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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-02

one of Spiders faults ana this was
most fortunate Tor we needed hiIl and
every cne on whom we could depend
more ard more as the days passed by
Matters in the camp were going from
bad to worse
Those men who Went most frequent
" to Aqua Caliente began going often
er than ever Sometimes they would
leave their work IN crder to go there.
and when they returned they would be
filed with the mali2lans whisky prev;;-
lent in that region or with the still
mere malignant ,:escal Could we have
replaced them these inen would have
been discharged at once. but we could
not replace them tor time was
comforted by the reflection that as soon
as their money gave out this conduct
must cease Ii did not cease. but in
stead it became worse than ever. Some
Of the cowboys left. Some became so
useless that. great as our need was. we
had to discharge them. Of all the men
who went often to Aqua Caliente, Hollis
alone would return sober.
can he's jus the las one care
about. said the foreman as for the
hundredth time we We're holding
council. "He's han in glove with Lo-
rena an the hull gang. It's them what
get the boys away-it's their reg lar
trick. They wants ter weaken us all
; they can an then sneak the cattle Been
stealth cattle fer years they have. only
no one couldn't prove nothin. They
ain takin no chances they en- help,
but the rivers goin down purity fas'
now. an they know it, SO | reckon
they'll make ther try fer our herd in
night er wo-t'night. maybe. Better
get the cattle together. There ain't no
use in our foohn ourselves-things
don't look none too gaudy, no way you
en- see EN-.
What the foreman said was perfectly
true. I fully realized that now. and at
once gave orders to round up the cattle.
The river had fallen considerably, and it
was decided that we shcald move the
camp and gather the cattle at the near
est ford, 12 miles below In this way it
was just possible that, if the river al
lowed us, we might get across and away
before there was an opportunity for
trouble.
All of our men were at supper that
night, and all of them. with the excep-
tion of Hollis, were trustworthy. The
others had been weeded out days before.
AS the hasty meal was finished the fore
man stood up and made a little speech
to the men. it was very short
'sBoys," be said. 81 reckon you all
knows what ycu got ter do. Now you
wanter saddle up an do it jus as quick
as you know how There'll be trouble
else at both ends er the lire. Now's the
time ter start.
The boys saddled and started. In a
few minutes. except for the Ballet
Girl. who was hurriedly striking camp,
there was not human being in sight.
Driving the spare horses ahead of me,
I went directly to our new camping
place, gathering by the way what few
cattle could get l was the first to ar
rive at the ford. built fire to guide
the others to this point and sat down
to keep it going until the cook could
come up and relieve me.
Few of the cattle had strayed far.
Followed by shouting cowboy or two.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-02
"I reckon you all knoocs ,chdt you got ter
do -

small punches soon began to come IN.
These punches would be united on the
river bank, and their herders would
sallop off after more. Then the cook
wagon drew up at the FIRE. which was
utilized by the Ballet Girl for the man
ufacture and maintenance of huge pot
of coffee. kept for the benefit of all
co,ners There was no time to stop and
cat.
The men came and went and came
again, all Of them, except Spider and
Hollis. had not seen them since sup
per I began to get very uneasy about
Spider and made inquiries as the men
came in. Cappy Lee, it seemed, was the
last to see them 1t was early in the
evening. Spider was spurring along dl-
rectly in Hollis wake and both OF
them heading for Aqua Caliente 1t
was long past midnight when Lee in
formed me of this Calling the fore
man, hurriedly told him about Sp:-
ders absence and in whose company he
was last seen. also told him that L
was very much afraid that something
had happened to the boy and that IN
tended to start out at once in search CT
him.
'.Ridin jealous er Hollis, Is'pose. like
be always does said the foreman
"Well, 1 reckon you'd better go, he
went on. after thinking a moment
"Oughtn't t ter so alone. though
'.He won't go alone, you bet yon.
Lee interrupted Jus wait till | sad
die up a fresh horse an get NY rifle
outer the wagon Wont he long.
What about yer work 2, asked the
foreman reprovinslv
Have ter get long without NE the
best it Kin. reckon. responded Lee as
he walled away to make his p:epara-
tons The foreman made :, quick strid-:
after hi;n a:.;l then stopped
,ile i.ad,l no tnS.acss Ter ,:s:ll!; lie
ihae. sat reckon he 's;i;-siiti. II. ogsilt
ii, 90 ;.n la:. ,5e 4 ,.efse tie s;.ill. il
was l!ila Loo::EaTe Don yoa 1t IL.
ter 10 ti2l.s~ yoi! I. iii,ii!E II Yea y:e'l t
conle bacl; .1v an hour aitei. sun rn. g
if ther ; anything ben done ter &ttAef
KID. I'll let the cattle go, an HI take
every one er the boys-I, II head 'esn
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A Drcnry Thorouehfare.

