WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2?, 1903.
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?a I Soi) and the TVw .SbttfArojaiu 1866.
T?tr (To^c?iTian area7 Southron now has
?e eomhi?ed circulation and in?uence
fc?t? of she o?d papers, and is mani?
festly the best advertising medium in
Sumter.
There is. great complaint in various
parts of this county of a scarcity of
farm labor and not a few farmers are
seriously embarrassed in the conduct
of their business by their inability to
secure a sufficient number of hands.
This was to have been expected for
credit has been very easy to obtain
this year and hundreds of la3t year's
laborers are farming this year on their
own account with the backing of some
lien merchant who is willing to take
big risks in hope of reaping a big pro?
fit next fa??.. The lien law has outlived
its usefu?ness, the country having long
since outgrown the conditions that ren?
dered the lien law a necessity, and at?
tie present time it is little short of a
curse.. It fosters and encourages the
undue expansion of the cotton acreage,
the neglect of food crops and diversi?
fied farming, the perpetuation of shift?
less methods of farming and does
great injury to the energetic and sub- j
stantiai farmers who are deprived of
their legitimate labor. The land own?
ing farmers and the substantial rent- j
, ing farmers, and this enSre section
would be far better off and generally
more prosperous if the lien law were
abolished, and the merchants who now
finance the irresponsible lieners would
in the long run be better off, for they
would not have so much dead loss to
charge up on the wrong side of the
ledger every- bad crop year. With the
lien law -abclisheci farming would be
more of a substantial and reliable
business and less of a risky speculation,
such as it has grown to be as a result
of the abuse cf the law.
Russia, now bemg prepared to hold
Manchuria againsl; all comers, openly
declares her purpose to do so by de?
manding of China the cession of the
province. It has been asserted time
and again since the close of the Boxer
uprising that Russia would never re?
linquish her hold on Manchuria, but
the foreign minister of Russia has suc?
ceeded in satisfying the other powers
by evasive statements until the grasp
on Manchuria could be so strengthen?
ed that Russia would be in a positiion
to make good her claim to it by force
if any of the powers should under?
take to dispute the matter. Japan is
the country most vitally interested and
the ene that will be most seriously in?
jured by the permanent occupation of
Manchuria by Russia and there is great
probability of war between Japan and
Russia before the matter is finally
settled. Japan alone has not the
strength, to expel Russia from Man?
churia, but it is believed by many
tha? Japan would have the morai sup?
port, if not the active assistance, of
England and the U&ited States in the {
event of hostilities. The Japanese
army and navy have reached a high
state of efficiency, and, except in point
of numbers, the army is said to be the
eqnal, if not the superior of the Russian
army, while the navy is as good as
any in the world, ship for ship. Con?
sequently a war between Russia and
Japan * in the far East would be no
holiday affair.
By the appointment of Gen. Wilie
Jones to fill out the unexpired term of
the- late A. F. H. Dukes on the dis?
pensary board, Gov. Heyward has
wisely and satisfactorily settled a mat?
ter that promised to be troublesome
and annoying on account of the horde of
applicants for the place. Since Gen.
Jones will not be a candidate for elec?
tion to the place by the next
Legislature, his appointment does not
militate against the chances of any
of the many who are scrambling for the
job. The scramblers will have plenty
of time to lay their wires and get
ready to fight it ont before the Legis?
lature.
The merchants of this city
? who buy cotton have entered
into an agreement for the next
cotton season binding themselves
to sell no cotton to export buyers ex?
cept on condition that it be compress?
ed at the Sumter Compress before ship?
ment. The object of this agreement is
two-fold-to increase the business of
the compress and to improve Sumter
as a cotton market. As the merchants
buy most of the cotton brought to this
market by farmers and resell in large
lots to the export and mill buyers they
are in a position to carry out this
agreement and build up the business
of the compress. Conditions are such
that it is certain that the compress
agreement will attract to Sumter a
larger number of buyers than have
ever bef ore been on this market, and
the competition will consequently be
stronger and prices higher. Sumter
has been for several years the best
cotton market, in the S vate and the re?
ceipts have shown a large and steady
increase each year. But the business
men are not content and this move?
ment is a step toward making Sumter
an even better and stronger market
The establishment of the Compress
had much to do with the improvement
and growth of the market, for the
improvement dates from the year the
Compress began operations, and the
agreement of the business men, who
are all stockholders in the Compress
Cc, to insist that all cotton sold by
them to export buyers shall be com?
presse here instead of elsewhere is
simply good business policy to insure
the maintenance of the Compress and
the improvemet of this market.
