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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1901. The Sumter Watchman was rounded ic 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both of the o?d papers, and is mani? festly the best advertising medium in Samter. Weekly Crop Bulletin. Columbia, April 26 -The week end? ing Monday, Aprii 29th, averaged from 10 to 13 degrees per day colder than nsual, with as extreme minimum 34 degrees in Greenville. There were light frosts on the 22d, 23d and 24th in places, and a traoe of ice io Coiieton County. The freers killed oottoo that waa np, cucumbers acd melons, yellow ed oom, checked the growth of truck and gardens, bat was apparently not injurions on fruit. There were light, scattered showers on the 22d and 23d over the central and western counties, acd scow Sorries On the same dates in the extreme north? western portions The ground was too wet to work, from the previous week's 1 heavy rains over the western half of the State, until the middle of the week, and only from two to four days piowiog could be done As the soil dries it becomes baked and hard. Atong the coast, and for about 50 miles inland, there is need of rain to supply moisture to germinating seeds and growing Crops, and for transplanting tobacco, j Bottom lands are oot yet dry enough to plow There was more thao the usual j amount of sunshine, and the winds were generally light, but were chilling. Corn has poor and irregular stands, owing to poor germioation and the ravages cf birds, and in plaoes whole fields bare been plowed up and replant? ed The cool weather checked its growth and caused much to turn yel? low In the southeastern counties only lias cultivation become general Up? land corn is not all planted. Cotton planting made slow progress, and much remains to plant io the west? ern couutiee, white the eastern aod cen tra! counties first planting is about finished Stands are very poor. A large portion of the cotton that was planted previous to last week's heavy rain aod subsequent oold weather will have to be replanted, as the young plants that were op have died to a large extent, while newly sprouted and -onsprouted seed are rotting in the aground There is a general scaroity of .seed for replanting. Tobacco/ plants continua small, and . aro ?carce io Williamsburg County Transplanting progresses ?lowly except in Marion County, where it is nearing -comp'ctioo. Rice made slow growth generally In tbs Georgetown districts, the rivers and tides were 'ow enough to permit planting operations to be resuood. With limited exceptions, wheat ao?V? oats cor.ticcv to look promising and are Stooling well. Oits aro heading over the southeastern counties, ac? o^er limited localities elsewhere. Sweet potatoea are rotting io beds. Waite potatoes appear to be doing weil. M?lo-os have poor stands Truck needs warum weather and laote moisture, but shipments of peas, beans and straw? berries are going forward, the latter ripening slowly The acreage of straw? berries is smaller than usu^l Toe eomcc?-roiai peach crop will not be as large a* expected, but generally peaoo es, p'-ars acd pluxs have been only alight!? ir jared by the prevailing aoseaM'??hic weather Gardens look well, bu: are backward 4- WIT I I ?? - Omaha, Neb.. April 28 -James Callahan was declared not guilty to day of any complicity in the kid napping of Edward Cudahy, Jr FeSin, April 28 -Tue report of Gen Kettler received here from Kuo Lu, differs from the others reports concerning the German French ex pedition previously received Geo Kettier's report shows that the Chinese troops did not leave the pro? vince till they were forced to do 80 The entire brigade commanded by Gen Kettler m t the enemy on April 23 and inflicted immense loss upon them. Tne report dues not give the loss The Germans bad one officer and three soldiers killed and 28 soldiers wounded The Chinese were forced to leave the province sod were fully demoralized The French authorities stated that the Chinese had crossed the border of the province on April 19, in which case they mast have su9equently returned Cape Town, April 28.-During the last 48 hours 16 fresh cases of the bubonic plague have been officially reported Eight of these are Euro? peans Since the outbreak of the se there have been 319 cases of England's Costliest War. Wheo the Eoglisb budget was iorro doced somebody said that every Boer siled had cost $5,000 The estimate was generally accepted aod commented upon without examination. The truth ts, as a moment's reflection will show, that the figure is ridiculously low. Toe British have certainly not killed 10,000 Boers, lt is doubtfal whether they have killed 5 OOO If it bas cost them $750,000,000 to kill 10,000 Boers, that is $75,000 per Boer. If ooly 5,000 have been disposed of, the butch? er's bill amounts to $150,000 apiece. There were less than 40,000 Boor families in the two republics when the war began England could have given every family ?20,000 to ksep quiet without spending any more than she has paid for fighting The Boer republics, whose combined population is less than that of