The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 30, 1908, Image 4
5|x Matcjjutuu anb .Southron.
?UmilAY, DECislnER 30.1908.
Um Humtor Watchman was founl
esd la i860 and the True Southron In
MM. The Watchman and Southron
aow hae the combined circulation and
fence of both of the old ropers,
la manifestly the bent advertising
?nan In Sum (er.
Hi- _ ?gSF**
ifl ?IHK DKPARTMEM.
Hamter haa an eacellent Are depart
sweat?that has been demonstrated
time and again, and never more forci?
bly thsu on Christmas night. The ex
cjetseaca eC the department la not du?
to the equipment but In aplte of It
must be given to ths fear
tlrelesa energy and public
sjplrtt eg the young men who compose
oar nngald voluuteer department. In
mm far as substantial results and ac
tsi? achievement go the Sumter vol
oateer nreneo hers a record as firs
fighters th it will bear comparison
wtta many paid departmenta. Since
tho department was orgsnlsed on the
pnteent fooling?some twelve or thir?
teen years?-It has saved many thou
aauid dellara and ths property owners
of this otty and the Insurance compa?
nies are thit much better off. But
these remark* are beeide the mark,
the purpose of this paragraph Is not
so bestow pralss?although the flre
tnea deservo all that haa been said
' and mars?but to criticise the de?
partment. The lire Christmas night
proved the Atness of the firemen, but
nt the same time revealed weakness
?of the department. It has the fire?
men sad the hose wagons and a fairly
*d auppJy of hose, but lacks two
-very essentlsl features, vfx; a first class
tire engine and hook and ladder ap?
paratus Without these two thlnga,
tns engine especially, the department
Is. at bent, s makeshift, dependant for
ths measure of efficiency It develops
111 times of atress danger upon the
men wfo have the hardihood to
fight a good fight against odda with?
out the most necessary Implements.
Ssmtee hus dragged along for years
with a half equipped fire department,
and thst ws have escaped a great dla
astar an logg has been providential.
We escaped It by the narrowest pos
anbln msrgln Christmas night. Had
the wtad seen a little stronger, had
It not stilted lust when It did. half
or mor? than half of the business
hou?** ??> town wv-.uid now be n ashes.
A H' e r><in- ? n . ? . ,n,| b dAet Cp
perotns wer- needed then a d needed
badly It has been predicted over and
??over thst the purchase of an engine
kreuld be postponed until half the
town burned up for the lack of ons
n ss emergency. Perhaps thia pre
do tloa may yet corns true, but there
Ii w weed to wait for so forcible and
e? an? tig a lesson. A better equipped
tlr.> iei>irtment Is needed and should
be \ > -vided. Them may be no ab?
s?tte and deuperats nsed for an en
sjine mere than once in ten years, but
ths emergency may arise tomorrow or
next week. It Is not a question
whether the city can afford to buy
am eagtne no*. but whether the tax?
payers can afford for the city not to
buy It. When bought '.t may not come
out of the house for five years, but
'When it la needed It will save In sn
hour tea times the cost. Don't let's
wait any longer for a convenient aea
son. for convert ent seasons never come.
Buy a firs engine now and have It
ready when It la needed in arf emer?
gency
Mr J. 8. Mu ler, one of the lawyers
representing the "Insiders." assfted,
In his argument before Judge Watts
In th* Hemtnole Securities cm%C. that
the complaining stockholders "had
regularly gone Into the game and are
now squealing." What a remarkably
tncrlmmtlng admission! It puts the
Semlnole deal <>n a parity with a shell
game, three card monte or a crooked
poker game In which an amateur
?pott Is rteeced by a gang of profea
ehoi.il crook*. It la said that the fra?
ternity of crooks who live by preying
npon the near-sport* regsrd "squeal
lns\ '?> a victim as the unpardonable
sin The bigger ths swindle, the gen?
tler the victim should keep If he would
be patted approvingly on the back by
the cro ika. In view of Mr. Mulle-'a
admission It Is pertinent to ask wheth?
er the Memlnol* deal ever contained
ths elsmenta of a buetnesa enterprise,
or waa simply a big ehell gsine?
wedrid'n Trying Climates.
tjcetn Victoria's complaint against
the terrible summer heat and equally
trying cold of Madrid, the Spanish
srapital. precipitates the question of t^e
Utdvlaablll'y of moving the government
Us Bercellona. Msdrld la situated un
faverabty from almost any standpoint.
