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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. MKW8Y LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. ans of Interest From all Parts of shunter and Adjoining Counties. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, ?fail your lettere so that they will this office not inter than Mon when Intended for Wednesday's and not later than Thursday Saturday's Issue. This, of course, only to regular correspond? ed case of Items of unusual Talus, send In Immediately by telephone or telegraph. Such stories are acceptable up to the of going to press. Wednesday's la printed Tuesday afternoon Saturday's paper Friday after MAX. Max. June IS.?Mr. S. T. Mott yesterday afternoon and will he tserkkl this afternoon at Bethe*l enWrch, of which he was a consistent nsember He leaves a wife and three sjsnell children, who have the sym geRhy of a large circle of friends. Mr. Mitt will be really missed at his aem?. in the community and in his church though he was quiet end un? assuming. Carlyle. eon of Mr. A. J. Ooodman tall ten feet from a tree and was bad If hurt. He Is improving. There have been several heavy ??Ina here within the last week. A play will be given in Otanta to esfght by residents of the town and community for the benefit of the Bap Mat church that Is to be built at that Mr. Puahon. of Charleston, is the of Miss Pearl Truluok. Mies Cora Truluck Is attending the i W. C. A. convention In Ashevllle. Crops are growing rapidly. TTNDAU TlgtdaL June SI-?The heavy rains fall this week have wanhed up fields and "damaged the crops to extant. Th* roads are almost ble in the neighborhood b-dow Jb All the sick folks in the neighbor are Improving. A tenant house on Mr J. W. Broad r*s place occupied by Robert With an spoon, colored, with Its contents njasa destroyed t y fire on Friday night. REM BERT. Rembert, June 2:.?Farm work ha. "sVsen at a stand still for the past week sand the ground Is still wet In places wot every one is pushing rapidly to deny and If they can g*et a week of dry warm weather the farmers will be oral! up. Cotton la looking remark well considering the excessive and is growing off nicely. The organ fund committee of Me? l's church will give an Ice cream gamrty at the High School building Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, cream, nherbet. lemonade and ie wig be served, and a cordial wel? le ts offered to the surrounding intrv to attend and hear some good ilc aad pase a pleasant social even DALZELL. Dalsell. June 31.?We have had very heavy rslns In different ttone of our community last week, ssaasrh has gotten several of our farm? ers behind with their work and the consequence Is the grass is giving ttvem sll or s little more than they ran do. I aee some cotton that has SM?t been hoed out this year end In aassne places the grass Is about 10 or IS I no he? high. So there Is but little eaaane*> f >r It to make anything but n hay crop. Cotton Is also dying badly with bllsht or wilt. If it keeps on we going to get so we can't make cot? tiers at all. I nee more dying now in I have ever seen at this early RS of the year. The Ice cream festival At the home s>f Mr R. W. Segsrs on Friday night Tree quite a success. The place was beaut If i 11 v lighted up with Japan??? taaternt which sdded much to the beauty of the place and while the crowd vas not so large every on-* saemed to have a good time and \ erythin* passed off \ery pleasantl Th? net proceeds am .anted to |gt.gf cents. The trustees snd patrons of t>. s*rcvldeiic ? and Dalsell schools gftel on Saturday evening at Dalsell to gleet teivchers for the next term. The i?*sult Is thst there Is ?onsld? rable dis? satisfaction at both places as to the teachers elected. Sorry all could not he pleased. What can't be helped saunt be endured Wh nhoutd hi ve h good araded school nt Dalxell an 1 we will never hsve a ggtlsfactory school until we get it. No one teacher can take SO or 16 ??oholar-i from the in? fant to Latin classes and do jrf t.. ? sty them. They can't prepare schol? ars for college, and the conse pi. n . te when we want to send our ch II Iren elf wi have got to pay at least %22f> dollars a year to rend them off to take a preparatory course for college when. If we had a good graded school here we could keep our $225 dollars at home and keep them on one-third t of the amount. We have a progres- I ?Ive age and your humble correspond? ent wants to see people wake up. Let uj