The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 18, 1893, Image 1

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fr SK SU KT KB WATCH MAH, Affrtt. ISSO. .Be Just and Fear not-Let ?ll the End. thou Aim.'t at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's Consolidated An?. 3. 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18. 1893. THE TRUE Eetabllilied Joue, Sew Series-Vol. XII. Jfo. ?Sa? Published every Wednesday,. N. Gr. O STE EN, SUMTER, S. C TK RMS : fwo Dollars per annum -in advattee. j A D V I a T I SB M B 3 TS j joe Square, Sm insert ion.00 ? S very subsequent insertion...50 ; Contracts for three months, or longer will j 36 sade at red aced rates. ] AU communications which subserve private n te res ta will be charged for asad vertisemeSis. : Obituaries and tri bo tes of respect will be j .harked for. i ? navm 1 THE snwros Kiromit MM, OF SUMTER. STATS, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid sp Capital.$75,000 00 j Surplus Faed.11,500 00 j Transacte a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Io- ; tercet allowed at tbe rate of 4 per cent, per ' ann a m. Payable quarterly, on 6rst days of Jan nary, April, July and October. ; S. M. WALLACE, President. L. S. CABSOS, Aug. 7_Cashier._ ; Tili IV SWIM, SUMTER, S C. j CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. ! Transacts a general Banking nosiness. Ateo b?8 J A Sayings Bank Department j Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received'.: Interest calculated at the rate of -4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly W. P. B. HAY NS WORTH, > W. P. ROAMS, President. Cashier. Ang tl._ J mn mire* rm IREG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AN!? the public geaernllr thal mv Saw Hilt located on the CS AN R R..just -'.ark Sf nay residence, ia now io full operation, ned ! un prepared to furni?b a>! grades vf Yeltow Prue Lumber from usbfed (letter, a' vci?<? eeeordTng t<* grades Yard accession on North S'tte er" re?i???? J. B ROACH. Feb 18 _ _ THE NEW STORK WEEKLY HERALD, -OS Ly One Dollar a Year. Dorm* 1893, tb* Weekly HfTvltf bs without question ;h?- rn-?; n?-.-; c&?y;-.??'. i?.ui: jouro*? pu?ilsh?-c i? America, h. ii? profusely al unrated hf es iri:sts ?.. :be country, and wis; bea jaa??2:o? t;; . ?rr. art and news absolutely unritaiec :.. i-? excellence. . Tte PrsifeB?ial Iiiau?nnl j Wiil be graphically describrd *od irtis- - cally pictured, wi>U* t^e^reat fra taxe o? the ! coming year's biston , the World's Fair, Will be niven- particular attention. Soi eomptete will *>e th?- de-c ipti o*e?erv tbit?^ connected with the great Exposition, and so I true to the reality the m-*n\ illustrations, tnat ' a perusal of the Weekly Herald next sumntrr j wiil he almost as satisfactory as a eis? *o . Chicago. { Prizes Each Week ! Will be awarded for the best original ! articlesoo agricultural subjects Each v.t^e ( will contain a page devoted to practical ano scientific farming. The Woman s Department will unexcelled in practical suggestions to make the borne more attractive. Every week there will be a num-er of special articles on all topics ot barngo inter? est. A moo 2 the norrirors who will write stories for the Weekly Herald *r?- J*roo?e K Jerome, Stepniak, Mrs Grimwood Edwin Arnold, Joho Stowage Wio?er. Marie Ooretlt. ? Helen Mathers, Florence Walden. Kum?- Nie- j bet and Hamilton Aide. SEND FOR PREMIUM LIST. Address, JAMES GOROON BENNETT, New York Herald, New York. - Subscribe iHow? WANTED: NAMES: For 200,000 Sub8Cr,b*r* to tae WEEKLY CONSTITUTION? Published at ATLANTA, GA THE FARMER'S FRIEND, A HOME COMPANION Oas already 156.000 Subscribers-The Lat. ?est Circulation of atty W**-k!v News? paper IN THE WORLD THE GREAT SOUTHERN WEEKLY. Its Agricultural Department is the best m the land Its Women i ind Children * columns are of unusual domestic interest Its Special Feature* cost more money than ts paid by any ten Southern napers casaba ued for general reading mai ter. its Newt Column* cover the world. Bill Arp writes for it. Dr. Talmadge preaches for it. Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remue), Wal? lace ? Reed and Frank L. S tan to* are regular! v employed by it. A. M." Weir (Sarge Plunkett) bas a week IT totter. Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling? Frank Stockton, Richard Malcolm Johnston, and tb* best literary ge? nius of the world cont rit ute toits columns. It is a Magazine, AND EVERY ISSUE IS AN EDU CATOR. Only A Year. SEND SIX NAMES Ageals wanted in every locality. Mone> tor agents in work tog for it. SEN? FOR SAMPLE COPIES. Sicing the addresses of \ yourself and five neighbors I tcho leant Fret Copies. Write for Agents' fora?** J** Clubs of 6 for $5 a yea?. ADDRESS,. Constitution* ATLANTA, GA. ? ?_._ . i Ripans Tabules cure jaundice. Ri pans Tabules cure the blues. B/paa s Tapujes : for liver troubles. H?gnest of ali in Leavening Power.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report J[^^ Rowdier ABSOli/f ELY PURE _i GINS! 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[ ji tmi?r.s up the syexi-m, ft purifies the ! Moo*], it tVH>>tifies the complexion. TRY IT. AND HAVE NO OTHER. Only 50c. per bott!