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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-04-16
EFFTCIENY RATINGS.
Trial System OF Grading Clerks I'm
Classified Position Will be Institut.
ed Soon.

Washington. April IA trial sys-
tenn of efficiency ratings for $4,000 OF
more clerks in the department SER
vice in Washington and the many
thousands scattered through the
United States is to be instituted by the
civil service commission. Such eff
cheney ratings were provided for by
the last congress in the legislative bill
with the proviso that they were to
serve as a basis for promotion and de-
motion OF all employees.
The institution OF this trial system.
coming as 1t does on the heels of a
proposal to lengthen the working
hours an hour a day. Is regarded by
the host Of civil service workers. as
significant.
The first trial system was worked
out for the treasury department and
now Is in operation there. 1t was in
stituted by executive order secured by
Secretary Macveagh just before his
retirement
The trial system soon will be eX-
tended to several other divisions OF
the treasury department and a num-
Der of offices in the postoffice depart
ment.
A division to care for this new work
has been created IN tho civil sor1,ico
commission. This division is to be
known as the division OF efficiency and
is to handle and work out the gen.
eral efficiency scheme, which prob
ably soon will be inaugurated.
The entire question Is being pre-
pared for submission for the consid
Grafton of President Wilson at an
early date.
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no DISCUSS BURLESON PLAN.
Wilson and Cabinet Officer Will Con.
fer on Scheme for Wedding on;
POstmasters.

Washington, April 10.-President
Wilson will discuss with Postmaster
General Burleson the latter's plan fol
dealing with fourth class postmasters
placed in the classified service b.,
executive orders of the Taft and
Roosevelt administrations.
Mr.. Burlcson has been trying to
work out a scheme for examination
o determine the efficiency Of the
postmasters and the president also has
been studying the subject for some
time. A decision may be reached to-
morrow as to the policy to be pursued.
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n Champ Clark RctOrt.
Pearsop's Weekly.

Pearsops Weekly.
Champ Clark has a happy knack
OF being able To parry inconvenicnt
Interruptions with some smart returt
that Immediately squashes the oppo-
stion. He was speaking at a rather
noisy meeting not long ago. and after
a short time big chunk OF wood was
thrown at him. Fortunately the aim
was bad, and it fell harmlcssly on the
platform.
Mr.. Clark picked II up and showed
it Ia the audience.
GOOD heavcns," he exclaimed in
tones Of mock anxiety. "Onc Of our OPP
ponents has lost his head"
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floating gang 1850
2S5l-A l. Grooms, extra la
Dor ser. gang 5.65
2855-J Y Brown, cutting out
trees 200
2S56-J T Hodge, 5,155 TT.
lumber 103. 10
2S5S--M L Hodge, 6S3 #.
lumber IL. 66
2S59-N ID Tisdale, labor and
hauling 2 90
2S6O-J T Keels, labor on rd A 90
2S64-Sim Davis, labor and,
lumber 26
2S65-W Thompson, labor
on road and bridge 1850
2S67-Booth-H Hardy Live S.
Company, cement 500
2S72-A ] Jones, dragging
road 3 1-2 days 1850
2S7S-A Jones, 4,127 feet
bridge lumber 92.S6
2SS4-DuRant Hardware Co,
nails, axle grease, etc .93
29O1-R l. Richardson, labor
and hauling 100
29O2-Newton Muldrow, put
ting down pipe 1.25
2909-M H Beck, dragging
roads 15.5
2916-Dr F. VI Dwight, bal
due on McRae's bridge 4O.19
2919-J II Holland, 232 hrs
floating gang 1920
292O-Sam Green, work on
bridges 1.75
2927-Austin Bros, road
grader repairs 34.45
2932-W r + DuBose, ditch
ing, labor and lumber 2.22
2976-Mittie Moses, 173 1-2
yds ditching 147.72
2977-Wm Horn, cutting out
tree .75
297S--J Fl Holland, 224 hrs
floating gang 22.4O
29S2-T S Weldon, hauling
ibr and putting down
bridge go
29S7-Mittie Moses, work on
ROAD $40
2992-W Y Pitts, dragging
!995-W S HUDSON, work Oh
1906 P Josey, / team, 3
men 1-2 days 11.5O
!997-Benj House, 1 tenn, 2
men 2 1-2 days 1000
299S-J H Holland, 231 hrs
floating gang 23.1O
2999-J ID Norris, work on
road 2.2O
}000-B F Hatfield, labor
and hauling $50
}0O1-Flanders Swinton,
cutting out 3 trees 100.
;OO2-P NJ Pitts, frt on pipe
to DalZell 3.69|
'005-A G Brown, 6 loads of
straw 800
}042-A T Haynsworth, Is
his dragging road $50
'O44-J II Holland, 1S0 hrs
floating gang 1900
}O45-A l. Grooms, SO hrs
service gang $500
}050-H Fl Wrinkles, labor
and hauling $50
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small poX
$5O21I
Road Improvement

