The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 21, 1906, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1906.
The Sumter Watchman was founde
1650 and the True Southron in 1S66.
Watchman and Southron now bas the c
bined circulation and in?uence of bot
the ola paper?, and is manifestly the
?advertising medium in Sumter. ,
The Republican majority in
?ouse seems determined that the
ritories shall not be admitted to st
-hood unless New Mexico and Ariz
?are made into a single state regard
of the wishes of the residents of th
territories. Pour new Democr;
seniors is more than Uncle Joe ?
Hon is willing to stand for.
The Southern railway has met
station agents and telegraphers 1
'way and there has been a satisfact
readjustment of salaries and
threatened strike has been prevent
?
tChat is the proper way to settle si
Espies, it is best for both pan
?rom a financial point of vi<
?prevents ill feeling between emplo
and employe, and makes far m
loyal and efficient service,
s * * *
The fact that Sumter has more '<
tomobiles than any other, town in >
South impresses every visitor and tl
- ^ro away and talk about it. Sumtei
known as the automobile town fr?
one end of the country to the otl
?and it is a good advertisement
* ? .
The New York Herald states tl
there is a remote possibility of for
er Senator John L. Mclaurin bei
troted to become a member of t
Roosevelt cabinet as a repr?sent?t]
of the South. If this should come
pass what element in the Son
"would Mr. Mclaurin be supposed
Represent? Not1 the Democrats, i
it is not to be imagined that t
-Democrats would endorse him as th<
representative; and scarcely the R
publicans, for Edmund Deas and Jo]
<G. Capers would surely rise up aj
object, . President Roosevelt mig
smuggle him in as the special repr
tentative of the Philippines, since M
?fcX*auri$ is responsible for saddlh
that burden upon this country, by d
serting his party at the eleventh hoi
and going over to the standard of tl
"benevolent assimilators," of who:
Cfen. Wood is a shining light, as he ?
tully demonstrated at Mount Dajo
tew days ago.
? * *
^The m'fcniat?on hy our Hagood coi
' respondent that there may be a job c
something shady in conection with tb
erection of the new court house, piar
tor which have not yet been accept?e
:-s both premature and uncalled for i
'die circumstances, and we must .be
Hewe that he wrote while laboring un
.'3?ra misapprehension.- /The old coui
^ouse and rot were sold for $60,00(
-from which was deducted (1) $1,00
paid for a right of way to the rear o
g|| "the lot which was guaranteed to th
purchasers, and (2) $25.0000 paid fo
the Solomons' property, the site se
lected for the new court house to b
erected. Tho house on the Solomons
property '* was sold for $801
and several lots on the souil
side o? the Solomons' lot have beer
sold or are to be sold, the proceeds o
"which when added to the residue o
t?e $60,000, after paying for the righ
*of way and Solomons' property wil
bring the amount available for th<
erection ?f the new court house up t(
about $40,000. The architects anc
others who have been called into con?
sultation by the county supervisor anc
?commissioners advise that the cost o:
the court house, such as the needs oi
the county require, will be approxi?
mately $60.000 to $70,000. As this
necessary amount was not Available
tor the purpose, the authority was
Sough: and obtained from the legisla?
ture to order au election to decide
"Whether bonds to the amount of $30,
"O00, ii so much should be necessary,
.should be issued to provide the addi?
tional money needed. Thus far there
<thas been no job or crookedness and
no opportunity for anything of that
character hsd had there been a dispo
- sitian on the part of anyone con?
cerned in the matter so to do. We
believe that every care and precaution
^11 be exercised by the supervisor and
county commissioners in accepting the
< plans, in awarding the contract, ana
in supervising the work, under the
advice of a reputable architect and
the committee of the Sumter bar
called in by them, to safeguard the
interests of the county, and to obtain
an honest and workmanlike job. We
cannot believe it was the intention
or wish of our correspondent to create
a feeling of suspicion and distrust at
the very inception of the undertaking,
*when ccsointeh/ no ground for suspic?
ion exists.
o ? s
Some of the numerous budding
statesmen who are accumulating
thunder for the purpose of annihilat?
ing the senator from Belton when he
?as the temerity co offer for re-elec
*"?n could get a lot of practice and
-aluable experience by tackling
";ilma.n this summer.
