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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-08
gurman Suggests That a Celebra-
lion be Held in Her Honor Next
Month.
TO the Editor of The State

TO the Editor of The State:
Nearly 363 years ago q strange scene
took place on the banks of a large riv-
er. 1t was a scene full of historical
interest and Importance scene that
NAV well be painted by. some great
artist, for it was the meeting between
the proud and naughty Spaniard,
fernando DeSoto, and the beautiful
queen Of CoitachiqSi.
just here let as pause and say that
most of cur readers know just about
as much concerning the queen of
Co6tacihqni as did Abraham, Attilla
or Haroun Al Rasehid, SO we will
simply state that she was an Indian
ruler with an interesting history who
entertained DeSoto in the spring of
i540 and whose town of Co6tachiqui
is supposed by some historical in
Eestigators to have stood at Silver
Bluff, in our modern county of Aiken.
It is not our purpose to write an
article about this queen, only to sug-
gest celebration in honor of her
memory.
1t appears that DeSoto left the In
dian settlement of Coitachiqui early
In the month of May and as that would
be three centuries, three score and
three years next month, we think the
time would not be inappropriate to
hold a celebration. Our suggestion
is simply this; Some time next month
let the white people in the surround
ing country have a picnic at Silver
B3af and let some one be invited to
deliver short historical address on
the queen of Coftachiqui. We think
the Hon. D. S. Henderson would be
an excellent person to make such an
address. He lives in Aiken county, is
graceful speaker and we think could
make the subject interesting to all
present. Mcdonald Furman.
Privateer, Sumter county, April l.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-08
ATTENTION, FARMERS!
Plant the Winners.

GROWN especially for planting seed
from the choicest and most highly i'm
proved seed of its variety.
have for sale
Russell Big Boil Cotton Seed.
Improved King Cotton Seed.
Excelsior Cotton Seed.
Improved Upland Rice.
Georgia Buck Sweet Potatoes.
The King of al Bread Corns, and the
old reliable Gourd Seed Stock Com.
Make your wants known to
". Z. SAUNDERS,
stateaurg, S. G.
March 1s-1rn.*
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-08
Greatest Of All Physicians.
Eminent Discoverer of
PAlNE'S CELERY
COMPOUND

Prof. Edward E. phelps, NJ. D., IL. D.,
was born in Connecticut and graduated at
Yale.
His unusual talent soon brought him reputa-
ton and prominence. First he was elected 10
the professorship of anatomy and surgery in
The Vermont University. Next he was ap-
pointed lecturer in Dartmouth College. The
following year he was chosen to the most
important professorship in the country. a
place that he occupied when he made his
world famed discovery of Paine's Celery Com
pound. :,
result from an impaired nervous system and
impure blood, has endeared the great doctor
to the world.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-08
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
SUMTER,

Total protection to depositors, $4,000 oe
Transacts General Banking Business.
Special sttention given to collections
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-08

Crum is in Office at last and probably
be enjoys the little brief and offensive
authority which President Roosevelt
has put into his hands, but his people
may we'll rue the day when be sacri-
feed the regard of the community upon
which he is dependent for short
tenure of political ofice.-Charleston
Post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-08

At four places in his coming Western
tip, says a Washington dispatch,
President Roosevelt will break away
from all the members Of his party and
go into the woods far from Tie eye
of man, to commune with nature. 1t
is safe to assume, however, that the
photographers and the reporters will
be on hand during the communing to
illustrate and describe to Visiting
aud anxious world just how the Presi-
dent does it. ..a.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-08
4 PAINT SHOP

