Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. UKAVKY LirPTEHS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. Item* of Inten** From all Parts of Sumkt and Adjoining Counties. HOTICK TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mall your Isttsrs so that they will rauch this office not later than Tues? day morning. When the letters are received Wednesday It Is almost an Impossibility to have them appear In Use paper Issued that day. DARK CORNER. Dark Corner. Feb. 20.?Nothing ez ?tting in (Mm corner at this time. We are having plenty of rain and wind. It blows if It rains and It blows If it don't. Farmers are pushing ahead with their work. Some few are near? ly ready to plant 1 see the plum trees and a few peach trees are blooming. I saw ?pen plum blooms on the 28th of January, which was the soonest I ever remember of seeing blooms of the plums. And I heard Mr. W. A. Grif? te, mt Plnewood. say that he saw Irish potatoes up two or three Inches "high In January this year. But that ?old snap we had the bist days of January and the first of February gave ?uta the black eye. I have heard of some farmers who are talking of turning their a under and planting the laud In corn, as the oats are so badly Hilled out. ' * All of our sick seem to be Improv? ing. Jim Kolb and wife, of Ramsey, vls tted at his brother's. Will Kolb's. last Sunday. Mrs. W. J. Ardis visited Mrs. Joe M Ardls last Tuesday. Miss Mary Lee Ardis. daughter of Mrs. Joe M. Ardls. came home with Mrs. W. J. Ardls last Tuesday even tag. I am still hearing of parties or Silin digs, as we used to call them in th* sixties. Well. Mr. Edltor, I again ask to he excused from showing my foollsh auss as s newspsper correspondent. I think I have disgraced your col snmns long enough now to quit. I ??ei It was a mistake In me for ever undertaking it and a mistake in you leu allowing me to do so. What have jruu got to say. Mr. Editor, about it? I believe there are many of your renders that ars tlrsd of me. If they Uflll not own It. Come, own up. friends, to old Sldra. <We hope our old friend will con? tinue to hold up his corner?at least until he can get a substitute who he Is satisfied can do as well as he has Slawe.-- Ed.) REM BERT. Rembert. Feb. 19.?We are having uury variable weuther for this time uff the year. Today is a tlplcal spring slay, with thunder and lightning and heavy rain, which will retard farm work for a few days, still most of our planters are well up with their work. I notice a large amount of fertilisers are being received at Rembert sts tiuu. snd I think equally as much fUrtillaer will be used this year' as furmerly. Oats are looking better, very few wars killed in this community as our ?arm era sre up-to-date here and plant them with seeder, which pro? tects them during the freezes. A very remarkable death occurred wear by us last Tuesday. Mrs. Sallle Brown, who would have been one hundred and sleven years old on the nth of next August. Up to six months ngo the old lady was quite active, at? tending to the demestic duties of the house. She lived with her daughter, Mrs. Amnuous, who Is herself eighty years old snd Is quite feeble. Mrs. Brow m leaves this only living dughter and fifteen grand children, snd she was burled at Plsgah church last Wedne/day. The pastor of McLeod's church here bss secured the services of Rev. K. K. Hirdtn. the Conference Evan? gelist, to commence a revival service hare March 14th, and the meeting will continue two weeks. Rev. Mr. Mar.im comes highly recommended US a very earnest and eloquent speak ur snd we trust a large congregation will greet him There Is some im? provement under way for this church here. A new pulpit, pews, chancel railing, together with a new pipe-tone organ, which have all been ordered ?ml will be In place In time for this Meeting I ffjf correspondent must congrat? ulate the pullshers of the Watch? man snd Southron as the announce? ment In this aeek's paper tells PJ tn future this paper will be seml Weekly at the same old price. With? out a doutt this will be the cbeape t paper putllshed in South Carolina, and l gm sjff the pations of this pa? per win b* under lasting; obllgt to Osteen Publishing Company tor fhe great sacrifice th? . give their patron* th. tidvantUgS of this *wlde-iwske. newsy Journal twice ? week for only tl.&o. May rssj u;> t with great success, with many ne v auhaerlberi added this year. Rafting Creek High school will give holiday next Mondsy. Our prln dpa!, Prof. Cain, will take advantage of this little rest and visit his parents at Plnopolis. Miss Annie Alford. the music teach? er, will visit her home in Camden. Mr. S. Lee Young who has been quite sick in Sumter Hospital for nearly eight weeks has been visiting relatives at Rembert and is greatly improved. He will return to bis work at O'Donnell & Company week. Mr. Young i.s carrying a large trade from here to O'Donnell & Co. that form? erly went elsewhere and we all wish him much success. $ TINDAL. Tindal, Feb. 22.?This is Washing? ton's birthday, but the people in this neighborhood do not observe the day as a holiday. The oats are looking better. Mr. A. J. Jones spent Saturday in