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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-13
SAATEE ASSEMBLY ADjOuRNS
FINAL SESSION HELD AT BETIIEI,
CHURCH THURSDAY MORN.
ING.
Three Interesting Addresses Made Mt
Final Mo enthusiastically Best
Which Has Been Held ut Bethel
Large Attendance and Interesting
Addresses.

The fifth session of the Santee Sum-
mer Assembly at Bethel Church which
came to a close Thursday afternoon,
after an interesting session in which
three delightful addresses were made.
was one of the best, If not the best,
which has ever been held in the his
tory OF the Santee Association, now
thirty-six years old.
The attendance was exceedingly
gratifying to those who have charge
OF the assembly and the interest
aroused and shown i'm the work of the
assembly was a feature which was
commented on by many of those
present. AS usual there were meet
ings held twice daily and many Of
the visitors to the assembly lived in
tents pitched on the church grounds.
or nearby, throughout the session.
Many interesting addresses were made
by the noted divines present, the pro-
gram being carried out for the most
part as 1t had been outlined prior to
the meeting.
The last session was held Thursday
from 10 to 1.30 o'clock. During
ing this time three excellent addresses
were made by eminent Baptist divines
and speakers Of note. The Rev. DR..
David M. Ramsey, president of Green
Vile Female College, at Greenville,
y. c., made an eloquent talk on "The
Great Importance Of Female Educa-
tion." The address by Rev. DR.. Lam
sing Burrows Of Americus, Ga, was
on the subject, THE Distinction Be-
tween the Church and the Kingdom
Of God" The third address was made
by the Rev. r. T. Vann, president Of
Meredith College, Raleigh, y. c., who
chose for his subject "The Power Of
Unseen Forces" The interest Of
those present was held by the speak
ers. who brought their message home
to the hearts of their hearers in
forcible and eloquent words.
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You Cannot Die With A
Smile on Your Face

these things by selling whiskey? No
You don't and yet you are willing to
sell man Whiskey and send him to
hell just so you get his money. DO
you think you can do this and die with
a smile on your face? No you can't.
l also see many who, of all others,
Knowing the past as they do and hay
ing boys to grow up, get drunk and
bring their gray hairs in sorrow to
the grave, should oppose whiskey
selling and drinking to the bitter
end, and Yet they appear willing to
sell men whiskey and send them to
hell just so they get their money" Do
you think you can do this and die with
a smile on your face? No you can't"
Also / see the names of many Of
the Jews on this petition. Did you
ever think what a blessing America
has been to the Jews? Most of your
forefathers were oppressed and perse-
cuted in foreign lands and came here
Tor protection and liberty. You have
been blessed in your business, and YOU
know that the greatest curse this
land ever had is whiskey. 1t is costing
more men and money than all other
evils combined, and instead of join
ing hands with the men and women
of this land in driving out this curse,
you are among those who are willing
to sell a man whiskey and send him
to hell just so you get his money. DO
YOU think you can do this and die
with a smile on your face? No YOU
can't"
The court has decided that a citi-
zen can send out of the State and
bring his liquor for personal use.
This should be enough to satisfy every
drinking man. Don't you think sober
men and God fearing women who are
trying to teach their boys not to
drink, have some rights? Why then
try and force these open doors to
hell on our streets and compel them
to wade through a crowd around it's
doors and smell the vile odors from
these dens of iniquity when they
walk our streets in pursuit of busi-
ness or pleasure?
. Listen you men who love liquor.
You had better be satisfied with order
ing your liquor. For as sure as time
moves the tide is sweeping over the
world and in a few years there will be
no place for drinking man to fill
but a drunkard's grave. Good men
and women, all over the world are
getting tired raising boys to support
the liquor traffic, and intend by Gods
help to sweep it from the face of the
earth. d. James Winn.
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hibition than we have been doing?
l confess l have done little, but if
there is anything that l ought to do
| should be glad to know of it.
Can't we establish a law and order
league, with only those as members
who are heartily in sympathy with
the spirit of that organization?
A number of Sumter people have
talked to me about the Elks and
Eagles and the club at Second Mill.
They say they are all practically bar
rooms, only they are limited by GER
tain restrictions. ! do not know these
things by my own observation but
come of the respected citizens of sum
ter have told me that these clubs were
practically saloons running night ana
day and all day Sunday.
Now as to them: Were not the
Elks and Eagles in existence while
the dispensary was in Sumter? Have
they not come to supply a place for
social drinking, rather than to enable
their members to buy liquor? If you
vote back the dspensary you will
have dispensary and saloons, then we
will be worse off than we were before
the voting out of the dispenasry, be-
cause these clubs are now bolder
through immunity.
Is there not some way to reach these
clubs? Can not we who are preach
ers call upon the members of these
clubs who are Christians to come out
Of them, urging them to remember
Gods words, Come ye out Of the
midst Of them, and be ye separate, We
that bear the vessels Of the Lord, and
touch no unclean thing"
Then can not all of us by backing
up the officers Of the law put a stop
to these illegal practices?
Carthage est delenda."
VIM. Haynsworth.
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MINORITY WILLING TO YIELD.
According to Mann, Republicans of
House Will Make No Fight Against
Currency Bill.


