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NOTIONS. This department contains more ar ticles?more of the little things re quired in every household, more of the better class?the reliable grades of no tions than is usually seen in a single store. New Felt Hats?they're new as can be?these felt hats for women's autumn wear, and are by far the most stylish creations shown this year. There is a greatly varied assortment of them now on display in the millinery room. It is useless to attempt descriptions. You must see them to appreciate their un usual style. R.eo,cl37" to "Weo,z*. In this great Ready to Wear department of ours where the newest fall produc tions are daily arriving, you can find the garment of your choice, and you "can rely on it being correctly tailored of the best materials, and, too. each and every garment is marked with a price that will stimulate the cozy corners of your purse. CORSETS. Ths new lines of Corsets are fast fill ing up the shelves. We are carrying all the best makes. Made of the best ma terial and have the best workmanship on each one. SILKS. What a wonderful array of beauty they represent. Novel ties in the most elaborate pat terns?neat designs that are sedate and effective?plain colors that are plainly plain. All fre?h from the best for eign and domestic looms. "Quality the M&xirnum, Price the Minimum" Changing conditions, changing the prices, changing everything?Recapitalizing, rebuild ing, restocking and reorganizing. All of this has been taking place in this store, and now we stand boldly in the front with a Price Power and Prestige on the great markets of the East, surpassed. by no house in the State. It pressages a new order of things?a change of momentous importance to the smart shoppers of this vicinity, as evidenced by the men tioning of a few of the many good things this store contains. T5he SUMTER. DRY GOODS COMPANY. DRESS GOODS. In the wide range of Dress .Goods are many beautiful ' weaves full of individuality and characteristic for their strength and the foundation -oftfheir excellence. Fashion has scattered rays of inspira tion in every nook and cor ner of this Department SILK WAIST. Why should a woman make a silk waist when she has such a collection as I we show select from. They are the \ ^m?rtest, freshest that the cleverest de signers have made. They are smartly underpriced. Your happiness, health and appearance depend greatly on your shoes. The Shoes we sell are made to fit the feet. If you wear shoes bought here your feet will be comfortable and attractive. Our prices in this Department are unmatch able. Generous stocks of eve*y fashionable and wanted eort of dress trimmings are here. They are fresh from Paris, and represent the best of the Frenchman's charming conceits for the modiste's manipulation in gowning fair women. HOSIERY. The stoclcings we sell are built to wear?and the fact that they do wear longer than the ordinary stocking is proof of their value. Democratic Primary Election, 3, 1902. Second Primary For U. S. Senator, State and County Officers. VOTING PLACES. Bandana. .... Bossard. Concord. Earle,. Farmers Gaffla?d's X Eds High Hills... Laborers & M'ch Manchester Mayes ville?.. Pleasant Grove. Privateer.. Providence. Rafting Creek.. Salem. Scarborough? Shiloh. Stateburg. Samter. Taylors.. Wedgefield. Zoar. Total.! V. S. SHX. 3 > -a ?-< ?*? eS O gov'nob. ? 1 es ? ? 'S . lt. gov. CS es o 5 Ha SSO STA' TE d ea > e: ? ha jcosip g: ? a o Ha b t =s ? ? I iadjt g ex. I fe o* Q ? 1-3 ! fi e. com li a es 2 " ) S? es a es > >? fc.sup. zd. es O DC Q 6 15 16 6 41 101 10 18 12 95 6 37 o 15 45 1? 20 19 31 441 59j 1 18 31 22 342 so; 121 15 48 10 20 27 24 58 9 12 5 23 25 5 45 8! 20 2 27 28 4 37 30?? 40 12i| 11 38| 20? 8- 12j 18 32 22 405 48 17 43 8 32 17 12 1 10 152 1} i 50 6 10 21 34 14 59 56 6 16 32 21 292 9! 47 30? 13 9 1 2 4 2 25 33 ':>' \ 6 22 9 18 52j s? 2? 4 54| 63 56 is; sa; 2lj 41lj 5?' 27! 7 18 1 11 1 22 22 27 17 8 13 86 40 46 2j 5li 33? 24 24 50 32 42 41 a 32 362 ' 16 3? 9 15 2 5 24! 6 49 30 9 oil 28? 3 191 I 22! 24 60 24 34' 5| 14 4 17 1 135 11 5 14 IS, 20? 307? 45 44: 5 26 21 30 14 6 51 33 50! 19| 35 6 12 1 11 367 50 4 23 ? 32] 80? *i 45 7 11 34 22 27 8 28 28 15 56 2 10 15 17 201 3 37 13 2 14 19 10 8 17 43 23 55 2 17 8 18 42 5 \ 239 16 16 36 THE PEACEFUL PHILIPPINES. Twelve Attacks Made on the Am erican Troops Since May 2nd. "Washington, Sept. 8.?The war de I partment received a cable dispatch from Gen. Charlee, dated Manila, Sept. 6th, stating that an attack was j made on the United States troops at Mataling Falls, seven miles from Camp Vicars, by Moros, Sept. 1st. Lient. Wm. Parker, Eleventh infantry, and two soldiers were wounded, and one soldier killed. Gen. Chaffee also says : "Have authorized Brig. Gen. SamL Snmner to move troops into Macin country and exact promise of good be havior in future from Datos and' fol lowers. Troops have been attacked 12 times