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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1905.
* The Sumter Watchman was founded in
1856 and the True goutkron in 1866. The
Watchman and Southron now bas the com?
bined circulation and inflaence of both of
the old papers, and is manifestly the best
advertising medium in Sum ter.
' Czar Nicholas is beyond peradven?
ture a miserable weakling, without the
courage or firmness to meet a crisis
and face the gravest situation in his?
tory of Russia^ His running away from
St. Petersburg, "at the express wish"
of the czarina." as the reports
have it, is proof of his lack of courage
and now hechas taken his bed, a ner?
vous wreck. What a weakling to be
tte autocrat of all the Russians!
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The action of the Peabody Board of
Trust in deciding to dissolve the trust
and to appropriate $1,0.00,000 for the
endownment of the George Peabody
College Xor Teachers. Nashville. Tenn.,
means a great deal for education in.
the South. The Peabody College for
Teachers will become the leading in?
stitution for the professional training
of teachers in the United States and
its graduates will go out to all parts
of the country to improve and develop
the schools. Th? Peabody Normal Col?
lege under the fostering care of the
Peabody Board and the State of Ten?
nessee, has done a great work, with
limited means, for the cause of edu?
cation in the South during the last
twenty years. But the scope of the
work will now be extended and the
results that will be accomplished will
oe proportionately greater. This one
million of the money given by Pea
?ody will be of more benefit and will
accomplish greater good than all the
millions that ?drew Carnegie has giv?
en for building libraries for self ad?
vertising purposes.
* * *
. The Blease dispensary investigation
Dill is taken as a joke "by most people
in South Carolina. > The legislature
would save money by. adopting a res?
olution declaring the great moral insti?
tution to be without fault or blemish
and'that a coat of "whitewash is not
seeded at this time,
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Cotton buyers here and in fact
. throughout the. south express the fear
. tfcat the damaged ootton, which is
bound to come unjess great care is
taken by the farmers in the matter of
storage, will entail a great loss to the
Siolders of cotton. Let us impress up?
on them to see to it now, while in time,
to have their cotton well examined;
removed any damage 'that may have
started and see to it thatTft is properly
stored. Otherwise thousands of dol
lars will he lost to the farmers' by rot?
ten cotton.
?STATE HOUSE REPAIRS.
_&_ ."
The controversy over, the repairs to
.thia State House has been brought to
public attention again by the report of
the Xegistative committee, appointed
to supervise the work, wl>ich was
-- made . public . Monday. The report,
which is quite lengthy, sustains, in the
nain, the c?ntentio?-of Architect C. C. j
"Wilson that the work heretofore done
is defective and that the dome in its
present condition is unsafe. The-re
, port is based upon the testimony of
Messrs, William Martin -Aiken, of New
York, formerly Supervising Architect
' of the treasury at Washington, W. B. ;
"5V. Howe, civil engineer and architect,
.of Spartanburg and Prof. F H. Col
cock, professor of mathematics and
derril engineering in the South Caro
JSna College.
- - The most important sections of the
report are as follows:
^Messrs. Coicock and Howe made
. an extendc-d report, in which they
showed that thc? girders carrying the
adorne were considerably overloaded,
sud that it would not be safe to put
Jiirther weight upon them.
""Mr. Aiken reported that his exam?
ination "proved very conclusively that
?certain members of the iron trusses
oarxying the dome, are unquestionably
overloaded, and are strained beyond
sehe sale weight they are built to car?
aar," and, ?eferring to Mr. Berle's re?
pon, ne says: "Mr. Berle surely knew
that methods involving such slender
margins of safety were neither employ?
ed, nor were they even considered in
the office of the supervising architect
of the treasury department at Wash?
ington."
"Thus it,will be seen that these dis
iSfiguished and eminent experts con?
demn the work in the respect indicat?
ed, and sustain Mr. Wilson's report to
the commission that the girders bear?
ing the dome are overloaded, and that
it would not be safe to put further
strain upon them, or to leave the
structure with its present load, with
out material reenforcement.
