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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-30
NOOD SCOTCH
- SNUFF
By John Caxton
Copyright. 1902. by the
S. S. Mcclure Company

The year was decade after the close
of the Revolutionary war, and the
good ship Nancy Jones Of Providence
was lying in the port of Liverpool.
While the American colonies had been
successful in winning their indcpend-
ence. England still dominated the high
seas. Being continually in need of men
to man her ships. she passed an act
giving her naval officers authority TO
board the vessels of any other nation
and search for and remove British sub
jects. Searching for British subjects.
however, was generally an excuse to
force American sailors to fight for the
mother country. For yeas no Ameri-
can craft sailed the seas without fear
Of British men-of-war, and many Of
them were overhauled two or three
times year.
Captain Israel Jones was owner and
commander of the craft named after
his wife. He was q good sailor. but
easy going. When he would return
home to tell Nancy that he had been
overhauIed ard lost man or two. she
would listen with flashing eyes and ex-
claim: So. .
'sWaal, Essaei Jones. I*don't consider
you much Of a man to let such things
happen. If them British had me to
deal with, it would have been differ
ent."
She had sailed with him on the pres
ent voyage, and as the craft was corr
pleting her loading in I4iverpool three
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RURAL CARRIERS GET llaRE pay.
Their Salaries Fixed ir Bill at
500 The Year---Limits
of Their Privileges.

Washington, March 25.-The house
TO-DAY passed the postof6ce appropria-
hon bill, after prolonged debate on
the paragraph affecting rural letter
carriers, which yesterday was stricken
ont. but which today was inserted
under q special order of the committee
on rules.
Every amendment and substitute
offered to this paragraph was voted
down.
While a. number of members were
elamoring for recognition to offer
amendments, Mr.. Overstreet suddenly
moved shat all debate close and the
bill be reportedand put upon its pass
age, which was carried with a vim.
Mr.. Moon made an unsuccessful
attempt to recommit the bill with
instructions to strike out the appropria-
tions for special facilities over the
trunk lines south Of Washington and
west of Kansas city. His motion was
voted down, l21 to IA.
The provisions relating to rural
carriers as adopted makes the salary
$3.50 q year and prohibits the soliciting
of business by carriers but permits
the carriers under certain restrictions
TO carry merchandise for hire.
q Aprovision for purchasing agent
for the postofice department with a
salary OF 81, coo was adopted. unani-
mousiy. Ms Williams said the Office
OF purchasing agent centralizes re-
sponsibiEty and makes one purchasing
agent responsible for sne purchase OF
supplies and for the honesty and pro-
priety with which it's done.
Mr.. Baker Of New York proposed an
amendment which the clerk began
reading as follows:
10 reimburse the great rilroads the
Inst Of supplying the president of the.
United States with special trains,
cigars, wines
The reading was stopped by point
sf order which was sustained.
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Providence sailors who had been i'm
pressed from the Nancy Jones year
before and who had just deserted from
the British navy came skulking aboard
and appealed to the captain for protec-
ton and a passage home. He was hesi-
.tating. as he knew that it they were
found aboard his vessel much trouble
would ensue, when Nancy came on
the scene.
..Look here, Israeli" she said as she
brought her hand down on the cabin
table with a slap, them men are to
sail with us or III stay behind myself!
You amt man if you don't hide 'enl
away and take 'cm back home.
81 want to, but it'll be an awful
risk" replied Israel.
.'But we don't care for the risks.
Them men are true born Americans
and our nayburs at home. and thelr
wives and children are mournin' for
'eu1 as if dead. They was taken off
your ship in the first place, and now
your ship shall take 'em back home
again
That settled it.. The deserters were
slowed away. and in due time the
bark sailed on her return. She was al
most clear of the English channel,
when she discovered an English 'reve-
nue. cutter bearing down upon her.
These light government craft were
often used to board vessels and inn
press men. as they could dodge about
the channel much easier than the men-
of-war.
The cutter was sighted just after
MONDAY, and her errand was guessed
at in q moment, She would be sure to
have q description/of the three desert
ers and would no doubt impress two
or three Of the regular crew, even il
she did not take full possession. 1t was
70 use to spread more sail or to think
of resistance. The enemy carried a
crew of thirty men and mounted four
guns.
"Well, Nancy said Captain Israel.
1--WE shall lose the bark and SO to
prison, and it's all your doin's."
"Israel Jones. don't you holler before
you're hitv' she replied as she laid
down the spyglass. How will the Off
Ger come aboard"
"In this light wind and smooth sea
that craft Will probably run right
alongside
"On which side will she comew
'tTo leewalJ. OF course. What sort OF
a notion have you got into your head?'
"A good deal Of notion. You've got
a hundred pounds OF Scotch snun Ia
one of them empty staterooms. The
first thing to do rs to get it out on deck.
/ also want all the pots and pans anc
kettles from the cooks galley"
No one aboard the bark knew JUS
what scheme the captains wife had II
mind. but the snuff was brought Oh
deck and the pungent stuff poured lilte
vessels placed along the lee side.
The men were still at work when the
| cutter fred a gun as signal to heave
to, and Captain Israel brought the
Nancy Jones up into the wind. Ther
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Time Wns No Object.

