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NO HF.MEDY FOR RK!> SPIDER. Agricultural Department at Work In Lexington County?Insect Said l<? Be Injuring Cotton In I re. Lexington. Sept. 5.?For several years the r< d spider has been doing Considerable damage to the OOttOII at Bntesburg and Lees vi lie. During this c Hton season the spider has greatly Increased the area of Its Inf cthn snd has shown Itself in sev? eral fields in- ?;? L-vui^.on Court Hmum? ?nd has bee me mu h more destruc? tive In tr* Infected area around Fatcsburg ? rid' Lcesvtlle. It bj be coming a menace) to cotton growlni In this county, and it is understood that It Is to ' s found In several part** ? i I Lite, notably near Blshopvllle. Congressman Lever has again taker the matter up with the federal mi' thurltlee who now have In progress about ten experiments on the farm of Col. Edwin Folk Strother at Bates bury So ft.r no remedy has been found. The chief entomologist. Dr. L. O. Howard of the department of agriculture. written Mr. L v er t^ the affect that the work of tb % department wdl be continued vigor? ously and that he has called to Wash? ington for consultation an expert who has been conducting field expert* plants. In order that the whole field may be thoroughly canvassed and plana for next year s work outlined. Mr. Lever has advised the depart? ment tb.it a station be established at Fatexburg. and It Is believed that this will be done, perhaps, during the next year. -/ .? The Siamese Cat. The Siamese cat comes from the kingdom of Slam, where I first met Mm. and Is of two classes: the com? mon and the ten.pie cat. The com? mon' or garden variety differs from the temple in the same manner as a thoroughbred differs from the mon? grel, whether cat, horse or dog. The temple cat Is th? outcome of long years of careful breeding and anxious care. He Is Jealously guarded by the bouses (priests) of the temple, and enters In some way which I have never been able to discover Into their religious rites and sacrificial offer Hta exportation has been prohib? ited for many years, as he has always been In great demand among cat fanciers, and so many were carried off that the prices became fabulous, snd the priets objected, ss there was tear that the royal line might be eosae extinct. Oh, yes. there is a royal Una of cats, of which there wore two In this country. The puic Siamese temple cat Is bom pur? white and* at the age of two or three months shows marking of blue gray on tall, legs and ears. As time pass* s these turn brown and at six months the face, tall, ears and feet show a beautiful brown color, like young seal, while the body Is ns yet white with Just enough color to warm It. The greater the age of the cat the deeper will be the color of the fur. The eyes are of a beautiful a/urc; blue In daylight, they glow like live coals at night. I have had thirty at a time. I sent a pair to the exhibition at Liege, which were sold for six thousand francs. Five hund dred dollars (s not an excessive price for a pure specimen.?Harold Bas? sen. In the Cat Review. At the clone of the fiscal year 1908 the railroad mileage of the United State?? was 230.000. as compared wtth 1SC.IS3 In 198S and 184.?48 In 1898. The net capitalisation Is 313.000,007. 011. an Increase of 39 8 per cent over the figures of 1898. Martin Maloney. a Philadelphia capitalist, purchased the plant and franchise of the Water, Light and Power Company of Rock Hill at a re? ceiver's sale yesterday, the purchase price being 980,000. IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW. What a Heap of Happiness R Would Bring to Saunter Homes. Hard to do housework with an ach? ing bask. Brings you hours of misery at leis? ure or at work. If women only knew the cause? tha' Backache pains come from sick kidneys. Twould savs much needless woe, Doan s Kidney fills cure sL'k k:j nsys. Sumter i" i si d ose this: Mrs. M M, atulke/ \> B, Liberty St.. Sumter. S. C, says; "During the MSI 1W0 yean I have had a gfeut deal of iroboli with my kidneys. The secretion* from these organs dVre very Irregular In passage, highly c ol? ored and contained diment. M> head ach?-d severely, l bad dull, aaga giriK baekacbes. could lot re t well and in the morning was devoid of energy or ambition. I used only two boxes of Loan's Kdne> Pills,* eur?d at China's drug store an I m\ buck became stronger, the headaches ojnbh'fl and my kidneys were re stored to a normal condition, i have galrod several pounds In weight and am Improving in eVery way, Doan \ e n.e much r?diei' und 1 consider them 10 be the best reined} I ever tried. f ?r kidney trouble." For sale by all dealer*. Price .",0 cents, r mu \ Ml)burn Co., Muffalo, N?w V -i... sole agents for the United States Siemen bt r the name?Dean's?and take no other. No. 12. BATING CHILD WORK F US. South Carolina .Mill inspectors File Their He|?ort With Commissioner Wat.sou?Orutllylng Decrease 1?? ChUtl Fanploynumt. Columbia. I, C, s?'