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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the ends Thou Aims't at he thy Country's. Thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON", Established June, XS8* .Consolidated Aug. 2S1881. SUMTER. S; C WEDNESDAY. MAY 15. 1907. New Series-Yoi. XXVI. So 43 Published Every Wednesday, -BY OSTEEft PUBLISHING COMPANY, SUMTEH, S, C. Terms: $1.30 per annum-in advance. Advertisements: One Square first insertion.$1.50 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AU communications which sub serve private interest will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES. The Address By Mr. Hugh C. Hayns worth-Graves of the Heroes of the Dost Cause Decorated With Flowers By Daughters of the Confederacy. Manorial Day is more general! y observed throughout the south today than : t was forty years ago, when the wounds infiictexl by the war were still fresh and each and every community still moured the loss of many of its bravest and best young men with a piognant sorrow that the elapse of time had not served to soften. Then Memorial Day was a sad as well as a solemn occasion and served but to revive and renew the grief of those who had been called upon to offer up their loved ones on the altar of their country-, and as they gathered around the graves and covered them with garlands of flowers, tears were as plentiful as the roses that were woven into the garlands. Time has healed these wounds, however, arid Memorial Di-y has come to be not a day Of mouring, but a day set apart by the people of the south on which to do honor to the memory of those who died on the field of battle and to those veterans who are still with us after having fought a good fight for ? forty odd years in the rehabilitation of the south. The exercises Friday were well at tended and the programme, as ar ranged by the Daughters of the Con federacy, was carried out, the veter ans of Camp Dick Anderson, the Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Veterans, the Sumter Light Infant ry. the Military Company of the City Schools, and the Second Regiment Band, as well as the usual number of little giris participating. The Address. The address of -the day was deliv ered by Mr. Hugh C. Haynsworth. The address, which follows, speaks for itself: In this month of flowers, when na ture is blossoming into new life, sym bolizing the swallowing up of death in victory, when the old earth seems to be flinging flamy defiance to Fath er Time, who with silent ruthless fin ders would erase the tracings ot van ished hands and root out the deepest, dearest memories of things that are past-in this month. I say, it is emi nently fitting that the people of our land should gather to do honor to those who died 'for the Confederacy. That this is the anniversary of the death of immortal stonewall Jack son, that one of our two great lead ers who died during the conflict, fixes this as the day above all others for such a memorial. What is more seemly, too. than that tributes which you bring today should be flowers? Did mallet and chisel ever fashion any fairer forms? Did pigment and brush ever body forth any more beau tiful coloring? He who laid the foundations of the world in symmetry j .and implanted beauty in the super- ! structure of His earth to the end that His beauty-loving children might find ? it ever springing up anew and their hearts be glad, has said that "Solo mon, in all his glory, was not. arrayed like one of these." "The lilies of the fie!1" -"beautiful eyes looking out on you from the great inner sea. of Beauty! How could the rude earth make these, if her es sence, rugged as she looks and is. were not inwardly Beauty?" Beauty -bursting forth to spread her canopy of radiant life over the scars and rav ages of bleak winter. While many a winter and spring has stripped and reclothed the earth since these were stricken and laid low, never do the flowers come again but that the worn en of our southland-faithful custo dians of sacred memories-guide the inocent feet of children to garland these mounds. Yea, let the little ones see that courage is not forgot; that it is sweet and honorable to die Tor one's country; that the great love that is not afraid to die demands and commands love' that will not die. Bring your flowers! Beauty has ever been the meed of valor-lay them upon these unmarked graves. While their occupants lived they doubtless loved the flowers. WI Fort Sumter's booming- guns sr moned them from their hornes, v can tell but that they carired w them the scent of new-blown roses honeysuckle and jasmine that m gled their fragrance with mernot of the dear ones left behind. Perhi for some of them the orange blosso had hardly faded. They all lie eqi there-high and low; strong hea and faint; he who was most prom ing with the man that was withx hope. Some like Lee-articulate. < pabde of framing their motive into apothegm that is immortal and i: moralizing-1-that is to say, "Duty the sublimest word in the Engli language," and seeing their duty their homes and their God in th' duty to their country. Many inartic late, going before their Maker wi only their deeds in their hands explanation, no justification ready nor were they needed. Their unco quered spirits went to Him who e do wed them with courage; their sea red and ofttimes mutilated bodi they left for strangers to inter. B in