Sumter. Miss Hattie Frierson who is teach? ing the Stone school near here spent Sunday at her home near Manning. Mrs. S. D. Richardson is spending a few days in Charleston, with her daughter. Mrs. Bell. Miss Bettie Hodge, daughter of Mr. J. A. Hodge and Mr. Arthur Stafford of Dalzel section, were married at Providence church on Thursday af? ternoon, Feb. 11th. "SNOWDRIFT" USED OX TAFT POSSUM. Famous Dish Served to the PresL dent-Elect Made Great lilt. The secret of the sweetness to the Taft 'possum Is out. It was braised with "Snowdrift"?"Hogless Lard." From one end of the country* to the other there has been written the story of the famous banquet given to Presi? dent-elect William I!. Taft, in Atlan? ta, Ga., on January 15. when the piece de resistance of a sumptuous menu was '"Possum and 'Tatere' served with persimmon beer. That it waa enjoyed every correspondent attending the dinner wired his paper before the taste had left his mouth and the President-elect gave expres? sion to his pleasure at the juicy dish prepared for him by making even broader the famous Taft smile, after he had partaken heartily of this characteristically Southern dish. This much Is known to all; but the secret of the sweetness has Just been learn? ed from Caterer Chas. A. Merrltt, formerly at Harvey's restaurant In Washington, and manager of the Tivoli Hotel (Govt.) Ancon, Panama, who superintended and served the Taft dinner, preparing with his own hands the 'possum that was served the guest. It was "Snowdrift." the purest shortening in the world, made from cotton seedf oil and free from any and all odors. Chemists have pronounced it the richest and most digestible oil In the jiujrjd; epicures have pronounced It delicious, and chefs have pronounced it perfect. It was the rare blending of the delic? ious taste of 'possum meat combined with the palatable sweetness of the cotton seed oil which made the dish perfect. "I used 'Snowdrift,' " said Caterer Merritt In talking of the successful dish, which has become na? tional now, and which bids fair to have the Taft 'possum supplant the Teddy Bear In the affections of Young America, "because I waf anxious to get the meat flavored with a delicious vegetable oil instead of that of an? other animal. The 'possum is natu? rally fat, and another animal oil would not go well with it, but in 'Snowdrift* you have a vegetable oil that serves the purpose and makes one of the most delightful dishes Imaginable.*' Caterer Merritt Is one of the most famous stewards in the *South and is a firm believer In the uses to which cotton seed oil has been put. The refined cotton seed oil is rated by him as possibly the best salad oil on the market, and his use of Snowdrift speaks volumes of the use of that product for shortening.?Chattanooga News, Feb. 3. COAST LINE SOARING. Reached 122 Yesterday But Closed Off Few Point* from Highest Murk. The rapid advance in Atlantic Coast Line was the feature of Interest In the stock market for a large num? ber of Wilmington people ye terday, the stock, after the double holiday North on account of Lincoln's birth* lay. having opened at 118 and clhni - ??(l rapidly during the day to a new hkh level of 12 2. A part of this, howevsTi wag lost .before the closing, which was quoted mi 110 1*4 net ad VuOos of about I I par share over the ? ? in? on Thursday. Investors here have apparently searched in vain for the cause of th rise beyond the re? markably fine showing made by the r< a d in its hist flnaneial ?tattment. The reported connection of Coasi Line Interests with the turn of C. & O., affairs Is ascribed by coins' as the rsason for the i pward trend of the ?loch. The reported sntrnncs of EC II. Harrlman |ut* the Southern fTQUp and his recent optimistic expressions In regard to the South are also re? ported to have given strength to the market.? Wilmington Star. COTTON PRICES STEADY. MARKET'S POWER IN FACE OF DULLNESS A FEATURE. Probftbly Due to Reports of Hud Crop Weather and Belief In Reviving Prosperity. Xew York, Feb. 19.?The signifi? cant feature of the week in the cotton market has been the power of resist? ance shown by the market, despite 0 dullness of trade and speculation. The explanation la to be sought in re? ports of drought in Texas, in the fear of boll weevil damage during the corning season in Louisiana, Missis? sippi and elsewhere, and a belief that as soon as the tariff question is out of the way the trade of the country will become everywhere more prosperous. Beneficial rains have fallen in the eastern section of the belt and ac? cording to Texas advices the recent rainfall In that State has been much greater than was supposed. But In Borne quarters the idea holds that the four months' Texas drought has been after all only partially broken and that not a few sections of that State need a good drenching. Large spot Interests have bought heavily of May, 1 i July and October and spot trade has lately improved in some parts of the South. March commitments are be? lieved to be very large. Some traders believe that the next crop will show a material decrease as a result either of the winter droughts or depreda- 1 tions by the weevil. Many think that the boll weevil danger east of the Mississippi is be l?g greatly exaggerated, that the crop li being underestimated and the crop j consumption overestimated. Latter- I ly, however, receipts have declined j and exports have been liberal. 