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COUNTY ^CORRESPONDENCE. mCWSY LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. Items of Interest From all Parts of Sumtev and Adjoining Counties. ACTON. Stateburg. May 11.?Mr. R. M.Jen? kins. Jr.. of the O. S M. A. spent Sat? urday and Sunday at his home in St. Charles. Miss Janie Nelson has been visiting the Frlersons at "Cherry Vale." Miss Margaret Brearley. of th 3umter Memorial Academy spent the week-end at the home of her school? mate. Miss Helena Weinberg, in Wedgefield. MM Lottie Nelson has returned to the neighborhood after a very pleas? ant visit to her sister, Mrs. F. H. Mc Leod. in Florence. Mr. Teadon Pitta, of the O. S. M. A. spent Saturday and Sunday at his home near Sumter. Mr. U. M. Cantey attended the mu? sh- festival in Columbia last week. Memorial Day was observed by the people of our community on Tuesday afternoon. (May 10th). at the ceme? tery of the Episcopal Church. There was a good attendance and much in Interest was shown in the enjoyable pragramme that was carried out. Mr. Thomas Moore, a student of the O. 8. M. A. spent the week-end at his home In Horatio. On last Saturday at Halle's Creek, the young men of Hagool gave a pic? nic in honor of the Misses Dargan. A large crowd was present and a most bountiful, and delighted dinner was served and the whole day, in every detail. wa? a great success. 8MITHYILLE. Smlthvllle. May 12.?No wonder we have poor gardens, corn and cotton. If w< have a rain of any consequence comes these hot dry winds that dry and v Ither everything it Ruches. Wo are having a dry storm this afternoon Perfect clouds of dust and sand are flying everywhere. Cotton will look bad sure enough after such a storm of sand. Farmers in this section are not cotton crasy by any means and if the government and hears join hands there will be more attention given home products. They have be? gun to realise that cotton can't be marketed successfully against such high handed treachery and base op? position. Some day there will be a TtC&ty conflict between labor and capital and what tken? Mrs. T. C. Robertson has returned home after spending several days very pleasantly with friends at Brogdon, Lamar and McColl. Messrs. T. M. Bradley and S. M. Rosa, of Braun, were In Camden Fri? day Mr. W. T. Hawkins, of Plsgah, was In Camden Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Dunlap were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Dun lap on la.it Sunday. He has built quite a neat and attractive little resi? dence on his farm near Marshalls. Mr. I). J. Hatfield and family visited friends at Smlthvllle on last Sunday. Mrs. B. M. Robertson has returned home after spending a few days with Mrs. Sallie Robertson. Mother'! Day was observed at Pis gah on last Sunday. Miss .I??ssi.. lirOWl MMf ?? l"\eIv lit? tle song In behalf of mothers. She was accompanied by several little girls. Miss Jessie has a beautiful voice and her music was perfect on last Sunday. So ton. hing and patheti? cally rendered. Mr. Cole's address was perfectly grand. But then we are not surpris? ed. He is ever ready when called on and gives you something worth listen? ing to. CONCORD. Concord. May 12.?The recent co? pious showers are improving the crops and gardening. But some cot? ton in this section looks very dis? heartening, It seems to be dying in ?pot* The hall last Sunday afternoon was h- n\ ler In the low ? r country than it was here. Mr. and Mrs. R. I\ Smith, of St. Charles, spent last Friday and Satur? day with Mr Smiths parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. Newman, of this place. Mr. Sam Jonen, a! Salem, is spend? ing a few days with his nephew, Mr. W. J. Jones, of Concord. Messrs. D. 11. Newman and Clar? ence Jones paid a very pimMat visit with friends at Lynchburg last week. A few farmers fron? hero attended the union picnic at KIlloUs last Fri? day. Miss Mamie Klnre y is spending a few weeks with her brother, Mr. Ned Klnney. of Rlshopvllle, S. C. 11 \ rtX I?. Ml Mori \i, EUER* < INI S. i nrteranl Pence list Theme at State?? hiii'K?The South lurni-hed the Onl) I'ostlhle < .o\ i rniiicnt Basil I or a I I 111 i 11 Ion of ||m World. State?.urir. May 10. -The s. c ond ob? servance of Memorial l?ay at St.it? burg was remnrkably well attended and tho.