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PRESIDENT TAFT IH FLORENCE. ATTENDED UNIQUE FISH STEW GIVEN IN IIIS UONOK. JPee Dee Trml?x Convention end a Visit by the Chief Magistrate of The Nation Made Ye?terday an Epoch-Marking Day for the Metro? polis of the Pe? Dee Enthusiastic J R?vrptlon Accorded Mr. Taft. Florence, Nov. S.?Today was a great and glorious day for Florence. A visit by the president of the United States and a convention of represen? tative clttsens of the Dee Pee. with plans deeply rooted for a greater commercial development, made the occasion on* to be long remembered. The significance of the convention is the enthusiasm over the construction of the link of railway that connects the coal fields of the mountains with the port of Charleston and through It with foreign lands. But In the ferver of the moment It is not forgot that there is work ahead, and what the men of the Pee Dee are laboring to? gether to do Is to make all the ad? vantages of the section of more bene? fit to the mate. A genuine Southern welcome was giv??n President Taft at Florence. Al? though he arrived In the city after nightfall, thousanda were at the sta? tion to meet him. and as the party moved up the principal streets of the city the ohlef executive was roundly cheered. In hie speech delivered from a spe? cially constructed stand on the sec? ond floor of the school building, the president pictured the union of the section* and construed the cordial welcome he reclved here and at other points In the South as an indication of forgetfulness of the bitter days of the War Between the States. President Taft waa In especially good humor, and he made a stirring tittle speech tonight. Re said: "Ladles and Gentlemen: I am delighted to be here tonlgh.. and I am overcome by the cordiality of your welcome. It Is, as Senator Smith said, that In no place In South Carolina or elsewhere have I had more reason to congratulate myself on the cordial reception than the one I have received here tonight In Flor? ence. Just exactly why it Is I am not going to analyze, but Senator Smith whispered to me that there is something In connection with the price of cotton that makes your voices a bit louder, your smiles wider gad your contentment a little greater. I understand that you are not entire? ly dependent upon cotton, and I am rlad that It la so, because sometimes, even within the recollection of some it your youngest population, there i\ y. been cotton slumps, and if you tve other products upon which you in depend, you are not subject to that up and down movement that so Often comes In a cyclone so entirely dependent upon one product. "Now. my friends, I am nearlng the end of a long Joqrney. It Is u Jour ney that I understood Was only to visit Seattle, which represents the growth of our Alaska deepndency and our trade upon the Pacific coast, but when It was announced that I was to take that trip I found my friends so hospitable that It enlarged, en? larged, until I have criss-crossed the country and travelled 13.000 miles, knew something about the people of the United States before I started, but I know a g^reat deal more about them now than I did then. They have not been dependent altogether upon IS cents cotton. Up In the northwestern country they thlrk they have something In the way of apples, in the way of peaches, and In the way of fruit, than which they say there Is none better In the world. And so It Is. as you go Into each State and en? ter each territory, the people of each particular place think they have, if I may say so and use a colloquial ex? pression which all of you understand Is "a cinch" on their future prosperity. All they ask Is that they shall have an equal opportunity with the rest of the country, and then they are sure they will be In the lead. "Now. my friends, we are apt to get enthusiastic over 15 cent cotton, and the growth of cities and States, and all other Industrial progress, but I hope that In doing so you will not forget the responsibilities of our na? tional growth. We have been prosper oua before, we were exceedingly pros? perous In 1907. we were very pros pen ?uh f'?r six or clrht years before that, but there came a time when Theodore Roosevelt and men like him who saw the tendency which came from that prosperity t<? an accumula tlon of wealth In Individual hands by means tin' not legal and could not be morally supp-of-d, that called for a halt and < alb d for an Investiga? tion Into our prosperity and called for the enactment of legislation that should restrict our growth In order It might be along the lines of legality and along the lines of hustften Integ? rity and morality. "Now, what I wish to call your gl* Igggjgg t ? Is that we are beginning again another great era of prosperity. No man can measure the growth that 111 tow follow for the next eight >?urs, bat In that growth we ought to be care'ul not to be camel off our feet and made Indifferent to our re? sponsibilities as citizens, and it ought to be determined that we shall main? tain a ilgh standard as citizens und shall frown down and stamp upon by legal methods, the corrupt methods introduced for the purpose of perpet? uating a monopoly. We ought to make up our minds that it is a busi? ness which we must attend to always. The price of liberty is eternal vigil ance. So I say to you the price of exalted moral standards is eternal vigilance. ' It 1? easy for the peopi* to forge: everything but material progress. I hope we have had a lesson In the last six or eight years that will prevent our forgetting it." ' Now, my friends, there is nothing in.