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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-06-30

Pocakonsas Tribe No. Is, / 0. R. NJ, have
elected the following officers to serve 20. ;be
ensuing term
Sachem-B Randall
Senior Sagamore-J F Pate
Juuio: Sagamore--J Haynswcr:h.
Prophet-R O Purdy.
Chief cf Records-B C * allace.
keepe1. of Wampum-F i Folsom
Trus;ees-H D baruet;, L y Folsom, H m
Ieadon
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-06-30

A GENTS WANTED. Male or female in
n every county. Business respectable
Compensation good. No trouble TO make
some money. Address Chronicle, Augusta,
Ga, for particulars.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-06-30
Meteorological Record.

The following is report of observations
of the weather taken at Stateburg, by DR.. w.
W. Anderson, for the past week ending
Juoe Fl, 1897:
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-06-30
PART II.
nsS Dbl

Conf: Operetta, Penelope.
Cast of Characters.
Pitcher, 10 the Police, Mr.. VIM. Bultman.
Tosser, in the Grenadiers, Mr.. E. Bultmao.
Chalks Milkman, Mr. A. Wilder.
Mrs. Croaker, the "Missus,' Miss Wilson.
Penelope, a.servant, Miss Ewell.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-06-30

Eetion is invited - rue rsmova atotice
bicycle aud sewing mscaiae .ispot at
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
IT'S WELL TO KNOW.

That half dozen books should find
place in every guests room.
That kitchen table covered with tin
requires less care than wooden table.
That graduated sugar is better in
nearly all kinds of cake than pulverized
sugar.
That borax scattered on the floor and
shelves of closets after cleaning will
exterminate reaches.
That dishes TO be made bright must
be washed in very hot water and well
wiped with a clean cloth.
That the sheets should never be al
lowed to remain on an unoccupied bed.
but fresh sheets put on when it is to
be slept in.
That there is great deal of nourish-
ment in a dish of macaroni, and it
should be more frequently used BIZ
Americans.
That alum dissolved in hot water and
applied to furniture or to cracks in the
wall is certain destruction TO tho
vermin.
That undressed kid gloves may be
cleaned by washing them in naphtha
and hanging them in the open air until
dry and free from odor.-Leisure Hours.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
A TIME FOR REPENTANCE.
The Republican Party should See this
Folly of Its Course.

The Republican Party Should See the
Folly OF Its Course.
It is now absolutely certain that the
Jones-Aldrich tariff bill, even if it could
become law to-day, would not provide
revenue enough to meet expenses for
the next two years at the least.
Why, then, should it become law at
all?
The present extra session was con-
vened avowed1y for the purpose of pass
ing a tariff or other bill which should
provide adequate revenues. Why should
it persist in passing one that viii GER
tainIy leave deficit?
And if it does so, how is the deficit
to be made good? Is there any other
way than by bond sales and the in
crease of the Understanding debt in
time of peace?
Will this policy be more acceptable
to the people under Mckinley than it
was under Cleveland?
Can the republican party afford at
such a cost to persist in project of
rewarding and repaying Mark Hanna's
compaign contributors by repeating the
blunders which led to the defeat of
democracy?
What shall it profit political party
to reward men for buying one election
for it, if in doing SO it must lose the
next election?
Why should not congress now re-
pent itself of the folly of the last six
months? Why should it not even now
use the simple and obvious means open
to it of giving the country revenue and
rest and permitting it to secure re-
cuperation for itself ?-N. Y. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
DEAD LETTER OFFICE MUSEUM.
A Collection of Strange Finds I'm the
Mails.

