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s0*0040**0*?, f\ ir n ? ^ ? i ff i <>+o+o*o++?+o iii 25 per Cent, Discount Sale. ? i I - I Just a few words by way of explanation, so that ?the people * ~" ? ? yM ? may understand the full meaning of our Clearance Sales : S yM ? I 4* I Twice in each year9 January and July, I ^ s I fur* we hold these Clearance Sales for the i L!c!c>oUs purpose of closing out the season's stock I If we carry our heavy-weight Suits and Overcoats over to next Fall, we will probably have to sell th?m at a loss then, how much better it is to take our loss now-to get the money out of the goods and invest it in new goods, to keep our stock clean and fresh; so until FEBRUARY the 1st, we will offer a uniform Discount of One-fourth off On all Men's, Boys' and Children's Winter Suits, Overcoats, Trousers and Woollen Underwear. ?Oto*o*oo*?+ This means a $20 Suit or Overcoat for $15 00 This means a $10 Suit or Overcoat for $7 50 ???c*c*o*o^o S S This means a $15 Suit or Overcoat for $11 25 This means an $8 Suit or Overcoat for $6 00 ? ? ? T?g 6 This means a $12 Suit or Overcoat for $9 00 This means a $6 Suit or Overcoat for $4 50 ? M ? ? H S This means a $4 Suit or Overcoat for $3 00 This means a $3 Suit of Underwear for $2 25 9 H I ? JH- o This means a $2 Suit of Underwear for $1 50, etc., etc. * o I - 2 An early selection counts for much, as first comers fare best. It is \ - | I yM j needless for us to mention that this will be a cash sale; It wouldn't j yM t % /\m S be business-like to sell goods at a sacrifice and charge them. % / B 5 I ?ff I D. J. CHANDLER, I Off ? 4O+04O++0+0+ THB CLOTHIE3R. So*o^>o^o*o* MCE TO TAXPAYERS. ovwci [OT COUNTY TREASURERSUMTERCOUNTY. SUMTSB, S. C: Sept. 22, 1900. 'VT'OTICE ?9 hereby given that I will be ia roy office in the County Conrt House at Sumter frem October 15th to December 31st, 1900 inclusive, for tte collection of taxes for the fiscal yeer 1900. The levy is as follows : For State pnrpcses, 5 mills. For County purpose?, 3$ mills. For School i orposee, 3 mills. Total levy, 11$ mill?. Also the fol lowie g ppeciai school levies : School District No. 1, 2 mille. School District No. 16, 2 mills. School District No. 18, 2 mills. School District No. 20, 3 mills. Mt. Clio, 2 mills Concord, 2 mills Privateer, 2 mills. No. 5, 1 mili. No 17, 1 mill. Commutation Road Tax for 1S01 $1 004 payable from Oct. 15th ?900to Feb 1st 1901. H. L SCARBOROUGH, Treasurer Sumter Co. Sept 26-13t ASK YOUR FRIENDS! YOU FIND THAT THERE ARE MORE Caed by people who know a good piano that aov otber make. Its because Stieflf Pianos are better and post less tbao others. Moving, Tuoing end Repairing : Accoo moda?iog Terms. Catalogue and book of suggestions cheerfully given. CHAS. M. STIEFFj Warerooms, 8 North Liberty Street. Factory-Block of B. Lafayette Ave. Aiken and Lanvale streets. BALTIMORE, MD. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests ?hat you eat. It artificially ? the food and aids Nature in strengthening and recon? structing the exhausted digestive or? gans. It lathe latest discovered digest* ant and tonic. Ko other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in? stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache, Gastralgia,Crampsand all other results of imperfect digestion. Price 50c. and $1. Large size contains 2H times smaU size. Book ali about dyspepsia mailediree Prepared by E. C. Dc WITT & CO., Cblcago. JSHUGHSON&CO Land Surveying. [ WILL GIVE prompt attention to all calls for surveying aod Dlattire lands. BANKS H BOYKIN, Oct 10-o Catchall, S C. Onion Sets-leading varieties. Also assortment of Garden Seeds. Havana Segars. Large line of fine Havana Segars. Toilet Articles. A choice line of Toilet and Fancy Goods to which atten? tion is invited at DeLorme's Drug Store. Se Largest and 1st Collete Mitai Ml Geo. S. Hacker & Son, -MANUFACTURERS OF DOORS, SASH. BLINDS, Moulding & Building Material. effie* and Warerooms, King, opposite Can non Street, CHARLESTON, S. CU ^a^Pnrchasa our make, which we gu?rante superior to any sold South, and thereby ??ave money. Window and Paney Glass a Specialty October 16-o Life and Fire Insurance. Call on rn?, at my residence. Liberty Street, for both Life and . Fire Insu rance. Only reliable Companies rep? resented. Phone No 130. Atidrena ifloses. Oct 25-0. * One Sort of Prosperity. Chicago, Jan 8 -The financial powers controlling the destinies of the great railway systems of the nation* are reported to be planning one of the biggest economical re? forms in the history of American rail- j road operations. The intention is to dispense with 'the vast army of travel ling passenger and freight agents