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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-12-21
Cl2rpln0lt Lolge No. O., 4. T. n.

TINE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMU-
NICATION of Claremont Lodge, No
64. A. F. ~. will be held on Thursday
Evening, Dec. %, at a p. m. Brethren
will take due notice and govern themselves
accordingly
A,test-P. C. MOSES, Sec,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-12-21
I. B. Killebrew, A. H., Ph. D.

Ex-Commissoner of Agriculture for Ten
nessee, author of Culture and Curing Of To-
baccc" for U. S. tenth census, Tobacco
Leaf" "Sheep Husbandry," ""W heat Grow
iug," Grasses" and other agricultural
works
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-12-21

William j. Bryan occupies larger
place in the public eye than a de
ieated presidential candidate has
done since the days Of Clay. His
hold on the people grows stronger
and his public utterances are so
statesmaniike and convincing that
they inspire confidence in the man
He will be a factor in the campaign
of 1900, and the Republicans recog-
nize and fear his strength and iDfu
nee.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-12-21

The regular subscription price of the
Southern Farm Magazine is ST year, but
we offer it and tie Watchman and Southron
uznz-vse>r for 60 Oct 49,
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President McK Kinley prases prestily
Of the fraternal feeling between the
North and the South, but if be would
quit appointing obuoxious negroes
TO cfice ID the South in payment OF
political debts we might have more
faith in the sincerity of his remarks
His Atlanta speech had 6ne sound.
but words are cheap, and do not
effect changes in the Mark Hanna
metheds Of practical politics. It
viii require much more than
Mr. William McKinley's fine words
10 convince US that he and Marx
Hanna win change their political
methods lh dealing with the South,
and We predict that negro Republican
heelers Of TIE South will be cajoled
and given Office just so long as they
can be used TO keep Mr.. Mckinley in
the White House and Mark Hanna
IN noWer.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
ABOUT TIE SMALL GUNS.
They Play a s7ost Important Part in
Harbcr Defense Where Great
Gums Would lie Useless.

Much has been written of the big guns
that were to defend the harbors. In The
system of defenses the smaller guns
play a most important part, both to sup
plement the work of the great rifles
and to be used against bodies Of men
who otherwise might carry the works
by assault. For direct service against
attack by men the great guns are use
less. Their value is altogether in the
powero of destruction possessed by them,
says the New York Press.
The smaller guns Of the United States
artillery service are made in scores of
styles and are designed for all the diff
ferent kinds of service for which a gun
can be needed.
Among the smaller arms which have
been adopted by the ordnance depart
ment Of the United States army in the
last year are -pounder rapid-fre guns
to be used either behind ramparts or in
the open against landing parties, three
inch, 16-pounder rapid-fre guns for
rampant or easements, five or six-inch
rapid-fre guns for use with moving
troops. Gatling, Maxim and briggs
Schroeder guns and all sizes and styles
of small siege mortars and ritled can
non. Ss
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Wisconsin has 5000 Indians of various

Wisconsin has 1000 Indians of various
tribes.
There are 1900 distinct varieties of
postage stamps.
The importation of madder root is
chiefly from Holland.
The number Of Chinese in San Fran
cisco is about 10000.
England makes s2O,OOO,OOO a year
profit out of its post Office.
The flesh ofyoung giraffes is extreme
ly good, somewhat like veal, with a
gamelike favor.
Water pipes are now often made of
glass and covered with asphaltum, with
highly satisfactory results.
The bull ring of Madrid stands mile
or SO outside the city. 1t was built in
1924 at cost, it is said, of 6 $4,000.
British trade with the Philippines last
year was $9,934,59 that Of the United
States, $5,145,3 ,303, or about half as much.
Millions of pairs of doll shoes are sold
!n this country annually, the great part
of which are imported from Germany
1t is computed that when marching
soldiers take rs steps per minute, in
quick marching 108, and in charging 100
steps.
The Escurial palace in Spain contains
a cathedral, monastery with 200 cells,
two colleges, three libraries and nearly
5000 other rooms.
The number of people who have lived
upon this earth since the time of Adam
is calculated to be somewhere about &c.
627, 100000 ,0cO.
Barcelona is now the most populous
city Of Spain, the result of a census
just taken showing $1,000 inhabitants
to Madrid's 507 600.
The Philadelphia Geological gardens
contained on January 1,019 living ami
mals-339 mammals, 421 birds, 23S rep
tiles and 21 batrachians.
Near the Caspian sea there are sew
eral eternal Sres," so-called by the ma
tives, where natural gas issues from the
ground and has been on fire for ages.
In Bielefeld, Germany, there is a col
ony of epileptics numbering about 1 800.
The colony was established in 1868, and
patients from all parts of the world go
there for treatment.
In France it is a punishable offense
for anyone to give infants under one
year any form of solid food unless such
be ordered by written prescription
signed by qualified medical man.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
MONSTER HAWSERS.
Big Ropes Used In the Navy for
Cables and Towing Heavy
Vessels.

