Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. mm of Interest From all Parts of Sumter and Adjoining Counties. JNOTICK TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mall your letters so that 'hey will sh this office not later than Mon when Intended for Wednesday's and not later than Thursday "for Saturday's Issue. This, of course, applies only to regular correspond In case of ltema of unusual value, 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 WI8ACKY. WMacky. Aug. 11.?Fodder pulling a* boon going on for some time, and soon be ended. A part of the tjeao has been nice weather for the Catton has taken the rust on sandy and la opening rapidly. The rill be very short Indeed, and are greatly discouraged. The sheriff of Lee county. Ala., emsne over here last Thursday and sou-tied Mr. C. F. Horn back with charged with some trivial of , The people of this section are tadtgnant over the action of QOV. An end In granting requisition papers tout Inquiring Into the facta in the A petition as to the good char ?r of Mr. Horn, signed by a large ?r of our beat citizens has been on. None of his friends believe a guilty, and his counsel, Hon. T. McLaod, will go to Alabama when > trial comes off. and his friends for a speedy vindication. Mrs. Melvln Williams and Mise 8. . Lading ham have gone to Conway ? visit relatives. Miss Marl? Williams, of Clarendon, ir a very pleasant stay with rela tflrse here, returned to her home last r. J. V. Carrlgan, of Summerton, t last week In our midst with He has returned to- his having enjoyed hie visit lm iy REM BERT. Rembert. Aug. 21.?The hot. with wlnds of the past few days are ?laying havoc with the crops. Fodder pulling Is nearly over and eedton picking has commenced. Several from this section attended eiervloes at Dalxell yesterday. We Mope they were much benefltted and will Impart a portion of It to their Sunday school on next Sunday, which sadly missed their presence on yes? terday ? Several from around here attended services at PIsgah church yesterday ?Jternoon. Mr. W. H. Freeman, superinten? dent, and Mr. Harllee, teacher of 1 of the Sunday school at Me? l's chapel took an active part In ?e Sunday school exercises at Pis spak on yesterday. Mr. Harllee made Si due Sunday school address, which esee highly appreciated. Come again, *lrtends, and help us, we cry. A meeting of days commenced last it at New Hope church. The pas of the church. Rev. 8. H. Hat wi'l be assisted by Rev. T. L \ Mr. James A. Reames, who Is as .aststant rural letter carrier on Route Jfa. 2 from Rembert. 8. C, had a tosstling around time a few days ago. fjr. Resmes was visiting friends and relatives several miles below Sumter fHs services on said route were tedly needed. His father no him bv wire at 7 o'clock In the saarnlng and at 11 o'clock Mr. James Maames was at the postofnee, served flse mall route and went six miles to preachirg. that night. We call that easting around In order to discharge -wane's duty. Mr. Resmes Is an up? right honest young man, full of en eigy and we predict for him a bright fa tare. Mr. Marion Reames, an elder brother. I* now residing In Georgia, studying railroading. His bright and snanly face Is mlMed by his many friends who wish him success. STATEBURG. Statehurg. Aug. 22?Mr. Henry Moore has gone to Philadelphia to visit his brother, Dr. Matt. S. Moore. M?\ Hall Ramsey spent Sunday with hin parents. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ramsey. Mr. Jarm* (iraham and Mr. II? y ward were tht guests of Mr. and Mrs. W H ItarnwHI on Sunday. Mrs H. S CkdUird spent several dsys with tin Misses Burgess during the past week. Miss Sallie A nd?T?*on has returned to Summerton. after a pleasant visit to the Misses Frlerson. Mr. Frank IV limgess, having ?pent two weeks most pleasantly at ?iU nn Springs. Is again In Manning. There was a very delightful hOUSO party given by the young people of the neighborhood, at the General Furnter Memorial Academy. com menclng at 12 o'clock on Thursday nd ending on Saturday at 11 o'clock . m. The meals were served under the beautiful, wide-spreading oak trees, which are near the house, and which add so much to the beauty of the place. Uancing. automobiling and straw-riding were among the pleasures enjoyed by the young peo? ple. It was with many regrets that this charming