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GOOD POTATOES BRING FANCY PRICES To grow a ferse crop of good potatoes, the .oil must contain plenty of Potash. Tomatoes, melons, cabbage, tarmps, lettuce -in fact, all vegetables remove large Quan? t?esci Potash from the soil. Supply Pot as? EbersEy hy the cse cf fertilizers containing xs? ?ss ikon IO per cent, actual Potash. Better abd more profitable yields are sure io sollow. . . Our pamphlets are not advertising circulars booming special fertiluers, but contain valu? able information to farmers. Sent free for the frjflrfrnr. WlitC HOW. ; GERMAN KAU WOK KS New York-93 Nassau Street, or Atlanta, Ga.-?3? South Broad St. 1,000 Toms Men re QUALIFY JPOR G OOO JPOSZTXONS GUARANTEED m WRIT1NO. SOS FBEE 8CH0LAfSH?l? OFFERED ?SA--A LA. BUS. COLLEGE, MACON. OA WANT AIL INTERESTED IN MACHINERY TO NAYS OUR NAM? BEFORE ?MCU DURING 1905 Writ? us stating what kind of MACHINERY you use* or will tsstsfl. auid ws will rraii yo? FREE OP ALL COST A HANDSOME ANO USEFUL POCKET DIARY AND ATLAS OR A LARGS * COMMERCIAL CALENDAR Gibbes Machinery Company, COLUMBIA, S C. A STOCK OT HORSE POWKR HAT PRESSES TO SC OLOSEO OUT AT SPECIAL PRICES 00,000.00 Capital. IE FIBST UMi IIB of Sumter, 3. a THE Comptroller of the Currency hav? ing approved"the increase of the Capital of this Bask to $100,000.00, depositors now have as security for their deposits : Capital, - $100,000 00 Stockholders' Individual Lia? bility, - - - '00,000 oe Surplus and Undivided Prof? its, - - 25,000 oe Total Security for Depositors, $225,000 00 ONLY N?TtQPLA BANK f fe CITY OF SUNTER. Largest Capital of any Bank in this section of South Carolina. Strongest Bank in Eastern part of this State. Interest allowed on deposits 4? a limited amount. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. A. J. CHINA, President. NEILL O'DONNELL, Vice President. H. D. BARNETT, R. D. LEE, G. A. LEMMON, JOHN REID, E. P. KICKER. R. lu EE3??NDS,* Cashier. R. D. LEE, Solicitor. BOOKKEEPERS. J. L. McOHum, D. J. Winn, Jr. ?? Oliver lu Yates. fmmmmi PILLS *e CHICHJSSTEIt'S EXGUSH *pSfciS??^ia I?J?> a?J Cold ?urt?ilic bw*?. Kxiti . ?, rr1?? J** w?* ribim. Tukc no oUicr. Kefone .1 ^ jftwisprwm SvtMtStutloa? aad imita / ? {K Una. Bay of yw D-xmgi>t tr ?r?d 4#. is kV* & ftae^?fiJ?ef ftM-Liwiie*," in .Viler bTpc. -A._?an? Mail. 1C?.<H>C? Tr?;i?iont?J*. .W. i>? rT". *a?n?fa??. . < *W^t?r (Imitat Ce? ww raw Kiwltao? ?.?r... ''s'iLA->*A THE BACK OF SUMTER, STJMTERjS. C. ?ity and County Depository. Capital stock paid in, $75,000 00 I TJndiTided surplus, 16,000 00 1 Individual liability of stockhold? ers in excess of their stock, 75,000 00 Transacts a general banking business; also has a Saving Bank Department. De? posits of $1 and upward received. Inter? est allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per arunta, payable semi-annually. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, President R. L MASKING, W. F. RHAMF, vice-President. Cashier. Jan. 81. TI SUNTER SAVINGS BINK. HORACE BARBY, President. L C. 8TRATJS3, vice-President. GEO. L. RICEER, Cashier. Capital Stock, $25,000 i PSabilitv of Stockholders, 25,000 Every Facility For the transaction of business is afford? ed those who deposit their money with Tfie Sumter Savings Bank. li? portant papers can be drawn up and finned in a private room set aside for use of our aliente and any information de t?rtd will be cheerfully furnished by the management. Savings deposited here draw interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. $1.00 wta o}?en an account and secure a bank book. THE COTTON CROP ESTIMATE. SERIOUS CHARGE MADE BY IL M. MUSSON. He Declares Alleged Reports From His Gin Held By Census Depart? ment Are Incorrect. Mr. R. M. Mixson, who recently in an article published in the Chronicle, charged inaccuracies in the statistics of the Census department, on which an estimate cf the year's cotton crop was based now declares that this de? partment in Washington has an al? leged report from his gin at Williston that was not sent by him or represen? tative. TT. The charge is based on copies of the report furnished Mr. Mixson by the Census department 4in Washington, during a recent correspondence. Mr. Mixson and the superintendent of his gin repudiate this alleged report and declare that if any such docu? ments are held in Washington they are without his sanction. Mr. Mixson was in the city a short while yetserday. When seen by a Chronicle reporter he confirmed the charges. He explained that since his charge that the report of the Census department giving the south a 12, 160,000 was based on inaccurate statis? tics, due to an error on the part of the