and other officials directly engaged in the solicitation of bas i o ess Shoald the plan be carried oat it means the discbarge of more than ?0,000 men The result will be a saving annually of millions of dollars to tbe carrying companies. The intention of the railroads to bring about the new reform comes as a result of the recent big deals engineered by J. Pierpont Morgan, James # ^Hiil, John D Rockefeller and oibers GREAT RAILROAD PLANS. New York, Jan 9 -The Mail and Express say? : Wm K Vanderbilt's plan for the welding together of tbe . Union Pacific and Chicago and North western Railroads, which he conceiv j ed more than- a year ago, is now about to be carried out When it is completed it will be found that the Vanderbilt have a tree transcon? tinental line of their own from the Atlantic to tbe PaeiSc ocean The original scheme was to lease the ? Union Pacific to the Northwest? ern but it is not yet certain whether this will be done or not. The con tjol of the former is to be acquired through the purchase of a majority of Union Pacific stock, and this is being done in the open market The Va oder bil ts already have a considerable representation in the Union Pacific directory . It was reported in Wal i street to? day that the new Union Pacific alli ance would be still further enlarged by the addition of other railroads in the central west, including the Aiton and Rock Island. JAS J HILL'S IDEA. New York, Jan 9-James J Hill, in an interview today outlioed what he and bis associates in the giant railroad "community of inter? ests0 are trying to accomplish Ia stead of a combination of great rail roads under one system, he said he was trying to bring about an agree ment between certain systems of the northwest by which "friction" would be prevented, and operated more economically He denied that he was here to see J P. Morgan and John D Rockefeller The supreme court having taken ender advisement the question of tbe relations between the United States and Porto Rico, President McKinley has appointed the son of Justice Harlan of the supreme court, to be attorney general for the colony of Porto Rico -Charleston Post A Roumanian photographer bas discovered a process by which die tores can be photographed on the human skin, and having little pic tures printed oo.the arms and wrists is becoming ? fad over there, lt is said the pictures are quite as good as those on plates, and that the process does not injure the skin -Wilming? ton Star TEA IMD?STRY IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Serong Combination of Capi? talists to Develop it. Chrrleston, Jan 9 -The suooessful experiments o? the (Toned States Com m?88?ocor of ?griccltare Le Dac. followed by thc successful plaoting and manufacture of tea at the Pinehurst farms, bummerviile, near thia city, bas | attracted northern capitalists, who will j go into the business on a large scale and who expect ro raise 300.000 pounds annually for the American market. Col A. C Tyler and Maj R. D Trimbie of London. Cono, and Baron J A. Von Brunig, formerly of the German lega? tion at Washington, are tbe leaders of the enterprise and leave already boagbt 4,000 acres of pine land along the line of the Charleston and Savannah railroad, 15 miles from here. Messrs Tyler ?od Trimble were in camp at Summerville daring the war with Spain and saw tbe .access of tea co if are at Pinehurst. Maj Trimble, will, it is said, be tbe active head of the company, ft is said that Dr Shepard has bad chis year twice as many orders for tea as hs could rill. . A Company Beins Formed With $60,000 Capital Colamb?a, Jan 12.-The tea caltore industry is at last fairly launched in South Carolina, and the prophecy of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is about to be verified. He said then that he did not see why tea could not he cultivated in this climate aod on this soil as wo ll as io foreign coon tries. Yesterday the first real step was taken, following up the prediction of The Associated Press, wheo application was made to tbe secretary of state for a charter for the American Tea Grow ing Company The application sets forth that it is the purpose of the oorporator?-Augustas C. Tyler and Roswell D. Thimble, both of New London. Coan -to establish ao exten? sive tea farm at or oear Raotowles. io Colleton County, on tbe line of the Cbarlestoo and Savannah Railroad. They saw that they will do the bnsioees ol' growing tea. marketing and pelling it and orber products, and desire to maintain anywhere in tbis Stare estab? lishments for the curing, handling and shipping of this and other produc?s. Tbe o&pital stock is to be $60,000. M nob io to be expected from (bi* experiment, which is one of tbe fir*t of the Twentieth Cemory in Sooth Caro? lina NO MORE ARMY CAN-) TEEN. j Washington, Jan 9.