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The Jersey City news., 1902-11-17
CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION.
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5 sI44Ir. Cr' NEW JERsEY-DEPARTM
OF STATE.
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-17
ALLAN E. ANeNEY.

Notary Puhllc
IS ,al.)
Here follows certificate Parliamentary AIie-
gheny County as to authority Allan g. Angney
to take Acknowledgement
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-17
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Dated Jersey city. November II. 1902, S'F'
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-17

Mr.. Joseph Kaiser, the proprietor of
the Columbia Hall, Greenville, received
valuable rattlesnake skin yesterday from
friend in Florida. The skin is over six
feet long and there are twelve rattles on
the tail.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08
The Texas Boil Weeyil.

Galveston, Jan. 5.-From the re-
turns gathered and published by the
Galveston News, it is shown that 55
counties in Texas are more or less
affected by the boil weevil. Counties
of southern Texas being literally in
tested while in north Texas they have
only appeared in isolated counties.
The great cotton producing counties
of the State were attacked last year
for the first time in a threatening
manner and there is great dread for
the future. River counties suffered
most and river farms appear to be at
tackled. Wooded sections harbor Wee
vii in winter.
Taking the census figures of produc-
tions as a basis it is estimated that
the boil weevil destroyed cotton in the
several districts as follows:
Southwest Texas 100, 600 bales: east
Texas 1900: central Texas 45, COO;
north Texas none: coast district 80, :
GOO. Total 242, 800 bales.
In 1899 and 1900 Texas produced
2, 65S, $50 bales, according to the Uni
ted States census of which 1,55S, 500,
or over half were grown in the coun-
ties now infested with weevil.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08
THE FIRE RECORD.

Home figures recently given out by
the Insurance Press have brought
thinking people to reflection. It is
shown that within the last twenty-five
years the fire losses in the United
States have exceeded 81, 800, 600, 600 and
of this immense total the year 1901
contributed losses aggregating over
s17O, 900, 900. It is further stated in the
same publication that in this country
nearly 1,2o0 insurance companies, with
fully paid-up capital, not including
the mutual companies nor the social
ed Fire Lloyds, have failed or gone out
of business to avoid inevitable bank
ruptcy. But most of them have been
ruined by the losses incurred in the
conduct Of their business.
This is a serious question for busi-
ness men to consider, and serious
question, also, for lawmakers to con-
slider. The fire insurance companies of
the country are national blessing,
and it would be national diasaster for
them to be bankrupted. It makes a
discreet man fairly tremble to think
of being without insurance upon his
property, and if there were no fire in
surance companies the fire fend would
be terror indeed. It is, therefore,
in the interest of the public that these
insurance companies be preserved, and
it is also to our interest that they do
not raise the rates.
To that end there should be thorough
sympathy and harmony of action be-
tween the makers, the city and
town authorities of the country and the
insurance companies. The lawmakers
can do something at least toward re-
ducing what is called the moral risk.
The laws against incendiarism should
be severe and there should be a coro-
ner to investigate every fire that oc-
ours, especially under suspicious cir
cumstances. The authorities in the
cities and towns can do much to re-
duce the risk by having rigid build
ing regulations, by requiring the COM
plete insulation of the electric wires
which are now run into almost every
town building, and especially by hav-
ing good and efficient fire depart
ment and bountiful supply Of water.
If all these things be done we shall
have fewer disastrous fires and the in
surance companies will be able to make
living without increasing their rates.
This is very practical question and
it should be dealt with in a practical
manner.-Richmond Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08
IreIand's Industrial Revival.

