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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-09-25

Canton, Sept. 19.-President ssRoose-
yelt has informed Mrs. Mckinley
through Secretary Cortelyou, that in
pursuance of the intention of the late
President Mckinley, and in recognl-
ton of devoted services, as we'll as be-
cause OF eminent fitness, Medical
Inspector P. NJ. Rixey will be appoint
ed surgeon general Of the navy upon
the expiration of the term Of Surgeon
General Van Reypen.
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Reflections of a Bachelor.
New York Press.

Our good deeds slip away easily; our
sins ride US with whip and spur.
From youth we learn nothing about
AGE. but from age We learn all we
know about youth.
A bachelor is one because he could,
but wouldn't; maid because she
would, but couldn't.
It isn't worse, but somehow it al
ways seems worse, to be half a liar
than half truthful.
Love that has to be carried in the
door with supporting arms can lit out
the window with its own wings.
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NOTE: In addition TO the above service
trains Nos. Is and IL run daily between Charles
ton and Columbia, carrying elegant Pullman
sleeping cars. No. Is leave Charleston II oo p.
m. arrive Asheville 200 p. m. No. l6 leave
Columbia :35 a. m. arrive Charleston ~ a; q;
m. Sleeping cars ready for occupancy at 9:39
p M both at Charleston and Columbia. These
trains make close connections at Columbia
with through trains between Florida points
and Washington and the east. Trains Nos: 10
and IA carryElegant Pullman Parlor Cars be
tween Charleston. Summerville and Asheville.
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This paper and the Atlanta
Twice>a>Week Journal for
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

On Eastern Monday morning the
blacksmiths all over the land, follow.
ing on immemorial custom, put on
new leather aprons. They do this
twice q year, at the Easter and Christ.
mas holidays. Dealers expect it of
them, and lay in a great stock in al
vance. The most recherche black
smiths apron is now made of sheep
skin. 1t has a diamond-shaped bib to
V the breast, but fashion dictates
that this should not be worn up, but
should fall from the waist down over
the stomach carelessly. The apron
fastens behind with two brass buttons,
and ONE in three colors - white,
lemon and tan. The white one, which
is affected by the younger and more
modish sort of blacksmith, is re-en-
forced and padded at the knees for
horseshoeing and such like work. This
Is an effeminaney disdained by the
and hardy blacksmith of the
old school. Though all aprons are slit
up the middle to the thigh, they still
continue to be sold unslit. 1t is be-
cause the manufacturers are not pro-
gressive. An apron costs 81 and lasts
about six months.-Philadelphia Rec
ord
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
Care In Buying Seeds.

1t is often perpleXing to an amateur
to know what quantity of seeds he
ought to procure for the seasons sup
ply. If he leaves it to the jobbing
men he may meet with disappointment
or he may not, all depending upon the
integrity and knowledge of the work
man. The best plan is to buy ones
own seeds from some reliable source.
or, If it is preferred to obtain them To-
cally, they should be in packets bear
ing the name of a well-known mer-
chant, and showing the date of the
current year upon them. This insures
that fresh article is being obtained.
and that under normal conditions the
seeds will grow and produce crops
of a good type. 1t is mistaken
economy to buy cheap seeds. They
may grow well, and yet the crop
be inferior for want of the necessary
care in the selection. of the stock. In
aprearance seeds do not tell the pur-
chaser much, as a worthless strain Of
ten looks quite as good as that of a
superior grade. Then, again, size, ap-
pearance II germlnatlVe power nave
little to do with the actual quality of
some seeds.
Just the same system is applied to
seed raising and plant breeding as to
live stock. The important firms have
their special strains, which possess a
pedigree upon similar lines to a first
class ace horse or a prize bullock,
There are mongrel seeds in plenty in
every direction that have neither char
acter nor quality to recommend them,
and enormous quantities of this de
scriptlon are imported into the country
every season, and eagerly bought by
amateurs and others because of their
cheapness. The produce from such
crops is not worth the room occupied
in the ground.-London Daily Tele-
graph.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
In All Parts of the State.