| t. 4. Under the working of lh< ohlld Inbor lew ovei three thousand children have bean taken out of the ootton mills, stores ami other enterpria i employ big children durln] the present year, in many hyitancei these children have bi t n placed in tin* schools, ah of tbis b,is been go ?mpllshed without any friction between the factory in | ? ??ctors and the mill officers; without decreasing the etlk iency of the mills and without injury to the children or to their families. According to a tentative report is? sued today by Commissioner Watson. Waith is made up from the reports of the Inspectors' cards and affidavits, the tota! number of children employ? ed In the mills under fourteen years of n*e is 5.019, of which 2.729 are boys and 2.200 girls. Of the 5,019. ??1 WfTg under 12 rs of age and ? ft working during the summer months, and will now go out; of the r>52. 314 were boys an4 238 girls. Five hundred end ninety children under 12 year* of age (which number la In eluded In the 5.01 i*) are working under the parent's disability affidavits ?326 boys and 220 girls. The total number of children un? der 12 years of age In the mills this sear was 1.14 8, leaving 596 In the mills at present. Taking out the school ,chlldlren there were, 3,654 less children In the mills this year than in 1907. and 4,368 less In 1905. The total rmmber of children In the mills, under sixteen years of age In 1907, were 8.121 and In 1905 8.835. The tentative report as submitted will be embraced In the annual re? port off the commissioner and deals with a mill population of between 15 ).000 and 16Q.000. The commis? sioner expressed himself as being very m-ich pleased with the report and was surprised at the large decrease In the number of working children. How to Improve Our Orchard Indus? try. From our general observation In the State during the past year, It would seem that South Carolina has been, as it were, a dumping place for all kinds of inferior and worthless nursery stock. By this we do not mean to say that South Carolina re? ceives no first-cla?s nursery stock, for we are yearly handling some of the best stock in the whole country. The general tendency on the part of some nurseries, without the State, to? wards shipping inferior, stock Into the -ttate has caused considerable com? plaint to reach tbb office. The prin* clpal trouble with such stock seems to be the presence of serious insect pests and plant diseases. It Is a very difficult matter for the casual obser? ver to detect these on stock that is only slightly infested and, if such stock be planted out without hav? ing been treated, there is little possi? bility that the owner will ever receive any returns whatever for his labor and expense. It is, therefore, of ut? most Importance that the planter of an orchard should know whether or not he Is putting out clean healthy i trees. In order to eliminate, as far aa possible, the Introduction of dis? eased nursery stock into our or? chards, we will endeavor to make a thorough Insepction of every ship? ment of nursery stock upon request of the owners of such stock. This can but have a wholesome effect upon the Incoming nursery stock, which in turn will make possible the building up of an immense orchard industry In our State. All requests for inspection of nur? sery stock should be made to State Entomologist, Clemson College, S. (\ There Is some talk of having a Fall Festival, and Secretary Reardon of the Chamber of Commerce is agitat? ing the question. The festival of 1904 was a grutlfylng success and was both creditable and beneficial to the town. It cost nearly 36.000 in hard cash and a world of hard work by the various committees. It will be impossible to have I festival this year at less ex? pense than in 1904. for Susnter oould not afford to fall behind previous ef? forts, so if we are to have a festival we must count on raising not le** than *6.000. Are the business m< n ?I Sumter prepared to put up the money) If the] are, let*i have the festival; l>Ut If they are not Willing 10 Spend at leust IC0OO, we may as well say no more about a festival. Ami just a word more?"If WC are not sure there is to be a creditable fes? tival it is poor policy to advertise th? fact thai we are thinking about it The wisest policy would be for tin business men to get together and dl* 6USS the matter in a buelnoSS-llkt manner, decide what tiny warn to d< I I nd then k>* ahead and do it. The People's ban!, building and fig tares at Union was ??hl gi a rocelv sr*s sab- Monday, w. j, Halle ws the Mghsot bidder, his bid beim $1 1.300. F.ggw niul a Few Other Things. "The egg crop of the United States for the last ten years has probably averaged not far from 1,750.000.000 doaeII fi year, The Department of Agriculture r< i>.