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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22. 18997 The Sumter Watchman was toundea in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has -Voe combined circulation and influence of beth of the old papers, and is mani festly the heat advertising medium in y Sam ter. The mild bot earnest invitation to ^our delinquent subscribers, made in .these columns a few weeks ago, that they como ap and settle without being banned, has not mer. with the anani . as os response hope for. Some have j ttd promptly, bat these who have! sot psid are again requested to do so. We want money, bot; will take conn 4sy produce of any kind, provided it % sound and in good condition. The loll market price will be allowed for everything-poultry, eggs, grain, for age, mest, wood, and even pine-strsw Included. Now is a good time to fcricg in a load of something while wagons are coming to town to carry back farm supplies. The tax levy for this, county re gains the same ss it was last year, riz r mills. The levy ls appor tioned as follows : Fer State 5 mills, school tax 3 mills, ordinary county purposes 3 miRs, psst indebtedness mill We have long hoped for a reduction in taxes, hut recently we bave quit hoping for an improvement ear hope beiag swallowed up in the fear that the levy would be increased. ?andidly, our belief ii that there is store likelihood of an increase in the fevy for ordinary county purposes than there Aa of a reduction. Tho Legislature discussed the maay bills relative to changas in the Idispensary law, but no change was -made. Prohibition, looa! option and .high license are all th ories, while ? the -T^aneary is a powerful political Imachine, and has influence and strong pull. The expansionists declare their purpose to hold the Philippines in definitely, that they shall sever be an ^Integral part of the United States -> and that the natives of those islands "shall not be recognized as American citizens. Why should not the Fili pinos fight the. Americans and con tinue to fight them as long as they ssas able to do se ? If the Filipinos *are conquered the Americans will have a subject provinca for spolia >-l2on; if they succeed in attaining *ffkfrr independence they will be as f nro h-entitled to honor as the Ameri cans who fought in the Revolutionary > ^war. -Tte conduct of the Americans ^pKasd the Filipinos is Uiore oppress ^.3ve ~and with less show of excuse /%feaa the tyranny of Spain from which Unbans and Filipinos have alike been ^ecueavoring to escape. 'An .-American restaurant keeper io ?Habana bas stirred up a hornet's nest ?by refa8 ag to serve a mulatto who &olds 8 generare commission in the .-Suban army, sod bis place was closed in consequence by the police -authorities His action is said to &ave raised the race issue, and Coba -will doubtless fa ra iso, io future, a fruitful field for the exercise of the i peculiar talents of the cultivators of segro outrages. ^.resident McKinley has served notice, so the press reports say, on 'the senate that unless the army reor ganization bill is passed and suitable appropriations made be wi!! call sn * extra session of congress immediate . -ly subsequent to the adjournment of vibe present session. Imperialism '*nd expansion require a large army and still larger appropriations, and we may expect ao increase of both in gometrieai ratio, year after year, 'for so long as the land-grabbers are "ia the ascendency. Then will follow -asan inevitable result still greater oood issues and heavier revenoe **sxes. 'The Seoate killed a very good bill Oast week wheo it voted to coo tin ac . he Manldin Broad Tire bi ! uoiil oezt -session. The bill bore its merits oo its ace and the fsot that little or co argumeot was adva&cod against it* is satisfactory ovideoce that there was bat little to be said in rebuttal of the solid vaod logical arguments made in its favor Senators Maaldin and Hana io g. It i is cot often that a law will accomplish he beneficial results desired and ab the .same time confer compeosasiog benefits upoa the persons directly affected. The Broad Tire law would have been of inestimable, benefit to the pabiic roads and would have made the roads better each day that broad tire wagons were used, instead of causing them to deteriorate steadily as DOW results from the constant travel of narrow-tire vehicles. The ase of broad tires is of beneit to the owners of wagons and stock, for it has been proveo, by carefully and intelligently made experimenta and tests, extending over several years, daring which time the performance of the vehicles at ted with broad tires was noted, in all conditions of weather and on all kinds of roads, and shat heavier loads could be carried that the stock stood the work better and kept in better condition than when worked in wagons having narrow tires Tfce hill is dead for this session, but it can ba taken op again next session and we hope it trill then be passed, for it is in the nature of a reform nd will improve the roads. We direct the attention of par ; readers to the statements of Sept. Edmunds in reference to the Graded School library. The library is whol ly inadequate to the Leeds of the school and is sadly io need of books. Old books by standard writers as well as new books will be welcome additions to the library and will be of , lasting benefit to the pupils of the school. We are of the opinion that it would be practicable to organize a library aid association of a hundred or more members among the patrons of the school, eacc one of whom would agree to