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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-03-27
Personal.

NJ. C. E. Stubs wen, to Columbia Mon
day.
Nh. ". D. Mcleod is in town for a couple
of days.
Miss Antouio Gibson is visiting Hiss Pau
line Gaillard.
Miss Wise, of Alexandria, Va, is visiting
Mrs. W. T. Capers.
Dr.. A. L Blapding has returned to his
home 10 Kentucky.
Miss Nora Russell, Of Newberry is visiting
Mrs. R. L. Murrell.
Miss Minnie Young, of Remberts is in the
city on a visit.
Miss Fannie Strauss, of Msyesville, is visit
ing Miss Hattie Ryttenberg.
Miss May Cautev, of Summerton, is visit
ing at Mrs. Hattie Ingram's.
Mrs. J.J. Conyers, has returned from a
visi, to Wedge6eid.
Miss Aimee Parker, of tSummerville. Is
visiting her sister Mrs. Deveau1 Moore.
Rev. William Haynsworth is in the city
on a visit Of several days to relatives.
Mrs. Mp. Cordes, LET. last Thursday even.
ing for Edisto Island to visit relatives. /,
Mrs. J. D.Joye and children, of Oar ling
ton, are visiting at Mr. L. W. Joye's.
Mr. and Mrs. j. n. Sanders of Darlington,
are visiting Mr.. SAM Sanders.
Mr. Wy L Marshall has returned from a
business trip to Baltimore.
Mr. Herbert Noses is al home for Il few days
rest from The South Carolina College.
Capt. A. c. Phelps returned on Saturday
from a business trip through North Carolina.
Maj. ]. C. Hempbill, editor of the Neus
and Courier, passed through the city Mon-
day.
Miss Judith Hodges, Of Darlington, who
has a grea, many frieods in this city, is visit
ing Miss May Joye.
Mr.. Mood Brown, Of the Providence neigh
borhood, who has been in i'll health for seve-
raj months is still critically i'll.
Gen. E. W. Noise, of Sumter, will deliver
the annual Literary address at the Davis
Military College commencement, Winston,
N. c., June 5.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ: Raynor, left for the
North last Saturday. Mr.. Raynor has been a
resident of Sumter for upwards of TWO years,
having been Supt. of Motive Power of the
G. s.. IN. R. r.
Rev. J. W. Daniel has gone to Columbia
to assist in a protracted meeting now in pro-
gress there. He will be absent from his pull
pit next Sabbath, and his place will be sup
piled by Rev. ". W. Daniel.
Congressman McLaurin was in the city
Monday. He was said to be on his way TO
the lower part Of his distric, to look after
the contesf heinp made for his sesr in Con-
gress by a negro whose name is Wilson.
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After the Grip, diphtheria, pneumonia,
scarlet fever, typhoid fever, etc, Hoods Sar-
sapariIla is Of wonderful benefit in iuparting
the strength and yigor &C much desired.
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Cheap as Dirt.

Fifty tons waste meat Salt, sacked, Assoc
per ton. GEO. D. SHORE & Bro.
March l3, ct.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-03-27

Hoods Pills for the liver and bow els, act
easily yet promptly and effectively.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-03-27

For Flues ana Wire for Tobacco Earns, 60
to r. ". Durant l. Son. March Is, 1t.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-03-27

Tobacco Thermometers Tor sale at Dr.. A
Chlna's
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A DvERTISEMENTS Of FIVE lines or less
"A will he inserted under this head for Is
cents for each insertion. Additional lines
5 cents per line.
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OFFICE OF
SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
SUMTER COUNTY.
OFFICE OF

