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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
Some Big Salaries.

Uatil few years ago railroad presi-
dents received the topnotch salaries
in the country. Now the big industrial
combinations pay the highest wages.
Naturally an employe Of the Standard
Oil Company is at the head Of the list.
He is S. c.. T. Dodd, the general So
licitor of the company. His salary and
commissions, it is stated amount to
$3.50, 900 year. Charles M. Schwab,
president of the steel trust, receives
100000 year. There are 3 dozen
more employees of the corporation who
receive annual salaries of more than
S20,00 S. r. Callaway has probably
had the largest wage increase in re-
cent years. AS president of the New
York Central Railroad he was getting
a salary of $4,000. The locomotive
combine wen him over and as presi-
dent of that concern he is said to
have salary of 100000
Marcus DAILY, as president of the
Amalgamated Copper Company, drew
a salary Of 800, 600. Ii. Fl. Rogers
succeeded him at an increased salary
but the exact. amount is not known.
Henry 0. Havemeyer, president of the
sugar trust, is in the $780, class.
C. \. Coffin, president of the General
Electric Compay, receives only S75, 900.
The highest paid railroad president
in the country is A. ]. Cassatt of the
Pennsylvania. He receives s75, 600 a
year. There are several railroad and
bank presidents in New York who re-
ceiye annual salaries of $50, 900.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
The GORRERlHG OF COTTON.
An Effort to Have Congress Pre-
vent a Repetition of the
alleged "Piratical Dealing of the Brown.
Hayne Clique.

It is not surprising to learn that a
movement is on foot for calling upon
Congress for legislation to prevent the
cornering of cotton. A dispatch from
Philadelphia states tnat prominent
mill men, are engaged in such a move
ment and are advised that such action
would come within the power of Con-
gress on account Of the interference
with Interstate and foreign commerce.
On the 3Oth Of July the New Orleans
CLIQUE held practically the entire supply
for that months delivery, which was
demonstrated by W. P. Browns loudly
bidding on rhe Exchange for 5000
bales at Is cents pound without
getting an offer. This was regarded
as a great triumph for the "bull
clique'' in making the corner COM
plete. They were said to have s2o,-
0Co,000 tied up by the embargo from
which the capital and labor of nearly
all the mills in the conuntry were
suffering, and which was drawing cot
ton back from the manufacturing CEN
tres to meet the demand for merely
speculative delivery.
On general principles the inter
ference of Congress in any kind OF
trading is to be deprecated, because it
is so difficult to draw the line between
what is legitimate and what is not.
Some years ago there was long con-
test in Washington over bill ab-
solutely prohibiting dealing in options
and futures in natural products of the
soil, and it was finally defeated; but
it is hard to see how Congress can
reach the power to get up corners
without legislating against specula-
ton, which, if effective at all, would
do more harm than good. Yet some
thing of the kind is likely to be at
tempted unless the Exchanges so order
their trading that corners cannot be
made in cotton or grain. Something
may be gained if public opinion can
be so aroused and directed as to make
such proceedings disreputable. Buck
ct shops, which iniure only their
foolish victims, are harmless in COM
parison with gang of spectators who
at critical time seize control of the
supply of a material upon which an
important industry depends. The
Brown -Hayne clique and any allies they
may have here or elsewhere will be
chiefly responsible if Congress is in
duced to intervene with some drastic
measure to prevent their particular
form of piratical dealing.-N. Y.
Journal Of Commerce.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12

