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PROHIBITION IN UM TEE The Dispensary Closed as a Result of Election of New Dispenser. Tbe dispensary deadlock is still unbroken, io fact j tbe wfcole affair is in a more mixed np and confas;ng condition than ever before. The dispensary is closed, and the county board of control, Dispenser Raffieid and Dis peoser-elect Beames are camping in it while waiting for the lawyers to unravel the legal tangle. The term of Dispenser Raffieid expired on December 3ist. bet as the county board of control could sot legally elect his successor prior to that date, owing to the failure of the applicants to Sie applications ia conformity witb tbe law. he held orer catii February lat. In the me&n ix ta Mr J. M Reames was elected dispenser, oat til eiectio* was coa tested by Mr. Raffieid aad the matter was tied np, so that Hr. Raf field held orer until March 1st. On February 25th Mr. Reames vas again elected, ami it was expected that be would take charge of tbs dispensary this morning, as bis appila ! lion was m conformity with the law, his election was unanimous and his. bond was filed and approved. Yesterday afternoon when business waa orer for the day at the dispensary, Messrs. Windham and Cut doo of the county board o' control went to the dis pensary to take stock and tnrn over the busi ness to Dispens^r-e ect Rearaes. fir. Raffieid ref ased to torn over the dispensary and mat ters were at a standstill. Messrs.. Cut ti no, Windham and Bameld camped in the dispen sary siast night and they are etill tbere, neither side having yat decided to yield This morning Mr. Beames went to tbe dis pensary to t&ke charge, bot the county board could cot deliver possession, so he joined the waitera sod is etil! waiting for Mr. Raffieid to give io. The dispensary cando no busi ness as no one knows who is dispenser, and H has not been opened this morning. Mr. Belfield claims, it is stated, that wben te be2d over after bis term expired on December 31st, be was required te give a new bond and did file a bond Tor 12 months, the bond being accepted and approves by the county board of control, consequently be is legally entitled to remain in the position of dispenser for the remainder of the year The board of control asserts that Mr. Raffieid was required to give bond only for the time that he held over no til bis snccesaor could be elected, and it was accepted and approved for that timo and no longer Another ground that Mr. Raffieid has for lefu&iog to yield possession of the dispensary is that the county board of control is not a legally organized body, one msmfcer, Mr. Windham, beiog disqualified in that he holds two offices, viz : member of the county board of control and jailer, conse quently the election of Mr. Reaa.ee was not legal.and is null and void Both sides are acting under the advice of lawyers and matters will remain in statu quo notU legal proceeding can be had to settle the points to dispute. Purdy Reynolds represent the cone ty board of control, and L D Jennnings, S.-q , Las charge'of Mr. Raf aela's case. Chamberlain's Conga Remedy, This remedy is intended especially for conges, colds, creep, whooping cough and infieesza. It has become famons for its earea of these diseases, over a large part of the civilised worid. The most flattering testimonials have been received, giving ac counts of ita gond works ; of the aggravating and persistent congos lt baa cored ; of severe olds that have yielded promptly to its sooth img effects, and of the dangerous attacks of croup it bas cared, often saving tbe life of the child. The extensive nae of it for whoop ing cough has shown that it robs that disease of all dangerous consequences- It is espe cially prised by mothers for their children, as it never fails to effect a speedy curs, and because they have fonod that tbere is not the least danger io firing it, even to babies, aa it contains nothing injurions Sold by Dr A. J. China ''ml . March Ladies' Home Journal. The March Ladies' Home Journal bas a noteworthy feature in the page showing 'Pope Lao STU as fae Lives ia tba Vatican " The pictures were made by the only photo grapher who bas bean admitted to the Vatican for a number of years, consequently they offer the first eiese view the public bas had in a long time of the Pope and his surround ings. An article that wilt be widely read* figures oct "The American Girl's Cbaoces of Marriage," and another, "Social Life io America's French City," gives a