Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i One Secret of Success. The faculty ot keeping friends is the secret of many men. It is not enough to be able to make them. It is a com? para ci ?ely easy mattter to vriu regard and favor with a pleasing exterior and even the framework of a well-stocked mind. Yes, it is easy to win friends, out to hold them-4*there's the rub." A real friendship and the only kind worthy pf struggle and sacricfie, is a priceless possession, and he is rich in? deed who cannot count his friend on the fingers of one hand. It is custom? ary, however, to speak lightly of friendship and to refer to another as a friend when an acquaintance is meant. People who rise to power and Influence are usually those who have Tetained their friends. vThey are "the same yesterday, today and tomorrow," and prosperity does not change them. The friends of long ago are theirs for aye.-Exchange; il: *One Minute Cough Cure contains lot an atom of any harmful drug, and t has been curing coughs, colds, ?roup and whooping cough so long hat it has proven itself to be a tried -and true friend to the many who use t. Sold by all druggists. - We, the undersigned merchants o? the city of Sumter, nave agreed . **** to discontinue the use of the BB * "Punch Card or Ticket System^ *in connection with our business after February 1, 1906. Customers holding cards or tickets will please have same re? deemed as soon as possible. Cards not punched complete will he re? deemable according to amount punched on same. THE SUMTER DRY GOODS CO. SCHWARTZ BROS. OT)OXXET;Ti & CO. SHAW & McCOLLtJM MER. CO BECK BROS. COMPANY. 1 9to2-l. 9 Weak Hearts .Are.dee to indigestion. Ninety-nine of every one hundred people who have heart trouble i can remember when it was simple indiges? tion. It is a scientific fact that all cases of heart disease, not organic, are not only .traceable io, but are me direct result of indi? gestion. All food taken into the stomach which fails of perfect digestion ferments ard -swellsthe stomach, puffing it up against thc heart. This interferes with the action the heart, and in the course of time that -delicate bat vital organ becomes diseased Vir. D. Kaubie. of - Nevad*. O , says: I bsd stomach /trouoie ana was m a 020 state as i had heart trouble 'With it I toole Kodol Dyspepsia Core for about four - TOQpfhg and it cared me. Kodol Digests What You Eat .and relieves the stomach of all nervous strain and the heart of all pressure. fiottlesooiy. S ? .00 Sire holding 254 tunes the trias size, which sells for 50c. Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CO., CH?cAGC For Sale by a!* Druggists._ Money to Loan On Cotton. Pour per cent inter? est, compounded quar? terly on savings de? partment. Ii SITER S1VIN6S Bli G. A LEM MON, President. L C. STRAUSS. Vice-President. GEO. L. SICKER, Cashier. 8 . L'.. ;.y obtain U. a>d r?reigj; > ^ \?... id ?ode:, t? ?etch or pi 0:0 ci ii-rentier lei ?*eoo?6.r?a ps?entahiliiy. i-or ire? bock, Opposite ?. S. Patent Office WASHINGTON D.C. "^h^M^M?r^ Tf?Ar*:* MARRS ty U^k^ * DrsiCNS ^VTTT* CCPYr?-GKTS ?cc. *T*v.-n<" ;.?.'.ni?ine a s.'.e?ph ^nd description rcn^ <ji. t - ty' :?? ?ri-ain o::r OP::::> ;i fre*; wbethe? an i.-ivc'i t" is i'i 'taH' p -.T.?n'.ai)ie. Comiomik'it ti ..: - . ."'a?:---; . ! i. 1 Urii'.boofconPatents sent i .". >'. ; ' low a?re?icy for J??cunus patents. P&*o :. s ' jce'i throuih Munn & Co. receive ipi fi?> tic?, w-nhoat charyg. In the A handsomely illustrated weekly. Lnreest cir ?olatioa of any poientlsc li ?a mal. Terms, $3 a ?cir : f r-ur months, ?L Sold by all newsdealers. .vt,.. .?- c. WV??1??<,<^ N" T> ,. m J. H. ' DENTIST. 