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W. D. GAMBLE INJURED. Jumped From Moving Train at Alcolu Yesterday and Fell, Striking His Head on Piece of Timber. Manning, October 3.-Mr. W. D. Gamble of New Zion, had a narrow iescape from serious injury at Alcolu this morning.^ He had just arrived from home on an Alcolu railroad train, but had in charge a young lady -who was going to take the Coast Line ?train. When the train from Columbia arrived he went on bo?rd with the young lady to carry her hand bag ?age and see that she got a seat, hut before he could tell her good? bye the train started and he at once .ran to the platform to get off. When he jumped from the steps the train had attained such speed that he was thrown to the ground, the back of his head striking some timber or other hard substance, and, for the moment rendering him un? conscious. , Fortunately he received only a scalp wound and soon proceed? ed to Manning in a carriage and here ^secured surgical attention. He is fairly comfortable this afternoon, and there is no indication now of further trouble. ISAAC KNIGHT CONVICTED. Aiken, October 3.-Isaac Knight -was tried here this afternoon for criminal assault upon Mrs. E. S. Chap?n, at her home near Aiken on July 9 last. Knight pleaded not guilty. The evidence was all against the defendant and after being out a .short time the jury brought in a v*er -dlct of guilty. Juduge Gary sen? tenced him to hang on Friday, Octo* her 26. A Bad Complexion * Comes from bad blood. Pimples .oh the face, acne, liver spots, sallow skin, dark rings about the eyes, srck* headache, pale, worn-out look, diz? ziness will all disappear if you take a treatment of Ramon's Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets, for sale at Durant's 3>rug Store, and put your blood in good condition. This treatment does not force things-the Pill touches the j liver, urges it to action; the Pellet following (purely vegetable) strength* .ens and aids the bowels and digestive organs. Beware of violent purga" tives. Ask for Ramon's-it is the only combined treatment put up in this way on the market. Entire treatment 25 cents. RACING AT FAIR. Columbia, October 4.-The best racing in the South Atlantic circuit fairs is'promised in Columbia during the South Carolina celebration. Sec? retary Love has recently had a large number of the printed programes maiied to all of the prominent horse? men in the country and the stables will probably be Siled with the best .of stock. There are two noticeable features about the races this year. In . the first place the sport begins on Tuesday and extends through Friday and in the second place the purses are larger than ever before. There are two prizes of $500 each and sev? eral of $400 and $300. The following official announce? ment has been issued concerning the events: First Day, Tuesday, October 23. No. 1-2:45 trot or pace (S. C. xaised), $100. No. 2-Six furlong heat (all ages), ?150. No. 3-Mile dash (three year-olds j and over), $250. No. 4-One half-mile dash (S. C. raised), $100. Second Day, Wednesday, October 24. No. 5-2:25 trot or pace, $200. No. 6-Seven furlong heat (all ages), $500. No. 7-Seven furlong dash (S. C. -raised), $150. No. 8-Three-quarter mile dash Copen), $200. . .Third Day, Thursday. October 25. No. 9-Trot or pace (free-for-all), $500. No. 10-One mile dash (open) $400. v ^ No. ll-Seven-eighths mile dash (selling race), $300. No. 12.-Four furlong dash ('two or three-year-olds), $100. No 13-One-half mile dash (S. C. raised), $100. Fourth Day, Friday, October 26. No. 14-Trot or pace (S. C. raised), $100. No. 15-Three-quarter mile dash (S. C. raised), $100. No. 16-Seven-eighths mile penalty j race, $150. j No. 17-Consolation or beaten j ?orses (not one. two or three), $100. j The Conditions. Entrance to all races. 5 per cent, of ; purse: nothing additional from mon? ey-winners. Jockey Club rules and weigths govern. National association rules govern harness events. Hopples not barred. Cusual weather clause. Five to enter, three to start. Associa? tion reserve? right to reject any un? satisfactory entries. Conditional en" tries most positively refused. Scratching must be done before 12 m. day of race. Entries received at pool rooms night before race: close ut 9 p. m. Purses divided 80, 30 and 10. A. W. Love, Secretary. BILTMORE ESTATE. Not Paying Expenses-Great In? crease in Value of Timber Lands. Object Lessons for Farmers-De? veloping; Superior Grade of Corn. "The impression prevails,'' said a man who has observed Biltmore es? tate" affairs of recent years, "that Mr. Vanderbilt looks upon his splendid" possession merely in the light of a luxury, having no specific utility, and that his fine farm is being merely conducted as a sort of hobby in which only the excessive rich may indulge. It is of course true that only the very rich could purchase a vast and costly estate, and it is likewise true that the farm department has at times past proven a very expensive proposi* tion, some branches of the business failing to make both ends meet by thousands; but broadly speaking it is safe,to say that Mr. Vanderbilt is not worrying about his money losses on the estate, especially since he be? gan to keep an eye on things himself. 