The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 03, 1913, Image 3
SECOND BONUS PERIOD
STARTED YESTERDAY.
125.000 Extra Votes Awarded on
Every Club of $15.00 Worth of
Subscriptions Turned in Before
May 10th. Every Contestant
Will be Given Credit for as
Many of the 125.000
Bonus Ballots as She
Can Secure.
Largest Bonus Votes for Balance Contest.
\nw jntllJC \<>Tl s ARE LAUGE Is TOffl TO PI T FORTH
MM Wkpn EfVORTsV rut; fhifndk of THE many
Candidates are beeoinllug ile< ph Interested In their favorite* ami
a ft hm I many of them m.- out nolle! ting and aiding young ladles
\*h<>-c chances up to the present time ?IUI not sinn i,i tin* liest. In
fa?i rMiiiu> of tli*'H4* friends are tielplng candidates who up to this
time have dont' nothing to help tlieinsehce. Such ones should
make up ilo'lr mind* to go In In earnest and do their part and ?
take advantage of the friendly hel|> *o freely given, repaying It
by putting forth such effort u* will result in pleasing your help?
ers by winning out.
tiet )<>ur friend*. a<h|iiulntaiiees. and neighbor* to do their cash
trading with merchants who arc Issuing \otes on the auto, the
Winter A Co.. piano ami other prliea.
Two hundred vote*, are Riven on every dollar spent with mer?
chant* and professional men who are affiliated with The Dally
Item; Watchman ami Southron.
I.M HI Ml Hi II WIN WHO OIYF ((dl'OVS:
M. < ulhiui liros, 'Hie Kcady-to- W. II. Miel ley A Hon. The Furnl
Wrar Htore. (ore Store Xceoiuniodalliig.
Wlnhnm Studio. Photos that please. Carolina Furniture Co. Olobe
Joa. M. Chandler. Shoes aud CienU Wernleke Agency.
FumPdUngs. V. II. rhelps' tiro. Store. Service
W. A. Thompson Jewelry Store, that Is Itlght.
Everything In Jewelry. Parrot tH Hook Store. Office Out
ClUara's Meat Market. Meat that a Utters,
it i.. eat. Hearon's Pliarmacy. The guieL
Carolina Grocery Co., i.I things Delivery Specialists.
to eat. J. D. Cralg Furniture Co. House
K??y?l Woolen Mills. Made to Meae- Furnishers from Cellar to CJarret.
ara Clothiers. Boot It-liar by Live SpH'k Co. Feed
Sointer Deutal Parlor. The Popu- and (.ruin 1>( ahm.
lar Dentists. Zemp's Pharmacy* The Place to
Do Rant Hardware Co. Long-wear go for Toilet Articles.
Hardware. D. C. Shaw Co. Carriages, Ford
J. P. Commander. Tin* Ice Man. tars, Horses.
s| <iiM> BOM'S PFHIOD i LOSFS SATl'ltDAY, MAY It,
Ifta. \T MM: O'CLOCK P. M. DI'HINO THIS PFJIIOD 115,
o(m? I \Tlt\ VOTFS WILL hf til YEN on FVF.hy ( LI B of
$15 WOltTII OF si'HSt HIITIONS TO F.ITH Fit THF DAILY
ITFM oil WAIX IIMW \NI> SOCTIIItON.
The Contestants and How
They Stand
District Number One.
This district includes all territory within the incorporate limits
of the City of Sumter. At least two prises will go to this district
with opportunity of winning one or both of the grand prizes.
Mrs. Richard Wilder. Magnolia St.?2.;i25
MI.w Georgia Beetham. S. Salem Ave.. 11,130
Miss Kathryn Stubbs, 11 Washington. 11,141
Mrs. JuUan l>. Wilder. Magnolia St. 41,111
Mlsa Mabel Myers. W. Bartlette St... 46,111
Mrs M. M. Hoggins. 24 Lev! St. 11,111
Mrs. K. C. Lord, s. Sumter St.&,2lu
Mlas Boucher l>eI*orine. Hartlette St. 1,111
Mise Helen Hroughton. W. Hampton. &.0U0
Mrs John Hatcheil. Magnolia St. 1,111
District Number Two.
