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SEN. TILLMAN'S REJOINDER ON DISPENSARY ISSUE Jte Stands By His Assertion That Morgan Bili Was Passed By Dirt) Bargain ?168T IT OUT TO LAST DITCH ~B& Says That the Dispensary Will Be Made the Issue in the Campaign This Simulier and That Every Office Witt Be Involved. Washington, February S.-^-Senator ^Tillmeui has seen "by the papers" that osrtain legislators and others are dis? posed to resent his remarks upon tho dispensary situation and he makes another remark or two. He insists that when he character? ized the method by which the Morgan lull passed the house as a "dirty bar? gain" he meant just that word and no other, though he says he did not mean to reflect in any way upon any of the Charleston delegation. / Says he: "I said there was a trade , lay which Charleston's nine votes were j cast for the hill in consideration for making that most* remarkable excep? tion for Charleston allowing it the i privilege denied all the rest of the State of having license if it wants it. ? "There may not have been any ac? tual overt trade, there may not have "been any formal agreement, but the thing is so se?f-evident that it isn't worth while for anybody to deny it. Charleston has always been in favor of local option,, by which, of course, it is meant that it wants saloons, and its representatives in the legislature saw that the only way to get it was to vote for this hill. "Likewise the anti-dispensary mern- j "hers from other counties know that ? the only way they could get Charleston support s of a so-calledr prohibition measure would he to except Charles- | ton from its operation by giving it the third choice of high license. "Else why did they except Charles- ! ton, and why did they not except Co lumbla, also, or Greenville, or Spar tanburg, or any other town? "Why, it is plain as the nose on your lace if they had not given this special. privilege to Charleston they would not 3have got these nine votes and the bill would have been defeated, and they know it" A few weeks ago it will be remem oered it was reported in this corres? pondence that Senator Tillman said he iad nothing, to say on the South Caro . Una situation, considering that in a general way it was not his business to interfere and that he had his hands toll here. As a matter of fact, there can be no doubt that he has his hands full here, about as full as any man in the senate, /but he instinctively keeps one ear to the ground for waht. is going on in ' South Carolina and it is as impossible lor him to keep out of it as it is for nixn to sit quietly in his seat in the Senate when a spirited debate is going on. 'T would be a fool," said he today, **to sit here in Washington, however much I am absorbed with affairs here, ?nd see the people of South Carolina tricked without at least making my protest. And by people I mean the real majority of the white people for ?whom I have struggled." The senator was once called down in the senate for using the word .trickery" when referring to the pres? ident, so I asked him what he meant Ijy it in this connection. "I say trick? ed,** he replied, "because that is what it appears to me. The . Brice law dis? franchises one-third of the white men ?n the State who can vote in the Dem? ocratic pYimary. ;*Eesides, the enemies of the dis? pensary, who for years have con- j trolled the State, have been putting men in charge of it who have misman? aged it, stolen from it, brought it into l>ad odor, and the newspapers which are and always have been bitter against the dispensary and against me, and which make a practice of sup? pressing whatever is favorable to Jhe dispensary and loudly vaunting what is unfavorable to it, are the ones which have *the largest circulation and the ones which these 'driftwood legisla? tors* read and look upon as the law, the prophets and the gospel so the people are hoodwinked, but there is a time coming. "The people will get a chance tu express themselves next summer and without any Brice law to disfranchise any of them and bottle them up. All they need is somebody to stir them up and let them know what is going on. ,The dispensary will be the deciding issue in the whole campaign, not only in the election of members of the leg? islature but in every election in the State for governor, for State ofiicers, for