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pH iWl STILL ENTOMBED RKSCVE WORK HALTED BY tlt>?H OITIIRKAK OF FI HE. Oettcral Opinion Around tho Mine at Cherry, Illinois, In Which Over Tttre* Hundred Men Wore Hurled AWve .Saturday. I? That All .Vre He yond Use Reach of Ahl. Cherry. III.. Nov. 15.?The thrte hundred or more miners who were entombed In the St. Paul coal mine by hurt Saturday's fire, are dead, some of the bodies lie burled beneath thousands of tons of earth which caved In upon them, and It Is doubt? ful whether many of the bodies can ever be recovered. Thia was the opinion expressed to? night when rescue work was tem? porarily abandoned. Flrea In the mine, which broke out with renewed fierceness early todsy. made further descents by rescuers impossible. Fans employed In an effort to carry fresh air and life down to the Im? prisoned men served only to enliven some embers which sprang Into flames. Soon the heat and smoke became so dense that It was neces? sary again to seal the mouth of the hoisting shaft and tonight the men down there, whatever their condition, are locked in as effectively as in a dungeon. Whether attempts to take out the bodies will be made tomorrow de? pends on the condition of the Internal flrea It is possible that carbonic acid gas will be forced to the bottom of the mine tomon-ow to choke the flamea It was said tonight that three hundred coffins have been or? dered. Half of them will arrive to? morrow and half today. Meantime the several score of nurses who were rushed here look forward to no pros? pect of heroic work In reviving In? jured men. It Is believed that no one will be brought out of the mine alive. Light on the Sugar Trust. (From the New York Sun.) The Sugar Trust, which la the most corrupt and rotten trust In existence, has achieved its repulsive eminence under the direct patronage and pro? tection of Republican administra? tion. A Republican administration pro ttcts It today. Herbert Parsons, placed at the head of the Republican organisation here as the direct repre? sentative of a Republican administra? tion, represents the interests of the Sugar Trust. His father. John E. Parsons. Is under Indictment for the ^.colossal frauds of which the Sugar Trust has been guilty. Herbert Par? sons administers the Republican or? ganisation of New York to suit the conv? nlence and the vicissitudes of the American Sugar Refining com? pany. Even a municipal election in this town cannot escape the baleful sway of this vilest of corporations manifesting Itself in the person of Herbert Parsons. A Republican administration at Washington, In return for money and for other valuable considerations, sheltered the Sugar Trust from the consequence of Its crime?, sheltered H so effectually that its directors es? cape the penitentiary only by the in? terposition of the statute of limita? tions. Herbert Parsons Is at the head here of the Republican organisation to p "i<*tuate and to enforce this re? lation with the Sugar Trust It is his only reason for having the politi? cal weight and force of the Republi? can political machine (of which the New York custom house is an inte? gral part) la now concentrated on the defense of the Sugar Trust, on com? muting the penalties which it can not wholly evade, and affording it the opportunity to settle with the United States Treasury by disgorging $3.000.000 when It had stolen $30, ?00.000. The men In Washington who delib? erately debauched and bertayed the United 8tates and prostituted the functions of the government In order to secure Immunity for the Sugar Trust are Just as deserving of the penitentiary as John E. Parsons and his fellow directors, if they are con? victed. A pertinent contemporary problem ta Which nrst Instigated the crime of false weighing, the employes of the (Mied states Treasury or the dishonest importers? Equally perti? nent Is the Inquiry: Which side took the Initiative In the criminal rela? tions established between the Sugar Trust and the Republican adminis? tration at Washington? How pitiable mid dr*pw iibic ap? pears the p?tty pursuit "f William Loeb's thieves and the ofceeeopercfl when viewed In the light of the mag? isterial blackmail and extortion prac? ticed at the very top ?th the enthu? siastic Indifference of a nation! The late E. H. Harrlman. he was in a tree, like Zaceheus. when he was called down. Halley's comet It has been figured out, will pass across the sun's Tace May 18, on which occasion, however, the sun will try to look aa pleasant as possible.?Indianapolis News. ?PINIISHI BUYING COTTON. The True Inwardness of Cotton Spin? ners Taking of This Year's Crop Exposed by Actual Figure*. (By Walter Parker.) New. Orleans, Nov. 14.?Spinners' takings of American grown cotton for the week tell the same old story: Plenty of talk of "short time" and of mills shutting down." but little actual "do." Of course, It would be absurd to think of such a thing, but if the rate of 366,000 per week could be kept up there would be needed to fill out a year, something like nl leteen millions of bales. Now, as there may not be room enough for them t) take 12,000,000 bales without bringing the visible at the end of the year to nil, buch a calculation la significant of what spinners are doing for the sup? ply