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50 Per Cent of the Cotton Brought to the Sum ter Market is Bought By the D evri Eros. f Because we are in touch with those who make advance con tracts, and who are able to put us in position to pay more for cotton than any other buyers in our city. But our cotton business is only an addition to our ;GEN ERAL MERCANTILE Business. We have by our dilli gence made ourselves leaders in trade, not by waiting for trade to come to us, but by our reaching out and coming in touch with the farmers of the country, and selling them Goods as cheap as the lowest, and giving to them for their products as much or more than the highest. These are facts that have been demonstrated by our con tinued increase of business. We want our friends to come to Sumter and look through our immense stock of Dry Goocd, Dress Goods, Fanzr cy Goods anzd N".otions Cloth inag, Shoes, Hats and the best line of Pleanxtetion and Farni1y Grocerie's in the City. To meet the demands of our trade everything is bought by gs from first hands, and our patrons get the profit which other dealers must pay midd-lemen. We can and will save you money. both in watyou buy of us, and what we buy of ou. Come to see-ts. LEVI BROS. Next To Court House. C$lQ nA THE OUTCROPPING I IL L OF BAD BLOOD And while not always painful are aggravating beyond expression. With few exceptions they are worse in spring and summer when the system begins tothawout andtheskin I suffered with Eczema of the hands is reacting and makind face for over a ear, it was not only extra effortstothrowol *.h g1 a d~i to~ o the the poisons that have setr t I tried at least a dozen soap and5slvBe a~~u~nubetdameivgty much discouraged winter. Then boils and il i rend in paper of the cures pples, rashes and pfomdtruhheuse of S.5.S. Z pAPpls rahean d little faith at rtbtdetermined eruptions of every eon- to give it a month'at Tinl at least. I ceivable kin d make 5ight improvement. sufficient to decide their appearance, and me to keep it up. After the use of six bottles my skin Eczema andTetter the was as smooth and oft as a baby's. This was a year twin terrors tf - ago and I have never had any trouble since. dierors o etrShn MISS GENEVA BRIGGS. diseases -Nettle-rash, se So. 7th St., Minneapolis, Minn. and such other skin troubles as usually remain quiet during cold weather, break out afresh to torment and distract by their fearful burning, itching and stinging. A course of S. S. S. now will purify and enrich the blood, reinforce and tone up the gen eral system and stimulate the sluggish circulation, thus warding off the diseases common to spring and summer. The skin, with good blood to nourish it, remains smooth and soft and free of all disfiguring eruptions. nti Send for our free book on diseases of the skin and write us.if you desire medical advice or any special information. This will cost you nothing. TILE SWIFT SPECIFIC CC,, ALAMTA, GAs Improve Your homes. I am making a specialty this season of putting within reach the material to make the HOMES ATTRACTIVE. and thereby increase the value of property. The New Era Ready Mixed Paint weighs 18 pounds to the gallon and is noted for its durability and for the vast amount of space it will cover. THE HAMMAR BRAND is another fine Paint, 1 gallon of Oil added, makes 2 gallons of very;iheavy Paint. I want my customers to use these Paints and I am in position to give them good prices. thet my prices on Floor and Lubricating OILS, VARNISHES, etc. ELWOOD WIRE FENCING For pastures and yards the best on the market. I buy by car load and will sell at reasonable prices. Always on hand the best Rubber and Canvass Belting and M'Iachinery Sup plies. my store is headquarters for STOVES, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, HAR NESS and SADDLERY. CARRIAGE and WAGON MATERIAL, and SPORTSMEN SUPPLIES. When you want anything in my line come to see or write to. L_. E3, DLJFANT, Sumter, S. C. School Supplies THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG STORE, OAPRS 8& 00., Proprietors, LAZA MARY HARTWEL (Ba.sed Vpon the Mystery. Daophiu. Jon of Loaus A Copyright, 1901, by the BO CHAPTER VII. LEAP of the heart and dizzi ness shot through me and blurred my sight. The reality of Mme. de Ferrier's coming to seek me surpassed all imaginings. She walked with accustomed step, partin; the second growth in her way, having tracked me from the boat. See ing m;,: lodge.in the ravine she paused, her face changing as the lake changes, and caught her breath. I stood ex ultant and ashamed down to- the grouni. "Monsieur, what are you doing here?" Mme. de Ferrier cried out. "Living, madame," I responded. "Living? Do you mean you have re turned to your old habits?" "I have returned to the woods, ma dame." "You do not intend to