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How to Obtain, Without Cost, the Season's Greatest and Best Flower Offers These Flowers Will Bloom This Season of 1909 i ne Five Frettrst Roses ( lit i i ? ii > c 101? 4m iin ones we hare enow o for roar collect Ion. Many of these rottet when In bloom lell for H.uc lo #ti.04? ii (!<>/? ii nt llorlsts. Any out ?,f i),?in is worth more than/a whole years subscription to FARM AND FIRFSIDK cent tot von ? ?11 get absolutely without costs all these fi\e plonts the Climbing Meteor. Bright Bed. Hardy Yellow Bomhh-r. Bright Pink, Pure White. Bee our liii erul otters below und op| oslte. Five Fragrant Carnations (Collection No 10').) The ear net Ion was Presldt at McKhilcy's favor? ite flower. Being unrivaled in rich and refresh? ing fragrance, and tmanproeched fordalntli era ana bean ty of on time it is not to lie wondered at Vha' next to tin- rost it has Income the favorite Bower. The collection we oirer you contains five different colors One Rich Scarlet One Deep Pink. One I i?ht Pink. One White. One W hite Striped Wnh Scuilet. So-oui liberal otiers be? low aiid opposite. What You Get By Accepting tr.it r.tw limited cfTtr Watchman I Southron I Year KM nuinl*>rs?regular price fl.JO. FIRM 1KD FIBISIOL1 YEAR The Ureat National Faim and Family Paper- 24 uumbtrs-iead by ncurlj 3,tC0, OtO people?made for all the fumlly. m COLLECTION OF FL6WEFS On thla page. These collections were oreDared by one of the beat ttoriat* In America. KeaU our guarantee belOW. HOW YOU GET THEM Send us only $2.oo. We will Immediately send you i>ostpald all of th<- good thing* men? tioned opposite, as follows: Watchm tn and Southron one full year ; Farm and Fireside one full year??4 numbers and Any One Col? lection of Flowers on this page. Be sure to give the number of collection you want. $2.00 Pays for All CARNATIONS NO. 109. ( luihliif Meteor Rose?11 Bower of lYaframr. Elegant Fins (Collection Ns. Its.) of all plants for pot or int et lor dcooia tlona. fern* occupy the place of favor. Thia collection con slstxof theleadlngva rh-Me? Ponton. Em? erald, Fountain and A?paragus. These varieties freutfently sell for 50 cents each Hee our liberal offers above and opposite. All of the plants will be large, healthy and well rooted, and will bloom the com? ing season We guar? antee them to tai ex ? act lr a* atvertUed. to arrive In perfect condition, and to give entire satisfac? tion or your money cheerfully refunded. The subscription to either paper may be new or renewal. This is the greatest offer ever made by any publisher. You Ret two blir papers and the flowers, all for the price of one paper alone! It cannot be duplicated anywhere In America. This Offer Is Limited-Don't Delay! CHRYSANTHEMUMS NO. 102 Six Magnificent Crysiintheffluiut (Collection No. 102.) The crysar. rhenium is the prett est late autumn and winter flower. Sma 1 plants set out :n the spring will have formed large plants full of bloomir.g shoots by September. We will send ir this collec? tion six largt flower Ins Japanese varie? ties, as follows: One Pure-Wldte. One Peep Yel? low. One LlKht Yellow. One Light Pink. One I?. t-p Pink One Beautiful Bed. See our liberal offers above and op? posite. Cultural Directions Collections must be ordered entire. Accompanying each lot of plants are full direc? tions for planting, care, etc Please state what month you prefer to have your plants sent to you. 1'holograph of the Bright Red, low Humbler, Bright Fink and White Rose. FERNS NO. 104. $2 Pays For All. order to The s3.tchixi3.il Southron^ SuHUtci*?; o HASl'.lt M.I, l?ROHI?K.Crs. ? oiMllUoo* Ar? Haid to He I n vova hie For I earn In Kcate League. From The Daily it.-m, April t. The Item hae been requested to state that for the first time this sea? son conditions favor the re-organisa? tion of the sumter Baseball Assocts tlon and the retention of the fran chlse In ihn State League. The direc? tors of the Association havs it propo sltlon before them that. If accepted, will insure a first class tesm and food bail thia season. The conditions are not burdensome and if the fans will five the expected support the team will be ready to play ball when the season opens. It 's stated, however that what Is done must be done at once as the Anal meeting to re-orgun fcse ths Btate League will be held to? morrow night and Sumter will then have to say wltat she will do In he matter. No other Information wa? volunteered an?I as this paper In not possessed of all the facts, no further enlightenment ran be given. A week or two ego a comm.'tee made a partial canvass of the city for funds to finance the Sumter t< n meeting with considerable encoir?*" ment. about H00 being sum-cribed. I' N proposed to complete tfcj canva ? this afternoon and tomorrow and if th- response t? "stisfactory the prop t-i ion will he Accepted and Sumur w.li be In the league. A company has organised at Lan? caster to establish sn leg hi pm > Th ? cspltal stock In f 10.000. sll of which has bevn tsken. A contract ban !