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50 Per Cent of the Cotton Brought to the Sum ter Market is Bought By the Because we are in touch with those who make advance con tracts, and who ape 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 Gods, Dres'GCods, Fan c4y Goods and Notions, Cloth line cf P:lantatico ni a rd F'arnrily Groceries in the City. To meet the demands of our trade every ng is bought by us from first hands, and our patro he profit which other dealers must pay middle . We can and will save you money, both in wha - uy of us, and what.we buy of you. Come to see LEVI BROS, Nex ToCourt House. heumts .otpoehv Is Not, a SMin Disease. Mostpeole ave n iea hatrheumatism is contracted like a cold, that the amchinly ainenetrates the muscles and joints and causes the terrible aches ndpaiuns, or that it is something like a skin disease to be rubbed away with lini ment ordrawn utwith plasters; but Rhiuematism origmates in the blood and is caused by Urea, or Uric Acid, an irritating, corroding poison that settles in mus cles, joints and nerves, producin inamation and soreness and the sharp, cutting psur obd ah~ uden BowingZ Green, Kr. chilling of the body will hasten an at- r ae oI t e ee tack of Rheumaim after the blood and legs belovi the knee. 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Get my prices on Floor and Lubricating OILS, VARNISHES, etc. ELEWOOD W7IR~E F'ENCING For pastures and yards the best on the market. I buy by cs -load '"ad will sell at reasonable prices. Alwa&ys on hand the best Rubber and Canvass Belting' and 'is.ninery Sup plies. My store is headquarters for STOVES, HIARDWARE, CUTLERY, EAR NESS and SADDLERY, CARRIAGE and WAGON MATERIAL, and SPORTSMEN SUPPLIES. Wh.en you want anything in my line come to see or write to, L_. EB. DLJFRANT, Sumter, S. C. Easily lead-let those follow who can, in Fresh Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles. A beautiful line of Novelties never before on this market now open for your inspection. Call andt see; no trouble to sho0w goods. * ...B MARY HARTWEL (Baied Vpon the My.rtery 1auphinf _on of Loai's A Copyright. 1981. by the BO ciumtan xiv. " NTER the prince of a fairy tale," said the Marquis dul Plessy when the lackey ush ered me into the garden. It was a nest of amber at that time of sunset, and he waited for me at a table laid for supper under a flat can opy of trees which had their tops trained and woven into a mat. I took his hand to kiss, but he rose up and magnificently placed me in a chair opposite himself. "Your benefits are heavy, monsieur," I said. "How shall I acknowledge them?" "You owe me nothing at all," he an swered, -"as you will see when I have told you a true story. It would sound like a lie if anything were' incredible in these fabulous times." "But you do not know anything about me." "I am well Instructed in your history by that charming attendant in fringed leather breeches, who has been ac quainted with you much longer than you have been acquainted with your aelf.") "Yet I am not sure of deserving the marquis' interest." "Has the marquis admitted that he feels any interest in you? Though this I will own: Few experiences have af fected me like your living eyes staring out of the face of my dead king!" We met each other again with a steady gaze like that in the mortuary chapel. "Do you believe I am" "Do I believe you are- Who said there was such a person in existence?" "Louis Philiype." "The Duke of Orleans? Eh, bienl What does he know of the royal fam ily? He Is of the cadette branch." "But he told me the princess, the dauphin's sister, believes that the dau phin was taken alive from the Temple and sent to America." "My. dear Lazarre, I do not say the Duke of Orleans would lie-far be it from me - though these are times in which we courageously attack our bet ters. But he would not object to seeing the present pretender ousted. Why, since his father voted for the death of Louis XVI. he and his are almost out lawed by the older branch. Mme. oyal, the Duchess of Angouleme, can not endure him. I do not think she would speak to him." "He is my friend," I said stoutly. "Remember you are another pretend r, and he has espoused your cause. I think him decent myself, though there used to be some pretty stories told about him and the fair sentimentalist who educated him, Mine. de Genlis. But I am an old man; I forget gossip.". My host gave lively and delicate at tention to his