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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-14
Obituary Notice.

Secretary Reardon has made an
effort to collect cash from a number of
enterprising gentlemen "who sub
scribed, but never paid, to the fall
festival fun" He has tenderly in
closed the list in a mourning envelope
endorsed on the back thereof, "The
money that we longed for never
came-''
They will be placed in the archives
of the Sumter Fall Festival of No
vembe- 1904, for the information CT
future generations who get up fes-
tivalS.
Reouiescat in Pace.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-14
HEsTER's WEEKLY STATEMENT.

New Orleans, Dec. 9.-oecresaFy
Hester's weekly cotton statement issued
today shows for the nine days Of De-
cember decrease under Last year of
40, coo and an increase over the same
period year before last Of 79, 00O.
For the 100 days Of the season that
have elapsed the aggregate is ahead
of same days years before last.
The movement since Sept. !, shows
receipts as all United States ports to
be 1883, ,912, against 4,25l, 962 last
year. Overland across the Missls-
sippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to
northern mills and Canada 1863, 591
against 3,o76. 43e last year, interior
stocks in excess of those held at the
close of the commercial year 646, l56
against 46f, ,731 last year; southern
mills takings 73s. 600 against 66S. 2S6
last year.
The total movement since Sept. l
is 6, 731, $50 against 3, $3.50. 4l5 last year.
Foreign exports for the week have
been POI, 500 against 26s, 679 last year.
making the total this far for the sea-
son 3,513, TO against 3.0l3, l5S last
year. -,
The total takings of American mills,
north. south and Canada thus far for
the season have oeen l,546, ST. against
1852, 175 last yes-.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 20
leading southern interior centres have
increased during the week 43, S19 bales
against an increase DUNG the CORES
ponding period last season OF 4,270.
Including stocks left over at ports
and interior towns from the last crop
and the number for bales bought into
sight thus far tom the new crop, the
suppIy to date is 6,893, 626 against
5S58, 214 for the same period last year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-14
SOUTH CAROLINA P0sTMAsTERs.
]. r. Mcclure Nominated For Postmaster
at Bishopyille.

Among the nominations sent to the
Senate on the 18th instant by the
president was the uame of j. r. Nc
Clure to be postmaster at Bishopvllle
S. G.
In the list of appointments con-
frmed in executive session by the
Senate on the same day are the follow
ing postmasters from South Carolina !:
Mary Wells, Cheraw benj. G Col
Inns, Conway; Louise Jacobs, King
stree: Arthur r. Garner, Timmons-
Vile.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-14
ESTIMATING COTTON CROPS.
Reply of The Census Bnreau to
Recent Criticisms.

Washington, Dec. 9-Director OF
The Census North has made state
mant setting forth the position OF the
ceusus bureau in connection with the
resolution recently adopted by the
Memphis, Tennessee, Cotton Ex-
change, and concurred in by the ex-
changes Of Vicksburg and Charleston,
requesting thas the census office ADAM
don it present plan Of publishing the
cotton crop reports in partial state
ments, and withhold all information
until reports have been received from
every county In the cotton oei5. O1-
rector North says.
Since the census bureau unoertook
the collection and publication OF
the statistics OF cotton ginned, Only
two objections have been urged to
its plan, namely: That too much time
ELAPSED between the collection and the
publication dates OF the reports. and
that the exgencies Of the cotton trade
reqnired reports more frequently
than once month.
tine change was made to meet
these tive objections. It is impossible
to give out complete reports until all
the aeents have made their returns,
and. as facilities fer travel and other
conditions differ widely throughout
the cotton producing States, it often
happens that few. county reports are
tate and the publication Of the full
report is thus delayed several days. Un-
der the new pain information is given
to the public as fast as received and
compiled. incidentally the returns
are thus protected from the possibility
Of leakage or any suspicion OF Leak
age.
ssThe plan also meets the second OBJ
lection by giving the PUBLIC more ire
oueut reports, and gradually prepares
all concerned Cor the conapl steSmonthiy
statement, giving the total quantity
cianed to 8 given daJe. The prelimi-
nary report of November % gave an
accurate forecast Of the full report.
and gave notice to producer and manu-
facturer, as to what might be expect
ed in the fnal report, issued Noyem-
Der SO, and In consequence there were
no sharp and sudden fluctuations in
prices during that time. As sssa6y-
lug influence upon the market the par
tiai reports have been abundantty
justified already.
I. This estimate OF the United States
department Of agriculture. estimating
the years growth at 10, 162, 600 bales,
appeared on December. The public,
sherefore, had ten days in which to
prepare for large crop estimate. 1t
would appear that the effect OF the
partial statement was TO prepare the
public for conditions now appearing,
and to prevent wide fluctuations in
prices. which must otherwise have oc-
cured.
The Office has. received abundant
testimony that the new method is re-
garded by the producers and consum.
ers Of cotton as an improvement and
advantage.
However. the plan for issuing these
pasial statements is experimental,
and if, at the close of this season its
results are not regarded as clearly ad-
vausagecus to producers and consum-
ers, il will be abandoned thereafter.
The census reports as primarily
made thus far have unmistaably SO re-
ssujteS >,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-14
The ''Murray's.' .

