The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 15, 1903, Image 4
Wit ft?laitOiHan an? ?watjir?Ti.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1903.
The Stonier Wc?ckman was roundeo
o i 850 and the ?Vae Southron in 1866.
The f?zfcfona? a*? Southron now has
the combined circulation and influence
of both of the old papers, and is mani?
festly the bast advertising medium in
Sam ter.
Politicians of the Democratic persua?
sion now have two causes of worry.
One 13 Grenier Cleveland's silence, the
other is W, X Bryan's talkativeness*
The only remedy for these worries is
to kill off both of these back number
leaders and put new men to the front
in party affairs. The Democratic
parsy has come to a sorry pass if its
fate is wrapped up in a gold bug mug?
wump and a free silver populist, neith?
er of whom ever measured up to the
true standards of Democracy as fixed
by Jefferson, Jackson and other
Democrats of the true faith.
We publish today a reward for the
capture and conviction of the person
or persons who burned the barr, stables
and outbuildings of H. L. Pinckney
of Stateburg on June 21st We have
been informed that the guilty per?
son has been located for several
weeks, but no arrest has been made
pending the publication of the pro?
clamation offering a reward. The state?
ment struck the writer as somewhat
peculiar, and we believe it will strike
others the same way. If the incendi?
ary is known and there is evidence to
convict? why has it been necessary to
have the Governor offer a reward for
his arrest?
Russia has notified China and at the
same time the balance of the world
that the ports of Manchuria cannot be
opened until six years shall have
elapsed, by which time the country will
be tranquilized and .settled. This
means that Russia requires six years
in which to complete fortifications and
fill the country with Russian colonists,
a majority of whom can perform
military serrvice in case the need
arises. England, Japan and the
United States may accepted the situa?
tion and admit that Manchuria is Rus?
sian territory, unless they mean to
fight for control of that ont of the
way corner of the globe.
The State Sinking Fund insurance
.-scheme is, in our' opinion, a failure,
-and the next Legislature should either
put it on a footing that will give it
the strength to carry all the State in?
surance or -abolish it altogether.
Where is- the sense or justice in re
.quiring county supervisors, under pen?
alty of fine and imprisonment for
:f ai lure to do so, to insure county build?
ings with the sinking ftind scheme and
at the same time permit State officers,
in violation of the same law, to insure
the State institutions, and State
buildings in the regular insurance com?
panies? Is it merely another scheme
within a scheme to accumulate a fund
from the premiums paid by the coun?
ties sufficiently large to furnish some
sort of protection before the State
institutions risk their property? .
This is at last becoming one country
in respect to trouble at least When
bloody strike riots occur in Rich
mond. Va., ind negro riots in Indiana
and a lynching in Delaware at the
same time the bloody chasm seems to
have been bridged and the pet evils of
the respective sections to have crossed
over.
If the dispensary sysem is a poiice
measure designed and operated to cur?
tail the evils cf the liquor traffic,
and this was the contention that saved
it from the courts, what reason can
the board of control give for the es?
tablishment of two dispensaries where
one admittedly supplies all reasonable
demands for liquor?
/Some uncharitable critics trace a
direct connection between Senator
Tillman's popularity in certain sections
of the West, as a campaign speaker and
lecturer, and the recent lynching of ne?
groes in the West.
Jim Tillman secured a change of
quarters as well as venue to Lexington
county. As a summer resort Lexington
county undoubtedly ' has advantages
over Columbia, particularly in the
water-melon and barbecue season.
If the General Assembly should take
the suggestion of the Laurens Adver?
tiser seriously and establish a dispen?
sary system to take dver the publication
of all newspaper in .South Carolina, the
news matter and editorial stuff would
be as mean and vile ss the liquor dis?
pensed before onr great moral institu?
tion began dispensing: "case goods in
the original packages." O. W. Buch?
anan, sometime judge, was an adept,
in early dispensary days, in leading
raids on blind tigers and he would
find work to his liking in suppressing
newspapers and raiding blind tiger
print shops.
D. J. Chandler, the Clothier, an?
nounces his annual summer cost sale to
reduce his stock of sommer clothing
and furnishings,/
Meeting of the S. C. Press Association
at White Stone Springs.
