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MMT! eOllllESPONDEIIGE. a aTWBY letter? from our spe? cial correspondents. Hmxtm off Interest From ?II Parts off jssufg sad Adjoining Counties. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mall your Isttsrs so that they will r??oh this office not later than Mon? tag when Intended Tor Wednesday's v*p?r and not later than Thursday tor Saturday's issue. This, of course, eppiles sah? to reguter eorreepeod asjaa la ease sf Itsms st uauauaJ isaaj Talus, sead to Imsasdiatsly by stall, telephone a> tstsaraph. Such ??we stsrloo are ease ?table ap to ths auur off going ts proas. Wednesday's sapor is printed Tuesday afternoon ? ?.d essai mjf'M paper Fridiiy efter Saadk WTSACKY Wlsacky. Uwe, i.?We have had, aad are still having, ths moet unfa? vorable weather for harveutlng our orops that I have ever experienced. Ws have not had one full weok'g pick Ina*, without one or two dayi of rain, aot only retarding ths piecing, but injuring ths staple. If we could have two or throe weeks of good weather ths farmers could finish gathering their crops, which will excel any crop of cotton I have ever known mads In this section per acre. I have not seen any oats planted so far. The land has been and still is. too wot to plow. There will be full crope put In. ' a number of our beet farmers are holding their cotton for bettor prices. If speeches aad resolutions will ac? complish anything ths farmers will soon bs in position to baffle the specu? lators an 1 control the pries of cotton. There hare been some wise suggest? ion* made, which, if put into execu? tion, would accomplish much for ths op preened farmer. Numbers from this section attend? ed the State Fair. I waa truly disap? pointed. The stock and farm exhibits were only poor; the poultry sfWw was fins. Many want especially to sae the air ship fly. but were disappointed. Had to pay a dims to see the ship. Mr. aad Mr*. J. C. Scott, after an etxended tour through Europe, have returned to America and are visiting Mr. snd Mm Willie McCutchen. Mr. Walter Wilson, after a long ab. sence. visited hid msny friend* around Wlsacky last week. Mr. snd Mrs. John T. Oresn visited at ths home of W. A. Green, who is ejulte sick. Mr. James Orsen is also very feeble. Mrs, 8. A. Welsh Is quite sick, and a great sufferer. Mr. Willie McCutchen had his fins mare, thst has won so msny prlsos for style, and speed, so bsdly Injured an a wreck on the train on her way to Columbia, that he had Id have her killed. H was a heavy loss U him as we valued her very high. 1 took a g trapse at your beautiful ally last Fridny to admire th? wonder ffsl improvements you have made and are still making. Hop* y Mir town may continue to grow and not become bankrupt. Amen. bocky Butrrr. Rocky Bluff. Nov. t.?If the pres? ent cold rainy weather continues much longer lots of the cotton will rot. Most of the corn, peas and hay hsve been gsthsred. but It seems there will be cotton here until March. Sorna hsve nice winter gardens, while others havs almost none. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Raker and Mr. J. J. Hatneld and son. James, went to Sumter Thursday to attend ths burial of little Herman Hatfleld. he Infant son of Mr. snd Mrs. B. F. Hatfleld of Concord. Msssrs W. R. Wells and J. J. Hatfleld attended the funeral and burial of Rev. Satterwhlte. Mr*. Fogle returned to her home la Orsngeburg Isaf Friday aftsr a long visit to her daughter. Mrs. W. r Well* Miss Rv* Hatneld spent Saturday and Sunday at home. Mr. and Mra Sumter Watts spent Tuesday In Sumter. Cotton recelp** last week ? mount? ed to between 3.S00 and 3,60>) balea. Th* receipts Frldsy and Saturday wars ?74 and t70 bsles, rsspectlvely. Monday moramg the cotton weigh? ers were busy weighing up cotton which had tvten shipped In hers ovsr the railroad* "Madam, have you any old clothes fa give away?" "I have a suit be? longing t<> my husband, but I fear It to too bis for you." "Oh. that will ho all right t*g*j Just set me out s square meal and watch me egg enough no that I can nil It."-Washington Times. Ihr Wiley snys good < ooking Is a first class < mm lot divorce evil In this country A little good sense also would help some.?St. P gl IHsptitrh CAJUTJ in civil coruT. Crnwtwcll JJ Company Win Suit for $213.75?Ap|N'Ul in Ltmry Cum*? A. Gi L. Suit Agni list A. 1>. Harby in Court. The case of c'n?8Hv\eii & Company against LoaoH *c Cane of New York was tuken up this morning in the Court of Common Please now In ses? sion, nnd ufter the witnesses hud been examined the case was submit? ted to the Jury without any argu? ments. