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CONDITIONS IN
THE PHILIPPINES.
How tlie Insurgents Have
Killed Time and Gained
Their End.
OTIS STOPPED M'ABTRTJR'S
ADVANCE-AT IS "BED
ED.
Manila,- Joly 22, via Sao Francis
co, A cg. 24.-IQ Manila talk of the
ending of Che war deals no longer
with weeks, bat with months and
even years Among the mass of
people here, military men and for
eign residents, there is bot one
opinion. The whole effort of the
insurgeais for three months was to
hold off the Americans nntii their j
ally, the rains, came. In this they
have been as successful as they
could have hoped. Unless affaire
take same unforeseen tarn, the Filipi
nos will r same the war this fall
with fresh spirit and a replenished
stock of arms and ammunition One
ship load of arms, it is learned on
good authority, has reached them
within this week. Of money the
leaders of the insurrection have no
lack. They control the resources of
a large and exceedingly rich coun
try and even though no crops were
harvested, for several years they
could still obtain enough cash and
supplies by impressing to their ase the
treasures of the church, the store
houses cf farmers and manufacturers
and funds of private individuals-a
system of levy which they have long
enforced to considerable success. AH
the ships coming and going into the
ports recently opened to trade pay
heavy tributa tc the insurgents.
Mach of the profits of this inform
al sort of government are supposed
to go into the pockets of the leaders,
except Aguinaldo, who is generally
acquitted of enriching himself by the
present war ; but when the public
treasury becoms empty the poliii
ciaos who are exploiting Aguinaldo,
may, if they see a possibility of suc
cess, consider the war a good private
investment.
Reports brought through the lines
to Spaniards and Filipinos in this
city are that the spirits of the insur
rectionists are improving.
Americans, like the Spaniards,
most defer to nature and rest on their
arms most of the time while the
country is a mud wallow. The g n
rais are teiliag their followers that
American inaction during the past
month is due to discouragement and
demoralization The Filipino sol
diers, according to these informants,
are tolerably contented Although
the paymaster seldom appears they
are living as comfortably as they
have been accustomed to, being
clothed and receiving rations which
an Americau soldier could not live
on, chiefly rice with only occasional
ly a little fish or meat. They are
fairly well housed, having taken
possssion of the dwellings and pub
lic and church buildings in the towns
in which they are quartered, and they
add to their living by looting.
Through the Americau secret ser
vice come different stories, that the
Filipino army is becoming decimated
by desertion to the number of 20 or
30 a day and are fast losing heart
and are on the verge of disruption
Past experience frith zee secret sor
vice jastiues s suspicion that many of
its employes, mott of hom are Dartres
or Spaniards, are deeply interested ia
holding their pisces by seeming to earn
their pay, bile the refogees who come
through the Hoes have been disposed
to give reports which they think will
p~iea e the authorities. Almost since
the beginning of the war they have
pietcred tba Filipino army on its last
legs and its collapse bat a question of
days. Geo O is caused the country to
be placarded with as oller of 30 for
each insurgent rifls voluntarily sur
render ed If the Filipino soldiers were
deferring by companies, tired of war
and converted to American role, maoy
of them might be expected to bring
their guns to (be American lines aid
receive the reward. Tbe entire harvest
from th's (fier, however, bas been less
than 100 goos
There was a time wheo Aguinaldo's
biggest army hang in the balance,
when tte destruction appeared nevi
table. That was wheo MacArthur had
captured San Fernando and Lawton
was marching apon San isidro with the
Tilint os scattering before him Law
ton had made himself a terror to the
insurgents, because no obstacles stop
ped bim.
Wi h Liwtoo at San Isidro the rebels
feared be might sweep around upon
Tariae, where they had installed their
nomadic capital, and oatch them be
tween two armies. AH the archives,
gilt triangles and treasure boxes were
packed ready for shipment on the rail
road at the first word of Lawton's
advance. Lawton asked to be allowed
to do it with the men and rations he
had. But orders came to withdraw
his troops from San Isidro and return
to Mtlolos, leaving small garrisons at
some of the towns he had captured.
His retirement the Filipinos construed
into a retreat and from that day the
siakieg hopes of the insurrection
seemed to rise. Lana and Masoardo,
who had retreated northward from San
Fernando toward Tarlao, brought their
armies back and proceeded to construct
a borshoe lice of entrenchments around
San Fernando, where, according to
reports, the? led their followers to be
lieve they bad Mc rthar besieged.
