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& be O?latclmuii anb JSoutbron. SATUKUAY, MAY 7, 1910. Ths Sumter Watchman was found ad la 1860 and the True Southron In 1IH The Watchman and Southron low has tht combined circulation and Influence cf both of the old papers, and Is manifestly the best advertising medium In Sumter. Mark Twain on the Babies. At a banquet to General U. S. ?rant which was held at the Palmer louse in Chicago shortly after the pptat -< adit r'n r< turn home fron his ti>?:i of the globe, one of the speak? ers was the late Mark Twain. He was purposely put at the end ef the programme because it was well known that he could hold the revelers; and the toast to which he was asked to respond was. "The Babies." Among other things he said: "We have not all had the good fortune to bo ladles. We have not been generals, or poets, or states? men, but when the toasts work down to the babies, we stand on common ground?(laughter)?for we have all been babies. (Laughter.) It Is a shame that for a thousand years the world's banquets have utterly Ignored the baby?(laughter)?as If he didn't amount to anything. (laughter.) "You i all know that when that little fellow nrrlved at family Itgelgg Iffgfl 11 "i bad IQ bund in your resignation. (laughter. J He took entire command. You became his lackey?his mere body servant? (laughter)?and you had to stand around too. (Laughter.) He was not a commander who made allowances for time, distance, weather or any? thing else. (Convulsive screams.) You had to execute his order whether ft was possible or not?(roars)?and there waa only one form of machin? ery In the manual of tactics, and gb| I i as th? double-quick. ( Shouts.) treated you with every sort of Insolence and disrespect?(laughter) ?and the bravest of you didn't dare to say a word. (Great laughter.) You could face the death storm of Don? I son and Vlckshurg. and give back blow for blow, hut when he olawed your whiskers and pulled your hair and twisted your nose you had to take .t. (Hoars.) "When the thunders of war were sooi.'dlng In your ears you set voui face toward the batteries, and ad? vanced with a steady tread, but when He turned on the terrors of his war whoop?(laughter)?you advanced In the other direction, and mighty glad of the chance, too. (Renewed laugh? ter.) When he celled for soothing ayrup. I venture to throw out any remarks about 0*Vta!fj services being unbecoming an ofhecer and a gentleman? (Boisterous laughter.) No. You got up and got it. (Great laughter.) If thr baby proposed to take a walk at hts usual hour, 3 o'clock In the morning?(laughter)? didn't you rise promptly and remark with a men'.al addition which would ?? t Improve a Sunday school book much?(lao ;hter>?that It was the very thlrv, ye i ware about to propose yourself? tOre'.t roars.) ?q>Y '<u v . re under good discip? line?a ni ?s you went faltering up and d? ? \? n the rmm in your undress) uniform?(laughter*?you not only pratr'ed baby talk, but even tuned up your martial voh es and tried to sing ?Rock-a-hy Baby In the Tree Top,* for Instance. (Great laughter.) What a spectacle for an army of the Tennes? see?< laughter)?and what an afflic? tion for neighbors, too. for it is not everybody within a mile around that likes military music at ?> In the morn? ing, daughter ) Tggj It was high time for a toast to the masses, to recognize tho Impor? tance of the babies. daughter.) Think what is In store for the present cnq> I'lftv years from now we shcJI all I dead. I trust?(laughter)?and then the (hi*. If It still survives and U*t us hope It may. will be floating over a republic numbering 200,000, 000 souls, according to tho settled laws of our Increase. Our present schooner of state?(laughter)?will have grown Into a political Leviathan ?a Great Rastern. The cradled ba blai of today will bo on deck. Let them le well trained, for we are go? ing to leave a big contra t M their hand*. (I.aught'?r.) "Among the three or four million cradles now rocking In the land are some which this nation would pre b*'T\* foe agea as sacred tahega if we could lutea whi< h oaes taey are. in one ,.f these cradles the uoneonsclous Farr ov'ut of lief future is at this mo? ment teething -(laagator) and pat* Ing In i word of dead earnest Inartl? ? glass but perfectly Justifiable profan? it- ?r it. too, (Laughter.) in ea ?