The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 09, 1901, Image 3
Protecting His Rascals.
MoKidiw* Refuooo lo Troos
mit Report oo the Cuban
Postal 8te*lage.
Wsshinftoo, Jan t ?The preai
dent today edet a mess go to the
tenets deelhiiof to accede to tbe
request of tbet body made in a reeo
lotion passed too tflh of December
ood addreeted to tbo secretary of
wer, for too trtmtmitttl of tbe Law
too report lo regard to tbo irvegulari
tiee in oowoootioo with too poetal
mYtirt in Oebt Too deed notion ie
eooeldeeed oaoooiloool ood it it
pote'ble ft will create more or loee
sTmoooeioo
Tbo preevdeot'e meeeegessys : MIo
reply to o rooolotioo of tbe eenate of
Deo 19,190t, directing tbe aeeretary
of wer to treases it to tbe eenate tbe
report of Abraham L Lawebe firing
io detail tbo reeolt of bio ioreetiga
tloo eaade ooder tbo direction of tbe
wer C portejoot toto tbo reoeipte end
expewterte of Oebtt foode, tbe
senate lo reformed that for tbe
reasons stotod to tbo sooompenyiog
oommonioetioe from tbe seoretsry of
wer, dated Deo 19, 1990, it io not
deemed oowpetibfe with tbo poblic
lotereot to treeemit tbo report to tbe
senate at tofe fiste99
ROOT'S EXPLANATION
Secretary Root's explanation to
tbo president wet eoocbed in tbe
following loofoofo :
"Tbo deeemeet referred to is t
oosideotiol report of en ioreetigs
tloo modo ooder yoor eotbority for
tbo pospoeo os eetbliog yoo, through
sbie dsptitseoot.lo properly direct the
peoosoolioo of oertolo offtodere
wfoioet tbo lows of Uube
Too pfoesootiooe ere now pending
Wbile tby ere poodieg it ie not, io
my jodgteeet, ooo petiole with tbe
poblic iotorooto toot ibe report sboold
be mode p?bele
"I f lomst o oopy of tbe report
together wftb tbo rooolotioo for yoor
oetioo or iootrootfooe 99
Arribiolng Plutocracy.
Hoe Abrom 8. Hewitt, eon in law
Of tbe lote Abrom 8 Hewitt, de
oooeeed Bryaa. we believe, among
other tbiege, for "arraying masses
of must o latter " Tbet wee before
tbe rltotioe Siooe tbo election,
Mt Hewitt st making some public
odd r esses, along tbe |Brysn line, end
OfJt Bryeeiof Bryan, to our oo ion
Hie moot. rooeet* utterance, at a
oboreb meeting, ie ee follows :
"Sitee 1H40 our oettooal wealth
boo iocreeued flee times es fast ss
oor popolttton. Who shall say that
with tbat wonderful increase In
weeltb there ie oot nteaoe in abun
doe OS to remoee ell tbe misery end
oN tbe rv/t1 conditions among tbe
bomble olospre which ot preeeot ere
Steina end sores oe oor body politic f
Tbo edesece of itduttry which bse
brought os this weeltb beyond the
wild*? 'dresses of avarice bee also
brought'on oooditlons which make it
00 obsolete tea possibility for some
people to lite decent, respectable
flees. ?<
"Tbe rieb have not even begun to
do whet tbo/ oogbt to do Men tbat
1 almost wereOip for tbetr generoeity
ood solioitede in proportion to their
their wealth ibo btlf tbet wee given by
families t geeoratioe ago If there
torn hie tenomeote, these over crowd
od d mi riete, these dark end tool
dwelling pleeee, sod ell tbe attending
misei>a, meet go with industry then
1 would to Ood tbat every industrial
eeotre woold be destroyed, as were
Hod oar end Gomorrah of old, end men
be driveo boob to tbe lend, where
they can et leset hav,. the breezes
end the green graee ami tbe aonebine
and tbo bloo of heaven to look op
to M
In tiisokieg plutocracy we do not
ree ill any epeeck of Bryan's that wee
on i*>rribte as th.a arraignment from
Mr Hewitt?* very rich man indict
leg and eondouiaing men *( his own
eta?? And jet Mr Hewitt, e pre
eomptiv* rleenKwst, did whst h
eond I set floveaber, to keep in
ssot. 'fi th* very forces he now eie
OOSOso In the North \mer1c?n Ke
vir * for December. Lord Charles
Brr*?ford arraigns K ?gliah society
ee o tteo lott^o from top to bottom,
beoto*e of plutocracy, which hae
oorropted beeety. intellect and com
merce It' is) etrenge that eieo who
oot long ago nuusf d Bryan for array?
ing close egamet else* sre just now
engaged io th- same business with
much more lurid srticolatien and
emphasis ?Augusta Chronicle.
