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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-01-27

hold that no candidate possesses more
attractive qualities or more qualitie
calculated to win. Is not Roots full
some eulogy of General Young, re
Gently retired, in sharp contrast to tbs
curt and insolent order retiring Gen
eral Miles few months agoS
The bill in Congress to admit New
Mexico and Arizona as one state
causes considerable adverse comment
in Congress. Attention is called tt
J the fact that it would take railroad
train as long to go through the State
from east to west as to go from St.
Louis to Boston: There are only
about a quarter as many people in
Arizona as there are in the city o1
Washington.
If not scandal the condition of the
Red Cross Society comes perilously
near it. For more than a generation
Miss Clara Barton and her official
associates have been disbursing its
funds without making any proper
account to the public that furnished
the money. Your correspondent warn
ed Miss Barton ten years ago that
trouble would grow out of this negli
gence, but she and the Doctor, her
Secretary, preferred to wait for it.
Now Congress is overhauling the
whole outfit.
"Pious'' originally meant affection
ate. Aeneas was called pious because
he buried his father, and Antigone
was called pious because she buried
her brother. Congressman seem to
have similar ambition. They buried
one Of their number last week with
the usual extravaganza; a committee of
twelve or fifteen, a chartered Pullman
to Illinois, and back, load of grief
stricken junketers, and all they can
eat and all they can drink at the ex-
pense Of the government. These
funerals cost from $1,000 to S25, OC0
each and sometimes degenerate into
mild form of spree. Often, indeed,
the official mourners drink altogether
too much and there have been in
stances when they were disabled from
performing their duty. Both parties
are equally guilty of this abominable
ofense and it is high time it was
reformed in the interests of ordinary
decency.
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COTTON MARKET.

The cotton markets boSh future and
spot have been very active the past
week, there being wild scramble for
cotton, with prices going higher each
day. The high prices have brought
out good deal of cotton that has
been held and the fortunate owners
have realized more money per bale
than has been paid since Immediately
after the war. Today middliug sold
here for 1915, and fancy grades
brought higher prices. The largest
sale of the day was made by Mr.. &.
M. Aman who sold so bales at Is. Is.
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TEE FIGHT ON BOIL WEEylL.
aew Secretary Wilson WilI Ex.
pend the Special Appropria-
tion Of Two Hundred and
Fifty Thousand Dollars.

ashington, Jan. 24.-The Secre-
sayy Of Agriculture has approved the
szaans for the cotton boil weevil in
yestigation in the Southwest. for
which a special appropriation of $780,
600 has been made available. Secre-
sary Wilson believes that the best
methods for meeting the ravages
caused By the boil weevil wilr be to
.put into actual practice the facts
which have been accumulated by the
department during the past two years
:sin the matter of improving cultural
conditions, the planting of early
maturing varieties of cotton, sub
stitution of other crops, etc. The
plans approved, which were submitted
by Dr.. B. 7. Galloway, the chief of
the bureau of plant industry, and
Dr. Howard, the chief of the division
of entomology, embody the following
lines of investigation:
Farmers cooperative demonstra-
fion work: This will involve the
organization of farmers in Texas and
adjacent States in such a way as to
secure the cultivation Of tracts Of cot
ton under specific instructions from
the department of agriculture. Thus.
definite working plan will be given
10 each farmer, the farmer himself to
Sarnish the seed and fertilizers, if such
are required. These areas of cotton
will serve as object lessons and will
3e planned to show the practicabilisy
Of growing cotton despite the presence
Of the weevil. Similar work will be
carried on IN Louisiana, where the
weevil has not yet advanced. 1t is
Easnned to have 5000 or 10, 600 farm
srs engaged in this work.
Plant breeding and selection work
This work will have for its object the
Improvement of present varieties Of
cotton, with view to making them
more prolific and earlier. SO as te
prevent the ravagss of the weeyil. The
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-01-27
pITHY GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON.
Various Matters That are Talked
About by Politicians at the Ma
tionaI Capital.

