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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26
EXTRA SESSION CLOSED.
THREE O'CLOCK DECIDED ON AS
HOUR OF ADJOURNMENT.
housc Unanimously Concurs I'm Sem
ate Resolution and Names Men,
oers To Act With Senate Committee
in Notifying President of Readi-
ness To AdJourn--Cotton Bill Pass
III and will be vetoed-Repubh-
cans Cry Gag Rule" During De-
bate ON Measure.

Washington. Aug. 21.-The extra
session OF Congress will pass Into his
tory at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The Democratic caucus OF the House.
at a meeting tonight. agreed to the
Penrose resolution. which passed the
Senate. prescribing that hour as the
time Of final adjournment. This act
Ion csrried out through a resolution
passed by the House at a session to
night. put into effect an understand
ing reached In the afternoon between
party leaders in both houses.
The resolution carried unanimously
in the House. 1t directed the ap-
pointment OF three members Of the
House to join with three members of
the Senate to notify the President
that Congress was ready to adjourn.
The committee appointed on tive part
Of the House consisted Of Repr, senta-
tives Underwood. OF Alabama: Dixon.
ef Indiana. and Mann. OF Illinois. Re-
publican leader OF the House. The
Senate will name It's committee to-
morrow.
After q perfunctory debate for four
hours. the House late TO-DAY concurr-
cd. $50 to 1o7. to the Senate's amend.
mont to the Underwood cotton tariff
revision bill and sent the measure to
President Taft.
The bill. which will be vetoed to-
morrow. and which will be embraced
In renewed tariff revision legislation
next December. would have cut the
cotton tariff on an average of 81 per
cent ad valorem and bore schedules,
tackled on by the Senate. reducing
dutes on iron and steel. cotton and
chemicals. and providing free ad.
mission Of bituminous coal from the
Canadian border.
Tho vote was along strict party
lines. except that eight Republican
Insurgents Joined the Democrats. Most
sf the insurgents who have been
voting with the majority on tariff
measures stood with the regulars to-
day. claiming that the Senate amend
ments had not been considered by a
committee OF either House.
The amendment bill was considered
s0dey under a rule limiting debate TO
nsar hours and barring amendments.
Tho Democrats were accused OF re-
turning to a gag rule" which they
vigorously denied.
The debate OF the day was not
confined to the cotton bill. Messrs.
Underwood and Payne closed the dis
sussion. Mr.. Underwood said the
snnended bill was not just what the
majority wanted. but II was the best
that could be secured under the cir
eumstances- He said II was absurd
TO expect the people to "wait on the
clerks and hirelings" Of the President.
bill was passed extending. until
March. 1912. the Burton law govern
Ing the diversion of the waters OF
Niagara Falls. Mr.. Mann raised tho
question OF no quorum. but Mr.. Tn
derwood moved to adjourn, which
carried at lt.55 p. m.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26

negro named Lee Killed another
named Ike Sanders In Aiken county
Thursday night. Sanders head was
crushed with an axe. Lee tried to
Kill his wife but she escaped. and he
then set fire to his house and fled.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26
&. q. HAMMOND WINS SCHOLAR
SHIP
L. Successful Competitor for Citadel
Scholarship.

G. G.. Hammond OF Wedgeneld is
the successful competitor for the
citadel scholarship. Six contest
tants stood the examination ON
August II.
III. Tindal won the scholarship
from Clarendon county and the
scholarship from Lee county will be
filed later.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26

Fire started by an incendlary de-
strcyed the barn OF Col r.. Y. Williams
OF Lancaster Monday morning. Fou'
mules and large quantity of grain
were burned.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26
Marriage License Record.

marriage license was granted
this morning To Nimrod Dargan. OF
Dalzell and Carrie Lee of Rembert.
Colored,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26

Now that the brick have been test
ed and found TO have come up to
specifications it is hoped that the
work on the street will be pushed
forward harder than ever before.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26
LAST EXERCISES OF REUNION.
Veterans Want Pension Rolls Purged
of Those Who Do Not Deserve Pen.
SiOnS.

