The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 26, 1908, Image 7
mum it omer.
PARKER PTJTB IT VV
TO BLRASE.
It the senator Here Not Emploved
hp fannham He Knows Who Was
tssi smtmhl Tell It?Parker Totti
W V^rilhagly. >
pardon a few words In
aas* to Senator Cola L. Blaaae In
tun recent remarks In/the Stute ?enntt
with refereno? to my teattwoay he?
par*. Use winding up commission.
TW absurdity of the chant of eoa
' spimsj as made by Mr. Blees? must
; ? hp apparent, but there may be tome
PpnalUore not understood by all
sTntlhss Caps. Symtho nor myself was
? snpsuiler of Got. Assel In the re
apa* eempaiga. Par nSyeelL though I
W had tha highest personal regard for
him, 1 differed wtth him on tha Issue*
of tha staapnhni and voted for
t htrrt never had a communication
ms
I
with him or any oat else referred to
hgr M\. hit ass with reference to my
y. f aetpt with Mr. A very Pat?
io whom, after having been sub
as a witness before the
up commission. I wrote on
It, urging htm "not again to put
hns to the humiliation of appearing in
s m matter abtut which I know prac
P PsJPUy nothing." To this letter I nev?
es* had a reply and had not seen Mr.
Vatton anttl I appeared before the
?mm Iii Ion a few days since.
Mr. Bleats asks the question why I
waste* nnUl after Mr. Lanthan',
enath to aaswar the question as to
i who Mr. Lams ban had told me was
m rssssssming him la South Carolina.
; X agras with htm that It was u a for?
that tha answer had to be
sahseouent to mV. Laaa
hea/s death, bat I had no choice in
' ?. '. *? . /
Mo oat knows better than Mr.
why tha Question was net an
two year* ago at the time of
tha hearing before the ?legislative
sngtsttii, la June. IM?.
It ssas upon Mr. Blease's own mo?
nad by the effect of his own
I wan latest ft from, ant war -
question at that Urns, against
pretest of Mr. Lyon, now
general, and two other
of the mvastigatlnsr oom
been tarns ad by the mvee
nettse from answering
than It certainly would
Improper sad Inconsistent
mo tsjtaaaaaaUy to have rushed
prml to sankt public statements
-* l?had ashed tha legislative
i gpasmlttn it sac ate me from making
?hafe* them *
Jtavtng beta exeussd then frort.
t ism losing the personage referred to
hy Mr. Laaahan. I was net called
npoa is --.aha any deals/ by him that
Mr. Blttese wat the person referred
It win be noted, however, that Mr.
-never denied any part of the
Hons referred to by me In m/
tsetrmony Ha merely denied that he
had told mc that Mr. Blosse repre?
sented him, which at that Ums I had
?et testified to before the committee,
as stated. I had been en
Mr. Bleasv certainly surprise* me.f'
however. In his statement tu tht of
?oct that he had no Idea that I had
referred to him In my statements be?
fore tht Investigating committee.
I Wien I testified In June, lfot, Mr.
^ laaahan had been advised of my
having been subpoenaed and of the
necessity Of my testifying to my coa
sersatlon with him If the court de?
creed that 1 should do so; further
* more, tht attorneys representing Mr.
M. H. Evans had been advisee before
g I testified of the purport of my testi?
mony. As the Intimacy between Mr.
B lease and Mr. Evans wss well
known. I had presumed that it had
a communicated to Mr. Blease
t roy testimony would be.
I The prteunmtlon ' was confirmed In
my own mind by statements of Mr.
Blee?? to me. On the evening of my
testimony, whilst Mr. Haynsworth
and I were supping together at
Wright's hotel, Mr. Blees?, who had
been taking supper at a tablt some
distance away, stopped at our table a
I asoment. *nd. after expressing his ap?
proval of ths position 1 had taken
with reference to testifying, mid In
. affect tint he was familiar with all
ths fscts with regard to the employ?
ment of the party referred to by me
^ by Mr. Lsnahan; that he had no
npelotie* to make to sny one for vot?
ing to excuse me from giving th)
name, but that In justice to the party
referred to. ha wanted to say that
that party hud not understood fully
the scrvlc* expected of him wnen h*>
? accepted the employment, end when
i ke did lesrn whst was expected, he
declined to serve further, and receiv?
ed ham than 1100 for his compensa
tlon.
I undereood tha ststement of Mr.
