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IttASSADORS* WIVES HAVE
WOES.
? TtxSr Socially Ambitious Country?
men IHetre to shake Hands With
It ?r*Uy.
Tie American ambanador'g wife is
Miiy very patroltlc, although I
? ?vire that many people question
It iifce la proud of the reputation her
con ?<t/women have established
ahrotri for cleverness and beauty, and
I? willing to go out of her way to give
*s re tn/ of them aa possible the eclat
and excitement of going to court.
fU t. according to etiquette, she can
sa*k ? but two or three presentations
aU.e'ictt court and these must be ap
prav'vl by the court chamberlain,
viii: there are sometimes a hundred
?earn *-?ts. She can not present a
woman who haa been divorced or
bee* in any way connected with a so?
cial ?cendal She can not present the
daughter of the most Influential poli?
tician ir she is socially impossible. A
?peMO-Uh who can stalk through the
?degts-tmente at Waahlngton In a free
see *>a*y way. and make every man
tin* president down feel his Im- i
nee. can sometimes get nothing
far ??* -family* from the ambassadors.
A great deal of trouble comes
through 'the letters of introduction
wtfckM tHe "state department glvea to
meh for their wives and daugh
The* men demand them and the
'twieat'ls* not in a position to re
v although It Is well understood
Sje4w*-invthe'department and the em- ?
that-the letter means nothing,
C H fee*, a* It were, been obtained
rnett+iJh. But the woman who
lev ovbf often goea home in a
towering' rage Of disappointment.
Until' a few ?'years' ago some of the
-tm^rerere oi the different States kept
OMtMtd ?-f r?rma Which I were filled out
>n tppficatlorn to any respectable
i? who applied, recommending
th trie courtesy of our foreign
reg* eei*ratives. But theae letters were
?ae nstmeroua that they became a ver
neitanca and the state depart- '
irdered them discontinued.-?
'The Recollections of A Dlplo
tVrTtrV' la TYie Delineator.
PvlA*tt Portowing Tariff Upward.
Frert {he* PHlfadelphla Record.
Ahottt three years ago a member
of CtJagtesa from Illinois explained
to the House of Representatives that
the W?tch TrOst wfta rrrdllhg watches
mmr *\3 <#<? mUeh ch<-ao??r that; * home
eho4.'*? "w*> possible to make a good
hmutnem? by buying American wetcnos
hs Wer:>4?e.' bringing thern hack, as
thee are admitted free of duty, and
easting'them at a large reduction from
the .prices.
Whee an American manufacturer Is
tseMiMff his goods abroad for less than
he a>ks at home he needs some com
petitith at home; the fact that the
duty <? uureasonably high is demon
rted;
But the watch manufacturers, who
more duty under the Dingley law
than thOV bad any Justification for
eeee ?'cording to protectionist theo?
ries, wanted still more protection,
and got it from a Congress that was
e#er willing to oblige a combination
In rertti.unt of trade. The trust had
aereedy blocked the reimportation of
the ft<c* by introducing some for- j
e4g? pod into its watches, so that
the? sh >ubl not secure free admission.
Mr Ahl-? n*? congress came to the
ler, relief of the trust by increas
the duty on the cheaper grades
watch movements and on watch
thd by requiring the name of
m ?nufacturer to be stamped on
mo/cment and the case and the
M?ny dealers now have their
own ii?m-* put on the movements,
caeen and dials and sell the watches
a? th< " ovvn manufacturer. They can
ne t?i -. i do this with foreign watch?
es; M the/ want their own names put
on the < > ?du they must get them
froMBi hSBtWItuh manufacturers.
Th ?. result of the additional "pro
teetten" f<>r the Watch Trust is al?
ready *pp.?rent. The tariff law has
been in effect less than two months,
aad s * s?k ago the two largest watch
mafcin?; companies In the West ad?
vanced their prices. The Eastern
reeap.?nie. promptly followed, and
doseefch ? watches have been marked
up T net cent, all over the country
for th - additional profit of an Indus?
try th?? itready sold its products
Sthres I t it much less than It demand?
ed of Its fellow citlxens.
