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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1903. The Swjwter fFato/itnan was toundec is 185? and the True Southron in 1866. Tie FTcte&naa anc? Southron now has she combined circulation and influence ?f both of the old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium in Ssmter. Adverting once more to the matter o a site lor the new high school build ing and the existing difference of opinion, as to the proper location of the building, between the city school board and the Daughters of the Con fderacy, it occurs to us that, when all the circumstances are considered, the Daughters of the Confedercay are somewhat inconsiderate and arbitrary in their peremptory refusal to consider the plan of the school board to erect the high schol* building in the North ern half of the Graded School square. Apart from the fact that the square is the most centrally located site avail able and that no other location would be so convenient for purposes of super vision by the Superintendent, in con? nacticn with the the other schools, there is another fact that the Daugh ters of the Confederacy appear to ignore entirely in the exercise of the >wer vested in them as the holders of le title in fee simple to the Graded :hool square. Unless we have been mislead by unreliable statements, the j land now known as the Graded School square was originally "set apart and consecrated to school purposes, and a of gift made to trustees to be jld by them in] trust for the com munity for so long as the land should be devoted to school purposes. The Daughters of the Confederacy became of the title of this land as le result of a peculiar combination of circumstances, and are at present owners merely by courtesy. Therefore, re are puzzlec?to understand the at titude thoy have assumsd. We are not unmindful of the fact that the Daughters of Confederacy .have fallen heirs to the trust assumed by the j?onument Association to care for and protect thet monumental to the ~ Confederate dead of Samter District that stands on the square, but we are at a loss to understand how anyone can take the postiion that the erection of a high school building on the vacant portion of the square will be detri mental to the monument To the con xary, some few years observation teaches that the square has been better vcared for and has uniform!ly present *sd a -more sightly appearance since the -erection of ?he Graded Sciaool build ing on the Southern half than it ever presented before; and we are con vied that the utilization of the Northern half for a high school building would be an improvement, rather than a detriment And, furthermore, what ^ more effective way can be conceived ? of for teaching reverence for the ? memory of the heroic Confederate dead than to have constantly within the view of school childen the monument erected in honor of the men who wore the grey? "The Samter Item either has a short memory or hopes that congress has. That paper laments the fact that South Carolina does not appear on the public omnibus bill now on its passage, and urges the representatives from this state to be up and doing. Last year we were so generously re presented in that bill with three buildings, that we were the envy and the butt of every state in the union; now the Item thinks that we are not getting our share! Probably our Sum ter contemporary thinks that so long ' as Sumter was left out the state is still short of part of her dues. In that we will quite agree with her. If Spartan burg, Bock Hill, Charleston, Colum bia, Greenville, Georgetown, Beaufort and Florence are to have public build ings Sumter ought to have one too, and we will also have to agree with - Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens and Orangeburg, Aiken and Darlington, that they too ought to come in on a deal. We will not havo onr dues until we get ali that we want."?Florence "Times. Our Florence friend should not re hash old stories. What Florence se cured as a result of last year's public building raid on the treasury has nothing whatever to do with the pre sent matter. It is a fact that South Carolina gets no appropriation for a public building this year; and it is also a fact that Sumter is entitled to -one, and we want it as soon as possible, next year, for instance. The less said about Florence, Spartanburg, Char leston, Columbia and other villages having already captured more than South Carolina's share of public build ing booty, the better pleased we shall be. Sumter does not envy her neigh bors, nor covet the buildings they have secured, but we are determined to get one of oar own and are hot on the trail already. Watch that omnibus public building bill at the next ses sion of Congress! Daily Item, Feb. 19. If the Daughters of the Confederacy persist in their refusal to permit the high school building to be erected on the Graded Schol square?which was granted by the original owner of the land for school purposes?the school board will be forced to expend a thou sand or two dollars of school money in the purchase of a lot for the building, which sum the schools can ill afford to spare for such purpose, at a time when every dollar is needed for the ordinary running expenses of the system. There are now quite a num ber of improvements that the school board would authorize the Superinten dent to make, if the funds were avail able, but the actual expenses of the schools a-e just about equal to the income from all sources, even though the strictest economy is exercised. In these circumstances it will be a hardship to force the school board to expend a thousand or more dollars for a lot that will not be as suitable in any respect, nor as centrally located or as convenient as the Graded School square. If there were any vital prin ciple at stake, the stand taken by the custodians of the square?for the Daughters of the Confederacy are merely custodians, as successors to the trustees who originally held the property in trust for school pnrpsoes? would be more easily understood; but, as the matter stands, very few tax payers do understand what the cus I todians of the property are driving at, f or what good end they expect to ! achieve by preventing the erection of the high school building on the most suitable site in the city. We are rea sonable, and amenable to reason and sound argument, and, if there are good and sufficient grounds for the attitude the Daughters of the Con federacy