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%\)t Wist^smat? jSoa%sn. WEEWE8DAY, FEB. 6, 1901. The Sumter Watchman was toundeo in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman, and Southron now has the combined, circulation and influence of both of (bc old papers, and is mani? festly the beat advertising medium in Sumter. Sumter County has one of the strongest sod ?nos;, influential delega? lions io tho legislature, and of the sew ?embers Taos. G: McLeod is one of the rising ?es. Already be has woo ao enviable re potation both on the floor and io Cha committee room. The prohibition oona ties are opposed to the proposed amendment to the dis? pensary law t?nt will give poetically all the profits, totfae ccuoties io which dispensaries axe- located* The tax levy for Sumter County will be one half tail! less this year than it has beeo foe ?he past several years. The supply bill, which is oow in the bands of the ways and means committee, fixes the levy fer coan ty parposes at 3 mills and provides also that a sinking food for the retirement of the outstand? ing county bonds ehall be created by setting aside annually $2.000 from tho dispensary profits. The taxpayers will welcome the redaction of the levy and we believe that they will approve unanimously the plan to provide for the payment of the hooded indebtedness of the county. If a thoroughly efficient and satisfac? tory sewerage system oao be provided for this city at a cost DOC exceeding $25,000 who will oppose a bond issue for that amount to pay for the construe lion of the system ? The greatest obstacle to the success of the Charleston Bxposiuoo that now remains to be overcome is the lack of hotel accommodations. It is op to the people of Charleston to provide ample and comfortable quarters fer the orowds that will atleod the exposition, if tbe exposition opens without an improve? ment in the hotel situation io Charles ton the enterprise will be a fallare and the faa'i will be Charleston's. The RepobitMns have been sadly disappointed io Coba thus far for they have oot had a free hand to steal and plunder and despoil the natives as thoroughly as they had planned. There have been, tt ia .trae, pretty good pick? ings oo a small scale, bot the small fry, so.cn as Rathbone and Keeley, bave come to grief and the Democrats in Congress and the newspapers hare so close a watob on them that no great sebeta* of planner bas been possible. Tae candidates to succeed McLaurio ?o the U. S Senate are already namer oas asd they are workios among the mem??T of the Legislature for pledges ?f sapporo. ?*be race id a good ways off and fortaaatcly the pejple have a say SD at the polls and the chances are better for selecting a real strong and desirable mac than it would be if the eleoti >a batt to be throws into the Logislaiare. 5asl at pr?sent there h some mighty poor senatorial timbei: * offered for consid?ration. The Faculty of the Charleston Medi? cal CoHege bas given that institution a felaek eye by demanding of the legisla? ture bo enactment of a law exempting graduates of that college from examina lion by State board If the faculty fears that these graduates eaoaot pass the examination that graduates of other medical coll?ges are required to pass before being licensed to practice tn this 8 ?te the thing for them to dj is to raise the standard of. their college and not appeal to the legislature for exemp? tion. This appeal for an exemption indicates a distrust of the qualifications of their graduates and ie an admission chat the conree ef study and training given in the Charleston Medical Col lege is cot ail that it should be. If one medical college ta to have its graduates exempted io this State ail reputable medical colleges should be put oo the same footing. The legislature has settled the State farm question for thia term, if for no longer, and io the circumstances we must admit that the action taken was wisfl. Wc are as deoided in the opinion as ever that the State should not engage io farming on a large scale and that the plsce for ali able bodied convicts is on the public roads, but jost at this tims, wheo a large number of cooviots are aoder contract to private individuals and not available for use on the roads it is uoadvtsable to fores a sale of the State farms to release foi' road work the comparatively small number of convicts there employed. According to the statement of the peni? tentiary management therp are only 140 convicts employed on the State farms ana that a majority cf this number are old, infirm or otherwise physically unfit for hard labor on the public roads and that the farms as cow managed famish the only practicable means to give them employment and render them self-supporting. Accepting these state meets as we do with belief as to their accuracy we are not in favor of selling the farms jivt to have the State rid of thant. From tbe Daily Item, Feb 5. The crusade against gambling is pro oeeding apace From the little negro crap shooters, who haunt the back lots and rattle the bones for a peony a throw, an