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4% i^Bia w ^ tym. WEDNESDAY, JURE 28, 1S99. The Sumter Watchman was toundec in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866 The Watchman and Southron, now has combined circulation and influence af beth of he old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium in Senator MeLaariu ts an ont and ont -expansionist, and in this respect is in ii oord with the McKinley wing of the ia Barty aad antagonistic to platform of the majority of Demo crats. Three United States army offic o irs got 'tirane at Cien fuegos, Coba, Saturday weight, created a disturbance in a house ill tame, resisted arrear, shot a ian and created a riot in which people were wounded. The press; suppress their name 8, and it wiH be in keeping with the Alger policy it* the officers escape punishment, if Cohan soldiers had bees guilty of a .similar offense there would have been - great outcry, and it would have been ked aa a glaring illustration of the nn -fcaacss of the Cabans for self govern ment. - The penitentiary scandal investi gation seems to have lost eome of its ginger, and unless the legislative -committee pushes the matter it will fce well primed for a thick coat of whitewash by the time the legislature -.assembles. ^ "The British Weet India islands are said to be clamoring for annexation to the United States. We are euri -one tc learn bow the English govern meet will regard this evidence of Anglo-Saxon affinity. Hie success that has attended the experiments with wheat in this State nd Georgia during the-past two' years shonld encourage the farmers of the south to plant sufficient wheat to produce oor for home consump tion, at least. The first requisite, ^however* is the establishment of a -first class roller mill in every county, Mind it is not too soon for the people "who are interested in wheat culture to be moving for the establishment : of s roller mill in this city. If a roller mill was a certainty the farmers of'Sumter county would plant more jwseat this fait than ever before. A noller mill requires the outlay of five to ten thousand dollars, according to the capacity of mil!, and the mills in 4hia State have been uniformly suc cessful and profitable The summer school at Wilbrop College is a great and gratifying woccess The attendance is larger than anticipated, exceeding 350, and the teachers are evincing the great est interest and earnestness in the courses of study. The benefit the -teachers will derive and the improve ment is the public school system that "will follow cannot but be far reaching -snd permanent Sumter should have telephone con nection wiih Timmonsville and the Pee Dee coontry, and if the Sumter Telephone Company will take hold of (he matter in a business like way sn alliance can be made with tho Some Telephone Company that will give the desired connection The desirability of the extension of our telephone lines is too patent to require comment When the Seaboard Air Line is completed from Cheraw to Camden it may be both practicable and possible to induce that system to build a branch road to this city from the most convenient point on the main line between the places first named ir.en Otis now admits that active operations in the Philippines have teen rendered impossible by the rainy season, but, lead by bis hopes, &e draws a sanguine picture of the conditions for the encouragement of the war department. However, from ilia own account the Filipinos still fiave a large number of armed men In the field, who will continue to laarass and annoy the American troops, as the natives are not inca pacitated by the rainy season. The American troops in the Philippines feave not felt the real bard^^ of service io (be tropics, but^ ftsxt two months will be so crowded with suffering and hardship and death that those woo survive will rae the day that McKinley and his crowd went mad with imperialism. As Mayor Wilson is an applicant for appointment to the office of Mas ter and will undoubtedly receive the appointment, there has been more or iess discussion in reference to the selection of bis successor. It is stated on good authority that there can be no election to fill a vacancy in tbe City Council when a member dies or resigns, there being no pro vision in the charter for such au election T' ;s point was investi gated by the city attorney during the term of office of the Council previous to the present, when vacancies were caused by the resignation of Alder man C. M. Hurst, Jr., and the death of Alderman Monaghan, and he gave an opinion that the law does not au thorize a special