SUMTEE., S. c., March 25, 1855.
TINE REGULAR SPRING EXAMINA-
TION for teachers, for Sumter Couoty,
will be held on FRIDAY, 18th OF APRIL,
commencing at 10 a. ~, sharp.
For whites, at Graded School. For color
ed, at Lincoln School.
w. DURANT,
March &c -2t. School Commissioner.
County papers please COPY.
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W7ANTED-25o CORDS Long leaf pin,
w Wood, four feet long. Quote pric:
delivered at Sumter Ice Mfg. Co. j. j.
Hardy.
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NIANTED Tenant for house on Calhoun
w Street 5 doors east Of Main Street.
lately occupied by Mr.. House-out house:
and several acres of land attached. Apply to
E. G.. Haynsworih.
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EMPLOYMENT WANTED by a steady
u young man. Has had several years
experience in Sash Blind and Door Factory
work, Glazing and Painting. Address
"W, Care P. 0. Box I, Sumter, S. C.
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Those fine hogs are still 10 possession OF the
streets, and there seems TO be no means OF
getting rid Of them.
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wisconsin, 42.S5. Speaking of farms
alone, Utah also stands the highest in
regard to mortgages of any Of the North
'ern States, only SO per cent of her farms
being incumbered. The percentage in
Wyoming is 1906. In Montana 1888,
Idaho 1892, Oregon 23.36, Colorado 25.4S
and Washington 26.76.
Nearly 81 per cent. of the farms in ILL
nois are mortgaged. In Indiana the farm
ers are in little better condition, the
percentage being 1910, and in Ohio they
are a little better still, the percentage
being 2S90. 1t is shown, however, that
1851 per cent. of the mortgages upon
farms in the United States represent de-
ferred payments of purchase money, and
$3.50 per cent purchase money and per-
manent improvements. The remainder,
as has already been stated, represent
farm machinery, stock and other articles
that add to the value of the property and
make it's cultivation more profitable. In
Illinois 74.43 per cent, of the mortgages
represent deferred payments of purchase
money; in Indiana, 69.97; Iowa, 69.49;
Michigan, 1920; Nebraska, 47.02; North
Dakota, 1920; Ohio, 69.5S; Oregon, 54.S4 |;
South Dakota, 25.47; Washington, 1851 |;
Wisconsin, $3.50. The percentage Of
mortgages due to all other objects than
deferred payments of purchase money, i'm
provements, machinery, stock and other
articles Of permanent value is only $50 in
the entire United States. The highest
rate is found in the Southern States,
where the planters are in the habit of Sc
curing advances upon their crops, which
often are not sufficient to meet them, and
then mortgage lapses over upon the prop
erty. In Alabama the percentage of
such farms is 600, in Georgia 400, in
Louisiana 612. in South Carolina 6.52,
in Virginia 1888.
OF the 'mortgaged farms and homes in
the United States 1914 per cent. are
worth less than 81 900, 1919 per cent.
are worth between $1,000 and $1,000,
25.25 per cent. are worth between $500
and $1,000. 1924 per cent. between 5000
and $4,000, 1916 per cent are worth
$4,000 and over and 1870 worth $25, 200
and over.
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members, all of whom are well known.
They are Mrs. Ellen Batelle Dietrick,
Mary A. Livermore and Fannie Il. Ames.
The Committee on Patriotic Instruction
is composed of six members, of whom
Eliza ID. Keith, better known as "Di Ver-
non," a California poet and litterateur;
Frances Il. Willard, Mrs. Isabella G. Da.
Wis and Mrs. Caroline Il. Merrick are very
widely known.
The National Council. while the larg-
est of all the national organizations of
women of the country, is one of the new.
est. 1t is logically the result rather than
the outgrowth of the National Suffrage
Association and the American Association
for the Advancement of Women. In 1888
and 1880, they began an agitation looking
toward new organization, built upon n
much broader basis. This eliminated in
the first session of the body, which took
place in 1891, which was very remarka-
BILE success. The second triennial should
have been held in 1894. but as nearly all
the members had met in Chicago at the
Worlds Fair, and especially at the
Worlds Congress, and had transacted
much of the business which usually comes
before the council. they deemed II ad-
visable to postpone the second triennial
to the present year, and in the meantime
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

