The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 30, 1908, Image 7

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JfAllTBYlLLB RfU TE CAl'UUT. Named Johiii? Arrertcd on the of Commit Um? Criminal Au? nt Harts v life Harfsvllle. Dec. 17.?It wmi that the mgro brut* who committed the em trag? at tnls pinci on Monday nicht Inet hi is been apprehended and It mom ?v?thin the p ?ultentlary walla. It thee been a terrtbto week of waiting and dtMappolntme.it to every good crUesa of Hartsville aa the day* pass? ed an? the many duet gave no re suits and the many see pect? failed to be Identified by the lady. Kara god and determined that the crime should not go unavenged if any human agyenry eould aocomplleh the detec? tion ana arrest of the criminal, every ana felt more and more hopeless m med as each succeeding day fruttiasa Every Instrument of i ths hi' and every means that could L^e employed with any hope of suc ? onea hnve been uev* to get lo the sxoom of the outrage and quietly, but constantly, the town and county as trorMles have worked day and night ?kauet* hour. A.?d added to the efforts Inf the uuthorttiee has been the volun Vagry work* of many persona In their private capacity. Through this latter course came the clue, which has finally led to ths of a brute t gainst whom the evidence is very peetttve. A negro named Johnson was arrested at Et? on Saturday morning by Sheriff Hurch of Floienoc. acting with Pol Ice? man Seegars of this place and Mr. Ed. Perry, a brother of the victim's hus? band. The negro was taken to Flor? ence and thence to Darlington, where , he was tuiued over Saturday night to Sheriff Black well at I o'clock. It was proposed to bring him her? for Identi? fikation, but the authorities here fear? ed] trouble and advised Sheriff Black - well to seep him at Darlington. Lat? er on, acting on further advices from here that a threatening crowd was waiting to get sight of the negro. Shsriff lllackwell drove to Florence ut I o'clock In the momlng und there took th< 4 o'clock (or Columbia. A crowd met the train corning In here ?t t o'clock Saturday night and It I? pr<<tty certain would have made smart wi?rk of the negro at once. In? deed, many of them believed that the negro hud been taken off the tram on the outskirts of the town and was ee*oewh< re around, an<l all night and ah day Sunday crowds of msn have b*><m ootigregated around towa await? ing dev< lopments and Anxious to lo? an the brute. There has never been fifty Intention on the part of the town authorities to nllow the man to be brought here. This 11 the first crime of Its kind +~eummrttod st thla place and. Indeed. obh of tie few In the county. It fairly staggered people by the enormity, but left no doubt as to the short work that would have been made of the criminal bad It been possible to lay hands on The cttlaens of the town look for the govervor to order an early trial of the nogro. We all want to attract Investors to the South, and particularly to South Carolina because we want to see the money moving freely, snd we know that there are rich opportunities here for ths capitalists t< realise a good, legitimate) profit on I heir Investment?. When ws have such examples as the ? ? ?nlnoi? has recently furnished us oi high flnanoeerlnif for personal htar** 'Here Is Uttii ohaace of our gut tin* Anything eueept the worse kind of criticism ?? specially when we take It In ggf in? n with the recent Wha? le* BefU al and the story of the big Ijtdeev ?nt Oil ?ompany nearer tbage*. ?'ui?-aa we ehh give aasurance ths of the investors here ?la be protected) aggiJJawi lbs) Mkltar.rt FWe had bettei withdraw our bids for isl. The South'* strong get aa?et ufitd) fig bfi the ujdmpen^iev able t> railty ef the Southern bust nee? n en. and when Mrs have lost that wi *fg tndesd, beref*. Such a com y as ths Semiqpls la needed In this State and would have done a good easiness and gotten rich legiti? mately If it had not been for the grasp ton g of some who saw an oppor? tunity to make a deal on the side and get rich all st once. Many msn put their money In that concern because they saw ths nsed of such an Institu? tion and would have contributed the amount of their stoea gladly to havs made It. a success for the good that It would have done the State. There are* so many of these "sells" In the Investment world, so many scheming scamps who want to get hold of other peoples money, that one can't wonder when men with hard earned dollars refuse to entrust It, even In a really good enterprise. It Is largely for that. too. ws call