advance has been made to the white men wbo indulge io a social game of poker with a ten cent limit. These are small fry, bo? in time the big fish, who are known to foi low gambling as a profession, who have by current report, an established hosioes* at a well known stand and who run a faro bank and play poker for big money with all comers, will be captured and called to account This is the consummation devoutly to be desired and we entertain the hope of seeing the day when the big gamblers will be arrested as ire quently and fined as severely in pro portion to their means and offenses as the little negro crap ?.borers and the ten cent limit poker players who have came to grief Yesterday four white men were before the Mayor's court, haviiog been oaptured by the police while playiog cards for money, and tbey were required to pay a fine of 050 each In response to ao appeal for considera tion for the families of these men their name3 were suppressed in the report of the proceedings of the Mayor's court. The editor of this paper does o ot believe io shielding any man who knowingly violates the law, and, in oooseqsenoe. finds himself before the bar of justice as a culprit. It is not the province of a newspaper to show mGre consideration for the feelings and sensibilities of those near and dear to men guilty of an offense against law j, and the public conscience tbaa those j persons have themselves exhibited by , their conduct. The men themselves are the ones to be regardful of the feelings of their families and others whose respect they value and oot a newspaper, which u a re? corder of news and not a being over- ? flowing with sympathy The time -o show feeling and consideration for one'.* family and business repute tion is before committing an offeote against the law, not after one bas ; beeo found out and brought to book. It it wonderful how great consideration for bis family a detected offender de velopes whee he has been found guilty io a police court,, and what great zeil , he displays io running aroood to the newspaper c?oes pleading to have his , name kept out of the paper. Now as to that case yesterday : The writer was abseot yesterday ?od knew < nothing of the occurrence until today, , otherwise the names as recorded en the docket of the Mayor's court, wou'd , have been published io spite of tbe , intercession of the men themselves and their friends, lay and clerical. But es , those acting io the writer's behalf in his absence having made a pledge to shield them in so far as this paper in concerned, the pledge will be respected, although it is against our policy and in violaron of a fixed conviction that one man's name on the police court docket is no better than another's ; and also that the mao himself should be the ooe to show consideration for bis family by refraining from violating the law. knowingly and wilfully, and that be should not expect a newspaper * ^.eld bim and show the consideration that be has failed to exhibit. Neely's Bond Must be io Cash. Habana, Feb. 3-The military gov. ernment will demand a cash bond irom C. F. Wi Neely, the alleged de? faulter. What the amount will be has not been stated, ae Neely's law? yer absolutely refuses to deposit cash. The charges will aggregate an em? bezzlement of over $100,000, with the possibility of the amount being materially increased The judge of the court of First Instance is inclin? ed to hold that Neely is guilty of stealing surcharged stamps to the amount of $300,000, and as the ques? tion of bail at presents rests with bim. the cash to be deposited would exceed that figure The counsel for the government are confident of con victing Neely, apart from the stamp burning incident. W H. Reeves, who will probably be the star witness for the government, and who has been undergoing almost daily exacai tions by the postoffice inspectors for a month, asserted today that the whole method of Neely's alleged stealings had been icvealed under! promise of immunity At Washington, Ind, employes of a ? stave factory sing and pray for 15 ; minutes before going to work every j morning. Employes in most faetones j pray during the last 15 minutes of the j day-for the whistle to blow. Washington Leiter, - s Democrats and Republicans, by mutual consent, called the legislative game today long enough to parti cipate in doing honor to the memory of that grand Virginian, John Mar shall, by attending the joint session of Congress heid in the hall of the House, and taking part in the inter eating exercises of the Centennial celebration of the appointment of John'Marshall to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U 8. The republicans will this week try to hold night sessions of the Senate to force the Subsidy bill through. The opponents of the bill are not particularly opposed to night sessions, but they insist that at all sessions when this bill is being considered a quorum should be present Mr. McKinley signed the Army bill Saturday, and the hunt for the thirteen hundred odd commissions it places at his disposal, is now io full cry, and he