in confederation of workers committed
to the overthrow of all forms Of ignorance
and injustice, and to the application of the
golden rule to society, custom and law"
The officers of the Council.
The president of the National Council
is the same Mrs. May Wright Sewall
who was the moving spirit of the Women's
Congress at the Worlds Fair, assisted by
the other officers of the council. Mrs.
Frances Il. Bagley, the vice-president, is
a rich and prominent society leader OF
Detroit. Mrs. Isabella Charles Davis, the
recording secretary, is the best-known Of
the councils officers. for she is the bust
ness manager and one of the founders
of the International Order of the Kings
Daughters and Sons, which has strength
of more than 100000. The treasurer of
the council is Lillian Nj. n. Stevens, of
Stroudwater, Me-, and has become promi-
nent through her work for the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. One of the
most interesting of the councils officers
is Mrs. Rachael Foster Avery, the corre-
spending secretary. She had prominent
part in the organization of the Women's s
Congress at the Worlds Fair, and in
many other ways her name has become
well known.
Behind the Board of Officers come the
four great standing committees, who are
supposed to represent the four most impor.
tant fields of modern feminine thought.
The first is on dress, of which Frances Z.
Russell, of st. Paul, Mimi, is chairman,
and which also includes the New York
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
FOR scHoFIELD's BENEFIT.
Bill Reviving the Grade of Lieutenant
General Has Been Signed.

Bill Reviving the Grade of Lieutenant
General Has Been Signed.
The bill passed by Congress for the ben
eft Of Gen. Schofeld and which revives
the grade of lieutenant-genera of the ar
my, has been signed by President Cleve-
land. General Scho6eld is now "a years
of age. He graduated from West Point
with Sheridan, Mcpherson and others
who afterward distinguished themselves
in the civil war. He served two years
with the First Artillery and FIVE years as
assistant professor of natural philosophy
at West Point and then left the army and
became professor of physics at Washing
ton University, st. Louis. With the be-
ginning of the civil war, however, he re.
joined his old regiment and in 1861 was
made its captain. A brave and brilliant
soldier, he participated in many engage
ments, was rapidly promoted, and in 1864
was assigned to the command of tho
Army of the Ohio. In 1868 he was bre-
veter major-general United States Army,
for meritorious services in the battle of
Franklin, Tenn, in 1876 appointed sup
erintendent military academy, West
Point and August "a, 1888, assigned to
the command Of the army of the United
States. Gen. Schofeld was married In
1891 to Miss Georgia Kilbourne, of Keo-
kuk, Iowa.
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which the world has ever seen have come
representatives from every walk of life,
from every religion and every belief, and
every part of the country. There are
Protestants and Catholics, Jews and Gen
tiles, Mormons and Agnostics, Yivisec-
tors and anti-VivisectiOnists. There are
Republicans, Democrats, Populists, So
cialists, Tillmanites, Free Silverites,
Farmers Alliancers, Grangers, Single
Takers, Nationalists and Prohibitionists.
Scarcely any two delegates agree perfect
ly excepting upon one point, and that is
the elevation and amelioration of woman
kind.
Nearly fifty different societies are repre-
sented, including those of a national scope,
such as the National Women's Christian
Temperance Union. and those which are
more Of a local character. Seventeen of
the societies thus represented have an
aggregate membership of nearly 5000, 900,
and the total representation Is probably
little under 1O,OO0,0OO. The organization
of n womans government, patterned after
the national government of the United
States, is one of the questions which will
come up before this session of the Ma.
tional Council. which will continue two
weeks. 1t will simply be a rearrange.
ment of the National Council as it Is mt
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
THE SPOILs OF WAR.
A Summary of the Con6icf Betwes
China and Japan.

n sum m0ry OF tne SOu0icI bctween
China and Japan.
According to Japanese war accounts
which are complete up to Dec, 81 last, 16
engagements were fought-14 by land,
by sea-in all of which the Slikado's war.
riors were the victOrs-
The japanese lost 40 killed and Liz
wounded; the Chinese lost 6,676 killed and
9,696 wounded The report stated that
all the enemy's wounded were treated in
japanese hospitals, and that the dead
were buried. The Japanese took 2,164
prisoners, most of these being held in the
military stations of japan.
The plumber taken includes go Krupp
guns. with 2,601, ,741 rounds of nmmuni-
ton: Z ,465 rifles, with II ,45S, 7S5 rounds
of ammunition; 800 horses, 1926 tents.
All stands Of colors, gold and silver val
ued Mt about S1,0OOOO0 and an enormous
amount of camp equipment, the whole
footing up about $7,312,OO0. The value
of the buildings and forts at Port Arthur
is estimated at not less than $70,O00,000
Two gunboats and steel cruiser have
been seized, one gunboat and one steel
cruiser have been burned, one ironclad
and three steel cruisers have been sunk
besides 21 steam launches, junks and sail
ing vessels.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

