Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HAD A HARD SKULL The Baseball Catcher Who Was tha Original Donahaad. Cd Ashentui- Ii. for many years h manager of minor league teams, tu his book. "Humor Among the Minors.' claims to be the originator of the ex preesion "bonehcad." which is now with Its synonymous terms of "solid Ivory,** "mahogany bean," "concrete dome" aod "cement skull." so common In bssehalL Asbentack says thst when he %nja managing the Shrcveport team of the ftoutberu league some years ago he bad a catcher who could bit sone but who had the rery serious wenl neos of not l*?lng able to gauge a fon bei' no matter bow easy It was. One day a batter raised s high fon. directly over the plate, sod the catch er. misjudging It. wss hit squarely on top of the heed by the descending sphere, which knocked off his mas), and bound**! away some thirty feet That night Asheoheck flalabed hi* sapper early and was passing oat of the dining room when he bsppened Is walk bsauna this catcher, who was de ?oaring his evealug meal with gusto and snthoetasm. gtopptng st the U Me. Ri passed hta hands over the berkstef/s heed, feeling far the bnmp he thought would sorely be en oeeeaot of the contact wlra hnO rhat sfternooo. Bot there no romp to bo feit. "No wonder.** Ash. "How could there bo s it Toor bead Is setld booe." The Old Problem. ?This magasine looks rather the worse for wear" "Tee; Ifs the one I sometimes lend to the servant on Sundays." "Doesn't she get tired of reading al? ways the same onef* Td>h, no. Yon see. It's the same book, bot It's always a different serv ?IXC1 union HATKH VIA. SOCTIL ER* RAILWAY. Accoant South Atlantic States Music Festival. The Southern Railway announces very low round trip rates from all points In South Carolina to Spartan burg. 8. C, and return. Tickets will be on sale April 25th. 2?th and 27th. with final limit good to leave Spar tanberg jp to and Including, but not later than midnight of April 29th. 19tl. Account Fifth Annual Horse Show Association, the Southern Hallway also announces very low round tr k. far*e to 'Greenville. S. C, and return, ticketa to be sold May Sth. 9th. 10th and 11th. limited good to reach original starting point returning not later than midnight of May 28ih. 1911. For Information aa to rates, etc.. apply to ticket agents, or address. J U MEKK. Asst. Oen. Passenger Agent, Atlanta. Qa. W. E. McGF.I l>l\ls?on Paseng?r Agent. Charleston. 8. C. 4-22-tt. To Iteckcepcrs.. The A. I. Koot Co.. Medina. Ohio, are offering a atx month's trial sub scrlptlon to Gleanings In Bee Cub ture and a free book 80 hee keeping and their 1911 catalogue of bee sup? plies all for twenty-five cents. Oleanlngs In Bee Culture Is the Unding publication of Its kind In this country. Is issued twice a month for 91.00 s year. It Is handsomely printed and Illustrated. Address The A. I. Root Co.. Medl Ina, Ohio. In writing mention this paper. Health Officer Harry Deberry, of Florence, was arrested Thursday on a warrant sworn out by Chief of Po? lios Koopmsn. charging him with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature on a young lady from Lee County who was passlmc through Florence and asked him at the dep ?t b. direct her to a board? ing house. Scmter Is not alone In facing a large deficit In the city treasury. An? derson Is now struggling with a float? ing dabt of f:t 1,000 and In conse quenee th?? city council has adopted a reso'otlon th??t no mnr? permanent work of any description will be tin* dertuken until January 1. 1912. HUNT'S Lightning Oil I III I.IMMI N I sans n> SIHI RT S DIM (. SlOIti: A 8 S4CMAPD9 OlDICINE CO Shirm.,n. ffBSf TRUE IRISH G?LLS They Have a Flavor All Their Own, "the Effect of Climate." BRANDS FROM OTHER LANDS. The B?st of the French Built Are Acted, Net Spoken?8ome Droll Ex* amplee of the Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and German. Sir Hlchard Steele explained why his countrymen made hulls: "'Tis the ef? fect of the climate, sir. If aa English man were horn to Ireland be would make as many." said ha It is not ev? ery one who knows a bull when he aeea her. It may be no bull, but merely a blander ? a betlee, as the French hare it. To make sure that we bare the true criterion let us first set do wo a few of the genuine, ortho? dox Irish kind: He built the wall wider than It waa high, so that whan It fall down It ahonld be higher than It was wide. Two weary and footsore Irish man coma