Distrl- t Nnmher 2. All territory north of the Columbia branch
of the Coast Una It. It. on tin* west of Sumter and the Darling"
ton brain h of the (Vast Uli FL lt. on the east of Sumter. At
least two prises will go to this distrl< t with opportunity of win?
ning one or both of the k> and prizes.
HIsllOPVILLF.
Ut* CMgdOfl l??ion. 41,110
Miss Noale Si-**i borough. 11,121
Miss Mlldr?<j Hunter. 49,131
KIMHFKT
Miss Juanita M? l.eod. 11,111
Miss Mary Harllee. ?.^?#0
Mr* W. J Spsncer. 11,14)1
sr ch \HLi s.
Mlai Jusnlta Wilson. 41.711
Miss Jennie McCoy. 11,111
Miss Bertha Tsllons. l.lfl
OsW I gm,
Ml*s Med? Brown. 2r,,::7S
WFDGFPIF.LD.
Miss Hess!? Itysn. :.4.7oO
Miftn Salbe Norrls. 1,14)1
CAMPE*. ,.JJ
Miss Lota M< l .end. It f. O. 6.?0U
II \(.OOD.
Mrs Crawford Sanders. . .. 11,111
Holt M io.
Mu J It Corbett. 0.2?;-,
tg^m/tm9" **1 * ? * Wlivit h> V.
M*s W. W. DcsChampx. 11,1 Ii
aWMTER No. |
Mrs 1 ?o i?* M Jofev. T,-uU
DISTRICT No. TURKU.
District No. 3. All territory south of the Columbia branch of
the Coast Line R. 11., on the wem of Sumter und the Darlington
branch of the Coast Line lt. R., on the Fast of Sumter. At least
two prizes will go to this district with opportunity of winning
one or both of the grand prizes.
PAXVILLE.
Miss Pearl Pritchard. 15.450
Mrs. Ben Pack. 5,025
MO'lT BRIDGE.
Mrj. W. J. McNeil. 35.05?
PINEWOOD.
Miss Bessie Geddings. 7.170
Miss Leo B rough ton. 36,120
MAYEKY1LLE. . .
Mrs. J. H. Wilson. 44,168
Miss Minnie Chundler. 89,400
Mrs. Hugh Wlthsrspoon. 7,3t0
MlSS Carrie Anderson. 6,235
SUMMERTON.
Mrs. Mary Lsnham. 32,05?
REM1NI.
Miss Alma Felder. ?,410
LYNCHRURO.
Miss Annie O riffln. 5.025
Miss Docia Keels. 3 5,0 25
Miss Floia Bell McLeod. 6,000
DTJRWOOD.
Miss Coio Truluck. 46,490
OLANTA.
Miss L. Bell Moore, R, F. D. 59.100
Mrs. J. D. Hinds. 6,000
ELLIOTT.
Mrs J. O. Rodgers. 10,076
Mrs. J. O. Sullivan. 6,050
SUMTER, R. F. D. NO. 1.
Miss Lessie Jones. 12,255
^ TURBEVILLK.
Miss Pauline Jones .. . *. 4 3,00u
HARVIN.
Miss Maggie Keels. 55,405
RROGDON.
Miss Kate Brogdon.- ?. 60,485
MEMORIAL RAY EXERCISES.
Ron. T. G, McLeod of RlshopvlUe to
Miikr Aniiiiul Address.
The Memorial Day exercises will
he held at the cemetery on the 12th
of May this year and the Hon. T. G.
Mel.eod of Hlshopville will make the
annual address. The exercises as usu?
al will he held under the auspleeH of
Dick Anderson chapter l\ D. C, and
the Sumter Light Infantry, and the
Sumter Hand will participate. A pro- I
gram will he announced later.
Rafting Creek so hool Closing.
i The closing exercises of the learn?
ing Creek school (Remhert) will take
place Thursday e\eniiiK. May S. The
public la cordially Invited.
WE'VE A SANER VIEW OF LAW.
-
The American People are Regliinlng
to sQl Rid of Inegal Mystery.
"We don't call them courts of Jus?
tice now; we call them courts of law," j
says the attorney in Hayard Vellier's
play, "Within the Law"?and the au- J
dience applauds with startling vigor.
