Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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W?:?N?S?iinf FEBRUARY 5V 1902. The Swmt?? W?&ttman waa i?ucdeo io 1850 as? tie fes? &>??*ron ia 1886 The ?Foic?^? ?n? Sot?kr&n now has the combine*' ?ircu^itien and inflnenee sf both of ?it oli papers, and is mani? festly tbe best advertising medium in Tiie Legis&fttre persists in passing bills that do not apply to the entire State, or .?f a^en^ral biH is introduced an amendme^tis tacked on exempting certain coc&iesv This sort of law making is.* afesotstely - foolish in the face of tnt*^ce^t:4??rsion of the Su pseiae Ck&s&on- tiie Jury law, ia which t decision iftwas clearfjt. s?ated that any and all biij&?f-a- special nature that dp not a?^?^ aEicpupties alike are miconstrt??ioBa? ana 6f ' no effect Arread^Qfe?tt?&\-p? schoolbooks at absb?u?^? is^'f?Ki?g to pieces fce fsr?i the eg?^^ito&: sanguine, dream? ers. , A bill;* has. passed the House of Ifep:rese?i^W^a^th^]az?h^ the Coun? ty Sup??al?rfenV?pf| Pick?ns County to *;dd te?sCfj&r to thie- cost' of* school bb?l?SD?^-byc him as renume? ration for-tfce extra work the sale of: the said' toefrls has forced him to per? form. Wa?o ^t;Warne the County Snj?rin^ea^fe-^^i^atio?; for- ask? ing "for a^?^?!>na^iga^ for this.^ wor% for their: has t?zt greatly. Jar creased" ???*itc?f worry* mt??pi?ed: ten-fold* j& ik; V.ix?^??itio?;, to r? quire. tb^^>??jy'?^p?dnte?d?nts to rai. the bojs& depositories without ex? tra pay,- a?lif' t??^-:aie-paid?wi??- the w?ark is J^h^tjt? SJ?i? b?oktbasl nees wi??o^ taeiax^y*3w:more than is saved ?y-tfe change from the old method. Senator Allman becomes more and more a the^-in-theflesh of the- im peiiailst rojwb?ieans, and it is an off day i?ifef? Senate that he does not make several of them writhe and squirm. Senator Manning's, bill providing for a pension commissioner in each coun? ty, is an excellent measure, and should pass both houses without opposition. Congressman Stokes introduced a bpi in Congress several years ago, ap? propriating : a, sufficient sum for the erection of'a monument to Gen. Sum? ter, but it never became a law. Noth? ing need-.be said of Gen. Sumter's seirvices to' the country during the Revolution and to this State in suc? ceeding yeats up to the time of his death. If any Revolutionary soldier and patriot1 is worthy of a monument, he is, but no stone has ever been rear? ed to his-mieinory, while hundreds of other men ^ose services were not so great baie' had costly monuments erected to^eir memory by the U. S. Congress. . Congressman Lever can not do a mtwre'popular thing than to revive the Sft?kes bill and use his best efforts to-secure, an appropriation for the Sumter monument. If any effort is io be made this year to beautify the Court House, work should begin pretty soon. Supervisor Seale is ready to do his part, and if there was such a thing in Sumter as a "Village Improvement Society" it would be easy to convert the now desolate and forlorn looking square into a pretty little park. We aro con? fident that those who have gardens would gladly donate all the plants and flowers needed for the square. Col. Joseph Bryan, owner and editor o? the Richmond Times, is one of the successful newspaper men of Virginia, and the south. His afternoon news? paper. The Leader, is conducted on the unprecedented plan of cash sales to thc newsboys, with no subscription lists of any kind. The newsboys crowd a round thc office in such numbers tb at j two policemen are required to preserve order, and they buv the papers in such numbers as thev want, paving ? cash for them when received. The papers are printed as long as demand? ed, and when the demand is over, the printing ceases. It is a varying edition from 15,000 to 20.000, and the paper varies in size from eight to t wenty pages. It sells for one cent, and is a remarkable success.