The largest cable of modern times is
the MANILA hawser which was sued to
tow the drydock to Havana. 1t is %
inches in circumference, but it is by no
means the largest that ever has been
made, although it has the reputation of
breaking the record.
There are at least two others of a
greater circumference, but both older.
One of these had circumference of %
inches, and was used for the purpose of
anchoring the ship North Carolina in
the navy yard at Brooklyn, while the
other was a 24-inch hawser, which was
used as a sheet anchor cable on the Ten
nessee, when she was stationed in the
Mediterranean in the '60s.
Such an enormous rope was naturally
found to be unwieldy, fact which was
abundantly demonstrated when the
vessel encountered a storm in the Bay
of Naples. When the Tennessee re
turned to her native home in America
the hawser was sent to the oakum mills
and made into oalum.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
FRANCOIS CoPPEE's YOUTH.
RecOllectiOns of the Great Author
Recalled by the Accidental
Finding of a Book,

Francois Coppee, one of the most
charming modern French authors, has
lately published some recollections of
his early youth, recalled by the acci-
dental finding of the old thumbworn
book from which his mother taught him
his letters. Like the strains of his
C,remona violin, it is another touching
evidence of the lasting impression upon
great minds Of the lessons impaired by
a loving gentlewoman. He says:
"This old primer, from which my
mother taught me my letters, the very
one which she had preserved from the
time when she herself was taught, re-
minds me that once she also was q lit
tie girl. But it is impossible for me to
imagine her games or frolics, her youth
full loves and maiden pleasures, or even
her early joyous married life. For me
she will ever be my mother-my dear
old mother.
How many trials and anNieties I
caused this dear parent, not that she
ever had reason to doubt my love for
her even for an instant, but when one
is young, full of life, fattered by praise
and hope, he is prone to forget that
there is seated by the fireside at the
home which he neglects for worldly
pleasures an old mother, who hardly
dares to utter timid reproach to her
fast-growing son, but who is alarmed
at the dangers through which he is
passing; who suffers to see him lose the
purity and candor of his childhood and
who weeps in silence.
eff these lines should meet the eye of
some young man about to commit an
indiscretion let him pause a moment
and reflect that, without being GRIM
inal, it will be sad day for him, when
he is an old man, to recollect that he
made his mother weep.
''It is over 20 years since my mother
died, but 1 still retain the saddest
recollection in my heart, for on that day
something infinitely sweet was lost out
of my life and never since then have 1
been able to feel young again.
During the sufferings of my late
long illness and the dreary hours of
convalescence, my mothers spirit
seemed to approach nearer to me in
holy meditation. In trying to recall
the prayers she taught me as child
my soul has sought to raise itself to
God. 1t is the hope of again seeing my
mother that inspires the belief in the
truth of the eternal life. How often
have 1 thought that to rejoin her in
Heaven l would endeavor to lead a bet
ter and purer life for the little time left
me on earth.
"The home of the spirit of man made
perfect, the mysterious realm that NOR
tai eye has never seen-wonderful
abode of life and love! They tell US
that our feeble intellects cannot grasp
the extent and perfection of the bliss
reserved for His chosen ones. But it
seems to me, humbly cropping, that I
had foretaste of paradise years ago,
when, as an innocent child, I fell asleep
in thy arms, oh, my adored mother!"
Philadelphia Times.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
INDIAN CREMATIONISTS.
Yuma Redskins That Know How to
Dispose of Their Dead
by Fire. -.--...-

