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ARE YOU GOING? CHARLESTON'S GREATER-GALA-WEEK! NOVEMBER 5TH TO 10TH.--M Will Be Best Ever Held! Grand Military Features, Guard Mount and Parade, Gorgeous Aquatic Carnival! Pain's Manhattan Beach Fireworks, Trades, Fantastic andl Floral Parades, Firemen's Parade and Exhibition! Charleston Poultry and Pet Stock Show! EVERYTHING FREE! One Fare, plus 25c, for Round Trip, on all Railroads. LEVI BROTHERS SUMTER. S. C. In extending our Annual Fall and Winter greetings to the readers of THE TIMEs, we cor dially extend to them an invitation to visit our store whenever they come to Sumter, and make it their headquarters. We are better equipped to handle Cotton this season than ever before, for the reason, we have extended our delivery markets, al p w ars in close touch with the mills, it puts us in position to keep above the market quota tions, and our patrons get the benefit of this advantage. Cotton is the product upon which our farmers must depend, and although the Scrop of this year is not so good as last year, by a mutual working together the farmer and merchant will come out on top. The various departments in our store are ~jfilled with New, Clean Goods, and the pur Schasing public can certainly supply its needs here. Come and inspect our full Line of Dry Goods. where we have a corps of experienced sales Smen who are always anxious to showr these goods, and prove that we are up-to-date in styles and prices. Thr sSHOES, Thr sno store in the city of Sumter Jwith a fuller or better stock of Shoes, and as we contract for these goods direct with the factories we are prepared to make the "show down" that we can save you money by Sbuying from us. GROCERIES. -Our Grocery Department is the equal of Saniy concern in the State. We handle both SHeavy and Fancy Groceries to sell at whole sale and retail. We make a specialty of sup plying small dealers with everything in the grocery line. Come to see us, as we keep everytihing, and the best of attention guaranteed. Respectfully, *LEVI BROS., Sumter, S. C. Headquarters for Paints and Oils. WE INVITE the public generally to come to Sumter and look in on our tremendous stock of Hardware of all kinds, tools of ever' r descrip~tion. When you need anything gr; in the Machinery supply line, we can S -furnish just what you want. Z We handle the best Beltings in the 4 country. C' tr Paint and Oil Departments are fuP Try our famous Japalac. $ ~ / Farmlers. you can save money by g S uuying your~ Wire Fencing from us. We are headquarters for all kinds of sporting Goods, and we can beat ~O them all in Harvess and Saddles. Ladies, buy your new stove or ~' Range from us.' Let'us show them to ou Our long experience gives tis an we can please the trade.- . I dvanie ad w a r ae saytha I SUMTER, S. C. MIaehiney Supplies Belting, Etc. BAD CROP YEARS. When Birds and Animals DO Not Mate at the Mating Season. "When birds and animals do not mate at the mating season, it is a sign that a bad year is coming," said a farm er, "Quails, gophers, rabbits and squir rels all refuse to mate in certain years. These years afterward turn out to be bad ones. The quails are particularly weather wise. By instinct the little wild creatures know that for lack of rain or for some other reason there is to be a grass famine and a seed famine, and, instead of pairing off and mating and setting up housekeep ing in little families of two, they re main unmated in the large bands in which they have flown all winter, liv ing, as it were, a kind of apartment house life. That year inevitably turns out a bad one, though the bachelor and spinster quails, with a good deal of picking and scratching, manage to get enough to eat. But to feed families of little ones In such a famine year would be impossible. "In California the squirrels in a fam ine year not only do not mate; they do not even live. They become dormant As by a miracle, they remain dormant until a season of plenty comes with the next winter's rains."-Exchange. The Kind You Have Always Bought b of Long and Short Days. At Hamburg, Germany, the longest day occupies seventeen hours and the qhortest seven. At Stockholm, in Swe 7 den, the longest has eighteen and a half hours and the shortest five and a half. At St Petersburg the longest has nineteen and the shortest five hours. In Finland the longest has twenty one and a half hours. In the north. erUmost parts of Norway the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 2, the sun not sinking below the horizan dur ing this period, but skimming along very close to it in the north. At Spit. bergen the longest day lasts three months and a half. Theughtful. "Are you sure the sick man wanted me?" asked the physician, reaching for his hat. "He didn't mention your name, but he's screamin' for some one that'll put him out of his misery, and I thought of you right away."