The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 26, 1911, Image 4

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Cbt ??latcbnum ;ui^ ^outbran. PublUli? .1 WcdncmlH) and Saturday. ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTEK. 8. C. J1.50 per annum?in advance. \dverUscment*: One Square first Insertion.11.00 ?very subsequent Insertion.50 Contracts f^r three momhs, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub aerve private Interests will he charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of rssp- 01 will be charged for. The sumter Watchman was found? ed in 111* and the Trus Southron In list The Watchman and Southron Sow his ths combined circulation and Influence cf both of the old papers, and Is manifestly the best advertising saedium in Sumter. ? The Democrats have put the Ca? nadian reciprocity bill through the House and It Is now up to President Taft and the insurgent Republicans, assist, d i'v Hp Democratic majority, to put It through the Senate. If Sen? ator Bailey and the few other 'inter? ests * controlled Democrats do not line up with the stand-pat Republl cans there Is a chanre of reciprocity getting through the Senate at this session. The Anal vote on reciprocity In the Senate will show who are real Democrats and who belong to the ? ? ? The Carolina Olaas Company graft ? a whose reverence for the shades of - elr distinguished ancestors did not ter them from aiding and abetting e dispensary plunderhund in Its rnlval of corruption, are working the Blease wind-up commission In I renewal of the persistent tight they tve made to hold on to their 111 ? than gains. They paid a big price r what they made out of the dts nsary transaction but they are re ctant to surrender any part of It. en though It belongs to the State. ? as Oov. Blease Is mad with the At nta naws manufacturers who sent it the story that the Governor wrote i Inquirer that. T do not know one tngdon Cleves, nor where he Is now Who ?an blame him for being ? ad* for II \z a story that will Ick * \ . tb >egh It l> a He out of the P.ol' cl -tb. . , rnov Blease ?av.< Is. G ? rn-.r B!r;v?? will be re. enn r* d a.- mr man who did not now ' wi.^^e Lan^don Cheves waa tr lore M. o b; ? i ' \ .i i.i Horn**-IN ?wer the Creates* V.-ed of the South. The agricultural reform, from J vhlch 'he kt? ?test net gain will be | e allied In the s >uth. and at the least ?oat. Is the use <>f more power and mproved nun hir-?:> on the farm. A careful ln<iuiry into the ceose for the farm workers In the different ?tat? s varying so wUP ly in tho val? uta produ< $4 will demonstrate '.hat It was mainly due to th I ratio of horses or mu'.>s employed to the number of wirken upon th?> firms. In Iowa, Where eaeh far:?: wo k? ? produces $?11.11 annually ? xdume of stock, nearly four h?rne? \? i worker w- r. used. In V Timmt. with an earning capacity of I32H.37. two horses per worker w. r.> used, and In South Caro? lina, whi r - < a< h farm worker gf h jsjosd fin hi one mule f ?r two la? horers waa the av rag-- tarm pow? er. An analysis of tin Southern s shown a much funaller use of i on the farm, u.nd ons?? po-ntly lea.* une of good saachin rv than in the North? um State.? in.I i u r ^pondlngly low? er earning rapacity. Where the South Carolina f irmer uses one mule, weighing vn? t. po inda\ and OM man to plow, w eompllefclftg less than an acre per d.iv from ?, It 4 Inches d.*ep. the Iowa f irne i uses at least three horses, weighing from 1,400 to l.lOe pound* ??a? h. me, plows four acre* per das. ?? * in? he-t deep. M uses rtve and QSJQ half tlm vs the powe. and arcomplt.shes about eight time* th ? work m i .lav. If depth of plowing be considefeel What Is true of plowing Is ? 'inallv true of i.th ?r lines of f irm work. Then ha I hotfj considerable Instruction along the Up?- ' f h -w ?o produe?< larger crops per aer ?. but th. y have not taught the Importen?,- .f winking more aeres In a day. This b the key to agricultural re? form M->re power and better ma? chinery on the f.irrn. and more ac? complish* d lo n day ie avi ?r mule and more ..f tlMfJ A \? a y with the half-a-mule faruo-r and convert the one-mule farno r Into a four-muU farmer. What revolutionised manu factoring In th ? United States and made us th*- first ..f productive na? tion*? More pi.w.r and lefj hand work. What will hold ?h?