Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?{jt Sfiammati mt?r jlaiii|rmi "w?W??SPAY, iiOVEMSEB 19; 1902. The Svmter Watchman was toundea ?o 185$ and the True Southron in 1866 The Watchman and' Southron now has the combined oireolatien and influes ce of both of the old papers, and is mani festly the "best advertising medium is Sum ter. The biggest thing about the Fres? tial bear hunt has been the work the press agents he carried with . Pr?sident Roosevelt is the great advertiser in America, and if he to pay regular space rates his would not pay the bills for a week. Sm&Hpex is reported to be epidemic at Charlotte, N. C, and it has already broken out at several widely separate points inH this State. Within the pre sent week the State Board of Health has been notified that there are a num ber of cases of smallpox at Kershaw, Lancaster county and in the adjacent portions of Kershaw county. This is near enough to furnish grounds for apprehension that the disease will be brought into this county during the winter. It is easier to , prevent an epidemic than to stamp it out after it has gained headway. There is but one certain preventive of smallpox, and that is general vaccination. We advise, as we have had occasion do in the past, that every person who has not been successfully vaccinated with in, the past six years, be vaccinated now. - A writer in the December number of Every body'a Magazine pictures the life of the cotton mill operatives of Co lumbia as? closely akin to a living death or' a hell '. upon earth. If one hundredth of what she insinuates be true a cotton mill- village is a plague spot, a place filled wjtbr imoral and physical, - degenerates, , whose '. present condition , is - horrible and whose future is hopeless. But the purpose of the writer; a Miss Van Vorsfc, is too e vident e she- writes to damn the Southern'" co'tto mill, not to tell the whole truth, good as weH; as bad. Even the- pictures illustrating the article -are' somber-hued and would tend to create the impression that the Columbia mill district is a little in ferno of filth, swamps and desso lation. Such articles may injure the South ern cotton mill industry in the minds of some people, but the damage cannot approach.th?t.desired by the writer, for it is too greatly overdrawn. The enemies of the Southern-cotton mills should employ some one more adept in the art of misrepresen tation. OFFICIA*. ABSENTEEISM. The Columbia Record is doing a good work in agitating for the enact I znent of a law to require State officers to stay in Columbia and at 'tend to their duties. The following article in the Record of the 18th in stant states the case clearly says, the Newbexry Herald and News : "The'evils of official absenteeism* seem to be worrying the editor of The Columbia Record a good deal just at present While it is a fact that all state officers ought to live in Colum bia, we do not believe affairs in the state house, are in quite as bad condi tion as The Record would have us be lieve. However,: we would be glad to have The Record go more into detail in regard to the 'stringent law com pelling state officers to stay in Co lumbia and devote their time to the business of the state, which it would like to have enacted. It strikes us an account of some of its workings, if enforced, would make interesting reading. ' ' We are not surprised that the editor of the Herald and News doesn't ap preciate how business interests are affected by official absenteeism. He has not been about the state house enough to learn much about it. If he will examine his own case a little pro bably he can understand how it would have been had he been the head of a department rather.than the governor's private secretary. There would not be much detail, however, about the law to meet the case. All that would be necessary would be to require state officers to attend t? the state's busi ness just as any sound business in dividual would attend to his own. If a law were passed, we think it would be observed without the necessity of much detail about it; but, if it comes to the worst, officials might be re quired to certify on oath how many days they had been in their offices and attended to business before receiving their pay warrants. We do not believe there would be any necessity for this, because the simple passage of a law would be sufficient notice served that the evil must be remedied. If that fails, details will be easily enough ar ranged. "Mother Eddy of the Christian Scientists has "advised" her follow ers to refrain hereafter from treating contagions sickness. But why? The Scientists believe that all sickness is imagination and there can therefore be do such thing as contagious disease. What most people understand as con t igions disease is to the Christian Scien tist merely a fallacy of the mind which sweeps rapidly from one overwrought brain to another. But surely, this being the case, it were the duty of Mother Eddy to exert her utmost to arrest widely pervading error. Of course, though, the wholesome law of the land, which the Scientists have been unable to persuade the authorities isa false "claim," has some terrors for them, and it has not yet appeared than any of the sect are inclined to suffer imprisonment, much less fine, * serenading deluded people to sub ^emselvcs to the ravages of dis WHIT SONST?T?TES RESIDENCE? Judge Buchanan Claims Yet Be a Resident of Sumter. The Newberry Herald and News yes terday insisted that the Newberry court was adjourned because of the likelihood that the question of Jedge Buchanan's residence would come up. Judge Buchanan has set all doubts on that point at r?st as the following from the Spartanburg Journal shows: A communication received by a friend in this city from Judge Buchanan last night stated that the Judge expected to be in Spartanburg and hold court according to schedule. The ; communication stated .... that Judge Buchanan^ court at Newberry was not adjourned on account of his alleged non-residence in the district, but on account of an altogether differ- \ e?X matter."; Judge. Buchanan" says that, .he is still /a resident of this dis trict and denies the statement recently made to. the effect that he had changed his place of residence. W?T?l??fi OHBE SOUTH. Government Engineers Wi!i Make Complete Investigation. . . ?.