>rts 111 * * 'mean farm price of eggs' throughout tin1 country ? in 1899 as 11.IB cents a dosen and In 1901 at is.3 cents B dosen. At those ratet th< farm value of this estimated. average would be $195.000.000 for 1809 and $880,000,000 for 1908, an Increase ol $185.000,000, or nearly 68 per Cent The difference in retail prices is probably considerably more 1 ban that. "This means," :ays the New York Sun, "that for the same quantity of eggs the American consumers are paying today about $125.000.000 more than they paid ten years ago. It at once suggests the Question of cost of production and profits to the pro ducer. Does it cost a hen f?5 per cent, more to lay an egg today than it did ton years ago? Unless it can be shown that the industry has been material.y affeoted by increased cost it raw materials or increased wages no other inference is open save that tho American consumer is the victim of rapacity on the part of those who cannot be coll otlve'y denounced as a 'predatory class," although their 'greed' in no a ay differs from that of 'trust magnates,' An increase of 65 per cent, in railway rates would al? most precipitate a revolution. Such an increase in the price of barbed wire or nails or shovels would lead to Widespread demand for instant control and regulation by federal au? thority. The average price of sugar, laid to be a trust product, was .04924 j cent a pound in 1899 and .04940 inj 1908. The 'mean farm price' of egs, not a trust product, was 11.15 cents a dozen in 1899 and 18.3 in 1908. For their eggs and for their sugar the people now spend about the same to? tal number of dollars. "No wonder that farmers buy au? tomobiles, that banks are stuffed with farmers' money. The consumers ap? pear to have contributed to those en? terprises during the last ten years several hundred millions of dollars in the Increase of the price of eggs, hundreds of millions more in the in? crease price of potatoes, and still oth? er huge sums in the increased price of other farm products. It is highly I gratifying to be told that the farm products of last year were valued at j not less than 87,778,000,000, or nearly double the value of products in 1899. The wage earners and the salary earners contemplate those figures with less satisfaction than does the Secretary of Agriculture. In their view of the case there is represented not only an enlarged volume of prod? ucts, but a greatly increased unit price, with Its resultant increase In cost of living. The increase in vol? ume of products is probably not more, than one-third the increase in total' value. The consumer pays the dif? ference." I Elocution of the Admiral. Vice Adlmral Uiiu of the Japanese navy, was a member of the class ot 1881 at the naval academy at Anna? polis and has recently been here visit? ing hip class mates and celebrating a reunion with them, says The Satur? day Evening Post. At a dinner given to the vice ad? miral when he was in this country one of his class mates told a story on the vice admiral as an illustration of the progress of the Japanese in the parst thirty y. ^rs. "Uri was the most correct and proper person In our class," said the story-teller. "He was prim and pre? cise and very reverent. I met him one morning on the parade ground. " 'Good morning.' I said enthusias? tically. 'Isn't this a splendid day?" " 'It is, indeed,' Uri responded gravely, 'and I thank heaven 1 am here and permitted to enjoy it.' "When I met Uri this time, after a lapse of nearly thirty years, I re? called that conversation and said: 'Good morning. Isn't this a splendid day?' " 'It is, indeed, Uri. replied, 'and will you, for heaven's sake, kindly tell me where I can get a drink?' " Iaiglish (iermaoi/ed. The class at Heidelberg was study? ing Bngllsh conjugations, and each \eri> considered was used in s model ?entence, so that the students would gain the benefits of pronouncing the connected series of words, os well a* learning tb?