to a milestone, tan satten la Dofc fta. "Arrea," says ana, - 'tis bat fire mllns spiece." Disputing of the date of St, Patrick's birthday. "He couldn't hare had two anlese he waa twine." Aa Irish sailor reported that la Phil adelphla they copper bottomed the tope of the houses with sheet lead. Give me the loan of a hatchet to saw an empty barrel of flour in two to make the dog a pigpen. His estate la divided by Impenetra? ble fane ditches made of quarried stones set oo edge. An Iiishmao. describing a glorious fight, said, "There was only one whole noee lo the bouse, and that was the taypofe." In these sod In hundreds like them we have the true flavor of the Irish ball There aro geaulne bulls la Preach, bat they are rare. The geulus of the language does not leod Itself to any? thing less than neat precision. A French bull is usually nothing more than a betlse. Still, Preoch bulls exist Leon, Bishop und Couot of Llsleux wrote to the Duchess of Brissac aa fob lows: "Madame, knowing how fond you are of red partridges. I send you here? with half a doxeo. Three of them are gray, aod oue is a woodcock. Too will find this letter lo the bottom of the basket." A Frenchman used a large stone Jar for a pillow, explaiolng that it was not hard because he had stuffed It full of hay. The very beat French bulls are acted, not spoken. The Duke de St Simon relates that a lady, lying ill, was much disturbed by the ringing of the church bells. To deaden the noise her lover had the strret io front of her house laid .\ Ith struw. A spoken bull lo Freoch Is apt to be something dirt er en t from the Irish va? riety, something more like a betlse. as has been said. Aod it la difficult to retain the flavor la translation. "Ce aoot toujours lea meines soldals qut se ! foot tuer," says Marshal Bugeuud of ' his army. This loses a little wheu one translates, "it Is always the same sol diers who get themselves killed." "Eo fait d'ioutilltes 11 oe faut que le uecessalre" la more highly colored la the Preach thao la Its traaslatloa. "Ooly so many useless things are re? quired as are strictly necessary." I Here is the translation of part of aa , Italiao letter. "We have had a most famous earth? quake. If by the mercy of Ood It had lasted for aaother hnlf hour we should all have gooe to paradise, from which may (3od deliver ua. Whether you re? ceive this letter or cot, please advise me In either case." j Hero Is a Portuguese bull. In offer lag a reward for the recovery of the corpse of a drowaed man his relatives remarked that the deceased might be Ideotlfled. If found, by a slight Impedl moot lo his speech. i After mach research it has been s>j , far Impossible to discover a genuine Spanish bull, but here is a Dutch bull: "The pig had no marks oo his ears except a short tall." Aod here Is a tier man hull: "Der Zaou der Zelt, der alle Thraoeu trocknet, wird auch ?ber diese Sache Gras wachsen lassen" ("The tooth of time, that wipes away all tears, will penult grass to grow over this mat? ter also"). Blunders In F.ngllsh speech are not uncommon. The orthodox bull of Ire? land has scarcely crossed the chnnnel. A fellow of the lloyal society speaks of "the earthquake that had had the honor to be noticed by the Royal so? ciety." "The West Indies will now have a future which they have never had in Ibf past" sounds promising until one sees that Its bullish quality Is n mere blunder by which the word "opportuni? ty" was omitted There hi none of the flavor of the famous definition of salt by the Irish schoolboy, "Sail is that Which mnl.es your potatoes taste nasty If you don't put if In." Rven the heal of the foreign hulls in Latin tongues evoke Ihe snsntrlon thai they are mere translations from Irian ?ftsdnata The Dutch* the Germans nnd perhaps the English mny have the penuine article at times No dlatlnc' tlvcly Ameri. :in hulls have emerged from the long research thai Is the foundation ?.f tin-se frw paragraphs. - Kew V<>rk Sun. Heady. lie i wonder what your father will spy when I aak him tor your lend she Uon'l worry annul I hot, dear lie rehearsed it with me this morning und he does it beantli u j RECIPROCITY BILL PASSES. measure: receives almost solid support of demo? crats, Passage Ends Rls>day Fight, Which Hm Waged With Unusual Warmth ?Fanners' Free BUI to Follow. Washington, April 21.?Prjsident Tad's Canadian reciprocity agre> mont, supported by all but a handful of l ?emoerats, and opposed by a ma? jority