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $312.75, the full amount sued for. The ease was one brought by Crosswell & Company against Leach & Grass because of the shipment Of supplies to them other then those which the plaintiff had ordered. The loss was alleged to have occur? red In the securing of apples to fill orders which had been made on the understanding that Leach & Qass wers to ship certain apples which they did not ship. Mr. L. D. Jennings represented the plaintiff and D. D. Molss the defendants. An appeal for a new trial was made by the attorneys for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company which In the E. A. Lowry case which result? ed in a verdict for the plaintiff for tho full amount sued for. Ths case of the A. C. L. vs. A. D. Harby was taken up in the civil court Thursday morning. The plain? tiff Is represented by Mark Reynolds. Esq., and ths defendant by D. D. Motse, Esq. The case Is one where the railroad company eues Mr. Harby to recover freight alleged to be due on certain buggies shipped from Ohio to this Stats. A counter-claim was at first entered by the defend? ant on ths ground that the defendant had boon damaged to the amount of ths claims mads by the Atlantic Coast Line, as he had sold the goods on a basso of freight as that he had paid when the goods were delivered. A demurrer was mads to this and was sustained and the case came up before the Jury Thursday on its merits. The Coast Line alleges that the freight on ths goods yas $47. and some cents, whUe when the goods were delivered a bill of $27.50 was mads out by them and was paid by Mr. Harby. Afterwards it was dis? covered that ths freight amounted to $20 more and a bill for this amount was presented to Mr. Harby and he refused to pay it on the grounds that he had already sold the vehicles and would be damaged to a like amount If he paid the bill. The case was still in progress when court adjourned for its noon recess. Moral Effect of Morphine. Morphine stands unequalled as a perverter of the moral sense. Whis? key may disturb the Imagination and Judgment, causing many foolish and unwise actions to follow Its use, but morphine strlkos deeper and creates a person whom the father of lies must recognise as kindred to him? self. Stories that are the creation of a disturbed brain, told In a manner to appear so intrinsically true that the stories become works of art, are what you will obtain from the habitual user of morphine or cocaine. I know nothing that will appeal to one of these sufficiently to enable you to get an honest reply to any question of moment you may addrees to him. If you should receive a truthful re? ply it will be by accident.?North American Joumsl of Homeopathy. In The Police Court. Jos Hogan, reckless driving of an automobile, $10 or 20 days. Nathan Williams, Banzy Boyle, J. F. Tladale, riding bicycle on forbid? den sidewalks, forfeited bond of $2 each, upon not appearing for trial. Wilson Mixon. riding bicycle on forbidden sldewulk, plead guilty and was fined $2. Hobt. Newman, violation of auto? mobile ordinance by exceeding speed limit. $10 or 20 days. Eddie Washington, vagrancy, $15 or 30 days. Jack Drayton, rolling wheel barrow on sidewalk. $2. Sentence suspended. Makes Out Annual Report. The county superintendent of edu? cation H making out his annual re? port for the Stai'.e superintendent of education. The report covers a largo number of details connected with the schools und school work In the coun? ty and requires quite a lot of lubor. The report has to be In time for the Male superintendent of education to make out his report to the General Assembly, before that body meets. The report was not made out pr? vlnim to this owing to the fact that Superintendent <>f lalucatlon J. H. Haynnworth did not have all of the i m sasary Information on band, The bare ?