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INDIAN LACEMAKERs.
wen-Known New York Women PAtroniEinE
the Chippewa SQuRws.

WeII-Known New York Women P~AtrOniSing
the Chippewa sQuRws.
BT. PAUL. Mimi, Oct. 20.-LacemakinR by the
Chippewa Indian women is attracting attention
because OF the recent outbreak at Leech Lake
and the killing OF MAJOR Wilkinson and a num-
Der OF soldiers of Gen. Bacon's command.
In 1891 Miss 5ibyl Carter Of New York city
conceived the idea of providing employment
for the women OF the Chippewa tribes OF In
dians which would make them sSlf-supporting.
There was no market for the beadwork which
they made. and she hit upon the plan Of teach
ing them laeemaking. In conjunction with the
Episcopal missiop. she established this depart
ment and sent Miss Pauline Colby to instruct
the Indian women.
Almost from the beginning the experiment
was a success, and during the following year
a large quantity of the lace thus manufactured
was sold TO wealthy women Of New York. the
principal patrons being Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt. Mrs. Astor. Mrs. o. p. Huntington and
others. who purchase. about all OF the lace
made. Mrs. j.. Plerpont Morgan and Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt are now having made for
them some very nne lace bedSpreadB. for
"Miss Pauline COLBY has been remarkably sue
OF eight years among these Women she be-
iieves thoy are more deft with their fingers and
more p~ainstakinR with their work than white
women. althouGh she says they are not as
duick to learn as their white sisters. The In
dian women are paid for their work ut the rate
of 10 cents an hour. They are paid as soon as
their work IL completed.
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HIS LOYAL CUSTOMERS.
An Incident of Trade Rivalry In . Nearby
Suburban Town.

An Incident of Trade Rivalry in . Nearby
Suburban Town.
This was the letter that the young man
brought around to the houses on the first trip
of the grocery wagon on Monday last:
DEAR MRS. OBJ: This will introduce to
you our representative. Mr.. Henry Hevens. who
will call as usual hereafter for your order.
Trusting for a continuance Of the friendly re-
lations that have hitherto existed between us.
we remain as formerly. yours respectfully.
LUKE LUNGLEY & Co."
That 10 rather o strange letter for q trades
man to send around to his customers. and as
the letter was printed. it evidently had been
sent to all the customers. at least on one route.
But it wasn't the letter that excited the custom
ers; 1t was the suggestion Of a change in the
person OF the man who took the orders. For
Mr.. Henry Hevens was not the usual taker OF
orders on that route. The usual man did not
need any introduction. He had taken orders
on that route for thirteen years for old Payne
d Son. and when old Payne died and the son
closed up the business. he had gone over to
Lungley. and taken most Of old Payne's GUS
toners with him. and for eight years on top Of
route and mostly the same customers - w
lnStSH, ssaId match 4; Il tS .sE E:tt|ie needed r. +;
morning and bring It pack as good as new
when he made his last round In the afternoon.
You. Then who got ali the news so early as i hhSel
Wasn't, he the first to predict that there would
be a change in the management oil, the. big
born t for s daispdaI Pi SIS. t ss t1 NV. fhb%ost SsE
vas BRINGING E suit fHE .r d%iy,orcs} o GeuldPP' 1T
weather at every house he went to. and express
each voter2 And wasn't he always riGht2 30.
naturally. the suggestion In the letter made q
There was great excitement in tho houses on
wives and daughters attacked them ct once. ;,
WashingtopI" There may have been sleep In
tainly was not near the old. grocery route.
Why was Washington going 70 leave LunRley
a Co.. or, rather, why had he left No one could
non-committaI. though questioned By every
woman in every house he visited, But the next
day Washington walked up the street.
"w"shinTto in can walk" She had never seem
II Washington Wake up the street gloomily
h. n W oSS sS dSwn ,SS1 aa9 ba g9 aeI a. t Ssd been Sis e Sse
and had obtained. from each and every one q
grocery firm he. Washington. might honor
His story was simple; When he got to the
store on. Saturday. evening. the manager told
him that hts services you'd not be needed
On Wednesday Wellington appeared in a
on its sides the Significant sign. "Eo. O." For
the new employer had hed to buy q nST wagon
Henry Heveng called for orders that day he got
very few; and on Thursday the grocery firm of
Luke Langley. 4 Go, withdrew their wagon
any business for them to do-not even In the
way OF cleaning.
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norANrro -. eRr11rrnaroN.