really charming glimpse toto tba exclusive Creole eircles of New Orleans. "The Most Wonder ful Musical Festival ic America" recalls tbe great Peace Jubilee held at Boston io 1872 with its seventeen hundred instrumentalists and ebor ag of seventeen thousand. "Cbu ch es Decorated for Weddings," "The Prettiest Coantry Bornes in America," "Flowers and Flower Beds," and "Fifteen Good Mantels aiad Fireplaces" are abo wo from the photo graphs submitted in tbe contest for Journal prizes "I'J Nature's Garden" pictures and describes our wild Sowers so tbeir identifica tion will be easy. The article is by N eli je B'anchan and is the erst of a series. By The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Ose dollar per year; ten cents per copy. PRIVATEER PERSONALS. Privateer Tovrrehip, S. C , Feb 27, 1399 -It is probably co: ofteo that H mother acd daughter are found teaching free sebools in one country township, bat Privateer bes an iostance of the kind. Mrs. Wbit6eld Wells and Miss Una Wells are both teachers-the fors er is filling ont the unexpired term of . Miss Anna Easterling, who resigned to accept a school where the session ex fended farther into tbe year. Our free schools are closing now, and the following school directory of teachers and schools of Privateer Township will interest many of your readers : Bithel Schcol, Mrs. Whitfield WeliB ; Mel lett, Mr. J. E. Webb ; Red Oak, Mr. Will ie Cain, Jr. ; Ingram, Mis9 Allie Toole ; Tin dal, Miss Una Wells ; Gilgal, Miss Victoria Baxter ; Providence, Mis3 Lizzie Perry. Colored schools, Cane Savanna, Bertha Sas portes ; Enon, B.rdie Robinson ; Mooagban, Eliza Green ; Neal, Mary Davis ; Pearson Chapel, Charlotte Singleton ; Dwyer, Mary Wilson, and Harrison, Rev. J. McKeneie Barnsen. Tbe school trustees of Privater Township ara Messrs. Richard Tisdale, W ii lie Kolb and Sumter Richardson, and they form a good ! board. Among the family names fonnd. in Sonth : Carolina which are cot common, is that of Wbilden, some of which family, as our read ers know, live in Privateer Township. In looking over the American Monthly Magazine for December we fonnd another family bear ing this name, spelled differently, bat evi dently pronounced the same. Io this maga zine Mrs. Beniah Harvey Wbilldin has an interesting and weil written article on the Merion Chapter (Daughters of the American Revolution) of Montgomery County, Penn. Mrs. Whilldin is Registrar of this chapter. A gentiem&n of this township recently re lated to ns the following incident of Poler's raid through what now forms Privateer Township. A widow lady with ber yonngest child in her arms plead with the raiders to I spare ber property, but notwithstanding her pleadings, the raiders took all ber work ani mals. This lady still lives in Privtaeer Township, and tbe child who was then a baby, is also living here. ' Speaking of the Confederate war, the fact may be mentioned here that there are living in our township several near relatives of tbe last wife of Gen. Richard H. Anderson, than whom a braver soldier never drew a sword in America. It is te be regretted that the memory of one .who fought so gallantly ender the "stars and bars'7 of the Southern Con federacy should have faded away so. What a theme for a biographical sketch would such a life have presented to the glowing pea? of a Macaulay or a Parton. Sumter County can always feel proud that she gave birth to such a son as gallant ''Fighting Dick" Anderson Mrs. Frances Compton, who has lived in Sumter for several past, bas retaraed to Privateer Township and is liviog with her 'son, Mr. John Compton. She is among the oldest white people of our townuhip, beiog eighty odd. We called and had a chat with ber not long since. Her husband bas been dead many years. She was the mother of twelve cbildrec, six of each sex, eleven of whom she raised Shs can sew with glasses and bas good hearing. Shs informed us that she has lived in Sumter County ever since she was grown. The old lady's mind ie clear and we found ber in excellent spirits. Mr. Matt Ramsey shot a dog yesterday that bad the appearance of having hydrophobia. A party occurred at Mr. A. J. Pipkios's last week. Mr. Jesse Norton accidentally shot bis cousin, Jim Norton, in the leg recently with a pistol. Mr. Joe McLeod, one of our farmers, has never owned a pistol and never shot one nore than half a dozen times. McD. F. Feb. 28 -Mr. Joe Hudson died yesterday. He was a worthy young man and *ris mar ried aet year. McD. F. mitam^ mm -- - I have been afflicted with rheumatism for fourteen years and nothing seemed to give any relief. I was able to be around all the time, but constantly suffering. I bad tried everything I conld fc; ar of and at last was told to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which I did, and waa immediately relieved and in a sbort time cored. I am happy to say tbat it has not since returned.