Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MUIK OQMIIffl um Mill WHIC H will rn\Ti ki: HI i> IT III* I'aradc to station ami Speeches of H'ciatnir at County Court Hoil-m* ?U<< Of i OllU>ilM IM.I l*rl *4*H Will. I? Will IW. \ warded The committee of the Cham her of Cum mere v in charge are rapidly rounding Into shape their plans for Sumtcr a Seaboard Celebration wh'?h will come off M Novemli.t 25>th, when an tg Ml>n will be run to this city from Florence which is expected to bring hundreds of visitors from all points along tht new line to Sum ter?excursionists who will come with the expectation of having a good time and who will certainly have a food time if Surater business men and Chamber of Commerce combined can five It to them. The schedulB of he excursion train has not yet been announced, but It will be published n the near future and In time for all who wish to make their preparations for coming here on the 2tth. The program for tbe day comprises all kinds of sports And festivities and numerous prises in athletic contests of all kinds, in which everybody who desires to may join The time fer entries for the contest will be closed on the night of the 27th. so those who wish to get In them should no'.lfy the committees in charge as soon as possible. Hand? bills will be brtj i-caat at all stations along the Hue which will glvo full particulars of what contests will come off and what prises are given In the various contests. The day will be commenced by a s big parade of Sumter's business nun and members of the Chamber of Commerce who will form In front of the City Hall and march down to the South Carolina Western static n to meet the Incoming excursionists and visitors, Sumters guests of hon K or for the day. From the station the crowd will proceed to the Court Hotlse, where speeches of welcome will be made by various Surater citlsena These speeches will be replied to by prom? inent visitors from the towns through ^ which the excursion train passer, and ' who come over for the day. Speeches ver. for these will not last a great while. the \ r . .us contests will he - nm< ne. <) . ? <l -ntin u 1 through thv entire day. Perhaps the most Interesting und funnv of the ront?s*ts will be the ef? forts of some of those present to se? cure the money securely fastened at the tops of the two greased poles which will he erected at tief corner of Main and Liberty Streets. Five dollar bills will be nailed at the top of the poles and two dollar bills a i short distance lower down, V here they can be procured r.y persevering climbers i- i dollars in pennies will be ;u i tered on the streets from the roofs of [ buildings, to be picked up by the crowds on the street below. Roosters will be set free from tlx tops of .stores and the persons catching them will become the owners. <ir? is. .1 pigs will be turned loose and again the 1 person who desln s to own a pig has the chsn<e of getting one without cost. In the afternoon a game of foot? ball h scheduled to take place be? tween the Ruinter and I>arllm;ton High School teams, although ns yet this game has not been positively ue clded on. although It is pru-n. illy certain that it will oome off. This gives the lovers of foflltalM In the two towns a change of seeing their teams at work against each other. The teams are old r Vmh\ and both are fast aggregation* and will put up a pretty fight. Klvalry between the teams will only make tie g mo ru ?f Interesting and Um i r..wd in att? nd ance larger The bleyi le r.o'. s held last \ ir on Rargain I?ay attracted a great deal of attention. On Seaboard < U bra n I?ay th? prises will be very much mnr? \aluahir und the r.u ? s should draw a larger number of entries and should be even ttfja r .m.l Mfjrt in? teresting. Thejw rn< . m will ropy off in the afternoon at i k. or vUU commence at that time. A twenty year Flein wat. h M eJferWd :is the prise in UM hilf mile rue, fn>.. to all. In th* b.?>?', und?r SS/VentSSB, half mile rarr, the prize is g *u!? of clothes. The winner of the bui-milo raee gets a I-', bleyele and those coming In second and third win ? pair of W<ti? n\er ?hoi a ?nd i ja-*k knife. fssjpsjs> tivl I All ssjtetes fes< tsssss r?':?^ sjiimH be made with II I Ti?d de h.u.r< W d ne#d<?v nUht. November 27. The fgSJl rar?s torn.* off at ' 1 o'i mm k in th?? it orsJsjfL PriK 1 anr.ountlrir to %'?** v.*l!l '?? gl\en In |h'?e r " . s although exactly what prizes will be g.\?n Ig ? a> h r ? ? hgf not yet if u iie< i l. i The fasse win be held on M ?'n str< ? ? and are jm follows. 10<) yard da-di l.