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THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Establiahod June. IS6<
Cosolidated Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24, 1903.
New Series-Vol. XXII. No. 47
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Five Dollnr?1HAVE 0NLY 0NE HUNDRED 0F THESE nACH,NEs
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
^|f|fe mark, as well as the machine itself, which is of the latest design. Do you work hardball
^lTgr?t^? through the hot summer days ? A little recreation and amusement in the evenings will cheer
P?p you up and make happiness in the family circle. As you are not to enjoy a thousand years' so
?l""t[MI|M^ journ in this land of flowers you may as well pick up a few lines of pleasure in passing, espe
?P^P cially when the cost does not exceed the five dollar mark. I am not living ten thousand miles
^Bligi I " away from you, and have the goods for sale, open for your inspection ; come and see them.
T. B. JBNKIIlSrS, Jr.
WITH SIX R*C3f ?S Selling New Home Sewing flachines, Columbia and Cleveland
? " Bicycles, and a high-class line of Sporting Goods.
--BT
IXT. O, Osteen,
SUMTER, S. 0,
$1 50 per an a am-in advance.
Ose Square first insertion...?1 00
Kvery stsbeeqaeot insertion..... .. 50
Contracts for three months, or longer wili
oe made at reduced rates. ~\j
Ail com.sasnica.WGS which anbserve private
interests will be charged for as ad versements.
Obituaries and tributes of respects will be
charged for.
?HJJ?i SEES NEGRO'S FINISH.
Tfee Fifteenth Amendment Repeal
is ?aeviia?te Some Day, He
Declares.
Tbe Augusta Herald, of Saturday
has the following :
"I hace not-seen the interviews with
Congressman Hardwick on his bill to
repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth
anaendiseots and don't know just what
it is, but 1 do -know that jost snch a
thing is inevitable. . The negro is
coming down to his proper status.'7
It was tims.that Senator B. R.
Tillman spoke last night w hile waiting
in Angosta to take a train to Louisi?
ana, where he is going to lecture at a
chatauqua. The Senator says he will
be away on this trip of lectures for
about te&?ays, after which he will
return to him home in South Carolina.
?"There is nothing going on in na?
tional polities inst now except the
usual dress parade of Roosevelt," he
^ said and in reply to the question of
, how long he thought these dress
parades womld last :
"Oh, that's geing to keep up just as
long as Roosevelt is President."
Speaking of the coming convention
and the outlook for President timber
in the Democratic party Senator Tili?
ntas said that be had never seen the
country so barren of material to work
upon as it is at this time. He spoke of
Parker and Gorman but said he could
not tell which, rf either, wonld be the
man for the place. He said they
would both be mentioned in the con?
vention and one of them may be
chosen, but he could not say which it
would likely be. He did not know
enough of the standing of either to say
what their relative strength is, but
thinks tbat Parker has the advant?
age of having no record behind him
, except that of a judge.
Continuing along the line of the
Hardwick bill that is to be presented
at the next session of Congress Sena?
tor Ullman said :
"About tbe only thing that is at?
tracting much comment in national
political circles now is that Ohio plat?
form, and it has not gene far enough
for us to see whether ii is to be a
local or a nationl measure,"
He explained that this platform is
a measure that seeks to allow the ne?
gro, to govern where he is in the
majority or else to cut down the repre?
sentation of tlie white man, and is of
the opinion that if it is made a na?
tional affair it will undoubtedly be
brought up at the convention and
met by the Democratic party.
"If this is to bea national rather
than a local issue it will mean the re?
organization of the old ante-bellam
days. I mean if the red shirts make
this what that would mean it -will
be then a question of this is white
man's country and be must rub the
government, majority or no majority.
I don't mean that it will be a condi?
tion of affairs like those of the days
of the sixties. Then it was a ques?
tion of slavery but now it will be ques?
tion simply of the negro or the white
man.
Senator Tillman says the matter of
repealing the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments is certainly inevitable
and is a question only of time. He
thinks that for the Ohio platform be
pushed upon the people of tl ie coun?
try, asking for the guarantee of the
provisions of these amendments would
merely bring the matter to a crisis
sooner.
"We are waiting for them to play
their cards or show their hand, so we
will know what move to make, " he
said.
Speaking of condition in South
Carolina, the Senator said :
"The thing that is most interesting
over there now is a few days sunshine.
I have just come down from Clem?
son and through the upper part of
the State to Columbia and I must say
that I never saw the crops in such a
bad condition. The grass has taken
everything. Why-, the country is
woolly with grass. The lowland crops
have all been washed away and will
have to be replanted.
