The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 03, 1904, Image 3
f am??| Ofcservatfoss ay Hagaod.
Kow Mr. Editor, I do not mean to
brag ia what I have said and no one
will accuse me of it except so axe "poor
poke of moonshine." I was reared on
the farms and like its life, the best,
v the most independent in the world.
Who so grand and noble es the honest,
hard working, painstaking fanner? He
is the hone and sinew of all good gov
v ?nment. ?nt every farmer yon see is
?ot of this kind. There is "Ouffie"
* for instance, (? do ?o? mean to abuse
? kim) the man *n the moon has as
mach business farming as the average
negro. I have seen acme patches that
^ booked like negro patches, bnt they
were not. ? have known a fellow, a
< ^'buckra" i? yon please, who had a
house spot that nearly had a path
around i% ice walked about it so
,? much, bat in all his walking he never
once thong ht that he could make his
whole farm look lifce that What sort
of man was he?
Bo you suppose his kind originated
4 that saying about the "early bird?*'
He never originated anything but some
plan to keep ont cf work, fife is
: tho man that hires "come" to work,
ifcen if he is able hires another man
.io watch him. After going it at this
sate a few years, with the air of one
who knows something, he gets up and
^^ays "It don't pay to farm."
A lot of such folks are moving to
town ostensibly to educate their chii
??ren. We can educate in the"country
Vj >if we will, so don't leave'"?he farm,
.but stay on it and woitk. ? make this
assertion : - If the farmer would work
like the other professions, from day?
light till dark, with head and hands,
^ from year's end to year's end, he
would succeed, but he don't do it.
? know a fellow on a little sand hill
farm, sand underscored, all his own
that had money in the bank and plenty
at home, while his neighbors on far
superior land were mortgaged for all
?* they were worth. By way of parenthe?
sis he was a cork-legged vet. When
I asked him for an explanation he said,
"When,'the other fellows are at the
crossroads stores cutting sticks and
* talking politics, I am at work on the
farm, raking surf or doing something
else. I never find time to r lay by. '
"Brother, don't buy all your fertili?
zer : make as much aa you can at home,
" and you can make a lot if you go at
it right I don't ?know everything, j
you may know much more, but if you
don't put it into practice what will
it amount tc. Get:up and go to work
yourself, fertilize your lands judi
ciously, experiments little and your
farm will become your Eden. Don't
let your fertilizer cost you too much,
but don't be afraid to use it, but use
common sense too. AU plants are not
fertilized alike and different soils re
i quire different fertilizer for the same
plant. Above ail things take an agri?
cultural paper or one with a page
, devoted to the farm. Well, you have
been very quiet while I was unload?
ing, and I thank you for your atten?
tion. Wishing you D. V., the most
favorable seasons and the finest of
crops and prices I bid yon farewell.
Hagood.
Hagood, S. G., Feb. 1,
Lever Working for Sumter.
Washington, Feb. 2.-In spite of
the discouraging conditions Kepre
! senttive Lever is making a persistent
?ffort to acquaint the committee on
public buildings and grounds with all
the good reasons wby the flourishing
city of Sumter should have a public
building at the earliest practical
moment. In support of the bill he
k introduced at the beginning of the
session he has filed with the committee
a comprehensive statement of the com?
mercial and railroad importance of
?Sumter, in addition to general sum?
mary of the urgent need for a Federal
building in that city,
Washington, Feb. 2.-It is the gen
?em?Lexpectasion in administration cir?
cles that the Panama treaty will be
ratified about the middle of the pres?
es t mouth, and in anticipation of that
?e*eat-Secretary Shaw soon will take
steps looking to a recall of a portion
of the public funds now io the hands
of national bank depositories. .Just
what percentage of these publie de?
posits viii be called for has o<5t yet
been definitely determined, but there
is reason to believe that it will ap?
proximate M per cent, or $30,OOO,COO. i
Washington, Feb. 2.-By a unani?
mous vote agreeing to the resolution
amending the rules of the house to?
day, the resident commissioner to
congress from Puerto Rico was given
additional authority in all essential
respects to that of a delegate from a
territory, the action not requiring the
concurrence of the senate.
?man WHIM i -
London, Feb. 2.- King Edward
oj>eoed parliament today with all the 1
ceremonial that has been in vogue '
since his accession to the throne. ?
None of the familiar outdoor features 1
was lacking. The weather conditions, j
however, were too depressing to per- j
mit of much enthusiasm.