stay here?" "Perhaps." "You must not do it!" "What must I do?" "Come back to the house. You have given us much anxiety." I liked the word ."us" until I remem bered it included Count de Chaumont. "Why did you edme out here and hide yourself?" My conduct appeared contemptible. I looked mutely at her. "Wfr offended you?" "othi-g, madame." "Did you want Dr. Chantry to .lanie himself hobbiing around in search of you, and th'- .ount-1tsend people out in every d!ection?" "No, madame." "What explanation will you make to the count?" "None, madame." I raised my head. "I may go out in the woods without asking leave of Count de Chaumont." "Ha says you have forsaken your books and gone back to be an Indian." I snowed her the Latin book in my hand. She glanced slightly at it and continued to make her gray eyes pass through my marrow. Shifting-like a culprit, I infquired: "How did you know I was here?" "Oh, it was not hard to find you after I I saw the boat. This island is not large." "But who rowed you across the lake, madame?" "I came by myself, and nobody ex cept Ernestifie knows it. I can row a boat. I slipped through the tunnel and ventured." "Mada'me, I am a great fool. I am not worth your mentioning." "You are worth any danger I might encounter. But you should at least go back for me." "I will do anything for you, madame. But why should I go back? You will not long be there." "What does that matter? The im portant thing is that you should not lapse again into an Indian." "Is any life but the life of an Indian open to me, madame?" She struck her hands together with a scream. "Louis! Sire!". Startled, I dropped the book and it sprawled at her feet like the open missal. She had returned so unexpeet edly to the spirit of our first meeting. "Oh. if you knew what you are! Dur ing my whole life your name has been cherished in my family. We believed you would some time come to your own. Believe in yourself!" She took a lacquered box from the cover of her wrappings and moved down the slope a few steps. "Come here to your mother and get your supper." I felt tears rush to my eyes. She sat down, spread a square of clean inged linen upon the ground and laid out crusty rounds of buttered bred that were fragrant in the springing fragrance of the wood, firm slics of cold meat, and a cunning pasry wvhich instantly maddened me. I was ashamed to be such a wolf. We sat with our forest table between us and ate together~. "I am hungry myself," she said. If evening had paused while that meal was in progress it would not have surprised me. But when she had en couraged- me to eat everything to the last crumb, she shook the fringed nap kin, gathered up the lacquered box and said she must be gone. "Monsieur, I have oversteppied the bounds of behavior in coming after you. The case was too urgent for consideration of. myself. I must hurry back, for the count's people would not understand my' secret errand through the tunnel. Will yow show yourself at the house as soon as possible?" I told her humbly that I would. "But let me put you in the boat, madame." She shook her head. "You may fol low, after I am out of sight. If you fl. to follow"- S1le turned in the act of departing and looked me through. I told her I would not fail. When Mme. de Ferrier disap peared beyond the bushes I sat down and waited, with my head between my hands, still seeing upon closed eyelids her figure, the scant frock drawn around it, her cap of dark hair under a hood, her face moving from change to change. And whether I sat a year or a minute, clouds had descended when I looked, as they often did in that lake gorge. So I waited no longer, but followed her. The fog was brown and capped the ev3ning like a solid stone, pressing down to the earth and twisting smoke fashion around my feet. It threw sinu ous arms in front of me as a thing endowed with life and capable of mc-ldng itself, and when I reached my boat and pushed off on the water a vast mass received and enveloped me. More penetrating than its clammi ness was the thought that Mine. de Ferrier was out in it alone. i tried one of the long calls we some ties used in hunting. She might hear and understand that I was near to help her. But it was shouting against many walls. No effort pierced the muffling substance which rolled thickly against the lungs. Remembering it was possi ble to override smaller craft, I pulled with caution and so bumped lightly against the boat that by lucky chance hovered in -my track. "Is that you, madame?'' I asked. She hesitated. "Is it you, monsieur?" "Yes." "I think I am lost There is no shore. The fog closed around me so soon- I was waiting for it to lift a little." r... L CATHER WOOD urrounding the Fate of the VI. and Marie Antoinette) IVEN-ME1KILL COMPANY dame. Let me tie your boat to mine." "Do you know