g WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1892.
South Carolina Not in the
Chicago Pair.
South Carolina is perhaps taking less
interest in ao exhibit at the World's
Fair than any other State in the Union.
The history, as well as the unequalled
resources of the Su te, warrant the
State's having one of the finest ex
hibits at the Columbian Exposition
At New Orleans, where the Sooth
Carolina exhibit competed with those
of the other States of the Union,
H won first prize. At Augusta the
same distinction was obtained. There
is no possible reason why the State
should not again take first rank
There ara a class of interesting pro*
ducts, peculiar to Sooth Carolina, which
wonld in tbemeelves make ao interest
ing exhibit. Col A. P. Butler, direc
tor from South Carolina, speaking to
the Colombia correspondent of the
News and Courier this week, said that
it was impossible for him to do any
thing without money or a department at
his back which was in a condition to
make necessary arrangements. There
was no chance of doing anything with
out money and that op to the present
time no food of consequence had been
raised. "I am every day receiving let
ters from the managers, asking me
what Sooth Carolina proposed to do,
and for the plans for our State building
Why, do you know, we could not build
ft chicken coop with the money we have.
I suppose that certain private enter
prises will make exhibits as ao adver
tisement. The phosphate people, I
resome will see that the world will
oow what tbey have. A great deal, I
think, can be dooe if we can get any
money from the Legislature at its next
session, and I hope that something will
be done."
Milbry Brown's Awful Crime.
Governor Tollman's RensoiCs Why He
Did Not Commute Her Death Sentence.
Gov. B. B Tiilmao, of Sooth Car
olios, who is at the Hoffman House,
was seen yesterday by a World report
er regarding the excotioo of Milbry
Brown, s 15 year-old colored girl at
Spar tan burg, Friday.
"She was coevicud," he said, **of
one of the most diabolical, cold-blooded
murders io toe criminal annals of the
state. The testimony showed that she
deliberately procured some carbolic acid,
opeoed the infant'* mooth while it was
asleep sod poured the liquid down its
throat. The Charleston News and Cou
rier pleaded for executive clemency on
account of the girl's age. Another in
fluential paper said the law should take
its coarse.
"Two loog petitions, one signed by
citizens of Gsffney City, where the
crime was committed, urging me not to
commote the death sentence, and an
other one in favor of a commutation,
were seat to me. I found that oor
courts bad decided that fourteen was the
age of eonsent, and io view of the atro
cious nature of the m order I decided to
let the law takes its course."?N. Y.
World.
Sulky, not Horse.
Mr. Bonner on1'The Two-Minute Trot
ter** and Bicycle Records.
To the Editor of the New York Times :
One year ago, in discussing the
qaestioo of "the two-minute trotter," I
took the conservative, view, sod stated
io a published letter to Gen. Tracy,
secretary of the navy, who was the first
man, so far as I know, to predict that
a horse woald yet tret io that time, that
I had offered to give ?5.000 to the
owner of aoy horse that would trot, with
io two years, io 2:05?to say nothing
of two minutes?on any of the Grand
Circuit tracks from Cleveland to Hart
ford, inclusive I was careful to specify
the Grand Circoit tracks, because I
koew theo what a well-informed writer
stated in ft morning paper, a week ago,
that the natore of the land?the prairie
foil?had giveo Indiana and Iowa what
he terms "marvellous tracks." My of
fer still holds good , but the performance
most be made, of course, to one cf the
old regulation sulkies, the only ones
that were in use at the time that the
offer was made?not to a sulky with
the ball-bearing axies and pneumatic
tires, which have only come into use
during the past two months, and which
have revolutionized all harness records,
including both pacing and trotting.
Io l?85, wheo Maud S tro ted in
2:08f. the best time made by the wheel
meo was 2:35J They have now, by
the ose of the ball-bearing axles and
pneumatic tires, reduced the time to
2:02 3 5 on a regulation track and
1:56 3-4 on a kite track ; and because,
under the same conditions, both trot
ters aod pacers have reduced tht ir time
about five seconds wi hin two months, we
are virtually asked to believe by some
enthusiastic persons that these same
horses are five seconds better than they
were two months ago. How absurd !