A Collection of Strange Finds I'm the
Mails.
The museum of the dead letter office,
which was IL -tituted by Gen. Hazen
about Is years ago, contains a motley
collection of articles, which have
passed through the United States mail
and have been sent to the dead letter
| office as unavailable, misdirected, with
out any address or without name of
sender, or short of postage.
Among the most interesting speci-
mems In this little museum are the ami
mails whose diverse but illegal journeys
across country. by means of Uncle
Sans mail bags, were summarily in
tercepted, and the travellers placed in
bondage here, after due execution and
preservation by the government tax
idermist.
Quite large section of the museum is
appropriated to the display of domestic
utensils, whose useful mission was for
one reason or another frustrated.
There seem enough-from a lamp
chimney and a butchers knife to a
wash board, and including a well-flled
market basket-to completely equip a
modern kitchen. Farm implements
are plentiful, and one wonders as to
whoever should have thought of at
tempting to send hatchets, pick ak, a
buck saw, hitching post, a pulley,
horse shoes and harness, as well as a
supply of corn on the ear through the
mail, but these are all in the museum.
Beautiful jewelry, comprising every
possible article of adornment, is dis
played within the glass doors, and ex-
uuisite miniatures of old time beauties
make one coyetous. There is displayed
a beautiful square of Mexican drawn
work, and there are delicate embroid-
cries representing the art of many
fix of solid gold stands for the loss of
some poor penitent. Among the curious
are a picture frame composed of the
lava from the lava beds of California
and beautiful model of the Washing
ton monument made from the bark of
the redwood tree of California. A pair
of gigantic wooden sabots it is very
evident were seized for overweight, and
one wonders what thoughtless or maIev-
client offender tried to send by mail
a loaded revolver, which, relieved of its
charge, hangs against the back of one
of the cases. Books in almost every
tongue. some Of them rare enough to
tempt the conscience Of the bibIiophiIe,
occupy a case with various kinds of
musical instruments. - Washington
Home Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
HIDE AND SEEK.
Instability OF Republicans Comvac-
ffona ON the TaxaR

ff0mm ON the TaR1G.
Many of our valued republican con-
temporaries are deriving considerable
fun from the change in tariff theories
now alleged to be going on in the demo-
cratic party. They seem to forget that
within the last few years change. al
most revolutionary, on the same ques-
ton took place in the republican party.
| When the Mckinley bill passed both
houses of congress and received the
signature OF President Harrison all the
republicans in the land whooped with
giee and sung the praise of William Nc
Knley until they were hoarse. With
tax on everything used by human be-
ing from the time he was laid in the crib
until he was lowered into six feet of
Garth the republicans glorified and saw
the millennium sticking above the
horizon.
That was in 1890. Two years later the
democrats mopped the earth with the
republican party. 1t required several
days of shoveIing to get the snow of
its PROSTATE, frozen remains. And no
sooner did the republican heads appear
above drifts than their mouths opened
in denunciation of William Mckinley
and his law. There was not republic.
an from the Moosehead lake to the Cliff
rocks who would not take oath that his
party was defeated by the Mckinley
law and that William Mckinley was as
dead, politically, as mackerel. This
country. the republicans declared. no
longer needed high protective tariff;
our industries were no longer infantile
to be nursed on the bottle of protection;
protection, indeed, was an issue which
would no longer separate the republic
an and democratic parties.
That was in 1892 and 1898. Then the
panic, which was the natural result Of
fool economic and financial systems,
struck the country and keeled it over
en- its beam ends. And it is not right
ing itself very rapidly yet. With the
panic came the republican clamor for
protective tariff for our industries,
which in a year had become infants
again. As Mr.. Mckinley was the great
est living apostle of the protection the
DRY his name was caught by the repub-
Iican wind and the first the country
knew Mr.. Mckinley was exhumed from
his political creed and hailed as the new
Moses. incidentally the Mr.. Mckinley
who was politically dead few years
ago is the liveliest man in this country
to-day.
Thus we see the grand old republican
party shifting its political convictions
with all the ease and grace of a light
ning-change artist. And to-day it is
split up the back on the Dingley bill.
Therefore, so far as the republican par
ty is concerned, the north star is more
constant by several points.-Chicago>
Nar,,S lind
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

