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WS ANTI-TPST JILL -;-^ Gfemf Topic of interest Tuesday ?ffieSinate. Washington January 7.?The day in the Senate was eventful, because of a notable speech by Senator Boar on his bill^reguiating.trusts, and the attack by Senator Vest on protected indus tries through, the operation of the Dingley law. Senator Hoar's utter ances were ? listened to with marked attention* He said t^h&t nearly all the . thoughtful 'men in this country are ?rgeed i&afc some legislation, State or national, ought ho be had for the re gulation aad control of what are call ed trusk"-. and of large masses of capital accamnlfced by corporations or artificial persons holding property and conducting business without in -dividual liability. There was, he said, a general feeling of insecurity and alarm about the matter, and we are dealing with a real peril and not with a'fancied or imiagnary danger. He argued that if his bill should become law and prove effective no cor poration engaging in the. commerce which is within the Jurisdiction of Congress can keep its condition a secret. The bill, he said, depends for its validity en the constitutional power of Congress to regulate international and inter-sjtate commerce. Should the bill not prove effectual he contended that it wsald be easy to extend its] ; operation by imposing a personal liability on every stockholder. The Senator discussed the effect of the control of -vast wealth by in dividuals, saying- that in such a system there was much*to threaten republican liberty. Most of the vast fortunes of the present day had been accumulated within thirty years. "Is there any thing to render it unlikely,1' he asked, "that if one of these vast fortunes has grown from a hundred thousand to ahun dred million in 30 years, that in the hands of the next possessor in another thirty or fifty years the hundred mil lion may become a hundred thousand million? jBufc great as were the pos sibiliites ef the"accumulation of great wealth by-individuals, he 6id not find in such accumulation he same peril that is -found in corporate control of ; of wealth! ? This is true, he said, because the na tural man-dies and his estate is distri buted under the law, wh?e the cor poration .-lives forever. "It never goes through the probate court," he said, "it's interns! tranacfeions are .kept secret It is not zealous for its own borfor or reputation, except so far as its honor or reputation is essential to its getting money. It has no soul and no conscience. In general the men who are most powerful in its manage ment can, if they see fit, avoid re sponsibility to public opinion. They always expect fce avoid personal liabili ty for obligations." Speaking of corporations Senator Hoar ssid-no power less than that of. the entire nation is capable of dealig with them. T3ie question was the most important that had come up for a long time; "for,'" said he, "we are to deal not only - with foreign commerce, but with that, compared with which the foreign commerce of the world is but ?* drop in the bucket?the domestic ^commerce of the United Staites." This ?commerce is, he conti hued, in the &ands of the great corporations and it is properly in their hands. Two important. steps- already had been tsiken in the passage of the Inter State commerce law and the Sherman anti-trust law, but while both mea sures bad proved efficacions, they had fallen siie? of the requirements. Dis cussing the accomplishments under the Sherman 4aw$ -Senator Hoar said , that the Attorney General has gone far! already un?eritta*b?eak up a monpoly [ which affected the whole freight and . passenger traffic of the Northwest, an other affecting the cotton traffic oi ?ae South and another the price of beef, a prime article of food. He believed that Congress had power to go further on the lines indicated by Attorney General Knox ia his Pitts burg speech, and the enactment of law on the; general lines of his bill he thought would be only another step in ibe direction of the anti-trust law. His tiB he considered tentative and experimental but it was safe and could be modifield. We should proceed safely step by step The measure, he said, is based entirely on the theory that Congress can impose -on a cor poration created by any State such obligations as it shall think fit a ad reasonable as a condition for its be ing permitted to engage in commerce with foreign nations ?nd among the several States. Greenwood Gets a College. The Williamston Female College is to be moved to Greenwood. This decision was reached yesterday. Nine tenths of the trustees of that institution decided to move it here. A vote of the students of the college resulted in over seventy-five per cent, agreeing to come to ?Greenwood. There are at present one hundred and five boarders in the college The Williamston Female college is s *id to possess the most extensive and valuable equipment of any female col lege in the State, Winthrop alone pos sibly excepted. The college has about five thousand dollars worth of ap paratus. Ait of tnis, the furniture, pianos^ etc, etc, will be moved here. The building will be furnished by Greenwood! Dr. Lander, the well known president of the college will subscribe ?iiberally to the fund. He will have charge of the school. He will also keep the buildings in repair and run the college. If he should leave the college, the property will be tendered-to the Methodist conference, and that great body will not allow so splendid a;gift to pass. The college is a certainty.?Greenwood Index. Augusta Rapist to Hang. Augusta, Ga., January 7.?The trial of M'iles Johnson? changed with criminal assault, began here today, with a heavy guard surrounding the Court House to prevent violence. A squad of thirty policemen and twenty five special deputies, with a machine gun, were ?Station ed at the front of the building. The four gates leading to the Court House grounds are guarded by soldiers. So far there has been no demonstration against the prisoner. The jury brought in a verdict of sitly at a-late hour tonight and the Ooort sentenced Johnson to be banged ebfcar/6. ' m of JuseuBs ciPTue. Big Haul Ulade by the Police of Colirafoia. Columbia, January 7.?There has been considerable excitement here over a "series of arrests. The police are satisfied that they have a gang of safe blcwers. They think they have ar rested the gang that robbed the post offices at Cameron, Enoree, Rowesville, Hartsville, Hinemaa, Prosperity, Mount Morency, Batesburg, Renno, and got into the bank at Mnllins and made general raids throughout the State. At Muilins the safe robbers got $6,000 rat Cameron and Enoree $1,000 each and at the other points smaller amounts. The arests were made by Chief Daly, with the active co-operation of Post office Inspectors Gregory and Pulcifer, and they are satisfied that they have the right men. Twq, of the men ar rested are known to be professional cracksmen and a complete set of burglars' tools was found in their rooms. Their fast life, utter extrava gance and living with negroes attract ed the attention of Chief Owen Daly and made him notify Postoffice In spectors Gregory and Pulsifer, who work in this State, of his suspicions, and then the work was done. The evidence will be deveolped in detail, but meanwhile the men will wait in jail. The postoffice inspectors are likely to experience difficulty in getting detailed evidence, but Mr. Gregory and Mr. Pulsifer are active and successful workers, and Mr. Gregory is so eminently successful in his work and knows Howard so well that the expectation is that the details will soon be available. The four men were formally arrested today and warrants sworn out by In spector Puslifer, before United States Commissioner Lide, at Orangeburg, in which they were charged with, on or about November 8, 27, 28 and 1902, and December 14, 16, 19 and 20, breaking into the postoffices at Came ron, Enoree, Rowesville, Hartsville, Hineman, Montmorenci, Batesburg and Benno, and did take various sums of money and postage stamps. At all of these places, it is alleged that the safes were broken into and money taken. Most of these postoffices are in stores, and in most cases postoffice money was taken, together with pri vate funds. The postoffice inspectors had nothing to do with such robberies as those at Mnllins and other points where no potsoffice funds were involv ed. The men were arraigned before Commissioner Lide, who deputized Chief Daly to make the arrests, and each of the men was held in default of $20,000 bonds. They were held at police station tonight, and tomorrow go to the county jail. They will be given their preliminary examination before Commissioner Verner, of Co lumbia. The police department man aged its end of the line well, and the postoffice inspectors are loud in their praises of Chief Daly for the successful manner in which he engineered the matter, and for the co-operation of Officers Strickland and Thackham. Postoffice Inspectors Gregory and Howard had met before, and it was a curious meeting when Howard was presented to Mr. Gregory. It was in the case that resulted in the conviction of Howard and his sentence of three years in West Virignia, that Inspector Gregory appeared as a witness, and Howard had just finished that sentence and did not like the idea of meeting his nemesis in Columbia in another safe-blowing case. Noland and Duggan claim that they made their savings while here at gambling, and Duggan boasted of hav ing lost $600 