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outljro?i S UJET SR WATOHXAK? Kiia?liffae? April, 1860. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, 1S*6 Mated lng. 2S1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27,1897. New Series-Yoi. XVII. No. 13 ';> IM |? W^rnxi ?nib Sra?koii ?/T;.. SUMTER; S. C. , TCKXS: ? $1.50 per waaoi-in advance. i^TIKTlSSKSKT: *7 ;E??T subsequent, insertion--.^.. SO ^KCootr&cts for three mouths, or lot>?sr will be made ai icdoeed rates. .; ?.? commaaicat?OQS wbicb sabsert e ;pri**t8 0:- ?aterests will be ?barged forms adrertiements. Obituaries aad tribu tes of respects viii be , charged Tor. TEDS DISPENSARY The liOgislative Committee on the sf^ State diae?earj? completed the rego l?Hlar quarterly sxaminatioa yesterday W0? sabmitted the following report <~ to the governor : CDLUMAU, S.OVOci 20,1897. fyTo Hie Excellency W? H. EJIerbe, v Governor. Sir : The committee met oe M on - Ji^aj, Oct 18, and proceeded ta ex ???p???ne the books and financial trans? actions of the State dispensary for r tibe quarter ending Sept. 30, 1897. The stock ?f liquors and supplies : oa.hand waa taken on Oct. 1 by Mr I :J. B. Bowthit, representing the board ffgSf rautro?, aod-Mr. J. P. Thomas, f:'^vjr.," rejjresentiog this committee 1: -The asfcrants of the varions Invento ^ ries taken, appear noon the ?talement Jv of the assets and liabilities hereto "^attached. Alf the stock and sap< plies were . actually exhibited and U counted and valeed except certain J / goods hk ftran sit, invoices of which Sa4 been received ftp the bookkeeper ifi and entered apoa his books daring ?i the mouth of September. The origi? nalinvoices of these goods, to wit : H 360 barrels of whiskey.'mad 50 cases "- of irfciakey were exhibited^ amount? ing to j$5,29V08. These goods were counted as on hand and iaclud * -ed m~ $?C?nventory The balance sheet of the State ors peasary for the qsarter'eading Sept 3?>?897, and the statement of assets acd liabilities', and the statement of /: profits and losses were checked, by ? 1 the>bookK. We append to this re? v?pori copi** of these statements and also copy cir the cash statement for ' the ? quarter ; There appears apea i the statement of assets and liabilities ;. ender the head.of "onearaed profits" ? $45,051.14 This item consists of ibo estimated profits on goods ship? ped to the county dispensers and an : sold. It hs? ?oea the habit for seme : tune to estimate these unearned .r- profits and make an entry of them. 5;.& We recommend that the practice of P: esihn??ng' the unearned profits be "a?olMhed, for the reason that the fsaaie are uncertain and misleading. We have examined the original in ^Bo?c?s of all liquors and supples purchased daring the past quarter . and also all ? vouchers for disburse - meats made. We find the books . and entries therein-^orrect. fcccord P lng to the record an fi data furnished as The .Stale treasurer's report " shows OB Sept 30,, 1897, balance wf cash ia State treasary amounting ito .'$78,530- 61. According to the cash book, of the State dispensary the balance of cash amounted on that day ? J $69,873 24 There was, therefore, on that day $8,857 37 more in tho State treasary than was t called for by the books of the State dispensar?. The warranta. drawn prior to Oct 1 and unpaid amount to $8,651 33, according to itemised list furnished ns by the bookkeeper. This makes the difference between the State treasurer and the State dis peasary $6.04. At oar last report this difference was $16 04. This amount is BOW reduced to $6 04 by the payment of warrant Ko. 38, drawn ia April, 1896. which warrant has heretofore been accounted, for. We have examined tbe matter of iasaraace on local dispensaries and find that the amount of insurance runs from 10 to 25 per cent, of the ptock on hand If the policy of in? suring local dispensaries is to be fol? lowed, then, in oar opinion the in aarance is inadequate and should be increased We find that the present law re? quires that all dispensers give a uniform bond of $3/000. We find tnat some of these dispensers carry over $7,000 in stock, and in many cases the bonds of $3,000 is totailX inadequate. We, therefore, recom? mend that the amount of the bond re? quired be increased in these cases where large stocks are carried. We find that the stock of merchan? dise at the State dispensary and in the hands of local dispensaries on Oct. 1 was over $350,000 lu oar opinion the business of tbe dispen? sary could be as profitably and as economically conducted with a large decrease ia the stock If this policy were parsaed the profits to the school fund would be realized much quicker Respectfully submitted, Altamont Moses, Senator. JDO P Thomas, 0 R P Barns. A PRESENT PHASE OP THE NEGRO PROBLEM. The announcement that the Charles? ton Shoe Factory bas foaod it neces ear j to throw its doors open to negro labor brines us face to face once more with a problem which is destined to tax to the utmost the best attention of the thinking people of ?he Southern States? Tt is not our purpose at tbis time to ar? gue the m mts of individual oases, bot we deem it a doty to comment upon a trend of circumstances which has recently recently forced itself upon the consideration of this community. A few months ago the Knitting