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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-04-07

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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-04-07
Thu Nex+ War pIav.

The Next War Play.
What properties will we need for
the battle scene?"
"None whatever. The stage will BE-
bare. The men are supposed to be
wearing snvisible uniforms and firing
smokeless powder from noiseless
guns"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
CAPTURED IL i'.ICEoi.
Desperate Robber, Caught i'm Act of
Blowing Safe, Admits Being Conn.,
rade of Charley SiIas, Who Slew
Officer Stone and Was Killed.

Jacksonville, Fla, Feb. IA pro-
fessional safeblower, giving his name
as John Simpson of Curtain Bay, Bal
timore. was arrested this morning al
8 O'Clock, while in the act of blowing
the safe in the store of Charles. H.
Burnett, in the heart of the business
district. Policeman Ammons, in
walking his beat, heard a noise in the
store and finding the door unlocked
crept in and was directly over the
safeblower before the latter was
aware of his presence. Scattered
about the yeggman on the floor were
nitroglycerine, saws, chisels, fuses. a.
revolver and all implements carried
by professional burglars. The man Of
fered no resistance.
Simpson made confession at po-
lice headquarters, saying that he had
been operating for some time in Jack
sonville, and was a pal Of Charley
Silas. the yeggman who was killed
by the policeman at Laurens, 8. c.
Simpson said he would have killed
the policeman this morning, but he
thought there was more than one OF
them.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
HOLE IN FENCE, GIRL GONE.
Result OF Fathers Objection Il
Daughters Beau.

A good joke Is told on one Of our
cver-the-river neighbors, who several
years ago had family Of good looa-
ing daughters, who were smart and
good workers. They, of course, n ew
up and the boys. as Is natural. took n
fancy for them and wanted to marry
them, but the old gentleman for some
reason (perhaps best known to him
self, objected and used every precau-
tion TO prevent any of them from
marrying, and especially one young
fellow, who was distasteful to the old
man. AS time passed on this young
fellow and his girl went on with their
counting "unbeknowing' to the old
man. The old man had the house
surrounded with a strong paling fencc
and there was no means Of ingress or
egress, except through the gate, which
he kept pretty well guarded both
night and day. They knew they would
have to run away If they got married.
hole i'm an unguarded part of the
fence and his girl was gone--gone to
get married against his will or wish
He was at his wits end. None Of the
family claimed any knowledge OF the
elopment, but the old man thought
differently. Turning to his other
girls. whom he suspected would soon
follow suit, he said; "If you want to
so. go now while the WAY Is Qpen."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
THE CONFEDERATE INFTRNiARY.
Effort Will be Made I'm the Senate to
Insert Appropriation Killed by the
House.

When the appropriation bill comes
UP in the senate an effort will be
made to insert the item for the sup
port of the Confederate infirmary,
amounting to $4,000. The appro-
priation was proposed by the COM
mittee Of the house but after some
discussion on the floor it was killed.
The friends of the institution in the
senate and house say that it will be
put bck on the free conference COM
mittee, before which the bill goes ev-
cry year. The infirmary building is
located on the lands of the State Hos
pital for the Insane and may be seen
from either of two car lines, the
hyatt Park or the Colonial Heights.
The building was erected last year
but was not equipped.-State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
$4,000 FOR TEXT BOOKS.
MIR. DOar's Bill Provides for Largo
Appropriation I'm Interest of Public
Schools. ~

Columbia, Feb. 15.-The following
is the text Of Mr.. Doar's proposition
as to free text books:
That the sum Of fifty thousand dol
lars Is hereby appropriated for the
purpose of providing free schoo
books to the deserving children of the
State attending free public schools
That the question of who are "deserv.
ing children" in each instance shall
be determined by said trustees { OF
each school district, and their de-
cision shall be final. That the sum
shall be apportioned among the coun-
ties of this State according to the en-
rolment of children in free public
schools. aus
That the State Superintendent OF
Education. the Attorney General and
the Secretary of State shall constitute
board, also shall advertise for bids
for the various school books needed
in the public schools Of this State, and
shall award the contract to the lowest
responsible bidder.
The State Superintendent of Edu-
cation shall make and promulgate
rules and regulations governing the
use of free books in each county
The county superintendent of educa-
tion shall require the teachers and
trustees Of each school to make quar-
terly reports to them of the disposi-
ton Of said books, and 1t is hereby
made their duty to do so. The coun-
~ superintendent Of education shall
make quarterly reports to the State
superintendent of Education Of all
;ooks.
The county superintendent of edu-
cation shall draw his warrant on the
Comptroller General for the amounts
due each county in q separate fund
known as the free book fund" and
shall be paid out only for school
books on warrant of the county su-
perintendent of education.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
special to The Daily Item:

Special to The Daily Item:
Columbia, Feb. 16.-Without diver
sion the Senate passed Mauldin's bill
requiring State registration certif-
cate and city tax receipts as condi-
ton precedent to registration for city
registration.
By a majority of one, the Senare
refused to take UP Senator Graydon's
bill doing away with the present rail-
road milage regulations. This is the
same as the bill recently passed the
House by a vote of 81 to s. The bill
now has no chance to pass.
By a majority of two, the Senate
took up the Richards Lien Law re-
peal bill and was debating this at
the time the joint assembly convened.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
BANS WOMEN FROM. CHOIRS.
Official Text Separates Them, al
Least, From Men.

The official text of a decree in re-
gard to women singing in Catholic
churches has just been received in
New York from the Sacred Congrega-
ton of Rites at Rome. 1t is a refusal
to exempt the churches of this coun-
try from the operations Of the letter
of Pope Plus, except as an expedient,
where conscientiously deemed neces-
sary.
1t is said that test question for
warded to Rome brought the reply
framed in Latin.
Explaining it in English, the editor
of the Ecclesiastical Review makes
clear that the decree enacted these
regulations:
Il. Choirs, commonly so called, as
we have them in the United States,
where select group of men and wo-
men gather for the purpose of sing
ing during the solemn services of the
church, are not permitted by the
'Motu Proprio,' or Papal letter.
so. The answer given in a certain
case regarding the singing of women
at divine services is not to be constru-
ed as sanctioning the commingling of
men and women in the choirs as we
have them in the United States.
."3. While the Sacred Congrega-
ton prohibits the arrangements Of
mixed choirs of male and female
voices by answering the proposed
question as to it's lawfulness by the
simple negative, yet when there is a
dearth of male singers, and when it
is necessary for the solemnity of the
service that men and women join in
the singing, even then the men and
women are to be absolutely separated
and it becomes the duty of the bishop
to see that this is DONE"
AS this decision has just been pro-
mulgated no definite directions have
as yet been made by the bishops as to
how the choir lofts must be arranged
so as to separate the sexes.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
NO STATEWIDE LAW.
FILIBUSTER HAS KILLED HOPE
OF ENACTMENT.
The Opponents of the Statewide Bill
Almost Assured of Victory as There
Is Now Little Hope OF Forcing the
Passage of the Statewide Bill ut
This Session.

Columbia, Feb. 15.-The filibuster
against prohibition is still on in the
house, which accomplished practical
~ nothing today. Only few third
reading bills got through.
All hope Of passing the Statewide
prohibition bill or making any change
in the present local option scheme is
prctically over, the filibuster con-
tinued today making 1t impossible for
the bill to get through in time.
The house killed the freight rate
bill suggested by Manager Campbell
of the Columbia freight bureau.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
COOPER JURY COMPLETE.
however PremptOry Challenges
May Deplete 1t.

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. 12-Hardly
had the jury been completed today
in the case against Col. Duncan B.
Cooper, Robin J. Cooper and John
d. Sharp, than the State served notice
that it might seek to again deplete
the box. This incident followed a
wearisome day. Nearly two hundred
talesmen had been called without Sc
curing the twelfth juror, when sud-
denly and unexpectedly both sides ac-
cepted William Hows, German
farmer fifty-five years of age. With
alacrity, Judge Hart ordered the sher-
iff to bring the complete jury into
Court to be sworn in. Then it was
that Attorney General McCarn inter-
posed. He said he had information
tending to show that two of the men
In the box were incompetent. This
information, he explained, came too
late for use before. He asked until
Saturday morning to produce proof,
If such proof existed.
Judge Hart consented to the de-
lay, and the case will be resumed at
a. NJ. tomorrow.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