Americans cannot truly be called a
lawabiding people. In big matters1
and little, by force and by fraud, for
gain and for fun, we evade and vio?
late our laws with a cheerful alacrity
i that has made us the wonder and the
I
i scandal of the nations. Rut what we
'lack in obedience to the law in the
concrete we have boon in the habit j
of making up by the fevor of our re?
verence for law in the abstract.
Law Is simply the will of the sov?
ereign, whoever the sovereign may be.
Judges are men like other men?
? Matures largely of class environ?
ment ami spokesmen chiefly for class
interests. There are no eternal and
absolute principles involved. The
question always la, Whose will shall
Ibe law? Who shall, in fact, be sover?
eign?
The playwright "ahows the form
ami pressure of the time." if that
speech about the courts brings down
the house, it Is because the American
people are beginning to gel rid of ihe
legal mysticism - the habit ot think
Inf ot law and Justice as abstract and
transcendental things beyond human
Control ?which has so long made
them impotent to solve their social
problems by lawful method i.
Whenever they clear!) see that law
i is just what the wlelders ol power
\s ihIi u to be, the wa) is open for
ihem t<? make it what they wish.
Industries Thriving,
ii Is certainly a strange thing thai
in this Community there is not an In
'iiisiis that is not Increasing Its ca?
pacity for work and enlarging its
Held of operation; not a merchanl
who is Increasing bis spues and his
stock, and vet not a man who is m?t
as hard up as a pool boy at a < hur< h
festival, and Ihe banks nre more sh)
of loans than sn old lady's nag ol
automobil. * ii ig a str?ng situation,
bill n shows thai there is a deep and
striding confidence In Ihe development
ami the possibilities of this Hectlotl
W.' are going to come out all right,
but none ol us but is pinched s?i Hat
that he can not tell whether the
man with Ihe bill bits bim in front
or buhuoi Kluieucn Tlmet
I
Blood On No Burning Deck.
Another idi?l wrecked. They tell
ii.-. now that Casablamu stood on no
burning deck, whence all but him
had fled, because his papa had bid?
den him to do.
Kather, as u chronicler puts it, he
jumped overboard "to save himself
for another day." The published pa?
pers of Sir CharleH Tyler, a eaptaln
serving under Nelson at the battle
of the Nile in 1798, contain the fol?
lowing passage:
"Commodore Casabianca und his
son (only 10 years of age, who dur?
ing the.action gave proofs of bravery
and intelligence far above his years)
were not so fortunate. They were in
the water on the wreck of L'Orlent'l
masts, not being able to swim, seek?
ing each other until three-quarters
past ten, when the ship blew up, and
put an end to their hopes and fears."
"If this be a trustworthy account."
remarks The Maeon Telegraph, "then
the immortal lines of Mrs. Hemans,
telling the story of the blind, unrea?
soning but beautifully heroic stead?
fastness of a boy are based on myth,
lit is gratifying to find that even by
Sir Charles Tyler's account, young
I Casabianca was as brave and devoted
as his friends could have wished
i him to be, and that the dear o'.d story
is not really spoiled."
I The Montgomery Advertiser is
right. The human race instinctively
reseats tho operations of the icono?
clast. It disappoints us and de
I pressses us for an old belief to be as?
sailed by some one who prtetends to
have discovered new evidence; but
! fortunately the 'boy who stood on
the burning deck' will continue to in?
spire youthful readers and remain a
lesson in the minds of men, who are
'boys grown tall.' "
The shock Is too rude. We will
rather doubt this historian's accuracy
rather than reject Mrs Heman's lines.
? Augusta Chronicle.
Freak Newspapers.
Baltimore Bun.
A newspaper which can be eaten
after tin- Information it contains is
Sbsoibed, thus affording nourishment
for tin- body as \seii as the mind, i;
called The Regal, it Is printed with
an ink or coloring guaranteed non
poisonous on thin sheets of dough.
Another freak newspaper, the Luntl
nuarla, Is published In Madrid The
ink with which it is printed contains
a .small percentage of phosphorus, so
that the letters are visible in the dark
and the reader does not need to make
a light to enjoy its contents.
At two Krench seaside resorts news
papers called I.e Courler des Balg
netirs and La Saide are printed on
waterproof paper, so that the Nim
ecrlber ran take bis morning paper
with him into the sea ami read it
w bile enjoying his bath.
in Tails a paper called I.e Mon
i hoir is printed on paper such as the
so-called Japanese napkins are made
of, and ma> become useful in case
the reader has forgotten or lost his
handkerchief.
