The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 27, 1908, Image 1
WATCHMAN, BMBkM
C?cx>U?Uted Aug. 2.18?
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HM4TOR TOLLMAN WRITES A
i tmSATCMIIf O LKTTKK.
Catuansia. May It.?The .ug of
Um Winthrop authorities have
hevrag with Rock Hill local
heard over the propoeltlon to |
to Winthrop what U known
I "high school property." just
the treat from Winthrop* and
th has been the subject of more
acrimonious discussion in
MIQ for several months has1
forth a characteristically vlg
lenieV from Senator Tinman to
a seessb<>r of the Winthrop board of
erwMese wan has local connections.
The tetter has not been given out
lev pablteatton. hut those who hsvs
seem ft % say It Is full of "flre snd
hf Inset lie i.** that the senator says In
M that If the feel Acht that Is being
satiate Jtceh H1U en President John
se? to that matter Is not at%nce stop.
Sad e>s seneW win get his friends |
taangfusy and Induce the legislature to |
isfswa te M BU tho tts.ooo tt
?awe .far Ihe setsbllshment of Wis?
te that town sad remove the
to a aWre congenial and ap
etty, aad turn the present
*ph\af late a State asylum
that the need for a eepa
4or Mache )m becoming
t dally any
thia letter was written?be
as a result of ft, hewever.^s
toagesMy af the Moeh MUl scheel hoard
Has eased te sell the property In
te the eollege at something
tteJswS. which Is nearly three
tt sold tor a tow years
I ajax and Is.sO more than Win
threp afisred toe It at the beginning
The property,
valuable, sad Is llke
r* fwhy worth the price named la the
exa*,' the rew Is not
yigttlSstiV
that this
psspmlj eeaaet he need tor ether
tamsi hash school psjrposai. Friends
-? et to>sthi?i> hew ever, regard the
as psaedeaWy closed, believ
that the tejunetlou #m not be
Tie object of the Wtntrop manage
ssent to ef make aa Ideal model school
ef Sato property, on which nearly
? lee,apt all told Is to be expended,
the toiUlillcn affording true tui
Sk>s to peeple In Roch Hill and v*
?aal result of the controversy
w? he Waich? J with Seen Interest
tbroejwoul the State.
la ereor to offset the argument In
ef letting the property go to
members of the local
scheel cedes here tost winter and got
S sueesel act passed, la the form of
- an ashsndmsat to another local bill,
providing for a special election In
Roch MUl to authorise an ad
dtttoeel tax levy with which to op?
erate the school, the biggest property
holders la the town are backing this
more.
One of the Kock Hill local papers
bitterly attacked the members of the
local board blocking the deal, ac?
cusing them of Impeding progress for
seinen purposes. The two members
of the beard who have been opposing
Wlnthjop moot vigorously own prac?
tically all the property contiguous to
the present Winthrop grounds, and
having flacked President Johnson at
the rear ef the college with s cotton
mill snd cotton mill villages, they are
accused of presenting him with the
alternative of buying their property
for his model school or going without.
On the other hand thoee supporting
these members of the lo<*al, board say
they have been acting for the best
Interests of the town of Rock Hill,
and that their efforts to continue a
school for boys In the community
hsvs been prompted solely by pa?
triotic motives.
The farmer should be a specialist.
This requires preparation. Eduea
tloa counts for as much as experience
In the preparation for profitable
farming. Two years of special school
work is more valuable than SO or 26
years ef the ordinary farm experi?
ence. Young farmers should get
hots the school training and the ex*
perteuee.?Prof. K. C. Davis.
Why let life be made miserable by
awful headaches, constipation, bad
blood, uleggish liver, sallow gator,
when Holllster e Rocky Mountain Tea
makes new life, health and strength.
That's what It's done for millions. 35
cts.. tea or tablets. Slberts Drug
Store.
shed April, ISM. . 'Be Just ai
I. 8U?
PROSPEROUS AND PROGRESSIVE,
s
School Entertainment at Sunny
Hide and Observations on a Thriv?
ing Community?The Need of the
SuratvT and Bniloh Railroad.