their beloved southland, they w not be forgot-though many unnar ed. It is enough to know that th died for country and for home. 2 hired Hessians were they-m< whose business it was to fight, wi had the price and took the chane but protectors of their homes. "5 women -. home-makers - witho whom the word "home" loses i meaning-ye do weil to honor its d' fenders. Lose not a chance strengthen the appeal of "home" 1 man; for the family is the foundatic of the State; and you do your coux .try service in proclaiming by ac such as these that those who died i defense of their homes are still che] ished in the hearts of home-lovei wherever they may be. Think for moment of the wrenching of hean that their home-leaving must hav caused and by the love that y ou bea to your own homes measure th sacrifice. What led these men to lay dow their callings, forsake their business abandon their comfort, leave benin them all that makes life dear? Ther must have been some appeal. Ther must have been a mighty motiv broad and strong-not ephemera! but abiding-deep buried-hande down from fathers and without doub transmitted to descendants-almos instinctive. That multitudes of mei of different minds-by no mean agreed among themselves as to th' measures that were the proximar cause of the rupture, (whether slav erv. as our friends acress the lim would have it, or States's rdights, a: we have ben taught, it matters not' but that a host of individuals should as one man plunge into the horrible debauchery of war strikes us as toe tremendous movement to frt ribut to mere difference of opinion upon policies. We must look deeper. Thes? men must have been stirred to the centre of their life, and that we can find only in the horne. While man is naturally a social animal, it is those who are nearest him who first call forth his interest and love. Through the progress of the centuries his sym pathy has been widening first to community, then State and nation un til finally it belts the world, but the thread of it becomes more finely spun as it legthens and the first is ever the stronger, even in these later ages. These men must have felt-and deep ly-that their State, and back of this, their home life, would be profoundly affected to their injury. Whether they were right or wrong in this con jecture, it is not profitable now tn discuss. The important point is that they believed it, and in this belief they put forth their utmost effort. They fought for the welfare of their f'\vn people and through them for the betterment of their country. ".Vere they sincere? Their deeds speak for them. Were they earest? See what they endured! Love beckon ioaow rgiacwaaao i thnsiei ta ein ed and they followed. They could not tell the depth of their love nor had they' even fathomed it. Possibly death spared those who lie here the sight of much sadness; they passed to their reward, having done all that was al lotted to them to do, namely, die af ter and in a glorious effort. What harrowing scenes the news of their death may have produced in those homes for which they fought, it is not for us to look upon. Possibly life, for those who were left and sit here among us, was long the harder part, in the calamities that followed their Titanic struggle. Those who survived hear their cause spoken of as "lost"-saw their hopes seemingly shattered-looked out upon a future enshrouded in clouds as black as ever overshadowed a people-encountered desolation and apparent ruin rearing gaunt forms to mock their home coming. They came back foot-sore and weary, well-nigh disheartened, and, witnout tne turu of "rebel yell" or inspiring- strains of battle music, faced conditions that might well have made the doughtiest heart to waver. Bi.:, face them they did, and with them ca?ne couran that held Hampton's Legion fast at Ma nassas and helped to give ^Sumter county's great officer the sobriquet of "Fighting Dick" Anderson, they over came them and are overcoming them one by one. Yet, for those who died, how can we tell what thoughts of homes left with out a head-of families perhaps un provided for-may have saddened their last hours? Of the growing light that now brightens the lives of those who have--been spared to us, not a ray even tinged their horizon. It is a woeful thing, too. to take up a work i and leave it incomplete, put can the j work they undertook ever be com plete? If it was the high enterprise of lifting themselves and their peo ple toward better things, the task was as unending as the s arch for the ideal-ending, but not fruitless. We cannot believe that the Father of us i all would permit all these to die in vain. Was the cause "lost?" Not un less there has been no progress to ward better things-a progress stimu lated, in part at least, by the memory of their lofty purpose and noble en deavors. That there has been prog ress, no thinking man will deny if he stops to ask himself the question whether he would return to the former conditions, haloed though they now be with the.glamor of ro mance. No, we must, not, we cannot believe that they died in vain. We must believe that there is some deep er meaning for us in these exercises than simply the honoring of departed soldiers. Courage and daring have al ways appealed to man. Heroism will ever be celebrated in song and story. To drink of the sparkling waters of what has been called "the flowing light fountain" of heroic deeds