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The Question of Tax Exemj THE SUPREME CO URI CISION FAR REACHI IN ITS EFFECTS. Columbia, March 21 -The d of the Supreme Court ia the L Cotton Mill case opens op a large The matter has been up before toi where it will eua is interesting, ai have been a great many tas exea granted prior to the new Conseil and it is held that they are all na void. The matter was some time ago "' io the attention of the comptroller eral and be obtained an opinion the Attorney General's omoe r to the very question of tas emptions.' The Assistant Atl General's opinion shows a f phase of the issue in so far : this case the General Assembly passed an Act authorizing the 63 lion, which is held to be contrary constitution and the Geo er il Tax requiring all property to be on th< books. The opinion of the Att General's office reads as follows : Hon. J. P. Derbam, Compt -General, Columbia, S. C.-Dear .'rr ' The petition of the Colombia \ Power Company, asking for an a meat of taxes, has been considered From the petition it appears tbs company asks for an abatecjeot of levied on be Columbia Caral, eon isg that the Canal is subject onl State taxes under Section 17, p. 1, 9* Yoi. XIX, Gen. Statutes, wbiob s ..That the land, the Canal and * appurtenances thereof, transferret the said board of trustees of the Co bia Canal, and the bonds issued them, shall be exempt from tax t except for State purposes ; that boildtogs hereafter erected and lands hereafter acquired sh ali be t hie, unit ss they are exempted an dei general tas: law of the State.77 By virtue of this section they an abatement of all taxes, except State tax, on an assessment cf $40, the total levy being 14 1-2 mills, State levy is 5 mills,) tbe differ* of 9 12 mills amounting to $880, which an abatement is asked under above section. The petitioner wt be entitled to the abatement asked were it not that the Act quoted clearly unconstitutional, being contravention of Section 1, Artioie ? of the Constitution of 1868, wi reads : ! * te "The General Assembly si [provide by law for a uniform ; equal rate of assessment and taxati and shall prescribe suob regulation! secure a just valuation for taxttiot ali property, real, personal and posse cry, except mines and mining ci ai the proceeds of which alone shall taxed, and also exempting si property as may he exempted by J for municipal educational, litera: scientific, religious or charitable pi Wk pose ." Taken in connection with Sect: -3, Article IX, of the Constitution 1868, which reads: "That 5 corporate authorities of counties, to bips, schoo districts, cities, towns s villages may be vested with power assess and collect taxes' fer oorpon purposes, such taxes to be uniform respect to persons and property with T - the jurisdiction of tbe body imposii ih*. same," which is incorporated' **~~ Section 5 Article X, of the Cons ti tu tl -of 1895, shows that the Genei Assembly io attempting to exem 'certain property from m part of tl ~ general tax levied violated the cos si tctioaa! provision "that taxes be on form io respect to persons at property. " (Supra.) It is not ooo tended that this proper) falls within soy of the constitution .exemptions quoted above in Sectioo '. Article IX, Constitution of 1868, bi petitioner relies solely oo the Act abet quoted, Seetioo 17. page 1,095, Vo urne XIX, General Statues. From m view tb is Act is unconstitutional anc therefore, nugatory : hence the petitio should be refused, and the propert subject to the same assessment an tax levy as ali other property not con T emotionally exempt Yours respeoi fully, U. X. Gunter, Jr, > . Assistant Attorney General. Another phase of the master ough to be looked at. Certain coes mu ci tie enter ioeo a contract, so to speak, tba will exempt certain corporations fron taxation if they locate at a oertaio point and it would appear, when snob a con < tract is entered into io good faith, tba the municipality ought to carry out it: part of. the contract, even if it ha; to pay tbe money out of its treasury The decisions and the new Constit tioc will puta decided damper on exemption! from taxation, and the tendency cow ic to get everything ic the shape ol J property on the tax books and thereby reduce the pro rata share of eacc man's taxes. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen Co v Chicago, and get a fora sample box of Dr, Sing's New Life Pills. trial will convince von of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in tb* care of Constipation and Sick Headache. For Kai 'aria and Liver troubles they have been proved Sf*- invaluable. They are guaranteed to be per ^ factly free from every deleterious substance and tc be purely vegetable. They do not vreakea by their action, but by giving tone to tbe stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 25c. per box. Sold y J. F. W. DeLorme Druggist. 2 MONKEYS AS COTTON TICKERS. Southern Planter is Pleased With His Experiment. Vicksburg, Miss , March 20.-The tangled forests of darkest Africa, which, iii the early days cf the Da doo, supplied the southern planter with slaves to cultivate his cotton j fields and to gather his cops, have again been drawn upon by the farm ers of the south Professor Garner, of Washington, discovered that the monkey can pick cotton as weil as the southern negro He persuaded Mr. W W. Mangom. of Vicksburg, to attempt the experi ment, and the latter has just made his report to Professor Garner. Mr Manguri! says he has found it profitable. On his place near Smedes this winter be bad 50 trained mon keys at work. The males weigh about 110 pounds and the females average 90 pounds each in weight. Bags were made for each monkey that would hold 25 pounds of cotton and the bag placed over each monkey's shoulder II was surprising, Mr M angu n says, how the monkeys learned to pick cotton. Baskets to hold the cotton were placed at each end of the rows, and one man besides tbe monkeys1 trainef was necessary to take the cotton out. of the baga and put it into the bas kets provided The planters through out the south have watched the expe riment with a great deal of interest. Many have visited the plantation near Smedes to see the monkeys at their work. Mr. il SD gu ai ie enthusiastic over the success of his experiment. "The introduction of monkeys as cotton pickers means more to the South," said be, "than a cotton picking machine ; for the monkeys are a success as pickers, while the machines, so far, have been failures. The monkeys are in every way supe rior to negroes as pickers, and the cost of picking is about one third. fil believe this discovery is the greatest that bas been made for the cotton planter since Whitney discov ered the cotton gin " Next fall Mr. Mangum intends to import l, 0* more monkeys from Africa, and he desires others to join with him in importing a lot rnore to %e scattered throughout the south. MS i I ll i Broad Tires. Oar friend, the York ville Enquirer, ! arges the ase of wide tires on vehicles j of all kinds, and favors a State law looking to the enforcement of the use of broad tires. If ocr respected contemporary weald urge the dealers io wagons to lay in a stock of wide tired wagons the people would boy them. Our dealers bought a few of the wider tires, and. they sell readily, The asnal width of the tire of a two horse wagon bas beeo an inch-and-a-balf, but two inch tires are not a rare thing now, tires two-and a half inches are to be seen. Our owo opinion is that the wide tires will be the tires of the future in this sectioc. Wide tires and lower wheels will serve the people better than the old wheels. If dealers weald properly present the wide tire wagons their sale would be common. They appeal to the approval of oar common seme - Abbeville Press ana Baener. THE BRIG HT "siDiT OF TRUSTS. London, March 23.