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SIMMS HUE BIG HIE. PARTY RrTTVRNS HERE FRIDAY MORNING AFTt.lt VERY PLEASANT TRIP. Do Much Advertising for of Hum U*r Can dtdatce A it rect Many Favorable Omfflrnl*. The Shrlnere who wont from hero to Spartan burg to the big Tr.enksgiv laf Day Shrlnsrs meeting returned to the ctty Friday morning after spend? ing a meet enjoyable day in that hospitable town. While they were on their trip the Sumter club of Shrlners did a deal of advertising- for the Gamecock City und exciting much favorable comment for themselvea Oaiaecock City badges were worn by all of the Sumter delegation and their special Pullman car was decorated with big pieces of bunting tacksd on it which was writtsn the fact in big letters that that car and Its contents earns from Sumer. the Gamecock City. The costumee of all of the candi? dates were most fancy and created much merriment and comment from all of the persons in attendance upon tho Shrlners meeting, but those cos? tumes prepared for the Sumter bunch of ten delegates "beat the other cos? tumes all hollow." There were many and various costumee and they were a well posted snd up-to-date set of types sxhlblted by the Sumter Shrln era There was Mr. H. C. Parrott, who. aa Uncle Sam. that well known celebrity, headed the list of candl-1 dates, coming from Sumter. He wasn't "Polly" any longer, but Just "plain Uncle 51am." some ons stated. Mr. It. A. Bradham was no longer a popular bank official, for he was dressed In motley made court Jester and "king's fool" for the occasion. He was still popular, howsver. that could aot be taken away from him. Messrs. Junlus Parrott and T. J. holt rid not hold down their Joba aa deputy clerk of court and railroad yird master respectively, any longer, for they were promoted to act aa the gold dust twins. They were a Jolly set of twins, however, and carried off their parte well, except # on one oc? casion when Mr. Junlus Parrott was i?i"v of a serious inOlscretlon after partaking of the cup of enjoyment too I ally and was carried away in the "Black Maria" to the lock-up. where ha was kept for about an hour until Messra Glenn. I- I. Parrott. and oth? ers could go sround and put up bond for hie appearance at court. The next pair was one deer to every efslldish heart and the children who Watched the 600 Shrlners In their pa? rade cheered them lustily. Thetie Were Bustsr Hrown snd Mary Jane, a beautiful pair of Innocent children. Messra O. H. Folley and G. E. Hayn* worth were the two characters In the . eHsjaaa and they were \*>r\ promi of their parts and of the way they wero enabled to carry^ off the honors of the sasnelon, even If the popular insur? ance man did meet friends and have to fall out of line to speak to them. It Is reported that Mary Jane wore a beautiful and expenalve coetum** The namo of Dr. E. It. Wilson wns put forth as a candidate for office and he waa elected Oriental Guide, thus being In the wsy of promotion to Grand Potentate, to wbich ofBee his friends hope to elevate h'm In the future. The parade was a big feature of the occasion r ? 1 i -i ? u\ >i > than SO0 shrlners in this. The candl ehmten name along as drivers of the p?? ttee patrol.. s?>me were on the n wagon, some drove wagons and Sensal went In beautiful floats. the .-ouit Jenter going bareback on a donkey through the streets. During the evening th* nlal session * is held apd the candidates put through tho Initiation eeremon!*"*. th?r?? I wore shout Mat) I dates, sntlrsty U*o many to be put through tho de? gree*, enty tw< adldntef wen required t ? lahs fh.- I >f these active Vnr.didates Mr. n. H. Folley was th#? only one fi o Sumter who took tho course. |hi others simply being obligated without taking the laltlsllon course. After thr cor? moi?|al ?e?ts|on ? ? i held the Fp*rtsnburg Shrlners ? n Itrtalned tbi Ir guestr at a hountlful Thanksgiving banquet which wss mu'h #?nj..\*d by all ?.f th?? vMlorn nfter their dav's np.rl *. Thn Pumhr party lef? < u tho Pullman at egesseji It:to and reached here at 7.1* Friday morning. Marriage |.h?o.. .;..<.n|. Th- onp i r I?.