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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-07-26
lED,,WAaDs.

Edwards, July l8.-Crops are look-
ing well now. We are having plenty
&C rain &c the present. We had the
Acsviess rain last Friady evening that
Have ever experienced. it did lot
ak damage in so1ne parts. 2.
Roads are in q terrible condition IN
shin community.
Sunday school picnic was held as
n sxpah Baptist Church on Saturday
a6t, iss was very pleasant day.
private school is being taught in
10 community by Mr. 7. W. un-
-uex3yns sSs..ss
IA a. White and son, Lawrence
Mzssst Thursday in Camden.
HI q. ". Lee and son, Edward are
ia RishcpYille today.
III. Willie Lees. Of 0akisnd spent
E4aay night and Sunday with nts
HaxHnsH here.
Rey. Mr. Booth filed his regular
pssnfnsment at St Johns Methodist
rhnEch yesterday evening. e7
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been brick or some similar substance,
it would have been such protection
against fire spreading. But it will be
lust as handsome and attractive as
brick or artificial stone.
Misses JAMIE and Annie Chandler
are having a gay time; so are the
Young men. They spent several days
at Mr.. Daniel Gibbs where all kinds of
fruits and good eatables abound.
There are several ladies from abroad
visiting in this little town, where land
and lots are in such great demand.
Old man Frank Potts has not been
we'll for several weeks, but my, my,
it doesn't effect his ever ready tongue,
and his ability to pile 'em up on old
man. Elic Hickson, and this CORES
pondent too.
Old man Ellie Hickson, and his
little brother Luther went to the big
picnic at Beulah today, and partook
most freely of the great feast that was
spread so freely for all who went
there. A large number Of people from
this neighborhood can testify to the
ability Of Reuiah to feed, on such
occasions, thousands of people, es-
pecially today.
Rev. S. o. Cantey's brother and
cousin, from Summerton, were here
yesterday morning, but left for Sum-
ter on the am, train.
Mrs. ]. A. Rhame is visiting rela-
tives in Manning.
Mr.. o. c. Scarborough was here a
few hours last evening. He has many
friends here, as elsewhere.
Wish the Summerton correspond
ent would boom up the new county
some more, and also, visit head
quarters The agent will be round
to see him soon, if he doesn't come.
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LYNCHBURG.

Lynchburg, July 1s.-The cotton
crop in this section was never more
promising than it is at this writing,
and with favorable weather condi-
tions for two or three weeks more,
the yield will be as great or greater
than it was last year, in proportion
to the acreage planted. But there's
many a slip betwixt the cup and the
lip." The cotton is now in its crisis;
too much rain or too much dry wealth
Ter can turn the scales. We really
fear no serious injury from insects.
In some places the corn crop is fine:
in others it is poor, and this condi-
ton is easily accounted for.
Mr.. J. G.. Stokes is doing rushing
business with his acknowledgements
two paying trips today-one to Ell
liotts and return and one to Bishop
vile this afternoon, carrying young
ladies and young men to see the ball
game there between Summerton and
BishopviIle. Horses are gradually
losing fear of the autos around: here.
Rev. ]. H. Mitchell is preaching
series of night sermons in the Baptist
church, of which he is pastor, in this
place. The sermon on Monday night
was a searching, telling and hitting
one. If any one escaped direct hit
he was sure grazed. His text. justi-
fed him in chi6ing those who. in
most villages and towns, congregate
on the street corners, at the barber
shops and various other places and
use trashy language unfit for decent
person to make use Of. His sermon
met with unanimous approval.
"Immodest words admit of no de-
fense;.
For want Of decency is want of
sense"
atr. Mitchell. although young:in the
n.Ilistry, is-an expressive speaker, atd
is much thought of here by all de-
nominations. The Baptist here are to.
be congratulated in selecting such
good, upright and truth-telling
preacher as their pastor, and we
trust he is here for a number of years.
Drs. Darby and Tarrant are ';o1 tie
So day and night.
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STaTEBURG..

