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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-04-18

One OF them sat down on its base.
Another said: Get up. Aren't you
afraid of that old iron ]nan at the top:'
NO" replied the sitting one; hes
dead But nevertheless the memory
of what he and his brave conpaniens
did on that spot on q certain 1ith OF
June in the long ago Will never be for
gotten while the earth spins aroUnd On
its axis or slides down the ecliptic. l
picked up a little piece Of stone ct the
foot OF tie monument and broken
twig on the Common to take TO my lit
tie boy. who was born on St. Jackson,s
day, as kecpsakes to remind him how
American blood once reddened those
spots Of earth dear 70 the American
heart.
After doing the Hub" IN hop and
skip sort OF way went down to the
Southern Union depot, ate dish OF
genuine Boston baked beans and med
itated upon the virtues Of the sacred
Goldfish.
AS looked out upon the lean. rocky,
unproductive fields Of Massachusetts,.
Rhode Island and Connecticut and
upon the clean, well built, busy, pros
porous, wealthy and almost lnnumera-
ble cities and towrs ] wondered how
the early settlers ever managed to
wiring a subsistence cut Of such soil.
confess it gave NE q higher opinion
than have hitherto entertained of the
virtues industry, courage and fortitude
of the pilgrims and their descendants.
Their present wealth and prosperity
can be easily accounted for. The rest
of the country has been laid under
tribute for their benefit for more than
century by federal tariff legislation,
but how the deuce they made shift to
eke out living, to propagate and null
tiply and even to accumulate some
what of wealth by agriculture, is
mystery to one accustomed to the IN
speakable fertility Of the Mississippi
valley.
1 honestly believe that one county in
my district produces year by year more
food for man and beast than the entire
state of Rhode Island could be made to
produce by any sort of farming and
any quantity or quality of fertilizer. 1t
contains an area little larger than the
average county west Of the Mississippi
and that small area mostly water" as
one humorously inclined Rhode Island
er told me. Tl.ey manufacture every
thing in Nev England, but even for
that business they are inconyenlently
located, being compelled to bring IN
nearly all their raw materials, includ-
! inc fuel, from the south Or west. Why
don't the southerners and westerners
do their own manufacturing? | could
not help trying to imagine what a pop
ulous and wealthy region the Mlssls-
sippi valley will be when to the Won
drous richness of the soil is added the
incalculable wealth which manufactur-
ing institutions will bring. On the
whole, after a hasty personal ocular in
spection, my solemn conviction is that
the present New England is the most
amazing monument ever erected to hu-
man energy, intelligence, industry and
ambition.
First and last, have now been in 2G
states of the Union, in two territories
and the District Of Columbia. The
more l see of our country the more |
thank and praise Almighty God for
giving US such Il home, and the mere
heartily sing,
My county, IT'S CT thee.
Sweet land o: liberty,
OF thee sing.
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Ny county, IT'S CT thee.
Sweet land 0: liberty,
Af tLno cinr

The strangest and most pleasant bit
of political information picked up Oh
this trip is the fact that the Rhode Is
land Democrats ere IS fond of William
J. BRYAN as we ere out west.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-04-18
Cutrages In idaho.


