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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-03
Michael Davits Disappointed
IN Beers.

London, Sept l8.-The Pretoria
correspondent. Of the Standard in a
recent dispatch throws and entirely
new light upon Michael Davits.s
experience in the Transvaal and bis
feelings towards the Beers. Io view
of MT Davitt's contributions TO the
American press during and subse.
quent to bis visit to the seat of war,
the Standards dispatch is Of interest.
4: is as follows
"Mr Michael Davitt left Pretoria
on the 10Th of May, broken and sick
of heart, according to the words ne
himself used on the railway platform
Rev II j. Bats, Baptist minister.
has recorded them and they are
testified to by Rev Henry W Good
wln, congregational minister. he
told me. says Mr. Bats, that be had
that morning advised the Transvaal
government if they would commend
themselves IN the eyes of the world
and obtain the sympathy of European
nations, that they should treat at
once with Lord Roberts to this effect:
Now that the Free State is conquer.
ed and we are quite unable to resist
alone the might of England, in the
interests of humanity and to prevent
further bloodshed we will surren
DER
. Instead of doing thie,' said Mr.
Davitt, they have sent q message OF
a threatening character, telling Lord
Roberts that they will blow up the
mines or destroy Johannesburg if
some terms are not made What the
terms are they do not state, and they
do not really mean to carry ou. the
threat Their whole action will
cover them with ignominy aud con-
tempt before the civilized world.
They purpose prolonging the busi.
ness, without seriously meaning to
6gbs. for the one object of heaplng
ep the bars OF gold they are tsklng
from the mines and of accumulaliug
and boarding them in obedience to
the dic,a,ion that ola man Kruger
6. That old man Paul Kruger,
continued Mr. Davi,t, is engaged 10
a sort OF spiritualist seance business
with some bIiod boy predicting
events thas were to happen on some
day. came out here at 10y own
expense. 1t cost me 800 pounds
was full of enthusiasm for these peo
Pile They know me, they know my
feelings, but they never trusted me
Today they refused to give me any
information for my papers and
| go away broken and eick at
heart am thoroughly dirillusion
ed For me to remain in this atmos
phere is no longer possible can
not endure it..
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-03
An Appeal to Democrats

Senator Tii!mao. the member from
South Carolira Of the rational Demo
cratic committee, las again elegraphed
10 Gel Willie Jones, cbairmao Of tie
Soa,h Carolina Dem ocracy, urging hin
to raise !upd for the employrns6' os
Br7ap speakers. Io response 10 ta's
arpesl, Co! Jones' bas issued the follow
ios letter 20 the chaI.men OF the eo1a
II Democratic executive committees
Dear Sir | have just received a
telee7sm from Senator Tiilnan, cur
casionai committeeman. who is vito
the rational committee in Chicago.
earnestly requesting me to cali en- the
people 10 the State for contributions IN
aid of the national Democratic patty
The money is to be used to eefray the
expenses of speakers in the doubtful
States. While We all realize that South
Carolina will 60 for Bryae, it is Ger
tsinly ocr duty to do What We can TO
belp our Democratic friends 10 the
doubtful! States
will thauk you to take up this very
i'm por,su, matter at osce and call upon
all club presidents in your county, and
The people generally. to take up col
lection among the faithful. and please
remit sums SO collected TO Col q. X.
Guuter, Jr, secretary. or TO me as
chairman, and the sme will be RENTED
to the chairman of the national Demo
cratic committee
Willie Jones, Chairman
Col Jones earnestly hopes the county
cbairmeu will make vigorous efforts to
raise money FOR this purpose Senator
TillnaD expects South Carolina to con-
tribute $4,000, or an average of SlOo
to the county Il takes work to raise
sach sum.
The first contribution came in this
mornirg and vas from Marion Couaty
P. B. Hamer RENTED check tor $50
for tie Democrats of that county.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-03

Total pro;ec 70 70 deposltors, Sl75e1co oc
Trensac:s a Ga2eral Berking Business.
: SPECIAL a;ten:ion given 10 co!lectious.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-03
HEAVY FIGHTING

London, Sept 26 The Daily Mail
has the following dispatch from Lor-
EMO Marques
Heavy fighting is reported across
the Sabi river This mears that the
British are intercepting Steyn and
Re;tz who with their forces are; at
tempting to push northward and effect
q junction A command is said to be
surrounded near Petersburg
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-03
A FINE IMPOSED.