-.ys under IT, 10<* yard dssh. al* SjS/gf 17; ISl >ard dash f .r l?o>s SJgsfif 17. yard dash for alt over 17. Next 00IHM the l*OC for all rate of one-half mile, which will also be pulled 0? on Main street. Af tei wards OOmt the potato ra< e, the MOk race. Uli *ht - ? -legg. d MOO and the broad jump, winding up with the nlay race. In this race four men take part 0| each team and the win? ning team II assured Of ? liberal r? - 0 ird Ths entries for the foot races must be mole with Mr. 15. A. Thccs a< the v m. C. a before Wednesday 1 ight. November 27. Ofjo of the unique fenturei of th ? day will be the burlnl of $i<> In eu?h || \ krloui parts of the eity. Circulars which will be given out will tell the searcher how to tlnd this money. The Sumtcr Hand has been engaged for the day and will provide plenty of music for the lovers of good music. The L] r le and Savoy moving pic? ture theatres will be opened early in the day and will run all day. They will be free to all persons having with them a return trip ticket on the South Carolina Western train and will no doubt prove popular amuse? ment resorts for the day. The Academy of Music has secured for the occuslon an unusually good attraction that night at the theatre and this no doubt will also attract I Mg crowd of play-goers The special trains will be operated by South Carolina Western manage? ment and the fare will be at one-half price. Mo<OMBS HAVING It AUF. ?PORT. Ionics-ratio National Chairman (.hing No Attention to Politl<>??Slmotlug Near Georgetown. Georgetown. Nov. 19.?National Democratic Chairman McCombs is apparently giving little thought to political affairs these days. As a member of a hunting part> near here. Mr. McCombs is having rare sport In shooting wild ducks. <ju;ill and deer, as was evidenced by the quantity of game being shipped North to relatives and friends of the hunters. DINNER Foit NITW8PAPER MEN. Mrs. Judd of lTrelcss Cooker Fame Will Servo Lunch to Pencil Pushers In Crnig Furniture Company Win? dow. Tonight at 7.:iu o'clock a novel luncheon will be; served the nOWSpa* per men of Sumter at the store of the J. P. Craig Furniture Company, by Mrs. c. K Judd, who has been dem? onstrating the Ideal 1'irelcss Cooker in Sumter lot several days. Tho dinner will be served in one of the large show windows of this ?tore, and will be a novel sight to p issersby on West l.ib< rty street this ? vening. All of the eatabh s will be < coked by Mrs. Judd in the Ideal Fire lc ?s Cooker, and. if the reports which h.ivr preceded her arrival are true, there will be more than one pencil pusher who will be indebted to the Craig Company for a lireb-ss cooker during the ensuing week. A Itcxl Man Who Came Acres**. In the family of HOld John Ham ult," a fullblooded Indian, who llVOt in Wapato in the stae of Washington there is rarely enough cash to m**et the daily needs, but a short time ago "old John" pulled himself together and at lust found hUniOli $5.00 ahead of the high cost of living. He had the usual temptations of tho aborigin? al man to go out and toy with fire? s' ater. but instead he mounted his pony and rode fifty miles to KUens burg. ?Storing the store of T W. Farrell. he handed him || and said: "l came to any you your money, i have owed It se\cn years. I have not been to town before been um i didn't have the money* (COW, we're all right, you and I. my fi'lend, and 1 thank you. " Then he t u r ro d and rode away. Could in) pale*face brother have done any better than did ' Old John " We think not. The batting average of pale-faces who horrou $5 and pay tip is about .023, and If you ask your debtor to come across ho becomes your enemy for all time. Likewise there art few pal faces who can re meuil?er a debt as long as seven years, and as for thanking a man for tho courtesy of extended cnvlit, that Is a loot art. Booton Olobe. A True Snake Siory. over ? ye.tr ago .in artlfiical egg myotortoualy disappeared from the foWl home ,?f J I I . I.ewiH, north of tn?? -ity. i?i ? bei ire ft lorday aome Inneren found a big black snake, about four I feel long, on the plantatlon( about ?; hilf mile from the house. After killing the snake, they noticed i in enlarged pi ice In it* body, and rul H open with an aa*i when out come the m| -ing < 1 in ) ? .