Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1903. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now bas the com? bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising-medium, in Sumter. We republish today, by request, the opening chapters of "The Gun Maker of Moscow." tbe great serial which was began last week. We have added so many names to our list since our last issue that our supply cf that paper has been exhausted and it is impossible to gire ali of our readers the opening chapters of the serial in any other way than by republishing the opening in? stallment. In addition to the chapters published last week we give today the second installment of this intensely interesting and dramatic story of Rus? sian life. It is the masteriece nf -Sylvannus Cobb, Jr., one of the great? est story writers who ever lived, the writer who did more than any other to establish and maintain, the great reputation of the New York Ledger in its palmiest days under the man age - met of Robert Bonner. / The article in reference to the re? establishment of Mann ville postoffice clipped from the Washington Post, is interesting reading, bat it evidently -does an injustice to the postmaster at Mann ville, for it is a well known fact that the postoffice has long been kept in Mr. Barnett's store which is open all day long six days in the week, and that the patrons of the office could get their mail whenever they called for it. The fact that the people of the com snunity would not consent to the ap? pointment of a new man as postmaster shows that they found no fault with the management of the office. If the burning of a barn calls for the offer of a reward of $100 by the Gov? ernor, the embezzlement of the school funds bf. a county would seem to call for the offer of at least an equal amount for the arrest of the thief. Consequently we are of the opinion that a reward should be offered for the arrest of G. Raymond Berry, the absconding Superintendent of Educa? tion of Marion county, who is known to be in Florida and can be arrested. Lieut Gov. Sloan has announced ?hat he will be a candidate to succeed *Gdr. Hayward two years hence. This .announcementstrikes us a trifle prema . iaTC-rtfeese early boomlets. are fre ^qnently nipped in the bud by an early ofrost The Panama conspiracy having been r^SS?i?sra% polled off, the officials of our government have found time to direct that P?ter, King of the Servian assassins? be recognized. The rise of Leonard Wood, M. D. into prominence and in rank in the army was as sensational as it was rapid, bat if the revelations resulting from the investigation of his record by the Senate committee continue ?long the lines marked out in the bearings that have been had his de? scent inr** obscurity and disgrace will be quite as meteoric. The facts that have been most clearly established by the testimony of the witnesses called .by -the Senate committee are that Gen. Wood owes his suddenly gained prominence to lavish and cleverly done advertising and that he was uot above grafting while Governor General. The advertising he secured by maintaining ? well organized press bureau to ex? ploit his every act, official and other? wise, while in command at Santiago, Cuba. He was not content that his press agents kept the newspapers and magazines filled with articles glorify? ing him, but he suggested and had written articles whose purpose were to discredit the administration of his superior officer Gen. Brooke by draw? ing unfair and ill-founded comparisons feet ween Gen. Brooke's official acts and bis o?n. Tba exploiting Gen. Wood received in the metropolitan (newspapers and the magazines has been inexplicable nutil now, but m the light of the testimony it is ali as plain as double leaded print-Dr. Wood simply applied to his quest for world wide notoriety and high rank in the army the methods of his brethren r?f the patent medicine fraternity. The power of publicity was aptly demon? strated by the success that crowned his advertising campaign and the wonder .of st all is that he probably paid not a cent for the space he used. The same ?amount of space would have cost a patent medicine doctor hundreds of thousands of dollars and would have sold tons of liver pills. That he is open to suspicion of grafting no one will doubt after reading the testimony which shows that he accepted costly presents from notorious gambling con? cerns in return for granting a fran -chise under cover of which the gam? blers are permitted to carry on their schemes to fleece the public unmolested .a long term of years. In the face of the showing made ic is difficult to con -cieve how the Senate can confirm his promotion to a Major Generalship re? cently recommended by President Roosevelt, but the power of graft is great and the Republican party has been guilty of worse crimes than the making of a Major General out of a tinsel hero whose reputation was made by advertising agents and patent medi? cine fakir methods. I ACTIVITY ON COTTON EXCHANGE. About 800,000 Sales Sold, Clos? ing at a flet Advance of (6 to 21 Points. New York, Nov. 30.