-onsiatent with proper mac-rial gi* wth, and thj *levation of our mor? al standard of living. I am no pessi? mist. [ believe we have gone on steadily getting better and better, and I think we showed by responding to the call when Theodore Roosevelt ut? tered it that we were not to be bribed into quietness and sleepiness by the comfort and conscience and wealth of our prosperity. "One other thought comes to me, (hat I have repeated from time to time, bit it forces itself on me every time I look into the faces of an Intel? ligent i.udlence like this, and that is that it would be Impossible for me to tell if 1 were transported from some where else blindfolded, and I looked at it whether I were in New England, in Ohio in the Middle West, or on the Pacific coast, or In the South, if 11 were tc hear their voices I might be able to tell by the emphasis on the I "r" on the end of words that I was somewhere South of the Mason and I Dlxon line. With that exception a slight accent In the East in the West and in the South we are all alike. "It gives me pride that I cannot ex- I press lo travel from the Atlantic! shore lo the Pacific shore and back, on the Northern border and the I Southern border and find a homogen- I Ity of ninety millions of people that means an American type, not English or German, or French, no matter I what c ur descent, but that we have I taken in millions of foreigners who have ome to build up this country I and been received into our society and th.it we have amalgamated them I and th >y have all become Americans, showing the traits of character thit sharpens and accentuates that high moral standard that we like to think and believe Is characteristic of Amer? ican.' 1 "Now my friends, I have one other thought, and that is, this Journey has satisfied me that there are no section? al lints between the North and the South any more. You have your tra? ditions, and great and noble oncs\J they a.'e, we have ours in the North. We have now reached a time when we are proud of our traditions, and I know you are proud of yours, and while our memories lead uh back t" a tremendous bloodly fratricidal strug- I gle our present condition makes us thank God that It is over without any llngerl tg memories of bitterness, each I for tho other, but all proud that we I Wave t. past which shows us capabh of sel:'-sacriflc and suffering for the I right e.s we understand it, and such a swelling of hearts and such a loyalty I to the entire country today that, while we remember those things, we I only lDve each other better on ac- I count of them. That thought has been borne In upon me ever since I toucned the Southland, and received such a cordial reception and welocme from the western border of Texas I down to Charleston on the Atlantic. I "I profess to know something about I human nature and to understand what people mean when they say, when they look and when they act, and I verily believe in my heart, that I the reason I have bad throughout the I South this reception has been a sin- I cere desire on the part of the people in all that district to testify to their loyaltj by expressions of respect and I welcome to the head of the nation." I At the conclusion of the supper In I honor of the president the Taft spe? cial pulled out from the Florence de- I pot, and before another day has <1 iwned the borders of South aCro llna will have been left behind. The 1 president is on the closing lap of the I long ride now, the Journey which h?' j described tonight as being one that 1 "enlarged and enlarged and enlarg? ed." The president's train pulled Into the station at * O'elOOk, Thirty-seven automobiles carried the presidential party and thoso Who were in the pa? rade through the streets. Every ar? rangement work< d out admirably and all plans were carried out In accord ine,. with the programme, Florence was gaily attired to receive President Taft and especially pretty were the Illuminations. At the banquet there was ? beauti? ful seene. The school building was tastily decorated with bunting. At one end of the ball was a largo por? trait of Taft. The tables were artis? tically arranged, the centre demon? stration being suggestive of 'possum, Including the pumpkin and tho per? simmon. Young ladles waited upon the guests, suggesting the compliment from the president that "I am proud to see that Florence has those from whom such fair handmaids may be selected." The waitresses wore sashes of the Stars and Stripes, and In their pure white dresses made a beautiful ap? pearance. It was, indeed, "The Flow? ers of the Pee Dee" who served to? night. Altogether President Taft's reception in this little city of 10,000 perosns was as demonstrative as any he has received, and the president hlmelf said so. FARMER SHOT NEAR LAURENS. Little Girl Sees Her Father Serious? ly Wounded by Parrot Milam. Laurens, November 8.?At 6 o'clock yesterday ai.ernoon, on the public road east of Laurens, Mr. William M. Irby