The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 22, 1899, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22. 18997
The Sumter Watchman was toundea
in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866.
The Watchman and Southron now has
-Voe combined circulation and influence
of beth of the old papers, and is mani
festly the heat advertising medium in
y Sam ter.
The mild bot earnest invitation to
^our delinquent subscribers, made in
.these columns a few weeks ago, that
they como ap and settle without being
banned, has not mer. with the anani .
as os response hope for. Some have
j ttd promptly, bat these who have!
sot psid are again requested to do so.
We want money, bot; will take conn
4sy produce of any kind, provided it
% sound and in good condition. The
loll market price will be allowed for
everything-poultry, eggs, grain, for
age, mest, wood, and even pine-strsw
Included. Now is a good time to
fcricg in a load of something while
wagons are coming to town to carry
back farm supplies.
The tax levy for this, county re
gains the same ss it was last year,
riz r mills. The levy ls appor
tioned as follows : Fer State 5 mills,
school tax 3 mills, ordinary county
purposes 3 miRs, psst indebtedness
mill We have long hoped for a
reduction in taxes, hut recently we
bave quit hoping for an improvement
ear hope beiag swallowed up in the
fear that the levy would be increased.
?andidly, our belief ii that there is
store likelihood of an increase in the
fevy for ordinary county purposes
than there Aa of a reduction.
Tho Legislature discussed the
maay bills relative to changas in the
Idispensary law, but no change was
-made. Prohibition, looa! option and
.high license are all th ories, while
? the -T^aneary is a powerful political
Imachine, and has influence and
strong pull.
The expansionists declare their
purpose to hold the Philippines in
definitely, that they shall sever be an
^Integral part of the United States
-> and that the natives of those islands
"shall not be recognized as American
citizens. Why should not the Fili
pinos fight the. Americans and con
tinue to fight them as long as they
ssas able to do se ? If the Filipinos
*are conquered the Americans will
have a subject provinca for spolia
>-l2on; if they succeed in attaining
*ffkfrr independence they will be as
f nro h-entitled to honor as the Ameri
cans who fought in the Revolutionary
> ^war. -Tte conduct of the Americans
^pKasd the Filipinos is Uiore oppress
^.3ve ~and with less show of excuse
/%feaa the tyranny of Spain from which
Unbans and Filipinos have alike been
^ecueavoring to escape.
'An .-American restaurant keeper io
?Habana bas stirred up a hornet's nest
?by refa8 ag to serve a mulatto who
&olds 8 generare commission in the
.-Suban army, sod bis place was
closed in consequence by the police
-authorities His action is said to
&ave raised the race issue, and Coba
-will doubtless fa ra iso, io future, a
fruitful field for the exercise of the
i peculiar talents of the cultivators of
segro outrages.
^.resident McKinley has served
notice, so the press reports say, on
'the senate that unless the army reor
ganization bill is passed and suitable
appropriations made be wi!! call sn
* extra session of congress immediate
. -ly subsequent to the adjournment of
vibe present session. Imperialism
'*nd expansion require a large army
and still larger appropriations, and
we may expect ao increase of both
in gometrieai ratio, year after year,
'for so long as the land-grabbers are
"ia the ascendency. Then will follow
-asan inevitable result still greater
oood issues and heavier revenoe
**sxes.
'The Seoate killed a very good bill
Oast week wheo it voted to coo tin ac
. he Manldin Broad Tire bi ! uoiil oezt
-session. The bill bore its merits oo its
ace and the fsot that little or co
argumeot was adva&cod against it* is
satisfactory ovideoce that there was bat
little to be said in rebuttal of the solid
vaod logical arguments made in its favor
Senators Maaldin and Hana io g. It
i
is cot often that a law will accomplish
he beneficial results desired and ab the
.same time confer compeosasiog benefits
upoa the persons directly affected. The
Broad Tire law would have been of
inestimable, benefit to the pabiic roads
and would have made the roads better
each day that broad tire wagons were
used, instead of causing them to
deteriorate steadily as DOW results from
the constant travel of narrow-tire
vehicles. The ase of broad tires is of
beneit to the owners of wagons and
stock, for it has been proveo, by
carefully and intelligently made
experimenta and tests, extending over
several years, daring which time the
performance of the vehicles at ted with
broad tires was noted, in all conditions
of weather and on all kinds of roads,
and shat heavier loads could be carried
that the stock stood the work better
and kept in better condition than when
worked in wagons having narrow tires
Tfce hill is dead for this session, but it
can ba taken op again next session and
we hope it trill then be passed, for it is
in the nature of a reform nd will
improve the roads.
