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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
SUIT AGAINST STATE.
superintendent OF Education Wants
Dispensary Money.

County superintendent OF Educa-
tion n. f.. Nicholson through
the law frm OF Bonham. Watkins &
Allen. has instituted mandamus pro-
ceedings I'm the supreme court OF the
State against the State Treasurer and
others to compel them to pay to this
county what dispensary money they
may hold. and which should go TO
the schools OF Anderson county.
II this action Is successful Ander-
son county will receive. roughly es-
timated. between $4,000 and $4,000.
In case other monies have been col
lected from the same source Ander-
sons part may exceed this amount.
Mr.. Nlcholson's position Is that the
legislature exceeded lts authority In
passing an act In violation OF the State
constitution requiring dlspensary
profits TO be appropriated annually.
while the act of 1910. retains all Of
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
ILLUSTRATORS WOES.
Errors That Were Pointed Out by Un-
feeling Editors.

"Now, what do you think of that?
asked the youthful illustrator ruefuly
as he tossed his comrade q letter. 1t
was from an editor. and it's mandate
was stern. 1t said:
Dear Sir-Permit me to call your
attention to the Importance Of reading
a story before attempting to illustrate
Ii. / am aware that the modern artist
does not observe this rule. but 1t is
imperative In this office. Ii you will
examine the text Of the story sent you
for illustration you will learn that the
army officer mentioned Is said to have
taken his fishing reel out Of his haver-
sack. and you have made a picture
showing this office--who. by the way.
Is brigadier general-with a KNAPP
sack strapped to his back. A KNAPP
sack, my dear sir. Is not a haversack.
Furthermore, no army officer ever car
ried q knapsack or ever will carry
one. IL the general should see your
drawing he would be insulted. Will
you please acquaint yourself thorough
ly with the appearance Of a haversack,
correct your drawing and return it to
this office at the earliest possible
date?' ,
"Just think Of having to know all
such detailsv' exclaimed ,e artist
wrathfully.
That's nothing" his studio comrade
responded consolingly. II made an
awful break once. painted a picture
to illustrate story In which widow
got married. and l depicted the bride
In a long white veil. OF course
thought the drawing was q beauty
aud a wonder. and l was ecstatic over
the way I had handled that effect in
white. Imagine how crushed / was
to have the editor-by the way. she
was woman-smile witheringly and
tell me that no widow ever wore a
veil when being remarked. How was
to know that? / have never been u
widow."-New York Press.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
WITH RAZOR KILLS HIMSELF
Man Who Came Recently to Lake
City Puts Quick End to His Own
Life.

Lake City. Aug. "a man. who
gave his name as John Shay, came to
the mill OF the Wilson Lumber COM
pany, about four miles below here.
on the 18th of July and since that
time has been working for them: ::
for the last few days he has been suf-
fering from chills and fever but did
not stop his work. Last night SUD-
posedly about o'clock, he went into
a small strip Of woods just in the
rear of the mill yard and with a
razor cut his throat from ear to ear.
From the gashes it appears that the
first attempt was not as successful
as he desired; the second one, how
ever, severed both the jugular vein
and the windpipe. The body was
found this morning about o'clock
and after Magistrate Baldwin had
held the inquest the body was given
decent burial by the Wilson Lum-
ber company.
He is described as being a man
about feet, 10 inches high, medium
build, with sandy hair, slightly bald
and of Irish descent. There were no
papers about him to lead to his
identity.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
The Real Winners OF Lawsuits.
Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal
Peter Mckenzie. the last of the
old Hudson Bay factors, had always
a great hatred and fear Of lawsuits.
IL dined with Mr.. Mckenzie In
Montreal not long ago." said a min
ing engineer of New York, land he
reiterated his dread OF lawsuits. driv-
Ing home his point with a story.
" He said that a certain Smith won
a case In the lower courts, the high
or courts. and the supreme court.
Smith was thus finally awarded after
seven years OF litigation. 100000.
When Smith head the glad news
he sped to his lawyers.
"Hurrah"' he said. Gimme my
s5OO.OOO."
"Yeos. 100000 was the award" :"
said the lawyer. and at the same time
he handed Smith n dollar bill.
"But-what's. this for?" Smith
gasped.
Ihats all thats left, Mr.. Smith"
explained the lawyer. "after deductlng
my fee. the cost Of the various ap-
peals and other expenses, which will
be duly rendered you In an itemlzed
account"
Poor Smith studied the bill In his
hand.
SAY. what's the matter with this'"
he demanded. els x bad"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13

