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?OOTH CAHOUKA DKl.t:?. vnoN MA\ OfVOfaT PflMHTKBT. Meaning of the Pledge? 1 mmthe Platform or the President Fix Part> s Policy N gucstloued Ask oil. New? and Courier. Washington. March 19.?In last Sunday's .News and Courier tin 'state? ment was made in its Washington correspondence that although there waa no South Carolina vote in favor >f exempting our coastwise ships j from Panama renal tolls when the matter came to a head in the house "f representative* in May. 1912, there would he several votes against the re? peal of the exemption clause when the question should be resubmitted at the presidents' request. It now appears that the correspondent waa very conservative in that statement. It is by no means impossible that the entira delegation will vote against the president this time, including hoth senators. When the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was up for ratification some years ago Senator Tlllman voted for the amendment, (which wus defeated,) declaring that nothing in the treaty was to ba construed as affecting the right of this country to pass its own ships through the canal vtthout toll. When tha quetlon of ratifying the general arbitration treaties came up in the Tuft administration, Senator smith waa one of those who argued against ratification on the ?round that If would bind us to arbitrate the question of our right to oxempt our cvaatwlae ships from can tl charges. That point had much to do with caus ing the senate to reject the treaties of arbitration. There is nothing to in? dicate that either of the senators has changed his slews on tha subject. As to the house delegation, the sit? uation la sornswhat different. The majority of the representatives from Mouth Carolina think now. a* they thought in 19It, that on the merit* of the question Itself our shipping ought to pay tolls and help to defray the cost of operating tha waterway; but tho*<> who are inclined to stand with the prealdent and vote for the outright rcpeul of the exemption sec? tion of the law are disturbed over tha fact that they signed tha follow? ing pledge when they became candi? dates for their present positions : "Pledge of candidates for United *tatcs senate and for United States houss of represntatlevs: "As a candidate for the office of ? - in the Democratic primary elec? tion, to be held on the last Tuesday In August, 1912, 1 hereby pledge my? self to abide the result of such pri? mary and to support the nominees thereof, and 1 declare that I tm a Democrat and that 1 am not, nor will I become, the candidate of any fac? tion. ?Ither privately or publicly suggested, other than for the regular! 1'crooirutu nomination. 1 also pledge myself to support tha political principles and policies of the party during the term of office for which I may bo elected and work la accord with my Democratic asso? ciates in eongresa on all party ques? tions. This the -day of-, 1912. (Signed by candidate.) ? riled tha- day of -. 1912. (Hlgned by chairman State Demo? cratic executive committee. > The enact meaning of this pledge has been dlscuased previously In South Carolina. Suffice it to say that softis of thoso in the delegation who are now desirous of supporting the president as to canal tolls have hith? erto committed themselves to the proposition thai the pledge hinds tha < undtduts to stand on every plank in the national platform. It will he recalled that the system of pledging the Democrats csndl dates for congress in Mouth Carolina was adopt? d an a result of the ? irrer off .Uate Senator John I.. Mel.uurin mt a senator <>t tin- Halted States. M l?aum d Kan reed with his party cs a whole on the Philippine und tariff questions, and Senator Tlllman took , wteps to pieveul a ret urr? n? .. mall ondut t by advocating the ex u te?M of' the written pledge m ever, aaMlOl ll and congressional campaign. Tiw eertseoft tea |g I hat the ma iorltv of the votes in the Smith Caro? lina delegation in congress will he .'gamut the repeul of the exemption ? lause, in spltt of I he president s Nplll on whether the party poley" i?