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Ck Mtftcbman ima Sou WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, The Sumter Watchman was ti o 1850 and thc True Southron in The Watchman and Southron n> 'he combined circulation and ini af both of the old papers, and is festly the best advertising medi Sa m fer. Weekly Crop Bul le tn Columbia, S. C , A og 14, 19 Tbs temperature averaged oe; degrees botter than usual, for thc anding 8 a. m. Aug 13 : h, and o 10 h maximum temperatures of 1 1U4 prevailed over the whole except the extreme northwestern ?ion. Tbe week was the hottest < season, and the highest tempers aver recorded in August occurred ?amber of points With the exoeption of light, so ad thunder storms in the centra W23tera counties on the 12th, tber an entire absence of rain, and Httl ?o dew during the nights. Dessioa barning winds prevailed the 1 pirtioo The sky W3s generally ol ?ess The high temperature, absence of rain, the drying winds, ?he bright sunshine were condii th?5 w -re extremely damaging t( crops, cbeckiog their growth, wilt barning and withering them. Early cora was too nearly mat to ba mush burt, but late coro U rapidly and ts io a critical candi for lack of moisture. Fodder is drj eu the stalks, many of which have eared, while many of the ears ar tbe milk, and on such the grai sbri voting. The beat and dryness caused coi co shed leaves, bolls and forms frei aod also oaaaed half-grown bolls open Prematuro opening is genet East is more prevalent tbao ben fore, and sea-island continues to bli] and is taking cn little fruit The fi oew bale was marketed on the 6 which compares with previous years follows : 1899, August 4th : I S? August 9ih ; 1S9T, August 2d ; iSi July 2S:h ; 1895, August 20;h ; 1S? Angas: loth Picking bas begun ai number of points, and will soon .general. Tobacco earing is finished. Pe are shedding leaves in places, but co tinue promising gecerally, although seed of raia River rice is doit weil, bs; apUod rice failed material!; Pas:u.-e? and gardens are parched ao boro*. Cioe and sweet potatoes nee rain badly, aod are losing coo di tin rapidly for Uok of it Io places tb hay erop will be short. The need < rain is general and for all oropi Currcpoodeots repnrt the general crt 5o;'otik to be gloomy. CORRESPONDENTS' REPORTS. Georgetown.-Sampit: Hot, dr weather; fodder pulling nearly com pleted, in fine condition; cotton rus! ?ng; rain badly needed -R. W Bailey Berkeley -Cross: Weather ver dry; iafe fodder almost rained; cot ton v/i!l average very good, althougl fruit is not so plentiful white pota toes poor; sweet potatoes will bc short ii drouth continues; garden.1 parched -W K Cross Reilland -Congaree: The weathei is exceedingly bot and dry; no rail thia week; crops are badiy injured - J F Smith Clarendon -Clarendon: No rair this week, very dry; weather very hoi: cotton looks fairly well, but wi! 9oo'? fail il it does not rain; foddei pulliog b?gun; peas doing well, aug*:- cane doing weil; too dry tc plant turnips-R S DesChamps Darlington -Society Hill: Unpre cedcidoc? heat, with no iain, has been very damaging to all field crops 3nd gardens; cotton opening prema tardy, and tae outlook most depre3 sing: cotton picking has begun - Maj J. J Lucas A Mother Tells Kow She Saved Her Little Daughter's Life. 1 aai the mother of eight children aaJ have had a great deal of experience with medicine? Last somme: cy little daughter had the dys? entery io its vroret form. We thought she would die. T tried everything I could think 0 Vat nothing seemed to do ber any good 1 saw ?y aa advertisement in our paper that Chamberlain's Celie, Cholera and Diarrhea Rjaedy wa3 highly recommended and sent ind got a bottle at once. It proved tu be eos of the very best medicines we ever bad to tho boos*. It saved my little daughter's life. I an aaxious for every mother to kDow whai an exceUent medicine it is. Had I kco^r it at 6;3t lt would have saved me a g-Mt deal of anxiety and my little daughter much offering.-Tours truly, Mrs. Geo. F. ?sa "*sj Liberty, R.I. For salo by Dr. A. J. China. Guv's Political and Spiritual Manifesto. ? Mr Editor : We've beeu experi eoeiog strong symptoms of the pre vailing epidemic, eetch for some time past, aud it has now progressed ioto a well developed case and we can hold in no longer and are impelled to announce ourself as a candidate We solemnly engage to abide by the democratic primary ('specially as we can't do another durned thing any W8y) and I'll give bond secured by mortgage of our assets (including backsets) for the faithful performance thereof. We think the executive board should let us in for half price at this date, which we'll pay down io hard, cold, spot cash, (soon's we sell some