been built up forty-fve feet from the
ground. The completed dome, however,
will rise 165 feet above the ground. 1t
will be seen. therefore, that there is a
good deal yet to be done. When work
was suspended for the winter the first
cornice had been reached and a few of
the blocks on the next course of granite
were laid. The square part of the monu-
ment will rise twenty-seven feet above
the first cornice, before the circular part
of the structure begins. All of the twelve
attached columns that ornament the sides
and back of the lower part have been put
in place, and most of the ten detached
pillars which form the colonnade in front
of the porch are also set.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
Exit Queen LII.

The recent emeute near Honolulu was
probably the last kick of the irreconcila-
BILE royalists of Hawaii.-Philadelph
Record.
AS woman she has been no credit to
her sex. and il would be better for the
world il she were soon forgotten.-St
Paul Call.
The ex-queen of Hawaii is to be exiled.
She might come to America and engage
as n dime museum cxhibit.-Wheeling In
telligencer.
1t is not to be wondered at that Mrs.
Dominis was ready to give up her shad-
owy claims TO the sovereignty In order to
save her very material Cleveland
Plaindealer.
If the new government is afraid that
she will make mischief in the future, the
best thing IL can do 10 to Danish her from
the islands and allow her small pension.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
Fall of Wei-Hai-Wei.

The verities of history now require that
the Chinese navy be spoken of in the past
tense.-Detroit Free Press.
Wei-Hai-Wei has again fallen, this
time, it is to be presumed, finally and
permanently.-Ba Herald.
On the principle that he who fights and
runs away will live to fight another day,
the Chinese soldiers ought to be immor-
tal.-New York Press.
The surrender of Wei-Hai-Wei has
been officially confirmed. Before il is re-
stored to a peace footing it should be
compelled to change its name.-Omaha
Bee.
If Wei-Hai-Wei has fallen, and the
Chinese fleet has surrendered, there is
nothing left for japan to do but to reap
as much Of the harvest of her victories rs
the great powers will permit her to take.
Boston Transcript.
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to extend the ramihcatious Of the central


body.
Many women of national and even in
ternational reputation are in attendance.
Some of them are the Countess of Aber.
deem, Lady Henry Somerset, Mrs. Russell
Sage, Miss Susan b. Anthony, Mrs. Eliza
beth Il. Grannis, well known in connec-
ton with the social purity crusade In New
York city; DIR. Jennie de la NJ. Lozier, the
New York physician; Mrs. Laura @. Bull
lard, of Brooklyn, the millionaire; the fe-
male minister of the gospel, Rev. Anna
Shaw; Miss Frances Il. Willard, Mrs.
French Sheldon, the African explorer, and
Nine. Albert. the Delsartist. Organiza.
tions of women in Germany, France, Eng
land, Canada and elsewhere are also pres.
ent.
''The greatest value of the council" /"
says President Sewall, sis in bringing to-
gether women whose lives are in different
avenues and whose interests are in differ
ent lines of work"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
The Port Arthur Massacrc.

Japan admits that she is guilty.-Sioux
City Tribune.
We are glad that the mikado's govern.
ment appears to realize the shame it's sol.
diers have put upon it and to desire to
make promptly all possible amends.-Phil.
adelphia Call.
The japanese Government has practi-
cally admitted all the horrible details. II
will take years for japan to wipe out this
stain upon it's vaunted progress and civili-
zation.-Fort Worth Gazette.
japan confesses that her troops were
guilty Of savage atrocities Mt Port Arthur.
The charges of cruelty and torture are
admitted and the cablegram from Mr..
Creelman is admitted. Re-
publican.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
The Passing of McAllister.