The < it\ force still at work trim*
ming treef in various parts ot th* ? u>
TWO KINDS OF PRAMS,
Intelligence ami Industry Against Ig?
norancc ami Thlrftltsaineaa.
To the Ofllceri end Members of the
Union:
a farmer driving to the city with
a load of cotton, produce or on some
errand is itruck by the general neat?
ness of tome cottage, probably tbe
home of a worklngman. Flowers
bloom In the yard, well-kept grass
growl on the lawn, the fences are neat '
and painted) and there is an air of
distinction about the place. You say,
"A sober, honest, industrious man
must live there." Next door is a dirty,
unktpt place, cans and trash in the
yard, fence falling down, and a gen?
eral atmosphere of unkemptneas. Yo'
say "A shiftless, drinking, no ac?
count Chap lives thfltt "
Bui how much more noticeable
these thlngi are out In the broad open;
country, where the air If tweet, the
sunshine free of smoke and the <?tt nch
and filth of a great i Ity.
You drive along a country road, and
come to a farm. Distinction marks it
in a hundred little ways. The fem ea
are all up, and no totting or tumbling
tails are seen; the fence turner* are
tree of bushes, briers and weeds; the
ditches are clean-cut, with no wide
hedge of rank weedi growing along
either ?ide, t.nd the land cultivated
close up; the stumpe and rocks are
out of the fields. Even the tows and
appearam e ol the fields themselves
show the thrifty care of intelligent ap?
plication.
Presently you ? ome to the house.
Flowers grow in the yards, which are !
clean and well-kept, with ? neatly
graveled walk leading up to the front
porch. Harns and out-houses are in
good repair, and no rusting farm tools
or machinery clutter yards or barn
lot.
And you know without a question
that here a reul man lives, a man
that will do to trust, a business man;
he pays his obligations, and, more?
over, is a real neighbor and a help?
ful one. You will generally find, too,
tlint he is thoughtful of his wife,
j daughters and sons, that the boys
! want to stick to the farm because dad
j is all right and he made a good llv
i ing out of it.
i
So you drive on, and directly get a
; shock. You come to a place with the
, fences down, corners growing up in
weeds; land washed for lack of prop?
er drainage; stunted, weedy stuff
struggling to survive in the fields. No
palings surround the house, no flowers
grow in it, but a litter of every sort
of tiling encumbers it. The roof of
the stable and barn are leaky, the
doors propped up, rusting farm tools
and machinery stand about corrod?
ing In the weather. Four or five lazy
hounds sleep about the door or yard,
? and everything about is desolate and
depressing. You will And without
querry that a shiftless, indolent, pur
j poseless, don't-care man lives there.
, He couldn't get a cent of credit from
anybody without security. His wife
is a hopeless drudge with just er^rgy
enough to crawl about; his daughters
run away and marry at the tirst op?
portunity, and his boys go to town or
away from home as boon as they are
big enough to know enough to leave.
Up and down this nation I nave
traveled, and I have seen hoth types
everywhere, and I have never made
inquiries yet that I did not confirm
i views between the two?the hustler
j and the drone. And often, too. both
men have equal chance in so far as
productivity of the land goes.
I see in my travels something In
this connection that makej me hope
jful. The first-named < lass is getting
more numerus, and the last-named
fewer and fewer. Of course, we will
probably always have the don't-care
tarmer. but his class is vanishing at
a gratifying rate, to be replaced by
alert, hard-working farmers who
realize that farming is ? profession,
calling for high Intelligence and com?
mon sense.
And as the profession ol farming
becomes higher and better, you nill
see u powerful and a contented na?
tion.
C. S. Barrett
Union city, da.
Two-Horse Implements Must Suc?
ceed One-Horse,
The vital ned of inoal Southern
farmers is mote ami better ma?
chinery, and what Impresses one
moat In looking o\<-i the farms of the
South, is the almost total lack of ad?
equate farm machinery. The fOi or
1,000-pound mult- ami Boy Dixie
plow does not, and never can, mean
good farming. The heav> mule ami
disk or nang plow should replace
l hem as fast as possible.