Acting in the light of these reports,
the commission concluded to do no
other work than that of installing the
feating and ventilating plant, and to
report the whole matter back to the
general assembly for its consideration
and instructions to the commission.
"It must be very evident to every
member of the general assembly who
reads and carefully considers the sev?
eral reports, ?that the girders bearing
the oome will have to be reenforced
strengthened if the dome is .al
lowed to remain as at present con
structed.
' The commission are of the opinion
that it would be better, and in thc
lon^ run more economical, for the
State to remove the dome entirely and
put up one more in keeping with the
main body of the building and more
scientifically and architecturally ad?
justed thereto. The dome itself is so
defective in its construction that in
the course of time "it will have to be
removed and another one put in its
place. Therefore, the work that is now
done upon it will be only temporary.
The commission would, therefore, rec?
ommend that the present dome be en?
tirely removed and a new one con?
stricted according to the best archi?
tectural and engineering ideas.
"?Should' the general assembly come
to the conclusion not to remove the
present dome, the commission would
then recommend that the girders sup
! poruing the dpme be reenforced and
strenghtened, and that the inner dome
be made secure, if it is allowed to re?
main in its present position."
Architect Milburn may be expected
to make? an extended reply to the crit?
icism of his work and the whole busi?
ness will be hrashed over again, with?
out accomplishing any good. Perhaps
when the dome "topples over or falls
down into the lobby everybody will be
convinced that it was not properly con?
structed. A glance at the work on the
exterior is sufficient to convince a rea?
sonable man that the new work is not
to b^ compared with the old.
THE CHICAGO BLUE-BEARD.
Coroner Investigating the Death of
One of His Wives.
Chicago, Jan. 31.-Dr. C. W. Lewke,
the coroner's physician, said today he
wou.d ask for the continuance of the
inquest over the body of Mrss. M. W.
Hoch, whose death led to the revela?
tions concerning Joann Hoch, the
Chicago Blue-Beard, who has been ar?
rested in New York. The physician
has :iot concluded a chemical analysis
of tie woman's stomach and it was
v -
found impossible to find an indictment
against Hoch for murder, but there
still will be charges of swindling and
bigamy and in marrying some twenty
odd women held against him.
Big Four*s President.
New York, Jan. 31.-Fresident M.
F. Ingalls, president of the Big Four
railroad, resigned today and William
H. Newman, of the New York Central,
was elected to succeed him.
Railroad Rebates.
The railway presidents have grav?
itated to Washington and have talked
out,., in meting with more frankness
than at any previous time: and this
is to be commended. Very few of them
have hertofore really accepted .the
doctrine that great highways of traffic
in this country are public rather than
private institutions, to be managed
chiefly for the public benefit. They are
now making a great many admissions
of a significant sort that the public will
nat -fail to treasure up.
They are willing'to'let it be known,
for example, tdi.at the practice of re?
bating, .was a jnontsTous"evil:' ?nry
t'hey assure us they. haye: at last,'-and
very recently,' so perfectly :succeeded
by their own efforts in ridding thern
.selvei; of these pernicious .habits that
they fsel quite sur? they can stay re?
formed without any further attention
from the government or the public.
Some of them, however.- do not feel
quite so sure, and admit that they are
afraid that they may be led again into
temptation and fall from grace
?hrough'the cajolings of the trusts and
powerful shipping corporations. The
simple fact is that American railroad?
ing has long been fall of the practice
of favoritism and discrimination
against the ordinary 'shipper. What
with rebates, paid in all kinds of hid?
den and roundabout ways to favored
concerns in which railroad m?n have
themselves to frequently been side
partners, and what with the exactions
of private car lines and forty kinds of
subsidiary corporations for private
benefit and against public interest.
American railroad administration has
been permeated w?th rottenness and
corruption. It is encouraging that the
railway magnates should go to Wash?
ington and confess that they have been'
great sinners in the past. But it is
scarcely becoming that they should of?
fer quite so active a hand as they have
been extending for the shaping of the
legislation so urgently needed to pro
tetc the public against their confessed
shortcomings. - American Monthly
Review of Reviews for February.
