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The Watchman and Southron - ? - - ? -?? - .-? : Published Wednesday and Satur v day by Qstcen .P^?*)lishing Company, ' Suiater, S. C, $2.00 pgr annum?in advance. ..Advertisements: One Square* first insertion __$l.rt0 Every .subsequent insertion .5'; ? Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. . All communications which sub serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries16 and tributes of re spect will be charged f#r. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850_ and the True ? Southron in X866*. The Watchman and Southron; now has the com bined circulation and influence of both cf the old papers, a^d is man ifestly the best advertising medium in SvLmtsr: A STATESWOMAX- OX WOXEX. Jtfiss Alice'2!? Robertson, solitary . congresswoman. is bsavc. In a re cent'interview. she paid her respects to her women critics and to women in general this fashion: j "The women are against me be* cause I was not for suffrage orig- j inaily, but I don't mind. All these J women agitators who appear before j clubs with" their nice gowns and j long gloves, and look pretty so that j the other women will sit up and exclaim, 'Oh, isn't she wonderful! make 2$e wonder why some of them did hot raise sons to. have reverence forthem.". She denies women's claim that they are the true pacifists, saying: "Woman is no more, pacifist than man. What;"playthings - does the mother give her child? Toy -pis tols, tin guns and soldiers.- Down in the soul of every woman is pride of her warrior; It has been so' from the time-when she used her hair to make-JSowstrings and hand ed her warrior his shield. In most j cases the women are harder to pacify- than the men. They hold ? warlike memories and prejudices) longer. Look at the . activities of j the Daughters of the Revolution! And where - are the Sons of the Revolution? The women of the Confederacy never yielded at all; they would have fought till the last one was killed. I noticed at tne Army-Navy football game that wo men cheered louder than1 ?fe inen; they went crazy while0the battle was om In the old, savage days, .-. when the men - went forth and brought "home t^ir enemaeV scalps, did their women rebuke them for such barbarity ? No?they sewe?V. the selapa "proiudly to the men's war-shirts-." r / ' , A mere man has not the temer ity to say1 whether ail this is true :<,'??? r ? or not. One thing, however, a man may safely declare. It is that the women will certainly fight Miss j Robertson's re-election, for this and other anti-feminist offenses, j What the.men.t>f her district will' do remains to be seen.- Miss Rob- j erwoon. blandly remarks, "The wo- j "men were against me last time, and ! I won.''. Which raises the piquant question': ? ? ? Are we coming to a political pe- j ribfi^ in which the men are going to vote for the women, and the women for the men? ' " r ? ? * ? LIVERS OUT^OF WARSHIPS. *' The"' splendid, warships now ; building need not be a total lossj when .the scrapping program be- j gins, if a,suggestion made by J. W. \ Powell, president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, is carried out. They need not even go at junk prices. Some of them may be turn ed into valuable assets of a differ ent kind. Mr. Powell wants the government fr> take three hulls, intended for toattle cruisers, vrhich are now marked for .destruction, and have, them finished as ^passenger liners. He believes they are admirably fit ted for the purpose. A battle cruis er is a sort of battleship that is lighter and faster than the dread nought. One of the hulls, which he has carefully examined, that of the cruiser Lexington at Quincy, Mass., he is convinced wouTd make a liner superior to any now existing. It would carry 1,000 first class pas sengers, 1,000 second class and 2.