Goodwill. May 23.?Sunny Side
school, near Pudding Swamp, oc the
Bamter and Clarendon line, closed
the season's work with a basket pic?
nic yesterday. This is one of the
communities that knows how to help
Itself. Pour years ago the patrons |
whose children were too small to'
ssnd to the established schools in
each county, went to work to secure a
school in their midst; each man
pulled off his coat and with his own
hands helped to erect the neat and
oomfortable house. Theyf were for?
tunate in securing Miss Bertha Broad
I way for teacher. Under her inspira?
tion they have a school library, neat?
ly cased; a cabinet organ, and she
has taught the children tb sing by
note. Patent desks comfortably seat
the children, pictures adorn the walls,
and there Is the air of earnest work
that will not be satisfied with less
than the best that pervades the entire
community. Of course the school
boards of each district have helped
in the good work, but If the spirit of
self-help manifested by the McEl
veens. Morrises. Bnddlns and others
had been lacking they would not to?
day have the attractive school that
compares with larger schools so fa
favorably. Kot satisfied, they are
raising money to paint the building
before the next term. This by each
going into his pocket aad not waiting
for an extra levy. This la the famous,
tobacco country, and the crops of the
fragrant weed one sees along the fine
public roads, with the new, big barns,
fine eats, corn aad wire fences show
that the owners know how to work
as well as plan. ,
The picnic was la every sense ' a
suceees, except, possibly. In the lack
of eloquence of the speakers, who, In,
homely worfle emphasised the dignity
of labor. Intelligently directed.
So far as the Una of the Sumter,
I Salem and ,8*110* railroad *feaa been
hoeated It win pasa right through this
favored section tilth a depot located
(about half way between Bunny Side
and Shlloh. just about as fm\r from
8 hi loh as Broad street Is from the/
Sumter depot. The writer was In?
formed by a reliable business man
that If the promoters would guaran
Ci the building of the road by Tur
vllle. just across the eastern side of
/Pudtilng Swamp, that a tobacco ware?
house would be erected there right
along side the track before another
season comes around. He said tobac?
co men who know the territory thor?
oughly say one million pounds of to?
bacco will be sold there the first sea?
son. If railroad and warehouse are
built. He said the tobacco crop In
this section Is Increased about 35 per
cent. What tobacco, and Improved
farming all along the line, which the
profits on tobacco made possible as
well as Inspired. Is well Illustrated by
Ike price of lands: Twenty years
ago land sold at $1 to $4 an acre, now
$50. $10 or $75 an acre would not
even be considered In many Instances.
And thlslls the backwoods! With only
dirt roads to the market 15 to 25
miles away.
Mr. Editor, when the crops are laid
by and the farmers have time to show
them, come over, and the writer will
take you through as much progress
aa even the marvelous growth of the
city of Sumter can boast of, and no
boom growth either, but the result of
Intelligent communion with Mother
Earth. E. W. D.
^ $70.000 FOR SUMTER.
I
House Aereee to Senate Amendments
for Public Buildings for Tills
SUte.
Washington, May 23.?The con?
ferees on the part of the house on
the public buildings bill late tonight
agreed to the senate amendment* so
far as South Carolina Is concerned,
which will give Abbeville $50, and
Humt*r and Anderson $10,000 each
additional over the amount appropri?
ated by the house, which was $10,
000.
Representative J/ohnson, a member
of the buildings and grounds commit?
tee of the house, tonight stnteri that
such action had been taken and that
the conference report would be
adopted Monday.
This Is an excellent showing for
South Carolina and reflect." the good
work of Congressmen Alken and Le?
ver, whose district* are affected by
the Increase, and Senator (Jary and
Mr. Johnson.
In iH about $450.000 will go to
South Carolina from thl* appropria?
tion this year and will be expended in
public puddings In the near future.
id Fear not?Let all the ends Thou Aln
1TER. B. 0.. WEDNI
CAMPAIGN DATES ARRaHfiED
SUBCOMMITTEE FIXES TIME FOR
THE MEETINGS.