Of all drcary roads few have such
deSolate surroundings as that leading
FROM Jerusalem The road winds
among rocky hills which for miles
seem destitute Of every living thing
save occasional i:ociis OF long black
haired goats anl sheep. apparently
eating pebbles and ATTENDED bva youth
ful >,hepherd The steep h;I!sides are
dotted ui:li ,ltli:crouS ieles and caves
cut in i.le rock Indianapolis News.
For fnser nail to reach its full
length. an average of scven-twclfths
of an inch. from 12t to 13S days Of
growth are necessary.
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NOTG: In addition TO the above service
tra.1s Nos Is and IL run daily between Charles
ton and Columbia. carrying elegant Pullman IN
sleeping cars. No. Is leave Charleston II :oo p
m; arrive Columbia 6:o0 q. m. No. 10 leave 20
Sleeping cars ready for occupancy at 900 p. m.
both at Charleston and Columbia: These trans
make close connections at Columbia With
through trains between Flerida points ana
trains Nos. 81 and 81 New York and Florida
Limited between Blackville, Aiken and Au
grsta No 81 leaves Blackville at $40 9. M
Aiken a:29 a. 1n., Augusta lo:lo a. m; no: s.
BiacIville S.55 p. m. Pullman Drawing Room
Slccpers between Augusta Aiken aad Ne"
York
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THE CARNOT TALISMAN.

A curious story is told by our Paris correspondent about a statuette given to the Museum of Religion by the Car not family This object represents a god of northern India. It was present. ed to M. Bon, the explorer, when he was on q political mission to Nepaul. The Rajah who presented it sair it was q talisman, representing at once luck and ilI-luck-all that brightens life, and the fatality that involves sudden and premature death, It was at once lucky and unlucky to keep it. The priest who gave it to the Rajah told him he would, when in possession of 1t, mount the throne, which seemed out of his reach, and be assassinated. M. Bon saw the prince after he had become ruler. The latter had heard the French were incredulous, and laughed at beliefs In talismans. He therefore thought M. Bon would not object to receive the statuette as gift The explorer was great friend of Sadi Carnot. On his return to France he went to see him, and to present him with the Indian tal- isman. Some time after M. Carnot was quite unexpectedly put forward for the presidency of the republic, and, to the
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CHINESE SPORTS AND GAMES.
How the Youthful "Chinks" Enjoy
 Themselves.