The Boston Globe cheerfully re-
marks: IF prohibition succeeds in
the South and West to such an OK
tent that distilling is materially les
scned. the demand for grain will grow
srnaller. the price will sink, and the
cost OF eggs come down" And then
a little later we will see the distilleries
ond brew,ries dotting the landscape
IN dear old New England and tither
Will flow I'm copious sluices the money
OF the thirsty denizens of the west
ern and southern arid reaches; and
ever after happiness and peace will
reign.-Chattanooga Times.
Madrid has the highest altitude OF
any city In Europe. Z
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

of life they are admirable. This class
OF people are largely tolerant of the
little brown men, and in many cases
enthusiastic about them. This enthu-
siasm, injudiciously displayed, is often
the means of adding fuel to the exist
ing fires of hatred.
The Native Sons of the Golden
West, not to mention the Native
Daughters, have taken the anti-Jap-
anese fever and taken it badly. Ami
mated and inspired by the doings OF
their fathers in earlier days, time and
again there is talk which does not find
it's way into newspapers about resur-
rectipg the old association of the Wig
ilantes and clearing out Japanese
from certain districts, in much the
same way as Objectionable "greasers'
were dealt with in the SOS of the last
century
The contagion has spread to the
very school children, who object quite
as strongly to Japanese AS fellow
scholars as do their parents on their
behalf. What respectable American
father or mother in the East would
allow his little girl or boy to associate
on terms of school familiarity with
grown up Japanese? For it is not
only over the question of Japanese
children that the segregation of
schools has become a necessity on the
Pacific coast; it is the grown up Jap
anese scholars that is the main diff
Guilty. This is not the place to enter
upon the Japanese practice and be-
liefs in regard to morality, religion
and social ties 1t is sufficient to say
that they are utterly repugnant to
every cherished ideal of a Christian
home, and this fact is thoroughly rec
ognized on the coast.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
DIR. BABCoCK ExoNERArED
Senator Christensen Asserts That
Charges Refer Only to Mistreat-
ment of Male Patients.

SPECIAL to The Daily ITEM
Columbia, Feb. 15.-In speaking on
the Asylum investigation bill, which
has now passed both houses Senator
Christensen made a statement today
in which he expressed the highest re-
gard for DR.. Babcock, the superinten-
dent, and said that the charges of
mistreatment refer only to "subordi-
mates in the white male department" ="
None Of the affidavits make any
charges against the financial manage
ment and none relate to the female
wards, or their patients. f
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
ANTIOCH.

Antioch, Feb. 14.-Messrs. L. "A.
and A. b. White and w. T. Mcleod
have gone to Camden today.
Owing to the recent rains farm
work Is at stand still.
Mrs. J. w. Weldon and Miss Leila
Fowler spent Friday and Saturday at
Wisacky.
Messrs. Lawrence White and Harry
Mcleod spent yesterday at this place.
Rev. T. L. Cole preached at Mizpah
Baptist church Sunday afternoon.
Messrs. John McCutchen and Olin
White attended services at Bethesda
Sunday afternoon.
No sickness to report.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

DR.. Green of the University OF
South Carolina will deliver a lecture
in the hall of Gen. Sumter Memorial
Academy on Tuesday evening, Feb.
23rd. at $3.50 o'clock. The subject
will be "On the Countries of the Med
iterranean." where he was recently
been on visit. Admission % cents.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

Mr.. Bryan declares that, after one
tics and enter the ministry. But has
he not heard of the ministerial dead
line" beyond which he will have pass
ed If he delays four years? why
do you wait, dear brother ?'-New
York Post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

Columbia, Feb. 16.-Circuit Judges
Ernest Gary, Geo. E. Prince and r.
w. Memminger were reelected in the
Joint assembly today without opposi-
ton, after which the house adjourned
until afternoon, leaving the prohibi-
ton bill still in air.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
SEASE WINS OUT.