give a dollar or up wards each year for a period of years, and in this way the fonds could be raised to purchase by degrees a small, but very useful library. The suggestion is made for what it is worth. Sumter county has been exempted from the operation of the law to reg* late the charges of tobacco ware houses. This is the next best thing to tbe defeat of tbe aw, and we trust there will be no effort made at the next session of the Legislature to extend the law to this county. Gov. Candler, of Georgia, bas taken hold of the smallpox epidemic in that State with an energy that our Umz r.t of the executive chair would do well to imitate. GOT. Candler bas secured the detail of a smallpox spe cialist from the U. S. Marine corps and adopted a common sense and adopted a common sense and syste matic plan for tbe suppression of the disease where it has appealed, and to prevent its spread to other and at present uninfected portions of the State. Tbe authorities of ali towns sud cities and all county officials have been cs! eu spon to assist and co op erate with the Governor and the pby Biei&ns acting ander bis direction, in the effort to contrat the epidemic, and we believe that the sensible and well-considered efforts of Gov. Can dler wiH prove effective. In this State the disease spreads almost un opposed, and the Legislature higgled over making an appropriation that was absolutely necessary to the pros ecution of the work the State Board of Health had undertaken. Unless greater efforts are put forth to com bat the smallpox epidemic that is rapidly spreading over the entire State, we shall not be surprised if adjoining; States declare a quarantine against South Carolina. Neither could we blame the authorities of other States for doiDg so, for they would be but protecting their people Three Brothers Fight. Barnwell, Feb. 19.-The Sabwatb was broken here to-day about 4 o'o oek by a family difficulty in wbioh the oniy participai ts were brothers, Adam, George aod Tb oas as Duncan, all odor ed. In tbe triangular fight Adam Do ean vas killed, being shot through the heart; George Duooao was shot io the leg. It is said that Adam and George tised pistols, while Tom did hin shooting with a gao. George is oow io jail for shooting bis brother. Adam. It seems Adam aod Tom were palling together io the fight against George. A womao caused the difficulty, whieh occurred io time for trial at this month's coart. Quicksilver bas beeo discovered in Graot Park, io Atlaota. A man wash ing his diQoer bucket in tbe lake io the park noticed the quicksilver, and examinations by the State Geologist showed that it exists io larger quantities in the ground around tbe lake. A.J.Gill. Jr., Scotia, S. C , wriles: 1 nave used Dr. M. A. Simmoos Liver Medicine in vaj fatnii7 10 jears. It bas cured Indiges tion, Dyspepsia, Constipation, and mun? other ailments. NEW TOBACCO WAREHOUSE. The annonncment that Sumter will j have a tobacco warehouse this sea j SOD, maaaged by experienced tobacco | men, backed by ample capital, and that a number of buyers for manu facturers and exporters will be sta tioned here throughout the season, is the beat news we havs been privi leged to publish in quite a long time. The warehouse will be leased by the men who will manage it and they will ron it as a business enterprise from the start. They will come to stay and they have expressed a de termination to build up a first class market, where tobacco will be sold strictly ou its merit, sud where the tobacco growers will receive fair treatment and have their interests guarded by the warehousemen. The warehouse, under the new management, will be au excellent thing for this city and a great con venience to the tobacco growers of the county, who will be able to sell their crops at home and avoid the trouble and expense of hauling or shipping their tobacco to more dis tant markets. Tobacco should fetch as high prices here as at any other place in the State, and we believe it will this sea son if the farmers of the county will patronize the warehouse and thus do their part toward establishing a per manent home market. There will be more than enough tobacco produced in Sumter County this year to give both the warehouse iu this city and that in Mayesviile a support and keep the buyers at both places busy daring the entire season, and we trust both will have a liberal and satisfactory patronage. Thus far tobacco warehouses in this county have not proven financial bonanzas to the men who put op the money to establish them, but they have been indisputably of great benefit to the to bacco producers, acd we welcome with no small degree of satisfaction the re establishment of the ware house in this city, for it will be so encouragement and an incentive to many who have not heretofore plant ed tobacco to reduce their cotton acreage and put a portion of their farms in tobacco There is money in tobacco, and if a fine grade of the weed ie produced there is more clear profit to be realized from one acre than from five acres of cotton al six cents a poond ARIZONA. (By A. F. Bonney, M. D ) When I was editor in chief, devi}, typo sud chief cook of the now de funct Arizona Trailer, and later of the Arizonian, 1 used to tell the peo ple bow honest, and progressiv , and intelligent they were This Action is as much a fixture io the average country newspaper office as is shooting stick or a bell box, and tbe average editor wiii appreciate my ? sensations as being once more in a j position to tell tbe troth. * No where else on earth- will you 1 Sc J the pecaiiar conditions that exist