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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15
SOLITUDE AND SILENCE.
A Peculiar Charm Possessed by South az
rican Scenery.

rican Scenery.
A peculiar charm which South Afri-
can scenery possesses is that Of prlmeval
solitude and silence It is charm
which is differently felt by different
minds There are many who find the
presence of what Homer calls "the rich
works of men, essential to the perfec-
ton CT landscape Cultivated fields,
gardens and orchards, farnhouses dot
ted here and there, indications IN one
form or another Of human life and Ia
Dor, do not merely give a greater variety
to every prospect, but also impart an
element which evokes the sense Of SYM
pathy with cur fellow men and excites
a whole group Of emotions which the
contemplation Of nature, taken by it
self, does not arouse.
No one is insensible to these things,
and some find little delight in any scene
from which they are absent. Yet there
are other minds to which there is some
thing specially solemn and impressive
in the untouched and primitive SIM
plicity of a country which stands now
Just as it came from the hands Of the
Creator. The self suficientness Of ma
ture, the insignifcance Of man, the
mystery Of d universe which does not
exist, as our ancestors fondly thought,
for the sake of man, but for other pur-
poses hidden from US and forever undls-
coverable-these things are more fully
realized and more deeply felt when one
traverses an immense wilderness which
seems to have known no change since
the remote ages when hill and plain and
valley were nodded into the forms we
see today.
Feelings of this kind powerfully af-
feet the mind of the traveller in South
Africa. They affect him in the Karroo,
where the slender line Of rails, along
which his train creeps all day and all
night across long stretches of brown
desert and under the crests of stern,
dark hills. seems to heighten by con-
trast the sense of solitude-a vast and
barren solitude interposed between the
busy haunts Of men which he has left
behind On the shores of the ocean and
those still buster haunts whittier he is
bent, where the pick and hammer sound
upon the Witwatersrand and the palpi-
tating engine drags masses Of ore from
the depths of the crowded mine. They
affect him still more in the breezy high
lands of Matabeleland, where the eye
ranges over an apparently endless sue
cession of undulations clothed with tall
grass or waving wood, till they sink in
the blue distance toward the plain
through which the great Zambezi takes
its seaward course. James
Bryce, NJ P, in Century.
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PRIVATEER PERSONALS.

PRlrATEER TOWNSHIP, S. c., July l3, '96.
According to appointment, the Amuse-
ment Club met at the Furman residence last
Friday night and the following programme
was rendered: Reading, Dr.. Richard Fur
man Reading, Mr.. Drane Tindal Music,
Misses Talulah Ramsey and Heleo Cain, and
Mr.. Hampton Ramsey; Reading, Mr.. Fant
Stukes Next the following officers were
elected for the ensuing six months: President
Dr. Richard Furman; Vice President, Miss
Lizzie Whiden Secretary, Miss Cno Wells !;
Treasurer, Miss Carrie Cain; Doorkeeper,
Mr. Rol!in Kolb; Assistant Dcorkeeper, Mr..
He7ward Ramsey.
The next meeting Of the Club will be held
at ex-Sheriff John II Tindal's on Friday
night, July "a.
we'll known old lady OF this township is
Mrs. Cythia Hodge, who was So IN May.
She can see as good as she could ten years
ago and has good hearing, bat her health is
not so good at present. She is the widow Of
Mr. Ben Hodge, who was reserve soldier in
the war and served at Georgetown two years
aud then went 10 Florence He died in Aug.
1872 Mrs. Hodge has number Of grand.
children and two grea.-grand-chlldren We
had long and pleasant talk with her on
Saturday and during our visit she showed Us
very pretty quilt she was making, and,
which, we may remark, would have been
highly creditab,e to person of much younger
years.
Mrs. NJ. A. Hughsou, of Sumter, and Miss
Kate Nettles, Of Wedgeheld, are visiting in
the community.
Mr. Sep Whilden has very pretty patch
Of sugar cane.
Miss Grace Mellichamp has returned to Co.
lumbia, accompanied by her cousin, Miss
Dosia Wells
Mr.. Walter Johnson, of Naming, was on a
visit of several days to relatives in the town
ship last week.
Miss Alma Geddngs, daughter of Mr.
Friendly Geddiogs, leading citizen of Packs
vile, is visiting in the community.
The Rev. Mr. Gresham will probably
preach at Bethel Church next Sunday.
This century is certainly one of invention.
The current number of McClures Magazine
contains we'll prepared and very thoughtful
article by Mr. Cleveland Mofet on the horse
less vehicle. Improbable as the statement
may appear, the time will probably come when
even iu this quiet township horseless vehicles
will not oe a strange sight to the people.
Med. +.
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By virtue of an execution, to me direct
ed, | will offer for sale ut public auction, in
front of the Court House in the city OF Sumter
on the first Monday in AUGUST next, and as
many days thereafter as may be necessary,
within the legal hours Of sale, the following
property
All that piece, parce. or tract of land sit
uate, being and lying in Pr;vateer Township,
County of Sumter, State of South Carolina,
containing fifty acres, more or less, and
bounded on the North by lands of John E..
Geddiugs, East by lands of 0. Geddings,
South by lands Of Barnett, and West by lands
of Mcdonald furman, levied upon and to be
sold as the property of Jeremiah VI. James at
the suit of the State for taxes.
w. H. COMMANDER,
Coroner, acting Sheriff.
Jnly 10 1895
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Delegates Return:
Most of Them Go Home to
Get Sleep and Rest.