105h N. Main Street, over Knight's Book Store. Hours 8 to 2.30 ; 3.30 to 6. Phone 210. STOCK FOOD SWINDLE. Wheat Bran, Etc., Flavored and Scent? ed and Sold From $200 to $2,500 a Ton. The Raleigh Progressive Farmer sounds a note of warning to the farm? ers of the South about what it calls the stock food swindle. It says that one of the most outrageons frauds now being perpetrated upon the American farmer is that of prepared stock foods -common meal, bran, etc., with a lit? tle cheap sulphur, salt, Epsom salts, pepper, saltpeter, etc., added to change the taste, and the mixture (hardly more vaaluable than ordinarily ship stuff) put up in flaming packages, ad? vertised in big illustrated ads in farm papers at from $250 to $2.500 a ton." The Progre>8?e Farmer says farther, that some 'ime ago, the chief South? ern contributor of one of tbe farm pa paper most circulated in North Caro? lina and adjoining States, wrote an exposure of the whole miserabie fraud and sent it to his paper. "The reply came back: The Blank Stock Food Company pays us ?3,0;;0 a year for ad? vertising, and we would lose it if we were to print your latter. Please don't insist." It is quite propel that while the patent medicine nostruns are gettting a drubbing, the st< ck food humbugs should be exposed, and this The Progressive Farmer proposes to do. If tbe frauds are of the nature complained of, we hope the exposure will be of a nature to protect the fanner* against them. - Charlotte Chronicle. Household Hints. To make biscuits ligl t-drench with gasolene ana ignite before serving. How to keep servants-chloroform trem and lock in the cellar. Quickest way to get rid of peddlers buy all they have. flow to remove fruit stains from linen-use scissors. To keep rats out of the pantry place all food in the cellar. To entertain woman wsitors-let them inspect all your private papers. To entertain^men visitors-feed the brutes. To keep the children at home-lock up all their clothes. To keep hubby at home-hide his toupee. In order to prevent accidents in the kitchen-fill the kerosene can with water. To stop leaks in pipes-send for the nearest plumber. To economize on coal-get a gas range, . To test the freshness of eggs-drop them on some hard surface. To propitiate the jauitor- it can't be done.-Smart Set 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 hea?.v nr.?3. strengthens the lungs. Ask I for Foley's Honey and Tar and ref uso any substitute olfered. 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. TAX NOTICE. The County Treasurer's office in Court House building will be open for the collection of taxes, without pen? alty, from , the 15th day of October to the 31st day of December, inclusive, 1905. The levy is as follows: For State, 5 1-2 mills; for county, S 1-2 mills; Constitutional School, 3 mills; Polls, $1.00. Also, School District No. 1, j Special, 2 mills; No. 2, 2 mills; No. 2, ! 2 mills; No. 4, 2 mills; No. 16, 2 mills; No. 17, 1 mill; No. 18, 2 mills. 50 cents capitation dog tax. A penalty of 1 per cent, added for month January, 1906. Additional penalty of 1 per cent, for month Feb ! mary, 1906. Additional penalty of 5 per cent, for 15 days in March, 1906. T. W. LEE, County Treasurer. October 5th, 1905. R. 3 BELSER. R. 0. EPPS. Attorneys and Counseiiors at Law Phone 309. SUMTER, S. C. Harby Bldg. Cures ?o!dsj Prevents Fneumocia DeLORHE'S PHARMACY, 23 South Main St. t Open from 7 H. m to 10 p m. ; Sunday, 9 a. m ro 1 p. m. Having consolidated my two store?, i will be pleased to see ali my customers at the above stand, where I am better pre? pared than ever to serve them. Your prescriptions will be called for and delivered. Phone 45. Full line of Drugs, Garden Seed and Cigars. Your patronage solicited. Call bell for night work. .tops t&e cotigtx suad heals lungs URGES CATTLE RAISING. Professor Michels to the Farmers of South Carolina. i The following letter of profound in? terest to South Carolina farmers has ?been received by the News and Cour I ier: Clemson College, Jan. 15, 1906. To the Editor of The News and Courier: Thanks to the high price of cotton which has made the past year one of general prosperity for the far? mers of South Carolina, most of our farmers are contented and have but little concern for the future. There are those, however, who are less in? different and who are already specu? lating with more or less concern as to what the coming year may bring forth in the way of cotton and cotton prices. It