-At the ban qoet of the British Economic Associa tion this evening, Sir Robert Giffie, formerly assistant secretary of the board of trade, presiding, Prof. Ash ley delivered an interesting address on the position cf trusts in the United States Prof Ashley said the trusts were mainly the outcome of an at tempt to get lid of the disastrous effects of cut-throat competition The public' io his opinion, had great ly exaggerated their power to rule prices He contended that the gen eral tendency of trusts in the United States was in fact to lower prices, as had been seen in tbe case of the Stan dard Oil Trust Undoubtedly the trust gave an advantage to the capitalists but they al6o tended ?o secure steadi ness in the rate of remuneration for labor aDd to promote continuity of employment and an increased stabili ty in industry - mn- tim - To Our Subscribers-Important. The Quaker Vaiiey Mfg. Co. of Chicago have requested us io announce that they bare several thousand sets of tbe fiaest coin silver plated War Memorial Spoons, made to retail at $3 a set. They will mail, postpaid, a full seS cf six of tbese spoors to every subscriber to the Watchman and Southron, who wilt send name and addres-a postal card will do. If, on receipt of the spoons, rou find them the most exquisitely beactifui specimens of the silversmith's art you ever saw, and worth $3, remit 78 cents, as payment in full, within 30 days ; if not pleased, return snooos im mediately. Each spoon is of & different de sign-after-dinner coffee 8ize--sbowing sol diers in camp io Goba, Morro Castle aod four U S. 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 snb scriber to the Watchman and Southron (this is important) and that yon nccent Memorial Spoon Oflf>r. Address Quaker Valley Mfg. Co., 357 W. Harrison St,. Chicago. Dec 21 The happiest ladies are those using the Wbitesewing machine. Aguinaldo to b9 Run to His Last Extremity. Manila, March 24 -The bog expected movement to captare Maloios Oegao at daybreak this mnroing There has beeo a loll io the fighting for two days. The position of the troops bas beeo readjusted preparatory to this t>tro'se, which is expected to reduce Aguinaldo io the last extremity. The first troops to move was tbe brigade of G nerai Harrison Grey O is who struck tents shortly before sunrise. Immediately word wa* passed along the lioe and the troops became convinced that the greatest battle since the opening of hostilities was at hand. Brigadier General Otis occupied a position at Caloocan which is nearest Maloios on the road from Manila. The enemy bas been extremely active in the vicinity of Maiabon in preparing defences, evidently anticipating an attack, but they keep well under cover. A small body, however, emerged from the jangles on the extreme left yester day, and fired oo the Kansas troops in their trenches, fatally wounding private Cohen. Private Mosi and two Spanish prisoners escaped to the Kansas regi ment and report the Filipinos concen trating their forces at Maiabon and Porto. They add that only Aguinaldo's body goard is at Maloios and that the rebels apparently intend to stake the fortunes of the fight at Maiabon, where they expected an engagement to-day. and it defeated they asserted the rebels intend to disperse to the swamps and mountains. "There is something rotten in the State of Denmark " "Incipient cor ruption. " ''Political leprosy." Those used to be familiar expressions in South Carolina We have not heard them in some time. Senator Tillman, who invented and used them to in sinuate charges against bis political opponents and to poison the minds of the people, has been keeping rather quiet on euch subjects. Bot what about the penitentiary under refawn administrations ? Real ly the deeper we go the sweeter it gets We bad no idea the institu tion or the convicts could be worked I so well and so variously for the ad vantage and comfort of refawn leaders. Talk about making it self supporting! It seems to have sup ported not only itself but the bulk of the great reform movement that was to free South Carolina from the fetters and lead her people into the light of wisdom and tbe sunshine of prosperi ty and no taxes to speak of. All the comforts of home. Free board and lodging for the directors, a pool table for patrons and friends, countiy cured ham, lard, fuel, forage, provisions, butter, milk, horses to ride, and even free laundry for offi cials. The State of South Carolina j ie not only a rum dealer but is made washerwoman for reform statesmen. Reform family wash goes to the peni tentiary to be done up, ironed and folded by convict labor free of coat With ali these things, dispensary sam pies to drink and free passes and mile age on the railroads, what more could the hearts of reform wish ? Getting it down pretty fine in per sonal economies and working the State are we not ? We get trunks, sh oes, liquor and other miscellaneous, useful and ornamental articles from the dispensary, household work, en tertainment and dead head transpor tation from the penitentiary Is there anything else in sight ?