- j 000 steerage passengers, and beat ' any of our present liners in speed. ! Apparently it would cost no more to finish the cruisers in this way than according to . the original plans. It might cost less. And they would make a big addition to our merchant marine. Two other cruiser hulls. h<-> thinks, could be converted into airplane carriers, of which the conference plans allow a greater tonnage than our government now possesses. If such use can fairly be made these craft, why scrap them? THE BRITISH-FREXCH ROW. Americans have been amazed and disappointed by the quarrel stirred up between France and England. Only a little while ago those two countries were brothers in arms, swearing eternal loyalty. Now their, statesman are bitter against each other and there is even talk of eventual war between them. The trouble Is partly racial. The French and English have never really understood each other or felt ^at ease with each other. American soldiers-who served in ,the English army in France used to insist that j Tommy liked the Germans better I than the French. That is not im i possible. i It is partly military, too. The French are honestly afraid of Ger many,-as a result of two tragic ex periences in half a century, and: in sist on enough armed power for self-protection. There are French jingoes who carry that. policy to extremes. The British have never got over their fear and hatred of Nape :eon, and are obviously afraid of another Napoleonic France. The trouble, however, is prob ably economic most of all. France is an agricultural nation, fairly self contained. France can feed her self, is not greatly dependent on industry, and is poverty-stricken by the war and wants, to collect a large indemnity from Germany to repair her damage. Great *Britain cannot feed herself. She depends on her industries for a living, and knows that if Germany is pressed too hard by France,-Germany and the rest of Central Europe will have no buying power, and so Brit ish industry will languish. t, It is French prosperity against British prosperity. "Economic de termination" is, as usual, the chief malefactor. - IN AGRICULTURAL MAINE. This last year a county in rock ribbed old Maine is registered among the five richest agricultural counties in the country, while counties in regions considered bet ter adapted to agriculture have fallen below the mark. The New England farmer has one great advantage in the near ness of his markets and the large urban populations constantly de manding his produce." He cannot raise everything, nor does he try; but thanks to modern methods, he will raise successfully a,good many things which his ancestors gave up as failures. Because of a better understanding of soils and climate and the law of supply and demand h? .will specialize in things which they slighted or overlooked entire iy it is this policy which brought .the Maine county up to the top, and which is bringing many an aban doned farm in the.Bast and Mid dle West back to productivity. The West is still considered the region of richest opportunity; but older sections are learning that natural resources themselves are less im portant than the use made of them. NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET. Now is the time to think of next year's family budget. No time? Nonsense! The woman setting swift sitches can use her mind on her business meanwhile. The man w^o has to stand in the street car can get in a little useful medita tion. Sliere is always time for constructive thinking. If there, isn't, the whole process of life is wrong, and should be changed, the sooner *he better. Mistakes have been made this year. That was inevitable. The same ones need not be made next year. But while working out the plans L?i a tentative^ way, ready to take form, in January, k nrght be well to consider the family who dropped in a few months from an annual income of $22,000 which they gaily spent, to one of $8,000, with no hope of coming up again for years. That woman is having a harder time than the average parent of humbler income. Also consider the man with small children and big appetites whose income has drop ped from a living wage to almost nothing. He and his wife are hav ing a hard time, too. In Russia the children are starv ing. Suppose your boy does have to wait another year for his bicycle, your girl for her dancing lessons. They've go' food and shelter and comfortable, if riot expensive clothes, haven't they? You are all right, and if you make the savings and insurance come out of the en velope first of all, you will continue to be safe and prosperous. ? m ?> ?ASV MARKS. Americans needn't feel so super ior with respect to German paper money. Financial authorities esti mate that of the 90 billions or so of th^se marks outstanding. 