-Josh Edgar, Ger* mao town Cal- For sale by Dr. A. J. Chios. Rev. E. Edwaids, pastor of the English Baptist Church at Mioersville, Pa., when suffering with rheumatism, wes advised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He says : "A few applications of this liniment proved of great service to me. It subdued tbe inflam m&tion and relieved tbe pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Paie Balm * trial it will please me." For sale bj Dr. A. J. China. Paper novels, 500 new titles, many of them never before issued ia cheap form. H. G Usteen & Co. The happiest ladies are those osing the Wbitesewing machine. The "Wbi.te" runs light. The "White' sews right. SMALLPOX IN BISHOPVILLE. j An Unfounded end Unjust Charge Against Sumter .In Sunday's State the following corres pondence from Bisbopville, under date of February 24tb, appeared : 'Q uite an alarm was occasioned here on last Saturday afterBOOD by the report that there was a case of smal'pox on a plantation in the suburbs cf the town in a family of ne groes One physician who examined tbis case pronounced ii not smallpox Dr Evans was wired to send an expert here, and Dr. Bacot and Health Officer Reardon came in to-day and proceeded at once to make an ex aaaioat!0= of th ca9es, of which at this ti ? e there seems to be three Dr. Bacot pro nounces it genuine smallpox, and vaccination of all colors, age3 and conditions is now the order of the day. It is believed by many that if this is smallpox, it bas been here for the past 12 months, as a great many children suffered from an eruptive disease a year ago, which covered their bodies from bead to foot with sores, and which was thought at that time to be chickenpox. The town of Sumter has been the nursery of smallpox from which it bas been trans planted to different sections of tbe county for the past year. The Sumter papers have been gener os in publishing accounts of the smallpox at Mayesvilie, Scottsville, Oswego aad other places, while it is a well-known fact that there are from 40 to 50 caaes of that dread disease in that town, many of them among white citizens, end yet not one word of it was ever published " The statements in reference to this city are es unfounded on fact as onjost to this city The writer of the article is not acquainted with the facts, or else wonld not have made the assertions that he did, for there ts no con ceivable reason for the publication of un founded reports that are calca! a ted to iojore the city of Sumter. The writer knows full well that when smallpox was epidemic in Sumter last spring the fullest publicity was given to the fact by all of the papers of this city, and no effort was made to conceal any thing connected with the epidemic. Within the past five weeks there have been five cases of smallpox in this city, the disease being reintroduced into the city from other sec tions of the couoty. The best answer to the remarks of the Bishopville correspondent of the State is the following statement from Dr S C Baker, chairman of the city Board of Health : "When smallpox fi cst appeared io Sumter last sommer, sometime about the 1st of Jnoe, it was found that it was brought by a student of Claflia ooiversty of Orangeburg. As soon as the disease was pronounced smallpox, to prevent the spread of the disease, compulsory vaccination was ordered by the city authori ties, and as far as the physicians knew every body in the city limits were vaccinated, with the exception of some who said they would not be vaccinated and eluded the physicians, saying they would "ruiner" have smallpox than to be vaccinated. (One of these is now enjoying bis "ratbers.") In about five weeks from the time the frrst case appeared in Sumter there was not a single case, and there were no caaes from the 15th of Joly until about 15th of January. During that time a great many people moved into ! Sumter who bad not been vaccinated, and : some time about the middle of January the disease again broke out, this time a oegro by the name of Reese Scott from Clarendon county was found to have it. The second case wat Fancie