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FAILURES LA3T TEAR
Now York, Jan 3 ?There wore
9 913 feilerer with liabilities of
1127.184,70ft and aseels of $60,119,
895 reported to Brsdetreets in 1900,
e gelo of 2.8 per cent in number
over 1349, tod an increase of 6 per
cent or about twice tbe former per
eetttge ;o liabilities but assets only
sqeslUd those of tbe preceding year
Ao ineretoed number of ftiluree io
noted io tbo middle, western, north
western tod oootbern stttee. The
iocretee io tbe south is 8 per osot
At regards litbilltlet, perhaps the
best of tbo statistics, tbe betriest
gaio is io tbe northwest, 63 per ceot,
while tbo middle ststes gain 45 per
cent, tbe southern states 38 per cent
tod wsstero only 1.3 per ceot.
DISAPPOINTED.
WE H?VE BEEN TELLING OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS FOR THE PAST
three months that after January 1st, they would find us in our new store, but that date has
passed and here we are at the same old stand.
We never realized how full of disappointments the world was until we began building?
probably some of you who have had similar experiences can sympathize with us. Our original
contract provided for the completion of the building by Sept. 1st, and finding that impossible,
we determined to move with the opening of the new century, but failure on the part of cdh
tractors to deliver necessary material has forced us to defer the matter for nearly thirty days.
WE HAVE APPOINTED
MONDAY and TUESDAY.
January, 28th and 29th, January
The days we will move, and as we will be obliged to almost suspend business, we ask our
friends to arrange their wants so as not to call on us on these dates We name these two days
because they are the first of the week and in our experience the days on which the least busi?
ness is done. We see nothing to cause further disappointment except the inclemency of the
weather, as all the material necessary to complete the building is on hand, and our contractor
assures us he will be ready.
We have just completed taking stock and find ourselves with more goods on hand than ever
before at this season. This is not due to the fact that our business has been less, but a large
percentage of our stock was contracted for in the Summer, when we expected to dispose of it
from our new store where we would have had better opportunities for doing so. In order to
facilitate our moving and to convert a liberal percentage of our goods into cash which we are
very much in need of, we ofler
OUR ENTIRE STOCK
At Cost At Cost
? ? r ' s ?.
FOR THE NEXT 30 DATS.
Thi? is the greatest opportunity ever
ottered the people of Sumter County
To supply their wants, as we have no old or shop worn goods, but good clean stock, bought
within the last six months and at prices at which they cannot be duplicated today.
O'DONNELL & CO
WORRIED ABOUT THE
ARMY.
Wesiingtoo, Deo 31 ?Seeretery of ;
War H Ml b?d a l"c?u e.mfereoco en'h
Pre ident MeK'oley Jodey, at Vital
?h<?f t?ew>d in detail th* arm* Miuuion
Th? y ?rar* 'Ogoiher over ao boor aod
a h ?l( Sn imnortint ?ae ||k< confer
ere- that the President eent iu wotd
ib*t If eould no* be rlie'urbod ano
?'T?ul Senatora and HeproacntativrH
who hat grow ttrrd w%inn[? left
When Hforelarj Hont departed be wae
eery ono"cnaiunioati?e Beyond saying
that tha Prneident aod be bad gone
over the eotire actuation not ooty in
China and ibe Philippiora, bnt in Cuba
and PwvM Kieo, he declined to oaako
any ate'eoaenr
COTTON 8TATI8TICS.
Liverpool. Jan 4 ?Th?? following
are the weekly cotton statistics :
Total aalea of all kinde 29,000 ;
American 25 000 ; English spinners'
takinga 57 000 j total exports 8,000 j
imports of nil kirds 121.000, Ameri
can 111,000 ; stock of nil kinds 682,
000, American 507*000 ; quantily
afloat all kinds 263,000. American
230,000 ; total salon on speculation
100 ; total aalea to exporters 100.
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The first oergo of Aineno o coal for
Russian warehtp* v?ai *rnr.pcd from
Norfolk Va , let Port Arthur oo Th?rs*
FAMINE IN RUSSIA
St Petersburg. Jan 1 ?A dispatch
received here today from Vladivos
took reports that famine threstens
the Amur and Maritime provinces
The cn pa there are bad, aud the
railways, being almost wholly en
gaged for war purposes, cannot be
used for the transportation of food to
the inhabitants In addition the
prohibition of foreign coastwise trade
has prevented importations into the
threatened provinces The situation
is deplorable and becoming worse.
