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The ?nmter Watchman wan found ed la lilt and the True Southron In litt The Watchman and Southron new has the combined circulation and fcnshtence cf both of the old papers. aad Is manifestly ths best advertising saedtam la Sumter. ?sa??---aee?aaam?m?m_ The Democrats of Sumter County have n<?t contributed as much as they should towards the Wilson campaign, but this neglect of a plain duty can be remedied since the campaign still Iva a month to run A partial canvas* has been made in thin city and the bulk of the fund thus far raised was secured tn this msnner; the cithiens of Mayeavllle have made a contribu? tion; Salem I>emocratlc club has done likeariee and so has Wedgefield. hut thsts ha' e been but few contributions from other sections of the county. This Is not as it should be and we suggest that a collection be taken at every precinct on Tueaday, October 11th on the occasion of the second primary for Stats offices. If a man is s Democrat and wants the party to win he should be not my willing to contribute, but fclad to do his full Barl to make the campslgn s success. Do We Need New Industrie?? "The average Sumter farmer gets ( ep esr'v. at the alarm of t Connecti? cut cl<>ck. buttons his Chicsgo sus? penders to Detroit overalls, puts on a pair of shoes made in Boatop. wash- ( ea la a Pittsburg tin basin using Cln- j slanaal soap, and dries in a cotton towel made la New Hampshire; sits down, to a Qrand Rapids table; eats hot btetujts made with Minneapolis j flour, cooked on a St. Louis stove; . buys Irish | datoet grows in Mich!- j gaa and canned frn p rl If In ail forms seasoned with Mseds lolgesd J sptoe*. clasps on his aid Wool hat made in Philadelphia, harnesses . Missouri mule, fed on Iowa corn, with j New York harness. *nd plows his farm, covered with a Massscsusetta j mortgage, with an Indiana plow. When bed time romes he reads a 1 Bible msde In Chlcigo. says a prayer | Written In Jerusalem, and crawls un? der a blanket made in New Jersey. | only to be kept awake by a South j Carolins dog?which is nbout the only j boms product on the place." ! SHALL THFY BF. PAID QurMPin of Overtime Wages lor Cus? tom* Ofth laN. Washing.on, ??cvt. 7 Secret ir\ MacVeagli of the Treasury today ( unk.-.i Attorney General Wlckersham for an opinion i- t ? whether custofnl inspectors should be paid extra for the examination at night of the per? sc na I hifg.igp of toiiristH disembark" Ins uftef the regular customs hours. For yeira customs Inspectors han- , died - i y baggage at night free of charge HTRIKF.IIRFAKFRS FlltF.D ON. ? Crowd In \ugu*ta stop?* street Car. Mofoiitaii und i oiMliM'tor Take t?? Mi stall Augusta. Oct. 7. ? Metween S and t o'cloc< tonight car on the MontS r*sn?? belt of the < its lines was sig? nalled t ? stop eg Gwlnnctt. near Flf'eentr When it came to a stand? still the trolley was snat'ht d from the wire and IBs llgfcrtl put out. Im m*dlit?* the inotorman and I onduc twr. *trl| ?d*r? -alters, Jumped from the ?er and If* or J " shots a.-re find at tn v> as they ran Ins gallon by a IpSflal detail of poll, agat n. who were rushed to the scene In automobiles, has rvt develop? ed injur\ to anybody. but the car remained on thr lin? a ceSJptl Oi hours. Something ilsyond That, education Is not merely tbe taking if Ideas out of one s hesd and pouring latin Into ths heads of children Troub'e W th the E pag, Hometirn??* tln> hair* become loosv ened and g*t beneath the eyelid Be? fore going to all the trouble Sj OlOaV Inlng lit sjafM 111) the was'i ho* I with cold VgtOf and open th* er??