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otana ?>?t ?diit?ri?ii?aa an? ?aiiflm WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1904. The Sumter Watchman ?as fonnded in ; T860 and the Tra? Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron nov has the com? bined circulation and influence of both of the o?d papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. Commissioner of Immigration Wat? son bas commenced work in a way that inspires confidence. He seems to have a firm grasp of the subject, has found ont what to do and the way to ?IO it Judge Parker now has a big lead in the race for the Democratic Preai ??entia? nomination; and the Hearst boom, which was, from its inception, ?a very unsubstantial affair, has all collapsed. With the New York delegation solid for Parker and the south practically certain tb rally - to his standard in tfce St. Louis Conven? tion it begins to 'look as if Parker is t?e man. We have had no especial partiality for Judge Parker or forthat matter for any other of the reputable Demorcats* -whose names have been mentioned xrt connection with the nomination, but have been for the man who could beat Hearst in the convention and who would, besides, stand some chanca of winning at the polis, ~ Weekly Crop Bulletin. Columbia, April 19.-The mean temperature for the- week ending at Sam., April"-ISth, was about 58 de Ispees which is nearly 6 degrees below normal, due to very low temperatures baring the first and last days, and to moderately- high temperatures during the midct?e of the week. There were light frosts on the 12th and loth in the western -counties that did no material injury; ' High; drying winds iwrevailsd. /auring the middle of the week, that intensified the droughty ?conditions prevailing over the greaten part of the State. The percentage of ^sunshine was about normal. The rainfall was extremely light, during that part of the week covered by the correspondents? reports, and *be surface .soil* became very dry in ?di parts of :the " State, and unbroken lands became liar cf and broke np clod? dy in pl?wfng." There was need of rain ^Dr all growing crops, and for the .{germination of recently planted seeds. . This droughty.condition was reliev? ed hy a general rain at the close of the 'week, which was fairly heavy and fell so slowly that. practically the whole ?mount was absorbed by the soil, es? pecially on plowed ground. This rain V will prove very' beneficial. General farm work made rapid and ttnistermpted progress, except that in the central counties the ground had become too hard and dry to plow. Platting operations were pushed where ? the soil was in fit condition, but cot? ton planting was delayed in places awaiting warmer weather and moist ^ ?uce, so as to assure quick germination. .Cern planting is nearly finished, ex? cept on bottom lands in the western (counties Early plantings are up to .good stands and have received their 'first culti vation. Later plantings are coming np to poor stands, and are being damaged by birds and worms, necessitating considerable replanting. The cool weather caused corn to yellow ^aome what. Cotton planting progressed slowly in the central and western counties owing to the dry soil and cool weather, but made fair progress in the eastern ones, where about half the crop has been planted and some is coming up. Sea island .cotton that is up is in need of Tain. . * * A beginning was made in transplant? ing tobacco, but this work is not general, and confined largely to Marl? boro and Marion counties. The plants .are plentiful, though small, and will suffice for the small acreage to be devoted to tobacco th's year. Wheat is improving steadily. The weather was too'cold ?cd dry for oats, which turned yellow in places. The . ?Qudi tion of the peach crop is uncer? tain, but enough fruit remains on the trees in most sections for a fair crop. 5\?ar trees are blighted badly. Apples are uninjured. The i-tra wherry crop lias been damaged by drought Sweet potatoes^e?min? np White potatoes have good stands. Melons fair stands. Pastures are ?-cant. Truck shipment .continue heavy, though still1 confined to the southernmost coast sections. Wedgefield. News Notes. wedgefield, April 19.-The rains of the past few days3have been b?n?ficiai &o cotton which is* coming up. MT. Earle L?Page, of The State paid tts a snort viist yesterday. This was his first'visit,and the impression made by him was good among his new ac? quaintances. Mr. T. D. Brohun, who is employed by the weather bureau department in Washington, is on a visit to bis par? ents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brohun. Mrs. W* H. Ramsey and children are visiting Mr. J. S. George at Chicora, Berkeley county. - Miss Edna Ramsey, of Privateer, is -spending sometime with relatives io town. Mr. Eugene ?ycock, who has been ?pending some time in Columbia, has (returned home. The Model Farm. i Columbia, April 18.- Mr. P. H. Hyatt has recieved from the depart? ment of agriculture the plans for the buildings to be erected upon the gov? ernment farm jost outside of the city. The building to be erected for the .cattle for the dairy is a model one in every respect There will be thirty two stalls, each three by eight feet. The stalls will be in two rows each lawing sixteen stalls, and there will Sw a feeding through at the end of .each stall. There will be two venti? late fines. The work on the build? ing will be commenced in a few -days. TEK MILLION DOLLAR FIRE IN TOROHTO. Canadian City's Wholesale District Swept Away by Hurricane of Flame. Toronto, Ont, ApriH9.