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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12
A Fairy Cat Story.

The last issue Of the Lancaster s. G.
Re7iew contained the following. which
i; calls "a True Cat Tale" 4 little
5 ycar-old Sumter girl to whom the
story was repeated, very dryly remarked
s'tbst must oe fairy story
The following is the Lancaster "irue
cat tale :"
"We have always heard that when
cats 90 back Oh rats you may look out
for the millennium. II there be aoy
truth iu this old saying, the time Tor
tyieg the Devil is at hand, for the
6oes, mousers in the country have
discarded their side.arms and made
peace With all rodents, from Infancy to
cid age. They have most assuredly
'gone back on" whas has been
regarded from time immemorial as the
choicest diet Of WE'LL bred cats and
aristooratic Chinameu, namely, a
rcmpin' rodent, roasted or rare.
"Tbe Bell cats, that is to say, the
6oes: mousers of the country referred
to, claim Lancaster as their habitat.
There are but three of them, Polly,
the mother. and her two daughters,
Bell and Josephine. Polly and Bell
abide with Mr.. Joseph Clark, while
Josephine is the pet of Capt. Rives's
household in East Eod. Polly aad
Bell are the ones that have adorned
their names and tales with a new glory
bygbreaking long established records
aud inaugurasiDg an era Of peace aod
friendship with their former victims
and chief article of diet. But hereby
hangs a tale.
"a few days ago tue mother and
daughter gave birth to kittens about
the sane time and in the same place
Ga Friday last Master Earle Clark,
a grandson Of Mr. Joseph Clark. found
a bed CT pest of young rats, aud
thinking that they would afford good
square neal for Polly and Bell aud
their offspring, he gathered them up
aud placed them in the boz With the
feline families. Much to his and bis
grapdfather's surprise. the cats and rats
copsor,ed together like old acquaiu-
tances, aud in a short time Polly and
Bell were sucking the little rats just
the same as their kittens. They seem
much attached to their adopted mothers,
and are thriving right along in their
oew found home. The mothers are
treating rats and kittens With the same
maternal consideration. showing no
partiality whatever, while the little
ones clay and cavort together like
brothers and sisters "
ANY coe zbo doubts this story can
verify it by calling at Mr.. Clark s
residence"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12

The volunteers who have served in
Cuba have brought back the unsni.
moas opinion that the Cubans are a
sorry lot, unfit for freedom and i'm
mensely Inferior to their late Spanish
masters. That they are ungrateful
beggars is shown by this cheeky
appeal for more money to pay off the
irsurgent army, largely recruited
since the ending Of the war. In
giving them $68 apiece Uncle Sam
has been more generous than just,
for the majority of them deserve
assignment to the chain gang for
general wortblessness. The lives of
the Americans sacrificed to win their
freedom were worth more than the
entire caboodle.-Bsrnwell People.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
*Dailv. iDaily except Sunday.

*DallE. TDally except Sunday.
No. 50 runs through to Columbia via Cen-
trail R. R. of S. c.
Trains Nos. 7s and 80 run via Wileon and
eyetteville-Short Line-and make close
connection for all points North.
Trains on G. l. D R. R. leave Florence
daily except Sunday 9 so a N, arrive Darling
ton 10 Is :, Har;svile IL 35 m, Cberaw
IL 80 N, Wadesboro Q Is p m. Lesve
Florence daily except Sunday IS p n, az
rive Darlington 8 20 p m, Bennettsville 9l7
pm, Gibson 9 As p n. Leave Florence
Sunday only 9 so a 70. arrive Darlington
10 l5am
Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6 90
a N, Bennettsyille 90 N, arrive Darling
ton OF N, leave Darlington 8 SO m, aF-
rive Florence Is N. Leave Wadesboro
daily except Sunday co p NJ, Cheraw IS
N, Aartsville 2 Is p m, Darlington 6 2s
N, arrive Florence Z 90 m. Leave Dsr-
liugton Sunday only $50 N, arrive Flor
ence Is m.
r. KENLEY, JNO F. DIVINE,
Gen' Manager. Gen'l Sup't;
TN. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
H.M EMERSON, Gen'l Pass Agent
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12