How the Youthful "Chinks" Enjoy Themselves.
 The games played by Chinese children are in many cases interesting, but in few are they complicated. They have nothing which corresponds to the more
 intricate games of the west, such, for
 instance as cricket, football, croquet,
 golf and hundred others. Chinese play-life is, however, probably as rich
 as was the play-life of European chill
 dren few centuries ago. It is con- fined more completely to children and
 youths and lacks the enthusiastic ele- ment of the west, which gathers large
 crowds of men to watch trained teams
 or couples putting into public operation the skill they have acquired through months of training.
 One of the toughest and, consequent ly, one of the most manly sports or the
 Chinese is called pitching the stone lock" This may be played by two or
 by half a dozen young men who have
 the requisite daring, muscle and skill It is played with a large stone in the shape of a Chinese paddock. Tn private practice these stones are used much as dumbbells, and often weigh fifty to six ty-five pounds, sometimes more. When designed to be pitched, they are lighter, weighing not more than from fifteen to thirty pounds apiece. The game is played hy young men from twenty to thirty years of age, who usually strip to the waist. They arrange themselves in a ring, if there. are more than two, and one of them pitches the stone up into the air from ten to twenty or more feet, whirling it at times as rap idly as he can make it whirl in the di- rection of the second man, who catches it by the handle as it comes down. To the looker-on it is a risky-not to say but it is the element of risk or danger that makes it attrac- tive, The person who catches it pitch es it in the same manner to his next and so it goes around the ring.
 Another exercise, called throwing
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the sand-bag," is played in the same
 way except that a bag is filled with
 small bits of iron made round by pour | ing metal through sieve into water l The sand-bag is equal to the stone lock l in weight. but it lacks it's danger and
 risk, and, as q consequence, it's interest and popularity, for there is not one per- son who pitches the sand-bag where 1 there are a score who pitch the stone | lock
 | Neither of these games is calculated l to develop all the muscles of the body as does the game or exercise called chu tun tzu, or lifting the stone dum- bells" The dumbel is made by fasten- ing two stone wheels, varying in weight from seventy to.one hundred and sixty pounds, to the two ends of pole or iron bar four or five feet long. The practitioner takes the pole in his hands raises it to his knees, then to < his body, his breast, his face, and fnal- ly above his head He pushes it out in front at arms length, and often uses 1t in performing various feats of skill, such as resting it on his neck or shoul- ders and whirling it round. This exer- else Is particularly common among stu dents and men of leisure.
 Another game played by boys and young men which is q strong argument against the Chinese-do-n -vigor- ous exercise theory, is called the man. wheel" It requires five persons. The largest stands in the middle with two others on his right and left, one facing the direction he faces, and the other the opposite direction, each having an arm over his shoulder and clasping each the hand of the one on the other side of the center player The center one then takes one hand of each of the two outsiders, who are the smallest boys. They, with their other hands, clutch the girdle of the other two boys. who also take hold of their girdles. Thus they are all bound fihmy together. The wheel then begins to revolve. The small boys are gradually lifted from the ground, swung in the air and go whring around in an almost horizon tai position. IL is a very pretty game. Isaac Taylor Headland in Outing.
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mountains and high hills, has now spread over the tundra and the beach, although there has been no very heavy fall up to this time. The open season is no longer than usual this year, and
 it has been surprise to seafaring peo- pie in these waters that navigation has remained open until this time. Boring sea, however, is now full of floating ice, which forms around the mouths of fresh-Water streams and in lagoons along the shore. The inha bitanls of the town who have been in Alaska be- fore or have prepared to remain here during the winter, have donned their deerskin coats, and one is everywhere reminded that he Is sojourning in the Arctics.
 Owing to the freezing weather and the condition of the ground, mining op- erations on all the creeks were suspend ed some time ago, and will, of course, not be resumed until next June. With the first approach of freezing weather, s'luicing has to be abandoned, for the least coating of ice on the bottom of a line of sluice boxes makes gold saving impossible.
 Everybody who has property interests in the city of Nome, and everybody who has lumber to sell, is thinking of the possibility of a great fire this win ter Great piles of lumber have been isolated on the tundra removed from danger of fire, and the owners will make the most of the public misfortune if great conflagration sweeps the town at any time during the winter months. There will be a big sale for their lumber at high prices in such an event. So much has been said about the danger of fire, however that the greatest precautions are to be taken. A patrol will be maintained at night at the expense of the citizens, and rigid regulations will be prescribed to pre- vent an outbreak of fire in any part of the settlement.-Alaska Letter in the New York Sun.
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MILFORD.