* for or against tolls on our coast? wise shipping at Panama Does l he platform or the president fix the polley of a party * N<? other State delegation has this question put op to It quite ho embarrassingly as the Palmetto delegation, and there is a lot of real thought heing eoneeii .rated Upon the protdem Without sat lafaetor) results. I.etrr and llvrnc* With WlasaaV Washington. March 19.? Itepre ?Kntatives Ltfff ?fal Bygnaa eallad .?t the White House I.mIuv and were a conference with Pnaldent Wiu. tor some time They refuse,I |e Mil what they talked *bu it, but || is aafo gucs? thut they were discussing! the Panama tolls ?niest ion. Moth ! Ware on the president'! side <?i ths ease when the question came to a vote in the house in May, Uli, as were a majority of the Democrats uho rottd at that lime. It is prob? able that Messrs. Hyrnes and Lever will hold their ground and vote to re? peal the exemption elause. although the majority of the delegation may Vfjlfl against repeal on account of the I plunk in the Baltimore platform. Mr Johnson will also probably vote for1 repeal. FIIti:s IN BI8HOPVILLE. Two Smull Maze* Make First Con flragrnlion in Two Years for Town. Pishopville, March 20.?The fire record here which hus been an un? usually line one for several years in that liishopville has had no fires was broken this week by the burning of a small negro tenant house belonging to G. F. Parrott and a barn, the property of John Du vis. The tiros, while small in themselves, were so situated as to cause considerable ap? prehension and might have been se? rious but for the prompt response of the fire department and the effective work done by It in confining the fire to the place of its origin. Hishop ville hns an AI water system und a good tire department. Th>? city council is progressive and always keeps the lire department provided with up-to-date apparatus for fight? ing llres. It hus mis week purchased a new horse to help pull the hose to fires, retiring an old horse who has been on duty ever since the depart mnt was orgunized. The only thing now lacking to make the town Ideal in every respect Is a sewerage system and this need will soon be supplied. Blshopvllle is not on a great boom, but there is much improving going on in residences and stores, and a company bus been orgunized to make concrete tiles for drainage purposes, and this will soon be running. The Dixon-Darker Dumber com? pany has sold one of its large saw? mills in this county to a company from Sumter and will In the near fu? ture erect and operate u largo plant for making finished material and handling building supplies. There is a strong possibility that this city will within another year have another railroad connecting it with a part of the county with which It now has no rail connection. Plans are being quietly worked out by which a railroad will be built from Dish opvllV to IKe Dynchburg section und on through to Kingstrce and An? drews, connecting at Andrews with the Charleston Northern. If the proper spirit is shown by the people along the line and the towns men? tioned la the matter of rights of way, this road will \ery soon he a cer? tainty. This road and < ne leading from here into the Spring Hill section of Deo county and then to a connec? tion with the Seaboard Air Dine at Cemdea or Home other point Will give Hishopville rail connection with ev? ery part of the county and form a through lino between Columbia and CbnrlcH^m, a'hich would for the most part go through a magnificent coun? try, part of which is altogether with? out railroads and where there are railrouds. that of one system only. Hig Bargains in Hi boons. The Sumter Dry Goods Co., is mak? ing friends with both the mothers and little folks by making it possible for them to have a beautiful raster sash at a trilling cost. See their large ad on the other page.?Advt. Stubborn, Annoying Coughs Cured "My husband had a cough ft? fifteen years and my sen for eight years. Dr. King's New Discovery completely cured them, for which 1 am most thankful," writes Mrs. Da? vid Moor, of Sagiuaw. Ala. NVh.it Dr. Kings N*w Discovery did for theH? men, it will do for you. Dr. King's N'ew Discovery should be in overy home. Stops hacking coughs, relieves lagrippe and ull throat and lung all meuts. Money back if it fails. All1 druggists. Pries 50o and $1.00. H. B Bucklen ?V Ce , Philadelphia or St Louis.?Advt. It looks aM though the Kuglish e in, take I !??! ?, but our American sen ators - ? mot -Philadelphia Record. Muddy Complexion. W)n?ri von goe u woman with a muddy Of muIIow eoinplexion and diAll eyes, you may know that her liver Is Olli ot order, A few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets will oorreol ?< und make h?i look heiter und feed bettrr. For sab? by all dealers.?