Singletary from Scottsville, which is a few miles from Mayesville As to there being 40 or 50 cases io Sumter now, that is aosolotely without foendation, as there are only five cases, and some of them are the ones who are having their "ratbers." Bat four or five of these cases will be dis charged within three or four days and the other in about one week. Such in the situa tion to day.". Geo. B. Secord, the well known contractor of Towanda, N. Y., says : "I bave used Chamberlain's Congh Rem dy ic my family for a long time and have found it superior to any other." For sale by Dr. A. J. China. A DIRECT LHJfi TO THE PEID MONT. S. C. & Ga., Will Build From Gaff ney to Spartanbnrg. The Sumter and Wateree Railroad will be a rather insignificant and unimportant road tn itself, with its fifteen miles of track, begin ning iu Sumter and ending at Middleton junction, and on this account many persons who are not accustomed to look below the surface and are given to forming opinions and drawing conclusions from what they see at first glance, have exhibited a disposition lo belittle the new road and to mak? light of it. They have gone so far as to assert emphati cally that the city would receive bot meagre benefits from the road, and that as' the road is but fifteen mile in length it follows neces sarily that it cao do little for Sumter. This sort of talk is but the vaporings of unin formed minds and is not worth consideration. The Sumter and Wateree alone is insignifi cant, bot as a part of the South Carolina and Georgia R. R.. it is of the first importance and it will be of great and lasting benefit not only to this city but to the entire country. The South Carolina & Georgia RR. is a strong, prosperous and progressive system and is reaching out ail the time for more ter ritory and more business. The Ohio River and Charleston R. R. (the 3 C's) is now owned and operated by the S C. & Ga , aed this road will be extended in a short time from Gaffney to Spartanbnrg This will give this city direct connection with the cot ton mill district of the Piedmont and will enable the mills to buy cotton here oo an equal footing with the export buyers who have heretofore bad a monopoly of the market. It is a well known fact that cotton brines better prices in the places where the mills have boyare, and tbe imprcvemeot of the Sumter cotton market will not be the least of the benefits following the completion of the Sumter and Wateree asd the entraace of the S. C. & Ga., into this city. What the Charleston Post said yesterday of the proposed extension of tbe S. C. Ga to Spartanbnrg will be of interest : "The Sooth Carolina and Georgia road will soon be operating trains over its own tracks to Spartanbnrg instead of over the Southern. The bill which was recently passed to allow the South Carolina and Georgia road to build from Gaffney a terminus of the Ohio River and Charleston railroad to Spartanburg eeem3 to have met with general favor both in the up and low country. It is not positively known when active work will begin on the Spartanburg exten 9IOB, but there is every eeason to believe that it will be some time within the near fotare The coropletioQ of the road will give Charleston a direct route to the most pros perous towns in the Piedmont section, where are located the big cotton mills of the South.' It will be the means of reducing freight rates and the wholesale men will reap the benefits of the trade from the country merchants who are now buying from Richmond and Balti more because of the low rate given by the Southern. "Toe citizens of Spartanburg are delighted witb the efforts being made by the Sootb Carolina and Georgia road to get into their town." SWINDLED AGAIN. Did You Buy ADy Asbstos-Bot tomed Utensils. About the last of January e stnootb spoken and plausible oung man. who gave tbe name of M. C. Hall, canvaesed tbe town fjr orders for ao improved style of asbestos bottomed cooking utensils. He claimed to represent tba firm of C S Osgood & Co , of 185 Market St, Philadelphia, Pa. He ob taioed a number of orders, collecting thc ffi- oey as be went along, and it is said be raked in a considerable sum of mooay. H* promised among other things that the goods would be delivered express prepaid without delay. But tbere was delay-considerable dely-for the improved cooking utensils hive not yet arrived and those who parted with their good mooey are now sorry they ever aw the smooth-tongued Mr Hall. Nor will they ever see th e as be tos-bo no