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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-01-14
Mr.. RQGSEVELI's BOOMERANG.
Presidents New Negro Policy
Hurts Him in the Senate.

Washington, January There ap.
pears to have been temporary stay of
proceedings in the Indianola case. At
torney General Knox, at the Cabinet
meeting today, said no steps have yet
been taken looking to the prosecution
Of the tormentors of Postmistress Cox.
Postmaster General Payne is disposed
to adopt the peaceful suggestions made
by Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi,
who has requested that no furtehr ac-
tion be taken until he has an oportu-
nifty to submit to the department state
ments from responsible persons at
Indianola as to the actual condition
there and the circumstances leading up
to the recent closing Of the postof6ce.
The Southern situation was the sub
iect of two long conferences today.
President Roosevelt and Postmaster
General Payne were closeted together
for several hours this afternoon after
the Cabinet meeting adjourned. Later
Gen. Payne remained at the postofice
department until after dark, with
Gen. James Clarkson, who has been
summoned to Washington in haste.
Clarkson is responsible for much of
the confusion and conflict between the
Lily Whites and the Black and Tans
in the South, and it is believed that
the President begins to realize that
Clarkson may play him false, as he is
charged with having betrayed Harri-
son in 1892.
Some Of the warmest friends Of Pres
ident Roosevelt do not hesitate to say
that they fear his being misled in his
alleged efforts to elevate the negro in
the South. Some Of the leading Re-
publican Senators and Representa-
t;ves, while desiring TO De loyal to the
Administration, do not hesitate to say
privately that Rooseyelt is pursuing
a policy that as calculated to undo the
good Mckinley accomplished towards
Wiping out sectionalism. Without
doubling the Presidents honesty and
good intentions, there is a growing
Impression among his friends that he
is magnifying the situation in the
Southern States by following the ad-
vice of Clarkson.-News and Courier.
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he CAUSE or LYNeHlNG.

In speaking of the recent lynching
in South Carolina Of negro man and
his wife, and again ofsthe iyncbing
Of a negro in the town Of Pittsburg,
Kansas, when after the rope broke a
man in the mob cut the victims
throat with knife, the New York
Tribune asks if it is not time for the
American people, North and South
and East and West, to rise in great
movement to remove the reproach of
blood outlines from this republic.
"There are never any lynchings in
England or France or Germany" it
goes on; sis it impossible for the
American heirs of the ages to put a
stop to such horrors? Of all the great
civilized nations of the world this
country has been disgraced by more
mob murders than have stained the re-
cords of any other enlightened peoples.
This blistering reproach rests upon
the North as we'll as the South. It is
brand upon this union. It burns and
it bites. It is red and raw and angry.
How long will it be endured?''
There are no lynchings in England
or France or Germany, nor are there
any negroes there. But in the United
States and in South Africa, where ne
groes are numerous, lynchings are fire.
quent. The bad negro is the cause.
When a bad negro commits crime
too horrible to mention. white men in
their Indignation are disposed to take
him cut and put him to death like a
brute without giving him the dignity
Of court trial.
Our readers we'll know that The
Times is opposed to lynching under
all circumstances, and regardless Of
the color of the vic5im. We do not
believe in lynching negroes. It is a
horrible thing according to our way of
thinking, to put man TO death by
mob violence. When such victim is
chained to stake and burned alive
in the presence Of gaping crowd
the horror is unspeakable.
But for the life of US we cannot help
feeling resentment against the negro
for provoking such horrors in the
South. It was the negro who brought
forth the Ku Klux Klan; it was the
negro, led by mean white men, who
caused our internal troubles in the
days Of reconstruction 1t was the ne
gro who forced the white men of the
South to debauch the suffrage and re-
sort to election trickery and dishones-
ty; it is the negro now who excites
lynching.
We are not even offering any excuse
for the whites, but it is fact which
cannot be disputed that the negro has
been at the bottom of nine tenths of
the lawlessness committed in the South
since the war.
Therefore in making contrasts be-
tween this country and the civilized
countries of Europe our Republican
contemporary, the New York Tribune
must take the negro into consideration
and draw it's own conclusions. Rich
mond Times.
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Privateer News Items.