cotton.) Not being so for? tunate as Walt Whitman we're not i able to appear before those sturdy, brave, intelligent, hightooed, cultur? ed and refined sons of toil-and guns, the one hat, wool-gallus sovereignty We did procure a dratted wheel, a la Walt, and have been broadcasting ourself over a ten acre patch in our efforts to "git there," until there's scarcely a ten inch patch of our whole skin left. Adam's fall was nothin' to those we've had, but then he want running for office. Under these ad verse circumstances we've resolved io issue an address to our beloved constituents and fellow sovereigns and will beg them to closely and critically compare our utterances, sentiments and promises with those of our competitors for office and vote for us accordingly. Fellow citizens : We've set up nights giving the serious and pray erful consideration of our prodigious ly vacuous head to the ponderously I momentous issues which are convul sing our continent from Nadir to Zenith, and from the Wateree Swamp to the Crick Some of these ques tions of mighty import have extended their tentacles over the whole State aud your only protection is to extend your own prehensile organs, the almighty ballot, and grasp them to the best of your ability, and we promise, if elected to office, to grasp any and everything within our reach, so help me. (Applause.) We believe in all men being born free and equal, or as free and equal ss they can-also rich Io regard to wagon tires we're a unit and always have been and expect to die so, un less you prefer us to become some other numerical. If elected we'il enact a law to keep all tires off the sidewalks of roads for the benefit of the poor, while the vehicles and rubber tires cf the rich shall be allowed full privilege of 68me, also present a bili aod pass a nacl requiring all tires to be at least as wide as every man can conveniently afford We believe in good roads and not too long nor sandy nor hilly, also low taxes and exemption of all qualified registered voters from road work and all other objectionable de mands upon them-until after the primary. We believe in reinforcing the chain gang from ali voters op? posed to us and now at large and more qualified to handle a spade tbau a ballot We fully recognize the value and importance of the sheep and egg in? dustry and the mad dog scare and will do all in our power to promote the same consistent with your malien able right to raise and keep as many string bands of yaller mongrel cur tail cur dogs as every man may see fit and can't feed These are our honest campaign sentiments because we're fully alive to the fact that if we tread on your cur-tail dog you'll cur? tail our vote The subject of education is a very serious and a very nice one Educa tiou commenced in the Garden of Eden with two scholars and they skinned mighty close to learning too much in one lesson, and in proof of the mighty progress of education we'd remark that had Adam and Eve been op to dale scholars they'd have toreshed down the tree of life, cleau ed up the garden and every fruit and had enouugh to picnic on outside 'til they couid have raised another crop However, education progressed very rapidly, as evidenced in the case of Jacob who commenced bis mundane career by grabbing his cider twiu brother Esau's heel before he himself had gotten clean into thc world, then grabbed his birth right and held a siech on him ever lhereafter, also euchered his dad in law as beautifully as any up to dater The family of| Jacob is by no means extinct We i veritably believe In racing the grade I of our public schools High grade j lands should bo chosen as sites, the ; houses raised sufficiently high off tho j ground and some or the obi rotten ? shacks razed to the ground Thc teachers should bc raised when not qualified and tho teachers should raise cane and tho hide efl' any ; obstreperous and contumacious schol ! ar. girle excepted The superintend eut should be raised when incompe tent and the qualifications and power 6bould be raised from a figure head to a factor Tho board of cxamiuers | should be raised whenever they palm ! off teachers on either race, who'd better be in tho bull foot class Edu? cation is civilizing, enlightening, elevating, liberalizing, Christianiz ing, therefore v?c strenuously advo cate tho educatiou of tho negro, not making a pretense at it. Whiskey naturally follows ?ducation aod OD this stupendous aod momentous [ aod soul compulsory quotion as to how you shall drink your oom and rad hkker, we are as plastic and ubiquitous as aoy other candidates dares to be Let us know what you wat, t us io bc aod we're it, solid ss beer froth Thc good Lord permitted drinking in ancient times. The most excessive drinking