Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cljt??htfbmanan^ Routinen. PublUhed Wedne>d>?> and Sutuiduy. ?BT? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTEK. ?. C. I. nu? ll. 60 per annum?in advance. IdtcrllMMiieiitri: One Square first Insertion.$1.00 Every subsequent Insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found td In UM) and tho True Southron In :???. The Watchman and Southron <h?w haa the combined circulation and influence cf both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium In Sumter. Oovernor HI ease does not approve of the commission form of govern? ment for towns and cities, therefore he vetoed ' two acts which per? mitted the qualified ? lectors of certain eitles to vote on the question. He de? nied the people the prlvilgee of de? ciding for themselves whether or not they wanted tlulr muni ipal govern? ments conducted on the commission plan. This is boss Ism of the worst sort. We can understand why Oov vernor Bleaee does not approve of Use commission form of government? It is a system of government thnt does not promom machine politics, nor lend itself readily to the manlpuli Hons of the political boss. e e e tSovernor Please sent a special mes? sage to the legislature criticising the condition of tho State House in a rather blunt ami lineipeoted language and demand ?d that something be done to rem ?!, tic i ondlUoaa com? plained of. The legislature took him at his word and appropriated $ :\ ~n>" for the State House and grounds, then along comes the Governor Blease on his vetoing rampage and kills the ap? propriation that he had demanded ga peremptorily. The governor must have missed his aim this time or had forgotten tba' be had sent a special mt'si,i<-' demanding money lot State House Improvements. LAM Alt Dl: FONTAINE. "Feesn a stray '.uolatlon in the SprtrrffWIu Kep I'd. an. it appear*, I i.vif : ?/ ? p.i .? ?of ': ? are :.. ?ontr iveisy h? w. ? '< r Thud deus Oliver or Mrs. Ethellnda Beers wrote 'Alls Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight.' We had thought it finally settled that the war song was written by that romatio soldier of fort me, Lamar d.? Fontaine, one of tho first to print the words I ? Ing the late Julian A. Selby of Columbia. A hur? ried runnln : \ r of tin- chapters In lfr. Selby's "Memorabilia" falls to reveal and mention of the poem and we h res not st hund de Fontaine's "My Mfe and Lectures." | De Fontaine and Henry Tlmiod were doing editorial work on The South Carolinian in Columbia. Mr. Selby being the printer, when Co? I iumbia fell Into Sherman's hands,; Vandalism w \* feared?m ?st reseon- j ably, as the event showed?arid de Fontaine undertook to move the printing material to the upp -r part of the State, leavl \g Tlmrod and Selby to Issue "thumVsheets" or small "extras" two or three times i day. When the Invading army hr.d de pur'ed. Mi Sep.y established among the ruins hi* fitly na n d "Phoenix," with WlllUm GllnoTe Slmms as editor. One of the i tint'rs wa?. Capt. John A. Flklns. now in charge of the Epwnrth orphanage printery. The first Issu.- was six by nine inches in stse. "Few figures of the War Between the Sections were m >re romantic than de Fontaine. For four years In boy? hood a prison, r -.f ISM COSSSBCheS, he left his native T*>\n* ? ? seek ad? venture and f I in 1 t 11" was with the ftuselan army at the seige of gebastopol and for gallantry there received at the hands of the Kmperor the Iron Cross of Peter th ? Great. In the War I'.etween the Sections, be was S scout toff Jackson and a OOnrlOf for Johnson and FsgShortOa. lie was wounded, it Is said, not less than f.7 times and in addition to numerous hand-to-hand SSWSjSJgjtSffSt Wai In 27 battbs and r,7 skirmishes. He Is burled. If we remember aright In Co? lumbus. Ga,.?Columbia Record. la the above I '.horial. which ap? peared In the Columbtn Itecord Tues? day, the, writer has falbn Into error by confustOng two men whoso names were somewhat simillar. As a re? sult of this confusion he has construcl Sd a composite character by graft? ing scraps of the ntory of the life of La mar Fontaine, soldier sd fortnno, scout and h?re of many h dr raising adventures, that may have heag real or as likely as gOt no re figments of th** Imlglnatlon. with