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0OR1, AT SLJMTEF. S. 0. WITHF BAND NEVGOODS! CLEAR THE TRAC THE HORN-BASS COMPANY, CHEAPEST STORE IN THE STATE, Has the right of way and is now open in full blast next door to the Bank of Sumter. Just received, A SOLID CAR LOAD OF SHOES. Biggest shipment of Shoes ever received in this part of the State. Also, car loads of e.DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, Buying together in such large quantities for so many different stores in North and South Carolina enables us to sell them cheaper than many merchants buy them. Catch step to the tune of Low Prices and march to the store where you can buy more goods for the same money than ever known in this State. Listen ! Ladies' Patent Tip Button Shoes, $1 kind, at...-................................48 cents pair Men's Sits t Men's Congress and Lace Shoes, $1.50 kind, at..... -- --.. -- -.... ...........................98 cents part Misses' Tan Shoes, worth $1, at .......................................8 cents pair Calicoes, the 5-cent kind M en's Pa n ts... --- -- -.-- --- --------- -----.....................2 cents and upward Blc Drs God ,elc .Men's .Pans.......... ........... ......Ca.icoes,..the.. .-cent.kin5dcents-and upw.rd.B.ac.Dress.Good,-se.l.everwhere.at.8.cents;......rice......................4.... . en19 ce rt Mnen's Pants, worth $1.25 to $1.50, at............................................98 cents pair This is an opportunity the people of Suyfter and adjoining counties have never before had. Everthing cheap These are only a few of the many values we have. No misrepresentations to effect a sale; everything just as advertised. Come running to the 10h h~e!Soei eSoe Louis Levi. It goes without saying that we have one of the cheapest and most attractive stocks of Merchandise ever brought to Clarendon county. Our Dry Goods Stock Is the largest we ever handled, and in this department you will find everything you wish or will need. We have been compelled to send off large orders daily to fill in the large gap made by our daily trade. We have never had such a large Shoe trade and it would surprise the oldest merchant to see the number of Shoes we are selling every day. The Red Hot Bargains We offer in Shoes has given us a Shoe trade that would sur prise Clarendon county and a trade that any large city would be proud of. The Clothing Business We have in a sling, and sell as many or more Suits than the balance of the town put together. Our Men's, Boys' and Children's Suits are complete in all grades. You should see our $1 Suits for Boys, ages 6 to 16 yrs. Our Millinery Department Is a thing of beauty. Ladies' and Children's Hats, Ribbons, Silks and Velvets: the choicest and best of the season. If you expect to travel or remain at home, remember our stock of Trunks and Valises Is the largest and cheapest in town. These goods are bought direct from the factory. Our line of Shot Guns, Saddles, Bridles, Harness, etc., is complete in every respect.. Full line of Rugs, Chenille Covers, etc. Our early fall trade has far surpassed our most sanguine expectations. We want to make this season's trade one of the largest ever known in this section, and if selling good goods for less money than you can buy them elsewhere, we will accomplish our strongest desire. Remember it will be no trouble, but a great pleasure. to show goods. With best wishes and kind regards to all, we remain, Yours respectfully, OLD STAGE EFFECTS. SCENES THAT USED TO THRILL AUDIENCES YEARS AGO. A Ludicrous Mishap That Once Floored Frank Mayo In the Cli max In "Davy Crockett"-A Crude Fire Scene That Was Very Popular. "Great Scott. how a modern audi ence would gibe at the stage effects that used to thrill folks thirty or so years ago!" said an old theatrical man ager who was In the city recently en route to Frisco. "Take the famous wolf scene in 'Davy Crockett,' for in stance, that made a fortune for dear old Frank Mayo. That was consid ered one of the most realistic things of its day, and it stirred audiences to ab solutely frantic excitement. You re member how it went: Davy and the heroine have taken refuge in a moun tain cabin, and suddenly they hear a long drawn wall - Ow-o-o-o-o! Ow-o-o-o-o-o! It sounded like a tom cat on a moonlit fence and was emitted by the 'prop' man, standing in the wings. Davy springs to his feet. He listens with his hand to his ear. The orchestra plays tremolo. 