a ed saucepans, tea kettles, waffle irons and cake pans, for Mr Hall is a fake pure and simple. One ot the parties who gave Mr. Hall ao order for $4 worth of his utensils and paid Jbim the money got tired waiting for them to arrive by enpress, prepaid, cod last week wrote to a lawyer in Philadelphia to look up C. S. Osgood & Go. Here is what tbe lawyer says: "Immediately upon receipt of your letter I sent my private secretary to see Messrs C. S Osgood & Co., and I am sorry to inform you that tbere is no such number as 185 Market St, io Philadelphia, no such firm in business here aod no such name in the city directory.". Other housewives who are still waiting for their aabetos-bottomed utensils to arrive need wait no longer-they have been swin dled again by a smooth-tongued agent, con cern i og whom they knew nothing. It pays io tba long run to patronise home concerns, wbo do a straight business and are not bard io Sad. They may not have so many im provements on their asbestos-bottomed uten sils a d those tbat they have may not be aa cheap as the Hall-Osgocd variety, bot when you pay for their's you are sure to get them. Gov. Ellerbe's Condition. Gov. Ellerbe as uot quite as wei yesterday morning as be bad been tbe day before. Tbe morning was damp, and the humid atmosphere was quite oppressive. However, tbere was co startling change in bis co dition. European and American Me chanics. \ - Taken all round, the European worker is at a disadvantage compared with the American, as so much time is consumed in stopping and starting, in eating sandwiches, and in drink ing beer and tea daring workinf hours. It is impossible to produce as much work in the ten boors in this dawdling, nibbling fashion as can be turned out in straight away rons, nuder foil steam, with good fuel and plenty of it Estimate the time-wasted in one day for the break fast hour alone, in an English woik shop where one thousand men are employed. Is it an exaggeration to say that ten minutes are lost at this time by each individual ? For one thousand men this is, say, 1G0 hours per day ; in a week, 960 hours The American mechanic begins the day with a substantial breakfast, starts work at 7, works without stopping till 12. has an hour for dinner, and works again from 1 to 6 without stopping No beer, no tea, no sand wiches. Well fed steady working Which bas the advantage ?-H F L. Orcutt, in The Engineering Magazine for March Inharmonious Utterances. . We killed 2.000 and wounded 2,500," said Gen Otis tn his report of the battle of Manila. ' Oar concern was not for territory, or trade or empire, but for the people whose interests and destiny, without our willing it, had been put in our bands," said President McKinley in his speech at Boston The average merchant will get angry if you tell him you don't believe there are any good reasons why people should patronize bim in preference to his com petitors. Thus aroused, he will poor out reasons-good reasons, too en o cg h to fill a book. Bat it rarely occurs to the average merchant to give the public those reasons in his advertis ing. He doesn't seem to realize that such is the best sort of advertising the only sort of advertising that is real advertising. The Alabama Dispensary bill has been approved by Governor Joh o st OB -ad it applies to tbe counties of Cham bers, Cherokee, Coffee, Dale, Elmore, Geneva, Pike, Russell (except Gerod) Butler (except Greenville); Perry (ex cept Un too town} ; Randolph (except Roanoke) ; Cherokee beat io Colbert, to go into effect Jan. 1st, 1900. Lowndes to take effect immediately. Tbe largest single order booked by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, at Pbiiedelpbia, was taken last week it calls for a oontraot to build eighty-one locomotives for the Trans- Siberian Railroad. Washington, Feb. 27.-The presi dent to-day nominated Samuel T. Pointer to be postmaster at Spartan burg, S. O. - ?- .