The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 07, 1910, Image 4
& 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.
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to buy for the Spring and Summer, remem?
ber that this big store, where each depart?
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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.
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Clothing for Man or Boy.
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S3.50 Wash Suits at
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S12.50 Wool Suits at - . S9.50
I7?5? " in Cream. Cream
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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
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Organdies, 10c to 50c yard.
SPECIAL?I lot 27 in. Silk, in
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Ladies' Mercerized Gauze Hose at
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Ladies' Silk Hose, 75c, Si and Si.50.
A full line of Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons for Hair Bows and Sashes, Tan
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For Children from 25c to $1.00.
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