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Aq American Parallel to the Tulip Craze is Ho! land. By Irving U. Townsend. Probably few persons not thorough ly conversant with the history of the silk industry in America, are aware that the tulip mania which raged in Holland nearly three hundred years ago, had its counterpart here two hundred years later. Five hundred dollars was often paid for a bulb of the Admiral Liefkens or of the Giouda varietv, $1,000 to $1,200, for a Viceroy, and $2,000 for a Semper Augustus during the mania. In 1634 the craze became so great that all usual industries were abandoned. A choice bulb sold for $1,900 in cash, two horses* a carriage and aj set of .harness,, representi ng in all $3,000. ^ Persons frequently invested $50,000 in a few dozen bulbs with which to begin business, mortgaging their houses .or fiving personal property in exchange, hese extraordinary values checked the cultivation, of tulips, as the bulbs could be bought and at once sold at a profit to speculators, 'Finally the real tulip levers became disgusted and in February, 1637, suddenly placed large quantities of the most valuable varie ties upon the market. This produced an immediate and disastrous decline in the price of bulbs. Without a day's warning, * thousands found themselves rained. It was several years before Holland overcame the effects of this strange mania. Now comes the analogy. v James I, '.who almost insanely hated tobacco, was determined that silk worms should - be reared in Virignia, mainly because h? thought he could thus destroy the ? tobacco culture, whioh he ordered to be abandoned. Some silk was produced and sent to England. The coronation ?robe of Charles U, was made from such silk. During the next hundred years there occasionally appeared a waist coat or handkerchief of a Colonial delegate, made from homespun and wove silk, and sometimes grand ladies were arrayed in "gowns of native-grown silk. For ? time silk cnlture met - with great success in Georgia. In 1759, 10,000 pounds of raw silk were thence exported to England. Connecticut i, was, however, the center of the in dustry. The Legislature offered a bounty for planting trees. As late as 1825 the culture of silk was very gen eral there and also flourished in Mas sachusetts. In Pennsylvania it was undertaken and -continued with success until the Bevoiution. Silk worms were fed on white mul berry {Morus alba) until 1830, when there appeared the Chinese mulberry or Morus multicaulis. Dr. Felix Pascalis made known the remarkably j rapid growth and the supposed excel lent qualities of the tree, thus opening this Pandora's box whence so many evils escaped. It was predicted that by its culture two crops of silk could, be raised animally.It had large, thin, tender leaves; it could be pro pagated easily' by cuttings and cul tivated as a shrub; and it was claimed that its . leaves formed, the most nutri tious food for. silk worms. Soon all the agricultural literature and the newspapers of the country became , surfeited with description:: of this wonderful iiee. At this very time Congress was con sidering the subject of silk culture. In 1825 the country had imported silk goods'valued at $10,000,000, and had exported breadstuffs worth only ] $5,000,000. This was considered an alarming state of affairs. Secretary Bush of "the Treasury was directed to - prepare a .manual on the growth and manufacture of silk. This was issued; in 1828 and known as the "Bush Let-; ter.*y Many documents relating to sericulture were published by Congress. A Congressional committee recom mended that all public lands .be leased gratuitously to those who would under take the cultivation of the mulberry. A bill barely failed of passage that ? authorized an expert to instruct the. farmers everywhere how to cultivate ? the Morns multicaulis. The Massa chusetts Legislature ordered the prepa ration of a manual on silk culture which was very potent in fomenting the craze. The legislature of nearly every State provided ior the payment of liberal bounties for .planting mulberry trees and raising cocoons. Thus it was that a speculative furor, a veritable madness, seized upon all classes of people, and particularly?of all men?upon the shrewd, calculating Yankee. It raged like an epidemic. Not only agriculturists, but doctors of divinity, law and medicine, scholars, tradesmen and mechanics, men and women, old and you.ig, were infested with an insane passion to raise mul berry trees. Every one thought the glorious day was dawning when each farm would be a nursery for the young trees, and every house have its co cooneries and its silk worms yielding iwo or more crops of cocoon3 yearly. The