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Never before had Fred Lane known the sensation of being reluctant to rejoin his regiment When the colonel wrote a personal letter to him some eight or ten weeks previous, telling him that Cur ran would almost surely get the next, va cancy on the retired list and that he would expect his old adjutant to come back to them at once and restore efficien cy and discipline to troop D, Mr. Lane replied with the utmost readiness; but this was before Mabel Vincent came into his life and changed its wholo cur i rent How much and how devotedly he loved her Lan? himself never realized until the day of his promotion reached him. and with it the news that his suc cessor was. already designated. He knew that wilhin ^t$e week he might expect orders from the war department to join his troop at Fort Graham as soon as he had turned over his funds and property to the oScer designated to relieve him; he knew Noel so well as to feel assured that he would not wait for the arrival of formal orders, but, if the colonel would permit would start the instant he re ceived telegraphic notification from Washington that "Old Riggs' " nomina tion had been approved. "This is Wed nesday," he mused; "and by a week from today! can count on his being here; and in ten days I must go." . There was a large party that night, and, fully a week before, he had asked that he might have the honor of being Miss Vincent's escort It was with great disappointment that he received her an swer, which was spoken, however, in a tone of such sorrow that poor Lane felt that the barbs, at least, of the arrow had been removed. "I don't know how to tell you how I regret. having to say fNo,'Mr. Lane," she said, and there was a tremor in her voice and a little quiver at the corners of her pretty mouth. "I have almost felt confident that you were going to ask me ?is that? a very bold thing to say??for you have been so?so kind to me since our first meeting, and indeed I wanted in some, way to let yon know that there were other arrangements already made. But how could I say anything? Mr. Ros siter, the eldest son of father's former partner, comes to pay us a visit of four or five days before he goes abroad again. And he is a great friend of the Chiltons, and, being our guest, he goes with me. Indeed, I'm very sorry, Mr. Lane, if you are disappointed.n. Fred, of course, begged that she should give herself no uneasiness. There was no other girl whom he had thought of taking. Mr. Rossiter was very much to be envied, and he would like to call and pay his respects to that gentleman when he arrived. "By all means do," said Miss Vincent; and, if not asking too much, would Mr. Lane get him a card at the club? Brother Rex was away, or she wouldn't trouble him. But Lane was delighted to be troubled. Anything she asked?any service he could ren ier her? he flew with untold eagerness to accom plish; and, though properly jealous of the coming man?this Mr. Rossi cer, of whom he had never before heard men tion?he was eager to meet and enjtertain him. The gentleman was to arrive on Monday, and Lane spent a delightful evening at the Vincents', wondering why he hadn't come. Tuesday would surely bring him, or an explanation, said Miss Mabel; and on Tuesday Lane was prompt to call, and glad to si>end another long evening at the hospitable old homestead, and stoutly did he hold his ground through three successive relays of visi tors,, encouraged to do so by a certain look; in his lady's bright eyes that spoke volumes to his throbbing heart, and that very next morning at the club he found her dainty missive on his breakfast table. He w early she must have risen to write it!?and to have seen the announcement of his promotion in the Washington dis patches! True, he remembered that it was frequently her plettsure to be up be times to give her father his coffee; for Vincent pero was a business man of the old school, who liked to begin early in the day. Of coursejie.had seen the name in the Washington news and had read the,paragraph to her; that was the way to account for it. But her note was a joy to him in its sweet, half shy, half confidential wording. She merely wrote to say that Mr. Rossiter had wired that he would be detained in New York until the end of the week; and now, if Capt. Lane had really made no engagement, she would be glad indeed if he cared tc renew the invitation which with such re gret she was compelled a week ago tc decline. Lane totally forgot his break fast in his haste to rush to tho writing room and send her a reply.. All "The Queen City" had been quick to