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MAINTENANCE OF STATUS QUO. Paris, June 29 -A representative of the Associated Press was informed today that a? a resait of negotiations between the powers an agreement bas been arrived at which provides for the maintenance of the status quo as regards spheres of influence and commercial agreements and also res? pecting toe uatare of the guarantees and compensations demanded from China. THE INTERNATIONAL ARMY. According to the understanding the international army of occupai iou will consist of 80,000 men. Russia and Japan wili provide 12,000 each, Great Britain will provide 10,000 men, France 8,000 and Germany and America and the other powers 5;000 each. The Russian army corps in Siberia, which has just been mobilized, will only cross the Chinese frontier in the event of the crisis being aggravated. An American of China Lec? tures. Rev Isaac T Heedland ts a profes? sor of mental philosophy in the Peking university. He is an Amer ican, and a Methodist. He lectured the other night in New York and praised the Chinese. It was inter? esting. He said the Boxers went back TOO years. Of the much talked of Empresa Dowager, he said that "she is one of the strongest char? acters that ever occupied the Chinese throne, and she ?3 the strongest sovereign on any throne today. Her hands are tied, however, becacse after she dethroned the emperor it became necessary for ber to play off one leader against another in order to sieze the throne. Theo, as she has antagonized the liberal party, she has had to depend ou advisers who are aged conservatives, and who have not studied foreign affairs in forty years, the period during which China has been making progress She knows nothing of the progress that really has been made.7' He says there is much prejudice against her He oays the better class of Chinese do not come to this country He has known many instances of se vere personal sacrifice made by Chinese converts to the Christain reli gion. He says that "there are DO more reliable men in the world than converted Chinamen. And I believe there is no better brain material in ? the world than the Chinese . brain j under a proper system of education." He say3 the Boxers have a strong i backing According to him the report is trae that the Empress Dowager has favored them. He 1 says toat "the present condition has j long ceased to be simply a difficulty between the Boxers and the Chr?3- I tains t>r the Boxers and the for eignere The Boxers have had encouragement from the Empress Dowager in her edicts and from ex Goverccr Yu Hsien, whom she has continued so long that it is under? stood throughout the entire army that the government and ali the officials now in power are in sympathy with the movement. " A orre9pondeat gives the following description of Mark Ranna's personal appearance at the Philadelphia conven? tion : ' Mr Hanna wore a black cut? away coat, a doable breasted white ve9t and trousers of a quiet gray stripe. Hi* badge wae gorgeous beyond descrip? tion, an ?{fair of red, white, biue and gold nearly a foot ioog and four inches wide He wore also his delegate badge and looked altogether not uaiik? a distioguiehsd member of noble orders. He spvke with distinctness, if nasality, carr};:.;; oovietioo w a his right ha&d. while his left w*? rhrast deep ic hi^ .:-?Q'erb pucket " He furner stares that ibe Senator pronounces .'national7' as thoojfhit wtte spelled **n a y t i o n a I." at-d that wn^n he said ' eyc-ther" a Colorado deiagatc cauaored : "He's got macey." --m> *-????- - Coombia, Ju;,e 29-Mrs BvMie Gra?.-?l?fc, the young white woe&sn. wa J r.^H been on trial for; murder the pa?r two ?ay*. the speci5o a?tega?i;o '< being hat 8it<* killed her husband by | ad ui i?< i bering arsenic to h?m, his been j ceci:':jd '-oot guilty" by ajsry of 12 j men. iud nermi'ted to go free. She is now xi -he home of her aged parents :u this oi v, and ts co landor a prisoner beh-2'i thc b*rs. The jury was cut only about aa hoer and a halt before it < ani.V'Oi'Ced that it b*d rc-acbec' a verdie; Many bad expected a cuistrial Presiden: Wttbam :3 having a great ! tim? io New York with bh excursion ! party. It ts said that he has offered a j priz ; of ?250 for the first cashier of one j of b:-- banks who marries one of the j prct:. sponsors ic the party President j Wichaa; i? quoted a-; fol iowa : "Ii believe in marriage for young men It makes better and safer asea out of them. I always fee! more conSience in a man who is married. ? am doing my best for these fellows on th:3 trip, and if they are not engaged by the tixa 'hey get back it won't be my fruit."