The South Carolina delegation to
Chicago reached she city yesterday
afternoon about 8 O'Clock. but instead
of stopping over, most Of the members
boarded the outgoing trains and went to
their homes to get rest and sleep.
Maj. NJ. B. McSweeuey, Gen. W. H
Ellerbe and Governor Evans were the
only ones who remained over until
to-day
Quite small crowd gathered in the
Hotel Jerome to hear the convention
news from the participants in the pro-
ceedings. Gen. Ellerbe wore the
Bryan campaign button aud beside it a
small flag of Cuba Libre. He bought
the button, so he says, before Bryan's
nomination and had been wearing it
ever sioce. He was as much capti-
waited by the young orator as any one
and expressed full confidence iu his
success at the polls in November. The
Cuban demonstration by Mr.. W. D
Evans was stopped too quickly for it to
have any effect he thought if the
chairman had been told before, that it
was going to be made, that MIR. Evans
would not have been SO promptly car
ried to bis seat.
Maj. McSweeney did not wear a
Pr1on hutton bnt sold he had IT, All
right enough 10 another coat. He was
sighing for DAYS rest after the excite
ment Of the past week, before once more
taking the stump The convention was
without doubt the most enthusiastic be
had ever attended.
Senator Tillman and Mr. McCalla
from AbbeviIle reached the city las:
night at 9 30. They remalneud in
Chicago several hours longer than ths
other de1egates.-The State.
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After measles you should have simply a
feeling Of comfort and satisfaction. You
should not feel any special indications ,ha,
digestion is going on. If you do, you have
indigestion, which means not-digestioo
This may be the beginning Of so many
dangerous diseases, that it is best to take i,
IN hand at once and treat it with Shaker
Digestive Cordial. For you know that indi-
gestion makes poison, which causes pain and
sickness. And that Shaker festive Cor
dial helps digestion and cures indigestion.
Shaker Digestive Cordial does this by pro-
vdipg the digestive materials in which the
sick stomach is waiting. 1t also tones up
and strengthens the digestive organs and
makes them perfectly healthy. This is the
rationale of its method of cure, as the doc.
tors would say. Sold by druggists, price
10 cents to 81 co per bottle.
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A Competitive Examination.
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, June 20, lss

SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, June %, 1896.
\ competitive examination for the Norma
Scholarships Of the South Carolina ColIege
will be held by the School Commissioner o.
each County 10 which there is vacacy, on
Thursday, July 80. Applicants will ee ex.
auiued or Eaglisb. Mathematics and History
the requirements in these subjects being the
same as for admission to the Scientific Course
OF this College. See page 38 of Catalogue o.
l895-'96.
Further information, if desired, will bt
cheerfully furnished by
JAMES WOODROW,
President South Carolina College.
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Explained.