>th? t the fat are reaowaed astro no no r hi bttaklag st the shlnlns milky wav with bat ? liquid Inters t, poor little . hap* and \. o?nb ring What bus he . r>.f the other one they CS II the sret nurse, (ghouts.) In another the future groat historian is lying - and doubtless will continue t?> 1W - tteugalsf) natH his earthly mission la ended." IFarmers' Union News | ?and- R Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers ? (Conducted by E. w? Dabbs, President Furniers' Union of Sumter Ij A County.) X Is V The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by semi-weekly publication, would improve that service by special features. The flr9t to be inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and Practical Farmers which 1 have been requested to conduct. It will be my aim to give the Union news and orhcial calls of the Union. To that end 0 r< era, and members ot the Union are requested to use these columns. AIM to publish such clij dngs from the agricultural papers and Govern mem Bulletins as I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori? ginal articles by any of o.-r renders telling of their successes or failures will be appreciated and | ublished. Trusting this Department will be of mutual uonetlt to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for tl is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabhs, .Yuyesvllle. S. C. The Nation's Need] u Department of Health. Health Is fundamental, it under? lies the varied ac tivities in which men engage, if not an essential prere *iuisito to success, it certainly puts a ? heck rein upon possibilities by limit? ing the sphere of momentum. To the merchant in his counting room?to the mechanic in his work ?hop?1<? the farmer in his Held?it is well nigh everything. Nor can the scholar among his book! d tope net with this prime con? sideration. lied hlood is a nation's best asset. POf this reason the hill which Is now pending in congress to establish a department of health Is attracting the attt ntlon o*' thoughtful people In ?Vary part of t'ie country, and the au? thor of the measure, Senator Owen, is being constantly deluged with let t< rs. The American Association for the Advancement of Science is enthusias? tic in support of the proposed meas? ure, and from the ranks of this or? ganization a committee of 100 has been appointed to further in every way possible the success of the pro? ject, i Likewise the American Federation of Labor and the American Medical Association have put themselves on record In advocacy of the bill. It Is urged that the government should have a department of health for the following specified reasons: 1. To stop the spread of typhoid faVST through drinking sewerage-pol? luted water of Interstate streams. 2. To enforce adequate quarantine regulations, so as to keep out of the country plague and other similar pes? tilences. I, To supervise Interstate com? mon carriers, in so far as without such supervision they prove a menace to the health of the traveling public. 4. To have a central organization of such dignity and importance that departments of health of State anu cities will seek its co-operat'.on and Will pay heed to Its advice. I, To Influence health authorities, State and municipal, to enact uni? form legislation In relation to health matters. I, To act as a clearing house of State and lot al health regulations and . codify such regulations. 7. To draw up a model scheme of ?anltary legislation for the assistance Of Stat" and municipal health ?ffleers. I, To gather accurate data on all in. it Ions of sanitation throughout the United States. 9. To establish the chief causes of preventable disea.se and unnecessary ill health. 10. To study conditions and causes of diseases recurring in different parts of the United States. II. To correlate and assist investi? gations c arried on in many separate and unrelated biological and patho? logical Federal, State and private lab? oratories, IS. To consolidate and co-ordinate the many separate government bu? reaus now engaged In independent health work. IS, To effect economies in the administration of these bureaus. it. To publish and distribute throughout the country bulletins in relation to human health. 1"). To apply our existing knowl? edge of hygie ne to our living condi? tions. 