The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 13, 1899, Image 2
BLOOD SPILLED
IN GREENVILLE.
Desperate Fight Between
Constables and George
Howard.
Special la Tho State
Greenville, Deo 5 ?This afternoon
betweso 4 and 5 o'clook a desperate
fcbi took place at the bridge ovor tbe
8?ahen? railway o? the road to Pari?
moootais, two miles from the beart of
Iba oiiy, betwseo Coostable* Corowell
and Coole? of the 8tate constabulary,
aod Oeorge Howard, whose borne is
jwes oa<sida tbe oity limits, on tbe Boo
eombe road near tbe 8ampioo and Poo
?allot mill. Il aeema that Corowell
and Cooley were on ibe aoeot of whis?
key wagons and met George Howard
With another man eomiog from towards
Iba moeotaios, but there is no aeeorate
twfofmetioo as to what took plaoe
?seept that abootiog begao without aoy
oeaeeessary delay, remltieg in George
Howard reoeiviog a mortal wound,
Cornwall being severely, if not fatally,
woooded, and Cooley reoeiriog a shot
Ikroogb tin thigh. Corn well was
brought to ibe Windsor hotel, where
physicians were sailed immediately and
be waa pat oader tbe iofloenee of
ebloroform. He waa suffering so much
that be eon Id not give aoy aeooont of
tbe trouble, bnt eaid he felt eertaio that
tbe shot from bis pistol killed Howard.
This ia said to bs a mistake, however,
and that Howard is still alive, though
there is no hope for his reeovery.
Cooler's wound is not eoosidered
dsageroas sod be will probably survive
tbe combat.
Tbe man who was with Howard is
??known as yet, and it is said thai he
made a qaiek aaeape.
Howard formerly lived io the Dark
Corner, bot roeeotly has made bis
?erne near town. He ia a eripple,
?boat 45 years old aod has a family.
Corowell aod Howard Both
ooocamb to Their Wounds.
8peciel :o Tbe State.
Greenville, Deo 7 ?State Consta
ble John Bennett Corowell died at 2
o'clock tbia moroiog He wee par
Holly conscious dr.riug yesterday nod
loot night, beioff Kept under tbo io
toence of <*p!a!eo He recognized bie
mother and other members of the*
foto?y. who camo in yeeterday. Tbe
body wss token io charge by Under
taker Mackey. Corooer Wilbanks
organised a jury nod tbe body was
viewed and tbe physicians' testimony
taken Tbe inqnest wee concluded
tkm afternoon, when Cooley'e depoei
lion wee secured
Tho body was aent to Chester by
may of Laurene at 12 o'clock today
Tbo mother and wife of tbe yoong
?son and the two sisters, Misses
Koto and M L Oorowell, Sheriff J.
Cornwel?, T J Corowell and Col T.
J Connie gbam composed tho loners!
party Mrs Corowell insisted on go
tng although in a very feeble stste.
The sfH cted onee hsve been tho
recipients of the teodereet sttentione.
Tbe death of Cornwall is s great
sorrow to the community Oomiog
here over ? year ago almost a strsn
ger and in s somewhat deepieed
?vooatiou he won the friendship sod
esteem of all with whom he waa
associated The conduct cf alt three
oonatables, Lifar, Cooley and Com
well, has been above reproach
Mr Cuvnwell's wifo waa toUl of hie
death lira morning She bore tbe
?ew* with OtSXpwOted oalmuess.
ooiieMeriug bor terribly uetvous
state, afteu ten days serious iiiness
?ml this late trouble and excitement
Her ?'?leer, J 11 Wll . of Chester,
is milk her
J B COfettfeii w ig u student at
Fur man university several yens ago
ilia brother, Hbe^ff J. Coruwell.
of UkootOff, arid T J Cornwell, pres
olr i uf the Savings bank of Besse
mcr, Ala both giaduated at Patrick
Military institute, when it was ope
rated here
Couatablo Cooley is doing well aud
wilt go to his home v. Hones Path in
a few days
Howard is reported sinking today
Later?George Howard, the sec
ond victim of Tuesday's fight, died
at 3 30 today He made no sworn
slat- meni Cooley testified thai hi:
fired the obit that killed Howard
Cooiey's testimony before tbe coroner
waa important
Cooley'e condition is somewhat
daogeruus
? paawm* -^mmm^?
