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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

# the sufferer with weak nerves
only realized that faulty digestion was
the chief cause of nerve exhaustion, a
cure would be much easier, for he
would then strengthen the digestive
organs with Mi-o-na stomach tablets.
A few days use Of these tablets will
tone and strengthen the digestive sys-
tenn so that it will absorb all the e1e-
ments Of nerve force from the daily
food, and the nerves will be strength
ened, sleepiessness, will be overcome,
weakness will vanish, and the various
functions Of the body will become nat
ural and regular.
# you have specks before the eyes,
are sleepless, have nervous twitchings,
headaches and backaches, if there is
nauseau or distress after eating, if the
appetite is poor and there is general
debility and weakness, begin the use
Of Mi-o-na at once, and you will soon
notice marked Improvement IN
health. 1t will give strength and Wig
or to the whole digestive system, re-
store the vital force and nerve energy,
and impart ambition, strength ana
good spirits to the discouraged, run
down and weak.
You run no risk whatever in buying
Mona, for J. F. W. DeLorme gives an
absolute guarantee with every SO cent
box that the money will be refunded
unless Mi-o-na does all that IS clalIheo
for it.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

Several new streets are being opened
and old streets extended in the North
western section Of the city, contiguous
to Broad Street and Salem Avenue.
A Federal Government official was
recently in the city investigating the
methods employed here by the Stand
ard Oi. Company with the view Of
reporting the manner of the conduct
of the basiness and the way competi-
ton was met in this city. This is
supposed to be a part of the general
investigation of the workings Of this
great trust.
Deputy Sheriff Rafheid, who has
covered practically all of Sumter
county within tbs past few days while
o1t serving summons on jurymeD,
says that cotton picking is progressing
slowly and that many fields have not
been touched. All the cotton is open
and where the farmers have beer able
TO secure pickers they have about
finished picking ont this years cotton
scrop.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
Letter to j. NJ. Brogdon & Co.
Sumter. S. G..

Dear Sirs: 1t is great thing for
merchant to have the exclusive sale (ln
bis region. of course) of anything
wanted by everybody.
There are two ways tc treat sucn
goods. One is: put the price up ano
make big profit. The other way IS;
be fair and make more.
Devoe is the paint that takes least
gallons and costs least, money a house,
Job, a year, lifetime-no matter
how YOU reckon your costs except oy
the gallon-Devoe is the best care
taker and costs least money.
Don't forget that the princi pal part
Of the cost Of paint is putting 1t on.
Less gallons, less cost. Don't forget
that another principal part of econ
omy is long wear; less gallons, les;
cost and long wear.
It is a great thing to have the e4clu-
sive sale of popular goods. of goods
that makes friends. of goods that en-
rich both buyer and seller. Devoe is
perhaps only ten per cent better than
one or two Others; but ten is plenty
it's 200 or 300 better than many. .
There's many a merchant who hasn'
fonnd out his goods. 1t doesn't take
man long to ind-out that Devce IS the
least-money paint and why, 10 mat
ter which side he is Old.
Yours truly,
F. w. Devoe & Co.,
ID New York.
n,4 11or5rora Tnrora nv
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

The walls Of the new court house
are rising as rapidly as good work will
permit.
If Sumter county just had a big
crop of cotton wouldn't everybody be
on velvet this year.
All the vagrants have not been ar
rested nor have they fed the city
and the chain gang needs their SER
vices. :.
The Sumter county race horses are
expected to give a good account of
themselves at the State Fair next
week.
It is not probable that any effort
will be made to prevent Barnum &
Bailey's circus exhibiting here on No
vember 7th.
Times may be a little hard and
money somewhat tight, but neverthe-
less and Notwithstanding a whole lot
Of folks are planning to attend the
State Fair. In the mind Of not a few
an annual visit to the fair is clas-
sified as necessity.
A FIRE was started Saturday about 9
o'clock by sparks falling from Chin
ney upon the dwelling occupied by
Mr.. W. S. Dinkins on East Liberty
street. The shingled roof soon ignited
and a small fame endangered the
building, but a quick response by the
fire department put all fears at rest,
and the fire was soon extinguished.
The damage done was very imnna-
terial.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
PERSONAL.