The Political Circus Opens June 17?
Senatorial Candidates at Suinter
and State Candidates at St. Mat?
thews.
Columbia, May 26.?A subcommit?
tee of the State Democratic executive
! committee, consisting of Chairman
1 Wille Jones, Comptroller General A.
j W. Jones and C. L. Blease of Newber?
ry, met yesterday and argngecl the
scehduled for the Democratic cam?
paign this summer. Capt. D. J. Grif?
fith, also a member, was unavoidably
absent on business. As was decided
upon by the State convention there
are to be two campaign parties, one
for the candidates for the United
States senate and congress and the
other for the candidates for the State
offices. The State Campaign will
open at St. Matthews on June 17, and
the senatorial campaign will open I at
Sumter on the same date. t
No pledges for the 1 various offices
can be filed after noon on June Id,
which Is a section of the constitution
on the subject.
The following are the schedules:
Senatorial Candidates.
Sumter?Wednesday, June 17.
Manning?Thursday. June 18."
Monk's Corned?Friday, June 19.
Georgetown?Saturday, June 20.
Kingetree?Monday,/ June 22.
Florence?Tuesday, June 23.
Marion?Wednesday, June 24.
Conway?Friday, June 21.
Darlington?Saturday, June 27.
Blshopville?Tuesday, June 80.
Bennettsvllle?Wednesday, July 1.
Chesterfield?Thursday, July 2. m
Camden?Friday. July 8.
Lancaster?Saturday. July 4.
Wlnnsboro? Monday, July 8.
Chester?Tuesday, July 7.
Yorkvifie?Wednesday, July . 8.
Gaffney?Thursday, July t.
Spartanburg?Friday. July 10.
Union?Saturday, July 11.
CoJumMu?Tuesday, July 1-5.?
Newberry?Wednesday, July 15.
Greenwood?Thursday, July 18.
Abbeville?Friday. July 17.
Anderson?Saturday, July 18.
Walhalla?Tuesday, July 21.
Pick ens?Wednesday, July 22.
Greenville?Thursday, July 23.
Lauren??Friday, July 24.
Lexington?Tuesday, July 28.
Saluda?Wednesday, July 29.
Edgefleld?Thursday, July 30.
Alken?Friday, July 81. <^ '
Eamberg?Saturday. August L
Bamwell?-Tuesday, August 4.
Hampton?Thursday. August 8.
Beaufort?Friday, August 7. N
Walterboro?Saturday, August 8.
Charleston?Wednesday, August 19.
St. George?Thursday, August 20.
Orangeburg?Friday, August 21.
St. Matthews?Saturday, August
22,
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The State Campaign.
The schedule for the candidates for
State offices Is as follows:
St. Matthews, Wednesday, June 17.
Orangeburg?Thursday, June 18;
St. George?Friday, June 19.
Charleston?Saturday, June 20.
Walterboro?Monday, June 22.
Beaufort?Tuesday, June 23.
Hampton?Wednesday, June 24.
Barnwell?Friday, June 26.
Bamberg, Saturday, June 27.
Lexington?Tuesday, June 30.
Saluda?Wednesday, July 1.
Edgefleld?Thursday, July 2. '
Alken?Friday, July 3.
Sumter?Tuesday, July 7.
Manning?Wednesday, July 8.
Monk's Corner?Thursday, July 9.
Georgetown?Friday, July 10.
Klngstree?Saturday, July 11.
Florence?Monday, July 13.
Marlon?Tuesday, July 14.
Conway?Thursday, July 16.
Darlington?Friday, July 17.
Blshopville?Tuesday, July 21.
Bennettsvllle?Wednesday, July 22.
Chesterfield?Thursday, July 23.
Camden-r-Frlday, July 24.
Lancaster?Saturday, July 25.
Wlnnsboro?Monday, July 27.
Chester?Tuesday, July 28.
Yorkvllle?Wednesday. July 29.
Gaffney?Thursday, July 30.
Spartanburg?Friday, July 31.
Union?Saturday, August 1.