--Houston Post. Don't be Imposed Upon. Foley & Co., Chicago, originated Honey and Tar as a throat and lung remedy, and on account of the great merii and popularity of Foley's Honey and Tar many imitations are offered for the genuine. These worthless imitations have similar sounding names. Beware of them. The genuine Foley's Honey and Tar is in a yellow package. Ask for it and refuse any substitute. It is the best remedy for conghs and colds. The Arant Co. Drug Store. Whr-. Makes the Trout Shyt The shyness of the- summer trout of the still springhole Is due not entirely to his keen eye trained by the quietude of transparent waters. It is to be cred ited more to his gregariousness. The cool places and deeper pools of the trout stream are apt to be few and hive the fish in schools. If the school num ber, say, fifty fish it means a hundred watchful eyes and a collective shyness adjusted to that of the most timid fish of the fifty, whose sudden dash to safe ty gives the warning signal to all. A single nervous trout--and there are usually several-is, thus enough to scat ter a big school in a flash and baffle the hopes of the angler.-Clarence Deming Ia Outing Magazine. Bssate Thi nd You Have Always Bought A Savage Poison. - The juice of the green pineappie is accredited in Ja~va, the Philippines and -throughout the far east generally with being a blood poison of a most deadly nature. It is said to be the substance with which the Malays poi son their kreeses and daggers and to be also the "finger~ nail" poison for Inerly in use among the aborigine Jay anese 'women almost universally. 'hese women cultivate a nail on each hand to a long, sharp point, and the least scratch from one of these was certain death. .., Doctors said He would not Live. Peter Fry, Woodruff, Pa., wrftes: "After doctoring for two years with the ibest physicians in Wiynesburg, and still getting worse. the doctors advisec mue if I had any business to at tend to I had better attend to it at once, as I could not live-another month us there was no cure for me. Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended to me by a friend, and I immediately sent my son to the store for it, and after taking thsee bottles I began to get better and continued to improve until I was en tirely well. The Arant Co. Drug Store. An Ingenious Accusation. "The favorite horse of the Chinese Emperor Tsi," said a Chinese states man, "'died through negligence on the part of the royal master of the horse. The emperor was so enraged at this that he drew his sword and would have run the careless -functionary through the body. "But the learned mandarin, Yen tse, struck up the emperor's sword, sayng: "'Sire, this man has not yet been formally accused of any crime. He de serves to die, but his accusation should come first. It Is the law.' "'Well,' said the emperor, 'tell me u-hat he has done.' "'Listen, you rogue,' said the man darin, turning to the trembling master of the horse-'listen to a catalogue of your heinous offenses. In the first place, you have allowed a horse to perish that his majesty had intrusted to yor care. In the second place, it is on your account that the emperor became so exasperated that he was actually on the poInt of disgracing himself In all his people'p eyes by killing a man for the sake of a horse.' "'Enough.' said the emperor, appre ciating the rebuke. 'Let him go. He is pardoned.' " The Meanest Man. The meanest mab has been located in Philadelphia. He dropped a large roll of bills on the street, and a boy who found It returned the money to him. Counting the bundle carefully, the owner put It in his pocket. "My son," he said benignly to the boy, "I am rejoiced to see that you are guided by lofty principles, and as an earnest of my approbation shall refrain from charging you interest for 'the time you av ha my money." FIGHTING THE SEA. Holland*x Continuous Performance In Preventing Floods. Holland is a country of wooden piles and dikes, for the people are perpetu ally fighting against the encroach ments of water. One building in Am sterdam rests on no fewer than 1.3,650 piles, though the dikes around the town, which have been erected at enor mous expense, effectually prevent any chance of a flood. The streets of the flourishing port of Rotterdam even are frequently under water in the winter, and in some parts of south Holland the people are compelled to do their shopping in boats. When the Zuyder Zee breaks on to the land, those who wade up to their knees along."ie streets of a flooded village meet'11 manner of fish. This is explained by the fact that the Zuy der Zee, with its mud bottom, is liter ally crammed with finny tribes; -and one authority states that if it were well scraped of all its fish one year, it would be full again the next. The land of Holland is really of four distinct levels, and from ten to twelve feet between the highest and the low est. To make the land dry, the water is pumped from the lowest level to the one immediately above it, and so on, until the water has been returned again to the sea. A large number of engineers are specially engaged to look after the dikes, and no less a sum than $2,500,000 is expended every year in keeping these fortifications against the sea in proper repair. IN SUMMER IN ITALY. The Natives Know How to Keep Cool In Scorching Weather. It is a summer in Italy; the hot, white roads radiate heat as do the blank faces of the houses. There is not a soul stirring at this hour except a party of sightseeing Americans; they are evidently mad, for they do not keep in' the shade, which, from the Itali6i point of view, is far more lacking in .intelligence than not "knowing enough to go in when it rains." It is interesting to note that while the summer beats