Col. j. j. Dargan was in the city
Saturday.
Mr. J. &. ellis, of Pisgah, was in
the city Monday.
Mr. j. j. Hardy has gone to Louis
lana on business.
Mr.. E. W. Dabbs, of GOODWILL, was
in town Saturday.
Mr.. N. s. Mcleod. of Oswsgo, spent
Saturday in town.
Mr.. ". S. Raffeld, of Salem, was
in the city Saturday.
Mrs. H. Ryttenberg has returned
home from Baltimore.
Mr.. j. z. McElveen, Of Shiloh,
spent Monday in town.
Hon. Thos. G. Mcleod, of Bishop
willie, was in the city Monday.
Mr.. A. T. Cooper. of Wisacky. was
IN tie city Monday on business.
Mr. r. N. Owens, of Orangeburg,
spent last Wednesday in the city.
Mrs. Lopez, of Atlanta, is in the city
as the guest OF Mrs. q. j. Eiarby.
MI. L. L. Fraser, Jr., OF Mechanics
vile, was in the city Saturday on busl-
mess.
MIS-. M. G. Ryttenberg and Mr..
'Clarkson Ryttenberg have returned to
New York.
Mrs. j. q. Clifton and son, Jesse,
have returned from Elliott, where
they visited relatives.
MIS-. T. T. Upshur, Of Nassawadox,
Io njt q
son, Mr.. W. B. Upshur.
Mrs. N. G. Ryttenberg and her
sor, Mr.. Clarkson Ryttenberg, OF New
York City, are in the city.
Mrs. J. Walter Doar, CT Georgetown,
is visiting in the city as the guest OF
and Mrs. E. S. Booth.
Miss A. G. Weeks has returned
from Kershaw accompanied by her
nephew, Mr.. j. D. Rollins
iss Moneta osteeu left Friday
.sos Birmingham, where she will visit
Nh. and Mrs. D. 3. Anderson
Messrs. H. T. Scarborough, T. j.
McLauriD, Jr.. and j. ". Aiieo re-
turned from Charleston Saturday.
Mrs. I. C. Strauss has returned
home after a protracted stay at
Greensboro and Waynesville, n. Q.
Rev. j. Klein returned from Oar
lingtou Thursday, where he conduct
ed religious services and performed
"a wedding ceremony.
Misses Celia We'll and Valerie
Stern, who have beer visiting rela-
tiYes here, have returned to their
homes in Savannah.
Mr.. W. Harry Yates has resigned
his position With the John Fl. Sizer
Lumber Co. to accept place as book
keeper with the Edwards Grocery Co.,
of Darlington.
Mr.. A. V. Rosselle arrived in the
city on Saturday to accept a position
with Crosswell & Go. as bookkeeper
and accountant. He is a recent grad
euate from Poughkeepsie. N. y, Com
merciai School.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
MURDER IN MANCHESTER.
Grant Ross, Negro Sixteen Years Old,
Shoots Clifton Smith With Rife.

Grant Ross, Negro Sixteen Years Old.
Shoots Clifton Smith With Rife.
From The Daily Item October Is.
Another murder has been commit
ted in Sumter county and another
man-slayer is in Jail awaiting trial at
the next term of court. The crime
was committed in Manchester town.
ship about noon yesterday, both par
ties being negro boys not more than
Is years old. The weapon used was
a, 22-calibre repeating rife.
Grant Ross, who committed the
crime, fred twice at Clifton Smith, the
first ball going wild, but the second
struck his victim in the head inf1icting
mortal wound, from which death
resulted almost Immediately.
Coroner Flowers held the inquest
late yesterday afternoon. There were
but two witnesses.
Fletcher Smith, g brother Of the
dead boy, testified that he and Clifton
were picking cotton and that Grant
Rosss OK was in the field. Clifton
scalled to Grant, who was il! the ad-
joining field, to come and take his ex-
out of the field Grant made no re-
ply, but went to his house and when
I, f~i9
hands He came up within range and
fred twice at Clifton. The first shot
missed, but at the second Clifton fell
to the ground. He ran to his brother
and turned him over but he never
spoke. The ball hit Clifton in the
Lead.
Walby Ross, a brother of the mur-
derer, testified that he saw Grant
come to the house, get the rife, go
out in the field and fire twice at Cliff
ton Smith. Clifton fell at the second
shot. He saw Fletcher Smith run to
his brother and shake him as if to
rouse him up. Grant Ross brought
the rife back to the house and left
it.
Neither Of the witnesses testified
that there was anything like a row
between the boys before the shooting
occurred.
DR.. r. B. Furman made the post
mortem examination. His testimony
related to the character of the wound
and that it produced death.
The jury, of which Mr.. W. j. Ards
was foreman, found verdict that
Clifton Smith came to, his death from
a wound inflicted by a rifle in the
hands Of Grant Ross.
Ross was arrested and brought to
jail last night by Coroner Flowers. He
admits killing Smith, but makes no
explanation of why he did so, except
to say that they had had a fuss.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
In the Recorders Court.

