The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 25, 1911, Image 3
STATE Witt Hl
COMMKNTS ON BLKASK'S NOTARY
Pt KMC PROCLAMATION.
!f?i Reealt Will Ih* Much Confusion,
Annoyance ami Kipenso to Busl
new* Mm?Secretary of Stau? Will
Have Much F.ttra Work?Whiskey
Coii*t*hle*? to B?? Hcmovcd.
Columbia. Jan. 21.?That was an
stoctrlc shock Oov. Blease gave the
legislature, by his first message. It
aaid he had voided the commissions
of every notary public in the State.
It took only a moment to bring home
to the law-makers the significance of
euch action. A paralysing effect on
businaaa generally was Inevitable.
There are matters of the highest Im?
portance which absolutely require no?
tarial attestation. Without the ser?
vices of a notary no bank can protest
a note or check, no title d^'d can be
passed. Affidavits and the like may
ho probated only before certain offi
cora. a clerk of court for Instance,
qualified to administer an oath; and
these people have, usually, enough
work In connection with their po?
sitions, without being called on to do
general notarial work. There was
much relief In the General Assem?
bly whep the second Blease message
came up. saying the commissions
would be voided February 10 instead
of January SI. This brought the ac?
tion of Oovernor Bleaae Into line with
that of Governor Tlllman, Sho Issued
his similar proclamation some time
before It was to go Into effect., the
business community thus being given
an opporunlty of preparing against
the event. The first paragraph of the
Means message and proclamation la
Identical In terms with the first para?
graph of the Tlllman proclamation.
Pfce Bleass proclamation, voiding
February 10 all notarial commis
Isaued prior to January 21, has
created much work for the office force
of the Secretary of State. In regular
OOnrse about 300 commissions of no?
tary public are issued per year and,
of course, there will be a rush of ap?
plications for appointment when Gov.
Bleaae commences issuing such com?
missions again. In the 17 years since
Oovernor Tillman'a wholesale ouster,
about 1,000 such commissions have
keen Issued. Besides there are nu?
merous notaries whose commissi ins
antedate lift. There la no legal or
business establishment of any Im?
portance which does not frequently
require the services of a notary pub?
lic Governor Tlllman also revok?
ed the commissions of all the com?
missioners of deeds for South Caro?
line, In other States and abroad?and
the litigation that followed Is still re?
membered.
In thta Instance. Oovernor Tlllman
did not allow for the time that mast
elapse before notice of the voiding of
their commissions could reach some
Of these officers, and aa a reault many
of them went ahead with their trans?
action of Important legal business af?
ter their power to do so had been re?
move!, though they did not know of
the fact
Oovernor Bleaae has not offered to
the reporters any Intimation as to his
purpose !r. removing summarily today
the constables and detectives appoint?
ed by his predecessors under the dls
psnsary act. It Is not known whother
Oovernor Bleaae will appoint others
In their places or intends doing away
With the force altogether, devolving
on the ordinary officers of the peace
the duty of enforcing the lljuo.- laws.
There la a constant stream ok call?
ers at the executive offices, somo of
these being men who have nov set
foot In those precincts slnct the Tlll?
man administration. The governor's
secretary. Mr. Alexander Rowland,
and his stenographer. Miss Newnhim,
are kept busy all the day through
und there Is ususlly a group of visi?
tors waiting to see the g?\ernor him?
self
It Is not known here as yet whether
the Introduction of bills to alter and
consolldste the chsrters of the ?,??veral
corpor?tIons charatered from Mine to
time to build an electric railway hi
tween Columbia and Augusta moans
that a serious effort Is to be made
aeon to construct thi? road, or wheth?
er the parties seeking sue h legiHhi 11 >n
pr< pose merely to dispose of their
rights to possible builders from
the North. The measures have hoOP
handled In th?? Senate by Senator
Crosson. in the house by Bepre:e>nt
stlve Wlngard. both >t Lexington. Mr.
Wlngard put In Friday afternoon a
bill to i ' I ' h? ' b lit* r of '',i? \
gusta und Columbia Hallo, v ennv
panv. so as to confirm its iJOfpOfotl
existence, define ami enlarge Its pow?
ers and charv? the umount >t Its
capital stock, ttc" The measure Is
now in the hands of ll.oaunlttec na
incorporations. Mr. Jm r. jaek*<oi
of Augusta is UN MM \b.. hot beofl
most prominently m< ntl.?n??d Ig COR*
nectlon with this project.
