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WEDNESDAY, J?Kfc Mr 1893. AKSMIC FIENDS. "Womer* tvho Aro Slaves to the Deadly'Drugr Mr Fen^rfuf ?evel ??lons of & Druggist Concerning tile Habits of tb? Vic* tims of the Fi-tai Nerv? (? Ton?c ? had often met her, this paie nymph 8f the* sidewall:, as? bf Centimes when tte electric light fell tali apon her face tifer bad seemed so frail and white that my imagination had pictured her to be ghostly visitante! the great city, l?ck with a morbid pleasure to fee* IKtrnts of her wretch&d life in the ?&BS? way as we vkJ? places where we wept ?fir bitterest tears. A vigor seemed to animate that .Iformv for it sped swiftly along, ty when I had resolved to f ol %r* it^ flitted from my sight as if it had ftj?o?ved into the heavy, murky atmos ?nd become a "**ery part of the i city's unwholesome breath, says e> ^pjter in the Xew York Mercury. night the pale nymph suddenly ?ead-entered a drugstore, where >t ^gj^ened to be acquainted. I waited *she had taken her leave-and then haste to ask the derk who she "?fci arsenic eater;*~he replied in a ! fcmfebalant tone. "The name- on ber prescription is 'Srs. Devere;' but no tioabt that is ss 'assumed name. She tomes once a- week to renew her prc- j ftzlpt?on, which, by the way, bears the j s%j$?|ture' <rf one of our well-known ? "continued the drug clerk with sigh, "there are many such; whiter and whiter until I i to be playing the hollow mockery I" ?f dispensing a dl**ath-dealing drugi to t?efcth itself. And'then they don't come anymore, "??u ask me if I don't think I am do- ; feg wrong- tb sell such a virulent .poison, to this woman. Well, possibly so; and" ! yet bj een?ng to us she prolongs her j lh*%?br ? we refused to fill the proser ip- . tksM&e would simply have resource to- ' 9pamorreoi the arsenical prepa: tiona advertised ur the daily papers. .:ere ? are 3nmdreds of 'pick-me-ups' sold in ! this -city which contain arsenic,, and j while it is a fact tint this poison is j iargeiy used in different parts of the ? earth aa a skin beautifier, yet that ia ; not what this woman-is after. She uses j tt aa a nerve tonio-rt being one of the ; jjjjjjjjjT1 ! known to-the medical fa-raity. j '''??sterested ia flus woman, are your j We^my advice to yon is not to let your j encircle her head with j ! is called the- halo of romance. She -fc ?g~t a plain arsenic eater, which drag she probably uses to get relief from some nervous ailment of the na? ture of chorear ar St. Vitus' dance. If you could herr is the daytime your *palo nymph of the-sidewalk' would not attract yon so strongly. Nay, I war? rant 70a would be repelled by her heavy, dull eyes, her color? ess lips, her parchment-like skin, ber general look of utter weariness and subdued suffer? ing-** A TEXAN'S PET CEf-mPEDES. A&mr They Got "Loose Their Osmer Had the Car to Binseit ?, *'I isas going to ?ew York sometime saffra traveler io a St. Louis -Deniocrst man. "*At a way sta? tion: ic Indiana a little old man cratered ihe sleeper, carrying a wooden box %o~*red full of small holes. The car was crowded, and nearly everybody had gone to'bed. The newcomer ordered his .berth made-upland retired to the smok- j ?B^cpmpartment car for a few .whiffs on a black brierweod pipe that was j strong enough to curl the hair on a j .wooden Indian. Whence started to re- ! tire he picked up his perforated box. j The co var had come offhand the little j nan stood staring at it with such a look j of hopeless, helpless despair that I ven- j 1 tared to ask him what- was the matter, j 'Matter?' *he shrieked-in his thin j -falsetto that went through the car like ; the note of a* bagpipe, *matter? 1 had j sf r centipedes; in that box which ? was ! 'taking home from Texas, and the last j "mother's son of 'esa has^yot eoutP "Well, sir, if yoe '&ad exploded a pound, of dynamite in that car you would-* not have created, -greater con? sternation. 