It is announced that Thomas Nelson
Page, the aathor, is, in the near
future, to establish a tech nica F school
in Hanover county, "Va., the county of
his birth. The plan is to teach young
men and girls the different manuel
callings, such as carpentering, me
c basics, cooking* sewing, eta
A REMARKABLE ECHO
WONDERFUL SOUND EFFECTS IN A
NEW YOKK MONUMENT.
Tke Famous Ba ptistery at Pisa Out?
done by the Soldiers' Shaft on Riv?
erside Drive, Where Sound Rolls
About Like st IBall.
A big French motor car occupied by
two men and two very pretty women
whirred up Riverside drive late Sun?
day evening and at Ninetieth street
drew up and stopped at the approach
to the Soldiers and Sailors' monument.
It was long past the hour when the
crowd of fashionable promenaders
leaves the drive as the party of four
stepped out of the big, vibrating ma?
chine and climt>ed the steps to the
monument.
One of the men was a millionaire
well known in the financial -district.
The other was a great tenor. With
them were the millionaire's wife and a
woman known in half a dozen Euro?
pean capitals as one of the greatest
operatic coaches living-a woman who
is a constant attendant upon operatic
stars and a sharer in no small -degree
in their musical triumphs.
If it had been made during a Sunday
or a weekday af ternoon, a crowd of
fashionable folk would "undoubtedly
have had their curiosity piqued by the
peculiar visit of four such well known
people. The whole affair was so bi?
zarre and the sounds which soon issued
from the narrow entrance to the glis?
tening white monument were so
strange that at any brut a late night
hour a crowd must have quickly filled
the plaza around the marble shaft. A
desire to escape any such annoying in?
cidents probably led the visitors to
choose the nighttime for their visit.
"The average American is a consum?
mate ass," said the New Yorker as he
guided the small party up the moon?
lit steps to the monument. "He travels
to the utmost ;parts of the world,
spends barrels <of money and generally
writes a book or two describing the
marvelous things he sees, when by re?
maining right ?it liome he could have
seen sights of a similar kind which
would ^ba ve knocked the spots off the
things on which he has wasted Ms
patrimony aa? ^paragraphs of superla?
tives."
. "But echoes, signor," replied the ten?
or as he grasped the Wall street man's
arm. "Echoes such as we have in the
baptistery! Never-except in the old
cathedrals^'Italy!"
"That's just what Americans say,"
retorted the New York man. "They go
into ecstatic raptures over European
mediocrity without knowing that they
live among the greatest collection of
marvels in the wror3d. Listen to this."
The party had reached the door lead?
ing to the interior of the monument.
A solid cylindrical wall of marble and
granite surrounded a slender room
empty save for a half dozen dried
wreaths lying on one corner of the
stone floor. When the whole party had
wormed its way into the monument,
the Wall street ?nan bade them be
very still and with upturned face in?
toned a low note. An echo was he<vrd
which rivaled those marvelous re?
verberations wliich iiave drawn travel?
ers to distant part? of the world and
have been the subjects of brilliant de?
scriptions in the daily press and be?
tween covers. The note seemed instant?
ly transformed into a moving ball of
; sound. Its journey to the distant stone
ceiling could be distinctly traced. It
seemed to be wafted upward like a j
ring of smoke or a cottony dandelion
seed. The sound decreased until the
note seemed ie strike the small, high
ceiling, where it lingered a moment be?
fore ?-ommewrag its downward trip.
Gradually increasing in loudness, it
came back to the floor of the monu?
ment, apparently as loud and as intact
as wheu it was uttered. The whole
wonderful incident occupied only a
few seconds, but every stage of the
sound's trip tc* the top of the monu?
ment and back was as pronounced and
as easily traced as though it had been
a butterfly or a toy balloon.
"Magnificent!" exclaimed the tenor in
tones of rapture and surprise. "I never
dreamed such a marvelous echo existed
outside the baptistery at Pisa."
Ills voice made a perfect riot of
sound within the narrow shaft. Count?
less tones going and -coming in rapid
succession produced an effect almost
painful upon the ears ol' the listeners.
At the request of one of the women
the tenor sang very slowly and softly
a few phrases of "La lioisna e Mobile."
The effect was peculiarly beautiful.