Washington, Jan. 24.-After months
of merciless pummeling from the
Democrats, the Republican Senators
have at last put forward one Of the
very weakest Of their number to parry
the astack-Senator Platt of Connecti-
cut. The Nutmeg State is now almost
unrepresented in Conrgess. In the
House its members are OF little cou-
sequence, and scarcely known by name
outside of their own neighborhood,
while, in the Senate. Gen. Hawley is
paralytic and confined to his home
and Platt is aged and feeble. cit is a
disgrace to the Senate he faltered,
"shat our President should be charged
here with entering into conspiracy
to incite rebellion in Panama. There
was a moments interruption as Sena-
tor Teller replied ''It is a disgrace to
the country that the charge is true. :"
Mr.. Platt contradicted the assertion
and then he spent an hour to prove
what nobody has ever denied, that the
President has a constitutional right
to send the navy to any part Of the
world where Americans are attacked.
This he repeated, in eyeery form he
could think of; but he lodged the
question which he was urged to an
swer: Had the President right,
legal or moral, to order our naval
officers to Panama to prevent the land
ing Of Colombian troops within fifty
miles of the railroad, when their OBJ
iect was to enforce law and maintain
order in Coiombia's own territory?
eyes, we will answer that by and by" ;"
is the only reply this question has yet
received in the Senate.
The administration is in a heap of
trouble about terrible Panama scandal
reported from Paris, and involving
Buana- -Varilla, the garrulous minister
from Panama It is to the effect that
this man swindled the French Panama
canal company by means of false re-
ports of excavations made by which he
received some half a million dollars
in a corrupt "rake-off. The Presi.
dent is greatly worried and the Pana-
ma patriot has been called to hurried
consultations.
For Democratic candidates, the
names oftenest heard are German,
Parker, Hearst. and Olney in thei,
order; but there IS q strong undeEtow
for Lieutenant General Miles Is he
Bryan's dark horse''s lie is ltirely
acceptable to all wings of the party
and a warm friend Of both Cleveland
and Bryan, His adoption by the Iro-
quois Club of Chicago gave new
| impetus to the movement today, and
Miles's name is likely to be spoken in
any conversation On the coming selec
5ion- While not ward heeler or q
! spell-bindee in any sense, his friends
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! work will be conducted on expert
mental farms, which will be selected
with due respect to climate, soil ant
other conditions.
| Cotton diseases: The bill making
the appropriation directs the Secre
tary to investigate other insects ant
diseases and one serious malady which
will receive attention is the so-callet
cotton root rot. This work will be il
the direction of securing immune vari
eties by selection and breeding and the
testing of types that already have
been selected.
Diversiication of crops: This is
considered one of the most important
lines of work and will have for its
object demonstration work in the
direction of growing crops other than
cotton, and of forage crops with cot
ton. Diversifcation farms will be
secured by cooperation with the farm
ers themselves. Thirteen Of these
farms will be located in Texas. five
in Louisiana, three in Mississippi and
several in other cotton States.
The foregoing work will be looked
after by the bureau of plant industry.
The division of entomology will con
tinue its Investigations on experiment
farms. Thirteen farms for the grow
ing of cotton will be located in Texas
and the Investigations conducted will
have for their object the determine
tion of numerous questions relative to
combating the boil weeviL which have
not yet been definitely settled. The
question OF the effect of fertilizers on
the early maturing of the cotton will
be considered. It is planned shat
these farms shall embrace about one
hundred acres each.
Investigation Of parasites in the
home of the weevil will be
made, the object being to introduce
these parasites into Texas, with the
hope of securing the destruction,
them, of the boil weevil.
Inspection Of cotton products, their
fumigation and general expense at
sending the certifcaticn required by
State laws will be another line Of work
conducted by the entomologist.
Investigations into the life, history
and habits of the weevil and for the
general testing of persons and ma
chimes. This work will be carried on
necessarily in the boil weevil infested
district.
Investigations of other diseases than
;he cotton boil weevil, including tn,
destructive cotton boil worm, which
8 one Of the nost serious pests in a
number of the Southern cotton-grow-
ng States.
The organization of the work on the
cooperative demonstration farms has
,egun under the charge of Dr.. S. A.
Knapp, who is now in Texas.
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AEGRo's RUIN MADE SURE.
vardaman Says UnmentionabIe
Crime Due to improper Mental
Upbringing.

