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He WMcl^a at ^mfyxm. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 30.1899 The Sumter Wotc/iman was roundea in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866 The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of thc old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium in Sunter. GOOD WORK UNDONE. City Council took the back traok last Wednesday night. The hogs still hold the fort tad the anti-hog ordioaoee is relegated to the rear. Hogs may hold high carnival io the oily, and hog pens will continue . to breed fever until the frosts of November kill the germs in the natural course of events. In the meanwhile those who dislike the steoob arisiog from filthy hog pens oan but v hold their noses and wait with patience and abnegation uotil cold weather brings them relief. If any oae contracts fever it will be his own fault, for it will be easy of demonstration that bad he but observed proper precautions and exercised due f diligenoe in holding his ness the frisky fever germs could not have gamed a foothold in his system. It may be a trifle annoying and inconv nient, but it wiii be no severe hardship for people to bold their noses until November 15th. Io an emergency they might resort to olotbes pins or plag their nos trils with cotton that had been satu rated with some reliable germicide. In all events the hogs must not be dis turbed; they most have none of their privileges abrogated ; they must be permitted to root and wallow and or ate all the stench ac d filth and fever that they have been accustomed to. If the worst comes to the worst the Chief of Police may be appointed the especial guardian of the hogs and it will be his duty to make a daily tour of the oity with a liberal supply of chloride of lime, rose water and other toilet scented arti cles to deodorize and perfume the orban quarters of the great American hog. But to get down to hard facts. Oo the 10:h instant the anti-hog ordinance was passed by a unanimous vote of all the members present at the special meeting of the City Counoil. The ordinance was to gc into ef fect immediately after dee pub lication. It bas been published and would have gone into effect oo the25tb. "The people of the city tock it for grant ed that the council meant exactly what it said and iotended to eoforoe the ordioaoee to the letter on August 25th. A majority of the owners of hogs im mediately begao disposing of their hogs, either selling them at a sacrifice or seodiog them out of the city. They wished to obey the law of the city and they set about doing so oo matter what toe cost totbeaseWes might be, for it was generally admitted that the re moval of bogs from the city aod the total abolition of hog peos was neces sary, and the City Couooil had aoted in the interests of the city as a whole, wita oo desire to work a hardship on the owners of bogs. The members of couooil as well as ali others recognized that many who owned b - would suf fer a loss, bat, while this was nc fort u nate and to be regretted, coo s ii erat i cn for the health of oir citizeos and the weil being of the city, and io response to a general ce mac d that the bog LU isa eec be abated at once aod finally, impelled them to declare that the keeping of bogs within the city limits ebould no longer be permitted. A majority cf hog own ers had already seid their bogs a: a sacrifice, or otherwise disposed of them, and to them it woola have been no hardship for the ordinance togo ioto ef fect. Whatever hardship the ordinance entai s has already beeo felt by a aaa jority of those wbo would softer from it, and the suspension of the ordioaoee was ill-advised and is calculated to de the city teo fold more damage and entail len-fold greater hardships upon ninety per cent of .the residents of the city than its enforcement woold upoo the oweers of bogs. Council knew jost as well on Aagust 10th as it did.oo August 24th, that the ordioaoee would be a hardship to maoy law-abid 3Dg citizens aod tazpayers, aod if it was not fully decided to drive the hogs cut the ordinance should have been voted down theo. This thing of doing and then uodoiog a thing without the introduction of nsw facts tends to dis credit the council, for we ceo never knew exactly what to expect. One Minute Cough Cure quickly cure3 ob stinate summer coughs and colds. "I con sider is a most wonderful medicine-quick and safe."-W. W. Merton, Mayhew, Wis. THE BUSINESS LEAGUE. The tax exemption ordinance has been safely landed, and the next thing is to organize the business men of the city with a 6trong, united and working body that will bring the fae tories to Sumter. The initiative has been taken by Mr. Altamont Moses, President of the Board of Trade, who has called a meeting at the Sumter Club on Thursday night. Every business man and ail others who are interested in the development of the city and are willing to do their share of the work that is necessary, should attend the meeting. By united effort and systematic work we can build a city on the foundation that has been aid, but if the people do not pull to getber, if they do not work systemat ically, nothing can be accomplished. Therefore, it is necessary for some organization to be formed to foster and direct the work Sumter must be kept prominently before the public and the advantages that we possess in climate, pure water, cheap fuel railroad facilities, exemption from taxes, cheap land, cheap timber and building material and others that it is needless to mention here, must be placed before capitalists who are seeking locations for factories. First of all, however, and of most import ance, the people of Sumter must get together and prove their faith by their works. It is true that a great deal bas been done in the past few years, but we must do more to prove that Sumter is to be a manufacturing town and by the success