get out of the old ruts Some peo? ple want to go on In the old ways of their grandfathers but God don't want that. He wants us to go forward and accomplish something. Use our talents. I am requested to say that Child? ren's Day will be observed at Provi? dence on Saturday next. After the ex crcisea by the children, there will be an address by Mr. Acie Parrott, of Lamar, S. C and afler dinner, and don't forget all are invited to come and bring a full basket, we expect to have some one give us an address on higher education. Come and let us all have a general awaking and a good time. OUR SVMMERTOX LETTER. Xumbera of Business Enterprises In Prospect?PI cities. Baseball and Other Social Events Afford Much Enjoyment to Citizens and Visitors. Summerton, June 21.?For the past week there has been more or less rain every day In this community, and sev? eral days very heavy rains fell. So far this season, our farmers have had no complaints to make of the weath? er, and the majority of them report the season the most favorable, for crops that they have had in many years. It is to be hoped that the re? cent "rainy dnys" had no off-setting effect. There certainly appear no rainy days In sight In the business affairs of our town Just now. On the con? trary the outlook is unusually bright. The frequent visits of capitalists, rail? road magnates, lumber dealers, bank? ers and others to Summerton would seem to Indicate that the belief In this town's growth Is not confined only to the loyal-hearted citizens. Rumor has been rife on our streets of late, and we are prepared to see anything from a lumber mill to a government building established near us before many months. Not one but two banks are reported as heading the list of new enterprises. Next in line appears Col. Thos. Wilson's new rail road, which shall have as its chief station the thriving town of Summer ten. Again We note the coming of a lumber plant, effected by the pur? chase of the business of our local dealers. T. I. Walker and J. Ashb> Richbourg, by Mr. Henry J. McLaur in. Jr. Further down in large red letters we see It written that the Uni? ted States government, represented b> Mr. Qeo. D. Shore, Is laying plans fai a governmet postofftce. And last but by no means least comes Mr. C. T Mason's telephone factory, and ulti? mately 8ummerton's street railway and lighting plant. We have always maintained that those towns that grow slowly are apt to grow surely. Even such smai sleps as these are very gratifying t? Summertonlans, and we shall alway welcome new enterprises. Among the social events of the past week were two picnics, both given on Friday. June 18th. One was gotter up by the Methodist congregation fOI the members of that Sunday scho >! A number of two-horse wagons uc c< mmodated the children, while th? older participants drove down in hug Rles and carriages to Scott's Lai. where a delightful day was spent The other picnic was given at Oak Grove by the local division of th< Farmers' Union. Two games of baseball were playevl here last week between Florence aii'l Summerton. the latter succeeding in shutting out the visitors In both Kamen. The first resulted in a score of 3 to 0, the second 9 to 0. Ruin pre vented a third game, which promised to be the best of all. Quite a number of Manning's young people atten lad these games. Thia week a series ol Ktttnei is expected with Lamar. Thi Ij an amateur team of considerable note, and It is thought that Summer ton Is about to meet ht r match at last. Mr. L. T. Fisch.?r. an extensive far mer of this community and mall-car rler on Route No. 2. had a very nar? row escape from lightning on hist Friday. While nut on the mail rout. ? tree not far distant was struck. His h? rse was knocked dow n, while he v as somruhut ItUMIOd, Mr. Pitch*! was not injured, and his horse soon The first attempt to bor? in aiP sian Wall at the hOOIa of tX*8onator 1 M. Davis of this place roaultad In i failure, several hundred (#*>( of pi Ing having been lost Mr Harvtn Is I n at work on another borln whim w ?? h will successful. \ <i. pth of about inn f..t-t hoi already Im tu roootiad For Um bonoffl of lh? Baptlsi church an entertainment will he givi n In the graded sei m l auditorium oti Friday evening, June 35th. Anxnr; the attractive f?