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Qo eat nor BI ease's annual tressage to the legislature, read last Tuesday before the House and Senate, might at a glance give the Impression that he has saved the Stats thousands of dollars by curtailing expenses in some branches of the government and at the same time given the peo? ple Juit as good government as they eould have had with any governor or any amount of money. His whole messaie deeds with cutting down the ?xpenie* of the government. Prob? ably some few of his recommend? ations are for the good of the people, because they would lessen the taxes a Httlo. But the wholesale cutting recon mended by him is not a sane wsy t f dealing with the problems of the 8tau>. A man burdened with the pr?sent high cost of living might cut expenses by wearing cheap cotton slothing, wooden shoes, and going bare headed, and eating plain corn bread and water; bnt would It be the proper thing to do? He would soon lose his physical and mental vi? tality, his social standing among his friends, the respect of hu fellow man. bis own self reepect. end every? thing that would make him a real man. So with the government.? Pugeland Journal. The Fateful Leap Year. ' ? Tos fateful year h*J ?.-?* arrived wh#n woisjsa insv take tfh laitlativf. in lovg. ? t is a privilege won, so tray dlllo'i ... i st Bridget plead? ed with St. Patrick for th* girls of hep charge. Patrick thought one ye\r In seven enough for women to have the choosing. Put he could not with? stand her cajoleries, Middy' acushla. squeese me that way sgsln. and I'll glee you lea? rear, the longest of the lot" were hU words, as the story book says. and so. from St. Bridget down, the women have been able to look out for themselves. Their traditionally pas Stve attitude on the marriage ques? tion 1? a* llkel> in I... n misleading ae that of the spider about the time the fly enters the wide-spread v.eV Yf.?He however, be secrets of durk parlors and cloistral park benches Sparern Ing which we know not. Hut at the besp-year dance, aow In vogue, we are glad to know that women eotaefl publicly to her own. Phi Should make the most of be pi i\:? lege Th? unmannerly selfls'tneai ho of? ten seen on the dance floor Is very unfair In It* distribution of favor.* at eth?r itm s Frilly, fluffy, flower faced debutantes are surrounded with damsels gutity *f tnue years snd discretion. often very rythmlc snd graceful dancers, remain m re wall-flowers. Altbeegb the bsll room 1? sup? posed to display the culmination of the fln.?r graces of etl<ju?t. yet be? neath he veneer < f low bows and wide smirks, gsaadj n-i ehowi up as a pretty self ?h beast. lie rarely looks iibout him to se,. whleh of his frterd? ar? begging for a few crumbs ?f t out instead hies him to his favorib .? of fashion, who fire sump |SsajSj ..ii the r superfluity of Invita? tions. It 1? often asked why mimed people drop out no quick I) from the dhneing crowd. < me reason Is that many dignified girls find the necessary esm; djsj of c-oquettrles. abasing gbaSnsajtsaS to win Invitations from men I goal ggffl Nfi H kg too much ? f a bore. As he-ivy penalties are visited on women for the dn of being "fair and forty" the privilege Of ?ladleM' I hi.lct'" Will hlVe to te> extended b. -vend the ls??p \.-ar if people sre to keep dancing until the rheumatism retires them.? i ?r mg. toirg News. It was stated gg He rfJFSSt W. d nes?lav that an Inch of .mow was as good to the land <?< ? buinlred pounds of fertilise-. If this be true, the farmers need net ? U) Ml] fgf t?1ri?r? tbls year ss they sjsagdjj have it ? Uht hundred pounds to the arr? on their land. ?TJ5T r rrjsgatsineWLTsrj?'^^ At The Nickel Show Little Girl?Mamma. is It going to begin now? U it? Mamma?Yes. dear. Hush! Little Girl?Mamma, what makes that lady wear her hair like that? Oh, what are those men doing in the pic? ture? Mamma?It's in Africa. He's read? ing a letter. Little Girl?Who's it from? His mamma? Mamma?No. it's to his sister. . He's telling her to come down to see him. .-k friend of his. named Joe, will see that she gets there safely. Girl in Front?Oh. ain't that swell? Gee. I'd like to go on that boat! Some class! Little Girl Mamma, is that his sis? ter? And. mamma, where did that man come from? Mamma?'Sh! One's the man named Joe and the other's a new friend she has just met. Little Girl?O-oh. mamma, does she like him? Does she, mamma? Mamma?1 guess so. 