Stateburg, july 241-Miss Emma M.
Erierson returned sto5 Charleston }ass
Monday Afternoon. after spending Sun
day at home sst,i'sf =
M. Harry Bull left on SATURDAY Tor
Chester where he is to. teach school,
Miss Nina DeVeaux, of Charleston
is visiting Miss Fannie Lee at Farm
Hiu. -
ME-. W. D. Frierson left on Sunday
for Chester wher7 he is to engage ID
busi ness
Mr. Booker. of Charleston spent
Sunday here-@ ith friends.
Mrs. John Fisbburne. Of Florence
who has been visiting her sisters the
: MissessGibson. left on "Wednesday for
{ Hendersonyille, n. c. She was ac-
accompanied by Miss Margaret Gioson.
who will spend several weeks in the
mountains.
Mr.. Gus Flud left on Saturday to
espsnd few days at Myrtle Beach with
Aais mother and sisters.
Rev. W. q. a-nwell is visiting
friends in Clarendon today.
Mr.. c. c. Slaughter spent Friday
and Saturday at his old home III
Dranoeburg.
Col J. ). Dargan is spending some
time in Columbia.
Mr.. James Pagan spent last week in
Sumter attending court.
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KERSHAW COUNTY.

Camden, July give have had
good seasons here, and crops are on
boom. We have some Of the best
cotton crops ever seen in this county,
and some few have good fields Of
corn.
Mr.. J.. NJ. jenkins, of Remberts,
Sumter county, was visiting Mr.. c. N;
Humphries family last week.
The Camden base ball team won
three games from Lancaster this week
10 to O; IL to 1; Is to 0: Quite
a poor showing for Lancaster. Camden
has won nine straight games in the
past few weeks. Our team from Long
Branch will play them a game this
coming week. They may "shut US
out but they will have to play ball"
If Sumter wants good country team
let them address a letter to manager
Long Branch ball team. Camden, R.
F. D. No. l, and we will come down
and give them good game.
A white man by the name of Horton
a negro, and a mule, were killed by
lighting last Thursday, at Bethune,
this county.
We must congratulate you on the
Daily Item. 1t is looked forward to
by US with a great deal of pleasure.
We are from Sumter county and
know so many Sumter people.
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Lynchburg, July 22.-This after
noon one Bill Claybern came to the
MAGISTRATES Office in this place and
swore out a warrant for one Isaac
Mack, near Atkins, for attempting t.
murder his daughter Mary, the wife
of the defendant. From his state
ment Isaac Mack becoming angered
with his wife for wearing his shoes in
securing his house, shot her in the
neck with a so called parler rifle, in
flicting a dangerous wound. He said
the physicians stated that he could
not remove the ball without great
danger of ruptering some blood vessel
against which the ball or bullett mad
lodged, and that the woman was
partially paraIyzed from the effect or
the the missile. Isaac is hiding out,
and may make to parts unknown. he
is a bad negro and has served term
on the chaln gang LOT Vile oeo'iiie'
The latter is dead, and it is very pro-
bable that he was responsible, to some
degree at least, for her death. Rev.
is his tilt. The Rev" claims that the
shooting was an accident, but wife
No. 2, says not.
The Lynchburg Mercantile Com
pany's store which is in course Of erec-
ton is beginning to show what a
handsome building it will be. What
a pity it is a frame building! Had it
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COUNTY eDRREs sP0kDEhcE.
NEWSY LETTERS From OUR SPE.
CIAI CORRESPONDENTS.
Mems of Interest From all Parts of
Sumter and Adjoining Counties.

NouCE TO CORRESPONDENTS
Mail your letters so that they will
reach this Office not later than Tues
aay morning. When the letters are
received WE dnesday it is almost an
auapossibility to have them appear in
The paper issued that day.
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BRAUN.

Braun, July 24.-The farmers OF
this neigh borbood have about finished
their crops. The cotton crop IS poorly
fraited ]; corn has improved very much
lately.
Nr. .Luciau James and family and
Ms. Charlie Jackson are. spending
sometime .. tho home OF Mr.. S Z.
AZ 5and Mrs. a. Z. Weldon have
raturned from visit to Sumter.
Mrs; e. M. Bradley has been taken
so tie Mood OsteenE enEin6rmary for.treat-
Mr., John Hurst. of:sumter, is Wis.
itlng his brotEerss .,.-.,' =.
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HAGOOD.

