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mt mm m f?BRS. Their Victims are Continually Writing Tales of Woe to Him. Atlanta Constitution. The cry is still "they come," and the victims continue to write me for sympathy. I am sorry for them, but j ? am amazed at their stupidity and credulity. Now here are two celver, needy women in this community who sent 825 each to one of these fakirs and each sent to him a list of twen? ty-five names-not subscribers, but names. The women knew very well that nobody here wanted the paper, and so they begged or borrowed or made some sacrifice to get the money | and went diligently to work writing I letters and sending circulars to other women at other places urging them to join the scheme and get a year's em? ployment at $20 a month. And these last women sent $25 each and got to work writing to a third set of women, and so it goes on and on in an endless chain, growing longer and longer and widening and branching out as it goes until, if it keeps on, it will em? brace the continent- and then cross the ocean and chain up all Europe. That is the principle on which all these endless chain schemes are based. Of course the chain will break sooner or later, and I am pleased to learn that one of them says he will have to sur? render, but that he will protect his "agents. He cannot do it. His last circular tells his agents to stop work? ing in North Carolina, South Caro? lina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, j for he has pretty weil covered these States with agencies and now they must work up the Western and North? western States. And so I continue to receive letters from Arkansas and . Tesas almost every day asking about the scheme. A poor woman writes me from Colorado, Tex., that her lit? tle children picked cotton to raise the $25 for her invalid sister who wanted to work and to get the monthly salary. , She sent the money and a list of names, for she could not get a single subscriber, and the fakir sent her a dollar and that is all she has ever re? ceived, and she asks, "Is it possible that any human being is mean enough to rob a starving woman and her little children? It is possible that Bill Arp would raise up a boy like that?" No, he cannot protect his agents. It would take Aladdin's lamp to comply with his promises. He got $50 from these two women ia this town. I don't know how many at Kinsgton and Adairsville. He has promised $175 to each, which makes $350 for one town. No doubt he has 300 agents in Georgia and it will take over $50,000 to pay them. Then multiply, that by four other States that he says he has already covered. Of course he can't pay his agents. But he pays enough to get a few credentials. One lady writes me from Milledgeville and de? fends him, and says he has paid her so far and she believes he. is an honest man. Another writes from the same county and says he won't, pay her any? thing and will not answer her?letters. It is to be hoped, however, than he will refund the $25 to each agent. But take another view of this won? derful scheme. There are fifty of his papers received here at this office and not one of them represents a subscrib? er. Our people took them out for a while, thinking they were some of these sample copies'that flood the conn- . try. But they have found out better and refuse to take them out, for they do not want them and they fear . that somebody will be calling for the money. Now, if our county is an aver? age there has been sent from the State to that one town from eight to ten thousand dollars and got back nothing that anbyody in Georgia wants. Another paper writes me very tartly about its scheme and advises me to let things alone that I do not under? stand. The publisher sends to me copies of his circulars and asserts that it is nothing like the other plan. Well it is more liberal, for it asks only $100 to get ten subscribers and an agency and start the chain and promises $24 a month for every five agents secured in a month. My wife had already received two letters urg? ing her to take an agency and make $24 a month so easy. Of course she declined, for she didn't care to beg: any one to take a paper she didn't want, nor would she send her own money, and a list of names and write to other women to come in the scheme. I will not say it is a fraud, for I have reason to believe that the pub? lisher is honest and conscientious, but the scheme is a delusion and a snare and is in, very bad company. The agents can't get genuine subscribers and will send their own money and a list of names. And here comes another scheme from another Georgia town. It says: "Send ns $20 and we will employ you at $20 a month for twelve months to write five letters a day and get agents to work for us and will pay $2 extra for each agent over five in a month. Some of our agents get from ten to fifty new agents monthly and make from $70 to $110 a month. It will take only a few minutes every day to write the letters." That beats the original. I reckon they mast have a thousand agents in Georgia get? ting $20 a month. That takes $240, 000 a year to pay them. Does anybody believe that? And yet this investment company does not seem to have any? thing to sell, but will get you a sew? ing machine, a gold watch, a byke or a gun. They refer you to a long array of references. But here is one from North Caro? lina, where the cherry trees grow : "Greatest money