- i t ? granted n'rldav went i . Alfl i \v ngtofi and ? rla John r?ri - May ?IIb?. London's Itilljn Oinnv. The Italians in Lnhek n, IfnghHal sufficient of men . h to ?o Inrge to*r Phnre ire i>? f1.noo pf whom ai tnr* v? 1,00 ) p. nn-grlnd ? < h-r 11 v h are chl^Mv t n jsftfi u. hlaeter 1 ? ?I rcllrr an? tt ' r# ? oswi bot^' t\ enwrg. und en FIFTY MILLION LOAN PLAN. Stayton to be In Columbia Tcday for Conference. Columbia. Dec. 1.?W. II. Stayton. representing the group of New York bankers who have offered a loan of $60,000 to finance the cotton crop of the 8outh, will arrive in Columbia to? morrow for a conference with E. J. Watson, president of the Southern Cotton Congress. Mr. Watson and Mr. Stayton will go to Augusta during the day, where a conference will be. held with C. S. Barrett, president of the National Furniers* Union. While no official announcement has been made by Mr. Watson, It Is ex? pected that the details of the pro? posed loan will be announced follow? ing the conference in Augusta. NEWS FROM DARK CORNER. Protracted Meeting at Plnewood; Turkey Shoot on Thanksgiving. Dark Corner, Nov. 28.?There was not much doing in this vicinity last week only burning wood and eating grub by those that had the wood and the grub. I thought I would come up to your city on the 23rd to the pole climb? ing and the pig grabbing, but after reconsidering the matter I thought it would be a mighty poor place for a poor old moneyless man, so I stayed at home and enjoyed a good fire with old Mrs. "Hard Times." There was a shooting match at Broadway's Siding, M. and A. R. R. last Saturday evening where some fine turkeys were shot for, and I hear (as I never go to a shooting match), thai "Blue Ring Tangle-leg and company" was fully represented at the match. I don't hear of any sickness In this Corner at this time. Mr. R. N. Aven of Orangeburg spent last Saturday night with Mr. T. H. Ostoen at the "Sycamore." Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lackey, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Weeks and Mr. Jack Ardis visited at Elmhlll last Sun? day. W. J. Ardls dined with Mr. O. D. Harvln at Plnewood last Saturday. There was a protracted meeting carried on all last week at the Pine wood Baptist church, the pastor, Rev. M. W. Oordon. was assisted by R.w. J. E. McMurray, an evengelist ot the Baptist Home Mission Board, who preached some able sermons. It was my pleasure to hear him last Sunday at 11 a. m. and he preach ed as fine a sermon as I ever listen? ed to, the text was John 11-28, "The Master Has Come and Calleth for Thee." He was to have preached again at 4 p. m. at which time they were to decide whether they would continue the meeting. one of your readers wishes we to write up "An Old Moral Song" that 1 learned over 'Ifty years ago and send it the Watchman and Southron. It has been so long since I leartnd It that I have nearly forgotten som of lt. 1 was a boy of 15 when 1 learned It, and now I am nearly 68. So. Mr. Editor, you and your readers will have to excuse the mistakes of "Old Hard Times." Broad In the meadows. To see the young lambs Run sporting about, Bf UM PMefl Of th*?lr dams. With t\>taoat so clean and so white; Of a nest of young doves In a large open cage, Wh. ri 'hey play all In lOYS Without itnger or rage, H"w much may vs.- gain from the sight? If we should have been ducks, W? nicht i' i'. ? dabblee! in mud; Of ?Qm\ played until it ended i?i blood, Bo f?>ul and so ii.-rco are th?'ir na? tures; l"?U Thomas and William And sin ii pretty names, Should hi el,an ami HafffAl ss as doves or as lambs. Th??s>- lovely, sweet. Innocent cre;t tlire*i; Tor there's not a thing that we do * ?r a word thut w e say, should Improve another In Jesting or play. Wot he is st:n in sarnest that's hur?. And tttara'i none bul a mad man That will throw about fire. And t, l| v. a ||*| only in snort. i.i reyom ?t Work lg*In, Th ? mrvi roi i on the wast am route on th. Carolina Western road from Blshopvlllt la gumtsr have again eommei sd work and win probably i ? >? Sumri r n.At Tu ?I ? y. Th v rout- run v. tat of the public re ul fr< mi Blahopvllls to Sn.nt. r ami pgj gg through hi ? R< ?? mil and aman Iraeta it follows for ihs moai part ti e routs taken by ths Aral seaboard survey mads about t< n years ago. Making Use of 8?rcet Rubbish. Af s<?ufhwaik. Lot don, and at Mt OutB, Kr UMM . iff | rubbish U trans V !::'r, -i iaai tk? ?;\1 'e duel At I rk gl] thf rctu I era. heil to i > 1 . shlcb is aoM ai I manure At I loan 'ho pouftfeji Ibu8 mi1 With ttic- Addition of cotnbuitlbU ?tsnev^ Ii t i, . heap i-i-' REFUSES TO INDICT FELDER. "NO HILL" RETURNED BY GRAND JURY AT NBWBERRT, At .ion in OsjSS Involving Charges of Bribery in Connection with Olo State Dispensary Affairs Follows Additional Charge by Court, nt Grand Jury's Request. New berry, Nov. 29.?Shortly af? ter hearing an additional charge from Judge (iiiKc d' livered in response to an inquiry .i* to whether they could take into consideration the expense to the county and the moral and so? cial effect of a prosecution of Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta, for alleged bribery