Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Oiwy Thing Broken. 1 Man. Bandy." exclaimed a Scotch? man to his friend, a* he stepped ashore at tho wharf of New Yo:k. ?'I ~n staid to se yot. ?ia;e acroc H i % had a fine passage ?" % mO?, ay. cupltHi " replied ?andy. ?*\VW hae got ever safely enough; the erV.y accident I hea ?, o* was the the ?hip had broken her record."?Spare Momenta It la one of the gratifying signs of the times that "Mothers' Day" has come to mean something else than the family wash day.?Kansas City Jour MASTERS SALE. By virtue of a Deere j of tho Court ! Common Pleas for Sumter County, the State of South Carolina, in the of J. B. Adger against B. R. Du rant and J. J. Whllden. t will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the Court House In the City of Sumter In the County and State afore? said, on sale day In June, 110?, being tn? seventh day of said month, dur? ing the usual hours of sale, the fol? lowing described Real Estate, to wit: "All that lot of land In the City and County of Sumter, and State afore? said, represented as lot No. 32 on a plat made by W. Loring Lee and R. F. McLellan. Civil Engineers, dated January 11th, 1906, recorded In the ctTtce of the C. C. C. P. for 8umtor maty. In Book V. V. V. page 796. Id lot No. IS being bounded as fol? lows: North by lot No. II on said plat. East by lots Nos. 45 and 51 of amid plst; South by lot No. IS of said plat and Wsst by Salem Avenue. The sea hereby mortgaged is the same th Is conveyed to me by the mortgagee, asm this mortgage Is given for part of Saw purchase money." Terms of sals: Cash, purchaser to for papers. H. PRANK WILSON. s-l*-4t-lt-a-w. MASTER'S SALE. By virtus of a Decree of the Court eat Common Pleaa for Sumter Count), as the State of South Carolins, in the case of C. M. Stubba, Treasurer, against Joseph Wilder. I will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the Court House In the City of Saunter, in ths County and State aforesaid, on sals day In June, 1909, awing the seventh day of said month, ???wring the usual hours of sale, the following described Resl Estate, to All that lot or parcel of land, sit and being In ths southern pan ofSomter, m said County ajasaaurins on Main sntei ? feet, suti measuring or <ne sialtf-two feet, be bo^l >ot* >\ tittle more or less and measuring on tru southern lint asS Northern tins two hundred ant. tl?rty-seven en A one-half feet each, aad bounded as follows: North b> leads of Waltss and perhaps by land **f others; East by Main Street; South toy lands, now or formerly of Mrs. El? ian J. Walsh, snd West by other part at said lot of the Mortgagee from waJch this Is taken, and being the lot tale day conveyed to me by the said Anna H. Singleton, and this mortgage is green to secure the balance of the purchase of ths asms." Term* of sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for papers. p t H. FRANK WILSON, Jf Mastsr S-ll-4t-lt-a-w. MASTER'S SALE. By virtue of a Decree of the Court <4af Common Pless for Sumter County, ta the Ststs of South Carolina, In the eass of A. P. Moses against Annie Bradley and E1U Bradley, I will sell at public auction to the highest bid star, at ths Couit House. In the City of Sumter In the County and State aforesaid, on sals dsy in June. 1909. awing the seventh day of said month, during the usual hours of sale, the fallowing described Real Estate, to wit "All that lot ot land In the City and County of Sumter. State aforesaid, bounded North and South by lands of Marlon Molse; East by Right of Way atf the W. C. * A. Railroad, and meas? uring sixty feet thereon: West by Sicker Street, and measuring sixty feat thereon, the same being !ot No. 4 on the lot of land recently pur abased by Marlon Molse from Dr. J. C. Spann" Terms of sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for papers. H. FRANK WILSON. Master l-lS-4t-lt-a-w. MASTER S S\LE. Py virtue of a Decree "f th- Court of < ommon Pleas for Sumter County, ta the State of South Carolina, In the case of J. H Wlnburn avainet Mary Ann Isaacs and Carrie Solomans. I will Meli at public auction, to the high east bidder, at the Court House In the City of sumter In th?* County and State aforesaid, on sale day In June, 1109. being the seventh day of Maid month, during the usual hours of sale, the following described Real Estate, to wit "All that lot or parcel of land. St? aate in the Ctntaty at Susnter, in the State of South Carolina, fronting on the Right of Way fifteen fset wide, and running nearly North and South and measuring M SaM Right of w. ?Ighf v-three feet, being bounded on th. j rti by I mdi of the i: i ? Mrs. S. E. Mcllwalne. and lot sold El? len ?int-v. measuring on that line one hundred and twenty feet; on the Mast by the said Rivht of Way above mentioned; on the South by lar Mrs. 8. J. Vaughn, and a road leadlni tr. in u ??? City of Sum iff to Mra s. j Vaughn's, and measuring on the line o? Mrs. S. J. Vaughn'* land one hun? dred and leaf fe. t; and on tie- Weal t>\ ?h?