The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 10, 1906, Image 8
SOllfl?? OOBRESFONDENOE.
AEUS? LETTERS FROM OUR SPE?
CIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
Items of Interest From all Parts of
Sumter and Adjoining Counties.
aOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Mail your letters so that they will
reach this office not later than Tues?
day morning. When the letters are
9- received Wednesday it is almost an
impossibility to have them appear in
the paper issued that day.
STATEBURG.
Stateburg, October 1.-Miss Annie
M. Barnwell returned to Florence
"this morning after having spent Sun?
day at 'the Recotry.
Mr. Matt Moore left for Charleston
this afternoon where he is to resume
his studies at the medical college.
Miss Mary Burgess of Sumter spent
Sunday with Miss H. Lee Moore at
The Oaks.
Dr. and Mrs. John Johnson re?
turned to their home in Charleston
today after a pleasant visit to Mrs.
?. M. Cantev.
Mr. Guy Warren of Sumter spent
Sunday with friends here.
Miss Julia A. Holmes after a
month's stay at home returned to
Macon on Safurday.
Messrs. Early and Cain Mellette
spent Sunday at the home of Mr.
Frean Mellette.
Miss Virginia Saunders left on
Wednesday for Columbia, where she
is attending college this year.
Mr. Frank P. Burgess spent Sun?
day at home. .
Mrs. James Pinckney and Miss A.
3?. Moore spent several days in Sum?
ter last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Saunders and
3iaster Harrison Saunders are spendr
aug today in the progressive town of
Sumter.
Mr: M. H. Boykin of Sumter spent
Sunday with Mr. W. J. Norris.
Miss Gena Dargan is visiting rela?
tives in Darlington.
PRIVATEER.
Privateer, October 3.-A few of
the school teachers were on hand
Monday and opened their schools.
2Iiss Eliza Geddings, of Paxville, is
teaching the Red Oak school again
this session; Miss Daisy Lide the
Bethel school, Miss Hattie May Har
deer of Chester, the Ingram school,
Miss Hennie May Bradford the Pip
iins school. We have not heard who
will teach the other schools in Priva
* teer.
Mrs.% Kemper Covington of Ben
aettsville, after a pleasant visit to
laer father, Mr. W. G. Wells, re
tunhed home Sunday afternoon, ac?
companied by her sisters, Misses
Annie and Inez Wells, who are going
to teach in Marlborough county this
cession.
Mr. R. B. Barkley and Miss Amy
Ingram were married Thursday in
Sumter.
Miss Winnie Rivers is visiting in
iEHoree.
MAY.
Max, Oct. 8.-Mr. Joe Kirby and
two little daughters, of Ashton, at?
tended church at Bethel Sunday. He
said that he went up to Columbia
in a buggy and spent a night in ?the
capital and returned home the next
morning, ate dinner and went to
work.
The Florence County Inter-Denom?
inational Sunday School Convention
-convened at Mayesvilie church last
Friday and Saturday.
Preaching will be held at Beulah
Presbyterian church at 7 o'clock p.
-m. instead of 10 a. m., on account of
the pastor, Rev. Trenholm, having to
perform a marriage ceremony at
I-ake City.
Bethlehem union meeting will oe
"held at Bethel church in December, j
TINDAL.
Tindal, Oct. 8.-Mr. Thomas A.
Bradham, one of our most highly re?
spected citizens and an old Confed?
erate soldier, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. James T. Brogdon,
-on Friday morning, October 5 at 7
o'clock. The funeral services were
held in Manning on Saturday at4 ll
o'clock a. m.
Mr. Harry Hodge spent Friday in
Sumter.
A ?mall son of Mr. W. L. Osteen
wits kicked by a mule on Friday,
causing a very painful wound on the
head. He was taken to the Mood
Osteen infirmary in Sumter for treat
-anent.
Mr. T. M. Witherspoon was in
Sumter on Friday.
Miss Dora Bistow spent Saturday
and Sunday with Miss Edith Rich?
ardson.
Mrs. Cassie Hodge returned to her
home in Manning on Sunday.
Mr. T. E. Hodge spent Saturday in
Sumter.
Mrs. B. R. Hodge and Miss Rosa
Hodge returned home on Saturday
?rom a visit to Bessie. Ga.
I?AGOOD.