county officers, for my successor in the Senate and all." Something was said last summer about the Senator running for gover? nor instead cf for the Senate and there has been some; such talk here, though perhaps emanating from some ambitious representatives not averse to being called upon by the people to take a more exalted seat. Asked the direct question today, "Senator Tillman said: "Yes, I have thought many times of doing that. The only condition that would influence me to consider it, how ! ever, from a personal standpoint would be the fact that my health should be such as to make it unwise ; for me to remain in Washington and ; attend to my duties here. But some? body ought to take up the fight in South Carolina and straighten things in the interest of the people who are being hoodwinked, put the dispensary in good shape and otherwise give an example of honest politics." Those who think he contemplates running for governor say that in case of election, after 'serving one term he would again seek election to the sen? ate and thus break all previous rec? ords in his or any -other State. Of course he would lose his prestige on committees and his recognized place as one of the leaders in debate and so forth. He says, however, that should he ever leave the Senate to become gov? ernor he would never return. 'Tn that event," he observes, "I am done. I'm getting to old. "Now another thing," said Senator Tillman, "I. see somebody is getting off that old jibe, about my having crit? icised Hampton for meddling in State affairs while he was senator and charging that I am doing the same thing. The difference is just this: Hampton took part in a personal con? test between candidates engaging in a fight between one man and another running for office. I am taking no part in any personal contest, but in the discussion of great issues, which it is my duty to do so long as I am a citizen of the State, especially when I see an institution which I created and fostered attacked, and attacked in such underhanded, such a cowardly, way with every conceivable political trick and with a lot of hypocrisy." The State. BIG CLARENDEN LAND SALE. Over 31,000 Acres Sold-$30,025 Cash Realized. February sales was certainly* a red letter day in land selling. Lands brought excellent prices on the public block. The parcels belonged/ to the estate of A. J. Salinas & Sons, who be? came the owners through the estate of Louis Lyons. Messrs. C. O. Witte. Arthur Lynah and E. H. Sparkman, trustees, had the property sold.. Mr. C. M. Mason was the auctioner. The following shows the quality, price and purchaser: 90 acres, I. V. Plowden, $425. 200 acres, J. W. McLeod, $280. 21 acres, J. W. r^cod, $40. 40 acres, J. W. McLeod, $410. 100 acres, Abe Levi, $500. 457 acres, Abe Levi. $3,075. 57 acres, J. A. Weinberg, $1,260. 114 acres, J. W. McLeod, $1,800. 17 acres, J. W. McLeod, $45. 35 acres J. A. Weinberg, $515. . 57 acres, J. A. Weinberg, $710. 193 acres, J. A. Weinberg, $2.000. 202 acres, Thomas & Bradham, $1. 995. 200 acres, Thomas & Bradham, $2, i 100. 121 acres, Joseph Sprott, $1,250. 7 acres, A Weiberg, $250. 15 acres, C. E. Wilkins, $50. 110 acres J. A. Weinberg, $1,255. 89 1-2 acres. E. A. Fleming, $750. 125 acres, E. A. Fleming, $2,025. 107 acres, D. C. Shaw, $1,425. 88 acres, J. A. Weinberg, $1,325. 100 acres, I. V. Plowden, $505. 136 acres, S. M. Youmans, $970. 51 acres, J. A. Weinberg, $1,050. 75 acres, J. A. Weinberg, $1,125. 33 acres, C. E. Wilkins, $225. 146 acres, D. C. Shaw, $315. 1-8 acres Coffey & Rigby, $505. -]', acres, J. W. McLeod, $1,350. 1-2 Louis Appelt, $520. The terms of sale were cash.-Man? ning Times. ALLEGED LYNCHERS DISCHARGED. Barnwell, Feb. 7.