The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 20, 1901, Image 4
?icjBitan .ana ^M%mi
i$%i?-t., *4* 20 i901.
S?m?er rtafc&man was toundeo
* and the True Southron in 1866.
ifc&man and Southron now has
ibined .circulation aad influence
of tue old papers, and is mam?
ie best advertising medium in
k*L*fc Thoma?, of North Caro
0,0. fa mt present spending seve
??ha^witb ?is son, Mr F E
--s??o? ?Wedgefield, io tbis eoooty
ided. trrfili io bis time by acting
?ett8? collecting agent for the
S^otoroo.
Taemas is an old time gentleman
i!ea&|Qg , manners and ba?; bari
xg$?$j|ce io ?he line of w rk bp
j A? io lian d for UR We rhink
1 be able to make hi calls pleas
:4U.jfrt09ds &9 well as agreeable
eotrtB^cd bim to our friend* and
< generally and a*k them to help
?ogk and also to be on the look
bis
8&<ff0?&'OF GOLD
?16
a .
00
th?
e annual loas of gold ie v ry
The&mouot of go d currency
natty by wear and rear a>coe io
cable ^ Mef?ol?ooh estima' ?. ir.*'
hamb^ro'..J u-nal . a? IJ- ner
?he total amount io cir u.. i ?o
: 600 for gold aod siive
Cl Qj tb!8 Oasts lt ma y b*
ed f1ia& the snocal loas ?bi- b
MafcSSvplace in 9**"* ?J>n* by
"od fear is 5 abou- ?4 OOO JOO
- foot io many orb*-* *av% vat<>
i es .are r hoard ed ( specially io
oottnttie ) *rd a ?arge propor
f .(bis?is frUb3,.(|aeotly lost .at.
.i>?,^e;^Ji?ptHy of treasnre
*nie& carnes to ?be sarfaee eArery
o^titijt.probably represents ba
part of that w iub bad beet
ied, aod every ship wt oh f??nb
sea takes.,e> cer-ein amount of
fte it, wwieb may am?'not any
frofB,a f<*w.pnu&ds to million ?, if :
..eoe to be jadea with the pree;/>u?
Tba. .?inp ant of gold n qa red 1
My .is ,||te arts is estimated at *
00,00$, and as this caloola ion ,
>de a f^w years ?go. whpn the
prodaotioo was ab ?a ?24.000 *
follows that the amoQui used io \
*y t^aboc: double that wbiob is
a currency " *
AS?8FLVX OF GOLD.
?-. f .8 .B -iSbalef, a coted geologist
of B irvardv5i?iver6ity, predicts that
tber ?iii ba EU influx of gold wi? hie
the next foi if veers wo tob is likely to
prodo?e ?psisfiB economic complications
He bs?ea ..bria statement on the recent
improvements.to mine dredges, which
make it possible to work thousands of
squar atlee of gold bearing territory
which cannot oow be profitably mioed.
Fro- 8ha4cr#ieotoring on the subject a
-week ?woe, &dd that, according 'o hts ?
-estiaoat?e^ there are from 4,000 to
'6,000 ^aare miles of alluvial plains in
Amenoa wbioo will bear vast quanti?
fies or gold ,uoder the new dredging
. ?ys?etu. And be stated that it was prac
tios iy oersato tba: the quantity of gold
ic .lbj world .would be quadrupled
within ina .oext forty years The
quality'would, be said, b3 increased
eenfuid wete.it oot for the fact tbat the
price ot labor will advance with the
increase of gold and m?k? the working
of tb? rook beds and u.ore expensive
mine* impossible. Professor Sohier
stated toot there is $30,000,000,000
worth of gold to be taken from (be
earth ?tibio Hb e next ceo ra ry. Silver,
be believes, will ultimately come to
express io'eroariooa? value, AS it is
buried not io alluvial plato*, but deep
dowo io 'be earth, where it can only
b3 e4 a. a giveo rate.