-Greenville News The Southern Girl. In concluding au editorial inspired by a Southern girl's regret that she cannot go to oollege. Edward Bok, io the April Ladies' Home Journal, bas this to say of the girls of the Southland: "Tbs Southern girl is' surrounded by a life far truer and more conducive to self-development than girls living tn ofher sectioos, because social conditions are more normal. Her life is healthier because it is saner, and her mind, by reason of it, is! clearer and more constantly at rest. The rush of life of the North aod West is not so stimulating as many Southern girls suppose. On the contrary, ic wears women out as often as it develops them In no part of our country do women look younger at maturity than in the South To the ioutbern girl, too, Nature blooms in a profusion as she does nowhere else. Tbe natural bititory which the Northern girl must get out of books the Southern girl gets direct from Nature's own band. She is born of a soil as rich and colorful io romantic history as is the literature of Spain This she receives as a natural heritage. Her parents are, and her ancestors were, among the best types of American chivalry and American womanhood. Soe hears but one language spoken, and this is her owo. If there is the introduction of another tongue it is Frcnob, and with these two sbe can travel the world over and never be at a disadvantage. The religion which she learns from her mother is the highest and best because it is untainted with modern 'revelations.' The truest friend and safest teacher in 'highest living' a girl cao have is her mother, and in the South mothers have a way of finding time for their daughters and being companions to them. The Southern father is fond of bis children, and proves it by his presence at the domestic hearth after his day's business is over." American Protectorate. Philippines Islands to be Al lowed Local Self Govern ment Marilin, March 22 -Theaddres3 to the Philippine natives, drafted by the American commissioners on behalf of the United States government, em bodying the views of the president, has been made public. It assures the population of the inten tion of the Americans to develop in them the power of self govern ment. It explains that the D ted States has assumed international obligations, which make it responsi ble to the whole civilized world to es tablish a stable governmentin the Phil ippines, and that the United States cannot divest itself of these responsi bilities. The people are assured of the president's soie wish to establish a system of government to render the natives capable of administering their own affairs uoder American control. Protection will not be exercised in a spirit of tyranny or vengeance The insurgents are invited io lay down their arms, restore peace and place their trust in the government that emancipated them from the oppres sion of Spanish rule. It would be the irony of fate if Coi. Neal should occupy a ceil in the peni tentiary of which be was Superinten dent. There is no such dancer however, becauss it is one of the basic principies of Reform to take care of its evil doers -Aiken Journal and Review. Mr. Wilson, the founder of one of tbe beef-packing establishments in ,Cbicago, 6ay3 that canned roast beef is a trade lie, that every can of it is boiled beef that never saw a roasr. Teat's one of the reasons why the canners f-hoald be roasted I Oarminaiiife | 9 Saved My Baby's Ufa." t ? ? LAMAR & RANKIN DRUG CO.: $ t| I can not recommend Pitts' Car t minative Uo strongly. I must say, ? I owe my baby's life to it. $ i I earnestly ask all mothers who ^ have sickly or delicate children just X j to try one bo*tie and see what the & ^ result will be. Respectfully, ^ ? MKS. LIZZIE MURKAY. $ $ Johnson's Station. Ga. I Pitts' Carminative 1 j ls soid by ail Druggist*, gr jf PRIGS, 25 GENTS. j 9 Vr-VWr^Vr** Vr^X rO> X r V-s^^fc^fcr * pisa COUGH-CROUP EXPECTORANT Is Highly Recom- jj mended for COUGHS, Z COLDS. HOARSENESS, E SOEE THEO * T.BEON- E CHITIS. 