The military commander of Par:s
has ordered that piacards illustrating
the evil effects of alcohol shall! be
placed ca all the barracks in that city.
These cards. which are hung in con-
spicuous places, show on one side the
interior organs Of drunkard aud on
the other these Of temperate man.
Beneath is a brie; explanation of the
pathological aod moral effects of the
abuse of alcohol
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12
IIIpLIns AND HIS WORKS
sAnglo-Ameriea's S Poet Laureate
and Premier Story Teller.
8 AREMARKABLB LITERARY CAREER

An Author Whose Tales and Poems
Have Made Him One OF the Most
wfdeiy Known and Admired Of
Livins, Writers-He Holds the Mir
ror to nature.
- Not until the light of great genius
seemed about to be extinguished did
people generally begin to fully realize
what an important place Rudyard Kip
ling holds in the literary world and in
the affections of millions of Anglo-Sax-
cns and Anglo Americans No great
ruler at death door could have excited
q more universal and sincere sympathy
and interest than did Kipling. lying at
his hotel in New York, stricken with
what for a time seemed a fatal disease.
Here was man only 35 years old. who
had won 40 battles, taken no part IN
politics, born to no high rank and hold
ing no official position, who had SO
moved the world that it stood watching
with deepest anxiety at his bedside
This is the reason
For words are things, and small drop Of ink.
Falling like dew upon thought. produces
THAT which makes thousands. perhaps mil
Hons. th.rk
Rudyard Mpling was born in Bonn
bay Dec. so, 1866 and is the son Of
John Lockwood Kipling. head of the
Ixahore School of Art IN Bombay. The
elder Kpling is native of Stafford
ahire, England. where he was formerly
Il designer of decorations in a large pot
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*Daily. tDaily excep; Sunday.

*Daily. fDaily excep; Sunday.
No So runs through to Charleston, s. c.,
via Central R. E., arriving Manning S Al G
10, Lanes 6.l7 N, Charleston 8 co . N.
Trains on Conway BraHch leave Chadboura
5.35 %, errive Conway 740 10, return
ing leave Conway sc g N, arrive Chao-
bouru ii 20 am, leave Chsdbourn II so a % /,
arrive Hub IL Is N, returning leave Hub
800 p u, arrive.Chadbourn IS a NJ; Daily
except Sunday.
J. R. KENJY, Gen'l Manager.
T. NJ. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
b. VI EMERSON, Gen'l Pass Agent
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12

Sery FIRM, DoaIton's s. formerly Pinder,
Bourne & Co Pinder's son tells the fol-
lowing story Of how Rudyard received
his rather peculiar name:
One day my mother gave picnic
20 the young people of the neighborhcod
at pretty little English lake between
4he villages Of Rudyard and Rushton.
not far from Burslem. John Kipling
went. Of course, and there he met a
pretty English girl. Mary Mcdonald,
the daughter of Methodist minister at
Endon. Kipling fell in love with her
at once. They met very often at my
mother s house. and it grew into love
affair on beth sides. Then John Kipling
went to the art school in Kensington
and was afterward sent out to direct
the art schools of the Madras Presidency
in India. When he went to India, he
took pretty Mary Mcdonald along as
his wife.
.sIn the fullness of time a. son was
born to the Kiplines in Bombay. Their
FIRST meeting at Rudyard lake must
have been the pretty bit of sentiment
Of their lives. for when they named the
son they took for him the name Of the
Little lake On the banks of which they
first saw one another.
Young Rudyard was the apple Of his
father eye. and as he matured in years
he soon showed that he had unusual
ability and aptitude for learning and
scorned all playthings that were COM
monplace toys. but any sort Of instruct
I've puzzle or game that required
thought and intelligence appealed to
himat once. and with these he found
endless pleasure and pastime His
mother was his early instructor. He
proved an apt pupil and in very short
space Of time accomplished reading
and writing. and when this time came
10 pass the difficulty was to persuade
him to play and do as other boys. Books
were his one pleasure. No matter how
erudite the work might be. Rudyard
attacked it and absorbed its contents
in fact. he was quite beyond his years
in intellect He had a will of his own,
as boy. and at times asserted it in
spite of the remonstrances of his par
ents When be was about 8 or 9 years
of age he was taken over to England
and left in charge of certain elderly
relative Here he passed some of the
most miserable and uninteresting years
of his youth Eventually the time came
when Rudyard was old enough to be
sent to school and was accordingly
placed as boarder in the well known
naval school at New Cross. near Black
heath. few miles from London. He
proved an able scholar and kept his
place in his classes throughout his ca
reer there Strange to say. he never
seemed to study seriously and continu-
ously as otba- students, but was always
ready for lark or some practical joke.
which kept him frequently in disgrace
and prisoner in the school During
his frequent terms of confinement to his
quarters he conceived the idea of edit
ing and publishing weekly school
newspaper This aroused the admira-
ton of the professors. and then and
there he made his first reputation as a
writer He finally ran away from the
nayal school. and later the editor Of Ths
Pioneer at Lahore, India, where his
parents then lived, offered him hand
80 & ,.s,s--i re-.T-. :: . r-;e a rper-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12
A Mournfel Contrast.

