Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I Cg* Maternait mtir jk??jjrim. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1904. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1S66. The Ws& Watchman and Southron now bas tho com? bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. -wim.-iL?. -? ? ??-?-^inrniMiMMTHTV J "I mian III wini i - If the Legislature fails to pass a law providing for two or more new judicial jcircuits the members will show them? selves either ignorant or indifferent to the needs of the State. In default of a radical change in our system of courts and the establishment of county courts for the trial of minor causes, it ia absolutely necessary 'to have two or more sew circuits. . The proposition'to provide 124 bene ficiaiy scholarships in Clemson College mee&lwith our hearty approval, and we t rast the members of the Legisla? ture will view the matter in the same light. The income of Clemson College is ample to maintain the proposed scholarships and there is not a single sound argument to be advanced against the plan. Both Senate and House have at last realised that the people of South Carolina favor biennial sessions of the Legislature, and, unless they repudiate the rote already recorded the question will he submitted to a vote of the peo? ple at the State election this fall If it comes to a vote ii is practically cer? tain that the Legisaltrne will meet ) biennially ofter 1906. Annual sessions of the Legislature are expensive luxuries and can be dispensed with not caly without detriment to the. interests sf the State, bat with positive benefit spart from the saving of the hundred thousand dollars that each session costs. ' The Bnsso-Japanese embroglio over Manchuria and Corea has been drag? ging along for' several months, and despite the reported statements^ that a peaceful settlement would be brought .about by diplomacy, war appears nacre imminent today than at any previous stage of the proceedings and the press reports indicate that the 'diplomats have well nigh abandoned hope of averting war. If there is. an appeal to arms, the conflict will bethe most titanic of the past fifty years and the modern engines of warfare will be given a severe test. It is believed -that the slaughter especially in a naval battle, will be terrible. -' ? / The effort to combat the Texas cot? ton bull weevil is to begin energeti? cally at once under the. direction of the Department of Agriculture, and ?Very resource of science will be drawn upon to destroy or to find means of con? trolling this mest destructive enemy ?f the cotton plant that ha? ever threatened the prosperity of the cotton growing States. Congress sever made a wist>r or more urgently needed appro-1 priation and if the effort rn successful . the entire [country will be benefitted ? fer cotton is the most important pro- , ?tact of the United States and the busi? ness prosperity of the country is in a large measure dependent upon the cot- ( t*? crop; : TK R8IT QR BOLL WEEVIL ' Hew Secretary Wilson Will Ex- \ pend tbe Special Appropria- . tion of Two Hundred and fifty Thousand Dollars. ' - i "Washington, Jan. 24.-The Secre- ; tary of Agriculture has approved the ; plans for the cotton boll weevil in- . vestigation in the Southwest, for ; -which a special appropriation of $250, - i OOO has been made available. Secre? tary Wilson believes that the best methods for meeting the ravages ! ? caused by the boll * weevil will^ be to . .put into actual practice the facts ? which have been accumulated by the . -department during the past two years -in the matter of improving cultural conditions, the planting of early maturing varieties of cotton, sub? stitution of other crops, etc. The plans approved, which were submitted by Dr. B. T. Gallo wa}-, the ch'ief of the bureau of plant industry, and Dr. Howard, the chief of the division cf entomology, embody the following Hoes of investigation : 'Farmers' co-operative demonstra? tion work: This will involve the organization of farmers in Texas and adjacent States in such a way as to secure the cultivation of tracts of cot? ton nader specific instructions from' the department of agriculture. Thus, m. 'definite working plan will be given to each farmer, the farmer himself to -furnish the seed and fertilizers, if such -ate required. These areas of] cotton -will serve as object lessons and will %e planned to show the practicability of growing cotton despite the presence of the weevil. Similar work will bb ^carried on in Louisiana, where the weevil has not yet advanced. It is planned to have 8,000 or 10,000 farm ?M8 engaged in this work. Plant breeding and selection work : This work will have for its object the improvement of present varieties of cotton, with a view to making them more prolific aud earlier, so as to prevent the ravages of the weevil The work will be conducted on experi? mental farms, which will be selected wi til due respect to climate, soil and other conditions. . Cotton diseases: The bill making the appropriation directs the Secre? tary to investigate other insects and diseases and one serions malady which will receive attention is tp.e so-called cotton root rot. This work will be in the direction of securing immune vari? eties by selection and breeding and the testing of types that already have been selected. Diversification of crops: This is considered one of the most important lines of work and will have for its object demonstration work in the direction of growing crops other than coiton, and of forage crops with cot? ton. Diversification