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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19
THE CITY NURSE FUND.

The committees that are Canvasing
the city today for funds to maintain
the Civic League nurse have met
with a liberal response from a ma
jOrlty of those To whom the needs of
the cause have been presented. The
response cannot we'll hc too liberal.
for while the city nurse can hc main
tanned for minimum of 800 month,
tho sum barely provides actual opcr-
ating cXpcrs's, leaving nothing for
widening the scope Of this praisworthy
and uulitariau charity. Time and
again i'm cases rf illness and dr-titu-
uun among tho poor tho city nurse
finds herself i'm dire need OF funds 10
provide for the immediate necessities
Of thos" undcr her care, and hereto
fore she has had 90 roly ou individual
charity N Response To- personal APP
pcals. There should be- fund upon
which she can draw i'm such cases. and
now is the time to raise sufficient
money To adequately support the city
Nurse and the work she has to do.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19

factory TO me. For these reasons
would sign neither the report Of the
majority nor that of the minority,
and reserved my right upon the floor
Of the House
When the bill came on for its sec
ond reading, there were a number Of
amendments. and l was desrious OF
having these amendments read so as
to ascertain whether these would
properly modify the bill But before
this could be done. a motion was
made to strike out the enacting words
of this bill, which motion. if carried.
shuts Oft any further consideration.
DR.. Dick and / voted against this
motion as We wished to consider these
amendments. This motion, however,
carried. and that ended the matter
AS to the constitutionality of the
proposed bill, the present law pro-
vides for fine or Imprisonment of an
editor and also for the recovery Of a
hiolcy JuOSHleHl against MIN. All
this is certainly more drastic than to
require the paper to print free Of
charge a short reply.
So far as 1 am concerned, 1 do not
believe in sitting the press, bu;, on the
other hand, / have not reached that
stage of newspaper worship as to call
man a demagogue just because he
Is not in favor Of an unlicensed press.
You say you are surprised at our
action. since neither of us has ever
been attackd by a newspaper. Can
you not conceive Of men being actuat-
ed by a desire to achieve the common
good. and not always influenced by
selfish motives
1 consider your unkind editorial as
evidence OF the fact that some editors
are still mortal. and liable to err.
Very respectfully,
r. d. EPPS.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19
NIX. EPPs DEFENDS POSITION

Editor Daily Item:
Dear sir: \ recent editorial in The
Item has been called 90 my attention.
In wh,ch you think Dr. Dick and
have fallen under the evil influences
OF "DcmagOgucs. You arrive at
this conclusion on account of our
vote on the newspaper bill
This very instance shows the pro-
pricty of ALLOWING man To- have %
reply. when De ha- been placed IN a
false position rs the press. and right
which you have away granted.
In thc nrst place. neither Dr. Dick
nor 1 voted To pass the said bill.
Tho hill provided that person at
tackled or reelected upon iu a ucwspa.
per should have the right to present
his explanation or reply IN the same
paper free ot charge.
This hil Was referred to the Ju-
dietary Commtt,.. of which ! am "a
member vJs, aud .ru. iu favor of
the right OF any person 60 have a
short reply To an article rejecting up
on him. hut 1 did not favor the bill
as u stood. nor were the three amend
mcnts offered by The committee salts
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19