food as it was brought, and permitted nothing to be overheard by his lackeys. The evening was warm and fresh with the breath of June. and the gar den by a contrivance of lamps around its walls turned into a dream world after sunset faded. "My dear boy, I do not say that I be lieve in you. I do not observe etiquett with you. But I am going to tell you little story about the Tuileries. Yo have never seen the palace of the Tu I said I had not. "It has been restored for the use of these Bonapartes. When I say these Bonap-rtes, Lazarre, I am not speak ing against the empire. The empire gave me back my estates. I was not one of the stringent emigres. My es tates are mine whoever rules in France. You may consider me a betwixt and be tweener. Do so. My dear boy, I am. My heart is with my dead king. My arcass is ver-y comufor-table both in Pris and on my ancestral landis. Na p.on likes mec ns an ornament to his lbugeois court. I keep my opinion of him lo myself. Do you like garlic, my I told him I was not addicted to the use of it. "Garlic is divine. God gave it to man. A hint of it in the appropriate dish makes life endurable. I carry a piece in a gold box at the bottom of my v-est pock~et, that I may occasion ally take it out and experience a sense of gratitude for divine benefits." Hie took out his pet lump, rubbed it on the outside of his wine bottle, pour ed out a glassful and drained it, smil ing adorably at me in ecstasy. "We were speaking of the Tuileries. You should have seen the place when it was sacked after the flight of the royal family. No, you should not have seen it. I am glad you were gone." "Dld you see the Tuileries at that time, monsieur?" "I did. I put on the clothes of one of my peasants, sluimped in Jacquot's wooden shoes and kept my mouh open as well as I could for the dust. The fantastic was yet in my blood. Exile takes that out of everybody ex cept your royal uncle of Provence. But I knew is my heart what I would help do with that mob if our turn eve came again." His dark eyes. rested on the red wine as on a pool of blood. "Sick of the ruin, I leaned out to look -in the garden from a window In' the queen's own apartment. I stepped on a shelf, whbich appeared fixed under the window, but It moved, and I found that it could be pushed on grooves into the' wall. There was a cavity made to hold it. It had concealed two armchairs placed opposite each other so cunningly that their paneled sides yet looked a part of the thick wall. sat down in one of them, and, though the cushion was stiffL I felt something hard under it." M. du Plessy glanced around in ev cry direction to satisfy himself that no ears lurked within hearing. "Eh, bien! Under the cushion I found the queen's jewel easel Dia monds-bags of gold coin-a half cir clet of gems! Since the great necklace was lost such an array had not seen the light in France. The value must be far above a million francs." The marquis fixed his eyes on me and said: "What should I have done with it, Lazarre?" It belonged to the royal family," I answered. "But everything which belonged to the royal family had been confiscated to the state. I had just seen the be longings of the royal family trampled as by cattle. First one tyrant and then another rose up to tell us what we shoul do. to batten himself off the L CAT HERWOOD 'arroundig the Fate of the Vi. and Norte Antoincfe) EN-MEEKLLL COMPANY wretchea commonwea1tn, ana then go to the guillotine before his successor. As a good citizen I should have turned these jewels and stones and coins over to tie state. But I was acting the part of Jacquot, and as an honest pcasant I whipped them under my blouse and carried them away. In my straits of exile I never decreased them. And you may take inventory of your property and claim it when we rise from the table." My heart came up in my throat. I reached across and caught his hands. "You believe in me-you believe in me!" "Do I observe any etiquette with you, Lazarre? This is the second time I have brought the fact to your notice. I particularly wish you to note that I do not observe any etiquette with you." "What does a boy who has been brought up among Indians know about etiquette? But you accept me or you could not put the property you have loyally and at such risk saved for my family Into my bands." "I don't accept even your uncle of Provence. The king of Spain and I pre fer to call him by that modest title. Since you died or were removed from the