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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
Would Argue in Rhyme.

Anderson, Ind, Nov. 27.-The
attorneys for the defendant in case
in the circuit court here served notice
yesterday that they would present
their argument in rhyme. The at.
torneys for the plaintiffs protested
and the Judge said that he would not
admit poetical arguments
The matter led to an argument
about the righ. to employ poetry in
law. 1t was found there were no
precedents or statutes against such
method, and tie poetical attorney
was obdurate. The court refused to
let the case proceed On this basis, and
it was postponed until January q.
The attorneys for the defendant insist
that they will present and argue their
case in rhyme, and there seems to be
no way to head them of.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
PUBLIC SALES.

The followiog is a summary of the sales
for next saleday, advertised elsewhere ttas
70 this paper:
Sasrsf's Sales.
Tract Of land containing 6fty acres, bound
Cd By lands now or lately of Marion Noise,
3 d Jenkins, estate of John < Brown, de-
ceased, aud others. Levied upon and TO be
sold as the property of Louana Brown at
the suit OF 0'Donnell Co.
s. Tract of land in Mayesv;lle township con-
iaining City acres and bounded by lands Of
d 1 Logan, Mary Keels AID Others. Levied
upen and to be sold as the property of W S
Logan at the suit of the State for taxes.
One lot ir the tows of Mayesville, bound-
ed by lands of T D Foxwostb, and by Front
Street of said town. Levied upon and to be
sold as the property of Barrett at the
suit of the State for taxes.
One lot in the town of Magnolia, as the
property Of Estate of Neetie J. Perningtoa at
The suit of the Stat for taxes.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
A German Word Serpent.

A German correspondent comes to the
rescue of his countrymen, concerning
whom we expressed surprise that they
should prefer to use word Of four syl-
lables when another word expressing
the same thing in 40 syllables was
available. He sends US copy OF The
Kolnische Volkszeitung, in which oc-
ours a sentence of COZ words, occupy
ing SO lines Of the newspaper.
This word serpent occurs IN legal
Judgment, and even the printers got to
hate it aftel: setting up aboct $50 words
of it. So they put in a full stop, which,
like rifle bullet in the spine Of boa
constructor, killed the whole sentence.
But it must really be nice to have news
papers in which you can begin to read
sentence at breakfast, continue it in
the train and triumphantly reach the
verb at ofice.-London Globe.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
a Tricky Butcher.

''The greatest business mind eve7
ran up against was possessed by the
former proprietor of meat market out
in Germantown" said a street car con-
ductor the other day as his car was
waiting on Front street. "Thls butcher
had a fine, squea.ky voice, which you
could hear block away. Tricky? Yes.
that's just " hat you would call it. :
used to watch him sometimes when
he was waiting on customers, and 1t
was positively amusing to see the ap-
parent ease with which he would make
a two pound steak weigh apparently
three or more pounds.
s'He would take couple of pounds
Of meat and throw it on the scales. so
that the pointer would show four pounds
and then take it off before the scales
could register the true weight. There's
just four pounds exactly, ne would say
to the customer in that squeaky voice
of his, and then continue with the state
ment quickly made: -Four times II is
So. Call it 60, and unless the customer
was watching him closesy he would al
ways get even change.
stHe was in the meat business only a
few years and amassed competency.
Then he left it. What worries me is
how he is going to get along now. l un-
derstand he is in the real estate business,
and I wonder how he works it when he
sells a piece of land The scales won t
.elp him much there. "-Philadelphla
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
A Clever Trick.

It certainly locks like it, but there is really
no trick about it. Anybody can try it who
has Lame Back and Weak Kidneys, Malaria
or nervous troubles. We mean he can cure
himself right away by taking Electric Bittels.
This medicine tones up the whole system, acts
as a stinulant to the Liver and Kidneys, is a
blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures Ccn-
stipation, Headache, Fainsing Spells, Sleep
lessness and Melancholy. 1t is purely vege.
table, a mild laxative, and restores the system
to its natural vigor. Try Electric Bitter end
be convinced tnat they are miracle worker.
Every bottle guaranteed. Only soc bottle a
J. F. ". DeLorme's Drug Store. 3
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
CHAOTIC CONDITION
IN LEE COUNTY.
It is Caused by Attempts to
Upset the Election.