The foregoing communication from
Mr.. r. d. Epps, in reply to our edi-
torial criticising his vote on the Rem
bert newspaper bill, throws more
light on his position respecting the
DILL and we are glad to learn that he
was not, and Is not. an advocate Of the
original bill. We were led to believe
that he endorsed the bill and advocat-
ed Its enactment by the reports Of
legislative proceedings wherein It
was stated that Mr.. Epps argued in
favor Of the constitutionality OF the
measure. We regret that through q
misunderstanding Of Mr.. Epps' po-
sition We have done him an in
justice by attributing to him a whole
hearted support of the Rembert bill
in its original mischievious form. We,
however, do not recede from our po-
sition that the bill no matter how It
| may be amended In minor details, is
wrong in principle. dangerous and
needless. We do not stand for an un-
licensed press, an unfair, partisan or
venal press. and our twenty-five
years record as an editor is proof of
this assertion. We believe that a news
paper should have the same rights as
an individual and should be held to
the same responsibilities. We have
OhipHtinn IN Of ho
law, which Mr.. Epps declares dras-
tic. IL a lawyer, preacher or any
other person ISLANDERS or libels an
other he can be held responsible and
made to pay just penalty for his
Wrong-So can an editor-and this
il fair and just. But to require a
newspaper to place its columns at the
service Of any notoriety- seeking in
dividual who may desire to advertise
himself is neither fair. reasonable nor
constitutional, in our opinion. Mr.
Epps' conclusion that the editorial to
which he replies is proof of the need
of law along the lines Of the Rem
otil blIl may DE SOunu, put we Qlr-
fer even as to this, for when writing
the editorial we expected to print any
reply that either Mr.. Epps or DR.. Dick
might see fit to make. We have
never denied the use Of our columns
to a man whom we criticised and nev-
er expect TO do so. What we object
TO in the Rembert bill is that it
licity the sole judge Of whether or not
he has been unjustly criticised or re-
| hccted upon by a newspaper. With
such law notority-seeker could
frame up any sort Of fiimsy excuse to
get into the newspapers at the expense
| of the newspapers. for his own profit.
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Legislatures might be able to make
the necessary appropriations and
send the committeeman, since it is
for the good Of all the people that the
agricultural sources Of a State are de-
veloped. Nevertheless, the finan-
cial and commercial interests are di-
rectly concerned and they would find
it to their interest to keep up with
and take a hand in the efforts to es-
tablish sound rural credit system.
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$5 Per Horse u Year for Papcrs: 81
Per Horse Year for Books.

| Ihere Is one fact that cannot be too
strongly emphasized, and that is, that
while you want to make your neipb-
borhood a reading neighborhood, it
must be the right sort Of reading. A
semi-weekly or tri-weekly edition of
some city daily, its news columns
filled with stories of suicides and mur-
ders and scandals and railroad wrecks
and criminal trials, and it's advertising
columns filled with shameless an
nouncements of patent medicine
fakirs, whiskey distillers and quack
doctors-such a paper won't help YOU
at all. Nor will a cheap monthly,
with sensational stories and fortune
telling articles and fraudulent free"
advertisements in unlimited number
You must spend some money to get
the best local paper, the best farm
paper, the best political and church
papers, the best magazines, even if
they do cost more-the clean, whole
some, wideawake. ably-edited papers
that stand for progress, for improve
ment. and for high ideals.
In fact, in this plan to make your
neighborhood a reading neighbor-
hood, the very first idea to get rid of,
is that you must have cheap reading
matter
We never can make the South what
1t ought to be. you never can make
your neighborhood what it ought to
be, until the farmers get rid Of this
idea that their minds are not tn
feeding. A man has got to believe In
himself more than that, must have
more respect for himself, more re-
spect for his brain and his mind, be-
fore he can amount to anything. He
must believe that his own mind and
his children's minds deserve the best
intellectual food he can find-and
plenty Ct it. He wouldn't let his chill
dren go with two meals a day when
they need three. Why, then, should he
compel them to get along with only
an occasional monthly or semi-month-
ly feast of intellectual food instead of
seeing to it that the best papers to
be had come to his home every week
No hard and fast rule can be laid
down. but a reasonable minimum can
be fixed, and we would say that no
man is doing right by himself or his
family if he spends less than $40
year for papers, magazines and books
for each horse he works--say SIS for
papers and IS for books for the one
horse farm; $40 for papers and $40
for books for the two-horse farmer,
etc.
Five dollars a year per horse for
papers; IS a year per horse for books
provided the right sort Of papers
and books were selected-would soon
revolutionize the South and go far
to dispel the ignorance that the in
efficiency of our schools has cursed
us with. No man who is not poor en-
ough to starve his body is poor en-
ough to starve his mind.-The Pro-
Gressive Farmer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19