'Sh! Evident? ly that other fellow wants her to talk to Mm, Sally. How silly he acts! Little Girl?Was he silly, mamma? Was he? Mamma?1 was speaking of your Aunt Sally. Be quiet, child. Girl at the Back?WThat do they bring such little kids for, anyhow? Little Girl?What is it? Oh. mam? ma, what Is it? Looklt! Lookit! Mamma?Hush! They're Just get? ting shipwrecked, that's all. It's noth? ing. Little Girl?Oh, what is shipwreck? ed? What is it. mamma? Does it mean getting spilled out like that? There goes the silly man! O-oh! Look at the water? Where*d that man go?" Mamma?He fell in, that's all. Now, see. they'll be saved. They've been three da>s on the life raft. Little Girl?Oh, mamma, where'll they get anything to eat? Girl in Front?Gee, ain't this swell? I hope that fresh kid gets drowned. Little Girl?What's the matter with Joe? What makes the new man act so? Mamms? Toe hasn't been nice and the new man makes him behave by hitting him. Sea. now. they come safe to shore. Little Olrl?Will they have some Tm^r ? ? ? uns? Will they? sill See, they're building s fire. Lttt'.e Oirl Oo-oh, mi.mma! Are real where did they gel vui . Mamma?Out of some show, I guess Siy. Sally, that certainly fs a fine stockade Pretty, ain't it? Little Girl?What makes the man ti re his ax? .Mamma'?He's the new man. He's going to chop trees. They'll build a bmnre on the shore so that ships can see they are there and pick them up. Little Girl?I guess he's gone to chop now and left Joe. ain't he? Oh, | toe s going to sleep. Why doesn't the grl tell him to look out? Oh, here tomes a lion! Oh, mamma, why doesn't the chopper chop the lions? Oh mamma, what are the Hons doing? What arc they doing? ^iitnma?Don't say anything. Snlly. 1 can't explain that they're eating him, can I? Little Girl?Oh, eating who? Oh, mercy, why doesn't the chopper come? Yamma Here he comet. U'b all right Little Girl-What's the chopper ear? ning away? What's he taking Joe off for? Is he all dead from the lions? Oh. dear, why didn't he chop 'eg*? How long have they got to stay there. Just the girl and the new man? Mamma?Two years, It says. Little Girl?Ain't they going to have anything to eat for two years? Girl In Front?Oh. see. her brother hears that their signals have been seen' 1 was getting scared for fear they weren't ever going to find them Little Girl- -Oh. look at the man and the elephant! Are they good men, mamma? Mamma?Yes. yes. it's her brotlver come to look for her Little Girl Oh. goody, goody! Why do they bring the elephant? Why do : they? Mamma?To ride on, of course Don't be foolish. Little Citri Oh. see tho Hons com? ing after 'em' O-o-oh, lookit! Lookit! Why doesn't the chopper chop 'em? Why doesn't he? Mamma It does look like a tight place, doesn't It. Sally? He can't shoot both those Hons with one ar? row 1 Ittle Girl Oh. why hasn't he ?oI n.ore? When they get eaten all tip v. Ill they go to heaven? Will they? Mnnima Here comes her brother. My. but that was a close call! Look at those Hons fall over! Good (shots, weren't they? Little Girl- -Oh. mamma, why does she kiss him? Why does she? Does -he like him get tor's the chopper? Oil, (hves She'' Maninil It'l hot brother. ehild Hush I Utth Olrl Ob, ti st'i ail oh. erbat i> c me of it? rIrl the B ICS Oh shucks' What I ? v ? bni >t ofl SO fa.k t for? b other and sis I wonder ?"in Send us your Job work Meeting an Emergency "Lemme sit by the window! Lemme sit by the window, dad!" shrieked the small boy, making a dive tor the last double seat. "Don't make sc much noise," growled dad, a fussy little man with I white eyelashes, following his son in- ! to the seat. "Here, turn around and | take your dirty shoes off my clothes." j Giving a farewell wipe with the thoee, the small boy turned his atten? tion to raising the window shade. "Here, leave that alone!" grumbled dad. "Don't you see that lets the sun shine right in on me? Why can't you have a little consideration for other people?" j "What's consid?Say, dad, look at 1 that kid out there. Say, looky! He j hit that other kid right in the nose, lay, 1 bet if I was that other kid I'd | punch him in the slats. Say, looky. ! i dad!" "If you don't shut up I'll drop you ' out of the window," observed dad, j sourly. "Keep