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M mah von TfiB SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established 18 SO. lBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.'1' THE TRUE SOOTH RON. Established Jane. 12*6 Consolidated lng. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1897. Sew Series-Vol. XVII. No. 14 Pi blissed Srary "STeic.osOay, -BY l>ff. <3k Osteeii) SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : $1.50 per aa o a ru-ic advance VDTISTISSXKET: One Square first insertion,...^.$1 00 , S very subsequent insertion....... ......... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. , AH communications which subserve private interests viii be charged for as ad vertiements. tObitcartes and tribu tea of respects will be. charg?e: for. % Farmers to M^et PROMINENT MEN WILL BB HEBB TO TAKE PART. . . Amacg the many events of the com? ing fair week will be the State road congress which has already been called and will unquestionably be very largely attended. Besides this and the cotton growers' convention, Col Hoi la way's ' idea of having a kind pf farmers' io stitut%aod experience meeting on sev er?1f ?rights bf the week, baa been adopted. The following aonoonoement in re? gard . to these events was yesterday made from the State fair society's head ' * quarters : "There is to be a grand gathering of the farmers of jbe State ie Columbia oa Wednesday night *of fair week to consider many matters of importance, s Among the features will be an address by Prof. Holmes of Chapel Hill. N Cv, whose ?abject will be "The Pab? ilo Road Problem in the Sou th. " The address will be illustrated w'th magic lantern views showing road building both tn Earope and the Uojted States. '.Gen. Roy Stone, director of the office of road inquiry of the United States department of agriculture, has promised to be here. "Daring the week there will , be nightly gatherings of the farmers for i? thaTdisooti8?on of topics of greatest, rn 4 t?fest tq them. % - "Oo Tuesday eve ti og there will he an address by some leading man, the subject being *Tbe. private gard en ) or? chard and vineyard ' This will be fol? lowed, by an experience meeting,.. If possTMe an address will be secured on the subject 'Thoroughbred stock, horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poul . try.' to be followed by any other dis? cussion. "On Wednesday evening after the cotton growers' convention's business ts s done with: and the public road conven? tion's business bas been transacted, thjre will be an address upon the eob jecV'Growiog Pare Seed, and Improv? ing Seed by Selection,' followed by a discussion and au experience meet? ing. **Oo Thursday evening there is fo be an address by some one yet to be selected on tbe subject of 'Relations of Mechanics to. Agriculture,' followed by discussion and experience meeting. If time permits another address on 'How Best to,Sustain Agricultural Organisa? tions*' -wtjl be arranged for."-State. Gov Atkinson on Lynching. Atlanta, Oct. 27-Mob law was severely condemned by Governor At? kinson io his message to the Georgia legislature, which convened here to? day. The message bristles with a scorching and seota*iooai arrack upon the lawless spirit that fosters tbe lynch law sa this State He says that f to ex? terminate the practice of lyoohiog the crime mast be made odious and shame? ful He advocates stringent legislation against the mobs and insists that the legislatare pass a law laying every county wherein such a eri^e is commit-' ted subject to a large indemnity to tbe relatives of the mob's victims. The oortbero lynchers are spoken of by the governor. Of this be says' : "It is oo exoune to sav that the northern people, who have l?sa to pro? voke them to it, lynch. Let os not takefbem as a standard, but rather show a higher type of civilization in oar State, and ereot here a standard to which they may aspire." The governor is io favor of arming the prisoners aod allowing them to pro? tect themselves from mobs. He says : "The arrestiog officers should be clothed with authority to take ?the life of the assailants when resisting their efforts to take a prisoner from h is cus? tody, and it is his doty to take life if oeeessarp to protect the prisoner and retain bim in custody. This he should be required to do at the hazard of his own life, or the prisoner should be on shackled, armed and given an opportu? nity to defeod himself. The knowl? edge on thc part of the mob that rbi? would be done would d?ter it from pur? going its lawless purpose and the law should be permitted to protect the inno? cent and punish theguiity." Yellow fever has appeared in Selma, Ala., and Dr. Gaiteras has bas been requested to make an in? vestigation. The Cotton Growers Called to Meet IQ Conven ? tioQ in Columbia. TBE ACREAGE QUESTION j Colombia S ta rp, Oct 28. President Wilborn, of the State Farmern* Alliance, yesterday issued a call which means the inauguration of a movement towards securing a con? vention of the cotton growers of the Southern States for the- purpose of taking definite action in regard to the planting