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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
LIGHTS FOR BIRDS NESTS,
Some Curious Habits Practiced In
the World of SOnglom.

Some Curious Habits Practiced In
the World of SOngaOm.
Many birds suspend their nests from
the branches Of trees, one of the most
curious nests Of that kind being that
of the baya bird Of India. 1t is hung
from the branch, with it's opening at
the bottom. and hangs like an inverted
bottle, secure from the approach of
tree snakes and other reptiles. The
most curious thing about the baya
bird is that it is said to light up its
nest by sticking firehies on it's sides
with clay or soft mud. There seems to
be little doubt Of the fact.
DR.. Buchanan says: "At night each
Of the habitatiOns is lighted up by a
firefy stuck in the top with piece of
clay. The nest consists Of two rooms.
Sometimes there are three or four fire.
flies, and their blaze in the little cells
dazzles the eyes Of he bats, which of.
ten destroy the young Of these BIRDS"
Perhaps other animals are scared of
by the baya birds electric light. since
q writer in Nature records this curl.
Gus observation: 81 have been informed
on safe authority that the Indian bot.
tie bird protects his nest at night by
sticking several Of these glow beetles
around the entrance by means of clay.
and only few days back an intimate
friend Of my own was watching three
rats on roof rafter Of his bungalow.
When glow fly lodged very close to
them, the rats Immediately scampered
Off."-Our DuEb Animals.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
The Billing and Cooling.

Uncle GeOrge-YOu do not appear to
think 1t necessary to spend so much
time ut home as you did when you
were first married. l suppose the bill
Ing and cooling are all over now.
Harry-There doesn't seem to be
much Of let up in the billing. and,
as for the cooling, am dreadfully
afraid Of it. 1t Is sure to mean a new
hat or n new gown or n new some
thing.-BOstOn Transcript.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
Butler and French Said to
be Advancing Against the
POers.

London. Feb 6, 4 m Military
opinion continues TO assume, from
very slender materials, that Gen
Butler is again throwing his army
against the Boer works A retired
general. Sir VIM Henry Greene.
whose distinguished careei gives
weight to his opinion. thinks that
Gen Butler. with $4,000 men. is
making wide detour to the west
and north in order to avoid the
toughest parts of the country As
Gen Butler must have some thou
sands Of wagons, Sir Wm Greene
points out that the advance would
necessarily be slow No authentic
word is at hand, save that the war
Office resffirmed orally to newspaper
iuquirers ct . late hour that it could
not confirm the reported advance.
There the Natal situation rests
Il 10 from the western field that
more definite statements come
Large operations are apparently
about to begin Gen French. who
has now returned 10 Rensburg from
his conference with Lord Roberts,
has sent v'hst is described az On
overwhelming force of infantry, to
seize Norvsls Point This 10 where the
railway, before it was destroyed
crossed the Orange river and connect.
ed with the Free State trunk line tO
Bloemfonteio.
Norvals Point is l9 miles north oi
Colesburg and 25 miles from Gen
Frenot's headquarters at Rensberg
The Boers at Colesberg have been in
danger Cf being surrounded by the
largely REINFORCED and extending
lines of the British An occupation
OF Norvsls Point in force would
probably render Colesberg untens
bic
Wbstover may be tho actual si,ua
ton, there seems no doubt that Gen
Buller's preparations fer q fresh at
tempt to relieve Lsdysmith were
ccompleted Thursday or Friday. and
though the start was possibly defer
red from the date first selected, il
will not be long before it is definitely
known that Gen Buller's ic.oes are
again fighting their way towards
l.sdysmith Those, howsvcr. whc
expect Gen Butler to reach the hs.
lesguered town tonight seem to have
forgotten the presence of the Beers
The best Informed people. while san.
guine, folly realize that q British vic.
tory can only be achieved at Q heavy
cost
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
THE WAR In AFRICA.