First Governor of Australia.
Sydney. N S W . Jan 1 ?TL
titrl of II"pftnun was today tworn in
as the 6-Ri governor of the Federated
Australian eolooiet?, amidst soeoes uf
psgesntry auch so never before bsd
heoo attempted in the sntipodos,
8eoren of t bouMMn: n of peoplo partic?
ipated tn the denionHtramu and gen
eral joy marked the oscasioo. The re
f>'Olti<< of the eommontvcalth tsaR in
ISStit'd by th?> Sisssege which
Qietl VlflOrtS pent through the
solosjial neoretsry, Jos Obambsrlaio,
sud rend hy I he K%r\ ftfl Hopetoon:
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Mr G B Allen, division freight!
and peeeenger agent of the Southern
My. at Ulltrloston haa been Hppointed
i aVtMista> i general psseenger sgent of
(that rued veith besdqoarters at St
liOois
Negro Lynched In Wilson
ville, Ala.
Birmingham, AU, Jan 1.?A speoial
la The Age Herald froa> Wilsooftlle,
Ala, ?aye :
Lmie MnAdame, a negro, who oat
and eor-oualy injured J M. Kay at tbie
plaoe Christmae iff, aod who wts
?rroeted in Childereburg yesterday, wae
liken from officers by a mob of 100
men tbia afternoon nod banged foar
mi lei from this plaoe The mob quietly
diverted, and as every man wore a
maok tbore ie oo clue 10 the ideotity of
any of the lynoher*.
Dr Hermann Baer Dead.
Charleatno, Jao 2.?Hermann Baer,
M. D., of this oity, died of apoplexy
tooigbt. He wan in tbe Tint year of
his age Dr Baer wan a oative of Ger
many, ooming to thin oountry in 1848
In bin youtb he was a eobool leaober,
having taught in both tho Preeloo aod
Hampton families Though a Hebrew
by birth ho wae ono of ihr motu prom
Hit tit laymen of (bo Methodist Church
of mit? State He wag for eoveral years
ohaliman of (he ways and means oom
mittoe of tbe oity oounoil
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The qualified voters of Coogaree
township, L'lingmn eouoty, deoided
by n vote of 35 to 0 igainst annexation
to jiioblana oouoty, at a speoial eleotioo
held yenterday.
Anti-Kissing Crusade.
Atlanta Joaroal.
The kissing girl bat* dow aa aotive
and deelared foe in the Demoreit braoeb
of the W C T. ?.
By formal vote, after au exhaustive
disooesion pro aod ooo, the ladies ol
tbat sooiety adopted a radioal aoti kt?8
iog polioy, pledging themselves to put
a stop to promiouous osculation among
young women aod young men, calling
in a policeman if neoessary N >t even
an engaged couple are 10 be cxeapt
"No kissing (eioapt of babies or kin*
folks) for the unmarried" ie tne bard
and last law laid down by theo? foes of
oewwla'iow.
The dieoussion preoeding (be vote on
the question was most illuminating not
to say instructive The question dis?
placed a live discussion on tbe 9allo.
Mrs Aona Hat field, a lady of apparent?
ly wide observation, dealer* d that
' oootar quaffed from red lips was more
fruitful ot oonsequeooe^ than any alco?
holic bevorage ever distilled "
She declared that the young womeo
of today induigtd in a tremendous
amount of kissing und bugging and
added with doep conviction : ''And
tboy like it, too M
"Tbe amount of hugging and kifsiog
that some girls?of our very bot
families, too,??ubtrir to is literally a
menaoe to ur morality,, - i know a
>oung man very w?ll*"vrhi> h)
rarely leaves a girl without kissing her
good nigbt. He say* they not only
f
eagerly aoeede to hit request, bit
several have insisted od being kissed.
Tkso earns the discussion Ooe hope
ful woman aprang to tho .'ore with a
suggestion for a tare preventive
"Let us," the said eloqueotly, "io
struct the yoang mee in the evils ef
kissing."
Bat her bearera bad little faith la
male hamanity. A chorea of voists
cried :
"In-'irco' young men ! Why ihey
like it \"
No specho method was agreed es,
bat it was decided that ail shoald do
'heir utmost to hrcsk ap the kirsiag
habit wherever found. They wtot away
frcm the meeting feeling a profound
tense of their doty toward misguided
escalators and resolved to be start sod
ioesorable in their warfare.