io tbe whole world's history was during the flood, but it wan water sod it killed out the wbcle shebarg except old Noah and bo was Ibo on ?y man spoken of as addicted to strong drink, aod we are free to 'low that among tbe "two of every sort of creep ing things" he managed to smuggle in a kag or two of Oh be joyful jost to promote the eause of temperance, and for bis stomach's ache and oft rimes emergencies such as jawache, earaohc, ! backache, heartache, disappointed afFeo j lions, pip, backsliding, depression of j spirits, old age and tribulations which will oocur so dratted frequently. All civilized nations of thc earth drink their beverages unmolested or restricted by sumptuary laws or drastic measures j Beoigbted Germany, barbarous Franco, ? savage England and the rest of the enlightened and Christian world, save our own hobby horse riding America, may spoil their breath in calm serenity and beatific enjoyment, undisturbed by maudlin, mawkish, howling, poling publio sentiment, so called, whioh is about as honest as it is sincere. The true purpose of drinking-and one that wi il induce some men to drink, or do something equivalent, as long as this weary world phall endure-is the renewed youth and vigor, thc brisk, j cheerful sense of things present and to come, with which, for about half hour, more or less, the dram permeates their systems, and wheu such half hours can be obtained in some mode less baneful to the great sum of man's life, when some substitute is discovered for tbe soul of rye and oom, that will dispense a gentle comforting warmth about thc region of the diaphragm, some liquid joy-dashed with a little spice of impropriety to give it a wild flavor-that will drive tho skeleton from the feast aod paint landscapes oo the brain of mao. Io whioh he may find the sunshine aod the shadow that chased each other over tho billowy fields, the breath of June, tbe oarol of tbe lark, tbe dews of eve, the wealth of sommer and autumns rieh content ai! golden with imprisoned light ; will fire within his blood tbe starlit dawns, the dreamy tawny do.sk9 of many perfeot days; then and not 7til tbeo may yo 3 ply, szziii caret temperance cranks ring oat yoar bells for viotory and cry Eureka ! or any other ouss word you may prefer: Thanks! we'll take oor'n straight. No, no sugar, 00 water Here's hopin'. Gav. Wee Nee, Aug. 13, 1900. Duiisg the civil war, as well as ia our late war wirb Spaio, diarrhoea was -ODO of the most troublesome diseases the army had to contend with. Io tn * ny instances it became cbrooic and the old soldiers still softer from it. Mr David Taylor of Wind Ridge, Greene Co, Pa, is one of these Be uses Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera aod Diarrhoea Remedy aod says be never found anything tbat would give bim such quick relief. It is or sale by A J Cbina. - ? ? - BEGGING FOR WORK. San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug 13 - More than a hundred laborers, with their wives and children, reached this city this morning after two days of weary marching, without food from San Lorenzo, a distance of 27 miles The procession, made np of all shades and conditions, led by a colored woman with an American flag and carrying banners on which were inscribed the words. "Give us work/' marched quietly through the city to the executive mansion, where a halt was made The spokesman then called upon Civil Governor Hunt and explained that the object of the visit was to ask the government to open a road be tween Caguas and San Lorenzo, thus enabling the laboring classes of the district to get a livelihood He pointed out that there was no work of any kind in the district and that j the people were without bread and were suffering Mr Hunter replied (sympathetically j and promised that *he government would do all in its pe r to relieve the situatiou The delegation immediately retired and thc procession left the city an hour after it had entered and began the return journey Orders were promptly issued for work to be begun on the road tomor- ! row and for the employment of as many persons as possible who might apply from the district. A monumeo* to the Catawba indians wh'.? served in tho Confederate army has just been dedicated at Fort Mil!, South Carolina, it was erected by Colonel Samuel E White and Jobu M Sp.