'Men a?d women came t-ou?ingoprtrof Jthdr : berths in their nigweaps atm^-shortstop clothes. One woman scratched herself on a pin, de? clared that -a centipede was in her clothes and got rid of her scant habili? ments is eoe time and two motions. A faa mos, who was a victim of prickly he&t, imagined that he.ee uld feel a cen t?peae making its way down his spinal Cohonn and could with difficulty be re? strained from jumping-. out of the car window. Mosquito! bites were magni? fied into deadly wounds and the whole train ransacked fpr doctors. The col? ored porter stood-enrtbe rear platform j :J. : shook as though afflicted with the ptwsy. .Everybody crowded into the next car, shook ^otit their clothes gin? gerly and made hasty but fearful toil? ets in the presence of half a hundred thosrified passengers. There was no ^nore-sleep that night. I had forgotten my meerschaum pipe, and in fear and {trembling went iack to recover it. I ?ou~?d the wre&?ccd author of all our ?oisery poking- around with his box, looking for his 'lost pets and mourning because be iound them not. He said he paid two -dollars apiece for them in Cisco, Tex., and the very thought of fceing twelve dollars loser nearly broke fcieaws/*_ PRIVET* OUT BY THE FIRE. f^Atp^ntfS- of Sa&kes Forcett to Move t>j J??^ntain Flee? in? Fran?ylvani?. I ?tx? pf the interesting features of re? cent forest fires caused by long-contin? ued ?Tought. in the moun tains of east? ern Perrnsylvarriiv bes been the reveal? ing and chsiodgihy ef -?ndrearned-of numbers of snakes w.hieh infest the j moonijin fastnesses. Taoiis&nds of j Battlers, copperheads, vipers, black- j anakes and ether sorls, einging from j one foot to- seven feet long, have been j priven from? their haunts and forced to j fieo for-life before the advancing flames. j ?ner day* recently a surveying party, wS?V at work on- Second mountain, sear Lorberry.. were-compelled to drop their instruments and mn. precipitately Iowa the mountain side because of an aneaming-host of snakes. Thc woods on the- motxEstema- opposite were biazihfr inriously and, a correspondent o? tho New York. Times-says, the reptiles in a fright came swanning- over on Second mountain for refuge. On (they moved in aoustless numbers, like &-wast army, all tinda mtermihgied; and swept down upon: the surveyors without warning. Themen stood their ground in aston fehirent for a. tame, but soon seeing the host steadily multiply as it drew near, tfcey. incontinently abandoned ca:ap and ran away io- terror, closely followed in their-flightby the snaky multitude. At the-foot of the mountain is a road, and there thecosps halted to await de? velopments. ?Standing there they saw thousands of snakes glide down through the-grass and across the road, j^sappearing ia the- tangled brush on the- lower- side-- As the corps were about leaving* they witnessed a quick and de? cisive sombat between a giant biack snaia*-?ad a rattler en route to the ^trashy I The rattier was five- and one-Half feet long and the blacksnake fully seven ; feet. The rattler was cutting- across the road diagonally just as the black-* snake went across straight from the : same side. In a moment they collided and then clinched.* The blacksnake with a sudden twist of his body caught the rattler tightly iii his coils. Thea Se gave another twist and the game ! was up- for the rattler. The blacksnake '? quickly uncoiled himself and darted j into the bushes. On exa-mination of j the dead rattler it was found that his i bodjP was crushed into a pulp. In fif? teen minutes mor"e the procession of squirming, wriggling, gliding reptiles had passed and. the surveyors were able to returrt to the mountain and secure their instruments. NICKEL AND ITS USES. Th? Many Advantages ?I as? A Hoy of Nickel and Steel. For a long time nature's hints were neglected cr disregarded, but in 1SS3 patents were ts&en out in England and Prance by difierent individuals for the preparation: of nickel steel, says tire Popular Science Monthly. Tests of this alloy have bees=made by. competent authorities and the effect of the addition of small percentages of nickel to steel is seen in greatly re? duced tendency to oxidization and in? creased strength. As-an example of the superiority of this nickel steel the fol? lowing results of one of the tests may be given: A steel containing four and seven-tenths per cent- of nickel "showed an ultimate strength of thirty per cent, and elastic limit of sixty to seventy per cent, higher than those of mild steeLwith a nearly equal ductility,, and the valuable quality added of less liability to corrosion.n The authority who obtained these remarkable results adds: "Think for a moment of this in connection with thc erection of thc : Forth bridge or of the Eiffel tower. If | the engineers of those stupendous structures had had at their disposal a metal' of forty tons strength and tvren- | ty-eight tons elastic limit instead of j thirty