The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 09, 1914, Image 4
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OtJTEKN VI'BUSHING COMPANY.
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Ad Torti MM nts:
v'?? ?quare Arat insertion.$1.00
??ary subeequert Insertion.50
Contraria Cor three months, or
fecurer will be mads at reduced ratea
ail commuulcatloos which sub?
serve privat? in errata will be charged
Cor as advertisements.
Obituaries and tributes of ras pec.
?a ill be obarged tor.
Tha Sumter Watchman was fonud
ad In II6U and the True Southron In
litt. Tha Watchman and Southron
e?w has the combine* circulation and
Influence of both of the old papers,
and Is SMnifestly the bast advertising
medium In Sumter.
The Christmas fund this year
should i'. larger than usual and great?
er care in Its distribution should be
exeretsed than ever before. There
are more people In need of help than
at any time since the custom of rais?
ing a Christmas fund wus Inaugurat?
ed twenty odd years ago.
? a 0
The farmers of Belgium are In
need of food, adn their necessity
should appeal to the farmers of every
section of America who have a sur?
plus of grain. A bushel or two of
ecrn will save a life aud there are few
farm era In Sumter county who can
ont apare lor charity that quantity
from their store. The South Carolina
committee for tho relief of the Bel?
gians is calling for contributions of
corn, wheat, oats. potatoes, cured
meat or any other non perishable
foodetuffa. Mr. B. I Manning, chair?
men of the Sumter County committee
will receive and forward all contri?
butions either of ca h or grain,
see
The selection of Mr. C. O. Rowland,
president of the Hank of South Caro?
lina, as one of the committee to havo |
charge of the Wad* cotton loan fund
In th.s State was quite u compliment
to him. since the committee Is com
poeed of only six South Carolina
bankers.
see
is Is the tum that a Morris sys
? ii >ank or some similar agency that
\?.' lend money to wago earners.
orartly out of work, to tide them]
I a period of distress. Is needed In
? .commanlty. Without an lust I-i
n of this character, or some
o el public organisation, to help
hy persons by making loans at
ssonable rate of interest, they
" Inevitably fall Into the hand* of
t loan sharka who will eat them
ill ?? with their 10 per cent, a week In?
terest. No man wants to pay Shylock
rates, but necessity Is a hard task
mastor and when a man Is out <f
work and his children need food hoj
easily falls into the clutches of a loan
shark If no other means of raising a
little money Is available
see
This Is fine weather for the spli:
log drag and the streets of Sumter and
the roads of the county would be thv
better for Its use.
see
The time for renting land for aCSl
year is at hand and In existing cir?
cumstances It Is a matter that cads
for aerlous consideration. The cotton
? I
Crop In this coun y will be muterl.uly
curtailed und a h rge acreage devot' t
to grain. The outlook for receiving a
remunerative price for the cotton that'
will he produced next year Is not it
all encouraging, nor Is there any cer?
tainty that the gruln crop will lind
a ready market at high prices. There?
fore the man who rents land at a llxed
caah rental payable In the fall \n lias
been i u*iom,irj Is tar.lng long SssMefSfl
It wilt be ascsssary for the landlord
or a merchant to make advances t ?
the tenant farmers, an usual, and un?
less some agreement Is made ,'or 'In?
payment of the rent and advances In
pro lue,, when settlement day arrives
there will b* trouble and disaster.
This Is an extraordinary situation th it
the South Is facing and ordin?re rules
do not apply, I'nless fo. Ight is
u?? l < -udltlonn will he worse next
fall than st present. In view of the
hazardous BjSjtUfC ? f farming opera?
tions It seems but fair that the land?
lord should >v: in the t ink ; that H <?
tenint assutm s and that the rent
ahrubl bi t,\ed on so imiiiv bushels of
oats for ca? h BjSJfi plant? I in < its.
many buaheia of wheat let svery acre
planted In wheat, so many bushels
of corn for every nrrc plant? d in COTS
and so manv pounds of rottoi f??r ev
erv acre plnnted In cot t ? ?n. If the
landlord and truant see fit they COUbl
s?r#"? on a fixed price for each ot
the crops In the event that Ihi
should d? ble to make a srttb wo nt |
cub when the lime f<?r llM pavm id
Of rent arrive.I. This Is | bif question
and the suggestions here made are
thrown out f-?r the purp"s?- of bring?
ing the matter up f??r discussion.
l.i\er|H?o| Col I on Market.
iJeefpsssV Pee\ ?t?otton nwlet
firm Middling I. '.Td.
DA RIDING TON HKS SI SIM XTI :i)
AS SIM I S.
George II. I'elwnrds, .lr., und ?I. Har
fgf Hogers IIa\e Inciting BgpoH?
(JggSJ Ii? Germany.
Pnrlington Newa and Press.