The assassination of Lana was ex
pected to briog the whole Filipino
organization toppling down io civil
war, bot, while the usual stories of
dissensions are heard, its only result,
so far as outward appearances go, was
to leave Aguinaldo the undisputed
leadership. The Filipinos are encour
aged by the handicap the rains impose
upon the Americans and the departure
of the volunteers. They read the
American newspapers and think the
home sentiment against war is growing.
Their policy, after the rains will be
as it was before-a campaign fur gain
ing time and wearing out their oppo
nents.
They profess to imagine that congress
will deoiare against annexation. If
congress fails then they will try to pro
long the struggle until the presidential
campaign with the expectation that ooe
of the politioai parties will declare
against imperialism aod hope that such
a party may win. To whip them while
they are pursuing such tactics an army
will be needed that can move rapidly
and strike day after day, following up
a victory without having to wait for
rations and thus giving the enemy time
tc reorganize. To capture them, most
of the generals here think, cavalry will
be necessary. Time after time the
Americans have carefully planned
movements which seemed sure to re
sult in the rounding up of two or three
thousand rebels in a trap, but every
time the difficulties of the oouotry, the
slowness of tho wagon trains and the
superior agility of the light moving
natives have conspired against them
and when these several divisions of the
army oame together they have found a
handful of obsequious brown men who
announced themselves "amigos."
Dictated Accounts of Battles
Maj. Gen. Otis, Office in Ma
nila, Purveyor of News.
Mauiia, Aug 19, via Hong Kong,
Aug. 22.-The Filipino rebels appear
to relain mach more of a fighting
spirit than might be expected after
their recent San Fernando experi
ence and Gen. Lawton's drubbings
in the south.
After giving up San Fernando
with a feeble struggle, they entrench
ed themselves at Angeles, working
for several days and impressing non
combatants into tue work, thus sav
ing the armed men for fighting.
They engaged Lieut Col. Smith's |
regiment and the artillery warmly
for four hoers, making one of the
most stubborn resistances of the
campaign. But the Americans are
indebted to the usual poor marksman
ship of the Filipinos as well as to
their Biategy for their small loss
In the province of Cavite, where
it was supposed the rebels had been
scattered and demoralized beyond
recuperation, they have assembled
an army of several thousand men
distributed among the important
towns from the lake to the bay.
After the San Fernando engagement
the rebels attempted to deter the
Americans from a further advance
northward by menacing the railroad
communications. Several hundred
of Gen. Fio del Pilars men crossed
the Rio Grande, between the Ameri
can outpost towns, and threatened
Baliaag, Quiogua and other places
with sraaii American garrisons, while,
daring Sonday and Monday nights,
smaller bands tried to tear up the
railroad tracks at several points be
tween Bigua and Malotes. Rein
forcements of American troops, how
ever, were sent along the railroad
from Manila to San Fernando, while
the forces at Baliaag and Quingua
sailed out against Gen. Pio del
Pilar's men and the rebels were easily
driven away.
In brushes between these Filipinos
and the Americans during three days
the Americans lost several men while
the Filipinos' loss was heavy
Of those operations the Associated
Press correspondent was permitted to
send only an indequate dispatch,
dictated verbatim by Maj Gen Otis.
The censor writes stereotyped official
phrases and adjectives into the dis
patches, teoding to magnify the
American operations and to minimize
the opposition Geu Otis says news
papers are a menace to public insti
tutions, are bat private enterprises
and the correspondents are only here
on euffrance
All reports from the rebel territory
agree that the scarcity of food is in
creasing and that the rebel command
ers at Aparri and other points refuse
to obey Aguinaldo's order in regard ,
to closing the ports held by the rebels
against American ships and say that
any ship bringing stores wiil be wel
comed. Several ships from Manila
are now at such ports Hundreds of
people come to Manila daily and
return to the rebel lines with food
and other commodities. The guards
stationed along one road reported
that 5,000 persons passed through
the lines in three days and that 45
tons of rice was carried out, in small
parcels, on the same road, in 10 days
Much of this undoubtedly goes to
aid the rebels, but the authorities
permit this traffic from motives of j
charity towards the women and chit
dren who are undoubtedly suffering
Gen MacArthur :J establishing
municipal governments in the villages
north of Manila
The mayor of Baliuag, the first
iowa where Gen Lawton established
the same rule, who was supposed to
be one of the mest friendly and
trustworthy of the natives, has been
placed in jail charged with arranging
with the rebels for an attack on the
town.
The American troops have been
withdrawn from all that part of the
country which was half cleared of
rebels in the expedition of the Amer
icans in June last The rebels have
returned to San Mateo, which was
abandoned for the third time after its
recent capture.
It is alleged that more than half
the howitzer ammunition during the
fight at Angeles was defective au3
failed to explode.