-Tho army cao teen is to be abolished, as the senate to day by a very decisive vote concurred in the boase provision relative to tbe army canteen. Most of the session was j j accursed by Seoators Tailer nf Colora j do. Pettigrew of Soutb Dakota, and j I Batler cf North Carolina, who al! j opposed the adaption r.f rbc renate ? comniirif e's amer?me nr. wS?eb j provided for a coe ri o um cc of the ear, j teeo. It seems doubtfu1 wbethca a fioal 7.-jte ! upon fbe army bill will be reached ! before Friday or saturday CONVICT LABOR. For many years the question of how to employ penitentiary convicts has been a live one in this country, how to employ them and make them self supporting and useful at the same time without putting their labor m competition with labor outside of the prisons Nornh Carolioa has tried to solve the problem by working them on State farms, and hiring them out for railroad construction, which is OD?y a partial solution, for even in this way their labor comes somewhat into com? petition with other labor. The Star has repeatedly urged that the best way to employ them is in road-building, and has illustrated it by citing Mecklenburg county, where several thousand miles of admirable roads a eve been constructed with th e labor mainly of couoty convicts This idea is favored in other states, and is now attracting attention in the State of New York, where it has been tried by some of the couutiet with aa satisfactory results as it has been in Mecklenburg, in this State From there the fdea is spreading to other states as will be seen by the following, which we clip from the Cleveland, Ohio, Leader : "The warden of the Kings county, N T.. penitentiary has succeed in arousing interest in a road-building project which be is advocating, and if his plans can be carried out a long step will have been taken in the direction of the solution of the prob tem a? to what should be done with convict labor He proposes that a highway be constructed from New York to Buffalo, a distance of more than 400 miles, and the work be performed entirely by convicts. He thinks the road could be completed ia ten years without expense to the State, in view of present conditions "There are several strong argu mente in favor of road building by convicts. In the first place, it would take the convicts out of competition with free labor in industrial lines. In the second place, it would give the prisoners healthful outdoor em ployment In the third place, it would devote tbe labor of the con victs to improvements which would be of benefit to the people "iMany of the finest roads in Europe are constructed and kept in repair by convict labor, and in view of the con? stant agitation for good roads, and also against the leasing of convict labor to contractors engaged in the manufacture of goods sold in the open market in competition with the products of free labor, there is no reason why the inauguration of such a plan in the United States should not be favored ' Experience has taught that it is bad policy to maintain convicts in idleness-bad for the men as well as costly and extravagant for the State -and there is no doubt that the giv? ing of employment in the open air at road building or similar work would have a very beneficial reformatory effect upon a large percentage of the prisoner?. We have in rond numbers twelve hundred penitentiary convicts in this | State Several hundred ol them are employed on the farms, others hired j out Tlie State derives no benefit j frem their labor, save the reduction ; it may make in the cost of keeping | theo) If these convicts, or aa many j of them as practicable, were put to j woik upon the public roads, on some j wei! organized plan, what an admir able system of roads we could have in ten or twelve years, and at an insignificant cost. There is ao mnch to be said in favor of this way of employing con? victs the wonder is that it was not adopted long ago As developers and promoters of progress and pros perity good roads sre the next thing to railroads, to which they would be? come valuable tributaries. -Wilming ton N C Star NEWS'ITEMS. Prof Loeb of Chicago University, | claims be bas discovered a process by which life can be reversed. Eight persons lost their lives in a hotel fire in Minneapolis last Sunday. The House agr?as to extend the time for payment of taxes until March 1. The ex-governor of MiuneBota beat the editor of the St. Paul Dispatch, on account of some political remarks. The Sitka Indians have adopted the U. S flsg as their tribal emblem. The kidnapping of Bass Fraser, of