no Letter founda? tion than bis (Ulm to the authorship of "All's Quiet Along the Potomac To? night." upon the lifo of FelU G. d* Fontaine, idHor and wnt correspond? ent. Polls <;. di Fontaine came lo Charleston as the correspondent of the N? w York lit raid to report the National Democratic Convention In IStiO. Remaining in Charleston lie booMM eonnected with the Charles ton Conrter and. at the breaking out i of tin- war, went t> Virginia as a 1 war oorreepondcnL His "leiten from th. lre.it" appeared over the signa? ture of 'iVrsonne" and many of th.' .id? r generation may remember th? tn. D?ring the latter part of the war he was associated with Henry Tlmrod in tie- . ditorship <>f the South Carolinian, of Columbia, which was i bought from ihi* late 1 ?r. Gibbes by c.eorge W. Trenholm and Theadoro A. Warner of Charleston. The late Julian A. SeM?y was the publisher of th. paper. When Sherman's army approached Colombia an of the newi paper material that eoold be remov? ed was hurriedly loaded and shipped t<? Chester and was later carried to Ch niotte. At lb I oHMM of th<- NOT th. o tile e was taken to Charleston ,wh< i?' Um Booth Carolinian was pob , ltsloal for m veral months. Mr. de j Fontaine and William Gilmoro Slmms j being Um editors. Henry Tlmrod, th. n living in Colombia eontrlbnttd I occasional articles, but he did not j accompany the paper to Charleston. Not htlng a financial success in Char , b'ston. the South Carolinlau was moved hack to Columbia ia the sum no i of Im;?;, but It soon discontinued publication. Mr. di Fontaine went to Neu York where for many years he was on the staff of the Herald. About twt l\. of titten years ago he return- d I to Colombia and resided there 1?; sevral months. D?ring nil realdonee In Colombia he published a monthly igazlne, devoted principally to stories v>f the war. Mr. de Fontaine married Miss Georgiana Moore, of Charleston, a daughter of a Metho? dist minister. She was a slater of the late H. Judge Moor*-, the late J. < >. A. Moore, of Darlington and of the late Mrs. SalUe g. Chapln, of Charleston. lb> was survived by a daughter and one or more sons who were living In n. w York at last accounts. Tin- above facts are furnished by Mr. n. g. Ootata\ who worked in the office of the South Carolinian in Co lumMa, during the war, accompanied the printing material t ? Chester and Charlotte, and worked in the ofBOi In Charleston from the time it was re? established until it was removed to Oo!OmMa In A .s;. loan Wh runt ? I itUo i>>..?rr; IH , in the suburbs is ai r? . . . 1 . Ii o; . cigarettes on ocaday and after a trial] m the Kecoiuei ? omu naa ?oauU guilty and required to pay a fine of $10. This was right and proper and J strictly according to law, but if the " law against selling cigarettes, cigars , and tobacco 09 Sunday is to be e i forced, why make a start in the .suburbs? The fact of the matter is, ' the attempt to prevent the sale of t cigars on Sunday has proven a fail | ure and it is known of all men that I there has never been a Sunday since Ithe law was eaactod that cigars and cigarettes have not been sold Within ? the limits of thai city. If the arrest of this suburban merchant indicates that ? OTQiade against the stile of cigarettes has I., n tnagurnted and a daad Mtter law revivified, smokers w ho .. i i '. no il to purchase their mokahh s 00 Sunday Will bt forced to lay in a supply on Saturday. The main point, however, Ii that if the law Is to be enforced at all it should enfop . .1 in all parts of town?In the heart of town as o*dl as In the suburbs. ? I i Hon. Klechmond P. Hobaon, the in dofaUglble repreeentaUvt of the ship bottdtag interests is being ably sec ! f.mb-d by the anti-Japan crowd In Call - f rnla in his effort to work up a war scare and terrify Congress into bolldlng more ten mlllon dollar bat? tleships. ? es Will Gov. I'.lease appoint magistra? tes, auditors and Other county officials' who w.re n >m Ina ted In the primary If they happen not to have been his friends In the last State primary? a a a la bolldlng the new hospital for the Inaane ? special bolldlng should be provided for those who escape hang? ing or imprisonment in the peniten? tiary Ofl the plea Of Insanity. ? es Politician! in South Carolina are a^ afraid Ic tay of do anything about purging the State pension rolls of boglM, fraudulent end unworthy pen? sioners as members of Congress have always .shown themselves when the Federal pension steal has 04 n under consideration. Gen. C. Vrvlm Walker, who Is a prominent official of tho C. <\ v. pot the matter squarely up to the legislature ami It was pre? cipitately atde-eteppe^. Work waa began Tuesday toward o laying Calhoun street botnwen Washington and Salem Avenue. The clay for the streets will be dug on Calhoun street Just <iast of Salem avenue, th. ROM from which It comes to be BlMd by the sand which Will be imub d from Gmt portion of the street which Is to be clayed. L, B. TUTEN IN JAIL. I iMi? ?ratend Taut Hl? Lawyers Will ..Posh For Hl? Immediate Trial for Murder of Langford, Hampton. Feb, 22.- U B, Tuten of Bruuson, against a*hom a true bill was found yesterday charging him with tin- murder of .?. it. Langt >rd, sii'i-cmirrrd himself to the sheriff 10 day and in in Hampton jail tonight ball having been refused. Tuten win he arraigned tomorrow and it is tin- understanding here that his lawyer! will push for an imme? diate trial. The case has been a .sensational one throughout ami great Inters! will be taken in tho trial. SEWER LINE ADVANCES STEAD? ILY, Laying of Pipe Has Reached Point on A. C, L. Line from Sunder to Co? lumbia. Work <>n the laying of the sew ? r line from Green Swamp to the Oak? land avenue line where thS two lines will be connect-d is progTi ssing stead? ily, although not rapidly, owing to the fact that a small force of hands is be? ing w a ked and because the work has to bs done very carefully and for the nest part, slowly. At the present time the sewer line, Which was begun from tho point whcro the sewage will empty Into Green Swamp. has progressed from Green Swamp up to a point on the line of the A. C. L?. road from Sumter to Columbia) just west of where the \. C. L, and Northwestern roads cross, and in the next day or two it will be extended under the railroad and on towards the city. Behind the place at Which the work is now going on, however, Li g stretch of line which has to he filled in for about three hun? dred feet or more, and the hardest work is still ahead of the workmen, for whereas the work up to this time has been mostly surface work or work requiring the building up of the line, from now on it will require ditch? ing from lu to l? teet. The tone id' hands employed on the line has varied from about two dozen men at times to about ten men at othsra At present there are only i >ut a dozen men employed, al? though more could be used now* that the line has left the swamp and Is progressing up towards the railroad Mr. K. (*. C h i . \vv <? ha.- <h.i!.'pc ?? Lne wori>. for the Bergham and Mo fit Company stated Weduesc" ? r noon that tho work at the present time was getting on nicely and, while it was somewhat behind, owing to al? most a month's delay caused by tho failure of the parties from whom it was ordered to ship tho pipe, ho thought it WOUld be pretty well com? pleted by the first of April, the time required for its completion in the con? tract with the city. There are two and a half thousand feet of line still to be laid and several hundred feet Of till Which was passed over in the laying of the pipe, to be gone back to and completed, Besides this there Is a <" nerete abutment to be placed at the place] where the sewage empties in? to the swamp. Mr. Carr said that the did not anticipate any further stops in the work unless a spell of bad weather sets in which would cause de? lay, Wednesday afternoon pumps were at work carrying Off the ground wat> r Which sprung up In tho ditch and B gang of men were busy tilling in the ditch Where the pipe had been laid and cemented the day before and had dried lUfllelently. Owing to tho cold weather during the past two days the cement has i ot dried and hardened as quickly as when the weather was warmer, and the( freshly laid pipes have to be given at least twenty-four hours time in which to allow the cement to dry and harden before the dirt Is thrown in and tamped down over thorn. ALABAMA LIQUOR BILL. Proposed Methods of Regulating Traffic,Under Local option. Montgomery, Ala., Peb, 21,?A Joint committee of the