McKinley, Root and Griggs
Confer.
Plattsburg, . Y., Aug 22-Sec
retary Root arrived from iVashington
on the noon train and soon after
lunch joined the president and At
torney General Griggs in the presi
dent's private office. They were
closeted for nearly two hours, during
which time they had a general talk
on all pending matters.
Secretary Root, when seen by the
Associated Press correspondent after
the conference, said : "No, there is
nothing startling to give out as a
result of our conference. We had a
general talk on a cumber of subjects,
but there is really nothing of special
interest to give out at this t me.;,
Attorney General Griggs declined
to talk on the subject of the confer
ence.
Gen. Merritt hada short talk to
night with Secretary Root after the
latter's conference with President
McKinley and Attorney General
Griggs.
Cost of the Constabulary.
A recent comparative statement
compiled by Mr. W. W Harris, con
stabulary clerk, shows that the 34
dispensary constables now employed
by the State are accomplishing as
much as the 59 who drew salaries
until about the middle of June.
The decrease in cost to the State
bas been $1,797 34 since the con
stabulary was reduced, these figures
being the difference between the
expense accounts of May, $4,493 69,
and of July, $2,696 35. In June
when the 59 constables served half
the month the cost to the State was
$3,561.19. The total saving for a
year at this rate will be $21,658.80,
based upon the difference between
May and July. This is an average
of $59 a day.
There appears to be no adverse
comment on the policy of the gov
ernor in tho8 reducing the cost of
maintaining the constabulary, for the
resu'ts with the small force are as
satisfactory as with three score con- !
stables -The State.
Charleston to Augusta by an
Air Line.
Columbia, Aug. 24.-Application
for a charter for the "Charleston Air
Line" from Charleston to Augusta
will be made in a few days. The
name of the road is to be the "Chat
tanooga, Augusta and Charleston "
This road, as has been reported,
will be a part of the Seaboard sys
tem, and will cross the South Bound
at or near Olar in Bamberg county.
The road will be 125 miles long,
and the proposed capital stock is to
be $25.000 per mile or $3,120,000
for the entire road if so much be
necessary. It is said that as soon as
the charter can be obtained construc
tion will be begun.
A branch between Columbia aud
Augusta, it is reported, will also be
built before many months, and the
Seaboard's system will be complete
in the lower part of the State.
?II III ll -Ul I mm -
Washington, Aug. 24 -Il is believ
ed in high quarters here that many of
the important questions relating to
Puerto Rica will be left for congress to
deal with, instead of being sallied by
executive action One of these relates
to the free exchange of commodities
between Puerto Rico a?d this country.
Another plan of relieving Puerto Rico
was to permit ber tobacco to enter Cuba
free of duty. This would give ao easy
market to Puerto Rican jbacco, but
the point has been raised that it would
depress Cuban tobacco.
Death of Prof. DuPre.
Clemson College, Aug. 25 -Prof. |
J. F C DuPre, of Clemson College,
died yesterday - Prof. DuPre was
professor of horticulture and had |
charge of the experiment station
Ile was a native of Abbeville, and
his body will be taken to Abbeville
for interment today
- -Ul I --
Ordered to Join Their Com
mands.
Atlanta, Aug. 22-The recruiting
officers of the Twenty-ninth regiment
of United States volunteers which
has been organized at Fort McPher
aon, have been ordered to rejoin their
command.
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Burns, Bruises. Rheuma
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Sold bj Hughson-Ligoo Co.
It is Time to Plant Bulbs.
Thia ia the season of the year in
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ground for them before they are re
ceived by haviBg it dug up to a depth
of at Ica6t a foot-a foot and a half is
better-and worked ever until it is
mellow,'' writes Eben E. Rexford in
the September Ladies' Home Journal.
'.Mix with it a liberal quantity of old,
rotten manure from the cowyaid, or, if
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the proportions of one pound to a
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they arc greatly iojured by exposure to
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inches deep, smaller bulbs from four to
five inches. All bulbs should be
placed five or six inches apart, and
each kind kept by itself."
Jobn D. Rockefeller in recently
declining to aid personally in raising
the debt of a western church said to
the applicant : "I cannot oblige you
because I have bad no opportunity to
examine a report of your financial
condition and I never contribute
under any other circumstances You
bad best apply to the mission people
for assistance. Last year I con
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they knew the needs and could dis
tribute it wieeiy. I might make a
mistake "
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The Coast Line will soon build a
hospital at Sooth Rocky Mount for
their relief department. About half of
the empioyes of the road now belong
to this department, and everything
is working in good order. In the new
hospital to be boilt at South Rocky
Mount there will be separate depart
ments for white and colored people and
the hospital wiil be uoder the care of
competent physicians and trained
nurses.