still, now. I want to read the paper." "Say, dad, what're we stoppln' for? Oh, gee! Look at all the people get- i tin' on. Where's they all goin' to sit? . Say, dad, look at all the people." Dad buried his nose in his paper j and grunted. An injured looking man with a re- 1 ceding chin stationed himself in front of the pair and fixed dad with a meek glare. "Say, dad," remarked the small boy, punching his parent in the ribs, "that , man's lookin' at you. Say, what's he lookin' at you that way for, dad?" "Look here," muttered dad, in re- ! strained but wrathful tones, "if you i say another word I'll give you the j worst whipping you ever had ra your life the minute we get home." The small boy stuck his thumb in j his mouth and returned with a round eyed stare the glare of the injured ? looking man. At the next stop the | injured looking man was pushed for ward and his place was taken by two j short sleeved, low necked, hobble-1 skirted damsels. "Wisht 1 had some place to stt down."' remarked one, glancing from dad to his son. "Wonder he wouldn't make that kid' get up and Jet somebody have that | seat," observe her friend. "Dad," said the small boy, In a loud, j hoarse whisper, "she says It's a won- j der yon don't make me get up and j give her my seat. Do I have to give her my seat, dad? Ain't she got | nerve, dad?" Dad, his head completely enveloped In his paper, made no response. The two girls giggled. The small boy amused himself" for a few moments by sticking out his tongue at them. When this palled, he looked about for some other means of entertainment and hit upon the novel diversion of reclining upon the small of his back and run? ning his heels up and down the back i of the seat in front of him. The seat was occupied by a man who sat with hunched up shoulders and twisted legs, reading a railroad time table. He wore a dusty looking brown hat, with a rather wide brim, which the j small boy kicked with each gyration j of his feet. ? "Dad. watch me kick that man'; hat. Say, ain't that a funny hat, ?ad?'* No response from dad. The train stopped again and the two girls gave place to a fat, perspiring man with a heavy suitcase. He plant? ed the/ suitcase on the floor and drew j a handkerchief from his pocket. "Phew!" he observed to the public j in general, mopping his face with the handkerchief. "This ain't the kind of I day to run for a train." With the exception of the small boy, the passengers nil assumed the stony, far away expression that Is supposed to be appropriate when a genial re? mark Is made by a stranger to no? body In particular. The man looked down and caught the eyes of the small boy. "Say. son," he p.sked cheerfully, "don't you want to get up and let me have that seat? You can sit on ray lap." "Nnw!" replied the boy, regarding his interlocutor dispassionately. The fat man, with considerable ef? fort, seated himself upon his suitcase. "Well," he observed, as he seated himself, "1 ain't in the business of bringing up other folks' children, but j I must say that when I was a kid If I'd V sat down when there was a lot of grown people standing my dad would 'a' fixed me so i probiy wouldn't *a' been anxious to sit down anywhere for a week." Then, suddenly, something hap? pened. The hunched up man. thrust? ing the time table into his pocket, un? twisted his legs and rope to his full height, which was about six and a quarter feet. The shoulders straight? ened to an astonishing breadth. Without a word, he reached across the back of the seat, and. seizing the small boy under the arms, lifted him snd set him down on his fathers knees. Then he beckoned to the near? est woman. "Here's a seat, lady." he Haid For a moment there was a tense si? lence Then the fat man leaned over and touched one of the broad shoulders 'Pardon mo," he said, earnestly. "Hut WOllld you mind giving mo you artdrevs9 I'd like to have 'em send von a Carnegie medal." S-?nd us your Job work. He Changed His Mind "Every once In a while I change my mind about a few things," re? marked the youngish bachelor. "Just now I'm away out on a iinib, scarce? ly knowing which way to jump in re? gard to the matrimonial possibilities of this life. "You know, ever since I've been old enough to think out my wants for myself I've planned to wrait until I could make satisfactory arrange? ments with some