> t?oys on the farm ?md multiply ihe wealth o our farmers'* M..r- p-?wer and let hand work ? Progressive Farm ?r. Send us your Job work. OHE MORE BATTLE That Was What General Ler Wanted Before Yielding. HIS TALK WITH LONGSTREET. Major Ranton's Interesting Account of the Scene In the Confederate Com mander'e Cheerless Tent the Night Before the Surrender. Ali interesting account of the (Ira matlc sct'iie ut General Lee's headquar? ters the ulght before the surrender, when the Coufedernte commander was ?till determined to strike one more blow for the cause for which he was fighting. Is given by Major A. lt. 11. Hanson in Harper's Magazine. Major Hanson writes: "When 1 arrived at headquarters General Lee was in a tent, sitting with General I<ougstreet on some bundles of rye straw, the grouud being wet from the rain, at the upper side of the tent with one candle for a light. 1 made my report, and the general told me to wait, as he wished to see me He asked me if I had had anything to tat, and 1 told him no. lie said he was sorry he had nothing to offer me. He gave me a bundle of straw and to4d me to sit near the door. "it had been ruining all afternoon, and 1 was quite wet 1 was also very tired, so 1 put my foot through the bridle rein of my mar? standing out aide and. lying down on the bundle of straw, was soon asleep. "l was awakened by voices and. looking up, saw the colonel I had left In charge of the troops at the bridge standing In the tent He reported that the rations had not arrived, and the starving and discouraged troops had all deserted In the darkness, leaving their arms in the trenches. "General Lee heard him to the end of his account and then with a wave of his hand dismissed him. Turning to General Longstreet he said: 'This Is very bad. That man is whipped, it la the first time I have seen one of my officers who had been whipped. It la very bad.' "The conversation between the gen? erals was then resumed in low tones, and 1 again fell asleep, I must have slept for some length of time when I was awakened by General Lee's voice, ?peaking in loud tones, louder than I had ever heard from him. He was eaylng. 'General Longstreet 1 will strike that man a blow in the morn? ing.' General Lee sometimes spoke of General Grant as that man' and of the Federal army as 'those people.' "General Longstreet replied in low tones, giving the strength and condl tinn of his command and the strength and position of the enemy, and con? cluded by fijjnffr Ttut you bars only to give roe the order and the attack will be made In the mornlT' Agaia the conversation was resumed in low tones, and 1 fell asleep. "I must have slept for an hour at least when again I was awakened by the loud, almost fierce, tones of Gen? eral Lee. saying. '1 tell you, General Longstreet. 1 will strike that man a blow In the morning.' General Long atreet again recounted the olfficuitles, ending as before, 'General, yoa know you have only to give the order and the attack will be made, but 1 must tell you I think it will be a useless waste of brave lives.' "TMnking 1 had been present long enough nt such an Interview, I cough? ed and got up from the straw and, drawing back the flaps of the tent looked out into the darkness. General Lee kmi.l: 'Captain Hanson. I beg your pardon. 1 had forgotten you. Go now and get something to eat and some rest. I will see you in the morning.' "I found my poor mare lying flat on her side 1n the rein and fast asleep. It was past midnight and very dark, but I reached our camp, though nei? ther I nor my mare got anything to eat that night. "The morning came, and I listened for the sound of our attack, but all was still. There was no attack. Our fighting days were over." In the Wrong Church. A Cleveland man recently told this story of the Rev. Stephen EL Tyug, fa mous New York divine of a generation sgo: A wealthy man came to him and ?aid he wanted to rent one of the most expensive pews in the church. "But," be added, "I'll only take It on one con dltlon?you mustn't expect me to do any church work." The eminent rector smiled. "My friend." he replied, "you have come to the wrong church. You belong four Mockl down the street, In the Church of the lleuvenly Rest" ? Cleveland Leader. "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul." That proverb "robbiug i'eter to pay Paul" arose from the way In which the den n of West minster was treated at the ?Uno of the reformation. As abbot he had been an