on the people of the State to make Investigations thorough, and to probe anything that looks sus? picious antl to punish svll doing and. as far as possible, restore confidence in the integrity of the South Caro? lina business man.?Plorsnce Times. Density Collector J. P. Scruggs and State Constable Ooldsmlth and Ooa nell captursd a big still In Oreenvllle County Saturday. TRIUMPH OF RAILROAD BUILD* INC. Flagier's Ocean-Going Railroad Down Um Florida Coast to Key West. The greatest achievement in rail? road building in this country in re? cent yeare?and psehaps ths greatest of all?la the construction of the Flor? ida Bast Coast roadJt Only a few days ago a United States Judge In New York dismissed ths charge of peonage brought against ths labor agsnt of this most remarkable railroad. It has since been shown that the peonage agitation agalmit the road was started by some Irresponsible workmen, who after the manner of hoboes had run away from their work and sought to Justify the breaking of their contract. Whea the road was projected the use of the Florida convicts was offered at forty cents a day, but Mr. Flag ler, the head of the undertaking, de? cided to use free labor, though more expensive. A news story of this great enter? prise says In part: Vice President Parrott, who now is in New York on business connected with the great extension which is Jumping over a stretch of thirty miles of open ocean and over thirty miles mors of submerged keys and lagoons to connect Key West by direct line with Miami, now estimates that this, ons of the most novel engineering en? terprises of modern times, will be com? pleted and trains running for its full length within a year. Already the line Is completed and trains are running for 84 miles south of Miami, right down to Knight's Ksy. Work also Is being pushed for? ward from Key West up and over forty miles of roadbed has been con? structed by the gangs that are work? ing northward to meet the other work? men who rapidly are moving south. This means that a total of 124 miles has been completed out of the 156 miles of road surveyed from Miami to Key West. The greatest of all the engineering feats on this wonderful line, however, ti yet to be completed This is the eleven-mile gap from Knight's Key to Bahla Honda where the line Is being carried over the open ocean on concrete arches. The effect of the great extension On traffic to Havsna, however, already haa been felt because now the steam? ers for Havana meet the trains at Knight's Key and take passengers and freight from that point to the Cuban capital Instead of eighty-four miles north at Miami. When the line Is com? pleted to Key West huge railroad oar floate will take entire trains across ths Florida Straits to Havana, a | dis? tance of ninety miles, without com? pelling passengers to leave thslr car seats or sleeping car berths and with? out the necessity of breaking bulk on a single consignment of freight.' This will mean that the Cuban sugar plant? er will be enabled to load his product on a freight ear aide-tracked at his plantation, have the car hauled by rail to Havana, floated to Key West land then rail-hauled right' to New York or any other point without any of the, expense, trouble or damage dangers of a second handling. Tills great project, which Is being financed from beginning to end, by Mr. Flagler personally, generally !? regarded by engineers as the most ex? pansiv s stretch of railroad ever built, the average cost of construction, from end to end, exceeding $100,000 a mile, while the additional capital require? ments for docks, channeling, car floats and equipment will bring the total coat approximately to $10.000,000. Al? ready Mr. Flagler has expended up? ward of $16,000,000 on the work.? Ameiicus Times-Recorder. SHOT HIB BISTER TO DEATH. Ucolu Woman Killed by Her Brother on a Clarendon Plantation. Manning, December 26.?A white &n named Frank Drlggers to-day ?