Road Improvement.
March 1-31, 1913:
2S50-Shed Chism, grading
and ditching 61.69
2S54-Shed Chism, grading
and ditching $3.50
2S71-W A Weathers, plas-
ter work, Dingles Mill
bridge 23.2O
2917-Shed Chism, grading
and ditching 12O.82
2925-Birmingham Metal p
Co, % pcs culvert 64.9O
2926-Chattanooga S Pine
Co, C-L pipe 77.3S
2979-TOm Holmes, 1872 yds
ditching IL 26
29S3-Shed Chism, grading
and ditching 13O. 70
2993-Shed Chism, grading
and ditching 1862
3OO4-W l. Brunson, 372 yds
ditching 1898
}0O6-Shed Chism, grading
and ditching 6O.39
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The Palmetto Limited. the Atlantic
Coast Lines fast through passenger
train between New York and Auguta
has been discontinued, the order to
this effect becoming effective last sun
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$277.Oi

s277.Oi
Chain Gang.
March 1-31, 1913:
2S52-D w Owens. transnor-
tation prisoners go
2S67-BOoth-Harby T. S Co,
mule and collar 262. SO
2S70-Dr P ] O'Neill, medi-
cal attention 5.25
2S79-Ryttenburg and Co.
groceries, Feb 72.24
2S81-Sumter Gro Co, gro
ser gang 1887
2SS2-W II Yates, gro ser
gang 61a
2SS3-Sumter Hos Co,
board and nursing con-
vict "a On
2SS5-Moses Green, gro Jan
and Feb $3.50
2SS7-W B Boyle, &c bus
corn 22.63
28S9-ODonnell and Co.
groceries 37.31
2S97-D Chandler Clio Co,
clothing released convict 2.aO
2S9S-Sumter Dry G Co,
shoes released convict $50
29OO-John II Moses, medi-
cal attention to mules 12.25
29O3-Buitman Bros, 80 prs
shoes 5000
29GS-Carolina Gro Co, bx
soap 400
2905-W B Burns and son,
names $50
29O6-J j Whilden, repairs
to machinery, etc 1926
29O7-W T Hall, repairs to
machinery, etc 1913
291O-Sumter Hdw Co, hdw
supplies, Dec, Jan, Feb 26.36
2911-Burns Hdw Co,
wrenches, etc $50
2912-King- Blanding L S Co
diff in wagon 42.5O
2924--City. Of Sumter, con-
vict labor, Feb 40
2974-Ferd Levi, SO 1-3 bus
corn 49.57
29SO-D o Brunson, food
sick convict, etc 2.S5
2985-T S Watts, 5 bu corn 4.75
298S-Ferd Levi, "a bu corn 51.3S
29S9-Jas T Brogdon, 80 bu
corn 5000
299O-A B Stuckey, 1887 lbs
hay 1888
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Public Buildings.