We direct the attention of par
; readers to the statements of Sept.
Edmunds in reference to the Graded
School library. The library is whol
ly inadequate to the Leeds of the
school and is sadly io need of books.
Old books by standard writers as
well as new books will be welcome
additions to the library and will be of
, lasting benefit to the pupils of the
school. We are of the opinion that
it would be practicable to organize a
library aid association of a hundred
or more members among the patrons
of the school, eacc one of whom
would agree to give a dollar or up
wards each year for a period of years,
and in this way the fonds could be
raised to purchase by degrees a
small, but very useful library. The
suggestion is made for what it is
worth.
Sumter county has been exempted
from the operation of the law to reg*
late the charges of tobacco ware
houses. This is the next best thing
to tbe defeat of tbe aw, and we trust
there will be no effort made at the
next session of the Legislature to
extend the law to this county.
Gov. Candler, of Georgia, bas
taken hold of the smallpox epidemic
in that State with an energy that our
Umz r.t of the executive chair would
do well to imitate. GOT. Candler bas
secured the detail of a smallpox spe
cialist from the U. S. Marine corps
and adopted a common sense and
adopted a common sense and syste
matic plan for tbe suppression of the
disease where it has appealed, and to
prevent its spread to other and at
present uninfected portions of the
State. Tbe authorities of ali towns
sud cities and all county officials have
been cs! eu spon to assist and co op
erate with the Governor and the pby
Biei&ns acting ander bis direction, in
the effort to contrat the epidemic,
and we believe that the sensible and
well-considered efforts of Gov. Can
dler wiH prove effective. In this
State the disease spreads almost un
opposed, and the Legislature higgled
over making an appropriation that
was absolutely necessary to the pros
ecution of the work the State Board
of Health had undertaken. Unless
greater efforts are put forth to com
bat the smallpox epidemic that is
rapidly spreading over the entire
State, we shall not be surprised if
adjoining; States declare a quarantine
against South Carolina. Neither
could we blame the authorities of
other States for doiDg so, for they
would be but protecting their people
Three Brothers Fight.
Barnwell, Feb. 19.-The Sabwatb
was broken here to-day about 4 o'o oek
by a family difficulty in wbioh the oniy
participai ts were brothers, Adam,
George aod Tb oas as Duncan, all odor
ed. In tbe triangular fight Adam
Do ean vas killed, being shot through
the heart; George Duooao was shot
io the leg. It is said that Adam and
George tised pistols, while Tom did
hin shooting with a gao. George is
oow io jail for shooting bis brother.
Adam. It seems Adam aod Tom were
palling together io the fight against
George. A womao caused the difficulty,
whieh occurred io time for trial at this
month's coart.
Quicksilver bas beeo discovered in
Graot Park, io Atlaota. A man wash
ing his diQoer bucket in tbe lake io the
park noticed the quicksilver, and
examinations by the State Geologist
showed that it exists io larger
quantities in the ground around tbe
lake.
A.J.Gill. Jr., Scotia, S. C , wriles: 1
nave used Dr. M. A. Simmoos Liver Medicine
in vaj fatnii7 10 jears. It bas cured Indiges
tion, Dyspepsia, Constipation, and mun?
other ailments.
NEW TOBACCO WAREHOUSE.
The annonncment that Sumter will j
have a tobacco warehouse this sea j
SOD, maaaged by experienced tobacco |
men, backed by ample capital, and
that a number of buyers for manu
facturers and exporters will be sta
tioned here throughout the season, is
the beat news we havs been privi
leged to publish in quite a long time.