down pitilessly until Italy is seethed In a white heat the death rate from heat prostittion is far less in proportion than with us in our more temperate climate, and for the reason that the Italians walk religious ly on the shady side of the street, if anything takes them abroad before the cool of the day; and that every man, woman and child for whom it Is pos sible spends the middle of the day in a cool costume indoors. Fortunately it is possible for the ma jority, for during the hot weather many -factories give two or three hours for the nooning, and that Is why our town presents the appearance of a deserted village. In the latter part of the afternoon the evening breeze springs up and the town awakes and resumes the work which was begun in the early morning. If you happen to dine in the garden of the little Hotel Italia and stroll around the garden after dinner, you may, by following up one of the gravel walks, come upon a sort of out of doors room screened off from the garden by close growing evergreens and shaded by tall frees. An acetylene gas jet sheds a strong light on a table and there, out of doors in the cool of the evening breeze, a woman is Ironing. The irons are' heated by two tiny charcoal fires made in earthen braziers, which resemble large square flowerpots. Annunciata does not need a range standing six feet in its stockings to heat her four irons. It is doubtful If she has ever seen such a range in her life, for, though she is the cook of the hotel, to which Is attached a restaurant, and many people take their meals there daily, she uses less fuel in her cooking arrange ments than the average American fam ily would use to cook its simple meals. In the cool of the morning she folded and sprinkled her clothes, did the morning work early and then rested. Now she sings as she works in the fresh evening air. Although people are dining at the stone tables in the garden, she Is as remote from them as If she were working In a hot kitchen. There is a lesson to be drawn from these two pictures, and that Is that we Americans are often sacrificed at the altar of our own prosperity, and go through life wearily carrying on our backs a load of modern Improvements. -Mary Heaton Vorse in Good House keeping. SARDI NES. The Way They Are Cooked and Pre pared For Miarket. Sardines are caught in nets, and after being well washed the heads are cut off and the fish are sprinkled lightly with salt. After lying for a few hours they are placed on grids in rows almost perpendicular. The frames are then placed in panis containing boiling olive oil. The oil is changcd as soon as It becomes too black and dirty for con tinuing the cooking process. As soon as the fish are considered sufficiently cookced, they are withdrawn from the pans of oil and the grids are placed on the tables covered with zinc, the surface of the table inclining to ward a groove in the center. The oil Is thus carried to a vessel prepared to receive it. Round the table stand the women whose business it is to pack the fish closely and uniformly in boxes. The boxes being full, the fish are cov ered with fresh oil and the lids are then soldered down. Thus hermetically sealed they are placed in iron baskets and immersed in boiling water. The smaller boxes are thus boiled for half an hour and the larger ones somewhat longer, in proportion to size of box. The fish are then ready for the market. -Pearson's Weekly. Didn't Wait. "Were you frightened when you, arose to make your first speech?" "What should frighten mey' '-The audience." "The audience left as soon as my name was announced." A Hopeless Case. *I am in favor of spelling reform." "Glad to hear it Come around and give my stenographer a few points, won't you?"--Philadelphia Ledger. Is the Moon Inhabited. Science has -proven that the moon has an atmosphere. which makes life in some form possible on that satellite; but not for human beings, who have a hard enough time on this earth of ours: especially those who don't know that Electric Bitters cures Headache, Biliousness, Malaria, Chills and Feyer, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Torpid Liver, Kidney. complaints, General De bility and Female weaknesses. Un equalled as a general Tonic and Appe tizer for weak persons and especially for the aged. It induces sound sleep Fully guaranteedby The Arant Co' Drug Store. Price only 50c.' Kodol Dyspepsia Can'e Goethe's Last Moments. The story of the deathbed of Goethe reveals a striking picture of fortitude, artistic calm and intellectual activity under the chilling dews of death. The information Is gathered from a letter written on March 23, 1832, the day aft er Goethe's death, by Fraulein Louise Seidler, an art student and close friend of the poet's family. On the evening before his dissolution, with an icy coldness taking possession of him and the death rattle beginning to be audible, Goethe, with his charming daughter-in-law by his side, would talk of nothing but his pet theory of color. of the treaty of Basle, of his desire that the children should go to the thea ter, of his plans for the near future. As sleep did not come with the night. he called for a newly published volume of history, and covered his inability to read it with a joke. Even at 7 o'clock the next morning, just three and a half hours before he died, he sent for a portfolio to talk optics and was setting himself to classify some papers when the last agony seized him. He then lay motionless, notwithstand ing its violence, till respiration ceased and the heart stood still.