>f Mr, .J. K, Brown( Jr., at rigrille erai barned Tuesday <>r last week. Insurance $260. Lorn >th..ilt $n*)0. TOBACCO TRUST CASE. FEW MODIFICATIONS IN FLAN proposF.i? FOR DISSOLl TION OF COMBINE. Federal Tribuanl I'nubh> to Pro Odo For Five Your Trial of Prop? osition?Receivership and Sale Penally For Disobedience. NSW York. Nov. 8.?The litigation e/hleh the f?deral government begun four and a half years ago to break up the American Tobacco company as a monopoly In restraint of trade, approached the stage of completion today by Judicial acceptance, with a few modifications, of the much dis? cussed plan which the Tobacco com? pany itself drew up for dissolution of the combine In accordance with a mandate of tfie United States su? preme court. The decision of approval was filed by Judge I^acombe of the United States circuit court soon after stock market hours this afternoon and sup? plementary opinions were filed by Judges Cox and Noyes concurring generally with Judge Lacombe. No one of the Judges regarded the plan as perfect, but all declared that the Ideal was beyond attainment and that as a practical, substantial compliance with the law, the plan, as slightly modified, appeared the best attain? able. Eath Judge asserted his belief that the piin is honest and that there is no question of the good faith of its authors. Judge Ward, the fourth member of the court, who attended some of the conferences and sat with his associates at the open hear? ing, filed no opinion. The features of the opinions of Judges Lacombe, Noyes and Cox are that the dissolution should be con? summated without delay; that the re? quest of Attorney General Wicker sham for the reservation by the gov? ernment of right to apply for further or other relief within a period of five years if the plan did not result In harmony with the law is declar? ed not to be *vithln the authority of the court to grant; that the court does enjoin for a period of three years the 29 Individual defendants in (he suit from acquiring any addition? al holdings in the companies into which the trust Is split; and that the application made by independents for dissolution of the United Cigar Stores company lay outside the authority of the court, but that this did not pre? clude any Independent action later against the Cigar Stores company as an Individual corporation." The announcement of the court's action was followed almost Imme? diately by the declaration of coun? sel for several of fhe ^nposlng to? bacco Interests that an attempt un? doubtedly would be made to have the decision reviewed by the Un.ted States supreme court. Judge Noyes drew a general moral from the case. In conclusion he said: "The extent to which it has been recessary to tear apart this combi? nation and force It into new forms, with the attendant burdens, ought to demonstrate that the federal anti? trust statute is a drastic statute which accomplishes effective results, which, so long as it stands on the statute books, must be obeyed, and which can not be disobeyed without incurring far-reaching penalties. And, on the other hand, the successful re? construction of this organization should teach that the effect of en? forcing this statute against industrial combinations Is not to destroy but to recreate in accordance with the con? ditions which the congress has de? clared shall exist among the people of the United States." Marriage License Record. Mr. William B. Stackhouse of Dillon and Miss Dora Bennett of this city, secured a marriage license Wednesday. The following colored couples have secured marriage licenses: Wash Bradley and Rosa James of Blshop vllle; Danlle H. Moore and Leila Lowry of Sumter and James Sweet and Rosa James of Sumter. If the farmer^ will grow corn or oats and put it in marketable shape the market Is waiting for the.m In Sumter. The grain dealers here guarantee to buy for cash at the mar? ket price all that is offered them. By the market price Is meant the priee the dealers would have to pay for Western corn or oats plus the freight. The dealers who buy grain buy It to sell again and as they sell In com? petition with Western grain prices they can pay no more for name grown Just because it is home grown. The man who wants to reduce cotton acreage and plant oats instead can do so with the assurance that he will find a market for his crop In Sumter next summer. a Chicago man has been sentenced to walk the baby two hours ever) night as a punishment for non-sup? port. A good many other fathers have to servs this sentence entirely Innocent of npn?aupport or even sup? port. Charleston post. WIDEN HAMPTON AVENUE. A Desirable Improvement Suggested, Editor Dally Item: | Sumtor now ha>- but i<?ur corners that ar<- worth anything for business building!, that is, I mean that build? ing! of any size or beauty could be erected on the loivs all the other cor? ners in the bUsineM district are al? leys. There is now a chance for Sum ter to improve that condition. 