Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Old Enough to Be Good. ?? * ?.s a liquid eyed Spaniard es tour through Italy. She was a New Bngl&od makleu ludy doing Florence. Thej met first at the pension table d'hote and next in the Ufizzi gallery. MTbe madonna of which you spoke," the liquid eyed Spaniard, "is the ball and down to the right two doors. It bangs in gallery 3." According to my iiaedeker," pro? tested the New England maiden lady. *it hangs in gallery 6." "Pardon. It Is Impossible," protest Od the Spaniard. "It stands here la say Baedeker tbat it hi to be found in gallery 3." "Perhaps," said the New England ssalden. "your book Is out of date. But St Is easy to assure ourselves who Is right. I*t us go to gallery 3 or to gsl lery 5 and set." "Madame." said tbe Spaniard, with some emotion, "It Is not necessary to exert ourselves. This book, msdame. Is perfectly reliable. My grandfather himself assured me so. It Is tbe very volume thst he need when he himself feared Itsly st my sge."?Detroit Free A BreeeH ef Qoed Form. There Is s little esst end girl, stll! ?ader six. who reaches tbe limit in the suitter of sensitiveness. Likewise sbe ?as her points in respect to dead game teats. She wss tsken shout s week sgo so spend s few dsys with ber aunt. Tbe little miss played around In front of ber aunt's plsce for awhile. Then h?*r aunt let a playful young terrier lato tbe yard, saying to tbe child: "This la your Utile fonr footed cous ln.M FIt# minutes biter the s^nt returned as the front yard to cai. tbe kid into a ease, bot the wssn't snywhere to seen. Tbe fox terrier was playing There wss s scrambling bunt for the child snd sll kinds of alarm, bat tbe little girl didn't turn up. Tbe sunt hootled Into town. Tbe little girl arse home with Ber mother. She bad walked right to the car for as a a as soon ss tbe fox terrier pup area presented to her. "Why didn't yon stay st sunty'sr bee mother ssked her in surprise. introduced me to s dog!" ra? the haughty young person.?Cin? cinnati Post The Soul ef Golf." One who knew the soul of golf saw It and described it. It wss s tricky green, with s drop of twenty feet be? ll 1 od lt. To bare overrun It would have been fatal. There waa a stiff head wind. Tbe player would not risk fanning up. He cut well In under the hall to get sll tbe beck spin be could. He pitched the ball well up against the wind, which caugbt It and. on ac? count of tbe spin, threw It up and up antll It soared almost over the hole, then It dropped like a shot bird about a yard from tbe bole, and the back erpin gripped tbe turf and held the ball within a foot of where It fell. It was obvious to one mnn that It .vns a erode shot. It was equally obvious Ho another, wbo knew tbe Inner se? crets of the game, tbat It was a bril? liantly conceived and beautifully exe? cuted strode. One man saw nothing of tbe soul of tbe stroke. He got tbe husk snd tbe other took the kernel. - P. B. Vulleln North American Itevlew. fin Unusual Opportunity. The young clergyman had been urged hy his bishop to raise In his small par? ish ss large a sum as possible to swell fund for tbe people of a furoff isle, rector had put the need before his >ple as graphically ss he was able, hut be waa not gifted with eloquence and felt tbat his appeal had not struck home to tbe hearts of his listeners. He made a last attempt to rouse their en? thusiasm for th worthy csuse. "Think of them, so far away." he aald earnestly. "Think of 20.000 per anas living without tbe privileges of Christian burial, while any of you here he this little town may have the od Itsges of four handsome eetoeterles. give of your abnudunce. my broth to those who have nothing."? Youth's Companion. Correct. Teacher fsddrewlng class)?A phi lanthroplst is a person who exerts him aalf to do good to his fellow men. Now. If 1 were wealthy, children." she add od by way of Illustration, "and gave saoocy freely to all needy and tin for lamstes who ssked my aid I'd be a"? She broke off abruptly to point at a boy lu the class. "What would I BO, Tommy '" she asked "A cinch!'* shouted Tommy.?New fork Weekly Reassured the Judge. A wife. Joining her husband In a iveyance of real estate, was asked hy 'he Judge, who examined her in private, according to the act of the aaMMni.lv whethaf she scted without compulsion on the pert of her hus hand. She stuck her arms akimbo and replied: "He compel me' No. nor twen ty like him"' \rgonsut. An Important Detail, ?rotary of Missionary Society?We are sending von to Kai Kai Island, in tbe Solomons. Is there any particular Information you would like about the Inhabitants'* Pudding Missionary ire they vegetsrlsns? Public Sentimsnt. "Do you pay much attention to pub He sentiment f "No I always look the other way when 1 see a ffotng eOBBff hoMJog bands In the purs " 1'lttsburg Poai N.