The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 14, 1900, Image 8
THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April. 1SS0. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THK TKUE S??THKON. Established Joue, ? s*?6
Consolidated Au?. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1900. Sew Series-Yoi. XIX. So. 29
"Yes. Let rae "state my rcaso
J*robably they are the same as yoi
in fact, I am sure they are." 1
?ashop paused a moment, then went
.with increasing feeling:
"Calvin, yon know how many ya
I have been doing the work of my TK
tion, and yon know something of 1
responsibility and the care of it I
not mean to say that my life has bi
free from bnrden bearing or sorro
but I have certainly led what the pc
and desperate of this sinfnl city WOT
call a very comfortable--yes, a ve
Inxnrious-life. I have a beau ti J
-house to live in, the most expensi
food, clothing and physical pleasures,
have been able to go abroad at leasl
, dozen times and have enjoyed for yes
the beautiful companionship of art aj
letters and music and all the rest of t
very best. I have never known what
meant to be without money or i
equivalent, and I have been unable
silence the question of late, 'What ha
I suffered for the sake of Christ ?' Pa
?was told what great things he mu
suffer for the sake of his Lord. Ma
well's position at Raymond is well ta
en when he insists that to walk in tl
steps of Christ means to suffer. Whe
has my suffering come in ? The pet
trials and annoyances of my clerical li
are not worth mentioning as sorrows <
suffering. Compared with Paul or ai
of the Christian martyrs or early disc
pies, I have lived a luxurious, sinfi
Efe, full of ease and pleasure. I cann<
endure this any longer. I have tin
within me which of late rises in eve:
whelming condemnation of such a fo
lowing of Jesus. I have not been wall
ing in his steps. Under the present sy:
tem Of church and social life I see n
escape from this condemnation excej.
to* give the rest of my life personally i
the actual physical and soul needs c
the wretched people in the worst pai
of ibis city."
" The bishop had risen now and walke
ever to the window. The street in fron
.f the house was as light as day, an
he looked out at the crowds passing
then turned, and, with a passionate ut
terance that showed how deep the vol
canic fire in him burned, he exclaimed
"Calvin, this is a terrible city ii
which we live. Its misery, its sin, it
selfishness, appall my heart, and I hav*
struggled for years with the sickening
dread of the time when I should b
forced to leave the pleasant luxury o
my official position to put my life into
contact with the modern paganism o:
this century. The awful condition o:
the girls in the great department stores,
the brutal selfishness of the insolent so?
ciety, fashion and wealth that ignore*
all the sorrows of the city, the fearful
curse of the drink and gambling hell,
the wail of the unemployed, the hatred
of the church by countless men who see
in the church only great piles of costly
stone and upholstered furniture and the
minister as a luxurious idler, all the
.vast tumult of this vast torrent of hu?
manity with its false and its true ideas,
its exaggeration of evils in the church
and its bitterness and shame that are
tbe result of many complex causes-all
this as a total fact, in its contrast with
the easy, comfortable life I have lived,
fills me more and more with a sense of
mingled terror and self accusation. I
"have heard the words of Jesus mari y
times lately, 'inasmuch as ye did it not
unto one of these least, my brethren,
ye did it not to me. ' And when have I
-t^ersonally visited the prisoner or the
desperate or the sinful in any way that
__,has actually carsed me suffering?
Rather I have followed the conven?
tional, soft habits of .my position and
have lived in the society of the rich.
Tefined, aristocratic members of my con?
gregations. Where has the suffering
come in? What have I suffered for
Jesus' sake? Do you know. Calvin"
the bishop turned abruptly toward his
"friend-'"I have been tempted of late'
to lash inyseif with a scourge. If I had
lived in Martin Luther's time. I would
??^ave bared my back to a self inflicted
torture. ' *
Dr. Bruce was very pale. Xever had
he seen the bishop or heard him when
under the influence of such a passion.
There was a sudden silence in tho room.
