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GOING TO CHARLOTTE. Public Subscription Being Raised to Aid the Firemen. Sumter will be welt represented at tbe Firemen's Tournament ia Charlotte dering tbe Mecklenbere celebration, and tbiscity will be well advertised as a progressive and np to date place. Monaghan Rose Company and Delirar Ree! Squad will go, car? rying their bose wagons and burse? and a strone squad * That they will proseo t as Sae an appearance in every respect as any company present there is no question There are not finer horses any where, and the entire outfit is the best that could be procured. A souscription is being raised by tbe busi? ness men of the city to assist the firemen in defraying tbe expenses of the trip, whicb is a public-spirited and commendable action on their part. The firemeo deserve alt and more than they hare ever received, naviog given -"their time and spent tbeir own mooey freely ?o organize, equip and maintain a volunteer departmeu t that renders as reliable and effi? cient service as a regular paid departa en? could Apart fro? tbe pleasure and benefit that tbe firemen will derive from attendance on tbe Charlotte Tournament, the advertise? ment that Sumter will receive by having them there most be considered It will bri og Sum? ter before tbe people of North Carolina, and the city will be judged by her representa? tives, and with snc? represen tartres Sumter cannot and will not be underestimated or illy judged. We sbou?d all be glad that Monaghan and Delgar squads are going and should aid them as liberally and generously as possible Such aid is not giving any thine away in charity, it is simply paying a small portion of the debt doe the firemen. Th? railroads have offered to transport th? wagons and horses ire* of charge, now let the citizens do themselves proud by raising a purse sufficient to defray the expenses of their renreseo tali ves in Charlotte. RAZORS IN THE AIR. f _. j - - Two Negro Women Fight on the Court House Square. Tbe sacred precincts of Magistrale Wells* v temple of Justice was profared and violated Thursday after->oon by a rode and nnseem'y broil in which a razo* figured conspicuously Cara Anderdon and Melinda Hopkins, col? ored, bad a figbt of small dimensions some? time earlier in the day, and after declaring a temporarv armistice repaired to Magistrate Wells' office s?ekioe legal justice. Arriving at toe office hostilities ?ere renewed and .everybody in the vicinity of tbe scene of strife was attracted by the uproar raised by tho combatants. The skirmish was opened with a seat eri?e volley ot abuse, which was immediately followed up with a charge in which fists and finger nails were brought into energetic service. Honors were evenly di? vided for a few moments aa tbe opposing forces wer? evenly matched But this dtd not soil Menuda, and she quickly unlimbered and brougat into action a smooth canting razor which she bad kept concealed .from tbe enemy. Clara was dead game, however, and did not order a retreat in the free of tbe superior armament of ber adversary, but kept up the figbt all along the lio?. Melinda waa making great inroads io the cost?me of Clara aod would have inevitably driven ber from tbe field or reduced bet to mince meat bad the onlookers not rushed in and put aa end to the strife. The warring, women were pacified hy supe? rior forces and were then dragged off to the guard bouse by col icemen. They wer* be? fore tbe Major Friday moroiogand were found gailty of disturbing the peace of the city. Tbe Mayor demanded an indemnity of $2 each from the women which was collected by derk and Treasurer Hur3t. Strange to say, although Clara's clothing waa gashed all aroand ber body and arms, ber flesh waa not cot in any place. She was probably saved by her corset from the deepest cat of all. Weekly Report of Health Officer. Deaths and births reported io Health Offi? cer for week ending May 14<b: DEATHS - 1 white female, aged 8 months, cause of death, Gastro Soteritis. . Colored Males-One 4 days old, cause of death, Lack of Vitality. Ooe 29 y**rs old, cause of death. Consumption. One 18 days old, cause of death, Convulsions. Ooe 5 years old, cause of death, Pneumonia. Colored Females-Ooe 5 months old. cause of death, Dysentery and T?ethiae. One 75 year J ole, canse of death, Paralysis. Ooe Sb years old, cause of deatb, Orgauic Disease of Heart. Ooe 21 years old, cau?? of death, Consumption. Total deaths-1 whit, 8 colored Total births-3. 