see or hear of his "sudden smite'' and consequent devotion to Mabel Vincent, and great was the speculation as to the probable result. "How can she encourage him as she does? What can she see in that solemr prig?" indignantly demanded Miss Famrj Holton, who had shown a marked inter est in Mr. Lane during his first sh months in society and had danced witt him all through the season. "He is oik of the forlornest, stupidest men I evei knew?utterly unlike what I supposed i cavalry officer to be." "And yet, Fanny dear, you were ver] much taken up with him the first wintei ?last year, I mean," was the reply o: her most devoted and intimate friend. "What an outrageous fib: I wasn't and, if I was, it was because I wan tot to draw him out?do something to en Uvea him. Of course I danced with hin a great deal. There isn't a better dancer in town, and you know it, Maud; j-ou've said so yourself time and again." "Well, you didn't draw him out?nor on. But the moment he sees Mabel Vin cent he falls heels over head in love with her. Why, I never saw a man whose every look and word so utterly 'gave him away,' " was Miss Maud's character istic and slang}' reply. "And it's my be lief shell take him, too. She likes him well, and she says he knows more than any other man she has ever met. "He has money, too, and can resign and live here if she wants him to," went on Miss Maud after a pause which, oddly enough, her friend had not taken advan tage of. "You don't know anything about what Mabel Vincent will or won't do, Maud. I've known her years longer than yon have, and, though I'm awfully fond of her, and wouldn't have this repeated for the world?and you must swear never to repeat it to anybody?I know her so well that I can say she doesn't know her own mind now and would change it in'loss than six months if she did. She is as fickle in love as in her friendships; and you can't have forgotten how inseparable you and she were for three months at Mme. Hoffman's, and then how she fas tened on Katherine Ward. I don't care a snap of my finger whom Mr. Lane chooses to fall in love with, but if it's Mabel Vincent he'd better insist on a short engagement and stand guard over her with his sword in the meantime. It's 'out of sight out of mind' with her, and has been ever since she was 4 years old." And so in the smoking room at the club and in the feminine cliques and co teries in society the probability of Ma bel Vincent's accepting Lieut. Lane was a matter of frequent discussion. But of all this chit-chat and speculation Capt. Lane stood in profound ignorance as he entered Iiis dark office that drenching Wednesday morning with her precious note in his waistcoat pocket. He neither knew nor cared what old Vincent was worth;, all he wanted was Mabel's own sweet self, for he loved her with his "whole Heart and soul, with all the strength and devotion of his deep and loyal nature. He could hardly control his voice so as to speak in the conven tional official tone to the sergeant in charge as tho latter saluted him at the doorway and made the customary report of the presence of the detachment. Lane stepped into his little dressing room and quickly appeared in his neat fatigue uni foim. There wasn't a ghost of a chance of would be recruits wandering in that day; but he was a stickler for discipline. He required his men to be always in their appropriate uniform, and never neglected wearing his own while in the office; yet in all the Queen City no one but his little party, the applicants for enlistment and the few citizens who came in on business, had ever seen him except in civilian dress. "These reports and returns all go in to morrow, I believe?" said Lane to his ser geant. "They do, sir." "Well, will you take them in to the clerk again," said Lane, blushing vivid ly, "and tell him to alter that 'first lieu tenant' to 'captain' wherever it occurs: The?official notification is just here," he added, almost apologetically. "Sure I'm glad to' hear it, sir. All the mim will be glad, sir, and Tm proud tc think that I was the first man to salute the captain today," was the sergeant's delighted answer. 