* und? r s/otOf Opal and ?hut them several t!m*s I ad in near? ly every ssOSSUMt O.ls will ? ( h out the) hoM? lso.nM r.:.ir It will of loggt loosen nidi a h ilr so thai It tnav be ssslly removed by the ?ot'on t ipped toothpick FORBIDDEN CITY IS ENTERED Walata, Once the Center of African Civilization, Now Nothing but Heap of Ruin*. Another ?'Mysterious city of the desert has given up its secrets ; Walata has been entered by a white explorer." Until last January Walata?Oualata, the French spell it?was more mysteri? ous even than fabled Timbuctu, its distant neighbor. In the truth century Walata was a great city, the center of civilization, from which the religion of Islam spread ihnmghout western Africa, Up to tho twelfth century it was the prosperous capital of the kingdom of Oana. the market to which came all the nations of Africa, with caravan routes across the desert to Tunis, Touat. Tafilelt and Fez. Here gathered the wise men and the doctors of the law of Mahomet. I Then, like all Babylons and all Tyres, it began to decline. Timbuctu, a younger city, gradually stole away Its trade and usurped Its position as an Intellectual center. In the four? teenth century It bad lost Its splendor. Two centuries more and the sultans of Morocco, extending their conquests to the south, occupied It and it became ouly one of the many conquered towns, j Finally Walata became the home of the bands of robbers who terrorized ? nil the country around. With the pos stole exception of Lalng in 1826, no white man had seen it. and Its pirate masters had resolved that none should enter it But last winter Colonel Roulet. French commandant at Timbuctu, de* termloed to dispel the mystery. At the bead of a camel corps of 200 sol? diers, he marched across the desert snd occupied the city without firing a shot, eighteen years to the month after the French entry Into Timbuc? tu. Only a few poor families now live la the ruins of what was once a great city, as the remains of Its walls, cita? del and massive mosques testify. There are left, even, some decorations of the style made familiar by the Al hambra. that prove that once the arts were studied here as well as in the other Moorish empire north of the straits of Gibraltar. Travel of Two Casks of Wine, If wine could talk, there are two casks of It which passed through Hous? ton the other day which would tell an Interesting story. Thin wine, consigned to a firm In Baltimore, was aboard the El Sud when that boat sank Just out of QaJ veeton over two weeks ago. Three g?yt age be casks war? picked up by life wen of the United State* . ? ? nation at Point Isabel, near Brown ??vlllo. They ^*re' brought to Brownsville and* turned over to- the 8t Ltoula, Brownavillft 4 Mexican railroad. J. A. Brown, general freight agent of the Una, ordered the goods shipped on to the Ann to whom they were originally consigned. The address of this firm was still visible on the casks and there was no mistaking to whom they should be sent The wine will be turned ovor to the Morgan line at Oslveston Monday. There la some doubt existing In the mlndi of railroad officials ai to whom the liquor mould be checked. It Is the first case on record of goods being given up by the sea to a railroad com? pany, and there Is no book in the of? fice for keeping track of this class of freight The wine was originally sent by the Italian colony of Southern Cal? ifornia.?Houston Post Coys Copy Despersdo's Exploits. The notoriety given to Bonnot has fired the imaginai ion of an eighteen year-old boy named Firmin Llcardies, living In he French town of Maura, in the central department of Cantal. This lad, who has been reading the exploits o' the band, resolved to Imi? tate Bonnot. ilo armed himself the other day with a hatchet and a gun, got possession of some cartridges, and ; then barricaded hlmseir in his room, refusing to leave it. "You will have to dynamite me as they did Bonnot," he cried. Finally the gendarme! were ? nt for, and as they were surrounding fl o hou3e the boy fired at them. Ills It exj')' dt was to SjsjoapS from an attti Winden and ho fled to a neigh* DOfiSfl WOOd, where, after a long hunt, i he was fcund making cartridges in a thicket Three young ruffians also at? tempted tj selae a motor delivery van near Nam y by cutting through the pneUsnatU tires, rut they '<><?k to 1 flight without the car, alarmed by the tries of the chauffeur. I_ Impr toned in Strong Room. A somewhat amusing Incident, in rot?tag nie enforced Imprisonment of I two elerhl In the strong room id' the nohaailan bank of Prague, Austria. occurred recently* The clerki were engaged in detaching couponi front bonds wheu the manager, In showlnn ti.e strong rootu and the mechanism Of the itimor plated door to the di ' etui of a provincial bank, lockt . I Iba dour upon them, A