The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 19, 1901, Image 7
First Napolean of Financial World.
John Law was the first of the so
called Napoleans of finance, although
that title for obvious reasons, had not
at that time gained currency. And he
set a fast pace-one which few since
his time have been able to maintain.
There have been many imitations
since the days of the debonnair regent
and his prince of speculation, but old
John Law was the real thing in panic
qreeders. It is extremely doubtful if
any other man has ever succeeded in
so completely innoculating a nation
with poison of specula^in, the madness
of gambling, as did this hard-headed,
scheming, popish Scocthman during
the five years from 1715 to 1720. Ana
modern history fails to record another
case in which such widespread min
was involved.
John Law was born at Edinburgh in
April, 1671* His father was a gold?
smith, as the bankers were called,
and John's early education soon |give
him an understanding of the ins and
outs of financial operations. At the
age of 20 he w?nt to London to study,
but records of his life show that he
led a wild life of gambling, drinking
and love intrigues, the latter leading
to a duel, in which he killed his op?
ponent.
He fled to Holland, and then toured
Europe, spending his time in gamb?
ling and speculation, making large
?stans of money, which he recklessly
squandered. ?n 170S he made his first
proposals to Louis XIV in relation to
the finances of France, then in inex?
tricable confusion, but was ordered
cut of the kingdom as a suspicious
character and a Huguenot.
Law's time came in 1715, when the
death of the King placed the regent in
control. The finances of France were
in such a condition that a declaration
of national bankruptcy was seriously
considered. While this was not resorted
to a commission went over the claims
against the government which had ac?
cumulated through the reckless ex?
travagance of the old King, and cut
them down 50 per cent. The currency
was recoined and debased 20 per cent,
but despite all this the new certificates
of indebtedness immediately fell 75
per cent. Ruin stared Frnce in the
face.
At this crisis Law bobbed up again
in Paris and presented his scheme to
the regent, and the plan was a vast
ene. As a beginning Law was given
permission to start a royal bank,
which was to manage the trade and !
.currency of the country, collect the J
taxes and free the country of a debt of
1500 milliards of lives. The plan was
bitterly opposed, but Law boldly went
ahead, and the bank was a success
from theffirst shot out of the box. The
.capital was divided in 1200 shares,
ana4 in payment for thm Law accepted
three-fourths in discredited debt cer?
tificates and one-fourth cash. There
was naturally a rush for shares, and
rsoon shares, certificates and the
bank's paper were a a premium.
Various decrees gave the bank's !
notes great preference, and soon 60,000,
000 livres in paper were in circulation,
with scacely a sou held for ultimate
redemption. But the temporary suc?
cess pleased the regent and Law was
given full swing.
Then he launched his Mississippi
-scheme. He was granted regal priv?
ileges over the most fertile part of the
United States, and the stock in his
vast enterprise "went like hot - cakes
the printing presses couldn't turn it
-out fast enough to supply the demand.
This ^scheme was no sooner., in good
-working order than Law obtained ab
solute control of the mint and coin?
age, followed soon after by the sole
authority to collect the taxes. Now he
was in a position to pay his big card
-to put the capstone on his financial
: shaft. The national debt was 1500
milli rds of livres, a tremendous sum for
those days. But it was about the only
profitable thing left in sight, so Law
took it over under agreement to man?
age it on terms favorable to the state.
Law's complicated plan was, " on a
figantic scale, simply one of those
unco stock-jobbing schemes by which
every one was to make money. Law
was going to pile up such an immense
rake-off that he, in the kindness of his
heart, would let the public in on the
deal. And the lambs flocked to be
shorn. At each issue of shares mobs
crowded the streets near the bank and
literally fought for a chance to invest
their money in Law's certificates.
Nor was the speculation madness con?
fined to any one class of people ; men
and women, lords and ladies, mer?
chants, adventurers and even servants
'Crowded and pushed one another in
a mad struggle to reach the bank
.counter. Chroniclers of that time say
the sight baffled adequate description.
The entire nation was touched by
the speculative madness. It spread
from Paris to the provinces. Men sold
their all and hastened to the capital to
speculate until the population of the
capital was nearly doubled. Everybody
seemed to be getting richer, and no
one poorer. Trade received a tremen?
dous but abnormal impulse. The
shares steadily climbed, until they
were forty times their par value.
