Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. mSY LETTERS FROM OUR 8PE CXAL CORRESPONDENTS. ess of Interest From all Parts of 8umt<T and Adjoining Counties. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mall your letters bo that they will teach this office not later than Mon? te? when Intended for Wednesday'.* ?sap-* and not later than Thursday ffer Saturday's Issue. This, of course, atppltes only to regular correspond In case of Items of unusua! value, send In Immediately by I. telephonu or telegraph. Such stories are acceptable up to the of going to press. Wednesday'i Mr la printed Tuesday afternoor Saturday's paper Friday after ?sent Mi Bund PISGAH. Ptsgah. Aug. 11.?The warm and ip weather for the last week hat beneficial to cotton. All late ?ps are doing well. Yesterday was a hot day right and no better. A sight of part of the crops on both the State farms show that they ?are very flue. I hope to see all the crops soon on both farms and will report. The meeting that was to be held at Swift Creek church this week is tponed on account of sickness mg the membership of the church. Mrs. W. R. Gardner of the State term Is very 111 and Is gone to the fcaftrmary In Columbia for treat It tr. Cole filled his pulpit at Pisgah Bonday Me had just returned from a fine meeting at Westville. Said ?Teat crowds attended the services. The house could not near hold the people. Great Interest Is manifested in the dispensary election. A number of ?people would like for it to continue la easy reach to them and still a sramber for the dollars in It irrespect? ive of the moral Issues involved. < The article by Mr. Wlnn in Mon eJay's Item should be an eye-opener so those who believe that whiskey no harm. Many of us knew he so sadly speaks of who went ?sown under Its terrible Influence. How many fathers are there In Sum r who want their bright little boys teenpted by the evli Influences of whiskey? The new public road is finished and the gang has worked the road from Bracey's old mill to near Prof-i dteace. It Is now doing some work on the Columbia road. Freeman vs. Holland for breach of contract was tried at Rembcrt yes? terday, which resulted In conviction. Sentence, $15 fine or twenty days Imprisonment Prisoner I? out on bond for a few drys to see If he can .raise the money. Mr. E. H. Rhame. Jr.. of Sumter. f-ame up Saturday to visit relatives aad friends. He returned home Tuesday morning. He said he had e. delightful time, especially with the young ladles. We hope he will com. again soon and stay longer. * -Mrs. J. L. (Hills went to the State farm today to visit Mr. W. R. Gard? ner's family. Mr. B. C. DuPre spent the day in Saunter Tuesday. I ? J LYNCHBURG. Lynchburg. Aug 14.?Little May Stable, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McLeod, after less than three days' ies fell sweetly asleep to wake no ?re. last svenlng about 7 o'clock, a malady that bid defiance to human skill. She will be Interred at Lynchburg cemetery this after at 4 o'clock. She was about five years old, and a most lovable and affectionate child, of unusual devotion to her pa? rents. Thin in indeed a sad death, as ehe was almost Idolized by the fam? ily, who have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community. Drs. Mc? Leod. of Florence, Alford, of Wlsacky. and Tarrant. of this place, did all that man could do to save her, but, I. the grim reaper claimed her. it sweet bud, too pure for earth, "Transplanted ere Its prime, Blooms now where It will e'er be fair, And always violet time:" W EDO EH ELD. Wedgefleld, Aug. 16.?Your corres? pondent hn? read with a good deal of Interest the arguments for prohibi? tion and the dispensary, etc.. and es? pecially good was the artlcl? by Mr. Wlnn. I have no doubt through that the majority of the qualified voters In Snmter county will cast their ballots tomorrow for prohibition. I can't believe ii majority will sacrifice prin? ciple to the extent of Intrenching epon our county an Institution to con? tinuity degrade Its cltlscn*hlp. Mr. L. T. Blllups spent the past week at bis home near Summerton. Miss Carrie Seay. of Columbia, is the charming guest of Miss Nan. Metlett Mlaees Beaale end Celeate Hughson. -of Sumter. apent yeaterday here with friends. Mrs. J. H. Aycock and Miss Bettio Aycock ieft for Ellerbe Springs, N. C, on last Friday for a stay of sev? eral weeks. Rev. S. E. Rose, who has been eon ducting a revival meeting in | the Methodist church here for the pastor, Rev. F. O. Whitlock, the past week, brought it to a close last night. There were several additions to the church, and the services were enjoyed. Mr. A. E. Aycock, Jr., left on Sat? urday to Join his mother and sister, Mrs. A. E. Aycock and daughter, Miss Bessie, at Harris Springs. Mr. J. B. Crouch, who spent the past two weeks in the mountains of North Carolina, has returned home. Mr. Frank Moffatt, of Manning, spent yesterday in town. II ASK ELL BI'.'xINS PROSECUTION Oklahoma Governor Brings Counter ctMurgee Against Federal Marshal and Grand Jury. Muskogee. Oklahoma, Aug. 16.? Charges of misconduct made today against United States Marshal Victor by Gov. Haskell will be pushed vig orously according to an announce? ment tonight by Pilney'L. Soper, Gov. HasaeU's attorney. Gov. Haskell will ise every effort, it was stated, to have the marshal and several grand Jury members brought to trial. The case probably will be argued at Ardmore some time in