-The seven men who were arrested last week and lodged in jail for murder of Frank and John DeLoach at Ulmer just before Christmas were given a preliminery hearing here today before Magistrate C. W. Moody and have been released, the testimony not being consider? ed sufficient to keep them in jail. After the testimony had been given, the solicitor made a clear statement of the State's case and urged that the defendants* be bound over to the circuit court. Both, Messrs. Aldrich and Best made a strong fight for their clients and were rewarded by the magistrate's decision. There was a great deal of excitement when the magistrate addressing the prisoners said: "Gentlemen, you are dismissed, the State has failed to make out its case against you." Hats went up in the air and the court room rang with the cheers of the sympathetic audience. There were a few who jeered at the sheriff and solicitor, but no serious trouble was caused. ?Just a little Kodol after meals will -elieve that fullness, belching, gas on stomach, and all other symptoms of indigestion. Kodol digests what you ea*, and enables the stomach and di? gestive organs to perform their func ions naturally. All druggists. DIRTY MOUTH REPROBATES. j liagoccl Comments cn thc Degrading Habit of Telling Smutty Jokes. Hagood, Februaiy 3.-Stopping at a hotel recently we met an old gray j headed man, a member of the church, [.trying to be one of thc boys, trying to j bo smart, indulging in a lot of dirty and vulgar talk that no decent mun wants to hear. He was sacrificing his I on ii sdi respect and losing that ot ci hers. Some folk*? think this dirty I i?lk shows wit and an- never so wei* ! pi eased as when .?dc ging in or WA i t? :i ng to it. Xearlv f-vcy community j ;s cursed with a man who is eternal'v rayng hard things about the women, forgetful that his own pure mother was one. Some folks without religion are more trustworthy than some others j full of it. That is the blessed truth, j Ephraim is a cake unturned, aad you are ever at a loss to know where he will turn up next. Don Quixote may be dead, but if ? he. is he has left a lot of children and i grandchildren behind who are con? tinually charging u^on something, so ! helpless a thing as a flock of sheep ! sufficing. How does that strike you ? Here is a fellow going around all mounted, with lance (pen) in hand in search of something to fight, and chances upon some bit of humor, though all the truth, and that hurts so they say whereupon he braces himself with the air of one who bears up the pillars of the universe, and my how he spills the ink with "a bit? ter attack" and "the veriest rot.'' For? tunately he soon exhausts his vocab? ulary and the farce is ended. Have you got one in your commu ity? I mean a "Smart Alex." If not do for goodness sake get one^. You don't know the amount of fun he will cre? ate, the good he will do. aside from the satisfaction it will give you to feel you are not such an ass after all. This comparing ourselves with our? selves is not well for then we come to think we are the people, neither should we at all times compare our? selves with our superiors lest we get discouraged and quit. The shallow? est pate cannot fail to discover him? self superior to the "Smart Alex," so you see that for the benefit of all it is well to have him around, but don't give him any rein or make him a bell weather in anything, or you will have troubie enough, because his is not the Midas touch that turns all to gold, but rather the touch that turns all to ash? es. As surely as I am sitting here he will split any church and ruin any business he runs. He is a nervous fid? gety fellow that can't be still, and it is wonderful the antics he can cut, and will if he h^Ls the attention of the crowd. "Why he will risk his neck for applause. Do not conclude all of them are devoid of learning, for some are very learned, but they are perfectly devoid of common sense and when turned loose in any important busi? ness are like a bull in a china shop. This fellow, I am near through with him, is a perfect egotist and gasbag, who will quit anything to parade be? fore you his accomplishments, whose favor is won and retained by flattery which you can lay on with a trowel Lntil man and utensil are used up. Yes, the "Smart 'Alex" has a place to fill, a work to do in the world that no else in its covets. Will the simpletons lis? ten to me a minute? Always be nat? ural, never try to pass for what you are not if you do not wish to be laughed at. Above all be honest, don't be a rascal for you won't get started before your ears crop out and they fall afoul of you. No, you will never go to jail for it because fools are ex? cusable but besides being made the butt of the crowd you will be forced to puke up so that you will be only a loser. A simpleton's mother died leaving a cow which he wanted, so early next morning he posted to a brothers to whom her blubbered "brother." moth? er is dead. She died at midnight. She died in my