Shad fishing has begun in earnest.
Millville only had fifteen alarms of
fire during the past year.
DR.. II. e. Park, of W~hitehouse, has
been appointed Fish and Game Ward
EN- for Hunterdon County.
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Mickle, well-known residents of
Vineland, was found smothered to
death in bed.
The receipts for the past year in the
Glassboro p~ostoffice are the largest on
record, and will result in an increase
of 800 in the salary of Postmaster
Sickler.
The vaccination process continues
throughout South Jersey, and it is es-
timated that seventy-fve per cent. of
the pupils of the public schools have
undergone the operation within the
past month.
Owing to a mad dog scare at Mays
Landing the Township Committee
passed an ordinance requiring all dogs
TO be muZzled between March rs and
September 80. All dogs running at
large unmuzzled will be killed.
Almonesson trolley branch is being
put in condition for anticipated travel
to that resort, which, it is said, will
boom this season.
Isaac PiersOn will carry the Pitts
grove mail, having been awarded the
contract for four years at 500 more
than under the last contract.
A blight is affecting the apple or
chards of Salem County, particularly
in the vicinity of Lower Alloway.
One farmer ventures the assertion
that if spraying is not speedily done
there will be little fruit there this sea-
SON.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

when she had left the church, and it
hardly seemed a moment before she
was standing beside the bed of the lit
tie sick girl, with the Mayiower in her
hand.
"Oh, motherkins, how lovely! Where
did you get it? And is it for me? 1t
must have come right straight out of
the woods." the sick child cried, joy
fully.
Hurry back to church motherklns,
or you'll be late" she added presently,
when the flower had been placed in a
tiny crystal vase and the table sup
porting it drawn very near to her bed
side. II wouldn't have you miss that
service for anything in the world"
When the pale lady had left the room
again the child drew the table even
nearer to her bedside, and all morning
the Mayhower leaned over the edge
of the vase and told her beautiful
stories, in the wordless language
which only children and flowers and
a few others know and understand, I'M
til the little sick girl forgot to be tired
or impatient OF her illness. Inc stories
were all about the woods and the trees
and the ferns and the flowers.
Long before the tales were finished
the child felt her eyelids growing
heavy and less feverish. just as if a
gentle, cool hand had been lightly laid
upon them, and when the pale lady
came back from the morning service,
bringing a great sheaf of odorous and
perfect Easter lilies with her, the May
flower was the only n of Gods chill
dren awake in the room. And even its
head was beginning to droop YEARLY.
1t only lived until sunset, that little
white blossom, for Mayfiowers are as
fragile as lovely, and they seldom live
long away from the woods and the
fields. Then the pale lady kissed the
dead Mayfower tenderly and took it.
all brown and wlthered, from the table
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

Statistician Robert P. Porter cal
culates that if things go ON during
the present century as they did in
the past one, our population one hun
dred years hence will be about 300,-
100000. On the other hand, if the
fight for life should get hotter and the
young folks should conclude not to get
married until they are several years
older than the present average mar
riage age the effect upon the popula-
ton would be quite different. There
is, of course, nc objection to the sta
tisticians making forecasts, as they
seem to enjoy that sort of thing, but
it will probably be better to await
developments before taking the census
of the year 2001, states the Boston
Commercial.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

The work-a-day world in great
cities is served largely by high speed
engines and high pressure boilers, and
the terrible explosion at Chicago The
other day, affords distressing evil
dence Of the calamitous results of CIV
ing the mastery even for an instant
to the invaluable servant of industrial
communities. Perfect construction
and rigid inspection afford almost
absolute guarantees of public safety;
yet none the less is eternal vigilance
the price of security. =.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

This is assuredly the generation of
the specialist in all professions and
all lines of business. One of the lat
est additions to the ever-swelling
ranks is the photographer who makes
a speciality of women's photographs.
And while he is most successful in
his chosen line, strange TO say he is
not an adept In the art of lattering
the sitter to the point that the picture
bears scarcely any likeness to the or
iginal. Rather, he produces a series of
portraits, each one depicting some
passing mood or characteristic, so
that ones friends can choose the one
which seems to each most natural.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

a learned member of the faculty OF
Harvard University predicts with con
fidence that this cen ury is to be the
true golden age in the worlds history.
He says that improved methods in
extracting the precious ore from allu-
vial lands and all sorts of deposits in
which the percentage of the metal is
extremely small will result in an en-
ormous expansion in the supply, and
that within fifty years at most the
quantity of gold obtained from an i'm
mense area of the earth's surface will
be multiplied many times. He takes
a rosy view of the results of the
vast increase in production. believing
that prosperity, eontentment and the
good things of life will be dlffused
much more extensively than at pres
emit
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
Eastcr a Pagan Title.