young creature with a fair assortment of personal charms and also a lew bales of the negotiable yellowbacks in her own right, besidea a sterling silver key ring containing keys to safety deposit boxes, summer homes and all such things. "Of course, I never went into the boss ind told him I was going to quit my job pending final arrangements lor winning out a home with eight baths and hired help. No, I've kept plugging along all the time, and it looks as if 1 ought to be fairly well heeled some clay, even I should have to work for it all. But up to day be? fore yesterday I was still counting on facing a world some day that would say: "Yes, he married her just fot? her money." "It wasn't that I was so sordid as to leave r.ii such items as mutual personal regard out of consideration. 1 figured tiiat with all the hard work? ing fathers there are dying off and leaving their money to daughters who don't l:now how to Invest it or look after if, there surely ought to be one that w mid appreciate my true worth and who also would have every desirable personal quality that I would find in one with no chattels or prospects beyond a $40 trousseau. "But I've changed my mind since I passed a day last week with a fellow whom I've been envying for severai years because things seemed to break so well for him. The last time 1 saw him before this visit, he was about to be married to the daughter of his employer. Her dad gave 'em a bun ?alow in this suburb for a wedding present, and she bought a red touring car as long as a five room flat, out of her own funds. Then an uncle of hers turned a summer camp of his in :ae St. Lawrence over to them to use ?vhen they wanted it. Since then I've aeard from my old friend Jim by sou? venir postal, first from different pla :es in Europe, then f>om Palrx. Beach :>r New Brunswick, according to the reason of the year. "That was pretty soft for old Jim, it seemed to me, especially on hot lays, when I would be sweltering ' away at my office and the letter car- j rier would bring me a card that he'd ! sent me from some big resort off in the mountains or at the seashore. I j felt that I eoula enjoy that sybaritic lifC just as well as he could. "WeH, as I started to tell you. 1 vis- j Ited Jim a day or so ago. He apolo- I gized for meeting me with the ifraou- , sine on such a warm day, but he said the touring car was in the shop for i repairs after a jautrt he'd made up to lenSt lake in Wisconsin. "I saw at once that Jim was changed. Four or five years ago, be? fore he was married, he was one of those positive, table pounding follows in his talk?had strong opinions about everything, and didn't mind telling them. Now he acted so sub? dued ajid had such a hangdog look that T wondered if high living had knocked all the old-time ginger out of him. "After we got to his home and had handed our hats to a servant in the front hall I began to discover what was wrong. Jim's wife was a de? mure little thing to look at, but she had Jim jumping every minute of the time. Honestly, he didn't cut any more of a figure around that place than a four ounce piece of ice in a six-foot refrigerator. "Nice sort of a girl, too, Jim's wife was, you understand. She fairly out? did herself to show me a good time. First, she had Jim hustle upstairs aft? er some new records for the phono? graph. Then she eluded him for be? ing so dilatory about getting me a fresh cigar. Oh, it was Jim this and Jim that all the time. She did it in a pleasant sort of way, but Jim knew what he had to do, all right. He came about as near being the head of that house as a minority stockhold? er does to getting on the executive committee of a trust. Jim just help? ed around, that was all. "The next day he got to talking to me confidently. He said he was so sick and tired of Europe and summer resorts and winter resorts and so? ciety and money and the people who had it that he knew he would have been happy If he could just have mar? ried sonic miller's daughter in a jay town and then could have got a job as bookkeeper In a feed store and lived quietly In a drab cottage back of a sawmill "I saw where Jim was right, too." Kill o; Cure. Doctor Well, how are you today? Patient No better, doctor. Doctor ll.n 1 think you had better leave off taking thoss pill* I ordered yn-. ! 1 nven'1 taken an> of ? ?