The following interesting account of
the experiences of George H. Ed wards.
Jr.. and J. Harvey Hogers In Ger?
many has hecn prepared by the form?
er, at our request:
Editor News and Press:
In responte to your request I am
writing of one of the experiences
which J. Harvey Rogers and I had in
Germany ut the beginning of the war.
Almost as soon as we landed in
F?rei.-.?m o i July 2Mh. we began to
heur sorno talk of war. V'e were ex?
pecting to ride through Germany and
to Geneva on bicycles. Probably the
German language wasn't copious,
enough to convey to our minds the se?
riousness of the situation. Anyhow
wo set out on our trip on Friday, the
31st and rodo to Verdun, about twen?
ty-two miles away, where we put up
at the litt e hotel for the night.
About eight next morning I heard
a knock on my door, and when I open?
ed It 1 was confronted by a military
otlher and two civic oflicials who de?
manded an explanation of my pres?
ence there. For war had been de?
clared. I showed them my passport,
which sat.stled them entirely. Then
they examined Hogers in the same]
way, and advised us that wo would
havo tioiblo going with wheels at
that time. However, the bicycle trip
was proviag so worth while that WS
decided to go ahead and trust to our
American passports for protection.
At the end of the duy, Saturday,
August 1, we camo to the little town
of Neustadt, some thirty-odd miles
farther on, where we Intended to rest
Sunday, for we were rather tired fron?
our trip. When we reached the out?
skirts of the village, wo were halted
at a little bridge by a gruff old Ger?
man with a tremendous walking
stick, who was waiting to nab us.1
Evidently some one had wired ahead
to warn them of our approach; and
no doubt two strangers riding through
the country with a big kodak looked
somewhat suspicious.
We showed the man our pass?
ports, bit that didn't satisfy him.
Ho seemed somewhat excited and
bustled us rather unceremoniously
into a little inn nearby. Several of?
ficers came in immediately and we
were shut, up with them and our be?
longings in u little room. Each of us
had a smal'. pack on our wheels, and
these they began to search. In his in
quisitiveness and zeal the gruff gen?
tleman went into my kodak and open?
ed up my films to the light, so that
the pictures we'd taken along the
way were ruined. However they
realized they were making no pro?
gress, as we spoke practically no Ger?
man, and they no English. So they
mar haled us out again almost before
wo could stuff our belongings into aj
pack, and led us, rolling our wheels,
|g the police station, or lock-up,!
1 hlch seemed to be a combination of
all the forces of justice and order.
As we walked through the street,
each guarded by two or three oAOOfMi
a largo crowd began to gather. In
three minutes every child in Neustadt
and lots of the women (the men had
bogun to mobilize) were at our heels;
crowding and pushing to get a look
at us. '..'be whole street was bloeke I
with whtcls?some twenty or thirty in
the pr<?e"sshe?; and 1 have no doubt
thcro were a hundred and lifty chil?
dren foil nving us. It VII very amus?
ing to see some little fellow with
great blue oyes elbow his way through
Itle bunch to get a peep at these two
strangers and to make a face or do
some little thing to attract their at?
tention.
< if course, we understood that we
Wort suspe? tetl as spies; but, having
our passports, we lelt absolutely sale,
uid rather enjoyed the oxperienee.
So we took it as a Joke and laughed
about it. which offended the grulf
, gentleman s dignity, ho that he was
quite ready to bang us.
They took us up into this police
building, ami into a court room, where
they loekeil the crowd out and us in.
We WOffa then brought before a judge
?a venerable, wnlte-h;iired gentleman
who WM very courteous to us. lie
could rot ?peak Rngllsh, bat the)
simim secured a mag wie? could speai4
It after a fashion. OtM <>f Ids at
tempts, however. w;is amusing, II?
asked ss! "For whal did you conn
ober in re when you knew there wai
??Igg t > be ;i wa t
Aftei a rather thorough examine
ii o? of our baggage and our passport
the lodge eras fully convinced that w<
were what we claimed to be. II
then ^i"te on the bach of our pas
ports t-? th? effect thai they had u<-;;
through "Mtii ihe proper inllltsry i h
nmlnel on end found us entirely uti
sasuslclous chaiin ters.
w? a*ere then dismissed and ad
vi ed to take the train, as we woul
have to end of trouble getting n
through flermnnj "n mir bicycles, w
deolued le follow Ibis advice*, nn
rauabl *? train out nbonl an hour l
ill r.
Teaching Hoys to Ruvc.
"Above all. teach the chUilren to
?ovo? economy i*> the sure founda?
tion for all virtues."?Victor Hugo.
The boy Is father to the man and
much can be mn I? of him If caught
young enough.
Many a successful man says he got
his sturl by sa> ng and thnt it was
the early lesson- of thrift at hone
thai made him POVer.
