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The independent., 1903-01-29

farmers petitioned this present rail-
road legislature to make the railroads
furnish them with cars so they couli
ship their own wheat instead of pay
ing 20 cents a bushel to the elevators
to ship it for them. A more ridicul-
GUS thing never happened in this
state.
The independent., 1903-01-29

There have been quiet times On
Wall street for a good while. The
bulls are afraid and the bears dasent.'
The independent., 1903-01-29

The people of New York city seem
to think that the more bonds they can
issue the richer they will be.
The independent., 1903-01-29

The Independent is inclined to be-
lieve that that Chicago grand jury and
it's indictments of coal dealers are
A No. / fakes.
The independent., 1903-01-29

ANONYMOUS communications will not be
rotieed Rejected manuscripts will not be
returned
The independent., 1903-01-29

For the republican doctrine OF
cant" The Independent has the most
profound contempt.
The independent., 1903-01-29

Judge Lindsey of Denver declares
that SO per cent of Colorado boys are
thieves. That shows the effect OF
keeping such an example before them
as ex-senator Wolcott.
The independent., 1903-01-29

Address all communications, and make all
drafts money orders etc, payable TO
Che HebrSsks 7rdepsndenf
Lincoln, Neb.
Anouvmous communications will not be
roticed Rejected manuscripts will not be
returned.
The people of New York city seem
to think that the more bonds they can
issue the richer they will be.
.+. $S>$>S>>&
For the republican doctrine OF
cant" The Independent has the most
profound contempt.
$SSS$S>&
There have been quiet times On
Wall street for a good while. "The
bulls are afraid and the bears dasent."
&&&S$$S$$
The Independent is inclined to be-
lieve that that Chicago grand jury and
it's indictments of coal dealers are
A No. / fakes.
SS&>>$&&
Judge Lindsey of Denver declares
that so per cent of Colorado boys are
thieves. That shows the effect OF
keeping such an example before them
as ex-senator Wolcott.
$SSSS>SSSS
The Colorado democrats wanted it
all and they got nothing. If an office
or two had been given to the populists
and by that means their organization
recognized, the democrats would have
had all the rest.
S>&$SSS&
Confning innocent people on small
islands and refusing to let their
friends bring them food and water is
one of the civlizing methods that
England, Germany and Italy have
brought over the ocean to us, not
: withstanding the Monroe doctrine.
SSSSS2SS
The Independent desires names and
addresses of populists and reform
democrats from every part of the
country. We wish to send them sam
pie copies Readers who will send in
such lsts-lists of men who are in
terested in the cause of good govern
ment-will greatly oblige.
SSSSSS>&
Another court, this time out in San
Francisco, has sustained the conten-
ton of The Independent that margin
deals are illegal and debts contracted
$ in that manner are gambling debts,
not collectable at law Perhaps in
time gambling on the boards Of trade
may be abolished.
SSSSSSSS
The 31st annual meeting of the Ne
braska Press association will be held
at Hastings, February 10 and II, 1908.
Editors who have not received a pro-
gram can secure one by writing to
the president, Adam Preede, Hastings,
or the secretary, F. N. Merwin, Bea-
yer City. Membership fee, 50, which
includes a years dues.
&$$$&&&&
The Independent never had a very
high opinion of the intelligence of the
farmers who would vote the republi-
can railroad ticket, but it never
thought that they were so silly as to
present petitions to this, republican
legislature asking legislation concern
ing railroads instead of presenting
them to John G. Baldwin. Who do
The independent., 1903-01-29

The Colorado democrats wanted it
all and they got nothing. If an office
or two had been given to the populists
and by that means their organization
recognized, the democrats would have
had all the rest.
The independent., 1903-01-29

Confining innocent people on small
islands and refusing to let their
friends bring them food and water is
one of the civilizing methods that
England, Germany and Italy have
brought over the ocean to us, not
withstanding the Monroe doctrine.
The independent., 1903-01-29

About the funniest paragraph that
ever appeared in a paper was an ac-
count of. how some Jefferson county
The independent., 1903-01-29

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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Another Wilkes Booth Yarn.

