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TWELVE WELL-KNOWN BUBS. They Destroy Our Crops-Damage Estimated at $350,000,000 a Year. New York, March 29.-Twelve in? sects will cost the United States $350, 000,000 this year. The chinch bag will draw $100,000,000 of this amount, the grasshopper will take $90,000,000 and the Hessian fly will call for at least -$50,000,000 more says the Herald. Three worms that attack the cotton jp?ant will assess the farmers for a total -of $60,000,000 and the potato bug will eat $8,000,000 worth of its favorite kind of garden produce. Ten millions of dol? lars is a moderate estimate of the in? jury that will be done by the? apple worm, and the caterpillar that makes cabbages its specialty will destroy $5, ?00,000 worth of crisp green heads. The. estimate, which is conservative sud under the mark, is as follows : Chinchbug, $100,000,000 Gxasshooper, 90,000,000 Hessian fly, 50,000,000 Potato bug 8,000,000 San Jose scale, 10,000,000 Grain weevil, 10,000,000 Apple worm, 10,000,000 Army worm, 15,000,000 Cabbage worm, 5,000,000 Boll weevil (cotton) 20,(XX),000 Boll worm (cotton) 15,000,000 Cotton worm, ?j 15,000,000 Total, $358,000,000 How absurd it seems that this Gov? ernment, with an army of 65,000 men, -284 warships and more money in its Treasury than any nation has ever be? fore possessed, should be helpless in a ?ght against twelve objectionable bugs! Yet such is the fact. The individual bug is^small, but its "strong hold" is its tremendous power of reproduction. "What is to be done in conflict wish an adversary which is capable of having a billion descendants in a summe:*-? In conflict with such an enemy Uncle Sam finds himself in much the same -situation as that of Gulliver* when he discovered that he was at the mercy of the lilliputians. ' THE DISGUSTING CINCH. - .The chinchbng is a disgusting little ** beast" only a third of an inch Jong. Originally it fed upon wild grasses, it when civilized man arrived and mted wheat the cereal sui ced its exactly, and it soon became what ts today, the worst foe of the most ized of bread-producing crops. Ic into the funnel-shaped part of the where it joins the stalk, and the sap until the plant dies. The . multiply at a rate almost in mceivable; attack a wheat field in ies which literally carpet the ground, and when the wheat has been tarvested they fly to the autumnal com. Everybody knows the grasshopper, which in the East is a familiar but harmless insect In parts of the West, however, it is a serious meneice : io agriculture, and in a " bad year' * _wili easily do more than $100,000,000 worth of damage. It is the true locust, -^celebrated in biblical and other histo? ry, andin the United States ranks as worst enemy of man, barring -enjy the chinchbng. It is a foe most ? ^treaded by farmers over extensive ?ureas. Drouths they may combat by irrigation : from tornadoes they may "take refuge in suitably-constructed cellars, but before the march of the devastating swarms of grasshoppers iiiey are helpless. The plague arrives, -and lo las if by magic, the crops are swept from the face of the earth, all vegetation disappears" and starvation stares, them in the face. In the year 1776 the Hessian troops, engaged by the British as auxiliaries, landed on Long Island. They brought 1 a lot of straw with them for their horses, and in it, almost undoubtedly, . were eggs of the insect which has since become knows in this country as the Hessian fly. Three years later the pest began to make itself troublesome in the neighborhood of the landing place,'and since then it has gradually spread westward. Barring the chinch 'bug, it is the worst enemy of the "wheat, making its first appearance as m tiny maggot at the base of the young plant and sucking its juices. Even? tually the plant is weakened and de >yed, and the maggot is transform? ed into a fragile, darkcolored gnat, -closely resembling a small mosquito -she destined parent of maggots yet to be. THE DREAD ARMY WORM. The army worm, which is one of the most dreaded of the insect foes of the farmer, is a naked striped caterpillar an inch and a quarter long. In May and June it makes its appearance in immense numbers, devouring wheat, oats and otho? grains and grasses. It climbs up the seed stalks and cuts o5 the heacfe. With a favorable succession of seasons it multiplies in geometric? al" ratio, and at last becomes so numer "Ous as to necessitate migration in search of food. Then the army worms travel and feed during both day and sight, inflicting enormous damage, it is from their mode of marching in armies at such times that their popular name is derived. The parent of the-] worm is a brown moth. ? The potato bug seems to have been originally native to Colorado and New Mexico. Various wild plants furnish it with food, but nothing seems to ve been so exactly suited to its re? quirements as the potato. With the -introduction of the potato by settlers eame the opportunity of this objection? able insect to multiply ad infinitum. It began to march eastward and north? ward, at first slowly, depending upon its power of flight, but later in great jumps, assisted by the railroads, on hieb it took passage. It made