*-. For sale by *.?l your ! Druggists. THE MURRAY BROS GO, ; Manufacturers and Proprietors. April 2?._ Just Received A BIG STOCK OF Colgate* s Fine Extracts FOR THE HANDBRCHIEF, ALvSO SUPERIOR TOILET SOAP. J. S. H?6HS0N & CO,, Moaarbno Bi >ck MAI^ STREET, June 22. SUMTER. S. C. 0000099096 *v A?O saadloct TOI ia the Worldly Wlxy do yon suffer ?from Dyspepsia and Sick-Headache, A .Tender i ug life m i-arabic, when th? V j^a-dr Is at TOWT hand? _ ? BUTT'S 2 .Tiny Liver Pills? OvfQ speedily remore all this trouble, A sssthia jun to rat and digest yow food? fWtwt lassafacha and Impart aa .enjoyment of lifeto is-bJch. you hare A beea a> atrancar. Dose sm ait. Pri?e. V emits. Offlee. 39 Park Pleee. li. Tl THE Sumter Institute? TBE INSTITUTE has opened its scions under rery Hospieious circumstances. The boarding depnrinient ts well ap potoroo aa? the rooms ?re rapidly fibing ap. Those desiring rooms should applj at un early day The Ar? roo? has been enlarged and refitted, n?Tnrding ample *if?ht, and all neceasarj facili? ties for good work Specinl lesson* in Painting and Drawing each $?5 a terra; in Book-keeping,. Steno? graphy, Typewriting ard Penoiauship, each $10* term; Instrumental and Toral Music eace $20 a term, with $3 for use of iustumeut for pr?ctiee Elocution $7.50 a term. Students will be received for any of these special courses at any time dorine the year, ?nd weso?irit pa.ronageof the tooo? ladies of 'he ?*ity not ree-ilarly emered tn the school For fur?ber inforrantion apulv to H FRANK WILSON, Pip^ic1**nt ?4 Scientific American S"5^aLai^^^^?^afARkst ?lM3^^^ D?S*CW PATENTS, ^ COPYRIGHTS, etcJ Wm Imhm naslVnn awi fmo Handbook -mite ts MUNN A OX 382 BROADTAT, Nrw YORE. OMestbarema /or tmxvrmz patents in America. Wnw* patent takes ont by ti? is brought before thtjff?** br ?notice giren free of charge tn ibo gtkntilit Mmtm LatMftt etrenJatlon sf anr scientific paper tn tba world. Splendidly tUostrated. Ko intelligent man should be without rt. Weetiy. 33.00 a ?ear: SLSOSiX months. Address MUNN A <XX? PCILISBXBS, 361 Broadway. New York City. Wage-Earners Aroused. TheSta'e,J*n. 1* The war ra o? \ The wage-earners of South Carolina are op tn arms The workingrnen's movement has i been starred, and it is destined to over? shadow the farmer's movement that began a few years ago and swept the entire State. This movement ie started in Kne cf real reform, a?d 'here are no raen in it who are there for the parp?se of seeking office. Daring the last days of the Legisla tore this movement was started, at a mass meering attended rv representatives from varions portions of the State and held in the Richland county court house Ar that meeting a comu.itt.ee of earnest, workers, representing the various branches of labor was appointed to draft ao address, platform of principle*, plan of organisation, as well as to call a convention The committee waited till the holidays were over, each member deciding to-draw ap his own plan for i pr?sentation when tba committee met again i. Last trig Wt the committee met tn Hotel Jerome After quite a long session ar which ali the plans presented were discussed, the paper, with the ?fcsnaoee of which the movement is inaugurated, was prepared and made public A full plan of organization, complete to tbe -maltest detail, was drawn up and i adopted, har for the nre<ent it. will not j bc punished, ft IH tersely outlined in th? following paper : THE ADDRESS TO Tilt PEOPLE. Fellow Wage-Workers and Sytnathix in/ Fellow-Citizen** : Your committee having been appointed to formulate a flan upon the basis of which an organi? zation, capable of correcting the evils of which we complain might be effected, feel ittA- key. cann r ?lo borter than pre? face ?h. ["? .: r.greed upon with a few mm?- k:? calliog attention f0 the grounds upon which we se*.*8 *?> j!ir?ti?y our ac* ?ititi Speak it? ?. o ?be p--?.?wit>:i;?y of opp.i>i rion t.: t?: i.iq^itou-. laws enacted ;?t the u-ceM se.-siwo of ' ii Legisia'u?e i* lian been s-'?d * Your besad is in the mouth ot the K- ?oruj lion and BO t*>og a.- the lion do *? ci?se itu jaws it in policy to keep quiet and nut. enrage it tu erush y**u ; such oppostt-itia would eu rase and embit'e' che tr umph ;:it faction and you would bring d??wn upon: the corpora tion* and towna perhaps stricter laws th;?t* those which they seek to escape It would be poliricai suicide to every ambitious man < olist?-d on the bide of ? the minority lu this manner does the 'riumphaut faction SM k to freeze the manhood in the vins ofthose who might unrier- i lake ro oppose irs unhallowed ooarse ! Thus -s the vaunted intellectual civiliza? tion ot the nineteenth century resolved again into the kingdom of brute force ! So has it been decreed that we shall j bow down in homage to the edicts of ibis political Nebuchadnezzar ! ' But surely the Go;lot Hosts, who d-- , livered Dame! out ot ?he den of lion?, wiil deliver us, also, who have the cour? age to declare our mauhood. out of the mouth of this "Reform Lion I" How. ?ben, ?hall tbe Scriptures be ful Siled, if, tn .he sequel, there bc not "weeping and gnashing of teeih ?" Has it not been witten that ''the zeal of mine house hath eaten me up? And have they not testified to the zeal of both Houses in doing, as well as in leaving undone ? Witness how salaries have been cut down ! Behold tbe re duo ion of taxes ! Mark how the rum trust was defeated ! Oh. Prohibition, requiescat in pace, for ''when I bave a more convenient teason I will cal! for thee!" See bow "justice to all side-*" has been meted out. What matters the might of ten thousand against the might of 6fry ? "Darno V Wherefore should