Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?m&n anti o ntl) con TRI SUMTES WATCHMAN, KstAblUhed April, 1SSO. i4Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THK TKUK SOUTHKOM, K?tablUli?d Jone, 1366. Consolidated Auf. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ll, 1893. CONFERENCE J Monday, Dec. ll, 1893. Contractor and Builder, Sumter, S. C. DEALER IS Rough and Planed Lumber, Door?, Blind.?, S?sh, Lxths, Cypress Shingles, Lime, Glass and General Building Supplies. Mill Work Of all kinds made to order, such as MANTLES *. DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES, STORE FRONTS, MOULDINGS AND TURNED WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Office and Mills at Junction of W. C. 4. A.. and C. S. & N. R. R's. TU UNI ff Wim SUMTER, S. C. CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business Also-, bas A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1 00 and upwitrds received. Interest calculated at the rn tc of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quirfrlv. W. F. B. H A UNSWORTH, W. F. RHAKE, President. Cashier*. TEE SIM0NDS NATIONAL BINK OP SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTE it, S. C. ?Paid up Capital.$75,000 00 Surpias Fund. 11,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors acccordiug to the. ?aw governing National Banks, in excess of their stock . . $75,000 00 Transacts * General Banking Business. * Cttrefu! attention given io collections. SAYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the, rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarter!j, on first days of JUD nar v. April, July and October. RM. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, President. Aug 7. Cashier. TAX NOTICE. OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER, ) SCMTEB CG?RTY, V SUMTER, S. C., Sept. 20, 1893. J THE TREASURER OF SUMTER Couoty gives notice that bis books will tie open from the 15tb dav of OCTOBER, 1893, to the 15th day of DECEMBER, 1893, for the collection of Taxes for the fiscal year 1892 ?nd 1893, for Sumter County. The following are the rates per centum of the levy : For State purposes-five and one-half mills on every dollar of the value all taxable property. For ordinary county purposes-two and tbree-fooths mills on every dollar of the value of all taxable property. Special county tax for past indebtedness ooe-foortb of one mill. Special county tax for new jail-one mill. Constitutional school tax-two mills. Mayesville, two mills extra levy for school purposes in the town of Mayesviile. Swimming Pens, two mills extra levy for school purposes in the township. Sumter (outside of city limits), two mills extra levy for school purposes in the town? ship. Oae dollar on each Pol! between tbe ages of 21 and 50 years. The total levy in this county is eleven and one-half mills. D. E. KEELS, Coontv Treasurer. Sep. 27. --- j Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM SEO. f. STEFFINS & SON, Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C. -Ageots for MOTT'S CXDSB, BED SEAL CISA2S, and DOVE- HAMS. THE I SUMTER INSTITUTE. i ; The next session of the In? stitute will begin on SEPTEM? BER 12th, 1893. For terms and catalogue ! apply to H. F. Wilson, President, i June 21 Sumter, S. C. ?NSU1?NC1 INSURE YOUR LIFE -WITH THE MUTUAL LIFE Insurance Company, j OF NEW YORK, THE LARGEST MONI ED INSTITUTION IN THE WORLD. I ? _ Take vour Accident Poiicv in the EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY OF ENGLAND. * Insure against Fire in THE CONTINENTAL OF NEW YORK. THE MERCHANTS, OF NEWARK, N.J. THE INSURANCE CO., OF NORTH AMERICA. THE QUEEN OF AMERICA. THE PHOENIX ASSURANCE OF ENGLAND. ? THE NORWICH UNION OF ENGLAND. THE MECHANICS AND TRABERS of N. 0. j All First Class and represented by 1 ALTAMONT MOSES. j A. WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL k LONDON k GLOBE, I NORTH BRITISH k MERCANTILE, HOME, or New York, j UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,QoO,000. Feb. 12 ix \m mm\i ! DENTIST. Office j OVER BROWN k BROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Between Brown k Brown ?nd Durant k Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 NEW LUMBER YARD. IBEG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AND the public generally that my Saw Mill located on the C. S. k N. R. R., just back of my residence, is^now in full operation, and I am prepared to furnish all grades of Yellow Pine Lumber from unbled timber, at prices according to grades. Yard accessible on North side of residence. J. B. ROACH. Feb 18. A GREAT TRAVELER. A Missionary Who Haft Been Around the World and IR Still Going. There is visiting in this city a man of remarkable appearance and qniet ad? dress, now in his eighty-eighth year. He is a preacher of the Friends' church ; has penetrated the darkest corner of Africa : has visited the jungles of India and the frozen regions of the north ; has made one missionary tour around the world, and now, most surprising of all. is again blithely circling the globe. He is Mr. Isaac Sharp, an English Quaker preacher, and is the guest of his long time friend, Mr. Francis A. Wright of Belleview avenue. In November he will attend a confer? ence to be held in Baltimore. He will then visit Florida and the Friends* mission in Mexico, and after a fare? well visit to his daughter in California trill letnrn home in time for the annual convention of Friends, which meets in London early in June. Mr. Sharp has been a Quaker preach? er about 60 years and has been on many missionary journeys, in accord? ance with the customs of the preachers of the Friends* church. His first mis? sionary trip was to Norway over 50 years ago. on which occasion he visited the most northerly point of land in Europe. Afterward, from 1862 to 1865. he made five 6ucces?