Mr.. Sam R. CAIN, of Chicora, S.
c., and Miss Essie Ramsey. of State
burg, were married at the home of the
brides father, Mr.. S. H. Ramsey,
last Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 7th
the Rev. Louis j. Bristow officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cain left on the after
noon train for their future home near
Chicora, in Berkeley county.
Mr.. R. Sep. Whilden has moved
from his farm in Privateer township
to Sumter and will live opposite the
academy, on Washington street.
Tho children of the Bethel School IN
Privateer township were treated to a
Christmas tree by their teacher Miss
Pretto Lockwood, who is very popular
as q teacher.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-01-14

Washington, Jan. 7.-Secretary Hay
has received the British and German
answers to President Castro's last
proposition relative to arbitration.
The British note is interlocutory, but
in substance it states that If Vene-
zaela wishes a conference with view
to submitting the differences between
the two countries to arbitration Great
Britain will accede.
Washington, Jan. S.-senator Elkins
was one Of the leaders in opposition
TO the bill for Cuban treaty in The
last session, says he will heartily sup
port the pending Cuban treaty.
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Ali of the above is true, but the vital
point is overlooked in the statement
of the reasons for opposing lynching.
It is not the barbarity of lynching,
nor the frequency Of putting to death
innocent persons that is our strongest
reason for an unyielding opposition TO
lynch law. We oppose lynching pri-
marily because it is unlawful and
because any unlawful practice that
receives the approval of majority OF
the people tends to bring all law into
disrepute and to encourage lawless-
ness. Lynching is growing evil and
from an occasional resort to this sum-
mary method of punishment for a
single crime it has been rapidly ez-
tended to cover all classes of crime
that arouse the passion of the people
who are injured by the crime. For
rape there is widespread sentiment
that immediate lynching is the proper
penalty, but familiarity with lynch
law has bred in our people disposi-
tion to lynch for any and all outrage
Gus crimes. Respect for law is being
swept away, the moral fibre of the
people is being destroyed by the
lynching evil, which has become a
greater menace to the safety of the
country and its institutions than the
criminal classes who receive punish
ment at the hands of Judge Lynch.
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THE STATE OF SOUTH. CAROLINA.
COUNTY oF SUMTER.

BY Thos. V. Walsh, Esq, Probate Judge.
Whereas, Junius A. Mayes made
suit to me to grant him Letters of Ad-
ministration of the Estate of and effects of
Matthew P. Mayes, Jr.. deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admon-
ish all aDd singular the kindred and cred
itors of the said Matthew P.
Mayes, Jr, late of said coun-
ty and State, deceased, that they
be and appear before me, in the Court of
Probate, to be held at Sumter, G. r., on
January %, 1903, next after publication
thereof, at IL o'clock in the forenoon, to
show cause, if any they have, why the said
Administration should not be granted.
Given under my Hand, this 8th day Of
January, A. D., 1908.
THos. V. WALSH,
Jan st Judge of Probate.
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New York, Jan. 8.-An official of the
United States Steel corporation re-
ports that applications to the amount
of 26, 400 shares have thus far been
made by over 12, 600 employees who wish
to avail themselves Of the profit shar-
ing plan. The original proposition
called for the distribution of only 25, :
600 shares but in order to meet the
increased demand extra stock probably
will be bought in the open market.
The right to suscribe expires on Feb
rDarv
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TAX BE7U8NS FOR 1908.
OFFICE OF
UEIIIE UE
COUNTY AUDITOR, SUMTER COUNTY.
SUMTER, s. C., Dec. 5, 1902.

