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MEMORIAL EXERCISES. The largest crowd for yeare was present at the Memorial services he'd at 5 30 o'clock last Thursday afternoon at the cemetery. It can almost be said that the white population tamed oat ea masse to do honor to tbe mern ory of the Confederate dead ot the Sooth, and to decorate the graves of the fallen brave, who lie buried ia Sumter, with gar? lands ct spring flowers. The crowd assembled around the speaker's stand which was erected to the ieft of tbe Confederate soldiers, plot, and facing tbe avenue through tbe cemetery through which the procession of flower girls. Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Veterans, Soos of Confederate Veterans and the Sumter Light Infantry marched irom the cemetery gate. The Fourth Regiment Bind which was stationed near the speaker's stand played a dirge, "Dalore," as the procession marched io and tbe several organizations took their appointed stations. The exercices were opened with prayer by j Dr. J. A Clifton, after which the band ren? dered "Nearer My God to Thee.'' The graves were then decorated by the children and tbe Daughters of tbe Confederacy There was a profusion of flowers and tbe graves were almost covered with them. The orator of the day, Hon. R B Scar? borough, of Conway, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, was introduced by Col. Joho U Knight with a few brief bot appo? site remarks. Mr. Scarborough's address, which appears elsewhere in this paper and speaks for itself nore forcibly and eloquently than tbe writer could speak of it, was beard with the closest attention by the large and symyathetic au? dience. The band followed the address with a "Serenade" by Biesoo, and the Sumter Light Infantry fired the salute. "Taps," were sounded and the exercises were concluded. At the conclusion of the memorial services at the graves of the Confederate dead tbe Sumter Light Infantry marched to the grave of private Dwight H. Dick, who died at Chickamanga while a member of tbe Sumter Light Infantry (Company M, First S. C Regiment. U. S. V. I,) in the sommer of 1898, during the war with Spain, and fired a salute. A Life and Death Fight. Kr W A Hines of Manchester, Ia, writing of his almost miraculous escape from death, says* ..Exposure after measles induced serious lung trouble, which ended in consumption. I had frequent hemorrhagos and coughed night and dav. All my doctors said I must soon die. Then I began to U9e Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption, which completely cured me. I would not be without it even if it cost $5 a bottle. Hundreds have used it on my recom? mendation ?nd all say it never fails to cure throat, cheat and lung tron?les-"' Regular size 50c and $1. Trial bottles frea at J F W De Lorene's drug store. 4 GOOD ROADS ISSUE. Editor ot the Watchman and Southron : Your editorial last week about legislative candidates being called upon to state their position on the sale of the State farms at H&good, and the putting of all able bodied convicts to work on the public roads is time? ly and along right lines. None but the feeble, and boys and women should be em ployed on a farm, and then only in growing vegetables and provision crops for the sup? port of themselves and the other convicts working on the roads. Sarre of the convicts should be employed in making drain tile or brick to replace tbe small bridges which are such a source of ex? pense. One or more SQ cb plants located wbe.*e railroad facilities would give ea3y distribution should be established, and as the ! work progressed more could be added, or those established could be moved to more desirable locations. A small brick or tile making piaot could be moved about more cheaply than the brick or tile could be distributed. Say, make brick or tile for a radius of ten miles and then move to another locality which would not be j over ten miles from the point to be supplied from the last location, and so on. Of course some few points would have to ce left further off, bot it couid be arranged eo that two or three wagon lo*ds could reach tbe*e place3. And where more tba o one or two buodred tbousind brick would be needed the plants could oe well located closer than on a ten mile radias Of course tbe objection will be raised that this will come in competition wit' private enterprise. I do not think it will bold good for at least two reasons: 1st No private enterprise is now engaged io making brick or tile exclusively for road improvement. And 2nd, if they were it would be at a profit, white this system proposes to furnish them at cost ; and at a cost, when properly arranged, cheaper than private enterprise could make