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The times., 1900-12-27
ASKS DEVERY'S REMOVAL.
Hugh Mclaughlin Demands the Head
of New YorIs's Chief of Police.

NEW YORK. Dec. 26.-James Shevlin.
deputy leader OF the Kings County Demo-
cratic organization, this afternoon called
on Mayor Van Wyck to demand the re-
moval Of William S. Devery from the
office cf chief of police.
He brought from Hugh Mclaughlin, the
Brooklyn leader an ultimatum to the
effect that Devery must be removed ce-
fore the end of the year. The demand is
made in the name OF the Kings County
organization, and 1t is asserted that Nc
Laughlin will not listen to compromise
Mr. Shevlin in a diplomatic way. de-
MED that his call on the mayor was to
present a demand for the removal of
Devery. He said he was not there en-
police business. Another prominent
Kings County Democrat who talked with
Hugh Mclaughlin today said that Sheylin
was sent to the mayor with positive de-
mand for the removal of Deyery before
January J.
The times., 1900-12-27
RUSSIA'S GREAT FEAT.
The Ferry mt BaiknI n Triumph of
Engineering.
(From the London Sphere }

(From the London Sphere)
The most interesting portion of Russia s
great 4,000-mile railway is the steam
ferry across Lake Baikal, in Central ST.
beria The lake has an extent of over
1900 square miles, and Is more than
twice as wide as the English Channel at
Dover. In places it is as deep as 4,5C0
feet, and parts of it have never been
piumbed Il IS surrounded by some of the
hardest mountains which a railway en-
gineer could encounter. The official plan
of the Trans Siberian Railway includes a
railway round the southern end of the
lake to connect the two lake-shore ter
minals, but the enormous difficulty and the
expense. which is an important matter to
Russia at the present time, Of construct
ing such a line conspire to indefinitely
postpone its completion.
To link the two ends with steam ferry
which would be able to break through
the ice which covers the lake from the
middle of December to May was doubt
less suggested by the excellent work OF
the Yermah ice-beaker in the Baltic. Sir
William Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, of
Newcastle, were the constructors of the
Yermak. and to the order of the Rus
sian Government they constructed
second and larger ce-breaker which was
christened to Baikal.
The Baikal has three lines of rail laid
upon her main deck TO carry one passen-
ger and two goods trains across the lake.
The trains enter the ice-breaker at the
bow, which is run up against pier. The
rails are connected and the trains run into
the vessel. With this load she will crush
her way through three feet of ice at a
speed OF thirteen knots an hour. A screw
at the bow with a separate engine sucks
away the water from underneath the ice
at the bow, which thus splits from its
own weight: the two stubby bladed pro-
pellers at the stern at the same time
force the vessel through the the broken
ice sheet. The actual track of the Bal
kal measures thirty-nine miles.
The times., 1900-12-27

There is every reason for believing that
The failure of the police to locate Mr..
Grove. the eminent abductor CT young Cud-
any, in case it continues much longer, will
result in a business boom for the infant
industry Of kidnapping. 1t was exciting
enough to the magnates OF the interest to
think that one of their number could so
easily reach for and hive twenty-five thou
sand dollars for Christmas box. But If he
should demonstrate his ability to get away
with that sum and enjoy It unmolested,
the object lesson would be considered
much stronger.
The times., 1900-12-27
TO SUE FOR ROYALTIES.
Chicagonn Claims to BE the In
ventor of the Trolley System.

CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Benson Bidwell.
who says he is the inventor of an electric
system by which trolley cars are pro-
PEELED and lighted. is preparing to prose-
cute claims against electric railroad com
panies in all parts OF the country for re-
covery Of royalties. which he claims to be
due him for infringement on patent
rights.
Mr.. Bidwell announced yesterday that
proceedings will soon be instituted in the
United States Court of this dis rict
against all the Chicago electric lines, both
surface and elevated. The back royalties
to be claimed from Chicago companies
alone will amount to several hundred
thousand dollars.
The times., 1900-12-27
Must MniI IL While.