tons strength and seventeen tons elastic- Krait in the one case, and say twenty-two tons strength and fourteen to sixteen tons elastic limit in the other, how many difficulties would have been r. aced ia magnitude as the weight of materials was red aced! The Forth bridge would have become even more light and airy and the tower more netlike and graceful than they are at present." And Sir Frederick Abel, in his presidential address at the Leeds meeting of the British associa? tion, remarked: "It has been shown by .Riley that a particular variety of nickel steel presents to the engineer the means of nearly doubling boiler pressures without increasing weight or dimensions." 1 A medical Father's Fad. The Baltimore American says that the indignation of the passengers on a Western Maryland train was aroused the other day by thc unusual spectacle <?f a richly clad boy of five or six years, whose legs and feet were perfectly bare, although the day was a cold one. The child was accompanied by his mother and sister, who were evidently people of wealth and refinement. On inquiry it was learned that the boy was the son of a prominent physician, who had lost several children with throat diseases, until he hit on the idea o? turning his children out barefooted. The experiment proved to bc a perfece success. The barefooted boy was the picture of health. Af the union station in Baltimore he ran around cn the cold bricks totally unaware of any discom? fort- People are constantly shocked and amazed at seeing thc children of , this gentleman going about barefooted, winter and summer, but inasmuch as it saves their lives, in his opinion, he is in? different to criticism. ISIarietlns: in Fpai'i. It is not the custom for ladies to go to market in Madrid and even the first cook in the great houses disdains to ex? pose herself to the jokes of the market women. Jt falls to the place of the sec? ond cook to do the marketing and she prefers to pass her life in the position, for it has many perquisites. It is un? derstood that she expects her commis? sion on all she buys and as prices vary this is easy without detection. "She is too dear" is sometimes said when a servant is discharged, but no imputa? tion is made against her character. An Old Mulberry Tree. It may be interesting to know that there is still an old mulberry tree, a cutting from Shakespeare's tree, planted by Garrick in the garden of the house occupied by the late Mr. Fisk, at thc eornerof Afi Saints' street, Hastings, says a corresp -.dent of the London Notes and Queries. I clipped the in? closed announcement from the Man? chester Mercury of October, 1799: "Died, a few days since, in his seventy-fifth year, Mr. Thomas Sharp, clock and watchmaker, of Stratford-upon-Avon, and sole purchaser of the mulberry tree planted there by the immortal Shako speare." A Friendly Settlement. Maj. Campion, in his book "On the Frontier." describes a deer hunt, in the coarse of which he found his dog astride the dead body of a deer, while an Indian stood a little way off, bow and arrow in hand. Hy signs he made the white man understand that he had wounded the deer and the dog pulled it down. Then he cut up the deer, tied the fore half of it up in the skin and placed it on one side. The other half he laid ut Maj. Campion's feet, deliver? ing himself of a speech in the Ute lan? guage. The white man understood his meaning, but not a word of his address. Thc Indian and the dog had killed the deer together, and tlve dog's owner was entitled to half the game. The major j was equal to the emergency. lie rose and delivered in full the classical j declamation: "My name is Norval," with appropriate gestures, just as he j had many times given it at school. Nothing could- have been better. The j Indian and the white man shook hands with effusion and each with his share of the venison rode away. Qurrr History of Some Word*. Speaking-:>f the strange, eventful his torv of words, the Hartford Courant notes that "queen" originally meant j simply a woman, but now designates the most glittering place which thc ear*'; can bestow.while with the slight? ly different spelling of "quean" it stands for-a woman of a different sort j *.