farmers' wives and daughters, when not feeding the.worms, were to reel the silk which would become as cheap as cotton, every woman having at least a dozen silk dresses. A writer of the day said, "Yon can scarcely go into a house but you find the inmates engaged in feeding worms. The large profits anticipated in pro ducing silk were insignificant compared *?ith the fortunes that all expected to make by raising the new mulberry t ree. This was planted in close hills or in hedges, it adorned highways, and rarely was a-garden or any cultivated spot to be seen without it. In 1834 trees of a season's growth were sold for ?3 to $5 a hundred, but they soon sold at $25, $50, $103: $200 and $500 a hundred, and soaiefciases $7 apiece. There is recorded an instance of two trees of one season's growth, raised by one Elder Sharp in North Windham, ; Conn.*, which were sold at suction, i Tho first brought $106. and the second ! $100. Further sales were then with- j held because the bidding was not con sidered to be sufficiently spirited. As cuttings with buds or eyes were sufficient for planting, slender switch es two feet long sold for $25 a dozen and ? declared to be worth $60. In faes. t ""Jue of the trees became greater fchaa that of the silk which tbwy ooui s by any possibility produce. Tney I eca:ne worth too much to be used for silk culture. When the craze rescued its hei^bt, but little silk was produced, for every o::^ was busy rais ing the new mulberry tree. The spec ulation in planting, buying and selling trees withdrew attention from the more legtimate business of raising silk worms. Men expected to make for tunes in a few months having and planting mulberry slips, and the silk comps?ies almost without exception sank their capital in this way, fully equipped mills being closed, j . One farmer planted ?1,000 worth of ! trees in % of an acre and sold them i the next year for $6,000. Elsewhere i tbe trees upon two acres brought 84,000, those upon fifteen acres brought $32,500, and those upon ten ; acres brought 838,000. The sales in a i single week in Pennsiyvania exceeded j $300,000, and often tbe same tree was sold several times at advancing prices. A newsapper of the period said: "Friday, the 'Alabama' took to Baltimore 22,000 mulberry switches, the value of which at the lowest cal culation, based on actual sales through out the country, cannot be less than $45,000. The number of eyes on these switches is ^ascertained by carefully counting them, to be 2,254,000, which would be censidered cheap at 2 to 234 cents a piece. The whole was raised on fifteen acres of land that would be considered well sold at $10 an acre in ordinary situations." In. 1839, just before the people came to their senses, a nurseryman sent an agent to France to purchase several millions of young trees. He carried $80,000 in cash as a first payment. When the trees arrived, the inevitable crash had come, and the nurseryman failed for so large an amount that he could never reckon up his indebtedness. His trees were offered in vain at a dol lar a hundred for pea bush. After the crash some large holders sought to unload without loss. They chartered an unseaworthy vessel, loaded her with trees and sent the car go heavily insured via New Orleans to Indiana. To their great chagrin the vessel reached New Orleans safely and the trees were transferred to river boats as great expense and hurried on to their destination. When finally1 they arrived no one would take them as a gift. When the fever was over and the people realized -fchat their capital stock was suddenly worthless, a deep reaction set in. They pulled up all the mul berry trees in a rage and burned them as brushwood. The numerous com panies which had invested their capital in them succumbed almost wi thout ex ception. In 1841 only one survived and that perished four years later. In 1844 a violent storm following a gen eral blight destroyed most of the re maining Morns multicaulis trees and even the more hardy white mulberry variety. This was the finishing blow and thus silk culture in America practically ceased to exist. No indus try ever, in this country, received such a crushing stroke. From that day to the present, seri culture has at times been spasmodical ly undertaken on a small scale in many States, but the total output has been almost infinitesimally small. The Secretary of Agriculture is now en deavoring to revive American sericul ture by governmental aid\?Scientific American. lcst'Tn hotels. Queer Things That Absentniinded Gaests Forsret to Take Away. Every hotel in Xew York has a store room for articles left behind by guests'. It is one of the important departments of the establishment and often earns the gratitude of travelers whose un fortunate habit of forgetting leads them to lock for things that are miss ing. In ho'.els a booR is kept in which are jotted down descriptions of arti cles fcrgitten. When a hotel does a EEge transient business, it is frequent ly with diMcuiiy that lost articles are arranged for identiticatiom The integrity of servants must be relied upon to a large extent. The chambermaid takes immediate posses sion of a room upon the guest's de parture. She p'eks up anything that appears to have been left unintention ally. A note describing the article and giving thx' name of the guest, the room number r.nd the time of /'cpar*. ??:?!