Constltpatlon Is the cause of many
ailments and disorders ?hat make life
miserable. Take Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver r.ib'.ds. kc. p y-ur
bowels regular and you will avoid
thess diseases. For sale by all deal
er?
IT HAPPENED m JANUARY.
r.\cm>t of the Month That Have
Changed the Course of IliHtory.
When Juan Diaz de Soils, cruising
down along the coast of South Ameri?
ca, discovered a new port on January
1, 1513, It was the height of a tropic
summer, and he named the port Kio
Janeiro In honor of the day.
It was on January 19, 1534, that
Vasco Nunez de Balboa came back to
the little town of Darlen after he had
discovered the Pacific coast.
On January 26, 1788, the first com?
pany of English settlers sailed
through summer seas to Australia.
January has been rather an event?
ful month for England in several
different ways. It was on January 18,
1486. that Henry VII. married the
Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Ed?
ward IV., and so ended the Wars of
the Hoses by Joining the houses of
York and Lancaster.
It was on a January day thaf Henry
VII. married beautiful Anne 13oleyn.
Hi died on January 28, 1547. Twelve
years later, on January 15, 1569, his
daughter Elizabeth was crowned
queen.
liens than a hundred years after
Elizabeth came to the throne Eng?
land was to see for the first time in
the history of the world a king be?
headed by his own subjects, for it
was -?n January 30, 1649, that Charles
Stuart lost his life.
l'<>r hundreds of years this day was
kept In fasting and mourning by
Royalists all over the world. On the
other hand, says the American Boy,
some of the descendants of the Puri?
tans kept It as a feast day. Many
people still living in this country re?
member eating calf's head for din?
ner on January 30, though they do
not always know why It was done.
It has been said that revolutions
always begin In summer, but by an
odd freak of destiny both the kings
who have been victims of revolutions
met their fate In January, for L>ouls
XVI. of France was guillotined on the
21st of January, 1793.
In January*. 1788, the last Charles
Stuart, Prince Charlie, who had land?
ed in Scotland more than forty years
before to fight gallantly to win back
the throne of Great Urltain, died ex?
iled and almost forgotten, an old man,
In Rome.
In the days when speaking pieces
was part of the Friday afternoon pro?
gramme In every school many a boy
began solemn!}, to recite "The Burial
of Sir John Moore," but very few of
them had any idea who the hero vAas
or when his burial took place. He
was In the British army in America
before the end of the Revolution, he
fought against the Irish in 1798 and
he was killed fighting Napoleon In
Spain at the battle of Corunna, Jan?
uary 16, 1809. So It was on a Jan?
uary night .hat his friends went
through that woird ceremony and
' N ft him alone In his glory."
A little more than 200 years ago, on
January 21, 1707, the Oreat Mogul
died, the laat of the Moguls of In?
dia. Today his name Is only a prov?
erb, for people still say "as rich as
the Oreat Mogul," but during his life?
time the tales that were told of his
thrones crusted with precious stones,
his treasure chambers full of gold
and diamonds, emeralds, rubles, sap- j
phlres, were not only wonderful but
true.
The French Jeweler Tavernler saw
and handled some of these jewels and
It Is supposed that the Great Mogul
diamond was split and rt cut and that
part of It Is now the Kohinoor of the
British crown Jewel. The Great Mo?
gul ate from golden dishes and drank
from a cup of carved crystal, and
one of his thrones was completely
covered with diamonds.
All through Junuary in 17C2 there
was a great frost In England, and It
Is said that the Ice on the Thames was
live feet thick. On January 27, 1800,
a greal storm swept over a part of
England and blew down what was
known as King John's Custle at Old
Kord, near Bow.
The union of Great l'rltaln and lie
land took place on January 7, 1800,
and we probably owe to this a great
part of the early Irish population of
th?- I'nited Stiit-s, sinof many patriot*
Irishmen rather than yield to th<
hated power "f England betook thenv
?elvei to America. On January 1:!.
i sit. the Fouag Ireland patty form
? d ta? "'Irish F.d.ration,'' which in
rolled a hundred ami fifty thonsind
inen, and the results of this struggle
against England. tog?th?-r with the
famlif year, brought an dln r Irish
migration to our shot* s.
January has the CfOdlfl of still an?
other ev.mi, which has changed lha
world's history and whi? h happ? tied
in our own country. Gold was dis?
covered In California January lda
i^s. Seven yean later, <?n January
-7. 1161, the Panama railroad was
opened and K"t its share of tha gold
of thT returning Callfornlani and tin
gold seekers w h ? had money enough
f ?r travel by that route. And thf
tirst telegraph was aatabllahed Jan?
uary *'?. Is I I. and the tost penny VOBi
and postage st.Imps m th< w<?rld came
into being in England January 1?.