Fraud Exposed.
*A few counterfeiters have lately
been making and *rying t<> sell imita?
tions of Dr. King* New Discovery for
Consumption. Coughs, ('olds and other
medicines, thereoy defrauding the
public. This is to warn you to beware
of such people, who seek t<> profit,
through stealing the reputation <>f
remedies which have been successful?
ly curing diseases for over 35 y ra rs.
A sure protection, to you. is our name
on the wrapper. Look for, ?i ":? all Dr.
King's, or Eucklen's remed: s. a? al;
others are mere . imita;:>:.-. M. E
Bucklin & Co.. Chicago. Hil. . ?i i Wind?
sor, Canada.
OLD TIME RACE-TRACK SHARP.
How Dave Smith and His .Running
Worked Kansas City* Sports.
A decrepit old man living on the
outskirts of Salina in a rickety old
wagon and living on the bounty of gen?
erous citizens recalls to Judge Dan
Wagstaff a time when this old man
was a noted race horse sharper. His
name is Dave Smith. Many years ago
he possessed a running horse known
as Buckshot, which could beat any?
thing in Kansas in a quarter dash.
His game was to drift into a town
with Buckshot hitched to a thumble
down wagon. Then he would sift
around among the horsemen and af
ter a drink ortwo would intimate that
he had a "hoss" whih could go some.
His innocent country way never failed
to impress the sports with the idea
that they had caught a sucker. And it
was an impression that was not re?
moved until Smith departed a day or
two later with all the loose cash in
town.
One time many years ago Smith
poked into Atchison with^his ram?
shackle outfit. In some manner the
sports got wind of the-fact that the
old man's horse was thc famous Buck?
shot. They though they saw a way to
do the old man up for all his posses?
sions inasmuch as he always employed
a local- rider to ride his racer. Their
game was to get a rider upon Buck?
shot who would pull him. They suc?
ceeded only too easy. The old man ac?
cepted the rider who offered his ser?
vices without the slightest hesitation.
Furthermore he bet the Atchison
sports to a standstill, putting up mon?
ey on Buckshot until no more was to
be had.
The horses were called to the post.
They were to go from a standing start,
or a 'held start," as the fellows used
to call it. .The old man ambled out to
the track with Buckshot, rider up, and
took his station ready for the word
"go." And just as the word was given
he jerked a snap loose and the bit
dropped from Buckshot's mouth leav?
ing the rider with nothing to pull on.
Then he fetched Buckshot a clip with
a quirt, and the old horse went down
the track like a greased streak of
lightning and loped home an easy win?
ner.-Salina Republican.
FUNERAL OF MRS. WITHERSPOON
Half of thc Vast Congregation Com
.. posed of Negroes. Some of Them..
Former Slaves.
Goodwill, Jan. 29.-After an illness
of six days Mrs. Nancy R. Wither?
spoon, relict of the late Hamilton G.
; Witherspoon, Esq, died Friday night at
her home "Coldstream," near Brick
Church. At 12 o'clock today her re?
mains were tenderly laid away, in
God's Acre" from the church she had
worshipped in since she came here as
a young bride fifty odd years ago. The
church was filled with friends who
came from far and near to pay this
sad tribute to her memory. About
half of the vast congregation was com?
posed of negroes, some of them former
slaves, their chihldren and grandchil?
dren, and tenants whho had looked up
to and honored her all their lives.
Nearly all of her immediate family
were present. Dr. McKay, the pastor
of Brick church, being her ssori-in-law.
Dr. Edmunds of Sumter conducted the
services, asisted by Rev.- Ger?, G. Mayes
who was broughth up iii Brick Church
Mrs. Witherspoon leaves one'hrothter,
Dr. Harvey Witherspoon of York
county, hehr girlhood hhome. and two
sisters, Mrs. Corbett of Camden and
Mrs. J. Reid Muldrow of Brick Church
j one son. Mr. Robt. Witherspoon of
York county and four daughters. Mrss.