arms and her last dy? ing words to me, I will never forget them, were 'son take care of tho cow." but he did not do it. Amen. "Hagood." Charleston Bank Pails. Charleston, S. C., Feb. 8-After a ron which is said to have been precip? itated by- the anxiety ot several Greek fruiterers with several deposits, the Columbian Banking and Trust Com? pany of Charleston closed its doors today and tonight the directors made a general assignment of property and assets for the \ enefit of creditors, naming Edward W. Hughes assignee. As no quarterly statement had been made since November, 11)03, the fig? ures of liabilities and assets could not be ootained. In the last statement a SUTplos of ?6,500 wa?, shown and in Jan na ry a divide, d was declared at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. The bank was capitalized at 650.000 and was chartered in lSi>3. The financial troubles of a director, however, caused uneasiness and the run today brought matters to a crisis, lt is thought that the bank will he able to pay ap in full. Frigl ? t l u Hy I Sumed. ?Chas. W. Hoore, a machinist, of Ford City, Pa., had his hand frightful? ly burned in an electrical furnace. He appl'ed Bucklen's Arnica Salvo with the usual result: "a quick and perfect cure." Greatest healer on earth for burns, wounds, sores, eczema and piles. 25c. at all druggists. WRECK OX C OAST JASE. I . _ An Engine Derailed Throe Milos West of City-Three Mon Injured, Xono Seriously. From The Daily Item February 7. Engine Xo. 107 going from Florence j to Columbia this morning was wrcck ? ed about three miles west of this city, j not far from Mr. P. M. Pitts's place, I between 10 and ll o'clock. The eugine left the track, plowed j along the ground for some distance, and turned over on its side in the ditch. The tender was left partially on the track. The engine was run? ning light and was in charge of En? gineer Brannon, a negro fireman and Flagman Walker. All of them were injured, Flagman Walker more se? riously than the othe.s. but his inju? ries are not thought to ce fatal, though quite painful. The fireman was scalded as weil as bruised. Flagman Walker was caught under the coal on the tender and had to be dug out. He was brought to town in a buggy, by Mr. Pitts and taken at once to the Sumter Hospital, where he received the attention he required.. The cause of the accident has not been positively ascertained but is said to have been due to the rails spread? ing. The news of the accident was tele? phoned in and Agent Cooper m?.dr- up a relief train immediately c^rry'ng Dr. Archie China, the local railway sur gean, and "a force of hands. The en? gineer and fireman were brought to town and had there wounds dressed. The wrecking train was promptly on the scene and the track will be re? paired so that there will be no delay of the passenger trains this afternoon. MY WIFE AXD CHILD. The tattoo beats-the lights are gone. The camp around in slumber lies, The night with solemn pace moves on, The shadows thicken o'er the skies; But sleep my weary eyes hath flown, And sad, uneasy thoughts arise. I think of thee, oh, dearest one, Whose love my early love hath - blest Of thee and him-our baby son Who slumbers on thy gentle breast. God of the tender, frail and lone, Oh, guard the tender sleeper's rest. And hover gently, hover near To her whose watchful, eye is wet To mother, wife-the doubly dear, In whose young heart have freshly met Two streams of love so deep and clear, And cheer her drooping spirits yet. Xow, while she kneels before thy throne, Oh, teach her, Ruler, of the skies, That while by Thy behests alone Earth's mighty powers fall or rise Xo tear is wept to Thee unknown, Xo hair is lost, no sparrow dies. That Thou canst stay the ruthless hands Of dark disease and soothe its pain, That only by Thy stern commands The battle's lost, the soldier's slain, That from the distant sea or lands Thou bring'st the wanderer home again. And when upon her pillow lone Her tear-wet cheek is sadly prest, May happier visions beam upon The brightening current of her breast; Xo frowning look or angry tone Disturb the Sabbath of her rest. Whatever fate those forms may know, Loved with a passion almost wild By day-by night-in joy or"woe By fears oppressed, by hopes be? guiled, From every danger, every foe, Oh, God, protect my wife and childi