We are all torn up over whether 1t
is "hopple' skirts or "hobble" skirt.
One says the former, beacuse you
put "hopples" on a horse, and he or
she is then "hoppled." Another sticks
to the harder consonant, and reasons
that the wearer must "hobble" along
when attempting locomotion. The
Century dictionary dogmatically
makes it "hopple." The New York
World says 'hobble," but quotes 1t
and omits to mention the original
authority. This looks like a fertile
field for Senatorial investigation and
deliberation, it's so purely academic
and so absolutely ot-worth-while.-
Detroit News.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
A STRUGGLE IMPENDING
Conflict Between Taft and T. r.. In.
evitable, Says Editor Harvey.
George Harvey, in North American

. 4ts
evitable, Says Editor Harvey.
George Harvey in North American
Review.)
Is a struggle for mastery imped-
ing between the President and the
self-appointed Chairman Of the
Baord? Each to the other is under
definite and lasting obligations, but
that reckoning too, may be consider
ed ended. Each now stands upon his
own pedestal and must Of necessity
uphold his own theories and sustain,
in vital combat as an individual can
control his own action. But recently
Roosevelt, the man, declared that If
national election were to be held
next November he undoubtedly would
be the Republican candidate and
would win. His personal desires
would be negligible. Circumstances
and conditions would dominate the
situation, and his would be the role
Of a Son Of Destiny.
So, on the other hand, conflicting
emotions harass the patient, grateful
and high-minded President. He many
continue to love, or to think he loves,
as often as he has said, Roosevelt, the
man. But he is dealing with Roose-
velt, the force. Already members of
his Cabinet feel that he has been be-
trayed and murmur in their bitter
ness. He cannot escape his RESPONSE
bility to them and to those who have
given their support cheerfully and un-
swervingly. He could not if he would,
and it is not in his nature that he
would if he could, reverse the policy
which he has adopted as just and
right. The chairman, with all his
agility and immunity from reproba-
ton for contradictoriness, has ad-
vanced so far in the opposie direc-
ton that even he cannot retreat with
ut admitting the sway of a craven
pirit. Joval personal greetings are
no purpose. conflict is inevitable
Though, in the end, when the one
,all be saddened and the other So
cred by defeat, it may not prove to
irrepressible.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
EQUATORIAL AFRICA.
Three Things . White Person Mus,
Have to Live There.

Without mosquito bar a white per-
son would be unable to live on the
equator. writes Ida Vera Simonton In
the Delineator.
No matter how hot and sitting the
highland no other place can be so
sitting as the equatorial African
night during the long rainy season in
the midst of the junGle-one must
sleep under a closely tucked In mos
quito bar. not the ventilated kind CIV
ilization knows. but one of closely
woven staff through which no air cir
culates.
When the mosquito bar was let
down 1t took In almost the entire room,
but 1t proved especially useful in sick
ness and convalescence. 1t permitted
existence free from insect bites. As
malaria Is the white mans most in
sidious foe and comes from the bite
of the mosquito, every precaution must
be taken against It, Three things are
absolutely necessary in Africa-a mos
quito bar, a water filter and Quinine.
The bed was made by a native car
penter. The frame was Of wood. the
Stats of bamboo ribs fitted closely to-
gether with the pith side uppermost.
They didn't give bit and were an
excellent dancing door for the dried
plantain leaves which made the mat
tress. The leaves were confined be-
meath ticking tackled to the four sides
Of the bed. but they matted easily, and
every night 1t was continuous leaf
turning for me. The bamboo was slip
perry, and insomnia kept me and the
leaves on the move, SO that most Of
the time slept on hard surface. My
pillow was of dried sweet smelling
grass. Whoever says that hard beds
are beautifiers should sleep upon an
African bed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
NEGRO PROBLEM IN CUBA.
race Question More Acute There
Than i'm United States.