is already finding it several times worse than the grip Gen Miles has been promised the Lieutenant Generalship. Senator Jones, of Ark., doesn't allow his regret for the failure of the democratic Senators to act as a unit in a programme of opposition to re- j publican legislation, and especially to the Ship Subsidy bill, which the whole power of the republican machine is now trying to force through the Senate, to prevent his expressing his own opiniou In re ply to an appeal from Senator Frye, for a vote on the bill, Senator Jones said : "It is a remarkable fact that this subsidy bili should be pressed upon Congress during tue closing days of the session, whee 14 appro priation bills, the bill which looks to a decrease of the burdens of taxa tion, the Nicaragua Canal bili, and other meagores of far reachiog im portance, remain unacted upon. There must be no limitation cf de bate, and until.the minority has bad ample opportunity to consider this subsidy bili in ali its phases, I will not give my assent to any agreement for a vote " Senator Teller indorsed the remarks of Senator Jones, and added a few sarcastic words for those inclined to taise a fuss because the right of debate still exisited io the U. S Senate. This does not indicate an early vote on the bill, even if the republicans have nerve enough to keep it before the Senate at the ex? pense of all other legislation, as its steering committee has decided to do Senator Galtioger made some ugly j charges in support of bis resolution for a joint congressional committee to investigate special pension legisla tion He said that under the present ; practice a pension bureau bad been ] established under the domo of the Capitol, and pension attorneys, he believed for pay, advised clients that it was easier to get pensions through 1 congressional action than through the pension bureau fie called atten tion to the fact that one senator had ' introduced 162 private pension bilis, and another 145 : that the total of these bills in this congress, had < almost reached o,000, and he predict \ ed that they would be doubled in the next congress if something were net done to head off present practices No speech made by a democrat at this session has attracted more atten tion than the appeal of Representa- j tive Lanham of Texas for harmony in the democratic party By way of < emphasizing his willingness to re- 1 ceive with open arms those democrats 1 who left the regular organization during the last two national cam paigns, he inserted this verse in his speech : "Return, O wanderer, return, And seek an iojared party's grace ; Fora-ike tbe sins that made you mourn, A nd drove j on from its food embrace ! Come borne ! Come borne ! O prodigal cbild, come borne ! Senator Tillman, in calling atten? tion to the absence of a qurum in the senate during the debate on the ship subsidy bill, in accordance with the democratic policy of insisting on the presence of a quorum said : "I want to give notice that the end of the session is less than one month away, and we have done nothing towards passing the appropriation bills. Now if this administration wants an extra session and proposes to obtain one by delaying everything by this bill they can have one, but 1 want to say that as long as the debate lasts, and it will last a long time, I am going to see that the republicans will have to listen to it " John Marshall Day Cele? brated. Colombia, Feb 5.-The one hun? dredth anniversary of the appointment of John Marchai! to be chief justice of the United States was appropriately celebrated in this etty last night The exercises were held in the ball of the boase of representatives and ?ere of interest not ooly to the members of the legal profession bat to tbo general public as well, as was evidenced by the large camber of spectators present. There were present the governor aod j most of the Statu officers, the members I of thc gooenii assembly and a large bamber of visiting lawyers throughout j the State Tbe exercises were marked by a | special sining of tho State supreme ! ct'urt AS'Ocia'.c Justice Pops pie- [ MCt?d. - imm II i mmi - - Queen Victoria was laid to rest amid ; great honors oo Saturday. The Discoverers of'Quinine. "Some ?irue ago. wheo i*w*a in P*ris aTerdiog the international cou ero.<s of pharmacy," said D?" A'bert French, of Pi'tfiburg, **l saw a sr.a-u e unveiled to Bertrand Pelletier and J ll C*venton. reoowoed 38 pbarmaoeu tioai chemists Cavention wi3 borne io 1795 sod studied a: tbs Pj?tis School of Pnarmaoy. While pharmacist, at the St Antoine hospi'al he met Pelietier, and ?hey collaborated io their work. Two years after discovering bruche and ?trycboine rhey were ab'e to announce quinine, and with rare disinterestedness they made their work public by preseoring au account to the Paris academy on Sept ll, 1820. in their memoir they stated that they had succeeded in isolating ciochcuine and quinine from both red and yellow oinobooa bark and described the therapeutic properties of these sub? stances. Io 1827 the Mootyou prize of the aeadeiay was awarded to them in honor of their valuable disoorery, and now a monument, representing the two investigators ?tends to remiod observers of their joint contribution to science and humanity. There-you publish a newspaper." said Dr Frenob, "and I will wager that is news to nearly every one tba- reads it unless it is a physician or student along rbis peculiar line of study v-Exchange Tillman in the role of a prophet ie a booming snccess. says the Winns boro News and Herald He prophe sied that in ten years the dispensary would net the State ?500.000 a year, and in eight years the profits ron away above that amount." That is a mistake Tillman predicted that the dispensary would net the State $500. 