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f HS SUa?TKR WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850? .Cosoli?ated Aug. 2,1881. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TK?? SOUTHRON, Established Jurie, IE65 SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 29, 1903. New Series-Vol. XXII. No. 39 I MB -- Sj? ^attta ai?> Son?|ro?i Published Bray Wednesday, ^ -ES: JNT. G-. Osteen SUMTER, S. C. TEB1?S : $1 50 per anaem-ia sevasco. IDTIBTISIXSST: One Square first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequent insertion...... 50 y Contracts for three months, cr longer will oe made at reduced rates. Ali communications which subserve private interests will be charged for asadvertiements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. mm SCANDAL Senator Stone Tries to Explain and Genies Charges. BRYAN ALSO MAKES A SPEECH 0? HIS IDEA QF DEMOCRATIC POLICY. Kansas City, April 20.-United ^States Senator Wm. J. Stone address? ing the convention of the Missouri democratic Press association, today made an elaborate explanation of his connection with baking powder legis? lation and enforcement of the State pure food laws and bitterly denounced the daily newspapers of the State, which, he declared, had "hounded" i him outrageously. . N Wm. J. Bryan had been announced as the principal speaker of the after-1 noon. He was received enthusiasti- ! cally and spoke as "a country editor to country editors." He declared that throughout the country he found deep and growing dissatisfaction among the _ Republican voters with the policy of the national administration and ex? horted his hearers not to "make the Democratic party so much like the " Republican party that it would be easy for Republicans to get into it," but to keep it different, so that in time of stress the peonlo would turn to the Democracy for -^?liverance. Prais? ing the State of Missou-?? for its pros? ecution qi .4?e^tect?n^ opuses, he said: "T&e federaTgovernment seems to be afraid to enforce the criminal law and prefer the use of injunc? tions." Mr. Bryan spoke with earnestness of the hostility of most of the large daily papers to the Democratic party and said that some of the professed Demo? cratic papers of the east "did more harm in four years of apologizing for the Democratic platform than they could undo in four months of a cam? paign when they supported the ticket." He closed with a reference to the Missouri legislature* scandals and call? ed for the punishment of every offend? ing official Congressman-elect C. M. Hitchcock of Omaha spoke briefly, and then Senator Stone was introduced and at once took up the bribery investigation. The senator, who labored under in? tense excitement, protested against the persecution to which he had been subjected by the "scavengers" on the press who used "assassin's methods." fie shouted: "Before God I fear them cot; I laugh in their faces and spit apon them." Senator Stone declared that he had no part in the passage of the anti alum law of 1899 and did not know for nearly a year that it had been enacted. ?s a private attorney he had asaisted in the enforcement of the State pure food laws and in 1901, when it was proposed to repeal the anti-alum law, he wrote an argument against repeal, but he did not visit Jefferson City. "I swear to you I never spoke nor wrote to any member of either house of the legislature concerning this matter but what i have told you," he declared. He said he hoped every guilty man would be uncovered. In closing his address Senator Stone said: "I hope God will wither my hand, palsy my tongue and bum my heart in the flames of hell before I will intentionally dishonor any posi? tion which the people of Missouri as? sign me." , TWO MORE INDICTMENTS. . Jefferson City, Mo., April 20.-Sen? ator Matthews and Chas. A. Smith, who were indicted by the grand jury for accepting bribery in connection with the baking powder legislation, today gave bonds in $3,000 each for their appearance before the United States circuit court in the July term. They each say they are innocent of the charges. The; indictments charge them with receiving bribes from D. J. Kelly of Sl/OOO each to vote against the al nm bakng powder bill, as members of the criminal jurisprudence committee of the senate in the Forty-first general assembly two years ago. A Great Sensation. There was a big sensation in Leesville, Ind., when W. H. Brown, of that place, who was expected to die, had his Jife saved by Dr. Bang's New Discovery for Con? sumption. He writes: "I endured in? sufferable agonies from Asthma, but your New Discovery gave me immediate relief and soon thereafter effected a complete cure." Similar cures of Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Grip are numerous. It's the peerless remedy for all throat and lung troubles. Price 50c, and $1.00. Guaranteed by J. F. W. DeLorme, Druggist. Trial bottles free. Call and pet a copy of Pupils Pot? pourri. H. G. Osteen ? Co. CLEVELAND THE MUM. Bot Spseoh o? W. J. Bryan at Kansas City. THE EMEHOCR?TIC CANDIDATE For The Presidency Denounces Ex-President Cleveland And Other Eastern Democrats as "So-Cailed Harmonizers." Kansas City, Mo, April 21.