It is ee*y io believe the s'ory which
eoa>e< from S^otb Airioa that maey of
ibe Hoars h?v? aev?*r heard of the Rid
Crom aod bava been firtog uo its flag,
mistasing it for the British symbol.
Sir > ignorance woold be nup >*sioic in
a regntar army but is natura', io prian
ttve farmara thinly soattered io remote
regiooe Tbe Bjere by maoy aod
eooetaot asts of bumsoity toward tbe
British wouaded aod prisooers have
shown that tksy seek to observe the
roles of eivilissd warfare The British
? 'tdiers, however, do not give them
tit itdoolt of lbs dosbt aod beoaute < f
Boer firing on tbo Hed Cross flag at
Modder River a party of Argyle High
landers who stormsd sod took s bouse
dancg thai battle killed every mso in
il after the whits flag bad been railed
There ere slber reports--unlike this,
from Boer aooreca?going to show that
violation of Iks lsws is by
ao msooi eoolssd to ose side.?Tbs
Stole.
Republican Rough Riders.
PARTY MEASURES RAIL?
ROADED THROUGH
CONGRESS.
Washington, Dec 8 ?Congress
bee mapped out enough work during
its first week to make suro of this
being a busy session Besides bar?
ring out Roberts and adopting the
old Reed rules tho house majority
bss perfected the financial bill pre
pared by its caucus committee,
which, by the way. is right in line
with the financial recommendations
of tbe president's message, and
arranged to push it right through the
house Tbe financial bill prepared
by tbe republican members of tbe
?enate finance commute has also
been introduced and referred to that
oommittee. There ie a little differ?
ence between tbe two bills, but there
are reasons for the belief that these
differences are inteuded more as a
feeler of public opinion than any?
thing else, to ascertain which is the
most popular of the two measures
The proverbial deliberativeoess of
tbe aeoate will give plenty of time
to ascertain tbia after the house has
paaeed ita bill aod tent it over to tbe
senate The senate is rearranging
ita committees in accordance with
the determination of the majority to
have increased majorities on all of
them. There wae a protest from tbe
minority, but it was only made as a
matter of form and with no ezpecta
tion that aoy attention would be paid
to it.
Tbe president's message has re
cei?ed less adverse criticism than is
usual from bis political opponents
One reaaoo for tbia doubtless the
extreme leogth of the document
Of ten members of tbe bouse, ac
coeted at random, only one would
say that he had read tbe entire docn
meet. The other nine said tbey bad
read condensations of it. and would
read it all when they got time.
Superstitious person are predicting
all aorta of mournful things to hap
pen to the aenate becauae of the
adjournment of the senate on acoouot
of death, oo the first and second
days of the session?first for the late
Vice Preaident Hobart, and aecond
for the late Senator-elect Hay ward, of
Nebraska Otbera besides the super?
stitious confess to having been given
a sort of creepy feeliog by these
death announcements, following so
olooely.
Mr-Roberts, of Utah, would tave
time and " money by packing hia
trunk and going home. Even if be
bad had a chance to get tbe seat he
claime in tbe boose, his speech on
the resolution for tbe appointment of
a oommittee to investigate tbe
ohargee against him. which was
adopted by a more than nine teutha
vote of tbe houae, ooly 31 votes
being cast against it, would have
destroyed that chance He aboold
have knowu that making charges
against others, even if substantiated
by the strongest proof, would not be
accepted, either by tbe bouse or by
the country, aa a valid'defense of
rjimeelf Public sentiment bad set
lied the cast) of Roberts before trie
house met, snd it is as certain as
anything not yet actually done can
be that the committee, now investi?
gating, wiil ; eport against him, and
that the houat will adopt thut repott,
probably without a dissenting voice
But those who represent that public
sentiment say they aie not going to
stop with keeping Robert! out of
Congress, but inteud to keep on
until a Constitutional amendment
making it Impossible for a polygamist
ever to knock at the doofl uf (-on
gross again is adopted
Tbe eight populist and silver re
publican fcetutors held t? caucus this
week and decided to vote with the
democrats on all political questions,
as they did in the last Congress.