* * *
*r has served the
^Sc"---r ' ... District so ac?
cepta. . . many stead
Hast supp?. >e at
tention to the interests of his constit?
uents that his re-election for another
term is assured. There is no prospect
of any opposition to him this year,
and if there should be the man who
makes the race will be doing so mere?
ly for the sake of gaining experience
as a campaigner and stump speaker.
* * *
The people of South Carolina would
not drink liquor fast enough to suit
the enterprising board of directors so !
they just bought as much as they
thought the people ought to drink and
piled it up in the dispensaries. A sal
ary o' $400 a year is a great tempta- j
tion f?>r a man with expensive tastes
to do a littl? business on the side. j
? * *
Governor Keyward takes a very !
i ' i
reasonable view of the special court
question. As the legislature refused
to make an appropriation to pay the
judges who preside ov"er these extra
terms he should not incur expenses
that he cannot pay. What is needed
is not so many extra terms, but
promptness in the dispatch of business
at the regular terms. If it is not a
waste of time to consume two or more
days in the trial of a little damage suit,
it is ai good imitation of it.
* * ?
The Newberry Herald and News
says it is for Senator Tillman against
the field this year, notwithstanding
it has never supported him in the pri?
mary hertofore when he has had op?
position. We predict that there will
be no field this year, and the Herald
and News is safe in taking this posi- ;
tion.
* * * "
The accidental meeting of David B.
Hill, Alton B. Parker and Chief Justice
O'Brien, the three big men in New'
York State democracy, in Camden
may produce results, but it will hardly
make Mr. Parker a presidential candi?
date again.
* *
If Mr. Mciver Williamson, who wih
deliver an address on corn culture be?
fore the Sumter County, Cotton Grow?
ers' Association at its next meeting,
can convince his hearers that it is
more profitable to grow corn than cot
I ton and tell them how to do it, he wili
solve the cotton acreage problem.
The farmers do not plant cotton for
the pleasure there is in it, hut because
they labor under the delusion thai cot?
ton is the only money crop worth con?
sidering. When they are convinced
that they can make more clear money
on some other crop, for which there is
a ready market, the other crop will
quickly drive cotton out. One great
objection to corn as a money crop that
southern farmers always advance is
the absence of a market. They cannot
harvest their corn and take it direct
from the farm to market and convert
it into cash.
* * * *
The Industrial School and Reforma?
tory promises to be a much more im?
portant institution than we understood
the original plans, or Its advocates
contemplated. If the plans are car?
ried out it will be a most valuable in?
stitution to the State afld the commu?
nity in which it i" located will be for?
tunate, if it should develop into an
institution similar to the Tennessee
school near Nashville. .
* . *
The State Board of Health should
at least make an effort to devise some
more effective system of dealing with
epidemics of contagious diseases in the
rural districts. An outbreak of small?
pox near Heriots, in Lee county, was
reported to the State Board of Health
by telegraph nearly a week ago, and
so far as is known, absolutely nothing
has been done to suppress the disease,
except what had been undertaken by
resident physicians before notice was
sent to the State Board of Health. A
State board of health is undoubtedly
an excellent and highly important
body-if it does anything. We fear
that our present board is rather slow
going a bit unwieldly, for it takes
a long time to sit up and take notice
of a smallpox epidemic.