-ver fnlk of SthSf people'l faults without necessity and avoid those u ho do Better It I* to be envl. 1 r > ?? aft led.?Herodotus. An Anecdote of Bach The Duke of Save YVetmnr once In? vited John Sebastian Bach, the Nestor of German music, to attend a dinner at the palace. Before the guests sat down to the feast Bach was asked to five an Improvisation. The composer seated himself at the harpsichord and straightway forgot nil about dinner and everything else. He played so long that at last the duke touched his shoul der and said. "We are very much obliged, master, but we must not let the soup get cold." Bncb sprang to his feet and followed the duke to the dining room without uttering a word. But he was scarcely seated wheu be sprang up, rushed back to the Instrument like one demented, struck a few chords snd returned to the dining room, evidently feeling much better. "I beg your pardon, your highness." he said, "but you Interrupt? ed me In a series of chords and arpeg? gios on the dominant seventh, and I could not feel st ease until they were resolved Into the tonic. It is as If ycu had snatched a glass of water from the lips of a man dying of thirst. Now I have drunk the glass out and am content." His Turn Csme. Ben Davis defeated President Madi? son for election to the Virginia honse of delegates after Madison had left the White House. Old Davis, who seldom wore a coat, was sitting on a rail fence on the roadside in Greene county one morning when a young man dressed in dapper fashion and evidently from the city passed by. "Good morning." said David, with the proverbial Virginia politeness. To this the stranger paid no atten? tion. In a few minutes, however, he came to a fork In the roads and was evidently In doubt which way he should go. He retraced his steps to where Darts still sat on the fence and asked him with great politeness if he could tell him which way led to Stan ardsvllle. Davis made no reply. "Will you please tell me," the young man repeated, "which road I take to get to Btanardsville*" "Yon can." said Davis stolidly, "take any d-d road you please."?Popular Magazine. A Lawyer's Paradise. Naples, under Spanish rule in the eighteenth century, was overrun with lawyers. Of their profusion Joseph Addison bad this to say: "It la Incredible bow great a multi? tude of retainers to the law there are at Naples. It is commonly said that when Innocent XI. had desired the Marquis of Campio to furnish him with 30.000 head of swine the mar? quis answered him that for bis swine he could not spare them, but if his holiness had occasion for 30,000 law yers he had them at his service." It seems to have been a golden age for lawyers, for, as the author says, "there are very few persons of con? sideration who have not a cause de? pending, for when a Neapolitan has nothing else to do he generally shuts himself up in his closet and falls a tumbling over his papers to see if be can start a lawsuit and plague his neighbors."- Dietetic and Hygienic Ga? zette. Technically Gentleman. There Is only one strictly technical definition of gentleman?a man entitled to bear coat armor. In the seven? teenth and eighteenth centuries It was used with this significance, and the secondhand bookstall hunter will oc? casionally find "So and-so. "gentle man." written on dusty and stained fly leeres. Hut this definition bus dropped out. for now any one may use arms who chooses to pay for an arms li cense. The inland revenue takes your guinea or two guineas without inquir? ing as to your right to bear urms. And. though tie heralds' college has the right to grant arms to those who can afford to pay the necessary fees, it cannot prevent people from usln;: arms to which they have no right London Chronicle. Made Her Pay Wall. A certain <jueen of Hanover once upon a time when traveling stopped at an inn called the Golden Goose. She remained two <lsys to rest herself and retinue and receive such entertain? ment as was needed and for the same was charged 100 tbalers. On her de parture the landlord besought her with obsequious deference to favor him with her patronage on her return. "If you desire that, my dear man,'' replied her majesty, "you must not again take me for your sign." Very "Respectful." The villagers used to make love in a solid, stolid fashion. "I'm sure, m'm," said n servant to her mistress, "nobody could have had a respectfuler young man nor whnt Thomas has been to me We've been courting two years come Martlemnss. snd he's never yet offered to kiss me!"