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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-07-05
AN ADJUSTABLE HAY RAKE.
Plan to Establish Factory Here to
Manufacture an Improved Farm
Implement.

Mr.. w. +. Reed, OF Camden, is in
the city to confer with some Of our
business men in reference to the Or
sanitation of company here to man
ufacture the Reed Adjustable Hay
Rake, which he has been manufactur-
ing on q small scale in Camden for
several years.
Mr. Reed has been working on this
improved farming implement for
number Of years and has, after long
effort and many experiments, brought
Z IL to a state Of perfection. His first
patent was obtained in 1901 and 9TH
ers since dating down to 1904, while
3 several other applications for patents
are now pending.
The rake has passed the experimen-
tai stage, quite a number having been
successfully and satisfactorily used for
several years. Wherever introduced
the rakss have met with immediate
success, for they sell on their merits
and continued use serves to demon
srate their superiority over the rakes
heretofore on the market AS stated
Mr.. Reed has had the rakes manufac-
tured in limited numbers and has sold
them from Camden. but the demand
! for them has grown to such proper
lions that it is impossible to I'LL orders.
under the existing arrangements for
for their manufacture. Hence it is
Mr.. Reeds desire to organize COM
pany with sufficient capital to estab-
lish a factory and manufacture the
rakes in large numbers as the demand
for them necessitates. Mr.. Reed has
one Of the rakes on exhibition at the
stable of Mr.. A. D. Hardy where it
was examined today by a number OF
farmers and machinery dealers. With
out exception those who have exam
ined the rake are Of the opinion that
it is great improvement over all 9TH
er hay rakes. It is adjustable and
can be run between corn rows. The
rakes can be folded when not in use
and the machine is more easily trans
ported from place to place and re-
quires less room for storage, occupying
about one-hah the space Of the av-
erage hay rake. Another advantage
is that the wheels will track with an
ordinary buggy or wagon. It is strong
ly,and substantially built, is simple in
construction, will wear well and stand
hard usage without getting out of re-
pair.
Sumter is Mr.. Reeds choice Of 10
cality for the manufacture Of the
rakes and if the business men Of the
city will unite with him to organize
company another industry will be
created here to help build up the city
as a manufacturing centre.
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Bureau of Statistics Report.

Washington, July 3.-The monthly
report of the bureau of statistics Of
the Department of Agriculture issued
at noon today shows the average con-
dition of cotton on June 25, to have
been II as compared with 77.2 on
May 25, 1905, 8S on June 25, 1904,
III at corresponding date in 1903 and
ten year average of S4.6.
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gosolidated Aug. 2. 1881.
CITADEL BOARD OF VISITORS.
ARE IN SESSION AT COLUMBIA
TO-DAY.
Proposed to Pass Resolution Today
Declaring Every position in Facul-
ty Vacant at End of Next
Scholastic Year.

Columbia, June 29.-The Citadel
board Of visitors is in session today,
and the business it will likely transact
is expected to work an important
epoch in the career Of the historic in
stitution. The business in hand is to
remove the mess and give the school
an opportunity to expend and deve-
lope under new brains and modern
methods that will come with import
ant changes in the faculty.
It is proposed to pass a resolution
today declaring every position in the
faculty vacant at the close Of the
next scholastic year. The changes
are put off a year for the double pur-
pose Of allowing these members of
the FACULTY who know they are not
in harmony with the majority Of the
present board opportunity to find
places elswhere and to afford time
in which to discover suitable material
to take their places. Some Of these
teachers have held their places since
the last reorganization, which occur
ed nearly a quarter of a century ago,
and it will go hard with some Of them
to give up their places, as salaried
men. particularly teachers are motor
iously improvident. But such
course has been determined upon as
necessary to the continued usefulness
Of the institution and these men will
have to be turned adrift.
The. road to this course was paved
by the last legislatures passage of
bill authorizing changes in the faculty
on majority vote Of the present in
stead of a two-thirds vote Of the en-
tire board. This was done at the in
stance of q new member Of the board,
who saw after hard experience that it
was impossible to secure needed
changes in the faculty as long as seven
out Of ten had to be secured. The
board numbers ten members-fve
elected by the legislature and i've ex-
offlcio, the ex-ofhcio members being
the governor, the adjutant general,
the superintendent Of education and
the chairmen Of the legislative COM
mittees on education. Members of
the old regime did not discover that
the bill was loaded until it had
passed the house. An effort was
made to hold it up in the senate, but
this failed. There was no debate in
either branch disclosing the full pur-
pose Of the bill.
The cadets being of an impression
able age talk freely and with much
circumstances and detail Of their
barracks experiences, and one cannot
resist the impression in talking to
them that the institution is being af-
fected by the antique, not to say
queer, methods of some members Of
the faculty. Not that these boys are
falling into "odd' ways themselves,
because for the most part they are too
vigorous and healthy and sane for
this. But while they do not lack re-
spect many of them do lack that en-
thusiastic faith best calculated to
promote the best development.
Though one is impressed with obser-
vations of the camp life here Of the
conscientious and effective work go
ing on.
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British Colony Safe.