* *
Mr. Ansell of Greenville who, as
some of our readers well recollect,
made the race for governor four years
ago in opposition to Governor Hey?
ward and Jim Tillman, and has been
a candidate to succeed Governor Hey?
ward ever since, has issued a state?
ment defining his present position on
the liquor-dispensary issue. His plat?
form is so broad and general that it
ought to catch the prohibition and all
complexions of anti-dispensaiy ele- ?
ments both a-coming and a-going, and
still leave lots of room for the high
license and county dispensary fellows
to get aboard in case of sudden emer?
gency. It is a tolerably fair working
model of a platform for use during
the preliminary bouts of the campaign,
and will admit of various and sundry
addiations, emendations, repairs and
amplifications as the progress of the
campaign or the exigencies of later
developments may render necessary
or desirable.
It is understood that all delinquent
debtors will be given 60 days in which
to satsify accounts due to the mem?
bers of The Mutual Protective Asso?
ciation, therefore it would be well for
all delinquents to settle up their ac?
counts before the expiration of the
sixty days 2t-w,s-wlt
GALLOWS FOR WHITE MAN.
SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT
BOB SMALL MUST BE HANGED.
Ile Was Convicted in Dallington of thc
Murder of a Negro Whom He Shot
Down on tile Public Road Without
Provocation.
Columbia, March 16.-A Supreme
court decision filed today seals the
fate of Bob Smalls and John Nail, the
two North Carolinaians, both white
men, who were convicted last spring
[ in Darlington of the murder of a ne?
gro named Frank Scott, whom they
shot on the public road, the white men
being in a drunken and rowdy condi?
tion.
Smalls was only 22 years old and
Nail just 19 at the time of the killing.
Smalls was given a death sentence
and Nail, being recommended to mer?
cy, got a life sentence. 'Smalls was
sentenced to hang last May.
The Supreme court affirms the re?
sults in the lower court and Smalls is
to be resentenced in the near future.
McCaw.
-?- .
Too Many Papers.
We see from the Florence Times
that the Sumter Evening News has
suspended publication*?
We have never seen a copy of the
News, after it was sold out to Knight
Bros., and thought perhaps it would
succeed, if it practiced economy in all
branches as it did in cutting off its
exchanges.
Sumter has always had a good even?
ing paper in the Item and if the same
money, energy and patronage that
was spent in starting and maintaining
the News for a short period had been
given to the Item, Sumter would have
had an evening paper the equal of
any in the Sta?.
At Johnston, S. C., a newspaper
also called the News was started by
Mr. A. F. Perkins to'break down the
Monitor, edited by Mr. C. J. Terrell.
The consequence was the News erip- J
pied the Monitor to such an extent
that it had to sell out, and in turn
was so badly crippled itself that Per?
kins had to sell out first and a new
man took charge of both pa pars as
one. It is a very easy matter to start
a paper, hut keep it going is another.
Few people realize that it takes an
actual cash outlay of $185 to $200 per
month to run anything like a well reg?
ulated weekly paper. If they did,
they would not be so slow to pay their
subscriptions-Bishopville Vindicator.
Don't Overcrowd.
The suspension of the Sumter
News, a newspaper that was started in
a field already ably filled, has caused
the Florence Times to make some re?
marks that apply with force to other
lines than newspapers.
The Florence paper says:
"We know something about that
sort of thing. People frequently crit?
icise the Times for not putting up a
new building, but they cannot under?
stand when we tell them that the
same resources that we might have
used in putting up that much desired
building had to be absorbed in the
purchase of the paper which recently
gave us a rustle for the field, small
as it is here. This is just as true of
mercantile enterprises as of newspa?
pers or anything else. Why cannot
you do something that is not being
done by some one else? It would
save a heap of trouble in the com?
mercial world There are plenty of ave?
nues for the investment of talents and
money without trying to crowd any?
one or two already more or less well
filled. The worst element that could
possibly enter into business is spite
work, no matter what else you un?
dertake cut the spite work, it is
migthy apt to come back to you."