The agreement of the cotton buying
merchants to refuse to sell cotton to any
export buyers unless it is compressed
here meets with general approval in
? business circles, as it is believed that
it will result in a great improvement
of the local cotton market. The export
buyers who do not wish to have their
cotton compressed here will be forced
to get a move on themselves, enter
the market in competition with the
merchants and buy from the wagons.
Sumter may look for a lively market
this fall with a number of buyers
eager for the cotton.
The proposition to macadamize cer?
tain streets will meet with the approval
of a great many people, but Council
should go slow on the street paving
question until some decisiones reached
on the sewerage matter. Every street
that is paved will increase the cost of
putting down the sewerage pipes, and
pntting down the pipes will per?
manently injure all paving that has
been put down.
The town of Manning is raising
money to build a new and shorter road
from that town to the Salem section.
This movement is the result, it is
said, of the determination of the Sum?
ter county board of commissioners to
build the new road from this city to
the new Black River causeway, thereby
completing the new short route from
Sumter to Salem and the Pudding
Swamp section. About $800 have al?
ready been subscribed by the business
men of Manning.
The City School Board held a special
meeting yesterday afternoon to con?
sider the revised plans for the new
school building submitted by Architect
C. G. Wilson. The plans as revised
and modified in accordance with the
suggestions of the board were ap?
proved, and Mr. Wilson was instructed
to proceed at once with the prepara?
tion of the detailed plans and specifica?
tions, in order that the contract for
building may be let at the earliest pos?
sible date.
The action of City Council last week
in increasing the salary of the Clerk
and Treasure:: will meet with the hear?
ty approval of every citizen who has a
clear conception of the duties of the
office. The Clerk and Treasurer of
Sumter has greater responsibility and
far more work to do than any county
officer, and the salary he has heretofore
received has been entirely inadequate.
The salary he will now receive is not
as large as it should be, considering
the amount of work he has to do and
the responsibility of his position. A
special agent cf the census bureau who
was m the city a few weeks ago for
the purpose of collecting municipal
statistics stated that the system of
bookkeeping and accounts that obtains
here is the best he has come in contact
with in his travels in all parts of the
country. He also expressed great sur?
prise at tlie small salary paid the Clerk
and Treasurer and said that ordinarily
there would be two to four men employ?
ed, each at a salary exceeding that
heretofore paid in Sumter to one man
to do all the work.
Crosses of Honor.
Dick Anderson Chapter, Daughters
of the Confederacy, will bestow crosses
of Honor on the following Veterans
whose applications have been approved.
The ceremonies will take place at the
Opera House on Monday, May lltb, at
ll a. ia. They are all requested to
be on hand promptly.
Octavia C. Meses,
President Dick Anderson Chanter,
D. of C.
Abbott, H. T., Co. E. Plmetto
Sharp Shooters.
Anderson, Wm. J., Co. 2nd Regi?
ment S. C. V.
Ardis, J. L., Co. C. P. B. L. A.
Ardis, J. W., Co. C. P. B. L. A.
Ardis, W. J., Co. C. P. B. L. A.
Ardis, W. S., Co. C. P. B. L. A.
Bartiette, R. S., Co. G. Hampton,
L.
Barwick, J. M., Co. G. 23rd Regi?
ment,
Bossard, John J., Surgeon.
Bowman, S. J., Co. D. 2nd S. C.
Eeg.
Bradham, D. J. Co. I. 23rd Reg.
Brown, S. J., Co. D. 2nd, Reg.
Burgess, J. H., Co. D. 7th Cav., S.
C A.
DeLcrme, J. F. W., Co. H. 9th Reg.
Dick, T. H., Co. A. 2nd, Regt,
Epperson, W. H., Co. J. 23rd, Reg.
Flowers, S. F, Co. D. 2d Reg. S.
C. V.
Gaillard, W. H., Co. B. 5th Bat. S.
C. V.
Gaillard, J. E., Marion, L. A.