house tonight con? sidered the two bills to regulato sa? loons ami dispensaries in Alabama. The sab on bill provides a retail li? cense of $1,500, except In Birming? ham, w here It Ii to be $ 2,o00. and j one saloon to every 1,000 Inhabitants, except in Birmingham, where it Is one to every 2,000, and In Montgom? ery, where it Is one t.? every 750, liars are allowed, but no screens and the saloons are to open at a. m. and close at 1 1 p. m. Wholesalers and brewers and distillers pay fl,800 licenses, The dispensary bill provides for tho 12,600 license to go to the state, one dispensary to every county, open at <*? a. m. aad close at f> p. m. The President of the Senate, n. P. Morrow, of Birmingham, Introduced a bill today to make the Parks local option bill Inoperative in those coun? ties which were dry on the 1st dny ?f Januarv tea? ??.*???< ? ?... ?*. . 1Farmers' U Practical Thoughts f (Conducted by E. W. Dnbbs, l?ret Co Homo Random Thought*. There are some things about land breaking humus, saving the CorestB, etc, in \?ur selections tirs week that sonic of nur readers may lind of in l ten st and i>rolit. ? ? i We are having a long dry warm ?pell of weather, it tries to rain I about once a week, but so far very I little. Clay lands are hard, and do not break as well as tin y should. Per? haps when it does set ia to rain we will be wishing for it to stop. We hope this spring will not he like last year?plenty of warmth in Fberuary ami March ami the. stay cool all of A mil and M ay. E. W. 1>. What china Teaches i s About For? est Destruction. One of the most important of tin ! many Important subj< eti discussed in ! Editor Poe'l Asiatic Letten is one treated two weeks ago the enormous losses whkh those U.iental countries suffer, and probai iy must suffer through all the centuries to come through failure to give proper at? tention to forest preservation. Mr. Poe'l article gives a vivid picture of the ruin of once fertile lands through overtlows, the sitting up and periodical drying up of once con? stant .streams, the enormous sums spent by poor peasants for coal taken scores ami hundreds of miles on donkey-back into districts allere prop* r forest-management wou:d have forcer maintained sufficient quanti? ties of fin 1 at low rate.-. Here indeed Is the search-light of China's lang history turned full upon one of the I ig problems of our new country, and with it we must see clearly the ruin ahead unless we are wise enough to profit by the lesson for which China has paid so dearly. In ccnncotl iti u itti ilu. srHofcP *i, remind* ol Mr. Roosevelt's message to Congress two years ago in which he called attention to these photo? graphs and also to a special report concerning the ruin wrought in China though neglect of the forests. In this message Mr. Roosevelt put so force? fully the argument for wiser legisla? tion and management that we reprint some extracts from his message as follows: "The lesson of deforestation In China is a lesson which mankind should have learned many times al? ready from what has occurred in oth < r places. Denudation leaves naked soil, then gullying cuts down to the bare rock; and meanwhile the rock waste buries the bottom lands. When the soil is gone, men must go; and the process does not take long. 'This ruthless destruction of the forests in northern China has brought about or has aided in bringing about, desolution, just as the destruction of the forests in central Asia aided in bringing ruin to the once rich cen? tral Asian cities; just as th?1 de? struction of the forests in northern Africa helped towards the ruin of a regies that was a fertile granary in Roman days. Shortsighted man, whether barbaric, semi-civilized, or what he mistakenly regards as fully civilized, when he has destroyed the forests, has rend? ered certain the ultimate destruction of the land itself, In nothem China the mountains are now absolutely barren peaks*. Not only have the fort sts been d ^stroyed, but because of their destruction the soil has been washed off the naked rock. The ter rlbl< consequence is that it is Impos? sible now to indo the damage that hat been clone. Many centuries would have to pass before soil would again collect, or could be made to Collect, in sufficient quantity once