The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 09, 1909, Image 7
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ORY OP CONFEDERATE
CIIJEFTAIN HONORED.
Davis Mr in or (Ml Park De<l
?rated at Palrvl?w, Kentucky,
Where the Great Confederate I^ead
ejr Was Born?Appropriate Excr
CS?c* ilekl Elsewhere In the South.
Falrview. K; . June S.?Among the
which have grown up above the
birthplace of Jefferson Davis sine?
*^ 'n 'he nineteenth oon
tary. when the Davis '^mlly r moved
16 ashvtsadppi the Jefferson Dgvta
Mimorfa Park wan simply ded tented
loda\ ; ?>.? gS*- ;. aorejgj the BtSlgj Is
H?ngen vile, near which Abraham
Lincoln was born eight months after
his great opponent. Falrview la still
a tiny town rimmed with forests and
sloping rently toward the grass
grown battlsgelds of Tennessee.
la September. Iff when the grey
grown and enMadvd ranks of Ken?
tucky's famous "orphan brigade" met
In Glasgow. Ky . at the grave of Gen.
Joseph H I^ewls. their commander,
former Oovernor Bolivar Buckner, of
Kentucky, broached the plan of the
Jefferson Davis Memorial Association.
I Subscriptions were started, the W?rn?
ern of ths South aiding nobly, and
when all but It.000 had been raised,
to purchase seventeen scree at Fair
view, Gen. Bennett H. Young, com?
manding the Kentucky division of th
Confederate Veterans, advanced that
| rum and mads ths memorial possible.
Oratory, music and flowers made
the day notable. A basket, dinner
and a barbecue were provided by the
people of Todd snd Christian Coun?
ties* which share squally the town
of Falrview, and when Col W. A.
MUton. of Louisville, as chairman In
the absence of Gen. Young, who w
detained In Chicago, opened the meet
tng. the homestead of thS Davlses was
crowc ?d. Gen. Young, a prominent
Louisville lawyer, wrote the chief ad
dress of the day. and It was rsad by
Col. Milton Us asserted that every
Southern Stats should rear a shaft to
Jefferson Davis, whose character and
?uttering' he dwslt upon sympatheti?
cally. He paid high tribute to Lin
90In, saying that ths time had come
when men might speak kindly and
truly of the past. , He said the mes
?ags which the united South gavs to
ths world today was one of everlast
? In? peace
The plan is to raise ftO.Oou
s>%ith o 1. ? ulUl a ao'tnoris
pi" to contain nil the rsoordi
tie r? .. and to remodel
residence upon ths Davis farm
?so the wldowa of Confederate
gftldJers.
TL
> mum -
\i more
1?. 'em
of the
a l>ww~J
Ths seventeen acres which are to
onclose the memorial bulldinga to be
erected adjoin the original nine acres,
which were the remnants of the plan?
tation upon which Samuel Davis,
father of the president, settled when
he came from Virginia In 179S. These
nine were given by Mr. Davis to Beth
ol Church on the occasion. June 21
. 188?. of his last visit to his first home.
To the people of the neighborhood
this church stands as a memorial to
their great neighbor, and to his pride
in his old Kentucky home they as?
cribe the fancy which led him so call
his land along the Mississippi shore"
of the Gulf ' Beauvolr "
The site of the memorial slopes
softly from a splendll grove, which
crowns Irs highest point. It is In the
haart of Falrview, and the present
plan is to peace ,M the records of th*
Oonledsesc) in the temple to be built
w'.th'n the shadow of the tie, \
two-?tory residence 1? also on the
n\nd. and the Intent Is to make of this
a home for the'wldows of the Confed?
erates whom sge has rendered de?
crepit and from whorr the years and
the war have taken husbands and
sons.
AIsis Akyroyd, fifteen years old, of
Bast Boston, has accomplished the re?
markable feat of swimming Hull Out.
a task which has deflod some of the
fjgrongest male swimmer* thereabouts.
A good deal I? being 'one st present
it, prove the correctness of the theory
A United States Senators ought to
bo etoeted by the direct vote of tho
people C hicago U. < rd-Herald.
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Commence taking Foley's Kidney
Itemed* today. W W Sibcrt.
Walker C Jones was dfOWJMd In
the Congaree river while fishing.
Women Who Are Envied.
?Thois attractive women erho nre
lovely In face, form 1 ml Igggnol
tho envv of ninny, who miwtht he like
tham A woik. slcklv wonui n will be
nervous and Irrltabb it.
or kidnsy poisons show In ptmplee,
blotchei skin eruptions and a
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?harming women nwi their health
and beaut) to them. 90c at Slbert's
Drug Store.
