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PnblleticxJ Wednesday and Saturday. ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTER. g. C. Wmmm I Lie per annam?In advance. Advertise aaeut*: One Square first insertion.$1.90 ?very subsequent Insertion.SO Contra- is far three moetha, er longer wlii be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub* Sarve private Interests will be charged far as advertisements. Oettuartee and trlhutee ef rsspeot will he charged far. The >iym(?r Watchman was trad? ed in HIS and the True Sau thron la tie* The Watchman and Seothrea Sow has the combined circulation and tngnenc* ef fcoth of the eld paper*, aad la manifestly th* beet advertising medium In Sum tar. TI1F. KIHCATIONAL COMMISSION. Severn) years ago. under an Act of the legislature. Oovernor Ansel ap? pointed a Commission to revise the law? of the State relating to educa tlon. The Commission worked with the most painstaking assiduity and prepared a set of laws that would have given continuity and Integrity to the school system In South Caro? lina. For several reasons the Leg? islature has postponed from year to year the consideration of the hill proposed by the Commission, and this piece of work, the creation of men who. from their positions and ex? periences, should have known what th??v were doing, has lain dormant in the legislative archives. We trust that this bill is only dormant and not extinc t; for we need a systematic set of laws relating to education, and from the examination that we have given thin hill, we feel that it will be a part of wisdom for the Legisla? ture to take up this set of laws as prepared by the Commission for Im? mediate consideration at Its next ses? sion. We have understood that the Com mteslon Is prepared to revise some of the provisions of the bill?those features that appear to he most radi? cal and objectionable. We trust that the Commission, which In our Judg- j ment Is nut formally dissolved until Its report shall have been detinltelv acted upon, may prepare a revised hill to present at the next session of the Legislature. What the laws relating to education lack now are system and consistency. To attempt, therefore to revise these laws by separate bills would result in - nfusion worse confounded. A bill embracing all of the laws relat? ing to educnt on should be presented. In thi*. way, only. m we hope ever to ha e a school system wor.hy the name Professor W. H. Hand has been publishing a series of ex?K lb nt papers relative to the need of a better sys? tem of schools lot South Carolina. Betwe. n i 1 of -he inn s one may read the crylna need of | systematic set of laws for the sdtieation.il Interest of the whole : t?te In view of the work that th | he I already done the gen? smea whe compose this com? mission mav beat rovtns this 9et of laws to be presented in their en? tirety to the next Legislature. We tru-t that the I'ommission may work upon these |gf m-l have a tin u draft readv wh-n the Legislature convenes May WS not at the same time express the hoj . that the gen? tiemen who compoot the goal Doner? al Assembly mav .egnrejcsiv ely tik advantage of an Opportunity to render the State of South C ?r dlna a '/e?. ulne ser\iee b\ enacting this pm posed bri of really constructh ? leg isla t Ion? "A thousasd yonrs a tree serve to form a State; An hoar may lay it In the dsmt ? a e bentley Is oi r authority, for tins maxim "No nan was ever written er spoken out of reputation except by himself " Pot ,.,,,? tins is tin- reo? *oa why tho <b earn or n ts l.e.n stead? ily losing I SJ UM paet three weeks, e a e When the i hief wscontivw of a sovereign St advocates from the ateps of the oapttol Itself tin. tenets of anar- hv. is It not time for |nW? ibnlina cltlxem serumsis t<? stop and think ' To Im igine |hs indorsement af such an ex, utlve by re elec tion Is appalling. a a a Insinuation Is the tool <f a cow? ard baseless Innuendo employed by a conteatant shows a total disre? gard of gOOOnOJ and fair play. <i<?\ Hiease has assiduously endeavored to create the Im; g-aantOg thai Judg< Jon?"* Is a mart of mixed blood ,nnl Mannt knows I ?.t \w< Ins ination b,i^ not the BNghteet foundation In (act, * ? ?> l?o the advocates ..f QoV, BloaSS believe that under his admlnlstral ? law and order will be heal presei ? ?I property ilgh** be host maim ,m I the highest type Ol cit z? nship be rnaltSOd the most loyal and law abiding Cttlgeni have their ideals ?'f government beet reflected, thai every | South Carolinian will be ruled with , the Hl?at.