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li WEDNESDAY^ JULY 4, 1906. Entered at the Postoffice at Sumter, S. C., as Second Class Matter. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. * T. V. Walsh-For Judge bf Probate. PERSONAL. Mr. Jerome Wilson' has gone to Cheraw. Mr. W. H. Ingram has gone to Glenn Springs. Mr: H. G. Osteen has gone to Che raw for a few *dav?s stay. Z Mr. A. C. Phelps, of Spray, K C., was in the city Saturday. Mr. Abe Rytfeenberg has returned from a trip to SaVaunah. Mrs. Olivia Green bas gone to Mon? tana, to visit ber daughter. Mrs. C. B. Yeadon is at home after a short trip to Orangeburg. Mr. ?. S. McCullough, of Darling? ton, was in tba city Thursday. Mr. J. L. Brooks bas gone to Charleston to spend a few days. Dr. E/ S. Booth bas .gone to Wrightsville, X C., for a few days. Mr. B. C. Wallace bas gone to North Carolina for a summer vaca? tion. Mrs. JJ. M. Campbell and children bave returnee: from a trip to Man? ning. Misses Lemie and Mable Bowman ?ave gone to Darlington to visit rela? tives. Miss "Eleanor Todd, of Manning, is visiting Mrs. Archer on Calhoun street. Dr.. and Mrs. Geo. Wi Dick bate re? turned from a trip to ^the Isle 01 _f alms. Mr. O. A. Barringer of Mt. Pleasant, N. C., is visiting his brother, Dr. Gr. JR. Barringer, Mr. S. Garren, of Augusta, Ga.,' .spent Sunday in tbe city with Mr. F. A. Lynam. Maj. and'Mrs. D. B. Anderson, of Birmingham, A4a., are visiting'at Mr. N. G. Osteen's. Mrs. L. J. Brockington and children of Kingstree. ,are visiting friends and relatives in this city. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. DesChamps and Miss Minnie. Barnett have gone to Blowing Rock, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Schwartz and little daughter, Miss i Rita, left on Saturday for New York. JlSisrs. G. A. Lemmon and 1?. L Parrott have gone to Wrightsville, N. C., to spend a few days. Mr. David* McGrew bas returned irom a pleasant trip to Wilmington and Wri^itsyille Beach. Hon. R. L Manning spent Sunday with his family. He went out in the ?campaien again yesterday mornings Mr. - John h'ishburne, of Florence, who was in the city for several days last week, has returned to bis home. Mr. Dozier Lee Las returned to the .city, after having spent the first part of bis vacation with some of his eclass-mates. Miss Marion Satterwhite left Satur? day morning for Knoxville, Tenn., to -attend the Summer.School for Teachers in session there. Misses Hattie and Nela Sanders, who .. ixave been visiting^the f?niily of Mr. P. G. Bowman, have returned to their .heme at fiagood. The committee on public works and -Supervisor Seals have done some mighty good work in filling in the holes and leveling North Main street on the fine clay and sand turn pike built by Supervisor Seals several years ago. The street had become very rough on account of the very many holes, and as the county gang had to .go out that way Saturday to work out in the country, Supervisor Seals decided to stop long enough to give the city authorities a little lift with his road ma?ine and carts. The hundreds of base ball enthusiasts, who i ride in antomobiles, will rise and say to the city and county authorities "well done thy good and "faithful ser? vants," and may thy years be many, and thy prosperity great, and may Sumter win every game. Governor Heyward has* received a letter from Hon. John< H. Clifton of Sumter calling his aUent^n to th; fact that the last legislature appro? priated $50fO for-the building of a monument to. Gen. Thomas Sumter. Governor Heyward is to appoint a commission. Unless a few public spirited citizens offer their services the job of.repre? senting Sumter county i:i the House or Representatives will go begging. Fast playing, clean ball a*nd fair umpiring is making the sport popular here. Sumter wants to win by play? ing better bal1 than other fellows and not otherwise. Very few people now'' go away for the summer without arranging before they ?eave to have the Daily Item sent them. Those who forget to make this most necessary arrangement before leaving lose no time in writing to have tneir names placed on the mailing I The Mutual Ice Factory is running to its fullest capacity and cannot be? gin to fill all the orders offered. There would have been nc trouble in selH?: the output of a factory Uviee the size. The Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions convened on Mon? day at 9.30 o'clock. Solicitor John S. Wilson and Stenographer L. E. Wood were at their desks, but owing to the s:ckne*s of Judge Gaze it was neces? sary to adjourn the court unta the fall term. Fifty thousand dollars will provide a pretty nice public building, but congress ought to have made :t $75, 000. MARRIED. On -Wednesday. June 2 7th, 1906, at the home of the bride's parents in Fayetteville. N. C., Miss Florence A. Keels was married *to Mr. JiwC Cut treil, of Rock^ Mount, X. C. It was la very quiet wedding, known only to a T"*w friends and relatives. They will make their home in Washington, D. C. where Mr. Cuttrell has a lucrative po? sition as machinist. Mrs. Cuttrell is well remembered here as Miss Keels, having lived here the early .part of her life, and having visited here often among her relatives and friends. * Her many acquaintances here wish') for them a most successful and happy voyage through life. ' DEATH. Mr. Harry Manning, an elder broth er of Mr. F. C. Manning, died Wednes? day