them. Permaaeot culverts will have to be pot in some day for it is DOW hard to 6nd durable timber, and every year it is getting scarcer and more expensive. I am in favor of abolishing every form of voluntary and unpaid labor on the roads. Instead of the option of paying a tax or working the roads, I think an eqoitaole ar? rangement could be made by requiring each ablebodied male between 21 and 50 to pay a poll tax of $1 for road purposes, unless he paid a license tax on one or more vebicies, or a property tax oa $1,000 worth of either real estate or personalty. Require & license on every vehicle, graded fr?m a. road curt or ? .bicycle toa tour horse wagoo or log cart, I and a tax on ail property for road purposes j Tae convicts to be fed ?od clothed, and nee- j e?3ary tools to be charged against thc foods j arising from tbe3e eocrces, md the balaoce ? expended ia birtcg work or buying material. ! The aoove looks c?ibe??oue: ?cd like p:l- : ing up :ax?s. 1 do uoi pretend it is a perfect j plan, Dui it is the outline of what eau be : made a perfect system. As tor tsie3, the j heaviest tax we now puy is the t?x ou trans- j portation, levied by bud roads, and from which we get no returns We cannot hare good roads without paying for them. Under j the present system we pay for them but do j not get thecj. You will 6od, though, .Mr I Editor, that very few of our people will ap- . predate the importance of good ro?ds, and j the doing away with convict farmiog, and I the candidate who comes out ?quarely for j this reform wih be ?eft at home, I nm air<nd. E. W. D. ? Pythian Fish Fry. About 40 members of Gamecock Lodge, K j of P., went out tc Scarborough s mill Tues day afternoon of last week on their annual j fish fry. Tee supply of 6sb was somewhat small, ! aud the committee on refreshments patched j oQt the supper with a supplement of SDriig ; chicken Everybody got a bountiful anal, ? and the occa9ioo was most enjoyable. Wbere ; the spring chicken came from ?3 something of : a mystery, aud it 19 wbi3p.=red aoout that ; Bartow Walih ?ad Henry B-troett may br arrested today for ra d;og certain fowl yards io ?be neighborhood of the ctr'! Should this prove true their friend? hop" they may effect a compromise with tnt- in? jured parties. There doesn't appear io oe any doubt of their guiit But it was mighty good coi^ken, ho^-ver obtained. CUBAN RE LS S F cures < oliv-, Neuralgia and Toothache in five minutes. Sour Stomach and Summer Complaints. Price 25c. Sold by Hughson-Ligon Co. School Entertainment. PLEASANT GROVE. S C, May 15. Miss Minnie Tyler, oue of Aiken 8 fair and well accomplished young ladies, who bas successfully taught ecbool fear ye ira io the vicinity of Pleasant Grove, will soon return to ber borne very much encouraged aa an educational worker. Tbe entertainment at Pleasant Gove was a grand success. Tbe earnest endeavors of Miss Tyler aod the bright minds which sbe was swaying afforded an enjoyable evening for not less than three hun? dred meo, women and children Tbe follow? ing is a slight sketch of what the entertain? ment was composed : Recitations, dialogues, drills, dramas and tableaux by the children. Music by Messrs. Thomas, Jacob Keels and Taylor. Addresses by Messrs. Tbos. Bennett, N. C., Thos. McLeod and E1?8 Smith Lynchburg. The writer surely appreciates the interest whicb the Pleasant Grove people manifest in all educational matters. Should they contin? ue the course now pursued the day is not fir distant when Pleasant Grove will produce sums of our most brilliant meo and women. We hope that our sister schools will grasp tbe idea which Pleasaot Grove bas advanced, and that they may unite and form one grand, harmonious throng, by whicb the world will be christianized and enlightened. KATRSNE The secretary of state yesterday chartered a concern wbicb means the coming of an entirely new enterprise to Colombia. It is to be known as tbe Willard Manufacturing Company of Colombia, and its purpose as set forth is to manufacture a general line of ad? hesives, stationers'8 specialties, stamping inks, pads, chemicals and chemical coi poueds aod mixtures. This concern pro? poses to establish a plant on Main Street in this city; it is a compaay which has bad a plant in Norfolk, Va., but wishes to move here under new management. The capital stock is to be $10,000 and tbe directors are Edmond M Wilson, of Mayesvi?e, Somter County ; I L Weathers, F H Weston and Wm Weston, of Columbia. Tbe officers are I L Wither?, president and treasurer ; F H Wes? ton, vice presideot; E M Wilson, secretary. The State, May 16. Meteorological Eecord. The following is a report of observations of the weather taken at Statebnrg, by Dr. W W. Anderson, for tbe 14 days ending Sun? day, May 13, 1900: Temperature. ? I sc 5 5 90 SS S? ?Condition. 