A shrewd old farmer named Uncle
Harley was approached by bright
breezy young man who was selling in
cubators. The Green Bag. which teH
the story, says that the salesman gz'e
Uncle Harvey the usual eloquent afg'l-
ments-there was not another such in
cubator to be found, the prices were
remarkably low. and so OH.
Uncle Harvey did not respond. The
young man talked himself out and
made no Impression. Finally he said
You don't seem to appreciate these In
cubat tors"
NO" said Uncle Harvey.
"fsut just think Of the time they will
save
Uncle Harvey gave him one cold look
and said, "What do you suppose l care
for hens time?'
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GUN and LOCKSMITH.

l take pleasure in giving nc
tice to my friends and the pub
lie generally, that, having re-
gained my health, I have re-
opened my shop, and am ready
to do any work in the
line of Guns, Locks, Sewing
Machines, &c. Prices reasona-
bic. work done prompt y and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop removed to No. %
West Liberty street. two doors
from Osteen's Book Store.
r. S BRADWELL.
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Old Employees Discharged.

Columbia, March 24.-Following
the orders issued by the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway, establishing a
pension system for the employees of
the road who have seen certain num-
ber of years of service, the general
manager has issued another that will
affect number of men on the system
who will not receive pensions The
recent order is that all men over the
age of 70 must 60. The road has
come to the conclusion that the neces-
sary work cannot be gotten out Of
men who have reached that age, and
on April l they will step down and
out for younger men. The recent or
der in regard to pensions provided
for 1 per cent for each year of service
for the salary received, provided the
employees had seen a service of ten
years. The new order provides that
if the age of 10 has been reached the
employee must go anyhow, pension
or not.
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How to Make Money.

Agents of either sex should today write
Marsh Manufacturing Co., 538 Lake
Street, Chicago, for cuts and particulars of
their handsome ALUMINIUM CARD CASE
with your name engraved on it and filled
with 100 Calling or Business Cards. Ev-
erybody orders them. Sample Case and
100 Cards, postpaid, 40c. This Case and
100 Cards retail at Is cents. You have
only to show sample to secure an order.
Send 4Oc at once for case and 100 cards
before some one gets ahead of you.
Sept 16-Sm
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Russia's Coal Supply.

