The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 08, 1903, Image 7
Gentle Spring, weA^^
Every nook and corner in our Mammoth Establishment is crowded with Values Unexcelled in the History of our
More Than Twenty Years of Merchandising. ,
SILKS.
The business in this line has
increased to such an extent
that we have been compelled
to buy more than double our
usual stock, a greata deal of
which cannot be duplicated as
they were bargains picked up
by our buyers when in market ;
but will be sold while they last
at a sacrifice.
At 39 Cents
we oner 5 pieces of Taffeta,
all desirable shades for waist
ings.
At 48 Cents
10 pieces Taffeta, all colors, and
black
At 49 Cents
5 pieces Foulards in polka
dot effects
At 98 Cents
5 pieces Peau De Chamois.
This silk is warranted to wash.
We have it in light shades
only.
In 36-inch Taffetas and Peau
De Soris we are offering some
excellent values from
98 Cents to $1.37.
We call your particular at?
tention to-our
98 cents Black Taffeta
* Full 36 inches, it is weil
worth $1.25,. and has the lus?
tre, the rustle and the body of
goods that is being sold at that
price. Send for sanipies and
compare them.
Black Dress Goods. $1,500 Worth of Em- HOSIERY.
In this department we are broideries. We had quite an ad. on the
showing a full line of Yoiles, Thit? ig -what we bought, and subject of
Etamine3, Crepes, Yeilings, if invoiced at actual cost would Shamrock Hosiery
Serges, Armures, Pumellas, mean more than $3,000.00, a few months ago, and it is
Brilliantines and Mohairs. but we bought them at less most gratifying to know that
It will be to your interest to tban every statement then made is
see us on this line. 5Q Centg Qn the Donar> being fully confirmed by ac
White Pique & Madras. It uireg nerve to b tual results. We believe them
Here we are showing all the ds in4this but the emJ_ to be the best medium priced
latest novelties in mercerized broidery business seems to be pods ever put upon the mar
effects, for waists and suits. a hobby' with us, and no quan- fet pWe +have/ ?,f
- ^.'v, ,., . J,., J . i -} .y Lace fronts and Drop Stitch
- . Washable Fabrics, tity appears too much it the at *
Our stock in this line is too ?T*> vffi a?d ^ * ri??* 15, 25 and 50 Cents.
elaborate to att-mnt a descriD- a11 ?f which seems to be the rV OK 7 ^ T
elaborate to attempt Mescnp from 0ur 25 center is a beauty.
non ot, out as we nave ior , *> ,& & . nr AmnTYri
many years enjoyed tie repu- the wa7 the? are g?inS- . CLOTHING.
ration for the most complete Dress Trimmings and Our buyers picked up some
line of wash goods carried in Laces. ?the greateSt valf 8 "J JT
rt;<-,r ;0 c1,fflM'?nf +n ooTT *ine we ever owned, and that
t?!!? .LvLlI Here y?u w?l fiDd a com" J? saying a great deal, as those
ot f?merPeffort's. * & Plete line of a11 the latest D0V" wbo haT beea clothing
T* "Kl Tl lr elties. from us can testify to.
lame uamasK. Royal Worcester Cor- 100 Suits at $4.90.
We had practically soid out m,. . . . ,
in this department, so that our n SftS; . _ ThiS Is ?nef ?J our Pick "Pf"
stock is all new, embracing ev- 0ur ?ovsf outness has It is a lot of fancy worsteds
erything from a colored da- more than doubled since we and cheviots,
mask took the agency for this line. Strictly All Wool.
At. 20 Cents We former]y bouSht b7 W .? Not a garment in the lot
to the bleached dfZen- Our purchases now are th less than |7^ and
to me Dieacnea always m case lots Many some could easily be sold for
At $1.40. ladies have told us that they $10> but they were bought at
Our liae at never got a corset to fit com- a sacr?gce and w?n be sold
50 to 75 Cents fortably until they tried the i?kewise. Their tailoring and
will be found excellent values. R?yal Worcester ; now they fit bear the gtamp of a
Our Line ot Towels get font with ease $10.00 Garment.
VUA ~~f The prices range from 50 m.
embraces everything from 5 to cents to ?8 per pair> We do The man who wants a me
50 cents. Our specialty is a not carry the very high priced dlum Pnce
25 Cent Number numbers in stock, but will take Easter Suit
and no better value can be pleasure in ordering them sub- cannot help buying one of
had anywhere. ject to approval them.