UUIIC DUIIUIHSS.
March 1-31, 1913:
2849-Wm Johnson, 10 hrs
work c H grounds 100
2863-R II Jennings, ins pre-
F policy, No 16S, CHI 3S7.12
2S92-A J Ard, plumbing at
Court House 800
2S99-Sumter Lighting Co,
lights c II 33.SO
29S6-T NJ Bradley Co, in
stalling lights at c II 100 90
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Jail.
2S52-D w Owens, white
washing at Jail $50
2S67-Booth-Harby Live S.
Co, lime 1.25
2S7O-Dr P ] O'Neill, medi-
cal attention $50
2S77-J K Bradford, dieting
prisoners 1910
2S99-Sumter Lighting Co,
lights $50
2911-Burns Hardware Co,
broomS 80
2915-Geo II Hurst, mattress 200
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Salaries.


March 1-31, 1913:
!994-W A James, I'd guard
chain gang 40. 90
;O07-R E Wilder, Co audi
tor 44.45
i00S&R c. Wallace, Coounty
treasurer A. AS
|009-H l. Scarborough, c
c p, 1st quar- 100 90
3O10-J X Bradford, Coun-
ty sheriff 1873 33
3011--S F Flowers, county
coroner 41.67
3O12-J H Haynsworth, Co
Supt Ed 1888
}013-P NJ Pitts, Co supvr 1888
:0l4-R l. Mcleod, clerk Co
commissioners 90. 90
;015-F l. Player, magistrate
1st dist 1880
}O16-Geo T DesChamps,
magistrate Ind dist 1926
}017-H l. B Wells, magis-
tratc 3rd dist 52.OS
}01S-J A Hodge, magistrate
4th dist u. so
3019-W Rees, magistrate
5th district 1888
3020-R l. Burkett, magis-
trate 9th dist 2S.16
}O21-J l. G.Nis, magistrate
7th dist 1850
5O22-M d Weaver, coonst
1st dist S.34
3023-J II Hinson, const I'd
district S.34
2O2S-W Dinkins, const Sd
district 25. 90
3025-J F Hodge, const 4th
district 1913
3026-J Geddings, const
5th district 1857
3027-H B Booykin, const
9Th district 1857
302S-E p Brown, const 7th
district S.34
3029-D B Brunson, supt G.
Gang 1900
5000 II Holland, supt ntg
gang 5000
3031-H o Bradham, 1st cd
chain gang 800
}O32-A l. Grooms, supt ser
gang 1000
3033-Sam Newman, rural
policeman 1888
3O34-Alex Norris, rural po-
liceman $3.50
3035-W e Mcbride, rural
policeman S3.33
3036-L ID Jennings, Co Atty
Jan and Mar $500
3037-H G Osteen, member
CO Board Edu 1900
3O3S-S II Edmunds. men,
ber Co Board Edu 1900
3039-- Jas Mickens, janitOr
Court House $500
3043-H S. Nesbitt, supt ser
gand No . 1000
3O1I-J w BrunsOn, member
board tax assessors 400
304S-IiOward Jones. men,
Der board tax assessors 400
30i9-G w Mahoney. mem
ber board tax assessors 100
3Ojl-Joohn | Brogdon, Co
comsr, lst quarter 33 90
3052-rW J Young, Co comr
1st quarter $3.50
305%-E r Minis, Co comr
lst quarter $40
$l,746. 81
Aims House.
March 1-3l. 1913:
2SG2-B ID Watchell, dieting
and care Of inmates 2O9. 90
2S70-Dr = j O'Neal, medi-
cal attention 12.2I
2SS3-Sumter Hos Co. board
r and nursing pauper G Ol
! 2SSG-DcLorme' Pharmacy
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drugs (speciaD 40
28S9-O'Donnell and CO,
groceries, Jan 39.69
2S9S-Sumter ID G. CO, cloth
ing pauper 3.O0
z9la-Geo II Hurst, coffin 6 80
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-10
RAGEN TELLS HIS SIDE OF THE SCRAP WITH
LADY" MCCORMICK TO DAY BOOK REPORTER