Washington, Aug. NO determin-
ed opposition to the administration
currency bill will be made. by Re-
publicans in the house, according to
Mr.. Mann, minority leader. He de-
clared today that amendments pro-
posed by Democrats of the currency
committee would be supported and
that other amendments in the caucus
and the house would perfect the
measure 50 that many Republicans
would vote for it.
Representative Mann expressed the
opinion that while the house would
pass the bill at the extra session it
would be held up i'm the senate and
that an agreement probably would
postpone a final vote until the De-
cember session.
Chairman owen Of the senate
banking committee introduced a bill
today to authorize the treasury to buy
outstanding per cent bonds from
banks at par and interest, if the banks
owning them so desire. The measure
Is intended to prevent depreciation OF
the bonds.
Senator Owens pan is to cancel
outstanding gold certificates as they
come into the treasury; issue treasury
notes redeemablc in gold in their
stead; transfer the gold represented
by the gold certificates to the re-
demption division; cancel the per
cent bonds; issue 3 per cent in their
stead and supplant national bank
notes with treasury notes.
The owen bill is a distinct meas
are and has no direct relation to the
administration currency bill now pro-
ceeding in the house
Senator owen said his plan would
establish in this country "a great re-
demption fund such as all other
countries have and that this would
have psychological effect in main
tanning a financial stability. The re-
serve fund, he estimated, would thus
consist OF $1.236, 100000 of gold and
T3O,OOO,O00 in bonds or "a total re-
serve Of $1.966,0 100000 against total
note issues of 100000.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-13
WHAT WILL DISPENSARY DO?
Questions The Sober Minded Should
Think Of and Answer Before They
Vote.
Mr.. Editor:

Mr. Editor:
Doubtless there is an honest diff
ference of opinion concerning the re-
establishment of the dispensary for
the handling of the liquor business,
and, so far as this writer can see,
there is no good to be gained by bit
ter denunicatiOns Of those who differ
! from us. Denunciation Of an op-
ponent only betrays q sense of weak
ness in the one who deals in it. 1t
does not prove anything, and never
gains a friend. So in discussing this
perplexing question, it is wise to be
perfectly fair and tolerant toward ALL
| am not disposed therefore, to indis-
criminately condemn every man who
favors the dispensary system as an
intentional enemy to his country, or
as unkind to his neighbor.
Our vision of things is necessarily
affected either by brain condition or
by distractions extending to the brain,
that destroy the ability to see clearly.
If, therefore, one may be able to clari-
fy the vision of his brother man by
removing the obstruction or correct
ing the internal disorder, he has rem
dered valuable service to his fell
low man, and is benefactor to the
world.
Now, there are three classes in ev-
cry contest like this to be dealt with:
CD There are those who see the
truth and have the courage always to
do the right; CD those who have
only an indistinct vision of the truth.
and are therefore undecided what to
do; and CD those who are blind and
Will not see the truth, and have made
up their minds to go in a given direc-
ton, right or wrong. AS regards the
first and third classes referred to, it
is needless to appeal to them, for the
first does not need it, and the third
will not heed it. The second class,
then, is the one from which you can
always hope to draw in support Of
any good cause.
Then, let those who are not so sure
OF the rightness of their position
those who are undeCided-stop and
think-yea, and think soberly.
Is it best for our city and county tc
legalize the sale Of whiskey, and, if so,
why Is ii best? Is it best for the
brother who is unfortunately addict
ed TO the habit of drinking? Will he
drink less when it is more convenient
for him to get it? Is it best for the
family of the drinking man? viii the
drinking father and husband better
provide for his family. and be nder
TO them than he will without the
dispensary? Will his home be moro
orderly and heavenl! having a dis
pensary convenient to it? viii the
life and moral character of the boys
and yong men of Sumter be- safer Iy
legalizing the sale Of whis,:Cy? WIN
they be more likely to get into good
"'''P"HH anu HHuu pldCtS VI Ill re-
pute than they will without it? VIII
our daughters be more likely to marry
sober, Industrious, manly men by
having dispcnsary? Will the farm
es have better labor and more easily
controlled with the legalZed sale of
liquor than without it? Will We have
more money and greater prosperity i'm
'ur county by bringing back the dis
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-13
KILLING NEAR CAMDEN.
Henry Sessions Reported to Have
Been Killed by John Simpson.

Camden, Aug. John Simpson is
reported to have shot and killed Hen
ry Sessions, near BlanCy, this even
cradle excitement Parties left the
city tonight ia automobiles for the
scene of the crime. There are ru-
mors of a possible lynChing. Al a
late hour ii is impossible to get any
particulars concerning the homicide
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-13

The tomato clubs which have bceI
organized BY the young ladies i'm other
counties are not only successful bu,
In many instances they have turnc,
out source of profit. We shoulu
like for the young ladies' in this coun
~ tu take hold Of the enterprise.
there ~ disposition shown to hav,
these clubs i'm this county. II can u,
arranged to have a demonstrators {,
visit the several sections To give in
MISUNDERSTANDING Times.
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The Southern farmer who has "a
good corn crop this year IL lucky. the
western crop having been seriously
damaged by the July drought. Will.
conversely those who would have to
buy corn and meal To run the farms
next year Will pay dearly for their
failure to make corn as we'll as cot
ton.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-13
LIVE STOCK NEEDED.
Congressman Lever Believes Re.
suits Will he Secured by the Nat
iOnal Lawmakers

"one of the great needs Of the South
ana especially South Carolina is live
stock. 1t is very important that the
industry be dcvclopcd,' WAS the state
mcnt made yesterday by y. +. Lover,
chairman of the house agricultural
committees CuusrcSsman Lever came
down from Washinrtou 10 attend the
Conference for the Common Good.
This has been working session
Of congress ana | am satisfied that re-
suits VIII he secured" he continued
The state.
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a civil service examination will be
held by the local civil service board
In this city on Saturday. August 23rd,
1913, to fill the position of postmas
ter at Paxvillc, :. G. This is n
fourth class post office and consc-
the applicant for the position
must stand the examination.
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No. IL isn't hot enough yet II isn't
not enough for Republican senators
who continue To make n warm fight
against the tarln revision that will re-
lieve the masses from being taxed
for the benefit OF the classes. WI
mlngton Star.
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Marriage License Record.

Licenses to marry have been ISSUED
to G.. II. Bostick and Minnie Wilder
Sumter and Dan Dcnnery and Mary j
Richardson, sumter.
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PROHIBITION RALLY.
Thursday, August 11th at Opera
House at IL n. NJ