since May 2nd, with loss to us of four killed and 12 wounded. We have remained all the time quiet, seek ing friendship ; in action self-defense only." The last part of Gen. Chaffee's dis patch is intended to infoim the war department that the army has been acting wholly upon the defensive in the Moro country. His instructions have been to do nothing which would provoke afconflict with the Moros and the position of the war department is that if there is a conflict it must be justified by the aggressions of the .Moros. A HOSTILE COUNTRY. Manila, Sept. 8.?Gen. Chaffee has ordered Gen. Sumner, commanding the department of Mindanao, to lead a column against the Macin Moros. In his order ;,Gen. Chaffee suggests that eight companies of infantry, two troops of cavalry and one battery shall form at Camp Vicars, island of Mindanao. It is expected that the column will move within a week. Most of the attacks upon the Ameri can forces have orignated in the Macin country. This movement is to be di rected against hostiles, several of whom are enumerated in Gen. Chaffee's order. Gen. Sumner is directed to require the hostiles to give satisfactory pledge to refrain from aggresion in the fu ture. There are several Moro strong holds in the Macin country. It is not definitely known where the first op position will be encountered. This will depend upon Gen. Sumner's course af ter moving. Gen.Sumner is directed to protect the friendly natives. RIOT IN PENNSYLVANIA. Two Italians Assaulted Monday One Dead ; Another May Die. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 8.?A fight today between striking miners at Maltby resulted in the death of one man and the fatal injury of another. Both victims were Italians. The man killed was Sistieno Vancastelli, aged 36 years. His companion, Frank Portay, was stabbed several times and is in the Wilkesbarre hospital not ex pected to iive. All last night strikers gathered in the vicinity of the Maltby mine of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Maltby and the Henry E. colliery at Forty Fort. It was rumored that both of these mines were to start today with a full force of men, and the strikers had pickets out on all r?ads? leading to the mines to intercept any men who might be on their way to work. A heavy fog prevailed and it was difficult to see people in the roadway. Shortly after 7 o'clock a number of strikers on guard at ?/che Maltby col liery saw two men approaching carry ing guns. The pickets came to the conclusion that they were non-union men going to work. The strangers were ; stopped and strikers crowded around I them. One striker in the crowd who j spoke the Italian language, said the j men were starting on a hunting trip j and that they were union miners. The other strikers did not under ! stand what was said and believing that j the foreigners were non-union men on ! their way to work, attempted to take I the gun away from Vancastelli. He ; resisted, a fight ensued and soon the two Italians were lying in a pool of i blood in the roadway. Vacnastelli was ! shot in the side ad rne left side of his i face was crushed in. His companion, j Portay, was stabbed in the side seve I ral times. They Felt Hur.rry. She?Well. Clarence, dear, the situa tion is not quite us rosv as it was pic tured to us Uefore marriage, is it? ile? WYIi. not altogether so. love. She?I wish?er?I wish He-What do you wish dearest? She? I wish we had the rice and the old shoes they threw at us when we Were married. Purification of Sewage. The Manufacturers' Record describes a system of sewage purification, that of the Cameron Septic Tank Company, j of Chicago, which appears to have I special claims on the public interest by reason of several features which are brought out in the account of it?among them being its adaptability for service on any scale, from that of a single re sidence up to that of a manufacturing community or a large city ; its autom atic and economic character; its em ployment of natural instead of artifi cial (chemical) agencies; and its effi ciency of operation and freedom from offensive manifestations. The company, it is noted, has just installed a plant for the purification of the ^ewage from the county buildings and jail at Clayton, Mo. The plant is situated in the public park, and the purification of 10,000 to 15,000 gallons of sewage daily is effected "by the aid of microbes developed in the sewage it self," which do their work so perfect ly that the discharge from the plant is without offence to sight or smell. Similar plants are being installed at many other places in the country, among them being named the State Insane Hospital, and Orphans' Home, and Girls' Industrial School, of Iowa. The capability of the system to deal with factory sewage has been demon strated at Yeovil, England, with a sewage pronounced by competent judges to be one of the foulest in the Kingdom, as it comprises the