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THE WATCHMAN AND SOUTHRON SEPTEMBER 25 1901 A Reply to Mr Brantley WHAT RECONSTRUCTION WAS women's 9900 is hard enough jas it is It is to her that we owe our world and everything should be made as easy as possible for her at the time of childbirth This is just what Friend Replying to Mr card published elsewhere in this issue we desire to state that Mt Lever is away from home and cannot be reached to receive his anwser in time for publication in this issue The friends of Mr Lever indignantly deny that he is circulating any such report as claimed but some of his friends are probably doing so having good grounds for so doing in the statements made by Mr Brantley himself In his card published in the State of September 10th he says: was willin to pay it (the assessment) if the other candidates paid and I requested him (Mr Wiggins) my friend to pay my assessment for me if necessary and draw on me for the and then after tending his check if it was conditionally he went into a caucus with the other candidates without stating that he had offered to pay the assessment He now says: have never paid or offered to pay the Berkeley county assessment There is a direct contradiction in the two statements One or the other must be wrong It is a self evident fact that his friend Mr Harmon of Berkley considered that the assessment had been paid as he so stated in his card published in The Echo and Press The card of Mr Harmon published in this issue does not state that there was no offer of the check before the agreement not to pay was reached but simply that he was as to the sending of the check The conclusion is therefore that he did offer to pay the assessment and nohting is to be gained by denying the fact Mr Lever is on his way to Congress with his baggage checked through and therefore cannot stop to contradict anything that Mr Brantley might say Lexington Dispatch will do It will make baby's coming easy' and painless and that without taking dangerous drugs into the sys-tem It is simply to be applied to the muscles of the abdomen It penetrates through the skin carrying strength and elasticity with it It strengthens the whole system and prevents all of the discomforts of pregnancy The motner of a plumb babe in Panama Mo says: 1 I have used Friend and can praise it highly order that we may escape ever having to go through such an ordeal again Until we have put about the ballot a safeguard which will protect it from those who lack the intelligence and character which a suffragan should possess we cannot forget these things without peril Two of the most famous and probably the two ablest reconstruction Governors were Daniel Chamberlain of South Carolina and Adelbert Ames of Mississippi They have given recently very strong testimony against the scheme which they were chosen to assist in carrying out and which they found to be based upon such false principles that its complete failure was not surprising In the Atlantic Monthly a few months ago Ex-Governor Chamberlain set forth one of the most powerful ar-raingments of the reconstruction pol-iev ever made He showed that Thaddeus Stevens Zachariah Chandler Henry Wilson and the other organizers and directors of the Reconstruction movement were animated neither by love of the Union nor by a determination to secure justice to the negro but by hatred of the white people of the South and a determination to humiliate them as much as possible The chief aim of reconstruction was put the bottom rail on Governor Chamberlain contends that the policy which was directed against the South for several years after the war was from every point of view as discreditable to the statesmanship of its authors as it was to their ideas of fairness to a helpless people Ex-Governor Ames while not so severe upon Thad coterie as is Ex-Governor Chamberlain is-quite as emphatic in his condemnation of reconstruction as a complete failure He admits that he came to the South from New England with preconceived notions which experience proved to be entirely false He believed that legislation could elevate the negro to political equality with the whites After seeing that theory tested and helping to test it he was convinced that it was absurd In his recent book on his administration as govenor of Mississippi he records his conviction that no political party in this country ever made a greater blunder than did the Republican party when it attempted to place the negro on terms of political equality with the whites It is a pity that men like Chamber-lain and Ames did not see the light earlier but it came to them finally in overwhelming force and their renunciation of the false and vicious theories to reconstruction is creditable even though late Get Friend at the Drug Store SI per bottle Levi Bros We wish to return thanks to our many friends for the liberal patronage given us in former years and to inform them that in our New Quarters North of the Court House We are better equipped to serve them than ever before A cordial invitation is extended to our former customers and the public generally to visit our new store and inspect the large and carefully selected stock of General Merchandise we are now