Columbia?Tuesday, August 4.
Newberry?Wednesday, August 5.
Greenwood?Thursday. August 6.
Abbeville?Friday, August 7.
Anderson?Saturday. August 8.
W;iihaiia -Wednesday, August 19.
Plekons* Thursday. August 20.
Greenville? Friday, August 21.
Lawn ns Saturday, August 22.
Th*? next annual convention of the
United Commercial Travelers will be
held hi Charleston.
? Mit* I
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is't at be thy Country's, Thy God's an
SBDAY. MAY 37, 190
REGULAR STRIFE BREEDER.
SENATE INNER RING WOUNDS
HIS PRIDE.
Brownsville Cause? More Trouble?
Bulkelcy, of Connecticut, Sore Over
Foraker'h Sudden Change.
Washington, Mar 20-<-Morgan
Gardner Bulkeley, United States sen?
ator from Connecticut, is today a
sadder and a wiser man. Also a
madder one. Brownsville did it,
Brownsville and that intangible but
powerful thing known as the senate
"inner ring." For when th^ "inner
ring" got together and determined to
shelve- the Brownsville affair until
after the election Morgan Gardner
Bulkeley was left holding the bag?
and the bag was empty. i
It was not at all a nice way in
which the "inner ring" treated the
honorable senator from Connecticut.
i
It is true that Bulkeley is a new sen?
ator and that new senators do not
come in for a great deal of considera?
tion at the hands of the old-timers;
but even if he is comparatively new
as a senator he is a man of dignified
years and distinguished career, hav?
ing beeil governor of his State and
other things, and it would seem he
should have been entitled to a little
more consideration.
It happened something after this
manner: Next to Senator Foraker,
Senator Bulkeley has been the most
ardent champion of the negro sol?
diers who Were discharged front the
army without honor because of the
Brownsville shooting affair. He had
loyally supported the Ohio senator In
every move of the latter to bring
about the reinstatement of the dis?
charged soldiers, not caring if he did
"get in bad" at the White House for
doing so. He. had prepared an able
speech on the subject and was pre?
pared to help Foraker force the mat?
ter to a vote in the senate. I
Then one day Foraker got up In
the senate and announced that he
would not try to secure a vote on his
BrowneVllle resolution until next De?
cember. Bulkeley was dumbfounded,
not to say flabbergasted. It was the
first intimation he had had that the
fight was off. Left without time to
map out a course of action, he got up
and protested against the delay. But
what was the use? Everything had
been arranged in that "never slip a
cog" manner which prevails in the
"greatest deliberative body in the
world." The senate heard Bulkeley
politely and then went ahead with
the postponement,/ as per programme.
To be left marooned like that now
was enough to make any man mad;
but Bulkeley didn't really get hop?
ping until theS^ rubbed salt into his
wounded pride. When the "inner
ring" saw how Bulkeley felt about the
matter it sent an emissary to smooth
things out. This emissary was not
exactly a diplomat.
"Bulkeley," he aid, "we're awfully
sorry you weren't consulted about
that Brownsville matter. We'd have
been perfectly willing to have told
you of the programme if we'd thought
about it, but, the truth is, you
being a new senator, it never occur?
red to any of us that you ought to be
told."
Now, if you were a dignified old
gentleman of more than seventy
years, were a former governor of your
State and a veteran of the civil war,
how would you like to have some
young fellow, not much over fifty,
pat you on the head, figuratively
speaking, and call you "sonny?"
The Hon. Morgan Gardner Bulke?
ley, United States senator from Con?
necticut, didn't like it a bit, and his
chief occupation in these closing
days of the session is to sit and
glare at the members of the "inner
ring."
A Mail Order Wife.
Among the visitors to Manning last
Friday were a bride and groom from
Summerton, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Co
bia. They attracted unusual atten?
tion because it was reported that Mr.