000 the first year and ?1,000,000 each year thereafter He was at least seven years too sanguine - Slate. Editors lose their beads sometimes m this country, but they don't stay lost ss many do in Cnica where 1900 hive bad their beads snipped off for wrifiog stuff that the government bosses didn't enjoy. BARRED ?ND WHITE ROCKS. E??6 $1.56 per 13 My Barred Plymouth Rocks have wen for me and my easterner* at three large shows this season. L. C. BASSET, Bos 12, Sunny Side, Ga. Feb 6-2m Estate of Miss Emma S, Wither spoon, Dec'dt IWILL APPLY to the Judge of Proba te of Sumter County on March 6th, 1900, for % 'Final Discharge as Executor of aforesaid B?tat?. ABNER D WITHERSPOON, Feb 6-4t Fxeeatcr. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER. By T. V Walsh, Esq, Probate Judge. WHEREAS, MRS FANNI S WOOD? ARD SVilTH. (H 8'ster of raid de? ceased) n ade suit to me to grant W. C. Smith, ber buabana, Letters of Administra tion of th* Estate of and tff?ctsof IRA P. WOOD *> RD. late of said Connty and State, deceased These are therefore to cite and admonish il! and singular the kindred and creditors of i be said IRA P WOODARD, ta afore? said, deceased, that they be and ap? pear before me in tb? Court of Probate, to he b?ld ?t Sumter C B , on February 20th, 1901, next, after puMication thereof, at ll D'clock in tbe forenoon, ^o show cause, if my they bare, why tbe said Administr?t on should co: he granted. Given ander my hand ih'8 6 h d*y of February, A D., 1901 TH OS V WALSH, Judge cf Probate. Feb 2-2t The tferrigt Shoe h Womera Easv, stylish, durable. Econ? omical for a woman to buy be? cause the Herrick Shoe is nude on honor anc! sold at three fair prices for the three different grades it comes in -$2.50, >3-oc, '1 he guarantee o? the makers, has thirty-eight years of practi? cal experience in the making of women's shoes back of it. Re? member, please, thc dealer who handles it in your City has many lines to choose from but heehose the Herrick Shoe because he beiieves in the quality, workman? ship and style of the shoe itself. Oxfords. 50 cents a pair less than prices quoted. WALSH'S! SHOE STORE. I A Georgian's Protest. ! Atlanta, Feb. 4 -The memory of j the Ute Chief Justice John Marshall j was honored today in appropriate ! evercises in the hail of the house of representatives Addresses were delivered by President Warner Hill of the Georgia Bar association. Hou j Burton Smith, Presiding Justice Lumpkin cf ihe supreme court and others A note of protest against the cele j bration was sounded by Hon John j W. Aiken, former president of the I Georgia bar association, who gave out an open letter, in which he says : "When the Georgia supreme Court marches into the hall of representa? tives to lend its presence to the glori? fication of ibis eminent nationalist, Ipt Chief Justice Simmons, an Old Ilictory Democrat, who slept on tented field and field untented under the Stars and Bars, remember that according to John Marshall his neck shot: ld have graced the baiter ; let Mr Justice Lumpkin remember that, according to John Marshall, his dis tiuguished kinsman, the first Georgia chief justice and his able associates were all mistaken in their materly deliverance in the noted cass cf Padclieford, Fay & Co ; let Mr Jus lice little remember that according to John Marshall, his life time con? ception of the constitution is au airy dream ; let Mr Jos tice Fish remember that, ac cording to John Marshall, the theory held by myself and his kinsmen as to where allegiance first lay in 1861 let Mr Justice Lewis remem? ber that, according to John Mar shall, the brilliant family of which he is one have been all along mistaken in tbe political thought ; let Mr Jostice Cobb remember that, accord ing to John Marshall, his illustrious father, who represented tbe sooth sa nobly in federal councils and his distinguished uncle, who sacrificed his life at the bloody Frederickebarg, were technical rebels "In speaking for tbe American Bar association, let Borton Smith remeta ber that, according to John Marshall, his first born's grandsirr, the nobie Gordon, committed treason every time bis stainless sword leapt from its untarnished scabbard If Mar sbaiiism is right then Lee shoot? have been hanged ; Jefferson Davis legally deserved the scaffold and j every Confederate soldier from Ma j nas8as to Appomattox was io law ft ? rebel deserving death " Italy's KiDg Marked. Paris, Feb 4 -Le Rappel publishes a dispatch from Rome saying : "Agents of the Italian detect!va department in the United States report that Caleagoo, an anarchist, has left for Europe to make ac attempt oo the life of King Victor Emmanuel, and that be is aociog under the orders of tl? Paterson anarchists Tbe Italian polies are watching the ports and frontier ' stations." Washington, Feb 4 -The boase committee on publie buildings aad grounds today acted favorably oo what is knowe as thc omnibus publie build? ing bili, increasing the limit of cast ot* a somber ot publie buildings Tb? foi lowing revision of increases was made before the bill was reported : Tampfc, $325,000 ; Newport New*. Va, $200. 