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Our State Contemporaries. The Farmers' Movement. News and Courier. In his address to the Farmers' Asso ciation, President Norris 'suggested what is to us an entirely new view of the mach discussed Clemson bequest. Mr. Norris said that, if the State should accept the bequest is the time specified, 4tt will pass iuto the ownership and ab solute control of the State,' and that Mr. Ciem sea's seven trustees, like the six choset by tue Legislature, 'will be in the hands of the'State, and cao do nothing without the consent of the Legislature.' It has usually been held that &e State, in accepting the bequest, wowW ?aveno direct control over the proposed College, inasmuch as Mr. damson's trustees and the successors ejected by them would always constitute 4 majori ty of the board. * This has been an insuperable objec tion in many minds. To tke News and Caarier it has not seemed se serious, inasmuch as it could Bet be supposed for ar moment that the seven trustees representing Mr. Clemson specifically weald necessarily be solidly opposed to the six who should be appoiated by the Legislature. If, however, the view of Mr. Norrie be accepted, it will facili tate tb<? acceptance of the bequest. One grave objection, at present, b the cer tainty that the validity of Mr. Gem ion's will is to be contested. This is recognised by the Farmers7 Association in ' the resolution which was adopted, . and Tvhich urges the Legislature to pass a joint icsolutisn, at its. ensuing session, to die effect that Hfee State wKl accept tire Otemson bequest whenever the will shall have been established.' This is moderate and reasonable. The News and Courier has always anpperted heartily every movement which looked to the education of the farmers, and te their education in their own way. It remains doubtful whether a separate Agricultural College will give the farmers what they desire, and it is net yet settled that a College of Farming in the State University woold not be snore sdvaatageovs. But the farmers should have their own will in this matter, so long as their desires are authoritatively and clearly expressed, and are within the means of the people generally. In our view, therefore, the Legists Jure can with perfect propriety adopt1 -such a resolution as is indicated by the Farmers' Association. We ge farther than thisv The Legislature shenid con sider the advisability of making an ap propriation for commencing operations. upon the Clemson estate, so that the work shall be advanced when the litiga tion shall be ended. There will ne some risk, of cours?, of losing tfee money or a part of i*? But an appro priation of $5,000 a year would enable the trustees to, begin instruction, and their expenditures could be so arranged as to be in a large measure free from tie effect of any adverse decision re garding the bequest. While, however, the News and Cou rier is heartily in favor of the course which has been described, it is unequiv oeaHf -exposed to any interference with ike ?o?ege of Farming, which forms a past of the University of South ?aro ??a. There is ahnadant room for this t and for tbe^ Clemens College as well. Und? the * existing conditions, the ?tate? we think, can afford to .tave both. 'Bulge it Anyhow.v Columbia Record. The Greenville News gives expr?s -'ciebldt** folio win g views about tke sait soon to be commenced to test the validity of the bequest of the late Mr. Clemson; ?* ct net scaae&ing of a coincidence tfeotthesok to set aside the Clemson bequest should be began n short time before the meeting nf the Legislature when it will be impossible for a decision to be rendered until after the adjourn ment of that body ? The announcement comes accom panied by the statement that *it is pre sumed that pending the action the Leg islature will take no action.' 'We do not think that cock will fight. We believe the people are in earnest in the matter. They will not be turned aside or balked by any such trick. They are not in very good humor anyhow, and the more efforts are made to fool aud baffle them the more _j, determined they will be to have their : tray. If they are stirred to the point cf seeking vengeance somebody's pets will suffer. 