Affairs IN Lee county are IaSl DC
coming confusion worse confounded.
And the longer the Supreme court
withhoIds its decision the more SO Go
they get AS Monday, December 5,
has been fixed for the hearing as to
whether or not Lee county was legal
~ established, the condition of affairs
is likely to soon be bettered.
The trouble all lies in the fact that
everything depends upon the decis.
ion. The act of the Legislature Gre
ating Lee county provided that, until
the county government machinery
had been put toto operation, the
treasurers of the three old counties,
from which Lee was formed, should
collect the taxes in the cut off parts.
These taxes were to be kept separate
and when the county treasurer Of Lee
should have become qualified, they
were to be turned over to him.
Now tits an open question whether
he will ever become qualified. lnthe
meantime schools in the cut off por
tions oc the old counties have to be
kept up, magistrates mnst administer
justice and bridges built. But there
is no money at hand TO pay for all
these things. The treasurers of the
old counties cannot pay it out of the
funds which they have collected for
Lee county. The treasurer of Lee
county cannot pay it for it has not
yet been turned over to him and will
not be until the Supreme court de-
,cides that Lee county has been prop.
terIy formed.
with this chaotic state of things
existing the attorney general has
been appealed to for decision. His
advice to the treasurers of the old
counties is that the law is emphatic in
saying this fund shall rot be touched
until paid over to the Lee county
treasurer
Another interesting question pre-.
sents itself as to whether the newly
elected State senator and represents
tives from that county can be seated.
Until the election creating the county
is declared illegal they will hold their
seats.
1t is this state of affairs which
makes the Supreme courts decision
anxieusly awaited.
The court has already. in referring
the case to a special referee to take
testimony, committed Itself to
the extent of saying the questions at
Issue are whether proper election
returns were made to- the secretary OF
State and if so, was two thirds vote
given for the county The referee has
found that no election returns as re-
quired by law were made and hence
it is useless to investigate the second
question. With this being the case,
the opponents of the county claim
that the court will decide the election
to have been illegal and consequently
that there is no Lee county.-State,
Nov. 26.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
4 SwelIed Head.

Atypical English woman, when somO
one spoke the other day of certain
man having "swelled head, +" looked
dazed. "Really! You don't mean it!'
cried the English woman. ''Pm very
sorry" A day or so later the English
woman, happening to meet the wife of
the man in question, observed that she
was so sorry to hear that Mr.. Blank
was i'll.
But he isn't!' cried the wife. He
was never better in his life.
SIS that so:" said the English woman.
"Why, what could Mrs. Dash have
meant the other day when she said he
was suffering from swelled head?"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
History Of the Spauish-Amer1can
War" by Henry Watterson.

The above is the title of snperbly illas.
trated, richly bound volume, Issued by The
Werner Company, Akron. Ohio. 1t is the
only Authentic history Of the Span,sh.Amer-
ican War that has so far come to our notice.
~. the others have, in the main, been merely
eevamped histories of the Cuban War, with
some illustrations and few chapters abent
the Spauish.Americsn War. Of course any
thing written by Heory Watterson would be
readable. he, above all othe. men in Amer
ica, is fitted by training snd experience to
write a history of this war, which has
brought worldwide renown aud glory to
our arms. Every line of the boek breathes
an enthusiastic spirit of patriotism that is
exhilarating and inspiring.
The work contains over $50 pages, large
number of full-page balf-tones, together with
many rich double-psge illustrations in ten
colors. It is sold By subscription, and will
undoubtedly prove a money-maker to every
intelligent salesman.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
NEGRO SONGS.

Tho Baltimore American says that
"modern negro songs do not by any
means represent the negro race" How
could they do 80. when they are
written by white persons ? However
she songs come much nearer'to being
representative Of the negro than do the
vast majority OF the ippersopasions Of
negro character which are seen on the
stage, by white persons born and bred
in northern cities. where the natural
negro characte. is unknown.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
Successful PHYSICIANS.