kept by a practical painter Of
30years' experience, where can
be got Lead and Oil mixed any
color, also Ready Mixed Paints
ard Paints for different use,
such as Floor, Roof, iron, Var
nishes. Bronze, Sandpaper, Put
ty, Gold Leaf, Dry Colors, Calso-
mine, etc. I want some work
painting and uphoIstering. |
will paint your house, Kalso-
mine or paper the walls cheap,
for while at work [ am very
apt to find a Sofa, Rocker, or
sideboard that needs scraping
andvarnishing, also upholstered.
l have some pretty colors in
Morocoline, Hair Cloth, Mohair
Plush, or l may find a Car
riage or Buggy that | will paint
for ten dollars and give you a
set Of harness free, or paint the
buggy for five dollars and no
gift Buggy tops 5000, fitted
on. Whee S, steel tires, painted
and put on ready for road,
$1,000 per sett Shafts, paint
ed and trimmed, $500.
Agent for Councils self-lu-
bricating Axles.
Office in Curtis Houses, No
326 South Main street.
II. 3. CURTIS.
Phone 1876. | paint signs.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-08
GUN and LOCksMITH.


I take pleasure in giving no.
tice to my friends and the pub,
lie generally, that, having re-
gained my health, l have re-
opened my shop, and am ready
to do any work in the
line Of Guns, Locks, Sewing
Machines, &c. Prices reasona-
ble, work done promptly and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop removed to No. %
West Liberty street, two doors
from Osteen's Book Store.
r. S. BRADWELL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
The Development Of Canada.

James j. Hill said recently:
There is no reason why Canada may
not have a population of 50,00O,OOO
within the next fifty years." There
are many in Canada who believe it.
It is possible. England believes it.
Many of our own f~ar-seeing men be-
lieve it. The Hon. James A. Smart,
Deputy Minister of the Interior, and
the most able head of this depart
ment, in the absence of the Minister,
the Hon. MI. Sifton, in his recent re-
port before his committee stated that
the immigration of the last eleven
months has been the greatest by far
in the history of Canada-something
like 100000.
The stream has only begun to flow.
The great wheat belts, 1900 miles
long and some 400 miles wide, will be
plOwed and harvested, all of it.
Manitoba alone has 25,OOO,OOO acres
of arabic land. Only about 900
acres have been plowed. There is a
great future for Canada. She knows
it; feels it; throbs it, east and west,
and she is willing to share it with
our own Northwest! The ~interna-
tiOnal boundary-line is not a physi-
cal buarrier, nor a commercial one,
nor seriously a political one.-Satur-
day Evening Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
What the Low Administration Has no,.
fOr New York.

These items may be put to tho
credit of the present reform admins.
tration: A cleaner and more health
full city, with better kept parks and
streets, projected and ACCOMPLISHED
public improvements including docks
bridges, small parks, street signs
free baths, and buildings; a more Of,
fcient and better organized police
force; the breaking of the system
of police blackmail; almost total SUM-
preston of organizing, a better en-
forcement of the building and tene-
ment laws, keeping immoral women
off the street to a large extent, the
closing of many notorious resorts.
cleaning the town of crooks, and, on
the whole, making New York a more
desirable place to live and do bust
ness in than it was before.-Edward
Lowry, in The Worlds Work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
NEWS
The New BLOOD Tide Enumeration.


The surest sign-but, unfortunate
", not the surest promise-of pros
perity among wage earners, is the
volume of immigration, and this now
exceeds the dimensions reached in
1882-when the last great wave OF
prosperity was at it's food. The
quickness with which working people
in this country inform their foreign
relatives whether work here is plenti-
full r scarce, is clearly portrayed IN
the immigration records of the fat
and lean years of the past quarter
of a century. 1t runs as follows:
Fiscal Year. Immigrants.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01