qIom tho Philadelphia Ledger.)
by the decision of our State Department, Ger
man subjects who have claims upon Cuba must
&C lloct them from Cuba. and not from the United
States How they are 10 collect from an impov-
eriHlied country, whose finances are governed by
the authority Of another. il question that See
rotary Hay does not attempt 10 answer, but il is
uno!iically understood that the Germans. together
with similar claimants OF other nationaiities will
have TO wait until Cuba becomes independent
nation. and then try what they do toward
persuading her 10 pay their bills. Theirs is the
fortune OF II they suffered because OF the
insurreetion against Spain and its consequences.
the Cubans themselves suffered far more. They
will recover from their distress by more or less
slow degrees and it is probable that their foreign
creditors will have to adopt the same means to
recoup their losses
The times., 1900-12-27

Parkersburg. W. Va. Dec 23-Ed seebohm
who lives 4 short distance down the Ohio Rive
from here, has written home from Dawson City
Alaska telling about election which was held
there about the first OF November. The votes
were received at the office OF newspaper and all
Americans in Alaska were allowed 10 vote Tho
result was that there were thirty three hundred
and iity-seven votes cast, of which William j.
Bran received twenty -four hundred and twenty.
three and William Mckinley nine hundred and
thirty-tour Having received the argcst number
Of votes cast, Mr.. Bryan will receive a souvenir
in the shape Of a nugget from the klondikc II
is Of solid gold and is valued at five hundred
dollars.-Daltimore sun.
This accounts for it. alaska forsootn. =
says William the Smiling. What's Alas
ka to me or l to Alaska. Majesty of Eng
land, take your FILL"
The times., 1900-12-27
A Hating Point.
Crrom the rhiladeIphia Record }

lFTOm The FhlIadeIphla NecoTd)
There is much reason in the proposition TO in
crease the salaries Of Cabinet officers to sl5 900
year. By their position Cabinet officers are put
to large and unavoidable expenditures. which are
necessary to the maintenance OF their social po-
sition in Washington. But there is not adequate
for the proposed increase TO $4,000 Of the
salary OF the Vice President whose Office is by
no means important as is that Of Cabinet
member. There has been Vice President since
the death Of Nr. Hobart. and the vacancy does
not disturb in lc least the governmental ma
cliineFy; nor is it likely that the husiling and
bustling Roosevelt viii give Importance to the
ot;aa
The times., 1900-12-27
False Altruism.

The Boston Transcript" in discussing
the opI1ion advanced by so many people
that the home is passing away in the
stress and complication Of modern life.
takes very sensible view of the matter.
II admits that the interests of family
arc no longer identical. as they were in
many old-time homes. and that one mem
Der Of the household may be devoted TO
society, another to philanthropy, and a
third to some profession. so that their
daily 'ife seems to have little In common;
but it maintains that this state of things
only proves that individuality is in the
future TO have greater play than 1t used
to have, TO the happiness OF all concern
cd.
Ruslsin vas perhaps the first to pro-
The times., 1900-12-27

balanced or had hereditary tendency to
self-destruction. The late Grant Allen
also held that theory, and wrote a story
of the Sherlock Holmes type in which the
plot turned upon hereditary tendencies TO
| this action. There is undoubtedly some
| thing in the idea. Perhaps the majority
| Of those who reach the age of fifty have
| felt. at some time or other in their lives,
| wish to commit suicide, or, if they have
| not gone as far as this. have wished that
death would overtake them and save them
| the trouble of living any longer. Yet
| there are comparatively few who actually
yield to the temptation. and these are. as
statistics prove, mainly persons of sui
cidal temperament, inherited from some
more or less remote ancestor.
Self-destruction has never been so COM
mon among the Saxon races as among the
Latins. 1t was practiced commonly by
the ancient Greeks and Romans. and
among the latter was regarded as the only
honorable way out of a dishonorahle DIFF
ficulty. This view has always prevailed
to some extent, among the aristec-acy of
Great Britain ard this country. But the
suicides of the present generation are
more likely to be due to simple discour-
agement. One man is rendered hopeless
by continual ill-health, another by pow
erty. another by failure in business. In
some cases it is simple loss of nerve,
caused by the continual strain Of modern
competition.
There is one thing, however which may
be said OF almost all suicides; they are in
some way or other abnormal and isolated.
They have withdrawn more and more into
themselves till they cannot be reached by
ordinary human influences. They are apt
to be self-centred and self-conscious and
subject to moods which take possession of
their entire being and whose influence is
almost irresistible.
One who has a tendency to suicide, then,
should guard against isolation and brood
ing. and those who love him should guard
him from these things so far as possible.
He should be taught early to think of the
comfort and happiness of others and not
to dwell on unpleasant things. He should
be made to feel he has a duty to his
friends and to those dependent upon him.
continued existence. This policy is for
cases in which the tendency to melan-
cholia is really serious and to be feared.
But there are a good many moody people
who keep their families in constant terror
by threats of doing themselves violence
when they really are not likely to do any
thing of the kind. In such cases the best
way is not to take the threats too serious
ly. but follow some such plan as that Of
Spartan mother whose son theatrically de-
clared that he would blow his brains out
if she did not give him certain sum of
money. She said:
'wait minute George, while spread a pa
per over the carpet"
1t is perhaps needless to say that there
was no tragedy.
The times., 1900-12-27
The solar Coroun.

