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Observation-Disclosures. Create
than Birth of a Nation.
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C~ertain-Teed Paint is better and also
cheaper, why not try it? 1t is guaran-
teed, at The Miller Hardware Co
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Mr.. and Mrs. f. c. Hibbison depart
ed Monday evening for Canistota for a
visit with relatives.
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DIN from Huron will be in MillaJ
taking pictures on Sunday, May LIST.
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Mrs. Sophia Bohning was a passen-
ger to Harold Tuesday for a visit
with her son.
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Take your watch. jewelry and clock
repairing to w. ID. Johnson. All work
guaranteed.
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Miss Mabel Vinegar arrived Wed
nesday noon from Elgin, Ill, for {
visit with relatives.
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Dave Matthias, of Minneapolis, arriv-
ed Tuesday for a visit at the K. II.
Aicher home.
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Gainsborough Hair Nets, the BEST
in Town $3.50 dozen.
Collins & Shaw.
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Gardens plowed. Phone Miller Dray
Line 2133.
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Observation-Disclosures. May 18th
and 18th.
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Miss Ann Baldridge, of Huron, spent
Saturday and Sunday in this city visit.
ing friends.
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Muresco wall tints all colors at The
Miller, Hardware Co.
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Diamonds remounted while you
wait. w. d. Johnson.
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Save money by using coupons found
in this paper (at Scofields'.)
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Wanted-Daily. 200 gallo

Wanted-Daily. 200 gallons fine No.
1 Cream. We can pay well for good
Cream. Takes good cream to make
good butter and good butter commands
high prices.
II Phone 1872 Miller Creamery.
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Mrs. Glen Spain arrived Saturday
from California, where she had spent
the winter.
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See the Success Harrow Company's
advertisement in this weeks issue.
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F. j. Woods, of Huron, was in the
city Tuesday t~ransacting business.
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DIR. G.. H. Sessions was a passenger
west Monday noon.
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Editor Dan Healy went to Highmore
Saturday noon to transact business.
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Irons Dance at Costain Hall, We'd
nesday evening, May 4th.
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See the Success Harrow Company
advertisement in this weeks issue.
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A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
Daley Saturday, April %.
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Miss Kate Grant went to Huron Sur
day for a visit with friends.
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Brice Springer transacted business
at Huron one day last week.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 2S, 1921


THURSDAY, APRIL sS, 1921
Gardens plowed Phone Miller Dray
Line 2133.
DIR. G. H. Sessions was a passenger
west Monday noon.
Prize dance at Costain Hall Satur-
day night.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Daley Saturday, April %.
Coupon Sale at Scofelds'.
Mrs. Chas. Thomson returned Sat-
urday evening from Pierre.
X. w. Magnetic repairs at Twin City
Tractor Co. shop.
Brice Springer transacted business
at Huron one day last week.
Save money by using coupons found
in this paper Cat %Scofields'.)
Miss Kate Grant went to Huron Sun
day for a visit with friends.
See the Success Harrow Company's
advertisement in this weeks issue.
F. j. Woods, of Huron, was in the
city Tuesday ~transacting business.
Irons Dance at Costain Hall, We'd
nesday evening, May 4th.
Editor Dan Healy went to Highmore
Saturday moor to transact business.
See the Success Harrow Company's
advertisement in this weeks issue.
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X. W. Magnetic repairs at Twin Cit,
Tractor Co. shop.
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Coupon Sale at Scofelds'.
Mrs. Chas. Thomson returned Sat
urday evening from Pierre.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-11-05

The Duke Of Sutherland owns
more land than any man in Eng
land. Until the war, the richest
landowner was the Duke of West
minister. An ancestors wife was
given a large farm near the city Of
Westminster as a dowry. The story
of that farm is substantially the
story Of the early Astor purchases
on the Island Of Manhattan. Lon
don, like New York, absorbed the
holding and it became enormously
valuable.
Comparison of the great fortunes
of history with those of today is
afforded by some modern fortunes
ed at more than 500, 900. The
wealth of the late James j. Hill is
still a matter Of surmise. but some
idea Of it is gained when one knows
that lawyer associated with him
in a railway deal left an estate of
S60,900,000. These figures dwin-
die, however, when the wealth of
John D. Rockefeller is considered.
His son has denied that he is
millionaire" but an idea of mis- to-
tai wealth may be gained from the
1917 income tax report, which
showed that his income was more
than $34,000,000 year!
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ship between the federal goyern-
rnent and the states. On the con-
trary, this proposed interyeHtlea oI
the federal government directed
against the power and supplanting
and suppressing the sovereignty OF
the states, would tend to destroy
that sense Of local responsseihty
=
This bill challenging as it does
the relative governmental ell
cheney of the states and the intcs-
rity of purpose Of their govern
mental agencies, placing the feder-.
al government, as it does, in the
attitude of an arbitrary dictator;as-
su1ning coercive power over the
states, their officers and their cit
izens in matters of local police con-
troll would do incomparable harm
to the spirit Of mutual respect and
tru:tful cooperation between the
federal government and the states
essential to the efficiency Of govern.
ment."
Mr.. Dyer will ask for rule to
bring the bill up for consideration
probably this week. - 80 3.
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Canning Factory Meeting.