The pagans gave Easter its title, be-
slowing 1t after it had for centuries be-
longed to their spring goddess, to
whom they paid tribute in the bud
time. The Anglo-Saxon brought to
England their worship of the spring
divinity, carried on through huge bon
fires and ceremonial rites. The church
has turned these material ideas into
something higher, and in the Easter
candle Is represented the holy fire Of
regeneration in the believing heart.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
CHINA REFUSES TO SIGN
Unable to Agree to the Russian De-
mand For Manchuria.
CANNOT FAVOR ANY ONE POWER

The Formal Notification Says That, ow.
ing to the Attitude of the Powers,
China is Not Able to Sign the Man.
churian Co~nvention-Court Said to De.
spair of a Peaceful Settlement.
Pekin, China.-The Chinese Govern.
ment has formally notified Russia that
China, owing to the attitude of the
Powers, is not able to sign the Man
churia convention.
st is China's desire" says the
formal notification, ito keep on friend
" terms with all nations. AT present
she is going through a period which
is the most pcrilous in the empires
history, and it is necessary that she
should have the friendship Of all.
However much she might be will.
ing to grant any special privilege to
one Power, when others object it Is
impossible that, for the sake of max
ing IL nation friendly, she should
ALLEVIATE the sympathies of all Others"
Li-Hung-Chang says this letter set
Ties the matter definitely.
Prince Ching asserts that every
Chinaman except Li-Hung-Chang was
against signing the convention.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
PARTITION BETWEEN THE RUNS.

also one window in each end, just
above the double wall. There is a
door at each end of alley. The six
runs are separated by movable parti-
tons and are also covered. In these
respects it differs from other brooder
houses 1 have seen. After using for
two years l would not go back to open
runs again.
The partition is made Of one and u
half inch lath split lengthways. Two
strips at a and b project n inch and
fit in mortlses in the double wall. The
opposite end drops between two cleats
on the side of the brooder. The
is also made of split lath, except the
outside and crosspleces, which are full
width. The cover is hinged at a a to
top of double wall and the other end
rests on top of brooder. The sliding
door in cover is for feeding and water
ing.
At evening, while the chicks are In
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
AATH COVER OVER RUNS.

brooder or in the middle of the day,
while they are in outside runs, the
covers are raised and hooked to the
ceiling, the partitions are lifted out.
throwing all the runs into one and are
very easily cleaned. The advantages
are when the chicks are put into the
runs they are there to stay. There is
no flying over partitions, nor flying out
of doors opened when watering or
feeding, as the slip doors can be
opened just enough to put in anything
desired, as trough, drinking fountain,
etc. w. ]. Nicholson, in American
Agriculturist.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
CHICAGO CORN KING SQUEEZED.
George II. Phillips, Attacked by the Bears
Puts Up $500 600 in Margins.

Chicago.-George II. Phillips, leader
of an army of farmers and country in.
vestors In the pull campaign in corn,
oats and wheat, was attacked by the
united bear forces of the Board of
Trade, led by half a dozen great
speculative generals, and given such
Il fight as brokers will speak about fol-
years to come
He saw three cents clipped off the
price of wheat, two cents off o + and
more than a cent off oats. He put up
100000 in margins, in addition to
100000 he had put up within three
days. He sacrificed all his wheat
holdings in order TO make himself
stronger in corr and oats. AT the end
of the day he was as confident as ever
that he would win in tAe end.
Now he predicts sixty cent corr by
the end of the month, instead of fifty
cen corn, which he had talked be-
fore
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

Jacob Mueller was buried at Egs
Harbor City recently. He had con
Quoted a large furniture business and
left an estate of about $1,000 % His
nephew, Christian Mueller, who had
been associated with him in the bust
ness for several years. was ~bequeathed
100000. Young Mueller went to the
store, as usual. a few days ago, but
when he failed to return home his
wife went to look for him. She found
his body in the store, with a bullet
hole in his head and a revolver
grasped in his hand. No cause for his
apparent suicide is known, but it is
thought that Mueller killed himself in
a fit of dependency. He was thirty
eight years old.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

their heads eagerly TO drink it all in
and to praise God also with smiling
faces and sweet perfume, a lady with
a pale face, which she tried hard to
keep bright and cheerful, came and
stood beside the big bowl of wild flow
ers for a few moments.
Are they not beautiful" she asked
of the minister, who stood there with
her. "And Go see that dear little white
Mayfower. Doesn't it seem to bring
all the sweetness of the wild wood
right to one? How I wish l had that
one flower, 10 take to my sick little
girl at home! l do believe she would
feel better all day for having seen it,"
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

A Tall Mems Club has been organ
lied in tie University of Pennsylvania.
1t has twelve members, each of whom
is six feet, two inches. or more in
height. Six other men, termed ''shor-
ties because they are only six feet
one inch in height, are associate men,
bers. The names of the officers are
the Moon Hitter, the Skyscraper and
the Ceiling Buster.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

Recent details Of exports show that
Great Britain is buying more boots
and shoes OF American make every
year. The British manufacturers
have been addicted to ponderous foot
gear built to last, but generally too
thick, heavy and clumsy for easy
wearing. Brother Jonathan taught
John Bull long ago that in carriages
and wagons and all sorts of things
on wheels he could combine lightness
with strength and safety. And now
he is giving him lessons in leather.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
coUNclLMEN ARE coERcED.
Indignant Citizens Prevent the Granting o.
Unpopular Street Railway Franchises.

