The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 19, 1900, Image 4
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"WEDNESDAY, S<VPT. 19,19??7~
The Sumter ??'atctiman was touodeo.
S 1S50 and the True Southron in 1866.
The Watchman and Southron now has
Ibe combined circulation and influence
of both of ?he old papers, and is mani?
festly the best advertising medium in
Samter.
i ?and io tbe democratic primaries bas
become so frequent that there is a
growing demand fer a reform or the
abolition of the system. For some
years it has been tho custom to speak of
such frauds as "irregularities/' aod to
gloes over the corruption tbat bas crept
in. But at last a great many meo
have grown tired of toe existing abuses
aod are demanding that the primaries
be honestly conducted
The State Board of Education bas
adopted a list of books for use in the
public schools of the State for a period
of five years that is. as a whole, ac?
ceptable to oot a stogie teacher or
school official with whom the writer has
discussed the matter. Better books
than those adopted have been in use in
the schools for years, and the people of
the State have thousand* of dollars
invested io them. The books discard?
ed, have, with the exception of Tar
bells Grammars,given eotire satisfaction
and a large majority of the teachers and
ali of the oounty superintendents of
education recommended that the old list
be readopted [3 the circumstances it is
difneuk to understand tbe reasons im?
pelling the board to make the sweeping
changes. The editorial criticism of the
Greenville News is just and pointed.
The editor of the News, Mr W. H.
Wallace, is one of the best koowo aod
ablest teachers of the State, .aod writ?
ing from a foll knowledge of the subject
his opinion is wcrtby of the fullest
acceptance.
The war io Sooth Africa is praticaily
at ac end. and President Kroger of
the Transvaal aod the members of his
cabinet are eo route to Europe. It is
said tba: a comber of the prominent
meo of the two republics will come to
this co JO try aod become American
.citizens. Eogtaod has carried ber point
-aod cow 0WO8 the gold and diamond
-mines of Sooth Africa, bat the prtoe
she bas paid io blood and money is
excessive. Toe caose of freedom dies
hard, and the Boers made a most gal
lace fight against tbe greatest odds.
Had tbe odds been as great che fate of
tbe tbir?ceo ooionies-in 1776-81 would
have been the same as tbat of the
Transvaal and the Orange Free State
io 1899 1900.
SCENE IN THE PHILIP?
PINES
Thoma? vV. Jone?, private iu
Troop G. 11th Cavalry, U. S V.,
writing from Santa Cruz, Philippine
Island?, to bis brother George Jones,
in ?Vashiogtoo, DC, under date of
June 27, describee a massacre of
Filipinos in which he took part on
Jan?? 25, aod which he relates as
quite tn the line of his ordinary
duties Ile telle hew sixty members
of his regiment were ordered out to
kill or capture a famooe Filipino
genet al, known to be living ia the
neighborhood After some roogh
scooting the general's house was loca
ted and the Americans crawled
through the underbrush until they
secured positions but a fev7 yards
distant Then they discovered that
they had unwittingly chanced upon a
wedding There was a large crowd
pres?;:t to partake in the festivities
Mo*t of them of course, were
womer! and children, but there were
about 75 me? present who were
arcvd The Americans were order?
ed tt) fire a volley from ambush and
then charge ; which they did with
terribie reafttte.
"Trie sc*ne that resulted was nor
ribK'* wtite? Private Jones "On
the ground near the house iay the
body of the bride, whose brains had
been blown out The groom, who
had received a bullet in the stomach,
waa lying near by in a dying condi
tion Twelve of the Filipinos had
been Killed and about the same num?
ber wounded. An elderly womnn
was shot through the leg and a iittie
child had had her arm shot off But,"
adds Private Jones cheerfully, "we
got the old general all right and we
barned the insurgents' quarter before
we left "
This is the kind of imperial civili?
zation this administration is paternal?
ly bringing to the Filipinos ; and
probably Jonee' letter is not an unfair
description of the oort of warfare this
great government is waging against
these far away islanders (whose only
crime is their love of liberty) in
furtherance of "the just responsi?
bilities of our victories io the Span?
ish war."