illum inates the mind; to bathe in its pure flood cleanses the spirit. The courage displayed by these men imposes upon us the easy tribute of remembrance; the sacrifices that they undertook calls for our grateful wonder; but the cause for which they fought, not as invaders and despoilers, bent upon rapine and plunder-but as defenders of home-men of our own blood upon their own soil and ours-commands our loving adherence, and lays upon us the duty of, continuing the work that they took up. If the cause be lost, say not that they lost it. If God takes the toiler before his task is end ed, it is nor for those, who are left, to accuse; let them rather s-ee therein a stronger, higher demain! upon their efforts. Let us reaiize more clearly and fully the meaning of the word "home;" it is for us tr give it more; significance by filling it with those things which elevate ano dignify it. Implant in the children (the seed bed of our future citizenship), culture, re spect for law, (which is the safe guard of the home) consideration for others., righteousness, patriotism. Teach them-hot the anees-or-wor ship of mouldering Cathay or caste bound India, but respect and grati tude for the gool name left them by earnest, honest fathers, inculcate the desire to emulate their virtues and carry out their purposes, with love leading the way. I cannot believe that Dixie ex hausted herself in producing these herkes. I even dare to assort that a double portion of their spirit will fall upon those of their descendants who will open their hearts to receive it; that this garden spot of tne world with proper cultivation will, like the plots which produced these beautiful tributes, go on bringing forth unfad ing flowers of ever increasing beauty -the flowers of courage, of charity, of nobility, of love of home of coun try and of God, such as are the natu ral heritage of southern men and women. AN ALPINE LANDSLIDE. A Summer Report Being Pushed Into the River. Geneva, Switzerland. May 13.-Ki ental, a summer resort, near here, is threatened with destruction by a large landslide, which is gradually pushing the town into the river. The hotels havt been evacuated under the authorities' orders. Many English and American visitors are camping out at cotages in the neighborhood, while numbers have left. Three cha taeus have already been crushed, causing two deaths. Mr. W. W. Bradley, of Abbeville, has been elected a life m Tiber nf the board of trustees of Clemson College, to succeed his father, J. I. Bradley, who died a short time ago. St. George has voted $8,000 in bonds for a new school building. conto hom ffO th They usually want something from the pantry You remember the hunger you ha -"-Home cooking counts for much In the childi health; do not imperil ft with alum food by the use of poor^baking powder. Have a delicious, pure, home-made muffin, cake or. biscuit ready when they same in* To-j>c sure of the purity, you must usc' DAVA I BAKING nViALpowKR Rosal makes a difference m jem bomera difference ia yow Ibea tla s. a difference ia yow cooMag. ROYAL is absolute Pore. Winning and Losing in Baseball. The following editorial which ap peared in the Spartanburg Journal yesterday is heartily endorsed and is commended to the attention of all Sumter people who take an interest in baseball. It is said that Sumter has the. reputation of being a bard losei and that a great many people do not support baseball for the game's sake as they should, irrespective of the continued success o fthe home team in winning games. If the home men plays the game for all they are worth every day, and give us good clean ball, they will deserve the support and en couragement of the town they repre sent, in defeat, as well as in victory, and Manager Gunter and his men should have Sumter at their back, win or lose, from the beginning to the end of the season. "All the towns in the new Carolina State League are talking about win ning the pennant. This is all right so far as anticipation goes, as that is the greatest part of any pleasure, but somebody must prepare to be losers. There are not only going to be leaders in this league, but there must be. tail-enders. Good sports manship requires the ability to lose as well as to win. The lovers of the game in no town should make their support contingent rn their team i winning a majority even of the j games. It is no disgrace for a base-J ball team to lose, but on the con trary is, of course, in one-half the: cases on an average a necessity. "Nobody knows what team will be the strongest in the league about to ; start. Spartanburg may win the pen-j nant and may be the tail-ender when ! the season closes. That of itself is i not a vital consideration. What the j lovers of the game may insist on is j that the men vhf *hall represent i Spartanburg in the ball field shall be ' the best obtainable in their class and shall play the gamo at ail time ' to the very best of their ability, sinking their individual personalities n thu wel'fare-l nd success of the team as a whole, playing ali the while entirely clean and gentlemanly ball. This will produce the best possible results. If it brings defeat, there will be no dishonor or discredit in it, and the exhibitions will have been good to see. "If the team shall start out with several defeats, not traceable to ac tual inefficiency, no good sportsman will lend himself to a wholesale 'knocking' of the leam and it man agement. If the team needs strength ening, let it be st>engthened as far as may be done within the agreed salary limit and then let Spartan burg give it good support and abide the results. He who will tolerate nothing but winning in sports is not a good sportsman." Immigration Commissioner Watson says the reason he did not meet the national immigration commission at Washington was that IK* had received no invitation or notification that he was expected. JAMESTOWN CELEBRATION. Ambassador Bryce Delivers a Notable Address on Historic Jamestown Island. Norfolk, Va., May 13.