White Stone Springs, July ll.
The South Carolina Press Association,
which convened here on the 7th has
completed its sessions, partaken of the
banquet and adjourned subject to the
call of the president after voting un?
animously to come back to White Stone
for the next annual meeting in 1904.
This meeting, which has been one
'of the most largely attended, in the
history of the Association, has also
been a most pleasant occasion, both on
account of the interesting and enjoy?
able business program and the elegance
of our headquarters and the overflow?
ing hospitality of * ' Sunny Jim ' ' Har?
ris. The new hotel lately built here
by Mr. Harris is a three story brick
building with 148 rooms, all of which
have preferred position-"top of co?
lumn next to reading matter.'' In
fact there is not an inside room in
the house. It is lighted by electrici?
ty and supplied with modern con?
veniences and comforts. A trolley
line takes passengers to and from the
railroad station to the hotel, and by
next'year it is promised that this line
will be connected with the Spartan
burg trolley system at Glendale, so
that guests caz visit the city of Spar?
taburg, the factories and other places
of interest at their pleasure. Mr. Harris
has already spent about 8100,000 on
this place, but he is still going on,
and he says that when we return here
next year we will not know the place.
He has several plans for improving
and beautifying the grounds. Among
these he mentioned an artificial lake
to be made by building a dam across
the creek above the spring, and the
construction of a "White bridge''
from the hotel portico across to the
high hill beyond the spring, where a
club house is to be built. The natural
situation of the grounds is extremely
pretty, the hotel being on the point of
a ridge that slopes on three sides, and
is surrounded by a thick grove of trees
of original growth, mostly oaks.
A large business is done in shipping
the White Stone Lithia Water, and
I am told that as much as $400 worth
has been shipped in one day, and that
the regular shipments average $200
per day. . The first building that Mr.
Harris erected, near the spring, proved
to be too small for the bottling busi?
ness, and a new one has been built a
short distance down the creek where,
by conveying the water of the creek in
a trunk a fall of about 25 feet is ob?
tained, and an overshot wheel furnsh- ,
es the power necessary for the bottling
works as well as to operate a pump
that forces the water into a large tank
DU a hill from which the hotel is sup?
plied. He employs 18 hands in the
bottling wcrks.
The White Stone Spring is on the
side of the creek and comes out of a :
3olid rock, which forms the bank of
the creek on that side. A pipe has
been fixed into the rock, and the na?
tural pressure of the spring forces the
water up into a marble basin over
which a rustic pavilion has been built
on a rock and cement foundation.
The overflow of spring water is con?
veyed in a pip? from this basin to the
bottling works.
Before the purchase of this spring
by Mr. Harris it was known as the
Kirby Spring, and had quite a reputa?
tion for the value of the water. When
I visited this, place some two years
ago before Mr. Harris began his de?
velopments, the water of this spring
was running through a-pipe set into
the rock and that stood up some S or
10 feet above the rock, the top of
the pipe being crooked over so as to
direct the water into a bucket which
was rigged on a wire that extended
to the farm house cn top of the hill
some 75 feet above and about 175 yards
away from the spring. This bucket
made regular trips from the house to
the spring and back conveying th?
water. Tee source of the spring is
some distance above the creek, so
that the height to which the water is
forced by natural pressure, (Mr. Har?
ris says it is 2'J feet.) makes the spring
as now arranged above any flood of
high water and accessible at ail times.
There ha3 been but one opinion ex?
pressed by the members of thc assoca
tion, and their families-that of ad?
miration for the hotel and its appoint?
ments and surroundings, and the at?
tentions of the ])roprietor and his as?
sistants.
I have devoted this letter more to de?
scribing the place of our meeting than
to an account of the association, be?
cause the general, 'reader and prospec?
tive visitor will no doubt be more in?
terested in this than in a resume of
essays on subjects relating to the con?
duct of a newspaper. However, I must
make mention of the Banquet with
which Mr. Harris complimetod the
association, and a few other malters
in our proceedings. The banquet was
given on Thursday night instead of
Friday night as was at first appoint?
ed, the change having been made for
good and sufficient reasons, and was
attended by all the hotel guests as
well as the press gang. The large din?
ing room was filled with 200 or more
people. The banquet began at 9 and
lasted until about 1. It was served
in courses, the last of which was ice
cream, fruits, champagne, cigars, &c,
with the usual program of speeches,
toasts and responses, none of which I
will attemp^to specify, except to men
tion that in place of the toast to Wo?
man, Mrs. Virginia D. Yoting made
some entertaining points on "Man."