The warehouse will be leased by
the men who will manage it and they
will ron it as a business enterprise
from the start. They will come to
stay and they have expressed a de
termination to build up a first class
market, where tobacco will be sold
strictly ou its merit, sud where the
tobacco growers will receive fair
treatment and have their interests
guarded by the warehousemen.
The warehouse, under the new
management, will be au excellent
thing for this city and a great con
venience to the tobacco growers of
the county, who will be able to sell
their crops at home and avoid the
trouble and expense of hauling or
shipping their tobacco to more dis
tant markets.
Tobacco should fetch as high prices
here as at any other place in the
State, and we believe it will this sea
son if the farmers of the county will
patronize the warehouse and thus do
their part toward establishing a per
manent home market.
There will be more than enough
tobacco produced in Sumter County
this year to give both the warehouse
iu this city and that in Mayesviile a
support and keep the buyers at both
places busy daring the entire season,
and we trust both will have a liberal
and satisfactory patronage. Thus far
tobacco warehouses in this county
have not proven financial bonanzas
to the men who put op the money
to establish them, but they have been
indisputably of great benefit to the to
bacco producers, acd we welcome
with no small degree of satisfaction
the re establishment of the ware
house in this city, for it will be so
encouragement and an incentive to
many who have not heretofore plant
ed tobacco to reduce their cotton
acreage and put a portion of their
farms in tobacco There is money
in tobacco, and if a fine grade of the
weed ie produced there is more clear
profit to be realized from one acre
than from five acres of cotton al six
cents a poond
ARIZONA.
(By A. F. Bonney, M. D )
When I was editor in chief, devi},
typo sud chief cook of the now de
funct Arizona Trailer, and later of
the Arizonian, 1 used to tell the peo
ple bow honest, and progressiv , and
intelligent they were This Action
is as much a fixture io the average
country newspaper office as is
shooting stick or a bell box, and tbe
average editor wiii appreciate my ?
sensations as being once more in a j
position to tell tbe troth. *
No where else on earth- will you 1
Sc J the pecaiiar conditions that exist
here : and I can attribute it to no
other cause than a lack of circulating
medium. Everything used to be
dicker and trade, and the most of tbe
money the people got was what they
received from the government in
payment for bay and grain. When,
about eleven years ago, the
railroad was run through here it
made sores change, but even a
greedy corporation was obliged to
take personal cheques for freight
charges that bad oft times gone
through a dozen bands, serving the
place of greenbacks. The penny is
an unknown thing here, as it is, or
was, in California when I went there
I used to have lots of fun bnying
pennies at the postoffice and giving
them to the street car conductors
who invariably threw them into the
street. But after awhile they got
onto me, and then they had some
fun throwing me into the street
Here an hypothetical quantity, a bit.
twelve-and-a half cents, is the unit of
of small change. In buying two
two cent stamps at the postofiice I
got hold ot peonies until I had five
of them. With a good honest nickle
and those five copper, or bronze,
abominations I would try to buy a
sudden dose of snake medicine, but
the polite clerk would always shove
them back. I could not buy a cigar
with them, and so one day, seeing a
remarkably beautiful, bright looking
boy of 6ve, I thought I would glad
den hie heart and so I offered them
to him He looked at them in sur
prise, and then said in his sweet,
childlike trebbie : "What in hell do
you think I want with them things,
pard, think I'm a damned Mexican
kid In my agitation I went to a
nearby well, noted (or the alkalinity
of its water, and threw them in
lhere, and then I ran swiftly away.
I really expected the well to reject
them. I never thought until after
wards that I could have got two two.
cent and one one cent stamps with
them at the postoffice. No woDde
am poor
The dicker and trade way of doi
business Haded to before is s
very prevalent. The merchants se
their cash to the bank at Tues
over ene hundred miies away, a
pay bills in goods ; and it is an i
written maxim here : "If you {
hold of a piece of money hang on
it, for if yon let it go you will ney
see it again r; A local justice oft
peace was owing a man two dolla
When asked for it he said : Oh, ji
let it go on your next fiDe."
give an air of truth to this etatemt
1 will jost say that we have soi
justices, laws and juries out here
Arizona the like of which can
found no where else on the fe
stool.