Nov. 21-The list of advertised let ters in the postoffice are as follows: Mrs Van Wyke, Miss May Coldwell.
 William Smith, Lewis Stowe and George Blieu have left for Galveston, Tex, where they will work in the fu- ture.
 Mrs. Willis Oviatt fell in her home and is now suffering from a dislocated shoulder. Dr. Lewis Sweet is in at- tendance.
 Miss Anna Jamieson is now visiting in Bridgeport with Mrs. Beard.
 Wallace Chase has been suddenly called to the bedside of his father, who is very ill in Paxton, Mass.
 The Misses Downs dancing class in Stratford will be held on Thursday evening at Grange hall the junior class on Friday afternoon at o'clock ...
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1 Several years ago one restaurant dec-
 orated it's rooms with college colors and 1 with the emblems of the different 1 sports, and this feature made the place | immensely popular for time, especial | ly with the college contingent. Now
 there are so many of these decorations | in restaurants that they have grown tiresome to look upon. Another down.
 town place adopted the figure of cat
 as a symbol, using it on dishes and bills | of fare and on the walls of the dining room in imitation of a famous Paris eating place, and this grew to be a popular resort with the Bohemian ele- | ment.
 The music of gipsy bands has made several Hungarian resorts we'll known
 to those who are not particular as to
 what they eat so long as they hear good
 music during the repast. With the
 growth of the new gaudy chophouse the old fashioned chophouse has almost completely disappeared, and in place of
 the solid woods and good paintings that used to be the pride of the proprietors of the old-time places, there Is to-day a
 cheap effort at display.
 One of the newest departures in the way of restaurants is the beefsteak dungeon, which is part of the several of up-to-date eating places. The idea originated a few years ago with a res-
 taurateur, who opened one of these places with rickety boxes and kegs as tables, few dishes and a general ab- sence of ornamentation. Absolute sim plicity was the rule, and the servant was summoned by an old rusty cow bell suspended from the ceiling. Beef steak, bread and butter and ale and beer were the only fare served. They were all of excellent quality and the place became a great resort for sight seers and was engaged for many sup per parties.
 A F'ifth-avenue restaurant keeper in- troduced a decided novelty in the per- son of an Indian cook, who prepares and serves curried dishes in chafng- dish. The man wears his native tur- ban of silk and a suit of spotless linen, and his cooking is as faultess as his manner of serving. He was employed in the same capacity in a London hotel before coming to New York, and served all the foreign notabilities. There probably he acquired his manner of waiting, which Is the very ideal of cor- rect service.
 Another novelty in the way of restau- rants is found in the basement of an uptown residence, which has been turned into an old-fashioned living room with broad settees covered with lowered cretons. The tables and seats, including two roomy old rockers, are placed irregularly, and there are two enormous fireplaces where logs are kept burning, filling the room with the peculiar fragrance of burning pine The cook is southern nanny, typical in appearance and in cooking, and johnny-cake and corn fritters are fea- lures of the southern dinner which is served here with homemade preserves and other good things.-New York Sun. l
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NEW YORK'S ODD RESTAURANTS
Beef Steak Dungeons the Newest

l Beef Steak Dungeons the Newest Thing in Eating Houses. l While New Workers are confirmed diners out, and there are more restau-
 sants in town in proportion to popula-
 tion than in any other city in the world there is a surprising lack of
 charm or novelty in the arrangements
 of the average dining place. A very | few are modelled on new plan or, in | imitation of some foreign restaurant, | and these are invariably widely adver- | tised and well patronized; but the usu- | al type seems to be either the staid se- verity of the fashionable hotel dining room or celluoid palm garden or else
 the glittering mirror-lned walls of the Broadway chop houses. Few of the popular places have specialties of any particular sort The one restaurnteur who used to be famous for his service of fish has ceased to cater to public trade, and the sameness of the menus at the hotels is marked.
 So the average New Yorker goes proving about for something new,
 and when he finds Hungarian dinner on a roof he gives il his generous fa- vor and spreads its fame far and wide. The French and Italian eating places scattered so plentifuly throughout the city are filled each night, not so much owing to the excellence of the viands as to the informality of arrangement that gives q certain picturcsqueness to them all.
 Despite the American reputation for
 originality and clever business ln- stincts, Americans fail to have any place that even compares faintly with the English inns that have been i'm mOrtalized in books and plays, nor have they anything like the latter-day Rich mond dinners which are still such a feature of holiday life with Londoners, where fashion congregates informally, and where the fare and company con- tinue to increase in quality. It is true that attempts are made now and then toward establishing places of the sort, but they deteriorate to the common place very soon or are abandoned.
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A WIDER EDUCATION
TOR THE INCREI SING NEGRO POP-
 ULITION OF THE SOUTH.