A few days ago we reproduced IN
these columns the words of an Irish
member of parliament, detailing the
pathetic conditions existing among
the farmers in the west of Ireland.
He alleged that they were working on
farms too small and land too poor to
support them, and that all the best
land was owned by nonresident land
lords, who used it for sheep and cattle
pasturage, and would not lease it to
tenant farmers; that an organization
had been effected for the purpose of
forcing the lease of these lands, and
that there is every prospect of serious
times ahead in Ireland, two or three
Irish members having already been
put in prison.
AS an offset to the foregoing gloomy
picture we quote from an article in the
January North American Review, en-
titled Ireland's Industrial Revival, :"
in which Mr. Michael j. Magee,
member of the Irish board of agricul
ture, gives much interesting informa-
ton regarding the success of the move
ment for the rehabilitation of the in
dustries of the Emerald Isle which was
inaugurated few years ago through
the patriotic efforts of the Right
Hon. Horace Plunkett. The Irish
Agricultural Organization Society,
which was founded to introduce the
principles of organization and co-ope-
ration among Irish farmers, has now
nearly five hundred affiliated societies
established throughout Ireland, with
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

some so, 900 members, representing all
creeds and classes of the farming popu-
iation: and such an advance has been
made in agricultural methods that
Ireland has made substantial gains
upon her continental rivals for the
British market.
The creation of the state department
for agriculture and industries assured
to the movement the systematic aid
of the national government. and in the
existing situation Mr.. Magee sees
proof that at no distant date, his native
country, with commerce increased,
industry revived and trade developed,
will take her proper place in the mar
kets of the world. He says:
ga very important feature of the
work of the Irish Agricultural Organi-
zation society is the establishment OF
agricultural banks on the plan first
introduced into Germany by DR..
Rafeisen in 1s49. The system of the
agricultural bank may be described
shortly as follows: A body of farmers
form themselves into a society, and,
on their joint security, borrow money
from the newly established department.
of agriculture, or from some banking
company, at four or five per cent.
With the money thus secured, the
committee makes loans to approved
applicants at five or six per cent inter
est for productive purposes only. I'm
til this system was introduced the
Door Irish farmer in need of little
money was obliged to apply to some
gombeen' man, as country money
lenders are called, or to some loan
bank and almost invariably was
obliged to pay about thirty per cent
interest on the loan. Augusta
Chronicle.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08
A Confession of Defeat.

The supporters of the ship subsidy
bill were unable to pass that measure
through the last congress, but were
confident that they would build up a
sentiment and accumulate sufficient
votes to insure the success of their
scheme in the congress that has re-
Gently been organized.
The Journal has from time to time
called attention to the fact that the
ship subsidy bill was steadily losing
strength instead of gaining it.
Since the meeting of congress this
fact has become more evident. An
impartial view of the prospects OF
this raid upon the treasury makes It's
defeat seem very probable.
A member of the senate committee
on commerce, himself an ardent advo-
cate of the ship subsidy bill, is report
ed to have admitted recently that the
measure cannot pass.
He is quoted as follows by one Of
the most reliable of Washington cor
respondents:
Given if the bill were to pass the
senate it could not pass the house
with majority of the committee on
rules of that body opposed to it. Sen
ators Hanna and Frye have received
assurances that Speaker Henderson
will vote with the Democratic mem
bers of the committee on rules against
anv proposition to frame a rule for
this bill"
This is a very reasonable assurance
Of the doom of the ship subsidy
scheme. The senate is known to be
very close on the bill with the chances
in favor of a majority against 1T.
The outlook for the bill is still less
favorable in the house.
It would require very decided ma
iority in favor of it to overcome the
determined opposition of Speaker Hen
derson.
By his preferences for consideration
and the assertion of his authority as
ex-oficio chairman Of the committee
on rules the speaker has always the
power to keep from consideration any
measure that is not backed by an over
whelming majority of the house.
Those who know how stubborn
Speaker Henderson is do not doubt
that he will exercise his official inau-
ence and prerogatives to their fullest
extent against the ship subsidy grab.
Its advocates do not claim any
great majority for it in the house, and
the best informed of them practically
admit that they are making a hope
less fight at least in the present con-
gress.
Senator Frye, one of the chief spons-
Of tho
hoped and doubtless expected to rally
recruits for it when he introduced a
substitute which eliminates some of
the provisions of the original bill that
had been most severely attacked, but
the principle of the proposed legisla-
tion is maintained in the diluted form,
and it has arrayed against it an antag-
onism both in the country at large
and in congress that will kill it, un-
less all signs fail.-Atlanta Jonurnal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08
FACTS ABOUT COTTON.

