Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CfetSnatrjjman in) ^ontbran. l^bliahed WednewdU?) and Saturday. ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTBK. *. C. $1.50 (Mr annum?In advance. Advcrttnesnonie: One Square t'.mt Insertion.$l.tt Evury subsequent insertion.It Contracta for thrae months, or Unfar will oa made at reduced rates. All communications which sub s>arva private Intaraata will be charged fee as advertisements, Obttuartaa and tributes of raspaet Will be charged for. The Winter Watchman was fouad ed tu litt and the True Soutkren in lttt. The Watchman and tenth ran new ban tha oomblnad circulation and tafluenco cf \ e<h ef tha eld papers, end la inaelfeetly the beet advertising seed I uns la Susntsr. g?J*s'ss-?esiASBB??*B*?sBn^^ l-OLlTTOi OR LAW? our Wedgetield correspondent re? news and continues the discussion of tha legality of the appropriation of $11.000 of county funda to aselst the city of Sumter in extending and im? proving the railroad facilities of the county and city?the city having pre? viously appropriated $20.000 for the seme purpose. We are not cock-sure that we can give the last word in in? terpreting the meaning of the consti? tution, so shall not attempt It. We do know that there exists a vast dif? ference of Opinion amongst the mem? bers of the legal fraternity, and the beat that a layman can do In such circumstances Is to accept the opin? ion that aeems most reasonable and 1st line with common aenae. The action of the legislature In authoris? ing the appropriation, that of the grand Jury lr ?n lorsing It and that of the county board in paying over the money aa authorised, had the support of several of the most highly ro*<? - a. <l lawyers at this bar and tha county hoard decided to accept their opinion of the matter In prefer? ence to the dissenting opinion. We did not publish the dissents* opinion, nor the opinions In favor of the ap pr >pr i at Ion. there being no reason for doing so. We published all the Im? portant facts 'onnected with the ffanea?,*i <r--"l 4he fall dut- v , ui |h< public. The gnexr.'-on Ot our ponded that nothing; was ov.?r prlul In ref? rei ee to tits propos't, ,i th?t county make an appropriation la secure this new railroad I? not asjfgjt "ut by the record. Ha t*> doubtless sJaeoft In w?ak?ng lag statement, but '.his ps aee la on MSSSd In this matter, hav? ing advocated ?m>r >pi tation* i.y the city i?nr1 county Immediately after the raltrosd preposition was submitted to the i ? ..p|a of Sumter. We contlnu. <l to urge the adoptlog 'f Ihtt tdan of raising the required funds, 'mm time to time, until it was BsSslgJ gaegatgejaaataA We Hrre nm Informed as to the course the IcgttdatKe delegation would adopt in -enuring the atsieasafi legia latlor und h??d it ? iaforsaatlog on the subject until the legislature had ad? journed. Then the matter < ime up befnr ant) board und the proceeding* thereafter were glwn the usual BSJgdg Ity. We do n?a ? nipr? h ?ml ex.o'lv gfhat ii Wedgefleld torrsspoadsad, si driving at?* hothot he Is camping on the ti 'to- m -mbers of the b'gis latun . as the tlr-tf I-??mmunicitinn 10? dlrateO. or lt> merely indulging In an academic and legal discussion of the const! utlonal phase of the question. If he la aftei the ncalps of the legis? lator)* it is a simple proposition of pol? itics i-id hair pulling, but If he is In earnest about Retting down to the last analysis of the constitutionality of the ? u -stlon, he will have to go to a*?ii . higher authority than a mere n??< - -ai?er man. The lawyers. who ought to know some law. differ widely and are unable fo agree. Probably the Supreme t'ourt would not be able to r nder a iinim ih<>iim opinion on a constitutional question of this sort. As a matter of good business policy and common n . we h di? \ e the ap? propriations mad. |>> the eit) and count v were Just died and on that ground we sjdjswaatad this pattcj from the outfei mil now endorse the action of <*lt) ? 'onncii '?nd hoard of Kommiss? ion?? < No money ever *p?