Bless* to be a diplomatic acknowl?
edgment of hb connection with the
I matter, and* at expressed in legal
term*, '"a plea of confession and
avoidance.'' Mr. Blease now* dsnles
, tnst he had isny connection with Mr.
I may add that I am advised by
Mr. Wm. Elliott, of Columbia, who
was also my attorney In the proceed?
ings before the supreme court, that
Mr. Blease made to ham practically
the same statement as made above.
In Justice to Mr. Blease himself,
and In justice to the memory of Mr.
Laaahan, Mr. Bleaae is now, It seems
to me, called upon to say who
was the "high State official" whom
Mr.,Laaahan employed, as he has ac?
knowledged full acquaintanceship In
the matter. Whilst I can not con- 1
celve that I have been mistaken as
to statements mads to me by Mr.
Lanahan, still if there be error In
what Mr. Lanahan stated to mo, Mr.
i
Bleass can clear It, and should do so.
Louis W. Parker.
Oreenvlllc. S. C, Feb. 17, 190S.
FIRMAN'S PRESIDENT.
Dr. Potent Witt Not Accept Call to
Ijoiilsville?Gift of gSA,000 to tho
I'm rersity Announced.
Greenville. Feb. lt.?Dr. Edwin j
M. Poteat, president of Furman Uni?
versity, haa announced that he will
es
not accept the call to the pastorate
of Broadway Baptist Church of
Louisville, Ky.. which was extended
him it few weeks ago.
Coupled with the announcement of
Dr. Poteat Is the announcement-that
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give |
$15,000 to the University provided
the friends of the college raise $50.
OtO. This offer will be accepted and
125,000 of the necessary amount is
already pledged by tho general edu?
cation board of New York.
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SOLD 950,000 DRINKS.
Augustan* Steady Patrons ol the
Alkeu Grog Shop. |
Augusta, Qa., Feb. It.?Tho Janu?
ary report of the North Auguata dis?
pensary?not ehowlag the several
days It was forced to close because
tha stock was exhausted?la plain
evidence that Auguata la not a "dry
town." Thors wer? not, as a matter
of course, as many drinks taken as
during tha "old bar room days." but
figuring- tha quarts sold into drinks,
it la shown that Just one-quarter of a
million drinks duns over the North
Auguata bridge during tha first month
of tha prohi bition law ?>to the city
of Augusta. Tha cash receipts of the
dispensary for. January were $18,
171.40; tho operating expense was
11,110.70. Tha Alken dispensary for
tho aaaaa period look In $7,507.4?
with an expense of $101.
x
For That Terrible Itching.
?Ecsema. tetter and salt rheum
keep 'their victims la perpetual tor?
ment. The application of Chamber?
lain's Salve will Instantly allay this
Itching, and many cases have been
cured by Its use. For sale by all drug
lUMtof* Duncan Bett*.
Spartanburg. Feb. *20. -?Mshop
Duncan's condition Is somewhat Im?
proved. He semis stnngei and his
mind la clear*r. He recognised tho
memtor? of his family toc'.uy and
talked a 1th thorn. H>> physicians
nay that whllo he Is a /ery 111 man
th< re Is no immediate danger of (Ate
?ud.
?"HeaUr. Cocffe" is really the clos?
est coffee Imitation ever yet produced.
This, the fl*w*t coffee substitute ever
made, haa recently been produced bv
Dr. Shoop of Racine, Wls. Not a grain
of real coffee In It either. Health Cof?
fee Is mads from pure toasted cereals,
with malt, nuts, etc. Really it would
fool an expert?who might drink It
for coffee. No twenty or thirty min?
utes boiling. "Made in a minute,"
says the doctor. Levy & Moses.
One cold wintry morning a man of
tall and angular build was walking
down a steep hill at a quick pace. A
I piece of Ice under the anow caused
? him to lose control of hin feet; he* be?
gan to illde and waa unable to atop.
At a creasing half way d nvn he en?
countered a large, heavy woman. The
moeting was sudden, and before ei?
ther reallrod It a collision ensued and
' both were sliding down hill, the thin
man underneath, the fat woman on
top. When the b >u >m was reached
1 and the woman was trying to recov
' cr her breath and to hear "Paruon
' mc. madam, but you will have to get
1 off here. This i? as far as I go."
? Because meat* are so tasty they
1 are consumed in great excess. This
leads to stomach trouble, biliousness
and constipation. Revise your diet,
lot reason and not a pampered appe?
tite control, then tako a few doses of
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets and you will soon be well
again. Try It. For aale at all drug
giets. Samples tree.