of their future' wants. Surely there could be no better sign that the actual stuff Is not lagging by the wayside for want of bona fide buyers for consumption. The real magnitude of the week's takings was not fully appreciated in some directions because they run against comparison of 461,000 for last year. It was forgotten that for a year when everything was big? bigger than ever before known in the history of cotton?461,000 loomed up as the heaviest of all the weeks and the largest recorded for any similar period. Even last year, with all of Its "bigness," there were but three weeks that exceded four hundred thousand, and not many that reached 366.000. Perhaps a glance at the way spinners have been taking cotton from week to week since the com? mencement of the season will best Il? lustrate the true Inwardness of the situation. Here are Mr. Hester's figures: Week ending. Sept. t. Sept. 10 Sept. 17 Sept. 24 Oct 1 Oct. 8 . Oct. 16. Oct. 22. Oct. 2?. Nov. 6. Nov. 12. This Last year year 105,000 83,000 187,000 140,000 159,000 131,000 Year before 95,000 10 100 199.001 106,1)01 187.000 169,000 129,000 205,000 216,000 218,000 259,000 182,000 150,000 194,000 257,000 191,000 388,000 296,000 232,000 289.000 328,000 266,000 333,000 299.000 299,000 366.000 461.000 275,000 73 days 2.622,000 2.662.000 2.080 000 It is still more interesting to see who got the cotton. For the week the distribution was: This Last year year North . . . 108,000 130,000 Sou:h .... 68,000 61,000 Foreign. . . 200.000 270,000 And for the season to date It was: North. South. Foreign This year 560.000 545,000 1.517,000 Last year 720,000 527,000 1,315,000 Total. . . .2.622,000 2,562.000 These still show that foreign spin? ners are advising their American cou? sins to do as they say and not as they do; they are fully 200,000 bales to the good out of the cream of this short crop?that much ahead of their handsome takings for the correspond? ing 73 days last year, and If they can only succeed In keeping the wool over the eyes of American spinners they will do even better. To All out a 12,000,000 consump? tion would require 230,000 a week; anything over that necessarily indi? cates that the mills are 0 providing ahead for eventualities. Does the difference betwen 366.000 and 230,000 Indicate anxiety for short time? Look again at the totals to date: Takings 73 Year's con days sumption This year . .2,622.000 Last year . .2.662.000 13,157.000 Year before .2,080.000 12,112,000 Are not these facts worthy of pro? found consideration? He Wasn't Fooled. A onco famous publisher was a in.ii? well acquainted with general lltera ture, and it was often said of him thai he never failed to name the author <?: any given passage. A would be wit thinking to have a little fun nr ilii> gentleman's expense, told his friend* at a dinner party before the said pub Usher's arrival that he had himself written some verses in Imitation of" Sou they nnd that he Intended to puz lie old F. with the question of their authorship. Accordingly later in the evening the wag quoted his lines, and. turning to Mr. F., be said: "I am sure they are Southey's from their style, but 1 can? not remember where tbey occur. Of eourse you can tell us." "I cannot say I remember them," re. piled Mr. F., "but there are only two periods In Southey's life when he could hnvp written them." "When were those?" asked the Joker, with a wink at his friends. "Either In 1i1m infancy or his dotage," was the quiet reply. Sam Jones, colored, killed his wife and fatully shot himself In Charles? ton Monday. Jealousy was tho mo? tive. Direct Answers. The negroes of Africa are simple and direct Ifl speech. It never occurs to them, writes Mr. R. H. MUUgan in 4,The Jungle Folk In Africa," that the purpose of language is to conceal thought, and to commiserate the Afri? can for his color is a waste of sym? pathy. In illustration of this Mr. Mil llgnn gives an amusing conversation with one of his pupils. One day when I was talking to Bojedi something in the course of the conversation prompt? ed me to ask him whether he would like to be a white man. He replied respectfully but emphatically In the negative. I wished to know his rea? son. He hesitated to tell me, but I was insistent, and at last he replied: "Well, we think that we are better looking." I gasped when I thought of the vast? ly ill looking faces I had seen in 4he jungles, and iu apology for myself I said: "But you have not seen us in our own country, where there Is no ma? laria and where we are not yellow and green." * He quietly asked what color we were in our own country, to which 1 prompt? ly replied, "Pink and white." Looking at me steadily for a mo? ment, he remarked: "Mr. MUUgan, if I should see you in your own country I don't believe I should know you." Long Winded Prsaohers. Dean Lefroy, who expressed the opinion that ten minutes is long enough for a sermon, would have met witt scant sympathy from some di? vines of past centuries, says the West minster Gazette. Ttomas Hooker considered three hours a fair average allowance for a sermon, though, on one occasion, when he was ill, he let his congregation off more lightly. Pausing at the end of fifteen minutes, he rested awhile and then continued his homily for two hours longer. Crnnmer's sermons