Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?(it oWaubmun anb Swutbrort WIONESDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1908. The peop'e of South Carolina on yeeterdsy demonstrated that they do not want and will not have John Gary Kvan? In the United State? Senate as their representative. When every county, save two. records a majority ?jralnst a candidate as well known as Mr. Evans, even so persistent an of? fice-seeker as that gentleman should be convinced Unit there I* a wide? spread and settled conviction that he %3 not the proper man to be sent to the Senate. Pour successive defeats should eliminate him as a candidate for Senatorial honors. We hope we sha'l hear no more of John Gary ?vans and his Senatorial aspirations, ess Mr E D. Smith made a remarka? ble campaign and won a remarkable victory, all things considered. His victory was due almost entirely to the popularity he at alned as the organ tser and leading npirtt In the Southern Cotton Growers' Association, although Ids opponent's unpopularity contrl wted In no sma'l degree to the result. But however the most gratifying re? cruit was achieved, the people of South ?Carolina are to be congratulated on their good sense and conservatism, e ? ? \ Mr. Smith enters a wider field of -usefulness than he has ever occupied mad he has the beet wlehee end cor? dial good will of a large majority of bis fellow ctttueus, who believe that Yea will measure bp to hte responsi? bilities and will worthily and ab'y repreeenr the State. We congratulate Mr. Smith upon the honor that has been done him and extend to him our beet wishes for n career of tins fulness that will reflect greater andV more tasting honor upon his name. Good Democrats will bear In mind that their duty la not done when they have voted In the primary- It Is Im? portant that every Democrat register and rote la the gensral election In No? vember. Our congressman ma/ be unseated If a small vote is polled In sae general election. ? es Cole Bleaae says he will be In the race for Governor two years hone? Will John Gary Evane wait elx years or wl'l he try to oust Ben Tlllman four year hence. It Is a foregone conclu? sion that he will keep on running for Ahe Senate?he has ths habit see TT Bryan Is defeated this year ft ?Ufin be through the efforts of W. R. Hearsts Independence Party. Debs? Socialist Party and Tom Watson's Populist aggregation. They are all .fighting Bryan and Incidentally work? ing for Taft e ? ? Joh i Oary Evans's expense sc ?aoont for the second primary will be ? a corker, If all the Items are put In und sworn to. ^ ? ? ? The Anderson Msll quotes John Oary Evans as having said. "These damn Garys srs the greediest people 1 ever knew," when referring to Frank 3*. Gary's candidacy for the Senate to erseceed Leitmar. The opinion should be accepted as that of an expert, for John Oary Evans Is s shining light In the Oary clan and ought to know a good deal about their greed for ?onVe. Besides, his own record as an ?office seeker v ould lend one to con? clude that he Is somewhat greedy for ?asfiee himself. Weg es a on Cotton Ginning. Wsshlngton. Sept. I.? A total of 397.324 bales of cotton ginned from 'the growth of 1901 to fiept. 1 and ej.elS active gfnnsrlee ars snnounced In the census report on cotton gin alng rseoed today. This Is egal net J99.271 bales at corresponding dste 1907. 4 410 active ginneries; 407.661 fiaeles and ?.#!? ginneries in 100? and 4T9.969 bslee and 8.119 ginneries In 1996 These figures count round as aalf bales, Ths report Includes 20, ? 1? round holes tor 1908. 11,603 for 1997: 21.816 for 1909 and 22.211 for 1906. The report also embraces 1.124 earn Islsnd bales for 1908. 86 for 1907; 4)1 for 1899 and I 168 for 1906. Cats snd doga as pets have be -oome surfi a nuisance at the United Brethren camp at Mount Gretna, Pa., that the directors have barred the aval ma Is. Cultivated taste Is what makes a snan turn from the aportlng page or the Joke column to the editorials? when be notices any body observing him Take a spoonful of violet perfume, a pound or so of lace, a dash of music, und serve under a summer moon? and almost any man will call It ?iove." Doctor?Madam. I have Just been te'ltag your husband that you need aome changs. Patient?I'll swear he told you he had nothing but big note* mit? hin, ?Baltimore American. fin forget all other women while he Is snaking love to one. STATE POLITICS AT CAPITOL. Feuthcratone lift* a Following? lllcasc Threat* us to Hun Again? Manning May lie in the Fight and Lyon 9*o??lhly If He Puts Strli>cs on the Gr?ften?. Columbia, Sept. 5.?Although Co v. Ansel has Just been re-nominated for a second term cf two years, and not yet ejected, there Is already specula? tion as to his successor In 1910. Mr Hlease, who trade a surpri>lngl> strong run agalrst the governor this year, has Intimated in his card of thanks that he w 1 be a candidate again In 1910. and