-There was great activity and excitement in the cotton market this morning, and prices on the active months reached new high records for the season. The market had opened easy at a decline of 1 to 10 points under heavy liquida? tion and bear pressure, following the sharp break in Liverpool, but almost immediately rallied by active covering and good supporting orders from the bull leaders. From IL 17, the lowest point on the call, December sold up to 11.28, January was advanced from IL21 to 11.35, March from 11.30 to IL 45 and May from 11.33 to 11.43, these being net gains of 3 to o points. The advance was encouraged by -the rela? tive prominence of New Orleans and bullish advices from Southern stock markets, together with further small crop talk and tumors of a profitable squeeze in the nearby options. With hardly a reaction the market was forced rapidly upward, with the shorts apparently demoralized, as the result of the continued aggressiveness of the leading bulls and reciept of further he?vy buying orders from New Orleans. Private advices from South? ern spot markets indicated continued firmness, adding to the bullish aver? ages of local sentiment ; there was fur? ther bull talk concerning the probable showing of the Government report ex? pected later in the week, and, taken altogether, th? market was quite as active and excited as during any pre? vious session this season. December sold at 11.42, Jancaty 11.40, March il.63 and May 11.60 before the advance was checked. Then heavy realizing was attracted and the market slipped back 5 to 6 points, only to be rallied again in the late trading, and the closing was firm, net 16 to 21 points higher or at nearly the best for %the session. The sales were estimated at ! 800,000 bales. ELIJAH SOWIE BANKRUPT, Zion Giiy Seined for Debt by Chi? cago Banks and Receivers Ap? pointed. COWIE COULD HOT BM RINDS. Chicago, UL, Dec 1.- Difficulties which began during the crusade of Jno. Alexander Dowie, the self-styled "Elijah III," ard his restoration host in New York a month ago and which have been rapidly increasing since Dowie's return culminated tonight in the federal court's taking possession of all the property controlled by Dowie in Zion City, Illinois. This town, which was founded two years ago by Dowie, has a population of overlO.000, is the general headquarters fer Dowie's church and-.is said to represent an ex? penditure of. $20, OOO, OOO. Two Wagons Crush a Bridge. Columbia, Nov. 30.-An nnusnl and serious accident occurred in the upper part of the county. Mr. Oscar F Chappell was coming to Columbia with two wagons loaded with cotton. He was riding horseback ahead of the teams and safely crossed the Cedar Creek bridge. Both wagons got on the bridge when it gave way, resulting in the kililng of three mules and the serious injury of another. Harmon Neal and Henry Irby, the two negro drivers, had a narrow escape, fer they fell in among the debris of the bridge, wagons and cotton. They were, badly hurt, but it is not believed that their injuries are serious. The bridge was about thirty-five feet in length and no satisfactory reason isjgiren why it should have collapsed with the load that was on it. Pullman Car Company Taxes. The Pullman Palace Car Company bas decided to pay the assessment placed upon it by the railroad assess? ors without protest. It will be re? membered that the first assessment was made upon a basis of the total capital of the company, which has its headquarters in Chicago. The com? pany protested against this, as only a small amount of the rolling stock is in use in this State, and accordingly a reduction to $158,683 was made. The company will pay this without formal protest, although objection was made. The asessment will probably be made on the full value. Gen. M. L. Bonham was called to Asheville yesterdy by a telegram an? nouncing that his brother, Lieut. W. B. Bonham, was dying at a sanitarium at that place. Lieut Bonham is an officer in the regular army but has been on sick leave for more than a year. He has been in very bad health for some time, and the news of his critical condition is not altogether un? expected.-Anderson Mail. State Tax on National Bank, j ; ?a ??t the Certs. chief Justice Fuller and Justices Brewer and ~"'~ ~~ j Peckham dissentod. Washington, Nov. HD.-In the Uni- ? _"T5""*T_ _ ted States Supreme Court today Jus- j FOR SALE-The old Seals borne tice Peckham delivered an opinion in stead at Pinckney's X roads; 68acres, *! * xi " -D^ xr"*;?"?i-p??ir good dwelling, barns and stables. For the case of the People's National Bank *efereilC8 address Peter F> Mellette, of Lynchburg, Va., versus Martin Horatio, S. C. or T. B. Jenkins, Maye, auditor of the State of Virginia j Sumter, S .C._Dec. 2.-lt.* The bank resisted a tax levied on bank T,T ~ . LL ?" J 4. A. iatTT FOR RENT-One storehouse, with shares, on the ground that the law three r0Qm dwell? attached, with providing for the tax is unconstitu- necessary out buildings, for five tional. Without going into the ques- months. Three and one half miles tion of constitutionality, the opinion j from Sumter in the fork of Providence . .. 