In Two Piece Suits
we have some very nobby
things and excellet values at
$5, $7.50 and $10.
Our line of
Black and Blue Serges
in slims, stouts and regulars at
$10 will command the attention
of any one wanting a suit of
that character and price.
Boys' Clothing.
The Norfolk is the swell suit
for the well dressed boy, we
have them from $2 50 to $5.
For the little fellows from 3 to 6
years the Russian Blouse seems
to be what is wanted. Our line
comprises all the colors. In
vests and two piece suits we
have a complete assortment
from $1 to $5.
Shoes.
This department is now as it
always has been a leading fea?
ture of our business. We try
to confine our purchases to re?
liable manufactures, thereby
avoiding shoddy goods. In
ladies' goods our specialty is
The E. P. Reed Brand
and feel justified in saying no
better value is put in a shoe at
the price. Their line of ox?
fords this season is very nobby.
For a medium class shoe
The Godman
has stood the test of many
seasons, and the fact that our
sales are annually increasing
on them is in itself an evi?
dence that they are all we
represent them to be.
In men's shoes we have
never been able to find any?
thing to supplant
The L. M. Reynolds Line
Their $3 shoe may be equal?
led, but it has no superior.
We have them in calf, vici kid,
patent leather, and all the new
toes.
Our Carpet Room
is stocked with everything
which the home needs in this
line. Carpets, Mattings, Rugs,
Art Squares, Linoleums, Win?
dow Shades and Poles.
We have 50 pieces
Fancy Japanese Mat?
tings
usually sold at 25 cents. Our
price, 20 cents a yard.
25 pieces Reversible China
Matting, good body and pretty
patterns, at 20 cents.
.Also a line of cheaper and
better goods, as desired.
The greatest value in this.
department is probably our
rugs. We are selling a very
handsome reversible rug
36x72 at
30x60 at
24x36 at
We solicit
and will be
$1.00
.75
.37%
your m quines,
pleased to send
samples of anything in stock.
Please remember we refund
your money on all purchases
that are not satisfactory.
'DONNELL & COMP A fl?.
ROOSEVELT'S FIRST SPEECH
in Bis 66 Day Electioneering Tour.
Made an L. L. D. in Chicago.
Chicago, April 2.-President Roose?
velt's 66-day tour of the west began in
?earnest here today when he stepped
from the Pennsylvania special at 8.45
o'clock and was received by Mayor
Harrison and a special reception com?
mittee not ta mention a huge crowd
which made its unofficial presence
known by cheers which could be heard
across the river. As soon as the cars
could be switched the presidential
party started for Evanston, where the
president addressed the students of
Northwestern university on the value
of a college education. The party re
turnedNo the auditorium for luncheon.
After luncheon the presidential party
went to the. Uni versify of Chicago in
carriages. At the quadrangle approach
to the university grounds, the presi- ,
dential party was met by the faculty j
and trustees in cap and gown and led i
by President Harper. The president !
was escorted to Kent theatre, where j
President Harper conferred the degree j
of LL. D. President Harper handed !
the president a diploma and directed j
that "the doctor's hood" be placed
upon his shoulders. The president |
spoke no word, but bowed in acknow- (
lodgment of the honor conferred. As !
the procession emerged from the theatre ?
the university band played national
airs and deafening college yells greet?
ed the president.
At the head of a convocation proces?
sion, in which the young women of
the college participated, tho president
made his way to the site of the new
law school building, where prepara?
tions had been made for him to lay the
corner-stone. Au immense stone,
weighing seven tons, was ready to be
lowered in place. President Roosevelt,
trowel in hand, gave the signal, and
as the huge mass settled upon its.
foundation he cast a small quantity of
mortar beneath it. The presidential
party then returned to the city.
As soon as his voice could be heard,
Mr. Mac Veagh in a few words an?
nounced that the nation's chief execu?
tive would be made welcome to the city
by Mayor Harrison, who then spoke
briefly, extending to the president a
hearty welcome and expressing the
pleasure felt by the people of Chicago
at his visit, and offering him their
best wishes for a happy and pleasant
trip during his two months' of vaca?
tion.
The president bowed his thanks to
Mayor Harrison, and to Mr. Mac?
