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fte tS?itbttia? MQ &uikn. S?BDNISDiYr OCT ll, .1893. A RADICAL REMEDY. REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR., ON THE FINANCIAL PANIC. He OOM to the Koot off the Matter ?od Argue? For a Wider Co-operation In Production and tao Breathing: of a Soul Into Society. NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., continued in his pulpit in Association hail this morning the discus? sion of the Panic-It?Causes and Cure." The subject of today's discourse was the 3>enSan?B* core of panics. He main? tains that there can be no cure for the commercial crisis save in a new social order, which fact is evidenced in the uniformity with which panics oc? cur under all forms of government, un? der all conditions of population, under all systems of banking, under all politic? al parties; also evidenced in the fact of the practical anarchy and failure of oar present competitive sy#em of com? merce. He argues for a wider social co? operation in production and pleads for the bret??ng of a soul into society. Thc texts caosenw?re.the s\me as those used for the past two sermons-the sermon, in fact? bemg^a continuation of the for* mer discourses: Thou hast tates usury and increase, and thoc bast greetBry gained of thy neighbors by extortion and &A3t forgot ten me, saith the Lord At tho nartrSUrartttBthon eggs and hatchets them not, iso bJwfgetteth riches and not by right shan leav<a them in the midst of his days and at his eod nhaJl.be a fool. They shall cast their silver into ibestrrets, and their gold sJ?jPb^removed; their silver and their gold shall not bo able to deliver them in the day of the rath of the Lord. The discussion of the problems of usury, of extot lim,of tho money power and its periodical panic must go deeper than tiie surface iPwe would find the real canses of the p&W???kena, and like? wise we must go deeper than the surface if we aw?$fr discover the cure for the evils. Unquestionably the nation- has been iuxcnvuLsions. It is important that ortain^medies ahal?be ap??ed to re Qeve^3s state of intense" excitement. and partial remedies wejaj??d to discuss in part last Sunday bat a remedy applied for a of convulsions can not .?ach $k3 seat of the constitutional tron. 'e. We must go beyond the developmer .j of pam for the moment and discuss the bidden disease which is sapping the con? stitution of the patient. To attempt a sure of the financial panic by tinkering with oar currency law or with our bank? ing law ls to attempt to cure an earth? quake by dropping a p?l in the crater of Tesuvxus. The difficulty is more than on the surface. The evil is inherent in tho very custom of society itself. It is $oth useless, illogical and unfair tasa&sgainst the rich when we areour iidtwm conmen tip g to the social order which creates their excessive wealth. They are the normal and perfectly nat? ural product of the social system, in which we live. They are no worse than the social order that produces them, that fosters them and that adds daily to their power. If the system of compet?- j tive economics and self interest which we have erected into a science called modern political economy be right, they are right, and the evils incident to their power are without remedy-in other words, diere arabe no real cure of com? mercial panics save in a new social or? der. First-This fact is made evident from a study of the history of the nine great i the nineteenth cen tury.^ WsWisy^ffceas%reat panics by tiie impartial historian reveals the facts so recently, brought cut by the treatise trial crises and the evils which they cre? ate are: L Entirely independent of the ques? tion of population, whether rapidly in? creasing or stationary. This is shown from the study of the history of Great Britain and France and America, in which panics have occurred under every condition of population, when over? crowded, when decreasing, when in? creasing under normal conditions. 2. That tiie commercial crisis is en? tirely independent of all the forms of government, whether they are despotic, monarchic or republican. The panic comes to imperial Germany, to England, to republican France, to democratic United States, with equal impartiality. & That tito commercial crisis'is en? tirely outside of the question pf the ex? tent of territory of the nation and the uninhabited lani available for its peo? ple. The United Slates, Austria, the Argentine Republic and indeed all the undeveloped nations of the world have proved themselves equally vulnerable in tins century to the most violent forms of commercial depression. 4. That the panic is independent of a restricted or inflated currency, of a gold standard or silver standard, evidenced in the fact that they have occurred under each condition of currency with equal violence. 