HAM I' Sr.LLERS ACQUITTED. .
Jury In Columbia Homicide Case
Find* Farmer's Slayer Not Uullty?
Invalidity of Farmer's Search War
rant Flays Importunt Fart.
Columbia. June 3.?Wade Hampton
Sellers has been acquitted of the
??barge of murdering Constable Far?
mer. The Jury remaining mt less
than three hours this afternoon re?
turned a verdict of not guilty, end?
ing one of the most sensational cases
in th* history of this county. The
jury returned at 4:15 o'clock, and
brought In Its verdict at 5:50 o'clock.
Sellers remained In the court room
during the entire day, and did not
appear very nervous while the Jury
was out. The verdict of the Jury was
no surprise, as nearly every one who
kept up with the case expected Sellers
to be acquitted, especially after the
search warrant with which Farmer
was armed when killed had beon de?
clared Invalid. In fact, the case seem?
ed to hinge on this point. The trial
was begun Tuesday morning occupy
ing nearly three days of the court';'
session. The trial has hem very mat?
ter of fact, and there was not the
great interest shown that was mat i
fested In the first trial, when the ju?
rors could not agree.
FILIBUSTER IN THE SENATE.
AiiU-Aldrlch Members Intend to
Hold the Floor.
Washington, June 3.?The antl
Aldrlch members of the senate, the
"Insurgents"?believe they have won
a signal victory over their adversaries
and that they will now accomplish
practically everything they set about
In the early days of the extra session,
so far as the making of the new
tariff bill is concerned.
This feeling has been brought about
entirely In consequence of a ruling of
the president of the senate yesterday
regarding ths order of business that
shall be followed in the senate. When
the usual suggestion of an ebfence of
quorum was made, It was contended
that when a senator bad the floor and
on?il he yielded for the distinct pur?
pose of allowing some o'Vr mrnnbtr
to make the suggestion of m> quorum,
there was no way by which he could
ordinarily be taken off h<s feet, and
that even If th'jre was no one pres?
ent in ?H? b*rl the member
? Ii the Boor thai ?> nil I make no dif?
ference. In uthei word^ that when a
senator has (he floor he gtiay hold it
* Ith eve v oth'1 at nomo ani
asleep in bed. until he yields for the
purpose of allowing a point of no
quorum to te made.
That Is Just the thing the "Insur?
gent!*" have been looking for all the
tfme. some opportunity to get the
floor and hold It Indefinitely until they
force the Aldrich forces to recognise
their demands for lower duties.
Immediately after this ruling was
made yesterday Its effect became no?
ticeable. All the senators, with the
exception of possibly half a dozen,
left the chamber entirely and went
home or lounged in the cloak rooms.
But most of them left the capltoland
made the best of a hot and uncom?
fortable day.
It Is freely predicted that the "in?
surgents" will now take every pdssl
ble advantage of this ruling; tha*
they will get the floor and keep It
until they force the Aldrich forces to
capitulate. In the insurgent camp
there are twenty or more long-wind?
ed, all-day speakers, some of whom
In fact mfpht hold out cons derablV
lonnor If called upon to do so. "Fili?
bustering" has already com.nenced,
and there seems to be no way to head
It off unless the committee on rules,
finding that the decision on th's ques?
tion would lie likely to Interfere with
their plans, would bring in a special
rule, In that event it would be a rO?
\. i s;vl of the ruling of the chair,
v. hlch would hardly be done. Meat -
time those senators who have been
vaBsng for an opportunity to make
real trouble in the Aldrich camp sc?'
light before them?more In fact than
has broken since the extra session be?
gan? and If they follow thg lead that
they have set they will undoubtedly
force Senator Aldi Ich and Irs alli? r
to come to terms, though the efforts
may be costly to a l.pie who are
losing $10.000,000 a day,
There Is one North Carolina mmi
tecturlng enterprise tint seems to bs
doing business. <?n Friday, which
not .such an unlucky day, the Chant
ham Manufacturing Company, of Bl
ktn, shipped || solid can of blankoti
to different places in the United
?tatOS, about half of them going to
Chicago and st. Lavle, from which
points they win be distributed lo dlf?
ferent cities on the Pacific slope. The
oth. i half goal to Baltimore, Phila?
delphia and New York. Each cai
contained |,1#| pairs of blanket^
w hlch made , k r nd total of 1 !?. h '? 1
i h or :i!i,?niii Minule bnakets At It
I pair. Which Kl rather under the'avt
raffi it gmounti to $tt?t0? for tin
i as shipment.
