The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 16, 1901, Image 7
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iii 25 per Cent, Discount Sale. ? i
I - I Just a few words by way of explanation, so that ?the people * ~" ?
? yM ? may understand the full meaning of our Clearance Sales : S yM ?
I 4* I Twice in each year9 January and July, I ^ s
I fur* we hold these Clearance Sales for the i
L!c!c>oUs purpose of closing out the season's stock I
If we carry our heavy-weight Suits and Overcoats over to next Fall, we will
probably have to sell th?m at a loss then, how much better it is to take our loss
now-to get the money out of the goods and invest it in new goods, to keep our
stock clean and fresh; so until FEBRUARY the 1st, we will offer a uniform
Discount of One-fourth off
On all Men's, Boys' and Children's Winter Suits, Overcoats, Trousers and
Woollen Underwear.
?Oto*o*oo*?+ This means a $20 Suit or Overcoat for $15 00 This means a $10 Suit or Overcoat for $7 50 ???c*c*o*o^o
S S This means a $15 Suit or Overcoat for $11 25 This means an $8 Suit or Overcoat for $6 00 ? ?
? T?g 6 This means a $12 Suit or Overcoat for $9 00 This means a $6 Suit or Overcoat for $4 50 ? M ?
? H S This means a $4 Suit or Overcoat for $3 00 This means a $3 Suit of Underwear for $2 25 9 H I
? JH- o This means a $2 Suit of Underwear for $1 50, etc., etc. * o
I - 2 An early selection counts for much, as first comers fare best. It is \ - |
I yM j needless for us to mention that this will be a cash sale; It wouldn't j yM t
% /\m S be business-like to sell goods at a sacrifice and charge them. % / B 5
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D. J. CHANDLER, I Off ?
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MCE TO TAXPAYERS.
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COUNTY TREASURERSUMTERCOUNTY.
SUMTSB, S. C: Sept. 22, 1900.
'VT'OTICE ?9 hereby given that I will be ia
roy office in the County Conrt House
at Sumter frem October 15th to December
31st, 1900 inclusive, for tte collection of
taxes for the fiscal yeer 1900. The levy is as
follows :
For State pnrpcses, 5 mills.
For County purpose?, 3$ mills.
For School i orposee, 3 mills.
Total levy, 11$ mill?.
Also the fol lowie g ppeciai school levies :
School District No. 1, 2 mille.
School District No. 16, 2 mills.
School District No. 18, 2 mills.
School District No. 20, 3 mills.
Mt. Clio, 2 mills
Concord, 2 mills
Privateer, 2 mills.
No. 5, 1 mili.
No 17, 1 mill.
Commutation Road Tax for 1S01 $1 004
payable from Oct. 15th ?900to Feb 1st 1901.
H. L SCARBOROUGH,
Treasurer Sumter Co.
Sept 26-13t
ASK YOUR FRIENDS!
YOU FIND THAT THERE ARE MORE
Caed by people who know a good piano that
aov otber make. Its because Stieflf Pianos
are better and post less tbao others.
Moving, Tuoing end Repairing : Accoo
moda?iog Terms. Catalogue and book of
suggestions cheerfully given.
CHAS. M. STIEFFj
Warerooms, 8 North Liberty Street.
Factory-Block of B. Lafayette Ave.
Aiken and Lanvale streets.
BALTIMORE, MD.
Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests ?hat you eat.
It artificially ? the food and aids
Nature in strengthening and recon?
structing the exhausted digestive or?
gans. It lathe latest discovered digest*
ant and tonic. Ko other preparation
can approach it in efficiency. It in?
stantly relieves and permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
Sick Headache, Gastralgia,Crampsand
all other results of imperfect digestion.
Price 50c. and $1. Large size contains 2H times
smaU size. Book ali about dyspepsia mailediree
Prepared by E. C. Dc WITT & CO., Cblcago.
JSHUGHSON&CO
Land Surveying.
[ WILL GIVE prompt attention to all
calls for surveying aod Dlattire lands.
BANKS H BOYKIN,
Oct 10-o Catchall, S C.
Onion Sets-leading
varieties.
Also assortment of Garden
Seeds.
Havana Segars.
Large line of fine Havana
Segars.
Toilet Articles.
A choice line of Toilet and
Fancy Goods to which atten?
tion is invited at
DeLorme's Drug Store.
Se Largest and 1st Collete
Mitai Ml
Geo. S. Hacker & Son,
-MANUFACTURERS OF
DOORS, SASH. BLINDS,
Moulding & Building
Material.
effie* and Warerooms, King, opposite Can
non Street,
CHARLESTON, S. CU
^a^Pnrchasa our make, which we gu?rante
superior to any sold South, and
thereby ??ave money.