*ive, visits to Iceland, the Faroe islands, Greenland and Lab? rador. Some 15 years ago, after Mr. Sharp had reached the age of three score and ten, he was, at his own request, sent out by the Friends' church of Eng? land on a missionary tour around the world. He spent 18 months in South Africa, traveling with mule and bul? lock teams over the territory which was the scene of Dr. Livingstone's early missionary labors. He spent about a year in the island of Madagascar and then traveled through Australia and New Zealand to the United States and home to England. Three years ago Mr. Sharp started on the present tour. He first visited India and Australia, and after a sick? ness in California went to Japan and thence to China, going up the Yang tse-Kiang river 1.509 miles. At this time Mr. Sharp was so weak that his friends in England were not willing to take any responsibility for his visit, and he went' on the journey entirely on his own volition, as he believed, under the sense of duty.-Kansas City Times. How Were the Pyramid? Built? The quction used tor a headline will in all probability never be satisfactorily answered. Eminent Egyptologists, as well as other 4tologists.'' have been ad? vancing theories ever since the begin? ning of the age of historical inquiry, but the fact remains that there is not a man living today that can give any? thing like a tenable explanation of the manner in which th'-se hugo buildings were reared. One investigator claims to have found the marks of chisels, saws and uri 11s on the sides of tho monster blocks of stone therein used, but another, a sci? entist equally as eminent, declares the aforesaid marks to be those of the molds used, his theory being that they are blocks of concrete made on the spot where they now lie, the material being the sand from the surrounding deserts. One of fae editor's valued friends, a thinker and an investigator (especially in the realms of Masonic lore), declares it to be his belief that the blocks of stone used were floated into position on gigantic rafts during periods of high waters on the Nile. I was rather taken with the idea myself when it was first presented for consideration, but I must acknowledge that I hastened to aban? don it when it was ascertained that "the great pyramid is situated upon a rocky steppe, 130 feet above the fertile plains annually overflowed by the Nile!"-St. Louis Republic. How the Matabeles Fight. A colonist who has recently returned from South Africa gives some interest? ing information as to the mode of war? fare carried on by the Matabeles, in company with other Zulu tribes. As a rule they attack in the early dawn, when the savage's sight is sufficient, but the European's inadequate. They advance in horn shape formation, with the object of outflanking the enemy and getting at his rear. When within 50 yards, they hurl their iissagais and then make a determined rush. Machine guns are too much for them, but they will charge right up to the earthworks when defended with rifles only, and if the Europeans became unsteady they might easily get within a fortified camp. As a rule, two re? pulses check their ardor, but they sel? dom desist altogether until they have made one final attempt to take the white men in the rear. In open coun? try the Matabeles would not be formid- ? able if theyoutnom^ Jk~$ the company's police by four or li v e to one, but in broken ground they would take some time in settling.-Blackburn (England) Times. A White Snake. While at play during recess at the primary school on Sierra street Dr. Bergstein 's young son noticed a white snake at the margin of a hedge, and grabbing him by the tail pulled him out. Although the little fellow was bitten on the hand, he clung to his prize, 1 shifted his hold to the neck of the snake, ran home with him and impris? oned him, as he supposed, securely in a can in the cellar. Later, however, the reptile was missing, and it was feared that a valuable curiosity was lost The other day a woman who lives a block west of the doctor was frightened by what proved to be the same snake, ' and a boy killed it, to the sorrow of snake fanciers. It is about three feet 1 long, with pink eyes and white belly. From the tip of the tail for six inches toward the head the back is covered with very delicate bine and pink alter? nating bands. The balance of the back is covered with light pink spots, with a few bine ones interspersed.