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IttASSADORS* WIVES HAVE WOES. ? TtxSr Socially Ambitious Country? men IHetre to shake Hands With It ?r*Uy. Tie American ambanador'g wife is Miiy very patroltlc, although I ? ?vire that many people question It iifce la proud of the reputation her con ?<t/women have established ahrotri for cleverness and beauty, and I? willing to go out of her way to give *s re tn/ of them aa possible the eclat and excitement of going to court. fU t. according to etiquette, she can sa*k ? but two or three presentations aU.e'ictt court and these must be ap prav'vl by the court chamberlain, viii: there are sometimes a hundred ?earn *-?ts. She can not present a woman who haa been divorced or bee* in any way connected with a so? cial ?cendal She can not present the daughter of the most Influential poli? tician ir she is socially impossible. A ?peMO-Uh who can stalk through the ?degts-tmente at Waahlngton In a free see *>a*y way. and make every man tin* president down feel his Im- i nee. can sometimes get nothing far ??* -family* from the ambassadors. A great deal of trouble comes through 'the letters of introduction wtfckM tHe "state department glvea to meh for their wives and daugh The* men demand them and the 'twieat'ls* not in a position to re v although It Is well understood Sje4w*-invthe'department and the em- ? that-the letter means nothing, C H fee*, a* It were, been obtained rnett+iJh. But the woman who lev ovbf often goea home in a towering' rage Of disappointment. Until' a few ?'years' ago some of the -tm^rerere oi the different States kept OMtMtd ?-f r?rma Which I were filled out >n tppficatlorn to any respectable i? who applied, recommending th trie courtesy of our foreign reg* eei*ratives. But theae letters were ?ae nstmeroua that they became a ver neitanca and the state depart- ' irdered them discontinued.-? 'The Recollections of A Dlplo tVrTtrV' la TYie Delineator. PvlA*tt Portowing Tariff Upward. Frert {he* PHlfadelphla Record. Ahottt three years ago a member of CtJagtesa from Illinois explained to the House of Representatives that the W?tch TrOst wfta rrrdllhg watches mmr *\3 <#<? mUeh ch<-ao??r that; * home eho4.'*? "w*> possible to make a good hmutnem? by buying American wetcnos hs Wer:>4?e.' bringing thern hack, as thee are admitted free of duty, and easting'them at a large reduction from the .prices. Whee an American manufacturer Is tseMiMff his goods abroad for less than he a>ks at home he needs some com petitith at home; the fact that the duty <? uureasonably high is demon rted; But the watch manufacturers, who more duty under the Dingley law than thOV bad any Justification for eeee ?'cording to protectionist theo? ries, wanted still more protection, and got it from a Congress that was e#er willing to oblige a combination In rertti.unt of trade. The trust had aereedy blocked the reimportation of the ft<c* by introducing some for- j e4g? pod into its watches, so that the? sh >ubl not secure free admission. Mr Ahl-? n*? congress came to the ler, relief of the trust by increas the duty on the cheaper grades watch movements and on watch thd by requiring the name of m ?nufacturer to be stamped on mo/cment and the case and the M?ny dealers now have their own ii?m-* put on the movements, caeen and dials and sell the watches a? th< " ovvn manufacturer. They can ne t?i -. i do this with foreign watch? es; M the/ want their own names put on the < > ?du they must get them froMBi hSBtWItuh manufacturers. Th ?. result of the additional "pro teetten" f<>r the Watch Trust is al? ready *pp.?rent. The tariff law has been in effect less than two months, aad s * s?k ago the two largest watch mafcin?; companies In the West ad? vanced their prices. The Eastern reeap.?nie. promptly followed, and doseefch ? watches have been marked up T net cent, all over the country for th - additional profit of an Indus? try th?? itready sold its products Sthres I t it much less than It demand? ed of Its fellow citlxens. I II.? .MopiMil In Time. Litt!?? It d> m father was fond of tell tug bear .todies to his little boys. One evening m ? was telling a thrilling one About a bi'.ir ( basing a little girl, and "how ho Tept nearer and nearer and nearer.** At this point Bob caught his father** arm, and with trie big tears f ?Hing d ?wii his cheeks, he cried, "<? f ether, don't tell any more. He might catch her!" The Camel. Tbe cam -I is the "desert ehlp," nd rumen with him every trip Wu4er SnOOgh to keep him going, ?Win ?i ' ?r (? ship?Is rather know Inf. WHY KENTUCKY WOMEN WANT TO VOTE. After a Successful Campaign for Bet? ter School* 65,000 Illiterate Male Voters Stand in Their Way. When the next census is taken in Kentucky, the State will have come along about fifty years, says Mabel Potter Daggett in The Delineator for November. And coincidentally with the educational awakening, another cause bespeaks legislative notice. The women who gave Kentucky its new .schools want the ballot. They say that it took a long time to accomplish what they did. Next time they would like to be in a position where they will not have to" beg for