frOm the New York SUM-
The expedition sent by the Smithsonian In
sttutiou to observe the total solar eclipse Of
May, 1890. paid especial attention to the meas
mcmeut of the intensity of the radiation of heat
from the suns by means of the solometer.
This is the first time that successful measures ot
the sort have been effected. Tie chief result
Of the experiment is summarized as follows by
Prof. G. c. Abbott
The corona is effectively cooler than the valo-
meter and appears therefore, neither to reflect
much light from the sun nor chiefly by virtue
OF a high temperature TO give light OF its own,
but seems rather to be giving light in 4 manner
not associated with high temperature, or at
usual in the spectra of hot bodies. As this last
statement" DR. Abbot adds. involves reiec-
tion OF both the eruptiye and meteorc eoronsl
theories, it ought to receive searching criticism
and the experimental observations on which it
rests ought to be verified at future eclipses."
The times., 1900-12-27
HELD AS A PAUPER IMMIGRANT
Learned, But PenniIcss, Porto
Rican Detained Mt New York.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Alfonso Comics
y Stanley. who described himself as pro-
fessor Of mathematics in his native land OF
Porto Rico. is detained at the Immigrant
Station on Ellis Island because he seeks
to enter the country penniless. Stanley
says that he spent eight months as an in
terprater at the Paris Exposition. He con-
tends that ne is an American citizen be-
cause Porto Rico is now under the Anieri-
can flag. He exhibited the following let
ter
Paris. Dec. 10, 1900.
81 take pleasure in recommending
the bearer OF this note, Mr. Alfonso
Comics Stanley, learned and re-
spectacle Porto Rican gentleman, who
is proceeding to New York with
view of finding employment.
HENRY VIGNAUD,
Secretary Of the United States En-
bassy at Paris
Stanley's case will be referred to the
Treasury Department for adjudication and
may await the pending decisions Of the
United States Supreme Court.
The times., 1900-12-27
REFUSED By ROOSEVELT.
Declines TO Allow the EStrndition of
Rockefeller to Texas.

AUSTIN. Tex. Dec. 26.-Another appli-
cation for the oxtradition of John d.
Rockefeller and other members of the
Standard Oil Company, who are wanted in
Texas to answer TO the charge pending
against them in the MeClennan County
District Court of violating the Texas
antitrust law, was made by Governor
Sayers on Governor Roosevelt Of New
York. few days ago.
County Attorney Cullen Thomas. who
forwarded the application, has just re-
ceived a letter from Governor Roosevelt,
declining to grant the application for the
cxtradition of the accused parties. He
says that II it were shown conclusively
that the alleged fugitives from justice
were in Texas at the time of the alleged
commission OF the crime he would be glad
to grant the application for their extradi-
ton
The times., 1900-12-27
LYNCHING SUITS SETTLED.
William III. Jenkins Widow Compro-
misses With Indiana Authorities.

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 2s.-on the night
of September "a. 1897 a mob broke into
the Ripley County Jail at Versailles and
brutaDy beat and afterward hung five Of
the prisoners, among them being William
II. Jenkins. His widow went TO Illinois
and there took out letters Of administra-
tion and afterward brought suit in the
Federal Court here against SherlH Bush
ing for failure to protect her husband
from the mob and against seventy citi-
zens of the county. charging each with
completely in her husbands murder
Today the suits were all compromised
and Withdrawn. the defendants paying
Mrs jenkins IS eco
The times., 1900-12-27
Cuhn,s Possibilities.