It is a fact that in "some communi?
ties, there are those who make it a
business to "dabble" into everything
that seems to be succeeding. If a
man comes to the town and seems to
be doing well, these marlpots butt in
and think because he is succeeding,
that they will just take a little of
the same. The man who got first on j
the ground, if he is conducting his
business along correct lines, is not
going to be run out. if the field is
limited and the competition is really
strong it may be a survival of the fit?
test, but it rarely happens that one
competitor ever runs another out of
business. Generally in over-crowded
lines, ali drag, while if a little judg?
ment had been exercised and the nec?
essary brains, energy and capital had
been directed along a line not suffic?
iently developed, the parties involved
as well as the entire community would
be benefitted.
Overcrowding is not necessary.
There are hundreds of openings for
business ventures in every live town.
The field is limitless if common sense
and judgment are brought to bear.
Spartanburg Journal.
Have you weakness of any kind
stomach, back, or any organs of the
body? Don't dope yourself with ordi?
nary medicine. Hollister's Rocky
Mountain Tea is the supreme curative
power. 35 cents. China's Drug Store.
The Pee Dee summer school foi
teachers will be held in Haritsville
again this year, beginning June 13.
? VICIOUS GRIMINAL.
JIM DeSAUSSUKE ATTARS BISH
OP VILLE JAILER WI ftg IBON
! BAR.
Ile Was Overpowered After a Desper?
ate Fight-The Jailer Was Unhurt,
But the Negro Was Severely Han?
dled in the Struggle.
j From the Daily Item March 20.
! Passengers on the morning train
j from Bishopville brought a report to
the city that Jim DeSaussure, the ne?
gro who attempted to assassinate Mr.
H. R. Barnes a few weeks ago by
shooting him in the back with a shot?
gun loaded with buck s^ot, inflicting a
Terrible wound through Lbe light lung,
? ?rom v. hich he was e ;pectod to die for
days, had killed the jailer with an iron
rod, but was overpowered before he
could effect his escape from the jail.
Later it was rumored, but whence
the rumor originated could not be as?
certained, that a mob had assembled;
seized the jail and preparations were
being made to lynch DeSaussure.
A telegram to Bishopvnlle asking
for particulars brought the subjoined
reply, which is so lacking in details
that it throws but little light on the
matter. It indicates, however, that the
current rumors have, as usual, exag?
gerated the gravity of the situation: ?
Bishopville, S. C., March 20.-Jim
DeSaussure attempted to escape this
morning. He fought the jailer with
^iS iron bar. The jailer, however,
overpowered him without shooting.
The jailer was not hurt, but prisoner
was severely used.
The following statement relative to
the above was obtained from another
source: Jim DeSaussure communi?
cated with friends and late yesterday
afternoon lowered a cord which he
had in his cell to the ground, where
some one attached a rod of iron to it,
and he drew it up through the bars.
When the jailer entered the cell this
morning to give the prisoners break?
fast ae was hit on the head and
knocked to the floor by a blow with
the iron rod in the hands of DeSaus?
sure. The jailer recovered himself at
once, snatched the rod from the ne?
gro's hands and beat him with it se?
verely. The jailer received no serious
injury. The people of Bishopvflle are
greatly aroused over the incident.
THE DISPENSARY DIRECTORS
VIOLATED THE LAW BY BUY?
ING TOO MUCH.
Colummbia, March 16.-The legis
Iativev committee appointed to check
up the books and accounts of the
State dispensary has just completed its
work, and the totals from advance
sheets of the report show a stock on
hand here and in the county dispensa?
ries of over half a million dollars in
excess of the $400,000 limitation
placed by the statute.
The stock on hand here amounts to
$603,362.18 inclusive of $100,000
worth of real estate and supplies, the
fixtures, etc., bringing the total up to
$730,421.5$. The stock on hand in
the eighty odd sub-dispensaries
throughout the State totals $326,
72S.43. bringing the grand total up to
$1.057,149.93.