I
II.? .MopiMil In Time.
Litt!?? It d> m father was fond of tell
tug bear .todies to his little boys. One
evening m ? was telling a thrilling one
About a bi'.ir ( basing a little girl, and
"how ho Tept nearer and nearer and
nearer.** At this point Bob caught his
father** arm, and with trie big tears
f ?Hing d ?wii his cheeks, he cried, "<?
f ether, don't tell any more. He might
catch her!"
The Camel.
Tbe cam -I is the "desert ehlp,"
nd rumen with him every trip
Wu4er SnOOgh to keep him going,
?Win ?i ' ?r (? ship?Is rather know
Inf.
WHY KENTUCKY WOMEN WANT
TO VOTE.
After a Successful Campaign for Bet?
ter School* 65,000 Illiterate Male
Voters Stand in Their Way.
When the next census is taken in
Kentucky, the State will have come
along about fifty years, says Mabel
Potter Daggett in The Delineator for
November. And coincidentally with
the educational awakening, another
cause bespeaks legislative notice. The
women who gave Kentucky its new
.schools want the ballot. They say
that it took a long time to accomplish
what they did. Next time they would
like to be in a position where they will
not have to" beg for what they want.
They would like the ballot so they
can demand it.
When the County School District
bill was prepared it contained a
clause providing for school suffrage
for women. Heroically the women
submitted to its elimination lest their
insistence on the ballot should Jeo?
pardize the whole school moevment.
Afterward they got a special bill pre?
pared to grant school suffrage to wo?
men. The gallant legislators side?
stepped it by getting it politely
smothered in committee. This year
the women will ask again for school
suffrage. They have an idea that
Kentucky needs them to help In the
direction of its school affairs. Ken?
tucky men, on the other hand, have
old-fashioned notions that women
aren't qualified to vote. Still, you see,
there are those sixty-five thousand
male voters who can neither read or
write, and there are the five thousand
Illiterate school trustees. It's very
awkward. So Southern chivalry
usually says No to the women asking
for a vote, by urging that they ought
to stay at home and be sheltered.
Kentucky women are replying that
they've been out a good deal in all
kinds of weather the past few years
on this school question. They say,
in fact, that If only they had the bal?
lot, it would save them a lot of this
going out and about and up and down
the land. The State doesn't yet seem
to see the obligation. But one would
think that Kentucky Women had done
enough for the public good, so that
the men should hold them on a plate
anything they ask for?even to a half
of the kingdom through the forbid?
den ballot.
JOHN S. REYNOLDS DIES.
Supreme Court Librarian Succumbs
To Brief illness.
Columbia, Oct. 25.?John S. Rey?
nolds, Supreme Court librarian, a well
known author and lawyer, died this
morning at 9:30 o'clock. He was tak?
en suddenly ill and very few of his
friends were apprised of his sickness.
Preparations had been made for an
operation when the end came.
Mr. Reynolds is best known in
South Carolina as the author of "Re?
construction in South Carolina."
Smugglers Often Try to Make Use of
The Embassy Post-Bags.
The embassy post-bag is the secret
thing of the office, the holy of holies,
as it .were, says the writer of "The
Recollections of an Ambassador's
Wife" in The Delineator for Novem
ber. It is the big leather bag into
which go all the cipher despatches
from the embassy and the confiden?
tial information from the consulate.
After being locked at the embassy, it
is not unlocked until it reaches Wash?
ington, being Immune from Inspection
by any official of the foreign govern?
ment or of the American.
The families of the embassy staff
often put their letters for America
into the bag, the clerk at Washington
who opens it sending them to the post
office. But, although the bag is sup?
posed to be a secret, It is extraordi?
nary how many people learn to know
about it and try to use it for smug?
gling. I was in the embassy at St.