-t ;es-.i?a- and RlOSt III the I fear of God. that South Carolina aill appear in her moat favorable light and be able beet to fulfill the glow ing prophecy of a glorious past? If n??t, why are they voting for him? BIBLES PLACED IN HOTEL. Firty-Kighl BMte I'urchaNil and Sullirient I'maU Left to Purchase Blblts fat New Hotels, ' it will ?<?? of latereel t" the people of this city to know that Wsdnesdu) Bibles vv?-re placed in all of the room* of the gumter Hotel? following out the plan ann mm . d several weeks ago in the various churches of the city arben ? fund was raised for this pur? pose. The fund was raised under th. SUS p OOS of the Gideon Bible Koch ty a brotherhood of traveling men formed for the purpose "f spreading th dos? pel. At the time the fund WS I raised In tl?e various churches of the city Mr. II. I* Bure hard, secretary of ihe Y. M. C. A., w .is placed in charge ?of it and directed to place the Bibles in the hotel as stain as It was convenient. The Bibles which were placed In r.he hotel, of which there were fifty-eight, gre of good legible print and hound in strong black cloth covers. About on.'-third of the fund raised for this purpose was spent in securing the Bibles which were placed in ihe gumter Hotel and there Is still suffi? cient money left to get Bibles to place in the two n?'W hotels as soon as they are opened. If permission can be ob- i tained from the management to do this. If permission cannot be obtain ed from the management of the new hotels to place Bibles in the rooms, then th^ fund will be used for similar purpose where it will do he most good. B Osendorf?Xathan. The fblowing Item which appeared In a San Francisco paper will be of much Interest t?> many Atlantans: "Miss Emma RoSOndorf, Of Atlanta. ;i. wrtu be married in San Francisco Sunday \ AUgUSl 1. to Mr. Lionel Karl Xathan. a popular young lawyer of San Francisco. "Miss Rosendorf la i very attract-' Ive southern girl. w ho-. harming ' personality and quick wit h.;\?- won her many frien?ls during her stay in San Francisco. "Mr. Nathan Ii i native Callfornlan and enjoys a large acquaintance i-nd successful practice in San Francisco, where the) w ill reside." Illsa Rosendorf la a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. s Rosondorf, of thll city, and is Well known in Atlanta, having lived here always?Atlanta I Journal. Miss Rosenilorf > a sister of Mrs. B. s. m itse of tin- < Ity and has visited here several times and has many friends here w ho u*ll| be Interested In her marriage. FATHE11 \M? ><>N KILL MAN. Iged Man N nets m.ri. nl Hands of His Brother and N i ph? w, j Lexlngtcn? Aug. T.?Adam Watti ? ut T4 years f age, w.is killed at t his hi me three mllei east of Swansea late this afternoon. Ths man was I killed following a Agh with hla broth j er, Jake Watts, and Jako'i ion Q >van I Watts Details of the tragedy arc [ meagrei hut it is said that Jake and j Oovsn Watti warn to the hon.? of Adam Wi its and be omlni Involved In a dlfllcul v with Ihe aged mag, cut hla throat The coroner and sheriff Lextnt ? n county have g tc Swansea to Investlg to the affair and hold an In? quest If possible take Jacob and Go? lf I, w alts Into cuatody, Adam Waits is said t0 have been a quiet man. while th.- reputatiOg ??!" h.s brother and nephew, it seems, Were led -?> gO?jd. The trouble occurred on the R Icker plantation, Jake Watts. 13 about in vears 1 f ego. Cannon Calls Burnett a Idar, t _, Washington, Aug, 7.?The lie was passed os the floor of the house to? day, when former Speaker Cannon denounced as "unqualifiedly untrue" a charge by Bepreeentatlve Burnett of Alabama, a democrat, that when speaker of Ihe house Cannon delib? erately led his followers from th?> chamber t-- break up a quorum and therebj defeated Ihe Immigration leg? islation, Before speaking. Cannon iwlct asked Burnett to retrat . r..<!< Was Uo outbreak. Tin- A UgUatS ( br oil' |< 1. ?? "The latest news is to 1 h? effect ' it some physicians want t?> nu stltuh ruhhins , "f tin- nose on ib.- foreht ul f?>i th< good old-fashioned waj of kissing." Please recognise us ai bavins ihrupt ly left Ihe meetlns on n< ? ui f of u pr ?;?? ? - * n 1.k?? tl I W 1on wilsons RISE shown. Governor's Headway Duo to Neu Men Relying on Human Nature Instead of Machine Methode. "Deacon" Hemphill in New York Wood row Wilson Is a nun new In American politics, and American poll ? 