Detroit or Milwaukee, have given tbe British Empire the most costly war it bas ever bad in its whole history in tbe sams space of time. This week England is borrowing $300,000X00 to pay a mere instalment of the cost of the Boer war. The British national debt practically began in (he reign of William III, aod the entire amount borrowed in that reign, including the support of an eight years' war with France, was $60,000,000 The ten years' war of the "Spanish succession added $115,000,000 to the British national debt. The nice years of war from the beginning of hostilities with Spaio io 1739 to the end of the general war of the Australian successioo in 1748 call? ed for borrowings to the amount of ?145 000,000. . Tbe great Seven Years' War involv? ed $290,000,000 of new debt. The eight years' war of the American Revolution, including wars with France, Spain and Holland, required loans to the amount of $580.1)00,000. The greatest amount borrowed by Great Britain io any one year in the wars of the Frenoh Revolution was $150,000,000, in 1795, repeated in 1797 The greatest amount borrowed io any one year during the Napoleonic wars was $198,000,000, io 1813 The Crimean war of three years increased the national debt by $195, 000.000 The Boer war has lasted a year and a bait. In that time Eagland has bad to borrow more than she ever borrowed io any two years of any otber war io her history. Moreover, she has spent more than we spent in our civil war io the same length of time Our most expensive year was the fiscal year 1865, when we bad over a million soldiers under arms In that year our war expenses, military and naval, were nominally $1,153, 307,834 13, but as they were paid in depreciated paper, whose average value was 49? cents on the dollar, the actual gold oost of the war for the year was $570.885,377 88. Eogland has paid over $750,000.000 io gold for a year and a balf of Boer fighting, and expects to pay a billion before the job is over -N. Y. Journal. Biliousnsss is a condition characterized by a disturbance of the digestive organs Toe stomach is debilitated, the li?er . torpid, the bowels constipated. There i3 a loathing cf food, pains in tbe bowe!?, dizziness, coated toogue and vomiting, Srst o? the undigested or partly diee3ted food aod theo of bile. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver TaMets allay the disturbances of tbe stomach and create a healthy appetite. They also tose up the liver to a bsaitby action and reenlo'e tbe boweis. Try them and jou are certain to be mach pleased with the result For sale by Dr A J China "WRONG MAN." Columbia, April 28-After ali, it turns out that the mau under arrest at Oxford. Teen, was no: the much desir ed M R Reese. Mr Newbold, whoo ? be lefc, stated that be did not believe that the Mississippi authorities had got ten R?ese. Thc authorities there were so positive, however, that the goverocr thought it absolutely oeoe^?-ary to at least seed some one to see whether it was the man wasted L*st oigbr the following telegram was received by the govcr oor : To Gov McSweeoey. Columbi*, S C : Wrong mao. Locks nothing like Raese. VVill write from home W H Newbold A Puzzle for the Lawyers. Governor McSweeney has received quite a peculiar inquiry from Mr W B Holmes, of Charleston, which is as follows : My Dear Sir : If a body, buried some few years ago, is wsshed up by the tides, and on that body is found the sum of $160, does the money belong to the parties to whom the lands belong where four.d, or does it belong to tbe State ? If to the State, does tho State give a reward for in? formation leading to the recovery of such find ? Information from you on this point will oblige W B Holmes The Governor replied that be knew of no law regulating such a ca6e, but would suggest the matter be report? ed to the coroner, who might in stitute an investigation South McAllister. I T , April 29. -An explosion of gas occured today in the mine of McAllister Coal com pany at Alderson, by which five men, tbree of them negroes, lost their lives, 7 were injured, and another ia j Soffrage in the South. I Republican Politicians Discuss? ing Disfranchisement of Il? literates. Washington, April 29 -The at? tempt of President McKinley to split the South Carolina Democracy by the wedge of Federal office, or at least to build up a respectable white Republi? can party in the south, draws atten tion to the wide extent to which the disfranchisement of illiterates -which is geueraliy more or lees synonymous with negroes-has proceeded in the southern States Four of these-Mississippi, Louis? iana, North Carolina and South Caro lina-have amended their constitu? tions in the past ten years so as to disfranchise illiterate voters altogeth er Arkansas and Maryland have adopted an educational qualification, which will shut out a large propor? tion of the negro vote On May 21 the Alabama constitutional conven? tion will meet in Montgomery to frame a new constitution, the declar ed purpose being to deal with the suffrage problem. The State will doubtless follow the example of other southern state and deprive illiterates of the right