%>t his sister, Mrs. Mamie Boseman, rr:h a gun, Inflicting a wound from vhlch she died In about an hour, lira. Boseman lived at Alcolu, but sad been on a visit to her brother, ?n Major W. T. Lessne's place. Full particulars are not obtainable, but It Is said there had been some misun? derstanding between the parties on account of a horse that Drlggers had which belonged to his sister. Mrs. Boseman had said good-bye and start? ed for home when Drlggers shot her In the back of the head. No Investi? gation by the coroner has yet been had. SHOT AT MARK. KILLED BOY. Young Man of leracaMtcr Shoots No gm l*u\? Another Negro Slain. Lancaster, December 26.?A negro boy about eight years old, a son of Nettle Evans, was sccldentally shot and killed In the suburbs of town to? day by Amon Lindsay, a young white man. Mr. Lindsay was shooting at a mark, and did not see the child. John Wilson was killed by Bob Cralg. both colored, at Van Wyck to? day. No particulars of the homicide are known here. Fire destroyed Long and Culbersons ginnery and T. E. Harris' store at Waterloo. Loss about $9,000. SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Mil AWARDS IN RURAL SCHOOL CON TEST ANNOUNCED. Five Prises, Worth $100 Each, and Thirty Worth $50 Each, Were Of? fered?Dec Woo nx Made at Meeting Held at Columbia Friday. Columbia, Dec. 19.?Under the terma of the contest conducted by the" School Improvement Association for 1908, the following schools have been awarded prizes of $100 each: Scranton, Wllllamsburg County. Richburg, Chester County. Providence, Saluda County. Sardls, Sumter County. Plnewood, Clarendon County. Second Prises. The following schools were awarded prises of $50 each: Pergamos, Wllllamsburg County. Prospect, Wllllamsburg County. 8ardlna, Clarendon County. Lees Aca, Bamberg. Ridgevllle. Dorchester. Synder, Colleton County. Oakville, Lexington. Roberts, Anderson. Hercules. Barnwell. Marlboro, Marlboro County. Indian Field, Dorchester County. Wedgefleld, Sumter County. Simpsonville, Oreenville County. Pauley, Horry. Graves' Station, Georgetown County. Edgemoor, Chester County. Olar, Bamberg County. Cope, Orangeburg County. Mauldln. Greenville County. Poplar Spring, Oconee County. Garnett, Hampton County. Fairview, Lexington County. Bethel, Richland County. St. Charles. Sumter County. Elim, Florence County. Smith, Marlboro County. Excelsior, Newberry County. Wampee, Horry County. Chandler, Greenville. Sunny South, Lexington. Additional Prizes. The committee decided to give eight additional prizes of $25 each to schools which received honorable* mention for the $60 prises. The schools receiving these prizes are as follows: Mill Creek, Bichland County. Brown, Wllllamsburg County. Taylor, Greenville. Temassee, Hampton County. Picket Post, Oconee. Shlloh, Laurens County. Julia Academy, Orangeburg. Boiling Springs, Barnwell County. The checks for these prizes will be sent out from the office of State Su? perintendent of Education at once. The prlae money le to be used in mak? ing additional improvements. The schools will be requested to make re ports showing how they have spent the money. The formal awards will be made by the Governor at the meeting of the State School Improvement As? sociation on December 21. The executive committee of the South Carolina School Improvement Association met on Friday afternon at S o'clock in the office of the State Superintendent of Education to award the prizes offered by that Association to the rural schools making the most material Improvement in buildings and grounds. The following members were present: Miss Mary T. Nance, Colum? bia. 8. C, Miss Lizzie Rogers, East over, S. C, Miss Theodosla Dargan. Stateburg; Miss Louisa B. Poppen helm, Charleston; Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, Thomas; Miss Louise Bethea, Latta; Mrs. Ollie Hydrlck Schoenberg, North and Mrs. J. D. Coker, Harts ville. * Ninety-one schools entered the com? petition. The applications, descrip? tions, drawings and photographs cov? ered three large tables, so the commit? tee had quite an enormous task to give careful consideration to all of the schools. In addition to the nine? ty-one schools a great many other schools made improvements, but did not continue in* the contest until the flnish. Under authority of the legislature the State board of education appro? priated $2,000 to be used by the School Improvement Association in offering prizes to the rural schools In this tSate, which make the greatest Improvement during the year. The Improvements were to be made between November 1, 1907. and December 10, 1908. "Un? der material Improvements are Includ? ed local taxation, consolidation, new buildings, repairing and painting old ones, libraries, readlg rooms or tab ones, libraries, reading rooms or ta? bles, Inter'or decorations, beautifying yarrfs and better general equipment." Five prizes worth $100 each, and thirty prizes worth $50 each were of? fered. After the committee had awarded the thirty-five prizes, accord? ing to the announcement, they were so Impressed with the merlta of some of the other schools that they appro? priated $200 from their own treasury to give some additional prizes. This money