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fe* OTXTKfc WATCHMAN, established April, 1850? "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the-Ends thou Alms t at be thy Country s thy God's and Truth's. THE TECS SOUTHS ON, Established jnae, 139 Cosolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1906. New Series-Vol. XXY. So. 16 Cfc $Sa%uat at? jiou?j?rmt MUihaA. Bra? Wdbieiday, fiSTEEN PU8USH2N8 COMPANY, .SUMTER, 8. C. TISIS : $1 50 per tnt) am-ie advance. iDTIBTIllKfIf: OM Sqtt&ro first ?2*ertiou.....?.....,......$l CO ?WJ subeeqceat insertion.................. 90 Contracte fer three month*, or longer will i ? saids at reduced raw?. m?erei?i^ ObUaariet and tributes of respects will be abftrge? for. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. j ---- * The Day for Giving Thanks Named I By the President. Washington, November 2.-The president today issued this proclama? tion naming Thursday, November 3 Otis, next, as a. day for thanksgiving. The proclamation folows: / By the President o? the United States o? America: A Proclamation. "When nearly three centuries ago the first settlers came to the country which has now become this great re? public, they fronted not only #hardl ?hip hut terrible risk of their_ lives. In those grim years the custom grew of setting apart one day in each year for <a special service of thanksgiving to the Almighty for preserving the people through the changing seasons. The custom has now become national and-hallowed by immemorial usage. We live in. easier and more plentiful times than our forefathers, the men who with rugged strength faced the rugged days; and yet the dangers to national life are quite as great now as at any previous time in our history* It is eminently fitting that once ? year our people should set apart a day for praise and thanksgiving to the giver of good and, at the same time, that they express their thankfulness for the abundant mercies received, should manfully acknowledge their shortcomings and pledge themselves solemnly and in good faith to strive to overcome them. During the past year we have been blessed with boun? tiful crops. Our business prosperity has been great. No other people has ever stood on^s higlr^a level of ma? terial well being as ours now stands. We are not threatened by foes from without. The foes from whom we should pray tb be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always nee'd that we should war. Therefore, I now set apart Thurs? day, the 30th ,day of this November, as a day of thanksgiving for the past and of prayer for the future, and on that day I ask that throughout the land the people gather in their homes ' and places of worship, and in render-' ing thanks unto the 4Most High for the manifold blessings of the past year, consecrate themselves ta' a life of c?e&nli??ess, honor and wisdom, so that this nation may do its allotted work on the earth in a manner worthy of those who founded it and of those who preserved it. In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun? dred and five and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth. > Theodore Roosevelt. By the President: .Elihu Root, Secretary of State. THE CHINESE OUTRAGE. Washington, November 3.-United States Minister Rockhill,, at Pekin, telegraphed the State department to? day that he had just been informed by the foreign officer of the attack of Oceober 28th made by a mob on the American Presbyterian mission sta? tion in Tien Choo, in which the mis? sion -was destroyed and five mission? aries killed. Two missionaries es? caped. Immediately on receipt of the news the Emperor issued an edict ordering the viceroy of Canton to inflict ex? emplary punishment upon the perpe? trators of the outrage and all guilty officials, and directing that compensa? tion be made and adequate protection be afforded all missionaries. Mr. Rockhill is informed that the attack resulted from the refusal of the missionaries to permit the firing of cannon by the villagers during a festival. He expects further details from the Chinese foreign office. Columbia, November 7.-The first patent medicine seizure under Chief Hammett's recent order took place at Central, Pickens county, where eight bottles of Peruna were seized. BRICE LAW UNCONSTmmOXAL. G. Duncan Bellinger, Former Attor? ney General, Confident of Knock ing It Oat in Federal Court. Columbia, November 3.