'i la all the better off became he Is. Two years ago he did not know, except In a wholly theoretical way, anythlni about the game and how it i should be played, and he really does not know much more now. except that he has learned a great deal about human nature, and how human na? ture has to be nursed when it comes to the bualneaa of dealing With prac? tical questions In a theoretical way. Nominated first by George Harvey, who never held ;<n office in his life and n< ver ran for one. for Governor of New Jersey, and safely delivered in this venture only to be again pre* ferred by the same Judge of men and opportunities for President of the I "cited States, he IS again at the head of the heap and leading, or rather following, it would seem, the people to another triumph in Novem? ber, This is one of the most remark bale experiences in the political his tory of the country, and argues well for the people and their sense of the fltn?'>s of things. The manner in which the situation has developed ha; been as surprising to the people prob ably, as It has been to the 'practical politicians.*1 No one would have sus? pected that William F, McCombs. modest, unassuming. QUl -t beyond hi-* years, could have worked out the plans of his campaign for Wilson as he did at Baltimore, and before Balti? more; but he did in that initial strug? gle just as he hopes and expects to work out his plans for the election of Wllaon in November, Governor Wilson has done many things which an ordinary politician of the old school would not have done. He has written letters. and made speeches, and built up histories, and said many things which a candidate' for Office would never have dreamed of faying; but he has always been able to give a reason for the fab.a that is in him. and his explalatioiM, So fai ;is he has made explanations, h u * only served to elucidate the theories he has advanced and to satisfy the critics who have assailed him. He ought tO be judged by the company he h t* been keeping. His largest sup pi rt in the convention at Baltimore cj me from the Republican State of Pennsylvania, which emblasoned '?n all its banner^ the legend ' Name Wil? son nnd Pennsylvania will elect him." That was a risky thing for Pennsyl? vania to promise, seeing that Penn? sylvania has never voted for a Demo? cratic President; but the assurance was so attractive and the men from PennylVanla were BO persistent that the convention accepted the pledge. Mit? hell Palmer, the Quaker repre? sentative in Congress from the Stroudsburg district and a man of peace but high principle, and Vance McCormick. former captain oi the Yale football team, and Rowland Mor? ris, a young lawyer of Philadelphia. II of whom have money enough to live on without the emoluments of .ah. e, are doing their beat to carry out the pledge made. These three young, or youngish, fellows are typi ..f the character of the men who have rallied to the Democratic stand? ard this year in all the States?men I w ithout ' pull." men who ?1.? not know, but men who believe that the time has t ome when the people will ?, ? right if they are only led right. As it It in Pennaylvanla, so is it in all the other states < >f course theri are some "practical politicians" among the Wllaon men?they would not be "practical pollticans" if they were ti"t but the men who nominated him at Baltimore are the men who will ' really count in the campaign, in Texas, another of the strongest States which u.i\e Wilson their support at Baltimore, the contest was between the old and the new, largely. Henry and Burleson and Culberson were there, The two first named were rather more noisy, perhaps, than ef? fective; but they were all very ear i nest and direct in their speaking and voting, One of the Texans, who was, j in fat t. not a Texan at all, as he i^ a I native Of Iowa and has lived In Texas 1 for only six years, was Cato Sells, ' and he was at his business early and ; late and ?Ii the time, not because he had ;'I)V IX t<> grind, but because he 1 is ii progressive In temper and be? lieved tinit there are evils that can bo cured only by the application of 1 old remedies to new conditions, The I Texans have been much divided in j local Democratic politics, and the peo? ple who are now on top in the party are the people who have stood out ? ilnsi the old nailer and Jo inson elbitie tr't the * 'one Johnson crowd t?td the Johnson Of the Houston Post Against him and bis paper were tr rayed the Dallas News ami the Gal veston news, "the Belo papers," i which have m ole good In this last contest for the control of the politics of the State. in New fork, McCombs, i graduate ..f Princeton University, and a mm Tinos. who had never