Professor Willi tm a. McKoever has
given a lot of time p> the study and
Investigation ef methods of training
hoys in this Important particular. The
Kansas state Agricultural College has
published some of his conclusions In
the form of bulletins, from which the
following hi an extract:
"It is often the case, especially
among farmers, that the growing boy
never sees any money of his o\\ n ex?
cepting on rare occasions like Christ?
mas and the Fourth Of July, and then
he regards his shining quarter as an
object of curiosity and scarcely knows
how to spend it. orten in a case like
this, it is found that the father is
looking upon his son as a kind of in?
vestment to be i iade as profitable as
possible. 'This hoy*S lime belongs to
inc. I am at considerable expense for
his board and clothes and winter
schooling, and I have a right to re?
quire him to do all he can in return,
i had very little spending money dur?
ing my boyhood.' This is, in sub?
stance, the sentiment expressed by a
prosperous farmer. The hoy was be?
ing exploited for the s?he of the farm
and not the farm for the sake of the
boy, as the case should have been.
" *I never gave one of my boys a
cent,' said another father who was
successful In this home training.
'From childhood, under my guidance,
they always earned all they got .ad
thus learned to know the value of It.'
'My lifteen-year-old boy is a spend?
thrift,' said another. 'It simply is not
in him to rave, although I have been
trying for three years to teach him
thlj lesson.' Inquiry Into this case
brought oul tho fact that up t<? his
twelfth your this boy ho 1 boon thor?
oughly Indulged in all tho habits of
the spendthrift."
After ho has been taught to earn
money, it la all-important that the
boy be instructed carefully in the mat
tor of saving. The evidence goes to
show that a bank or trust company
furnishes tho most common and satis?
factory means oi saving. The relation
<?,' these institutions to the hoy de?
positor h< always one of helpfulness
and encouragement, it matters not
how litih- the lad may he earning) ec<
that he saves n portion of it. Give
him u toy hank at first, and as Boon
as he has accumulated a dollar or
more have it placed to his credit In
0 hank of deposit. Develop his inter?
est in the matter by talking to him
and by taking him to the l ank with
you, where he may see the papers
made out.
Try to develop in the young finan?
cier's mind some reasonable purpose
for which this money is being saved,
and lead him by degrees to have fond
anticipations of its final use. Have
the boy's savings deposited In an in?
stitution that allows interest on such
accounts, explaining 10 him just how
money grows when bearing interest
and how compound interest is interest
on Interest.?T. i >. MacGregor.
DROPS DEAD AT HOME.
James A. Dultant, of Btsltopvlllc,
Died Suddenly This Morning.
News reached this city by telephone
this afternoon of the sudden death to?
day of Mr. James A. DuKant, of
Bishopvllle. He was apparently in
good health this morning. He walked
down town early in the morning and
it was shortly after his rt turn about
midday, that he suddenly fell over
and expired.
Mr. DuKant was a brother of Mr.
Clarence DuKant of this city. He was
about 52 years of age. The funeral
arrangements have not yet been made.
There's a turning;
point in time-be^
ready for it! Havel
some money|irj|
theBanfcT
1j The word "Rank" seexis to awe many
people, they feel the steps that lead to the
inside are not intended for them.
1f Make up your mind to get acquainted
with us and our methods. Make up your
mind to come in. Make up your mind to
have a Bank account in this strong bank.
It makes little difference how much mon?
ey you h'-ivc or earn, let us explain the
way to make this Bank your Bank, $1.00
will start you.
4 Par Gent Interest Paid on Savings.
THE BA sfK OF SUMTER
ESTABLISHED 1889
SAGE
"Be sure to have plenty of useful pres?
ents for the little folks, as well as the
grown-ups, for I expect to make your
sl:ore headquarters this season,
AS I AM GOING TO PAY CASH
for all presents, and want to trade at a Cash Store so I can get
5 Cents in Cash as a Premium on each dollar I trade. So be
sure to have plenty of nickles, as well as useful presents,"
-P. S.
Remember, I will expect to find such useful presents as Handkerchiefs packed
_ - _ _... ? y . TT ? T-? 1 ? ?
grown-ups, too; Silk Petticoats? Children's Toques, Lcggins and Booties, Underwear
for all the family.
Fancy Baskets, Celluloid Novelties, Hat Pins. Shirtwaist SeLs, Coin Cases*
Party Boxes, Vanity Cases, Mesh Bags.
J Santa Claus Knows the Value of our Cash Prem=
iuins. Do You ? "UNCLE SAM" MAKES THEM.
SAVE THE NICKLES, !
ONE WITH FACH $1 !
PURCHASE AT THIS |
STORE.
s.
! Some See How Well we've Followed Santa's Instructions.
SAVE THE NICKLES,
I ONE WITH EACH $1
PURCHASE AT THIS
STORE.