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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
Codue!in's Memory.

"How many parts do you know we'll
enough to play tonight if need be?'
somebody asked Coquelin. He took a
sheet of paper and wrote down the
names of 53 plays Of his repertoire.
His friends laughed.
You are boasting surely, mon ami?"
said the Viscomte de Lovenjoul.
"You have every one of these plays
in your library" said Coquelin quietly
Get them all out and put them on the
table" The viscomte did so. Now, =
said Coquelin, "let anybody select a
cue from, any one of these plays at hap
hazard and give it to me"
They tried him with 16 plays out OF
the 53 .nd he never missed q single cue
or made one mistake.-Fortnightly Re
vieW.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
Tidinss From Hagood

Politics makes strange bedfellows"
but Georsians do not believe Tom
Watson will ever lie down with Smith
even if the latter is his child.
They say that Watson stands no
chance for election to anything Meth
er does any man whom he really OPP
poses.
The recent election is claimed sound
ed Smiths death-knell. Today he is
with very many OF them Hoax Myth, .
for they feel that he. having rebudi-
ated Democracy. must be repudiated.
They have a high regard for Tom
Watson; say he ia courageous honest
and all that, but is quite radical in
some of his views. Opinion is that af
ter all it is the Catholic element that
worked his defeat
You have heard folks praise the
highways Of Georgia. Down here one
hears them deprecate them. One OF
the men on the staff Of the Savannah
Morning News told the writer, in
speaking of the bad roads, that at one
point in the interior he was four hours
on one mile of road, when he nired
down several times. Another man, a
salesman from Atlanta. complained
loudly of the bad roads, and said he
had to detour constantly to make any
progress.
1t certainly is refreshing to be con-
stantly meeting Caroiinians of whom
there are quite q number living in
Savannah.
The blue denim and gingharl craze
has impressed Savannah. and rightly,
100. as a fad Of no worth.
One can but wish to know how the
folks at home fare and long for the
familiar sheet, With its smiling face
''The Daily Item" So viii! you be Sc
kind as to meet me, till further no
tice. at Atlanta. Ga. general delivery
/ wanted to write line or two
more You know that a whole lot OF
the liquor that debauched Our country
came from Savannah and you wonde.
how prohibition fares here now. You
can get it or something in its name
without much trouble. A man run
ming public car told me he could
get me all the liquor l wanted. and he
did Will any say, "Hagood is drink
ing liquor?' Nothing of the kind ant
he never said So either.
Yes, now and then they bring in g
poor, miserable scape-goat but the
real thing goes unshackled, / fear.
Hagood Bethea.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
MANIFOLD USES OF THE OK
Animal MAY With Truth Be Said to
BE Most Useful of All the
Domestic Animals.

OF all our domestic animals the OK
is certainly the most useful, writes
Henri Fabre in Our Humble Helpers.
During its lifetime it draws the cart
in mountainous regions and works at
the plow in the tillage of the fields;
furthermore, the cow furnishes milk
in abundance. Given over to the
butcher, the animal becomes a source
of manifold products, each part OF It's
body having value Of its own. The
flesh is highly nutritious; the skin IS
made into leather for harness and
shoes; the hair furnishes stuffing for
saddles; the tallow serves for making
candles and soap; the bones, half call
cined, give kind of charcoal or bone
black used especially for refining
sugar and making it perfectly white;
this charcoal, after thus being used; !;
is a very rich agricultural fertilizer !;
heated in water to a high temperature,
the same bone yields the blue used DV
carpenters; the largest and thlckest
bones 90 to the turner's shop, where
they are manufactured into buttons
and other small objects, the horns are
fashioned by the maker OF small wares
into snuff boxes and powder boxes; the
blood is used concurrently with the
bone of black in refining sugar; the
intestines cured, twisted, and dried,
are made into strings for musical in
struments: finally, the gall is ire
cuently turned to account by dyers ana
cleaners in cleaning fabrics and par
tally restoring their original luster.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
COATING iron With Lead.