- roil Ia<dlag fr??m the CM Of Sumter |t Mrs. S. J. Vaughn's land measuring on sah read? one hundred and fifteen feet." Terms of sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for papers. H. PRANK WILSON. |-15-4t-lt-a-w. ATROCIOUS, SAYS LONG. Nut in c Fnker \o. 1 Calls Rooesrtetl "Hutchcr.** Stamford. Conn.. May 1%.?Dr William J. Long, the former preacher and r.uture writer, some of whos" writings were bitterly attacked by Theodore Roosevelt v%hen he was president, consented to be interview? ed with regard to Mr. Roosevelt'* Afiican hunting trip. Dr. Long said he had intended waiting until Mr. Roosevelt's return or until something from his pen actually appeared be? fore saying a word in criticism, but he had decided that some of the things the former president is said to have done in Africa are such as to call forth protest. Dr. Long declares that the worst feature of the "whole bloody busi? ness" is the brutalizing influence which the reports from Africa have on thousands of American boys. He said: "As there are no reporters with Mr. Roosevelt these reports of fre? quent killings must come chiefly from h<mself and are such as he himself chooses to send out. If they are true they are exactly in line with his pre? vious records. They prove what I said two years ago, quoting from his own books, that he Is a game butch? er pure and simple, and that his ln terst in animals lies chiefly in the di? rection of blood, butchery and bru? tality. "You remember that when h* made terms with the Smithsonian In? stitute his published letter said: 'Ot course, I am not a game butcher,' and then he immediately reserved for himself the right to do all the killing on the expedition. This is charac? teristic of his alleged scientific at? titude. Matthew Arnold declared that, 'Conduct Is three-fourths of life/ and Mr. Roosevelt adds that butchery is three-fourths of science. "In this dispatch I notice that when he could not find buffalo he had to content himself by shooting wart hogs and other Inoffensive creatures. As the buffalos are fast disappearing from Africa, and as Mr. Roosevelt had already killed several, why In the name of science should he go out to kill more? And why falling to find buffaloes, should he content him? self by slaughtering other creaturesi Tho whoie thing is atrocious, it hi exactly like his own record of kllllni 11 bull elk on one trip and then, on his -vuj out, ktioog l*" found fighting. Their meat was unfit to use and was left to rot In the woods. Then he preached to us on the virtue of game protection, and when he comes back from this trip you will hear his righteous disserta? tion on the necessity for preserving game In Africa, of course, after h? has killed everything he could find." Asked if anything was to be learn? ed or If science was to be served in any way by such a trip, Dr. Long said: "A lot might be learned, but not by such scientific Instruments as high power rifles. Mr. Roosevelt remind me ot an alleged ornithologist whom I met killing warblers the other day. and he thought he was studying birds. The only thing we will get out of the much-heralded trip will be some more hunting yarns, almost as veracious as Mr. Roosevelt's account of his heroic exploit at San Juan Hill, and some more skins and bones, of which, we already have too many. The only one who wdll ever learn ot teach anything of value Is the man who studies the living animal, not the man who gloats over a dead one. "The worst feature in the whole bloody business Is not the killing of a few hundred animals In Africa, but the brutalizing Influences which the-Mi reports have upon thousands of American boys. Only last week I met half a dozen little fellows In the woods. The biggest boy had a gun, snd a squirrel's tail in his hat, and h* called himself 'Bwana Tumbo.' They were shooting everything in sight, killing birds at a time when every dead mother meant a rest full of yt ung birds slowly starving to death; and how could I convince them that their work was inhuman? Is not the great American hero occupied at th!s time with the same detestable bu.-i m ss and why should not they also he heroic and make a few fine shots an 1 content themselves with robblns and n.bbits, since fauna] naturalist-" an 1 other game hutehers have killed Off all our buffaloes?" Uncle Wash's Dream. I'ncle Wash, an aged colored m who Is given to seeing visions, Wl recently regalln? a group of brethren and sisters In the churoh with a drt >m of heaven that he had had the night before. As he was graphically dsocrlbtng its gold-paved streets, its - i oi peorli and the hoots of white? p bed, falr-halred angels playing up? on . v ? ? I harps, an old woman In terrupted with the query: "See any BlggOhl dah?" "Huh," he snorted In? dignantly, "does you *SDOSe I went lOtiad to de kitchen?"