Mill, bowing before ibo imperative de maod for cheap labor, changed the complex too of its employees. More recently the Charleston Cotton Mill, reorganized after a protracted period of unprofitable operation, sought a similar road to prosperity. And now we are informed that the management of the Shoe Faetory is looking tb 1 place their institution upon a basis of economic production, which will meet the trade to which it caters. It is neither strange nor unreason? able that these changes have called forth from, the white men and women formerly employed in these factories protests vigor?os and bitter. In their owD eyes they have doubtless appeared to be the victims of that corporate greed against which it has grown popu? lar ic recent times to OD ri mal?dictions deep and loud. ?Nor is it altogether unexpected that certain people and < papers in the State have seized with avidity what they conceive to be a golden opportunity for fanning into Same once more the heated animosity which certain politicians have so assid? uously cultivated to the detriment of Charleston The operative? may be readily forgiven a bitterness to which emphasis is lent by personal privation, and Chi.rleaton has unfortunately had to grow accustomed to misrepresenta? tion in quarters of the state froK. which she and her people should have been privileged to seek for oomfort and find sympathy io their hours of tribulation. Bot these things will pass away, individual hardshshtpa, -wrongs if you will* however acute, are but of tran? ?ient consideration, and partisan ani? mosities seldom, if ever, survive :he evils which v give them birth. But the problems of a nation endure, and the recent changes in these factories in Charleston constitute' a p?lale of the greatest problem whioh soc fronts our people. The Proclamation of Emancipation made the black man a freeu.au ; the Constitution of the United States de? stares him to be a voter; but time alone shall declare what place in the sitizeuship of the nation be is capable >f? occupying, it is mere folly to assert that we haye reached a solution of the : question thrust upon the Southern peo? ple at the point of the bayonet. Thir? ty odd years of sufieriog have dulled the edge of the sharp anger with which they picked up their borden. As time has gone oe, the sturdy manhood of the South bus ceased repining. Our . people have leached the point at whioh the* past is subordinated to the present They are socking a solution of their 1 problem with, an earn es to ess aa deep and sincere af that with which they op? posed the" propounding of it Te is this fact which brings-u? to so careful a con? sideration of the significance of the changes which have recently been made : in the factories What centuries may bring forth no coe may predict. The negro has to work, oot bis own destiny., The ?mi? sent talents possessed by individual members or" Its race, bold before bis \ hope the image of higher things, men? tally, morally, even socially, than it is now possible for bim to attaio. The adversity against which, he bas had to struggle io these first days u| his citi? zenship is beginning to bring him wis? dom The light is still a flickering ODO, bot it burns, and tbere is fruitful promise in the circumstance. Ic is to ' bis and to our interest (bat he should ?eek work where it is most available 1 [?? times gone he wau veritably our ? hewer of .wood aod drawer of water. Since be is here and must remain bere, is it not the part of wisdom to make the best of him we can ? it is preposterous, to talk of retain? ing among us a pauper class, 8,000. 000 strong The fields no loBger af? ford occupation sufficient to occupy that number of persons The natu? ral increase in race has far outrun the demands of household employment in the cities A few aspiring men have reached out for higher culture and the honored professions, bat the great masses of the people, the black peo pie, remain to day unprofitable ser? vants to the Stale. These ever in creasing hordes are a menace to so ciety and a burden to the nation. There is but one way out of this multiplicity of difficulties The ne gro mast find work, and the white people must aid him in finding it The only sure way to make him a good citizen is to make him an in industrious one. One thing seems to be clear ; social equality, or any thing approximating : it? ia simply out of the question. "Jp,- v.' -J ..... ? . , The white man will revolt the instant ?hat subject is mooted ; and rightly deeming that association on equal terms at the bench, the loom, the forge, is tbe first step in that direc? tion, he will combat to the last gasp any proposition which contemplates indiscriminate employment of whites and blacks ander the same roof. The manufacturer must choose between the races ; he cannot mix them. This thoo is the issue : Shall we give the ne gro work, and if so, what work? Tho duty which we should pay to him, we owe to ourselves. Until be can help himself, he must hinder us He will remain ignorant, vicious, idle, until we assist him to work. Charlestop is. proving herself a pioneer in an important, maybe a dangerous, experiment ; but the re? ward wo?h? be so great should sac cess follow that the hazard she takes i s justifi?e1. Negro labor is the cheapest