Loodop. Feb 5, 430 q. M
Although there il 90 actual COO 6rms
too Of the report ,ha, Gen Butler has
rsesosssd the Tusels oo third despe
rate attempt to relieve Ladysuirh. It is
known that tho var Office has received
several South African dispatches whi.h
have not YET been published, aud il the
advance V 90 actual fact, the secret is
bsisg veil kept.
There ere newspaper dispatches 10
plsssy from Spearmso's camp up to
0ssdsy, bet there is 90 hiot tha, Gu
advance bad been bsguo. sod /, is
assuosd 10 come quartsrs here tina,
Lord Dssdossld's rseoo oois,snos 10
shs disssiss Of Hosgsrs Pos. nay b.
sbs esIy fouedssios for The statement
sAss Gee Bellss hes started
Os ths other hand. dispa,obss from
IAdyspish rather indicate that ne
sdvssss 10 10 operation BY reporting
Asssy asisg % Fridsy and Saturday
iseo shs directions OF PO,sis,sr's diff
ssd Colssso. '
A dispatch 10 The Daily Chronicle
iron Lsdysnish. dated yesterday, says :
"a ssposs bee sssshed as that ono
bsiesds he's crossed the rues:s d"
The reports shss 'hs Beers are recon.
ssssrasisg srousd Lsdysmiih are also
- isdisssios that preparations are
osisg made 10 resist Geo Buller. or for
a sssseps ss rsss,ssk upon the gsrri-
sou 10 anticipation Of bis advance
The fsos. however. that no hriog has
bsss reported under yesterdays date.
either from Lsdysmi,h or Spesrman's
ssop might bs Interpreted 90 meso
either that the sttempt bad failed o.
shss Geo Boiler hsd merely made q
dsaoossrs,ioo 90 Friday OF Saturday
Various rouors ere current Oos il
thss Geo Bullsr is again attacking
6piee kop from tho side of Gen Lyr
slssoo's camp. Another Is that be
received infosmatioo from the owper Of
Spios hop farm sod crossed by ford
farther west thso Tricbard's drift
The military aothori,ies ID Loudoo
tbisk IL more likely that the orossise 9
WOULD BE- made csst Of Zssrs's kop
Speculation. however, 10 useless The
psblie can only wait 10 patience, and
10 esy be said also. 10 ,rspidstioo.
Nor 10 The feeling OF soxisty much
ss'isvsd By the possibility that Geo
Bsllss bee bssu sidsssbly rssoforcsd d
sisss the disaster ~ Spioo top.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07

Of the tactics of infantry there 10
no end. but there are some simple
rules for the individual foot soldier
to remember when lost in the chaos
OF battle. says an exchange. If you
cannot bayonet your enemy, shoot
him if he goes away aim at the
base of bis spine But do not allow
your attention to be distracted from
business by the consideration that
other people are making q mark of
you. 1t is your duty to kill the
highest possible number of those
opposed to you, not to save your own
skin
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07

London. Feb. 5-The Pieter
harrisburg correspondent Of The
Daily Neil. telegrsphiDg yesterday
ssys:
"Gsn Butler hes undoubtedly 90
cured the rosd to Ladysmi,h and
should reach bic objective this week.
IL 10 believed here that the object OF
the Boers in occupying Ngu,u Zulu
land. 10 TO secure the road from Dun
dec TO Vrybeid. in case Of retreat
81 learn from Q reIisble source ths,
Gen Joubert was seriously injured
By . she'll in the fight at Willow
Grange. and that he will never b.
able 10 command again on horsebac
Ny informant Gays that he hss, in
fact, retired from the field
1.-THE Beers admit that the attack
on Lsdysmith was Q serious blunder
sod would never have occurred IL
Gen. Joubert bad been ia command
Gen Luoss Meyer played the coward
st Tslsns end sheltered himself In Q
He'd Cross wagon, shspming sick
ness BE hss been unable to face
see Boer' sisoe. and they threaten to
shoot him.
The Boers soy Great Britsio msde
. mistske 10 not sending Gen Sir
Evelyn Wood understand that
they still have thoussuds of bsgs nf
Aour stored 10 reserve ct Delagos
bsy."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
Charles H. Crsmp regards the South

Charles II. Crsmp regards the South
African war as serious menace 20
Eogland's commercial supremacy. He
lays that the war hss had such an effect
on the demand for vessels that .'the
c'imsx of Eoglaud's supremacy may
have been reached He thinks tha,
Germony has captured the North
Atlantic steamship trade permanently.
She will divide it later on with the
Uoited States. he believes, aud there
alter the United States, by reason of it's
superiority as a producing nation, will
occupy, with the Kaiser's Empire, the
position wbich England formerly held.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
GEN FRENCH ACTIVE.