The LONDON Financial News declares
that it is too often assumed that be-
causs Russia is largely wood burning
country and considerable importer
al British coal her own coal supplies
are insignifc ifcant. A greater mistake
could nat be madey If her economic
development had depended on wood
fuel on oil it could never have reached
It's present. proportions; and, although
progress ii slow in Russia when com
pared With England, America or Ger
many, Il cannot be denied that she
has made great strides, from a COM
laercial point Of view, wihin the last
twenty -age sears-strides that have
l,nlY become possible by the rapid ez-
I,loitation OF her unquestionable
saineral wealth. The native coal may
not always beaof high quality, but it
has suffced for industrial expansion
remarkable alike in extent and charac-
der. In 1871 the coal output of Euro
DeanaRussEa was no more than l,774,-
as3 tons twenty years later the pro-
duction had risen to l2, o32, 25S tons,
and there has been noteworthy an
nua! Increase since then, the total
figures for all the centres IN 1901 hay
ing equallsd 16, ,27o. coo tons. Added to
shis, the Asiasic dominions of the
Ezaf have been brought into closer
touch With Russia proper by means OF
the vailWay, and it is stated that IN
Siberia, as .in the Ural regiou, vast
coal reserves have thus been rendered
aysilable. The Eskibastus district to
the south of Omsk, is estimated to
contain 200, GOO. COO, 600 pools, or over
3,o0a, ooo, 600 tons, while the reserves
In She Ural mountains are inexhaus-
sible IN quantity. It is true this coal
has a high percentage of ash and
sulphur, but, it is used very largely
for railway and navigation purposes in
European Russia, and, we may be GER
tain, has also found its way further
east. Again, in the Donetz basin the
coal resources are such as to preclude
the possibility of famine, the yield
aslng about ii, SOC, ,00o tons in 1900 and
1901. There are supplies in this dis
srict alone sufficient to last for eight
hundred years at the present rate o.
production, which progresses at some
thing like LOCO, 600 pools per annum.
Then there are the Dombrovski fields
in Poland, which cover an immense
area, and, although the quality of this
Goa, is also rather inferior, it makes
up in output for its Deficiencies, the
quantity dispatched by land carriage
in 1901 being ISIS, 7eo tons.
1t will thus be seen that. while quite
young industry, coal mining is carri-
I'd on very extensively in Russia: that
the production. already large, is con-
ssansly increasing, atoning in size for
defects of quality, and that, other
things being equal, the empire can
well afford, in the matter of its coal
supplies, to depend upon its own in
serual resources.
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POliteneSa.

Little Elmer-Papa. what is polite
ncSS?
Professor Observation-Disclosures. m,:
son. is the arr Of not letting other peo-
NE know what you really think o.
.,,.e,r. Town Topics.
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In view OF the publicity given to the
fact that retired officers of the British
royal navy commanded the two cruis-
ers bought for Jaran from the Ar
gentine Government at Genoa on their
trip from that port out TO Nagasaki
and Yokohama at the beginning of
the present war, it is only fair that
it should be known just as widely that
as soon as ever the British Govern
ment learned of the matter the names
of the officers in question were re-
moved by the admiralty from the
list of the officers of the English navy.
Moreover the application made to
the British consul at Genoa for per
mission to fly the British flag on the
voyage out to Japan was at once per-
emptorily refused, and the two cruis-
ers in question made the run under
japanese colcrs. It remains to be
seen whether the officers in question
can be Court-martialed for rendering
this service to the Mikado. But this
is doubtful, as they had not only al
ready retired from the English navy,
but bad even compounded their PEN
sion for lump sum and we're only re-
tanned on the emergency list of the
admiralty. All this was explained by
Lord Selborne, the first lord of the
British admiralty, in the House of
Lords, at Westminster, the other day.
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The new cloth bound, beautifully
illustrated noyels-the regular $3.50
editions-at Is cents are surprise to
book-buyers. They are going, and the
opportunity to duplicate them may
never be presented again.
Fl. G. Osteen & Co.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-11-04