making plan of the Twentieth Century." "*$5 per day made at home mailing circulars. It breaks all records and the money comes rolling in." These are the head lines of the offer. The*;body of the circular is too long and too fas? cinating to copy. It might injure Atlanta's shoe trade to spread this kin? of news in your columns. A lady writing to me from Thomasville says her neighbor, a good, sensible lady, was induced by this circular to send $3.50 to another lady, who was an end? less chain agent for this North Caro? lina party and got a pair of shoes she could have bought at home for $2.50 and she had to pay 45 cents express charges upon them. I have hunted for this little North Carolina town all over the map and have not found it yet. I reckon it is some little town that is yet in the woods. I am not through with these endless chain frauds or delusions or snares, but will clog with the most amusing .little fake that has ever- transpired in-this region. A planter who lives in our town says that one - of his tenants got a circular that came all the way from that pious country where they used to sell nutmegs made of wood and seed oats made of shoe pegs. The circular said that any one remitting a money order for SI. 79 would have sent to them a handsome set of oak finished furniture. The credulous man would not consult his landlord, but sent it, andas the circu? lar said: "Please mention the color of the upholstery that you prefer," he wrote that he wanted green. In due time he was notified that the furni? ture had been shipped. So he waited about ten days and then drove in with a two-horse wagon to receive it and haul it home. On inquiring at the depot he found a little box and inside was a miniature set of furniture for a doll. The bedstead was 8 inches long and the sofa 6. On the outside of the box was 75 cents for freight. But the upholstering was green and the man smiled a sickly grin and said : "So am I!" Now, if there is anything for which I have a particular dislike, it is a per? sonal controversy with my fellow-man: I was forced into this once to protect my name and secure my peace, but if it shall result in protecting the depen? dent women of this land from the greed and tricks of strangers, I shall not regret th? controversy. The gov? ernment will take a hand in it after a while, but that will not refund the money. A Federal court has already got the cherry tree man in limbo. The United States postal law de? clares that no newspapers shall be car? ried as second class matter unless they are for legitimate subscribers who with their own consent have paid or agreed to pay the subscription price. Let the law be enforced. Bill A rp. P. S.-Later from the. front-Since I penned the above I have received another letter that caps the climax. " Winnsboro, S. C., Jan. 2.-To Bill Arp: I used to admire you and bank? ed on your letters. You had my re? spect and confidence to that extent that I gave my daughter $25 to send to you and get the monthly reward for writing letters. That was more than two months ago and you know the rest, you grand did fraud. I hate to think as meanly of any man as I now think of you and your son. If you were worth the powder and lead it j would take to kill you I?d have you both arrested, you two-faced old hypo? crite. If you ever come this way, you, old sinner, what we will do for you will be a plenty." Etc. etc. J. D. IL That man had better refund that 25 or run away. B. A. "Some time ago my daughter caught B I severe cold. She complained of pains in her chest and had a bad cough. I gave her Chamberlain's Cough Remedy accord? ing to directions and in two days she was well and able to go .to school. I have used this remedy in my family for the past seven years and have never known it to fail," says James Prendergrast. mer chant, Annato Bay, Jamaica, West India Islands. The pains in the chest indicated an approaching attack of pneumonia, which in this instance was undoubtedly warded off by Chamberlain's Cough Rem? edy. It counteracts any tendency of a cold toward pneumonia. Sold by Dr A J China. February Ladies' Home Journal. The February issue of The Ladies' Home Journal opens with the first part of Miss Porter's new romance of the South, "Those Days in Old Vir? ginia, " illustrated by W. L. Taylor. This is followed by Joseph Blethen's story of "The Girls of Flat G," a tale of four girls who established "bache lors' hall," and the third installment of "The Russels in Chicago," a clever satire on the way they do things in the Western metropolis. A most in? teresting and timely contribution is "My Impressions of American Women,," by His Excellency, Wu Ting-fang, Chinese Minister to the United States. Clifford Howard describes Madame Modjeska's paradise of a home in Southern California, and Franklin B." Wiley writes of "The Summer Homes of Weil-Known Peo pie," telling and showing where such famous folks as Paderewski and Marion Crawford and a dozen others spend the warm months. For the children are "The Journal's Puzzle School, a new game, and a description of how to make "smoke pictures." The edi torial page is given up to the first of the "Mothers' Meetings," a new department which will appear at inter? vals hereafter, and several clever poems and short stories are printed in "Under the Evening Lamp.' In the department section Edward Howard Griggs's talks on education continue; Mrs. Sangster has a