The political career of County
Commissioner Frank Ragen has been
indeed stormy one. Reared in the
turbulent district Back o. the
Yards" where might makes right, he
has risen to a position in which he
courts the hatred of the trust news
papers-and apparently enjoys it.
The aggressive Ragen right now is
the object of much public interest.
He has whipped two men in rapid
succession. He has denounced Presi-
dent A. A. Mccormick of the county
board in way that no other county
head, not even Bartzen, has been at
tackled before him.
Saturday afternoon he struck and
knocked down County Investigator
Wieckowski in the County Hospital.
For this he was later arrested. Mon
day afternoon he hurled book at
County Commissioner Coonley's
head. And his aim was good.
=. The Mccormick faction accused
Ragen of sending sick people to
county institutions who are well able
to pay Tor private care.
Are you really foolish enough to
imagine any sick person with money
to pay for attendance would go out
to that place. shouted Ragen In an
swer. why man, if / had the money
I'd pay to keep everybody out Of
there"
!. Ragen was stfll in a fighting mood
when interviewed by a reporter for
The Day Book today.
"The Republican machine Is trying
to discredit me merely for the sake
of politics." was his accusation.
Lady Mccormick believes he can
hoodwink the people into thinking
I'm in combination with Bartzen
and the Hearst people. He knows
this isn't true, On the contrary, he
knows the relations between Bartzen
and during the last administration.
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ployed by him.
wonderfully business-like, he
scoffed, "and the poor sick dying by
the hundreds. A sacrifice of human
lives so that one man might build
a political career.
1.-THE newspapers have always been
opposed to me. 1t wasn't to be ex-
pected that they would print my side
of the argument with Wieckowski.
Saturday afternoon / went out to
the County Hospital with some of the
other commissioners. 7 wanted to
find out why Wieckowski, who is
down on the payroll as an investi-
gator, has been stationed at the door
of the County Hospital for the last
month just to turn out sick people
to whom / had given cards.
This is practiced on every Demo-
cratic commissioner and the story
sent out that they're trying to sneak
rich people in at the county's ex-
pense. Il asked Wieckowsh about
this. We argued.
Suddenly he called me a name, at
which I'll always fight. sprang for
ward and knocked him down. would
do it again under similar circum-
stances,
my story will be proven when the
trial comes up. There are an awful
lot Of poor people out my way and
when they go under and are sick /
always make every effort to get them
in the hospital It's cheap trick to
make them suffer because McCor-
mick is playing politics.
Il know what it is to be poor
he said. up until ten years ago,
worked in the stockyards for ,$1.75.
And ! was awfully lucky to get three
meals all in the same day. Can you
blame me for sticking to the poor"
The county board meets again to-
day. Ragen wouldn't announce
or not he would continue
HE oIir1ninaf finn oama
Evening star., 1913-12-07

Some We're not so beautiful when young
er Look at this one, and this. Here is
a woman with an almost insignificant
nose, and her eyes Were never much until
she had them tattooed where actresses
pencil. Here is one with not a perfect
feature. yet her physique. temperament.
wit and tact are delightful. And this
other without the noble spirit breathing
through her look, would she not be al
most plain? Do not despise nobility.
shall have chapter on nobility of look
and sentiment.
She spoke truly of the photographs. All
looked charming. When woman like
This gives away her sisters it is edifying.
She showed me how woman fought
for years against double chin and con-
auered; how another began very slender,
how another has learned to diSSimulate
d trumpet nose.
Stop" j exclaimed. You will make
me think that all young women are full
OF defects
They are she said. What is time
given us for but to improve ourselves?
Scatter the photographs and look again
You will find them beauties again. They
are radiant They are women OF forty"
1t was 50. There were flashes of costa
sy CLEANS of delight, lips parted in mys-
terry There We're coy faces. faces that
asked battling questions, confidential faces,
high, coura aSeouS faces faces that breath
ed sweet reverie.
..Al kinds of faces. except wooden
twenty year-old faces laughed the subtle
forty-oner. "A Paris photographer has
given me a partial reason why their faces
are loveier at forty. 1t is because they
have been photographed so much
1.-The effort 70 resemble ones best pic
ture?' / mused.
Yes. he claims a particular influence
Of self-suggestion. We come to resemble
our best photographs by degrees. uncon-
sciously, when such photographs follow
each other in a long series"
Living up to last weeks photograph
makes next sweek's photograph still
handsomer?" l said. A hundred photo
graphs complete the cure?'
He was a photographer. of course,
and gave the entire credit to his art
she said. think the secret is encour-
asement. How often we have seen plain
women bloom out We women guess the
secret cause.-the transfigured one is
Evening star., 1913-12-07