election to fill vacancies. This being so, when Mayor Wilson resigns to accept the office of Master, a special election to choose his successor cannot be order ed, and the duties of the office will devolve upon the Mayor pro tem. When the present Council was or ganized Alderman John S. Hughson was elected Mayor pro tem, and he will therefore (become Mayor upon the resignation of Mayor Wilson. We are well pleased with the situs tion, and unless we mistake public sentiment a majority of the people of Sumter feel as we do. We are glad to escape a municipal election, for two years is a short enough period to elapse between the strife and wor ry of elections. Furthermore, Dr Hughaon will fill the office as wei! as any man that might be elected, and his continuance in the office to which he will succeed on the retirement of Mayor Wilson will be highly satis factory in every way. Climate and Crop Condition. U. S. Department of Agricul ture, South Carolina Section. COLUMBIA, S. C , June 27, 1899. The temperature, during the week ending June 26tb, averaged nearly normal, with cool nights early in the week, but not enough to check the growth of crops. The rainfall was confined to small areas in the southeastern portion of the State, where light to heavy showers occured on the 21st, accom panied in places by damaging hail and high winds A few light show ers occured in other portions of the State on the same date. It is very dry over the north central and north western counties, wore crops of ali kinds, except possibly early cot td, are suffering for rain The weather was favorabl e for cn' tivating field crops, and but few reports of grassy fields were leceiv ed. Bud worms continue to devas tate corn and tobacco, caterpillars to destroy rice, and lice have appeared on young cotton in a single connty. Cotton continues to do well, with rapid growth except in the "up country.'' where the soii lacks mois ture, but the crop as a whole is very promising. Blooms are reported from neariy every section of the State Sea Island cotton is iu excei lent.condition and blooming freely Corn improves generally, but is not promising except over limited areas. Worms threatened its ruin on bottom lands in Pickens county, and have injured it severely elsewhere. Lay ing by corn is general. Tobacco varies greatly in condition throughout the district. Reports of damage by worms are numerous, | and many report very poor st nde. Catting and curing has begun, but this work will not be general until the first week in July. Rice planting is finiehed Young rice is being injured by caterpillars. Fresh water for flooding is needed in some sections and is not available Wheat and oats threshing is nearly finished ; yeilds of wheat fail below the average, and of oats are generally poor. Melons are poor in places, and generally tate. Grapes rotting some. Apples generally plentiful, but are dropping badly Slow progress is being made in setting out sweet po tato slips Iris- potatoes are a fail ure. Pastures are improving slowly Peas being sown on stubble and in with corn where the soil will admit. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS* RE PORTS. Richland-Congaree : Had a good rain on the 21st ; crops are weil worked and growing nicely ; small grain has been gathered ; mach land is being sown to peas ; gardens greatly revived. -J F Smith. Darlington-Darlington : Conditions favorable for orcps this week ; cotton growing finely ; some blooms have been seen ; oom being laid by and peas planted in it ; tobacco growing and being laid by, bud worms very bad cn tobaooo.-E R Mciver. Fioreooe-Lycon : Fine rain on the 22j, breaking the drought ; some im provement can be seen in all crops ; curing tobacco has begun ; ootton just beginning to bloom; no fruit but apples, whioh are plentiful.-E J Smith. Kershaw-Tiller's Ferry : About one inch of rain has fallen here during the month ; cotton still holds its own ; oom on stiff bottom lands is ruined ; a big pea crop would be sown if a season oould be had ; potatoes and late set tobacoo at a stand still, the latter will be a poor crop ; apples ooo tin uc to drop.-J W Gadener. Sumter-H3good : The past week has been an ideal one for all farm work ; old cora has been laid by in fine condition ; good stands of oom have been obtained on river bottoms, and also on last plantings of uplands ; cotton is growing and doing well ; grass is troublesome io places, but tbe most of the fields have been deaned during the past week ; fruit soarce except blackberries, whioh are plenti ful.