Semarftftblo Coxes for mieumatism,
Fror? the Y"to&cntor, Rutherford too, S. C
The editor pf ?5? Viod:C?.tor baa bad occa?
sion to tee* ?e iSLz&cy of Cbamoeritin'B
Pato B?l'? tet e With tte meet remarkable
resold ia each Case First, arh rbecma ism
io the shoulder icom which he suffered excru?
ciating pa.i '? fap jL'O dais, which waa relieved
with two ?ppbeationa of Paio Balm, roboiog
the -^artf *f8 c<ed and rea'izins instant bfne
fit. fti?d ??ritue **iie? io a vrry abort titae.
Second, io -fceaa-atiam io tbijb joiot, almost
pxostra ?? i?*'n wi"? severe pain, wbicb wi s
relieved bj ,t?o applications, rubfciog ri;h
the iioiui?fit oe <<e;inog at oigbt, and getting
ap ?'ree froo -pain. For sale by Dr A J
China.
TREASURER OF CUBA.
I !
Washtngt^o^ March 18 -Io accord - !
ance with President McKinley's rctieot ;
order that (tte treasurer ef Cuba should j
be a cit?ec fit that island, Gov Geo
Wood today $abied to the war depart?
ment that ltd bad appointed Carlos
Bolos jw tmscrer of Cuba. Mr Roles
bas previously beeo connected with the
fiscal beauott* ted is considered well
qoaliSed for Mt MD portant pott. iJec
retsry-Boov &w ooofiroed the appoint
aWftt
Piugrt? of ih? N-^n.
BOOKER WASHINGTON
TALKS OF HIS WORK
Before Armstrong Association
in New Yoik City.
;-N*w r-rk, March 18-The Arro,
strong association held a roeenot: to
night in the Msdisoo Sqaare Garden
concert ball IM objeet wss to ciscos*
negro edooa?on sod to raise food* tor
he Tuskegee Normal ?od Industrial
Institute, Taskrgee, Ala. So great
?ere the crowd shat mao? were arable
to gaio admission aitb ogb the hall
wii? p oked e?eo to the aides. Ote*
fi h. perhaps, of those present were
colored.
Marris K Jessop president of the
Chamber of Commerce presided
Am og the speaker were B ?bop
Pother, B>oker T Wastnogton, presi
deot of the Ta.-kf gee iostitote, soa Wm
fi Baldwin.
Mr Baldwin, who is one of the
fi social committee of tbe Tuskegee
io* i Qte. paid a mba e to tbe tmciency
ot the iosti ce
B ? k--r T Washington on lined th?
work of rbe Tuskegee iouti ate and
made an earnest plea for money for
cirros txpenses and for ao endowment
of at least $5)00 OOO Two hundred
and twenty ?ve thou-and of tbe en?
dowment he seid, had already oeen
secured. '
B-ok?*r T. Washington said in part :
*'S'srtiog with one teacher and 30
indents w? h no property, the iostitn
?too at Ta kegee now bas an average
?tendance of 1 093 stodeots and a
;otal enrollment ot 1 231. represan ting
27 states, Africa, Porto R?co, Coba
tad Jamaica There are 88 officers ,
ind teachers employed. Graduates and |
lodergradaates to tbe number of 3,000 ,
.re doing most valuable work all over
ibo sooth at; industrial leaders, teaohere,
?to. Twenty eight industries are io j
lonatant operation and they are indus
ries at which our men and women find ,
mmediale employment as soon as they
eave our iostitutioo. Sioce 85 per i
tent of our people io the golf States
ive by agriculture io some form, we
nake agriculture largely the basie of
?or traioiog. Using agriculture as a {
ooodatioa we mast gradaste teacbers ;
>f oar race to dj well the things which
heir hands find immediately about j
hem, asiog this as a stepping stone to (
that the world calis higher and more ?
mportant things. Usefulness in tbe
lighest degree will ooostitute our ,
.realest protection and secure cur ?
lighest elevation. The property of tbe
nstitutioc is now valued at $300,000 \
.od includes 2.267 acres of laud and ,
12 buildings, counting large and small, ,
)y the student labor.
"Our greatest need at the preseot
itne is in two directions First, mooey
for current expenses. Our annual
mrrent espenee aooouuc is about $30.
