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Fine Candies Likm VlM?t,/.\ Nunnally's chocolatt famous for their exqi years the quality stan Mini. -- U Demoralizing. Any laborer of a type to do Intelli? gent <>r satisfactory farm work, Is not willing to work only eight or nine no?nths In the year, unless paid a full year's wages for the shorter period of service. In fact, good labor de? mands constant employment, and any system of farming which enforces a period of Idleness on labor must bear the burden of supporting the laborers during the period of Idleness as well as when they are working. Further? more, a cropping system which does not furnish constant work for farm laborers Is demoralizing in Its In? fluences on the laborers and begets Inferior service. It matters not that a large part of our farming is done by negroes and other tenants and that these are largely at liberty to work or play as they may see fit, the cropping system which offers opportunities for long periods of Idleness Is extravagant and demoralizing on all farm labor. ?Progressive Farmer and Gazette. Albany Herald: If you will watch the fellow who boasts that he can quit drinking or smoaklng whenever he wants to you will be almost sure tc find that he never wants to. Competition may be, as the Stand? ard's counsel asserts, what General Sherman called war, but monopoly is even more so for the defenseless con? sumer.?Indianapolis News. Glance ST Following And see if there isn't something that would go well with your Easter outfit. Lavellicrs anil Pendants, Pearls, Amethyst, Coral Brooches, in latest styles ; W aist Sets, Rings in Pearl, Diamond, Ameythist, Topez, Jade, Bloodstone. Cameo, Sapphire and others. Latest styles in Belt Fins and Hat Pins. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and Optician. Phone 333. - No. t S. Main St jANUAm, Grew a Full Here's the Proof For two or three yeara mf hair hal I * falling out an,] getting quite thin. saUl t top of m/ head wu entirely bald. At>o four mo'aha a*r<? I cornsssssad u d .Jage and Sulphur. The first soil seemed to do some good and 1 kept urn It regularly, until n"W I have used r>ur \ < tisa Tha whola leg M my heal la n fairly c vered with hair and It keep* co? in* In thlckar. I shall b?Sf Sal using it whil* longer, as I noUcc a constant li SVOVSSSt&U 8THPHRN BACON. Kocuestcr. N. T. Stats or Wrw Tork 1 County of Munroe } Stephen Karon, being duly iworn, aa that he has raad the abatement above u neied and that tha contents of said slat aaset are true. k BTEIHEN JJAOUN. ?worm to before bm this 31?t day of July, UK HaNST W. IIai.u FOK SALE AND Shipped to us from the factory by fast Express ?s and bonbons are lisite goodness?for 25 dard in the Southland. VY. w. HBKRT. FATAL SHOOTING AT BATES* I BURG. < I i in on Rhoden Shot to I>cnth hy W n. <.i. iiu. Patosburg. March 24.?An unfor? tunate tragedy was enacted here to? day, when W. R Glenn, superintend? ent of the electric light plant, shot Clinton Rhoden to death, on one of the main streets of the town. The weapon used was a pistol; four shots were fired, and each shot took effect. One witness stated that Rhoden was unarmed. It is stated that there had heen had hlood hetween the men for some time. Much sympathy is ex? pressed for all parties concerned, as each man has a large family. The affair has cast gloom o\er the town, i Y. B. Smith, who is a special po? licemen said on oath that he saw the two men knocking each other on the sidewalk, near the telephone office; that they then backed In an alley, Rhoden backing and Glenn advanc? ing; that then h^ saw Glenn stop and ,lraw a pistol and throw it on Rho? den and advance; that he heard the shooting and ran there as fast as he could; that when he reached the spot, Rhoden was dead and Glenn said: "He waylaid me last night, and I can prove it." "When I searched the body I found no weapons on the person," testified the officer. A. H. Blease, who keeps a butcher shop near Rhoden's place of busi? ness, testified that about five minutes before the shooting occurred Rhoden was standing in front of his store, and told him that he and Glenn had had a little difference, and that he was going into his store and put a pistol in his pocket; witness said he told him not to do anything of the kind, as it was foolishness to have a fuss. After that Rhoden vent in his store and in about two minutes Glenn passed, going in the direction of the telephone office. That when he got near the telephone office Rho? den called him, (Glenn;) that he went out on the street and hit Glenn in the face, Glenn hit back, Rhoden then threw his hand to his pocket as If trying to pull a pistol; Glenn then drew his and began to fire with fatal effect. Plain Wisdom. "There is one thing we will have to change if the ladies who wish to vote have their way," said Senator sorghum. "What is that?" "We will have to quit talking about the wisdom of the plain people.' "? , Washington Star. - The man who never makes mis ' takes misses a good many splendid chances to learn something. In Just Five Months Growth of Hair on i The birthright of every mai healthy head of hair. If your dandruff, or if it is faded or ti and should be looked alter wit! WYETH'S SAGE AND SUL1 Hair Tonic and Restorer, remo^ stops hair falling in one week, j a month. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur injure the hair; but it is an idea store laded and gray hair to i hair soft and glossy. 50c. and $1.00 a Bott Or Sent Direct, Expreea Prap Wyeth Chemical Con KECOMM?NDED 1SY W. W. SIRER1 BURNS HERSELF TO DEATH. Woman Tours OU on Her Head and s? ts lire to It. Camden, March 25.?a shocking tragedy occurred at an early hour this morning in West Wateree, when Mrs. Sam Kirkland committed sui? cide. The unfortunate woman is re ported to have poured kerosene oil on her head and set fire to it and was burned so badly that death soon re? sulted. She is survived by her hus band and five or six children. PLOUGHS WITH HOGS. Col< Mike Powers Introduces an Inno? vation in Agricultural Work. The many friends of the genial Col. Mike Powers will be interested to learn that he has inaugurated an in? novation in farming operations in the use of a pair of hogs instead of mules on his tine up-to-date farm across the Ashley liver. Col, Powers had a pair of mules j with which he was not at all satisfied I and with true sporting instinct, he ac ' cepted the offer of a trade, made by I Magistrat? Struhs, of Red Top. The j judge sent down to Col. Powers' farm the pair of hogs and the colonel de? livered the pair of mules. The hogs were hitched to the plough and ac? cording to the reports received here, the hogs are ploughing the field and the deal which the colonel made ia working out very satisfactorily to all i concerned.?Charleston Post. The Cook's Look?. "There was a young lady named Booker, A splendid housekeeper and cooker. Who to marriage inclined, But no man could she find? She wasn't a very, good looker." ?Brooklyn Life. A Business Conference. "The junior partner wants to see you right away," announced the book? keeper. "I guess it's the bounce for yours." "Xix," responded the office boy. "He only wants to find out what new players have been signed."?Wash? ington Herald. HOW TO CURE RHEUMATISM. It Is an Internal Disease and Re? quires an Internal Remedy. The cause of Rheumatism and kin? dred diseases is an excess of uric acid in the blood. To cure this terrible dis? ease this acid must be expelled and the system so regulated that no more acid will be formed in excessive quan? tities. Rheumatism is an internal disease and requires an internal rem? edy. Rubbing with Oils and Lini? ments will not cure, affords only tem? porary relief at best, causes you to delay the proper treatment, and al? lows the malady to get a firmer hold on you. Liniments may ease the pain, but they will no more cure Rheuma? tism than paint will change the fibre of rotten wood. Science has at last discovered a perfect and complete cure, which is called "Rheumacide." Tested in hun? dreds of ea.-ses, it has effected the most marvelous cures; we believe it will cure you. Rheumacide "gets at the joints from the inside," sweeps the poisons out of the system, tones up the stomach regulates the liver and kidneys and makes you well all over. Rheumacide "strikes the roots of the disease and removes Its cause." This splendid remedy Is sold by drug? gists and dealers generally at 50c and $1 a bottle. In tablet form at 25c and 50c a package. Trial bottle of Tablets sent by mail on receipt of price 25c. Booklet free. Write to Bohbitt Chemical Co., Baltimore. Md. Sold in Sumter by Sibert's Drug Store. 11-19-W. & S. wed. 1 Bald Head At woman and chiid?n full, hair is fulling, if it is full of urning gray. It Is diseased \out delay, 3HUR HAIR REMEDY, a true ved dandruff in a few days, and starts a new growth in does not soil the skin nor 1 hair dressing that will re natural color and keep the le -At all Druggists aid. Upon Receipt of Price m-3f.Tr 74 CorlliDdt Street ? ipany, New Yock City, N. Y. rS DRUG STORE. BATTLE OVFR COTTON. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SPECIT LATOR8 IN DEADLY COMBAT. n Ihe Effort to Brenk Patten's Cot? ton Corner English Speculators Ship Cotton From Iiiverpool to New York?Fatten Confident of Winning the Fight for High Pried Cotton. New York. March 24.?Following up the recent attempt on the floor of the Manchester Exchange to mob James A. Patten, Chicago plunger in wheat and cotton, English specula? tors in the latter product yesterday made another sensational move against the Chicagoan and his asso iates here. In a desperate effort to escape from the corner in which they find them? selves they have begun to ship cotton back to this ct mtry in the hope of >reaking the market and of bringing Patten and his friends to their knees if not to ruin. Ten thousands of bales have been put aboard ships scheduled to sail from Liverpool today, and threats are made of equally large shipments in the next week. Meantime, Patten and his associates are shipping cotton to the other side to supply the de? mands of the spinners and at the same time they are keeping the quo? tations here just sufficiently below those in Liverpool to prevent their foes from buying the cotton the-re and reselling it here except at a heavy loss. About 4,000 bales were shipped by Patten last week, it is said, and he has chartered space in the White Star liner Indian to take about 7,000 ad? ditional bales. The Indian was to sail today, but is to be held for a day or so on Patten's behalf. "My $12.000,000 are in the pot," Patten wired to friends in this city last night, "and I mean to stick. Let them send the cotton. On every bile that they ship they will lose from $4 to $5, and we can stand if if they can." Eugene G. Scales, who is working in harmony with Patten, echoed triat statement. "All this talk of shipping cotton here in a !ar?e quantity to affect the market is rot," Scales said emphati? cally. "There are not more than about 100,000 bales loose in England. All the remainder of the 700,000 or 800, 000 bales over there is in the hands of spinnevs. Let them send what they can here. They've got to get it somewhere to make deliveries un the short sales they have been making or they must pay our price." The men lined up in this great bat? tle are Midwood & Co., one of the largest firms of cotton speculators in England, on one side, and James A. Patten, W. P. Brown, F. B. Hayne, and E. G. Scales on the other. Mid wood & Co., it is said, are being sup? ported by J. H. McFadden & Co.. of Philadelphia, regarded as the largest operators in spot cotton in the United States. It is asserted this firm is also short of the market. The war, in which the climax ap? pears to be near, and in which the millionaires of the English and Amer can cotton pits have staked their for? tunes, began about a year ago, when Patten and his friends, foreseeing a Abort crop, began to buy. They worked the price from nine cents a pound to about 10 cents and accumulated, it is said, options that virtually cornered the market for the 1909 crop. Then they began to unload and got out handsome profits, all except Scales, who, it is said, held on and was caught when the McFaddens be? gan to pound the market, with the result that he lost a million or so of ! bis profits. Then Patten ?and the others started to buy, and for a second time corn? ered the product, while the specula? tors in England and the bear element in this country, disbelieving his cries of a short crop, were selling short. Xow the Pattens hold the cotton and the English find themselves confront? ed with contract! to deliver hundreds of thousands of bales, with only a traction of the quantity in their pos? session, and no means of getting any more except at the prices fixed by Patten and his friends. WILL MAKE STATEMENT LATER. Hon. R. I. Manning Non Committal as To His 1 nndidncy. lion. Richard i. Manning was In the city lor a short while this morn? ing and when seen by a Times man and asked if he was going to be a candidate for governor in the ap? proaching campaign he replied that he was not prepared to make a state? ment just now. He thought that he had plenty time to do this and in due time he would issue a statement set? ting forth his position in the matter. There were a number <>f bis personal friends at the station for Mr. Manning has many of them here and they gave him a warm reception.?Florence Times. When a man begins by saying, "To tell you the truth," you may be pret? ty sure he is going to tell a lie. THE COTTON ( HOP. Statistic* for south Carolina Prepared By Mr. Watson. Columbia, March 25.?Statistics prepared by Commissioner Watson show that the running bales of cotton in this State to Marc h 21 to be l, 160,1(17. In 1908 there was 1,212,012 and in 1907, 1,186,672 bales. For 1909 theiv were 29,0 4 6 linters. The number of bales equivalent to 500 pounds were 1,122,429 in 1909, 1,195,235 in 1908 and 1,442,244 in 1907. The average weigh; of ihe bales for the 1909 crops was 483 8-10 pounds. There were 3,238 ginneries in the State. This was three less than in 190$. Lpst October an estimate of the cotton crop of the State made by the commissioner of agriculture and the final result was missed by about 34, 7 21 bales. The closest estimate ot the cotton crop in this State was made by the department in 1907 when the final result was missed by only 3,000 bales. Practical Gardening. Mrs. J. H. Atkins. I have been superintending