times a show window is used, and then
the women merely sit still and let the
cards make the speech.
Often the cards run in sequence. telling
the suffrage history of a state, etc. 1t is
planned to introduce the voiceless speech
TO the National Capital during the com
ing convention.
Next to knowing how to speak for
suffrage the most important thing is
knowing how to raise money for it, con
tinued Mrs Dorr. Women used to raise
money in small ways, like holding cake
sales and oyster suppers. Nowadays the
busy suffragist goes after money on Il
more ambitious scale.
The new suffrage worker is often
puzzled to know how to answer ques-
tions concerning suffrage. and how to
reply to objections often really plausi-
BILE on the surface For example it is
often asked: What is the connection
between women's wages and the bal
lot? Mems vote hasn't done very much
for them in the way of increasing their
incomes. How can it affect Women's in
dustrial status?'
Constance Leupp. who will lecture on
The Relation of the Suffrage to the In
dustrial Position of Women is grad
uate of the New York School of Philan-
thropy and Social Service. and is at
present one of the editors of the Survey.
Miss Leupp knows conditions of labor.
she knows the life of working women
and she knows the entire woman move
ment. She believes that organization Of
workers and votes for women is the
answer to the working girls problem.
x X
II think that Miss Leupp's lecture will
do more than anything else to illustrate
the perfect democracy of suffrage and of
the suffragists. Not only does the move
ment reach women in every walk of life.
a.
other women. and it inspires them to
work together for the common good of
women. Women will vote together to
get decent factory conditions, minimum
wage laws. motherhood pensions and
other protective measures.
.'Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of the
Woman'S Journal, the oldest and best
suffrage newspaper in the world, will tell
the History of the Movement-Results OF
Suffrage in Half a Dozen Countries will
be ably presented. Suffrage as II Af-
fects Social Purity will be treated by
Miss Lavinia Dock of the nurses settle
ment, New York. and Miss Alice Paul
will explain the latest phase of the move
ment. the proposed eighteenth amend
ment to the Constitution, giving the won-
en- of the nation the vote. / haven't
said a word about the splendid contri-
buttons of the man speakers They tell
be invaluable. In fact, looking down the
ioHS iisI OF elgnty-IOur lectures, l can't
see how anybody can afford to miss a
single one
With plan of eightyfour lectures un-
der process of completion 1t is only pos
sible at this date to get in touch with
few of the most prominent of the in
structorS, they are widely scattered
over the length and breadth of the
United States
Highly important to the untutored suf-
frage recruit is the lecture of Mrs.
Frances Maule Bjorkman. the executive
secretary of the literature committee Of
the National Suffrage Association.
Il shall first acquaint the students
Evening star., 1913-12-07