-A K Sanders. Williamsburg -Salters : The rains in some parts of the township hare been very heavy, and in others light ; crops look well where there has been enough rain ; bud worms have iojured old corn badly ; oottoo seems to be going to "weed grass appears very destruc tive on young oottoo aod peas ; a large orop of peas has been planted far bay ; melons late.-J E Davis. How to Sit for Health. Schools and pbysicial cuitare are now claiming that we as a nation do not know how to sit correctly. Americans they say, pay less atten tion to tbe hygiene of attitude io sitting than do other nations, and the consequence is that we are degen erating into a nation of dyspeptics. Io France and Germany school children get a regular coarse of instruction as to correct attitude to be adopted in sitting, and in those coon tries stomach troubles are far less prevalent than in countries where no precautions are taken to teach children to sit without relaxing them selves A relaxed position in sitting, it is said, causes the stomach to be crowded out of position and after a time the misplacement becomes chronic When the stomach is prolapsed the food can not readily find its way ont of it, and being retained there ionger than it should be undergoes fermentation and putrefaction jj pro cesses are set up whereby the system is not only robbed of the nutrient elements necessary for the proper noarisbmeut of the blood and repair of the tissues, but through the con version of the food into potomaines and other poisonous substances, the whole body is contaminated. On these grounds physicians who teach physical culture assert that it is not the ice water that we drink, nor the soda water, nor thc amount of smoking- that men folk indulge in that cause us to be a nation of dyspeptics, bot the bad postures that we adopt when sitting. A correct altitude in sitting requires proper height and width of seat, a desk or a table of a ptoper heigth when desk work is doue, and a proportionate amount of care upon the part of the pupil to sit upon bis seat in a proper position. The height of the chair you sit in while writting and that of the desk you write at are matters of the greatest irapotance. The seat of the chair should be exactly one quarter of your height from the floor. Thus, if you are five feet high, the chair seat should be 15 inches. The width of the seat should exactly equal its height, and it should slope bacKward three quarters of an inch to the foot The back should be a trifle higher than the seat and sloped slightly, but not too much Finaiiy your desk should be two thirds as high again as the 6eat of your chair. Thus if your chair seat is 18 inches, the desk should be 30 inches in height. The relation of the person to the seat should be such that while the hips and shoulders touch the back of the seat, the other portions of the back remain clear The center of the back can not touck the back of the seat without relaxation of the chest, and resulting flatness of the chest, and perhaps of the stomach, provided, of course, the seat back has a backward curvature. Jao.ob Field, Wall street's greatest plunger, estimates that he has paid out $75,000 in revenue stamps sioce the tUgiuuing the war with Spain. DoctorsSay; Bilious and Intermittent Fevers which prevail in miasmatic dis tricts are invariably accompan ied by derangements of the Stomach Liver and Bowels. The Secret of Health. The liver is the great "driving wheel" in the mechanism of man, and when it is out of order, the whole system becomes de ranged and disease is the result. Tutt's Liver Pills Cure all Liver Troubles. FIRST NATIONAL BANE OF SUMTER, STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DE POSITORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid ap Capital.$ 75,000 CO Sarplo8 and Profita - - - - 25,000 00 Additional Liability of Stock bolders io excess of their stock. 75,000 00 Total protection to depositors, $175.000 OD Transacts a Genera! Backing Bo9ioess. Special attention given to collections. SX VINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 aod upwards received. In terest allowed ac the rate of 4 per cent, per annam, on amounts above $5 and not exceed ing $300, payable quarterly, oo first days of j January, April, Joly and October. R M. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, President. Cashier. Everything in DRUGS, Soda Water, AND Cigars, -AT HUGHSON-UGON GO. Successors to J. S. Hugbson & Co. MONAGHAN BLOCH SUMTER. S. .C. MAKE OUR STORE TOUR HEAD QUARTERS WHEN YOU COME TO TOWN. THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depositary Capital stock paid io,- . *. $75,000 00 Undivided surplus, . . . 