1.-The difference, - said Asbury Pep
pers, though no one had asked him,
"the difference between bicycle pump
and an anti prize fight law is that one is
used to blow up the tires and the other
is used to tie up the blowers. -
Whereupon the serious boarder told
him that he ought to so on the stage,
or, if the stage were not available, to
90 on the next train. n.-Clncinnat1 En-
quirer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15

VICTORIA, 3. G, July 12.-It is ru-
mored here that 13 Victoria sealing
schoopers are among the missing craft
on the coast Of Japan since the big
tidal wave of few weeks ago. An
effort has been made to communicate
With interested parties in Japan upon
the subject. but so far without result
and the greatest uneasiness prevails
here.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15

DR.. Archie China left on the 9 As a. m.
train for Acton to attend man who was
found yesterday morning lying seriously in-
iured by the side of the railroad track. The
telegram summooing DR.. China contained no
information, but it was ascertained over the
wires that the man was supposed to have fall
en- from one of the early morning trains 1t
turned out to be colored train haod, from
Charleston, and his hip was broken.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15

H. G. Osteen l. Co., make 8 speciality of
paper, and now have the finest and riost
complete selection of paper ever in Sumter
They sell more paper for the same money than
;an be bought elsewhere. Store on Liberty
street, next to the Watchman and Southron
Office.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15
Sheriff McKagen's Bondsmen.

The bond Of Sheriff George P. McKagen,
which was fled With the Board of County
Commissioners and approved ut the last
meetipg, is strong oce. AS there has been
some inquiry as to who are on II as suretles,
the names of those signing it are given as fol-
lows: w n Crosswell, n. B. Scarborough,
J. NJ Moneyham. John c. Shaw, J. NJ
Woodham- w. S. James, D. a. Stuckey.
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symptoms of q d

OF Fort Wayne, Ind, writes on Nov. 2s, 1894:
II was afflicted for forty years with heart
trouble and suffered untold agony. had
weak, hungry spells, and my heart would
palpitatc so hard the pain would be so acute
and to1turinS. that became so weak and
nervous could not sleep. was treated by
several physicians without relief and gave
up ever being we'll again. About two years
ago commenced using DR.. Miles Remedies.
One bottle OF the Heart Cure stopped all
heart troubles and the Restorative Nervine
did the rest, and now sleep soundly and at
tend to my household and social duties with
out any trouble.
Sold by druggists. Book sent free. Address
Dr.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
Dr.. Miles, Remedies Restore Health.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15
The downfall of Patent Eggs.

The Ohio state food commissioner
has declared that patent eggs shall not
be sold in the markets of that state and
has seized shipment of them in tran
sit from the manufacturer in New York
to a Cincinnati dealer. The desiccated
egg has sold at IS cents per pound, and
one pound is equivalent to six dozen
eggs. The commissioners chemist says
the albumen in the desiccated egg is OBJ
tanned from the eggs of fish eating birds,
which can be secured by the million on
the low, uninhabitable islands along
the Atlantic coast They are not fit for
food, and the albumen alone is taken
from them in making desiccated eggs.
The patent egg is largely used by hotels
and bakeries
California has been named the Gold
en- State, from the mines of precious
metal discovered in 1S4S, which have
since proved a source OF enormous riches
to that commonwealth.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15
Dangerously Near

Dangerously Near.
Passenger (to train boy)EYou prooa-
bly, did not know when you put this
book in my lap that I was the author:
Train Boy-Did you write that book:
Passenger did.
Train Boy-Then you had better keep
mighty quiet about it. 1 just sold a
copy to the man back of you.-Harlem
Life.
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Masters S Sale.
State Of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF SUMTER,

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Charles F. Nidaleten and ". b. Rarena,
co-partners doing business under tie name of
Middleton j. Rausnel p1aintids, cgainst
Martha E. Gallowcy, Ernest GoNoway
Haskell Ga1louay; TA9mas Il. Mc GaAan
and James Dillingham;, co partners rs Tiom-
as r. NcGadan and Company: George D.
Tda1ton and James o. Martin, co.partnerx
as Geo. D. T1a1ton s. Company: Jassph
Lonchhsim, trading as Joseph Lonclasim g.
Company; W1lziam II. Neimer, Houard
1Ealins, -4dison Wright md Henry g.
Voorhees,. co-partners as Wsimer. Wright +
WatEiny. and Dqniel G. Crensdaw, defend.
TNDER AND BY VIRTUE of decree in
I the above case, Gated July sth, 1896,
l will offer for sale in front of the Court
House in the County of Sumter and State
aforesaid during the legal hours of sale on
the first Monday in August next, (same being
the Sd day of said month) the following de-
scribed lands in the County of Sumter and
State of South Carolina
''Al that 10: or parcel Of land with the
store house and others buildings thereon.
situate: lying and being 10 the Town Of
Bishopvilie in the County and State afore-
said on the South side of Main Street mea-
suring and containing on front of saiG Street
eighty feet, same on back line, and in depth
one hundred and FIVE feet, being the lot of
land on which l, the said Ransom S. Gallo
way carry on business as a merchant"
Terms, Cash. Purchasers to par for
necessary papers.
W. H. INGRAM
Master for Sumter Cosa
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Heart Disease Cured
By DR.. Mics Heart Cure.