If alt the bills and resolutions
introduced in tho House this week
were to become laws the size of tho
U S Revised Statutes ft *?uld proba
bly b ? doubled Members of the
House brcke tbe record by Intro
ducing nearly nine hundred, ou
every cooceivable subject, in a
single day. Only a few of them will
ever be taken up
Robbad Iba Grave.
A Hurtling incident of which Mr. J >hn
Oliver of Philadelphia, wu the subject, || nar?
rated by hiiu a* follows : "I wee in a most
dreadful condition My skin wan almost yel
let, ayes luokeo, tongue ooated, pain continu?
ally in back end ?Idas no appetite?gradually
g/owing weaker day by day. Three phyai
oians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend
advised trying 'lilectric Hilters,' and t?> my
gieet joy and surprise, the first bottle made a
decided iaiprofement I eentinued their use
fur three week', and nrn now a well man. I
know thay saved my life, and robbed the grave
of another victim." No one should fail to
try them. Only 50 cents per hottle at J. F
W l>eLorme's Drug Store. 5
?^mme>- ?
Richard Coleman Burned at
8take.
Mayaville, Ky, Dag ? ?Richard
Coleman. colored, eonfeasocd murderer
of Mra James La?hbiook. wifo of bis
employer, expiatsd his crime in day?
light at the baois nf a mob, consisting
of thousands of oititeos, by burning at
the stake after suffering iodeioribable
torture.
Tbe dreadful speotaclo ooourred oo
peaoefol cricket ground* on the out?
skirts of tbil oity.
NO PROHIBITION
IN GEORGIA.
Houfl? Bill Defeated by Al?
most Two to One Vote.
Atlanta, Ga. Dee 8 ?l>y a tola *.f
26 to 14 tho Wiliinahuto bill was killed
io tho t- ?na,t? today atid Stato probibi
tioo defeated. Toe various roll oalis
ooosumed an hoar, v. groat many
senators riding to explain tbeir votes.
The debate in tbe senate ooramenced
two days ago and wu > oarried on with
great vigor. Every intenst in the
State influenced by ino whit key traffic
fought tbe passage of the b II and all
moral agencies were used io its favor.
Had the moasore passed tbo seoate it
would havo been so amended as to kill
its purpose
Tbe sotire fight has bsen one of tbe
fiercest the State bss ever kr own along
this line but it is oow believed tbe
question is effectually settled for some
time.
Tbe Williogham bill provided for tbe
olosiog of all saloons, tbe abolishing of
all breweries aod distilleries and made
it a statutory orimo for any ono to give
a drink of intoxicating liquor to
another except as a roedioioo prescribed
by a physician.
The bill further provided that no
olub or hotel should have liquors io its
dining rooms or oafe, but thin did oot
apply to private entertainments or
bai quets.
C. A. Snow & Co., Patent Lawyer?, oppo?
site the Coiled States Patent Offici, Washing
too, D. 0,, wbo ba?e actual clieuts in e\erv
city aud town of the Cuited States aod
Onoada, report tbat never before in their 25
years practice has the work of tbe Office been
so well up to date. They claim that patents
can now be procured in leas than httlf tbe
time formerly required Not 1? 3m
Tampa Cubans Excited.
Tampa, Fla , Dec 7,?Cubans here
are much excited over several
speeches which were made in cigar
factories this morning by Cubans
whose names will not be revealed
Tbe epaakere were bitter sod incen?
diary in their language regarding
tbe American occupation of Cuba
and advocated tho use of force and
dynamite to rid tbe island of all
Americans. There aro several thou?
sand Cubaus io Tampa aod it ie
believed tbeeo orators have come
from Cuba to excite the colony and
to raise money lster on to carry out
some plau of insurrection.
WOOD WILL SUCCEED
BROOKE AS GOVERNOR.
