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rSJi SU?TES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1SS0. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone. I St 6 Cosoli?ated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1903. New Series-Toi. XXIII. No. 6 C|? SHatoSmait ans jwratforOT. '- PabUsiLad Erary "STelnosday, JKT. C3r. Osteen5 SUMTER, S. CE TEEMS : (1.50 per ana urn-io advance. iSTiBTieiniT: One Square first insertion....-......$1 CO IBvery subsequent ioserr* n-.......... 50 Coatracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged' for as ad ver tiemen ts. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. WEALTH IN OUR SWAMP LANDS. South Carolina and Florida as Fields for Surplus Northern Capital. From the Jacksonville Times-Union. A capitalist of Pittsburg is urging that the superabundant capital of the manufacturing sections might be profi? tably spent in the development of south? ern lands to the betterment of their own people. For years the policy of the general government has *' protect? ed' ' one section to the taxation of oth? ers-literally "showered on her kings barbaric pearls and gold. " Now that watered securities are indigestible and people wait hungering about the dcors of the factories in multitudes too great to secure employment, Mr. Matthews voices a sound conscience when he de? clares that investments should be made in the cheap lands of the south that will relieve the congestion while send? ing back-without interest charges some of what has been taken from the south. It is said that lands in South Carolina which sold for $100 an acre a hundred yesirs ago may now be bought for $5, and very little money need be expended to make them as good as they were then. The fact does not speak well for the progress of our sister State under its regime cf the dispensary which was to do so much for its moral and material wel? fare, but it offers an excellent oppor? tunity, to the capital and congested population aforesaid. We hope the Pittsburg enterprise will materialize, and we suggest that it might be the father of a large and promising family. Lands along In? dian river are worth in the market at least $100 per acre ; richer lands just a few miles back of these could be bought for less than $1 and drained for less than $5-arriving immediately at very near perfection for market gardens. Here is the grandest opening for capital in the country* Elsewhere throughout the State smaller means might be as amply repaid for a small? er expenditure in cash and engineer? ing training. However, our own unwisdom or that of capital may delay the hour, it is yet certain that the finest opening for the surplus capital of the country now awaits it in the South, and it will fol? low here as naturally as water nfns down hill when certain, small impedi? ments are removed that have availed to turn it in othsr directions hereto? fore. Nor need we forget that these obstacles have been often placed in the way by our own mistaken efforts, and that it is high time to remove these whether the men responsible go with them is a matter of comparative indifference. Honest Bankrupts. Norfolk, Va., Sept L-At a meet- j ing of the creditors of the Oliver Re? fining Company, which recently failed I for over a quarter of million dollars, \ held here today, a proposition, was submitted by the company to pay its liabilities, dollar for dollar, if the re? ceivers appointed by Judge Waddill were withdrawn, and the company allowed to resume op?rations. The proposition is that Thomas Oliver, of Lockport, N. Y., and William Oliver, of Lincoln, Neb., brothers of John Oliver, president of the company, agree to furnish $100,000 cash at once and assume all the other liabilities, giving notes at one, tsvo and three years, secured by deeds of trust upon the plant here and their own personal and real estate, life insurance excepts ed. The Olivers also agree to defray all cost of the Court proceedings as well as to furnish the compensation to be received by Receivers Edward L. Flash and P. L. Stephen, of Norfolk. The creditors adjoured to meet Friday in New York, when the matter will be settled. Japanese Guarding Cerea. Pekin, September i.-A telegram has been received here announcing that the steamer Stanley Dollar (form? erly a Danish vessel, but now owned by an American, ) sent by a Russian company from TienTsin to Yongampho, at the mouth of the Yalu River, Corea, for a cargo of lumber from the Russian concession of the Yalu River, was prevented from entering the port of Yongampho by a Japanese gunboat, whose commander said Yongampho was not an open port and that foreign vessels had no right to enter. ---?