government departments in stuning their reports with an extra week's ginning, that he has been in correspondence with the department at Washington. The department has been endeavoring to show him that he is in error in his deductions, that the estimate was based on reports from the gins* of the south, and not from figures obtained ianthe agricultural department. Among the papers forwarded was a copy of an alleged report from Mr.. Mixson's gin, purporting to have been signed by his superintendent at Willis ten. Mr. Mixson declares that this report from bis gin was never sent out or signed by his superintendent. He charges that the report is false, both as to the statistics contained and the statement that it was sent out from his gin. Mr. Mixson says that neither he nor his superintendent sent hi or signed such a report and .that if there is any such orignal paper it was sent by someone he doesn't know. The charge is of a sensational na? ture and is sure to attract general at? tentera.-Auguste Chrono le. Resolutions on the Death ot- Dr. R. E. Dening. - Whereas, another member of our Camp has recieved an honorable dis? charge, by death, from our ranks and has been promoted to the ranks of that grand army which bas "crossed over the liver to rest under the shade of the trees" with Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Wade Hamp? ton, . J*trt Be it resolved, That in the death of Assistant Surgeon R. E. Dennis, Camp Lee has lost one of its most valued, useful and efficient members. The deceased served from . the begin? ning to the end of the war between the States. He was a member of Capt. John S. Richardson's Company of Sumter county, 2d Regiment, commanded by Col. J. B. Kershaw. He fought through the first battle of Manassas in the ranks. In 1862, he was promoted to che position of surgeon and assigned to duty with the 3rd Regiment of Geor? gia Sharp Shooters, where he was faithful in ministering to the wants of the sick and lelieving the pains of the wounded. At the close of the war he returned to his home in Bishopville where he practiced his profession sucessfully for thirty-nine years. Our comrade was a brave and faith? ful soldier in the army of Northern Virginia. A true patriot in civil life and a "golden hearted gentle? man" whose loss to this camp and community at large is irreparable. Resolved, That we bow in humble submission to the will of a divine Providence who doeth all things well. Resolved, That a page in our min? ute book be dedicated to the memory of our deceased comrade and a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family and published. Geo. H. Reid, Dr. B. Y. McLeod, H. S. Cunningham, David E. Do amt A HAPPY HOME Is one where health abounds. With impure blood there cannot be good health. With a disordered LIVER there cannot be good blood. revivify the torpid LIVER and restore ?ts natural action. A healthy LIVER means pure blood-\m Pure blood means healths Health means happiness. Take no Substitute. AH Druggist? Southern Railway The South's Greatest System, Uneioelled Dining Gar Service Through Pullman Sleeping Gars on j All Through Trains. 100?T72SIZKT S0S2OTL2S 02T ALL LOCAL S&?X2T3. ! Wiater Tourist Bates are sew in effect to all Florida points. For full information as to rates, routes, etc., consult nearest South? ern Railway ticket agent, or R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston. S. C. R. i. ADAMS' STORY. MAN WHO ESCAPED FROM COL? LETON JAIL RETAKEN'. Adams Had Been Sentenced to Death for Killing Henry Jaques and Filed His Way Out of Prison. Recaptured at his home near Cot tageville, in Colleton County, on Wed? nesday night, R. A. Adams under sen? tence of death and for whose capture a reward of $1,000 had been offered by Governor Heyward, slept in the Police Station House in Charleston last night, and will be carried.to Colom? bia this morning and lodged in the State Penitentiary for safe keeping. Adams was brought to Charleston from Walterboro last night by Sheriff L. G. Owens, of Colleton county, who with a posse of six men, effected the captare. Adams was convicted of the killing of Henry Jaques, the shooting having taken place in the neighborhood of Adams's home, in Colleton county, in Feruary, 1903, and was dentenesed to be hangeed. He was lodged in the Colleton county jail awaiting the exe? cution of the death sentence, and re? mained in jail until June of this year, when, according to the story which he told last night, he-secured a file and cut through the iron bars in the win? dow of his cell, left the jail and re? turned to his home. Since that time, he said, he bad been in the neighbor? hood, working for his wife and