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Lee County Vote T??lman..1,503 Ansel. 303 jB?ease. 587 Branson. 241 Edwards. 1 Jones.'. 3 Manning. 593 McMaharf. 7 Sloan. 21 McLeod.1,601 McCown . 970 Morrison..,159 Ragin.'436 Jones.960 balker._ 662 Jennings.1,632 Boyd.'.1,016 Haskell. 602 Martin.1,917 Lyon. 6S6 Ragsdale. 630 Youmans.313 Cansler. 972 Sellers. . 109 Sullivan. 94 45ummersett. 279 Wharton. 117 For the Senate: J. B. McLauchlin, 534; B Frank Kelly, 821; W. McD. ?Green, 289. House of Representatives: C. W. Harris, yOO ; F. F.vHerndon, 5S1; T. H. Tatum, 848; James C. Baskin, 812. County Supervisor: Mooneyhan, 530: DuRant, 461; McNeill, 185; Rol? lins, 382. Superintendent of Education: Mc? Donald Davis, 911; L V. Brown, 712. Auditor: H. A. McLeod, 65S; C. W. Woodbam, 983. ' President Roosevelt has taken an -other bad spell. W.un never nose .when he is thru.-Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette. Cotton in Bad Condition. A dispatch from Raleigh says : The rains throughout the North Carolina cotton belt Continue, and in the east s vast; area of low land is nuder wa? ter. Tar river is higher than in seve? ral years. Agents of the agricultu? ral department, who have been in six northeastern counties, say that only occasionally -is a fair crop of cotton So be seen. Most of it is drowned by rain or choked by weeds, and on many farms it is actually difficult to *ee the cotton. Not in many years have conditions beer so bad in the vast. A large farmer there writes that io the past month his cotton bas nc? known work. The water has stood ?xnong the stalks all the time. In the higher sections and on sandy land there is much shedding and there is a lot of this on stiff lands. Cotton growers say that the cotton on the most favorably conditioned land Is particularly deceptive. There is plenty of stalk, but scarcity of bi 11s. There is much interval between the bolls. There is a general desire to -know the status of the crop There jSfcre persons who express the belief that the next government crop re j port will show still further deterior? ation in North Carolina. The State Cotton Growers' Association calls for reports to be made at its township meesin gs today not only of the pres? ent condition of the crop, but of tbe . quantity of old cotton held from last i itoeason. This information is for use i " at the meeting of presidents of State associations at Hot Spring early in September. The remark is made by ! ^cae observant farmers that they do ~ not bell ve there is a perfect crop of ^cotton in this State. / There is more Catarrh in this sec? tion of the country thain all other .diseases put together, and until the Jast few years was supposed to be in? curable. For a great many years, doc? tors pronounced it a local disease ?nd prescribed local remedies, and by instantly failing to cure with local treatment prononuced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be & constitutional disease and therefore -requires constitutional treatment.. TlaJi's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F- J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and nau? seous surfaces of the system. They ?ffer ene hundred dollars for any acse dt Tails to cure. Send for circulars And testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall' Family Pills for con? stipation. When we consider what a prohibi? tionist will do when he is cold sober, .we feel especially thankful that the prohibitionists do not indulge in fuse X;-News and Courier. CASTOR IA For Infants and Chiidren. "T&B Kind You Have Always Bought . .Sears the Signature of fl^LTH^OUOH IAND CURE THE LUNGS /"?0NS?MPTi?N Price 11 irs I OUGHSand 5Gc&$1.Q0| LJOLDS Free Trial. g ", f j Surest and Quickest Cure ior all g I THE.OAT and L?JNG TROTTS- f USS; or MONEY BACK. ac CANDIDATES' EXPENSE AC? COUNT. What the Office Seekers Say They Spent in Their Campaign for Elect? ion. Columbia, Aug. 2$.