20 billions ar? held in America. That is to say. Americans themselves have more than one-fifth of the stuff, and they bought nearly all of it at a higher price than it now commands. The fact that our people invested in this worthless paper proves, if anyth-'ng, that the purehas^rs had less sense about financial matters j than the sellers. The Germans I knew how worthless it was, and were glad to g^t rid of it They have been busy right along turn ing the product of their govern ment printing presses into foreign gold and goods. j American losses on this account ! are said to be, so far, around j $100,000,000. They will be a good deal more when the vast issues of German paper are repudiated. Ap parently there is no other outcome possible. The recent rise in marks is considered merely temporary, the result of speculation. Germany wili almost certainly have to junk all that paper, as France did a cen tury- and a quarter ago after a sim ilar splurge. To redeem it, Ger many would need about as much hard cash as would suffice to pay the entire war indemnity?and eveyrbody knows how indemnity payments stand. During the period when Ameri can investors loaded up with this German paper, they could have got perfectly sound American bonds paying 7 to 8 per cent and sound stocks paying 9 or 10 per cent. They thought the marks were "easy." It was they themselves who were the "easy marks." ? m> ? Legislative Elections There Are Numerous Offices To Be Filled Columbia. Dec. 12.?There will be .numerous elections in the gener al assembly which convenes on January 10. and already candidates are looking to their "constituents." the members of the two branches.. The chief race will be that for the associate justiceship, left va cant by the last legislature, after many futile efforts to break * a deadlock. AH four of the candi dates who wore in the race last winter will be voted on again, M. L. Bonham, of Anderson; Jesse I. Carter, of Bamberg: Senator J. H.? Marion, of Chester, and Judge S. W. G. Shipp, of Florence. It i3 ex pected that a "dark horse" will j likely be entered when the voting is renewed in January. Governor Cooper is being mentioned in this connection. There will also be elections of seven circuit judges. The judges ; whose terms expire in 1922 arc I. W. Bowman, of Orangeburg: Hayne ( F. Rice, of Aiken; John S. Wilson, j or Manning: Edward Mclver, of jCheraw: Ernest Moore, of Lancas I ter; Frank B. Gary of Abbeville, and Thos. J. Mauldin, of Pickens. The only one of these races about which there is yet any po [ litical talk is that for the First cir cuit, of which Judge Bowman is j now the presiding judge. The name j of Marvin M. Mann, prominent law ! yer of St. Matthews, and clerk of [the state senate, is being mentioned as a possible candidate for the judgeship'now held by Judge Bow man. .Mr. Mann as well as Judge Bowman will probably be nominat i ed for the place.- Mr. Mann is very ! popular with the members of the general assembly, serving now his seventh term as clerk of the sen ate. An election in connection with one of the important state com missions will be that of chairman 'of the State Tax Commission. A. W. Jones is the present chairman, but it is understood he will not of fer for re-election. There are numerous other offices to be filled by the legislature as fol lows: Two members of the board of visitors of the Citadel, the terms of John P. Thomas, of Charleston, and James H. Hammond, of Co lumbia, expiring. Three trustees of Clcmson Col lege, the expiring terms being those of J. J. Evans, of Ber.nettsvillc: I. M. Mauldin, of Columbia, and B. H. Ray.i. of Lexington. Two members of the board of visitors of the Colored Normal, In dustrial, Agricultural and Mechani cal College, at Orangeburg, those whose.terms expire in 1922 being G. P. White, of Chester, and C. F. Brooks, of ?^urens. One trustee of the John do la Howe Industrial School, in Me Cormick county, the trustee whose term expires in 3 922 being J. M. Xickles. of Abbeville. Two trustees of the University, those whose terms expire in 1922 being C. E. Spencer, of York, and L. P. Hollis, of Greenville. One trustee of Winthrop College, at Rock Hill, the term of J. E. Mc Donald, of Winnsboro, expiring in 1922. Two directors of the state peni tentiary. Those whose terms of of fice expire in 1!