0. . and Stateburg roads. For terms apply favored the State. j to^ UL Edens, Sumter, S. C. Washington, Nov. 30.-The United p:cl-| ?Wc?P-r?C States Supreme Court today affirmed lJ2>iE, V/J'?lCio? the constitutionality of the eight-hour Place your order3 for Oysters and Fish law of the State of Kansas regulating with labor on public works. Justice Harlan COLUMBIA FISH AND ICE CO., said, in announcing the opinion of the COLUMBIA, S. C. Court, that if the statute is mischiev- ??^^<&SS?' "* ons the resonsibility rests with the j>ec. 2.-26t. The Public are Enjoying It, and the Tar Heels Reaping the Benefit. POOR TAR HEEL ! Our friends say your days are numbered, but yon ara cer? tainly "making hay while the sun shines," and the biting frost causes your admirers to seek shelter under your protecting wing. The proof that our friends attempt to produce in reply to our challenge is merely a memorandum of the sale, a dupli? cate of the order, placed with the New York agent, the nature of which is familiar to all merchants and by no means shows the delivery of the goods. We have the best authority for our statement that only 25 pairs were shipped, as .the following tel? egram shows in response to our inquiry as to the total num? ber of pairs shipped our friends : Elkin, N. C, Oct. 28, 1903. O'Donnell & Co., Sumter, S. C. We shipped 25 pairs ten quarter No 200. Chatham Mfg. Co. If this be true, as we have everv reason to believe, as the manufacturer certainly ought to know what he ships, and our friends returned 15 pairs, it would leave them with the enor? mous stock of 10 pairs on which to make so much fuss, and cause us to reduce our price, as they would have you believe. Don't express! your gratitude too quickly, we did not say we would allow you to get those 15 pairs back, and if you con? tinue to be naughty we will not permit it, but you are really indebted to us for the privilege of buying from the mil J, for we wrote them thal; we did not object to any legitimate merchant handling their goods, and did not feel that we would be doing justice to them to expect a monopoly of them. Of course you wont believe this as coming from us, but you are at liberty to write the manufacturer for a confirmation of it. Of course, your buying blankets from a neighboring mer? chant is your business, you have a right to buy them where you please, but that statement of yours was headed Facts, in which you said all your blankets were bought from the Mill's Direct Selling Agent, which was not a fact. If you confined yourselves to Facts this discussion would never have originated. It has always been our aim to make a legitimate percentage of profit on everything we handle, not to sacrifice one article at the expense of the >ther. To say that we depreciate the Dixie, an old friend that has stood by us these many years, aye nearly 15 of them, has it adorned our counters, and the writer's locks have grown grey, and his head bald, expostulating on its many virtues and good qualities-depreciate the Dixie, a name that is so dear to every southern heart ? Oh, no, we would rather never sell a blanket than be accused of such disloyalty ; to the contrary we hold it in such high esteem, that our per? centage of profit, is greater than on that famous brand, the source of all this controversy, as the following affidavit shows. The trouble with our friends is they measure what we pay for the Dixie in their own bushel basket. State of South Carolina, ) County of Sumter. J Sumter, S. C, Nov. 27, 1903. Personally appeared before me W. B. Murray, W. A. Mc? ilwaine and T. S. Joye, who, upon oath, say they are employ? ed in the dry goods department of O'Donnell & Co , and that they have examined and checked the invoices of Tar Heel and Dixie blankets and the percentage of profit is less on the Tar Heel than on the Dixie brand, and that no change has been made in the price of either since they were received W. B. Murray, W. A. Mcilwaine, T. S. Joye. Sworn to be^re me 27th day of November, A. D. 1903. D. W. Cuttino [L. S ], Notary Public for South Carolina. COME AGAIN. LL & COMPANY. WHISKEY I MORPHINE I CIGARETTE j ALL DRUC AND TOBACCO HABIT. I HABIT. ? HABIT. I HABITS. Cured by Keeley Institute of S. C. 132i# Lady St., (or P.O. Box 7f>; Columbia, S. C. Confidential correspondence solicited. > Mr. 0. D. Schwartz called at our office on Saturday evening and the blanket question was pretty thoroughly ^discussed. He seemed displeased with certain statements contained in our ad. ofthat date, which he asked us to correct, and upon our re? quest that he reduce his grievances to writing, we received the following letter : The Falace Dry Goods Empo; ium, Schwaitz Bros. Fore-'gn and Domestic Dry Goods, - Carpets, Shoes, And House Furnishings. Sumter, S. C., Nov. 29,1908. Messrs. O'Donnell & Co., City. Dear Sirs : You have made certain statements through the columns