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Oldest Paper in South Carolina. EDGEFIELD, S. 0. - A store of unpracticed piety in tho ieart' warns the Chicago Tribune, soon paralyzes iL The man. who never tries to do things seldom feels the hammer of tho i?fc^*'knocker>" observes the Commoner. No matter how intellectual she may fee, sneers the Philadelphia Record, af ter a woman reaches a certain age she feels that almost any man is a match for her. \ One of the first ways in which an opportunity to earn money was open to women came in the days before the. sewing machine, relates the Christian "Register, when hundreds of thousands S of linen bosoms were sent throughout the country to be stitched by hand for the ahirtmakers of New York City. Notes the New York Evening Globe: China in her ruling classes is now committed to progressiveness. Civ ilization has won its. victory. What will it do with it? If not in a military way certainly in an economic way . China must in the near future be reckoned with. The Chinese are in dustrious and intelligent and the un loosing ot the latent force of its mil lions will have effects now seen only hy men of imagination. An ambitions barber, having im proved his idle moments by studying , medicine and surgery, and having graduated in that profession, opened an office and waited for patients, re lates the Argonaut. The first one had appendicitis. Deftly the surgeon per formed the operation, then, after the patient had recovered from the effect of the anaesthetic, inquired. "Won't yon have your leg cut off today, slr? looks as if it needed it" Says the San Francisco Chronicle: So far the automobile as a luxury, has had a more complete demonstra tion than the automobile as a utility. Still, the sale of auto trucks, deliv ery carts and even hearses is grow ing. With the perfection of the mech anism it will probably grow faster; for when there is no longer any peril of delivery wagons being stalled be tween store and customer we shall ex pect to see a great increase in the commercial demand for them. Observes the Louisville Courier Journal: There Is no quarrel between tiie average motorist and the law, or between the average motorist and the pedestrian. No one is more constantly in danger from the "Joy rider" than those who make sensible use of auto mobiles. The interest of the pedestri ans, the drivers of horse drawn vehi cles and owners of motor cars in the Observation upon the road is common, and the various elements should make common cause against joy riding. The Poe cottage at Fordham is now owned hy S dentist In this little dwell ing, with its shingled roof and gabled ends, that gifted man Edgar Allan Poe lived from 1846 to 1849. Tho cottage contains only three rooms, but here it was that Poe wrote "The Rav en" and "Annabel Lee," in musical meter that still casts a spell. Perhaps, suggests the New York Mail, in the very room where "The Raven" was written down in words that can nev I er die the groans of patients will bear witness to the torments of toothache. In this day and generation there is no time nor place for romance. Even the Poe cottage has had to be com mercialized. Listen a moment to the subway guard: "Step a little lively please!** A "school of matrimony," having for its object the inculcation of "the prime essentials of wedded happi ness" bas been instituted In Boston, repo ts the New..York World. To teach - a Boston giri how to be a happy wife seems like attempting to paint the -jellly, and there is reason to suspect that the academy in question ls a form of the educational philanthropy for which the Hub is noted. A school for wives is no doubt a perfectly logical extension of the widened scope of modern education. In what school the Roman-Cornelias, the resolute matrons who embarked on the Mayflower and the millions of happy American wives of today learned the art it might be invidious to ask. But it is assumed that the school ia established in re sponse to a demind, and that being flie case it is eminently proper that it should be opened at the country's leading education ai centre. It is tine that the proportion of wives, happy or unhappy, ts smaller In Massachusetts than In any other American state and : the proportion of unmarried women larger. But this may be due merely to tn insistence on higher matrimonial Ideals. If theory and practice db not agree in Boston, that is not necessar ily the fan!* of the theory. Heard on a Street Car. Conductor (collecting fare)-This fi a bad dime, sir. Passenger (coolly)-Is that BO! Neeer mind the change, then, ? .i. w . - 3?ik ? T EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1910 NO. 26. VOL. 75. ' '^SSF; I _? . _!- " w . - 3?ik ? T EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1910 NO. 26. VOL. 75. ' '^SSF; I _? . _!- " Congressional Investigation of Charges by Senator Gore, MR. VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN Accused of Being "Interested" in . Unholy Conspiracy to Defraud the Indians Out of Many Thousands. Muskogee, Okla., Special.