Two meu seemed to be siinxtng, one a
half l>eat behind the other. As in the
Wall street man's experiment, each
note could be heard distinctly soaring
aloft to the ceiling and back. At the
return of each note in its original vigor
and fullness the effect of a second
singer was produced. The union of
the bell-like toues of the beautiful
voice, the wonderful echo and the pe?
culiar strangeness of the whole situa?
tion brought crie^ of delight from tlae
two women.
"I believe it is as flue as the one ia
Pisa." said the woman who coaches j
winja donnas, "and to think that we
??ever even heard of it before!"
."Peculiar fact." said the New Yorker,
striking a match and illuminating the
dark, cold interior. "New Yorkers
never know anything about New York.
Yon can't sit down in a hotel lobby or
lu a club and speak of echoes but a
dozen men will commence to dilate on
some reverberations they have heard
in some backwoods German or Italian
town. Hut none of them knows of any?
thing remarkable in Iiis own town,
the greatest city on earth."-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
For Ali the Lives.
Say." began the determined looking
man, "? want a good revolver."
"Yes. sir," said the salesman, "a ?ix
shooter?'
"Why-er-you'd better make it a
nine shooter. 1 wa ut to use it on a cat
?ext door."-Philadelphia Prosa
'Jr. .. .7. 3^1^ ^*'
WASTED INDUSTRY.
A Moase Task That Pa?ed Because
of a Lack of Ingenuity.
A number of white footed mice
which I hud in captivity, says a writer
in Country Life In America, escaped
from their cage to a cupboard in the
kitchen, and thence through a hole in
the plaster and between the laths to the
walis of the house. Every night they
came out fer food. One evening I saw
a mouse come out of the cupboard.
He found a hickory' out on the floor
and attempted to carry it up the wall
twelve inches to the hole in the plaster,
but, alas, the crack between the laths
was too narrow, and after fumbling
with his burden for a minute or two
he dropped it to the floor. Next he
tried to push it in ahead of him, and,
failing in that, he went in himself,
turned round and attempted to pull it
in after him. Occasionally it would
slip out of his paws and roll upon the
kitchen floor, and then out he would
some and repeat the wnole perform?
ance. He tried it again and again, but
with no better success. He kept at it
until far into the night, and when I
awoke at 7 o'clock the next morning
the first thing that I heard was that
mouse or another one fumbling and
dropping the hickory nut.
Since then I have kept them well
supplied with nuts, and, although they
still spend hours in carrying them to
the crack in the laths and betting them
fall, they are always forced in the end
to eat them in the cupboard. There is
plainly a lack of ingenuity, because ten
minutes' gnawing would have solved
the problem. Had the aperture in
either case been too narrow7 to admit
themselves they would have quickly
widened it with their teeth, but to ap?
ply the same principle to get the nut
through seemed to be a piece of rea?
soning entirely beyond them.
HISTORY OF THE COACH.
The First of These Vehicles Was
Built In 1457.
As popular as coaching is in some
parts of the country, but little reliable
information has ever appeared in the
public press respecting its history and
development. At the town of Kotze, in
Hungary, in 1457, the first coach was
constructed. This was soon afterward
presented to Charles VII. at Paris. The
first authentic record of a stagecoach
In England shows that six of such
vehicles were in use there In 1662. So
popular did they become in that coun?
try that a few years later they were in
general use on all the principal roads
of the kingdom.
Steam railways have to a large ex?
tent done away with the use of the
coach as a link in the commercial chain,
but as a means of furnishing the high?
est type of recreation the coach and
four is as popular today in the British
empire and in France as it was when
this was practically the only means of
locomotion in those countries.
Stagecoachmg in America was al?
most coextensive with the settlement
of the colonies, and ia the early history
of the country there were few if any
places of any importance thst dkl not
welcome the sound of the coachman's
horn as one of the fascinating incidents
of pioneer life. As civilization pushed
itself westward the stagecoach was
ever in the lead of those agencies which
blazed its pathway. These vehicles, as
well as their equipments, were com?
paratively crude in their construction
and unpretentious ia their appoint?
ments.- but they admirably served the
purpose for which they were intended
and laid the foundation for the popu?
larity of coaching as a pleasurable pas?
time developed in later years.
Coaching parties had been popular in
England and France for several gener?
ations before they were introduced in
this country, yet the sport is so whole?
some and enjoyable that it eannct be
doubted that hi time it will become as
popular here as it is across the Atlan?
tic-Illustrated Sporting News.