When you've got bad cough just
say "MURRAY'S." If druggist
gives you anything but Murray's 8
Horehound, Mullen and Tar you're
not getting the best and surest cough
remedy. Make him give you Muir
rays. Acts quicker and you get a
Soc size bottle for 25c.
Every druggist has it.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-14

Washington, Dec. 14.-President
Roosevelt today denied executive
clemency to Mrs. Phyllis Dodge of
New York, from whom the govern
ment seized a pearl necklace several
years ago which was worth $50, 600.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-14
Local Cotton Market.

The receipts this week have been
light compared with previous weeks.
The slump has discouraged selling aud
most people who have cotton on hand
are waiting for the market to become
settled.
Middling, IA.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-14

VISITING CARDS-Printed on fine
quality Bristol, in best style, so for
forty cents. This offer holds good for
two weeks. Osteen Publishing Co.
Dec. 10-1w
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-15

vidual-Heaven knows this is true, ana
some of them are very satanic ones.-
and should be treated as an individual,
and have his or her moral nature APP
pealed to Corporal punishment has
been banished as old-fashioned and
barbaric. So far as this means the
tion of interest" so far as it signifies
that gentleness and intelligence have
taken the place of brute force and ped
agogical ignorance. all is well. But
does it not sometimes mean that cor
poral punishment has only given way to
a far more harmful thing, piteous
pleading? This is partially the result
without doubt, of an inevitable change
from male TO female in the sex Of
school teachers. Your female teacher
as a rule is far less tempted by the
primevai Eve in her nature 10 WELD
rod than your male teacher by his
primeval Adam. But in truth it can
not be said that her moral suasion Is
always so effective, and in many cases
of incompetent teachers moral suasion
becomes nothing but abject pleading
with her pupils Ito behave" and the
effect on the tone of a schoolroom and
the minds of the pupils pleaded with is
anything but educational and healthy
In one Of the famous grammar
schools of Boston, where for thirty
years or more new ideas in education
have been born or tested. there ruled
during all that time a master who
hated corporal punishment as much as
ever the gentlest of his teachers. Long
before the new psychology had put its
ban on the rod he had quietly substi-
tuted other methods of punishment in
his school. He spoke his pupils fair,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-15
A Spanking Machine to Supersede
the Hand Method.
Letter in New York Tribune.