is feared with good reason that thc present high prices wdll re? sult in increased production and con? sequent depression i:-? prices the com? ing year. v With .the South as the source of nearly the entire world's supply or col? ton, it seems logical that a reasonable restriction in its culture would give us almost positive assurance of a con? tinuance of high prices for this staple product. A reduction in the acreage of cotton necessarily calls for the grow? ing of other crops in conjunction with cotton, and thus bring us to our in? evitable goal, namely, diversified farm? ing, without which the full agricultu? ral possibilities of South Carolina and the South can never be realized. The kind of farming which fits in most ideally with the growing of cot? ton, nay, which is absolotely necessary for best results, is the growing of live stock. That live stock is our greatest land improver is universally conceded and so. long as our farmers are obliged to pay $5,000,000 annually for commercial fertilizer it must also be conceded that something is needed to improve the productiveness of our lands. In conjunction with the growing of cotton live stick is of the highest val? ue if for no other reason than the con? sumption of the by-products- of this vast industry. Our farmers are wast, ing millions of dollars annually by ap? plying their cotton seed and cotton seed meal directly to the land instead of feeding it to live stock, and apply? ing the manure to the land. A ton of cotton seed meal has a fertilizing val? ue of $28.50 per ton. When fed to live stock from 80 to 90 per cent, of :ts fertilizing value is recovered in the *nanure. When fed to a dairy cow >.nd only butter is sold, all the fertil .i-'ing value of the cotton seed meal is recovered, because butter contains no fertilizing ingredients. It is evident that the value of cot? ton seed meal as a food for milk pro? duction is far better understood out? side of the cotton belt than within it. For years Denmark and Germany have imported large quantities of our cotton seed meal for milk production. Hundreds of tons are annually ship? ped to various parts of the United States outside of the cotton produc? ing region, where this feed is regard? ed as one of the most economical for milk production. What does this vast shipment of cot? ton seed meal to different parts bf the world mean to our farmers? Tt means a shifting of land values. Ev? ery time the German or Danish or English farmer feeds a ton of cotton seed meal he adds practically $28.50 to the value of his land, ?and just so often the Southern farmer loses an equivalent amount in land value. Hundreds of carloads of cotton seed meal are fed to dairy cattle in places where it cannot be purchased for less than $30 to $35 per ton. And yet in most of these veiy places the meal is purchased solely for the purpose of milk production, and that, too. with the intention of making money. When fed to the right class of cattle cotton seed meal is worth at least $35 per ton as a milk producer. Whenever, therefore, a ton of meal is thrown up? on the land we add to it $2S.50 worth of fertility, but throw away its most valuable part, its feeding value, which we have placed at $35 per ton. The great agricultural possibilities of South Carolina will not be realized until our farmers will return to the ?and the cotton by-products, and not until then will they know that cotton can be produced without an expediture of millions of dollars for commercial ! fertilizer, which, under the present system of farming, is a necessity. And when our farmers will raise enough live stock to consume the cotton seed and cotton seed meal produced upon the farms, they will then produce the butter and cheese, the bacon and ham. and other live stock products now so largely imported from outside the State. The raising of live stock will ne? cessitate the growing of grasses and forage crops, which are bound to Im? prove the quality of our lands. Many of our soils are deficient in humus or vegetable matter and need to be planted