Window and Paney Glass a Specialty
October 16-o
Life and
Fire Insurance.
Call on rn?, at my residence. Liberty
Street, for both Life and . Fire Insu
rance. Only reliable Companies rep?
resented. Phone No 130.
Atidrena ifloses.
Oct 25-0.
* One Sort of Prosperity.
Chicago, Jan 8 -The financial
powers controlling the destinies of
the great railway systems of the
nation* are reported to be planning
one of the biggest economical re?
forms in the history of American rail- j
road operations. The intention is to
dispense with 'the vast army of travel
ling passenger and freight agents
and other officials directly engaged
in the solicitation of bas i o ess
Shoald the plan be carried oat it
means the discbarge of more than
?0,000 men The result will be a
saving annually of millions of dollars
to tbe carrying companies.
The intention of the railroads to
bring about the new reform comes as
a result of the recent big deals
engineered by J. Pierpont Morgan,
James # ^Hiil, John D Rockefeller
and oibers
GREAT RAILROAD PLANS.
New York, Jan 9 -The Mail and
Express say? : Wm K Vanderbilt's
plan for the welding together of tbe
. Union Pacific and Chicago and North
western Railroads, which he conceiv j
ed more than- a year ago, is now
about to be carried out When it is
completed it will be found that the
Vanderbilt have a tree transcon?
tinental line of their own from the
Atlantic to tbe PaeiSc ocean
The original scheme was to lease
the ? Union Pacific to the Northwest?
ern but it is not yet certain whether
this will be done or not. The con
tjol of the former is to be acquired
through the purchase of a majority of
Union Pacific stock, and this is being
done in the open market
The Va oder bil ts already have a
considerable representation in the
Union Pacific directory
. It was reported in Wal i street to?
day that the new Union Pacific alli
ance would be still further enlarged
by the addition of other railroads in
the central west, including the Aiton
and Rock Island.
JAS J HILL'S IDEA.
New York, Jan 9-James J
Hill, in an interview today outlioed
what he and bis associates in the
giant railroad "community of inter?
ests0 are trying to accomplish Ia
stead of a combination of great rail
roads under one system, he said he
was trying to bring about an agree
ment between certain systems of the
northwest by which "friction" would
be prevented, and operated more
economically He denied that he
was here to see J P. Morgan and
John D Rockefeller
The supreme court having taken
ender advisement the question of tbe
relations between the United States
and Porto Rico, President McKinley
has appointed the son of Justice
Harlan of the supreme court, to be
attorney general for the colony of
Porto Rico -Charleston Post
A Roumanian photographer bas
discovered a process by which die
tores can be photographed on the
human skin, and having little pic
tures printed oo.the arms and wrists
is becoming ? fad over there, lt is
said the pictures are quite as good as
those on plates, and that the process
does not injure the skin -Wilming?
ton Star
TEA IMD?STRY IN
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Serong Combination of Capi?
talists to Develop it.
Chrrleston, Jan 9 -The suooessful
experiments o? the (Toned States Com
m?88?ocor of ?griccltare Le Dac.
followed by thc successful plaoting and
manufacture of tea at the Pinehurst
farms, bummerviile, near thia city, bas |
attracted northern capitalists, who will j
go into the business on a large scale
and who expect ro raise 300.000 pounds
annually for the American market.
Col A. C Tyler and Maj R. D Trimbie
of London. Cono, and Baron J A. Von
Brunig, formerly of the German lega?
tion at Washington, are tbe leaders of
the enterprise and leave already boagbt
4,000 acres of pine land along the line
of the Charleston and Savannah railroad,
15 miles from here. Messrs Tyler ?od
Trimble were in camp at Summerville
daring the war with Spain and saw tbe
.access of tea co if are at Pinehurst.
Maj Trimble, will, it is said, be tbe
active head of the company, ft is said
that Dr Shepard has bad chis year twice
as many orders for tea as hs could rill. .
A Company Beins Formed
With $60,000 Capital
Colamb?a, Jan 12.-The tea caltore
industry is at last fairly launched in
South Carolina, and the prophecy of
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
about to be verified. He said then that
he did not see why tea could not he
cultivated in this climate aod on this
soil as wo ll as io foreign coon tries.
Yesterday the first real step was
taken, following up the prediction of
The Associated Press, wheo application
was made to tbe secretary of state for
a charter for the American Tea Grow
ing Company The application sets
forth that it is the purpose of the
oorporator?-Augustas C. Tyler and
Roswell D. Thimble, both of New
London. Coan -to establish ao exten?
sive tea farm at or oear Raotowles. io
Colleton County, on tbe line of the
Cbarlestoo and Savannah Railroad.
