The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-08-20

saw Tears COuISo OOHn Ills -OuS10 o0h .
cheeks when he read ISLANDERS about
himself. Once upon a time man
went about this state saying harsh
things about such men as Col. Will
liam Monroe, Col. A p. Butler, Gen
eral johnson Hagood, Senator j. b.
Earle, General John Bratton and Gov
ernor j. P. Richardson, who are dead,
and General NJ G. Butler and Major
Tom Woodward, who are allve.
Nobody ever saw them she'd tears.
Which proves only that some amen are
weepers and some are not.-Laurens
Advertiser.
Iowa occupies today a very import
ant position from a political point of
view. Two places in the Cabinet are
held by its sons. OF these posts one
of of the very first rank, the Secre.
taryship of the Treasury. Another
IoWan is the Speaker of The House of
Representative. and still another, saf-
ter long career Of prominent service,
is chairman Of the Committees on Ap-
propritaions in the Senate. The deliv-
erances of the convention of the ad-
ministration party in that state upon
public questions are therefore Of signi-
fcance. The platform adopted at Des
Moines on Wednesday, while declaring
that the Republican parry stands by
the policy of protection, yet asserts
that it favors asuch changes In the
tariff from time to time as may be-
come advisable through the progress
of our industries and their changing
relation to the commerce of the
world Further, the platform in
dorse reciprocity as the national
complement of protection and declares
in favor of any modification Of the
tariff schedules that may be required
to prevent their affording shelter to
monopoly. These declarations are
naturally Interpreted as leaning very
decidedly towards more liberal fiscal
policy.
American horses are In demand in
France. The French array purchases
annually large number of these AMI
mails, and on the farms they are grad
ually displacing cattle for draft pur-
poses. For many years the soil has
been cultivated almost entirely with
the aid of cows and oxen, but for this
work the superiority of the horse is
fully acknowledged. The introduc-
ton into France Of American agricul-
tural machinery, such as mowers,
reapers, drills, rakes, ETC., has also
led to the use of horses in greater
number than ever before. The exodus
of laborers from the farms to the cities
is still another explanation of the in
creased demand for draft animals.
This exodus is also responsible for the
increasing use of farm machinery.
The scythe is givino place to the
mower, the old-fashigned method OF
sowing to the modern drill, and these
machines are worked best by horses.
A leading agriculturist stated recently
that the demand for agricultural ma
chinery to replace hand labor on the
French farms viii be greater this year
than ever before
The Bell Telephone company is put
ting its wires under ground in Charles
ton. An ordinance passed in that city
Eve years ago required that wires
should be placed underground in ten
years. This gives the Bell people i've
years yet, but owing to improvements
contemplated in the central Office In
that city, the company will do the
wwork at once.
The condition of the Philippine
problem appears to press rather more
hardly on the boys in the ranks than
on the authorities in Washington and
Manila. Twenty more insane sol=
diers from the islands, it is report
ed, g recently passed through Chicago
on their way to the Government
Hospital for the Insane at Washing
ton. They we're bound securely in
chains
Farmers wives and daughters in
this State who would like TO make
money for themselves might get a hint
from the example of Mrs. A. P.
Croper, of Jay County, Ind. "She
has been in the business several years,
has two hundred swarms Of bees this
year and has marketed nearly 2,5OO
pounds of honey
|s The address issued by the negro
congress at Atlanta which has just
adjourned is one of the most encourag-
ing papers which has proceeded from
representatives of that race. It's mod
GRAFTON of statement, its modesty in
claiming negro progress and it's ration
al and temperate tone toward the white
people of the south are worthy of high
praise. It does seem that the more
advanced negroes are beginning at
last to grasp the situation and realize
in what direction the race must strive
to develop its possibilities. Taken in
connection with frequent editorials in
the negro journals now becoming nu-
merous in the south this declaration
shows that substantial progress is be-
ing made in the broadening and bet
tering of the mental attitude of the
race. When the impulse given from
the top shall spread to what we may
term the middle class Of negroes con-
ditions in the south will be greatly
improved. There is hope for the
negro, great hope, when the leaven OF
common sense is thus planted in his
brain-too long the home of harmful
vagaries and morbid aspirations.