Probably tht ollest fireman In tho
United States is James It. Hopkins
of SomiTvllle. Ma**. Mr. Hopkins
hat bean for fifty-five years in active
service and for thirty-seven vears he
has been chief engineer of the de?
partment. On his seventy-second
birthday he attended to duty as usual
and responded to dh alarm of lire.
The only chief engineer in the coun?
try who has been longer In service
than ho is Th??mas O'Connor, of the
New Orleans department, who held
his position for more than thirty-six
years.
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION.
LIST OF CLAIMS ADJUDGED BY
THE COMM1SSSION.
Brief Review of the Work?Many
Houses Which Hod Sold Heavily
Managed to Get Out Somehow.
The dispensary commission will
not be in setslr-n thib week. A recess
has been taken until Tuesday >f next
week In order to allow some of the
whiskey houses to be present m the
person of attorneys who wiil submit
books.
The commission is in fuct showing
indulgence by this, for the liquor p>o
ple wer? advised to be here on the
14th of January. Only one appeared,
M. A. Goodman, of Ullman St. Co
The commission wished to give the
whiskey houses the benefit of any
doubt and set Ian. 80 as the date for
an adjourned meeting. Each claim*
ant was no tilled by registered mall.
Again the commission met with
but one or two claimants present.
These presented their causes at
length. One, Mr. Herman, president
of the Augusta Brewing Company,
was found to owe ihe State on ' over?
charges" on beer. The commission
has bsen informed* that Mr. )le?rman
will pay the State.
The hearings have proceeded with
more or les* irregularity, cut it Is
stated that everything will fcf clean?
ed up next week.
W. D. Hoy in ..n* of the claimants.
He would have been here last Thurs?
day, it is said, but for'illness in his
famil.v. Roy is the head of the Bolroy
Distilling Company and is said to be
the brains of the. opposition to the
commission's Investigations.
Strauss, Prlrs. & Co.. of Cincin?
nati, and others arc said to be anx?
ious now to come before the commis?
sion. As published in The State
some lime ago, members of this firm
have been in 111 health and away
from Cincinnati.
The commission has about estab?
lished several general propositions.
One is that the liquor dealers charg?
ed this State $8 per case and S3 cents
a gallon above their regular market
prtcea Another is that some of the
whiskey houses which were "black?
listed" in 1906 put out subsidiary
houses which in 1906 secured heavy
orders. This will be established be?
yond question and will be the basis
tor some of the conspiracy charges in
the indictments.
It wan proved, for Instance, that
the Belair Distilling company of Bal?
timore had no existence. Yet this
concern In 1906 sold to the State
$58.847 worth of liquor. The presi?
dent of this distillery is 8. S. Rich?
ards, of Washington, D. C who put in
bids and received awards for his
Washington house, thus violating the
law which forbids that kind of bid?
ding. And tha Belair company and
the Richards company are connected
back to Ullman?-Anchor-Common?
wealth days through M. A. doodmon,
who is Richards' brother-in-law. And
still there is more to follow.
It is somewhat singular that some
of those who had sold most heavily
to the State have practically no claims.
For Instance, not a cent Is owing to
the Commonwealth, which sold $148,
000 worth of stuff to the State In
three years.
1 S. Grabfelder of LousisvlUe proba?
bly enjoyed the largest patronage
from the State. He sold In five years
$846.615.71, and yet the State owes
hi nr. not a cent.
Lanahan in 1904 complained that
'the business was being diverted to
"cheap Jew houses In the West," yet
I In the last five years he enjoyed some
patronage, his soles amounting to
8841.334.78. If that Was so small as
to cause complaint, his business prior
to 1902 must have been immense.
The clerks at the State dispensary
have not figured the totals prior to
1802.
The Bernhelm Distilling company
'was another big casino, having dis?
posed of $382,000 worth of boose to
i the State In five years. 'There is no
claim from this house.
E. Block & Sons sold the dispensary
In three yoars $ L00,194.06 and yet
they have no claim. It is *ald that
this firm was also connected in s col-,
lateral way with the Rlehlan-1 dis?
tillery' and the Acme Brewing compa?
ny.
On the other hand there are some
who have considerable claims and yet
their sales were not largt. For In?
stance, D. Sachs A Son sold 116,134
and are due $9.021.33 or over half;
Green River add $8,861 and are due
$8,84<.4s
Some of those who had the largest
transactions were either fortunate dr
were shrewd enough to foresee trou?
ble, for they got their money out of
South Carolina before the embargo
was placed.