c. S. Hilton has just returned to Los
Angeles from Yuma, where he has been
in the employ of the Southern Pacific.
During his stay in Yuma there were
four deaths among the Indians on the
reservation, and following their usual
custom the bodies were burned. Capt.
Hilton says that these Indians are mat
ural born" creamationists, and have the
business down to such a science as to
discount all expensive modern crema-
tories in point of effectiveness, says the
Arizona Republican.
Their plan, the captain says, is very
simple one, but it is thoroughly eff
fectiYe. When an Indian dies the whole
tribe have great pow-wow and details
are told off to keep up regular and
systematic wailing up to the time the
body is prepared for cremation. When
this time arrives a shallow hole is
scooped out in the sand, which is filled
with finely splintered wood, on which
the nude corpse is laid. A cord or two
and about the body, the fire is applied
and the entire band of Indians gather
about the burning pile.
For q few seconds there is a slight
smell of burning flesh, and it is all over.
The wood burns to ashes, and when it
goes out there is nothing resembling a
human frame left; only q comparative
ly small pile of gray ashes, which are
scattered over the desert by the winds.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
where Eeaxing Ceases.

Lord Rayleigh in a recent lecture
said that experiments had shown that
a vibration of sound having an ampi-
tude of less than one-twelye-nlillionth
of a centimeter could still affect the
sense of hearing. Such vibration
would be so short that it would have
to be enlarged 100 times before the
most powerful possible microscope
could render it visible, supposing that
it were susceptible of being seen at
all. Old people, he said, do not hear
high notes which are audible to young
persons, and there is reason to believe
that babies hear notes which are in
audible to their elders.-Yopth's Com
Eanion.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
CARTRIDGES IN SILK.
Number OF Very Excellent Improve
ments Made in the
Maxim Gun.

Hiram Maxim recently informed a
Daily Mail representative that the
British government had given his firm
an order for their new guns, which have
greatly increased firing speed and
so per cent. more penetrating power
than those hitherto constructed.
The United States had already or
dered from Messrs. Yickers' Sons &
Maxim a large number of these 12-inch
guns, and in reference to this Mr.. Maxim
said: "This last order is being sup
Piled entirely by our factories in Amer
lea. on account of the neutrality laws,
which would prevent the weapons being
shipped if made at the firms works in
Sheffield.
eve have made" said Mr. Maxim, ga
good many 6-inch and 12-inch guns for
the British government, but these were
made from government specifications,
using government mechanism, but upon
showing the government officials some
thing better we have been giver large
orders for guns made with our improved
mechanism, and this work is being
executed at the present moment
"The statement that our 12-inch gun
fires at the rate of three shots a min
ute" he continued, "is substantially
true. This, however, does not mean the
that it can be steadily fred at that
rate 1t might be done for the first
minute, commencing with the gun
loaded. One thing you can rely upon,
and that is that our 12-inch and 6-inch
guns are superior to any guns that have
vet been invented both in power and in
rate Of firing. Any nation using our new
high-power 6-inch and 12-inch guns
can rest secure that they will never
encounter anything that will shoot
faster or with any greater penetrating
power.
'"The chief features in the new gun
are an improved breech-blocB and the
substitution Of an asbestos case for the
metal cartridge formerly used. The
usual breech-block requires several
turns to hold it safely in position after
the charge has been inserted. This loss
of time is obviated by mechanical al
teration that gives the same solidity
with but single twist Of the block The
cordite and projectiles are held together
in a silk lining, ineased in asbestos, thus
saving weight and magazine room.
"The day the new 6-inch gun was
tried at Portsmouth the perforation i'm
piled, according to Tresidder's formula,
was 22.7 inches of iron, the greatest per-
foration laid down in the service table
for 6-inch gun being 15.9 of iron. The
rate of fire maintained by this gun, at a
subsequent trial, at Shoeburyness, was
36 rounds in four minutes ~ seconds,
which was equal to a shot every eight
seconds, or, allowing for cooling, 100
shots in Is minutes. ."-Chicago Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
INTENDED FOR THE DOG.
The LudicrOus Error That Was Made
by Beer Garden VocaItst
Concerning Applause.