what they want. They would like the ballot so they can demand it. When the County School District bill was prepared it contained a clause providing for school suffrage for women. Heroically the women submitted to its elimination lest their insistence on the ballot should Jeo? pardize the whole school moevment. Afterward they got a special bill pre? pared to grant school suffrage to wo? men. The gallant legislators side? stepped it by getting it politely smothered in committee. This year the women will ask again for school suffrage. They have an idea that Kentucky needs them to help In the direction of its school affairs. Ken? tucky men, on the other hand, have old-fashioned notions that women aren't qualified to vote. Still, you see, there are those sixty-five thousand male voters who can neither read or write, and there are the five thousand Illiterate school trustees. It's very awkward. So Southern chivalry usually says No to the women asking for a vote, by urging that they ought to stay at home and be sheltered. Kentucky women are replying that they've been out a good deal in all kinds of weather the past few years on this school question. They say, in fact, that If only they had the bal? lot, it would save them a lot of this going out and about and up and down the land. The State doesn't yet seem to see the obligation. But one would think that Kentucky Women had done enough for the public good, so that the men should hold them on a plate anything they ask for?even to a half of the kingdom through the forbid? den ballot. JOHN S. REYNOLDS DIES. Supreme Court Librarian Succumbs To Brief illness. Columbia, Oct. 25.?John S. Rey? nolds, Supreme Court librarian, a well known author and lawyer, died this morning at 9:30 o'clock. He was tak? en suddenly ill and very few of his friends were apprised of his sickness. Preparations had been made for an operation when the end came. Mr. Reynolds is best known in South Carolina as the author of "Re? construction in South Carolina." Smugglers Often Try to Make Use of The Embassy Post-Bags. The embassy post-bag is the secret thing of the office, the holy of holies, as it .were, says the writer of "The Recollections of an Ambassador's Wife" in The Delineator for Novem ber. It is the big leather bag into which go all the cipher despatches from the embassy and the confiden? tial information from the consulate. After being locked at the embassy, it is not unlocked until it reaches Wash? ington, being Immune from Inspection by any official of the foreign govern? ment or of the American. The families of the embassy staff often put their letters for America into the bag, the clerk at Washington who opens it sending them to the post office. But, although the bag is sup? posed to be a secret, It is extraordi? nary how many people learn to know about it and try to use it for smug? gling. I was in the embassy at St. Petersburg one day when a Jeweler sent in a large package containing a l tHng of pearls and a half dozen magnificent Jeweled ornments, with a note to the ambassador from an American lady, known only slightly at the embassy, who was traveling in the country, Instructing him to forward them through the otliclal bag to her sist?>r in Boston! We heard after * ard that she had intended sending also a set of Russian sables the same way. Almost every conceivable inanimate object native to Europe has been re? turned by the secrearies of the differ? ent embassies who become weary of Informing the owners that nothing Can go to America through the official b*4, I have heard the men at Home rejoUe that the bag was too small to carry the Komm. KILLED IN DILLON. Dillon, Oct. 25.?Ellhu BlackWSll, n young man about 26 years old, mar? ried and having two children, was shot and killed almost Instantly by young Stanley Hamilton last night about 9 o'clock at the Maple cottou mill village. CHURCHES SHOULD MEET HU? MAN NEEDS. They Must Keep Pace With the Rapid Progress of the World. Does a decline in church attend? ance necessarily prove a decline in re? ligious interest? Where there are op? posing motives acting, failure in the desired result may be due to a strengthening of the negative motives, without a weakening, and even In spite of a less increase, of the posi? tive. The conditions of life have been more changed since the application of steam and electricity to manufacture and transportation than in all the millenniums which preceded. Men work harder; need more rest and re? laxation, find it less easy to secure them without leaving the own neighborhood or availing themselves of the arts of popular entertainment, while they find the means both of travel and of amusement rendered easy and inexpensive by the same civilization that taxes their energy in toil. And the remedy? Not In vain la? ment at changed conditions; not in denying the attractiveness of the va? ried possibilities developed by civili? zation, but. as Dr. Crooker tells us in "The Church of Today," In insist? ing and demonstrating that the church also is permanent because it, too, meets a geunine human need and is highest of all; because that need id the