The aggregate immigration from
Great Britain, Scandinavia, and Ger
nan has fallen from 1000 to 49,
600, while the aggregate immigration
from Italy, Austria and Russia has
risen from $4,000 to $4,000. Mr..
Beecher's happy optimism regarding
the rapid assimilation of Immigrant
hay" by the American OK is no longer
so easily justified. Twenty years ago
our immigrants were chiefly of the
same races that had peopled England,
and quickly formed a homogeneous
element In our national growth. The
bulk of the immigration to-day is
from races historically remote, and
to-day widely separated from us by
the different social, industrial and
political environments. The process
of assimilation necessary to national
unity is thereby rendered far more
difficult, and the difficulty is still
further increased by the illiteracy of
the majority of the immigrants, and
their tendency clannishly to settle
in communities of their own in our
great cities. The extent to which the
present immigrants are adding them
selves en- masse to our urban wage
earning population, instead of be-
coming their own employers on Wes-
tern farms, seems to immigration
Commissioner Sargent to promise
serious complications when a period
of industrial depression again sets
in. The Commissioner urges the en-
actment of the measure held up in
the Senate last winter, restricting
immigration by the educational test.
The Outlook earnestly seconds this
recommendation. The time has fully
come for making good citizenship
not cheap goods, the aim of our leg.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01

Nothing like the present flood of
immigrants has ever been known ex-
cept in 1882, and even that years
flood was radically different from the
present. The six countries which have
contributed most largely to our popu-
lation sent the following number of
immigrants in the two specified
years:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
The Greater and Continual Postal Frauds.

The Greater and Continual Postal Frauds.
The definite criminal accusations
that we're made up to the time the
President returned to Washington
and the charges preferred against Of
fcials were enough to show a dis
graceful state of things. The most
conscious arrest and indictment for
taking brides was that of August
M. Machen, Superintendent of the
Free Delivery Division.
Now the loss of money involved $50
far9 in these irregular, or criminal
transactions is a trife. The scandal
u thing is the loss of character by
the men implicated. Yet there are
enormous losses in money suffered by
the Department through a kind OF
fraud that is known to everybody
who knows anything about the work
ing of the Department. fraud that
goes on year after year and has be-
come almost sanctioned by custom
a fraud as large, perhaps, as the an
nual deficit of the Department. 1t is
the fraud that the Department suf-
fer in dealing with some of the rail
roads.
At certain intervals the Govern
ment weighs the bulk mail that a rail-
road carries, and a new contract IS
based on this weight. At the time
when the weighing is done, some rail
road officials cause tons of mail-mat-
ter to be sent-mail-matter that is
prepared for the special purpose of
making the average weight greater
which to all intents and purposes,
is spurious mail-matter. And the
Department permits itself thus to be
imposed on. In such transactions as
these, either fraud or incompetence
is apparent.
If the P~ostofice Department is to
be really reorganized, these veneer
able and enormously costly abuses
must be discontinued. In comparison
with them, the populations of a few
corrupt officials, such as have yet
been made known, are almost map
| preciable.-World's Work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
A Lack oil Issues.

A peculiar feature of the present
political situation is the lack of
clear-cut political issues. Ordina-
rily, when we are SO near a Presiden-
tial election as we are at present,
the questions over which the cam
paign is to be fought are at least
clearly in sight, and it can be con-
jectured with some degree of conf
dence to what things the party in
power will point with PRIDE" what
things the party of the opposition
will "view with alarm"
In the election of 1888 the tariff
was the chief question. President
Cleveland's tariff message to Con-
gress in 1887 gave the issue prece-
dence over all others in the cam
paign of the next year. In 1892 the
tariff question was still dominant,
although the silver question was al
most as important. In 1896 the sill
YER issue dwarfed all others. In
1900 the Democrats platform de-
clared imperialism" to be the par
amount issue, but the silver ques-
ton was still the pivotal one IN the
judgment of a large proportion OF
the voters.
The issues over which the last four
Presidential campaigns have been
fought are not altogether dead, but
few political observers anticipate
that any one of them, unless posi-
bly, the tariff, will figure consplcu-
ously in next years campaign
Just as the issues which arose out
of the Civil War and the recon
struction period gradually assumed
less and less prominence in political
platforms, so those which have been
contested in the later Presidential
campaigns, if they are not reced1ng
into the past altogether, are less
influential over the minds of voters
It is not clear at this moment
what issues are to take their places
There are problems in plenty await
ing solution; but there is no such
Capitalization of sentiment regard
ing them that practically all RepuD1
Iicans take one view of them' anu
practically all Democrats the oPpo,
site view. What a party does Wn?n
in control of the government 49, IN
a sense, it's platform when II P aR
peals for 81 new lease of power, P 4Lo
the question is at what pGlnVS .ho
opposition will challenge TINS P1HS
form, and what general PrlnclPITS
will be uppermost in the campals"
Youths Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01

islation, and sacrificing the appar-
ent economic prosperity to the real
moral welfare of the country when
eve the two confict.-New York
Outlook.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
Valuable Cotton Statistics.