'HMA, s WHOOPIN* . J or GH, z and All Diseases of = 5 the Throat, Lungs and Bronchial Tubes, z 5 POSITIVE SPECIFIC FOE CEOUP. Z iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniuiiitiiii BOARDING. ~ HAVING TAKEN the House on Main Street second dcor sooth of the Nixon House, I am prepared to accommodate a few aegnlar boarders, and also lodging and meals to transient customers. Terms reaeonable. Mas. W. B. SMITH. Sept. 8. $i QR BUYS A S3.50 SHIT 5,000 CELEBRATED .4KASXWKAB0CTM doable and doable knee. Regalar 83.50 Boj*' 2 Pleee Snee-Paot Solu gclaff at S 1.95. A SEW SUIT FREE for any of these salts which don't give satisfactory wear. Send No Money. ** & &<g .tate a e of ber and say whether large or small for age, and we will send you the ault byexpress, C.O.D., subject to examin ' at i on. iou can examine lt at your express office and if found perfectly satisfactor and equal to suits sold in your town fo. i SS. 50, pay your express agent our special laffer price. S 1.95 and express charges. THESE K EE-PAl T SUITS trefor boys from 4 to 15 years of age. and are retailed everywhere at (3X0. Sade with double 6eat and knees, latent lSOSstjie as illustrated, made from a special wear-resJ Ung, heavy weight, ALL-WOOL Oakwell eassimere, neat, handsome pat tern, fine serge lining. Clayton patent interlining, pad ding, staying and reinforcing, silk and Linen sewing,fine tailor-made throughout, a suit any bov or parent would be proud Of. FOB FREE CLOTH S.* S PL ES of BOTS Clothing (suits, overcoats or ulsters), for boys 4 TO 19 YEARS, write for Saapla Book So. SOC, contains fashion plates, tape measure and full instructions bow to order. Sen's Snits and Overcoats made lo order fron $5.00 np. Samples sent free or. application. Address, SEARS, ROESUCK & CO. (Inc.), Chicago, IIL 1 (Sears, Roebuck Co. are thorough!? reliable.-Editor.) ARE YOU NEEDING AN IRON SAFE? HAVING BEEN APPOINTED GEN ERAL AGENT for the Alpine Fire uno Burglar Proof S'xfe Ccmpauy. I am prepared to offer liberal tetros to those who are o need of a good a'e Fer pricea and term3 address J. . BENNO, M.~b 24. Sumter, S. C NOTICE. TNTIL FURTH ER NOTICE, I will be J at my office for the transaction of offi cial business only on Tuesday? and Wednes days of encti wees and on Sales days Spe cial appointments for other rtavs must be arranged for. W. H. INGRAM, Nov. 16, 1838.-tf Master. THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depository Transacts a general Banking business, so has A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In tercst allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per Ronuo.'. Payable quarterly, oo first days of January, April, July and October. W. F. B. HAYNS WORTH, W. F. RHAME, Cashier. President. Jan 13. I African Limbless I Cotton Seed Free.... fa fa fa fa fa fa s fa fa Anyone who ser.ds one dollar for a year's subscription to the At lanta Semi-Weekly Journal can g-ct postpaid one pound of the cele brated African Limbless Cotton Seed without charge. A pound of these seed will plant one-fifth of an acre, and with proper attention should yield enoug-h to plant a crop. The seed were tested in a list of thirty varieties by the Georgia Experiment Station and a bulletin recently issued by Director Red ding- shows that the African Limbless Cotton produced 70 pounds more per acre than any other variety, and 161 pounds more per acre than the average of thirty leading varieties. The African Limbless Cotton produced 780 pounds of lint per acre, which is nearly four times the average on the farms of the South. This show-; what high fertilization and thorough culara will do with these excellent Seed. The value of the product, counting