Grom the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat)
There are many parties in the Cuban eonsti-
tutiorai convention, but Just what effect this cir
cumsfance will have on the ultimate fate of the
island cannot be foretold Some Of the parties
are understood TO favor annexation, Though most
Of them are alleged to be against it. As time
passes, though the annexation sentiment seems
to grow. There il fair probability that the
gem OF the Antilles viii, by the free voice OF its
people, be under the Stars and Stripes perms-
uently before many more years pass.
The times., 1900-12-27

It rather looks as II the British com
manders in South Africa were unable to
initiate the successful tactics Of their op-
ponents to any useful extent. Yesterday
news came that another body of Ber
Majesty's soldiers had been trapped and
bagged by the willy Beers. Why would
not it be well for the British to surround
and gobble up few battalions of bur-
CHER fusiliers. yeomanry, lancers. and
that sort OF thing occasionally? The busi-
ness is too one-sided at present.
The times., 1900-12-27

Army prospects for the immediate fu-
turo do not appear promising. Enlisted
men in Cuba. Porto Rico, and the Philip
pines everywhere are trying to get out
of TIE service; even resorting to offences
against discipline in the hope of dishon-
orable discharge. Very few If any of the
volunteers in the Philippines can be in
duced to e-enlist-certainly not without
receiving large bounty. The employ
ment of our forces in tropical countries
will render the enlistment Of a new army
extremely difficult. Repeated stories OF
bad treatment and intolerable conditions
which have been read and discussed in
every Fart of the country make it i'm
probable that a desirable class of young
men can be secured at tie recruiting Of
fees. As the process of organizing a new
permanent establishment is bound to be
a slow one. the War Department is ex-
cusably anxious that Congress should
complete necessary military legislation
without any loss of time. Embarrass-
ment and Generalization are clearly in
sight If it fails to do so.
The times., 1900-12-27
Rper Mobility,
fFrom The Chicago Tribune.) )

General Kitchener says he is organizing a
column which he will send to check the new
Boer movement in Cape Colony he
discovers where its services most needed. That
is exactly the troube-to know where TO find the
Boers They do not stay long enough at one
place 10 allow n slow British column TO strike
them Their wonderful mobility has been their
strength from the beginning. and it has become
greater since they have given up all permanent
headquarters. They can no longer hold British
prisoners, because they have no place to keep
them but they range over an enormous ex-
panse of territory and strike large number of
swift minor blows which are extremely trouble
some in the aggregate.
The times., 1900-12-27
SufciIs.

The number OF suicides reported during
the last two weeks Is unusually large, for
some reason or other. and suggests that
there may be one OF those curious cpl
denies of emotional excitement which
produce waves of crime" and like phe-
nomena.
DR.. Holmes was went to say that there
was not much fear that man would COM
The times., 1900-12-27
Let There De Light.
CFrom the Detroit Free Press.

tFrOm the Detroit Free Press.
Citizens Of this country, who furnish the men.
the money, and the arms want 10 know precisely
the situation confronting them. 1t is no longer
for General Corbin. Secretary Root. the ETesi-
dent himself to arbitrarily dictate in The premises.
II is by no means certain that the whole truth
will not expose more disgrace than possibly
follow upon deliberate and well-matured action
in the present emergency. Let the Taft Commits
sion be instructed TO tell the whole story with
cut the eolorng OF partisauship official bias
The times., 1900-12-27
China and Civilization.

(From the Chicago Times Herald.)
If China has disgraced herself during the year
just closed so has civilization. and when it comes
to making up its account with China's 400 ooG,0 eco
it will discover that the year is only the begin
ming, not the end. 1t has done much to create a
Chinese nationality
The times., 1900-12-27
Harrison In Disgrace.

(From the Hartford, Conn, Tirnes.)
Benjamin Harrison is 4 mugwunp. BENJAMIN
Harrison is pessimist. Benjamin Harrison is
little American The slambangos OF the imperial
ist press have doubt that he is all these things
The truth is that the admirable statement OF
An erican principles and the searching snalysis
OF the un- American conduct of the Mckinley Ad-
mnistration which Mr.. Harrison embodied in his
Ann Arbor lecture have hit the imperiaist crowd
. blow under which they are visiSly staggering.
The times., 1900-12-27
Strange News From the Land Of
Scots.
from the Dundee

from the Dundee Advcrtiser.)
In the matter OF sheer. besotted, ovcrnaster-
ing drunkenness We stand without rivals in
shameful isolation.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-26