Mr.. Alfred B. Shepperson's Got
ton Facts, +" edition of December, 1901,
is full of interest for those engaged in
the cotton business 1t continues TO
the close of the cotton season Of 1900
Oh all the statistics contained in pre-
vious issues, while some of the figures
are brought to December, 1901.
Anyone desiring any information
concerning the growth or movement Of
the cotton crop can find the fullest
and most authoritative information in
it's pages. Mr.. Shepperson thinks that
the agricultural departments estimate
of December 3rd was very inaccurate,
| and that it is about one and one-fourth
million bales below the concensus OF
opinion of the cotton exchanges of
the south. He argues that because OF
an error over the weight of the bales
of the crop, the governments publish
ed estimate of 1874, 600 bales was real
ly 400, 900 bales more than it should
have been on the basis of the govern
ment's own system of estimate, and
that carrying out its own figures, the
governments estimate should have
been 10, ,2S2, 100 bales, or one and one
fourth million bales less than the
average estimate.
"My own examination of the mat
tel, - says Mr.. Shepperson, "gives me
the very decided opinion that the
commercial crop will not vary matrial-
ly from 10, 500, 600 bales.
"Mr. Ellison's estimate says
Mr.. Shepperscn, indicates that
fully 10, TOO, ,0oO bales of American cot
ton will be used by the worlds mills
this season, unless there should unex-
pectedly occur very extensive and
widespread depression in general busi-
ness here or in Europe. A demand for
cotton upon this scale would undoubt-
edly hold prices considerably above
the parity of 8 lie. in New York, and
should recession occur on account of
increased acreage for the next crop, it
is unlikely that the decline would go
below 8c.-Augusta Chronicle.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

Buenos Ayres, January 4.-The dis
pute with Chill is again aggravated,
owing to the alleged unfairness of the
Chilian diplomats during the negotia-
tions. The Argentine Government,
having exhausted all efforts for peace,
is now proposing to break off the ne
gotiations and to suspend diplomatic
relations with Chill. It has ordered
that the navy ard army be placed on
a war footing. The people applaud the
attitude of the Government.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

Babana, January 2.-The central
board of scrutiny has made pubic the the
following returns Of the elections held
in Cuba, December 81: Thomas Il:
Estrada Palma, the Nationalist candl-
d1a date for the Presidency Of Cuba, has
fifty-fve 6fsy i've ell electors, while Gen. Maso, @
De- Democratic candidate, who Withdrew
from Go the campaign, has eight electors.
senor Palma secured the unanimous ma NOUS
electoral delegations from m, the b;o pI9s- %s-
tanzas tan and Santa Clara, and one cleo
tor toI.1tr from Puerto Principe and five
electors sIs from Santiago. Gen. Maso
sae4SyaI secTred three electors from Puerto
Principe and FIVE electors from santl. /,
ago. The following civl4 gogern99aII 9aI
were elected: Perez, IN P1nar oel
Rio: Nunez, in Havana; Lecuona,
IN in Matanzas; Gomez, in Santa
Clara; Ricio, in Puerto Principe
and EcheYarri, in Santiago Province.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08
Old Soldiers Experience

Nm Austin, civil war veteran, of
Winchester, Ind, writes "My wife was
sick long time in spite Of good doctors
treatment, but was wholly cured by DR.
Kings New Life Pills, which worked Won
ders for her health" They always DO
Try them. Only 25c at j F w DeLorme's
drug store .
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08
"HeII and Who will be There

1t is said that loal preacher up IN
Arkansas announced from his pull
pit few Sabbatbs ago that on the
following Sabbath he would preach on
the subject of Hell and Who Will Be
There - 1t is further said that on
the following day he received letters
from two saloon men, two butchers,
one groceryman, one ice man, two
local dealers, one baseball umpire and
forty-nine delinquent subscribers to
the local paper notifying him that If
he dared to mention their names in his
sermon they would withdraw their
support from his church and sue him
for slander.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

Minister Conger gave dinner at
his residence in Pekin, at which
American women and Chinese officials
were present. The meeting on a social
equality of Chinese officials with for
eign women has created sensation at
the Chinese capital.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08
QUARTERLY STATEMENT


