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afwMUl i? Wcriiiesda) and Saturday. ?BY? WTttN PUBLISHING C8MPANY 8. C. I MM: ? i.k advaac?. Ad?" *it?*eie)euu * 9mm 8k)ua\r? flret .tiernon 0 Bv?ry luha^uani In nlon ? Contra? ta for three r hangar will ba made at re All communications serve private Internets wll l 1 far aa advertleemtnts. Obltuarlaa and tribute t will be charged for. The Humtar Watchman ad In 11SO and the Trut I Mit The Watchman at I anw has tha combined ehx- ? I ?Bfuenca of both of the old paper*, and !? manlfnstly che beat advartlalng siadlum in su roter The price of cotton has advanced by laapa and bounds since the election af Wilson, hut we fail to note that the Republican organs are attributing the advance to the result of the elec? tion. Had the bottom dropped out of the cotton market Wilson and the Democrat* would have been given all the blame, and we may expect to eee every failure that may oecur during the next four years charged against the Pemocratlc administration, eee The Chamber of Commerce cam ftatgn comes at an opportune time. The campaign had been planned be? fore Secretary Snell was offered the Charleston secretaryship, as It was the opinion of the officers and directors of the Chamber of Commerce that Sum? ter should fall Into line with the work lor the State Chamber of Com? merce, for which effective work has been done In Oreenvllle. Spurtanburg end Rock Hill within the past month Now ?>\it S>cretar> Snell has been call d to Charleston and his successor must be found In the immediate fu tsure. It Is all the more necessary that the organisation be put on a soil* foundation to carry on without a aalt the good work that has been done during the pasi two years. Sumter lAntot afford to take a backr.ttrd ?t*p and the business men should get to? gether and provide the ways and means for a more vigorous campaign for the upbuilding of the city than hi?s ever been prosecuted In the past. The work that haa been done since the Chamber of Commerce was reorgan? ised two years ago and a regultr sec? retary emoloved t?? now beginn*!*? to bring rest*Its, and If we woulo not 1 Invested In n oney rk must be t? ken I when Secretary ?neu lajra it down. We have less than a mon?n in which to find another Sec ? retary and as soon aa the campaign If concluded this week, the search for the right man for the place should be started. Keep Your Credit (iood. It :n <i surprise to a man when he learns at th. ?t. r,. that his account fa too large and there Is no more seed It When that open door is slam ssed shut In a man's face It makes htm think; and t makes him think It w a rlKht good Ihlfjl but he often Manie?? th?- d? abr Instead of him ealf and l?"t* a b>t of no an thoughts get Into his boeom to !.?? nested When SjftadM has eejfSI to an nid It Is time I?. -ot I wob i?' e and think the sltuati..n o\.r What ?-nded your credit* Why c. the dealer refuse to trust you another cent? Your Read I >? ks . Oar under water to h.ni of i - < ri. 1 I.? -? ? s n > hope or promts* tn . .?????. What sunk you nut of micht to him? Too mu< h e \ - ?ra\agare ? ? ? r roacb , t to pass blrn a i >r Alien he knew you were able ?n? A debt that can't be wiped out at on ?? can be reduced little by little. A wlllnaneaa to act Into debt to any amount MfVfjf \<t ImproM-d a man' ared'.t The ?nlv mm who ?an do that t\lth Impunity is the man with th*' ? -Ilat? r 11 laW when he has goni she limit the sheriff gets him. To keep *, r* ?111 g*od >ou must be able to pay and h<>' ? a r? putatlon foi Squaring up N'o one has fOOd monev for I man who do. nn't pi\. Rot k Hill Hi raid. \ sihigU-HM II??-. Philadelphia. Pa.--The Sttnglens hee at last has arrived. having been produced by an Knglish apiarist liimd Iturrows. A d?s< rlpting. of the Sew bee ^i\s the hyblrds are splendid workers and are less liable to ?IIm ease than the ordinary li"ti? v pro du'?r- BtlffOWl mated t'yptlan sron.? ** with Ital'an queens to pn? lure I he new bee Wbo ?.ml-? ?f |ee plant with wint.r coming on"?Columbia Record V.I f ids are ass ill* d at the h\ - gif ne ' "MKT. ?<?* (; od for t h? m 1 tin ?Id ityle rook log Is the beat,?C?? lumbla Record. n kw MAGNCTQ f\cn)hv has hkkn COQbIMjETED. Sumter Telephone .Manufacturing Compuii) Hum Added t New l>e lUiritneiit Increasing shop ( upaolty Three rimes. The Sumter Telephone Manufacture lag Oosapaey of this city hai com Mated their new additi? n for the m taufacture Of Ignition Magnetos. Thcs?