private conver? sation he hud made the lnlmatlon even more direct and strong, so that It 1: presumed that he will again make the fight. The Newberry Observer and Laurent Advertiser have already named Mr. C. C. Featherstone of Laurens as the lo? gical candidate n 1910, as Mr. Feath? erstone withdrew from the race this year upon an assurance from Oov. Ansel that he would advocate on the stump and recommend to the 'eglsla ture Mr. Featherstone's plan of hand? ling the liquor question?State prohi? bition law with option to counties to vote In dispensaries Instead of voting them out. as at present. The govern? or's advocacy of this plan on the stump was lost sight of In his defense of the administration from the attacks of Mr. Bleae. It le aleo suggested by some of the county papers that Mr. Richard I. Manning, who was Qov. Ansel's op? ponent In 1906. will again be a candi? date in 1910. Only Mr. 'Manning's advocacy of the State dispensary sys? tem kept him out of tha office two years ago. Conditions have changed now and the dispensary la out of the way. Lieut Oov. MeLeod has had the second place all to himself without a fight being fir fist elected and then reflected without opposition, and what would be more natural than that he should try for first place In 1910? By the way, It is sometimes forgotten that M MeLeod is a first cousin of Hon. E. D. Smith, near senator from South Carolina. J. Fr?ser Lyon was given one of the handsomest endorsements that tho State has ever given a young man, In his election to the office cf attor? ney general in 1906; he has been re nomlnuted without opposite rt, and given more time to fulfill his promise to "put striper, on the grafte/s." If he does fulfill that ^-?mlse, can any one beat him for govei r or for any? thing else? ? Col. W. W. Lumpklrf of-Columbia, who made ths race for the United States senate as a prohibitionist. Is looked upon aa likely gubernatorial timber, since he has got acquainted with the folk and Invited them all to come to see him. Capt. .John O. Richards. Jr., the legislative leader, from Kershaw, who wants the Hen law repealed, and who a'so favors State prohibition without any options, may he among those to aspire to the governorship in 1910. There are many 'others tied out In the bushes end the events of the neat i o years may bring out some horses that are now dark and elimi? nate others that are now In the run? ning. But you can't keep people from talking politics, especially after the election.?Greenville News. BRYAN'S EFFECTIVE REPLY. Would Answer Hearst If Latter Would AlUngn Himself With Taft In the Campaign. Chicago, Sept. 7.?William J. Bryan was asked tonight If he had read the Labor Day speech of Wm. R. Hearst. He replied that he had not, but he un? derstood that Mr. Hearst had made some criticism of him. "I am fighting Mr. Taft," said Mr. Bryan. "Elther Mr. Taft or I will be elected. If Mr. Hearst declares that he is endeavoring to he p Mr. Taft and Mr. Taft will endorse Mr. Hearst as a representative of Republican Ideas, and Mr. Hearst's methods of campaigning I will answer Mr. Hearst otherwise I do not feel called upon to do so." Standing Room Only. A Mormon's wife, coming down stairs one morning, met the physician who was attending her husband. "Is he very ill?" she asked anx? iously. "He Is." replied the physician. "I fear that the end Is not far off." "Do you think," she asked, hesi? tatingly, "do you think It proper that I should be at his bedside during his last moments?" "Yes. But I advise you to hurry, madam. The best p'aces arc already being taken."?Everybody's. Tess?I think I am entitled to a Carnegie medal. I saved a life the other evening. Jess?The Idea. Whose? Tess?Jack Mason's; he said he couldn't live without me. No man Is a really artistic lover who hasn't enough dramatic Instinct BRYAN LEADS; TAFT IMITATES. XEIUIASKAN MRS THE PACE FOR OTHERS TO FOLLOW. He in Afforded Much Satisfaction at the Hcpuhliuii Candidate's Doing Forced lo Adopt .Measures ami Tuc th-s in Advocating und Using Which He Was Himself a Pioneer. Falrview. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 6.? \V J. Bryan eft here at 4 o'clock to? day over the Kock Island Railroad for Chicago and thus began a throe weeks campaign tour, which will carry him into the Middle West, the Eastern States and back through the West into South Dakota before returning home. Perhaps no recent news afforded the Democratic candidate for Presi? dent so much interest as the an? nouncement that Mr. Taft proposed making a campaign tour Mr. Bryan regarded his opponent's decision as a distinct vindication of his course In the present as well as his two pre? vious campaigns, when he tracked over the ountry and delivered political speeches. When asked If he had any comment to make on the subject, Mr. Bryan said: "Well, I am getting a great deal of con -o'atlon out of the way the Presi? dent and Mr. Taft have been doing. I used to be call.