The final developments In the in
vestigation of the charges against
President Mitchell. Of the University
OF South Carolina, respecting the dis
tribution OF the Peabody fund-said
charges having been made by Gov.
Blease, who cited President Johnson
Of winthrop College as his authority
leave n decidedly bad impression.
The conclusion finds the two learned
educators making faces at each 9TH
er and calling Names rather un-
dignihed performance. We are still
Of the opinion that DIR. Mitchell was
untustly attacked, that the charges
were unfounded and that jealousy or
malice inspired them. the testimony OF
Dr. Rose and others having complete
~ vindicated him; but when he ap-
peared before the committee and. in
stead Of cCafining himself strictly to
the facts, branched Off into personal
criticism Of DR.. Johnson he weakened
his case and descended to the same
level as his accusers. IL is a sorry
spectacle for the heads Of two of the
States colleges to be engaged In what
IN nothing more nor less than vulgar
brawl. despite the elegant. chaste
and precise language used In express
ing their opinion OF each other. DR..
johnson has gained no credit and has
added nothing to his reputation by his
conduct and attitude throughout the
investigation. nothing being said con-
eerning his anticedent connection with
the attack on DR.. Mitchell, Il not be-
Ing clear in our mind whether he
used Gov. Blease as a tool i'm this mat
ter or was used by Gov. Blease. On
the other hand Dr. Mitchell displayed
lack OF judgment and dignity when
he expressed opinions and uttered
caustic criticisms OF DR.. Johnson in
his testimony before the committee.
But for this stupid blunder DR.. Mitch
ell would have come out OF this in
Vestigation with fiyins colors. to the
confusion and undoing OF his enc
mics and detractors. AS 1t is the
whole thing winds up with a jawing
match between DR.. Mitchell and DR..
johnson.
A member of the House Of Repre-
sentatiyes moved to appropriate ST.
100 20 pay Architect a. w. Todd for
the plaster model of that unlucky
child OF his imagination-the one
million dollar state House Wonder
what the member expected to do
with the model
The Legislature is nearing adjourn
mcnt and not "A single thing has been
done towards the enactment Of a
school law adapted to the needs of
the time. The report of the commits
sion n school law is still in the
pige ou-hole where it was placed two
years Jgo when the Legislature got
weaa..u-cG Oh &c subject.
Another measure that was ex-
eeedingly popular among the cam
paigners last SUMMERTIME TOrrens
system Of land registration-has been
forgotten.
The Corn Show IL over. now for the
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19
Whatever You Do!

Remember to read the ad Of D. c..
The Ford"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.

FOR SALE-One carriage, road cart
and set of harness; all in excel
lent condition. Cheap for cash. J.
Edwin Brunson, 304 S Sumter ST
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SUMTER COTTON MARKET.

Corrected daily by Ernest Field. Cot
ton Buyer.
Sumter, Feb. II.
Good Middling IL 3-8.
Strict MiddIing IL IA.
Middling IL Is.
st. Low Middling IL ga.
Low Middling II Is.
Staple cotton, nominal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19

FOR SALE-Eggs from thorough
bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, 81
for sitting of Is eggs. A. P. Vim
son, Sumter, s. c., r. F. ID. 4.
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"ANTED-The following hard wood
IN any quantity: oak ash, hickory,
maple, locust, walnut, holly. write<
me what you have and price perN
cord or thousand f. o. b. Sumter.
u. China
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Advertisements:

Advertisements:
One Square first Insertion. ....Sl.00
Every subsequent Insertion. =. so
Contracts for three months. or
longer will De made at reduced rates.
All communications which sub
ssrvs private interests will oe charged
Ger ~ Advertisements.
Obituaries and tributes Of respect
win be charged for.
The Sumter watchuan was found
"a In 1850 and the True southron In
,ses. The watchman and southron
now has The combined circulation and
influence CT both OF the old papers.
and Is manifestiy the best advertising
medium In Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19

hoSI-Red and white spotted OK,
strayed Wednesday night from my
nome near DalzeN. Reward for
return. Murray Sammons,
Dalzell, S. G.
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Another measure that was ex-
seedingly popular among the cam
paigneTs last SUMMERTIME Torrens
system Of land registration-has been
forgotten.
The Corn Show IL over now for the
corn and tomato clubs
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-19