Columbia, Aug. 23.-The parade
this afternoon, headed by the local
battalion of militia, will end the 1911
reunion Of the South Carolina Divis-
ion, United Confederate Veterans.
Major General B. II. league Of
Aiken was reelected commander.
Brigadier Generals u. r. Brooks of
Columbia and Frank Creech of Barn
we'll, were reelected commanders.
respectively, of the first and second
brigades. The meeting place for
1912 will be designated later. The
veterans endorsed y hill now before
the legislature looking toward the
purging OF the pension rolls. although
they voted down the coronary prop
osition 10 create an in.pectorship Of
pensions at $500 and Senators
Mauldn, Sullivan and Hardin, and
Representatives McKeown- Harri-
son and James were appointed a COM
mittee to advocate the measure at
the next session of the general as
sembly.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26
The Improvement of Cotton Seed.


Will go to his crib and select one good
ear OF corn, one sorry one, and a
small nubbin and get his seed corn
that way he would make a poor corn
crop.
That is just what he does when he
plants his cotton seed from a ginnery
where several varieties are mixed.
He will find some early and some
late and a considerable number OF
barren stalks.
suppose small farmer has ten
acres of cotton which he likes very
Well After picking the ground bons
let him go through MS cotton at Sec
ond picking and select perfect bolls
from bes. stalks. When cotton is
we'll open he could not get more than
40 to 90 pounds in a day.
But it would not require many days
to pick 400 to 500 pounds. If einned
separately from other cotton that
would give him 10 bushels OF Sc
lect seed worth s2.00 a bushel.
At Gaffney- they have a small gin in
cotton mill in which they
gin these small lots for farmers.
They also buy the lint for the mill.
1t is said that a small gin has been
ordered by the oil mill company Of
this city for the accommodation Of
farmers who wish to improve their
crops.
"A further Improvement NAV he
made in this way. After the seed
come from this small gin it will not
take long for a farmer to handpick
pound or two of seed and throw out
all small and imprfect ones and then
plant small seed lot out Of the
plump perfect seed.
But perhaps the surest way is TO
pick 400 to 500 best bolls from finest
stalks in the field. Separate the seed
from the lint by using the fingers as
your grandmother did 100 to 125
years ago. Reject all small seed a,
the end of the lock" and all imper-
fect seed. In that way none but bset
seed from best bolls from best stalks
would go in the the ground and the
variety would be greatly improved.
There is fine opportunity for
young farmers to improve all tba;r
held seeds. There is no more pleas-
ant and remunerative work than
mat connected with the farm.-Spar-
tanburg Journal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
WHEN RECORDS REIGN BEGUN.

NAV HEN George L. Record, who is now the guide Of the Wilson
wv administration, was a candidate on the Republican ticket
for Congress in the Ninth district he addressed a public
letter to DR.. Wilson, the candidate of the Democratic party for
governor. That letter contained a number of carefully prepared
queries bearing upon the questions of the campaign. There was
no delay in the reply to these queries. In an interview given out
by Record great qualification was expressed over DR.. Wilson's
reply, and Record spoke in laudatory terms of the Democratic can
didate. AT Republican State headquarters the conviction was in
dignantly expressed that the Record letter and it's reply were a
'frame-up" in aid of the Democratic candidate. Said a member of
the Republican State Committee: "Tts just like Record. 1t was
very foolish to permit him to be a candidate" Subsequent events
have strengthened that conviction. Record was a candidate of the
Republican party. When he was nominated he accepted the obi
cations of a party candidate. If he wrote his letter to DR.. Wilson,
with or without an understanding with the latter, with the object
of injuring his own party in the election, what shall be said of
that act and with what grace can Democrats now consent to an
arrangement between the governor and Record by which the latter
is given a potential voice in an administration that was elected as
q Democratic one?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20. 1911.
RECORD As DEMOCRATIC STATE LEADER.