Columbia, Feb. 16.-Solicitor Sease
was today elected Judge of the Sew
enth Circuit to succeed Judge Hy-
orlck without opposition. He was
elected for both the unexpired term
of Judge Hydrick and for the full
term, beginning next December.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
COUNTY Correspondence.
HvvsY LETTERS FROM OUR sPE.
CIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
mems Of Interest From all Parts of
Sumter and Adjoining Counties.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Mall your letters 50 that they will
sset'h this Office not later than Tues
3Ay morning. When the letters are
rsctdved "Wednesday II is almost an
smsossibiiity to have them appear in
Ne paper issued that day.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

Columbia, Feb. 16.-The only
thing accomplished by the House to-
day was the passage of one third
reading bill that incorporated the
Marlboro and Southern Railroad.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
FILIBUSTERING KEEPS UP.

Columbia, Feb. 16.-Filibuster still
held up the proceedings in the House
today until the morning session ended
with joint assembly for the elections.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
CANNON FOR DECORATION.
Senate Passes Bill Giving Ornaments
To This State.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Senator Till
man today got through the senate a
retary of war to furnish to South Car
olina four brass or bronze field guns
with carriages, cannon balls, etc. to
be used for ornamental purposes.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
SENATE AT WORK ON LIEN LAW
REPORT.

Some Work Accomplished i'm the Sem
ate But House Spends Day FIIibus-
tering-Biii TO Change Railroad
Mileage Regulations KilIed-Re-
quirements for Registration for
City Elections Made More String
ent.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

Rainey in the house and Hale i'm
the senate are doing most of the con-
gressional storming.-Kansas City
Star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17
WIsACKY.

Wisacky. Feb. f6.-Your scribe has
been providentisliy hindered from
writing sooner. not for want Of good
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

A wise man should not trust him.
self too near the precipice.-Cicero.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-17

AS a consequence, the patient non
assertive Chinaman has gone up many
degrees in popular favor and, instead
of being the despised and rejected in
dividual Of few years ago, he is now
treated with certain amount of re-
spectful consideration, under which
he is beginning to show a more cheer
full exterior than is habitual with him.
For the present strained relations
with the japanese many of the large
employers of labor are much to
blame. They are never tired of ex-
tolling the virtues of a little brown
man and holding him up as a model
for imitation. OF course. they have
not got to work alongside him, and
only know him in his Invariably def
erential attitude toward his employ
er and paymaster.
When people are living from day to
day with this rancorous feeling deep
down in their hearts it only wants
will in a moment transform it into
overt action that would have far
reaching and very deplorable con-
sequences. OF course there is a large
and highly respectable and influential
class Of people who come little in con-
tact with the Japanese except in the
capacity Of servants, In which walk
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-22
board
ACCIDENTS
YESTERDAY WAS DISASTROUS AT
WAIKIKI FOR SURF RIDERS
THREE INJURED

The dangers of surf riding when
tried by those who have but funda-
mental idea of the whims and tricks
of the waves, was shown yesterday at
Waikiki. Three fairly serious acct.
dents occurred during the afternoon
through collisions and at least one of
those who met with misfortune will
probably be marked for life. The
surf was rather higher than usual yes
terday afternoon and there were
large number of local riders out with
their boards TO complicate matters
the surf was rather peculiar, breaking
in two directions which formed an
angle at which the riders coming from
Eva ana Waikiki directions met Dr.
Hand, of the Y. NJ. G. A. was among
those to get tangled up and was some
what bruised.
The manner in which the surf riders
claim the entire beach or at least near
y all that part where there is little
coral, to the exclusion of swimmers,
is causing some little feeling at Wal
kiki. If surf board comes rushing
in through a crowd of swimmers, the
latter are always held to blame. I'm
til recently the board riders used to
keep away from the smoother part OF
the beach, but with the idea of show
ing off" the stunts which some are
learning, they have now encroached
on almost every part of the beach
where bathing is really good, leaving
only the coral strewn section for the
bathers who have no boards and can
not swim well enough to venture into
deep water
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-22
AND
FORESTRY BOARD