*. - ANY PERSON Wishing to know the truth in regard to theit health should not fail to send for a valuable and new 64-page Booklet waich will be sent FREE for a short time to these who mention this paper. Th ie book is published by the celebrated physi cians and specialists- Dr. Hathaway ai d (o. o 224 S. Broad St.. Atlanta. Ga., whom you should address. Write to-day. - mi- " ??? -aa - Papar Dalis, dre ssed or otherwise at H. G Osteen & Co's . Go to H. G. Oateen & Co. for pretty Paper Dolis, ladies, mis es and babies. Call, see, and buy embossed or floral Crepe Paper. H. G. Osteen & Co. A Bash Woman. Close to the wagon we met a bush woman, one of Indowyofca's people, re duced by starvation to the most emaci ated and pitiable condition. Her hus band had been killed by lions some days before, thongh she herself had escaped with her life. On her back and shoul ders were the marks where the same lion had ripped away great strips of flesh. Long clots of blood had dried on her body; the wounds had not even been washed. I gave her some meat, which she seized upon and at once ate ravenously. The bones were almost through her filthy skin ; her little beady eyes set close together under a low. re treating forehead, her flattened nose and large protruding lips, concealing what little chin she possessed, gave her a look most uncanny and repellent. Altogether more like an animal than a human being, she seemed to me the lowest type of womankind that it has ever been my fate to look on. There are numbers of bushmen and their wives who live in this miserable condition, wandering through the veldt with no other means of subsistence than such trash as wild roots and berries. Some of the men have guns and ammunition, and they spend their whole time in shooting. When they kill a buck within reach of water-say ten miles-the whole family congregates on the spot sits round the body and gorges itself zsitil every scrap of flesh and skin has disappeared-Blackwood's Magazine The First John Jacob Astor. Although Mr. Astor had led a life mainly devoted to business interests, he found great pleasure in the society of literary men, says Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in The Atlantic. Dr. Cogswell made his home with us for some years after the closing of his famous school but finally went to reside with Mr. As tor, attracted partly by the latter's promise to endow a public library in the city of New York. This was accom plished after some delay, and the doc tor was for many years director of the Astor library. He used to re ate some humorous anecdotes of excursions which he made with Mr. Astor. In the course of one of these the two gentlemen took supper together at a hotel recently opened Mr. Astor remarked, "This man will never succeed. " "Why not?" inquired the other. "Don't yon see," replied the finan cier, "what large lumps of sugar he puts in the sugar bowl?" Once, as they were walking slowly to a p" itboat which the old gentleman Mc oartered for a trip down the har T. Cogswell said, "Mr. Astor. I have just been calculating that this boat costs you 25 cents a minute. " Mr. Astor at one hastened his pace, reluc tant to waste so much money Resuscitated the Pet Kitten. A well known East End doctor tells a story of his experimenting days when he was at college. A girl whom, he j knew and admired had a pet kitten ! that in frisking around broke one of its hind legs. The fair mistress was in de spair and in extremity asked h r med ical student admirer to try his skill on the pet. He consented and took his father's messenger boy. who was used to the surgery, to apply the anaesthetic. The doctor made the amputation and was sewing up the flap beautifully, when the boy gave a yell and said the cat was dead. Ii had been chloroform ed to death, The doctor knew that the demise of the pet would kill his hopes with the mistress. He had only one alternative, artificial respiration, and seizing the forepaws he set to work. In ten min utes he saw he was saved, for the kit ten began to breathe. It was restored, minus one of its clawers, to the girl, who never knew how near it came to being buried in the back garden.-Pittsburg Dispatch. _ Her Tong-ne. They were talking of figures of speech. "Have you ever noticed, " said one, "how fond people are of - Bgetable meta phors when they are dealing with a woman? Her cheeks are 'roses, ' her lips are . cherry,' her hands are always 'lily' hands, her mouth is a 'rosebud, ? ber complexion is 'like a peach, * and ber breath is 'fragrant as honeysuckle.' " "You've forgotten one," iaid the cynic. "What's that?" "Her tongue, It is a scarlet runner. " A Considerate Lover. Parent-Of course, as my daughter is of age, she can suit herself as to mar rying you, but the day she does I will cut her off without a penny. Suitor (after a pause)-Well under those circumstance^, sir, we will break our engagement I could not think of depriving a young lady of her inherit ance.