IN EMoCRATIC members of the Legislature who have been mis-
~ led by the manufactured clamOr for Governor Wilson's
candidate for senator should now realize how they were inn
posed upon. The originator of the clamor was George L. Record,
the present adviser and monitor of the governor, and a concert of
four newspapers outside of the Democratic party was organized
by him to give voice to it. Marked papers containing appeals for
the governors candidate and violent personal attacks upon former
Senator Smith were sent broadcast over the State, and in many
individual cases the hope of a share in the governors patronage
was held out. Wherever a Democrat with a crouch could be found
he was harnessed to the cause of the governors candidate. Record
is a clever and shifty politician, and it was his. hand, and not the
governors, that created this popular sentiment" Not being versed
in the arts and tricks of politics, the governor believed what he
evidently wanted to believe, that he had been set up as the tribune
of the people for the purpose of compelling the Legislature to send
a free trader to the Senate. The hand of Record and the machinery
used were shown in the exposure of the secret conference held II a
New York hotel last Monday, when Record instructed the governor
as to the policies he should pursue in legislation and gave sugges-
tons to the quartet and chorus of newspapers under his control.
But what shall bamboozled Democratic legislators say as to this
expose? Is the Democratic majority as well as the governor to be
run by George L. Record? With their eyes wide open, do Demo
cratic legislators propose to submissively carry out the Record
program? There has been some question of Democratic State lead
ership. Is it to a lately defeated Republican candidate in Hudson
county that they look for the party leadership?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
NEEDS OF THE STATE HOME FOR Boys.

0Ta HE State Home for Boys at Jamesburg is a welmanaged
IL institution and it is doing a most important work for the
redemption and proper training of hayward male youth.
But the institution does not possess the facilities that are neces-
sary for the maintenance and government of it's young inmates.
As to economy in maintenance it is shown that the per capita cost,
as provided by the State, is only 800, a figure fixed two decades
ago, when the necessaries of life cost much less. AT the Railway
Reformatory the maintenance cost is nearly double that of the
Jamesburg home, which is also much lower than that of any other
State institution. Moreover, there is great need of improved educa-
tional facilities, and the sum of sos, 900 is asked for a central school
building for the 600 boys in the home. An improved water supply
is also urgently demanded, while there is necessity for better pay
for teachers in order that competent ones may be employed. The
state home at Jamesburg is not a mere house of refuge. 1t is an
educational and correctional institution, and such purposes REQUIRE
all proper accommodations and facilities, and the best kind of an
educational corps. In considering the requests of a State insitu.
ton for money the legislative appropriations committees usually
subordinate the institutional needs to the policy of keeping down
the appropriations. However great the need may be in any particu.
lar case, it is satisfied only to the extent of what the committee
deems it policy to allow to keep the total of appropriations within
"A certain limit. In many cases this policy has worked great in
justice and done much harm.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20

The People 5 Rostrun


own good the Committee of One Hun
dred, which is the nucleus of the work,
n is composed of the most prominent
people In this vicinity, will become
discouraged n drop the matter.
AT first glance this would not be such
a calamity to the ordinary or casual OBJ
server. But to persons who look fur
Their ahead than tomorrow it would be
apparent that this would result in time
to a greater loss of life than the High
street factory fire was responsible for.
The white plague does not get In its
deadly work in a sensational manner
and therefore is unnoticed a great part
of the ear by the general public. You
have to watch it closely and attend to
the most trihing details in a careful
manner if o would make the war we
have started a success.
Let us all return again and take UT
the glorious fight. We are not only
fighting to make our immediate family
and friends healthy and happy, but we
are fighting for everybody, regardless
of color. creed or station.
PHYSICIAN.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
A NEWARK HARBOR COMMISSION.

m COMMITTEE of the Board of Trade is prepared to procure
IN the introduction of a bill in the Legislature providing for
a board of dock and wharf commissioners, to have entire
charge of the carrying out of the plans for the development of
the meadows and bay waterfront. 1t is now perfectly plain to the
dulIest mind that the Board of Works is not competent to take
charge of an enterprise of this magnitude in connection with the
boards other important and exacting work in administering the
affairs of the water department and looking after the streets and
sewers and street traffic. A great enterprise such as that of max
ing Newark an important seaport calls for better management
than that which would be given by a municipal board which has
its time largely taken up by other important duties, A harbor
board law was recently passed by the Legislature, and boards
were organized in several cities, but the law has proved defective,
and a new act will be passed. All the cities having waterfronts
to develop can join with Newark in getting a law passed for their
common benefit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
VERY FOOLISH.

