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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. Miss Wilson ia China. The following letter from Miss Essie Wilson is clipped from the Southern Presbyterian. HANG Cno?.r, GUISA, | February 19, 1889. j Mr DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS : It ssem? to me that by far the greater number of letters written by; missionaries are for growo people, at least I used to think so when I was a little girl. So I am going to write to the children, and I hope all of :ny little friends and scholars whoo I left in America, and many others besides will read this, for I am } sure you want to hear all you can about your tittle Chinese sisters. Now, when you read thia ? want you to .get your atlases and Sud China, then ?cofc carefully until you find Hang Chow. Well, that is where I am When I look out of my window, I get a lovely view of the mountains, and DOW they are particularly beautiful, fer they are covered with snow. Within the same enclosure as oar boase is the "Girls' Boardrag School/' There are forty-three in it at present, many of them bright and intelligent looking and sone of them very pretty. You may smile at that, bat it is true. Just before the New Year holidays they were examined ca their year's work, a?d I do not believe they enjoyed their examination any more than you do yours. There was a class of little girls examined in arithmetic through multi? plication. Each one w?s sent io the blackboard and nota single mistake was 1 made by any of them. I wonder how | many American children can do as well, j The smallest girls in the school wear ? their hair in two knots, one on each ' side of the head, just above the ear. '? The older coes have only one knot on j the side; and the larger girls put it i on the back of the head. In the morn- i . iogs they study and recite their lessons j and in the afternoons they are taught various kinds of work, such as knitting, 1 sewing, winding silk, making silk cord j and embroidery ; and very pretty work j they do. They study out loud, which seems j very strange to me. I sometimes wonder how they caa leara anything at I all. But they seem to think it rather j inspiriting to hear their neighbors ? studying. It is astonishing the number j of chapters they caa repeat of the Bible, i and nearly all of them know the Shorter I Catechism perfectly. The older girls : are studying it now with the proof! texts. The feet of these girls are not bound f\ so that after their work is over they ? enjoy maning aad playing in the yard i as much as you do. They have a game ? which is very muon jike our game of j marbles, but they play with small j shells, and very expert they are, too. | I am teaching two cf the girls to play j on the organ and they learn very j quickly. They are ail fond of music j and sing very nicely. Sometimes when ! they are singing the Go.-pel Hymns I j can almost imagiue myself back ia my j classroom in Columbia. The Chinese j know nothing of singing except as they j have been taught by foreigners. A few weeks ago I had rov erst ex- ! penence in eating with chop-sticks. I Mrs. Stuart, her two 'little boys, Miss ! Kirkland and myself were invited to j eat dinner with one of our native teach ers. ?h-mun. She is a very earnest j Christian woman. As soon as we en- J tered the room, tea was handed us with- i ont milk or sugar. They draw tea by ! putting a few leaves in the cup, pour- ] ing boiling water on it and putting the ! cover oa the cup. Pretty soon we sat down to dinner. I must admit I was rather timid about trying to use my chop-stick?, for i ex- ; pected to be very awkward. But to my surprise, after the first attempt, I had j no trouble at all. We had all the j sweet things Srst, various kind? of cac- | dies and sweetmeats. Then a bowl of : steaming hot stew was brought In and . put cn the centre of the table, consist? ing of various things-bamboo roots, onions, fish-balls, beef, water-nuts, etc. We helped ourselves with our own stick? from the bowl. Then we each had a j bowl of rice, after which followed vari- . ons stews aDd native dishes, and finally ; we had oranges. I cannot say ? enjoy- ! ed ali of the dishes, bat I tested each of [ them. j This is the great season here now for "kite Sying." and the Chinese are very ingenious in their designs. To-day \ paw quite a number of them Boating about in the air, one in the form of a centipede, another a large bird, another a butterfly. Now, children, ? have told y >u shout these school girls who are taken care of here, and taught to know and iove Jesus, therefore th^y are happy. But there are very, very many children in China. even in th.s ci y, who know nothing about Jesus. Now, I want each of you iit'Ie boys and giris to ask yr-ursel": What, crtn I do to help send the gospel to my little Chinese brothers and sisters ? I am ?ure each of you otn do some? thing if you cannot give money, you can pray for them, ??'