have assumed, we would not be difficult to convince of our error, if we could be brought to see the matter from that point of view; but up to the present writing we have never heard a single good reason for denying the request of the school board. Daily Item, Feb. 20. When the school board proposed ten or twelve years ago, to erect the grad ed school building on the southern half of the old academy green, otherwise known as the Monumental square, there was a vigorous protest registered against the plan by a number of the members of the Monument Associa tion, but after mature consideration and reasoning together, this objection was overcome, and the handsome building that now adorns the square was raised, as fitting a testimony of the city's hope for the future as the granite shaft that stands in the center of the square is a memorial of our people's reverence for the past. There is nothing repellent or incongruous in the idea of having the monument to the Confederate soldiers, who died in battle, flanked on either side by^ a handsome school building in which the discecdants of those soldiers shall be educated and fitted for their life work. If it were proposed to convert the square into a wagon-yard, a site for a tobacco warehouse, a cotton plat form or some manufactory we would be the last person to favor it; but a high school building is different al together, and for the life of us we can not see a reasonable objection to the plan of the school board. The erection of another building on the square will improve its apearance rather than disfigure it, and while no interest will be in anywise injured the commu nity at large will be benefitted, and the schools can be more efficiently managed by having tho primary school and the high school near together and centrally located with respect to school popula tion of the city. If the city continues to grow as it has during the past few years the time will come when one or more additional primary and grammar schools will be needed, and it will then be both rational and advantage ous to locate the buildings in other sec tions of the city. Bnt the only proper location for a high school building is a central point and near the principal primary and grammar school building. That the northern half of the Graded School square fulfills these require ments perfectly, no one can success fully gainsay. The "Facts" furnished by "A Daughter of the Confederacy" are in teresting in that the position of the organization is disclosed by this state ment and that the public . is for the first time given some of the reasons actuating the refusal of the request of the school board. Facts are always stubborn things, but in this instance we cannot see that the facts set forth ! furnish satisfactory grounds for the 1 refusal of the Daughters of the Con federacy to permit the erection of the high school building on the square. The school board does not think so, nor do a great many others, and the school board was doubtless fully ac quainted with these facts prior to mak ing the request.?Item, Feb. 21. The construction of the proposed Lexington, Columbia, Camden and Sumter electric railway would be a splendid thing for Sumter, and all of the other towns it touches, but the greatest benefit will accrue to the country districts it traverses. Lands would be enchanced in value, the coun try would be far more thickly settled, farming would be more diversified and in time the entire region adjacent to the trolley line would be like one continuous village with towns contain ing, churches, school houses and post office at near intervals. The electric line would be an inestimable blessing to this section of the State, and we shall hail the day that marks the con summation of the undertaking. There are persistent rumors that the Seaboard Air Line officials have now decided to build fromMcBee, a station on the main line in Chesterfield coun ty, to Charleston, the road passing through this city. There are reasons for believing that the rumors are founded on fact. The Seaboard is now engaged in building a road from Mc Bee, northward to Monroe, N. C, where it will tap another road owned I by the Seaboard system. This new road has been completed to Jefferson near the state line, more than half the distance to Monroe. An air line from Monroe to Charleston passes through McBee and Sumter, and if the road should be extended from Monroe, in a northwesterly direction, it would furnish the shortest route from the coal fields of Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia to the South Atlantic Coast. This is a day of big undertak ings in the railroad world and as the Seaboard is the most progressive and aggressive system in the south, and is constantly reaching out into new fields, no one need be surprised if the long talked of direct short line from Charleston to the middle west should be created by the building of the few missing links by the Seaboard Air Line. Sumter needs the Seaboard Air Line, and Charleston needs it even worse than we do, and it is to be hoped that the rumors are based on facts and that the road will be built soon, the sooner the better. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFED ERACY. Item Editorial, Feb. 18th, 1903. ' 'Unless we have been misled by un reliable statements, the land now known as the Graded School square was originally set apart and conse crated to school purposes, and a deed of gift made to trustees to be held by them in trust for the community for so long as the land should be devoted to school purposes. The Daughters of the Confederacy became possessed of the title of this land as the result of a peculiar combination of circum stances, and are at present owners merely by courtesy." Item Editorial, Feb. 19th, 1903. "If the Daughters of the Confederacy persist in their refusal to permit the high school building to be erected on the Graded School square, which was granted by the original owner of the land for school purposes. for the Daughters of the Confederacy are merely custodians, as successors to the trustees who originally held the property in trust for school purposes.'' "A Daughter of the Confederacy," Item Feb. 20th, 1903. "The northern portion of the Monumental Square, . . was never dedicated to educa-. tional purposes, but was purchased by James D. Blanding, E. C. Green and W. .F. B. Haynsworth, as trustees for the Ladies Memorial Association, * being conveyed to them by James L Coghlan, Sheriff, under