'The Legislature can take action, making it conditional on the result of j 1 .the suit, and we hope and believe it will ! e d > so. We have some hard-fisted,1 clear-beaded men in the House and Senate who. believe in straight, open, fast fighting, and they will break ; through all the little tricks and trample ] I down ail the cunning little obstacles ] t that may be put between the people j 1 and their rights. And the cunning, j f bland little men who devise the tricks j c n ? build the obstacles are in a very j t \t-ir way to go down also if they put j themselves too prominently in the road.' 11 One great difficulty attendant upon j g tha discussion of the propriety of the I f ' State's acceptance of the Clemson be- t quest would seem to lie in the fact that ; i 'anybody who opposes the scheme is a I i '. tl??kster?a member of a 'ring'?an op- j t . posent of education among farmers? j t -and even worse things than these. So j t when the heir-at-law of Mr. Clemson I f dares to go into court to have her legal v rights adjudicated, the proceeding is p stigmatized as a 'trick/ and there is the t e insinuation that the opponents of the j t acceptance of tue bequest are parties to I If g? conspiracy to prevent the execution j y of Mr. Clemsoo's beneficent purpose. j n Nobody?that is, nobody unless it ! ti be the Greenville News?believes that ; a the action on behalf of Miss Lee has been either suggested or encouraged by the opponents of the new scheme to have the separate college. There is no i p tit fie of evidence, obtainable either from , t the action or the utterances of those op- ] a pooents, to justify this most extraor dinary imputation. Indeed, the pur l pose of M?-s Lee's guardian to contest the bequest of Fort Hill and other prop- j ti erty to the trustees named in the will j a was publicly avowed before the matter | S had been much discussed cither in the j 1< papers or otherwise. j 1 Surely there can be no purpose to ! ? 'fool and baffle' the people in this mat- j c ter. The opponents of the partnership : e proposed by Mr. Clemson have not yet j a shown any purpose to keep the people ; F in the dark. Even that purpose, how- | a ever, would not involve any poorer ; ei opinion of the people than is found in j o> the seeming apprehension of the Green- ti . ?tH?? News lest those dear people shall I g be 'fooled aud baffled"?poor weak p; creatures as they^are! It will indeed be fairer to the people for the Legis lature to be sure of the validity as well as of the value of ike bequest before it signifies the State's acceptance. To postpone acceptance till the Courts shall have passed Enal judgment upon Miss Lee's ciaiui will be just such course as is constantly adopted by sensible men in the management of their private af fairs. For the Legislature to accept the bequest, as matters shall stand after the commencement of the contemplated suit, would be about as dignified and proper as wottki be the acceptance of a gift of property to which the donor's title was disputed in the coarts. A gift of property, conditioned upou win ning a lawsuit, would hardly be aeeept led by the General Assembly evea to please the advocates of a separate agri cultural college. Yet such acceptance would be no more extraordinary than the one cow urged by our Greenville ?ou temporary. The Abbeville Medium is apparently scared about something. It gets off the following : 'For some weeks the newspapers have been silent about the Olemson College. The whole question has sub sided and will uot fee revived until the Legislature assembles. Then you may look for some seat work by the friends of the political college at Columbia. We predict that they w?l attempt to have die bequest refused or the college absorbed by the institution at Columbia. You will hear more talk about the State going into eopartuerssip with iudivid-, uals, more about the good of the 'An nex' and more about Fort Hill being taken with out grass than you have an idea of at present. Then will come the time for the members toi weaken, promises aud pledges will count for nothing, and if the friends of Clemson do not present a solid front, the cause will be lost.* ; It will be positively dreadful if it shall so happen that 'the cause will be lost.' It will fee even worse for it to be 'lost* through the 'ueat work' f anybody. What is wanted, what will: be. is an open fight, a free discussion, ' without demagoguei&ffi, without appeal to prejudice, without any means tc which fair minded men can object. The attitude of the Greenville News,! the Abbeville Medium uud so e others of the advocates of the State's entering into the extraordinary partnership pro posed by Mr. Clemson reminds oue of tue story of the gentleman wfeo, exam ined as a surveyor, was asked what course he would take were he in run ning a -lise to reach au impenetrable swamp through which the line must ex tend. "Bulge it,' was tue ready reply. > Upon being reminded of the nature of the ewamp, he was still ready with his answer?-Bulge it.