was contributed by members of the various State and county asso? ciations, and the Federation of Wo? men's Clubs for this purpose. A warehouse on the Carolina wharf in Charleston was destroyed by Are Sunday Loss $1.600. M'W HOME FOR THE VETERANS Im State- of South Carolina is Provld uitable Struct uro for This Purpos* 'n Columbia. | for the Confederate yet- I M rearing completion and I it 1. .nat it Will be ready for cccu. by the first of March. When completed the building will be furnished suitably and appropriately ard will be quire a cosy home for the I old soldiers. The new structure Is located near the Hyatt Park road, within easy I rea^h of two car lines, the Hyatt Park line and the Colonial Heights line, be- I ing about 1 1-2 miles from the centre of the city. It will require about all of the $12,000 appropriated by the legislature to complete the building, which will be a very imposing struc? ture. The commission in charge Is com posed of Col. D. Cardwell of Colum- I bla, Capt. J. H. Brooks, Ninety-Six; CoL J. W. Reld, Chester; Maj. N. B. Cantey. Camden, and Gen. M. L. Bon ham, Anderson. The last named was recently appointed by Qov. Ansel to fill the vacancy created by the death of the lamented J. Q. Marshall of thU city. There has been some mlsunder-1 \ standing on the part of the veteran* I and the general public as well, a.< to I the exact function of the institutioni. I Many have been of the opinion that I veterans will have to leave their faml- j lies, give up their pensions and sur- I render a considerable portion of their I personal liberty to secure admittance J As a mater of fact, the number , of I inmates will be limited lor some time- J to ?4, the act providing for the ad- J mission of but two veterans from each of the 42 counties for th i present. The place will be in ihe nature oi an infirmary and a "home boarding house," whare the veterans will fin1 their every xl?S locked after care? fully. They will be treated handsome? ly tnd allowed rverv proper liberty Just as If they were at home. Oi'i of the tttracti/e feature* will be ??. o*>. well lighted library and reading room. The home Is prlmarilj for veterans who are without relatives willing and able to care for them properly and who lack private means wherewith to provide for themselves.?The State. On Country Life. The following are the questions which are being asked by the Country Life Commissioners appointed by President Roosevelt: I. Are the farm homes In your neighborhood as good as they should be under existing conditions? II. Are the schools of your neigh? borhood training boys and girls satis? factorily for life on the farm? III. Do the farmers in your neigh? borhood get the returns they should be under existing conditions? * IV. Do the farmers In your neigh? borhood receive from the railroads, highroads, trolley lines, etc., the ser? vice they reasonably should have? V. Do the farmers In your neigh? borhood receive from the United States postal service, rural telephone, etc., the service they reasonably should ex? pect? VI. Are the farmers and their wives in your neighborhood satisfac? torily organized to promote their mu? tual buying and selling interest? VII. Are the renters of farms in your neighborhood making a satis? factory living? VIII. Is the supply of farm labor In your neighborhood satisfactory? IX. Are the conditions surrounding hired labor on the farms In your neighborhood satisfactory to hired men? X. Have the farmers in our neigh borhood satisfactory facilities for do? ing their business in banking, cedit, insurance, etc? XI. Are the sanitary conditions of the farms in your neighborhood satis? factory? XII. Do the farmers and their wives of your neighborhood get to? gether for mutual Improvement, enter? tainment, and social intercourse as much as they should? XIII. What, In your Judgment, Is the most important single thing to be done for the general betterment of country life? CAPT MINUS RETIRED. Commandant of Cadets at Clemson In Poor Health. Washington, Dec. 25.?