Cobia had ordered a wife fiom Sears?,
Roebuck & Co., Chicago, and of
course, it was natural for the curi?
osity of people to get aroused, but
while it is true Mr. Cobia secured his
wife through an advertising medium,
it Ih not true that he got her from
?ears, Roebuck & Co. The bride is
a Tenneseean, comely in appearance,
a blond and has every indication of
being In robust health. We are told
she was a Ml??s Ms'son and brought
with h? r a dslighter five years old.?
Manning Times.
Ous Hey ward, colored, has been
committee to jail by a Charleston
magistrate on the charge of attempt?
ing to make a criminal assault.
id Truth's,"
THE TRUJ
8.
New 8eri
LITIGATION OX TAI?.
The Proposed County Court Has the
Appearance of Being a Useless and
Needless Luxury. 4
Mr. Editor: A few thoughts about
the proposed county court I think
the voters should consider before
the election next week, and with your
permission I will briefly call atten?
tion to them. "A Voter" in your last
issue has shown known cost of $3,000.
Is it not likely that the other items
he mentions will cost fully as much
more, How long will it be before
there will be pressure brought to
bear on the legislative delegation
for increase of the salaries o
all those county court officials? My
observation leads me to think not
two years before it will be said you
cannot get good men without more
pay; and $5,000 is more likely to be
the size of the salary bill, not count
jurors, etc.
Then it will be very burdensome
on a man who has any business to
attend to, to serve as juror in the
county court for an indefinite time
(the act says the court shall sit as
long as there Is any business before
it, four times a year with juries), and
then have to serve right away in the
circuit court, for the act says service
In one does not exempt from service
in the other the same year; whereas,
now one can only be called on for
one week's service in each calendar
year. So much for expense and in?
convenience.
la It not a trade maxim that you
supply an article, and there will be
a demand created for it? Keep the
courts open all the time, or practical?
ly all the time, and there will be
plenty of litigants. Keep litigation |
on tap and there will be a constant
demand to turn the faucet. Some
of us country people, and I not only
speak for myself but for others whom
I have heard express the same opin?
ion, find that we get on better, our
laborers lose less time in useless
brawls and litigation when the mag?
istrate is so far away we oftentimes
have to stop and think who he is,
than when he is our next door neigh?
bor. This is no reflection on the
magistrate at all, but a common
characteristic of human nature. 1
sometimes think it would be a great
thing for the State if we could elect
a legislature with brains enough to
know what laws to repeal, and grit
enough to repeal more than half the
laws on the statute books. The late
Hon. Altamont Moses said when he8
first went to the legislature he
thought the State would go to the
"demnitlon bow wows" unless he could
stop it by introducing bills to correct
all the evils, but he soon found his
greatest service to the people would
be as a bill-killer, and he lived up to
that discovery.
We have in recent years had in?
crease of counties, and this year in?
crease of circuit courts. If there
Is congestion, some of us laymen
think we can locate the trouble with
the leniency of judges who allow
what to us appear trivial and need?
less delays. If we are in error Mr.
Editor, a good many of .us would like
enlightenment before the first Tues?
day in June because we wish to vote
right on this as well as on every other
question.
Respectfully,
? E. W. Dabbs.
CURE THE CAUSE.
How to Remedy Much of the Suffer?
ing in Suniter.
Half of the sickness and suffer?
ing in Sumter comes from a weak
stomach.
Cure the cause by using Mi-o-na
Stomach Tablets and be well and
happy.
Even the most chronic cases yield
to Ml-o-na. W. C. Worrell, connected
with the Lake Shore Railroad for
years, says: "For fifteen years I had
acute stomach trouble and nothing
helped me. A friend recommended
Mi-o-na and two boxes entirely cured
me.
Cure the cause of your suffering
and be well and happy.
If the stomach is weak and von
have indigestion, flatulence, dizziness,
headache, etc., get a 50-cent box of
Mi-o-na from j. F. w. DeLorme. fie
gives an absolute guarantee to refund
th?' money unless Mi-o-na cure*.
5-6&S&W27
Rev. D. L. Thomas, of Bennetts
ville, pleaded guilty to the Charge of
selling and exhibiting obscene pic
lures and was sentenced to pay ;i tine
of $200 or serve six months.