-The itemized statements required by law were riled in the office of Secretary of State in due form, though some are not very specifically itemized. Others are so minutely itemized as to present laughable peculiarities. For instance, Mr W. A. Edwards, the Saluda Prohibitionist, gravely set down the item, "peanuts, 5 cents." Mr. A. W. Jones frankly wrote, "soft drinks, $2; cigars, $15." Mr B. B. Hare records a quarter contribution to some Sunday school, and Mr. J. Fraser Lyon charges his campaign j acount with a bathing suit. Cansler, ! of Tizan, according to the statement, indulged frequently in ice cream and shaves and once in a bath during the campaign, besides buying a shirt. Mr. J. W. Ragcdale sets down the sum of $10 against the entry, "soft drinks, laundry, gargles, cough dro^s, etc." Th? expenses of the several candi? dates, as shown by the declaration were as follows: J. W. Cansler.$$197 57 R. M McCowan. 506 70 J. W. Ragsdale.251 75 G. M. Mahon.632 05 LeRoy F Youmans.. SI 09 J. Fraser Lyon. 198 29 John C Boyd.. .321 29 L. M. Ragin. 194 65 W A. Edwards.*.273 19 Martin F. Ansel.555 62 Richard I. Manning. 925 89 J. O. Patterson.. .v... 858 83 A. C. Jones. 1 .397 69 D. E. Finley.v .. .. 112 12 R. B. Tillman. 115 33 Joseph T. Johnson..176 37 John T. Sloan... 576 00 R. H.-Jennings. 57 23 W. C. Irby, Jr.. . 147 69 George S. Leagre. 50 00 Julius E. Boggs. 222 10 A. W. Jones. .. 471 90 Lewis W. Haskell., f; .. 349 41 J, J. MeMahan.;.215 67 Jce!; E. Brunson. 174 20 Thomas G. McLeod. 109 35 0. B. Martin.'46 59 T. C. Sellers... 223 78 J. M. Sullivan.1,161 35 J. E. El?erbe. 109 25 Sole L. Bl ease. 270 31 1. B. Morrison..212 97 A. F. Lever. 187 67 L. M. Ragin. 186 45 T. J. Strait...,116 44 I. H. Wharton. 289 00 B. B. Hare.313 50 3. L. Toole. 339 30 Wyatt Aiken. 255 34 3. L. Walker.. ..,. 537 15 L A. Suminersett.513 53 To the Voters of Sumter. I desire to publicly thank every aian and every lady who so freely md industriously contributed to my success in the recent election, and to >ay that it shall be my aim to con? duct the affairs of the office to the jest of my ability, and to show by my icts that I can rise to the proper ippreciation of the responsibilities on ne, and if possile win the continued support not only of these who put ne in office, and of my bittest politi? cal enemy, and meet the approval of ill good citizens. With profound hanks, I am your obedient servant, H. L. B. Wells. A CARD. To Democrats of Sumter County : 1 desire to thank the citizens of Sumter County for the handsome and jomplimentary vote given me in the last election, and ? will in the future (as I have tried to do in the past) en? deavor tv give you a clean administra? tion, looking to the good of the coun? ty, and proving true to the trust with which its citizens have again honored me. W. H. SEALE. A CARD. To the Voters of Sumter County : *I heartily thank the Democrats of Sumter County for the large vote ?iven me in the primary election held m Tuesday, the 28th instant. I feel chat the vote, though not a majority, was a very complimentary one fora new man in politics to receive, and I am sincerely appreciative of the support ?xtended me. I will be before you as a candidate in the second primary and will appre? ciate the votes and influence of all the Democrats of the county. If you see fit to send me to the Legislature as your representative. I pledge you my honest and undivided service. You know my position on the issues cf the campaign, and I assure you that I will serve you to the best of my abil? ity with an eye single to your inter? ests. I have no axe t;; grind and no | personal interests to serve by gon.u to j the Legislature, and if I am elected I ! will strive to represent the people of j Sumter county faithfull. Respect- | fully, W. G.'STUBBS. j _I __ *Xo one would buy a sailboat with ? sails that could" not be reefed. There is always that possibility . >!' < iittl. t<?i? much wind timi makes ;i can- i *;.".:< man afraid to go un provide I. ; The thinking man. whose stomach sometimes goes back on bin:, provides for ?is stomach by keeping a bottle . if K odo] for dyspepsia within reach, ?vodol 'lin. sis what you eal and re? stores tie- stomach to the condition to properly perform bs functions. So-J by ail druggists; CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES A Few of the Matters That Secretary Reardon Has to Think About. The Chamber of Commerce is in re? ceipt of urgent requests for some action tu be taken by the business men of Sumter towards extending the Betts Lumber Company's railroad farther into the Shiloh, Beulah and Salem sections, from its present ter? minus, and then extending this line into Sumter from the Betts mill, about three miles from Sumter. The importance of a railroad