->. too, *ikr>ave" at the start meant only a boy, as in the German form, "knabe:" but as boys go wrong some? times the word in time obtained an un? pleasant meaning. The word "imp" might have been added as having very i much thc same *iistory of "knave," f<>r, | meaning, first, a fccioa or shoot, it next ; stood forachi?d, a:vl now it means an ! inferior devil. Lord Bacon spoke of "those most virtuous and goodly young imp?, thc duke of Suffolk and bis brother."""_ Jay GouUi'a Retort. The day afb - Black Friday Mr. Gould's old partner. Henry X. Smith, shaking his finger in Mr. Gould's face, shouted-, "i'll livt to see the day, sir, when yoe have to earn a living by go? ing around this etreot with a handr organ aud a monkey." "Maybe you will, Henry; m ay be you wilt," was the soothing response: "and when I want a monkey,. .Ren; y. I'll stud for you." ? A GUESS AT TH ?I G rt CZ? i ROO WT. Why a Green Cloth Was I^aid In Irtish Tragedles. When I was a lad in the painting room of tho old Princess theater, A. D. 1S40, says a writer in the London Times, whenever a tragedy was per? formed there used to be laid down on the stage a huge carpet of green baize. Often and often have 1 asked the stage carpenters, the property men, and even the mighty proprietor himself what was the meaning of this theatrical board of green cloth. But I could never obtain a satisfactory solution of the mystery. Long years afterward I was enabled to solve the riddle. The meaning of tho green cloth was simply this: In the English tragic drama the heroes and heroines are mournfully addicted to dying in sight of the audience. Now, in the fatter part of the seven? teenth century, and during the first fifty years cf the present one,- the no? bility and gentry were in the generous habit of presenting" their cast-off drawing-room and birthnight dresses, often made of the richest silks, satins an d brocades, profusely embroidered with gold and silver, to the most con? spicuous among the players; and the dramatic artists, when it was their business to give up the ghost in pres? ence of the audience, very sensibly ob? jected to having their fine clothes spoiled by coming in contact with the not always clean boards of the stage. So it occurred to some thoughtful manager to lay down a green cloth on which kings and queens could expire with due dignity, but without soiling their gay apparel. I have a theory-only a theory-that the ' "green room" at a playhouse de? rived its name from the tragedy, green cloth being kept there rolled in case of need. _ RARE AS" A WHITE BLACKSLRO. Heal English Mistletoe Seldom Finds tte Way to Tills Country. "But mistletoe-English? mistletoe! Surely that will never lose its hold!" some reader may exclaim. Not in name, perhaps, but in sub stsncev says Agnes Carr Sage in Har? per's Bazar, for you must know real English mistletoe is as rare in this coun? try as a white blackbird; and that so called by florists, and supposed to pos? sess all the properties with which the black art of the middle ages endowed the mystic parasite, because grown on British soil, comes principally from Nor? mandy, where it flourishes in such mad profusion as to be a veritable nuisance, while it has so embraced and strangled the roadside poplar trees that the French government has ordered it to be entirely destroyed. If this edict is car? ried into effect, we shall see very little of the true mistletoe, viscum album, but will have to content ourselves with its American cousin, the phoradendron fiavescens, which abounds in some of the southern states, is really far prettier and bears more berries, but lacks the romantic associations clustered about the "Allheal" of the Druids. We may venture to predict, however, that so tong- as there are merry hearts and fond lovers on the earth, some sort of mis? tletoe, ancient or modern, will be hung ap each recurring December, for, as a> sweet poetess of England sings: Under the mistletoe peace and good will Mingle thc spirits that long have been twain: Leaves cf the olive branch twine with it still. While breathings of hope fill the long carol strain. 