St. Louis, June "a special to the
Globe Democrat from Enid, Oklahoma,
says Junius Brutus Booth, the actor
and nephew of John Wilkes Booth,
who killed President Lincoln, has fully
identified the remains of the man
known as David E. George, as his
uncle. George, or Booth, committed
suicide here January IA last, and in
his effects was found a letter directed
to K. L. Bates, of Memphis, Tenn.
Mr.. Bates came here at once and fully
identified the body as John Wilkes
Booth. He then went East and has
obtained positive Identification of the
remains from the dead mans nephew,
and from Joseph Jefferson, Miss Clasa
Morris and score of others who knew
bim in his early days.
According to Mr.. Bates's story, he
had acted as Booth IS confidential agent
and attorney for nearly forty years:
After Lincoln was shot Booth escaped
to the Garrett plantation, in Virginia.
According to Mr.. Bates the man who
was killed was named Rudy. Being
warned, Both left Garrett's and was
taken care of by friends in Central
Kentuky. He later settled at Glenrose
Mills, Texas, where he conducted a
store for several years as John st.
Helen
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
LIFE.TERn PRISONER PARD0NED.
Was Sentenced to Life for Steal
ina Cotton Under an Old Law.

The happiest man in South Carolina
today perhaps is Cato Gadsden, form
erly colored citizen of Beaufort
county, but who since 1880 has been a
convict in the penitentisry. He was
sentenced for stealing s35 or $40 worth
of cotton seed. He stole them at a
time when the law was different from
what it now is, and as the crime came
under the class Of burglary and the
house where seed we're stored adioined
a dwelling, Cato got the extreme pen
atty. It turns out that generally he
had been a quiet, law-abiding negro,
but somehow yielded to temptation
and stole. His conduct has been good
in the penitentiary. Today a delega.
tion came to see the governor in behalf
of the negro. They gave him good
character generally and as he had
served four or Eve times the term he
would have served had the crime been
committed later, the governor decided
to pardon him.-Columbia Record.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Owing to figures recently published
in regard to the personnel of the
monastery establishment at Mount
Athos, the Turkish government has
become alarmed at the multiplication
of Muscovite monks and their scqulsl-
ton of Greek monasteries in Turkish
territory. The Greek minister of JUS
tice has drawn the attention of the
patriarch of Constantinople to the ex-
traordinary concessions made to the
Russians and to the change in the as
pect of Mount Athos. For example, the
Convent of St. Panteleimon, which
was recently acquired by Russia, has
been restored to its former aspect as a
fortress and is occupied by nearly
5000 monks, whose habit barely covers
the uniform of the Cars soldiers. 1t
has been persistently stated in Athens,
as we'll as in Constantinople that there
are several officers of the active Rus
sian army among them. The Greek
ministerlalso points out that such con-
cessions were prejudiced to the inter-
ests of the Greek people.
A syndicate has been formed in
Amsterdam to cut that big South
African diamond, which is nearly the
size of a hens egg and weighs $40
karats, nearly twice as much as the
kohinoor weighed before it was cut.
Two hundred thousand men idle,
with loss OF 500, 900 day in wages,
and $500, 600, 600 of capital tied up, is
the result of the strike in the building
trades in New York, so far.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
GUN and LOGkSMlTH.

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-
BILE, work done promptly and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop removed to No. 22
West Liberty street, two doors
from Osteen's Book Store.
R. S. BRADWELL.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Queer North Carolina Law.