of next year's crop The call provid?s for the holding of a State convention in this city daring the approaching State fair. The following is the call for the State convention of cotton growers for fair week : Ae president of the Farmers' State Alliance organization of this State, I have been requested by numbers of the representative members of th? organization to take the initiative in calling a meeting of the farmers of the southern States, with a view of suggesting some action in the future, looking to the regulation of the acre? age of cotton, also to discuss the plans and methods of marketing the cotton crop so that the producers of this great staple shall receive the real value of the crop, and not be forced to sacrifice the crop by unfair combi nations, together with the manipula? tions of the gambling cotton ex? changes of the country, aided by the unjust accumulation of all the money of the country at one center at the principal, time of the year when our cotton is going into market. With these objects in view I desire to re? quest the cotton growers of the va? ri?os connties in this State to meet on saiesday io November and select one or more delegates to represent them at a meeting to be held in the city of Colombia on Wednesday night of fair week for the purpose of discussing the matters -mentioned above. / J. C. WILBORN, Pres't Farmers' Afiance of S. C. HE RUINED A GIRL. -- - While Hypnotised - - Bushed to Conway fer Protection. Special to Tbe Stale. Conway, Oct. 27 -Tuesday morn? ing at about 30:30 Mr. Jeremiah Smith, proprietor of the Commercial House, was waked by some one knock' ing at his door He went out and found Mr. W* D Coleman, a special deputy from Marion, with a prisoner. Pr. Benjamin A Hill, a Baptist preacher and a faith cure doctor. Br. Hill was broght over for safe keeping and lodged in the county jail Both the deputy sheriff and the pris? oner were interviewed by The State's correspondent. The details as related by the sheriff are these : For some time past Dr. Hill has been living in Marion and making a living by preaching and curing peo? ple by the laying on of bands He possessed the art hypnotism and it seems that some of his patients were young ladies. Several days ago a yoong lady was taken with toothache and went to consult Dr. Hill about it He advised her to go to the dentist sand have it extracted, which she did <In pulling the tooth the dentist crashed it and gave her a good deal of pain She went back to see Dr. Hill and was hypnotised by him and taken undue advantage of The \ young lady, whose name would not be j divulged, was of a good family and such conduct *was resented On j Monday afternoon the report leaked out and a mob soon gathered. They j began immediately to look the doctor up. They soon had him backed up in C. A Wilcox's store. The sheriff, his deputy and the mayor soon came to his resue and be was spirited off and brought here for safe keeping While in jail the prisoner was inter? viewed, but would not say anything except that he was innocent He called in Senatdr Scarborough, who began by tryiog to see if he could not get him out Mr Scarborough telegraphed to the sheriff of Marion county and received in reply a mes? sage stating that no specific charges had been made against Hill, and to have bim turned loose So Hill got off on the 2:45 p m. train, and flor? ry's name was saved from the blot of a lynching. NEWS OF ANDREE. Christina, Oct. 27.-Advices which have just reachid here from Spitzbergen, the group of islands in the Artic ocean, situated midway be? tween Greenland and Nova Zembla, say that tjue crew of a wrecked ship h?8 reached that part of the world and that a rumor prevails that they have brought news of Prof. Andree, the-Swedish explorer who left Danes Island, Spitzbergen, in a balloon on July ll. last, in an attempt to cross the North Pole. Minister DeLome Gives Official Information. THE PLAN OP AUTONOMY. Washington, Oot. 27.-The Spanish midister, Senor Dupuy fDeLome, con? sented for the first time to-day to speak concern ?Dg the policy of autonomy which the Spaoish government pro poses to apply to Coba. This has been referred to io general terms since the advent of the Sagasta ministry, but there has been lack of authentic details. Before leaving for New York to day, where the minister and his family will 6pend several weeks, Senor Deputy De Lome gave the evolutions through which autonomy bad passed, leading up to tbe present policy, and the general outlioe of the policy itself. Under tbe provisions of the treaty of Zaojoo, conciaded in 187S at the close of the last Cuban disturbance, it was provided that Cuba was to eojoy the same liberties as those accorded to the Island of Puerto Rico. This latter island bad the same liberties as those of any province of Spain.' This brought the Autonomist party? so called, into existence, its essenti?l principle hoing that of self government for Cuba, and not treating Cuba as a province of Spain, as was the system in Puerto Rico That party adopted a platform and in 1886 offered a complete pro? gramme of autonomy for the