The large majority of the setth
in this valley are Mormons. Tb
are recruited from al! nations, as
mle from the middle and lower wal
of life, and intellectually and moral
will compare with the same class
people of other faiths They are c
more honest than their Gentile neig
bors, they are industrious, but t
results they achieve will not, in D
opinion, compare with those of ti
good eastern farmer. There are
few smart, educated people amoi
them, and they, thro7 the control
the beads of the church in Utah, doi
inate the business, religious, domei
ic, political and spiritual affairs
tbe common herd. Like the Apacl
they have found that Uncle Sam h
a long arm, and be Edmunds law
observed pretty well. They are
hospitable as the rest of the peep
here. I was recently out on a hun
ing trip and stopped at a ranch awa
out in the foot hills aod asked to sta
all. ig ht They told me to come ii
gave me sapper, sod after I ba
eaten, and the old man and I wei
smoking I looked around and wot
dered where we were all to etaj
Tbe boase was built of adobe (roucT
and was about 16x25, all in on
room, and with a fiat roof. One lon
bed was all I saw to accommod t
sae, tbe eli man and woman and si.
kids There was a huge fireplace i
one end of the room in which a fir
crackled merrily. About 9 o'clocl
three of the children began to shov
iigns of sleepiness, and they wert
dodressed and put to bed. Whei
[hey were sound asleep they wen
taken ont of the bed and leaned o]
against the wall near the fireplace
ind soon the other three were po
through the same routine ; then i
ivas told that the bed was at my dis
rosal- I protested, bot as they in
listed, aod I was dead tired from i
lays hard tramping I took off mj
iboes and coat and turned in.
Along about 5 a. m my old enemy,
the asthma, gave me a jolt and j
wakened, and to my great surprise
[ fonnd myself propped op alongside
;he fireplace with the six kids, one
)f whom was using my abdomen foi
k pillow. The man and wo saan were
in the bed, snoring bsrd and load
;uoagt to scare the bears away. ]
3ave bad doubts cast upon this story,
>ut as 1 as formerly a newspaper
nan no one should doubt my veracity
br a moment.
Many of the men here would be
handsome were it not for their faces.
The girls are pretty. Fortunately I
an prove this, as I recently made a
>ictare of one of the valley belles,
it chanced tbat her ownie sweetness
pas going on a bunting trip, about
;be time she got the pictures, and she
gave bim one to take along and look
it in camp. I have had just expe
dience eooogh with camp life to know
.hat a picture of ones sweetheart rs
ust as essential to a well organized
;amp, as a Bible or a history of the
Panic war But he took the picture;
ind it chanced that he, in hunting,
ran across a nice healthy cinnamon
sear The bear, in the course of the
liscussion, put his arms around the
nan so as to hold him wciie he, the
o ar, told him, the man, how much
De, the bear, thought of bim, the
nan Realizing the emergency of
[he case the man drew out the picture
sf the girl to take oDe last, fond look
at it. The bear turned his head to
see what sort of a Dew engine of
destruction the man was bringing to
bear on him. gave one shriek of mor
tal agony, and went staggering down
the trail. Afterwards they found
bim-dead, his face distorted with
Bach a look of unutterable pain and
despair that the men who were skin
ing bim, the bear, shed great big
learn.
Wheo we stop to think of the cu
rions fact that tbe female population
is mach greater thao that of the male,
there being three girls born to every
boy, one cannot help wondering
whether it is a proof of polygamous
Mormonism or a divine plan to kill off
the bears
Mining is a great industry in this
sun kissed land, and while there are
no mines jost here, there are bright
promises for the near future At
Clifton, forty miles away over the
mountains, and at Globe, the termi
nus of the G. V. G & N. railroad,
are two great camps where millions
of pounds of copper are turned out
each year The hills are fall of pros
p JO to rs who come and go unceasing
ly. Young men, middle aged men,
and o!d men ; ali eager and hopeful.