house-party came t<> an end, the participants declaring that they v OUld have another next summer. The guests came from the following places: Wedgefield, St. Charles, Rembert, Sumter, Edlsto, Charleston, Columbia, Rock Hill and Stateburg. The chaperons were Mrs. 3am Nelson Miss Annie Burgess, Mrs John J. Dargan. After some Intensely hot days of the past week, the cool change we are now enjoying, comes as a welcome relief, and though there may be warm days still ahead, one can't help feeling that the summer has spent it? self, and that the pleasant fall weath? er will soon be here. PISGAH. Plsgah, Aug. 24.?Last week was fodder week, and it was saved with? out getlng wet. The rains did not come as usual. Fodder pulling and oat cutting generally brings It. If any one wants any hotter weath? er than what we have had for the last two weeks, they must have a de? sire to live In the lower regions after this life. \ Cotton is opening fast. The growth of late has been Injured by the in? tense heat and dry weather. Peas, potatoes and late corn are also In Jured. If the torrid wavo in the West has killed the boll weevil, has it not hurt the cotton too, just like it has here' Or does nothing hurt Texas cotton? It seema that every drop of rain or change of wind affects the market. Supervisor Pitts was up here last week on business. In fixing roads he does not believe In piling sand on sand and he is right. The idea is to get the sand out of the road. There is too much of It there-already. He has many friends here who are al? ways glad to see him offically or otherwise. Mr. Brunson who manages the chalngang has done some fine work on the Columbia road. He certainly understands road building and man? aging convicts. With his experience and efficiency hla place would be hard to All. Since he has been here he has made many friends who will be always glad to see him. Mr. J. L. G?lls has gone to Greers' on business. Hon. E. W. Dabbs was here a short time ago and his many friends were glad to see him. Rev. T. L Cole informs me he had a fine meeting at Mlzpah church last week, with twelve additions. Lee County Union meets there next Sat? urday. Rev. S. B. Hatfleld, Jr., Is carrying on a meeting at New Hope church this week, assisted by Rev. T. L. Cole. Mr. B. C. DuPre went to Sumter Friday last and came back Saturday, accompanied with his cousin, E. H. Rhame, Jr., who will spend a few days here visiting relatives and friends. "I told Lord Douglass that the met of the South would never be governed by the bayonet, that from her ashe? would vise a mannlflcent county rich in agriculture and manufactures, and a citizenship descended from a long line of lllustrous and patriotic people who would be as loyal to the flag of a united country as their fathers were to that of the "Lost Cause." So said Col. J. P. Thomas In a political apeech in 1868. Wise and prophetic words uttered 41 years ago. "When reading or studying his? tory," said a well known retired U. S. Army officer recently to a party of military men. "have a map in front Of you. It will add a great deal of Interest and enjoyment to the sub? ject and enable you to determine why and how the various engagements were won or lost." A map is a prominent and valua? ble feature of each issue of the Wide World Magazine. This unusual fea? ture for a magazine is of especial value to Wide World readers, as the articles in that magazine are devoted to true tales of adventure, anecdotes and topics of Interest, the map show? ing at a glance the locality of each article and narrative of adventure in that number. Sir Frederick Treves considers that we have practically reached the threapeutle limitations Of the X-rays, the high frequency current and the Flnsen light, but that In radium w still have More unexplored fields ol usefulness. Although S7 years old and confined to bis hoint for the past year on ac? count of illness. George w. Hutchin? son, Mayor of Woodstock, Ohio, was gbls to he down town and incidental ly announced that he would again he a cundidute for Mayor on the Repub? lican ticket. MANNING NEWS NOTES. James Henry Rlofl to liC<?turo on l*res ervation of (iaino?Personal Men t!on. Manning, Aug. 21.?Secretary Jas, ILnryggice of the Audubon Society of South Carolina, a splendid news? paper man, and who has the "ac? complishment