-a hard names because I advocated an income tax, and now the Income tax has been endorsed by the President and Mr. Taft. I used to he bitterly denounced because I favor? ed railroad regulation. Now the President and Mr. Taft have brought that reform Into popularity and I am no longer considered dangerous. I used to get a good deal of criticism because I favored tariff reform, but now tariff reform has become so urg? ent that Mr. Taft is willing to have a special session called Immediately af? ter inauguration to act on the sub? ject. It used to be that when I talked shout Independence for the Filipinos I was told the American flag never came down when It once went up. now we have a Republican candidate for the Presidency who believes the Filipinos must ultimately have inde? pendence. "But I have reason to rejoice over the factt hat some of the things I have done are now viewed in a more favorable light. When I made some phonograph records In order that I might dlscusss political questions be? fore more people, the Republican pa? pers ridiculed me and called it undig? nified, but Mr. Taft has lifted the phonograph to eminence by talking into It himself. f "And now my greatest sin Is to be made a virtue by Imitation. Surely Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.' When I went out campaign? ing in 1896 and 1900 they said it was demagogic to run around over the country hunting for votes. Now It Is eminently proper since Mr. Taft Is going to do it, and hope the Republi? can papers will make due apo'ogies. They srM in 1896 and 1900 that I was scared when I made speeches from tri- rear end of a train, and I was, and the results showed that I had reason to be. I have been won? dering whether this explanation would be given when Mr. Taft starts out,, and whether the result will be the same with him that it was with me. "It is hard for us to keep our pat? ents from being Infringed on this year. I am afraid they will try to raise a campaign fund by popular contribu? tions next." WHITE CHILD SLAIN AND EATEN. Nesro Voodoolsm Leads to Atro? cious Crime In Cuba. Havana, Sept. 6.?The pr?seutlng attorney at Matsnzas flni.hed yester? day an Invest*gallon into the case of the murder of a child, Ljesa Valdes. evidencing an aw;jl instance of can? nibalism and witchcraft. He demand? ed a death sc ntence for Irene Rod? riguez and her two accomplices, the Valladares, and life imprisonment for other negroes concerned. The evidence was that Luesa Val? des. a white fcirl 3 years old. was kid napped last June by Rolilguez, th Val'adares and Victor Navarre, a ne gro boy 14 years old. They ha*, hunt ed a long time for a white child fo^ Leocadla, a sick colored woman. Rodriguez, It was charged, killed the I girl after ghastly ceremonies and gave portions of the body to Leocadla. The case reveals that the negroes have In all the provinces leaders caH ed, like Rodriguez, high priests, who command the same Influence over the Ignorant population that the Papaloez have in Haiti. Since 1906 their horri? ble superstition has been growing. Early |p that year, under the Palmas administration, two negroes, one of them an old African called Boku, were garroted for kll'lng a white child to cure a negro woman.?Balti? more Sun. "He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears."?Prov. 26: 17. ROCKEFELLER'S WIDE NAME. Interest in Oil King Extends All Over tlM World. A New York dispatch to the Phi a delphla Ledger says: Everybody in Europe, from empe? rors and kings and presidents down to the humblest of peasants, knows John D. Rockefeller by reputation. This is the information brought back by C. N, Douhleday, of Douhleday, Page & Co., who went abroad several weeks ago to arrange for the simul? taneous publication of the Rockefeller autobiography in England, Germany, France, Spain, Ita y, Austria, Hun? gary, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Bel? gium, Switzerland, South Africa and Holland. 'I was very much surprised," said Mr. Doubleday, "when I got to Europe to find what great interest Europeans generally have in everything that per? tains to John D. Rockefeller. "One very funny thing, if It may be expressed that way, was the great de? sire on the part of every one that 1 talked with to obtain a photograph of the little house in this State where John D. Rockefeller was born. Luck i'y, I was able to accommodate them. When they had seen the photograph of the Rockefeller birthplace they wanted to see the big Standard Oil building in lower Broadway. It was Interesting to study them when they saw the contrast between these two pictures and the story that they told. Mr. Rockefeller's present home was also a matter of great interest to them, and here again they were lm mensely Impressed with the contrast it made with the house of his birth. "In England the people were great ly Interested in Mr. Rockefeller as a man and