farms will be secured by co-operation with the farm? ers themselves. Thirteen of these farms will be located in Texas, five in Louisiana, three in Mississippi and several' in other cotton States. The foregoing work will be looked af ter by the bureau of plant industry, j The division of entomology will con . i tinue its investigations on experiment ; farms. Thirteen farms for the grow? ing of cotton will be located in Texas J and the investigations conducted will have for their object the determina? tion of numerous questions relative to combating the boll weevil, which have not yet been definitely settled/ The question of the effect of fertilizers on the early maturing of the cotton will be considered. It is planned that these farms shall embrace about one hundred acres each. Investigation of parasites in the original home of the weevil will be made, the object being to introduce these parasites into Texas, with the hope of securing the destruction, through them, of the boll weevil. Inspection of cotton products, their fumigation and general expense at? tending the certification required by State laws will be another line of work conducted by th? entomologist Investigations into the life, history and habits of the weevil and for the general testing of persons and ma? chines. This work will be carried on necessarily in the boll weevil infested district. Investigations of other diseases than the cotton boll weevil, including th? destructive cotton boll worm, which is one of the mest serions pests in a number of the Southern cotton-grow? ing States. The organizatio 1 of the work on the co-operative demonstration farms has begun under the charge of Dr. S. A. Knapp, who is now in Texas. PITHY 60SS1P FROM WASHINGTON. Various Matters That are Talked About by Politicians at the Na? tional Capital. Washington, Jan. 24.-After months of merciless pummeling from the Democrats, the Republican Senators bave at last put forward one of the very weakest of their number to parry the attack-Senator Platt of Connecti? cut. The Nutmeg State is now almost unrepresented in Conrgess. In the Bouse its members are of little con? sequence, and scarcely known by name outside of their own neighborhood, while, in the Senate, Gen. Hawley is % paralytic and confined to his home rod Platt is aged and feeble. "It isa disgrace to the Senate," he faltered, 'that our President should be charged sere with entering into a conspiracy to incite rebellion in Panama." There was a moment's interruption as Sena? tor Teller replied "It is a disrgace to the country that the charge is true." Mr. Platt contradicted the assertion and then he spent an hour to prove what nobody has ever denied, that the President has a constitutional right to send the navy to any part of the. world where Americans are attacked. This he repeated, in eveery form he could think of; but he dodged the question which he was nrged to an? swer: Had tlie Preisdent a right, legal or moral, to order our naval officers to Panama to prevent the 'land? ing of Colombian troops within fifty miles of the railroad, when their ob? ject was to enforce law and maintain order in Colombia's own territory? " Yes, we will answer that by and by, " is the only reply this question has yet | received in the Senate. The administration is in a heap of trouble about a terrible Panama scandal reported from Paris, and involving Buana-Varilla, the garrulous minister from Panama. It is to the effect that this man swindled the French Panama canal company by means of fals<j re? ports of excavations made by which he received some half a million dollars in a corrupt "rake-off." The Presi? dent is greatly worried and ti ie Pana? ma patriot has been called to hurried consultations. For Democratic candidates, the names oftenest heard are Gorman, Parker, Hearst, and Olney in their order ; but there is a strong undertow for Lieutenant General Miles. Is he Bryan's 41 dark horse' ' ? He is . itirely acceptable to all wings of the party and a warm friend of both Cleveland and Bryan. His adoption by the iro? quois Club of Chicago gave a new impetus to the movement today, and Mi les'.s name is likely to be spoken in any conversation on the coming selec? ci?n. While not a ward heeler or a spell-binder in -any sense, his friends c ? I ( i s f i f c c a IA I'll IIMB--MMMMMBt-gBUIWBWgM bold that no candidate possesses mor attractive qualities or more qualitie calculated to win. Is not Root's ful some eulogy of General Young, re cently retired, in sharp contrast to th curt and insolent order retiring Gen eral Miles a few months ago? The bill in Congress to admit Nev Mexico and Arizona as one stat? causes considerable adverse commen j in Congress. Attention is called U I the fact that it would take a railroac train as long to go through the Stat( from east to west as to go from St. Louis to Boston I There are onlj about a quarter as many people ir Arizona as there are in the city ol Washington. If not a scandal the condition of the Red Cross Society comes perilously near it For more than a generation Miss Clara Barton and her official associates have been disbursing its funds without making any proper account to the public that furnished the money. Your correspondent warn? ed Miss Barton ton years ago that trouble would grow out of this negli? gence, but she and the Doctor, her Secretary, preferred to wait for it. Now Congress is overhauling the whole outfit. "Fious" originally meant affection? ate. Aeneas was called pious because he buried his father, and Antigone was called pious because she buried her brother. Congressmen seem to have a similar ambition. They buried one of their number last week with the usual extravagance ; a'committee of twelve or fifteen, a chartered Pullman to Illinois, and back, a load of grief stricken junketers, and all they can sat and all they can driink at the ex? pense of the government These Funerals cost from $5,000 to $25,000 sach and sometimes degenerate into a mild form of spree. Often, indeed, the official mourners drink altogether boo mach and there have been in? stances when they were disabled from performing their duty. Both parties ire equally guilty of this abominable >ffense and it is high time it was reformed in the interests of ordinary iecency. NEGRO S RUIN MADE SORE. /ardaman Says Unmentionable Grima Due to Improper Mental Upbringing. Jackson, Miss., Jan. 19.