* is taken to the clerk. The property is turned over to the house!.eoper :r;:d by her to the "lest" department. Said the clerk of one fashionable ho tel: **I remember a singular case of a man who didn't respond at once to the hall hoy's call for an early train. The result was that when he did get up be had to run. From the station we got a call on the telephone: " "Hurry to my room,' he shouted. *and on the table you'll find a very val uable package. It's my eyes. Send them to the'station.' "Sure cuoue;'n, we found two glass eyes on the dressing table' in a plush case. One was for daily use and the other for an emergency. Guests often forgft their false teeth, but that was the only case I ever knew of a man leaving his eyes." Rings and pins are often found on the washstaixL Valuable pins are found everywhere, the window cur tains being a favorite depository. Watches and revolvers bol; >ut from under pillows. Of course when the owner's address is known and any thing valuable is left he is notified and the article sent to him. If not called for in a few months, the forgot ten article usually becomes the per quisite of employees. ? New York Times. _ No Prills For Him. "What is your husband's alma ma ter?" asked Mrs. Oldcastle. "Oh." her hostess replied, "Josiah ain't got any. He always signs his ini tials just pliiiD. old fashioned without ! any puttin' on."?Chicago Record-Her ; aid. Secondhand Book Habit. One of the novel habits of the pros | ent day is one that takes one to second j hand bookstores, says the Philadelphia I North American. Dealers in dissipated libraries cali it aptly enough the "sec ondhand book habit" A clerk whose duty it is to stand at the front of the secondhand bookstore and vratch cut for possible purchasers is the one who first made note of this 1 queer habit He noticed that the same men and women were wont to stop and cursorily inspect the same dusty vol umes day after day, year in and year out. They come every day?the same old faces?and they look over the same old books, and they never say any thing, and they never buy anything, and after awhile, when their time is up, they go away as silently as they came. MASONIC BANQUET. A Most Successful and Pleasant Cele bration of St. John's Day. The annual installation of the officers of Claremont Lodge, No. 64, A. F. M., was held with due form and ceremony in the Lodge rooms in the Masonic Temple Friday night. There was a large, though not a full, attendance of the members of the Lodge, and several visiting members of the Craft were present and added much to the pleasure of the occasion by their presence. When the installation ceremonies had been concluded the lodge adjourn ed to the Hotel Sumter where the an naul banquet was served. The table, which was laid for about sixty, was simply but tastefully deco rated and there were but few vacant places, as fifty-two were seated when che Lodge members and guests were assembled. The banquet was unquestionably the most elegant, most enjoyable and most successful ever given by Clare mont Lodge, Proprietor Paraira of the Hotel Sumter having surpassed him self in the preparation and manage ment of the whole affair. The menu left nothing to be desired, the service was perfect and a better pleased crowd would have been hard to find. There has been nothing but praise for the Hotel Sumter manage ment, and Mr. Paraira has every rea son to feel gratified over the success of his efforts to please the Masons. The menu was as follows: Oysters Natural White Plume Celery Queen Olives Mock Turtle Soup Baked Sea Bass, Sauce Tartare, Vermont Torkey, Cranberry Sauce Fried Oytsers, Hiram Style JUBILUM PUNCH Potted Quail Aux Petti pose Chicken Salad A'la Mayonaisse Cocoanut Pie Vanilla Ice Cream Assorted Cakes WINES Old Sherry Tokay St. Julienne Claret. Fruit Mixed Nuts Edam Cheese Salted Wafers French Drip Coffee Segars Hon. Altamont Moses, who presided and acted as Toast Master, proposed the toasts and introduced the speakers who responded. Masonry: Maj. H. F. Wilson. Woamn: Col. W. W. Lumpkin. The Grand Lodge: Mr. E. H. Mickie. The responses were all gems of thought and diction, it being but on j rare occasions that the speeches are so appropriate to the time and place and so uniformly good. | Mr. H. C. Moses paid a beautiful < tribue to the departed and absent1 brethren whose places were vacant, i Though absent they were not forgot ten and the tribute paid to the mem-] ory of those who will meet no more with the craft in an earthly lodge was particularly tender and beautiful. Rev. H. C. Grossman pronounced the benediction at the close and the Masonic year brought to an end for Claremcnt Lodge. To the committee of arrangements Abe Eyttenberg, G. L. Kicker and B. J. Rhame?not a little credit was due for the success of the banquet and they justly merit a vote of thanks for hav ing arranged for and carried to a suc cessful close the most enjoyable ban quet in the history of Claremont Lodge. PRIMITIVE PUMPS. The Slechnrjara Vsed In Ancient Esrypt and In China. A representative piece of mechanism occurs frequently on the sculptures of early Egypt. It has the appearance of and is generally believed to be that of a portable pump. The hydraulic screw is also attributed to this people, but their main reliance seems always to i have been the shadoof, seen every where along the banks of the Nile, an invention so simple and so well adapt ed to their needs that it remains today substantially the same at it has been through all the centuries since history began. The same may be said regarding the chain pump in China, an invention the origin of which antedates the Christian era. This simple machine, which seems never to have been improved upon, is in such common use that every agricul tural laborer is in possession of one. Where irrigation is conducted on a lar ger scale the chain pump is made pro portionately iarger and moved by a very simple tread wheel, and still lar ger ones are operated by yoking a buf falo or other animal to a suitable driv ing machine. The application of steam to raising water is of uncertain origin. Long be fore the Christian era certain applica tions of fire to vessels containing wa ter, by which effects were produced calculated to astonish ignorant wor shipers, were practiced by the priests of Egypt. Greece and Rome, but their knowledge seems never to have been turned into any channel of secular use fulness. An Embarrassitjs Answer. A man sent a note to a rich neighbor with whom he was on friendly terms to know if he could borrow an ass for .i few hours. The ^worthy old man was no scholar and happened to have a guest sitting with him at the time, to whom he did not wish to expose his ignorance. Opening the note aud pre tending" to rend il. he reflected a mo ment and turned to the servant. "Very good," said he. "Tell your master I'll coine myself presently." Tbc Inventor's Triumph. "You say that Arbeiter's inventions have made several men millionaires, but did he ever mak? anything out of them?" "Oh. yes. Fie was singularly success ful with his devices in that respect, lie made enough to perfect all of them."?Indianapolis News. All In Vain. Clara?I suppose I shall have to give Mr. Fiddleback the n?xt dance. Maud?Why don't you sit it out with him V "Well, I've tried that"?New Yorker. A CHRISTMAS WEDDING. i Two of Mayesville's Popular Young Peo ple United at Hyman's Altar. Mayesviile, Dec. 25.?A pretty j home wedding was the marriage to night of Mr. Clarence D. Cooper and Miss Bessie Thomas at tbe home of the bride, tbe Rev. J. E. Stevenson officiating. The bride is one of Mayes ville's fairest daughters and the groom one of onr prosperous merchants. The couples in attendance were: Mr. Al lison Thomas and Miss Alice Cooper, Mr. M. C. Mayes and Miss Daisy Bradley, Mr. Hampton Thomas and Miss Lina Shaw, and Mr. H. W. Cooper and Miss Lily Shaw. The bride was attired in tan colored silk, the brides-maids in white organdie over Nile green, while the gentlemen wore the conventional suit of black. The parlors were beautifully decorated with garlands of smilax and ever greens, the marriage scene presenting a very pretty picture. A delightful supper was served after the ceremony. The newly-married couple have the best wishes of The Item reporter. G. Kelly, Hudson, Youmans. The lawyers in the Lee county case have presented their modest bills for payment. The commissioners . tried their best to get Judge Hudson to name his fee, but he put them off, only asking for a retainer of 8225 which the commissioners borrowed and paid cash. In addition to this they have sent in their bills as follows: B. Frank. Kelly, 8800: J. H. Hudson, $800, and L. F. Youmans, 8700, and they have been paid iu