?nd ask <'?"d to send us out some more men and women to help us tell them about Jesus. Your friend, Essis E WILSON, Queer Things in Mail Bags. The museum of the dead h 'ter oScc is one of the most interesting resorts for visitors in the cry. Many of ti.-; more curions a1ic-?L-3 that have beeu sent through the mail* and failed to reach their destination have fi>und an abiding place in the three large L'ia^s cases which arc devoted to t : : f ir ?*?hi bition, while a local auctioneer disposes of thousands <<f the more com? monplace articles ti:;;: come t . tha? office. The museum contains soi.IP in? teresting relics, but one's interest i mainly claimed by s< eing how some people have endeavored to u*c tue mails for the transportation of articles th it 00 express company r ceive, knowing what tiiey were A stick of cord wo ? and a loaded pistol occupy positions of honor in close proximity to aliigat : and some sn ai; es. which were aliw when tho attempt made to .'-end them. Bread :?.u.-r have been ?carce at one time, or ti'-* sender had a hungry frieod, for somebody mailed a loaf of bread, which is now one ot the relics of the museum. Some rural swain, who evidently lived in a section of the country where paper wa? a luxury, iudicted a loving epistle to his best girl on a shingle. Whether the girl still looks for the lef? ter *hut never cam?, io a tjuestioo. At all events the postofiice officers never fcuud her to make the delivery. Ac Indiau scalp, horned centipede, and a I hitching post form a trinity of curious j articles, while a skull that never found j an owner makes thc background for the j most miscellaneous collection of old ? combs that was ever gotten together. i An old ajail bag stained with blood toils i the storv of tho faithful devotion to i . .... ! datv-which he sealed with his blood - 1 j of an Arizona mail carrier who was j killed by Apache Indiau3 in 1SS?. Washington Post. -?? ?? i i? j The Graded Schools of Greenville. Tc comcaoy with Mr. Thomas Simp i son, of Anderson, and Mr. ilaynie, i musk; teacher, formerly of Anderson, j but now of Greenville, we made the in* j spection of the graded schools cf Green I ville, under the supervisiez of Prof. ! Morrison. To say that we were pleas I cd doesn't express our feelings-we ! were more than deiigtVted. Greenville i has been justly held up to the public .; admiration for her factories and indus . trial workshops, thus attesting, to a re ; markable degree, the enterprise and . vim of her people, but these all pale j before the splendor of her educational I faci?r.ies, especially in her graded free j school system. Here all classes of her j people-the rich and po??? alike-meet I on a common educational platform, and , enjoy ail thc advantages of the very I bess culture, by competent teachers, ? without one cent of cost to the iodivid ! na! patrons, except for books. &c. j The Professor has bis entire school I of several hundred scholars graded in I different classes, and in separate rooms, each under competent instructors. And what is somewhat remarkable, every one of his assistants are lady teachers. Musses Dorroh, Hoyt and Easley con? ducted the class rooms which we visited and the performances cf the scholars on the blackboard were truly wouderful. The children are taught io a scientific way the conformation c-f figures, and we never have seen the uniformity and per? fection of performance excelled. The figures are made oz a system, which gives elegance and precision to the whole. So with the other perform? ances of reading, spelling, &c. Every department has a perfect system, both in study and decorum ; and the whole under the supervision of Prof. Morri soo, who is certainly the right mau in the right place. The people of Greenville have volun? tarily taxed themselves some $40,000 to establish these graded public schools, two for the whites, and perhaps as many