Advance sheet of the Consular Re-
ports, No. 1912, sent out by the
Bureau of Statistics, Department of
Commerce and Labor, shows interest
ing figures as to the number of
spindles in the worlds cotton mills:
Great Britain had 49,725,O00
spindles in 1902 as against 4y90O,-
600 in 1897; the continent of Europe
333, 100000 in 1902 as against 3d.
$4,000 in 1897, making a total for
Europe of SO, $685. 900 spindles in 1902
as against 75,25O,OOO in 1897.
In the United States, the North
counted 15,15O,OOO spindles in 1902
against 100000 in 1897; the South
counted 6,4OO,OOO against 3,456,537
for the years above mentioned, max
ing the total for the United States
21,55O,OOO against 17,356,537.
East India had 100000 spindles
in 1902 against 4,O65,618 in 1897;
Japan 100000 against 970,567, and
China 100000 against 100000, max
ing the total for Asia 100000
against 5,476,185 for the years men
toned.
Canada reports 775,OOO against
sec, 1O4, and Mexico 100000 against
100000, making a total for these two
countries of 1,275,OOO against 1,O1O,-
8O4.
The total number of cotton spindles
in the world will thus be seen to be
113, $50, 1000 in 1902 against 99,O93,5 500
in 1897.
As to the consumption of cotton
in the United States, the number of
bales taken by Southern hpinners in
1902 was 1,937,971 and by Northern
spinners 2,O5O,774, a total of $685.
745 bales taken by the United States
alone.
The United States exported last
year 6,736,O71 bales, lost 1926 bales
by fire, and had a stock on hand at
the end of the year of 1884, 73 bales.
In 1902 the United States produced
1O,38O,38O bales of cotton, the East
Indies 100000, Egypt 1,225,OOO, and
Brazil, ETC., 245, making the
worlds production for that year A.
15O,38O. In 1897 the United States
produced $685. 900 bales, East Indies
~2,O21,4O1, Egypt 1,1O5,985, Brazil
etc., 108 ,662-total 11,670,958. The
worlds total consumption of cotton
in 1902 was 14,351,156, and in 1897
it was 11,88O,232. In 1892 there was
a "defcit" of cotton of 100000 bales,
The worlds total production of cot
ton for the six years, inclusive, 1897
1902, was 8O,573,222, and the worlds
total consumption for the same time
8O,38O,356, the production for this
period, therefore, being only 1886
bales more han the consumption
Of the worlds crop for these siz
years, ending June 80, 1902, the
United States produced 74.6 pei
cent.
The average prices per pound anc
the acreage for the United States fo1
1897-19O2, are given as follows
1897, 7.72 cents, 23,445,OO acres: 1898
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02
PANG CHONG.

NuuAna Street, opposite Emma Hall.
Contractor, Carpenter, Painter, Paper
Hanger. "A very nice line of wall pa
pers on hand.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02
PURE WHOLESOME BREAD

by a First-Class Baker of Twelve
Years Experience in Honolulu.
z LOAVES FOR 25 CENTS.
All trinds OF Cakes, Pies, Ice Cream,
Etc, made to order at very short
aotice.
SUNRISE BAKERY
Nduanu Street, near Beretania.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02

Twenty-Five cents pays for a Want
ad in the Star. A bargain.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02
BY AUTHORITY
NOTICE.