'Til call Taintor in at once." But Lane "eras blissfully thinking ol the little note, now transferred to the breast pocket of his uniform blouse, and of how not his honest old sergeant but sweet Mabel Vincent was the first tc hail him by his new title, and in think ing of the note and of her he failed tc notice that, so far from coming at once, it was fully ten or fifteen minutes before Taintor, the clerk, put in an appearance, and when he did that his face was asher gray and his hand shook as though wit! palsy. "The sergeant will tell you what is tc be done with the papers, Taintor," saic Lane, conscious that he was blushin? again, and consequently striving to ap pear engrossed in the morning p^per, The man picked them up one after an other and without a word; he droppec one to the floor in his nervousneess, bm made a quick dive for it, and then foi the door, as though fearful of detention He hurried through the room in whici the sergeant and one or two men wen seated, and, reaching his big desk at i rear window, where he was out of sight dropped the papers 'on the floor anc" buried his face in his shaking hands. A few minutes later the sergeant coming into the little cubby hole of t room in which Taintor had preferred U do his work, found him with his armi on the desk and his face hidden in them and the soldier clerk was quivering anc twitching from head to foot. "What's the matter with you, Tain tor?" growled the old soldier. "Didn'i you promisG "ne you'd quit drinking?*' The face that looked up into his was ghastl}-. "It isn't drink, sergeant," moaned th< man. "At least. I haven't exceedec for a month. I've got a chill?an agu< of some kind. Just let me rui down to tho drug store and get som< quinine?with perhaps a little brandy Then I can do this work. Do, sergeant I won't abuse your kindness." "Well, go, then," was the relnctan answer; "but get back quick. And onlj one drink, mind you." Taintor seized his cap and fairly tot tered through the adjoining room to th< stairway, down which he plunged mad ly, and, heedless of tho pelting rain darted across the street to the gas light ed bar room. "There's something worse than eithe: whisky or ague back of this." muttcrcc the veteran sergeant, "and I could swea: to it." CHAPTER IV. Capt. Lane, as has been said, allowe? until the following Wednesday for th< arrival of his regimental comrade, Mr. Noel. He was not a little surprised, however, on the following Tuesday morning, as ho sat at breakfast at the club, glancing over the morning paper, to come upon the following announce ment: DISTINGUISHED ARRIVAL. Our readers will bo interested in knowing that Capt. Gordon Noel, of the Eleventh United States cavalry, has been ordered on duty in tho city, in charge of the cavalry rendezvous on Sycamoro street. Capt. Noel comes to us with a reputation that should win instant recognition and tho heartiest welcome from the Queen City. For nearly fifteen years he has served with his gal lant regiment, and has been prominent in every one of the stirring campaigns against the hostile Indians of our western frontier. He has fought almost overy savage tribe on the continent; was disabled in tho Jlodoc campaign in "73. command ed the advance guard of his regiment that reached the scene of the Custer massacre only just in time to rescue the remnant of the regi ment from a similar fate, and for his services on that campaign was awarded the compliment of staff duty in tho city of Washington. At his own request, however, he was relieved from this, and rejoined his regiment when hostilities were threatened in Arizona two years ago. And now, as a reward for gallant and distinguished conduct In the field, ho is given the prized recruiting de tail. Capt Noel is the guest of his cousin, the Hon. Amos Withers, at his palatial homo on the Heights: and our fair readers will be interested in knertng that he is a bachelor, and, despite his years of hardship, danger and privation, is a re markably fine looking man. It is understood that Lieut. Lane, tho present recruiting officer, has been ordered to return to his regiment at once, although the time has not yet expired. In the expression on Capt. Lane's face as he finished this item there was some thing half vexed, half comical. A few hours afterwards, while he was seated in his office, the orderly entered, and announced two gentlemen to see the captain. Lane turned to receive his vis itors, but before he could advance across the dark room tho taller of the two enter ing the door made a spring towards him, chipped him cordially on the back, and, with the utmost delight, shouted, "How are you, old fellow? How well you're looking! Why, I haven't set eyes on you since we were out on the field hunting up old Geronimo's trail! By Jove! but I'm glad to see you!" And Lane had no difficulty in recognizing at once his regi mental comrade Gordon NoeL "Let me present you to my cousin, Mr. Withers," said NoeL And a stout, florid man, whom Lane had so often seen at the club, but to whom he had nttver hitherto been made known, bowed with much cordiality and extended his