5. ThatpanJcsare entirely independent of any special system of banking, the soundest methods doing no more than limit the range of the calamity, the least sound doing no more than extend it. There never was, for instance, a time in which tiie hanging of America was upon a " sounder" basis, and in this crisis our banks have shown that they have prac? tically nothing to do with it. They sim? ply looked ont for Ko. 1 and left the peo? ple to look out for themselves. One bank in this city with a total list of deposits aggregating the enormous sum of $30, 000,000 refused to honor the drafts of its patrons, Our great insurance compa? nies simply took advantage of the oppor? tunity to raise their rate of interest ?om 5 to d per cent on their helpless victims. Our great money institutions-banks and insurance corporations-have merely shown in this crisis, as tiley have shown ia the past, that they are entirely inci? dental to the calamity. 6. That tiie commercial panic is en? tirely independent of free trade or pro? tection. It has come to free trade Eng land and to protected America, and it has stricken each with impartial sever? ity. It is useless for the protectionist to lay at the door of so called tariff re? form the evils incident to what he calls tariff tinkering. England has had no tariff tinkering in this generation, but tiie world has been convulsed through her financial panics. Second-The conclusion is inevitable that we can have no cure for commer? cial panics save in a new social order. The truth is, panics are inevitable under the present organization of business. Our present economic system is a dis? mal failure, ft is the wildest of wildcat banking from the broadest international and national point of view. At the pres? ent rate the world is going hopelessly in debt, and tiie present social order is responsible for it. The world's debt amounts, it is said, today to $150,000, 000,000; There are but $7,000. 000,000 of gold and silver in existence in the known world. The interest on the world's debt amounts now to more than the annual increase of the wealth of the world. It is simply a mathematical impossibility for the world topsy its debts under such a social regime. About every 20 years, in the case of Hamas events, i t may be affirmed with certainty that thew will be a financial crash, a period of bar ruptcy, of repudiation and wreck a: suffering. This is the periodical year f an attempted settlement. The debt the world cannot be paid, and as the < fort is made to settle its affairs the wh< body is convulsed. We are fighti: against the stars in their courses ec nomically. Take our own nation, for example, t most prosperous in the world in its ri resources of wealth. It is estimut that our production of wealth is $2,80 OOO per day above ali expenses of prodr tion and maintenance of workers. T. average cost of* the United States go exnment per day, exclusive of certa sums of the budget not counted as leg imate governmental expenses, is vast over $1,000,000 per day. The interest < our public bonds is $370,000 per da the interest on our railroad bonds, $2(H 000 per day; the interest on priva debts, $3,400,000 per day; dividends absentee holders of railroad, bank ai industrial stock, $400,000, the grai total of our daily indebtedness amour ing to $4,370,000. Our net daily incoh from, production, with which to mo this indebtedness, being only $2,800,00 it doe? not take much figuring to s< that we axe running in debt at the ra of $1,570,000 a day. It is easy to si that such a scheme of economics bound in the long run to ruin the sociel which maintains it. Its only result ca be the accumulation of practically a the wealth of the nation in the hands < the creditors, who must become then selves fewer with the process of liquid; tion. It is also apparent, under the presei system of society, that the proportion < the increase of th? world's wealth whic goes to the laboring man has sudden] decreased during the past genexatio until the proportion now received by tl laborer, as contrasted with the incon: to capital, is less than one-half what : was 40 years ago. The business of th: I age, into which has been poured moree j human endeavor than in any other fiel j of activity, is a stupendous failure. On ! young men of energy and genius ente the business world. Into this great caldron we have poure our brightest blood through the past cei tury, and what are our returns? Ou ; political economist tells us that under system of competition and commercis war the delightful principle of self ii terest will work out the salvation of th world. But the facts are-and they ca: ; be ascertained from any commercia agency such as Bradstreet's-that 