>22 are A. H. Haw kins, of Prosperity, and W. H. Can field, of Anderson. The fire department hustled two trucks to Walker Ave., for a fire occurring at about 1:30 this after noon. Only the big chemical tank of the Reo truck was needed to put out the flames burning on the roof of the house over the kitchen. The house, Xo. 19, is own^d by a colored woman, Sallie Becoal and was being occupied by a negro named John Williams. The fin was evidently caused by the usual defective stove Hue. ? ? o ?? Jim Friarson, negro, is in the county jail following his arrest last week by officers, R. S. (Iriflin and E. S. Xewman. The father of this ne gro boy tool; to the woods and has not been located yet. The charges against the negroes is a rather clear one of hog stealing. The hog when found by the bailiffs was in the form of pork but if was yet ^identifiable as Mr. It. M. Brown's property by its ear mark and by the color of the hair on the but half cleaned animal. The ne groes lived about !? miles from Sum mer on the Black River road. ?? ? ? Many phone numbers are call j ed, but few are gotten. j The ocean bed. to a depth of en miles, can be tested and graded .by means of a little appliance i which can be lowered and which ! grabs a sample of tin- sea bed. -o -o- ?# Fortune smiles at sonn- people and laughs out loud at others: Good Advice For Farmers Commissioner Harris Says Live at Home and Get Out of Debt Columbia. Deo. 10.?Farmers arc advised fiot to sell a bale of cotton at present prices unless absolutely necessary in a statement issued yes terday by B. Harris, commissioner of agriculture. The statement urges the holding of cotton. It follows: "I see no reason to change my opinion about the cotton situation. I see the gihners' report today is 7,G40.000 bales and it,,is hardly pos sible for it to even reach 8,000,00 0 bales. Even if it does, that will be a bullish report. With a carry over of not more than 0,000,0 00 bales of spinnable cotton and at least 2. 500,00,0 bales of this crop low grade, there will be a good demand for the good grades in the near future. "The bales of this year are bound to be lighter than they were last year, and then the lint on an aver age is shorter this year than last year?so this will bring about less quantity #f lint. The-world's con sumption of cotton is running over 1,000,000 bales a month and the mills now are all running on full time, a great many of them run ning at night. Most of the mills are short on actual cotton but they have bought from the cotton brokers for future delivery and they will call upon them to deliver the actual cottoif for they can not spin future contracts without it. Therefore, t want to urge every farmer-not tei sell a bale unless he is compelled! to do so. \ "Ask your banker to take ' your warehouse receipts and float them for you and put the money on your account with him and 1 believe he ; will do this for you. For God's sake don't accept the offer which the mills are making?to let them1 have the cotton and pay you 14 cents and settle with you any tirtie up to July. If enough of the farm ers do this, cotton never will~go/up. "Farmers, don't get scared. Don't sell a bale unier-i you have to. 'Sit I steady in the boat!' It is not too latj to sow oats and Canada field peas to make good horse and cow feed. Sow on good land, /and by May 20 you will have seme of the finest horse and mule feed you ever fed. Sow two and one-half bushels j of oats and one-half bushel of Canada field peas to thp aCre. You can buy the seed at any good seed store. Let your watchword nexf ! year be*r* To live at home and keep out of debt,' and you will have no trouble about financing your cotton. You will then be in a position to make the other fellow pay . your price. Write a motto like this and tack it upon your .barn door where you can lie re minded of it every day: 'Live at home?keep out of debt.' " A BirtlKlay Party. Dorothy Carolyn Bradford cele brated her fifth birthday., sur rounded-, by a number of little chums, invited especially to make the happy hour more joyous. Many games so dear to childish hearts were enjoyed. With winter the hours, are too shprt, especially on a -happy birth day, and the sun- goes to sleep before you half finish your gaaie. With a tinkling of a silver hell, the* little folks, like a bunch of violets sweet are ushered into the dining room. Eyes are everywhere open ed wide. Symbolic of the Christ mas month, Santa Claus is stand ing with pack on his back, while the table is radiant in rosy hues. Cakes and cherry ice cream are served and fancy candy while dainty little favors arc given each one. Each guest gave expression of many happy birthdays for thy" charming little hostess. Those who enjoyed the after noon were: Elizabeth Waddell, Howard Waddell. William Cox, Louise Commander. Margaret Wild er, Frances Wilder. Rosa Wilder. Bernice Wilder. Eleanoi? Bradford. Ashby Bradford, Ealaihc White, Frances Fripp, Sarah Moore. Edith Ridgill, Willie Lee Ridgill. Angus Ridjrill. Esther Brunson, Charles Osteen. Anness Osteen, \ Margaret Bradford mid Frances Bradford. -? ? 