Hagood, Oct. 5.-Cotton is being
gathered now and it begins to appear
that the crop is even shorter than
St seemed. The rainy weather since
the storm was a Godsend because it
bleached it np, making it give a very
"good sample. It has been hard in?
deed for peole not to worr/ and yet
it was nor impossible. Our Gr?a*
Teacher has exhortad us "Take no
thought for your life, what ye shall
eat, etc... nor your body what ye shall
put on, "he then reminds up of the
birds, who, though they neither
reap nor gather imo barns, are fed
by our Heavenly Father, and says ye
are of more value than many spar?
rows" How utterly we are in the
hands of God; to one the fact brings
comfort, while to another it brings
anything else. The boat was gliding
down the stream approaching :he
rapids. All on board were filled with
anxious concern as to whether they
would have a safe passage. Down
near the rapids it drew to shore
where sitting on a rock, bent with
many years, sat an Indian chief,
whom when some beheld they cried
out "all is well now; the old pilot is
here." Stepping on the boat the
old Indian stood to the wheel and
with eagle eye fixed before he guided
the craft steadily, safely out into the
? .deep and placid stream." "Can we
trust God?"
/The pea crop is very nearly a total
failure here, potatoes are said to be
very inferior, and corn is much dam?
aged, while any quantity of hay has
been ruined. I made a crop on paper
once and when I got through (it was
a buster to be sure) a man remarked,
"You have left God out; take care
that in the harvest time your crop
does not materialize," and it did not,
it was a failure.
Between me and you, Mr Editor,
between me and you, there are some
green people in this world. Yes,
present company always excepted;
we are fine fellows, at least that's the
way we think about it when layin it
on other folks. To be sure though,
all of us are peculiar, but some are
odd, unique in this respect. Xo two
trees have grain eactly alike, so of
men, but in some people it is all
grain. Verily '* the good Lord saves
some of us II. will have to overlook
much. Shall I specify, etc? Better
not, perhaps, lest some one else
might be so moved. Just here I will
remark, that it is a truth past de?
nying that the uncharitable need
more charity than the rest.
There is considerable sickness of
one or another kind among us but
nothing particularly serious.
"What is the President of the coun
ty Cotton Asosciation doing these
days? Let us hear from him, as
uncle "'Jim J?rvey would say, red
hot fom the gun."
GRFJEIJEIYVILI?E NEWS.
Greeleyville, October 5.-Last nf?ht
there, were guns shooting around the
neighborhood where your correspond?
ent was and he later learned this
morning that two colored men got
overloaded with bounce and H. Rob
inson is suffering with a slight wound
from No. 8 bird shot inflicted by a
double barrelled gun in the hands of
M. Rollerson.
Clear Robinson, a colored farmer,
was painfully cut in the left hand in
a difficulty with Mr. Wollie Mixon
It seems as if the negro shut up two
or three of Mr. Mixon's hogs that
were damaging his crop heavily.
Mr. R. H. Footman, one of this
county's most successful farmers, is
quite sick from the effects of pleurisy
All of the farmers in this section
seem to take their loss caused by the
recent storm very well.
The telephone lines are about ready
for service again.
Everyone seems to be very much
pleased with the rural free delivery
service.
Master Geo. G. Tutle, is some bet?
ter, after having fever for a day or
two.
Miss Florie G. Flagg, of Foresten,
is in charge of the Mount Hope school
and is much liked by all who know
her.
Mr. E. B. Rhodus, of Kingstree,
spent last Sunday here.
S. J. Tutle, of Jacksonville, Fla., is
on a visit to his father, Mr. W. C.
Tutle, in the Mount Hope section.
Ke went to Sumter today on business.
The Baptists of this community con?
vene here tonight, and will hold ser?
vices the remainder of the week.
Quite a large crowd of young folks
went to Kingstree this morning to
witness Cole Brothers' shows.
Mr. E. Taylor Keels who has been
quite sick for the past ten days is get?
ting all right again and will return to
his duties in Georgetown in a few
davs.
STATEBURG.
Stateburg, Oct. 8.-Miss Sarah
Moore, who is attending school in
Sumter, spent .Saturday and Sunday
at home. ?
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Anderson are
on a visit to Dr. and Mrs. W. W. An?
derson.
Miss Janette McLure, who ;s teach?
ing in Sumter, spent Sunday with
Mrs. D. Bull.
Mr. Early Mellette spent Sunday at
home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dick and Mas?
ter James Dick, of Sumter, spent Sun?
day with Mr. Screven Moore's fam?
ily.