fan minute, later the managirr triad in open It, bui could BOt Several lOCkSmlthS Were railed lit. and though tiny Worked ' bard the whole day, they failed lo un I lock the d->or. The Berlin firm who construe tod the strong room lent i me nv 1 ml* lam as exi1 su t; tin to Prague but their andeavor w< ? k< i * ise in ?.sin at ||rst< 11 wat onlj si ! trr thirty boon of loll tnd search th.t* j the mu Mi . \ Rfl flllN ov. , l WORKING FOR LBUGATION. I * RI. s 11 v r I: KIA N s OF STATE WILL KAISl $200,000. Campaign in Harmony Presbyter) Started at Meeting in Manning ? $15,000 Bum to be Rw|nrd by the Presbyter)?Canvass Begins at Once, Bomt fifty m? rii pastors, elderi and deaconi of the Presbyterian church ei forming Harmony Presbytery gathered at a banquet In Manning last nlghi for ths purpose of launch? ing the canvass In ths Presbytery to raise 116,000 towards ths fund of 1100,000 thai the Presbyterians In South Carolina arc raising for their three educational institutions, viz: The Columbia Theological Seminary, The Presbyterian College of South Carolina, at Clinton, for young men. and Chlcora College, at Greenville, for young women. The gathering last night wan the eighth Of a similar kind that hive been held In the -Mate In the Interest of the same enterprise and it was one of the bOSl of the eight. Tim sup per was served by ths lidlei ?>f the Maiming Presbyterian Church in the MaaonlC hall, and they acquitted themselves With credit, serving a sp)endid menu In a delightful manner. The supper over addresses were made by President Whaling, of the Semin? ary. Pres. Byrd, of Chlcora College, and President Douglas of the College at Clinton. Mr. IJridgman, the finan? cial secretary, thlen distributed the subscription card" and report cards and had a few words to say regard? ing the detail of the canvass. The closing address was made by ROV. R. T. Gtllesple, pastor of the Florence Presbyterian Church, who told, pointedly and Interestingly, how | his church made a successful canvass, . In the Pee Dee Presbytery campaign, ' the first to he held. His church was ' asked to raise $3.000. They secured 1 over this amount the first day and 1 then went ahead and raised 60 per j cent more. They were able to do this . because the elders and deacons were deeply Interested In the enterprise, wil? lingly assumed the responsibility for doing their part ami then gave their time, at a very busy season of the year, Joyfully and unselfishly to can- I vassing the members of their church. | They completed the canvass In Just a few days. ' Sunday coming specln.1 sermons will be pleached in nearly ail Of ths churches by visiting ministers in the Interest ol the canvass. It is expected that Dr. Douglas will preach in Sum? ter. Dr. Whaling at Concord in the morning and Salem, (Hlack River),, in the afternoon. . Dr. Reed, if the seminary, at Wedgefield. in the morn ln the af iernoon. Dr. Reed, of the E. E. Oillesple of Yorkviile at Mt. Zlon In the morning and Hebron in the afternoon and Mr. Brldgmnn at Mayesvlllo in the morning and Lynchbur? In the afternoon, other | ministers will speak In the churches in distant parts of the Presbytery. The OanVSSS begins immediately fol lowing thr? sermons and is to be made by the officers of each church. The pastors and many of the elders left Man dng this morning to go to oianta where Harmony Presbytery J meets with Beulah Church tonight. FiHRlll PRIMARY F.I.FATION. Will he "leid in Marlboro County i Tuesds >. BennettsvJlle, Oct T. Marlboro county his already had this year three primary elections, and a fourth pfimar) for the purpose of nominat? ing r c!erk of the court will be held tomorrow, the tilth primary will be that for Ihe oih?.f attorney gen? eral. The county ? xecutlvs committee after recounting the entire ballot of tin- coumy and tabulating, declared a ti?