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- -> ? WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28,1888. The Sumter Waterman was roua dea s? 1850 aod the True Southron in 1866. 1?&e Watchman and Southmi now has ?fee combined circulation and influence af both of the old pupers, and is mani? festly tbe best advertising medium io Saiter. A TXKXON DEPOT, We hear that oar "crying need' for a Blore extensive and commodious railroad depot and sheds io protea passengers from the rains above and the ponds below, says the I aily Item of last Saturday, may soon be met and the public have that convenience sad comfort to which they are cer? tainly entitled at this depot. It should be remembered that Sumter fsthe central and transfer point of j ?eren railroads, including the Bish opville road-more than erny other city tn the State, and on the through coote from New York to Florida and New Orleans ; and it most be appa? rent to any one that the A. C. L. business has outgro wn ibe space that railroad has for terminal facilities for passengers, and that its depot and, sheds are not now half large enough. If the Sumter and Wateree rail ? road* which will soon be nuder con ; ?traction, eses the same depo: where and how will the public be accommo? dated ? We are happy to hear that Co!. Bl anding, president of the Som ter and Wateree railroad, has to-day ] submitted to the committee on streets of the city two pians for large and commodious union depots for both railroads. Plan No. 1 is for the ?IBIOU depot to be located at the southern end of the triangle between Main Street and Manning Avenue, where a cotton shed now stands, and Plan No. 2 is for doubling the size of | the present depot and extending Surgely the passenger sheds and platforms. All the Sumter and Wateree rail t oad company ask of the city is that its passenger traine may be allowed Go cross the above two street*, which are now both crossed by foo? or fi ve tracks of the A. 0. L The com? mittee says it will report unanimous ly in favor of Plan No 1, and will ?ake under advisement Plan No. 2, to -which there may be some public objection It will report to council at regular meeting on the 28th. We jsraeerely hope City Council will ?grant the petition, and that the two -railroads will agree upon building stfee enioo depot in the triangle be? tween Main Street and Manning jiyenoe, "Mr L I. Parrott is the Santa Claus of tbe poor of Sumter, and even the ireal old Sauta Claus himself does net ?nd tbe bestowing cf gifts a more real pleas ore. For several years bc bas bad ci arge of tbe distribution of the San day Schools' Christmas gifts to the poor and ?ach gift is bestowed by bim io '/be true spirit of the text: Vit in more blessed j to give than to receive." Ilia anooal visits to tbe homes of the poor are productive of so mush ?ood tbat those who give tbroogb bis bauds cao never snow tbe half tbe benefit aod real pleasure they bestow. Mr. Parrott was busy ail of Friday and part of Saturday ^distributing tbe Christmas packages, ?od so far as be scows oo oecdy aod worthy family ?as overlooked His Christmas was doubtless the happier, for be aided io makio g others happy, aod al! who contributed to {be food shcuid be oartakers or this feeling. New Species of Pine. To those Who wish to beautify their property, the following will be of ioter ?st : **Piou> lostgoua"-Synonyms California pipe. Monterey pioe. f osigoos-Macrocerp*. etc. A very 'handsome nod qaick -growing pine fosad oo the coast of southern Califor? nia from Pescadero to Monterey and tbe Sao Simeo? bay. Foliage deep green leaves to pairs ; wood soft, "brittle, close grained aod compact ; sap very thick aod white. Said oot to be hardly to tbe nor hem States. Tbe Sooth Carolina exp?rimental stilton has .stoat ?,009 seedling- of this pioe with wbioh they are experimenting aod would be glad to distribute some of them to persons io the lower portioo of che State who would be willing to grow them aod report she result. Address J. F. C. DoPre, horticulturist, at Clemson College, S. C. Mothers, we call your attention to Pitts' Carminative, lt acts promptly, it is pleas ?8t to toe taste, aad the children will take it w?thcit coaxing. lt relieves promptly and permanently. If we can get yon to ase it, TOS wilt get others to do likewise. Yoar draggitt selia it. J. F. W. DeLorme. Geod Sewing Machines from $10.00 op at Sandie's. DO BETTER NEXT YEAR. Reports to tbe national department of agriculture show that io spite of the great increase of tts cotton crop the Sooth also raised a larger food crop this year tbao last. There was a great iocrease of tbe Southern crop which this year is estimated at 566,721,000 cashels, against 449.533,000 bushels last year, ao increase of 117,188,000 bushels. While this faot is gratifying, we re gret to find that Sooth Carolina is one of the Southern States that raised less corn this year than it raised last. There was probably as moen corn planted in this state, bat in many counties the crop was poor. Ark ao sae shows the largest per cent, of increase in corn among tbefSoathero states, producing .18.128.000 more bushels this year thao io 1897, aa in? crease of 58 per cent. Texas raised 33.286.OOo bushels more, an in?rense of 46 per ceot. . The South shows a larger per oent. of increased coro production this y?ar tbao any other section. Sooth Caro? lina will hot be found lagging behind in the production of food crops next year. We believe that the cotton acreage io this state will be largely re? duced and that mach more land will be putin ooro. It seems certain that Sooth Carolina will produce more wheat tbao ever before. Praparatioos for wheat plantiog are going on all over tbe state and, while tbe rains- have in? terfered seriously with this work, it will still be carried oat to ao extent that will prove of vast benefit to the state. Soo th Carolina will make a far bet? ter showing in food crops io 1899 thao has she has made io 1898.