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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1897. The Sumter Walcttman was rounded ? 1850 ?od the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has he com hiped circulation and influence cf both of the old papers, and is mani? festly the hesfc advertising medium in Swater The restoration to health of Gen. Hampton is good new? to all Sooth Carolinians. Neither time nor political upheaval has destroyed the affectionx the people of this State have for him. * The civil service lair stands io the way of the hungry bordo of Republi? can office hunters, and it is already tbe revealed purpose of the Republican Seo ' ators and Representatives to repeal the law and theo dismiss all Democrats to make places for their partisan hench? men. Civil service reform is a very pretty theory, but it isn't politics. North Carolina is in the bands 4(of a gang of, ruthless, reckless and partisan plunderers. The fusion is* ?-a combi? nation of Republicans and Populists have Siled all offices with their hench? men, a majority of them utterly incom? petent and untrustworthy, and the ap? propriations exceed the income of ?the State by $200,000. North Carolina baa the days of good stealing revived. G. Walt Whitman, the irrepressible politico-clerical agitator of Jonesville, has issued an open letter calling upon G. Wash Shell to rescue his famous Manifesto from the ignominious obscurity into which it was thrust immediately after the campaign of 790. G. Walt earnestly asserts that by the change of a few dates the Manifesto can be made applicable to the present situation. The indictment is, perhaps, well found? ed? but, as Senator Irby once remark? ed? a lulu band is good once only. Tom ?eed is the absolute master of the House of Representatives. He bas promised to pass the Dingley tariff bill and the appropriation bills and to pre ~ vent the passage of all other measures that are objectionable to the Republi? cans The speaker has entirely too mach power? and when the position is occupied by a mao of Reed's stamp the baneful results become clearly apparent. Measures should be taken at the first opportunity to curtail ibe powers cow delegated or reMgned to the speaker. The fact that Gov. El 1er be has vetoed the'kw prohibiting the employment of free labor on the State's convict farms ba? been orung ht to.our attention. He has not cn ly made a mistake,, but bas done a very serious in justice and injury to tho farmers io the vicinity of these farms. The State comes into sharp competition with individual citizens and forces them to pay higher prices for labor than they can afford, or lose their crops. We have it on the best author? ity that the practice of employing free labor on the State Farm in this county has thoroughly demoralized labor condi? tions io the neighborhood to the mate- j rial injur or the planters of the com- j mun itv. It is true that the abu?e is j local in its operation, and only a tew persons are irjored, but this pi?* w??? j not stand the test of scrutiny. The ; State exceeds i's right when it com- ? petes with citizens, jujures their bust i ness and handicap? them io the effort to provide a support for themselves and j families. It were preferable to aban-j don the State farms altogether than ! that the present policy should be con? tinued BAIL FOR THURMOND. It Will be Applied For bsfore Jndge Aldrich. Will Solicitor Thurmond give bail ? is a question that has been asked re peatedly since the unfortunate hom i cide at Edgefield last week. He will, or st least will try, to do so A no? tice was sent yesterday to the attor? ney general stating that on Wednes? day next at Aiken before Judge Al? drich bail would be applied for.. Just what action the attorney general will take in the matter cannot be said. He will probably do nothing, as the granting of bil is entirely discretion? ary with the judge and it is no unus? ual occurrence for bail to be granted in such cases. The only issue that is likely to arise is as to the "nm re quired in the bond. Accompanying tbe notification was the testimony taken at the corner's inquest and the affidavit of Solicitor Thurmond. While Mr. Thurmond is awaiting trial bis duties ss solicitor will be per? formed by some lawyer at each coun? ty seat in tbe Fifth circuit, who will he appointed by the presiding judge when court convenes at such places. -The State. More Precious Than Gold. However, giddy-pated or light-hearted one may be from youth or good health, there come moments when every one is impelled to look down into "blue eternity," and remem? ber that the wave3 thereof are as sure to swallow us some day as that they have swallowed numberless millions: there is no escape. All of our hopes on which we have set such store float off from us like bubbles on tbe crest of these pitiless waves, with their endless, aod at tices deafening roar, io ocr ; poor humao ears. The ending of a certain length of time, by which we