dabbled In politics, was the centre of disturbance. He went a'out his work iu a quiet way, and before anybody know about hlm or what he was doing he had organ? ized college clubs all over the coun try and set honest people thinking about what might be done if the edu? cated people would only get together. !t Is surprising how the McCombs I Idea took with the people everywhere, how the newspapers began to take no? tice in the provinces, and how finally the big journalsts at the centra of things began to shell the woods for j Wilson. In New York. also. W. O. McAdoo, the man who builds tunnels j and does other big things, began to work for Wilson, and Henry Morgan I than, a lawyer by profession, a man of large means but without any ex? perience in polities, threw himself i j into the fray; and Ralph Pulitzer and a host of other inexperienced but I thoughtful men, generally young In ! years but old in common s -use, join j ed the procession. They w ere for W'd- j son and what Wilson represents, end j In his nomination took an active and successful interest. It did not matter to them that Tammany was opposed to tin ir plans and their candidate? j they did not "know the game." Hut j they got what they went after. t;nd got it In suite of the fact that they Were all Of the mollycoddle type measured by the Standards of profes? sional politics. In Minnesota, the old supporters of John Johnson, the most remarkable man of generations in the public life of the Northwest, were for Wilson, under the w ise leadership of Lynch ! and Welas, In California the Wilson } cause was promoted by men like James i>. Phelan and Oarvln McNab; in Louisiana Senator Hroussard and Robert lowing were working side by side for the schoolmaster; in Florida P, L. Mayes, the Pensacola editor made the break in the Underwood ranks iu that State; in South Caro? lina the demand for Wilson was so general that Gomtales and Tlllman and the factions represented by them were united in his support, and | united, it should be added, without instructions. In South Dakota the anti-Peitigrew people were for Wilson and the old Pettigrew crowd were for Clark. Theer was a contest, and the Wilson delegates were seated, the old giving way to the new. Since the Peerless One leaped forth from the Chicago convention 16 years ago, full armed, for the Presidential struggle there has never been any? thing like the campaign that was made for Woodrow Wilson. How the young men will make <>ut with the real contest which is now at hand re? mains to be seen; but they are con? fident in their stregnth. and the "Hull Moose" is playing beautifully into rheir hand. The American people take a great deal of comfort in the reflection that if the next President is not Woodrow Wilson he will not be Theodore Roosevelt. TENNIS COrRT READY. Mr, Thee* and Boy Scouts Do Some Log Holling. Thursday morning Mr. B A. Thees, the physical director of the Y. M. C. A., and about half a doser, of Mr. Wltherspooh's Boy Scouts were en? gaged In th?- pastime of log rolling at the Y. M. C. A., not B regular old time fashion of rolling logs to pile them up to burn, nor the present method of b?? rolling used in the halls and committee rooms of COn gresa, but ;< method quite different. They Used B sot of shafts and tolled a bitf concrete cylinder. Incidentally in operating their steam roller they leveled off the ten? nis court, smoothing it out Hatter than sonfe of the Roosevelt delegates to Chicago were when the Taft steam roller h; d passed over them back? ward and forward The tennis court was left In good shape and Mr. Thees stated that posts would be placed on the grounds and the court would be ready for use Friday. Mr. Thees has been trying to get hands to roll the court for several ?lays, but all of them ale employed or not ready and willing to work, so Wednesday he decided to do the work himself. This he set out to do Thurs? day morning with the help of Beveral of the small boys who were at the building and Willing to assist him in the fun. The work is winding up on the new Jewish Synagogue in this city and it will l?e only a short time now before the remodelled Temple Sinai will he one <u the most beautiful places of worship in the city. At present the carpel is being laid, pews are being pul up, the wiring is being completed and the liKhts are beim; Installed, doors fitted and other of the finishing touches being carried itii ough. New York Cotton Market. \ew York, Aug, x. Open Close January . . . . 1 2.26 11.98 l - March. 12.36?37 12.10?11 i October. 