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mww ihn Ub S 0 Univ. ao.Scp.09 m HTMTEK WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not?Let all the ends Thou Alins't at be thy Country's, Thy tiod's and Truth's." THE TItl'E SOUTHRON, Established June, ISM Con*?l*dated Aag. 2.18H1. 8?MTER. 8. C. WEDNE SDAY. MARCH 31, U>09. Sew Series-Vol. XXIX. No 11 IEHCT3fflE32 How to Obtain, Without Cost, the Season's Greatest and Best Flower Offers These Flowers Will Bloom This Season of 1909 1 he Fr\ e Prettiest Roses (Collection No 101? An tlx cm?,. we havechootP for your collection. Many of these roses when in bloom stll for $4.00 to *?!ou a dozen ut tlorists. Any one of them is worth mot" than a whole year's suhs-Tlptlon to FARM aM) rMBKSlDE cost, hut you can ?et al*ol"tety without costs all these five plants?the Climbing Meteor, Briitht Red. Hardy Yellow HambUr, Bright Pink, Pure White. EOt our lib eral off era below and tpyoslte. Five Fragrant Carnations (Collection No. 107.) Thecarnation was President McKlnlev's favor? ite flower. 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We will immediately send you postpaid all of the good things men? tioned opposite, as follows: Watchman and Southron one full year : Farm and Fireside one full year??4 numbers and Any One Col? lection of Flowers on this page. He sure to give the number of collection you want. $2.00 Pays for All The subscription to either paper n ay l>e new or renewal. This is the greatest offer ever made by any publisher. Yon get two big papers and the flowers, all for the price Of one paper alone! It cannot be duplicated anywhere In America. This Offer is Limited?Don't Delay! CARNATIONS NO. 109. Four ^ Elegant Ferns Collection No. '?!.) Of all planta for pot or Mitel lor denota? tions, ft rns OCCVP* the pi tee of fa'or. This comet ion con Nl^tsof thelcadingva r!e? lea?? Ho?,ton. En - * raid. Fountain and Asparagus These \arl?tles frequently ?#11 for .'*? cents sack Hee our IIImtuI offers above and opposite. 6iurantee 1Ym (Umhin* Meteor Hone of Pragranee. 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Hod. and V? ! Pure HERNS NO. 104. $2 Pays For All. Send Your Order to The Watchman ?Sc Southron, Sumter, S. C. Cbf Uhfrbnan anb Sontbron. PubtlAhrd Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? tSTECN PUBLISHING COMPANY ?UafTER. 8. C. $1.10 par annum?In advance. Ad vert leemen to: One ftqueure first Insertion.11.00 ?very subsequent Insertion.10 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications whlcjj. sub serve privat* interests will be chsrged for ss advertisements ObHuartea and trlbutea of respects srlU be charged for. DOWN AND OUT. ? ' ? ? INj? K\M1 COMMISSIONER M< M ASTER ISSUES OltDF.lt Ui \ I\ST SOITIIEKN II it-:. North fanden Company Tluit \\ a?? Mlaed In ih?- SVminole Deal Ha* Bern Outlawed In South Carolina By Revocation of I .Urn ????. Columbia. March 27 In a rlsjofofef letter 10 the .Southern Life In-<uran ?? <( Peyettevllle. N. C. < !om aslaalener M> Master Informs in. eera of th it concern that Its llcen-c to engage in business In thla Kt.it. is revoked. Mr. McMaster taken thla aeeloa after severs) heatings given by him to the officers of the company. Although the time for the renewal of licenses Is April 1. the commissioner does not feel that he should wait until the eppUcstlon of the company was brought up again, but should take eosne action on his order Issued at mo time ago to the company to show cause ?h) Its license should not be revoked. <fh? facia In the csae sre genenlly familiar The controlling Intereat In the ?outh?m life Insursnce Company was purchased by the Seminole Se? curities Company of this city, the price paid for the stock being In ex? cess of Its par value and alleged to be far In excess of Its market value. The transactions of the sale were conduct? ed through General Manager C. J. i Cooper of the insurance company and B. W. Lacy, the actuary, and C. J. Hebert, one of the principal stock promoters of the Seminole Securities Company. It was charged that enor? mous commissions were paid in the transfer. When these matters came out in the I proceedings brought against the Sem j bsOle Securities Company, Mr. McMas