four children, doing whatever he could do to provide them with a living. Gov? ernor Heyward offered a reward of $500 for his capture, but he remained at large. The reward was then in? creased to $1,000, this action having been taken by the Governor only sev? eral days ago. * The posse which captured Adams on Wednesday night was composed of the Sheriff, E. P. Henderson, G. S. Arnott, E. P. Knight, E. G. Strobel, P. M. Murray and Capers Stewart. Adams' home is about twelve miles from Walterboro, near Cottageville, and it was here, with his wife and children, ' the posse found him. It appears from the statements of the party that it was necessary to creak open the door, and that when this was done Adams was found in a crouched position near the fire place, his gan levelled on Henderson, who had enter? ed first Adams, however, did not shoot. Shortly afterwards, it was stated, the muzzle of a gun was seen pointing through a window which had been thrown open, whereupon the sheriff fired a load of buckshot into the window. After considerable par? leying Adams was persuaded to sur? render without farther resistancee and was taken to Watlerboro, where he was held in jail until taken to the train yesterday afternoon and brought to Charleston. Adams's escape from jail was the subject of a great deal of talk at the time, and the fact that he has been at large for a number of months has occasioned a great deal more talk. It has been persistently rumored all the while that the convicted murderer was in the community near his own home, and at his home a great part of the time, and the wonder was that, if the rnmors were true, no attempt had been made to capture him, espec? ially in view of the fact that large re? wards had been offered for his arrest. / "As BOOB as I got out of jail I went on home, " said Adams to a reporter last night, * 'and I have been at home ever since-I mean to say right around the neighborhood, working backwards and forwards. I cut my way out of jail with a file, cut throughtbe round iron bars, which were eaten with rust. I left the jail and went as straight I home as I could go, and since that time I have been working like a dog, trying to keep my wife and four chil? dren from starving to death. Before I shot Jaqoes I ran a one-horse farm," he said, "but of course I have not made any crops for the past two years. Since I left jail, I have been doing whatever I could find to keep my family from starvation-cutting saw logs, sr tip ping fodder, picking cotton, and doing a little of every? thing. I told the sheriff after he got ma this time that I left jail to go home and interfere with nobody and work for my wife and children as long as I could, and ? thanked God I did "At the time of my escape," he continued "2 bad been in jail more than sixteen months. I killed Jaques in February, 1903., and left jail in June, 1904. I bad been tried and sen? tenced to be hanged. My case had been appealed to the Supreme Court and it had decided against me and I was to be sentenced again. I got a file, cut my way oat and went home." "Was no attempt made to capture you during the time yon were at large and in the community near your home?" was asked. Adams said he would prefer not to answer this question, and it was not pressed. Adams gave a long and detailed his? tory of the killing of Jaques, saying that the trouble started in a dispute which Jaques had with his (Adams's) brother. Both he and Jaques were on horseback, he said, when the fatal shot was fired, Jaques in the main road going towards home, and Adams in a plantation read coming towards the main road. Adams said that pre? vious to this time bb bad taken up his brother's dispote with Jaques, his brother being a boy. Jaques had shot him (Adams) about a month before, he said, and he had sned Jaques, and Jaques had made several statements to the effect that if he met Adams be? fore the trial there wonld be a fun? eral instead of a trial. "Jaques went armed for me," he said, 'and after the statements which he made, I couldn't run any risk." At further length Adams detailed his pide of the trial. "If justice comes," he concluded, "It won't be trouble long."-News and Courier, Dec. 23. The Key that Unlocks the Doer to Lon* Living. T?e men of eighty five and ninety years of age are not the lotund well fvd,but thiD, ppare men who live on a slender diet. Ba as careful as he will, however, a man pa*t middle age, will occasionally eat too mach or of some article of food not fuiteci to Li? constitution, and will need a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablet? to cleanse and invigorate bi* stomach and regulate his liver and bowel*. When this i* done there ic no rea Fon vtiy the average man should not live to old age. For sale by all druggists. CONTESTS LEGARE'S SEAT. Aaron Prioleau, Recently Convicted for Tampering With Mails, As? pires to Congress. Charleston, Dec. 22.