corporations and the dwellers in cities and towns object to being legislated "against V Why ehouJd druggists, keepers of hotels, saloons, restaurants, and places of publie amusement com? plain because exempt from this Dew dispensation ! j Under such conditions is it "policy to keep quiet?" Shall the fear of "embittering the triumph??' faction'* permit the sword of liberty to rust in its sheath, or the shadows of "political suicide ' cause the hand to tremble, as it is drawn from its scabbard ? Friends, let us not "strain at gnats and swallow camels pious expletives are not issues of vital importance to the people of this State. L*-t them damn on to their hearts content, so long as they shall not undertake to dam the sacred stream of individual liberty, by denying ? equal righ s >o all ; by granting special privileges to any ; or by challenging the right of judicial appeal, a rgbt which has been to a free people as * tho , f shadow of a great rock in a weary j land." It is, however, the violation of . no: one, bu' ?ll of these, which cause us to take counsel with each other. We are io a minority, yet why should I .hat discourage us? Let u* go forth ?ike Divni, with naught but the stone [? of honest purpose in out sling, and so : shall we have strength to tight against ? G>>||* h and his Philistines in defense of the heritage of free toen We are not, and must not become, a class Ler og welcome to our counsels and our comfort the farmer and the mechanic, the operative and the laborer ; for our cause is a common cause. We j are a mi-oi i'y of the people of South Car- j : olina, but, like thc woman of Macedon who appealed "to Pniiip in his sober ! senses/' we claim the attention and : I cbaHeoge the reason of the majority of j oor fellow-citizens. Let as begin now to educate ourhelv.'s sp that we may judge between the wise ?nd the unwise, the evil and tbe good ; for in no other way can we hope to have oar efforts crowned with success; con*? elusive of tfh? integrity of oat purposes. Your committee recomtneod the or? ganization of an Industrial and Wage Workers* Democratic League, which shall consist of a State league, with subordinare county and district leagues; and, iu connection with the State league, the establishment of a Bureau* of In? formation ; and fioally, when the obj-ct* sought by the organ;zation of the Industrial and Wage Wage Workers' Democratic League shall have been attained, through the enactmeot of just and equitable law?, in which the rights of every individual citizen, howsoever bombie, shall have been duly consid? ered, your committee recommend that we disband, so that we may not become a political machine in the hands of de? signing men. to the detriment of the in? terests of this State and tts citizens Your committee will appoint an organizing committee in eaeh county, with instructions to organize county, municipal, township and ward leagues, and to arrar ge to fend delegates there? from to a convention to be held tn the city of Columbia, March the 15th, 1893, for the purpose of electiog officers, adopting a plan of organization, and ratifying or amending the following draft submitted as a Declaration of the Principle* of the Industrial and Wage Workers1 Demo? cratic League The Constitution of the State and the United States guarantee equal rights to ail, and prohibits special privileges to any of its citizens. It is therefore the duty of those who may feel themselves agrieved through the enactment of un? just IawsT the effect of which is to de? prive sonne erf their constitutional rights, while bestowing upon other? unlawful privileges, to assemble zr?? protest against such unjust, inequitable and un? lawful legislation and to take measures to accomplish tts appeal. More especially is this a duty when, from the decision of partisan officials empowered to execute and enforce such laws, the right of appeal to the courts is denied ; a right wisely guaranteed by the fundamental law of the land, and recognized as one of ?he cardinal principles of Democracy ; a right which experience has proven to be a shield of safety to the weak against the strong, to a few against the many mT a right which bas been, ?nd which must be cherished arson g the dearest principles of a free people. We condemn the vicious class Legis? lation attempted and eroded by the Legislature ?t its recent session, and endorsed and approved by the Governor of this State; ?he pernicious effects of which will be to put to hazard all in? dustries dependent upon corporate capi? tal, to lessen the volume of currency, to met ease the cost of credit, and to rea d?