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fSSSUMTER WATCHMAN, KafcaaliBfced April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear net-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOCTHRON, Established Jone 15 6 ?8solidated Ans. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. G.. WEDNESDAY. JCTNE 17, 1903. New Series-Vol. XXII. So. 46 ?M*S HAVE ONLY ONE HUNDRED OF THESE F1ACHINES, But while they last they will go for Five Dollars each, six records to go with every ma? chine. This is the genuine Columbia Graphophone, and every record bears the Columbia trade mark, as well as the machine itself, which is of the latest design. Do you wprk hard all through the hot summer days ? A little recreation and amusement in the evenings will cheer you up and make happiness in the family circle. As you are not to enjoy a thousand years' so? journ in this land of flowers you may as well pick up a few lines of pleasure in passing, espe? cially when the cost does not exceed the five dollar mark. I am not living ten thousand miles away from you? and have the goods for sale, open for your inspection ; come and see them. Selling New Home Sewing Hachines, Columbia and Cleveland Bicycles, and a high=class line of Sporting Goods. ?fe SSateJjrat at? jScnifljrmt O >J "sj -:-Br SUMTER, 8. C. TESHS : 4 ?1 50 por annum-in adbanae. ?OVISTI8IXSKI: Ons Square first insertion................"$1 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50. ^Contracts for three months, or longer wili oe made at reduced rates. AU coQciQotcations which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertiements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. ? T?X ASSESSMENTS RAISED, -Southern Express, Western Union and Pullman Companies Have Their Assessments Rais? ed by State Board. ibia, June 9.-The Southern Express company and the Western Union Telegraph company no doubt j will protest vigorously against the action of. the Stats board of railroad asssessors. The Southern Express Company was raised from $34 to SS5 per mile on a mileage of 2,879, which will be an increase bf $146,129. The Western Union's assessment also . received a material raise from $34 to S80 a mile on 1,401 miles, a total in? crease of $35,585. The Aiken-Augusta electric line re? turned 27 miles at S3,000 per mile and was raised to $6,000. The retam of .^he Greenville Traction company on seven miles at a total of $95,200 was accepted. The Pullman Car company's assess - ment was raised from $80 to $100 per mi?e on 1,587 miles, an increase of $31,740. ; SHIPPED FREE OF CH&BSE, Southern Railway will Transport ail Clothing and Provisions for Flood Sufferers Free. Mr. L.-A. Emerson,, assistant general freight agent at Charleston, has. re? ceived the following circular authority from the general freight agent of the Southern railway Company regarding the free transportatioa of clothing and fpo? to the suffers from the Hoods : "Agents are hereby instructed to bill free of Southern Railway freight charges all donations of clothing and food for sufferers from recent floods in North and South Carolina, when ship? ped by charitable associations or prop? erly credited parties, and consigned to associations, municipal officers or oainisters of the Gospel. 99 Big Florida Hotel Bumed. West Palm " Beach, Fla, Jun 9. At 1L-30 this morning the Breakers, the smaller of the two largest hotels vat Palm '' Beach, was seen to be in ^fi?mes. The hotel building, power house, Cory's block of stores, the casino, south of the hotel, and one of the large cottages north of the hotel -were destroyed. Some furniture from the hotel was saved, bat it it was bad? ly damnged. The losses were : The Breakers, $500,000; furniture, j >$200,000; casino, cottage and Cory's j block, about $25,000. Other losses j about $5,000. Driven to Desperation. Living at an "out of the way place, re? mote from civilization, a family is often driven to despsration in case of accident, lesu?ting in Burns, Cuts, Wounds, Ulcers, etc. Lay in a supply of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It's the best on earth. 25c, at J. F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store. Gov. Heywaid has offered a reward of $200 for the parties who whipped D. G. Hogan, of Dents, Richland county, to death on Saturday night. That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you, if jon used Dr. King's New Life Pills. Thousands of suffers have proved their matchless merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They make nure blood and build up jour health. Ouly 25 cents, money back if not cured. Id by J. F. W. DeLorme, Druggist. WHEN ADVERTISING PAYS. Goods Must Not Only Seil, But be Worth the Sale. A contributor writes to Printer's Ink as follows : There is a question of? ten asked That yon can answer both affirmatively and negatively-"Does advertising pay?" The truth of the matter is that it does, and it does not To advertise with profitable results re? quires as much preparation as it does to go to war, or to enter college, or to do any one of a score or more of im? portant things. It is no very extraordinary trick to tell an