It may be also remembered that thc
imperial English troops found "good
pig sticking" fo South Africa.
Weekly Crop ?ulletn
j Coiumbia. S. C , Sept 18, 1!
i Tbe first part of the week ?
j 8 a. m , September 17tb, W?
j tremely bot, with maximum ter
j lures of 10? at three points
' latter part was cooler but the
i continues abnormally high
J lowest temperature was 62 at (
i ville.
I The drought was broken by ?
j al rains beginninr on the
j and continuing to .he 16th,
amouute ranging from a haif to
three inches. The rainfall has
the soil into excellent conditic
plowing, aud for sowing oats
turnips, and was beneficial to i
crops, but came to late to b<
corn and cotton. It replen
creeks and streams where c
watered, the supply of stock v
having been scarce in places.
There is no improvement t<
noted in late corn, which in i
places failed to ear ; the corn
as a whole is estimated at less
half an average yield. Some far
are gatheriog and housing their (
Cotton contiuues to open rap
, and nearly all is now open .bu:
j rain will tend to check prems
opening, and to increase the siz
immature bolls. In places the pl
are again blooming, and some re
a small top crop, but generally
top crop is unpromising,
weather favored rapid picking,
about half the cotton is gathe
The raio9 damaged open co
slightly. Correspondents estin
the yield this year at about half
average crop. Sea island ebi
slight improvement, but is bloom
to the top and the plants are di
od.
Peas, sweet potatoes, pastures,
gardens and late rice, which w
very poor, bave begun to impro
Rice harvest is progressing and
places is Dearly finished, exe
for June plantings which will rij
in October. Beans, cabbages, wt
potatoes and other truck are be
planted on the coast truck fai
under favorable conditions The i
and other forage crops will be sh
and are incapaple of being mi
improved. Some oats have b(
sown.
CORRESPONDENTS' REPORT;
Abbeville-Abbeville : A good si
son yesterday (14th) the first siooe Jt
26:b ; ootton will not make more th
half a crop ; oom no good exoept
few field.* of very early plantio|
turnips will not be replanted.
Sondley.
1 Barnwell -Fairfax : Cotton all opi
j and mostly picked out ; a few patoh
j have a small promise of a top crop
there will be but a small fraction of tt
usuai top crop ; sweet potatoes at
sugar caoe need rain ; peavioe b?
being gathered ; peas poor.
Chesterfield-Chesterfield : Aft?
another scorching week, a gentle rai
is now falling ; it will benefit ail minc
crops and pastures, but will injure ope
cotton aud retard picking ; cotto
nearly all open ; sorghum and soga
cane poor, as are all other crops -Ge
W Spencer
Clarendon-Clanodoo : Fine rai
? on 14th, but too late to benefit crop
j -it
I much ; the hay crop will be very snot
in this section ; sugar caoe small
rice suffered severely and is almost
j oomplete failure ; no gardens planted
-RS DesChamps.
! Charleston-Charleston : The loo j
dry spell broken by rain Thursday
evening, being tba first good rain ii
th i-, section since Juoe ; will favoi
\ planting beans and white potatoes
berry and cabbage piants burnt up -
j H M Simonds
: Darlington-Darlington: Cotton pick
j ieg nearly finished ; yield not exceed
j iog two thirds of an average crop net o
I lint, and cotton below an average ; the
j fine rains this week will help peas,
\ potatoes and grass ; also late rice
i cotton has put on new growth aod ii
j
i blooming in places, but too late tc
? mature before Christmas -E 1\
I Mciver.