The tariff bill is failure, open
and confessed. Why not substitute a
revenue bil?-N. Y. World.
Under Tom Reeds rulings con.
gresham must die to call attention to
the fact that he is on duty.-Chicago
Record (Ind.).
Congress is plugging away at tar
if, Cuba and Hawaii, and now the pres
ident proposes to toss another arbitra-
ton treaty into the hopper. Yet last
years campaign is alleged to have been
conducted on the financial question
Washington Post.
1t is not too early in the canvass
of 1897 for democrats to beware of roor-
bachs Early as it is, the republican
machine is employing the services of
some very able newspaper talent IN its
effort to disrupt and distract the de.
mocracy.-Albany Argus.
Mr.. McKinley's new treaty with
England might appropriately be an Of
fensive and defensive land-grabbing
alliance. To talk arbitration and at the
same time begin policy of conquest
that must result in wars is the height
of Observation-Disclosures City Times.
The tariff is still ''bobbing up as
a local issue. Protection New England
ers do not want duty on hides be-
cause it interferes with their manufac
turing business. It will be found now.
as it always has been found, that it is
not an easy thing to carry an abstract
principle all the way through tariff
law.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The duty on tea, If the senate
were to let it remain, would all go
straight into the public treasury So
would the tax on beer. So would the
tax on tobacco. But in the case of re-
fined sugar. and in the case Of Lides,
the people do not pay the tax into their
own tTraxrry hut into the hands of
protected" opolies.-Boston Post.
-Protectionists seem TO avoid the
topic of distribution. In fact. they
have practically left it untouched. No
one pretends that there is any real
trouble about production. On IL
notice the United States can
raise twice as much wheat, corn and
cotton as we ever raised. On a notice
Of 30 days we can have bigger output
Of manufactured goods than the ex-
treme point of any past period. Give us
customers and we will have the goods
ready.--Minneapolis Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
ovER hoATn AMERIcA.

A Mexican railway advertisement.
promises Strawberries every dap In the
year.
Mexico's government has been asked
to rid the country districts OF horse
thieves.
Heart trouble. brought on by the ex-
element of going for physician at
two O. m. for his wife, killed sexage-
marian OF Beaman, No.
In Sumner county, Kan, which gave
load Of wheat for the India famine
sufferers, a man died OF starvation be-
fore the wheat reached the Indians.
Factories at Pedregal, Mexico. .
suburb Of Mexico City, are putting IL
American machinery. and'have planned
q feast for the operatives when the
plants are in working order.
In Montreal park on Sunday IA
Their was compelled to order his four
year-old boy to cease throwing toy
bah TO him, and was obliged to put the
ball in his pocket under pain of arrest
Effects of the queens jubilee are felt
in Mexico, where display advertising in
the newspapers draws attention TO the
fact that 'sthe nations cards of con-
graduation to their queen" are on sale.
The experimentation enthusiast and
his invention are lowering about the
Tennessee Centennial exhibition. In
this instance he has the significant
name GIadish, and he halls from Chat
tanooga.
One hundred and eight French Cana
dams, in % families, have left Michigan
for the Lake st. John region of Canada,
where the colonization department
gives 100 acres of land to each family.
Near Alachua, Fla, a man who had
Just put some tools into a chest at APP
preach of storm was struck by light
ming and killed as he stood under an
oak tree, which was photographed per-
fectly In his body by the fluid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY GAGE
4At the end of the fiscal year, 1896,
one year ago." continued Secretary
Gage. 1.-The gold reserve was only S102,-
o. 0OO. 600, or just barely above the the
oretical reserve of hundred millions.
There was q fear that before the year
was over there might be very large ex-
ports. compelling the administration to
again issue bonds for gold. Now we
not only have gold reserve of SAL
-o00, 900, but there is not a cloud in
sight as to its continuance ap-
proximately at that very comfort
able level. This is the most hopeful
sign that see in the present condition
of the government finances, for when
the country is all right and the gov
eminent ali right, the gold reserve is
sure to be all right, and vice versa
AT the end of this fiscal year." re.
sumed the secretary, looking over the
official statement, which had just been
placed upon his desk, 1.-The condition
of the government is all that could be
desired There is no trouble with
the gold reserve-that barome-
Ter of confidence. The bust
ness men, capitalists and investors
mot only of our own country, but of the
world, are content with our situation
and prospects All the nervousness
switch formerly held us in its tolls has
disappeared. In its place we have con-
2denee in the future. confidence in the
government, confidence in ourselves.
The boarding of gold has stopped, and
much of the yellow metal that was
piled away during the depression has
= come out and gone into circulation.
The closing of the fiscal year brings
US nearer to the passage of new tariff
law. which will give business a settled
condition, we hope, for q long time.
That it will also give the government
sufficient revenue for its needs and do
away with deficits we have satisfactory
8 evidence"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
NOT A REVENUE TARIFF.
The DinGIey Bill Would Never Bull
Up the National Income.