in a game here in a single night. Howard claims to have been engaged in the restaurant business, and McKinley was not quite sure whether he did anything but gamble for a pastime. Howard, or Hearn, or "Dutch," as he is called in the pro fession, is quite a young man and, No lan is the oldest man in the party. He is a man of about 43, and Howard. ^is only about 28. All of the men have, employed counsel, and will make the best fight that they can, but they seem to be up against active and alert men and have a rough road ahead. Virulent Smallpox. Richmond, Va., Jan. 6.?Miss Rob bie Yeager, the pretty pupil nurse who died at the city bosiptal in this city on Saturday, was the sixth person to die within the past few days of a virulent form of smallpox which is traced directly to volunteers returning from Cuba. Another nurse, Miss Carr, at the city hospital, has the disease, and her condition is considered critic^. Recently a man named Stone was taken in at the city hospital suffering with another disease. He developed smallpox. He died, and there have been five other deaths. The saddest of these was that of Miss Yeager, a young and pretty pupil nurse at the institution. She nursed Stone, contracted the disease, died and was buried in the potter's field. None of her people, who live in Culpepper county, knew that she was sick until the announcement of her death was made to them on Sunday. In other parts of the State the dis ease has been as deadly, the deaths being nearly iOu per cent. Going to Liberia. New York, Jan. 7.?In the steerage of the White Star line steamer Teu tonic, which sailed today for Liver pool, were 32 colored men, 12 women and 10 children who are going to Li beria to settle, They came from Irwin county, Georgia. One of the men said : * * We are just poor farmers. Busi ness was not very good with us so we get together, sold out our farms and are going out to Liberia to begin life again." The party have about $2,C00. Washington, Jan. 7.?Secretary Hay has received the British and German answers to President Castro's last proposition relative to arbitration. The British note is interlocutory, bat in substance it states that if Vene zuela wishes a conference with a view to submitting the differences between the two countries to arbitration Great Britain will accede. Washington, Jan. 8.?Senator Elkins was one of the leaders in opposition to the bill for a Cuban treaty in the last session, says he will heartily sup port the pending Cuban treaty. MB. B??LJ'S BOOMERANG. President's New Negro Policy Hurts Him In the Senate. Washington, January 7.?There ap. pears to have been a temporary stay of proceedings in the Indianola case. At torney General Knox, at the Cabinet meeting today, said no steps have yet been taken looking to the prosecution of the tormentors of Postmistress Cox. Postmaster General Payne is disposed to adopt the peaceful suggestions made by Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi, who'has requested that no furtehr ac tion be taken until he has an oportu nity to submit to the department state ments from responsible persons at Indianola as to the actual condition there and the circumstances leading up to the recent closing of the postoffice. The Southern situation was the sub ject of two long conferences today. President Rcosevelt and Postmaster General Payne were closeted together for several hours this afternoon after the Cabinet meeting adjourned. Later Gen. Payne remained at the postoffice department until after dark, with Gen. James Clarkson, who has been summoned to Washington in haste. Clarkson is responsible for much of the confusion and conflict between the Lily Whites and the Black and Tans in the South, and it is believed that the President begins to realize that Clarkson may play him false, as he is charged with having betrayed Harri son in 1892. Some of the warmest friends of Pres ident Roosevelt do not hesitate to say that tbey fear his being misled in his alleged efforts to elevate the negro in the South. Some of the leading Re publican Senators and Representa tives, while desiring to be loyal to th? Administration, do not hesitate to say privately that Roosevelt is pursuing a policy that as calculated to undo the good McKinley accomplished towards wiping out sectionalism. Without doubting the President's honesty and good intentions, there is a growing impression among his friends that he is magnifying the situation in the Southern States by following the ad vice of Clarkson.?News and Courier. THE PfllLiPPtNE'S BUBOES. Millions Needed to Prevent Starvation. Washington, January 7.?The Presi dent today submitted to Congress the third anunal report of the Phillippi^e commission with extensive appendices. Accompanying the president's