- Augusta Chronicle. w ONE TH0USA?D"D0LLARS. Columbia, Feb. r>. Yesterday the governor offered a reward of $1,000 forthecnptureand conviction of Bartow Warren, the man who on August 26 last killed Thomas II. Watson at Branchville and has since been at large. This new reward takes the place of the original re*ward offered. The governor has not stated his reasons for increasing the reward so materially, but he says he has good reasons for doing so. Bartow Warren is the man wTho was tried for the single-handed hold-up j of the Southern railway train at Branchville a few years ago, at which time $1,700 was secured from the ex? press car by the robber. He was out on bond in this matter when he met Watson who was one *of the principal witnesses against him and killed him j on the streets of Branchville. mmm ffM rats Ways and Bfeans, Gomimttee ports the Bill-to the Hons Washington, February 3.-The and means committee of the Ht by. a unanimous vote today, ore a favorable report on the war tax duction bill. A surprise oem; when Representative Babcock, Re lican member, offered his bill, lai reducing duties on the steel sehe and placing some articles on the list, as an amendment to the tax r? section. The amendment was de ed-6 to 7-Messrs. Babcock and :1 ney and all the Democrats voting the affirmative. The Cuban reciprocity- question,, came up unexpectedly, Represents Steel,1 of Indiana, moving, a 25 cent concession on. Cuban sugar. motion .was withdrawn* however,' ? a brief exchange of comment. The closeness of: the vole on Babcock's amendment,' reducing steel schedule, caused much comm Messrs. Newlands and-Copper, De crats, and Long and Hopkins, Re j licans, were absent.. It was expiai on-behalf of the absent members i they were either out of the "city detained at important ..meetings, e wi?ere, and thifc. the I&bcock mo wasl-entirely u^ccmstitntipnat. The motion of Si??ie for a 25 cent reduction.. on Cuban. sugar regarded as rather facetious and ? rejoinder to the UEexjpect?? motion line- steel schedu??i- ?fef&?s?Mal p&Jbsertsijn, of Louisiana,. who ; o jgosecl to a reduction pn Cuban su| -was among. tbiose " w?> voted for Babcock amenment. tffc bill: was^teport?dltp the; [f?ot Mx??ti -i?r?ion?ire Dead. Raleigh, N. C., February. 3.-1 sudden death of J?mes W. Tufts 3 night at Pinehurst, sixty miles soi of Raleigh, was a painful surpi Tuf ts was a Boston-multi-mi?li?nai whose money was made on soda wa fountains and patents. He founc the winter resort of Pinehurst,. inve lng about a million dollars there fin8 hotels and cottages, which wi always crowded and turned away J plicants from New England ev? season. Pinehurst is a magnifie* resort, and is connected by an elect line with Southern Pines. Ma Northern people now wintering Aiken and elsewhere in [ South Cai lina, knew the deceased well. ? body will be taken to Boston for int? ment. AIKEN AMUSEMENTS. We see from the papers that t thousand pigeons have been shipped Aiken, S. C., to furnish targets ? the members of the Aiken Gun Clu It seems a terrible commentary on t rich and idle that those who have ti money and the opportunity to enjc themselves, and to leave the cold ai discomfort of the North for the bea ties of such a spot as Aiken, sh?u j not be able to occupy themselves i any more humane way than by sui wholesale butchery. For those scioi of millionaires who wish to spei their winters in playing polo at Aike; and their summers in pursuing zl same glorious game at Newport, H have nothing to say. They, at leas are taking manly exercise, and the^ jperhaps, understand their limitatior j better than we do, but we cannot se I such?cports as pigeon butchery intrc duced into the South without raisin our earnest protest against it. We d not believe that South Carolina wi] be behind New York in humanity, an : what has been outlawed in ether state 1 should not be allowed to find a restin place in a State with such a histor and record as South Carolina.-Rich mond Times. Frank Player Pardoned. Columbia, Feb. '5.