And John Law-foreigner and fop
gambler and d?bauche, he who had
been driven out of London for a low
intrigue and expelled from Paris as a
.suspicious person-rode on the crest of
the wave. He was for the moment
the most powerful figure in Europe.
He had more than regal power. Kings
paid court to him, and the proudest
aristocracy in Europe humbled itself
in his dust. In addition his prodigal
liberality made him the idol of the
populace. France was ruled by a
wildcatter: his word was law.
But his success was shortlived. The
Missisippi company and its various
branches were beginning to topple.
It was inevitble, and the first de?
mand for payment on the shares
found an empty treasury. The tide
turned. Men began to sell shares and
buy land and houses. Violent edicts
could not stem the current, and all
at once the people began to demand
.coin instead of paper. Public confi?
dence was gone, and the immense
bubble of inflation pricked. Every?
where was distress and financial ruin.
Coined money fled the realm, and
prices advanced enormously. Still the
shares and notes fell and fell until it
was almost impossible to give them
away. France was pauperized, and
Law became an object of popular ha?
tred. His enemies seized control of
the government and tore out his sys?
tem root and branch, and the country,
in sackcloth and ashes, repented of its
folly.
Secretly, in the darkness of a De?
cember night in 1720, Law stole away j
from Paris, his money gone, his life
in danger, to resume his old disreput?
able life of wandering and soon to be
! forgotten. He died in Venice a pauper
nine years after.
Tradition has it that a beautiful
woman, a discarded mistress of the
financier, secured a terrible revenge
by starting the rumors which finally
pricked the inflation bubble.
About the same time another specu?
lative bubble was bringing disaster to
the people across the channel. It was
the collapse of the famous South Sea
bubble, and when it burst the ruin
was widespread.
The speculative mania began to get
headway in England in 1710, and was
the direct result of the wonderful ex?
pansion in English trade and com
merce. Any scheme, no matter how
chimerical, "found supporters, and the
South Sea company was one of the
wildest and largest. Since the days
of*Elizabeth, Spanish America held
out a strange fascination for English?
men as the source of unlimited wealth.
The South Sea company took advan?
tage of this weakness. As the price of
the monopoly of the Spanish-Ameri
f can trade, the company agreed to pay
off the national debt. The Harley
Ministry- made the bargain in spite of
Walpole's warning. Then the country
went stock-mad. It was almost the
French case over again. Everybody
bought stocks, and when the crash
came it brought universal bankruptcy
and a crisis which drove the ministry
from office,. The crash brought Stan?
hope to his grave and many of his col?
leagues were found to have received
big bribes from the company. Croggs,
. the secretary of state, died of terror
at the investigation, and Aislabie, the
chancellor of the exechequer, was sent
to the tower. Thousands of families
were ruined, and estates of directors
of the company to the value of 2,000,
000 pounds were seized. During the
boom the prices of the stock was, by
the artifices of the directors, raised
from 100 to 1,000 pounds.-Anaconda
(Mont. \ Standard.
EDISON'S LATEST TRIUMPH.
After several years of hard labor
and research Thomas Edison is heard
from again and another most import?
ant invention as well as discovery of
great interest to the world is announc?
ed. This latest intvention which
promises to be a revolutionizer of
traction as the electric light was in its
field, is a storage battery.
This new storage battery promises
to displace trolley wires, costly sub?
ways, steam auto-wagons, noisy gas
engines and wandering earth currents
which do so much damage to water
pipes and other metal conduits. It
promises in place of all these nui?
sances, electrically driven cabs, buss?
es, street cars, carriages, trucks and
wagons of ?every kind.
The storage battery is not new. It
was originally invented by Planti in
1860. But the new Edison storage bat?
tery is as different from this original
one of heavy lead and cumbersome
coils as the modern magazine rifle
differs from the fighting machines of
the Greeks and Romans. Edison is a
quiet, modest man and a hard worker.
His inventions are not announced un?
til they are perfected, There is noth?
ing of the Nikola Tesl3 about him.
When he invents something it is prac?
ticable and its benefits to mankind can
be promptly estimated and appreciat?
ed. For several years in the quiet of
his shop at Llewellen Park, out in
East Orange, New Jersey, he has-been
laboring on this storage battery prob?
lem. What was needed was a battery
which would be inexpensive,, of . light
weight, Capable of withstanding care?
less treatment, " and one with large
storage capacity, per unit of mass.