Letter in New York Tribune.
The Red Wing (Minn) State Train
ing School has adopted a spanking
machine which mas superseded in that
institution the old-fashioned hand
method with, it is said. the most sat-
isfactory results. The humiliation
of being put under the machine has
more effect on the children than the
punishment and it is believed that
this improvement will help much in
the discipline of the institution" as
the printed accounts put it.
The announcement of this improve
ment" is several weeks old now, but it
seems still not to have created the
widespread attention that it deserves
In fact, it's significance has not been
recognized at all. A few have said,
"Humph, another displacement of hand
labor by machinery. The time for get
ting excited about that passed long
ago" Others, remembering their youth,
perhaps gave passing wonder that
any machine could be found which
would in reality act so effectively and
on the exact tender spot as we'll
welded rattan. But the true signifi-
canoe of the announcement has quite
escaped attention. 1t has probably oc-
Cured to nobody to be surprised that
whipping still exists at all as a pun
ishment for the young of this enlight-
ened land.
And yet this is a cause for surprise.
In penal institutions alone is tradition
conserved. Any boy of the present
generation who has escaped arrest,
reading Judge Shute's comical book,
The Real Diary of Real Boy" will
tell you, if you ask him, that the judge
has set forth with wonderful fidelity
the swimming hole pleasures, the fall
and winter sports, the spring sick
nesses of boyhood. But he will add,
THAT kid of his gets too many lick
ms. Nobody gets spanked that. often
nowadays" And your young critic is
right. For US the book is a picture of
manners, an historical record punctu-
ated with the birch rod no oftener
than historical accuracy demands But
the boys of to-day have been brought
up under a different educational re-
gime, and to them the book, as a piece
of life, lacks verisimilitude in inverse
proportion to the number of fioggings.
1t is a case of psychology versus the
switch. When Charles Lamb, in his
reminiscent paper on schoolboy life,
tells of his envy of the little cherubim
who floated about SO happily in heaven
because they had no place to be spank
ed on, we regard it rs one of the most
fantastic of his humorous conceits, not
rejecting that in the mirth of it was
held in solution many a bitter tear,
for though God might temper the wind,
in those grim days of Latin verses and
hoggings, there was no surety that a
schoolmaster would temper the rod, to
,he shorn Lamb. But all that has
passed. We live in a whipless age.
The birch and rattan have passed out
of the national consciousness. There
fore the real surprise In the announce
nent of new flogging machine is the
reminder that fogging still exists,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-15

ton from the curious. What does it
look like? Is the Immediately effective
part in the shape of a human hand or
a ping pong racket? Is it applied to
the childs hand, or to a more protect
ted and less exposed part of his per-
son? Is the child chained down during
the operation? How is the machine
worked by steam. electricity, or foot
power? These are all questions of pro-
found interest which the authorities of
the institution where the invention is
housed have not disclosed. Whether the
force of the blow can be regulated is
another interesting point A fat child
might well fare better than lean,
since the point Of impact would be
nearer the starting point of the swing.
However, ii is useless to speculate. One
might merely suggest in leaving the
whole subject that the invention points
to a sad decline in the muscular ener-
gy Of the present race of Americans.
even if it indicates that in Minnesota
the ancient willingness still fingers.
Fancy suggesting to school masters of
fifty years ago that he fog his pupils
by machinery he would take the sug-
gestion as personal insult to his pow
ers as man and an invitation to shirk
his plain duty. We have fallen on evil
times. even in Minnesota.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-15
though only the very naughty share

though only the very naughty share
the blessing.
Go into a modern kindergarten. Gn
the roast beef days of our grandfath-
ers there were no kindergartens, and
men became individuals or poets, turn
ed loose, as they were, to react on ma
ture.) young woman, correctly in
structed in "genetic psychology" and
other branches of the pedagogic art,
squats on the floor and hops about, ex-
claiming. Now we are all little bum
MES" None of the children dispute
her, though some of them look visit
fully incredulous. What would hap
pen if one of them should ask her what
q real bunny looks like is problemati-
cal. But none of them do ask her.
They are all Gods little gardens"
these children, and don't ask questions.
No well bred garden would do such a
thing. They, too. squat and hop, and
are Dummies. And. of course, no one
would think of spanking the dear lit
tie things. 1t may be that now and
then a strong minded young woman,
whose notions of "genetic psychology
are supplemented by a little of the old
fashioned idea OF common sense. is
sorely tempted. There are little gar
dens of God" which sometimes bear all
the soil marks of the other command
ing figure Of the theologians. But she
refrains herself in time, and at noon
the Dummies become children again.
and go home to their normal living
unsoanked.
That is the first stage. AS education
progresses, the same disregard of the
first agent of discipline. hallowed by
long use, is shown. The new psycholo-
gy teaches that each child is an indi-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-15

