The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-05-18
NoTEs AND COMMENT.

BY w. .. Sc

ter regrets TO lose S0en. hessrS. -.
E. Rose and S. E Fraser have NOV
ed into his residence.
Commissioner White has cleaned out
all the drains of the city and put
them in good sanitary condition.
Are the Sumter county citizens go
ing to let the Offices run them down.
It looks so. Only one announced so
fa-. In other counties shey are
swarming.
1t is due to the persistent and in
tellieent work of Messrs. Edmunds,
Strauss and Chandler that our band
will get $3.50 annually from the city
treasury. Prof. Eomunds' presenta-
tion Of the claims Of this Institution
were incontrovertible.
There's going to be an Episcopal
college in this State. Sumter is the
place for it-the best in South Caro-
lima. Who can dispute it,,
Some of our Aldermen are too bash
full about 'speakin' out in meetin'. "
don't like to see this spirit Of wait
ing on the 'sthe other fellow" Speak
out!
Sumter is going to have a bunch of
pretty June brides, No excuse for
bachelorhood in Sumter, anyhow.
The beer dispensary will be on
North Main street. The ''booze-
fighters will then have fun "gwine
an comm.
Congressman Lever stirred things
up in Washington by that speech
discrimination against the South in
the rural free delivery service. f"
They are coming to taw.''
The examination for two rural car
riers viii be held next Saturday.
After June these carriers will beF paid
s720 per annum. There are several
applicants.
All are glad to see Mr.. Claremont
Moses out again. He had long and
severe spell of sickness.
Rev. R. E. Peele met with a hearty
reception. There were not seats
enough last Sunday evening for the
crowd. He preached two splendid
sermons.
Saturday night the iucandescent
lights burned out. The light was too
bright. Some people kicked. So it
goes-they are too bright, and they
are too dim.
The rural carrier examination GER
tainly will be held on next Saturday.
Those who have application blanks
out better forward them at once.
I note that some OF the girls from
the fifth to the eighth grades have
donned long dresses, and assumed the
dignity and grace Of a sure enough
grown woman. It's amusing, for in
less than fifteen years bet they'll
wish they were back to short frock
days. So it goes.
This recalls the way the girls dress
ed when I was a school-boy. They
wore short dresses, but hared, rufied,
frilled, starched pantalettes nearly to
the shoe tops. So. it goes. In this
day, such sight would make you
believe Barnum was in town.
And do you remember those old hoop
skirts Mercy guide met can never
forget the fun I once had with a
teacher who tried TO whip me- She
could not get to me properly. She
wore one.
7 like to hear Prof. Schumacher on
the violin every Sabbath at the First
Baptist Church. IN Just fills in your
heart something you crave. But it
wouldn't suit ,these old fashioned.
back-Woods fellows. I Ee1nemberWEe
the Tunes were raised or pitched by a
low whistle, hum, or the ring of a
fork tine. But my! when they were
raised-whoop! they were raised.
The Office of City Recorder is a hard
place to fill. Outside Of the trying
duties and responsibilities, the officer
gets more unkind criticism than doz-
en- bad citizens should get. And by
people who know as much about law
as a dead mule about the Deity. OF
course, such things never worry con-
scientious man. I don't like to hear
them. As Gloomy Gus says, it
makes me tired
wonder what the conditions Of
this world would become if woman
was removed forever? Did you ever
think about such a thing? I believe
men would then grow tusks, claws,
walk,on hands and feet, scream, rave,
roam aimlessly about. Flowers would
quit blooming. Handsome churches,
fiue residences, and big stores would
become habitat for bats, owls, scor-
pions, and Lizards. Yet, me1 do not
appreciate, or know the true value of
woman. Shut out the sunshine; stop
the song of the birds; bury the bios
SONS; away with the little boys and
girls; take that tender hand away
from. the acheing head! Then, maybe,
her worth could be realized. This
is doubtful.
Some OF the greatest writer's have
sung her praises-appreciated and
! adered her. Listen to Wordsworth:
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and
skill;
a perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warm, to comfort and command.