-? t i -? - A Boy's Wild Ride for Life. With family around expecting him to die, and a son riding for life, 18 miles, to get Dr. King'? New Discovery for Con? sumption, Coughs and Cold?, W. H. Brown, of Leesville, Ind.. endured death's agonies from asthma; but this wonderful medicine gave instant relief and soon cured him. He writes : "I now sleep soundly every night." Like marvelous cure* of Con sumption. Pneumonia. Bronchitis, Cough?, Colds and Grip prove it? matchless merit for ali Throat and Lung troubles. Guaran? teed bottles 50c and $1 00. Trial bottles free at J. F. W. DeLorme's drug store. THE COTTON CROP OF TO-DAY. Facts About the Staple as Wei! as th? Industry. The Review of Reviews for Septem? ber has a timely article on . . The Cot? ton Crop of today," by Richard H. Edmunds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, of Baltimore. Mr. Edmonds treats his subject very comprehensive? ly, the article abounding with interest? ing comparisons, facts and figures in relation to the cotton industry, extend? ing pretty much over the whole of the 19th century. What the raising of cot? ton means to this country he shows very clearly in his opening paragraph when- he says that since 1880 the South has raised 180,000,000 bales of cotton, worth at the price paid to the growers $7,500,000,000. From June 30, 1881, to Juoe 30, 1903, the value of the exports of cotton was 85,393,500,000, of cotton goods $363, 900,000, and of cotton seed products about $150,000,000-a total of $5,900,000, 000 or 28 per cent of the country's to? tal export trade. The importance of cotton in our foreign trade relations is strikingly illustrated by the fact that the aggregate value of the exports of wheat, flour and corn in the same time were but $4,190,000,000, as com? pared with the $5,900,000,000 of exports of cotton and cotton goods. If our cotton crop were cut in half, Mr. Ed? monds says, it would shake the busi? ness world and bring about in this country as weil as in Europe a repeti ton of the conditions* in Lancashire forty years ago caused by the cotton famine of 1861-65 During 1863-64 the price of cotton in New York averaged $1 a pound. The value of the cotton crop, Mr. Edmonds says, is worth half a billion dollars a year to American growers. The world's total average annual pro? duction during the last six years has been 13,470,000 bales of 500 pounds each, of which the South has produced an average of 10,500,000 bales a year. Thb largest crop the South ever raised was 11,274,810 bales, in 1898, but its value was the smallest since 1878, be? cause of the low prices then prevail? ing. The writer discusses a? some length the question of the relative value of low arid high prices of cotton to the growers, the desire of the manu? facturers to buy the staple as cheaply as possible, the relative effects of low and high prices on foreign production, and says that "cotton planters, like wheat growers are moved; simply by the question cf whether they can sell at a profit the cotton the}' raise each year; they are looking, net to what may come about *en or twenty years hence, but to the actual results which they can secure today. ' ' In view of the recent, diatribes against the present boom in cotton prices the statement of the range of prices for cotcon during the nineteenth century is most interesting. Early in 1800 cotton sold at 44 cents a pound, and it was not. until 1S39 that it declined below 13 cents a pound, as the average price in New York for a full year. In 1S40-41 it dropped to 9^ cents, and then declined until 1543-44, when it reached 5.63, as the lowest average price ever recorded. Then it rallied until finally it reached 12.34 in 1849-50. Between 1850 and 1860 the average price in New York ranged from 9.5 cents in 1851-52 .to 13.51 in 1856-57. For some years after the war the price fluctuated between 42 cents and 13 cents, but between 1852 and 1890 there was only one' year in which the New York price fell be? low 10 cents, and that was in 1855, when the average was 9.44 cents. Be? ginning with 1890 the price steadily declined from 9.03 in th at year to 6 cents in 1898, Jbut between 1891 and 1902 the average New York price never got back to as much as 9 cents a pound. In the last 100 years there have been on:y two periods in which the average price of cotton was not above 10 cents a pound. On the question of price naturally the prospect of the new