2 waite males, 1 colored male. Take JOHNSON'S CHILL & FEVER ?The Telephone Patents. / -- The telegraphic reports Wednesday morning conveyed ao erroneous impression ns to tbe effects of tbe decidion of the United States Supreme Court io tbe suit against tbe Bell Telephone Compaoy for the aooulmeot of tbe Ba ile Berliner patents The question at issue was cot one involving tbe validity of tbe patent but whether tbe said patent was or was not secured by means of fraud. TV patent has been ia force all tbe time tbe snit baa been in progress, and tbe decision will not alter the states of the independent com? panies that have been manufacturing tele? phones for several years. Tbe Bell Telephone Compaoy could have entered suit against tbem st aoy time if these companies bad been infringing on the patent io question, bot th's bas oot been done because th? independent companies have carefully avoided icfriog ment. 1 bey will cootioue makiogtelephones as usual ?od apprehend no interference from the Bell people. The Mason Electrical Works will go ahead filling al) orders for telephones as they have tn the past. At present this company bas orders ahead for the entire output of the fae tory sud the telephones made in Somter are growing to popularity as they become better known Something; to Know It may bo worth something to know that the Aery best medicine for restoring the tired out nervous system to a healthy vigor ia Electric Bitters. This medicine is palely vegetable, acts by giving tone to the nerve centres in the stomach, gently stimulates the Li" r and Kid? neys, and aids these organs in throwing off im? purities io the blood. Electric Bitters improves the appetite, aids digestion, ?nd is pronounced by those who bava tried it as th? very best blood pa:ifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold for 50c or $1.00 per bottle at Dr. J. F. W. De Lorine's Drug Store. 2 SAME OLD CHESTNUTS. By making the foreigners contribute from $1.50,000,000 to $200,000,000 an? nually to get into our market we enable our own people to run their business at a profit.-American Economist, Organ of Protective Tariff League, March 26, lby7. Uncle Sam: "Say, Dingley, yon might as well come down. Yon're cot getting any chestnuts, and you're not fooling voters. McKinley h?d some ex? perience up that tree-it's a horse chestnut-in 1890. He pretended that he was making the foreigner pay the tax, bnt he soon found ont what the peo? ple thought of him and his bill. The bulk of Americans are both honest and intelligent. The intelligent voter knows that you can't make the foreigner pay his taxes, and the honest voter prefers to pay his own taxes. You can never make your bill popular by such tomfoolery. " \ Blaine Opposed a Duty on Hides. . The following letter from Secreta of State James G. Blaine in 1S90 supposed to have had great weight wi the ways and means committee: WASHINGTON, April 10, 1S90 ; DEAR MK. MCKINLEY-It is a great mista j to tate hides from the free list, where th have been for so many years. It is a slap the face to the South Americans, with wh< we are trying to enlarge our trade. It w benefit the farmer by adding 5 to 8 per cent the price of bis children's shoes. It will yic a profit to the butcher only, the last man tl needs it. The movement is injudicious fr< frggi-nTn'ng to end, in every form and pha? Pray stop it before it sees light. Such moi ments as this for protection will protect t Republican party into a speedy retiremei Yours hastily. JAMES G. BLAINE Hon. William McKinley. Chairman Ways ai Means. Where is the Blaine this year wi can head off the westerners who wa] their share of protection and fetish imagine that they can get it hy a du on hides? It is perfectly consistent wii the protection system to tax hides, e pecially as the bulk cf the tax wou probably go to a few. monopoly butel ers and ranchmen. But observe some < the effects upon our industries: The importations of untaxed hid? and skins last year were valued at ?20 216,52S. The goatskins were valued J $10,803,359. The former were most] converted into sole leather, belting and such like heavy material, for whic ; our native hides are not thick enougl The goatskins are not produced in th: country. From this raw material we not on] manufacture boots, shoes and leath< goods for our own people cheaper an better than they are