There were two sinners IN the
emonrner's bench Friday morning.
James Young was on trial for dis
orderly conduct aud resisting an OIL
Ger. He was found guilty and SEN
fenced to pay a fine of sl5 or serve 80
days on tie chain gang. He paid the
Matilda Durant paid fine of s. for
heating William Mipser, an lnhrm
old man, who interferred in g tight
between Matilda and another woman. :
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
DEATH

Mrs. M. A. Lennon, the mother OF
Mr.. G. A. Lennon of this city, died
at the home Of her son, Mr.. W. E..
Lemmon, near Ly,chburg, Lee coun-
". on Stur day nigh, otter shc1t ILL
ness, in the eighty-second year Of her
age. The funeral! services were held
at II o'clock Monday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

1t is enough that a woman should
be well and strong to be charming anG
beautiful, in order to be this she must
take HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea,
one of the greatest beautifiers known.
Tea or Tablets. 35 cents. China's s
Drug Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

No other remedy on earth is so
good for children as HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea; makes them ear, sleep
and grow. Bright eyes, rosy cheeks,
Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. china's
Drug Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

Mary, the Oldest daughter of Mr..
Alex and Mrs. Minnie Thompson, died
at their home, near Sumter, on Octo-
Der II, of erysipelas; age 6 years.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
FOR SALE.

1O3 acres Of cleared land, IA mile
from Hagood, Sumter county, ad-
Joining lands of Miss Emmie Saun-
ders, and on public road, will bring
a bale or more cotton per acre. Ad-
dress
(Mrs) T. L. Eberhardt,
1O-10-4t Hagood, S. c.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

A. T. cooper-Notice.
Notice of State Election.
ID. j. Chana1ec-For Sale.
Notice of Federal Election.
Miss E. Saunders-For Sale.
The Bank Of Sumter-Saving Mon
ey.
Schwartz Bros.-conqueror Blan-
kets.
The sumter osteopathic Santa
rum.
charles E. Mccormick-New Jew
elry Store.
WI. Scale, Co. supervisor-ouar-
terly Report
Estate of Jas. A. Young-Notice TO
Debtors and Creditors.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

Ladies, don't forget to go to Miss
IS. A. Murray for your new Fall Hats.
Next door to Ten Cent Store. it,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
MOTTO e.
Sumter, S. c., Oct. 1s, 1906.

Sumter, S. c., Oct. 16, 1906.
We. the undersigned as committee
of H. w. Cooper, will apply to the
Judge of Probate of Sumter County
on November 18th, 1906, for a Fl
nal Discharge as said committee.
FRANK P. COOPER and
A. T. COOPER.
10-17-4t Committee.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

Mr.. Willie Bultman's three-year-
old thoroughbred flly received first
prize OF the Anderson fair aad Mr. i.
Q. Sanders. second prize. ~ The
races. Bessie, owned by Col Richard
son, yon first money ii the IS mile
dash and The Widow, owned Dy Mr.
T. O. Sanders, second. In the S-4
mile dash Torch By Night, owned by
Mr.. 7. O. Sanders, won third.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

A few of the automobile owners Of
Sumter are advocating a Thanksgiv-
ing automobile race in the city some
what after the manner Of the Great
Vanderbilt Cup race recently held on
Long Island. The idea is to obtain
permission from city council TO use
Main street from Liberty to Warren,
Warren TO Washington. Washington
to Litertr and Liberty back to Main,
as the course. The proposed course
is approximately. a mile in length,
and the race would be twenty or
thirty laps The streets named would
require very little work to be put in
the pink of condition for motor
race course, and the automobilist who
was doing the talking said that rec
ord-breaking time could be made on
it with perfect safety-as motor rae
ing goes The plans for the race have
not been perfected, it is only being
talked about as yet, but there is SAID
to be considerable interest in it.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
FAULTY DIGESTION.