-Gov. McSwee ney yesterday granted a pardon in th< case of Frank M. Player, the forme: dispenser of Kingstree, who was con victed of breach of trust with fraudu lent intent in Williamsburg county ii March, 1901, and was sentenced U. ttl ree years and one month in th? State prison. The application has been under con? sideration for some time. Senatoi Williams has recently been urging ac? tion. He said yesterday that he did not believe that Player had received one cent of tho dispensary money he was charged with taking. Solicitor Wilson said :" Believing that the ends of justice have been fully met in tho punishment already under? gone by Player, and further on account of the helpless condition of his large family and his own advanced age and former good reputation, I most earn? estly and respectfully recommend his immediate pardon. Player is nearly 60 j years old. Petitions signed by nearly every? body in that section of the State were presented. There was a strong letter also from Hon. Joal E. Brunson, the noted pro? hibition advocate. The State board of directors of the dispensary also ask? ed it. Judge Watts declares in a let? ter that be was in error in recommend? ing that the governor refuse the par? don, and says he wishes to withdraw all opposition and leave the case with? out recommendation. Big Drop in Oil. It was admitted today in Standard Oil circles that the recent weakness of the shares of the Standard Oil company in the outside securities market has, to a large extent been in? fluenced by-the new competition, that has arisen- in*; this country as- well as in the Orient. The latter is one of the strongholds of . the big Rockefeller concern. . The shares of the Standard Oil company are perhaps more closely held than the securities of any other corporation. The stock is allowed to take its own course, and at no time has support by Standard Oil interests been in evidence. . About 40 per cent, of the $100,000, 000 capital stock of the company is held by John D. Rockefeller, while Mr. Rockefeller and. his close business associates own all the stock with the exception of something like 150,000 shares. Of the latter amount nearly all is held as an investment, and-it is seldom that any of it finds its way to the outside securities market. The stock of the Standard Oil company available for trading purposes is limit? ed-to a-f?w th^nsaad shares. Since last May the price, of Standard OilstockrJias declined: 208 points to $632-a share, the price established Saturday-, iii the curb trading. This means a shrinkage of $209,000*006 in tfrerinarket value... of the Standard Gil Company's securities. There is no considerable speculative interest in Standard Oil stock, mainly because its . price is. prohibitive of margin tratSngV ' but 20D points is a very .great deal for. any - stock to fall,. and espe? cially f?Tithe. bigest dividend paying stock invthe: market. ? No- satisfactory explanation of the drop in-Standard: Oil wai-forthcoming . ?fftiHoday, when at person itt: close; touch wit rx the: affairs' of the company ventured an - interesting:,inside, view: of the situ?t?om According ? tb this authority, there: is:no truth itt7 the* statement that the- productiorf- jof? the iSfandard: Oil company is diminish? ing-rapidly. It - is-true. that , the Pennsylvania fields are hot as produc? tive as they used tor be,J but the- loss has . -been-more than made up, by the openr ?in?o? new regions, which are now contributing a large part1 of the com? pany's production. The Standard Oil company is selling more oil today 'than -ever before, but it would be no ^surprise to well informed: interests to hear that it had decided to reduce its dividends and devote the money that otherwise would be disbursed to stockholders to meeting the sharp competition that lately has developed. Russia is now producing more oil than the United States, and although this product is inferior to that of this country, it is finding a big market in the Orient. It is feared that the rise of Texas as an oil producing state will also make extraordinary