The new battery is said to "combin?
all of these advantages. It weighs only
fifty-three pounds per horse power,
whereas the bid style battery weighed
from 124 to 186 pounds. The Edison
battery gives its terminals sufficient
energy to lift its own weight to a ver?
tical distance of seven miles as
against a power in the old lead -cell
battery of raising its own weight but
two or three miles. This will give
the layman unversed in electrical terms
an idea of the value of the Edison
battery.-Atlanta News.
Dairymen Needed in the South.
A leading Pennsylvanian, Mr. W.
M. Benninger, commenting on his ob?
servations of the dairy industry in the
South, says:
"I have shown daily cattle and ope?
rated model dairies at Southern fairs
for a number of years. I find in every
one of the large cities and places that
I visited there is a scarcity of milk.
? I find that large numbers of the dairy
! farms are _ making a poor quality of
butter, while in the same sections I
saw as fine butter as I ever saw. The
advantages for making good butter
wijh less labor and expense far exceed
any section that I have visited.
"The mild climate makes it possible
to raise green foods most of the time
on the cheapest land, with the cheap
est labor and lumber to built commo?
dious barns at low cost, whjle these
shelters need not be as expensive as
our Northern barns. I had occasion
to run a model dairy in the South,
and I find I can keep milk sweet long?
er and make a finer flavored and better
grade of butter there than can be
made in the North, as the night air
seems especially adapted to this pur?
pose.
"lam further convinced that en?
hancing the dairy indnstry would not
increase the surplus product, for I be?
lieve that every quart of good milk
and every pound of good butter would
make an increased demand for double
the amount in the South. " -Southern
Farm Magazine.
Honey for Profit.
Wadesboro, N. C., is interested in
an industry conducted there by Miss
Annie ^ Knight. A correspondent of
the Chariote Observer from that
town says that she is earning more
than 8200 a year from a honey-comb?
ing plant which ci ?sr 8500. lie* writes
that part of the h<?ney is shipped in
the comb, the square blocks of comb
honey being packed in neatly made
wood frames. She extracts honey and
sells it in bottles and buckets, and is
now preparing to ex pt-ri ment in put?
ting up some of the very best extract
for sale in drug stores for the use of 1
invalids.
NO THIRD TERM FOR HIM.
President McKinley Says He
Would iMot Accept Nomination.
"Washington, Jnne ll.-President
McKinley today announces that he
would not accept a nomination for a
third term, in the following state?
ment:
"I regret that the suggestion of a
third term has been made. I doubt
whether I am called upon to give it
notice. But there are now questions
of the gravesi; importance before the
administration and the country, and
their just consideration should not be
prejudiced in the public mind by even
the suspicion of the thought of a third
term. In view of the reiteration of
the suggestion of it, I will say now,
once for all, expressing a long settled
conviction, that I not only am not and
will not be a candidate for a third
term, but would not accept a nomina?
tion for it if it were tendered me.
"My only ambition is to serve
throughout my second term to the ac?
ceptance of my countrymen, whose
generous confidence I so deeply appre?
ciate, and then with them do my duty
in the ranks of private citizenship.
"William McKinley."
"Executive Mansion, Washington,
June 10, 1901."
President McKinley's official an?
nouncement this morning, disposing
of the third term idea suggested by
some of his admirers, created no great
surprise among his friends who have
known of his deep convictions on the
subject.
When Senator Depew's suggestion
10 days ago that the president should
be reelected for a third term began to
be seriously discussed and whenever
any of the president's friends felt
called upon to endorse the idea the
president decided that the public
mind should be instantly cleared of
even the suspicion that he was seek?
ing to break down the precedents of
the past by becoming a candidate for
another term. He broached the sub
jet to Secretary Long late yesterday
1 afternoon. He told him that he be?
lieved that an announcement at the
very inception of the discussion would
> be wise and last night officially in?
formed the members of the cabinet
who had been informally called to?
gether of his decision. It met with
hearty approval. There was unani
? mons concurrence in the belief that
discussion of a third term would not
only place the president in a false
, light before the country if allowed to
go on, but would arouse antagonism
and greatly embarass the administra
I tion in the solution of the great ques
! tions before it. The brief announce?
ment which the president had pre?
pared was given out by Secretary Cor
telyou at noon tonday.