'The wolves!' he cries, and the house begins to hold its breath. "Meanwhile the prop man puts on more steam. The beasts are nearing. Davy glares around distractedly. Mer ciful hevings! He has burned up the door bar for fuel: The prop man howls at the top of his voice. Davy dashes up his sleeve. He springs to the door, rams his bare arm through the empty staples, and two stuffed wolves' heads are poked suddenly through a hole at the bottom! Then the curtain drops, there is more tremo lo, and it rises again to discover Davy fainting at the portal with a couple of streaks of red paint around his good right arm to show where the staples pinched. That scene would excite de rision today, but it kept the wolf from Mayo's own door for many a long year. Incidentally it was responsible for some ludicrous mishaps. "On one occasion, while touring througb Iowa, the special scenery was delayed by a railroad wreck and a local stage carpenter undertook to 'fake up' the cabin interior. By some mistake he made the staples several inches too small, and when Mayo. who was rather portly, rushed to the rescue he was horrified to discover that he could not get his arm through the irons. IIe pushed and squirmed and sweat blood, but it was no go. and as the wolves were supposed to be advancing on a dead lope the situation was decidedly critical. It so happened that the actress who played the heroine that season was very spirituelle, not to say scrawny, and while poor Davy was still wriggling at the door some gallery god suddenly piped out: 'Break away, fatty, and let de lady try!' The audi ence roared and Mayo signaled for a quick curtain. "Fire effects are regarded with dis favor nowadays," continued the man ager, "because if too realistic they are apt to create a panic in a crowded thea ter, but in the old melodramas there was no danger of mistaking them for the real thing, and they were great drawing cards. Back in the early seventies Joe Murphy, the Irish come ian, toured the country in a play alled 'Help,' which contained a fire scene that was regarded as the most rmarkable ever produced on the road "a -+a.i .e . .n awlnto in terior, supposed to represent an opium den in San Francisco. Presently a Chinaman passed an open door in the back, carrying a lamp, and a moment later a crash was heard, indicating that he had dropped it. A red glow imme diately came through the chinks in the rear wall and grew rapidly brighter and brighter, while there was a sound of excited footsteps, indistinct shouting and furniture being dragged across the floor. All that, occurring out of sight, worked the audience to a high pitch of nervous tension. Then smoke began to ooze through the cracks, the red glow continued to increase, and all of a sudden the entire back wall tottered and sank forward on the stage, dis closing a dim perspective, with flames shooting up here and there and firemen rushing pellmell in every direction. "That spectacle created a tremendous sensation wherever it was put on, yet the entire effect was produced by a few shovelfuls of red fire burned in the wings and a little lycopodium pow der, which flashes into a big, harmless blaze and was concealed in tin boxes attached to different parts of the set ting. The back wall was let down on a couple of piano wires, which used to get stuck occasionally and suspend it in midair. There was a celebrated fire scene in Chanfrau's play of 'Mose,' but it was admitted to be inferior to the one I have described, and the crudities of both are very laughable when com pared to modern attempts along the same line. "The last thing of that kind I saw was in London a few years ago. It repre sented the burning of a tenement Smoke and flames poured out of the casements; immense beams crashed down, scattering showers of sparks; walls crumbled, people leaped from the windows and were caught in nets, and firemen sent streams of real water in to the blazing ruins. As I watched the mimic conflagration my mind reverted to the days of Chanfrau and Murphy, and I smole several smiles a yard wide and all teeth."