independent dignitary, but as dean he was placed under the authority of a specially cre? ated bishop of Westminster. This di ocese after existing for ten years was merged In the see of 1..Ion, and many of the domains of St. 1'eter's abbey passed into the hands of the chapter of St. Paul's cathedral, thus giving rise to the now familiar saying. "It was by a hard struggle," writes Dean Stanley, "that the abbey was saved In those tempestuous times. Its dependency of the priory of 8t Mar tin's le Grand was torn to pieces, and Its outlying domain* to the east of Westminster were. || I.? said, sacrificed to the Protector Soin'rset to induce him to forbear from pulling down the abbey Itself ."?London Chronicle. \ fotlow-feellng makes oa won drous kind.?Oarrlck. A WELSH JAWBREAKER The Great iig Name of a Charming Little Village. Lin n f a i row 1 Ig wy ngy 11 gogery c h wy ro drobwllllandysillogogogoeh is a charm Inf little village in Anglesey, Wales, and a favorite visiting place for tour? ists. There are many other charming tittle villages in Wales?all over the world, in fact, but none with a name like that. Uanfalrpw., etc.. means I "the Church of St. Mary in a hollow of j white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool I and to the Church of St. Tysillo by the ' red cave." It is declared that only a Welshman can pronounce the name of the village, but there ia no harm In you trying if you wish. Tho first syllable, "Linn." la vary simple. You must double hack your tongue along the roof of your mouth and get ready to say something that sounds halfway between "clan" and "thlan." and there you're got it The second syllable, "fair." Is encour? agingly simple. And If you want to go on and learn the whole name of the vlllsge the following rhyme may be of assistance. At first it began fair. Commencing with Llanfalr, Then started a jingle By adding Pwllgwyngyil, Put was horrible, very. To stick on Oogery And simply ignoblo To run to Chwyrndrobwll, Till it almost will kill you To say Llandysillo. With a terrible shock At the end Gogogoch. The Inhabitants of the village and the postoftiee authorities have shorten? ed the name to Llanfalr, P. G., while the railroad limits it to Llanfalr.?New York World. THE GOLDEN CAT. Legend of the Founding of s Persian College at Meshed. Tho following story from the Per? sian manuscript of which a transla? tion has been published uuder the title "The Glory of the Shia World." reads like a passage in the "Arabian NIghtsv" It tells of a Persian at Meshed who had founded a college with wealth gained In a remarkable manner: j "One day a rich merchant asked him whether he was willing to work at a 1 plice te which he would be couducted ' blindfolded. Being a fearless Kerina nl and very poor, he agreed, and was led through many streets to a court? yard, where the bandage was remov? ed, and he was ordered to dig a hole and bury gold coins and Jewelry. This he did for several days, and, being aearched before he left, he saw no chance of bettering his condition. "However, one day he saw a cat, which he killed and ripped open. He then sewed up some money and Jew? els Inside it and threw It over the { wan After this when his work wi i ! done be wandered about until he found tho c it and m>t onlj secured 1 ? money hidden In its body( but aleo I ! learned the position ol the bouse, "Its owner shortly nfterwaru uicvi, and the astute Kermanl bought his hoi;, with the gold sewed up Inside the cat. As the merchant had never re? vealed his secret to auy one he became his heli .nnd, in turn, when dying, be queathed his money for the pious task of fouudlng and maintaining a col? lege." Correct Way to Roll Umbrella. A badly rolled up umbi ?lla, besides looking unsightly, does not wear half as long as it ought to. The process of rolling au umbrella is very simply. The majority hold it by the handle and keep twisting the stick with one hand, while with the other they twist and roll the silk, instead of this they should take bold of the umbrella Just above the ribs of the cover. These points naturally lie eveuly with the atlck. They should be kept hold of and pressed tightly against the stock and then the cover should be rolled up. Holding the ribs thus prevents them from getting twisted out of place or bending out of shape, and the silk Is bound to follow evenly aud roll smooth and tight. If an umbrella Is rolled