-Fire swept through a section of Toronto's whole? sale district tonight, causing a loss which will ron up into the millior :.. The fire started in a factory in Wel? lington street about 9 o'clock. In less than an hour the Mames had spread from building to building on both sides of the street until the whole block was a mass of flames and the fire was utterly beyond control of the locar department. Appeals were sent to every surrounding city where fire apparatus could be obtained asking for assistance. Montreal, London, Hamilton and Buffalo at once re? sponded, but it will be hours before they can be of assistance. It was believed at ll o'clock that the fire was under control but a sud [ den shift in the wind again fanned i the ?ames into a roar and clouds of 1 sparks and burning brands were car? ried down side streets until three en i tire blocks were doomed. The firemen were making a gallant fight amid the falling? buildings and a mass of tangled wires, but their efforts at midnight seemed to be fruit? less. Chief Thompson of the fire depart kment and George Dowkes of Montreal were cut off" by the fi?mes while di? recting the work of firemen from a roof. Thompson jumped sis stories to the ground and escaped with a broken leg. A mass of tangled wires broke his fall near the ground. Dowkes has not been seen since and it is believed he has perished. Toronto, April 20, 45 a. m.-The fire is buming itself out in Bay street. The total loss will reach fully $10,000, 000. News and Comment From Pisgah. Pisgah, April 19.-The seasons so far are all that could be desired on the yonng crops. The cold last Sunday has hurt young cotton but a few days of warm sunshine will make that all right. Corn is a good stand and looks 'well. Peaches are thick enough on the trees. The frost killed a good many but what is left will be all the better. Oats are fine though the stand is scattering. The health of our sec? tion is good. The industrious people are always busy. The others can never find anything to do. I have never seen greater efforts put forth than this year. Labor is scarce and those who work have had to do double duty on the farms. If a few more would roll up their sleeves and go to work our conntry wonld be a little more prosperous, but so many look upon work as a disgrace, especially on the farms, and will beat their way through life at somebody's expense. Such people can't be relied on in cases of emergency. A good deal of interest is taken in the elections to come. I hear that candidates will be un me rons for all the offices. Tha idea is to pat out the "ins" and put in the "outs " Each fellow will be better than the other man. Some men are better qualified for office than others and they should be voted for, irrespective of any other consideration. While one friend may be a good man, he may not have the qualifications to fill an office as well as some one who is not so good a friend, and the latter should be voted for always. This is what Washington did, and it is certainly sound politics. It looks as if Japan is going to get the best of Russia in the war. If she gets to rearing too much the United States will have to take her in hand, and do as mothers do their children, sometimes,- and set her down. It would be amusing to see how this country could clip the little hornet's wings on sea and land. Sumter city is gradually absorbing all the trade of this section that went to Camden. First it was dry goods, now groceries and fertilizers. I can buy in Sumter, bacon at from one to two cents per pound less th.^n in Cam? den. This is no hear say but actual experience. Sumter deserves her trade, for a finer or better set of business men have never met. Black River Association has a fine acquisition in Rev. O. D. Loving, of Virginia. He will be pastor of the Lanes and Greelyville churches. News is scarce here. A few get married occasionally so the old thing won't die out or be forgotten, and that is about all that is going oe in the social world. The continued April winds have greatly bothered the farm?is in putting down their fertilizers. It seems of late years that March and April have swapped seasons. The last remnant of pines are being sawed. The swamps next I guess if ! they saw anything more. - ??BI?^-o?- -III HW - Ju*t ?.:.a.;ti Hi*' fKMi is <u ,!<.. im-'s mightier ] ?.>..<?."-i. so \\\v ?tMgh is oil OC- j . i . - ; <-\vtTi' .! in ?-UMJUCIU.?.? the ! MM?!. : '"i". . tu: ny iH:7or*?w kimi* of .oav i's . j :t.u ..;*.?..<:...?>!?s?.!si'';i;s." iv !'?.;r. \i .. i;; ii v .-.i ....) ;:? t.i<- .ray* ol : Ut' v. .?:.'?i. I li: vc p i] ii ;?. aiiei" .uou . . *..inn oi <:;t n as lin ."in 'i ;> v ?T!*I?:J; language ..:v:. . :i??i??*d~ ;<!i>! i> \-iu*.ifwithal .\?\.-. :.. ..i. .li.ti--.i .;'.?;.i;y wii?i vvoriN. .,<?Vi?,fr. i r::n)i my f.i<*u! \ ol using rm s; ..? <?;. the laugh, as tm* rase m.'