The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 31, 1897, Image 4
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.''
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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.
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March 24-2t.
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every family. Price 25 cts. Shun all :-. titules.
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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. Foulard's, all silk, at
35c worth 50c.
24-in. Finest Foulard's, latest
for Suits and "Waists at 49c,
worth 60c.
SPECIAL.
23-in. Indias, in all colors and
black at 35c, can't be match?
ed less than 50c.
5 pieces 27-in. India Silks at
50c, worth 75c.
Novelties in Fancy Silk Waists.
Chiffons and Moire Velours.
AT
Schwartz's.
Linens for Skirts
-ARE
Great this Season.
We show the largest line in
Sumter.
All Lineo Crash Skirting at 10c yd.
Better grades in Fancy Effects afc
15c. 20c, and 25c.
25 pieces Waist and Suit Lawns-Spe?
cial at 6c, worth 10c
Fancy Linens, newest effects, to be sold
at 10c worth 15c.-These are fbe
right thing for full Suits and Waists.
50 pieces Wash Linens at 5o, worth 8c.
All best Calicoes at 5c.
semen BROS.
-SPECIAL SALES
Ladies'* Shirt Waists-This
season's style with white
linen detached collars
35 dozen to select from,
and your choice at 50
cents.
SPECIAL.
20 dozen Ladies' White Sail?
ors, trimmed with white
silk band, the 50c grade
to go at 29c.
A Car Load
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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. -