Washington, Aug. s.-Reports OF
outbreaks in Cuba, which are of the
intermittent and unceasing variety.
are but the reflection Of a problem
winch threatens the new republic with
the most serious consequences accord
Ing to the experts who are in touch
with affairs in the island. This urob.
lem is the race question, and the situ.
alton is more acute than In the Uni.
ted States.
1T Is for this reason that the Cow
ernment at Havana takes no chances
With small outbreaks. Troops are at
once rushed to the scene as soon as q
disturbance is reported. In every in
stance. so far, the disorders have been
suppressed, but the difficulty of which
they are but manifestation is not
materially diminished.
Many Were Negroes.
AT the time Of the war of liberation
when the island undertook to l;ft the
yoke Of Spanish dominion fully 60
per cent. OF the array came from the
Providence of Santiago. A large DOR
ton of this army was made I'D Of
negroes.
whether or not they were given
promise Of equal representation with
the whites besides whom they fought
or promised share Of the public Of
hces under the new government the
negroes have that impression.
So far they have not received any
OF the offices, and their privileges are
in fact not so extensive as those of
the white element Of the population.
They feel that they have not been
treated fairly and, since the establish
ment Of the present Government, there
nave been numerous small outbreaks
of a revolutionary characteristics
turbances which presage a more seri-
Gus revolution later If conditions do
not change.
Leaders OF Same Race.
Until recently the outbreaks have
been led by negroes themselves. The
last affair Of this sort, which was
promptly suppressed, was led by Gem
eral Hiniet, disconnected white Of
ficer. Under white leadership the agi-
tation becomes much more serious.
The danger becoraes greeter as the
number Of rnalcontents and agitators
! increase.
The negro element Of Santiago has
been trained in military experience.
1t is very numerous. All it needs to
become serious menace is the leader
ship Of competent white officers. The
| prediction is freely made that trouble
originating from this source will lead
to the overthrow Of the republican
Government and necessitate the third
interference of the United States in
the affairs of the island.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13

He that plants thorns must never
expect to gather roses.-Pilpay.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13

the dispensary profits in the State
Treasury for future apportionment by
legislation. with the exception of
$4,000, which is appropriated to en-
md the terms Of the school In GER
ain school districts. and $4,000 to
encourage the building of new school
houses.-Anderson Daily Mail.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
Perfectly Cool.

Mr.. Figg-Gasser says he kept per-
fectly cool last night when that bur-
glar got into the house. Mrs. Figg--
So his wife told me. She found him
trying TO hide in the refrigerator
Boston Transcript.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
A Sure Wav-

There are several methods whereby
pickpOckets may be avoided on crowd
ed street cars. but the surest way Is to
keep your money in the bank In your
wife's name Kansas City star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
Trials of a Host.

II suppose you will give some elab-
crate entertainments this season?"
"Yes," answered Mr.. Cumrox; "I
think we'll improve on those of last
season."
Weren't they all successfulT'
Nope. 1t was my fault. I tried to
make everybody have good time, and
the first thing 1 knew mother and the
girls were complaining because they
weren't sufficiently high class and
fOrmal."-Washipgt Star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13
In Old Bohemia.

II would like to meet some Of the
picturesque long haired knights Of the
pen and palette" said the unsophisti-
Gated stranger. 'It is worth a dollar
to meet q real bohemian"
Don't worry about its being worth
it." FASTENED the guide. "Just as soon
as you meet a real bohemian he'll ask
you to loan him ne."-Chicago News.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-13

Poetry is the natural language OF
all worship.-Madame de Stael.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-10
The Corn Belt and the Rockies. i.
BY CLARENCE POE
"ESA

patches on ones clothes. These Nebraska fields
are large and the burrows sometimes half mile
long
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-10
NOTES FROM THE CORN BELT.

Yesterday morning at this time We were indeed
In quite different country from this: out in the
ever rich and fruitful prairie belt OF eastern Ne
braska where mile after mile OF corn some times
gave the impression that were actually going
through a of corn and the farm houses only
the sailing anchored here and there upon this
ocean of green blades with a foam of golden tas-
sells Il man at Omaha some years ago who
had actually used fuel) In most
cases now however, corn alternates with hay and
pasture fields, say so of corn, SO OF alfalfa,
so OF pasture grass so OF wheat and in the pas
lures beautiful herds of sleek Shorthorn, Red
Poll or other cattle. with hogs and sheep in I'M
limited numbers, and young colts somewhere
about the big red barn the ever-present wind
mill Somehow no farm landscape ever seems
complete without stock: | must think that there
Is bred In us some sub-conscious knowledge that
the SOIL the plant, the animal do indeed consti-
tute the Almighty's trinity for keeping the earth
fertile and that no land can permanently prosper
where this Divine plan is disregarded.
Another thing Southerner can not fall to no
tce in the corn-cattlehay belt Is the size OF the
fields no little piddling patches where the plow-
man must waste countless hours in fruitless turn
ing round and where the ragged edges OF weeds
and sprouts make these farm patches give about
the same impression of poverty as similar ragged
these letters partly protected by copyright but shall be
glad than onehird OF any one
article. This Is No. ] Of the series
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-10