-otr, both prominent citizsns. Tbcro wcro co elaborate ceremonies, hat about thirty Indiaos carne up from rhetr reservation, ten miles away, and 1 were entertained by Colonel White, j Afterward Ben Harris, chief of tho i tribe and ono of thc half dczcu full- j bloods surviving, delivered an address. ! Thc monument is a handsome marble shaft, bearing tho figure of an lodiao warrior with drawn bow. On tho sides arc inscriptions telling of thc bravery of the mon in battle, their friendship for tho whites, and tho services of a companv of scouts in tho Confed?ralo army. Good hammocks cheap-better ones for a h.ttlo more-at H. G. Osteen ft Co's. Manchester Items. Dark Corner, August 30. j Mr. Editor ; Crops are buming up from the beat and lack of rain. Fodder pulling i3 weil under way : the fodder locks ripe, but tbe corn is not matured Rain is needed to fill oat late cora Politics are nearly ?9 warm as the weather, though I hare seen but oie caodidate. J. F Ingram, siDce my last letter. Be with Mr L. B. Jenkins paid me a pleasant c*ll last Thursday night. Mr. Editor, I hear that one of your readers wants me to get a new he*d for my letter, and not to say Dark Corner. If be was to ?7e here a while 02 would say, Yes, Sidra was rigbt, for it ia surely a dark correr And he knows now in part that it is a da:k corner or he would not hare spoken as be did wheo poor old Sidra tried to make a talk before the Saartee Baptist association at Wedgefield a few years ago, when he said, Joe is giving them tb9 gospel now, saying it as if te was making game and not ns if be was sorry for ray ignorance. But why ia it a dark corne-r, well, first, becaGse we hare no Wofforditfs, nor Furmanites or any other nea that have had a bout with n Cr.riisia or a Montague, Bailey or Patrick So you see we are dark in education, And, secondly, we are dark financially and are not illumed with I the brilliancy of go'd and silver, as we are. all poor clod hopping farmers who hop the j cloda io th? furrows behind the plough. The candidates fur Ciareodoa county wt:e f> t?reak today at Clarendon (Pinewood). Sidra. A Thousand Tongue? Could not express thc rapture ol Annie E, j Springer, of 1125 Iloward St., Philadelphia j Pa., wbeu she found that Dr. King's New Dis- 1 covery fur Consumption bad completely cured her of a hacking cough that for roany years had made life a burden. All other remedies and doctors could give her no help, but she says of this Royal Cure-<-it soon removed the pain in my chest and I can now sleep soundly, something I can scarcely remember doing before. I feel liko sounding it3 praises throughout tho Universe." So will every on? who tries Dr. King's New Discovery for any trouble of the Throat, Chest ur lungs. Prie? 50c and $1. Trial bottles free at J. I* W. DeLorme's Drug Store ; every bottle gua?an teed. Should Not Be There. Tbe following bas been issued by Col. Wilie Jones of the State Demo? cratic Executive committee: To CouD'y Chairman and Managers of The Democratic Primary Election: Mr. J. H Moorp, who filed his pledge as a caodidate for attorney gene? ral, has withdrawn from the race, leay iog as the only caodidate for tbe posi? tion Hon G Daocan Beilenger Before Mr. Moore's withdrawal bad been received tiokets wi.-h his name printed thereon bad been distributed and could not bc recalled You will, therefore, please inform all voters that no voir will be counted for any other candida-c for attorney general other than G Duncan Belieoger. Tbe name of J H Mooro should be erased by the voter, not by the managers of election or county chairmen. Wilie Jones, Chairman. U. X. Gunter, Secretary. Twenty Years Proof. Tutts Liver Pills keep the bow? els i n natural motion and cleanse the system of all impurities An absolute cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, con? stipation and kindred diseases. "Can't do without them" R. P. Smith, Chilesburg, Va. writes I don't know how I could do without them. I have had Liver disease for over twenty years. Am now entirely cured. Tutt's Liver Pills SURVEYING CtURVEYING and Civil Eng neeriog work nromptly and accuratHv done W. LURING LEE, Cml Eogr. May 23-6 n The L?gst anil M Complete Establishment M Geo, S. Hacker & Son. -MANUFACTURERS UF DOORS. SASH. BUNDS, Moulding & Building Material. office aud Warerooms, King, opposite Can non Street, CHARLESTON, S. C, Purchase our make, which we gu?rante superior to any sold South, and thereby pave mon^y. Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty October 16-0 Bagging and Ties. We have made large contracts for Bag? ging and Ties, and feel that we are in a better position than ever to supply our ? customers in this line. For some years we have been buying largely of second hand Bagging and Ties from mills in the upper part of the State, and fortunately our contracts were made with them this year in the early Spring, or we could not have gotten them-owing to the high price of new goods they were eagerly sought. Some people object to use this class of Bagging because it is a little ragged, but we think that should make but very little difference as the best of it looks pretty tough from sampling very soon after it passes out of the farmers hands. I Based upon the price of new goods there is a saving to the farmers of nearly 5? per cent? By buying that which was used before and why not reap the benefit of it, as it makes no difference in the price of your cotton. We have all grades, and if you don't want the old we will . be glad to sell you the new, but feel that it is our duty to recommend that which will pay you best. Alliance and Grange Clubs would do well to see us before buying. O'DONNELL ? CO. GET A HOME ON EASY TERMS WHILE YOU PAY RENT. See Sarto? "Walsh and take a few si area in the nev Building and Loan Association and in eight years yon viii own a little home. If you are a young man and don't need a home ii ia the very best way for yon to sav* a little "for a rainy day " You pay $1 per month on each share The Association wiil mo 100 months, hence you pay $1C0, at which time jour share will be worth not less than $150 You make S50 on each snare; on what can you do better? The mao who wants to oorrow money will find it greatly to bis interest to go into the Association. Here is a Comparison m Hain Sigurds : Say you want $900-straight inter? est plao at 8 per cent-time 8? years or 100 months : Loan. $ 900 interest S per cent Si years-$.73 600 Total to pay principal and interest, $1,500 Building and Loan Plan. To zet $900 take G shares. Borrow on 6 shares S150 each-$SG6. For this you pay $12 per mooth. Time ?00 months at $12, $1,200 You make by B 4 L. plan, $S0G If you caa borrow at 7 per cent you will save hy B. and L pinn $225, or evpo it you can get it at 6 per cent you will save Si50 ; and the great >.dvmtaue is you pay pnncipai and interest monthly, ?nd for very little core than you now pay tor reot. Shareholders are not restricted to residence io the citv. See me at once. BARTOW WALSH. County Caipaip ieip. rpHK COUNTY Democratic Executive j Cotcmiitee has made the following anointments for County ('an-paign Meeting:? : Privatier Station, Snrurday, Aug. 4th. Wedgefield, Taesday, August 7th. Smithville, Saturday, Augu.-t ll?h. Bishoprillc, Thursday, Augt st 16th. St Cherie?, Saturdny, August iSfh. Lynchburg, Thursday, August 23rd. Su-nter. Saturday, August 25th. All candidates for County Offices must file their pledges iv i t h the County Chairman und p?y the preliminary a:sessment of one dollar on or befnre tr.e 4th d?y of August oexr BY order of the County Democratic Execu? tive Ccminitre?-. JuHN* M. KNIGHT. Coun'v Cbturman. R. W. HUDSON, July 21 cecretarr. PATENTS Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and alt Pat? ent business conducto?? for MODERATE Fees, \ OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U. S. PATENT OFFICE ar.d wc can?fcure patencia lc?s time thi'a iho?Ct remote fiona \Va?-htn~toa. < Send model, draw;n~ or p!:oioM with descrip-i tion. Wc advise, if patentable or r.o?, free of] charge. Our ice not due till patint i? secured. , A PAMPHLET, ** How r<> Obtain Patents," with' cost o? same in the U. S. and foreign countries sent free. Address, i CA. SNOW & CO.: OPP. PATENT OFPICE. WA SH INGTON. D. C. i 1870 1900 STANDS ON ITS IfSBXTS. For catalogue appiy to CCL. JOHN B. PATRICK, Julj I?- Im Anderson, S. C. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTE CAROLINA TEE HS AD OF THE STATE'S ED? UCATIONAL SYSTEM. Three academic courses leading to Degrees. j Professional courses in Law, Medi i cine and Pharmacy. j Summer School for Teaohera. ( Scholarships and I Loans to Needy. i Tnitini. ?fiO ! Free Tdli0D t0 CaD' lUlUUII ?]>UU*) didates for Ministry, j Minister's Sons and ^ Teachers, j 512 students besides 161 in Summer j Scbooi. 38 teachers in the faculty. For catalogues and information ad ' dress j F P. VENABLE, President, j 7 ll Chapel Hill, N. C. SUMTER INSTITUTE For Young JLadies and Girls* j Thc thirty-third scholastic /year opens September 18th. 11900. For circulars and in ] formation, address ! Mrs. L. A. Browne ) or >- Principals j Miss E. E. Cooper, j Sumter, S. C. Aug 8 1801-1900. j SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE COLUMBIA, S. C. A. B , B. S , A. M., LL B , L. I. Courses. Spring Courses free fur Teachers. Fourteen Professors ; 33,000 volumes in library ; ex? cellent laboratories, class rooms, gymnasium infirmary, athletic grounds. Tuition $40, other feei $18, a session : tuition remittedjto needy students Kxpeose9 $135 to $175 a session Certified Pupils from forty-fiTe Ac? credited Schools enter its Freshman Class without examination. Entrance and Normal Scholarship Exami? nations held at every county seat, Friday, July 20, 1000, by County Superintendents. f Next session opens Sept. 26, 1900. For catalogue, address, F. C WOODWARD, President. Jon? $