crop is of paramount importance. On this subject Mr. Edmonds says that owing to the rainy weather which prevailed through? out the cotton region last spring plant? ing was much delayed, and the crop is estimated to be at least three we?ks late. On this point there is substan? tial agreement among all the authori? ties, Government experts, traders, etc. The condition of the plant is, however, according to Mr. Edmonds:, favorable, and rapid improvement is reported from nearly every part of the South, giving promise of good yield, but there are still many dangers to oe met, not the least of which is early frost, and that danger is all the greater by rea? son of the lateness of the crop. Since the article was written the somewhat bearish Government report on the new crop has been issued, and to a great extent it corroborates his forecast on those points and especially his remarks on the destructiveness of the boll weevil in Texas, which he says is "the greatest menace cotton growers have ever had to face." Among other branches of the sub? ject discussed by Mr. Edmonds (but to which lack of space will only permit a reference in this article, ) is the quantity of cotton the world can use: tiie effect of the development of other industries in the Soutli on cotton rais? ing there ; the labor question and the change conditions resulting from more diversified farming the relative value of negro and while labor and the de? velopment of cotton manufacturing in the South a prize valuable enough the author says "to enrich an empire." But at 8 cents a pound cotton growing itself is fairly profitable to the more thrifty Southern farmers J-.nd 10 cents a pound would mean an additional clear profit to them of about 8100,000, 000 a year. Lagos, British West Africa, Sept. 2.-The development of the cotton trade in the interior is so great that the railroad officials have been obliged to run extra trains in order to bring down the large supplies to the coast. There is every prospect of a further increase in the cultivation of cotton. CARTER WILL SOON BE OUT. Convicted Army Engineer Will Be Released November 28th. Dispatches from Leaven worth, Kan., state that on November 28th next Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of engi? neers in the United States army, will be released from the Federal peniten? tiary. He will go free after an actual service of three years and seven months. He went to the penitentiary in April, 1900. Carter was originally 'under a five year sentence, but he was held ten months in custody as a military prisoner at Governors' Island, pending appeals, before going to Leavenworth, which time is always allowed in the case of a military prisoner, and he gained seven months more by good conduct. At present he is hospital clerk and prison flower gardener, places which he has held most of the time since his incarceration. As-the day of liberty draws near ? Carter is manifesting high spirits. He seems undecided as*:to what he will do when ^discharged*. One of the first matters to receive his attention will be the suit pending in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago, wherein 8723,000 is at stake. Property consisting of stocks, bonds and cash, formerly held by Carter, is in escrow, and a suit is pending to determine whether Carter or the government is entitled to it. Carter feels sure of winning the suit. If he wins he expects to devote most of his time to mining enigneering and to the development of his mine properties. Of late he has been study? ing mine engineering. When Carter was sent to Leaven? worth he talked much of his anxiety for a civil triaL He said that he want? ed to have his case passed upon by a competent civil court, and that on his release he would go to Savannah and demand a trial at once Of late he has not been talking this way. It is said, however, that he is very bitter against Greene and Gaynor^and would willingly appear in court to testify against them. The govern? ment's extra efforts to have them brought from Canada now is said to be a desire to place them on trial soon after the release of Carter. Carter is now a trusty or a first-grade prisoner. Trusty prisoners are per? mitted to go outside the walls on er? rands, but Carter <3oes not desire this privilege. On the contrary, lie would not go outside the prison walls unless forced to. He would run a risk of meeting military officers whom he knew, when he was in the service. An arniy officer is forbidden to recognize or speak to Carter under penalty of dismissal from the service. Carter's