-;it\ raf will ba "flcetlO* j fi'-m the Union Depot." ttlOOtlOM bj Chorus < ?Irl?, and Irills and tableaux ' Miss Kmmie Johnson is vlstlng her sister. Mrs. W. C. Johnson. MI'S Mary fttunson, of Sunder 's the guest of Mi*s Lyda Scarborough. Mr. Irvine F. Belser, of Columbia. Is spending a few days with his broth er, Mr. R. Hugh Belser, at "Wood Bide." Misses Celeste Hughson, of Suniter, und Louise Bonneau, of Beaufort, are the guests of Miss Louise Scar? borough. Messrs. Burgess and Thames, of Manning, were visitors in town on Sunday. Mrs. W. R. Scarborough, of Bishop ville, Is visiting at the home of her brother, Dr. W. R. Mood. Misses Sallie and Mamie Burgess left on Wednesday for North Caro? lina, where they will spend the sum? mer with their brother, Mr. J. A. Bur? gess, who proposes running an apple farm there. THE SULTAN KEPT HIS WORD. After the French Ambassador Was Ills Guest He Sent the Gift He Had Promised. The threshhold of the harem has occasionally been crossed clandestine? ly, yet, save those in rare cases where a Turkish family, having adopted the conventions of the Europeans, admits Its intimate friends, no stranger has openly and officially been permitted to visit the gynecaeum of the Turk. The one exception to this iron-clad rule, strange to say, occurred in the palace 04 a sultan. It was in the year 1807, when the British government, attempting to coerce the Sublime Porte into a coali? tion against Napoleon, ordered the the Sultan Selim III, to surrender his fleet. This Selim refused to do, and the English fleet sailed through the Dardanelles into the propontls. Mean? while, General Sebastian!, the French ambassador, assisted the Sultan In or? ganizing the defense of Constantino? ple, and did it so admirably that the British fleet retired without firing a shot. Accordingly, the Padishah told him to choose his reward. The gen? eral, a through Frenchman, asked permission to visit his Majesty's har? em. Selim, bound by his word, granted this unprecedented favor, and invited him to witness the review of the sul? tanas. As the latter, the most beau Itful women of the East, with blush? ing cheeks and modest eyes, passed one bb one before them, the Sultan said, "Who ever of them all you find fairest is yours." Sebastian!, delight? ed, Indicated one of the Imperial odalisques, a Georgian of.divine beau? ty, with deep black eyes. The next morning a procession of black slaves appeared at the embassy, bringing with them a magnificent cas? ket. Raising the lid thereof, Sbas tiani beheM. lying upon the purple cushion, the head of the beautiful girl he had chosen. By Its side lay a let? ter from the Khalifa, which read as follows: "Though our law forbids that a wo? man of Islam be given to a Christian, yet thou shalt have at least the con? solation that none other shall possess her whom thou hast preferred." "Drugs is Drugs." The writer took a doctor's prescrip? tion to the drt/ dore to have it filled, says Judge. In some way this piece Of paper become torn in half, so that when the patron handed the druggist the first piece, that public servant at ??nce measured out the ammonia salt !t called for and placed the small vial before his customer. "How much ?" asked the patron. "Txn cents." "Oh, beg pardon:" said the pur? chaser, at this juncture finding the remainder of the prescription in his pocket. "This piece says I to add enough water to the other to make four ounces." "Very well/' rejoined the apothe? cary, dumping the contents of the small vial Into a four-ounce bottie and adding the required water "There you are. sir; forty cents more, please." "What! Ten cents for the am? monia and forty cents for the wa? ter?" "Bxaotly, The doctor's name writ? ten gfter the water makes it a pre at rlptlon, and we put up no presortp tion under fifty cents." Tea is 't germicide, according to a Boston physician, who claims it lb an ? specially rank enemy of typh >ld b clllus. All employ.m-s in the Netherlands who ere boarding with their employ are are entitled to medical treatment for at least six weeks. rut even after erecting l.soo lib? raries it a cost of $61,596,803, Mr, Carnegie la not wholly free from the menace of w prosperous demlae.? Indlanapolla New*, Young Ed O'Xetl, of Charleston, who trlsd to commit suicide in Alken a day or two ago, is in serious trouble. He \v as tried in the police oourts Friday for stealing 400 cigar* ette coupons, and was acquitted. Im? mediately after this trial, lie was tried before Magistrats Bmoak for stealing a watch. He plead guilty of the lat? ter offense. He has not been sen tenced yet. SUCCESS BROUGHT RUIN. Woodrow Wilson Say* What Men Called Duty Wrought