connection between Sumter and the Shiloh and Pudding Swamp sections is so very important to the merchants of Sum? ter that it is hard to realize how the business men of such a wide-awake and hustling business city as Sumter is can go to sleep over such an im? portant proposition, while thousands and thousands of dollars in trade, which formerly came to Sumter ?re known to be going to Mayesville, Beulah, Timmonsviile, Florence, Manning and other places smaller than Sumter. In addition to letters from retail merchants and others in the sections " above noted to the Chamber of Com? merce traveling representatives of Sumter business houses are being op fortuned to stir up the business men of Sumter to the importance of assist? ing in making a commercial line out cf the Betts Lumber Company's road as above suggested. A representative of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce last Saturday, while on the train from Sumter to Lanes in the morning, no? ticed a large number of people board that train to Alcolu, bound for Man? ning. He was told by one in a posi? tion to observe daily the travel along the Alcolu and Central railroads, that hundreds of these people come down on the Alcolu road which makes con? nections at Alcolu with the train to Manning every day, and go to Man? ning to trade, instead of coming to Sumter as they formerly did before the Alcolu railroad made it con? venient for them to go to Manning to j do their trading. Well, while that was a well known, but nevertheless sizzling hot curved . ball remark to our commercial or? ganization representative, who can 1 stand a lot of "Jarring," yet it was j unquestionably a solid, materialistic proposition, without any hot air com- 1 position, and a fact which you * could not run your hand through as if it was steam vapor, bacterilogically sterilized, and analysed. It was in? fectious, and contained the germs eff s discontent and nervous prostration which affected the mental equilibrium j of that Sumter spieler so much that 3 he was in profound meditation for so 1 long a time that Conductor Welch } thought the secretary was hypnotized J and he caMed on Clerk of Court L. I. 1 Parrott, who was on board to use his hypnotic healing powers to wake up - the Sumter howler. t * But like Banquos ghost, "ye secre- * tary" would not down. And now the * Chamber of Commerce has awakened ( without falling out of bed, at least no ^ one has heard anything drop, and ! the business men of Sumter will be asked to wake up and do something which will look like a railroad con? nection with the Shiloh, Pudding . Swamp, Beulah, Turbeville, Salem, sections to get back lost trade. But the business men of Sumter have been told time and again by the Chamber of Commerce through this paper and also at a meeting of buss ness men with Manager Allen of the Betts Lumber Company of the im? portance of making the Betts Lumber Company's railroad into a commercial line. Mr. Allen says he is now ready to talk business with the merchants i of Sumter. He has authority to go ahead and complete business arrange? ments for making a commercial line out of his road. j Will anything be done? Will this ] be built? Or will it continue to be a s farmer's dream ? .1 Mr. W. R. Phillips, traveling rep- 1 resentative of the Geo. D. Shore ?fe 5 Bro. wholesale house of Sumter,* says 1 that, th' farmers, retail merchants and i the consumers of the section through ! which this road would run, are aftei ( him very often to urge the business } men of Sumter to take steps to build ; this road. They will send delegations j ..I 1 from their sections to a mass meeting i ^ at Sumter at any time. They will sub? scribe money for stock, give rights of ? < way and patronize the road. Let us j have a joint meeting. But before . butting into this proposition again. ' olease dont forget to remember that i while hot air is cheap, it takes money ! to build a railroad. But also iii-- business men of Sum tor will make an investment which u'll not only pay dividends on the stock, but will als.i doubly pay in the noi-.-as.-d trade brough* T-. Sumter. This ci:y cannot afford ;>> lose trade. It j mist !.:..??;< on adding to the trade: li j ' nust reach out and get more trade, j <orae of the substantial, monied b u st-i tess men mast take hool of this ;-;...]