sentence included this order. In Iiis imprisonment at Fort Leaven? worth Carter has suffered doubly. The military surroundings have constantly tended to remind him of the past. Attempt to Lynch in Illinois. Shawneetown, 111., Sept. 1;-A mob of fifty masked men went to the jail here early this morning and demanded that Jailer Galloway turn over to them John Griffin, colored, who was under arrest for an attempted assault on Mrs. Joseph Hobbs, a white wo? man, near her own home. Griffin had been frightened away by the woman's screams and had been arrested ? short while afterward. When the mob demanded that Jailer Galloway turn the negro over to them, Galloway armed himself and, after rea? soning with the men from the jail door, lie warned them that an effort to force the jail would be at their own peril. The mob, in spite of the jailer's words, made several ineffectual at? tempts to break down the jail door, finally dispersing about daylight. Many of the colored people are tak? ing sides with Griffin, though some of them have, in fear of a race riot, left the town. No trouble has followed the visit of the mob to the jail this morning, but preparations are making to take the negro to Carmi for safekeeping. A Heavy Rain at Florence. The rain fall yesterday was enormous. It amounted to two and one-half inch? es. For several hours without ceasing, the water fell in great torrents and the streets in places were entirely flood? ed. It is stated by old citizens that no heavier rain has occurred here within the past 10 years. Daring the rain storm the water banked up against everything, the drains of the streets having no capacity sufficient to carry off the water as it fell, but a few minutes after the over-slopped streets were remarkably dry. It was not confined to the town, but spread over a good part of the .country. In tho Back Swamp section it is said that over three inches fell. The roads are in some places are badly washed away and the streams are mach swol? len.-Florence Times, Sept 2. Address From Aguinaldo. Manila, Sept 2.-Aguinaldo, the ex revolutionary leader, but now a pro? nounced supporter of the policy main? tained by the United States in the isl? ands, has just addresed a letter of ad? vice to his countrymen. In this he urges them to forsake their besetting sin-gambling ; to improve their methods of agriculture and to attend the public schools so generously pro? vided to furnish them educational facilities. Rydales Elixir. The new scientific discovery for diseases of the throat and langs, acts upon a new principle differing greatly from the old style Cough Medicines which ?re compos? ed chiefly of wild cherry and tar, which do little more than stimulate the lining of the throat and lungs. Rydales Elixir strikes at the root of the trouble, it kills the mi? crobes that cause throat and lung diseases. It removes the cause and hastens iecovery by helping nature restore the disea^d or? gans to health For sale by all dea ?rs. REV. SAM JONES' TRIBUTE. Bil? Arp Laid to Rest in Oak Hil! Cemetery at Carterville. Ga. The funeral of Maj. Chas. Henry Smith, "Bill Arp," took place on Wednesday morning, Aug. 26th, when business was suspended and the people assembled at the Presbyterian church .in Cartersville, Ga. Services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. H. E. White, and the most beautiful talk of his life was made by Rev. Sam P. Jones. "Lead, Kindly Light" was sung, and at Maj. Smith's own re? quest, "I love Thy Kingdom, Lord." Ten children and twenty grand chil? dren were present, and this is the first break in the family circle since the death of an infant daughter more than thirty years ago. The tribute of his friend and neigh? bor, Rev. Sam Jones, is as follows : "My neighbors and brethren, I count it a pathetic honor to mingle my tears and sorrow with yon today, and say a few "words of sympathy and love to the bereaved family and this strick? en community. "Only a few weeks ago the press told, us that for five minutes' time every wheel ceased to go round ; all the machines stopped, not a stroke of a hammer was heard for five minutes. Wherever a limited train was making its schedule along the line of road at the appointed time the passengers felt the pressure of the brakes, the train stopped, and all was silent on the road, in the shop, in the offices. This was given as a token of respect for the lately deceased president of the road. "Major C. H. Smith, 'Bill Arp,' as we called him and love to call him still, was known around the world, and today we