labor this country has eyer known Commercial progress and prosperity in . these days demand cheaper labor. Should Charleston discover that she can set a million spindles to hamming in her midst by patting her colored population to work, she will not only rid herself of an incubas, which has handicapped ber hopelessly in the race for pros pe ri ty, but she will have blazed a way which her sister cities will not be slow to follow. For the rest, it should be said that it will uot take white labor long to ad? just itself to the change, should the change corr e. Skilled, honest, intel? ligent toil aas never gone begging for long Individuals will suffer. Every revolution must have its mar? tyrs. But the increased prosperity that would come to the Sooth could her hordes of idle negroes be pot at work, would make places ona higer plane of en ploy ment fer millions of white men -News and Courier. England Declines. London, Oct ; 20 -Lord Salisbury to-night sect to Ambassador Hay the reply of the British government to the proposals of the American bi? metallic special commission beaded by Senator Wolcott It is a diplo? matically worded note. His lordship says that, the govern? ment of; Great Britain is not able to reopen the India mints at present. He regrets the inability to accede to the proposals'.of the American com? missioners, Great Britain having as great an interest as the United States and France in securing 8 stable par exchange for gold and silver and an enlarged use of silver. In these circumstances, continues Lord Salisbury, the British, govern? ment does not see the desirability of an international monetary conference, bot will be pleased to .consider any other practical suggestions from the United Stoles. Lord Salisbury encloses with the note a copy of the statement of Sir J. Westland, head of the financial department of India, which was un? der discussion at the meeting of the cabinet council last Saturday, and which takes strong grounds against the reopening of the India mints. Senator Wolcott is not in London this evening. Ambassador Andrew White came from Berlin last Saturday. He has avoided publicity, but has had seve? ral conferences with Senator Wolcott Io the course of an interview with the correspondent of the Associated Press Mr White said that Germany's action as to bimetallism will depend upon England's. THE DISPENSARY SAT ON BY SIMONTON. Charleston, October. 19 -Judge Simonton bit tbe dispensary another bard blow this afternoon when he filed his decision in the case of Ferste Sons & Co. vs. J. G. Stroble, a State constable: G. C. Yarn,-Byrd and F. M. Felder were agents for Fersts at Bamberg. Stroble seized their stock of liquors on the ground that they sold to Charles McCoy, a drunkard, and that some of the jugs or pack? ages were not labelled. Judge Simonton, in his decison, held that it was not necessary for the packages to have been labelled. The goods were carried uuder contract in original packages and delivered to consignees. On the issue of selling to a drunk rad, he held that there was much conflicting evidence Some of the witnesses swore he was not drunk Others say he was not drunk at the time he made the purchase, but was soon after. "The party making the sale must either know or have substantial rea? son to believe the man was drunk. Varn and Byrd swore they did not know he was drunk, and othor eye witnesses swear that they are of the same opinion. The role is made absolute. Let the injunction stand." ABMS AND AMUNI110N. St. Louis. Oat. 19.-Three Caban pa? triots, direct from the soeoe of the ter? rible straggle on the islaod, have been io St. Louis tbe last fourteen days, pro? curing and shipping ammunition for their work is at last completed and they leave to day for Coba. One of them is authority for tne statement that dar? ing their stay they have purchased and. forwarded to a Texas port $225.000 worth of cartridges, dynamite, rifles, pistols and saddlery intended for the io s arge ot army. Taro expeditions con? veying these supplies will sail to-night from a Texas port between the city of Bagdad and Port Galveston, and in the Ctrribean Sea will meet two other ex? peditions that Sunday night sets sail from New York. The Coban agents are Col. George Johnston, of the staff of General Car? los Roloff, Col Edward Betancoari aod Captain H. A Smith. Col. Johnston, who was interviewed by a reporter, Baid : "Oar mission.has been to bay sop plies for the department of the east. Owing io quarantine,we could do nothiog at Key West, aod came to St. Louis. We have accomplished oar mission here by the p?rchase of $225,000 worth of ammooitioo aod the like." Col. Jobnstou COD tinned oo the sub? ject of Coba : "Autonomy, oo. Nothiog bot abso? ute freedom. We have 60,000 meo under arms io Coba. Virtually the whole islaod, except'1 Havana, Matanzas aod Cien fuegos, is in oor haBds. We could take Havana by meaos of dyna? mite, bot we would have to notify the foreign consuls, who of coarse woald ootify the eomy, -else we should blow ap oar friehds. "At a meeting of representatives of the whole army of the east aod of the west as late as October 4, at H ol quin, at which I was present, aod which bas oot yat been mentioned in the papers, it was reiterated that Coba woald ac? cept nothing