hand. "I didn't know," said he, "that you were a friend of Noel's, or I'd have come to see you before, and invited you to my house. " "Friend!" exclaimed Noel. "Friend! Why, we've been partners and chums! Why, we've been all over this continent together, Withers! Fred, do you re member the time we were up on the Sioux campaign??tho night I went over with those fellows to hunt up the trail to the Custer ground? Let's see, you were acting adjutant then, if I recollect right. Oh, yes; you were back with the colonel." Lane received his guests with perfect courtesy, but without that overweening cordiality which distinguished the oth er's manner, and then Mr. Withers en tered into the conversation. Turning to Capt. Lane, he said: > "I didn't know that you had been on 1 the Sioux campaign. Were you there, too?" ? Lane replied quietly that he had been ? with his regiment through that year?in ? fact, had never been away from it for i any length of time, except on this de i tail which had brought him to his old home. "Oh, yes; I remember having heard ! that this was your home. I am very I sorry indeed that you did not make y ~ur ; self known to me before," said Mr. With ? era. "You know that I am a very busy man and don't get around much. Now > you can come and dine with us this even , ing, can you not? Mrs. Withers will > certainly expect you, now that Noel is , here." i "I am very sorry indeed, Mr. Withers, i but I am already engaged." "You must make early bids if you ) want to get this young man, Amos," put I in Mr. Noel, affectionately patting Lane ; on the shoulder. "It was just so in the - regiment. He was always in demand. Well, when can you come, Fred? What evening shall we say?" I "It will depend, perhaps, on the day 1 t turn over the property to you. How : soon do you wish to tako hold?" "Oh,anytime. Anj'day. Whenever i you're ready." 3 "I'm ready now, today, if you choose,' t was Lane's prompt response. "I fancied , you might bo here by to-morrow." I "Yes, you bet I didn't let the grass grow under my feet. The moment we , got the telegraphic notification that the i colonel's nomination was approved, I lit > out for the railroad," said Noel, laugh 5 ing gleefully. , "And when will you come in and take I over the property? There's a good deal of clothing to be counted. As for the - funds, they, of course, are all in the t bank." "Suit yourself about that, Freddy, old 5 boy. I'm going down street with Amos now. How'll to-morrow morning do?" i "Very well indeed. You will find me 1 here any time you come m." ' "All right. Now get oat of your yel 1 low stripes and come along down with 3 us. The carriage is right here at the door. We're going over to see the works?Mr. Withers' foundries, you know. Come." ^ "Yes, come with us. I think I have 7 heard it was your father who?ah?who was in the same line of business at one " time, Mr. Lane," said Mr. Withers. 3 "Captain Lane, Amos!?Captain Lane! " Great Scott! you mustn't 'mister' a man ' who has been through the years of ser vice he has." "I beg pardon. I did not so under r stand you, Gordon, when we were talk ing last night with the?when we were r having our smoke and chat after dinner. You will come with us, won't you, cap tain?" "I wish. I could, Mr. Withers, but my office hours have to be observi-d, and I cannot leave in the morning. Thank you heartily none the less. Then you will be here to-morrow, Noel?" "To-morrow be it, Fred; so au revoir, if you can't join us. I mustn't keep i Withers waiting?business man, you I know. God bless you, old fellow; you don't begin to realize how delighted I am to reo you! So long.*' ' But about dining with us, Cap tain" "Oh. Lord, yes!" burst in Noel. "What evening, now? 1\1 almost forgotten. Gelting in among bricks and mortal addles my head. 'Tisn't like being out ri the saddle with the mountain breezes all around you: hey. Fred? Gad! 1 don't know whether I can stand this sort of thing, after our years of cam paigning." And the lieutenant looked dubiously around upon tho dark and dingy walls and windows. "Suppose we say Thursday evening, captain," suggested Mr. Withers: "and 1 I'll have jr.; t a few friends to meet yon a two army evntleuieu."' "I shall he very happv, Mr. Witners." "Good! That's the talk, Fred!" heartily shouted the lieutenant, bring ing his hand down with a resounding whack between Lane's shoulder blades. "Now wo are off! Come along, Amos." And the cousins disappeared down the dark stairway and popped into the car riage. "Not a very demonstrative man, your friend the captain, but seems to be solid," was Mr. Withers' remark. "Oh, yes. He is about as