1?;. To reduce the death rate. Nest time the government could save many millions of dollars by keeping the battleship Heel at home and sending Colonel Roosevelt around the world.?Kansas City Star. A \Vt st? rn newspaper speaks of Itooeevell as a press agent. Not <'it ail. He is the whole show.?Phila? delphia Inquirer. Misfortunes have the ir dignity and I heir redeeming power. -Geo, B, HII lard. .More y makes n man laugh ?John Beiden, SIMMONS CHARGES PARTIALITY. Senator Arraigns the Department on "Pool" Prosecutions. Washington, May 4.?In a speech delivered in the senate today Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, attacked the methods of the department of justice in the matter of its prosecu? tion of the cotton pool. He did not complain becnUM of the suits, hut he cause the cotton producers and spin? ners had been involved in the mat? ter. Complaining of partiality in the enforcement of the Sherman anti? trust law, Mr. Simmons declared that in undertaking to prosecute the bulls and not the hears, the department had undertaken only a partial prose? cution. He said that the proceeding amounted to a usurpation of author? ity. Senator Simmons made hitter com? plaint against a course which he said had had the effect of placing the real cotton men in the light of speculators when the efforts had been in exactly the opposite direction. "If the cotton spinners of the coun? try will co-operate in the same line j which the cotton spinners of the I South are pursuing, all the exchanges of the country will be on a spot basis instead of a paper basis," he said. He contended that contracts for future ?2lee of cotton should he for a real a od not sham delivery. The Attorney General's attitude to? ward the price of cotton was sharp? ly criticised. He said that official had attacked prices not because of the pool, hut because he considered them a national evil. "He has the whole matter wrong; prices are not abnor? mally high," said Mr. Simmons; they are certainly not above the level of prices fixed by the tariff and In the interest of monopoly." He said there had been no protest from the Attor? ney General when the hears had squeezed $15 out of the price of cot? ton. He contended that the high prices of the present day were due to short crops and other natural causes. He ?aid pric es were not high enough, and he thought they would go higher. "And the Attorney General cannot prevent that, whatever proceedings he may institute in the interests of foreign buyers," he added. Mr. Simmons refused to concede the government the right to interfere with the purpose of affecting the price of the staple." "It Is as start? ing as it is unpatriotic and It is as unpatriotic as it is untenable/1 he de? clared, speaking of the Attorney Gtoneral's course. As our chief ar tlc le of < sport, he declared that the price4 of cotton should be kept up. tie said that while the South always would be the first to receive the ben? efit of ?i ly increase the w hole country would profit. Judge Richardson Replies. To the Bditor: Replying to the resolution of the County Board of Commissioner;' in regard to the question of a new gen sral Index for the Judge of Probate's of! Ice, which was addressed to tie ;. rand Jury and published in last eve? nings Item, i beg leave to say that the relations now existing between ?he grand jury and myself are per? fectly trank and harmonious, i>.(t that I am sorry to say that the mem? bers of the county board did not have tin- recomnv ndatlons of the grand Jury at the fall term of court, 1908, In mind when they formulated that resolution, otherwise they would ncv i r ha\ e adopted it. Tlhts. E, RICHARDSON. Sumter. S, <'., May I, 1910, it Is strange thai the people have not begun i" talk polities. Wonder If there are t o be no candidates this summer! Some will turn up pretty so< u it In hoped. Mr. Ilrynn thinks Roosevelt will ? 