made elsewhere i the world, but we exported finish'e products of the value of $20,242,75* Without free and cheap raw maten: this export trade would have been in? possible, and our own people, as Mi Blaine pointed out, would be compelle to pay mere for their footwear. Th wages paid te our workers in leathe last year amounted to $25,542,106. Protecting the Few Wooljrrowers. Suppose the Dingley duties on woe would give the woolgrowers all th protection claimed and that the prie of wool would actually go up thc f u] amount of the duty, which, of course is absurd. What would be the effect up on the country at large? Mr. Edward Atkinson, statistician estimates the annual wcol product a $55,000,000 out of a total cf $13,200, 000,000 produced by all the workers c the country and the persons dependen on the wool industry at 300,000 out o a total population of 73,000,000. Th ^wool duty then means that ont of ever 240 persons 239 are to be "held up" fo: the benefit of the other one. This is ; sample of what protection does. O: course more than 300,000 persons ina? sometimes raise a few sheep, but th< interests of these ethers are more thos< of the consumer than of the sheep raiser, and they would lose more because of in creased cost of woolens than they woulc gain by the increased price of wcoL The protective tariff system is a fara when considered in connection with the farmer or the workingman. Will thej ever fully appreciate it? An Odious Tax. The tin plate makers wish to boom their business by increasing the dut\ on imported tin plate, to tho Injury oi ?he canning industry and other indus? tries that flourish by reason of cheap tin plate. Another blow is struck at business by abolishing the rebate on ex? ported tin cans. Now canned goods ex? ported in cans made of impoited tin are allowed a drawback of the duty paid, ?md thus an export business has been built up in canned ^ruifs, oysters, vege? tables, petroleum, etc. Over 4,000,000 tin cans are sent abroad annually, con? taining eil which competes with that of j Russia. Wnen Russia can buy tin plato at $2.70 a box, while we have to pay ! $3.50 for it, it is evident that our coni ? petition will Le rendered difficult. Mr. ; Dingley robs Peter to pay Paul.-Balti J more Sun. Why We Shiver. It is true that woolen clothing, un? derwear and blankets will be out of the reach of people of moderate means when Dingley hat- his way, but just think ! how sweet i'. is to suffer for one's coun ? try and to shiver in order that thc rob ter barons may continue to w>^ fat ind contribute to the "legitimate" ex? penses of the g. o. p!-Leesville Post Champ Clark's Wit. Champ Clark cf Siissouri is not only one of the -wittiest men in the house o? representatives, but he is one of thc best posted on the tariff question. In ridiculing some of the rates of the Dingley bill that to him seemed subject to criticism, he recited hov/ a man o? the name of Goodyear went before the ways and means committee and secured the tariff he wanted by some skillful palav?r about the great statesmen that Maine had produced. Then he said: "Mr. Chairman, tEat piece of *soft soap' made it harder for every poor man in the United States to build a house. Governor Dingley swallowed the tait as quick as a trout would swallow a fly [laughter], and next summer some poor devil out west, living in a dugout 100 miles from a railroad station, who voted for McKinley under the deluded idea that prosperity would come undei his administration and who has not heard of this tariff bill, ciphers it out that he can build him a two room cot? tage with lumber and other building materials at the old rate. He goes to the station to get the lumber and finds that the price has gone sky high, and he goes back to his home and says to his wife: 'My dear, I a?n sorry that we must stay in the dugout. We cannot build our lit? tle house A great man by the name of Governor Dingley has put the price of lumber and other things so high that we cannot do it, but, thank God, he has left dragonas blood free. * [Laughter. ] Next year, when my handsome friend from Iowa (Mr. Dolliver) returns to that fine agricultural district which he represents, some man who has not been able to bny a coat because of the high price of woolen cloth will say to his neighbor, * There comes Dolliver, who put up the price of woolen goods. ' But the successful candidate for the i post office in that district