daSOOG, du1y HV.
| 1 arrival beat anything I have e'e'
seen IN the State in the way of :;,i' $,
etc. The man makes the land and
the man makes the town." Such
was the language OF an Orangeburg
man that knows, to all Of which we
sa:d amen, selah, and so on.
.sWhere are you from?" sum
ter. sir,'' upon which your inquisitor
surveys you from head to foot.
heard a lady say, 81 had rather
buy dry gods in Sumter than in Co
lumbia.,. Your correspondent was
pleased to remark that the city was
Ia goodly place with a number OF
attractions, place Of celebrities.
uhom it courted, invited, hono,ea,
encouraged. The galaxy OF dist,:-
guished ones are two numerous for
ldetan, but at the bar we mention
four Judge Purdy, Messrs. Lee, Noise,
Jennings, stuckey; in the pulpit and
lin letters G. C. Brown and Prof: Ed
munds; in medicines Mood. Osteen,
baker, China and others; in dentistry
Dick and the Afford brothers. This
ica4a3ogue can not better end than
with the name Of Mr.. Mason as an
inventors and Professor Schuma cher
musician. Conspicuous among the
merchants are O'Donnell, the Stubbs
1.-THE Lewis, Chandler, Durant and
Burns. To know these with others I
might mention is to know the secret
of Sumter success. May T add that
here lives Carolina's next Governor,
r. I. Manning?
Now for a bit of news. w. S.
| Thompson has the best cotton we
have seen to date, and his neighbor
w. w. Mellette is close on hand.
Our community was visited by a
food Of rain on last Friday, fully six
inches, but up to that time it had been
insufficient
Mrs. ]. S. Jackson with her little
boy Eddie together with Mrs. Carrie
Sanders has gone to Hendersonville,
N. c.
Mrs. G. W. Wingate to Glenn.
Springs, Miss Emma Allen, Mary
Emily Creighton and Master Bush
Jackson to Heath Springs, S. c., and
Mrs. Arthur Jackson to Florence with
her mother. Very nearly all the
swamp people are on the sandhills
| or at Providence so that ones neigh
bors become somewhat scarce.
Mrs. Lucien James is visiting Mrs.
Charles Jackson, Alice Jones she was.
| Mr.. Wallace Sanders has an in
dustry, in its infancy, that promises
much better things than cotton. :
refer to his fruit farm. =
The health Of our community is
] fair. though there are a few cases o.
malarial fever. 80 (,
At last all the broadcast peas are
in the ground With favorable sea-
sons we may expect a good crop.
Corn and cotton in upper Orange
burg show great Improvement, but in
the lower part it is backward on ac-
count of severe drought, no rain of
any consequence having fallen till last
| week.
1t was my pleasure and good for
tune to stop at the home Of Sewel
| Trezevant, who has the best upland
| corn in five counties, whose wife, the
daughter, the sister Of an artist, is
herself. Her father gave her no
training but she does work that can
not be surpassed, several specimens Of
which I examined. Her brother, Mr..
Van Orsdel of Orangeburg might be
induced to go to Sumter, you need
him.
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Pisgah, July 24.-The "big rains
did the corn up right. The yield will
be poor. Cotton is doing little bet
ter, though blight has appeared in
several places.
Rev. J. C. Crouch has just closed
a, fine meeting at New Hope Church.
He baptized about sixteen yesterday.
Hon. H. T. Abbott and Mr.. c. T.
Evans, visited friends here quite re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Hutchison, of
Borden, visited at Rev. ]. w. Kenneys
not long since.
Pisgah church is now being plaster
ed. The contractor is Sam Costin,
an experienced and good plasterer.
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by washing up, but killing tie vital
ity out of the crops.
The farmers have a time in trying
to lay by their crops. Just as soon
as the land gets dry enough 20 work,
big rain comes, and this has been
going on all the month. Cotton has
gone to weed, With blight on several
places. The crop prospect is ratile:
blue.
The ladies of Pisgah church. served
light refreshments at the church last
Saturday and realized quite nice
sum, which will go to the improve
nent of the church.
Hugh H. Evans, Jr., has gone to
the upper portion Of the State to teach
school until the South Carolina college
opens, where he will resume his
studies.
Mr.. W. H. Copeland lost his infant
child Saturday night and it was buried
at Pisgah church Sunday, after servi-
ces by Rev. J. C. Crouch. Mr.. Crouch
will carry on meeting at New Hope
church this week.
Mrs. Matte Reames and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Hussey, D. O. Nc
Leod and S. W. Young from Remberts
attended services at Pisgah church
yesterday.
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FINANCIAL AND
MISCELLANEOUS.