1 un? derstand that Mr. Thomas Wilson owns the property on Main etreet, at the corner of Hampton Avenu< . That street could be Lmproved and the property made very valuable. .Vy idea is for Mr. Wilson to get the value per front foot of his Main street propjrty and the value of the Hamp? ton Avenue property; get the owners of the property adjacent his Hampton Avenue property to fix the value per front foot, cut off twenty feet from Main street to Sumter street on the North side, putting nine feet of that twenty feet for sidewalk on the South side and assess the property holders on the South side for one half or one-third of the twenty feet; tear up the North side sidewalk (a very foolish expenditure by the city I think) and regrade the street, then the property on the streets will be? come fifty per cent more valuable than it Is today. Of course, there are those who will say it costs too much to do that and that the East corner can't Ue changed, but I tell you that the East side has nothing to do with the West and I think may be the East will come some day. It matters not what kind of a build? ing is put up on the North-west cor? ner, even if it cost fifty thousand dol? lars, with the present width of the street it will not be pretty. I know of a certain house in this city that cost a good price to build and its a beauty, but it don't show up well. Most people will say so, and yet they qan't tell you why, but I think I can; the lot Is too small, the street Is too narrow and it is surrounded by small houses and small lots, the latter would not matter if the street was wide and the lot large. If this property, (I mean the Main street and Hamp? ton Avenue property) belonged to me and I could not get the others to assist me I'd cut off the twenty feet and hold It vacant until the others thought they wanted lt. I tell you the Sumter Grocery store property would be worth fifty per cent more as a business stand with a wido street than it is today. Talk about civic prbte, but here Is a chance to show it. 1 am willing to be taxed to Im? prove both sides of that street and am sure there are others that would be. 1 own no property on the street and never will, therefore, am only interested In so far as beauty goes. Ih a few years you will see what I say Is so. See what they have done with the lot for the Y. M. C. A? what do they want, with a yard, It would have been better with a twenty foot sidewalk on each side. Look at the narrow street and sidewalk on Sum? ter street side, Its a beauty?Alley. Congenial Atmosphere. The race-track-for-Charleston prop? osition has created a distinct flurry even in the oppressive and insensate atmosphere of a heated political cam? paign. . The voices of the righteous have been raised in Indignation, but the, stock, for the new concern has been already about subscribed, and the project seems assured. The sit? uation is unfortunate for the afore? said righteous, but, after all, their at? titude is grossly inconsistent. Char? leston is pre-eminently a gambler's paradise. Nowhere in America, prob? ably, is the gambling industry more hospitably received. While other cit? ies force it Into dark and noisome places, Charleston throws open her thoroughfares, turns over the keys of the city, Instructs her polke to be 'hands off" and feeds without stint the necessary tribute of boys and young men to the rapacious needs of this favored industry. For the rlgh< eous to resent the Introduction of its most highly developed form while ac? cepting, without protest, all the condi? tions which create for It the most con? genial atmosphere In America, Is most unreasonable. A community scnooi ed In lawlessness*, and graduUed In the sort of "Individualism" tnat makes of each man's will the law of the land, is, of all others, worthiest of the blight of the racing evil, and fliest for the habitation of ?h" army of degenerate men and women who furnish its patronage and constitute its by*product.?Charleston Review. Death of Colored Woman. The wife of Munson McLeod, ? well-known and prosperous negro merchant of BoOsard, died Tuesday night