Weakened Every AEofnine In MS city Home
By the CROWNS Of = Rooster.
so enamoured dld my friend, Columbus
GWimppinEton. become with the delights OF
rural life" Baid Mr.. Gozsleby. shat even after
he returned to the city he used to nave him
self walked up in the morning BY n rooster
Growing. Whore Mr.. qWimpplngton lived In
the city this became necessarily rather . COM
plicated proceeding. because there was no
light there at the usual sunrise hour TO wake
the rooster ~. and. besides that, Mr.. Gwimp-
plngton wanted to get up at q regular hour
without regard to the season. but he managed
this thing in Just the simplest. easiest way in
the world.
He kept the rooster In the cellar. Pretty
much anything can DO done nowadays with
electricity. and he had q time switch put on q
clock and adjusted to turn on. a number OF
lights In succession. These lights were placed
in the cellar behind soreena OF ground glass OF
varying degrees Of. capacity. and By means OF
these seyerel appliances Mr. GwimppinGton
very fair semblance Of approaching dawn.
break, the rooster would crow Justify and wake
Mr.. Gwlmppington mp; but he was not long
permitted to enjoy this rural eenAatlon.. There
were .~neiRhbors less rQmantionllY inclined, or
WHO did not get mp ut the same hour. who pro
tested with great .solemnity against, Mr..
that the day broke no moro in Mr.. Gwimpping-
tons cellar. The rooster. was sent back 70 It's
country homo, and Mr., 0~wimppinRtoh there
after had himself called like other folks"
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WARER00MS
Cor. Fifth Ave. and Sixteenth Street.
F1REMEN WHO DON'T FIGHT FIRE
A Large Force of the Mon Required to Look
After Department BusinesE.

n Largo tOrco or the Men Required TO LOOK
After Department Business.
The affairs OF the Fire Department Of Brook.
Ign and OF the Queens county towns devolvO
upon a Deputy Commissioner. while those OF
the borouRhs Of Manhattan. Bronx and Rich
721 Of the charter provides that. the Fire
Commissioner shall appoint a Deputy Commits
Fire Department In the, borough of Brooklyn,
through EvShoFmi rs such Blno business :: duties and
performed and exercised."I' While. therefore.
the operations Of most other municipal de-
lively. those ofthe Fire Department., are sepa-
rated an9 the work Of SO much OF the depart
haitian, Bronx and Richmond engages the SER
vices OF l.3Q9 employees ana entails an ex.
Brooklyn and Queens division Of the depart
those who respond to fire calls, chiefly IL not
ment Of New York are SO numerous and varied
Department. than are. directly, connected with
the extinguishment Of fres; There are in all
The Misunderstanding Of the Fire Depart%ent IN the
three ~boroughs, The Brooklyn force, separate-
* SrF thas q e thd less New Rqm york; ds OF SsGnsnf:
t tofS to 1T oo Rss But laf fs%er af IRE Of calls s'rf tc
Garemen, there are in the New York departments
rs employees OF the repair shops, blacksmiths.
carpenters. wheelwriRhts. harnessmakers.
painters and watehmen: 9 employers Of the
telegraphers employed either as operators or
as linemen, climbers. groundmen or. cable
splicers; - employees OF the Bureau OF Conn
busti6les. Including oil collectors and survey
ors; 8 employees Of the Department Of the Su-
perintendent Of Buildings ESQ much Of 1t as re-
mains underline control ofthe Fire Department,
the Department of Buildings being q distinot
branch Of the city gSyernmsntl: 81 employees
boat as pilots. stokers and engineers.
AS may he seen from these figures. the work
OF the Fire Department In New York. varied as
i e. requires not only. the services Of IRE
hose. hook and ladder and chemical companies.
but a clerical force as well. and In the Brooklyn
and Queens county division OF the department.
there are IN all / go employees, brlngiRg up
to more than 1900. To maintain the New York
department In it's high standard of efficiency ID
Ii necessary to make repairs constantly and to
make improvements in material which INVOLVES
q large expenditure. the annual appropriation
for apparatus and supplies for the whole terri
tory being In excess OF 100000. As the OK
penses. Of the Fire Department increase. the
ratio OF loss from IRE diminishes.
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ENv1oUs OF WINDOW DUMMIES.
Why the Fat Ma wanted to, Reduce Hi
Figure to Normal Size.