-Capt. J. C. Minus, commandant of cadets at Clem? son College, hag been retired from active service In the army because of poor health. It will be necessary, therefore, for the war department to name his successor at an early date. It Is not yet known who the new man will be. On last Monday a Syrian and Char? lie Smith were up before Council on the charge of selling liquor. The par? ties were adjudged guilty. The Syrian was given a sentence of $50 fine or 30 days on the chalngang. Charlie Smith was given 25 days on the gang or $40 fine. Blind tigers will get all that Is coming to them In this town, if they are caught, and the police are without doubt quite active la trying to catch them.?Manning Times. TOM WATSON TELLS HOW THE PEOPLE ARE ROBBED * By High Protective Tariff?A Clear Expoae of the Iniquitous System. The Progressive Farmer, refer? ring to Mr. Watson's New Or leans ad? dress, reports him as stating that the feoreign spinners clear a profit ot $9,000.000 on the American cottor they annually purchase from us. The amount is rather more than nine million dollars. Brother Poe To be frank with you, it is n.ne hundred million dollars. The 'foreigner bought during the year named, upwards of nine million bales of American cotton, paying us not quite five hundred million dollars for it. He sold the manufactured products?cioth and "sich"?lor fourteen hundred million dollars. Five hundred, from fourteen hun? dred leaves nine hundred. Tidy sum to lose every year?this $900,000,000! When is the cotton grower to wake up and watch the way his Congress? man votes? x When is the farmer going to learn how to compel his representatives to vote for laws that will benefit the farmer? The official record reveals the aw? ful fact that the steel trust, alone clears more money, every year, than the 16,000,000 agriculturists clear in ten years. Why because the steel trust getp congress to pass laws that benefit the trust. How does congressional legis? lation enable the steel trust to earn larger profits in one year than all the farmers can earn in ten? By putting the license-fee of the foreigner who seeks to sell in our market so high that he cannot af? ford to pay it. The tariff duty which the foreigner has to pay at the cus? tom house, before he can offer his goods for sale In our country, is the same as a license fee paid for the privilege to sell. Suppose a foreigner has to pay four dollars tariff duty on a suit of clothes which sells In Europe for six dollars. The four dollars must be added to the six, and we Americans must pay ten dollars for the suit. The foreigner cannot afford to sell it to us f )r less. That being so. the American manufacturer can put a ten-dollar price on his six dollar suit of clothes also. The foreigner cannot sell for less thin ten, without losing money, whereas the American manufacturer can offer his suit at $9.60, cut the foreigner out of the trade, and stil' pocket $6.50 more than the Stilt clothes is worth. When the forelgne* can afford to bring his goods into our mrkt'. t). Government gets th?_ tariff duties When the fo. :-ner can afford to sell in our s t tk t, ths American manufacturer h a monopoly, charges extortionate prices, and the Government gets nothing. Thus the tariff keeps competition out, breeds the trust and pillages the millions who must buy the 3,000 articles whose prices are artificially jacked up and kept up by congress? ional legislation. The prodigal expenditures of Con? gress?both the old parties being equally guilty of sinful waste?have increased the appropriations until the per capita cost of running the Federal Government is about $12 per annum. To the average family that means a yearly Federal tax of $50. But you never see any Federal ta\ collector, do you? You see one every time you buy a plug of tobacco, every time you settle a store account, every time you purchase one of the hun? dreds of articles necessary to home and farm. You bewail your fate, and say that "times are hard and the cost of living increased." What have you done to make times better? Voted the Republican ticket, and got half-a-dozen little packeages of garden seed and a copy of a speech that your Congressman did not de? liver? Or did you vote the Democratic ticket, and get six small envelopes containing garden seed and a copy of a speech your Congressman made on one side of a question, when the record shows that he voted on the other? Prices high? Oh, no, they're not; it's the taxes that are high. You pay the Federal taxes when you pay t'iose high prices for merchandise. If you would compel your con pressman to lower the tariff duties, the number of foreigners who could afford to sell their stuff in our mar? kets would be Increased, the prices of all kinds of merchandise would be more reasonable, and the Government would got a larger proportion of the price which the tariff compels all to pay?for the 'oreign goods are the only ones which enable the Govern? ment to get anything out of the tar? iff. The smaller the amount of foreign goods that can be sold here, the greater the huge sum total of what our