30 j 03 1 78 2 82 3 8 i 4] 74 &j 85 6 87 7! 89 Sj 86 9! 82 10} 74 ll 80 12? 87 131 90 63 (6 63 61 54 67 61 62 66 64 50 ?6 73. j S?r ? .00 72. i E .00 72.5? B-vaj 00 sw .03 73. 64. 71. 74. 75 5 76 SW I .00 S i .00 S i -00 s ? .00 sw j .00 73. j sw j .31 62. w j .00 68 W .00 ?8 j 72.fl sw ! .00 I Clear 61 75 51 sw i .00 1 Olear .Cloudy Cloudy Cloudv ?Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear ?Cloudy ?Cloudv Clear Clear ?Partly cloudy. Light raie 02 the 9th wa3 cf some service but the grouod io a day or two was as dry as ever: and rain is now oeeded. Raise Horses. t The Nebraska State Journal cff;r8 a sug- j gestion which may interest some of the farm [ ers in South Carolina. A mao who is wei1 ! qualified to speak on the subject, it says, ex j presses the opinion that every farmer "wot wishes to make money in the next few yeare can do so by raising horses," as there arr fewer such aoimais in the country now that at any time 10 the past 40 years. "Nebras ka," says the Journal, "may safely mark up its wealth several millions on account of tb< increase io prices and the certainty that tb> business of borse-raisiog cannot be ?verdon* for several years." Two agents of ibe British government, it is added, are now in New York seeking 35,000 bead of such stock foi war purposes, and staod a small chance o' getting: even a fraction ot (bal oumoer "Tbe country simply cannot Bupply tbe de maod." This ii good advice, and tbe farmers o' Somter county should be wise and follow it Tbey need horses for their owo use, and they will make money by raising tor borne use 11 they raise none to sell. Properly maoaged t costs little more to raise a colt than it does t> cow, and even a plug horse is worth Bevera: times as much es a cow. Ic does oot pay t< raise plug horses, however, for it costs nc more to raise a blooded horse than a plug Just at this tim-; those who wish to improve j their stock by raising first class stock bav; j an opportunity within their reacb Modoc McEwen, No. 32785, a standard bred trotte: j ot tne best strain of blood in America, o : fi .e size, speedy, tine action, unusuaily bau:- ; Some una superior qualities, is etandiag tte j season in Sum er. AH of bis tet closely rceemble him and ; shoff the di:anguishing marks of thc HH:J . oteionian-Mambrino Mood. Modoc McEwe. . is descended from Harold the sire of Maud S and from HimoletoiMan 10, the ancestors ol , n::.ety five per am of all the Jomou- ironing '? horses ever riised ic America. No bettr. ? ored norse has ever neeo brought into South Carolina, and the man who OWLS one c ; his colts a few years hence wit! consider bia self lucky. May 15-3: Ona More White Enumerator. Editor the Item : In yesterday's Watch min and Southron, among the census e?u iterators for Sumter county is the ?ame ot Juuius A. Rafiield, colored, of sibley. I? s ould ce Juli-jo A. Raffieid, who is not col? ored, but perhaps owes his appointment io 'he authorities thinking be wa3. He has a! ready received his commission. Respectfully, S. te. Raffisld. Sibley, S C., May 10, 19?0 TH S SUMMER SCHOOL Faculty of School to be Held ir; Sumter. The sommer school for leather? -vi'i bi be!d in this citv August 15 to September ll The following faculty tiny been selected t-. conduct tbe school J I) R^sr, of D :r!ir g ? o'), Mi's Fannie McCants, of Columbia M'ss F. L Saunder?, instructor in drawirg *l <*t& CUBAN OIL cures Cuts "**?r^ Burn*, Bruises. Rheuma? tism and So!V<. Prier, 25 cts Soid by Hugbsoo-Ligon Co. Sulzer's Fight For Boer Recognition. BLOCKED BY HENDERSON. Free Ballot Principle Outraged by Republicans. G07EEMMT ST PROCONSULS. Already It Is Bdarin g Bitter Fruit. Shortage Shown In the Caban Post o?ice Department-C. F. Xeely's Fat Haul - $3C,000 Missing - Shocking Revelations of Corruption and Em? bezzlement-Gates and Wall Street. [Special Washington Letter.] Whether Hon. William Sulzer be? beres in the perseverance of the saints I do not know, as I have not explored his religious opinions, but he most cer? tainly believes in persevering In the cause of human liberty. This is dem? onstrated by his persistency endeav? oring to aid the cause of the heroic Boers who are fighting so valiantly for their wives, homes and little children. The recollection of the proceedings of the house on Monday, May 7, will pes? ter the Republicans considerably be? tween now and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, for the all sufficient reason that the Amer? ican people, without regard to race, sex or previous condition, love freedom and sympathize with all people every? where struggling either to achieve it or to retain it after