The bishop had sat down a:rain and
bowed his head. Dr. Bruce spoke at last
''Edward. I do not need to say that
you have expressed my feelings also. I
have been in a similar position for
years. My life has been one of compar?
ative luxury. I du not, of course, mean
to say that I have not hard trials and
discouragements and burdens in my
church ministry, her I cannot say that
I have suffered any for Jesus. That
verse in Peter haunts me. 'Christ also
suffered for yon, leaving you an exam?
ple that ye should follow his .st? ps. ' I
have lived in luxury. 1 do not know
what it means to want. I also ha\ e had
my leisure for travel and beautiful com?
panionship, i have been surrounded by
soft, easy comforts of civilization. The
sin and misery of ibis irr'-at city have
beat like waves against the st<.n?: wails
of my church and <<f this hons?- in
which I live, and ? have hardly heeded
them, the walls have been so thick I
have reached a point where 1 cannot
endure this any longer. 1 am not con?
demning the church, i love her. i am
not forsaking the church ? believe in
her mission and have no desire to de?
stroy: Least of all, in the step 1 am
about to take, do I d< sire to be charged
with abandoning the Chfisthm fellow?
ship, but i feei 1 must resign my place i
as pastor of Nazareth Avenue church 1
in order to satisfy myself that I am
wallrjig asj^ought to walk in his steps, j
In this action I judge no other LLUH
ters and pass no criticism on othe
discipleship, but I feel as von do. Ir
a closer contact with the sin and sha]
and degradation of this great city
must come personally, and I know tl
to do that I must sever my imined?
connection with Nazareth Aven
church. I do not see any other way 1
myself to suffer for his sake as I f<
that I ought to suffer. "
Again that sudden silence fell o\
these two men. It was no ordinary t
tion they we: deciding. They had bo
reached the same conclusion by t
same reasoning, and they were t
thoughtful, too well accustomed to t
measuring of conduct, to underestima
the seriousness of their position.
"What is your plan?" The bishop
last spoke gently, looking np with 1
smile that always beautified his fae
The bishop's face grew in glory no
every day.
"My plan.'* replied Dr. Bruce slow!
"is, in brief, the putting of myself in
the center of the greatest human ne<
I can find in this city and living ther
My wife is fully in accord with m
We have already decided to find a res
dence in that part of the city where v
can make our personal lives count f<
the most. ' *
* 'Let me suggest a place. ' ' The bishc
was on fire now. His fine face actual]
glowed with the enthusiasm of tl
movement in which he and his frier
were inevitably embarked. He went o
and unfolded a plan of such farreachin
power and possibility that Dr., Brue?
capable and experienced as be was, fe!
amazed at the vision of a greater soi
than his own.
They sat up late and were as eagc
and even glad as if they were plannin
for a trip together to some rare land c
unexplored travel. Indeed the bisho
said many times afterward that th
moment his decision was reached to liv
the lif of personal sacrifice he ha
chosen he suddenly felt an uplifting, a
if a great burden was taken from him
He was exultant. So was Dr. Brue
from the same cause.
Their plan as it finally grew into ;
workable fact was in reality nothin;
more than the renting of a large build
ing formerly used as a warehouse for ;
brewery, reconstructing it and livinj
in it themselves in the very heart of :
territory where the saloon ruled wit]
power, where the tenement was it
filthiest, where vice and ignorance an(
shame and poverty were congested int?
hideous forms. It was not a new idea
It was an idea started by Jesus Chris
when he left his Father's house and for
sook the riches that were his in orde:
to get nearer humanity and. by becom?
ing a part of its sin, help to draw hu
manity apart from its sin. The univer
sity settlement idea is not modern. It i:
as old as Bethlehem and Nazareth, anc
in this particular case it was the near?
est approach to anything tha oulc
satisfy the hunger of these two men tc
suffer for Christ. There had sprung nj
in them at the same time a longing that
amounted to a passion to get nearer thc
great physical poverty and spiritual
destitution of the mighty city that
throbbed around them. How could they
do this except as they became 3 part
of it, as nearly as one man can become
a part of another's misery ? Where was
the suffering to come in unless there
was an actual self denial of some sort ?
And what was to make that self denial
apparent to then, elves or any one else
unless it took this concrete, actual, per?
sonal form of trying to share the deep?
est suffering and sin of the city ?