considera? tion of the country. ? peaceful agita? tion of this autonomy programme was then inaugurated. In 1893. for the first time, a minister io a' Liberal cabinet, Senor Maura, saw the mistake of that system of rule known as "assi? milation," wbiob treated Coba as a Spaoish province, and he presented a pian of reforms. This was strongly opposed, and after two years of discus? sion it was found impossible to put the plan through the cortes. Theo a com? promise reform measure 3 framed which aokoawledged the personality of Cuba as a separate body, but under tbe Spaoish flag. Tbese reforms having been considered in su Soient, oo ace ono t of the state of the island, Premier Cano va? proceeded to greatly enlarge them, bis plan being, however, short of absolute autonomy. Now, Mr. Moret, minister of the colonies io the oew cabinet, fulfills the promise of the Liberal party when it was in the minority and proclaims autonomy as it had always been de? manded by the Home Rale party of Cuba. Uoder; this policy as applied to Coba, tbe island will have a system on the Hoes of those of Canada, or of the American States, maintaini'" its in? dividuality on all internal affairs and yet retaining its plaoe as a part of tbe federal aystem It will have a viceroy, or governor general, aa is always the case io the maintenance of a colonial system^ such as that of Australia, New Zealand or Canada. . The island will have itEi o?ro legislature, chosen direct? ly by tbe people, who will eojoy uni? versal suffrage From the majority in the legislature the goveroor general will choose bis mioistry, consisting of a president of the ministry and four ministers, oamely, minister of the interior, minister of public works, minister of public instruction, and minister of finance. At tbe same time Cuba will have representation io the Spaoish cortes, as well as/ her local legislature. The representatives to the cortes will also be elected by the people of Cuba, through universal suffrage, and will not be selected by the minis? try as han been erroneously stated. The ministry will be responsible to the legislature and not to thc goveroor geoeral. The subjects before the legis? lature will include those of taxatioo, tariff, public instruction and all matters of the internal administration of tbe bland in the broadest sense of this term. REMARKABLE, IP TRUE. Alleged Deal Between Prance and the Mahdi. Paris, Oct. 28 -The Eclaire pub 1 ? e h e s a remarkable article to day, to the effect that three French mis? sions are now on their way to Khar? toum, by forced marches, as the result of an understanding with the Mahdi, reached in 1896, by which Fracce re? cognizes the Soudan as an indepen? dent sute under the suzerainty of the Sultau of Turkey, in return for certain concessions. Dr. Kind's Hew Discovery for Consump? tion. 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Washington, Oat. 27.-The event of the day at the state department was the receipt of the long-expected cablegram from United States Minister Woodford at Madrid, transmitting the answer of the Spanish government to bis repre? sentations in the interest of peace in Caba. This message began to come io instalments at 2 o'clock last night and it was nearly noon to-day before it was all in hand at the state department. It was BQt the length of the mes? sage that occupied the wire all of 'bat time, bot the fact that it was ail in gronps of figures and that it was probably being filed in small batches as it was turned ioto tbe complicated state department cipher in Madrid All of this work bad to be undone at the state department and the message translated from the cipher back again into good English. This occupied nearly all of the day/ so that it was half past 3 o'clock before the first fair copy of the message ups turned out. It was not so long ; in fact, there were a little less than 1,000 words in the message, for Mr. Woodford, instead of cabling the Spanish answer to bis note had content? ed himself with reduoieg the mai ter to a brief outline. The first copy was taken at once to the President, not being en* trusted to a messenger, bot being de? livered by Cbief Clerk Micheals in per? son at (be White House. After due opportunity bad been allowed the Pres? ident to read the message, an applica? tion W88 made for a statement of its contents or nature. This was declined by Secretary Porter and it was said that under no circumstances would the correspondence be made public before consideration by the cabinet. From unofficial information that has reached certain administration officials in advance of this message qf Mr. Woodford 's as to the nature of the Spanish reply, it is evident that in neither language nor subject matter is the communication likely to be taken as offensive by our government. It may be, it is true, regarded as insufficient to meet the issue presented by Mr. Wood? ford in his note, but officials of the state department say that in view of what has already been accomplished by the new Spanish cabinet ic reforming abuses in Cuba, in removing Weyler and in projecting what appears to be va liberal