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NO NEGRO RULE THERE. Whit* People Exclusively Govern South African Colonies. In hla speech in the House of Com? mons on the second realing?unanl mously carried-of the bill sanc? tioning the union of the fourth British colonies of South Africa on the basis of the compromise constitution fram? ed by the colonies themselves, Colo? nel Seeiey. Under Secretary for the Colonies, said: "The bill proposes to set up one Par? liament for the whole of South Africa. It proposes to amalgamate South Afri? ca in a union closer than that of Aus? tralia; closer even thsn the union of Canada. The fact of there being a ?sat native population, who have to be governed, to the greatest extent, by the white races, makes it essentisl that one single form of government, with strength, dower and sympathies, should pursue a common policy with regard to all the native rsces. "The Parliament is to be composed of the King, the Senate and the House ef Assembly. The Senate has 40 rep? resentatives, of whom eight are nom? inated by the governor-general In Council and sight are elected from each province. Of the eight nominat? ed Senators, four are ts be chosen for special knowledge of native affairs and of the wishes of the colored races. The Senate can amend all bills and rights except money bills. Money bills It can reject but not amend. The two houses sit and vote together?In the case of money bills at once; in the case of other bills only after a meas? ure has been passed by the Assembly a second time. As the Assembly num? bers 111 members and the Senate only it. 'be power of the former is great? er than In England. The 111 mem bore are selected, broadly speaking, on the basis of the European male adult population In each province. Na? tal and the Orange Free 8 t?te, as small states, have rather mote mem? bers than they are entitled tor, the Transvall and Cape Coloney teas. The 111 members are distributed as fol? lows: Cape of Oood Hope, II mem? bers; Trsnsvall. 3C; Natal an:. Orange Free State, each 17. The qualifica? tion of a sitting member is that he shall be of European descent, shall bars qualified as a voter in his pro Yince and be a British subject of five years residence. There is to be 'one vote, one value.' with the same num? ber of voters in each constituency. tho? :h there may be, a 15 per cent, variation in accordance with density or sparslty of population, nature of tlistrict, etc. There Is to be an au? tomatic redistribution of seats. "There are to be four provincial Councils with a franchise, the same ss for the Assembly. No man who now hss a vote well lose It under the Mil and no one now without it will gain it. (In Cape Colony the natives have to a restricted extent the right to vote and will retain it; in the other three 00 lo nies they have no vote and will not get it.) "In official documents In I he courts and in Parliament the English and Dutch languages are to have equal rights. The new South A:*rlca gov? ernment sssumes the debts of the for? mer colonies and takes care of the railway management and the eivil ser? vice. A Judiciary is set up for the whole of South Africa, including a Supreme Court. The care mil treat? ment of natives are given over to the central power, as also all matters af? fecting Asiatics, native reserves, loca? tions, trusts, etc.. likewise fall to the cars of the Union Parliament. ( The protectorates remain at present under the care of the London government, but their gradual transfer is con? templated.) "Criticism Is directed to the words of European descent' (In the consti? tutions! definition of the right to be? come a voter)?a disability Imposed upon election to the Union Parlia? ment. We regret that these words are In the bill, but we know they form an essential compromise. When this House granted self-government to the Transvsll and Orange river colony It granted a franchise which excluded natives from the vote and from their Parliaments. The Cape for 05 years has had a restricted franchise, which some of the natives enJo>?we have therefore divlrgent systems to both of which thea House has formally assent? ed. In the West we treat the native as an equal, provided he comes up to a certain, not so much Intellectual as monetary, standard. According to the older system the native Is treated with every consideration, but as a minor with regards to political rights. This has been pointed out as a falling away from a prlnclpl? . hut Ihe House as a whole has assented to It. That being the state of affair?, wo have