After the cabinet meeting today one
of the members said they were unani?
mous in their approval of the presi?
dent's pronunciamento regarding the
third term. The member pointed out
that if the president had . allowed the
discussion to proceed for any length of
time, notwithstanding the fact that he
has never entertained even the most
remote idea of being a candidate for a
third term, an announcement similar
to that made today would have been
subject to the misconstruction that
.he had been forced by public opinion
to give up an ambition whicri he had
never had.
PRlLADELPHlMiS 6IYE WELCOME
To Hundreds of Business Men
From the South.
j Philadelphia, June ll.-Delegates
numbering several hundred and repre?
senting all of the southern State's and
most of the principal cities of the
! south are attending the annual South
I ern Industrial convention which began
a four day's session in Horticultural
hall here today. This is the first time
the convention has been held in the
north and it is expected that great
benefits will accrue to tne commercial
and industrial interests of the north
and south through the deliberations of
the delegates.
Preparations for the present gather?
ing had been in progress since last
February when an invitation was ex?
tended by the allied commercial and
business organizations of Philadelphia
to the Southern Industrial association
to come here and debate ways and
means for furthering the trade of the
two sections.
The delegates found a heartfelt wel?
come awaiting them, the State and
city joining in the efforts to rendel
the visitor's sojourn as pleasant as i;
is expected to be profitable. The bus?
iness houses in the center of the city
have been gayly decorated with flags
and bunting and tonight the exterior
of the city hall was ablaze with electric
lights in honor of the occasion.
The welcome to the city's guests
consumed all of the morning session at
which welcome addresses were deliver?
ed by Gov. Stone and Mayor Ash?
bridge. Responses were made by Gov.
Longino of Mississippi and Mayor
Riggins of Waco, Texas. The after?
noon was given over to an excursion
on the Delaware river and tonight
the delegates listened to addresses by
Former Secretary of the Interior Hoke
Smith of Atlanta, Ga., and Robert
C. Ogden of Philadelphia, president
of the Southern Educational confer?
ence. The day's events concluded with
a reception tendered by Mayor Ash?
bridge at the city hali.
Sylvania. Ga., June 14.-Five bodies
dangling upon the same gallows, five
souls launched into eternity at the
same moment, marked the triumph of
the majesty of the law and the end of
what is believed to have been an or?
ganized gang of murderers, here to?
day. Th?- victims of the legal tragedy
were Arnold Augustus, Andrew Davis,
Richards Sanders, William Hudson
and Sam Baldwin, all negroes. The
victims of their (.-rime were Consta?
ble Mears and Fillmore Herrington,
whom they ambushed and shot to
death, and Capt. Wade, whom they
seriously wounded in the shooting that
ki Heil the two first men nearly a year
ago. On at least two occasions efforts
were made to lynch the murderers, hut
by the prompt action of the officers of
the law they were frustrated. On one
of these occasions the governor found
i: necessary to order out three compa?
nies of the State militia.
HORRIBLE BOSTON TRAGEDY.
Jealous Husband Kills His Wife, Cuts
Off Her Head,
Packs the Remains in a Trunk and
Ships it to Chelsford.
Boston, Mass, Jnne 13.-The mys?
tery concerning the disappearance
from this city of Margaret Blond?n,
wife of J. W. Blondin, remains unsolv?
ed. Her headless body was found
near Chelmsford and identified by her
sister. The head was hidden nearby.
The theory has been that the husband
committed the murder in fit of jeal?
ousy. Today it was intimated by the
police that the crime was committed
in the Green street house here, where
the couple boarded, and that the wom?
an's remains were sent away in a
trunk. This theory was given weight
by an interview between the police
inspectorsl and Mrs. Mary Hannigan,
the landlady, latter saying that on
Saturday, April 27, the day of Mrs.