Painting, Weak or Hungry Spells, lrresu-
lar or Intermittent Pulse, FlutterinS or Pal
pitation, Choking Sensation. Shortness OF
Breath, Swelling OF Feet and Ankles, are
SUMMONS of 2 diseased or Weak Heart
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Carriage drivers i'll France receive
$482 a week, in England s.. 10, i'll Ger
many So. 81 and in Italy 50. 60.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15

Hoods Pills are purely vegetable and do
not purge, pain or gripe. All druggists. Csc.
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SHERIFF'S SALES

July l5-6t.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-25
CUBAN INoEPENEG

II cuban independence should be Sc
cured there would be such g rush of i'm
migrants to the Island from the United
States that in interests and sympathies
1t would soon bscoms q part of this
country to all intents and purposes.
Annexation would ouly be q question of
time, and very likely short time at
that Tho comparison OF Cuba with
Hsyti or San Domingo does not hold
good. The negro population 10 the last
named country has been 80 long in con-
troll of everything thss residence
among them is not desirable; whereas
in Cuba the blacks until rec sntly were
held In subsection by the whites. and
have had no opportunity TO acquire land
or other property to any extent worth
speaking of. Under the direc lion Of
energetic and thrifty Americans they
would be made useful in developing the
country and bettering their own condi-
ton like the blacks in the Southern
States OF the American Union have
been.
Besides, Cuba is more desirable as
pl. ce of residence than the San Domingo
republic. It's nearnes, to Florida rem
ders it easily accessible to the people
OF this country, and with independence
secured and American mo oey and energy
to. develope its wonderful resources,
Cuba would indeed be the gem of the
Antilles and blossom like the rose.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-25
An English Wife.

Mono but houSekecpcrs know how very
little OF their money is really spent on
themselves. Most certainly every wife
should have her private purse, for, as a
wretched woman said only the other day:
1 would rather go without dinner for n
week, or dress for year, than go to my
husband on Saturday morning with the
books. Ho is always wanting extra doll
caoies ut table md then grumbling be-
cause the butchers bill is 81 los. Cd. this
week, when II was only 81 lis. I'D. last
week. vainly remind him he insisted
on having sweetbroads on. Tuesday and
fillet on Friday and that that has made
tho difference, but he cannot or will not
SOC 1T and grumbles and haggles until he
makes mo quito i'll, and then he pays the
books, leaving me with few shillings for
current expenses till tho next: Saturday.
He ordered some wood the other day for
which 8 shillings had to be paid at the
door. He forgot to leave mo the money,
and when cook brought the bill L had to
own had not got shillings and to bor-
row that sum from her. Oh, the humili-
alton Of ltlh~-Am ncr 81 Iees 1llod with
tears rs she spoke. That Ills inGome Is
probably $500 or 5000 year, and his rs
mas To borrow shillinEs from her own
soryant TO pay for hroWood!
.sSNch husband ought to lie ashamed of
himself. HHq legrades himself; ho lowers
am. >harhsscs his wiIe.. Let him go\seri-
ously into the subject OF his inconc,,dc-
cido how it is to be portiollhl of, halio
tho wife over her monthly allowance, and
mover discuss n bill or butcher with her
again. 1t Is to her interest to do her best,
and she Is certain to 90 it, AMI life will be
made brighter for both neutrality-suspicious.
don Queen
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-25
"SOUL OF THE ARMY"
Antonio Jose de Sucres Services In Aid
of Venezuelan Liberty.


