Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Where life ls Long. Senator Tillman and a colleague were discussing the question of the salubriousness of various sections of the conn fry. "Weil,' said Mr. Till? man, " if the healthfulness of a region is indicated by the mere longevity of its inhabitants, then I think that Asheville, North Carolina, must bave/ the palm. As an illustration of bow long-lived the people are thereabouts, we Carolinians are fond of telling tbe story : "A visitor from the North asked an old gentleman /where he was born and how old he Was.. The old chap re? plied i *'I was born here in Asheville, and am seventy years old. " 'Oh! ex? claimed the Yankee,' 'you appear to beso bale and hearty. I've no doubt you'll live to a ripe "old age. How old waa your father when he died?" " 'Father deadP said the old mau. looking surprised, 'Father isn't dead ! He's upstairs putting grandfather to bed !"-Success Magaziue." A Thousand Dollars Worth of Good. *A. H. Thurnes, a well known coal operator of Buffalo, O., writes: "I have been afflicted with kidney and bladder trouble for years, passing gravel and stones with excruciating pain. I got no relief from medicine until I began taking Foley's Kidney Cure, then the result was surprising. A few doses started the brick dust like fine stones and now I have no pain across my kidneys and I feel like a new man. It has done me $1,000 worth of good." Durant's Pharmacy. Big Cotton Planter Dead. Vicksburg, Miss., Janusry 17. Capa. Jobn Willis, the largest cotton planter in the world, is dead, asen SS. His plantation is the most thor? oughly equipped and best fitted Dbn tatioD in the United States. It is as lar*s as a principality bf Europe. Capt. Willis was captain of Company A, 1st regiment of Mississippi volun? teers in the Mexican war, commanded by Jefferson Davis. ?J" Housework Pleasant B"H Partkariarly efficacious in the JL upbuilding of Run-down, De- g_ ? pressed, Weakened and Dis- oQl ?LJi eased Systems traceable to an H g impoverished condition of the V B Nerves, Bram, Blood and Mus- BB ?J? cles. Wherever there is any wmPjm Bni rrregularitv, sluggishness, B checkered feeling, any dis- BB ^w?? ease, the searching action of B??L BJB Checkers begins afc once to TW" SI correctthe trouble, because it Kji SgSKgoes to every part of the-mPwm human body, and feelings of "gp renewed strength and health BUB immediately follow. Buy a ?TL insmmofh.' dollar bottle, or V write for free sample bottle to SOI Checkers Medicine Co., Wisstos-Salero, K. C _B_a_?_a_tt_H_H_B_? a ?" BBBBESBBB-SBK a m a??????BB an Tie L??pt aaft lost Gespielt Geo. S, Hacker & &m - ?ASUFACTURERS OF SASH, 8UNSS3 Moulding & Building Material. oSSce as i S?"iireruux8-, K-QZ, >*>p??ite 0 sen Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Pnrcftasr; our rnii?e, which ve guHr&cfc scp?rior to sr.v sold South, ?QC *beresy ?ave ruooev. Window and Fancy Q-zzz a Specialty fin*.,?r%a- ! fi ?> ?m CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS B^S^iv a . ^ ?-'^?^al and Only Genuine. Ef^&*?\8AFE. Alw. reliaba. Ladle?, m Dracgitt for CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH !in I?ZI> and Gold metallic boxes, seaiel ?r.b. UM ribbon. Take no other. Refuge ?an^eron? Sobatitatlona and ImiUi tioD?. Buy or your DrnggUt. or ?od 4c. ia Part?culaT, Testimonials ?nd "Eelief Tor Ladle*,"in later, br re JturnMaU. 10,000 Testimonial*. So"i<ibi WtOon tai* paper. Uadiaon Sonare. PHILA.. P>! Laxative Froit Syrup Pleasant to take The new laxative. Does not gripe or nauseate. Cures stomach and liver troubles and chronic con? stipation by restoring the natural action of the stom? ach, liver and bowels. Refuse substitutes. Price 500. DURANT'S PHARMACY. COTTON ASSOCIATION SOLID. The Organization of Southern Cotton Ginners Has Taken Permanent Bus? iness Shape. New Orleans, January 17.