of home en terprises attract outside capital. Right now Sumter needs a roller mil!, another cotton mill, another railroad to connect with the Seaboard Air Line, and other enterprises too num erous to mention There is a great work to be done and we hope the meeting Thursday night will result in the organization of a Business League that will have, from the out set, the working spirit and the energy and tenacity to carry every undertaking through to success. PHILADELPHIA OBJECT LES v SON. Philadelphia is next to New York the greatest manufacturing city in the country, aod, population considered, it is ahead of the larger city. There are nacre than 20,000 facteries in Phila delphia, with an annual produotion exceeding $600,000,000 in value. These factories pay taxes only upon their real estate. Philadelphia not only exempts the manufacturing plants for a term of years, but for ail time. Factories are encouraged to locate there and it is made to the interest of the owoers of factories to remain there and increase their investments. It is this policy that made Philadelphia a great city and enables her to hold the place that bas been won. If thc South will adopt a similar policy manufactur es will multiply ic cumber and grow in importance. The South has the Dato* ral advantages and it devolves upon the people of the Soutb to create and maintain conditions that will foster factories to work up our raw material and turn out Swished products. Raw material is generally sold at a bare margin and often for less than the cost of production, while the profit Hes in toe finished product. The road to wealth is through the factory, and if the South is ever to reap the profit from its great volume of raw products she must have more factories. The city or State that has tbe most factories and turns the greatest amount of raw material into finished and marketable products will inevitably become richer than less progressive neighbors THE SEABOARD BRANCH We are pleased to know that the j people of Bisbopville approve of our i suggestion that Sumter and Bisbop ville unite forces to work for a Sea board Air Line connection This ie not a visionary and impractical scheme, but a business proposition that bas strong and lasting arguments of a practical nature to be urged in its support. In the first place, Sum ter and Bisbopville and the country lying between them need a branch road controlled and operated by the Seaboard Air Line. In the second place, the Seaboard Air Line needs the business that the proposed branch would secure for it The main line from Cheraw to Columbia passes1 through a country that is, to a large extent, except in the immediate vicinitv of Cheraw, Camden and Co lumbia, poor and undeveloped, and that will furnish only a limited amount of local business, apait from the timber business that is to be CH veloped immediately. With a branc line to Sumter via Bishopville rh conditions woulc^ be different. 1 would pass through a thickly settle and prosperous country, and woui have two prosperous towns ou it line The business of Sumter an Bishopville aione would be a consic erable item, but from the countr between the two places, now withoi a railroad within convenient distance a large volume of business would b drawn from the day the road wa opened, and with each year the bus ness would increase, for that sectio of the country is developing year b year, and there is still room for gre improvement that would follow as natural result of the building of railroad through it. We trust th business men of Bishopville will tak up the matter and agitate it so tha they will have things in shape to co operate with Sumter when the mov is made. Wheat ean be grown io this county as the experience of those who plante it this year proves. Mr. J. M. Prog don, of Concord, planted two acre from which be gathered thirty bushels o clean wheat Mr. R. I. Mannin planted 3-J sores on bis place nea Mannvilie, and the yield was 13 bufeh els and 3 pecks to the aore. Tbl wheat was planted late-some tim< after oats had been planted-and thc land was not as good as the average, a the wheat crop was an after-tbougbi and the best land had been planted ic oats. The only manure the wheal received was twenty bushels of cotton seed to the acre. Other farmers in various sections of the oounty planted wheat iast fail, and all of them.are said to be well pleased with the result of the experiment. There is no doubt about the ability of farmers in Sumter oounty to raise ail the wheat needed for home consumption, and ne hope everj farmer will plant a few acres this fall. Ten bushels of wheat to the acre is better than the average cotton orop, and the farmer will not be forced to sell wheat at any prioe he is offered. He can eat it and live at home. From the Daily Item, Aug. 26. One factory employing one hundred and ten hands and paying out more than 500 per week in wages and turn* ing out more than $100,000 worth of manufactured products is worth working for, and there are dozens of progressive cities io tbe South that know it. Since it was announced that the Telephone Manufacturing Company was looking for a site for a new factory and it might seek a location in some other town, Mr. Mason has been flooded with letters offering inducements Columbia is in the front in the effort to capture thc factory and Col. Wilie Jones, Dc. Ker. dail, the Manufacturers7 Club and oth ers have offered sites for the factory on terms to be named by the company. Charleston, Knoxville, Florence, Cbc raw, Augusta and Atlanta and other towns have also invited the officers or the ccmpany visit them and offered inducements to secure thc location of the factory. Ali of them offer exemp tion from taxation for a term of years and some offer free sites. Tho tele phone factory is a big thing now, but within a year it wili be bigger, and it has a business that is growing with such