-i;. They wash td the aggi ind II ?a again doing business in th< neei from which tht snake stob- || in the summer if If] I Mi. Lewis v ho vouchee for this tory( i^ a foi mer member of i ho city council ? good Dnptlst, and i truthful man ?Fee i?e. Advocate* EieHI KILLED IN WRECK. T?RKE OTHERS BAD1A INJURED is SEABOARD KMAHH-UP, No. mi aiui No. hi Coiin? Together on Curve Near Norliua?No Pas? sengers Hurt. N..r Un i. N. C? Nov. 19.?Bight trainmen were killed and three badly Inju ed ? t here early today, when t\v<> Seaboard Air Lino through pas* aenger trains, running between New j l*srk and Jacksonville, Pia., collided head-on. Both locomotives and three i passenger coaches wars demolished. I Further dsathi and Injuries wore pre? vented by the fact that there wero no passei fen in the coaches demolished. The dead. Will a. Patron, engineer, Raleigh; Chaa, a. Beckham, engineer. Raleigh; Rlohard Gray, negro nreman Ralelfh; Jamei RufAn, negro fireman, Raleigh; Thomas Rogan, negro por ter, Richmond, Va.j J. R. Rountrss, express messenger, Jacksonville, ria.. O. J Priddy, sxprsfg messenger, oft' duty, Boykin, Va.j Hepry King, dead? heading. The injured: Mr. Bryant, baggage master, badly burned about body and fare; Mr. Drown. ba ggngemaste* badly bruised; Willis Pops, n?-gro por? ter, scalded about the head and neck. The wreck occurred seven ir.iles north of here. a| I o'clock this morning, just as train No, 81, south bound, was coming out of it long curve in a deep fdl. Both trains were run? ning at full speed and the engineer of neither could have seen the ap? proach of tin* other for more than a minute before the crash. The wreckage did not catch lire and there was no panic among the pas? sengers. There was suffering among the passengers on account of the cold. The cause of the wreck Is as yet Ul known but it is believed to have re zulted from a misreading of orders. Shortly alter the wreck occurred nearby farmers brought coffee to the psjsjengeri and injured. Wrecking crews and relief trains were sent out from Raleigh and by late this after? noon the track was dear of wreck Mrs, One of the women passenger! was hurled backwards from her berth to the oompartment back of her. she tore a hole through the thin partition hut escaped injury. BRYAN'S TRIP CHECKED. Raleigh, N. C. NOV, 19.?William J. Bryan was prevented from continuing his trip to Savannah, da., today on account ( f the wrack of the tWO pas? senger trains near Norlina. Mr. Bryan was detained by a similar ac? cident last January mar Norlina which also occurred a few hours be? fore he was to haVS boarded the southbound train. Mr. Beckham, who waa killed in the Wreck today, made a personal call on Coi. Bryan at the home of National Commltteeman Josephua Daniels yes? terday. The engineer presented Col. Bryan with < basket of select to? matoes. Whan Informed of the death of Mr. Beckham today Col, Bryan sent a floral offering to Mrs. Beckham as an expression of sympathy. Later in the day he visited the grief stricken home. accompanied by Mr. Daniela, STOLE TEAM AND COTTON. Tuesday ninht some one entered the stables and stole a team of mules be? longing to Mr, B. R, Du Rant and hitching them to a wagon drove down to the OOtton platform where they loaded a bale of cotton and then took it to the < ountry. Wednesday morning the team was found at the stables .still hitched to the wagon and later in the morning tho bale of cotton was found out on the LlgOn place near Green Swamp stripped of all marks and almost en? tirely of bagging. Chief J. K. Brad? ford and Deputy Sheriff John Kpper son were the persons who located thu cotton. SCll lat-r in tho morning Deputy sheriff Epperson went out and secured the cotton and brought It Into town white he held it until It could be Idontlfled by one of tho lo? cal cotton buyer.-, ns a bale missing from hla cotton. The thieves could net he located and no clues could bo dlacovared as to who they were. Baptist Mtaatnn School, A ml ;.'*;<.n Sunday school has been established aa a branch of the Sunday Rchcol if tic First Baptist Church In the building f< rmorly occupied by the ?umter Rubber Works, The Sunday School meets here each tunduy after? noon ami is meeting with much auc gssb, \ Mgiit of Terror. Few nlghta sr* more terrible th?n that of n mother looking on her child choking and gasping for breath dur? ing nn attaok ef croup, and nothing in the house t.? rsllsvs it. Msny mothers have passed nlghta of ter? ror In thla situation A little fore thOUghi Will enable you to avoid nil thin Chamborlaln'a Cough Remedy la a certain cure for croup and has never been known to fall K sep I? I hand. For sale by ?