Zola and Dreyfus' Boole
Thc editor of a Paris paper, recalling
what Zola had done for Dreyfus, called
upon the novelist to have him review
the unfortunate captain's book, the his?
tory of his- troubles. The visitor found
him at the big table in his library, do?
ing his day's work. "Review Captain
Dreyfus' book!" he repeated when the
proposition was made to him. He got
up and ambled round the table-a short
man, with a stomach and no presence
-grunting at intervals. Finally he
said: "Why should I review his book?
He never even read mine.'*
The Bi?Ker the Better.
A Scottish parish minister was one
day talking io one of his parishioners,
who ventured the opinion that minis?
ters ought to be better paid.
'T am glad to hear you say that,"
said the minister. "I am pleased that
yon think so much of the clergy. And
so you think we should have bigger
8tipeuds?"
"Aye," said the old man. "Ye see,
we'd get a better class o' men."
Thc Retort I'n ex peet ed.
."Tes," she said with sarcastic bit?
terness. "I believe it is true that a man
is known before marriage by the com?
pany he keeps."
"Xo doubt." he smilingly replied. "I
remember that I kept company with
you for fully four ?ears."-Minneapolis
Times.
She Shut.
A story is told <.r Count SchouvalofT,
a former Russian ambassador to Hug
lund. Ke grwttly admired Englishwo?
men and was heartily aunoyed when
he offended any one of Ihem. While
he was in Loudon he learned English.
?nd, having beard one famous English
beauly say -Shut u}>:" to another, bc
imagined it to ?>e a phrase of polite
agreement, such as "Say no more." In
this sense be himself addressed it to
an Illustrious lady the uext night at :
dinner, to the lady's consternation, and
his own whew later he discovered his
mistake.
THEY LOVED CHILDREN.
Croat Writer* Who Won the Heart*
of the Youngsters.
It is one ot' the most, lovable trails
in many of our greatest mnri that thej
are as skillful in winning the hearts of
little children as in captivating the
minds of their parents.
Was there ever a great man who did
not love children? If there was, and
we have never heard or reid o? him, his
greatness was by so much the less.
Even Sam Johnson relaxed his grim?
ness into smiles of pleasure when Bos?
well's baby daughter held out her arms
to him and pulled his hair when he
was not sufficiently attentive to her.
Byron, whose own child life had been
so saddened and imbittered by a love?
less mother, worshiped his little daugh?
ter Ada with all his passionate soul,
and history has no sweeter picture than
that of Southey singing his child to
sleep as he paced the floor with his "lit?
tle burden of love" in his arms.
Lamb's great heart had many a warm
corner for his child friends-all the
heart, in fact, that his sister Mary did
not fill-and when he took his daily
walk through Edmonton it was the sig?
nal for all the little children to. flock to
him for a kiss, a kind word, or, better
than ail, to take his hands or coat tails
and accompany him on his rambles.
It is little wonder that Charles Dick?
ens, "the great hearted one," was idol?
ized by the little ones; for there never
was a more entertaining companion or
one who could bettor "make himself a
child again*' for their delight. There
are many staid men and women of to?
day who recall with pleasure and re?
gret the romps they used to hove with
"Boz" in the famous nursery at Gads
hill.
Amonk groat men of later days Mr
Lewis Carroll must be counted "king
of the children's hearts." That soli?
tary*, lovable "mixture of a man," who
was wedded to mathematics and to
children, had few pleasures apart from
one or the other. His study at Christ?
church wns a perpetual nursery, its
corners and cupboards stuffed with
toys and sweets and all that appeals tc
a child's heart, and here or on a river
picnic, surrounded by swarms of his
young friends, the mathematical pro?
fessor was always a boy, as full of
fun and as ripe for mischief as the
youngest of his guests. May his rest
be sweet, this chief of children's lovers!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, most amia?
ble of "autocrats," was a lifelong lover
of children and could "skip back seven?
ty j'ea rs" at a moment's notice at a
child's bidding. Could anything be
sweeter than the letter he wrote ac?
knowledging the photograph of one of
his little girl friends? "May those
lips," he wrote, "speak what is pure
and true; may those ears hear but
what is good, and may those eyes al?
ways mirror a soul as beautiful as
themselves."
The Restaurant Free List.