of the Republicans, passed the houae of representatives early this evening by a vote of 265 to 89. With nearly 200 Democrats in control, and their action indorsed by a large body of the Republicans, the bill to put the agreement in force was adopted with no amendments and in almost Identically the form in which it passed the house in the last session of the preceding congress. The bill seeks to put into effect the formal agreement reached between President Taft and members of the Canadian cabinet for a reduction of tariff rates on many articles and free trade on many others across the Canadian bor? der. Added to it by the Democratic 'eaders is * section which "authorizes and requests" President Taft to make further efforts to secure still freer tra'e relations with Canada, in the form of additional reelproclal rela tionj* The passage of the bill marked the close of a fight that had raged in the house for six days. Amendments were admitted in the house today for almost every section of the bill, and In each case they were rejected by an overwhelming vote given by the friends of the measure on both sides of the house on the theory that any amendment would nullify it. Ten Democrats vot?d against the bill on its passage, while 197 Demo? crats voted for it. As in the case when the bill passed at the preceding session of congress, a majority of the Republicans W3re found against it, the party vote being 67 for and 78 opposed. Among the Democrats voting in the negative were Qudger and Webb (N. C). The attempt to amend the agree? ment began with the final reading of the bill at 3 o'clock. The threats of Republicans opposed to the measure to make the Democrats vote against amendments for free meat, free lum? ber and free agrlcultral machinery were carried out, but as their party leaders declared that any amendment would defeat the whole trade agree? ment they cheerfully voted these amendments down. The Republicans who taunted them with opposing free admission of thes?? Important products were met with the assertion that the Democrats would lay the new "farmers' free list bill" before the house next week ,and that an opportunity would then be given to VOta for free meat, machinery, lumber and a BOOrs of other things. This defense was met by Republi? can standpatters with the charge that the Democrats knew the free list bill could rnt pass the senate nor secure the president's approval, The section of the bill relating to free admision of pulp and pap?r provoked the sharpist discussion, drawing from Representative Mann (111.), the Republican leader, the ntntement that It was exactly In the terms agreed upon by the two coun? tries. Former Speaker Cannon bitterly at? tacked this section of the bill. "I^et's bring Canada down here and surrender the halls of congress to them," exclaimed Mr. Cannon. "I challenge the statement that we are going to pass the free list bill later and with the expectation that it will not become a law," said O. W. Underwood, Democratic leader, in re? ply to statements from Republican opponents of the reciprocity bill. "The free list bill will become a law or the Republican senate that kills it or the Republican president that vetoes it will never be heard from again." Ottawa, Ont., April 21.?News of the heavy majority given reciprocity at Washington was received with much satisfaction by the government and Liberal members who are sup? porting the measure here. The Ca? nadian opponents of the till are not placing their faith In the hope that the United States senate will long de? lay the bill or kill It. "The vote at Washington today will be a great aid to the Canadian friends of reciprocity," said a member of the Dominion government. NEGRO BOY SENTENCED TO DIE. Gary Gist, Aged 19, is Found Guilty of Attempted Criminal Assault on White Woman. Spartanburg, April 21.?In a trial I marked by the orderly conduct of the j spectators and scrupulous regard for j the rights of the defendant, Gary Gist, a negro, 19 year3 of ago, was con? victed in the court of general sessions here today of having attempted crim? inal assault upon a white woman in this city, and was sentenced by Judge Wilson to hang on May 26. The only defense was that the negro was drunk. Annual Reunion United Confederate Veteran?, Little Rock, Ark., May 15-18th, 1911. For this occasion the Atlantic Coast Line railroad has authorized special low rates, May 13th, 14th and > 5th. limited until May 23rd. Ticket can bo deposited at Little Rock, and upon payment of a fee of fifty cents, at time of deposit, limit of ticket can be ex I tended to. and including June 14th, 1911. For rates and information, apply to nearest agent, or T. C. White, General Passenger Agent, Wilming? ton, N. C. 4-5-to5-15. BEEKEEPERS' SUPPLIES. 