full. Comment is unnecessary; the battle has been fought and won and as Gen. Lee said once, 4'He wished all his critics had come to him before the battle and told him how to plan it." One thing, the people of Lee county will not soon forget this lesson.?Lee County Vin dicator. Mr. T. J. DuBose's Barn Burned. Tuesday night, Dec. 23, about 8 o'clock the barn of Mr. T. J. DuBose, in the Mechanicsville neighborhood, was destroyed by fire. The build ing contained about 400 bush els of corn, 15,000 pounds of fodder, 12,000 pounds of cot ton seed, 40 bushels of peas, one young mule, and eight bales of cotton, all of which was toally destroyed. Eleven bales of cotton were saved. The loss amounts to between $700 and 8800, on which there is no insurance. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. It is a very hard blow to Mr. DuBose, as he was burned out two years ago, and was just recover ing from that loss. Bishop Capers Coming. The Rt. Rev. Ellison Capers, D. D., Bishop of the diocese of South Caro lina will visit St. Philip's Church, Bradford Snrings on Sunday morning Jan. 4th 1903 at 11 a. m. That even ing he will visit the church of the Holy Comforter, Sumter. At both services the rite of confirmation will be administered. The public are cor dially invited to attend both of these services. H. Lewis' Thanks. Mr Editor?Please A low me space in your Paper to thank the Mellow hearted Techers and Scholors for there Great Present that they made their old Janitor. Many thanks to them All and my many Compliments to their Parents for Aiding their children to Give their old Janitor, they will think of the old Adeage that Christ mas only Come once A Year and Evry Poor Negro must Have His Share, and I Have been living in the City of Sumter Every Since 1875 and Have made 9 years and 4 months of that time As Janitore of the Graded School and Have Been A Round the Country A Great deal But I find No Place like Sumter. I Believe that God Has Chosen this City for one off His Best Citys of this Age as He Did the City of" Bethlehem of Judea in Days Past and Gone Bee cause He loved David he Place Him in that City and We All Know ' that David Was-the Apelof God Eye So He look ed upon, the City of Sumter to Day With the SamejjEyes and the Children through the kind' techers of Each Grade Re warded me A Hanscme littel Purse with An Amounte to the Some of $2.46 which fill me with much Joy and the Kind and Noble Supt Mr S. H. Edmonds and techers of course kept up there Old Rule By Giving There Gifts Each the sum of 25 to 30 cents Each and it Shows that theye all likes me and I love them All if Not I Wood Not try so Hard to Please them All, thogh Some times I wood that I was 6 or 7 mens so thatl might bee Able to Serve more Orders But I Am thankfull to Saye that the Lord is Helping All of us mighty Well for the A Mounte of work that we Have with So many Children, but let us All Toil on with Good Chere for God has A good Rewarde for the Faithflul and Just and Has His Rewarde for the on Just and Slcthfulle and So with that I will Close, Saying Merry Christmas to All of my Frends And A Happy New Year Yors trolv H. Lewis 12?26?2 Sumter S C Perception cf Fnct. "What is the way to success?" we ask the great men. They cannot tell us. They know what upheld them in every emergency, but they cannot de fine it It was the sense of proportion. It measured, plumbed every circum stance and gauged every condition. It weighed relative values, material and j human, it knew character when it found it and sifted the wheat from the chaff, it recognized opportunity, and it likewise made the most of it?Cos- I mopolitan. Gail It on Good Authority. "Can you give me any evidence in ; regard to the character of the do- : ceased V" said the judge. "Ye:-, my lord." replied the witness. "He was a man without blame, be- j loved and respected by all men, pure in ? all his thoughts and"? "Where did you learn that?" said the j judge. "I copied it from his tombstone ray lord."?Stray Stories. January Everybody's Magazine. The feature of the January "Every body"'' is a new "Arabian Nights'" story found recently by Dr. Seyboid, of the University of Tubingen among the Arabic manuscripts of the late Consul Wetzstin of Damascus. Mrs. Bessie Van Vorst describes her ex perience in factories in Chicago, being j the last article of the series of "The 'Woman that Toils." Juliet Wilbor Tompkins contributes a most interest ! ing studvof "The Personality of Helen J Gould." In "Tragedies of Steam i boat Histories, G. W. Ofeden tells : some dramaitc stories of life on the j Mississippi. "Mrs. Dazzledick's at j Home," the third of the "Unemploy I ed Eich" series, describes the typical New York