Quickly Skaters tbs Nervous System
and Should Z 'iven Attention al
Cnce.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17
Estate Of James A. Young, Decd.

ALL persons having claims against
aforesaid Estate will present the same,
duly attested and all persons IN any
way indebted to said Estate, will make
immediate payment to
Mrs. MARY A. YOUNG,
1n-17-2s Adm! n!nistratrix
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

Don't you think you had better try
To wear smile and sing song!
IT'S a good old world after ali,
provided you take Rocky Mountain
Tea,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-17

The walls Of the new court house
are rising ss rapidly as good work will
permit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
Southern Bond Issue.

The Manufacturers Record calls at tention to the large issues of bonds in the south in the first quarter of the calendar year. The total is $18,172,- 163. This sum is to be put into water works, electric lights, paving, city halls, court houses, jails, schools, sew CTS, drainage ditches, levees, good roads and the like. From the total there should however, be deducted all rounding bonds, and these in Ala bama are big item. The refunding bonds do not. of course, point to new public improvements, but they serve to keep at home local capital.
 The amounts of bonds issued in the first three months of the year by states are. as follows Alabama, ST. S23.1OO; Arkansas, $262, 2,O0O; Florida, s1, 1Oo,O ,O00; Georgia, $S1,000; Ken lucky. SIP, 400; Louisiana, $1,0S0000; Maryland, not reported; Mississippi, $7S4,O00; North Carolina, $41S,000; South Carolina, s253,O0O; Tennessee, s1,2SO,OOo lexas, $1,671, ,76S; Virginia, S714,OO0; West Virginia, s254, ,000 In.
 .,ln Territory, s261.500; Missouri, s1,. 309 400, and Oklahoma. $760,OOO.
 The total is larger than that of the corresponding quarter of 1905, and when all refunding bonds are de- ducted there remains just about $l0,. 900 OO0 to go into public improve ments. The Record says the indica. tions are that the report for the sec ond quarter of the year will show still larger issues of securities in the sputh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
POINTED OUT AS LoNeWoRTH.

From a Washington Dispatch
 It's a lucky thing for the guides at the capitol that there are many baldheaded men in the House. Every woman who vis- its the capftol wants to see Congressman Nick Longworth. Since he was mar red Longworth has not been at the House much of the time. As the visi- tors did not think they were getting their moneys worth unless they saw Longworth the guides In desperation began pointing out any baldheaded man on the floor "Ol- lie' James of Kentucky, Steenerson of Minnesota and Weims of Massachusetts, are the men most frequently pointed out as Longworth This neat scheme of paci- flying visitors was revealed recently, when a guide who had a bunch of school teach CTS. pointed out Veins, who was walk ing along the corridor. as Longworth. Weims heard the remark of the man and immediately hunted up Longworth and informed him he intended to buy a wig.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

of them S1 and costs. This seems to have satisfied the Ohio sense of jus tice and to have gratified public sen timent in Ohio's Springfield The con Yicted men had burned negro quarters and killed several negroes, and yet Ohio considers $1 and costs full and proper punishment.
 Missouri also has Springfield, and in it on a drunken Saturday night three negroes were taken from the county jail and burned in the public square And this, too, in a modern city of 3OOOO people!
 Two of the three victims of the mob were charged with the customary crime. but the public authorities in Springfield do not hesitate to declare them innocent. The third victim was held on the suspicion that he was connected with the murder of white man. All three were burned, and all three stood before the law innocent because none of them had been even indicted. In all probability Spring field, Mo, burned in it's public square three innocent men, and yet no hand was raised in behalf of justice, law and order
 The Springfelds should reorganize themselves. They stand before the republic as wreckers of law and dis organizers of society. They stand charged with inhumanity and anarchy. Springfield H., has also sheltered similar troubles, and there is a daily expectation that Springfield, Mass, will catch the complaint that prevails in the family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
WORLDS coLDEsT TOWN.
Thermometer Often Indicates s6 De-
 erees Below Zero.