London, June "a private tele-
gram from Odessa to Lloyds this
morning says: Serious rioting oc-
Cured during the night; hundreds Of
shots were fired and the port is par
tally burnt. Martial law has been
declared and the city is now quiet; all
WE'LL
The last sentence is supposed to
mean that the British colony IL. Odes-
sa is safe.
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SUMTER. S. c. WEDNESDAY. July 5. 1905.
A REGN oE TERROR.
A1UTINEERs BOMBARDED THE
CITY OF ODESSA.
Authorities Seem Paralyzed and Pow
erless to Protect the City Against
the Mutineers.

Berlin, June 2s.-The correspond
ent Of the Zeitung at Odessa tele-
graphs that the mutineer crew OF the
Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkin
began a bombardment of the city this
morning. The harbor works have
been already badly damaged, accord
ing to the correspondent.
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STRIKE IN ST. PETERSBURG.
Workmen of all Tradesravolved and
Business is at "a standstin.

London, July 3.-A dispatch to
Reuters Telegram Company from St.
Petersburg said a general strike has
begun there and workingmen OF all
trades have joined the movement.
Work on the docks is at complete
stanstil.
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London, June 3o.-A dispatch to
Lloyd's states that nine steamers ofthe
Russian transport line had been burn
ed up to last night.
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A VALUABLE GRANT.

A VALUABLE GRANT.
China Offc1s Seven Millions for tina
Surrender Of the Canton -Hankow
Concession.
A Washington special to the New
York Herald is as follows:
Seven million dollars in round num-
bers has been offered by the Chinese
Government for the surrender Of the
concession for the building of the
Conton-Hankow railroad, now held
by j. Pierpont Morgan & Co., Amer
lean and Belgian associates. Sir
LANG Cheng, the Chinese minister to
the United States, recently engaged
in negotiations with Elihu Root, rep-
.esenting Mr. Morgan. The PROPOSE
ton made was that China buy in the
concession and the Indebtedness
egainst it. The Peking government
has tentatively approved the PROPOSE
ten.
It now remains for the directors Of
tie China-America Development
Company, in which Mr.. Morgan has
controlling interest, to act upon the
matter at a meeting to be held in
New YORK early in July.
China gave the concession to the
American company in 1897. Only %
miles of the railroad have been built.
China complains that the methods of
he company have caused the Chinese
to lose faith in this particular enter
prise. China has paid to the COM
pany several millions of dollars in
Chinese government bonds at 80. A
portion of these bonds were sold by
the company, but the majority are
now held by Mr.. Morgan and his as
sociates. If the deal is closed these
bonds will be delivered to the Chi
nese government.
1t is not thought improbable that
the Belgian bondholders interested in
the company may be loath to surren-
der the concession. The American in-
terests are, however, in control and
have expressed willingness to sell,
About year ago the Belgian interests
were in control, and China then
threatened to nullify the concession.
The ground was taken that the con-
cession was good only so long as held
by Americans At this critical juncture
Mr.. Morgan obtained control of the
company
In certain governmental circles
there is some reget at the prospective
surrender Of the concession. 1t is
realized that an American railway
from Canton to Hankow would do
much to assist the development OF
American trade and sustain and Inv
crease American prestige.
This is precisely what some people
think is one of the corollary reasons
why China is willing to pay a great
sum for the concession which she
gave for nothing to the American
company China will push the rail-
road, it is understood, and then con-
troll it absolutely herself. This will
probably result in change In the
treatment of Chinese on the railroad
controlled by foreign interests in
China. At present there is also a
Jim Crow arrangement The Chi
nese are, in travelling on these foreign
operated railroad trains, obliged to
occupy other cars than those allotted
to Europeans and Americans.
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ODESSA Is QUIET.
A Strong Force of Troops Needed to
Preserve Order.