rapidity that it is impossible to keep up with orders. The merchants of Sumter know that it is a good thing for the place, for the wages paid the hands is spent largely with them every week, lt will be a better thing if the new factory is built in Sumter, and all that is needed to keep the factory is the ratification of the tax exemption ordi nance and the rigid enforcement cf regulations that will insure the main tenance of sanitary conditions in the oity and espeoialiy in the imm diat vioinity of the faotory. The skilled workmen brought here from the north and west are not accustomed to work with filthy bog pens under their very noses and they will not stay in Sumter if they are rtquired to do so. They receive good salaries from the Tele phone Manufacturing Co., but no more than they can get in any other factory, aod they will not remain in a place where they believe their health is en dangered by unsanitary surroundings, these arc hard facts that have a practi cal and immediate bearing upon the present and future prosperity of this city, and thinking and public spirited citizens should consider them. "DeWitt's Little Early Risers did me mare ! good than all blood medicines aod other ' pills,'' write3 Geo. h. Jacobs, of Thompson, j Coon. Prompt, pleasant, never grippe-they cure constipation, arouse the torpid ive: to ! action and give you clean blood, steady j nervis, a clear brain and a healthy appetite. '. -HugbGon-Ligoa Co * i SUMTER MUST MOVE TOO. Frota the Daily Item, Aug 23. Florence and Darlington are work ing together to induce the Seaboard Air Line to build a branch road from the main line between Cheraw and Camden to those towns The branch road would be about thirty miles in length, would traverse a fine farming country and would have two of the mo.-t prosperous towns in eastern South Carolina from which to draw business. The only thing that can be said against the proposed road is that it would for a part of the dis tance, parallel two divisions of the Atlantic Coast Line, viz : the Cheraw and Darlington R R and the Harts ville RR It is claimed, however, that in spite of this there would be sufficient business to support the new railroad and pay interest on the in vestment We hope the people of Darlington and Florence will succeed in interesting the Seaboard in the plan and will eventualiy succeed in having the road built In this con nection we desire to repeat the sug gestion made several months ago, notwithstanding the fact that it met with no approval, that the Sumter Board of Trade and business men of this city make an organized effort to induce the Seaboard Air Line to build a branch to Sumter Starting from a point on the Cheraw and Camden line above Bishopville, a road could be buiit to this city through a thickly settled and rich farming country that would not ex ceed 30 miles in length. Bishopville excepted, this sectiou of country, the richest, naturally, in the county, is without railroad facilities, and the local business alone would support a railroad There are no high hills to grade nor are there any large streams to be bridged A road buiit from this city via Bishopville to connect with the main line of the Seaboard Air Line would benefit Sumter and would be of immense advantage to the town of Bishopville and the whole section of country through which it wonid pass This road is fully as feasible as the proposed Dar lington Florence road, in and some respects has more to be said inuits favor If the business men of Sum ter wouid get together and secure the co operation of the people along the line and of the people of Bishopville they would stand a chance of getting the road. If they sit down and do nothing, waiting for the good Lord to move the railroad mag nates to build it of their own volition without aid or encouragement, it will never be built. The road could be built for $8,000 a mile or less, and if Sumter wanted it bad enough the money could be found to build it within a year. As we have said be fore the people of a town must get a move on them unless they want the town to go to seed, and it seems to us that right now is the time lo make a move. Others are moving and we are likely to get left if we do not move also. Bismarck's Iron Nerve. Was the result of his splendid health. In domitable will and tremendous erergy rc not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success they brhg, use Dr* King's New Life Pills They develop every power of brain and body. Only 25c at J. F. W. DeLonae's Drug Store 2-6 Claremont Loftus Ko. 64, A. F. M. THE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMU NICATION of Claremont Lodge, No. 64, A. F. M.. will be held on Thursday Evening, September 14, at 7 p. m. Brethren will take due notice aad govern themselves accordingly B. J. RH A ME, W. M. Attest-H. C. 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Haskell, Vice-President of the D Zbnmwiran, took-keeper of State Treas Loan and Exchange BaDk. rr w t> . _ Rev. John A. Ricef D. D., President of Co- r'M^'%GeD' Secr^ J lamb a Female College. M^Li.t ni *,hPM r WashlDgtCa n m T\ w ij o. c . . J ot Methodist Church Hon. W. D. Mayfield, ex-State Superintend- T^V,^ M D-L- T?J-, O tim a" t?^r, ai; r, ReT- JoDn M- Pike,~Edttor of "War of eut or ducation. Faith Ang 30-o After September 1st we will discontinue punching Ice Ticket cards. For ur Which are arriving every day we will close ont at Remarkably Low Prices a number of broken lots ot MEif'S SHOES Womens9 and Misses Ox fords and Shoes. We have also placed a lot of our Sample Shoes On our bargain table; so if you come early you will have first pick at the choicest line of Shoes that have been offered at cut orices this season. SPECIAL. 75 dozen guaranteed -ply linen Collars sizes 13-17 straight, wing tip and turn down at 50 dozen guaranteed 4-ply linen Cuffs, size3 10. 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