-nt by the ? Its or county will trlng greater bene? fits to a ?realer number of people and it is m tin- line of progress and dewdopno-n' Ptaally, th.uaty had the moro \ "ii h ind and i ? m. it in tie manner uutrcrl/cd the leSJtslatUri was not Illegal. find It been Bj#ctt> sarv to Issue bonds or levy a special la* the question laln. d iIs to the hgal lf\ of hat ,, |.preprint Ion would have he??n mom pertinent. Mrs. Becon -"The nan was here to dsy. deer looking fo* the gas leak." Mr Macon And did he find It?" "Yes. hut th*?y hnren't found the man yti. ?.vs'ohu'uu. THE TITANIG TRAGEDY. sr iiv i volts it e ach new your am) tell stohy. Um of Life Greater nod The Horror of the Awful IHsustcr Worso Thun Koport?tl?\mrly Maeegg] Hundred Per Uh?Lack of Sufficient Number of Life Boats ltes|>onslblo for Great? est Marine Disaster Ever Known. N.w York. April 18.? How the White Mar liner Titanic, the largest .ship afloat, wank off the Grand Hanks of Newfoundland on Sunday night last carrying to their death. 1.601 of the 2.340 persons ahoard. was told to the world In all Its awful details for the tlrst time tonight with the ar? rival In New Y'ork of the Cunard liner Carpathia. hearing the exhausted sur? vivors of the catastrophe. Of the great facts standing out from the chaotic account of the tragedy, these are the most salient: The death list has heen Increased rather than diminished. Six persons died after being res? cued. Practically every woi.nan and child, with the exception of those women who refused to leave their husbands, was saved. Among these la*t was Mrs. Isadore Straus. The list of prominent men missing stands as at first reported. Among them are: Col. John Jacob Astor. Isador Straus, Benjamin Gug? genheim. George P. Widener, Maj. Archibald Butt, military aid to Presi? dent Taft; Henry B. Harris, the theat? rical manager, and Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railway. The survivors on the life boats saw the lights on the s rlcken vessel glim? mer to the last, heard her hand play in* and saw the docmed hundreds on her deck and heard their groans and cries wben the vessel sank. Accouius vary as to the extent of the disorder on board. Not only was the Titanic tearing through the April night to her doom with every ounce of steam crowded on. but she was under orders from the general offices of the line to make the greatest speed of which she was capable. This was- the statement made tonight by J. H. Moody, a quarter? master of the vessel and helsman on the Right of the disaster. He said the ship was making 21 knots an hour and the (.filters w ie striving to Nv< i< to the order! to smash the r word* it v A* . |..s . to midn -;bt. * suM Mood; . "and ' was oi the r dgs wM% ;l?^ I Nicer, wl n < .n mand. Suddenly be shaded. 'Port your hi In ' I did so. but WM too lati . We struck the submerged por 'ion of the berg." ? ?f th ? many accounts given by the passengers, most said the shock as the Ti'anic hit the Iceberg, although rlpplmr her great sides like a giant can opener, did not greatly jar the entire vessel, for the blow was a glancing one along h??r side. The nc eountn also agree substantially that ? s the passengers were taken off there was no serious panic. The most distressing stories are those giving the experience Of the pens.niters in lifeboats. These tell the harrowing details of how they saw the great hulk of the Titanic stand on end. stern up for many min? tiles before plunging to the bottom \-? tins awful spectacle was w itness, d I \ the groups of survivors in the oata, Lhey plalnl) saw many of those rvhom the) had iust left behind leap" Ing from the decks Into the water. J. Brtec Ismay. one of the owners 'd the White Star, who was among the Til odd meg saved. P, A. Frank? lin, vice president of the White star line, and LTnlted States Senator Win Vden Smith, chairman of the senate nveetlgatlng committee, held ? con ference aboard the Carpathls soon after the passcngeri had come ashore tonight. After nearly an hour Senator Smith -aid be had m> authority to snhpoeii i witnesses at this time, but Would be? gin an Investigation late the cause of the loss of the Titanic at the Wal? dorf-Astoria hotel tomorrow, 11s an? nounced that Mr. Isma\ bad con? sented to appear at the hearing and that Mr. Franklin and the surviving nflleers of the Titanic would appear for examination. He said the course the