* The examiner again, with new <&m$&asis, informed the surveyor that the swamp was indeed impenetrable. The answer was prompt is before?'Bulge it anyhowV i Fhe Pressing Problem of our Pol ities?What to do with the Ne gro. Greenville Neva. Every perplexity and complication sow in the politics of this Republic can be traced directly to the unsolved prob es of what ougut to be doue with the legro as a voter and a citizen. His presence is felt in every move made by ,be .leaders of each party. He is a dis turbing factor in every calculation of esuits. While the question of w?tal to k> with bim remains without au answer :he people ?an not think intelligently or ' ict effectually ou aay issue. He is a menace to the Korrb atd a langer to the South and the strongest barrier to the unification of the sections. In several Northern States be holds the balance of power. He votes by instinct is a dumb animal would. Beyoud the i reach of influences of self-interest and principle which control other men, fee lefeats the will of the majority of bis white neighbors who vote with intelli gent beliefs of what the interests of their country require. His vote earried Sew York and Indiana for the Repub licans. In the South he makes polit ical freedom of speech and action'im possible. His presence gives the South ern white man double the strength in :he Federal House of Representatives iod the electoral college the white man it the' North has while keeping the Southern white man in a condition of political slavery, and holding above ?very Southern Commonwealth the alighting shadow of possible return of iegro rule. The problem is made harder by the ra3t that the presence and position of ho negro is not his fault. He can oof ' >e treated like a criminal because the ?vil he does is the result of the crimes und errors of others- Taken against lis will from a barbarous ancestry and country he has been civilized as a slave tud chattel. His ignorance aud the ow developmeut in intellect and morals vhicb make him a danger and incum >rance are not his faults and are mis ortunes which he oould not have avoid ;d and has not had time or opportunity 0 recover from. j The question has been dealt with icretofore, in the States and by the general government, by a series of ex pedients, each intended to meet the j rouble of the tioje, none of them bring- j ng us a step nearer the final and sat- j sfactory (settlement. All this time the ! rouble has grown, and it will coutinue j o grow until it is fairly met. We have j wo races, differing in every important eatore and element of character and ?irh amalgamation between them im j tossible, placed together in the same j ountry, eaeh growing very fast, with he competition between them becoming jner, and the friction harder every ear. Aside from politics and as a latter of social philosophy such condi- j ions must result, if continued, in dis ster, certainly to one race, probably to J oth. Another series of expedients is now j roposed for dealing with this living j re ent danger, this unceasing irritant, ] Iiis powerful obstacle to free thought i nd sensible action | We believe in 'ueir present temper ; be people of several Southern States : rould deliv? r their Federal repr?senta- j \ ion into the hands of the negro to have nd bold if peaceable pogsewion of their ( t?te governments and conduct of their ! ( >cal afftiia could be secured to them 1 'here is an angry feeling against (he j f ?orthern Democrats whose greed has : ost them a victory to which this section 1 ontributed so much, and a tendency to How the East and West to take the > 'ederal government and manage it mon g them with the help of the South- 5 rn negro, leaving us to take care of ar States. But there is no sense in le suggestion. No assurance could to iven that if we surrendered all our art in Federal affairs to the negro he I would keep his bands out of our State I affairs or cease from standing ready to I join with any faction of tbe white peo ple to regain his ?ocal power. A solid negro Republican South wouid be a danger to the Republic like a cancer in a mau?s breast. Senator Chandler's bill to place all election sin velvicg reprcscutatiou iu Fed eral bodies under cODtrol of the Federal government might be accepted by those in tbe South who are willing to barter tee influence of the South at Washing ton for undisturbed control of Southern States by Southern men, but it would not accomplish their purpose because it would not and could not restrict the power of tbe negro voter io State affairs aside from the fact that it would be the heaviest blow yet struck at the liberties of all the people and tfe-e rights of all the States and an enormous addition to the power of the Federal government to control elections. The proposition to apportion repre sentation according to the vote actually cast might, if it could not be put into effect in defiance of the Constitution, do justice from a Northern point of view by giving the white voters of the two sections equal power, bat it would give no relief to the South and in practical operation among shrewd and practical