was seriously, though not nec essarly fatally, shot by Mr Parrot Milam, a young white man, the son of Mr. James Milam of the caunty. The entire load of shot from a double-bar? relled breach-loader took effect in the face and head of Mr. Irby, fearfully tearing the scalp and fracturing the skull slightly. It is not thought that any of the shot entered the head, and the chances of recovery are good, al? though at this time it is lmposible to state the outcome. Young Milam was arested by Sher? iff Owlngs a short while after the shooting. He was met in the road near home. Milam is in jail, awaiting the results of the wounds. It is possible that bail will be applied for before Judge Shipp, who will arrive in the city to-morrow. It is alleged that there has been bad blood between Mr. Irby and the Mil am family for some time. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Irby was returning from Sunday-school, his little girl being in the buggy with him. As they were passing the Milam home young Parrott Milam came walking out of the house with his shotgun in his hand, it is said. "Don't shoot my child," said Mr. Irby, bending slightly sideways to shhdd the child from the levelled gun. Milam fired and the load was received in the face and head. Mr. Irby is re? ceiving careful medical attention and there may be a chance for recovery. Mr. Irby is familiarly known among his friends as "Big Bill," being a pow? erful man and of unusually large size. He is the son of the late James Irby and a nephew of the late Senator John L. M. Irby; he is a substantial farmer. Mr. Milam is a young man. possibly 20 years of age. WANT TO JOIN ANDERSON. Movement on Foot to Take Clemson From Oconee County. Columbia. Nov. 9.?The community of Clemson College wishes to be an? nexed to Anderson county. Governor Ansel today received a petition from a majority of the freeholders In that territory asking for an election to be ordered. The matter has been refer red to the office of the attoney gen ral. It Is not stated in the petition why this change is desirable. The northern boundary line of Anderson county is now straight, and this would cause a triangular bump, containing about eight square miles, to appear on the map and a corresponding in? dentation in Oconee county. There would be very little taxable property added to the books, for Clemson Col? lege, while not a State school, is yet an eleemosynary institution. The petition does set forth that the area affected in the proposed change Is on the eastern, or remote, side of the Seneca River, and fifteen miles from Walhalla, the present county site. Clemson College is about an equal distance from Anderson and from Walhalla, and also about an equal distance from the Blue Ridge Road and the main line of the South? ern. It is located in the southeast corner of Oconee county, within a mile of the Pickens line on the one side and the Anderson line on the other sid. Mr. Crompton prepared to have one of his serious talks with his small, vavaeious wife?one of the talks which always ended in his being completely routed, says the Youth's Companion. "I want to speak b> you about the househould money, my dear," he be? gan in his most calm and judicial tone, although the fact that Mrs. Compton stood behind him trying to brush his hair the way It did not go, interfered With the effect of the words he knew. I don't understand how it is that when 1 give you an unusual amount you spend it all, and yet when I don't give you so much you seem to get along all ri^ht.*' Mrs. Compton left her Unsatisfactory task and stood be? fore him, Wide eyed, Why. I should think anybody could understand that, she said. "When you can't give mo so much i Jn^t save out the items thai come over the amount and pay them lip tin llrst week you give me a lot, and put them down then. It's just th< simplest kind of thing. But, then I've always thought men didn't un deistand simple things as well as com plicated ones." MILLION BALES LESS, CENSUS BUREAU PLACES AMOUNT GINNED AT 7,012,317 BALES. Number So Fur Packed From Pro? duct of 1909 Indicates That the Crop Will Be Short. Washington, Nov. 8.?The census bureau today issued a report show? ing that 6,012,317 bales, counting round bales as half bales, had been ginned from the growth of 1909 to November 1, as compared with 8, 191,557 bales for 1908. Round bales included this year are 109,665, compared with 148,866 for 1908; sea island 54,352, compared with 45,479 for 1908. The report shows the following comparison of cotton in the several States up to November 1, compared with the same time in 1908: States. 1909 1908 Alabama. 676,098 891,667 Arkansas .... 470,189 536,785 Florida. 45,260 43.234 Georgia. 1,385,524 1,387,641 Louisiana .... 189,762 287,885 Mississippi . . . 572,542 893,148 N. Carolina. . . 370,826 373/13 Oklahoma .... 412,218 Si j9 S. Carolina . . . 789,960 821,608 Tennessee . . . 148,968 198,783 Texas. 1,918,47 7 2,502,862 All other States . 