D. K. McFarland of Charlottesville,
Ya., Mrss Geo. E. Wilson of Charlotte,
N. C.: Mrs. W. J. McKay and Miss
Hamilton Witherspoon of "Cold?
stream," all of whom were with hehr
during the last few days except Dr.
Witherspoon and Mrs. McFarland.
One daughter, Mrss. Geo. P Harrison
of Opelika, Ala., died about four years
ago
Mrs. Wittherspoon lacked but three
months of being seventy years old, and
until reccently gave active attention tr?
her plantation affairs The extent of
her many good workss will never be
known until the "great accounting,"
for sheh was very averse to anything
like publicitty. "A Mother in Israel"
has gone to her eternal rest there to
receive her "reward for the deeds
done in the body." That it will be
a gloriouss one all who knew her have
full assurance.-The State.
Afraid ol' Strong Medicines.
0 Many people suffer for years from
rheumatic pains, ana prefer to do so
rather than take the strong medicines
usually given for rheumatism, not
knowing that quick relief from pain
may be had simply by applying Cham?
berlain's Pain Balm and without tak?
ing any medicine internally. For sale
by all druggists.
-mm ? i mm
Poisons in Food.
?Perhaps you don't realize that
many pain poisons originate in your
food, but sonn- day you may feel a
twinge of dyspepsia that will convince
you. Dr. King's New Lifo Pills are
guaranteed t<? cure all sickness ?ha- t >
poisons of undigested food-<w money
back: 25 cents at J. F. AV. DeLorme's.
Try them.
TAG TUX DEBATE.
Fight in House Over Effort to Give
Share to Winthrop.
The Legislature is Jogging Along
Killing Time in Fruitless Dis?
cussion and Nothing
Doing.
Colombia, Feb. 1.-There was a
spirited and a more Jess acrimonious
debate in the house yesterday over
Mr. Pollock's bill to divert 40 per
cent, of tbe fertilizer inspection tax
from Clemson to Winthrop College,
bringing out the old prejudices and
jealousies between the friends of the
various State institutions and denomi?
national colleges and resulting in the
threshing over of the special commit?
tee's report on State colleges in which
it is urged that Clemson is getting en?
tirely too much money by comparison
with what the other State colleges are
getting. The bill finally passed the
house amended so as to give Winthrop
the remainder of the 1 tag tax after
Clemson has gotten 875,000 a year cut
of it. . This tax varies and the friends
of Winthrop headed by Mr. Pollock
fought this amendment, which Mr.
Pollock declared would have the
effect of defeating the objects sought
in . the bill. This tax which was
started in 1S90 lias varied from year
to year, going ap low at 830,000 one
year. Last vear it reached high water
mark at ?118,000.
One last iab was thrust in the house
today at the Blease resolution to in?
vestigate the dispensary by Mr. Ash?
ley and those lined up with him. His
motion to reject the report of free
conference, which would have had
the effect of killing the bill, was
snowed under, and the report was
adopted. The report recommends that
the house recede from its amendment
to limit the pay of the commission to
30 days and from its amendment that
the evidence witnesses may give being
used against them in court, and adds
a paragraph to the resolution calling
for an inquiry into the legality of beer
dispensaries as they have been con?
ducted and are at present being con?
ducted.
Over in the senate the president of
that body cast the deciding vote for
an amendment to the new county
measure which gives the appointment
of the surveyers board of three to the
governor instead of having the pro?
posed new county appoint one, the op?
position ono and these two the third.
The senate debated the Rayser com?
pulsory education bill at length, but
adjourned debate after tho bill was
amended so as to limit the imprison?
ment peuallty to 20 days and bar pro?
secutions unless instituted within 30
days and fixing the age at from 8 to
12 years. By a vote of 17 to 20 the
senate rejected an amendment to ex?
cept parents owning less than 8300
worth of real estate. This would
have put practically every mill
operative in the State outside of the
law. It was offered as substitute for
Senator Cole L. Blease's amendment
seeking to have the State pay each
child who had to go to school under
the law but who was dependent on his
own labor for a living $5 a month
wbilo attending school.