-In one i brief year the official organization of ?the cotton growers has undergone a !very remarkable transformation. In j January, 1905, several thousand men ! more or less representative in charac? ter gathered at New Orleans. This lyear a compact body of intelligent j farmers, bankers and merchants from > every section of the cotton belt, to a ! man representative of the cotton in I dustry, responded to President Jor ! dan's call. In the iast analysis, the .personnel of the 1906 convention i could hardly be improved upon. Each section seems to have sent as delegates its best qualified men. Wrangling was no part of the proceedings. Con? servative expressions predominated !and met with general and hearty ap? proval. ^Every tendency toward bom? bast and buncomb met with cold re? ception. The work of President Jor? dan's administration was approved by a rising and unanimous vote, and cold water thrown on the efforts of ex Vice President Peters and other agi? tators who have attempted to discredit the officers of the association. Closer Relations Between Farmer and Spinner. Eeyond the shadow of a doubt the Cotton Growers' Association is pro? gressing rapidly in the right direc? tion, has gained much valuable ex? perience and profited thereby, and most likely is destined to work out along practical lines, most, if not all, the great problems now confronting the farmer. The tendency to fight the spinner has given way to the desire for closer relation with him. "Reduc? tion of Acreage" once looked upon as the permanent salvation of the farmer is now regarded as a mere expedient tb be followed up by a broader and more practical plan for the constant increase . of the world's con? sumption of American grown cotton, rotation and diversification of crops, and the raising every year of enough j cotton to amply supply spinners' needs the world over, thus supplying farm labor with ample labor every year, I improving the general prosperity of [ the South, and increasing the wealth and independence of the cotton pro ?ducer with every new marketing sea? son and without glutting the world ?with cotton. Through co-operation and intelligent and practical direction the association now believes the best interests Of the farmer may be served without injury to the spinner, the weaver of the dealer in cotton goods. Of course, until these broad plans are worked out with cocklike precision, expedients such as the reduction of acreage, the pledging of cotton for a fixed price, etc., may have to be resort? ed to. But the delegates to the New Orleans Convention iook upon such i things only as powerful weapons to be made..use of when occasion requires Slow or rather intelligent marketing must of course be perpetuated. The Mississippi Anti-Option Bill. Hon. Walter Clark, president of the Mississippi division of the Southern Cotton Association, .has come out in open opposition to the proposed "anti option*' bill introduced in the Mississ? ippi Legislature by Representative Boddie, and which carries with it a license of $25,000 to do business. The bill is really aimed at the fly-by night bucket shops, but it is so worded as to include all legitimate wire i houses and exchanges which keep ! the farmers posfed on the trend of prices and general conditions and en? able them to protect their contracts of sale. WhPe Mr. Clarke is strongly opposed to future speculation and the gambling featuers of the market be does not approve of the Boddie bill and says it was drawn without consul? tation with him or any of the officers of the Cotton association. A Jamacian Lady Speaks Highly of Chamberlain s Cough RexneVlr. ?Mrs. Michael Hart, wife of the su )erintendent of Cart Service at Kings? ton, Jamaica, West Indies Islands, ays that she has for some years used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs, croup and whooping cough and has found it very beneficial. She has implicit confidence in it and would not be without a bottle of it in her home. Sold by all druggists. ALCOLU "RAILROAD. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY F.fTective November 2, 1905. No. I. No. 3. No. ."?. Mixed Mixed Pass. A. M. p. M. P. M. Lv It'll) Lv 3 00 Lv 7 4.) Aleolu - 1020 - 305 "50 McLeod* " 1025 " 310 - ::,:> Barby* . 1030 *. :;r> soo Durant ll 00 *. .". 