special page for "When Days of Illness Come," and all the^regular departments maintain the high standard of the magazine. The Valentine cover is by Henry Hutt: and the pictorial features include a page of most attractive pictures of dogs, and a double page showing "The College Girl in Music and Drama. By The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. One dollar a year; ten cents a copy. BROKE UP COURT. The decison of the supreme court declaring unconstitutional the present jury law brought the court of general sessions to a sudden sine die adjourn? ment Tuesday of last week. The act? ing solicitor, Coi. Herbert, succeeded in relieving this county a little, how? ever, by accepting, with the . consent of Judge Townsend, pleas of guilty from several prisoners. The criminal docket is heavy, there being eight capital cases, five of them for murder, besides a number of other offenses. Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Ex-State Treasurer, Dr. W. H. Timmerman has declared himself a candidate for Governor. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of Chamberlain on Boer War. London, January 20.- The first im? portant debate of the session began in the House of Commons tonight on an amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne. The de? bate called out Mr. Chamberlain, the colonial secretary, who spoke vigor? ously in defence of the Boer war. He made the significant statement that if, as Lord Roseberry's speech intimated, the Boers believed they could at any time secure a repetition of Lord Kitch? ener's terms, he wished to inform them that they were mistaken. Mr. Chamberlain added, howeveer, that the Government's programme was not one of extermination. The Boers, he said, had already been offered terms, the liberality of which surprised even England's most severe critics. Since they had been rejected, the Government did not propose to embar? rass itself with a further specific offer, and certainly would not withdraw the proclamation of August 7, 1901. It would not propose any general con? fiscation of property. Mr. Chamberlain said that the mag? nanimous treatment of the soldiers of the Confederacy had been upheld as an example, and it had been suggested that the course of the United States in that matter should be followed in South Africa. "I am willing to accept the parallel," said the colonial secretary. "While the lives of the soldiers were spared, no political condition was given the Confederates, while their property was confiscated on a tremen? dous scale. I see no reason whatever to believe that an unconditional sur? render would permanently alienate a conquered people. It did not in the case of the United States, although it did not restore immediate harmony. But, after a period, which is a mere trifle in the life-history of a nation, it did lead to complete reunion." Still Persecuting Silver. A bili is now before the house in Washington submitted by the commit? tee on coinage, weigths and measures which is the final step in the scheme to demonetize and discredit our silver money and that is a bill directing the secretary of the treasury "to exchange gold for legal tender silver dellars. " This bill is fraught with more danger to the business interests of the coun? try than any other one step in the . whole scheme to discredit silver money, for it practically wipes out at one stroke as money of final payment some five or six hunudred millions of silver dollars and makes them mere tokens of money, puts them on the same plane as paper money, redeemable in gold. This puts the silver dollar below the status of a national bank note which is not required to be redeemed in gold at all nor in anything.else but itself. The advocates of the gold standard have uniformerly held that the green? back was an evidence of debt because it had to be redeemed, and if that be true then, if this bill passes, these sil? ver dollars will cease to be dollars and will represent that much debt because they will have to be redeemed with gold whenever presented at the treas? ury. This in effect will add to the non-interest bearing debt of the Uni? ted States and will necessitate the ac? cumulation of an enormuos gold re? serve. It in effect cuts our volume of money in two and is a virotal contrac? tion of the currency and a contraction of the currency tends toward falling prices and panics. The time might come under such a scheme when the government would be forced to corral these silver dollars and lock them up in the treasury in order to stop the drain on the gold reserve. When a thing is redeemed it is liquidated and cancelled and the next step will be to direct the secretary of the treasury to melt them into bulilon and thus de? stroy their character as money as is done with the paper circulation when redeemed. This is putting silver in a new attitude altogether and is an entirely new departure that has never before been tried, so far as we recall, since silver became "money current with the merchant." No nation to day makes, nor ever has, so far as we know, made its silver money redeem? able in gold. It has always been money of final payment. The gold and silver money of the world are about equal in volume, something near $4, 000,000,000 of each being in circulation. If the governments of the world were to pursue the same policy toward sil? ver money that this bill proposes for us to pursue it can readily be seen that the effect would be to cut the money of the world in half and it can readily be seen what financial distress and suffering this would bring about. That in effcet is what this bill pro poess to do for us in the United States. The minority report of the democratic members of the committee truly says : No nation on the face of the globe requires its exchequer to exchange gold for silver. This is a new policy in the treatment of the precious metals. Why should this, the great? est silver producing nation in the world, be the first to strike a blow at one of its greatest industries? All representatives, regardless of political affiliations, should condemn such reck? less legisaltion.