Temple he has taken the name of Louis XVIII. and maintained a court at the expense of the czar of Russia and the king of Spain. IHe is a fine Latinist, quotes Latin verse and keeps the mass bells everlastingly ringing. The Russians laugh at his royal mass ,es! But in my opinion the sacred gen tleman is either moral slush or a very deep quIcksand. It astonishes me," .said the Marquis du Plessy, "to find how many people I do disapprove of I I really .require very little of the peo ple I am obliged to meet." He smoothed my hands, which were yet holding his, and exploded: -The Count of Provence is an old turtle! Not exactly a reptile, for there is food in him. But of a devilish flat head and cruel snap of the jaws!" "How can that be," I argued, "when his niece loves him so? And even I in 'the American woods, with mind eclipsed, was not forgotten. He sent me of the money that he was obliged to receive in charity." "It Is easy to dole out charity money. Vou are squeezing other people's purses, ot your own. What I most object to in the Count of Provence is that assump tion of kingly airs, provided the story is true which leaked secretly among the emigres. The story which I heard was that the dauphin had not died, but was an idiot in America. An idiot cannot 'reign. But the throne of France is not clamoring so loud for a Bourbon at present that tbe idiot's substitute must be procilmed and hold a beggar's court. There are mad loyalists who swear by this eighteenth Lon~s. I am not one of them. In fact, Lazarre, I wa rather out of time with your house." "Not you!" I said. "I do not fit in these times. I ought to have gone with my king and my friends under the knife. Often I am ashamed of myself for slipping away. That I should live to see disgusting fools in the streets of Paris after the Terror was over, young men affecting the Greek and Roman manner, greeting one another by wagging of the head! They wore gray coats with black col lars, gray or green cravats, carried udgels and decreed that all men should have the hair platted, powdered and fastened up with a comb like them selves! The wearer of a cue was likely to be knocked on'the head. These crea tures used to congregate at the old Feydeau theater or meet around the entrance of the Louvre to talk classical jargon and wag!" The Marquis dui Plessy drew himself together, with a strong shudder. I had the desire to stand between him and the shocks of an alien world. Yet there Myrya otI nae Blege? inquired "Bllngr s at moftheodstr wsabout edhi's temacousvasuie ofthimngirs a Cdoitnenz. And sel protec "Dand ntthe Inis follin youabuamn with another dauphin and objecting to you In various delicate ways. Napo leon Bonaparte is master of F~rance, and In the way to be master of~ Europe, because he has a nice sense of the val ues of men and the best head for detail that was ever formed in human shape. There is something almost supernatu -al in his grasp of affai's. Hie lets nothing escape him. The only mistake he ever made was butchering the young Duke d'Enghien; the courage and clearness of the man wavered that one instant, and, by the way, he bor rowed my name for the duke's incog nito during the journey under arrest England, Russia, Austria and Sweden are combining against Napoleon. He will beat them; for while other men sleep or amuse themselves or let cir cumstances drive them he is planning success and providing for all possible contingencies. Take a leaf out of the general's book, my boy. No enemy is contemptible. If you want to force the hand of fortune, scheme, scheme all the time-outscheme the other fellow." The marquis rose from the table. "I am longer winded," he said, '"than a man named De Chaumont, who has been importuning Bonaparte in season nd out of season to reinstate an Amer ican emigre, a Mine. de Ferrier." I askd, feeling my voice lise a rope in my throat "Do you know her family'" "I kznow Mme. de Ferrier in Amer ica." "Their estate lies next to mine. And what is the little De Ferrier like since she is grown?" "A beautiful woman." "Ah, ab! Bonaparte's plan will then be eas:y of excecution. You may see her this evening here In the Faubourg St. Germain. I believe she is to appear at Mime. de Permon's, where Bonaparte may look in." My host bolted the doors of his pri Tate cabinet and took from the secret part of a wall cupboard the queen's jewel case. W.e opened it between us. The first thing I noticed was a gold snuffbox set with