-The law? yers for the Union dispensers who are seeking to ;have the Federal court step in and restore these dispensers to their job on the ground that th*? Union election was void because the Brice law is unconstitutional, are laughing at the cry of bad politics that is going up over their move from the editorial and news columns of the daily and weekly press of the State, are amused to know that their fight is looked upon as likely to in? cense the people into driving the leg? islature to enact a general prohibition law. "We don't care a continental cuss," said ex-Attorney General G. Duncan Bellinger to me today, "what the leg? islature enacts or neglects or refuses or fails to enact We are not repre? senting any politician or bunch of politicians. We are seeking a defin? ite remedy, and we believe we are going to get it. We want our clients restored to their positions." "You represent no general associa? tion of dispensers, or dispensary ad? herents?" "No, sirifj j "Nor the State board of control?" "Not in the remotest way. I think it would be a very bad move on their part to get mixed up with a fight of this kind." "Do all the people you do represent live in Uion county?" ? "All named in the papers do." And Mr. Beilinger laughed. He declined to say what other interests he and those associated with him represent. It is a question that has aroused much in? terest throughout the State: "According to the remarks Judge Pritchard made at the time he made arrangements to hear you at Rich? mond on the question of issuing a mandatory injunction to accomplish what you failed to accomplish at Asheville, he does not seem to think you have much of a case?" "On the contrary, Judge Pritchard clearly indicated that he saw that the Brice act was unconstitutional, as every good lawyer, and even every layman, who has read the Federal constitution, sees. But he doubts whether we can get at that point through our efforts to restore to of? fice. We think we can convince him he is wrong. He was right in decid? ing at Asheville that he had no ju? risdiction; we knew the moment the question was raised that we were gone for the time being. But even the lawyers on the other side know that the Brice law is unconstitutional ac? cording to either the State or Federal constitution/' "Think you will succeed before the convening of the legislature." * "Yes, I think we will. But if we don't we are nevertheless in this fight until we do succeed, or until the leg? islature repeals the Brice act or abol? ishes the dispensary system." "In your opinion will the legislature do either at its next sitting?i' "As I look at it the next legislature will do nothing with the dispensary. No politician with hopes of a "future is going to father a bill to abolish the dispensary. He won't stake his fu? ture on any such move in view of all the doubt and confusion about the matter." "Oconee county went dry this week by a vote of ten to one. Some twelve other counties are dry by almost equally impressive majorities. Do you discover any element of doubt in that?" "The elections show merely that ! the people are dissatisfied with the way the dispensary is administered. And besides, only from a third to half the people are voting under the re? strictions of the Brice act Wait till the primaries are heard from." Attorney-Welsh/ who is associated with Mr. Bellinger, advocates amend? ing the dispensary law so as to pro? vide for selling across the dispensary counter by the drink, mixed accord? ing to the best science, practice and skill of a modern barkeep, the doing away with request blanks and the ex? tension of the closing hour to 9 o'clock so as to head oft! blind tiger "They taik so much about the do? ing away with the request blank re? quirement." Mr. Welsh said. "Why don't those who find fault proceed against the offending dispenser on the criminal side of the court. The statute is clear, making such neglect or failure on his part punishable by a $500 fii:e in addition to forfeiture of his job." McCvv. William Levingo?d, a respectable colored man. committed suicide at his home, four miles from Walhalla, on last Saturday. . He was 50 years old and the head, of a large family. He had been laboring under hallucina? tions. AX AWFUL DEATH. I Woman Aeronaut Falls From a Soar? ing Balloon in Anderson. Anderson, Nov. 2.-Mrs. Maude Broadwick, the wife of Charles Broadwick, an aeronaut with . Rid? dells Southern Carnival Company? fell from a balloon here this afternoon and was instantly killed. Mrs. Broad? wick was an experienced balloonist herself and had made two ascensions while here, but was not to go up this afternoon. Her husband was to make .th?;.ascension', and , parachute drop, and she was standing by to give the signal to cut the ropes when all was ready. She gave the signal all right, and when the balloon shot up into the air she was seen hanging to the ropes between the balloon and the para? chute. After she had reached a dis? tance of 200 or 300 feet she dropped to the earth, striking on the hard ground and was instantly killed. ,The balloon went straight up into the air and she fell within a few feet of the spot irom w?iere she started. A. crowd of possibly 1,000 persons witnessed* the tragedy. Broadwick, who was fastened into the parachute with a belt, went on some distance higher and then cut loose and descended in safety. Most of the carnival people are inclined to the opinion that Mrs. Broadwick's death, was due to suicide rather than an accident. They say Broadwick and his wife had been quarreling for a week or more and this, together with the fact that she was an ^experienced aeronaut and there were no projecting ropes about the balloon harness liable to entan? gle a person, led them to the suicide theory. Broadwick admits that he and his wife