5Tet, why ?hould this holy and festival mirth In thc reign cf old Christmas tide only he found? Bang up love's mistletoe over the earth, And let us kiss under it all the year round. DIPLOMACY DOES NOT PAY. Some of England's Host Distinguished Ambassadors Can't Save Money. So great is Lord Dufferin's poverty that during the time which intervened between his vice-royalt}* of India and his appointment as ambassador at St. Petersburg, both he and Lady Dufferin were forced for the sake of economy to live at Paris under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Temple on the fifth floor of the Hotel Windsor on the Ruc de Rivoli. Thc economies which this charming couple were then forced to exercise, were a painful and even pitiful sight to those who, like myself, had had the privilege of enjoying their gracious hos pitality at Rideau hall, Ottawa. Lord Dufferin's case, I may add, is not the exception, but rather the rule, in the English government service, and the most of the holders of lucrative posts quit office in debt. Among the many instances thereof I need only cite those of Lord Augustus Loftus, who be? came bankrupt after retiring from fifty years' of diplomatic service, and tho late earl of Granville and of Lord Lytton, who have left their families in a very impoverished condition, although during their entire lifetime they had held one or another of the highest office? in the gift of the crowds. Oddities About Man's Weight. Prof. Huxley declares that the proper weight of man is 154 pounds, made up as follows: Muscles and their appurte? nances, 68 pounds; skeleton, 24 pounds; skin, 10% pounds; fat, 28 pounds; brain. 3 pounds; abdominal viscera, ll pounds; blood (that which would drain from the body), 7 pounds. The heart of such a man should beat 75 times in a minute and he should breathe 15 times during each minuto. At that rate, in 24 hours he would vitiate 1,750 cubic feet of pure air to the extent of 1 per cent. In the same length of time he should throw off through the skin 18 ounces of water; 300 grains of solid matter and 400 grains of carbonic aeid. Hair lu Church History. The custom of clerics of the Roman Catholic church not wearing a beard is supposed to date from the earliest history of the church. The early Chris? tians, to manifest their dislike of pagan vanity in the effeminacy of long and curling hair and carefully cultivated beards, shaved their faces and kept their hair cropped close. In the time of Tertullian this wa? a mark of the Christian. The early tonsure, known as St. Peter's, of Rome, had the entire head closely, shaven, leaving but a nar? row rim. Custom nowadays takes but a small lock of hair from the head. If you ?re feeling badly from )o?3 of ap? petite, sick headaches an?! wenkness, caueed by the wartn s:>r;ng wether, try a cuse of Glean Splines Water and you will feel better. F'.r pule by !>r. McKnyen. They all Testify To the Efficacy of tho World-Renowned Swift's Specific. Tho old-time Simple . tmedy from tue Georgia swamps and fields has I gone forth to tho antipodes. ' astonishing tho skeptical and confounding tho theories ot -'.thosewho depend solely on the ! physician's skill. There ls no blood ' taint which lt docs not immediately eradicate. Poisons outwardly awi?* or tho E-?u?t of vile diseases from within all yield to this M*ent but simple remedy. It is an unequaled Kristos from impuro Wood or weakened vitality.. Send fer a treatise. Exam Ino tho proof. Boto on" Hood andliito Diseases" malled tro* l>rufjgists Sell lt. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga. Ripans Tabules cure nausea. Ripans Tabules cure heaaacho Jgjpans Tabules euro jaundice. ON A COIVIET. That Is YChero a Scientist Believes Hades Will Be Located. What do you think of the idea of hell, the future abode of the wicked, being situated in the nucleus of some gigantic comet? This opinion, says the St, Louis Republic, odd as it may seem to those who have given cou?ets and the future state ot the dead but little *t> tention, has been entertained by many really eminent scientists and philoso? phers, axcong them the learned Dr. Whistonf the friend and sometimes ad? viser of the great Sir Isaac Newton. In answer to the inquiries of a friend, who wrote to ask the doctor for some tangible proof on the subject, the fol? lowing unique theories were ad? vanced: According to my calculations and deductions, this theory, which you rightly say 'must belong to me and me alone,' does locate hell, the awful prison house of the damned, in the fiery nucleus' of some (perhaps yet undiscovered) comet of unthinkable size. . . . "In this wide-circling chariot of fire they will be whirled in the twinkling of an eye from the intolerable heat of the surface of the sun back into space hundreds and hundreds of millions of miles from the great torch-bearer of our system. "Thus instantly the wretched* teirarfte will be given; two unbearable extremes, one-of cold and the other of heat; this to continue through the endless ages of eternity, while the Almighty is dispensr ing the severities of justice-" Did* mor? tal man ever harbor a more horrible idea than this? Bucklen'g Arnica Salve. The Beat Salve in the world for Cu?oy Bruise? Sores. U?iers, Salt Rbooin. Fever Sorw, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Emptions,. and positively cure.? Piles, ot no pay required. It rs guaraa*e?d ro give per feet satisfaction, or money refonded. 