The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-05-17
Topics Of the Times.

On the other hand, if the State of
Pennsylvania were divided it would be
twice as bad.-Detroit Free Press.
Too much cheap politics does not
mix well in business administration
and it makes no difference who inJects
it.-Memphis News-Scimitar.
Dr. Washington GLADDEN. still hopes
to make his command of languages
prevail over Mr.. Rockefeller's COM
mand of money. Washing gton Star.
The Standard Oil Company has cut
the price of crude oil 4 cents more in
Kansas. Mr. Rockefeller must be pre-
pairing to give some other church 800,
600 Kansas City Times.
1t is believed that there is only one
man in the country who could buy up
all the wheat in the United States,
and he is too busy just now defending
the war on Standard Oil to try it
Kansas City Star.
Wisconsin has driven ont the Gig
arctic, and now proposes tc tax the
bachelor. There is nothing left for
the bachelor but to come to Oregon.
where he can smoke himself to death.
Portland Oregonion.
The assassin of Grand Duke Sergius
is to be merely hanged, like any com.
mon murderer, He is not to be boiled
in pitch, impaled on stake or other
wise treated as some might imagine
would be done in Russia.-M ontgom-
cry Advertiser.
The slight cloud of anti-Japanese
feeling at Washington is significant. A
japanese exclusion law would tend to
dissipate about all the entente cor
dale now existing between the big
republic of the West and tne rising
power of the Far East.-Mexican Her
aid.
Caleb Powers. of Kentucky, is the
one individual who has had more
trials than Nan Patterson.-Richmond
Times Dispatch.
Senator.elect Frazier, of Tennessee,
has filed an affidavit that his election
cost him only s1.50. Gracious, how
some people would like to see a lead
pipe cinch like that floating around
in old Virginia.-Richrnond Times
Dispatch.
Strikers in Porto Rico have been
shooting the non-union workers and
kicking up riot. The Porto Ricans
seem to be graspipg the idea Of Amer
ican liberty.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Do you imagine for moment that
such disorder and lawlessness would
prevail in Chicago if Theodore Roose-
were Mayor of that city.--Kansas City
Star.
Nan Patterson and Prosecutor Rand
both feel that their opinions of each
other were more or less sustained by
the attitude of the jury.--Washington
Star.
A cat may look at king, but
bobcat takes his life in his hand if he
tries to look at a President. Wash
ing Post.
: A Nebraska paper says: g With tel
ephcne in the house, buggy in the
barn, rural mail box at the gate,
the problem is solved-how to keep
the girls and boys on the farm. -
i It ought not to ba forgotten that
since the birth of the Democratic par
|, ,ty there have been millions Of sturdy
and loyal Democrats who bad never
heard of the policy that is known
as public ownership of public utilities.
-Binghamton Leader.
An Indiana jury granted divorce to
woman, allowed her SAT. 0G0 alimony,
a house valued at s35. .000, gave her
the custody of the chilqren and an ad-
ditional allowance of 1865 a month to
support them. All this was done on
the ground of "crueI aud unusual
treatment" the principal allegation
being that her husband subjected her
to great pain, humll alton and mcrtiti-
cation because be failed to wear
dress suit at dinner and reception
which she gave some of her fashion
able friends Surely and indeed it
would have meant electrocution for
Adam TO have had his case in the
hands of that jury.-Wiln,ington Star.
The Republican party can bear with
the utmost equanimity the statement
from an expert witness that Bryan is
the national leader of the Democrats
The coming battle in this country is
to be between the socialists plan of
government and the republican form
which is now in existence Troy IN.
Y. Times.
William Jennings Bryan has fpe
large Presidential bee bpzzing in bis
bonnet and it is very evident that Will
liam is making no strenuous efforts to
shoo it away. Probably William likes
to hesr it buzz At any rate be mas
engaged an editor for the Commoner,
which will give him more time to sit
in the sun and give the bee good
chance -Gadsden (Ala.) Journal.
At this season the principal yellow
peril'' is the butter that reminds you
that the COW is fond of onions. Bal
timore Sun.
It used to be the custom to roast
whole beef on state occasions; now we
roast whole beef trust every day
Dallas News.
A man in Delaware has become
crippled by kneeling too much in
prayer. but it is the only case on re-
cord. Boston Globe.