About as laughable an incident as
could well vary life,s monotony oc-
CURED in a South side beer garden the
other night. The parties to the affair
were male vocalist, frightened pug
puppy, the puppy's mistress as the cast
and the remaining persons present as
the chorus. The incident also tended to
demonstrate that peculiar kind Of con-
Ceit possessed by the musician which
attributes all applause to pleasure over
his performances.
The beer garden in question has not
only a mixed orchestra, but it's pro-
gramme usually provides for couple
of numbers by some one of the male
vocalists who sing at such places. The
music rendered is of the kind most
attractive to the general public, patriot
ic airs being mingled with popular
marches and ragtime ditties in proper
proportion. The audience on the night
in question was large enough to fill
the biggest theater in the city and have
an overflow. 1t was a beautiful moon
light night and every body was in
joyous mood The vocalist caro1ed rner-
IIl( OilNV uiQ was ASNe'AASN' A'NNH "
ILL., 0El0o ana w
cause the people pursued the rnechan-
icai act of aPplauding
1t was about ten o'clock when a Wom-
an entered the place, accompanied by
her escort, tall, dignified man. She
carried a pug puppy in her arms. The
black-nosed fellow took in everything,
alternately jumping on the table and
trying to escape to the floor. But he
was held in leash while the couple slow
ly disposed of a bottle of cool beer.
While this process was going on the
singer arose and sang again. Puppy
was under the table at this time, and
when the usual applause followed the
song he did not appear to notice it.
Then the man sang again, and the APP
plause broke out again as perfunctorily
as possible.
Puppy was on the table this time. A
man sitting at the same table led in
the applause, clapping his hands wear
lily and with little apparent desire to
make the singer hear him. This was
the dogs cue. He ran back to his mis-
tress, barking furiously. The man,
thus surprised, turned his head Ian
guidly, took in the situation and at
once commenced a furious hand-clap-
ping. The dog responded and the
whole garden was in an uproar Of laugh
ter and applause.
Doggy barked, the people applauded
and things went on at merry clip.
The happiness was suddenly broken in
on by a burst Of music from the or
chestra. The people turned to see and
beheld the singer with radiant smile,
bowling and smirking to right, center
and left, running pair of greasy hands
through his long hair. The orchestra
brayed out again and the vocalist lifted
his voice up in song. Then the people
caught on, and perfect whirlwind of
mirth swept over the assemblage,
drowning voice, instruments and all
else but the sarcastic shrieks of the
amused public. The song was finished,
but the singer never learned that the
applause was meant for the dog.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
AMERICANS IN PARIS.
n NeitEa H at
Nor OlaportuHaEtx for Long.
llllla!!

A recent article in lie Figaro, of Paris,
is devoted to the American colony in
that city. 1t says that the colony has
always played the important and bril-
liant role in society chiefly because
most OF. the Americans were "Ameri-
caines." ct is certain" continues lie
Figaro, "that out of ten 'Americaines'
residing in Paris there is but one Amer
lean. Affairs-.busfness, as they say
over there-absorbs the sterner sex In
the United States. In that country the
men have neither the inclination nor
the opportunity for much leisure, and
only pay us very short visits.
"While their wives install themselves
here the good husband only makes fly
ing visits, and is very seldom referred
to in the elegant salons of the wives"
The writer continues: 81 was at an otfi-
cial ball not long ago, where one of
them was the hero of a curious his
.toire. He wrote on the lapel of his coat
brilliant star, which struck me as
original and somewhat curious in form
Although very artistic, the order was
unknown to me- Some indiscreet per-
son interrogated the Yankee as to what
order it was. The Yankee replied, in
phlegmatic tone: 1T is my own compo-
sition.'"
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
MAKING MONEY.
Unusual Chances I'm War Time, But
Plenty of Opportunities All
the Time.

''In war time," said man of mature
years, "there are always unusual
chances that are taken advantage of by
men of foresight to make money. This
reminds me of what Josh Billings said,
that if our foresight was as good as our
hindsight we'd all be rich, or words to
that effect.
Sat the outbreak of the civil war in
this country there were long-headed
men who stored away manufactured
cotton goods, bleached and unbleached
cottons, sheetings, and so on. AS the
war went on, what with the curtailment
of production and the blockade of
southern ports, the price of cotton
scared skyward and manufactured cot
ton goods increased in value CORE
spondingly. Most men peddled out
their holdings as the price rose, but
some held on and got for their goods
six or eight times what they paid for
them.
"There has been no such money as
that made in this war yet, and I don't
Esuppose there's likely to be, butit would
be easy to pick out things that have
risen greatly in value and that a man
might easily have made fortune on if
he'd known what was going to happen.
Suppose he'd have broughtall the bunt-
ing there was, for instance, or taken
fall out of sulphur, or put away few
hundred cases of Spanish olives. He'd
have found money in all these things
and in various others. But then a man
can find money in time of peace, too, if
he knows how to look"
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
EoGaY-BEE POISON.
Experiments SIesie ~ German Sci
entist-GheInicaI >@d Toxic
Properties.