his' great gifts to pnilan thropic and educational Institutions, and they wanted to know what sort of a man it is that can give these huge sums. "I find that the stories which from time to time have appeared in this country, and which have so seyerely criticised Mr. Rockefeller, have not as a rule penetrated other countries. They only know him as the man who has built up an Immense business all over the world. In other words, 1 found that the name Rockefeller Is synonymous with oil everywhere." In the Wor'd's Work for September Mr. Doubleday conveys his personal impression of Mr. Rockefeller. Under the caption, "Mr. Rockefel? ler on Business Morals," Mr. Douhle? day gives the following expression of Mr. Rockefeller In reply to the popu? lar notion that Mr. Rockefeller built up for himself by pulling down others, piling his edifice on their ruins: "It would have been Impossible to make a success by oppressing people. Big men who do things in a large and effective wey cannot be oppressed: they may suffer a temporary disad? vantage, and one might make a tem? porary profit by pushing them at such a time, but it would be only for a time. "I never was so foolish as to follow these tactics; I wanted ab'e men to work with me and not agrlnst me. I tried to make friends oZ these men. and if I bad Pot succeed ad in getting their frlendsr p the whole plant of| the Standard Oil Company would have fallen to the ground. I admit I tried to attract only the able men; I have always had as little as possible to do with dull business men. "Let us go a step further and sup? pose that not only by getting rebates from the railroads on our own pro? ducts, but on the products of others as well I had ruined these able men and forced them to come in with me. Could any man alive develop from such material the esprit de corps which even our enemies admit we have aiways possessed? Perhaps you say, after being so near'ruin, a man will go in with anybody Who will show him a way out. This can onl) be answered by the personnel of our company. Strong men who had been ruthlessly shorn of their self respect would hot for thirty years work in harmony and build up a great busi? ness. The thing is inconceivable. [ "So the reader may take his choice - th< ars*nm< i>ts, but for the ''ftiffc-^ifafkf benefll of a doubt, '^KyHpfr* . e crowc n . v iragraph \ i the ~?.~.?dard Oil people had done a Just action would I not be widely printed; a story that I the Standard had crshed out another rival would be circulated broadcast, even If both ta1es were not founded on fact, because the crowd desires to justify its already accepted conclu? sions; It does not want to begin Its mental process over again." After a newspaper has yelled Itself hoarse in an effort to persuade people to patronize home merchants instead of mall order houses, and then accl dently stumbles on the fact that some of these self same business men he is endeavoring to protect, are sending away for their Job printing or using a mcas'y rubebr stamp for their sta? tionery, It rather shakes his faith In mankind, and makes reciprocity look like a "lead dime with a hole in it." Eat What i You want of the food you need Kodol will digest it. You need a sufficient amount of good wholesome food and more than this you need to fully digest it. Else you can't pain strength, nor can you strengthen your stomach if it is weak. You must eat in order to live and maintain strength. You must not diet, because the body requires that you eat a suffic? ient amount of food regularly. But this food must be digested, and it must be digested thoroughly. When the stomach can't do it, you must take something that will help the stomach. The proper way to do is to eat what you want, and let Kodol di? gest the food. f Nothing else can do this. When the stomach is we ik it needs help; you must help it by giving it rest, and Kodol will do that. Our Guarantee Go to your druggist today, and purchase a dollar bottle, and if you can honestly say, that you did not receive any benefits from it, after using the entire bottle, the drug? gist will refund your money to you without question or delay. We will pay the druggist the price of the bottle purchased by you. This offer applies to the large bottle only and to but one in a family. We could not afford to make such an offer, unless we positively knew what Kodol will do for you. It would bankrupt us. The dollar bottle contains 25* times as much as the fifty cent bottle. Kodol is made at the laboratories of E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago. i 1 I FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. BOY TAPS WIRELESS PHONE. Twelve-Year-Old Son of W. E. D. Stokes Invents a "Receiving Box." divulge anything more concerning his " invention. There are secrets involved in the perfection of the system which he does not mean to have any other wizards fea,st upon?New York World. William