> magnetos are us al with sta? tion?r) engines. and are very much like the ordinary automobile mag? neto in appearance. At present the Sumter company Is not making the automobile type, but will do so in the soar future. The neW addition consists of a sub? stantial brick building ItxttO feet, increasing the machine shop capacity about thro, times. Th? additional POWOI plant consists oC a 30 h p. haroesne all ? aglai of the latest type and equipped with the Sumter mag? net*. The machine shop equipment is Vary complete. It consists of Brown & Shai pe aiul other high grade ma? chine tools throughout. Some of the special machinery employed cannot be found in any other r uichine shop in the South, and tho equipment throughout is equalled by but few plants in the United Stales. The won? derful precision of the special ma? chines employed is remarkable, as they will work to a small fraction of a thousandth of an Inch- about half the thickness of a hair. Sumter 3-M magnetos are used by the largest manufacturers of gas en? gines. There are over 7.000,000 gas engines In use in the I'nited gtatca, and new ones are being made at the rate of *00.000 per year. As almost all of these engines wl] have mag? netos, the market for the Sum.er company's output Is enormous. The new plant is now running at almost its full capacity, but the pro? duction will i?e still further In ore aeed shortly after the first of the year to take care of new buslm-ss already In Bfe/Wt, All tw.w material for these mag? netos must be gotten from the'North, and practically all the product Is shipped to the middle west. The growth of this enterptise is lar: ly dependent upon railroad faclli'ics, and especially on quit k freights to points in llllrols, Wisconsin, etc The railroads have promised the Sumter company their co-opt ration in this respect, and are now w? rklng out best re itaa eta. The 3-M magnetos are manufac? tured under patents allowed and p ndlng. granted to Mi. ('. T. Mauon as Inventor. Mr. Mfi.son has been perfecting the magneto for a number of years, and the m tchlne Is now recognized as being superior to any made anywhere in the world. While the manufacture of ,o'.e phone Is still being conduted by '.he Sumter company, they see such a magnificent future in the magneto field, and their magneto has been so enthusiastically endo:sod and rapidly adopted by the users, that they deem It desirable to Concentrate their ef? fort* on this line to as great an extent as possible. The position of the s unter company us a manufacturing organization is now Stronger than ever, with the success of this new branch of the business assured, wbic i means anoth? er splendid business added t the sver growing list of Sumter enterprises. An Excellent Choice, Si s s and (tourler, it does not often happen nowadays that the pi a ? seeks ins man. The facta therefore, that Mr. \ v. fjnell, w}\>, has boon selected as managing ? retar) "* the Chamber of Com? merce, was aot a candidate for that poattlon win e far to predispose the si neos Interests of Charleston gen? erally In his favor. We believe thai Mr ?noil will justify the confidence re posed m bun by the special commit lee of tin board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce at whose Invl tatlon he ?onus here. The problems which await him will differ in mans respects from those with which he iia^ beeg confronted In Bumter, but the . haraetef of work he haajdone In sum? ter is a guarantee Of hll adaptability ami general fitness for the*duties of the position ?iu< h he has undertaken lo tin in tins community, He will find i ? i ? abundant opportunity for bis tal? ents, n<>r do we believe thai he will have on as Ion lo complain of the sup? port ?I i? b to- receives from the busi? ness no n of i ?hfl i b ston. Marriage License Itccortf. \ marriage license wet Issued Mon? de) to Before I e|d? f and I I n l let r. ik' r colored, of Plnewood, Banerts are lo no et in Washington to discuss the problem of dependent rhlkfeen, That question will be dis? cussed I IhOUSaad years from now t 'olumbla Hi cord yovnc1 maker rice killed. Son of Chirr Game Warden Meets Accidental Death while Hunting:. Bummervtlle, Nov. 9.-*-a very de plorablt accident happened this morning) which resulted in the death Of Mann Rice, known to his boy frlendi as "Huddle." ion of Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., chief Kam?