'The truth about the matter is that Mr. Vanderbilt had more hindsight and a good deal more forethought than a good many of the natives hereabouts. When the owner of Bilt? more began to broaden his acres, and add tract after tract to his timber !ands many there were who were not able to understand while a few were apprehensive lest their rich neighbor lose even his vast for? tune by becoming land poor. Now it is realized that the timber lands of the estate have dou? bled in value, although a good price? as values obtained a few years ago, was paid for the lands. The govern? ment could buy all the railroads, a la Bryan, or confiscate them, and the owner of Biltmore estate would be a very wealthy man because of his tim? ber holdings, which are being ex? ploited-according to approved fores? try methods, an important considera? tion for all this mountain country. "Moreover the estate is finding a ready market right here in Asheville for everything that it produces, and it is of course furnishing a fine ob? ject lesson for farmers everyw here. Everyone has heard of the fine live stock that the estate is putting on the market, but that is not by any means all that the estate is doing in the way of furnishing fine products for the market and incidentally for the farmers. Just now the estate is busily engaged in cultivating some very fine seed corr.. The goal aimed at is to get a fine, straight grain, so large that if you place it over one end of a broken cob, it will very nearly cover it. In planting for this fine seed corn every" grain was carefully selected by hand, and if any grain happened to bear a defect, such as a round sur fce, instead of being flat, and well shaped, it was discarded. A big grain and a small cob is the objective, and the est?te is making headway-*j*at* is proving exceedingly interesting to the farmers of the county."-Ashe? ville Gazette-News. WANTS TWELVE CENTS ) - Field Agent Smith Several Days Ago Predicted Much Higher Prices Recent events, in the cotton belt with the sensational advance in prices are bearing out the predictions of Field Agent E. D. Smith, of the South Carolina Cotton Association. Mr. Smith has always stood for high prices. Some times he has been wrong, that is, he has failed more than once to get what he asked for, on the other hand, he has hit the right mark time and again. Several days ago in talking of the cotton situation, Mr. Smith made the following statement: "With trade conditions as good as last year, a twelve million bale crop, which does not seem probable, ought to bring 12 12 cents instead of 9 1-2 cents, the price now being paid. By concert of action we can make it bring what it ought to bring. With? out concert of action we will have to take what we can get. The world consumed last year 12,1S6,000 bales of cotton. It consumed not only all the goods produced last year, but 840,000 bales that were carried ovt_ from the previous year. It consum? ed more cotton than was ever con? sumed any previous year, 340,000 bales more than in 1904-05, 2,000,000 bales more than 1903-04. The av-S erage price paid was eleven cents, based upon the New Orleans market. Spinners sold their products on a much higher basis, a basis the aver? age of which was not less than 12 1-2 cents." ' The man who sold middling cotton for future delivery at 10 cents is caught between the upper and nether mill stones when- cotton is worth 10 1-2 cents and going higher and middling grade a scarce article ow? ing to the storm. CASTOR IA Por Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of COURT HOUSE BONDS SOLD Mr E P Bicker of Sumter Award? ed die Entire Issue of $30,000, His Bid Being the Best From The Daily Item October 3. The county board of commissioners met at 10:30 Tuesday with Supervis? or Seale and Commissioners Thomas and Brogdon present. After the minutes of Sept. 5th had been read and confirmed, regular routine business