"There is no boubt about it," re-
parked Willie Washington, with a
sigh, "some girls are very fckle
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne
cit is positively depressing to see
how some of them have stopped
kissing heroes and gone camly back
to pug dogs w ashiDgton Star
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12
Work of HeIpmates.

was driving through one of the best
farming districts in western Ontario a
few years ago expressed my admira-
ton
Yes" said my companion, who
knew the country thoroughly, nearly
all the farmers around here have second
wives. -
"Why?" was my surprised inquiry.
Oh he answered, "they killed
their first wives making the farmP'
Perth Expositor.
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Successful! Physicians.

We heartily recommend Dr.. Hathaway & Co.
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12

tDaily except Sunday.
Trains 80 and 35 carry through Pullman
Palace Buffet Sleeping cars bel ween New
York and Macon via Augusta.
T.. NJ EMERSON, q. NJ. EMERSON,
Traffic Manager. GEN. Pass. Ag..
]. r. KBNLY, Gep'l Manager.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-12
v iinleggar.

| have on hand a lot G
Homemade Vinegar of very
fine quality. The flavor is del
icate, while the strength is
equal to any 10 be had.
Will be sold at my residence
for 40 cents per gallon.
N. q. OSTEEN.
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Atlantic Coast Line.
WILMINGTON. COLUMBIA AND AB,
GUSTA RAILROAD.
Condensed Schedule
Dated February Is, 1898.
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Paper novels, new paper uoveis d. G
osteea d Co.'S.
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TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

No. 50 runs through from Charleston via
Central R. R f, lesviog Charleston Ia. D..
Lanes 81 N, Ganning 9 0s a N
TRAINS GOING NOaTa.
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-: -.

Old Sewing Machines made new at Randle's
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to tell the reporters much about him.
self. his personality is quite fully re-
vealed in his works. He may have had
Scudery's idea. u know better than
any other writer how to tell anecdotes
about myself. AS newspaper man
Kipiing is described by himself. In his
remarkable story Of 1.-The Man Who
Would Be King he has given us a
sketch of himself sitting at his desk one
Saturday night waiting to put the pa
per to press "a king or courtier was
dying at the ether end of the world.
he says, land the paper was to be held
until the last possible moment.
''It was a pitchy, black, hot night.
and raining-now and again spot Of
almost boiling water would fall on the
dust. The thing. whatever it was,
was keeping us back. 1t would not come
off. #* drowsed off and wondered
whether the telegraph was blessing
and whether this dying mar was aware
Of the inconvenience and delay he was
causing The clock hands crept
up to o'clock. and the machines spun
their flywheels two or three times to
see that all was in order before l said
the word that would set them off |
could have shrieked aloud. Then the
roar and rattle of the wheels shiverec
the quiet into little bits. -
It was in this trying environment
that Kiplipg nevertheless composed
some Of bis best things In couple of
.Farey on t'61v First Book, :" which, he
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-03