ourselves established these two s| h terns in South Africa. The comproniisu Is that while every native n Caps Col? ony retln? his right to vote- -and the chance for his being deprived of It is made more remoto?he is debarred from sitting In the Union Parliament becuse he was debarrod from sitting In two cf the Parliament* (Transvall and Orange River Colony) by our ac tt >u here. If these points were struck out (by the Commons) the union would be smashed, with results most i evil for the nateves. "The government of this country has assented to similar words in a very recent act. In our own official ? documents here we not only have words as stringent, but more string? ent, limiting the highest posts In this country to persons of purely Euro? pean descent. I ask the House in all seriousness: Can we now break up thl? great measure of reconciliation (in South Africa), causing possible in? finite damage to the very people we seek to protect, for the sake of a prin? ciple to which we ourselves have not been faithful? I believe we can do no such thing. I do not think it would be fair. "Th? Constitution of South Africa provides that a two-thirds majority of the Union Parliament may disfran? chise the native In Cape Colony. It is argued by the Under Secretary that such i majority is unlikely. On the other hand, he and other speakers ex? pressed a hope that the Union Parlia? ment would ultimately see its way to giving the native throughout South Afrtia some sort of right of represen? tation in the government of his own country. "Sir Charles D?ke contended that the b 11 gives 'six and one-fourth mil? lions of people to be governed by an absolute and permanent oligarchy of a mil ion people' and 'forces the best of the colored people down to the ranks of the natives races, instead of raising them up to the ranks of the whites.' Mr. Balfour, Conservative; Mr. John O'Connor, Nationalist, and others, spoke in approval of the bill. Mr. Balfour spoke of the failure of the effort to make a voter of the ne? gro in the United States: 'It is pain? fully true that the relation between the acea of European descent and ? the dark races of Africa, whether In their original home or in the South? ern States of America, present a prob? lem of extraordinary difficulty and complexity entirely novel in history, and without parallel in the memory and experience of mankind.' ? ? * As soon as the United States got rid of slavery they were face to face with a Constitution, which In true 18th cen? tury language laid down the principle ?hat all men are equal. I do not be? lieve any man can approach this ques? tion wisely who really thinks all men are 3qual. To suppose that the races of .Africa are in any sense the equals of n en of European descent, so far as government, society or the higher in? tercuts of civilization are concerned, is an absurdity. ? * * The only glimmer of hope of dealing successfully with the real race problem in South Africa is not to attempt to meddle with it ourselves, but to trust to the Union Par! lament to rise to the occasion and meet the problem with all possible cut i ge, humanity and sympathy." Sometimes Boldness Is Effective. A well-known New York lawyer, when a poor boy from the country, looking for a Job, saw a sign hanging initdde a store, "Boy Wanted." He too< the slj<n down and walked boldly into the store. The proprietor, meet? ing him. Indignantly usked what he meint by taking down that sign. "You won't need it any more," said the lad, "I'm going to take the job." And he took it, writes Orison Swett Marden in in editorial In "Success Magazine." The coveted goal of the centuries' quest has at last been reached, be? cause two intrepid explorers took down the world's sign, "Wanted, A Man to Discover the North Pole," and determined it would no longer be needed; that they would find the Pole, If mortal man could find it, and?they found it. Clear grit did It. This is always more than a match for any obstacle, and has achieved about all the great things in the world's history. It was cb ar grit that carried these two men through the perils and awful hard? ships of the Artie seas, through all tho dangers of the desolate, unknown Ice-fields, in which they well knew hi ndreds of men who had gone on the same quest, men as brave, resource? ful, and determined as they, had per? ished. No one knew better than Peary and Cook what they were braving, the rhks they were taking, for both had pi t their lives in Jeopardy again and again, one of them six times, in trying to reach the coveted goal. After each