and they loved and obeyed him, and in
after life many of them thanked him
for all that they amounted to in the
world, for his school was in the midst
of a poor part of the city. Yet in his
office, in secret drawer, there reposed
a rattan, and sometimes it was taken
out. Then the young culprit who
stood before the master with the kind
face knew there was something in
store for him far more effectual than
moral suasion. The culprit had been
sent to the master by his teacher be-
cause he had refused TO yield to her
moral suasion, and the master knew at
a glance whether his would have any
effect II he saw that it would not,
out came the switch. The culprit was
seldom sent a second time, If he had
seen the drawer opened. But that great
master is dead now, and some boys
effectual men than they might have
been for lack of application-on the
right spot.
So we have come upon a whipless
age, and your child of to-day reads
and hears about the great fioggings
of old as about the mighty battles and
heroic deeds of dim, far off history.
The tale does not come intimately into
his life, there is no tingling response
in his memory to greet the recital.
And he would look on a fiogging ma
chine, not with any personal interest,
but merely as a humorous curiosity.
The legally bad children of Red Wing.
Mimi, II may well be- are an excep-
tion and that is the surprise-that
there should be any exceptions. But
the exceptions test the rule. Minnesota
serves as a reminder.
The machine itself invites considera-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-15
Takenosul1e Furuya's Career.
THE DECAY OF FL0GGlNG.

Copyright, 1904, by E. B. Warner
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Irvine from Wisconsin Wire Grass.
Wire grass Irvine is a new product
of the Northwest, which promises to
relieve the stringency of the supply
of Manila Irvine during the wheat har-
vest season. The wire grass from
which the Irvine is made is grown in
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and other
products as we'll as Irvine, are made
from it. c. w. Crawford of Indianapo-
lis, explained the nature of the new
product:
For the last ten years or more, -
he said, ''the wheat harvest season
has assumed the aspect of a bugbear
to farmers who did not have a large
supply of Irvine on hand. Without
twine binders cannot run, and without
binders it is impossible to harvest
wheat.
"The only variety of Irvine that
could be used in the past was the
Manila variety, imported from the
Philippine Islands. The supply of that
always gave out before the harvest
ended, and the lack of it often occa-
stoned great loss. The new wire
grass has proved to be equal, if not
superior to Manila Irvine, and the
farmers may rest easy now"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
Women Who aPushu Goods.

The advertisement was unblushing-
ly inserted in a London newspaper a
few weeks ago: "A lady moving in
good society is required at once to
wear and to make fashionable very
beautiful, dainty article of jewelry I;
liberal remuneration; strict secrecy"
Often a delicate suggestion will be
made at fashionable shops that in re-
turn for tactful recommendation the
firm would be only too delighted to
supply dresses, hats or shoes, as the
case may be, gratis, or even paying q
commission upon new orders OBJ
tanned. This system of female tout.
ing is done in London to an almost
incredible extent, women acting as
secret agents for wine merchants,
soap manufacturers and even as touts
for money lenders.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
THE BOSS HERDER'S REVENGE

When it comes to exacting ample
revenue for real or fancied injury give
me the old-time COW man, and I'll
show you fellow who doesn't forgive
or forget" said Bob Howard, who for
the last fifteen years has been fore
man of the |. D. brand in the Crow
reservation in Montana Il know one
man that paid about 81 200 for a bot
tie of whisky simply because he fail
ed to pay little bet. Maybe it wasn't
his fault that he didn't make good,
but just the same he was held at fault
and had to foot the bill His name is
Paul Mccormick, and he lives out in
Billings. He is a rich man now, said
to be a millionaire, and he hasn't
missed the $1,000. In fact, up to the
present time he doesn't know how
much he paid for quart of red eye
''This little incident happened about
a dozen years ago. Cattle were cheap.
The price had dropped with great i'd
denness and Mccormick had contract
ed to purchase 800 head of the Duck
Bar brand on eight months delivery.
BY the time for the fulfillment of the
contract had arrived he found himself
facing loss on account of the drop in
values. He didn't want the cattle, so
/ have always understood, but the
owner of the Duck Bar was obdurate
and Mccormick had to take the
steers. The 500 were cut out of the
main herd and swum across the Big
Horn to the cast side. The river is
very swift at this point, as it is just
where it energies from the mountains
under the tumbledown abode walls Of
old Fort C. F. Smith. 1t was July,
and the melting snow from the noun.
tains caused the river to run bankful.
Mccormick didn't accept the cattle
with particular good humor, and he
didn't take the jokes of the Duck Bar
foreman with the gracious spirit that
the West demands from the man who
gets the worst of a bargain. The fore
man was a big muscular chap named
Billy Carter, now a good citizen out
at Great Falls. One day Billy was
looking across at McCormick's steers
on the other side of the Big Horn.
1.-The cattle swan the river in pref
ty good shape. Paul. he said.
YES snapped Mccormick, "a good
deal better than some men l know
could turn the trick
"'Are you limiting around that
couldn't swim it?' asked Billy.
"Tn cover your pile that you can't
do it, replied Mccormick.
There's just forty in my belt that
says l can do it both ways said the
cowboy
"Well, they put up the money and
Billy stripped. The water was icy
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
.MERIcA LEADS THE WORLD.
Immense Amount of Copper Mined in
this Country.