Disaster. Princeton, X. J., June 13.?"Un? profitable Servants," who impoverish their own lives and, through their in creasing number, threaten the econo? mic supremacy of the country, were discussed by President Woodrow Wil? son in a baccalaureate address before the graduating class at Princeton Un? iversity today. President Wilson spoke from the Gospel of St. Luke: "We are unprof? itable servants; we have done that which was our duty to do." He said, in part: "We have not done our duty; we have not' even earned our wages, when we have done merely that which we were obliged to do. We have done our duty only when we have done that which we know com? pletes the service, when we have put the best that was in us into the task? our hearts into the bargain. "You know what the usual stand? ard of the employe is in our day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standardized by the trades unions, and this is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average workman can do. In some trades and handicrafts no one is suf? fered to do more than the least skill? ful of his fellows can do within the hours alloted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the mini? mum. I need not point out how econ? omically disastrous such a regulation of labor is. The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable under its present regulation by those who have determined to reduce it to a minimum. Our economic supremacy may be lost because the country grows more and more full of unprofit? able servants. "We have just passed through an era In which men kept their legal ob? ligations as well as usual, and yet came near ruining the country; piled up Wealth and forgot how to use it honorably; built up business and come near to debauching a nation. 1 need not remind you of the various abuses^ In the business wond, which recent legislation has been more or less unsuccessfully attempting to cor? rect; of the thousand and one ways in which what were thought to be the huslneas interests of the country were pushed forward without regard to anything but the profit of those im? mediately concerned. "That profit, stated in terms of wealth was signally well served. WThat was intended was accomplished?and with the results you know. Wrhat has not been sufficiently noticed and em? phasized is that most of these colos? sal processes of wealth, which have now lallen under our condemnation, were conducted by honest men who were keeping within th bounds of the law. There were rogues among them, of course, but no more than any age will show, and they were almost al? ways rejected by their comrades when they were found to be rogues. The whole huge game, so far as Its suc? cess was substantial and lasting, was an hone-t man's game; no crooks or blacklegs were wittingly admitted in? to it. Every man served his own par? ticular interest with extraordinary int -nslty and devotion and with im? mense success, and could have told you with frank and steady eyes that he had done that which was his duty ?o do. "But what unprofitable servants they were?unprofitable even to themselves and to the business enter? prises they served! Many of those enterprises are for the time being dis? credited, their prosperity almost fa? tally checked by a universal distrust and suspicion, by hostile legislation. b> arrested credit. Everything that for their sake should be steady has been thrown out of.poise and balance. Their very success has been question? able. If you demand of success that It I ring enjoyment and content with it. ?ucceaa has a heart and you should 1. ok into it. It is often Of lead, some times of gall, sometimes of dry pitch. ? ?illy sometimes a source of living joy. "The m?-n who brought disaster upon bualneaa by success brought It becauae they ran with blinders upon their eyes saw only the Immediate task under their hands, volunteered no l?ok around, paid no call Of thought or wish upon th> Ir fellow-men, left statesmanship to politicians and pub? lic Interests to the censors of public morals?attended wholly to their own business. "If we would have ease of heart, we must Ural do our duty; but no man glories In the performance of his duty. That is a matter Of course, it were dishonor not to do it. What he really 1 ioks to to give color, dig? nity, distinction?if it may be, ro? mance?tO his life is what he adds to his duty for his own aatiaftctlon, for the release of the power that is in him." hTe members of the class Of 1909 and their