Misses H. Lee Moore and Emma
Barnwell were the guests cf the
Misses Holmes on Saturday and Sun?
day.
Rev. W. H. Barnwell visited friends
at Hagood today.
Miss Bessie Murray, who is teaching
school at Hagood spent Saturday and
Sunday at home.
ETHNOLOGICAL CONGRESS.
Pawnee Bill s Historic Wild West and
Great Far East Snow.
There is something about the Wild
West that excites in the minds of all
a tendency to magnify. This is
probably because first impressions
made by the Wild West, when seen
by youthful eyes, upon plastic minds
and brains not yet hardened by ex?
ercise is a lasting one. Men as they
grcw old, cling their icols of
childish fancy as a sort of relief lu
the prosaic ulitilarian things of life
which work up this resistance in
later years. This idea is given birth
by the extraordinary announcement
of the coming of the famous Pawnee
Bill, America's big and only histlri
cal Wild West and Great Far East,
will appear in Sumter, Friday, Oct
ber 19, in all its entirety. Or course
there could be no stupendous show
without a huge parade, and no pa?
rade where it could be announced in
plain, matter-of-fact, everyday speech.
The atmosphere of artificiality is al?
ways alluring, whether in the theatre
or upon the street. If you simply
announce a street parade without
giving detail of the processional fea
! ture, it would be entirely inadequate.
For this lesson it -may be well said,
that Pawnee Bill's mighty modern
holiday pageant will pass the prin?
cipal streets of thu city on the fore?
noon of the day during which the
powerful Wild West will give its ex?
hibition here. . v
Everybody or nearly everybody
hereabouts, have aranged to be in
town as this will be the only big show
coming this year. The great parade
promises to surpass anything ever at?
tempted with a traveling organiza?
tion, and will be a superb spectacle
of sunlit splendor. Bewildering and
all-amazing and inspiring-embrac?
ing an army of people from all na?
tions, showing the shimmer of satin
and the sheer of silk, the shining of
bright armor scintillating like the
glowing irridescence of the rays of
the sun or twinkling lights of the
stars on a cloudless night in June.
This tremendous parade will be two
combined cavalcades of Pawnee Bill's
Wild West and Great Far East ex?
hibition. The first section will be
formed as follows with additional
features added:
Mounted Military Couriers.
Detachment of the United States
Cavalry.
Major Gordon W. Lillie, (Pawnee
Bill), the Monarch of the Plains.
Miss May Lillie, the World's Cham?
pion Equestrian.
Indian Warriors, Squaws and Pa
posses in their Aborginial Costumes
Prof. Gregori's Royal Italian Band
The Peerless Princess Wenona, the
Heroine of the Plains and Champion
Rifle Shot, followed by a group of
western cowgirls, Mexicans, Vaqueros
and South American Ganchos.
BUTCHERY OF JEWS.
Massacres Resumed With Accustom
ed Brutality In Far Off Siberian
Towns.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 8.-Private
dispatches received here ie1! of an
other Jewish masacre. The dis?
patches state that serious programs
have occurred at Irkutsk and Tomsk
during the past six weeks, u.-ws of
which is kept from the outside world.
I ]
The most serious occurred at
Tomsk, where Russian soldier? and
Calumks made a conceited attack on
the Jews, killing many. The at'aeks
were accompaned by horrible bru?
talities, especially against the women.
Four hundred Jews, including women
and children took refuga in a factory, | 1
which was set afire by thc soldiers.
More than a hundred were burned
alive. Since then almost daily at?
tacks have teen made on thi: lews
who are in a state o_ pani;.
Private news dispatches have also j >
reached here of a serious mutiny on
September iBth at lrkntsV, whera a
pitched oaUle t *ok place in the
streets between mutineers and ?oyal
soldiers with casualties approx"
innately a hundred. The mutineers
were defeated an J next day were
summarily courtmartialed and or?
dered executed. Forty one, including
seven officer*, were si1 ot. Th3 e'ead
bodies wer 3 then c?ed i: the w oui tied
and thrown 'mc A uer:? ra River.
Comptroller General Jones will re?
new his fight in the coming legisla?
ture for a llexible tax levy, and along
with this he will repeat his recom?
mendation that the presen system of
assessing property by county and
township boards of four or five mem
bers, who will be paid a salary to so
over the state and get the property
<?!! the books on equitable basis.