Immense Amount of Copper Mined in
this Country.
Copper has become a great neces-
city of modern life in the develop
ment of mechanics. In the matter of
supply the United States leads the
world. The total production of cop
per last year was 1,110,000, 900 pounds,
of which 714.00O,0OO pounds were
mined in this country. This repre-
sents an increased output of about
four-fold since 1884. Spain and Port
ugal come next in line as copper pro-
ducers, but they are far behind, their
total being hardly more than one
eighth of that of this country. Mex
leo ranks third, but her yield also is
small as compared with that of the
United States. With the development
of electrical science and the growth
Of applied electricity, a demand for
copper arose which only the most ire
mendous energy has been able to
meet American skill and enterprise
rose to meet the demand, and the
copper output has increased by leaps
and bounds and is still forging ahead.
The copper mines in Mexico are be-
ing worked by American capital and
labor. but the output is, of course, &C
credited to the country that produces
it.-Portland Oregonian.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
COMPULSORY Education

Willie Moran is only twelve years
of age, but as bright and shrewd as
boy many years his senior. He is
naturally good boy, but will not go
to school. 1t was his hatred for
everything that looks like book that
caused him to be hauled before Judge
Murasky during a session of the Ju-
venile Court. The judge had a long
talk with him and his mother, and
then called a truant officer to him,
gave him some whispered instructions
and dismissed Willie. Out in the
corridor Willie met a number of his
chums. Say, Willie" they asked
him, what did der Judge do ter yer?
Did he send you to der homer"
Nav" answered the gamin, with a
look of disgust. Worse dan dat. He
told der big cop wot arrested me to
call at me mothers house every morn
ing to take me to school. San Fran
cisco Call.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
poek Had EXCITING Voyage.

A remarkable voyage has been ac-
complished by a huge floating dock
which left Wallsend-on-Tyne in Sep
TENDER, and reached Durham a short
time ago. The dock was towed by
two Dutch tugs, but terrible weather
was encountered, and the towing rope
of one of the tugs broke. The sister
tug made brave struggle to get the
dock to port, but was finally obliged
to release her hold, and then ensued
a most exciting chase on the part OF
the two tugs after the floating dock.
which was captured after it had drift
ed eighty miles. Finally, with the
help of two tugs sent out by the Natal
government, the dock was brought
home. 1t is estimated that the two
Dutch tugs responsible for the dock
covered a distance of nearly 5000
miles, and some $4,000 tons Of coal
were consumed by the dock and tugs
on the voyage.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
Death AttrIbuted . Shoe Polish.

City Chemist Kirchmaier and Coro-
ner Storz of Toledo, Ohio. decided that
w. S. RAIDER, who died suddenly, and
whose death was attributed to cigar
cites and dancing, was poisoned by
nitrobenzole. an ingredient of shoe
polish that RAIDER had used. This
chemical is very deadly. and of forty
eight cases of such poisoning recorded
there has been but one recovery. The
coroner's attention was attracted by
the odor of the shoes and the black
ened flesh around the young mans
ankles.-From the Chicago Record
Herald.