- warden. The little fellow and a companion were oul hunting, and in crossing a field their dogs attack* d several lit? tle pigs. In trying to beat the dogs off with the butt end of their guns, the gun Maner was carrying in some manner was discharged, both loads entering his abdomen. His companion ran for ussistance to Chief of Police Waring, who happened to be In the neighborhood, and the chief imme? diately put a man on his horse and sent for a physician, but on his ar? rival the lad was dead. Death evident? ly was almost instantenous. Maner was the third son of Mr. Rice, and about 11 years old. He was a I right and dutiful boy and the pride of his home. He was in the fifth class Of the graded school. He will he buried at Ninety-Six in the family Plot. The heartfult sympathy of the entire tOW| goes out to the parents in their ber? avemcnt. Keep Your Face to the Sunrise. This artic le will be read by men who have never really believed that the time will come when Southern far? mers will Quit wearing out their lands; when scrub livestock will be the ex Ceptlon and not the rule; when the cattle tick will have been eradicated and hog cholera reduced to compara? tive homelessness; when silos and gasoline engines and traction plows will he common in every rural com? munity; when the farmhouse with? out a water system and a bathroom and good lights and neat surround? ings will be in the minority; when the farmer who works himself and his family all the year, living hard the while and doing without many of the comforts of life, will be almost a thing of the paat. These men will admit that such a time should be; but that it will or can be, they calinot believe. Always, as they think, there must be a great mass of farmers performing the hardest sort of labor and receiv? ing very poor pay for it, doing with? out many of the things which men who work with equal faithfulness in other professions have COmS to regard as necessities. Men. good men and true, really believe this. We do not believe it?not for one instant. That there will always be poor farming and poor farmers, Is unquestionable. There is scant hops that all of us, or any of us, will ever be perfect and do the best we know and can. This does not mean, how? ever, that all of us cannot do better than we have been (hung, and that enough will not do better to raise the whole standard of farm life, and make the farming of the future a widely different thing from the farming of today. The time will come when Southern lands will cease to wash away and when the old worn fields will be re? claimed. Some day the Southern far? mer who has razor-back hogs and nondesc ript cattle will be ashamed of them. The one-horse farmer about whom we hear so much will one day be a rarity. The rural community with bad roads, a shabby schoolhouse and ;? total lack of community spir? it will cease to be. These things are bound to ? hang??not because we say so, but because the great hulk of Southern farmers are men of intel? ligence and force, who are giving their children better training than th?*y bad. and thus preparing them to <i<? better work and to get more for it. But before better things can come to the community as a whole, they must come to the individuals who make up the community. in every section can be found men who are helping to bring about the new era In Southern agriculture?nu n who have their faces to the sunrise, w h< have high ideals of farming and high ambitions for themselves, who ai ? i< arnlng more about their work, who feel that their families are en? tity ti to more of tin- good things of lift than they have heretofore enjoy? ed and who are giving their best thought and energy to the accom? plishment of tby- end. In every sec? tion, too. sire men who are hindering the progress of their land and their ? ailing non who will not believe that there are better ways of doing things than the ways to which they have been accustomed, or that it Is possible for the great mass of farm? ers to shar?- equally in the prosperity of the country with successful men in other lines ?1 work, The Progres? sive Partner. An oyster supper and other re ?? hments will be served at Bethel Graded School, near Privateer, on nexl I'rieiiv night, November 16th, for 'he' benefit of the piano fund. R very body is cordially Invited te? at tend, t ?