1840.
WE GAN SEE FOR OURSELVES.
Sl'MTER CAN SEND REPRESENT?
ATIVE TO LOOK OVER CEN?
SUS RETURNS.
Main Advantage Will l>e Discovery of
Errors and Opportunity to Advertise
This Fact.
Washington, Jan. 20.?Sumter, S. C.
will be given an opportunity to In?
spect the census returns of that city!
and ascertain whether or not a com?
plete enumeration has beon taken of
Its population.
Such was the announcement, made
today by E. Dana Durand, director of
the census, after Congressman A. F.
Lever had made vigorous efforts for
some time to get at the returns and
show just how far from correct they
are. He even went to the length of
Introducing a joint resolution, making
it manadatory upon the director of the
census to permit examination of the
enumerator's schedules by accredited
representatives of cities feeling them?
selves aggrieved by the census returns,
for the purpose of testing their ac?
curacy.
Whether Nashville and tho numer?
ous other Southern cities, many of
them In South Carolina and Georgia,
will be granted a similar opporunlty
to Inspect the enumerator's work and
ascertain the extent of the discrep?
ancies claimed is not known, but
from the tone of the letter Congress?
man Lever received from Director Du?
rand, It would appear that* any city
feeling aggrieved over the census re?
turns may send an accredited man to
Inspect the papers. This, of course,
would not change the official figures,
but would give the cities which dis?
covered errors an opporunlty to ad?
vertise the fact and assume a
higher unofficial rating.
Mr. Lever's resolution was intro?
duced only after he had received a
letter from Voler V. Vlles, acting di?
rector of the census, In which this
statement was made:
"I would add that the returns of
the enumerators are treated as confi?
dential and are accessible only to
sworn employes of the census bu?
reau."
Believing that such a policy of se?
crecy was wrong In itself and dan?
gerous in the opportunities it might
Invite, Mr. Lever Introduced his reso?
lution. Today he received from Di?
rector Durand a letter conceding all
that he had requested. In his letter
Mr. Durand said:
"I beg to say that one paragraph of
that letter was written under a mis?
apprehension and does not correctly
state the policy of this bureau. The
letter stated that, because of the con?
fidential character of the census re?
turns, permission could not be grant?
ed to inspect them. It Is true that the
details of the census returns are con?
fidential and that access to them will
not be given for the purpose of secur?
ing details, or for any purpose which
could In any way tend to injure the
individual furnishing information. It j
has always been the policy of the
bureau, however, to permit Inspec?
tion under proper conditions of the
names and addresses on the schedules
for tht* purpose of determining
whether a complete enumeration has
been had. I am willing that any duly
accredited representative of the city1
of Sumter should Inspect the returns
here in Washington or to furnish a
copy Of list of names secured on pay?
ment therefor."
(?rand Jury for 1011.
The grand jury for 1911 was drawn
In the Clerk's office Saturday. The fol?
lowing men being drawn to serve on
It for the ensuing year:
Those left from last year's grand
Jury were: A. M. Brogdon, ft. V.
Held, B. I. Beardon, A. F. Flowers,
K. P, McNeil and G. G. Tweed.
The new jurors drown were: E. W,
Dabhs, J. C. Daw kins. R. S. Cherry, C.
F. IfoFaddan, H, T, Edens, C. W.
Young, T. P. Lynam. W. O. Cain, J.
11. Robinson, G. If. Zeigler, T. H. Os
teen und J. D. Wilder, Jr.
Resolutions arc in order. The
bcsl resolution for you to make is
to be on tym. for business, en?
gagements, etc. during I9II, ;unl
j the best w;iv 1o do this is to pur
chaue a Howard Watch. Abso?
lutely dependable.
W. A. Thompson,
6 S. Main St. Jeweler and Optician
PROPOSED LIBEL LAW.
Measure Introduced In South Caro?
lina Legislature.
Columbia. Jan. 19.?At the recent
meeting of the South Carolina ^tate
Press Association a resolutic. .as
adopted urging the passage of a libel
law. At present the old common law
Is In force and the desire of the State
press is to secure a bill that is fair to
the people and offers the innocent
newspaper a chance. Of course, if a
newspaper persistently publishes li?
belous matter the proposed bill is not
intended to apply.
The special committee of the State
Press Association, after conferences,
settled upon the law of Kentucky and
have asked that this law be adopted
for South Carolina, as being entirely
fair to the people and the press.