-. .... ?. Washington, Nov. .17.?The rec?nt developments in the'commercial pos sibilities of the electrical transmis sion of water power have rendered available a great many water courses, which though at times technically available, have until quite recently been economically without Value. Particularly has such-been the case "with streamsv of the Southern Ap palachian region, i which, on account of topographic and climatic conditions, have a great fall and a large and con stant flow, and on which, as a rule, the conditions are such. , as to render hydraulic developments comparatively cheap, thus affording. potential water power of gr??t value, to the industrial life of the country. On account of the ihaccesibiiity of the country in which they are located these streams have in the past been without practical value, but advances in electrical science . nave , rendered their development and use at some no far distant time not an improbability but[a practical certainty. Therefore, the*-.divis?ri of .hydrography of the geological survey has recently begun a comprehensive investigation of the water-power possibilities of these streams, for the purpose of determin ing the available, fail of any probable power site, the volume of water avail able attach site, and such other gen eral information as to practicable development conditions and methods as the engineers in charge of the work may be able to collect. The information will be of great value to engineers and other intend ing users of water power, by indicat ing the localities .apt to repay more detailed investigation on their part. 60L0 STANDARD IN HEU r". ?> m - ' ? TV*" ?."i-f.r?' ?-TT. ?-' ? /s ? -' ; - Must Abandon Silver Standard for Seff-Protectien. "It is my opinion, that Mexico will adopt the gold standard in a few months," said Mr. Jesus Tre jo, of MexicojjCity, who is at the Gait House. "The Mexicans want to trade with the United States, and realize to continue I doing - so they will have to adopt the ; same, monetary standard that exists in this country. The difference the Mexican money and that of the United States has. become so great that the Mexicans cannot" afford to give their money f?r our "goods. An American doll?r is now worth. $2.65 of Mexican money, while a year ago it was only worth $2. The premium on American i money, as you see, is growing all the time, and if Mexico does not hurry and j adopt the gold standard the country will be in such a shape that when it is adopted it willbe too late. ' "The premium in Great Britain arid Germany is not so great, and as a re sult those countries are gaining trade with Mexico. The difference in the values of money between Mexico arid Germany is only two for one, what it was formerly with the United States. I cannot account for the varying vailues other than the merchants in the Uni ted States believe they offer advant ages to the Mexicans which the com peting countries cannot offer. "But, as I said before, Mexico will soon be on a gold standard, and then the United States will get practically all of its trade. The Mexicans favor this country because it is near, and the people are more like themselves. Our Congress is now arranging to bor row some gold from the United States, which will restore confidence for a time but it can have only a temporary effect. "It will not be many years before Mexico becomes a part of this country anyway, arid the sooner that time, ar rives the better it will be for the Mexicans. The leading citizens in Mexico favor annexation, and they will eventually win." Mr. Trejo travels in Mexico for a Louisville house, and is here to con fer with members of his firm. He comes to Louisville about once every two years.?LouisvilleCourier Journal. A Missouri man who went to Wash ington, D. C, to sell horses, reports the following condition there: "The people travel, on electric cars and do not need roadsters ; they ride bicycles and automobiles and do not need * fast trotters; they gamble by wire and do not heed race horses, and the Govern ment is run largely by jackasses, and here you are. Boy Kills Oeer With Stone. Port Jervis, . Y., Nov. 17.?A boy ten years of age, Eddie Wilbert by name, of Wayne county, Pa., killed a deer weighing 130 pounds with a stone. The deer was crossing his father's field and the boy threw a rock, break ing one of the animals' logs. The bey then attacked the deer with a club. "I was bound that it shonldnt' get away,"said the boy, "I wras knocked down twice before I hit him right." The next general convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will be held in Charleston in 1903. THE CENTER OF POPULATION. | Situated Six Miles From Golumbus, Ind., and Marker Will Note the Fact. Dulin, Ind., Nov. 18.?The site has been located for the monument to be erected at the center of population of the United States. The center of population is in Henry Marr's barn yard, six miles from Columbus, Bartholomew county, and a marker will be erected on the public road near by to attract the attention of passers to the exact center. The marker will be three and one half feet high, three feet wide and twenty inches thick, and on it will be chiseled an inscription showing why it was erected and the exact location, which is 3,400 feet northeast. The monument will be erected in the center and bear the inscription, " Cen ter, of. Population,. 