stop and bow our heads in sorrow and in respect, and millions join us in this token of respect and love to one whom they never saw per? chance, but had learned to love him because he had lightened their bur? dens, soothed their sorrows and helped them to meet life's difficulties more heroically and more joyfully. In the past few. weeks of his illness I have been traveling from Boston to Nebras? ka/ and many warm grips of the hand have I had everywhere as his friends would look me in the face and hold my hand and say 'How is Bill Arp, will he get well?' "Oh, if he should die how could we spare him, how much we will miss his weekly message of phisosophy, facts and love. No man of all my knowledge has more friends than he and none fewer enemies. If he had given his life to money making and money keeping and had accumulated one hundred and fifty millions of dol? lars and then in his last moments will? ed it all to the people of the United States they would only have gotten two dollars a piece from his vast for? tune. But with his pen be gave to America and to the civilized world that which each man would not take thousands for. "What he wrote has made many a man a better husband and many a wo? man a better wife, and many a child a more dutiful son or daughter. He was a kiiidly husband and unselfish fath? er, a generous, kindly neighbor, and we would all today pluck the sweet? est, most fragrant flowers from the gardens of our hearts and lay them on his casket, and say to his loyal, noble wife and children, whom he loved, This is but a small token of the love we have for him and the reverence and respect we shall ever have to his memory.' I loved Bill Arp. I would add a prayer God bless his dear, loyal, loving wife and the children and grandchildren, whom he loved. We knew him and loved him, and these grandchildren of his will sit, in the years to come, and read the stories and hear the lessons #of their noble grandfather with an interest that would charm an angel. * "My highest expression of love for him as a neighbor and friend would be the wish that if I were transferred today from earth to heaven, I would ask the angels to locate me on the same stree* and a nearby neighbor to the new home just made for Bill Arp, my honored friend. "To you, my neighbors, I say hard? ly a home represented here today but has had its sorrows, its burdens, this year ; this has been a sad year to CST tersville, but we are better because of them all. It is said the violet never sends forth its sweetest fragrance until crushed by a cruel foot. So our sweet? est sympathies, love and kindnesses are never called forth except by the deepest griefs and sorrows of life. Let these sympathies and sorrows like cords of gold tie ns closer together erer}- day. Let them twine like the ivy about our rugged natures and blooming in its beauty, let all our de? formities be hidden from the view of each other, and heart to heart, hand to hand, eifort to effort, struggle up? ward until we join company with whom we part company today." Escaped Convicts Crime. Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 2.-Bud Clarke, a miner, was thrown from a 'Frisco train this afternoon near Cor? dova, by Jeff Van Horn, a convict who escaped from Jefferson county jail some months ago. The two quarreled on the train and used whiskey bottles as weapons. Clarke's hold on a car platform rail was broke by Van Horn, who cut his hands with the broken glass. The train was running rapidly and did not stop to learn Clarke's con? dition, but he is believed to have been killed. Van Horn was arrested at Horse Creek after a desperate resis? tance. What is Life ? In the last analysis nobody knows, but we do know that it is under strict law. Abuse that law even slightly, pain results. Irregular living means derangement of the organs, resulting in Constipation, Headache or Liver trorble. Dr. King's New Life Pills quickly re-adjuste this. It's gentle, yet thorough. Only 25c at J. F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store. a MYSTERY IN PETTICOATS. An Unknown but Well Dressed Woman Begging in Marlboro. Special to The State. Bennettsville, Sept. 2.