-Heno Gazette. Why Foam Is Always White. The question as to why ail foam i* white is not an easy one to understand, but the fact is that foam is al ways white, whatever may be the color of the bever? age itself. The froth produced on the bottle of the blackest ink is white and would be perfectly so were it not tinged to a certain extent by particles of the liquid which the bubbles hold in mechan? ical suspension. As to the cause of this whiteness, it is sufficient to say that it is due to the large number of reflecting surfaces formed by the foam, for it is these surfaces which; by reflecting , .e light, produce ui>on our eyes the impression of white. . If we remember that all bodies owe their colors to the rays of light which they cannot absorb and all bodies which reflect all the light they receive, without absorbing any. appear perfectly white, we shall be prepared to understand how the multitude of reflecting surfaces formed by the foam, and which do not absorb any light, must necessarily give the froth a white appearance. It is for the same reason that any very fine powder appears white, even the blackest marble, when ground to dust, losing every trace of its original color. Cincinnati Enquirer. Ascent of an Argentine Peak. Herr Rudolph Hauthal, professor of geology at the La Plata museum, has succeeded in ascending one of the chief peaks of Mount Aconqui.' r. in the prov? ince of Catamarca, in the Argentine Re? public. He undertook the ascent from an encampment to the east of the peak situated at a height of 4.600 meters. The peak itself he estimates to be 5,600 meters above sea level. He encountered a fierce west wind, which often obliged him to lie down and hold fast to the rocks for fear of being blown over precipices. After five hours' straggle with storm, loose stones, snow and ice, he reached the summit and planted the German and the Argentine flags side by side. He then erected a heap of stones, in which he placed a tin box containing a paper with the date. Ee covered it with the Argentine flag, taking the German flag with lum to place on another peak. Herr Hauthal was accompanied by a single Argentine peon, who often declared he could go no farther, but was always cheered by a promise of higher paj'uient.-London News. > The Joy of Sudden Death. It is more than 20 years ago since Bish? op Wilberforce, riding with Earl Gran? ville io Mr. Levesen-Govier's seat in Surrey, where Mr. Gladstone so often stays, fell from his horse and was killed. It was said at the timo that he desired a sudden death. Singular confirmation of this is afforded by a story just told in an obituary notice of the Rev. George Crabbe Rolfe, for ."<4 years vicar of Hailey, Oxon. The writer says: "On one occasion the bishop and Mr. Rolfe were riding together down a very steep hill in the parish, the vicar on his old pony, the bishop, as usual, on his one good mount. The latter rode down somewhat too precipitately for the vicar and his pony, and Hr. Rolfe, on catch? ing his lordship up, twitted him upon his intrepid horsemanship. To this the bishop replied that a sudden death was about the happiest thing that could hap? pen to a man."-Pall Mall Gazette. The Lover'? Stratagem. There was determination in his eye as he approached the dog catcher's wagon. .'Want an animal?" "Sut'n'y," replied the driver. "Got one yer desire to dispose of?"' "Well, it isn't exactly my dog, but I am acquainted with him." "Has he got a tag?'' "No, he hasn't. I'm wearing that tag myself now," answered the young man, drawing the bit of metal from his pock? et. "You want to go after him in the daytime. He's gentle then. But at night he's a terror. I'll take you to the house." "But, say, young feller, what's the cause of your interest in this transac? tion?" * 'My interest? Oh-well-you see I go there to call sometimes."-Washington Star._ Great Self Control. Bloobumper-Do you know that Cal? liper has the most remarkable self con? trol I ever saw in a man? b'p.uts-Indeed? Bloobumper-Yes, he has. He has bec-n to the World's fair, but he never says a word about it.-Detroit Free Press. Mer Badge of Sorrow. A New York woman who spent the sum? mer in a Maine town secured throughout her stay the services of a woman as oc? casional assistant when there was com? pany or any extra work of any sort. The woman was recommended as a worthy and needy woman, whose husband was lost at sea last; winter. The summer was nearly over when one morning the helper appeared in deep and evidently fresh mourning. "Why, Mary," exclaimed her employ? er, "have you lost any of your children?" "No, mern," replied Mary, "it's for him." "Oh," was the answer, "I didn't know you were in mourning for your hus? band." And this was Mary's pathetic and la? conic explanation: "When I was, I couldn't, and now I can, I am, mern."