4"> s 2.? kardinia ?* l" 10 " 355 ?25 Gamble " 1! 15 " 4 00 - S3-J B*ard* 1125 " 4 lu - Peloc ll 55 " 4 4<> .. it05 Hudsons* Ar lr.'4.*) Ar 5 30 Ar '.>:? Heu la li Mondays. No. Wednesdays. No. 1: Thursdays, No. I; Fridays. N<?. ?,: satur? days. No. ;">. N< ?. 2. No. 4. No. Mi\*<l Pass. Pass P.M. A.M. P.M. Lv -.'m Lv 6 45 Lv i?35 Beulah 215 " 7 on " ?*50 Hudsons* 235 - 7.'' " 1010 Seloc 4.*> " 12"> 1015 Heard* " :.' ."><> .. T:50 I0 2U Gumble :;?'.' '. 735 .* 1025 Sardinia " .".."{'i " M.?5 " 1055 Durant :;3."> - sin .. n<?i iiar??v* - 4" " &15 .* 1105 McLeod* Ar 4 no Ar s 30 Ar 1120 Alcolu Tuesdays, No. 4: Wednesdays. N?>. Thursdays, No. ~: Saturdays. Nos. 4 anti v McLeod, Barby, Durant. Beard. ><?!. and Hudsons, flair stations for all trains. ' F. L. COLLINS. Supt P. IL ALDERMAN. T. M. A MAX. j I will Lave my fling at him if I live, j and oh, what satisfaction it will brin;;. I Of course it will cost me time and ef fort, besides that I am going out of my way to do it. This ib no dead man whose body is buried, nor dead while he liveth, but one ot the livest corpses y*?? ever raw. So he can fling, too, yes; and hi? ventures are more deadly than the deliberate aim of most others, as many can testify. Xo I am not scared, not because I feel myself his equal in the art of flinging, but because he ? hates meanness, littleness and shat? ters venereted images the moment he finds nothing in them. You need not think he ib going to swallow your notion, even if you do sugar-coat and dress it up, without in? vestigation, but when he accepts it he incorporates it; then it is like death to separate the two. I tell you some? thing elese; you may go off and get a great distinguished looking fellow I with a "rep" and a record from here to Louisville, with a lot of fixings be? hind and before his name and bring h?rn here and set him up before my man and in a jiffy the spots. are knocked off of him. Xow I am going to tell you ? tale. One time a gnat-he did very well for a gnat, but for nothing eise-who was tolerably fat and a little sleek, rich, lighted on the horn of a. great oxen | and tried to jar an'3 shake him. but when he utterly failed he became much perturbed and called another and another", and finally quite a num? ber, and would you believe it that ox never lost a night's rest or a day's work. That was bad for the gnats, was it not? Especially after they went to so much trouble. But to return to my man, though he will not get lonesome if I don't; he has so much company. Why he has plenty of it, good company, and all the time, not in anger, wrath, strife and such things, not in the wrong he suf? fers, and he does; he is not past feel? ing; not in petty revenges he would take; he has not the time for any of these if he had the disposition; but he is greater than them all. But time is precious with my man, whose first thought is for the churches, then her precious wards, the old preachers. How he loves a man, even though ho be in the gutter, and is never so busy that he cannot stop to lift him up or so straightened that he cannot help, but he utterly detests a fraud, some? one boasting his courage, yet trying to stab another in the back; who imag? ines himself a wise, great, etc.. and gets mad if others do not think so; j^-ho sets himself up for honor and preferment and is disgruntled if they are not accorded him. My man has a passion for puncturing baubles and treating big heads. Many a big head after his treatment, and he is quite successful, could be spelled with a p instead of a big b, whose owner took the sore head. Xow don't think my man a blood? thirsty fellow. I solemnly aver he never fights till forced to. and wo? betide the one who crosses swords with him, for as an expert fencer his equal is hard to find. Once upon a time a big fellow, that is he thought so, came across in some way another who seemed to be somewhat himself, not of his own dic? tum, but from reputation, but he had never lived anywhere but in a small town in one state while the big (?"