The sorroundlng plateau la treeless, ex
posing the city to the scorching aouth
winds In aamraer and the frigid
breeaee that deacend from the anow
covered sierra Ouadrarama In win?
ner. In oontrast with thla uncomfort
mbh> situation Rarcelona'a equable cli?
mate, due In large part to her poaltion
on the atedttsrranesn, appeals strong?
ly to the Spanish lover of ease. Bar
gateSM fnng been the commercial
?antra *r Spain
?BEGINS?
MONDAY
Morning.
Schwartz's Cost Sale
j
?ENDS?
SATURDAY
Night.
LADIES PLEASE NOTE
Beginning Next Monday, December the 28th,
And Continuing Each Day for One Week Ending January 2nd,
Our Entire Stock will be Offered AT COST. This is Prepara?
tory to Stock Taking. ri+ -:- -:
We Invite You to Come-Buy as Little or as Much as You Please.
ONE WEEK ONLY
Monday, Dec. 28
TO
Saturday, Jan. 2
Cost Sale
Ladies Please Note Also That During This Sale We
Offer You Choice From Our Entire Line of Tailor
Made Suits at Exactly HALF PRICE.
WILL COST YOU NOW
And Just This Way on. Every Other Price Suit.
Yes, It's a Big Loss to Us, But We will not Carry
Them Over.
No Goods Charged or Sent on Approval During Sale.
6 Days Only
At Cost!
Bryan aa a Hporttmian.
Fn?T(> the Baltimore American.
Following the fateful 3d of No?
vember, the Hon. William Jennings
Bryan nought forgetfulnesa of sorrows
by losing himself in the remote wilds
of Texas. Nobody had ever sus?
pected that the great propounder and
redacter of Jeffernontan doctrine
rherlshed a secret ambition of mak?
ing a record as a wing shot. But
since he has been located at Laka
.Surprise, a body of water not Indicat?
ed on the ordinary maps, but vrulrn
Is somewhere within a thousand miles
of the Oulf Coast, there have been
surprising stories floating back con?
cerning the Peerless One's |
with tho gun. The Texas lav
a sportsman to the killing of
five ducks a day; but, accor
the reports, Mr. Bryan has bee
the limit right along. When
canvasback, baldpate, redh
mallard haa come within re
his trusty shootlng-lron the ad
has been a fatal one for ths
l: . Infgi nvuibcr <f A>!tt#Hc
sens who are yet watching Mr. Bry?
an's movementa with unflagging in
?*??-est have been led to believe.
But what a Jolt It must be to the
lings If his admirers to learn that
? duck stories that have been com
r from Surprise Lake are largely
itious?regulsr Ananias yarns,
yhow, in the particulars that have
?n representing the great three
ler as bagging all the birds which
law allows. On last Wednesday
:ounty constable, whose business It
to enforce the Texas game laws,
lupl up on t'.w patt) Of four duck
hunters, including the sportsman
I from Lincoln, and counted the ducks
j that had been killed that day. There
were just 150, or, apportioned, 27 1-2
I ducks to each gunner. The law im?
poses a fine of $25 for each duck
that is killed In any one day In excess
of the 25 named as the limit. If Mr.
Bryan had owned up to his propor?
tion, the surplus would have cost him
Jujst $512.50. But, under the exi?
gencies of the situation the truth was
told, or Just enough of the truth to
let the Nebraska sportsman out. He
had only lulled ir> of the II ac aiding I
to the revised statement. But who
knows whether he really bagged a
single duck?
NOTICE.
Estate of Nat Barnett, deceased.
All persons having claims against
said Estate, will present them duly
attested, and all In any wise indebted
to said Estate will kindly settle same
with,
H. D. BARNETT,
Administrator.
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