--From "Itecollocilons of a Yorkshire Village. ' by J. S. Fletcher. A Similarity. "He's quite wealthy and protnlnem now." said Mrs. Statvein. "and tug;v say he rose from nothing." ?Well, well:" remarked Mr. Border "That's just what I rose from - at the breakfast table this morning." Closing the Incident. I'ulsntllla Your latest yoong man, I hear, has written n play or two Has ha produced enythlng yet? Euphorbia ? Y-yes: the last time he called he pro? duced ? diamond ring Bichange. The greatest homage \* e can pay to truth is to nee it Broereon. Honesty needs no pains t ? ?t It slf off. Bdward Moore. MK. KULM VAX IX EXTREMIS. Physicians Abandon Hope of Rail? road Commissioner's Recovery, Columbia, Oct. 28.?Members of Mr. J. M. Sullivan's family were summoned here tonight. Mr. Sulli? van's condition, at a late hour to niRht, Is regarded as hopeless. Mr. Sullivan's oldest son, Major G. Cul len Sullivan, of the Anderson Uar, hoi been with him from the first. So, I I also, has been Mrs. Sullivan's sister, j Miss Jessie Pubose. of Atlanta. Dur? ing his illness two other sons, the i Messrs J. M. Sullivan. Jr., and Ja- ' cob W. Sullivan, of Anderson, have' visited him, but these, thinking him I better, returned to their homes. The three younger children, Jessie, Vance and an infant, have been at the fam? ily residence, No. 18 30 Gerdas street. A daughter. Miss Alethea Sullivan, who was In the Anderson County Hos? pital, at Anderson convalescent after an operation for appedicitis, reached i here late tonight. Railroad Commissioner J. M. Sulli? van was stricken Tuesday of last week with apoplexy, while at his of? fice. Since then his condition has been regarded as critical. A consul? tation of physicians was held today, and it was found that the heart ac? tion was weakening. North Carolina Corn. Mr. John Sandy Covington, United ? States demonstrative farm superin j tendon! for Richmond county, su? perintended the measuring of an j acre of corn on the editor's farm on I Monday and reported 122 bushels of I shelled corn. The editor Is very J much disappointed. He expected ; 160 bushels at least. It's the finest ! corn he ever saw grow, and others ' claim to have made 226 2-3 bushels We have never believed that much turn was ever raised now we al most know it. All the other contest? ants get out of the editor's way In this contest. This corn was raised at a cost of 60 2-3 cents per bushel. Near by this acre is a good tenant who has ten acres of corn that mill make about 150 bushels on the ten acres. He i usod $5 worth of fertilizer to the J acre, or $50 on the ten. It cost him ! to work it $5 per acre, or $50, total coat $100, or 66 1*3 cents per bush I el against the one acre cost of 60 i ! 2-3 cents per bushel, besides the rent for the extra acres, say $5 per acre ' or 50 for the ten acres, or 96 2-3 ? i nil per bushel. This shows that deep plowing and iberal manure pays, and the selec? tion of seed corn is probably of more importance. Get right, farmers, we have the best and most honorable businoss In the world. The Lord made the farmers and they arc mak? ing the world.?Rocklngham. N. C. Post. i Itcal Kstato Transfers. The following list of property transfers sums up the total for the past week, recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court: P. A. Stuckey to T. E. Cooper, two lots on Bland street, $151.80. R. W. Chandler to Trustees of School District No. 20. lot on Pud ling Swamp road, $50. K. C. Haynsworth, Master, to I Man' A. Newman, 165 1-4 acres In ( country. $8,299. B, C. Haynaworth. Master, to John I, Hrunson, lot in city, $250. H. J. Harby, Perry Moses, Jr., and [>avis D. Moist to D. R. McCallum snd J. I* McCallum! one lot on .lain street, $17.1:50. 