"No there is nothing going on in
politics here now, you know this is an
off year. The only thing going on
that I know of is with the Governor.
You know he is shooting a few tigers
now. Every time he sees one he
shoots him down."
Senator Tillman looks the picture of
health, and while his conversation
shows that he is as much as ever in?
terested in the affairs of the American
government, he seems more taken up
just at this time with the condition of
farm lands in his own State. The
fact that he is not himself a man of
a gloomy disposition, rather being in?
clined to be an optimist than a pessi?
mist, when he makes the statement
that the crop conditions of the
Palmetto State are worse than he has
ever seen them before, it would in?
dicate at once that there is time for
some concern.
Marvels sf Corn Culture.
Thousands of practical instances
could be gi^ven to show the value of
improved varieties, of corn, says the
Cosmopolitan. tor instance, one
Southern Illinois farmer, more pro?
gressive than the Test, was induced to
secure enough improved seed to plant
300 acres as a result of his study of
corn in the Illinois College of Agri?
culture. These 300 acres outyielded all
of the other fields on his farm more
than thirty bushels per acre and, so
far as could be determined, the fields
of that estire .section yielded about
thirty bushels per acre. This increase
of yield meant a total gain of about
9,000 bushels, which represented a
cash value of about $4,000 that season.
?s this i necease did not represent an
increased cost <flf production, the gain
was pure profit. In another case a
farmer in Central Illinois became in?
terested ia improved seed corn
through the -school of corn judging in
the Illinois Agricultural College. He
secured enough seed, grown by a corn
breeder, to plamt weighty acres. As a
result he raised almost twenty-five
bushels more per ?acre of this field than
where the on?i*sa?ry seed was planted.
ta Earnest Then.
"I have aotieed,'r' said the off-hand
' philosopher according to Judge,
"that a woman will get a golf dress
when she has no intention to play
?golf."
"That's so," agreed the man with
the incandescent whiskers.
"And," continued the off-hand
philosopher, "she will .get a ball gown
when she cares nothing about dancing,
and a tennis dress when she wouldn't
play tennis for fear she will freckle,
and a bathing suit when she has no
thought of going into the water, and a
riding habit when the very thought of
climbing on a horse gi^es her the
chills, and-"
"Yes," interrupted the man with
the incandescent whiskers: "but when
she gets a wedding dress ehe means
business. Ever notice that?"
All persons conversant with the his?
tory of North Carolina knew fchat Ten?
nessee once formed a part of that state
and that it was ceded to the federal
government by our state for the pur?
pose of forming a new state. The ces?
sion was made in 1790 and the state of
Tennessee was formed in 1706.
But how many people know that in
the deed of cession, which the federal
wavernment accepted and of course,
gos bound by the condition and limita?
tions which it contained, there was a
stipulation that the government of the
United States should never interfere
with the system of slavery then exist?
ing in that territory? Is not the federal
government liable to the owners under
this contract for the value of every
Tennessee negro emancipated.-Wil?
mington Messenger.
A Serious Mistake.
E. C. DeWitt & Co. is the name of the
firm who make the genuine Witch Hazel
Salve. Dewitt's is the Witch Hazel Sai ve
that heals without leaving a scar. It is a
serious mis ake to use any other. DeWitt s
Witch Hazel Salve cures blind, bleeding,
itching and protruding piles, burns,
bruises, eczema and all skin diseases. Sold
by J. S. Hughson & Co.
LEE COUNTY'S COURT HOUSE.
The Proposed Sale of the Opera
House Building Causes Discus?
sion.
The people of Lee county are some?
what exercised over a proposition to
seU the Bishopville Opera House, which
was donated to the county by the town
for use as a court house. The question
has become an issue of importance in
Lee county and is generally discussed
throughout the county by taxpayers.
The Granges which are strong in point
of membership in Lee county ? have
taken up the matter and have adopted
resolutions condemning the proposed
sale.
In the last issue of the Bishopville
Vindicator the following article, and
resolutions in reference to the pro?
posed sale appeared :
My Dear Grand Jury : Your proposi?
tion to sell the court huose has been
duly considered and we have decided
a compliance with same would be un?
wise and unprofitable. It seems just and
fair that we should complain over the
absence of reasons for making such a
proposition. It is customary with pub?
lic officials in all civilized lands to
accompany all propositions with rea?
sons and argument bearing on the
subject matter. Now, why yon have
seen fit to transcend an established
custom we know not. lt may have
been your lack of confidence in us or
it might have been that you held us
in contempt. However, we do not
propose to act on jour suggestion and
submit the following reasons for not
doing so; 1st, The cost of building
the court house when material and
labor was much lower in price tl?an at
present was $.7,000. 2nd, That the
present worth of the bare land on
which the court house stands is $1,500.