measure of autonomy, our gov? ernment will cereaioly rear, at least un? til congress assembles, and afford the new Spanish government a reasonable time to carry out its plans Geo. M. Pullman's Will. His Two Sons Given Only $3,000 a Year Apiece. Chicago, Oct. 27 - The will of George M Pullman was filed for probate this afternoou. ?o his widow he 'left the homestead on Prairie avenue. Sufficient funds are also set aside to provide her with an income of ?50,000 yearly during ber life ; $1,000,000 each is left in trust for his two daughters, Mrs. Frank O. Lowden of Chicago, and Mrs Caro lapo of San Francisco. An income of but $3,000 yearly'is provided /or his two sons. George M., Jr., and Sanger W. Mrs Lowden is also given the summer r?sidence known as Castle Rest, on an island in the St Law? rence river. About $15(\000 in sums of $10,000 and ?20,000 is left to various charitable institutions in Chicago. A sum of $200,000 is given for the erection of a manual training school in Pullman, which is also endowed with $1,200,000. Five old employes are given $5,000 each. Two sisters and two brothers of the dead millionaire are given $50,000 each, and another brother gets $25, 000 If the estate shall be more than sufficient to satisfy all the devises, trusts and legacies named, the exe? cutors are directed to divide the ex? cess into two equal shares and add ibe same respectively to the two portions set aside for the daugh? ters, Mrs. Lowden and Mrs. Caro Iain. The total value of the estate is shown by the petition for letters tes? tamentary do be $7,600,000. Of this amount $6,800,000 is personal prop? erty and $800,000 realty. Attorney Runnels, who prepared the will, said that these figures are a conservative but fair estimate of the value of the estate. Stick to what j ou see advertised in the newspaper wiien you get to the store. Don't let a rvily salesman tbrovr you off the track. You know what you want better than he does. Prof. Wallace on Histories. ? Thinks Publishers and Book Agents Have Stirred the Pire of Patriotism for Profit. To the Editor of The State : It is a worthy aod commendable sen* timent that cherishes the heroism of the soldiers of the Lost Canse, bat this sentiment is sadly perverted in any at? tempt to substitute sectionalism for patriotism in the minds of oar chil? dren. Why this outcry against "partisan histories" in the schools ? I'll tell you: The time is drawing near for selecting school books for another term of years, and booksellers are working southern sentiment for all it is worth to them. Circulars written by Gen. Gordon against "partisan77 h is tories are being scattered broadcast by publishers and agents who have a school history they are trying to have adopted by State boards of education. A mass meeting wa9 recently held in Richmond at the instance of Lee Camp of Confederate veterans, to protest against "partisan" school histories. Virginia is soon to select school books for four years. Prominent in the mass meeting was a man who has lately written a school history that he would like to have adopted. A mass meeting has been called at Nashville by a lot of people who are not educators to prolest against "partisan7' histories in southern schools. There is no doubt a hidden hand in that proposed meeting also. Bo these people who are making so much stir about ''partisan7' histories really desire non-partisan histories non-partisan from every standpoint ? On the contrary, they are agitating for histories that are intensely partisan partisan to the south. There are just two classes of people agitating this matter : Those who have books to sell aod those who are being used by them to help sell them. Is there any real sense aod reason in the cry for southern histories for south? ern schools ? Must we have a southern history because it is southern? I know four school histories by southern authors, and not one of them is a good text book. Of the twa now most clamorously and pertinaciously before southern State boards of education for endorsement and adoption, one - is now in use in the public sohools o? this State ; the other, recently issaed, is written by the so-called, ''fighting parson." The first named is undoubt* edly partisan, but not intensely so. Its chief fault is its extreme heavi? ness of style, which renders the reading of it a labor to any one and the study of it a posi? tive weariness of the flesh to school ohildren. I cannot so rrespass on your space as to show this, but let me quote here one or two representative sen? tences. ''The domestic tranquility guaran? teed by tho constitution bad not been enjoyed (by the south) for many a day. and an interminable continuance of strife and discord seemed to be io store for all. The idea had been slowly shaping itself In the southern mind, that notwithstanding the affection for the Union that the south h&l felt and mani? fested since the founding of the govern? ment, tranquil existence without the government was preferable to continued disturbance within.7' The "fighting parson'7 is intensely and bitterly partisan. He discusses the "causes of the war'7 at