I am frequently asked the question by
reporters and others: ' How much
faster do you thiok the new ball-bearing,
pneumatic sulky is than the old-style
sulky T* From the trials I have given
it, and from all the information I can
gather from both trainers and owners
of horses, I feel safe in saying it will
average five seconds. It makes more
than that difference with some of my
own horses. The trainers at Meadville
put it at six seconds. The owner of
Picket, with a record of 2:18J, sajs
it makes from four to five seconds dif
ference with his horse. Charles Caffrey
& Co., the well-known sulky builders,
write to me that io their opinion it aver
ages from three to five seconds faster :
and Mr. Walker, the treasurer of the
Elliott Hickory Cycle Compauy, writes :
*'To the best of our knowledge, we
should say that the difference was from
four to six seconds faster."
But stronger than all these statements
is the marvellous way in which all !
records have been wiped out on ail kinds
of tracks, in ail sections of the country,
since the ball-bearing axle and pneu
matte tire came into use two months ago.
Robert Bonner.
Ooeof the most c*relessand dangerous
habits in which Americans indulge to
s great extent is that of tucking their
umbrellas or walking sticks under their,
arms, letting them stick out almost if '
sot quite horizontally
Ao Irishman walking through a
cemetery and reading on a tombstone
the inscription, '''Here lies a bwyer
and an honest man/' sagely remarked,
"Faith an* there's two in that gr~ve " ?
Pays Nowhere.
Under the above heading we clip the
following from the Progressive Farmer
of this week :
'* * While farmers io the South are
complaining that the last year's cotton
crop of nearly 9,000,000 bales?the
largest ever raised?will leave them
scarcely a dollar of profit, and brings
thousands of them in debt,'' exclaims
the St. Louis Republic, 'the Illinois
State Board of Agriculture reports that
seven of the ten corn crops of the State
between 1882 and 1891 were raised at
a loss of $80,000,000,"
"The troth is farming pays the farm
er nowhere in the United States. Tt is
the men who farm the farmers that are
prosperous. And yet some of our farm
ers are foolish enough to vote for a con
tinuance of these same conditions.
"We admit that our Southern farm
ers have pursued a bad system?that
many of them are not systematical at all.
But in the North and West, where bet
ter systems are practiced, argiculture
is going down rapidly. The thrifty New
England farmer is fast getting down
towards the poorhouse. Farming pays
the meo who farm the farmer "
It is a fact that farming as a rule
does not pay in the South nor in the
West, nor anywhere else in this coun
try. The farmer who makes it pay is
the man wbo shows unusual thrift and
good nu sagement.
The Progressive Farmer talks about
"the men who farm the farmers." This
is no covert allusion to the Third party
leaders, who are now posing as the
champions of the farmer, although it
fits their case pretty well, but the men
who farm the farmers are a very small
factor in this business. There are good
I and sufficient reasons why farming
'does not pay, which a man of enquiring
; turn of mind wouldn't have very far to
go to find out.
In the first place even under the
most favorable circumstances, and with
the best of prices tbe difference between
the cost of production and tbe price of
the staple crops is too small, with tbe
average yield per acre, to leave much
for profit to tbe farmer. It is only the
man who makes an unusually large
yield per acre, and produces that at tbe
minimum cost, who makes money
Estimate the cost of producing tbe grain
crops of the West or the cotton crops of
the South, and then figure out whit the
producer has left and see how little it
will be.
The average wheat crop of the coun
try is less than twelve bushels to the
acre. It rarely brings over $1 a bush
el, while it costs at least 50 cents a
bushel to cultivate and put it upon the
market. Not much money in that.
The same is true of other cereals
upon which the Western farmer de
pends, as to the comparative cost of
production and the market price.
Tbe average production of cotton to
tbe acre in the South is less than half a
bale. It costs, except with very good
managment, at least six cents a pound
to raise it. Suppose it sold at 10 cents
a pound, here is a margin of 4 cents, or
less that $8 ao acre. Where is tbe
money in that?
While this is all so, the farmer is
plundered by excessive tariff tribute oo
everything he has to boy, by pension
tributes, &c... out of a least half the
money he gets for what he sells and
thus it has been goiog on for years, a
fact that the Progressive Farmer
entirely loses sight of in its efforts to
boost mountebanks like Weaver & Co.,
who have no more real concern in tbe
farmers of tbe country than they have
io the forest roamers io the inte-icr of
Africa.
It should have stuck to tbe Alliance
(of wbicb it was once a bright, iastruc
tive and vigorous representative) which
was organized to bring the farming
industry out of the ru's aod elevate it
by bringing tbe farmers closer together
that they might study their interests aod
work for them to better advantage.?
Wilmington Star.,
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A prospectus, issued by Col. J .! n P.