Another very important meeting
will be held at the Chamber Of
Commerce next Tuesday night at
z:3o, consisting Of both the mem
bers of the Sumter County Chamber
Of Commerce and all of the farm
ers who are interested in growing
truck crops and marketing in Sum-
ter throagh canning plant. The
Young Mems Business League is
also behind this meeting and some
results should be obtained. Mr..
E. Thomas, president of the
Thomasboro Canning Co., of Char
lotte, n. c., Will be present to
make proposition to both the
business men and farmers. This is
q great opportunity for finding out
something about the business of
canning vegetables and to start
something definite for the farmers
to be able to plan their crops.
j. FRANK WILLIAMS,
\ County Agent.
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Lynching Bill Now
Before Congress
Committee Makes Two Re
ports. Minority Claims
That It is Unconstitu-
tional

Washington, Oct 31.-Widely
conflicting views on the anti-lynch-
ing bill, now before congress, were
presented in the house today in ma
jority and minority reports from
the judiciary committee.
The bill introduced by Represen-
tat;ve Dyer Rcpublican) Of Mis-
souri, would undertake TO wipe out
lynchins by heavy penalties to be
imposed on persons participating
and officers charged with enforc
ing the peace. Counties in which
persons are pu: TO death by mobs
also would be subjected 10 heavy
fines in the federal court.
Citing the demand in the plat
form adopted by the last Republi
can national convention to end
lynchins. the plea of President
Harding in an address to congress
ito wipe out this barbaric stain"
and the appeal Of President Wilson
in 1918 to citizens to help stop
mob law, the majority report, pre-
pared by Mr.. Dyer, declared that
these and similar appeals have
gone to naught and lynchings con-
tinue.
Congress must provide the
means for ending this cowardly
crime" the report continued. 'It
is in Furnishing those who take part
IN it or who permit it.
The prevalence in many states
Of the spirit which toierates lynch
ing, accompanied too often with in
human cruelty, and the inability
or unwillingness Of the public au-
thorities 10 punish the persons
guilty of this crime, threaten very
seriously the future peace Of the
nation. Lyncling blots our fair
name as a nation for we can not
claim to be civilized until our laws
are respected and enforced, and
our citizens secured against the hid
eous cruelties Of which we are con-
stantly furnishing fresh examples. ;"
The report added that while it
has been impossible to get accurate
figures, available records showed
3,224 persons had been lynched
in the last 80 years, Of which num-
Der 1926 were negroes.
Declaring the bill unconstitution-
al, the minority report presented by
Representative Summers Demo
crat) Of Texas contended it would
tend to destroy the sense of local
responsibility without adding to
projections of the people.
This bill in the judgment of the
minority is without constitutional
warrant" said the report. 1t is
definitely and directly antagonistic
to the philosophy Of our system
Of government and within the lin
it of its effectiveness, if it should
be held constitutional, it would be
destructive of that system.
''If enacted and operated it would
not add to the protection OF persons
or general efficiency Of govern
ment nor strengthen the relation
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Confederate
States Navy
Interesting Review of the
Achievements of its Heroes

