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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-07-16
CITY COUNCIL MEEre%.
ORDINANCE AGA
RINGING
street Hawkcrs Cannot Ring Bells i'm
Future-ElectiOn of Health Officer
COnfirmed-DOg Law Will Be En-
forced.

City Council held a regular meet
ing, at s o'clock last night, in the
council chamber.
Present: Mayor Jennings; Alder
men Booth, McKeiver, Rhame and
Wilder
Absent: Aldermen Cuttino, Glenn,
II. j. McLaurin, Jr., and Wright.
Minutes of June 2Sth, were read
and confirmed
q. E. Walker came before Council
to renew his request for improve
ment Of West Bartlette street, across
the Northwestern Railroad. and con.
struction of a crossing at that point.
He stated that it was impossible for
him to comply with the requirement
for fifty foot street, as the street
mad been public thoroughfare for
II years. and people had built homes
along present lines. Action was post
poned.
Mr.. Neill O'Donnell requested the
privilege of repairing the door and
tin roof Of an old corrugated iron
building within the fire limits, which
he desires to use temporarily as a.
warehouse, and which repairs would
decrease the fire risk. His request
was granted.
Mr.. Booth for the Committee of
Public Works. submitted a statement
of work done for two weeks as fol-
lows:
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In Pittsburg a man tickIcd n mulo,s
NINA leg with a straw to see if il
would Kick. 1t did. but he has not
been able to tell the doctors vet
whether he saw it or not-Wheeling
lnteligenCer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-07-16

At the Christian church. West
Calhoun street tonight. Everett Hol-
IlngWorth, of Fitzgerald. Ga, will
speak on the theme. THE Time for
the Church." Everybody welcome.
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pensing with the second, reading z
The minutes Of the Board of
Health Of the 18th inst, which fol-
lows, were submitted and read:
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shall be; CD to promote and diffusc
knowledge concerning the constru"-
ton OF good roads ana drainage syS.
TENS; CD to facilitate coHcerC acc en-
deliberation among :tc people orInc
far as the Ten Mile Hill and on tie
state concerning good reads AMI
drainage and related interests, and
t3) to provide means for bringing the
needs of the people and the country
before State and Federal govern
ment.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-07-16

Another campaign is on foot to
establish Hayward county out of por-
tions Of Aiken and Edgefield coun-
ties.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-07-16
G5t dlt11;nmm ann Santbron.

Published edaesday and Saturday
ny
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-07-16

objects--The objects Of the league
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-15

ty and state offices. Our state super
intendent of public instruction for a
number of years has been a woman.
In almost every city some of the Of
fices are held by women, and in near
~ every county the county superin-
tendent or county treasurer is a wom-
an and they are making excellent serv-
ants.
And after all the argument for and
against the proposition of woman suf-
frage is heard, it seems to me that
every fair-minded person ought to be
willing to accord his wife. mother or
sister, in whom he reposes great con-
fidence in every other matter of mind
or heart, the same privilege of approx
al or disapproval OF men and laws. If
the laws are good they prosper to the
same extent as the men-if they are
bad, they suffer to the same extent. II
every other question of right and of
wrong could be decided by the major
ity of the women of our country, there
would be no question about the safe
ty of our institutions. I am unquali-
fedly in favor of the right of women
to VOTE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-15
QUAKER NfEDITATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
On the hottest day a man will walk
farthest to look at thermometer.
No man is absolutely contented I'M
less he has a certain amount of egot-
ism.
The boarding house diner who orders
a little of everything is apt to get hash.
Long hair in a man is no more a
r,ark of genius than short hair in a
woman.
Appearances are deceptive, especially
the kind people are always trying to
keep up.
A man is apt to fail in business more
from lack of principal than lack of
principle.
Some old maids are so possessed
that they remain that way for the rest
of their days.
The fellow who suffers from a torpid
liver is seldom that kind of a liver
himself
Mr.. Oldhach-"I believe, with the
scientists, that kissing is dangerous"
Miss Antique-''Coward!"
There are mighty few obstacles in
the way of the man who has a natural
tendency to make fool Of himself.
Hoax--"What do you suppose were
Jonah's sensations when he was swal-
lowed by the whale?" Joax-'I dare
say he felt rather down in the mouth"
Muggins-"My wife can save twice as
much money as can" Buggins-''Yes;
money is more apt to burn a hole in
a mans pocket than in a womau's-er-
stocking"
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INDIANS AND THEIR LANDS.