)00 Seooodty, au endowment fund of
it least {500.000. We have secured
:owards this amount {225,000
"Despite the discouraging remarks
}f?en made of tbe negro, my daily con
tact with che race for 20 years in the
black belt of tbe south leads mo to
testify without hesitation that tbe ra?e
is making slow but oonstaot progress
At tbe Tuskegee negro conference a
f-w weeks ago a careful investigation
showed that over one third of tbe near
ly 2.000 persons who attended that
meeting now owo their own homes and
bare ceased mortgaging their crops.
In the State of Virginia, where the
race has he.d the direct benefit of the
work of the Hampton institute for 30
years, the official records at Richmond
show that the oolored people own one
tweoty sixth of the land of Virginia ;
where the race has had the direct benefit
eas. of the Bloc Ridge they owo one
tenth of the land in 25 eoooties, ooe
half of the laod to Middlesex coon
tj, one sixth of the land io Hanover
ooo&ty and oas third io Charles City
eoanty.
**ln Georgia the ffisial records ?bow
that they own 1 675 OOO asres *nd are
paying taies on {14,0l'0,000 worth of
property In tbat S'ate they are
adding to their property at tb* rate of
{399.000 annual y This, H Seenas to
me, is pretty good for a rsce fh*t start
eo* in completa poverty s^m"thine ov- r
35 years ago More a-d more we
soould learn to judge the race by us
best, types rather than by it?? worst
types
"We may not bold so many eol?tica!
?fa?es as we did in former y-<ars ba
we bold more farmers' io*?titores and
h^ve organ zed more agricultural fairs
We may not have so many meo in thc
S-ate legislatures bat more of as own
homes aod are paying taz^s Wt may
ont have so many meo in congress as
formeriy, bat we have ba it morp
industrial schools ai d have organiz a
mere savings backs
*. Within the last two years ? h*v
been in<o all of the Southern S^es
except two, - and have made a careful
examination into the hf? of our p-ople
10 city and ia ci ootry V\ heri-v- r I
went, I asked this qa stiou of bo-n
white and black people : H w is tee
negro who owns property is a tuxpay
er, p?sese education and a man . f
high moral obarao er, treated ny the
white race?7 And almost without
exception the answer came trom bmb
races that such ao iadividual is m re
highly regarded than is true of toe
average poverty stri -ken man So long
as ibis is true I shall have the gr?aje*f
faith in the solution of this prooiem
through the methods that Tu*segee
and other institutions are pursuing
"In my mind this is the greatest
problem tbat is before oar cation. We
should no longer depend tor its solution
upon the mere receiving a f^w pennies
by the passing around of the bat.
Those of wealth and influence should
take hold of it in a generous manne .
The white south in its poverty is not
able alone to bear the burden. There
never was such an opportunity for tbe
lifting op of an entire race through
money properly nsed as is presented 1?
.be case of nearly 9,000 OOO black men
it the south Perhaps no ringle agency
has done more 10 the guidance and
stimuiatioo oi negro education at tbe
louth during the last 20 years than the
John F. Slater fond, wbicb bas been so
used as to emphasize the importance of
industrial foundation for the race
'Let me give you an example of the
highest type of generosity and breadth
?>{ action A few days ago a black man
in Alabama who speot the greater
portion of his life in slavery, who eac
oeitber read nor write, found after he
bad sold bis crop that be bad a surplus
of $75. Oat of this $75 be contri?
buted {10 towards the expenses of a
whito school in bis community and
gave {10 additional to our sobooi in
Tuskegee. I pray God that there may
be thousands of men aod womeo
throughout the country who will imitate
the example of the ex slave.
''Whatever else may happen, the
negro throughout the country is deter?
mined with your help and the encour?
agement of tQ9 southern white men to
continue getting property, becoming
taxpayers, teouriog intelligence and
learciog to put a premium upon bis
moral character 1i
BOTH WILL WITHDRAW.
London, March 18 -On the high
est of official authority the Associat?
ed Press is authorized to announce
that the difficulty at Tien Tain be?
tween the Russians and British over
the construction of a railroad siding
in territory claimed by both, will
probably be solved by the withdrawal
of both the British and Russian
troops from the ground in dispute.