-New York Times. THE STREET IN CAIRO. One of the Most Remarkable Features of the Midway Plaisance. The street in Cairo is one of the most remarkable of the peculiar foreign ex? hibits in Midway plaisance. It is locat? ed about midway on the ground on the right hand side going west, its western portion being opposite the Ferris wheel. This exhibit covers an area of 300 by 60 feet and consists of a temple, mosque, theater, 62 shops and 2 schils or drink? ing fountains. It has also a representa? tion of a merchant's residence of the fifteenth century. The buildings of the street are said to be faithful reproduc? tions of the structures found in the most picturesque quarters of the ancient city. One of the interesting sights to the vis? itor of life in the Cairo street is the wed? ding procession, which is one of the characteristic reproductions of one of the customs among the Arabs. It is a gor? geous moving pageant and attracts many visitors to see it. All the people of the street are in holiday garb. Here the wrestler, the musician, the torch? bearer, camels, priests and women make up the escort for the bride, who is car? ried in a kind of palaquin by two camels with mounted drivers. Other ceremonies are shown, such as the "moulid" or birthday festival, and in fact there is not wanting anything that may contribute to the fun, gayety and interest of the life of this strange conglomeration of strange peoples, their customs, manners and peculiarities. Among the other attractions in Cairo street are the Hindoo juggler or con? juror, the snake charmer, astrologers, etc. The Hindoo juggler has a kind of tent or habitation here, and marvelous indeed are the things reported of him. He squats on a rug and makes water flow from a gourd or stop flowing at will. He handles snakes who obey his commands as implicitly as the water does. He does the celebrated basket trick and many others equally inexplica? ble, and all with the smallest amount of paraphernalia. Cairo street has also its theater, where representations of a musical character are given, but one of the most interest? ing of the sideshows in it is the reproduc? tion cf the temple of Luxor as restored. This is adorned on the outside by sculp? tured battle scenes and religious cere? monies. Two obelisks, reproductions of originals, are placed on either side of the entrance. They are 75 feet high and 5 square at the base. One of these has sculptured on it in hieroglyphics a dedi? cation to the World's Columbian expo? sition. In the temple is a most interest? ing collection cf Egyptian antiquities, such as statues and sphinxes, a gateway flanked by pyramidal towers and hiero? glyphic inscriptions copied from an? cient monuments. Here also is a colos? sal statue of Thi and a sarcophagus of the sacred bull of tho later Ptolemic pe? riod.-Beeton Herald. Britons Xeed "Bevare o' Viddcrs." Tony Weller has long been gathered to his fictional fathers, and therefore the news contained in the official returns of the last census of England and Wales l aat these divisions of one country con? tain 1,124.310 widows will not make him turn a shade paler. The number, how? ever, is startlingly large, considering that there are only 4S4.990 widowers. Married men number 4,851,548 and mar? ried women 4,916,649. At first sight-and the tables give no explanation beyond the bald igures-the disproportion seems to lead to the sug? gestion that some of the males had more than a legal share of wifehood, but it is really accounted for by the fact that many husbands were abroad as soldiers, sailors or travelers on the night when the returns were made, while their wives remained at home. ' The number of foreigners residing in England' and Wales is given at 169,814.-London Tele? graph. _ Safety In Mine*. A lately invented airbag has been given a practical test in the deep anthra? cite coal mines of Pennsylvania and has proved a success. The apparatus con? sists of an airbag, an appliance to hold the nose shut and a battery and small in? candescent lamp. The airbag is made of stout canvas, worn on the back and fastened under the arm. From the top of the bag a rubber hose runs to the wearer's mouth. The air is inhaled from the bag and expelled through the nos? trils. The battery is strapped about the person, and the lamp is pinned to the coat. After a big explosion, when it is dangerous to enter a mine owing to the rapid collection of fire damp, rescuers can be fitted out with the airbags and enter the pit without any ill effects. Philadelphia Ledger. A Katy di d'* Bite. A death from a remarkable cause oc? curred in Walker county, Ga., recently. A lady who was riding to church reached out her hand to pluck a sprig from a bush by the roadside and was bitten on the finger by a katydid. Her hand and arm soon began to inflame and swell, and in a few hours she died in great agony. Atlanta Constitution. Blessings of a Contented Mind. "I see by the papers," said a man of moderate means, "that the net balance in the treasury, in addition to the $100, 000,000 gold reserve, is 'only' $11,500,000. I suppose that to a man of Uncle Sam's lofty ideas $11,000,000 really doesn't seem very much, but I know men who would be quite satisfied with much less."