Blondin's disappearance, she was sit?
ting in the front hall just before 4
o'clock, when Mrs. Blondin came in
and asked what time it was. On being
told she exclaimed: "My husband
will kill me." and ran up-stairs to
her room. The husband immediately
entered and demanded that Mrs. Han?
nigan tell him how his wife spent the
day. Upon being told that she spent
the day quietly he rushed up-stairs
as if in a furious temper, pushed the
room door open and closed it violent?
ly. The landlady heard angry talk
and the fall of a body. Ten minutes
later Blondin came out wearing his
best clothes. He locked the door, not
only by the ordinary fastening, but
with a padlock, which he had attach?
ed that morning.
Mrs. Hannigan went up-stairs, but
got no response from the room. She
thought that the woman was ashamed
to talk after what had taken place.
Blondin returned the following Tues?
day. During the interval Mrs. Han?
nigan tried to get word from Mrs.
Blondin.
When Blondin returned he looked
haggard. He went to his room, re?
mained there an hour, and when he
left in a hurry he doubly locked the
door.
In half an hour he returned with an
express man, explaining to Mrs. Han?
nigan that he had accepted a posi?
tion on a Government boat in. Canada
and that he was going to Montreal.
"Where is your wife?" asked Mrs.
Hannigan.
Blondin muttered something which
the landlady could not catch.
In reply to numerous other queries
Mrs. Hannigan was given to under?
stand that Mrs. . Blondin was at the
depot waiting for her husband.
"I cannot understand what you haye
kept her locked in her room so long
for," continued Mrs. Hannigan. "Is
she going with you?" asked the wo?
man.
"Yes. she is at the depot now," re?
plied Blondin.
Around the trunks which the ex?
press took away were heavy leather
bands.
Then Blondin left the house and
the landlady did not see him again.
The police learn that a trunk sim?
ilar to the one described was shipped
to Chelmsford on the night of April
30.
Blondin disappeared a week ago and
is now believed to be near Montreal.
FERRY BOAT DISASTER.
New York, June 14-The wooden
side wheeler Northfield which has been
in the service of the Staten Island
Ferry Company for the past 38 years,
was rammed tonight by the steel hull?
ed propellor Mauchchunk, used as a
ferryboat by the. Central railroad of
New Jersey. The collision occurred
just off the Staten Island ferry slip at
the foot of Whitehall street and in less
than ten minutes after the Northfield,
which was crowded with passengers,
sank at the outer end of the Spanish
Line pier in the East river. The
Mauchchunk, which was badly dam?
aged, landed the two dozen passen?
gers who were aboard of her. Over a
hundred of the passengers of the sunk?
en Northfield were dragged out of the
water by people along shore and crews
of the fleet of river tugs which promptly
responded to the ferry boat's call for
help. . A few of the Northfield's pas?
sengers were hurt in the accident and
the police believe that some lives were
lost. Capt. Daniel Gully of the tug
boat Mutual, who saw the ferryboats
crash together, says that immediately
after the collision between 25 and 30 of
the passengers leaped into the water
and that many of those perished.
Capt. Gully also declares that he is
sure overa hundred of the Northfield's
passengers were drowned. The cap?
tains of other tugboats who were early
on the scene, however, are inclined to
think that the disaster was not so se?
rious as regards loss of life. Thus far
no dead bodies have been recoverep.
Liberal Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, June 14.-Mayor Ash
brige has signed the ordinance appro?
priating 835,000 for the purpose of de?
fraying the expense of the Philadelphia
exhibit at the South Carolina Inter?
state and West Indian exposition to be
held in Charleston. S. C., next win?
ter.
The mayor also signed resolution of
council that the old Liberty Bell be
sent to Charleston as part of Philadel?
phia's display.
Depew Now Booming Hanna.
New York, June 13.-Referring to
the Cleveland World's boom Mark
Hanna for the next president, Senator
Depew said today "Hanna for presi?
dent? Grand, good fellow: none better
in the world: patriotic citizen: noble
specimen of American manhood and
statesmanship: warm friend of mine:
has the good will (if the whole com?
munity: friend of the party and friend j
of the people at large.**
West Palm Beach, Fla., June 13.-j
Henry M. Flagler the millionaire, has j
applied for a divorce, under the recent
Florida law. which makes insanity a
ground for action. Mrs. Flagler has
been insane for a long time.
THE ANDERSON "SLAVERY" GASES
Mr. Fowler Testing Right to
Imprison When the Prisoner is
Willing to be Locked Up.