Parke's Bat.
Gaylord, H. S., Co. G. 20th Reg.
Geddings, J. V., Co. H. 5th Cav.
Geddings, R. J., Co. H. S. C. Cav.
Griffin, R. H., Co. H. Hamntou L.
Holliday, T. J., Co. D. 2d Reg.
Hughson, J. S., Co. K. 2d Reg.
Kelly, R. P., Co. C. Hampton
Legion.
Lackey, W. R., Co. C. P. B. L. A.
Lide, D. F., Co. C. P. B. L. A.
McCallum, D. R., Co. K. 23d Reg.
McLanrin, Cornelius, Co. I. 7th S.
C. Cav.
McLaurin, H. J., Hampton Legion.
McIntosh, J. B., Co. E. 7th Bat.
Mitchell, B. D, Co. A. Holcombe
Lesion.
Montgomery, John, Co. K. 9th Reg.
Moses, H. C., Co.D. 2d Reg.
Moses, Perry, Co. B. 2d Reg.
Muldrow, J. R., Co. 2d Reg.S. C. V.
Newman, S. J., Co. D. 2d Reg.
Pritchard, T. W., Co. H. 5th Reg.
Renno, John A., Co. C. 1st Reg.
Rhame, W. F., Co. C. 2d Reg.
Terry, J. H., Co. I. 7th Reg.
Vinson, A. P., Co. C. 2nd, Reg.
Weeks, A. H., Co. K. 23d, Reg.
Whildca, Robert S., Co. B. 23d
Reg. S. C. V.
White, J. Knox, Co. F. 9th Reg.
Wilder, J. D., Co D. 2d Reg.
Wilson, J. H., Co. F. 9th Reg.
Wilson, Moultrie R., Co. K. 23d Reg.
To the Democratic Voters ot Sumter Co.
I respectfully announce myself a can?
didate for Clerk of Court subject to
the coming primary election. If elect?
ed, I shall give the office my closest
personal attention and endeavor to
conduct it in such a manner as to
merit the continued confidence of my
friends. H. L. SCARBOROUGH.
A Crockery Manufactory.
The Congaree correspondent of The
State writes as follows of a matter that
is of considerable interest to Sumter
people :
It is rumored through this vicinity
that the kaolin beds, a mile and a half
above here, are to be utilized in a few
weeks and a crockery manufactory is
to be built in Sumter by northern
capitalists, who will own the entire
enterprise. The factory will use from
four to five carloads of kaolin per
week, and it will be shipped from this
place unless tho Atlantic Coast Line
railroad company places a spur to the
beds.
Paying Out Pension Money.
Judge of Probate Walsh, acting as
Clerk of Court commenced yesterday to
pay out pension funds to the State
pensioners.
The Little Workers' entertainment
last Friday evening was very success?
ful financially, as well as enjoyable.
The amount realized was about $30.
The survey for the sewerage system
is progressing satisfactorily, bue the
work is not being rushed,, as it must
be well and carefully done and then
verified.
Democrats who have come to the
city since the last election should have
their names placed on the club role if
they wish to vote in the special pri?
mary for clerk of court to be held on
May 5th.
? At the meeting of Game Cock Lodge,
K. of P., last Monday night Messrs.
W. B. Lynam, John A. Lewis, P.
M. Parrott and W. H. Player received
the rank of Page.
If the Hotel Sumter cannot get per-1
mission to discharge its bath tub waste
water into the railroad ?rain on Mary
street, the problem can be solved by
Council granting permission to the
hotel to connect its waste water pipes
with the drain at the corner of Bart
lettee and Washington streets. This
drain discharges into Factory branch
and thence into Green Swamp, it is
stated.
A great many farmers are buying
corn already and many others will be
patronizing the corn cribs of the west
before crops are laid by. The destruc?
tion of the greater part of the oat crop
will necessitate the buying of corn by
farmers who have not been corn buy?
ers for years, and this year's cotton
crop will be the most expensive the
farmers have grown for ten years or
longer.
Dr. Van Telburg-Hofman's horse ran
away yesterday and those who hap?
pened to be on Main street at the time
witnessed a pretty exhibition of speed.