Veagh, who introduced him to his
audience, and expressed his pleasure
at the cordial reception extended him
at the first stop on his long trip and
then, turning directly to the audience
in front of him, proceeeded in his
spectacular, energetic manner to de?
liver his address. The address through?
out was received in the most cordial
manner. The address was as follows:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle?
men : Today I wish to speak to you,
not merely about the Mon roe doctrine,
but about our entire position in the
western hemisphere-a position so
peculiar and predominant that ont o J
it has grown the acceptance of the
j Monroe doctrine as a cardinal feature
?of our foreign policy; and in par
ticular I wish to point ont what has
been done during the lifetime Of the
! last congress to make good our position
! in accordance with this historic policy.
Ever since the time when we def?
initely extended onr bonndaries west?
ward to the Pacific and southward tc
the gulf, since the time when the old
Spanish"and Portuguese colonies to the
south of ns asserted their independence,
our nation has insisted that because
of its primacy in strength among the
nations of the western hemisphere it
has certain duties and responsibilities
which oblige it to take a leading part
thereon. We hold that our interests
in this hemisphere are greater than
those of any European power possibly
can be, and that our duty to ourselves
and to the weaker republics who are
our neighbors requires us to see that
none of the great military powers from
across the seas shall encroach upon
the territory of the American repub?
lics or acquire control thereover.
This policy, therefore, not only for?
bids us to acquiesce in such territorial
acquisition, but also causes us to ob?
ject to the acquirement of a control
which would in its effect be equal to
territorial aggrandizement. This is
why the United States has steadily
believed that the construction of the
great isthmian canal, the building of
which is to stand as the greatest
material feat of the twentieth century
-greater than any similiar feat in
any preceding century-should be done
by no foreign nation, but by ourselves.
The president then related events
leading to adoption of the canal trea?
ties, after which he reverted to the
recent Venezuelan incident. He read
correspondence showing that Ger?
many and Great Britain fully re?
cognized the Monroe doctrine.
Continuing he said :
"Both powers assured us in explicit
terms that there was not the slightest
intention on their part to violate the
principles of the Monroe doctrine, and
this assurance was kept with an honor?
able good faith which merits full ac?
knowledgment on our part. At the
same time, the existence of hostili?
ties in a region so near our own bor?
ders was fraught with such possibili?
ties of danger in the future that it
was obviousJy no less our duty to our?
selves than our duty to humanity to
endeavor to put an end to that. Ac?
cordingly, by an offer of our good ser?
vices in a spirit of frank friendliness
to all the parties concerned, a spirit
in which they quickly and cordially
responded, we secured a resumption of
peace-the contending parties agree?
ing that the matters which they could
not settle among themselves should be
referred to The Hague tribunal for
settlement. The United States bad
most fortunately already been able to
set an example to other nations by
utilizing the great possibilities for
good contained in The Hague tribu?
nal,, a question at issue between our?
selves and the Republic of Mexico be?
ing the first submitted to this inter?
national court of arbitration.
"The terms which we have secured
as those under which the isthmian
canal is to be built, and the course of
events in the Venezuelan matter, have
shown not merely the ever growing
influence of the United States in the 1
I western hemisphere, but also, I think
I may safely say, have exemplified the
firm purpose of( the United States
that its'growth and influence and
power shall redound not to the harm
but to the benefit of oar sister re?
publics whose strength is less. Our
i growth, therefore, is beneficial to hu
? man kind in general. We do not in
! tend to assume any position which
j can give just offense to our neighbors.
Our adherence to the rule of human
right is not merely profession. The
history of our dealings with Cuba
j shows that we reduce it to perform
! ance.
"The Monroe doctrine is not intei
national law, and though I think one
j day it may become such, this is not
necessary as long as it remains a car?
dinal feature of our foreign poliicy
and as long as we possess both the
will and the strength 'to make it
j effective. This last point, my fellow
! citizens, is all important, and is one
which as a people we can never afford
to forget. I believe in the Monroe
doctrine with all heart and soul ; I
am convinced that the immense ma?
jority of our fellow-countrymen so be?
lieve in it; but I would infinitely pre?
fer to see us abandon it than to see us
put it forward and bluster about it,
and yet fail to build up the efficient
fighting strength which in the last
resort can alone make it respected by
any strong foreiga power whose inter?
est it may ever happen to be to violate
it.
"Boasting and blustering are as ob?
jectionable among nations as among
individuals, and the public men of a
great nation owe it to their sense of
national self-respect to speak courte?
ously of foreign powers, just as - a
brave and self-respecting man treats
ail around him courteously. But
though to boast is bad, and causeless?
ly to insult another, worse; yet
worse than all is to be guilty of boast?
ing, even without insult, and when
called to the proof to be unable to
make such boasting good. There is a
homely old adage which runs: 'Speak
softly and carry a big stick ; you will
go far. If the American nation will
speak softly, and yet build, and keep
at a pitch of the highest training, a
thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe
doctrine will go far. I ask you to
think over this. If you do, you will
come to the conclusion that it is mere
plain common sense, so obviously
sound that only the blind can fail to
see its truth and only the weakest
and most irresolute can fail to desire
to put it into force.