Tributes were paid by the adoption
of resolutions upon the death, during
the past year, of members of the
South Carolina Press Association, viz :
L. M. Grist, of Yorkville, T. J.
Adams, of Edgefield, and N. G. Gon?
zales, of Columbia.
The resolutions upon the death of
Mr. Gonzales were seconded with feel?
ing remarks by W. W. Ball of Laurens,
Col. Hoyt, of Greenville, J. E. Nor
ment of the News and Courier, Mr.
E. H. DeCamp, of Gaffney, and Mrs.
Virginia D. Young. All these tributes
were beautiful and touching, but that
of Mr. DeCamp was probably the most
pathetic and touching ? of alL He
spoke from the position of a former
employee of Mr. Gonzales. He said :
Whatever he is or will ever become is
due to Mr. Gonzales, kind, gentle
and generous. He had known Mr.
Gonzales to go without such clothing
as he needed-for he would deny
himself anything to see his employes
provided for. So much did they love
him that sometimes they would go
with half pay and some times with
none at all, knowing and trusting that
all would come right. He knew no
difference in mankind. Money was
naught to him. Honor and truth were
all. His highest aim was truthfulness.
He could not think or say anything
which he did not believe to be ab?
solutely the truth. He was a hard
student, shutting himself in his
office after work hours and studying
until the gray dawn. He recited an
incident in which the employes on
Christmas night presented a gold pen
to Mr. Gonzales. The latter was over?
come with his emotions and declared
that it should be his endeavor to write
nothing but the truth, nothing of
which he should ever be ashamed and
he hoped always to preserve the con?
fidence and respect of his employes.
After the passage of the resolutions
by a rising vote, Mr. Ball spoke of
the movement to erect a monument to
the memory of Mr. Gonzales and the
motion to contri bute $25 from the
slender purse of the association met
with a second from nearly every
member present, and the motion was
unanimously carried.
The following are the resolutions :
Your committee on death of Mr. N.
G. Gonzales would offer the following
as its report :
In view of the sudden and lament?
able death of our brother journalist,
Mr. Narcisso Gener Gonzales, on
January 19, 1903, let us add tribute
to his work and his memory. In.him
we recognize a man of the highest
type. He hated the low and mean
with an extreme hatred. He exacted
from his fellowmen, especially those
in public position, the same irreproach?
able conduct he required from him?
self. He was a man of decided con?
viction. He thought clearly and
logically and always knew what he
believed. If he made mistakes at
times in the application of principles
to conditions and actions of others, so
that he was judged to be unfair and
even unjust, yet his positiveness
and firmness in convictions, as to
what he thought right, won for him
the respect of those who did not agree
with him. He was an independent
thinker, and often advocated move?
ments and policies in advance of those
about him, which of course meant fre?
quent difference of opinion and opposi?
tion to his views. He was a careful
and accurate man, and yet his was a
quick and penetrating mind. His posi?
tion was always positive and clearly
defined. These qualities won for him
success and eminence as a journalist.
He was the founder of the Columbia
State in 1S91 and soon made it one of
the best newspapers in the whole
south. His services to Columbia,
South Carolina and to the south can?
not now be measured. He was a
patriot of the truest type, and a worthy j
public servant. In him we have lost
one of the most brilliant and success?
ful editors of the new south, and this
association has lost an active, efficient
and loyal member. Let us emulate his
virtues. J. C. Mace,
W. IL Greeyer,
H. H. Walker,
Committee.
The association also passed resolu?
tions of appreciation of the courtesies
of the railroads, the attention of Mr.
Harris and his assistants of the White
Stone Springs Hotel and others.
I will remark right here for the in?
formation of those who may purpose
visiting the White Stone Springs, that
the hotel assistants are only surpassed
in their attentions and efficiency by
their superior, "Sunny Jim" Har?
ris in person. They are :
Mr. Dare Strother, Clerk; Mr.