They saw that they will do the bnsioees
ol' growing tea. marketing and pelling
it and orber products, and desire to
maintain anywhere in tbis Stare estab?
lishments for the curing, handling and
shipping of this and other produc?s.
Tbe o&pital stock is to be $60,000.
M nob io to be expected from (bi*
experiment, which is one of tbe fir*t of
the Twentieth Cemory in Sooth Caro?
lina
NO MORE ARMY CAN-)
TEEN.
j Washington, Jan 9.-Tho army cao
teen is to be abolished, as the senate to
day by a very decisive vote concurred
in the boase provision relative to tbe
army canteen. Most of the session was j
j accursed by Seoators Tailer nf Colora
j do. Pettigrew of Soutb Dakota, and j
I Batler cf North Carolina, who al! j
opposed the adaption r.f rbc renate ?
comniirif e's amer?me nr. wS?eb j
provided for a coe ri o um cc of the ear, j
teeo.
It seems doubtfu1 wbethca a fioal 7.-jte !
upon fbe army bill will be reached !
before Friday or saturday
CONVICT LABOR.
For many years the question of
how to employ penitentiary convicts
has been a live one in this country,
how to employ them and make them
self supporting and useful at the same
time without putting their labor m
competition with labor outside of the
prisons
Nornh Carolioa has tried to solve
the problem by working them on
State farms, and hiring them out for
railroad construction, which is OD?y a
partial solution, for even in this way
their labor comes somewhat into com?
petition with other labor.
The Star has repeatedly urged that
the best way to employ them is in
road-building, and has illustrated it
by citing Mecklenburg county, where
several thousand miles of admirable
roads a eve been constructed with th e
labor mainly of couoty convicts
This idea is favored in other states,
and is now attracting attention in the
State of New York, where it has
been tried by some of the couutiet
with aa satisfactory results as it has
been in Mecklenburg, in this State
From there the fdea is spreading to
other states as will be seen by the
following, which we clip from the
Cleveland, Ohio, Leader :
"The warden of the Kings county,
N T.. penitentiary has succeed in
arousing interest in a road-building
project which be is advocating, and
if his plans can be carried out a long
step will have been taken in the
direction of the solution of the prob
tem a? to what should be done with
convict labor He proposes that a
highway be constructed from New
York to Buffalo, a distance of more
than 400 miles, and the work be
performed entirely by convicts. He
thinks the road could be completed
ia ten years without expense to the
State, in view of present conditions
"There are several strong argu
mente in favor of road building by
convicts. In the first place, it would
take the convicts out of competition
with free labor in industrial lines.
In the second place, it would give
the prisoners healthful outdoor em
ployment In the third place, it
would devote tbe labor of the con
victs to improvements which would
be of benefit to the people
"iMany of the finest roads in Europe
are constructed and kept in repair by
convict labor, and in view of the con?
stant agitation for good roads, and
also against the leasing of convict
labor to contractors engaged in the
manufacture of goods sold in the
open market in competition with the
products of free labor, there is no
reason why the inauguration of such
a plan in the United States should
not be favored
' Experience has taught that it is
bad policy to maintain convicts in
idleness-bad for the men as well as
costly and extravagant for the State
-and there is no doubt that the giv?
ing of employment in the open air at
road building or similar work would
have a very beneficial reformatory
effect upon a large percentage of the
prisoner?.
We have in rond numbers twelve
hundred penitentiary convicts in this |
State Several hundred ol them are
employed on the farms, others hired j
out Tlie State derives no benefit j
frem their labor, save the reduction ;
it may make in the cost of keeping |
theo) If these convicts, or aa many j
of them as practicable, were put to j
woik upon the public roads, on some j
wei! organized plan, what an admir
able system of roads we could have
in ten or twelve years, and at an
insignificant cost.
There is ao mnch to be said in
favor of this way of employing con?
victs the wonder is that it was not
adopted long ago As developers
and promoters of progress and pros
perity good roads sre the next thing
to railroads, to which they would be?
come valuable tributaries. -Wilming
ton N C Star
NEWS'ITEMS.
Prof Loeb of Chicago University, |
claims be bas discovered a process
by which life can be reversed.
Eight persons lost their lives in a
hotel fire in Minneapolis last Sunday.
The House agr?as to extend the
time for payment of taxes until
March 1.
The ex-governor of MiuneBota beat
the editor of the St. Paul Dispatch,
on account of some political remarks.
The Sitka Indians have adopted the
U. S flsg as their tribal emblem.
The kidnapping of Bass Fraser,
of Atlanta, is not believed by detec?
tives. They think he is oner on a
wild trip.