October be? fore Jude Marshal of Salt Lake. The sensational allegations were contained In the motions held in the federal court here today to quash the Indictments of Gov. Charles N. Has? kell and five others, in connection with the alleged town lot frauds. Geo. W. Strawn, J. Dixon, J. C. Bur? gess, A. G. D?nas and W. T. Bailey, who were members of the grand jury which returned the indictments, are charged with deliberately seeking to go on the Jury with a view to return? ing indictments. Doings at Dalzell. Dalzell, Aug. 17.?We are having some very warm weather, but the hot sun today Is lust what we need for the fodder, which we are trying to finish up. Cotton is opening rap? idly and we will soon be picking. Rev. Mr. Letch and Mr. Marshall oi rived on Saturday and begun their meeting at Dalzell in the new church on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. They have service every morning at 11 o'clock and at 8.30 in the evening. The meeting is growing in interest and we trust that much good may re? sult therefrom. The meeting will continue all this and probably all next week. The song service is im? proving. Mr. Marshall leads the singing, and he Is fine, while Mise f.inline Woodley presides at the organ, and most of the young folks and some of the older ones sing in the choir. The new church is ver> comfortal le, large and well ventilat? ed, and has a large seating capacity. The good people of Sumter and the surrounding country will find a warm welcome, and are invited to attend the meeting. Mrs. J. M. Woodley and daughter of Sumter. are spending a short Willis at their old home here, while Mr Woodley makes frequent visits out here. KILLED BY FALL. De'Witt Wiggins of Marlon Dies a* Result of Injuries Received While Riding Wheel. Marlon, Aug. 16.?DeWitt Wiggins a uon of Mr. H. H. Wiggins, accident? ally fell from his bicycle on Main street last night, and several hours lat:er died from the effects of the fall. The young man was riding down Main street near the pavement when the chain of the bicycle broke, thus throwing him violently against the pavement. Though his head struck the pavement with considerable force, he was not unconscious for some time, and It was thought he was not seriously hurt. A htle later, howev? er, his condition became*more alarm? ing, and medical aid was at once summoned. Everything possible was done for the young man, but he died at about 12 o'clock. The Immedlnl" cause of death was a ruptured blood [ vessel in the head. STORM IX CHARLESTON. Electrical Disturbance Accompanied j by Forty-eight Mile Wind, Tempo? rarily stops Motors. Charleston, Aug. 16.?Charleston was visited this afternoon by a se? vere thunderstorm accompanied by a high wind and a heavy rain. The wind reached a maxium velocity of t miles, blowing at this rate for five minutes. The operation Of the cars and machinery at many es? tablishments, Including the postofllce, using electric motors, was suspended for a time or permanently by dam? ages by lightning. The wind did not do any appreciable damage except to scare some timid people. i PROHIBITION OR DISPENSARY? Opi>osed t<> Both, But Wants a Law to Punish Those Who Insist on Making a Nuisance of Themselves and Causing the Innocent to Suffer by Excessive Drinking. Editor Item: I beg leave to say the "Song of Wine" is a forgery. Wine was not the author of lt. I do not say this for a joke, or out of disrespect to any one, but because I know that neither the wine nor any friend of the wine ever wrote or sung such a song. It Is also a slander for it makes the wine responsible for the sins which the Scriptures teach us are caused by stubbornness, rebelliousness, disobe? dience, foolishness and wicked imag? inations of the heart. My excuse for defending the wine is that I do so with the Bible, the greatest and most reliable source of information on all questions of right and wrong, in my hands, and from it I learn that the wine is innocent, and that it is those who disregard the warnings and dis? obey the commands given concerning the use of wine and strong drink that are guilty, and trying to excuse or cover their sin by implicating some other person or some inanimate thing Is of no benefit whatever to them. It is a hard and bitter task to have to say to one of our brightest, best and best loved that they are stubborn, re? bellious, disobedient or foolish, but when we know that a friend is guilty of any of these things, we had much better tell him so, and as St. Paul said to Timothy, "Them that sin re? buke before all, that others also may fear." Trying to force them to do right by putting those things by right by putting those things by which they transgress out of their reach will not save their souls. They must ac? cept salvation of their own free will. The young man who wanted to know what he might do to inherit eternal life must have been of good family and position, for he had great wealth and was a ruler among his people. He must have been good and dutiful for he had observed the command? ments, including that which says, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy? self, from his youth up, and lovable, for the Lord loved him when he be? held him. But he lacked one thing, he had the lust which has destroyed more men and women than the lust lor liquor, and to inherit eternal life he must overcome it. The Master was able and willing to help him. but the thought of such a thin:-: grieved him and made him sad, and he departed from the Divine presence very sorrowful. He could have saved himself so easily, hut he didn't. Will anyone venture to say that it was mockery or worse than mockery when the Savour tured away from his sorrowful face without as much as one word of persuasion and said, how hardly shall they that have rich? 