manufacturers get out of the tariff. As long as there are any tariff duties, the people will have to pay The Bright Side. Let's oftener talk of nobler deeds. And rarer of the bad ones, And sing about our happy days,. And not about our sad onee. We are not made to fret and sigh. And when grief sleeps to wake it; Bright happiness Is standing by? This life is what we make it. a Let's And the sunny side of men. Or be believers in It; A light there is In every soul. That takes the pains to win It, Oh! there's a slumbering good in alL And we perchance may wake it; Our hands contain the magic wand? This life is what we make it. Then here's to those whose loving hearts Shed light and Joy about them! Thanks to them for countless gems Ws ne'er had known without them. Oh! this should be a happy world. To all who may partake it; The fault's our own if it is not? This life is what we make it 1 ????????????????????sasasa? more for dutiable articles than they are worth, for the duty will always be added to the price. But it is very much better to have low duties which will enable the Government to get the principal benefit of the Immoral tariff than to leave duties so high that foreign competition 1st shut out and the trusts hog the whole thing.?The Jeffersonian. MASTER'S SALE. By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, in the State of South Carolina, in the case of Alston Westberry and Friday Kershaw against Robert Ramsey and others, I will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the Court House in the City of Sumter, in the County and State aforesaid, on Sale Day in January, 1909, being the 4th day ot said month, during the usual hours of sale, the following described real es? tate, to wit: "All that piece, parcel or traot of land, situate and being in said County and State, containing one hundred acres, more or less, lying on the public road leading from Sumter Court i House via Providence to Camden, and adjoining lands now or formerly of the restate of Furman, Joshua Myers, Henry Williams and others; being the same land conveyed to me by said Al? ston Westberry and Friday Kershaw, the description of said premises in said deed of conveyance being herein in? corporated into and made a part thereof in all respects." Terms of sale: one half cash, bal? ance on a credit of twelve months from day of sale, the time portion to be secured by the bond of the pur? chaser and a raort rage of tit | lev sold, the bond to draw interest from I the 'late of sale, the dweUtne house t? _ oe lnsu.-~ .vt?d policy as*vgne?. " S \ The jedgment in this case has b^en i I i? -etofoi s assigned in part to .i. m appears by the record in. H. FRANK WILf >N. Master. 12-15-Jt MASTER'S FM.K By virtue of a Deer of Common Pleas for in the State of South tho case of Andrew H. John E. Harmon, Ge7 ardson and H. T. Ede: public aution, to the h at the Court House \ of Sumter, In the County said, on Sale Day in January 9. being the 4th day of said month, dur? ing the usual hours of sale, the fol? lowing described real estate, to wit: All that lot or parcel of land situ? ate, lying and being near the western limits of the City of Sumter, in the County and State aforesaid, containing one acre, more or less, and bounded on the North and East by land form? erly of N. G. Osteen, now said to b<; of Burns, on the South by Hampton Ave? nue, and on the West by land of A* White, Trustee, for Mrs. Gertrude E. Richardson, being the lot of land con? veyed to me by Mrs. Gertrude E. Richardson. Terms of sale: one third cash, the balance in equal Installments of one and two years, the said cash payment to be applied to the debt of Mrs. Ger? trude E. Richardson and of Plaintiff herein, and a mortgage be executed by the purchaser for the balance unto the Master for Sumter County, at the rate of eight per centum per annum, payable annually, with privilege to purchaser of paying all in cash. H. FRANK WILSON, Master. 12-15-3t. EXCURSION RATES Via ATLANTIC COAST LINE Account CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Tickets on sale December 18th, 19th. 23rd, 24th. 25th. 30th and 31st. 1908 and January 1st, 1909, limited to return not later than January 6tn, 1909. For further information, reserva? tions, etc.. call on nearest Ticket Agent or write W. J. Craig, Passenger Traffic Manager; T. C. White, General Passenger Agent. Wilmington, N. C. The Driving Association of Ben nettsville will hold a race meet com? mencing December SO. 1 1 ? CASTOR IA for Infimts and Children. Tbl Kind You Have Always Bouglrt Bears the Signature of