The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 10, 1901, Image 4
Cj)t Sp^uiaa; ana J?3U?|rmi.
WEDNESDAY, A PHIL 10, 1901
The Sumter Watcnman wag roundec
in 1850 aod the True Southron in 1866.
Tbe Watchman, and Southron now has
the combined circulation and influence
of both of tbe ot? papers, and is mani?
festly the 'beet advertising medium in
Snmter
The correspondente in China have
assured na iii et tbe trouble in that
quarter is about at an end, likewise
in tbe Philippines, but in South
Africa tbe war is now said to be on
to a finish, with* oo prospect of an
early subjugation of the Boers.
Similar reports nave been coming
from one cr the other of these seats of
war for so toog that no one seriously
considere the predictions of the cor
respondents. Most newspaper read
. ere have arrived- at tbe conclusion
tbat in good time we shall see what
we shall see and dismiss the daily
variation of reports with scarce a
thought as to tbeir truth or falsity.
Senator McLaurin is tbe patron
saint of Cbarieeton for the time being
-he has promised to get something
from the government for Charleston.
If be can get a big slice and promise
a whole pi? from the government pie
?counter be wiH be in a fair way to be
permanently canonized as St John,
the Great ff Charleston bad the
commercial spirit as weil developed
along businesslioes.as:in politics she
would the? metropolis of the South
aod a myriad'bf -ships would elbow
each other io the harbor.
The corn crop most have been
deplorably short in Sumter county
last year, for &at is tbe only way we
can accocot fer the quantity of corn
that goes ont of town every week on
Jfce wagoo? of. ferners
TFhe trastees of the Sonth Carolina
; College adopted the wisest coarse in
.- settling toe fcasicg cases brought
before them last week The seven
boys who participated in the hazing
had been sufficiently punished by the
faculty, aod it would have done both
* the boys and the college more harm
than good to have expelled them
The civti service law as applied to
^the appointment of officers under the
'United States government bas been a
^dead letter solong that the row tbat
>is being raised io some quarters over
^President M cKinley 's appointment of
so avowed eoemyy of civil service
reform on toe ^mf service commis
sion is remarkable. Tbe law could
scarcely bs violated more frequently
than it has been, even though all tbe
members cf the commission were
open and above board spoilsmen.
The City Council appropriated
J10? for se illustrated descriptive
article in the Charleston Exposition
Magazine This will be an excellent
advertisement, and no one h&s raised
an objection to the action cf Cooncil,
bot it seems like nonsense to be
spending money ou a wiite up ic the
official organ of the Exposition unless
it is to be followed op with a first
class exhibit from the city and coun?
ty of Sumter So far next tc nothing
bas been done toward getting -an
exhibit together, and no one seems
sufficiently interested to move in the
matter.
As soon aa tbe city oouoci; decides
to pot drwe a sand end clay road bed
OD ore of *t*? atreete abd will pay to
Com ty Supervisor Seale that tee road
bed wit) be (aid co the ii oct ts of the
city be writ take op the work where
the ci'y leaves ?fi and build a irst-class
clay-sand turnpike a mile or more in
length fi it sp *o tbe city council
DOW to take hold of the matter io earn
esc No roads to the county are more
io Dsed of improvement than tboee
lesdu g cot of litis city, nor arc ar.y
road? tr*d by ?o aaoy people We
believe that once ?fae clay and sand
road is giveo a fair test it will be an
eas? matter to cootioue the good work
from Sumter until all of the main
tnt rocghfaree nave been converted into
bard turnpikes This bas been suc?
cessfully, satisfactorily and economic?
ally accomplished in Richland county,
and cao be done more easily in this
county than ft was it Richland A
large portion of "Richland county \*
made up of sand ?ilia where, at first
glanoe.it appeared impossible co build a
bard road without bringing material
from a locg distance. Today there are
five roadf tarong h this reg ion where
ten years ago there were sand I
inches deep. Bat to get back to
original proposition: Tbe City Coo
can start tbe good work at oooe by
ting oiay on one of oar sandy gtr
from the center of the city to
limits, whore Supervisor Seale
m-*et them and continue tbe :
baildiog oat into tbs ooaotry. \
the City C^aneil do its part ?