3rd, Commercially this point will
steadily increase in importance
throughout the whole of the next ten
years, hence the continous enhance?
ment of present values andas our court
property is as advantageously situated
as any property in the village, we
deem $500 per annum a reasonable
amount to expect from enhancement.
4th, That the stores underneath the
court house will rent for ?650 next
year. 5th, That for shows etc., the
hall of the court house will yield an
annual income of at least $150, 6th,
That the court house will seat a great?
er number andmore comfortably than
the Sumter court house. 7th, That
the Jury rooms are as commodious and
comfortable ?S the Sumter jury rooms.
8th, That the purchasers wit? charge
us quite a heavy rent for the use of
the court house when we use it' to
have court in. 9th, That a five year
contract has been executed for offices
for ali of the county officials. 9th,
That for the five years our income from
the renting of the property would be
for Hali .$150 per annum, total $750:
from the stores $650 annually would
amount to $3250. The enhancement
of $500 a year would amount to $2500,
all of which added to the present worth
of the court house which has been
shown to be $115?0 would amount -to
$18000. Now, if we deduct the cost
for the five years of the offices which
will amount to $3000 we would be
worth at the expiration of five years
the sum of $15000. 10th, That if we
sell now, we can but presume that
the proceeds of such sale will be de?
posited in some bank without interest,
and as now no move can possibly be made,
to build a court house within the next
five years, necessarily we would have
to rent the property f ronrthe puchasors
to hold court ia, at, we dare say,
an annual rental of not tess than $300
and tbat added to the annual rent of
the offices of $600 would be for the five
years, five times gK)0 or $4?00 which
amount deducted from the proceeds of
the sale would leave us with ?5500 on
hand as against the alternation of
holding possession of the property of
$15,000 showing a clear gain or a clear
loss of $9500.
Up to date it is universally conceded
that a great many injuries and foolish
things have been done in Lee county.
Now when this proposed sale is con?
summated we will be in the street
without shelter and the climax will be
capped. Lee County.
RESOLUTIONS.
Adopted by Wayside Grange :
Resolved, That we think it very
unbusinesslike to sell our court house
at present.
R. K. Huggins,
Secretary.
Adopted by Cedar Creek Grange:
Whereas, we feel that the interest
of the country is ignored in all large
transactions; and whereas, a move?
ment is on foot to force a sale of our
court house; and, whereas, such a
sale would leave the county without
shelter; and, whereas the present
Court House is sufficient for all pur?
poses,
Therefore be it resolved, That we
enter our protest againts making such
sale of said property, at the present
time. J. E. Davis,
Secretary Pro Tem.
Tomato Culture in the South.
By Guy E. Mitchell.
The place where tomato culture can
be said to have attained its highest
degree of perfection is Crystal
Springs, Miss., and the methods em?
ployed by the growers of that section
can be advantageously followed by
every gardener, if not commercial
grower. The unusual feature of the
system consists in pruning the plants,
and the plan has been followed by the
writer in his home garden since 1895,
when he learned of it tn the Florida
winter tomato section.
Coincident with the appearance of
the third leaf of a young, tomato plant
will come a sucker or branch ; and as
the plant grows, additional. suckers
will appear in the axil of each leaf
until a vigorous plant will have
twenty or more branches, the larger
ones having branches of their own,
and the whole plant spreading over
an area of ten or twelve square feet.
Such a. plant of course requires an
immense amount of soil nutrition and
moisture to support its foliage. The
Crystal Springs planters set their to?
matoes somewhat nearer than do or?
dinary growers-as close as three by
three and one-half feet-and when the
first sucker is two inches long it is
pinched out, as are likewise all suck?
ers appearing thereafter. Before the
plant begins to fall, light pine stakes
are driven in the ground and the
plants tied to them with ordinary
white cotton strings. The tomato is
then trained up this stake, requiring
three or four tyings, until it reaches
the top, four feet from the ' ground.