Lead as substitute for tin as q
coating for sheet iron. iron Wire and
wire gauZe was strongly advocated at
the Buffalo meeting of the American
Chemical society by Charles BaSker-
Vile, who exhibited some specimens
of a process worked out by him.
Iron shingles, so treated, have been
exposed to the weather in Iocf test
for two years and eleven months ana
show no signs of rust. They may be
bent without cracking the coating and
exposing the iron. Chicken wire 50
treated is quite as good as The galvaI
;zed and cheaper to produce,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
VAST WORK TO
RESTORE LENS
Herculean Labor to Put Mines
of France In Order

Will Irwin in the Saturday Even
ing Post.
The French official statement thai
it might take ten years 70 put the
mines Of the Lens district in Northern
France into full pSoGuctioa seemed 70
me. when I went 70 Lens. pfo.a3le
exaesera t;on came away convinced
that i, was plausible-if not absolute,
" true. s.z.,.
Tbess narrow veined and deep but
rich mines lie under q very Wet~top-
soil. For the first few hundred feet OF
Their depth the shafts must oc NOT
timbered. but heavily cenentea. lhe
Germans blew up this cernenf wlth
high explosives. I5e natural lsahage
and sapage Of a lNarsiiy sou olc lhe
rest. Gradually it filled the lower
drifts and levels, rising steadily IN the
shaft until in some cases it oVer1ioWed
the shaft mouths. There it lay for
wears reducing workings whici,
meant the painful labor CT century
I to pulp and sinsh.
The Courrierc district has pfopaoiy
advanced fartnest toward reconstsuc-
ton. Lens itself lay on the steaGliS
maintained battle line OF /" u : : :. D.
The town was Ieveled and tae s.cf-
mans did their work early. Coirflefe'
some four or five miles from the iiile'
was only half destroyed by shesi iife'
and tho Germans did rot get ronl2a &c
blowing up cement bliwalks, nc
shaft bo:1scs; and the surface nacn!E-
cry until 1916.
II all soes we'll .cou:,lierc vi! eet ou'
q little coal. q very little in 1921. The
! most ootinrt Of tile engineers
thought that if surface Daachlnefs
came through fast enough the qlstrlc'
might almost reach full productlon os
the end of 1922. Courriere before the
war yielded about three and one-tiaii
Fl liIlior tons 9. year against tota! pro
auct;cn OF II railiio2 for the Lens dis
trict
i all goes more slowly at Lens pro
per. Lens is Just now getting TO pump,
ing. That anl. all. other processes n1"s'
go more slowly than at Ccurriere ana
the final work Of getting the salierle:
;nto shape Will be both more difficult
ard more DANCE. ous. About the time
lnccc.sar2v for complete restoration Of
lie whole district expert opinion diff
fered-all admitted that they were
guessing.
! One optimist said: Leaving out two
or three mines in. especially bad shape
five years.
The man whose opinion is perhaps
most worthy OF respect said: my
guess is seven to nine years. "
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
HAPPY NATIVES OF sARAWAK
Under Wise Government, People Live
Easy Lives in Their GIoriously
Fertile Country.

The tribe of Kayans, inhabiting the
head waters Of the Baram and ReJans
rivers of Sarawak, have lived for un-
known generations almost Isolated IN
the interior of the island OF Borneo.
There are many reasons for believing
them to be originally Of Caucasian
origin. Many of them have very light
skin, and they probably reached Bor-
neo BY way Of the Malay peninsula
from lower Burma. Rigid discipline
is characteristic Of the domestic me-
mage, resulting in good manners and
recognition of authority.
For a good many years Sarawak
was under the independent govern
ment of white rajah, Sir Charles
Brooke, who controlled his mingled
subjects with unusual wisdom and
sympathy. Among other far-sighted
edicts he instituted stringent game
laws, so that the island is one Of the
best protected parts of the world in
this respect. Birds, beasts and butter
flies are protected, not more than two
specimens of any one species being
allowed to the collector. In this way
the very beautiful and rare trees and
insects Of the country are being main
tanned for the enjoyment Of future
generations.
Another wise move of the rajah
was to continue the native costume
what there is Of tin place of intro
ducing the unsuitable, ugly and arti-
fetal modern clothing Of Europeans.
This, as Stevenson points out, has
usually exactly the opposite effect
from that intended by well-meaning
missionaries, and the happy natives Of
Sarawak. are very we'll OFF as they are.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
CAUSED A CHANGE IN MIND
Circumstance That Made Mill Owner
Somewhat Relax His Ideas About
Strict Discipline.