95 pe cent of all the business enterprises of th nation axe sooner or later bankrupt. I is a momentous fact that only 5 per cen of those who enter our commercial woxl< ever succeed in establishing themselves Can it be possible that we have deceive? ourselves into believing that a systen which produces 95 failures too successe is worthy of being perpetuated to al time? "When 95 fail under a given orin ciple and only 5 succeed, is it possible that we can believe that such a systen is best? The plain facts stare us in tb face. Our present regime, say what wi may about its traditions, that dat? through the centuries, stands arraigned by its own method and utter failure. THE DREGS AND THE FROTH. Hie product of society under such i ad?eme can be but of the same piece The dregs and the froth are out of al proportion to the saving strata. Th< suffering and misery and crime undei such a commercial scheme must be con tinuously on the increase. Are we sat isfied with such an order? Have w? cause to congratulate ourselves upon it. If you are satisfied with the record whicl Bradstreet gives you from the business world, can you be satisfied with the in? cidental accompaniments which we se? about us. Under our present scheme our country is being depopulated and the dark, crowded and fetid alleys of ?>ui cities being overcrowded. In 18$) only 16 persons out of 100 lived in the large cities; in 1870 there were 21; in 1880, 22; in 1890, 29. The number of towns having 8,000 inhabitants have in? creased during the last 10 years from 286 to 443. This is one of the saddest facts of this century, for it means depopula? tion and decline of the rural districts, which are the basis of the nation's life and the real source of its wealth and power. Are we satisfied with the pres? ent business, with its 95 per cent of fail? ures? If so, can we be. satisfied with the necessary concomitants of our pres? ent regime? A man who has spent his life in New York as a student and poli? tician and newspaper man wrote some time ago thus: Sept. 4. the midnight hoar, fun nd 23 girl?, once virtuous and respectable, drunk an?* dis? orderly on the streets of the Bend. They vre re picked np by the police, ran into t _.e Tombs and next day were sent to the workhouse for three months. This is a fair example of the license saloon output of one district for one night. Into the back rooms of hundreds of these saloons, into the upper and front rooms of hundreds of others, girls are enticed and made drunk, ruined and made to ferment and to suffer. They hang around the places where they lost their all, as millers around a lamp at night. At aces ranging from 20 to 30 they bring children tnto the world to fill pauper graves and foundling hospitals, and later on they sink Into the potter's field or wander off to die as suicides. The dominant political party Ison hand and responsible, up to its hips in fermentation, its feet and legs in dirt, and dis? ease rotten, and its above ground portion hur? rahing for Tammany and steadily sinking into j hell. As this combination controls politics, [ every decent man in city or county is educated to keep out of politics, instead of entering that field and changing aims and results. THE TREACHEROUS UNDERTOW. Can we be satisfied with such facts that are inevitable under our present , regime? Can we be satisfied with our potter's field, with our hungry and starv? ing poor? Are we satisfied with the swarm of little waifs that drift through our great streets thinly clad and half starved, who flock to our great newspaper offices for supplies in the early morning i hours? Some of these little rats crawl ' into the shoots of the postoffice for ! warmth while they axe waiting for the ! paper. One of these small unfortunates i was caught in a shoot some time ago by s fire one Saturday night and almost ; literally roasted alive. He was still bxeathing when taken out, but life was soon extinct. Are we satisfied with our paupers and orphans and homeless boys and girls? Axe we satisfied with oux millions who axe out of woxk and whose families suffer? It is said that the total number of Africans who axe now annually forced into slavery by the Arab wretches amount to nearly 2,000,000. With all our advance in Christian civilization, human slavexy is yet an awful fact. It is as if a Geoxgia ox Iowa ox Michigan were entixely transpoxted into slavery. This is bad enough, and for it Christen? dom is really responsible. And yet this is the least sorrow of hnmanity under the slave problem of today, for while 2,000,000 Africans are taken from a low, savage condition and sold into slavery countless millions of white boys and girls are being born into th6 most hope? less slavery under which men can labor. They are being born to