-Colombia Record. 9 mm mm Dream or Parp?se ? If Editor Stead has accurately repeated what the czar said to bim, the emperor of ail the Rossians has made a strong argument in favor of his rescript, says the St. Louis Re? public. The monarch told the editor that he had looked at the land-grab biog performances of nations and the results did not appear to be good. He finds it a bad practice, both from a humane and business point of view. Fot/the native races, according to the czar's analysis, - imperial expan? sion means opium, alcohol and all manner of diseases on the one band, and crushing taxation on the other, as recompenses for being admitted to the benefits of civization. This process of acquisition builds op increasing rivalry, jealousy and suspicion among the seizing nations. It multiplies fleets and armies, there? by absorbing millions that would better be devoted to increasing edu? cation, wealth, prosperity, refinement and comfort among tbe people. It is hardly fair to argne against the sincerity of Russia's ruler by pointing to the fact that he continues ty boy better guns and prosecute work on new battleships A precau? tionary care for national interests requires that he shall safeguard his subjects and territory until the pacific program in which he has invited the leading governments to participate has been agreed on by international congress and covenant. If bis dream can be realized, civilization will bound further forward in the next century than it has gone in the whole period since the morning stars sang together at creation's dawn. The Flag Has Been Lowered. Habana. Doa 22.-Major Russell B. Harrison, tbe provost marshal, who oo Tuesday, raised the Stars and Stripes over Fort Atares without orders aod in contravention of the promise of the Doited States evacuation commission? ers that oo American Sag should be raised in Habana or hs suburbs until Janoary 1st. was today formally rep? rimanded by Maj. Geo. Lee and in? structed to lower the Sag. Lient Lee reported a few hours later to headquar? ters that the flag had been lowered Nevertheless, at che boor cf filing this dispatch. 4 30 p m , it is still fly? ing on a tall staff over the famous fort, plainly visible from the harbor and oirr. ^ La*e to bed aod early to rise, prepares a mao for his borne in the sales Bat early to bed and a Little Early Riser, the pill that makes life longer and better and wiser. Hagbcoo-Ligon Co. The story concerning the American troops in Manila is told by an Eng? lish uavai officer, who was an eye? witness to the occurrence. /'The city was quite crowded," he says, "with both American and Spanish soldiers, and they seemed to be on the friendliest terms As I was crossing one of the numerous bridges across the Pasig River I saw a native Filipino spit in tbe face of a Spanish officer and then run to tbe American sentinel who was guarding the bridge, demanding his protection. It was some time before the Filipino could make himself understood, and the sentry took some time to grasp what had been done, but you can imagine my surprise when he handed bis gan to the Spanish officer and caught the native by the nape of the neck and the seat of bis trousers and pitched him off the bridge into the Pasig River. Then he camly took his gan fret? the Spanish officer and began pacing the beat as if nothing had happened/' THE OPEN HAND. President McKinley's suggestion of national care tor the graves ot tbe l?oti federate dead did not surprise os, but we confess that we are surprised at tbe way io wbiob it is received by ao ex commissioner of pensions, tbe noted "Corporal" Tanner, who bas been un? derstood to hold with the extremest element of the G. A. R. He now not only, endorses the president folly, but goes far beyond him, saying : Natorally I am rejoiced, after nore than twenty years, to have the presi dent of the Ucited States broadiy advo? cate oar government taking charge of all the cemeteries where lie the dead of tbe Lost Cause aod main tain them at government expense I am sore it wi'l be dooe The president will now be constrained to see that a law is en*' acted by congress to carry bis sogges tioo iote effeot, aod if soy legislator shall oppose its passage, why, God help bim io bis fata re politics! career, for mao will not be able to. Now? let us get as near to Christ as possible io oar attitude toward these unfortunate brethreo, aod let os as be as praotioal as Christ was wheo He produced the loaves and fishes aod fed the multitude. Io a word, let us enlarge oar soldiers' homes, build new ones, if necessary, throw open the doors and say, "Come io, Johnnie. Bring