-e gathered showed a grant deal of Interest In the exercises. The General Sumter Memorial Academy was out In full force, the faculty and pupils taking an active part in the Sasrclssa of the day. The ladies had asked Col. Dargan to preside and carry out the exercises with mltable raplAMtory words, as the several parts were announced. He v. W? H. Uarnwell was called on to open with prayer and this was done in brief, appropriate words. It was then ex? plained that the 10th Of May had been ?elected as Memorial Day, be? cause it was the day on which Gen. ?tonewall Jackson died and this wa.? the 17th anniversary of this sad pe i iirrenc e and that the next numb' v on the programme would be the sun., i hloh Mrs. Margaret J. I'n ston com? posed in memory of the last words of Gen. Jackson, "Let Cs Pass Over the Hiver and liest Under the Shade Of< the Trees." The song was beautifully sung by the pupils and faculty of the General Sumter Memorial Academy. A word was then spoken In refer? ence to the meaning of flags, how they are meant to embody and sym? bolize the nation to which they be? long and how Father Ryan had so Impressively expressed our love of the Confederate flag, which is "wreathed around with glory and will live in song and story and go sounding down the ages, furl Its folds though now we must." This poem was finely re? cited by Miss Gena Dargan, the teach? er of elocution In the Academy. Col. Dargan then asked the people if It were not time to use these memorial occasions to Incite the younger gener? ations to the performance of the du? ties of their day, using the memories of the past devoted service of the soldiers of the Confedracy as an in? spiration to the performance of the tasks that time has brought to their hands and then said that the commit? tee of arrangements had decided to utilize this occasion to impress the importance of the great peace move? ment of the hour and the credit that we would bring to ourselves in the future, if we would perform our parts In this momentous undertaking of do? ing away with war in the settlement of national differences and disputes. He declared that we could certainly use the inspiring and enlightening words of our great leaders in South? ern life, In this new task of public service, and he would call upon the President of the Poinsett Literary Society to read a few words from the speech made in the United States sen? ate by John C. Calhoun in 184G. That Mr. Calhoun was as much recognized as a prominent leader in Southern statesmanship, as Robert E. Lee was in the line of military service. That this reading by the President of the Poinsett Literary Society would have an added interest as he was standing almost at the foot of the grave of Joel R. Poinsett, a compatriot of Mr. Calhoun, a co-temporary and an ad? mired and respected leader In the ac- I tivities of his clay. This reading was done by Mr. Oliver Plowden of the senior elass, in admirable manner, an extract being in the following words: "But T am opposed to war, not sim? ply on the patriotic ground of a citi m n looking t<> the freedom and pros? perity ??t his own country, hut on still broader grounds, as a friend of im provement, civilisation and progress. "If we should now succeed in set? ting the example of free trade be? tween England and the United States, it would force all other civilized coun? tries to follow it in the end, and the consequence would be to diffuse a prosperity greater and more universal than can be well conceived, and to unite by bonds of mutual interest the people of all countries. But in ad? vocating the cause of free trade, I am actuated not less by the political con? sequences likely to flow from it than the advantages to be derived from it in an economical point of view. I re? gard it in tne dispensation of Provi? dence as one of the great means of I ushering in the happy period fore told by inspired prophets and poets when war shall be no more. "I am finally opposed to war. be? cause peace?peace is pre-eminently i our policy." Mr. R. M. Jenkins, President of the Kavenel 'Literary Society was then called on to read an extract from a letter to Gen. Robert E. Lee written in 1866, SXpitsMve of his great desire that war should not be resorted to by the nations in the future. In this ex? tract, so well presented, were the fol? lowing words: "But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world: to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. I pray that on this beautiful day (Sunday) when only peace and good will are preached to mankind better thoughts may fill the hearts and hasten the day when war with its sorrows and suffering shall Cease." Col. Dargan then said these read? ings are convincing proofs of how the South stands on the peace question and has long stood. These undisput? ed representatives of the South in the two great lines of effort, the military and the law-making power, leave nothing to be desired in the way of guidance for the Southern people in the present hour. It is known to you, ho said, that an ex-President of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt, is trav? eling over Europe and arranging as he goes, from nation to nation, to have a systematic and uniform dis armamenb of all nations in the near future, on land and sea, and is claim? ing justly and admittedly that the American people are the best prepar? ed to enter upon this federation of the world, because of their experi? ences in living under a Federal sys _. ...."