Kansas City, Kan.-At a meeting
of the City Council some measures
granting valuable franchises to the
Metropolitan Street Railway Com.
pany were up for consideration. The
balconies We're crowded with citi.
2ens who oppose the measure, and
when the Franchise Committee report
ed favorably upon the bills, the crowd
surged to the floor of the chamber,
and only the more conservative ele.
ment saved the Councilmen from vio-
lence. Ropes We're in evidence. and
serious trouble was imminent for q
Action on the measure was deferred
until the next meeting of the Council,
but before adjournment the protest
ing citizens compelled each Council
man to stand on a table and swear
that he would vote against the grant
ing of the franchises, and the Mayor
was forced to swear that he would
veto the measure if passed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

Fashion has again stolen part of
Easter day from the church. 1t was
established by religion, it has been
taken by the world. The way fash
ion has utilized the festival is to make
It an occasion of dress parade, a time
of Haunting of fine garments and new
headgear. Along the line of gift CIV
ing fashion also steps in. 1t expands
the simple Pasche egg dyed with bril-
liant colors to a jewel box or a basket
of splendid flowers worth the ransom
of q king.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
Pupils See an Odd Head.

Principal Frederick G. Torrey had
on exhibition before the pupils of his
school at Millbnrn, a South American
Indians head. There is said to be
only n other of its kind in the coun-
try. The other is on exhibition in the
Smithsonian Institution. The head is
about the size of a baseball and was
reduced by a secret s%hrinkage pro-
cess, formerly known by q certain
tribe, which is said to have lost the
art. The features have been retained
perfectly. 1t is said that only a victim
of war ever meets with this fate of
head reduction. The head was given
to Mr.. Torrey by a friend.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

"A new province is to be formed in
india by placing the four districts of
the Punjab that lie beyond the Indus,
under a government of their own.
They are the extreme northwest dis
tricts that have been the scenes of
the recent petty wars, Peshawur, Ko.
hat, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan,
with the political agencies of Dir.
Swat, Chitral, the khalbar, the Ku.
ram Toehi and Wanna.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
"REsURREoTIoNu-BY CARRACCI.

typical flower of the Eastertide, were
orange and purple, but it is centuries
since the white bell showed itself, and
at once became a symbol of purity to
stand for ages. Solomon spoke of the
orange and the purple flower. Homer
referred to the same gorgeous clusters
in his songs of praise. 1t was only
after Clovis met the angel, who babe
him embroider the lily In white on his
armorial bearings, that that flower be-
came the emblem of the Christian peo-
H.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
DRANK SHARKS BLOOD TO LIVE.
Shipwrecked Men Picked Up After Many
Days of Suffering.

bHys OF suHeTihg.
Cape Town, South Africa.-The Nor.
wegian bark Andromeda has landed
at this port part of the crew Of the
French bark Psyche. The men were
picked up in mid-ocean after having
undergone terrible sutferings.
The Psyche, which was bound from
Caleta Buena for the English Channel,
was wrecked on January 80. The cap
tain and thirteen men entered a large
boat and the mate and FIVE men a
small one.
The next day a sail was sighted, and
the mates boat attempted to intercept
it, but never returned. Several other
ships were sighted, but the ship
wrecked men We're unable to attract
their attention.
Rough weather increased their suf.
ferings. When the small supply of
food was exhausted a shark was
caught and the men drank its blood.
The cook died insane and a sailor also
succumbed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

The big shirt factory of Kohlenzer
& Dazain, at Jamesburg. was de
stroyed by fire. The flames started in
Benefits fruit store, adjoining the
factory, leaped to the factory, and
thence spread to the grocery store of
Louis Mount, which was totally de-
stroyed. The loss is estimated at be-
tween $50 900 and eGo,nnn The insnr-
ance Is suiu TO be about 10000 in
o1l
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

King Edward VII. and the German
Emperor are the only two persons who
are both Field Marshals of the Eng
fish army and Admirals of the Brit
ish fleet. There are now nine British
Field Marshals and seven Admirals.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
Fatal Riot in a swiss Town.

A terrible riot has occurred al
Bienne, in the Valley of Chamounix
Switzerland. owing TO the Municipal
Council selling land ON which the PEG
pie had enjoyed grazing rights. The
inhabitants tried to set fire to the
Town Hall, and a fierce conflict en-
sued between the rioters and the gend
armes, Ten persons were killed ano
fifteen injured.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05

The locust is one of the greatest
nests man has to deal with. He is al
ways hungry. and lays waste every
place he travels over. OF the $1,000
900 square miles covering the surface
of the earth, 100000 are more or
less subject to the scourge of this in
sect with the giant appetite.