-Wil? liam J. Bryan, speaking this morning to the toast "Democracy," at the banquet given by the Democratic Jackson County Club and the newspa? per men of Missouri complimentary to Senator William J. Stone, at which the addresses did not begin nntil af ter midnight, bitterly araigned Grover Cleveland and 'his supporters, who are making the plea for harmony among Democrats. The assembly was made np cf representative Missouri Demo? crats and the remarks of Mr. Bryan met with enthusiastic favor with his hearers. He said in part : "We invite' all who have strayed from the fold to come back if they so desire brit we want them to stay in after they come. We have had- enough of Clevelandism in the Democratic party. We had four years of Celve land and after his administration was over we found ourselves weaker than we had ever been before because we had been betrayed These so-called harmonizers, Cleveland and his fol? lowers, showed their nearness to Re? publicanism by deserting us in our hour of greatest need and supporting the Republican party. The Democratic party won a great victory in 1892, which gave our party a great oppor? tunity, but Grover Cleveland betrayed the Democratic party and it carried the burden of his administration through two national campaigns, and there was not a plank in either plat? form that was such a detriment to me in those campaigns as that burden was. "Cleveland had the best opportunity to redeem the Democratic party ever offered to any man since the time of Andrew Jackson, but instead of being true to his party he disgraced himself. As a party we must stand true to Democratic principles, and if we do I believe that Democratic victory will some day come and it will be here to remain when it comes. "He is of the highest service to his fellows who can give the highest ideal. There has been a lowering of ideal in this country. Money is talked about morning; noon and night. Commercialism is the curse df the country today, and it has debauched our country. The foreigner has come to regard the American simply as a money maker, and we give cause for the belief that we put nothing beyond wealth' and that money is .ruling the country with an iron hand. There never was a time when the people were more ready to accept Democratic prin? ciples than today. I would not give one Democrat who really believes in Democratic principles for a whole barnyard full of Democrats and com? promisers who pretend to be Demo? crats.' ' Senator William J. Stone said in the course of his remarks : "We are apart ; let us get together. The platform is the creed of the party and the man who does not subscribe to it does not be? lieve in the Democratic party.'' Speaking of next year's convention ? he said: "There will be no abandon ! ment or reorganization, and no man unworthy to hold up the old Jefferson flag, will be named, and if he is God pity- us, for fie will be defeated." TAR HEEL BIRDS WON. The chicken main yesterday at Wrightsville ended most gloriously for North Carolina and most disastrously for South Carolina, as the Tar Heel fowls cleaned" the Palmetto State ? birds up in fine style. The main con? sisted of nine fights and six of these were won by the chickens owned by the Clinton and Warsaw poultry asso? ciations. The other three were won by the chickens of the Marion, S. C., association. Great interest was shown in the fights, which were witnessed by a large crowd of sports. The main also attracted many chicken fanciers from different points of the state, and from South Carolina, The chickens brought to the main by the rival asso? ciations were of the very finest breed and numbered about fifty. Another main has been arranged be? tween the same two associations for the Fourth of July at Wrightsville. Wilmington Messenger, April 18. Building and Loan Taxes. Columbia, April 21-Messrs W. D. Melton, John P. Thomas Jr., and C. J. Shannen, as a committee represent? ing the building and loan associations, had a conference today with Comp? troller General Jones. The committee went over the whole situtaion with Mr. Jones and explained the position and contention of the building and loan associations, and that they were not trying to dodge any taxes. The com? mittee had another conference in the afternoon with Mr. Jones, which Assistant Attorney General Townsend attended. No announcement is yet ready as to the final determination of the matter, but the expectation is that there will be a perfect understanding as to ex? actly what is taxable and what is not under the building and loan plans. A Thoughtful Man. M. M. Austin, of Winchester, Ind., knew what to do in the hour of need. His wife had such an unusual case of stomach and liver trouble, physicians could not help her. He thought of and tried Dr. King's New Life Pills and she got relief at once and was finally cured. Only 25c, at J. F. W. DeLorma's Drug Store. CONSTABLE HOWIE SUSPENDED. ._ Given Vacation o? Ten Days for j Raiding Trenhoim Residence. ! CHIEF HAMMET MAKES HIS REPORT To Gov. Heyward After Visiting Charleston. Columbia, April 21.-Governor Hey? ward today finally settled tbe Char? leston difficulty. It has been a source of annoyance to him and .he has un? dertaken to do the right thing by all interests and to all concerned and hopes that this will be the end of the incident and that he will never again have occasion to have such a thing to occur again. He has again made his position perfectly clear, if that ware really needed, and he has hit right out from the shoulder in what he'has done and had to say in concludng the whole matter. As has been already noted Chief Hammet was detailed to Charleston to make a thorough investigation of the. whole affair and to report on the con? ditions that he found in Charleston, and especially to look into the raid on the private residence of which com? plaint was made. Chief Hammett has made his report and, as a result of this report, Division Chief Howie has been suspended for ten days for grave lack of discretion in raiding a private residence in which