The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 19, 1900, Image 4
? bt (t?lattlmtaii anb ^outljron.
WKDNI'SDAY, 8o.PT- 19, 1800.
The Sunder Wttrmman was toutideo
? MM and the True Southern in 1866
The Watchman and Southron now baa
the eombtood circulation and influence
if both of the old papers, and in mani?
festly the best advertising medium in
Samtcr.
Fraud in tbe democratic primaries has
become so frequent that there is a
growing demand for a reform or tbe
abolition of tbe system. For some
years il baa been the custom to speak of
saoh freads aa "irregularities," and to
gloss over lbs corruption that bas nrept
it. Bat at last a great maoy men
have grown tired of tne existing abuses
and ars desatadiog that tbe primaries
be booestly eondiioted
Tbs Stats Bosrd of Education bas
adoptsd a list of h.oks for ose io the
poblio sohools of the Ststs for a period
of five years that is, as a whole, so
septabla to Dot a siogle teseber ot
sebool official with whom tbs writer has
discussed tbs saattsr. Better books
than those adopted havs been io uso in
tbs sebools for years, and the people of
tbs Slats bavs thousand* of dollars
invested ia them. The books d-'soard
ed, have, with tbs sxoeptioo of Tar
Veils Grammars,givee entire satisfaotioa
and a large majority of tbe tesohors sod
all of tbs ooooty superintendents of
education recommended that tbe old list
be roadopted Io tbs circumstances it is
dtffiou!' to ooderslsod tbe reasons im?
pelling the board to make tbe sweepiog
ebaogee. Tbe editorial oritiotsm of tbo
Qreeoville News is just aod pointed.
The editor of tbe News, Mr W. H
Wsilaee, i? one of tbs best kaowo aod
sblset teaskers of tbs State, and writ?
ing fross a fall knowledge of the subject
kis opiaiosj is acrtby of tbs fullest
acceptance.
Tbs wsr ia South Africa is pratieally
at ao sad, aod President Kroger of
tbs Transvaal aod tbe members of bis
cabmen ars sa route to Europe It is
said that a oomber of tbs prominent
meo of tbs two republics will ooas to
this ooeetrv aod beoosss American
.eitis-os KogUad bas oerrisd ber point
aod now owas tbs gold aod diamond
ssiese of Sooth Africa, but tbs prioe
sks bas paid io blood and moos? is
exocseivs. Tbs cease of freedom dies
bard, aod tbe B>ers made a most gal
laat flgbt against tbe greatest odds.
Had the edde beeo as grsat tbs fats of
tks tbirteea eolooiee in 1776-81 woald
base beea tbe ssmc as that of tbe
Transvaal aod tbo Oraogs Frss State
io 1899 1900
A SCENE IN THE PHILIP?
PINES
Thomas W. Jones, private in
Troop G. Hth Cavalry, U S V.,
writing from Santa Cruz, Philippine
Islands, to bia brother George Jooes.
in Washington, D 0 , under dste of
Jin ?? tti d'scribes a massacre of
Filipinoa in which he took part on
Jone -5, and which he relates aa
tpitf in the line of bis ordinary
duties Up lolls how sixty members
of bis regiment were ordered out to
kill or capture a famous, Filipino
general, known to be living; in tbe
neighborhood After some rough
aoout?ng the general'a boose was loea
ted aod the Americans orawled
through lie uoderbrush until they
secured positions but a few jarda
distant Then ihey discovered that
they had unwittingly chanced upon a
wedd*ng There waa a large crowd
Crecent to partake in tbe festivities
loat of theai ot course, were
worn -M aod children, but there wero
about 76 men present wbo were
armed The Americans were order?
ed t i Are a volley from ambush and
then ? barge ; which they did with
ternb.e resutte.
"Tne scrip that teeulted was hor
ribK' wiiie* Pri? etc Jones "On
the ground near (be bouse lay tbe
body of the bilde, whose brains bad
been blown out The groom, wbo
bad received a bulb t io the stomach,
waa lying near by in a dying condt
lion Twelve of tbo Filipinoa had
been killed and about the seme num?
ber woonded. An elderly woman
waa shot through the leg and a little
obild had hsd her arm shot off But,"
adds Private Jonea cheerfully, "we
got the old general all right and we
burned the insurgents' quarters before
we left "
Tbia ia the kind of imperial civili?
zation this administration is paternal?
ly brioging Io Ibe Filipinos ; aod
probably Joaoa' letter is not ao unfair
description of tbe sort of warfare this
great government ia waging agaiuat
theae far away islandera ( whose only
crime ia their love of liberty) in
furtberanoa of "the just rcoponsi
bilitiea cf our victories in the Span
wai." fc - _
It may be also remembered that tba
imperial English troopa found "good
pig ttiekiag7' Io Sonth Africa.
Weekly Crop Bulletin.
Columbia. 8 C , Sept 18, 1900
Tbe first part of tbe week ending
Sam, September 17th, was ex
tremely bot, with maximum tempera
lures of 100 at three points The
latter part was cooler but tho heat
continues abnormally high The
lowebt temperature was 02 at Green
Tills.