to grasses and clovers. Hith? erto the amount of live stock has been too limited to warrant anything like an extensive culture of tho leguminous crops, such as cowpeas, clovers and alfalfa. Yet no one questions their soil renovating influence. With our grasses and clovers for pastures, with cowpea hay. corn, and sorghum for roughage ami cotton cotton seed meal, rice meal, corn and other feeds for concentrates, we con? fidently believe that live stock can be grown as successfully in South Caro? lina as in any part of this country or any other country. Let us feed our cotton seed and cot? ton seed meal at home, produce our own live stock products, raise our own horses and mules, manufacture our own fertilizers, and some day South Carolina will be pointed out as the richest agricultural State in the Union. John Michels, Associate Prof. Animal Husbandry and Dairying. AIKEN'S MOTIVE PERSONAL? The Ex-District Attorney Tells of a Disagreement Between Himself and the Third District Congressman. Washington, D. C., Jan. 22, 1906. To the Editor of the News and Cou? rier: I have seen the published state? ment that Congressman Aiken says that he had pursued the subject of op? position to my reappointment "per? sistently and relentlessly," and had called upon the Attorney General and the President, frequently protesting against my reappointment. Aiken Is reported in the published statement as saying that he did this frorn a high sense of public duty and in no spirit of personal spite or malice. This is a wholly false impression to create, for Congressman Aiken's ac? tion was prompted by both spite and malice as a result of a difficulty be? tween us over some postoffice patron? age in his district nearly two years ago. For about that length of time we have not been on speaking terms and the correspondence between us was so bitter that he sent it to United States Marshal Adams as a mutual frie'nd to pass upon looking to a set? tlement of our differences. So angry and bitter were our feelings supposed to be that Mr. Dunovant, of Chester, a warm friend of mine, and a relative by marriage of Aiken, has frequently written me and my friends, anxiously urging some reconciliation to avoid a personal difficulty. Mr. Blalock has written similar letters. I gladiy submit this recitation of ac? tual facts in connection with Aiken': high-sounding pretension of a sense o public duty void of personal spite ot malice against me. John G. Capers. What Congressman Aiken Says. Washington, January 22.-Repre? sentative Wyatt Aiken, when seen to? night and told of the letter of Mr. ?a pers to be published in the News and Courier tomorrow, charging that his recent activity in regard to the dis? trict attorney matter was actuated by motives of personal enmity, denied that such was the case, and declared that he had no personal enmity against Mr. Capers. As to endeavors on the part of mutual friends to brins about a reconciliation, said Mr. Aiken, that is simply ridiculous. About fif? teen months ago I had occasion to write Mr. Capers urging him to use his influence against the removal of Mrs. Ford, the postmistress at Liber? ty, Pickens county. She had given emi? nent satisfaction there to all classes of people, and I had many requests from representative citizens there to use my influence to keep her in office. I wrote to Mr. Capers telling him that efforts were being made to displace her by the appointment of a negro and urged him to prevent this. The letter was respectful and conained nothing which, as I could then see or can now see, Mr. Capers could take offence at. Yet, from the tone of his reply, he evidently did. I replied then in kind with his, as he intimates. Since then j I have met him on the street, and he did not know me. but I have not been conscious of any personal enmity to? wards him. Such matters as these are political, not personal. I am in Con jgress for the purpose of looking after the interests of my constituents, and I did then just as I have done in this district attorney matter-tried to look after these