7*rice 25 cents per box. For sale by Dr J F. W. De Lorine. ZF TOZTS HACK ACHES, Oxvou are all -vorn out, really pood for not** ing, it is general debility. Try JR R?HN'S J HOS lt ITT E KS. It will cure you, cleanse your lives, and give a good appetite: Who are for tho first time to undergo woman's severesttrial we offer "Mothers Friend" A remedy which, if used as directed a few weeks before confinement, robs it of ita PAIN, HORROR AND RISK TO LIFE of both mother and child, as thousands who have used it testify. .'Iused two bottles of MOTHERS TRTEJTD with marvelous results, and wish every woman who lias to pass through the ordeal of child birth to know if they will use MOTHERS FRIEND for a few weeks it will robconfinement of fain suffering, and insure safety to life of mother and ckpd." MRS. SAM HAMILTON, Montgomery City,Mo*. Sent by express, charges pre-aid, on receipt ef ?rice, $1.50 per bottle Sold by all druggists. Uook 'o Mothers mailed free. _ BRADFIELD REGULATOR. CO., Atlanta, Ga. JOHNSON'S MAGNETIC OIL! instant Killer of Pain, internal and External. Cure-! RHEUMATISM, NEURAL? GIA, Lame Back, Sprains. Bruises, S-xoilinjrs, Stiff Joints. COLIC and .CRAMPS Instantly. Cholera Mor Jjbus, Ci oup.Diptheria, Sore Throat, _&??EABACHE, as if by magic. THE HORSE BRAND, gjg the most Powerful and PenetratinpLiniinentfor Man or Beast inexistence. Large ?1 size 75c., 50c. size 40c. JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL SOAP. Medicated and Toilet. The Great Skin Curo and Face Beautifier. Ladies will find it tho most delicate and nighty perfumed Toilet Soap on the market. It is absolutely Dure. Makes tho skin soft and velvety and restores the lost com? piexion; is a luxury for the 8ath for Infants. It alays itching, cleanses tho ecalp and promotes the gro?rth of hair. Price 25c Por sale by DR. A. J. CHINA* SUMTER, S. C, Atlantic Coast Line. NORTH-EASTERN R. R. OF S. C. CONDENSES SCUEDLUE, TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Al itv 14T1*3? Le Fi'nce j " Kingst j Ar Lanes Le Lanes Ar. Oh'n [No. tiijNo. 27 j No. 23}No.53 A. M.I P. M.j P M. *7 45 *10 60 *11 00 S 68 0 20? 12 08 0 '?0 ll iii) A. M 12 03 2.19 A. M. 12 14 12 32 P. M 12 321* 8 40 2 38 A. M. 10 40 P. 15 TRAINS GOING NORTH, i [Nu. 78?No. 60JNO. I4|No. a-2 I A. J1. A. Jl.j P. M A.I * I 38 *5 10 H 12 *7 00 3 25 7 05 6 03 8 27 3 25 7 05 6 03 3 44 7 20 6 17 4 60] 8 40 7 10 A. M. A. M. P. M. Ai?M. Le. Ch'n. Ar Lanes. Le Lanes.; " Klagst I ArFl'ncri * Daily, f Daily except Sundiiy. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R R. of S. C. Nos. 78. runs solid to Wilmington, N. C., making close connectas.with W. & W. R; R. for all points north. Train N"9. 14 runs via Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line-and make close connection for H11 points North. J. R. KKNLY, J. ?. DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'lSr.p't. T. M. EM SRSON, Traffic Manager. Atlantic Coaat Line WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOtNt? .SOUTH. Dated May 14. 1893. |N-o. 23|Ni>. 5S| L've "Wilmington..... Leave Marion. Arrive Florence....... Le:ive Fl'-rence. Ar've Sumter... * 6 25 9 -il ia 2i. N<?. ??> A. M. *2 20 3 35 3 35 5 15? A. M . A. BL No. 58 f7 45 9 20 No 52 *9 4S IO 55 Luave Sum?ar. Ar'va Columbia. . . No. 52 runs through (row c'faarlebc?o via Central R. ti. leaving t?-*e 5:32 A. M., Man? ning 9:0?. A. M. TRAINS 9-01N G NORTH. Leave Columbia., ^r've Suuitor:..... I No. 5I|No. 53J. PM , T M .?0 451? 5 00 A M f 12. 05? 7 25 ?Ne. 53. Leave Sumter .. Arrive Florence. Leave Florence... LKICYO Marian. Arr. Wilmington. 