The drought was broken by gener?
al rains beginning on tbe 13th
and continuing to the 16th, with
amouuts ranging from a half to over
three inches, The rainfall has put
the soil into excellent condition for
plowing, a id for sowing oats and
turnips, and was beneficial to minor
crops, but came to late to benefit
corn acd cotton. It replenished
creeks and streams where cattle
watered, tbe supply of stock water
having been scarce in places
There is no improvement to be
noted in late corn, which in many
places failed to ear ; the corn crop
as a whole is estimated at less than
half an average yield. Some farmers
are gatberiog and housing their corn.
Cotton continues to open rapidly,
aod oearly all is now open but the j
rain will tend to check premature
openiog, and to increase the size of
immature bolls Io places the plants
are again blooming, and some report
a small top crop, but generally tbe
top crop is unpromising Tbe
weather favored rapid picking, and
about half tho cotton is gathered.
Tbe rains damaged open cotton
slightly. Correspondents estimste
tbe yield this year at about half an
average crop. Sea island shows
slight improvement, but is blooming
to the top snd the plants sre dwat
od.
Peaa, aweet potatoes, pastures, fell
gardens and late rice, which were
very poor, have begun to improve
Rice bsrvest is progressing and in
places is nearly finished, except
for Juoe plantings which will ripen
io October. Beans, cabbages, white
potatoea aod other truck are being
planted on the coast track farms
ander favorable cooditions The bsy
snd otbsr forage crops will be short
aod are incapaple of being much
improved. Some oats have been
sowo.
CORRESPONDENTS' REPORTS.
Abbeville?Abbeville : A good sea
too yesterday (14th) the first stooe July
26.0 ; oottoo will oot make more thao
half a crop ; ooro oo good exoept a
few fijld.i of vary early plaotiog ;
turnips will oot bo replaoted.?R
Soodley
B?rowell?Fairfax : Cottoo all opeo
aod mostly picked out ; a few patohe*
have a small promise of a top orop :
there will bo bot a small fraction of too
usual top crop ; sweet potatoes and
sugar oaoe need raiu ; peavioo hay
beiog gathered ; peas poor.
Chesterfield?Chesterfield : After
aaothor soorchiog week, a gectle raiu
is now falling ; it will beruht all minor
orops aod pastures, but will iojure open
oottoo aod retard picking ; cotton
oeariy all opeo ; sorghum aod sogar
oaoe poor, as are all other crops ?Goo
W Speooer
Clareodoo?Clanodoo : Fine raio
oo 14th, but too late to benefit oropa
moob ; tbe hay erop will be very short
io this seotioo ; sogar eaoe small ;
riee suffered severely aod is almost a
complete failure ; oo gardens plaoted.
-KS DesCbamps.
Charleston?Charleston : Tbe loog
dry spell brokeo by raio Thursday
oveoiog, beiog the first good raio io
tbw seotioo aiooe Juno ; will favor
plaotiog beaos aod white potatoea ;
berry aod cabbage plants burnt up ?
H M Simonds
Darliogtoo?Darliogtoo: Cotton piek
tog oearly finished ; yiold not exceed
iog two thirds of ao average erop oet of
lint, aod oottoo below ao average ; tbe
floe raios this week will help peas,
potatooa aod gras** ; also late rioe ;
oottoo has put on new growth aod is
blooming io plaoes, but too late to
mature before Christmas ?E R
Molvor.
Fair field -Ridgo way : Crop pros
peota poor ; oottoo half a crop ; ooro
oot equal to half a erop ; peas poor ;
gardens parebed ; light showers 14th,
heavy raio 15tb ; turnips oot yot up ;
potatoes suffered from drought ; late
ooro will oot make seed.?E A
Sessions
Floreoee?Ebeoeior : Good rain on
14, 15th, bat too late for any erop
exeept peas aod potatoes, whieh were
tot late ; all otbor crops roioed by the
dry aod hot weather ; oottoo about half
gathered, erop extremely short.?J C
Wilaoo
Kcrshaw?Camdeo : About two
ioohes of rain on 15:h ; will benefit
peas and potatoes ; cotton ooariy all
pickod ; will bo about half a normal
orop ; corn will ho loss than ono fourth
of a normal crop ?J B Iii ekle
Lexington? Lecsville : Plenty of
rain siuoo the 14;b, whiob will do peae,
potatoes and gardens some good, but
u )' muoh, as they are too far spent, ; a
stand of luroip9 is now probable. ? A J
Boat wright
Marlboro?Beoncttsvillc : Rain oo
the night of the 14th, first in three
weeks ; cotton all open and half of it
picked ; orop very short ; late ooro,
peas, potatoes and hay crops almost
entire failures ; gardeos barren of
vegetables.?T S Evans.
Sumter?Ramsey : A two weeks
drought damaged peas and potatoes ;
some fields are entirely bare of oottoo ;
I think the oottun crop will all be
gathered by On 15.h?Matt G Ram?
sey.