>#???m made with the York Manufacturing Company, of IVnnsJ l\anla. to furnish aad Instsll th > plant, which Im to he ready for operitlnn by July lo Mr T. M II mayor of Lancaster. In the moving spirit In Ihe n? w Mtef? prise. ? ? ? Henry l?tt. colored, was shot by George Fratler. colored, with a shot gun at Alken Saturday, and as a re? sult h#? Is now lying critically wound? ed and may die. The yhootlna .?< cur red about 10 oVP?ck near the freight depot. Fraelrr wan captured a Httfc later In the night and lodged in the county Jell to await development*. The attending pbynhlan says that Lott Is In a very serious condition If a girl Is pretty her known-d*. the fact Is apt to spoil ths effect. I in tort Mining the Federation. To the Ladles of Sumter: On April 27th the Federation of Women's Clubs of this State will meet in our city. The Civic League at the meeting In Greenville a year ago, act? ing as your representatives, invited them to come, feeling sure that you would entertain them with the cor? dial hospitality for which Sumter is known throughout the State. When your delegates have attended the annual meetings of the Federa? tion, the towns and cities to which they have gone have thrown their homes and hearts wide open to re? ceive us. They made us feel that they considered It a pleasure and an honor to have us with them. And they have made us their lasting friends and admirers. It is now our opportunity to return this kindness, and we are sure that you. ladles of Sumter, will avail your? selves of the opportunity to honor Iouraelvea and our city by honoring When we take up the Sunday paper all first turn to the news from the towns which we have visited as your delegates and by which we have been so royally entertained because we represented you. We feel a personal Interest In these towns because In them are the homes of friends; and we think this feeling and the kind words it piompts are of great benefit to such towns. We therefore ask that when you are called upon by our hospitality committee to entertAln the ladies of UM Federation, you will respond In ?ueh ??' v. n\ th it e.? ry vlstor may see t| ii Sumte:- i.-< SeCOUd to no city in th. -trie in ente-mining strangers und making of them ltfa?tong friends, M RS, h w hi:ALL. p eaftdent Civic League, Latwyev heu. Maoa sememe. Meg Orleans), La.. April 2.?Robert J Uatoney, lawyer and former no oonvlctod or aWfrnttdlni silent! Sj| I 1 l. -01m of money, was today ssntsnssl t?? fourteen 'yanri in the Mate penitentiary by Judge Haker, of the Criminal DVrtrMI Oottrl here, it claimed 11mt Muloney's defalcations imounted to more tbnn IStMOO, If a womun Is unwilling to take In washing and scrubbing to support the family she has no business marrying a man to reform him. our quests. ALANTA BLACK M AIL PLOT. Hoy Tries to Fx tort Money From Asa (i. Famller?Caught In Detectives' Trap. Atlanta, Ga., April 6.?Charged with attempting to blackmail Asa G. Candler, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and banker, and Atlanta's wealthiest citizen, out of $55,000 by "Black Hand" methods, Daniel W. Johnson, Jr., 18 years old, and a member of Candler's Sunday school class, wuh arrested tonight at the instance of postoince inspectors and lodged In the Fulton county jail. Johnson admits writing the letters and takes his arrest very coolly. He, however, declares that he was the catspaw of three strangers, who, he claims, dictated his every action In connection with the affair and forced him to write the demands for money under penalty of death. He furnish? ed the officers with a description of the three men. On Friday of last week Mr. Cand? ler received the first of the two let? ters written by the "Black Hand" plotters. In which he was asked to place $35.000 under the steps of the pastor's study of the Inman Park Methodist church on Monday night, April 5, "or you and your family will meet a horrible death at our hands." Sunday he received a second letter, warning him to comply with the de? mands and further threatening him and his family if he failed to comply or If he made mention of the matter to a living soul. Mr. Candler called George M. 8ut? ton. chief poetoflloe inspector of the \tlanta division, in consultation and it was decided to trap the blaekmail sra Mr. Candler drew $16,000 In h from |he hank of which he Is president, so as to guard ?against any possible betrayal of his plans, m m? day night he made up a package and plaeed it at the polnl designated, the real money in the meantime remain* Ing at his residence) unaided by de? tectlves, Two detectives kepi watch near where tin- fake package was pla< ed but no one appeared during the night for the package. This morning Mr. Candler reclved a message demanding thai lie place Sl.ono at a secluded spot on More laud avenue, betweeen Annabel and Walker avenues. Again a fake pack* age was prepared and plated at the spot designated tonight, and Johnson appeared from the darkness, grabbed the package and started on a run but was in tbe grasp of Detectives Lock hart and Coker before he was aware that he had been observed. He was taken to the "Tower" and after a grueling examination made a confession, admitting having written the two letters, but saying he acted under compulsion. The police give little credence to his story of having been forced to write the letters by three strangers. The first