>n dealers.? \? v t. DISCUSS FUTURE RELATIONS. Russian Ambassador and Tafl Talk Over Status ifter Presen! Treaty Becomes Inoperative. Washington, Nov. 19,?The rela? tions to bo maintained between the United states and Russia after the existing treaty becomes Inoperative January 1. were the subject of dis? cussion today by President Tafl and the Russian ambassador. George Bakhmetleff, at a conference at the White House The announcement of and agreement on trade relation is expected before January 1. The ostensible reason for the am? bassador's call at the White House was to reestablish the social relations interrupted by the summer vacation to which color was lent by the fact that Mine. Backlnetiff accompanied her husband, paying a visit to the president and Mrs. Taft. The appearance of the secretary of state, hOWOVer, made it plain that the call was not altogether of a social nature. The close study of the existing laws and treaties of the countries being made at the state department and in tho Russian enihassey here already is beginning to bear fruit. H begins to be apparent that probably without | any official action on the part of other government, existing trade re? lations between the two countries may continue to suffragance. The only point in doubt is whether to prevent the imposition of the max? imum Russian duties after January 1 on American products, It will be necessary for Russia to issue an order in council suspending the application of the law. There in, however, some reason to believe that these maximum duties may not become effective ex? cept by decree, which will only be necessary to give notice to the busi? ness interests of both countries that trade relations may continue indefi? nitely on the existing basis without change of tariff duties. V. M. C. A. ATHLETIC NOTES. rirst Game of Bnsket Hull to Be Play? ed This Ev< ulng. At the v. m. c. a. gymanlsum this evening the flirt game of basket ball will be played by two picked teams of players who :tre just learning the game. Basket ball Is the great Y. m. (\ A. sport, as baseball is the great national sport and football the giv;ii college sport. It is hoped that a large number ? f spectators will turn out for the game w hich, it is assured, will be vei y interesting. The game commences r.t 1.16 and the public is cordially invited to . ^nd. The teams 11 lme-up as follows: A's. Williford. Winn. Hall. Wescoat, Walsh and Crowson; B*e, DuRant, Brunson, Crowson, Basing, Crowson, Bryan and Met Joy. The football game which was lo have been played here with the Flor ence Y. M. C. A. team has been call? ed off, as tho team has not yet got? ten In shape for a game of football. The game will be pulled off, however, in the near future and promises to be a good one. Tennis Still is popular at the Y. m. C. A. court, despite the approach? ing cold weather. SHOE FACTOR? IN NEW QUAR? TERS. lOngagcd in rutting in New Machinery ?output to i>o Increased. The Witherspoon Bros shoe Fac? tory is engaged this week in moving Into their new quarters on Dungan street, a building which was erected for them and which is not yet fully completed. At present the company is engaged in putting in their old and new machinery in this building ad they hope to csmmece operations here by n< xt week. I At present the output of the plant is st mething over a hundred and fifty pair of shots a day, but with the new machinery Installed and all contem? plated change*: made when they have completed their move Into the new 1 i uiiding they expect to greatly en? large the capacity Of the plant and put OUt daily from COO to 1.000 pair of shoos. Both floors of the building will be used by the factory. in the Civil Court. In the Civil Court Tuesday the case (f Mrs, fan nie E. Hurst against the J, I). Craig Furniture Company came to a close when tho jury returned a : rei ?.. t f. r the plaintiff for $100 ac? ta;:! damages and $945 punitive dam nges, The damages were alleged lo have been done n\. plaintiff by the defendant when the inter moved from the building owned and now oc? cupied by the defendant, Wednesday morning the case of Itosanna Thompson Burk agalnsl C \v Htrnle to recover land was enter .d upon t at o of Insomnia. The most common cause <>f Insom? nia i'! disorders of the stomach and constipation Chamberlain's Tablets corrcel Ihese disorders and enable yon * sleep For sale by all dealers. \.!\ t. ROBIII Rl VI MANNING, store of Thomas N'immer In in. end und Robbed. Manning, Nov. 19. A bold robbery waa perpetrated in Manning last night when Thomas Xlmmer'a store was en? tered an 1 robbed of about worth of goods, Including a number of sacks of lire, Hour, a lot of me;it. tobacco, Home fruit and several boxCS of Ane cigars. Entrance was effected by forc? ing op. n a window shutter at tin- rear of the store, removing tin- glass from a sash and thus making an Opening large enough for a small person to g? t through ami remove the heavy bar that fastened the door The goods wer?