sResolvsd, That the said Four
teenth Amendment is hereby declared
to be part of the Constitution Of
the United States, and it shall be
duly promulgated as such by the Sec
retary of State.
Bear in mind that there were in the
case of the Fourteenth Amendment
some States which rejected the
amendment and subsequently ratified
it. Their votes were counted liz MAX
ing the necessary three-fourths.
There were other States New Jersey
nd others) which ratified it and
witdrew the ratification before the
result was obtained.
The votes Of all were counted In,
making up the necessary two-thirds
required by the Constitution, since
which time many cases have been before
the Supreme Court of the United
States involving the construction Of
this article, bat in no case has any
question been raised as to its constitu-
tional ratification and Incorporation
into the Constitution. %
The fourteenth amendment relates
to citizenship, immunities OF citizens,
limitations of State power, deals with
apportionment Of representation, and,
etc. This amendment did not radically
change the theory of the relation OF
the State and Federal governments to
each other, and of both governments
to the people. The same person may
be at the same time citizen Of the
United States and citizen Of the
State. The right Of suffrage was not
necessarily one Of the privileges or I'M
munities of citizenship before the
adoption Of the Fourteenth Amend
men5, and the amendment does not
add to these privileges and immunities.
Is simply furnishes additional guaran-
ty for the protection OF such as the
citizen already had At the time of
the adoption of that amendment
suffrage was not coextensive with cltl-
zenship of the States. Nor was it at
the time of the adoption of the Consti-
tuition. Neither the Constitution nor
the Fourteenth Amendment made all
citizens voters"
ssThe Fifteenth Amendment to the
Costitutior does not confer the right
of suffrage, but it invests citizens OF
the United States with the right OF
exemption from discrimination IN the
exercise of the elective franchise on
account of their race. color or previous
condition of servitude. -
According to Mr.. Justice Miller, IN
his work 'sOn the Constitution Of the
United States,'' there seems to be
much doubt and uncertainty as to
whether the fourteenth amendment
has ever been ratified in the manner
required by the Constitution or not.
And if it can be so shown would 1t
not greatly relieve the situation IN
Virginia and other Southern States:
and require Mr.. John S. Wise and the
negro Hayes to change their line OF
attack as we'll as their field of opera
tion.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
STATE BANK EXAMINER
IS NOT TO Be APPOINTED.
Special Board Decided Financial
Difficulties Arrangement Will
Not Permit of New Office
Being Created.

The State OF South Carolina will for
the present have no bank examiner,
as has been for some time advocated
so heartily. The matter was freely
discussed Yesterday by a special beard
composed of Gov. Heyward, Comp
troller General Jones, Attorney Cen
eral Gunter, State Treasurer Jen-
nings and Secretary of State CAN'T,
and the subject formally dismissed.
A statement was given to the press as
fe lows:
"The advisory board met to consider
the appointment of bank examiner
and advise q way for his remunera-
tion. After discussing the matter the
board came to the conclusion that it
was inadvisable to appoint an eyamln-
er for the reason that the act was SO
defective as to be imperative. The
act was. passed in 1896 and each ad-
ministration appreciating the difficulty
has declined to take any action, and
each general assembly since that time
has acquiesced in the non action OF
the board. The chief trouble that con-
fronted the board was tie fact that
the board was required to make levy
upon the capital of the banking and
fiscal corporations; but there is no
appropriation, and as the constitution
specifically requires that money shall
be drawn from the treasury only in
pursuance of an appropriation made
by law, the board was left without
funds to pay the examiners salary
This is all the more emphasized from
the fact that while this law directs
that the actual fare shall be paid by
the State treasurer, there is 20 pro-
vision as to who shall pay'the salary,
The act is further defective IN that
there is no summary process to compel
the banks to pay the assessment. The
law requiring the railroads to pay the
salary and certain expenses OF the rail-
road commissioners specifically directs
how these funds shall be assessed and
collected and how paid out of annual
appropriations for that purpose. The
board appreciates the almost lnlpossi-
BILE condition Of obtaining the desired
information as to the capital of the
banks upon which to base a levy.
This duty should be imposed upon the
tax officers Of the county.
"In view of these difficulties and
the inaction of former adnalnistra-
tions, and the acquiescence of the
general assembly therein, the board
declined to take any action, but re-
! ouested the governor to call the atten-
ton of the general assembly to the de-
fects in the law and await the sugges-
tion of that body. "-Tbe State, Aug
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
BIT OF FRENCH HISTORY.
An Empire Lost for Want of The
Right Sort of Riding Habit.