1 The Livingston Church. In regard to the church of Living? ston, erected in part by dispensary money, Rev. E. L. Wiggins writes the Southern Christian Advocate as fol? lows: N Dear Brother Nettles: As you have coupled my name with the Liv? ingston church affair, I hasten to write to explain my silence. First of j all, I had not seen the newspaper ar- ' tides referred to, and you letter tall- ' ing me of them reached me late last ' Saturday night. I hastened to get you a letter Monday, but presume you did not receive it until after the Ad? vocate went to press. And even if I had seen the articles I could not have authorized you to deny the state? ments they made, seeing that they are for the most part true. Here are the facts in the case: There is a church in the town of Livingston, completed except for the pews, built almost entirely with mon? ey donated by the town council of Livingston, a large part of whose In? come Is derived from the dispensary. I had heard of the existence of this church before I was assigned to the work at the last conference, and upon my arrival there began to Investigate the situation. I found that, though the quarterly conference had never formally accepted the gift, yet it had virtually done so by appointing a building committee at the second fiuarterly conference last year. The church at that time was nearly rlsed. T also found that the church exten? sion board at the last annual confer? ence had donated $70 to this church. No other money has been collected from the church as far as I have been able to learn. Of course, the build? ing has not been dedicated nor has any service been held In it. This was the condition of affairs when I was pent to the work and I did not like their aspect and so ex? pressed myself. In all probability the matter will come up at the next quar? terly conference for final disposition wAen the building committee will be ready to report and turn over the property to the church. The articles recently published In the secular press, however, have precipitated a discussion of the matter before that time. The church can not accept the property for two reasons. First, grant? ing that the council had a right to make the gift, she by receiving 't would stultify herself, put a muzv.le on the mouth her prsachers with reference to the whiskey traffic, and compromise with one of her bitterest foes. Second, the church, if she 10 desired, could not accept the prop* erty. since the town authorities have no right t" give it; su<*h an aet b Inn a direct violation of tin* state con?rl? tUtlon. I L. E. WIGGINS. Messrs, B? T? McKlnneyf <>f Green villi'. S. (\. und B. W. Sullivan. Of BummsrvlllCi Ga.f ura reported aahav in? secured subscriptions amounting t<> $160,000 toward tlx- organisation of the proposed company recently mentioned, They plan the erection of Prick <>.? reinforced concrete structures and ??>?' installation of 10,000 spindles. 100 looms. ?to.i for manufacturing print cloth. The world Is made up of equal part* of workers and workees. YOUNG AT SEVENTY. Aldrtch'i Life Touched a Surprisingly Wide Segment or American Liter? ature. The annals of American poetry are a remarkable record of longevity. The poets of our first rank, barring tragic Poe, have lived to an honored and be? nignant old age. Thomas Bailey Aid rich was no exception in the calendar of years, yet even at three score and ten it was hard to think of age and him together. Blond, erect, ruddy, alert, he seemed at seventy untouch? ed by mortality. More than Lowell even, he was the perennial boy. And to his biographer, curiously Inquiring into the vanished days of that long singularly fortunate life, the image that overlays all others is that of "Tom Bailey," the bad boy, who was yet "not such a very bad boy." The exquisite lyric poet, the inimitable story-writer, the accomplished editor, the witty, urbane man of letters, all take in the mind a coloring of sin? cerity and soundness, or mischief and mirth, from that Portsmouth boyhood which makes his whole life seem not only its fulfillment, but in strange sense its prolongation. It is, then, with a certain surprise that one becomes aware of the wide segment of American literature that his life touched. And it is precisely in this that one prime interest of his letters lies. Through them, as through the candid eyes of Tom Bailey, we watch the flow and ebb of the literary tides of more than half a century.? From the Century. THE REAL BOWERY. its Day is Passing and Few of Us Have Known Its Inmost Complica? tions. The real Bowery has never been written up, and probably it never will, because it is swiftly passing. Hun? dreds of attempts have been made by those who have not even penetrated the surface of Its reserve. Its heart and soul?for the Bowery has both, as well as reserve--are a sealed book to the writers. It is a Sargasso Sea littered with derelicts of all worlds, drifting back and forth with the