A POETIC VIEW OP IT.
Joftb Wiok, in Baltimore American.
(The Demoren W. C. T. U. of New
York has instituted kao aoti-kissiog
eru8sde as an adjunct to its temper?
as oe work.)
Ob, 8bnu the ruby-tinted lips
With piquant pucker pouted.
B; tbem your best interns are mcit
incontinently routed.
Beware the coy, uplifted cbio,
Wiio dicDple in the center,
unless, wbeo 'tis ?00 late, you'd be
A cooecieDce-struck repenter.
WbeD hluebirxr cbeeks are close to yours,
Beed not their near location,
And manfully cor duct yourself,
Avoidir>g osculation.
'Tib better to avert yoor face
From all tbe lotely mieres
Than to contract the habit of
Acquiring Taried kieees.
No wine has sparkle onto
Tbe eyes tbat cause us trouble,
And dimple* have aliortroeols which
Ouobunble any buofcie
Intemperance is c>ad enough?
A very frightful spectre?
Bat shun, ob, ebon tbe puckered lips
With their delusive oecrar.
Duo & Co.'s Weekly Report.
New York, Jan 4 ?R 6 Dun k
Co 's Weekly Review of Trade to?
morrow will say:
In spite of tbe intetruptions of tbe
holidays end of tbe unusually heavy
annual settlements in all lines of busi
ness, the New Year opens with indi
cation* <tf further progress There is
no Isck of contracts offered at steady
prfces in tbe country's leading indes
try; snd in some deportments of
cotton gocds there is better move?
ment, though speculstioo has depress?
ed the price of the -aw material
Otherwise s decline in wheat is tbe
only noteworthy movement in staples.
It is explained by a reduction in tbe
flour output at Minneapolis, some
mills shutting down, while the foreign
demand at Atlantic seaboard cities ie
not brisk Tbe ordinsry measures
of business continue to make gratify?
ing exhibits.
No alteratioo hae yet occurred in
quotations of iron and steel products,
sod this industry on such e firm fooo
dation tbat most large concerns hare
maintained wages at the old scale, in?
stead of making the reductions anti?
cipated Iron ore prices ere also un?
changed, and no action is now ex?
pected until March, although a lower
rate was looked for early in Jenuery.
Coke is firmly held st Connellsville.
and there ere fewer idle ovens, while
the much diecueeed fell in prices ap?
pears confined to inferior qualities at
outside furnsces Pig irons seile
freely for delivery up to April, snd
there is no indication of weakness
An American company is the low?
est bidder for tbe large bridge et
Sydney harbor, Australia. Tbe pur?
chase of 700 acres near Pittsborg by
a leading steel company indicates
great enlargement of its plsnt Aside
from one redoctio.n of wages at blest
furnsces in tbe M shooing and Shenan
doah valleys, the week's news ie
most enooursging in this, the gresteet
of Americsn industries
The market for textiles has been
featureless, as the holidays, and stock?
taking reduced business to limited
dimensions. Wool has sgsio declin?
ed, making the average of 100 quota?
tions. 19 28 cente
Sales st tbe three chief eastern
msrkets amounted to only 3,121,000
pounds for tbe week, and there is
much unessiness over the statements
of large atocka at the end of the year,
while recent failures have not tended
to improve the tone.
Cotton gooda have not the eame
difficultits to contend with, but en
abnormally <h price for raw mate?
rial acts as . heck on this industry.
Local jobbiu? and retail trade is
brisk iu boots snd shoes, snd many
manufacturers are behind with orders,
yet uneven distribution of business
has left some shops ready to make
concessions. Shipments from Bos?
ton for the week were 8*2,443 esses,
against 91,665 a year ago Sole
leather is purchased freely, but lees
activity in uppers tends to weaken
prices Exports of sole from this
city were heavier in December thtn
in sny previous month lsst year, but
the totsl tor 1900 fell 306,935 sides
bei w 1899. For the first time ie
many weeks there wss some recovery
io hides st Chicsgo
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Powder Mill l-'xploftloit
Removes everything in rigrht; se is diastio
BSiasrsI pills, tut both are mighty dangerous.
Don't dynamite the IstieatS machinery ot* yoar
body with eatomel, erotoa oil at aloes pllla
when '.!r. Klag'? New Life Pills, wh'ch are
gentle :?? a tummcr breeze, ?lo the work See
lastly. Cures, headaches, con>tipation. Only
las, at J K W DeLormc's drug store. 2
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Yale's football team paid out nearly
$1 300 for medical attendance.