-Harlem Life A Wall Paper Trick. "An old fellow came along the other day, " says a Philadelphia restaurant keeper, "who gave me a pointer I had never dreamed of. He came in and of fered to patch up all the bad places in my wall paper and so skillfully that I couldn't find a place after it was done Well. 1 hadn't any patching to do, but I bet the old chap a quartier and his dinner that he couldn't do what he said I tore a patch out of the wall paper, and when he was through eat ing he went to work. "The first thing he did was to cut 3 piece of blank wall paper big enough to cover the hole and paste it over Next he took a brush and painted a ground the same as the other paper Then, kick me if he didn't take other brushes and colors and paint in the design of the paper I willingly yielded up a quarter with the dinner and was satisfied when I saw the alacrity and ease with which the fellow did his work "-New York Tribune. The little Japs are about as free from the vice of drunkenness as any people in the world In fact, it is the rarest thing in the world to see an inebriated subject of the mikado. The native drink, "saki," is used about as tea in this country, and it is but little more intoxicating JENKINS BROTHERS AGENTS FOR Clevelands and Vic _tors._I BOARDING HAVING TAKEN the House oo Maia Street second door south of the Nixon House, I am prepared to accommodate a few .regular boarders, aod also lodging aod meals to transient customers. Terms reasonable. Mas. W. B. SMITH. Sept. g. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly incertain our opinion free whether aa invention is probably patentable. Communica tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Hann & Cc. receive special notice* without charge, in the -, Scientific flmterican. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir culation of any scientific lournaL Terms. $3 a year: four months, $L Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Co.36""08*** New M Branch Office* 625 F St*. Washington, D. G THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depository Transacts a general Banking business. a[3o has A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1 aod upwards received. In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annora. Payable quarterly, on first days of Janoary, April, July and October. W. F. *B. HAYNSWORTH, W F. RHAMB, Cashier. ? President. Jan 13. HOME ENTERTAINMENT h so largely a matter cf mceic that there is very little entertainment at borne, without a Piano. Have solid merit, as attested by the high praise of everyone who has bought a Stieff Pia ,o for the past fifty years. Call aod examine onr stock or write for Ii lu st ra ted Catalogne. CHAS. M. STUFF, BALTIMORE 9 North Liberty St. WASHINGTON 521 llTHST. K. W. CABBAGE PLANTS. FOR SALE, CABBAGE PLANTS, now ready for shipment. Waketie'd and Succession, tbe hardiest, largest, earliest and best varieties. Prices f. o. b here i,000 to 5,000 Si.CO, 5,000 to 10,000 $1 25, over 10,000 $1 They are grown in tbe open air and will stand severp cold. Address NORMAN H BLITCH, Jan ll Miggett, S. C" LANDS WANTED. PERSONS WITH LANDS FOR SALE are requested to pot them in m./ bands tor pale. I am in constant receipt of so aany letters of enquiry about lands from Northern and Western parties, that I may be abie.to effect sales for those who will give me accu rate detailed descriptions of what they have. No charge will be made unless satisfactory sales are made. Descriptions must be such ss can be guaranteed and must give : No. of acres, location, character of land, proximity to railroads, post offices, jcboote, churches and to* ns, kind of icc provea en ts. Comraun 3ation8 strictly coofideo:, when so desired. JAMES G. GIBBSS, State Land Agent. Nov. 10. Co'nmbia, SC PATENTS Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat ient business Conducton for MODERATE FEES. OUR ornee is OPPOSITE U. S. PATENTOFHCEJ and we can secure patent in less time than those! [remote from Washington. 2 Send model, drawing or photo*, with descrip >tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of! {charge. Our fee not due till parent is seccred. i A PAMPHLET, 14 How to Obtain Patents," with ?cost of same m the U. S. and foreign countries* (sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO.i OPP. PATENT OFFICE. WASHINGTON. O. C. NOTICE, ITNT L FURTHER NOTICE, I will be J at my office for tbe transaction of offi cial business only on Tuesdays and Wednes days of each week, and 00 Sales days. 8pe. oial appointments for other days most be arranged for. W. H. INGRAM Nov. 16, 1898.-if Master.