1 II. J. llarl?y to Richard Dennis, two tracts of land in Rafting Creek 1 a nahtp, $ 1.600. Eugenia <). Wilson and c. C. Wil? son to Andrew Colenfan, 52 acres on Douglas swamp, $900. Held lor Higher Court. I Alken. Ort 2S.?L. T. Davis, a young white man, has been bound over to higher court, on a charg" of soliciting orders for a whiskey house, at Portsmouth, Va. liond was llxed in the sum of $200, which has '??in furnished. Davis will be tried at the next term of eourt. He was arrested by a rural policeman at Math, some days ago. Davis, who is a traveling man, denies tbe accuse-1 tlon. I Durin? the early part of the yeiir considerable interest was manifested in a proposition to organise a stock company to erect a modern hotel, for which, it was admitted by all, there existed a crying need in Sumter. If there was need tlon of additional hotel accomodations, what Is to be ?aid of pn sent conditions? if the Hotel Bumter and the Hotel Jackson I were Inadequate, how Is tbe traveling public being accommodated since the burning of the Jackson? The fact is Bumter needs, and needs badly, a first class, modernly equipped hotel of mi least one hundred rooms, and there is every reason to believe that 1 such a hotel would pay handsomely I as an Investment. Mm k Rogers, a well known young irmer of Dillon county, committed suicide Friday night by drinking two ounces "i carbolic acid. FIRES NEAR TIMMONSVILLF. [jeft Alone, u Negro Child is Cremat? ed?Two Other Fires. Tlmmonsvllle, Oct. 28.?The gin house und complete ginning outfit of W. A. Dowling, a few miles above town in Darlington county, were totally destroyed by lire today, sev? eral bales of cottton were also burned. About eight miles below town, on the plantation of E. E. Hudson in the Sardls section, a large tenant house was burned this morning. The house was occupied by Edawrd Eddy, colored, and his youngest child, which had been left alone, waa cre? mated. The negro's loss is heavy on him, as everything he had was de? stroyed. Oak Grove hotel, in town, caught Mre this afternoon and for a while it looked as if the buliding would burn, but by heroic work on the part of a few citizens, the flames were ex? tinguished. The loss was slight. The work of removing the large brick freight depot is under way and as it is something new in this section to see such a large brick structure sllded several hundred yards, Is at? tracting the attention of every one and crowds hang around to watch the work as it progresses. SULLN DILLON FARM, Mr. Stackhouae Ciets Handsome Price for Property. Dillon, Oct. 27.?One of the largest land deald made in Dillon county since its organization was made a day or two ago when Mr. 11. P. Stackhouse sold his home and farm, consisting of 637 aeree, more or less, for 175,000. This place Is situated two miles west of Dillon on the Little Hock road. It was bought by Mr. J. S. Thompson, a brother-in-law of Mr. Stackhouse, who has a large fa. n adjoining hla new purchase. Mr. Stackhouse is one of vhe county's very best citizens and wts enthusias? tic in the formation of tl e county a year ago. He will move to Amerl cus, Ga., where he has invested largely In real estate. A LOCAL ISSCK. Fach State Must Enforce Its Own Liquor Laws. Memphis. Oct. 28.?Declining to assume jurisdiction and upholding the principle of "State rights," Fed? eral Judge John E. McGall late to? day ordered dissolved a temporjrv Injunction restraining the continu ance in business of 114 saloon keep? ers of Memphis. Notwithstanding the declaration of the Law Enforce? ment league of Memphis. which, through 15 of its members, appeared as complainants, that its appeals to State and local authorities for re? dress had been unheeded, Judge McCall held that prosecution through grand jury Indictments was the proper recourse and was still open. In answer to the allegation that the constituted authorities of the State were not in sympathy with the prohibition laws as enacted and had refused to act on information fur? nished, he cited Impeachment pro? ceedings as a method through which their removal from ollice might be accomplished. The opinion denied that the plain? tiffs had established the fact that their constitutional rights, within the meaning of the 14th amendment to the United States constitution, on which the litigation had turned, had been violated and denoted that with? out this fact being fully proved, con? troversies between citizens of a State properly belonged In the St at* courts. If jurisdiction If AM taken, it is pointed out. the federal courts might be appealed to to enforce any and all of the criminal laws of a State, which would be in direct contra? vention to the United States constitu? tion. "Taking every allegation of the bill to be true," the opinion contin? ues, "in substance this court is asked to enforce the laws of Tennessee be? tween citizens of the State, notwith? standing