had quaife-eled, but says they made up, as they had done be? fore. He says though that ?he knew all ?about balloons and he'does not seeihow she could have become acci dentaly entangled in the ropes. He has been in the balloon business 15 years and says his wife been in 1 the business eight years and that she was quite as expert as himself. He says that as she fell she called him to catch her, but that he could not do so. He thinks that it was an acci? dent and not siucide. Broadwick says Cincinnati is his home. He says his wife's people live there, but they were bitterly opposed to the marriage and have never become reconciled to their ti daughter since her marriage, and for that reason he has not notified them of her death and will have the inter? ment take place here Saturday. He is almost completely prostrated. Mrs. Broadwick was about 22 years old and was very popular with the mem? bers of the carnival company.-The State. SLAUGHTER OF JEWS. Threats of the Odessa Mob to Exter? minate Jews. London, November 2.- A dispatch to the Evening Standard from Odessa says: "The city rings with the reports of rifles and revolvers and occasionally a volley is fired. Every house and tene? ment is bolted and barred. The infan? try patrols are doing their duty per fuetorily, declining to fire on the mobs unless they themselves are attacked. The Cossacks are said to have lost over a hundred men by bombs and shots from windows. Cossack patrols carry carbines and have their fingers on ^the triggers. The streets are ab? solutely unsafe for civilians. "The casualties yesterday are be? lieved to have amounted to 5,000 kill? ed and wounded. In Jewish quarters bodies still strew the streets and side? walks. Jewish women and children were strangled and hacked to pieces in the streets where the mobs gained the upper hand. A Red Cross doctor tells me that the Kishineff horrors were repeated a hundred fold. The students alone saved the city from wholesale sack and massacre. The military are now placing a hundred machine guns at various points. Twenty-six carts of wounded _ have just passed my door. "Gen. Kaulbars was called to the balcony of the palace this morning by five thousand loyalists carrying impe ria. portraits anl ikons and singing the national hymn. The General earnestly entreated the assemblage to disperse and go home, but with ring? ing cheers the loyalist? resumed mraching through the city. "The sound of firing is again mov? ing westward towards the Jewish quarters. The mobs swear they will not leave a single Jew alive." Poughkeepsie. X. Y.. November 7. -After an all night search for Miss Emily Ensign, a beautiful student of Vassar college, her body was found ?arly this morning in a lake in the college grounds. She had been suffer? ing with melancholia. Her home was in Youngstown, Ohio. THE STRUGGLE IN RUSSIA. COUNT WITTE HAS NO REAL POWER AS YET. Reactionaries Still Have the Czar's Ear and He Acts on Their Ad? vice Behind Witte's Back. St Petersburg, via Lodon, Novem? ber 4.-The press censorship, which has been exercised in Russia since time immemorial, will cease on Sun? day, after which time newspapers will be amendable to criminal laws drily'for anything libelous appearing in print The government intends to make the libel laws very stringent, which will amount to almost a con? tinuance of the censorship. This, to? gether with the limited nature of the amnesty granted to political offenders, shows that the bureaucracy continues to be powerful. More victories must be won before Russia will be free. ? The correpondent of the Publish ; ers* Press today had an interview with one of the most prominent officials. who is a close friend and collaborator of Count Witte, in which he said: "Count Witte has not yet come into real power. He is being hampered at every step by the reactionaries to whom the Czar continues to listen be? hind Witte's back. It is a great mis? take to believe the revolution in Rus? sia is dead. It is much alive and is growing strong again. The raction aries are responsible for the disorders now going on in all of the provinces. They are trying to prove that the peo? ple are unable to govern themselves. If Count Witte had the power in his hands he would put an immediate end to the rioting." Rioting and Bloodshed. London, November 4.-A dispatch to Lloyds from its agent at Marinpol, Russia, dated November 3, says: "This is the third day of rioting. New attacks are being made against the Jews. All work is at a standstill. Many shops have been broken into and a number have been burned. Many persons have been been killed and wounded during the disorders." CZAR ISSUES AN APPEAL. He Calls on JPeopIe to Support Go\ .. ernment and Make New Regime a Success. St. Petersburg, November 2, 4:30 p. m.