- in the election for cleric of tin court anl ordered a fourth primary between P. C. Hamer and Julian Mc i Laurln In the second and third pri mary Hsmer led p/ith a majority of Ihres an i two, respectively. Such were the returns of the managers. Af? ter deciding several Irregularities, tie (allots t/ere declared a Iis by the executive committee, i Original Amen Corner. The u !tfin of the name ' Amen cor ner'" la Interesting and throws a pleasant ii^ht on English Catholicity of the lays before Ihe a estasy Ol Hsnry VIII Each year on Ihe teas! of Corptti Christi the faithful weil in procession to st Paul's cathedral Mustering In Cheapslde, the procos lion moved toward the cathedral, the cIhtkv chanting the "Our Father*' as the\ pauset along Ihe street still tailed Paternoster roM reaching ths "Amen" ss the) turned the cornel knowa SI year as Amen corner.? Ave Ml I I Foolish Question, A Kid who attended the circus tho other thy is said to have asked his father: "Say. If one >' them Arabs would full off nls horse an' knocked his teeth oul would he talk gum ara? ble?" i leveland Plain Dealer. NO 1 ROOFS M AKEN. GOVERNOR REFUSES REQUEST OF SHERIFF RABORX. Urges Ulm to Keep Order end at sann? Time, Colls Upon Electric Car Company Not to Attempt Opera? tions in South Carolina. Alken? Oct. 7.?Following the ri<>t in x??rth Augusta yesterday afternoon, In Which it is stated that at hast SOU persons participated in an attack up? on strike-breakers and guards operat? ing a car to Belvidere from Augusta on the Alken division, sheriff Etaborn wired Qov, Blease for assistance, evi? dently Intt nding to suppress, through force of armed men, the mob vio? lence and lawlessness now brok< n forth ?>n this side of the river and in this county, as a result .if the strike among the car men. The wire was sent to OOV. Blease last night, and this morning Sheriff Etaborn is in re? ceipt of this: "Your wire received. I would sug? gest to superintendent with whom y >u have been conferring not to attempt to run cars on this side of the river, as they do not carry necessities of life or United States mail, until peo? ple quiet down. Reports come to me that sympathizers with strikers are from Georgia side, and as they have violated our statute law. you should proceed to swear out warrants and ar? rest them it* found in this SUite. Ties ent situation would not justify me in sending militia at heavy expense to State. If cars do not run and strik? ers begin to injure traek or destroy property 1 will see that it 1? protect? ed. "Cole 1* Blease. "Governor of South Carolina." Where conditions and information warrant. Sheriff ILabora will pursue to the. letter the course suggested by Gov. Blease and arrest all disturbers of the peace unless they slip over the line into Georgia, and even they can doubtless be easily secuTed though the proper requisition proceedings. CORN CLUB MKKTIXt?. _I Boy's Corn Club and Girl's Tomato Club Meetings to be Held at the Court Ilouse In Sumter. Saturday, . October 19. - I Every boy who joined, the- Com. Club in the Spring and waa will gather his ?vrn and make a report, sending sarnie in to Dr. Hayn^worth,. Superintendent of Education,, by the fifteenth of this month, will be given, a free trip to the National Corn Show in (CaUsnthia next January. With your report, or on Saturday, October 19, bring alosig with. you. tea of the ; best ears yoa can select from, your corn. Prizes will bo awarded. In Sumter for the best ten ears best re? port, and. the? highest yield. The two boys making the highest average will be given a trip to the National Corn Show and tiseir expanses pool in a School of Lastruction, composed of two boys frojn each courtly in the State where Corn. Club work is being done. Parents don't cheat your sons out of this trip on the account of be- ] Ing too bung to help gjtther their ! corn. All of the boys who expect to con Sit another year are invited to attend the meeting at the; Court House Saturday. October 19. aad bring Ho? best ten ears of corn y*u can select from your father's crib. If as many as ten bi.;>"s who :ire not in the con? test this year, wdjl bring ten ears each, and join the n??xt year's club, we will have your cssrn judged and pay y?