So they reasoned for themselves, not
judging others. They were simply keep?
ing their own pledge to do as Jesus
would do, as they honestly judged he
would do. That was what they had
promised. How could they quarrel with
the result ? They were irresistibly com?
pelled to do what they were planning
to do.
The bishop had money of his own.
Every one in Chicago knew that the
bishop had a handsome fortune. Dr
Bruce had acquired and saved by liter?
ary work carrie : on in connection with
his parish duties more than a comforta?
ble competence. This money, a large
part of it. the two friends agreed to put
at once into the work, most of it into
the furnishing of a settlement house.
Meanwhile Nazareth Avenue church
was experiencing something never
known before in all its history. The
simple appeal on the part of its pastor
to his members to do as Jesus would do
had created a sensation that still con?
tinued. The result of that appeal was
very much tho same as in Henry Max?
well's church in Raymond, only Naza?
reth Avenue church was far more aris?
tocratic, wealthy and conventional
Nevertheless when one Sunday morn?
ing in ?-arly summer Dr. Bruce came
into his pulpit and announced his resig?
nation ti;?- sensation deepened all over
the city, although Dr. Bruce had ad?
vised with Iiis board-of trustees, and the
movement he intended was not a mat?
ter of surprise to them.
But when it became publicly known
that thc bishoj) also had announc? -i hi
retirement from tin- position he had
held ; ? long in order to go and live
!r' in the center of the worst part
of Chicago the public astonishment
reached its li*-iir 1 *
'"But why.:' i!:-- bishop replied t.>
one valued fri ad who had almost with
tears tried to dissuade i. i : ; i from his
purpose -"why should what Dr. Bruce
an 1 J propose to do seem so r- markable
a tiling, as ii i: were unheard.of that
a. doctor of divinity and bishop
I should want to save souls in this p;
j ticular manner. If we were to resi
i our charges fur the purpose of going
{ Bombay or Hongkong or any place
j Africa, the churches and the peo]
j would exclaim at the heroism of m
! sions. Why should it seem so greal
i thing if we have been led to give o
j lives To help rescue the heathen and t
I lost of our own city iu the way we a
i going io try'.' is ir, then, such a ti
; mendous event that two Christian mi
j isters should he not only willing h
; eager to live close to thc misery of t
i world in order to know it and reali
I it? ls it such a rare thing that love
? humanity should find this particul
j form of expression in the rescue
j souls?"
However the bishop may have sati
fied himself that there ought tobe not
lng so remarkable about it all, the pu
lie continued to talk and the church
to record their astonishment that tv
such men, so prominent in the ministr
should leave their comfortable home
voluntarily resign their pleasant sod
positions and enter upon a life of har
ship, of self denial and actual -sufferin;
Chirstian America 1 Is it a reproac
upon the form of our discipleship th;
the exhibition of actual suffering f<
Jesus on the part of those who walk i
his steps always provokes astonishmen
as at the sight of something very m
usual?
Nazareth Avenue church parted fro:
its pastor with regret for the most par
although the regret was modified t
some relief on the part of those who ha
refused to take the pledge. Dr. Bru<
carried with him the respect of me
who, entangled in business in such
j way that obedience to the pledge won]
; have ruined them, still held in the:
deeper, better natures a genuine admin
tion for courage and consistency. The
had known Dr. Bruce many years as
kindly, safe man, but the thought c
him in the light of sacrifice of this soi
was not familiar to them. As fast a
they understood it they gave their pas
tor the credit of being absolutely tra
to his recent convictions as to what foi
lowing Jesus meant. Nazareth Avenu
church has never lost the impulse c
that movement started by Dr. Bruce
Those who went with him in makin;
the promise breathed into the churc
the very breath of divine life and ar
continuing that life giving work at th
present time.
It was fall again, and the city face?
another hard winter. The bishop on
afternoon came out of the settlemen
and walked around the block, intendin;
to go on a visit to one of his new friend
in the district. He had walked abou
four blocks when he was attracted by i
shop that looked different from the oth
ers. The neighborhood was still quit?
new to the bishop, and every day h<
discovered some strange spot or stum
bled upon some unexpected humanity.