-? v? t goodnesi ?ake then i ? Pels M?le. Send us your Job work. REMOVED WILSON S VAMi: ON REQUEST. Harper's Weekly Explains Disappear? ance of Governor's Keine from Top ?.: Editorial Column. Ken York, Jan. ?The current number of Harper's Weekly contains the following editorial announce? ment. "To Our Readers: We make the following reply to many Inquiries from readers <>f Harper's Weekly: "The name of WoodroW Wilson, a* our candidate for president, was taken down fr?.m the hea.j of these columns :n i espouse to a statement made to US directly by Qov. Wilson, to the ef? fect that our support was affecting his candidacy injuriously. "Tlie only course left open to us In Simple fairness to Mr. Wilson no less than in consideration of our own self-respect, was to cease t > advocate his nomination. "We make this explanation with great reluctance and the deepest re? gret. But we can not escape the conclusion that the very considerable number of our r tadsrs, who have CO-operaied earnestly and loyally in advancing a movement which was in? augurated solely in the hope of ren? dering a high public service, are dearly entitled to this information." Wilson Silent. Princeton. X. J., Jan. It;.?When seen at his home here tonight Gov. Wilson refused to make any com? ment upon the editorial which ap? peared in Harper's Weekly giving the reason for taking the governor's name as a presidential candidate from the head of the columns of that weekly. The South, the Negro and Labor. Hampton-Columbian Magazine. Governors and other leaders from several Southern States recently con? ferred in Baltimore on labor and in? dustrial conditions In that section. The reawakened South. industrially and agricultjrally expanding at ? rate unknown since the Civil War, needs labor. There is insistent de? mand that European immigrants be Steered to the South to supply this demand. The negro is almost ignored in this demand for immigration. He is set down as hopeless, trilling, futile, im? possible. But is it safe to rush to that conclusion. r Though the white population of the South is increasing more rapidly than the black, and though every* decen? nial census makes it more clear that there is no possible danger of the black, as once was feared, orrtrcing to predominate?despite all this, the fact remains that there are some eleven millions of colored people in the country, and that they cannot be got rid of. There stands the hard fact. It may be that the negro it, not ro desirable a worker In factory or field SS the immigrant; but if the immi? grant takes his place? rhe negro wiir be left on the hands of society, de? manding the means of livelihood. a menac to the community in greater -tnd greater degree just in proportion as the hopelessnees <?f his condttl ?n is made more apparent. if the South'* <-i wen million ae groes could be traded off for eleven millions of white, that would be a so? lution. But they cannot be. The ne? groes are there, ami will stay there They must be provided for; made as useful as possible; made to support t hemselves, To make the most, the best, of Its n >gro workers is the first bi^ duty of the South, rt is the most difficult problem before the natton. it cannot be solved by the effort to drive the negro out; he will not be driven our. He must be looked after, educated lb the right way, given a chance to be self-respecting, encour? aged ro improve his condition. An Aged Negro. An old darkey walked Into The Nea'S office on Saturday morning and stilted that he had been sent in to have the fact recorded that he was 115 years old published in the paper. He gave his name as Alfred Bpps ami said he was born on the Bpps [dace about three miles out of town snd bad lived there all his life. He Was a slave owned by 1 >r. .lames Bpps for t?i years until freedom came. He can see perfectly without glasses, talks Intelligently and gets around BS easily as some much younger men. When the editor ask j cd him bow much longer he was uo. inj; to live he said "he put his trust up yander." He Is married and his wife. Belinda Bpps, is now s? or ss years obi. Allied says he was a child with old man Whitmlre, after Whom this town was named, ami thcv were brought up together. His brother, Wade Bpps, who lives In Spartanburg, Is two years older than Alfred. He does not COTtlfl of a lmiK llved family as his father was only 83 when he died.?Whitmlre News. CT/>HI N< F CHIEF SUSPENDED, lohn #. Koopshnn, Head of Police, 'lunged with Usdstoatig Con duct. Florence, Jan. 16.?Chief of Police ohn J. Koopman was suspended ??