The corner stone of the first Sal?
vation Anny citadel was laid in
Greenville Sunday. Thc building will
cost $8,000. i
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Items of Interest Condensed and Par?
agraphed for Quick Heading.
John Crawley, a young white man
was bound over to the Court of Gen?
eral Sessions in Spartanburg by Mag?
istrate Paslay, on the charge of vio?
lating the dispensary law, soliciting
orders for a whiskey house, and ac?
cepting the cash for the goods. The
case was made out by the State con?
stables.
"Poshee" plantation, the old home
of Dr. Rene Ravened In St. John's,
Berkeley, was sold Friday for $26,
000. It contained 3,600 acres.
Henry C. Tillman, a son of Sena?
tor Tillman, and Miss Mary Fox were
married in Concord, N. C., Friday
night.
Miss Daisy Callahan has been elect?
ed secretary and treasurer of the Car"
olina Mutual Fire Insurance Com?
pany of Spartanburg.
C. S. McManns, general superin?
tendent of the Southern Railway, re?
signed October 1st to go into the coal
mining business in Tennessee.
Jessie Moore, colored, a domestic
in the employ of S. E. McFadden, of
Chester, was shot and killed in Mr.
McFadden's yard Saturday night by
John Henry Moore, colored. Jealousy
is presumed to have been the cause.
Moore surrendered to Ex-Sheriff
Cornwell, and is now in custody.
W. A. Pitts, section master of the
Southern Railway at Newberry, fell
off his handcar Saturday and was 'a'
tally injured.
i ?
Cozy Homes.
The discovery of a new wick prin?
ciple-so effective and yet so simple
that it's a wonder no one thought of
it before-has so revolutionized the
manufacture of oil heaters and
lamps that explosions, smoke and
smell, caused by imperfect wick ar?
rangement, may safely be regarded
as things of the past.
This new wick attachment is to be
found on the Perfection Oil Heater.
Interesting tests show that, although
the heater gives intense heat, the
wick cannot be turned too high or
too low-absolute safety thus being
assured. One other feature which is
Worthy of mention is the smokeless
device which prevents all smoke and
odor. The portability of the heater
also commends it for general house?
hold use. Heater is very light and
can be easily carried about. Its sim?
ple operation, usefulness in heating
water and warming cold rooms make
it a most handy and useful article in
any home. This heater is so far su?
perior to other oil heaters, and is of
such fair ' price that its universal
adoption is but a matter o fime.
The Rayo Lamp, which is made by
the manufacturers of the Perfection
Oil Heaer, is without doubt the best
lamp for all-round household use.
Is equipped with the latest improved 11
burner, and gives a bright, steady
light at small cost. Suitable for any
room, whether library, dining-room
parlor or bed-room.
The Perfection Oil Heater and the
Rayo Lamp form a combination that I
for real home comfort cannot be I
equalled. When consideration is l
Laken of the simple operation of J
both heater and lamp, their absolute
safety, the intense heat generated by
ihe one, and the bright and steady
light given by the other-all without
smoke or smell- their value in any
borne, large or small, can be some
what appreciated. Sold by all good
iealers.
CURE CATARRH NOW.
Do Not Wait Until Winter or Disease
Will Become Chronic.
Many people in Sumter are begin?
ning to cough and hack with the fall
symptoms of disagreeable and offen
5*ve catarrh. The tongue is coated
in the morning, and they do not sleep
well at night on account of disagree?
able tickling and? dropping at the
back of the threat as a result of
catarrh. Before the disease becomes
chronic they should use Hyomei and
?et complete freedom from their
katarrhal troubles.
If you neglect to treat catarrh
when it comes on, the chances are
that it will become so firmly rooted
and deep-seated that it will bother
you all winter and may become
chronic and almost incurable.
The first da-'s use of Hyomei will
show a decided improvement in
health, and in a short time there will
be no further trouble, and you will
be free from catarrh, and coughs and
colds will not bother you during the
winter.
Remember that Hoomei :s sold un
der an absolute guarantee that it
costs nothing unless it cures. J. F.
\V. DeLorme has sold a great many
Hyom<i outfits, every one with his
personal guarantee that it costs noth?
ing unless i cures, ami he has seen
so many renrarka'de evidences of the
curative powers of Hyomei that he
is very glad to contin?e giving this
guarantee with every package.