in connection with the State dispensary affairs, the grand Jury in the Sessions Court here this morning returned "no bill in the Felder case. The Jury had had the bill since Mon? day morning. It is understood that there was considerable division among the grand Jury upon what finding should be made. From the question ask? ed by the Jury, and from other cir? cumstances in connection with the consideration of the bill by them, It Is inferred that the Jury looked not alone to the question of the evidence submitted In support of the allega? tion, but took under consideration the wisdom of a prosecution. Attorney General Lyon stopped over In Newberry for a short time between trains today, on his way to his home In Abbeville. He did not appear In the Court room. In fact, he reached Newberry after the finding in the Felder case. Fred H. Domlnick, Esq., a member of the dispensary winding-up com? mission, said tonight that he had 1.0 statement to give out in regard to the jury's finding. Judge Gage in replying to the grand Jury's question, said that this QMS arose "out of that terrible ex leriment which the State was induc? ed to make same twenty years ago, and that was an honest effort to make respectable a nefarious busi? ness, then of selling liquor to men." "I trust," he said, "the State has tried that experiment to its heart's content." Ho said the grand Jury was bound to know the, public history of all of those dispensary prosecutions, and he gave the Jury a brief history of the prosecution and the results, naming, among tho others, tho prosecution against Uoykin, Towill and Evans, the three witnesses on the Felder bill, the prosecution against Evans hav? ing been brought In the Nowberry Court and having been nolle pressed by the State. With reference to the matter of expense, he said, "if it is true that Felder offered these men a bribe, and if the testimony so satisfies you, and if the testimony satisfies you that this prosecution is in good faith to' vindicate the law of the land, you ought to find a true bill, no matter what the expense is. l>ut, on the other hand, if the testimony does not sgtlsfy you. if you arc not satin* fied that the proSSOUtlon is for pub? lic purposes, or, to put it differently; It you are satisfied that the prosecu? tion Is n<d for the public n ?od end Will not end in public good, you have a wtde discretion in the matter; you can cither find no bill, or you can re? turn {he bill t-? the solicitor unacted upon, stating to him that you will not make any finding upon it, but prefer it to stand until more satisfactory proof oomfl to your hands. Tut ebove nil things, gentlemen." said Judge Ciif-. "you should make one thing yo'jr pole-star and unleei you do that you will dd wrong. Put behind you every personal Consider? ation and look to the truth and the truth alone, and plant yourselves ?irmly upon the truth, and go to that goal to which truth leads you. if you ?P> at it In this spirit, and With ibis purpose, V'U are hound to peach a right conclusion, if you go at it in any other spirit, you are bound to reach a wrong conclusion." 1^ UN MAGISTRATE'S COURT. John White raw Fine or Wife Bern in'jr. John White. ? olored, was up bo fore Moglstrnte Wella Friday on tie charge of wife heating. He plead guilty, hut stated ag explanation and extenuating circumstances thai he I though! a man had the right to do what he wanted to with his own fam 11 and correct them as he saw Judge Wells i? ponded that a mat did have a right to correct the mem' i hi \\ iy, hut h ? did not have a 11 fht to hu hi wife over the head with DECEMBER 17 BIG RALLY DAY PLANS FORMULATED FOR CAR? RYING OX OF WORK IX THIS CITY. Pastors of the City to Toll of Move? ment on December 17 anil Cieuer ul Rally Day to Come on Decem? ber 31. The necessary work has been done In organising the forces in Sumter that will co-operal" with the Nation? al Committee for the Men and Re? ligion Forward Movement. As an auxiliary city, the people of Sumter are to be in touch wi'h a movement that is eminently practical, sane, and sensible, without hysteria or sensa? tionalism. The leaders commend them? selves to the approval of everybody by this sincerity, good sense, and ear? nest thoughtfulnese. The object of this great move? ment is to present the claims of re? ligion to men and boys, and the vital part that religion must play in the solution of life problems. Mr. R. Hayne King of Charleston, Executive Secretary for Auxilary Citiee, In North and South Carolina, was here last week and met with lo? cal pastors and laymen and made an able presentation of the work. At this meeting the