Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

C||t cMatcjjmait ani ?outbron. FuelAabcd Wednesday and Saturday. ?BT? OSTEEM PUBLISHING COMPANY S 8UMTKR, 8. C. $1.10 per annum?in advance. AdverUaamenut One Square first Inaertlon.tl.00 ?very aubaequent Insertion.60 Contracts tor three months, or loager will be made at reduced rates. AU communications which sub aarve private interests will be charged faa sa advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed In 1110 and the True Southron In alt? The Watchman and Southron Sjpw bas th* combined circulation snd nee cf both of the old paper*. Is manifestly the beet advertising hum In Sumter. SjnjBSB?BBf.?SBJ???_ ItBDrcK T1IK COTTON ACREAGE. We print today the reports of the <owujhtp canvassers who have been working to secure pledges for the reduction of the cotton acreage tin? ier the Roe\ Hill plan. These re? ports were filed with County Chair? man Velll ODonnell Saturday and represent ,the results accomplished in one week by a few of the township aa& raisers. Reports from other can vasnom ahould bo filed within the next few days. An Inspection of the report! that have been filed show that movement to materially reduce cotton acreage In Sumter county Is receiving substantial support from |May fsrmers and the pledgee al? ready t ecu red guarantee a considera? ble reduction In acreage. On the other hand. It will bo noted that many names that one would expect to And on the list sre wanting, and this Is discouraging. Some of these have declined to pledge a reduction be? cause they have planted for several years ten acres or leas of cotton to the plow, and claim that they cannot conduct their fsrmlng operations with a smaller acreage In cotton. Others who have not signed the pledge express full sympathy with the plan to curtail the acreage, and said they heartily approve of the content plated reduction of cotton acre? age I i* w*re not prepared to pieuvge any definite redocttou el thta time. a\UI others andor*ed the yu:?. but wouM not t>l?<n toe po d<?. Th??s? *ti?ius?h1 to sign the pledge were in the miner'ty. however, and aa the canvass U pushed It is confidently be? lieved ;bat a very large majority of the substantial and Intelligent fsrmers will fall In line and will give this snoverr??nt for their financial benefit their hearty support snd co-opera Hon. it Is importsnt. however, that the canvass be carried to an early com? pletion and those whom the canvass? ers Visit should not postpone action, for the canvassers cannot make re? peated visits to secure a signature, matter of reducing oreage has i dtscu?*ed for several months, all who have given the cotton sit any thought are agreed that the only salvation of the cotton farm? er and business Interests of the South la a smaller crop this year than la?t. and that the ouly guarantee of a smaller crop Lb a reduction of the a? r?? i ce. Therefdffi - vct > ntas who plants < otton she uld know at this time what he intends doing In respect to curtailing his cotton acreage. An ?her tifteen mllltm >ale crop means four ? 'Uon and ?> inruptcy for the South, while a ten or eleven mil Mnr hale crop means higher prices and prosperity What do th ? farm? ers *ant"? The uuest on is answered when they sign er refuse to sign tho pledge to reduce the acreage. There are resident In this city a gur-'.r f aassj who plant themselves or control a large cotton acreage, md while some ff them hue signed the pledge? othets have not done so., These men sre landing M th ? wa> ->f SJa%? success of the in clement, and they ?hould fall In line without delay. |fr. M'tk>nnel| requests that those who have not signed the pledge and those Whom the onnvas?.-rs have not be. n abl. to >*,>,? f.?r a' \ I'Mon, send In their pledges direct t | him. Ho !s anxious to complete the canvass of fhjmter county and make a satlsfac tor\ . port to the S\it.. nup- rint.?nd enc. Fcrce -if Hefnf/I The remarkable loret 04 sOtse'l nick wan d uionair>?t.?' ike othei lay at a tralmnu SStSbltshaseai ?! hmss clerc. near lou'hamptON rht shoe of g tnoroi bn d r ? s -?ff ind i ai hurled oxer ? .? ? p of lh< I pOSltg stable, u ' : leeaway tt a height at nearly thirty lea*, ?ttd leaded oa ?? e g| . r ?f ?