The foregoing beautiful war poem which I have selected from the old ' scrapbook, was written by Genera'l Henry R. Jackson when he.was a young soldier in the Mexican war. and the baby boy of whom he so tenderly wrote was the late Captain Harry Jackson, who was a gallant officer in the Confederate army and who died a few years ago in Atlanta. The poem was first published in a Savannah pa? per in 1S45 and was republished dur? ing the War Eetween the States. Itching Piles. *If you are acquainted with \nyone who is troubled with this distressing ailment you can do him no greater fa? vor than to tell him to try Chamber? lain's Salve. It gives, instant relief. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by all druggists. A horse thief that would not be satisfi-d with four mnles aid two hoists in one night ceserves to he cap? ture d. FRECKLES AND PIMPLES REMOVED In Ten Bays. Nadiaola The ConiTJ?exicn Beautifier i? en? dorsed by thousands of ?.'ra?.:ful ladies, and guaranteed to remove all facial discolora? tions and restore the beauty of youth. The worst cases in twenty days. 50c. and $1.00 at all leading drug stores, or by mail. Prepared by NATIONAL TOILET CO., Paris, Tenn. Wi ?I J food for stoc::-. is unsurpassed, f? fr j ( S ina as a cow pea _?e ian est possible yield cf c DV7 peas from any given soi!, a plentiful applica? tion of POTASH is necessary. The best methods leading to catlin success are fully explained in the 65-parre illustrated book, which we send free to farmers who write for it it tells of the remarkable^ results attained wiri, cow peas nourished upon POTASH? Address. KAI I WGP.KS, _HewYork-93 r--' Ro- Broad Stree* Reptiles in H?8 Stomach. r-a* on dogs is 50wceiits ahead, it TT.. xT y y-> , -p, would appear from the report Mat Utica, JV Y., february 7.-The tb(..re are only about >5 dogs in Sum treatment of Charles Hoisted, ter. A more flagrant case of tax dodg who for two years suffered in- in*: was never made out than this, for tensely from supposed stomach . IF THE,RE IS 0DE DOI?JN THE : SNI?: < . ?. j . ? ter there are a thousand. It would disorders, has resulted in the re- ! pay the ?chool aatlicrities of Sumter moval of .three reptiles from his to have a dog census taken, even if.it stomach, and is believed there ' should cost a hundred dollars to hire are more' The largest one is de- i a m*n tf,Jia^e ^-_ scribed as being eight inches in t length, with a head like a buii- ? Estataof Miss Mary L KoH?day, Deed. frog. He is in an emacipated, ; 1 WILL apply to the Judge cf Probate weakened condition and may not j 0f Sumter County on Maren 7th, 1906,. recover. ! for a Final Discharge as Adminis rator _! (witn Wiil -u-j Codicil anuex-d on afore - _.- . , ~ " ! said Estate. The report of the County Snpenn- j ISAAC M. NICHOLS, tendent of Education of the school taxes 2 7 2fc Administrator C. T. A, received for"tbe schools ot the special . _. - - district of the City of Sumter since |*??*>R?m*^^ f July, 1905, shows that the dog tax /f\tl ? fl . ?.'. yielded cly .S-37.52. As tba spacial l^MS?06T??t? S j PAINT STORE i: ?| f&^>[ Pai-t ?tore at 330 South Main I ^J^^^K ^^^^? / Street, near th ? Curtis House, i I ^^^f y^^^^^^g .f, JOHN LUCAS & COMPANY ! I ^ . Line of celebrated paints, en- ? || /|'|T^^S: | a ra?is, varnishes and brushes, j j *r ' - ! paint bills, and rn painting in||COI?^I? El???lCC?y. ; 8urnter e.u? surrounding cor.n- I The Children's Favorite ' ; ? I -CUBES- ; ; "J' ? 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Agent, Atlanta, Ga. flore Horses and Mules and Better -Horses and Mules Two carnally selected carloads just in. They are right, the price is right and they need selling badly. A full line of Buggies, Wagons and Harness always on hand I sell the celebrated MILBURN WAGON. Respectfully, A, HARBY. eal Estate Notes Now is the time to list your farm lands for sale in order that i hey may be properly advertised for the coming season's busi? ness. Write for Description Blank (contract attached) Xo property listed without a contract. In order to do business, must have matters in business shape. Have now for sale a number of nice farn:s ranging ia size from ICO to GOO acres. If you want to buy or sell Real Estate, Stocks or Bonds, call ! and see rae. ATTORNtY-AT-LAW 1} D RPI rPQ REAL ESTATE BROKtR HARBY BLG COURT SQ K. D. PHONE NO. 309.