-r uncertain and precarious the occupa? tion of all wage workers within the State. We denounce the inconsistency of the so-called Reform Party which, proclaiming sarar?es loo l?ge, omits to reduce them ; declariug taxes too high, increases them ; processing opposition to monopoly, conspires to u ake the State a monopoly; preach io; prohibition, legislates tte State itself into a ruui st-ller. We declare our principles to be em? bodied io the simple but s<und Demo? cratic doctrine of 'Equal rights to all, special privileges to none," and our purpose, to repeal &i>? to oppose ail legislation inconsistent therewith. We acknowledge agriculture to he the master wheel of industrial mechan? ism, but we declare that in the enact? ment and execution of just and whole? some laws it is essential to consider that the quantity and quality of the product? depend upon the harmonious working of tbe whole machine ; and that upon no industry more than agriculture will fall the injurious effects of a departure from this principle Wc believe the interests of capital and labor to be tbe same, and we assert that a blow aimed at one will fall upon both : and that legislation directed 4'against" either will react upon the people of the whole State. We recognize the propriety of just laws restraining the abuse of rights and privileges granted to individuals ; but we conderoo ali laws tending to unright? eously '?essen the inducements to capital to invest in the development of legiti? mate indostries within the State. We assert the necessity of maintain? ing the independence and higb standard of tho judiciary, and condena? any an 1 all attempts to curtail the one or lower the other of these safeguards to the enjoyment of individual rights. Adhering strictly to the sound princi? pies of Democracy, living within their limitation, and believing that "a peo? ple is best governed which is least gov? erned." we shall undertake to maintain io the highest standard the ?nancial credit and political dignity of the State. In conclusion, we beg leave td hope that the principles which we have out? lined and the plans we have suggested may meet with the approbation and endorsement of our fellow-citizens, to the end tbat a glorious success may crown oar righteou efforts [Signed] H A Williams. Charil. J J Jennings, J no G Hoffman, J M frawley. James P. Cahill, T W Rollman, W T Martin. L. W. Warren, H. G Ward, J P Derby, J. P. Mee***, J. T Rideout. - - > ? mum The State Debt. CHARLESTON, S. C , Jan. ?0. - A syndicat* formed in New York by ?essrs. R R Lancaster & Co , ?oder contract with the Governor and State Treasurer, hns placed a large block of the DOW 4\ per cent, refunding bonds of the State of South Carolina issued for the redemption of Brown Consols which fall due July I, 189?, and will in a short time offer for sale the ba'- I aoce of the authorized issue. These are the bonds which issue was provided for hy the Legislature which has just ! adjourned. It is understood that. Col- j den H hind of Augusta, was effective in effecting this negotiation. { Let ws Write our own History. FrofJ P. Ilennemam, of Hampden S?dney College, Va., a native of Spnr ta?nburg, S- C., mid formerly a student and afterwards a tutor at Wofford College, in a recent number of tbe Ham{>den Sidney Magazine discusses a plan or the building up of "a Vir? ginia and Southern School of His? tory" to the end that adequate and correct materials may be collected and* jH?e?eFved for the use of the future writers of history While Prof. Ilennemau's plea is directed to Vir? ginia in particular, it appears with equal force to the whole Southe Neglect of such matters has caused the* Southern people to bc misrep resented to the outside world. Ignorant or pr?judice?! writers have attempted to'write our history, and iii many cases facts have been seriously distorted by them and the motives and character of our people have seldom been -understood or appreci? ated Frof ilenueman truly says that the j great need of Virginia is "a school of history founded upon scientific in-ves- j ligation, the rigid examination of original documents and the sifting ot evidence.'' Ile suggests that the place hv such a school is the State Capitol am? that it should be under State- supervision and urnier one directing mind, *'so that no eS?rt may be lost or duplicated but every result may contribute toward the collection of materials for a general history." Prof Ilcnnemao has succeeded in* a* large measure in interesting the stu? dents of his own college in the impor? tant work that he Ins on hand ; but it ?H desired to go further and to interest every college in the South in tlve mat? ter. Ile should have the endorsement and cordial support, not only of the Southern educators, but of the think? ing people of the South as well. lu fact every educated Southerner should join the movement and do his part to see that a truthful and sympathetic record is made of all that is of interest relating to Southern life, manners, habits and thought An effort should be made to have the history of every comity written and printed. Unless something is done to preserve the traditions that add so much to this beautiful land of ours, they will soon pass away and be for? gotten. Not only will traditions fade away, but soon it will become almost impossible to obtain correct informa? tion on many matters of vi:al im? portance. Prof I?enneman makes several sug? gestions as to the method of practical work Ile says that the note book should be discarded in favor of *'a slip of stiff caid large enough to hold what is wanted," on which one single fact or circustauce or allusion may7 be written. For another fact use another card, having only one reference on each place. If anything is quoted, use the precise words. Have the point correct at first, and keep it so. These slips are easily arranged and classified and, when they are sufficiently numerous the writing ot au article on tike subject they bear upon is a simple matter. Valuable hints are also given as to the lines of investigation that each worker may pursue, according to his own peculiar taste. The economic history cf Southern communities is suggested as a fruitful field for a