of verse," delivered an address on the preservation of the game and fish of this State, and the efforts made by his society in pro? tecting and pre-crv'ng them. By request he will make an address Monday evening at 8 o'clock at the Auditorium of the new Manning Graded School. A large attendance is confidently looked for. The Hon. O. B. Martin of the Agri? cultural Department at Washington, will give a farm demonstration to the boy farmers of Clarendon county August 25th. Mrs. F. H. Hursey, of Lakeland, Fla., the former charming Miss Fan? nie Bell, of Manning, is visiting rela? tives here. W. Gordon Belser, Esq., of Colum? bia, spent a few days here this week. Miss Mabel Browne, the accom? plished daughter of County Superin? tendent of Education E. J. Browne, has again the distinction of winning the Winthrop scholarship, making a general average of 90. Mesdames S. A. and C. S. Rigby have returned home from their sum? mer jaunt in North Carolina. Mrs. C. W. Blanchard Is visiting relatives in Norfolk, Va. Mrs. J. O. Gough, of Atlanta, Ga., who has a host of friends here, is a guest of relatives. Mr. D. R. Reaves, of Whigham, Ga., is spending a while in Manning with friends. Mrs. A. S. Singletary and children, of Elloree, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Legg. Misses Gladys and Helen Thames, after a delightful stay at Foreston with friends, have returned home. Mr. R. M. Burgess, of Mouzon, has been visiting friends in Manning. Misses Mattle and May Harvin, two charming sisters, are spending the remainder of the summer at Hender sonville, N. C. Mr. J. H. Rigby is in New York on business and pleasure bent. Mr. T. P. Burgess, the popula* buyer for Alex Sprunt & Sons, Wil? mington, spent Sunday in Sumter. Mr. C. W. Wells, who possesses an excellent voice, is spending Sunday in Sumter. Mrs. Seabrook and daughter, Miss Julia, of Summerville, are the guests of relatives and friends here. Mrs. I. M. Bagnal and her accom? plished and beautiful daughter, Miss: Hattie, are enjoying the summer in Hendersonville. FARMERS RALLY IN LEE. Expert Agriculturists to Speak at Bishopville Friday and Saturday. Bishopville, Aug. 22.?Very im? portant meetings to the farmers of Lee County will be held at Bishop? ville next Friday and Saturday, Au? gust the 27th and 28th, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., under the auspices of the "Farmers' Demonstration Work of Lee County." This is a new scheme supported partly by the Uni? ted States department of agriculture, but largely by private funds, whose object Is to impress the lessons of scientific and diversified farming by actual demonstration of results. Act? ual plots of lands are set apart and farmed directly under the manage? ment of a designated officer, who gives these little farms his personal attention. Then towards the end of | season there meetings are called and the problems of a general character and more especially those of a pecu? liar sectional character, their solu? tion, and the various difficulties and experiences of the year are discussed to the edification and enlighentment of all who wish to hear. It is hard to foretell the Influence of such an or? ganization upon agriculture if its ob? jects can be realized, which is to arouse the average farmer to the ben? efits of systematic and scientific methods of cultivation. Mr. L. L. Baker, an Intelligent, thorough-going and energetic farmer of the county, la the manag, r for Lee He reports that interest in the plan has in a short time developed from pronounced indifference to genuine I nthuaslasm. He states that results this year have been more than grati? fying and that henceforth the work will be greatly extended. At the Convention (for it may be ?O called) of the week at Bishopville. addresses will be made by Congress? man A. F. Lever. Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the bureau of plant industr> of the United states department of agriculture, Washington, i>. C; Dr. a. G. Smith, of the department of ag? riculture, specialist on leguminous crops; B, B, Boykln, department of Agriculture, specialist on cotton pro? pagation: C. H. Kyle, department of agriculture, special 1st on corn propa? gation; Prof, J. N. Harper, of Clem son College; Ira W. Williams depart mont Of agriculture, manager Of farm demonstration work for South Caroli? na, and the Hon. O. B. Martin, man ager of the school extension work for South Carolina. It is therefore seen from this ar? ray of eminent specialists that an un? usual Opportunity is presented to the farmers of the county, which, it is hoped, they will take advantage of. Besides, on Friday night. Mr. O. B. Martin will give a lecture illustrated by stereoptican views of numbers of plants in varying degrees of sickness and health and different stages of development. It is expected that Au? gust the 27th and 28th will find the town crowded with farmers eager to listen and learn. LOCAL PUBLICITY. ! Merchant Who Won't Advertise Does Not Deserve Support, Says a Furni? er. Florence, Ala., Times. In an audience composed mostly of the members of the Farmers' Union, one of the speakers recently express? ed the mutual friendship between the farmer and newspaper in the follow? ing: "As a rule the farmer has no firm? er friend than the country press. The home paper is distinctly the farmer's own paper, supoprted directly and indirectly by farmers, who compose the backbone of the subscription list of the printer and largely for what the enterprising merchant advertises. Now, brother, let us not forget our friends. Let us see that our subscrip? tion is paid a year in advance. We can do it. "The man or paper that fights my battles shall have my support. An? other thing, the merchants advertis? ing are the ones that make it possible for us to get a good local paper. The man or local firm that is too penuri? ous to advertise and help support the local press has no right to the farm? er's patronage. "I promise hereafter to go to the live advertisers and the man who does his share in supoprtlng the lo? cal press, thus contributing to my support, rather than buy of a man who proposes to take all and give nothing back. If farmers as a class would support their friends, the oth? er fellow would soon go out of busi? ness." MILLIONS IN THE POLICE GRAFT Bingham Makes Slashing Attack on the New York Force. Hampton's Magazine. I am asked to estimate the money value of graft and blackmail In New York each year. No one can make such an estimate with accuracy, but my belief is that the total is not less than $100,000,000. During my first year at the head of the police depart? ment it would have been an easy matter for me to have made $600,000 in bribe money and $1,000,000 would not have been an excessive figure at all. The power of Tammany Hall rests, and has rested for 40 years, upon its ability to control the police by fair means or foul. A strong, honest, fear? less police commissioner, supported by police magistrates of ability and integrity, and a mayor big enough to conduct his office without fear or fa? vor, can sap and utterly destroy* | Tammany influence in ten years or even less, provided he is empowered /o dismiss and transfer his subordi? nates for cause, without recourse to the courts. I do not believe I am unfair in esti? mating that from 1,500 to 2,000 members of the force are unscru? pulous grafters, whose hands are al? ways out for easy money. That this is known by the head of the department and apparently ignor? ed is because the commissioner Is only nominal head of the force, while a policeman has office for life. Dis? cipline and the question of vested in? terests should be kept separate. Graft is hidden in most city ordinances, which were enacted to be broken so that some one could make money from them. One day, shortly after my arrival at police headquarters, an acquaint* ance dropped into my office. "Commissioner," he said, "there |a a house at No. ? West 3 3d street run very quietly. It will be worth $10,000 a month to you?" Put the sentence was never finished to my kno wedge. As a matter of fact, the place had never been opened, and the man had been used as an agent to feel out the department. A few months later I was offered. $6,000 In cash and $500 a month merely to be seen shaking hands with the proprietor <>f an upper Broadway cafe. The teaching of cooking is a sci? ence in Germany, as is everything else In that Teutonic Empire. Trav? eling? cooking schools are now sent about for tin* purpose of Instructing peasants how to cook cheaply and well, since country people cannot go to school the Government will send schools to them. These traveling kitchens are now established In Hesse, Nassau, Franconia and tin Palatinate, us well as in Bavaria. r O'Donnell&Co. Sumter, S. C. Mid-Summer Sale -OF Muslin Underwear iiiiiiimmmii nii'tiiHit 1j E are cleaning up stock prior to , going to market. If you need anything* ?MMMMMWMMmI in Muslin Underwear now is your time to buy. This is the opportunity to save money. 