advertising story that will bring many answers, but of what avail is it if you have been careless in keeping up your stock or, in order to do so have reduced its quality? In the first instance you exasperate or cool off your would-be customer, who will go somewhere else to make his purchase, and, in the second, you make a sale perhaps-but it is a sale that does not satisfy and will there? fore dismiss a patron. These two per? sons-the one who was not supplied and the one who got a poor bargain will be sure to tell their experience and will tell it in such a way as will Nullify the most seductive advertising that can be produced. Their talk will go fast and far, and create in very short order for the advertiser a dam? aging reputation. His advertisement may have been the most attractive one that appeared the week on which it was ctiered but the trouble was the advertiser's failure to back it up. All such advertising, it hardly needs to be said, is mach worse than not to ad? vertise at all. In some otherwise good stores and trading places the social atmosphere and manners encountered are not of the inviting but of the re? pellent kind, it is a great mistake, and one hardly to be surpassed to forget that politeness and suavity are real business assets. A merchant may have good goods, and deliver them promptly, and tell no lie about them, but if he and his clerks diffuse an atmosphere of coldness, and lack cordialty, they substract nearly all the benefits good advertising ?has to offer. In other words, they trip themselves up by not backing the advertising sent out. It is no doubt a fact often noticeable that there are persons in trade who mean well, who are thoroughly honest, and who do not deliberately intend to make a bad impression on the public whose temperament and address are unfortunately not attrac? tive. It is a pity that they should be the direct intermediate of trade when they might do admirably as bookkeep? ers, and perhaps fairly well as whole? sale buyers or discoverers of bargains. Perhaps they might even write adver? tisements that they don't know how to ! live up to. It is a curious circumstance i that many men can enunciate the pro? foundest business maxims who can not parctice them or go one step fur? ther than to theorize. These people have some place probably in a business plant, but they should not be selected to back up the store's advertising. As j all advertising that ultimately pays must be born of the truth and bear criticism, there is some advantage in avoiding too many* superlatives and relying mainly npon under state? ments. For these can moro easily be warranted and followed. If the cus? tomer finds himself better pleased than he W3S told he would be, the effect of the advertising will be immeasurably enhanced. If lie is assured of the im? possible, there is something lost to the advertiser through his boasts that could not be fulfilled. There is one Scriptural text in particular that a business man should hold to with special regard-one that advises mak? ing friendship with the "mammon of unrighteousness." Every customer, whether his pocket book contains one j dollar or one hundred, is the person I the dealer needs to cultivate and con I sider. He comes with his money and I he is entitled to his whims and even ! to his absurd expectations. The main object should be not simply to corral his money but to leave him pleased whether he purchases or not. If his manners are rude, and his demands are unreasonable, the dealer's should be placating and unruffled. For any cus? tomer thus met will be a customer to? morrow and will feel that the adver tisment that first brought him had a real foundation. Ask your physician if Glenn Springs Mineral Water is not what you need. Glenn Springs Mineral Water is a safe and sure cure for kidney troubles. IDEAS LOST TO THE WORLD. Marvelous Inventions That Seem to Have Been Forgotten. A recent issne of the most prominent exponent of the steam engineering in? dustry, Power, reviews a number of interesting instances which cannot do otherwise than convince even the most doubtful that engineering is today very, very far from having reached a pinnacle of perfection. Among other notes it states that it is hardly twenty years since John Waymouth, the Wolverhampton engineer and designer, discovered the motive power of heat, exhibited it in one of the simplest, cheapest and most useful engines imaginable and then deprived the world of its benefit. He had produced beforehand a round dozen of excellent inventions, which still bear his name, including the modern revolving chimney cowl and, having made a large fortune, he devot? ed himself to harnessing the ordinary heat of a fire and making a new power of it. The idea was laughed at by all his friends, but after four years of study and experimenting he produced a stationary engine that gave double the power of any steam-driven me? chanism at about a third of the cost and also a small model heat locomotive large enough to draw a truck with a man in it. KEPT THE SECRET TILL DEATH. He invited a committee of scien? tists and engineers, including Prois, Huxley and Forbes Brown, and