failure to find the Pole, scores of people pleaded with Peary, as they did with Cook, never to try It again, to give up this Wild Pole dream, but It Is USSjIsM to try to discourage men with such bulldog tenacity of purpose* You can not dishearten tl:em. They laugh at your pictures of the dangSfS, hardships and insur? mountable obstacles in their wuy. Nothing daunts such heroic spirits. J. (J. Sweeney, deserter from the l'nit?d States army, has been arrest? ed at Greenville, A Charleston woman Jumped from the Batt< ry Into the Ashley river. She was rescued by the police. Arthur Clars has been arrested In Alken on the charge of murder. He It accused of killing Philip Thomas lit 1906. GUY COUNCIL MEETING. REGULAR SESSION HELD LAST NIGHT. Sewerage Bonds Ordered Issued?El? ectric Light Company Files Accept? ance of Franchise and Contract Provided July Last?Shifting In Railroad Yard on Sunday Prohibit? ed?Sumtcr Light Infantry Congra? tulated. City Council mot Tuesday night in regular session with all memebrs pre? sent. Minutes of October 25th were read and approved. Mr. J. R. Wofford, representing the Southern Express Company, came to protest against increase of license on their business from $100 to $150. He stated that the company had incur? red expense in improving local ser? vice, and that the amount of their business did not justify the increase. After due consideration Council con? cluded that $150 is not an unreason i able license and declined to reduce It I Mr. Geo. W. Reardon appeared be? fore Council and stated that he had arranged to have a small building within the fire limits covered with tin roofing; in ignorance of the most recent ordinance regulating such work. That his workman had been stopped by the police and required I to give bond for trial. He desired Council to permit the work to be fin? ished as it was an improvement to the building. Council refused to grant the request, so directly contrary to the Ordinance. Mr. Wright was In favor of allowing the work to be completed. Mr. Reardon renewed his former request for a fire hydrant at corner of Magnolia Street and Hampton Avenue, and was informed that the hydrant had been ordered put in as BOOH as it can be done. Rev. C. C. Brown and Messrs. Nell O'Donnell, J. A. Schwerin, and J. P. Booth requested that macadam be laid on East Liberty street from Har vln to Magnolia. On motion of Messrs. Finn and Ligon the request was granted. The work to be done in connection with the work ordered on Main street. Mr, J. E. Kennedy requested that one cr two additional lights be placed on Oakland Avenue in the vicinity of the cemeteries. This request was referred to the Committee on Lights wilh power to act. Mr. Barnett for the Finance Com? mittee reported that the Clerk and Treasurer's report for October had been checked up and found correct. Mr. Finn for the Street Committee submitted report of work done for the past two weeks: Farm work, 8.00 Backfilling Sewer Trenches, 7.50 South Main Street repairs, 1.00 Street sweeping. 20.so street Sprinkling 12.00 Garbage, 352 loads, 53.00 Injured Laborer, 9.00 Graded School Fence, 1.00 Bradford street, digging clay 93.15 Oakland avenue, repairs 9.50 East Liberty street 2.00 Repairing fence and cleaning city lot 2.80 Hauling 1 carload cement 2.60 Purdy street, cleaning 10.00 Dingle street, cleaning and clay 5.00 Total pay roll $237.35 No. men, 25; carts, 8. Mr. Ligon for the Police Committee submitted reports of lights not burn? ing, and police report for October as follows: Arrests, 96; fines paid, $471.50; days labor, 150. Mr. Finn reported that he had been Informed that the Durant Hardware Co. have a lease on part of the lot re? cently purchased from Mrs. Bultman and also on the barn on the land until September, 1910. The commit? tee appointed to buy the barn were granted further time. Mr. Stubbs suggested that the barn be used temporarily by the fire de? partment. Mr. Finn asserted that the barn could be used without altera? tions and additions which were not permissible under the fire limits law. Mr. Bultman moved that the Fire De? partment Committee be requested to arrange for erection of suitable build? ings and it was so ordered. The claim of Mr. J. H. Johnson $75 for services as architect to date was ordered paid. Mr. Ligon called attention to per? mission granted by Council to the At? lantic Coast Line R. It. Co., on Feb. 12th. 1908, to do shifting on their yards on Sundays, during the busy ?eaaon, He said the privilege is in violation of the law of the State, and Is being abused as he Is