Thomas, of this city, announces that he
proposes to publish a full history of the
South Carolina Military Academy
"from its firtrt fai?t suggestion, in 1783,
to the present time," together with
numerous sketches of officers, graduates
and undergraduates, appedixes contain
ing many other interesting features and
sketches of the "military fruits of the
Citadel?the King's Mountain Military
School, tbe Pfflsboro (N C.) Military
Academy, the Patrick military Insti
tua and tbe Carolina Military Insti
tute." Probably no one is so weil qual
ified as Col. Thomas fer the production ,
of 6uch a work. Full of loyalty to and
enthusiasm for the grand old institution,
familiar with its works and methods,
and the possessor of exceptional literary
powers, he most bave done his work
well. The history will be handsomely
prioted by the Walker Evans & Cogs
well Co. aod sold at $3 a copy. We
shall await its appearance with great
interest.?State, Get 14
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Tbe pearl button industry in this
country is a big thing?for the fellows
who run it. They get about 200 per
cent protection. There is a pearl but
ton company in Chicago which is mak
ing a particularly good thing out of it,
as they get the 200 per cent protection,
and get convicts out of the peniten
tiary to make the buttons.
B>b Ingersoll is reported to have
said: ! believe in protecting what are
called 'infant' industries, bat after these
infants* get to be six feet high and
wear No. 12 boots, it is about time
to stop rocking tbe cradle, especially
when the 'infant' tells you if that you
stop rocking he will get out of the
cradle and kick y<?ur bead off?''
The Brain of an Ant.
There is an old puzzle question which
asks, "what, is smaller than the mouth
of a miteV" The an-wer is, what go?.s
into its mouth." Although an ant is a
tiny creature.yet its brain is even tinier
But although it is nectar'!y smaller
than the ant's feead which contains it,
yet it is larger in proportion, according
to the ant's Sita, than the brain of
any known creature. Thn we can
easily believe when we read of this in
sect's wonderful powers. The quality j
of instinct or sagacity does not fu.iy ex
piaiu some of the stories t?dd about them
The best, writers upon ants?those who
have made the a.*to?i>hing intelligence
of these little insects a special .study?
are obliged t<? admit that they display
reasoning ability, calculation, uflectiou,
and good judgment ^uoh qualities of
brain show a more than ordinary in
stinct, and wo are tt??t Hupr;-ed to htar
that the act's b^g bram carries out our
idea that be p->sfs*es a higher intelli
gence than i* shown i y other workers
of his s;z?\?Harper's V-.ung People.
TRADE
MARK
Our establishment sparkles with the brightness of
AUTUMN GOODS.
Quantity, Quality and Good Values
combine to produce an activity sur
surpassing all previous records.
-We want to call your attention this week to our
DRESS GOODS,
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Millinery Department.
Our display of French and German Novelties in Suit lengths
(no two alike) surpasses in Quality and Richness all previous
exhibits In fact we only carry the newest in all Dress Goods.
Our designs are exclusive to us and can't be found elsewhere
in the city.
Our Millinery Parlor
Filled with new importations in
PATTERN HATS AND BONNETS,
Beside the Creations of our own Millinery Artists, wras the
admiration of all the ladies in attendance at our Opening on
the 28th and 29th. There's
Beauty and Brightness,
Lightness and Grace,
To satisfy
Your inborn artistic taste.
Hats and Bonnets made to
match any and all Suits.
We point with pride to our
Which is unequaled in the State. This is no experiment with
us, but an established fact. Our work is our best advertisement.
Be sure to look through our
CLOAK DEPARTMENT
The largest line of Ladies' Misses and Children's Cloaks in
Sumter.
Carpets
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Mattings,
Oil Cloths,
Portiers
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Etc.
At the lowest possible price.
When Ready to make your Fall purchases he considerate and
give us credit for wishing to serve your interests as well as
our own.
Respectfully,
Millinery and tf . lM.
^ \ . Specialties.
Dressmaking l
N. B ?We have added a line of Ladies'
Trunks. Everything new and fresh.
Prices right.
tax notice.
THE TREASURER OF S?MTER COUN
ty hereby gives notice that bis books
will be open at bis office in the City of Sum
ter from the 15th day of OCTOBER to the
15th day of DECEMBER, 1892, except on the
following 'jamed days, when he will attend at
the places named, either in person or by
deputy, for the collection of Taxes for the
fiscal year 1891 and 1892:
On Saturday. Oct. 15, at Shiloh.
On Monday, Oct. 17, at Lynchburg,
From 8 o'clock a. m., until 1 o'clock p
m., and at Magnolia from 2 o'clock un
til 6 o'clock p. m.