Weekly Crop Bulletin.
Colombia S C , April 9 -1
week ending Monday, April 8
averaged about seven degrees coe
than usual, with light frost oo
morning of the 4th over practica
the entire state, that retarded grov
of vegetatioD, but was not otherw
injurious There was a deficincy
sunshine
Tbe rainfall was excess!vs ot
tbe whole state, and the amounts :
the week at different points rang
from one to nearly four inches
the up country lands were bad
washed and lowlands flooded T
wet condition of the soil stopped tl
plows tbe greater portion of tl
week, thus delaying tbe preparatioi
of lands and planting operation
although farm work is well advance
for tbe season It has been general!
too wet for plowing over the westei
half of the state since March 251 h
Corn, rice, melons, cane, gardez
generally have been extensivel
planted over tbe eastern and oentn
counties, but germination ie sloi
ind corn is coming up to poor st?nde
Over tbe western counties plantinj
operations bave made less progrese
litbough some coro minor crops am
gardens bave been plaoted Most o
be lauds for cotton bave beeo madi
.eady to plant, and some cotton ha
>eeo planted, bot the latter work wi!
iot become general until the middh
if April, or until the weather coodi<
loos are more favorable, except tba
ouch sea island cotton is already
>lanted
Tobacco plants are unusually
imali, plentiful in places and scarce
n others, bot none have been trans
slanted Wheat and fall sown oats
ire both promising,-but are small;
laving.oniy recently started to grow;
spring sown oats are poor Some
Hessian flies are reported on wheat.
With tbe exception of Edgefield
scanty, where less than a half crop
rf peaches is indicated, tbe fruii
prospects are unimpaired, and tbe
trees are in bloom from the moun?
tains to the sea
Tbe moisture conditions are favor?
able in tbe coast truck fields, but
the temperature bas been too low for
C[uick germination oi seeds and for
rapid growth of tbe youjg plants,
although truck looks healthy Some
potato bugs have appeared on white
potatoes Heavy > shipments of cab
bages and a few shipments of straw
berries bave been made to northern
markets from Charleston In general
truck is from one to two weeks later
than usual
Charleston - Charleston : High
winds on 2d injured growing crops,
trees, fences, etc ; iigbt frost on 3d.
with slight-injury to tender vegeta
tion ; crops about two weeks late ;
stands are fair ; plenty of moisture ;
bot warmth lacking -L Sablmano
Clarendon-Clarendon : Rain on
2d and 5th ; some high wiods ; corn
planting progressing finely ; some
cotton planted ; oats look well -J
R Griffiu
Colleton-Islandton : The spring
has been cold and wet ; corn about
all plaoted, a few are planting cotton,
no inoreaae in amount of fertilizers
used -H W DuBois
Darlington-Darlingtoon : Heavy
rains first of week stopped plows
until Thursday ; small grain ?o fine
condition, although backward ; corn
being planted ; fruit apparently unin
jared ; no cotton planted ; gardens
backward ; tobacco plants email for
the season -W J Rodgers
Florence-Effingham : Crop proa
pects are not bright ; heavy raine
will delay seeding at least a week,
aud likely to be damaged by being
plowed while too wet ; grains unim?
paired.-A J Howard
Georgetown-Piantersville : High
winds and heavy rains first of week
injured planted lands ; rivers very
high ; rice planting now general ;
oats look well ; cow peas very scarce
and hardly any on ?ale -ri P Fraser.