Some two years ago q convict ad'
dressed a letter TO John W. Kern. the
Democratic candidate for governor,
asking his aid in securing q pardon
Mr. Kern had defended the man and
believed he had suffered enough. but
advised him to interest some ward
worker or small politician IN his case.
as such q man would have more In
nuence with the governor than Kern
himself. The letter was sent To the
governor by one OF his henchmsn. and
II 10 more than likely that the convict
never saw H. After holding the letter
nearly two years and waiting till the
eve OF the election. Governor Durbin
gave Il out for publication. sccompa'
nying the act with the declaration that
q man who would write such q letter
10 q convict 10 not NJ to be governor
Thersupon Mr.. Kern came back at the
small-fry governor. admitted that he
wrote the letter to Convict Tleming
and that he stands by every utterancs
Il contained. Then he added:
Il DO not believe that John Tleming
ever saw that letter. II he did he
would be quite likely to deliver IL up
promptly on the request Of the prison
oficiais. who acquired . reputation for
abusing insane convicts When Gov
ernor Durbin insinuates that Fleming
rave up that letter voluntarily and
without request. II he ever saw It. he
uttsrs q deliberate fslsehood."
Mr.. Kern can find ample proof that
Governor Durbin is not over-psrticular
about the truth when he wants TO
make q point. Every newspaper man
who has had anything to do with him
knows full well with what ease the
governor can make q statement and
then. when Il appears In print. utter
. circumstantial denial OF having
used the language. One Indianapolis
paper had occasion 10 call him q liar
once. and the executive did not come
to bat. II 10 like him to carry such
letter around for two years and then
i've II out on the eve OF an election
when the man who wrote II 10 csndi-
date.
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poN'Ts.

Don't be late al the polls. Don't 60
away early.
Don't let any man vote whose name
IL not On your poll-book.
Don't forget that the Republican
state tax board is trying TO make the
tax law odious.
Don't take any chances with voters.
II they don't come To the polls prompt
ly. send after them
Don't forget that Charles w. Fair.
banks and Albert ]. Beyeridge voted
for tha ship subsidy bill.
Don't forget that your vote may be
important in determining the result
In county. state and nation.
Don't forget that the Democratic
party is depending upon you 10 do
your whole duty on election day.
Don't forget that these are prosper.
Gus times only TO me trust magnates
who own the Republican party.
Don't appoint any but simon-pure
Democrats to act as watchers OF the
count on the night of the election.
Don't forget that November 3 will
determine whether tyranny or the con
stitution shall rule in this country.
Don't let Republicans bulldoze you
out of any Of your rights. The law de
zines them and you should assert them
courageously
Don't stay away from the polls on
election day. but vote early and re
main TO help your election officers In
emergencies.
After claiming ior years that the
Republican party has greatly reduced
the state debt. Governor Durbin nnal
ly admitted ths, such thing was
made possible by the Democratic tai
law and Democratic sinking fund law
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In the public schools OF that city and
later went to Harvard University,
where he was graduated In rs On
graduating he returned TO Greensburg,
where he practiced Law with great sue
cess until he was elected to the Ap-
pellate bench In 1892 Retiring from
the bench in 1897. he moved his famil.
10 Indianapolis where he has engaged
In the practice OF law ever since. lie
is the senior member Of the Arm o.
Gavin. Davis 4 Gavin.
Judge Gavin has always been yer
active in Masonry and is grand mas
ter Mason Since wing in lndianapo
lis he has been Iealous in everythin
pertaining TO the city's welfare. HI
is prominent in the working Of the IL
dianapol.s Commercial Club. an
served the club for two years In tn
capacity Of president.
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A GOOD WORK.

Mr.. Bryan continued his good work
for Democracy in q two days tour OF
Indiana cities last week. and his ap
peals 10 the people were all full OF
party loyalty and good advice. His
work In the state for the ticket has
been admirable and he deserves and
receives the thanks Of every patriot
who honors Democratic principles
Mr.. Bryan well says that victory st
the polls will not be a Parker victory
alone. but a victory for every Demo
crat and a victory for good govern
ment as well
Parker and Davis supported me In
1896" said he in his Kendallville
speech. "and in 1900. when IL required
courage for men In the East TO sup
port me. They supported me though
they differed with me on the money
question. Why should not support
them now when they stand for SC
much that we all desire to see accom-
lished? Roosevelt stands for nothing
that promises any reform OF existing
evils Parker's triumph will not be q
triumph for Parker alone. II will be q
triumph for me. for he stands jug
where stood in 1900 on this question
OF imperialism In his triumph there
Will be glory for the republic glory
FOR those who believe In the principles
Of the fathers glory enough for all
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JASPER, INDIANA. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER A. 1904.