A Bostonian was in Washington the
other day and in asking how he found
it as compared with other cities he re
replied: "'Washington is the one town
I have visited where bread and butter
are on the free list in the cafes. I don't
know whether they charge for water
or not, as I never drink water away
from home, but they come pretty near
charging a man for breathing in the
national capital. Talking about things
on the free list. New York is the only
big city I know of where a potato is
furnished at a cafe without price. In
San Francisco they throw in a plate of
shrimps for good measure. I am not
acquainted in Philadelphia, but I sup?
pose a man ought to get several things
free there. In my own dear town you
can get all the brown bread you can
eat if you will buy the beans."-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
THL KANGAROO'S STORY.
Why Ike Doe? Throw Their Vonna
Away When Hard Pressed.
"I have heard that men folk in thei?
blindness deem our does to be lacking
in the proper instincts of maternity ne
cause they have found that a doe kan?
garoo when hunted will throw away
Its offspring to save its own skin by
hastening ils speed. This." says Old
Man Jack in the "Autobiography of
an Australian Kangaroo" in Pearson's
Magazine, "is simply scandalous and
foolish.
"Men people are evidently not aware
that our youngsters use the mother's
pouch almost up to the age of maturity.
Would they have our does attempt to
riv from dogs and men and horses
with youngsters weighing n rly fifty
pounds in their pouches? 'fie thinj:
woukl be impossible.
"Among us a mother is taught to toss
her youngsters to a place of safety
when sin* is bani pressed. If she could
not throw it to a place far safer in the
circumstances than her own pouch she
would turn at bay with it and face any
odds.
"In the ease of my mother, when we
were chased, and sure as the hunt be?
came dangerous she would pause, draw
me out of her pouch, throw me careful?
ly into long scrub on her right, then
turn sharply to her left, pause again
until the hounds had seen her and then
be off Ii!:? the wind straight away
from i.j" "
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China's Drug Store.
E?TH OF WM. C. WHITNEY.
A Distinguished Citizen Passes
Away Under Distressing Cir?
cumstances.
' New York, Feb. 2.-William Collins
Whitney, former Secretary of the
Navy, died a few minutes after 4
o'clock this afternoon at his home,
871 5th avenue. He died while under
the influence of either administered
preparatory to a second operation for
appendicitis. By his bedside were his
son, Harry Payne Whitney, and his
daughter, Dorothy Whitney, as well
as Dr. William T. Bull, the chief sur?
geon in attendance.
Mr. Whitney was in his 64 year.
He was taken ill on Friday night at
the performance of "Rigoletto,'* at
the Metropolitan Opera House, and
had to leave before the opera ended.
Dr. Walter B. James, the Whitney
family physician, was summoned and
found that the condition of the patient
was such that after consultation, an
operation was decided upon and was
performed by Dr. Bull. The patient
rallied so well that it was fully believ?
ed he would recover.
Mr. Whitney's condition was very
We have another
Car Horses
We are also selling Bl
HARNESS almost
The usual stock of Lir
Flue Pipe and Builders'
DIXIE STAL
We have secured the i
in Sumter county.
BOOTH LIVE
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Has another car io
just in. He must
best ones grow, as
load of the season,
anybody who is in
take a look, then
take a Mule. Neitl
much.
Also a few nice ti
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Cured by Keeley IE
1329 Ladj- St., (or P.O. Box T5) Columbia, S.
grave, however, on Sunday and Mon?
day, and at a consultation held this
afternoon, the conclusion was reached
that the only hope for the patient lay
in a second operation.
Mr. Whitney was placed under the
influence of ether, but whether the
operation was proceeded with or not
is unknown.
When the physicians perceived that
the patient was in danger of death,
Harry Payne Whitney and Miss
Dorothy Whitney were immediately
notified. They hastened to the side
of their father and in a few minutes
he had breathed his last. Oxygen was
used and ali the skill of the physicians
and surgeons brought into play to save
the life of the distinguished patient,
but to no avail?
It was 5 o'clock before the simple
fact of his death was made public.
Later the following statement was
made:
"Mr. Whitney died at 4 o'clock of
peritonitis and blood poisoning follow?
ing an operation for appendicitis.
"The interment will be at Wood?
lawn at a date to be hereafter fixed, in
the family plot, where are the remains
of Mrs. Flora Payne "Whitney, OJive
Whitney and Mr. Whitney's grand?
child, Flora Payne Paget
"The funeral services will be held
at Grace Church, where Mr. Whitney
was a pew-holder."
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