Subscribe for HE ARGUS
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18

Mexico. Day by day the best rural,
city and mining properties, the safest
and most profitable businesses, ere
finding their way eptibly into his
hands. so that just as trees are divest-
ed of their leaves Mexico is losing her
belongings one by one and is being re-
duced to the condition of skeleton, q
skeleton OF mendicancy, in the pres
ence Of the Yankee" tue
Ell Pals estimates the value of
Ironmountain at 81, 600, 900 900, and say 8
the price alleged to have been paid is
81, 900, 900, which is only an insignific-
ant commission on the true value of
that virgin treasure which has been
sold to the Yankees for trifle.
Ell TEMPO, which is 6-cent daily,
continues in the same strain, remark
ing:
business which, if we'll handled,
would give excellent returns, has been
sold to the Yankees, and If this CONT
nues in a short time nothing Mexican
will be left. Mines, haciendas, facto-
ries, etc., soon will belong to our cous-
ms, and they, being capitalists, will
enjoy great influence, which always at
tends prosperous pecuniary circum-
stances, and then we Mexicans will be
reduced to the position of foreigners in
our own country and will haye calmly
to see the destinies of the land mani
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
BITTER TOWARD AMERICANS.
Reported Sale OF Iron Mountain
In Mexico To huntington the
Basis OF SAVAGE Attack.

A City of Mexico dispatch, April IL,
says: The reported sale to Coils p.
Huntington of the famous Iron moun-
tain at Durango ELECTS some savage
comments from the ultrs-Catholic
daiies, Ell Pals, which is penny paper,
saying:
''In order to take possession of our
country the Yankee has for some years
past employed the most ignominious
as we'll as the most silent methods. He
is buying US up, deeming US unworthy
even of fighting. He takes advantage
of our hunger and exploits our lack of
patriotism. He filings US few gold
coins in order to become the owner of
the great and incalculable wealth of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
GIVEN TWENTY FIVE YEARS
For the Murder of6enaro Trevlzo

For the murder of6endro IreV1Zo
Emilio Garcia, who was charged with
the. killingu of Genaro Trevizo, at the
smelter some time ago, was arraigned
in the district court yesterday after
noon. He pleaded guilty, and, the jury
gave him seventy five years in the Pc
nitentiary instead of hanging.
Garcia has also to answer for the
charge of numbering Emilio Aguilar.
In addition to this he has also a SEN
tence of seven years for attempting to
murder Benigno Hernandez.
During the trial Garcia was svery
restless and asuthe witnesses went over
the details of the killing he grew ex-
tremely nervous. When the sentence
was pronounced he seemed the hap
piest man in the world to think that
he had escaped the gallows.
The trial of the other three Mex
leans who were implicated In the kill
ing will come off at an early date.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18

Under the head of IAN American
Hero", The St. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat says;
The fortunes of war have made con-
spicuous the name of Colonel Harry G.
Egbert, whose services are typical of
the most fearless devotion to his coun-
try. His death at the head of his re-
gime Mt in the battles of Manila closes
a career that, for reasons appealing to
every patriotic heart, calls for more
than passing word. Colonel Egbert
was graduated at West Point in the
fall of 1861 and passed at once to the
grim school of the civil war. He was
captured at Gettysburg, and shot
through the body in the year of the
final advance upon Richmond. He
passed through the hard work of the
little regular army in the thirty-three
years between the civil war and the
war with Spain. At Santiago his re-
giment suffered more severely than
any other. He was hit twice, one bull
let passing through his lungs. In spite
of this few months later found him
in battle again in the distant Philip.
pines. He fell mortally wounded
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public School Trustees up to
7:3O o'clock p. m. Thursday, April 20,
1899, for the construction of the follow
ing buildings: 1st. A two story, six
room, brick addition to Mesa school.
I'd. A two story, eight room, brick
building, corner 4th and Hill SITS. Sd.
A one story, six room, brick building,
corner of 7th aud Campbell SITS. Bids
for each building to be separate. Each
of the three bids above to be accompa-
MED by certified check for $4,000 as
guarantee of performance of bid.
Check payable to above Board of Pub
lie School Trustees. Plans and specifica-
tions can be seen at the Office of Ed
ward Kneezell, architect and superin-
tendeut, No. Ill S. Ell Paso ST. The
Board of School Trustees reserves the
right to accept or reject any or all bids.
The Board of Public School Trustees.
E. Q. PEW, Secretary.
Ell Paso, Texas, April 18th, 1899.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18