wash ings from breweries, slaughter houses and leather dressing yards. A plant is being installed at Sherman, Texas, to purify the refuse of a packing house delivering 10,000 to 25,000 gallons daily of the vilest kind of organic liquids, and will "completely purify this sewage, rendering an effluent pure and sparkling and absolutely free from nuisance." The system, it is said, is the result of years of research and study, and the construction and operation of a plant is described in detail in the Record, but we need not do more than note a few of the particulars here. The sewage enters a septic tank, of suitable dimensions, from which light and air are excluded, and flows in and out through submerged pipes so that the contents are disturbed as little as possible. From the tank the effluent passes to a system of "bacterial filter beds," which are filled and emptied automatically, and passes from the filters to the outlet, where it is dis charged pure and odorless. The effiuent from the tank remains on each bed from two to four hours only, dur ing which time the impurities present in solution are removed by the bacte ria. In the septic tank the solids in the sewage separate, rising to the sur face or settling to the bottom, accord ing to their specific gravity, "and the organic matter is acted upon by the liquifying microbes present, by which it is broken down into gas and water," the fluid flowing to the filter beds, as described. The deposit is drawn off through a-pipe to a cleansing well without drawing the liquid contents of the tank with it. The system "is automatic through out, and the only attention required is the occasional oiling of the gearing," No chemical is used, and there is "no sludge from the works." When the system was introduced at Exeter, England, it was used to deal only with a district of the city having a population of 1,500. It has since been extended to include all the city, with its population of 50,000, and dur ing the last four years nearly two hundred plants have been installed in Great Britain, ranging in size from plants for single residences up to those designed for large cities. A system has been planned for Poonah, India, with a population of 200,000. The elastic feature of the system is, of coarse, a notable one, and com mends it to the consideration of large and small communities alike. If the other claims that are made for it are sustained by the experience of places which have tried it, it is evident that the system marks a most important ad vance beyond all others that have ! preceded it.?News and Courier. Serions Impediment. Teacher?Can you mention some great man who had au impediment in his speech? Little Willy?Please, ma'am, George Washington did. He couldn't tell a lie!?Puck. Estras In the Bill. Clerk cf the Burning Hotel (present ing bill to escaping guests)?Ali guests of this hotel will piense step into our new office across the street and pay for this extra fire and water service.? Chicago News. When a man fools his wife, it is not that he is so smart, but that her faith is so great.?Atchison Globe. Cultivation in Shade. The"piney woods" have developed a most unexpected use and value, ac cording to a Georgia paper, quoted in the Southern Farm Magazine. It is generally known that the culti vation of tobacco under shade, or par tial, is now an established business in Florida and New England, where it originated, and is extending to Cuba and other countries, the importance of the system being due to the fact that it applies mainly to the finest varieties of the plant and is immense ly profitable. It has been suggested by the agricultural authorities in Porto Rico that the great expense of the artificial system could be obviated by planting the crop in the shade of established fruit orchards, and the same idea has been employed suc cessfully in Georgia, as is now ex plained, for the benefit of fruit or chards by planting them in the shelter of pine trees for protection from the cold in winter and the heat in sum mer. The experiment has been tried by Mr. Dukes, I of Colquitt. County, Ga., and the local paper, the Moultrie News, says that if there be - those who doubt that the plan "will work," they ought to visit his orchard. The trees, it adds, have flourished, and their growth and yield do not seem to have been hindered in the least by .their surroundings. "Trees younger than three years are so loaded down with fruit that in many instances the limbs have broken." The new departure in fruit grownig has excited attention all over the State. The State entomolo gist, Prof. W. M. Scott, went from Atlanta to see the new orchard and "after a thorough investigation- pro nounced the experiment a great suc cess." The fruit grown on the orchard is of the highest quality." The hint may be of value bcth to peach growers and tobacco growers in this State, and to many farmers ? who may presently join the