Raleigh, N c., June 3-The six
men, j. B. Piver, W. H. Rich, Gilbert
Ward, John Allen, W. w. Barnes and
George Whitley, imprisoned in Wilson
jail and indicted for the murder of
Z. Percy Jones, an Arkansas insurance
agent, with five others previously al
lowed bail at $1,000 each, were today
granted bail in the SUM Of five thou
sand dollars each.
Judge Brown says in his decision
that the purpose shown in breaking
into Jones's room was not to murder,
but to drive him from Wilson, an
unlawful act. In such case, where
murder ensues, he holds that, though
a conspiracy has been entered into,
yet under the laws of North Carolina
it is murder in the second degree, and
this is bailable.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
orse Than tne Stockades.

The plh iiiadelphia Ledger denies that
Is convict labor system OF the South
revival Of slavery, but admits
at the proportions to which the evil
8 as grown as shown in recent dis
lasures are so great as to give some
sxcuss for describing it as the new
avery
that not an extravagant state
nentg Is iS true that the proportions
ssshe evil have grown? Have the re-
disclosures shown anything, as
matter Of fact, except that at one point
BE Alabama number Of colored men
ave been ouEageously treated? Has
aere not been vast improvement IN
he treatment OF convicts IN the
euthern States in the last few years,
1a has not this Improvement been
sade altogether By the white people
she South upon their own iil.tla-
bout twenty years ago the system
ss ffarrning ont negroes IN South Caro-
alsna and the horrible cruelties oc-
sionally pracsiced upon them result,
Sd IN reformation OF the system ana
practical abolition. The hardshIps
aposed upon the negroes IN Alaeama,
ich are now exciting SO much SYM
xatEy shroughoat tie country, are al
together exceptional, and the Phl!a-
5alphia Ledger ought to know this
gS outrageous as the treatment OF
ssa people has been, and, however
rbarous the so-called peonage sys-
IN Alabama, there are hundreds OF
thousands of witnesses who might DE
led in from the mines and sweat
shops Of the North and East who would
y that compared with the hell in
vhsch they live Che steckades and con-
ries camps of the South must be
arad1ss. Here.and there, now and
sen, strong voice speaking from the
Northern stage or through the North
n press viii be heard condemning tae
horrible cruelties practiced upon the
aefenceiess white women and children
R the Northern States, but the clergy,
ne capitalists, the large majority OF
ae newspapers and an army OF poll
SScai economists IN that section keep
sheTr mouths shut and their tongues
g while she massacre of the working
Eeople goes on day after day TO satisfy
Eae grsed Of their highly Christianized
auployers. The sins Of the South are
Slack enough, but by comparison they
are as white as Wool.-NeWs ano
:ESourier. -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Winthrop College Scholarship
and Entrance Examinations.

THE EXAMINATIONS for the award
of vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col
lege and for the admission of new stu
dents will be held at The County Court
House on Friday, July 10th, at s a. N.
Applicants must not be less than is
years of age.
When scholarships are vacated after
July 10th, they will be awarded to those
making the highest average at this exami-
nation.
The next session will open about Sep
tember Is, 1903.
For further information and a cata-
logue, address Pres. D. 3. Johnson, Rock
Hill, S. C. May 12-July CLAW
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Ground to Death by a Train.

Camden, June 3.-Just as the south
bound through freight on the Sea-
board pulled ont from the passenger
station in Camden today a horrible
accident occurred. Nh. G. B. Allen,
hagman of the train, attempted to
get ON board as the train was moving
when. be missed his footing and got
caught under the train, aud was ter
ribly mangled and death was instan tame
Gus. Both legs we're ground off and
his body fearfully mangled. Allen
was about 80 years of age. His home
was in Raleigh, n. O., where his re-
mains will be sent tonight.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
A PAINT SHOP

kept by a practical painter OF
80 years experience, where can
be got Lead and Oil mixed any
color, also Ready Mixed Paints
and 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 upholstering. I
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 | 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
Oh Wheels, 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. B. CURTIS.
Phone 1876. ! paint signs.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Mot Roofh,s Cornse.