solid as they make them," answered Noel, airily. "Lane has his faults, like most men. It is only those who really know him, who have been associated with him for years, and whom he trusts and likes, that afe his friends, Now. I'd go through fire and water for him, and he would for me ?but of course you wouldn't think it, to see his perfectly conventional society manner this morning. If I had left you clown at the foot of the stairs and had I Stolen up on tiptoe and gone over and [ put my arms round his neck, you would probably have found us hugging each other and dancing about that room like a couple of grizzly J>ear3 when y?u came up, and the moment he caught sight of you he would have blushed crimson and got behind his ice screen in a second. You just ought to have seen him the night we' met each other with our de tachments down near Guadalupe Can yon when we were hunting Geronimo. Some d?d fool of a ranchman had met him and said I was killed in the little af fair we had with the Apache rear guard. Why, I was perfectly amazed at the emotion he showed. Ever since then I've sworn by Fred Lane; though, of course, he lias traits that I wish he could get rid of." "Good officer, isn't he?" "Ye?es, Lane isn't half a bad soldier. Of course it remains to be seen what sort of captain he will make. He has only just got his troop." "But I mean he?well?is a brave man; has shown up well in these Indian fights you were telling us about." "H'm!" answered Noel, with a quiet little chuckle. "If he wasn't, you bet he wouldn't have been all these years in the Eleventh. A shirk of any kind is just the one thing we won't stand. Why, Amos, when old Jim Blazer was our colonel during those years of the Sioux and Cheyenne and Nez Perce wars he ran two men out of the regiment simply because they managed to get out of field duty two successive years. Oh, no! Lane's all right as a soldier, or he wouldn't be wearing the crossed sabers of the Eleventh." Mr. Withers listened to these tales of the doings and sayings of the regiment with great interest. "Lane might have been here a dozen years," said he to him self, "and no one in our community would have known anything at all about the dan^cii: his comrades and he had en countered in their frontier service. It's only when some fellow like Noel comes to us tliat we learn anything whatever of our army and its do? Jgs." He took his cousin to the great mold ing works of which he was the sole head and proprietor, and presented his fore men and his clerks to the captain, and told them of his career in the Indian wars on the frontier, and then upon 'change, and proudly introduced "my cousin, Capt. Noel," to the magnates of the Queen City; and, though not one out of a dozen was in the least degree interested in "the captain" or cared a grain of wheat what the army had done or was doing on the frontier, almost ever}' man had time to stop and shake hands cordially with the handsome offi cer, for Amos Withers was said to be a man whose check for a round million would be paid at sight, and anybody who was first cousin to that amount of "spot cash" was worth stopping to chat with, even in the midst of the liveliest tussle 'twixt bull and bear on the floor of the Chamber of Commerce. A tall, gray haired gentleman, with a slight stoop to his shoulders and rather tired, anxious eyes, who listened nervously to the shouts from "the pit" and scanned eagerly the little telegraphic slips thrust into hrs hand by scurrying messenger boys, was introduced as Mr. Vincent, and Mr. Vincent inquired if Noel knew Lieut.?or, rather, Capt.?Lane. "Know Fred Lane? He is the best friend I have in the world," was the en thusiastic answer, "and one of the best men that ever lived." "Ali! I'm glad to know you?glad to know what you say. The captain is a constant visitor at our house, a great friend of oursin fact. Ah! excuse me a moment" And Mr. Vincent seized a certain well known broker by the arm and murmured some eager inquiries in Iiis ear. to which the other listened with ill-disguised impatience. Withers and. of course, "the captain," were the center of a cordial?not to say obsequious?group so long as they re mained upon the floor, and the secretary presently came to them with the com pliments of the president and a card ad mitting Capt. Gordon Noel to the floor of the chamber at any time during busi ness hours, which that officer most grace fully acknowledged, and then went on replying to the questions of his new friends about the strange regions through which he had scouted and fought, and the characteristics of the Indian tribes with whom he had been brought in con tact. And by the time Cousin Amos de clared they must go up to the club for luncheon even-body was much impress ed by the hearty, jovial manner of the dashing cavalryman, and there were re peated hand shakes, promises to call, and prophecies of a delightful sojourn in their midst as he took his leave. "Has Capt. Lane come in yet to lunch?" inquired Mr. Withers of the liveried attendant at "The Queen City," as his cousin inscribed his name and regiment iu the visitors* book, as intro duced by "A. W.," in ponderous strokes of the pen. "No, sir. It's considerably past the time the gentleman generally comes. 