^g?? ? tem of independent States for the last hundred years and more and it must be a profound satisfaction to Mr. Roosevelt to know that he is a half Southerner?and that on his material side there were furnished to the South some of her most renowned leaders; because the instrument known as the constituion of the Uni? ted States, and which he is using with such effectiveness to bring about this larger federation, is a Southern pro? duction, lor it is conceded to be so nearly this, as to make any qualifica? tions of the statement unnecessary. If any Intelligent person has ever raised his voice to say that any "plan" other than that of Virginia, through James Madison, or of South Carolina, through Charles Pinckney, has enter? ed largely into the Constitution, we have never heard of it. Some say that Madison is the "Father of the Constitution," and some think, as I certainly do, and as you all do, in all probability, that Charles Pinckney's plan is practically the Constitution of the United States today. However, it is a Southern production indisputably and right proudly are we watching our half-Southern President using it as an agency to effect what our great Calhoun long ago said it would bring about, if its provisions were properly respected. In fact the South, so far as this instrument goes, and the later and better instrument, the Confeder? ate Constitution, is leading the world todav in the grandest manner in which it has ever been led and toward achievements most in accord with the great teachings of the noblest philosophy and religion of all times. Alexander the Great, three hundred years before the Christian era, it is true, tried to unify the world under an absolute despotism, that he might have universal peace and an exchange of the products of the various kinds, both of matter and mind, that the world possessed. The flora and fauna were to be exchanged between Asia, Africa and Europe and all that was best in each was to be bestowed on all. This was a failure, because the vital principles of local self-govern-1 ment was denied and it remained for America to form the only possible basis for a federation of the world and it is coming to light that the Con? federate Constitution will be the real basis, instead of the United States Constitution, because it is such a marked improvement, though both came from the same?the Southern brain?the last with such amend? ments as a hundred years of experi? ence had made desirable to the intel? ligent study and observation of the workings of the first. We congratu? late our frinds of the North, that they exhibited through one of their most intelligent journals, an appreciaiion of the Confederate Constitution, a few days after it was published and did H(t?e permit me I would quote m ex? tenso from the "New York Herald" of March 16th, 1861, in which the Con-? federate Constitution appeared in full I and on the 19th of the mon*n appear- j ed editorial recommendations that it! be accepted as a basis of peaceful re- i union between the two sections, de? claring that "the new Southern Con? stitution is the Constitution of the United States with various modifica? tions and some very important and most desirable improvements, with certain stringent provisions, which it would be extremely difficult" the Journal feared, "to perauedo our Norther fisherman, manufacturers and lobby-corruptionists to svallow, even to re-establish the Union" and then it declares that "President Lin? coln should call Congress together and lay before it this new Constitu? tion of the seceded States and the peace proposition of their treaty com? missioners and perhaps there may be wisdom enough in the two Houses to provide the ways and means for peace and the purification of the Govern? ment at Washington, even if there be i no way to absorb the Government at Montgomery, Alabama, and goes on to say that "if these excellent Consti? tutional amendments in the Confed? erate instrument had been enforced in Washington during the last tfch years they wc lid have prevented the wasteful squandeiift&^ in^fcwTndling lobby jobs, contracts, etc., from three to five h'Jnctred millions of dollars of public money and public property that have been squandered to the en? riching of lobby-jobbers and the gen? eral demoralization of our Northern political parties and politicians, to the lowest level of moral debasement and corruption." This is indeed a handsome tribute from a Northern source at the ap? proach of the conflict between the sections, forty-nine years ago, which is of exceeding value to us today, if It be properly utilized to bring about