Hgent Solution of the Negro Question
 Fisk Jubilee Singers I'm the United
 Church Chapel.
 Rev J, G. Merrill, D. D., dean ant 1 acting president of Fisk university, ad- 1 dressed the members of the United
 church Tuesday evening in the interest!
 of Fisk university.
 With Dr. Merrill were the famous
 Fisk jubilee singers, who rendered
 many of the songs peculiar to their peo- ] pie. These songs, which it will be re-
 membered were made the subject of a
 critical lecture last winter in the Art school, are the folk songs of America. | The wild barbaric turns and minors 1 characteristic of the artistic negro mu- sic were brought out with striking eff feet by this company of trained singers. Beside the native songs and the lullaby sung by the Fisk quartet, religious chants of extraordinary richness and power were rendered.
 The mission of Dr. Merrill in the north is to represent to people who have at heart the best welfare of the south the present needs of Fisk university. This institution is having an incalcula- ble influence toward solving the negro question in the south. Ignorance, pure and simple, is the ultimate cause of the vice and inhuman condition which pre- vails among the rapidly increasing ne- gro population. While educational fla cilities have increased slowly, this pop ulation has increased rapidly, the re- suit being that a stimulus for enlight- ened teaching of the negroes is now widely felt. Teachers from Fisk uni versity are to-day teaching from fifteen to twenty thousand black boys throughout the south This university must have ample endowments to ex- tend these labors so that it may send greater number of trained professional men to the uplifting and education of the people. The university Is efficient, has proved it's lasting value and it is time that it be properly endowed and that new and more commodious build ings be erected.
 Dr. Munger followed the address of Dr. Merrill, renewing the plea of the latter Dr. Munger secuted the idea advanced by some to the effect that the negroes ought not to be educated We are tired" said he "of the non-' sense about people being educated out of their positions. We have no right to restrict the education of any human being on earth just because of the cir cumstances in which he happens to be born"
 One of the young lady members of the Glee club then presented the direct testimony of her experience among her people of the rapid effect which educa- ton produces in lifting their character and moral standards.
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IN oLDEN TIMES

IN OLDEN TIMES
 Most people lived better than they do now. Their food was better, fresher, and more wholesome than the food of to-day averages. There are some grocery stores, though, that keep fully up to the old-time standard stores where everything Is puri- ty, freshness, and reliability. This is one of them. A few of the good reliable goods we offer:
 Genuine New PLATES Buckwheat. Old fashioned New Orleans Molasses, the sugary kind. Old fashioned Ponce, Porto Rico, Molasses, the kind that makes the real Molasses Cake Native Comb Honey by the pound. Native strained Honey in glass jars. Pure Vermont Maple Syrup in pint and quart bottles, gallon and half gal ion cans. Malaga Raisins, Layers, for ta. hle use Malaga Raisins, loose; nD iaisin so good for cooking as these old fashioned Malaga.
 Ansona Doughnuts. Sweet Cider E. E. NICHOLS 378 Stats st,
 Telephone 404-2.
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astonishment of nearly every one, elect
 ed. His wife, writing of his election to M, Bon, said: Tt was that talisman
 that did it." She must have fancied, when Caserio murdered her husband,
 that there was some mysterious con-
 nection between his murder and the statuette. In her will she conjured her
 children to get rid of it. It appears she had not the courage to destroy it, or to pass 1t on to somebody else. AS state is impersonal, it is to be hoped the maleficent power of the Rajah's tall isman will be henceforth in abeyance It ought to be noted that the empress of Austria and King Humbert met with the same fate as M. Carnot without possessing the image of any Hindu, god. London Daily News.