there was no pos? sibility cf illicit liquor being stored. But for the unfortunate instructions issued by Chief Hammet-which do not relieve him from censure also-the affair would have been more severely dealt with. That Chief Hammet was unfamiliar with the streets of Charles? ton, and was ignorant of the fact that he was ordering Chief Howie to raid a private residence, mitigates Chief Howie's offence to a large extent in the opinion of the Governor. This conclusion has been arrived at after a thorough investigation and a careful consideration. Chief Hammet's re? port included a statement that the blind tiger situation in Charleston had been materially improved by Chief Howie's work and there is pros? pectively more improvement. There will be no cessation of a vig? orous enforement of the dispensary law in Charleston and elsewere. Gov? ernor Heyward intends to do all that he legitimately can for the proper en? forcement of the dispensary law in the State, but this does not mean that he will countenance the invasion of homes, unless the fact is positively ! known that liquor is being stored there in violation of law. No one deprecates more than does Governor Heyward the unfortunate occurrence which has made this action necessary, and in the further enforce? ment of the dispensary law the thoughtless and unnecessary invasion of any home will be carefully guarded against. But Chief Howie and all other constables must recognize that the law must be enforced. Governor Heyward has had many I letters and interviews upon this inci? dent in Charleston and he has under? taken in an honest and sincere way to do full justice and place the responsi? bility and to see that a similar occur? rence will not occur again. Chief Howie will be notified of his suspension for ten days and that some other officer now on the force will be placed in Charleston for the period covering the suspension, after which Chief Howie will resume his work in Charleston. True as Holy Writ. Stop the ignorant, senseless agita? tion for negro suffrage. Let the South alone. When the negro is deserving of citizenship he will get it, and quicker in the South than under the same conditions he would in the North, for the Southern people are mere patient with the black man than are those this side of Mason and Dix? on's line ; they have a keener sym? pathy for the race. Let the South alone and it will work out the race problem.-Evansville Ind., Courier. Perhaps the most successful lecture we ever heard in this country was delivered by Josh Billings. He said to me shortly before his death, in 1885. '11 am not only delighted, but astonish? ed at the vitality of the old 'lektur' which I have read for the last twenty three years on the road. In the first place, every line of it was published in the New York Weekly and the Poughkeepsie papers ; then it was pat in three different books; then it was put into more than 100 newspapers as I have delivered it ; then I have read it in every city on this continent that has 15,000 people, and in hundreds of towns that have not 2,000 people, and it never has had anything added to it, but much cut away from it ; and it is now read from the same book it was first written in; and still the brave old manuscript fights a good fight. I read it six nights in Cali? fornia in the last seven weeks and got $750. It seems to me there must be some sand in the old words. "-New York Press. The Government is to begin the con? struction of irrigation works in five localities, the Sweetwater dam, Wyoming; Milk River, Montana; the Gunnisoon tunnel, Colorado : Truckee, Nevada, and Salt River, Arizona. The cost of the five plants is estimated at $7,000,000 and they are expected to furnish water for 000,000 acres. \lakes a Clean Sweep. There's nothing like doing a thing thoroughly. Of all the Salves you ever heard of Bucklen's Arnica Salve .is the best. It sweeps away and cures learns. Sores, Bruises, Cats, Boils, Ulcers, Skin Eruptions and Piles. It's only 25c, and guaranteed to give satisfaction by J. F. W. DeLorme, druggist. EVERY FARM HOUSE TO QO ON MAP. Detail of Rural S/laii Delivery Experiments. Within two years a roan standing in Indianapolis will be able to ' pnt his finger on every farm honse in Indiana -that is, on the map, says the In? dianapolis News: This is one of the details of'the rural mail delivery experiments that the Government is working out in In? diana. If in this State, where the experiment is tried first, it is found to be practicable to locate every farm house and keep a constant record of its changes in location and the build? ing of new houses, it will only be a few years when a person will be able j to put his finger on any farm house in the country. The work, now be? ing quietly done in an upper room in the Majestic Building, is the begin? ning of one of the most interesting records the Government has ever made. The announcement is made from Washington that every farm house in Indiana is to be reached by rural mail delivery carriers within two years, which means that the work of locating every house in the State will be completed in that time. Since April 1 seventeen Indiana i counties have been supplied with rural mail service. In fourteen of these the work of making a complete record of the rural districts has been completed. Every farm house and the population of the country districts have been set forth in carefully pre? pared maps, which locate all roads and indicate their character-wheth? er dirt or gravel, good or bad. These beautiful maps are rolled up and filed away in the. office of Super? intendent F. B. Rathbone, of the Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan district, located in the Majestic Building. So complete is this information, by counties, that the 41,997 farm houses in fourteen of the seventeen coumties have been located down to their very acre.