Baltimore, June An connection
with the report from Enid, Okla,
that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin
of President Lincoln, died there on
January IA, under the name of David
George, it is declared by persons fa-
miIiar with the case that there is no
doubt whatever that Booths body is
buried here in Green Mount cemetery.
His remains were brought to this city
after exhumation at Washington.
When the coffin was opened here the
dead actor was recognized by perso MS
who had known him intimately in his
life time, among them members of his
family. The identification was abso-
lutte. The body now lies buried in the
Booth lot, but without any headstone
or mark over the grave.
CLARA MORRIS DENIES IT.
New York, June Clara Morris
denies the report that she recently
identified the body Of George as
Lincoln's assassin.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Paine's CeIes.
Compound
Cures
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION,
AND STOMACH TROUBLES.

The ,orturcs and evils of dyspepsia and
indigestion are experienced by thousands at at
this time. The dyspeptic's train OF evils
NAV be enumerated as follows: feelings OF
dizziness, languor, nervousness, sleeplessness,
headache, distension of the stomach, loss OF
flesh, difficult breathing, and the action of the
heart is seriously affected. ;,
Ali forms of dyspepsia are quickly banished
by the use of Paine's Celery Compound.
The use of this marvellous medicine allays the
inflammation of the nerves centred about The
stomach; it opens up the sewers OF the body
and removes all waste matter; it cleanses the
blood: it makes new nerve fibre; 1t restores
digestive power, and promotes bodily strength
and activity. Mr.. Fred. Ross, Clarendon,
Iowa, briefly writes about his happy expen-
ence with Paine's Celery Compound as
follows:--
cit gives me great pleasure to testify 10 the
merits Of Paine's Celery Compound. | can
candidly and honestly say it is the best medI'
cine in the world. Two years ago was sui,
feine from indigestion and nervousness and
was SO run down that could hardly walk
without help. used two bottles OF Paine S
Celery Compound and got better almost from
The first dose, and have had no use for medl'
cine since. was completely cured'
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
A Serious Mistake.

&c. Dewitt & Co. is the name of the
firm who make the genuine Witch Hazel
Salve. DeWitt's is the Witch Hazel SslVe
that heals without leaving a scar. It is a
serious mis- axe to use any other. DeWltt's
Witch Hazel Salve cures blind, bleeding,
itching and protrudiug piles, burns,
bruises, ecze ma and all skin diseases. Sold
bv j. S. Hughson & Co.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
TEST for Drink Habit.

Half q score OF clerks in one OF the
largest brokerage houses In New York
we're astounded one morning last week
when, one By one, they were called into
their employers private ONCE and ask
ed TO hold up their feet and show the
shanks OF their shoes. They thought
!: Ehs old man. had gone quite mad.
aeh Young man as he entered the
oEfice was told to sit down and put his
soos M on corner OF the desk where
SG conld be examined. Then the head
OF the house put on his glasses and
Fery carefully scrutinize6 the shank
Df the shoe.
When all had been put through this
examination he called the entire sorce
cot clerks into his Office and explained
So them why this unusual examination
had been made. .s
You are we'll aware, said he 9 that
will not have drinking man Ia my
employ if ] know ii. For some tine l
hare had good reasons for believing
1Ras several of the young men before
me- have been indUlging quite too
much. Now I know it. Here are the
marks Of the har rail on the bottoms
Of your shoes. .
Several of the young men braced
themselves against the Wan and lifted
their feet as q blacksmith lifts the
! foot of 8 horse. Sure enough, there
were the glazed, metallic marks on the
dry leather. They were the evidences
of guilt and the young mems faces
showed it.
IIsss S unnaistakable proof, said the
head Of the house. You can fix up
yonr breath at the drug store and the
barber can clean up your eyes and
face, but you neglect the shanks OF
yonr shoes. =
That afternoon three young men
cleaned ont their desks and gave the
keys to the managing clerk.-New
York Herald.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
TRE GAINESVILLE CYCLONE.
Dead Number I25---Three Hun
dred Wounded---$ 900 Loss.