We heartily recommend DR.. Hathaway G. Co.
of 22H S Broad St, Atlanta, Ga. as being per-
fectly reliable and remarkably successful in tho
treatment of chronic diseases of men and women
need of medical help should certainly write
these eminent doctors and you will receive a FREQ
and expert opinion of your case by return maj
without cost.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
The Transformed Pythagorean.

Some undergraduates once wished TO
play practical joke upon a man who
was disciple of Pythagoras, so one day
when he was little sleepy by reason
of the amount of brandy and soda that
he had imbibed his friends smeared him
with honey and rolled him i'll the in
side of a feather bed. When the disciple
of Pythagoras got up III the morning,
he looked in the looking glass at him.
self and said slowly, with whistle,
"Bird, by Jovep p'-London Figaro
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
CUT OFF FROM BOSTON.

New York, Nov. 2s.-A!i commuo-
icatiou with Boston is severed. All
details CT the damage done by the storm
to shipping is lacking The harbor is
full of wreeksge. It is known that
fifteen lives are lost, aud it feared
many more will be discovered when
the storm snstes.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
sULTAN'S PROTESTS DIsRE-
GARDED.

Copstantinople, Nov 26.-The sultan
has telegraphed to the czar eutreating
him to abandon bis intention OF sending
Prince George Of Greece to Crete as
high commissioners of the powers in
that island.
Turkham Pasba recently went op
special mission to Lividia, with tie
same object in view, but vas unsuccess.
full.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
So Kindly Considerate.

"Why is it,, - the daring young man
asked, "that your daughter still wears
such short di:esses?'
"Oh, keep her dressed that way, !"
Mrs. Giddibrls answered, with 8 beautl-
full blush, because if she had long
skirts on people would think she was
my sister VIXEN they saw us together. l
have no wish to conceal the fact that l
have a daughter who is as tall as /
am. cleveland Leader.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
Experienced.

'sHave you made up your mind just
what qualities you expect to find in a
husband?'' asked the matron.
"Why, OF course answered the
maid.
"Too bad,'' commented the matron
with sigh.
"Why do you say that?" demanded
the maiden.
"Oh, I always hate to see young girls
disappointed, (" answered the matron. -
Chicago Post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30

They are having a little color-line
question 10 Woodbury., N. j. The
pastor of one of the churches there
wants to extend to q colored songre-
CATION the privilege of using the bap-
tismal pool 10 his church. to which
many Of the congregation object as too
severe strain on fraterual courtesy.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30

Learn TO say ''No" when g. dealer offers
von something ''juss as good'' in place of
Hoods Sarsaparills. There can be no sue-
s,irnte for Americas Greatest Medicine.
Hoods Pills cure nausea, sick headache.
h;,;onsness and ell liver ills. Price 2e cents.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30

If you have cotton seed to sell, call on me.
I will pay you the highest market place.
W. B. Boyle.
Wanted Cotton seed. Highest prices
paid. W. B. Boyle.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
JL,1-r Foreclosure of MoTsoaqe.

Under Foreclosure Of Mortgage.
Richs,d Brown TO John 7. hurss-Slx
scres in Sumter township bounded by lands
formerly of r P Monaghan, Stephen Mack,
Miss Weeks and Moses James
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
Meteorological Record.

The following is report Of observations
of the weather taken at Stateburg, by DR.. W.
W. Anderson, for 2l days from Nov. IA to
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
S2,2l3 40

Total, S2.2l3 4s
All persons who remained at home paid all
expenses Cor guards and attendance. while the
city paid only the expenses of maintaining
The pest house aud camp of detention.
Dr.. Archie China and then Dr.. A. O. Dick
had charge Of the pest house. DR.. Jesse A.
Clifton had charge of the camp of detention.
Dr.. G. Baker, as president of the Board
of Health, and DR.. B. n. Stuckey, es mem
Der of the board, gave great deaf of time
and attention to the enforcement of the rules
and regulations adopted to stamp out the
disease, and the strict enforcement thus
secured made the regulations not only effect
i've but successful.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-30
THE COOL GAMBLER.
HOW HE SETS, WINS AND LOSES AT
MONTE CARLO.