0 It is stated that Mr. J. K. Mc Elveen was the hero of the hour this morninS* when he. together with other assistance, stripped the burning clothing from a negro wo man in a house on Manning Ave.. just across the railroad crossing. The clothing of the woman had evidently caught from the fire in the fire place and Mr. McElveen who happened to he in the neigh borhood was attracted to the house by the cries of the woman and her daughter. Mr. McElveen caught the woman and with one sweep pulled off the burning garments. The woman was slightly burned and Mr. McElveen is suffering from the discomfort of slight burns on his hands. ?? -ft* o ? At the annual meeting for the coUection of the Christmas poor fund, which was -leid yesterday afternoon at the Opera House, the sum of $473.13 was raised. There was a good crowd present and a splendid program was carried out. Several enjoyabh musical selec tions were tciven and a very appro priate message delivered by Father J. F.'Mahoney, of St. Anne's Cath olic church. The collection taken this year was not quite so larjre as previous collections have been but it is expected that from time t<> time during the next few days numerous cor tri but i ort? will he supplemented to the fund. The amount collected yesterday is in dependent "f :ill oth-M- annual funds set aside for this purpose. ?4 * ? ? Women, on an average, have broader heads in proportion to their length, and darker eyes and hah' than men. Nothing hinders digestion like worrying over Japan. -? ?? ??> The road to peace is paved with good preventions. Notice of Election State of South Carolina, Coun ty of Sumter - / Notice is hereby given that an election will be held in the county of Sumter on Tuesday, December 20. 1921, for the purpose of elect ing a state senator to fill out the unexpircd term of the late John II. Clifton, and also to elect a member of the house of representatives to till the vacancy caused by the resig nation of Hon. Davis D. Moise. All electors of said county quali fied to vote at the last general elec tion, and all electors of said county becoming qualified since that time, shall be entitled to vote in said election upon production of regis tration certificates, and proof of payment of taxes for the preceding calendar year. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe "the Constitu tional oath. The Chairman of the Board of Managers can administer the oath to the other members and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to the Chair | man. The Managers elect their I Chairman and Clerk. Polls at each voting place must be opened at 7 o'clock a. m. and closed at -1 o'clock p. m. The Managers have the power to ! fill a vacancy, and if none of the Managers a? tend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters the Managers, who. after be ing sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerk must proceed publicly to open the ballot boxes and count the ballots therein, and continue without adjournment until the same is completed, a^d make a ' statement of the result for each of | fice and sign the same. Within three days thereafter the Chair man of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must de liver to the Commissioners of Elec tion the poll list, the boxes contain ing the ballots and written state ' ments of the results of the elec tion. The following Managers of Elec tion have been appointed to hold the election in the < arious precincts of Sumter county: Ward 1?W. D. Owens, J. II. Darr. A. K. Bernshouse. Ward 2?J. M. Fogie, J. S. Rich ! ardson, J. M. Eraser. Ward 3?M. S. Josey, J. A. Cal ! houn. Jno. S. Kennedy. ' Ward 4?A. H. Wilder, W. L. Harris, W. H. Gentry. Stateburg?P. C. Kirk, Wallace Sumter, Kinlock Bull. I . Providence?S. L. Young, Sr., C. I J. Gaiilard. S. F. Moore. I Rafting Creek?J. A. Reames, J. I K. McLcod. L. S. Yinson. I ^ Oswego?H. R. McLcod, F. W. I Andrews, J. R. Terry. MayesYille?J. R. Mayes, E. Alexander, W. S. Chandler. 