portraits of the king, the queen and their two children. How I knew them I cannot tell. Their pictured faces had never been put before my conscious eyes until that momient. Other portraits might have been there. I bad no doubt, no hesitation. I was on my knees before the face I had seen in spasms of remembrance, with oval cheeks and fair hair rolled high, and open neck-my royal mother! Next I looked at the king, heavier of feature, honest and straight gazing, his chin held upward; at the little sis ter, a smaller miniature of the queen; at the softly molded curves of the child that was myself! The marquis turned his back. Before I could speak I rose and put my arms around him. He wheeled, took my hand, stood at a little distance and kissed it. We said not one word about the portraits, but sat down, with the jewel case again between us. "These stones and coins are also my sister's, monsieur the marquis?" He lifted his eyebrows. "I had ample opportunity, my dear boy, to turn them into the exchequer of the Count of Provence. Before his quarrel with the late czar of Russia he maintained a dozen gentlemen in wait ing and perhaps as many ladies, to say nothing of priests, servants, at tendants of attendants and guards. This treasure might last him two years. If the king 'of Spain and his majesty of Russia got wind of it and shut off their pensions it would not last so long. I am too thrifty a French man to dissipate the boards of the state in foreign parts. Yet if you question my taste, I will not say my honesty, Lazarre" "I question nothing, monsieur. - I ask advice." "Eb, bien! Then do not be quite as punctilious as the gentlewan who got turned out ci the debtor side of Ste. Pelagie into an alley. 'This will not do,' says he. So arouind he posts to the entrance and asks for admittance agaln."l "Catch ine knocking at Ste. Pelagie for admittnnce ngain!" "Then my advice Is to pay your tailor, if he has done his work accepta bly." "H, has dou it marvelously, espe cially in the fitting." "A Parisian workman finds it no mir acle to fit ai man from his old clothes. I took the lber'ty of sending your or ders. Having heard my little story, you understand that you owe me noth ing but your society and a careful in ventoi3y of this trust." \'We were a long time examining the contents of the case. There were six bags of coin, all gold louis; many unset gems, rings for the hand and clusters of various sorts which I knew not how to name, that blazed with a kind of white fire very dazzling. The halfway crown was crusted thick with colored stones the like of which I could not have imagined in my dreams. Their names. the marquis told me, were sap phires, emeralds, rubies and large clear diamonds like beads of rain. When ev erything was carefully returned to place he asked: "Shall I still act as your banker?" I begged him to hide the jewel box again, and he concealed it in the wall. "We go to thc Rue Ste. Croix, La zarre, which is an impossilile place for your friend Bellenger at this time. Do you dance a gavot?" I told him I could dance the Indian corn dance, and he advised me to re serve this accomlilshment. "Bonaparte's police are keen on any scent, especially the scent of a prince. His practical mind would reject the Temple story, if he ever heard it, and there are enough live Bourbons -for him to watch." "But there is the Count de Chau mont," I iggested. "He is L. t a man that would put faith in the Temple story, either, and I understand he Is kindly disEposed to ward you." "I lived in his house nearly a year." "He is not a bad fellow for the new sort. I feel certain of him. He is coaxing my friendship because of an cient amity between the houses of Du Plessy and De Ferrier." "Did you say, monsieur, that Bona parte intends to restore Mine. de Fer rir's lands?" "They have been given to one of his rising officers." "Then he will not restore them?" "Oh, yes, with interest! His plan is to give her the officer for a husband." [TO BE CONTIN'UED.] Th~e Lawyer's Rule, "Ever since beginning the pi'actice of law, ' said a~ Detroit lawyer, who beg ged that his name be suppressed, "I have made it a rule not to take cases in which Icould not promise my client a percentage of gaIn over my fees. One day not long ago a business man came to me with a request to sue a debtor. I found it would cost far more than could be r'ecovered and told him so. He was indigua~nt and left vowing to get a lawyer to press the case regardless of expenses. "A few weeks later he came to me again. 