families and miests gather? ed In Alexander Hnil to hear the bac? calaureate sermon. The academic pro? cession of faculty and trustees formed BACK HOME After an Abaenoe of Thirty-three Years or More?Wilson scarboro, I Of Bishopville. S. C, Goes to States, boro, Ga., and Takes His Long Lost Parent Back to the Old Home. A letter from Statesboro, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle, tells a most remarkable story. The letter says after a fruitless search for the where? abouts of his father for thirty-three years, during which time his estate is said to have been administered on by members of the family, Wil? son Scarboro, a resident of Bishopville, S. C, came to this county last Sunday and carried his father back to his South Carolina home to spend his de? clining years. R. Scarboro, the father, came to this county twenty years ago and adopted the name of R. Baker, first making his home on the farm of Sol. Atkins and later with the Aliens until I recently he took up his place of abode on the farm of Tom Moore at Enal, rear Bryan county, where his son found him. Domestic troubles are said to have been the cause of his leaving his. home in South Carolina. Before he came to Bulloch county he spent thirteen years within a hundred miles of his home and was successful in keeping his wife and four sons from learning his whereabouts. Some time ago it is said a traveling man happened to run across Mr. Scarboro, or Baker, as he was known here, and when he went back to Bishopville he told one of his sons that he had seen and spoken to hi? father. The traveler remembered the name of Mr. John If. Jones, a hard? ware dealer, and told the son to write to Mr. Jones for information, which the son did. giving a description of his father from which Mr. Jones readily applied the descriptfon to "Baker." The letter was answered by Mr. Jones giving the desired information. In some way Mr. "Baker" learned that Mr. Jones had written to his son and it is said the old man did not relish it very much, evidently intend ing to keep his whereabouts a secret Until death. Several letters passed between Mr. Jones and the son in South Carolina and finally the father was communicated with by his son and persuaded to consent to return to his old home and be cared for the rest of his life. Mr. Scarboro arrived in Statesbo? ro Saturday night and proceeded to Enal without making known the ob? ject of his visit to any one but Mr. Jones with whom he had been com? municating. He stated to Mr. Jones that, the four sons were still alive; that each of them were in good flnan cial circumstances and were iesirous of having thcr father spend nis de cling years with them where he could be cared for. When the son reached the home of his father at Enal the meeting is said to have been a loving one, first handshake and then throwing their arms around one another the two stood there and hugged for some time. This was on Saturday night and Sunday morning when they starvl for the train they passed through Jimps, five miles from here and some time was spent at the home of Will Atkins while waiting for the Central train. Mr. Atkins was not at home at the time and when he returned he walked up and spoke to the fath? er and cordially bowed to the son, not knowing who he was. At this time Mr. "Baker" said. "Well. Will I have fooled you all for twenty years. I want to introduce you to my son, Mr. Scarboro. I am going back to the old home with him this morning and will spend the bal? ance of my life there with my wife and children. I have been away thirty-three years, twenty years of v htch have been spent in Bulloch county, where I have made many friends, a"d it is with regret that I leave now. but I suppose It is be&t for me." "Baker" is well known In Btatet boro, though his home has always b< en In the country near here. Dur? ing his twenty years in Bulloch coun? ty it is said he confided In one man. Mr. Soi. Atklna, when he Ural came here, and told Iiis real name and the cause of his leaving home. He evidently confided In a safe man for through a score of years Ifr. Atkins has told no one the old man s secret. "Baker" ll apparently nearing hi alloted time, three sc uv years and ten. and that he will receive * -?v ing welcome In bis Old home is evi? denced by the continuous search which has been made for him for thirty-three years. Wilson Scarboro, the son that came after his father, is now forty three years of age and states that h< was nearly eleven