-Aaron P. Prioleau, the negro politician who was convicted last week in the United States district conrt for tampering with the mail, aud whose sentence was suspended by Judge Brawley a few days ago, has now taken ad ?antage of his freedom to file a con? test for the seat in the Fifty-ninth congress, to which Congressman Le? gare was elected by more than 5,000 majority. The negro contested Con? gressman Legare's seat in the last congress, and his contest is still pend? ing having been pigeonholed and the Democratic incumbent given to under? stand that the contest would remain where it bad been placed. The notice of Prioleau's negro law? yers to Congressman Legare's legal re? presentatives is a curiosity, both in its form, language and alleged facts, which are recited. The negro lawyer claims among other things that but for the operations of the election law in the hands of Democratic mana? gers Prioleau would have received 11,800 voted in addition to the 340 vot?es which were tabulated for him. J. A. Noland, the white Republican who also made the race and received 346 votes in the district, as officially tabualted, has served no notice of a contest upon Congressman Legare, although the returns would seem to indicate that he has a stronger case. 0 According to Judge Bawley'e order,' Prioleau is required to report to the United States marshal on January 2 to begin the serving of his sentence of three months in all A Costly Mistake. Blunders are sometimes very expensive Occasionally life itself is the price of a mistake, but you'll never be wrong if you take Dr. King's New Life Pills for Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Headache, Liver or Bowel troubles. They are gentle yet thorough. 25c. at J. F. W. DeLor nae's Drug Store. MONEY PICKED UP!! BY Writing Life Insurance In The Pei Mutua! Insurance Go. LIBERAL contracts to live agents in unoccupied territory. ADDBESS ? IKES, J[, General Agent, Sumter, S. C. DeLORHE'S PHARMACY, 23 South Main St. Open from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. ; Sunday, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Having consolidated my two stores, ? will be pleased to see all my customers at the above stand, where I am better pre? pared than ever to serve them. Your prescriptions will be called for and delivered. * Phooe 45. Full line of Drugs, Garden Seed and Cigars. Tour patronage solicited. Call bell for night work. Colds It should be borne in mind that every cold weakens the lungs, low? ers the vitality and prepares the system for the more serious dis? eases, among which are the two greatest destroyers of human life, pneumonia and consumption. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has won its great popularity by its prompt cures of this most common . ailment. It aids expectoration, re? lieves the lungs and opens the secretions, effecting a speedy and permanent cure. It counteracts any tendency toward pneumonia. Price 25c, Large Size 50c l?--_ J C. P. Osteen, M. D. OFFICE HOURS 9 to ll A.M. 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WHISKEY I MORPHINE] CIGARETTE { ALL DRUC ANT> TOBACCO HABIT, j HABIT. | HABIT. I HABITS. Cured by Keeley Institute of S. Q. 1329 Lady St, (or P.O. Box|75) Colombia, S. C. Confidential correspondence solicited AN OPPORTUNITY. We are now offering the magnificent plantation known as Shady Side, containing 750 acres, situated Si miles West of Sumter. This place has a nice 8-room dwelling, thirteen ten? ant houses, and a fine orchard. In fact 'tis an idea? home for you. Better see us about it WHITE & MCCALLUM, Beal Estate and Insurance Agents, PHONE NO. 143. Men 9-ly S??MTEB, S. 0. OFFICE NO. 18 S. MAIN ST. The First of the Season. A choice car; load of horses and mules just received and need sell? ing. Among them are some extra nice drivers, some good smoothe, full made work horses and a few nice mules. All young and sound. I will appreciate a look from you whether you are ready to buy or not. Respectfully, A. D. HARBY, Car horses and mules due to arrive Friday Oct. 14th. Bought in St. Louis, at the World's Fair, j conceded to be the largest horse and mule market in the U. S. If you want a good selection see this bunch before they are picked over. SPECIAL. Several choice drivers and family broke harness horses, j Ten (10) smooth young mules. ! !-!-! South Carolina Bust Proof seed oats, the heaviest on the market, 65c per bushel. Booth Live Stock Co.