bat absolute freedom. It is a waste of time for the United States to deal with Spaio relative to granting autonomy or anything else short of absolute freedom. What we want of the United States is the granting of belligerent rights. With, that, in less than seventy-two hours we would have out of the vari?os ports of the United States forty-two vessels flying the Cuban flag. ''Before the American congress meets again thero will be events which we hope will compel congress to recog? nize os. We have beeo oo the defen? sive heretofore. Now we are oo the offensive We begin to retaliate The armies of the east and west are about to consolidate. They will short ly attack Maotaozas. Possibly Ha? vana will be assailed. We are aboot to show congress that we meao busi? ness, if we have not shown it hereto? fore. "With belligerent rights, the islaod will be free before December 31 of this year. Without recognition, we shall be free before March of next year." Short Potato Crop. A Heavy Falling OffinxTon nage. New York, Oct. 20 -Not since 1892 has the potato orop of the United States proved so nearly a failure, says the American Agriculturist io its float report of the yield of 1897. Compared with the liberal crop of last year, there is an apparent falling off of nearly 30 per cent, in tonnage, and the quality of the whole is greatly defi? cient. County and township retaros from all the leading potato-growing states to this weekly newspaper show the yield of potatoes to be 174.000,000 bushels, against 245.000,000 in 1896. 286,000,000 in 1895, 185,000.000 in 1894 and only 155.000,000 io the short crop of 1892. The average rate of yield per acre is placed at 64 bushels, taking the ooaotry at large, against 86 bushels io 1896, 89 io 1895 and 62 in 1892. The reasons for the disaster to the potato crop of 1897 are about as varied as a multiplicity of causes could make them. Standing out with more promi oeoce than any other two factors are blight and rot, as a result of extremes of weather conditions. Excessive rainfall here and there, failure of germination, later serious drought, rast, scab, insects, eic , have all been prominently in evidence, although com? plaints of this charaoter are less gene- ? ral than of the two first oamed. , While the yield in bushels is small, the i quality is almost deficient i This is true of roost, but not all states. The crop is best in the north? west. Such portions of Canada as ( make a specialty of potatoes, ootably < Ontario and ihe maritime proviooes, ahow a general but not serious short- ( ?ge. We have bright^ honorable merchants in j this town, andrey give the public what it | demands Tb<>y never offer as a substitute ' something "just as good." 1 To Die -With Honor. LA LUCHA SAYS SHE HAS NOTHING TO LOSE WHILE UNITED STATES HAS EVERYTHING. Habana, Oct. 20.-La Lacha in an energetic leading editorial entitled .*War is Convenient for Spain, says: "The sensational American press is renewing the campaign in favor of American intervention, which, it says will meet the approval of congress Rather than that we should continue enduring this sort of thing, it is pre? ferable that ot.r American friends should decide to interfere. Spain has nothing to lose. Her case is the same as that of a poor man suing a rich one. The rich man is alawys the loser. Moreover, if Spain were to go to war with the American Union it would be proof positive that in our national character still exists the traditional Spanish honor, which we would defend even more carefally than our lives " At a largely attended meeting of delegates of the trade associations and of the United Merchants league, together with others officially des* cribed as particular admirers of Lieutenant General Weyler, held in the Spanish casino to-day, it was decided to organize a great farewell nonpolitical demonstration "in honor of Gen. Wey 1er on the day he sails from Habana " NO DEMONSTRATION. Habana, via Key West, Pla , Oct. 20 -A special dispatch from Madrid to El Dirario de la Marina sa>s that the government has cabled to the Lieut. Gen Weyler strictly prohibi? ting any demonstration the day of bis departure for Spain, and inti? mating that if these instructions are not complied with by him he will be held strictly accountable. Many army officers who consider that Sagas ta's policy of autonomy for Cuba is dangerous to Spanish sover? eignty, have applied for leave to re? turn to Spain. Lieut Gen Wey? ler has io variably refused these ap? plications. The word "treason" has beeo heard of late in several quarters where ii is believed that the goveroment intends to deliver the public offices into the hands of tbe insurgents, which, io the opinion of critics of such a course, would be equivalent to grant? ing independence. Gen. Wey 1er has oabled the gov ernment that although he has fixed opoo the 30th as the day of leaving, he may embark a day or ,two earlier or later. A Preacher's Case. lo a Georgia city lives a popolar divine who is liked by all classes. He is very fond of fishing and hunting, and does not object to telling a side splitting anecdote occasionally. Here is one : Once a party went fishing. There was some snake medicine along, and one or more of the party took too much aboard. Io the even? ing a terrific storm came op As it was nearing the party, one. more pi?os than the result, knelt down at the root of a tree and began to pray for protection. About the same time one of those who had tapped the jug too often shouted : "Come ahead, you blasted old cy? clone ! Tear us all to pieces ! Blow os to Halifax ! Hurrah for the? United States and Kinchafoonee !" When he closed, the humble sup? plicant at the root of the tree raised hts horrified face to heaven and cried : "Oh, Lord, don't^miud what that confoonded crazy fool issayiug. He is blind drnnk, as you can see for yourself, and he don't belong to the the church, noway."