-Augusta Chronicle. CASTO Fer Infants and Children. The Kind YOB Have Always Bought Bears thc ST* Signature of (??z??f? THE GAME COCK CITY. Editor's Pleasant Impressions of Sumter. A MANUFACTURING TOWN. The visit of the editor of the Times to Sumter oo Tuesday was the first opportuaity that he Dad enjoyed of j leasing over that city for a Dumber of years. The last view was very gratify? ing, lt is a credit to the state to have j such towos as Sumter. It is a pretty town, well laid cff, with shady streets, handsome residences, betokening weath comfort aod refinement. The business houses are welt built attractive, showy. Tbs maia street is macadamized and is a handsome thoroughfare. The stores kscp well selected stocks of goods well displayed and give evidence of iarge trade of a high class. There are few towns of the siza of Sumter or very muoh larger that can boast the number of diversified indus? tries that Sumter can. There is a large cotton mill m opera? tion and another about to start up, two telephone factories, a cof?n factory, j three ice factories, a golf stick factory, big cottee seed oil mili, a brick yard a number of large wood workiog mills | and a number of machine shops and fouodaries. All of these enterprises j sell goods manufactured from the pro? duce of the country, in the markets of the world and draw the wealth of all sec? tions to Sumter, giving employment to hundreds of hands and distributing a great deal of money in the city. Sumter has the Atlantic Coast Line, the Southern and the Wilson system of railroads, which gives her unusual rail? road facilities for the di?tribution of goods and the accommodation of the trade of the surrounding country. Samter's business men are alive to their own interests and they know tbat the dollars that are put io the J building up of industrial life of the I town are the dollars that are coming back to them with the most satisfactory ratio of i ocre ase A magnificent system of waterworks is io operation in the town, which affords ample fire protection. No engines are used at the fire, the water being thrown from the hydrants over the top of any building in the town, and on one occasion there was a very dangerous looking fire which was fought by S3vea streams from as many hydrants. Sumter boasts a fine Opera House which cost theoity nearly forty thousand dollars, bat which woaid be an orna meat to any city in the State. Sumter ts growing fast. Her postal receipts, which ?3 the theimome?er of trade, speak ia no uncertain voice of the I nrogrcss of the tcwo. This effiee has just been raised to the sejc-od class, which distinction is enjoyed by bat few offices in the State. The good people of Sumter will socn have their mail delivered at their doors, which always follow* when aa office is raised to the second class. Sumter has four good newspapers. The Daily Item, which has been doing a good work for the town for six years, edited by H. O Ostceo ; The Herald, a first elass weekly edited by J. M Knight, The Watchman acd Southron, the old reliable, edited by N. G. Orteeb and the sprightly Freeman edited by W. C Ivy. What Sumter is she has been made by the enterprise of her basiness meo, who were cot content to rest satisfied with the narrow sphere io which they were moving, and they began that policy of commercial acd industrial expansion that has put that city in the front raoks of the towos of the State There is much in Sumter that the editor of The Times would be glad to see duplicated in Florence, and we say that without treason to Florence, fer we thitik tba: there arc many things in Fioreooe that Sumter might with ad? vantage adopt, and thus, by borrowing ideas and p?aos from each other, these towns of the Northeast Carolina will become the greatest towns on earth, for they are made up of the greatest people on earth. Hartwell M Ayer ---^Ttoer> - - More Tnan Two Million. London, June 27.-Louis Klopsob, proprietor of thc Coristaia Herald of New York, after speodiog a week ic Paris <<n bis way homo from india sail? ed for New York from Plymouth yester? day on board the Hamburg American steamer Peooeyivaoia. Io aa interview previous to his d-parturo Mr Klopscb said the mortal- j itv during the wet season io [odia was just commecoiug and must assume stuoecdou? proportions outnumbering the total of the deaths during the past ?ix montes from all causes. Unless 20,000,000 blaokets are quickly pro? vided, the monsoon, india's greatest j blessings, wi:! prove appaltiogiy disas- ! trous and, Mr Klopscb also said the j j mortality will exceed 2,000,000. He j further asserted that 90 per cent of the j j cattle in the richest farming districts ! I have perished. i Mr Klopscb is thoroughly satisfied j wirh tbe methods adopted io tho distri- I bution of the American relief One of j 1 his last acts ir? ?odia wa-> to buy 100,- j j 000 blankets for the sufferers. Manila, June 27-Nine ol the in- j i surgent leaders, including Gens Pi? ? j del Pilar, Concepci?n, (jarcia and ? j Alvarez, were released here today j i upon taking the oath of allegiance ! I to the government and renouncing j all forms of revolution in the Philip- j pines. NEWS ITEMS. JOD a? ban Wer?z, cf Donalds, r^M;r: to Gov McSweeoey that Le Was visit?e by a crowd of white cap-; tr: ;ce nighi or Jane 2nd and tba: recognising cigh? of the crowd he went before C V. Martin, the locai magis'ra'e, and Lad a warrant, i .