1 Shiloh?W. W. Green. H. O. ' Player, S. B. McElveen. \ Concord?G. W. Mahoney, W. L. Brunson, C. W. Brunson. Privateer?W. O. Cain, Sr., D. O. Pierson, (i. A. Nettles. Wedgefield?J. J. Geddings, E. ! L. Burress, W. L. Dew. Blobmhill?E. R. Williams, S. M. I Coulter, F. M. Coulter. DftBose?34t, R. Risers, Marion Dorri, T. SLDtrBose. / 0 Innewood?E. C. Geddings L. T. D?K'hamps, W. D. Epperson. Pledge's Corner?T. J. Hodge, MrS. Richardson, P. B. Hodge. ' The Managers at each precinct ? named above are requested to dele I gate one of their number to secure I boxes., blanks, and tickets for the [.election from E. F. Miller, Clerk, [vbf the Board, at 115 North Main llstreet, on Saturday, December 17, Jl92i. f JOHN B. DUFFIE, ; T. E. HODGE, R. M. JONES. Commissioners of State and Coun ty'' Elections for Sumter County, j S. C. December G, 1921. ? ? ?3 Shower For Miss Bessie Hood. Among the many delightful parties of the past week tendered Miss ?essio Hood., a. bride-eloct of the month, none were more enjoy able than the very unique "Honey moon Shower" with which Mrs. Robert - Plowden complimented Miss Hood on Tuesday morning, December Cth. The two drawing rooms were artistically decorated with flowers and a profusion of silver and gold crescent mo< n... Between the two rooms hung a large white wedding bell. Over a prettily decorated table in the center of the second room, hung a full moon of yellow crepe paper. Each guest was given a paper containing sixteen questions relat ing to the Honeymoon; beginning with the groom's name, the bride's name, etc.. each answer being the name of a song. A great deal of merriment was caused over the contest, the lucky winner of the prize being Mrs. s. II. Edmunds, who very graciously presented it to Miss Hood, who as the honoree had been presented by Mrs. Plow den with the guest prize, a pair of beautiful silk hose. After delici ous refreshments had been served. Miss Hood was asked to pull the dainty ribbons hanging from the big yellow moon over the table, the result being a veritable shower of pretty and appropriate gifts for the honeymoon. Those invited to enjoy the hos pitality of Mrs. Plowden were: Misse;.- Bessie Hood, Grace Rey nolds. Rose Chandler. Louise Wil liams. Anna Bryan. Nell Rhame, Margaret DeLorme, Laura Baker. Sue Hook. Mesdames Jas. Shaw. Alwin Burns. Mamie Cunningham, Paul Aughtry. O. L. Williams. Henry Hill. J. P. Marion. Lelia Mayes. S. H. Edmunds, Karl Row land. C. G. Rowland, lt. C. Forest er. Elizabeth Thomas. Lucy Boy kin. It. S. Hood. W. E. Minis. Pringle Brunson. T. Y. Walsh, C. A. Ward. The man who has no will rarely finds a way. You'll get somewhere with a pipe and P. AJ Prince Albert in sold in toppy red bags, tidy red tins, handsome pound and half pound tin humidors and in the pound crystal glass humidor with sponge mozstcner top. Start fresh all over again at the beginning! Get a pipe!?and forget every smoke experience you ever had that spilled the beans! For a jimmy pipe, packed brimful with Prince Albert, will trim any degree of smoke joy you &ver registered! It's a revelation! Copyright 1S21 by R. J. Reynolds Tob '.ceo Co. Winslon-Salein* N. C. Put a pin in here! Prince Albert can't bite your tongue or parch your throat Both are-cut out by our exclusive patented process. So, just pass up any old idea you may have stored away that you can't smoke a pipe! We tell you that you can?and just have the time of your life on every Sre-up-^if you play Prince Albert for packing! What P. A. hands you in a pipe it will duplicate in a home-made cigarette! Gee?but you'll have a lot of fun rolling 'em with Prince Albert; and, it's a cinch because P. A. is crimp cut and stays put! the national joy smoke Entertaining the Populace. A month ago in a little hotel in a village of Virginia one might have i seen a placard on the wall "warn ing" traveling men to avoid Lynch ! burg on a day to come on account J of a game of football to he played j between Washington, and Lee Uni i versity and Virginia Polytechnic 1 Institute. Lynchburg hotels would I be crowded. The placard carrier! i the name of the most prominent j hotel in Lynchburg. Xext day, the day before the game, one saw in the lobby of the Lynchburg hotel pho tographs of the two elevens that were to battle on the Lynchburg gridiron. Before them stood a pair of hotel servants, negroes, "bell