From the New York Herald.
 It is generally believed that Vereho- iausk is the coldest inhabited place in the world. It Is a small collection of native huts and Russian log houses plant ed near to. but not on, the Yana river The street, if so 1t may be called, ex- tends on either side of a narrow sheet of water, a kind of creek formed by the autumn overflow of the Yana, and which in winter forms a frozen promenade or driving place for sleds. It is a dreary place enough. The summer lasts only four months. and during the other eight of the year it is bitterly cold. The ther- mometer sometimes indicates eighty-six degrees below zero, and seldom goes above fifty degrees until April 30.
 Corn will not grow in this desolate re- zion. Barley and oats have been sown, but have always succumbed to the early frosts. Of vegetable there are only the radish and the turnip, with perhaps an occasional and very precarious crop of potatoes. Cabbage all run to leaf
 The ground rarely thaws, even during the hot season. beyond twelve or eighteen inches deep, and in places most exposed to the sun never beyond yard. Most of the dwellings are huts. built of fir trees and covered thickly with mud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

Europe It's population rises to about ao'- GOO. It draws merchants from western Europe eastern Siberia, Turkey, the Bal kans, Armenia, Persia, Bokhara. It does a business of nearly $1OO,0oo00o.
 In his Through Russia on a Mustang Stevens says that this fair represents "eommeree on a spree" Then Gorky's birthplace most resembles the American eosmopolis It's life is gay and feverish. the tongues of continental Europe and Asia contribute to the babel of the streets, and the American traveller is under as great difficulty in making his wants known at the hotels as Gorlxy found him self for the first few hours at his hotel There are street shows that suggest Co., ney Island in the Volga capital, and New York may see more than an inkling of resemblance. as well as an incentive to emulation. in the fact that the rents of the fair city are said to be the highest in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
Ranardlnn the Negro.

Said a Birmingham member of the Nir- gnia colony: "A great deal of surprise was expressed here last week over the fact that Jerome K Jerome had to call off his lecture at the Jefferson theatre because of lack of quorum.
 But if the interview which l read in Norfolk paper of recent date be aecu- rate, self-respecting southern men and women vii be glad they did not go to hear Mir. Jerome. I have not seen any refutatlon of the interview. It appeared under a Greensboro. N C., date line and is as follows
 In an interview here today Jerome h. Jerome, the author. said:
 "I believe that three generations hence will witness social equality between the white and black races in the south.
 The present feeling against the col ored man in the south Is due to prejudice which is fast being wiped out
 The future will no longer know the black man, as I predict there will even tuarly be an amalgamation of the white and colored races, due to the low moral code of ethics that now prevail,
 No English gentleman would refuse to sit at the same table with negro. The time will eventually come when the same thing will prevail throughout Amer lea and in the southland
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
Shootino at MilIionaires.

MT. Roosevelt may simply be a pa triot who does not desire second election, but one thing is certain, the republicans are estopped while they accept him as their official leader from crying out, Beware the demo- crats, for they are socialists in dis guise!" For no democrat has at any time or in any place-not even Will liam Randolph Hearst-put forth a proposition that outdoes in true social ism the programme included in the Presidents speech at the laying of the corner stone of the new office building of the House of Representa- tiyes. He spoke on that occasion as follows:
 "It Is important to this people to grap- pie with the problems connected with the amassing of enormous fortunes, and the use of those fortunes, both corporate and individual, in business. We should dis
 
 fortunes well-won and fortunes illwon; ; between those gained as an incident to performing great services to the commu- nlty as whole and those gained In evil fashion by keeping just within the limits of mere law-honesty. Of course no amount of charity in spending such for tunes in any way compensates for miscon- duct in making them. As a matter of per- sonal conviction, and without pretending to discuss the details or formulate the system, I feel that we shall ultimately have to consider the adoption of some such scheme as that of progressive tax l on all fortunes, beyond certain amount, either given In life or devised or be- 1 queathed upon death to any individual-a
 tax so framed as to put out of the power 1 of the owner of one of these enormous l fortunes to hand on more than a certain amount to any one individual; the tax, of course, to be imposed by the national and not the state government Such tax ation should, of course be aimed merely at the inheritance or transmission in their entirety of those fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits"
 The extreme socialist would take away all privilege, hoping In that way to prevent the accumulation of un- healthy fortunes, while MT. Roosevelt proposes to sequester those fortunes after they have been accomplished. Either plan is socialistic from top to toe, and the Rooseveltian paragraph will go down In history and 1t may also go into the campaign of 1908 as an issue and even plank. Theodore Roosevelt is either in the running, or else he has fully determined to put himself entirely outside of it. No one can place him with absolute assur- ance at this Writing.