Petersburg one day when a Jeweler
sent in a large package containing a
l tHng of pearls and a half dozen
magnificent Jeweled ornments, with a
note to the ambassador from an
American lady, known only slightly at
the embassy, who was traveling in the
country, Instructing him to forward
them through the otliclal bag to her
sist?>r in Boston! We heard after
* ard that she had intended sending
also a set of Russian sables the same
way.
Almost every conceivable inanimate
object native to Europe has been re?
turned by the secrearies of the differ?
ent embassies who become weary of
Informing the owners that nothing
Can go to America through the official
b*4, I have heard the men at Home
rejoUe that the bag was too small to
carry the Komm.
KILLED IN DILLON.
Dillon, Oct. 25.?Ellhu BlackWSll, n
young man about 26 years old, mar?
ried and having two children, was
shot and killed almost Instantly by
young Stanley Hamilton last night
about 9 o'clock at the Maple cottou
mill village.
CHURCHES SHOULD MEET HU?
MAN NEEDS.
They Must Keep Pace With the Rapid
Progress of the World.
Does a decline in church attend?
ance necessarily prove a decline in re?
ligious interest? Where there are op?
posing motives acting, failure in the
desired result may be due to a
strengthening of the negative motives,
without a weakening, and even In
spite of a less increase, of the posi?
tive.
The conditions of life have been
more changed since the application of
steam and electricity to manufacture
and transportation than in all the
millenniums which preceded. Men
work harder; need more rest and re?
laxation, find it less easy to secure
them without leaving the own
neighborhood or availing themselves
of the arts of popular entertainment,
while they find the means both of
travel and of amusement rendered
easy and inexpensive by the same
civilization that taxes their energy in
toil.
And the remedy? Not In vain la?
ment at changed conditions; not in
denying the attractiveness of the va?
ried possibilities developed by civili?
zation, but. as Dr. Crooker tells us
in "The Church of Today," In insist?
ing and demonstrating that the
church also is permanent because it,
too, meets a geunine human need and
is highest of all; because that need id
the deepest, and is "the supreme ele?
ment which all other institutions need
in order to reach their greatest worth
and highest efficiency."
Just because the motives to world
line8s have been strengthened, it is
not enough for the church to do as
well today as It did in the past.
"What is needed Is a church as far
ahead of its predecessor as the rail- j
road is swifter than the stage-coach. \
Shall a people who have quintupled ;
their rate Of travel' over the earth be
satisfied to proceed toward the heav
ely kingdom no faster than their fath?
ers??Edward Tallmadge Root in The
Delineator for November.
SOUTH AND WESTERN INSPECT?
ED.
Railroad Commissioners Find the
Line in Excellent Condition.
Spartanburg, Oct. 25.?The State
railroad commission today Inspected
the South and Western Road, whirh
in reality is the C. C. and O., between
t'i's point and T'.road River, mnking
the trip In special cars. The commis?
sion was accompanied by a number of
citizens of Spartanburg and several
officials of the road. The commission
declared the road to be splendidly
bulit and one of the most modern
roads in every respect they have ever
seen. Every member of the commis?
sion expressed himself as being sur?
prised at the completeness of the line.
The commission isued a rule fixing
the rate of speed for October 29, the
day of the C, C. and O. celebration,
at not more than fifteen miles per
hour, and five miles in rounding
curves and over fills. The trestle over
Broad River will not be completed
for the operation of the trains across
the structure by the 29th, though this
will not interfere in handling passen?
gers into Spartanburg, for all ar?
rangements have been made by the
road to transfer at Broad River with?
out inconveniencing the pasesngers.
MURDER MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
German Admits Having Slain Ills Girl
Wife.
New York, Oct. 25.?A year and a
half ago a friendless girl was mur?
dered in a forsaken patch of wood?
land, near Islip, Long Island; a week
ago her bleached and charred skele?
ton was found, with nothing to indi?
cate its identity but her Jewelry and
a bill of sale from a German shop;
three days later, through the police of
Hamburg, Germany, her identity was
established as Anna Luther, though
the cables first carried the name as
Latter; last night her husband, Fred?
erick Gebhardt, who had married her
under the name of Otto Mueller, was
caught in Astoria, L. I., and tonight
he confessed over his signature that
he Is her slayer.