years old when his father left home. The location of his father's whereabouts is prob? ably due to the traveling man who spoke to him here, calling his real name, and Ifr. John If. Jonee, who gave the son the necessary Informa? tion. at Nassau Hall at 11 o'clock and a few minutes later Dr. Wilson began his last address to the graduating class. GOVERNOR PAROLES PRISONER. C 1*0 of Bert Stokes Interesting; In Greenville, June 20.?Governor An? sel today paroled Bert Stokes, whose case is an interesting one from many I o,nts of view. Stokes was arrested in 1*01 for transporting liquor during the night time and was bound over to apiear for trial on the charge at the regular June term of Court. During May a special term of Conn was held in the city by Special Judge J. P. Carey. The case Of Stok ?s was called, but Stokes was not pres? ort, and, in his absence, he was tried ana a sealed verdict left for him when ho was captured. At the June term of Court, Stokes appeared :!or trial and the solicitor verbally agreed to give him a new trial and to nol pros the case, upon the grounds that the facts did not warrant a conviction according to the law as given by the Supreme Court. No order was taken, however, and the sealed verdict remained in the clerk of the Court's office, where ;t was found by the present clerk. Mr. Cureton. Later Stokes was seen on the streets by the sheriff, who ro-og n'zed him, and, remembering that he held a sealed verdict against him, he arrested Stokes and placed him in jail. I The sealed verdict was then opened with the consent of Stokes and it was fcund that there was a sentence over him for three months or a fine of $100. Stokes was then sent to Jail for his sentence, but, he made an appeal for a pardon. His pardon was accom? panied by a certificate from former Solicitor Julius E. Boggs. and lecom m< tided by Solicitor Proctor Bonham. The action of the governor this morning in paroling Bert Stokes fol? lowed. He was sent to jail about thirty days ago and has remained theie since that date. Prof. Arthur Korn, of Berlin, has perfected an invention which proves the theories of gravitation. He fills a metal globe with water and imparts rapii vibrations to the contents with an electric motor. He has thus found it possible to construct an exact work? ing model of planets all move in their appointed paths without any visible support or externally ;.;qdjed .>ower. Chief Spencer, a Klickitat Indian, died at the age of 110 at Fort Simcoe, Wash., last week. The old chief knew the Northwest long before the whito Invasion, and had often described the first white party which arrived at the Dalles, a weary and bedraggled lot he said they were. In 1856 he was a scout for Col. Wright and throughout the wars in his country he was friend? ly to those who usurped his domains. William Knox, who killed Pickens Pain last year, was tried Thursday for the second time, and was found guilty with recommendation to mercy. Knox will be sentenced to serve a life term in the State penitentiary. A two days session of the Court of General Sessions at Winnsboro closed Thursday. At the request of the grand jury the judge signed order giving them authority to employ an expert to examine the books of the dispensary which shows a shortage. The je^solene launch "Carrie" ply? ing between McClellanville and Char? leston, was completely destroyed by fire. Isaiah Clinton, colored, was badly burned. The rest of the crew escaped in a row boat uninjured. Clin? ton's wounds are not considered very serious. John G. Darby, chief of police for the town of BatoebUTsT. charged with assault with intent at criminal as? sault, was acquitted by the jury Fri? day morning. The trial of Mr. Darby created a great deal Of attention, and he was the recipient of many warm congratulations. Cervantes' Tribute to sloop. Now, blessings light on him that rirst invented this same^leep! It covers a man a all over, thoughts and ..11. like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat tor the cold and cold far the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world, cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, th? fool and the wise man, even.?Orevantes. Seems a shame to have summer mosquitoes without lt*s sunshine.? CU veland Ledger. Many Ways, r E. J. 8 W. K. DUNNE, ARCHITECTS. Plans and Specifications for all Classes I f Buildings. Personal attention given the Supervision of all Work. 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