- apparently taken out and loaded on a two-horse wagon, after which the thieves cloaed the back door from the inside and went out at the front, leaving the front door open. Nothing was known of the robbery until after daylight this morning, though the store is located in tho center of the business part of town, facing the court house square, and a policeman and a watchman are supposed to be on duty all night. Nothing 1ms yet been dis? covered as to the perpetrator of the crime or in what direction the goods were hauled out of town. Reducing the Number of Fecble Minded. After four y? ars' investigation among the population of England and Ireland the Royal Commission com? piled statistics which make it evident that the feeble-minded mothers of" Great Britain have proportionately twice as many children as the nor? mal. Field workers in this country encwunter a similar condition. The feeble-minded are multiplying at twice the rate of the general popula? tion. This is largely accounted for by the fact that feeble-minded men and warnten are '.acking in reif con? trol. The result of research work by the Department of Public Charities in Philadelphia confirma the opinion that the rate of pn oagation of tho feeble-minded is far greater than that of the normal. The birtri-r?.lo is not an accurate index of perma? nent increase, since the low mental or financial status of the uarents les? sens the children's chives of sur? vival. The infant death rate in the lib gltlmate Kallikak line, for in? stance, was about si\ tim s as great as in the legitimate line. Still, the fact that such defective lines are able to increase at all and to perpetuate themselves for genera? tions is sufficiently disquieting. It is notorious that the offspring of feeble minded parents are especially liable to inherit the defective mentality. Ac? cordion to Ooddard, about 85 per cent of all the feeble-minded owe their condition to heredity, it thus be i comes apparent that the one great problem in the prevention of feeble? mindedness is the prevention of re? production by those who are thus af llicted. Many tentative experiments have been made along the lino of steriliza? tion. Indiana. .Vashington. Califor? nia. Connecticut, Nevada. Iowa, New Jersey and New York have all passed laws which provide for some form of sterilization of feeble-minded and certain criminal types. Petinslyvanla is prevented from having such a law only by the governor's veto of the bill. Kansas and Nebraska have both made experiments with this method of dealing with sexual offenders. For political reasons both of these States have had to abandon the practice at least temporarily. The New JerSi y law. though far-reaching ami careful? ly planned to avoid abuse while landing Itself to the aid of scientific research, has not been in effect long enough to warrant concluaions as to its prac? tical outcome. Indiana has given ih>' sterilisation plan the most thon ugh trial of all. In that State the practice of vasectomy on certain criminal typea has been legalized for the iast Heven years. In the reformatory at Jeffersonvllle about three hundred men have been operated on. When the whole subject is viewed from a practical point of v iew the ar? gumenta for sterilization of the men? tally defective seem greatly to out welgh the sentimental reasons ad? vanced against it. Many inmates of Institutions for the feeble-mind, d could be kept safely at their homes and .at least help to earn their o.vn living, wa re if not for the opportun? ity to reproduce their own kind vv Iii h SUCh liberty won' I give them. Al? though Bcgrogatlon ? f this class dur? ing th>* win lo < f the reproductive i? - rlod Is effective In its results, it Cf*T rles with it a financial burden which seems unnecessarily large. Consid? ered In ill Its various aspects. s.ivs The Journal of The American Medi? cal Afs elation, it would appear tliot the en s' practical plan for the elimi? nation ?f ihe feeble-minded strains should judiciously combine the melli? ods of segregation and sterilisation Tonight. Tonight, if yoU feel dull ami stupid, or bilious and constipated, take B dose of Chamberlain's Tablets, und you will feel all rlS I tom I t ew. Soi l ' by nil dsalei s : (?KANTS RESPITE FOR ALLENS. <?<?