struggle in the vicious undertow of our present social order. It is a lie to assert that they have an equal chance to become capital? ises instead of mere wage earners. A doggerel poem recently published has stated with more emphasis and pathos than art this great fact: You hadn't ought to blame a man fer things he hasn't done. Fer books he hasn't written, er fer fights he hasn't won; The waters may look placid on the surface all aroun. Aa yet there may bs undertow a-keepin of him down. ? Since the days of Eve and Adam, when tt fight of life began. It ain't been safe, my brethren, fer to light! judge a man; He may be tryin faithful fer to make his life go. An yet his legs git tangled in the treach'rot undertow. He may not lack in learn i n, an he may not wai fer brains; He may be always workin with the patient? of pains. An yet go unrewarded, an, my friends, ho1 can we know What heights he might a-climbed up to but fe the undertow? You've heard tho Yankee story of the hen nest with a hole. An how the hen kep' layin eggs, with all he might and soul. Yet T;pver got a settin, nor a single egg! I tro\ That hen was simply kickin 'gin a hidden ur dcrtow. There's holes in lots of hens' nests, and you'v got to peep below. To see the eggs a-rollin where they hadn1 ought to go. Don't blame a man fer f ai lin to achieve a laure crown. Until you're sure the undertow ain't drairgii of him down. Third-The only glimpse of light tha we see in the darkening picture of on present commercial calamities come from the spots where social co-operatioj has taken the place of competition. W? find here the key to the ultimate solution If we are ever to do away with the eve recurring crisis and collapse of trade, w< must harmonize the two sides of wealtl creation and bring about the era whet production shall become social and co operative, and to this end the organiza power of the state, of the municipal^ and of the district must be brought int( concerted and co-operative action. It i? inevitable that with the advance of civi lization the state shall advance in it: functions. The state is not a tyranny impos?e from without. By the state I mean th< organic community governing them selves. There are hundreds and thou sands of men who are now employee directly by the state. They t ~-e not sub ject to the depressions of a commercia. crisis. It is possible for the functions ol government to be gradually increased until vast interests now in the hands ol private corporations will be placed en tirely beyond the danger of panic. It if possible for the municipality to absort today, and that to its enormous advan? tage great industries, that are in private hands. The hour has come when the munie, pality should control all the great jno nopolies of municipal life. It should control the entire system of transit, o? lighting and the supply of water, and along these lines should continuously enlarge its functions until the people shall in fact manage their own business. This could be done all the more readily if society as a society could become con? scious of its tendencies and of its needs. The way is being led now in this direc? tion, if we but knew it. There are about 200 commercial trusts today monopoliz? ing the market of staple good's in Amer? ica, and there are 42 railroad corpora? tions which practically control the rail? road mileage of the continent. These consolidations of interest in the form of trusts and gigantic companies have been inevitable under our system of competi? tion. Their confessed failure in the at? tempt to fight one another and their coming together for protection and for the regulation of the output to suit the demand points th? way in the future for society to save itself from overproduc? tion and ito consequent ruin. These index fingers point to the fact that there are great monopolies today which can be owned and controlled by the people in their organic capacity and lift their vast interests beyond the range of commercial disorder. Every coal mine in the nation today should be owned hythe government, operated by its employees in behalf of those who work them and those who consume their product. Ctar mines of gold and silver should be owned and controlled by the government, and our currency question should be lifted at once from the plane of sectional politics and placed upon an international basis, and by such an act the people would be relieved from a gov? ernment by the bankers, of the bankers and for the bankers. And the people will learn it sooner or later. At present our banking concerns in their bills pre? sented to congress are having things pretty much their own way, as they have had it in the past, but when the people discover their real power and the game that has been played upon