There is a disposition here to think
too mach bss been made of the
Anglo Russian incident at Tien Tain,
and a more hopeful view of the affair
is taken today. This is aided by the
statement contained in Dr Morrison's
dispatch from Pekin yesterday to tbe
London Times, which ie taken to
mean that the combined efforts of the
interested powers are having the
affect of causing St. Petersburg to
check any tendency to nndoe aggres?
siveness on the part of the Kassian
representatives io China.
NEW EX TLAN D MILLS
. DOWN.
350,000 Spindles Stopped on
Monday.
Fill R ver, M isa March 18 -Tbe
Oh*ue K bett D, Msrcba t*. A ?erioao
L "f'O and Metacoojef oonoo ruil?.-.,
pirating 350 Ut) ?ninales vitre ?toppe
oday to pu >u ooo o' ibe a?reeaaeot fo
-u*tail pr 'O'uo io': I1 i- p'o>?aoie tbst
..ex? w. *k tbe na j ri y of :h? m.|) io
bia city, moiudtug 'UQ L H OI L+fce
tm : ?-, wbioo at firat bad decided co
closed rod??. ?ill b* *b?i
CARN (??H Li r>KARIES.
N w Y?rk, Mirth 17 -len-'Og the
<v>ocit*ioi<6 which Aidr^i (Vnegie
m*de. wheo be off re* $5 2^0 000 rr.r
ne ssrablisbment uf 65 * e* cirou
atiog libraries io Greater N W Y rk W .
b*r, ?t'en shouid^bs erovided tor these,
if 10* citv goveroine'it is not able to
Drowtde tbe?e nite?. wealthy eitif 3 of
he city ?ill, it m believed provide
new. Ex Mayor Abram S H^wit
ay- 'ba- '.e wi'l giv- two sires Jime?
J Cootra'' ne HU ; Samuel Un?er
:!i'J't $0 1*00 to casn ad H Q k"
Cocora; >a*?? -hat I 000 01 g 0?
v*?! give $500 each, and rair. $500
? Oo r?:r h v'ureoaHe of Mtes He p ao- d
u.uj-e f on th* h?r
FIRST Fhl'irs OF ARMY
REFOhM.
? Chicago special to tho Ne? Y rk
W rid g ves % melancholy, but not alfi?
f-rKer n expeced. acc.uni- of ibe
ff ot np n part of fbe araiy nf c*-r
'^lo reformatory legislation by con
ire** :
*(The abolishment of the armv can j
cen is profaning disorcer j sc be
y nd he cofines of army p^t?
"Ffday nay-day ai Fort 8h*ri
dau, whert 1,000 ?olsiers of the Fif b
*re in barrack* The village of H'gb
wood was t? ken pot)?es iou of by 2<'0
dtonken soldiers yesterday
"Tbey d-stroyed 'wo saloons and
drank mos 1 of the I q> r io the t?wr.
Tb re were scores ot fi hts a d tb'
whole town was t?rro?.z d Tbi? WHS
the first pay day since tbe oanteen ?as
abolished
"Tbe men u?ed to bay beer on ?he
reservation N >w they bay whiskey
io (be surrounding towns
' Geo (hie, commander of (he
partmeot of the lakes said today : j
'* 'I was ooe of the officers detailed
to study the operation of the military
post canteen and note its effeot 00 rh'
men I bad always been opposed to
'he canteen, bat after investigation I
wan compelled lo indorse it.
.'Uoder the system tbe profit 0?
tbe canteens went to boy delicacies for
ibe soldiers' table, so that they got the
foll benefit of ail that was spent for
beer on the reservation Now the met
spend more and the profits go to the
owners of private gio mills "
This news will give pain to a grear
many sincere men and women who I
have eoosoieoiiously labored for tte
abolition of the anny canteen. W( j
socfess we oaenot fellow the mental
precess or those who imagine that
soldiers in barraoks can be prevenfed *
From drinking by the simple expedient
of suppressing the sale of bear on th"
reservation; but many good aod hooeet
people did imagine it, and we oom
mitiserate them in their disappointment; ;
We fear, moreover, that we cannot
>nVr them the smallest hope for the .
future-Washington Post J
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Bismarck's Iron If erre.