Clarence Boyd, Clerk ; Mr. Geo. Boyd,
Clerk; Mr. Carl Wharton, Drummer
and Assistant.
There was a pressing invitation
from the city of Greenville for the
association to go there next year, and
also an invitation to go to Cheraw,
but the members felt that Mr. Har?
ris' invitation to come back and see
his improvement next year could not
be ignored, and the first yote was so
nearly unanimous for White Stone
that it was agreed to make it unanim?
ous. N. G. O.
Ask your physician if Glenn Springs
Mineral Water is not what you need.
SETTLING WITH LEE COUNTY.
Claims of Sumter, Kershaw and
Darlington io be Adjusted.
Columbia, July 14.-The commis?
sion appointed recently to adjust the
claims of Sumter, Kershaw and Darl?
ington against Lee County met today
in the Secretary of State's office. The
claims mad? by these counties were
for expenditures made by them dur?
ing the time that the Lee county case
was in the Courts. The members of
this commimssion are all prominent
business men and they will doubtless
make an equitable adjustment of the
claim. Mr. T. Hasell Gibbes, of Co?
lumbia, is chairman of the board, and
the other members present today are :
N. A. Bethune and H. G. Carrison, for
Kershaw; Robert Mcarland and C.
W. Miling, for Darlington ; G. F.
Parrott and T. C. Perrin, for Lee;
C. G. Rowland and Neill O'Donnell,
for Sumter.
I. C. Stratfss, of Sumter, was ap?
pointed secretary. Mr. O'Donnell
stated to the commission that insmuch
as the largest portion of Lee county
was gotten from Sumter, it would be
best to take up her claim and decide
upon what basis the claims should be
paid. By the agreement made at the
preliminary meeting in Sumter it was
decided that the dates of the claims
should be from the passage of the bill
creating Lee county on February 25,
1902, to December 15, 1902, when the
Supreme Court finally decided in favor
of Lee county. Mr. Strauss then went
into the detailed account of Sumter's
claim ; showing Lee county's proportion
of bonded indebtedness of Sumter
county to be $3,426.75; of the note
and floating indebtedness, $1,820.44;
of current expenses, etc, $2,554.42.
It was moved by Mr. MacFarland
that the settlement sheet proposed by
Sumter county be adopted by the com?
mission as settlement subject to any
errors and subject to a settlement pf
school funds open between the coun?
ties, Lee County to have thirty days
to report any claims as errors.
It was moved by Mr. O'Donnell
that Lee county pay interest on her
proportion of bonded indebtedness from
February 25, 1902; at 6 per cent, in?
terest on her proportion of note indebt?
edness at 6 per cent from February 25,
1902, and interest on her proportion of
expenditures as shown on the state?
ment from July 15, 1902, at 7 per cent
to date of payment.
Mr. Carrison stated that Kershaw'
county would furnish her statement of
account to the Lee county commission?
ers, and if there were no differences
between these two counties the matter
could be settled among themselves.
The commission adopted the statement
of Mr. MacFarland as to the indebt?
edness between Lee and Darlington
counties. This statement shows the
balance due to Lee county from Darl?
ington to be $662.23.
O'Donnell & Co. advertise a great
clearance sale.
The News of Pisgah.
Pisgah,. July 14.-Corn has come
out some. If rain comes now, a fairly
good crop will be made. Cotton is
late. August may develop the plant
beyond our expectations but from
present outlook not more than a half
crop will be made. In sections none
scarcely will be made.
Mr. John K. McLeod lost his baby
girl last week. It had been sick for
some time. This is the second time he
has had to bear this trouble and the
friends of himself and wife, are truly
sorry at the loss of their little one.
Mrs. Hutchison who has been very
ill is slowly recovering. Mrs. John
McCaa is quite sick. Dr. Britton has
charge of the case.
A party was convicted here in Mag?
istrate Munnerierlyn's court last weeek
of carrying weapons contrary to law,
and a fine of 65 dollars imposed. The
jury recommended him to the mercy
of the court. The court, jury and con?
stable charged nothing for their ser?
vices. Mr. D. J. Hatfield appeared
for the prosecution and in his speech,
said that the carrying of deadly wea?
pons was the cause of so many deaths '
in our land. It is hoped that the
habit will cease, for no man with the
proper manhood about him will have
a pistol swung around him. It
should be a relic of other days when
Oiiritian civilization did not dominate
the country. I hope this conviction
will ever be a timely warning to law
breakers that lawlessness will not be
tolerated.