The claim? heard and adJuJged U|i
to this time by the commission are
as follows:
Over
Claim, charges.
Gallagher & Bur?
ton.$ 3,637.60 $22.2P9.60
Catherwood . . . 4,227.00 24,070.00
J. W. Kelley... . 6,395 20,133 60
Cook & Bernhelm
er. 94.89 59,936.00
Darley & Park 1
(beer). 640.00 405.00
Paul Jones & Co 21,176.63 6,248.75
Beiair. 6,386.41 10,492.00
Augusta (beer ). 1,616.00 2,514.00
Ullman .. .... 35,012.47 63,000.00
Anchor. 1,914,31
(The Judgment against Ullman in?
cludes Anchor.)
The sales made by these concerns
since 1902 are as follows:
Gallagher & Burton.$145,000
Catherwooid. 174.000
Kelly. 99,165
Cook & Bern heim er.199,000
Darley & Park. 6,255
Paul Jones. 77.814
Belalr. 52,217
Weidman. 20,000
Ullman. 257,200
Anchor. SO,000
There are many, many interesting
things in the prosecution of these
claims, and by the time the whole
matter is probed and ventilation is
given the wound, there may b? a
permanent cure for this sore on the
body politic.
It will be observed that with the
exception of Goodman, representing
Ullman, and Mr. Hermann of Augus?
ta, those who have appeared before
the commission with books and pa?
pers have really fared better thai,
those whose claims were attacked, the
State assuming the burden of prool
and presenting numerous invoices ob?
tained from saloonkeepers all over
the United States to show that South
Carolina paid more than any other
customer.??*he State.
EXPENSES OF ??WISDIXG U1Y?
The Commission reels That It Has
Exercised Good Business Methods
in This Matter.
I
A good deal was said lastt week
about the expenses of the commis?
sion to wind up the affairs of the
State dispensary. There was a little
bit of criticism from one or two who
probably had not informed them?
selves. *
Dr. W. J. Murray, chairman of tho
commission, stated that the actual
expense was $59,000. For a while
a large plant was in operation. They
employed a considerable force ir.
the bottling and shipping depart?
ments as well as the clerical force.
This accounts for the expense, each
item of which la suitably recorded
on the books.
The commission also paid the ex?
pense of the constabulary under the
old State dispensary for one or two
months and there were other such
expenses Incident to the closing cut
of a threo-quarter-mtllion stock.
Dr. Murray states that it 1? unnec?
essary for the commission to ple/d
any Justification, but he is glad to got
j the opportunity to say that tho com
j mission closed out the stock at a
{ profit of?$13,000 over and above the
appraisement made by the experts.
To this $13.006 may be added $14.
000 in interest secured from monoy
j on deposit and the interest account is
'growing at the rate of $2,600 per an
' num. And the commission has al
1 ready recoup led from the it loh land
: Distilling Company $7,000. Thus the
1 commission has reduced the expense
! by $34,500 leaving iho not expense
for running this plant for six months
$22,000.
And this matter Df expenses, it is
sold, will be a mere bagatelle gam*
1 pared with the monoy tlv? State- will
j be saved from Cho settlement of
claims. The commission feels proud
I of its business management vt *
chaotic state of affairs and in the
i final report expects to bo able to as&ist
in prosecuting plunderers and in mak?
ing them disgorge.
None of the expense money has
been given to the "Georgia lawyers."
They have been working on a contin?
gent basis and have not been paid a
penny.?The State.
?Stop that tickling cough? Dr.
Shoop's Cough Cure will surely stop
It. and with perfect safety. It is so
thoroughly harmless, that Dr. Shoop
tells mothers to use nothing else even
with very young babies. Tho whole?
some green leaves and tender stems
of a lung healing mountainous rhrub
furnish the curative properties to Dr.
Shoop's Cough Cure. It calms *ne
I coi-gh, and heals the sensitive bron
1 ?:hial membranes. No opium, no
chloroform, nothing harsh used to
Injure or suppress. Demand Dr.
Shoop's. Take no other. Sibert's
Drug Store.
Conrad Skarstedt, a prominent
Swedish horticulturist, is in New
York, having come from Sweden with
the object of attempting to intro?
duce into America the lignon berry,
which la similar to the American
cranbrrry. The berry i3 one of the
popular fruits of Sweden, and M<
gkarsodt believes that it will prove no
less popular in America. If he is
successful in introducing it he will
promote farms for Its culture and
factories for preparing it for market
Simple Remedy for La Grippe.