letter of transmittal was a letter from Secre-! tary Root making a strong plea for immediate help by Congress for the inhabitants of the archipelago. In his letter transmitting the report and endorsing Secretary Root's plea the President says: "I call special attention to the re commendations contained in this letter of the Secretary of War. I most earn estly feel that the enactment of the measures already pending in your body for the betterment of the Philip pine Islands is imperatively demanded by the situation in these islands and serious calamity may come from failure to enact th^m. Furthermore I, with equal earnestness, ask your attention to the recommendation of the Secretary of War in the accompanying letter and urge its adoption, so that the sum of money therein specified may be ap propriated for the uses and in the manner likewise specified, in order that the present distress in the islands may be remedied." Secretary Root in bis letter to the President says : "It seems to me that the conditions resulting from the destruction by rin derpest of 90 per cent of the carabaos, the draft animals of the islands, and the consequent failure of the rice crop, followed by an epidemic of cholera, are so serious and distress so great to call for action by Congress beyond that for which the commission specifically ask. The removal, under the laws and conditions, of export duties on goods shipped from the Philippines to the United States has materially reduced the revenues of the islands, while the duties collected in the Unit ed States upon importatins from the Philippines, which, under the same laws, were to be turned over to the Philippine treasury and were expected to make good the deficit, have amount ed to practically nothing. At the same time the decline in the price of silver, the- evils of a fluctuating cur rency, the impoerishment of the peo ple, have reduced the Government re venues when they are most needed for relief of the people." The Secretary recommends an appro priation of 83,000,000 for expenditure in distribution of supplies and upon relief work. It is Chairman Garris. Columbia, Jan. 7.?When the State railroad commission met yesterday Mr. J. C. Wilborn, the chairman, whose term has just expired stated that he had decided to waive all question as to whether he should hold longer, and was ready to retire in favor of Mr. B. L. Caughman. Mr. Canghman was present and formally assumed the duties of the c55ce: Before Mr. Wilborn could ieave the room Mr. Garris on behalf of the mem bers and the secretary presented in a neat speech a handsome gold-headed walking cane suitably engraved, which was given to the retiring chairman as a testimonial of the high esteem in which he is held by his associates. Commissioner Wharton also made ap propriate remarks, and Mr. Wilborn who has been a member of the board for eight years responded feelingly. The commission then unanimously elected Mr. C. W. Garris as chairman of the body to succeed Mr. Wilborn. Mr. Garris 'has been an unusually hard-working member of the board, and has thoroughly equipped himself for the discharge of the duties of chair man. Washington, January 7.?The Indi anola, Miss, postoffice case was dis cussed at the Cabinet meeting today, and it was decided that the stand taken by the Administration should be ad hered to, the contention being that the people themselves and not the Govern ment, are responsible for the closing of the office. Postmaster General Payne has no new developments to report. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEET. Report as to the Bonded and Floating indebtedness- and &ashrResources af the County. The County Board of Commissioners held two meeting this week with Supervisor Seale and Commissioner McNeill present. Commissioner J. P. Kilgore, being a resident of Lee county, is disqualified from further service on the board and was not pre sent. At the regular monthly meeting on Tuesday the regular routine business was transacted, nothing of particular importance coming up. Resolutions complimentary to the re tiring Commissioner Mr. J. P. Kil gore and to former County Attorney R. O. Purdy were adopted. A special meeting was held on Wed nesday to meet the county Legislative delegation for the purpose of con ferring concerning the financial con dition of the county and other mat ters on which the delegation desired information. A report was presented showing that Sumter county has a bonded debt of $15,000 which becomes due in 1906 and that it owes the State Sinking Fund and the First National Bank 815,162.09. The funds on hand from taxes and taxes to be collected will be sufficient to pay the amount due the Sinking Fund and the First National Bank, and to set aisde 84,160 as required