more in support of the old time forest grow? th." it is especially important that we of tin* South h arn this great lesson of lotest preservation, for the forest con? stitute ;i greal portion of our wealth ami we have seemed to consider them inexhaustible, or as a concern of nature alone. We must realise that the reckless, wasteful methods of the p ist will not longer do, that the for? ests are to be protected and conserv? ed and perpetuated hist as is the fer? tility of our soils. We must barn. too, that forest preservation Is not a local matter? the destruction of the Appalachian forests is a matter of direct concern to the dwellers in the Mississippi Val? ley or along th<> Atlantic" Coast, and they cannot afford to view such de? struction with indifference. indeed, nion News | or Practical Farmers|) ddent Furniers' Union of Sumier t\) only.) \( it la high time for farmers every I where t? insist thai both State and Nation take due steps to preserve tin forests for present and future use? fulness, ami for tin- criminal for* st waste of the past to give place to methods of practical conservation.?? , Progressive Farmer, The Wonderful Potash Deposits in Saxony. I Somewhere in the dim pas!, when ; Europe was a tropical country, a 1 little arm of the sea was separated , off into a huge natural evaporation i pan. Here for thirteen thousand years, as the geologists tell us, the I biasing sun heat down on the great salt lake which was later, in our own ? time, to 1 e the Btossfurt potash re I I gion in Saxony. 11 extends from the j Harz Mountains to the Bib and from I Magdc urg to Bcrnburg. A channel : from the ocean ran Into this lake and ! as the uters were evaporat d new salt ; waters were supplied. Thus these de j pOSltfi Of SaltS are < \ ;v 5,006 feet (nearly a mile) d ? Th< are prac j tlcally Inexhaustible. Nowhere else In Ih World are there j potash deposits even remote ly c? mpar I able to those at Blassfurt, For, af j ter the thousands of y ars of i vap oration, Nature came alo..g and laid a solid deposit of Impervlcts clay over the precious salts. Otherwise the rain and water soaking through the earth would have dissolved and carried away these deposits, as dc | posits In cdher parts of the world have I undoubtedly been carried a.vay. ! Thus it comes about that, aided by i Nature, the little group of mine own : em In the Btassfurt region have a I grip on the potash trade of the world, j and hence on the farmer who Is the I greatest of all consumers of potash, 1 a grip such as few of the strongest i monopolies in any other necessary have ever possessed.?From "The j Potash Industry and the American (From the Atlanta Constitution.) K. A. Sui?lette. originally of South Carolina, but now a planter in Ter? rell county, Georgia, is going to make the farmers of that county sit up and take notice. He has bought a big Georgia plan? tation and plans to do a largo part of his cultivation by machinery. lie b ? secured a first class traction engine and a big gangplough, and is going to turn them loose on his acres. The ordinary methods do not ap? peal to him. He is going to run his farm by modern methods ?aflieh in? clude mechanical aids?to the limit. The Constitution would like to see that policy Imported Into every sgri i ultural county in Georgia. Farming by machinery Is common? place In the West and the Southwest. It is not frequent In the States of the Atlantic seaboard. But it ought to be Such a policy saves time, enhances productivity, increases income, saves money, :$nos a long way toward solv? ing the vexed labor problems. Indeed, if all Southern farmers used the mechanical aids at their disposal, the unreliable negro farm laborer would be lessened as a Southern menace. It goes without saying that Mr Bublette's Terrell count;, experiment will be ?'i success. The latest freak bobs up In the Wisconsin legislature. Speaker In? gram has introduced a bill to estab? lish State insurance. The theory is advanced to combat the growing demand for old age pensions. In? gram wants to make it possible for every Wisconsin cltlsen to obtain insurance at exact cost, the expense of administration to be paid by the State . Ingram is a reform poli? tician of the Ls Follette school. He has obtained admirable results in the legislature by forcing import? ant .measures to the front first, re? fusing to assign minor bills to committees until legislative action has ben taken on this question.? Greenville News. Charleston ami Columbia ha\e no kick on the governor that does not prop* rly belong on their own corpor? ation. Charleston and Columbia elected Bleass and they cannot plead either ignorance or Innocence.?