oUMTER, .. u, Dec. D, I9OZ.
Notice is hereby given that Twill attend,
in person or by deputy, at the following
places on the days indicated respectively,
for the purpose of receiving returns of
personal property and poll taxes for the
fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1908.
st Office, Sumter, S. c., at all other times
up to Feb. 20th, 1903, inclusive.
Tindalps store, Monday, Jan. 9TH.
Privateer. Jenkins store, Tuesday, Jan.
9Th.
Manchester, Geo. T. Geddings, Wednes-
day, Jan. 7th.
Wedgefeld, Thursday, Jan. 9Th.
Stateburg, Friday. Jan. 9th.
Hagood, Saturday, Jan. 10th.
Rembert, Monday, Jan. 18th.
Dalzell, Tuesday, Jan. 18th.
Gordon's mill, Wednesday, Jan. 14th.
Mayes7ille, Thursday, Jan, 18th.
Shiloh, Friday, Jan. 10th.
Norwood's x Roads. Saturday, Jan. 18th.
Oswego, Monday, Jan. 18th.
The law requires that all persons owning
property or in anywise having charge of
such property, either as agent, husband,
guardian, trustee, executor, administrator,
etc., return the same under oath to the Audi
tor, who requests all persons to be prompt
in making their returns and save the so
per cent. penalty which will be added to
the property valuation of all persons who
fail to make returns within the time pre-
scribed by law.
Taxpayers return what they own on the
first day of January, 1903.
Assessors and taxpayers will enter the
first given name of the taxpayer in full,
also make separate return for each town
ship where the property is located and
also in each and every case the Number of
the school district must be given.
Every male citizen between the age of
twenty one and sixty years On the first day
of January, 1908, except these incapable
of earning support from being manned
or from other causes, are deemed taxable
polls, and except Confederate soldiers so
years OF age, on January 1ss, 1903.
All returns must be made on or before
the goth day of February, next. I cannot
take returns after that date and all returns
made after the Goth day of February, are
subject to penalty of so per cent.
j. DTGGS WILDER,
Auditor Sumter County.
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Augusta Rapist TO Hang.

augusta, Ga, January The
trial of Miles Johnson charged with
criminal assault, began here today,
With a hsasy guard surrounding the
Court House to prevent violence. A
SQUAD of thirty policemen and twenty
Eve special deputies, with machine
gun. gere stationed at the front OF the
building. The four gates leading te
Ebg Cours House grounds are guarded
sv soldiers. So far there has been nc
Demonstration against the prisoner.
TIE iugg brought in a verdict OF
spnitly at q late hour tonight aud the
gonrs sentenced johnson to be banged
ebgEary
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-01-14

With the Sumter Savings Bank should fol-
low the opening Of the New Year as soon as
the opening of our doors permit.
This isa time OF new resolutions, new ef-
forts.
Correct business methods and money saw
ing are Synonymous terms. By depositing
the daily receipts and making payments
through the bank spirit Of economy is fos-
tered and the possibility Of error is elimi-
mated.
Full information can be had on app1ica-
ton to the Sumter Savings Bank.
Four per cent interest on savings ac-
counts.
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MERGED WITH THE SOUTHERN.
Stockholders of the S. and W. Railwa,
net on Wednesday.

Charleston, Jan. 8.-At a special
meeting of the stockholders OF the
Sumter and Wateree Railroad Com
pany, held here yesterday, the PROPOSE
ttion to sell, convey and merge the
property and franchises to and with
the property and franchises OF the
South Carolina division of the South
ern Railway was voted on and adopt
ed. The action was simply ratifca-
tion of the plan of the company. The
Sumter and Wateree is a short line,
practically part of the Southern
Railway, and by the action of the
stockholders it is merged with the
greater system.
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Going to Liberia.

New York, Jan. Tn the steerage
of the White Star line steamer Teu-
tonic, which sailed today for Liver
pool, were 32 eolored men, 12 women
and 10 children who are going to Iii
IBERIA to settle, They came from Irwin
county, Georgia. One of the men said
seWe are Just poor farmers. Busi
ness was not very good with US so We
get together, sold out our farms and
are going ont to Liberia to begin life
again. The party have about Goo.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-01-14
A Scientific Discovery

Kodol does for the stomach that which
it is unable to do for itself, even when but
slightly disordered or overloaded. Kodol
supplies the natural juices of digestion
and does the work of the stomach, relax.
ing the nervous tension, while the infamed
muscles of that organ are allowed to rest
and heal. Kodol digests what you eat and
enables the stomach and digestive organs
to transform all food into rich, red blood
] s Hughson & Co.
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One Hundred Dollars a Box

is the value H. A. Tisdaie, Summerton, 5.
G.. .laces on DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
I.e ays: s'I had the piles for 20 years. l
=: many doctors and medicines, but all
fad except DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
It cured me-" It is combination of the
healing properties of Witch Hazel with
antiseptics and emollients relieves and
permanently cures blind, bleeding, itching
and protruding piles, sores, cuts, bruises:
eczema, salt rhenm and all skin diseases.
J S Hughson & Co.
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Washington, January The lndi-
anola. Miss, postofice case was dis
cussed at the Cabinet meeting today,
and it was decided that the stand taken
by the Administration should be ad-
hered to, the contention being that the
people themselves and not the Govern
rnent, are responsible for the closing
of the Office. Postmaster General
Payne has no new developments to
report.
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Dec 10
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