interests. '.To say that I was actuated by mo? tives of personal spite in asking tho President and Attorney General Moody to investigate charges made against an officer by the people whom I represent, is to plead the baby act." Mr. Aiken added further: "Even granting that Mr. Capers's charge of personal enmity is true, which I say is .':ot the case. I take it that there must have been something more in the matter. It is not likely that the President and Atorney General Moody would remove a man from such an offiee just because I did not like him." -News and Courier. Danger of Cold and How to Avoid Them. ?More fatalities have their origin in .r result from a cold than from any ?her cause. Thjs fact atone should rake people ni-.ie careful as there '"3 io danger whatever from a cold when t is properly treated in the beginning, ^or many years Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been recoginzed as tho nost prompt and effectual medicine in ise for this disease. It acts cm na ure's plan, loosens the cough, relieves he lungs, opens the secretions and .ids nature in restoring the system to a healthy condition. Sold by all drug The only form of food made from wheat that is all nutri? ment is the soda cracker, and yet-the only soda cracker of which this is really true is Uneeda Biscuit The The The The soda cracker scientifically baked* soda cracker effectually protected, soda cracker ever fresh, crisp and clean, soda cracker good at all times. In a dust tight, moisture proof package* NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY only only only only G. R. BARRINGER, DENTIST. Office over China's Drug Store. - Phone 350. Office hours-8 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 2 p. m. to 5 30 p. m. N. G. Osteen, Jr., Dentist, -18 West Liberty Street, Over Sumter Book Store. Hours : 8.30 to 1: 2 to 6. OFFICE PHONE 30. HOUSE PHONE 382. WE GUARD OUR PATRONS' INTERESTS The Farmers' Bank and Trost jg Capital Stock $60,000. -:. Undivided Profits $7.209.45. C. G. Rowland, Prst. E. F. Haynsworth, V. Prst. E. L. Edmunds, Cashier. Deposits Dec 30, end of 3d quarter after organization, $248, 624.19. Begin the New Year by open? ing an account with us and you will make no mistake. We make liberal loans on Cot? ton, enabling the farmer to get the best results from his labors. vVe are agents for the celebrated Oliver Chilled Steel Plows, and also carry a large assortment of other makes of Plows, and a great variety of Farm Implements At the Right Prices. Get our prices on Elwood Field Fencing, Barbed Wire and Poultry Netting. When you paint your house this spring don't forget to get the be t Devoe, New Era or Hammer Brand. Durant Hardware Co. Mlmmtie Coast Line. Effective August 6, 1905. -fi Passenger Trains arriving and leaving Sumter. Train 35 " 54 " *77 t. *57 " 52 " *6 " *78 .i *77 * 53 " 32 " *56 ? *78 " 47 * 55 " 78 tt 77 Florene* to A ag apta Arrives Columbia to Wilmington u Florerce to Sumter " Gibson to Sumter ** Charleston to Ureeaville Leaves Orangebarg to Charleston (Tuesd'y,ThDrsd'y,Satard'j) " Samter to Lucknow Leaves Lucknow to Samter Arrives Greenville and Columbia to Charleston Augusta to Flo-enoe " Sumter to Gibson ** Sumter to Florar ce Leaves Charleston toOrangebarg (Taesd'y, Thorsd'y, Sata.^yj Wilmington to vJolumbia '* Sumter to Bis lopville Leaves Bishopville to Sumter jjArrives 15 am 10 am 20 arr 20 am 31 am 35 am ?0 am CO pm 30 pm 30 pm 50 pm 10 pm 20 pm 35 pea 50 ara 00 pm Freight Trains carrying Passengers. Train *24 Sumter to Hurtsville " *19 Sumter to Robbins " *20 rtuobius io S ?inter " *25 Hartsville to Sumter Leaves S 15 am Leaves 10 00 ?rn Arrives 7 30 a n Arrives 9 10 ppr Northwestern Railway. Train *70 Camden to Sumter *71 Sumter to Camden *68 Camden to Sninter *72 Wilson Mill to Ms m ter *73 Sumter to Wilson Mill *69 Sn rnter to Camden Trains marked * rl.v'v except Sunday ; all other trains daily. For further information, apply to j. c. CHINA. Ticket As-ent A. C. T, Arrives 9 0<) SL? ?Leaves 9 38 am " 5 45 pm Arrives 12 30 pm Leaves 3 30 pm 6 31 pm