Committee Did Not Meet.
Columbia. Oct. 25.?The dispensary
winding up commission did not meet
this afternoon as scheduled. The meet?
ing will be held tomorrow morning at
!* o'clook in the Supreme Court rooms.
Two of the oommlsioneri besides the
Chairman are In the city, Messrs. A.
N. Wood, of Gaffm y, and Avery Pat
ton, of Greenville. Atornsy Felder
will be here for the meeting.
LI\?mI 14 Honrs With Broken Neck.
Macon, Oa., Oct. 25.?After living
for 21 hours with a broken neck, Earl
Hodges, IS years old, who received
the fatal Injury early Sunday morning
when ho fell from the second story
window of his home to the brick
pavement, died In the hospital here
this morning.
ROMAN JUSTICE.
How Technicalities Were Avoided in
The Courts.
The bar was an open profession in
acient Rome; the litigant enjoyed the
utmost latitude in the choice of an
advocate, whose right to represent his
client in court was fully conceded.
Slavish imitators of the Greeks in
literature and art, the Romans as?
serted their entire Independence In
the domain of law. Their innovations
had the stamp of originality; but
these did not comprise any close con?
nection between bar and bench. It
is noteworthy that during a very long
period in the history of Roman law
there was no exact counterpart of
our judge. Th^ magistratus was a
public official charged with the ad?
ministration of the law; the judex was
a species of referee appointed by the
magistrate to hear and report upon a
particular case. Then there was an
arbiter who acted alone, or with oth?
ers, in arbitration cases (arbitria).
Finally, there were recuperatores who
assisted in international questions.
The hearing before these various
types of judgex was called the judi
cum, as distinguished from jus, the
hearing before the magistrates prop?
erly so-called. The names of citizens
qualified for serving as judices were
inscribed in a public record known
as the album. Moreover, litigants had
the right of objection to a particular
judex. Not only so, but this right was
extended during many centuries to
criminals, who were tried before cen?
tum vdrs and decemvirs, sitting on the
permanent tribunals. If the Roman
Bill Sykes never thought of putting
forward the demand of his English
congener that "we all ought to have
a voice in making the laws as we suf?
fer by," yet we may be well assured
that he would not fail to take a
sporting chance, make a prime favor- 1
ite of the judge who was most revers?
ed on appeal, and strenuously object
to the others.
, The point which calls for our special
attention is that none of the men who I
discharged the various judicial or j
semi-judicial functions described were
drawn, except in most exceptional ?
cases, from the advocate class. Nor i
is it possible to conceive any arrange?
ment better, calculated than that in
force in Rome to excude their narrow, 1
professional technicality from the set- |
tlement of civil cases. The presiding
magistrates of the great criminal tri?
bunals were seldom or never men who
practiced at the bar. Even in later
times, when the distinction between
jus and judicum had disappeared, and
the functions of magistratus and ju?
dex were merged in one official, there
is no evidence that the bench was re?
cruited from the bar more frequently
than before.?Westminster Review.
Another Breakdown.
It. seemed an age that the poor man
was flat on his back. His friends stood
around him with long faces heaving
lugubrious sighs.
It was inded a serious case.
But suddenly there came a shoui
from the prostrate form.
"At last!" he shouted, trimuphant
ly. "At last I have that old carbure?
ter fixed!"
With a wild whoop his friends
brushed the dust from his back and
they all piled into the big red ma?
chine and sped away.?Chicago News.
A High Financier.
Little three-year-old Elmer receiv?
ed a dime for taking a dose of castor
oil. The' next day her big^ brother
Fred asked her to pick up a basket
of cobs.
"How much will you give me?" she
asked.
"A nickel," replied her brother.
"Humph!" said Elmer, "I can make
more than that taking castor oil."?
The Delineator.
THEY NEVER FAIL.
That is What They Say About Them
in Suniter, and It Is Therefore, Re?
liable.