world is really round, even long years after
- the statement in our first geography lesson is
reluctantly accepted as being somehow true. So
1t was in New York the other day when | paid
Thomas Cook & Son s9056S for a steamship and
railroad ticket around the world and they gave
me first ticket reading from New York to San
Francisco, and then an order on the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company for ticket from San Fran
cisco to New York"
What do want with a ticket from San Fran
cisco to New York again." demanded And then
looked at 1t more closely and discovered that it
was ticket from San Francisco to New York in
deed but by way of Honolulu Yokohoma Shan
ghai. Manila, Calcutta. Bombay, Joppa Cairo and
various other unspeakable places, while l have
additional orders for railroad tickets for travel
Ing through the interiors of Japan, China, the
Philippines. India, Palestine, Egypt, etc., etc.
CROSSING 1.-THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT"
So am really off for my long trip lover the
world and under the world" and | write this on
board the Union Pac6c's magnificent Overland
Limited" making the trip from Chicago to San
Francisco in three days. This morning are
crossing the dreary wastes OF Mornings great
deserts. have been doing for hours and
hours-in fact, ever since bedtime last night:
county after county with never a farm nor a farm
house, never tree acre of decent pastur-
age: only the gray-green sage brush half buried in
sand as far as the eye can reach, and never a hui
man habtation except at the far-scattered way
side mining stations. The last of these at
which we stopped seemed to be a town of perhaps
two thousand people. but didn't a home with
tree or a sprg Of grass to relieve the dry bar
renness. though one house did have cluster of
morning glories. and beside the depot was a we'll
watered plot OF green grass which must have been
an object OF curiosity TO the children Of the
place.
Against the horizon on either hand as write
this great blush pink sun-parched clod ridges,
bare TO the pltiless sun In summer, the heavy
SHOWS In winter. 1t looks indeed like 1.-THE Coun-
try God Forgot: at places IL primeval Titans
had ripped open the earth with colossal harrows,
cursng IL with barrenness; at other places as IL
the elder gods had battled here and hurting peak
upon peak had left the great masses OF earth and
rock In matchless confusion.
NOTES FROM THE CORN BELT.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
SEEKS TO ERADICATE
ANARCHISM OF INDIA
BRITISH LAWMAKERS WOULD
CONTROL PERIODICALS
Bill Introduced at Calcutta Does Not
Create Censorship, but Requires
Publisher to Furnish
Bond

CALCUTTA, Feb. 4-The new press
bill designed to suppress the dissent
nation of anarchistic literature which
was foreshadowed in the speech with
which Lord Minto opened the imperial
counsel, was introduced at today's ses-
sion of the council by Sir Herbert
Hope-Risley, secretary of the home de-
partment, British government of India.
The measure does not create a cen
sorship, but provides for the control
of all newspaper and job presses, the
proprietors of which, are obliged to de-
posit from $160 to $1,000, which is to be
forfeited upon conviction of the party
of an attempt to incite to murder or
anarchial outrages, to tamper with the
loyalty of the army and navy, excite
racial, class or religious animosity,
contempt of the government or native
prince, or the intimidation of public
servants, etc.
1--WE see a widely read portion of the
Indian press occupied i'm rendering the
government odious in the sight of the
Indian people," said Sir Herbert
THE government is represented as a
foreign one and therefore selfish and
tyrannical. This press openly procla1ms
the only cure for the Ills OF India is
freedom from foreign rule.
I'VE are confronted with murder
Gus conspiracy" concluded the secre-
tary, who appealed for the prompt and
passage of the bill.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
ROOSEVELT TO MAKE
SPEECHES IN EUROPE:
Former President Invited to Deliver
Several Addresses Following
His Expedition Into Africa.
Hunters to Gondokoro