Senator Carlisle has kindly taken
charge of the bill in the Senate and
the Hon. Frank B. Gary has introduc?
ed the bill / In the House. The text
of the bill, as proposed, follows:
Be it enacted by the General Assem?
bly of the State of South Carolin?:
Section 1. That in any civil action
for libel, charging the publication of j
an erroneous statement, alleged to be
libelous, It shall be relevant and com ?
petent evidence for either party to
prove the fact that the plaintiff re?
quested retraction or omitted to re?
quest retraction.
The defendant may also show by
way of defence to said action that
the matter alleged to have been pub?
lished and to be libelous, was pub?
lished without malice, and in the next
regular Issue of the newspaper or
publication, after received demand in
writing, or within seven days If no
such demand is made, to correct and
to retract said statement, or in the
next regular issue of the newspaper
or publication did publish a correct
Ion, retraction, explanation or rectifi?
cation, as conspicuously and publicly
as that in which said alleged libel?
ous statement was published in at
least two successive Issues of the said
newspaper ori publication, accompan?
ied by an editorial In which the al?
leged libel is specifically repudiated.
Upon proof of such facts the plain?
tiff shall not be entitled to punitive
damages, and the defendant shall be
liable only to pay actual damages.
And upon the publication of such cor?
rection, retraction, explanation or rec?
tification, the defendant may plead
same in mitigation of damages.
Section 2. All Acts or parts of Acts
in conflict herewith are hereby re?
pealed.
It is hoped that the bill Is so fair
that it will pass without trouble.
Rural Police for St. Charles.
Mr. Edwin Wilson was in town last
Monday and said that St. Charles was
a regular dumping ground for liquor
packages. That it looks like people
from every section of the county or?
der their liquor sent to St. Charles.
He is in favor of having St. Charles
put under Rural police service and
we think It a good idea. If we have
a law violated as often as the liquor
law, we should use every effort to
catch the law breakers.?Bishopville
Vindicator.
Aviator J. A. D. McCurdy, who was
seen in Columbia in December, will
attempt a flight from Key West, Fla.,
to Cuba on January 21 or 22 if the
weather permits.
CASTOR IA
for Infants and Children,
The Kind You Have Always Sought
Rears the
81gnature
WOMEN
Women of the highest type,
women of superior education and
refinement, whose discernment
and judgment give weight and
force to their opinions, highly
praise the wonderful corrective
and curative properties of Cham?
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tab?
lets. Throughout the many stages
of woman's life, from girlhood,
through the ordeall of mother?
hood to the declining years, there
is no sr.'er or more reliable med?
icine. Chamberlain*! Tablets are
soid everywhere at 25c a box.
Piano Tuning,
Mr, Edmund R, Murray offers his
services t<? thoae who need an axpert
and experienced Piano and Organ
tuiior ami repairer. References fur?
nished and work guaranteed. Address
DDMUNTJ R. MURRAY,
Snmter, 3. C.
The Kind You Have Always I tight, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the sigrnatnre of
f ? and has been made under his per?
jfyfy* J^s sonal supervision since its Infancy*
<CCC4\(/li Allow no one to deceive you in this*
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trine with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children?Rxperience against Experiment*
What is castor Ia
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare?
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups* lr is Pleasant* It
contains neither Opium* Morphine nor other .Narcotic
substance* Its age is its guarantee* It destroys Worms
and aMays Fererishness* It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic* It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
svnd Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho
{Jtomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep*
The Children's Panacea? The Mother's Friend*
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
The KM You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Ml ??trC?U? OMNHT, TV HUHMV ST MKT. N(W VONH OT?.
a bank account
seems to BE a magnet,
when once Started
it draws more.
ivtf? Ae?jb -make.
fur. ,
In 1861, a depositor in a bank in Cleveland, Ohio,
had $418. Since that time he has drawn out $573, and
still has $1,500 to his credit. |
How do you figure that out ? Why, he let his mon?
ey STAY IN THE BANK. It grew.
Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank.
We pay liberal interest consistent with safety tf?
First National Bank
OF SUMTE K.
THE
BANK OF SUMTER
SUMTER, S. C.
Capital and Profits
$140,000.00
?Time and Tide Wait for no Man."
But the Farmers' Bank & Trust Company is
always waiting with the goods, Having the
largest capital stock o! any bank in the
county, ami a steadily increasing surplus, its
prepared t.? take care oi you and wants your
account
The Farmers' Bank and Trust Co.