Waebiogton, Deo 7 ?Gen Leon
srd Wood had a conference with tbe
eecretory of war today reepectiog
bis future While neither of tbe
principals had anything to say for
publication as to the conclusions
reached, it is gathered that Gen
Wood is to he tbe next governor of
Cubs, succeeding Gen Brooke, wbo
will return to the United States
It is expected that the military
force in Cuba can be grestiy reduced
In the near future, so that while Gen
Wood, by commanding the troops
remaining will be a military govern?
or, there wili be so little left of the
military establishment that his office
will be much more civil than military
in fact. Tbe reduction in force will I
enable lbs war department to with
draw some or perhaps all of the
gsowfsl oflloers or the regulars now j
la Oobs
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Ben Hur Dramatiz3d.
The presentation of the drsmStit d J
Ben Hur io New York last week bas j
attracted the attention of all the era-'
matto or.tics aod of the pubtio as welt
All ag.oe that it is one of the most
ariso.o and expensive productions ever
witnessed Ooc writer sums it up io
this way :
"To tbe average theatre-goor tbe
story aod its mode of tclliog will
appeal ; to (he lovers of the beautiful
io stage piotures tbe play will prove a
rare artistic treat, aod to tbe religious I
element to tbo community, whiob
seldom eoters a theatre, it will be a
rovelatioo aod ao objeei lesroo of great
edoeational value. "Ben Hur" is im?
pressive, spiritual, beautiful, massive
and effective, both as a speotaole aod
as a drama."
Tbe famous critic, Allan Dale,
deolares it is a "baoqoet for tbe eyes "
Tho veteiao, William Winter, says: It
exoels id seeoery. Tbe piotures quite
overwhelm tbe action, and their das
sling opulenoe will amply suffice to
hold tbe public favor. Tbo Chariot
Raoe alona would suffice to win tbe
multitude This was managed by the
ass of two ears, caoh drawn by three
horses, each team b?iog driven oo a
treadmill, aud tbe two parallel tread?
mills with their spirited steeds io aotiou
beiog backed by a vast panorama of a
orowded ooliseum, stretched over tbroo
sides of tho stage and moved with the
swiftness of light Tho obeers for this
splendid stage effect were long and
, loud ami General Wallace who was
called before the curtaiu, briefly
expressod his pleased acceptance uf the
puhlio tribute. There is not a single
essentially dramatio situation iu tho
pieoe, but scvoral of III iooideots are
momentarily euWUi An ocean of
talk oould bo out Owl of it, to great
i advantage.
Aii Ominous Outlook
In South America.
Bubonic Plague Steadily
Spreading and Involu?
tions.
Kingston, Ja. Nov 28 ?Passen?
gers from tbe west coast of ;*outh
America report an ominous outlook
in connection with the spread of the
bubonic plague There seems little
doubt that the epidemic is elowly
but steadily working westward iu
South America
To this dangerous plague is added
tbe general condition of political un
rest iu all the western provinces of
gouth America
Chili ia on tbe eve of a financial
crisis, and possibly of revolution,
wbich has only been postponed, and
not averted, by tbe government's re
duetioo of the issue of forced paper
currency from $50,000,000 to $20,
000,000. In Peru and Bolivia
serious revolutions are going on.
They are disorganizing trade
Ecuador is in a condition of incipient
revolt against tbe dictatorship of
President Eloy Alfsro and a strong
revolutionary movement, directed by
tbe clerical party, and supported by
a majority of the people, is said to
be in course of organization on Peru
vien soil.
Best and Quickest Built.
Columbia, S C, Deo 5 ?W. D
Evans; 8 C Wilborn and C W Gar
ris, tbe stare railroad commission,
accompanied by Superintend*nt P. I
Welles and a party of railroad cffioials
and contractor^, examined the recently
completed link in the Southern's new
Florida line. The commission reported
officially that this was the beet, and
most rapidly constructed piece of new
road built in this state, and iho new
line was declared open for traffic The
special train yesterday ran at a very
high rate of speed to test tbe roadway
After December 9th, the Southern
will discontinue tbe use of the Florida
Central and Peninsular for fast trains,
using tbe new line irstead.
