The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 28, 1899, Image 5
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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 )
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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 ?
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^tlnctlyfem- PP^M^ fHS 3*
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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