The investigation which the military
affairs committee of the house is max
ing into the outragcs committed under
martial law in Idaho is bound to help
the Democrats = great Geal in the lm-
pending election. Great credit is due
to the Democrats on that committee
for holding on With bulldog tenacity
until they get at the truth. John j.
Lentz of Ohio and William Sulzer OF
New York are taking the leading part
in prodding the Republicans. Both are
good lawyers. and they can't be bull
dozed, browbeaten, terrorlZed or chok-
ed off till they ascertain the truth. the
whole truth and nothing but the truth
out of the outrageous. un-Amerlcan
and brutal capers c;it out there by GER
tain persons dressed in a little brief
authority. When fully told. the tale
of the Idaho bull pen" will rival in
shastly horrors the story Of the black
hole of Calcutta. which Macaulay has
made immortal.
1nlnCS were QOUc= TX ldaio CuoCA
Republican misrule il the closing days
of the nineteenth century which rival
in damnablenesS any Of the acts per-
formed in the dark ages. Little by lit
tie, inch by inch. the Democrats Of the
committee on military affairs are drag
cins the truth to tie light Of day.
When it is published, it will maze the
American people from ocean to ocean
gasp in astonishmcrt and fill them
with honest indignation and wrath
against the men who have either cauS-
cd or connivetl at such atrocities. The
popular account against the Republic
an party is already q long one. but 1t
grows day by day, and there will be an
accurate and stern settlement Of it on
tie FIRST Tuesday after tie first Mon
day in next November. Perhaps it
Will be 4 final settlement with the Ee-
publican party. Cor. having abandoned
every principle fer which it originally
stood. i: has no r;siSon d'etre-no rea-
son for being.
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Think That the Long Suffering Peo-
pie viii Stand Ar:thing-The CAM
els Back Near to BreaIinG-Defec-
ton OF Webster Davis-Rhode Is
land Democrats At Bunker Hill
Monument-The Idaho outrases.
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and stone.
From Rhode Island I made a flying
trip to Boston. | visited Bunker Hill
monument. the Old South church. the
old statehouse. Boston Common. War
rem bridge. Faneuil hail and the place
where the immortal tea episode occur
red. saw the statues OF Colonel
Prescott, cid Sam ADAMS, Daniel
Webster and other great worthless. 1t
does a patriot good to be amid such
scenes and to think Of the men who
made them famous. Close to Bunker
Hill monument, in Il little park IN which
there is q splendid monument to the
Massachusetts soldiers who died in the
civil war. there are bronze tablets or
plates bearing the names of the -Ameri-
cans killed ut Bunker Hill, and, strange
to say. the names Of the privates come
first upon that enduring scroll Of fame.
After theirs come the names OF the
officers. beginning" with the immortal
one of Major General Warren.
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1 here quote most peculiar cam
paign document issued by the Rhode
Island Democrats:
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EDITOR ARGUs:-We wish to pre-
sent the name of James ". Thomp-
son to the numerous readers of your
paper, as being a man eminently
qualified from every stand point to
fill the Office of County Treasurer.
We do not hesitate to say that he is
the equal Of any man whose name
has been or will be mentioned for
this responsible position, and we
think he deserves the unanimous
support of the county convention
from the fact that he was the next
strongest man whose name was be-
fore the convention which nominat-
ed Mr.. Hood. He has always been
true to his party and untiring in his
efforts and labors for the success of
Democracy,
MANY DEMOCRATS.
.Goldsboro, May II, 1900.
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ARMS FOR FILIPINOS.
Will Open Aggressive Hostilities
as soon As the Rainy Season
Begins.

New York, May PA dis
patch to the Evening World from
Hong Kong says:
The Filipinos Junta has been
receiving large amounts of money
at Manila. Within the past three
months three ship-loads of arms
have arrived here from Ger
many, for the insurgent cause.
The junta gave a big banquet
here last night in honor Of the
reorganization of their govern
ment. The Filipinos claim they
will open aggressive hostilities
just as soon as the rainy season
begins.
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GENERAL NEWS

President Eliot, of Harvard, said
recently that a great proportion of
Harvard men were going into jour
nalism and literature than into any
other bushes or profession, except
possibly the law. "And it is a good
place for them to 60" he added.
They say in New York that the
theatrical people there who cast
their vote in the Twelfth Congress-
ional district when they happen to
be at home want to send Marcus R.
to Congress in place of George B.
Mcclellan.
A Texas paper wants a law regu-
lating the length of skirts wor by
women on the streets, but it does
not say whether this desire is to out
come of the recent cyclones in the
Lone Star State nor does 1t say
whether the prevailing costume IS
to long or short,
If the Rev. DIR. Sheldon really
does solve the servant girl prob
lem in his promised ''hired girl
story" he will more than win
back the prestige he lost in his To-
peka experiment. If however, the
''love stra'n" which, according to
announcement, is to run through the
tale is part of the proposed solution
the doctor need not be surprised #
it is received with suspicion.
Following Hanna's declaration
that Roosevelt will not be the Vice
Presidential nominee on the Repub-
lican ticket comes a story that the
strenuous Governor, after succeed
ing himself in his present Office.
wants to be the first civil Governor
General of the Philippines. This,
unless he would consent to as
| President a term or two during the
interim. might make a long lapse IN
his political usefulness.
The talked of bill for the abolition
of deportation to Siberia has at last
been introduced into the Russian
Council and passed unanimously.
This is considered necessary IN or
| der to settle the country through
| which the great railroad passes with
a desirable population. Of the 300,-
900 exiles now in Siberia probably
| two-thirds are wanderers, and some
times lawless, and form an objection
(! able class of citizens.
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Roberts Phsn7menal Advance,
Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte Observer.
Lord Roberts is bucking the line
these days for all he is worth and is
making a great centre rush. Yester-
day he entered Kroonstadt, to where
the Free State Beers have moved
their capital when Bloemfontein fell.
He is now within 100 or ITO miles
of Pretoria, and SO miles from the
border of the Transvaal republic. It
may be that he will dash quickly
ahead to Pretoria. but the Trans
walters are apt to make a final des-
perate resistance to the passage of
the Vaal and the entrance of their
country. Moreover the farther Lord
Roberts goes from Cape Town, the
greater the strain upon this line of
communications becomes, and the
greater danger of it's being inter :
rupted. It is possible now that he
will wait for Butler to come up from
Natal, for the latter's army is not far
down below Lord Roberts to the
southeast. This means that Butler
will have to break through the
Drakensberg mountains at Van
Reenan's pass which the Beers are
said to be guarding, IF he does get
through. Lord Roberts will have two
railroads to draw supplies from, as
the road from Durham passes by way
of Ladysmith in Natal through Van
Reenan's pass to Bethlehem in the
Free State. Butler now has the
chance of his life It is up to him.
If he gets through to Roberts he
will retrieve his reputation as a SOL
der, which suffered so severely at
Colenso and Spion kop.
It is now the beginning of the end
with the Beers. Brayely as they
may resistant even the women are
taking up arms-they cannot much
longer hold out. It is only a cues
| ton of time.
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Books Of Twenty Years.