Chattanooga, Oct. pa small
but interesting group among the
survivors Of the Confcdcracy in at
tendance on the reunion which be-
gan here today were the naval
contingent, and no body Of veterans
at the gathering are moro deserv-
ing Of the cheers of DiXieland than
those representatives of men who
sailed the seven seas with Semmes,
with Mafit and Waddell, served the
guns aboard the Mcrrimac, the Ar
kansas, and the Tennessee: cut out
the cncmy's ships under John Tay-
lor Woods leadership or led by
Hunter Davidson blew the enemy
up.
The Confederate army in size and
in accomplishments completely
ovcrslladowed the little naval es-
tablishmcnt, and the feats of the
seamen have received tardy rec
ognitioB at home and elsewhere,
except perhaps at the hands Of the
Geneva Tribunal which awarded
damages of $15,500,000 against
Great Britain in connection with
the depredations Of Confederate
cruisers upon United States COM
merce.
y former superintendent Of the
L. S. Naval Records has given the
Confederate navy credit for devel-
oping and fighting ironcladS, Gre
ating the ironclad ram, creating the
best and most effective gun of the
war, the Brooke rife, creating and
extending the torpedo service, and
operating the first successful sub
marine torpedo boat. 1t was an
array officer, George E. Dixon, Of
the 21st Alabama, though that COM
randcd the historic little subr1a-
rinc when she finally achieved her
ill-fated victory by sinking the U.
S. S. Housatonic and going to a
watery grave beside her.
Shut OF from homo ports by a
v:gilant blockade without adequate
means Of communicating with
Richmond, and thrown constantly
on their own resources, the officers
o. the Confederate navy upon the
high seas were the knight errants
Of the war, and worthy representa-
tives of the Academy, W h C h
claimed as its first head Franklin
Buchanan. the fighting admiral OF
the Confederacy.
Raphael Semmes, who received
the rank OF rear admiral in the
Confederate navy in recognition of
his services aboard the Alabama
captured siXty-odd United States
vessels and sank one, the Hatteras,
in action, in the course of his cruis-
ing on the = isbama, and captured
the Sumter, a converted packet
boat. Though commonly referred
to about Washington in the sixties
as a pirate" he has come to be
recognized as one Of the most eX-
act opponents of law that the seas
has ever known. He had the
most extensive practice in conduct
ing naval warfare that has ever
fallen to the lot Of any navigator,
and in the language of recent
Assistant Attorney General Of the
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harbor Of Portland, Me, where he
cut out the revenue cutter, Caleb
Cushing. only to be captured while
getting away with the vessel, was
one Of the most successful COM
me:ce raids that q handful of men
Che had but twenty) ever engaged
in Reads raid lasted from May 8.
1863, to June 81, in the course Of
which he captured twenty vessels,
one an ocean liner off New York
and another an immigrant ship off
Boston, though twenty Z II i t d
States warshipS and as many moro
chartered vessels were sent out to
capture him. New York City for
the moment was even in a state
Of panic lest the raider attack it.
The lad concluded his Confederate
naval career by desperate at
tempt to take the ram, William II.
Webb, out of Red River, down the
Mississippi and into the Gulf.
The final chapter of Confederate
history was written by the navy by
the cruiser Shenandoah, James l.
Waddell, commander.
THE Shenandoah, her COM
mander wrote, was actually cruis-
ing but eight months after the enc
my's property, during which time
she made 3S captures, an average
Of a fraction over four per month.
She released six on bond and de-
stroyed 80.
"She visited every ocean except
the Antarctic ocean.
"She was the only vessel which
carried the flag around the world,
and she carried it six months after
the overthrow Of the south.
'She was surrendered to the
British nation on the 9Th of No
vembcr. 1865. The last gun in &C.
fense Of the south was fired from
her deck on the 22nd Of June, 1865,
in the Arctic ocean.
"She ran distance Of $4,000
statute miles and met with no Sc
rious injury during cruise Of 3
months.
She never lost a chase, and was
second only to the celebrated Ala
bama."
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Sugar Cane
Seed Shipped

0rangeburg. Oct. 31.-Three car
loads of sugar cane seed were ship
ped out of this county last week.
About $4,000 worth Of fall beans
have also gone forward in the past
ten days. This goes to show that
the Orangeburg County farmers
have gone into diversification with
a vigor and are determined to go
forward in spite of the boil weeyil
and hard times. Plans have been
made to plant a large acreage in
truck and marketing plans are also
underway. Farm Demonstration
Agent Wolfe is busy perfecting
plans for another year and the
agricultural outlook for another
Sear is excellent for the farmer who
Will get himself together and york
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Negro Shot Tuesday
Aaron Sumter is Shot at Gains
Savannah. Peter Davis
Held For Shooting

About one O'Clock Tuesday morn
ms Aaron Sumter. negro living
near Cane Savannah was shot at
his home and his wounds will in all
probability prove f a t !. II i s
brother -iE-law, Peter Davis, has
been arrested, brought to Sumter
and placed in jail as suspect. It
was stated that Aaron Sumter was
awakened from sleep by someone
calling him on the preteNt of want
ing to know the direction to cer-
tain place Aaron finally came to
the door of the house and was shot
as he opened the door. The assas-
sin then left the place. One bull
let is lodged in the negro's brain
which will practically eliminate his
chances of recovery. The rural
officers are still working on the case
and other arrests will probably be
made
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Whaley to Die in Chair