Orangeburg-Springfield : First of
week unfavorable on planted crops
too cold and wet ; slightly warmer at
close of week ; early planted corn
coming up to bad stands ; cotton
planting begun ; gardens not up to
tbe average ; wbeat and rye look
well -D E Markie
Samter-Catchall: Heavy rains on
2d, with high winda ; unseasonably
cool ; corn planting late, bat now
aeariy finished ; preparations of lands
for cotton delayed by rains ; oats
look green, evidencing rapid growth ;
wheal well advanced ; gardens back
ward ; weather unsettled ; labor and
provisions scarce - R J Brownfield
? Testimonial From Old England.
4<I consider Cbaaioenaio's Coug? Kecedy
the best io tbe world for bronchitis," says
Mr William Savory, of Warrington, England
"It bae saved my wife's life, she havirg been
a martyr to bronchitis for over six years,
being most cf the time confined to ber bed.
Soe is now quite well." Sold by A J Cbina.
HAZING CASE SETTLED.
The trastees of the Sooth Carolina
college held an extra meeting yester?
day afternoon to consider the recent
hazing case, the first to develop at
the college during the presen? year
The case proved, under investiga
tion, to have been a very mild one,
though tbs young msn who was hazed
has left college and returned to his
home, and the board, while approv?
ing the action of the faculty in send?
ing the students home, in accordance
with the resolution adopted by itself,
did not take harsh measures lt
reinstated the young men concerned
after April 10 The following state
ment in regard to the matter was
given :
The matter was fully discussed and
oonsidered and tbe board in its aetion
wish it distinctly understood that it
Jisapproves of "hazing'" iu all forms
ind tbat the leniency shown is in
'aced by the previous good record
of the students iuvolved in the inci?
dent, tbe assurances that tbe college
tpirit and tbe student body is opposed
0 "hazing ' and the mildness of the
)articu?8T case which brought tbe
natter up Some of tbe students
leems to tske it that blacking a
student witb shoe polish was ?ot
hazing," but rather in the nature of
1 joke. The trustees regard this a
natter for the faculty to decide as to
vbar is to be regarded aa hazing and
vhat is not, but tbat any such action
s not agreeable and unwarranted .
The board considered all of the
capers in connection with the matter
ind a sub committee of the board bad
& satisfactory interview with Messrs.
bowles. McGbee, Blackwell and Rofl
who represented the student body as
k committee to plead for the rein
Hating of the yoong men This
committee assured the trustees that
;be student body was opposed to
'hazing** and that tbey and tbe
students would cooperate with the
Faculty in every possible way in keep?
ing good order and maintaining tbe
sjood name and reputation of tbe
college Tbey assured the board
tbat tbe student body stood for good
arder and wobld not sanction "haz
?.g"
The trustees, in view of all the
facts aod conditions, adopted the
following resolution :
Resolved. That the action of the
faculty be sustained in the saspen
sion of the students; tbat they be
allowed to return to college ?Dd be
honorably reinstated in their classes
on and after April 10th, 1901, but on
the condition that they shall pledge
themselves to abstain from each ac?
tion io the future.
The action of the board is to be
communicated by the secretary of
the board to each of the seven par?
ents and the young men aTe, upon
their return to college, to make the
verbal ptomise to the faculty, through
the president as above indicated.
This action of the board is thought
to be entirely satisfactory to the
faculty, stodent body, the young men
interested and in the best interests
of the South Carolina college.
Tnere were present at the board
meeting Messrs J Q Davis. W. T
C Bates, John T Sloan, August
Kohc and Gov. M cS weeney, presid
iog -The State, April 6th.
Caus?t a Dreadful Cold.
M?rioo Kooke, manager for T M Thomp?
son, a large importer of one millinery of 1658
Milwaukee ave, Chicago, saya : "Daring the
Ute severe weather I caught a dreadful cold
which kept me awake at night and made me
unfit to attend my work daring the day. One
of my milliners was taking Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for a sever cold a? that time,
which teemed to relieve ber so quickly that I
nought tome for myself It acted like magic
and I began to improve at once I am now
entirely well aod feel very pleased to ac?
knowledge its merita." For sale by Dr A J
Cbina.