Atlanta, is not believed by detec? tives. They think he is oner on a wild trip. It is reported that Admiral Cervera ie very ill near Cadiz. James J. Corbett will now go on the vaudeville stage as a talker. Atlante bas another kidnapping story, that of a school boy He was released in a few hours Depoty Carlin, of Walhalla, was fired on from ambush near bis resi? dence a few nights ago. He drove off the attacking party. In Greenville and Oconee counties the retiring sheriffs have been suc? ceeded by their sous j It is reported that all the gambling dens io Colombia have been closed It is said that Agoioaldo is dead sgaio. President Wheeler, of the University of California, claims that he has beard it from a secret souroo. James Eada How, though heir to a million dollars, is said to be a day laborer at Copville. N C. He lectores at night to the factory baods on sooial ooodiriees. The students of the senior ela?s of the Georgia School of Technology, who rebelled against Authority, will not receive their diplomas until November. A nine year old boy, named Thomas Cbide^ter, shot bis sister twice, killing hfir instantly, near Marictra, Ga, Mon? day. Gov ' Bob" Taylor, of Tennessee, is I eick at Knoxville with an attack of bronchitis. Senaror B R Tillman spoke at the bsoquet cf toe Jacksonian Club of Ornaba, Neb. Monday night The Went Point investigation is still to progress and a large cm on nt of testimony has been takeo The "first baby of the century," so far reported, was born in Cleve? land, Ohio, at 12:01 January 1 It wa? a boy and they have called the poor little fellow John Century Thomson Mr B B Clarke O?N taken charge of tfie superintendent of education's office for Kershaw county. A PniUdelpbia priest was found (I* *;i a few d;tvs ?go with his pockets rifh-d A Wisconsin town h;*s been soid for $2 800 to satisfy a mortgage. Felix Cobb, a lawyer and populist politician of Carroll Coonjy, Ga., has committed suicide. The Booz case bas been closed and all tbe evidence sent to the Secre? tary of War lt is said that the subscription list to Mr Bryan's Commoner fs growing rapidly, and extra clerks have had ip be employed. i A suicide in New York, the other day, lefc one dollar to pay the gas j company for the gas he used in tak ? ?ng his departure. A negro robber attempts to rob a young lady near tue governor's man sion in Atlanta, Ga The senior class of the Georgia School of Technology may be re instated President McKinley is confined to his room with a case of la grippe. It is reported that the West Point court of inquiry will put a stop to the practice cf hazing at the Academy. Mrs. Mary ? Weil, the actress who is suing her husband for divorce, bas refused an offer of $50,000 to abandon i be case in coort. William S Jennings is inaugurated governor of Florida He is a cousin of William Jennings Bryan. The ca se of the Atlantic Coast Line for undervaluation of property in North Carolina is still pending. Some of its officers are expected to be sa booen ed to give testimony. It is claimed that the State of North Caro lina says the property is worth $25, 000,000 while it is assesed for $11, 000,000 Mr J A. Smith of the Charleston Freight Bureau bas resigned. He will accept a. place on tbe New Orleans Bureau. The board of education and the board of health of Atlanta seem to be having trouble over the sanitary conditions in some of the schools there The contest for the office of Judge of the Seventh Circuit now held by Judge E'. A Townsend is warming up Judge Townsend is, of course, standing for reelection and bis friends are confident of bis remaining on the bench A formidable opponent IN Senator D E Hydrick of Spartan burg, whose friends say he will win. Other candidates in the field are Mr Sanders of Spartanburg, Mr Fergu son of Laurens and Mr Graydon of Abbeville Among 600,000.000 passengers ear? ned onlj 206 persons lost their lives cn stpamboar v^sels within the jar?sdio tion of the United Staro* during the last fiscal year, of which 44 were pas seagers ard 162 members of tbe crews. Duriog ?ho same year there were 383 boiler explosions on land, which killed 298 persons and wounded 456 others. 3 IA number of Italian counterfeitets have been caught in New York, who have been placing quite a large amount of counterfeit money on the market The atessage is on the whole a businesslike, sensible and satisfactory paper ; lacking in force, as ie natural, but evidently dedicated by a sincer? desire for progress and mai ked by much breadth of thought Tbere are few things to criticise in it. and m3ny to approve It offers, as we said at the beginning, a calm reflection of tbe peace and prosperity of the State -The Slate