show? ed them that his two machines worked to perfection. The affair made a great stir and it was proved that a great power of unlimited scope had been dis? covered. Waymouth was flooded with offers of huge sums for his invention but, for no apparent reason, except, perhaps, the alleged madness of genius, he absolutely refused to either bring it out himself or sell the secret. He announced himself satisfied with the triumph . of the invention and be? fore his deatb, a year later, he de? stroyed all the papers and plans explain? ing the system and removed the es? sential parts of two engines. These engines are still possessed by his heirs, but nobody has been able to make any? thing of them. Still stranger was the famous loss of the recipe for the manufacture of dia? monds, some fifteen years ago. Her? bert Warner, who alone discovered and held the secret of diamond making, did not live to wreck the diamond in? dustry, as people thought he would, and the circumstances of the loss were mysterious and tragic. Inferior dia? monds can still be produced artificially, but only at a cost of about ten times their value. Warner, after years of experimenting, was able to tnrn out a genuine diamond of large size and of the first water at the cost of a small fraction of the complete stone's worth. He, like Waymouth of heat-power fame manufactured his diamonds before an audience of scientists and produced three fine stones, which were tested and pronounced faultless. Two of them are still in existence and are the greatest curiosities the jewel world nas ever seen. But within a fort? night of this triumph, before any new stones were put on the market, Warner ntterly disappeared from his house on Harley street, London, leaving no trace whatever. So complete was his disappearance that from that day to this not the smallest explanation has been hit upon. THE SECRET OF TALIUM. Then there is the lost secret of the wonderful new metal called "taliurn," which would certainly have been worth many millions to the nation and the inventor. Grantely Adams dis? covered it just eight years ago and during its short life it was one of the greatest wonders of the "science of commerce" world. "Talium" is an alloy of metals, electrically treated, nearly 55 per cent, lighter than steel, both stronger and tougher and costing 30 per cent less to produce. It was the fruit of four years' hard work and study and eventually Adams com? pleted it and publicly exposed it to ev? ery kind of test. Trains or any other vehicles, as it was proved, would be able to travel at nearly double their present speed if constructed of "talium" and there was no kind of edged tool that would not be as keen as well as much lighter if made of the new metal. The com? motion caused by this discovery was extraordinary and still more so was the upshot of it, for the magnitude of its success overcame Adams' reason and he became insane before ever the secret of the construction of "talium" was given out. Adams died a year later a hopeless lunatic and as there were no papers explaining his method the great secret was lost. All the tools and engines of "talium" which he had made remain, but no analysis has revealed the method by which the metal was blended. "Talium" is lost. The extraordinary "perpetuallamp" of Henry Mills, which he invented, j perfected ' and proved the. worth of ? twelve years ago, was lost in quite a j different manner. The Mills lamp ? was an incandescent light produced ' without any using up of materials-it had nothing to do with combustion and the "flame" of it was perfectly cold. It was certainly one of the most wonderful inventions of the age and not at |tll an expensive affair. Mills made two of these lamps and de? monstrated their absolute success, but an extraordinary thing happened be? fore the invention was put at the dis? posal of the public. On the night of May 20, 1899. Mills's laboratory in Hampstead was broken into, both lamps broken into fragments and all the papers describing the invention, involving years of work, stolen. There was not the slightest clew to the per? petrators of the burglary, which was done most scientifically, and the crime has never been traced. Even the rea? son for it is not known-whether it was malice, jealousy or theft. No use has been made of the stoler papers and I?ills, who depended on these pa-! pers, set to work again, but two | months later he contracted typhoid and died, and Britain was thus deprived ot his secret. Li one way it is perhaps as weil that the new gunpowder, "fulmite," in? vented by Herbert Sawbridge six years ago, never came to a head. Sawbridge discovered this powder by accident in his little chemical experimental room at Exeter. ; He perfected the powder after a good deal of study and trouble and finally showed that in. an ordinary service rifle this powder could drive a bullet accurately a distance of near? ly six miles and that at ordinary ranges it gave over ten times the pene? tration that "cordite," the present powder, gives. A ballet propelled by it at 600 yards would penetrate twelve men. It would have been a terribly destructive invention, and one of its best points was that it did not strain or corrode a gun in any way and, above, all damp could not harm it. But such is the extraordinary fatality that seems to dog inventors that Sawbridge was killed in an ex? plosion in Iiis laboratory, whicii wreck? ed the entire cottage. This happened soon after the Government had begun to negotiate with Sawbridge for the purchase of his invention, but the ex? plosion that killed him destroyed any records there might have been of his work. It was not "fulmite" that killed him, but an accident with ordinary nitro-glycerine.