In order to be able to feed the
soldiers in the Pbilppines as they are
fed, says Harper's Weekly, it is
necessary to keep a kind of proces?
sion of supply ships on the water?
ways from New York to Manila by
way of the Suez Canal and across
the Pacific from San Francisco It
will not do to store immense volumes
of supplies io Manila, for that is a
tropical climate, and all food is more
or lees perishable in so hot a tempera
ture Therefore ships are going ali
the time, and never in one shipment
are supplies for more than one month
sent. We have 70.000 troops there,
but that is not the total number
dependent in a great degree upon the
commissary ot supplies.
DOCTOR MAY REFUSE
SERVICES.
Indiana Supreme Court Makes
an Interesting Decision.
(From tbe Chicago Record Herald )
Indianapolis, Atm! 4.-? liceosed.
practicing physician is oot legally
bonce, to attend aoy patient for ?bom
be is called, where be bas not made
any contract to do s:>, even tboogb be
may have served as family physician,
and be Is not liable io damages for the
consequences of his refusal to answer
snob a. call.
The Sapreme Coan so decided today
in affirming tbe judgment in tbe ease of
Gaorge D. Harley vs George W.
Eddiogfield, appealed from Montgom?
ery County. Dr Eddingfield was sum?
moned to attend Harley's wife, bat be
refused to go. There was no other
physician who could pe obtained io time
to be of any service, and be was called
a second time by Harley, aod a third
time by tbe neighbors, and at last a
preacher who iived in the neighborhood
called on the doctor and urged bim to
go, offering to pay bis fees in advaooe.
There was no apparent reason why be
should not go, except that be did not
aboose to do so, but be proved obdurate,
ind it is charged that Mrs Hurley's
i ea tb, soon af?er a baby was born, was
lae to :he lack of a physician's ard
Io affirming the judgment of the
ower coure Judge Baker said the act
'egulatiiog the practice of medicine, was
)nly a preventive and not a compulsory
neaeure
Petitions for a Pardon.
Gov McSweeney has received a
?ery large petition in favor of the
granting of a pardon to John
Stuckey, who ie a prominent business
nan cf Spartauburg, convicted of
nanslaugbter and sentenced to ten
rears imprisonment for killing bis
ilerk, Sevi6r Congressman Scar
trough presented the p?titions for
>ardon and made argument It may
:>e noted that tl out of the 12 jurors
?rho seirved in the case jjoin in the
application for the pardon-, and Judge
jary, who beard the case, is in favor
)f granting the pardon Tbe papers
lave not yet been submitted to
Solicitor Sease Gov McSweeney
viii go carefully into tbe records and
>apers in the case
?-?. ?*??? -
?OOD FOR NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans. La" April 8 -A tele
j;raaci announced tbe death today io
!?ew York ! nf Mrs Josephine Louise
!f*weomb Upon the receipt of tbs
?alegraos the will of Mrs Newcomb was
?iled in tbe civil district court, because
if legal formality ?nd because ber
^ronernr ;* mainly io New York
Tbe will leaves ber entire fortune,
?nth the exception of a few legacies,
:o be used io the sunnort and maioteo
iooe of H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial
College for the Higher Education of
9-irIa. This oollege is a part of Tulane
[Joiversity, nf New Orleans Mrs
Newcomb had already given $750,000
(0 this college named,in memory of her
laughter. She now leaves the residue
sf her fortune, estimated at from $2,
300,000 to $3.000 000. to ihe support
of the college.
FHE CHARLESTON STA?
TION.