cotton at 5 cents and. seed at 13 cents a bushel, was over $45 per acre. The cost of fertilizers used was $4.77 per acre. The Journal does not guarantee results, but the result of the test at the Experiment Station- makes it worth a farmer's while to test these seed when he can get them for nothing. The Journal brings you the NEWS OF THE WORLD TWICE A WEEK with hundreds of articles of special interest about the farm, the household, juvenile topics, etc., and every southern farmer should have the paper. You don't have to wait a week for the news, but get it twice as often as you do in the weeklies, which charge the same price. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Send for a sample copy. Address, SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA R. R. CO. TIME TABLE NO. 15. In e ect 12.01 a. m., Sunday October 2d, 1898. West-First Class Daily. Leaves, am 7 10 CbariestoD, Leaves, ara 6 20 Augusta, Leaves, ara 9 20 Columbia, Leaves, a ra 10 10 Ringville East-First Claes Dailv. m 8 00 arrives p m 10 45 arrives p m 5 20 arrives p m 4 28 arrives p m West. North Carolina Division. East. 81 75 77 2d Class. A. M. 2d Class 1st Class STATIONS. 78 i 74* j 82 . 1st ! 2d ! 2d Class Class I Class A. M A.M. Leave. Arrive 7 4C 8 00 8 10 9 00 9 3 9 48 10 10 10 35 11 00 11 45 12 10 12 35 8 20 8 50; 9 0 [ 10 101 10 30; 10 40 11 $1 12 15 1 50 3 10 3 0 4 40 5 10 5 30 5 45 6 20 P. M. P.M. 11 40} 12 00! 12 12 12 40i 12 55 1 00 1 20 1 35 1 50 2 15 2 35 2 48 3 03 3 18 3 30 3 55 4 IC 4 15 4 25 4 45 4 52 5 02 5 19 5 34 5 59 6 14 6 30 ?. M. Camden DeKalb Westville. Kershaw Heath Springs Pleasant Hill Lancaster Riverside Catawba Juoction Rock Hill Tirzah Yorkville Sharon Hickory Grove Smyrna Blacksburg Earles Patterson Springs Shelby L&ttimore Mooresboro Henrietta Forest City Ruiherfordton Thermal City G leo wood Marion WEST. GAFFNEY BRANCH. EAST. 85 Mix<d. P. M. 4 10 4 35 5 00 83 Mixed. A M. 5 30 5 50 6 20 Leave STATIONS. Biaeksburg Cherokee Falls Gaffney Arrive 84 Mixed. . M. 7 30 7 05 6 40 36 Mixed. P.M. 6 30 6 05 5 40 Train No. 77, goinz west makes daylight connection at Lancaster with tbs L. & O. B. R , al Rock Hill with the Southern R. R. going north, at Blacksborg witb the Sooth ero. Tum No. 78, going east makes connection at Marion, N C., with tbe Southern R , at Blacksbcrg with Southern and at Lancaster with L. & C. R. R. Train No. 81, going east makes connection at Shelby, N. C. with the S. A. L R. R , going east. AH Ioctl freight trains wili carry passengers if profiled with ticiets. S. B. LUMPKIN, Division Passenger AgeoU L. A. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. J. If. ROBSON & SON, Commission Merchants, 4nd dealers in COW F Consignments of Eggs, Poultry and Farm Produce Solicited. s Weights asid Goods Guaranteed. i Rob on & I9 [ Charleston, S. C. Feb 16 - CATALOGUE FREE i THIS SIG CATALOGUE CONTAINS !20 PAIES isSxt t inches ir. size, contains o ver l u.ooo quotations, 10,000 illustrations, the largest, most complete and lowest priced catalogue ever published. NAMES THE LOWEST WHOLESALE CHICAGO PRICES OH EVERYTHING, including everything in trocarles. Drugs. Dry (ioods, Sotiocs, Clothing, Cloak , DrcKxr , Boots 33d Shoes, wat*hes, Jewelry, Book*, Hardware, Store*. 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Tribune. "A wonderful piece of work."-Washington National Tribune. 'The catalogue is a wonder."-Manchester (N. H.) Union. "Sears, Roebuck & Co. is one of the largest houses of its kind ia Chicago."-Chicago Inter Ocean. "The big catalogue forms one of the aest shopping m diums that could possibly be sent into a district* -Boyce's Slonthly, Chicago. "Their catalogue in a vast department store boiled down."-Atlanta Constitution. . "The catalogue ia certainly a merchandise encyclopaedia."-Chicago Epworth Herald. . "A law should be passed compelling the use of thiicataloguein all publicschools."-The Hon. O. A. Soui ioun. ' We could quote thous rods of similar extract*. SEND li CEXTSATONCKandyonwlU receWe the 4-lb. book hy retara matt. Wdress, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.(Inc.), CHICAGO, ILL., U. Se Ac'