34,492 36,602 The distribution of the sea island cotton for 1909 by States Is: Florida, 19,891; Georgia, 31,186; South Carolina, 3275. The statistics in this report for 1909 are subject to slight corrections when checked against the individual re? turns of the ginners being transmit? ted by mail. The corrected statistics of the quantity ginned this season to October 18 are 5,530,967 bales. SERIOUS SITUATION IN FRANCE. Episcopate's War Against Public Schools Causes Apprehension. Paris, Nov. 8.?The situation re? sulting from the French Episcopate's declaration of war against the public schools and the effort to mobilize the Catholic voters for the coming gen? eral election, is rapidly entering an acute, stage. Mgr. Gely and other bishops have publicly forbidden Catholic parents to send their children to public schools if Catholic schools are available, and parents everywhere are urged to re? fuse to allow their children to use the interdicted text books. Considerable demoralization of tht schools has been caused already. M. Deumergue, minister of public in? struction, has ordered an investiga? tion Of the situat on, which probably will determined the governments ul? timate attitude. The decision of the Teachers' Asso? ciation, comprising 100,000 members, to test in the Courts the Church's right tc interfere with the public schools will be fallowed by damage suits instituted by the authors of the interdicted text books. M. Dabourg, Archbishop of Rennes, in a statement just Issued, declares that Catholic voters must rally to the protection of the Church. The catechism is being revised for the purpose of teaching that it is a religious duty to vote for the candi? date who is pledged to defend Church interests. STOLE A MILLION. Big Four Will Lose $1,000,000 as Re? sult of Treasurer's Defalcation. Cincinnati, Nov. 9.?Apparently well founded reports tonight suggest that the shortage of Charles L. War riner, formerly local treasurer of the Big Four Raiload Company, who is now accused of embezzling $643,000, may exceed $1,000,000, and may pos? sibly reach $2,000,000. These reports are supported by the fact that the railroad officers caused Warriner's arrest on a charge of embezzling $54,500 and later admitted that the amount would be at least $100,000. When that sum was raised to more than half a million dollars, rumors began to circulate that the total em? bezzlement might reach a figure which would set a new record in such cases. The Deal Lambs Get. The late Francis H. Leggett, New York's largest wholesale grocer, had a contempt for the morals of the aver? age Wall street man. Mr. Leggett often used to say: "I once hired an errand boy who, after I discharged him. no doubt went on the street. There he should be do? ing well. "The boy was from the country. He worked for me only about two days. The last day be was with me, I sent him out for $4 worth of stamps, giv? ing him a $5 bill. "When he came back with the stamps, be didn't offer me any change. ?"Well,1 I said impatiently, 'Where's the change, Alfred?' M 'There ain't any, sir,' said he, 'Stamps has riz.' " TIIK MURRAY CASE. Citizens of Sumtcr L'rge Gov. Angel Not to Force the Negro to Return After He Has Forfeited Bond. Columbia, Nov. 8.?Gov. Ansel yes? terday received another appeal for leniency upon the negro G. W. Mur? ray, who has been convicted of forg? ery and is a fugitive from justice. There is also against him a charge of perjury. In 1904 Murray, an ex-congressman and a negro of means, was convicted of forgery. When the Supreme Court decided asalnst him, Murray fled the State and forfeited to the county his bond for $2.500. Some time ago his whereabouts were learned and Gov. Ansel wras ask? ed for requisition papers to bring Murray back here from Chicago. Th?? governor of Illinois has not declined to honor the requisition, but he has held the matter In abeyance tempor? arily. In the meantime petitions have been sent to Gov. Ansel asking him to recall'the requisition papers. Extra papers have also been filed. The Sumter county men who sign? ed the petition received yesterday are: E. E. Rembert, W. H. Seale, H. J. Harby, W. A. Bowman and H. J. McLaurin, M. D. The petition says In part: "W. A. Bowman, one of the under? signed, was foreman of the Jury which convicted Geo. W. Murray; W. H. Seale was supervisor of Sumter county at the time of the trial and conviction of Murray, and the other undersigned are large property own? ers in Sumter county. "Murray's whereabouts were known, but he was allowed to forfeit his bond, pay the same and stay away with the tacit understanding that he was not wanted in Sumter county. "We now represent to your excel? lency that the best citizens of Sum? ter county do not want Murray brought back here. Without comment upon the question as to his convic? tion, the fairnss of the charges or anything of that sort, it appears to us that it would be for the great dis? advantage of the white people of Sumter county to bring Murray back and have him undergo his term of imprisonment. If this is done, Mur? ray will be looked upon In the light of a martyr by the negro population and will tend to keep race feelings stirred up." Mouths Full of Money. Wilbur Wright, on the broad green plain of his school of aviation at Pau, talked about his early struggles. 