E. D. Stokes. Jr. 12 years old, son of the proprietor of the An? tonia Apartment Hotel, Seventy-thirl street and Broadway, has astounded experts in wireless transmission of messages by electrical energv by de? signing what he calls a 1 receiving box." His contrivance not on?./ catch? es dispatches sent in the ordinary code used by the Marconi and De Fo c<t system, but reproduces the words and sounds of wireless telephony, in vol? ume deep enough to be heard at a distance of four feet from the appa? ratus. Working alone, and concealing tne secret of his Invention from his father, the boy biuck to the completion of his task all of last Thursday, ard we l Into the night. On Friday al >ut r oon he had perfected the last coll In the mysterious "box" and ran down from the roof to his father's office on the sixteenth floor, shouting: "Come up, Pop! Come up; frhe's talking all light. Com? and left**!" Stokes, senior, had indulged his ton for more than a year with electrical devices of different characters, and permitted him to string wires be? tween the two towers on the roof of th building and connect them with a dynamo in the dynamo room of the bui'ding. The father had heard the click of the dot and dash, snatched from the air, which was not entirely new; but he was wholly unprepared for the demonstration that greeted him, when he was called to the roof by the eager youngster. "Just wait a minute," exclaimed W. E. D., junior as he opened a square receptacle, and turned a lever. In? stantly there came the sound of a human \oIc> with a metallic twang. The young inventor has figured out th; t the clear and distinct words enunciat >d through the receiving box come either from Phi'adelphia or from within 100 miles of New York, and that the sounds of lesser clarity are projected from Boston or thereabouts. The weaker sounds, he calculates, by comparative reasoning, must come a distance of from 700 to 1,000 miles. He has not attempted to design a transmitter to send wireless telephon? ic messages, but he can transmit the ordinary telegraphic code and capture messages on the wing as well as an expert. The boy has thought out and de? signed the apparatus without help. He has been a student of electrical science since he was 10 years old. He is a pupil of Doctor Browning's school in West Fifty-fifth street, and in common with othv?r boys of his own age and older has had object lessons in me? chanical de\ ices In visits of the cla?s to Industrial establishments. The only branch that Interested him was electricity, and in that h? has dis? played a precocity which one of the leading experts in wireless telephony seys is without precedent. Young Stokes was in Long Branch A post-mortem on a colt belonging ^ to David Moore, a farmer living near Anderson, Ind., showed that the ani? mal had two hearts. The colt had been healthy up to the time of its death, and the supposition Is that when the extra heart, situated near the liver, which had been inactive^ began to work the increasing pressure caused a blood vessel to burst, result? ing in death. A single fruit company exported last year 40,000,000 bunches of bananas to Europe and the Unitevl| States from Central and South Amer? ica and Jamaica. If it wern't for the tiresome wed? ding Journey and the monotonous honeymoon, bridal couples could be? gin being happy right away. ^ Refinement is what makes ? msn turn on his heel and iub instead of staying at hqms ind hav? ing a good, old-fa-hi on d row with his wife. To be true to the best la the best w<- can do for truth. Near Caldwell, N. J., a ring set with diamonds was found in the nest of a blackbird. A Jeweler said it was worth $350. At a factory at Longmount., Cal., 40,000 cans are filled with peas every day. The work is done by machinery. CASTOR l A lor Infanta and Children. The Riad You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of NOTICE OF SUPERVISORS REGISTRATION. OF In compliance with act of Legisla? ture of 1908 the Board of Supervisors of Registration will open their books for the purpose of Registration and Reenrolllng at: Stateburg on Tuesday, Sept 1st. Remberts on Wednesday, Septem* ber 2nd. Dalzell on Thursday, Sept. 3rd. Sumter on Monday, Sept 7th. Mayesvll'e on Monday, Sep*. IL Oswego on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Shlloh on Wednesday, Sept. 9th. Concord or. Friday (Gordon Mill) Sept. 11th. Wedgefleld on Tuesday, Sept. 15th. Manchester on Wednesday, Sept. 16. Privateer on Thursday, Sept. 17th. By order of Board. S. J. WHITE, Clerk & Secretary. 8-19-6t Do You Pay Your Bills By Check? And thus have a record of each and every amount expended together with a receipt for the amount paid? If not, you need a checking account with this bank. It is the safest way, the most convenient and satisfactory method of transacting all business pay? ments. We will be pleased to have you make this bank your plac e of deposit. THE BANK OF SUMTER.