I ter ordered the insurance company to I show cause why its license should not be revoked. Two or three hearings were held. Mr. McMaster states In his letter that he has no desire to alarm the pollcyholders, but the evi? dence shows that enormous commis? sions were paid those directly inter? ested in the deal, the other officers and directors of the Southern Life I ornpany being in ignorance of the details. The deal he says "is per? meated with evidences of stock Job? bing and hUh finance." and both Lacy and Cooper are condemned as ?leg u:iworthy of the management of such a I>m?rn. The ItttST to the insurance com 1 any is us follows: "The BOIIthOrn Life Insurance Cum i* 11 >. FgyettevlUe, n. c. "Deel Siis In the matter of the rule Issued atcalnst your company to sh'.u cause why its license to do busl In totlth Carolina should not hi revoked) returnable on January IS, and by continuance until March 2: I ? i? to the fact that from the evi? dence before me, and from the best obtainable Information the policy holders in the Southern Life Insur? ance Company are protected by the deposits In the hands of the insur? ance commissioner of North Carolina and other assets of the company, I have felt that It was not necessary to take more prompt action In thla mat ter, nor did I desire to alarm the minds of the policyholders unduly, which would have been done if posi? tive action had been taken during the time of uneasiness caused by revela? tions of the dealing with the Seminole Securities Company and the legal pro? ceedings incident thereto. But 1 do feel that it is a duty this department owes to the public to make a declara? tion on the subject. "I make no criticism of the several general officers, the executive com? mittee or the board of directors of the company, who were in ignorance of the dealings between Mr. C. J. Coop? er, treasurer and general manager of the company, and Mr. C. J. Hebert, appointed by him as sales agent of the stock of the company, and Mr. B. W. Lacy, vice president and actuary j of the company, with the officers of j the Seminole Securities Company, these four parties being apparently privy to the transactions of each oth? er and more or less concerned there? in. Indeed, there is no conclusive evi? dence of the fact that the other officers of the company had any means of J knowing of the dealings of C. J. Coop? er and B. W. tmVSfi Jr., with the other parties named. The evidence goes to prove that the executive committee gnd dlrtOOra of the Southern Life Insurance Company were Intention? ally kept in ignorance of the pur* pose snd extent of the dealings of C? j. Coopsr and B. W, lacy with C. J. Hebert und the offloeri of the semi? nole Securities Compary. "Without going Into the details of the matter other than to say that the offering to make, by C. J. Cooper, general manager Of the Southern Life Insurance Company, a contract with Ci J. Hebert for the PllS Of stock in the Southern Life Insurance Com? pany, before same wai authorized by the stockholders of tho Southern Life Insurance Company, and of making Of this contract with C. J. Hebert and not reporting the same to the execu? tive committee and directors of the company, the dealings betweeen Messrs. Cooper and Lacy on the one side and Hebert and the Seminole Se? curities Company on the other, whereby enormous commissions were to be paid and stock to be sold to the public at enormous prices, indicate an utter disregard of the principles of fair dealing and were so far permeat? ed with the essentials of stock jobbing and disreputable high finance as to utterly condemn C. J. Cooper and B. W. Lacy as men unworthy of being intrusted with the management of an institution of such sacred and conser? vative a nature as a life insurance company. "This department is of the opinion that an institution in the hands of two such men is unsafe and unreli? able. Therefore, the license of the Southern Life Insurance Company to do business in this State is hereby re? voked. "Very truly, "F. H. McMASTER, "Insurance Commissioner.