Special to The State
Anderson, June 14.- George Thomas,
Willis McGhee, Elias, McGee, indict?
ed jointly with J. S. Fowler for con?
spiracy, false imprisonment and as?
sault and battery of a high and aggra?
vated nature, plead guilty of assault
and battery, and were sentenced to pay
a fine of 850 each or 30 days on the
public works or in the State peniten?
tiary.
J. S. Fowler went to trial this after?
noon and a motion was made by his
attorneys to quash the indictment.
After argument, Judge Klugh quashed
the indictment as to conspiracy and
then he went into trial on the "other
two counts. Testimony was taken and
the case argued before the jury and
court adjourned until tomorrow.
The reason assigned for accepting
the plea of assault and battery in full
of the indictment is stated by the soli?
citor to be that he did not'think the
State could prove its case as 'in^the
other counts. Hammond was indicted
in four cases but was fined in only
one, which settles the matter in full
as to him.
TRANSPORT CAPSIZES IN DRY DOOK
Thirty Italians Were in Hole
Loss of Life May be Great.
New York, June 14.-While the Uni?
ted States transport Ingalls was in the
balance dry dock at Erie basin, south
Brooklyn, this afternoon where she
was about to undergo extensive repairs
she suddenly slipped from the blocks
and capsized. One man is known to
have been killed and many injured.
There were about 240 carpenters, ma?
chinists and other laborers at work on\
the vessel at the time. It is supposed
that the vessel was thrown from an
even keel by ballast improperly placed,
or by the shifting of the blocks on
which she rested, causing her to list
to starboard, 'driving the shorting
beams through the rotten walls of the
old floating dry dock in which she was
cradled. Besides the machanics and
other workmen who crowded the vessel
and dock, preparing her for a voyage
to Manila, there was supposed to have
been about 30 Italian laborers in the
hold of the ship, employend in shifting
the pig iron ballast. While the work?
men were trying to escape, the dock
itself overbalanced by the weight of
the ship, turnisd on its side and sank
in 50 feet of water. A number of men
were borne down into the water and
jammed under and beneath the wreck?
age which rose to the surface. How
many were caught could not be learn?
ed tonight.
Martin Anderson, a painter, was
caught under the descending side of
the ship and killed outright. Others
were dragged out of the water badly in?
jured or half drowned and hurried to
the hospitals. Added to the horrors of
tonight was the uncertainty of the fat?
of the men in the vessel's hold. Some
managed to get to the deck and leap
into the water as the vessel was sink-,
ing, but it is feared that the majority
weredess fortunate.
The Ingalls went into dry dock at
11.30 this morning and about $80,000
was to have been expended on her re?
pairs. The look in which she was
placed was a very old one, ha?iftg been
constructed over 50 years ago. An
effort was made to close the gate at
the time of the accident but was un?
successful. No one could be found
tonight who could give any estimate
of the amount of damage the disaster
had entailed.
BR?flitiiifs
Fine Weather Prospects-What is
Said About Cotton.
New York, June 14.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say : Reports to Brad?
street's show a further improvement
in the volume and tone of distributive
trade, which had" its'inception in the
better weather and crop conditions.
Following the check given to the crop
damage-enthusiast by the June crop
report, which can hardly be regarded
as other than brilliant for wheat,
comes assurances that the conditions
on June 1, good as they undoubtedly
were, have been further improved.
What is true of the smaller cereals is
also largely the case as to corn, though
the latter is backward and needs
warmth. Cotton crop prospects have
likewise been improved though the
low condition is apt to offset some, if
not all, of the increase in acreage. A
better business is noted in some lines
of men's war woolens, and some makes
of cheaper goods are reported heavily
ordered ahead. While the cereals are
lower on good crop reports, quick sup?
port has come from the export de?
mand which has been the largest for
weeks past, and the decline has been
temporarily, at least, arrested. One of
the most satisfactory features of all is
that after quite a period of dullness,
pig iron has been taken more freely at
leading markets and bars and plates
have sold better, the latter event not?
ing an advance. Pig iron production
is shown to be proceeding at an un?
precedented rate, but consumption
appears to wait promptly upon output.
Railroad earnings continue in undi?
minished volume, and the only deci?
dedly unfavorable feature deserving
attention is the failure of the machin?
ists' strike to be amicably settled, the
prospect, in fact, being that the con?
test will be a long drawn out one.