's enter into the kingdom of God. No Indeed Cod will not be mocked, "and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." What is said in Matthew 5: 28 applies to drunkenness as much as to any other lust, and from these words of Christ we learn that a man may be a drunk? ard in his heart and guilty in the sight of God without touching, tast? ing or handling liquor. It is very likely that every person mentioned by Mr. Wlnn in his article had heard of total abstience, but I ?tm not so sure that the gallant sol? dier T. B who was taken from the railroad track in baskets; O, who died an imbecile, and I, who died by his own hand ever heard that Christ Himself said, "take heed to your? selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." The Bible does not command or commend prohibition or total absti? nence, and if those who wish to teach temperance would let them alone and teach it as we find it taught in the Scriptures, they would have good reason to hope for better success in combatting the liquor evil, especially If there was a law to punish those who insist on making a nuisance of themselves and causing the innocent to suffer by excessive driking. If I had a friend who was willing to give his right arm to lie freed from the liquor habit. I know that I would much rather trust a reforma? tory where he might be detained an.l cured than to trust a prohibition law which would keep sober and law abiding citizens from using liquor, while the blind tigers were providing the weak brothers with all the willst key they want, and if I had a hus? band, brother or son who was a drunkard. I am sure I would be glad to have the law help me to do for him that which he would not do for himself, and I could not do ahme. Even if he were made to pay for all the trouble and expense by working on the chalngang, if he could not pay in any other way, It would be less expensive than the liquor which would cost him his health and might cost him his life. It was all right for the Savior to say they that are not for me are against me, for His mission was to. preach for right against wrong, hut this saying will not apply to the case of prohibition against the dispensary, for there are many people who are against both and I am one of them. I do not wish to say anything from a political standpoint and I have heard no one defending the dispen? sary in the Dam? of Christianity, therefore I have said nothing about it. but I hate the dispensary law be? cause it has made many citizens of the State in which I was born, and where my home has always been, liquor dealers and providers for the drunkard's lust, against their will, and that the profits from the dis? pensary have been so used that the poor who are unable to educate their children are compelled to partake of them or be. prohibited from sending their cW.dren to the public schools is still greater cause for hatred of the law; but of the two evils it is the lesser, for in spite of all denials and lack of intention on the part of those who advocate them, prohibition and teetotalism charge God with foolish? ness and injustice, for He created the alcohol, and it was He who first placed wine and strong drink within the reach of men, and His promise to give them as a reward for obedi? ence is a good reason why Christians should feel that they have a perfect right to all they need of them for any purpose save drunkenness. To be accused of mockery and worse than mockery only reminds me that St. Paul was accused of insanity, that the eleven on the day of Pente? cost were accused of drunkenness, and that our blessed Lord Himself was accused of being in league with the evil one, and I am thankful that I can, without any ill feeling, imitate their example of patience and for? bearance, but to have any one think I am a politician working for the dis? pensary in order to get money to ed? ucate my children is a mistake which I cannot allow to pass without cor? rection. Sober. R. F. D. No. 4, Sumter, Aug. 16. | Cow Feed Costs $10 Less a Year In the South. While the United States Depart? ment of Agriculture figures that it costs forty-five dollars per year to feed a dairy cow, the Georgia Expert' ment Station selected four herds in different sections of the State and had the owners keep exact record of all feed. They found that it cost thirty-five dollars per cow, and this can be cut down, for very little silage was fed. There is no better market for dairy products than our Southern cities. The twenty-fourth report of the Uni? ted States Department of Agriculture says that fifty Southern cities use an? nually $?2,957,882 worth of Northern and Western dairy products, and wo can produce it on our farms cheaper than they can on theirs. Butter takes practically nothing from the soil, and when we feed cotton setd meal with our home? grown feeds we put back into the soil in the manure far more than *b taken out by hay and corn as feed for the cows. We have been dairying on our farm seven years. We have a very neat I dairy barn to hold twenty cows, with cement floor, stanchions, etc., a silo, a