Judge Gage refused to grant ball
to Ren and Lag Stogner, charged with
killing Bart Sims in Lancaster.
9! SOUTHRON, Established Jane, UN
es?Vol. XXVII. n?43
TO BRING ENGLISH GIRLS HERE
WILL? SOLVK NEGRO SERVANT
PROBLEM, SAYS COL. WATSON.
State Immigration Bureau Entering
Upon an Experiment of Great In?
terest Not Only to South Carolina
But to the Entire South?English
People Brought to This State Last
Month Satisfied and Satisfactory.
Columbia, May 24.?In the experi?
ment which Commissioner Watson
has started of substituting a high type
of English-speaking household girl
for the negro servant girl he is con?
vinced both from employers and the
girls themselves that he has firmly
laidi the foundation for a successful,
practical solution of the vexed negro
servant problem in this State, and if
the experiment proves a success it
will be "a go" throughout the South.
After repeated failures during four
years' hard work the commission is
now satisfied that success is at hand.
The first experiments along this
line were with foreign-speaking peo?
ple, and In every case this proved a
failure. These are the kind of for?
eign servants that are being placed to
a large extent in the North. Commis?
sioner Watson ther. concluded that
this section would have to have a
higher type than is used in the North
in order to supplant the negro, who
Is daily growing nore useless and
exacting, and that the new servant*
must speak English. He was further
persuaded that the new-xomers in or?
der to be satisfied themselves and ren?
der satisfacatory service would have
to be in touch with the ether mem?
bers of their families, so as to give
them the restraining influence of the
home touch and alleviate the social
alienation which had made other ex?
periments with English-speaking girls
failures. Accordingly persistent, en?
ergetic work was carried on in the
desirable farm section of England
with literature, lectures and person?
ally conducted tours with big vans.
The 33 English people brought here
leas than a month ago and located In
and around Columbia, Edged*Id, Ab?
beville, Greenville and elsewhere in
the Skate, have all written letters te
the department expressing satlsfa
tlon, and every girl so located has writ?
ten letters through the department
friends and relatives abroad, urging*
then to come on to South Carolina,
and live. dj
A Columbia case that has proved a
striking success is that in which a
former Charleston lady ?1' means em?
ployed two English sisters, who have
written numerous letters back home,
urging their friends and relatives to
come here, and whose mistress is
bragging on them throughout the
town. It will not do to mix white and.
colored servants in the same house?
hold. This proved a disastrous fail?
ure in Columbia before. Thjs house?
wife discharged her three negro ser?
vants and taking in the newcomers
and the result has been perfect sa Re?
faction on both sides. The parenrV
of the^ girls have been placed on a
diary farm near Columbia, and by tel?
ephone and frequent visits they are
in constant touch with each other;
An older sister, who stayed home with
her grandmother, is now on her way
to Columbia. Six other English far?
mers located near here at the same
time haev written for their families to
come on to Columbia.
The department has suspended all
efforts to get immigrants to come to
the State for the present. In the fall
a vlgorious campaign will be renewed
i among the English farming people,
but even then only share croppers and
small purchasing farmers will be ask?
ed to come. Of course those people
who may want to come In oh a re?
sult of the experiment mentioned will
be taken care of. .
Early in the fall Commissioner Wat-,
son hopes to see the new steamship
line from Great Grimsby. England,
direct to Charleston, in operation,
which will be a further inducement
for these people to come to this sec?
tion, and locate not only here, but
throughout the South, as It is the in?
tention to have the ships stop in Gal
veeton and Vers Cruz as well as in
Charleston. The principal reason for
failure of the forme* experiment of a
direct line to Charleston was the fact
that a full return cargo was not pro?
vided. With the new scheme however,
Mr. Watson says full cargoes both
ways are assured entirely Independent
of either Charleston or this State as
a whole. The incoming ships will bring
people from England and Norway
Sweden, and articles of commerce
from South America, ami the out?
going will cany raw cotton to the
English mills and manufactured cot?
ton goods to South America.
Ste M. B. Randlg and get the r?si
machine In the world. 0-2^-tf