?Argonaut. An unknown negro was killed at Hamer, S. C, by Charlie Geer a ne? gro. RAILROAD WITHOUT Tll.S. Inventor Believes He Has Solved Problem. From The Tiffln. (Ohio) Times. Murray A. Temple, of this city, a railroader of many years' experience, has invented and had patented a device designed to do away with wooden ties In railroad construction. The Temple devlco is called a con? tinuous "railbnse, and cross tie," which. <i adopted, will I ring about a r*\olution in rallroac building, and will also be an answer to the qiies ti >n which the ra'ufOD I builders have tctn asking f.?r v last 10 years; "What will take the place of wooden ties when the forests are gone?" So concerned have the railroads been about the rapid deforestation in America that one huge system, the Pennsylvania, has planted miles of trees along its right of way. Temple is not the only inventor who has tried to find a substitute for the wooden tie, but he claims for hio device that it has a practicality and 8imp!,cty whicn other devices lack. The only thing that can be said in de defense of the wooden tie is that a superior substitute has not been found. The wooden tie rots quickly, allowing the ends of the rails to sag down, bringing about a condition which trackmen call "low joints and high centres." Rotten ties must be re pieced, necessitating a releveling of the roadbed and a regauging of the rails. With the increasing scarcity of lumber, the price of ties has climbed until now a tie costs 80 cents or thereabouts. Fishplates break under the strain of trsins pounding over rotten ties, and epikes come loose, Making a Spreading of rails a dangerous possi? bility. Even if wrecks do no* occur, the ?h*TCt of a lumpy roadbed Is ruin ou*. {?? rolling stock. In the Temple device the rails He on a continous plate of steel 20 inches wide. The plates, with the rails upon them, are connected at intervals, by "L'' bars which keep Ihe track al? ways In gauge. Rail spreading, Tem? ple says. Is impossible. Plates, rail? and "L" bars are laid directly on the roadbed, of gravel or crushed stone, preferably the latter. The crushed roadbed is generally regarded favor by trackmen because it is ' h - bject to washouts. >?v joints and high centres" irVc avoided in the Temple device by plac ing the'Joining ends of the continu? ous plates in the center of the rails and the joining end of the rails In the centre of the plates. Allowance is made for the expansion and contrac? tion of the rails so that there can be no shrinking or buckling up of tracks where the Temple device is used. Down the centre of the tracks, be? tween the plates, is a raised path of tramped crushed stone whicli is de? signed to keep the track from slip? ping sideways. A number of old trackmen who have seen Temple's plans have pronounced them prac? tical. The Home of True Americans. In his long sail up the Mississippi river to Natchez, in his extended stay In the heart of the South, Capt. John C. Fremont, commander of the bat? tleship Mississippi, was not once fired upon, although the American flag floated "over the battleship all the way. There was no uprising of ex Confederates, and Captain Fremont lldn't find any treason lurking along the levees or In the bushes. This should bring relief to Representa? tive Hollingsworth, of Ohio, who hud an idea that the pictuie of Jefferson Davis would stir up the insurgents all along the river. In fact, Captain Fremont says that the thing in the South that has impressed him most Is the "love of the Southern people for the central government and their un sectlonal patriotism." The better people from other sec? tions know the South, the more they realize that it is the most thoroughl> American section of the country. They preserve proudly the memory of their sons who fought for the Con fed< racy, they have no apologies to make, and a great many still believe that what the men in gray fought f?r i was right, but they are devoted to their country, and nowhere the American Hag files will it And more Valiant and ready defenders than in the heart of the South?Baltimore Sun. .' Iderman Frank Downing, of New ?. was talking about a Widely praised ordinance to make It a Crime for chauffeurs to take out their mas? ters' motor oars without leave, iayi The Philadelphia Record. "So many accidents have accompanied these stolen rldee*' said Alderman Downing, "thai the chauffeur has come to be regarded majority of chauffeurs are ill right, but there is among them a small mln? ilty. a small working mi? nority which are must trust as a Ho boken grocer treats '):s trade, This