_ I
Was the result of his splendid hea?th. In
iomitable *ill and tremendous erergy are not ^
ron od wbere Stomach, Liver, Eidneys and
Boirels are ont of order. If yon want "bese (
qus.lities and the success they bring, nse Dr .
King's New Life Pills They derelop every
p over of brain and body- Only 25c at J. F.
W DeLorme's Drug Store. -8 1
To Protect Consul Baiz.
Washington, March 18 -Tbe state
department, through Minister Liomin,
re330tiy lodged a most vigorous pro
tee1; to the Veoezoelan govoromerfc
agsinst furtbur interference with Mr
Baiz. the Uoited States consular agont '
at Barcelona, Venezuela. It knows j
nothing cf the last reported infringe- j
ment of his liberty, bat it is presumed
that the affair is oonoeoted directly
with the troubles which led to the first 1
protest Ignatio M. Baiz is not a citi- 1
zen of tho United States, a faet that
may add to the difficulty which our
government will experience in protect
tog bim, as it is determined to do. He !
was born in St Themis, and is a Danish
citizen so far as is koowo here, bat,
having an exequatur issued by the
Venezuelan government recognizing
biro as a Uoited States consular agent,
tho state department bas decided that
he is entii.led to the protection of the
United 8tatee government It appears j
thc.t he :s engaged io bosioess and
became iovolved io trouble with Veoe
luolan military by resisting an attempt !
tn collect a forced loan from bim.
More than a month ago the state
department forwarded its instruction to 1
Minister Loomis to represent to the
Venezuelan government ??hat those an*
uofiog interferences with our offiaiala
mtiiit eeass. but 10 far DO resalta have
appeared.
To introduce ihe new
and highly recommended
Fine Art
Toilet ?oap,
We will offer a
Box of 3 Cakes
-AT
19c. a Box?
Regular price of this
Soap is 25c a box*
For a Few II ays Only?
J. RYTTENBEB6 & SONS.
CROSS WELL i CO"
This name has long been a by-word in
every household where good and cheap
groceries are wanted.
We wish to state to all our patrons and
friends that we are still in business, not at
the old stand, but in our commodious new
building, located by the tracks of the A, C. L.
Railroad, between the Southern and A. C. L.
Depots, on Sumter Street. Here we have the
most convenient and best house to be found
anywhere, and we can sell cheaper and serve
our friends and patrons to better advantage
than we have ever been able to do, because
of the saving in the draying of goods, low rate
of insurance and no rent to pay. We take
the goods from the cars and put them into
your wagons or stores at prices that would
astonish the largest and closest buyer.
We are not only selling HAY, CORN, OATS, Aa, but
Everything in the Grocery
Line.
Candies, Crackers, Jellies, Jams, Preserves, fancy table Syrups
in tins, glass jars and barrels, Molasses, Salad Dressing, Sauces,
Catsups, Canned Goods of every description, consisting of Veg?
etables, Fruits, Fish, and Canned Meats of every kind ; Green
Coffees, Roasted Coffees, Teas, Spices, both whole and ground,
Chocolates, Cocoas, Extracts, Family Medicines, Toilet Soaps,
Laundry Soaps of every description and brand, Washing Pow?
ders. Lead Pencils, Stationery, Wrapping Paper, Paper Bags,
and in fact everything that belongs to a first class store.
-WE ALSO HANDLE
Lime, Cement, Corn, Oats, Grits, Meal,
Rice, Lard, Bacon, Hams, Pigs' Feet, &c.
We are going to wholesale these out to our customers^and
friends at the lowest prices that have ever been made in the
old town of Sumter. We invite everybody to come to see us,
and convince themselves that what we say is true. Remember
that our guarantee goes with every article that we say is good.
We buy direct from headquarters in car lots and discount our bills We
osBnot and will rot be undersold. Come to see os for all your wants.
Yours troly,
Cresswell db Oo.f
PllODe 53. WHOLESALE GROCERS.
March 13, 1901.