-A well dress? ed woman has been here during the past week begging money to go to her people at Chester. Her actions and description lead many to believe that she is the same woman who has been traveling over North Carolina on a begging tour, giving different storiep of misforune in the many towns sho visited. She made insulting remarks to sev? eral people here who refused to give her anything. At one of the hand? somest residences in town, where live a cultured and wealthy family, she found the lady of the house in hot weather attire and the men at work at the barn. Looking up at the house she said: "Looks like common people live here; thought- they were genteel people. ' ' The lady, who is the embodiment of kindness and generosity, paid no attention to the insulting remark and gave the woman a quarter. As she de? parted she asked, "Are there any rich people around here, or are they all common people?" She succeeded in collecting several dollars and moved on to some other unsuspecting town. CONDITION OF "cOTTfllT Washington, Sept. 3.-The monthly report of the chief of the bureau of statistics of the department of agri? culture will show the average condi? tion of cotton on August 25 to have been 81.2, as compared with 79.7 on July 25, 1903 : 64.0 on August 26, 1902 ; 71.4 on August 2, 1901, and ten-year average of 72.4. The fol? lowing table shows the condition by States on August 25 in each of the last thee years, and that on July 25, 1903, with the ten-year average : August July States. 25, 1903. 25, 1903. Texas, 76 82 Georgia, 81 77 Alabama, 84 79 Mississippi, 87 83 South Carolina. 80 76 ArKansas, 81 76 Louisiana, 86 84 North Carolina, 83 78 Tennessee 91 82 indian Territory, 81 75 Oklahoma, 75 69 Florida, 83 85 Missouri, 81 78 Virginia, 86 76 United States, 81.2 79.7 August August 26, 1902. 24, 1901. Texas, 53 56 Georgia 68 81 Alabama 54 75 Mississippi, 68 88 South Carolina. -74 80 Arkansas, 75 61 Louisiana, 70 80 North Carolina, 80 72 Tennessee, - 82 73 Indian Territory. 68 76 Oklahoma, 76 6S Florida, 75 80 Missouri, 73 75 Virginia, SO 82 United States 64 71.4 Ten-yea average : Texas 66 per cent, Georgia 76, Alabama 73, Mississippi 75, South Carolina 75, Arkansas 74, Louisiana 75, North Carolina 78, Ten? nessee 75, Indian Territory 74, Okla? homa 76, Florida 79, Missouri 80, Vir? ginia 86, United States 72.4. Heavy Decline in Cotton. 'New York, September 3.-Not since the exciting days early in the bull campaign has there been anything to equal the confusion which attended the publication of the Government September condition report in today's cotton market. The figures-81.2 represent an improvement in condi? tion for the month of 2.4 per cent, and are 18.1 per cent above those of last year. The statement proved bet? ter than generally expected, and was followed by a rush of liquidation that carried prices off sharply. Earlier in the day the market had shown a declin? ing tendency and prices at noon were about 6 to 15 points lower. In less than ten minutes after the report was read, September sold at 11.13, Octo? ber at 10.20, December at 9.95 and January at 9.92, these being net losses of from 12 to 26 points. Then realiz? ing by early sellers relieved the strain and led to sight recoveries, with the market very irregular and unsettled. FORJ?JHSITY. The Rev. Joel S. Allen, who is raising an endowment fund for Furman university, was in the city again yes? terday and said to a representative of the State, "'I am winning out every? where I go."5"' Mr. Allen is working on a plan to raise ?100,000 in 400 subscriptions of 8250 each, payable in five annual in? stallments. Cfeginning Dec. 1, none of the subscriptions being valid unless tue total amount is subscribed by the date named. So far as he has gone Mr. Allen has met encouraging success and he says the best part of his territory is before him. For the last week or so he lias been working in the Fairfield association of Baptist churches, which includes Columbia, and lias secured six subscriptions. These are by Mr. W. H. Lyles of Columbia, who is a trustee of Furman, Messrs. W. R. Robb and B. J. <^aattlebaum of Winns boro. Mr. C. P. Wray of Ridgewav, Prof. Howell Morrell of Horell Hill and Mr. J. C. Eason of Eastover. Mr. Allen left the city yesterday to continue his canvass.-The State. Bucklers Arnica Salve Has world-wide fame for marvellous eures. It surpasses any other salve, lotion, ointment or balm for Cats, Corns, Burns, Boils, Sores, Felons, Ulcers, Tetter, Salt Eheam, Fever Sores, Chapped Hands, i Skin Emptions ; infallible for Piles. Cure 1 guaranteed. Only 25c at J. F. W. De- j. Lor me's Druggist. RELIANCE WON THIRD RAGE. America's Cup Remains on This Side the Water. New York, Sept. 3.