'We had, in those Dayton days," said he, "wonderful offers, magnificent promises, but when it came to the ac? tual laying down of money, then gloom descended on the scene. "Our friends, with their mouths full of millions and their quite empty hands, reminded me of a Dayton bar? ber. "This barber said one day, as he shav. me: " 'That's a fine pup of Simmor s. I'd give anything for it.' "'Well, it's for sale, isn't it?' said I. "The barber burst into sneering laughter. " 'Oh, yes, it's for sale,' said he, 'but do you know what Simmons wants for it? Why, two dollars!' " A Decoy. Asa Paine, vice president of the American Automobile Association, said in St. Augustine of the automo? bile industry: "Cars are now made to last. The rich man no longer finds his 1907 car unfashionable, like his 1907 coat, in 1909. At the beginning of the indus? try, a car was antiquated in no time ?so antiquated that people laughed at it. "They tell a story in Detroit about a dealer who had, in 1900, an anti? quated 1895 car. He tried vainly to sell this car. He put lower and low? er price-tags on it?$100, $50, $10? and finally he put on a tag to the effect that the car was t bt given away. Even then there were no takers. "So one evening, desperate, the dealer left the 1895 car in a vacant lot beside his shop, hoping that some one would steal It in the night. But when he came down to work the next morn? ing, not only was the old car still there, but another one of similar pat? tern had been placed beside it." DENTAL NOTICE. I am pleased to announce to my customers and the public generally that I am again installed in my Den? tal office, which has been closed for several weeks on account of remodel? ling the Osteen Building. My office has been entirely refitted and I am prepared to serve my cus? tomers with more comfort and satis? faction, both to them and myself. N. G. OSTEEN, JR., D. D. S The State constables in Charleston seized 807 gallons of whiskey near Charleston Sunday morning. POURED WHISKEY INTO GUTTER Mayor of Spantanburg Empties Liq? uor Into Sewer as He Gong Out of Office. Spartanburg. Nov. 8.?One of the last official acts of Mayor J. F. Floyd, ho today turned over the affairs of e city to J. B. Lee, after a four ears' term, was the pouring out of 0 gallons of whiskey and smashing veral barrels of t'er seized by the police during the past year. The cere? monies took place on Morgan square, and hundreds of people were ikttract d by the odor. As the liquor was pouring through the guttc into the sewer one man rushed forward with derby hat and scooped in a hat full. Mayor Floyd saved five or six Jugs f the best grades of the goods and ent them to the hospitals for medical purposes. LION CLAWED LITTLE GIRL. Exciting Incldnt on Carnival Grounds At Florence. Florence, Nov. 9.?An incident that created more excitement than dam? age occurred on the carnival grounds last night about 10 o'clock. While the animal trainer was bringing one of their baby lions to the front for the purpose of exhibit ng it free, the beast attacked a little girl and fastened its claws Into the chHd's clothing. Fortunately the trainer managed to break the lion's hold before it had time to hurt the child. The chdd's dress was torn a little by the animal's claws, but there was no flesh wound. The incident gave the large crowd of onlookers a. terrible fright, espe? cially the mothers, but the manage? ment apologized very promptly and they will be more careful with the baby lion hereafter. "Hay all in?" asked Amzi Clover bud of Israel Pepperpod, as they drew rein in the road leading to the village, relates Puck. "All in," said Israel. 41 reckon I'll finish up mine by Sat'day. What are you doing now?" "Not much o' nothin'. Havin' a kind of soft snap of it. Ain't milkin' but nine cows now, an' I take it easy In bed until 'most 5 o'clock mornin's. Fact is, I ain't got much to do this fall but dig ten or twelve bushels o' per-et taters and grub out six or eight acres o* my timber land an' git ready to seen down in the spring an* git out seventy-five cord o' wood I agreed to deliver in town by Christmas. Got to put up 'bout half a mile o' wire fence r.n' shingle my barn an* putter round et work o' that sort, but I got so much less than usual to do that I feel as If I was havin' a kind of a soft snap of it." TRUTH TRIUMPHS. Sunitcr Citizens Testify for the Pub? lic Benefit. A truthful statement of a Sumter citizen, given in his own words, should convince the most skeptical about the merits of Doan's Kidney Pills. If you suffer from backache, rervousness, sleeplessness, urinary disorders or any form of kidney ills, the cure is at hand. Read this: E. W. Vogel, S. Main St., Sumter, S. C.i says: "I had severe pains in the small of my back for several years and whenever I attempted to stoop, my suffering was intensified My back became very weak and on several occasions I was forced to give up my work. My family physician treated me without giving me any re? lief from the awful pains In my back I and I then tried every known remedy ! on the market but still failed to be benefited. I ac last read a testimo? nial regarding Doan's Kidney Pills and was so much impressed that I procured a box of this remedy at China's drug store. After taking the contents I was restored to good health and for that reason heartily recommend Doan's Kidney Pills." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other._No. 5. PATENTS ?rocured and defen deo.,Sena model, amw?worphoCo. forexpert search and free report. 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