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Fire in Chester MUI. Chester, March 28.-Fire broke out this morning in the finishing room of the Monetta mill near Edgemore. The loss in goods and damage to machin? ery Is estimated at from $15,000 to $20,000. Work will be suspended for a week or longer. *Sick headache results from a de? rangement of the stomach and Is cur? ed by Chamberlain's Stomach and Lover Tablets. Sold by ali druggists. V Judge Charles Mayer has tendered to the State of "Virginia a bronze bust of John Smith, "some time Governor of Virigina and Admiral of New Eng? land." The bust was modelled by Gen. Baden Powell of the British army, a lineal descendant of John Smith. Chamberlain's Salve. .This salve is intended especially for sore nipples, burns, frost bite?, chapped hands, itching piles, chronic sore, eyes, granulated eye lids, old chronic sores and for diseases of the skin, such as tetter, salt rheum, ring worm, scald head, herpes, barbers' itch, scabies or itch and eczema. It has met with unparalleled success in the treatment of these diseases. Price 25 cents per box. Try it. For sale by all druggists. ALCOLTJ RAILROAD. DAILY .EXCEPT SUNDAY. Effective February 9, 1906. No. 1. No 3. No. 5. Mixed Mixed Mixea A. M. P.M. P.M. LY 1100 Lv 1230 Lv 745 Alcolu "1105 " 1235 - 750 McLeod* " I1?5 .* 1245 " 800 Harby* **, 1120 ? 1250 '* 805 Durant* ^1145 " 115 **- 830 Sardinia* -'ll 55 ** 125 *; 8 40 New Zion* **? 12-00 *f 130 *' S 45 Beard* ? " 12 15 ' - 145 " 9 00 Seloc* " 100 .? 230 " 9 45 Hudson* Ar 130 Ar 300 Ar ?015 Beulah Mondays, No. 3; Wednesdays, No. 1; Thursdays, No l; Fridays, No. 3; Satur? days, No. 5. No. 2. No. 4 Na & Mixed Mixed Mixed P. M A.M. A.M. Lv 3 00 Lv 630 Lv 7 20 Beulah " 315 " ?45 '* 735 Hudson* '* 3 40 " 710 " 8 00 Seloc* " 3 55 ;' <25 " S15 . Beard* 400 4i 730.: -. 820 New Zion* ?*-. 4,10 7 40- 4* 8 30 Sardinia* ** V435 ?>05 " 8 55' Durant*; - -440 ft 810 9 00 Harby* " -*?0 S15 - '** 910" '-* McLeod* Ar -500 Ar S30 Ar 9 20 Alcolu Mondays, No. 6; Tuesdays, No. 4; Wednes? day^ No. 2; Thursdays, No. 2; Saturdays, Na 4. '.. * Flag-stations. F. L COLLINS, Supt. P.E. ALDEEMAN.T. M.' R. B. BELSER. R. D. EPPS. Hffl ? errs. Attamsy-3 a$ Counsellors a Law Phone 309. SUMTER. S. C. Harby Bldg. stosw 12x? cov^bk ax&d Ideals l?mgs Tua lagst and Most f?ii? Geo, -S. Masker & So ii, -?AN?FACTUREES OP DOOKS, SASH, BUHOS, Moulding & Building Material. office and W-jreroims, Kiog, opposite Cs? aon Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. pm* Pnrea oar make, wrncb we ?uarar.tr eap^risr to any sold Sooth, ind toereb^ ??ave money. Window and Fans/ 31ass a Specialty PENNYROYAL PILLS K'-^cTX o?w?.0?1Kl"*? **d Only Genuine. *Fit ?V\8AFE^^iT*y * riI'*hl? Ladle*. Mk Druceirt M&Si *? CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH 4rN#^WE?ilo 1X2.1* %n<i Gold metallic box??, sealed ja ^\J[iZlixblneTihboa- T*k?> "o other. Refuge 1*1 *K? 0??reroM Sabttltatlon. and Imita, li ?K "?w i Buy of yonr Pruf?p.i, or ?end 4e. io np? tft ?xl "Relief for Ladle*," in Ut fr, by re -A. /? .. ?ara Mall. 10.OOO Testimonial?. SoVibj ?aJZTTsu. JlT**12-?. Cuvier Chemical C?s ttntton thia pmjm Mallara 80 aare. PK ILA? JP*! Blakes Hcaeys and Bladder Right For a clear complexion taKt ORINO tathra FroitSyrup Pleasant to take Orino cleanses the sys? tem, and makes sallow blotched complexions smooth and clear. Cures chronic constipation by gently stimulating the stomach,liver and bowels. Refus? eubetttutee. Prto? OOo. DURANT'S PHARMACY. BALTIMORE FREIGHT. Managers of Steamsl?p Company Proposes Trip to Wilmington to Seek Traffic Agreements That Would Encourage Expansion of the Trade of That Section. Mr. Mason L. W. Williams, manager of the Baltimore and Carolina Steam? ship Company, will leave in a couple of days for a stay in both North and South Carolina to conduct a campaign to secure traffic agreements for his company with the Southern railroads. Mr. Williams has gone into the matter thoroughly and believes that by nego? tiating with the headquarters of one of the companies at Wilmington re? sults may be attained. He thinks these traffic agreements are essential to unimpeded advancement of Balti? more trade with the eastern Seaboard of North and South Carolina. By present arrangements freight from New York reaches Wilmington, N. C., j direct by the Clyde Line and is tran ! shipped by through bills of lading to ! interior points, and the action reversed j on northward bound freight. Freight from Baltimore goes by way of Nor? folk, and it has been frankly pointed I out to Mr. Williams that freight from Baltimore for a large territory ol the Carolinas, by