your faded old parole, and we will convince you that while Uoole Sam felt constrained to punish you wheo yen went wrong so many years ago, be loves yon still, aod does not wish yon to suffer. The blood of the Sooth which flowed so freely at Las Gu?simas, El Caney and Sao Joan, which was so grandly offered, but happily not taken at Manila Bay, and off Santiago harbor, proved that yon reared your sons sur? charged with love of the natioo beyond that of a section thereof, aod we owe yon something for that." "CJopreoedented," some one ex? claims regarding this proposition. Granted. Bat this natioo makes precedents. We are emphatically capable of being a law onto our? selves, aod to Spaio, and several other monarchies, as well. "You are tbrowiog dowo tbe bars," says soother, "and the next thing will be a proposi? tion to pot feb ese men OD tbe pension roil." Not necessarily, my alarmed friend; bat I will give you'one very sore poi a ter. Gather in convention all the Union veterans who gave leg, or arm, or eyesight to save this Union from amputation of States/ and let them have the power, aod I wager you that every maimed or blind veteran of the south who needs aid to keep bim io decency outside of ao almshouse, would get it by their votes, and by a tremen? dous majori ty. This is the finest thing we have read oo the isobject aod it; ought to have full currency in the sooth that it may re? ceive the recognition it deserves. As with President McKinley's utterance, it is tbe spirit of overture that we appreci? ate io the sooth, not. the suggestion of aid to discharging oar katies and bear? ing oor burdeos. Wbeather it result io legislation or not, itlrill he pleasant for os to remember the meo who have beco broad and humane aod patriotic enough to take this stand in the sight of the coootry. Let southerners advance DO plans ; let their representatives io congress ask for nothing oo these lines. The acts, like the words, should eenie from the other side if they are to coate at all. Aod if they are to come let them Sod the south maintaining with patience and dignity the obligations it has assumed toward the Confederate veotcires. "Bill" M'Kinley. There has been some carpiog by a few white Republicans in the North over Mr. McKinley e utterances io his speeches io Georgia and Alabama, bot none of them oould touch with a forty foot pole the following from a speech made by T. Thomas Fortune, the editor of a negro organ published io New York, at a meeting of negroes held io Washington Saturday night. Among other things be said : % "I am glad the blessing of the Creator was asked for Bill McKinley for if anybody needs it be does. He is now down Sooth glorifying rebellion, mobooraoy and murder of women and children. "[ wish that every negro stood where I stand. For thirty colored meo who were murdered io Wilmington, thirty white assassins woold now fill graves. I am a grandson of a Southern white villain, and he would lynch me for lookiog at a white woman. The big? gest organization in this coootry is the so-called Southern chivalry of the Sooth. ? despise Hayes, bat he was a Solomon to this modero thiog that comes from Ohio. I believe that the mao who is false to his frieods is false to his God. I waot the mao I fought for to fight for me, and if he don't I feel like stabbing bim. "If I bad the power I woold concentrate the Supreme Court into ooe large neck aod then use the proverbial African razor. Grover Cleveland had more backbone io his big toe tbao McKinley bas io his baok. I want mized schools, and I waot mixed marriages ; I waot mixed churches. and I waot eqaal rights io everythingV There have been a good many idi? otic ard ridiculous things said by ne? groes at those negro meetings, but for downright insolence and insanity this caps the climax, aod it is by a negro who presumes to more tbao ordinary intelligence aod plays jbs.. role of a leader aod instructor of bis race. He proclaims tbat be is the "grandson of a Southern white villain," abd doubt? less be inherits the b?*er traits of both I races ir<?oi which he baa sprung with j out the redeemiog traits of either, i If he be honest in bis rabid utter? ances, be is an assassin at heart, and the ori-y :h og to prevent bim fr? n be coming an assassin in fact is the cow ardioe wbiob keeps him where such ot teraoces are perfectly safe He wishes "every negro ^tood where he does," and it is safe to say that he will con . tine to stand where he does, at a safe distance from the people he denounces as murderers. The contents of tbe treasury of the United States could not tempt him to come .south aod make 8aob a Bpeeoh as that. Fortone is as much of ft fraud as the "martyr" Manly. NERVOUS " WOMEN Do you feel like screaming; just before and during the monthly sick? ness? Are you easily irritated? Do you get the blues and wish some? times you were dead ? li your answer is " I es" to any of. these questions, you should lose no time in taking BRADFIELD9 S FEMALE REGULATOR It will overcome and cure every form of irregular menses, leucor rhoea, failing of the wemb and other uterine trouble* f $1 at Druggist*. THE B2A0FIEL0 REGULATOR CO., Atoota, Ga. HARB Y # CO., WHOLESALE BROKERS, -AND Cotton Storage Warehouse ;PBOPRIETORS. UP-TOWN OFFICE: COURT HOUSE SQUARE, 1,000 