The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-04-11


So wee ;:;st KEEP on a-hantin til we're near:g
pesered
And, although we thought we had you, now W.
find we're still in doubt.
II these lines should reach you. aHd youc
write Us where you be,
You'd confer good sized favor CD your friends.
the G.. O. p
Colonel Hepburn's Dilemma.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty hangs
over house Republicans as a pail ana
is interfering with the passage of Colo
mel Hepburn's Nicaragua canal bill,
which is the apple of the colonefs eye
for if he can get his bill through and
have the canal dug he thinks, perhaps
rot incorrectly, that he will not only be
doing his country vast service, but
will be laying hold of imperishable re-
nown for Colonel William Peters Hep
burn This is laudable ambition If IL
can be realized, but there is the rub,
and the colonel knows it fun well. He
can see as far into grindstone as the
next one, and he knows thai. the Hay
Pauncefote treaty, unless Witl1rawn
or defeated, will lose him many votes
for his canal bill, perchance enough to
beat it. Consequently the colonel is
not in a beatific frame Of mind and is
likely to heat the chilly spring atmos-
phere to a high degree il he is baked
in his ambition. Republicans are ac-
quainted with the colonel's powers and
endurance as q fighter and. would be
glad to placate him, but the chances
are that the administration is so en-
tangled with Mr.. Bull that it cannot
recede and will endeayor to force the
ratification OF the treaty. If it does,
there will be music in the air and lots
of fur and bits Of cuticle. ION with
the dance! Let Coy be; nrconfned"
while Republicans wool each other.
They can render the country more
service that way than at anything they
have undertaken lately.
am somewhat in the dumps myself;
not by reason of any political mishap,
for things political are going on swim
minsly, but because the mournful news
comes that Andrew Carnegie and Hen
ry Clay Frick have fallen on each 9th
er's neck and made it up: ! was antlc-
ipatins much undiluted pleasure by
reason of the disclosures which they
would have made in their great law
suit had it not been smothered a-born-
in. They have not only made up, but
have formed a new corporation capt.
talized at S3oo.0O0.0OO. Now, if they
made S42,000,000 annual profit Off OF
So, 900, 900 capital, as Carnegie estimat-
ed it, it makes one dizzy to contemplate
the profits of the new concern. They
are enacting before our eyes and under
our very noses a scene which double
discounts the widest dreams of the al
chemists.
Louisiana Purchase Centennial.
The best nonpolitical thing bruited
in congress now is the worlds e1posi-
ton at st. Louis in 1909 to celebrate
the centennial Of the Louisiana pur-
chase, the greatest achievement OF
finance and craftsmanship ever per-
formed by any one man. Ny friend
Professor T. Berry Smith Of Central
college, Missouri, has set forth his
views of the great exposition IN the
following verses:
IN DE CITY OBJ ST. LOUIS IN 1908.
Ole 'onau. listen to rae-now de chillun's all IN
bed
jess listen whites tells yo what heah de parsoa
said,
What ne tole Us at De meet:n CO de 'acial boa'd
tonight.
Fer &c parsoa reads &c papers whilc he tens &c
gospel light.
! Oars rwine 20 lie a circ,:s-aat egzaciy amt &c
What de parson toie &c hraG.en, but it means
Dsr's swine 10 he circus Al he say It's Swine
10 be
In de city OBJ s.. Lou:s in 1905.
Twill be de bisges' circus dat ee worl' has ebse
had,
An it's gwine 10 be circus whar Gar won't Se
nothin bad;
| De pasture an his people wldout creakln 90 &c
rules
Kin go to see De circus as we'll as the animules.
All sexes ob religion-Ge gentle IN de Jew,
De Baptis' an de Methods, le 'Piscopallans.
A., sexes OBJ religion he say, was gwine to see
De circus in ST. Louis in 1908
Dar's gw;ne to be peycessions. an &c bans an
gwine to play,
An de tents will cubber acrcs-dat's what de
parson say
An when yo' gifts yo' tekct--'twi'1 cos yo' fit;
cents
Dey'n let yo in for nothin to go through all dem
tents.
par.l be jess scads OF soobers an de pnkes' lem
onade.
Dar'll be fried pies an ao'nuts ce bestes' ever
made.
An dey,n lie, yo' in at mornin TO stay all day aa
Dat circus in St. Louis in 1903
Ole oman, yo' ought to bin Gar to heard him
'spacia:e
About his country's glory. on providence an fate;
lie say de Lord was in It when JEFF 'acn took de
chance
To purchase Loozzannie from Bo3ypart OBJ France.
An DAT &c Lord intended from Ear creations birth
! To manifest his glory to all de tribes ob yearth
In &c MiSs'ssppi va!ley-de time al place to be
In &c city OBJ ST. Louis in 1908.
To help de Lord to show Us de glory dat awaits