have striven to get eome measure, some idea, of this great immeasurable sea of eternity which sor rounds us, and which we call a year and the begin ni:; g ot another, is one of those moments wheo, like a mao sitting oo a lonely rock I tn the midst of the sea, we look right dowo j into the depths ; nothing cao avert our gaze aod all of the bobbles of life, our loves, onr hates, our coorage, our fears, our pride, our humility gahter aroood ca aod then float cff and faraway from os oo the surface of this sea. And beside us sits the dread monster who will conduct Q3 to the depths wheo oor turo comes, aod grios at aod mocks us io tbe vain attempts we make to drown the sound of the waves. We "ring out the old year" aod "riog io the new," and strive so earoestly to forget, just to forget for this ooe oight the ?ouod of those waves, to drown them by all the sounds of revelry at our command. We daoce aod sing and try to feel more joyous than at aoy other time. Bot all the while the sound of the waves is io the. most heedless ears, briogiog a touch of sadcess to the lightest heart although screen? ed from human eyes io the effort to seem gay and happy. Accordiog to the truth of God in our natures we recognize the soberness of those moments of reflection and bow to the behests' of that "still small voice," io prayer for mercy from Him who send3 these precious j moments of time to os as a waroing against, and to lead os away from the vanities of life to its earnestness ; deeds of love and kind? ness towards each other which He has giveo us every reason to think are the surest anchors of our bope for joy and happiness on that Great Unseen Throne on the other side of the ocean of time. If at such a mo? ment we cao truthfully gather to oor heart thoughts of kiodoess doue to others aod ot unkindnesses from others forgiven ty os, such deeds may be bobbles oo the sea of time, but they will sparkle with rays of eternal hope te rene aod true, briogiog calmness to our | hearts io this moment of earthly fear and trembliog. If oo the other baud, deeds of unkindness, ooforgiveness, cerhape of vio leoce, of veogeaoce, no matter how steming just to humao eyes, rise before oe, we seek to ring io aod out the years with ali the greater vehemence, blaster aod noise. We sing all the loader, dance all the gayer, strive all the harder to drown the roar of the waves and are spokeo of as the happiest of the happy, gayest of the gay, bot the sound of those waves are modolated oo ly onto ns as we in our daily lives have dooe ooto others Youth aod health oiteo enables us for years to carry with apparem ease a sense of wroog done to others, aod every one's life is more or lees weighted dowe and bis disposition, his char? acter even, affected by them, bnl if persisted io and noexpiated, they bear us down atlast, severing the cords of sympathy which bind os to all that makes life worth living. at,d .make us a leper io the ccidst of life Every murderer feels a sense cf loneliness, and the nore atrocious the murder the greater the luceliness. He may by his adroitness, or the co wai dice of juries, have escaped the gallows, out tie carries something with him which is far greater punishment in this world than the man who bss confessed aod paid the penalty of his ctime, and is more to be pitied Watcb him io some joyous crowd either loudmoplbed and bustling cr silent ?nd gloomy looking, evidently feeling that he would give everything he possessed just to be like other people, and so thankful for a kind word from anyone, a touch of human sym pa?by. AU wrongs to others drive us into ourselves, while kindness draws us out cf ourselves and into sympathy with others The ?rst is unnatural and bas made death for 03 the dread monsttr he is, and the sea cf tine of such impenetrable, awful darkness It is (rood, therefore, that all should try to j meet with welcome those moments God sends us at the ending and beginning of each year ?.f time and to look right into the depth* Of "Blue Etercity," to see all of tbs vanities . of life float away from os, to shake raods with the "dread monster" sitting bfs ?? us on our lonely rock of time, for it will make us strive harder to have some of tbs bubbles floatiog off shining and sparkling with our deeds of kindness to others, and enable us to say with all the more heartiness ' Thy will be d^ne," when our lum comes, as we know it mu3t ; that our day is lurking for us some? where :'In the dust cf flowers to te" we all know better than we know anything else, and has to be unwillingly or not. And when we begin to see crow's feet around our eyes and grey hairs ibn our temples, we be? come more and more sensitive to such thoughts as we feel oqr day drawiog nearer and nearer ; and the wise seek to meet it witb an earnest, quiet spirit, and not to drive away thoughts of it in noise and reveling ; to accustom themselves to'thoughts of the lest great moment in their communings ia these sent on before True deeds of kind? ness