Atlanta, June Mayor Parker of
Gainesville today telegraphed The
Journal the following summary OF con-
ditions in the storm swept city as ne
sees them:
'sThe dead will number 125 by the
end of the next "a hours. Three hun
dred is conservative estimate Of the
wounded, some of whom will die.
Four hundred houses are destroyed.
It is estimated the homeless number
1,5O0. The financial loss will reach
$500, 600. There is still need for more
nhysicianS.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Since the killing and mangling in
that Paris automobile race they are
calling the autoes devil wagons" over
there. That's not fair. 1t is the fell
lows who run them, not the automo-
biles, who play the devil. ass..
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Recknk. iowa, June Six hum
1red SQUARE miles of rich farming land
along the Mississippi, south Of here, Is
uoder water. The Egyptian levee
brpks during the night in two places
aad there are now more than twenty
breaks In il. A strip Of country ten
miles wide and sixty miles long rs
row under water, and the crops, which
never looked better, will be a total
aoss. Much of the land oyerdowed has
net been flooded for thirty three years.
The loss will reach 81, ,0c0, ,0c0.
Under the advice of his physicians
genator Hanna is going abroad to
@ssake q rest. - A man VITO has been
doing the double back scmesault act
as Hanna has been lately needs rest.
Action that will, undoubtedly, ex-
EsEsss considerable comment in this
country, as we'll IS in Europe, has just
sesn taken by the War Department.
HI consists in making contract with
the Erhardt company of Dusseldorf,
Germany, for the manufacture OF hfty
1nodern field guns, carriages and linn
bsrs for the United States army, IN
accordance with designs and drawings
srpplied by the United States ordn.
ance department.. The contract call
for the delivery of these guns within
seven months.
New York, June 2.-Wonen led an
attack today by striking members Of
ahe Rockmen,s and Excavators' Union
on workmen ON new building On
Avenue 3 during which one policeman
Vas badly hurt and scores of the
strikers and workmen were ciubbed by
fFae police reserves. Knives were used
the rioters and She women threw
ssi;:r,r,es md brfcls BIT the ,sorknasn and
- boi;;ce arrests wese made
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Chicago holds the record as the
great divorce city OF this country, the
number of divorces almost equalling
the marriages. But Kansas City, Mo-,
is chasing il pzesty hard.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

z There was time when / thought
would rather be in hell than be a
minister, said the Rev. William B.
Bcdine to the students of the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania last Friday, ac-
rording to a report in the Philadel-
phia North American. DR.. Bodine
Was one of the speakers at the farewell
chapel service, the last routine meet
ing OF the students body for the year.
Preceding the sentence given above be
said Il believe some of you are call
cd to be engineers, some to be physi-
Clans. some to. be lawyers, and per-
haps some to be ministers. Now.
boys, don't shy at becoming minis
sars. 2 Service was the theme of Dr..
Bodine's talk. He gave some timely
illustrations and caused frequent
daughter With his apt stories.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

When a hat, good dress, or other
garment is a little faded and old III
fashion it need not be thrown away.
Color it with DIAMOND DYES.
49, s-oc;s, denar.ment of advice and will
we nav t-sa INV questions about dycing. Send
sample of goods when possible.
Direction book and A5 dyed samples iree'
DI1MoND DYES, Burlington, Vt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.

SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Deposits of ST sod upwards received. II
terest allowed at the rate OF per ceut. per
annum, on amounts above SIS and not exceed
ing $500, payable quarterly, on frst days o'
January, April, July ssd October.
a. j. CHINA,
r. L: EDMJsDs, President.
Cashier
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Total protection to depositors, Sl75,oeo &c
Transacts Genera! Banking Business.
Special sttention given to collections.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
SUMTER,

STATE, CITY AND COUNTY De-
PosIToRY, SUMTER, 8. C.
Paid up Capital 5 75.0oe 90
Surplus and Profits z5,oo2 90
Additional Liability of Stock
holders in excess Of their
stock $4,000 %