grocer is a cash grocer only, if you ask him for credit he says: "No, sir; no, llree. I wouldn't even trust my own feelings.' " THE MAKING OF SOCIALISTS. Fraudulent Practices of The Sugar Trust One Excuse For Public reel? ing Against Corporate Wealth. (From the New York Times.) The professed aim of the Socialists, or the one as to which most of them are. so far as we can make out, mo^t nearly agreed, is the abolition of cer? tain kinds of private ownership and of competition. The reason for the adoption of this aim that most of them advance is that private proper? ty, in the hands of its actual owners, is made the source of infinite wrong to the people generally; that it stim? ulates greed and injustice and cruel? ty and dishonesty; that it makes men heedless of the right of others and of the law which is intended to pro? tect those rights, and that it gives rise to a system of organized plunder, under the form of law, by which the rich grow richer and the poor be? come poorer. They?the Socialists? insist that under the demoralizing and perverting influence of absolute ownership the wealthy constantly evade their obligations to their fel? lows, and especially that they resort to every means acute and highly paid brains can devise to shift their share of the burdens of the cost of government to the shoulders of the helpless poor. Competition the So? cialists regard as a system that aids in the attainment of these ends, arm? ing the rich, disarming the poor, re? inforcing the strong, tending to make the weak helpless. Has It ever occurred to the officers of the American Sugar Refining Com? pany how completely the history of the plot by which that company has. In the last dozen years, stolen from the United States government some? thing like $2,000,000 sustains the ar? gument of the Socialists? Is it not a striking example of the actual work? ing of the Influences which the So? cialists attribute to the possession of large masses of private property9 Are not the greed, the recklessness of right and of law, the ruthless cun? ning, the dull, sordid Indifference to wrongs Inflicted on others?and the most nearly helpless?all displayed in this series of persistent and vulgar frauds? By the tariff laws the com? pany enjoys great and valuable priv Uges at the expense of the whole peo? ple. Its enormous and profitable business Is protected by practically prohibitory duties from foreign com? petitor The duties it is called on to pay are revenue duties?a contribu? tion toward its share of the cost of the federal government. And these duties, to the amount of a couple of millions, the company deliberately meanly, by petty and despicable modes of cheating, steals from the government. Some one had to make up the difference. In considerable part it came from the poor, who are already heavily burdened to fatten the bank accounts of the sugar com? pany. Now, as a remedy for these shock? ing evils, the abolition of private property Is puerile an<3 hopeless. As an argument for the heed of a rem? edy the history of this miserable fraud is very strong. There are not in all America today such convincing propagandists of the most dangerous form of Socialism as the men in the sugar company who executed, plan? ned, authorized, or tolerated these frauds. A Grafting Magistrate. The Riehland County grand Jury In its presentment preferred charges against Magistrate J. D. Easterling. the charge being malfeasance In of? fice. The grand jury's presentment as to Mr. Easterling, who has the mill district, is as follows: "We present Magistrate J. T. Eas? terling and his constable, J. D. Duna way, for malfeasance in office, and ask that the solicitor be Instructed to draw a bill of indictment against them for the following reasons: "On or about May 15, ons W. F. Wilder was arrested and committed to the jail upon the charge of cir? culating obscene literature. The prosecutor agreed with the magis? trate to settle the case for $6. On May 17. the magistrate collected $2$ from the prisoner, giving $*> to the prosecutor and using the balance of >2 2. We attach receipt of Magistrate Easterling for $28. none of which has '?een returned to the County. The following are the witnesses in this ?se: W. F. Wilder and Dolly Pitts. Argumentative A tramp, meeting with a response that there was nothing for him to do, persuasively anewered: "If you only knew how little work would occupy me!"?.Indue. Mrs. Wilhelmtna Blschoff, who died the other day at Tamaqua, Pa., had owned and managed an under? taking business for more than thirty five years, and is said to have con? ducted more than 5.000 funeral.