was taken up. Mr. J. F. Reid, one of the public weighers, complained to the board that the Sumter Cotton Warehouse Company refuses to pay to the public cotton weighers the sum of $200 for pay of clerk as provided by the con? tract between the couny commission? ers and the warehouse company It was decided that the warehouse company is under contract and must pay the cotton weighers for clerk and secretary the sum of $200. A petition for admission of John McLaughlin to the poor house was granted. The petition for a public road from John K. McElveen's place straight to public road leading to Sumter was taken up and action deferred until next meeting. It was decided to publish the coun? ty supervisor's report during the en? suing year in the Watchman and Southron and the Sumter Herald at the rate allowed by law, viz: $60 for each paper. Bids for purchase of the issue of court house bonds, amounting to $30,000, were opened at 12 o'clock, as follows: Sumter Savings Bank for $5,000 of the bonds at par, paying pro rata of expense of same, interest at 4 per cent. W. R. Tood & Co., of Cincinnati, O., for $30,000, to run 15 years at par, interest 41-2 per cent. Prem? ium of $100. i E. P. Ricker, of Sumter, S. C., for $20,000 or $10,000 at 4 1-2 per cent, payable in 20 years, with op? tion on part of Sumter county to re? deem same at any time after ten years. The entire issue on same terms. Security and Trust Company, by j W. S. Glenn, $30,000, 20 year bonds,' interest 5 per cent, for which they will pay $31,275. On motion the board decided to reject all bids offered and to meet at 4 o'clock to consider bids at 4 1-2 per cent. Bidders were notified to submit new bids if they so desired. ; At 4 o'clock the following bids were opened. Sumter Savings Bank, $5,000 4 1-2 per cent, bonds at par. E. P. Ricker, $30.000 4 1-2 per cent. 15 year bonds at premium of $200 and pay all expenses of issue. Farmers' Bank and Trust Company, $10,000 4 1-2 per cent, bonds at par. Bank of Sumter, $10,000 4 1-2 per cent. 15 year bonds at par. Security and Trust Company, $30, 000 4 1-2 per cent, bonds, par and accrued interest from date of bonds and a premium of $175 and all ex? penses. The bid of E. P. Ricker was ac? cepted. NEW ELKS' HOME. Sumter Lodge, No. S55, B. P. O. E., is soon to have new and elegant club room quarters. Messrs. Haysnworth & Haynsworth and Cooper & Fraser are soon to build on the site of their present offices two store buildings, facing Main street with their officess in the rear fronting the new court square. The building will have a frontage of fifty-six feet and the depth will be in the neighborhood of 175 feet. The entire second floor will be de? signed with an eye single to the equipment of suitable and commo" dious apartments for the local lodge. Every detail that will tend to the en? joyment and pleasure of the members of the order will be installed. The club room will have a handsome en? trance on Main street between the two store buildings, and there will be entrances from Court Square and the rear of the building. When the club , rooms are completed, Sumter Lodge will have one of the nicest homes in the State. RAMON'S BROWNIE CALENDAR. Cn?^'f the Handsomest J 907 Calen 5*a>s- ?otten Out for the Year. *The Ramon's Brownie Calendar for 1907 is almost an education \Vithin itself, containing a vast amount of useful information. This Calendar consists of twelve pages, 12x19 inch? es, handsomely printed in three colors "U best paper, One inch figures show the days so plainly as to be easily read across the largest room. Holidays are in red. Changes of the moon, weather conditions, length of days, church festive days, signs of th<- zo? diac and mindi other useful knpwl . dge. This beautiful Calendar usual? ly sells for ten cents and will be mail? ed ?o? receipt of stamps direct from Brown Mfg. Co., Greenville, Tenn. Ask your druggist and h<* will tell you how to get one free.