here : and I can attribute it to no other cause than a lack of circulating medium. Everything used to be dicker and trade, and the most of tbe money the people got was what they received from the government in payment for bay and grain. When, about eleven years ago, the railroad was run through here it made sores change, but even a greedy corporation was obliged to take personal cheques for freight charges that bad oft times gone through a dozen bands, serving the place of greenbacks. The penny is an unknown thing here, as it is, or was, in California when I went there I used to have lots of fun bnying pennies at the postoffice and giving them to the street car conductors who invariably threw them into the street. But after awhile they got onto me, and then they had some fun throwing me into the street Here an hypothetical quantity, a bit. twelve-and-a half cents, is the unit of of small change. In buying two two cent stamps at the postofiice I got hold ot peonies until I had five of them. With a good honest nickle and those five copper, or bronze, abominations I would try to buy a sudden dose of snake medicine, but the polite clerk would always shove them back. I could not buy a cigar with them, and so one day, seeing a remarkably beautiful, bright looking boy of 6ve, I thought I would glad den hie heart and so I offered them to him He looked at them in sur prise, and then said in his sweet, childlike trebbie : "What in hell do you think I want with them things, pard, think I'm a damned Mexican kid In my agitation I went to a nearby well, noted (or the alkalinity of its water, and threw them in lhere, and then I ran swiftly away. I really expected the well to reject them. I never thought until after wards that I could have got two two. cent and one one cent stamps with them at the postoffice. No woDde am poor The dicker and trade way of doi business Haded to before is s very prevalent. The merchants se their cash to the bank at Tues over ene hundred miies away, a pay bills in goods ; and it is an i written maxim here : "If you { hold of a piece of money hang on it, for if yon let it go you will ney see it again r; A local justice oft peace was owing a man two dolla When asked for it he said : Oh, ji let it go on your next fiDe." give an air of truth to this etatemt 1 will jost say that we have soi justices, laws and juries out here Arizona the like of which can found no where else on the fe stool. The large majority of the setth in this valley are Mormons. Tb are recruited from al! nations, as mle from the middle and lower wal of life, and intellectually and moral will compare with the same class people of other faiths They are c more honest than their Gentile neig bors, they are industrious, but t results they achieve will not, in D opinion, compare with those of ti good eastern farmer. There are few smart, educated people amoi them, and they, thro7 the control the beads of the church in Utah, doi inate the business, religious, domei ic, political and spiritual affairs tbe common herd. Like the Apacl they have found that Uncle Sam h a long arm, and be Edmunds law observed pretty well. They are hospitable as the rest of the peep here. I was recently out on a hun ing trip and stopped at a ranch awa out in the foot hills aod asked to sta all. ig ht They told me to come ii gave me sapper, sod after I ba eaten, and the old man and I wei smoking I looked around and wot dered where we were all to etaj Tbe boase was built of adobe (roucT and was about 16x25, all in on room, and with a fiat roof. One lon bed was all I saw to accommod t sae, tbe eli man and woman and si. kids There was a huge fireplace i one end of the room in which a fir crackled merrily. About 9 o'clocl three of the children began to shov iigns of sleepiness, and they wert dodressed and put to bed. Whei [hey were sound asleep they wen taken ont of the bed and leaned o] against the wall near the fireplace ind soon the other three were po through the same routine ; then i ivas told that the bed was at my dis rosal- I protested, bot as they in listed, aod I was dead tired from i lays hard tramping I took off mj iboes and coat and turned in. Along about 5 a. m my old enemy, the asthma, gave me a jolt and j wakened, and to my great surprise [ fonnd myself propped op alongside ;he fireplace with the six kids, one )f whom was using my abdomen foi k pillow. The man and wo saan were in the bed, snoring bsrd and load ;uoagt to scare the bears away. ] 3ave bad doubts cast upon this story, >ut as 1 as formerly a newspaper nan no one should doubt my veracity br a moment. Many of the men here would be handsome were it not for their faces. The girls are pretty. Fortunately I an prove this, as I recently made a >ictare of one of the valley belles, it chanced tbat her ownie sweetness pas going on a bunting trip, about ;be time she got the pictures, and she gave bim one to take along and look it in camp. I have had just expe dience eooogh with camp life to know .hat a picture of ones sweetheart rs ust as essential to a well organized ;amp, as a Bible or a history of the Panic war But he took the picture; ind it chanced that he, in hunting, ran across a nice healthy cinnamon sear The bear, in the course of the liscussion, put his arms around the nan so as to hold him wciie he, the o ar, told him, the man, how much De, the bear, thought of bim, the nan Realizing the emergency of [he case the man drew out the picture sf the girl to take oDe last, fond look at it. The bear turned his head to see what sort of a Dew engine of destruction the man was