An old legend which makes no pre-
tence to truth tells how kingdom
was lost for want of horseshoe nail.
But recent volume of sober histori-
cal and biographical purpose, written
by Count d'Herrison, makes it ap-
pear that the Empress Eugene after
the battle of Sedan, lost the chance
to preserve the Empire of her hus-
band by not possessing exactly the
right sort of riding habit. It was
the evening of September 3, 1870.
The news of the surrender of the
French army and of the Emperor Ma
poleon at Sedan had spread about Par
is. The city was excited, and there
was talk of revolution and the ban
ishment of the imperial family. At this
juncture Emile de Girardin, a man who
was trusted by the Empress and who
had had no little experience during
the previous changes of Government,
arrived at the Palace of the Tulleries.
eff your Majesty were to appear on
horseback in the midst of the people, :"
Girardin said, "and announce the alb
dic&tion of the Emperor in favor of
the Prince Imperial, your. own assump-
ton of the title of Empress Regent,
and the appointment of Thiers as
prime minister, the Empire might be
saved. Something must be done to
turn the tide.'' The Empress accepted
the advice. But when the leader of
the worlds fashion sought for pro-
per costume for her performance it
could not be found. The only riding
habit in the Tulleries was fantastic
one of green, embroidered with gold
and silver, made for a festal hunting
occasion; and the hat was not less
fantastic three-cornered affair of the
epoch of Louis Quinze The Empress
felt that it would not do to appear in
this garb on such an OCCASION. Her
appearance in it might have the op-
posite effect upon the people from that
which she intended. The plan had
to be given up, the Empress and the
Prince Imperial we're banished, and
the Napoleonic Empire was at al
end.-London Society.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
Sad Accident Near Beaufort.

Beaufort, August 4.-This after
noon young Hampton Lea, the four
teen -year-old son of Capt. Peter Lea,
was killed by the accidental discharge
of gun while in boat shooting, not
far from his fathers residence and
store at Burton Station. The boy was
accompanied by his little sister, who
witnessed the tragic accident, and to
whom he called out to run and tell
his father that he was killed.
It is supposed that he was taking
the gun up from the boat with the
muzzle pointed towards him, when the
trigger, hltched and the gun went of,
emptying its load into the abdomen
and killing him almost instantly. He
was bright, promising lad, and his
death has caused deep sorrow IN our
community, where he often visited and
was we'll known.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
TiIIman on the Negro Question

Senator Ben Tlllran debated the
negro question with Senator Burton,
of Wisconsin, at the Monona Lake as
sembly few days ago. As usual,
Tillman was fiery and spoke entertain
ingly to an audience estimated at s, :
600. He declared that the Fifteenth
amendment must be wiped out :" You
could never have beaten Us in the
four-year war;, the Senator said, If
it had been thought that the negro
was to be put on an equality with the
white man. We'd have beeR fighting
yet. 1t was given out that the object
Of the war was to preserve the Union,
and had it been known that its real
purpose was to put the blacks Oh an
equality with the whites st could
never have succeeded. %
A dispatch has this to say OF Senator
Tillman:
He denied the equality Of man.
When Jefferson promulgated the theory
that all men are born free and equal,
he said, the negro was not constitu-
tionally man. The white man was
made to govern, and" he added
emphatically, we intend to do it. -
He brought the question directly
home to his audience by proposing
the organization of a society to pro-
mote the immigration Of negroes from
the South. "We have over zoe, 600
negroes in South Carolina, he said,
* and abont 500, 900 whites. In Wis
consin you have 5000 negroes. Take
10000 of our blacks-ws'li give you
an extra 100000 if you want them.
Put them in your schools with your
children. Put them beside you at your
tables. Put them in your beds, and
see how you like them. The great
trouble is that the North, secure in
it's few negroes. is attempting to poke
its great, long Yankee nose into
Southern affairs and dictate to the
Southern States what to Go with the
negro -
In reply to the argument that the
South is responsible for the negroes in
this country and must take care of
them. Senator Tillman said this
amounted to the enforcement of the
old and severe scriptural doctrine that
the sins of the fathers shall be visit
ed upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
The Other Side of Lynching.
Ida A. L. Wright in the Bingham
ton, n. Y, Herald.