trips of hundrads of miles y river, floating on chips or voyaging boat. Its spread was startling, and t the present time its territory com? prises nearly all of the United States. Mt efforts to diminish its numbers ive been in vain, and 88,000,000 is moderate estimate of the damage it ces annually. In 1868 a French naturalist named ^rouvelont, residing in Medford, near ton* was engaged in making es riments with various silk spinning asects other than the common silk orm. He had imported the eggs from rance, and with them by some acci nt, had come a few eggs of the gypsy th, already well known as a destruc insect in Europe. These eggs were in a pasteboard box a window edge and were blown ay. As a result, the State of Mas ! sachusetts has been obliged to spend more than half a million dollars since then in trying to exterminate the bag, which has threatened to eat ev? ery green thing off the face of the earth in the region over which it has spread comprising abont fifty square miles. It is a ravenous defoliator of fruit and shade trees and if it should extend its operations over a large part of the country it might easily do hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of injury yearly. The brute is a dark gray cater? pillar, two and a half inches long, and its parent is a moth of yellowish hue with black bangs on its wings. The San Jose scale gets its named from the fact that it first appeared in the San Jose Valley, California, hav? ing been imported, probably from Australia or Hawaii. It is the worst of all enemies of" fruit trees. Almost microscopic in size it will spresd through an orchard in half a dozen years and, in place of green leaves and blossoms, leave nothing but dead trunks and branches, j m A fruit-raising district attacked by I it is destroyed as effectually as if over \ run by fire. The insects, millions of i them together, suck the sap of the tree, each one of them covered with a waxy scale, which forms a sort of grayish scurf on the bark. BILLIONS OF DESCENDANTS. Inasmuch as a single female may have as many as 3,216,000,000 descen? dants in a single season, it is easily understood why the pest spreads so dangerously fast. Recently the De? partment of Agriculture has import? ed from China a bug that preys upon it, and which is now being propagat? ed in outdoor cages for distribution among fruit growers. The grain weevil, which destroys millions of dollars' worth of stored cereals in granaries and elevators every year, is a little brown beetle a quarter of an inch long. The question of how to fight it is one of growing economic importance. It was imported original? ly from the Mediterranean, and has been "domesticated" so long that it has lost the use of its wings. Indeed, its ravages made it famous long-before the Christian era, and it is mention? ed in the "Georgrics" of Virgil. The female beetle punctures the grain kernel with her snoutt and inserts an egg, from which is hatched a little worm that lives in the hull and feeds upon the starchy interior. The cabbage worm, ^hich does more or less damage in every truck patch, is a green caterpilar an inch and a half long. It is the offspring of a com? mon white butterfly. The apple worm (whose parent is likewise a moth) is a reddish worm half an inch in length, and is unpleasantly familiar to every? body. There are many other destruc? tive insects in this country, of course, but those here mentioned are the ones that do the bulk of the damage and which are most dreaded by the growers of'crops. Up to date the Government, with all its power, has been almost defenseless against these dozen tiny but unrelenting foes. THE ANNAPOLIS GAOETSHIP. Young Hydride, of Orangeburg, Wins in This District. Peake, April 3.-Congressman Lever has annoucned the following results of the recent examination: Lawton Hydrick of Orangeburg jwins the An? napolis cadetship, with John T. Ken? nedy of Orangeburg, first alternate, Gibbes Lykes of Lykesland second alternate and Guy L. Warren of Sum? ter third alternate. HESTER'S WEEKLY STATEMENT. New Orleans April 3.-Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statement is? sued today shows for the three days of April a decrease under last year of 3,000 and a decrease under the same period year before last of 42,000. For the 215 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of the same days last year 136,000 and ahead of the same time year before last 623,000. The amount brought into sight dur? ing the past week has been 138,966 against 86,315 for the same seven day? last year and 149,401 year before last. The. movement since Sept. 1 shows receipts at all United States ports to be 7,089,917 against 6,954,084 last year; overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 948,745 against 996,398 last year; interior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 139,655 against 241,583 last year; southern mill takings 1,395, 500 against 1,245,849 last year. Tbe total movement since Sept. 1 is 9,573,S37 against 9,437,914 last year and 8,950,810 year before last. Foreign exports for the week have been 181,675 against 102,671 last year, making the ?gtal thus far for the sea? son 5,943,287 against 5,645,952 last year. The total taking of American mills, north and south, and Canada thus far for the season have been 3,243,981 against 3,110,353 last year. Stocksvat the seaboard and the 29 leading southern interior centres have decreased during the week 124,388 bales against a decrease during the corresponding period last season of 32, ass. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop, the supply to date is 9.788,911 against 9,797,601 for the same period last year. Augusta, Ga., April 9.-The body of Chas Hatcher, who disappeared from his home on March 27, was fcuned floating in an old mill pond at Granitevilie, S. C., this morning. It is believed by the family of the dead rr.an that he was murdered and his body afterward hidden. The coroner's jury will hold an inquest immediately. A charter was issued Monday to the Williamsburg Cotton Oil Company, of Kingstree, the capital stock of which is $20,000. J. F. Cooper is president and E. C. Epps, secretary. Washington, April i. -Bids were opened at the bnrean of yards ann docks today for the construction of stoam engineering shops at the Char? leston, S. C., naval station. The bid of the Clark Construction company which was the lowest of ...he five pre? sented, was ?297,751, the ouilding to be completed within 18 months. HE TOLD IT TO THEM. Senator Tillman at the Business Men's Banquet in Charleston. Senator Tillman tore the bark off in a speech delivered last night at the banquet tendered him by the business men of the city at the Charleston Hotel. .He went back into recent political his? tory and told of the conditions, Which he considered so grave that it was necesssary to organize farmers' move? ment so that men who paid the ex? penses of the State shonld operate it, and then he turned to his experiences, political and otherwise, with the peo? ple of Charleston. Expressing great love and admiration for the town, he said it was necessary for the younger element tc pull together to regain the commerce which is now going to other ports. He took off the gloves in speak? ing of the selfworship of the city and declared that if Charleston ever ad? vanced it would be through the effort of the men with whom he was din? ing last night. Touching on the Cram appointment he said that it had been made, that the negro was put into one of the- most important Fed? eral offices and that it was best to keep harping on the matter and wait until the next session of the Senate, when every power would be used to have him rejected. Senator Tillman, says the News and Courier, received a tremendous ovation. He was entertained at bne of the most elaborate banquets ever given here and throughout his speech there were frequent interruptions by applause. The banquet was a splendid success, due not only to the work of the com? mittee, but to the painstaking care of Manager Davids, and not a man in the hall had reason to regret his presence. The First Band, artillery corps, ren? dered delightful music during the evening. From the report of Senator Tillman's speech, published in the News and Courier we copy the following, and regret that lack of space prevents giving the full report. My position in the Senate is this : I represent South Carolina. I don't represent Edgefield or Beaufort or Orangebusrg or any other county, but I represent a Commonwealth. Now there isn't much opportunity, outside of getting postoffices and rural deliver? ies, of doing much for the interior of the State. If I had been mean or little enough to recall the fact that you had said I was not fit to represent you, that I lacked the polish and the educa? tion that the war cut me off from, I would not do much. The war robbed me of one honor, that of wearing the Confederate uniform. "The question of ancestors never cut any figure with me. When I looked up the pedigree of my family. I found that the men were reasonably brave and the women were virtuous, and that was good enough for me. In fact, I got into my head that a man never amounted to much unless he had merit. So when I saw the chance of doing the City of Charleston some benefit I went forward and tried to do it. "I adopted this policy; I knew the Southern people were paying one-third of the taxes for the support of the Government and we got one dollar for every eigth dollars paid in. I felt that if other State were getting things it was my duty to get our share for South Carolina. I said on the floor of the Senate that I tried to be open and frank and bold, and that I would fight the devil with his own fire and if he made my fire hotter, then I was happier. "Much has been said in a newspa? per about my stump speech Isat night. I would not refer to this except for the fact that you do not look upon things as you did formerly. You say now that that one-eyed farmer from Edgefield isn't such a stick after all. I want as my first ambition the chance of doing my duty, and next to that the power to tell the truth. I have tried, and angels can do no more. '* We may speak of unpleasant facts of the past if I 6ay that ?e can now cut the hide of your self-appreciation, your self-idolatry, your bigotry, your provincialism, or whatevre term you care tc use. 1 can say that this com? munity