The DingIey Bill Would Never Build
Up the National Income.
When the Dingley bill was before
the house the Free Press took occasion
to remark that whatever else it might
be it was not 4 revenue bill because
it did not provide for any revenue. 1t
looks very much now as If the same
remark would apply with equal force
to the senate bill. One by one the rev.
enue features-or what were exploited
as such in Senator Aldrich's programme
have disappeared. Senators have
awakened to the knowledge that rev.
enue taxes have to be paid by some
body; and they have begun to suspect
that their own constituents may be
among the number of those who will
be called on. They may not all believe
that the foreigner pays the duties on
imports; but the most of them think
they can make their constituents be-
lieve that fairy tale while they know
by sad experience that no such shift
ing of the burden of revenue taxes is
possible even in imagination.
It is a hard task the senate has set
itself by its latest move, the task of
satisfying the taxpayer, the consumer
and the producer all with one and the
same bill. We do not believe it will
succeed. The chances are that it will
meet with the fate of the father and
son in the fable and in trying to please
everybody will end by pleasing no.
body. But if the senator's will only
adopt some kind of a bill, get the house
to concur and then adjourn it will merit
the warmest thanks of a suffering
country. Sugar, thanks TO its action,
is going to be high, and there is likely
to be a heavy deficiency in the revenue
for the coming year. But these are
minor evils compared with tariff tim
kering. The country can adapt itself
to. almost anything in the way of
tariff after its experience with the NJ
Kinley act. But it cannot adapt itself
to continued neutrality-suspicious.
Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
4 GREAT DISCOVERY.
@1nd1nw OF Egypfian Pmpyrf Contains
fmR ChrfRt'a Sayings.

fmw Chrfme'm Sayings.
Ore OF the largest and most impOr
fant dnds of papyri in Egypt has been
made during the last winter by Bernard
p. G.enfen and A. s. Hunt, Of Queens
college, Oxford, working on behalf OF
the Egyptian exploration fund. al
Behnesa. the ancient 0xyrrhyncus.
The site of the old town, which is one
and one-fourth miles long by half q
mile broad, and is situated on the little
explored edge of the western desert.
between Fayun and Minya, had
remained almost untouched by deal
ers and antiquity seekers, and Of
fered to the excavators what 10 In
upper Egypt now almost thing of
the pasta practically virgin field.
Very few remains of buildings were dis
covered, the place having been long
used as a quarry, both for stone and
bricks, but many of the ancient rub
bish mounds yielded a rich store OF
papyri, while in three mounds the
quantity of rolls found together was
large enough to warrant the assump-
ton that part of the archives had been
thrown there at different periods.
The papyri range from the Roman
conquest to early Arab times, each CEN
fury being largely represented, and are
for the most part written in Greek.
with sprinkling of Latin, Coptic and
Arabic. As the excavators had not time
for deeiphering. very little is yet known
of their contents, but Mr.. Grenfell's
chief hope in digging the site of
Oxyrrhyneus-the prospect of finding
early Christian documents = would
seem to have been to some extent real
lied. Among the papyri discovered at
the very beginning of the excavations
was leaf from third century papyrus
book apparently containing a collec-
ton of Logia, or sayings of Christ.
Some of those found in the fragment
are not in the gospels, while others ex-
hibit several Emergencies from the text
of the parallel passages in the gospels.
The age, character and value of these
Logia are likely to be the subject of
considerable speculation, but there is
no foundation for the entirely unau-
thorized and inaccurate reports con-
Meeting this discovery with the Logia
which Papias states were collected by
CAs 4AdttAC"s II ID AOpSd tudt WHEN TIC
papyri come to be examined in detail,
further discoveries of early Christian
records will be made, as well as of frag-
ments of lost classical literature, since
in some of the mounds, notably the ear
Her ones, an unusually large proportion
of the papyri found were written in
uneia1s.
The cream of the collection, in point
of size and condition, consisting of $50
large and complete rolls in many cases
several feet long. has been retained by
the Gizeh museum; the rest of the col
lection, of which the bulk is, of course,
in very fragmentary condition, is on
its way to England, where the sys-
tematic examination and publication Of
it will be undertaken by Messrs. Gren-
fell and Hunt
Besides papyri the excavator found
number of coins, about 200
inscribed ostraca, bronze and ivory or
and other small objects of the
Roman and Byzantine periods.-Lon-
don Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
FEDERAL FINANCES.
EEas Receipts for June Largely In Excess
of the Expenditures.