Investigation would follow would he determined after the preliminary loaring. Senator Smbh was questioned as to the speed the Titanic was making er hen she rraelied into the Iceberg. Me said he had asked Mr. Ismay but .). ItSJed to say what Mr. Ismay re plied. Mi. Ismaj tonight gavs out the fallow iml- prepared statement re gardlag the disaster: in tin- presence and under the shadows of a catastrophe so over w helming that my feelings ale too deep for expression in words, and I can onlv <h\ that the White Star line offi? cers nid employes win do everything humanly possible to alleviate the suf f'lmirs and sorrow- of ?be relatives 11 f friends of those wie? perished. The Titard? WM |hc last word In ship building, Every regulation prescribed by the British board of trade had been strictly oomplled with. The master, officers and crew were the most experienced and skillful in the British service. '1 am informed that a committee Of the Halted States senate has been appointed to Investigate the circum? stances of the accident. I heartily Welcome the most complete and ex? haustive Investigation and any aid that I or my associates or our build? ers or navigators can render is at the service of the public and government of both the United State? and Great Britain." New York Paper'e Correspondent Toil* of Disaster. New York, April IS.?How the Ti? tanic sank is told by ('has. F. Hurd, a statt correspondent of The Evening World, who was a passenger on the Carpathla, and who tonight furnish? ed that newspaper with his account. He gives the number of lives lost a3 1.700. He praises highly the courage of the crew, hundreds of whom gave their lives with a heroism which equaled hut could not exceed, jthe account says, that of John Jacob Astor, Henry B. Harris. Jacques Futrelle and others In the long list ' of first cabin passengers. It was the explosion of the boil? ers, according to Mr. Hurd's account, j which finally finished the Titanic** career. The bulk head system, though probably working, prevailed only to delay the ship's sinking. The position of the ship's wound on the star? board bow admitted icy water, ac? cording to Hurd's story, which caused the boilers to explode and these ex? plosions broke the ship in two. The ship's string band gathered in the saloon near the end. the narrative says. and played 'Nearer My God, [to Thee." The account continues: j "The crash against the Iceberg, which had been sighted at only a quarter mile distant, came almost si? multaneously with the click of the levers operating from the bridge, which Stopped the engines and closed the watertight doors. Capt. Smith was on the bridge a moment later, summoned all on board to put on life prat irverj and ordered the life boats lowered. The first boats had more mals passengers, as the men were tin-1 tirst to reach the decks. When the rush of frightened men and women and eying children to the decks be? gan, the "women first*' rule was rig? idly enforced, i Officers drew revolvers, i>m m most cases there was no use for them. Re? volver shots heard shortly before the Titanic went down caused many ru mors, one that Capt. Smith had shot himself, another that First Officer Murdoch bad ended his life, but members of the crew discredit these rumors. , Capt Smith Was last seen on the bridge. inst bet?re the ship sank. leaping only after the decks had been washed away. "What became of the nu n with the life preservers was a question asked by many since the disaster. Many of these with life preservers were seen to go down despite the pre? servers, and dead bodies tloatod on the surface as the boats moved away, rafrs, Isadore Straus refused to leave her husband'i side and both perished together. Harold Cotton, Marconi operator on the Carpathla, did not no to bed at his USUS] time Sunday night, and as a result caught the tirst message of the Tltanlc's plight, which was ^re? sponsible for saving the hundreds of rescued who were landed in New York tonight. it was testified by several survivors thai the Titanic was going 23 knots an hour when she crashed Into sh^ Iceberg. The World tomorrow morning will publish Mr. Hurd's story In detail. In addition the foregoing Mr, Hurd said. In part: "Thi