A youth in Irvington recently at
tempted suicide because he was
forced to do housework when he
didn't care for 1t. The situation
became SO acute that he figured
death was preferable to a dish
washing. bed-making, busting and
sweeping existence. i
Quite a number Of persons have
felt that way about housework In
the past. and quite a number Of
others will probably feel the same
way about It during the coming
year. and other years to come after
that.
Personally we have never bean
able to understand this ettitude
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
DO YOU CARE For THEMf

1t is almost impossible for us to
enjoy anything that pieases the
Snug family.
The Smugs, you may possibly re-
member. originated the expression,
81 told you So"
They are, all of them, absolutely
positive about what is going to hap
pen, and II 1t doesn't happen-usual-
ly it doesn't-they take it as a per-
sonal insult.
Every member Of the Snug FAM
lily has a clammy hand, and for tina
reason there is no fun in shaking
hands with any of them.
Naturally it is impossible to tell
any Of them anything. as what they
do not know is, of course, not worth
knowing.
Is it any wonder, then, we find 1t
difficult to enjoy anything that
pleases the Snug family?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
Praise. the Board of Trade.

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
AS a Newarker I read with pride
the annual report of the Board OF
Trade, in which 1t urges the big pub
licity campaign, also for It's stand In
favoring the abandoning of the Morris
canal, which is an eyescre to the pub
lie. This u~nsightly stream Is scarcely
used these days and is a disgrace tc
our city.
The stand the board ooh in the
Mountain View water conservation
scheme, also the fight against the East
Jersey Water Company, are worthy oi
comment, as is also the fight for the
much-needed improvement to the Plari
road, one of the big outlets for the
great amount of the manufactured
products of the city. I likewise fee
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
keep Up war ON white plague.

Keep Up War ON White q
To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
The Red Cross stamp season is over
and people evidently consider h war
on tuberculosis in Newark is also ter
minated. A great deal OF good has
been accomplished by the people of
this city by purchasing the large num-
Der Of stamps they did. but the fight
against the white plague must be con-
sistent and untiring II we would be
successful.
The Newark Anti-Tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION, OF which I am a member,
made preparations for a banner season
in the sale of Red Cross seals, but the
unfortunate circumstance of the High
street horror created such an unresist-
ing appeal for help that all other char
table works suffered. 1t is understood
that the direct and indirect victims OF
the holocaust are being looked after
by representatives of the STAR, who
are distributing the money from the
now famous STAR fire fund.
In all battles for the benefit of the
entire public there are so many dis
advantages met with that often the
biggest" men become discouraged and
give up The worst Of these draw
backs is the lack Of interest on the part
Of the people themselves. The ben
efactors Of the enterprise in Newark
are forgetting that an anti-tuberculosif
association exists here. Unless the
| people respond TO the appeal for their
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
SUPERFICIAL IMPRESSIONS.

Doesn't your wife want the vote any
more?"
mo-" replied Mr.. Meekton. "She
heard that out West they have been
selling as low as a dollar apiece, and
she refuses to pay attention to any
thing so inexpensive" - Washington
Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
SUCH PRAMNrSS.

whats troubling your"
1.-THE servant problem"
Cant you find one2"
l can't afford one"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
TRUE ENOUGH.