The chemical and toxic properties or
the poison OF the honey bee have been
a subject for long study by German
scientist, DR.. j oSe Zanger. During his
Investigations Dr.. Zapger employed 20
O00 bees. lie found that the fresh poi
son is clear, like water, OF an acrid re-
action, bitter taste, and of fine aro-
matte favor. On evapoYat:ng and dry
ing at a temperature CT 100 degrees
centigrade (212 degrees FahrenheiO, q
gummy residue is left. 1t is soluble IN
water; with alcohol it forms an emul-
sion-like mixture. The aromatic odor
is due to volatile substance, which dis
appears on evaporation, and is not
poisonous. The poisonous constituent
is not destroyed by short boiling, nor
by drying and heating the residue to
212 dRgrees Fahrenheit, nor by the di-
luted acids or allsalies. Dr. Zanger has
proved the existence Of formic acid, but
he has ESQ proved that there is not the
pols?i Gus principle. The latter is an
organic base, soluble with difficulty in
water, but kept in solution by an acid,
On the healthy skin neither the bee
poison or two per cent. solution Of the
poisonous principle has any effect, but
they act as powerful irrtants on the
mucuous membranes. His tests, made
on rabbits and other animals, show
that when the poison is broughtin con-
tact with the eye there follows lachry-
nation, hyperemia, chemosis and Group
Gus membranes in conjunction. The
general condition is also affected; the
animals become melancholy, take no.
food, but are very thirsty, and the urine
shows small amounts Of nlhu1nen
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
Execution in England.

The number OF executions during the
present reign has been much smaller
than formerly Coke, in the time of
Queen Elizabeth, remarks on the large
number Of persons hanged. In 1850 a
great increase of crime occurred, and in
the following year 63 persons were
hanged in the small London Of those
days. But many more were sentenced
than were actually hanged. In Eng
land in 1885 there were PAP sentenced.
and 103 actually suffered. Townsend,
the Bow street runner said that be-
tween 1871 and 17S7 he had seen as
many as IL, 16 or 20 hanged at one exc
cution. Twice he had seen 40 hanged
at one time. In the ffty-eight years
ending 1894, there were 736 executions
In England and Wales, or between 12
and 13 per annun. In the first ten
years there were 100, in the last ten 164
which, though actually more, is, in
proportion to the population, less than
IN the first ten, as the population
doubled between 1857 and 1894. The
largest number in any one of these
years was in 1877, when there were ,23,
and the smallest in 1871, when there
were four.-Chamber's Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
BITS OF FASHION.
Odds and Ends of Information About
the Latest In Dress for
the Ladies.

Burnt orange and turquoise blue are
hard to find in silk now, so they say at
the stores, as the demand for these col
ors far exceeds the supply.
A favorite trimming for shirt waists
is chemisette and revers of fine tucked
white satin.
A pretty skirt to wear with shirt
waists is made of black taffeta silk,
and trimmed with graduated rows of
black ribbon velvet.
Chocolate colored taffeta silk,
trimmed with burnt orange and seal
brown ribbon velvet, makes an eff
fective costume for this season.
Sage green and golden brown form
a pretty combination for spring gowns.
Plain covert cloths will be much worn
in tailor-made gowns.
Cerise is still fashionable color, and
for that reason the price of cerise-col-
ored silk has gone up.
An effort is being made to revive the
popularity of brocaded silks, and it
looks as though their day would once
more come round. Some of the shops
show rich patterns in both black and
colored silks.
Apple-green silk trimmed with black
chantilly lace will be used in summer
gowns. The effect is cool and dainty.
Authorities say that orinoline is again
coming into favor. This assertion is
made so frequently that those who dis
like the idea of the fashion becoming
really established feel that it is only
o call of wolf and do not fear the
establishment of so ugly mode.
Watermelon pink silk, with ecru and
black applique lace, will be most ef-
fective for summer gowns. - N. Y.
Tribune. a4sas.,