by the act of 1902, as a sinking fund to retire the bonded debt when it ma tures. When these debts shall have been paid the cash resources of the county will be exhausted and money will have to be borrowed to run the county on a cash basis and pay cur rent expenses. Unless the levy for county purposes shall be increased or the expenses of the county reduced it will be out of the question to run the county on a cash basis without continuing to bor row money from the Sinking Fund and banks. It will be difficult to estimate with any exactness the expenses of the county for the current year, for since Lee county has been cut off there is no reliable data to be used as a basis of an estimate, conesquently the levy for the year will be to a considerable extent a matter of guess work. MERGED WITH THE SOUTHERN. Stockholders of the S. and W. Railway Met on Wednesday. Charleston, Jan. 8.?At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Sumter and Wateree Railroad Com pany, held here yesterday, the proposi tion to sell, convey and merge the property and franchises to and with the property and franchises oi the South Carolina division of the South ern Railway was voted on and adopt ed. The action was simply a ratifica tion of the plan of the company. The Sumter and Wateree is a short line, practically a part of the Southern Railway, and by the action of the stockholders it is merged with the greater system. Privateer News Items. Mr. Sam R. Cain, of Chicora, S. C, and Miss Essie Ramsey, of State burg-, were married at the home of the bride's father, Mr. S. H. Ramsey, last Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 7th the Rev. Louis J. Bristow officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Cain left on the after noon train for their future home near Chicora, in Berkeley county. .Mr. R. Sep. Whilden has moved from his farm in Privateer township to Sumter and will live opposite the academy, on Washington street. The children of the Bethel School in Privateer township were treated to a Christmas tree by their teacher Miss Pretto Lcckwod, who is very popular as a teacher. Weather Observer Wanted. Mr. J. W. Bauer, Section Director of the U. S. Department of Argicul ture, Columbia, S. C. writes that he desires to secure in Sumter a voluntary observer for the Weather Bureau. Prof. W. H. Buckner who has acted in this capacity for a year or more has been forced to give up taking ob servations owing to his frequent absences from town. If anyone is willing to volunteer to take the ob- j servations Prof. Buckner will give full information as to the require ments etc. In his letter requesting this notice Mr. Bauer says: I trust that you will be able and willing to aid the service to this ex tent, and have Sumter represented in the publication which this office is sues and which has a circulation in every State in this country and goes to all the principal libraries of Europe as-well." New York, Jan. 8.?An official of the United States Steel corporation re ports that applications to the amount of 26,400 shares have thus far been mad6 by over 12,000 employes who wish to avail themselves of the profit shar ing plan. The original proposition called for the distribution of only 25, 000 shares but in order to meet the increased demand extra stock probably will be bought in the open market. The right to suscribe expires on Feb ruary 1. _ _ A Scientific Discovery Kodol does for the stomach that which it is unable to do for itself, even when but slightly disordered or over-loaded. Kodol supplies the natural juices of digestion and does the -work of the stomach, relax ing the nervous tension, while the inflamed muscles of that organ aie allowed to rest and heal. Kodol digests what you eat and enables the stomach and digestive organs to transform all food into rich, red blood. J S Hughson & Co. _ Ada, O., Jan. 8.?Three men dead and 14 or mere other persons injured, one fatally, is the result of a collision between two trains on the Pennsylva nia system on the main stree t of this city at 5 o'clock this evening. The crowned heads of every nation, The rich men, poor men and misers, All join in paying tribute to De Witt's Little Early Risers. H. Williams, San Antonio, Tex., writes : Little Early Riser Pills are the best I ever used in my family. I unhesitatingly rec ommend them to everybody. They cure constipation, biliousness, sick headache, torpid liver, jaundice, malaria and all oth- i er liver troubles. J 8 Hughaon & Co. THE CAUSE OF LYNCHING. In speaking of the recent lynching in Soa-tb Carolina of a negro man and his wife, and again of (the lynching of a negro in the town of Pittsburg, Kansas, when after the rope broke a man in the mob cnt the victim's throat with a knife, the New