politicians it would probably result in as enormous increase of the voting, and nothing else. The South Carolina election law is tbe best and most conservative of all the expedients suggested. Practically it limits the franchise to those who have some education and character, careful habits, forethought and intelligence. But it is only a makeshift to avert im mediate calamity and does not touch or ?aeet one of the real evils of the situa tion. Wholesale disfraoehisemeot of the negro is the remedy that has been thought of by many thinking men of ail parries and sections and a few dar iog spirits have publicly favored iL But if it could be possible to secure the practically unanimous white vote which would be required to make the neces sary ameodioent to the constitution, the social, commercial and economic ele ments of the problem would fee left with the two races expanding in the same country and on the same territory, one cat off from interest or influence in the common government and with .life., liberty and property at rise mercy of the other. The negro would sink lower than he is, and he would drag the other j race and t*fce eoaotry with him. There ; can be no health iu a body in which one \ member is diseased or degraded. The remedy that will correct all the enrils and the one most in accord with justice and common sense is the separa tion of the races. It can be most easily aecosapftsbed by the removal of the negro population to territory set aside for its use. It may be a territory or ganized into States as part of the Union and -represented as the other States are, different from the others only in the requirement that no white man shaft live, own property or hold office in them. We believe it will come; and tbe sooner it comes the more easily it wiM be done. Its effect on the South will be disastrous, although it can be les sened by making the removal gradual. But the evil from it wilt decrease with time as white labor comes in and grows up to replace) black labor and white men occupy tbe ground the negro has left. The present situation becomes worse and a fearful climax of some form becomes more imminent as the population of both races increases and the sore becomes wider^ deeper and more angry. Nobody knows the capacity of the negro. But he can best develop the Doe aud find tbe other in a country 3wned occupied and in its local affairs ?oversed by himself, free from tbe pres ence of the race that is so far before aim in civilization, knowledge and power, but with his general interests united with those of the strongest and foremost people of the world. JOURNALISM ~~ IN CHARLES TON. There are three daily newspapers in the city of Charleston?the Ne*cs and Courier, the World and the Sun'. Of ;bese journals the Greenville News says : *'John McElree is a citizen of Charleston who deserves the regard of ais fellow-citizens for his enterprise, bis energy and the courage and per sistence with which he has fought what ae believed to be wrong and against Charleston's interests and maintained what he believed to be right aud neces >ary for the city's prosperity. He is .he owner of the Daily Sun. "Frank S. Rogers is another citizen ! }f Charleston with more admirable traits of character than we have space ;o set forth here. He is one of the few nen who, having accumulated a very arge fortune by industry, thrift, en ;rgy and brains, have never lost sym Dathy with the people or learned to re gard poverty as a crime. lie has done liuch for Charleston and that city has io more valuable man. He is the chief >wner of the Charleston World. "F. W. Dawsou is a man of immense otellectual resources aud power and of ireless energy and tbe possessor of vast nfluence. All of his powers and ener gies have been devoted to the execution >f many works of value to his city and ?tate, lie is the chief owner of the Xttns and Courier. 1 "The Daily Su.i and the Charleston 1 World have never a good word, aud ' .lways an unkind one, for F. W. Paw on and the Netcs and Courier. The ! Ve?rs aud Courier and the Daily Sun rave never a good word for Mr iiogers >r his fine newspaper and the Smi is specially ready to ahuse them both; he World and the AVc.s and Courier arefully refrain from speaking a word f approval, sympathy or encourage- ! tient for Mr. McElree or the newspaper ii>- pluck and enterprise established. "Mr. McElree is in jail because he rood for what he believed to be the ights and interests of the people of his iry, and his newspaper abuses without, tint aud in the harshest language Gor toration Counsel Inglesby, who served long term iu political Coventry be ause he was one of the few men in his ?l?gation who stood for Charleston and j he State against a rapacious, unscru pulous and powerful railroad lobby "If all these men would