On Tuesday, Oct. 18. at Bishop
ville.
On Wednesday, Oct. 19, at State
burg.
On Thursday, Oct. 20, at Rembert's
Store, Rafting Creek.
On Friday, Oct. 21, at Spring
Hill
On Saturday, Oct. 22, at Kiogman's
Store, Providence.
On Monday, Oct 24, at Wedgefield.
On Tuesday, Oct. 25, at Tindal's
Store, C. S. & N. Railroad.
On Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Bossard
Postoffice
On Thursday, Oct. 27, at Maon
ville.
Od Friday, Oct. 28, at Reid's
Store, Mt. Clio.
On Saturday, Oct. 29. at Mayesvi?le.
On Monday, Oct. 31, at Gordon's
Mill.
On Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Bishopville.
D E KEELS,
County Treasurer.
Sept 9.
Tax notice.
rpHE TREASURER OF SUM TER COUN
JL ty gives notice that his books will tie
open from the Fifteenth Day of Octosks,
1892, to the Fifteenth Day of December,
1892, for the collection of Taxes for the fidcal
year commencing November 1st, 1891, in
Su m ter County.
The following are the rates per centum if
the levy :
1. For State purposes?four and one-half
mills on every dollar of the value of all taxa
ble property.
2. For County purposes?two and three
fourth mills on every dollar of the value of
all tax>ib!e property.
3. For the support of public schools?two
mills on every dollar of such value.
4. One dollar on each taxable poll, (to wit,
between the ages of 21 and 50 }ears.)
5. Mayesville, two mills extra levy for
school purposes in the town of Mayesville.
6. Swimming Pens, two mills extra levy
for school purposes in the township.
7. Bishopvdle, four mills extra levy for
school purposes in School Dist. No. 20.
8. Mechanicsville, two mills extra levy for
school purposes in the township,
9. Providence, two mills extra levy for
echool purposes in the towosbip.
10. Sumter, No. 1, (out of city) two mills j
extra levy for school purposes in the towosbip.
11. Concord, two mills extra levy for
school purposes in the township.
12. For building county jail?one mill
extra levj.
D. E. KEELS,
Sept. 7. Treasurer.
GAMECOCK CITY MARKET
W. J. DAWSEY,
Proprietor.
Raving; made arrangements with
reliable dealers in this State and Vir
ginia for a regular supply of the best
BEEF CATTLE AND MUTTON
by the car load. I will be able to
offer the choicest quality of meats to
be had, and solicit the trade of City
and County.
I can sell
Wholesale or Retail
as cheap or cheaper than any other
parties in the market
Especial attention will be given to
ORDERS FROM THE COUNTRY
and meats will be sold in large or
small quantities at small profits.
Special arrangements will be made
with housekeepers.
Give me a call,
W. J. BAWSEY.
NEXT TO POST OFFICE, SUMTER, S. C
Aug. 3. _
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W. R. DELGAR, Agent.
SUMTER, S. C.
PAUL SIMPSON, Shipper,
Glenn Springs, S. C.
Mch. 2.
We will make it to your interest to
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Boy's Long Pants Suits
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Boy's Knee Pants Suits
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Boy's Overcoats from
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$2.50 to $25 00
2.50 to 18.00
.75 to 10.00
1.00 to 12.00
1.50 to 20.00
.25 to 1.50
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A MAGNIFICENT LINE
OF
HATS, SHIRTS, NECKWEAR, COLLARS AND CUFFS,
And everything usually found in a First Class Clothing and
Furnishing Goods Store, at prices as low as good goods een
be sold at.
Respectfully,
rown & Chandler
Corner Main and Liberty Streets,
SUMTE3R, S. O
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IN LOW PRICES?
We offer a magnificent New Stock for
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At prices the lowest yet named for strictly First Class Goods.
High Grades in all Departments.
True Merit in every article.
Honest Quality everywhere,
An Immense Assortment,
Nothing Missing, Everything the best,
The Quality will tell it
The Price will sell it.
And that is the reason you should come early to get your bargains
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OF9 ITS KIINTD.
The Dollar you spend with us goes farther, lasts longer and gets more style, gets more quality,
gets more quantity and does you more good in service, worth and wear,
than any money you spend.
Our Goods and prices now waiting for your inspection will prove this.
Our Dressmaking Department
Opened October 1st, under the management of Miss McLean, an artist from New York. If you
want nice fitting dresses we can make them. Give us a call.
OWNS & PURDY,
SITMTER, S. C.
Sep 1