for the blacks, all supplied with competent teachers, and under the su? pervision of the Professor, as aforesaid. This voluntary tax is for the purpose, of purchasing sites and putting up suit? able buildings, paying teachers, &c. The building where we found the Pro fessor at work on the morning of our visit, stands on a commanding eminence, with a 6ne view of the mountaias, and is built tc accommodate several hundred pupils-boys and girls. It is located on the East side of the river, accessible to the posto?iae and most of the churches and business streets They have another building on the West, ! and under the direct control of Pro? fessor Thaxton, a young and accom- ; plished teacher. We did not learn the j names of the colored teachers, but hear i from the Professor that they are com- j petent and effective in their work. The Professor has control thus of ?'?n;c 800 or 1.000 white aod colored pupils. So you can see that the educational work i involved in these graded schools isa. more important one to the fnture pros? perity cf Greenville than ali the mate? rial interests of this growing city pat toggther. In these, und other like schools, are to he trained the men and women who are ?<> adorn and SH ali the responsible positions of society iu the future. Our principal object in penning these few lines is mainly to encourage the good people of Anderson in their pro? posed enterprise cf establishing graded public schools for tho benefit; of her children. While we commend their enterprise in the establishment of a fac? tory and hotel, which will do credit to their sagacity in the future, let them not forget the higher und more import? ant duty of educating the children, rich and poor alike.-Anderson ItUe?agen? cer. --.Ul- PHI - -- Tho Snake Had Swallowed a Man. GAISSVICLB, Texas, April 17- A ; stratid.scovery bas been made here j by a Frenchman named Sonatas, in the j Northwestern district of this County. [laving occasion to sink a well, he . se.eeted a sp.->t iu a valley, near a ravine of ^re:u length, ard which, during a heavy ram. ts transformed ?uto a raging . torrent; depositing in the valley lime stone, gravid, itud and oiher debris. Airer reaching a dep'h of f>ur feet, and while in a formation nf limestone and gravel that had continued almost uniterruptediy fro:.-) the surface d:;;7n. Mr. Sonams carno upon thc vertebra) at-v: ribs of an animal. The rios w;^r" about the size of a small pig s, and rapidly tapered. Carefully unearthing 'lit: bones toward the tapering end. Mr. ' ?>omms came to r.: t;*-s which when counted numbered sev< n^c< n, the largest ?nt asariiig six inches aeros -; ; Attracted hy thc strange rind, the ncghbors ga?hexed, and tho work of I a:?earu-tng tue monster was prosecuted ' wish vigor Af* or laying har" nine ? tern fe< t of the remains of the monster. ! imagine their consternation at fi:?d::,g riie skeleton of a rn;?:i it: th-'* stomach of (U : s!;;.k :. Th** remains cf the mao and serpent so far :j.s the serpent has ' been exhumed are as perfect as ?!?..:? Srst denuded of S^sh, and were doubl? iez Covered tv 'imt* and gravei soon after death I"-- 'ir t?ie bones of tho? rn an s ii?, t !.;...!.d is ? rud<"' ktonehatchet. "!: ;.;. a loca] gco'ogi?! of ?-? (???' repute says ?i the handiwork of Dulooiithic J>.;-n orangies oj the Minnesota ? ^ .'. ...... ' ? i i M. tj.-i .-...itute nave passed :? t>;?i making drunkenness a crime, und it now v.v.:it.. ' the Governor*-! S?-?OJ?HJ . The penalties prescribed '?re s ivere^eo^j-h f,, ukeawav the element of iodi'h-:t t.;- . w. ? .-.r.-. r.r first offene*, a fi:te of not ? ?s l'unu > ? U l nor ny.re than ? i-->. < r i :?pri..ut , r;;:t h ?<s 'hr.n R' ri'-r Q) . .' th::n Ai) d ?.. .. ; sr-rot,'{ r.ff^nce $#0 r<> ? {(} <'r..>% ;., ?i) days' ravprl-onment: third oil ucc 60 to ?? diy> imprisonment. Ar.t:>ij Werck fell dead in Philadel? phia thc (?thor <! y. At first it was sup posed t:> be a case, of heart disease, hut upon investigation it was found that Werck had received a bullet n<;ur the heart during the war, and this piece of lead had killed him after twenty-five years' delay. Wilt Thou Be Mine. Receipt for Making a Proposed. A gi?' maj, in tire sweetness of her heart, overlook the clumsiness of a . wooer, and pledge herself to a man : whose offer has not been mads in tbs j prober form ; life is fal j of such in j stances a.s feminine charily. But the thing wili rankle in her mind, be