*' HOLLAND AWAITS ROYAL HEIR. Nation Is Beady to Celebrate KxpOCt e:l Happy Event. Amsterdam. Ma th 26.?The entire Dutch nation is awaiting momentarily the axpeoed .signal from the Royal Palace announcing the birth Of an heir to the throne. Preparation! have been made to announce the event With flag! by day and with colored fire by night, and gunners are being held In readiness to inform the pub? lic of the advent of a Prince or a Princess by the firing of cannon. Of? ficials arc waiting in their homes or offices in the expectancy of a hasty summons to he Palace formally to chronicle the birth, while telegraph? ers have beeen warned to be in readi? ness for extra duty. The new owners of Heelsfoot lake have Offered to sell it to the State for $75,000. They will probably be will? ing to sell it for less, though, as they are afraid to go near it. DEBATE ON PROHIBITION. MAYOR ROSE OF MILWAUKEE DEFENDS SALE OF LIQUOR. President of Albion College und Muni? cipal Official Oppose Each Other in Discussion at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, March 26.?The first of a series of remarkable debates was held tonight on the question. "Re? solved, That prohibition, as applied In the manufacture and sale of intoxicat? ing beverages is right." Mayor David S. Rose of Milwaukee took the nega? tive, and Dr. Samuel Dickie, president of Albion college, Albion Mich., spoke for the prohibitionists. The hippo? drome, with a seating capacity of 6, 000, was jammed to the doors, and throngs were turned away. There was no decision rendered on the debate. Dr. Dickie said in part: "The prohibition Of the liquor traf? fic is right, if considered only from the economic standpoint. The saloon is the foe of capital, but preeminently the enemy of labor. "The liquor business I re< d;< crimi? nals. The testimony of prison chap? lains, of wardens, sheriffs and ji; I of the criminal court- warrants thi assertion that from BO to 10 per cent. of crime is directly or Indirect!) traceable to the use of Intoxicating liquors." En arguing that prohibition la wrong, Mayor Ross treated the sub? ject from three standpoints, the Bib? lical, the ethical and the material. He showed that while the evil existed when then Ten Commandments were written, no attempt was made to en? force prohibition in the dOCalOfUS and he challenged any one to find one j word in the Bible advocating the I theories of prohibitionists. I He took ti e census figures of the government and records of cities and States to prove that prohibition did not decerease crime, insanity, death, domestic infelicity, pauperism and stagnated business. He took the crim? inal records of Milwaukee, a wide open town, and showed that the ar? rests per capita were fewer than ir* the prohibition States of Maine, Kan? sas and Georgia. He showed that more drunkenness existed in Maine f an in Wisconsin. Mach wa? said about thewsanda ef drunkards dying every year, he said, but he quoted census figures to show that more persons died of whooping, cough and measles than of alcoholism. The mayor showed that the bank deposits of dry States were smaller than the liquor States and said that prohibition had been a laiiure where ever tried, because it was impossible to correct the ills and weaknesses of human nature by laws. In the South the theory had failed and liquor was: j to be had there not orly by whites, but by blacks, and a marked increase I in the drug habit was noticeable. The Veterans' Home. Colombia, March 26.?There wilV I e no "trouble about furnishing the Home for Confederate Vetaraas judg? ing from the aaaa with trafen coHeo tions have been made within the past few days for this purpose. TtH K erai assembly appropriated Hs.ftJaVtP the support of the Home, and the cm derstandinf la thai the Home was to e furnished, one of the fi:st checks arrive area ffom a Charleston lady, wh<> requested that her name be withheld. Up to this morning. 155 was received for the cause, and the Indications ore thai the amount nec essary Will he raised in the next few days The local Order of the Daugh? ters of the Confederacy have raisedt the amount which was subscribed By them, and, with the other subscrip tioni which are coming in, the Home will soon be furnished. Columbia State: "Let us go forwtrrdr with more vim." This m the basebahT not the football season.?Charlestons News and Courier.