Cape Town. Feb 5 "A dispatch
from Nasuwport says:
"There is great activity here and
on the Rensburg Hanover road. due
to the dispatch Of an overwhelming
force Of Infantry to seize Norval's
Point
THE cavalry. having completed
the reconnaissance, is being retired to
recoup Losses
The Boers at Colesberg are vir
tually surrounded
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07

Lsdysmitb, Feb 4 -(By heliogrsph
from Signal hilD-Tne gsrrisons
were much oheered by hearing Gen
Buller's guns yesterday The result
Of the engagement is not known
The Beers ere sgsin msssing near
Lsdysmith, also moving another gun
toward Surprise hill We are quite
ready for them II they contemplate
smother attack
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
PROTEST FROM KRUGER.

Cape Town. Feb 4-President
Sseyn aud President Kruger have
communicated with Field Marshal
Lord Roberts, the British commander
in-chief, protesting against the de
struction OF farm houses aud TIE de.
vasts'ion OF. property
Lord Roberts, ia replying. declared
the charges were not sustained, add
ing that wantoD destruction of prop.
er'y was contrary to British prsc
tices.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
B0ER5 AGAIN MAsSlNG.

Lsdysmiih, Saturday, Feb 3.-(By
heliogrsph vie Signal billy Gen Bul
les's guns have been heard again.
Otherwise IL 10 very quiet. We
are swsitipg further news Of bis
progress
There have been no further devel
opmep,s here Very few Beers re
main northeast Of the camp The
msjority ere concentrated south aud
west
The health Of the garrison 10 i'm
proved.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-07
Skin.

Each average human being has about
$1,000 square feet Of skin to look after
and nearly 100000 oil and sweat
glands. The outer layer Of skin is cou-
stantly wearing Off and must be con.
stantly removed to allow the new skin
beneath to form fresh. white and beau.
tiful
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-02-10
NEW DEPOT.
Superintendent Wilson and Foreman
ingalls, Looking Over the Ground
Today.

Superintendent c.. J. Wilson of the
Dakota division OF the Northern Paci-
fc and Foreman Ingalls, were in the
city today looking over the ground and
consulting with Agent Scott with re-
gard to the depot to be erected here by
the Northern Pacific as soon as the
Sheridan house is removed from the
present site. While the general plans
for the depot have been prepared there
are many "details ito be settled, and it
is with this view that Superintendent
Wilson has been looking over the
ground. It is desired to have the
depot large enough for future needs
as well as present, and the ideas of Mr..
Wilson and the local officials are for
a building 16S feet in length by 40 in
width. This will be a substantial and
commcdious structure, and while some
alterations in the plans may be made
by the general officers of the company,
there is no doubt that the new depot
will be AMPLY large and convenient.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-02-10
If you are candy hungry and want
some fresh goods, come in. Capital
Book Store.
s FINISHED.

In the hearing Of seventy-nine cases
of Cinnamon at Fargo for violating
the exclusion act, forty-eigllt were or
dered deported, twenty-eight admit
ted, two are yet to be disposed Of, and
one was too ill to attend the trial. The
Call says: The old Salvation Army
barracks was the g of a strange
mixture of grief and joy when the fort
innate Cinnamon, who had been adj
mitted by the United States court, took
a last farewell of those who were to be
deported. Tie lucky ones took the
train for the east, mostly for Chicago,
while the rejected ones will remain
for a few days, until the United States
marshal gets orders from the treasury
department. to escort. them to Seattle,
from where they Will be sent to China,
Moy Wing, one of those admitted, was
too ill to attend court, and it is prob
able that his lease of life is a Short
one. Tuberculosis, the doctors say
will claim him as a victim, and his
death is but a matter of a few weeks.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-02-10