OF THE CONDITION AND BUSINESS OF
Hhe Bank Of SUMTER Sumter, s. c.
At the close of the quarter ending Decem-
Der 81, 1901, published in conformity with
the Act of the General Assembly.
ASSETS.
Loans and Discounts, S192,717 SO
Bonds, 10000 90
Furniture and Fixtures, 1900 90
Cash in hand, Cash Items and
Cash due by other Banks
and Bankers, 46,881 80
Total, S253,099 43
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in, S $4,000 90
Deposits. 1911 10
Due to other Banks and Bank
ers, 1852 70
Dividends payable on and after
January 1, 1902, 5000 90
Undivided surplus, 1O,810 O3
! Total, s25s,oss 43
The State of South Carolina,
Sumter County,
I, W. F. RHAME, Cashier of S'The
Bank of Sumter" do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true, to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
W. F. RHAME, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
1st day of January, 1902.
MARK REYNOLDS, L. s..
Notary Public for S. c.
Correct Attest:
W.F. B. HAYNSWORTH,
President. D:.4
RICHD /. MANNING,
JNO. S. HUGHSON,
jan. s, 1901.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

sDsily. fDaily except Sunday.
No. o2 runs through to Go}7mhia viz Csa-
rel z. r. of s. c.
Leave Gibecn Gaiiy except Sunday 6 co
8 n, Beunettsville 90 m, arrive Darling
toa 90 ID, leavo Darlington SO n, az
rive Florence u n. Aesve Wadeshoro
iai!y except Sunday 60 n, Cheraw IS
. n, Esrtsviile 90 n. Darlington 50
. n, arrive glcrence 90 ? 70. Leave Dar-
lington Sunday only 80 70, arrive Plo
snce Is q m.
J.R KENLBI, JNO. F. DIVINE:
Geo'l Manager Gen'l Sup
q. u. EMERSON, Traffic Manager
TN. EMERSON. Gen'l Pass. Agent
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

Things are moving rapidly when one
alarm calls cut the fire department. to
two fires.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

g Former Fire Chief Boer, of New
York, has been chosen by the Presi-
dent to reorganize the Manila fire de-
partment on New York lines.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

Things are moving rapidly when one
alarm calls cut the FIRE department. to
two fires.
The fight in Ohio between Senators
Hanna and Foraker for control of the
Republcaa machinery is of national
Importance because it is an open
secret that Foraker is backed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who will need the
Ohio delegation in the next national
convention, and while Hanna remains
boss of Ohio Roosevelt is not certain
80 have that State solidly for him.
Mr. D. C. Hayward, who was in tbe
citv to attend the annual banquet OF
Gamecock Lodge, z. of P, has many
friends in Sumter and he is the favor
tie in the race for Governor. He does
not visit Somter often enough to
please his friends, but when he moves
up to Columbia next January he will
not have distance as an excuse for not
coming oftenes.
Ministerial Association is one
combinaSiea that the most violent
antitrust and anti-eombination man
cannot oppose. Is is union of bene-
6cent forces for the good Of the com
munity and Of ali people. The Minis
terial Association organized by the
pastors Of Sae churches Of this city
has our heagsiest best wishes and we
trust it viii accomplish great work
in Sumter.
If the railroads issue one secret cir
cular giving rates not authorized oy
the Raiiroaa Commission, as, for IN
stance, the rate on acid phoshate, IS
there not just ground for suspicion
that the often made charges of dis
criminatioa, secret rates, rebates to
favored parties, etc., are probably
true. The Railroad Commission is
most excellent institution and the
gentlemen who compose it doubtless
perform their duties as well as they
can. as we'll as draw their comfortable
salaries with regularity, but insofar
as regulating or controlling the rail
roads 1t does not seem to De pertecI
success.
Emperor William for whom a yacht
is being built in this country may be
fixing himself to capture cup from
the English TO be sort of Americas
cup for Germany.
Itmay be only a coincidence, but it
is peculiar enough TO attract atten-
ticn, that the collapse Of the Venzuela
Asphalt Trust which was primarily
responsible for ali the recent troubles
in Venezuela is followed by the an
nouncenent, by cable, from President
Castro that the revolution has come
to an end. The Asphalt Trust was
bitterly antagcnistic to President
Castro and the success of the revolu-
tion meant the overthrow of Castro,
bat revolutions cannot be carried on
without money, and as it has been
rsoorted from the first that the
Asphalt Trust was financing the
revolution it looks to wayfaring man
as if the two failures have some con-
nection.
Nov that the free mail delivery sys-
tenn is in, sight for Sumter we should
begin working for an appropriation
for possofice building. In other
States towns of far less Importance
have had handsome postoffices erected
by the government and Sumter should
have one also. We believe in spend
ing few less millions annually on
external expansion and benevolent as
similation and more on internal i'm
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