! Fairfield-Ridgeway : Crop pros
I pents poor ; ootton balf a crop ; core
; not tquai to half a crop ; peas poor ;
j gardens parched ; light showers 14th,
! heavy rain 15th ; turnips not yot up ;
j potatoes suffered from drought ; iate
I corn will not make seed.-E A
j Sessions.
j Florence-Ebenezer : Good rain on
14, 15th, but too late for any crop
except peas and potatoes, whioh were
set late ; all other crops ruined by the
, dry and hot weather ; cotton about half
I gathered, crop extremely short.-J C
Wilson.
Kershaw-Camden : About two
inches of raid on 15:b ; will benefit
peas and potatoes ; colton ccariy a 11
picked ; will be about half a normal
orcp ; corn will bc tess than one fourth
of a norma! crcp -J B Minkie
j Lesiogtoo-Leesvi'te : Plenty of
! rain siuce the 14;b, which villi do peas,
j po?a?ocs and gardens some good, but
! not much, as thsy are too far spent ; a
I stand of turnips u now probable.-A J
j Boatwright
! Marlboro-Beooettsville : Riio on
j the night of the I4:h. firs: in ?hree
I weeks ; cotton all open and half of it
j
picked ; crop very short ; la:e oom,
peas, potatoes and hay crops almost
entire failures ; gardens barren of
vegetables.-T 8 Evans.
Sumter-Ram3ev : A two weeks
drought da maged peas and potatoes ;
some fields are entirely bare of cotton ;
I think the cotton crop will all he
gathered by Ojt 15:h-.Matt G Ram?
sey.
Orangeburg-Bowman : The first
good rain in sis weeks fe 1 i on the 14tb;
too late to bc of any material benefit to
crope ; some field? of corn being gath?
ered yielding about half a crop ; cot:cn
is being rapidly picked, the weather
having been very favorable : first
picking leaves lit?le on the stalk ;
sugar cane cannot make over half a
crop.-B O Evans.
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School Text Books.
The State board of education, after
several meetings and a careful exami?
nation of the books submitted for
their inspection, have concluded their
task of adopticg a list of text, books to
be used in the public schools of South
Carolina for the next five years A
j copy of the list is published io this
issue of The News.
The agitation in behalf of southern
books for southern schools evidently had
its effect oo thc board. Io no other
way is it possible to account for their
adoption of Lee's histories of the
United States. This series is, with
scarcely ao exceptioo, the dullest,
heaviest, least interesting and there
fore the least teachable of all the his?
tories in existence. But it was written
by a southern woman, aod her name is
Lee ; and it is published by a southern
publishing house, wbioh has managed
io soma way to interest a large number
of influential persons in its behalf,
and which bas worked the old soldier
racket for ali it was worth There is
not one practical, capable school teach
er io fifty that would select these
\ histories for teaching children, for the
simple reason that they are not written
in a styie to interest children, or growo
folks cither for that matter. The
writing of history requires special
talent, ja?t as the writing of poetry,
and few possess that talent ; and Mrs
Lee is not numbered amoog rho few
We cannot aooouot for the discard
ing of Maury's geographies, unless if
is in obedience to the new craza for thc
new method of teaching geography.
Some regard Maury'* HS antiquated.
We regard this ceriee as ibo best of al!,
though Frye's is excellent. ..." ita kind
and that is the kind that is in demand
now by most soboolmen. Ic does look
like a pity, though, that a book by >o
distinguished a southern author-the
"pioneer of thc sea"-should have to
give place to a New Eoglaod book
j But if Frye's is the best, that is the
one to have. There should be no sec?
tional lines in school books ; and it is
to be regretted that the board were not
so liberal-minded in selecting histories,
so that they might have adopted real
histories, such as Fiske's or Eggleston's*
Thc grammar we are not familiar
with and therefore have nothing to
say of that ??election. The algebras
aod arithmetics are very good. The
text book oo physiology-a subject
to which much attention is given io
schools now-ia far superior to the
book it replaces The nature readers
evideoee a good idea oo the part of the
board, and is something new and need?
ed in the public schools In short,
with the exception of the histories, the
selection seems to be a good one.