The joint meetings yesterday after?
noon and last night to the house judi?
ciary committee and senate privi?
leges and elections committee to con?
sider the Calhoun county matter and
the Ashley bill to cul; off 18 square
miles of Abbeville to Anderson
county, brought out a great conflict
in evidence on the part of half a
dozen surveyors. And evidence was
also adduced to- show that the new
county did not have either the consti?
tutional population or wealth.
The surveyors for the opposition
gave evidence to show that both Edge
field and Abbeville would be left
without the constitutional aroa of .500
square miles by cot less than 25
square miles and the new county
would lack the required 4C0 square
"miles by 40 edd sanare miles.
The survey made by Representative
W. il. Yeldell for the new county
showed the new county tn have 40
square miles, Greenwood, to ho left
exactly 500 square miles, Edgefield 50:>
square gailes aud Abbeville 502 square
miles and the new county claims a
population of 15,915,^ over 1,000 in ex
cess of the constitutional requirement
cf 1-124 of the population of the
State. This fraction of the State's
population . would according to the
last census allow the new county a
rriinimum population of ld,815.
The propositon to slice Abbeville for
Anderson, which if it succeeds will
of courso defeat the new county inas?
much as this would leave Abbeville
shy of enough to yield what Calhoun
is compelled to have, was not reached.
The meeting adjourned at ll o'clock
last night to reassemble at 3.30 this
afternoon. Yesterday's sessions may
be safely regarded as resulting against
the new county, which has been hav?
ing a fierce struggle to get born all
along. There was a grave doubt rais?
ed certainly as to area if not also as
to wealth and population.
In this connection the question has
been raised as to whether several of
the new counties already established
have complied with the constitution?
al requirements but the su^rome
court bas determined that the finding
Qf the legislature is final and there is
no hope, as some have surmised, of
breaking any of the counties already
formed even if it is shown that any
of them have failed to meet any.or all
of the constitutional requirements
The sessions of the joint meeting
have been largely attended. About
J 100 prominent men from the territory
I affected have been present and the
j galleries of the seuati where the
I meetings are being held were crowded.
Magistrate ll ar by will be at the
j Court House on Friday from 10 until
; 1 o'clock. Ile desires all persons,
? who have lost bicycles in the recent
j raids and whose wheels or parts thereof
j have been recovered, to meet him at
! some time between the hours mention?
ed, tor the pnrpcFO of idertifyinc
their whtels and to make ailidHVits
upon which warrants can ba ?s>ui-o.
Thc Ladies' Aid Society wi I rate!
at the Synagogue tomorrow, Inursray
aLernoon at 4 o'clock.
STRAUSS-ROGAN COMPANY.
Mercantile Company With $15,000
Capital Organized in Summer?
ton.
Summerton, Feb. 1.-The stock?
holders of the Strauss-Rogan Com?
pany met yesterday and organized by
electing: the following officers:
President-A. A. Srauss, of Mayes
ville.
Vice President-Isaac Strauss, of
Sumter.
General Manager-Thos. S. Rogan,
of Summerton.
Secretary-A. P. Burgess, of Sum?
merton.
Treasurer-A. A. Strauss, of Mayes
viile.
This company which is capialized at
8^5,000 takes over the business of A.
A. Strauss at Summerton.
A. P. B.
Czar Hears Workmen.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 1.-The Czar
received thirty three workmen at
Tsarkoe Selo at 3.30 this afternoon
and listened to their complaints and
demands.
Concessions to Strikers.
London, Feb. 1.-The St. Peters?
burg correspondent of tbe Publishers
Press wires that representative work?
men of all of the big factories are now
conferring with Governor General
Trepoff. Next Monday the Governor
will meet ali masters and representa?
tives of the men with the view of
granting the workmen freedom of
meeting and bring about the end of the
strike.
Bomb Throwing in Paris.