while urging his men forward. No
soldier ever earned q better right
than he to be sculptured in that posi-
ton,
Here is an example of the model
american soldier whose highest smbi-
ton is to be at the post of duty and to
offer his life freely for the sake of his
flag. Colonel Egbert had almost reach
ed the retiring age. He was marked
up by bullets that had barely missed
vital organs. But he fought at Mani
Ia just as at Santiago and Gettys-
burg. When he fell with his mortal
wound, the third shot through the
body, he said that he was too old to
recover. But he never would have
been too old to serve his country
where the bullets were flying thickest.
There are men in the ranks who have
shown equal self-sacrifice and fallen
perhaps unnoted. Colonel Egbert will
answer as the representative of the
type of soldier-patriots who are in
variably at the post of danger and who
make light of wounds that are less
than mortal
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
Remarkable Cure Of Rheumatism.
KENNA, jackson Co.. w. v

KENNA, jackson Co., w. Va.
About three years ago my wife had
an attack of rheumatism which confin-
ed her to her bed for over q month and
rendered her unable to walk step
without assistance, her limbs being
swollen to double their normal size.
Mr.. S. Maddox insisted Eon my using
Chamberlain g Pain Balm. 1 purchas-
ed q fifty cent bottle and used it &C.
cording to the directions and the next
morning she walked to breakfast with
out assistance in any manner, and she
has not had similar attack sfnce.-A.
B. Parsons. For sale by all druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
Hotel pdIdCiO

Messrs McDermott and Carpenter
have assumed charge of the above
hotel at Chihuahus, Mex, and will con-
duct the same on the American plan
Mr. D McDermott Is we'll known to
the travelling public as having for
many years conducted the Robinson
house. Everything has been refiitted to
the comfort of the guests and good
treatment is guaranteed.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
To the Public,

Mr.. F. A. Hefin, an experienced
fruit and vegetable mani now associa-
ted with me. We have named our
place THE Wall Street Green Groce-
ry," and we will endeavor to keep the
best assortment of everything in our
line the market affords. We respect
fully invite all to call on US. Phone
1923. Prompt delivery.
J. W. ECKMAN,
Cor. San Antonio and Wall Sts
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
Cheap Real Estate.

Lots in Franklin Heights addition
are selling fast and prices are advan-
cling. Call at company office. No
trouble to show property. Prices from
interest on detfred payments. Call on
A. p, COLES, Manager.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
pulated by Yankees

pulated by Yankees
The Mexican Herald remarks that
the continued abusiveness of the cleri-
cal press toward Americans is begin
ming to attract attention in the United
States and certainly does not help the
cause of Catholicism. ''The clerical
papers are playing into the hands of
the A. P. A. and other anti-CathOlic
organizations in the United States"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
Mexican Mineral Belt.

The only direct route to the rich
mining regions of Eastern Sonora
and Western chihuahua is via the
Sierra Madre line, and Casas Gran
des. Trains leave Ciudad Juarez at
1928 daily except Sundays.
J. T. LOGAN,
Genl. Traffic Agent
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
For Over Fifty Years.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. It
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie and is
the best rem edy for diarrhoea, twenty
five cents q bottle.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18

Before the discovery of One Minute
Congh Cure, ministers were greatly
disturb bed by coughing congregations
No excuse for it now. Fred Schaefer,
Druggist.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
Pure HVgienic Ice

Made from distilled water. Ask
your family physician or druggist as to
purity and healthfulness of our ice.
Telephone No. IA.
Ell PASO ICE & REFRIGERATOR Co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18

Armour's gold band ham, gold band
bacon, white label leaf lard, just re-
ceived by the Ell Paso Grocery Co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
A DREADFUL RUN AWAY

is often caused by your harness giving
away in some vital point. The make
of your harness should be as reliable
as your doctor. Knowing the import
ance of life and limb in the manufac-
ture and materials employed in har
ness, we keep nothing but the best oak
tanned leather harness. of the highest
grade, and most reliable make.
West Texas SaddIery Co.,
Cor. Overland & Oregon Sts
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
BILLS ALLOWED

BY the Commissioners Conrt,
The commissioners court at its SEES
sion yesterday approved the following
bills for pavment:
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18

WEEKLY HERALD So 90 per year.