-What happened in the private office of United States Senator Thomas P. Gore at Washington, at noon last May 6, formed the basis of sensation al charges involving the names of Vice President Sherman, Senator Qharles S. McGuire of Oklahoma and others, in a hearing before a special Congressional investigating commit tee here Thursday. During the thirty or forty-minutes of ? conf erence held in that office, Senator Gore testbed that be had been approached by Jake L. Hainon, former chairman of the Oklahoma territorial Republican com mittee and also former chairman of the Oklahoma State Republican com mittee and ?hat he had been offered a bribe of $25,000 or $50,000 to re-, move certain legislaiton pending in Congress so that $3,000,000 might be paid to J. F.- McMurray an attorney at McAlester, Oklaj, and his asso ciates. ? . The money was,to represent "at torneys fees" of 10 per cent of $30, 000,000 which ' was to be' secured from a New York syndicate for 450, 000 acres of coal and'asphalt lands now owned by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians in this State. Vice President Sherman's name was mentioned by Mr. Hamon, Sena tor Gore testified as being interested in the land deal to the extent of fav oring the app .?val by Congress of what are k.jown as the McMurray contracts with the Indians. Congressman Greager supplemented the testimony of Senator Gore. Con gressman B. S. McGuire is brought in to scandal. The committee headed by Con gressman Charles H. Burke, of South Dakota, chairman, is composed of ; Congressman Phillip C. Campbell, of Kansas, Charles B. Miller, of Minne sota, John H. Stevens of Texas and E. W. Saunders of Virginia. Senator Gore further testified: That Hamon told him Senator Cur- | tis of Kansds was interested in the ! deal. That Hamon told him Congressman McGuire of Oklahoma was "interest- / ed" in the deal. ! That Hamon told him, an employe of the Department of Justice was : "interested" in the deal; that he j J (Senator Gore) knew the name of the \ employe, but-would not divulge, his name^ or the name; of his informant especially-4>ecause ?he latter would .lo'se his position. That former Senator Long; of Kan sasi; acting as counsel for McMurray, ] had gone to President Taft oh Apiri 28 to urge the . approval ' of the con- ^ tracts but that the' President had [ said: "It would take a good deal of argu- j ment tb convince him that the Mc- . Murray claim was justified." vice-President, Shermani, .'Senator' Curtis and Congressman McGuire | ^ have indignantly, denied the charges I j of Senator Gore. To Pay $5,000 For Lynching. Springfield, Ky., Special.-Geoi-ge ' Bohon, of Harrodsburg, has qualified * here as. administrator of Carl Eth?r inuton, the young man hanged by | mob art Newark, Ohio, on July 6\ He executed bond for $5,000. This is the < first legal step toward the recovery of , the $5,000 indemnity for which coun- . ties in Ohio are liable for every per- ] son 'lynched in their counties. The ' administrator will at once proceed to ! collect the claim. .i Bryan's Editor Withdraws. * Omaha, Neb., Special.-W. R. Pat rick, of Omaha, has announced that ] he has forwarded to the Secretary of ' State his withdrawal from the race ^ for the Gubernatorial nomination by < th> Democratic party. Mr. Patrick is an avowed advocate of county option 3 and has been supposed to have tine j backing of William J. Bryan. Postal Bank Scheme Developing. Washington, D. C., Special.-A cen tral clearing house in each State is a { feature of the Postal Savings Bank , I system adopted hy the committee of < officials that will make recommenda- ( tions to the board of trustees. For \ a long time the committee faced the c necessity of providing some method ^ for the settlement of accounts of de- \ posdtors in the postal banks that would avoid delay incident to the transmission of all such mutters to ?his city. The idea of having State central clearing houses was discuss ed at length and has been adopted as the best solution of that problem. Swindlers Will be Punished. New York, Special,-? even officers of the United Wireless Telegraph \ Company, most of whom had pre- 1 viously been arrested,;1 were ingoted 1 by the Federal grand jury Thursday on two counts-one charging con- j spiracy to defraud by (the use of the ? United States mails, the other charg- j ing conspiracy in devising a scheme j to induce investors to; buy worthless j stock. , 1 Family of Three Murdered. Santa Rosa, Cal., Special.-A gen eral alarm was sent put Thursday for the apprehension If a Japanese 1 boy, Henry Yamagach?, in the hope ( of obtaining a key toi a gruesome < triple murder enacted ion a lonely t ranch. The crime was fevealed when 1 county officers investigating the dis- 1 appearance of a family of three dis- t covered the charred bejies of Enoch 1 Kendall, Mrs. Ura Kenall, his wife t and Thomas Kendall, [heir son, in i the vard of their canoi home north < of Santa Rosa. j, S PATTERSON_MEN LOSE. Patterson's Men Defeated by Inde pendent Ticket-Outlook Gloomy. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-The In dependents elected their judicial tickets in Tennessee Thursday in one of the most exciting and hard fought political contests ever known in the State. The Independents represent in a large measure the State-wide prohi bition element of I the Democratic party which has been vigorously op posing Gov. Patterson since his mem orable campaign with the late ex Senator E. W. Carmack,for the guber national nomination. It took on added strength; when the State committee ordered a blanket primary for nomination of both judi cial and State officers. These mem bers of the supreme court, Chief Jus tice Beard and Justices Neal and Shields, and Judges Wilson and Tay lor of the. court of civil appeals re fused to enter the primary and the independent movement was on. Judges McAlister and Bell of the supreme court entered the primary and were on the regular ticket. Judge Barton of the court of civil appeals was also a nominee for supreme court. Gov. Patterson entered the lists for the regular ticket and stumped the State for it. His enemies lined up solidly with the Independents. The indorsement by the Republi can committee of the Independents was followed by a break in Repub lican ranks and 'the negro vote, it was alleged, was solidly for the reg ular ticket. Negroes were registered more freely than ever before and they paid their pdll taxes. The revolt in the Republican ranks was led by Jesse Littleton and many of the blacks followed him.ybut it seems not in the numbers that have been pre dicted. Enemies of Gov. Patterson claim that the result Thursday will have disastrous effect on hi spolitical fu ture. He is a candidate for reelection but as' yet the opposition has not shown its hand as to what steps will be taken in putting out a ticket against him.' In Democratic congressional pri maries in four districts incumbents were renominated. Savannah Sunday Almost Blotted Out .Sanvannah, Ga., Special.-Rev. W. L. Pickard, pastor of the First Baptist Church, has written Adjutant General Scott pro-testing against the use of Rose Dhue rifle range, the new mili tary range near Savannah, on Sun days. Ho says Savannah Las pander ed to "foreigners''' so much that she has almost blotted out hhe Sabbath. ; . The adjutant general bas sent the minister's letter to the Savannah mil itary officers'asking that they be gov ?rn?d as they think best about it. _ New .Orleans Firms Complain.. ?' Washington, Special-Sev?raTTSTew Orleans trading?pompanies have com plained to the State Department that,, because of the apparently ' indefinite ' policy of this government in Nicara guan affairs, steamship companies were adding 2 per cent to all charters is a war risk. -The trading compan ies complained that the extra charge interfered seriously with their com merce with eastern Nicaragua. The State Department has replied lo the companies that it can do noth ing for them and reiterates its previ-1 DUS assurances that the United Statis ?viii protect American ships and American cargoes against depreda- ' iions in Nicaraguan waters. Uncle Sam Will Pay "Tips." Washington, Special.-Government ifficials and employes who pa<v tips to ivaiters on shipboard as well as gratu ities to other servants on boats may charge the expense up to the govern ment under a ruling of the Comptrol ler of the Treasury. _ / "All Boys Thieve3 at Certain Age." Amherst, Mass., Special. - That morality in country places is higher :han ever before is the decision reach id by the National Conference of Dun ty Clergymen, which was in ses-; ?ion here. Aereport of an epidemic of tbiev-! ng among boys in Cape Cod, given by me of the clergymen, led Dr. Wilson ;o declare that "all boys are thieves . it a certain age." Necessaries cf Life Decreasing. Washington, Special. - Consider- . ?ble shrinkage in the commercial sup- ? I >ly of some of the prime necessaries '. >f life is indicated by the movements- 1 >f live stock and meat products in ; ;he United States during the first half < )f the present year. This decline vas shown bofh-in domestic and in < foreign commerce. j The shortage in the commercial i ?apply of live stock is best shown by ? i comparison of the half yearly fig ires, which totalled 16,463,756 head i 'or the first six months of 1910, as i ?ompared with more than 20,000,000 n the same period last year Public Drinking Cups Dangerous. Atlanta, Georgia, Special. - ] Having for its purpose the pre- ] mention of the spreading of disease i .brough the fcse of common drinking i ..ups, a bill was introduced in the i }eorgia House making it unlawful for ? ?ailroad companies, proprietors of < lo'teis, office buildings, factories, i ?tores, etc., to furnish common drink- i ng cups for the UM of passengers, < jatrons or the publi? generally. Pun- ? ? .shment for violation is provided fori : is in cases of misdemeanor. Great Parade Knights of Pythias. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Special. At Milwaukee twenty brigades of knights of Pythias paraded the prin lipal streets, the feature bf the sec >nd dav of the grand encampment of ;he Uniform Rank. At night a ?ythian reception, for the Supreme 'jodge, the Supreme Temple, the Sis ers and all members was given at ?Vhite Fish Bay. The following day here was more competitive drills and *. mother big parade, made up of sub ?rdinate lodges and the Pythian ! Sisters. > Gucrd and Protect Interests of American People. CAUGHT MANY CROOKS IN 1909. Gigantic Swindles Uncovered by Uncle Sam's Sleuth-Hounds--Post office Detectives on the Alert. Washington, -Special.-If the .in spector's division of the Postoffice De partment keeps up thc good work it has done this year in smothering the operations and bringing to justice of the crooks who use the mails as a convenient medium to fleece the guile less, 1910 will be a banner year for it. From small beginnings of several years ago, this arm of the postal ser vice has grown to be one of 'the:most important in the government. Here tofore its opsrations have been con fined for the most part to the sup-, ?pression of the small swindler, but in recent months it has turned its energies to bigger game. Last spring it unearthed the big frauds in the United Wireless Tele graph Company, through which hun dreds were being' swindled, and biought the offenders info camp. Last week it opened its batteries on ?he firm of Steele, Miller & Co., a concern conducting a gigantic fraud in the cotton business with headquarters at Corinth, Miss., and branch offices- in various parts of the South and Eu rope, and is rapidly gathering in the crooks responsible. Just how much these gentlemen have realized from | their operations it is at present im possible to say, but their loot will run i into the millions. Col. Roosevelt Among Poor People. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Special.-Theo dore Roosevelt traveled for 150 miles Wednesday among the mining villages ir the Wyoming valley. He mingled with people in ell stations of life. The colonel had the same smile for them all. He said his chief delight, however, was in meeting the wage earners. An incident which was typical of the day's' happenings occurred at Wyoming, a mining hamlet/ a few miles above Wilkssbarre. An old Irish woman stepped rp to him and thrusting out her, hand . exclaimed, "Hello, Teddy. You're looking' foine." The former President grin ned with delight and said he was' glad to see her. "jYou 're looking fine, too," he said. ".Yes, "indeed," said she. "I'm strong as ye are and you're a foine lump.'-' ' ' _ Standard Cotton Samples. Washington, Special.--Sample boxes J of Government standard cotton sam- ( pies; which comprise nine grades, J are. being sent out by the depart- ( ment of agriculture. The standards have been adopted by the Memphis Cotton Exchange and have been ap- i pjoved. and probably will be adopted by the New York and New Orleans exchanges. The trade recognized a grade be- v tween each of those adopted by the i Government and three grades above t and three below the Government r scale. The original standard samples 1 have been placed by ?he' department y of agriculture in vacuum tubes, so I that .they will neither deteriorate or change color. i ' Meeting American Bar Association. ? Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.-The c 33d annual meeting of the American I Bar Association will be held here/on t Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, ? August 30 and 31, and September ?, ? 1910. c 80, She Whitewashed Barn Rising Sun, Md., Special-Cecil county is proud of two old "young" ^ women-Mrs. Sarah Tice, of Lam bard, who is 80 years old and who has just completed the whitewashing of n her barn, and who can pick potatoes s with any man, and Mrs. Amelia Ann ( Fulton, of Oakwood, whi is two years Dider and who, without the aid of e piesses, averages the making of a bed ? comfort a month. Arranges Funeral Before Death. LaFayette, Ind., Special.-Lying on bis death bed at bis cottage on Battle Sirouud camp meeting grounds, the Rev. D. M. Wood, one of the best known ministers o:c the Methodist Episcopal church, in Indiana, has ?ompleted arrangements for funeral. He bas selected his pallbearers, even the hymns he wishes sung, the text for the funeral sermon and the clergymen he desires to conduct the services. Rev. Mr. Wood has been critically ill for several days and realizes he must die. Great Interest in Postal Banks. Washington, Special.