/f a gresnbouss beyond Lined Nest With Bank Notes. * pair of swallows of rlebcrbiutin, ?no Tyrol, have stolen a number of roi in bank notes o line lh< If Her Father's Birthplace ?y Harmony Weiler Jean Wlnslow strolled leisurely through the little old village streets. The quaint architecture, the odd un? expected turns Into narrow lanes and the entire primitive aspect were all new to her delighted eyes. Jean had stolen a day 'rom the big house party In order that she might take the short run over to the little New Hampshire village where she could glimpse her father's birthplace. She kept her eyes open for the small landmarks he had told her of and searched for the house of his descrip? tion Jean hoped It would be unoccu? pied?she could ramble about it and see all the places her father loved to recall. Tes! There It was, Its big wings reaching over the brow of the hill and well shaded by giant fir trees. "It's vacant!" Jean breathed bap plly and quickened her pace. Jean had no fear of the so called haunted house and. besides, a well kept mansion lay within calling dis? tance from her father's birthplace. Joan picked her steps daintily through the weed-grown paths like a mauve elf among the tall grasses. "Daddy didn't exaggerate one bit!" Jean's eyes swept it. the wide Coloni? al door and the wonderfully carved pillar caps, "and what a love of a knocker!" She tried the handle. It was lock? ed. With a pout Jean went around to the back of the house and discov? ered the slanting celler door. "Daddy used to slide down this." Jean laughed and tried to lift the heavy door. It yielded and she pick? ed her way down too dark stairs lift? ing high fluffy mauve laces as she wont. The place was fearfully dark and full of musty odors. Jean bravely stilled her fears and went up tha creaking stairs and through the kitch? en. "if only we could have this In town." sighed the girl as she went through room after room each one bigger and more sunny than the last. On the second floor she found the "It's Vscsrrtr room with the bow window In which | her father was born Jean peered about as If the very walla migit wit- j nes-t her emotion as she surreptltl ously dabbed the tears from her ' ?yss Her emotions were very near the surface The utter desolation of | the grand old home that had har bored her father's boyhood, tho very , bare room that echoed her very | breathing had all hciped to urstring her nerves. "1 haven't seen the nursery with the phantomshlp border or the little turret room that I saw from the out? side." she said half aloud. Jea.i's courage was at strangely low ebb when, after seeing the nur? sery she discovered a small dark stairway which led to the turret room that she had set her heart on see? ing Again lifting the flu^y laces she , made her way carefully up the wind? ing stairs. So loud was the beating, of lie; own heart that she heard no sourida save the imaginary ones of her own i nation She turned the handle of the door, the only one on that high landing It was locked. She tried again making a great noise. I 1 e door opfned suddenly after a great sound like an explosion. \ huge nun loomed up in the door? way Ills face was smeared and his half was that of a wild man. A tow? el had been swiftly tied across one side of his head Ol h'' I?; i ihrleked and roll in a ,.i lp 01 Ihi dtlttS ftOOf ol the land ii I When lbs regained ennscloustn ,, found that sac was [ylBf cm a wide, soft couch; the fa-e bending over hers was neither grimy nor in fad anything that iuggsstsd evil, it v di wore the towsl bandaged ovei oic temple b:?t the expression ihlnlQfl in the i fti v.;s to adorns i, foar snd ?