Tons High Grade Am moniated Fertilizer, 1,000 Tons Acid with Potasn, 500 Tons Dissolved Bone, 500 Tons German Kainit, 400 Tons C. S. Meal, For Sale. We are prepared to meet any and all prices for STAND? ARD GOODS. Get our prices ! before purchasing. I Respectfully, j HARBY & CO. I ec. 16_ -Td fi SOUTHERN FARM MAME OF BALTIMORE, MD. Pun lie h ed by Manufacturers' Record Publishing Co. A Monthly Illustrated Journal devoted to Southern Agriculture, dealmg with all nat? ters related to General Farming. Live Stock Poultry Dat rv iag, Truck Farming, Frnit Growing and every farm interest aod pur? suit io the South. It is widely read by Northern and Western farmers contemplating: moving South. It ought to be in every Southern family, for it is "of the Sooth, by the Sooth aod for the Sooth." '. EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS : Chas W. Dabney, Jr , Ph. D., LL D. Ex-United States Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Ex-Director United States Ag? ricultural Experiment Station in North Caro? lina, President University of Tennessee and President cf United States Agricultural Ex? periment Station in Tennessee. J B. Killebrew, A. M., Ph. D. Ex-Cc.nmissioner of Agriculture for Ten? nessee, author of ''Culture and Cunog of To? bacco" for U. 8. tenth census, "Tobacco Leaf," "Sheep Husbandry." "Wheat Grow ing," ' Grasses/-' and other agricultural works The regular subscription price of the Southern Farm .Magazine is $1 a year, but we offer it and the Watchman and Southron together one year for $2. Oct 19. BOOKS WORTH BEAMS" A Romance of Summer Seas-By Varina Anne Davis, $1,25. A Little S'8'er of the Wilderness-By Lilian Bell, $1 25. A Hou8P?Boaton the Styx-By John Kendrick Bangs, $1 25. The Lion of Janina-By Maurus Joki, Si 25. Red Rock-By Thomas Nelson Page, S 1.50. Tbe King's Jackal-By Richard Hard? ing Davis, $1.25. - Any book published will be ordered for our customers, if we haven't it in stock. H. G.OSTEEN & CO. PATENTS Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat? ent business conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U, S. PATENT OFHCEJ and we can secure patent in less tune tuan these j remote from Washington. .. ? . < i Scad modei, drawing or photo., with oescrip-< tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of J ?charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. ( i A PAMPHLET ** How to Obtain Patents," withi cost of same in* the U. S. and foreign countries] sent free. Address, ^ .A.SNOW&CO.j We are Altlto' Advertising are Dull. We have sold all our Berkshire Pigs. It shows the people are sensible in try? ing to improve their stock. If they would now dispossess us of what surplus Horses. Mules, Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, Carts and Harness, we now have on hand, giving us a fair compensation for them, we would feel obliged. Texas and home raised Seed Oats also on hand. H. MARRY. December 28, 1898. .Innouncement OF O'Donnell &Co. Owing to the remarkably low price at which our staple product is selling we bad about determined not to do any advertising this season, upon the principle that "it is haid to get blood out of a turnip/' and we fear our country friends, upon whom we principally depend, will be pretty well bled at 4-? cent coUon, particularly those who have any obligations to satisfy out of it, the consequence being, that there is little left to invest in the Fall and Winter necessa? ries ; but as it bas been our annual custom to extend to them an invitation to come and see us, to which they responded'most heartily, we beg to renew that invitation with the assurance that we can give them better value for their money than we have ever done before. A glance at the interior of our store, will 'satisfy any one that we have a larger stock than we have ever carried, much to our regret, as it is ^not moving with the rapidity that we would like to see it, but it was purchased on a basis of higher values for cotton, and now will have to be disposed of in accordance with present prices. It is difficult in limited space to do justice to the various departments of our store, but we feel assured it will be a sufficient guarantee to those who have kindly favored us with their patronage in the past, to say that our stock is larger and more varied in every department than ever before. To those who may doubt the truthfulness of ou? assertion we can only say come and be convinced. OVERCOATS. Overcoats ! I? not a very large price fur a good Overcoat. I Yet that is all we ask for a well-made, well-trimmed, stylish Overcoat. . No man need be ashamed to wear it. Finer Ones $9, $10, $12, $15. Large stock j to select from, D. J. CHANDLER. Sep 27 The Clothier, Money to Loan. ON FARM.NG LANDS Easy p?)meets No commijisiooa charged. Borrower pa>* actual cos: of prrieciiug loan, lu'erest 8 per cent. Tun*- fivt* rn Pigh' \e?T? JOHN B. PALMER & SON, Aug 3 ? Columbia ?. C. Claremont Life 164, L11 THE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMU? NICATION of Claremont Lodge, No* ?4, A. 2*. M., will be held on Thursday Eresing, Jan. 26, at 1\ p. m. Election and icstfcllation of officers will take place at this meeting. Brethren will take due notice and govern therm-elves accordingly L. S. CARSON, W. M. Ai test-H. C. MOSES, Sec.