ranks of such growers. If fine tobacco can best and most profitably be grown in the shade, and the shade of pine trees will an swer, and if successful peach orchards can be established in such shade, our piney woods, so long surrendered to cattle and hogs, ought to become among the most valuable lands in the State. The profits on Sumatra and Cuban tobacco grown in the shade are reported at incredible figures. From one acre of peach trees at Batesburg, it is noted, the cwner cleared $500 during the past season. We should have a rich country hereabouts if all the available pine forest iands were devoted to growing toabcco and peach es. And perhaps other crops might do as well as these two in the solemn shade, or half-shade, of the pines. There is the whole range of fruit trees and forage plants, cereals, grasses, vegeta bles, etc, to try, at our leisure. It may be that we have a great "natural advantage" in the possession and pres ence of so much natural, lasting, and, therefore, cheap shade for agricultu ral and horticultural purposes as is afforded by these brown woodlands all about us. Mr. Dukes's discovery is a very interesting one at any rate : and there is no telling what may come of it.?News and Courier. NOTICE. it is better in planting small grain to place with the seed while planting a limited supply of Ammonia and Potash to insure a well developed and consequently strong and deep root to withstand freezes. The Home Fertilizers Chemical Works of Baltimore, Md., have carefully made up just what I need for my country out of the very best material that can be had for the purpose.- And I hope to take your orders at my office in The Bultman Building or Box 203, Sumter, S. C. JRespectfully, Thos. S Sumter* Sept 10?4t. LOCAL NEWS PARAGRAPHED. The Citizen's Building and Loan Association will1 be wound up this month, the last payment on stock being due on the 15th instant The farmers are not holding cotton for higher prices this year, but are rushing it to market as rapidly as it can be picked and ginned. The cotton oil mills are running up the price of seed and in some places the buyers have already paid 40 cents a bushel for seed. The high price of tobacco and the prosperity of tobacco growers has re vised interest in tobacco growing and many cotton farmers are already talk ing of planting tobacco next season. The Stateburg Postoffice has been removed from the "borough", where it has been located for nearly 125 years, to the residence of Mrs. Holcombe, about a mile from the old location. It is stated that a move in the Lee county litigation is to be made in the near fatare. The case is to be push ed by the Attorney representing the J opposition to Lee county. If a man conld\buy all the property, real and personal in thi3 city for twice what it is returned for taxation and sell it at the ordinary market value, he would make enough on the trasnac ton to live in comfort the balance of his days without making another deal. Magistrate H. L. B. "Wells is branch ing out in business. Besides bei ng a fish dealer he has had some experience recently in financing an excursion that panned out more experience than profit Keep your eye on the advertising columna The leaders in every line of business in Snmter will be represent ed, and those who do not read tne ad vertisements5 cannot keep posted on business news. The county chain gang, which has been at work on the Stateburg road, has completed the greater part of the work on the sand and clay roadway from the city limits to Shot Pouch branch. Cotton has opened so rapidly that there is a great demand for cotton pick ers and there is no excuse for idleness. There is work for everybody, from the oldest to the youngest and there will be no change in this condition for a month or more. There is talk of a large hotel being built at Providence Springs in time to accommodate next summer's visitors. If the land owners of Providence would lay out a village and sell lots at prices within the reach of men of moderate means the Sumter summer colony could be largely increased. The Sumter County Charleston Expo sition committee met on the 2d inst., in the office of the County Board of Com missioners and after receiving the re psrt of Mr. A. W. Suder, who had charge of the Sumter county exhibit the business of the committee was wound up. After all debts were paid there was a balance of 818 on hand, which was divided between the county and city in proportion to the amounts appropriated by the county and city. Now is the p*per hat season. Nice assortment material at H. G. Ost e en & Co. WEDGEFIEL9 NEWS LETTER. School to Open September 22? Personal Ment? im. Wedgefield, Sept. 9.? Ths second primary day has come and the politi cal fate of ono-half of the candidates will be settled for two years. All we wish is, may the best man for each office be elected. The Graded School here will com mence its next session