>AdVt. tteai Batata Transfer. \V T. asjdVWSjS t-. Tims. J, Wil? liam*, lot on Hoyt street. $tt?. Avoid sniffy Wheezy I heat hing ?Take l*Ofey's Honey and Tar d m* pound foi an Inflamed und congest ed OOadltion of the uu pBBSngflj and [bronchial iuIim. a cold develop*) quickly If not cheeked and bronchltii lagrippe and pnoumonls are dangci P bllitlea Harsh racking cousin weaken the system, bul Fo ley's Honey and Tar ?m safe, pure and certain in results Contains no opl etee. t Drug Store Advt, TKLLfl m:wsp\pi:u mi:n that HE IS NOT A MKIti: THINKING MAN. l.iibosoius Ills Thoughts on Wilson' us Presiden' at Press Club?Says lie is Not Hergcd in ortwe. but, riii Ing it. for Present as People's Choice. Washington, March 10. Woodrow Wilson unbosomed himself to mem-i hers of the National Press club of Washington today, telling them In ? frank, conversational way how he felt | na president of United States, howl difficult it waa for him to imagine, himself aa the chief executive with the formal amenities of the position, | and how he had struggled to be as free as the ordinary individual with? out the restraints of his oflice. It was an intimate picture of Woodrow Wilson, the man. drawn by himself, on the occasion of the "house warming" at the Press clubs' new quarters. The president did not 1 intend to have his remarks reported, but later, at the request of the club, the unusual speech was made pub? lic. It follows: "I wus just thinking of my sense j of confusion of identity, sometimes, when I read articles about myself. 1 neVOff have read an article about my ?elf in which I recognized myself, and I have eor^e to have the impression that 1 must be some kind of a fraud, j because I think a great many ol these articles are written in absolute? ly good faith. 1 tremble to think of the variety and falseness in the im? pressions 1 make?and it is being Lome in on me so that it may change . my very disposition?that I am a cold and removed person who has a think? ing machine inside which he adjusts to the circumstances, which he does not allow to be moved by any winds of affection or emotion of any kind, but turns like a cold searchlight on anything that is presented to his at? tention and makes it wrong. "I am not aware of having any de-! tachable apparatus inside of me. < >n the contrary, if 1 were to interpret myself. 1 would say that my constant I embarrassment *s to restrain the emotions that are inside of me. You j may not believe it, but 1 sometimes: feel like a far from extinct volcano, and if the lava does not seem to spill, over it is because you are not high1 enough to sec into the basin and gee the caldron boil. Because, truly, gentlemen, in the position which 1 ROW occupy there is a sort of?I don't know how else to express it than to say?passionate sense of being con? nected with my fellowmen In a pe? culiar relationship of responsibility. Not merely tho responsibility of of? fice, but God knows there are enough things In this world that need to be corrected. ' I have mixed, first and last, with all sorts and conditions of men? there are mighty lew kinds of men that have to be described to me, and there are mighty few kinds of ex-I periences that have to be described to me?and when I think of the number >of men who arc looking to me as the representative of a party, with tin hope of all varieties of salvation from the things they are struj;glin^ In the midst of, it makes me tremble It makes me tremble not only with a sense ol my own inadequacy and weakness, but as if I were shaken by i the very things that are shaking them, and If 1 seem circumspect, it Is because i am so diligently trying not to make any colossal blunders. It you just calculated the number ol blunders a fellow can make in 24 hours If he hi nol careful and if In? dues not listen more than he talks, you would see Something of the feel? ing that 1 have. "1 was amused the other day at a remark that Senator Now lands made. I ha*l lead him the trust message f was t*> deliver to oongresa some 10 days before I delivered it. and I never stop 'doctoring' thing* of thai kinJ until the day l have to deliver them. When he heard a read to congress he said, '1 think it was better than when you read it to me ' I gald, 'Sen* ator, there is one thing which i ilon'i think you understand. I nol only us* all the bralna I have but all i can borrow, and I have borrowed a loi hiim e I read it to you llrst.' 