" personally began with the idea
that people might be hised ard good
work gained from them," Julian S.
Carr, Jr., in System, writes. Mr.. Carr,
who is president of the Durham Hos
lery mills, goes on: 81 thought in my
youth that rules made order and that
a certain military discipline was es-
sential; that it was foolish to humor
people and all that, nor was l going
to recognize certain local traditions
about days on which no work should
be done. For instance, made up my
mind that quitting work to 60 to the
circus was not in accosd with the best
Industrial practices.
s"The first circus came to town about
three months after we took charge OF
the mill, and I was keen for the test.
Wesposted positive orders that the reg
ular hours of work were to be observ-
ed on that day, and that any person
who went off to the circus would be
discharged. The full force reported
Eas usual on the morning Of circus day.
and I went home to dinner confident
that at last we had brought order.
1t gave me a bit of a pang, for l
should have liked to go myself!
"But duty is a stern master, and
rejecting on that fact I hurried back
IN +ba mill Noticing a crowd in a
side street, stopped to look. 1t was
our whole mill force vending its mer-
ry way to the magic tent! I went
along myself, and resolved that, al
though abstract rules were well
enough, a bit Of common sense and
knowledge of human nature might
proftably be blended with them. How
much, OF our labor trouble generally IS
due to enforcing countless rules with
military exactness?"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
GOOD WORK WITH CAMERA
Explorers in Northwestern Canada
Have Photographic Studies Of
Wilderness Wild Life.

After a three years hunt with the
camera In the almost unknown Laird
river district in northwestern Canada,
81. A. Stewart and John Sonnickson
have come back to civilization by way
Of Peace river, Alberta, bringing sew
eral thousand Photographic studies Of
the manners and customs Of the wild
life Of those remote woods and
streams. The explorers, for they well
deserve the name, worked into the
wilderness by way Of Hudson's Hope
and the forks of the Findlay and
Parsnip rivers as far as Fort Gra-
hame. Their negatives illustrate the
habits of the ptar1nigan, moose, beay-
er, Canadian wild geese and other an
imals and birds that have seldom been
observed with anything like thorough
ness by means of the camera. The
travellers had devices Of various sorts
whereby their subjects were ,enticed
to spots upon which the hidden lenses
we're focused; AID upon reaching
these spots an ambushed camera man
snapped them by twitching long
cord ATTACHED to the lens shutter. A
single negative Of some specially Shy
animal was often the only fruit Of
many hours ofpatient waiting. Some
times for days the explorers would
watch single spot through their field
glasses awaiting the favorable mo-
ment to "shoot." But it was all
worth it.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
B;shour;,Ic Ncws E.e.:s.

a successful liquor raid was made
by Sheriff Scarborough. assisted hy
Deputy f. W. Folsom and Rural Po-
hceman W. It. LaCoste last Sunday
in the lower edge of the
county A well equipped copper still
was found in a swamp, which was
captured. and a quantity OF mash and
some whiskey. Three parties, one
white man ard two negroes were ar
rested and brought to jail.
Mr. Z. c. Radcliffe had a Ford car
stolen from the shelter in his yard
Friday night The license tag on il
was 1868. and any information lead
ing to recovery Of the car Will be ,ap-
preciated by Mr.. Ratcliffe.-BishoD-
vile Vindicator.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
BUSINESS METHODS FOR LABOR.

L
The refusal Of the Railroad Labor
Board to deal with the OUTLAW"
strikers, establishes business-like
policy in the governments attitude to-
ward labor. and helps to make labor
itself more bnsiness-like.
To deal with the strikers alone
would not only have condoned their
offense but would have invited chaos
in labor relations, where order and
system are needed more urgently than
in any other department Of American
life.
The strikers were rebels against
their own labor organizations, dis
obeying the officers they themselves
had chosen and ignoring contracts
made by those oficers in their name.
They struck in disregard of public
rights and national law. They ignor-
ed the orderly procedure by which it
had been arranged that cases like
theirs should be adjusted. Their
strike was not final, desperate ef-
fort, resorted to after all other means
had failed. They had not even pre-
sented definite claims to their en-
ployers or the government. They
struck first. in spirit OF blind diScon-
tent, and formulated their demands
afterward.
No institution can get anywhere by
that sort Of procedure. Organized Ia
Dor today must, above al, things, be-
come business-like. It has suffered
much and failed much because of its
failure, for various reasons, to live up
to its contracts. In SO doing it has
undermined its own cardinal princi-
pie of collective bargaining. Neither
private employers nor government
can make bargains with labor unions
unless there is a reasonable assurance
of the unions keeping their bargains.
To that end it is necessary that Ia
Dor should have not only thorough or
ganization but thorough discipline.
The Railroad Labor Board, therefore
in refusing to deal with group Of
rebellions and contract-breaking en-
ployees, has performed service for
union labor.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05