deepest, and is "the supreme ele? ment which all other institutions need in order to reach their greatest worth and highest efficiency." Just because the motives to world line8s have been strengthened, it is not enough for the church to do as well today as It did in the past. "What is needed Is a church as far ahead of its predecessor as the rail- j road is swifter than the stage-coach. \ Shall a people who have quintupled ; their rate Of travel' over the earth be satisfied to proceed toward the heav ely kingdom no faster than their fath? ers??Edward Tallmadge Root in The Delineator for November. SOUTH AND WESTERN INSPECT? ED. Railroad Commissioners Find the Line in Excellent Condition. Spartanburg, Oct. 25.?The State railroad commission today Inspected the South and Western Road, whirh in reality is the C. C. and O., between t'i's point and T'.road River, mnking the trip In special cars. The commis? sion was accompanied by a number of citizens of Spartanburg and several officials of the road. The commission declared the road to be splendidly bulit and one of the most modern roads in every respect they have ever seen. Every member of the commis? sion expressed himself as being sur? prised at the completeness of the line. The commission isued a rule fixing the rate of speed for October 29, the day of the C, C. and O. celebration, at not more than fifteen miles per hour, and five miles in rounding curves and over fills. The trestle over Broad River will not be completed for the operation of the trains across the structure by the 29th, though this will not interfere in handling passen? gers into Spartanburg, for all ar? rangements have been made by the road to transfer at Broad River with? out inconveniencing the pasesngers. MURDER MYSTERY EXPLAINED. German Admits Having Slain Ills Girl Wife. New York, Oct. 25.?A year and a half ago a friendless girl was mur? dered in a forsaken patch of wood? land, near Islip, Long Island; a week ago her bleached and charred skele? ton was found, with nothing to indi? cate its identity but her Jewelry and a bill of sale from a German shop; three days later, through the police of Hamburg, Germany, her identity was established as Anna Luther, though the cables first carried the name as Latter; last night her husband, Fred? erick Gebhardt, who had married her under the name of Otto Mueller, was caught in Astoria, L. I., and tonight he confessed over his signature that he Is her slayer. Committee Did Not Meet. Columbia. Oct. 25.?The dispensary winding up commission did not meet this afternoon as scheduled. The meet? ing will be held tomorrow morning at !* o'clook in the Supreme Court rooms. Two of the oommlsioneri besides the Chairman are In the city, Messrs. A. N. Wood, of Gaffm y, and Avery Pat ton, of Greenville. Atornsy Felder will be here for the meeting. LI\?mI 14 Honrs With Broken Neck. Macon, Oa., Oct. 25.?After living for 21 hours with a broken neck, Earl Hodges, IS years old, who received the fatal Injury early Sunday morning when ho fell from the second story window of his home to the brick pavement, died In the hospital here this morning. ROMAN JUSTICE. How Technicalities Were Avoided in The Courts. The bar was an open profession in acient Rome; the litigant enjoyed the utmost latitude in the choice of an advocate, whose right to represent his client in court was fully conceded. Slavish imitators of the Greeks in literature and art, the Romans as? serted their entire Independence In the domain of law. Their innovations had the stamp of originality; but these did not comprise any close con? nection between bar and bench. It is noteworthy that during a very long period in the history of Roman law there was no exact counterpart of our judge. Th^ magistratus was a public official charged with the ad? ministration of the law; the judex was a species of referee appointed by the magistrate to hear and report upon a particular case. Then there was an arbiter who acted alone, or with oth? ers, in arbitration cases (arbitria). Finally, there were recuperatores who assisted in international questions. The hearing before these various types of judgex was called the judi cum, as distinguished from jus, the hearing before the magistrates prop? erly so-called. The names of citizens qualified for serving as judices were inscribed in a public record known as the album. Moreover, litigants had the right of objection to a particular judex. Not only so, but this right was extended during many centuries to criminals, who were tried before cen? tum vdrs and decemvirs, sitting on the permanent tribunals. If the Roman Bill Sykes never thought of putting forward the demand of his English congener that "we all ought to have a voice in making the laws as we suf? fer by," yet we may be well assured that he would not fail to take a sporting chance, make a prime favor- 1 ite of the judge who was most revers? ed on appeal, and strenuously object to the others. , The point which calls for our special attention is that none of the men who I discharged the various judicial or j semi-judicial functions described were drawn, except in most