The prospector is a born gambler.
And no man who has not the gam-j
hiing iastinct largely developed will j
ever make a persistent prospector,
for it is a life-time against a million
in copper or gold, since the white
metal has become just a base com
modity. Thirty, forty, fifty years
ago the prospector started out, a
yoong, robust man, full of hope,
lured by the chance of great and
sudden wealth. At twenty five a
million or more was bis figure. At
thirty-five a million would do. At
fifty anything in the neighborhood of
a million, at sixty he says : "It won't
take much to keep me'the rest of my
days ;" and most anything will sat
isfy him. His visits to town become
more frequent and his stops longer,
and one day he takes the trail over
the Great Divide with the Grim
Reaper for a pard, and bis place is
filled with other men who prospect
the same hills and camp by the same
springs. And it will be ever so, as
long as men will gamble, with life as
a stake, against a million to be won.
To be Continued.
WRECK ON A. C. L.
Charleston, Feb. 19 -The northern
mails were late to-day, due to a terrific
head end collision reported to have
occurred on the Atlantic Cost Line
railroad at Roland, N C., 40 miles
beyond Florence, between tbe Florida
Special and No. 35, the fast mail due
here ac 6.03 this morning. The two
engines were reduced to wrecks, which
extended partially to the trains, but
no fatalities were reported. The mails
were delayed about eight hours by the
collision.
j The Kao sas^City Times says : "Tbe
administration cf William McKinley
has already fastened an annual public ex
penditure upon us of not less tbao$150,*
000,000 a year more than any previous
administration, and it may reach over
$200,000,000. In fact, if the war rev
enue tax is continued, which it will
have to be to make good the revenue
deficits of maintaining the Govern
ment will be close on to $300,000,000.
The country has a few thousand isl
ands, wbiob are not self sustaining, and
ac additional force of 75,000 men for
military purposes to scow for it all.'1
BUCKLKJTS ARNICA SALVtt.
Tb best Bair* ia the worI for Cats
Brei ?, Sores, Ulesr*. Salt; Rhen , Fever,
Sons Tetter, Chopped Hands, Chilblains, Co rat
n<i aU Skia Eruption and positively ec re*
Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed ta
gi 76 perfaoc satisfaction, er raooay rai anded
pr oe 26 nts par box* Por tala by Dr. J. T
i>. me.
For Cow feed of various kinds call on W.
B. Boyle.
To those living
in malarial districts Tutt's Pills
are indispensible, they keep the
system in perfect order and are
ari absolute cure
for sick headache, indigestion,
malaria, torpid liver, constipa
tion and all bilious diseases.
Tutt's Liver Pills
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EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS :
Chas. W. Dabney, Jr , Pb D., LL.D.
Ez*?nited States Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, Ex-Director United States Ag
ricultural Experiment Station io North Caro
lina, President University of Tennessee and
President of united States Agricultural Ex
periment Station in Tennessee.
J. B. Killebrew, A. M., Pb. D.
Ex-Commissioner of Agriculture for Ten
nessee, author of "Culture and Curing of To
bacco" for U. S. tenth census, *-Tobacco
Leaf," "Sheep Hosbaodry," "Wheat Grow
ing," "Grasses," and other agricultural
works.
! Tbe regolar subscription price of tbe
' Southern Farm Magazine is .$1 a year, but
! we offer it and tte Watchman and Sontbroo
together one year for $2. Oct 19.
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Feb 2S.
BLANK
BOOKS.
We haye bought a toek
of Blank Books direct
from the manufacturers
We saved the jobbers'
profits, and our customers
will get the benefit in
Low Prices.
All who have need cf blank hooks
should give us a call.
As usual we have a full stock of
WRITING PAPERS,
OFFICE SUPPLIES AND GEN
ERAL STATIONERY.
Our goods will give satisfaction and
the prices are right.
e.
Liberty Streit*