been costing the railroads $4,000, 900
a day. This expense is passed along
directly to the public, because rail-
roaa earnings for the present are
guaranteed. And indirectly it has
cost the public tens of millions day.
Yet the strikers wonder why the pub
lie is against them.
X i
# another war has to be fought to
win what everybody supposed had
been won by the last one, it will be
because the United States has not
ratified the peace treaty and joined
the Allies in prompt enforcement.
y
The Germans used to say we went
to war to save the money we had lent
to the Allies. A ridiculous lie, of
course-but we might very properly
and proftably make peace for that
sole reason.
X Is
If guests can be lodged comfort
ably in Jail for 81 day. as the jailer
at Louisville, KY, says they can, why
not build jails instead of hotels and
bonseso
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05

when it's all over, there ought to
bssa bonus or medal or something
for the. faithful and long-suffering
armysof ultimate consumers and con-
trshusors, who have dutifully bought
aHthes bonds and paid all the bills.
Those who are advocating a modi-
:sdIeatien of the prohibition regulations
+ inafavor OF tight vines might get
asong better If they changed it to
ss1ry wines"
Mar Day this year isn't going to be
very good time for American Kats
III dance around May poles.
Wall Street brokers keep up an in
feaSpaa din. but the rest of the nation,
dsesn't pay much attention to it
cyclones and tornadoes every
NsaaFe! This is the year of big winds:
iinmet teorology as in politics.
Many a digestive system that re-
s.s.ed successfully all the ravages of
l.;ra is put out Of commission by sofa
fasntain coneoctions.
Economy parades may be ali right,
but true economy. like true piety, can
be- pracsiced just as well in private.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05

There seem to be ways Of losing a
strike and yet winning it. The coal
miners, you remember, had their de-
mand for a fve-day week turned
down. Now quite generally, they are
said 20 have their five-day week, get
ting it by the simple process Of not
going to work on Saturday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
Pon.,sr Names for Towns.

There are 81 Frankl;ns given in the
latest United States postal guide.
Chester and Clinton aie close seconds,
there being 80 towns and cities by
each of these names in the United
States, Washington and NeWpogtsi
come next in popularity, each having,
90 .ae
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
ARE YoUe

Are you scolding about the high
cost Of food and still too lazy to cui-
1i.ate a garden in the back yard or
around the corner?
Are you worrying over your inabil-
1ty to make both ends meet, when
sou are paying for and running an
automobile which you do not really
need at all because the street cars
~culd serve all your needs if you
saet them?
Are you- rowing about the price of
new clothes when the ones you have
would look all right and last for
months with little brushing, mend
ing and pressing?
Are you raising the daily howl over
the cost Of domestic service when one
quarter Of the time and energy you
spend at dancing. bridge and driving
! your car would obviate the need for
any assistance except for the heaviest
labor
Are the meat bills daily affront to
you while their sole items are port
er-nonse steaks, lamb chops and
s@easbreads?
sum it all up, are you really
the Innocent victim of the conscience
less tprofiteer, or the deliberate slave
Of your own weakness2
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
OF
SAILORS
As..antic Fleet Returns to New
York From Winter
C,,,;co
M A.SN nns

New York, May The Great Assrs Asrs
Iai1tic fleet has arrived to give 25,e0gg5
sailors relaxation from winter prae-
tice in West Indian waters. The fleet,
will remain a fortnight seet9s
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
TAKE IT IN TINT.
Just as Scores of Sumter People Have
Just as Scores Of Sumter People Have
waiting doesn't pay. ::
IF you neglect kidney. backache,'
Urinary troubles often follow.
Deans Kidney Pills are for kidney
bac:sac,le, ard for other kidney Ills.
Sumter citizens endorse them.