of the press which are erroneous and we ask you to correct these errors through the columns of the papers in which they appeared : First. That the Invoices published by us were genuine bills and not memoran? dums of sales as stated by you. That every pair of blankets on said bills were re? ceived by us, evidence having been produced to prove this. ? Second. That the statement wherein you say we claimed to have bought all blankets from the mill's agent is an error. That we did confine ourselves to facts and all Tar Heel blankets as stated by us were bought from them. Third. That you could prevent the mill from shipping us the 15 pairs due us, was only meant under ticket Tar Heel. " . In simple justice please give this matter yoar prompt attention. Respectfully. * Schwartz Bros As to the first, the copy of our letter herewith attached, ad? dressed to the mill, the writing of which we were engaged in when Mr. Schwartz came in our office, explains that. As to the second, if they intend to refer only to the "Tar Heel" brand, they are entitled to a correction, but we replied to their statement as we understood it, and doubtless as many others did In reply to the third, we fail to find, among our records, any statement of ours, in which we said they could not buy what blankets they wanted from the mill, other than the "Tar Heel," our contention being all along that they could get no more of thbt brand. We did say, however, that our friends were indebt-* ed to us for the privilege of buying from the mill, having express? ed our willingness for any legitimate merchant to handle their goods, and referred our friends to the manufacturer for a con? firmation of this statement. Neill O'Donnell. O'Donnell & Company, General Merchants. Sumter, S. C., Nov. 28, 1903. Chatham, Mfg. Co., Elkin, N. C. Dear Sirs : We enclose copies of recent advertising between Messrs. Schwartz * Bros. and ourselves which you will doubtless find interesting reading. We want you to notice particularly that we are holding them to your statement made to us, that they only received a total of 25 pairs, and published your telegram in confirmation of this, whereas they show in their advertisement from Messrs. Hamilton & Co., .invoices' for 40 pairs, 25 10-4 under date of Aug. 19th, and 15 11-4 under date of Aug. 24th, One of the firm has just been in our office and showed the writer invoices from Messar*. Hamilton & Co. to confirm this. We do not. wish to do anyone an injustice, and if you were in error in this state? ment made to us, we want you to correct it, and we will do them the justice to say so You will, therefore, please wire u3 on Monday, or as soon aa you receive this, "We were in error, we shipped Schwartz Bros. 40 pairs, 15 of which were returned," or if you only shipped them 25 pairs just say, "Our telegram correct, we only shipped Schwartz Bros. total of 25 pairs, 15 of which were returned.77 As previously stated to yon and to which we referred in our advertisement, we have no objection to them or any other legitimate merchant handling your goods, and we even suggested to yon that they get a brand of their own, which we see you have recommended, and it would be unreasonable in ns to expect to control your goods, unless it is your custom to have only one representative in a town, in which case we would certainly be entitled to it. We notice they make free use of your letters in the press, which we have avoided, but you are aware that we have letters from yon to prove every statement made by us, and if you continue to write them letters for publi cation, we will be obliged to use yours in support of our position. Yours truly, O'Donnell & Co. We expected a reply to the above ere this, but our letter must have been delayed in transit If the mill erred, their error was a very natural one, and purely technical, for eliminating the 15 pairs returned from the 40 shipped, would leave only 25 pairs, which they doubtless had reference to, in wiring us as they did, but we are not fight? ing their battles, we are only defending ourselves, and if our friends have any grievances as to this, they must get redress out of the mill, as we merely quoted their statement As this will doubtless be our last public appearance on this question, we desire to say, that we are not responsible for the controversy, having acted purely on the defensive, protecting our rights, and replying to the statements of our friends, as accurately, honestly, and intelligently as we were capable of doing. DONNELL & COMPANY. HORSES AND MULES. H?RSESJP MULES. ?TDTHARBY Wishes to call your attention to the fact that he has just returned from the West, where he purchased A CHOICE LOAD. They are nice and a well selected bunch. No trouble to show or drive them. A call from you wiil be appreciated You are sure to be pleased. A full line of Buggies, Wagons and Harness always on Hand. Sep 23 x _ JOB PRINTING First class work and good material. I do good work ?s cheap as possible, but do not make a spe? cialty of cheap work. J N. G. OSTEEN.