informed, by doing unnecessary work, allowing no Sunday privileges to employes. And moved that the resolution be rescind? ed. Mr. Finn corroborated Mr. Llgon'a statements. The motion to rescind was carried. Mr. Ligon spoke with pride of the success of the Sumter Light Infantry In military contests at the recent State Fair. And on his motion the congratulations of Council were ex tended to the company. City Engineer Lee presented measurements and estimated cost of concrete sidewalks on Main St., from Canal to Bartlette, Bartletti to Har vin, Harvin to Telephone. Also cost of vitrified brick paving. On motion of Mr. Wright the city engineer was authoried to advertise for bids on the concrete sidewalks, and report to Council. The following resolution was unan? imously adopted: Resolved, That the $50,000 City of Sumter Sewerage Bonds, which were awarded to Messrs. X. W. Harris & Company on September 30th, 1909, be coupon bonds, of the denomina? tion of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each, be fifty (50) in number, num? bered from one (1) to fifty (50) in? clusive, dated the first day of July, 1909, payable the first day of July, 1949, bearing interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, payable on the first days of January and July j in each year; both principal and in I terest of said bonds be payable at the office of Messrs. N. W. Harris & Com? pany, New York City, N. Y., and be I coupon bonds with the privilege of I registration as to principal only. I The Sumter Ice, Light and Power 1 Co. filed their formal acceptance of I the terms of the Ordinance adopted I by Council, granting them a franchise July 13th. A letter was recived from Mr. E. I W, Vogel soliciting a share of the po I lice bicycle trade. I A communication from the Board I of Health in reference to public j closets, and the use of dry wells was I referred to the Police and Sanitary I Committee and City Eengineer. A letter was read from Mr. John I Clack, agent Southern Railway stat I ing that the company will comply I with the request of Council in regard I to filling up their low lot between j their freight station and Crosswell & J Co.'s warehouse. By request of Mr. H. C. Hayns I worth the Railroad Committee was I asked to have the railroad crossing I in Hauser street improved by the A. C. L. Co. J The following claims were referred I to the Finance Committee: Booth-Harby Livestock Co., $37.49; Von Ohsen & Shirer, $12.25; Miracle Pressed Stone Co., $37.13; Boyle Live Stock Co., $6.50; Durant Hardware Co., $35.22; W. B. Boyle, $54.00; H. I L. Tisdale, $2.30 and $12.95; S. M. Pierson, $5.64; Craig Furniture Co., $6.50; E. T. Brailsford, $20. Council then adjourned. HALLOW-EVE IN IRELAND. With u Fiddler, a Eire and Feasting. The Night is Spent in Merry-Mak? ing. Of the many festivities which we have among the remote hills of Ire? land Hallow-eve is looked forward to with most pleasurable anticipation by the light-hearted youth, says Seumas MacManus In The Delineator for No? vember. On that night the young peo? ple will indulge in ? their merriest prankl and their greatest tricks and most fascinating magical mysteries, and, not least, they will enjoy not merely apples and nuts, but the rarest dishes in all of the twelve months. Like Christmas, Hallow-eve is a home time for our people. The moun? tain kitchen, in which the family and friends of the family are going to spend Hallow-eve, in all probability, occupies the whole width of the house and half the length of it. There is a great open hearth from which the high-piled turf and bog fire sends up dancing flames with the winsomest, dancing, yellow light, which makes shadows leap and bound like ghosts on the walls and along the bared raf? ters overhead, and glimmers and shimmers on the patterned delft which, crowded in close rows, adorns the sand-whited dresser. There are sand-whited chairs of old-fashioned country pattern, and short forms, and three-legged stolls, and stolls yclept "creepy," in plenty. Emergency seats are to be had by pressing into service the side of the "outshot" bed in the kitchen corner, and the half-emptied bags of meal that sit by the wall-side down the floor, and the vagabonds of the com? pany would strive among themselves for these privileged bed-seats?that particular position being the unallen able privilege of the aforementioned vagabonds of the countryside, because, having all the rest, of the gathering before them and under them, they can rake the company with arrows of sar? casm the night long. A local fiddler, with whom the family is a favorite, honors the household, maybe, with his presence that night, or else a wander? ing piper, who always finds his home within the first house he meets after night tails. The fiddler or the piper, as the case may be, has the seat of honor in the chimney-corner?for in our mountains the musician is prince. C. E. Yarborough, white, of Ander? son has been arrested on the charge of rape. Bud Edwards, a negro boy of An? derson, was trampled to death by a horse. MANY CANDIDATES WILLING. Prominent ClttoM Who Are Not Aver?; to Holding Office. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle writes as follows of the political outlook in South Car? olina as it as developed at the poltical conferences and log-rolling caucus held during fair week: A deal of political talk and log-rol? ling there was here in the hotel lob? bies and on the streets fair week as is usual with this annual gathering of prominent men. from all parts of the State. The week is looked forward to as furnishing an opportunity for framing up State political deals of all kinds and the politicians and statesmen are always on hand to pro? tect themseh-es and get their ears to the ground. And this year immedi? ately preceding an election year the interest was greater and the work harder, although so far as could be learned there were no definite frame ups for any particular office. The greatest activity and the larg? est volume of talk had reference to the gubernatorial candidates. The week appears to have developed one entirely new entry and to have made definite the candidacies of several others. There appears to be now sev? en definite possible candidates who will enter the race for governor next summer. Thea are Richard L Man? ning of Sumter, Lieut. Gov. Thomas G. McLeod, of Bishopville, C. C. Featherstone of Laurens, John G. Richards, of Kershaw, F. H. Hyatt, of Columbia, Cole L. Blease, of New berry, and Attorney General J. Fr?ser Lyon, of Abbeville. All of these were here fair week mixing with their friends and talking about the- prospects, as were the two United States senators,' three con? gressmen and a score or more lesser lights in the State's political firma? ment. Of these seven, it is curious to note, five are Methodists: Messrs. Blease, McLeod, Featherstone, Hyatt and Ly? on. Mr. Manning is an Episcopalian and Mr. Richards a Presbyterian. Of the seven named Messrs. Manning, McLeod. Featherstone and Blease definitely announced that they would be in the race. None seemed disposed to finally outline his platform, but from this distance it looks as if all will advo? cate prohibition except Mr. Blease, who will run on the same mixed liq? uor platform as he ran on when Gov? ernor Ansel beat him 20.000 votes In the gubernatorial race last time. But it is understood Mr. Blesse will make State finance.- the chief plank in his platform. There are dim outlines of a possi? ble interesting rivalry between Mes? srs. Lyon and Manning, the indica? tions pointing to efforts on the part of many of Mr. Lyon's strongest friends to sidetrack him for the present In fa? vor of Mr. Manning on the SCO re thai Mr. Ly.?n has not yet completed his work In the graft casts. These argue that it would I"- best to save Mr. Ly (.t to run against Senator Tillm*n. which certainly provides an interest? ing race as the two are violent politi? cal enemies, SMtator Tillman having attempted to defeat the atto.'ity gen? era1 on account of certain features of the first graft investigations. But Mi. Lyon says when he gets ready to run for governor he will do so without consulting these so-called friends. His work with the dispensary investiga? tions has aroused strong antipathy in various parts of the State. His friends point out that he is practically sure to get results in the graft prosecu? tions at Chester, and in plenty of time to enter the race for governor. The leading prohibition candidate appears to be Mr. Featherstone. Mr. Richards is yet undecided as to how he will vote next spring in the legislature on liquor or whether he will enter the race for governor. He expresses the firm conviction, how? ever, that the legislature will pass a State-wide prohibition act. Mr. Hyatt will run on a business man's platform. He has for several years been president of the State good roads association and through his work with the cotton association is in close touch with the farmers. He also has about 10,000 Mutual Life policy holders over the State and a hundred or so agents, many of whom *.? ill naturally work for him. SI IT OVER SPOILED