A monument greeted to the mem
of f'nnfi del itc soldiers of LattCnS?
? ter County was Unveiled Friday.
ALDRIGH UND STOKE ANGRY. |
FORMER'S REFERENCE TO GER?
MAN V CAVSES Sil VHP COL?
LOQUY,
Missouri Senator Charges Rhode
Inlander With Delivering Affront
to German Government, and Lat?
ter Charge* Former With Heins? a
Representative of Germany?Ald
- rich Claims no Insult was Meant.
Washington, June 3.?Senator Aid
rich's recent characterization of the
course any Government which might
send to this country as anonymous
statement concerning prices in the
foreign country with a view to
inliuenclng legislation was made the
subject of an acrimonious colloquy in
the senate today between Mr. Aldrich
and Senator Stone. The previous re?
mark of Mr. Aldrich was based upon
the fact that in response to a request
from our State department, the Ger?
man authorities forwarded to this
government statements of manufac?
turers concerning the rate of
wages in Germany with a request that
the names of the manufacturers be
not used.
Senator Stone brought up the ques?
tion r'y reading a cablegram from
Berlin, in which it was said that the
a
German Government had taken of?
fense at Mr. Aldrlch's language, be?
cause of the important position he oc?
cupies in his party and in Congress.
Reading from Mr. Aldrich's original
remarks, Mr. Stone said:
, "When the Senator from Rhode
Island made that somewhat petulant
and exordinary declaration, every one
here took notice and I think every
one regarded his utterance as im?
politic if not impolite."
Mr. Aldrich responded that he had
made no charge against the German
Government,,but had been talking of
German manufacturers.
Hot colloquies followed as to
whether the reference had been to
Germany. Mr. Stone, still main?
taining, despite Mr. Aldrlch's denial,
that it was that government which
was meant.
Mr. Stone said that he had gained
the impression that Mr. Aldrich had
given a deliberate affront to a friend?
ly Power.
Mr. Aldrich said that he had been
at a loss to account for Mr. Stone's in?
terest in the matter, unless he ap?
peared as a representative of Ger?
many. This Intimation made Mr.
Stone mad.
"That statement," he said, "Is an
Impertinence; yes, It is worse than an
impertinence. I am an American, and
I represent American interest on this
floor as much as does the Senator
from Rhode Island, and I resent the
effort to place a stigma upon me. f
repeat that his expression is an im?
pertinence, a gross Impertinence."
Mr. Aldrich subsequently paid a
compliment to the German Emperor
and government, reaffirming that he
had intended no affront to either. He
said that his crltclsm was directed to?
wards the effort to use the informa?
tion from Germany to influence
Vmerican legislation.
Senator Depew spoke in depreca?
tion of the entire incident, saying that
it was absurd to think that the Ger?
man government had In reality given
serious consideration to the matter.
Senator Tillman suggested that the
abstract of statements from Germany
should bo published at once, which
v.as ggTMd to by Mr. Aldrich and or?
dered by the senate.
Mr. Tillman said:
"Because these statements by Ger?
man manufacturers did not conform
to the ideas of the American manu?
facturers, the Anator from Rhode Is?
land got unhappy over it."
Fifteen years age Robert McFar
lane left bis home of East Penn
T.-unship. Pa., and as his family did
not hear from him he was believed
tO 1 ? dead, in fact, his wife, after
waiting several years, began court
proceedings which resulted in his be?
ing declared legally dead. This, how?
ever, proves to have been a legal fic?
tion, for on Sunday McFarlane, very
much alive, appeared at his father's
old home.
An ardent advocate of equal suf?
frage, the late Charles C. Rellor left
|1,000 to tbe Carnegie Library of
Pittsburg. The provision attached t<>
this bequest is that the annual Income
from the money shall be used to pur?
chase books relating to women con?
sidered physically. Intellectually and
i Istotically,
James, v. Hydt hai been elected
treasurer of Lincoln, 111., at the age
of ninety-tive. it Is claimed for Mr.
Hyde that he |i one of the oldeit ma?
sons In the country, having joined the
order In \s\:,. He tlrst saw Chicago
in 1841? and described it as being then
nothing more than a mudhole.
The members of the house watch
while the senator- prey.?-Indianapolis
News.
The Pigmy mouse of Siberia Is be?
lieved to be the smallest quadruped
in the world.
NEGRO LABOR IS DECLINING.
Skilled Workmen Are Yearly Hecom
lug Rarer Among the Blacks in the
South.
(Harris Dickson in Hampton's Maga?
zine.)