were each a small book when set up in type, and Baxter, Knox, Bunyan and Calvin rarely reached "Lastly, my brethren," under two hours. George Herbert once said: "The par? son exceeds not an hour in preaching, because all ages have thought that a competency," but a certain rector of Bilbury, Gloucestershire, was of an? other opinion, for he never sat down under two hours. The squire, we learn, usually withdrew after the text was announced, smoked his pipe out? side and returned for the blessing. Revenge In Ceylon. A system of Cingalese "black magic' peculiar to the island is still practiced in some parts of Ceylon. It is stated that there are 4,440 different methods of causing ill to others. Here Is a translation of one of these methods of deallig with your enemy: "On Sunday eleven peya"?one peya equals twenty-four English minutes? "after sunrise Yama Devi"?the god of der.th and Judgment?"goes to the west. Str.rt at this hour; take a meal of bluish rice; dress in red colored gar? ments. "Take a root of ginger at the time of the ?odiac of Aries; write on it the name of your rival, charm it 108 times, wrap it in a.golden colored cloth and place It in your waist. "When you meet your rival, look straight into his face and break the root in your hand. Within nine peyas he will be killed by an elephant, and when seven months elapse six other persons of his family will meet their doom."?Ceylon National Review. A Gale by Another Name. Doubtless there were man ' puzzled readers when a deep sea ski, . rolled into this harbor a few days ago and reported that his ship had been be? lated by a gale which had piped up to ?force 10." "Force 10," it was ex? plained, meant something like a hurri? cane. It Is a term borrowed from the Beaufort scale, a scheme of wind measurements devised by the British admiral Beaufort before the days of ocean going steam. Force 1 was a calm, force 2 a light breeze, and so on up to the hurricane velocity. Perhaps, too, the Beaufort scale may give a clew to those who have been wonder? ing for some time at the title of a popular German picture. It Is just one expanse of frowning cloud and storm tossed billow, and the artist has named it "windstarke 10,11."?New York Sun. Linked Eyebrows. It Is popularly believed that If one's eyebrows meet It Indicates deceit Charles Klngsley Indorses this belief, hut Tennyson has other Ideas and poetically speaks of "married brows." In Turkey meeting eyebrows are greatly admired, and the women use artificial means to bring the brows to this condition, and if art cannot in? duce thin eyebrows to grow they make up by drawing a black line wrlth paste. It would appear that the Greeks ad? mired brows which almost met, and the fashionable Inhabitants of Rome not only approved of them, but re sored to pigments to make up the lack which sometimes existed. Some proverbs state that the person whoso eyebrows meet will always have good luck, while others state ex? actly the reverse. The Chinese say that "people whose eyebrows meet can never hope to attain to the dig? nity of a minister of state," and in Greece of today the* man whose brows meet is said to be a vampire, while in Denmark and Germany It is said he is a werewolf.?London Standard. Ample Cause. "What on earth possessed you to be> come engaged to Herbert?" a young lady asked her friend. "You don't love him an atom!" "I know," was the candid reply, "but that horrid Jones girl does!" There are thirty cases of smallpox fi.t Ninety-Nine Islands, Cherokee county. Fancy Groceries A Thousand Reasons for o\ir Popularity, Everybody knows that we are SUMTER'S most reliable grocers, as may be seen from the fact of our ever-growing patronage. We are ready for the test to be put to us. Our stock shows the most complete selection ever offered in this section of SOUTH CAROLINA. Of Course You Need These: Currants, - - - - 15c pkg. Citron, - 20c lb. Raisins, Monogram Brand, - - 10c pkg. Raisins, Republic Brand, - - 15c pkg. Spices?Finest Quality in Bulk or Packages. Candied Lemon Peel, - - 25c lb. Candied Orange Peel, - - 25c lb. Pineapple Glace, - 50c lb. Candied Cherries, ... 50c lb. Marischino Cherries, - - 35c, 50c, 75c bottle. Mince Meat, Sweet Pickle Peaches, Plum Pudding, Olives?bulk and bottled. Sweet Mixed Pickles?bulk and bottled, Dills?bulk and bottled, Sour Pickles? bulk and bottled, Mustard, Chow Chow, Sauer Kraut. OUR. FRUITS? O w K o 3 ? o M to M H DQ Are selected with care. Malaga Grapes, Cooking and Eating Apples, Oranges, Chestnuts, Lemons, Nuts, Etc. Visit the Big Grocery Store at 25 North Main Street. Special attention to Mail Orders. If you do not live in the city, phone or write us and your order will receive that same care as if you were present. We stand back of every article sold to be just as represented. You can show your wiseness by giving us that THANK SGIVING ORDER. LEAVE IT WITH. ? d H W H 'where Quality reigns" XO HOPE FOR MINERS. No Attempt Made Yesterday to Pen? etrate Mine?Troops Will Keep Order When Bodies are Brought Out. Cherry, 111., Nov. 16.?Troops were called for today to prevent any un? toward demonstration at the St. Paul coal mine when the bodies of the three hundred men entombed by the last Saturday's disaster are brought to the surface. Sheriff Skoglund, of Bureau