'That, 1 dare say, is what gives til impression of clrcumspectneaa, I am listening; I am trying diligently to I collect all the bralna that are bor rowable thai 1 ma> not make more blunders th;?n it is Inevitable thai n man should make who has grcul Ilm (Kations of knowledge und capacity. Ami the emotion of the thing is great thai I suppose i must be sonn 'kind of a mask to conceal it i renll; feel .sometimes as If I were n I queradlng w hen I catch picture ol j mysell In some printed description in between things thai i h.i\<- t>? ?i ' as public office^ I never think of in' self* na the president the I'nlte . stale..*, becuuac i never hitv< i u?'< \ n sense <f being Identified with ihul ol . , [fa vl like ;? person appo ll ted foi a eertnln length ol time t<? ndmlnlsti [thai ullice, sind I fool just us mud 4% lid!. a i *K3 ;\\\\ ^\ ? ? x \ N Rv. FVD^Nc.^kbn>ei:$v^!c>N>C. ? \ V \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ v \ \ \ I F\S. Rovster<Juano Co.,\ Norfolk Va.N \n \ g|\ gentlemen: \ ^ \ \ \ I have been using your goods for some time and find it is all O. K. This year I used 500 pounds of 4-8-4 on half an acre and made 900 lbs, of tobac? co which brought mc $219.96, clear. I used 800 pounds on one acre which brought me $288.00. I am well pleased with your goods and can jrecommend it as a high grade fertilizer. Yours respectfully, (Signed) C. R. SMITH. 1 ?NO S LK,VA. outside <-i' it at this moment as l did before I was elected to it. I feel just as much outside of it as I still feel outside of the government of the I United States. "Xo man could Imagine himself the government of the United States; but he could a iderstand that some part oi' hie fellow citizens had told him to go and run a certain part of i. tie.' beat lie knew how. That would not make him the government itself or (he thin*-; Itself. It would just make him responsible for running it the best he Knew how. The machine is so much greater than himself, the of? fice Is so much greater than himself; the office is s0 much greater than h< ran ever bo, and the moat lie can do is to look grave enough and self possessed enough to seem t<? 1 i11 it. i can hardly retrain every now and again from tipping the public the wink, as much as to say. It is only nie th tt i<s inside this thine;. ( know perfectly well thai i will have to get oat presently. I know that then I will look just my own proper size, and that for the time being the propor? tions are somewhat refrnctc I and misrepresented to ihe eye by tin large thing i am inside of, from which I am lipping you <his wink.' 'Tor example, take mutters of thia .-ort: I will not su) Whether it Is Wise or unwise, pimple or grave, but cer? tain precedents have been establish? ed that in certain companies the pres? ident must leave the room first am', people must give way to him. The; must not sit down if he is standing up. ii is a cerj uncomfortable Illing t ? have to think of mi the other peo? ple ever) time l gel up and sit down, and all that sort of thing. 80 that whon 1 ??;< i my guests in mj house ami the public is shut out, I adjourn beini] president ami lake leave to in a gentlcmun. h Ihey draw back and ?nsisl upon mj doing something drat, l lirml) decline. They are blessed intervals, when 1 forge! i>> one means or another that l am president of tin United st.it es. "One means b> which 1 forge! is to get a rattling good detective story, ^et after some Imaginun offender, ami chase him all over< preferablj un> continent but ibis, because no? vations parts 1 1 ibis coutini nt are be? coming pulufull) suggestive t<- me. Tim poHtolllces, -Mel man) "tin-, things which stir reminiscence have 'sicklied in od wab .1 pale cast of thought.' "There are postotllces i?? which l w<<> hi not think of mailing a letter, which i can't ihlnk <-i jvithou! trem? bling with ili knowledge of all the heartburniugH the struggle there was m con in 11? with getting some? body Instnlied .1 pi tmaster. "Now, 11 l w re free, 1 would come no! iioieinn nil) op to these rooms. t Von know I was in Washington but a few times and for e very few hours! until i came last year, und I never expect to see the inside of ihe public buildings in Washington until ins term is over. The minute 1 turn ui> anywhere, I am personally conducted to lu at rhe band. The curator and the assistant curators and every oth? er blooming official turns up and they show me so much attention that i don't set- the building. 