The figures are a surprise even to
Commissioner Tatum, who has been
estimating the stock on hand here at
not more than $400,000.
FIRE IN TIMMOXSVILLE.
Timmonsville, March 15.-At 12
o'clock today the alarm of fire was
sounded from the large three-story
wooden tobacco stemmery belonging
to John McSween. A strong wind was
blowing at the time and this building,
being large and in close proximity to
the large tobacco warehouse of J. W.
Berger & Co., and the large livery sta?
bles of M. K. Purvis, in less than one i
hour all three of these plants were !
burned to the ground and a total loss.
The losses are as follows: John Mc- !
Sween's building, value $3.300, insur?
ance. $1.700; J. W. Berger & Co.,
building, value $8,000, insurance $3,
500. stock tobacco $12,000. insurance,
$8.000; M. H. Purvis, livery stables,
value $4.000. insurance $2.500, his
loss on buggies and wagons, etc., fully
covered by insurance; J. E. Hughes &
Co., Danville. Va., loss in leaf tobacco
31.500. don't know if any insurance.
The total loss is closely estimated at
$28.000. with about $16.000 insurance.
The cause of the fire is supposed to
be from cigarette smoking, as the
graded school is very near the origin
of the fire and the boys during recess
have often been cautioned and ordered
away when smoking in rear of this
building.
It pours the oil of life into your sys?
tem. It warms you up and starts the
life blood circulating. That's what
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea does.
35 cents, Tea or Tablets. China's Drug
Store. \
Library for Georgia Tech.
Atlanta, Ga., March li;.-Prof. K. G.
Mattbeson, acting president of the
Georgia School of Technology, an?
nounced today that Andrew Carnegie
had screed to give tho sr-hool 820.OOO
for the erection of a library buildiDg,
provided the schcol will furnish the
som of $2,000 annually tor the mainte?
nance and support of the library. The
gift will be accepted.
I $100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Ca?
tarrh being a constitutional disease,
requires a constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal?
ly, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
> thereby destroying the foundation of
; the disease, and giving the patient
I strength by building up the constitu
j tion and assisting nature in doing its
I work. The proprietors have so much i
raith in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. oSend for list j
of testimonials.
.Address 7\ J. CHENEY, Toledo, 0.
For sale *>y all Druggists, 75c.
Take HaJ Cs Family Pills for Consti?
pation. 3 18-lm
Kingstree has voted to issue $12,000
in bonds to build an electrict light
system for the town.
Have you pains in the back, inflam?
mation of any kind, rheumatism,
fainting spells, indigestion or constipa?
tion. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea
makes you well, keeps you well. 35
cents. China's Drug Store.
STRAYED AWAY March 4th, one
black mare mule, about 9 years old,
weight 1,000 lbs, scar on left shoul?
der, a little mean to handle. Reward
if returned to J. S. Sanders, Flor?
ence, S. C. 3-13-3t*
MONEY TO LOAN.
On farming lands, long time, no
commission charged. Borrower pays
actual cost c t perfecting loan.
For further information address
John B. Palmer & Son,
1 3 6m Box 282, Columbia, S. C.
SDP 4 MCNT 5S SIL 3? WILL 0OST YOB
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MEAS ems SSIMY, gepj. "jr CHICAGO, ILL !
?s
The Spring of 1906 is upon us and every
merchant will endeavor to convince his
constituents, especially the ladies, that
he is better equipped to supply their
needs than his competitor. We know not
what ethers are doing except fro r their
general reputation and past record
which is very creditable, but* speaking
fer ourselves hav? bositanc; in saying
that our sto?k >j
0*4 . '1^ 3 s
Will prove to be the best collection we
have ever offered. The continual growth
of our business necessitated our sending
three buyers to market who worked
energetically and intelligently to secure
the best values obtainable in the latest
novelties. Our friends may rest assured
when they come tc do their Spring shop?
ping that they will find everything they
want and at the right prices at