Professo or William P. Trent, Of
the University Of the South, at
Sewanee, Tenn, discusses in the
Dial the books of twenty years.
He finds non that promise to out
live the productions of Lowell, or
Hawthorne, or Poe, or Longfel-
low, written in the previous TWEEN
ty or thirty years. He might
have added Bryant or Whittier to
his list Of dead and gone giants,
whose works live after them.
Professor Trent reaches bis con-
clusion by making a list of $50
living American authors, aud he
found no work from their pen
that promises to outl;ve, or even
to live side by side with 1.-The
Scarlett Letter." or "The Bige-
low Papers," or the poems of
Poe or Longfellow. His list of
$50 included the names of twenty
seven poets, twenty-seven critics,
si~xty-seven novelists, nineteen
historians, and ten miscellaneo us
writer's. One>ffth of the list con-
sisted of women, Two>thirds of
the number live in the North and
East, and one-third in the South
aud East. The list has been de-
stroyed, and Professor Trent de
clines to print it; but it is fair to
presume that it contsined every
name that has any chance for flu
ture fame Of even fifty years.
The age is very productive of
books, and their even excellence
is promising, but among them no
towering height appears. Mark
Twain viii be read many years
after he has been gathered to his
fathers-with apologies to the
late campaign-and "The Rise of
Sllas Lapnam'' will not be soon
signed to undisturbed shelves; but
no one is inclined to place them
among the immortals. There is a
leveling-up in literature, and the
plane is now so elevated that a
writer must be an epoch>maker;
a genius, indeed, who rises Sc
curely above it. Literary honors
are nowadays we'll distributed.
No seotion. no country, monopo-
lies them, and no literary lion
walks the earth in idisputable
strength AMI acceptance. This is
the case in England as we'll as in
this country. The leveIing-up
spirit of the age has been felt in
literature, in other words, end the
days of the giants may be num-
bered. At any rate a giant hereaf-
ter must be a giant indeed.
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I Men can be cured privately and pos
itively at home of all weakness and
disease. Write for new free book, DR..
u N. Hathaway d South Broad St.,
Atlanta. Ga.
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Keep your blood rich and red by
taking Roberts Tasteless Chill Tonic.
25c. Pleasant to take. Cures chills by
purifying the blood, and producing APP
petite, health and vigor. Try it, and
get the genuine, with red cross on label.
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sCOTTON GRO WERS IN SESSION
Convention at macon, ia -EIVe
Hundred ID iegaleS Their
Purpose to Secure Bet
e Prices For Cotton.

ter Prices For Cotton.
Macon, Ca, May 12.-The
Cotton Growers Convention held
at Macon today was one Of the
largest convocations of repre-
sentative planters and business
men ever held in Georgia. The
convention was called for the
purpose Of efectipg ar organic
alton of the cotton planters
which would enable them to Sc
cure a better price for their cot
ton.
Five hundred de!egats we're
present, representing every
county in the State aud inc'uds
ing planters, warehouse men
manufacturers, bankers, mer>
chants and lawyers.
The convention was addressed
by Hon. Hoke Smith, Hon. Pope
Brown, president Of the State
Agricultural Society; Hou. J. F
Hanson, Harvey Jordan, I B.
English and others.
Mr.. Smith, in his address, said
in substance that the South's
cotton crop farther-reaching IN
its effect than any other product
of the soil, it's aggregate annual
value being over $500, 900. 900.
He stated that during the last
one hundred years the money
paid for cotton raised in the
United States amounted to ff>
teen billions of dollars was re-
ceived for cotton exported. He
said that in fifty years the cons
sumption of cotton had increased
$500, 900 bales annually to 10,
900, 900 annually, an increase of
200 per cent. He advis5 I'd the far
mers of the South to organize so
as to control the marketing of
their crop on such a basis as
would secure to them its real
value.
The convention concluded with
the organic alton Of the Georgia
Cotton Growers Association, and
elected Harvey Jordan presi-
dent, r. M. Langley, vice presi-
dent, and N. r. Hutchinson sec
rotary and treasurer, and an ex-
'ecutive committee composed of
three representatives from each
congressional district.
The plan upon which the work
of organizing the farmers is to
be effected was referred to the
committee on organjz alton and
the executive committee >intly-
the convention ratifyiug in ad-
vance any plan that might be
adopted.
Macon was chosen as perman-
ent headquarters of the associa-
sion.
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.Goldsboro, May II, 1900.