the way?" "There is no way. We shall have t feel for the shore. But Lake George t narrow, and I know it well." "I want to keep near you." "Come Into my boat, and let me ti the other one astern." She hesitated again, but decided "That would be best." I drew the frail shells together-the, seemed very frail above such depth -and helped her cross the edges. W were probably the only people on Lak George. The moon played tricks, io now she was astern and now straigh ahead, in that confusing wilderness c vapor. "Madame," I said to my companion "why have you been persuaded to g back to France?" She drew a deep breath. "I have not been persuaded. I hay been forced by circiustances. Paul' future is everything." "You said you would rather mak him a woodchopper than a supplian to the Bonapartes." "I would. But his rights are to b considered first. He has some sma chance of regaining his inheritanc through the influence of Count d Chaumont now. Hereafter there ma; be no chance. You know the fortune and lands of all emigres were forfei1 ed to the state. Ours have finall; reached the hands of one of Napoleon' officers. I do not know what will b done. I only know that Paul mus never have cause to reproach me." I was obliged to do my duty in m: place as she was doing her duty i hers, but I wished the boat would sin and so end all journeys to France. I touched shore, on the contrary, and grasped a rock which jutted towar us. It might be the point of an island it might be the eastern land, as I wa inclined to believe, for the moon wa over our right shoulders. Probing along with the oar, I foun a cove and shallow bottom, and there beachied our craft with a great sliove "How good the earth feels under foot!" said Mme. de Ferrier. We wer both stiff. I drew the boats wher they could not be floated away, and w turned our faces to the unknown. took her unresisting arm to guide her and she depended upon me. There was no path. Creeping un der and climbing over obstacles, some times inclosed by the whiteness c steam. sometimes walking briski across lighted spaces, we reached gorge smoking as the lake smoked i the chill of early mornings. Below, medallion shaped rift widened out an showed us a scene as I have since b4 held such things appear upon th stage. Within the round, changin frame of wispy vapor two men sat b a fire of logs and branches. We con! smell wood smoke and hear th branches crackle, convincing us th vision was real. Behind thema stood cabin almost as rude as my shelter o the island. One man was a grand fellow, not a all of the common order, though h was more plainly clothed than D Chaumont. His face was so famnilln that I almost grasped recognition-by missed it. The whole cast was ful and aquiline and the lobe of his lef ear, as I noticed when ;;ght fell on hi: profile, sat close to his head like mine The other man wori-ed his feet upoi the treadle of a small wheel, which re volved like a circular table in front o him, and on this he deftly touchei something~ which appeared to be al earthenware vessel. His thin finger moved with spider swiftness and shaped it with a kind of magic. He was a mad looking person, with an al of being tremendously driven by inne force. He wore mustaches the like o which I had never seen, carried bacd over his ears, and these hairy device seemed to slIt his countenance in tw< rosswise.. Some broken crockery lay on th ground, and a few vessels, colored ani lustrous so they shone in the firelighi stood on a stump near him. The hollow was not a deep one, bu if the men had been talking thei voies did not reach us until the cur tai parted. "You are a great fool or a great rae cal, or both, Bellenger," the superio mansaid. "Most people are, your highness," re sponded the one at the wheel. He kep it going, as if his earthenware was o more importance than the talk. "You are living a miserable life, rov ing about." "Many other Frenchmen are no bel ter off than I am, my prince." "True enough. I've roved about my self." "Did you turn schoolmaster in Swil zerland, prince?" "I did. My family is in Switzerlan now." "Some of the nobles were pillaged b: their peasants as well as by the gos ernment. But your house should no have lost everything." "You are mistaken about our losses The Orleans Bourbons have little or nl "Thc king! The king!" revenue left. Monsieur and Artoi were the Bourbons able to maintai~ a court about them in exile. So yo have to turn potter to help suppor the idiot and yourself?" "Is your highness interested in art? "What haveLto..do~with art?. -I W. E JEh OPE rMiinery, Dress Goods i WINTER WEDNESDAY EVENING Possibly the greatest display of Fall and ning will take place next Wednesday Eveni JENKINSON'S DEPARTMENT STORE. Not only will we have a great display c t UES in all lines of Goods that will