-sued for them. Ar the preliminary tris: Martin treated Wer z unfairly siding with ibo d?: fendants, refused to examine witnee?cs f^-r ;h Stare and Scally dianjLssvd the casi-. 0. H Franklin, a white man who has been swindling people io Hampton County and elsewhere ?=c?iin^ conn y rights to a churn and in other ways, is wanted and Gov. McS^teney has offer ed ?100 regard for hus arrest a: d conviction. Mobile, Ala., Jone 27.-A bronze statue, life size, of Raphael Semcnef, lato admiral in the Confederare navy, was unveiled this afternoon io Duncan Place, at the intersection of Royal street. The statue shows thc Admiral io navai costume, standing with marine glass io his right band and his left hand resting upon bis sword. The monument, which was erected by the Ann T. Hunter auxiliary of the Semines Camp, Confederate Veterans, was unveiled by Mrs. Eiec?ra Semur.s Colston, daughter of tbs Admirai. Bateshurg, June 26-A negro named ! Eugene Wood was shot and killed yes j terday by G. H. Duncan on the Saluda side, near Peterson's mill. The deputy coroner cf Saluda county - Mr. Gunter -held an inquest late yesterday after? noon. The verdict wa3 that he came to his death by a pistol shot in the hands of Gee. H. Duncan. Mr Dun? can states that the negro was advane ing on him *ith 3 pisco! r?hen he bbo' him, and that ls was simply a case ol self defence. Lancaster. June 26-During a J thunderstorm Friday night the resi- j dence of Mr. John A. Estridge of the western section of this oouoty, was struck by lightning after thc family bad retired and his 14-year-old daugh ter, Miss Maggie, instantly killed Au older daughter who was sleepiog in a separate bed in the same room was also struck. She still lives nut no hope for her recovery is entertained. The other members of the family were severely shocked Tbe house was badly dam? aged, eve'ry glass in the windows be? ing broken. Cooey Island, N ?"., June 26 - For th & first time ia his pugilistic career Tom Sharkey went down io decisive ? defeat tonight in the historic ??rena of j ' the Seaside Athletic club, and big Gus j Ruhiic, the Ohio pugilist, was his con- j 1 querer. It was a ciean knockout af:er 15 rounds of fighting t?ac a?Ao a meta arable riog battle. Sav? io the matter of aggre?si7ene??, Hanlin ?cd from tbe face cf? in every feature ot thc game and at ail times had the fi*hr. well iu hand. Bacon on the Candidate. Edgef?eld Chronicle. He cometh up as a flower and retireth from from the race "busted." His friends indicate him with false hopes and empty atmosphere. Like Job's asses in the Bible, he is filled with east wind He 6\vel!etb like a bull frog, and tbinketb the world is bis'n. H smileth upon all mankind, and sloppeth over with perennial good humor. He kissetb the chil? dren, and scattereth microbes among innocent babies. Ile devoureth the fried chicken of tie farmer, and raveneth like the locusts in Egypt over the blackberry pie of the farmer's wife. But, alas, the end is not yet ? Dr Patton Leaves Columbia. 1 Their many friends in South Caro? lina will regtet to learn that Dr and Mrs Patton will ?eave Columbia to make their permanent residence in Baltimore Since the death of their son, Mr II Cowper Patton. Dr and Mrs Patton have been urged by their son, Mr Eugene Patton, to go to Baltimore and live there, and they have finally consented Dr Patton has for years been con? nected with educati?nal work in this State-at Erskine and then at the south Carolina College In order to put down a false rumor that is floating about this town and county, to prejudice voters against Governor Mcsweeney, we will say the intimation that Governor Mc Sweeney in a Roman Catholic is false. Governor McSweeney is a member of the methodist church at Hampton, S C., and a glance at the Methodist church records will 6how that ho has been for years a steward in the Methodist church at his home town -Mauning Times Robbed l he Grave. A .-turtling incident ot which Mr. John 1 Oliver of Philadelphia, waa the Mibjcct, is nar- j rated by iii tn as follows : 'I was in a mest <irc;;d;'ui condition. My .-kin was almost ycl- ; low, eyes sunken, rengue c >;:? J i, pain continu- : ally \:\ back nO'l side , no appetite-gradually growing weaker day by day. Three pnysi- ' ciao* bid given me u?-. Fortunately, a friend aJvise.i trying 'Electric B'.Uers.' and ;?< my ? great j'?y and surprise, tb ?J lirst bottle made a ? decided i ax pro vernen t. 1 cwntinm ! their uso fr three r;ceks, and am now a well man. I : k;i:>;v ;Lcy saved my lifo; and robbed tho grave I of aaoihcr victim.