the thrice an angel, and sooner or later, he will encounter the rebuff his awkward? ness deserved at the outset, and suffer the more because he hzs hoped to escape i j his punishment. j How then-ought a mas lo propose | . How is he to avoid the method lacking . in adroitness, the which, if he haplessly employ it, must result in his moro or \ tess immediate discomfiture? YOU PROPOSE TO A LADY, ASK i HER TO MA HUY YOU. j You must make it clear that you ask j ! her, for men have been known to betroth ' j themselves to Angela, when they really ! I meant to ask Angela to countenance j j their suit to Angela's sister. A prc- j j posai is like a bullet from a 100 ton ? j gun, a forcible and weighty missive, j i which must be speeded in the right j j direction and no other. ? You must be sure that you ask her to j j marry you. Nothing is easier than for j a basil ful man to persuade himself that ; j he hasarrauged a marriage with Angela, j j when in fact he has only secured her j ! hand for the cotillion. The converse j ! obtains, too-it is a dreadful position in ! j which you place yourself, if you want to j j dance with Augela for an hour, and in j j your fervor give her to understand that I it is a lifelong partnership which you j ' propose. i Again- you must ask her to- marry ! j you. Make it plain that it is for your j self that you propose ; Miles Standish j j did well on another tack, but his was | an exceptional case, if Angela had! [ been iu doubt whether to give her heart j to your friend Hilly, and you, in the j j obliquity of your wretched delicacy, I begin your set speech with a modest ! j disquisition upon Billy's superior claims j i to her favor and (men not uncommonly j j grow mock modest in the affairs ot the j I heart) Angela may suppose that it is j I for Billy that you plead, and be dis-; [gusted with you both, thinking you a j ! numskull not to sneak for yourself, and : I Billy doubly a numskull to let you con duct for him a negotiation which e^ry , ; man should couduct for himself. ? ! ' AVOID FIGURES OF SPEECH AND CIR- ? CUMLOCUTIONS. I have heard a mao (he subsequently j married a termagant, and served him- ! self rightly) boast that he had never ! put it in any woman's power to say to | i him no, plumpy. It was the habit of j [ this ruffian when he desired to offer his j 1 hand to a lady, to disguise his meaning j ? iu a parable : so to put the matter to ' ? her that if she wanted to marry him she j [ might say so, and if not might avoid j ' the issue, ile was a coward, of course, ! i m m 'j j a sneak as well. I bink of it from the ; ' standpoint of Angela! In leaving' I himself safe he put her in the most j [ hideous position imaginable. For if J i she inclined to marry him, and said so, , I she itft it quite open for him tc say I j ' My dear Miss Augela, you altogether j misunderstood oe. When I asked you i ! if you would confide youf life to my I ! keeping I had no such purpose as you ' '\ imagine, but intended morely to ask j ? if you would share my buggy with me ! ? to morrow evening, and rely upon my ! ; bringing you home in safety without 1 j an upset/' AVOID DIGRESSION'S. j Nothing is mere deplorable than an ; j interval in a proposal. The marrer j should be gene through with speedily, ; once attack begins. It is an attack, j : always. No matter how ready-hearted ! j Angela may be, there is a lit rle perfunc- [ : tory hesitancy, only natural to her : ; modesty ; ana yea must not give her ? ! the opportunity to turn tue current of j ! her wooing. Do not stop to tell her j that the Herald is the only paper you j j r.-.-?d, or that you don't owe a penny in I tho world. Information of this s--r? j [you should convey to her long before j ! you ask tbs momentous question ; it is j relevant, no doubt, and may abet your j j effort greatly, but yet it is prosaic and j j out cf keeping at the moment of ? . crisis. The more nakedly you confine ! vourself to declaring vour love and ask - ! , iug her hand, the better. Bear in mind | ! always that a proposal partakes of the ? I nature of an onslaught ; that co matter j j how apt and willing your lady love may be, phe has still a maidenly sense of j rr j preservation, and you must afford her j . no opportunity of avoidance, but bind i j her most strenuously to ihe i>sue. Give ! j her but the slightest pretext for branch 1 ing o'T on a side issue of coolroversv, ; and you will never pin ncr