letter, dated April 1, warn? ed Mr. Candler that If he failed to put the sum at the spot indicated "you alone shall meet death. Tell any one of it and you and your house ?that is all that live with you?shall meet the most horrible death at our hands. Pony up with the sum and keep your face closed about It and all will be well. Fail to put the sum there or blab it and hell will be to pay. nothing more nor less than death."' The second letter advised Mr. Can? dler to "slide in close up to the side of the steps and put it under them and then "23" as hard as you can. Do not fail or you will be blown to 'king? dom come' before day Tuesday, April 6." Mr. Candler was litttle disturbed over the incident, and it was stated tonight that he would lose no sleep over fears of his home being dynami? ted. Lynching is Fxpoclctl. Wilmington. N. ('., April 6.?News reached this city today Of the killing; last niuht of John Lon. a constable and storekeeper, near vVhitevllle, x. C, by Sam Weeton, whom he had under arrest and with whom he was on the way to jail. Sheriff Richard? son, with bloodhounds, bay gone in pursuit of tbe negro. Feeling is high and summary vengeance may be deall him it' caught. Cnlhoun Case Delayed Again. San Francisco, Cal., April 6.?At? torneys ?ngaged in the bribery trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railways, have abandoned hope ??f ttikiuK testimony this week. The thlrty-flrsl special venire of six? ty talesmen was exhausted today without completing tbe jury. Advice may be too expensive a glfl ? veit for Plutocrats, The wife of a henpecked husband Is usually set In bet ways. PROMINENT MACON LAWYER SLAIN. Po|>e Hill Found Demi in Law Office at MeRnc. La. McRae, Ga? April 5.?That Pope Hill, a prominent lawyer of Macon. who was found shot to death today. Is the third victim of an assassin in the Dodge land case, is the belief of police efficers. A coroner's jury, after a careful examination, declared that Jllll was murdered by "parties un? known." Hill was found in the office of an attorney early today, a bullet in his brain and a revolver, with one cham? ber discharged, grasped in his right hand. The condition of the office in? dicated a desperate struggle. The stove was upset, the coal scuttle was crushed and the furniture was brok? en. On the floor lay an unfinished court motion in the Dodge case, and which Hill drafted and brousht to McRae to file. Hill arrived in McRae at noon Sunday, and went into a friend's law office to work on the case. Later he went to the home of the proprietor of a hardware store and said he wanted B revolver, as he had received some threatening letters. He was so Insis? tent that the hardware man opened the store and sold Hill a revolver that was found today clasped in his hands. Today Hill returned to the law of? fice and was not again seen alive by friends. When found Hill had been dead several hours. Tin? bullet had pierc? ed the right eye and entered the brain. From bloodstains on the w ill he was probably shot while standing. Hill. wh<> was forty years old, was I member "f the law firm of Eiarrii & Harris. A widow and one Child sur? vive him. His friends aie employing detectives. A note which Hill received at Ma ton yesterday was found on the body it is believed that 'his li the note Hill referred to when lie bought tb revolver on Sunday, ii is written In a Child leb Scrawl and reads: "Pope Hiih The next time you in? terfere without settlement yon will 1 e broke." it is signed with a crudely draS n skull and cross-hones. The autho I ties are convinced that the no;. ? ferred to the Dodge case, which w e on the Verge of settlement when the new and unknown claimant put in an appearance. He was represented by Hill. The authorities are convinced likewise that Hill was murdered They point to the warning note, the' lack ot powder burns on the face an<V the fact that Hill was in the midst of preparation of a motion in the ease when he was killed. The Dodge land case is one of (he most famous in the State and three i persons connected with it have met tragic and mysterious deaths*- , The list of deaths and narrow es? capes in the Dodge land suit began in? 1S94. In that year Capt. John C. ! Forsyth, representing the Norman W. Dodge estate, was murdered. After a j six week's trial five men were *e.ntr i to prison, charged with the crime. Shortly afterward Caj>t. F. L, "Will i iams, one of the claimants In the case, ' was killed. For weeks afterward the entire neighborhood, embracing four I counties, was in a fever of excite j ment. Heedes these deaths there were I several encounters, in Vvbich the par j ticipants received gunshot and knife? wounds. The Dodge land suits rover about four thousand acres. Since 1882: j there has been almost eonthnous litt nation over portions of the property Tell not all you hear, but hear all you toll. NEW DESIGNS. LATEST STYLES POPULAR PRICES. There can be no doubt?the place to buy diamonds, watches. ICWelry, cut glass, silverware., wedding presents, <^ift goods is al Thompson's.'the Jeweler. I have a Graduate Optician fnj charge of my optical dep irtmem Having bought out l)r. Z. 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