>u cash prizes, three <Jolia.rs, lor the West ten ears, two dollars for tile best, and one dollar for th?e ;bird i . st in this class. Eellow Teachers, Interest your boys in the next year's club and see that they select t?? 11 ears of corn and come to Sumter Saturday, October 19 promptly s' I - M . After the Corn Club meeting. Miss Parrot! Bt ite Agent of the Girl's To ? mate Clubs, will meet those Interested In having the Tomato Club work esl ihltshcd here In this county, it wil' be possible to start this work In onl> three counties In Bastern Faro* Una next year. l?ee and Darlington I have already secured this work, and i j other counties are wanting it. s<> you see we have to rc! or be left out In Ihe cold for another year. .1 If. 11 ay nB worth, F. Prank Williams. I Tceecrated Burial Vault. . In a dl'npldp.l d old vault in a churchyard in Philadelphia, contain? ing the bonos o! tome colonial man or maiden, group oi roysterlng mea were found the other night, laughing. talking, smoking and shooting "erapa." The vault In which they sat was the oldest in Old Trinity and it la falling Into decay. For more than a week , residents of the neighborhood had beard uncanny Bounds emanating from the churchyard after midnight, und the place was believed to be "haunt* < d " Explained. Flla '? Vfl a ? hi Id I had hard work n learning to tell ?me " Stella "Then '.hat Is the reason you never sec in ;o b\? certain how old you are." NEGROES ADOPT RESOLUTIONS. They Condemn l*awlessne*?*, Uemand Arrest of Alleged Rapists end Of? fer Their Services to AnmImI Offi? cers in Apprehending Utillt} Par? tie?, i The subjoined resolutions, adopted at a mass meeting of negroes, held In Bhlloh Baptist church, tins city, have been received, accompanh d by a re? quest that they be published. The resolutions; arc recommended to the consideration of the sheriff, other law officers of Sumter county, the grand jury, now in session, and to all good cltlsens who believe In the en- j forcemenl of law, and the protection of all Women. Two white men are charged with an outrageous crime, a warrant has been issued for their ar? rest and they have not been arrested, notwithstanding it is stated on good authority that they are still in hiding in Shlloh township. These men may he Innocent?th** presumption is that they are innocent, until pronounced guilty by a jury?but if the law is to j be Vindicated they must be arrested j and brought to trial, it is worse than folly, it is a crime, tor the law abiding citizens of Sumter County to. stand idly by and see the law defied 1 by men charged with th.- most a bom niahle crime on the statute books. The n?-grows who attended the mal meeting in Shiloh Baptist church ask the enforcement of the law and they were within their rights in so doing. There would h ive htfca no nsaas meet? ing" of iregrce.t in Shiloh liaptist Church and no reflations adopted had the accused men been arrested within a reasonable time, and tfisas who will feel Undlmrdl c<> condemn the negroes for adopting resolutions shou4d consider the- jtrstrfleation they huve In the circunvstanves: Sumtur, S. C, <)ct> 7. 19l'i. The colored cltizena Ot Sumter in , mass meeting assembled, at the Shiloh Baptist Churub, of whi/h. Dr. J. A. I Pinson is pastor, adopted the follow? ing resolutions: Wheneas, two Rural Policemen, offi cers of the law, while men,, ??d, upon pretense of taking two negro girls be? fore a magistrate in Shiloh township, Sumter County, to bind thattra over as witnesses^ in a easo, and whereas, it is reported that Instead,. tb.*y were carried, by said, policsnnen. iu the woods and UrautaJly asaaaslLed and raped. Re It Resort wed, That we in mass meeting assembled* do cond.emn said act as being the most brutal and out? rageous attack ev.er made upon a wo? man by man: or set ot raea; for these men were paid-, to. upheld tbe law. Resolved 2nd. That as said men are still at large ami should be brought to, ;u speedy juteount. that we, the colored, oltiaent* assembled, do hereby; otter our survives to those in j authority. txi> assist in apprehending said guilty, parties, b*>Ui in time and money.. I BoaohradJ .'Ird. That we hereby call upon, tho Qovenrur of the State and. the county authorities to offer a re? ward fotr thi? uuipture and conviction Of said men. For If this is allowed: to no mnpujiusrued. it will breed law* j lessnsaa and ??surder, and negroes* in j the fill are wilT. not submit to affSSt for Nsj et h-nng mobbed or raped! - Disrespect for Law. The story Crom Sumter of the, I&SS |es,s act that is charged against two rural Bolteemten is an evidence of a most shocking condition of affairs if it be true. Such stories are not in f?Oje.SMHSt and they mark | onditton of the country that Is truly alarming. When the executive officers of a poo pie themselves h ad In disrespect of the law, what is there for peopie to look forward to? We are koc unto med to think that our homes and 1 i\ * s are safe because we have the protection of the Courts and th.