The place that attracted his notic<
was a small house close by a Chines<
laundry. There were two windows ii
the front, very clean, and that was re
markable, to begin with. . Then insid*
the window was a tempting display oi
cookery, with prices attached to th?
various articles, that made the bishoj
wonder somewhat, for he was familial
by this time with many facts in th<
life of the people once unknown to him.
As he stood looking at the windows
the door between them opened, and Fe?
licia Sterling came out.
"Felicia!" said the bishop. "When
did you move into my parish without
my knowledge ?"
"How did you find me so soon?"
asked Felicia.
'"Why, don't you knew? These are
the only clean windows in the block."
"I believe they are," replied Felicia,
with a laugh that did the bishop good
to hear.
"But why have you dared to come to
Chicago without telling me, and how
have you entered my diocese without
my knowledge?" asked the bishop, and
Felicia looked so like that beautiful,
clean, educated, refined world he once
knew that he might be pardoned for
seeing in her something of the old para?
dise, although, to speak truth for the
bishop, he had no desire to go back to
it again.
"Well, dear bishop," said Felicia,
who had always called him so when?
ever they had met. "I know how over?
whelmed you were with your work. I
did not want to burden you with my
plans, and, besides, I am going to offer
you my services. Indeed I was just on
my way to see you and ask your advice.
I am settled here for the present with
Mrs. Bascom, a saleswoman who rents
our three rooms, and with one of Ra?
chel's music pupils, who is being helped
to a course in violin by Virginia Page.
She is from the people. ' ' continued Fe?
licia, using the words "from the peo?
ple" so gravely and unconsciously that
the bishop smiled, "and I am keeping
house for her and at the same time be?
ginning an experiment in pure food ior
the masses. I am an expert, and I have
a plan I want you to admire and de?
velop. Will you, dear bishop?"
"Indeed I will." replied the bishop.
The sight of Felicia and her remarkable
vitality, enthusiasm and evident pur?
pose almost bewildered him.
"Martha can help at the settlement
with her violin, and I will heh) with
my messes. You see, 1 thought I would
get settled first and work out something
and then come with some real thing to
offer. I'm able to earn my own living
now. "
"Yon are'/" Th" bishop said i? a lit
tl'* incredulously. "How v Making those
things?"
" 'Those things!' " said Felicia, with
a show* of indignation. "I would have
tie- best cooked; purest food products in
this wh< ?le vii v.
-i don't doubt if." sai 1 tho bishop
hastily, while his eyes twmkkcl. "Still,
tie- 'i>. ;t? of the putting' Y. u know
; the rest. "
j "(Vnne iTi ate! try some. " exclaimed
j Felicia. "Ton poor ;>;: hi ?pl Yon look
j as ir you lia :n*t lae' a good meal for" a
i monti'. "
Si:-' insisted on the bishops entering
j the litil'- front room where Martha-, a
j wide awake girl with short ce.riv hair
i sad an unmistaisable air of music about
??
j her, was busy with practice.
j "Go right on, Martha. This is t
j bishop. Yon have heard nie speak
I him so often. Sit down here and let i
j give yon a taste of the fleshpots
! Egypt, for J believe yon have been ;
! tually fasting. "
80 Felicia and the bishop had an i:
! provis: d lunch, and the bishop, who,
tell the truth, had not taken time i
: weeks to enjoy his meals, feasted on t
j delight of his unexpected discovery a
; was able to express his astonishme
: incl gratification at the quality of t
j t lokery.
"1 thong!*! you would at least say
; was as good as the meals you used
j get at the Auditorium at the bigla
j quets. " said Felicia slyly.
" 'As good as!' The Auditorium ba:
quets were simply husks compared
this one, Felicia. But you must co?
to the settlement. I want you to s
what we are doing. And I am simp
astonished to find you here candi
your living this way. I begin to s<
what your plan is. You can be of i:
finite help to us. You don't really mes
that you will live here and help the
people to know the value of good food ?
"Indeed I do," Felicia ans wen
gravely. "That is my gospel. Shall
not follow it?"
"Aye, aye! You're right. Bless Gc
for sense like yours. When I left tl
world' '-the bishop smiled at the phrai
-"they were talking a good deal abot
the 'new woman.' If you are one <
them, I am a convert right now ar
here."