to tue point. ESCHEW ELA 110 li ATI?X3. I Under the head of elaborations I in- j j elude exaggerations, affectations and j ! false pretences cf all sons, objecting to ? them, not upon the ground of their vitiating dishonesty, for ? entertain a I certain regard for the immoral maxim | ? that ali is fair in love and war, but j upon the score of inexpediency. At ail '?mes a. woman's perception of deceit is keener than a man s, and it is ? peculiarly PO when the matter under ! I consideration concerns her affections j it ; the charity, not the blindness, of women which makes them t'derant of a j chanty- in men they love. You eau not ! c sen Angela, at.? it is distinctly indis- j ere? t ?.> make the attempt. Do not try j i / :.. ike h< r believe that you are a bet- j i':r fellow than you arc If aha gives ! you her heart it is not because vou arc '. '!.<. noblest of mea. If we were loved i for t.ur deserts only wc should al! die ! lorn bachelors; it is in spite of your; defects th*.t she love.? yon, and it would ; do you DO good to trick her if you could. Tell loT honestly that yon arc but an ind fferent honest fellow, not more than passably clever, :;<>t too wi il furnished j '.i worldly gear -suv this by way oft prctaee, ?eavivg her r:'> opportunity for other interruption than a fermai protest ' at your self depreciation -and then-j then her, m> merry maa. teil her how } 'z ! rye Ker. and nave no fear of pitching your song too high on thi.- j ? .?o' swear ??.;t you love the stree! >\\o. ' ves upon, and if yo'i do not vou :?re o<> lover.- Orluvdn, (/*/?/.) IkraUl. . .--.<*' - The !.'.:?: < i's Alliance ?.f t?eOrgia I has resolved to j nb eli Ihe c tr n made ; !.: the State in cnt'on bagging instead rv: jato. If tho whole cotton cr'?p "f 'ii'- Sou?h v..is baled in cn'toa bagging j ?t would require ?::< hundred thousand : bales of eott<?ii t.? make the bagging . nough in itself t-> make cotton advance. W l i Y w our. N IA i > B. Wi,men lo?? their beauty because coldi un- j der tot ne their Iii?. L>r. Ackert Lngli?h Kern- i .<{>. f?>r Consumption t< an absolute cure for ! JJ.-. S-A-l by L>r. J. F. H\ DcWmo. 1 Mark Twain Talks to tho j Baso Ball Boys. I At the New York banquet in honor' of A. G. Spalding, who engineered the . tour of the Chicago and Ail America base bali teams around tire world, Mark j Twain, in responding to a toast, said: j '.Though not a native, as intimated ! by the chairman, I lia ve visited, a great j many years ago, the Sandwich islands- ? that peaceful land, that b< uutifui land, ! that far-off home of profound repose, i aud soft indolence, and dreamy solitude, j where life is one long, slutnberiess Sab- i bath, the climate one long, delicious j summer day, and the good that die j experience no chaoge, for they but fall j asleep in one heaven and wake up in I another. And these boys have played J baseball there!-base h?ll, which i&j the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, j booming nineteenth century ! One can not realize it. the place and Ce fact, are so incongruous : it's like interrupt? ing a funeral with a circus Why, there's no legitimate point of contact, no possible kinship between h.r>e bail and the Sandwich Islands: base ball is all fact ; the islands ail sentiment. In base ball you've got to do everything just right or you don't get there; in the islands, you've got to do everytbirig just wrong or you can't stay there, lou dc- j it wrong to get it right, for if you do it [ right you get it wrong ; there isn't any way to get it right but to do it wrong, j and the wronger you do it the righter | it is. "The natives illustrate this every day. They never mouot a horse from the larboard side: they always mount bini from the starboard. On thc other j hand, they never milk a cow on the j starboard side, they always miik her on j the larboard. It's why you see so many short people there-they've got their j heads kicked off. When they meet cn ? the road they don't turn our to the right, I they turn out to tlie left. And so, from j always doing everything wrong end first : that way it makes them left handed- j left-handed and cross-eyed; they arc j ail so. When a cbil? is born the j mother goes right along with her ordi- i nary work, without loiin'g a half a day J. -it's the father that knocks off and ! goe9 to bed till be gets over the circum- I stance. And those natives dont trace j decent through the male line, but I through the female. They say they j always know who a child's mother was. j Well, that old system is well enough j there, because there a woman often has ! as many as six or seven husbands, ali at the same time-and all properly j married to her, and no br;:::?i.