A bill was introduced Wednesday by
Mr Penrose, of Pennsylvania, to poo
sion Mrs Gridley, wife of tbe late Capt
Gridley at (100 per month.
A dispatob from Berlin says that
Count Tolstoi has been seriously ill.
For two days bo was unconscious, but
he is now slightly better, although
great anxiety is still manifested in
Moieow regarding him.
Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 7 ?Pur?
chases of mules in America for tbe
use of tbe British government seems
likely to upset the calculations of
American live atock men. It ia said
orders bavebeeo received to purchase
10,000 more animals. Almost this
number have already been shipped
from southern points.
Augusta, Ga. Deo 7.?Tbe Manufao
turers association which inoludes the
cotton mills in Augusta and those in
B*th and Lingley, S C , have deter?
mined to make a f-ubstantiel increase in
wages on Jan 1 This action is volun?
tary on the part of tbe mill meu and
no: tbn result, of any demand from
operatives.
New York, Deo 0 ?As a result, of
the raa<.} meeting held here Monday ici
the iotsrest of the Tu*ke?oe Norrr.al
a.jd Industrial Institute of Tu?bcgfe,
Ala, a number of gift-1 have het n
mad.', innludiog one from Mr ?od Mrs
C i*. Huntington, who today pave
?50.1)00 t^waru the endowment food of
tuo institute. A conditional labserip?
ticti of ?'25.000 tow.nd the endowment
fund hau also been made by a woman io
tb:> west through Orover Cleveland
New Orleans, Dec 7 ?It ia said a
movement is on foot in this city,
backed by eastern capitalists, to
control the rice industry A circular
letter has teen issued to mill owners,
asking for 90 day options on their
plants. There are 13 mills in New
Orleaus. Those who are interested
in the undertaking decline to give
out details
Charleston, Dec 7 ?The petition
of the Seaboard Air Line for right of
way through certain streets and for
the grant of a large track of unused
city land in tbe extreme western
patt of the city, was granted by city
council tonight. Tbe joint committee
on streets and railroads reported
favorably on tbe petition and it went
through unanimously. The opposi?
tion contented itself with quiet work
on the outside and in the committee
room and with a formal protest to
couucil on the plea of the deteriora?
tion of the property along the route
of the railroad
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AkThouaand Tongues
Could not express tho rapture at Annie E
Springer, of Itt? liowurd M, I hiladelpbia,
Pa., when she found that Dr. King's New Dis?
covery tor Consumption had completely cured
lior of a hacking sough that T"r many years
bad u?aJ?? life a burden. All other remedies
?nd luetora c?>uld give her no help, hut she
lays of thi.? Royal Cure?"il soon removed
the pain in my chest and I can now llsep
soundly* something loan scarcely rensnKer
doing before. I feel like sounding its praises
throughout the I'nivcrse." So will every one
who tries Dr. King's New Discovery for any
troublo of tin Throat, Chest or lungs. Prico
:>i>c and $ 1. Trial bottles free at J. I W.
DeLorme's Drug Store; every bottle gSSatS*
tssd.
Georgia Cane Syrup I
Growing Demand for it North
aod West.
"Georgia syrup has come to be a
standard item in the northern market
and there ia quite a demand for it
There are now agents of Northern
booten through Georgia buying tip
our syruo from the farmers and ship
ping it to northern firms Georgia
eyrup is making quite a repots
Moo at the north It is far better
than the ordinary eyrup of commerce
and is regarded by many people
at the east as equal to maple
syrup ,;
Unfortunately syrup makeis
throughout the country are begin
ning to practice adulteration and try
ing to make their Georgia syrup like
New Orleans syrup or other syrups
on the market. They do not realize
that pure cane syrup, as it comes
from the first boiling on tbe farm, is
just whst the people are learning to
love and that by adulterating it or
reboiling it or changing it in any
, way they are making a different com
modity and spoiling tbe very ad
vantage which they are apt to gain
in the market Georgia eyrup is
being established as an article of
prime merit in the eastern market
It is becoming known in New
Yotk, Philadelphia aod other large
markets as Georgia peaches and
Georgia watermelons are, and it is
gaining an enviable reputation is a
wholesome and delightful articla
There is much difference in the syrup
as it is made on different farm?, but
there is nothing better than well made
ca??e syrup, free frouj adulteration of
any oharae'er. All through Southern
Georgia it is becorniog ao important
factor on tho (arm and io commerce
aod excellent syrup oomcs from
Soriveo, Effioghaui, Builook aud
Emacuel counties. This is no reason
why feu^ar cane may not be as profitably
growo io Burke, Jeffereoo, Washing
too and the other counties around us.