Ida A. L. Wright in the Bingham
ton, n. Y, Herald.
We have heard enough pleas for
the poor negro; let US now hear some
thing for the children, the beautiful,
innocent, young girls, knowing and
thinking no wrong, crowned with
virgin Sianocence and purity, fitting
about their homes like stray sunbeams
from Heaven, when suddenly this dark,
nameless horror falls upon them and
the sunlight Of love and Heaven is lost
in a fate infinitely worse than death.
Let US hear something OF the happg
homes which these negro ravishers
have destroyed, the fathers and moth
ers who are bowed to the earth with
insupportable anguish and horror so
great that the light of day and the
mercy of God seem mockery to
them. Lynch law is Irregular and un-
lawful, but so is the crime which Is
avenged. There is but one way. Just
so long as white girls are ravished by
black fends just so long will negroes
be burned at the stake. Let them
read the writing on the wall. Let
white girls alone" for Just SO long
as they commit this crime the fathers,
brothers and sons will arise in their
wrath and scourge them from the face
of the earth. The law is to protect
law abiding citizens. Lynching is to
avenge wrongs SO deep, dark and hellish
that no torture that can be inflicted is
commensurate with the crime. If the
negroes will let white girls alone they
can enjoy with other citizens the equal
iustice of our laws.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
End of Bitter Fight.

1.-TWO physicians had long and stub
born fight with an abscess on my right
lung" writes j. F. Hughes of Dupont. Ga.
''and gave me up. Everybody thought my
time had come. As g last resort I tried
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. The benefit received was striking
and was on my feet in a few days. Now
I've entirely regained my health It con-
quers all Coughs, Colds and Throat and
Lung troubles. Guaranteed by j. F. W.
DeLorme's Drug Store. Price soc, and
$1.00. Trial bottle free.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
Elliott's Emulsifed Oil Lini
nlent

Is the best Liniment on the market for
use in the family Or on animals. It is very
soothing, very penetrating. relieves quickly
and heals in an incredibly short time. Try
it you will not be disappointed. Large
bottle. Price, % cents. For sale by all
dealers.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12

The remnant of our stock of ham
mocks will be closed out at cost. There
a few extra fine hammocks in the lot.
Aug. 7-3t. H. G. Osteen & Co.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12
Bad Rumor About TilIman.

Chicago, August 6.-Senatcr Tillman
reported stranded at way station near
Chicago, after being assaulted and
robbed. Special to News and Courier.
Okolona messenger., 1903-01-14

appenuiclUlB very IEequeuUlys
There may be some truth in this, and perhaps a
great deal Of truth in it. Most of the -four that is
used fer food to-day has had the life ground out of
it. little starch and a trace Of gluten are left.
The bran which is 80 useful in stimulating the bow
els to their normal vermicular movements is entire.
ly blown out. The life giving phOsphates that re-
side near the outside of the husk and in the chit of
the wheat is also eliminated. Ground TO death
that is what is the matter with the -four. Ground
to death.
Mix up such -four and it becomes about as diff
cult to make bread out of as plaster OF Paris So it
Il that bakers to make light bread must all sorts
Of chemieals-alum, ammonia, and other strong
mixtures to get the stuff to rise. If the whole
wheat was ground as it ought to be, and then made
into good palatable, wholesome, big brown lOaves,
much Of the dyspepsia and bowel complaint and
appendicitis would disappear.
White bread makes white eyes, white livers,
white blood. White bread makes bad breath, bad
tempers, and bad digestion. For esthetic people
the white bread is preferred because it looks better
big as your head, clasped in two hands, and good
strong man can reduce it TO the size Of eelluloid
hens egg, and it will be nearly as indigestible.
It looks nice on the table-sO fluffy and light A
hungry man can eat the stuff all day without ap-
peasing bis appetite, but he acquires 6rstClass
case Of constipation.
Such bread is better to make putty balls for blow
guns than to make strength for working people,
Nice, white putty balls. Whole wheat bread is not
so nice for such purposes. It crumbes It is dark
looking. It is too solid. When you eat it il salts
6es your hunger and don't give you constipation.
Whole wheat bread does not make such nice
ornament for the sdebOard as white bread but it
has got more gilk in it. With g. stomach full Of
white bread man feels like an anarchist full Of
cheap whisky.
No wonder our Revolutionary fathers were so
healthy. They ate whole wheat bread ground ct
A. -
have 90 much domestic inielieity nowadays. Every
body is full Of white wheat bread.
For while they tried to lay appendicitis to grape
seeds and kept right on stuffing themselves with
white wheat bread. Grape seeds won't work any
more. It is those abomnible Wads Of white -four
Okolona messenger., 1903-01-14