.;. "I don't mean pleasantry and mirth. ::s domestic social grace?. Inn as defen? sive business artillery. Of course a , man's Crst impulse when KtotHer mis i guided man makes a palpable move to Mo him np' or Ksks some unreasonable ami protesterons business favor is to enter on wordy opposition, strenuous naturally aud perhaps violent. This. I have learned, is r. ?ste of nervous force and allows arguaient on tin? part of the unfriendly man who ts trying to make the touch. The stronger weapon is to laugh-just laugh. Utter not a word, no matter how much the other maj say, but just keep on laughing. Tve routed many deep laid, dishonest schemes with a good, hearty laugh. Try lt.**-Detroit Free Tress. VICEROY ALEXIEFF JUMPS THE SAME. j Pace Too Swift for Him and He Don't Want to Sit in With Skrydloff, Who Now - Takes a Hand. St. Petersburg, April 19.-Viceroy Alexieff has applied by telegraph to the emperor to be relieved of his posi? tion aR viceroy in the far east. It is expected the request will be immediately granted. While no official announcement has yet been made there is reason to be? lieve that the above statement is cor? rect. It is not expected that a snccesor to Viceroy Aliexeff will be appointed, as the importance of the post of viceroy has diappeared owing to the result of the war. The immediate cause of the viceroy's application is reported to be the ap? pointment of Vice Admiral Skrydloff, one of Admiral Alexieff's strongest enemies and sharpest critics as suc? cessor to the late Vice Admiral Maka roff in command of the Russian navy in the far east. GEN. KUROPATKIN'S GREAT ARMY. St. Petersburg, April 19, 7.27 p. m. -It was claimed by the general staff today that Gen. Kuropatkin now has 3C0,(XX) men at the theatre of war, sufficient for present requirements. An officer of the staff informed the correspondent of the Associated Press that tho dispatch of the troops to the far east has been suspended for the present. Gen. Baron Stakelberg lias been given command of the First East Siberian corps, to wbicli belong the advance forces, Gen. Kashtalinsky be? ing in command of the Third division at the Yalu river. lt is positively asserted that the Circum-Baikal railroad was connected a few days ago. Construction trains can now pass around the lake but the line will not be open to troop trains or passenger traffic for two months. SOUTHERN GR?PS INJURED. The Weather Bureau's Weekly Summary of Crops-Cotton Planting Has Made Progress. Washington, April 19.-The weather bureau's weekly summary of crop con? ditions is as follows : In nearly ali districts east of the Rocky mountains the week, ending April 18, was unseasonably cold and very unfavorable for germination and growth. Farm work, however, in the Missouri valley and southern and middle Atlantic States made very favorable progress, but in the northern districts practically nothing has been do oe. Preparations for planting corn have been active under favorable condi? tions in the Missouri valley and mid? dle Atlantic States. In the southern States low temperature has proved unfavorable by checking growth and germination. Cotton planting has progressed rap? idly throughout the central and south? ern portions of the belt and has begun in the more northerly districts. In portions of Georgia and Texas plant? ing is nearly finished and chopping has begun in Florida and southern Georgia. Throughout the belt the weather has been much too cold for germination and growth, the reports indicating that considerable replanting will be necessary in portions of the central and western districts. Fruit has experienced a week of trv-' ing cdnidtions throughout the central valleys and middle Atlantic and south ern Sates and, while the reports indi? cate that much injury has been done by frosts and freezing temperature, good prospects, due principally to the lateness of the season, continue in many sections. Error? and Excuse?. Emperor Sigismund of Germany, whe reigned in the fifteenth century, in the speech in which he opened the council of Constance uttered an expression which Cardinal Placentinus corrected. The emperor replied. "Placenti??us. however agreeable j'ou may bc to oth? ers, you please us not when you assert that we have less authority than the grammarian Prisciauus. wfccm you say I have oft end ed." Napoleon used to excuse his errors in orthography with the saying. "A man occupied with public business cannot attend to orthography." Voltaire upon receipt of his first let? ter in Kreuch from Frederick the (.?reat told Frederick that he w;is a hoXXol Frenc h scholar than Ix>uis XIV., who committed many mistakes. Frederiefe replied that* Louis was a great mon? arch in many respects, and a mistake in spelling could not tarnish the bril? liancy of his reputation. Courtship In Cnracxi. After the evening meal is tinished the "padre" may go to his club or cafe, while the ladies betake themselves to the large, open bay window, hamps are placed near them, and as you wan? der through the streets yon plainly see everywhere at the height of your own eyes and quite near enough for a hand? shake long rows of these groups of wo? men, now gayly and often brilliantly dressed, thickly powdered and bedeck? ed with the quaint old jewelry of the country. Then by and by a young man ap? pears In front of almost every window and converses with those inside. In most cases he is the suitor for the hand of one of tho daughters of the house. Evening after evening he thus oays his respects to her family, standh.., for hours on rho sidewalk, till the day nr rlves when the mother of his adored JUC believes the fact of his courtine her d.i'tghtei sufficiently advertised te thc neighbors as well as to the com muntry ar large. Then only the doors of tho hoi:**- .ire thrown open ro hun. Otto vi,.. 