Owing to the prevalence of a serious
plant disease on cacao in the Dutch
East Indies, Ceylon and India, and also
on coffee in the Samoan Islands, and on
pineapples in the Australian colonies
further importation into the Territory
of seeds or plants of the above varieties
from the above mentioned countries is
hereby strictly prohibited.
By order of the Commissioners of Ag-
riculture and Forestry.
HENRY e. COOPER,
Executive Officer.
Honolulu. T. H., September l, 1903
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02
Ayers Hair VigOr

If your hair is fading or turning
gray, begin at once with Ayers Hair
Vigor. 1t will positively restore color
to your gray hair, all the full, rich
color it had in early life.
As a hair-dressing you will certainly
like it, for it keeps the hair soft and
glossy and prevents it from splitting
at the ends.
Do not he deceived by cheap imita-
tions which will only disappoint you.
Make sure that you get the genuine
Ayers Hair Vigor.
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02
SEALED TENDERS.

VIII be received at the office of the
Superintendent of Public Works until
II o'clock noon of Saturday October II,
1903 for Bell and Spigot water pipes,
valves, fittings, yarn, lead and fire
hydrants.
The superintendent does not bind
himself to accept the lowest or any
bid.
Specifications at the Office of the
superintendent of Honolulu Water
Works.
(Signed) HENRY e. COOPER,
Superintendent of Public Works.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02

Continued on page y.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02

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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-02

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-19

earning it at the other would. The
principal thing, as both newspapers
referred to suggest, is that there shall
be no lowering of the standard of
scholarship Up to which athletes must
be made to live. Here is where the
burden falls upon the shoulders of the
college faculty, and here is where they
have sometimes proved false to their
convictions. If they should do their
full duty, there would be little danger
of seeing college athletics degenerate
because of professionals in the ranks.
The real out and out professional, as
the term is commonly understood, does
not have much choice of staying in
college whose faculty is made up OF
honest men,"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-19
Personal Notes.

William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet,
gave his first lecture at Yale, this week,
taking as his subject 1.-The Intellectual
Revival in Ireland
One of William J. Bryan's friends in
New York said yesterday that while Mr..
Bryan is abroad he will pay visit to
Richard Croker at Vantage.
Rev. DIR. Charles w. Winchester. who
has accepted the presidency of Taylor
University, at Upland, Ind. has a long
record of active service in the Methodist
Church.
fury forage master in the United States
army and one of the best-known men in
Virginia, died at Old Point Comfort few
days ago.
Otto Ritter van Krumhaar. the Aus
trian nobleman and painter has just ar
to the United States. of which he is an
ardent and sincere admirer.
Snead Cox, who is to write a biog-
raphy of Cardinal Vaughan. says he will
be greatly assisted through the very
careful and exhaustive diary that the
Cardinal kept for many years.
The Astors are gradually disposing OF
their real estate holdings in the tenement
district of New York. Several parcels
have been sold in the past four or five
years. and last week block in the same
section was disposed Of.
Miss Gail Treat, of East Orange, N. j.,
has been appointed by the founder gov
ernor general of the United States Of the
Hereditary Order Of Descendants Of Colo
NAL Governors, to succeed Mrs. Henrietta
Dana Skinner of Michigan.
Colonel Percival c. Pope, marine COM
mandant Of the Charlestown Navy Yard,
has officially relinquished his command to
Colonel Kelton, having been transferred
to Mare Island, San Francisco. as COM
mandant of the marine corps there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-19

The house will vote, this afternoon,
on the Cuban reciprocity measure for
whose consideration this special
session was called. The Democrats
would enjoy postponing the vote. and
making the debate. Of indefinite length,
but, thanks to the late Speaker Reed,
the house enjoys rules under which the
majority can do business. The House
IL expected to pass the bill almost
unanimously when the final vote is
taken, though few: representatives
from the sections where the sugar beet
and the sugar cane are raised will pro-
badly go on record against it. The
measure will not so readily pass the
Senate for that body insists on extreme
deliberation and its ways and delays
IRE not so safely tofbe predkted.