>- j .sit?on. Meet together. Arrange for j i jjoini ring between representa- j Aves of tlo sections desiring this rail- | r ?ad service io Sumter. Send a com- ; mi't?^ to :),]-? section. Go in ?utomo- j hiles hos been suggested. See the country. Manager Allen has not sign- ! ed with any baseball team as yet, and he says he will lead the procesi?n to the promised land at any time except Sunday. WIXTHOP CATALOGUE. Printer Criticises Policy of The State Institution. "Now, wouldn't that jar you?" said a printer this morning, when caught by a Record man in the act of min? utely examining one of the new cata? logues of Winthrop College. "What do you think o' this?" he went on. "This is a state college, sup? ported by general public taxation; also there are as good printers in South Carolina as there are anywhere. Yet this catalogue, a con? tract that any Palmetto print? ing house would have been glad to have, bears the im? print of a firm in Charlotte, X. C. My idea about it is t'nat this work ought to go to the South Carolina printer who put in the lowest bid. I don't think the college funds would suffer any undue depletion by confining the bids to home shops."-Columbia Rec? ord. *As a dressing for sores, bruises and burns Chamberlain's Salve is ali that can be desired. It is soothing and healing in its effect. It allays the pain of a burn almost instantly. This salve is also a certain cure for chap? ped hands and diseases of the skin. Price 25 cents\ For sale by all drug? gists. The Sumter Item says that the Dor? chester "lynching" was "not a lynch? ing" but a plain ca?e of mob murder." The receot Greenwood killing was gen? erally admitted to be a genuine "lynching." There were about 15 men in the "mob" that committed the Dorchester crime. There were several hundred in the crowd that put the Greenwood negro to death. Is it this difference in the size of the mob that constitutes the difference in the manner in which the two acts are characterized, it is true that there were other circumstances that distin? guished the two cases, but it cannot be denied that upon the size of the crowd depends in large measure the question as to whether the act com? mitted is "murder" or a "lynching." Where then, is the line of demarca? tion? When is a "mob" small enough to commit "murder" and when is it Large enough to commit a "lynching?" And what is the essential difference between the acts committed?-The State. The Breath of Life. *It's a significant fact that the strongest animal of its size, the goril a, also has the largest lungs. Power? ful lungs means powerful creatures. Eiow to keep the breathing organs *ight should be man's chiefest study. Like thousands of others, Mrs. Ora A.. Stephens, of Port Williams, O., las learned how to do this. She vrites: "Three bottles of Dr. King* Kew Discovery stopped my cough of :wo years and cured me of what my "riends thought consumption. O, it's rrand for throat and lung troubles.' guaranteed by Sibert's Drug Store Price 50c and $1. Trial bottle free, ALL WRONG. The Mistake is Made by Many Sumter Citizens. Don't mistake the cause of backache. To be cured you mu?t know the cauee. It is wrong to imagine relief is cure. Backache is kidney ache. You must cure the kidneys. T. H. Bobo, employed at the cotton mill, Drangeburg, says: "Doan's Kidney Pills did ne more good than any other remedy I ever ased. "My wife also used them for backache with :he same good results as I obtained. I don't inow whether her back was worse than nine or not but both of us had been ailing for ;ome two or three years, and at night we :ried rubbing on liniments, coal oil, turpen :ire, eta, but the old pain came back again ind nothing we could do seemed to help us intil I got Doan's Kidney Pills. Since using ;he pills we are like different people for the lackache disappeared. Doan's Kidney Pills ire a wonderful remedy, and are worth every ;ent they cost." Plenty more proof like this from Sumter people. Call at A. J. China's drug store and isk what customers report. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents, foster-Mil bu rn Co.. Buffalo.N. Y., sole agents 'or the United States. Remember the name-Doan's-and take no )tber. 4-J FRECliLi.... .... .v ?-?MPLES REMOVED !a Ten Days. ?g?? ?iadm?la ?'?-..- ,?. i :< winpiexion ?zZ^y-r' t?c??itifier ?3 cn jj^^fc'^ jc?~-r"-7";* ???raiitcc? to remove . . - .