"Well, in the last two years, I am
happy to say we have taken long
strides in advance as regards our
navy. The last congress, in addition
to smaller vessels, providing nine of
those formidable fighting ships upon
which the real efficiency of any navy
in war ultimately depends, lt pro?
vided, moreover, for tin necessary
addition of officers and enlisted men
to make the ships worth having.
Meanwhile the navy department has
seen to it thar our ships have been
constantly exercised at spa, with the
fireat guns, and in maneuvers, so that
their efficiency as fighting units, both
individually and when acting togeth?
er, has been steadily improved. Re?
member that all of this is necessary.
A war ship is a huge bit of mechan?
ism, well-nigh as delicate and compli?
cated, as it is formidable. It takes
years to build it. It takes years to
teach the officers and men how to han?
dle it to good advantage. It is an
absolute impossibility to improvise a
navy at the outset of war. No recent
war between any two nations has last
? ed as long as it takes to bulid a battle?
ship, and it is just as impossible to
improvise the officers or the crews as
to improvise the navy.
9 "To lay rip a battleship and only
send it afloat at the outset of a war,
with a raw crew and untried officers,
would be not merely a folly but a
crime, for it would invite both disaster
and disgrace. * The navy which so*
quickly decided in our favor the war
I in 1898 had'been built and made efficient
i during the preceding 15 years. The
ships that triumphed off Manila and
Santiago had been built under'previ?
ous administrations with money ap?
propriated by previous congresses.
The officers and the men did their
duty so well because they had already
been trained to it by long sea service.
AU honor to the gallant officers and
gallant men who actually did the fight?
ing ; but remember, too, to honor the
public men, the shipwrights and steel
workers, the owners of the shipyards
and armor plants, to whose united
foresight and exertion we owe it that
in 1898 we had craft so good, guns so
excellent and American seamen of so
high a type in the conning towers, in
the gun turret, and in the engine
rooms. It is too late to prepare for
war when war has come; and if we
only prepare sufficiently no war will
ever come. We wish a powerful and
efficient navy, not for purposes of war,
but as the surest guaranty of? peace.
If we have ?uch a navy-if we keep on
building it up-we may rest assured
that there is but the smallest chance
that trouble will ever come to this
nation ; and we may likewise rest as
sured that no foreign power will ever
quarrel with us about the Monroe
doctrine."
Good For Children.
The pleasant to take and harmless One
Minute Cough Cure gives immediate relief
in all cases of Cough, Croup and LaGrippe
because it does not rot pass immediately
into the stomach, but takes effect right at
the seat of the trouble. It draws ont the
inflammation, heals and soothes and cures
permanently by enabling the langs to con?
tribute pure life-giving and life-sustaining
oxygen to the blood and tissues. J. S.
Hughson & Co.
In authorizing its gigantic scheme
of irrigation Congress did so on an
estimate that the lands could be ir?
rigated at a cost of $5 an acre. It now
developer that the cost will be at least
?12 an acre, and perhaps more. The
estimate of 85, it is recalled by a
student cf this question, ''was based
in part on the cost of irrigation by
private companies, and it is now dis?
covered that private companies have
secured all the sites where cheap ir
Titration can be practiced. President
Roosevelt told Congress before it act?
ed that nrivate capital to the amount
of ?200,000,000 had been invested in
irrigation. It is the expensive and
unprofitable part that has been left for
the Government. " And this was the
one practical policy which the Presi?
dent induced the late Congress to put
into effect.
It is reported from Florida and south
Georgia that the manufacture of paper
from pine saw dust is a very promis?
ing industry in that section. Great
things are expected from the develop?
ment of the industry. It looks like a
golden opportunity for the south,
when spruce pine, 'pom which most
of the paper is being made sells for
S8 a cord and sawdust is given away
hy the mills. The first enterprise in
this country to show that our pine
could be used to make paper was the
very excellent mill at Harts vi lie, and
if there is going to be any windfall
for the south in the nse of pine saw?
dust the Hartsville mill ought to have
its meed of praise. It is said that a
newspaper in Florida is being printed
on stock made from pine saw dust and
that a saw mill in the vicintiy of the
paper mill has given all the sawdust
that could be used for many months.