County. telegraphed to Springfield asking Gov. Deneen to send several companies of militia. So far there has been no violence, and it is hoped by the presence of a small guard to prevent any ill-ad? vised move on the part of the mi? ners, whose feelings have been wrought up by the loss of their com? rades. When the entombed men, or more likely, their bodies, will be brought to the surface, is doubtful. None of the officers believe that any of the three hundred entombed men are alive but nothing more is now act? ually known about their fate than was known the day of the accident. Fire In the mine today was even more Intense than it was when the men were entrapped three days ago. and .no efforts could be made to en? ter the shaft. Fire Chief Horan, of Chicago, ar? rived today with assistance and a ?upply of hose and chemical fire ex? tinguishers. The seal over the mouth of the shaft was perforated, and it was intended to force water and i chemicals down through pipes. A thermometer plunged into the sand scattered on top of the seal showed I a temperature of 110 degrees, indicat- i ing that the heat in the interior of the mine must have been intense. "It's no use now," said Chief Hor? an. "To lift the lid today would mean that the whole mine would blaze up, and there would be no possibility of \ recovering even the bodies. The coal deposits would take fire and the tim? ber supports would crumble." George B. Rice, of Pittsburg, chief of the field work of the United States Geological Survey Association, was was positive that the reopening of the mine would have to be postponed. The only progress made today was in orKanizing relief work for the many destitute remnants of families. WOMEN OF THE HAREM. They Gladly Gave Up Luxuries of Paiaee for Peasant Lire. (From the Constantinople Turqule.) The govtrnmenl Ars! sent tele mams to all parts Of Anatolia in Which were to be found Circassian refUgeee or colonists likely to have daughters, sister* or relatives in the barem of Abdul Hamid. They were summoned Immediately to Constanti A Bank Account is Not Only a Luxury, But a Necessity to a Successful Business Man. Do you know of a man or woman who is con? ducting a successful business without the assis? tance of a bank account. No matter what line of business you are en? gaged in?farming, merchandising, teaching, clerking or one of the professions, you should have an account with a bank ?this bank. We furnish a bank book and checks free. T5he Bank of Sumter. BANKING The Farmers' Bank and Trust Co., Has the largest capital stock of any bank in Sumter Coun? ty with a rapidly growing surplus, a progressive and ac? commodating set of officials, it is able and guarantees it's patrons the very best that's :o be had in the way of conser? vative banking. nople in order to take back into their own country the ladies of the harem j who belonged to them. For several days these Circassian villagers have been arriving in-the city , wearing their picturesque costume, with dag? ger in girdle. Tht reunion of the long-separated kinsfolk is thus described: "Tears, ca? resses and cries of enthusiasm and ex" citement prevailed. The girls recog? nized fathers, brothers, uncles or cou? sins; they kissed, they wept, they ut? tered exclamations of joy at the re? covery of the dear relatives from whom they had been separated for so many years. "They Mlced for news of their mothers, their sisters, their brothers and their friends. Some there were who did not know their relatives from % 'iom they had been taken away in early childhood. The recognition was made only by a reference to fam? ily names and names of the villayets from which they had been exiled." The young women arc described as being heartily glad to leave the per? petual seclusion <?f the harem for the liberty of peasant lite. "These ladies, who lived like prlnceeeee <>f fairyland, in a sumptuous palace, who wore be? witching dresses ami ate off plate, who floated in glided shallops on en? chanted lakes and still were unhappy, are lUddely snatched by a social re? volution from the shores of the Bos phorus and sent back to the Isolated villages of Asia Minor. Here their only dwelling will be a thatched cot? tage, their only pastimes the cultiva? tion of the soil, thf milking of cows and the herding of cattle. "Their evening meal will be a piece of maize bread, with a bowl of skim milk; but they will have health. Death by consumption will net be theirs. They will live happy lives, surrounded by love and affection." Citizens of Little Rock. Marion county, have put up a certified check for $25.000 to be turned over to the officers of the proposed new county of Pee Dee, or Dillon, in the event Little Rock is made the county seat. Charles Julius Redding, aged 36, a lawyer und real estate broker of Charleston* S. C, committed suicide in his apartment in a ho?el in Mor ganton. X. C, Tuesday afternoon by shooting himself with a shotgun. William Howard, a traveling man, known as Oklahoma Bill, has been arrested in Meridian, Miss., for pass? ing worthless checks on the Spartan Inn. Spartanburg. Rochester elected a lady school commissioner by a plurality of more than 7,000. The salary she will re? ceive Is rather large. We predict her early marriage.?Charleston News and Couler. _ ^