lu this fashion It will look as if newly bought for a long time.?Boston Her? ald. A Bible Library. Probably the finest collection of Bibles in the world Is that In the 11 ! brary of the General Theological semi? nary in Chelsea square, New York. In the fireproof Bible room on the second floor are more than 1,200 different edi ; tlons of the Bible, lu all about 2,500 ; volumes, arranged on shelves and In j glass cases. Of these 555 editions are In Latin, making 1,053 volumes. Of "polyglot" wilt Ions? in more than one language there are 98, in r?oo volumes. The most Interesting of the Bibles is the Gutenberg volume, printed at Mo guntia between 1450 aial 1455 by Jo hannes Gutenberg, which has always ranked as a masterpiece of art. Familiar Sayings. "1 don't like your weigh." remarked the customer to the dishonest grocer. "I hope 1 make myself clear," said the water as it passed through the til ter. "Heading makes the full man, but writing doesu't," complained the half starved poet. "My resources are all tied up." said the tramp as he placed his bundle on a stick. "The rest is silence." quoted the mu? sician, explaining the meaning of that term to his pupil. "This Is a complete give away," re? marked Papa Santa Claus as he tin Ished stripping the Christmas tree. "I call that treating a friend In a rather distant manner," said the doctor as he hung up the receiver after pre? scribing over the telephone.?Boston Transcript Purpose directs energy and ??ur pose makes energy,?I'arkhourat. WOOD PULP PAPER. forced Into Use by the Scarcity of Rag Stock. Id the early day* of printing It was hardly possible to employ anything but first class [taper in making books, for i the reasou that wood fiber and wood pulp paper had not then come into use. At that time good cotton and linen rags were turned into fine. firm, j pure white paper, well able to with? stand indefinitely the yellowing and disintegrating elTects of time. As the increase in the demand for printing paper grew apace it was soon found that there were not enough rags to go round. Thus wool pulp came into use. All vegetable fiber is suitable for paper making, whether It be obtained from rags, wood, esparto grass, straw or other substances. When these fibers are torn apart they are clogged with gum, a substance that must be thor oughly dissolved and washed away by chemicals if the best results are to be obtained. Wood pulp paper is made of finely ground wood, usually spruce, the grinding being done with a beating en 1 gine, run at high speed, and huge stones between which the wood is re? duced to a kind of pulp. That done. It Is made up Into paper without any pre? liminary removal of the gum or oth? er deleterious ingredients.?Harper's 'Weekly. ELECTRIC FOGHORNS. i Which May Be Blown Without Effort by Pressing a Push Button. The time honored foghorn and still the one in most common use on myri? ads of smaller boats is of the sort that you raise to your Hps and blow. Tol? erably bard work blowing a foghorn. I Bigger foghorns for larger boats are set in a box, the box containing a bel? lows by which the horn is blown. At? tached to the bellows is an outside lever by means of which the bellows Is operated by hand. A lot of noise this foghorn makes, to be beard for a considerable distance. There are now made, used on many power boats and yachts, electric fog? horns the operating of which calls for the exercise of neither lung nor hand power. In these horns there is at? tached, Inclosed at the smaller end, a metallic diaphragm to which is con? nected an electric coil which when electricity Is turned into it ^ibrates the diaphragm and sounds the horn. Elec? tricity Is supplied from a storage bat? tery or from current generated on the boat If It is electrically equipped. To Mow an electric foghorn you simply press a button.?New York Sun. HER PRETTY TEETH. Thry Ar' Ml Her Very f>.vr? and the P< ntltt Has -.i Grievance. "M??n iii every other profession and business have the a ivantage or den? tist! : tbo matter of advertising." s.?id a man wuu foieepa in his hi_L "Tl ; can persuade good looking young wo? men to wear their goods for photo? graphic purposes; the dentist cannot The whitest, evenest set of false teeth ever made cannot tempt a woman to wear them and be photographed with her mouth wide open. "Manufacturers of cosmetics and ar? tificial hair are besieged by women who are willing