showing Dress Goods and Trimmings AND A GENERAL LINE OF DRY GOODS Notions Clothing Hats Gents Furnishing Goods Shoes Etc These stocks are new and complete in all lines and we are offering goods At Prices That Will Appeal to the Careful and Discriminating Buyer Who wishes to obtain the best values for his money A full stock of Standard Staple and Fancy Groceries Can Goods Etc The stock is kept fresh and new by frequent replenishing We pay the Highest Price for Cotton Levi Bros Main Street North pf the Court House Sumter The Bradfield Regulator Co ATLANTA GA Write for our free illustrated book Before Baby' is The Boers Win a Victory Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds of food It gives instant relief and never fails to cure It allows you to eat all the food you want The most sensitive stomachs can take it By its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everything else failed It prevents formation of gas on the stomach relieving all distress after eating Dieting unnecessary Pleasant to take It can't help but do you good Prepared only by DeWitt Co Chicago The $1 bottle contains 2 times the 50c size HUG-HSON CO London Sept 19 A dispatch from Lord Kitchener from Pretoria dated September 18 announces that the Boers on September 17 ambushed three companies of mounted infantry with three guns commanded by Major Gough in the vicnitv of Nek After severe figting the British were overpowered and lost their guns the sights and breechblocks of which were first destroyed Two officers and 14 men were killed and five officers and 25 men were wounded Five officers and 150 men were made prisoners Major Gough who escaped during the night reports that the Boers numbered 1000 men and that they were commanded by Gen Botha Gen French reports that Commandant Smuts in order to break through the cordon rushed on a squadron of the Seventeenth Lancers at Elandspoort killing three officers and 20 men and wounding one officer and 30 men The Boers who were dressed in khaki and who were mistaken for British troops lost heavily BOERS MAY INVADE NATAL Pietermaritzburg Natal Sept 19 In view of the imminence of the reinvasion of Natal by Gen Louis Botha with a force of 1500 men a special issue of The Gazette has called out a number of men of the Natal corps to muster here today Our Ruined Streams Worse Than the Destruction Wrought by the War From the Norfolk Landmark Dr Thomas Nelson contribution to the September number of the Atlantic Monthly shares with that of Ex-Governor Chamberlain of South Carolina the distinction of being the most notable df the fine series on Reconstruction We gave to our readers an abstract of Governor paper when it appeared Chamberlain was himself one of the Governors of South Caroilna and was in office when Gen Wade Hampton made the masterly campaign which restored the State to the control its real people Governor Chamberlain (a New Englander who had moved to South Carolina after the war and who has since moved back to his old home) was qoite a partisan in those days He fought hard on the wrong side In his article in the Atlantic he made a clean breast of the whole thing admitting that he had been wrong that the treatment of the South during the reconstruction period was shameful and that the administration of the carpet-baggers was as great an injury to the South as the war itself had been Hr Page approached the subject from the point of view of the native Southerner He writes in a temperate vein indeed his reference to the carpet-baggers while unmistakable in its import is no more scathing than was Governor After remarking that the people outside of the South before the war had an utterly mistaken conception of the character of the Southern planter and slave owner imagining him a lazy fellow who cared for nothing but his pleasures Dr Page observes that the war had not been in progress many days before the North and the rest of the world was entirely relieved of this wrong impression But as Dr Page says the strength of the Southern people was demonstrated more strikingly in the wretched days after the war than during the war itself We quote the South really was she gave no small proof of during the war she gave even stronger proof after the war Without ships without money without machinery that would produce a knife a blanket or a tin cup without an ally without even the sympathy of a single nation without knowledge of the outside world or indeed of her able and determined opponent she withstood to the final gasp the vast forces thrown against enduring all things hoping all things until she was not only overthrown but actually destroyed When Sherman marched across the South to the sea he found it to be an empty shell At that same time the campaign from the Rapidan to Appomattox cost Grant 124000 men about two men for every man that Lee had in his army as notable as were the intrepidity of her soldiery in the field and the endurance of her people at home they were not equal to the resolution and courage that her people displayed in the great and unrecorded struggle afterwards The one was a fight of disciplined armies with an open sky and a fair field the endurance of a "Pieople animated by hope i the other was a long