ERas Receipts for June Largely in Excess
of the Expenditures.
WASHINGTON, July with the close
If the fiscal year the treasury finds it
self in better condition than for some
time The deficiency in revenue has
been reduced from nearly $50, 600 900 to
S83, O36, $40, the amount given In the
treasury statement. During the month
of June the excess of receipts over ex-
penditures was $40, 236, 595, a tremendous
gain compared with the freque ntly
large deficits in previous months The
available cash balance, which on the
last business day in May was 1921 $685..
sol, is given as S237, 452, 1879. The with
drawals of gold for shipment
abroad have been more than bal
aneed by a gain in demand notes.
The receipts of the government have
been increasing largely in the past few
Hzoaths, and the indications are that
Ehere will be a regular monthly excess
'of receipts over expenditures, which
an time will wipe out the present
deficiency.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
rANNA CUTS WAGES AGAIN.
Condition OF the VVora<angmam Con-
stanfIx GroNHimR XKorne

L
stanaAy Growing Worse.
just to show that prosperity has real
ly come Pennsylvania nina of which
Senator Hanna is one of the chief own
ers has reduced the wages OF its miners
from 60 to 81 cents This is for coal go
ing over one and one-fourth inch
screen and is the lowest rate ever paid
to these miserable workmen. 1t is re-
ported that the miners have struck, but
the report has not yet been confirmed
and is not likely to be, for the men are
] in no condition to quit work even in
| face of this cut. The mine operators
say that the cut was made because other
mines were only paying 81 cents, al
though all acknowledge that the rate
is 60 cents.
An officer of the Mine Workers
union is said to have remarked that the
miners are not amazed. They were not
| Mckinley men. The times were get
to be no end to the mems sufferings and
the sun of their prosperity had set. Yet,
he added, there must come an end. The
men must live, and, although he dread
ed to say it, they would put an end to
their sufferings with the musket and
torch. One does not like to hear such
things even when the sympathies are
with the oppressed people, but what can
you expect from class so downtrod-
den? There is not in this country to-
day class of workmen so oppressed as
the miners of Pennsy :rania. Between
the power of the mine owners to limit
the years output and their ability to
depress wages at will the miserable
workman is having all his self-respect
and manliness crushed out. The revela-
tions made last winter and this spring
by legislative committees which inves-
tigated the miners condition in Penn
sylvania, Ohio and other states were of
the most shocking character. Not only
were wages pitifuIly low, but the men
were cheated in the most shameless
manner by means of false weights and
unfair screens. The injustice of the
mine owners in arbitrarily limiting the
output for the year resulted in the idle
ness of thousands of men and the in
crease of the cost of the coal to the con-
sumner.
The condition of affairs has steadily
grown worse, although such seems al
most impossible. The miner has been
forced into the last ditch by his en-
ployers, who not only grind him and the
coal consumers, but further enrich
themselves from both by manipulating
the tariff through such men as Hanna.
II cannot be wondered, then, that this
crushed class is at that desperate point
indicated by the words of the union
member. It is no wonder that its MEM
hers feel that they could not be much
worst off if, with musket and torch,
they outlawed themselves by actual war
upon their oppressors. This is still
further borne in upon them when they
realize that, depleted in purse and body,
they are no longer in condition to make
use of their usual weapon, the strike
Chicago Chronicle.