jackson, MISS, Jan. 19.-ln bis In
augural address delivered today before
joint session of the Mississippi legis-
lature Governor James K. Vardaman
declared that the growing tendency of
the negro to commit criminal assault
on white women is nothing more or
less than the manifestation of the ra-
cial desire for social equality. In strong
terms he declared that education is the
curse of the negro race and urged an
amendment to the state constitution
that will place the distribution of the
common school fund solely within the
power of the legislature. Continuing
his discussion of the negro question
Governor Vardaman said;
GAS a race he is deteriorating
morally every day. Time has demon
strated that he is more criminal as a
free man than as slave, that he is
increasing in criminality with fright
ful rapidity, being one-third more
criminal in 1890 than he was in 1880,
''The startling facts revealed by the
census show chat those who can read
and write are more criminal than the
illiterates, which is true of no other
element of our population. I am ad-
vised that the minimum illiteracy
among the negroes is found in New
England, where it is 21.7 per cent.
The maximum was found in the black
belt-Louisiana, Mississippi and South
Carolina-where it is 65.7 per cent.
And yet the negro in New England is
four and one-haf times more criminal,
hundred for hundred, than he is in
the black belt. In the South, Missis-
sippi particularly, 1 know he is grow
ing worse every year. You can scarce
ly pick up a newspaper whose pages
are not blackened with the account of
AN uncomfortable crime committed by
a negro brute, and this crime, | want
to impress upon you, is but the mani
festation of the negro's aspiration for
social equality, encouraged largely by
the character of free education in
vogue, which the state is levying trib-
ute upon the white man to maintain.
"The better class Of negroes is not
respcl.. lie for this terrible condition,
nor fo~ ~e criminal tendency of their
race. Nor do I wish to be understood
as censuring them for it. l am not
censuring anybody, nor am I inspired
by ill-will for the negro, but [ am
simply calling attention to most un-
fortunate and unendurable condition
of affairs. What shall be done about
it?
"My own idea is that the character
of the education for the negro ought
to be changed. If, after years Of ear
nest effort and the expenditure of
fabulous sums of money to educate his
head, We have only succeeded in max
ing a criminal out of him and imper-
ling his usefulness and efficiency as a
laborer, wisdom would suggest that
We make another experiment and see
if we cannot improve him by educat-
ing his hand and heart. There must
be moral substratum upon which to
build or you cannot make a desirable
citizen
The governor also declares that the
people of the ration should rise up
and demand the repeal of the fifteenth
amedment,
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Organs Got the Stage. .

Princeton, N. j., Jan. 27.-Former
President Cleveland, when asked to-
night by the Associated Press CORES
pondent for his opinion of VIM. j.
Bryan's statement that no man who
voted for the Palmer-Buckner ticket
can be nominated by the Democrats,
smiled and said: Il have not a word
to say in the matter, except that
Bryan has got the STAGE let him 20
it. guess that's definite enough. "
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-01-27
Another Car Load al BoyIe's.

Mr.. J. N. Brown, buyer for W. B.
Boyle's Stables who has been on the
markets for several days will return
bone tonight, and car load Of select
ed mules, young, sound and veil broke
will arrive tomorrow morning. Call
and look them over if you are in need
of first class farm mules.
Jan. 27.-1t.
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gge aAatfbnlall ana Soutgrort.
WEDNESDAY,. JANUARY q, 1904.

The Saneter Watchnaan was founded in
1850 and the True Soathroas in 1866. The
Watchma,s and Southron now has the COM
blned circulation and influence of both of
the old papers. and is manifestly the best
advertising medium in Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-01-27

Received today another shipment of
"Pitt,'' the most popular game on the
market Osteen's Book Store
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-01-27

FOR SALE-Sewing Machine i'll
good condition. Apply at Watchman
and SouthroL Office. Setp. 30-2t.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-01-27