-Atlanta Con etitotion. Halifax. N. S , Oct. 20.-The United States ship Yaotio is uoder goiog repairs, to her machinery. She was oat in the gales of Saturday and Sunday, which tossed the ship about pretty roughly. The pumping machi nery began to work badly but the ship was proceeding on her way and bad passed Halifax harbor wheo another accident to the machinery caused the commander to put about and make for this port as he was afraid to go fur? ther without repairo. The Rev. Washbourne West, who died recently in London at the age of 36 years, has the distinction of being isle, through a judicious distribution )f his property, to cast: twenty three rotes to each Parliamentary election. A. s he was interested in politics, he has sept busy rushing from one polling }lace to another on election day. At ;be 1892 election be managed to vote be conservative ticket seventeen times. The Wicked Circus. It bas now been two years since we have had a circos, and oar people may be hungry for a show. This show is said to be a good one, and we have no reason to doubt the promise of the show people to entertain us. ? For various reasons the Press and Banner is glad that the show is coming. We love to see a great mass of assem? bled humanity. We love to see our merchants" worked to death, selling their goods. We love to see the street parade. We love to see the show it? self. A little relaxation from the daily grind, with an opportunity to have a hearty laugh, does our people good. A majority of our people have worked bard all the year, and now when they are selling their crop they can well af? ford to spend fifty cents for a day off. Another good thing connected with thc coming of the show is the fact that it generally gives our beloved preachers and much respected spiritual advisers an opportunity to tell us of the vile? ness of the circus, and then it furnishes a few laymen a fine opportunity to stay away from the cirons; and thus prove to the world that they are not as other men are. * And so it may be seen that the cir? cus serves a good purpose in more ways than that of its performance. The demand of Christian people that we should have clean shows has done much to remove the objectionable features which characterized their ex? hibitions in former years. Nice peo? ple may now attend, but some people stay away so religiously that they have not learned of the improvement on the circus of former days. Gc* your preacher io the pulpit to describe and advertise the coming show, and then go out to see if it comes up to bis description. By doing this you may form your own conclusions as to the value of his suggestions io refer? enoe to shows and other subjects. Yery pious people may shut their eyes aa the procession goes by. If they do not they may see a lion eat a little negro or witness the elephant in bis favorite act of throwing a little white boy over the fence into some? body's back yard. We are unable to make any sugges? tion to pions people which would pre? vent the music of the band xom falling on their eardrums. We doubt if cot? ton io the ears would have :he desired effect, so they may have to use their fingers - Abbeville Press and Ban? ner. A very neat swindle on the post of? fice bas jost been discovered in Bel? gium. It consisted io pasting a piece of thin, transparent paper on top of postage stamps after these had been af? fixed to letters. In this way the trans? parent paper caught the postmark. When the letter reached its destination, the transparent paper was removed, and there was the stamp unused and ready tobe used again. The sleepy merchant goes to the wall. His wideawake neighbor thrives by keeping goods that are in demand, and bj never of? fering customers what he knows they do not waot. Old People? Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true rem? edy in Electric -Bitter*. This medicine doe? not stimulate and contains no whiskey or other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, add? ing strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding nature in the performance of the functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old People-find it exactly what they need. Price fifty cern and $1 per,bottlo at Dr. J. F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store. S BUCKLEN'S ARNICA! SALVE. The best Salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sore, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cure Pilot or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money relunded prioo 25 cents per box; For sale by Dr J. F' W. J>iorme. Royal makes the food pore, wholesome and delicious. POWDER Absolutely Pure BOVW. BAKWO POWDER CO., NEW YORK.