way of Norfolk, gives a longer railroad haul than via Wil? mington, which is, manifestly, a better business proposition for the railroads than a shorter haul via Wilmington. Mr. Williams claims that, by reason of the same causes, the present operation is more costly in freight to the mer? chants of Baltimore and a large terri? tory. Freight from Phil?delphi? tb these Carolina points, Mr. Williams shows, goes first to New York and then by Clyde Line, with Which line traffic agreements exist, and he claims j that the present attitude of the^rail road -authorities is an unfair discrim? ination against the merchants, of this city and a- large section and against his company. Mr. Williams has quietly prepared for his campaign of persuasion and be? lieves he will be. backed by powerful mercantile influences of this city and the Carolinas. The maiden trip of the steamship Frostburg, of the Carolina Company, is taken as an encouraging sign by the officers of the steamship company. When it was announced that freight for special consignments would be ta? ken to Wilmington, goods were deliv? ered with such geometric progression that, when the ship left, she was load? ed to the limit of her carrying capac? ity. The George Weems, the other ship of the company, is receiving re? pairs to her machinery at the Balti? more Shipbuilding Company plant, and, Mr. Williams said yesterday, will j be ready for service next Saturday. There are full freights for both ships, ! which Mr. Williams takes as a sure ! augury of the needs of local commer? cial interests for a direct water line to the Carolinas. He believes that these needs are so evident that the commer? cial bodies of this city will use in? fluences to secure the desired traffic arrangements with the. Southern rail? roads. When the Carolina Company's first ship, the George Weems, opened up the line to Georgetown,- Mr. Williams said, he found the same trouble about through bills, but that the subsidiary water transportation facilities were so excellent at Georgetown that he was not seriously handicapped. - During his visit to Wilmington Mr. Yv'illiams will also try to arrange wharf facilities there for his line. As previous?}' explained in The American the bumper cargo on the Frostburg went to private wharves and was re? ceived by agents of the B^l^more con? cerns, these agents atte^i.'ng to the distribution of the c3rgo. that con? sisted largely of bagged fertilizer. Baltimore News. EXPERIMENTING WITH CHINESE. Gainesville. Fla.. March 28.-Owing to the scarcity and high price of negro labor, experiments are to be made in this State with Chinese labor in the naval stores camps, which are con? stantly growing in number. Sixty Chinamen have been brought from Portland. Ore., and have arrived at Paradise, in this county, where they will be put to work "in the woods box? ing trees and at the stills. If success? ful several hundred more will be brought. *What good does it do to eat if your stomach fails to digest the food? None. It does you harm-causes belching, sour stomach, flatulence, etc. When the stomach fails a little Kodol Dyspepsia Cure after each meal will iigest what you eat and makes the stomach sweet. All druggists. New York. March 29.-It looks as if this will be record day for immigra? tion. Seven ships brought in a total of 11.383. Immigration inspectors say the biggest day they remember before only 9.000 arrived. Devil's Island Torture * Is no worse than the terrible case of piles that afflicted me 10 years. Then I was advised to apply Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and less than a box per? manently cured me, writes L S. Nap? ier, of Rugles. Ky. Heal? all wounds, burns and sores like magic 25c at Sibert's Drug Store. FOREIGN COTTON CULTURE. Reports From Consular Agents in Af rican Countries Show Successful Ex pertinents. -. So much enterprise is developing in British South Africa that Consul Gen? eral Washington of Cape Town calls it in a letter to the bureau of manufac? tures, "a white man's country." The whites now number 1,355,000 out of a total poulation of 6,333,000. He di? rects attention to the various lines of American goods salable there, and to the fact that many Americans are j successfully taking part in the coun I try's development.. An American in? surance company has just completed in Cape Town the finest office build? ing in South Africa, similar to their Philadelphia structure, and a firm of American architects in Cape Town have had their plans accepted by the city council for a modern theatre and for a $450,000 palace hotel. Amer? ican automobiles are also becoming more popular, the