-h about ; the matter anywhere. Vet there is no I fussing, and trouble. When a child is j born the husbands all meet together in ? convention, in perfectly orderly way,.j and elect tho father. And the whole j thing ?3 perfectly f;:ir; at least, as fair as it would be anywhere. Of course, j you can't keep politics out-you couldn't ? do that in any country ; and so. if three j of the husbands are Republicans and j four are Democrats, ir don't make any j difference how strong a Republican aspect the baby got, thai election is ? Coed Democratic every time. And j in the matter of thai clem'ton those poor I people stand at 'he proud altitude o? i the very hw- .. si Christian civilization, ; for they know, ns VTOII as we, that ali j women are igm ran?, and so they don't ' allow that mother to vote. j "In those Ulauds the cats haven't any j tails, and th'; snr. k es haven': anv it* fe th. , and what is still mere in eg ular the I man that loses a game gt-tr- the po*. And as to dress, the native women all j wear a ningle garment, but the men j don't. ]No, the men don't wear any thing at. all. They h:)te display : when i they wear a smile they think they are overdressed. Speaking of birds, the only bird there that has ornamented j feathers has only two, just hardy j enough to squeeze through with, and j they are under his wings instead of on I t?>p of its head, where, of coarse, they j ought to be to do any good. . .'The native language is foft and liquid and flexible, and in every way ? efficient and satisfactory-tili you get mad, then, there you are; there isn't anything in it to swear with. Good judges all say it is the best Sunday language there is, hut then ail the other six dacs io the week it just hangs idle on your hands; it isn't any good for business, and you can't work telephone with it. Many a time the attention of thc missionaries has been called to this defect, and they are always promising j they are going to fix it; but no, they go fooling along, and fooling along, and untiling is done. "Speaking of education, everybody j there is educated, from the highest to the lowest; in fact, it is the only coun? try in the world where education is actually universal. And yet every now and tuen you run across instances of ignorance that are simply revolting - simply degrading to the human race. Think of it-there, the ten takes the ace ! But let us not dweil on such ?hines, they make a person ashamed. Well, the missionaries are always going j to fix that, but they put it off, and put it off, and so that nation is going to j keep on going down, and down, and j down, till some day you will see a pair j of jacks beat a straight flush." SSO-W DOCTOIIS CONOUKK DKATII. Dr. Walter !'. Il.iii.iuun?! sa'vs: "'After ?long : <. <;...! . I ?iave <..?:::.. t<- rh? conclusion fha' 1 i-.v . rain's ..?';<?? i]f:itti< fr???:' c 'ii'.'"-', pneumonia :.):.! r-r.I-,i..,. i??^h? lt avuMed if Dr. Ai-!: :'.- Ki o'.-r. K-medv f'-r r.-u ejei'.n \r?r un'.y c.-.'. .?'.'{.. '? y i; . i iu time.*" Tui? ivonderfol j ?*e?O"T?i? ; -""'1 lindara [...-i: i '. t: guaren fco l>\" ur .1. r. V?'. I vi. nue. J T Kt?ltlI?LK. Two-third"! ?.f al] ilea!li.* in Sew V??rk City -.if fr<>:?! ... i:.-ij:i?t?-:i in pnonu r.nih. Tlie j ame idopVrfioij !...! i- I-r in?.*' other ri:tt-i*. , tie?ays ari -l.t.- jrer u-\ Acker*:! Kn-riish ; Reipft'.v for eorwi?np"ti"n v.i'l alway.-* relier?, j .:t..? ra:rv save . our i .'te. Sold hy I>r. J. 1\ \\\ | I'et.vruic. A S.\J> STOIC Y. Tue cl.il-1 roughe-l. The rn-.thor rem Ne j remed? wai rn-ir I'efo-e iriotnin^; th? i- ...r j -'I'f-i-T \\ < ? li'-f!. M"rii: Always keep ! io- A'*k?*r"s l\-.-??- ... it.?m??:v :;f ha ml. A ppty . :ii Ur. .1 V W I?. l...n".^ |)i:,:r S J ore. G. W. DICK, D. ?. S. Othes over Begin's New Store, KNTRASCS ON MAIN S7KEKT, SUMTER, S. C. OfficeHours.