*' No ono should fail t-? try thom. Only jil cents per bottle at ,1. F j \V. L'eLc-raid's Drug sturc. ? I thc news about oil sto^ been perfected so that any stoves made for co safety, beauty and co most economical stove ] tlie most comfortable in Blue Flame It burns the same oil i lamps, at a cost of one-! for a burner. Makes odor. Sold in all sizes docs net have them, writ STANDARD OIL liar?an Court House, Ky . June 27 -Capt John Powers, of Harbours ville, Ky , who wa? arrested here yesterday on the charge of compile itv in the murder of Gov Goobel, was today released on habeas corpus proceedings bised on a pardon sign ed by Gov Taylor on ^arca 6. 1900 This is tbs second time Pow- j ers ha.-? been arrested in inc moan j tains and released on Taylor's pardon. - tm i--?anwMJ St Louis, June 27-Except for j the boycott and ?00 extra policemen j on duty, little remains to tell of the; strike of the St Louis Transit cora- j pany employees, inaugurated M ay b" j Cars ar? in operation on all the Unes ; without hindrance and are well pa j trcuized, except on those running! north and south, where many thou Band persons, because of boycott j and through sympathy for the strik* j ers patronizs wagons and 'busses i manned by ex street railway om-j ployee. Prof Garrett P. Serviss says 75, 300,000 Americans are equal io 150,000,000 Europeans iu the capac 3ity to do and the power to produce. The latest statictics, he claims, show that America has mingled twice as much brain in its work as Europe has dorie and is consequently ?ble to make two strides to the Old World's one. The element cf brain ; force is introduced through the j Medium cf machinery. A Thousand Tonjrueg Could ..yt express the rapture o?* A:ia:a E Springer, uf 1125 Howard Philadelphia, Pa., rrbeu .?ne found that Dr. Kiug's Now Dis? covery f?r Consumption had cotnpleiclj cured her of a hacking cou-h that for mauy years had made life a burden. All other remedies and doctors could give ber no help, but she says of this Royal Cure-''it soon removed :ho pain in my ches: and I can now sleep soundly, somethiag I can scarcely remember Joing before. I feel like sounding its praises :hroughout tba Universe." ?o will every ona pfho tries Dr. King's New Discorerv for any :rouble of the Throat, Chest or lungs. Pries )0cand$l. Trial bottles free at J. rj W. DcLorme's Drug tStore ; every bottle gua.an :o?sd. 5 The Wisconsin democratic plat? form hit the bull's eye when it de? clared that "iMcKiuley prosperity is :he prosperity of wealth and not the prosperity of labor " This is the ?ind of prosperity which costs the aborer all he can earn to live Hence j he strikes.- Wilmington Star. 9 ? ? o There are few women as beau 9 tiful as they might bc. Powder g and paint and cosmetics don't ES make good looks. Beauty is ?? simply an impossibility without g health. Beautiful women are ? few because healthy women are a ? o EB ? H O D few. The way to have a fair face and a well-rounded figure is to take ram ffeiiegepfM ? This is that old and time-tried ? medicine that cures all female RH ? troubles and weaknesses and g drains. It makes no difference o what the doctors call the trou? ai hie, if there is anything tho 2 matter in the distinctly feminine a organs. Brad?!eld's Fe ? male Regulator will help ? and cur.' it. It is good for ir? es regular or painful menstruation; rv* for leucorrno 2 for failin^o! thc 'omi . .1 .or IN tackacb .m.i 'OUSl ne: .Trw . \ Ol. 1 Ol i-: m 1, IB Sold for ?; a bottle. 53 ? THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CG. ? g ATLANTA. GA. ? CS ? B B 0 B 9 H O a 53 n fi ea ? Al IV timber 32785 Standard Bred Trotting Stallion, Registered in Volume 15, American Trotting Register. Will stand the season in Sumter at lot in rear of Osteen's Book Store.. I JHODOC McEWEK, 3S7S5. to-3 x o 3 r- ^. - K tc W J CD CC* X" O" o a- o _ 9. re o- to to 1 N;Kj o a S" to - o o . 5 '-i _ -. SS ? r; 2 cc *o ~ 2 -. ? *> tv ic ^ -> ?Sk CO co .J ' * 2,*2 o o o tc - o^SS^? ?r: 5 2 *. G ? = | 2 sc . o o P? g <tcto>? <rr*?-? ?60^, * *~ o. - - i t?r*u B to tc ? O - ? +c:<H- O K P C**A?-C"J70 -, -J--- -? ? . - S3 '* s: -JO - c* y B> H C s 2 (Ci ' Poo to z K OJ i-i to ?- cs > O n 2 a ca pq sri * - K B ? S to S ^ LT : PC 2 sa? 2 - - S" o :;N? OrtT . ? 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G. ?STEEN, Sumter, S. C. psyjaem: ?ly you cannot : .. m?nuiset u rc rs. ito co?strucuou :s unnc ry we can offer mort Hib-sra? ierm5 e and detailed particulars. How -c of a higli-grade sewing machine ;. can oirer. either direct freni . ;;2cd agents. This is an oppor Yea k??O'.v the "White," you know : d< ? t?ed description ot i?;.e machine and t rou have an oM machine to exchanee o to-aav; Address in full. mm simm m%m ?? cDep't A.) cicvciai?, ow^