A member of the House Of Repre-
100 90 pay Architect a. w. Todd for
the plaster model of that unlucky
child Of his imagination-the one
million dollar state House Wonder
what the member expected TO do
with the model.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
.ELKS ELECT OFFICERS
A. N. RUcKER OF ASPEN, 10 TIE
NEW PRESIDENT.
WaIsenburs Convention Considered
Most Successful Ever Held BY
Colorado Elks.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Walsenburg, Colo.-With the sky a
blaze of fire. Walsenburg officially
ended three days of the most hilarious
fun in her history. The Elks conven-
ton was at an end. The convention
is considered by many the most sue
cessful ever held by the Elks in Colo
rado
The official automobile Of the Elks
dump cart from one of the mines,
was continually in use by them and
their ladies'
The official contest began with
first aid teats at the amusement park
and ended with the street parade.
The cup was awarded to the team
from Chandler. The street parade,
headed by hundred Walsenburg
Elks in suits o. purple and white, was
led by Sheriff Farr. The Walsenburg
Lodge swung the famous Division
of Denver. They tangoed, two-stepped,
turkey-trotted the entire line of
march. Back OF No. 2 came the fa-
nous Elks drill team, which went
through many of the most intricate
CNOiuliOlo. luey were lu6 u1OSC spec
tacular team in the parade. La Junta
lodge, in wagon trimmed in white
threw thousands of cantaloups to the
cheering crowd, as the procession
passed. The election of officers was
without contest and resulted: A.
N. Rucker, Aspen, president; Geo. NC
Clellan, Idaho Springs, first vice presi-
dent; L. Rachofsky, Central City, sec
ond vice president; r. Saunders, Fort
Morgan, third vice president; George
johnson, Longmont, secretary; Chas.
Hoeckel, Denver, treasurer; Executive
committee, N. H. Andrews, La Junta;
David Roberts, Fort Collins.
No meeting place was chosen for
next year. It was the opinion that the
state association would meet next
year with the national meeting to be
held in Denver.
One of the pleasing events of the
session was the marriage of Miss Amy
Harris, daughter of Fred Harris of
Denver, to Earl Chappell Of Greeley.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
WASHINGTON.

Free raw wool was agreed to in the
Senate without rollcall
Secretary Bryan ordered American
Consul Pelcner at Chihuahua to in
vestigate the reported killing by fed
erals of Edward Hayes, an American.
and an unnamed negro.
Martin M. Mulhall testified to the
House lobby committee that Repre-.
sentative McDermott of Illinois told
him he had received $4,000 from brew.
cry interests during the 1912 campaign
for something that was to be done
here"
An inspection system for foreign
meat imports more rigid than that IN
the administration tariff bill was pro-
posed in an amendment introduced
and urged by Senator Cummins and
the free meat section went over with.
out action.
Herbert e. Miles of Racine, Wis,
testified to the Senate lobby commit
tee that, acting for the Tariff Commits.
sion Association, he employed former
Representative James Il. Watson at
salary of $3.50 a week to work for
tariff board bill in Congress in 1909.
Mexican officials having asked
more time to consider the peace pro
posals made by the United States
President Wilson announced that he
would not read his message on Mexi-
can conditions on Tuesday, but prob.
ably would do SO on Wednesday.
Pat Grove, kidnaper of Jack Cud.
ahy. was positively identified in the
government hospital for the insane.
where he was sent after being sen.
fenced to thirty days as vagrant for
bathing in park fountain. The po.
lice doubted his sanity because he said
he was Grove.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
FOREIGN.

The first International congress OF
the deaf was held at Ghent, Belgium.
All the proceedings were conducted
in the sign language.
1t is understood that King Alfonsos
gift in connection with the marriage
of ex-King Manuel and Princess Au-
gustine Victoria of Hohenzollern will
be engraved Manuel, King of Portu-
GAL"
The cruiser Des Moines, which is in
Venezuelan waters to protect Ameri-
can interests, is steaming toward
Core, town in the State of Falcon,
recently recaptured by government
troops.
The distinction of being the first
blind man to make al aeroplane flight
in this country has fallen to Frank
Knipe, lecturer, sixty-five years old,
who went up as a passenger in bi-
plane at Hendan, near London.
Two automobile bandits visited the
Communal Savings bank at Wilhelms-
burg, a suburb of Hamburg, Germany,
murdered the cashier and escaped
with satchel full of bank notes and
several thousand dollars in currency.
Revolver shots were fired by ban
dts at King Charles and Queen Eliza
beth Carmen Sylva) Of Rumania as
they were riding in an automobile
near Sinaia fashionable health re.
sort in Rumania in the Carpathian
mountains.
The great Paris-Deauville hydro
aeroplane race at Paris was marred
by double fatality. The Comte de
Montalent and his mechanic, Metivier.
falling from great height were in
stantly killed at Rouen in full view
Of an enormous crowd.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
GEN ERAI.