OF course, it is neither right nor pro-
per that the Indians be mulcted out of
millions of dollars by smart attorneys.
But the Indians, or many of them, fig
ured they were getting off pretty cheap
by giving the lawyers q slice Of their
fortunes. This feeling may have been
engendered by their folklore. No doubt
it contains many a mournful song and
story of the way the Indians were
treated by their white brethren in years
gone by.
Perhaps there is an epic or two on
the fact that the French took all that
they wanted Of what is now Canada
without doing so much as sing funny
Song for it. Not only that but they
made the Indians fight their battles,
and always saw to it when they had to
go into a fight themselves. that the
Indians went on ahead of them. In all
probability they've had another story
handed down to them about how the
Dutch gobbled up their rich forests and
fertile fields in the valleys Of the Hud-
son, the Mohawk and the Allegheny.
Likewise do they know the tale of
how old Bill Penn sealed his title to
the tremendous grant Of land given him
with q treaty with the Indians that
gave everything to Penn and not much
but best wishes for their welfare i'll
other parts to the Red Men. 1t may be,
too, that some of the elderly chiefs of
today remember how they and their
tribes were driven from pillar 10 post,
until the country finally be-
came bit civilized and the
government undertook to extend some
thing like justice to the few of them
that relentless bullets had not turned
into the proverbial good Indians"
With all of these things in their
memories, it isSnot to be wondered that
they willingly became the victims of
rapacious attorneys. That they should
get anything for their lands at all must
have struck the more ignorant of them
as being a trifle strange. string of
worthless beads used to be tlIeii recon-
rense in other days for a veritable
lyincfOr1o of riches
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-15
HUMOR or THE DAY

The Burden of Golf.-Golfer with q fun
bag, looking for caddy-I say, my friend,
do you happen to know of anyone who
Near-Sighted Villager (testiiy)-No,
own umbrella repairin'. Puck
Employe-Sir, I'd like raise I've lust
been married and Employer-So YOU
want more money for your wife? Employe
No, sir; want it for myself. She knows
Just what I'm getting now, you see
Cleveland Leader.
Physician-And would you like to be
doctor, Jack? Mother (while Jack is still
couldn't kill fly.-Punch.
Experimentation any little boy tell
me why we have the eagle in churches?
in this stained-glass window Tonmie
Howard-I know. The eagle is a bird Of
prey.-Cornen Widow.
Mamma--Johnny, what is the baby yell
his milk and showed him how to drink II
Cleveland Leader.
Fly. with me-. pleaded the youth.
what's the user answered the girl
chine of yours before we had gone a thou
sand feet Observation-Disclosures Ledger
Gwendolyn-Do you know that Mr.. Soft
head actually asked me last night wheth-
Why shouldn't he? One is never too old
to learn. you know.-Judge.
First Beggar-What are you doing here.
Peter I thought your stand was on the
to my son as wedding present.-Meggen-
dorfer Blaetter.
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FEMININE OoIFFUREs.