Columbia, Nov Harvey Wha
ley, colored, charged with compile
ity in the killing of Earl Wadford,
farmer of Lone Star, in Calhoun
county, will die in the electric chair
at the state penitentiary here Fri
day Of this week, going the same
route as did his partner in crime,
Feetie Fogle, OR Richard Fogle, on
the 25th of last March, and not
only is Harvey Whaley to die for
completely in the murder, but an
investigation made by Gov. Cooper
leads to the statement by the gov
ernor that he believes Whaley to
have instigated the crime.
Richard, or Feetie Fogle, died in
the electric chair last March for
the murder of Mr.. Wadford. Be-
fore the current was sent through
his body, Fogle made the statement
that Harvey Whaley, then under
sentence Of death, his execution set
for April s, as accornplice in the
crime, was not guilty. Because Of
Ills SlGlSAiSIAI, w 1ie1lSS SSiAISAANS
was reprieved until May 18th, and
again it was reprieved to Novem-
Der 4th, that the governor might
make a thorough investigation, to
ascertain the truth Of Fogle's last
statement.
Governor Cooper stated today
that he had made a costly and
thorough investigation, and he is
confident that Whaley was the in
sstigator of the crime. The govern
or has sent men into other states,
he has had men at work in the
Lone Star community, and his
probing has been deep. One deputy
was sent to Virginia to ascertain
some facts concerning the pistol
that figured in the case.
When, Mr.. Wadford was killed,
his wife and baby and friend,
Corbett Zeigler, were wounded.
The crime was committed by the
two negroes on January II, last.
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Can't Guard Coastlinc.

Dr. Carlos Ruiz of Chile, South
America, sees little chance of pro-
hibition enforcement in his country
in case the movement spreads to
it. He says the coast line of Chile
is too long and too rugged to be
guarded against rum-runners. His
statement arouses another spark Of
hope in the breast OF Americans
who regret prohibition, for a. glance
at the map and a comparison Of the
coastline cf the United States with
that of Chile shows the former to
be longer. DR.. Ruiz will serEe as
counselor to the Chilean Embassy
in Washington.
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THE wATcHMAN AND soUTHRoN, NOVEMBER s. 1921

United States GIFTS. 1919, was
the most accurate of all scamea in
the application Of the law 20 thc
facts.
He never. even in the b;t:crost
time of the civil war, sank ship
without providing for the safety Of
its DasscnScrs, the late Theodore
Roosevelt said in 1918 in q specci;
at ST. Paul Eooscvclt's uncle.
Commander James ID. Bulloch, G..
S. ", by the way was :; highly in-
terestcd witness at the christening
Of the Alabama off the Azores.
But Semmes was more by a Sood
deal than a sea lawyer" He was
an extraordinary seaman, Gliding
capture ly the countless United
States vessels sent in search OF
him for three ycars. twice "scaD-
ing from tho island OF Martinique.
once IN the Sum,cr and later in the
Alabama. while superior u. S. vc=-
sells lay outside prepared 20 sink
him when he came out. Ic was
also wonderful commander. From
the day he hoisted the flag Of the
Sumter to the breeZes Of the Gulf,
June 80, 1861, till the flag Of the
sinking Alabama was hauled down
off CherbourS, June 10, 1864, he
never lost a man from disease on
either ship.
The only Confederate flag to re-
ccivc the salute Of a foreign power
was the flag Of the Confederate
cruiser Florida, salute from Eng
lish guns at St. George, Bermuda
Islands, July IS, 1863. The career
of the Florida was picturesque
One Of the most daring feats Of the
war is credited to her. In the open
daylight on the afternoon Of Sep
tember 4, 1862, she dashed into Mo-
bile Bay, herr guns not in commits
sion, her crew short-handed and
an epidemic Of yellow fever aboard,
the guns Of the Oneida, the Ninona
and the Rachel Seaman meanwhile
playing upon her at close range
with heavy shell and shrapnel. For
allowing the Florida to break the
blockade, Commander H. Preble of
the Oneida. ranking officer present,
was sunmarily dismissed from the
United States navy. but Lincoln five
months later reappointed him. The
Florida's passage Of the blockade
was made the subject Of an inves-
tigation by naval court Of inquiry
in 1872 and John Newland Maffit,
late commander Of the Florida, was
one Of the important witnesses
called by Preble. Mahit, one of
the notable officers in the Confed-
crate navy was born at sea. His
father, a preacher, helped to launch
at Nashville the predecessor Of the
Christian Advocate, the organ of
the Southern Methodist Church.
The sons career in the Confeder-
ate navy was full of thrills, his fin
al assignment being commander Of
a blockade runner.
\ youngster who came to the
Florida while she lay in Mobile
Bay being repaired, was Charles
w Read, Of Mississippi, then only
% years Of age, but veteran Of
the fight with Farragut below New
Orleans and OF the dash of the
ram Arkansas out Of the Yazoo riv
er. through l'arragut's fleet, to the
wharf at Vicksburg. July Is, 1862.
His cruise up the Atlantic coast. in
thel captured brig Clarence, in the
Tacony, another prize, and the
Archer, sti.,. another prize, to the
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sMiIlionaires OF
Long Ago
Monte Gristo Wouldn't 4fave
Caused a Ripple in Wall
Street, Says Babson,
Money Expert

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