Mr.. McAllister was n symposiarch Of
the most accomplished kind.-Minncap0li
Journal.
He made and embellished the paths Of
the 400" His word was authority from
the simplest question of table manners to
the most complex problem of court eti-
Quette.-Detroit Free Press
No man could be the cause or occasion
of so much action and comment, of so
much chronicle and caricature, of so much
talk and cartooning without having a
good deal in him.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Pity that he should have been content
to rule in so paltry an empire and to wear
so tinseled crown. There was that in
Ward McAllister which, if wisely used,
would have led to honor.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

Agree on but One Point.
Washington correspondence:
A national government of, for and by
the women of the United States-a Sen
ate, House of Representatives, Pres
ident and possibly a cabinet-such is the
scope of the plan of several millions of
women of America, who sent representa-
tives to the second triennial convention
of the National Council of Women OF
America, which commenced its session in
Washington last week. This government
is to be organized. not TO legislate, but
to deliberate upon national matters, TAX
ing it's pointers from Congress and hop
ing to indirectly influence that body in
its legislation. This woman's government
purposes also to be a school for women
against the time when they shall take a
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

favorite, Anna Jenness Miller. The Sec
ond committee is on equal pay for equal
work, and consists of three members,
of whom Mrs. Leland Stanford and Mary
Desha are the best known. The Commit
tee ON Divorce Reform consists of three
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

was intended to put in place the double
row of detached columns in front and to
complete the porch before the work was
suspended, but the cold weather came ear.
lier than was expected and the men were
laid off before this was done. The monu-
ment, however, has progressed well and
is much further on toward completion
than is generally supposed.
The foundations, which are sunk down
twenty-seven feet in the ground, have
been finished, and the main structure has
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
OUR MILITARY STRENGTH.
Uncle Sam Could Put an Army oi
100000 in the Field.


100000 in the Field.
Secretary Lamont recently sent to the
House an abstract of the military force
of the United States for the year 1894,
compiled from the latest returns received
by the Adjutant General of the army.
The statement shows the organized
strength by States, gives the number of
commissioned officers, non-commissioned
officers, musicians and privates and the
number of men available for military
duty unorganized. A grand aggregate
shows 9,505 commissioned officers, 20, ,410
non-commissioned officers, 4,O47 musi-
clans, 1O7, 1874 privates, and places the
number of men available for military
duty unorganized at $685., ,SO6.
Given by States, the aggregate organ
lied strength commissioned and non
commissioned and unorganized men avail
able is as follows:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

The Aleutian Islands were so called
from the River Olutora, in Kamchatka.
The people living at the mouth of this
stream were called Alutorsky, and
modification of the name was given to
the islands.
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NUMBER

sincerely believing that the best good Of
our homes and nation will be advanced by
our own greater unity Of thought, sym.
pathy and purpose, and that an organized
movement of women will best conserve
the highest good of the family and the
state, do hereby band ourselves together
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
HIS TOMB DESERTED.

Work on the Grant Monument Has
Been Stopped for the Winter.
The work of building the Grant monu-
ment in New York has been stopped for
the winter, and the unfinished tomb looks
as dreary and deserted as the temporary
mausoleum near by. The cold, gray pile
is covered with snow, and it is impossible
to continue setting the great blocks OF
granite until the spring weather again
drives the frost from the ground. II
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

The Standard Oil Company is drilling
for oil in Kentucky. III IL will work as
near as possible to distilleries II will find
plenty Of the illuminating fluid for which
Kentucky IL famous throughout the conti-
nent.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
CONGRESS OF WOMEN.
A SIGNIFICANT GATHERING IN
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.

Women from All Spheres, of All Re-
Iigions and with All Beliefs Assem-
BILE in Thousands In Great Conven-
tion-Its Objects and Aims.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

Among her most favorite treasures
and "reminiscences Of the past the
Queen keeps brooch which belonged
originally to Robert Bruce. of Scot
land.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28

hand with men in the nations real busi-
ness; to illustrate to womankind the true
meaning of national deliberation, legisla.
ton and administration.
To this the greatest gathering of women