Why the Fat Man wanted 20, Reduce His
Figure to Normal Size.
you're not fat" said his friend TO the man
who declined sugar AND dropped . saochArins
tablet into the cup. What In the world are
you trying to reduce yourself for3"
IT am fat for my purposes" was the answer.
I'm thirty pounds too fat. I'm trying to re-
duee myself 80 I can get down to the exact
proportions OF those dummy figures in the
clothing stores, None Of their cheap. suits ever
look on me as they do on them, What / want
10 70 get Just to that weight at which / can wear
the shoes, the hat4, and the shirts, as we'll as
the sulta. looking all the while as II my outfit
cost 800. when really It could be bought
=" When / put on those clothes there 10 not
the falntest resemblance between me and the
men In the shop windows, When call atten-
Now I'm going to train down 70 the proper
tions OF tie wax and wire men in the shop
windows. and see / can look as they do then
% sds g sI Ses IL Gp y.2 Fly N SSt d sy vent NV
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WILLIE a N A BIKE
IavinG Up Now to Buy Ono-The Prospect
for Vfllie,a Father.

Saving Up Now to Buy One-The Prospect
for Willie's Father.
Little Willie.' said the fond parent. has
got his mind set on q bicycle. and instead Of
spending his pennies as fast as he gets them
he is saving them up. He reads all the bicycle
ads in the papers. and has settled upon the one
he is going to buy. which costs $24.50. He has
saved up now 2 cents. so he says he's only got
to save twenty-four forty-three more 70, get II.
he talks Of. toe, clips and dreams of bells-it's
bicycles with him always"
He may get over this. but I think not. I
guess whom spring comes he'll have to have Q
bike. And l don't believe he'll have 1t all saved
up BY then. / don't think 80. Ireckon the
boyM come to me some bright day and say;
Pop. all l want now Is twenty-one dollars
and ninety-two cents
And l reckon then that the old man will
have to turn loose and help him."
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mr.. stayboit on "KoepinE at IT,,

at IL continuity OF effort that tails. !" said Mr..
Staybolt; "the keeping at it. We are prone to
let up now and then. 10 survey with pride and
pleasure the great things we have done and
the profits We have made. and take Il easy for a
little, and then We ind the big earnings dis
appear 10 the average; and discover that we
after all It's the keeping at II that produces
reeultB,, and many ? plodder has got there
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1T saw in Broadway the other day" said .
stroller, "a man wearing one black shoe and
one tan shoe; but he was selling som new
tangled boot polishing contrivance, and he
wore different shoes 30 as TO show. how per-
fectly adapted the apparatus was 70 either
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w :B E 3


A Harmonious Creation Of Art"
We are offering a number
ofNEW B RUPRIGHTS
in cases which are not listed
in our present catalogues at
prices that will be appreci-
ated by the Musical Pro-
fession and those desiring
the highest grade Piano at
about the same figures that
are usually asked for less
desirable Instruments.
The same intelligence
and solidity of construction,
pure musical and sympa-
thetic tone, combined with
greatest power, which have
characterized the WEBER
since its complete triumph
over all competition in 1876,
are marked in even a greater
danroo in tho
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A GOOD
INVESTMENT!

One that will afford pleas
ure for an ordinary lifetime
and retain a commercial
value even after many years
of use is the purchase of a
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-01-12
Statistics of Crime and Dis
aster.
Superintendent.