-The Reliance, he American cnp defender, has won :he third and final race and the series :or that famons sea trophy, the America's cup. In a dense fog, which Drevented vision beyond^ two', hun ired yards, she finished the race at 5.30.02, amid the acclamations of the issembled fleet. Shamrock III, after running for more than an hour in the ;og, missed the finish line, passed by t and then returned to it from the op? posite direction. As the Reliance was ;hen being towed through the fleet, racht ensigns fluttering from her truck ind spreaders in celebration of her victory, the Shamrock III did not cross ;he finish line. As often said of the listorie race when the America won ;he cup, there was no second. This successful 'result was achieved mly after four futile attempts to sail )ff the final race and after the outcome lad been admitted by even Sir Thomas Lipton to be a foregone conclusion. Today's was the eighth attempt to sail i race. Ater one fluke the Reliance ?yon the first two races, one by 7 min? ares and 3 seconds and the other by 1 ninute and 9 seconds. A week ago to lay the first attempt to sail the third race failed, and attempts have been nade every day this week. On two occasions the Reliance led the Sham? rock to the finish line by about two niles, but failed . to reach it before ;he expiration of the time limit of five noms and a half. Today's victory neans that the cup is destined to re nain in America until England is able bo produce a genius equal to Herreshoff in yacht designing. Rarely if ever has. there been a more spectacular finish chan the Reliance's today. After rac? ing for more than an hour at terrific ;peed through a blinding fog, the Reli? ance burst through a wall of mist upon the vision of the spectators on the fleet assembled at the finish line, and, iieeling under a great bellying balloon ?ib top sail until her lee rail was iwasb, fled across the finish line al? most before the spectators could deter nine for a certainty that it was she. 3IR THOMAS LIPTON SATISFIED. New York, Sept. 2.-Persistent rumors were abroad last night and ?his morning that Sir Thomas Lipton had made two important assertions. First that if there ras any chance for Shamrock Ill^to win he would de? pose Capt. Wringe ana put the yacht ander Mate Bevis and, second, that Shamrock, after, her speed trials, was found to be too long and that in bring? ing her up to the proper measurements she had been stripped so much as to Lose her speed. Sir Thomas was told of these rumors today and lie said with unmistakable smphasis : "I am going to reiterate most strong? ly what I have said repeatedly : I have QC criticism to make of Capt. Wringe. He has done his best for me. If 1 should build another boat and come aver here again the captain of it would be Mr. Wringe, and let that be his 2ommendation. These stories come from people who visit me on the Erin and make their own criticism. If 1 don't dissent they go away and say that I practically assent to the view they themselves have asserted. "Now as to the second rumor, I will not deny it. It is not worth denying. Shamrock was built for me in good faith, fully as much so as was Reliance for Mr. Iselin. Up to the time of tte first race I thought and others thought with me, including many experts, that I had a fine boat. Reliance is better. I could not know that before the rape, or else why race? I have perfect faith in my designer, my captain and in my crew. We have all done all and are still doing our best.' m . . m* A Crisis in Constantinople. Constantinhople, Sept. 3.-Owing to the Porte's warning, the Russian and Austrian guard ships lay off their respective embassies throughout last night with steam up, while the Brit? ish guard ship Imogene with the Brit? ish, German and Italian ambassadors on board, steamed tne wkole evening up and down the Bosphorus. It was reported that the Ottoman bank has refused further advances to the Government for military pur? poses. ACHES ALI OVER Sumter People Have Felt That Way But There's No Need For It, Winn jin- kidneys are sick bad blood is pumped to every organ, tissue and cell of th'' body. That 's why kidney sufferers "a< ?,> ;';?? over. " Xo need to. There's a cureinDoans Kidney Pills and Sumter people atv learning" of ;t. 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I thought it might he imagina ion until after using the pills a couple of ays when 1 knew the pains-were lessened md the secretions from tho kidneys soon 'cased to annoy me as tiley formerly did. } ave not had a return of tho aching and pain ince I used Donn's Kidney Pills." Ker sale >y all dealers. Price. :>o cents nor box. Fos er-Milbura Co.. Buffalo. X. v.. sole agents >r tho United States. Remember the hame -Donn's-and take no substituto. 10