governor of Cape Colony owning an American steam motor. The heart of Africa unknown 50 years ago, is now penetrated by railways, and the Victoria Falls and Victoria Nyanza are familiar names. The falls, which rival Niagara, are now reached from Cape Town by the modern train-de-luxe, \vlth electric fans, shower baths, sleeping and din? ing cars, and private saloon cars for the very rich. The principal ar? ticles exported from the United States into Cape Colony in 1904 amounted to $8,331,000, out of a total of $116,000, 000, and into Natal Colony $5,348,000 out of a total of $52,000,000. Consul Harris of Chemnitz states that the latest reports on the growth of cotton in German East Africa and Togo show that the attempts to grow this important product have probably passed the experimental stage. The main question is how it will affect the Southern states, but the consul be? lieves that American cotton will have no real competition, with the popu? lation of Germany increasing 800,000 a year, and the United States 2,000, 000 a year. * Consul Covert writes from Lyons, France, that Frenchmen are pushing the cultivation of cotton in Abyssinia, and Consul Hollis of Laurence Mar? ques writes that in Portuguese East Africa, where cotton grows wild, ex? cellent results have been obtained in, raising cotton from imported seed, and shipments are made to Lisbon and Manchester at a cost of $10. per ton from the plantation. Mr. Hollis states that some good cotton has been raised in Eritish Nyassaland, but high costs of transportation caus? ed the culture to be abandoned. 0 Charles Page Bryan, American min' ister at Lisbon, quotes. a Portuguese official .as saying that in thirty ^years American manufacturers will take all the cotton grown in the Southern states. Even in five years it is cal? culated that 18.000,000 bales annually will be necessary for the world's con? sumption the present production be? ing 16,000.000; and this is the basis of argument for cotton culture else? where than in the United States. Trade and commerce between the United States and Liberia should have prospered but Consul General Lyon's^ report to the bureau of manu? factures shows that they have dwindled almost to the vanishing point. Liberia has been unprogres? sive, yet England and Germany are selling $600.000 worth of goods there annually. The United States has a record of only $3,600 sales there." Liberia is rich in natural resources and their development with low priced labor is bound to come from some source. The population is 2,000. 000, one-tenth American negroes, the remainder natives. Consul General Iddings of Cairo writes that Egypt is now in a state of extraordinary prosperity. Agricul? tural land values in the Delta have increased in many places to $S00 per acre and labor and commodities have advanced greatly in price. Sales opening for American building male rial are created by the many modern buildings in Cairo and Alexandra, where palatial hotels and hundreds of modern dwellings are proposed. Consul General Sammons writes from Niuchwang to the bureau of manufactures supplying practical commercial information which should prove of value in extending Ameri? ca's trade in Manchuria. Our South? ern spinning mills should especially be interested in his suggestion that at least a portion of the $3.000.000 Manchurian imports of cotton yarns should be supplied by this country. Sales openings for American cotton yarns are also reported at Smyrna. Turkey, by Consul Norton who for? wards samples and prices to the bu? reau of manufactures. Cured Hemorrhage of the Lungs. ."Several years since' my lungs were so badly affected that I had many hemorrhages," writes A. M. Ake. of Wood. Ind. "I took treatment with several physicians without any bene? fit. I then started to take Foley's Hon? ey and Tar. and my lungs are now as sound as a bullet. I recommend it in advanced stages of lung trouble." Fo? ley's Honey and Tar stops the cough and heals the lungs, and prevents se? rious results from a cold. Refuse sub? stitutes. Durant's Pharmacy. BEX TILLMAN'S PROPHECY. Forecast of Lincoln-Like Simplicity and Tillman-Like Frankness. The eternal principle of equal op? portunity for men is the object for which Senator Tillman contends in his report to the United States Senate on the railroad rate bill. Arguing in sup? port of that demand we do not be? hold the ranting demagogue of old armed with pitchfork and blusecering a blasphemous tirade. This Ben Till? man is the cool, logican, ihe calm con? troversialist who writes an earnest, dispassionate and unanswerable brief for control by the American people of the highways