"Flattery still! Is there no escai
from it even in the slums of Chicago ?
Felicia laughed again, and the bishop
heart, heavy though it had grown du:
ing several months of vast sin bearing
rejoiced to hear it. It sounded good. J
was good. It belonged to God.
Felicia wanted to visit the settlemer
and went back with the bishop. Si
was amazed at the results of what coi
siderable money and a good deal of coi
secrated brains had done. As they wall
ed through the building they talked ii
cessantly. Felicia was the inearnatio
of vital enthusiasm. Even the bisho
wondered at the exhibition of it as' i
bubbled up and sparkled over.
They went down into the basement
and the bishop pushed open the dooi
from behind which came the sound of
carpenter's plane. It was a small bu
well equipped carpenter's shop. i
[ young man with a paper cap on hi
head and clad in blouse and overall
1 was whistling and driving the plane a
I he whistled, ile looked upas the bisho;
! and Felicia entered and took off his cap
! As he did so his little finger carried ;
j ?mall curling shaving up to his hair
and it caught there,
j "Miss Sterling. Mr. Stephen Clyde,'
! said the bishop. "Clyde is one or* ou:
j helpers here two afternoons in thi
week."
Just then the bishop was called r.]
stairs, and ho excused hin-.self for a mc
mont, leaving Felicia and the youn:
carpenter together.
"We have met before," said Felicia
looking at Clyde frankly.
"Yes. 'back in the world.' as thi
bishop says," replied the young man.
and his fingers trembled a Ik tl',' as thc;;
lay on the board he had been planing.
""Yes." Felicia hesitated. "I at:
very glad to see you. "
"Are you?" The flush of pleasure
mounted to the voung carp, a tor's fore?
head. "You have had'a great ? :al r.j
trouble since-thea*r" he said. anrl :.. a
he was afraid he had wounded ii roi
called up painful memories, but Felicia
had lived over ali that
"Yes. and yon also. How is ? yon
are working h rev"
"lt is a long story. Miss Sterling.
My father lost his money, ar. 1 I was
obliged to go to work, a very good thing
for lue. The bishop says I ought to bj
grateful. I am. I am very happy now.
I learned the trade hoping sume time
to be of usc?. I am nie:ht clerk at one of
the hotels. That Sunday morning when
you took the pledge at Nazareth Av?
enue church I took it with the others."
"Did you';" said Felicia slowly "I
am glad.
Just then the bishop came back, and
very soon he and Felicia went .away,
leaving the young carpenter at l:is work.
Some ene noticed that he whistled loud?
er than ever as he planned.
"Felicia," said the bishop, "did yon
know Stephen Clyde before?"
"Yes, 'back in the world, ' dear bishop.
He was one of my acquaintances in
Nazareth Aven Tie church."
"Ah!" said the bishop.
"We were very good friends." added
Felicia.
' 'But nothing more ?' ' the bishop ven?
tured to ask.
Felicia's face glowed for an instant.
Then she looked the bishop in the eyes
frankly and answered:
"Truly afid truly, nothing more."
"It would be just the way of the
world for chose two people to come te
like each other, though," thought the
bishop to himself, and somehow the
thought made him grave. It was al?
most like tho old pang over Camilla,
but it passed, leaving him afterward,
when Felicia had gone back, with tears
in his eyes and a feeling that was al?
most hope that Felicia and Stephen
would likeeach other. "After all. " said
the bishop, like the sensible, good man
that ?ie was. "is net romancea part of
humanity? Love is older than lam and
wiser. "
Tii'' week following tho bishop had
an experience that belongs to this part
ot' the s< ttiement's history.
Ile was coming back to the settle?
ment vere late f rom some gathering of
the striking tailors and was wallang
ulong, with his hands behind 'inn.
when two men jun peil cut from behind
an old fence that shut off an abandoned
factory from the street and faced him.
One of iii.- men thrust a pistol ii. i o the
bishop's face; and the other threatened
him with a ragged stake rhat had ev i
denrlv he h ;i from the fem e.