The horse was hitched to a buggy, but
no one was in it when it passed through
the street The horse came from the
direction of the railroad and went on
up Main street, and out of sight with?
out running into anything and when
last seen the buggy was intact and
undamaged.
The Sumter Steam Laundry,'which
has been idle for nearly a year, has
been revived and will shortly begin
operations again. The plant has been
removed from the old location on Sum?
ter street to one of the tobacco prize
houses near the old C. S. & N. depot.
This site is much better than the
j old one as the waste water can be di
charged directly into a large dit(
leading to Turkey Creek.
A number of jurors for the secoi
week of court are town men.
The spring chicken crop is late ar
short this season and something like
chicken famine prevails hereabouts.
The Elks, although the younge
lodge in the city, are planning to ha^
their own lodge and club rooms.
Nothing has been heard recently i
the Seaboard's McBee, and Charlestc
branch line which would pass throng
Sumter.
The demand for houses increases fa;
ter than houses can be built, an
there are now building in this cit
more than twenty-five residences.
? Schwartz Bros., advertise exceptioi
al values in seasonable spring gooc
for their next special sale.
Chandler, the Clothier, has an ac
vertisement today that is illustrate
with cuts of two of the latest sty]
j suits.
j The loop-the loop arrangement a
j the skating rink is responsible for
broken arm that Walter Ryttenber
is carrying around in a sling today.
The Atlantic Coast Line will se]
j round trip tickets to Savannah on ac
j count of Baptist Convention for S5.5C
and to New Orleans on account o
Confederate Kennion for $15.35.
W. J. Dawsey, who had a meat mar
ket in Sumter for a number of years, i
now located in Williamsburg count;
buying cattle and sheep for this mar
ket He was in town last week an<
stated that he has already bought am
I shipped to the butchers of Sumte
! quite a number of fine beef cattle am
about forty sheep in prime conditioi
for mutton. He says that while cattl<
are not as numerous in Williamsburg
i as they were a few years ago.
[they are of better quality and ar(
! worth more money.
! A Testimony was being taken here yes
terday in the contested election case o:
i Lever and Dantzler. Dantzler is ar
Orangeburg negro who is a perennial
candidate for Congress in this district.
He is defeated each, time of course, 03
an overwhelming majority, but he
regularly contests the election and
carries the case before Congress, neces?
sitating the taking of testimony
throughout the district. These con?
tests are quite expensive and were
it not for the fact that Congress pro?
vides a lump sum to pay the expenses
of the contester there would be fewer
contests
Information of a horrible accident
has been received from Savage. Swin?
ton Dozier, a well known resident of
that community was killed by the kick
of a mule on Sunday afternoon. The
kick was so strong that Mr. Dozier's
abdomen was cut open and his liver
torn by the heels of the animal.
It appears from what can be learned
that the mule was sick and Dr. Dozier
went np behind him and tapped him
with a switch to make him move about
and the mule let fly with both heels,
striking the man in the pit of the
stomach with the terrible result de?
scribed.
Mr. Dozier was a man of middle
age, and will be remembered as hav?
ing at one time had charge of the
Florence and Savage mail route.
Florence Times.
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Summer Sale.
We will sell at prices that will convice you
that we only want a living from our business,
but want ail that are in need of Furniture to
have it. We have the goods, but not the room,
and must sell. Our sales of the past show that
our prices are right, and now that we have cut
prices on all goods for cash, it will pay you to
see us early. We will be pleased to quote
prices to merchants in small towns who handle
Furniture as a side line, and will make it to
their interest to give us their orders.
We lead-others follow.
Yours for business,
23b. 10 Liberty St., (Next to Postoffice,) Sumter, S. C.
April 22-4t
LADIES...
We would like t
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tionally good yalu
HO Cents
tr2?
m
Another shinment of
hamrock Hose
Osving to the advance in raw material
we are paying more for them, but sell?
ing them at the same price, thereby sac?
rificing a liberal percentage of our
profits See the
Lace Stripes at 15 Cents.
They are as good as the eastern
makes you have been paying 25 cents
for; and the
Silk Embroidered Lace Fronts
JJ
At 25 Cents
Are beauties, just what you have been
in the habit of paying 40 to 50 cents for.
Seeing is believing, so satisfy yourself
by a personal inspection.
Donnell & Co