Mrs. A. Hancock, 1os Blandiag St,
Sumter says: Last year I had a
slight attack Of : kidney trouble and
there was a bad rzrn through the
small Of NY back. Ny head ached,
my nerves were all unstrung and
dizzy spells bothered me- Black
specks foated before my eyes most
Of the time and blurred my sight.
My kidneys acted irregularly and
( knew would have to do some.
thing. Finally I bought a box Of
Doan's Kidney Pills and used them.
Doan's acted like magic and after I
mad finished tho box, the trouble dis
appeared. 1 haven't been bothered
since ard it gives 1mc great pleasure
70 recommend Doans."
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
Simply ask for q. kidney remedy-get
iDoan's Kidney Pilis-the same that
Mrs Hancock had. Foster-Milburn
Co. Mfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y.-Adyt. 70
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
,m aaG;t FRS. ,snyer.

IF you are looking for values in
Boys sehcol siliss call or us today
Price ss7.45 to SS.95. Sizes 8 TO iS.
Joseph NJ. Ci'ana1er-Adv. S;
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05

FOR SALE-At a bargain. one Colts
generator complete with al fixtures.
It's ali new and never bccn uiicrat-
ed. See ). =. Commander.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05

HAVE A IfsW Ford Starters that we
can install at once. If you have o
Ford without Il starter, see US.
Shaw Motor Company. -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
Ase,a'S AiI-WoOl

Blue serGes at $685.. Special. Mob
by u silk lined suits fer young men
at S35 to $3.50. Sizes 333 to SO. JOS
eph NJ. Chandler-Adv.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05
Special Sale OF

Boys' Knee Suits s7.45 and 1886
&c quick. Joseph ar Chandler.--Adv
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-05-05

The railroad strike is said % have
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-30
DRAFT new BILL
TO KILL JITNEy
viii Compete With Initiative
Measure

A. the request OF several members
Of the city council. n blu absolutely
prohibiting the operation OF jitneys
on Seattle streets wax drafted Fri.
day by Corporation Counsel waiter
r. Meier
The proposed ordinance would ~.
pal The regulatory iitnsy measure,
now trsnw fought In The courts by
the yitrey sHfsrests.
IN letter 20 the council. Meier
pointed out the necessity OF the city
passing an alternative measure 20 be
plsccd on tho ballot nj the next
general election to compete with the
Initiative jitney ordinance drawn by
tho jitncurs. which viii come before
the pcor,'e at that time.
III. In your opinion. such aiterna,
tive measure should be regulatory.
instead of prohIbisory. In character.
| shall be- glad 10 rcdrsft the enclos-
I'd bill 10 conform TO your wishes. 4
Meier declared.
The new ordinance. proposing the
complete elimination OF jisney busscs
would make Il misdcmeanor to
transport passengers for hire with
IN the city limits. A penalty Of eico
fine. 30 dsva In jail. or both. Is
stipulated.
Carrying Of passengers between city
points by interurban busres In also
banned by the proposed bill.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-30
OUTLAW TAKES
FOOD IN home
Famished Man Threatens
Lone Woman on Ranch

PENDLEToN. Ore. July so,--
Bobbing up from the underbrush.
haif furnished man. with his
clothing In tatters. entered thu
home OF NJ. Kicks. farmer near
Clbbon. Ore. late yesterday and
demanded food.
The man answers the description
Of Jack Rathie. one OF the six men
who participated in the jail de.
livery here Sunday. which resulted
In the death OF Sheriff Til Taylor.
He was given food by Mrs. Hicks.
who was alone in the farmhouse
at the time.
A posse was sent from Pcndleton
ID the scene and took up the trail.
Gibbon Is Fl miles east OF Pendlo.
ton.
Another posse Is reported today
TO be working with renewed cf.
fort near La Grande. where man
whose appearance taliies with the
description OF Louis Anderson. an
other Of the fugjtives, was seen
late Thursday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-30
DISCOVER
Letters
TELLING
OF Love
Mrs. Katherine Jackson Le-
roy Was infatuated With
Alabama Man

DETROIT, July 3O.-Love
for A. A. Tatum, of Birmipgs
ham, Ala, was repeatedly de-
clared in letters written him
by Katherine Jackson Leroy,
trunk murder victim, while
she lived here with Leroy, &C.
cording to correspondents
made public by police today.
Leroy was referred to as ''ths
jeaiousest boy" In the letters. which
expressed a desire 70 zee Tafum
again and asked him TO come to De-
troit.
The correspondence was forward
ed to Detroit authorities by Detect
i've John Smith. who went 10 Bfr-
mingham to question Tatum In con-
nection with the trunk murder.