Orangebarg?Bowman : Tho first
good raio in six weeks fell oo the 14th;
too late to bo of any material benefit to
orops ; some fields of corn being gath?
ered yielding about half a orop ; cotton
is being rapidly picked, the weather
haviog been very favorable ; first
picking loaves little on the stalk ;
sugar oanc cauoot mako over bait a
orop.?B 0 Evans.
School Text Books.
The State board of eduoatioo, after
several meetings and a careful exami?
nation of the books submitted for
their inspection, have coooluded their
task of adoptiog a list of text, book* to
be used io the pubiio schools of South
Carolina for tho next five years A
oopy of tho list is published io this
issue of The News
The agitatioo in behalf of southoro
books for southern sobools evidently had
its effect oo the board lo oo other
way is it possible to aooouot for their
adoptioo of Leo's histories of the
Uoitod States. This series is, with
poarocly ao exception, the dullest,
heaviest, least interesting and there
fore the least teachable of all the his?
tories io existence. But it was written
by a southern woman, aod her oame is
Lee ; aod it is published by a southern
publishing bouse, whiob has maoaged
io some way to interest a large oumbor
of influential persons in its behalf,
aod which has worked the old soldier
raoket for all it was worth There is
oot ooo praotioal, capable school teaob
or io fifty that would select these
histories for teaobiog children, for the
simple reason that they are oot writteo
io a style to interest children, or grown
folks either for that matter The
writing of history requires special
taleot, ja?t as the writing of poetry,
aod few poasess that taleot ; aod Mrs
Leo is not cambered among the few
We cannot aooouot for the discard
iog of Maury's geographies, unless it
is io obedience to the oew oraxa for the
new method of teaobiog geography.
Some regard Maory's as aotiquated.
We regard this eerie? as the best of all,
though Frye's is exoollcut, of its kind?
and that is the kind that is in demand
now by most soboolmco. It doe* look
like a pity, though, that a book by ?o
distinguished a southern author?tbe
"pioneer of the 6ea"?should have to
give place to a New Eoglaod book
But if Frye's is the best, that is tbo
ooo to have. There should be oo sec?
tional lines io school books ; aod it is
to be regretted that the board were oot
so liberal-minded in selecting histories,
so that tbey might have adopted real
histories, snob as Fiske's or Egglestoo's *
Tbc grammar we are oot familiar
with and therefore have ootbiog to
say of that seleotioo. The algebras
aod arithmetics are very good Tbe
text book oo physiology?a eubjeot
to whiob muoh attention is givon io
schools oow?is far superior to tbe
book it replaces Tbe nature readers
ovideoee a good idea oo the part of tho
board, aod is somethiog oew aod need?
ed io tbe public sobools Io short,
with the exception of the histories, the
seleotioo seems to bo a good ooe.?
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
O? SUMTER, S. 0.,
At Suooter, in the State of South Caro'ina,
at tbe close of busiress, Sept 5, 1900.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts, $271,550 02
Overdrafts, secured and unsecuroa 1 1,130 03
TJ. S. Bood9 to securecirculatiuo, 1 8,750 00
Premiums on U. S. Bonds 1.500 0U
Stock?, securities, etc, 11,510 00
Banking house, furnnureand fix?
tures, 4,797 09
Other real estate owned, 9.646 3*
Due from National B> nka (not
Reserve Agents) 3,622 97
Due from State Backs and
Bankere, 22,399 18
Checke and other ca*h itoie, 3 643 21
Notes of other Nattooal Binks, 1,000 00
Fractr nul pa^er curreocy, niclc
els and cents, 1G9 63
Lawful Money Reeer?e in Bnnk,
viz:
Specie, 7,1 If. 00
Legal-tender notra, 1,000 CO 8 111? 00
Redemption fund with U. S.
Treas'r (5 per cent of circula?
tion,) 937 50
Total, $363,101 10
LIABILITIES.
Capital ftock paid in, 7^,000 00
Rorcloi (uud, 15,000 oo
Undivided prcfi s, less eiptnses
and iax*s p*id, 10,282 92
National t?aok noifa outstanding 18,75? 00
Due ?o otber N*tiuDai Banks 8,016 43
Due to State Banks and Bnt.kere, 140 61
Individutl deposits sutject to
check, 102 247 6)
Nous and bills rediscounted, 79,543 51
Total, $369,101 10
State of South Carolina, 1 ^?
County of SunMer, j3a'
I, R L. EDMUNDS, Cashier of the above
nuined bank, do solemnly swear that tbe
abore statement is true tu tbe test of my
knowledge and belief.
R. L. EDMUNDS, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
17th day of Sept , 1900.
D. W. tUTTINO, [l s J
Notary Puohc tor S. C.
Correct?Attest:
R M WALLACE, )
A. J. CHINA, [ Directors.
NRILL O'DONNELL, J
Sept 19, 1900.
Estate of John Martin, Dece'd.
WE WILL apply to the Judtte of Probate
of Sumter conoiy on October 12tb,
190o, for a Final Discbarge as Kiecutora of
aforesaid E*ute.
JAEKS I) MARTIN,
ISAAC M MARTIN,
JOB JACKSON.
Sept 12, 1900?41
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OUR
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