having' got it. I undertake to say without the fear cf successful contradiction that nine tenths of all American citizens have an earnest desire to see the Boers triumph *n their struggle with Great Britain, because the Boers are fighting for the same principle for which our fathers fought during the Revolution - the right to govern themselves, and, what's more, they believe that congress ought to voice authoritatively our sympathy with them. Monday, May 7, Mr. Sulzer under? took to have that very thing done in the house of representatives, but Mr. Sulzer did not succeed in his laudable undertaking. He undertook to have his resolution of sympathy read as a prelude to having it passed. He never j even got it read. General David B. Henderson, speaker, would not permit it and squelched Mr. Sulzer. He did not squelch him at the first effort, but he did it finally. I hereby incorporate an excerpt from Tho Record, verbatim, without addi? tion or subtraction, showing what Messrs. Sulzer and Henderson said, iu order that unbiased readers may form their own opinion as to which of them was right and which was reflecting the will of the American people: Sulzer's Rights Ignored. The journal of Saturday's proceed- ? in gs was road. Mr. Sulzer-Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules for the purpose of passing the following resolution, which I send to the clerk's desk. The Speaker-The gentleman from New York is out of order. The journal has not been approved. Without ob? jection the journal will be considered as approved. [After a pause.] The chair hears none. Other business here intervened, fol? lowing which came the ensuing dia? logue: Mr. Sulzer-Mr. Speaker, I thought I had the floor. The Speaker-The gentleman from New York was not recognized. Mr. Sulzer-I understood that I had the floor and would be recognized as soon as the journal was approved. The Speaker-The gentleman from New York was not recognized, and the chair may as well state that the chair will recognize no gentleman unless he has some knowledge of what is going to bo called up. Mr. ?Sulzer- I would like to have the resolution read. The Speaker-The gentleman has not been recognized. Other business again occupied the house, after which came the following tilt: Mr. Sulzer-Mr. Speaker The Speaker-For what purpose does j tbe gentleman rise? i Mr. Sulzer-I rise for the purpose cf j moving a suspension of tbe rules, this j being suspension day, for the purpose J of passing a resolution sympathizing with the patriotic Boers in their strug? gle to maintain their freedom and inde I pendence. ! The Speaker-The chair declines to ! i recognize the gentleman from New j ; York at this time. Mr. Sulzer-Does the chair refuse to i ? recognize me because - i The Speaker-Tbe gentleman from I New York is out of order. j Mr. Sulzer (continuing)-The speaker j j is opposed to the resolution? The Speaker-The gentleman will j : take his seat; the gentleman is out of j order. Mr. Sulzer-Mr. Speaker, I rise to :i \ pa ri ia m en t a ry inqui ry. The Speaker-The gentlein in will I stale it. .Mr. Sulzer-My parliamentary in? quiry is. Have I no rights en tho Hoor <;f this house as a member to move :? suspension of the rules <>n suspension day? The Speaker-The gentleman :. no making a parliamentary inquiry. Tlie chair must exorcise bis duty to this bouse ?Md recognize members upon matters which th<- chair thinks should be considered. Republican Outrage. Hon. William Thomas Crawford of : North Carolina, Democrat, was ons from his scat in the house last w< and Mr. Richmond Pearson, Repub an, seated in his stead, although Cra ford was as fairly and clearly elec ns was any man who voted to put li out. This was as foul an outrage was ever perpetrated even by a ] publican house, which, as I am fu aware, is putting it strong. My business is to practice law. F itics is with rae only a recreation, my professional work I long sir learned that a fact favorable to 1 side of a case, stated by a witness 1 the opposing side, has much more foi than if stated by one of my own w nesses. Consequently to establish 1 yond all cavil that the Republican n jority did commit a most palpable 01 rage against the principle of a fi ballot and a fair count-of which th falsely vaunt themselves the spec; guardians-I shall call no Democrat witness, but will rely on the eviden of an eminent Republican, thorough conversant with the facts-to wit, Gc ernor Russell of North Carolina. Sui ly even Republicans ought to belie him. Here is what he says: "The truth is," added Governor Rn sell, "Pearson was fairly beaten 1 Mr. Crawford. His real complaint that he did not have votes enoug There are other Republicans in tl state who think as I