1 WOUld havi to say, 'Stand aside ind let m<- sec what you art showing me.' Seme day after 1 am through with this office ! am going to come back to Washington and see it. in the meantime i am in the same category as the National museum, the monu? ment, tin- Smithsonian Institution or the Congressional library. If i onlj know an exhibition appearance to as? sume?apparently 1 can assume other appearances that do not show what Is going on insidt ? 1 would like to have ii pointed out also that i would practice it before the looking szlass and sec it 1 could not look like the I monument. Being regarded as a na? tional exhibit would be much simpler than being shaken hands With by lie it hole L'nited States. ?'And yet that is interesting to me% simply because I like human beings, ii i.-; a prell) poor crowd thai doesn't interest you. I think the) would have to be all members of thai class that devotes itself to expense, regard? less of pleasure, in order to be en I tirely uninteresting. These look so much alike?spend their lime trying to look so much alike?and' so r? lieve th< mselves of all responsibility oi thought?that they are very monoto? nous indeed to look at; whereas a crowd picked up on* the streel is .ins! a j?dly lot- a job lot of real human beings, pulsatile-; With life, with all kinds of passions and desires. " It would be a great pleasure if. unohsi rved and unattended, I could be knot ked around as i have been accustomed to betng knocked around all m> hie; il I could resort to any delightful quarter, t<> any place in Washington, that I choose, i have sometimes though! oi going to some costumor's some theatrical rostum er's?and buying -'n assortment of beurds, rouge and coloring anil all the known means disguising my? self, ii ii were nof against the law. You nee I have a scruple as prepi dtm againsl breaking the law, and disguising one'n sell is againsl the law. but ii I could disguise mynell and not gel cuught, 1 would go out to hi free American onei more ami have u jolly time. I mighl then n'i i i Home of you geutU tn< n and u< - i uall> t? ll \ ou w bat I i ? ull> i lioui lit." Tiio president talked entirely m" formally. He wore .i sack suil and [ stood with his hand* in his pockctt as he spoke. He was in a happy mood and hit retnarka wore constant? ly punctuated with laughter and ap? plause. Mr. Wn*on is a member of the presj club, having hen elected :is an author long before he became president. Mem bora of the cabinet. Spaker Clark and many ofltciati also were gueets of the newspaper men. special "Health Warning" for March. * March is a trying mouth for the very young and for elderly people. Croup, bronchial colds, lagrippe and pneumonia are to be feared and avoided. Foley's Honey and Tar is a great family medicine that will quickly at >p a cough, check the pro? gress of a COld and relieve inflamed and congested mr paeaagea. It is safe, and always reliable. Sibert's Drug ^tore?Advt. Plsgatl Xews and Views. Pisgah, March 19.?Winter was a long time In coming, but since it came it la hard to leave. Tor aaaaa weeks owing to the wet weather very i little work has been done on the forma, but if it contlnuaa without :ain tor next week everything will be n line shape to plant, j Unless ?b? guano receipts increase from now on the amount used in this section Will he behind last year. Not? withstanding ihe coltl the health of I our section is very good. The heavy snow did not hurl those who had to ~o in it. it measured u laches i deep on the level at this place. Mr. T. M. Hawkins is quite uu well. Mr. II. H. IS van*, who has passed his stih birthday. is in his usual state of health. Mr. W. B. Allen Of Florida is hers visiting his sisi? r. He says the cold spell killed all the vegetables, where he Uvea, 10 their next planting will i e no i arller than ours. Most of tha potatoea have rotted, so seed potatoes are rather scarce. The h?ns hive been on a strike far a long time end onl) ? lea gel eggs. What the si aible la no one known. The Kershaa Union aill be held with ihe Weetvtlle church, com mencing on Krldas liefore the 6th Sunda> In this month. There are two i.io.o. in the bounds of the As social ion. Possibly they will unite in the near future. The friends of Mrs. Anna 1. Alien \ ill sorrj to know that she i? i|iiitc si< k in hospital at Columbia Disordered Kidneys Pause Much M;* M > * With pain and misery by day, sleep-dleturblng bladder weakness at night, tired, nervoua run-down men nml women everywhere are glad te Know that 1<.:< v Ki .n \ I* Us restore health and strength, and the regular action of kidneys and bladders. ?Sibert's Drug Store.?Advt.