Greenwood, Aug. 25.-Hogb Wil
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the borne of his sister, Mrs. Shroeder,
at Abbeville, where he bad been visit
ing for several weeks. He was aboot
80 years old. He was the father of
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Schedule No. 2-io effect 12 Ol a. m , San
day, Juoe 18tb, 18S9.
Between
Camden S. C , and Shelby, N. C.
We3t *3B
1st Clasf.
EASTERN TIME. J East *32
STATIONS. 1st Class.
p. m. a. m.
12 05 Camden 1145
12 25 Dakalb 1112
12 37 Westville 1100
12 50 Kershaw 10 45
1 15 Hrath Soring3 10 30
1 20 Pleasant Hill 10 25
1 40 Lancaster 10 05
1 55 Riverside 9 50
2 05 Springdell 9 40
2 20 Catawba Junction 9 30
2 30 Leslie 9 20
2 PO Rock Hil: 9 10
3 05 New Port 8 38
3 12 Tirzah 8 32
3 25 TorkvilJe 8 20
3 40 Sharon 3 00
3 52 . Hickory Grove 7 45
4 02 Smyrna 7 30
4 23 Blacksburg 7 10
5 CO Earls 6 50
5 05 Patterson Borings 6 40
5 15 Shelby 6 30
p. m. a. m.
Between
Blacksburg, S. C., and Marion. N. C.
West ll j EASTERN TIME, j East 12
2d Class. STATIONS I 2d Class
a. m. p. m.
8 10 Blackaburg 910
8 30 Earls 8 50
8 40 Patterson Soringi 8 38
9 20 Shelby 8 30
IO 00 Lattimore 7 30
10 10 Mooresboro 7 20
10 25 Henrietta 7 CO
10 50 Forest City 6 35
1115 Rutberfordton 6 05
1135 Millwood 5 50
11 45 Golden Valley 5 35
12 05 Thermal City 5 30
12 25 Glenwood . 5 05
12 50 Marion 4 45
p. m. p. m.
West. *Gaffoey Branob. East
1st Class, j EASTERN TIME, j 1st Class.
15 I 13 j STATIONS. | 14 J 16
pmam ampm
4 30 5 00 Blacksborg 7 00 6 30
4 50 5 20 Cherokee Falls 6 46 6 10
5 10 -5 40 Gaffoey 6 20 5 50
pmam ampm
?Daily excipt Sunday.
Trains Nos 32 and 33 connect at Blackiburg
with train* on the Gaffney Division. Train
No 32 leaving Shelby at 6 30 a m, connects at
Blackiburg with train No 36 on the Southern
Ry. going North, with twenty minutes for
transferring, etc. Passengers leaving any
points on this line between Shelby and Blacks,
burg can go to Charlotte, N. C., and return the
same day, having three hours and twenty five
minutes for the transaction of business in
Charlotte. It connects also with the Vestibule
on the Southern going South, and connects at
Yorkville, S. C., with the North bound train on
the C & N W R R, with thirty minutes margin
for transferring, and connects at Rock Bill
with train No 33 on the Southern Ry, going
South, with ample margin of time for trans
ferring, etc. The best connection this train
makes at Catawba Junction with he S A L,
going North gives eleven hours lay over, going
South, twelve hours and forty-three minutes,
but nearly all the lay over is in daylight.
Connects at Lancaster, S C, with trains on the
L & C R R, for Chester, with a lay over of a
little over three hours, and connects at Cam
den, S C, with the Charleston Division of th
Southern Ry. for all points South.
Train No 33 leaving Camden at 12 05 p in,
going North makes close connection at Lan
caster, S C, with the LACK lt, for Chester,
S C. Connects with the SAL, at Catawba
Junction, both North and South, with a lay
over of about six hours. Connects at Rock
Hill with train No 34 on the Southern Ry,
going North- This gires a lay over of rive
hours in daylight at Rock Hil!, which will
prove a pleasure to passengers. Makes con
nection at Yorkville with train on the CAN
W R R, going South, and makes close connec
tion at Blacksburg with train No 12 on the
Southern Ry, going North. Also with the
Vestibule train on the Southern Ry, going
North.
Train No II, le?ving Blacksburg at S In a
in, will get passengers from the South from
train No 36 on the Southern Railway for all
points between BIscksburg and Marion, N C, J
and will connect at Marl n. N C, with the
Southern Ry, both East an ! West. Train Ni
12, leaving Marion at I 45, after thc arrival of !
the Scuthcrn Ry tr.-iin from the West, makes |
good connection at Blacksburg with the South
em Ry in '-oth directions.