that should be their own. Ben Tillman of the wool hat slips out of the mind's eye; in his place looms a statesmanlike figure. The Fate that intrusts the repre? sentative of a discredited minority with the leadership of a momentous legislative battle, on whose outcome the fortunes of both majority and de? mocracy are staked, reveals to us the shining worth of this human diamond 4n the rough. Chief wonder of his per? formance is that the railroad crew in the senate, being resolved to assassinate the square deal program and having relinquished the majority's duty to the minority in order the bet? ter to ply their knives should have ap? pointer as chief morner a very Antony to make the stones cry out in mutiny. Senator Tillman, once the most rampant of radicals, offers here a plan at which the younger generation will live to marvel for its moderation. We have here the most frenzized of the Eryan agitators preaching the doc? trine of conservatism as the only es? cape from political and social revolu? tion. The breaking down of party lines in the Senate on this issue in the strange manner he describes, is only one of the unprecedented features ot the struggle between people and privil? ege. In the new alignment of forces we see on the side of radicalism, pas? sionately urging, immediate govern? ment ownership or outright socialism, xnen heretofore knowjn for their mild insistence on caution. On the other side, pleading for the minimum of ef? fective government supervision, are the "middle-of-the-road" non-com? promisers, the brandishers of pitch? forks, the "burn-your-cities" horde of two incendiary campaigns. Your gen? uine conservatives of today, the lead? ers who stand for reasonable redress j of existing wrongs as against those I drastic and convulsive remedies to which the people would repair as their alternative, are the Tillmans and Bryans, and even the Tom Watson's of yesterday. - There is not a line in the Tillman program to which the supporters of the Roosevelt Republican policy can- ? not subscribe. Reasonable returns to railroads, but j always and only on actual capital in? vested, and not on oceans of water. Prohibition of railroads from creat- I ing the freight in competition with their shippers in addtion to carrying it. Confirmation of the long-used and long unchallenged power .of the Inter? state Cornmerce Commission to abol? ish extortionate rates. Prison stripes for rebate criminals. To these just provisions some things need to be added. Nothing can be taken away without continuing the cruel injustice which railroads and their creatures-Standard Oil, beef trust, coal trust and a hundred pri? vate monopoiles, are inflicting daily upon the people. With his single prophetic eye this champion of American freedom from economic shackles can decry the dis? aster that the blind and blundering knaves will not see. Standing almost solitary in that wilderness of strate gems and spoils, with Lincoln-like simplicity and Tillman-like fearless? ness he utters his impressive forecast of the doom the American judgment holds over the traitors and of the wreck American wrath will make of their odius system. The citizen who is not struck by the import of the Tillman message misses the meaning of the prologue to the most stirring drama since the War of the States.-New York Press (Rep.) ?Nothing will relieve indigestion that is not a thorough digestant. Ko dol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat. and allows the stomach to rest recuperate-grow strong again. A few doses of Kodol after meals will I soon restore the stomach and digestive I organs to full performance of their I functions naturally. Sold by all drug I gists. Oak Ridge defeated Welsh Neck in a fast game of ball at Hartsville Thursday, score 7 to 3. Caught Cold While Hunting a Burglar. *Mr. Wm. Thos. Lanorgan, provin? cial constable at Chapleau. Ontario, says: "I caught a severe cold while hunting a burglar in the forest swamp last fall. Hearing of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I tried it, and after using two small bottles. I was com? pletely cure." This remedy is intend? ed especially for coughs and colds. It will loosen and relieve a severe cold in less time than by any other treatment and it is a favorite wherever its supe? rior excellence has become known. For sale by all druggists. RICHES TO POVERTY. Former Millionaire Begging for Food in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, March 29.