be received by the collectors of the
ports, as emitting them to admission
into the United States. and which
Should only be open ito attach upon the
ground that it was obtained by fraud.
These people have been subjected
to a very great hardship. The expense
of conducting this litigation On their
part have been great. They have been
confined here-kept from their bust
ness-and subjected to tie humiliation
of such a processing. 1t ought not to
be necessary to do that. 1t would be
very easy to formulate a regulation
under which such certificates, could be
issued by the special agents of the
treasury department., or by some other
officer, before whom these Cinnamon
would appear i'm person, before they
left, with their witnesses. and estab-
lish their right to return-have that
fact certified-that would be cheap
and simple, and would not only estab-
lish the right of such persons to return,
but would naturally in the course of
time come to exclude all other persons
who did not have the certificates.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-02-10
A CHANGE NEEDED.

The trial of the Chinese exclusion
cases at Fargo is likely to result in an
investigation by the government of the
methods in vogue for bringing China
men into the country in violation of
the exclusion act, and a change in the
present system of identification at
ports of entry. In passing upon the
cases at Fargo, Judge Annidon said: j.
The records that have been made in
these cases showing the scope of the
investigation is a matter that reflects
great credit OH the district attorney
and upon the agents of the treasury
department. who have assisted him.
1t was a very difficult Investigation to
carry out, owing to the lack of knowd-
edge of the people, as to their customs
and practices, and also the mysterious
similarity of their names. | believe
the prosecution must result in great
benefit to an honest and impartial ad-
ministration of the Chinese Exclusion
act The records which have been
made in these cases leave no doubt
whatever that a system carefully pre-
pared by leading spirits-of importing
Chinese persons unlawfully into the
United States has been in vogue in the
city Of Chicago. s<@s4 ,
In order to admit a Chinaman it
must be shown that he is q merchant,
and in order to give a mercantile status
to Cinnamon small stores with trifiing
stock have been opened. and these peo-
pie are taken i'm as apparent partners
in these firms, for the purpose of get
ting them into the United States, and
not for the purpose of carrying on any
legitimate mercantile enterprise. There
is clear evidence, l think, that in many
cases some. OF the head men of these
concerns have been parties to this IN
lawful practice, and lit seems to me,
although the evidence is not such as
Dne would pronounce Judgment upon,
perhaps, that the read nature of these
sums which the Cinnamon have put
into these firms norninaaly as partners
have In fact been the price Of securing
their admission into the United States,
and that the parties interested in these
concerns have simply taken the money
and turned the Cinnamon loose. That
is the way it looks to me. upon the
records that have been introduced in
evidence. d.. .., .s
! might repeat at this time what /
have already said in other cases, that
I think it is the duty of the department
OF the government having the admin
istration of this Chinese exclusion act
I'm charge to promulgate some regula-
tons by which Cinnamon leaving this
country, who are entitled under the act
to reBuIn, may establish their right by
a heaFing before they go, which Will
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-02-10

He leaned out DER the rail,
The wild winds shrieked in wassai
weird, -...
He needed not their vail.
The steward stood upon the deck,
Come up! come up!' he said,
"Come up to dinner" he cried out,
The sick man bowed his head,
Not T. he moaned. my dinner, 1t
Is coming UP instead.
"Heave-ho! Heave-ho!" the sailors
shout,
In unison below,
The sick man raised his head and
sighed
And spake in accents low,
I'M do it without any tips,
Don't rub it in, you know"
'See! see the twinkling stars come up!'
A lady cal him cried,
The sick nan peered down in the deep
And gazed from side to side:
81 guess they have he said, "but where
Did | eat stars" he sighed.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-02-10
Els LIFE WAS SAVED.