SAMUEL HUNT, President.
A. TRIPP, Superintendent.
S. B. LUM PK IN, Geni Passenger Agent.
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The State of Sooth Carolina-Sumter Coun
ty-Office of Supervisors of Registration,
Sumter County, Sumter, S. C., February
1st, 1899.
Notice i3 hereby given that in accordance
with an Act of the Geseral Assembly, and in
conformity with the requirements of the State
Constitution, the books for the registration
of all legally qualified voters, and for the
issuing of transfers, etc,, will be open at the
office of Supervisors of Registration ic the
court house, between the hours of 9 o'clock
a. m . and 3 o'clock p. m., on the first Mon
day of each month, until thirty days before
the next general election. Minors who shall
become of age during that period of thirty
days shall be entitled to registration before
the books ara clo.eed, if otherwise qualified.
The requirements for a qualified voter are
that the applicant for registration shall be
able to read and write correctly, or possess
in his own ns,me property to the amount of
three hundred dollars, upon which he nays
taxes. E. F. BURROWS,*
T. D. DuBOSE,
J. M. KNIGHT,
Supervisors of Pigistration Sumter Co.
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Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty
October 16-o
SEND US ONE DOLLAR send you this Mc SSS-Ut.
sew 1899 patten hia*-frrade RESERVOIR COAL AMD WOOD
COOK STOVB, by freight C.O.D., subject to examination.
Examine it at
your freight
depot and if
found perfect
ly satisfactory
aod the rrre test
Store BAR.
(JAIJf yo a
ever saw
or heard
of.pay the
FRKI HT
AGKNT our
SPECIAL
PRICK,
$13.00
less the Si .00
sent with or
der or 312.U0
and freight charge.*. This stove is size No. 8, oven ia
16>CxlSxlI. top is * !; made from be st pig iron, extra
large flues, heavy corers, heavy H ings and grates,
large oven shell, heavy tin-lined oven door, handsome
nickel-plated ornamentations and trimmings, extra
large deep, genuine Siacd b porcelain lined resenic r, hand
some large ornamented bisse. I>st coil bamor sade, and
we furnish FRKK an extra wood >rrr.te. making it a per
fect wood bonser. V73 ISSfE A BINDING GCARANTEK with
every stove and guarantee Safe delivery to your rail
road station. Your local dealer would charge yctx S JN
for such a stove, the freight is only about S!?!0 tot
each 500 miles, o we sa e y: u ai least il thoo. Adc ress,
SEARS, ROEBUCK &CO.(!HC.)CK!CAC0, ILL
^ Jicara, Boebuck Co. aro thoroughly reliable.- Z4ito?..<*
WRITE FOR OUR BIG F REE
STOVE CATALOGUE.
A. WHITE ft
Fire Insurance Agency,
ESTABLISHED 1866.
Represent, among other Companies :
LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE,
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE)
HOME, of New York.
UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y.
LANCASTER INSURANCE CO.
Capital represented $75,000,000.
Feb 28
Order Your
PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES
FROM
. f. STEFFENS & SON
Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S 0
-Agents for
MOTT'S CIDER
BED SEAL CIC-A3S,
_ AND DOVE HAI S
.75 BOX RAIN COAJ
.1 KKtiCLAK J.00 WATKKPKUOtr '
XACUSTOSH JOB S2.75.
Send No Money, cut this ad. out
'. and send to us,
htate your height and weight, btat*
number of im-hes around body ai
breast taken ever vest under ccai
close up under arms, and we will
send you this coat >\ express. C O.
I>., .at'j-et (O examination: examine
and try it on fit your nearest ex
piess nice and if found exactly
PS re p re sen ted and the most won
Jerful value you ever saw or heard
of ar<i equal to any coat y ou can buy
fOrf5.00. partite expr s agent cur re*: '
o frrpri.-e. 73, and express charges.
THIS MACKINTOSH is latest
ISWst.'. le, made from beary waterproof,
tan color. i:<-:;ulnel>a> lt Covert Cloth: extra
lon?. d"Ut;le breasted. Sager velvet
collar, fancy plaid lining, waterproof
sewed, strapped and cemented seams,
~ suitable for both rain or overcoat, and
guaranteed ttreatett Talce ever offered
1 hv us or anj other house. For Freo
Cloth Sample of Men's Mackintoshes u?
to 13.00. and Made-to-Measure Suits
rid Overcoats at from 18.00 to 110.00, write ior Froe
,ook >o. tor. Addrew, .
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.,
<S ar . Roebuck * Co. aro thorcBihly reliable.- Fdltor.)