*ter Supper, (JEN. TREVINO FOR PRESIDENCY. Affairs in Mexico Vwj Unsettled? Wandering Hands Commit Murder und Arson. Mexico <'ity, Nov. 10.?Gen. Geron Imo Trevlno, recently retired at his own request from the army. la sug? gested as provisional president o? Mexico In a new revolutionary mani? festo which has just reached the cap? ital. The document Is signed by Gaudenciro de la Llave, colonel of regulars, who lately joined the insur? rection. Benjamin Rodriguez and F. ii. Pradillo, the latter with Orosco's army until he incurred Orozeo's displeasure by taking ESmilio Vas quex Gomez fron San Antino to Ju? arez. The manifesto Is dated Puebla, the day after tho capture of (Jen. Felix Diaz. it is not l elieved Gen. Trevino is Interested, Another document obtained by police from Zapatista prisoners was made public today. It appears that the Zapatista brothers and other lead? ing insurrectors, whose names are signed, propose to imitate the French revolution. Promises are made to the insurgent army to which the docu? ment is addressed that a guillotine will be erected in the capital and that the heads of many of the .ich will fall. D. also promises that "others will end their d;.ys in the Mexican bast lie." Wandering bands are committing murder and arson in the way of re? prisals for the defeat at Cuernavaca, a few days since. Reports ar< current of a new plot, kn< wn army officers having had a conference with the Orozco adherents with tin- object <!> organizing all fac? tions of the rebels. The government has been unable to locate Gen. Agullar but asserts that he has no following worth mentioning. A special dispatch to tho Imperial says Gen. Aguilar slept last night at the San Geronimo ranch and that he has several hundred rebels with him. JOHNSON SOUS. GOES TO CELL. liluck Champion Palls to Furnish Bond of Thirty Thousand Dollars. Chicago. Nov. s.?jack Johnson) the negro champion heavyweight pu? gilist, tonight occupies a cell in the county jail, due to his failure to fur? nish a $80,000 bond for his release on a charge of violating the Mann White Slav** Act. Judge Landis held a night session to give the pugilist an op- j portunity to obtain new bondsmen, but he failed. Albert C. Jones, who attempted to qualify as one of the pugilists" bonds? men, was held in $10,000 bail on a charge of contempt of Court after it bad been shown he had scheduled property, which, under the name of "A Charles Jones," In* previously had deeded to his wife. Jones was re? manded to the custody of the United States marshal along with Johnson. Catherine Doroey, at whose home the young white girl, I.ucile Cameron, lived for several weeks, was arrested this afternoon. She had been hiding in a barn for three weeks. She was held under $fi,000 bail as a witness in the Johnson case and also was remanded to the marshal's custody. In his extended tight for bond John? son shed tears, pleaded, offered cash boni in almost any amount and em? ployed two attorneys in an effort to obtain bis release. Three prospective bondsmen failed t<> qualify. Both Dis? trict Attorney Wilkerson and Judge Landis refused to consider a cash bond. j "An unparalleled attempt to swindle this court i>y offering unqualified bondsmen lias been made," said Judge Landis. ' l ? i not consider a cash bond." ...i. .vilkinson said he understood Johnson intended to leave this coun? try on November 30 if released. The offence with whi?h he is charged Is n<?t subject to extradition. Several other charges against John? son ale to lie investigated by the grand jury, it is said. District Attorney Wil? kerson said tonight he intended to put Jol non on trial as soon as possible. Tin < ase probably will be called next week. At tin jail door Edward F. Wiegle, newspaper photographer, attempted to take a flashlight picture of John? son and the pugilist knocked him down with a heavy cane. "I want a dosen candles so l can havo ueue light, a box of cigars and a case of champagne,1 Johnson de m. ndod, Tins was refused and finally he was given a bottle of milk. Mr W B, Tilllnghast, an attorney of Columbia, acted as stenographer Mon.lt> for Mr. I.. B. Wood, who was called to Camden to testlf) in a case at thai place. Tint- were 108 hales of cotton sold on the local market Saturday, mak? ing a tol ill ot i v.n for t lo week Don't