< msihlsi ihsi mads .lean blush. "Qrsnt Scott* l thought i had h Hod you' " he said in the deep voles Je.in had SOmohOS expected. Shi laughsd and s.d up among \\\p i\i idens "It wouldn't have h. en tau'i I was Miooplng tind -" s n I os your job work. She broke off and asked quickly, "What are you looking at?1 feel nervous?is anything the matter with me?" "No 1 was only thinking bow much you look like a great pansy there among the green pillows." "That is rather a funny thing to tell a girl who is startled out of her wits and is wondering how she ever managed to stumble on an evidently sane man?" "Working among explosives at the top of a vacant house," finished Dan vers and Jean liked his laugh. After joining it for a moment she said: "Where Is that awful room and where am I now?" "You are in my den," he said, "and it la adjoining the awful one in which 1 make experiments?it was one of I the latter that you heard blow up." \ Danvers laughed ruefully. "la it my turn to ask questions?" i Jean's eyes answered him. "Who are you and where did you come from? Ycu don't live in the village?that I know." Jean wisely refrained from asking him how he knew. Her courage had returned but her nerves had taken a funny little turn and she felt stangely afraid of this man with his steady glowing eyes. He looked like the roan who commands by the very ap? peal in his eyes. i "I was the guest at a bouse party | not ten miles from here," Jean told > him. My father was born in this house and I came over to see it. I am Jean Winslow." "Jean Winslow! My father and James Winslow were friends. Has your father ever mentioned John | Danvers? At least?I r.ave heard of Jean?Winslow." The girl liked the way her name was spoken. She laughed and ex- 1 tended her hand. "Since wo have heard of one another?we might shake hands." It seemed for the space of a second as if the turret in the Winslow home stead was hung in mid-air. "Oh-h!" Jean cried after a moment, j "your head! Did something hit you , ?before 1 came?" She arose swifts '< ly and before he could stop her bad , taken off the bandage. "Oh!" she cried again. "Where will I find some water?" "It is nothing?a mere scratch/* Danvers said, but directed her to the small lavatory. "It doesn't need any-1 thing except that It would feel much better?if you bathed it." The half boyish Joy in his eyes brought a smile to Jean's lips as she carefully | dressed the slight cut on his temple. When the bandage was neatly on again they went and stood by the tiny window of the turret. They seemed miles above the surrounding country and Denvera pointed out ihe wig bouse on the hill. "Trmt Is n.y hcme. ' hi Said limply. Then he laughed "They won't 1st tn< make my experimep i over there ?in case i uiuw up tue oiu uuuie stead." I "You prefer to blow up?this one? my father's birthplace?" "1 can t say that I am sorry," he told her in a deep, serious voice, "but 1 am going to make up by cultivating the gardens and having the place put In perfect repair. Would you like that?" Somehow Jean understood all that be meant in the last short sentence. if you will let me help," she smiled swiftly into his eyes. After a moment of silence Danvers Bpoke. "If you will come over now and let the tnafer give you a cup of tea I will drive you over the ten miles I was- invited to the house party." he said and turned to look at Jean. "How U rg are you going to be there?" Jean kt.cw that the appeal was in his eyes and she looked only for a moment. " i but?depends," she said, "upon the nev guests." Wages Eight Cents a Day Higher. Among the statistics submitted in the report of the state department of labor it is shown that the average daily earnings are larger by eight rents than they were last jear, the figures being $3.26 as against |3.1s Industrial prosperity is not limply I pncketbnok and a pair of willing hands working in harmony. The shares which go to one on dividend day and to the other on pay day are determined by larger considerations. Economic conditions are never permanently one? sided Energy, gulden uy judgment and cautioned by frugality in the work? room, nu ans product plus quality in the counting-room. Eight cents i day is a good sign in more Wayi than one. Hut it should bars been more The cost of living. should not beat wages to the wire ? Now York World. Cause of Writer's Cramp. \ physician states that writer's iramp end allied mUSCUlar affections arc Indtti ? d by the UBS of too small a penhpldi r Many of the penholderi In common uae are too small to allow I firm grip to be taken, and the result is that the fingen close down tightly In an effort *?