hops" they are commonly called, and a traveling man overhearo* their animated conversation. One was an enthusiastic backer of the ; University team and the other was scarcely less confident the Poly technic would win. Both evidently j expected to see the buttle or. if not. i to lay a wager on the event. Why were "V. P. I." and Wash ington and Lee coming to Lynch burg to play football? The answer is simple. Blacksburg, where one of the schools is located, is a vil lage and Lexington, the home of the other, is a little town. Lynch burg is a city of 40,000 or 50.000 inhabitants, having excellent rail road connections, and from a grid iron battle there five or six times the money is to be had as in either of the college towns. Now modern football is an ex pensive game. Coaches for Wash ington, and Lee and V. B. I. cost perhaps $10,000 or $12.000 .". year. ! The burden of raisins: it is far too ! prreat for students, even with the assistance of alumni. The populace must contribute and so the game must go where the populace, nor the college is at homo. Football must be made a spectacle for all the people, not excluding the bell hops who have money, who get t:? ? s in the hotels of Virginia. The col lege, to get money for football, must get the tins of tin- bell hops, and if it do not furnish football and make itself one of the providers of I popular amusement, it will lose I students. Why should students en roll in an institution that does no j more than teach chemistry, math ematics. English and such things i thoroughly? I It is the unvarnished fact that ?the colleges, especially the country colleges , are compelled in these days to subordinate their ancient office, sometimes to degrade them [selves, that the people who care i little about colleges and a great deal about football may l>-? enter tained. The people directly hire j baseball clubs to amuse them. ! which is perfectly proper and right. Indirectly they are hiring ; the colleges to do much the same j thing and a college ought not to be I for hire. Meanwhile, the country colleges are at great disadvantage. One i I not greatly surprised that, as in tercollegiate football organization grows, becomes more complex and j costly, larger difficulty in maintain ; ing elevens is experienced by such j institutions as Sewanec and Clem son. They can do little playing at j home. Ten years ago. even tnree y >ars I ago. football was. comparatively, a backward sport in this part of the country. It has made great stride* lately. It is costing more money. Wherever is a city having a coll ? are men to put the money up. A church college in Birmingham has j offered one of the "Braying CoL i onels" of Kentucky $35.000 to {coach its team five years. And Birmingham is a city1 of 200.000 in habitants and of groat wealth.?The' State. Sportsmanship. The young gentleman universally^ acclaimed as the greatest football; player in South Carolina did not \ matriculate in Erskine college on j account of its standing as a foot ball institution. Indeed. Erskinjfs football reputation has in large measure been created by "Dode*r j Phillips of ("nester. Phillips entered Erskine and ! I there ho stayed. One s?spects that1 his gridiron prowess would have j opened the gates of a, dozen larger colleges to him. but they were hot i better colleges than Erskine. Any way, "Dode" Phillips was more J than content to remain in the col lege of his fathers and of his peo ple, the Associated Reformed Pres byterians, sometimes called "So- i oeders," who sing the psalms of Da- j vid. Spcrtsmanshi]) is of many kinds, I but none is liner than that of Erskine and of it young Phillips is j the fl?wer. Iiis is the unrivalled j glory on the football fields of South I Carolina, but his greater glory is j that he von it for Erskine first, last i and all the time. The probabilities are against Er kino having in the next year or '. o I a successor to Phillips, but then. ?3 i in the atmosphere of Due \\\ t j something that gives to the ma' - ing of men more than the aV I coaches can contribute.?The i.e. j ??????o?? Christmas Fund For Soldiei . As usual Sumter went '"ove /no top" in giving for the Chr: las present fund for disabled wol .ar heroi'S ?t thi- United Suites ? >lic Health Service Hospital tit 1 an Sevier, GreenvP1** S. C. he Greenville Chamber of Com . ce assessed Sumter in the su of twenty-five dollars in the si :ce wide contribution and on last Sat urday the local committee wired twenty-eigir dollars to the Green ville chamber of commerce which j amount was a purely volunteer con tribution. The committee desires space in your paper to acknowledge receipt of additional contributions as follows, and to thank the gener ous hearted and grateful citizens for their cheerful responses to this i fund for this worthy cause. No effort was made to increase the amount beyond that asked for by j the Greenville chamber of com merce. Previously/ published .