House at IL n. NJ
Hon Eugene w. Chafin, the NEST
prominent temperance advocate in
America, and a speaker of ability,
will make an address in the Opera
House on Thursday morning at IL
O'Clock, in the interest of the fight
now being waged in Sumter county
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-30

about five years ago. | met Tuan Fang,
the viceroy of Marking. great scholar.
a we'll known general. and the ruler of
more people than we have in the United
States He Travelled around the world as
one of a commission to get up the pres
ent constitution of the Chinese republic.
and in a sense was the Thomas Jefferson
of the new republic. During his travels
he stopped in Egypt and made a collec-
ton of mummies. which he brought back
with him to found, as | suppose. mu-
scum He showed me these mummies,
and also many rare archaeological objects
which he had gathered from different
parts of the Chinese empire. Some of his
finds dated back for a thousand years be-
fore Rome was founded, and he had ore
stone tablet which was written in 1.aO
Il. c. The other day Frederick McCor
mick, who is connected with the Ameri-
can-Asiatic Archaeological Society. drop
ped in upon me fresh from China. l. spoke
of Tuan Fang and asked what had be-
come of him. He replied:
His enemies have cut him shorter by
a head
Such was the fate of a man who in
many respects was like Gladstone. and
who was as much of a patriot as was
jefferson or Washington.
/ am told that Ii Hung Changs name
grows greater in China as the years go
on. A memorial tablet has been put up
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bubonic plague at San Francisco sent
him back there to remain for more than
two years
In 1910 he represented his service at tne
International Congress on Medicine and
Hygiene at Buenos Aires, later MAXIM
extensive surveys in South America and
Europe for the United States government.
Plague work called him back 10 San
Francisco to November. 1911, when n
was sent to Hawaii as special sanitary
adviser to the governor and territorial
board of health in carrying out a program
for the Improvement of sanitary condi-
tons, with view to minimizing the DOS
sibility of the introduction Of yellow fc-
yer and plague into the territory after the
opening of the Panama canal lie wa
so engaged when appointed surgeon gen
eral January II, 1872.
An active. busy career, but il seems
merely 10 have whetted his appetite fof
bigger accomplishments. Just now he has
his eye on those statistics of typhoid Nor
tality He wants to see the figures so
down ASfIMI-N BROWN.
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Not the Same.

d oBERT f. CHAMBERS, at a literary
N luncheon in Garden City. replied 10
an attack on publishers made by young
writer.
If there is a demand for an author :
book said Mr.. Chambers he VIII hhd
his publisher anxious 10 treat HIM fairly
and even generously. OF course, there
are exceptions-my friend Blanks pub
Usher. for instance, was an exception.
After a short conversation one day IN
9Th avenue. Blank. on taking leave OF
me, said:
by the way, do you remember nay
telling you that my publisher said NJ
would raise my royalties in month or
So?
Yes / replied. Hasn't he?'
mo I misunderstood him. lie meant
he'd FRY and raise the back royalties due
on the last years sales OF my book. l
haven't had a cent yet.
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arose. l doubt not he could have taken
an army and gotten possession of the
throne himself. Many thought he would
do SO. but he was content to let China be
a repuf lie. and he is now its president
and practically its dictator.
This. very briefly, is the outline of the
career of a repub lean president who is
the ruler of four or five times as many
people as Woodrow Wilson. 1t is only
the outline. His whole career has been
full of romance, and the story would
make book of surprising interest. Yuan
Shin kai was only thirty-one years old
when 1 first saw him in Korea, and he
is only about fifty-five now. He started
life as a poor boy, but like many poor
Chinese boys. was given enough schooling
to enable him to pass the examinations
and get into the army. He rose so
rapidly that he was resident general of
Korea before he reached thirty, and from
then on he has been In the thick of thi&gs
and making history.
During his stay in Korea he was dicta-
torial and insulting to the Koreans and
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his place as the strongest and most pro-
gressive man of the progressive move
ment which was then inaugurated.
was in China at the time that the en-
press dowager died, and Yuan was then
the viceroy of Chill, and was the great
est man in the empire outside the govern
ment. He had introduced modern schools
and industrial establishments. He was
recognizing the army and instituting all
sorts of reforms.
After the empress dowager's death he
had much to do with the government
under the baby emperor until the Man
chus and others who were bossing the adj
minstration concluded he was getting too
powerful, and they sent him into retire
ment On the ground that his legs were too
sore for him to perform his duties. Then
the last great revolution came on, and
Yuan again sprang to the front The
empire was shattered, and the republic
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Matches and Umbrellas.