end? less ebb and flow of the tide, while all about them is the ceaseless activity of commerce, of development, moving onward and upward despite the cease? less cross current, which no literary mariner, cruising in these uncharted waters, can understand. Those who know It best, and have some skill in writing as well as some understanding, are so overwhelmed by its endless complications, its in? finity of contradictions?its astonish? ing goodness and its frightful deprav? ity?the baffling mystery of its won? derful humanneirs, and its fantastic mvstery, that they do not dare at? tempt to write even what they know. Only one man In all literature could have Interpreted the Bowery?and 1-alzac is dead. Most of us know the Bowery through fugitive newspaper sketches and fearsome, lurid melodramas. The sketches present certain phases more or less intelligently, but the melo? dramas, endlessly repeated, have built worthy even of being scoffed at, so iuv as any consideration of truth is concerned. But these cheap melo? dramas, endlessly repeated, have built up a fiction that has come to be ac? cepted as the reality.?From ..Every? body's. ROOSEVELT 2.000 YEARS AGO. Strange Parallel Between the Careers Of Caesnr and Teddy. Prof. Fererro, of Italy, who has of late broken a score of historical idols, is ably seconded by Henry M. Hyde, who, in a most interesting article in the Red Book Magazine for February, puts forh an historical analogy that is downright startling. Assisted by a Hindoo adpet Mr.Hyde glances back over the dead days and discovers that Caesar, Tiberius Gracchus and King Midas are Roosevelt. Bryan and Rockefeller. The parallel between the careers of Caesar and Roosevelt, year by year and age for age, is little less than amazing. Certain exploits of the Emperor at different years in his life have been strangely duplicat? ed by Roosevelt even down to the mlnutae of quarrels with the senate. Xo less striking is the parallel be? tween Tiberius Gracchus and Mr. Bryan. After reading the article one is Inclined to wondor if. alter all. there may 1 > more reason than poei s in the doctrine of reincarnation, ' he despised cockieburr bids fair to become a proud product of cultiva? tion. An experiment of making oil '.vom the we'd, in a mill erected for ?he purpose at Vidalla, La., is said in have proved very successful and tl e farmers hi that section have gone in for its gathertni on a large scale The promoters Of the plan say the future may develop a ?.kleburr plantation in place of cotton. Pad as she was, it is hardly fair ItO keep on rhyming Salome with home on half the vaudeville stages of I America.?New York World. i KILLING AT NORWAY. Janus A. Reed Shot to Death by X. W. Carter. Norway. Feh. If,?James A. Reed was .shot this morning about 9 o'clock by X. W. Carter. The trouble grew out of an old feud of some years' standing o\ er a disputed land corner. Reed and Carter, in company with H. S. Spires, were all near this disputed site of land. Reed was hot in the left side just above the, hip in front, two balls entering within three inches of each other. Reed lived until 3:15 p. m. today. Carter went to Orange burg at once to give himself up to the sheriff. Reed leaves a wife and sev? eral children. NOT STRAIGHT PflOHIBITiOii. SENATE proposes t REFEREN? DUM AMENDMENT. The Rill as it Came From the House Provided for Straighout Prohibition Hut Senator Ott*?' Committee Has Tagged on a Referendum Pro\is ion. Millions and Malaria. A little pamphlet issued by the Im? perial Department of Agriculture to* the West Indies introduces a new ex? terminator of Culex, Stegomyia and Anopheles to public favor?a zealous and active coadjutor of kerosene. Millions?the name speaks for it? self?is a fish measuring an inch and a half in length, the female dull in color and the male marked with ir? regular red splashes and a round black spot In each side, that inhabits fresh water streams and rills, a strong swimmer against the current and thriving In shallows. They multi? ply prodigiously and feed to glutton I ous repletion on larvae and pupae, j The proficency of millions in eating a water surface clean of mosquito growth is almost increditable. Ex? periments prove that these tiny fish, which are hardy and stand transpor? tation well, may be relied upon to do the work of the kerosene can at less cost :n the long run. We are aware that millions have competitors in the sunfish, which eat the mature mosquito alive; in the kil lies, a salt water fish; in the familiar top minnow; and in the blue eye, which the Italian government has im? ported from Australia to combat ma? laria by consuming the larvae of An ophless. But millions come so well recommended that we are almost dis? posed, on the evidence of the Impe? rial Department of Agriculture to re Columbia, Feb. 21.?Akhough the House passed the prohibition bill when this measure is called up in the Senate it will not appear in the same shape as when it lefc the House, for the Senate committee has amend? ed the bill, making It practically in the nature of a referendum. This is very insignificant, inasmuch aa the chairman cf the Senate committee on police regulations is the