1 don't think he'll be in today, sir." "Then we won't wait, Gordon. We'll order fur two. What wine do you like?" * * * * * * Over at the dingy recruiting office Capt. Lane had forgotten about lunch eon. There were evidences of careless ness on the part of the clerk who had made out his great batch of papers, and the further he looked the more he found. The orderly had been sent for Taintor, and had returned with the information that ho was not at his desk. Sergt. Burns, when called upon to explain how it happened that he allowed him to slip away, promptly replied that it was half-past 11 when he came out of the ' captain's office and said that the captain would want him all the afternoon, so he had best ?0 and get his dinner now. ' Half-past 12 came, and he did not rc * turn. The sergeant went after him, and came back in fifteen minutes with a wor ried look about his face to say that Taintor had not been to dinner at all, and that the door of the little room he ! occupied was locked. He had not been 1 i in the house since 8 that morning. 'Tm afraid, sir, he;'s drinkm' again," said Burns; "but he's so sly about it I never can *ell until he is far gone." "You go out yourself, and send two of the men, and make inquiries at all his customary haunts," ordered Lane. "I will stay here and go through all these papers. None arc right so far. He never failed me before; and I do not under stand it at all." But when night came Taintor was still missing?had not been seen nor heard of?and Capt. Lane had written a hurried note to the lady of his love to say that a strange and most untoward case of desertion had just occurred which necessitated hisspending some time with the chief of police at once. He begged her to make his excuses to her good mo ther for his inability to come to dinner. Later in the evening he hoped to see her. "P. S.?Gordon ?oel, who is to relieve me, has arri ved. I have only three or four davs more." "Gor?on Noel!" said JDss Vincent, pensively. "Where have I heard of Gor don Noefc** [to be continued j Carolina's Lumber City. Sumter as the Centre of a New and Growing Industry. Stiff Correspondence News and Courier. Sumter, S. C, September 26 ? Special : The record cf the past teo years has been in every respect a re markable ooe iu the history of Sooth Carolina. It has beeo a decade of booms, and of booms which were in no sense of the word artificial or forced. Prostrated commercially, as well as politically, by the reverses of war, for fifteen years Lhe Palmetto State was scarcely known in the business world, and it was not until after the revolu tion of 1876 that she agair assumed her rightful place amon he great States of the American R?tablie. Not only has the State entered upon an era of unprecedented prosperity, but from the Blue Ridge to the Atlantic, over her whole territory, every town and city bas its own individual boom which has made its people wealthy and happy. Crossroad villages and settle ments bave suddenly sprung up into thriving towns, and the tow:,s of twenty years ago have grown to be fair and flourishing cities that can be claimed as monumeuts to the pluck and indomitable' energy of the people of the State. The tide of renewed trade has flowed into every nook and corner, and the people have developed a commercial vigor of which their forefathers never dreamed. Of all the towns and cities of the State there is not ooe that so illustrates the native pluck and "go-a-headative ness" of its people as this thriving young city of Sumter. Situated geo graphically at a point which in time must make it the gateway of the further South, it has by co means been slow io availing itself of its natural ad vantages, and its vantage points have been recognized by capitalists from abroad who have hastened to better their own fortunes by investing, their money in the building up this promis ing city. "I am convinced that Sumter is to be the Atlanta of this part of the coun try,'7 said Col. R. C. Barkley, the late president