do about it, amor them Colonel Lusk and Mr. Smather They say that Mr. Crawford ought i want Mr. Pearson to be seated beeam it means a sweep for Crawford ne: November. They think it worse tha that-it means the loss to us of man seats in the legislature. What is tl use of our making the great issue z to honesty in our elections if our ow party should perpetrate such a frau as this? Why, just think of it. Th whole city of Asheville is to be flun in the ditch because a colored ma was arrested for perjury committe during the contest, long after the ele< tion. Why not throw out the whol vote of Buncombe county?" Bearing Bitter Fruit. Government by proconsuls is bearin its natural and inevitable fruit in Cub and elsewhere. That fruit is bitte and nauseating. For a week or tw the papers have been full of the scar dals touching the wonderful and es traordinary allowances to our official in Cuba. The question as to them ha not been definitely settled, whethe these allowances were made with an; shadow of legal authority or wen made as "a military necessity," J phrase which, like the mantle of chari ty, is made fo cover a multitude o sins. The country had scarcely ha< time to catch its breath after thesi startling revelations before the pres: notified us that a high Republican orri cial over there had got down to plaii stealing. His name is Mr. C. F. Neely For a novice he started out strong, a: at his first grab he appears to hav< cabbaged willfully and feloniously some $30,000 of somebody else's money -Uncle Sam's money or the Cubans money. While C. F. Neely will no' be a name for Republican spellbinder: to conjure with this year, it must bi said for Mr. Neely that he took his nerve with him when he went to Cuba I have not been introduced to Mr. Nee ly and have no chance to study his psychological processes at short range but I judge that, seeing other no mort meritorious proconsuls in the enjoy? ment of fat "allowances" on the side, he concluded he would make himsel? an allowance and proceeded to do sc without any unnecessary red tape. That he "allowanced" himself at an inopportune season for the Republican spellbinders i.s patent. He, as a matter of ordinary gratitude to the McHan naites, ought to have postponed feath? ering his nest until after the election, but his impatience hurried him into doing an untimely piece of business. What the poor, benighted Cubans, who fought Spain so long to rid them? selves of Spanish plunderers and thieves, will think of American plun? derers and thieves is a question which ls liable to cause some trouble to Mark Hanna, the apostle of Republican puri? ty and sweetness. The Cubans may kick. Then what? Hitherto I have frequently quoted the Washington Post. As to M-r. Nee? ly, that great organ of goldbuggery, imperialism and high tariff says caus? tically: OPEN* THE HOOKS IN" CUBA! A forrnr-r treasurer of the postoffice ?Vpariment in Cuba has just been arrested on u churre of em? bezzlement of the public funds. The amount specified is $36,000-not enough tu endow a college or erect a monastery, hut quite sufficient for a modest robber ready to rei ire from the madding crowd and Lad a life ol' simple eas;.* and plenty ever after. The story further K'X-s ca to show that the prisoner, a Mr. < '. K. Neely, when arrested, had sonic $0.000 concealed in his trur?. What became of the remaining $30,000. if it b* true that he embezzled that amount, dues, not app.'.tr. No doubt the criminal proceedings will enlighten us, but for that wc must contain our souls in pa? tience. We have already advised the administration to inaugurate an inquiry into our regime in Cuba. This advice was offered in full knowledge of the facts-not all of them, perhaps-and in a pro? found conviction of its imperative importance. Tor months past we lave been hearing sinister nnd abhorrent ru::H.?< from the island. We have been told, on what seemed to he ^ood authority, of profligate and ofttimes corrupt wastefulness in the dispensation <.{ the public funds, lt has not always seemed to us liiat we were called upon to ventilate these scandais, and it happens thus that many of them hau.- been ignored, hut, in our opinion, the time has come for searching, deter mincd and relentless investigation. 'Hie adminis? tration is imperatively required, for in own honor ur; 1 renown, to these disgraceful rumors to the bottom. For our parr, we need no assurance whatsoever. We believe absolutely in the integ? rity and high purpose cf the government, but tf.es? shocking revelations, following <.<. fast upon radi other's heels, rehuir-- explanation; anil it the administration would free its. ! : of shame ario disrepute as we believe it to bs fr. <. in iru'.h- i: j should waste ji ' time in tgrnim: on tue light. , The Ameri. in peop!? ar- :'>:irie.J ii: i li? ir .'