on Monday, the 22d, with Prof. J. W. Chalmers, of Houston, Va., as principal, and Miss Evie Wilson, of Sumter, assistant. Prof. Chalmers comes very highly recommended and we may expect the coming season to be a very successful one. Misses Annie May Cain, of Congaree, and Sophie Blakeley, of Columbia, spent Sunday in town with relatives. Prof. F. N. K. Bailey, of Edgefield, President of the S. C. C. L, dropped in to see his friends here yesterday. Mr. W. ?. Cain, Jr., leaves for Clemson College today, accompanied by Messrs. F. M. Dwght, Jr., and F. E. Thomas, Jr., The rains of the past few days have stopped cotton picking which was pro gressing finely. Unless the top crop amounts to something most of the cot ton around here will be gathered by the 1st of Oct. Lee County News. From the Vindicator. Dr. McLure has cut the old Bishop ville Hardware store in two parts, will roll it back and make two cottages out of it. The Doctor with his char acteristic public spirit contemplates erecting a large hotel with modern conveniences on the old lot. Mr. Zan Law, of Elliotts, and Miss Mabelle Dove, of Dovesville, were married at the home of the bride on Tuesday, August 26th. They left for a trip to the Springs. Rev. Luther McCutchen, of Black-1 stock, son of Mr. J. E. McCutchen, is on a short visit to his parents. Miss Edith McCutchen has been elected teacher in the Graded School to fill the vacancy caused by the resig nation of Mr. A. B. Cargile, who has moved his family back to Saluda and will ran a newspaper there. A Remarkable Family Record. Mr. Madison Hearon, of Bishopville, who was married nineteen years ago, has nine children. Four of them were born on the 11th day of December, two years apart, three were born on the 18th day of December, two years apart, and the last two were born of the 3rd day of May, three years ago. This is certainly a most remarkable record and one which has rarely if ever been equalled. Whenever the 11th and 18th days of December and the 3rd of May come around -there must be lively times in the Hearon household. One birthday creates a considerable com motion in a household, but when three or four of them come on the same day. it must be bewildering indeed.?Darlington News. Crepe paper Sc. tae roll. Osteen'?? Book Store. MEETING OF SPORTSMEN CALLED. Organization for Enforcement of Game Laws Needed. From reports that are current in this county and elsewhere it is. learned that there is some laxity in regard to the observance of the game laws. ? The necessity, therefore, of a compact or ganization for the purpose of a strict observance of these laws hes arisen and a meeting to perfect such an organization is hereby cajled to be held on Monday, Sept. 15, at 4 o'clock, at Major Moise's office. All gentlemen who are interested in the game laws, especially as they relate to quail, woodcock, snipe and doves, are urged to be present at this meeting. Ey order of the temporary organiza tion, E. K. Bradford, Marion Moise, Secretary. President. The following decision was filed by the Supreme Court Thursday, the opinion being written by Associate Justice Ira B. Jones: Mary A. Ep person, respondent, vs. Charles W. Stansill, appellant; reversed. W. E. Curtis, the newspaper corres pondent, is authority for the state ment that David B. Hill kas never taken a drink of liquor, smoked a cigar or kissed a woman. Mr. Curtis may be a man of veracity, but state ments like this ought to have a duly attested affidavit hitched on to them. The Archbishop and the Irishman. Archbishop Ireland tells a good story on himself, says Eamblerof the Catho lic Union and Times of Buffale?, . Y. : "Recently in Chicago he stopiied at a fruit stand behind which stood a swarthy individual whom he naturally took to be a son of sunny Italy. His grace is handy with many languages. Italian among the rest, and he ad dressed the fruiterer in supposed native tongue, only to bring forth this re tort. "Wirra may God forgive your reverence for taking me for a dagcl' To square himself with his fellow countryman, the 'archbishop selected a few bits of his choicest fruit, for which he offered an overgenerous price, and this time - he was greeted with something like this: 'Begorram 'twas bad enough to be taken for a dago, but to offer me pay for the bit of fruit that 'tis an honor for me to have your reverence accept is more than I can stand. Oh, what did I ever do to earn this insult!' So the archibshop gave the case up as hope less and departed, having loft his bless ing as an offset to the wounded feel ings of the Celt." It is not lawful to shoot doves in Soutli Carolina now before Novem ber 1. August 15 used to be the date, but the last Legislature changed the law. One or the Other. "What do you think of that wheel?" usked Sprockets, whose bicycle had been in a collision. "! think it ought to be re-tired or retired." replied ?Hnwid ie.-Pittsburg Chronicle-THegraph.