16,000 00 Individual liability of stockholders in excess of their stock, . 75,000 00 Traosacts a general banking business ; also has a Savings Bank Department. Deposits of $1 and upward received. Interest allowed at the rate of 4 {er cent, per annum, payable sera i-ann nally. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, President. MARION MOISE, W. F. RHAMS, Vice-PresideDt. Cashier. Jan 13. Holiday Notice. TUESDAY, July 4tb, being a Legal Hol iday, the First National Bank will be closed OB that dar. 'L. S. CARSON, Cashier. Jone 28. Holiday Notice. rpUESDAY. Joly 4th, being a Legal Hoii J day, The Bank of Sumter will be closed on that day. W. F RH AME, June 28 Cashier. RELIEF CAME. MKS. E. C. COLYER ) k of Salubrity, Ga., Aug. jr 8th, 1898, writes: Ben-^ edicta has certainly been a blessing to ^ my sixteen year old daughter. She was in wretched health and had missed four month Two bottles of Be edicta have entirely restored her health. L The monthly periods have returned* and are now painless and regular, fr T Do you .suffer from Painful, Irregular W j cr Suppressed Menstruation? Benedicta |* J has coreel many suffering women and k ^ will cure you In the privacy of your* & home, without the necessity or physl-jjl .j; clan's ox- k laminations & wsv ff^3^1J^M ? feT |fypiClA| Jon the (1!,- AM ff HI AWTFDV ^tlnctlyfem- PP^M^ fHS 3* mine or- W m| ^FlMAIl fe |5 f ^ttGlMOR I M thens them so that the monthly periods fe 2 znay be regular and painless. Headache, f ^Dizziness, Nervousness, that draggingw M sensation and those terrible pains in fe "3 the back, hips and abdomen quickly |T disappear. r S Soldbv all Druggists or sont post-paid fora A box of "Monthly" Regulatins pills ton g uso in connection, is with each bottle a j Q LADIES BLUE BOOK sent free to any ad dress. A sample i>ox of "Monthly" Kejr- Jr jj ulatlng Tills sent for 10c. In stamps. *BAddress, Woman's Department, New? j Spencer Medicine Co.. Chattanooga, Tenn, fe ^ Mention th is paper. Sr Sold by Hughson-Ligon Co. GLENN SPRINGS HOTEL, f Glenn Springs, S. C. QUEEN OF SOUT MiTsUMMER RESORTS Special Rates for June. A GREAT OPENING. The Glenn Springs Hotel has opened with most gratifying results for the season of 799. The list of visitors for the opening is not ODIV much larger than usual, but it comprises the best names in the State. This famous resort has come to be recognized as the best, and the health and pleasure seekers from all over the South go there. Spartanburg takes a pride in this great resort, and the indications point to the most successful season in the history of the Springs. The fact is, the water of these famous Springs is, for certain diseases, a specific, it is unequalled in the United States. The new hotel is provided with ail modern improvements and conveniences, "and whether for health or pleasure, no finer place can be found. The reputation of this resort is made. Nothing The Herald could say can add anything to it, but it is gratifying to know that the prospect for the season just begun is most flattering.-The Herald, Spartanburg. Glenn Springs is an ideal spot for health or pleasure seekers. Being one thousand feet above the sea and on the summit of one of the macy foot hil h of the Bine Ridge mountains, tbs air is cool, light, and invigorating The grounds comprise one hundred acres aod are well-ebaded by magnificent native oaks. A first class livery will be on the grounds for those wishing to visit the many points of interest near the Hotel. Some of the other amusements are Billiards and Pool, a new Ten Pin Atley, Shooting Gallery, Tennis Court, and all other amusements usually found at first-class resorts. Those who do not care for the other pleasures and amuse ments offered will be charmed by delightful music by an Italian Band from Washington, D. C., which will play morning, after noon and night. "Water for sale in Sumter by the Drug Stores. For rates of board apply to : SIMPSON & SIMPSON, Glenn Springs. S. C. June 14 SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK. 10 doz brown balbriggan Undershirts at 25c apiece. The best Shirt ever shown for the money. 10 doz bleached jean drawers, with double-seat and stockinet anklet 25c a pair. 5 doz Men's Golf Shirts made of No 1 Percale, with separate - cuffs, 75c a piece. A few sizes left of the celebrated King Shirtwaist 50c a piece. Manila Straw Hats 1.25 and S1.50. The balance of our fancy Tests 75c, value %\ to 2.50.. New Arrivals. A full line cf Boy's Straw Hats, 25c and 50c A full line of Men's Straw Hats at 50c 5 do silk Band Bows, assorted colors, 25c 5 doz silk Olub Ties, assorted colors, 22c