12 1 3D So. 78 * 5 l?j 5 53 ? ? lof t X 30 S 5 .Daily, f Daily exco;>t Sunday. No. 53 rum* through to Chas I ?y ton. S. C., via Central K. R . arriving Manning T:5S P. M., Lanes S:3o" ?. M.. Charleston U.15. P. M. Trains on MarVtiest^r i AugGWta U. R. leave Sumter daily except Sunday, 1 f>:5& A. M., ar? rive Rimini 11.59. Returning ten va Rimini 12:30. P- M., arrive Sumter 1:40 P. M Traisa ou Hurtsville R. R. lu?ve Hurtsville daily except Sunday at (5.00 ?. m. arriving Fl?yds 6 35 a. m. Returning leave Floyds 9-.4U j?, ia., asrivini Hartsville 10.21) p. m. Trains on Wilmington Chadbonro and Con? way railroad, leave Hub 6 10 ?. m., Chadhoura 9v00 a. tn arrive at Conway 11.30 a. m., rei.ii.rni ing leave ^outvay at 2.30 ji.. m., arrive Chad bourn 5.20 p. m. arrive Hub at !>.30 p. m_ Daily except Sunday. JOHN F.'DIVINE, Geaera-1 Sup't. J. R KKNLY. 0*n'l Mn nager. T M. KMB?IS0N. Traffic Manager. Ripans Tabules euro colic. Ripans Tabules cure hives.. SUPERIOR to all other medicines for purifying the blood and restoring the health and strength, Sarsaparilla is the standard specific for Scrofula, Catarrh Rheumatism, and Debility. Cures Others will cure you. KTpans Tabules cure the bluc3. Eipans Tabities are of p:reat value. Rip.ins Tabules : for liver ?roubles a (). BROWN 4 M COLUMBIA, S. C. Ty o o n. s, SASH & BLINDS, LATHS, LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, AND ffA?R FM?M ?MM life te FAINTS, OILS AND TARNISHES. CARTER WHITE LEAD, The Best in the Market. ?Sjwcial Attention Given to Op en hy Mail. C. 0. BROWN & BRO Opposite Post Office, COLUMBIA, S. C. Oct 5-0 MANHATTAN TWO PE ff CENT. LOAN CO, This Company neeotiates loans on real estate first mortgage security, at 3 per cent, per annum five years time, or 2. per cent, ten years time, deducting the interestin advance of the entire period. Principal must be repaid one-fifth or one-tenth annually, option given bor? rower to r*pay semi-annuaWy, thereby making payments of principal quite as ?a3y a9 inter? est payments on the old plan of loans. On sums le 9 than $1,000 3 per r-ut. witt be charged. Ve aim to obtain abundant security rather th.-.n high rates of interest'. ILLUSTRATION-Ten Year Plan at 2 per Cent. Amount of Mortgage, ------ $1,000 00 Interest, 2 per cent., ten years, ------- - 200 00 Amount received by borrower, ------- ?800 00 Tb* mortgage is then repaid ic ten annwl- jra^raents of $100 each, without f?Tt?er interest. Total paid in ten years, -.- Si,000 00 The old way gives the fellowing result : Amount of Mortgage.. ... $1,000 GO Interest, 8 per cent.r rea years, - - 800 00 Total paid-in ten year?, - - - $1.800 00 ILLUSTRATION-Five Year Plan ai 3 per Ces** Amount of Morteage, ------- $1,000 00 Interest,. 3<per cent., five years, - _ - - - ]50 00 Amou'Q't received bj? borrower, $ 850 00 The mortgage is then- yepaid in five annual payments of $200 each, without further interest. Total paid in five years, - -- -- -- -- $1,000 0-0 Old way . Amount of mortgnpe, - ?51,000 00 Interest, 3 per cent., five years, - 400 Ofr Total paid in five years, - $1.460 00 Interest en $1,000 borrowed on the Bunding Association* plan fer 10 years at 6 per cent, interest and 3 per cent, premium amounts to $1.200 exclusive of dues and other expenses Interest on $1,000 borrowed from a IO?O broker for 10 years at 10 per cent, acaounts to $1,000 exclusive of ol her expenses. Interest on $1,000-borrowed of Manhattan 2 per cent Loan Co., for 10 years' time at % per cent, interests amounts to $200, exclusive of fees as indicated. Comment is ut.necessary. _____ . W* BL Ingram, Agt*, SUMTER, S. C, Drugs and Medicines, Soaps, Perfumery, Hair Brushes Tooth Brushes, Tooth Powder, Also, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Floor Stains, Kalsomine, all colors for rooms. Artists' Paints and Brushes, Luster Paints, Convex Glasses. Nice line of Hanging and Stand Lamps, Lanterns, Shades, Wicks, Chimneys, &c. TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Keep the following popular braod of Cigars : "Plumb Good," "Custom House," "Rebel Girl." Sep 30 FRESH GARDEN SEED. Prescriptions carefully compounded. WELL ! NOW ! ! Whether the Sun do move, or do not move, we are not here to discuss-but will leave that to our more learned friends-but we are here to say that we have a LINE OF SHOES that must move, and that at once. And if PRICES and QUALITY will move them, then they will be walking-and that at once. We have a Gents' Satin Finish Shoe, in Bals and Congress, for $2.00, that can't be sold by any other house for less than- $2 50 to $3.00. It's just the finest in town. Our Ladies' Button Shoes at $1.25, Are Beauties. Just come in and examine these Shoes before you buy. They are all guaranteed to be "ALL SOLID LEATHER," or money returned. Buy your shoes