A complete Hyomei outfit costs
hui $1, ..xtra bottles, if needed, 50'
cents.
THE PASSING OF PALMA.
Cuban President's Retirement Closss a
Long Career.
"I have been smitten on one cheek;
I cannot turn the other," President
Palma of Cuba is reported to have
replied to friends who urged him "to
withdraw his resignation, put aside
his personal pique and disappoint?
ment and be guided solely by patriot?
ism.
.Whether spoken justly or unjustly,
it was the pathetic utterance of a
tired, broken old man, who had seen
the hopes and aspirations of nearly 35
years, and for a comparatively brief
time realized, go down in a final
crash.
Palma did not consider it extra?
ordinary that he, a country school?
master of New York State, should be
transformed suddenly into President
of the Republic of Cuba.
In his own mind, he had been the
legal possessor of the high title nearly
thirty years before he was installed
on May 20, 1902. Had not the rev?
olutionists formally elected him their
leader between skirmishes with
the Spanish tyrants in the Ten Years'
War? To his peaceful neighbors at
Central Valley, X. Y., where he con?
ducted his school for eighteen years
of the waiting period, he said little,
but the few who knew his history had
heard how he persised in claiming
the office even in the midst of his cap?
tivity in a Spanish fortress.
"I am president of the Cuban Re?
public he had said to his guards,
when they demanded his "occupa?
tion" in the course of the census at
the battlemented prison among tho
Pyrenees in 1878.
His election, therefore, after the
Spanish-American war is looked upon
merely as a restoration of his rights.
With no special elation, though with
the modesty that has always charac"
t?rized him, he leaped out of enforced
obscurity into the Havana palace
once occupied by the gay-lived cap?
tains-general of Spain. As if he had
been accustomed to the new position
in all the decades of retirement, he
went about the complex task of run?
ning a government with as much ap"
parent confidence as he had shown
when he had established a private
academy to tide over his banishment
Whatever may be the weaknesses
of Tomas Estrada Palma there has
been no lack of self-possession in
his make-up. And along with his
quality he has shown skill at organi?
zation and industry. That he com?
bined personal modesty and unfailing
politeness with his mental fitness for
the office was, no doubt, a supplemen?
tary cause of his success in avoiding
troubles for so long.
Without underestimating his worth,
it goes without saying that capable
leaders are none too numerous in Cu?
ba. Even a man of moderate talents
cvas bound to take an important
place in the councils of the new na?
non at the time when Palma gained
his foothold. As he himself once re?
marked to an interviewer: "There
fvere so few strong men that any one
who stepped to the front and assumed
command of a group of men was
-?biged to become at least a general
quickly." Yet the career of the re?
public's president *nd his personality
ire of unusual interest. Few, if any
Df his countrymen have passed
ihrough more ' varied adventures,
served their cause so continuously
md steadfastly or displayed the con?
servatism that has been his distin?
guishing trait; none has met with
*uch popularity.
President Palma was born in 1835
n the province of Bayamo, where his
father was a rich landowner and cat
de-raiser. The boy,-had all the ad?
vantages money could give him. He
studied under a prrv*ate teacher at
lome and finally was sent io Spain to
?nter the university at Seville. There
he was graduated in the law; 'and it
ivas his intention to become a barris?
ter in Cuba. That he was ne\*er to
ichieve this ambition was due to the
spread of the revolutionary fury. His
return to the island was followed by
:he muttering that preceeded the long
?ght for liberty. His father died, and
it devolved upon the young man to
manage the estate. The war began.
The Spaniards, besides confiscating
lis lands, captured his mother and
practically tortured her to death.
"They tortured her in an efforc to
?xtort from her information she did
lot possess." ne sail, in describing
lis bereavement, years afterward,
"and then they left her half dead in
the woods, where, after wandering
for days, she was rescued, too late to
save her life."
Casting his lot with the revolution-*
ists, giving them what ready money
he could raise and fighting with them
whenever the chance came, he quick?
ly rose to leadership, was chosen a
deputy, and finally became president
of the provisional government. This
government was a migratory estab?
lishment, moving its headquarters as
often as the enemy made it necessary,
but it was recognized by the natives
none the less, and Cuba Libre con?
tinued to look upon Palma as its chief
with Gen. Maximo Gomez as his sec
treaty of war.
While on a march with a few troops
Palma was captured by the Spanish