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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
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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
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1 60 Saw Hall Gin with Feeder and Cos
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1 Extra heavy Wicebip Press, a fine one,
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40 feet of 2 inch Shafting.
All in goo* rena ir *
Apply to W. W. DssCHAHPS & CO ,
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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.