facts which I have established by Inquiry on the Carpathla as posi? tively as the).uld be established in vleu of the silence of the few surviv? ing officers." "That the Titanic'? officers knew several hours before the crash of the possible nearness of the icebergs, "That the TitanIc'S Speed .nearly L.V. knots an hour, was not slackened. I "That tie- number oi lifeboats on the Titanic was insufficient to ac? commodate more than one third of the passengers, "Most members of the crew say there were 16 lifeboats and two col lapslbles; none say there were more than -I? boats in all. The Too who escaped filled most of the 16 life? boats and the one collapsible which Kot nwa\ to the limit of their ca pactty. ' Had the ship struck the iceberg he oi op ;,t whatevel the speed and with whatever result from sleek tin bulkhead system would probablj have saved the vessel. As one man expressed it. it was the Impossible that h ippened, when with R hoi k un bellevnbly mild, the ships sid< torn f?'r a length which made tie bulkhead system Ineffective, FARMERS' UNION NEWS Practical Though is for Practical Fanner*, (Conducted by E. W. Dabb*. Pres? ident *. C Farmers Union.) A SOIL IMPROVING ROTATION. Composition Written by Bflftl Cornell;* J White in City National Bank PH??] Contest, notation means that our crops fol-] low one another, so to speak, in a Circle extended over se era5 years, and we should not choose these crops at random, hut should select those ?hat follow one another to the best advantage. t The chief advantages of a properly ( planned rotation are these: 1st. The cost of production In labor and fer? tilizers is reduced because the work is more evenly distributed throughout the year; 2nd the land is never left hare for the atclon of the leaching winter rains. The winter crop, takes up any unused portion of the fer? tilizers applied to the summer crops. With cotton as the chief money crop, we can arrange a very con? venient rotation by roughtly dividing the farm into four parts. Now, the tirst year plant your freshest, warm? est land to cotton, and put all the manure you can haul on your poor? est land for corn, adding a liberal application of acid phosphate and potash. Lay-by your corn with cow peas sowed broadcast. Your third di? vision should be prepared well and planted to eowpeas broadcast or in drills and cultivated a few times. In either case an application of acid phosphate will be found profitable. The fourth division should be made up of small irregular or out-of-the way patches which can be devoted to the growing of feed and truck crops of all kinds. This fourth division can be made a very profitable one and should have B rotation of Ite own. planting a legume as a catch crop at every opportunity. It is also from a, part of this fourth section that we can get a start with crimson clover and vetch from which you < an spread the inoculation all over the farm. Se? lect an old garden, cow lot or other rich spot and sow In crimson clover and vetch early in September, and as such spots are very likely to have the inoculation for both of these le? gumes, you will get a good lot of feed and have a cheap mode of Inoculat? ing other fields by scattering the soil where they have grown over any land ' that you wish to sow in these crops. To go back to nur rotation, when you lay-by your cotton sow a peck of crimson clover to the acre ahead of the cultivator and if you want to make sure of a good vigorous growth, scatter a wagon load of earth from an i old clover patch. If you mix a lit? tle vetch with youi seed, you can ex? tend the inoeulated area of^ both of these valuable legumes from field to field until they will grow anywhere on your farm. If we spread our stable manure on our clover in the cotton, we will have a tine sod to plow for corn in the spring and as corn is a very heavy feeder it will give us a good profit on our manure. v Where we had 'corn the first sea? son is the best place for our next crop of small grain, since the deep preparation and rapid cultivation giv? en the corn in addition to the vege? table matter derived from the peas, will, after a thorough disking, make an ideal seedbed for the grain. Our cotton the second