occupies a strange and anom? alous position. You have a glorious history, but you have made so much history* that you have gone crazy.. You have such ancestor worship that your powers of intellect have been so neglected that you cannot keep alive with modern progress. I want to give an expression of opinion about Charleston. You are cut off, in a measure, from the rest of the State. You have miles of swamp lands in? habited by negroes and alligators and you have grown up to loe a segregated community, and you have persuaded yourselves that you know more than anybody else. You needed no advice from the rest of the State. In the first place, you disposed of your two railroads, the old Greenville and Co? lumbia and the South Carolina roads, the feeders of your commerce. You could not have done worse if you had torn up the rails and resorted to the old wagon travel. You gave these roads to your enemies and they or? ganized a syndicate of railroads to take the commerce from your doors to Norfolk and Baltimore and New York. You have seen your wharves rot, and your wholesale establish? ments die in a degree. You had your cotton ships, but you have none now. Your policy was narrow, it was idiotic. You have made jerky efforts to create a manufacturing centre, but you've got no people to enter your factories for the reason that your peo? ple consider themselves too fino to work in factories. You have seen in? dustrial development turn to the Piedmont, which is now attracting the attention of the industrial and commercial world. You have got j the dry rot, just like Georgetown, | and Beaufort, and they got it because ! they were dominated by the Charles- j ton policy. Your factories here could not make any money. The only hope for the community is in the effort to I bring the products of the State ? through Charleston. You have got deep water, but. you've got moro of it ? than you can use. You have got to have a commercial spirit that will at? tract to Ibis port the commerce that is needed. ,4I am glad to hear that you have organized a Commercial Club Your only chance is for the people to put their shoulders to the wheel to work collectively, to forget tho old precepts that you have clung to with the des? peration of a drowning man, and you really cannot meet competition in any , way. "And now we have had a most un pleasant experience. After twenty- ' six years of freedom from carpet-bag j rule we are told to remember the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitutional. You have had appoint ed to a high Federal office a man who is not a eitizen of Charleston. You have had appointed to another high office a man who' is not white, with the spectre of negro domination. When I recalled the desperate condi? tions of the past I protested zealously. I have done all I could think of doing. The sentiment of the Senate was a protest against the Crum appoint? ment, but what is the use of kicking against the pricks? Charleston is not dead yet, thank God, and Charleston will not die because of a negro col? lector. There is enough in the hearts of her sons to bring Charleston on the pathway of progress. Looking at con? ditions in a practical way. Crum has taken possession of the Custom House and we can't help it. I don't know if he will be confirmed, and he will not if I can prevent it, so help me God. He is in now and unless he is rejected he will continue to hold the office. I could get votes enough to reject him in a secret session. Sen? ators have denounced it privately, but they are afraid to vote against it Now let's let it drop. Let us for? get for the time being the outrage upon us. "Let not our e?omies rejoice in the fact that they have heaped disgrace on our heads. Jueave it alone, having in view the influence of the navy de? partment and others, and we cannot do anything if this nagging and con? tinual reference to it is kept up. I went to the Senate because of the newspaper criticism, but I held on to my friends because of the enemies I had made. I am afraid that if the men of the North are led to suppose that the indignity still rankles us they will say that South Carolina is not reconstructed, and they continue to poke it to her. If I ran a news? paper I would not mention Crum's name. I would not give Roosevelt the satisfaction of knowing that he had punished us. Leave him alone too. He will either be renominated or de? feated, and if he is nominared we will do our best to beat him, as I hope to God we will. Now don't continually harp on Roosevelt and Crum, but treat them with supreme contempt." Senator Tillman said that he loved South Carolina, and he added that he would always work for Charleston. He said he had done his full duty by the city, and he was glad to know that he won the respect of the citizens. Speaking of the men at the banquet he said that they constituted the back bone of the community, and he believed that if Charleston 's redemption should ever come it would come from the efforts of the men in the banquet hall last night. Through the Mountains Into the Coal Fields. Anderson, April 4.