painstaking investigator. Io each community one may inquire into the land system^ the nature of crops, prices the conditions of labor, the commerce, manufactures, navigation, shipping, effect of railway and canals, roads industrial organizations, taxa? tions, debts, etc. Institutions, laws, social customs, religion, politics money, banks, biography genealo? gies, literature, journalism, educa? tion, dialects, eic, afford scope for other iuvest gators. In the study of these matters the inquirer will find original material in the Cowrt House records, in old wills, files of old news? papers and magazines, account books, diaries, old letters, biographies and the like. It is to be hoped that something practical will grow out of Prof. Ilennemau's movement. The col? leges of South Carolina should take the matter in hand and bring it to the attention of the students. No richer field can be found for independent research than here in South'Carolina. Thus far but little has been done to preserve the local history of the counties and sections of tine State, but is to be hoped tHat Judge O'Neal, Prof. Porcher ?nd Bishop Gregg wiil. in the near future, have many imitators, and that every county will have a faithful chro&f?ter.--Sun? day News. Are we Citizens or Subjects ? The people have the rrgnt to test the validity of any law-even thc j laws passed by a Tillman legislature, and will not be deterred from testing the dispensary liquor law Ky the threats of Gov. Tillman or anybody else. But we cannot go tho extent of endorsing the action of certain municipal corporations in granting licenses beyond the time when the new law, by its own provisions, will go into effect. There is in reason for any town or city to make the test. I The law, in our opinion, is a direct ' blow at individual right am) should', and no doubt will, be tested by private citizens. The threat, how? ever, to annul the charter- rights of tbe corporations issuing annual licenses, is childish and ridiculous, and makes tho administration appear very small indeed Gov. Tillman is too narrow to be the governor of a State, and his egotism is disgusting. Ile can never win the support of men for whose right be basso little regard. A governor well informed as to his duties and powers, having proper re? gard for the citizen, would be glad to have the law-new, untried here and j extrrme, passed upon by the com ts, ! ami the rights of all defined and fixed i under it. We are rapidly losing our citizen- I ship and becoming subjects.- | Urarigebnr? Eutei pr iso. ? Good Advice as to Cotton. Mr. A. B. Shepperson, the well known cotton authority in New York, urges upon th? Southern planters that they make no more cotton in in 1893 than they made in 1892. ile says : "None but lunatics would go on planting full crops of cotton and run the risk of selling it below the eost of production, to the neglect of food crops which they would not have the money to buy Lu the event of another big cotton yield next year and low prices.- Southern planters have thew* ibrtunes and their prosperity m their own hands. If they plant wheat, corn, cats, hay and garden crops that can be raised in abundance, they and not the spinners can dictate the price of cotton." Wo are delighted to read this, ft h on the old line of the Messenger. Year after year we have preached that doctrine, ?orne have said, what do you know about farming ? We know nothing, but we know that too much of anything lowers the price. We know that in the seventies the small? est crop brought more money than tlie greatest crop before brought. Hence, we saw tbe folly of over? producing owe crop and neglecting the other much needed, very import? ant crops. We know it was foolish to keep corn crops a thousand miles from home, and smoke-houses in Cincinnati and Louisville, and hay fields and wheat fields in the great West, instead of having these things at Irotae. We know it was stupid, un wine, the way to poverty and mort? gages for a farmer iu the land of sun? shine and long seasons to boy hss vegetables, his food for stock, his bacon and lard, his ffour and corn and other things from the cold North, with its much shorter seasons. We known that it was suicidal to risk all each year upon one crop, and that far too large for the consumption. We know now that the cotton crop of 1892 is not more than 6,500.000 bales against that of 1?91, when it was 9.180,195, and the price of the last crop is more than 3 cents more per pound than the price of tlie much larger crop. Mr. Shepperson is right -"None but lunatics would go on planting full crops of cotton arid run the risk of selling it below cost of pro? duction. " Do not let the planters heed for a moment some selfish Not them news? papers that are trying to persuade them to continue their hitherto unwise methods of growing too much cotton These papers give advice at iong range and from their standing-point They are t ying to get up a scare if Ibe South reduces- its swoduct that India and Egypt will step'in and grow all the cotton that is needed: Southern cotton was not supplanted in war days. The English Methodist mill owner, when he heard his preaclter petition to God for "an abondant ettpply of cotton,'7 was beard exclaiming in loud voice from the "amen corner"-"Yea, Lord, but no Suratt." Ile preferred the Soeth/s longstaple to the Indian inferior lt isrbetter to be content with not more than 6 500,ODO bales at present and get 10 cents or even 12 cents a pound, thus making not less that $20 more per bale, tba? to glow it iu excess at 6 1-2 or t cents and make perhaps nothing.