Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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B LL A PS LETTES. Not long ago a one horse farmer from the backwoods came to onr town with two bales of cotton sad sold it for five cents a pound. This was his e*ntire crop, and he waa com plaining bitterly to one of onr mer chants and said that the farmers wonld perish to death in another, year if there wasn't some change for the better. A mischievous drummer, standing by, said : "Well, my friend, you must quit raising cotton or else buy some monkeys to pick it out. Over in India-and Egypt they make the monkeys pick their cotton, and that is what's the matter. A mookey wit! pick a thousand pomds a day and be feeds on the seed. So it coats hardly anything over there to raise cotton, and our farmers in Mississippi and Texas have sent over for a hundred thousand monkeys, and they will be over here in time to pick the next crop enc* the price will go lower still, and if you don't get you a monkey -or two you had better quit growing cotton, for you can't com pete with monkeys." The old man took it all ' in se piously and said : "Well, what is a poor farmer to do Jf he hasn't got the money to buy the monkey t" "Grow- something else," said the drummer. "Grow corn and wheat and sorghum and potatoes. Plant apple and peach trees, raise chick ens and ^ggs, ant a.yearlfn' caff or two to se'l. Get up soon and stir around lively and make every mem ber of the family work. Work at something, for if you don't you wilf perish out Go back home and take a new start. Don't sit down and grumble and blame aomebody eise ! with your poverty. Quit cotton until i you can buy half a dozen monkeys ? The man went back home and circulated fthe monkey story, and for ten miles around the one horse farm era have worn off from raising any more cotton. That's what they tell me. They say that before the war (he poor man couldn't compete "with the rich mao's niggers, and now since he lost his niggers he is buyin' monkeys to take their place, and the poor man won't have any chance at all 1 ' Of course there is no troth in this story, but there is a good deal of philosophy. New methods, new piows, end, new machinery are the monkeys, and if the poor farmer does < not work early and late hs will keep poor. I know some country women who make more money on their chickens and eggs and butter than their husbands do on their cotton and wheat. Little things well, nursed count up more than large ones. The thrifty farmer always brings with him something to sell when he has to come to town. Some fowls or eggs or potatoes br a shoat or some fruit ia its season. There is a good home market for all these; little things In fact, if we leave out cotton every thing the larmer grows bringa about the same old prices of ten years ago, and everything he has to boy. except coffee, is much cheaper now than it was then Everything that is made of cotton is 50 per cent cheaper and everything made of iron orsteel or tin is 100 per cent cheaper. Beef and pork and chickens and turkeys and eggs and wood and potatoes and apples and peaches have not come down a nickle in ten j ears Labor is a little cheaper,, no* much. We still pay the same for cooeing and washing and work in the garder . If anybody has a reason for complaining of hard times it-is the town people, who have everything to boy. The farmer who is not io debt and owns his farm is better off than he ever was, and the prudent renter cap pay rent and make mobey farming. But, of course, the?e is a large class of shiftless, unthrifty people, who wi!, not succeed at anything, and they blame everybody for it bet themselves Cobe says that the Lord had to make poor folks to keep rich folks in money, and so Cobe is contented in being poor, for it is the Lord's will. I know folks who have never planted a fruit tree and who will not even plant a garden. Pov erty makes some folks . shifty and others indifferent and despairing There is an o d negro woman comes to our house every Saturday and brings us a gallon of big hominy old fashioned lye hominy, and it is a luxury. We pay her 15 cents for it, and she bas seven other customers One peck of corn, which costs her 10 cents, makes four pecks of hominy, for which she gets $1.20, and that, makes her a good living. I read in the last Home and Farm about a successful experiment in. growing ginseng and if I were a fanner I wouid try it. This was in Kentucky, where a man planted it in a well-shaded forest of beach and dog wood and gum trees, and. it grew j both from the seed and the roots that ! he planted.and gave him a good' crop. Its market price is $4 a j pouund. i know that it could be j grown in tbis mountainous regioo, among the foothills I know a good farmer who makes money growing ! turnips for their seed, and