Jhe most ephemeral thing isn't one
It's enough to make UP a fleet;
Just now it's a modern battleship,'
Tomorrow twill be "obsolete."
r. Nd.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20

toward homework, as we have ell
ways been rather partial to IL.
Nothing soothes our nerves so
quickly and surely after an exciting
day in the Street as a little dish
washing orgy. Never yet have we
engineered a great coup netting us
millions or more without going
home and doing q little busting or
scrubbing or something Of the kind
to Offset the results Of tho excite
ment.
This young man did the very
worst possible thing under the cir.
cumstances, He should have en-.
deavored to learn the beauties OF
homework and have become recon-
ciled to it rather than put his
family to so much-as II proved
since he was unsuccessful--un-
necessary trouble.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20

Gov. Wilson and st. Anthony's Sermon.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
That much-discussed conference in
New York between Governor Wilson,
George L. Record and certain, or rather
uncertain, Republican newspaper edi-
tors, carries within 1t the seeds of dis
solution, and quick dissolution al that,
as far as results are concerned.
I wonder If this aggregation of wis
DON ever heard of ST. Ant1ony's ser
mon to the fishes? 1t closes much like
this:
The sermon now ended,
All turned and descended;
The cells went on ceiling
And the pixies went on stealing.
Much delighted were they,
But each preferred his own way"
The story, as I remember it, is that
ST. Anthony had decided that there
was entirely too much evil going on
under the waters n he decided TIC
convert the big fish and the little fish.
They marveled at his beautiful words
admired his soulful thoughts. and were
edited for the IN by his morals;
but when the sermon was ended they
dived back into the waters and went
on according to their natural bent and
to the full extent.
So, I think, it is certain that these
fish that came out of the turbulent
sea of politics and heard the sermon
they were summoned to hear viii re
turn to their natural bent and stir ur
trouble as heretofore. Perhaps more
than ever. FRIDAY.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20

WATN
SOME QUESTIONS.

Tell us fully, frankly, doctor, who's
your friend?
Have you any notion how all this
will end?
Did this State go Democraticf
II 80 don't be enigmatic,
Make your answer strong, SIM
phatic;
Who's your friend? d
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20

The STAR extends the privilege
Of these columns to the public and
not more than one hundred words
treating Of topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
WANTED HARMONY.

Druggtst-Why do you put two one
penny stamps on your letter?
Customer-The two-cent stamps don't
match thu shade Of the envelope.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20

Without a moments hesitation. nine
teen hundred and eleven started out to
make aviation history. An aviator made
a fight of thirty-eight miles with two
passengers a few days ago. Then
Eugene Ely, on Wednesday, negotiated
an unprecedented flight. He flew from
the California shore twelve miles out
into the bay, alighted on the deck of a
battleship, and, pausing a few moments
for rest and refreshment, flew back.
One feat demonstrated the possibili.
ties of the heavier lair machine as
a public carrier, the other proved
beyond the peradventure Of a doubt
that the war aeroplane will prove a
powerful adjunct of the navy. Both
feats were revolutionary, and coming
as they do in the first month OF the
year, seem to promise that the COM
ing twelvemonth will be q red-letter
period in the history of the art OF avia-
ton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20

The announcement which accom-
panied the avard by the Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission of a silver medal to
big Bill" Edwards, commissioner of
street cleaning of New York city. was
of course unnecessary. Everyone who
can read-ah overwhelming percentage
of h illiterate must also have heard
indirectly of the f~acts-knew the cir
cumstances surrounding Mr.. Edwards's
heroism to the minutest detail.
In this respect Mr. Edwards was for
tunate. Heroism is naturally acquired
incidentally. A man or woman does
something involving danger and risk,
as a matter of course, ecaus it Is a
plain duty. and, 10 and behold, becomes
involuntarily a hero. This is as it
should be. True heroism cannot have
too much publicity. and the case of
Mr.. Edwards was naturally and ad-
mirably aired.
1t is possible, however. that an ex-
travagant tendency to pet and reward
heroism might result in the develop
ment of the professional hero" In
deed, II we are not mistaken. he as
appeared now n Their to urge his
dlaims for a medal and perquisites In
person. But, then, a necessary evil is
of course-necessary.