The season is near at band when pro?
tracted meetings will commence, and
from what I can hear none but the
best of preachers are wanted. A min?
ister's character should be like Caesar's
wife, above suspicion.
Street commissioner White is again
making progress with the macadam
work on Liberty street.
The Second Regiment will go into
camp on the Isle of Palms on July 27th,
unelss otherwise ordered.
Everybody is talking about the def
ficient water pressure at the fire at
the Steam Laundry Saturday. It is
the general opinion that if there had
been obtained anything like a first class
supply of water under good pressure
the fire could have been gotten under
control and the total loss of the tobac?
co prize houses prevented.
Glenn Springs Mineral Water is a
safe and sure cure for kidney troubles.
FINE FARM FOR SALE.
300 ACRES at Copeland, Darling?
ton county, S. C., cn railroad, 20
miles from Sumter and Darlington;
most ali level, fine farm land: 200
acres in cultivation, balance mostly
pine and oak timber. Produce fine
crops of cotton, corn, tobacco, oats,
and potatoes. School and church near
the farm. Three good houses, two
barns and tobacco barn. Present owner
has owned it for 20 years, but is now
a non-resident. I offer it for a short
time at a great bargain. Only $6,000,
and will loan $2,000 or more 5 to 10
years if wanted, or will sell 100 acres
of it. If you want one of the best
bargains ever offered, write at once.
E. E. MOORE,
207 Daniel Building,
Danville, Illinois.
July 15-lt.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
C0TOTY OF SUMTES.
By Thos. V. Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge.
Whereas, W. A.. Nettles, Esq., made
suit to me to grant him Letters of Ad?
ministration of the Estate of and effects of
Nero Tindal, deceased, cum testamento
annexo.
These are therefore to cite and admon?
ish all and singular the kindred and
creditors of the said Nero Tindal, late of
said county and State, deceased, that they
be and appear before me, in the Court of
Probate, to be .held at Sumter, C. H., on
Angnst 1st, 19?3, next,-after publication
thereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to
show cause, if any they have, why the said
Administration should not be granted.
Given under my Hand, this 15th day of
July, A. D., 1903.
THOS. V. WALSH,
July 15-2t Judge of Probate.
PROCLAMATION.
STATS OF S0??TS CAROLINA,
szsctrrxTS CHAHSEB.
WHEREAS information has been
recieved at this Department that on
the 21st day of June A. D., 1903 the
Barn, Stables and Out Houses of H.
L. Pinckney in Sumter county were
burned, and there being reason to be?
lieve that the burning was an act of
incendiarism,
Now, Therefore, I, D. C. Heyward,
Governor of the State of South Caro?
lina, in order that justice may be
done and the majesty of the law vin?
dicated, do hereby offer a reward of
$100 for the apprehension, delivery and
conviction of the person or persons
who committed said act of incendiar?
ism.
In testimony Whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caus?
ed the Great Seal of the State
(L.S. ) to be affixed, at Columbia this
ninth day of July, A. D., 1903
in the 128th year of the In?
dependence of the United States
of America.
D. C. HEYWAD.
By the Governor :
J. T. GANTT, Secretary of State.
July 15-lt.
WANTED.
TO SELL-or exchange for Southern
Bsoks or Magazines published before 1868:
History of the Reformation-Daubigne.
Several different Church Histories.
Annals of The Persecutions in Scotland.
Sir Walter Scott's History of Scotland.
The Huguenots, "by Samuel Smiles."
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The Writings of Washington, 12 vols.,
nicely bound in calf.
Many other good books.
Address T. E. RICHARDSON,
P. 0. Box 74, Sumter, S. C.
June 9
emmi & co.
OUR CLEARANCE SALE
Was quite a success, but it
left behind
A. GREAT MANY ITEMS
that we are anxious to
CONVERT INTO CASH
and we will lose no oppor=
tunity to do so,