>. Mann Postpone* Dnte of Exece> ttofi of Sentence. Richmond, Mov. It, The dato for the execution of Floyd Allen and his sop. Claude Allen, tor participation in the Hlllsville court house murderUj a'Hs postponed today by fJoe. Mann from November 22 to December 12. The respite WSS granted so that Claude Allen might take an appeal to the United Stap s supreme court on tho constitutional ground that his life had twice been placed in jeopardy. In announcing the stay of execu? tion QoV. M '.nn sai l he granted it upon request < f Judge Staples, heforc \N horn the Aliens were tried. Floyd Aih n was sentenced to death for the killing of Commonwealth's Attorney Foster. Claude Allen was first sen? tenced to If) years for shooting Judge Thornton L. Ifnsnte; but on a second trial was sentenced to death for the murder of Attorn? y Fost r. Some New Evidence on the Tobaeeo Question. The consideration of tobacco and its dangers has heretofore been largely based on the amount of nicotin con? tained in the smoke. Fut there are Other products of tobacco which must share the responsibility. Among these are carbon monoxid gas, prus sic acid, furfural and some others. Although all of these compounds ad? mittedly arc poisonous, their danger depend! on the quantities in which they are taken. Recently inv. siiga tions have been made of some of these toxic products, and the results are of considerable interest. The fact that the action of certain kinds of tobacco has been attributed to ?he prussfc acid in their smoke has in? duced the Wursburg hygienist. Prof. K. B. Lehmann, to Investigate the charge. He has found that the amount of this compound produced depends somewhat, on the. rate at which the tobacco is smoked. The slower the current of air through a cigar, the smaller is the amount of prunilo acid formed. The entire amount found, however, is loo rmall to account for the effects. Bo far the burden of the blame for the ill effects of smoking would appear to rest on nicotin. Investigations made by the London Lancet indicate that the or? dinary cheap cigarette contains inn bast nicotin in the smoke and the pipe the most, the cigar occupying an intermediate position. Assuming, then, that nicotin is the essentially in? jurious substance in tobacco, the cif. arettff WOUld appear to be the least harmful form. provided that the amount of tobacco consumed was no greater in this form than in others. The general ImprossU n. however, is that cigarette smoking is the most pernicious form of indulgence in to? bacco. This might be accounted tor in part by the facts that the form of cigarette makes ii. possible for young peisens to indulge in it when they would not smoke cigars or pipts, that in older persons it lends its. If to over? indulgence and that the smoke may e inhaled with less irritation and, therefore, that more of the products may be absorbed into the system. Further investigations indicate that the moat injurious forms of srioklng are not those in whi< h nicotin pre? vails but those in which there is a larger proportion of furfural. Fur I final is about fifty times as poison? ous as ordinary alcohol. There is a probability that the bast harmful tobacco will turn out to be that which yields a minimum of furfural in the smoke Although the amount of nic? otin present in the cheaper grades of cigarettes is practically ncj.1 gilie, the amount of furfural appears to be sufficient in itself to account U r tue b.ni effects attributed to cigarette1 smoking. The use of tobacco in Jts various foims is so general that the subject is of almost universal inter? est. The journal of the American Medical association thinks thai the smoker is entitled to know the dangers and the safest nietlu ? I of icing tobacco while educate rs and all who have anything to do frith the young. whether by example or by precept, will appreciate s. i- ntiflc facts with which to bach up wise de* duct lone from experience. Among thoet? to go from hero to Charleston to attend the Fair Fleet Week at thai place vw : * Mr. und Mrs. J W Shaw. Pierson Pick. T. 13. Jenkins. Mr. at d Mrs. F. W. A. Hult man. Declare War on Colds. A crusade of ed Ion which aims "that common cob mu] secc*me un? common within th< neat gee -ration*' has been begun by prominent N<?w York physicians Here i* a ii*t of the "dont*s" which the doctors ""ay will prevent the annual visitation of the cold: "Don't sid in a draughty rar." "Fon t sleep in lo t rooms.' ? Fon t avoid fresh air." ? Fon t stuff yourself at meal time. Overeating reduces your resistance." To which we would add when yon take a cold >'? t rid of 11 :<?* quickly as possible. To nivi lish that you will find chamber >, Cough Remedy most excellent. Bold by el dealers*?* I Advt.