Readers win please Part Is within P.l-t
V-this Is to insure delivery OF complete copies
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quently kept for months in storage by the use
of boracic acid. Hambul ger steak is kept"
by the use of suphide Of soda which not only
prevents the fermentation of the meat, but pre-
vents it's digestion after being taken into the
body. for digestion is only form Of fermenta-
ton. In this way all preservativeS have ten
dency to resist the action CT the gastric juice
and to cause food to pass through the body
without being assimilated. AS DR.. Wiley has
said:
NO food containing preservative is Mt TO
eat"
Lard is easily adulterated so that the most
critical housewife cannot tell that she has
been cheated. Cottonseed oil and peanut oil
are the favOritc adulterants. ard it is said that
sometimes the fat of hogs which die on the
way the slaughter houses is used.
In England dealers are prosecuted every h1W 3
and then for selling adulterated lard IN tue
trial of one in Liverpool. police court. Or.
Campbell Brown, chemist Of that city, teSt'-
fed that the lard which the accused man was
charged with selling contained considerably
more than 40 per cent of mixture or cotton
seed oil and either mutton or beef fat"
Preserved fruits, fruit jeilies, syrups and
canned vegetables offer tremendous field for
masters of the modern ''black art" The adul-
teration of jam is achieved chiefly by means of
glucose and coal tar dyes. Most jam on the
analyzed ninety-six samples of jams. OF which
eighty-six We're bought in the market and ten
prepared in the laboratory Of the Agricultural
Department. OF the commercial jams only
eighteen, or less than 20 per cent, Were found
free from glucose. In ffty-three samples glu-
cose was found although their labels save no
hint of such aduteration. The remaining fif-
teen had brands showing that they We're COM
pounds. Some of the aduterated jams We're
found to contain hardly more than an essence
of any fruit. but consisted almost entirely Of
glucose. tinted with coal tar dyes.
Jellies, like jams. rarely pure. IN re-
cent report of the Connecticut Experiment
Station it was stated that of sixty-three sam
pies of fruit" jellies. two-thirds were aduterat
! ed with starch, aniline dyes and poisonous SAL
| icylic acid. Out of forty samples of MARINA
ladies' and Jams. only three We're found pure
| The amount of coloring material in adulterated
| jams and tellies is Oftentimes enough to dye
| the whole Intestinal lining of the body. IL. one
sample purchased in a store in this city, DR..
| Ernest j. Lederle. ex-COmmfssioner of Health.
| found recently enough aniline dye to color 206
! square inches of white cloth The wine served
| with meals in certain table d'h6te restaurants
| is also colored with considerable coal tar dye.
! Such wine, analysis has been found TO con-
1 sist of a little cheap California wine. a great
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19

contain are cheese. -four chalk. common SALT
gypsum, alum, glucose. borax, cottonseed and
peanut OIL boracio and salIcylic acids, coloring
matters like auiline yellow, butter yellow and
annatto, saffron, narigold leaves. carrot Juice
chrome yellow and turmeric
Most of the butter sold in this city is oleomar-
garne, butterine renovated" or process"
butter. Pure oeomargartne is made from the
fat of cattle, and when good beef stock is used
the product is regarded by authorities as a
'cieany, wholesome and nutritious article of
food" There are various grades of oleomar-
garine, however, and the lowest OF them consti-
tute the bulk of the butter" used in this city
In making these grades all the scraps and
sweepings Of the slaughter houses are used and
the fat Of hogs, sheep and other animals Is
also thrown in. Glycerine. SKINNED milk, cotton
seed. oil and peanut oil frequently added.
Butterine originally signified a better product
than oeomargarine. having some cream mixed
in with the cleo oil of which it was chiefly COM
posed but the term now means little more than
oleomargarine. The amount of oleomargarine
made in this country. according to reports made
to the Treasury Department has grown to vast
proportions In 1890 II amounted to 30 324 O32
pounds and in 1902 to 126,316,436 pounds. A
great proportion of the oleomargarine is made
by the Beef Trust
Process butter is old rancid butter worked
over again. 1t is first melted and the clear
butter oil is separated from the curd and water
The oil is then mixed with some fresh milk or
buttermilk and churned a little, when the
fresh" butter appears. 1t is then placed on
ice and often sold at the same price the best
dairy butter Powerful antiseptics are also put
into butter TO prevent it from becoming rancid,
ard according to Professor Mitchell. chairman
OF the wisconsin Dairy and Food Commission,
gfo oh
causing indigestion and gastritis.
Meats and other animal products fire.
duently "embalmed" by the use Of 'preserva-
tives." which hardly more or less than mild
poisons. Boracic acid is the agent most used
In warm weather the Western refrigerated
meat which constitutes one Of the chief foods OF
New-Yorkers is treated with boracic acid, so
that It will not spoil in the dealers hands. and
most of the canned meats contain quantity Of
borax. Tripe, fish, sausage, poultry, headcheese
and other such foods are frequently "embalmed'
in the same way.
Such a great amount of borax is now used IN
the manufacture and handling OF foods that Dr.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19