Yesterday Mr.. Harley. the man in
whose place Howard Alleo was killed
Last Sunday night, was ht before
the police court 90 the charge Of main
taioiog a gambling resort He
vas given The maximum 6ne which
be paid The State
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-03

Var corresponding these days is
5sonewbas worse than soldering.
Twenty-one correspondents have been
killed or bavs died of disease during
!. he Boer war.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
HOW TO CLEAN WINDOW PANEs.
Electric Fan Keeps the Frost From
Accommodating on the Glass.

1t is enough to give one chilly shiv-
ers up and down his spinal column and
back again to see an electric fan in
the window of a store on Euclid
avenue whirling away as though the
thermometer indicated a decree of
heat approaching that of Kentucky
politics. The fan is in the big window
of the store and it is kept there all
the time, whirling away as though it
were summer.
1t is an ordinary fan and there is
nothing about it to attract attention
save the fact that it is going and that
it is pointed toward the plate glass
Window-that is, it blows the air
against the inside of the glass. The
erason for this odd use of an electric
fan in the dead of winter is the solu-
ton of one of the problems that has
bothered storekeepers for years, ever
since there were stores and winters
probably. There have been inventions
without number to solve the problem
of how to keep the frost from forming
on the inside of show windows and OBJ
securing them SO that the things in the
windows cannot be seen from the
street. There have been innumerable
inventions to keep the windows clear
in cold weather and some of the ex-
pensive ones are fairly successful.
This merchant has found the easiest
and cheapest. He puts an electric fan
in the window space. The fan blows
the air aainst the inside of the glass
hard enough so that there is always a
more or less lively circulation of air
over the face of the lass and this pre-
vents the formation of moisture
The Importance of having the win
dows clear can be understood when it
is realized that the show window rep
resents large percentage of the value
Of store for business purposes in the
shopping district. A store Lat rents
for $4,000 a month would not bring
anything like that sum without the
show windows.-Cleveland Plain Deal
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19

most distinguished names in france,
the men most eminent in all branches
of art and science, have unhesitatingly
promised their support to NJ. Pesce
Another scheme, it is true, for the re-
production of the existing ruins was
recently talked of, but this latter
scheme failed to receive support and
encouragement from the competent
specialists who had so ardently adopt
ed the idea, as NJ. Pesce calls it, of
Pompeii vivante. Pompeii undoubtedly
is a name to conjure with, one of those
magic words that have laid hold of the
Imagination of the world Even in
their existing state, whoever has had
the good fortune to visit the ruins of
PompeH has carried away an impress
sion that nothing can efface, and has
been haunted by the desire to behold
once more the vanished city which
the excavations of recent times have
partly brought to light
''The scheme of M. Pesce is almost
complete realization of this dream
! He proposes to restore to us the life OF
the forum, the camp, the gladiators,
the Temple of Isis, the theatre border
ing on the forum, the numerous shops
and public baths, and all those houses,
squads and open spaces where former
! ly were concentrated the life, the act
ivity, the pleasures, the celebrations
and public spectacles which made this
watering place by the Mediterranean
one of the most attractive spots in the
Italian peninsula No detail in the life
of Pompeii known to archaeology in
the period before the disappearance Of
the ancient town seems likely to be
neglected in this magical evocation,
and the spectator wandering across the
city will find himself suddenly in the
midst of that ancient life which, with
out this artificial aid, it would be SO
difficult even for the most learned i'm
aginatiOns to evoke. Numerous actors,
| in costumes archaeolOgically accurate,
will give to the city it's former ANNA
ton. The forum is to be crowded with
a constantly moving throng. The arena
will be given up to the gladiatorial
combat. The lines of shops will Of
fer the most varied products for sale.
| The charlatans and hawkers will
scream their wares in the streets.
Chariot wheels will follow the deep
dug ruts in the stone highways. The
mysteries will be celebrated in the
! Temple of Isis. Orators will harangue
the crowd in the public squares-in
fact, the whole town, repeoplied will
rise from the ashes beneath which it
was hurried in ono Of Tho most +nrrihIo
| of catastrophies. London Times
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
THE MAN WITH THE HOSE.