IL the Legislature fails to pass Law
providing for two OF more new judicial
eircuits the members will show them
selves either ignorant Or Indifferent to
shs needs of the State. In default OF
. radical change in our system OF
courts and the establishment of county
courts ior the trial Of minor causes,
is is absolutely necessary TO have two
OF more new circuits.
The proposition to provide l24 bone
Gciary scholarships in Clemson College
aeessswith our hearty approval. and
wa trust the members OF the Legisla-
tars will view the matter in the same
ehs. The income Of Clemson College
is ample 10 maintain the proposed
scholarships and there is not single
sound argument to be advanced
against the plan.
Both Senate and House have at last
realized that the people OF South
Garolina favor biennial sessions Of the
legislature, and, unless they repudiate
shs vote already recorded the question
viii be submitted to q vote of the peo-
pie at the State election this fall Il
&c comes to 4 vote il is practically GER
tain that the Legislature viii meet
Eaennially sitter 1906. Annual sessions
of the Legislature are expensive
;lnxuries and can be dispensed with not
sanz7 without detriment TO the interests
of the State, but with positive benefit
apart from the saving of the hundred
thousand dollars that each session
The Russo Japanese embroglio over
aEanchuria and Uorea has been drag
ging along for several months, and
despite Che reported statements that
peaceful Settlement would be brought
about By diplomacy, war appears
moro imminent today than at any
previous stage of the proceedings and
the press reports indicate that the
diplomats have well nigh abandoned
hope of averting war If there is an
appeal to arms, the conflict viii be the !!
most titanic Of the past fifty years
and the modern engines of warfare will
Be given severe test. It is believed |
that the slaughter especially in
naval battle, will be terrible.
The effort to combat the Texas cot
ton boil weevi1 is to begin energeti-
calIy as once under the, direction of I
the Department of Agriculture, and
every resource Of science viii be drawn
ppon to destroy or to 6nd means Of con-
tEollsng this NEST destructive enemy
cF the cotton plaIt that has ever
shrsatened the prosperity OF the cotton
gzowing States. Congress never made !
j wisyr or more urgently needed appro-
priation and If the effort is successful T
tho entire country will be benefited
for cotton is the most important pro-
duct OF the United States and the bust
ness prosperity OF the country is in
lasge measure dependent upon the cot
bon crop
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FOR RENT-One storehouse, with
three room dwelling attached, with
necessary out buildings, for five
months. Three and one half miles
from Sumter in the fork of Providence
and Stateburg roads. For terms apply
to R. M. Edens, Sumter, S. G..
July 29-tf.
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LOST-Pair Gold Spectacles, with
far and near sight, between Drs.
Hughson and Kingsmore. Drug Store.
Finder will be rewarded if returned
to Amelia j. Andrews. 5 and ! West
Liberty street. Jan 2O-lt
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-13
TO REDEEM
BARREN FLATS
EASTERN CAPITAL SOUGHT FOR
PROJECT IN MONTANA.
Hauser, Former Governor, on Wall
Street for Money to Build an Iln-
mense Dam on the Yellowstone Near
ingston-Irrigation and Power
Generation on Large Scale.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Livingston, Mont, Dec. 13.-sam Hauser, for
Interesting eastern fnanciers in the construction
of an immense dam at the first canyon Of the
Yellowstone, five miles south of this city. If
the money is Forthcoming, and the local hackers
of the project say it will be, several square
miles Of territory in the valley above the canyon
will be condemned and utilized for the con-
The dam would be 145 feet high, about 5000
feet in length at its base and nearly 1000 feet
across at the top: Its cost is conservatfvely
estimated at $4,000, 900. :" = = T.
to rebuild many miles of the park branch of the
Northern Pacific railroad, the county steel double
bridge across the river at that point, and about
twelve miles of county road, not to mention the
abandonment Of numerous ranches and farms
now occupying the bottom lands OF the Yellow
stone valley.
inestimable benefit to Livingston and hundreds of
settlers down the valley from this point as far
us Billings, 1928 miles to the eastward, !rriga-
ton would be possible where now only barren
dats exist Livingston, which is the sixth
city in size in Montana, would soon rank as
third or fourth, and the products of the upper
Yellowstone valley would be ample to supply
the needs of the entire state.
The promoters Of the enterprise have already
asked the Livingston city council for power
and electric light franchise. AS four out OF six
members favor it, special election will probably
soon be called to submit the matter to the
voters. Whether this city grants franchise
| rights not, the dam will be built, say the
! promoters, and the electrical power generated
! used in the operation Of the mines and mills at
| Cokedale Storrs, Chestnut, Aldridge and Horr
Mont Irrigation, with elaborate system OF
high line canals and bitches, will come later.
| Besides Ex-Governor Hauser, George ]. Hill OF
Helena and j. F. O'Connor Of Livingston are
back Of the enterprise.
New Steamer for the Park.
Visitors to the Yellowstone National Park next
summer will be able to navigate the waters OF
Yellowstone lake on a fine steamer which Colonel
E. G. Waters has completed after expanding
several thousands of dollars and three years.
time in the work Of construction. The steamer
will have accommodations for 700 passengers
and will be the finest craft ahoat between the
Great Lakes and Puget sound
The Park county high school, costing
500 900, has been completed. 1t contains ten
classrooms, one assemblyroom, dark and chenli
cal rooms and the latest appliances of every
kind.
"Three-Quarters Clause Applied.
Owing to the large number Of incendiary fires
In Livingston. the board Of fire underwriters has
applied the three-quarters clause to buildings
and merchandise insured against fire loss in Parb
county. Under it one can collect above
three fourths of the total loss in any fire.
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ALL CIVIL CASES CONTINUED
long Criminal Calendar Before Judge
Fisk at Grand Forks.