xnster Eatcamaan was rounse
10 6na the Trne Sourhron iD 1866
+ ggtcamay, and 4Somkroa nov has
h aced circulation and influence
o. # the old papers, and is mani
Is best advertising medium ID
s
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

The negro building at ehe Charles
ton Exposition will differ from most
other buildings on the grounds in
one important particular-it will not
be partially filed with before-the- war
relics. The negro exhibits are of the
present and show what the negroes have
done within the past thirty-fve years
an3 what they are doing today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-08

The Darlington News says scandals
are brewing in the dispensary and
wsrns everybody to look out Why is
it necessary to give this warning?
Hasn't there been a scandal
every year, and shouldn't the eS-
perience of the past be sufficient warn
ing for the future?
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-02-11
THIRTY YEARS.
Magnificent Record Of Ohio's
Great Presbyterian School
At Wooster.

Thirty years are nearly the length
of human generation. They cannot
measure the results Of q mans life; but
are enough to indicate the tendency
and probable results Of such 9 career
Is 1t not much more true Of . college?
The University of Wooster, at Wooster
Ohio, was founded little over thirty
years ago. What has she accomplish
ed?
During these years over 5000 young
men and women. have come into con-
tact with her teaching force, 1000 of
whom have finished her courses and
entered into the duties Of citizenship.
She has given back to the church
246 Christian ministers, 4s foreign mis-
sionaries, iO5 Christian lawyers, Sc
Christian physicians, 9 college presi-
dents, Al professors and instructors In
colleges and universities, Il super
intendents of public schools, 120 teach
ers ln public and private schools, 1s
journalists, Sc business men and 27 in
other helpful occupations. There are
25 of her alumni at present In theo-
logical seminaries.
With q past such as Wooster has
had, with a present such as she l.
living, it makes it right to prophesy
that her future work for the church
will be mightier than we dream OF
today as her final record.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-02-11
QUESTION STILL UNSETTLED.


The pretty young woman with the
fur-trimmed jacket, leaving the train
as il rolled into the Dearborn station,
walked briskly toward the exit.
She was met by tall, good looking
young man with q large and beaming
smile on his face.
Il was sure you would be here,
Jsck," she said, holding out her hand
He made no verbal reply.
He merely stopped, gathered her il
his arms, and implanted kiss on hel
upturned lips.
The comments by the suburbanit,
observers were substantially as fol
lows:
"Yum! YUM"
80, Jack! o. o, o, jack"
HE met her all right, anyhow"
"Don't, Jack, dsarl'
Break swayp
Don't block the procession"
Before all these people, tool"
lone more, dearest"
"What would mamma sayP"
80, Jack, how cold your nose Isl"
"'Vent dubs!"
Etc.
Who says all the world loves . lover
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-02-11

''If you're hungry" said the charita'
BILE housewife, ''come in and l will
give you something to eat"
"Ma'am," replied Weary Willy, the
diplomat, 'there amt nothin' I'd like
better. but I'm afeerd."
AFRAID of whar?"
ivy, ma'am, ii I was to eat yer fine
cochin an victuals I'd eddycate mt
stummick up SOS it wouldn't stand fer
wot I has to give 1t reg lar, an II
starve to death. Thank ye kindly
ma am, but If you'll jest give me quar-
ter instead it won't be gettin' me STUN
mick into bad habits"
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-02-11
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