It is reported that Admiral Cervera
ie very ill near Cadiz.
James J. Corbett will now go on
the vaudeville stage as a talker.
Atlante bas another kidnapping
story, that of a school boy He was
released in a few hours
Depoty Carlin, of Walhalla, was
fired on from ambush near bis resi?
dence a few nights ago. He drove
off the attacking party.
In Greenville and Oconee counties
the retiring sheriffs have been suc?
ceeded by their sous j
It is reported that all the gambling
dens io Colombia have been closed
It is said that Agoioaldo is dead
sgaio. President Wheeler, of the
University of California, claims that he
has beard it from a secret souroo.
James Eada How, though heir to a
million dollars, is said to be a day
laborer at Copville. N C. He lectores
at night to the factory baods on sooial
ooodiriees.
The students of the senior ela?s of
the Georgia School of Technology, who
rebelled against Authority, will not
receive their diplomas until November.
A nine year old boy, named Thomas
Cbide^ter, shot bis sister twice, killing
hfir instantly, near Marictra, Ga, Mon?
day.
Gov ' Bob" Taylor, of Tennessee, is I
eick at Knoxville with an attack of
bronchitis.
Senaror B R Tillman spoke at the
bsoquet cf toe Jacksonian Club of
Ornaba, Neb. Monday night
The Went Point investigation is still
to progress and a large cm on nt of
testimony has been takeo
The "first baby of the century,"
so far reported, was born in Cleve?
land, Ohio, at 12:01 January 1 It
wa? a boy and they have called the
poor little fellow John Century
Thomson
Mr B B Clarke O?N taken charge
of tfie superintendent of education's
office for Kershaw county.
A PniUdelpbia priest was found
(I* *;i a few d;tvs ?go with his pockets
rifh-d
A Wisconsin town h;*s been soid
for $2 800 to satisfy a mortgage.
Felix Cobb, a lawyer and populist
politician of Carroll Coonjy, Ga., has
committed suicide.
The Booz case bas been closed and
all tbe evidence sent to the Secre?
tary of War
lt is said that the subscription
list to Mr Bryan's Commoner fs
growing rapidly, and extra clerks
have had ip be employed.
i A suicide in New York, the other
day, lefc one dollar to pay the gas
j company for the gas he used in tak
? ?ng his departure.
A negro robber attempts to rob a
young lady near tue governor's man
sion in Atlanta, Ga
The senior class of the Georgia
School of Technology may be re
instated
President McKinley is confined to
his room with a case of la grippe.
It is reported that the West Point
court of inquiry will put a stop to the
practice cf hazing at the Academy.
Mrs. Mary ? Weil, the actress
who is suing her husband for divorce,
bas refused an offer of $50,000 to
abandon i be case in coort.
William S Jennings is inaugurated
governor of Florida He is a cousin
of William Jennings Bryan.
The ca se of the Atlantic Coast Line
for undervaluation of property in
North Carolina is still pending. Some
of its officers are expected to be
sa booen ed to give testimony. It is
claimed that the State of North Caro
lina says the property is worth $25,
000,000 while it is assesed for $11,
000,000
Mr J A. Smith of the Charleston
Freight Bureau bas resigned. He
will accept a. place on tbe New
Orleans Bureau.
The board of education and the
board of health of Atlanta seem to
be having trouble over the sanitary
conditions in some of the schools
there
The contest for the office of Judge
of the Seventh Circuit now held by
Judge E'. A Townsend is warming
up Judge Townsend is, of course,
standing for reelection and bis friends
are confident of bis remaining on the
bench A formidable opponent IN
Senator D E Hydrick of Spartan
burg, whose friends say he will win.
Other candidates in the field are Mr
Sanders of Spartanburg, Mr Fergu
son of Laurens and Mr Graydon of
Abbeville
Among 600,000.000 passengers ear?
ned onlj 206 persons lost their lives cn
stpamboar v^sels within the jar?sdio
tion of the United Staro* during the
last fiscal year, of which 44 were pas
seagers ard 162 members of tbe crews.
Duriog ?ho same year there were 383
boiler explosions on land, which killed
298 persons and wounded 456 others.
3 IA number of Italian counterfeitets
have been caught in New York, who
have been placing quite a large
amount of counterfeit money on the
market
The atessage is on the whole a
businesslike, sensible and satisfactory
paper ; lacking in force, as ie natural,
but evidently dedicated by a sincer?
desire for progress and mai ked by
much breadth of thought Tbere are
few things to criticise in it. and m3ny
to approve It offers, as we said at
the beginning, a calm reflection of
tbe peace and prosperity of the State
-The Slate