.-maml J admin i ?trat ion in nebula* -.;-;.;<:.: ?rid contempt. \ Democratic Ba ft leery. 1 apprehend thai the title <>f that ; !'..>. editorial. '.<>p<-u lin- Books In Cuba!" will cause iii*- cold chills to chas.' <:i<!i othor up and down the spinal columns of the Mcllaunaites, : for "Open th;- Books'" was tin? slogan | of ?!?;:i immortal hemocral Thomas A. j Hendricks of Indiana in ISSI, and it had much <.> do with thc Democratic j victory of that year. "Open the Books lu Cuha.'** will have much to do with the Democratic victory this year. The Post luis rendered Democracy a good service by giving it a tiptop bat tlecry. lr will not do to underrate the force of a happy phrase. Lord Whar? ton always claimed that he whistled King James II out of three kingdoms, and everybody knows what a marvel? ous part a few jingly sentences, some of them well nigh idiotic, cut in the famous campaign of 1S40. But "Open the Books In Cuba!*' is not idiotic. It is full of meat and founded on wisdom. The quicker they are opened the better. In the following words .Senator Hoar tears the jingoes and their fantastic arguments into tatters, or. in ring par? lance, cuts them into ribbons. Why, Mr. President, is it credible that any American statesman, that any American senator, that any intelligent American citizen anywhere two years azo could have been found io affirm that a proceeding like that of thc Paris treaty could give a just and valid title to sovereignty over a people situated as were tito people ot those islands? A title of Spain, originally by conquest, never submitted to nor admitted by thc people of the islands, with frequent insurrections at differ? ent times for centuries, and then thc yoke all thrown off, a constitutional sroverament. schools, colleges, churches, universities, hospitals, town governments, a lezislature, a cabinet, courts, a code of laws and thc whole island occupied and controlled by its people, with the sinzlc excep? tion of one city, with taxes lawfully levied and collected, with an army and the beginning of a navy. And yet the senate, the congress, enacted less than two years ago that the people of Cuba-con? trolling peaceably no part of their island, levying no taxes in any orderly or peaceable way, with no administration of justice, no cabinet-not only of right ought to be, but were, in fact, a free and independent state. I did not give my assent to that declaration of fact. I assented to the doc? trine that they of right ought to bc. But I thought the statement of fact much calculated to embarrass the government of thc United States, if it were bound by that declaration, and it has been practically disregarded by the administra? tion ever since. But thc question nov/ is a very different one. You not only deny that the Fili? pinos are, but you deny that they of right ought to be, free and independent, and you recognize Spain as entitled to sell to you the sovereignty of an island where she was not at the time occu? pying a foot of territory, where her soldiers were held captives by the government of the island, a government to which you had delivered over a large number of Spanish prisoners to bc held as captives. And yet you come here today and say that they not only are not, but they of right ought not, to be free and independent, and when you are pressed you answer us by talking about mountains of iron and nuggets of gold and trade with China. I affirm that you cannot get by conquest, and you cannot get by purchase, according to the modern law of nations, according to the law of nations as accepted and expounded by the United States, sovereignty over a people or title to a ter? ritory of which the power that undertakes to sell it or the power from whom you undertake to wrest it has not the actual possession and do? minion. Under municipal law you cannot buy a horse of which the seller is dispossessed; you cannot buy a foot of land of which he is disseiz? ed; you cannot purchase a lawsuit. Under inter? national law you cannot buy a people from a power that has no actual dominion over them. You cannot buy a war. More than this, you can? not buy a tyrant's claim to subject again an op? pressed people who have achieved their freedom. You cannot buy the liberties of a people from a dispossessed tyrant-liberties they have bravely won for themselves in arms. You cannot buy sovereignty like merchandise and men like sheep. The king of England kept, down to 1S00, the title of duke of Normandy and king of France. Could any other country or all Europe together have bought France of King Ccorge? I wonder what would have happened