the gar? dening at home for many years, and experience has taught me that, at least, three things are essential for a good garden?namely, a good loca? tion, good rich soil and fresh seed, not novelties, but the varieties you have tried and found to be good. I believe that practical common sense methods are as necessary in garden work as any other, and that making the greatest quantity and the finest quality of vegetables, with the least amount of labor and expense, is the secret of good and successful gar? dening. Several years ago I gardened on a city lot on the intensive plan, but at present I live on a farm, and raise vegetables on the extensive order and will tell how I manage to save time and labor. My garden is one acre long and a half acre wide. I run all the rows the long way and wide enough to cul? tivate with the plow, as it is easier and resists drought better than when hand worked. I have a permanent bed through the centre four feet wide, on which I grow asparagus, rhubarb, horse-rad? ish, garlic, sage and other herbs, and leave space on one end for a bed of annuals for the children. I also have another bed the entire length of the garden, same width, made very rich anl planted one-half in onion sets which I mulch with pine straw, and the other half in Irish potatoes, lazy bed style, entirely covered with straw, so they do not need any work. This will make enough fine onions to do all the season, and when taken up the straw can be put on the potato half of row, as they will need extra mulch? ing for winter. I can get nice fresh potatoes from this bo 1 any time dur? ing the year. The onion ground can be top-dressed with fertilizer and planted in spinach, lettuce and rad? ishes for fall uje, and put In onions again the fol'oving spring * i^so plant about five rows of potatoes and one tf seed onions sic".} by side, as they mature and come off the ground at the same time. I then plant the ground in winter cabbage and col lards. I plant the seed in bottom of water furrow, and the sides of furrow will partly shade the little plants and they will not die in the hot sun. The finest heads I ever grew were planted this way the last day of July. 1 divide one row in three parts and plant In parsnips, carrots and salsify, as that Is enough for my family and they i c main In the ground through the winter. I also divide another tow the same way and put in okra, egg plants and pepper, as they stay bear? ing till frost. I plant butter beans on north and west sides of palings to save stirking. I plant about five rows of tomatoes, j four feet apart, and when 1 lay them by I plant the middles In Crowder peas and the vines keep the ground moist and partially shade the toma? toes, which causes them to ripen up mor* evenly and will not sun-scald BO badly. I laid clown some of the finest vines in August and have bush? els of tomatoes till after frost. As fast as 1 use the early vegetables from a row I plant it in Mexican June corn or something eis?-, and by having a succession l am sure to cultivate the whole garden and not let the weeds take- it l don't raise anything for market, but make a point to raise a variety of vegetables in abundance for the table every clay, and plenty for six dozen hens and a bun<-h of pigs. I And it takes work and perserver to have a good garden, but feel sure nothing affords more real pleasure or proves more profitable for the time arid labor bestowel. Annover. Ark. The splendid eulogy pronounced by Champ Clarke on the mule shows clearly that the longer a man asso? ciates with the average Congressman the more he appreciates the sober In? telligence and honest docility of a Missouri mule.?Austin Statesman. COMMITTI:i: APPOIXTED. Dr. 1 tooth Announces Committee to Appear Ilcforc County Comml? sioners. T)r. E. S. Booth, chairman of the Bumter Board of Health his an? nounced the committee from the Board of Health, which will appear before the County Board of Commis? sioners at their next meeting rela? tive to the drainage of Turkey Creek. The committee is Dr. E. R. Wilson, Isaac Schvartz and E. I. Reardon. The question of the drainage of Turkey Creek is a live one at this time. The health of Sumter is in a measure dependent upon its being thoroughly drained. The county should bear part of the expense of this drainage because of the fact that the county will be recipient of the benefits. This committee will be re? inforced by a committee from Coun? cil, the Board of Education, and one from the Chamber of Commerce. Chamber of Commerce Committee. Since the above was written Presi? dent Jennings of the Chamber of Commerce has appointed Messrs. J. H. Chandler, W. M. Graham and R. I. Manning to represent the Chamber of Commerce before the County Board. Insurance memories are strange things. 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