yielding to tie persuasion of my
dealer, l changed chill tonic and tried
ROBERTS, aud found it the best I ever
used, and shall in future continue it's
use."-W. II. Corprew, GAINESVILLE, N.
c., to The Roberts Drug Co, Suffolk,
Va, August IA, 1893 CSC per bottle.
Look for the red cross.
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It is also proposed to curfew the
girls to bed at nine o'clock. for
health's sake.
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Ohills. fevers ard malaria yield to
Roberts Chill Tonic, if you get the
genuine, with a red cross On label. 25c.
No cure, no pay.
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you easily tired? Have Won
lost ambitiOn2 Is there anv
unnatural drain upon the
system2 Is every organ per
forming its proper func-
tiOn2 In Other Words:
Are You a Perfectly
Strong, Active, Visor
Gus, Healthy, Happy
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If not, you should not de-
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whom the human body is an
open book and who under
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ness and disease and to
whom the preparedness
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FATAL FREIGHT WRECK.
Engineer, Fireman and Five
Tramps Killed: Fire Follows
Gel i>iOr: Loss Estima ed
at $1S5. 900.

at S1S5. 600.
Philadelphia. May 49, Through
the negligence Of tower man who
lay asleep at his post, a disastrous
ADD fatal freight train wreck oc~
Cured here last midnight in a tun-
mel on the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road. An engineer and a fireman
were killed and five unknown
tramps are supposed to be dead
in the wreck. The property loss
is estimated at $1S5, 600. The
man who IS responsible for the
accident. Frank Lamtell, sHrren-
dered himself late this afternoon
and is now under arrest.
The bodies Of the dead are
buried beneath the wrecked "a
and cannot be recovered until the
fire which followed the collision n,
is extinguished. About thirty fire.
men of the city fire department
were either burned or overcome
by smoke while fighting the flames.
None of them, however, was Sc
riously injured.
Every night a train known as
the New York express leaves here
for New York. Last night the
trsi1 was made up in two sections,
the first section containing forty
three cars. When it reached the
tunnel the engine was unable to
pull it up the grade and seventeen
cars were detached and left stands
ing about midway in the tunnel,
while the others were drawn
through. It was the duty of
Tower Operator Lamtell to set a
red semaphore at the CaIlow Hill
street entrance to the tunnel. Bong
asleep, as he admits, he failed to
do this, leaving the white light in
view. At 1880 o'clock the sec
ond section of the freight, COM
prising thirty eight cars, APP
preached at the rate of Thirty
miles an hour. Engineer Laub,
seeing the white light, gave the
locomotive extra speed in order to
carry the train up the grade. The
rapidly moving train collided with
the standing cars in the tunnel
with terrific force. Fire immedi-
ately broke out and three oil cars,
each containing four thousand
gallons of oil, exploded. Soon tho
~wreckage was a mass of flames.
The fire department was called
out and, though the fremen have
been at work all last night and
all to-day, it has been impossible
as yet to extinguish the flames.
Owing to the heat and smoke and
gaseous air in the tunnel, the fire.
men could enter the tunnel only a
short distance without being overs
come. Holes ware dug in the
st. eets to make ventilators and
the roof of the tunnel blasted but
to no avail.
Shortly after the collision Lame
tell disappeared and could not be
found until he gave himself uI
late this afternoon. When ques.
toned he sail: 81 did it. Why
the white signal remained in pace
l do not knoE ", but it was there
aud the train went through a.
usual. [ was asleep Or dosing an6
why l cannot say, except that ]
feel myself overworked; but I an
ready to stanl the censure anc
take what comes to me. I have &c
excuse to offer.
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ht Griffin'S.

At my Riverside Single
Mill and Lumber Plant, | am
prepared better than ever
to supply the public with
the best shingles and rough
or dressed lumber.
| have opposition but no
competition in the shinQle
business. If you try my
shingles you Will find them
best in quality and right in
price.
A. T. F
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the SICK ARE
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And the Weak are Restored to Full Vigor
and Strength at the Hands of the Great
est Healer OF Modcrn Times.

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One woman cured herself of rheus
matism by starving herself to death.