competition for the Rockfeller combine, although the Standard Oil company is a large purchaser of the product of the Lone Star state. This Texas oil, like the Russian pro? duct, is inferior to that of the combine, but it is feared by the Standard Oil company that the Texas output may yet come into drect competition with finer oil through the perfection of refining pcocesses to the Beaumont product. Thus competition of a grave character has arsen from two widely separated quarters, and the combine is understood . to have projected a policy designed to forestall inroads upon its business. It is. developing new wells at strategic points as rapid? ly as possible. Its latest efforts in this direction have been in Japan, where oil pros pectiing has been going forward on a considerable scale, and not without success. It 'costs a great-deal of money to deal with oil competition, and it may be necessary to curtail dividends in or? der to provide funds out of the com? pany's net earnings to counteract com? petition from Texas and Russia, but the inside holders of the stock are re? markably indifferent about it. They say that it matters very little to them what the stock sells for in the open market. They know what it is worth. The Standard Oil company paid 48 percent., or $48,000,000 in dividends last year, the largest ever disbursed by any industrial company.-New York Commercial. Congressman Finley is asking con? gress for an appropriation of $118,000 with which to make a survey and car? ry out certain improvements on the Great Pee-Dee river to Cheraw, and on the Wateree to Camden. He had the desired appropriation in the last rifer and harbor bill that was killed during the closing hours of the last session of the senate.-Yorkville En? quirer. Pittsburg, Jan. 31.-Edward Biddle in jail, djing, John Biddle, riddled with buckshot and in a precarious condition, and Mrs. Peter K. Soffel lying in the hospital with a self-in? flicted bullet wound in the breast is the sequel of the sensational escape of the Biddle brothers from the Allegheny county jail, aided by Mrs. Soffel, the wife of the jail warden, on Thursday morning. It took a roundabout route to get this item, but here it is and for what it is worth: "Two popular society women engaged in a scrap over a piece of lace at a bargain sale in Greenville, S. C., the other day. One slapped the other's face, then the trouble began. They were finally separated. . but not until considerable damage was done on both sides. The affair has cansed a great sensation in Green-'Ile on .ac? count of the high socie' position of the two ladies."-Augusta Chronicle. By Order of thu fr.aident. Washington, January 3i. -The Pres? ident has issued the following execu? tive order: All officers and employees of the United States of every description, serving in or under any of the execu? tive departments, and whether so serving in or ont of Washington, are hereby forbidden, either diectly or in- I directly, individually or through asso- J ciations, to solicit an increase of pay i or to influence or attempt to influence in their own interests any legislation whatever, either before Congress, or its committees, or in any way, save through the heads of the departments in or under which they serve, under penalty of dismissal from the Govern? ment service. Theodore Roosevelt. White House, Washington, January 31, 1902. A FACT ABOUT THE "BLUES" What ls known as the ??Blues' ?s seldom occasioned by actual exist? ing external conditions, but in the great majority of cases by a disorder? ed i - THIS IS A FACT which may be demonstra? ted by trying a course of They control and regulate the LIVER. They bring hope and bouyancy to the mind. They bring health and elastic? ity to the body= _TAK? NO SUBSTITUTE. . MCE TO fllfflffi orr: CE or COUNTY TREASURER SUMTER CO. SCMTEB, S: C., Sept 24, 190?. NOTICE is hereby given that I will ;be in my office in the County Court House at Sumter from October 15th to December 31st, ?9Q?, inclusive, for the' collection of .taxes for the fiscal year 1901. The levy is as follows: For State purposes, 5 mills. F?r County purposes, 3 mitts. For School purposes, 3 mills. Total levy,. li Also the following special school levies: School District No. 1, 2 mills. School District No. 1$, 2 mills. School District No. 18, * 2 *??k'. School District No. 20, 3 mills. Mt. Clio, . 