-'The First National bank of Tarboro. N. C., sup plied to the Postmaster General Sat urday to be made a depotiory of funds under the recent postal savings ict. Thus far there have been applications from 923 banks through out the country to be made depositar ies of these postal savings ^funds and requests from 390 postmasters for the establishment of savings departments it their offices. FIME m GO TO EARLING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. HARL/flG Ai The Farmer? I EXPRESS RATES QUERY. Commercial 'Organizations Want Rev enues and Charges investigated. Chicago, Special.-Filing of a, peti tion -with the interstate commerce , commission at Washington Saturday asking that body to investigate the < charges and net revenues of express companies, disclosed a well planned fight to be waged by commercial or ganizations throughout the country. The pafcition i's signed by 124 associa tions of commerce and commercial clubs, who want a considerable re daction in express rates. Indirectly the attack on the ex press charges hits at railroad revenues as a portion of the complaint is based upon the contracts entered into between the railroads and the ex press companies doing business over their lines. This movement against the express companies'was started bythe Chicago Association of Commerce and the i. New York Merchants association. . --- ' Dr. Crippen Has Friends. Quebec, Can., Special.-Dr. Hawley H. Crippen has friends in London who believe he did not slay hislwife, Belle Elmore, and tt|ey are willing to pay for a lawyer to defend 1 n when he is tried there for murder. He receiv ed proof of this when i his jailer handed him the following cablegram from a London solicitor: "Dr. H. H. Crippen, care of .In spector Dew, Quebec. "Your friends desire me tb de-, fend you and will pay all necessary expenses. Will undertake your de fense, but you must promise to keep . absolutely silent and answer no ques tions and don't resist extradition. (Signed) "Arthur Newton, Solicitor, London." As the case now stands the only evidence in the hands of the police < that may be construed as hostile to - Crippen is the discovery of th? dia mond rings and the brooch the police took from him on the steamer. These they say, belonged to his wife. Insurgents Big Victory in Kansas. Topeka, Kan., Special.-Cannon policies and "stand pattism" were re pudiated by the Republicans, of Kan sas Wednesday. N "The significance of the over-1 whelming victory is two-fold. "First: It is a complete repudia tion of both Cannon and the system ry which he has robbed the people 3f free government in the House. Scott, Miller and Reeder, were chair nen of important House committees, ?vhile Calderhead. was on the ways ind means committee. All were beat m because they subscribed to the bannon system. ''' Second : The - Kansas insurgent rictory is an effort by the Republicans )f Kansas, to say.'.with emphasis to. the nation that the Republican party if rKansas', by endorsing . Governor . Stubbs:and the Kansas insurgents ia Congress, ^stands for immediate and iffective legislation framed to drive ?pecial and selfish interests out of :ontrol in'American politics." Esperanto at Baseball. Washington? Special.-"-Tri Frap- :. uno " is ' he cry that will ring out from . i baseball umpire's lips for the first ;ime in tho history of the American ?ational game on the afternoon of Thursday, August 18, when .the . wishingion ' and Cleveland American league teams meei here. The words are Esperanto *for 'three strikes." They will be used o indicate "batter out" on the af erndon in question because the ,1,000 ir more delegates to the International; Esperanto Congress in session here hat week "Will be present at the jame. For many of the foreign dele-, rates it will be the first time , they ?ver witnessed a baseball match. Congressmen "Small Potatoes." Ironton, G., Special-Declaring lis disguest because it was necessary 'to bow and scrape to all the powers., ip to the President,^' to obtain the . lightest concession at Washington, Congressman A. R. Johnson has reit rated his intention to quit Congress, ohnson has served one term and was ecently nominated for a second. "Peeping Tom" Got His. Chicago, Special.-During a special rip from Duluth to Gary, Ind., with ve young women relatives of officers ?f the United States Steel Corpora ion on board, the crew of the, ore teamer Douglas Houghton mutinied .rid?y off the Chicago harbor, and it ook Captain John Parke one hour rith .a revolver to quell the' mutin^**N^j ers. It is said that the mutiny stari d because a deck hand had been ocked in the ship's brig for peeping hrough a cabin window at the wo- . len passengers. OldesAperator Dead. Nashville. Tenn., Special.-J. B. Vatt, aged 62 years, died at his home ere Thursday. 'Mr. Watt was one of' he oldest telegraph operators in oint of service in the country, hav ig served over 45 years in the busir ess. He had the distinction of hav-. ig taken the messages announcing lie assassination of Lincoln, Garfield nd McKinley. For many years bc ras Associated Press operator in the ianner office, this city, but severaH lonths ago was retired on tension. 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