?La grippe coughs are dangerous as
they frequently develop Into pneumo?
nia. Foley's Honey and Tar not only
stops the cough but heals and
strengthens the lungs so that no seri?
ous results need be feared. The gen?
uine Foley's Honey and Tar contains
no harmful drugs and is In a yellow
package. Refuse substitutes, jan-feb
In Northern Germany a familiar
figure of the rural districts is a
quaint old gentleman, whose hat is
very much decorated with flowers
and parti-colored ribbons, and who
carries a staff, to the top of which is
tied a huge bunch or artificial flow?
ers knotted to it by long streamers of
similar ribbons. According to the
district, his costume also Is old-fash?
ioned and unusual In other ways.
He is the "hoch-zeltbitter." or per?
son employed among the country
folk to go from house to bouse and
invite guests to attend a wedding1.
He delivers himself of a set speech
in an old "Platt-deutsch" rhyme
when he arrives at each place ac?
companying H with wagging of the
head and stamping of the staff, and
is generally In rather a jovial condi?
tion by rile time his day's labors are
ended.
TAX NOTICE.
The County Treasurer's office tar
Court House building will be open for
the collection of taxes without penal?
ty, from the 15th day of October to
the 31st December, 1907.
The levy is as follows:
For State, 4 1-2 mills.
For County Ordinary, 2 3-4 mills.
For Sinking Fund Loan, 1 mill.
For Constitutional School, 3 mills.
Polls, $1.00; Capitation Dog Tax?
50 cc its.
Also special school as follows: t
School District. No. 1, 2 mills.
School District No. 2, 2 mllla
School District No. 2. 2 mills.
School District No. 4, 2 mills.
School District No. 11, 2 mills.
School District No. 12, 2 mills.
School District No. 18. 2 mills.
School District No. 14. 2 mills,
School District No. 16, 8 mllla
School District No. 17, 8 mills.
School District No. 18, 8 mllla
A penalty of 1 per cent added for
month of January, 1908. Additional
penalty of 1 per cent, for month of
February, 1908. Additional penalty
of 5 per cent, for 15 days in March*
1908. T. W. LEE,
Treasurer for Sumter Co.
10-2-0^-3-15-08
HOGLESS LARD
1 It is a recognized fact that *no (
"Snowdrift" user ever uses any I
other cooking-fat, for "Snowdrift" ?
? the Standard of quality?is f
purity itself, made by Nature in V
the green fields of the Sunny \
South. 'The top-most grade of V
cotton seed oil refined by our J
original Wesson process. No \
hog-lard in it. Wholesome, eco- j
nomical, digestible, healthful. As )
good as butter for all cooking >
purposes, and much cheaper. {
(y THE -SOUTHERN ? COTTON OIL ? CO - -j
jYewTbrhSavannahMtlavta J/ew Orleans-Chicago]
Branson's Sanatorium
For the Treatment of Stock.
Having erected commodious quarters on my premises, No
541 North Church St., I am well prepared to treat, scientifically
and humanely, all diseases of Horses, Mules, Cows and other
animals. Sick animals hoarded at reasonable charge. Write
or Phone me.
DR. JOHN I. BRUNSON,
Veterinary Surgeon, Snmter, S. C.
Office:?314 South Sumter Street :-: W
Oot 28, '07?2m?Monday end Thursday.
Phone:-No. 493
THE
Bank of Sumter.
Capital, $75,000 -:- Surplus,l$47,000
Does General Banking Business. Four Per
Cent. Interest, payable Quarterly, on Deposits /
in Savings Department -:- -:- -:- -:
PROMPT AND COURTEOUS TREATMENT GUARANTEED.
RICHARD I. MANNIN6,
President.
MARION M01SE.
Vice President.
W. F. RHADE,
Cashier.
CABBAGE AND BEET PLANTS.
For the next few weeks I will fill all orders for
cabbage and beet plants at the follow in? prices: 10J0
to 4000, $125; 6000 to 9000, $1.00; 10,000, 90c.
Special prices on larger lots. Cash with order or O.
O. D. if prefered. We guarantee satisfaction and
safe delivery of plants.
I have all of the leading varieties. The Early
Jersey Wakefield, the most popular early variety;
The Charleston Wskefleld. a few days later but very
desirable (or garden planting. In the later kinds
I have Successio i and The Late Flate Dutch, both
tproducing large flat heads. ' lants now ready for shipment, my personsl at
enti ou given to all orders.
w. F. CA RR,
Megaetts, S. C.
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