society woman on. the search for sensational entertainment. There is a vivid account of the person ality of Andrew Jackson and the scene at Calhoun's supper party at "The Indian Queen in Washington, in "Great Days in Great Careers," by Al fred Henry Lewis. David Graham Phillips describes "How Roosevelt be came President." There are a number of good vital short stories of real in terest. Big line of books for everybody. H. G. Osteen & Co. will save the dyspeptic from manv days or misery, and enable itiim io eat whateycr he wishes. They prevent SICK HEADACHE, cause the food to assimilate and nour ish the body, give keen appetite, DEVELOP FLESH and^solid muscle. Elegantly sugar Take jjjo Substitute._ The Slate of South Carolina COUNTY CP SUMTER By Thos. V. Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge. Whereas. Miss Louise C. Whitteraore made suis to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Mrs. Emma E. Whittemore deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Mrs. Emma E. Whitte more, late of said County and State, deceased, that they be and ap pear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Sumter, S. C, on Jan. Sth, 1903, next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 24th day of December, A. D., 1902. THOS. V. WALSH, Dec 24?2t Judge of Probate. asters Sale. BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Samter County in the State of South Carolina, in the case of Laura S. Flowers, John A. Seale, Elliott Earvin, who is also known by the name of Elliott Taylor, Manning Moore and Seale Moore, the last three named by William H. Seale, their duly appointed Guardian ad Jitem against Mary E. LeNoir, I will sell to the highest bidder at. public auc tion, at the Court House in the City of Sumter, in said County and State, on sale day in January, 1903, being the 5th day of said month, during the usual hours of sale, the following described real estate, to wit: L A tract of two hundred and thirty nine and a half acres, the remainder of what is known as the Iiong Pond tract af ter cutting off from the original tract por tion devised by the Will of Mrs. Frances L. Creighton, consisting of two hundred and thirty-nine and one half acres, bounded as follows : North by a part of the original Long Pond tract, cut off for H. L. Creigh ton, now owned by W. H. Seale, and by lands of Miss H. J. McCail, known as the Roach tract: East by the said Roach tract and by lands of H. L. Pinckney and the Hiawasse tract, and West by a part of the original Long Pond tract, now owned by Wesberry and Kershaw. 2. The McLaughlin tract of three hun dred and seventy-eight acres, bounded North by lands of Mrs. E. R. Atkinson, and lands of the estate of W. J. Atkinson, now owned by Dr. Bush McLaughlin, East by part of the Long Pond tract, now of Wes berry and Kershaw, and by the Hiawasse tract; South by lands of J. S. Thompson, and West by other lands in the River Swamp. 3. The Huger tract of four hundred and thirty-seven and a half acres in the Wa teree "Rivtir Swamp, bounded North by lands of W. W. Anderson, R. M. LeNoir and J. S. Thompson : East and South by lands of the Sautee River Cypress Lum ber Company, and West by lands of Dr. W. W. Anderson. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. FRANK WILSON, Master for Sumter County. Dec 10?4t BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter ! County in the State of South Carolina, j in the case of Amanda Cato and others I against Clara fiargess and Elizabeth I Nunnery, I will sell to the highest : bidder at public auction at the Court House in the City of Sumter in said County and State, on sale day in Janu ary, 190.*'. being the fifth day of s-aid month, during *lie usual hours of sale, the following described real estate, to wit: "All of that piece, parcel or tract of land situate in Rafting Creek Township in said County and State, containing thirty-three acres, more or less, with the dwelling bouse theron, and bound ed North and East by lands of R. S. Brown, south by land formerly of Carson now of G. W. Murray and on the west by lands of Barrel! Cato." Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. FRANK WILSON. Master for Sumter County. Dec, 10. ^ PISCES CURE FORv ^ I Master's Sale. BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, in the State of South Carolina, in the case of William A. Nettles against Jessie H. Brad ford, Ashly W. Bradford, Susan A. Brad j ford, Kate S. Bradford, Ernst Bradford, j Juanita Bradford, Henrietta M. Bradford, Clarence Bradford and Samuel J. Bradford, I will sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Court House in the City of j Sumter, in said County and State, on sale day in January, 1903, being the 5th day of ; said month, during the usual hours of sale, j the following described real estate, to wit: j All that parcel of land situated in the said County and State, containing fifty-six (56) acres and designated by the letter "A" j on a plat made of the estate of Hary A. ! Bradford, by J. M. Nichols, D. S. from a ? survey closed Nov. 26th A. D. 1879, which ! said plat is a part of the record of the j case of John D. Bradford and others j against Louis D. Jervey and others, on file in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County and State, said parcel of land was allotted to me in said action and is bounded on the North by lot designated "B" on baid plat, allotted to Robert M. Bradford in said action, on the East by the public road leading from Privateer to Sumter C. H.4 on the South by lot designated "M" on said plat and now owned by Richard Mon aghan and on the West by land now or formerly of John S. Richardson. Also that other oarcel of land contain ing thirty- four and one half (34^) acres, being the Southern portion of lot desig nated "C" on said plat, and bounded on the North by the other portion of said lot designated "C" on .said plat, on the East by the public road leading from Privateer to Sumter, on the South by the said lot designated "B" on said plat and on the West by lands now or formerly of John Moffit and John Netties, the parcel of land last described is more particularly repre sented by a plat thereof made by J. M. Nichols, D. S., surveyed Feb. 11th, 1880, and annexed to a Deed of said land to me executed by my brother, John D. Bradford. Also those three paresis of land in the said County and State now owned by me and together containing one hundred and forty-eight acres: one of which parcels was assigned to me in the Partition of the estate of my deceased mother, Mrs. Mary A. Bradford, by the Judgment or Order of the Court of Common Pleas for said county in an action therein depending in which John D. Bradford and others were Plaintiffs and Louis D. Jervey and Sallie D. Jervey, his wife, and others were defendants, contain ing fifty-six acres, and bounded on the North by the parcels of land which in said Partition was assigned to Robert M. Brad ford and by him has been conveyed to me; j on the East by the public road, on the South by land of-Gainley and on the West by land of the said J. Cohen Wilson : another of said three par cels, containing fifty six acres, which was assigned in the said. Partition to Robert M. Bradford and which has been conveyed by him to me, and bounded on the North by the parcel of land which in said Parti tion was assigned to John D.Bradford and has been conveyed to me, cn the East by the said public road ; on the South by the parce*. of land first above described and on the West by land of J. Cohen Wilson ; the third parcel containing thirty-six acres which has been conveyed to me by John D~ Bradford, it being a part of the parcel which in said Partition was assigned to the said John D. Bradford: and being bounded on the North by the remainder of said parcel so assigned to John D. Brad ford, (from which it is separated by a road) on the East by the said public road, on the South by the said parcel, which was as signed in said Partition to Robert M. Bradford, and on the West by land of -Monaghan. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for all necessarv papers. H. FRANK WILSON, Mastex for Sumter County. Dec 10?4t aster's Sale. BY VIRTUE of a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, in t?e State of South Caro lina, in the case of Rebecca H. Moise against W. B. Nelson as administrator of the estate of Samuel E. Nelson, deceased, and in his own right, Charlotte Thompson Nelson, Sarah R. Nelson, V. Guy Nelson, Carrie G. Nelson, Emma J. Nelson and Charlotte T. Nelson, Jr., I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, at the Court House in the City of Sumter, in said County and State, on sale day in January 1903, being the fifth day of said month, during the usual hours of sale, the following described real estate, to wit: "All that tract of land in Sumter County in said State con taining forty acres, more or less, be ing a part of the estate of Mrs. Sarah E. Nelson, and bounded north by lands of Mary S. Nelson, and by Martha Richardson's lands: East by lands of W. S. Jackscn: South by lands of estate of Mrs. Sarah R. Nel son, and West by lands of J. M. Nel son, all of which will more fully appear by reference to a plat of said land made and certified by H. D. Moise, C. E. dated November 19th, 1897. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. FRANK WILSON, Master for Sumter Countv. Dec. 10?4t.