons aboard a steamer sighted 15 miles east of here at ll o'clock last night Hying a signal of distress. A boat from the life saving station, which went t<> their rescue had not returned up to noon today. A terrific gale was blowing when the boat put out and it is thought it may have been swamped before it could reach the boat in distress. POWDER Absolutely Pure HAS M? SUBSTITUTE A Cream of Tartar Powder, free from alum or phos? phate acid ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW Y^ORKv. ONE GRAFTER CONVICTED. Stanley Francis, the Story Cottons Company Swindler, Punished. Philadelphia, October 18.-Stanley Francis, of the defunct Story Cotton Company, was this morning found guilty on all seven counts of the in? dictments upon which he was tried in CJnited States court here. A motion for a new trial was made. THE BOND THIEF. Has Not Been Arrested and It Is Fear ed That He May Biave Killed Himself. Columbia, October 18.-Nothing is pet known of the whereabouts of Dan? iel Zimmerman and in view of the nervous condition in which he was known to be for the past several tveeks, it is feared he has done vio? lence to himself. McCaw. Found at Last. Columbia, October 18.-Daniel Zimmerman has been located and will ippear and give/bond this afternoon. RUSSIAN BRUTALITY. rhe Inhuman Tortures Inflected Upon Two Polish Prisoners. Warsaw, Poland, October IS.-Twa prisoners, Schultz and Engrat, who are charged with shooting a cotton manu? facturer, but granted a trial, have Deon removed to the R.-d Cross hos? pital, after being subjected to fright? ful tortures by the order of police at Lodz. Both prisoners are injured in? ertially, their ilngers being broken ind their bodies being cove: ed with Druises. Shulta had a-; broken collar ;)ono and beth arms are fractured, rhe torturers placed iron rods between :he fingers of their victim's and then squee/ed "hem with ropes. Later the hand o? the prisoners were tied be? hind their backs and they were hoist ad to the ceiling and th- n dropped to the floor. Both prisoners were bru tally whipped with leather thongs, al? though Engrat had proved an alibi. A POLICEMAN KILLED. V Drunken Man Cut His Tlircat While Resisting Arrest. New York, October 19.-Policeman.' John E. Gilligan, of the West Forty Seventh street station, who has just ;ecovered fro ?a a bullet wound through the lung, which he received in a n encounter with Hell's Kitchen ?ang a year ago. was stabbed fatally ?arly this morning while arresting Emil Schafer, a bartender from Union Bill. X. J. Gilligan is unconscious in :he Roosevelt Hospital from the ef? fects of the vicious knife thrust that lopped off the lower section of his dght ear and ripped through the ar? :eries of the lower part of the jaw. rhe weapon just missed the jugular ,'ein. Schaffer, who was intoxicated, re? sisted arrest and during the fight dashed the officer. He was locked up ifter a desperate fight with Detective Sergeant Peabody and three , police-? nen. In the fight in which Gilligan receiv? ed the bullet through the lung a yea* igo he shot and killed one of his as? ?ailants. Miss Alite Home Again. San Francist-.'. October 23.-Tho Pacific Steamship Company's liner Siberia arrived at this point today di? vot from Yokohama in tho record leaking time of ton days, ten hours md 2S minutes. There wore manv listinguished passengers <>n tho Si >eria, among them being Miss Alico Roosevelt anti other members of the L'aft party, and E. H. Harriman and ?arty.