GRAND FORKS, N. Dat the opening Of the
district his morning l. n BraGe on tre
on charge Of robbery. Bruce and e: A Car; Carl,
son are charged with entering Paddy Hursh' 3
sof drink establishment at Niagara on the night
of Nov. 8 aid robbing the sixteen occupants
eral watches Bruce is the man who Is charged
with going thru the pockets of the men, while
Carlson kept a revolver pointed at them and
shot several times In order to pulctuate the
guilty. re ~
J. II. Bradford, r. G. Hicks and G. II: Foster
were arrnigned on charges of robbery ana plead
returned to this county on warrants charging
them with robbing ]. E., Perry Of Butte, an
aged passenger west-bound Great Northern
flyer. Of $25.
ords it Is asserted, and have operated in every
part of the country. One Of them was in Alaska
aud is credited with robbing an outcoming min
sentence Ia Missouri for robbing wealthy resi-
dent of st. Louis. After sentence his case was
appealed to the supreme court, and he was re-
leased under 50. 800 bonds.
of attempted criminal assault; Herman Desganes
pleaded not guilty to charge of conducting a
blind pig: George Grisslnger. not guilty to selling
Intoxicating LIQUORS Hans Nelson not gutlty te
ing forty bottles Of whisky in his possession Bert
johnson, not guilty to blind pigging; William
Furlong, not guilty to assault With dangerous
of burglarizing the Great Northern depot Al
Judge Fisk anpounced that the entire tern
cases and the civil cases were adjourned to tn
term to be convened JAN 10, when new jury
Peter CLARK, charged with grand larceny
phy pleaded guilty to second offense of gran(
larceny.
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CHURCH UNION MOVEMENT
Rev. MIR. Pike Would Start a Universal
Church at Fargo. -

FARGO, N. D.-Rev. Granville r.. Pike, form
erly pastor of the Presby terrain church here, and
now a we'll known author and religious worker of
Chicago, has been spending few days In the
city In the interests. of a church union. The
movement was started in Fargo time age
and has gained much Roadway: Mr.. Pike spoke
at two churches and last night at a meeting in
the Commercial Club rooms. The establishment
of some kind of a, universal church in Fargo with
an immense auditorium and with a religious be-
lief broad enough for all. is expected by some
of the workers. :. 4 =. .a. IL. -a,--: -
was arrested on the charge of stealing $1OO from
O man in Moorhead. He was betrayed by d wom-
an and the officer found him hidden in house
The Commercial club will give dinner tonight
to the retailers of the city. - .,a ~.
Traill county, are dead Of asphyXiation. Mrs.
Jensen who was in the house at the time, was
also overcome, but will recover The family
had purchased q new stove and had not become
familiar with Its operation. N-
Joe Bernard, farmer near Hankinson, was
killed by fall from wagon. The man was
evidently thrown from spring seat and his
neck broken. The team wandered home in the
darkness and the body was found the next day.