Greer,ville News
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know that Dr. King's New Life Pills, the won
derful Stomach amt Liver Remedy, gives a
splendid appetite, sound digestion and a regu?
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REPOKT OK THE CONDITION OF
; THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
O? SUMTER, S. C..
j At Sumter, io the State of South CnroMoa,
at the close of busires3, Sept 5, 1900.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts, $271,500 02
Overdrafts, secured and unsecuroa 11,130 09
U. S. Bonds to securecirculation, 18,750 00
Premiums on U. S. Bonds 1.500 00
Stock?, securities, etc, 11,510 00
Banking bouse, furniture and fix?
tures, 4,797 09
Other real estate owned, 9.646 31?
Due from National B>-nka (not
Reserve Agents) 3,E22 97
Due from State Backs and
Bankers, 22,999 3 8
Check? find other ca-?h iteae, 3 543 21
Notes of other Nauonil Bmks, 1,000 00
Fractional pa?er currency, nick?
els nnd cents, 109 69
Lawful Money Reserve in Back,
viz:
Specie, 7,115 00
j Lezai-tende-r rotes, l,0?? CO 8 H5 00
I Redemption fur?d with U. S.
? Treas'r (5 per cent cf circula
j tion,) 937 50
Total, $369.101 10
LIABILITIES.
Cipiul ?to?k phil in, 75,000 00
Sarclus'und. 15,000 00
Undivided pr.:fi s, ?ess expenses
and :ax*s"pHid, 10,382 92
j National nsnk no:c3 outstanding 13,750 00
; Di:e ?o other N%ti;,-na: Banks 8.016 43
j Due to State Bank? and Bankers, 140 64
j Ir.Qiviriini rieposits subject to
! check, ?G2 247 60
I Notes and biils rediscounted, 19:b62 51
Total, $369,101 10
State of South Carolina, 1 Q?
County of Sumter, j50
I, R L. EDMUNDS, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly 6wear that the
abo'e statement is true to the teat of my
knowledge and belief.
R. L. EDMUNDS, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before roe this
17th dav cf Sent., ?900.
D. W. CUTTINO, [LS J
Notary Puolic tor S. C.
j Correct-Attest :
RM. WALLACE )
A. J. CHINA, I Directors.
! NEILL O'DONNELL. J
! Sept 19, 1900.
Estate ol' John Martin, Dice'd.
WE WILL apply to the Judne of Probate
of Sumter Lonoty on October 12tb,
190u. for a Final Discbarge as Executors of
aforesaid Estate.
JARKS D MARTIN,
ISAAC M MARTIN,
JOB JACKSON.
Sept 12, 1900-4t
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Havana Segars.
Large line of fine Havana
j Segars.
j
Toilet Articles.
A choice line of Toilet and
! Fancy Goods to which atten?
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superior to any sold South, and
thereby -ave money.
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October IG-o
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? To our Friends and
We have exceeded our
usual effort ? to put before
you this season the mmt
carefully ?eiected stock
of desirable merchandise
that has ever been oiar
pleasure to display to you
over our counters.
We Have Spared no Pains
or Expense in the Selec?
tion of our Stock.
Our buyers have been
in New York during the
whole season
And we can safely promise if you in?
spect our elegant line of Dry Goods, No?
tions, Carpets, Cloaks, Shoes, Clothing,
and Groceries, you will be more than
satisfied and be amply repaid for your
time thus expended.
Watch this space and from time to
time we will quote you prices on new
and desirable articles of merchandise
that will mean big money savers for you.
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Our store will be closed Monday, Sep?
tember 24th. and Wednesday. Octo?
ber 3d
OUR
First Car Load.
To arrive about Septem?
ber 10th or 12th, one
car load
HORSES ATS ii MULES.
Call around and see
them.
H. BARBY.
Sumter, S. C., Sept 7,1900.