In the United states sen.
ate by men who have voted for the
ship subsidy bill. who have favored
the trusts and defended them openly
whenever they dared. who are In IA
vor OF perpetuating the tarifr and who
are notoriously not In sympathy with
the people whom thsy thus misreprs-
sent. or shall they be displaced by con.
sclentious guardians OF tho public
veal. men who have proved them
selves both honest and fearless In the
discharge u duty
Shall q state board Of tax commits
sioners which has increased the as
ssnmenta on farm lands and farm
land improv emsntx s27 .000. 900 and re-
e ice. the assessments on corporations
Z AZ 900 OO0 be indorsed AT the polls
and continued In Office. or shall there
be return 20 the original purposes
OF the Law which were TO make cor.
porations bear their just proportion OF
the burdens OF taxation and In which
spirit the law was administered by the
Democrats till the Republicans came
Into power
The man who esteems his suffrage
lightly. who 10 controlled BY prejudice
rather than principle. who Is Repub
hcsn because som cone else 10 Re
publican. whose ideas OF existence are
comprised in mere meat and drink ant
clothing for the body may turn ava,
from these questions as he would from
anything that would evoke q serious
thought. but the man who loves hil
country. Who despises wrong regard
less of ia source and loves and recog
nires right and defends Il agains
whom soevsr would debase Il. WIZ
stands for high ideals In citizenship
In government In Law. should TAX
them and ponder on them. for the
represent In part the issues Of a CAN
psign whose result on November
may mark q new era either for goo
or bad in our country.
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FAIRBANKS AND TIE JOURNAL.

When the Indianapolis Journal was
absorbed by the Star and It's publics-
ton discontinued. Republicans over
the state were very indignant over
the sale and Senator Fairbanks. who
vas known TO be interested In the
Journal. was roundly abused for sell
ing out the party. He caused IL 20 be
circulated by his friends that he had
nothing TO do with the sale Of the or
gan. and thus the whole blame was
shifted 70 the shoulders Of Charles X.
Henry, who was associated with Fair
banks and who va actively engaged
IN publishing the paper.
II develops that Mr.. Heary has writ
ten . history Of ths deal In which he
charges that he had very little stock
In the paper and that Senator Psir-
banks was the principal owner: that.
when n vas found that the paper vas
losing money In its competition with
the star, he advised that money be put
into Il and . fght made for its lost
prestige: that Fairbanks refused 20
spend any more money oo II and
opened negotiations with George v.
McCulloch. through which the transfer
OF the paper was finally accomplished.
When II became known that Henry
had written such a statement and pro-
posed giving II TO the press. Republi-
cans besieged him on all sides and
begged him to withhold II I'LL after
the election. II was urged that. while
the facts as he stated them we're true.
Fairbanks would be injured II publicity
were given them. and he nnally con-
sentsd TO hold the matter In sbeyance
till aftsr the election Thus. while
Fairbanks IL posing ~ the man who
tried TO save the paper 70 the party.
Henry 10 regarded a. tho real betray'
Or Of the party. and the man who de-
privsd II Of an organ on the eve OF an
important campaign.
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Roosevelt. Peril.

In the course of his address before
the Connecticut Democratic conven.
tlon Henry Wade Rorers dean OF the
Yale law school. had the following 70
say about Roosevelt
Since he became President he has
shown not only by his treatment OF
Panama and by his action In the pen
sion matter as well as by his dictate
rial assumption OF authority In every
department OF the government such 8
DISREGARD OF the limitations of power
as 10 lead nany thoughtful men to dis
trust his wisdom II is this distrus'
which perhaps more than any other
reason has lee the Independent press
OF the country almost without ercep
tion to pronounce against him in this
ca mpa IN and 10 regsrd him as a dan
rerous pilot for a great ship.