-Wilmington Mes? senger. Secretary Carlisle. Hon John G. Carlisle is a strong a&d wise mao to rave at the head of the treasury department. He is one of the clearest and most advanced thinkers in the country on financial and business questions. While pronounced in br? opinions, there is nothing radical about thc man. His convictions are strong, but his re? forms will be worked ont conservatively Few men have more decided opinions j upon the tariff and upon questions embraoing tfSe range of political econo? my, bat the very nature of Mr. Carlisle would prevent him from ex? treme or experimental measures that might result injuriously ts? the business interests of the country. 'I bis conser? vatism will worfc out needed reforms with the least friction aud the greatest good to the financial' interests of the government and tbe business of the country. We do not think that Presideut Cleveland has made any mistake in naming Mr. Carlisle as secretary of the treasury. No better appointment could be made.-Augusta Chronicle. Well Said. Brother Petty of The Spartan neyer said a bette* tbinj-tban this r "After all the agitation and legis? lation on whiskey it depends on your own will and character whether you are a drunkard or not." What is most needed tn this State is thc cultivation of individual ebarac ter and self-cotattol and self-reliance. With these qualities, yo? can put whis? key to the right of a i?an aud whiskey to tho left of him and whiskey io Croat: of him, and in every store in fown, and you can sell the stuff and give it away, according to law or in violation of law, and it can't hurt him individ? ually. Without these qualities, yo? :iw%y p*ss ali the prohibition Jaws anc> dispensary laws you please, and the ma? will get whiskey somehow and bc a drunkard in spite of you. We favor restrictive and prohibitory laws ; but, after all, thc best thing is to be able to control oneself. And the biggest type of self-control is tn fet the stuff alone and keep oat of liquor saloous -Newberry Observer. The Augusta Chronicle, printed in easy bearing of the whir of t bo ?sa ads j of spindle-*, calls the attention of the } cotton cranks to the following suggest | ive calculation : "Thc fact that a nine million bale crop sold as low as j I) 1 2 cents, and that a possible seven million bale crop has sold as high as 10 cents would seem to conclude the j argument in favor of the theory that overproduC'on br'ngs starvation ft?---" The Financial Problem The glaring failure uf the In ter nation al Monetary Conference at Brussels to come to an agreement concerning the restoration of silver as a part of the world's commen?ai mooey, and the evident certainty that if the coaference should reassemble on the day to which it has adjourned irs prospects of success would be as hopeless as they were in the beginning, have put ?he American government under the necessity of deciding without delay whether it will coutiuue to attempt aloue what other civilized nations refuse to attempt to? gether and which it is at least doubtful whether they could permanently accom plibh even if they jointly attempted it Since 1878 our government has exerted itself to keep up the price of silver by monthly purchases of the metal, ?rst at the rate of two millions a month, and since ?lte passage of the law of 1890 at the rate of four and one-half "million ouuces a month. The experiment has proved a most dismal failure. Instead of rising, the price of silver has enormously fallen. It is evident that nothing cai* stop this downward tendency so long as the production of silver continues to increase. And this increase threatens to go on y for while some mines arc, indeed, closed because they cauuot produce profitably at present prices, others which produce at lower cost are kept going, and new ones are opeoed which pour forth a constant stream. Moreover, there seems to be no end of inventions cheapening the methods of production, so that mines unprofitable to-day may become profit? able again to-morrow, even ac prices lower than those now ruling. While the price of silver has been sinking, the accumulations of the metal iu our national Treasury have been steadily growing. They form tkwi so-called basis ot large issues of paper money. But, io fact, they are no basis at ali, for if they were thrown oo the market, nobody can foresee to what poiut' the price would tumble dowu. They would' be practically unsaleable The value of that paper currency depends upon the ability of the governme?t to re? deem it in gold It will be at a dis? count as soon as this ability is generally calleu into question. Ic is therefore gold, not silver, that we need wore . argestly than ever * hut the gold re? sources of the government are most seriously diminished by the very- silver policy we are following. E>ery think? ing man must see that it w uid be impossible to invent a fiuancial policy more absurd, and that it must ioevifa bly end in disaster ; that if we contin? ue in the present course, it is only a question of time wheu we shall be on a silver basis, with all the consequent uusettlemeut of values and- commercial dis turbances, and that we are approach? ing the brink of the precipice at a rapid rate.