great length, rehashing arguments that have been stale for 30 years and are about as in? teresting to a school boy as a last year's birdoest. Out of 424 pages he gives 138 to the civil war. Iiis style is totally uofitted for a text , book for ohildren. His sentences are long, in? volved and obscure. Imagine chil? dren 12 to 15 years old making credit? able or even intelligent recitations from extracts like the following: "Yet even after this plaio declara? tion of the President to coeroe sovereign States who had simply exercised their 'inalienable right7 (as the Declaration of Independence puts it) of chooeiog their own form of government and their own affiliations, the border States waited ; the Confederate government sent them commissioners to treat for peace and for the equitable settlement of all property rights and other poiots at issue ; and 'Union men' all through the couth, and many good men at the north, 'hoped against hope* and de? voutly prayed that better counsels might prevail, and that the calamities of war might be averted " And again this: "Io Meade's army four general officers-Reynolds, Vine-nt, Weed and Cook-were killed, and thirteen Hancock, Sickles, Gibbon, Warren, Rutherford, Barlow Barnes, Webb, Stanard and Graham-were wounded ; in Lee7s army five general officers Hood, Hampton, Hetb, J. M. Jooes, G. T. Anderson, K?mper. Scales and Jenkins-were wounded.77 * Historians, like poets, are horn, oot made. Any plodder can gather a mass of facts and have them put into print ; but if bc bas not that indefinable talent or tact for putting bis facts into attractive form, he. will oever enthuse nor even ifttsrest children, and the teacher who tries to instruct children from such a book has a hard road to travel. Facts are stranger than fiction, and history can be made more charming than a novel by a real historian. To my thinking, the best writer of Uni? ted States history ie JohnsFiske. He, by the way, has an excellent school history, %but it is better suited for high schools than for the common or graded schools. I sm not personally interested i? any author or any his? tory, but Eggleston's comes nearest to what I think a school history should be. It is attractive and en* tertaining ; the style is simple and pleasing, and it is non partisan. Before closing I wish to say that people who write about schcol his? tories ought to have an intelligent idea of the kind of history best suit? ed for children, and they ought to have a practical and personal ac? quaintance with the histories that are now rivals for adoption in the public schools. Confederate generals and other veterans should not allow them? selves and their organizations to be used to further the schemes of au? thors and publishers. The way to inform oneself on this subject is to get copies of the rival histories1 and examine them calmly and carefully, without prejudice and without regard to where the author lives ; to exam? ine with a view to encouraging a broad patriotism, not sectional feel ing3, and then select for the best in? terests of those most vitally concern? ed-the children themselves. If, upon such examination, the choice should fall upon a southern author, I wonld be among the first to congrat? ulate him. But it lis mighty poor patriotism and less sense to choose a southern schod book simply because it is southern. . WV IL WALLACE dewberry, Oct. 26. 1897. The Prohibitionists What They Are Doing-Ex? pect to Push Bill This Winter. The prohibitionistsof the State are exceedingly active, it seems, just at this time. They believe that the ' is? sue will have to be voted upon at the coming session of the general assem? bly, and their committee's petitions are being numerously signed all over the State, they say. In many places meetings have been held, and a great deal of work is being done in every quarter of the State Religious bodies have taken the work up. Dur? ing the past few days'lhe committee has sent out some further circulars, the contents of which are not: yet for publication. A meeting of the executive com? mittee will probably be held in this city the coming week. It is not on likely that a State Prohibition con? vention will be held in Colnmbia be? fore the general assembly meets. Tn the meantime many members of the legislature are getting up schemea of their own to offer as solutions of the liquor problem. Mr. Patton of this county is said to have a new one. The prohibition committee's bill is now on the calendar bf the general assembly and. they desire to press it aa it stands, with but few changes. It was introduced at the last session and was allowed to come over till this year -The State. We bare bright, honorable merchants in tbis town, and they give tbe public what it demands. They never offer as a substitu?a something "just as good." - t- t-? BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.'.' The best Salve ic the world for Cuts Braises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sore, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cure Pilet or no pay required. 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