The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-01-03

NEDe U~gsaalyll@lA ate Gulgsoss
@WEDaEsDAY JANUARY 8 1905.
The Sander Watehaen was founded N
xs5eand tie True Soathyom 1866 The
Wascansass and Soathros nowhas the com
hined circuiation and influence Of botn Of
shes3id papers andisnanifestiytn oess
advertising medium msumter
seperantendsm Edmunds'
argument in faver liking upon
rears at time at which formal
edueation child should begin ap-
pears Sound. sane 2 conclusive.
somecnndrensa renentaily and ply
ssicaIay mature enough to9enser school
at d age S s years, but they are ex-
csptdons and excepuonaI chlldren 60
not I'll n harlnoniouslysWith the pres
entystem of public education, Which
Sdesignedpr tie needs q eapa
nsades Of the average child It's TO
ag hoped fhat MI. Edmunds address
wzn be read z digested BY an;
ssehoo1 81 theSstate and thatthey
VIII mite IN exersing their inauenceto
have the school age changed from
10 years.
7S46I ordinary farm mules com
naaasag me prices that theysnow DO
MeaHaos understand why South
.ssarosiaa 1armers persist IN paying the
siees rather than raise all they need.
80 nome and few to sell Mules a
Is raised in this county successfully
hss been demonstrated at the STATE
Earn s sound young mule Of good
size is wcrth from s2oo to $3.50 and
e Mss been asserted and uncontra-
dicted thatfhe cost of raising a mule
IS not more than s75 a the maximum,
while under favorable conditions the
cost IS less than $50.
So
The Christmas killings, due to
liquor, appear to have been impair
a1aB distributed amongst the dispen-
sary and the Brice Law prohibition
counties. Reliable statistics on this
point are not yet available but it seems
50 he that Wh;skey and the devil got
an their joint work just as success
nully.where the dispensary had been
autIawed and the blind tigers given a
cree hand as where that State presided
e the distribution Of the stuff that
makes the devils work easy.
With the New Year it is to be
hoped that the planto build the rail-
road from this city TO Bethune or Tie
Seabcard Air Line viii be revived
Sumter needs another outlas more
shan any ether one thing. 4 railroad
irving access to the Seaooard territory
would BE invaluable to the wholesale
merchants of Sumter n of great
senssf t theEentire business commu-
.ity.
IS great Juror has been aroused
Saroagaoutts tie country ever the diver
SION Of water from Niagara Falls by
ssepower companies and the legisla-
z.eof New York, congress and the
madam government are being food
With appeals to save the falls from
rapacioas grasp of the promoters
waowould rob them Of all their beau
y and grandeur in order to enrich
themselves. It is most worthy senti-
nsnt TIA has been aroused and the
aaeR4e Of America are right in de-
landing that Niagara Falls be pre-
we'd in al their grandeur and beau
There is. however. another cues
on ofa greater magnitude that af-
1ects the welfare Of millions Of people
-eesy about which little is heard.
TRAIT is the preservation of the forests
OF sheAppalachian watershed. IF
ne d .struction Of the forests in the
aountafn regions of the South con-
asues at the present rate in less than
z decade the region in which all of
ssUr rivers take their rise will be strip
ed bare by the Iumbermen and the
esult will be disastrous to this en-
section. The people of the South
~n states should unite in demanding
aiaf steps be taken at nee to pre-
serve the forests. It should be an
assistent demand and our congress