-It was learned here yesterday that a party of engi? neers were at work at Walhalla yester? day surveying the line of the Tennes? see, South Carolina and Georgia Railway company the engineers start? ed from Walhalla yesterday morning, and are working their ? way in the direction of Anderson. They are ex? pected to reach the city within a week. This is the railroad that is being pro? moted by Mr. W. B. Frink of Chicago and Mr. M. Skinner of Blue Ridge, Ga. Mr. Skinner is,in charge of the engineer corps now at Walhalla. Fatal Accident Near Lamar. Darlington, April 5.-Mrs. James Register, wife of a well-known farm? er, was killed by the night train from Sumter to Gibson last night. The ac? cident occurred on the track, two miles north of Lamar. Mr. Register was with his wife, but returned to his home nearby. His wife was not to be seen when he returned a few moments later, and a search revealed her dead body some little distance from the side of the track. No wounds were visible, but m&ny bones were broken, making it more probable that Mrs. Register was on the side of the track. The con? ductor and engineer kne.w nothing of the accident until this morning, al? though they are among the most cap? able and trusted officers of the road. Speaking of the President's purpose to call an extra session of Congress in the fall to act on the Cuban reciproci? ty treaty, the New York Sun, says : "Thus by a legitimate exercise of his constitutional power Mr. Roosevelt succeeds in bringing to the final stage one of the most creditable and not the least difficult of his undertakings. He has fulfilled to the best of his ability a moral obligation inherited from President McKinley. It was a pions duty, and he has kept it as steadily in mind as if it were a personal debt to be discharged. He has labored consistently and persistently to re? deem the unwritten pledge of his pre? decessor. He has omitted no proper effort to accomplish his purpose." Has the Sun forgotten that less than a year ago, when a Cuban reciprocity bill that had passed the House was pending in the Senate, the President refused to give his consent that it should come to a vote in the Senate because he could not count enough Republican votes to pass it and was unwilling that ic should pass with the aid of Democratic votes? Does not the Sun perceive that but for the de? sire of the President to make political capital of Cuban reciprocity we could have secured it a year ago and saved the country a year and a half of con? tention over tho matter and an extra session of Congress?-Courier-Journal. Florence. April G.-Mr. J. C. Patterson, w;<s accidently killed at Wilmington this afternoon. He at? tempted to board a moving train, foll under and was instantly killed. Mr. Patterson was a well-known railroad man and was stationed at Darlington j for several years. His father-in-law, Mr. J. W. King, of Florence, receive.! a dispatch this afternoon notifying j him of Mr. Patterson's death, and he ! will leave to-night for Wilmington. ; lr is rumored that some persons away I down in tho old City by the Sea are ! of the opinion that 8>l? is a rather ex? orbitant charge for a banquet of crow. I Yet there is no question that while they may have been denied dessert they got their deserts.-State. Roosevelt on the Trusts. Milwaukee, Miss., April 3.-Presi? dent Roosevelt was the guest of the Milwaukee Merchants' and Manufac? tures' Associaion at a banquet at the Plankinton House tonight, the occasion being the climax of the President's ten-hour visit to Milwaukee. Covers were laid for 530 banqueters. A corps of decorators had worked out a com? plete transformation of the banquet room, which was fairly canopied with Alabama smilax, which, spreading from twelve chandeliers, ran in grace? ful arches to all parts of the room. The President sat in the centre of a long table, with other guests of honor. At his immediate right sat United States Senator Quarles, while E. A. Wadham, president of the Milwaukee Merchants' and Manufacturers' As? sociation, and toastmaster of the oc? casion, was seated at his left. After the banquet had been served Toastmaster Wadham introduced the President, who responded to the toast, "ThePresident of the United States." The President took occasion to give his views on the subject of trusts. The following summary by the State of the President's speech is adopted in lieu of the full telegraph report, for which we have not space. Between almost every two lines of Mr. Roosevelt's address there is apology for the trusts or disapproba? tion of those who are fighting the un? lawful combines. The attempt is made to burden all the honest trust fighters wich the indiscriminate fanatical attacks on capital by social? ists. The president professes absolute satisfaction with the anti-trust legisla? tion of the last congress, when it was well known early in the jion that he favored a more effective method of combatting the immense power of the monopolies. The president quotes at length and with the highest apprecia? tion, as demonstrating the important work being accomplished, the perform? ances of the interstate commerce com? mission and Attorney General Knox in preventing a railroad deal here and equalizing a freight rate there. While these restrictions on the "graft" of certain corporations