of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad to this corres pondent some years ago, and his view has been repeatedly endorsed by other railroad men of equal experience and business acumen. Said one of them some time ago: "I would rather own real estate in Sumter than in any other city in this section, because on account of its location, if from no other cause, it is bound to be a great city io the course of time. The great effort of all rail road corporations in the South now is to reach Florida, and secure close con nections with the countries further South. No railroad can afford to go through central South Carolina without passing through Sumter, and I predict that in a few years this city will have as many great railroads as Atlanta or any other city in the country, and will be the gateway to Florida and the splendid undeveloped regions of the South." The visitor to Sumter ten years ago would never recognize the old town in this busy, bustling city of to-day. With its broad MacAdamtzed streets, its tall blocks of handsome business houses, its electric lights, the hum of factories, its double population, and the increased trade brought in by its four important railroads, it seems a new city set upon the site of the sober old coun try town. And not only is its present prosperous, but its future is bright and its possibilities boundless. Not only is it situated oo the great highway of trade, but it is surrounded by a country of magnificent resources. It is ihe centre of an agricultural district, famed far beyond the borders of the State, and the vast tracts of timber, as untouched by the axe, which cover the countryside, could furnish the United States with timber for years with scarce ly any preemptible diminution in the supply. Capitalists have not been blind to the advantages to be derived from these conditions, especially with regard to the la ter. Every few miles 3long the railroads through the tributary ter ritory are located mills of more or less capacity, and the largest lumber plants in South Carolina, with possibly one exception, are to be found in the city. an immense lumber plant. On entering Sumter by any of its four railroads the visitor is immediately impressed by the large number of man ufacturing plants of various kinds which are grouped iu the vicinity of the depots. Just after passing into the city limits, at the junction of the Wil mington, Columbia and Augusta Rail road, and the Central of South Caro lina and the Charleston, Sumter auc Northern, can be seen the immense lumber mills of Lukens & lliefsuydcr, which occupy several acres at a poinl accessible by all the railroads. This I plant was erected in July, 1889, auc ! has since done an immense business, I the output last year being over 8.000, j 000 of feet of all kinds of dressed j lumber. The output during the cur ! rent will greatly exceed this. Th< ! greater part of this is shippod by rai j direct to New York, Philadelphia anc j other Northern markets. The loca j business is also very large ; 2.000.?0( I feet will be sold this year to the builden ; and contractors of Sumter alone, aiu ! the demand from o:her points in th< 'adjoining couuties is very great. These mills receive the rough-cut iumber from their ?aw mills at Harvio*8r a lumber station on the (/entrai Rail road, several miles below tbe city. It is kilo dried before being dressed, their kilns having a daily capacitiy of twenty thousand feet. Superintendent J. F Laoghery is now making preparations to increase the capacity of tbe plant. New boilers and machinery are being put io, and tbe plans bave been adopted for the construction of several immenser sheds for the storage of dried lumber,, three million feet of which is always kept on band to be used is filling peremptory orders. This plant is not dependent on the city for either its water supply, or for assistance ia case of fire. Tbe firm has erected in the yard a private water works plant, ancS hydrants are placed where they can be conveniently reached in case of a con fiagration. Tbe workmen are trained in the use of the hose, and daring the past year they have controlled two ugly fires with great success. TUB CA RR, PLANING STILLS. In this same vicinity are also the planing mills of J 13. Carr, which are located immediately at the intersection of tbe Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta and the Charleston, Sumter and Northern railroads. Mr. 3. IS. Carr, the proprietor, came to Sumter a number of years ago, and, com mercially speaking, may be said to have grown up with tbe town. By at tention to business aud able