$14.50 Miscellaneous cash . *_'.:?? D. G. F. Cultman. 1.00 D. D. Moise. 1.00 i David Doar. 1.00 Moses .1. Moore_. 1.00 H. J. Harby. 1.00 Mrs. R. Lelahd Moore_ !.<" Mrs. Lucy p. Moore._ 1."'? Mrs. Ormbsy Blanding _ 100 Mrs. Jennie M. Baker_ 3.00 j Total.$23.00 SAMUEL O'QUTNN, E. 1. REARDON. Local Committee. ? o -o Announce Ei gagemcnt. j Oswcgo. Deo. 11.?Mr. and Mrs. |.T. E. Heriot announce the eng?ge jment of their daughtoi\ Colzy j Caroline, to Willis pun can Ryan. --<>???-<?-? I arrested Saturday a fternoon :.t ; Dalzell by Rural Officers Sam New ! man and ' i. P. ?? ?> ?:}"- after i: had !?? er, discov? r**d that he hart whiskey outfit near his home in Providence section. The nc-sro furnished his own cash bond ???" i'$100. About fifty gallons of r-ady ! mash w< re found near the small 'whiskey iranufacturing plant. Bishop.ville News Notes. ; Bishopv?ie, Dec. 10.?We are all glad to have our pastor, Rev. W. V. Dibble returned to us for another year. Mr. Hosea Woodard, who has been in the Charlotte hospital for some time was able to return to his home today. ? I' am sorry to report the death of one of our oldcim veterans, Mr. George1 Oar'roway. He was SG years old. and served through the Whole war, as a true and faithful soldier. He died at the^ home of one of his (laughters living in Ben nettsvilie and was buried, beside his wife near Harts^lle. Our wheat mill and three or four tracts of land wer" sold at sheriff's Sale last Monday; most of which was bid in by attorneys. Mr. and Mrs. il. K Moore lost a sweet little ehild last week, and they have our heartiest sympathy. The hog cholera is playing de struction in some sections, one man losing forty head and another ten fine ^neat hogs, and hear the dis ease continues to do its work. The oat and wheat crops look fine, but many farmers are not able to plant as much as they would like because they are not able to buy the seed. -Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Scott went over to Columbia last Wednesday on a shopping trip. They report the reads in fine condition. Mr. anw Mrs. W. E. Stafford will celebrate their crystal wedding on tiie 1 :ith of thin month. Hope they live to celebrate tneir golden wed ding. There has been two or three robberies in tour town lately, but the thieves have not been caught* up with, so far. Dr. Mciver, from Atlanta, will preach in the Presbyterian cliurch on Sunday. Rev. Mr. Jones preached for the Baptists last Sunday. Both of these churches are without a pastor. o ?y Young Man Fails at an Old Game. Columbia, Dec, 12.?R. Y. Kib-? lor. a Columbia attorney, had an unusual experience last week, and as a result a young Frenchman, -v.'bo posed as an heir to a million dollar estate, is today resting in the Richland county jail, awaiting trial at the next term of court. The young Frenchman is Joe E. Fringcr. He called on Mr. Kibler and a friendship sprung up. The young man is eighteen and he told ? ? v. - ting friends in this city, and Mr. Kibler took him in. He told t'ne Columbia lawyer that he was '.tie son of French general who was killed in ttfe war. and that his ? . ther's recent death left him a*.' estate valued at a million. The friendship went on and the young man v.as taken to t'ne Kibler home. A few days ago he forged Mr. Kib k r's name to a er.oek and his bubble bursted. The friendly lev. yer then had him arrested. -?j? o Those persons of the city desir ing to make contributions of loads . wood for the poor of the city ai d community will please get in touch with Mr. B. G. Bowman, chairman of the poor fund cot i mittee. _ LOST-?One bird dog with large 1 rown soots on head and tail. v l:h small flea spots over whole Last seen on top of Bal l-ill going to Rembert. Re v ard if found. Answers to name of Rex. C. 11- Chandler. Rem bert, s. C. ??. WANTED ? Pure Iron peas and mixed cow peas. Booth & Mc Leod.