York Tribcne asks if it is not time for tbe American people, North and South and East and West, to rise in a great movement to remove the reproach of blood guiltiness from this republic. "There are never any lynchings in England or France or Germany," it gees on; "is it impossible for the American heirs of the ages to put a stop to such horrors? Of all the great civilized nations of the world this country has been disgraced by more mob murders than have stained the re cords of any other enlightened peoples. This blistering reproach rests upon the North as well as the South. It is a brand upon this union. It burns and it bites. It is red and raw and angry. How long will it be endured?" There are no lynchings in England or France or Germany, nor are there any negroes there. But in the United States and in South Africa, where ne groes are numerous, lynchings are fre quent. The bad negro is the cause. When a bad negro commits a crime too horrible to mention, white men in their indignation are disposed to take him out and put him to death like a brute without giving him the dignity of a court trial. Our readers well know that The Times is opposed to lynching under all circumstances, and regardless of the color of the vic;im. We do not believe in lynching negroes. It is a horrible thing according to our way of thinking, to put a man to death by mob violence. When such a victim is chained to a stake and burned alive in the presence of a gaping crowd the horror is unspeakable. But for the life of us we cannot help feeling resentment against the negro for provoking such horrors in the South. It was the negro "who brought forth the Ku Klux Klan; it was the negro, led by mean white men, who caused our internal troubles in the days of reconstruction; it was the ne gro who forced the white men of the South to debauch the suffrage and re sort to election trickery and dishones ty; it is the negro now who excites lynching. We are not even offering any excuse for the whites, but it is a fact which cannot be disputed that the negro has been at the bottom of nine-tenths of the lawlessness committed in the South since the war. Therefore in making contrasts be tween this country and the civilized countries of Europe our Republican contemporary, the New York Tribune mast take the negro into consideration and draw its own conclusions.?Rich mond Times. All of the above is true, but the vital point is overlooked in the statement of the reasons for opposing lynching. It is not the barbarity of lynching, nor the frequency of putting to death innocent persons that is ocr strongest reason for an unyielding opposition to lynch law. \ve oppose lynching pri marily because it is unlawful and because any unlawful practice that receives the approval of a majority of the people tends to bring all law into disrepute and to encourage lawless ness. Lynching is a growing evil and from an occasional resort to this sum mary method of punishment for a single crime it has been rapidly ex tended to cover all classes of crime that arouse the passion of t;ae people who are injured by the crime. For rape there is a widespread sentiment that immediate lynching is the proper penalty, but familiarity with lynch law has bred in our people a disposi tion to lynch for any and all outrage ous crimes. Respect for law is being swept away, the moral fibre of the people is being destroyed by the lynching evil, which has become a greater menace to the safety of the country and its institutions than the criminal classes who receive punish ment at the hands of Judge Lynch. A Cruel Murderer Hanged. Camden, N.J., Jna. 7.?Paul Wood ward was hanged in the Camden jail today. The drop fell at 10.05 and Woodward wa3 pronounced dead ten minutes later. Woodward was ap parently the most unconcerned person in the party at the hanging and show ed remarkable neTve. Paul Wood ward's crime was the murder on Oct. 1, last, of John Coffin, aged U years and Price Jennings, aged 14 years. The boys disappeared from their homes on Oct. 1, and their bodies were found in the woods near Haddon Heights, six miles from here, on Oct. 4. Wood ward had been seen in company with the lads on the day of their disapqear ance and was arrested. An analysis of the boys's stomachs showed that they had died from arsenical poisoning. The police officials learned that Wood ward had bought arsenic a few days prior to the boys'"* disappearance and { upon being indicted by the grand jury was later placed on trial and convictod ? of murder int he first degree. Counsel for the prosecution claimed that Woodward had poisoned the boys for the purpose of robbery. When they left home the boys had $10 in their possession, but when the bodies were foand the pockets of the clothing did not contain a penny. One Hundred Dollars a Box 19 *he value H. A. Tisdale, Summerton, S. ( . laces on De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. I ays : "I had the piles for 20 years. I many doctors and medicines, but all failed except De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. It cured me." It is a combination of the healing properties of Witch Hazel with antiseptics and emollients ; relieves and permanently cures blind, bleeding, itching and protruding piles, sores, cuts, bruises, eczema, salt rheum and all skin diseases. J S Hughson & Co. Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 8.?The consolidated naval stores company has purchased the Chattanooga pottery, located at Daisy, Tenn., from D. P. Montague of this city and will manu facture turpentine pots for the pro ducts of the company. This branch is capitalized at $150,000. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COXT2TTY OP SUITES. By Thos. V. Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge. Whereas, Junius A. Mayes made suit to me to graut him Letters of Ad ministration of the Estate of and effects of Matthew P. Mayes, Jr.. deceased. These are therefore to cite and admon ish all and singular the kindred and cred itors of' the said Matthew P. Mayes, Jr, late of said Coun ty and State, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Sumter, C. H., on January 23, 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 8th day of Januarv, A. D., 1903. THOS, V. WALSH, jan 8?2t Judge of Probate. HE SUMTER SHIES Ml Capital Stock, $25,000 Liability of Stockholders, 25,000 OPENING AN ACCOUNT With the Sumter Savings Bank should fol low the opening of the New Year as soon as the opening of our doors permit. This is a time of new resolutions, new ef forts. Correct business methods and money sav ing are synonymous terms. By depositing the daily receipts and making payments through the tank a spirit of economy is fos tered and the possibility of error is elimi nated. Full information can be had on applica tion to the Sumter Savings Bank. Four per cent, interest on savings ac counts. TAX EMMS FOR ? OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, SUMTER COUNTY. Sumtes, S. C, Dec. 5, 1902. Notice is hereby given that I will attend, in person or by deputy, at the following places on the days indicated respectively, for the purpose of receiving returns of personal property and poll taxes for the fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1903. At office, Sumter, S. C, at all other times up to Feb. 20th, 1903, inclusive. TindalFs store, Monday, Jan. 5th. Privateer. Jenkins' store, Tuesday, Jan. 6th. Manchester, Geo. T. Geddings, Wednes day, Jan. 7th. Wedgefield, Thursday, Jan. 8th. Stateburg, Friday. Jan. 9th. Hagood, Saturday, Jan. 10th. Rembert, Monday, Jan. 12th. Dalzell, Tuesday, Jan. 13th. Gordon's mill, Wednesday, Jan. 14th. Mayesville, Thursday, Jan. 15th. Shiloh, Friday, Jan. 16th. Norwood's X R?ads, Saturday, Jan. 17th. Oswego, Monday, Jan. 19th. The law requires that all persons owning property or in anywise having charge of such property, either as agent, husband, guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, eta, return the same under oath to the Audi tor, who requests all persons to be prompt in making their returns and save the 50 per cent, penalty which will be added to the property valuation of all persons who fail to make returns within the time pre scribed by law. Taxpayers return what they own on the first day of January, 1903. Assessors and taxpayers will enter the first given name of the taxpayer in full, also make a separate return for each town ship where the property is located and also in each and every case the Number of the school district must be given. Every male citizen between the age of twenty-one and sixty years on the first day of January, 1903, except these incapable of earning a support from being maimed or from other causes, are deemed taxable polls, and except Confederate soldiers 50 years of age, on January 1st, 1903. All returns must be made on or before the 20th day of February, next. I cannot take returns after that date and all returns made after the 20th day of February, are subject to a penalty of 50 per cent. J. DIGGS WILDER, Auditor Sumter County. Dec 10? BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. A FEW fine Barred Plymouth Eock Cockerels are offered for sale at rea sonable prices. They are from the best strains and are large well marked birds. Eggs for sale in season. The supply will be limited and orders will be filled in order of receipt. H. G. OSTEEN, Dec. 3?tf. Sumter, [S. C. uOKfcS WHEHt Alt BS? FAILS. Beet Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use In time. Sold by dn diyyists. \