-Charles Camp? bell, formerly a wealthy oil operator, walked into the East Eud police sta- j tion and asked for food and shelter, as j be was starving. He was one of the first men in the Oil Creek field and built tne first tank in Titnsville. He made a vast fortune, and during the days when "Coal Oil Johnny" was sowing hundred-dollar bills along bis pathway was an intimate friend of his. The formation of the Standard Oil Company was his undoing. He tried to fight and then to regaiu his losses by speculation. He is now in poverty. The police took him in. gave him food, and soon secured a iob for him as a watchman. Be is seventy years old, but hale and hearty, and insists that his luck has changed. The old man told a ?tory that was interesting and pathetic. He was a farmer in the Oil Creek district when the oil boom started there. He bad a good farm, bet did not sell out. In? stead he drilled himself, and was re? warded with several good wells. Everything he touched seemed to turn into money. He married and built what was then one of the most magni? ficent mansions in the oil couutry. The sudden acquisition of wealth did not turn bis head, and he kept right on at work until bis fortune amounted well up toward the million mark. Then came a streak of misfortune. His house burned and he lost almost 8100,000 in that. Several leases panned out badly. A partner proved unfaitb and then the Standard came. He joined the fight against the Rocke? fellers and soon found that he had been deserted by many of those who had been loudest in their denunciation of the new regime. He was losing money fast, and he speculated to re? cover and lost it all. Now he is de? pendent on charity. Tillman's Letter. Washington, March 29. - Senator Tillman is today preparing a mani? festo on the dispensary question for the people of Sooth Carolina,* which will be ready in a day or two. The A. C. L. Telegraphers. Wilmington, N. C , March 29-Sat? is! actorj conferences between the man? agement and a committee representing the telegraphers and agpnt-telegraph? ers of tbe Atlantic Ccast Line Railway Company, were completed here today? as the resol* of which new mles arAJ regulations and a new wage scale were agreed npon, effective April 1, and af? fecting about 900 men. The increase in the wage scale is estimated hy the committee at abont 8 per cent. This, hosvever, does not cover a general in? crease cf pay at ?ach station, bat a re? adjustment to meet existing condi? tions at each place. Xegro Exodus to Mexico. Monterey, Mexico, March 29.-D. F, Whitaker, president of tbe Oklahoma Mexican Immigration Society, is ia this city for the purpose of making ar? rangements for the coming of 10,(XX) colored colonists, to Mexico. These colonists plan to boy eighty-five square miles of land in the southern part of the State of Tampaulipae, about sixty five miles from Tampicc, and put it ali in cultivation as soon as possible. Tho movement has been pending for two years. This is one of the largest col? onizations that was ever proposed in. Northern Mexico. Helen Keller, whose career has beer* watched for a decade all ever the civ? ilized world, has broker down under the severe strain of the studies and. her efforts since leaving college in be? half of the deaf and blind. The doc? tors say that it will possibly be months before she will be able again io under? take the work she has mapped out for herself in behalf of her fellow suf? ferers. It is said that she is now men? tally alert and cheerful, but realizes the necessity for absolute rest. . Senator Tillman has received an in? vitation from Dr. Geo. H. Denny, pres? ident of the Virginia Miltary Institute, of Lexington, Va., to deliver the commencement oration before the lit? erary societies of that institution or* June 26. . He could not accept. Received Tuesday, October the 17th, . - . j Two Car Loads OF CHOICE Four Matched Pairs of Horses in the Lot. W. A. BOWMAN, Pres. ABE RYTTEXBERG, V. Pres. P. G. BOWMAN, Sec. & Treas. The Sumter "Banking & Mercantile Company, 3\im.tex*. 3. Q. ?*&HHM?esCapital Stock $5Q;000*^**?#?? Wholesale Grocers, Fertiliz? ers and Farmers' Supplies. Sole agents for the celebrated, brand of Wil? cox & Gibbs Fertilizers. We are prepared to quote the very closest cash or time prices on all lines of Groceries, Fertilizers and Farmers' Supplies, And invite your investigation before making your arrangements for another year. Come to see us. We will save you money, and give you a hearty, courteous welcome. Sumter Banking & Mercantile Company, Masonic Building, 2d door from the Postoffice. Sumter, S. C. WHISKEY ! MORPHINE | C IG A? ET" "3 j ALL DR TTC AND TOBACCO HABIT. I HABIT. i HABIT I HABITS. Cured by Keeley Institute of S. C. 1329 Lady St., (or P.O. Box 75) Columbia, S. C. Confidertial correspondence solicite?