..lio! i np \. ur ha .ads. and he quick j
about it '" said lie' man with th*- pistol
'i i: - place was solitary, an-i tho bishop
i had no thought of resistance. Me did as
he wa.s commanded; and tito man with '
j the began ie, go through his pock- .
i ; ts. The bishop was calm. Iiis nerves j
did not quiver; As he .stood there with
his arms uplifted au ignorant spectator
might have thought that he was pray?
ing for the souls of these twomen. And
he* was. and his prayer was singularly
l.nswered that very night.
, [TO DE CONTINUED.]
Henry Clay Richardson Dies
at Greensboro, Ala
Special to The Mate
Demopolre, Feb G -Maj Henry
Clay Richardson, weil known to a
gfreat many Columbians, died at
Greensboro, Ala., this morning, a*
which p'ace he has been station d
for the past few years as cotton
buyer
Rheumatism cf the heart was the
cause of hie death.
Maj Richardson was a resident of
Columbia for twenty five years and
as city editor of the Register and
Columbia correspondent ?f the News
and Courier did perhaps the best and
most effective work of any newspapej
man in South Carolina in carrying
the State for Hampton in 1876. He
was a fearless and incisive writer
and hoards of carpet-baggers who
made Sooth Carolina the prostrate
State were made to squirm every day
under the lashings of his pen He
was born in Virginia and although
South Carolina .was his adopted home,
he loved the State as any of her
own eons In his. last hours he was
generously ministered to by many
kind friends and had every attention
to sooth him in his dying moments.
A sister in Cyntbiana, Ky, and a
brother in Pennsylvania, have been
notified of his death. Where the
remains will be buried has not jet
beeii decided
Elorence, Eeb 7 -The Pee Dee
Tobacco Ware House, a verj large
wooden building, was destroyed by
fire at 10 o'clock tonight. The fire
originated in a email wooden building
next door to the ware bouse in some
unexplained manner The building
was owned by W. E Dargan, cf |
Darlington, and was insurred with
W. R Barringer's agency for $1,
700 The value of the building was
$3,000.
Bombay, Feb 7 -The mortality in
this city yesterday was unprecedent?
ed. There was a total of 408 deaths
The situation is aggravated by the
advent of famine refugees
Washington, Feb 6 -The house
committee on claims today favorably
reported the Cooper bill for the pay
ment of the southern cotton claims
The bill involves an expenditure of
$10,000,000
- tm i
Newberry, Feb 7.-A sale of 1,667
bales of cotton by the Newberry
Warehouse Company to O McR
Holmes breaks the record here for
the largest single transaction in the
staple Eight cents was paid all
round and the sale amounted to up?
wards of $6o,000.
-i t &m
A statue of President Kroger is to
be erected io Pretoria, and ii is unique
in at lea3t two respects. In tbe first
place, it is the first time ia the history
nf sculpture thar any statue bas worn a
hat of the "plug" variety. In the
second place, owing to the kindly and
thoughtful suggestion of Frau Kruger,
that hat is boilow, so that the little
birds c&n drink out of tbe pool of rain
water wbicb wiii accumulate
CUBAN OIL cures Cuts,
u Burns, Bruises, Rheuma?
tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts
Sold by Hugbson-Ligoo Co.
Speaker Gary Will Ruo.
Speaker Gary was a-ked last night
whether tbe report wan true that be
would be a candidate for governor
He replied tbat it was bis present
intention to enter the raoe. This
makes three candidates wbo bave for
maily announced their caedidaoy-Gov
McSweeney, Mr A. H. Patterson and
Speaker Gary. There are others yet
to hear from, the indication being tbst
nne or two ethers will enter the lists.
C-eurobla Record, Feb S
Prkin, February 8.-Tbe dowager
empress of China, ic is asserted, appears
to be de:ermined to relapse into the
ancient conservatism. Yesterday she
issued an edict commanding a return to
.he cid manner cf study, according to
the teaohiogs of Confucius, for exami
nrtjons for official rank, and ordering
The abolition of ibe study of the . now
depraved and erroneous subjects of the
western schools," and tbreafenin<; with
f-unisnmeur the teaohers cf such sub
j cts Tbe closing of ?he now naiver
-i v ar Pekin fs expected to speedily
follow
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Working for a Big Fair.