The Chicago Tribune has gone TO
the dismal but instructive trouble of
collecting the statistics of lynchings,
murders, suicides, embezzlements and
loss of life by disaster in 1897 The
most encouraging fact revealed by
it's figures, whose accuracy can be
accepted as only approximate, is that
the number of murders is less than
in 1896, while the number of legal
executions for chat crime is larger
than the average for the last five
years. Upon the other hand, the
number of lynchings and suicides
and the amount of money embezzled
exceed the record of 1895 Deaths
from disaster by land and sea show
decrease, but the destruction of life
By epidemic and famine in al. the
world is greater than for severa!
years.
Ofspecial interest are the statistics
of lynchings There has been so
much discussion of this subject of
late that it will seem a surprise that
the total of l66 for 1897, including
four women victims of mob violence.
is only thirty Eve more than the total
of 1896 The following table shows
a total of 2,174 lynchings in the last
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Geenville, Jan There are now
about 20 cases Of smallpox in the
pest house One negro man was
taken out to day and a woman yes
terday. Five or six of the patients
are almost well The origin of all the
cases is pretty clearly traced to con-
tact with the Stenhouse family in
which the disease started.
Spartanburg. Jan. IA smallpox
patient escaped from the Greenville
pest house and came here last night,
stopping at the home of another negro
Thos Bomar. q respectable brick ma
con. The case was discovered and
pronounced smallpox by DR.. L j.
Blake, chairman of the board Of
health, early this morning. The
house was Immediately quarantined
and police officer stationed on the
outside The authorities will build q
pest house and hope to prevent the
spread of the disease.
No great alarm is felt in the city,
as the patient is on the outskirts.
far removed from both colleges.
at meeting of the city council
this afternoon it was decided to make
vaccination compulsory.
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which has been equipped at cost of
more than S25 900.
We have turned over to the State
treasurer $4,000 adding to the
amount paid the sinking fund com.
mission and the Reed farm, making a
total of $l9,649 72 paid to the State
treasurer this year Giving this
large amount of money to the State,
with S cent cotton, will make US hard
up financially during the coming
year.
To stock the farms we have pur.
chased l02 head of cattle, 100 head
of sheep and 6 mules. at a cost of
S2,626 73 We now have the farms
we'll stocked with cattle, sheep and
hogs, and in the near future we hope
to be able to supply all the meat used
by the entire institution. as we'll as all
kinds food supplies to this end we
have been working as rapidly as pos
sible during the three years the State
has been is possession of the farms.
Thanking the board aud all the off.
GERS of the institution for the promp.
discharge Of their duties and kind.
ness shown the years we have work
ed together. All of which is res
pectfuIly submitted.
W. A Neas.
Superintendent
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rteen years

For 1897, Texas heads the list of
States with twenty-five lynchings /;
Alabama is charged with nineteen.
Mississippi with sixteen, Georgia and
Louisiana with fourteen each, Flori
da with twelve and Arkansas with
eleven. From this bloody record,
New England, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware
are exempt and Of the total lynch
ings, there were 146 in the South
and twenty in the North 1t is sig
ni6cant that l22 of the victims of
mob murder were colored
But the uoet notable feature of
these statistics is that there were just
twenty three men lynched for that
crime which the Southern ad-
vocates of illegal vengeance claim to
be it's excuse-violence to women.
To this cause can be attributed only
about one fifth of all the lynchings
in tie South, and yet this atrocious
crime is the basis of the plea ofevery
defender of it's atrocious revenge
The lynchiDgs of alleged murderers
were sixty nine, or three times as
many as the illegal reprisals for as
saults upon women.
The $500 suicides of 1897 in
clude actors, lawyers, editors, busi.
ness men, physicians and ten clergy
men In the classification of causes
of suicides, 1850 are attributed to
"despondency" and $50 to "ill
health"-a most unsatisfactory sep.
aration of motives closely cor
related in nearly all cases. Of me-
thods of suicide, poison remains the
favorite, with record of 1884.
shooting ranking second with 2,l36.
while $40 destroyed their own lives
by hanging, 596 by drowning and
357 cut their throats Only about
20 per cent. of the suicides were
women. Of murders there were g.
$50 in 1897, against 1862 in 1896
There were l2o legal executions IN
1897, four more than in 1896, and of
these eighty two were in the South.
There were thirty eight more lynch
ings than legal executions The
money lost by embezzlement. forgery.
default aud bank failures was S,ll,-
24S.084, larger record than for 1895
or 1895 The totals of life in the
whole world by disaster, epidemic,
famine, war and massacre is estimated
as 3se, OFT, against 246 $40 in 1896.
The most significant Lesson of fthese,
figures lies in the causes for lynch
ing They prove that the Southern
advocates of mob murder are de.
prived of :heir chief plea in extenu--
alton of this crime IN Y Mail andi
Express.
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s0LNOL
daAad p THH0
S4NOSNHOr 7YRL

A comparatively new Industry, that
Of making valuable products from dry
cornstslks. promises to do a great deal
in euchanciDg the value of the corn
stalk cellafose and corn pith cellulose
are manufactured are now 10 operation.
and it is said that plans for eight more
bava been completed. The Kansas
City Star says that "the men who have
given most attention to the subject de-.
Glaze shat the discovey of the ueea thai.
can be made of corn pith is one of the
greatest scientific achievements of the
age, aud such large things are expect
ed Of it that the company controlling
the processes for making corn pith cell
lulose is capitalized for $50. 900. 600.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-01-12
Our Suffrage Limitations.