by the fires, William T. Cox, who was detailed by
the bureau for this work, in conservative estimate
places the damage in Oregon and Washington al
$12 767 100. OF tbis s3 910 900 is in Oregon, and
S8 S57, 100 in Washington. This includes all loss
es caused by the fires to farm property, saw mills,
manufactured lumber, standing timeber, etc. This
estimate is based on personal observation in the
burned districts both in Oregon and Washington,
conference with lumbermen, farmers aud settlers,
and other trustworthy sources Of information.
Owing to its nearness to market, however, much Of
the damaged timber in the burned regions Of Oregon
will be saved and the net loss will be smaller than
the foregoing figures. In Washington a portion
will also be saved, though a smaller per centage,
owing to its being less accessible to means of trans
pOrtatiOn. Much Of the area burned over was COW
cred over with virgin forest, mainly Of Douglas
spruce, cedar and hemock. Besides the great loss
Of property, Is persons we're killed and many more
injured. Much Of the large and small game in
these regions was destroyed. In his report the
agent OF the bureau OF forestry included not only
the loss Of life and property but also the Of
the fres the methods used in fighting them, the
damage to the soil, and the outlook for reprOduct
ion Of the forests The burned districts we're also
mapped.
Okolona messenger., 1903-01-14

and strong chemicals called bread that heep the
surgeon all busy operating for appendicitis.
The millers are beginning to appreciate this.
They catching to the facts that they ought to
have whole wheat -four. Mills are being construct
ed on purpose to serve this end
Get some whole wheat -four and make some
bread once and how it will taste to eat the bread
Of ycur iOreiathers The bread that made the Drawn
that hewed the homes out Of the wilderness and
prairies Of a wild country, Get some Of this kind
OF bread in you and you won't need to take pepsin
powders or constipation pills, and your chances to
get into hospital to have an operation for appen.
dictis won't be very good.
Okolona messenger., 1903-01-14

Mrs Bob Burdette, who is quite a lecturer, said
in recent address before an audience OF women In
Kansas City: 'In this day and age men are money
mad. Whyf Do you know that last year hun
dreds OF millions Of dollars we're spent for ieweryi
Do men wear iewelryf During the year 621 men
were put behind bars for embezzling large sums
Did the men want the money just for the love Of
having iti They wanted it to help their wives and
daughters to shine. We women are responsible for
these things. We want too much. Now honestly
isn't your home filed with lots OF things that you
don't really want, and that you wish you could
just throw out in the streets. There's that chair
that isn't comfortable and that picture that isn't
really an ornament. You don't know why you
bought it, and you would like to get rid Of it,
Simple living means simpler table, fewer gowns
Oh, Mothers, teach your daughters that not every
thing s to be found in beautiful cOthes that there
is more in life than dress. noted Frenchman has
said that the separation Of husband and wife is the
danger which threatens the American home. Di-
vorce, are usually the result Of men being over
worked. Men and women are no longer cOmpan
ions In our country. The man is out rushing after
money The wife and the children attending to
their social duties. They drift farther apart and
scarcely know each other. Women, we are respOn-
sible for these things. We think that We must
have things because our neighbors have them, and
We keep the wage earners continually at their work.
Okolona messenger., 1903-01-14

pointed to wait on Mr. Lord and inform him sternly
that he must cease putting such fool notions into
his wifes head. Otherwise, the first thing we know
the woman will have us in knee breeehes and lace,
our persons reeking OF patchOuli and musk, our be-
wighed heads shedding powder all about, and our
stiH knees working overtime in a vain attempt to
make the pretty ''legs" with which the dandies OF
T. JeffersOn's time lured the damsels of that day.
Okolona messenger., 1903-01-14

AS q result OF the great and increasing demand
of expert male stenOgraphers in the Government
service not only in this country but in Porto Rico
and the Philippines as WE'LL and the lack of names
upon the eligible rolls the Civil Service COmmiton
will in the near future hold a special examination
for this class OF employees in New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and a num-
Der OF other large cities.