-Anderson Mail. DON'T LITE T0&ET5E3. Constipation and health never go to? gether. DeWitt's Little Early Risers pro? mote easy action of the bowels without distress. kiI have been troubled with cost? iveness nine years," says J () Greene. De pauw, Ind. ''I have tried many remedies, bat Little Early Risers give best results." J S Hughson & Co. A San Francisco firm has been buncoing the Government and the soldiers in the Philippines by shipping them stuffed quinine capsules. In a ' recent shipment of 7,000,000 capsules it was found that the capsules were filled with starch, with just enough quinine to give them a bitter taste. New York, Jan. 24. -The coroner's investigation into the cause of the re? cent disaster in the New York Central railroad tunnel was brought to a close tonight when the jury, after being out three hours and five min tues, re? turned a verdict completely exoxnerat ing John Wischow and E. C. Filer the crew of the engine that crashed into the rear-end of tie- train causing the death of 17 people. The verdict places the blame for the conditions leading to the accident on the officials of the railroad. Both Wischow and Filer were immediately discharged from custody. fflfl? NOT ASKING FOR PEACE. The Colonists are Joining Them in Increasing Numbers. London, Jan. 25.-The Daily News has published from its correspondent at The Hague, whom ic claims to have been very accurate, the following dispatch taken from private advices: "News from South Africa has reach? ed military circles here that the power of the Boers over Cape Colony is in? creasing daily, that the rebellion is constantly spreading and that the colonists are joining ?the Boers in steadily increasing numbers. The executions of Commandant Lotter and Comamndant Scheepers have had the result of deciding the loyalists to join the Boers, whose position is persist? ently reported to be more favorable than ever." The same private advices assert that the British suffered a dozen de? feats from September to November, 1901, of which no mention is made in Lord Kitchener's reports. Forty Years in the Hands of Receivers. lt is noteworthy that among the railroads sold under foreclosure pro? ceedings in 1901 was one-the Blue Ridge-which had been in the hands of receivers for over forty years. The Railway Age recalls that it was com? menced in 1855, was intended to run from Anderson Court House, in north? western South Carolina, across a cor? ner of Georgia and through North Caroilna to Knoxville, Tenn, a dis? tance of only about 130 miles by air line, but considerably more over the difficult mountain route that was in? volved. Its construction would have complete a direct line from Charles? ton to the west, and hence that city and the state of South Carolina too*k the chief financial burden of its con? struction, subscribing for $2,100,000 of the stock. Thirty-four miles of track were completed in 1859 from Anderson to "Walhalla, and at that point the road has ever since termi? nated, with the wall of the Blue Ridge mountains discouraging . further progress. Some tunneling and rock work was done beyond, but in 1861 all work was suspended, after about I $3,000,000 had been spent, for lack of the $10,000,000 more needed to com? plete it. In the consolidations and combinations of subsequent years the Blue Ridge Railroad was left alone I and has long been operated under a receiver. The baby member of the house is Representative Lever of South Caro? lina. He is only 27 years old, and looks 20. He was private, secretary of the late Representative Stokes, and when the latter died was voted by a | grateful constituency into the vacant sea. Every day at 11:45 o'clock Bert Kennedy, assistant doorkeeper, warns all persons not entitled to the floor to vacate, "the rules of the house requiring the same." For three days Kennedy saw a small boy sitting ata desk and coolly disregard- ' ing the official summons to retire. He threw his piping, penetrating voice in the direction of the lad, but without effect. On the third day Kennedy told his troubles to Amos Cummings. "If that boy don't get out of here before 12 o'clock 'll . throw him ont," said Kennedy. "What boy?" asked Cummings. "Sitting over there," replied Ken? nedy, pointing in Lever's direction. "I wouldn't throw him out," said Cummings. "Why not?" inquired Kennedy. "Because," remarked Cummings, "you might lose your job. He is a member of the house." Kennedy didn't say a word, and Representative Lever remained undis? turbed.