- ali restore the :iy youcn. Thc vorst cas.'* h ts-caty 1 vs. 50c. ari $1.00 at all iea??r.g i: J c: hy ;nail. PrcpsrvJ ? ' Tenn. HOLLISTER'S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets j ? Busy Medionie for Sn*? Peopl ? Briaga Golden Health and Resevrea Vikror. A specific for Constipation, indigestion. Live ! anti kidney Troubles, Pimp!- s. Eczem t. impure 1 Blood, Brid Breath. Smarten Bow Heada< and Backache. It's .Rocky Mountain Tea in tab let form, 33 cents ? box Genuine ......io by : HOLLISTER DI?T-R GOMPAV, 'Tadisnn, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS F?rt SALLOW PE0PL? ' FIRE AT HON E A PATH. SUSPECTS ARRESTED. Honea Path, August 28.-About 9 From the Daily Item, August 30. o'clock tonight fire was discovered in | Officers Barwick and Owens arrested Wilson's drug store. Soon the v/hole 1 two negroes wLo gave their names as town was out but were almost help- ? Ed Service and John Gamble who, in , - fl j general appsarance, answered the de less to resist the spread of the flames j scriptl0D of tbe u?, chain gang CQn. till hose was connected from the cot- ; vict8 wn0 killed Gcard Stello in ton mill tank nearly half mile away, j Charleston about two weeks ago, and when the flames were soon under ? made their escape. ,,, i The arrest was made at the corner control. Wilson's drug store, The j of gi?Ter and Divine streets, where. Chronicle office and Wiles' commis- j they were loafing about, sion store were burned. The Chron- They were brought up to the Guard .... ", ?, nAn ".;.v, "n Hoase and examined. They claim to? ide s loss was about $1,000 with no . _^ 0 J \T . have come to Sumter from Manning insurance. H. A. Wiles' loss is about j iast Saturday and worked one day on $6,000 pretty well insured. It is sup- the railroad and ha\e since worked posed ~that Wilson is fairly well in- ! fjoand the ice factory. It is not be _ _ i,. . 1 ___* i lieved that they are the murderers of sured. T. J. Clotworthy owned one , gtell0j bQt tfaey w?u b? faeld of the buildings and Clotworthy and j they are identified and their residence W. A. Harper the other. Both were ! in Manning ebtablished. If they are pretty well insured. The fire origi- ' uot escaped convicts^they are probably 17 a vagrants, who should be put to work nated in the upstairs of the ? drug on tfae cfaain gang store in a tailor shop back of the Chronicle office. When you have a cold it is well tc* -be very careful about using anything *The laxative effect of Chamber- j that will cause constipation. Be par Iain's Stomach and Live: Tablets is so j ticularly careful about preparations agreeable and so natural you can ? containing opiates. Use Kennedy's hardly realize that it is produced by a j Laxative Honey and Tar. which stops medicine. These tablets also cure j the cough" and moves the ?cwels, SoM indigestion. For sale by all druggists. ! by all druggists. Where you find Shield Brand Shoes ? M it is a safe place to trade, because | Jg they are sold by reliable merchants ?^Kn everywhere. Be sure to ask for Riser's King $3.50 Shoe M I foi* men, and you will get your dm M money's worth. " Maae in 37 J?|y m styles and all the popular ????jf?ff Leathers, Patent Colt, Vici, ?^?wBT Gim Metal, Box Calf, etc?i,5^k?TOll M. C His? Company Manufacturers ^8Sg?T"3B*^^ Pat Colt JiTLJtHTJl, GEORGIA ^PT11 - ? Blucher. Attention, Farmers We make a specialty of insuring COTTON GINS, (system and old style,) COTTON at gins and COT? TON ON PLANTATIONS. See us for rates, before insuring. Siter tarli! Agency, Ipft No. IO N. Main Street, Sumter, S. C. 9-5-12-26 -WHY Do you stand over a hot wood stove during these warm summer days when you can be comfortable while you cook by using a BLUE FLAME OIL STOVE. We have them at all prices. Get our prices on CEI, ru. The Durant Hardware Co. When Buying' a Fence The weight per rod and size of wire must be taken into consideration ; also the CONSTRtTC tion of the FENCE. Heavy wires and the best galvanizing are always used on the AMERICAN, and the quan? tity already in service on farms is good evi? dence cf its merit. The HINGE JOINT on the American allows for CONTRACTION and EXPANSION, to with? stand sudden and severe pressure from contact with animals, without bandings stays, the fence springing back to place the instant pressure is removed. The most secure, lasting fence is the AMER? ICAN., Sold by