and desperate struggle with shackled hands against a foe that- in the darkness unknown to the rest of the world or with a sort of blind approval on its part fastened on its vitals and slowly sapped its life blood The distinguished writer is sure that if Mr Lincoln had lived the country would have escaped most of the blunders and follies and crimes of the re-construction Whatever may be said of Lincoln he had common sense and applied it to the of government His death let loose upon the Southern States a horde of fanatics and unprincipled schemers against whom the forces of conservatism deprived of their leader were unable to make any headway Returning to the impressive language of Mr Page: white race were disfranchised and were not allowed the franchise again until they had assented to giving the black race absolute equality in all matters of civil right This the leaders of the other side vainly imagined would perpetuate their power and for a time it almost promised to do so The result of the new regime thus established in the South was such a riot of rapine and rascality as had never been known in the history of this country and hardly ever in the history of the world It would seem incredible to any but those who have investigated it for themsevles The States were given over to pillage at the hands of former slaves led largely by adventurers whose only aim was to gratify their vengeance or their cupidity The measure of their peculation and damage as gauged by figures alone staggers belief Un happily the credulity and ignorance of the negroes threw them into the hands of the worst element among the adventurers who were trying to become their leaders The mar who was bold enough to bid the highest outstripped the others Under the teaching and with the aid of these leaders "the negroes showed signs of rendering considerable parts of the Southern States uninhabitable by the whites Had the latter given the slightest sign of being cowed or of yielding they probably would have been lost forever but fortunately for the South they never All of Dr article should be read by those who wish to get a clear accurate and good-tempered description of the sufferings of the South during the reconstruction Not with bitterness not with vindictiveness -should we remember these sufferings but we should remember them nevertheless We should remember them in Sep 11 3m vmvncai trt a LNtiklSH INNYPYALPILL! 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fish and bathe in the rivers and even drhik from them Even within the recollection of middle-aged men old was a place of delight for the boys of every village There was always a clear creek within reach in whose dephts they could get aquatic joys with an incidental cleanliness that could hardly have been forced upon them in- any other way All that is gone or is rapidly going Modern sanitary science in America has advanced just to the point at which every stream is being converted into an open sewer The old-fashioned town knew nothing about drainage American towns of today are convinced that they must be drained bat they think their dnty in this respect performed when they have turned their sewage into the nearest creek or river It never occurs to them that they are committing an atrocious outrage upon the people below them Those same people do the same thing for the dwellers still further down and so on until the sewers that have no running water left to pollute take it out on the bathing beaches at the seashore With the growth of population and the increase in the number of towns and cities pure water is becoming an unobtainable luxury outside of the mountains Some cities like New York seecure a tolerable drinking supply by fencing in catchment areas Others like St Louis frankly drink sewage In others the people bny spring water or distilled water by the bottle Boys continue to swim in the strealns because they would swim in anything wet But the old times when the creek rippled transparently over polished pebbles and the most fastidious swimmer could dive in it and fearlessly swallow the liquid he took into his mouth are gone let us hope not forever If the ruin of oar streams were a necessary accompaniment of advancing civilization we might reconicle ourselves to it but it is not It is merely the mark of a civilzation that has stopped half way We have learned to drain our towns but we have not learned to drain them properly In Europe things have been carried further There the largest cities dispose of sewage by chemical methods that do not pollute streams and which instead of proving costly actually return a profit We can do the same thing here All we need is a public sentiment which shall recognize the impor-tnace of the end to be gained Fortunately the evil is not past remedy A polluted stream will purify itself if we stop adding new pollution We have learned that our towns must be drained let us advance the rest of the way by learning to drain them scientifically and our land will again be threaded by limpid streams instead of by noisome sewers Journal Tie Latest ail Most Complete Establishment Sooth Geo Hacker Son Atlanta Ga Sept 18 The announcement of General Geo Harrison of Opelika Ala for governor of