- t-xecutive of ticers of the State government, but when that reliance fads uj what is the difference between living in a country like this and living in a heathen land .' No man Is tit to be an officer of the law u? any capacity who does rmt show in his own life and habits a respect lor thai law, and those who would put a man in a place of power who does nol respecj the law are sowing a wind that wUI be reaped ;,s a whirlwind, but r.he public is hard to arouse to the respon? sibility of the Individual for the sins of the community, and each man pectfl to escape the harvest wt?ls hl? neighbor reaps the seed of the whirl? wind that h<- has sowed. Some man Is a ^odil fellow, und therefore he 'must be given a place where the pub? lic treasur> \sii! maintain him. II space allowed dosens or such stories might be printed from Georgia now that the people of that State an Inter* ested in the matter of the ri peal of the clause In the constitution <>t' th.it State providing for magistrates of leas rank than county judge in big cities I where, In Georgia, the political cor? ruption se.-m- in i novt to be cen? tered, at bast th^- political corrupt j Ion of appointing lo public ofHimen who have no ?? ^i'? I for nnythiug eS I cept the wIkIicn of the political bt u who stands behind ihem in < job.? F|or< nee Times, AMERICANS LOST FOUR. HARD F|GHT WITH XICARACil \\ Kl .til i >. People of Lc n ami < llllMndegs In Pitiful Condition for Weeks Be? lore K? 11. i of Towns. San Juan Del Sur, Nie., Oct. 7 Tho AmtTioan forces lost lwo HiariM I and two bluejackets killed in the at? tack of Loon and Chinandega. which were occupied by the rebels. Fifty rebels wer?- Killed and many w<>unda ed. The others have bei n disarmed. Chinandega Is the capital of the department of the same name, lying 24 miles toresJssest of Leon. Both towns have been in the hands of the insurgents for weeks and the residents of both places have suffered much distress. According to the advices rooolvod here, a large detachment <if marin? - and bluejackets under Lieutenant Coi, Long proceeded from Corinto to thr.e points on the National railroad, Chi na - dega In the northwest. Leon to the southeast and <"hichi midway between. Ch the scene of an SBffSg while the rebels were 1 uate the two other U lowing day. retails Of the tightim; ha \ e not I ? ? : ea mod. t_ FA MITT IS KILLED. Ant* mobile Is Strock by Intortsrban Caw in Texas. Dallas. Texas, Oct. 6.?F. B. Corne? lius of Palmer, Texas, his wife and two daughters* atni his ?ister ami her child were killed ton automobile in whu?h t. was struck by an inter the town of Arlington, Dallas, nin- int?mxrba a rapid speed, struck the automobile squarely in the centre, throwing its six occopauto directly in front ?f the car. The bodies of those killed were mangled beyond recognition. Corne? lius was identified by a card found in his pocRot. 1 LADIUS?More new > It will pay woir te h other-anapes. trrmi hats and pattern ! i?rg.. Cbme orae and all. Tours to please* Mrs. W. O. Brow ire. No. 7 K. LJBerty Starret, up stales. WOVL fsBXfc ?fir two saffk xmt with- > *< salves * r H gentle. Willi r till ? tC -o pecsr . ~ ? arrdS gr?ute<f pigs, lambe and kids. Avpgdy to It W. Daphsv PI n? land | Pirm, K&yeoTille. S. O. New York Bakery.... We are in a position to furnish Anybody. Anywhere, Any Amount "viry Bread Now uftcentlng our new plant on I'.. Hampton \\e. with a dallx CSV pacitj of ?.ooo loaves of beeael TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL: Vuu are Invited to ? \Uil. it will lntefi*Mi >ou to see the aaa? ettlnerj and ilie o\cn in operation ? mi i ini *-? i in i in \ n . m nit WAi YoM can oid'-i It It ? >iii >oui ur el*, bill iii-i-l oil tile Wl.lOpetl loaf. "THERE'S A REASON."