Tnere is more money in suguar cane,
made into good marketable Georgia
syrup, tban there is in cotton. I am
told that they produce from 300 to 500
gallons to the aore. T iking tbe lowest
figure at 25 oeots a gallon, there is
?75 to the aore. Cjtton does net yield
one bale to the aore, and a man oan
make tw;ce as much oo tbe same
ground if he produce a good article of
Georgia eyrup
Tbero is a great outlook for this
industry in Georgia These facts and
figures which Mr Frank Lowe has
given aro not theoretical, but are the
actual experience of the trade There
is so much adulteration of syrup in
New Orieaos and other points where
sjrup is made for market that tbe
people north and east have hailed with
delight the pore Georgia syrop that bas
recently found its way loto that market
If oor farmers will have the good
sense to maintain tbe purity of their
product and ship it to the consumer in
its purity, there is money io the busi
ness for our people ?Agusta Chroni
olo.
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Laurcns Advertiser : The Yan
kees presented the Admiral with a
house already furbished in recogni
zation of his service at Manila
A sweet widow captured the
admiral and they were duly made one
indivisable until death do them divide.
Whereupon the Northern news?
papers and the Yankees who sub?
scribed t ) the house iiiud made a big
howl and crying aloud that they had
bought the house for Dcwey, clamor
ed for their money back It is s
shame and just like tbeYsukees Of j
course tho Admiral had no other use
for trie house except for his darling.
Just the difference between the
Northern Yankee and a Southern
gentlemen t A Yankee rooster
scratches up a tid bit, crows clucks
up the pallets and gulps up the
precious morsel as they reach peck
ing distance but the Southern game
cock scratches up a pearl, calls aroutid
him the the golden plumaged pullets,
and retires while it is appropriat
ed
A Danish engineer has invented a
new phonograph attachment to tele
phones, so that in the absence of the
person for whom telephonic comma
nication is iutended the phonograph
receives it and repeats it at will The
method is entirely different from tbe
system which employs a waxed roller,
a steel band recording the conversa?
tion, and from which the record can
bo wiped off with a cloth.
A letter under date of Aug I, just
received by the father of a Pennsyl?
vania boy serving with the Twelfth
regiment in Manila, contains t^o
interesting passages. One of tb^o
reads as follows : "How sre the
harvest apples back of the barn F
Are they ripe yet ? Great Scott ! if
wo only hsd them down here ; bet
your life they'd taste good 99 His
second contribution to Philippine
literature gives this view of a much
criticised man : "There is a good
deal of dissatisfaction expressed
about Gen Oiis They claim that he
cuts oo ice, lut in my opinion he
shovels the SOO v off the sidewalk all
the same lie htso't got the dash
and brilliancy of Law ton, but is a
cool, careful, levelheaded man who
counts all the justices before he
makes a break."
- -?ana ? ? ?? am ?
Dr M A Stamen*' Live: Medicine
searches out all inpriitits in the system ana1
eipcls thetn harmlenelr by the natural chan?
nels.
What is the Limit?
The iru't problem grows grater
ever day ; the dangers wh.oh (he tru*ts
I are oreaMog and the wealth wh'^b they
are layin? up against iho day of wrath,
increase between the rising acd the
getting of tv ry sun.