~-9 to 1;30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sept ? Is now full and complete in all the leading Shades and Styles. Selected with great care and to meet the wants of our people. We shall be pleased to serve all our friends and the public, whose patronage we appreciate, and for their interest it is our constant aim to serve, as heretofore, and we guarantee to give you goods of Superior Quality, Style and Workmanship, at as low prices as can be obtained anywhere. We are now connected with one of the best Merchant Tailors in New York city and can get you up Suits made to order from samples here for your selection at lower prices than ever seen in Sumter before. A Perfect Fit Guaranteed. Be sure and see these samples and place your orders early. Below we price a few of the many Bargains : Double-breasted Prince Albert Suits, $18.00-worth $22.00. Double-breasted Prince Albert Suits, $20.00 to $25.00-very cheap. Black Cutaways for $ 10.00 to $24.00-Best value ever oiFered. Light Colored Cutaway Suits and Sacks ranging $5.00 to $22.50. And the most complete line of Clothing for plantation use ever offered by us# \ CLL LINE OF LDREN'S CLOTHING. Handsome line of Neckwear and the entire stock has been marked down to such prices as means a sale whenever a close buyer calls. Also a full line of the best, Sewing Machines on sale low and on easy terms. April S, 1SS0. T^r :vs--..?cir S?SS il kM MM JU ?H ?EE NOA? SHOWING- THEIR COMPRISING THE JU We Court Compari NOVELTIES IN ITE GOODS, LACES, && of Qualities and Prices. M s A FEW BARGAINS IN OUR 3?-inch Beige Mixtures at 20 cents. G-4 Side-band Suitings at 20 cents. 36-inch French Serges at 12A cts., good value at 20 cents. Mohair Brilliantines, plain and striped, at 25 cents. 3S-inch Cashmeres at 25 and 85c, good value at 35 and 50c. Henriettas in all shades and qualities from 25 cents to ?1.00 j per jard. No better values can be lound. india and China Silks in all the new colorings. A big drive in Black Silks. See our Black Goods and wo will show you the most com-j plete line in the Stale and at prices that will astonish you. Cashmeres, Henriettas, Drap D'A Ima. French Crepe Cloth, Sicilian, Diagonal, Armures. Venetian and Serges in all qualities, j There is nothing more desirable for summer wear than Challies. We have them at ?i, 12J, 15 and 25 cents. Our Trimmings were selected with great caro, each shade of i Dress Goods bein." matched with the newest and most stylish, trimmings. Persian Hands in all colors and combinations at 25, 35, 40, 50 and 75 cents. Passamentaries, Silk Gimps, Girdles, kc, at prices too nu nierons to mention, in We have a beautiful line of india and Persian Lawns. Milanere. ! . . ..... . . . Louisine, Lorella, arni Devon suitings. Plaids ami stripes from (?4 cents up, and many new patterns. Some phenomenal willies in our DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. French Sateens, all colors and designs :it 12? to 25ets. A beautiful Sateen drench-pattern at 10 cents. A nice line of Chal l?n Cloths al 12i cents. Ont ins'Cloth ai '0i cen ts. Somet hinentire!v new. i Dress Ginghams -from < conis to \'?-? cents. A handsome Linc of Zephyr Ginghams. J. Respect! We are now displaying the latest novelties in Laces and Nets? Chantilly, Guipure, Venetian Flouneings with nets to match. Hading "Veilings, something new. An immense line of Ol OE III ES. 45-inch Flouncings from 50 cents up. See the new Hemstiched Flouncings. Parasols to please the most fastidious, in all shades, sizes an<? qualities. THING. In our Clothing Department care and good taste have bee? used in the selection of our stock. The fabrics are new, the cuts artistic, and the ?t perfection. Nowhere in the city can be found a 1-etter assortment of fashionable attire for Men, Youths,. Boys and Children. Emancipate yourself from high priced Clothiers. Let no one stay away : an inspection of our stock incurs no obligation ta purchase. We have exclusive control of Strouse & Bros/ Square-shoul? dered Tailor-made garments. They can not be surpassed. Rivet your optics on these bargains: Men's all wool Indigo Blue Flannel Suits at ?9.00. Soldj elsewhere at ?12.50. Children's Suits, 5 to lo years, from 90 cts. and upwards. Children's Knee-Pants from 25 cents and upwards. For Jobbing trade we have pants from $6.00 per dozen and upwards. Also a large line of cheap suits. In our CUSTOM DEPARTMENT we have an immense line, of samples of Foreign and Domestic Goods. Suits made ta order and lit guaranteed. HATS. HATS. The latest blocks in Sti<T. Fur, and Wool Hats. Prepare yourself to see the most complete line of Straw Hata^ ever displayed in the city. . Samples sent on application j all mail orders will receive prompt and careful attention. uliy, Tg <& Sons.