'Well,' said he, 'I took your ad vice and saved $250 by it. Now, I want you to take charge of all legal matters affecting the Blank corporation. Your retanr will be $2.000 per year.' I took it, It is needless to say."-Detroit News. Tcad and Not a Toad. One of the queerest reptiles in the world is the horned toad of Arizona. In the first place, though it looks like a toad and is so called, it Isn't a toad at all, but a lizard. It lives nowhere save in the desert and feeds on hard shelled beetles and other insects. One of the oddest things about the creature is its way of fighting. Two horned toads will meet and fight like bulls by butting, not apparently with any notion of killing each other, but each trying to turn Its adversary over-. The toad that is finally upset zoea away humiliated and hides himself. Consolatory, but Not Helpful. "De rieb will have a hard time gittin' inter heaven." "Yes," said Brother Williams, "dat's a comfortin' thought; but it don't help de p' man when rent's due!"-Atanta~ ostitutin. Only Makes a Bad Matter Worse. Perhaps you have never thought of it but the fact must be apparent to every one that constapation is caused by a lack of water in the system. and the use of drastic cathartics like the old fash ioned pills only makes a bad matter worse. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are much more mild and gentle in their effect, and when the proper dose is so natural that one can hardly realize it is the effect of a med icine. Try a 25 cent bottle of them. For sale by The R. B. Loryea. Isaac M. Loryea, Prop. VICTIMS OF VESUVIUS, Pompeii cand Herculaneum Not the Only Cities It Hax Burled. The road out of Naples toward Vesu vius is the same route that one follows to reach. Pompeii. When Intending to go up the mountain the tourist leaves the Pompeii road at rtesina, the mod erni city which overlies Herculaneum. Apropos of these two ancient towns, It Is remarkable how many people speak of them as the only buried cities in the vicinity. In fact, there are many, and it may not be uninteresting to mention them. Next to the two familiar ones, the one whose name is most frequently heard Is Stabim. Then there are Cu mi, the oldest Greek colony in Italy; Bai, a watering place, resort of the Roman swells in the first year of our Lord; Parthenope, Palmopolls and Ne apolis, three buried cities lying under modern Naples, from the last of which it took its name; Dikearchia (later call ed Puteoli, now Pozzuoli), another Greek city of large wealth and with much commerce; Capua, one of the great military posts of ancient Rome, now covered by a modern city, also a garrison, and Suessola, whose medici nal springs held high repute among the gouty epicures of the Roman time. Cataclysmic have been 'the earth's throes around that laboring monster Yesuvius, for some of these buried cit ies, which were great seaports 2,000 years ago, are now far inland. On the other hand, offshore at Baim you may look down from a boat when In smooth water and discover ancient houses and streets far below you at the bottom of the sea. Some of these burled cities were much larger and more important places than either Pompeii or Hercula neum, yet to many travelers their names seem unfamiliar.-Argonaut EDUCATING OYSTERS. Training Schools In Which the BL valves Are Taught Some Sense. "A school for oysters," said a dealer in fish, "is an institution that you would swear could not exist, for oys ters are-notorious for their stupidity7. It is, however, a fact that there are many oyster schools. I will explain them to you in such a way that you will believe in them. An oyster's intel ligence is limited, but still it has Intel ligence. Years ago certain wise fish dealers discovered that If you take an oyster suddenly from its subaqueous bed it opens its shell, whereupon the life- giving water inside it all escapes and the oyster dies. But if you ex pose an oyster to the air gradually, lifting It out of the water for a few minutes and then returning it again, it gradually learns that to keep its shell closed when out of the water is the best thing for its health. These inves tgators found that they could take two oysters, one trained and one untrained, and the trained oyster, keeping Its shel closed while out of the water, would live a long time, while the untrained one, opening Its shell, would die in a few hours. Therefore training schools for oysters were established. The schools are in appearance nothing more than reservoirs full of water. Oysters are put in them, and the water is drain edl oil and then returned again. It is kept ogf for a few minutes at first, then for ten minutes, then for half an hour and so on. Oysters in these schools learn that they will live longest and keep healthiest out of water if they hold their shells tight shut. As soon as they learn this they are graduated and go out into the world."