bringing to bear on him. gave one shriek of mor tal agony, and went staggering down the trail. Afterwards they found bim-dead, his face distorted with Bach a look of unutterable pain and despair that the men who were skin ing bim, the bear, shed great big learn. Wheo we stop to think of the cu rions fact that tbe female population is mach greater thao that of the male, there being three girls born to every boy, one cannot help wondering whether it is a proof of polygamous Mormonism or a divine plan to kill off the bears Mining is a great industry in this sun kissed land, and while there are no mines jost here, there are bright promises for the near future At Clifton, forty miles away over the mountains, and at Globe, the termi nus of the G. V. G & N. railroad, are two great camps where millions of pounds of copper are turned out each year The hills are fall of pros p JO to rs who come and go unceasing ly. Young men, middle aged men, and o!d men ; ali eager and hopeful. The prospector is a born gambler. And no man who has not the gam-j hiing iastinct largely developed will j ever make a persistent prospector, for it is a life-time against a million in copper or gold, since the white metal has become just a base com modity. Thirty, forty, fifty years ago the prospector started out, a yoong, robust man, full of hope, lured by the chance of great and sudden wealth. At twenty five a million or more was bis figure. At thirty-five a million would do. At fifty anything in the neighborhood of a million, at sixty he says : "It won't take much to keep me'the rest of my days ;" and most anything will sat isfy him. His visits to town become more frequent and his stops longer, and one day he takes the trail over the Great Divide with the Grim Reaper for a pard, and bis place is filled with other men who prospect the same hills and camp by the same springs. And it will be ever so, as long as men will gamble, with life as a stake, against a million to be won. To be Continued. WRECK ON A. C. L. Charleston, Feb. 19 -The northern mails were late to-day, due to a terrific head end collision reported to have occurred on the Atlantic Cost Line railroad at Roland, N C., 40 miles beyond Florence, between tbe Florida Special and No. 35, the fast mail due here ac 6.03 this morning. The two engines were reduced to wrecks, which extended partially to the trains, but no fatalities were reported. The mails were delayed about eight hours by the collision. j The Kao sas^City Times says : "Tbe administration cf William McKinley has already fastened an annual public ex penditure upon us of not less tbao$150,* 000,000 a year more than any previous administration, and it may reach over $200,000,000. In fact, if the war rev enue tax is continued, which it will have to be to make good the revenue deficits of maintaining the Govern ment will be close on to $300,000,000. The country has a few thousand isl ands, wbiob are not self sustaining, and ac additional force of 75,000 men for military purposes to scow for it all.'1 BUCKLKJTS ARNICA SALVtt. Tb best Bair* ia the worI for Cats Brei ?, Sores, Ulesr*. Salt; Rhen , Fever, Sons Tetter, Chopped Hands, Chilblains, Co rat n<i aU Skia Eruption and positively ec re* Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed ta gi 76 perfaoc satisfaction, er raooay rai anded pr oe 26 nts par box* Por tala by Dr. J. T i>. me. For Cow feed of various kinds call on W. B. Boyle. To those living in malarial districts Tutt's Pills are indispensible, they keep the system in perfect order and are ari absolute cure for sick headache, indigestion, malaria, torpid liver, constipa tion and all bilious diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills -THE SG TBERN IM MAGAZINS OF BALTIMORE, MD. Published bj Manufacturers' Record PoblisbingOo. A Monthly Illustrated Journal deroted to Soother o Agriculture, dealing with all mat ters reinted to General Farming, Lite Stock Poultry, Dairying, Truck Farming, Frmt Growing, and every farm interest and par suit io the South. It is widely read by Northern and Western farmers contemplating moving South. It ought to be in every Southern family, for it is "of the South, by tbe South and for the South." EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS : Chas. W. Dabney, Jr , Pb D., LL.D. Ez*?nited States Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Ex-Director United States Ag ricultural Experiment Station io North Caro lina, President University of Tennessee and President of united States Agricultural Ex periment Station in Tennessee. J. B. Killebrew, A. M., Pb. D. Ex-Commissioner of Agriculture for Ten nessee, author of "Culture and Curing of To bacco" for U. S. tenth census, *-Tobacco Leaf," "Sheep Hosbaodry," "Wheat Grow ing," "Grasses," and other agricultural works. ! Tbe regolar subscription price of tbe ' Southern Farm Magazine is .$1 a year, but ! we offer it and tte Watchman and Sontbroo together one year for $2. Oct 19. i WRITE & Si, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1886. Represent, amoag other Companies : LIVERPOOL k LONDON * GLOBS, NORTH BRITISH .fe MERCANTILE HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $76,600,000. Feb 2S. BLANK BOOKS. We haye bought a toek of Blank Books direct from the manufacturers We saved the jobbers' profits, and our customers will get the benefit in Low Prices. All who have need cf blank hooks should give us a call. As usual we have a full stock of WRITING PAPERS, OFFICE SUPPLIES AND GEN ERAL STATIONERY. Our goods will give satisfaction and the prices are right. e. Liberty Streit*