1 have decided to keep on hand a stock of Hives, Frames, Sections, Comb Foundations, Smokers, Veils, Gloves, Etc., for Beekeepers, and will order any goods not in stock. Those goods are made by the A. I. Root Co., the largest and most re? liable manufacturers of Apiarian Sup? plies in this country. Catalogue will be furnished cn application. Also on hand Roots ARC and X Y Z of Beekeeping Price $1.50, by mall 25 cents additional. If you are keeping bees in the old way, get this book, and learn to do it in the improved way. N. G. OSTEEN, Daily Item Office, Sumter, S. C. Why and How We Pay 4 Per Cent Bank by Mail. Tho public has long been taught, and rlgbtly, to bell'dve that unusually high rates of interest do not go with perfect safety. We give our customers the "Square l>eal" and diviue the profits with them by paying a liberal rat I of interest for their money. THE PEOPLES' BANK, u W. LIBERTY ST. SVMTEIt, S. C. Banking by Mail. Mr Karmer, suppose vou sell a horse, a cow, some hay or grain, and are paid by check on a bank in some neighbor" ing tow n You are busy and can't come to town for a few days Do no1 carry this ckeck around. You are sleeping on your rights, Let Uncle Sam help you. Endorse the check, Make it payable to us ?'t order and sign your name below. Mail it at once to our bank and ask us to plat c it t<> \ our credit. You have thus protected yourself by using due diligence in presenting the check for payment. It tin* buyer's ac? count should be closed, from any cause, vou could then comeback on him, otherwise he would escape. \\ e will mail a receipt fur your deposit. Use the mail and the tele? phone, \ "ii tlon'l hav? t<> come t(> town to hank. Mail us youi i In ( ). - a nil save trouble. We'll be glad to iccom* niodatc \ oti THE FARMERS' BANK & TRUST CO. Opportunity is said to knock but once? But you have a chance to open an account wiih this bank six days out of every week. Once you have started to sav? ing a part of your earnings, you will be prepared whenever a good business opportunity presents itself. Having a bank account helps create business ability. The Bank of Sumter Established 1889 T TTVyrLTl /^T?TV/rLT'TVTrP ACME PLASTER. SHINGLES TToat flroin Rice Flour. Ship Stuff, Bran, lidy, VJI dill, Mixed Cow and Chicken Feed. Horses, Mules. ??rne.8e8' No Order Too Large Or Too BmalL Booth-Harby Live Stock Co. SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA. DON'T WAIT Wait for next Spring and higher prices?buy now and reap the pro? fit yourself. Seme ct the Choice Properties Listed With Us now at Quick Sale Prices No. 331 West Hampton Avenue. No. 212 West Hampton Avenue. No. 24 Haskell Street. SUMTER REAL ESTATE I INSURANCE CO., Farmers' Bank & Trust Co. Bldg. Sumter, S. C. GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD MONEY IN THE BANK ggg^^HY DONT YOU TeT^R T aT^ BANK ACCOUNT? you will BE BETTER FJATLSFICD with Yourself If Adam, 4,004 H.C., had lived and earned $10 a day until now, he would have earned less than 22 million dollars. If he had found ONE dollar and put it out at ONEfper cent compound interest that one dollar would now amount to $664,597,604.385.947,648. Money gtows if you will let it Make OUR Hank YOUR Hank. We pay liberal interest consistent with safety 4^. Firsft National Bank, SUMTER, S. C. Sumter's Future Good. iirohna, east The outlook for Sumter's growth is bright. Tirst, because she is the largest t< vvn of ! ; rn oi the San tee VVateree River Systt in. Second, because her tributary territory is one of the finest agri? cultural territories in the world, and farming is now making tremen? dous strides, and more profits than ever before. Third, slu' is tin* best railroad center, and distributing point in the best tanning territory in the State. Fourth, because her business men have the progressive spirit. See us for lands, lots and buildings ni Sumter and CI'Y. rARM AND UM HER PROPtRTY HAN DUO. REAL FSTAIE LOANS NEG01IAHD. 2(> 1-2N. Main St. 18. tor li REAL EST/TE BROKERS SUM! ER, S. C. ier territory MONEY INVESTED IN REAl fSTAi!- MORI GAGES lOMh isvf^t >?:l'R 101 L V "\LY ?1 7 INO l PEN eENI Phono 404.