-London Globe. How to Handle Your Horse. Decision should never in handling horses be confounded with unwise de termination to have things your way. In this application it means the faculty of doing the right thing at the right in stant and may be cultivated by fre quent practice with all sorts of horses, and of course no hands were ever de veloped by handling any one animal or any one kind of a horse. It is decision that gives the hand the moment the horse yields; that uses the roughest methods at a pinch, for hands are by no means always delicate of touch; that frustrates the most determined at tempts of kicker, rearer or bolter; that picks the best road; that makes the animal carry himself to the best ad vantage for the purpose of the moment Decision is very close to intuition in effect. Decision dominates the situ ation at many critical moments, and the horse is quick to discern and to pre sume upon its absence. There is no such thing as a safe partnership with a horse. You must be the master or he will be, to your certain future discom fiture.-F. M. Ware in Outing Maga zine. Big Benefits at London Theaters. Betterton, in 1700, when his salary was f4 a week, had a benefit and re ceived V70 as his share of the receipts and E450 in the shape of donations. The biggest benefit performances of modern times have taken place at Drury Lane. That for Ben Webster, held in March, 1874, realized 12,000; the profit on the Buckstone celebra tion, in June, 1876, was ?1,200; for the Nellie Farren benefit performance, in March, 1898, there was obtained 17,260, though half of this amount was secured from private donations, which flowed in when it was known that the Messrs. Rothschild had volunteered to invest what sum was realized, give the popular comedienne an annuity and, on her death, grant the theatrical charities half of the capital.-London Chronicle. To Insure Privacy of Mail. All' private and confidential corre spondence, according to a postoffice in spector, should either be sealed with wax or else addressed and stamped on the back instead of the front. Sealing with wax is an excellent insurance of privacy, but it is a difficult and awk ward operation, and wax and a match, candle and seal are not always at hand. The other method is much the better. After fastening down the flap of the envelope firmly, affix the stamp across the fiap's junction and write the address across it as well. Then it is absolutely impossible to steam open the letter and close it again in such a way as to escape detection. The Creole. A pure creole is a person born in Louisiana- of French or Spanish par ents. It is a mistaken idea to suppose that a creole has negro blood in his veins. A creole negro is one whose forefathers were owned by the early French and Spanish settlers and who spoke a corruption of those languages known as "gumbo." Their descend ants are the creole negroes and should never be conflicted with creoles in the true sense of the term.-New Orleans Times-Democrat. 'Why, Indeed? At an examination of Sunday school children the following was one of the questions put upon the blackboard: "Why did your godfathers and god mothers promise these things for you?" The answer of a bright girl, written neatly on the slate, was, .Why, indeed?" She got marks. Christian Life. Niot to Blame. Father (sternly)-Now, Sophia, some thing must be done to reduce your ex penses. You are actually spending more than your allowance. Daughter-It isn't my fault, father, I've done my best to get you to in crease it.-Brooklyn Life. Doubtful. Lady (in dry goods store)-And is this color als~o genuine? Salesman As genuine as the roses on your cheeks, miss. Lady-H'm! Show me another one.-Kleines Witzblatt. Just Badness, Father-That kid ought to have a spanking! He's altogether too preco ious; knows more than I do! Moth er-But, dear, I wouldn't call that pre cocious.-Detroit Free Press. Only the illiterate and the social elect can afford to treat the language reck lessly.-Bralnerd. _____ CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of , At the Wrong Coifnater. The lady who went to the book de partment of a big modern store and in quired for "Crabbe's Tales" was told that fish and provisions were on the ground floor.-Boston Herald. A Deadly Weapon. The gentle wave of a lace edged aandkerchief has carried more poor elows to their doom than the mighty breakers of the sea.-Exchange. Reprove thy friend privately, com ed him publicly.-Solon. TeKind You Hava Always Ra'uht; Cures The new Laxative Stomach and Liver that does .not gripe toach and ortrouble and raseate. F Chronic Constipation. leasant to take.syu The Arant Co. Drug .Store. THE ARGYLE HOTEL* Do Y u W ntl penfor Thentre Parties adSpecial Dinners. FR 0 F1...,...A.IN 1 PERFECT FIT1ING OPEN FROM T, A. -MH. R~aunR IN CHARGE OF TO 12 P. M. H RESTAURANTl, MR. C. A. 2lfRRITTf iiim i r~~r-CHARGES REASONABLE. CLOTHES ?.4~ ROOMS EN SUITE, WITH AND WITHOUT PRIVATE BATHS. -NEW ENTPRA,-Ct ON HASELL STREET. THEN COME OR SEND TO US. THE COE R SNDTO S. 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