> fellow had lived in big places, in big towns in the wi id West. Big man was invited, possibly he bid for it. to come down and crush out the other fellow. I suppose that in his journey he thought of all the great conquests of history, of Perry's terse mes? sage to congress: We have met the enemy and they aro ours;" of Caesar's more pithy, t<> the Roman senate: Teni vidi, vici." and addled his brain for a more terse and pithy announcement of his victory. The messages of Caesar and Perry are on reord in history but this man's never; for the simple reason that the whole project was a n >h sequilan. l-l-. found his man without any trouble looking as meek and demure as one could wish. Xo doubt a touch of sad I ness stirred in the bosom of the big ( ? i man as he looked upon his victim and thought of the tel) of destruction he was sr,.>n to visit upon him. Possi? bly ho hesitated, but the very attitude of the other, as of one willing to be offered up w;is a challenge that af? fronted ar.:! aggravated. He can af? ford to be merciful; he will let the other got a good look at him and re? tire. He seos the big (?) man but his gaze is as on common mortal. This j was too much, too much, so h\c; man j banishing all kindly impulses and j ?< dings pounced upon his victim. J "Great Scot." thought he for the pesky thing was all over and on him in a minuto and down he went. Tho balam.f the programme for his part was a ? ) ?;-r farce. 'Tis true he made a show of fight to keep u)> appearances, but it amounted to nothing, for his . wind was out. But my man. ni talk about him now. and he's a real man too. living in a town exactly the size of Sumter, found a poor fellow down ono day, a fellow who had done what he could to bring my man's trade into disrepute, and what did he bul uso his utmost endeavor to lift the fellow to his feet again. Those are the tricks he is guilty of seven days in the week, but don't you tell him I said so; no, no else he will upbraid me for blowing his horn. He has a Master, though, whom he tries to follow quietly and peaceably without a long face. Occasional. Hagood, January lo, 1906. How to Avoid Pneumonia. *We have never heard of a single instance of a cold resulting in pneu? monia or other lung trouble when Foley's Honey and Tar has been ta? ken. It not only stops the cough, but heals and strengthens the lungs. Ask for Foley's Honey and Tar and refuse any substitute offered. Dr. C. J. Bish? op, of Agnew, Mich., writes: "I have used Foley's Honey and Tar in three very severe cases of pneumonia with good results in every case." Durant's Pharmacy. LAXI) VALUES IX TILE SOUTH. In Two Years Farm Property Ad? vanced $1,000,000,000. With a population 5,000,000 oi 6,0'OO, - 000 less than the population of the whole country in 1S>">0, the wealth of the fourteen Southern St?tes is now greater than the wealth of the whole country in I860. Authoritative figures show that the assessed property values in the South in the vear just closed were ??, 048,000,000. "These .may be safely estimated as representing true values of $16,020,000, Ol0. The true value of farm, lands in the cotton belt has increased by about $1, 000,000 during the past two years. That this enhancement; is beginning to be effective in swelling assessed val? ues was apparent? a year ago. The Original. *Foley & Co., Chicago, originated Honey and Tar as a throat and lung remedy, and on account of the great merit and popularity of Foley's Honey and Tar many imitations are offered for the genuine. These worthless imitations 'have similar sounding names. Beware - of them. The gen? uine Foley's -Honey and Tar is in a yellow package. Ask for it and re? fuse any substitute. It is the best .emedy for coughs and colds. Du? rant's Pharmacy. The new court house will be an or? nament to the city and ?taxpayers can take pride in it without thinking of a bond issue. A Grim Tragedy Is daily enacted in thousands of homes, as death claims, in eacn ene, another victim of consumption or neumon?a. But when coughs and dolds are properly treated the tragedy is averted. F. G. Huntley, of Oaklan don, Ind., writes: "My wife had the consumption, and three doctors gave her up. Finally she took Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, which cured her, and today she is well and strong." It kills the germs of all diseases. One dose relieves. Guaranteed at 50c. and 31 by all druggists. Trial bottle ree. It makes us tired to hear a man talk? ing of a financial panic in the future and merely as a contingency at that. -Xews and Courier. Just so. esteemed one, the antedilu? vians were tired of Noah's ?awing and hammering and didn't think the flood even a future contingency, but it came, all the same. Likewise the foolish virgins were tired and so they came to less grief. The grasshopper dances all summer, never thinking that winter will come by and by. The tornado breaks often ahead of the weather reports. It is the unexpected that sometimes happens. "Like ships that have gone down at sea. When Heaven was all tranquility." WHY IT SUCCEEDS. Because it's for One Thing Only and Sumter is Learning to Appreciate This. Nothing can be good for everything. Doing one thing well brings success. Donn's Kidney Fills do one thing only. They cure sick kidneys. They cure backache, every kidney ill. C. E. Sarton. plasterer, well-known in Flor? ence. S. C.. says: "Dean's Kidney Pills help? ed my back :iI'TCT- everything else had failed, and after ? had thought my back was worn i>nt. They made it stronger than i; ii.".-* been for five or six years and seemed to pu; a new back-bone in me. I have had ;? t< rrible time with backache which was greatly aggravated by the nature of my work and at times I have had to lay <>tv ??>r I could not work on account of the acute pains across my ??-Ins. leonid not hecin to tell you all 1 have suffered. The secreti'ns from "my kidneys also bothered me. were very dark colored and contained sediments, being also too frequent in action annoying me during the day and preventing my resting well at night. I applied kidney plasters and rubbed my back with liniments, bul nothing helped me until I read about Doan's Kidney Pills and procured them. Tin y wer?-jus: what 1 needed and are ?be best backache remedy 1 ever used. ! have not ha<l the backache since 1 used them, the killin y secretions are ail right. 1 can *o-.->, ad night without having to get up and my back ls stronger than it has been for a number of years." Plentv more proof like this from Sumter people. * Call at Dr. A. J. China's drug store and ask what his customers report. For sale '>y all dealers. Price 50 cents. Fos ter-MiH?ur:\ Co., Buffalo, X. Y.. *";e agents for the i'. S. Remember'tbe name-Doan's- and take no other. 25 IMErSffiDNEYC?RE Blakes Kidneys and Bladder Right MRS. A. N. TALLEY. Died in Columbia Monday-Well Known Here. j _ ! Mrs. A. N. Talley, wife of Dr. A. !N. Talley, died in Columbia Mon? day afternoon. Her death has caus? ed genuine sorrow in Spartanburg where she is well known, having lived here for many years. She was a woman of sweet and gentle dispo? sition and a true Christian. She was a sister of Mrs. G. W. Nicholls, W. M. Jones and S. B. Jone? of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Charlotte Jones left for Columbia this morning to attend the funeral services. Mrs. Talley was for a number of years a resident of Spartanburg and has many friends here who loved and. admired her, were pained to learn of her death Monday afternoon.-Spar? tanburg Journal. It is reported that the Virginia-Car? olina Chemical Company has purchas? ed 3,000 acres of phosphate lands near Beaufort, the purchase price being $10,000. How to Prevent Billions Attacks. *One who is subject to bilious at acks will notice that for a day or -"lore before the attack he is not hun? gry at meal times and feels dull after ating. A dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets when these irst symptoms appear will ward OIL" he attack. They are for sale by all d /uggists. John D. Rockefeller will spend sev? eral weeks at Pine Forest Inn, Sum? merville and Hampton Terrace, North Augusta, this winter. The president has appointed Robin? son P. Searson postmaster at Allen? dale and Thomas E. Husbands at Dil? lon. Chronic Constipation Cured. *One who suffers from chronic con tipation is in danger of many serious .ilments. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup j ures chronic constipation as it aids iigestion and stimulates the liver and )owels, restoring the natural action of i hese organs. Commence taking it to ?ay and you will feel better at once. Drino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not 7-a.useate or gripe and is very pleasant o take. Refuse substitutes. Du 'ant's Pharmacy. Unbusinesslike Farming. The laymen can hardly realize the lack of system that prevails on the average farm. Drainage is little thought o i on the lowlands, crops are rotated only as chance determines, and probably not one farmer in a hun? dred can tell what enterprise on his farm and under his conditions is the most profitable. In no other business is it likely that men can be found with $10,000, $20.000 or $50,000 in? vestments who never pretend LO keep books of the business. Farmers' books are too often kept in this man? ner-gain, money in the ba^k"; loss, money borrowed. The writer once ar? gued this question of keeping books with a well-to-American farmer, who finally concluded his argument by saying: "Farming ain't all keep? ing books, by a long shot." Truth lies in the argument, but keeping books is not all there is to manufac? turing furniture or transporting freight and yet it must be a valuable accessory or it would have been dis? carded years ago. There are still thousands of farm? ers in the middle West who do not follow the markets, who rarely, if ever, stop to consider the relation be? tween prices of feeds and prices of beef and pork. Hogs are fed because "there is money in hogs.'' and many an operation on the farm is done ac-, cording to some preconceived notion. The writer knows a German farmer in western Minnesota who has a beau? tiful, clean farm, and is evidently prosperous. While watching him. feed his hogs one day, this conversa? tion took place: "How old are those pigs?" "Sixteen months." "Why don't you sell them?" "Well, I don't, like to sell a hog until he weighs up good and heavy." Further conversa? tion revealed the facts that corn was worth forty-two cents per bushel and pork four dollars per hundred weight, live weight. When asked if the pigs he was feeding were gaining enough to equal or exceed the value of the corn, and pay him for his labor, he realized that each bushel of corn had got to produce about twelve pounds of pork to yield him any profit. Knowing that his pigs were not g?ining the half of that amount, he decided to sell both pigs and corn.-Review of Re? views. Mr. George W. Erunson has accept? ed the position of editor of the Green? ville News. G. R. BARRINGER, DENTIST. Office over Chilians Drug Store. - Phone 350. Office hours-8 a. m. to 1 p. m ; 2 p. m. to 5 30 p. m. N. G. Osieen, Jr., Dentist, -18 West Liberty Street, Over Sumter Book Store. Hours : 8 JO io 1 :?2 to 6. OFFICE PHONE 30. HOUSE PHONE 382. W. A. BOWMAN, Pres. ABE RYTTENBERG, V. Pres. P. G. BOWMAN, Sec. & Treas. The Sumter Banking & Mercantile Company, Sumter, 3. C. ^^i^-^Capital Stock $50,000^^^^^ Wholesale Grocers, Fertilize I ers and Farmers' Supplies Sole agents for the celebrated brand of Wil j cox & Gibbs Fertilizers. We are prepared to quote the very closest j cash or time prices on all lines of Groceries, Fertilizers and Farmers9 j Supplies, I And invite your investigation before making* j your arrangements for another year. I Come to see us. We will save you money, j and give you a hearty, courteous welcome. Sumter Banking 4. i O Mercantile Company, Masonic Building, 2d door from the Postoffice. Sumter, S. C. WHISKEY I MORPHINE) CIGARETTE ! ALL ?RUC AND TOBACCO HABIT. j HABIT. ? HABIT. ? HABITS. Cure?- bj Keeley Institute of S. C. 1329 Lady St.. (cr P.O. Box 75) Columbia, S. C. Confidential correspondence elicited AN ADVERTISEMENT PLACED IN THE ADVERTISING COLUMNS OF THE DAILY ITEM WILL BRING RESULTS.