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

courtin pelf
Why. he said he couldn't tell us, fer he didn't
know hisself.
30 we've ;ist KEEP s-huntin till we're nearly
petered out.
And, although We thought we had you, now WE
find we're still in doubt
II these liues should ever reach you, and you'd
write US where you be,
You'd confer a good sized favor On your friends.
the G. o. p.
Colonel Hcpburn's Dilemma.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty hangs
over house Republicans as a pail and
Is interfering with the passage of Colo
mel Hepburn's Nicaragua canal bill,
which is the apple of the colOnel'S eye.
for If he can get his bill through and
have the canal dug he thinks, perhaps
not incorrectly, that he will not only be
doing his country a vast service, but
Will be laying hold Of imperishable re-
nown for Colonel William Peters Hep
burn. This is laudable ambition if it
can be realized, but there Is the rub,
and the colonel knows 1t full well. He
can see as far into a grindstone as tho
next one, and he knows that the Hay
Pauncefote treaty, unless withdrawn
or defeated, will lose. him many votes
for his canal bill, perchance enough to
beat it. Consequently tho colonel is
not in beatific frame Of mind and is
likely to heat the chilly spring atmos-
phere to q high degree il be is baked
In his ambition. Reppb'lcap are ac-
quainted with the coloners powers and
endurance as fighter and would be
glad to placate him, but the chances
are that the administration is so en-
tangled with Mr.. Bull: that 1t cannot
recede and will endeayor to force the
ratification of the treaty, ~ it does,
there will be music in the ajr and lots
Of fur and bits Of cuticle. ION with
the dance! Let JOY be nnconfinedw
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
mingly, but because the mournful news
comes that Andrew Carnegie and Hen
~ Clay Frick have fallen on each 9TH
er's neck and made it up: I was antic-
ipating much undlluted, 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 q new corporation capi-
talized ut $30O,OOO.0OO. Now, if they
made $42,0O0,00O annual profit off Of
$25, ,OOO,O 600 capital, as Carnegie estimat-
ed 1t, it makes one dizzy to contemplate
the profits Of the new concern. They
are enacting before our eyes and under
our very noses q 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 exposi-
tion at st. Louis in 1903 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 1903
Ole 'oman. listen to me-now de cbillun's all in
bed
jess listen whiles tells yo' what heah de parson
said,
What he tole US at de meetin Oh de 'fcial board
tonight,
For de parson reads &c papers while he tens de
gospel light.
Dar's gwine 10 he circus-dat egzac'ly amt de
name
What de parson tole de bredren. but it means
about the saipe-
Dars gwine to be a circus. an he say it's gwine
To be
In de city oh st. Louis in 1905
Twill be de bigges circus dat de worr has ebe,
had,
An it's gwine to be a circus whar Car won't be
nothin bad;
De pasture an his people widout breakn OBJ de
Kin go to see de circus we'll as the animuleA
All sexes oh relgon-dc gentle an de Jew,
DE Baptis, an de Methods, an de 'Piscopalians
All sexes ob religion. he say, was gwine to see
DE circus in st. Louis in 1908.
Dar's gwine to be percessions an 4. bans An
gwine to play,
An de tents will cubber acrcs-dat's what de
parson say
An when yO' gifts yO' tickct-'twib cos yo' 6fty
cents
Dey'l let yo' in for notbin to go through all dem
tents
Darll be jess scads Of soobers an de pinkes' lem
onade,
Dar'll be fried pies an do'nuts de bestes' ever
made,
An dey'n let yo' in at mornin to stay all day an
Dat circus in st. Louis in 1908.
Ole oman. yo' ought to bin dar 90 heard him
'spaciate
About his country's glory. on providence sn fate;
lie say de Lord was in it when Jcf'co took de
chance
70 purchase Loozzannie from Bonypart oh France
An dat de Lord intended from far creations birth
To manifest his glory to all de tribes ob yearth
In de 'ssippi ya!ley-de time an place to be
In de city OBJ st. Louis in 1908.