to daub their faces with paint and powder anc build their heads out with puffs and braids into any rtyle of architecture desired for photographic advertisements. Neither do they balk at patent wearing ap? parel. The most absurd garment ever invented can find somebody to pose in It before the camera. But false teeth are universally blacklisted. "Every woman who gets photograph? ed with her mouth spread into a smile wauts people to think that the teeth 3he shows are her own. and the dentist who would dare to label the picture These teeth made by Dr. Blank' would lay grounds for a libel suit "?New York Times. Books on a Shelf. Books are frequently ruined through carelessness. This Is less In the han? dling often than upon the shelves. Books should not be packed tightly on a shelf. It ruins the back and causes them to tear loose with the strain of getting in and out. Often it forces the leaves to sag to the shelf when pushed unduly, it Is just as bad for books to be too loose on a shelf, as they warp, and the spreading leaves encourage dust. A bookcase with the contents at every angle is not a pleas? ing sight. There are some housekeep? ers who think a yearly dusting of the books nt bonsecleaning time sufficient. This is bad enough when they are kept under glass; when on open shelves It means ruin to valuable books. It takes a little longer to dust the backs and tops of books on each shelf every day. ITse a soft cheese? cloth or silk duster and shake it fre quently.?London Globe, Good Clothes and Qood Morals. It is doubtful whether any one to whom soap and water and moro oi less tidy clothes are a matter of course can rightly estimate the extent to which this question of clothes and cleanliness bears ui>on the criminality of youths. Dirty, ragged garments, greasy cajm and neck scarfs worn day after day without the possibility of a change are, I believe, responsible for much. Certain it is that the lad who Is content with but one set of raiment Invariably belongs to a very low stra? tum of society, and the absence of a desire for a Sunday suit and the un abashed wearing of the weekday suit on tbo Sunday Is very frequently in deed the mark of one largely Imper vious to outside Influences.?C, B. B Hussell In "Young Coal Birds." Better it is to be envied than pitied.- -Herodotus. IDOLATRY IN MEXICO. The Natives Still Sacrifice Animal? te Their Favorite Qods. It may not be as apparent, but as a matter of fact idolatry has a strong a hold on the natives of the Mexican hot lands as when Cortes and his sol? diers marched through them on their way to Honduras 400 years ago. In the state of Oaxaca, in which is Tehuantepec. there is near every vil? lage some secluded spot?Ik? it a cave, the top of a mountain or a forest en? circled poo!?whither the people clan? destinely repair in order to make sac? rifices to their gods. The favorite sac riflce is a coat, a turkey or other fowl the head oi which is cut off and burled while the soil and the other offerings, consisting of dishes of food and a gourd filled with an intoxicating drink, are sprinkled with the blood. Tho place where these sacrifices are made determines their effect. If a Tetuana bears a grudge against a neighbor he will bury the head of a chicken or the bones of a dog at dead of night out? side of his victim's house, though, on the ether hand. If the ? eremonj Im per formed within !t in bring nothing hot good luck. The nath of the Isthmus firmly believe thai every child at blnb 1m* comes Intimately connected with some beast of the Jungle, and the growTnup man will never hurt that particular kind of animal. If the animal dies, the child dies too. The question Is to determine Just what kind of an animal it is, and in order to reassure him? self th> father sprinkles ashes or dust on the ground outside the house at the child's birth and watches for a spoor.?Everybody's Magazine. TORRICELLI'S VACUUM. Experiment That Led to the Invention of the Barometer. The barometer was Invented by Tor ricelli, a pupil of Galllei, In 1G43. In attempting to pump water from a very deep well near Florence he found that lu spite of all his efforts the liquid would not rise higher lu the pump stock than thirty-two feet This set the young scientist to thinking, and as he could not account for the ph? aoine non in any other way he was not slow in attributing It to atmospheric pres? sure. He argued that