The two-row, or cheek-row, corn
planter and pivot-wheel riding cul?
tivator should replace the hand cul?
tivator and one-row planters. And
on the level lands of the South, the
six or seven-fool cut mower will be
a better Investment than the four or
rive-font Aso the wide two-horse
lake will do much faster work than
the narrower one-horse Chas s
Wadsworth, in The Progressive Farm
t-i
BLACK HOT OF SWF FT POTATOES
AM) ITS < ONTHOL.
(Tenseon Collage Fitenslon W?lk ?
South ( arollmt F*i>erliiient station
?Pre? No. III.
The black rot of sweet potatoes
teems to be S/ldsly distributed through
South Carolina and In many eases is
causing serioui loss. This disease
where present Is readily recognized in
the fall when the potatoes are dug.
At this tints it occurs as blac , mot?
tled ureas over the surface of tse po?
tatoes. The dissent does not seem
to cause trouble in the fell, but when
potatoes affected with it are stored
in banks or houses, the disease be?
comes more active and causes a rot?
ting of the pots toes. In many In?
stances we have found whole bank>>
of potatoes destroyed by this rot.
It frequently happens that all of
the potatoes in s bank aie destroyed.
In such instante;-: the ones that keep
through the winter and are not badly
rotted are used In the next erop. The
disease wa* earned back to the field
on these slips. It remains there, at?
tacks the potatoes when they form,
and is brought back again to the bank
after digging time. In thits way it
continues from year to year.
Since this troublesome disease H
spread through the blips which grow
from diseased potatoes, it is very
necessary at this time of year that
WS se< ure seed potatoes for bedding
Which are free from disease. Where
no lUCh seed potato* ? are av ailable,
it is advisable to plant a small por?
tion of the patch from the earliest
slips you can get and then as soon as
these put out vines, making ? Utting?
from the vines with which to finish
i the planting. Black rot Is a root
disease and vines taken from diseas?
ed plants will produce other plants
free from disease. Where the dis?
ease is present, it Is of course nec?
essary to practice a rotation. When
you grow sweet potatoes free from
disease, you will find that It Is an
easy matter to keep them.
A Boy Sc not and H ? Native Flag.
, Here stands a Hoy Scout,
Writh his heart open and true,
i For he stiek? to the Flag
(if red, white and blue.
] ;
I He always has a smile,
j And ne'er a Boo-hoo,
! For he sticks to the Flag
, Of red, white and blue.
j When his Scout Master tells him
Anything to do,
He does it under the Flag
Of red, white and blue.
We all like our Scout Master;
You will like him too,
Join his troop under the Flag
Of red, white and blue.
We are Boys of Uncle Sam,
I hope everyone knew,
And we are still standing under the
Flag,
Of red, white and blue.
We help many people,
We will help you too,
To learn the oath under the Flag
Of red, white and blue.
I
Now I will close,
Hoping you will Join us too,
And stick to the Flag
Of red, white and blue.
"A Scout."
(The above has been received with
[a request that It be published.)
Slgniflcent Lines.
The other Sunday evening, when
church services was over, a young
minister started on his journey home,
accompanied by two young ladies of
the choir, when they began a conver?
sation about hymns.
"What is your favorite hymn ?" ask
; ed the curate, turning to one of his
fair companions,
"Draw me nearer," she replied,
not thinking of the double meaning
At that moment h*-r companion,
who was walking on the other side of
the curate, to make matters worse,
said innocently.
" That is only the chorus; the com
mettcement of the verse is, 'I sm
thine.' "
At that the ? mate laughed heartily,
and the ladles are always very care?
ful now when they att* talking about
hymns,
Wilson's Working Principle.
I am not afraid of a knave. 1 am
not afraid ot a rgsogj. 1 sm
afraid of a Strong man who is wrong,
ami a*hose wrong making can h?
impressed upon other persons by his
own force of character snd force of
speech. If Qod had only arranged
it that all tin- men who ure wrong
Were last als, WS could put them out
of business very easily, because they
Would nive themselves away Boonei
or latei , but Uod has made our
U-sL heavier than that?He haw
made some good men who think
wroiiK We cannot fight them be?
ta use the) are lied, but because they
are Wrong. We must overcome
lb em by a I tetter force, the genial,
tin- splendid) the permaneni force of
a Lwiivi reesoa?~Woodrew w ,i> ..