at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. Mr. Manning leaves a wife and five daughters. v ^ Joe Arthur Hodge, white, 51 years of agc, di?d in the guard house at 7 o'clock -Sunday morni ag. Owing to the absence of Coroner Flowers, Mag? istrate Harby started to hold an in? quest, but upon advice of Dr. VF. K. j^Hollman the inquest was deemed un? necessary, as tba cayuse or death was beyond question. Dr. Hellman stated that death ensued as result of acute alcoholism. . TEOE JFIRST NATIONAL BANK. The Past Six Months the Most Pros? perous in Its History. At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the First National Ba$?, of Sumter, Saturday afternoon, after-declaring the usual semi-annual I dividend, of 4 per cent., there was added to undivided profits account $6, I 222.06. tue result of thc business :.f the, bank' for the past six months This has been the most prosperous period in the history of the bank, and the stockholders should be much grati? fied at the showing made. ; This bank now has combined cap? ital, surplus and undivided profits of $150,322.\6. The stores now being erected on the Cour': House Square by Messrs A. C. and L. B. Durant and M. B. Randie will be among the handsomest in the city. ' They will have stone pressed brick and plate glass fronts. "Behold the Western sky. Where people live but never die." - The reason for this is plain to see, They all take Rocky Mountain Tea. -China's Drug Store. American Characteristics. Perhaps the most generally recog? nize'' American characteristic-re? member that we are putting foreigners on the witness stand-is "smartness," to give it an American name. Foreign? ers expect to find us smart, that is, quick, ready, keen, with an abundance of the small change of life. This qual? ity may, of course, have its good or its bad side, and we are credited and debited accordingly. Another American trait is generos? ity, \ lavishness, extravagance-some form of that willingness to part from property of which the two poles are .benevolence and recklessness. t A third may be found somewhere between eloquence and garrulousness, between oratory and buncombe. The American is a "good talker." His bump .of language is well developed, and when his speech takes the form of hu? mor, humor distinctively American, it is formed by the three qualities al? ready considered. The typical Ameri? can joke is smart, extravagant and i weil put. Perhaps Artemus Ward's settlement of the Shakespeare-Bacon question may be accepted as an exam j pie: "I believe that the plays were not written hy Shakespeare, but by an- j other man of the same name." As a fourth quality we may put j coolness, intrepidity, presence of i mind. The foreigner would expect an I American to brag and bluster per- J haps, but he would be very cautious j about "catling the blu?i"-though he would express-the idea in another way, no doubt.-Tudor Jenks in the Out? look. / lK>g Fed Lost Child. To the long record of rescues ef? fected by dogs another has been add? ed by the case of a faithful creature which brought succour to a man who had fallen over a precipice in the Aus? trian Tyrol. Stories such as these ought to do moi e for the animal world than even the lt. S. P. C. A. can ef? fect. There is a fine story of a com? mon sheep d->.ur which daily worked with its master on the Grampians. With tile shepherd one day went his tiny son. who during a sudden mist was lost. For days the child was missing. The dog, to-?, was h>st. but appeared at its master's hut each morning, received a piece <>r food and departed with it in his mouth. Thej tracked the dog eventually, and were led t<' the lost child. It had fallen down one of the sides, of a~waterfall and crept into a eave. Each day the dog had brought it the food which it had received at tho shepherd's hut. so that while the animal was lean and starving the child was none the worse for its misadventure.-London Stand? ard, j Polygamy As It Is. The following incident is actually a fact, though on the surface it appears a. most unbelievable. A certain unmar? ried Woman was ill and was thought to be about to die. Her friends, feat . irig for the fate of an unmarried wo? man, in the hereafter, went hurriedly .to a, man of their acquaintance, a bachelor, requesting him to be sealed to her immediately. He consented, b^ing willing to have her for his wife in the life to come. But the unex Bieted happened, and the young wo? man- was restored -. to health. The yDung man to whom she had been sealed, continued to live as he had done, and she lived at her home as a siegle woman. Sometime after, the young woman married a man of her faith and lives with him and her chil? dren today. In the, meantime the, man died to whom she had sealed for eternity but not for time. He was a man of wealth, and on the strength of the sealing, the woman, the wife for time of another man, sued for the former's -property^ in the Utah courts -and got it. <rIt is impossible" to grasp the full import of the wjhole Mormon situa t.on. Its unwholesomeness, its re? pulsiveness and its general degrada? tion in its very protection. The whole story cannot be told and insinuations seem vulgar. And what makes the situation so intricate, SQ. almost hope l sss, that individually, the mass ot ^he Mormon people, are so admirable, so sincere and so earnest. Mormon women are as womanly and lovely as other women. They look the same, act the same and feel the same as oth? er women And yet the women, who constitute the only individuality to be fDund in all Mormonism, have not been taken into consideration in their religion, except as they can assist in building up the glory of their hus? bands. Old Age. Life is short even to tlfbse who live for a century. Nearly half of our lives are spent in sleep. Much of it is spent iii study, a little of it is spent in recre? ation or devoted to enjoyments, that is to the satisfaction of our tastes for literature, art, music, drama or the study of nature. Time flies as we g.