-Flor? ence Times. Senator Lorimer says he never gives up. Then who did? Several members of the Illinois legislature swore that thoy got it.- Anderson Mail. 'BILL NYE DAY" A SI < I ESS. Observed With Appropriate Esrr cises in North < arolina. CCharlotte, x. <\. Fob, 2-.?Praetl ca'Iy every scl.1 end collesje in .Vorth Carolina celebrated "Dili Nye Day" with appropriate exercises to* day, th?- pulls, giving an hour to the execution of s Programme prepared ly the dm N>< llemoiial Committee whili memory of the "Father of his Country" played a ond Addle t> thai of ti. lamented humorist. Ev? ery pupil v is requested to bring a penny for tb<- memorial fund -ond s- r> eral thousand dollars 0/ere collected, whieh will be applied to the erection of the BUI Nye M- mortal building at the Stonewall Jacks >n Training Bcho ?i, a movement undertaken by the North Carolina Prcas Association. Tho day >-et was four days removed from the anniversary of Dill Nye's death at Craig-Y-Nos. his North Caro? lina mountain home in 1*96. PORK EATERS ON INCREASE. More Hogs Conaamod in Ittfj Than All other Animals Combined. Washington, Feb. 2 S.?"Pork eat? ers" is a term Which may rightfully be applied t > the people of the United States if the figures just made public i y the eensus bureau for the year 1909 may be taken as a basis. Th*- figures show that during that year 4,483,00u more hogs were killed in this country for food purposes than all other animals combined, in i hiding beeves, calves. sheep and lambs, goats, kids, etc. During the i year 1909, 36,433,000 hogS were killed f r food prrposes and 31.90U.000 of I all other animals. There are indications that the most promising Congress. . for a score of years has lost its dynamic force six weeks before its end; but little of the legislation begun In December is , likely to be enacted. Same are pre ! dieting that the appropriation bills will not be passed by March the 4th. , It is almost impossible for a hetero , geneous team of over three hundred patriots, statesmen, demagogues and j cranks to pull together as a har I monious whole. A majority of Con ! g ess knows that the country is de? manding a lowering of certain tariff ! schedules. It knows that the country 1 wants a parcels post and many other ? wfth Vif,if a ; legislation. ! ? It is said that the New York j senatorial deadlock Will not be brok 1 en this week. Everybody will be I glad?provided Sheehan isn't elected. ; ?Anderson Mali. The Milwaukee Sentinel says: A ! Chicago man has brought a $2.r>.000 suit against a girl fo*- breach of prom? ise." Man? Evidently some molly? coddle has been mistaken for a man. ?Wilmington Star. FOR SALE?one Meek Lull. Full i Jersey. Elegant sped man. Harby ! & Co. -2-25-lt FOR BALE?Tools improved cotton seed. |1.09 per bushel. Cash with ordi r. J. A. W athersL. . . I Norway. S. C. 2-21-4t. > WANTED?At once, we\ eral farm hands to work on truck farm, j Wages $1.50 per day. Steady time, j Apply to J. W. Eves, OjtM, Dade ; County, Florida. 2-21 -2t MONET MAKES COTTON SEED? Will pay yju, if you are raising cotton. If you are not posted, it will pay you to investigate. We can furnish a limited quantity of pure seed, raised on our farm where there has never been any blight. $1.00 per bushel. Let us book your order at once if you intend to plant Money Maker. C. P. OsteOtt Co., Sumter. S. C. 2-1-tf I D 1 am so enthusiastic concerning the v irtue> of HINT'S T? that l always keep s bottle of it in the house, ami to mj particular friends l give a bottle aaleas tsssj live so near that 1 can pour out from my own supply to tide them over any trouble. 1 use tbi> lini? ment for cohK, rubbing it on my throat and chest as a 001111101" irri? tant. ? ??? 1 won't say any more but >ou see how enthusiastic I am.. Mi?. 1,1a It. .ludd. 1 West 87th Street. New ^ 01 L City. t For Sale D> si BERT'S DRUG STORE.