The Slate Agricultural and Me
chanicai society ut ifs annual meeting
de< ided to p:>y freight on ail exhibits J
shipped to the State fair from points
in rv uth Carolina, provided the own
er* release the exhibit at the lowest j
possible rate
Tee above provision 'ogether with ?
the increase made in the premium
list should oe tl lo gt t at i\ increase j
the number cl exhibitors at the c< m
ia g State f iii
Thc matter of the improvement oj
the ait department was left by the |
association it? the bands cf Gol liol
io way, l he secretary.
O T A S H gives color,
flavor and fwiliness to
all fruits. No good fruit
can be raised without
Potash.
Fertilizers containing at least
8 to 10% of Potash will give
best results on all fruits. Write
for our pamphlets, which ought
to be in every farmer's library.
They are sent free.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
UFFICE OF
COUNTY TREASURER SUMTER COUNTY.
S CM TER. S. C , Sept 29, 18S9.
NOTICE is hereby given that I will be ia
my office in the Coonty Coort House
ac ? am ter from October 15th to December
gist, 1399, inclusive, tor the collection of
laxes for the fiscal year 1899. The levy is as
follows :
For State purposes, 5 mills.
For Couoty purposes, 3J milts.
For School purposes, 3 mills.
Total levy, 11$ mills.
Also the following special school levies :
School District No. I, 2 mills.
School District No 16, 2 mills.
School District No. 18, 2 mills.
School District No 20, 3 mills.
Mt Cito, 2 mills.
Concord, 2 mills.
Privateer, 2 mills.
No 5, 1 mill.
No. 17, 1 mill.
Commutation Road Tax for 1900 is also
payable at the same time.
H. L. SCARBOROUGH,
Oct 4 Treasurer Sumter Co.
Estates of Mrs. Frances C.
Brunson, Deceased, and of
Miss Mary M. Brunson, Dec'd
AS Administratrix cf E?tate of W Hayoe
Gordon, Deceased, I hereby give notice
mat on February 17th, 1900, I will apply to
the Judge of Probate of Sumter Couoty for
a Final Settlement and Discbarge io the
aforesaid Estates.
ALICE C GORDON, Adm'x
Administratrix E3t. W. Hayne Gordon, Dec'd
Jan 17 4t
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
SUMTER,
STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DE?
POSITORY, SUMTER, S. C.
Paid up Capital.$ 75,000 00
Surplus and Profits - - - - 25,000 00
Additional Liability of Stock?
holders in excess cf their
stock. 75,000 00
Total protection to depositors, $175.000 0O
Tracsacts a G?rerai Banking Bustness.
Special atte?tion ?iven to collections. *
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In?
terest allowed at the rate ot 4 per C?nt. per
annum, on amounts above $5 ?od not exceed?
ing $300, payable quarterly, on first days of
January, April, July ?nd October.
R M. WALLACE.
L. S. CARSON. President.
Caebier
STANDARD BRED STALLION
M o doc
Will Stand the Season in Sumter
-AT
Boyle's Stables.
Chestnut Stallion, foaled May
1892; bred byJMaj. Campbell
Brown, Ewell Stock Farm,
Teint?e?_
"MODOC," sired fey BScKwefn. 2.18} ; firs
iam Lady Radowa ; registered in Vol. 12
American Stud Book He is one of the Soest
bred stallions in the . tate: bred for size
stjle, beauty ?nd speed he is of kind end
e^rtle di<5[ osi:iop A ?nrp fo*l pelter.
FOR SALE.
EXTRA FINE
BARRED PLYMOUTHS
Also, Kegs for Hatch i D?T, 15 for $2 00.
yicety Packed in X'?C Baskets]
JOHN A. CULLOM,
Ridge Spring. S. G.
J in 21 4n
SABRED PLYMOUTH ROCK
!.:<;<: s
Ffcm Tborooghb.re? Prizr- Winners
gi 50 FOB 15
Safe Arrival Guaisoteed.
L. C. DARSEY,
Box 12. SUD ny Side, Ga.
Jdo 3i 2m