* varying forms of the verb says Everybody's. Tins mcrnlmi h was the verb "to have' 'in tb<- (sen? tence, "1 have a gold mine." ib-rr Bchmlts was oalfed t<? his feet by Prof. Wulff. "Conjugate 'do naff In der sen? tence, 'l haft a ?nii mine, " the pro? fessor ordered. "i haft b goII mine, du hasl Q goll dein, he bass a n<?lt hiss. Ve. you < v I dey haft a goit <airs, yours or dears, i ? ;is de ease maybe." j Having recently returned from > ; \' it to 1a nelgi borhoi d 6f the South ! Pole, Lieutenant Khackleton Is very I anxious tu know Jusl how Dr. Cook did it. The lieutenant plans anothei trip,-?Iprlngfleld Republican. Invest month in Form Land. According to the National Stock? man and Farmer, ."good farming land has proved a profitable invest? ment in the past ten rears, and there is every reason to expect that it will :? so in the future. Many business men In cities have realised this, and when they have found what looked like a bargain they have picked ii up. such Investments .have often been profitable in spite of the fact that the city man didn't know how t<? farm. Money has been squandered by some city farmers, but others, real business men. have simply invested their money in fertility, buildings and stock and have the goods to show for what they have invested. Tf a man without knowledge of or experience in farming can make land a good in? vestment certainly a good farmer ?night to be able to do so. The market for productive land is improving and must improve as our population grows. For an investment of sur? plus cash it has only one objection? it can not be realized on as quickly as some other things in case of need. But it can easily be made the means of raising money in a pinch. "Skilled faimers with surplus cap? ital will find what are known as run? down farms a particularly good in? vestment. Land that has been pro? ductive, that was so naturally, can be made productive again by those who know how, and this can be done without an excessive outlay of cash. Nearly every community has such farms, and when the possibilities of profit in their improvement are real? ized they will be bought up by ex? pert farmers near by and built up (or some buyer who is sure to com" along. Another opportunity to real ize from investments in land in the future is cutting up large tracts in? to small farms. This is particaular'y true in territory contiguous to good markets, where the poultry, fruit and truck business must be developed. For such business large farms are an incumbrance to most men. Small tracts will sell readily because there, will be many people looking fot country homes from which they can live and do not cost too much. In the east are many such opportunities as this, and many farms to be hal at reasonable prices for ariy purpose. All farming needs in these communi? ties is more formers. The land is to be had, the markets are ready, the opportunities are good for those who want to farm and know how. But the spirit of the age in these com? munities has not been agricultural. When these farms are taken up bv men who farm this spirit will change. It is changing now in some places, and land is advancing as a result." Twenty, lambs, twelve rabbits, two hens, a duck and a goose were found by gamekeepers recently in a fox's larder. During three months the police of New York City arrested 200 more chauffeurs than during the corres? ponding quarter of last year and 300 more than during thte same time two years ago. CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. Tis Kind You Have Always fought Bears the Signature of $2.75 And Return. $4.05 ?TO? s sve vs. And Retur (For Myrtle Beach.) ?VIA i A il> Tickets for sale for all trains each Saturday and for Sunday forenoon, trains commencing Saturday, May 29th and continu? ing to Saturday, Sept. 4th, 1909, limited to return Monday follow? ing date of sale. An excellent opportunity to visit the famous Seashore Resorts ot South Carolina at a minimum cost. For information, call on Ticket Agent, or write. W. J. CRAiG, T. C. WHITE, Pas, Traf. Mgr. Gen. Pas. Agt. WILMINGTON, N, C. 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Th<? high quality of our materials will *tp> peal to builders when they learn oar prices and get estimate for their en? tire building from The Sumter Door, Sash & Blind Factory J. W. McKeiver. Propr:*-t' Banking Methods We have added to our equipment a double adding machine to fa? cilitate taking ofT daily balance*. Our aim is to keep well np With approved banking method*, that we may render the most ef? ficient service to our customers at all times. ^ Bank of Sumter. NOTICE! If you have farm property in Sumter or Clarendon County whJ 1 ? wish t<? soil this season, you should list it now, in order that it inay rx* Inspected and properly advertised forthe i";?n business. 1 havo a number of, prospective buyers*for well improv-.1 property, and if your price* iP0> right, we should be able to do some business, CITY, FARM UNO TIM- "|T> T3 TT") MONEY INVESTED ItJ REAL ESTAiE MORT R. B. Beiser, REAL ESTATE ?TT08MEY. 26H N Main St. Sumter, S. C, BED PROPERTY HAN. GAUES. LET ME ISVf > OLED. 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