after only a few days illness The funeral was held at Antioch church at 9 o'clock Thursday morn? ing. The Bumtsr Building Supply com? pany has been commissioned, with a capital stock of |10,000. The peti? tioners are J, M Harby and W. II. Cuttlno.? The state. GORMAN l.osiis .MARYLAND. Republican Governor Elected, but LegtulUtUfC Wholly Democratic. BaUimoroi Md., Nov. s.?With com plete unofficial returns from Calii more and practically all parts of tha Stau* heard from, the election of Phillip Lee Goldsborough, Repul IU Can candidate for Governor over State Senator Arthur Pue Gorman! Democrat has been established. Mr. Goldsborough's plurality, it is esti? mated, will be between 2,500 and 3, 000. Both houses of the Legislature will be Democratic. Edgar Allen Poe and Emerson C. Harrington, Democratic nominees, re? spectively, for Attorney General and Comptroller, were elected. Judge Henry Stockbridge, Repub? lican, was elected Judge of the Stato Court of Appeals. The constitution? al amendment disfranchising the ne? gro was defeated. Mr. Goldsborough is the second Re? publican Governor of this State since the civil war, Lloyd Lowndes, 1885, being the first. Great Change In Kentucky. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 8.?After four years #of Republican rule, Kentucky awoke this morning to complete counting majorities her voters gave yesterday to practically all the Dem? ocratic candidates in the State. The next administration goes into office with a heavier endorsement than ac? corded to any set of candidates in years. James Bennett McCreary, Governor of Kentucky thirty-two years ago, has been re-elected at the age of 73 years by a majority ranging over 30,000. His opponent was Edward C. O'Rear. The State Legislature, In joint as? sembly, will have a Democratic ma? jority, probably of 85, sufficient to dis? pel any doubt of the election of Con? gressman Ollle James, Democrat, to the United States Senate, as successor of Senator Thomas H. Paynter. James Is the nominee of the State Demo? cratic primary. Blankenburg'* Plurality Stands. Philadelphia, Nov. 8.?A revised computation of unofficial returns of yesterday's election makes no change in the plurality of 4,364 given the fu? sion candidate for mayor, Rudolph Blankenberg. It will require the of? ficial count to determine the winner of the contest for city solicitor, be? tween James Aleorn, Republican, and Michael J. Ryan, candidate of the Keystone and Democratic parties. Democrats Claim New Mexico. Aluquerque. N. M., Nov. 8.?On the face of complete returns from about one-half of the election dis? tricts of the State and estimates on the balance, Democrats claim the election of McDonald, for Governor, and the entire Democratic State and Congressional ticket, by majorities estimated at 4,700. Underwood's Comment. Birmingham. Nov. 8.?Congress? man Oscar W. Underwood said today regarding the elections: "It Is very gratifying to know that the most decisive Democratic victor? ies were achieved in Kentucky, where the tariff was made the paramount is? sue. The results in New Y^ork, Mary? land and New Jersey were caused by local Issues. I think the election re? turns show the Democratic party to be in stronger position than ever." The business man who spends mon? ey for advertising space should know what he is getting in the way of pub? licity for his dollars. The merchant who wants to send a message to the people of Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties gets more and a better class i?f publicity by buying space In the Watchman and Southron than It Is possible to obtain In any other way. This Is not a mere assertion, hut a fact; and any business man who Is considering an advertising campaign is invited to call at the business of? fice and be convinced. We are par? tial to the man "from Missouri" for we take pleasure In showing the man who means business. The best and most profitable advertising contract? the one that reaches more people, practically all in Sumter city and county, is a fiat rate contract covering both the Watchman and Southron and Daily Item at he same rate per inch. An advertisement run in this way reaches nearly three thousand regular subscribers. There la no denying the fact that n condft i Of affairs that was dis? graceful to Gaffhey and which re? flected upon those to whom is en? trusted the execution of the lau ex? isted in this town last Saturday. Youths, young nun ami old men who had Imhlded too freely were consph - UOUS on our streets. With no un? kind feeling toward those whose duty it is to see thai the law of tem? perance i-M enforced w i call upon them to enforce thai law.?Gaffhey i ledger. The Markets .Sew * ork CoCtM Market. New York, Nov. 