Things are beginning to come our way.
A year ago we were looking for
Koosevelt and making ready to do him
honor, and all the time muttering
curses upen Tillman for his unmanner?
liness which threatened to cheat us
of our high guest. Now we are open?
ly and loudly damning Koosevelt and
are cooking fine dinners for Tillman.
So wags the world.-Charleston Post.
Miss Cross, of Carbondale, 111., who
crossed this continent and the Pacific
to marry her fellow in Manila, has
been married and will no longer be
Cress.
There seems to have been an advance
in the prices charged by members of
the British nobility for marrying
American heiresses. The earl of Yar?
mouth has broken off his engagement
with a young lady of Pittsburg be?
cause the latter's mother would not,
at the request of the earl, raise the
young lady's income after the marriage
above twenty-five thousand dollars.
The prospective mother-in-law seemed
to think that that income was enough
for a British lord, taking into con?
sideration the present supply, and she
so told his lordship. The result of
such bold language on the part of this
lady may have a serious effect on the
prospects of Amerian heiresses who
are in the market to purchase titled
husbands. We would not be surprised
to hear in the near future of the form?
ation of a combination among the
titled bachelors to run up their prices.
Then there will be wailing and gnash?
ing of teeth among those who can
afford only to pay present prices.-Wil?
mington Messenger.
There is a boom in the sugar corn
market in Philadelphia. The price a
few days ago was 613 a bushel. There
was a crop failure last year and seed
is scarce.
It isn't every butcher who can be?
come a millionaire, as did Mr. Swift of
Chicago, but most of them seem to be
trying to.
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CASTOR SA
For Infants and Cnildren.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Northern Men in Southern Army.
The following is credited to Ex
Judge T. J. Mackey:
A celebrated countryman of ours
while minister in Constantinople was
informed by a Turkish official that
converted Christians wore the tallest
turbans.
This was the Turk's epigrammatic
way of explaining the radical char?
acteristics of the renegade Christian.
In the Confederacy the Northern
men who cast their fortunes with us
were similarly distinguished by their
radicalism or the uncomproming char?
acter of their hostility to the Union.
It is a surprise, but it is a fact well
known to students of our civil war
that Northern men in the service of
the Confederacy bore names known
from end to end of the Confederate
states by reason of their gallant and
distinguished service, both in the field
and at the council board.
For instance, Gen. Kirby Smith,
commander of the trans-Mississippi
department, was born and reared in
Connecticut. Gen. Pemberton, who
so heroically defended Vicksburg, was
a Maine Yankee. Major Gen. Gustavus
W. Smith, a native. of New York, at
the breaking out of the war a street
commissioner of the metropolis, re?
signed his position and came South,
where he had command of the First
corps, C. S. A.
Gen. S. Cooper, adjutant general of
the Confederate army, and the senior in
rank of Gen. Robert E. Lee, was a
Pennsylvanian. He ranked Lee at the
close of the war, and in the federal
army before the war he also ranked
the great Confederate commander, he
having been adjutant general of the
United States army.
The chief ordinance officer of the
Confederate army, Gen. Gorgas, was a
Connecticut Yankee, while the mayor
of New Orleans at the close of hostili?
ties was a Massachusetts man named
Munroe, who was so radical and unre?
concilable that the federal authorities
had to imprison him. Gen. Lovel,
who fought Butler at New Orleans, was
also a native of Massachusetts and a
major General in the Confederate
army.
Russell Sage's formula for getting
rich is too "keep all you get; spend
nothing, make only gilt edge invest?
ments. ' ' Russell is a galoot. Suppose
every fellow kept all he got and never
spent anything, how would another
fellow ever get rich?
A Good Thing.
German Syrup is the special prescrip?
tion of Dr. A. Boschee. a celebrated Ger?
man physician, and is acknowledged to
be one of the most fortunate discoveries
in medicine. It quickly cures coughs,
colds and lung troubles o?,the severest
nature, removing, as it does,'the cause of
the affection and leaving the parts in a
strong and healthy condition. It is net
an experimental medicine, but ha* stood
the test of years, giving statisfiachen in
every case, which its rapidly increasing
sale every season confirms. Iwo million
bottles sold annually. Boschee's German
Syrup was introduced in the United States
in liSGS, and is now sold in every town
and village in the civilized world. Three
doses will relieve any ordinary cough.
Price 25 and 75 cts. China's Ding Store.