ii, instead cf acknowledg? ing our independence, any time before the French treaty France had bouzht England out and under? taken to assert her title to the United States. These questions have to be answered, not amid the shouting and applause of u political cam? paign, not in party platforms, not alone in a sin? gle campaign or a single gem va: ?on. They ha ve got to bc answered to history, to the instructed conscience of the civilized world, when the pas? sions and the greed and the ambitions ot a sin? gle generation have gone by and arc cold. And there will be to them but one answer. Gates Goes Free. When the old woman was informed that the cow had eaten the grindstone, she exclaimed. "I told you so:*' I am in her frame of mind. Recently I pre? dicted in these letters that the prosecu? tion against Hon. John W. Gates for cheating, swindling, fleecing and other? wise maltreating other Wall street gamblers would come to naught. That prediction has been fulfilled, a New York judge having liberated Gates. Of course he did. I guess that after the fleeced gamblers had applied arnica to their wounds and had had time to re? flect they concluded that, as Gates had already realized a colossal fortune at their expense, he might, if driven to the wali, take it into his head to give the snap away and thereby prevent them from recouping themselves for losses inflicted upon them by Gates by fleecing tenderfoot operators in that perilous street. So Gates goes free to arrange other coups and to throw oth? er thousands out of employment in or? der that he may pile up a few addition? al millions. I wish to repeat that as between Gates and his Wall street opponents it is a choice betwixt tweedledum and tweedledee. When they abuse each other, it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, but the public has this di? rect interest in having Gates prosecut? ed to the full extent of the law-a bona lille prosecution conducted by a brave, resolute, incorruptible prosecuting at? torney before a fair, capable, incorrupt? ible court might or might not end in his conviction, but would drag to the light of day the inside working of the wire and steel trust, which is neither better nor worse than the rest of the trusts. The trusts must be destroyed, or the bulk of the people will be reduced to the condition ot' Russian serfs or Mex? ican peons, which God forbid! Distorted by Glamour. "What is the honeymoon, pa?*' "Well, the honeymoon is the only J period in a man's life during which he ! considers it funny to come horne and j lind that his dear little wife hasn't dinner ready cn time.'*:-Detroit Free j Press. j <'!?'% or Suggest ion. ''How shall I prove the sincerity of my devotion:" :is!ced tiie young man Who had I-l'en so lung coming to the point that doubt had begun to acct:- ; mulato against bim. "Call tlic parson in as a witness." j suggested the young lady.-Detroit j Free Press. Tbe comptroller general is now ready to begin the disbursement of the pension fonds, and the dippensary profits to the school fond. Mr John R Sfanler, of Batesburg, has given $1,000 to the Columbia Female College THOSE SUPERB TONES Tbftt iostaotly ftrrest yocr attention, that appeal to your mutical 6ense by their sweet? ness, eoine from Yet they're reasonable in price, and compare wifb any in qoality. Catalog for the asking. Repairing and ToDing at moderate prices. Accommodating Terms. Pianos of other makes to snit the most economical. - CHAS. M. STIEFFj Wardrooms, 9 North liberty Street. Factory-Block of E. Lafayette Ave , Aiken and Lanvale streets. BALTIMORE, HD. FOR BEER DISPENSER. SUMTER. S. C., Mey 15, 1900. AN ELECTION FOR BEER DISPENSER io City of Sumter will be held o oJooe lOiD. Applications mnat be sworn to and Sled with County Board of Control at least 20 days before the election aad in accordance with Section 6, of Diepeosary Law. H. C. CUTTINO, Clerk County Board of Control. May 15-3t PATENTS ?Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat' Jent business conducts? for Mc D CUATE FEES, J OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U.S. PATENT CTHCE ?and we can secure patent in less time than ?ose {remote from Washington. ^ , Send modeL drawing or ph oto., with descrip? tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of; [charge. Oar fee not due till patent is secured. , ? A PAMPHLET, ** How to Obcain Patents," with ?cost of same in the U. S. and foreign countries (sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. OPP. PATENT OFFICE. WASHINGTON. D. C. Onion Sets AND Garden Seeds. A supply of Onioo Sets, of choice varieties, and fresh Garden Seeds for the season's planting, now on hand. 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