* It is found tbat the rural popu? lation of these 41,997 homes is 216,565 persons. Information can be had con? cerning ages and sex. The following is part of the information compiled for these counties : " The measurements of roads, both gravel and dirt, in counties whose records of this kind have been thus far left vacant are being made now. The statistics for the maps of Gibson, Posey and Delaware counties, whose complete county service was instituted by experts from Washington, are now being^compiled in Indianapolis, and they will be complete in a short time. It is not known yet how valuable these complete records will be. There are many ways in which the maps, when completed for the entire State, can be used with very great effect in .promoting business, and they will be very valuable for the information of tile public, if the Government decides to give that inforoiation by a repro? duction of the maps. One Jackey's Prayer. Admiral "Bob" Evans tells this one, says the New York Times. "Among the 'jackies of the Ameri? can fleet that did business at Santiago was an extremely pious cliap-a lad from Vermont. We had been telling him all along that each day would probably witness the long-looked for battle between the American and the Spanish vessels. When he prayed that night he placed special stress upon the plea that the vessel upon which he and his comrades-in-arms were serving might escape disaster, saying, among other things : " 'Oh Lord, shield us from the shells and other projectiles of the enemy ; but if any shells and solid shot do come to our vessel I pray Thee that they may be distributed as prize money is distributed-mostly among the offi? cers." Robbed the Grave. A startling incident, is narrated by John Oliver, of Philadelphia, as follows: "I was in an awful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite, growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me np. Then I was advised to use Electric Bitters; to my great joy, the first bottle made a de? cided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a wall man. I know they robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cents, guaranteed, at J. F. W. De Lorme's drug store.. Extended and painstaking experi? ments with formalian injections "in animals suffering from inocluated septicemia in the laboratory of the New York health department show conclusively that formalin, the recent? ly vaunted cure for blood poisoning, is more injurious to the normal blood cells than to the bacteria whose pro? ducts are poisoning tae blood. The Commercial Cable Company now promises to celebrate the Fourth of July by the completion of the cable between Manila and Honolulu. The company kept its pledge with refer? ence to the line between San Francisco and Honolulu within a few days, and it will exert itself doubtles to make its present pledge exactly good, so as to promote a fitting celebration of the glorious Fourth in the islands. Good Advice. The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the people in the United States, are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects ; such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, palpita? tion of the heart, heart-burn, water brash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of August Flower for 25 or 75 cents. Two doses will relieve you. Try it. China's Drug Store Fill out this blank, mail or deliver it in person to T. B. Jenkins, Jr., Sumter, S. C., and your name will be entered as a competitor in our Big Word Contest, which will close on the First day of May, 1903, the contest to be,decided by the fol? lowing rules : Anybody will be allowed to compete. No re? strictions as to age or sex. The competitor who shall make the largest number of words from the single word srortinwrnr mm mm mmw wmwmz I GREYHOUNDS ? hmm aummi mmummim m muS shall receive as his or her prize our handsomest Drop Cabinet, Automatic Lift, Ball Bearing, NEW HOME Sewing Ma? chine, which retails at Tr e9 m %W* V w? TS In case that two or more persons have the same number of words, the one sending in his or hers first shall receive the prize. No proper names shall be counted, and anyone using a letter not in the word, shall have their entry forfeited. You will be allowed to use the plural of ? word already used ; for instance, making the word ground, and making again, grounds. No letter can be used twice in one word. The name of the winner will be published in. all three of the weekly papers published in Sumter, with all the words given in full, and the date of delivery. Competitors- are advised to keep a copy of their lists, and remember that the NEW HOME Sewing Machine is without a rival for beauty, ease of running, and durability, and is sold in Sumter only by T. B. JENKINS, JR. Any other information furnished cheerfully on application. CUT THIS OFF AT BLACK LINE. * T. B. JENKINS, JB., Sumter, S. C. Dear Sir : I wish to have my name filed as a competitor in your word contest for the handsome, Drop Head NEW HOME Machine, and agree to abide by all rules governing the contest. Name . Address . Age. Name of Machine used in Family .. How long in use. Yours respectfully, Our big Spring shipment of the celefebrated Buck's Stoves ? and Manges A line we are proud to represent Fire backs guaranteed for wood 15 years-duplex grates. ROOMY^^ OVENS m??? MilTi li?iWP pfACEI