> bold the pen securely, and the long tension results in cramp, if those wan writ habitually will use a penholder nr four times as large ii '-rally employed they wll trouble with their llng< a good way io on large I h< to lake bli flexible tubing, und : ! et it on I 'i bis b ith ? i ,?. r larg< affords i n , ? .. ' \- : oi dot s not need lo he * i htly?or. In other wt ol tend to H'.ip ?end an your Job When Angeline Came Home "Yee, we're awful glad to get back to town," confided the twelve-year-old sister of the young woman who?e spe clal young man was calling for the first lime since the family returned from the lake. "Er?Miss Angellne?your sister?ts she glad, too?'' inquired the young man craftily. "My goodness, yes!" said the small girl in surprise. "She's the gladdest of us all. Angellne didn't seem to care for any of the things that were real fun, like Ted and I did?she was always afraid of getting Bunburned or something. I don't think when you grow up there is much left in life to enjoy. All Angellne wanted to do was to put on another drees and do up ber hair and moon around with the count.' The young man sat up straight. "The count?" he repeated inquiringly, with a haaty glance at the stairs. "Who wa8 he?" "Why, didn't you know there was a real count at the lake?" asked the small girl in surprise. "I should have thought Angellne would have written you about him, because that was ail she could talk or think about "When she found his name on the reglater," went on the email girl, "1 thought ehe'd have a fit or something, for ahe came rushing upstairs and dragged out her beet white embroid? ered linen suit. " 'Why,' ehe eaid to mother, 'did 1 put on this horrid, cheap blue ging? ham for breakfast thla morning? Do you suppose he was the one who eat at the next table?' "I wae excited, too, but when 1 asked her if he would walk on a tight rope, or something, ehe pushed me out of the room. "All the grown up women were just as excited as Angellne and rushed around whispering together. Ted and 1 decided that he must have two heads, or something, so we started out to find him. There waa a strange man read? ing a magazine in the arbor and when we walked in and asked, 'Are you a count?' he stared and then he laughed. After that he said he wasn't, but he'd be pleased to direct us to the end of the pier, where we could pursue our Inquiries. "There wae another strange man there and I didn't like him half bo well r,* the fi;.*; one. !t? kept Jumping arouc' and his eyes fcn*4.,>ped and we j stared m aim i Ions time, till he at- j most 1 . al us. Tuen I asked j him, Are jou e ooutttf And pieuse | "I don't think he liked us, because he threw up his hands and dashed away. "He acted different with Angellne. He was always leaning over her chair and smiling and hie voice Bounded like the inside of marshmallows. There waen't any other girl there as pretty as Angeline, so, of course, ehe cut out all the others." "She did. did she?" remarked the young man in tense tonee, with an? other glance at the stairs. "Go on!" "Oh, my. yea!" eaid the email girl. "She told mother ehe gueesed if any of those washed out. uninteresting girls there thought they were going to get ahead of her they were mistaken. Mother got real patronizing to the other women and was always talking about estateB and family trees and how Angdine was euch a sweet and lovely and brilliant girl that she had always known her fate would be differ? ent from the common run of young women. 'No honors.' ehe said once, 'no honors ever he aped on Angeline's head would ever make her forget to be nice to thoee heneath her.' "The other women Just sniffed and left Angeline alone, out she had the count, so she didn't care. She used to talk about it to mother and eay. 'Won't the other girls back home be limply crazy jealous when they hear about it, though?' A.id mother would eay, If only tather doesn't act up!' "It \mis real fun to see Angellne sweep through the hotel lobby like a queen and smile sw ?etly at the other women and see how cross they'd look . and hew they'd rod fast and talk aft- I er she'd gone "One aiternoon the co int was going to take Ango.ine riding and ehe came downstairs all rigged o.tt and he wnsn't there. Finally she asked the man behind the desk, 'Have you seen tin count? 