That FRITZ Scheff. grand and comic
opera star, is now the bride of George
Anderson, her financial manager, was
the gossip which drifted up to Broad
way from Sea-Bright, N. J.
Governor Edward F. Dunno of ILL
nois was the only executive who ad-
hered to his original schedule and
nors' day celebration in connection
with the dedication of the $27 900, 900
dam
Six members of one family were
killed and three badly hurt, when an
automobile in which they were riding
train on the Chicago, indianapolis and
Louisville railroad, one mile north of
st. Johns, Ind
The indictment of Charles F.. Muir
ply, leader of Tammany hall, Aaron
j. Levy. leader of the Democratic ma
jority in the Assembly. and James
Frawley, chairman of the committee
which investigated Governor Sulzer's
campaign contributions, has been re-
quested of the district attorneys of
New York and Albany counties by
Lynn j, Arnold Of Albany, an ardent
Sulzer supporter.
1t costs Franklin X. Lane, secretary
of the interior, $4,000 n year to main
tain home as a cabinet officer, and
$4,000 a year for ice cream and pink
teas" according to statement he
made to friends at Portland, while dis
cussing the high cost of living for
government officials in Washington
This dissipates his entire salary OF
$4,000 year and he has nothing re-
naming except the glory.
Mayor Gaynor's determinations to
run for reelection as an Independent
guarantees one of the liveliest munich
pal campaigns New York has seen in
several years. There will be three
tickets in the field-Democratic, fu-
sion and Gaynor.
The estate of the late William II.
Lee. head of the publishing firm OF
Laird & Lee. who lived In Chicago
as n white man. and died apparently
without heirs, was claimed in the Pro-
bate Court by Mrs. Lucinda Anderson,
n negress, Of Benton Harbor, Mich,
ne his wifc.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
Union Official Proclaim. Authority.

Trinidad.-Frank J. Hayes, vice
president OF the United Mine Workers
of America, who says he is vested
with authority to call a walk-out of
the 5000 miners in Southern Colorado,
issued signed statement in which he
repudiated published reports con-
corning the move that has been on
foot to bring about a settlement of the
controversy by what has been known
as an open shop" compromise Hayes
declared that he alone Is spokesman
for the mine workers at this time and
that no other members of the union
are authorized to speak. He was par
ticularly 'ncensed at an article in
which the inference was made that
John R. Lawson of Denver, MEM
ber of the national executive commit
tee, had encouraged the belief that the
miners would yield If certain points
were granted by the operators.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
SPORT.

DR.. Piacenza, an Italian explorer.
has succeeded in reaching the sum-
init of Mount Numzkum, a peak $4,000
feet high in the Himalayas.
A duel in which Irene Beau won
over Charley R., in the 2:30 pace
proved the feature OF the opening day
Of the Great Western circuit races at
Des Moines.
Mountain Country club defeated the
Denver Country club ten goals to
sA and in the second contest the
Denver Prairie Dogs won from the
Sheridan Polo ranch team to g.
Steve Ketchel's next fight will be
with Eddie Johnson. the fighting
Dane" of Denver. The boys are sched-
uled to meet in Pueblo Sept. Is over
distance Of twenty rounds and are
to weigh in at 1873 pounds.
Fifteen out of sixteen women who
entered a two-mile swimming contest
for their sex only, in the Mississippi
river, finished in fine condition at st.
Louis. The sole gutter left the water
at the three-quarter mark. Miss Ber-
nince Wirfs, of Webster Groves, SUI
burb, won the race.
Henry Webb, of Wheatland, was de-
clared champion broncho buster of the
world at Cheyenne Frontier Days
celebration and Hugh Stemler of La
Grange was crowned as the champion
roper of the world. These two honors,
most coveted of all that were striven
for, went to Wyoming boys.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
I Killed, 2 Injured, In Auto Plunge.

Glenwood Springs.-One man is
dead and two are injured as the result
of an automobile running backwards
and plunging down a 100-foot grade
to the tracks of the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad at a point five miles
west of this city. The dead man is A.
A. Galloway contractor and builder OF
Rifle. The injured are Rolla Clark
and Mayor F. w. Kendall of Rifle, the
latter owner of the car.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
Ridsley Wilson's wife Gets Divorce.

Littleton. = Mrs. Virginia Wilson,
wife of Ridgley Wilson, whose former
wife was murdered in Denver in 1910
by Japanese housecleaner named
Mitasunga, was granted decree of
divorce, alleging cruelty, by Judge
Ashbaugh.