pull together liey could do a:i enormous quantity of rork and good for South Carolina and . s chief city. As it is, they seem to ! ive most of their stregfh So fighting : ltd tripping up each other. It is very nfortunate " There is, says the Columbia Record., ' ound advice in the suggestion that the ipers in Charleston should "pull to ether/' but such a combination is . i ] scarcely practicable in tbe matters on whichifcese papers iMer. Their very ! existence is fouftded on differences of j opinion, and these deferences should of course ?nd proper expression. There ought to be more than one daily paper in Charleston, because there are in that j co:i?iiiUui;y opposing views upon pub lic questions, which should find ex pression and advocacy. But the need of more than one paper by no means in volves the necessity for abasing the pre viously existing journal. It by no means follows that because certain views are held by the establish d paper the new paper must hold precisely opposite ones. The mistake most common with new papers is in watching for a ch-nce to differ with the old one, and employ ing the opportuniiy to "pitch into" the rival. One especially bad result of these controversies?frequently long drawn out?is that they make people tired. Another point is that those who are to pass judgment read one side only. Not much is ever accomplished except to make the readers of a paper skip most of the editorial matter. As a rule, temperate discussion ac complishes more than harsh criticism. Plainness of speech does not necessa rily involve abuse. Business rivalry need oot cause personal or professional beetUity. To agree with an opponent when right is neither a sacrifice of prin ciple nor a surrender of conviction. These are truths that might profitably be learned and practiced by all three of the Charleston dailies. T<be Lady Godiva must have bad excep tionally long hair since it completely con cealed her lovely person. Since Ayer's Hair Vigor came into use such examples are not so rare as formerly. It not only promotes tbe growth of the hair, but gives it a rich, silken texture. Full li?e Gents', Ladies' and Children's Uudervests, at Ferdinand Levi's. Best Butter at 25 cents at F. Levi'e. TAKE IT iN TIME. "For want of a nail, a shoe was lost ; for want ?f a shoo, a bur*e was lost; for want of a horse, arider was lust." Never neglect small things. The first sizns of pneumonia and con sumption can po&itivefjt be checked by Dr. Acker's English Remedy fox Consumption. Sold by J. F. VV. DeLorme. 6HE IS -"GRATEFUL." "I saved the life of m~ little girl by a prompt use of Dr Acker's English Remedy for Con. sumption-"?Mrs Wra. HarrimaD, New York. Sold by J. F. W. DeLorme. ^ PROMPTNESS. First a cold> then a cough, tlven consumption, then death. *'I took Dr. Acker's Eog'ish Remedy for Consumption the moment I began to .cuugh, and I believe it saved my life."? Walter N. Wa?looe, Washington, bold by J. F. W. DeLorme. ATTENTION L??8ES. A beautiful assortment of the latest styles of Fall and Winter MILLINERY, Can now be seen at tbe store of MM I AND R. McELHOS, On Main Street. The same carefully selected by Miss J. McE-l liese during her reeent visit .North, consisting of HATS AND BONNETS, in Felt, Velvet and Straw. FAffCY BREASTS, WINGS AND TIPS, in tbe leading colors. RIBBONS, RIBBONS, lo eadless variety. Ruchings of all kinds, and at all prices. Infants' Cloaks, Dresses, and Cnps, always on hand. Special attention given to tbe selection of CORSETS, with an eye to comfort and fit. Also to Bustles of every desirable style. Coun'/r$ ordere elicited at?? jtrarnpt attention 'gicenio $<?me. Oct 17. Notice to lisent WM The State of Sout? Carolina, COUNTY OF S?MTER, In Trial Justice's Court. R M. Jenkins ts. R. Somers Brown TO THE DEFENDANT: R, Severs Brown. You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which was filed in the o?Eoe of L. L. Fraser, Jr., Trial Justice for Sumter County, October 10th, A. D. 1888, and to serve a oopy of your answer to the said complaint- on the subscriber at his office, nt Alecbanicsville, in the said County of thesMid State, within twen ty days after the service hereof, exclusive of tbe day of finch service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time afore said, Application will be made for the relief demanded in the complaiut. Dated Oct. 29th, 1888. L. L. FRASER, Jr., Trial Justice. Oct. 31 6 FRUIT! WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AT F. J. O'CONNOR'S BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY. I have on hand and will keep during the season a largestock of Fruits of vari ous kinds, which will be sold, wholesale and retail at LOWEST PRICES. My Bakery and Confectionery continues to receive my special attention, and will be kept supplied with tbe choicest goods to be found in the city. Orders from the Country for cuke, pies, Oread, &c, will have prompt attention. Oct. to. JOS, H. MONTGOMERY, ATTORNEY AT LA IF, SUMTEK, S. C. Collections a specialty. Jept "28 ?