-ow older, partly for the reason that we are more busily occupied the old? er we grow. In childhood we have few cares, our hands and minds are not busily occupied with important affairs, therefore one year in child? hood seems as long as ten at the age of fifty. If the matured man is confined in a prison where he cannot work, talk or exercise, each day will be as long as a month of activity. The lives'of men and women are be ir g lengthened by a better knowledge o:: eating, drinking, sleeping and exer? cising. Ancient man was not clean? ly; we must be clean in order to be long lived. To live long we must be active not only in body but in mind. II! the arm is not used it withers, and the same may be said of the brain, of the eye, of the ear or any other or gm. One reason why the mind in aged people is more often in full vigor, while the body is decrepit, is that the mind is more often kept ac? tively at work while the body stag? nate^. Old age is caused by the accu? mulation of effete matter in the or? gans and tissues. If the body could throw off all waste material wc should always remain young. Waste natter accumulates even in the eye. The blood vessels lose their elasticity ir oil age, hence aged people are more susceptible to cold as the circu? lation of the blood decreases. Un? doubtedly one source of the degener? ation of the blood vessels and other portions of the bddy has been the limited internal use of water. Water is a great dissolving agency. Thou? sands of aged people who are with? ered and wrinkled might have fresh, plump faces and forms if they drank more pure water. Notice how water dissolves even the rocks. There are fe ur recommendations used in old age: First, fresh air; fourth, an shine; third, exercise; fourth, an abundance of pure drinking water. Then eat little or no meat and. plenty ol fruit.-Exchange. HIGH LIVING is an everyday affair with those who est at our restaurant. The best of food is served at a modest cost. GOOD EATING ai d our bill of fare go together. Well Ce 1 men dine here because they get what they want and as they want it. It's a pleasure to pay for good food, j That's why we have so ma nv good patrons. ' ! THE SUMTE il RESTAURANT, ? V. E. Branson, Proprietor. 3-21-6m Senator Tillman Announces Flans. Senator B. R. Tillman spent . last night in the city, the guest of Gen. Wilie Jones. He leaves this morning for Patterson Springs. 111., where he has an engagement to lecture. He will return in time for the Sandy Flat meeting on Saturday next. The senator said that while at his home he had figured out a schedule geographically, but on looking over the railroad schedules, he found that lt would be impossible to meet the engagements announced by letter to the various committees. He stated that the meetings as arranged for the first week would stand, and gave out the following revised schedule: Columbia, July 9th. at S p. m.; Min? eral Springs, Lexington county, July 10th: Aiken, Julv 11th; Barnwell. July 12th; Bamberg. July' 13th; Elloree, July 14th: Cheraw. July 17th; Lamar, July ISth; Chester July 19th; Lan? caster, July 20th, and Liberty Hill, Kershaw county, July 21st. Senator Tillman stated that he had received other invitations to ma?e speeches, but that as yet he had not arranged any further meetings. On re? turning from the West, however, he will work out an additional schedule. He .said that he had suggested to all the committees that Col. Lumpkin be invited to attend the meetings. \It was suggested that the Columbia meeting be held on the State house steps instead of the hall of the house of representatives, provided the weather is good. It was also suggested .that a platform may be built on the State house grounds fdr the purpose of. accommodating the speakers and allowing the audience to have the benefit of the open air. Speaking of the work of congress, the .senator said that he had never known men 'during his ll years* ex? perience at the capital to devote more time and thought to any measure than that' of the railroad rate bili. He said that no former debate in con? gress would surpass that of the r?te bill in interest and ability. Although the measure was not exactly what he wanted, it has mar.y 'admirable pro? visions and .vould be of great benefit to the people. Asked about the Bryan war? now sweeping the country, he said he thought the Nebraskan would be the unanimous choice of the next Demo w . * eratic national convention. He said he would rather see Bryan president than any other man in the United States. State. July 2. * Bright eyes are an infallible index to youth, windows from which. Cupid shoots his arrows. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea makes bright eyes, rosy cheeks. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. China's Drug Store. Supervisor W. H. Seale Monday paid the bonds issued for the improvement \o? the old Court House. The amount of the bonded indebtedness was $15, 900. For the past several years this amount has been on deposit in one of the city banks, drawing 4 1-2 per cent, interest, so the county has been pay? ing only 1 1-2 per cent, on tht amount borrowed. Captain Albert Weeks, the veteran of the Sumter police force, was re? ceived for baptism at the Bartlette Street Baptist church Sunday. Notice-Life insurance companies will reduce the rate 33 per cent to all who agree to use Hollister*-; Rocky Mountain Tea. A wise measure. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. China's Drug Store. The Clemson Agricultural College. Examination for Agricultural Schol? arships. Examination for award of the va? cant scholarships will be held in the Court House of the following counties July 6 at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than 16 years of age and must furnish an honorable discharge from last school attended: . Number of scholarships vacant Barnwell county, 1 Beaufort county, 1; Cherokee county, 1; Chester coun? ty 1; Chesterfield county, 1; Claren? don county. 2; Darlington county, 3; Dorchester county, 1; Fairfield coun? ty, 1; Florence county, 1; Georgetown county, 1; Kershaw county, 1; Lex? ington county, 2; Marion county. 1; Spartanburg county, 1; Sumter coun? ty. L. Scholarships are worth $100 per ,\ear and free tuition. For further in? formation call on County Superin? tendent of Education. For catalogue address P. H. MELL. President. Clemson College. S. C. UNIVERSITY OF S??TH C?ROLIN?. S .holarship Examination. The University of South Carolina offers Scholarships in the Normal De? partment to two young men from each county. Each Scholarship is worth $4" in money ami $15> matricu* latioh or "term" fee. Examination will be held at County - v. Friday. ?July 6th. Examination for admission t?> the University will be held at the same time. Write for information to BENJAMIN SLOAN. President. Columbia, s. c. TB Washable Suits for Little Fellows We are now showing some beautiful styles in washable suits for the little fellows. And trimmed entiFely different from anything heretofore seen. ? These suits come in G a lateas, Chambrays, Drill, Duck, etc. Washable Sailor Suits, 5 to 9 years, $1 to $3. Russian Blouse Suits of washa? ble material, sizes 2% to 6 years, $1 to $4. Phone 166 Sumter, S. C. tlc Issi ir lil ta. Read What The New York Mercantile and Fi? nancial Times has to- Say of the Mill bourne Mills. ' / (Staff Correspondence.) When we glance back over the pages o"f history we find many im portant ^mercantile and commercial establishments which stand as connecting links between the Philadelphia oMJie present and the Philadelphia of the past, but, there is probably none that enjoys a more extended reputation in its special field of% trade activity than that so widely and favorably known under title of the Milbourne Mills Company. Its long and successful career is a representative one of the type which has carried American enterprise in commercial pursuits to its present high standard, passing beyond all foreign rivalry, and the near approach of the one hundred and fiftieth year of its existence marks a new and important epoch in its long and useful connection- with the manufacturing and business interests, of the^ Quaker City. It is necessary to go as far back as 1690 to start with the actiiaK history of the company, for it was in that year that Samuel Sellers, emigrant, purchased from William Penn a tract of land on and ad? joining the site of the present extensive Milbourne Mills, at Sixtv third and Market streets, on which about that time a small nour rn; was built. It was not until 1757, however, that John Sellers, fir? grandson of the original purchaser, began to improve the proper? and erected a larger mill, which was later to becone thc ?reat Mi bourne plant that it is today. In 1814 the second mill was erected L> John Sellers, second, and was operated for a period of fifty years by John Sellers, third, as lessee and owner. Improvements were made from time to time, and in 1885 tne property passed into the control of the Milbourne Mills Company, of which John Sellers, fourth, be? came the first President. If one takes the time and trouble to glance back over the history of commercial and trade effort in Philadelphia he will probably find few enterprises which can point to the unusual distinction of having been in continuous and successful existence for a period of practically more than one hundred and fifty years, while at the same time the energy and ability that have been displayed in the management of the business during all of these years have had the gratifying result of .steadily broadening the scope of its operations. Our purpose in thus referring to this old and important enterprise is merely that of particularizing it as one of the historic commercial establishments of the Quaker City, and it is not necessary that we should attempt any ^ description of the modern and complete equipment of the plant nor of the^uperior facilities at com m and for general manufacturing and trade purposes. Even to add a word in praise of "Millbourne Flour" would be equallv superfluous, as this celebrated brand ' already en? joys an established reputation for its uniform excellence^purity and wholesomeness. Those who have been buying this flour from us for 15 or more years will confirm, the state? ment as to its uniform excellence, purity and wholesomeness. ELL & COMPANY.