There can be nothing to that theory
that girls and women array and FIX
themselves I'D to attract the favorable
attention OF youths and men. Take
the way large portion of them do"
their hair, for instance. The man is
probably yet to be found who sees
anything attractive in the several
styles of coiffuers now prevailing.
Scarcely a newspaper or a publication
of any kind that men have a hand in
the making can be picked up these
days that does not contain some gibe
against the outlandish fashions Of
feminine headgear. But it avails
nothing. The women, or a good share
of them. keep going from bad to worse,
stuffing in rat here. roll there.
piling on wads upon wads of hair and
its imitation, and mixing it all with an
assorted lot of puffs and curls.
Some of these hirsuite creations are
marvels of righteousness. They turn
ordinarily good looking women and
girls into things with heads that verge
on those associated with monstrosities,
In some instances sort of a beehive
shaped affair is built out from the
crown Of the head at an angle of forty
five degrees and extending out into the
air for foot or more. Another ar
rangement looks as though a big
cheese, covered with hair, was fasten-
ed on the top of the head. Other
women seem to try to see Just how far
they can build out their own and their
store hair from the back of their
heads, and some of them are success
full in really marvellous feats in this
direction. A bunch of puffs, two or
three dozen of them, are tackled onto
other heads and they look for all the
world like the corner of a counter in
a butcher shop where the frankfurters
are assembled. Myriads of little and
shapeless curls are pinned on here and
there on other heads that make them
look as though something real in the
way of rats had been nesting in them.
It is useless to attempt to even con-
vey an idea of all these comical styles
of hair dressing which are assumed
these days. They are innumerable.
But the efforts the fair sex seem to be
indulging in is to see which one of
them can reach the limit of the ridicu-
lous in fixing up their hair. 1t is to
be hoped that limit will be reached
before long and that a sensible reac-
ton to normal and becoming styles of
hairdressing will set in. What the
idea of the women is in making their
heads an advertisement for the false
hair trade is past comprehension. Ger
tainly they are adding nothing to their
appearances and surely nothing to
their own comfort.
And thank goodness there are few
women who have been strong and
sober-minded enough not to follow the
rapid changing DEGREES of the false
hair makers who have to put novelties
on the market every once IN while
if they are not to permit their trade to
StaGnate.
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the professor. and now you have won
out"
"Oh." Jennie's face famed. but I
hayent-why, who ever thought of
HE did and we did," chanted the
mouse" And away they went.
Ward dared not approach her as
she stood alone looking out over the
campus He knew how she must feel
to have had her affairs talked about
by irreverent tongues.
But that afternoon he sought her
out. you refused my invitation once"
n me said gra ayE TO TO go to my old
u want you.''
With a new self-consciousness upon
her she dropped her head.
please don't ask me-" she pro-
tested. II think ought not to
''why?"
Because"
Because Of what those girls said to
you on the porch this morning"
yes"
And it is true. And it is because
of that that I want to carry you of
with me this afternoon. want to
talk it over with you-may I. Jennie
Wren?"
Suddenly she was enveloped by the
joy of his love for her. "Oh, yes" she
said breathlessly. "I'll be glad-to
talk it over"
In the dim, cool dining room of the
old farm house, where the air was
sweet with the fragrance of honey
suckle, Ward told her the story Of his
awakening. ct need such a woman
as you to complete my life," he said.
IT need the comfort of you, the quiet
content that your presence gives me,
the rest. the peace, the joy of your
gentle womanhood." He smiled
whimsically. do you know, the words
of the old song: VIII you have me,
Jennie Wren?'"
And Jennie, true to nursery rhyme
tradition, whispered "Yes"-(Copy-
righted 1910 by Associated Literary
Press.)
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wOMEN VOTE RIGHT.

"Our men and women in the main are
broad minded and take large inter-
est in state and local affairs" writes
Gov. Brady of Idaho, in the Columbian
Magazine for September. There is no
doubt in my mind but that the mere
fact that women are permitted to and
do vote has had a tremendous effect
for good in the selection of party can
didates and in the passage of needed
laws. Not only is the woman vote al
ways cast on the right side in contests
where moral issues are at stake but
the fact that they are permitted to
vote enables them to bring influence
to bear on men in other ways. 1t has
been pointed out that women vote in
national elections with their husbands
and fathers. and that they are apt to
be swayed by prejudice in local cleo
tions, but there has never been a time
in my experience when 1 have found
the women advocating any measures
which would not bear the light of day.
''In Idaho we have women in coun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-15
Confusion in Modesty.

The spirit of the spinster who clothed
the legs of the piano is strong in the
land. mo bathers in costume allowed
behind the front line Of the lighthouses.
the signs at the beaches say. Young
sters at track meets shock no ore by
their shortness of garments, but when
at practice they go running through a
residential street a hurry call is sent
for the police. In city in New Jersey
the girls Of a school-some of them as
old as 11-appeared in low-necked waists
when the mercury began to bubble.
The principal was shocked. She sent
The children home with instructions to
their mothers to put ''guimpes'' on
those waists
The more clothes that a nation wears
the more it troubles itself about i'm
rnodesty. It's woman folk are more cas-
lily disturbed by any meagerness OF ap-
parel, and the men-it must be admitted
are more curious Until the mission
aries took Puritan primness Of mind
into the South Seas the natives were
clothed mostly in shame. They know
now what it is to Lack skirts and trou-
sers, and so every Sunday they must
put them on.-Toledo Blade.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Frorn the Chicago New,