12.27 28 M ?9?12 December. 12.31 32 12 04?03 FARMERS' UNION NEWS Prtnulcal Thought* for Practical Furniers. t Conducted by LS. W, Dabbs, Pres id< tit ai C. Farmern Uuion.J Some KuiiUom I li 'ii^hts. Last wi ck. Monday ami Tuesday, the writer saw the crops from Salem t<? Blshopville, going one road ami re? turning another. Wednesday, Thurs? day and Friday from Salem to Priva? teer ami return via the Baker school. It is hard to form an average esti? mate of crop conditions. There is a greater diversity of crops, from ex? tremes of good to l>ad. with great areas of ind Iff rent crop's in between, titan i remember to have ever seen. * * * There is on.re uouu corn than the outlook a month ago indicated, and a gooil prospect lor peas. Going di? rectly from the improved farms of tlie Mayesville, St. Charles, Bishop ville section, the Black River country to the sand hills ot Privateer, one can not help being struck with the old saying "there is more in the v ?n than there is in the land."' Thy good crops in the Privateer sect ?> 1 are as good as the best in the other sec? tion, and the poor crops iu the Black river section are just as poor as the poor crops in the Privateer section. As good crops of corn and cotton as 1 have seen were way out in the back woods on the head waters of Cain's mill, two miles or more to the nearest public load. where twenty tive years ago a representative citi? zen said to the writer: 'We don't need no better roads, they was good nough for my father and they is good 'nough for me. My mule kin pull five sacks of guano front Sumter, and that is much as any mule ought to pull." ess Today by that very man's house is a rural mail route. The better roads have not penetrated that section yet, but daily that community feels the throb of the world's great heart in the tiny mail route that is taking the news to its remotest corner. And not far away is the telephone in the homes of the more progressive of its citizens. Then the splendid school building on the grounds of the old church that has been the center of its religious lite for more than a cen? tury, the good crops on lands suppos? ed t?> be worthless up to recent years. the numbers of tenant farmers who are buying their farms, are Indica? tions that an awakening has- taken place, and it will not be long before good roads will ramify throughout that section 0 * * To secure an experimental station in connection with the Bethel school is tile latest improvement on foot. * e * Now something about the meetings at these various points: The one at Blshopvllle was a one-day institute. Owing t" the balklneSS Of a hand? some automobile. I was not able to reach the grounds until tin.- Institute was so near over that the last speak? er was neatly through. There were a thousand to fifteen hundred people there, not more than a hundred or two paying any attention t ? the speak? er. After dinner when 1 was introduc? ed between 100 and 200 listened veiy attentively the rest were worn out. and amused themselves in groups i I over the gr< n ? ?. Th.- is not a criti? cism of this parti it!ar mee Ing, for all big one-day Institutes ,re alike in this respect. It Is such a strain on the speaker to make himself heard and on the people to hear a; a eh: open air meeting that neither the speaker or the audience jet any sat? isfaction cut of it. * Si * I ?ur remarks and those of Qov, Mela od were to show w hat can 1 accomplished by co-operation. He In the interest of a live Board of Trade and 1 for a live Partners' Union. Both of us for the heartiest co-operation between these two bodies. I could m?t help contrasting his membership fees, which he spoke of as being very moderat?'. $2.50 per quarter; $?">." 1 semi-annual, er $10.00 annual in ad? vance, with the Farmers' Union fee of $1.00 and dues ??f 3t cents per quar? ter, or $1.36 per year. And Qov. M? - i.eod said 25 per i ent of the Board of Trades members ire farmers! In tin- efforts of the originators of the Farmers Union to make it so cheap that there could be no excuse for any farmer to stay ot t. thev may have made it appear too cheap for many farmers to bother with. We cannot help drawing th it conclusion when we see so manv laniiifs paying $10.00 per year to belong to the chamber of Commerce of their county town, while 'In-ir local Farmers' Union ?lies at their ver> door. If it takes money to run a liv. Chamber of Commerce, it also take* mono) to run a live Farm* ers' Union. see At Bethel the meeting w i- of another ?ort. I a ate ad i f a farmers/ Instl ute, it was ;n Bible assembly. The. three addresses that i heard arere of a high order. i?r. k. c. Dargan, president of the South* m P..tpti.