to others then which we can claim, will be far more precious to us than ?ll of the gold, silver aud precious stones io the whole world. W.J R. Eastern anet Southern Mills. A remarkable editorial appeared in the Proyidcoce, R I.. Journal l?sf Tuesday on "The New Eogiaod Mills." The Journal declares that the cotton manufacturers of New Eogiaod have at last become convinced that the south is gotog to take possession of that io dustry and hold on to it against all competitors. It goes on to say that because they caonot compete with the south io the manufacture o f cotton tbe New Englaod mills are not to be aban? doned but will be devoted to another in? dustry in which no section has advantage over them. According to The Journal "there is now a movement to mnnfaoture goods of which linen is the only or a partial constituent in New England. But while a few m?ls have started making such materials already, tbe manufacturers who are talking most about altering their produots to that sort of merchan? dise are those who have bern stirred to engage in the new eoterprise by the repor; that a tariff will be imposed to help them ont." We are further told that the better class of mill men ie New Eogiand no longer contend tbat the South eanoot compete with that section in the manu facture of the fioer grades of cotton cloth. A start is already being made in this direction by some southern mills and The Journal says that "when the wedge is once driveo in, the riving force of the effort is bound to be large? ly a matter of ooorse " Tbe Journal declares that the new industry does not need aod should not receive the aid of a protective tariff and that "to domesticate the linen industry in New England the one thing wanted is the spur of activity driveo by tbe de- ? mand for business. The southern cot? ton maoufaoiurers would have effected tbis transfer of production io due time, but DOW we shall evidently have it io a burry.'7 We have no doubt that the predic? tion of our Providence contemporary that tbe south will very soon enter the field of finer cotton manufactures will be fulfilled. It is "only a question of time when cotton goods, of all grade* will be manufactured abundantly in the sooth, and when New England will have to fiod other uses for maoy of tbe mills and much of rbe capital now em? ployed io cotton manufacturing.-At? lanta Journal Dr. Lniz Sentenced. Baltimore, Mareh 29.-Dr. Joseph Lu z, convicted of filibcsteriog; was sentenced in the United States court rn day to jail for eighteen months and fined $500 Dr Lutz was convict? ed Friday ot conspiracy for the purpose of pending a military oxpedittoo from the territory of the Uoired States to tbe island of Cuba on the amer James Woodall io Joly. 1895. The cat-e will be taken to the- United States Sopreme court on a writ of er? ror, and it is possible that habeas cor pus proceedings will be taken before t:be Uoited States Supreme Court for he purpose of haviog the prisoner re? leased on bail. General Bradley S. Johnson, who stood by the prisoner while tbe latter was receiving his sentence, asked if bail would be allowed pending an ap peal Judge Morris replied in sub? stance: ' The idea of uyduty in this case doe? not allow me to permit bail The exceptions taken in the case were of the most teebnioal character. I have no dnuht as to the fairness of the trial or that sub>tautial ju -it ice has been dorie.'' Gold and Silver Papers for sale by H. ? Osteen & Co. Tutfs Pills Cure All Liver Ills. Save Your Money. One box of Tutts Pills will save many dollars in doctors' bills They will surely cure all diseases of the stomach, liver or bowels. No Reckless Assertion For sick headache, dyspepsia, malaria, constipation and bilio? usness, a million people endorse TUTT'S Liver PILLS WA?m ADVERTISEMENTS of five noes or less will be inserted under this head for 25 c3ots for each insertion. Additional ?ines 5 cents per line. WANTED-To cure Dyspepsia, Sick headache nod Biliousness. Sample package of Rawson's Specific mailed free. Nerver fails to cure. No sufferer should be without it Address Singleton & Co., Stare Agents, Wedgefield, S. C., March 31-Imo. The School Teacher. One of the b?rdest jobs that fall to ! the lot of man or woman is that of ti e ! school teacher. It is true that it has { its period of vacation each year, but j it is not true that it alway? pays enough for the working months to j enable the teacher to rest during the/ holidays But we are not speakiug so much of the physical confinement or the mental drudgery, as upon the exactions of the position, and the un-j reasoning dcmsindri of parents and the public for results There is an interesting article along this line in Harper's Bazzir, from which we quote as follows : Is there any other class on which j the community makes demands so j severe as in caf;e of teachers, public or private ? No physician is expect j ed to cure all his patients There j comes a time when every one of them j no matter how carefully