LFrom the Chicago News.1
Don't jump at conclusions unless YOU
are in training.
Why wouldn't watered silk make sat
isfactory bathing suits?
But every man is not a hero evan
from his own point of view
If your mouth is full or Your head
empty, don't attempt to talk.
Lots of people who want to be for
given don't want to be forgotten.
There is one bad habit that most of
us are addicted to. We talk too much
Some men would work IL given a
chance. but there are others who refuse
to take chances.
A man never knows what he can do
until he tries. But it isn't always ex-
pedient to try.
Lasting fame means doing things 40
often that the world doesn't get =
chance to forget you.
How we dislike man who asks oues-
tons merely for the sake of setting a
chance to answer themi
Glass eyes are now made wiz, xuch
perfection that even the wearers are
unable to see through the decertion'
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AYHAWKER .JOTS

expected, she doesn't love you," advises
the Jewell County Republican.
Nowadays" remarks the Leaven-
considered to be guilty until he proves
himself innocent"
1t occurs to the Lawrence Journal
that "a century Is a long time" May
be it's been interviewing the blossom
on century plant.
Evidently Victor Murdoch likes to be
characterized as "the Rupert of the
Wichita Eagle refers to him.
"Old Bill White has a number of
foolish notions" remarks Ed Howe In
his Atchison Globe. But" continues
Mr.. Howe. I'VE do not feel called upon
to become missionary and coax him
out of them"
At the primary Coffeyville defeat
sion of pure water, notes the Lawrence
World. and it adds: "Coffeyvtlle be-
ing within few blocks of the Chero-
kee strip will continue to drink Okla
homa whiskey."
A woman said recently. reports the
Atchison Champion, that If she was to
get married again she would certainly
pick out different kind OF man than
the one she married. And then the
Champion is mean enough to add:
well, there are some men in the
world in the same fix
ct know I am getting old right
along, and at a mighty fast Clip" con-
fesses Bert Walker in the Osborne
Farmer. 81 no longer care about the
color of my necktie or whether / wear
any, but 1 kick like a bay steer If
the clerk tries to sell me q pinchy pair
of shoes on the theory that they will
stretch
After a poor Lawrence man had
done the dishes, washed the kids faces
and swept the floor for two years.
while his wife gallivanted around, she
sued him for divorce and threatened
to set him out in the cold world all
alone. After calling attention to this
the Hutchinson News asks: when is
this tyranny to end?"
Some one on the Atchison Globe at
tended a vaudeville performance the
other night and reported a monologue
comedian of the black face type as
saying, among other things: "I came
up from Kansas City last night. A
woman had a monkey in a cage. When
the conductor came along collecting
his wages / asked him If the company
permitted monkeys to ride on the
train. IF you keep STILL he said, mo
one will notice you I went into an
Atchison restaurant. They served me
a biscuit so hard that when 1 threw
1t out of the door the dog thought it
was bone and buried it. I said to the
waitress, Have you corn on the carp
She replied, No; that's a wart.' -
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WOMAN,S WAYS

A woman says she'll call on Sunday
You stay at home and wait all day
and get a postal card on Monday
Inat tells you why she stayed away.
A woman says, do come to dinner!
I'll look for you on Tuesday night"
I on go-and how you'd like to skin herr
Inc house Is closed up snug and tight
A woman says. sI wish to give you
A little token of esteemp"
she II let that wish of hers outlive YOU
Or else twill vanish like a dream.
A woman says, Eyes, I play poker!"
AND when she loses forty cents
gu reel as If you'd like to choke her
For IT'S on you her rage she vents.
A woman hurries to the races
And bets the smallest sum allowed.
Her horse is last. OF all the faces.
she simply weeps before the crowd.
A woman goes to do some shopping
And sends the goods home c. o. D.
Iney all go back-the man just stopping
To hear her say, mo cash! Dear metz
A woman is a curious creature
Inc riddle OF the universe
A man Is different-but the feature
OF difference is-that he Is worse.
-kurana w. Sheldon. in the New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.l