-Harpers' Weekly. The Athens Dispensary. A. B. Williams, editor of the Green? ville News, went out to Athens, Ga^ test week. He looked in on the work? ing of the dispensary in that town and reports as follows : .'There 6eems to be a good deal of hesitation or sensitiveness regarding the dispensary among Athens people Most of them, will tell you; however, that it is "dotug very well," or some? thing of that kind. Those who werie* "in with'1 lae dispensary idea at the beginning, or who have taken an active interest ia its conduct are enthusiastic. They say it is "a complete success ;r that it "works like a top ;*' that it set? tles the liquor problem and does it sat? isfactorily. Then you will find men who will tell you the entire dispensary business is a failure and a fraud-that it does more harm than good, is "rot fen,*' and so on. Kxtreme dry men too; say that if liquor selling is an abomination, as they think it is, i?sey would rather have the business con? ducted by those who do it from choice or ev?n by disreputable and unlicensed bliud tigers tbao to have the people of the whole city-women, children, clergymen and all--forced to take part in it and to be identified with it. The first point settled, therefore, is that the dispensary bas settled- aotbiog exeept some of the city's running ex? penses ; that it is uot accepted by every? body as ibe solution of the liquor prob? lem and that after a year and three months of experiment the people who see it and feel it and'live with and pre? sumably know all about its operations and effects are yet divided concerning it. How far that division ruo* on. original lines I do not know. ? have sot yet fouud nnjbody who opposed the dispensary who has been couverted to it, or anybody who favored it who has turned against it. The moderate peo? ple who were not enthusiastic on one side or the other seem to be yet turn? ing it over ia their minds cud their position is one of mild satisfaction so far and of waiting for further develop? ment." - .i- - ?? nm -- Charleston City Council Takes Water in the Liqjuor License Matter. CHAULKSTOX, Jan. ?0.-City couucil yt its meeting tonight passed a bili' amending tho license ordinance, so os to provide for the issuing of liquor li? censes for six mouths only. Dealers vi bo liKve taken out licenses for thc year will have ?50 of the uioaey re? funded to them. It is generally thought that the council h'are been build- 3'd hy the Governor. '?he annual* election of officers was beld-; ano si I the incumbents were re? elected. Alderman J. W. Steinmeyer j wa?? elected mayor pro tem. The funeral of the late Dr. J. P. Cha- j aal will take place at ID o'clock tomor? row morning, at St. Mary's Chtticb, ot wbreb the deeeased was a life-long member and for many years a vestry? man . - -?m> ? m -qfc-? - Miller vs. Elliott. WASHINGTON. Jan 10-The House elections committee today bpgao hear? ing of the last contested election case before it-Miller vs Elliott, from the 'Shoestring*1 district in Sooth Carolina, i Themas H. Wheeler, a negro, argued I the case for Miller- i ir I"few Theory. The following new theory of 1 he 'causeof diseases and the manner of treatment ?3 ad-' ! vanced by Dr. S. R. Beckwith, ?ho waa* j the family physician ot the late President j Garfield * He has made a reputation that is J favorably known in the highest medical and . scientific circles of this country and Europe." Consequently any opinions advanced by bin? are weighed caiefully by the medical pro-' fession. Dnring thr" l.'Sf'ywir I have devoted my entire time in improving the electrical condi-' tion of ihe Thermo Ozone Battery, and treat? ing with it a great cu in her of sick; have-' furnished several hundred physicians wiih tbe^" device, and- received from- them unqualified, evidence of its curative value. I BOW confidently assert that it is the most' useful adjunct to the art of medicine that has* ever been introduced ; and in my opinion will-1 he found more advantageous iu domestic' treatment th?*n anything ktiown. It cttry ' differs from other medico-gal vas ic batterie** in the discovery that its currents were pro duced*by heat and cold ; and that ozone and-' oxygen were liberated from the wet sponges nsed, and the surrounding atmosphere of tbs positive pole, and are carried bv the cnrre???f toward the negative pole through the tissoesi thereby forrainsr a circuit. By chemic?, a fhn i ty ozone atid oxygen are taken up in its : passage by the veins and become mingled: with the impure Mood of these human pewers ;: there they form red corpuscles, and by their anticeptic and purifving properties, desttcy disease germs and subdue d"s*?ase action. That red corpuscles are thus produced, I have? proven by microscopical examination of tH?-" venous blood bek're and after using -the'' battery ; in every instance aftvr ihe battery bad heen applied, hundred? of partially developed corpuscles were found in - the-' microscopical views. In numerous cases* patients who were pale, even their lips color-' less, resumed a red color within one hour after the battery w*s used. In this experiment I have ' been e?rror-orated bj nusaerous physicians and'other intelligent persons, ?ho recognized** that only ox^geu or ozone could as readily cause a return of color HOW DOES SUCH T?TEATME.