of Venezuelan Liberty.
Antonio Jose do Sucrc was called by
Bolivar ''Soul of the Army" and to his
prowcss as n fighter the liberator owed
much of his success. He was born in Ven
ezuola in 1893. At the beginning of the
country's struggle for independence ho
served on tho personal staff of General Mi
randa. Then Mirandas star sank Sucro
joined Bolivar in 1914 Bolivar sent him
to the West Indies for aid for tho revolu-
tionists, and bypledging his personal cred
1T ho secured large quantity of ammuni-
ton and 10, 600 stand of arms. He was the
hero of tho battle of Pichincha, which end
cd Spanish rule in Ecuador.
Ho marched with Bolivar across tho An
des, and it was his daring spirit and great
gcneralship that brought success to that
remarkable expedition. With $500 men
no met and defeated the Spanish with 8, 300
men on the plateau of Ayacucho, captur-
ing tho Spanish viceroy and breaking
Spanish rule in Peru. When tho upper
Peruvian provinces formed the state of
Bolivia, Sucre was placed mt tho hend of
government, and it was at his request that
Bolivar promulgated his code. He COM
mandod the Ecuador troops in tho war
with Peru and defeated the invaders.
He retired to private life in 1899, but
was elected president of tho Colombian
congress in 1880. Returning to his homo
when congress adjourned, he was shot
from ambush and killed. HIS death was,
no doubt, tho work of his political enc.
mics. His romans lie in tho Church Of
San Francisco, in Quito, although the gov
ernments of Venezuela and Bolivia have
each asked tho honor of caring for his
dust.-Now York Mail and Express.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-25
Electricity For Cooking.

When, asked Times representative
q day or two ago of an expert electrician,
arc we to have the millennium in our
kitchens? Whom will electricity as a cook
ing power become an accomplished fact to
that great army of waiting housekeepers
represented by the average we'll to do
womnn?'
Not" replied the man of volts and
coils, until it is possible to generate cleo
tricity moro chcnply than now. 1t will be
easy to reach your Kitchens with It when
wo get it ourselves. AT present the process
is expensive, because it is roundabout.
You got your cooking heat directly from
tn" coal in your ranges. 1t is dirty, Ia
borious way, and much heat is wasted,
but it Is cheaper than we can give it to
you. electrical heat comes from coal, too,
through steam furnaces that create power
to sot tho dynamos IN motion and thus
generate electricity, but tho process Is still
too expensive for wholesale heat."-New
York Times
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-25
"ewINE BACK HOME TO plE.r
a Pathetic Incident In Negro Fife Seen
on tho Train For Selma.

on the Ira1u FOR Selma.
They told mo in tho dining chr Of train
on tho Louisville and Nashville road that
In the smoking oar was an old colored man
who was going south to SEQ his old plan
tation homo again before death claimed
him. BY and by went in to have n talk
with him. He was wrinkled and white
haired and evidently very old, and whom
expressed wonder that his friends in Ken
lucky should havo lot him set out on such
long journey no replied:
''Doy jest couldn't help deirsclvos, sab.
1 tolo do chiffon I was bound to cum, an
dey jest had to lot me-
And how long since you left tho old
plantations"
Way baok in wah times, sah dun
went right off wild some Yankee sogers, an
dat's do last cber did SEQ of Mars
Thomasos folks. I'zo gwino down to
'spriso en-"
'Whcrc is it?'
Jest u little ways out O. Selma. Doy
toll mo dar' am great changes bout Selma,
but 1 reckon 1 kin walk right down do
road an find dc plnntashun in do night.
Dress dc Lawd, sab, but 1 doan reckon I
could hov closed my eyes in death If dey
longin to SEQ do ole place agin dat
couldn't stand it,"
Three or four of us Clipped in to get
his meals and make him comfortable but
we saw that tho journey was telling on
his strength. On tho morning of tho day
wo were to reach Selma could see that
he was weak and nervous, and when sat
down beside him ho said:
'IZo fcelin sort o. skeart bout myself
dis mawnin. L had dream last night
dat was waliin long do road an met q
funeral, an when axed who was gwino
to be buried Il white man spoke up and
said: Pom my soul, if dat hain't Mars
Thomases ole Niger Job, who ruined off
doorin do wah! Hcah, boy, lot mo tole
you sumthin. Yo' has cum too lato to see
yQ'I ole mars. OATS him in do coffin, an
he was akin bout yo' jest do day befo' no
died y
told him that dreams did not signify
and aftor bit had him quite chirped up.
got him some tobacco for his Pipe, saw
that he had breakfast, and rs left him no
smiled all over with Happiness rs no said ::
only two hours mo- to Selma. I'Zo
moas dun got dcrc."
Thirty minutes later tho conductor beck
oned to three or four of us to como into
the smoker. The old man sat in his seat
leaning against the side of tho car and
seemed to be sleeping
He's been dead ton minutes, {" quietly
observed tho conductor, "and he died as
peacefully rs child falling to sleep"
So he had. There was u smilo on his
old black face-a smilo of anticipation
and tho pipe had not fallen from his fin
gers. Death had come like n soft and
tieccy mantle, and its touch had been pain
less.-Detroit FREQ Press.