-PhiladelphIa Record. A Quick Witted Partridge. Nesting upon the ground, the par tridge is likely to be disturbed. A bird of this species was once startled by a plow passing within a yard or so of its nest. Destruction was almost a cer tainty, as the plow must pass entirely over it tn the next round, and the la borer wondered how the partridge would act. The time necessary for go Ing around the field was about twenty minutes, yet in that almost incredible period the parent birds had effected the removal of some twenty-one eggs to a safe spot. Careful search led to the discovery of the bird calmly seated up on her treasures in the bottom of the hedge out of reach of the plow. Nine ten partridge chicks were eventually hatched and duly escaped unmolested. -London Tit-Bits. The Ingenious Magpie. The magpie is nothing If not ingen ios, lHe always barricades his bulky nest with thorn branches, so that to plunder it Is by no means an easy mat ter, but whien circumstances oblige the "pie" to build in a low bush or hedge an absence of lofty trees heing a mark ed feature of some northern localities he not only interlaces his home, but also the entIre bush, In a most formida ble manner. Nor does he stop here. To "make assurance double sure" he fash ions a means of exit as well as entrance to the castle, so that If disturbed he can slip out by his back door, as it wre. A Trying Position. Clubberly-Whait's the matter? Is that widow Prve seen you with trou bling you? Castleton-Yes, on my nerves. I can't make up my mind whether she Is going to marry me or not.-Detroit Free Press. Hard to Head Off. Wantanno-I wonder if Gabsky will recite for me at my little party this evening? Dunno-IIe will unless you know some as yet undiscovered way to pre vent him.-Baltimore American. Good Natured. "What would you do If I were to o~er you work?" "It 'u'd be all right, mister," answer ed Meandering Mike. "I kin take a joke as well as anybody." - Washington Star. A Startling Test. To save a life, Dr. T. G. Merrit, of No. Mehoopany, Pa., made a startling test resulting in a wonderful cure. He writes, "a patient was attacked with violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcera tion of the stomach. I had often found Electric Bitters excellent for acute stomach and liver troubles so l prescrib ed them. The patient gained from the irst, and has not had an attack in 14 months." Electric Bitters are positive ly guaanteed for Dyspepsia, Indiges tion, Constipation and Kidney troubles. Try them. Only 50c at The R. B. Lor yea Dru Stre Aotspending money economically. No bet ter place to have them demonstrated that at THE MINOR STORE, Where the purchasing power of YOUR DOLLAR is always vastly increased, and in mai instances doubled We mention a few of the many items that. Ayo can find here, there's some-many more. Dress Goods and Trimmings, Laces and Embroideries, Hosiery and Underwear, Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Hats for Men and Women, Corsets and Gloves, Notions and Toilet Articles, stationery and Purses. Linens and Drapers, Rugs and Mattings, Men's and Boys' Furnishing Gpods, Ready Made Shirts, 8 Jackets and Shirt Waists. All of these are priced in keeping with our way of doing business. Not marked as high as they would sell but for as little as we can sell them for and live. When you are in Sumter, we'll make it interest ing for vou. Phone or.write for-samples. strMTE, s. C. You will find Pinewood now ready to. save you miles of travel by offering bargains in an up-to-date store which is filled with all kind~s of General Merchandise. cheaper than can be bought in our sister towns. of all kinds and of the very latest patterns. that cannot be excelled on any market. Just Arrived--One car of Baggies, one car of Wagons, one-cear of Red Rust Proof Oats, to be sold below market prices. We will receive next Saturday one car load of Nice Driving Horses. We are headquarters for Red Hot Bargains. .L FEEDER. Pinewood'