following or? ganization was effected: Bartow Walsh, President. H. L. Blrchard, Secretary. Executive Committee?Revs. C. C. Brown, J. P. Marion, D. M. Mc Leod, J. N. Tolar, Geo. S. DeLano, H. H. Covington, J. B. Wilson. Messrs. E. L. Witherspoon, H. L. Scarborough, J. J. Wescoat, J. A. Mc Knight, W. A. Weathers. It. I. Man? ning, Hi L. McCoy. The Executive Committee met last Friday evening and general plans for the carrying on of the work were discussed. * Sunday, Dectiaber 17 will be a Ral? ly Day. Each pastor in the city has agreed to present the movement In one of the services of the day. Sunday, December 31, will be gen? eral Rally Day and able speakers from out of the city will be secured and a general mass meeting for nvn will be held, also an auxiliary meet? ing for ladies. The part that Sumter will have in this great movement depends upon the support that our people will give it. The men who stand for .individ? ual salvation and the one who stands for social salvation can work should? er to shoulder. MANY MARRIAGE LICENSES. November Provides More Newly Married Couples Than Any Other Month. There have been S larger propor? tion of marriages in November Mian any other month since the marriage license law went into effect on the first of July. Up to tin present time there have been Issued 1^7 marriage licenses, 40 going to whites and 97 to negroes, showing a large prepon deranos of negro marriages over those of whites. Of the licenses during November 17 were issued to whites and 82 to negroes, making a total of about one-third issued dur? ing the month of November. Mr. H. Dargan Louder, of Pino wood and Miss Lottie Tlsdale of Sum? ter; Mr. Alvin Minis, of PlttSWOOd, and Miss Coiinns Wells, of Tindal; Mr. George Horton I alar and Miss Ednfi B rough ton, ??f Sumter; Mr. J. Vettles1 Wilder and Mlaa Buen Chandler, Sumter; Mr, Christopher L. Player and Miss Pauline Bell of Lynchburg, Colored: Haver! Burrougha and Wie. Harvln, Sumter; Peter James and Arneathea Dargan, Sumter; I Benjamin Remberl and Sarah James, j Stateburg? NEW CARDINALS INVESTED. Three Prelates from This Country Ac? corded Warm Welcome In Rome. Home. Nov. 80,?Eighteen princes <d' the chun h, Im ludlng three Ameri? can prelates, Cardinals Falconlo, Far? ley and O'Connelli today were in I vested with the red hal of their office I ai th< concluding ceremony connect j i-d with the creation of new cardinals I which took place thli morning ai th great public consistory at the Vatican. Much attention was focussed on th< movi m< nts of the American cardinals. Before the opening all the new rdinala took the oatb of fidelity and ?bediene ? t" the pope ai rl tie church GARLINGTON AND YOUNG MUST SERVE SENTENCES IMPOSED. Former Oanoers of Company Refund liolic^aring by Supreme Court. Columbia, Dec. 2.?Denying the petition for a rehearing and revok? ing of the order staying the re mittitur, the Supreme Court yester? day wrote the last chapter in the Saminole Securities ca6e, and unless an appeal is taken to the United States Supreme Court John Y. Gar lington and James Stobo Young, for? mer officers of the company, should today enter the State penitentiary to begin the service of terms of three years and one year respectively. The two defendants, both residents of I^aurens, were convicted more than a year ago in the Rlchland county court on the charge of breach of trust, involving approximately $55, 000. John Y. Garllngton, who spent yes? terday at his home in Laurens, had no statement to make. It is ex? pected that he will return to Colum? bia today, when a conference will be held with his attorney, Christie Benet. It is said that Mr. Young is In Chicago, in charge of the business of the two, and that he will return to the State, The order of the Supreme Court was yesterday addressed to J. Frost Walker, clerk of court of Rlchland county. The papers in the case will be turned over to Sheriff Coleman tb-3 morning for service. The two defendants are each under bond of $5,000. It Is said that a petition for pardon was filed yesterday with the governor from Laurens county. Following conviction in the Rich land county court Garlington and i'oung appealed to the Supreme Court. Several weeks ago the Su? preme Court gave a decision affirm? ing the Rlchland court. A petition1 was then filed asking that the remlt titur be stayed and that a rehearing of the case be granted. The remit tltur was stayed, and after reviewing the petition the Supreme Court yes? terday signed the following order: "After due consideration we dis? cover no ground for a rehearing. It is therefore ordered that stay of re mittitur