-New Orleans Times Democrat A Detroit business man says that dic tating to a stenographer has ruined his spelling. He cannot write an ordinary letter now, he says, without making gross errors in orthography. The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who else would be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. Thinking of Her. In the "Recollections of a New Eng land Town" is the story of Mr. Bush, an inventor and a very studious man, who sometimes became so absorbed in thought as to forget both place and people. Ills wife was a notable housekeeper, but she did not always go to church. One Sunday she accompanied her hus band thither, and glad and proud was he. But when the service was over he walked away home, leaving her be hind. Mrs. Bush was grieved. "My dear," she said when she reach ed the house, "I don't know what peo ple will think. You came away with out me. It was plain to be seen that I was entirely forgotten." Mr. Bush looked at her in comical dismay. "Forgotten, my dear?" said he. "Oh. no; I don't think that's possi ble. Why," a brilliant idea strikingj him, "now 1 remember. I was think-J ing of you all the way home. I was thinking what a good dinner you'd give "I WIN" AND "I LOSE." Sporting 31en Ignore Their Tenses and Seem Pleased. "Have you ever noticed the satisfied manner of gamblers while twisting their tenses into the 'I win' and 'I lose' common to the fraternity?" remarked a man who has a fondness for investi gating the peculiarities of his fellows. "I have thought of that for a long time-ever since that form of expres sion came into common use among gamblers. Watch the first sport you hear talking in that style and notice the pleasure he seems to take in roll ing his method of expression. The tense he uses evidently carries him back, and he enjoys again in the pres ent the pleasures of the act when he speaks of it. Even if he says he 'lose' it gives him gratification, according to the philosophy of Charles Fox, who is authority for the statement that the greatest pleasure in the world, next to winning money, is to lose it. "The ungrammatical fashion among gamblers dates back about 15 years. It seems impossible to conceive any reason for the custom other than the one I have mentioned. That form of speech is still growing in popularity. The so called 'sporting men' have ex tended the scope of the present tense to all their verbs. It jars on me some times.-but even then I find consolation in the knowledge that if the 'sports' did not affect that particular style of speech 0> in 100 of them would do even worse, and their present picturesque defiance of grammar is a relief from the possibilities of such expressions as 'I seen' and '1 done.' "-New York Times. How le Knew. A ragman who was gathering up wornout clothing in the country pur chased a pair of discarded trousers at a farmhouse and remarked to the man of the house as he paid for the stuff he had bought: "I see, sir. that you are about to lose your land on a mortgage." "Guess you are right," said the dis couraged looking farmer, "but will you tell me how the Sam Hill you found that out?" "Easy enough," said the cheerful ragman as he settled back on the seat of his peddling wagon. "I notice that these old pants are completely played out so far as the part of 'em you sat down on is concerned, but they show mighty little wear anywhere else." Buffalo News. How He Broke It. An irascible old gentlen.n had met in early life with an accident which left him with a broken nose, a deform ity about which he was known to be a little sensitive. One day a new inquirer propounded the old question."How did you manage to break you nose?" The old gentleman answered solemn ly, "To tell the truth, my friend, the accident was caused by my poking it into other people's business."-London Anse:ers. Nordica's Recipe For Success. "It is work, work, work, that makes success," she once exclaimed. "Work five minutes, and you will succeed five minutes' worth, but work five hours, and you will succeed five hours' worth." "But," I said. "remember your natu ral gifts." "Plenty have natural voices equal to mine," she answered, "plenty have tal ent equal to mine, but I have worked." RAILROAD WRECKS. Thomas A. Scott Used to Handle Them Without Gloves. "When that wonderful railroad gen ius, the late Thomas A. Scott, was building up the Pennsylvania system, the work he did was superhuman, the results he accomplished marvelous," said an .old railroad man. "Scott was essentially a man of action. For ex ample, at one time there occurred on the line a freight wreck that piled up scores of cars in a confused heap in a cutting, thus completely barring the main line. "The local authorities were beside themselves, for they could not figure out how the wreck could be cleared away and the line reopened in less than two weeks. At this juncture Scott ar rived on the scene and after a survey of the wreck sent for a great quantity of coal oil, with which he had the pile thoroughly drenched. It was then touched off, and the god of fire