Entomologist Kotinsky was directed
by the Board of Agriculture and Fores-
try to investigate and report on the
sweet potato blight.
Forester Hosmer reported the cost
of collection of seeds by employees OF
the Board, for three months past, was
S165 against OS12 which it would have
cost to buy the same quantity of seeds.
Also he made favorable report on
the cooperation of plantations in tree
planting, specially mentioning the Ho-
nolulu plantations at Aiea Between
one and two hundred trees would be
given away for Arbor Day planting.
A proposition to give a Territorial
commission to DR.. Glazier, a veterina-
rian employed by the stock raises of
Kauai, was left in allegiance until DR..
Norgaard, the Territorial veterinarian,
was consulted.
1t was decided to remove the fence
from the portion of the government
nursery designated for public park,
and proposal of Mr.. Hosmer to sub
stitute a woven wire fence for the
wooden one was rejected.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-22
CRUISER SPEEDS TO SAVE LIFE.
South Dakota Makes Record i'm Aid
of Suffering Bluejacket.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3O-In hope
of saving the life of c. Taggart, of
Beaumont, Tex, a member Of the crew
of the cruiser South Dakota, that YES
sci made record-brealdng run up
the coast from Central American wa
tiers, arriving today Taggart is af-
ficted with tuberculosis of the kid
neys, and the ships surgeon declar-
ed that the case required unusual
care.
On receiving orders to proceed to
Mare Island for repairs the command
er decided to make the run as quickly
as possible, so that the sick sailor
might have the benefit of the facili-
ties of the naval hospital. When the
cruiser arrived here the coal supply
was so far exhausted that the ship
was unable to proceed to Mare Island
without recoaling.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-22
OPEN LETTER TO JAPANESE.

The people of the Pacific slope know
that the Japanese question is purely
Industrial 1t is not racial. The roots
of the industrial struggle between the
meat-eater and the rice-eater strike
deep and spread wide.-From recent
magazine article.
Ohio! you clever little Jap,
We know that you're cunning chap;
The way in which you won your bout
With Russia's bear has brought you out
And shown the world that you are
bright
And shrewd and just about "all right"
Or would be but for one sad vice
Instead of beef, you live on rice!
This glorious country of the freeI
This splendid land of liberty!
Invites to its wide-open door
Home-seeking tribes from every shore;
Jew, Gentle, Christian, Pagan, Hun,
Slav, Pole or Arab-every one
Can, of its freedom, have a slice,
That is, unless they live on rice.
Now here's the trouble: rice is cheap,
While beef, you know is rather steep;
Hence you can live on wages which
Would never make beef-eaters rich;
So, people fear if they compete
With you that they shall have to eat
/ Your kind of food and 'tisn't nice
To give up beef and live on rice.
In other things they're sure they can
Excel or match you, man for man;
But this one cloud their Sky obscures-
Their stomachs can't compete with
yours:
And so, some earnest people say,
Since you eat breakfast foods all day
They like you not. because the price
OF beef is more than that of rice)
Christian Science Monitor.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-22
TAKE A VACATION

Now is the time to take a vacation,
get out into the woods and mountains
and visit the seashore, but do not for
get to take a bottle of Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
along with you. 1t is almost certain
to be needed, and cannot be obtained
on railroad trains or steamships. 1t
is too much of risk for anyone to
leave home on a journey without it.
For sale by all Dealers. Benson, Smith
&; Co., Agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-22
The YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED.

LlmIIGD.
Capital paid up) .......Yen 100000
Reserve Fund. Yen 1890, 900
HEAD OFFICE, YOKOHAMA.
The bank buys and receives for
collection bills of exchange, issues
Drafts and Letters of Credit, and
transacts general banking business
The Bank receives Local deposits
and Head Office Deposits for fixed Pc
RODS.
Local Deposits $40 an1 upwards for
one year at rate OF 40 per annum.
Hea dOfice Deposits Yen 25 and up
wards for one-half year, one year, two
years or three years at rate OF 1870
per annum.
Particulars to be obtained on appli-
cation.
Honolulu omce-67 s. King Sstreet
P. o. Box 1853.
N. TOKIEDA, Manager.