-Washington Post. A GOOD ??C02?tt?2TS?TX02T. ';I have noticed that the sale on Cham? berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets is almost invariably to those who have once used them," says Mr J E Weber, a promi? nent druggist of Cascade, Iowa. What better recommendation could any medi? cine have than for people to call for it when again in need of such a remedy ? Try them when you feel dull after eating, when you have a bad taste in the mouth, feel billious, have no appetite or when troubled with constipation, and you are certain to be delighted with the prompt relief which they afford. For sale by Dr A J China. The Author of "Quo Vadis." Not many of the thousands of Americans who read and marveled at "Quo Vadis" know that the man who wrote this great book was himself for some time a resident of this coun? try. In the February number of The Ladies' Home Journal Clifford How? ard brings out this interesting fact in describing the beautiful home of Madame Modjeska in Southern Cali? fornia. Sienkiewicz came to America about the middle of September, 1876, with a party of thirty Polish immigrants, not such as we usually picture to ourselves as landing at New York, but ladies and gentlemen of culture, many of them persons of na? tional reputation in Poland. They had been imbued witha desire to live in the land of libertv by Modjeska and her husband. Count Bozenta. And in due time they found them? selves in the beautiful Santa Ana Valley. Hero they lived in perfect contentment, but in time their funds grew low, and one after another they drifted back to Poland, Sienkiewicz anions them, leaving behind only the great actress. CHILD "STORTH MILLIONS. "My child is worth millions to nu1.'' . says Mrs Mary Bird of Harrisburg, Pa ; "yet 1 wonkl have lost her by croup had I ' not purchased a bottle of One Minute i Cough Cure." One Minute Cough Care is ( sure car?- for coughs, croup and throat and lang troubles. An absolutely safe cough cure which acts immediately. The youngest child can take it with entire safety. The little ones like the taste and remember how often ii helped them. Ev? ery taiidly should have a bottle of Une Minute Cough Cure handy. At this sea? son especially it may be needed suddenly. J S Ku^hson & Co. Thc Sind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has horne the signatnre of ' and has been made under his per jy^^fifZ^A/ sonal supervision since its infancy? %*vi?^v/? Allow no one to deceive you in this? All Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment? What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare? goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend? GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The KM Yon Haye Mys Bo s In Use For Over 30 Years. TKC CENTAUR CO??AWY, T7 MURKAY STURT. HEW TONK CITY." SES AND We took in a lot of Good : Yowing : Stock Which have since fattened up, and being acclimated are really inore fit for present use than fresh ones* The time approaches when planters are pre? paring for the next year. Come and see them. They will be sold worth the money. HARBY & CO. Deo 18 MRS. L. ATKINSON IS PREPARED FOR The Fall and Winter Season With a large and artistic collection of The public are requested to call and see the display. The largest assortment of Pattern Hats ever shown in Sumter. Hats for all tastes from the "Picturesque Gain bow" to the simple street hat. Misses and children are not forgotten, j Styles for them this season are quite ele? gant. Tailormade Hats are all the go in New York. We can show you quite an assort? ment of them, and at reasonable prices. We are in our new store-three doors below old stand. Come and see our hate, and we are sure you will buy, for they are quite irresistible. Yours to please, MRS. Ii. ATKINSON. Oct 9 THE STANDARD Warehouse Co. COLUMBIA, s. c Hes a Storage capacity of 20,000 Bales of Cotton Stores and insures Cotton for 15 cents per Bale per month or fractional mouth Lower rates on 500 Bales and above. ?^pe cial rates for six months and season contracts All railroads running into Columbia permit Cotton to be stopped for storage ind reshipped at any time during the sea? son at the through rate from original start? ing point, with only a trifle charge for re-handling. Cotton consigned to Columbia has the tdvantage of active competition when sold, md loans can always be secured on our Warehouse receipts at minimum rates. No commission or other charges for selling cotton. Correspondence solicited. H. L. ELLIOTT, Manager. Nov 13 v MONEY TO LEND. ON LONG TIME at 7 per cent interest. LEE & MOISE. Oct 9-3m Sumter, S. C. Tie Larpt and Most Complete Muhieit Mi Geo. S. Hacker & Son, -MANUFACTURERS OF DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, Moulding & Building Material. office and Warerooms, King, opposite Gan DOD Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. ^SB"Pnrcfcas* oar make, which we gu?rante superior to any sold South, and thereby pave money. Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty October 16-o FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. For Cash cr o& ?psrovsd Papers. 2 60 Saw Lammas G?DS with Feeders and Condensers. 1 60 Saw Hall Gin with Feeder and Cos denser. 1 Extra heavy Wicebip Press, a fine one, complete. 40 feet of 2 inch Shafting. All in goo* rena ir * Apply to W. W. DssCHAHPS & CO , W^ck?. vS C. Or to A. A STRAUSS, April 17- tf MavesviPe, S C. NOTICE. HAVING secured offices upstasir over DeLorme's Pharmacy, we are fitting them up temporarily and will be ready on and after January 1st, to resume our practice. ALFORD & ALFORD, Dentists. Dec. 31-3t.