NIMULE, Uganda Protectorate, Feb.
4.-The Smithsonian African scientific
expedition arrived here today on sched-
ule time. All the members are in ex-
cellent health. Before leaving Rhino
camp in Belgian Congor the hunters
shot three more white rhinoceri, a bull
buffalo and other game not before re-
ported.
Kermit Roosevelt obtained some
splendid photographs of a living rhi-
noceros. All were delighted with their
visit in the Congo.
1t is expected no more game Will be
shot until Gondokoro is reached. The
distance to that place from here over
what is known as the upper road Is
about 10S miles.
Colonel Roosevelt's mail has brought
him a number of requests to speak III
European cities, but he will be unable
to arrange for addresses other than
those already promised. He expects
to speak in Paris April Is. at the Uni
yersity of Berlin May 1 and soon aft
erward before the Nobel prize commit
tee at Christiana. Colonel Roosevelt
was the recipient of the Nobel prize OF
1906.
Colonel Roosevelt will arrive in
England May Is and soon afterward
will deliver an address at oxford uni
versity He plans to return to New
York about the middle of June.
The expedition probably will get un-
der way again tomorrow. The objec-
tive point in Gonokoro, where launch
will be in waiting to take the party
down the Bar-el-Jebel, the most
southern tributary of the Nile, en-
route to Khartoum. The members ex-
pect to arrive at Gondokoro Febru-
ary IT,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
STORAGE BEEF is
HELD 10 MONTHS
NEW YORK GRAND JURY PROM
ISES SENSATION
EVIDENCE FOUND INDICATING
FOOD CONSPIRACY
Necessaries Of Life Withdrawn from
Market In Order to Main-
tain Schedule of
Prices

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-The inquiry
was pushed further in the cold stor-
age system matter in metropolitan
territory today. The reported dis
covery of meat ten months old in one
of the plants across the Hudson has
stimulated the interest of the inquis-
itors, and today's session Of the Hud-
son county grand jury which is in
vestigating the Jersey City warehouses
promises interesting developments.
Prosecutor Garvan made it evident
that he was looking for evidence of a
conspiracy in an effort to manipulate
the food products market by use of
the storage system.
Railroad officials were asked to pro-
duce before the grand jury way bills
and bills of lading showing the amount
of stuff received and shipped by the
various concerns over their lines in
the last year.
These will be compared with the
books of the cold storage companies.
In all metropolitan territory eggs seem
to be the only staple food product to
show a downward tendency.
Meat prices today showed, If any
thing, tendency to advance. Con-
sumption of meat is still below the
normal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
DETECTIVE GOES FOR
WEALTHY KIDNAPERS
Officer from San Francisco Will Seek
to Bring New York Capt.
taIist Back from
Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 4.-Detective
Arthur McPhee of San Francisco is
expected to arrive here tomorrow with
extradition papers for Louis b. Ad-
ans, a New York capitalist, Nathaniel
w. Murphy and Miss Nora McLaugh-
lin, who are charged with child-steal-
ing in San Francisco in connection
with the alleged kidnapping on jan
uary of \ lams' S-year-old boy from
his wife from whom he was separated
last November.
McPhee probably will arrive in Phoe-
nix tonight and if Acting Governor
Young honors the requisition of Gov.
James N. Gillett of California he will
come onto Tucson tomorrow. The
cases charging the trio with being
fugitives from justice were set for
2:3O o'clock tomorrow afternoon, but if
the California requiSition papers are
honored, the cases will not be called.
In statement made tonight Adams
declares that he will fight the cases
to finish and that, If the requisition
is honored, he will appeal to the higher
courts.
'I have acted within my rights as
law abiding citizen" says Adams.
1.-THE newspaper stories were the first
intimation that I had of my wife suing
me for a divorce. 1 never have been
served with any papers and conse-
quently have the right to my son. L
made no effort to conceal the fact that
1 had taken him and notified my wife
of the fact few minutes afterward.
1 had no idea that she intended prose-
cutting me for kidnapping, for she has
nothing whatever on which to prose-
cute me-" declares Adams.
Albert Adams, New York attorney
and brother of the defendant, made ar
rangement by wire with the Consoli-
dated National bank of this city for
bonds of $4,000 for each of the de-
PENDANTS. They probably will be re-
leased on bail tomorrow.