1.00 1.25 .1-50 175 Gowns .87 ?93 1.27 1-30 .25 L'd's Drawers .19 .50 M M .39 75 44 44 -59 1.00 44 44 .83 Yours, O'Donnell* Co A STRONG ARGUMENT In favor of our building materials is that our house is the favorite purchasing place for builders who have the reputation of putting up the best residences, public buildings and stores in ' Sumter. You get nothing but the best here, whether it be lumber or sash and doors, and our prices are beyond competition. The Sumter Door, Sash & Blind Factory, J. W. McKeiver. - - Proprietor. A MUllon Ancestors. I asked a friend a short time back how many ancestors he had in the direct line twenty generations back. After a minute's reflection he sug? gested fifty. It may be a little sur? prising and of interest to some of-bur readers to learn that they each have had more than a million ancestors within comparatively recent years, and that without taking into account uncles and aunts. Starting with one's parents, each person usually has two, a father and a mother. The father I had his two parents and the mother I had hers. Thus each person has four grandparents. One step farther and we have eight great-grandparents, know a case within living memory where a man had four great-grand parents all living. A simple calcula? tion gives the astonishing result that our lineal ancestors during twenty generations number no fewer than 1,048,576, or sufficient people if all living to populate the whole of Wakes.?Strand Magazine. Prof. Frances Squire Potter, of the Minnesota State University, was recently chosen to be corresponding secretary of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, to fill the place vacated by Miss Gordon of New Or? leans. Prof. Potter is a native of Elmira, N. Y., and at present occu? pies the chair of English literature at the University of Minnesota. She will move to New York in time to open the new suffrage headquarters in the fall. One of the generous givers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is George A. Hearn, who has given an endowment of $151,000 to buy works of American artists, be? sides presenting before 1906 nearly 30 paintings and aiding in the pur? chase of 57 pictures. His Mean Revenge. I've met a great many mean, spite? ful men in my time, said Gladys, "but Harry Mortor is certainly the spitefullest of them all." "W hat's the matter now," asked her chum, Marie, according to Lippin COtt's. "1 thought it was all off and done with." "So it is!" answered Gladys de? cisively. "I'm not referring to our broken engagement?broken beyond repair, thank heaven?but to his sub? sequent actions." "What On earth has he done?" "What has he done? This is what he has done! He's sent HIS hall a dozen boxes of face powder, with 9 note stating that inasmuch as we had had returned to each other i very thing that had passed between us he thought it only right that I should have tin- powder, seeing that he must have taken at hast that much home on his coat since the time he first Biel me!" ?? 66 "Men may come, and men may go," But The Mutual Life Insurance Co. Goes on forever. For sixty-six years The Mutual Life Insurance Co. has met every obliga? tion promptly and satisfactorily. Do not delay?now is the time to insure. 1. M. LOR YE A. Special Agent. Clarendon and Sumter Counties, THE MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. of New York. Manning. S. C. ?6 g. J. E. Mol addin. s. I. Till, \gt. Sardinia. Agt. Manning. V Cynic. The Husband well, say what you will, my dear, you'll lind worst men than me in the world. The Wife oh, Tom, how can you be so bitter??Sketch. The Testing of Eyes Is not a matter of guess work* nor is it a matter of trying pairs of ready made glasses. It is a science govern? ed by principles which none but a person who has studied the anatomy 01 the Bye can und? rstand?no nuess work in our methods of testing the Bye. 01 it WORK is GUARANTEED. W. A. Thompson, 6 6, Main Street - Sumter, S. C.