that article four of section four of the constitution of the United States guarantees to every State a republican form of government." That Tennessee is amply provided with such a government is pointed out in conclusion and hence the Is? sue was not properly before a federal ourt. An appeal to the circuit court w ill In- taken, it is announced. Touched by Pickpockets. Bpartanburg, Oct. ^?',,?.?As an af? termath of circus day in Bpartanburg tin- polite have received several com? plaints tonight from parties, alleging that they ha\e been "touched" by pickpockets. Three cases reported are from Individuals who say they lost pretty good rolls from their pockets. < me says be was robbed ot |80, an? other lost $:.(*. and the third $15. One arrest was made, but the police Inter tutte d the suspect looso. Other 11 r -ts are expects d tonight. Tin re is no time so miserable but a man m i> be true.?Shakespeare. GRANDFATHER CLAUSE VALID. | Supreme Court of Oklahomu Upholdi Suffrage Statuta Which Dlsfraa- ( Clllses Negro. Guthrie, okla., Oct. 26.?That the "grandfatht r clause" constitutional am<mdement is valid was decided by the State supreme court today. The court held also that the special pro? cedure under which the amendment was adopted was valid, all votes not caat against the proposition being counted for it. "The grandfather clause" provides that no man whose grandfather could j not vote, can exercise the right of j franchise. It will thus disfranchise , many negroes whose grandfathers wore slaves. JOB FOR NEGROES. Tuft Appodnts Boston Negro Assist? ant Attorney General to Influence Negro Vote. Washington. Oct. 26.?It was unof? ficially announced at the White House tail afternoon that President Taft | and Attorney General Wickersham have decided upon the appointment of William H. Lewis, of Boston, a negro, as assistant attorney general of the United States. This appointment, if It Is made, will be the most Important that has ever been bestowed upon a negro. The announcement Is made at this time, of course, In order to influence the colored vote which la consider? able in some of the States, notably Ohio and Indiana. And there has '^oen considerable effort of late imong the negroes of New York to throw the vote of their race to Dlx, instead of Stimson, because of Roose? velt's action in the Brownsville mat? ter. It is*stated that this probable ac? tion of the President will "go further in recognition of the negro race" than has any president in the history ?f the country. It is pointed out at the same time that several other negroes have re? cently been given appointments of Treat importance, and that the Pres? ident contemplates making a Toledo nogro collector of customs at Hono? lulu. It Is generally believed in Washington that the announcement is another indication that the Re? publican party needs every vote it ^an get on November 8. Foreign Christian Missionary So? ciety. The Foreign Christian Missionary Society will be represented at the State Missionary Convention of ths-* Churches of Christ which convenes here November 3rd to 7th, by Arch 1 old McLean, the president. ARC HI BOLD McLEAN, Cincinnati Ohio. ? Mr. McLean has been president of I the society for thirty years and his i hair has grown white in the service. Thirty years ago there were only twelve missionaries sent out to the 1 various fields; now more than elev? en hundred missionaries and evan? gelists arc serving for the society in seven different countries, and the of fertags have increased from $12,000 to $360,867 raised this year. Mr. McLean a experiences in foreign i lands are numerous, as he has visited all the mission stations in the interest of the society. One of the most remarkable mis? sionary enterprises in all the world Is conducted by the society st Bolenge, Attica. At this place they have S church of 600 members, a Bible j school of over 1,000 members, and a I Christian Endeavor Society of more I than 500 members Every seven j members of the church support an I evangelist, to tell the ?lad story to the unredeemed. This ought to put , many an American church to shame. ] The aim of the society for this yen I $500,000 and twenty-four mission j aries t>> the Held. JOHN I'l l.Bl.rs IIOVYCI.L. Well Known Citizen Die- at Jaeksoii tirove?Pmiernl Held Sunday. < ".re. nvllle, < ?< t. 2?. Mr. John Peebles Howell son of Mr. aa l Mrs ?1. W. Howell, of Jackson Grove, died Saturday evening at ten o'clock, in the 24th year his age after lingering Illness. VICIOUS BLIND TIGERS. Following Dr. Barber's Demand for ProUMT?on, Whiskey Seilers Attar*. Him in Store. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 27.?,"o1 lowlng a sensational attack made by Artie Barber ,a well known druggist and seed dealer on the blind tigers of Birmingham in police court this morning, a gang <?f keepers of tie so places set upon him in his store early tonight and beat him unmercifully. He is belieevd to be seriously Injured. Two separate attacks were made upon him. The first party consisted of three men who assaulted him and b ft and later a party of fight, head? ed by Dick Wray, a well known character, entered the store and beat Mr. Barber until he was left almost unconscious. It is stated that sev? eral of the men carried revolvers. The assault was the culmination of a speech made befoio Judge Feagin's division of the polict court this morning, in which Mr. Barber de? manded protection from the bliad tiger keepers of Birmingham. Be? fore beginning the speech Mr. Bar? ber had invited Mayor Exum and Chief of Police Bodeker to come la? to court and heax what h'i had t<> say. Arriving in court he exhibited sev? eral bottles of whiskey and beer and launched at once into a denunciation of the vloltoers of prohibition in Bir? mingham. "I purchased all this stuff in Bir? mingham myself," he said, "and if I can get it other people can get it. I am a taxpayer and help support 127 policemen '.n Birmingham. I demand protection for myself and my busi? ness from these characters." WORLD'S RECORD BROKEN. Crew of America n Found in the North. Chicoutlmi. Que., Oct., 26.?Thor? oughly fatigued and showing plenti? ful marks of an arduous week ef struggling through the dense wilder? ness of northern Canada, Messrs Ilawley and Post, the insatiable aero? nauts who. acco/ding to available data, sailed the America II nearly 7t miles further than any other con? testants in the big balloon race for the Gordon Bennett cup, arrived here this afternoon. They had landed at 3:45 Wednesday afternoon, October? 19, 1.500 feet up on the face of an unnamed mountain, which, as near as they could reckon, lies about ?8 miles north of Lake Tshistigam. They had been involved in a snow storm which was accompr-niod by a change in the wind to a more northerly di? rection from that which up till then bade fare to carry them to the La? brador coast. The adverse condi? tions compelled them to land, much against their wishes. Landing waa effected easily and the balloon was left in good condition. Sanguinely they started to get ta the nearest settlement. They were uncomfortably near the end of their provisions but recounting the story of their experiences tonight, they made light of that feature. They had confidence, they said, in their ability to obtain sufficient game to preveat starvation. For three nights they were obliged to sleep in the open air. It was a ethT tight through snowy forests. The weather was exceedingly cold. Theo the camp of a trapper waa struck ?? the river Alours. A day's rest wm enjoyed there in the deserted hat. Monday five trappers appeared ana took them down the stream in their I anoes thirty miles from here A six hours' drive brought them here tonight. Tomorrow night they ex? pect to be in Quebec. According to their reckoning the* covered 1,450 miles in the air, dur? ing 16 hours. PROHIBITION IN TENNESSEE. Decision of arF-Reaching Irapor tartce Exi?eeted Sliortly. Memphis. Tcnn.. Get 28.?Th ? status of the prohibition question in Tennessee, so far as the jurisdiction of the Federal Court lor this district extends, will be finally defined short ly. This was announced late this at ternoon by Judge John E. IfcCalt, ? United States Circuit Court after hearing arguments as to whether ? temporary Injunction against certain saloon keepers would be mad.- per? petual or dissolved. In the mesa time. 11 4 down-town saloons are dark in obedience to s restraining order The question hange on the conetrwc tlon of the fourteenth amendment t i the Halted states i onstltution. Th l*aw Enforcement League* i hart that their constitutional rights a. citizens and the protection assure them Is being abridged through th non-enfor< ement of the Si tte pr? blbtion laws, and that appeals foi help to the state and local official had failed "t results making i*i perutlve reoourae to the Federe \ utboi ities. Traej Junes a cocaine flenJ rai amuck in Charleston Monday as cut tvso white men and six negroe \s ith a knife.