tended, pass es beyond bis reach. No lawyer saves all his clients ; no clergyman or revivalist exhibits an unbroken pha? lanx of saints Yet the teacher, who constantly has to compete with the influence of the streets, often with that of the home, is expected in his j five or six hours a day to accomplish j more than all the sources of evil can undo, and to bring out all his pupils blamlebs and donplete-soul, body, and grammar. Madame Roland once defined marriage as an institution where one person was expected to provide happinens for two ; but a school is an institution where one person ie expected to provide joy, peace and the multiplication table fur at least forty. S jrely this a cruel re? quirement. No maxim is more for? midable than that German proverb, brought home many years ago by Horace Mann, "Ae is the teacher, eu is the school " It would be quite as true to say "As are the parents, so is the school" or "as are the grand- ; parents so is school," since these re? latives created the brain cells and the moral fibre <^f each set of pupils, and the teacher takes these ingredients and makes the best he can of them. In addition to these suggestions] there ie another factor that enters I into the schools of to day that must i not be forgotten Teaching these ' days is by wholesale, instead of rc | tail. A teacher in not given a few j pupils 8^ that he may devote atten tion to the instruction of each indi vidual, but a room full-from forty to fifty-are given, and the teacher teaches at the crowd, or hears the recitations of the whole roora Those who are smart and ambitious learn ; those who are indolent, indifferent and stupid do not. Where the teacher has opportunity to devote time to the individual, even pupils of the latter class may learn something. ; but in the wholesale . plan of io day ! his chances are reduced to a mini- j mum. But no allowances are made j either for native stupidity or free | school gregariousness, and the un ! happy teacher bau to take ?il the ! blame for the scholar and the system. ! The teacher's lot is nut a happy one -Augusta Chronicle ?GU??OD Hf tata. OFFICE OF w. J. DURANT, CCCN?T SDPEBINTSNr KNT EDUCATION. ^ Sumter, S. C., March 25, 1897. The Stale Board of Education will meet Ht Columbia on April 2, HO j will examine ap pl cants for Teachers' ?State Certificates on April 3, beginning at 9 o'clock a. m. At ibis meeting (be County Boord ?of Education will be ieorgan'zsd as required by the Act passed at the last session of the legislature. The regular examination of applicmts for Teachers' County Cert fica tes will te held by tar County Board of Elucation at Scruter, on April 16tb. Very Respectfully, w. j. DURANT, Maren 31-3r C; S E. THE S??tn Carolina Medical Association JILL HOLD ITS NEXT ANNUAL ' Meeting nt UNIO!11?, April 28 instant. Reduced rates on all ronds tnve betn applied fur. W. PEYR?? PORCH ER, M. D., Secretary. March 31-April 21. Estale of Mrs. E. C. James, Dee'd. IWILL APPLY to lb? Judp.e of Probate of Sumter Coo ?ty un April 24ib, 1897, tur a final discharge as Administrator of aforesaid Estate SEBASTIAN W JAMES, M s rr h 24-4.* Administrator Estate of F. W. Cresswell, Dec'd. IWILL APPLY to th*- Judge cf Prob-te of Sumter Couuty cn april 24, 1897, for a rinrtl discharge a's Administrator of afore? said E?tare W. K 0R03SWELL, March 24-4.* Ad a inistrator Estate ol' James Branson, Dee'd. TWILL APPLY to the Judge of Probate of Sumter County, on April 10th, 1897, tor H Final Dischatge a? Administrator of aforesaid Estate. M cb 10-41. JOS. W. BRONSON, Ad'mr. Claremont Mtge 1.61 A. F. M. THE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMU? NICATION of Claremont Lodge, No. 4, A. F. M.. will be rield on Thursday Evening, April 15th, at 7J p. m. Brethren will take doe notice and govern themselves accordingly FOR SALE. WASTE MEAT SALT. GEO. j/. SHORE & BRO. March 24-2t. ls a remet?^ of sterling value* li positively cures all Bronchial Affections, Cough, Cold, Croup, Bronchitis and Grippe. You can alwsvs ely on it. DR? BULL'S COUGH SYRUP is indisputable tc every family. Price 25 cts. Shun all :-. titules. Chew LAMGE'S PLUGS The Great Tobacco Antidote.lOc. Dealers or ma?.A.C.Meyei' & Co . BaJto..Md. AT Schwartz's. Special Opening -IN Wool Dress Fabrics, The Season's Latest at Prices . never before seen in Sum? ter, for High Grade Goods. The Novelty Suits shown are strictly up-to-date, and exclusive style?, No two alike. 36-io Fancy Checks, suitable for Waists and Suits at 15c, worth 25c. And many other rare bargains. SCHWARTZ BROS. -GREAT SILK PURCHASE Hence these prices, 20- in. Foulard's new designs at 25c worth 40c/. 21- in. 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A Car Load GOOD MULES Just Received. Also please remember that I have on hand a good assort? ment of BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, CARTS AND HARNESS. I sell the celebrated "White Hickory" Wagon The best on the Market. H. Harby. Sumter, S, C., March 8, 18S6. -