A FEW fine Barred Plymouth Rock
Cockerels are offered for sale at rea-
sonable prices. They are from the
best strains and are large well marked
birds.
Eggs for sale in season. The supply
will be limited and orders will be filed
in order of receipt.
H. G. OSTEEN,
Dec. 3-tf. Sumter, rs. G.
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Chattanooga, Tenn, Jan. 5.-The
consolidated naval stores company has
purchased the Chattanooga pottery,
located at Daisy, Tenn, from D. P.
Montague of this city and will manu-
facture turpentine pots for the pro-
ducts of the company. This branch
is capitalized at $50, 600.
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Ada, o., Jan. s.-Three men dead
and IA or mere other persons injured,
one fatally, is the result of collision
between two trains on the Pennsylva-
MIA system on the main street OF this
city at 5 O'Clock this evening.
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The crowned heads of every nation,
The rich men, poor men and misers,
An go. - &r5b,,4n ~

All JOIN IN paying trIoute 20
DeWitt's Little Early Risers.
H. Williams, San Antonio, Tex, writes
Little Early Riser Pills are the best ever
used in my family. I unhesitatingly rec
ommend them to everybody. They cure
constipation, biliousness, sick headache,
torpid liver, jaundice, malaria and all 9TH
or liver troubles. j = Hughson d Go.
Evening journal., 1903-07-23
PHILADELPHIA MAN
CHARGED CHARGED WITH FORGERY FORGERY
Charles H. Trelawney Ar.
rested in Yonkers, N. Y,
on Serious Charge

New York. July 28.-Charles II. Ire
lawney. a Philadelphia business man,
was arrested at his home in Lowerre
Park. near Yonkers. by central Office
and private detectives, on a warrant
charging forgery. II is alleged by the
American Bankers Association that
Trelawney forged, in April last the
signature OF Simon Shoninger, presi-
dent of the b. Shoninger Piano Manu-
featuring Company, Of New Haven,
Conn. TO a three months note for the
sum OF S1251.
In order that the detectives might
make the arrest. they found il neces-
sary to cut their way into the house
occupied by Trelawney by the use of
steel bars and axes.
Trelawney was a member of the firm
conducting the business OF the Parthe-
non Press, of Philadelphia, but several
weeks ago, according TO the detectives,
he left that city a fugitive from JUS
tice. charged with having passed a
worthless note on the Girard Bank, OF
Philadelphia. He is also accused of
having passed a worthless check on
the Camden IN. J.) National Bank and
with having secured $1,000 last fall
from the Hide and Leather Bank OF
chis city on false representations.
Evening journal., 1903-07-23
WIFE OF ACCUSED MAN
cave III lc lMcAME
ct JnIJ Ill III IIIJnlIL
Explanation Given by MIS-
La Bountie OF Husbands
Defalcation

Buffalo. n. Y. July 23.--Mrs Frank
V. la Bountie, the wife Of the conf.
dentiai clerk and bookkeeper for The
law firm OF Wilson & Smith. who IL
is alleged used hundreds OF thousands
of dollars of his employers money to
carry on his extensive real estate deals
made a statement in behalf of her hus-
band
She says that her husbands opera
tionc we're on a more extensive scale
than thus far had been admitted. The
figures now are approaching $500. 900
and the investigation is not nearly I'm
ished.
MY husband returned $1,000 before
his employers knew anything about
his wrongdoing. said Mrs La Bountie.
Since the beginning of the investiga-
ton ne mas turned over to the firm Of
Wilson & Smith property that aggre
gates in value not less than S400, 600
He did everything in his power tc
straighten out affairs. and he intends
to continue to do so When all is over
Wilson 6 Smith will be able to realize
a profit OF at least 100000 from the
operations of a man who was insane
on the subject Of real estate specula.
tons and whose mental derangemeni
was due entirely to being overworked.
La Bountie's salary from Wilson z
5niith was $500 a month.
Il wish to state" said member o.
the firm. that every estate and ellen
OF ours will be reimbursed for any
losses"
Evening journal., 1903-07-23
60vsT 7l0una woman 65aaIIIies.-

Dover. July 23.-Miss Margaret Harper
graduate Of the Dover High School. has
just been apprised OF the result Of IN,
civil service examination which she un
derwent at the Federal Building. The ex
animation was conducted by William a
Mag. secretary OF the Board Of Exam
is7rs for applicants for clerkships in th,
Dover office. Miss Harpers name hai
been sent TO Washington and placed OF
the list Of ehgibles.
Evening journal., 1903-07-23
FAMILY I'LL WITH TYPHOID
Farmer and Son Leave Work in Field
70 Nurse The Patients.