-A manifesto by the Czar was posted in all streets this afternoon, calling on the citizens to support tho government The Czar says he right? fully counts on a majority of thw people giving him their ^sympathies and he hopes their efforts will be di? rected toward restoring order, so that the new regime may be inaugurated successfully. Discouraging news from the prov? inces continues to be received. A dispatch from Kieff this afternoon says a mob has fbeen formed there and has made an attack on the Jews. The whole town is in an uproar while the police and soldiers are doing nothing towards preventing the at? tacks made on the Semites. Bloodshed at -Moscow. London, November 2.-A dispatch to the Central News from St. Peters? burg says that serious disorders have occurred at Moscow today, where bloody street fighting occurred between nationalists and socialists. Dun's Trade Review. New York, November 3.-R. G. Dun & Company's weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: Cooler weather in most sections of the country has stimulated retail de? mand for seasonable merchandise, im? proving the tone of business where there had been nrore or less irregular? ity, but reports are still somewhat mixed as to collections Supplemen? tary orders are coming to the primary markets for wearing apparel and in many cases shipments would show still larger gains over the same time last year if the transportating facili? ties were better. This car shortage is an increasing disturbing element. There is still a very close comparison of railway earnings, which were only 9 per cent, larger than in October, 1904. At the south and west v the scarcity of labor retards operations, yet those sections are more prosper? ous than ever before, and quarantine restrictions no longer interfere in the New Orleans district. Failures returns were very favor? able in October, liabilities falling 36 per cent, behind last year's. Commercial failures this week are 202 against 229 the corresponding week last year. Madison. Ind., November 2.-The bank at Sulphur, TTy., was robbed last night. The amount the burglars secured is said to be $30.000. The robbers escaped and are said to be coming this way, pursued by a posse. MRS. SAGE REBUKES WOMEN Those of Leisure Class Indulge in Gaming to Alarmeing Extent, She Says-Also "Appalling" Drinking. New York, November 1.-"There is an immense amount of feminine tal? ent and energy wasted in the world every day. This is not due to the in? difference or the laziness of woman, for she is eager to do, to accomplish, to go out into the field of life and achieve for herself and for her kind. But she simply does not know how. One of the most important move? ments of the day, therefore is the re? awakening of woman, the building her up on a new basis of self-help and work for others. That move? ment will set lose an amount of en? ergy and talent that will revolution? ize our social life." Thus writes Mrs. Russell Sage in the November North American Re? view in an article on "Opportunities and Responsibilities of Leisured Wo? men,** which is here quoted by per? mission. "It is absurd," Mrs. Sage says, "to suggest that women who have a tal? ent for music or literature or ar: should be enslaved by domestic drudgery, while the struggle for the civilization of the world is going on." The writer thinks selfishness and idleness great sources of danger. She thinks women's laxity toward drink? ing and smoking is injurious. At a dinner she recently attended she says, "it w?s put to a vote whether or not smoking ?should be indulged in. The ladies present, not wishing to be ob? noxious, voted Yes,' I being the only one that voted 'No.' The reoalt was that the men indulged their love for tobacco to the discomfort of almost all the women present and the nausea of some of them. This sort of thing is remotely responsible for the cigar? ette-smoking habit among reputable young women. They indulge in order to affiliate with young men and, be considered 'good fellows.' Women Hard Drinkers. "Drinking is indulged in to an ap? palling extent by women of the wealthy idle class, and their daugh? ters are following in their - footsteps. The great danger of this is that the idle rich class influences the 'succeed? ing strata of society. This class is surrounded with a certain glamour that those not so high up in the so called 'social scale' mistake for some? thing genuine, but which is the ver? iest sham. Bear in mind that I refer to no set or clique, but to- a condi? tion manifested in all parts of the country. Now, the persons of this class are widely imitated. If they drink it is considered smart to do so, and others follow suit. If they smoke cigarettes other girls do the same." Mrs. Sage denounces gambling as one of the "inevitable concomitants of idle extravagant life." She tells of hostesses politely bullying men into games of poker or bridge whist and making them pay dearly. She adds: "The trouble is that the wives of many women in this class squander in gambling and other forms of dissipa pation the money their husbands^ive them for household expenses, and are compelled to resort to just such measures to make up the deficit, lest their husbands find out the true state of affairs and adopt drastic measures to correct them. * * * "Week-end parties have bridge whist as a sole purpose. Rooms are hired and furnished, in all parts of New York city, by fashionable