Paris Feb. I.-The fourth attempt
to explode a bomb ia^ this, city was
discovered this morning when an in?
fernal machine was found lying in.
tiie avenue Beacteuil. This is the
fourth attempt within two days.
If there have bee nany removals since
the canvass for Mr. Bradley's directory
was made he requests that he be no
tied by postal card of same, or if any
ene contemplates changing their place
of residence or business within the
next ten days will please notify him.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the
Mother's Favorite.
"The soothing and healing proper?
ties of this remedy, its pleasant taste
and prompt and permanent cures have
made it a favorit with people every?
where. It is especially prized by
mothers of small children, for colds
croup and whooping cough, as it al?
ways affords quick relief, and as it
contains no opium or other harmful
drug, it may be given as confidently
to a baby as to an adult. For sale by
all^ druggists.
HELP BUILD SCHOOL HOUSES.
Part of tbs Dispensary Profits to
be Set Aside for That Purpose.
^Columbia, Feb. 1.-The house today
after two hours debate passeed Mr.
Richards bill tD encourage the erec?
tion cf adequate public school build?
ings. The bill as amended sets aside
5 per cent of the county dispensary
fund and when a district raises 8100,
the county board is authorized to ap?
propriate 850 for a building. The
original bill made the subscription
amount 8300 and the county amount
8100.
Strike in Wasaw.
Warsaw, Feb. 1.- The strike move?
ment in Warsaw province continues
to spread. Practically all employees
of manufacturng districts in. the pro?
vince are now oat.
Thc Best Physic.
*\Yhen you want a physic that is
mild and gentle, easy to take and cer
I tain to act. always use Chamberlain's
Stomach and Live Tablets.. . For -sale
by all druggists.
j The Sumter Business College open
! de the day sessions very encouragingly
I today. Prof. Lippard is much pleas
I de with the quality cf students inter
j ested, and is confident he can double
j their wage-earni ag ability.
Agonizing Burns.
I *Are instantly relieved, and perfectly
j byhealed, ,by Btickien's Arnica Salve,
j C. Rivenback; Jr., of Norfolk, Va., that
writes: "I burnt my knee dreadfully;
it blistered all over. Bucklen's Arni?
ca Saly^e stopped the pain, and healed
it without a scar." Also heals all
wounds and sores; 25 cents at j. F. W.
jbeLorme: ' druggist.
Startling, But Time.
* People the world over were horri?
fied on learning of the burning of a
Chicago theatre in which nearly six
hundred people lost their lives, yet
moree than three thousand peo?
ple died from pneumonia in Chicago
during the same year. Every one
scarcely a passing noticce. Every one
of these cases o:: pneumonia resulted
from a cold and could have been pre?
vented by teh timely use of Cham?
berlain's Cough Remedy. A great many
who had every reason to fear pneu?
monia have warded it off by the
prompt use of this remedy. Tae follow?
ing is an instance of this sort: "Too
much cannot be said of Cham?
berlain's Cough Remedy, and especial?
ly for colds and influenza. I know- that
it surely cured my daughter, Laura, of
a severe cold, and I believe saved her
'life when she was threatened with
pneumonia." W. D. TV'ilcox, Logan, X.
Y. Sold by all druggists.
WE ARE JUST IN RECEIPT OF
100
OF THE CELEBRATED
We claim credit for being the first to intro?
duce this potato, and if we never did our
patrons any other service we are entitled to
some commendation for this, as it has proven
itself
THE BEST PRODUCER,
THE BEST EATER,
THE EARLIEST VARIETY
AND
THE BEST SUITED TO OUR 50IL.
Every cross roads store in the country now
sells "Bliss" potatoes, or what they think is the
"Bliss" and they are doubtless honest in their
representation, for they may oe sold to them as
such, but of one thing you may be certain, when
you buy them from us.
?PUD MIHI
for they are shipped to us direct from the
county in which they are grown. We have
never been able to fully supply the demand for
this seed, and our object in buying so freely at
this season of the year is, that our customers
may get what they want, and permit us to re?
order if need be, in ample time to supply a later
demand.