year should occupy the land that was planted Jn peas the year before, for an earlv plowed pea stubble will give your cotton a good Vigorous start and the nitrogen from the peas will give >'? .1 a vigorous plant that is not likely to suffer in dry weather if properly f v tilized and cultivated. \ Of course, we will again sow peas !n our corn, and crimson clover in ? n ! cotton at the last cultivation, and : don't fail to prepare and fertilize our rain stubble well, for here must l e town our peas to till our barns with be.) and prepare the sod for QOttOfl n? iallowing year. The third year v Lli complete the round and bring tin- crone back again to tiie same held from which we started, but if our work has been well dLoaa, including ? ?ep preparation and rapid cultiva ti >n. we should see a marked im? provement in our yields and in our soil. llotation is not a "cure-all" for all the ills that the soil is heir to. but it is the quickest way to till the soil with vegetable matter while making a living from the farm and it will eventually allow us to do away with terrace banks, thereby reducing t??e COSt of producing our crops by the use of modern farm Implements, statchurg Bieter Elecflon. At an election held on the loth, the following gentlemen were elected to serve the Church of the Holy Jross. Stateburg: Wardens, Dr. F. M. Dwight. Wm. Rees; Vestry, W. L, Sa unders. X. B. Murray. L. Moore. R. C. Rich? ardson. Jr., and James Simons. Dele? gates to Diocesan council: Dr. F. M. Dwight. W. L. Saunders. N. B. Mur? ray and Wm. J. Rees. Alternates. R C. Richardson, Jr.. and James R!m? ons. Wm. J. Rees, Secretai The many friends of Chief fc>irt? ford were glad to see him out on the street again this morning after hi& recent attack of grippe which has kept him at home for almost a week. Some large four foot pipe to be used as culverts it: place of bridges, were placed on the court house grounds this morning and attracted some attention and comment. Mr. B. C. Wallace, county treasurer, has now made out a complete list of executions and has them ready lor the magistrates in the different townships to take in hand. What is Your Back -j Wor Hi Ask Your Doctor and He Will Say Sew Standard Central Needle Way. Come and see our DEMONSTRATION DURING THIS WEEK. All kinds of fancy work done on the New Machine. Also the latest line of seams done with the new attachments. E. Liberty St. W. VOGEL Svimter, S. C. i i 11 ii ; i "Feed Dr. Hess Stock Tonic on Three MonthsTe^t at Our Expense."- -Dr. Hess & Clark This is what Dr. Hess & Clark write us, and we stand ready to make food that guarantee to the letter.. It* it doesn't nay, rcttarn to Ul the empty packages and we will refund your money. Tecding l>r. HeM Stock Tonic is just like applying fertiliser to the m>II. Fertilizer makes the noil yield: Dr. Heea Stock Tonic make* the digestive organi convert more fevd int-o growth. sometimes 50 per cent of the food u healthy animal cats is found undigittLed in the manure. If this wasn't true, how could we faten our hogs on the corn that pa***- through the other stock undigest? ed? feeding medical Ingredients will reduce this waste, Every atedloal writer in the ??Inaei says so. Bating a part Of the wasted nutrition by tlicreaaing digestion In known as the Dr. Hess Ideal of Stock feeding. <?ct this idea ftrmly in your mind. Do not allow ttw? system to waste half of your fevd_ Mv(. ;, part of tids waste. Every partlcie you gave means probt to yotireetf. "^.--Hundreds of Herds made Immune from the Jj So-called Hog Cholera Epidemic by Feeding Dr. Hess Stock Tonic. Dr. Hess *V Clarke are having hundreds of letters from stockt mm all OVCT the corn l>o|t that are saving their herds from the ravage* of the Hog Cholera Kpidcnilc by feeding Dr. lies* Stock Tonic and dlalllfectlllg the pens and aleeping quarters with Dr. Hess Dip and disinfectant. T> Ifj.^ Pin-1-rP-1 IS 'u*nM,U*d to cure l>?u,,rv Uli ami makes heim lay. It has A OLIliry \ 4A\\~<X~\~\Z'~<\ the same growth and egg producing fuiuti \\ as Dr. lies? Stock Tonic. One eitrg egg will |H?> for all the l*an-a-cc-a a hen eat* for three mouths. Instant Louse hiller Kills [dee. A. A. STRAUSS & COMPANY, PHONE NO. 85. SUMTER. S. C