<> H S3 ?3 T'?enrocostlveness Ifaometffeiue :m:\t Fx; ntorethuii a purgative. To hv> per? muueut, it must co?tai ti Tonic, Alterative and Cathartic Properties. Till !*S PilVS I? :nNH.?N?* fit CM ?I ?? ? 11 t?t'H 111 un vmiuvut degree, ami Speedily Kestor? the !)ftweN their iiatual peris! alti lotion, so essential to regularity Sold Everywhere. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM CIoaiiS?vj ujkI beautifies t.ho hair l'roniotes a. luxuriant growth* Naver Fails to Restore Gray Hair lo its Youthful Color. ^^ruiestcalpdlsoascsaiKt hair falling PARKER'S GING ?R TONIC ovaluablo for Coughs, Colds, Inward Pains, Exhaustion, C BU*SI, Palace PLAYING j j OBSERVE THESE LOW PRICES. ! We still offer Fruit of the I Loom, 36 inches wide, at 82 c. j 1 1 All of the best Calicos at 6 j cents ; elsewhere, 7 cents. i Sheetings cheaper than ever, j from 18 cents, up. Canton Flannels from 8 cts., up. 100 dozen Ladies' Heinstich- j ed Handkerchiefs, colored bor- j ders, at 6? cents ; worth 10 cts. I j 200 dozen Ladies' all Linen Handkerchiefs at 10 cts. ; worth 15 cents. 100 dozen Ladies' all Wool I Walking Jackets at $1.75 ; worth from $3.50 to $5.00 ;! this is the best value ever shown j in Suniter. In Jerseys we carry all th? latest styles, in prices from 50 cents, up. Check Nainsooks, at 6 cents, worth 8 cents. ?^^?^ B Y T H E jrmm leaders of \ TO THE TUNE OF LOW DRESS GOODS ! DRESS GOODS ! ! j In this line we excell. Our assortment this season is the newest and most stylish in Sumter. We are determined to carry the newest styles in Dress Goods at all times. In Trimmings, all we ask is for the ladies to decide if we i I have not all of the latest novelties in same. Plaid and Striped - Surahs, Moires, Silk and Tinsell ornaments, Copper and Gilt j Braids in every shade, to match all of our Dress Goods. Silks! Silks!! Silks!!! 10 pieces only left of that elegant Faille Fran?aise Silks at 75 cents ; worth $1.00, in all the newest shades Surah Silks in all shades, at 60 cents ; worth 85 cents, (war ranted all silk.) We assert without hesitation that our line of Silks this season cannot be surpassed in any City. Cloaks! Cloaks! Cloaks! The styles this season in Cloaks are beautiful and we must say we have the largest variety of styles to select from ever shown in this City, and our prices are the lowest. All we ask is to look at our line and compare prices. Respectfully, SCHWARTZ BROS j Palace Dry Goods Emporium. . TiZE portai PRICES. BE IN LUCK. BE IN TIME. Best Check Homespuns at 6i cents. 20 dozen Towels, knotted fringes at 15 cents j worth 25 cents. 20 dozen Kid Gloves in Black at 35 cents ; all of our 75 cents Kid Gloves in all col ors, now at 50 cents. 25 dozen Duprey Kid Gloves in Blacks and colors at $1.00, every pair warranted. 55 dozen Misses Ribbed Hose at 10 cents ; worth 15 cents. Still offer white Scrims for Curtains at 7 cents \ worth 10 cents. Full line of Carpets, Rugs, and Crumb Cloths at low prices. Xew line of Bustles from 5 cents up. Another lot of those elegant Corsets at 25 cents ; worth 50 cents. Remember our Thompson's Glove fitting Corsets are the best made. Fall and Winter Goods. Dress Goods, in Great Variety, in Latest Styles, Lai Assortment. Dress Trimmings in Latest Styles, Full Stock. LADIES', MISSES7 AND CHILDREN'S GLOYES AND HOSE. All kinds, at Lowest Prices. NOTIONS, IN G-REAT VARIETY. CALICOES AND GINGHAMS IN BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS AND COLORS. WOOL AND CANTON FLANNELS, PINE ASSORTMENT. Ladies' and Misses' Uodervests, ?d Great Variety. Cloaks and Wraps, of Various Kinds, in Latest Styles. TABLE DAMASK, LINEN TOWELS, AND TOWELING, ALL KINDS White and Brown Cotton Shirtings and Sheetings, full Stock. BED BLANKETS, In Fine ond Medium Quality, at very Low Prices. In Brussels and Three-ply Wool, and large assortment in lower grades of good quality, and beautiful patterns. Also, a fine assortment in <?txxc3L Straw JS/Leittlx?&&. This department is well supplied with Gent's, Ladies' and Children's, in all styles and qualities, fine goods and Low Prices. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. Gent's, Boys' and Children's Clothing in variety, at very low prices, jeut's and Boys' Linen Bosom Shirts and Collars of best make, Wool Under rests, Neckties, &c. HATS and CAPS, large assortment for Men and Boys. HARDWARE, FULL STOCK IVooden Ware, Pot Ware, and Tin Ware, Full Assortment, HARNESS AND SADDLERY. DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARNESS, Saddles, Bridles, &c, at all prices. CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE IN GREAT VARIETY. GROCERIES. Ieavy and Fancy Groceries of be6t quality, in large assortment, at lowest prices. My ^lock has been bought with great care, with an experi mce of forty years as to the wants of the people, and consisting >f everything useful, fashionable, and good, and prices are guar mteed against any house in this or oilier markets. Thanking my friends for their liberal patronage for many ears, I solicit a continuance, and invite an examination of all myers. Sept. 26, 1888. RACKET STORE. CASH VS. CREDIT When we came to Sumter we could hear it was predicted for us that we would soon have out the red flag. It was also said that we could not make a living in Sumter by selling, goods for cash. Well, we are here yet, and from the looks of our large stock and rapidly growing trade it seems we came here to stay. Not only to stay, bot to lead with the best values for the least money. Samter is g?od enough for ns ; it is not at all the dull town it was represented to us when we came. We opened our business on the 7th day of July, in what is* called the dull season and from the very hour we threw our doors open our boose was crowded with customers anxious to spend what money they bad and sorry they bad no more to spend. Ever since we have seen no dull times. The Racket Store is a hive of industry, selling goods cheap for bright shining dollars. What a nice business it is when we compare it with a piece of paper marked hisX mark, which very often brings poor returns. To some people it seems mysterious bow we can sell goods so cheap, but to ns it is very plain. When goodfl are bought right it is easy to sell them?there lies the whole secret of success. No matter whether it be in the mountains of North Carolina or in the great city of New York we hear of a merchant falling under the yoke of the credit system and wants to sell bis stock at a reduced price, our buyers never fail to go and see them and very often purchases a fine stock of goods at from 30 to 50 cents on the dollar, below New York cost. There should be but little difficulty in selling goods when bought at such figures. Merchants who purchase goods through the regular channels of trade have to pay too much for the honor to do so. We never look at the honor that comes to us by purchasing any article at $2 00 if we can buy the same and just as good for one dollar. What we glory in is to be able to sell goods cheap. We get the mastery when we buy, and keep it when we sell, by adding on our small profit aod stop When you purchase goods out of the credit system and pay, your cash has to help to pay for the man that never pays. No wonder there are so many of the never paying class looking like howiing wolves seeking their prey. You see the whole system is wrong, it is a wheel within a wheel, a combination against the consumer. Look at it from the time the goods are manufactured, to the jobber, from the jobber to the merchant, from the merchant to you, in eafch and every transaction the taxer credit goes on, no country or no people caoN^ withstand it and be prosperous. It will be the one aim of the E -?ket Store to try and induce as far as possible is many as they c??n out of the credit system by selling them goods as cheap as we can for cash, instead of how high for credit. New goods rolling in every day iom the slaughter pens of credit. Come and see us ; we will prove what we say. Millinery Department. There is no reason why a lady should pay two prices for a hat or bonnet be cause it is an article of adornment. We sell the finest millinery at the Racket Store. Our milliner is just from New York, where she has been getting the atest styles We will guarantee satisfaction to aYl wanting Hats, Feathers, blowers, Uibbons or anything in the millinery line. See our Dress Goods at 12? cents a yard. Casimere 15 cents a yard. This lepartnieut is very attractive. Shoes from 45 cents a pair to the best hand uade Iless shoe fo. $3.50, regular price. $5.00. Gents' Furnishing Goods is omplete. Pants at astonishingly low prices. Hats and Caps at unheard-of low prices. Lace for the world and very cheap. Towels, table cloths and damask, by the ard, very cheap. Best Holts' plaids, 6 cts. a yard. Good plaids, 5 to 5| cts, yard. TINWARE DEPARTMENT. This department is full to overflowing. Coffee Pots, 7, 8, 10, 13 cts.; galr ^n pots, 15. Hand saws, 48 cts. ; chisels, files, monkey wrenches. See one traces at 45 cents. It is useless to quote prices. Our goods go bo fast and out rade is growing so rapidly we just cannot keep goods enough on hand to supply ur wonderful trade. We will be pleased to give liberal terms to merchants rho want to buy cheap goods. W. R. JOHNSTON & CO, Liberty Street, Sumter, S. O. cpt. 2(J New York'office, 4fl? Broadway? N. Y.