in localities do not touch the real trust evils affect? ing every buyer in the union as well as many of the producers, the presi? dent has magnified them into accom? plishments fulfilling the demands of the public. But he neglects to furnish the important information that the work he praises was completed or well under way when he made his demands last fall for adequate laws to control trusts. "Move cautiously," "go slowly," 1' take time, " " avoid rashness, " " don't cripple business," are the burdens of our erstwhile "trust buster's" speech. He strenuously opposes a re? duction of the protective tariff on trust products. That would be killing the patient to cure the disease, he says. Santee Canal Conference. Messrs. E. H. Cain, E. B. Clark and J. B. Norris, the committee from the Chamber of Commerce, will leave for Charleston this morning to confer with Senator Tillman concern? ing the Santee canal. Committees from the Camden Business league and the Charleston Commercial club are also interested in the matter. The Columbia committee is well posted as to statistics, etc., concerning the project. They will arrive in Char? leston at 1 p. m. President Clark of the chamber will also make the trip and confer with the senator. Several routes for the canal have been proposed, one of them along a survey made over a century ago by Monz?n, a French engineer. This survey closely follows the old canal, and if accepted will save 74 mi .les in the distance from Columbia to Char? leston as compared with the present route via Georgetown. The casal would then be 22 miles in length. The route surveyed by the experts through Hell Hole swamp would make a saving of 50 miles in the distance from here to Charleston.-State. 3d. The Presbyterian University. The fact that Atlanta succeeded in raising $250,000 for the proposed uni? versity is of some interest there, says the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier. The Atlanta and other papers have been somewhat mis? leading in their statements in regard to the seminary, at least. They have said that if the amount required was raised it would insure Atlanta the uni? versity, but it does not assure her that the theological seminary will be a part of it by any means. The Gen erl Assembly of the Presbyterian Church will meet in Richmond in May, but it has no power to remove the seminary, say Presbyterian minis? ter. It is under the control of the Synods of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida and these bodies have the disposition of it. Two years ago the Synod of JSouth Carolina^ re? fused even to consider the proposition of moving the seminary to Atlanta, and a well-informed member of it says that sentiment has not changed. So the seminary has not left the bounds of the State yet, notwithstanding Atlanta's great feat in raising a quar? ter of a million dollars in that connec? tion. There ./ill bea meeting of the Char? leston Presbytery, to which the two Presbytrian churches of this city be? long, on April 14. The meeting will be held at Beech Island and it is not though that anything of special inter? est will come up, only routine busi? ness being on the docket. Tho steel highway from Chicago to Now York will soon be the most im? portant in the world. In order to handle the business offered it, the Lake Shore road will have four tracks between Chicago and Buffalo. The roads between Buffalo and New York will have eight tracks. The growth of the west and the tremendous develop? ment in trade in that part of the coun? try cannot be fully appreciated in our section. Mr. T. Hasell Gibbes has been selected by the governor to be the chairman of the commission to settle the financial entanglements which have arisen on account of the creation of Lee county. There will be two com? missioners from each of the counties interested, Sumter, Darlintgon, Ker? shaw and Le3-and the governor has selected Mr. Gibbes as a competent financier and a disinterested party. Mr. Gibbes is the cashier of the Bank of Columbia.-State. THE SUMTER SAYINGS BANK. HORACE HARBY, President. I. C. STRAUSS. vice-President. GEO. L. BICKER, Cashier. Capital Stock, $25,000 Liability of Stockholders, 25,000 STS027G AS A BOCZ. The bank that is built on the solid foun? dation can withstand any kind of financial storm' and is the best and safest place for TOTO SAYINGS. The interests of depositors are fully safe-guarded. No investments are made without the closest scrutiny. Your money will INTEREST at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. Land Surveying I will give prompt attention to all calls for surveying, platting, terracing hill sides, draining bottoms, drawing Mortgages Titles, Probating, ?c. BANKS H. BOYKIN, D. S., Oct 19-o Catchall, S. C. THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depository. Capital stock paid in, $75,000 00 Undivided surplus, 16,000 00 Individual liability of stockhold? ers in excess of their stock, 75,000 00 Transacts a general banking business;, also has a Saving Bank Department De? posits of $1 and upward received. Inter? est allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. W. F. B. 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