make quanttts more impoi tant than quality, The best work la that which takes time, and now a days :t i? the pest a'Ork 'bat i-; want? ed. Z% STATES FOR INCOME TAX. Only Four Vote to Reject Amend? ment?Thirty-six Needed to Adopt Thirty-two states have notified secretary Knox of their ratification of the proposed income tax amendment to the Federal Constitution and four have notified tfTe stau- department of their rejection. To bec< me effec? tive 86 States - three-fourths of those in the Union?must ratify. Those whieh have not notified the department of ratification or rejec? tion are Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Y> x ico, Ohio, Pennslyvanla, Vermont? Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Connecticut, New .Hampsyhire, Rhode Island and Utah have notified of rejection. The tirst favorable report was re? ceived from Minnesota on June 12. Killed While Riding Rods in Rail road Wreck. Leon R. Livingston, the "gentle I man tramp, ' as he liked to be known and "A No. 1." as he called himself, has been killed in a railroad acci? dent according to newspaper ac? counts. He met bis death riding the rods under a passenger coach, in a railroad accident. "A No. 1" will be recalled by many people In Charles? ton. His familiar mark, which he placed on buildings, wails and fen? ces wherever he traveled, rom which he came to be known, in fact the only name by which he WOS known generally, is to be seen abtut Charleston. In the office of The Evening Post the symb ?1 is in sever? al places inscribed, bearing aiso the date "3-10-1911" w ith the ar? row pointing to the south, indicating his route on Laving Charleston. His stay in this city was unusually long for the reason that he met with an accident at the union station and was confined in the Roper hospital with a1 broken ankle for several weeks. As a result of the fall he entered suit, through Attorneys Logan & Grace, and in June the case was withdrawn, having been settled. When he was discharged from the Roper hospital, "A No. 1" was a guest at the St. John's Hotel for the few days he was i here. On account of the suit he had to disclose his name to give the ac? tion standing in court. As far as known this was his only visit to ('harleston. Undoubtedly king of tramps was "A No. 1" when he was not travel? ing he looked to be a prosperous business man, being scrupulously neat and presenting a good appear? ance. One might have taken him for a thrifty commercial traveler. He was intelligent. He wrote sever? al books, describing his tramp life. These books and his photographs had considerable sale. His peculiar traits were many. He refused to divulge his identity, pre fering to be known as "A No. 1." He was proud of his calling and seemed to enjoy his acquaintance with many prominent people, especially big rail? road officials, some of whom had re? warded him with passes In return for information he had given preventing wrecks and damage to property. H?. boasted that he had traveled 1,000,0?< miles without paying a cent for fare and that only once was he compelb I to pay, $7.50 for train passage. Tr Is was one of the dark spots in his oth? erwise blight career, as he saw it. "A No, 1' was said to have been born and reared in San Francisco. Every place he visited, he left his familiar mark, with the date and direction he was bound. He was known In the newspaper offices of the country generally. He carried a compactly arr- "ged scrapbook of clippings, wrap' ? d in his o 'erails which he wore when he set out on the road and Immediately discarded when he n iched his destination and had an opportunity to freshen up - Charleston Rest. Florence Times. it is with the greatest regret that We note the fact that McKeand is to leave Charleston, and right on top of that we cat learn that our neighbor City of Sumter. is to lose A. V. Snell. who takes .v. w McKeand's place In Charleston. Of Course the Stale will ha\e Snell ight on, but Sumter is going to find it hard to replace so excellent a secretary. McKeand is to go, we understand, with the gov? ernment In the United states Cham? ber of Commerce, which is a very much broader Held and one In which lie can and will* do good for this stat.' of ins adoption, for he is as good :i South Carolinian now as any of us. and a heap belter than some who have been born and raised In the State. We hope that Sumter