< m the police fore*- of this eitf yes ; rday by Mayor Gilb ?rt. pending ac? tion of the city council at its regular meeting on Thursday night next. Mayor Gilbert, when seen today relative to the matter by this cor spondent Stated that, from infor? mation received, he had. by aad with conaaftt of a majority of the po? lice committee from council, see* ponded Chief Koopsnan from the farce until the regu1 r meeting of council, for conduct unbecoming an officer, and that h * h d likewise ap pointed Policeman John Farmer a3 I ctlng chief until that time. Just what the nature of th. charges were, the mayor stated that they would be forthcoming at council meeting, and tir ferred not giving them out for publication until they had been made to the full council in session. Some time ago charges were pre? ferred against the chief to c ity coun > il. and they wer^ referred to the po? lice Committee, with instructions to report back to council. That commit? tee reported that they found no fault serious enough to aemand the discharge of the chief, and so he was exonerated* On yesterday the com? plaints vrere again made. and the mayor and majority of the police C n.mittee again took the matter up, and the chief was retired. TREE TAG DAY FOR si MTFR. Vnnoy to he Raised on Friday. Jan? uary 2?tli. to Save tl o City Trees. One week from today every man and woman in the city will be ap? proached on the streets and tagged and it will be up to them to donate some good r^al coin of the Uncle Ban variety for the saving of Sum ter's trees. It will do no good to re? fuse because on the very next cor? ner you will be tagged again and s ? it will go all day. There will be only one way to avoid being constantly tagged and that will be to buy yotir tag and wear it all day long. The women of the Civic League will in? augurate thus day and are working out all the details. Sumter has many beautiful trees. It is the first thing that is noticed and re-marked upon by a visitor. Un? fortunately many of the beat trees have died for lack of proper care and ma.iy more will soon have to be cut down unless they are attendel to at once. The life blood of many of these trees is being sapped by the mistletoe. Other3 should be prop? erly trimmed and in mnay cases the rotten parts must be cleaned away and rilled with cement. It takes an . Xpert to do this work. Otherwise the trees are worse oft* than before. The New York State Supreme Court has decided that a tree is worth 1500. This was decided in the case of a contractor who cut down a tree and damages to that amou.it were awarded and the judgment was sus? tained. The value of a well located lot is increased by just about that sum for every large shade tree there? on. It should be made a crime to destroy a shade tree SJIftei SSaarlly. The money collected on Tree Tag Day will be used by the Civic League to secure experts to properly trim and car* for the city trees and every citizen should be glad to contribute toward this work and to aid these ladies. They have the hearty co? operation of the city authorities and th*- Chamber of Commerced HARMON NtrT \t IT VF CAXaH* DATE, Governor Declares II? i?? Not Going to Make Campaign for Presidential Nomination. St. Paul, Minn.. .la.i. If.?JudSOn Harmon, governor of Ohio. passed through St. Paul tonight on his way to Pargo, n. i>.. where he win at* tend the conference of the north weetern Democrats on Wednesday and Thursday. "I am not an active candidate for the presidency," sai<t Mr. Harmon ' ami shall not make an active cam? paign for nomination. If it comes to me I shall feel highly honored." Law Eanantners Rre^ipoantedk ?Columbia. Jan. 17.?The Supreme Court today reappolnted Messrs. B, Ctrl er, of Greenwood, and W. C. Miller, of Chnrleaton, as members of the board of law examiners for a term of three years beginning March 1. The Deepest Hole. The deepest hole in the world up to date is the boring begun ten years sgo at Czuchow, Silesia, with the ob? ject of attaining a depth of 8.660 metres, and which has now reached a depth of 2,240 motiee '7,349 feet). The bor' ** r*0mMmm4*fm* '17 InrhM^ In diu pre