Then the bud is pinched out. This
gives a plant with about twelve or
fourteen great leaves, four times the
size of the oridnary tomato leaf, and
five ?r six clusters of magnificent, per
feet fruit. The patch now looks like
a diminutive orchard loaded with
fruit. Bushels of ripe tomatoes are in
j plain -sight as the eye wanders over
the field. Under this method there is
no daoger of tomatoes rotting or mil- j
dewing; they ripen seven or eight
days earlier than if the plants are left
to their own devices or stalked in the
ordinary way, and it is practicable to
get through the rows at any time and
keep down objectionable weeds, and
perhaps the most important, the
' plants having a comparatively small
leaf surface for transpiration do not
require so much moisture to mature
their frort.
If a somewhat bushier plant is de?
sired, the vine can be trained to two
instead of to a single stemm.-Scien?
tific American.
John Brownfield Resentenced.
Special to The State.
Georgetown, June IC-John Brown?
field, who three years ago killed
Deputy Tas Collector Jas. C. Scurry
while in the discharge of his duty,
was today resentenced by Judge Ernest
Gary and will be hanged on Friday,
June 26.
That Throbbing Headache j
Would quickly leave yon, if j ou used j
DT. King's New Life Pills. Thonsands of j
suffers have proved their matchless merit
for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They !
make pure blood and build up jour health.
Only 25 cents, money back if not cured.
Sold by J. F. W. DeLonne, Druggist.
* Indianapolis, Ind, June 12.-In the
Circuit Court today Col. Russell B.
Harrison, as trustees for his children,
won the suit brought by him against
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, widow of
Ex-President Harrison, and the Union
Trust Company, as executor under the
will of Benjamin Harrison. Judge
Allen ordered the property sold and
the proceeds of distributed among the
heirs.
Driven to Desperation.
Living at an out of the way place, re
mote from civilization, a family is often
driven to desperation in case of accident,
resulting 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.
COMPRESSED COTTON.
Alleged That Railroads Have Been
Discriminating.
Washington, June 16.- The Plant?
ers' Compress company, with princi?
pal offices in Boston, in complaint
filed with the interstate commerce com?
mission, makes a series of charges of
unjust discrimination against com?
press cotton in railroad tariffs. In a
complaint against the Central of
Georgia et aL, it alleges an unlawful
practice of issuing and crediting ex?
pense bill, which, it says, is at least
unlawful if extended so that such ex?
pense bills are credited on any other
than the cotton originally shipped
thereunder. The complaint says that
such practice allows rates different
from those published. The commis?
sion also is asked to stop the substitu?
tion of otheror different cottonon
any through bill of lading when the
cotton originally shipped thereunder
has been stopped for compressing or
any other purpose. The company
complains that the practice of the
j Southern and other roads, called by
i them "equaliztion of export rate," is
i illegal and constitutes a rebate or
! shrinkage from the regular published
rates in the case of such exported cot
? ton. A complaint against the Mis?
souri, Kansas and Texas et aL alleges
that the so-called "back hauling" of
cotton and other alleged practices are
unawful. It asks the commission to
adjudge the defendant roads guilty of
unjust discrimination, of unlawfully
charging less for a longer haul than
for a shorter one, of violation of the
law in hauling uncompressed cotton
from the stations north of Muskogee
south to South McAlester and then
north again through those States at
the rate of 65 cents per 100 pounds,
and of similar violations in all simi?
lar cases of back hauling at other
points on their lines. The commission
is asked to declare that the practice of
exacting the uncompressed cotton
freight rate from shippers of com?
pressed cotton is unlawful.
LOWEST ON RECORD.
The Temperature Minimums for
June in the South.
Washington, June 16.-The weather
bureau's weekly crop report is in part
as follows:
The week ending June 15 was ab?
normally cool in nearly all districts
east of the Eocky mountains, the
minimum temperatures from the 10th
to the 13th throughout the central
valleys and southern States being the
lowest of record for the second decade
of June, and heavy frosts were of
general occurence in the upper Mis?
souri valley with light frosts as far
south as Tenenssee. Under these
condtions the growth of vegetation
has been slow.
Corn is unusually late and has made
very slow growth under the low tem
erpatures of the past week. In the
middle and south Atlantic States the
crop rs much in need of cultivation,
and in the southern States is largely
laid by.
Cotton continues very backward,
having made slow growth under ab?
normally low temperatures. Chop?
ping lias made favorable progress
tnroughout the belt, but cultivation
is not well advanced except in portions
of the central districts. Rains have
been beneficial in Texas where fair
stands of early planted are now indi?
cated, but cut worms are proving in?
jurious in north central and boll
weevil continue destructive in south
central counties.