he sells ali ! his crop to Peter Henderson, of New York, and Peter sells it back to ! us at 500 per cent, profit. Any ; smart, industrious woman could make money right here by growing j roses and hothouse plants. Our peo pie send off lots of money for such | things and some of them are no ac count when they get.here Nobody around here has ever rais ed any asparagus to sell, but they buy it in Atlanta at 25 cents a bunch and bring it home, or they buy it canned from the grocer at 35 cents. A man in Marietta grows it by the acre for the Atlanta market and makes big money. Why not grow it here ? Shifty 9 the right word we must be shifty if we would keep up with the progress of the times. Wit and wisdom are very noble qual ities, but necessity is the mother of invention and contrivance. We must get out of the old ruts and learn of our northern brethren New Eng land girls Bit around the fire every night and plait straw for hats and bonnets and baskets and chair bot toms, and they bare a good time talking about their neighbors and neighborhood news. Why shouldn't oar girls learn photography and have a gallery in every town? It is a beautiful art and peculiarly fitted for women-pretty young women who can talk their patrons into a pleas ing expression and pose the little children and arrange the young man's necktie so nicely. If I was a poor, smart, pretty girl and no mao wanted me that I wanted, I would take some lessons in photography and open a shop. I thought that the girls were crowding the young men out of a good many places for they are smart and quick and don't drink or smoke, and am amazed and indignant to read that 200 of them have been turned out of employment by a great railroad company in Chicago. I don't under stand that. I hope Mrs. Lowe wilt investigate it* BILL ARP. About Bright Tobacco. Tbe bright tobacco grown in tbe j Carolinas and Virginia is gradually but surely coming into general use among consumers in all parts of tbe world. Tbe statement may seem a strong one, but it is true io every sense, and can be proven to the satisfaction of every doubter. The area in which this bright tobaooo is grown is a comparative! y small ooe, and is confined mostly to a narrow strip in southern Vir gie i?, a large part of the eastern half of North Carolina, and about a dozen counties in tbe North eastern part of South Carolina, North Carolina producing more than tbe other two States combined. Bight years ago the area in which bright tobacco was grown W3s hardly one half the size of what it is to day, showing a rapid increase in production of th is partieolar type. Notwithstand ing this large increase in production, this class of tobacco sells as high.to-day as it did about eight years ago- ooo dit ion brought about by the large increase in foreign consumption. Where there was one exporter of bright tobacco eight years ago, there are five now-another straw whioh sbows tbe direction of this fortunate wind for American tobacco-growers. At that time no one thought of selling bright tobacooo anywhere abroad except io England. To day our exporters are billing shipments to Asia, Africa, Japan, Australia and other countries, and in s number of cases making per sonal visits to foreign laods in search of orders. * * * From all points of view our bright tobacco is the finest in the worid for pipe smoking and cigarettes and long ent chewing. Ail precedents show that wherever this type of tobacco has once been introduced it has taken tbe place of all others-a poiafc which foreign manufacturers should cot be 6low to realize.. Io color, in texture, in aroma, io all that mikes an ideal tobacco for the average consumer, there is no type that even approaches the bright type of the Carolinas and Virginia. In the manu factured state it is far more attractive than any other, and always appeals to the consumer in a manner which is sure to make him a customer. Even with the large increase io our exportation of bright tobacco in the past few years, the business is yet in its infancy. In five years from now it is confidently predicted that we will be shipping double the leaf abroad we are to-da.f- This will necessitate a very large increase io the acreage of bright tobacco io this country or higher prices for the buyers-one of toe two. The shrewd manufacturer to day is the one who sees the opportunity which the use of bright leaf offers. If be is making cigarettes, tbe use ot bright tobacco will soon more than doable his patronage If he is putting up smoking mixtures, fine cut or long cut, tbe substitution of bright leaf for the dark types will do the same rhing for his trade. It ts simply a matter cf the survival of the'fittest. The bright leaf of the Carolinas bas ali in its favor to recommend it to the consamer ; it is poft io texture, charming in color, and bas a mildness and aroma tbat is not equaled by sny other type in the world. Little wonder, then, that ail tee world is learning to ose ir, th2t manu facturers 6ee in all tbe ase a larger and better business and aro hastening to j substitue esr bright leaf ia place of ail other types.