exceptional ? cases, from the advocate class. Nor i is it possible to conceive any arrange? ment better, calculated than that in force in Rome to excude their narrow, 1 professional technicality from the set- | tlement of civil cases. The presiding magistrates of the great criminal tri? bunals were seldom or never men who practiced at the bar. Even in later times, when the distinction between jus and judicum had disappeared, and the functions of magistratus and ju? dex were merged in one official, there is no evidence that the bench was re? cruited from the bar more frequently than before.?Westminster Review. Another Breakdown. It. seemed an age that the poor man was flat on his back. His friends stood around him with long faces heaving lugubrious sighs. It was inded a serious case. But suddenly there came a shoui from the prostrate form. "At last!" he shouted, trimuphant ly. "At last I have that old carbure? ter fixed!" With a wild whoop his friends brushed the dust from his back and they all piled into the big red ma? chine and sped away.?Chicago News. A High Financier. Little three-year-old Elmer receiv? ed a dime for taking a dose of castor oil. The' next day her big^ brother Fred asked her to pick up a basket of cobs. "How much will you give me?" she asked. "A nickel," replied her brother. "Humph!" said Elmer, "I can make more than that taking castor oil."? The Delineator. THEY NEVER FAIL. That is What They Say About Them in Suniter, and It Is Therefore, Re? liable. Another proof, more evidence, Sumter testimony to swell the long list of local people who endorse the old Quaker remedy, Doan's Kidney Pills. Read this convincing endorse? ment of that remarkable prepara? tion: Wm. Burdell, living at 211 Church St., Sumter, S. C, says: "I can highly recommend Doan's Kidney pills for backache and kidney trou? ble. I suffered from backache and sharp shooting pains through my loins, could not rest well at night and in the morning would be very lame and stiff. I was also caused much annoyance during the night by the frequent passages of the kidney se? cretions. Doan's Kidney Pills wore recommended to me, I procured them at China's drug store and can truth? fully state that they gave me great relief. For some time I have been free from backaches and pains, the kidney secretions are clear and 1 do not have to arise at night, 1 feel so much better in every way that 1 can highly recommend Doan's Kidney Pllll to any person suffering from kidney complaint." For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. Foster-MUbum Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's? take no other. No. 3 ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. AVegetaWelVcparalionforAs similatuigrte^ ting (lie Stomachs aiid?oweisof Infants/Children Promotes DigestionfhcerfiAJ ness and RestXontains neither I Opiiuii.Morpruae iwrMiacraL] Not Narcotic. Piaxukw Smf JtxJmm* BocMUS?ts jmmSmi* Qgrifkii Sumr ? rfcfcip rft) Flimf. Aperfect Remedy forCbnsfipi tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrtm Worms jCwwulskms leverisk ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. FuSimfc Signature of NEW YORK. Atb months old J5B0SES-35CENTS Guaranteed under the 1 Exact Copy of Wrapper. CASTQR1A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have< Always Bought Bears the Signature d Ar In Use, For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA Tmk eumui ?ompahv. new vomk orrv. Birnie's Drug Store, 6 W. Liberty St. Sumter, S. C. Dealer In Pure Drugs and Medicines, I1 CHOICE PERFUMES *AND FINE TOILET ARTTCT FS. COMBS AND BRUSHES, PATENT MEDICINES . AND DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, A FULL LIJjE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. :: :: :: :: :: OUR MOTTO: PURE AND RELIABLE GOODS. Our stock is complete and we cheerfully solicit your patronage. :: :: :: THE GROWTH OF OCR LUMBER BUSINESS has heen something phenomenal,and is due to strict adherence to sound business principles. Always provid? ing full measures and the highest qualities of well-seasoned lumber, we have succeeded in retaining all of our old customers, and in attracting new ones all the time. For reliable lumber at fair prices and prompt de? liveries, come to us. The Sumter Door, Sash & Blind Factory, J. W. McKeiver. Proprietor. Seed Oats, Appier and Red Rust Proof. Seed Wheat Smooth and Bearded Varieties Seed Rye and Barley. -Grain Pasture Mixture Composed >f Winter Turf Oats, Wheat, Rye, Barley find Vetch. The best winter Horse, Cow and Hog Pasture you can possibly plant. :: :: :: THERE WILL BE A ROLLER FLOUR MILL IN SUMTER BY JAN. 1910. BEST LIVERY IN SUMTER. SUMTER, SC. g*1. The Farmers' Bank & Trust Go. What - - Has to Say Satisfaction with one's efforts put the brakes on progress. There is a future ahead of the fellow who is sorry when the whistle blows. The Farmers' Bank and Trust Company is continually reaching nut for new business, and is getting it. If you are not a patron we Invite you to become one* C. 6. ROWLAND, Pres. R. L EDMUNDS, Cashier. GUY L WARREN, Teller, A, S, MERRIMAN, Bookkeeper. H. L. McCOY, Asst. Bookkeeper.