'J. Opened High Low Clean. Jan 8 S9 9 Of. - S 1 9 04-95 r eh .Vieh S 91 y i: 0 98 ? 15-1^5 April May 9 On B 27 B I 9 25 26 June July 9 IT 9 ?J4 9 17 ? 30-81 Uej B L3 11 2- I 13 B 24-25 Warehouse Stock, 52.801. Cer'ilieat<*d, 51,489. Spots, 9.45?10 up. Opened quiet and steady. Closed steady. Port reecipts today, 66,418 vs. 61, 974 last year. Liverpool Market. open Closed Liverpool, Nov. 9. Jan- Feb 489 49 ^ Feh? Mob 490V? 492 Mcb?April 492 493^ April?May 495^ ;95H May?Jone 495U 497}$ June?July 49>iC 499 July-Aug 498 500 Aug?Sept 499 499 Sept?Oct 497 ^ 499 Oct?Nov 4S?8 498 Nov?Dec 4S8H 489 Dec?Jan 18* 489 4 Receipts, 39,000. American, all. Sales, 10,000. American, 9,100. Spots, 5.13?4 off. Opened quiet and steady. Closed steady. A Good Issue In Politics. Associate Justice Ramsey, of the Supreme court of Texas, has announc? ed h!s candidacy for governor of his State and announces that the chief plank in his platform will be the re-| form of court proceedings. He says: "The practice In the courts of this State Is obsolete, Incongruous, expen? sive and out of date. If elected gov? ernor I will use my best endeavors to secure such changes and modifications as will Insure Justice, promote dis-1 patch of business and save untold ex? pense." What Justice Ramsey says of Texas is probably as true in many other States. As a rule the ancient methods which encumber the court procedure of most of them are less apparent in^ the younger commonwealths like that of Texas. lawyers are inclined to resent ??ut slde meddling with the courts. They, seem to think it Is a field that is nat? urally reserved to them. They don't like for things like reform of court procedure to be injected into politics^ They want. It kept within the realm of the bar which rarely does anything on that line. In fhls day when there is such 1 trend in the direction of weakening the courts by introducing "recall of j Judges" Into our fundamental laws, It Is well that every person Interested In the stability of government search for the cause of the underlying sus? picion attaching to the courts of justice. It is probably due more to the cumbersome machinery by which^ justice is dispensed, and by reason of which often denied, that the modern signs of revolution may be attributed. The la>man, unschooled in the intri? cacies of jurisprudence, likes to make responsibility for delayed or miscar? ried justice personal. He strikes at the judge, rather than the system J which ties the judge's hands or givres a place of refuge for his conscience. If more candidates for office would came out In favor of a similar, quick? er and more effectual system of court procedure there would be less crying out for a weakened judiciary, and a1 more effective demand for a stronger and more modern method of handling litigation.?Augusta Chronicle. Consuming more beer in the ag? gregate than any other country in the world, the United States leads all nations in the total consumption of malt liquors, wines, and distilled spirits with the enormous total of 2.046,300,000 gallons, the department of commerce and labor announced last Sunday. The per capita con? sumption of beer In the United States was only 20.09 gallons In 1910, while In Belgium it is 65.2 gallons, in the United Kingdom 31.44 gal? lons, and In Germany, 26.4 7 gallons. Germany was second In total con? sumption of beer and the United States third. In the eonsmption of i wines, France leadee with .19.36 gal? lons per capita, followed by Italy with 31.17 gallons. and Portugal with 17.SI gallons. The per capita con? sumption in the United States is only about tWO-thlrdi of a gallon. In di? still* ?1 spirits Denmark leads with the i consumption of 2.97 gallons per cap., ita. Hungary second with 2.11 gal? lon--, and the N?-t hiTlands third with 1.84 gallons. The United States per capita consumption is .45. <>nt? of the new fvir hat? is vf gray 1 squirrel faced With brown squirrel a no finish* d with pheasant's tails. The hat is soft and is worn well drawn over the head in continental Spa po.