-Southern Tobacco Tournai. -<mmmm%* . - BUCKLERS ARNICA SALVE. The best Salve in the world for Outs Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheara, Fever, sore Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, COTS ind all Skin Eruptions and positively certs Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money rel anded, [>ric9 25 cents per box. For sale by Dr. J. V w. 1). Lorme. Fifteen Thousand More Are to be Mustered Out, Three Regiments Now at Au gusta and One at Summer ville in the List. Washington, Feb. 1 -The war de partment; to-day issued an order lo muster out about 15,OOO volunteer troops. The regiments are : First Maryland, oow at Augusta, Ga.; Third Mississippi and Second Missouri at Albaoy, Ga.; Eighth sod Thirteenth Pennsylvania at Augusta, Ga ; Fourteenth Pennsylva nia at Suffiufervilie, 8. C.; Fourth Texas at Sao Antonio, Tex ; Fourth Wisconsin at Annis to:*., Ala ; S6veoth volunteer infantry at Macon, Ga.; Eighth volunteer infantry, at Ohieka manga ; Tenth volunteer infantry at Macon, Ga. AUGUSTA AND GREENVILLE WIN. This order pressages the abolition of the entire Secood Army.corps now com manded by Maj. Gen. Young, and form erly under Gen. Graham's command. All of the regiments ordered mustered out ere attached to that oorps'aod their loss will leave an ly ten regiments. Tbe6e will be formed into four inde pendent brigades and placed in camp permanently at Augusta, Ga., and Greenville, S. C Three . regiments ordered mustered oct to day, the Seventh, Eighth and Tenth volunteer infantry, are colored regiments. To Our Subscribers-Important. The Quaker Talley Mfg. Co. of Chicago bare requested ns to announce tbat they have several thousand sets of tbe finest coin silver plated War Memorial Spoons made to retail at $3 a set. Tber will mail, postpaid, a full set of sis of these spoons to every subscriber to the Watchman and Southron, who will send name and aderes-a postal card will do. If, on receipt of tbe spoons, you fiad them tbe most exquisitely beautiful specimens of the silversmith's art you ever saw, and worth $3, remit 78 cent?, as payment in full, within 30 days ; if not pleased, return SDOOOS im mediately. Each spoon is of a different de sign-after-dinner coffee size-showing sol diers in camp in Cuba, Morro Castle and four TJ 3- Battleships They are imperishable mementoes of the late war, and every sub scriber should accept this most remarkable offer, and obtain a set before it is too late. All that's necessary is to say you're a sub scriber to the Watchman and Southron (this is important) and that you accept Mecorial Spoon Offer. Address Qiaker Valley Mfg Co., 357 W. Harrison St., Cbieago. Dec 21 . The National Colonization Aid so ciety of America, which has jost been organized by influential colored men of Chattanooga, Tenn., will ask congress to set apart a large traci; of land in the west for the exclusive use of negroes where they must set up an independent government of their own, subject to the general super vision of congress. Many influen tial white men are interested in the project, and are lending it their moral support If you want a nice organ an easy terms see Bandle. If you want a good, honest sewing machine trade, see Randie. Good Sewing Machines from $10 00 up at Randie's. THE ELECTRICAL REVIEW is the oidest electrical weekly it the( United States, and we believe we have succeeded in making it one of the best. Every issue teems with live matter cn electrical subjects ic a popuhr and technical way. It is interesting and instructive. It is handsomely illustrated. It is published weekly. $3 00 per year in the United State?, Canada, and Mexico. Other countries, 5.00 per year. Sample copy 10 cents ADDRESS .Electrical Review 41 Park Row, New York. The Electrical Review is the best advertis ing medium in tbe electrical Seid. ll Elec trical Books sappiied. Probably yoe use lt Nearly everyone docs, and if so you know ail about how far superior it is to either baking soda or baking powder. but is so prepared that with ordinary care it will retain tts full strength for v-eats. We ci ; not have to pack it tin cms like Baking powder, and this saving enables us to give you better value fer your money than you ever had before. "A li'tl? Laven leaveneth tlie whole lump." r% o-crr. --. f'C t s cents.