-In his in lugural address delivered today before i joint session of the Mississippi legis ature Governor James K. Vardaman i eel a red that the growing tendency of he negro to commit criminal assault >n white women is nothing more or ess than the manifestation of the ra? ia! desire for social equality. In strong erins he declared that education is the :urse of the negro race and urged an amendment to the state constitution hat will place the distribution of the om mon school fund solely within the >ower of the legislature. Continuing lis discussion of the negro question Sovernor Vardaman said ; "As a race he is deteriorating norally every day. Time has demon trated that he is more criminal as a ree mau than as a slave, that he is ucreasing in criminality with fright ul rapidity, being one-third more ximinal in 1890 than he was in 1880, "The startling facts revealed by the ensus'show that those who can read ind write are more criminal than the lliterates, which is true of no other lemont of our population. I am ad ised that the minimum illiteracy mong the negroes is found in New Cng?and, where it is 21.7 per cent. ?he maximum was found in the black >elt-Louisiana, Mississippi and South karolina-where it is 65.7 per cent, ^nd yet the negro in New England is our and one-half times more criminal, kundred for hundred, thau he is in he black belt In the South, Missis ippi particularly, I know he is grow ng worse every year. You can scarce y pick up a newspaper whose pages ;re not blackened with the account of m unmentionable crime committed by . negro brute, and this crime, I want o impress upon you, is but tho mani estation of the negro's aspiration for iocial equality, encouraged largely by he character of free education in 'ogue, which the state is levying trib ite upon the white man to maintain. "The better class of negroes is not ?espon. Me for this terrible condition, ?or fo- ~e criminal tendency of their ?ace. Nor do I wish to be understood ts censuring them for it. I am not censuring anybody, nor am I inspired 3y ill-will for the negro, but I am ?imply calling attention to a most un 'ortunate and unendurable condition )f affairs. What shall be done about it? "My own idea is that the character )f the education for the negro ought io be changed. If, after years of ear? nest effort and the expenditure of fabulous sums of money to educate his liead, we have only succeeded in mak? ing a criminal out of him and imper? iling his usefulness and efficiency as a laborer, wisdom would suggest that we make another experiment and see if we cannot improve him by educat- ' ing his hand and heart. There must be a moral substratum upon which to build or you cannot make a desirable j citizen. " The governor also declares that the \ people of the ration should rise up I md demand the repeal of the fifteenth amedment. COTTON MARKET. The cotton markets both fntnre and spot have been very active the past week, there being a wild scramble for cotton, with prices going higher each day. The high prices have brought out a good deal of cotton that has been held and the fortunate owners have realized more money per bale than has been paid since immediately after the war. Today middling sold here for 15.15, and fancy grades brought higher prices. The largest sale of the day was made by Mr. R. M. Aman who sold 50 bales at 15.15. HAG00D NEWS NOTES. Mr. Editor: Charles S. Baker, of the Pisgah neighborhood, who died li.st week of typhoid fever, was a deserving man. Starting out early in life with that best of capital a plenty of energy and good sense, he reared a large family, lived bountifully, and when he died left them a nice home and some hundred acres of good land which he bought and paid for, digging it out of the ground, fie was sober, clever, straightforward, companiona? ble, a useful member of Pisgah Baptist Chnrch. He was largely a self made man, in whose death any community would sustain a loss. He was a farmer, and he not only made a living at it but accumulated some property, and yet there are plenty of people poking round the country whining about there being no money in farm? ing. Whenever you hear a man saying that, especially if he owns his land, you may set it down that he is either lazy or a fool. Going down to your city the other day I saw two pieces of cotton on ad? joining lands the patches being three feet apart. The one would catch you under your arm pits if you were a tall man, the other looked like it was bad? ly mixed with what I heard a man call the Calder Prolific, which requir? ed forty acres to produce enough cotton for a fishing line provided your cane was not too long. Now Mr. Editor, this is not my lie. I try not to tell any: I merely repeat this one to emphasize the fact that some people have very poor cotton. I used to have that kind myself bnt I quit it. With your permission I will say a little more about this next week. Till :hen Vale. Hagood. Hagood, S. C., Jan. 26, 1901 Another Car Load at Boyle's. Mr. J. N. Brown, buyer for W. B. Boyle's Stables who has been on the narkets for several days will return some tonight, and a car load of select 3d mules, young, sound and well broke ffill arrive tomorrow morning. Call md look them over if you are in need )f first class farm mules. Jan. 27.