-New York Sun. Where They Come From. "I always wondered where all the Smiths came from until my recent visit to the city." "And then what happened?' "Then I saw a sign 'Smith Manufact? uring Company.' "-Exchange, AN ARTIFICIAL LARYNX. A Highly Interesting and Successful Ex? periment on the Human Throat. At one of the recent sessions of the French Academy of Medicine Dr. Perier, surgeon of the Lariboisiere hospital, pre? sented for the examination of his col? leagues a mute who expressed all his ideas by speech-that is to say, by modu? lated sounds. The history of this man is most curious and interesting from a scientific point of view. He was habitually enjoying robust health when he was stricken with an in? curable affection of the larynx, the first symptoms of which were observed in January, 1891. Tired of the treatment that he had to undergo for two years, he expressed a desire to be operated upon as radically as possible. Fortified with such authorization, Dr. Perier proceeded on the 12th of June last to operate upon him for the total ex? tirpation of the larynx. Every one knows that the region of the larynx con? tains the very organ of the voice, and that the vocal apparatus of man, if it is indisputably the most delicate, is the most perfect of that of the higher beings. Its destruction through disease or accident is consequently followed by aphony. The operation once terminated according to the rules of art, the skillful surgeon formed in the?anterior wall of the neck a small orifice, which he left open. This opening, consequently communicating with both tfce exterior and the pharynx, was reserved for experiments upon the re-establishment of the voice by means of an artificial larynx. Convalescence proceeded quickly, and on the 28th of June the health of the patient was suf? ficiently re-established to permit of such experiments. In concert with Mr. Aubry, manufac? turer of surgical instruments, Dr. Perier' directed these tentatives toward the adaptation of an artificial larnyx, actu? ated by a blowing device, and not by the air issuing from the trachea. The ap? paratus-relatively simple-that they de? cided to adopt, consists of a metallic reed inclosed in a tube, and the plates of which, arranged in contrary directions, obliterate half of the light at each ex? tremity. This tube terminates above in a spherical surface, capable of being ap? plied hermetically to the orifice in the front of the neck. Below it is connected with two elastic reservoirs, coupled and mounted upon a metallic S shaped ar? mature, permitting of one communi? cating with the other in order to obtain ' a continuous current of air of mean in? tensity. One of the reservoirs is put in communication with a blowing device formed of a bulb similar to those t hat actuate vaporizers. Under the effect of the current of air the metallic reed en? ters into vibration and emits a constant note of uniform tonality, which is ap? proximately that of the ordinary diapa? son. The sound thus produced is led, so to speak, into the buccal cavity. It remains, then, in order to convertit into true spoken language, only to make it undergo, through the intermedium of the tongue, lips and teeth, as in ordinary phonation, the series of modulations that produce the nuances and the difference in the pronunciation of words. These nuances, as incredible as the fact may seem at first sight, are, it appears, ob? tained quite easily. An education of a few days suffices. The individual who was the object of the communication made to the Paris Academy of Medicine was able, amid the plaudits of the whole assemblage, after recounting his operation with emotion, to retrace the history and detailed phases of his painful disease with a voice that was distinct, although of a low and mo? notonous tone.-Magasin Pittoresque. Persian Roses at Fitzgerald'? Grave. An interesting ceremony was per? formed last month at Boulge. a little vil? lage near Woodbridge. In the church? yard there is the grave of Edward Fitz? gerald, the translator of the works of the Persian poet. Omar Khayyam. In 1884 Mr. William Simpson, the veteran artist of The Illustrated London News, while out with the Afghan boundary commis? sion, discovered the grave of Omar Khayyam and gathered from it the seeds of a rose which flourished there. He brought them home, and plants from the seeds being reared by Mr. Thiselton Dyer of Kew gardens, it was resolved to place two bushes at the head of Fitz? gerald's grave. The trees were planted in the presence of Mr. Quaritch, Mr. W. Simpson. Mr. Edward Clodd, Mr. Clem? ent Shorter, Mr. Moucure Conway and Mr. George Whale, vice president of the Omar Khayyam club. Mr. Justin Hunt? ley McCarthy, Mr. Edmund Gosse and Mr. Grant Allen contributed verses for the occasion, and Mr. Moncure Conway spoke in the poet's praise on behalf of his admirers in America,-London Times. / - Women In California. Here is an interesting list of the occu? pations in which women are engaged in California: The manufacture of agricul? tural implements, machinery, files, tacks, nails, harness, paper and wooden boxes, type, wood cuts and printers' supplies, tents, bags, umbrellas, valises and trunks; in japanning and tin work; gold polishing; in cotton miles, jute mills, soap and salt works, fruit canneries, hop fields,vineyards and orchards; women are butchers, market venders, blacksmiths, farmers, straw hat makers, cigarmakers, bookbinders, compositors and proofread? ers, pressfeeders, lithographers and en? gravers. They find employment, too, as clerks, cashiers, medical nurses, mission? aries, photographers, retouchers and col? orers, teachers, dentists, lawyers, doc? tors, musicians, telegraph operators, typewriters, stenographers, wood and metal engravers, canvassers, collectors, merchants. They are ministers, lectur? ers, dancers, athletes, acrobats, pugil? ists, inventors, politicians and notaries oublie-San Francisco Correspondent.