water would rise in a vaeunm only to such a height as would render the downward pres? sure or weight of the columu of water Just equal to the atmospheric rjressure and, further, that should a heavier fluid be used the height of the column could be much reduced. To prove this he selected a glass rube four feet long and after sealing one end tilled it with mercury and then inverted it in a basin containing a quantity of the same peculiar liquid. The column in the tube quickly fell to a height of nearly thirty inches above the mercury in the basin, leaving In the top of the tube a vacuum which h, ihe most perfect that has ever been obtained and which Is to this day called the TorrlcolU vac? uum lu honor of Its discoverer. The name of the instrument means "air measure," and its fundamental princi? ples cannot be better Illustrated than by the above described experiment. A Pretty Buey Man. When a man's business prohibits his caring for tin* chickens, when his af? fairs become so Important that he can no longer shake down the furnace, help drees one of the children or tlnkor about the place with a hammer and saw, tlien tlvat man's business had better be put Into the hands of a re? ceiver temporarily; Ids books do not balance, says 1 ?alias I-^re Sharp in the Atlantic I know of a college presi? dent who used to bind (he may stllll a cold compress sbout his head at tin>oa and. lying prone upon the floor, have two readers, one for each ear. pond simultaneously to him different theses, so great was the work he had to do. so fierce his flght for tlme>?time to lecture to women's clubs and to write his epoch making books. Oh, the multitude of epoch making books! Send us your Job work. ANOTHER PRIZE GIVES OUT. Alfred Pitts Gets Prize for liest Single-tree. Fiield Day turned out very suc? cessfully in every way, but th?re was one boy who did not think that he was treated exactly right In the dis? tribution of prizes. This was Alfred Tins who won the prize for the best B'.ngletre* made by any school pu? pil. At the time when his prize should have been given t<> him it was found that there was no prize for him. In the hurry of getting every? thing completed before dinner time Mr. W. If, Scott had given out the prize that should have gone to Al? fred Pitts to someone else. Another prize has been furnished now, how? ever, and given to the winner who is glad of the fact U dugs satisfactorily adjui teachers who did i ? On v. PKRSON \1. HFATIOX. Mr. J. Li. Richardson left Monday f ?r Orangeburg when he will take charge of a tirst Class bicycle shop. ? ? ? B. Frank Kelly. Ksq.. of Hishop ville, passed through the city this morning on his way to Columbia. ? ? ? <Jv*neral Sinkler and wife and two daughters, of Berkeley. passed through the city this morning on th<dr way to visit relatives at Boy kins. ? * * Rev. William Haynsworth, of Pri? vateer, spent the day in the city. ? a ? Mr. S. J. Barrett. of Columbia, spent last night in the city. ? ? ? Col. J. J. Dargan. of Stateburg, was In the city today. ? ? ? Judge John F. Ingram, of Privateer, was in town for awhile this morning. ? ? ? Miss Virginia Saunders. of State burg, was in the city shopping today. IsTllStl Louise and Kdna Bnu king ton, of Manning, were in town shop? ping today. a e e Messrs. R. [* Burkett and T. J. Cummins'* Of Dalzell. spent the day In t*>wn. Tin- Trinity College baseball team, which will play the Clemson team here on Thursday, for the baseball Championship Of the Carolinas is one of the strongest college teams In the South. OreaLattention is paid athlet? ics at Trinit//and the pick <?f the bail players among college boys in North Carolina And it to their Interest tc attend the Durham college, for thorn who need and desire employment dur ing the summer montha Und goo* placet in the Duke tobacco factorial in Durham open i them, and man: of the star ball piayers who vrouU otherwise drift Into professional bal ?luring the summer months are kep in the amateur claSB. in this way th? Trinity college loses more of its beat players before they have complete! their college course and the team i composed of strong and aeaaottti players. By many Trinity is regard ed aa the best all-round college team In the South and as Clemson has an unusually strong team this season the games hare Thursday will be high Class and an exciting contest. 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