Odessa, July s.-The city continues
quiet under a strong guard ot troops
which were called out during the re-
cent mutiny and riots Work was re-
sumed this morning in some quarters.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-07-05

Oconee county has sustained great
loss owing to the food which is now
raging in that section.
Stiles Moore was convicted Of a
heinous crime in Walhalla last Satur-
day and was sentenced to IA years in
the penitentiary.
Lightning practically destroyed 50
bales of cotton belonging to W. II.
Greer. prominent farmer living near
Batesville, in Greenvile county.
The district conference of the Ep.
worth League was held n Mullins last
week.
Mrs Robert H. Kennedy is suing
city of Greenville for $4,000 damages
for injuries received on April 26, 1905.
c. D. Mooney was seriously cut at
Blaney a station on the S. A l., Sat-
urday afternoon.
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No Difference.

William Allen White says that
during severe drought that once af-
flicted the Stale Of Kansas q visitor
from the east was one day driving
across country in the direction of To-
peka, when he met a farmer hauling q
wagon load Of water. A desultoIS
conversation cnsued between the two.
where do you get your water2'
asked the man from the east.
Bout seven miles up the road
from here, was tie reply.
what" exclaimed the stranger,
"do you mean to say that you haul
water seven miles for your family an !
stock"
II shore do answered the Kan.
san.
But, man." expostulated the east.
erner, why in the name of common
sense dou's you dig well?"
Stranger" replied the farmer,
with grin, "out this direction it's
jest as far one way as the other"
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Boston Transcript
Drawbacks to a Chaperon.

"Why do they always build boxes
in theaters that hold just even num-
bcrs, 1 wonder?" queried the young
girl who had just begun to 60 out
evenings. "They are always made
to accommodate four people or six
people, and that seems so silly of
the managers, when they know as
we'll as anybody else that you always
have to take a chaperon along. Of
course the chaperon always makes
an odd number, and it seems like a
sin to waste that extra seat just be-
cause one must take her along. It's
bad enough to have her anyway
without the host being forced to pay
for two seats for her. AS to inviting
an extra girl OF fellow, why, that is
the worst possible mistake that one
could make. No, the only solution
is to build boxes that will seat Ell
ther five or seven people. Then we
would all be happy" New York
Herald.
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Wonderful Blades.

The most celebrated weapons in
history, uniting miraculous sharp
ness with wonderful elasticity, are
undoubtedly the blades Of Damas-
>cus. The sabers of Japan, although
as hard as a diamond and taking an
edge so acute that they will 60
through pillow or poker as if they
were air, cannot compete with the
old Syrian swords because they have
no elasticity. This elasticity is not
altogether a '1ost art" as even to-
day one may see in Toledo, Spain,
blades packed in coils like watch
springs. Swords were made during
the last century in Russia that rival
ed in edge and bending qualities the
famous Damascus blades. At the
imperial factory of Zlatoust, in the
Urals, some were turned out which
bent till the point touched the hilt
end which would also cut through
an iron bar. More tLan this no
blade has ever done or can do.
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A NEW ENGLAND GENIUS.
John Foster, the First Wood Ensraver
on This Continent.