The Bpritigleld Republican say* :
MThe ci z"n is reminded of the
tru?ts ?her. v r he goes If the pur
f,haj?e is of woolen elothing for tb??
winter, be tn^r,x an advance of prices,
and is to d of the American woolen
oompaoy nr trust, whioh is still ot.ly io
psrl responsible for the increased cost.
If the purchase is of cotton olotb, tbe
higher price romiods him of the Fall
River cotton manufacturer's combina?
tion under a joint selling agency If
of tinware, be is told that prices are
higher because of tbe tirplate trust, if
of kerosene all, that the 30 per cent,
advanoe in tbe retail price is due to as
large or a larger advance in
tbe wholesale price by tbe Stand?
ard oil trust, wbioh may or may not
have legitimate reasoos for making
tbe ioorease Prices of leather, of
foroitore, of paper, of nearly all
articles of iron and steel manufacture,
of rubber goods, of glassware and
earthenware, of maoy prepared food
stufts, and of a hundred other things
entering into tbe daily ooosuoiptioo of
tbe household, are higher thao they
were, aod in most capes much higher,
and back of eaob of them can be seen
a trust or combination which may not
deserve all tbe blame for tbe increased
r ,s'i of living, but which will be given
all the blame by tbe average citizen.
"The trust is (oucbiog the pockets of
the people to ao extent that arrests the
attention of every person. It commands
or afieots so many iincs of trade and is
apt to be so extortionate in its over?
capitalized demands, that it provokes
and angers tho shopper at every turn.
As matters are now prooeediog it is
bouod to become a vital issue io poli?
tics. Ir. oao hardly be kept out of
politics "
Do tbe men who are engineering tbe
trusts suppose that tbe people of this
country will stand everything?
Are tbey such fools as to believe
that tbey can follow with impunity aod
without limit the instincts of their
gluttonous greed io violation of the
rights of others, of toe common laws
ol trade, of the federal statute and
state laws, which; if properly enforced,
would crub their coosciousless rapa?
city ?
The trusts remind us of a remark of
an elderly oolored preacher to a
"smarty" yooogster who argued with
him that there was no bell. Tbe old
man paid no attention to the reasoning
of the youthful ekeptic, but simply
remarked :
"If you believes dey aio't oo bell,
you jess keep on."?Atlanta Journal.
Our friend Julian Ralph, now
representing the London Mail in
South Africa, in a lettor from Cape
Town draws this picture of the
Citlacders in whose interest all tbe
slaughter and suffering of tbe war
has been undertaken: "It is dis?
gusting to lesve these men (English
officers) and turn into any one of the
Cape Town hotels to find yourself
surrounded by the rich refugees
from Johannesburg, and to hear them
cry like children as they tell
you what the? will lose if
the British do not hurry up and take
the Transvaal before the Boers
destroy Johannesburg They actual*
ly cry in their plates at dinner, and
half f-traiigle themselves by sobbing
as they drink their whiskey at bed
lime The Mount Nelson, the
Queen's and the Grand hotels are all
full of these merchants and million?
aires, faring on the fat of the land,
idle, loafing, all of every day, and
discussing what per cent of their
losses the British government will
pay when they put iu their claims at
tho end of the war " Ralph is a
straight and manly man. and we
believe what he writes It is sicken?
ing to think of the brave men on
each side who are being sacrificed to
the greed of these sordid cowards ?
The State
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To settle tbe stomach aod overcome the
nausea of protective mothers, take Simmons'
Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets.
Pictures?
The most popular pietures
this season are the artistio and
beautiful Platioa prints and Arto
types. Tbe Platioa priots have
all the fidelty to detail of a
photograph as well as the finish
aod artistic value of a steel plate
engraving. The Artotypes are
high olass artist's priots?copies
of famous paiotiogs. We have
a very floe line of pictures iu
handsome frames that we ars
selling at less prices for this
class of work that we have ever
known io Sumter. Our pic?
tures make suitable weddiog
preseots, for nothing is more
acceptable thao one or more
fine pictures.
Wo have recently added this
lioe of pictures to our stock aod
wo invite an inspection of our
piotures. Many Fixes, various
styles of frames, and prioes to
suit.
H. G-. Osteen & Co.