-. Senator Dolliver. of Iowa, has re? versed nature. He has shed bis Re? publican bones and blood, but still Wears the Old hide.?Charleston News and Courier. CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of - and has been made under his per* fflf/1*, ?onal supervision since its infancy* 4<<*^A4/K Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and'4 Just-as-good "are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment? What Is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups* It is Pleasant* It contains neither Opiums Morphine nor other Narcotic substance* Its age is its guarantee* It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness* It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic* It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* The Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend* GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The KM You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. TUM ?KttTAUH SSSMST, TT MUMHAT STOCKT. BJCW TMS ??TT. $14.45 -to Why He Wasn't Consul. The citizens of Xewberry voted in Jim Todd, as he was known in'fa\or of issuing bonds in the sum of Owen county, died the other day, and j $40,000 for the purpose of extending his passing removed a man who was the waterworks plant and sewerage regarded over the country as one of j system. the greatest raconteurs ever produced ? ??ig???????mgfj in Kentucky, home of story tellers, j One of Mr. Todd's acquaintances said yesterday that a story often told by him was on relating to a character at Owenton who had been accustom? ed to performing chores about the house for the Todds. One day during hoe: killing hty>0 Mrs. Todd suggest- d thai I this old fellow to the garden and that In return for it she would give hit Ordinarily this tempting oner wouiu have aroused the greatest eagerness on the part of the prospective posse*? or of the Jowls, but this time things had changed. The town odd job man, who had "fit," bled and died, as he expressed it, for his country, had drawn a pension as a result of his patriotic endeavors as a member of the home guard during the Civil war. Consequently Mr. Todd found the hero of days gone by sitting in the sunniest place in front of the general store on Main street, 5 cents worth of chawin* terbaccer comfortably repos Ing in his check. He delivered the message, and then was somewhat amazed" to receive this reply, deliver? ed after a judicious quantity of to? bacco juice had projected into space: "Tell Mrs. Todd, Jimmle, that I'm much 'bleeged, much bleeged, but I'm eatln' further back on the hog now." Mr. Todd delivered the message and never forgot it. Another story told of him was that during the first McKinley administra? tion he was offered a foreign consul? ate, being a warm personal friend of hoth President McKinley and Mar? cus A. Hanna. He declined it at once, however, explaining in his characteristically native way that "he didn't know anybody over there." ?Louisville Courier-Journal. -account REUNION CONFEDERATE VETERANS, June 8th-10th. Tickets on sale June 5th, 6th and 7th, final limit June 14th, By deposit of ticket with Special Agent, Memphis, not earlier than June 9th, not later than June 14th, and pay- 1 ment of fee of 50 cents at time of deposit, extension limit may be secured to leave Memphis not later than July ist. For further information, call on Ticket Agent or write, j W. J. CRAIG, T. C. WHITE. Pas. Traf. Mgr. Gen. Pas/Agt. WILMiNGTON, N. C. Herr Hager, a rich influential Ber? lin banker, frequently had watches picked from his pocket. At first he bad recourse to all kinds of safety chains; then one morning he took no precaution whatever and quietly al? lowed himself to he robbed. At night, on returning from his business, he took up the evening paper; he utt< red an exclamation of delight. A watch had exploded in a man's hands. The victim's hands were shattered and the left eye destroyed. The crafty banker had filled the watch case with dyna? mite, which exploded in the operation of winding. ICS The appeal of W. T. Jor.es. of Union, who, last February, was convicted of murdering his wife in July, 100s. and who was sentenced to life Impris? onment In the State penitentiary, will not !??? heard at the present spring term of tin' Supreme court, the days devoted to appeals from the 7th Ju? dicial circuit, having now passed without reference heing made to hit case, This means that the appeal cannot he heard before neat Decem? ber, anil in alj probability a decision will not be handed down until Jan? uary or February. Let not the shoemaker go beyond his last.?Latin/ m%$)Ql Ink earn r*t IMDA11THN4TAW tUKG TROUBLES GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY OR MONEY RESC/A'DED. s ORINO I? Pleasant and Effective CURES Constipation* Stomach and Liver Trouble. by stimulating these organs and restoring their natural action. Is best for women and chil? dren as ORINO does not gripe or nauseate. SIEBKRTS DRUG STORE.