-Journal of Electricity. Constable Howie Transferred. Columbia, June 10.-It was an? nounced last night that 'Chief Con? stable Hammet had transferred S. T. Howie, who has been in charge of the squad at Charleston, and that Con? stable Holmes, now at Beaufort will relieve Howie. The latter will suc? ceed Holmes at Beaufort. Apparently the sub-chiefs have only been exchanged, but on account of the complaints in regard to Charleston, the action of the chief constable appears to be quite significant. Mr. Hammet himself went down to Char? leston last night. He is ordered by the Governor to investigate the report that there are regular barrooms running wide open on the Isle of Palms, and Governor ? Hey ward's imperative mandate is that if there is such a wide open place it must be closed at once. Holmes is a Barnwell man, and as Chief Constable Hammet is also from that county, it may be expected that he will enter into his duties-with full sympathy and understanding of the orders from the chief constable. Mr. Hammet states firmly and positively that the law will be enforced on the Isle of Palms. Kodol Gives Strength by enabling the digestive organ* to digest, assimilate ana transform all the whole? some food that may by *eaten into the kind of blood th.it nourishes the nerves, feeds the tissues, hardens the muscles and recuperates the organs of the entire body. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures indigestion, dyspepsia, catarrh of the stomach and ali stomach disorders. Sold by J. S. Hushson &C. EAST ST. LOUIS UNDER WATER. Graphic Story of the Fight Against the Mississippi. River Rises Suddenly Without Warning. Levee 2 to 6 Feet High Protects the City on the West.'but on thc South the Illinois Central Embankment Gave Way and the City is now from 2 to 15 Feet Deep in Water. St. Louis, Mo, June IO.-Almost two-thirds of the territory of East St. Louis, 111, is under from two to fifteen feet of water. Between sunset last night and dawn today eleven lives were sacrificed to the waters, and dam? age which noonan today attempted to estimate has ^Deen done to the prop? erty. Probably never before in the history of the country has a more valiant fight been made by brave men, with defeat, staring them in the face, to protect lives and property than has been made by the citizens of East St. Lonis. When the rising Mississippi River began to threaten the city last Thurs? day morning Mayor Silas Cook order? ed men to work to construct sand bag levees at once. The river rose higher and more men were employed. Citizens of the best classes worked side by side with the laborers. Since Thursday morning five thousand men, under the leadership of Mayor Cook, without sleep, with little rest and food snatch? ed at intervals, have toiled unceasing? ly to strengthen levees aud to do every? thing possible to save the city. Not a wheel of industry is turning in East St Louis. The smokeless chimneys of manufacuring plants stand lifeless while the flood whirls at the founda? tions. The vast railroad yards are outlined by hundreds of half submerged cars, and here and there stand locomotives only half visible. Hugh grain elevators stand surround? ed by a veritable sea. To the south, beyond the railway yard, are thousands of homes, mainly humble cottages, owned by the laborers and containing their all, submerged to the eaves. In Northern East St. Louis the de? scription is repeated, but not on sucii a large scale. The business portion of the city and the district containing the better resi? dences is still intact but for how long?" is the question tonight. Broad? way, running from Eads Bridge east to the city limits, a wide street walled with stone fifteen feet high, divides the city in halves. More than ten feet of water is pressing against Broadway from the south and in some places is seeping through in streams as thick as a man's body. If Broadway should break the water would reach over much of the city until Missouri avenue, run? ning parallel, one block north, is en? countered. Along the river front to the west a levee of sand bags, from two to six feet high and two miles long, keeps the river out. Without warning the river suddenly, began to rise. The city was made safe along the river front, but sud? denly a new danger menaced. Word was received that the Illinois Central em? bankment, skirting the river along the southern boundary of the city, was threatening to give way. Couriers were sent on horseback and afoot to shout warnings to the inhabitants of the southern half of the city. Car? loads of sand bags were rushed to