astonish t I u I (. During WTednesday evening M LJ S ~ ~ nished by a fine String Banc EVERYBODY COME. We want everybody ________ ter Goods and see oL I ff By watching announcements from time to time you will find many items of interest in the Furniture and Crockery line. During the month of October I will have Special Bargain Days, And it will pay you to come and buy them, because on these days you can buy your Furniture. for Less Than Wholesale Price. I have made arrangements with several furniture manufactur ers to supply me with goods for Bargain Days at reduced prices, and I can now promise my friends to furnish them with Furniture at the LOWEST PRICES, considering the quality of goods I han dle. My first BARGAIN DAY of the season will open on Thursday, October 8th And the following articles will be sold at reduced rates: t Thirty-six Willow Rockers, Gent's size, full roll seat and back, regular price $4, yours at ....................$2.20 Kitchen Chairs, assorted colors, regular 50c at.. ........... 32jc Lounge, regular price $6, at..-..............................$3.75 . Couches, regular price $9, at............................... 5.00 Dining Chairs, regular price $1.25, at....................... .82 - Oak Bedroom Suit, full swell front Dresser and Washstand, all quartered sawed oak, polished piano finish, regular price $55, at.-................................... .... 34.25 Other goods in comparison. Remember October 8. the Date. . Don't fail to come and buy your CROCKERY the same day. Everything at REDUCED PRICES. A few words regarding my UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT. It has always been a rule among undertakers in small towns to take as much money for their coffins and caskets as the unfort unate customer can afford. Since I have entered into this business and personally taking charge of every detail in this department I have tried my very 'best to treat my patrons in a JUST AND REASONABLE WAY, 'and now I am more than ever prepared to serve the people in all emergenecls. I have a full line of COFFINS and CASKETS, TRIM MINGS, BURIAL ROBES, BURIAL BOXES, UNDERTAK ERS' SUPPLIES of all kinds and I can be found in case of need day aud night. At night the policeman will find me if I am needed. My charges are figured at strictly 15k per centum basis. POOR AND RICH are served in the same obedient and polite manner. Yours to serve, S. L KR ASNOF F,' T HE FURNITURE MAN. Levoi Blok next to tne Mutual Dry Goods Company. 4KINSON'S & Vin IING-~ nd Silks and A nd of GOODS, ii ALL DAY THURSDAYT 7 AND8. Winter Goods ever seen in the town of Man ng and all day Thursday, October 7 and 8, at f Goods, but we will have BARGAIN VAL he people of Clarendon County. and Thursday all day we will have nice MUSIC fur to come and see our great display of Fall and Win ,r Great Bargain Values and enjoy our fine music..:, ikinson S. R. VENNING, Jel - DEALERZ IN . WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, EYE CLASSES AND; ALL KINDS OF FANCY NOVELTIES. I make a specialty of WEDDING and HOLIDAY PRES ENTS and always carry a handsome line of Silverware, Hand-Painted China, Glassware: and numerous other articles suitable for Gifts of an-kind. OOME AND SEE T-IEM. All Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing done promptly and - guaranteed. - Lxvi BLOCK, - MANNING, S. C. 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 HlAWES SpectaCles and 6lasses, Which we are offering very cheap, from 25c to $2.50 and Gold Frames at $3 to $6. Call and be suited. _W. M. BROCKINTON. Hardware Must Be Sold In the line of Stoves we have twenty different patterns for you to select. from. Prices from $8.50 up, with Potware. We sell The Garland Line, Which is the only perfect baker. These Stoves do not need a song and dance to sell them. When one is sold that sells another. We also have Heaters from $1.50 to $6. Anything in the line of CROCKERY and LAMPS of all kinds at very low prices. Mason's Fruit Jars at 75c dozen. Scissors, Pocket and Table Cutlery of the best steel, and all guaranteed. Don't pay $3 for a Razor when Dickson can sell you a better one for $2. Pumps and Piping, Grass Blades, Reap Hooks, Shovels and Spades. We have Axes from 55c up. Can please any customer. I have the One and T wo-Horse Steel Beam Plows that will go in the ground and turn the soil. We will sell you the best Rlat Trap on earth for 45c.; sold elsewhere for 50ec We also carry Belting and Steam Fittings of all kind; cut and thread Piping of any size. HOUSEBUILDERS Watch my stock and prices. We also have the Atkins Saws of all kinds, Hatch- - ets and Hammers. Men and Boys, remember I can save you money on Single and Double-Bar rel Guns and Ammunition. BICY CLE R EPA IRS OF A LL KINDS.9 Yours for business, Dickson Hardware Comp 'y Levi Block.