-6 ounces for five cents. nnrSCTEXBR WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. kBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TBUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone. 13*6 SUMTER. S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8.1899. Sew Series-Vol. XVIII. No. 2S OLOR and flavor of fruits, size, quality and ap pearance of vegetables, weight and plumpness of grain, are all produced by Potash. properly combined with Phos phoric Acid and Nitrogen, and liberally applied, will improve every soil and increase yield and quality of any crop. Write and get Free our pamphlets, -a-hich tell how to buy and use fertilizers with greatest economy and profit. GERITAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. ICAL WORK MEW. FREE SSHD NO MOREY. My nevr revised scientific work treating on every weakness and disease pe en liar to men is jost from the press. Every man. so matter what his occupation or position in life, will find this work unlike anything ever published. It is of vital i nterese to the marri d or unmarried: to the healthy and strong or to the weak ona broken-down. While the edition-Justs I will send * copy securely sealed in a piala wrapper, post* age prepaid, to everyman who writes for it. This edition is limited and those desiring a copy must write promptly. Address B. M. Boss, M. D., Pub lishing Department D, 175 Clark St., 2?. iE. Cor. Monroe. Chicagoe Illinois. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. COPY SUMMONS FOE RELIEF. iCo ta plaint Served ) Elizabeth Oiirer, assigoee, plaintiff against Colin C. Manning, defendant. . To tbe Defendant, Colin G. Manning : Tonare herfby ?ummoned and required to answer the complaint :n this actioo, of which a copy ii herewith served cpon yen. (The original complaint having been filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court on December 13 b,1896,) and to serve copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his cfiice in tba city of Sumter. Sumter, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, xclosive of the day of such service ; and if you fail to answer th* complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to 'be Conn for the relief demanded in tb:3 complaint. Dated December 7th, A.D., 1898 L. D. JENNINGS, Dec 14 6 Plaintiff's Attorney. mM WANTED. THE MANAGEMENT of the Equitable Life Assurance Society ia this territory is desirous of securing tbe service-s of a man of cberacter and ability to represent its inter ests, with Sumter as headquarters. The right man will be thoroughly educated in tbe science of life insurance and the art of suc cessful soliciting. There is co business or profession, not requiring capital, which ts more remunerative than a life agency con ducted with energy and ability. Correspond ence with men who desire to secure employ ment, and are ambitions to attain prominence in tbe profession, is invited. W. J. RODDEY, Manager, March 23-tf Rock Hill, S. C. Tie Largest ai Most Complete Existait Sot Geo. S. Hacker & Son, -MANUFACTURERS OF DOORS; SASH, BUNDS, Moulding & Building Material, office and Warerooms, King, opposite Can non Street, CHARLESTON S. C. f* Pr.rcfcasp our make, which we guaranty superior to any sold oouth, and thereby save money. Window and Paney Glass a Specialty October 16-o But the uWhite77; is vitcori ous. We are now selling sew ing machines from ten dollars up We have a few machines that are slightly used that we will sell cheap. We also have a nice line of Organs that we will sell on easy terms. We are head quarters for Sewing Machines and supplies. Old machines taken in exchange for new ones. Iff. 15. KAKBLE, Manager, Somier Mo s ie [bm w SUMTER, S.C. Estate o Heizer E. Frhrson, DECEASED. A LL PERSONS baviog cl ims against J.X. s tid E tnte wiii present jaine du!j at tested, ai'd all persons in anyway indebted to said Esta e, will make payment without delay to A. WHITE, Jan 25-St Administrator. ! |50 In Gold j villi he Paid to any Man or Wca&a? _______ ; 1 : remains for tho celebrated fins of phyrrc rr" j T.d socialists. Dr. HacLi.va}' fe Co., Segaia j N-adn i s Registered;, to place a g$Ex_no . si i . s proposition, bsl'oro i_o public, milich i . '7rr boon made before, i v. o agree lc treat any person niS C e with ?r-T. ! - -orle disease and cv.rz them. furnishing xnar - is is a curable one. T,::-jo_er is plai_, aa-J there is co catch to ic C\ srthermore, the offer is gco'l and tho i_co.?3 c-.