Not often do We find Northern news.
papers crediting the South With blazing
the way Of progress in POLITICAL reforms
aud the following which We clip from
the ii1ew York Post is notable:
The South Carolina suffrage qualif.
cation, that the applicant be sble to
read or that he possess . certain amount
Of property. strikes the Poughkeepsie
Eagle Reps .as 10 all respects 'he
most semineDsly wise aud fair PROPOSE
tion for the Limitation of the franchise
that We have yet seen," aud it adds !:
s.It do.s rot beeeme ua republicans nor
anybody else to ind fault With it. |.
would be good thing if the South
Carolina requirement should be made
unlversai throughout the country
The Poughkeepsie Eagle is an inde-
pendent newspaper of the best class.
It's recognition of the value Of the work
of the South Carolina constitutional
convention is not merely compliment
TO the State but is woll calculated to
brush away the idea that prevails to
sone degree in the North that all
South snfrage innovations have no
other object than the prevalent sup
preston Of the Negro vote Even if
the latter vas chief object of our suf-
tfrage Limitations, the Ian is good aud
ssalntary in itself-ros because it deci-
mates the Negro vete but because it
muItiplies the strength Of the intelli-
gent elements Of society.
While the administration of the suf-
sfrage laws Of South Carolioa have not
been altogether fair even since the
adoption Of the pew constitution, it is
certain that year BY year in future the
unfair6ess will decrease. We do not
believe that any number Of Negroes
have been unfairly disfranchised. Some
laxnees In the application Of the test
TO i,literate white men has probably
been shown bnt this can cut no figure
hereafter. Heneeforward in South
Carolina elections vii! be confined to
those who will at least know what they
do when they vote aud this great step
10 advance BY the State The Eagle dis
Germs
The Eagles expression is further
IN that it IS sigo that the
reputable people of the North sympa-
thize with Sonthern people 10 their
difficulties with the Negro problem"
auds.has they are ready TO endorse eff
forts towards its solution that are nei-
ther corrupt nor violent The time
may coone when this moral backing
from the North will be Of great service,
for it is not to be supposed that the suf-
frage limitations forever dispose Of
the Negro 10 Southern politics.
Greenville News. \
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Quinine and other fea
YER medicines take from S
to 10 days to cure fever
Johnson's Chill and Fever
Tonic cures in ONE DAY.

The comptroller general has receiv-
ed the report of the insurance com
panies doing business in the state
The reports include the business for
the first nine months Of 1897 only as
there was not time to obtain the re-
ports for the full year The life, fire
and accident companies received in
nine months, $l.212 62o.44 in pre-
miums and paid $6.062 "a in taxes to
state.
Cotbest has offered FitzsimmoDs
$35. 900 to fight him to q 6nisb
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Total value farm prod'ts, s4,663 6;

wal S9!oO Aoiu1 Oioo &c, y1,oo| w
An average of IL bales of cotton.
weighing 463 pounds per bale q
cash average of 1882 95 to the mule
Crops of all kinds this year have
been very satisfactory the price,
however, for the cotton crop has
been very low /; selling the entire
crop except As bales, which were
not ready at the time of sale. for
5.10c
am glad to report that the fnan-
cial condition of the Institution is
better than for any time for the past
Eve years We have paid the entire
amount due for the purchase of the
farms paying this year s9,647. ".
which huts the institution out of
debt. | am glad to say with valuable
farming lands bought in the last few
years at cost of $3s,424.3S, all of
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-01-12
Board of Directors

COL MEALS REPORT.
Col. Neal's report reads as follows
To the Honorable Board of Direc-
tors of the South Carolina Peniten-
tiarv.
Gentlemen AS required by law,
/ herewith submit this my fifth an
nual reprt as superintendent Of the
South Carolina peniteptiary for the
year 1897
CONVICT STATEMENT.
We had confined in the peLiten-
tiary, on farms and camp as shown
by our Last report 818 prisoners. dis
carged by expiration of sentence,
232 /; lost by pardon, II; escaped,
"a suicide, l /; death, 26; received
from county courts. 1876 leaving in
CONTINENT Dec 81, 1897, 1885
less than one year ago
HEALTH AND SANITARY
STATEMENT.
We have lost by death 26, which
is small death rate, considering the
uncomfortable, badly constructed
prison building. Our death rate is
increased yearly from the disabled
and sick prisoners being sent to the
institution from the county chain
gangs. some of which only live few
days In order to promo;e the health
of the prisoners, we spend all the
money, time and attention necessary,
in liberal way.
The construction and ventilation of
the present building, in this day of
Improvement is without excuse. To
make the prisoners comfortable all