Competition in labor is less keen in
the South than in the North. Negroes
as skilled mechanics are not sulH
ciently numerous in the South to get
in the white man's way. If they in?
terfere with the white man's bread
the feeling might be different. It is
not believed that skilled labor Is in?
creasing among the negroes. Man?
ual training schools may report as
increase of students and graduates,
bur almost any Southern contractor
will say that they do not enter very
conspiciously into his calculation. He
loks to the white man for his skill?
ed labor.
Before the war, practically every
negro was a trained man; he was a
farmer of cotton, sugar or tobacco;
he could make a shoe, forge a nail,
or build a fence. His master had
taught him some particular thing
The negro had some training In al?
most every simple branch of indus?
try. Some were good farriers, car?
penters, blacksmiths, tinners, brick?
layers or stone masons. In those
days the best work of the South was
done by the negroes. Plantation dis?
cipline could place the black boy un?
der control of the black bricklayer
and hold him to his apprenticeship.
Nowadays no negro boy In the
towns will submit to the regular re?
gimen and steady work of a long
apprenticeship. .He came to town to
escape work.
When young George Washington
Johnsings turns loose the plow and
struggles away from the plantation,
he's not hunting for a trade. His sys?
tem doesn't hanker after a confining
occupation. The delicate constitution
of Wash Johnsing craves short hours
and long rests?with a swagger and
a dash of sport on the side. He loves
to sit in the shade and superintend
the tolling masses. What's the use o'
workln* when blackberries will soon
be ripe. He wants to be pass-picker
at the crap game, preacher at the
protracted meeting, or a jack-leg
lawyer loafing around the Justice
ccurts.
For a nice, clean, easy Job Wash
would prefer to be a bishop.
Says an old negro bricklayer, an
Intelligent old antebellum mechanic:
"When us ole men is dead dey won't
be no nigger masons no mo'. Dees
here boys won't work; dey wants ter
gamble an* loaf around' de saloons.
De 'prentice what I got now is a
young white boy; his pa put him wid
nie 'cause he knowed I'd learn 'irri 'is
trade. We gits along fine. He does
everything I tell im?dat sho' Is on>;
smart boy. I couldn't git no cullud
boy ter work wid me." This is a
town of twenty-five thousand people
and half of them negroes! true streets
and jail are crowded, with negro va?
grants. The same is true of other
trades. A self respecting white fath?
er places is son with a negro me?
chanic for training?yet the white
apprentice and the negro master
thoroughly understand their respec?
tive social relations.
Prof. David, of Sydney University,
who accompanied Lieut. Shackleton
on his Antartic expedition, suggests
that Australasia shall establish a per?
manent weather observatory in the
Antartic and connect the observatory
with Australia with wireless telegra?
phy. *
It's easy to talk philosophically if
the other fellow is paying the freight.
AH the world loves a winner?with
the exception of the loser.
Hannah Kelly, an old negroes*, re?
puted to be over 112 years of age. and
who several years ago won widespread
notorlty by cutting, what appeared
t > be, the third set of teeth, has just
died in Union.
In his address before the Philadel?
phia conference of the Methodist
church the other day. says The Buffa?
lo Commercial. Bishop Hamilton re
lated the following anecdote to illus?
trate a point: "I think you are all
good-natured enough to agree with
ths young lady who, with her dance,
was awaiting a street car After Sev?
eral cars had paased and they could
not get aboard the young man I e
cams impatient, when the next car
Stopped at the corner he leaped upon
the platform and said, In pleading
terms, 'Coma on, Mary, we can man
Bge to squeeze in here, can't we ." The
young woman colored slightly, but
bravely replied, i suppose we can
dinr. but don't you think WS had bet?
ter wait until we get home?"
He (pointing to ball field)?That's
Qreen over there. In a few weeks he
will be our best man. Shi?Oh. Char?
lie, this is so sudden! ? Princeton Ti?
ger.
Director (in a thundering voice) ?
\\ by on earth don't you come in
when I tell you to? First bass
i
(meekly) ? How can a fellow get In If 1
he can't find his key??Yale Record.
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The Man With a Checking Account Can
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It is estimated that ninety-five per cent, of the bus?
iness of our country is transacted by means of
checks and drafts. Under no oi:her system could
we reach the high standard of development atiain
ed in the last fifty years.
A checking account with this bank will simplify
the transaction you are now doing on a cash basis.
Bank of Sumter
15he Man
Who neglects to start a bank account and build up a
credit for himself often allows his money to build a
credit for the other man.
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The city officials of Gaffney have
let the contract for putting in a lew*
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main and building a standpipe.
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