1 am waiting for him. "There were a lot of people around and Ihev kind of laughed. Then the man bonind the desk coughed and Faid: 'Well there were two men wait? ing to: hll I too, while he was in at lunch and -l y took him away. They ?or?had a warrant. He's been Jump? ing board bl!la all summer and the de? ft Rtivt t r n htm down here. They ?ifri ? ? ? 1 'ri art ut a forged check. tOv> "So \;-;?re nv as just as glad to come h( the rest of us." said the Bra ? Irl he ^"t terrible home lick art< ? ed and i were glad to com e father wrote that then - ? i w puppies in the ' e! Say. Angle. ! ? to Mr Hoplngon ( .i you wrote to from the lake? ? w r i hing about him. Up to Date. nightman last night an a night airship " Ahsoiut&iy Pure The only Dafclng Powder mado 1 from RovsiCraDeOream of Tartar NO ALUM, V.O LIME PHOSPHATE ll ? ??? L. L. BAKER ORGANIZES CLUB AMONG BUNTER COUNTY BOYS FOLLOWING SPEECH? ES SATURDAY. Thirteen Boys Join ciub and others j to Join Later; Bora Endeten Bill Providing Agricultural Education In County Common Schools; Mr. J. Frank William- and Supt. Hayns, worth to Work up Campaign. The meeting Saturday in the coun? ty court house for the purpose of arousing interest in the work of the hoys' corn clubs in this State was highly satisfactory to those who had come there for that purpose. The meeting ended with the re-organiza? tion of the Sumter County Boys' Corn Club with thitteen members and the promise of more members in the near future. The boys at the meeting endorsed the bill now before the General As? sembly which provides for the teach? ing of agriculture in the common achoola of the State and passed a res? olution asking that it be passed at this session of the General Assem? bly. Following the address by Mr. O. B. Martin, who was the principal speaker for the occasion, Mr. E. W. Dabhe made a short talk on the marketing of crops other than cotton and Mr. H. W. Beall spoke on the need of teaching agriculture in the common schools. Superintendent of Education Haynsworth, Mr. J. Frank Williams and Mr. I,. L. Baker also had a few word3 to say about the work of the boys' corn club in this county and wherein lay Its Import ,- ?* * - T>r, \rcrovo r, fp\v instruc corn clubs In thi? United States, ot ? which he ic the head. He made an interesting address and was listened to attentively by those present. He said in part that the present two weeks' campaign in South Carolina was for th<? purpose of arousing in? terest in the boys' corn clubs in this State. This was especiallly import? ant at this time as the National Corn Exposition would come to Columbia next year and the records made by Jerry Moore, Archie Odom and Bas comb (Jaher of this State had done tOUih to make it possible for thi3 Statt to obtain the National Exposi? tion. The record made by the corn ci tbs \v the Stat? during the coming -ear would go a long ways toward making it poeeible t?> get th.? National Com Club here again. Tin campaign would last for two ? cekj and would extend over the v hob of the State. Two parties had been Bent OUt and tWO meetings noulu be held In different parts ^f the S'ate ?ach day l?>r the purpose n art using interest in the corn clubs ; a 1 the boys' demonstration work In the htute. Last year had been a bad year for other places as well as for S uit a Carolina and there was there? to-.-,, more reason that the boys of ibis Mate should get to work as this State fell behind other slates last year rfitr having been at front of the Southern states for three years, led ly !'.;..emb Usher, Archie Od >m and l??: ry Moore. JL\, Martin then Btresod the work that the corn club was endeavoring to do. 11) To teach primary agri? culture In a simple and practical manner; <-> to teach b love <>f plant life ami the value of the soil; i? to give purpose and direction to young lives at a critical and oppor? tune time; ( 1 > to dignify labor; < .".) to give the boys a chance to demonstrate good farming to their communities and t- the world; (6) to teach the boya earning, owning and accounting; <7> to tench the val? ue of rivalry and co-operation In pro? duction anil marketing of cropc; (I) to give tb?' schools a broader and new object; <1<M t<< develop