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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. \