on MS comment
Light upon the life Of an early
New England genius, John Foster,
who seems TO have been the first to
execute wood engraving on this con-
tincnt as well as the first to estab
lish printing office in Boston. has
been thrown by Dr. Samuel a.
Green, Librarian of the MasSachu-
ectts Historical society. He has,
through his researches, made a val
liable contribution to local historical
literature in the form of ii bograph-
ical sketch cmbodying much in re-
gard TO Foster, who, it appears, was
the son Of IIope,till Foster, whose
Christian name is still borne by
street in Dorchester. John was bora
in what is now south Boston in
1913 and was graduated at Harvard
ut the age of nnctccN and taught
school in Dorchester, several wears
later establishing his printing office
in Bovlston street, near Washington,
in lG,.J.
1t has been supposed that Foster
did his engraving merely incidental
10 his printing, but DR.. Green has
discovered an old letter showing that
he was engraving four years ut least
before he began printing. \ map
Of New England, which he made in
1G:7, is inscribed, "l'he first that
ever was cut here" lie is known to
have engraved Il seal of Massachu-
setts, very crude portrait Of the
Rev. Richard Mather, the first Of
the Mathcrs, and view of Boston
and Charlcstown, from Noodles is
land, not an example Of which is
known to be in existence today. He
| was the author of SIX almanacs.
Foster died at the early age Of
thirty-three, in 1851, and his grave,
in the old Dorchester burial ground,
is still marked by two ornate stones,
the one at the head bearing the in
scription:
THE
| INGENIOUS
| Mathematician e. Printer
Mr.. JOHN FOSTER.
| AGED SO YEARS DYED SEPT 9th
1851
Boston Transcript.
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Arithmetic and presssa.

Teacher - If your mother had
twenty-five yards of stuff and made
a dress requiring but eighteen yards
how much would she have left?
Little Girl-Mamma can't make
her own dresses. She has tried often,
and they are always either too
Teacher-Suppose she sent it to
a dressmaker, how much would the
dressmaker send back?
Little Girl - Depends on which
dressmaker she sent it to. Some
wouldn't send back any.
Teacher (impatiently) - Suppose
she sent it to an honest one?
Little Girl-Some of the honest
est ones cut things to waste SO that
there is never anything left, no mat
ter how much you eend 'em.
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INSTANCES OF ECONOMY.
One Man Who Got Better Because it
Was Cheaper Than to Die.

was SHedPeT nan 70 IIe.
The Scottish miser who bIew out
the candle that stood beside his
deathbcd, 1gying that moonlight
was good enough to die by" had a
worthy rival III the economical
French officer who thus explained
to a wondering Englishman how he
contrivcd to live upon a pension of 3
francs Il week:
See you, mine friend, it is soree
simple ven you do know it. On Sum
day | dine vid one friend of mine,
and den ! do eat so much dat l want
no more till Wednesday, Den on
Wednesday | do buy one great big
dish Of tripc, and dat make me so
sick dat | can cat noting till Sunday
again.
Even this masterpiece Of frugali-
~, however, is fairly matched by
the exploit recorded of a rich but
parSimonious English merchant who
had been ordered abroad for the
good Of his health. But his health
seemed to get very little good by the
change, for he came back worse than
he went and was thought to be
actually dying when the ship came
in sight of Southampton, the port
for which she was bound. Hearing
this, the captain himself went hasti-
ly down to see if anything could be
done for his passenger. But the lat
ter, whose temper was evidently not
at all improved by his approaching
end, received him very sullenly and
would hardly utter a word. At
length the invalid asked abruptly:
Glow mach do they charge man
for landing on this pier?"
GA penny" was the reply.
"And how much is the charge,
then, for landing corpse2" inquir-
ed the dying man, with undisguised
eagerness.
"Two shillings," answered the
surprised captain.
"Well," cried the invalid, with a
burst of righteous indignation, eff
you suppose, my friend, that I'm
such fool as to pay Is. lid. ex-
ira for dying, you're Tery much
mistaken! Sooner than let myself
be imposed upon to that extent I'll
recover!"
And it is recorded that he did
Los Angeles Tines.
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A Scene Of Danger.

A bishop was once invited to din
ner at a certain house. During the
course Of the meal he was surprised
to hear the little daughter Of the
house state that it was dangerous TO
go to church.
"Why do you say that ~ said the
bishop.
"Oh," said the little child, sT
heard papa telling mamma that last
Sunday there was big gun in the
pulpit, and the canon was in the
reading desk, and the choir murder
ed the anthem, and the organist
drowned the choir" - =. s.ss. : s. ,,s.
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Wouldn't Waste lt.