'lofberg in Harper's Maga Tin?-. MAGNOLIA NEWS NOTES. ' Magnolia, April 19.-Solomon says j there is nothing rew under the sun. j i This may be, but there are some ex-! i periences which are new to the indivi- [ ? dual if to tbe world they are old. As j the spring advances the young folks j are beginning to long for and some j are enjoiyng the old, old story, which to the happy ones is ever new. There have been two marriages affecting our little town. So delightful have been these events that it threatens to become epidemic. Not the young alone but some who have known the joys of this blessed estate and longing to enter the nearly gates again. On Saturday night Mr. T. R. Mc Intonsh and bride, now of your town j reached here after a happy bridal tour. I There is decided musical talent here and there being no more appropriate language than music in which to ex? press love, our musical brethren gath? ered at Mr. McIntosh's father's home at ll o'clock p. m. to serenade the young couple. To attempt to give even a remote idea of the grandeur of this musical performance would be useless, there? fore I will give an outline of what was done and what it was don6 with. In other words a program of the occa soin. There were some 50 or 75 in j the crowd. The band consisted of at least as many instruments: There were several splendid discs obtained from harrows and these discs were beaten by well trained hands, two golden throated farm bells erected cn I poles in thevpiazza- rung in perfect j time, a dozen or more bright new.i ! dinner pans, several well preservd ( j powder cans; the minor chords con-S ! sisted of at least a dozen dinner bells. Very often this splendid instrumental . music was accompanied by a vocal chorus which heightened its effect beyond the limit of human conception. You can imagine Mr. Editor, the effoct-so all prevailing and powerful was it that dogs, cats and cows were .constrained to join where they were not able to fly. I bad forgotten to mention a solo performed by an artist on a dinner horn which was really the feature of the evening. The band is still in training eagerly awaiting the occasion of another Me's marriage when it hopes to give its masterpiece. Occasional. Charleston, April 19.--A telegram was received today from a member of Judge Simonton's family stating that the condition of the judge, who is at a sanitarium in Philadelphia, was considerably improved. He was stated to be stronger and better today and able to take more freely of nourish? ment. The doctors say that there is some chance of recovery. t WANTED-To sell several pairs Berkshire pigs about May 1st, Bil? mcre blood, pure, and some nearly pure. Also good milch cows, young calves. E. W. Dabbs, Goodwill, S. C. April 20-vtf WANTED-To sell at a bargain at once, a McCormick Reaper and Binder complete, as good as new, only been used two weeks. Applv to T. S. Gregory, Box 314, Sumter, S. C. April 20-2t LOST-One English Setter Male Dog, solid white with the exception of head which is black with tan around the eyes. Limps slightly in left front leg. Apply to Watchman and Southron for reward. April 20-lt* NEARLY EVERY FARME.R j j NEEDS A PORTABLE ENGINE THE AJAX ss is the one to usc. "Thc Machinery People" j will be platl to send catalogue and nameJ prie on application. W. H. GIBBES CO. CO COLUMBIA, S. C Engines. Boilers. Saw Mills, Cotton Gin? ning Machinery, Etc. The Gibbes Portable Shingle Machine Have you given any thought yet to those Commencement Dresses, or that Graduating Gown ? If it is to be of French Organdy, Sheer Batiste, Crepe Tissue, Embroi? dered Mouselline orHabatui Silk, we have them all, together with the Fan, Ribbons, Hosiery and Slippers to match. Have you secured one of those sty= lish, washable, Shirtwaist Suits yet ? The prices are $1.85, $2.50 and $2.75 for the suit complete, and ready to wear. We are showing also the hand= somest line of Lady's Shirt waists ever.shown in Sumter. Jap. hand embroidery and drawn work on pure Linen foundation. Ask to see them whether you desire to own one or not, and the pleasure of seeing and showing will be mutual. t Yours Very Truly, The Sumter Dry Goods Co. AGAIN^^ I beg to announce that I have just received a car load pf ex? tra nice Horses and Mules, and ^ want you and the public gen? erally to understand that they are FOR SALE. - The Horses are largely nice drivers for spring use ; also a few good farm Horses. The Mules are extra well broke with weight enoug? tor mill purposes. A full line of Vehicles and Harness of every description always on hand. A. D. HARBY. Caldwell Drop Cotton Planters We are offering for sale again ibis season tho Celebrated Caldwell Drop Cotton Planters. The great advantage of those Planters aside from their decided saving of seed is that they space the seed at the exact distance desired, thereby insuring a uniform stand. With the present system of labor this is impossible without some automatic mode like that which thc CALDWELL supplies. We could publish a number of certificates us to the varied merits of these machines from many of our leading farmers, O'Donnell <x?h Company, South Carolina?