2 mills. ConcorcL/ " -2 mills. Privateer, 2 mills. No. 5, 1: mi?. ; No.. 17; 1 mill. ' School District No. 2ty 4 j mil?s. ' School District-No. 22, * 4'mil?s. Commutation Road Tax for 19Q$$1;00, payable from Oct. 15th, 1901, to Feb. 1st, 1902. H. L. SCARBOROUGH, sept 24 Treasurer Sumter Co. ^Original and Only Genuine. J5AFE. Alw?-iirt?;able. Ladle u'? Drerrfst fer CHICHESTEU'S KN'GJLISH la "RED an-I Gold nretillic box?, tealcd i v?th Wae ribbon. Take no other. Refile I>n?Ccron? Snbrtltotion* and ImJto tion?. BUT of yonr Drnjgirt. or srqd 4c. ia ?tmapa for Portlctilar?. Tentimoniois Md .'Relier for Ladic*," in lettsr, br re turn y.lcii. 1 (l,0(i<) Trjiisooii!;. S?U!bT DrugSi??. Cb!ehe?tcrChetalcalC?u, Mention th!? paper. Mc/ll*r/ri f???~it>r**. ??3?!l.'4.. A Sumter. S. C., Aug. 22, 1901. Crosswell & Co. beg to an? nounce that their business af? ter September 1st will be con? fined entirely to the wholesale trade. ? We wish to thank the pub? lic and our many . retail cus? tomers for their kind, and gen? erous patronage, and assure them that should we ever enter into the retail business again that it will be our aim as in the past to serve them to the best of our ability. We invite merchants, here and in adjacent territory, to get our prices before making purchases, believing we can save them money. Yours truly, GROSSWELL & GO., PHONE 53. Au* 28 i For 1902. OUK BRANDS : All high grade goods made from pure materials and guaranteed. Cerealite Top Dressing, Bcyfcin's Dissolved Animal Bone, Phoenix Crop Grower. Boykin's Oereai Fertilizar, Yancey's Formula for Yellow Leaf Tobacco, Boykin's Eagle Phosphate, Boykin's Alkaline Bone, Everybody;s Fertilizer, Boy kin'fl Dissolved Bone Phospbaie, Home Formulas for composting Always on hand : Nova Scotia Land Plaster, Muriate Potash, High Grade Sulphate Potash, Kainit, Sul? phate Ammonia, Nitrate Soda, Paris Green. All kinds of Chemicals. FOR SALE BY The Some Fert. Chem. Works, Baltimore, Md. TriOS. S. SUMTER, AGENT, SUMTER, S G Deo ll TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. I WILL HOLD injthe Court House, Sumter, S. C., on Friday, the 21st day of February, at 0 a. m., examina? tions for teachers' certificates. All persons wishing to stand the examina? tion will please be on hand. W. P. BASKIN,: Countv Superintendent. Jan. 22-?t. WISH YOU TO KNOW That in addition to the great amount of heavy groceries they handle they are -ALSO At the Front With first class line of s s s Fancy ?rrocerie? : : s Our large sales in this department attest the popularity of our prices and grades. LOOK IT OVER.ALWAYS FRESH. Some] of the canned goods that we carry under the best brands: Potted Ham, Tongue, Chicken, Duck, Lunch Tongue, Corn Beef Hash (2 sizes), Corn Beef, Chipped Beef, Tripe, Yienna Sausage, half dozen brands Salmon and Mackerel, Star, Picnic, and Lunch Lobsters, Dunbar Schrimp, Cove Oysters. Full line Retter's & Libby's Soups. Tomatoes. Okra and Tomatoes, Early June Peas, Honey Bee and Sunbeam Corn, Lima Beans (new), Fresh Garden Beets (3 lb cans, and they are fine), As- . paragus Tip3 Many brands of Peaches, including the cele? brated Herald Square Bartlett Pears, Desert Sliced Apricot and Peaches, Apple and Peach Butter, Canned Jams, Plum Pudding, Melrose brands Cherries and Strawberries. " Full line open and bottled Pickles, Canton Ginger, Postum Cereal, Grape Nut, Heckers Cereal -Coffee, Oat Meal and Buck Wheat. Ralston s Health Foods, Riches' table Jelly in Package form. Full line Fancy Crackers. Will tell you about other things in few days. Don't forget that "Mill* bourne Flour9*' is the be?t.