them so long there will be a change in the programme. It is said that a sailor once pitted a half grown American eagle against a game cock in South America for a fight. For a good while the young eagle did not seem to understand what the cock was about, as he jumped about him and spurred him and picked pieces of his topknot out. He walked round with a surprised and hurt expression as though he did not know exactly what to make of the procedure. When it final? ly dawned on him what this chicken meant by his actions, it is said that tho young eagle simply reached out one claw, took the chicken by the neck, placed his other claw on his body and pulled his head off. In many ways today our transporta? tion and distribution have been placed upon a co-operative basis. Our great distributers have become great, gigan? tic, co-operative concerns. Our great railroad corporations are becoming con? solidated into greater concerns. The way is here pointed to their further con? solidation under the management of the people for their own benefit. Our su? preme courts have already decided in several important cases the great consti? tutional principles involved, and they have decided them in favor of the public character of these functions. The United States supreme court de? cided in the New York grain elevator cases that the state has the right to reg? ulate the conduct and fix the price of any interest affected by the public inter? est. A state judge instructs a grand jury that the rioting of strikers is treason against the state of Pennsylvania. A federal judge ordered recently the arrest of locomotive engineers for leaving their work. He declared that it is unlawful for employees to abandon their work when such acts interrupt the course of national business. If this work is a public function, it should be assumed by the public and mn in their interests, not in the interest of private corpora? tions. ONLY $10 TO CHICAGO. Prussia, a poor country nationally, without great resources, has made the successful experiment of owning her own railroads. Their railroads paid in 1889-90 the interest on their cost, on the state debt and laid up a surplus of $35, 000,000. Some young men in Borden town, N. J., recently hired a freight car, furnished it with bunks and a cooking stove and freighted themselves to Chica? go for $10 each. Had they lived in Hun? gary, far behind America in intelligence and in the science of government, they could iiave been transported that dis? tance in a palace car for $5 at regular fare simply because tho state in Hun gary owns the railroads. I appeal for a soul to society. As a social organism wo need to be conscious of our being. We are acting as though we were in a dream. We aro merely drifting toward these great transforma? tions. Could we but gain consciousness of our organic life we could move for? ward with gigantic strides. Let no man be frightened with the cry of paternal? ism. Whether paternalism be ?rood or ! evil depends entirely upon who the pater I is. We need a more thonghtf ul citizen j ship. We need to study our relations j and our obligations to one another. Let I the man who believes in individualism j take note of his present inconsistent and j untenable position. The present crisis is the wreck of an overdone individualism. The present system, so far from maintaining individ? uality, is crushing out from the life of men whatever individuality they had. The ancient cobbler at shoes was a man of character and individuality. The modem manager of a joint stock corpo? ration for the manufacture of shoes is a machine; he is an automaton. So the course of all the industries that have been absorbed into the 20 great trusts which dominate our commercial world could be traced. In each case the indi? viduality has dwindled until it is repre? sented by a trust certificate-a thing of bloodless mechanics. As Hyndman so graphically says: "Their anxiety for the welfare of the in? dividual is so great that they crush indi? viduality by competition. They so love order that they foster industrial anarchy. They so dread the state that they for? ward the growth of practically irrespon? sible and uncontrolled inonopolies. The present social regime is founded upon the supposition that selfishness is the su? preme motive power of humanity, and that man will not wofk save for a selfish motive. Ruskin has well denominated such a political economy a dismal sci? ence. It is not a science. It is the ne? gation of a science. It is the mot colos? sal lie that the devil ever attempted to impose upon humanity. Men have worked for nobler ends than self, and the noblest work man has ever done has been the work riot for self. "The magnificent achievement in archi? tecture witnessed at the World's fair is the product of a national committee of patriotic citizens who served without pay. Man will work for work's sake. A convict in the penitentiary will clamor for work if it is denied him. Thomas A. Edison declares that when he has fin? ished a work he has no further use for it. He declares that he despises the tele? phone; thafc he will go ont of his way to avoid one. His spirit is eager for new conquest. His home is a palace. Every want is gratified. He works from high? er motives than mere selfish desire for gain. It is a slander upon humanity to assert that the only motive of life that will move the world is the baser motive.