Dover. July 2s.-Warner Guy. farmer
living in the Dover district, believes that
he Is undergoing the experience OF Job.
Sometime ago Guys wife was seized with
typhoid fever and their daughter, who
nursed the sufferer subsequently contract
ed the disease. Now four members of the
family have the malady. two OF them hav-
ing been delirious for days.
Guy and his son have installed them
selves as nurses in the sick room and are
doing everything IN their power to allie
viate the suferings of their patients. Sc
far, the unframed nurses have been very
successful with their patients. In the
meantime, however, the men have had to
leave their work in the fields to attend to
the sufferers.
Evening journal., 1903-07-23
TOUR TO THE PACIFIC COAST.
Via Pennsylvania Railroad, Account
G. A. r. National Eneampment.

on account of tho National Encamp-
ment Of the Grand Army OF The Republic
at San Francisco, Cal, August II to
22, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
offers a personally conducted tour 90 the
Pacific Coast at remarkably low rates
Tour will leave New York, Philadelphia.
Baltimore, Washington and other points
on the Pennsylvania Railroad east of
Pittsburg, Thursday, August 6, by special
train of the highest grade Pullman equip
ment. An entire day will be rpent at the
Grand Canyon OF Arizona. two days at
Los Angeles, and visits Of half day or
more at Pasadena, Santa Barbara, Del
Monte, and San Jose. Three days will be
spent in san Francisco during the En-
campment. A day will be spent in Port
land on the return trip and complete
tour of the Yellowstone Park, covering
six days returning directly to destination
via Billings and Chicago, and arriving
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and
New York. September /.
Round-trip rate, covering all expenses
for twenty-seven days. except three days
spent in San Francisco, S2l5. two in one
berth, 5000 each.
Round-trip rate, covering all expenses
to Los Angeles, including transportation,
meals in dining car, and visits TO Grand
Canyon and Pasadena. and transportation
only through California and returning to
the east by October Is, via any direct
route, Including authorized stopovers,
Sis; two in one berth. Sl05 each. Re
turning VIA Portland 81 additional win be
charged.
Rates from PittsbUrg wiz be five dollars
less in each case.
For full Information apply 60 Ticket
Agents. or Geo. w. Boyd, General Pas
senger Agent, Broad Street Station. Phil
adelphia, Pa.
Evening journal., 1903-07-23
IMPROVING RAILROAD PROPERTY
Many Repairs Being Made on Della
waro Division Ab0ut CLAYTON.

Clayton, july 23.-Extensive improve
ment will be made to the Delaware di-
vision railroad property here during the
coming month. TO make room for the
new stone ballast track which the Penn
sylvania railroad Is building the whole
length Of it's Delaware division, the sup
erintendents office will be moved back
to a side street now running in the rear
of that building.
The warehouse. freight office, yard
masters offices and car inspectors offices
will be removed from the western side of
the main tracks TO the opposite side. The
Delaware and Chesapeake tracks together
with several Of the sldings contiguous
thereto will be moved westward. The new
track is being rapidly completed and next
week the worlmen will be engaged be-
tween Clayton and Brenford.
Evening journal., 1903-07-23
Fished Prisoner Out Of Stream.

Smyrna, July 23.-Llnden Bedford, a
young negro charged with stealing
pigeons ON large scale has not been held
for the charge OF theft but has been fined
heavily by magistrate of Smyrna for
giving the policeman who arrested him so
much trouble. The negro broke away
from the officer and perched upon log
In mid-stream on Smyrna creek. he de-
He'd the prcscrver of the peace, Policeman
Turner. Turncr walked down the stream.
watching his opportunity, and finally
hshed his duslSy prisoner out of the water
and brought him before the bar of justice.