that State was a pleasant surprise to his many friends in this state bat one that will be more surprising still except to a few intimate friends is that of his forthcoming marriage to one of most brilliant and charming women General Harrison will soon lead to the altar Miss Sarah Nunnally of LaGrange Georgia Miss Nunnally is the daughter of Dr Nunnally formerly president of Mercer Ufiiversity and now the efficient head of the LeGrange Female College General Harrison is very popular in Atlanta where he is well known In fact he enjoys an extensive acquaintance in this state outside of Atlanta and is everywhere known for his sterling integrity It seems now that General Harrison will have no opposition for gov-ernpr of Alabama and it will likely be honor and good frotune to furnish the first lady of that fair common wealth MANUFACTURERS OF Palmetto State Chill and Fever Cnre A Guaranteed Cure We take great pleasure in placing this sovereign remedy an absolute antidote for malarial poison before a suffering public and feel safe in asserting it will fill a long-felt want PALMETTO STATE CHILL AND FEVER CURE Will cure any and every case of Chills and Fever no matter whether it is the product of Malaria Mal-aqua or the Mosquito All we ask is that you give it a trial wait until you are broken down in health but begin right away and see what the wonderful remedy will do for you We will gladly refund the purchase price -50c for any failure to cure when the directions are strictly carried out Mail orders a specialty Yours to serve RAIM1SI3Y cfe CO July 24 3m Wedgefield Where Can you buy with least money and most satisfaction excellent Vehicles Horses Mules Feed Flue Pipe Terra Cotta Lime and Cement AT HARBY STABLES Tii -A 7 A DOORS SASH BLINDS Moulding Building Material nffice and Warerooms King opposite Can non Street CHARLESTON WPnrobase our make hich we guarante supjrior to any sold South and thereby save money Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty October 16 FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SUMTER It will be remembered that a paragraph was published about two months ago to the effect that Mr Mitchell of Hickory Grove in York County had entered suit against the local Camp of the Woodmen of the World at Hickory Grove three memebrs thereof and also the national Order for 815000 for damages alleged to have been sustained by his person on account of rough usage at the time of his initiation as a member of the Order in March of this year Information has been received to the effect that Mr Mitchell has determined to amend his complaint and set his damages at 850000 because of the fact that since filing his original copmlaint he has undergone a surgical operation which adds at least 835000 to the damages supposed to have been done his person when the suit was entered It is expected that the cause will be heard at the next term of court A correspondent of the Anderson Intelligencer makes a novel suggestion in regard to the dispensary law He thinks the law should be enforced as it now is with the exception of the price at which the stuff is sold He would have prices doubled and at the end of each year a the dispenser return to the wives or mothers of the purchasers one-half of the amount they paid in When there are no dependent members the share to go to the county to enlarge the poor house which is likely to receive the old soaks in time The onlw fault we see in this plan is that the man who makes a beast of himself by drink is likely to wlreeddle or steal his share of the profits and blow it -Aiken Journal and Review Steppei Into Livo Coals STATE CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY SUMTER Paid up Capilal 75000 00 Surplus and Profits 25000 00 Additional Liability of Stockholders in excess of their Block 75000 00 Total protection to depositors SI 75 000 00 Transacts a General Banking BueiD'SS Special attention riven to collections a chi I rned my ot frightfully" writes II Ends of Jonetvilie Va i caused lg 8 res for 30 years bur Pu -kleii's Arnici Salve wholly cured me after everything ele failed Infallible for Purus ScjiMs Cuts res Bruises and Piles Sd i by DeLoroje 25 5 Orangeburg Sept 17 Collector of Internal Revenue A Webster died at his hone here today about 12 noon after having been ill several months Few of Mr friends knew -that his condition was so serious at this time as he was out last Tuesday and cast his ballot at the municipal election Ssvsa Tears in Bel wonder cease inquire the friemls of Mr- Pease of Lawrence Kan They knew she had been unable to leave her bed in seven years on a unt of kidney and liver trouble nervous prostration and general de-bilitv but bottles of Klectric Hitters naab'ed tne to she vrites in three months I felt like a new Women eu If taring frem Headache Backache Sleeplessness Melancholy Fainting and Sissy Spelts will find a priceless bless'ng' Try it Satisfaction is guaranteed Only 50o slJP BeLorme's 5 S1VINGS DEPARTMENT Deposits of $1 and upwards received In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent per annum on amounts above $5 and not exceeding $300 payable quarterly on first days of January April July and October WALLACE Edmosds President Cashier.