000 1 he o?ber amounts were reported as originally 6xed io the bill. SALT RHEUM CURED BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. JUST SEE!? IN TESE. Slight Skin Eruption? arc ai Warnics of Something 32?re Serious to Cooa* Tine Only Sate Way lu to Heed the Warning. Joluxston's Sarsaparilla is the Most Powerful &I00? Purifier Known. Nature, in her efforts to correct mistakes, which, mistakes haye come from careless living, or it may be from ancestors, shoots out pimples, blotches and other imperfections on the skin, as a warning that more serious troubles (per? haps tumors, cancers, erysipelas or pulmonary diseases) are certain to follow if you neglect to heed the warning and correct the mistakes. Many a lingering1, painful disease and manyan early death has been avoided simply because these notes of warning have been heeded and the blood kept pure by a right use of JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA. Miss Abbie J. Rande, of Marshall, Mich., writes: *'l was cured of a bad humor after suffering with it for five years. The doctors and my friends said it was salt rheum. It came out on my head, neck and ears, and then on my whole bod\r. I was perfectly raw with it. What I suffered during those five years, is no use telling. Nobody would believe me if I did. I tried everv medicine that was advertised to cure it. I spent money enough to buy a house. I heard JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA highly praised. I tried a bottle of it. I began to improve right away, and when 1 had finished the third bottle I was completely cured. I have never had a touch of it since. I never got any thing to do me the least good till I tried JOHNSTONES SARSAPARILLA. I would heartily advise all who are suffering from humo? or skin disease of any kind to try it at once. I had also a good deal of stomach trouble, and was run' down and miserable, but JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA made me all right/' The blood is your life and if you keep it pure and strong von can positively re? sist disease or face contagion fearlessly. JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA never fails. It is for sale by all druggists, in ful i quart bottles at only one dollar ead* MICHIGA?V 2D2FCT7C3r COMP /\ TVY, DETROIT, MXC^ J S. HUGHSON & CO. Samter.S.C ONLY FOR A LIMITED TiME. Your Greatest Opportunity! It may never Reach You Again. Special UNTIL MARCH 1st. Special. We have decided to add to our extendive retail nosiness A Wholesale Stove Department, and K-e ?re noir gettirg cp a large eaielogce, vrhicb will be io the hands of the printers ia a few days. Now custon ere, jon bave helped us to buiid ap ibis extensive ba sis ese, sod ?a expect ro give joa tba bene6t of our progr?s. We, of course, have to boy ia Urge qaauti I nea a&d coofioe ourselves to * few lines; eo in order to clear ont the odd stock, We will sell Crockery, Lamps. China, Glass? ware and Toys at Special Prices, But Stop ! Look i ? Listen ! ! ! Our No. 8 ELMO STOVES, sell tor $20 00, Now $17 00 with wara, j No 7 ELMO STOVES, pell for 17 00, Now 14 00 with wa?. No. 1636 CAPITOLA STOVES, sell for $16 00, Now 13 50 with wara. ! No. 7 COTTON OPTION STOVES, fell for $14 00, Now 12 00 wi.b ware, i No. 7 KENTUCKY JEWEL fell for 12 00. Now 10 75 with ware. No. 7 LITTLE DANDY " ?eli for 10 00. Now 8 50 with ware. No. 7-14 HAPPY TIMES self for 8 50, Now 7 50 with wara. PICTURES sold tor $1 25, DOW 75c. LAMPS you eao't boy for $8 now $45w. Everythiog as lepreseotsd-no fake. No goods obarged during this sale T. C. SCAFFE, Jan 30 THE STOVE MAN. THE CRITERION, ?LOO a year, IO cts a copy. TEE BEST ILLUSTRATES MONTSLY 2?A0r?ZX2T? OF TSE PUBLISHED. Its pages are filled by a brilliant array of writers and artists. Its authoritative and independent reviews of books, playa? music and art, its clever stories, strong special articles, humor and verse, with fine illustrations,'.make it a necessity in every intelligent home. The very low subscription price-$1.00 per year-puts it within the reach of alt Keliable agents wanted in every town. Extraordinary inducements. Write for par? ticulars. A TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION WILL PR07E IT. WRITE TODAY for sample copy. Criterion Publication Co., Subscription Department, 41 East 21st St. N. Y. City. Feb 6