heretofore granted be re? voked and the petition herein be dis? missed. "Ira R. Jones, "Chief Justice; "Eugene R. Gary, "C. A. Woods, "d! E. Hydriek, "Associate Justices." COMMISSION GOVERNMENT. It Has Proved a Financial Success in Columbia. The city of Sumter is preparing to tnko up the commission form of gov? ernment and to that end has had a committee from its council put in charge of the matter. The experi? ence of Columbia with the commis? sion form of government ought to make that form very popular, and we doubt not that it will, and that the hill now before the legislature provid? ing for such form of government in towns In tho State will be passed over the executive veto and with an amendment that will permit Sumter, Florence, Marion and Timrnonsvillo, yes, ami Bbeneser and Mars Bluff, air," to come in out of the wet and break the yoke of political ring and clique rule, if any of these good towns aufft r from such an ailment. We all know that Columbia was one of the worst governed cities in the state for a generation or two. ..ad that more money was waste 1 and less accomplished there than in any lown in the Stat ?. Now. under its commis? sion form of government it has done good work on its city property und has money in the treasury* That is a mighty good r< commendation for a peculiar form of government, and h. was the government, and the form and not tin- man put at the head though he was a mighty good one, for Columbia has had aome mighty good officials in the past, and they could not accompllah anything.1? Florence Times? In The Police Court. There were a number of cases up lor trial in the Recorder's court Frl .? \ -r. noon, out the defendants did not appear for tri l and their bonds u ?re forfeited to tin city. The f"l loV Ing t."'S< I W ere ea I!? <\. .!. i \ tirown. v i- ' ?M? n of auiomo BRUCE-BROWN WON. SETS NEW WORLD'S RECORD AT SAVANNAH. Both Winner and Place Man are Re? puted Millionaire*?-De Palma Third ?Bruce-Brown's Average lla'c Nearly 75 Miles Hour. Grand Prize Race Course, Savan? nah, Nov. 3'J.?Flying faster than the iiiting wind which swept the frozen course, David Bruce-Brown, the young American millionaire, today established a new world's record for automobile road races In winning his second Grand Prize race in as many years at an average speed of 74.55 miles an hour. His average last year over the same course was 70.55 miles an hour. The supreme honor again went to an American driver piloting a foreign car. but this year it was an Italian Fiat instead of a German Benz that carried the dauntless Bruce-Brown to victory. His elapsed time today was 331 minutes and 20.13 seconds. Bruce-Brown captured the greatest American trophy only after a fierce and nerve racking struggle in which Eddie Hearn, driving a Benz was sec? ond, two minutes behind at 333:33.07, and Ralph De Palma third, at 334:4 0.85. No mishap involving life of limb marred the running of what probably will be the last of these classic races at Savannah. Mr. Man nil I Entertains. Mr. Raymond Stansill entertained several of his friends Wednesday evening in honor of Misses James of Atlanta and Ellit? of New York at a dinner given at the residence of hia mother on West Liberty street. A very enjoyable evening was spent by the young people who had been invited, a course dinner being the feature of the occasion. Those enjoying the evening were: I Miss Elizabeth James, Miss Nellie Ellis, the guests of honor, Messrs. j Allen Brown, P ry Brown, Frank Patton, George w arren, Henry Moses, Sam Colerider, Willie Jones. Hugh Phelps, 'Seamon Richardson and Marsttal] Wescoat and Mrs. J. G. R. i Wilder. One of the well known lumber men of this city had a fine fat turkey a couple of days before Thanksgiving and he expected to feast on that day, hut his plans went "agley," for some one else found and feasted on that turkey and he had to have a turkey less Thanksgiving dinner?or atleast he did not eat that turkey. The hose wagons were called out Friday evening about 6:30 o'clock by an alarm of fire. However, the wag? ons were not called upon to do any work and speedily returned to the department headquarters. . HUNT'S . . ?~\ & B LIGHTNING UIL Is the one unfailing scientific dressing which instantly relieves and permanently cures all hurts, cuts, burns, bruises, sprains and wounds of every kind. Pain leaves at once because the air is excluded* and the oil covering acts as artificial skin. The queck eat, fastest healing oil known? lit NT S LIGHTNING OIL. 25 cents and 50 cents bottles. A. B. RICHARDS MEDICINE CO. Sherman. Tcxa?. 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