At leas, one balf the farmers. white
aud colored, of Sumter County could
raise enough wheat to supply them With
-four and never feel that the crop was
an additional expense while they would
see the saving when they did not haze
to buy -four A few acres Of good
lacd planted in wheat aud we'll
uapured on each farm would Keep
thousands of dollars at home aud at
the sane time reduce the cotton crop CT
the State materially, thus saving money
az! making the cotton cFcp more
valuable. This is the year to pla"t
whes. and cats TO make up 'he
deficiency 10 tie corr crop and keep the
money now aege feom goicg West next
summer to pay for -four and oats.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-26
Jones is Cheerful

New York. Sept 10 Senator James
K Jones left for Chicago this evening.
Before be left he seid Zoe situation
10 the cas-. is very favorable for the
election of Mr. Bryap. 1t has improved
wonderfully since I last was tere. The
situation 10 this State is excellent so
far as the election oe MIR Bryan snd
the State ticket is coucerned. The
si,ua.iop 10 ;he States o! Connecticut
and New JERSEY exceed the expectations
| had before this, my last visit. and |
au hopeful that alr Bryan will carry
these States. am sure that be viii
carry West Virginia AID Maryland and
| might say that Delaware caa safely
be placed 10 the democratic column
Senator Jones does DOT expec: to
return to this city before election day
The sub committee will have full
charge ci the campaign 10 the east.
Acoo7diog to information given out
at headquarters, ex Secretary of State
Olney Will speak before the iroquols
club of Chicago socn for Bryan. Judge
Duooe of Chicago aud 8 member OF the
club, returned from Europe last sa,ur-
day. % bis arrival a Mr.. McNea!
! telegraphed bin to await bin 10 this
city They net aud went to Boston,
where an invitation was given air
Olney and be accepted The date was
not ramcd.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-26
The State Fair this year will be the

The State Fair this year will be the
best for a decade. More and larger pre-
miums are offered aud more effort is
being made to increase the nuu Ger of
exhibits. The races will De better,
more aud better horses have been enter.
ed ard the purses TO be raced for are
moro ihao double what they have been
10 recent years. With greater attrac.
tions the crowd will be greater and toe
fair will be in all respects noTe repre-
sentative Of the whole State shan it has
been. The Fair will be held Oct. 29:h
to Nov. %, inclusive.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-26

Eariy 10 tee yeas the Charleston and
Philadelphia papers had q good deal to
say abou. establishing steamship hoc
between the two cities. Nothing was
done. however. aud Friday it was
announced that line had been estao-
l;sh TO Savannah ard that the hfst
freight and passenger steamer would
sal! from Philadelphia on October lss.
The establ; .hment of the Philadeipsia'
Charleston lipo is now not at all
p,obable. Savannah business men saw
that the proposed line from Philadelphia
20 The South would be good thing and
shey proceeded to capture is.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-26

Raw cotton and cotton goods have
parted company as to prices this
week The rush of buyers to secure
stocks has advanced print cloths,
glnghams, blesched goods, prints and
in fact nearly all classes OF cottons,
while materially reducing stocks in
hands of commission men and job
bers Most manufacturers are refus-
ing TO take orders ahead except "at
value" based upon the cost of raw
material Southern yarn spinners are
reported curtailing operations aud
the English spiuners are IN an espe
cially bad situation owing to small
supplies and nigh prices Of raw ma
:cria
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-26
Weekly Crop Bulletin.
Columbia. S. C Sept 25, 1900

Columbia. S G., Sept %, 1900
The week eodicg 8 a. u Mordag.
Sept 24.h was much cooler than usual
during the opening days, and hotter
than usual dur:og the latter portion.
The minimum temperature for toe week
was Al at Spartauburg. aud the maxi
nun was 81 ct three places
A good rain vas reported from lower
Lexingtoo County on the 22i, which
vas the ooly rainfall reported IN the
easire State. The surface OF the soll is
aeaio very dry, nevertheless toe ground
is in foe coodl,ion for piowlug, pisnt-
irr truck. sowing oats aud 'ufnlps, the
latter being the third attempt to secure
stapdss of turoips this season lie
continuous fair weather was extremely
favorable for gathering crops, and es-
pecialIy SO fo7 harvesting rlcc, which Is
nearly flushed except OF June p'antloes
which will rlpen lu oo'oocc. Upland
rice is failure
Some coro is being housed, and the
previously es,msted yields Of less than
half an average crop are being COZ
6rmed
Cotton is nearly ali open and picking
made rapid progress to the extent tba
from some fields all has been gathered