Washington. April 8 -The navy
department will appoint a boud of
officers io go tn Charleston, S C , and
devise'* comprehensive plan for estab
1 shing (be new Atlantic naval station
to be located there Admiral Eodicott.
chief of the bureau of yards and dooks,
bee closed the arrangements for the
purchase of land, securing the Lawton
tract for $50,000 or about $200 an
e.ore This with other traots will give
4:25 acres for the new station, beside 725
acres of marsh land in the vicinity. The
deeds are being drawn, and when they
are passed upon by the law officers the
board ol' naval officers will be named to
d?vies plans. It is expected that work
will be actually under way on the new
buildings and other features of the
station by next autumn
St Louis, April 7.-Sparks from a
ewitob engine today set fire to '?he big
elevator on the river front at the foot of
Biddle Street, owned by the St Louis
Elevator and Storage Company, and
within two hours the building was
reduced to ashes, entailing a los? of
nearly $650,000. H. C. Haarstiok,
president of the company, said the
building and the contents, which con
siste?* of about 800,000 bushels of
?rbeat and corn, were fully insured.
It was his opinion that the lose of the
grain woold not affect the local marcel.
Prevention
better than cure. Tutt's Liver
Pills will not only cure, but if
taken in time will prevent
Sick Headache,
dyspepsia, biliousness, malana,
constipation, jaundice, torpid
liver and kindred diseases.
TUTT'S Liver PILLS
ABSOLUTELY CURE.
This Store!
The Store!!
We Make the Prices For You !
Spring, Summer, Winter-ALL THE TIME.
We quote prices and eave you money, not only in the Winter, but in the
Spring and Sommer, when money is not so plentiful Some appear eo very
active in the fall of the year, in quoting prices, etc , etc Quite the reverse,
however, at this season of each year, if yon notice. Yon may want some
thing charged at cash prices."
WE CLAIM TO BE YOUR FRIENDS ALL THE TSAR.
We Prove lt.
We Hand Out Goods to Ton at Pr?ce* That None
can Match.
We mention with pride our recent sale of 4,000 yards, best
36-in Percales at 5c per yard-goods worth 10c. It took just
8 days to sell this lot.
We venture to say that not since Sumter is
a town or city, has such a sale been equaled.
Possibly you were fortunate enough in getting some of them.
At any rate
The mills are getting us up another case
of 2,000 yards. They shall go at
The sanie pri?e, 5e yard?
They will be placed
On sale Friday morning*
If you can't come send us your mail orders. WeValso. quote :
100 pieces best Apron Ginghams* the 7c kind, at 5C%
1 case 36-in Fruit of the Loom, at 7c
100 pieces best Calico, 4 1-Sc
5 bales S. S. Brown Homespun at 4c
5 bales good Plaids, at 4c
5 bales best 27-in Plaids, at 5c
5 bales 36-in 7c Sea Island, at 5<*
50 pieces 27-in colored Lawns, regular 7c. at 5c
This....is...the...Store., of....the...Town.
E. S?le!
A great many people dis?
covered
Where the best P. K's were to be found and good shoppers
soon cleared out our line. To later purchasers, and those not
already on to these good things,
We announce this week the opening up of
Stock No. 2 in P. K's and Embroideries.
In the assortment are styles suitable for entire costumes, sepa?
rate skirts, little girls dresses, little boys kilts, &c. We will
sell the now
Famous Wash Organdy again this season at
the old price. 10c.
The Sumter Dry Goods Co.
WE SELL
The
XV? soil
R.&G, CORSETS
Every ?oman knows what the R & G.
Corset is. It is the Corset of comfort with
the essence of stylo. It is the only Corset
thai ?ill cot, cannot and does not stretch.
If you buy an R. & G. Corset that does
stretch, or proves unsatisfactory in any way,
bring it back to us and we will give yon a
new one. We have in stock the famooa,
No 397, moderately straight froot, wLicb te
popuiar with most woojen who fiod it in the
new straight froot 6hown in our illustration.
We sell No 397 for $LOO.
Our oorset stock is large and well selected.
THE THOMPSON GLOVE-FITTING CORSET ALSfc
umter Jjry Roods JJo.
March 27