a study of the Confederate Constitu? tion, as the best possible basis of that federation of the world of which Ten? nyson so beautifully prophesied: "When the war-drums throbb'd no longer, And the battle-flags be furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Feder? ation of the world." A peace song was then sung, copies being distributed through the crowd that^they might follow the students of the Academy, who know its every word by heart, as they have been singing it for years. The graves were decorated and the crowd dispersed going to their home feeling that theN memorial hour had been employed to great profit at State burg. "VISITOR." TO TEST 'COTTON TARE" ACT. Case Against Columbia Buyer May be Heard by Supreme Court. Columbia, May 11.?It is probable that the Supreme Court w to pass upon the constitutio the Cotton Tare Act, which acted at the last session of the lature. A warrant has been out against W. G. Mullins, a c buyer of this city, charging him violation of the Act. It is tho that this is purely a test case, suit is of vital importance to all ton farmers. "Section 1. That from and af the approval of this Act it shall unlawful for any person, firm or co poration engaged in the business o buying cotton in this State as princi pal or agent to deduct any sum for bagging and ties from the weight ?r price of any bale of cotton when the weight of the bagg'ng and ties does not exceed 6 per cent of the gross weight of such bale of cotton. mm Tn the event that the weight of thP bagging and ties exceeds 6 per cent, of the gross weight of such hales of cotton only the excess over the said C per cent may 1 e deducted. "SecUon 2. For each and every vioifftion o?.thisAct the offender shall h/fe guilty of a"-R}isdemeanor and shall /be fined in the stHP of not less than $5 nor more than $2 S^^??^Jm prison - ment not less than ter. days riMT'^"01*0 than thirty days. Provided, this ?ct shall not apply to what in trade known as round bales and bales of^ cotton which weigh less than 300 pounds." The Act was approved on February 25, of this year. When this Act came before the leg? islature there were representatives before the committees of the House and Senate on the part of the farmers in the State. It was urged that the farmers were being done an Injustice by the deduction for tare on cotton. The Liverpool cotton men were as? sailed in speeches on the floor of the Senate, where the matter created con? siderable discussion. Chairman Car? penter, of the Senate committee on agriculture, made the statement that the farmers wanted this bill passed and begged the Senate not to throw this Act out. Col. Alan Johnstone, the Senator from Newberry, was another who urged its passage. After consid? erable debate In the closing days of the session, and with some amend? ments, the bill was passed in sub? stance. Corn Club Meeting! The Corn Club of Sumter County will hold its next meeting at the Cour* House on May 21st, at 12 o'clock. All ;s are requested to attend. _ ^ndent of Education Cain, tspueps up"^'iiHams, T^Tlted -**St2?t3 ?I jo, ^raXion Agent will make in st.xictlve talks on corn culture. J. SINGLETON DWIGHT, Edwin Boyle, Sec. President. Stateourg, May 12, 1910. Age is a matter of feeling, not af years. O'Donnell's Embroi? deries Set the Pace. These are the Kind of Values That Make This I High Art Embroideries at O'Donneli's Val Laces That are worth up to ioc a yard. Can always be found here at 5c Yard, 50c Dozen. 20c Quality French Lawn 45 in. wide. Our price 15c You can save money by ?hopping at O'DONNELL'S Our Same Famous 10c India Linone, Worth 15c Ladies' Ribbed Vests, 10c Quality. You save 2c on each of these. Special 8c each. 45 in. Persian Lawn j A quality that can't be matched under 15c yd. We only ask lie Yard for This Quality. A 45 in. Lingerie Which we have sold 30 pieces of this season. like our 40c quality. At 25c Yard. Looks 3T) 36 in. Black Habtitai S?lk Genuine Lyons Dye. This quality is sold by some at Si.25 the yard, Our OtTl "V7*J A ^*5?**sregular price is ?1.00. This price makes the business grow. Special_ .~"*0^/C X Q ? 15 Doz, Ladies' Summer Union Suits These are extra special [50c quality. Our price ( sells double quantities. Special 43 Cents. Prices Like These Save You Money. Come See. 10 DOZ. LADIES' SUMMER WEIGHT RIBBED PANTALETS. LACE TRIMMED. Our Regular Price 25 Cents. Special 21 Cents. 2T) Our 36 in. Black Taffetta Silk. The quality usually sold at Si.25 yd. While we have these in stock QQ rCS#ax\ make a Special Trice of. . . .""=0 yC JL CL Lace Curtains Oil Cloth, Lin from 50c per 01 e 11 111 at pair up. right prices We could use up this entire paper quoting the excellent values to be found at 0'Bl>onnell & Co.'s Mattings a t Price t h a t make quick sales. Rugs, Win d o w Shades and Mosquito Nets.