'turn as an Insurgent. This pre? diction ought to rank C< doncl I lrj " also w Ith Ihe prophets In tho "Rack from rJlba" Club.?New Sfork World. KILLING REMAINS A MYSTERY. | No Further Action Taken in Regard to Death of Man Near Freedouia. Lexington, May 3.?There has been i no urther action taken in the mys- j terious killing of Henry Mitchell on Sunday morning near Freedonia, and it seems most likely that the guilty! party will never he known. . The inquest was held by Magistrate Shealy, the coroner not being noti? fied, and the fact that the inquest was closed without finding out anything at all about the killing, has been the cause of considerable talk. That a man has been killed with all the cir? cumstances pointing to murder, and the inquest closed, presents one of the most peculiar cases in the history of this county. "Saved," Indeed! "John D. Rockefeller, before he abandoned the interview," said a New York reporter, according to the St. Louis Globe-Demcrat, "once advised me strongly against the policy of sav? ing money, penny by penny, instead of spending it for the good of one's business. "Such saving, he said, seemed al? most as foolish to him as the conduct of Peter Clay. "Peter Clay was a coachman. His master found him one winter morn? ing lying on top of a snowdrift in the front garden quite drunk. "Why, Peter, you scoundrel, the master cried, "what do you mean by getting drunk at this time of day? Your breakfast has hardly settled, and you're drunk?" " 'Well, sir," Pete answered, rising carefully, 'my excuse is that, sir, on the way home with a demijohn of whiskey for my wife's rheumatism, T fell on a cake of ice, sir, and the demijohn busted, and the good liquor all ran out. It lay in little pools and puddles between the frozen ruts. I got down and lapped up all I could, sir. That's how I got overcome." "Well, you scoundrel, how much did you drink?" "Well, sir," said Peter, "I guess I must have saved close on to a quart and a pint." P>. B. Shreeves, it is announced, Is to deliver a lecture on the dangers of Democracy. Mr. Shreeves is undoubt? edly thoroughly competent to discuss thise topic. The harmony rold wave has now struck New York city politics.?Wash? ington Post. WANTED?The Farmers of Sumter County to know they can get pro? tection for their crops against de? struction by Hail by a policy in the Carolina Hail Insurance Company. G. E. Haynsworth, Agent, 26 1-2 N. Main St., Sumter, S. C. 5-6-lt. W. B. Costin has developed into a detective. He reports finding out how he was reported to the police author? ities this week. He used the tele? phone, he says. The rain Wednesday and that night did a great deal of good. It was bad? ly needed by farms and gardens. It helped the fishermen a little also. Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.?Haliburt. There is a marked change in the ; speed of the automobiles since the police have begun to enforce the or? dinance. The police committee should see to it that signs are put up o;; all the streets leading into town giving the speed limit that strangers j coming into town may know not to j break the law. ? i I There is always a best way of do I Ing everything, if it be to boil an egg. ! ?Emerson. THE POPULAR STORE OF SUM TER. ; ; TO ALL OUR FRIENDS : When you are in to buy for the Spring and Summer, remem? ber that this big store, where each depart? ment is really a store in itself, can offer you values that are well worth your time to see. Buying as large as we do and paying the hard down cash for them as we do, makes the manufacturer anxious to sell us and sell us at the very lowest price. They know they don't have to wait for their money. We are Headquarters for D RY GOODS of Every Description Shoes for Man, Woman or Child. Clothing for Man or Boy. Groceries for the Whole Family. O'Donnell 6 Co. Beginning Monday the 19i And Continuing for one week, we will close out our Ladies' Spring Suits at the following prices: S3.50 Wash Suits at 5.00 6 00 7.00 It 14 II II II II S2.50 375 4.50 5.00 S12.50 Wool Suits at - . S9.50 I7?5? " in Cream. Cream and Black Stripes, Tan, Castor and Navy, at - 12.50 300 ? 2ts of Shaw & McCollum Handy Pin Sets, six on a card, Fully Guaranteed, only 10c a Card. For Commencement Dresses, Lin? gerie 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c yard. Mercerized Bastists, !2)/>c, 15c, 20c and 25c yard. Flaxon, 2oc, 25c and 30c yard. Persian Lawn, 12'jC, 15c, 2<>c and 25c yard. * Organdies, 10c to 50c yard. SPECIAL?I lot 27 in. Silk, in White, Black and all colors, worth 30c and 35c, for 25c. Ladies' Mercerized Gauze Hose at 25c and 50c. Ladies' Silk Hose, 75c, Si and Si.50. A full line of Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons for Hair Bows and Sashes, Tan and Silk Gloves in all shades. See our line of Fancy Parasols before buying. For Ladies from 75c to $5.00. For Children from 25c to $1.00. 5! ????? Shaw 6 McCollum Mercantile Co.