manage ment, he has built np a large business as a builder and contractor, and has during the past year erected fifteen buildings in Sumter, five of them being handsome brick stores, which are now a great ornament to the business streets of the city. This establishment is io connection with his contracting busi ness, aud bas a daily capacity of front 12,000 to 35.000 feet of dressed, lam be r, which is used in tbe city, or shipped to dealers North. He makes a specialty of finishing mouldings, brackets, etc , and employs in bis business over one hundred men, many of whom are skilled mechanics and laborers. THE COTTON COMPRESS. One of tbe most recent enterprises io Sumter is the Sumter Compress and Ware House Company, which baa located its extensive plant in the eastern part of the city, adjoining the yards, of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroads. It is equipped with a Taylor press, which - has a capacity of 600 bales a day, and the ware houses which are just in coarse of erection will accommodate all the eot ton that will be brought to them for many years to come. Every bale brought to Sumter is compressed before being shipped, and the work has been highly complimented by cotton men at the various ports to which it !:as been sent. A. K. Ctark, formerly of Geor gia, is the general manager of tbe concern, and the following well-known business men constitute the board of directors: A. K. Clark, John S. Hagh8on, N. O'Donnell, A. S. Brown, A. Rytteuberg, R. P. Monagbao and B. D. Lee. All tbe railroads centering at Sumter have ran switches to the compress, so that the cost of hauling the cot-ton has been reduced to a mini mum figure. THE ICE FACTORY. The Sumter Ice Manufacturing Com pany has recently been organized with J. J. Harby as president and E. iL Moses as secretary and treasurer. The faetory, which is equipped with tl*e most improved kind of machinery, has at present a capacity of six tons a day, bat daring the approaching winter a sixteen ton machine will be put in, and the capacity of the plant more than doubled. This factory now supplies a great many towns in the interior of the State, and is competing very zlosely with the factories in the larger cities. It will continue in operation during ths entire winter. THE SUMTER ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY was organized about a year ago with s capital of $10,000. A contract was made with the municipal authorities for lighting the city, and the streets are now illuminated with the best arc lights that can be secured from first class machinery. An incandescent plant has also been put in, and that light is now used io all tbe stores and p a bit buildings and in many residences. The investment has already paid so well that at a recent meeting of the stockholders it was decided to doable the capital stock. OTHER ENTERPRISES. In the brief space ot a single letter it is impossible to mention all tbe varied industries and enterprises which are ccmbining to make Sumter a great commercial point. These are bot a few o? the most important, and there are many others that can be described later, which are of equal value io building up the city. Any notice of Suroter's manufactories would be in compl?te, however, without special mention of the attitude of the govern ment and tbe people generally toward enterprises which desire to enter the city. In the first p-a^e, any legitimate industry which promises to be a paying one can find ready sap porters among tbe loeal capitalists. They are proud of their city, and eagerly seize every opportunity to bet ter her condition, and they realize that manufactures will do more to infuse new life into her than anything else. Another very important point is that no new companies will have the slightest difficulty iu securiug first class sites for factories, ware houses, etc. The city government has in some instances donated sites for the location of certain enterprises, and has always evinced a disposition to exempt the property entirely, or iu part, from taxation for a period of years. Where sites cannot be secured free of expense, any number of m<o can be found who are willing to sell desirable locations at a reasonable figure, and to take paymeut in the stock of the proposed company. Such inducements should attract capital to any city, and Sumter is already reaping those benetits which are bound to accrue to any place that adopts such methods to increase its prosperity. s. c. a. Po rt irritate vour hums with a stubborn c< ugh when :? pleasant sud e?Wtiv* renwdy m?y be found in Dr. J. B. McLean s Tar Wiiie i.u.i- B?Iui ! vto?t