The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 15, 1900, Image 4
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? $