Dressed in the loudest vestments of
the day
Beside the sounding seashore he has
strayed,
The guileless guy of all the passing
throng
Who labor for their living and are
glad
For countless weeks no new idea has
roamed
The vacant chambers of his stunted
brain;
For him the present is the only time;
Tomorrow's hopes nor memory OF the
past
Have power to shift the current of his
dream,
For quite convinced is he that his in
deed
Are gayest of the gay in this years
Who plastered down his perfumed
locks?
VINO set MS Jaws agapo!
Whom does his work, that he from day
to day
May live devoid of toll,
A brother to the sacred cow
That at the circus chews it's peaceful
cud?
Perchance in ages past did Solomon
Take all the wisdom from race of
men
To add unto his store, and in return
Fine Taiment gave for what he took of
wit,
Whence was conceived this tribe
That never toll or spin.
Who knows but that at some far-dis-
tant day
This thing we make our mirth may,
cropping, find
A ballot box and vote just like a man?
Is his the right of franchise we hold
dear?
Shall men of brain and Drawn look on
at this
And silent be for shame? Let Jerry
Simpson say
If in his present guise
He passed beyond the portals of this
earth
And sought admission at the heavenly
gates,
What would st. Peter say?
Whose act shall set within this pump
kin head a light?
His cigarette doth scarce for mind suf-
fee,
Hath he no soul? Is he more sore be-
reft
Than cannibal or those of heather
isle?
Return in haste, o pious band! There's
work to do at home.
Arthur K. Taylor in Harper's Bazaar
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19

to it and insists on the government
being of the party for the party and by
the party, he ceases to be a patriot and
becomes a partisan. He is incapable
Of good citizenship, and all his preten-
sions are as sounding brass. Such are
the men who maintain rotten political
organizations solely for the purposes
Of public plumber. Such are the men
who make reform impossible. They
are some of them self-deceiyed and
think they love their country; but they
fail to distinguish between an affection
and an appetite.
There are some of our military and
naval people who want war so that
there may be glory, promotion, mill
tary prestige and all the pomp and
circumstance which give prominence
to their class. They think they are pa
triots; and they fight we'll and uphold
the flag braYely when war is on. But
the true patriot wants his country to
have peace. The war-breeding lingo
is no patriot He wants his country TO
bleed; he wants her treasure poured
out, her sons slain in battle, so that
there can be prominence to the arms
of the government, whose only utility
is not that they make war, but that
they keep the peace.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
DEATH RATE DECLINING.
of the Human Race Is In
creasing Year By Year.

All who hope and believe that the
conditions of human life throughout
the world are gradually improving will
find practical support for their hope
and belief in an address recently deliv-
cred before the British Medical associa-
ton by its president, Dr. Ward Cous-
ms. Among other things DR.. Cousins
discussed the future progress of pre-
ventive medicine and predicted
steady and great decline in the death
rate in the coming century. For the
realization of this great object he
looked above all, and rightly looked, to
an Improvement in the conditions and
in the dwellings of the working classes.
And he was especially right in point
ing out that this Improvement cannot
come from mere legislation. "Tha
great mass of the people must become
willing and active helpers" he said,
and in equally true words he showed
how largely the prevention of suffer
ing and the preservation of health are
within the reach of the working
classes in our great towns if they will
only cultivate temperance and clean
Illness. In this connection we are graf
flied to observe the action of the New
York health board in distributing
among the people a circular setting
forth in clear and simple language va
riOus easy methods to be observed for
the prevention of disease, the spread
of epidemics and some sound advice
generally in regard to heaIthful living
This is a practical service for the pub
lie good and it will undoubtedly be
successful to material degree in fur
Their decrease of the mortality rates.
Leslie's Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
PORTO RICO OF THE FUTURE.