All reports respecting tobacco indi?
cate that this crop has made favora?
ble progress and that transplanting is
now finished, except in the more
northerly sections and on some bot?
tom lands in Virginia and Ohio.
Startling Evidence.
Fresh testimony in great quantity is
constantly coming in, declaring Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds to be unequaled. A recent ex?
pression from T. J. McFarland, Ben tor
ville, Va., serves as example. He writes :
"I had Bronchitis for three years and doc?
tored all the time without being benefited.
Then I be^an taking Dr. King's New Dis?
covery, and a few bottles wholly cured
me." Equally effective in caring all Lung
and Throat troubles. Consumption, Pneu?
monia and Grip. Guaranteed by j. F. W.
DeLorme, Drsggist Trial bottles free,
regular sizes 50c, and $1.00.
CELEBRATING MURDER WITH TE
DEUMS.
Servians Hold High Religious Ser?
vice io Commemorate Assas?
sination of Alexander.
Highest Church Dignitary Praises Army
Officers who Planned and Executed
Assassinations.
Belgrade, Servia, June 16.-A dep^
utation of the two chambers composed
of four Senators and twenty Deputies,
headed by the Presidents of the two
houses, left Belgrade by special train
last night to inform King Peter of his
election to the throne. The officers
who have been appointed to attend
the King went on the same train.
The deputation is expected to return
here with the King on Monday or
Tuesday next.
The chamber met at 10 o'clock this -
morning and adjourned for the pur
ponse of going to the Cathedral,
where a great thanksgiving service,
including a ''Te Deum," was cele?
brated.
The ministers attended the service,.
which was carried ont with alf the
stately ceremonial of the Greek
Church. The Cathedral presented a
picturesque scene. The aged Metro?
politan; in goregous vestments of pur^
pie and cloth of gold and with jewel?
led mitre, was snrrounded by the Bish>
ops and priests of the Cathedral chap*
ter. Half the congregation was com?
posed of army officers in full uniform.
The ministers wore dress snits and all
their orders. The Metropolitan, in
a brief address, congratulated the na*
tion on the restoration of the Karageor
gevitch dynasty, a dynasty which had
included so many brave and noble men.
While deploring the necessity for re?
cent events, he thanked the army for
what it had done and praised its be?
havior. The officers audibly expres?ed
their pleasure at these remarks from
the prelate, who concluded with invok?
ing a blessing on King Peter and ex?
pressing the hope that under him Ser?
via would enjoy peace and prosperity,
The town is perfectly calm and
quiet is apparently assured.
Guns boomed frequently in honor of
King Peter, the church bells rang'
merrily, and, simultaneously, along:
the nain street, marched a funeral
procession. Accompanied by ali the
panoply of the Greek Church, a regi?
ment of soldiers, with its band, was=
carrying to the grave the remains of a
young lieutenant, to whom had been
accorded the title of the "army's
hero," a title which was gained as
follows:
The commandant of a division en?
camped in the environs of Belgrade
was surprised in the palace by the
conspirators on tho night of the as?
sassinations and managed to escape.
He found a mounted orderly, took his
horse and galloped to the encampment
of his division to summon some of the
regiments to the assistance of the
King. Just before reaching the camp,
the lieutenant who was buried today
overtook the commandant and in the
sanguinary fight which ensued, the
commandant was killed and the lieu?
tenant was mortally wounded. He
died yesterday.
A Brutal Murder.
. Charlotte N. C., June 17.-Informa?
tion from the mountain section of
Ashe County is to the effect that Levi
Barker was murdered and his father,
Alfred Barker, fatally injured by
Crack Davis, who also mortally
wounded Mrs. Davis, his wife, when
she endeavored to save Barker's life.
The Barkers were travellers from Vir?
ginia and had stopped at Davis's house
for the night. In the middle of the
night he attacked them ? i th an axe
with the result as stated. No motive
is known and it is believed that Davis
is insane.
Worst of all Experiences.
Can anything be worse than to feel that
every minute will be your last ? Such was
the experience of Mrs. S. H. Newson, De?
catur, Ala. "For three years" she writes,
'.I endured insufferable pain from indi?
gestion, stomach and bowel trouble. Death
seemed inevitable when doctors and all
remedies failed. At length I was induced
to try Electric Bitters and the result was
miraculous. I improved at once and now
I'm completely recovered." For Liver,
Kidney, Stomach and Bowel troubles Elec?
tric Bitters is the only Medicine. It's
guaranteed by J. F. W. DeLorme, Druggist.