A Scene by Night In the Great Gilded
Den at Monaco-Tempting Fickle For-
tune as Cold Slooded Business Trans
action-A Lucky English Couple.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
New Clothes Post

1t Is believed that this clothes post
will fill long-felt want. 1t is fitted
up with double line running over n
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
Swiss Wine Storage.

A 'bottle-lake" is the most concise
term that can be used to describe the
new subterranean tank which the Ital-
ianSwiss colony has just completed at
Asti, for storing half a million gallons
of wine. First an excavation was made
in a rocky hillside in the rear of the
winery. Next wall of concrete, two
feet in thickness, was put in the floor
and sides, and built into the cover, the
latter being supported by fifteen steel
Orders. Next the entire surface was
covered with a lining of pure cement,
and finally this was glazed to the i'm
permeability of glass. The whole has
been buried beneath three feet of earth,
and soon grass will grow above the
wine lake. The cement wine tank is
four feet wide and twenty-four feet
high. The contents may be drawn off
by grayitation. There are several adj
yantages to be derived from the con-
struction of the concrete and cement
clstern. One of these it is expected will
be that the wine will be maintained at
an even, cool temperature. Another
is the equal blending of five hundred
thousand gallons of wine at one time.
\ third is the saving in insurance. This
is calculated at the rate of fifteen hun
dred dollars per annum, which in five
years would repay the cost of construc-
tinp
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12

Two hundred shots per minute have
been fired from a rifle recently invented
by Lieut.. Gel, an officer of the Italian
regiment of Bersaglieri. 1t does not
weigh three kilogrammes, and has a
small caliber A soldier using it can
fire 200 shots every minute without re-
moving it from his shoulder. The Gift
ford rifle, which uses liquefied gas in
lieu of gunpowder, discharges $50 shots
in two and half minutes, or at the
rate of 40 shots per minute. From the
Martini Henry twenty -one shots have
been fired in the same time. The Lee
MetfOrd has about the same rapidity.
The Winchester repeater, with mag
azine containing twelve cartridges, can
be fired twenty-four times in a minute.
A cannon has been recently invented at
Chicago which claims the power of dis
charging 1000 shots in.successlon with,
out undue heating, throwing dynamite
shells three feet long, q distance of five
miles, when they explode from concus-
sion, The Germans have constructed
nickel shot cannon which fires shrap-
mel shell nearly five miles at the rate
of fifteen rounds per minute.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12

A strange story of a frog is told us by
one who is acquainted with the facts.
On the old Richie place, which
abounds with relics of early days, is an
old log springhOuse, built at the begin
ming of the century by John Richie,
the inventor of the sour mash process
of making whisky. A neverfailing
stream of ice-cold water flows into this
old house, forming a pool several feet
deep. Here, since John Richie left
Lynns Fort and built himself an indie
pendent dwelling, it is alleged, a giant
bullfrog has had its home. AS the frog
family is endowed with great longev-
ity, it is said by those who ought to
know that it is reasonable to believe
that the frog is the same one which
took up its residence in the Richie
springhouse in pioneer times. What
lends color to this theory is the fact
that there has never been but one frog
seen in the neighborhood of the old
sprirg, and MIR. Stephen Richie, now a
man well advanced in years, states
that this same frog, or one very similar
to it, had its home in the spring when
he was a child, and that he has often
heard his grandmother term the frog
her rain sign. The frog is said to be of
vast proportions, with thunderous
voice that can be heard great dis
lance. 1t is very active, and shows no
evidence of it's century or more of
years.-Bardstown (Ky.) Record.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
Eat that You May sIeen.