foreclosure proceedings," etc. Item Editorial, Feb. 21st, 1903. "The school board was doubtless fully acquainted with these facts prior to making the request." Regarding the Item as the mouth piece of the school board, we leave the public to draw their own conclusions, as to the contradiction between the first and second and the last editorials. * This should have been the Monu mental Association. Daughters of the Confederacy. Editorial in Item Feb. 23. The Daughters of the Confederacy should not jump at conclusion, particularly when it comes to "regard ing the Item as the mouthpiece" of anything or anybody save the editor himself. There has been no contradic tion in the statements made in the Item, save in respect to the manner in which the Daughters of the Confeder acy obtained control of the Northern portion of the Square, and that was due to misinformation. Perhaps the Item would not have fallen into e'rror in this respect, had it been the month piece of the school board, for it is the business of the board to know the ex act status of the title to the square: and, as a fact, we have ascertained that the board was fully conversant with the " facts'' that'' One Daughter of the Confederacy" dug out of the re cords, prior to making the request that: the custodians of the square grant per misison for the erection of the high school building on the Northern half of the Graded School Square. Not withstanding;this side-issue and quib bling as to the legal title to the square, it is a fact that the square is the most suitable location for the high school building, as the board says it is. Senator Tillman's Speech. Washington, D. C, February 23.? After nearly a month of waiting Sena tor Tillman was able to get recognition this afternoon for his speech upon Southern conditions based upon the race question. As the postoffice appro priation bill was under consideration, the South Carolina Senator confined his remarks almost exclusively to the Indianola case. In his opening state ment he said he would surprise his friends and perhaps disappoint his ene mies, if he had any, by being calm and dispassionate in his remarks. And he did disappoint them, because he made a legal argument, free from the bitterness that has characterized most of his utterances on this line. He made ony passing reference to Senator Hanna's slave pension bill, which j seemed to please the Ohio Senator, I who evidently thought he might be i held up as a target for attack. He ar gued that the action of President Roosevelt in closing the Indianola postoffice was violative of every idea of Anglo-Saxon justice, because it was punishment of the innocent for the deeds of others. He showed that there is law on the statute books providing for punishment by fines of those guilty of the charges he had made against some of the people of Indianola, and that it was the duty of the President to have proceeded under the law, in stead of resorting to the revolution ary tactics of closing the office. Coaling Stations in Cuba. j Washington, Feb. 24.?President Roosevelt has signed the agreement drawn under the terms of the Platt amendment providing for the acquisi tion by the United States of a naval station at Guantanamo and a coaling station at Bahia Honda, both in Cuba. The document had been previously signed by President Palma and was brought to Washington by Minister Squiers. With these two places proper ly fortified as naval bases the Gulf of Mexico would not be possible of occu pation by a hostile fleet and the Caribbean sea would be unsafe for an enemy. Guatanamo as a naval station will be the more important of the two bases and within a short time there will be erected extensive coal docks and per haps a short line of railroad will con nect the port with the backbone rail road already finished by private enter prise. Bahia Honda will for some time probably be used simply as a place for the storage of coal. The Venezuelan Arbitration. -/ Washington, Feb. 24.?Mr. Bo wen, the Venezuelan plenipotentiary, has proposed to the allied powers that the czar of Rnssia be asked to name the three arbitrators who, as The Hague tribunal, shall decide the question of preferential treatment. The suggest ion has been approved by the State de partment. Mr. Bowen today submitted to the allies' representatives' copies of the proposed protocols submitting the Venezuelan case to The Hague tribu nal. / The Bubonic Plague. Mazatlan, Mexico, Feb. 24.?There was one death from the plague today and that at the lazaretto. Four soldiers of the Eleventh infan try have been removed to the observa tion station, they having shown symp toms of the plague. Signs have been placed in some of the business houses notifying the peo ple that handshaking is stopped during the prevalence of the plague. There will be no carnival here this year. Government Must Pay $10,000. Washington, February 2.?Justice Brewer has delivered the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs. Ar thur Lynah, holding that in cases in which the property of private individu als is destroyed through Government improvements the owners are entitled to recover damages. Lynah and Williams are the owners of rice planta tions on the Savannah River, which, it is claimed, have been ruined by flooding on account of the construc tion of a dam by the Government. They brought suit in the Federal Court of South Carolina and were awarded 810,000. Today's opinion affirms the opinion of the South Carolina Court. The Court held the destruction of the land to be equivalent to taking it for the purpose of making improve ment. The Chief Justice and Jus tices Harlan and White united in a dissenting opinion, which was deliver ed by the last named. Charlotte, sTc., Feb. 23.?Arthur Bishop, charged with the murder of Thomas Wilson in this city last Octo ber., and who was yesterday convicted of manslaughter, was today sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary at hard labor. HiNDlPO RESTORES V1TA?TI Made a Well Man of Me. ?3REAT .? _ TRENCH REMEDY produces the above result J> in 30 days. Cures Nervous Debility. Jmpotency. Varicocele, Failing Memory. Stops all drains ana Josses caused by errcrs of youth. It wards off In sanity and Consumption. Young Men regain Man hood and Old Men recover Youthful Vigor. It gives vigor and size to shrunken organs, and fits a man for business or marriage. Easily carried in the vest pocket. 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