1900. ?2 S The Orr cotton mill Of Anderson is to double its capital stock and increase the output of cloth proportionately. The capital of the?mili is" now $400, 000 and employs 400 hands. The pest house at the city hospital in Charleston caught fire Tuesday morning shortly before 2 o'clock and three negro men were burned to death before they could. ' be rescued. One negro woman, the . only other inmate of that department, escaped* Jenkins Bros, have just received a large shipment of ball bearing, drop head, New Home machines. See them. Under Ma s?me Temple. July 30. Important to Mothers. The manufacturers of Castoria have been compelled to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to familiarize the public with the signature of Chas. II. Fletcher. This has been necessitated by reason of pirates counterfeiting the Castoria trade-mark. This coun terfeiting is a crime not only against the proprietors of Castoria, but againts the growing generation. All persons should be careful to see that Castoria bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, if they would guard the health to their children. Parents, and mothers in particular, ought to care fully examine the Castoria advertise ments which have been appearing in this paper, and to remember that the wrapper of every bottle of genuine Castoria bears the fac-simile signa ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, under whose supervision it has been manufactured continuously for over thirty years.? Phiia. Bulletin. A NORTH Carolinian, with splen did farming experience in tobSCco, corn^ tton and all .kinds,, of truck, wishes-position on farm. Good refer ence furnished. Apply 44 Main Street. Nov. 19-lt. .. WANTED?Standard yellow pine ties 6x9x8. Anderson Lumber Co., Charleston, S. C._ Oct 15?2m DOG LOST?Strayed or stolen a brin dled bob-tail Bull Terrier, with white on chest and throat, had on collar with H. G. Osteen, marked on name plate. Dog is about 6 or 7 months old and not quite grown. Any information as to his whereabouts will be appreci ated, and a suitable reward for return. E. G. Osteen. tJ. rettenberg & sons. sumtes, s. C. Ladies please pay special at tention to the following : Two great extra values in Reefers for children 4 to 14 years. One lot good quality ma terial, Navy and Garnet, nicely trimmed, never sold for less than $1.75; as an extra induce ment, $1.25. One lot extra good material, Navy and Garnet, handsomely trimmed ; really good value for $2.75; as an extra induce ment, $2 15. J. ryttenberg & sons, sumter, s. c. CRACK GOES THE WHIP IN COME THE ORDERS SELLS THE VERY BEST GRADES OF FERTILIZERS AT THE VERY LOWEST COST It pays to fertilize your lands w THE VIRGINIA-CAROLIN CHEMICAL COMPANY; PR0DUCT5. SOLD EVERYWHERE The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co, CHARLESTON. S. C TSE IIISIIII-SUOLin HEMJGIL S8MPJI7 "The Largest Manufacturer of Fertilizers on Eatth" Forty odd Manufacturing plants Wholesale purchasers Largest importers Concentration of Management HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF/ti?S ? The Watchman and Southron has made an excel lent arrangement for its friends. It offers : ? THE TWICE-A-WEEK NEWS AND COURIER =5 ?-AND ??S= THE WATCHMAN AND SOUTHRON BOTH POR $S.OO. It is a wonderful offer ! The Twice-a-Week News and Courier will give you all the latest cable, telegraph, general and State news as well as serial stories and general reading. The Watchman and Southron will give you all your home news. Take two, for the price of one. Keep yourself and your family fully posted on what the world is doing. Think of the two for only two dollars. The Twice-a-Week News and Courier comes 104 times a year. Do the right thing?send" us your subscriptions at once ! This offer is only for Cash in Advance sub scriptions/ Sumter, S. C, November 17. TBE CARNIVAL IS OVER - , ..." s " And we can give our attention once again to business. The past week has been a success from a standpoint of fun and merry-making, but we are free to admit that .we are disap pointed in the results from a business point of view. It may be a verification of the old saying, "Business and pleasure won't go well together," and now that we have had the pleas ure, it is to be hoped a satisfactory business will follow. We placed several rush orders in anticipation of a RUSHING BUSINESS And these goods must now be disposed of, even if we have to sacrifice them. MANNING- HOSE. On July 1st we placed an order for three cases of this now celebrated misses' stocking, and only a few days ago r?ceived our first case. From our experience in getting these goods we are led to believe that other brands are being sold in their name, so if you want the genuine article get it while this case lasts?we don't know when we will get another. TAR HEEL BLANKETS. We had sold entirely out of this much appreciated article of winter comfort, but are pleased to say we have another case in transit due to arrive the end of the week. It has recently been brought to our attention that some competitors are sell ing what is known as the Dixie blanket, and trying to make their customers believe it is the same as our Tar Heel. We desire to "nip this in the bud," and to say that it is deceiving the customer and an attempt to do injustice to us, which does not bear fruit. The Dixie blanket is all right for the price, but it is the second grade, the Tar Heel being the first. We know what we are talking about, because we buy both blank ets from the same mill and we believe we are among the few retailers in the State that buy them direct. When this mill first started we heard of them through a friend and wrote for samples of their product, and being im mediately convinced of their superiority over the blankets we had been using we have handled them exclusively since. In the past few years such a demand has been created for their goods that *he wholesale dry goods houses have offered to take THEIR ENTIRE OUTPUT If they would eliminate the retail trade, which they agreed to do, and for a time they declined to sell us, but when reminded that we were among their earliest customers, and being largely responsible for the demand created for their goods in this sec tion of the State, they placed us upon the jobbing list, which gives us an advantage over all competitors. In addition to our claim upon them from early association, they recognize our right to jobbers' privileges. We buy them by the hundred, and not by the dozen, as is customary with retailers. If you want THE T^IF?. JE?H2 H ST You can't buy it elsewhere. If you want "TJEI? DIXIB You can buy it here cheaper than elsewhere. Dry Goods and Carpets.