to vote. The Virginia constitutional convention will meet in June and will discuss the adoption of an educational quali? fication-an issue which has long been a barning one in the State Of course, in the states of the black belt more drastic raeasure?i are required to attain whit6 supremacy than where the negroes form a smaller proportion of the population. Ac? cordingly, in Louisiana, a voter must be able to read and write, most own $300 worth of property assessed in his name, er mast have been able to ; vote Jan 1, 186T, or be lineally de scended from a person able to vote on that date (The latter provision in the celebrated "grandfather" clause ) North Carolina bas a simi lar law, omitting, however, tho prop? erty qualification Sooth Carolina now requires that a voter wishing: to register must be able to read and write any part of the State constitution submitted to him: or show that be paid taxes on prop erty amounting to $300 ; bul; for several years previous to Jan 1, 1898, the registration books were open lo those able to understand any article of tbe constitution wheu read to them, and those who registered under that provision will be entitled to vote as long aa they live In Mississippi, tbe voter most "be able to read any section of tbe constita tiou of tbe State ; er be shall be able to anderstand the sarae when read to bim, or give a reasonable inter pretation thereof99 In Arkansas andr by the new law in Maryland, tbe voter most mark a ballot without party emblems or di? visions of the candidates into party groups, and is not allowed to take ) any one into the voting booth with bim to help bim in ntakiog his ballot, so that education enough to pick his favorites one of the alphabetical lists will be necessary With Virginia and Alabama added to the list of Southern States which bave already excluded illiterates from the suffrage, the negro problem in the South will no longer be as menacing as it has been in the past The 3os ton Herald and other New Bogland newspapers assert that the "indiffer? ence" of tbe Republican party to the disfranchisement of negroes in the South will not continue. On the other hand, these newspapers frank ly admit that any attempt to upset tbe laws enacted by Southern legis iatures, or to reduce Southern repre sentation in Congres?, would make the South 'more solid than ever,'* and defeat the plans which have been made to establish a "lily white,r Republican party in the South In view of this last fact, the attitude which the next Congress wiil assume toward the "illiterate negro" stalia tics called for from the Censu9 by the last Congress will be of great inter? est Killed on the Stage. Chattanooga, Tenn, April 27 -A special from Burosviile, N. C , says : While playing tbe tragedy "Cast. Upon the World'' in the closing exer? cises ot the Staoisy McCormick High school a> Burtville last night a real tragedy wes enacted when R B Mo Inturf, oue ot the r-turJeots, was shot and kiiled by Bacov.8 Bailey, another student, both representing oharaotersin the p!ay Wheo it bjoame necessary for Batley io his role to defend himself with a revolver against a drawn knife in the bands of Mclnturf he u*ed by mistake a loaded pistol instead of blacks, and in the presence of several hundred pei)pie Mclnturf was shot dead on toe stage The boys were room mates and special friends Fall River. Mass , April 27 -The reduction in the price of print cloths has not oniy made further curtail ment probable, but a reduction in wages possible The price paid for weaving cloth today ie the highest in the history of the business, and the margin of pro?t is as small aa it ever was Under such conditions it is feared that wajges cannot be main? tained with any certainty for a definite period of time. Sidz>ey NSW, April 2$ - Hen Mercke, a German millionaire whc ? was cruising in bis yacht, and? Hen Caro, bis private secretary, -?ere j recently mnrd^red by natives of ?be island of New Britain, off the north east coast of Papua Her Carole body wee eateD London, April 2&-Col Piumer's force captured a smali iaager of 45 men, including the notorious Trans vaal state engineer, Munnick, who planned the destruction of the Johan nesburg mines in the spring of last year, and his father, who was former ly landrost at ?oksburg. Twenty Years Proof. Tutt's Liver Pills keep the bow? els in natural motion and cleanse the system of all impurities An absolute cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, con? stipation and kindred diseases. "Can't do without them" R. P. Smith, Chiiesburg, Va. writes I don't know how I could do without them. I have had Liver disease for over twenty years. Am now entirely cured. Tutt's Liver Pills m Por Cash or on Approved. Papers. 