You know better. Why don't you
do better? People seem to hate to use
what little sense they have.
One of the things a boy learns at
college is not to help much with the
work around home when he returns.
You may have noticed that when a
man decides to do anything for the
good of the party, he expects to get
paid for it.
A man hasn't taken the thirty-third
degree in the Ancient and Modern
order of Henpecked Husbands until
he has to ask his wife for spending
money.
A little girl never loves her grand
father as much as she does her grand
mother. Grandmothers explain it all
by saying: 'She is afraid of his
whiskers."
Have you been the subject of a
scandalous rumor? The rumor may
have been untrue, the invention of a
mean enemy. but most of your friends
will believe the rumor.
We don't claim to be a Good Eel
low. When men we know visit Atchi-
and entertain them until or o'clock
in the morning.
1t is an oversight the women will at
tend to when they can get around to
It,: The providing of a trained nurses
suit to wear when the husbands head
dCAS5, VI Il1S DdDy IldS llO AAOdoACSs
A woman is as suspicious of her
grocer as she is of her husband She
thinks her grocer is as good as any of
them; possibly a little better, but she
firmly believe he will Bear Watching.
1t is not a bad idea for woman
to keep diary: 1t is sort of safe
ty valve, and in writing down her
troubles in a hand that no one is ever
able to read, she forgets to tell them
to the neighbors-
There are no eyes as bright as those
of the housewife returning from a va
cation: But 1t isn't rest that did it.
1t is anticipation of finding grease
spots in the kitchen she left immacu-
late, or dust on the piano, and perhaps
somewhere in the house there will be
a fly!
When there is guest, the guest has
a way of sitting back as If to say:
well, am here I came at great ex-
pense and worry to myself solely be-
cause of your importantly. But now
that am here, entertain me and do
it right or will talk about you when
I go home"
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FRON OTHER PENS
REsPEcr TO THE COURT.

Into Judge Lummus' court in Lynn,
came, as the Lynn News tells 1t, man
with "weather-beaten overalls, a shirt
which was widely opened at the throat,
and shirt sleeves rolled up above the
elbows. The Judge looked at the wit
ness sharply. Then he said to Chief
Burckes, Why does this man come
here dressed like this?' The question
was too deep for the chief to answer,
SO he side-stepped it. When was he
summoned to appear next asked the
judge. and when the chief replied, last
evening" the judge remarked, do
not care to hear his testimony 1t
may have been that the testimony of
the witness was of vital importance to
the case, and that Judge Lummus did
an injustice by his curt refusal to hear
the testimony. But, as a general prin-
ciple. he was right. A judge in high
er court refused some time ago to con-
sent to the naturalization of an appli-
cant who appeared CARRIED in a butch
er's frock. He was right. too. The
courts of the country are entitled to
the conventionalities of respect, not
because of the personality OF the judge
but because the court is a great func-
ton of the public service. 1t repre-
sents in it's place, a majesty greater
than that of any monarch on earth
the majesty of government by the peo-
pie. Instead of being cheapened by
that truth, that majesty is enhanced.
InlS principe ought always 10 DC III :
sisted upon, even in so-called small
matters-New Bedford Standard.
COMRADES AFTER MARRIAGE.
Foreign visitors to the United States
often comment upon the freedom of
social meeting permitted, with general
lack of chaperonage, between young
men and women. as compared with the
rigid fornlality required by custom in
Europe. But there is a sequence to
this custom that has net received so
much observation. That is, that there
is often less comradeship between
American husbands and wives than is
usual abroad. After marriage the rou-
tine of their daily lives is less init
mate.
But the phenomenon has it's proper
reasons. The American man is alb,
sorbed in business He lacks the time,
though he may have the inclination,
for the enjoyment of simple donesticity.
simultaneously, the wide-awake Amer
lean woman has discovered many ac-
tiviLies outside the home-charitable
sociable, educational sometimes politi-
cal. There may enter into any or all
of these the natural element Of variety
but unquestionably they are pervading
and prevailing.
Curiously enough, the usual absence
of definite marriage settlements in this
country makes the american wife. with
oil her freed pm, dependent upon the
masculine holder of the purse strings.
But the good husband is far more than
a mere financial agent, although too Of
ten he Is nor the comrade that he
should be.-Washington Post.