Failures in the United States for the
week number 1S8 agaist 1*53 last week,
180 in this week a year ago, 150 in
1899, 208 in 1898 and 266 in 1897.
Canadian failures for the week num?
ber 17 aganist 24 last week. 23 in this
week a vear ago. 25 in 1S99 and 19 in
189S.
Old. Soldier's Experience.
M M Austin, a civil w;ii vet run. <>i Win?
chester. Ind , wrire? : . M- w fe w.i* ?irk a
long time in sfr*e of good doctor's treatoienr,
bur WHS whol y cured ny l>r Kin^'i? New Life
Pil'?. which worked wander? tor ber htal b "
They always do. Tryih?ra Ooly 2^c ur J F
W DeLornse'? drug store. 3
Passaic, N. J., June 13.- An explo?
sion in the Chemical Royal Match
factory set fire to the entire plant and
destroyed it. There were twelve explo?
sions altogether. A watchman ia
missing. The plant was recently pur?
chased by the trust.
Washington, June'll-- Emilio Zur
bano, of Tayabas Province, has pro ?
claimed himself the successor of
Aguinaldo and Gov. of Tayabas and
the Philippines," according to a copy
of a Manilla paper just received at
the war department. Emilio is said
to have always been a rather theatri?
cal insurrectionist and to have sworn
tojfight the Americans down to the last
hole. The publication does not take
the Filipino's announcement seriously
and warns him that he will find "that
the office carries with it certain grave
responsibilities which will sooner or
later result in heart failure and a sud?
den demise."
Life and
Fire Insurance.
Call OD me, at my residence, Liberty
Street, for both Life and Fire IDSU
rance. Only reliable Companies rep?
resented. Phone No. 130.
Andrena Moses*
Oct 25-o.
WiDtlirop College SdiolarsMp
AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS
THE EXAMINATIONS for the
award of vacant scholarships in Win?
throp College and for the admission of
new students will be held at the comi?
ty Court House on Friday, July 12th,
at 9 a. m.
Applicants must not be less than
fifteen years of age.
When scholarships are vacated after
July 12th, they will be awarded to
those making the highest average at
this examination.
The cost of attendance, including
board, furnished room, heat, light and
washing, is $9.00 per month.
For further information and a cata?
logue address Pres. D. B. Johnson,
Rock Hill, S. C. May 22
Just
Good Timothy H?ay
AND
best White Coriu
Molasses in 10-gai
lon kegs, 1-2 barrels
and barrels.
Salt, Lime and a foll
line of Groceries at
low prices.
G-et our prices be*
fore yon buy and we
will save you money.
OR?SSWELL ft ?fc,
PHONE 53.
Eggs5 ?tid
Chickens*
Barred Plymouth
Rock Eggs,
FROM FINE STRAINS OF FOWLS
At $1 per sitting of 13
Also a few young
Cockerels for sale.
1ST. Gr. OSTEEN.
Rusrs COTTON ROOT ANI)
Pennyroyal Pills,
Original and geooine Always re'lable and
s?fe. Ladies: Always a?k for Dr Rast'9
Cotton Root and Pennyroyal Female Pills.
Tbey never fail and never injure. Mailed to
aov adrtreps on receipt of $1 by J F W
DeLorme, Sumter, S C.
Gentlemen, get tbe new, novel discovtry,
PIGEON MILK
INJECTION.
Cures Gonorrhoea and Gleet in 1 to 4 days.
Its action is magical, Prevents s:rictare A.I
complete. To ?d carried in ?est pocket.
Sure preventative. Sent Dy mai! in plain
package, preps'd, on receipt of price $1
per box; 3 for $2 50. For sale in Sumter Dy
J F W DeLorme. 5
VIGOR OF MEN
EASILY, Q7XCZLT ?HS PSKMA
27E2TTLT BESTOBED.
Magnetic Nervine
is sold with a written guarantee to cure In?
somnia, Fits, Dizziness, Hysteria, Nervous
Debiht.r, Lost Vitality, Seminal Losse3, Fail?
ing Memory-?be result of over-work, sick?
ness, errors of youth or over-indulgence.
Price Si ; 6 bo::?s $5. By mail in piain
package to any address on receipt of price.
Sold only by Dr J F W DeLorme.
Feb 5 1