Andrew Lang in his Adventures
Among Books" tells this Of Robert
Louis Stevenson: "That he and q
friend travelled utterly without bag
gage, buying shirt where shirt
was needed, is a fact, and the Incl
dent is used in THE Wrecker.' Le-
gend says that once he and friend
did possess a bag and also, nobody
ever knew why, a large bottle of
scent. But there was no room for
the bottle in the bag, SO Mr.. Steven
son spilled the whole contents over
the other mans head, taking him
unawares, that nothing might be
wasted"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-31

about twenty years Of uualloyed de-
light in which she enjoys all of the
rapture of pride of seeing her little
Johnnie elected president of the
United States, and her little Sammy
made com mander-in-c chief of the army,
and her little Jimmie Wall street
magnate, and her little Sallie dazzling
the world as an actress.
Every mother is an idealist and
gifted with powers of imagination
where her children are concerned
that makes Jules Verne and Rider
Haggard's 5 widest fight Of fancy
seem tame and dull, and in the cxcr-
else Of these faculties woman prob
ably reaches as near to perfect hap
pincss as any human being ever
knows.
The most beautiful dreams Of the
opium fcnd were never SO gorgeous,
SO rosy, 80 beautiful as the trance she
lives in about her children. But
pleasure at this prophetic vision Of
child future is denied to most faith
crs, because men know life and the
world too well, and too much about
what qualities it takes to win sue
cess.
And when occasionally q mother s
dreams arc realized, and the child
does achieve something, there is no
other such perfection Of gratified am-
bition as the mother feels.
Mr.. Barrie relates in his beautiful
story Of Margaret Ogilvy that his
mother, who was great admirer Of
q ladstonc, never expressed q wish
to be Gladstone himself, but always
said
81 would like fine to have been his
mother" and there can be no doubt
that every great mans mother tri-
umphs more in his greatness than he
does himself.
The final time when a woman has a
better time than man is when both
are old. { No old woman is as forlorn
as All old man, and this is true wheth-
er they are millionaire's or paupers.
An old woman makes herself some
sort of home, while an old man is
utterly dependent on having somebody
to do it for him.
Woman attaches somebody to her,
80 that she is not left desolate and
lovcless when age comes upon her,
but unless man has children he is
apt to have no human being who is
bound to him by single tie of affec.
tion.
Women also have generally pro.
vided for their old age some interest,
such. as clubs or philanthropy, and
they have ut least their knitting,
while an old man has absolutely moth
ing. He has spent his life in busi
ness, and when he is debarred from
that by age he has nothing to fall
back upon, and is literally bored to
death.
So in their last days, if not their
early days, women have as good time
as men.
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Device For BEING Cordial.

There is a certain Mrs. So-and-so
in town who has the most gracious
and cordial manner you can imagine.
She went to call one day on a wo-
man I know, and the woman spoke
in, open admiration of her way Of
entering room.
"You do come in and shake hands
so charmingly," she said. GLOW do
you manage to do it 2"
"0h," said Mrs. So-and-so, ri
just make believe to myself that the
person I'm going to speak to is some
one I like Washington Post.
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A Lawyers Scheme.

A gentleman once asked lawyer
what he would do provided he had
loaned a man $500 and the man had
left the country without sending
any Acknowledgements.
"Why, that's simple. Just write
him to send an acknowledgment for
the $4,000 you lent him, and he will
doubtless reply stating it was only
$500. That will suffice for receipt,
and you can proceed against him if
necessary"
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The 8 Longest Name In The World. 3

The Longest Name In the World.
The town that boasts of the long
est name in the world is III; Wales.
The na1ne is Llanfairpwll gwyngy1-
gogery hwyrndro bwlli lilantysiliogo-
gogoch, which is abbreviated for
colloquial and postal purposes into
"Llanfair, p G. The pronuncia-
ton of the full name will be made
easier if it be remembered that tho
tsw'' t.sw'' in WEIGH is prom nounced like the
800" in food = and the gr'', like the
Ger" in .scersain; . while the g e : Is
pronounced almost like fsttlh = :
though more accurately Like "chfD
!of. the Germans. D "a