*?T' CSEB DISEASE? In reply I assert that nearly ali disease'" originates io- the veins or sewers of the human"* body ; that every congestive and inflammatory disease is produced by a disturbance of the* venous circulation, and that ir is the/ im me off parasites aud diseased products: In these ves-' sels with their capUlai it-s, are fonnd the micro-* nes>~rrt>:lari!il poisons, and animalcules*"*hfchr* produce Diphtheria and other contagious dis? eases Here thry liv? ai-d'gi?W, and as ilia* well known, are-best destroyed by ozone aed'* oxygen. I here positively assert from infor-' malton acquired during 40 years-experience* as medical teacher and practitioner, that tbe-" heretofore es-fuessed opinion ai regard-the'an* atomical reat of disease i? incorrect: disease has its ori?in and is located- in *h? blood con-* taioing the impurities and wastes of the human body, and from this blood it extends*" to and- destroys other tissues. Nature teaches* that it requires more oxygen when.*' sick, shown nv the rapid breathing, forthe* purpose of taking in more oxygen and the' increased action of the h^art ?0 distribute it. The loss of coofi-dence in medicine* by physicians and the people, has come from aw erroneoug"ibcory as to locatkj-n a nd'causation5* of disease, and cons*?uent failure by treat? ment. I claim to be tue first to announce tba** the impure contents of the human sewers produced disease, as does the same channels .when used in cities foT1 removal c?^lecte?* impurities. While engaged ic practice I asserted int 1867, that kine pox never existed, that vacciner* was small pox modified by bovine1 itrnoeula*-* tion. It met with the similar opposition' thai will be given to ray present statement regarding* the cause and location of disease. As early aa 1854, by a series of articles, I claimed that the human mir d' was never diseased, that; insanity was due to bodily ailments. This was opposed and I demonstrated in my hospi? tal on Lake Street, Cleveland. Obio, and i t?* the Cincinnati private hospital for the insane-, that a greater' nusber o' 'rsanet were cure?V by adapting the treatment on this principle. Again whee ? demonstrated the* possibility of representing the heart's action by a~wrrKeor conditiotf of the pulse, it was opposed for" years, and-aow ?sed ia- every hospital io the' country. I mention these'facts to showMhr-f **t5rwness>J of the profession in accepting improv?iBetets/ in tbe art. I now predict that within the* next 10 years it will he acknowledged that the seat of disease'is in the venoua blood, a-nd* that the most satisfactory treataent for its: cure will be transfusion of remedies* iifto' tbs' vei.s. In my opinion, oxygen and ozone are' the most important remedies for this purpose, andean te introduced with a hypodermic* syringe and an oxygen pump', or by electri city. The latter will be accepted from its convenience. I have gone far enon&h to known that the di?ases most readly cu'rui bjr the battery are those of an infivnrrm^tory or?"* gin as Pneumonia, Croup, and high graces of Fever, and that it removes ot?8tri?ct:e??iSnfcd*: the brain cells' and quickly cur?s ?^fa^bnia^ Nervous Debility, and general Brain" Fa??; A3 it cc sea a mpid flow of urioe trom one of the sewer out-lets it has been found to. satisfactorily cure nearly all of curable kidney diseases I have seen in cases of Ty xAm\6 Fever* in its second stage, tbe pulse redt-Ced-'15-b?a*tsA in one hour. I have observed iu Neuralgsv that it relieved the congestion pressing upotx* the nerve causing the pain, in an iocredable* short tiwe. Having retired from prac?vee' and been' engaged during the last Iii \ears*in the' naanuftctuiing of electric, devices, it lias afforded we leisure and aa oppoststnisy t<** invent the Oz->ae Battery*, the first instance" where a galvanic current has been created by a variation of temperature. Having accom? plished this a-id shown i's curative value, ?* bave disposed of the rigbt to sell the invention' wider the conditions that I manufacture and' reserve the exclusive privilege of correspond? ing with those who desire i's* use, which ?* will gladly do with pleasnre, giving saeta' instructions as I am able' to give with my opinion respecting thea- disease: It must ne understood that in addition to' tbe transfusion of canne and oxygen that the' battery c*us?s a current of galvanism to pass into the body, and cold is conveyed into the" tissues by the wire coming from th* immer? sion of the bil tery in ica water, asd fror* these ressens a careful study of t??? book of di red ions is' necessary. S". R. BKCKWITU; M. D., New York,'N. T. The sale of the Ozone Battery referred to, is controlled by ?: B: And?rson. All com? mua ie* rit?t?r add re*sse? to Sumter will rece.ve" prompt and' careful attention. His head? quarters are at present at the W'a?chman and' S?uthrou office, Liberty Street, Sumter, ?J. C Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint Is it not worth th* ?mal! price cf 75c. ta* free yourself cf e*cry symptom ot these dis-* tressing complaints, ifyiSH thrirrk stvcall air our store and get a bottle ofSteioh's Vi-' Saliai-r, every bottle bas a primed guaraatee' on i:, use accordingly and if it-does yem no-* good it will cost TOO nothing?- Sold by. Dr. V J. Shina. Sumter Si C. .*> Nothing 30 di^tn-spin^-as a hacking-Cough-" Nothing so foo'ish as to snEfcr from W Nothing so dangerous if allowed to continue.* One minute Cough Cure gives- immediate re. ief. J. S. Hughsoc- & Co: A Million Friends. 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