says, 'Oh, but^Pol liver put divi-divi on the free list!' And in chorus they sing, 'Dolliver and divi-divi forever. ' " [Laughter. Ap? plause on the Democratic side. J Why Increase the Coal Duty?. Under the existing tariff bituminous coal pays 40 cents a ton. The Dingley j bill proposes to make this 75 cents. In 1895-6 the imports of bituminous coal into the United States were 1,243,835 tons. The exports were 2,240,284. The figures for Canada were: Imported from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, etc., 123,404 tens; from Quebec, Ontario, etc., 39,9S7; from British Columbia, 627,257; "exports to these three divisions respectively, 413 tons, 1,671,302 and 3,094. Canada now proposes in case the Dingley rate is imposed to retaliate by a high duty tn our coal, which* will certainly net stimulate exports. Here is an export business worth twice as much as the corresponding import busi? ness, and it is proposed to run the risk of ruining the former for the sake of screwing ?350,000 taxes cut of the lat? ter, and this on the plea of reviving American industry. Can any sane man fail to see that, even assuming that imports do not fall off, it is hardly worth while for the sake of a paltry $350,000 to tempt Canada into ruining an established business nearly twice as large as that which is to yield the tax? Yet this is the way in which "the old thing works. " The Protection Umbrella. Punctures thc Theory. Thc opposition of the protected inter? j ests of Massachusetts to a duty on hides j looks like an abandonment of the favor- j ite protectionist theory that "the for- j eigner pays the tax." Dip oo more-when you be gio let your pen slide 'til! you're doDe-you can't do it without a Waterman Ideal Fountain Pen. \i E SELL THEM. H. G. OSTEEN & CO, LIBERTY ST. I To Yoii \ W?T?ge \ Paper, Blank Books PENS, INK, t t At H. G. OSTEEN & CO'S You can get everything that you want at the lowest prices. Weare60 situated that we can afford to make price9 closer than any one else. I All Goods are new and of I the best quality. No shop I worn goods. We ma?e a specialty of School Supplies and also keep* a full line of Stationery, Blanks Booka, . Etc. Come and inspect our goods. j LI3EETY STE2ET, ' I > SUMTER, S. C. I Tie Largest ai Most Complete EstaMishfflent South Geo. S. Hacker & Son, -MANUFACTURERS OF DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, Moulding & Building Material. rffice and W8reroom9, King, opposite Can? non Street, CHARLESTON, S. C, ??S" Pnnfcaef our make, which we gu?rante superior to any sold South, and therebj ?ave money. Window and Paney Glass a Specialty | October 16-o V W. t. DOUGLAS 4~\ fife SQ.00 SHOE KM B???I??????&\ sf fi 7he styie-Fit and Wear ^ivT^k ^^^^^^^ii?^^a ll SB could not be improved for jS^^^^^^^^? ? T Double the Price. ?^-CTfT^^M ^^^^^?^^gi W. L. Douglas $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes are the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ productions of skilled workmen, from the best ma ?fflfr^^^^^^^^^^k terial possible to put into shoes sold at these prices? HB^^^fe?^^^^, ^c ma^e aIso $2.50 and $2.25 shoes for men. and BBSl^?^^^m $2^0, $2.00 and $1.75 for boys, and thc L. ^Si^P^^^^?v DouSlas ^-50 PoIice sho*> V?T suitable for ^^W^K/m^^^^^^^ letter-carriers^ policemen and others having ^i^^^Wm^^^^^^?k mt?C^ wa^"?S to do. ^?^M' ^^^^^^^^^^. Te are constantly adding new styles to our xjmw' ^^^P^S^S^^^^^ already larjre variety, and there is no rea Merchants. W/M- ^if?^filIpPi? son wh.v >'ou cannot be suited, so insist on Bankers, '??' ^^^^^^^^K 'd^"" ~ D?"s!aS 5hoe3 fl"om i"our F?JonianS T????k> "^??llSBS?k "We nse only the best Calf. Russia Calf f . , \8?M- "^^^'.w^m (all colors), French Tarent Calf, economical ^^S??/^Z'^^?B^ French Enamel, Vici Kid, etc! W I^Douglas graded to correspond with prices are the best. ^^^^^^I^^/^^^^N. If dealer cannot supplv you, For sale by ^^*Si??f?????k wnte ^*^||g?} W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. MIL^ CATALOGUE FEEE. ?D6 e ? J. RYTTENBERG & SONS. Gilli ll ?HOI Gil ll [IIDQ! GU ll OHIO! STRICTLY HIGH GRADE. The Best is the Cheapest. There is none Better than the .*???%? GUNNING Finest in Finish? Best in quality of material and work? manship. Style unequaled. Tool Steel Bearings* Seamless Steel Tubing-, Perfect in every detail. We are "GUNNING" for you. Send for Catalogue. 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