dairy house and a herd of pure bred cows. We have not invested a cent in these improvements except what the cows have earned for us. Our farm is easily producing one bale of cotton per acre without the use of any commercial fertilizer except potash and phosphoric acid, where it originally produced not more than one-half bale with complete fertilizer. ?Felix Williams, in Progressive Farmer. ELECTRIC STORM IN SPART AX BURG. Frank J. Moonoy Hit by Bolt at Spar? enburg Junction?A. P. Sitton Shocked In His Homo. Spartanburg, Aug. 16.?The county was visited by the heaviest rain and the most severe electrical storm of the season last night. Frank J. Mooney, fireman on a Southern railway freight, was struck by lightning while his engine was taking water at Spartanburg Junc? tion and rendered unconscious. He is III the city hospital here alive, but apparently paralyzed. A. P. Sitton, an employe of the local street railway company, was badly shocked, the lightning having struck his residence on Weldon avenue. ?Be sure and take a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy with you when starting on your trip this summer. It cannot be obtained on board the trains or steamers. Changes of water and climate often cause stidden at? tacks of diarrhoea, and it is best to be prepared, sold by w. w. sibert. Captain J. J. Townaendi of the schooner Josephine, which Is In Charleston port from Baltimore, was shot and probably mortally wounded Saturday. Antonio Arletano, a tailor, was held for the shooting, but he de? nies the charge. r O'Donnell&Co. Sumter, S. C. Mid-Summer Sale -OF Muslin Underwear ?JIlMUlimuitll IIIMIIIHtK I !E are cleaning Up stock prior to going to market. If you need anything in Muslin Underwear now is your time to buy. This is the opportunity to save money. .25 L'd's Drawers .19 .50 ? ? .39 75 M 44 .59 1.00 44 44 .83 Yours, O'Donnell& Co. 4 ? Lime, Cement, Shingles, Laths, Acme Plaster, Fire Brick, Drain and Sewer Pipe, Building Material of all Kinds, Cow, Hog and Chicken Feed, Hay, Grain, Horses ^ Mviles, Buggies, Wagons and Harness. Wholesale and Retail. :: :: :: :: :: :: 1 BEST LIVERY IN SUMTER. SUMTER, SC. The Call of the West. Congressman Stevens of Minnesota has been comparing statistics with the officials of the agricultural de? partment and concludes that the farmers of the West are in need of 50,000 harvest hands. The cry for help is usually heard at this time of the year. The farmers of the West always need men; they never get enough. However, they are a little more particular now than they were a few years ago as to what sort of men are sent them. They have found from bitter experience of former har? vest seasons that the tramp laborer is worse than no one at all. Farmers I now demand that their helpers come | to them with an intention to stay at least long enough to learn something of the requirements of the work and to acqiure some degree of efficiency by experience. The rly-by-night workman is wanted in no industry, least of all upon the farm at harvest time. There can be no question that many thousands of Americans would imme? diately better their condition were they to answer this call from the West, if they would leave the blight? ing intiuejjees of congested center! and enter into the life of the free, open country. Some 65 per cent, of the people of the I'nited States live In cities and villages, leaving but a meagre 35 per cent, to produce the country's food supplies. The propor? tion Is unfortunate and has become a growing menace. James J. Hill, who is an economist as well as a railroad wizard, says that the present drift to the cities will continue until the food supply begins to lag behind the demand Then it will take no argument to persuade people that the country of? fers them more return for their ef? forts than do the centers of popula? tion. The day which Mr. Hill fore? sees is still distant, thanks to the phenomenal richness of the country. But it would be a material assistance to still further averting its inevitable coming were people today to look upon the subject of the city drift of population sensibly and do what they"^ could to direct the stream the other way. The call of the West for work? men has a deep significance.?Cleve? land (O.) Dealer. Convict Has Peculiar Death. Anderson, Aug. 14.?John Dean Hall, a negro about 43 years old, died at one of the county convict camps a day or so ago under rather peculiar circumstances. He had made an attempt to escape from the gang late In the afternoon, when one of the guardl fired on him. The bullet went wide of the mark, how? ever, never having been intended to strike the negro. He ran on for 30 or 40 yards and fell In a clump of bushes, and when found a short time afterward was paralyzed from his v ast down and helpless. A physi? cian was summoned and declared death to be the result of apoplexy, probably brought on by excitement. The coroner matte an investigation, but after taking a few sworn state? ments of those who had seen the negro*? condition before his death ordered that he be burled. Hall was serving a sentence of ninety days. ?When the digestion is all right, the action of the bowels regular, there is a natural craving and relish for food. When this is lacking you may know that you need a do<e of Chamberlain's stomach and Liver Tablets. They strengthen the dlfS*> tlve organs, improve the appetite and regulate the bowels. Sold by W. W. Sibert.