from us and save from 5ft cents to $1.00 per pair. KINGMAN & CO. Glenn Springs Water, Is unsurpassed and invalids find sure and speedy relief by its uso. Dyspepgia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Hepatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver and General Debility, following upon Malarial Diseases, Dropsy, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Constipation, Hcmorroid.s Uterine, Renal and Cystic Discasos, Hocmaturia, Rheumatism, Catamenial Derangement, and OTHER FEMALE COMPLAINTS," Highly recommended by the medical profession. For circulars containing certificates, etc., apply to Paul Simpson, GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. -O -FOR SALE BY Dr. A. J. China, Dr. McKagen, J. S. Ilughson & Co., J. F. W. DeLorme and \V. R. Delgar, Jr. for infants and Children. "C*storiaisso\v'c!laaapi^ix>ch>idr<iu.Ci?.i S Castor ia cures'Colic, Constipation, I recommend it ;is supe* '.or to any prescription I SourStomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, to me."' IT A. ?ECHEtt, 2t Di, j Kills "Worms, raves sleep, and promotes di* ia So, Oxford Ct.,-Drooklyj2, N. Y. I gestion, I Without injurious med?cai?onu '*T-iC usc of 'Castoria i; so Universai* and ;merits so weli-knovrn t iiat it seems a work of supererogation Co endorse it. Kev.- are the intelligent families -who do nor, 1:.-op Castoria Tritifa-easy roach." CARLOS SIAKTZS, D. P., New Yor?c City. THE CESTAVR COXPAXY, 77 "KURRAY STREET, NET TORE Crrr. "For several years I have- recommended your 'Castoria,' and shall always continue to do so as lt has invariably produced beneficie ? results." EDWE?- F. PARDEE, 31. D., 125th Street and 7th' JLVC, New York CStyv SUMTER, & C., Men. 20, '93. PEAS in bulk, al 60c. per bushel, at H. HARB CT* PUBLIC WARNING. Do you wis?T a mower, and if so, do you want a horse biller? If yon ,d<* Tte Walter A. Wood Mower Ts not what you want. This is the lightest draft, lightest weight and* wost cftnrav ble mower made, beside being the ONLY STEEL MACHEN!? o? toe market. Be not deceived by talk. This is a cheap article and is is many eases the only stock in tracie of some concerns. Don't waste your moue? on a horse-killing mower, and one that requires a machine shop behind it, when the 8&n*e money wilj buy a first class- machine. Forty years on the market, and the first mower ever built. A CAE LOAD'OF. THE STEIL EEAUKES AT YOUS BOOB. HENRY B. BLOOM, Agent, Sumter, ST. C. P. S -Don't fail to examine our mower knife grinder:. Apr 12 J. F. W. BeLORME, Ag-tin -DEALER TX Toilet Soaps, Perfumery a*i<? all Kfnds'of] $rn$gktf? Sundries Usually Kept.in a E^l?rst Class JDLIS Store, Tobacco, Snuf and Cigars, Garden Seeds, &3., also Paintey Oils, V?warWr Glass Putty, &c., Dye Stufis. Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded', and orders- answered with otra and dispatch. The public will find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of best quality. Call and see for yourselves. Ni?lit Calls Promptly Attended Tow . JOYE, -DEALER IN FAMILY ?ND STAPLE GROCERIES* OFF?RS A FULL STOCK OF ALL GOODS IN HIS LINE, AT CLOSE PRICES. Everything Fresh and First Class. Goods received every week. Give me a Call before purchasing. Dec ll-x New POLSO 3V? M ESTABLISHED 1868. Watches, Diamonds, Sterling Silver, Clocks, Optical Goods, Fine Knives, Scissors and Razors* Machine Needles, &c. POLJSOM. SIGN OF THE BIG WATCH. HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES. JAMES AL.LAN & CO. Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Specta? cles, Drawing Instruments THE FINEST STOCK IN THE STAT?!. RELIABLE GOO?S AX REASONABLE PRICES. Watch Repairing a specialty. Chief Inspectors of Watches for South Caro? ma Railway. Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Division of Three Cs R&iliRfruL. JAMES ALLAN & CO., 2S5 Kiug St., Sign of O-um Clock. Charleston. S. C. SUMTER Iron FVWjfe*. W. E. & J. a BRIMSON^ ; PROPRIETORS. Engines, Boilers and machinery of all kinds and description^ repaired. Circular Sa WS hammered and gummed. IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS made to order; and any wort usually don? in a first class machine shop or foundry executed in a workmanlike manner" PRICES REASONABLE and satisfaction guaranteed by'good work. Estimates will be furnished on application. Sumter Iron Works, W. E. & J. I. Brimson, Proprietors, Surafer, S. GI Jlis^IVortii Main Street.. Au&&