soon removed all trace of it, and traffic was resumed on the line in 24 hours. "A bridge fell, and it was feared a long delay must ensue, but Scott. put more than 2,000 men to work on that one structure and thus eliminated the question of delay. Those were the days when such things counted and were not only possible, but necessary. Today railroading is reduced to such a fine point that the need for them no longer exists. The roads are too safe dguarded for that. "The last Instance I remember of such railroad work as that was at the Johnstown flood in 1S89, I think it was. Frank Thomson, by great work and the use of side lines, was one of the first to arrive upon the scene. Once there, he took full control, the division superintendents from all over the line were summoned, and a particular task was given to each one to do instantly. They one and all responded as begs they could to the spur, and the line was reopened with incredible swift ness. There were one or two failures, however, and those men, while they were kept on as superintendents of un important mountain divisions, were never again promoted."-New York Tribune. A good Investment. "Is marriage a failure?" "I should say not!" remarked an Oregon farmer. "Why, there's Lucindy gits up In the mornin, milks six cows, gits breakfast, starts four children to skewi, looks ar ter the other three, feeds the hens, likewise the hogs, likewise some moth erless sheep, skims 20 pans of milk, washes the clothes, gits dinner, et cet ery, et cetery! Think I could hire any body to do it for what she gits? Not much! Marriage, sir, is a success-a great success!"-Woman's Journal. Literary Irrigation. "Your latest novel seems very dry," said the reader of the publishing house to the young but rising author. "I was pretty sure you would say that," rejoined the author; "conse quently if you will count them you will find the heroine weeps real tears on just 253 pages of my story."-Cleve land Plain Dealer. A Good Varnish. By dissolving celluloid in acetone or cetic ether a transparent varnish is made which will take a high polish and resist hot water. It is particularly adapted to metal objects, such as bi ycles, and can be made a 'vehicle for any desired olnring matter. Look to Your Interest. Here we are, still in the lead, and why suffer with your eyes when you can be suited with a pair of Spectacles with so little trouble? We carry the Celebrated HAWKES Spectacles and Glasses, Which we are offering very cheap, from 25c to $2.50 and Gold Frames at $3 to $6. Call and be suited. W. M. BROCKINTONS Harris Lithia Water. Contains iore Lithia than other Lithia spring water in America, which is shown by the noted chemist, Dr. Doremus of New York. Read what Dr. A. N. Talley, Sr., and Dr. J. M. Kibler have to say for HARRIS LITHIA WATER: After a long and varied experience I have prescribed "Harris Lithia in the use of mineral waters from Water" in my practice, and am de many sources, both foreign and do- lighted with it in those eases in which it is indicated. In all those condi mestic, I am fully persuaded that the tions in which there is uric acid in Harris Lithia Water possesses efficacy the system, in gouty and rheumatic in the treatment of afflictions of the diathesis. in cystitis and endocervi citis, causing painful micturition, in Kidney and the Bladder unequalled renal drops .and dyspepsi due to by any other Water of which I have torpid liver or constipation. I have made trial. found the best results from this min This opinion is based upon obser- water. Indeed, it may be used vation of its effects upon my patients v may ugh yformula may sugg e , e W~Wy for the past three years,during which when Lithia is indicated. I recom time I have prescribed it freely and mend it to the public, and believe most uniformly with benefit in the there is no superior Lithia Water in medical maladies above mentioned. this country. A. N. TALLEY, M. D. J. M. KIBLER, M. D. Columbia, S. C., October 8, 1892. Newberry, S. C., Sept. 9, 1893. The Hotel is Now Open for Guests With all modern improvements, Electric Lights and you can get the Hot Lithia Baths in the Hotel. Come to the Springs and get well. Harris Lithia Water Co. For sale at The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. DR. NOFFEIT'S Allays Irritation, Aids Digestio, Re the Bowels .wnUI. Teething E asy. -e *B i. (EETwdr) TETN A Rlevsheoe .-(SAE . Troubles of Chlldren of r .* Costs only 25 cents at Druggists, ANY AGE. Ed 'n 9 aln~nent inCr.J.MOFWE"TT_ M. D., ST. LOIS MOssaa