-lt. SCIENTIFIC TOBACCO CULTURE. Experimental Farm Established in Orangeburg County. Washington, Jan. 25.- Representa ;ive Lever had a very important inter? view with the authorities of the agri jultural department today relating to ?he location of a tobacco experiment jtation in his district. Mr. Lever Delives that the only way to induce ;he Southern farmer to diversify his ?rops is to show him that other crops ;han cotton can be made profitable. 5Vith this idea in view he is urging ipon the department of agriculture ;he necessity of establishing experi nental farms here and there in the State. ? It is the purpose of the department ;o establish an experimental tobacco farm in Orangeburg County this year iud a survey party is now iii the conn ;y making the preliminary survey. "Bryan's Got the Stage/' Princeton, N. J., Jan. 27.-Former President Cleveland, when asked to light by the Associated Press corres? pondent fer his opinion of Wm. J. Bryan's statement that no man who voted for the Palmer-Bnckner ticket ;an he nominated by the Democrats, j smiled and said: "I have not a word | so say in the matter, except that j Bryan has got the stage; let him go it. I guess that's definite enough." Received today another shipment of 'Pitt," the most popular game on the market. Osteen's Book Store. LOST-Pair Gold Spectacles, with far and near sight, between Drs. Hughson and Kingsmore. Drug Store. Finder will be rewarded if returned to Amelia J. Andrews. "> and 7 West Liberty street. Jan 20-lt WANTED-Faithful person to travel for well established house in a few counties, calling on retail merchants and agents. Local territory. Salary 820.00 per week with expenses addi? tional, all payable in cash each week. Money for expenses advanced. Position permanent. Business successful and rashing. Standard House, 330 Dear? born street-, Chicago. Nov. ll FOR RENT-One storehouse, with ? three room dwelling attached, with j necessary out buildings, for five j months. Three and one half miles ; from Sumter in the fork of Providence and Stateburg roads. Foi terms apply ? to R. M. Edens, Sumter, S. C. July 29-tf. - i FOR SALE-Sewing Machine in I good condition. Applv at Watchman ; and SouthroL Office. 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GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bou In Use For Over 30 Years. THC CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY STREET, ft CW YORK CITY? DR. I. E. CR IM M. Recognized Specialist in Refraction. NOTED EYE SPECIALIST TO BE HERE FOE 3-WEEKS 0NLY--3 COMMENCING Thursday, Jan. 28th. Office : Hotel Jackson, First FJoor. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p. m. Dr. Crimm is a graduate of one of the best schools of Europe and of this coun? try, and comes to Sumter well recom? mended with letters from the best known professional and business men of this State, Dr. Crimm corrects the most complicated cases of errors of refrac? tion, and guarantees satisfaction. All classes at the most reasonable prices. Cross eyes straightened by class? es without cutting. CONSULTATION FREE.. These letters speak for themselves: Office o' The Greenville Mountaineer. .J ames A. Hoyt, Editor and Propr. ^ _ _ Greenville. S. C.. Dec. 7.15)01. To Whom It May Concern: . I take much pleasure in stating that Dr. I. E. Crimm has been in Greenville for a numl)cr of weeks, making two visits to this place in the last two or three months, and that he has given entire satisfaction, so far as I know, to all per? sons who have availed themselves of his knowledge and skill as an Oculist and Optician. I am not onlv pleased, but benefitted by my acquaintance with a gentleman who shows such'manifest familiarity with the duties of his profession, and I ?.ordially commend him to mv friends elsewhere and all others who may need his service. Respectfully. James A. Hoyt. Office Supreme Court of South Carolina. V. .1. Pope. Chief Justice. Newberry. S. C., March ?, mi Dr. I. E. Crimm. Oculist and Optician. Dear Sir: I ask lrave to bear witness to the excellence of the pair of eye? glasses you recently prepared for me. 1 am sure from my own experience with vour work that you understand jour business. Sincerely. Y. J. Pope. Tho? e who desire Dr. Crimm's services will kindly call at his office, as he makes no visits. CIT? REFERENCES; Dr. A. .1. China, Col. R. D. Lee, Maj. W. F. B. Haynsworth. Mr. W. M. Graham. r li , Prest. C. W. BQSH?MER, Sec. X Treas. Phe Sumter Banking Mercantile Company, 3f*? CZ?? -Capital Stock $50,000 lesale Grocers, Fertilize ers and Farmers' Supplies. Sole agents fer the celebrated brand of Wil? cox & Gibbs Fertilizers. We are prepared to quote the very closest sash or time prices on all lines of Groceries, Fertilizers and Farmers* Supplies, ?nd invite your investigation before making your arrangements for another year. Come to see us. We will save you moneyr and give you a hearty, courteous welcome. Sumter Banking i Mercantile Company, Masonic Building, 2d door from the Postoffice. Sumter, S. C.