-t convention. ?> Darlington boy and k n>man, aras both entertaining and Instructive as he told ... the great Johna of history, i<ut especially of John, the gddnn.mii. Bishop of Antioch In the 4th century and Blah op of Constantinople until by his fearlesa d< nunciationa i t profligacy in the court he was banished i>y th** orders of a aricked Queen. Who knows but that John Knox "who f"ar ed n >t the f a i of man" received some of his Inspiration from this goid mouthed preacher of thv- 4th < entury? * * * Dr. Jeffries told how the Canon of Scripture was finally adopted by the church. He ought to have the story of ihe Brk k church boy w ho aft?-r waid went to the legislature and was a ^ ?od doctor. !n his boyhood he saw in the library at Brick church a ! Ook labeled Alexund r OH the ' anon" .and look it home expecting to have a w eek of entertainment as he read of war. His chagrin and disap? pointment can be Imagined better than described. * * * 1>T. L>ill told of the wonderful vision < f I>r. Tlchenor, for many years sec? retary of the Home Mission Hoard of the Southern Baptist convention. How like Jefferson in the Louisiana pur? chase he was an expansionist, and tried to show his church the rich? ness of the Southern held; and how it was due to his foresight and elo? quent pleadings that the Baptist de i nomination has made such rapid i strides In the last quarter century, o o o For ten years, just after the war, ; i)r. Tlchenor wag President of the Alabama agricultural college at Auburn. During that time he pre? dicted the founding of the great steel city of Birmingham. In one of his addresses he said: "Immense as is the mineral wealth of the South in the great Alieghaney mountain range, its greatest wealth is it. its soil where a Gracious God has siored the food and clothing of a thousand gener? ations." God's Wisdom and His bene? volence -re wonderfully shown in the manner in which so much of this wealth is locked up. thereby pre? venting man in his wastefulness from selling for a "mess of pottage" the . birthright of generations unborn." ' And as the needs of the human race Sncre ise giv ing to first one and then another of hit I and practical lire house 1 mankind. Tl farmers' instL^? -g I to the people the results of the la bors of the discoveries of the various , keys to nature's secrets. 0 0 0 \ And this brings my narrative to the institute at the Baker school. I heard | only two of the addresses. Prof. 1 j Haddon on seed corn selection, and I Prof. Jackson on stock raising and breeding. Both of these uentlemen I made clearer and plainer the truths I they were tea hing than I ever heard them before, and their addresses were worth all the trouble and cost of the f institute. Miss Parker, the new Prof. I of Domestic Economy at Winthrop, made a splendid impression on the la? dies to whom she lectured. The girls who take her course nt Winthrop are t>? i-e congratulated. a o e \ | The meeting of the Farmers' I'r.ion , in the afternoon a*as interesting, so* ? [,e< (ally the friendly rivalry to secure I an Experimental itath :. in connec? tion with < ne et the 2 ur.i" schools of the c >un y. The State President si ited that he h;ui been approach? ed -j. the subject. ami wished to* know the attitude of the county I m Li] ion. The county union indorsed ; the idea and appointed a committee to look into the proposition, secure bids for the location and do any thing 1 els.- needed to present to the next ; meeting of the county union definite I statements f what each committee ! had t ? offer. ? OS B. w. Dabbs. R. r. Be leer and H. w. B ill w.re put on this committee. Just as soon as the various commu? nities present their claims in a busi ' ness way the committee win make a j personal Inspection of each. We hope j to be ready to report at the rext I meeting of the county union at Oswo* 1 go. the 1st Friday in September. B. W D. In The Police Court. The following cases were tried in ( the police COUli Thursday morning m trie gellere and May IfcPartand, disturbance of the peai e $6.00 or 10 ?1 , v s ea' h. I Elsie <"i..i*as >ii. giving a supper and dance for gain without license, for? feited bond l&.Oe. Mose j. nkins, leaving horse tin bio bed .et Liberty street, forfeited I bond of $2.00. Cttas. Jones, public drunken:.ess. I $15 or 30 days. Lizzie Pricey and lb" hell Hraoey. disorderly > onduct and cursing, dis? missed for lack of prosecution.