Mr.. J. q. Lilly, a prominent citizen
of Hannibal. Mo-, lately had a wonder
full deliverance from a frightful death.
In telling of it he says: 81 was taken
with typhoid fever, that ran into pneu-
monia. My lungs became hardened. I
was SO weak I couldn't even sit up in
bed. Nothing helped me. I expected
to Don die Of consumption, when l
heard of DR.. Kings New Discovery.
One bottle gave me great relief. 1
continued to use it, and am now well
and strong. I can't say too much in
it's praise" This marvellous medicine
Is the surest and quickest cure in the
world for all throat and lung trouble.
Regular size 80 cents and 81. Trial
bottle free at P. G. Remington's drug
store; every bottle guaranteed.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-02-10
SOME PRAIRIE BREEZES.

WOULD IT BE TOO LATE.
Coin to separate ~today-after twenty
years, .5& al. ~.~. q.
Twenty years O. married life-mingled
smiles an tears,
Jes' drawed a deed for TIL. house an
furnishes q, goin' to stay,
An as for me, Pm goin' to quit-quit
an go away, "S
We can't hitch up no longer; I'm a
hangin' back,
A draggin' on the wagon wheel or else
she flies TIN track, .-E
Am when a team don't pull right,
the's nothing else to do,
But put shafts in TIL wagon, with one
horse stead O. two.
The's a vision sort o. comes to me-
comes through the mist an blur,
A vision o. twenty years ago. wonder
If It comes to her.
When the preacher Joined our hands in
his an said: my children give
Yer hearts am lives t each other as
long as We both shall live" E
| wonder if she remembers-Td sort o.
r like to know, : - ~4 ~ =,
I'd like to go and ask her, but o. it's
TOO late to go, .r.
Too Late to come togeHher-We've got
to face our fate,
I wonder If anything's sadder'n them
two words: "too late"
Twenty years--I was thirty then; I'm
over fifty now,
Seems sort o. childish business to
break up in row,
For. a man as old as ! am, am a woman
old as she,
Sort q old for people to find they can't
agree. ESa
I wonder it I was hasty? Mebbe ]
was I b'lieye
With an evener on TIL wagon ]
wouldn't had to leave,
An evene D Patience fh' balance
would sort o. make,
when we gotato goin' sideways, an let
us give an take.
/ wonder If + was t D go to her-go to
her an say:
We've been pulIin' urleyen-lef's try
another way,
Wen lengtllen th' temper strap a hole
and shorten up TIL tongue,
AM move th' load forrud a little so th'
WeightM be better hung.
Mebbe we've not been hitclaed up
T~igart-couid publ TIL load along
If we'd look TIL harness over an find
cut what was wrong"
I wonder III I was to 60 t her am put
fh' case am state
What I blieye TO be tn matter--if II
would be too later
55 TsBE -~-- &MM&3P$@
THE RHYaIE or THE SEASICR
PASSENGER.
A sesa-sfck passenger. was he,
Sea-sick and war and pabfe,
With feavfng breath and blood-shot
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Speaking of state funds in suspended
banks in the state, the Wahpeton Globe
says, with reference to some criticisms
that have been passed:
These banks suspended during the
disastrous period brought about by
democratic acknowledgement. The state
was supposed to be protected by bonds,
signed by men who could pay. 1t was
found, however, that the bondsmen
We're as poor as the banks, their assets
having been put in such condition by
the Democratic financial maelstrom
that to attempt to realize upon the
bonds would be. to involve all parties
in ineXtricable financial muddles. Men
who were good financially when they
signed the bonds had become involved,
and suits to force them to pay would
have been expensive and fruitless.
When Mckinley was elected, the bus
mess CT the country was put upon a
better basis, the management of the
banks, then in the hands of receivers,
commenced to realize upon the secur-
ities, and every little while dividends
were declared. until at this time more
than fifty per cen of the entire amount
in the five suspended banks has been
paid the state. 1t is quite likely that
the Citizens National of Fargo, and
the First National of Pembina will pay
out entirely, while the Grand Forks
National may pay so per cent. The
Second National of Grand Forks has
already paid more than fifty per cent,
and Will pay more. The Minot bank
is a case where little will be paid by
the receiver, and nothing can be col
lected from the bondsmen. n is
Deputy State Treasurer Cook fur
nishes the Globe with the following
statement which shows. the, amounts
that We're in the state repositories at
the time of their suspension, and the
amounts that are due:
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$76,216 OF $36, 1881


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