happy. She has been encouraged
''Oh, well. then" / said.
Beauty is habit!' She exclaimed.
1T is the habit of those who have started
encouraged. Let the woman OF forty
merely conceal her age, and the trick is
half won. l know OF nothing go elo-
quent of her superior loveliness."
Il do not understand" / said
Let her arrive unknown in commu-
nifty and confess thirty-one years The
other women will give her thirty-six. on
principle. and all the men, suspicious OF
their women's frankness in such mat
ters, will be sure that she is a woman
of possibly thirty-four, grand maximum,
or unusual tact, poise and all kinds OF
graces of unknown but obviously SUI
periOr surroundings"
The rays of the descending sun gilded
the mauve drawing room OF the Partisan
palace with unearthly glory.
May see few pages of the book?'
1 insinuated.
She did not answer.
Il accuse not only the young girls
green acidity OF body. temperament and
mind" she said. In northern lands
the sleeping parts may get the sand OUT
of their eyes by twenty-five, but. even
then. years pass In looking round ami
wondering what this world may mean.
So, at thirty, the average young woman,
loaded down with natural arrogance and
ideas that have been imposed upon her.
tranquil'iZes a growing disqu!et hy re-
peating 10 herself: ! am a young thing
L TO tllEIy-INt tne SdllSidcIlOnG
ruling may have been her chief profit
Now she wakes completely TO the puls-
ing life of things. knows herself. and
dismayed by sense of loss-plunges avid
ly, or else"
Or else, discouraged. sinks back
murmuring: i am an old thinsr
completed the sentence.
That's it," she nodded her beautiful
head. mournfully. "I want my sisters to
avoid both extremes. / want them 70
be happy with their husbands. If the
woman of forty gets panic-stricken she
enters the terrible quarantine indeed.
They may be the terrible forties or the
splendid fortes' as she makes them, as
the world permits her, she dominates
it,"
Again she looked up and nodded sagely-
'.Al that will be in the book she
said, "and more.
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1913-12-07

ana rose water D. Sem ana photograph
ed in the papers. She is an heiress, d
beauty, glory OF America, married To
a grand old title. leader OF society in
three capitals and forty-one years old
Before she IS ffty-one she will astonish
the universe.
II arm writing q book she told me. =,
book that has never been written. IL will
be book for women of forty and young
things on the way TO forty. / do not
know how / win arrange. but no man
must ever see that book.
You cannot enforce such a condition,
L said.
II can keep il from the general male
public" she replied. IF men learn these
things. half their good effect VIII be de-
stroyed- Perhaps / shall issue the book
in numerous small parts Each feminine
purchaser must return part one before
receiving part two. and part eight be
fore receiving part nine, and SO on; and
with each return she must sign an oath
that no man has seen II. Money is no
object TO me. I will refund them the
price az the end. / want TO do good
Evening star., 1913-12-07

reproduce such perfect anatomy in mar
Die Four weeks later, in verifying the
measurements before an incredulous con-
Irere, he was astonished to discover that
not single one concorded; the academi-
cally perfect anatomy was larger all
along the line
Even so, women of forty rule Paris.
This really beautiful woman collects por-
trait photographs of the American colony
and others Scattering a package of them
on the table. she called them off for me-
/ was surprised.
who thinks Of their ages?" she said
Evening star., 1913-12-07

with what can now be had in the way of
suffrage literature" said she, furnish
ing them all with copies of the catalogues
and showing them specimens of the yari
Gus types of propaganda material. We
publish several different classes First
We have the very cheap class which We
call flyers, printed in various catchy
and sensational styles. We have one set
printed in the primary colors which we
call the rainbow SERIES second set
with only very few and brief remarks
on each. but illustrated with large pic
lures. A third contains various patriotic
sentiments interpreted In terms of votes
for women, and bordered with red, white
and blue. All these are chiefly designed
for use at outdoor meetings for free dis
tribution.
THE second class is composed of leaf
let's printed in a dignified style on good
quality of white paper, designed chiefly
to distribute free at indoor meetings for
the people to read while they are wait
ing for the meeting to begin, to inclose
in letters, etc. In this class practically
every phase of the suffrage question is
covered in separate leaflets so that we
are usually able to answer any question
put to US simply by handing out one of
this series
THE fourth class are the cheap book
with rather pretty colored covers in
order TO induce people to buy them at
meetings. We try to have these by we'll
known people. as the most unlikely peo-
pie will read suffrage booklet-even buy
Evening star., 1913-12-07

Neptune summing on golden sands. have
always been reproached for doing chic
because they willfully age their models
To attain the acme of beauty they en-
large rotundities exaggerate curves, tend
toward the corset waist and arrive at an
unearthly charm by giving the nymph of
eighteen outlines that she ought not to
have for fifteen years yet. What is this
but glorifyng the beauty of forty?"
Also" | said. they must pretend their
nymphs are eighteen
She laughed. I'm times past plump
ness may have been a danger to the laxy
and self-indulgent, even at eighteen. but