FISH. Sumter Health OHieer Refers. Matter To State Authorities. Columbia, Nov. !?.?City Health Of? ficer B. I. Reardon, of Sumter, has complained t<? State Health < iflUccr Williams, of a custom some of the Charleston nah dealers have been practicing as noticed by consignees of Sumter <?t' mixing spoiled fish With good. Dr. Williams referred the c omplaint to Attorney General Lyon, who ad? vised that the health authorities could take action either under the special provisions of the pure food law, or they c< Uld bring action under section 806 of the criminal code, which for? bids telling or having for sale un? sound meats of any kind. LABOR UXIOX BACKS GOMPERS. Council of Federation Denounces Uae Of Court? in Industrial Disputes? Urges Old AgS) Pensions. Toronto, Ont., Nov. 9.?If President Samuel Gompers, Vice President Mitchell and Treasurer Morrison of the American Federation of Labor eventually have to serve jail sentences for contempt of court, it will not be due to lack of support frm trades unionism. The executive council of the federation recommended to the annual convention that an appeal be taken to the United States Supreme Court, both in the Bucks Stove and Range Company's injuncion case and in the contempt proceedings growing out of it. That the convention will ratify the recommendation seems cer? tain and that the three labor leaders and their fellow officers will be re elected for another year Is predicted. A vigorous denunciation of the use of labor injunctions and of the denial of trial by jury was embodied in the council's report today. NOT SETTLED YET. Dispensary Commission Not Through Its Work. Columbia. Nov. 9.?According to a. statement by Dr. W. j. Murray, the meeting of the dispensary winding up commission tomorrow will not be the last sitting of the body, but that it will require at least half-dozen more meetings before the affairs of the old State dispensary would be settled up. All of the members of the commission will be present at the sit? ting tomorrow, which will be held in executive session. Col. Tom Felder will also be in attendance. The claims against the old State dispensary amount jto approximately $400,000, and it was generally thought that all of these claims would be set? tled at the meeting of the commission tomorrow. Chairman Murray, when seen today and asked if the meeting would be a final one, sa'.d: "Why, no, there will be at least half a dozen more before the matters are finally settled up." ? Dr. Murray, when asked if the claims had been scaled down by the commission, said: "Really, I don't know." Although the chairman of the commission will make no state? ment as to whether the claims have been cut down, it is understood that the State will be saved a considerable amount. The only definite statement that Dr. Murray makes in reference to the work of the commission tomorrow is "that the commission will meet in excutive session, and that the result of the findings will be given out at a later date." It is not known whether the com? mission will take any more testimony or not. At the last session Cashier J. Pope Matthews, of the Palmetto National Bank, was called to the stand, and was put through a severe questioning by Col. Felder for the commission. The chairman of the commission, when asked if any more witnesses would appear before the commission, > stated that "he did not know." One thing is known that the sum of about $630.000 is held by the com? mission, this being admitted by Dr. Murray. At the several executive session of the commission, according to state? ments by members of the commission, the body went over the different claims with a view to final adjust? ment, but nothing of a definite na? ture has ever been given out as to just how much any of the claims will be cut down. Mary Gaillard, colored, five years old, was accidental}" shot and killed by Abram Porcher, colored, 14 years old, in Charleston. The boy was sit? ting in a chair examining a shotgun when it was accidentally discharged. Hilbert Heney, who escaped from the Greenville county jail last week, was captured yesterday. THE KIND OF FRAMEg To be used is very much a matter of taste. It is im? portant, though, that the frames set properly on the nose and at the right dis? tance from the Eyes; that the lenses be perfectly cen? tered, and how are you to know when some is guess? ing. VVE NEVER GUESS Glasses Right, Good Sight. I have a graduate Optician in charge of my Optical Parlor and all work is guaranteed. cJ i. i.liitisiij Jeweler and Opticiail 6 S. Main St. Phone 333. jj