thousand times over every day. In practically
every store and market, for example there are
food articles for sale which contain Substances
TO reduce or lower OF injuriously af-
feet their strength quality. Much Of the
bread sold in East Side "bakeshops' to be
found on the tables of restaurants, including
not few Of fashionable reputation. possesses in
gradients which are mixed in unlawfully. In
stead of being the staff Of life," such bread
may well be called the "crutch of disease"
Chemists call It "alum bread" Made Of un-
wholesome -four. often mouldy and as frequently
adulterated with cheap corn flour, this bread
becomes white and of attractive texture be-
cause of the alum mixed in the dough. So
powerful agent is alum in masking delete
rious qualities in bread that powdered tale,
sometimes used a lace powder, and terra
alba, or white earth. may be mixed without de-
lection Alum is also used in many baking pow
ders, and its action upon the secretive organs
Of the body is especially harmful. Hassal in
his book. Food, Its Authorizations, and the
Methods for Their Detection" says: THE effect
Of alum on the system Is that OF an astringent,
producing constipation and deranging the proc
ess Of absorption. The very purpose for which
It is used by the baker Is the prevention of those
early stages Of solution which sLoil the color
anc lightness of the bread while it is being
prepared and which it does most effectually;
but II does more than is needed, for 1t also con-
tinues its effects when taken into the stomach,
and the consequence is that a large portion of
the gluten and other valuable constituents OF
the -four are never properly dissolved. but pass
through the alinentary canal without affording
any nourishment whatever"
1t was not until the immigration to this coun-
try OF many thousands of persons from Russia
and Southeastern Europe that bread has been
made In the country OF flour adulterated with
hn
in this country that there was no incentive to
edulterating It. In their own countries how
ever many Europeans. have learned in famine
times TO mix in their -four worthless materials,
such as ground acorns, potatoes. straw, bark
and white earth; and In certain districts OF the
East Side immigrants have revived the counter
felt methods Of the Old World
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POISON In YOUR FOOD.
AGAINST ADULTERANTS IGNORED
And UNENFORCED.
ring Feeling the Part of tn AvQge That Is about
Time Protect HIMSELF

ample a Supreme Court judge, sitting in Johns
town. n. Y. rendered a decision the other day,
in which he found Fred BerghOff guilty of vio-
lating the new honey and syrup law. Berghon
was accused by the State of manufacturing and
selling as a syrup q concoction other than rep
resented by the name of the article. 1t was
proved by experts from the State agricultural
stations that the syrup" was composed Of 40
per cent glucose and a small amount OF honey
and other materials. 1t also brought out
that the stuff was sold largely throughout the
northern part Of the State. The fine. however,
only $50
But while legislators are debating and chem
lists are making analyses, the manufacturers Of
impure foods are even more actively at work
The most successful of them have in their en-
ploy skilled scientists who constantly evolv
ing new and still more cunning methods to de-
ceive the consumer. Every discovery in chenlis-
try or physics is studied for the purpose of in
cooperating it IN this modern ''black art" No
sooner were the anilne dyes discovered for ex-
ample, than adulterators Of food and beverages
began to use them to doctor cheap products
and give them the bright colors Of high class
articles. So successful have the 'black artists
been that there is now hardly manufactured
product to be eaten or drunk which cannot be
doctored SO to fool the public.
USE OF UNLAWFUL INGREDIENTS.
It has already been stated that every provision
OF the Sanitary Code OF this city is violated
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19
MUCH BOGUS BUTTER.

Butter is adulterated far more than bread.
Despite the oleomargarine laws scrap rat
constitutes an ever increasing portion of the So
oallad butter of the market, and among the sub
stsnnss yybica, such butter has bsen found to