** JLa. Grippe. l'uring the prevalence of the Grippe the past seasons it wa.* H noticeable fret that those who depended up<?ii Dr. King's N-;w Discovery. n?>t only had a ?peedy recovery, but escaped all of thu troublesome after tffe?-ts of the malady* This reu-edy seems to have a peculiar power in effecting rapid cure? not only in oates of La Grippe, hut in all Disease? of Throat, Chesr and Lungs, and has cured Cases of Asthma and Hay Fever of long standing. Try it and be convinced lt won't disappoint. Free Trial Bottles at J. F W. DeLorme's Dru? Store. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, slip clunie to Castalia. When she hail Children, she gave them Castoria. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Cures Dyspepsia, In? digestion & Debility. CRATCHED TEN MONTHS. s A troublesome skin disease caused me to scratchy for ten mMI months, and has boen (l<jM3?S8| cured by a few days' use of ISSSMI M. H. WOLFF, Upper Marlboro, Md? SWIPT'^ECjFHj I was cured several years ago of white swelling in my leg by using B3R3P3| AILD HAVE HAU I1C symptoms of re turn of the dis? ease. Many prominent physicians attended me and all failed, but S. S. S. did the work. PAUL W. KIRKPATRICK, Johnson City, Tenn. Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis? eases mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. MAGNETIC NERVINE. Is sold with written gu?rante* to cure NervouaP rostra tlon. Fits? Dlzil ness,Headache and "Neuralgia and Wat e fulness.caused by ex cessivoueeof Opium, Tobacco and Ajco ^ ? t r,. e hoi; Mental Depres - AFTER* aion, Softening ot the Brain, causing Misery, Insanity and Death ; Barrener, Impotency, Lost Poweri? either sex. Premature Old Age, Involuntary Loewe, caused by over-indulgence, over-exertion of the Bram and j Errors of Youth. It gives to Weak Organs their Naturel Vigor and doubles the joys of life; cures Luwrrhcea and Female Weakness. A month'* treat? ment, in plain package, by mail, to any address, ft, per box, 6 boxes $5. With every $5 order we give a Written Guarantee to cure or refund the money. Circular? free. Guarantee issued only by our ex *Cc*ive agent. DR. A. J. CHINA? SUMTER, S. C, LD. JOHNSTON, SUMTER, S. C. -THE Practical Carpenter, Contractor and Builder, ?7UUL? RESPECTFULLY inform thf Y\ citizens of Sumter and surrounding country that he is prepared to furnish plans, and estimates on brick and wooden buildings All work entrusted io him will be done first class. SATISFACTION GUA RA N T E E D. Aug 19 WILLI A M KENNED Y Fashionable Barber. MAIN ST UK ET, Next door to Earle & Purdy J8 Law Office SUMTER, S C. 1DESIRE TO INFORM the citizen* o Sumter and vicinity thal I have opened business on my own accou i -r t the above old stand, and that with competent and polite assistants, I will be pleased to serve them ic any branch of my business in the best styl? of the arl. Give me a cal! WM KENNEDY. Oct 19. 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After H lon ur and varied experience in i he use of Mineral Waters from many sources, both foreign and domestic, 1 am fully persuaded th;tt the Harris Lithia Water possesses efficacy in the treatment of afflictions ot the Kidney and Biadder uneqjaled by any other water of which I have made trial. This opinion is based upon observation of its effects upon my patients for the past three years, during which time I have perscrihed it freely and almost uniformly with benefit in Ih?* medicable maladies above mentioned. When failure to relieve has occurred, 1 have imputed i! 1?? insufficient use of the Water, for my experience tenches me that from one to two quarts daily should tie taken from two to four weeks to secure its full remedial effects. A. N. TALLY, M. D. Columbia. S. C., October 8th, 1892. CAMDEN. January 28, 1892. J. T. Hariris, E?q , Waterloo, S. C. : Dear Sir-I find great benefit from the use of your Lithia Water. 