'|Dulce! 81 vende! dulce!" aqua de
coco! Mucho fresco!" For a hun
dred years-yes, for two hundred
years-have these voices filled the
evening air and pleaded for patronage
from some fair buyer on the balconies
above, where idly the Spanish belle
wiles away the evening in laughter,
and casts longing eyes at the gay
caballero pormenadin beneath. A
generation hence and all this will have
passed away, and in the dy-
ing new strong nation
will have arisen-the old charming
picture gone, and new one of smok-
ing trains, burning trolleys, binding
lights, milk-man in wagon, and
huckster with one-horse cart, who
cries: Fish! Fresh !"-Harper's s.
Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
CUBAN WOMEN IN MOURNING

II there is one sight more pitiful in
Cuba than any other, it is the wo-
men in black. Frequent as they ara
IN Havana, where perhaps in some re-
mote part of the city they even ven
ture to hold out their hands to you as
you pass-women of refined appear
ance, too-the women in widows
weeds are the commonest sight in the
small towns and cities. It is hard to
tell where they got their mourning
garments. 1t is no exaggeration to
say that of dozen women on a street
in any Cuban village nine will be in
mourning. And their faces sad with
grief and thin with hunger even
months after the war had ceased!-
Harper's Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
CECIL THE FIRST.
Rhodes, The Man Who Eats Coun-
Try for His Breakfast"

A very readable character sketch of
Cecil Rhodes appears in Ainslee's,
written by Allen Sangree, a cores
pondent, recently returned from south
Africa. He says in part:
In the land that bears his name,
Cecil Rhodes receives the homage of a
monarch. He stands for the coun-
trys rise or fall. He is the source of
good and evil; praised for completing
a railroad and blamed for a continued
drought. Among white men he is a
subject of hero worship. To black
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
POMPEII TO BE REPRODUCED.
Not It's Ruins But as it Existed in all
It's Beauty.

Our Paris correspondent writes: "In
the midst of the incessant agitation of
the last two years, which has pre-
vented all those who write for the pub
lie from devoting their time and eff
forts to questions of art, I have been
conceived to render the Universal Ex-
position a brillian manifestation of
human genius. One Of the most cap
tivating ideas for persons enamored of
the beautiful is the scheme of Cheva-
ier Pesce, the architect Of the Italian
Embassy in Paris He proposes to re-
construct Pompeii-not the Pompeii
of the familiar ruins, but the brilliant
city as it existed before the stream of
fire from Vesuvius had buried it from
sight. This project has been in prep
aration for the past two years, and the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
PATRIOTISM.

patriotism" said DR.. Johnson, SIS
the last refuge of a scoundrel." The
remark was somewhat fogyish perhaps,
but it described a class of patriots of
the last century in England; and it ap-
plies to some noisy fellows in this
land of patriots, it must be owned.
When patriotism clamOrs for a sub
sidy for itself, in order that our flag
may float upon the seas and our COM
merce be extended, look out for that
kind of patriotism.
When patriotism is of the Colonel
Settlers order, ''for the old flag and an
appropriation" it is of the kind that
loves country as the cannibal loved
missionary. When a man loves his
country when he is in Office but wishes
it calamity when he is out, his patriot
ism falls within the Johnsonese defni-
ton.
When a fellow enlisted in the war
of the rebellion in the last days, got a
bounty of several hundred dollars and
never went to the front but slept two
or three weeks in barracks and comes
in for pension the rest of his life and
loves his country so we'll that he wants
his pension raised, he is one of the
sort of patriots that a country is the
worse for having, and can better be
confronted with armed foes in reason
able quantities to such patriots
When fellow loves his party and
hates everybody that does not belong
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
TAPS.