-rectly safe becaviso wo aro firpucialiy rc- r>c_' Dr. Hathaway CD. v es peri saco dari ig tb/, last 20years has provee the fact that they cured i_o_sr.Q_s oi cases where other deo tors have Sailed, ase this .warrants them ir rr.aring this remarka ble oner. All persea who are suffering free any chronic chseaf-a have now an opportu nity to test the treat* meat of the acknow ledged leading pb si. ci aas and specialists ol this country, with.ax: absolute surety of be ing cared. Special d? soases, such ns catarrh, blood poison, weafcnew if raen and women which affect the delicate organ? ind private diseases of ali kinds,- rheuctailsn?. tincture, vartcoceie, rupture, female trouble?, ~ skin eruptions, ulcers, kidr.s* and urinary ti* sazszs, Uver and stomach docilities, liquor, spium anu morphine habits, or any caroni; issas*. Our treatment can be taken at home under our directions, or. we will pay rail road fare and hotel bill to all who prefer to come te o ar office for treatment, if we fail to rare. .Wc have the beet of financial and professional refer saces and transact our business on a stric b> professional basis, promising nothing but whai we can. fulfill. We do not believe a any of th . free prescriptions, frea cure, freeeampleor C.O.X> raads. but think it is best in the and to be bon est with our patients. Writs us to-day; don't de !ay. We have carefully prepared Symptom Blank Ko. 1, fer men; No. 2, for women; r o. 8, for ski: -Siseases; No. 4, for catarrh, and new 64 pap; oooklet which we will send Free to ali who rea% iesire truthful information about ibeir con i ion. Gall or address, DB. HATHAWAY. & CO., 22ft Bo. Bread St., Atlanta, Ga, Mention tbie paper. SEND US ONE DOLLAR new 1SSS pattern hi h-trade EKSBKVOlR COU. -BD WOO COOK STOVE, by freight CO. D., subject to examinatton. less to $?.00 fc^^^WRITE FOR OUR BIG FREE sent witoor STOVE CATALOGUE. and freight charges. This stove ls size No. 8, oven is i&^xlSxU, top is made from best pig iron, extra, large floes, heavy covers, heavy linings and grates, large oven shelf, heavy tin-lined oven door, handsome nickel-plated ornamentations and trimmings, extra, large deep, genuine Staadtsh porcelain lined reservoir, hand some large ornamented base. Bert coal boner nata, and we furnish FEES an extra wood prate, making it a per fect wood tmer. WK ISSUE A BIXDC 6UAS-aTKZ with every sto.e and guarantee safe delivery to your rail road station. Your local dealer would charge'you 825.00 for s fca a stove, the freight is only about 81.00 fot each 500 miles, so we uTe 70a at least $10.00. Address. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.dKG.)CHICAGO,ILL pears, Boebuck A Co. are tfcoroagMj reliable.-Edito. 1* OSBORNE'S A agosta, Ga. Actnal Business. No Text Books. Short time. Cheap board. Send for Catalogue. TAX RIOTS OR 1899. OFFICE OF - COUNTY AUDITOR SUMTER COUNTY.. SUMTER, S. C., Nov. 30. 1893. -VfOTICS IS HEREBY GIVEN that I wil! ^\ attend, in person or by deputy, at the fellowing p!ace9 OG the days indicated re ?peei:ively, for the purpose of receiving re turns of Personal Property, and Poll Taxes for fha fiscal vear commercing January 1st, 1899 : At office Sumter, S. C., at all other times ap to Feb. _0tbf 1899, inclusive. Tindale, Tuesday, January 3. Privateer, (Jeokics Store,) Wed nesday, January 4. Manchester, (R. I. Mannings,) Thursday, January 5. Wedgefield, Friday, January 6. S atesburg, Saturday, January 7 EUgc.od, Monday, January 9. Rembergs Store, Tuesday. January 10 Gaillards X Roads, Wednesday Jan uary ll. Bossards, Thursday, January 12. Gordon's Mill, Saturday, January 14. Mayesvi e, Monday, Jmuary 16. ScGitsviile, (J. M. McE'.veeo,) Tues day. January 17. Shiloh, Wednesday, January 18. Norwood's X Roads, Thursday, January 19. Lynchburg, Friday, January 20. Magnolia, Saturday, January 21. Reid's Mill, Monday, January 23. Bisbopvilre,Tuesday and Wednesday, January 24 and 25. Mancv le, Thursday, JaDu&ry 26. Smithville, Friday, January 27. The law requires that all persons owning property or io anywise having charge of such property, either as agent, husband, guard an, trustee, executor, administrator, etc , return tbe same under oa;b to the Audi tor, who requests ail persons lo be prompt in makins: -their returns and save the 50 per cent, penalty which will be added to the property valuation of sll persons wbo fail to make returcs ~ in the tim? prescribed by law. Taxpayers return what they own on the first day of January, IS99. A;s:-s:o.R5 acd i-.T.D ;er will enter the first giver; name ct the taxpayer in full, also make ii sppar-iie return for c?.ch Township where thc property i.< located and also ju each and every case tte No. of tbe School District must be given. Everv male eitzen between tbs age of ivHi'r ces ano .L ... ;>cars O the first day of January, 1S?S, exclut those incapable of earning a support from r:eing maimed or frcm .'.her causes, are deemed texable Poll?, and except Confederate Soldiers 50 years cf age, on J-.nuary 1st, I3C9. Aii returns must be made oe cr before the 20'.h day of February next. I cancot take returns after that date and all returns made affer the 20th day of February are subject to a penally of 50 percent. The appointments hereby made for points in Lee CctiBty will be filled by the Auditor of that County if be has qualified at the time indicated, otherwise, by mvself or mv deputy. J. DIGG 5 WILDER, Dec 7 Auditor Sumter County.