CA y ENGLISH judge" said Justice
Ma Martin { Conway, al A banquet
in Duluth. recently decided that matches
and umbrellas were public property, and
nobody could be prosecuted FOR taking
either Of them.
There's young lady typewriter AZ
this town who wouldn't agree WITH that
English judge.
she was lunching when a man tooA
her umbrella by mistake. She held him
up sharply, and with a smiling apology,
the man returned her umbrella ana
walked cut.
This man, on his way home that
evening. stopped at an umbrella shop ahu
got six umbrellas, which had been get
ting mended On the car, afterward, as
he sat with his six umbrellas on MS zap
he noticed the young lady OF the lunch
room.
when she rose to get off the man,
amid his umbrellas, gave her an emoar-
raised look. and she said coldly as sne
passed him:
".You seem to have had good day
after all =
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The Rebuff.

wrRS. PANKHURST, discussing with
Ivl New York reporter her reception
by the government, said:
Il was, | confess. taken aback. i en-
tered the bay with my heart glowing
with the warmest sentiments, and they
shipped me off TO Ellis Island as an I'M
desirable.
Il felt like that young man who said.
bending over a beautiful young girl. pas
sionately:
Miss Observation-Disclosures is
something has been trembling on my lips
for the last three months
Yes, I've noticed IL in certain strong
lights she answered. why don't you
shave II orr"
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try where typhoid has been rife have
called on us for assistance. In such cases
we send a qualified officer to the place
to operate in cooperation with the local
authorities and he makes a careful and
detailed survey. which results in locating
the focii of the disease, and makes
recommendations to secure the elimina-
ton of the danger
'One of the first of these surveys was
that conducted at the request of the To-
cal authorities, in Yakima county, Wash.
two years ago. The influence Of this sur
vey, and the results obtained. attracted
attention throughout the country. This
led to many other communities request
ing similar aid and 1t is being extended
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country. Rigorous measures of this sort
are responsible for keeping cholera out
OF this country when, a few months ago.
1t was raging in southern Europe, whence
we receive many immigrants.
THE division of domestic quarantine
and sanitation is growing fast in mpor-
lance and value. Here is found much of
our cooperative work. Examples are:
The collection and examination of ro-
dents to prevent plague; anti-typhoid
campaigns In urban and rural districts
and sanitary surveys of international and
interstate waters in relation to the pre-
vention of the spread of typhoid fever.
Typhoid for example. is and has been
one of the great causes of mortality in
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the United States From what We term
the registration area-that is states and
localities from which reliable statistics
are obtained, covering about 6O.oO,Op
population. or. roughly, 90 per cent OF our
total pOpulation-the returns show that
the death rate from typhoid in that area
is about % per year to each 1OO,OO0 per-
sons
49,:
Here the surgeon general began to grow
emphatic and the light Of the enthusiast
flashed in his eye.
There is no reason, he went OIL, why
this rate should not be reduced to 10 IN
the 100000. A few years ago We conduct
ed studies, lasting four years, of typhoid
in the District of Columbia. This fur
nished valuable material to aid In trac-
Ing the sources of infection. Since then
many communities throughout the coun-
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kings palace for day after day while was
in Seoul, and later. when / crossed the
country on horseback and bullback, trav-
cling for several weeks through the
mountains. / met everywhere q dissatis-
fled people and was only safe because
had a special letter Of protection which
was given me by the king. This COM
mended me to the local governors. who
were instructed to further my travels in
every possible way. The rebellion in
creased later on. and by the time
reached Japan the war between China and
Japan was brewing. As a result of it
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every foreigner OF note who has come
to China within the past thirty years.
and although never outside Asia he
has good knowledge Of our civiliZa-
ton and of what the great powers are
doing III the work of the world.
Indeed. il seems 10 me that some Of the
most interesting characters of the last
generation have been Chinese. These
people are a strange mixture of barbarism
and civilization. They love their friends
and they Kill their enemies: and the man
in power has no hesitation about cutting
off the head of him who stands in his
way. During my last visit &c China,