young women, who do nothing but gamble there. I was sitting in my carriage not long ago, and, seeing a young friend of whom 1 am fond, walking up the avenue, I invited her to drive with me. But she waved her hand and exclaimed, 'I can't today, I've been losing at euchre, and now I am going to make it up at bridge,' and she hurried on * * * "The idle rich are no more vicious than the idle poor, but they are much more lacking in sympathy with one another." Work for the Leisure Class. Mrs. Sage recommends women of leisure to apply themselves to mis? sionary work in improving towns and villagers. She suggests: "In our great cities many women are necessarily lonely or are forced int"? vicious society. And this loneli? ness is not ameliorated by attending balls and otlu.r entertainments. It is unfortunate that men of small means, having to attend business, must leave their wives much alone ?n hotels and boarding houses. It is not woman's nature to be philosophically resigned to solitude. She must have society, preferably good, but she must have society. "An inexperienced man is apt to neglect his wife and still expect her :o be chaste as Lucr?ce. There is a great field for work among the un? employed wives of salaried men. If the idle rich woman would only learn Bc Sure to Use Only Cream of Tartar Baking Powder Food made with alum baking powder carries alum to the Stomach unchanged. Scientists have positively demonstrated this and that such food is partly indi* ge?t?ble and unhealthful * !- ~"" to look upon her sister of this class as the daughter of a woman like her? self, coequal with her before God, she would take her by the hand and draw her out freon her solitude, and by so doing reap a reward in the un? folding of her own character." Mrs. Sage very earnestly declares that the only remedy for the social evil in our communities is by educat? ing boys and girls to one standard of morality.-Richmond Times. One View of the Murray Case. We printed yesterday a dispatch from Sumter in which was retailed an unconfirmed rumor to the effect that the Hon. George Washington Murray, having failed to legally evade the pen? itentiary, had taken himself to Can? ada to escape the sentence imposed upon him by the coarto. It is needless to say that as good citizens we should all regret to see tne , courts defied and justice miscarried, but should Mr, Murray resort successfully to an ex? pedient which has not infrequently stood fairer skinned criminals in good stead, at least one point of some value would be established. He would have proven beyond a peradventure that there is absolutely no right or liberty under the law, as it is practiced in the South, which a member of his race may not exercise and enjoy. Those persons who have contended that the eolored man is discriminated against among us would be forever confound? ed. Not only has the Hon. George Washington Murray beep able to ob? tain as much "law" as any accused white person was ever able to pur? chase, but when appeals to technical? ities had been exhausted in his behalf it is alleged that he exercised the in? alienable right of every convicted man to skip his bail and hie himself to parts unknown. Merely as proof positive of the fact that there is no longer any discrimination whatever before the law against a man because of race, color or a previous condition of servitude, the incident ls interest? ing and valuable. And should it actually develop that Mr. Murray has fled to Canada, tho demonstration of the point we havo mentioned may be made even more plain should proper efforts be made to have him returned to the jurisdiction of our Courts. The rights of the white American citizen in somewhat similar circumstances, have been well estab? lished recently by Messrs. Greene and Gaynor, who now are in jail at Savan? nah. Should it be made to appear that Mr. Murray can stave off even for a brief period his return to South Carolina, our case would be absolute? ly convincing. In view of the fact that he has already been convicted, while Messrs. Greene and Gaynor had merely been indicted, he could not reasonably expect to avoid the inevit? able as long as they did; but should it be found possible to bring about further delays of any duration what? soever, he should, as a fair-minded person, acknowledge that he had not been the victim of an "unsquare deal." in the eye of the law, merely because of his color. While, therefore, we regret to see justice circumvented, we feel that the case of the Hon. George Washington Murray is not wholly without its compensating and edifying features. It utterly confounds those traducers of Southern justice who have sought on occasions to nave it appear that it is a respecter of persons. Mr. Mur? ray, negro, th lgh he is. has found it possible to evade the penitentiary for months, and he is now said to bo in Canada, or somewhere else-exact? ly as though he was a white man. Xcws and Courier. -T - nm_ If you want to read an afternoon newspaper subscribe for The Daily Item-ifs a newspaper-there's a dif. terence between a paper and a news? paper. . ,