Sleep.
Now that the charge is won,
Sleep in the narrow clod;
Now it is set of sun,
Sleep till the trump of God.
Sleep.
Fame is a bugle call
Blown past a crumbling wall;
Battles are clean forgot;
Captains and towns are not,
Sleep.
Sleep shall outlast them all.
Sleep.
-Lizette Woodwork Re
CHIEF NEED IN SETTLEMENT
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-19
UNDER SEA PHONE
THOS A. EDISON, JR., SAYS He
HAS INVENTED IT.
FROM NEW YoRKTOLoNDON

But ali Attempt to Have Mr.. Mckinley
Open the Paris Exposition Is
Thrown Down" in a Rather Sum-
mary Manner-F'rench to Run
Their Own Show.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-06

itself prolific trusts
nopoies enormously expense
familiar
product Britain
they in America under protection
plentiful combine
trusts to do extended business and it
United the
as in he Great Britain
Mr. Blaine during 1885, made good use English
osri+o nocuous nara +bis oomnapy
Democratic institution by
Clark Jonas Brooks Broth
the absorption
United the joint capital being enough
indie
dent thread
to
adding the wealth OF men, enables them to bring more capt.
together that English
commercial enriched by traffic
wealthy control
something
selling The
monopoly
good times make
unduly rich?
puicans When
the price OF OIL and an money enabled every one 70 Dus Oh at
Republicans
the Republican all the time been mindful Of the
against trusts Inc congress put us nst IN
Legislatures active fruitsy
Democratic Federal
Republican Democrats
in
poco
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-06

The beginning of the end seems to
be at hand in China. Civil war has
now broken out and that means the
forcible entry of the country by foreign
troops and their indefinite stay. As
Europe and the United States cannot
afford to let Chinese revolution get
Roadway we may assume that they will
agree upon some plan of partition to
forestall such t.oubles in the future
Nothing politically better than that
could happen to the Chinese people.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-06

It Is gratifying to learn that the late
sovereign of Hawaii, who has returned
10 her old friends, takes more hopeful
view Of her physical condition than the
Mainland papers did when she left
Washington for her Island home. Lili-
uokalani is cheerful and even hopes to
make another trip to Washington, a
city with which she Is enamored. Since
coming to know American statesmen
she has a better opinion of them than
was her former wont, and has gained
withal, new poin,s of view which quail
fly her to give the native Hawaiians
wise political advice. 1t is not our prov
ince to counsel the Queen, but we car
a, least express the belief that word
from her, persuading the natives to
drop all thoughts of revengeful politics
and qualify as Americans would give
her brighter page in Hawaiian history
than that of any of her royal prede-
ceSsOrS
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-06

Hawaiian young men who want to go
to American colleges next year Ut I.o
expense for board and tuition, md IN
a salary of $500 per annum, would do
well to study for the entrance examina-
tions at West Point and Annapolis. Two
cadetships belong to Hawaii and will
be at the disposal Of our Delegate IN
Congress. There are no better schools
in the United States than the Military
and Naval Academies, and every COM
petent cadet is on the payrolls Of
the United States, and is sure of a cal-
aried and honorable profession wniie
his life lasts. We presume that as socn
as a Delegate is chosen he will TX a
time for competitive examinations here.
and that the two young men who sue
coed will have a chance to apply at
West Point and Annapolis one wear
fiom this month.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-06

The meeting Of the Hawaiian Evan
gelical Association is an event of an
nual interest in these Islands. 1t be-
gan on Sunday and will last until next
Sunday. AS the central influence OF
evangelical teaching in Hawaii the AS
ISOLATION is most important and dis
tinguished body and must be credited
with large part of the work of civil
lization not only here but in neigh
boring fields of missionary effort. The
meetings now going on are deeply in
tereeting to the Christian public.