will get a man who can < nrrj on the good work that Mr. Snell has started over there it was Interesting to us to see which of th.se two live cities were go* lug to gel the goal first and the riv? alry was g.l for us both it. KING OF TRAMPS. Two Live Cities. FREIGHT TR AIM HAMS EXCUR? SION TRAIN NEAR MAN ORLEANS. Hundreds of Colored Passf ngcss im? pede Work of Rescuers m Wrack Near New Orleans. New Orleans, Nov. 11. ? Fourteen llvet were snuffed out and &o psfnosji Were injure,l whiii a through freight train crashed inio the rear end of a Yaaoo A: Mississippi Valley railroad, near Montag, I^a.. at It.21 this morn? ing. The disaster is chare u by the rail? road Official! to the negligence of a flagman named Cunningham who dis? appeared when the two trains crash? ed together. < >f the dead four are w hite women, one a white infant, four negro wo? men and tise negro men. Forty-one of the injured are w rnte ana 4i are negroes. It is expected all these except possibly three will recover. Although the scene of the wreck is about 2~, miles BOltb of New Or? leans, and relief trains were sent j from this city and from Baton Rogue, the railroad officials withheld from the pi ess information of the wreck until a late hour this morning. An amazing feature of the wreck was that tin* b ss of life was COBJ ned almost entirely to the last and fourth from the last coaches of the excursion toain. The second from the last coach escaped injury almost completely. The excursion train was made up of ten coaches, with negroes occupying all but the two rear coach* >. The rear coach was demolished and the third and fourth cars were telescoped. All three together with the freight engine were burned. Pathetic stories of the ghastly hor? ror were brought to New Orleans to? day by survivors many of whom bare? ly escaped .h ath. The confusion and excitement incident to the distressing scenes of death and suffering were in? creased by the cries and exclamations of the hundreds of negroes who ran about in a panic-stricken condition. A few of the negroes were self possessed and lent their earnest aid to the heroic efforts of white passen? gers to save from the flames those pinioned beneath the wreckage, but most of them ran wildly about, shriek? ing, shouting and praying. Mrs. Thomas McGinness, wife of a New Orleans plumber, was killed, and her husband and two local hospital. Thret dead among the whi' relatives and neighb La. At an early hour tonight no one had appeared to claim the body of the white infant, and it is supposed that the child's mother perished in the wreck. Of the injured 4 6 were brought to New < >rleans for medical treatment and 4 4 were taken to Baton Rouge or to their homes. The Louisiana railroad commission today telegraphed to the interstate commission to join in an investigation of the wreck. BRYAN ACTIVE IN WASHINGTON. Probable That Nebiaskan Will Have Something to Say About Politics Before Leaving Capital. Washington. Nov. 11. ?William Jennings Bryan spent a busy day about Washington today, beginning a week of resting. He made a number of calls, visited a number of officials of tm Fnited Daughters of the Con? federacy, whose convention will be? gin here tomorrow, delivered an ad dress at the dedication of the new building for Bibley Memorial hospital and tonight attended a reception to the Southern Relief society tendered by the offlcere of the Library con uress. Mr. Bryan had nothing to say about poiiii.-s today, but Intimated be might have some comment to make on the national situation before he leaves Washington next week. He is stay Ing with Mrs. Bryan at the home of their son. William .1. Bryan. Jr., who is attending college here. At the dedication of the Stbtey me? morial hospital building Mr. Bryan delivered an address along distinctly religious hues. He made but one ref erence to politics when in opening he declared: ?1 feel stirer about my religion than 1 do about my pOlttU ? Toimurow Mr Bryan will deliver the principal addrees at the laying of the cornerstone ol the Confederate soldiers monument in Arlington. The ceremonies will be conducted by the Fnited Daughters of the Confederacy. Mr. Bryan \\111 participate in many of the activities of the convention of the daughters Marriage license Hero ? 'i ? marriage license was Batui i4$ Hampton BVUM Showine DeLarge, of Wedgetleld, were i tin happy pair.