man? hood. Ho laid especial emphaalB on i he lact thai the work of the boys . a th< farm in raising their own or ops was th i greatest thing that rould be done :?t ih'> time and the lact that the work on the farm de? eloped the best Bpeclmen of man? hood lo be found in the country, id then \\ nt on tell some of the things thai bud been done dur? ing Ihe paat year, Nobody bad yet caught up with the yields mad.' by Jerry Moore, but one boy Lad made 227 taghell on one acre and was not far behind him in his yield per acre. Six boys had made more than 200 bushels of corn on an acre, and at an average cost of about twenty cents a bushel. One boy had made 212 bushels of corn on one acre at a cost of 8.6 cent3 a bushel. This ws* the most strik ng thing that h done by any of the hoys and what the boys corn club dep wanted more of. Not the ra so much corn on an at re \. ...... ?. was raised at a heavy cost, but the raising of corn at a reduced cost per bushel. He laid great stress on thi3 point. Corn could be grown by the use of a great deal of fertilizer, but he wanted the boys to grow it at loss cost than it had formerly cost them or their fathers when it wae grown. He then went on to tell of the fact that he had 50,000 boys on his rolls now and had had that many for the past few years, but the effort was being made this year to get twice that number at least. He wanted to see the corn club in this county suc? ceed and he would do all in his pow? er to make it a success. It was left with the boys themselves to show what they could uo after hearing all of the instructions that they could get from Clemson College ani the lo? cal demonstrators. After the other addresses had been made and the corn club organized by Mr. [* L. Baker, the work of. se? curing more members for the corn clul) was left with Mr. J. Frank Wil? liams and County Superintendent of Education J. H. Haynsworth and the boys who had joined the club. The names of any more boys who wanted to join were to be turned over to these persons and forwarded on to Mr. i ?<? ? tid it is probao.e that 1 here uujd be? longing to the club this year than, ever before. Those boys who joined the corn club at the organization were: James McB. Dabbs, Mayesville; Marion Brice, Wedgerleld; James Norrie, Wedgefield; Xeill Ryan, W dgeheld; Wilbjr Prescott, Sumter, R. F. D. No. 1; Glenn Pryor, S?vmter, H. F. Xo. 2.; Leon Dollard. Sumter, K. F. D. Xo. 2; Hazel Mc L. od, Rembert, R. F. Di Xo. 1; Rob? ert Witherspoon DuRant. Sumter, R. F. l>. Xo. 5; Richard Wells. Sumter. K. F. I). Xo. 5; James Franklin White. Sumter. R. F. I). Xo. 5. < im.:?m \ iu hm:d to death. Lost lilvee When RosideiUv Burned Near Cimpobello. CampobellO, Jan. 2".?Three chil? dren of Walter J. Qlhoon perished in the Harnes? and a fourth was fatally burned when his home, three HOSSSS from ^Campobetlo, was burned down at one o'clock this morning in his absence. A fourth child was saved through the courage of a neighbor, but received burns which caused his death. OILY TAKING OUT WRINKLES Woman Gives Her Gcwns Steam Bath and Alarms the Entire Hotel Sta:f. The couple had been traveling and the wife's gowns had got wrinkled Alter dressing they went to the thea? ter, having previously unpacked the trunks, hung all the wrinkled dresses up in the bathroom and then filled the bathtub with hot water Not long after their departure per? sons passing along the corridor no? ticed something that looked like smoke coming on1 through the open transom, and an alarm of fire was given. One of the managers and a lot of porters and lellboys. SOUS armed with tire extinguishers, ru^iud up to the scene Things looked sen ous. The manager produced his p tss key and the brave followers prepared to rush in and distinguish themselves The steam was so thick in the room thai not a thing could be seen One look established that the fapof was .mt imoko. Whet; the traveled couple got back to the hotel they found an Hide manager am! a lot of soaked .rocks. The woman said she had often taken the wrinkles out of dress es by a strain bath and .-he didn't see why the hot watoi wai k< pt : o very hot anyhow, for goodness knew thai nobody wanted to lake a bath in boil? ing water