prohibition leader in the Senate. The bill is not reported entirely .favorable by the committee. The majority report for the bill is made by Senator Otts, the minority report against the bill is represented by Mr. Kelley. As the measure will reach the Sen- 1 ate for consideration the State-wide ( prohibition bill, the provisions of which are generally known through? out the State, will have an additional section to be known as "Section 16," a= follows: "That on the fourth Tuesday in August 1909, an elec*'on shall be held in each county in the State of South Carolina to determine whether the provisions of Section 1 to 15, (the State-wide prohibition sections,) of < this Act shall become effective. Said * election to be held Li the same man? ner, etc, as other elections. "At such election the commis? sioners shall, at each voting precinct, provide one ballot box, in which the ballots must be cast. Any person who Is a qualified elector of such county " may vote at said election. "Every voter who may be in favor of the manufacture and sale of alco? holic liquors and beverages mention? ed in this Act shall cast a ballot on which Is printed the words: "For the manufacture and sale of alcoholic ' liquors and beverages," and every voter opposed to the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors and bever cognize them as the champions. Into i ages mentioned in this Act shall cast many of the West Indian Islands they j in said box a ballot on which is have been introduced by request and | printed the wort's: "A^inst the sale are doing yeoman work. Millions are j and manufacture c L;o!U liquors viviparous?that is to say, to quote and beverages." from the pamphlet referred to, J The votes, after having been count "they bring forth living young," so j ed, etc, the Governor shall announce that no time is lost In closing with by proclamation the result. their natural enemies and assimilai ing the favorite tidbit. In the event of this passing, the date of the effect of the Act, would be It must be understood that millions ', changed from July 1 to December 1, 1 coulc. not take the contract to rid , 1909. Long Island and New Jersey altogeth- I ?--? er of mosquitoes?we have been given to understand by old residents that owln? to ditching, draining and kero senirg in Staten Island by Dr. Alvah Doty the mosquito Is as extinct there PEDDLER CHARGED WITH RAPE. Darlington, Feb. 20.?Carey Salee by was arrested at Society Hill this afternoon, charged with rape, alleg to have been committed on a white egedh-j ?VlttA ' as the Great Auk?but in shallow j woman, Mrs. Parker, yesterday after fresh waters, streams, brooks or rills, in any standing water affording a noon In Chesterfield county According to the facts known here homt? to millions, they can do remark- ? the woman described Caleeby's horse, able execution. They are not salt ? buggy and the articles therein with water wardens. i such accuracy that the sheriff had lit- ( In Barbados, where these fish t tie trouble in spotting Saleeby. Sa- \ abound, malaria is said to be un- I leeby denies knowing anything of the known, and the explanation given j offence wRa which he is charged. He Is that the natural breeding places of | appears to be utterly dazed, and not drea 1 Anopheles are the habitat of milll >n& Antigua, St. Kitts and Xe vis lave been stocking their ponds and streams with millions for three yearn; Jamaica began the work in 1906 (and already reports a decrease of milaria), and St. Vincent, St. Lucia and British Guiana welcomed the extet iminators last year. As Culex and Stegomyia breed in any recep? tacle about a house, even in a discar? ded .in, millions can not akv? the job of disposing of them; but if millions is really so adept to spoiling the oc? cupations of Anopheles, malaria can get r o footing where he swims the un salted streams and plies his task in still waters.?Xew York Sun. being very familiar with the English language it is rather difficult to get at exactly what he declares about the matter. Saleeby is an Assyrian and is a peddler of notions, trinkets* etc. There is quite a number of the Saleeby's in this county, and they have all a reputation for industry, sobriety and are regarded as law abiding. While the circumstances are very much apparently against the de? fendant, it is hard for those who know him to believe the charge well founded. Much excitement and indignation, it is said, exist in the neighborhood where the alleged offence was com Ardrew Carnegie has made it I mitted, and it is asserted that if Sa known that he will give $120,000 to ? leeby had been apprehended there Indianapolis for the erection of six i last ni^ht t would not have been branch library buildings if the city necessary to have opened Court at will furnish the sites and cost of Chesterfield next week for the trial mail tenance. of the prisoner. ^^^^^^ mmmm_L L_ i Min in in in , *.OUMMiMM^HmHW?^MBrBa 7 LIME, :: CEMENT, Shingles, Laths, Wall Plaster, Fire Brick, Terra Cotta Pipe, Building Material Generally, B?GSIF.S. HARMES9. Horse, Cow and Chicken Feed. Fresh Car Horses and Mules Will fcrrive February 27th Booth-Harby Live Stock Company, SUMTER, S. C.