the place and work was hurriedly begun Accustomed to warnings the inhabi? tants did not leave their homes. High? er and higher rose the water until a ;hin stream began pouring over the ?mbankment and suddenly it broke. Thomas Middleton, a volunteer in iharge of a gang of men who were 1 vorking at the point where the em? bankment gave way, gave a Descrip ion of the break, ile said : The break occurred at 11.10 last light. My gang was hard at work e vitia the others. The water was pour- t ng over the top of the embankment I c n a sheet, even after all our work. *. Suddenly, with a roar, a lot of water !g ;hot through the embankment almost ? s it my feet. I was carried away, but j r oon pulled myself out of the"water, t )ne of the laborers standing by my n ide was swept away and I saw him I Irown. In an instant the water had ? ut a section of the embankment out t: ,nd the stream, twenty-five feet wide, g was rushing through. I saw another section of the embankment go out a few minutes later, and then that por? tion between the two torrents went down and the river poured through iii all its fury. I believe many men, es? pecially negroes, were drowned I know that several negroes, worn out, had been permitted to nap, but they were lying asleep in the' path of the flood. They certainly were drowned." Middleton escaped by running along the embankment back to the the city. The alarm spread like wild fire and whistles were blown, bells rung, shots fired and cries of warning were sound? ed, but with all this pandemonium the majority of the arou-t d inhabitants did not leave their homes. Within an hour the houses stood iir water that reached to the roofs of the one-story cottages. It is known that numbers of people fled to the Central Hotel, a four-story brick -structure,, and to the large brick buildings of the Washington and Franklin high schools.. None of these buildings today con? tained more than two hundred and fifty people, and although the rescue boats found many people in second stories and on house tops, there are rows upon rows of cottages that early this morning did not show a sign of life. There is a grave fear that many bodies of dead will be~feusd in the flooded cottages and in this section of the city. It has been practically im? possible to learn of authentic deaths, but from the most reliable sources it is believed eleven persons were drowned last night, four of whom perished on. the north side early in the evening. Situation in East St. Louis im? proved. East St. Louis, III, June IL-The crisis of the flood situation in this city has passed. Boat crews which have occupied yesterday in rescuing victims of the flood devoted themselves today to saving property and bringing: to higher ground belated refugees who previously had not themselves been iis. immediate danger. Since the disastrous bre^k in the central levee the flood has made no dangerous breaks, although a portion of the Baltimore and Ohio embank? ment gave way last night and the flood area was further increased by seepage today. Water continues ta seep through the Broadway embankment ic various places tonight, flooding the lowland betwen that street and Mis? souri avenue, the next street northr. with from two to six feet of water. Startling Evidence. Fresh testimony in great quantity in? constantly coining in, declaring Dr. King's New Discovery for -Conscrr.pticn, Coughs and Colds to be unequaled. A teceut ex? pression from T. J. McFarland. Bentcr ville, Va., serves as example. He write.--, r "I had Bronchitis for three years and doc? tored all the time without being benefited.. Then I began taking Dr. King'? Nev Dis? covery, and a few bottles whoSy cured me." Equally effective in caring all Lur;?r and Throat trouble?. Consumption. Pneu? monia and Grip. Guaranteed by J. F. W. DeLorme, Druggist. T???J bottles free, regular sizes 50c, and fr?jtW A Cloudburst in Arizona. Denver, June H.-A special to the News from Phoenix, Arizona, says: A cloudburst has intervened to delay the crisis in the strike situation a? Morenci, Arizona, where thousands of armed men are threatening trouble with the civil authorities. A reporr has reached here that the downpour has inundated Morenci and neighbor? ing camps and drowned nine^ men. Official advices state that a mob of Italians and Mexicans charged on thc guards who surrounded the milling plant of the Detroit Copper Company, disarming them and taking possession jf the mill, while another mob of s thousand Italians is seriously menacing ;he whole copper camp. Worst of all Experiences. Can anything be worse than to feel that ?very minute will be your last ? Such was he experience of Mrs. S. H. Newson. De iatur, Ala. "For three years'' she writes, I endured insufferable pain from indi? gestion, stomach and bowel trouble. Death eemed inevitable when doctors and ali emedies failed. At length I was induced o try Electric Bitters and the result wast airaculous. I improved at once and EO-W 'm completely recovered." For Lr*err kidney, Stomach and Bowel troubles Elee? rie Bitters is the only Medicine, li's uaranteed by J. F. W. DeLorme, Drugg?fc. WMIiww?iliyilli i11" , ,-*S???i?f&????i