The old condition that to eat anything
just before going to bed is sure to pro-
duce indigestion and render sleep i'm
possible is now happily exploded, says
the Philadelphia Times. Something
of light, palatable nature in the stom-
ach is one of the best aids to guietude
and rest.
Some physicians have declared, in
deed, that Il good deal of the prevalent
insomnia is the result of an unconscious
craving of the stomach for food in per-
sons who have been unduly frightened
by the opinion that they must not eat
before going TO bed, or who have, like
many nervous women, been keeping
themselves in a state of semi-starva-
ton.
Nothing is more agreeable on retir-
ing for the night than to take a bowl
of hot broth, like oatmeal cruel or clam
soup. This is especially the case on
cold winter nights, when the stomach
Graves warmth as much as any other
part of the body. Even glass of hot
milk is grateful to the palate on such
occasions.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12

The British tramp steamer Wilder
spool arrived here yesterday from
Java with fish story as big as some
OF the immense waves which boarded
the vessel in the storms through which
she passed. While crossing the Gulf
Stream on the night of Oct. II, In a
strong northwest gale. the steamer took
a great deal of water on her decks.
Capt Japp remained on the bridge dur
Ing the night, and he says that the seas
swept the sugar-laden tramp from stem
to stern. In lull in the big storm he
heard a tapping forward, and. think
Ing a sal had got loose, sent n man to
fasten it. The next thing heard wAs
a cry of astonishment from the sailor.
and every one hurried forward to see
what had happened. There upon the
deck lay shark, so the story runs,
which had been cast on board by the
waves. The crew dispatched him, and
when stretched out he measured eleven
feet.-New York Tribune
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12

The family Is the educator of the
race. Here men and women are made.
What they are in the world, that they
We're in the family as children. The
family is the place where the first les
sons of law are received, and where
the whole character In view of law
has direction given it. The citizen is
made in the family long before the time
for voting or activity has come.
When Napoleon said, in answer to
Madame de Staels question about
Frances greatest need, Mothers" he
asserted, "are the all-potent influence OF
a true family life. The family is the
great means for the DEVELOPMENT of
character. What a world does Il pre-
sent for the affections to abide in!
Where on all the earth besides are sym
pathies so warm, love so pure and fer
vent as hereT' All that gives value or
beauty to human character flads In the
family at once an atmosphere Iii which
to expand and develop the elements
which shall bring it to the highest per-
lection. The family creates perpetual
power which holds and moves ever
more each individual of the circle. The
parental love evoked every hour in pro
viding, watching, guiding, throws
back Its influence over the heart and
life Of father and mother, and makes
them what they never could be with
out it; 1t is power Mich tends all the
time to lift them to higher and better
place
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER.
DOM.
burnett County Yields Copper-Plenty
of Work for Laborers in the Lnmbe
Camps Young Girl Dies of Drink
Killed by a Switch Engine.
copper in Burnett conn,v

Copper mines may be d reality within
hfty miles of the twin cities before the
close of 1888. Work has begun on a
shaft in Burnett County, in the town OF
Trade Lake, and the copperyillc Mining
Company expects to show to the world in
few weeks that the Fredina copper
mine is rich. 1t is located seventeen miles
northeast of st. Croix Fails and fifteen
miles southeast of Grantsburg. Some
days ago Rev. A. G. Fredin OF Omaha,
who locates mines with hazel switch
and Rev. j. j. Jasperson of Rock Island
both Swedish Lutheran clergymen, arriv-
ed at Grantsbnrg and visited what is
known as Niger hill in the town of Trade
Lake, very prosperous Swedish settle
ment. Several years ago shaft was
sunk, disclosing enough TO convince its
owners that there was wealth there. The
two ministers spent Il day exploring, and
located three veins of ore running paral-
lei about mile apart north and south,
tending slightly to the northwest, Il d OK
tending into both counties. They located
one vein twice on the farm of Nels Peter
johnson, and offered him S15, 900 for the
mine. The offer was refused A COM
pany was at once organized.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
Working and Didn't Know IL.

1t was = the Charity Dispenser. and
a particularly woe-begone tramp, who
had misery depicted on every feature,
was an applicant for medical relief.
When the doctor came to him he exam
med him carefully, asked many ques-
tions, looked ut his tongue, sounded
him, and then delivered himself as fol.
lows:
MY dear man. what you are suffer,
ing from Is one of the worst cases OF
indigestion have seen In many day.
find that stomachic fermentation has
set in"
The tramp gave one wild yell OF
despair.
Il knew it, he said; Il knew 1t Esust
Be something terrible. | felt It in my
bones. / was working and ! didn't
know IT.