Another proof, more evidence,
Sumter testimony to swell the long
list of local people who endorse the
old Quaker remedy, Doan's Kidney
Pills. Read this convincing endorse?
ment of that remarkable prepara?
tion:
Wm. Burdell, living at 211 Church
St., Sumter, S. C, says: "I can
highly recommend Doan's Kidney
pills for backache and kidney trou?
ble. I suffered from backache and
sharp shooting pains through my
loins, could not rest well at night and
in the morning would be very lame
and stiff. I was also caused much
annoyance during the night by the
frequent passages of the kidney se?
cretions. Doan's Kidney Pills wore
recommended to me, I procured them
at China's drug store and can truth?
fully state that they gave me great
relief. For some time I have been
free from backaches and pains, the
kidney secretions are clear and 1 do
not have to arise at night, 1 feel so
much better in every way that 1 can
highly recommend Doan's Kidney
Pllll to any person suffering from
kidney complaint."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50c.
Foster-MUbum Co., Buffalo, New
York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name?Doan's?
take no other. No. 3
ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT.
AVegetaWelVcparalionforAs
similatuigrte^
ting (lie Stomachs aiid?oweisof
Infants/Children
Promotes DigestionfhcerfiAJ
ness and RestXontains neither I
Opiiuii.Morpruae iwrMiacraL]
Not Narcotic.
Piaxukw Smf
JtxJmm*
BocMUS?ts
jmmSmi*
Qgrifkii Sumr ?
rfcfcip rft) Flimf.
Aperfect Remedy forCbnsfipi
tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrtm
Worms jCwwulskms leverisk
ness and LOSS OF SLEEP.
FuSimfc Signature of
NEW YORK.
Atb months old
J5B0SES-35CENTS
Guaranteed under the 1
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
CASTQR1A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have<
Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
d Ar
In
Use,
For Over
Thirty Years
CASTORIA
Tmk eumui ?ompahv. new vomk orrv.
Birnie's Drug Store,
6 W. Liberty St. Sumter, S. C.
Dealer In
Pure Drugs and Medicines, I1
CHOICE PERFUMES *AND FINE
TOILET ARTTCT FS. COMBS AND
BRUSHES, PATENT MEDICINES
. AND DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, A
FULL LIJjE OF CIGARS AND
TOBACCO. :: :: :: :: ::
OUR MOTTO: PURE AND RELIABLE GOODS.
Our stock is complete
and we cheerfully solicit
your patronage. :: :: ::
THE GROWTH OF OCR LUMBER
BUSINESS
has heen something phenomenal,and
is due to strict adherence to sound
business principles. Always provid?
ing full measures and the highest
qualities of well-seasoned lumber, we
have succeeded in retaining all of
our old customers, and in attracting
new ones all the time. For reliable
lumber at fair prices and prompt de?
liveries, come to us.
The Sumter Door, Sash & Blind Factory,
J. W. McKeiver.
Proprietor.
Seed Oats,
Appier and Red Rust Proof.
Seed Wheat
Smooth and Bearded Varieties
Seed Rye and Barley.
-Grain Pasture Mixture
Composed >f Winter Turf Oats, Wheat, Rye, Barley
find Vetch. The best winter Horse, Cow and Hog
Pasture you can possibly plant. :: :: ::
THERE WILL BE A ROLLER FLOUR MILL IN SUMTER BY JAN. 1910.
BEST LIVERY IN SUMTER.
SUMTER, SC.
g*1. The Farmers' Bank & Trust Go.
What - -
Has
to Say
Satisfaction with one's efforts put the brakes on progress.
There is a future ahead of the fellow who is sorry when the
whistle blows.
The Farmers' Bank and Trust Company is continually reaching
nut for new business, and is getting it. If you are not a patron
we Invite you to become one*
C. 6. ROWLAND, Pres. R. L EDMUNDS, Cashier. GUY L WARREN, Teller,
A, S, MERRIMAN, Bookkeeper. H. L. McCOY, Asst. Bookkeeper.