-Durant's Drug St?r*?. ATTEMPTED JAIL BREAKING. An Unsuccessful Effort By Prisoners to Escape From the County Jail. From The Daily Item October 3. A plan conceived by prisoners in the county jail to effect an escape was discovered and frustrated yesterday by Jailor Norris with the assistance of some friends. It seems as if John Stuffy some time ago informed Sheriff Epperson that there was something of import? ance going on in jail, and that, if he would bring him up town and prom? ise not to return him to the jail that he would enlighten him as to facts. The sheriff thought it a scheme on the part of Stuffy to get off, and he paid no attention to it. Yesterday a letter was sent to Mr. Epperson by John Henderson, who is now in jail awaiting to be re-sen? tenced to hang for the murder of his wife, informing the sheriff of the con? spiracy on the part of the inmates of the jail. A speedy investigation of the jail disclosed hidden between the steel cage in which the prisoners are confined and the cement floor the following articles: A 32-calibre pis? tol loaded, a hack saw and 18 steel blades, a hatchet and a* cold chisel, and an iron rod. It was found that one of the large iron bars had been sawed through, and that a towel seemingly carelessly placed concealed the work of the would-be jail break? ers. The intrusion and inspection of j the officers was not quietly received by the prisoners. The spirit of muti? ny and resistance was so pronounced when the purport of the jailer's visit was discovered, that it became nec? essary for Mr. Norris to fire over the heads of the prisoners before he could be assured of their complete control. They were forced to leave the corri? dor of the cage and placed all to fether in one cell. Carrie Holland, wife of William Holland in jail for housebreaking and larceny, Caroline Henderson, mother of John Henderson? convicted of mur" der; Nathin Wilson have been given preliminary hearings and bound over for trial, and at this writing another case is pending. There is no doubt but that the in? formation furnished by John Hender? son prevented the successful attempt of the prisoners to escape and his conduct is most commendable and should be rewarded. The total sales of the dispensary for the month of September were more 'than $2,200 less than for the same month last year. In future there should be some re? strictions placed on visitors to prison? ers in Tail. There seems to have been nothing to prevent the prisoners who were planning" to escape from having obtained from friends outside all the arms and tools they may have want? ed. * Catarrhal Deafness or Chronic Catarrhal Headaches * Will be instantly relieved by the use of Nosena, a soothing Catarrhal Balm. Relief guaranteed, or money refund? ed. Nosena contains no cocaine or harmful drug. Will immediately re" lieve the worst running cold, nose cold, nasal catarrh, hay fever, throat .troubles, hoarseness, etc, by tenderly soothing the inflamed, diseased mem? branes. The well known catarrhal ache can be instantly relieved by the use of this remedy. Mrs. Fannie Mathis, Payne, Pa., says: "I have been trying your nosena for catarrh and have been entirely cured. Send me the price for a dozen tubes, as I want it for my neigh? bors." Large tubes 50 cents, at all drug? gists, or sample tube on receipt of ten cents in stamps by mail. Brown Mfg. Co. Greenville. Tenn., St., Louis Mo. -Durant's Drug Store. Women's Woes. Sumter Women aie Finding Relief at Last. It does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches and pains that afflict humanity ; they roust ''keep up,*' must attend to duties in sp te of constantly aching backs, or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing down pains ; they must stoop over, when to stoop means tor? ture. They must walk ard bend and work with racking pains and many ache? from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidnf js well and health is easily main? tained. Rtad of a remedy for kidneys only that helps aDd cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people yon kn^w. Mrs. O. E. Bostick, residing at lis s. Main street, says: "I suffered greatly for some time with pains across my back, in my limbs and a dull, heavy aching in rny loins. The pain in my limos was .ii ia rp and shooting, sometimes in one place and then in another. When I would sk for a while and stet up to walk it would strike me in the knees and then the ankles so severe as to make me cry out. I thought it was rheumatism and was doctor? ing for that, but after rubbing with every? thing I knew of and trying Mood purifiers, eec. I dio riot notice any apparent benefit. Seeing Doau's Kidney Pills very highly rec? ommended by well known citizens 1 wein to Pr. A. .I. China's drug store and obtained a box. The result of their use as directed was J very gratifying indeed. The aching in my i buck ceased. 1 do not have the shooting pains in my limbs and for the past two or three months I have been free from the trou? ble. 1 must say Doan's Kidney Pills brought aUiut these results.''' For sale by ail dealers. Pri?e 50 cents. Kos ter-M 'burn Co.. Bat?alo. New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name-Doan's-and take no other. 47