-Impressive ceremonies were held today at James town Island, commemorating the landing of the first Tnglish colony on May 13, 1607, on the site of the old settlement. Ambasador Bryce, of England, was the principal speaker. The other speakers were Gov. Swan son, of Virginia, and Thomas Nel son Page. Mr. Bryce spoke of the landing at Jamestown as one of the great events in the history- of the world. Comparable in momentous j consequences with the overthrow of I Persia by Alexander, the destruction j of Carthage by Rome, the conquest of j Gaul by Clovis, the taking of Con stantinopl by the Turks. He also i cited the spirit of adventure and the spirit of freedom as prominent among Virginia's forefathers, dwelt on Vir j ginia's important part in the birth of the nation, and closed with a refer 1 ence to the modern amity between I America and the mother country and I the pride England takes in the United j States as her offspring. - j THE BROWNSVILLE TROUBLE. 4 Washington May 14.-The senate committee on military affairs investi gating the the Brownsville. Texas, shooting reconvened today after a month's recess. No witnesses were examined and adjournment was ta ken until 10.30 tomorrow to allow Sensror Warner Time to arrange the witnesses in the order he desires to examine them. Ten members of the committee, including Senator Forak er, were present. OBJECT TO NEGRO FIREMEN. i _______ Xew Jersey Firemen Don't Want to Work With Negro Men. Asbury Park, N. J., May 14.-The local fire department, noted for he roic service, is about to be disorgan ized on account of the white mem bers' objection to working with the n^gro. members. The struggle has reached the point where the town is in danger of being without a fire de partment. Mayor Atkins declares for an ordinance eliminating the negro company from the department. Ex citement prevails. Council is evident ly divided on the question. ANXIETY ABOUT RICE CROP. The Unseasonable Weather May Cause Damage in This State. Washington, May 14.-Considera ble anxiety as felt in the department of agriculture concerning the south ern rice rop. The dry, warm March weather enabled early planting as far north as the Georgetown section of South Carolina. The cold weather in April arrested further operations and in many instances reseeding will be necessary. The showers of the past fortnight relieved the situation some what. TYPEWRITER FACTORY ON FIRE Fifty Firemen Overcome by Smoke and Many May Die as a Result, New York, May 14.-At least 50, firemen were overcome today in the building occupied by the Remington Typewriter Company. Many are in a ' serious condition, and it is feared some will die. The heavy, black smoke that enveloped the building:" which they were forced to enter caus ed the trouble. Dozens were driven back from the cellar. As a result parties are busy carrying out the men overcome. The fire created a panic in the busy section o fthe city. Fifty . girls on the third floor were marched safely out. The blaze was confined to the lower parts of building, but was subdued with difficulty. The damage is not great. THE SHRIXERS* WRECK. Thirty-four Lives Lost iii Accident on* the Southern Pacific. Lons Angeles, May 14.-The thirty second death as a result of the South ern Pacific wreck occurred when Brakeman Beckford succumb" ed. There were 145 Shriners- from,* Buffalo, N. Y., and Reading,. Pa., on* the rrain. It is believed that a de--' fective switch caused the wreck. Co.re ductor Jones tapped a telegraph wire and flashed the news of the wreck to San Luis Obispo. . TEX PERSCXS WERE IXJTRED, Railway Wreck on Boston and 3laf itf * Road. Littleton, Mass., May 14.-Ten per sons were seriously injured, none fac ially, in a colilsion on the Boston'and' Maine railroad, half a mile south of this station, when the Albany expr^siy bound for Boston, crashed mto ai freight engine. The express lacarno " tive plunged down a steep embank ment, but luckily the breaking of is coupling kept the cars from follow ing. MURRAY APPLIES FOR DIVORCE; Xegro Ex-Congressman From Sb ut ti: Carolina Appears Before a Ch cai c Judge. Chicago, May ll.-George-W.-Mur ray, colored, who said he was- 3i2 years old and had been a congress man, representing the Seventh DT? trict of South Carolina, asked' a di vorce of Judge McEwen tocay. Hs said his wife, Ella, has deserted him? without cause. Murray showed' eon>/ siderable modesty while on the ness stand and told his story in? ai voice scarcely audible. His children^ he said ,were self-supporting, and his? only objection to his wife was reirao .."luaintance with other men. He: get his freedom. Just now Mirrrrry" does a realty business with o o.rssS residents of Chicago.-Xe^* aaaaK Courier. Duncan McKenzie has been electfe intendent of Timmonsville over: C A. Smith, 79 to 77.