2 SO SAW Lua:mns Gina ffuh Feeders and Co'?df?D?er9 1 60 Saw Hal! Gin with Feeder ?ind COB denser 1 Extra heavy Winship Press, a fine oce, compile 40 feet of 2 ?neb Shafting AH in gool repair Apply to W W DESOHA\??S & CO r WisHckv, S C. Or 'o A. A STRAUSS. April 17-tf Mave3*il!e, S C PURVEYING. SURVEYING and Civil"Engmeerine work promptly md Hccnr*t?lv done W. LO RING LEE, Civij Eogr. May 23-0 WM B ALFORD, E PLUMER ALFCBD, ALFORD BROS., Dentists^ Office over Sumter Dry Goods Co's Store, MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S. G Api 24-tf Womanly Beauty, Sparkling Eyes and Bright- Z&ces. Are the frons of sound nerves* HINDIPO the great Frpocb N*rve Tonic and Vii?1 z-r cures Nervous Exhaustion, Hysteria, Dizziness, Headache, Backache and Female Wt- d-iess BO common attending the monthly pciods GIRLS pase'ng tbroocb the trying c?mnee from girlhood to Woman? hood will fi::d in it a wooderful reiief and benefit. If quiets ?nd strengthens the nerves, cleanses tbe oiojd, c'ear* the brain aod- tooee u& the whole system Makes ? woman look voung aod feel yoong Price 50c , 12-boxes ?5 Sent by mail to any address Sold by Dr J F W DeLorme, Somier, SC 4 BARRED AND WHITE ROCKS. Ecus SI-50 per 15 My Barred Plymouth Rocks have won for me and my customers at three large shows this season. L. C. HfiBSEff, Box 12, Sunny Side, Ga. Fen 6-2m Life and Fire Insurance. Call on me, at my residence, Liberty Street, for both Life and Pire Insu rance. Oniy reliable Companies rep? resented. Phone No ISO. ???dreifrst WI oses. Oct 25-o Land Surveying. IWILL GIVE prompt attention to all calls for survevinp and nlattra l*r>ds. BANKS H BOYKIN, Oct 10-o Catchall, S C. BIDS WANTED. Sora'p.-, S C . April 12. 1901. THE COUNTY BOARH OP COW Mis? sioners <-f Sumter County, will, at their meeting, May Ttb, proximo, receive oiJs for reoui!din2 the Cou My Jail as it stands, or for ?nu di og a New J>-il Tbe B >ard reserves tat right to rej?ct any or ail bids By order of Board. WW H SEALE, County Supervisor. April 12-3t. Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food aDd aids Nature in strengthening and recon? structing the exhausted digestive or? gans, lt ls the latest discovereddigest ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach lt in efficiency, lt 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 small size. Book all about dyspepsia mailedlreti Prepared by E. C- DeWlTT ? CO.. Chicago. J S HUG-HSON & CO Tills Sale Next Friday, As the items below represent some of fhe best values, we have ever offered : i 50 pieces fancy Lawns, Organdie and Dimities, all new, just received, special Friday,?only 35 pieces new colored Piques, regular price 10c for Friday these go on sale at 1 case of 40 pieces colored Batiste Lawns, 27 inch, regular 7c-for Friday, 6 pieces 40-inph colored Organdies-for commence? ment and evening suits. Shades-pink, blue, maiz, nile, lilac, red. Just as a ieader Friday, 25 pieces white Wash Organdies, a fine quality, They will go quickly Friday, at 2 WHITE QUILT SPECIALS. 25 extra size, hemmed and shrunk, Friday, 25 extra size of fine quality, Friday, These are the best values ever seen in quilts. OPENING AND SALE OF NEW PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS. SHOE SALE FRIDAY, THESE CUTS FOR THE DAY : All the |1 50 grades for |1 37 The 8tyles 8nd ,Uy of our Shoeg AU tbe Si td grades tor ipi 09 | sre weil known Tbey are the best All the ?2 00 grades for SI 79 ! can be made We gaaraotee every* All the ?2 50 grades for $2 23 81 2c 8c 5 c lc 9c ?9c 98c pair. 8 c 40 doz children's Bkck Ribbed Hose; size? 6 to 9?-Just for Friday, Again 20 dozen Ladies' Black Hose. Can't be . | | ^ matched anyway at 15c-For Friday, M. JL ^ We'll show you other things too, that are money savers Friday* Schwartz j. imnuE & s Special Money-Saving Announcement to all? Prices are the things that talk, so read the* following and compare. Yon will see the* money saved by calling on us for your Spring: and Summer shopping : 50 dozen Ladies' Black Hose, 9c, 3 pair for 25c; Best, you've ever seen for the money. 10 dozen Children's Brown; Sose, 6 to 9, 12?c. Will stand, the hardest kind, of wear. 20 doz. Ladies' all linea hemstitched Handkerchiefs, 9c. New lot just in. About 25 odd Corsets, 75c and $1 values. If your size is* here, will close out at 50c New lot of Ladies' Leather Belts with the new dip buckle* 25c and 30c value, at 19c 1 lot 36-inch Colored Organdie," price 52c for 19c Our entire line IS and 20c col. Organdie and Dimity;, for 15c One lot Si and 10c Dress Ginghams for Sic 15c Fancy Oxfords for 10?c Colored Dotted Swiss, price 15c, for ll Ic Small lot of Foulard Silks, formerly sold at 40c and 50c. To close this lot 29*;. The new Crepe Albatross-thc new material for Waists, special at 44c 5 pieces Dotted Cachimo. regularly sold at 35c, now 29c About 75 yards black Perola, a $1 skirt material. Special price 83c. We have sold 300 yards of this material this season About our Shoe Department. Well we have them for every? body. You know the old reputation-Ryttenberg's Shoes are good shoes. It still holds good. Quality the highest, prices the lowest. Five Points About our Clothing Explains its Superiority: 1. The quality is always good. 2. The styles are invariably correct. 3. The workmanship is the best. We guarantee its relia? bility. 4. The variety is large. You're never at a loss to find a pleasing pattern here. 5. Our prices are always fair-always the lowest for which good clothing can be sold. J. RYTTENBEHG & SONS.