1 consider ir a fine tonic and general regulator of the digestion, ns well as vi-rv efficacious in those diseases for which Li'liin is considered somewhat of a specific. JUDGE J. B. KERSHAW. .Wy wife has been using your Lithia Water and is very much benefitted. I consider it in even- respect equal to the famous Buffalo Lithia Water. Abbeville, S. C JUDGE J. S. COTHRAN. FUR SALE IN SUMTER BY DR CHINA, DR. DKLORME, DR. McKAGEN AND March 22-y HUGHSON&CO. J. F. W, DeLORME, DEALER IN A g BO' Toilet soaps, Perfumery awl all Kinds ot Druggist's Sundries Usually Kept in a First Class JDirtxs Store. Tobacco. Snuff 'and Cigars. Garden Seeds, &3.. also Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glass Putty, &c, Dyestuffs. Physician V Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered wirb eare and dispatch The public will find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of host quality. Call and see for yourselves. flight Calls Promptly Attended To. City.?rug Store. jjP Drugs and Medicines, Soaps, Perfumery, Hair Brushes Tooth Brushes, Tooth Powder, Aiso, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Floor Stains, Kalsomiue, all colors for rooms, Artists' Paints and Brushes, Luster Paints. Convex Glasses. Nioe line of Handing and Stand Lamps, Lanterns, Shades, Wicks, Chimneys, &c TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Keep the following popular brand of Cigars : "Plumb Good," "Custom House," "Rebel Girl." Sep30 FRESH GARDEN SEED. Prescriptions carefully compounded Don't forget that the Walter A. Wood Mower is IMITATED but never equalled. Lightest Weight. Lightest Draft. ONLY STEEL MOWER MADE. Henry lt? Bloom, Sept. 2' Agent, Sumter, S. C. ATTENTION! PLUMBERS!! JUST RECEIVED 1 Car Load Sewer Pipe, Y's, Bends, &c. H. HARB1. JP=P=?# SUMTER ^Lfe^^^l^ Iron Works. ?SSB^fl?! W. E. & J. I. BRUNSON, ?^2^^^?^?!^Ss?y^:r PRO PRIETO RS. JJllginCS, SoilCITS !,R'* machinery of all kinds and descriptions repaired. C?FCVll?ir S?WS hammered and summed. IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS made to order: and any work usually done in a first ela.*?: machine .-'hop or foundry executed in a workmanlike manner PRICES REASONABLE and satisfaction guaranteed hy pood work. Estimates will bc famished on application Sumter Iron Works, W. Iv & J. I. Brimson, Proprietors, Sumter, S. C. ^?g5* No rt h Main Street. Aug ?) _ TPxilOlXO TSTotlOO. I wish to state to tb;- Farmers of Sumter and Clarendon Counties that I hare gotten in a car load of McCORMIC REAPERS, SELF-BINDERS. MOWERS and H AY RAKES Ir i? a settled fact that the MeCbrmic Go. makes the lightest draft and most durable Grain and Grass cutting machinery made in this or any other country. Our prices atv ven low arni terms easy. Writ?* tn mo for catalogue, which will be mailed rn von free nf charge, lt contains cuts of nil machine* and giv??9 full descriptions of them. GEO. F. EPPERSON, Agent. SUMTER, S. C. Office ai Epperson's Livery Stable. Aug. 16 for Infants and Children 4 ' Casto ria is so well adapted to children that 1 ivfomraend it aa superior to any prescription I .. .wa to me." IL A. ARCHER. M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, Kl Y. '"Thc use of 'Castoria U so universal and 1 .; i-.i'riu so well known that it seems a work cf supererogation to endorse it Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria v. .tiiia easy reach.'"' CARLOS MARTYN, D. D.. Kew York City Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, I dictation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di? gestion, Without injurious medication. "For several years I have recommended your ' Castoria,'' and shall always continue to do so as it has mvariably produced beneficial results.' EDWIN F PARDEE, M. P., 125th Street and 7th Ave, New York City. TriE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Typewriter Headquarters. J. W* GIBBES & CO., 101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S, C. SOUTH CAROLINA AGENTS FOR THE "DENSMORE.55 The Twentieth Century Typewriter. WE fill orders promptly for all kinda of Typewriter novelties and supplies for all Machines and for Mimeographs and Neostyles. The DENSMORE i? the latest achievement of the De ns ni ore family, by whom its predecessor, the Remington, ?as developed It has fired type-bar hangers and nou-vibrating-two points which insure lasting alignment It ?M the moist modern and practical machine on the market. The DENSMORE is used by the famous Carnegie Steel Company, the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the Rapid Addrensing Company of New York, which exhibits 16 Densroores in operation at the World's Fair, the New York Central and Hodson River Railroad, R. G. Don k Co's Mercantile Agency. ? Some of the users of the Densmore in Colombia, are : The Evening Joornal, Jones & Misson's Rosiness College and Typewriting School, Richmond and Danville Railroad, Master of Trains1 Office, Judge 8. W. 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