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WEDNESDAY, JUL* IO. 1907. Entered at the Postoffice at Sumter, S. C., as Second Class Matter. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. O'Donnell & C>.-Just Arrived. Sibert's Drug Store-New Turnip Seed. Miss S. A. Murray-Removal of Mil? linery Store. PERSONAL. Mr. David Levi, of St. Pani, was|in the city yesterday. Mr. H. G. McKagen has returned from Fremont, N. C. Mr. D. Rosendorf, of Norfolk, Va., ^ was in town Friday. * Coi. J. A. Rh&me, of Lynchburg, spent Monday in town. Miss Alice Moses bas gone to Wash? ington to visit relatives. Miss Annie -Beddick, of Kingstree, spent Friday in the city. Mr. W. W. Green, of Shiloh, was in fthe city Monday on bnsiness. Miss Sarah Norwood, of Abbeville, is visiting Miss Gussie Hood. Mr. C. D. Schwartz is spending sev? eral weeks in New York City. Dr. C. P. Osteen and family left this morning for Waynesville, N. C. Miss Theo O'Donnell, of Anderson, ?| is the guest of Mrs. Neill O'Donnell. ^ Miss Nellie Acker, of Anderson, is visiting Mrs. Frank Archer, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Byttenbeig have .gone to Wrightsville, N. C., to spend two weeks. Mrs. J. M. Galpbin and children, of ^"Fernandina, Fla., are visiting tbe -f former's father. Mr. L. J. Markee has resigned his position at DeLorme's and has accept? ed one on the road. Mr. Geo. Bennett, an expert soda water man, has accepted a position at DeLorme's Fountain. jLy,. Mrs. Jas. W. Daniel, of Fremont, "f>S. C., is in the city \ on a visit to Mrs. H. G. McKagen. I Dr. J. C. Cunningham, of Indian town. Williamsburg County, is visifc ing relatives in the city. Miss Albertine Loyns, after spend A few days in Charleston and Isle {of - . _ Palms, has returned home. 4p Misses Lucille and Corinne iseman, of Manning, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Levi on Church Street Mr. Campbell, of Columbia, a li? censed druggist, has accepted a posi? tion at DeLorme's Pharmacy. Mrs. C. H. Thurston and son, Jack, v left on Friday for Indianapolis, where "they will spend several months. Miss Belle Brinkley, of the Sumter Hospital, and Mrs. S. E. Belton left Saturday evening for Brooksville, Mrs. Soi Emanuel, of New York, ?." who bas been visiting in the city, bas returned Lome* accompanied by Miss i Kate Moses. 4^. Miss Ada Seymour, who bas been ?pending the winter with her sister, Mrs. J. M. Galphin, of Fernandina, Fla., is at home. Miss Salli?. Eilis, who has been teaching in the-Graded School of the Ccanie Maxwell Orphanage, has re turned home.. *m Misses Ethel and Mary Carson have ^ gone to Fort Robertson, Neb., where they will visit their brother. Capt. L. S. Carson. Misses Lena and Jennie Barnett left on the 3rd instant for Waynes? ville, N. C., where they will spend the summer. ? Mr. Ray Ryttenberg, who bas been attending the Citadel, is at home for the summer vacation, after spending two?weeks in Savannah. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Doty, accom? panied by Miss Leola Rose, have re? turned to their home in Florence, after a week's visit to relatives here. Te families af Mr. W. H. Seale. Dr. Geo. W. Dick and Maj. W. L. Lee ^ have gone to their summer homes at .Providence to spend the remainder of the season The cotton crop is making rapid growth and with favoring seasons the B yield will be larger than last vear. The additions that are to be made to the passenger depot will not be so material as to alter the building be? yond recognition. The Chamber of Coraemrce good roads smoker will be held next Thurs? day, July 11th. at ^.30 o'clock p. m. at the Opera House. ^ j^>* The bond of Mr. J. D. Smithdeal, as lessee of the Opera House, has been accepted by City Council. It is signed by Mr. C. W. Stansill. The county chaingang will stop work on Turkey creek canal at the end of the week. The canfe.1 has not . ^ ^ been completed, but it is in a cor.di ti on to be left until fall. The county summer school. fr?r teachers opened last Monday with an ?nmllment of fourteen. Twice this number of teachers are expected to be in attendance before the end of the week. -.^jf A large crowd of hardware men from the southern and eastern part of the State passed through the city last Monday on their way to Char? lotte. N. C.. to attend the annual meeting of the hardware associatio^i. The Winthrop and Clemson schol? arship examinations were held Fri day by County Supt. of Education Cain at his office in the court house. Thirteen young ladies stood the ex? amination for Winthrop, but there were only three young men to stand the Clemson examination. W. "H. BROWN & BROS. Poca-honteLS Perfume The latest creation. For sale by. { MULDROW DRUG COMPANY. art MARRIED. Mr. J. F. Maye, of Sumter, and Miss Ellen Tucker, of Columbia, were united in marriage Sunday, July 7th. at 5.30 o'clock p. m. at the home of the bride's sister in Camden, Rev. Chesley Herbert officiating. The hap? py couple, arrived in Sumter Monday evening and are at Mrs. Peter Maye's, where they expect to make their fu? ture home. DEATH. Mr. W. H. Newton died Saturday night after a brief illness. The fu? neral services were held at the ceme? try Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. THE NEXT SMOKER. The <Chamber of Commerce Will Dis? cuss Road Improvement Next Thursday Night. Acceptances are beginning to come in from -the 3*0 delegates invited to attend the Chamber of Commerce smoker next Thursday night, which wlil be held for the purpose of dis? cussing the good roads question. Thir 'ty repr?sentative citizens have been invited, three from each of the ten townships in the couty. Messrs. W. H. Seale, H. C. Hayns? worth, J. W. McKeiver and Dr. S. C. Baker will discuss good roads in be? half of the Chamber of Commerce, and the county commissioners and the invited guests from the townships will be requested to express their views. Other matters of importance to the city of Sumter will ' be discussed at this meeting also. A Prize Cabbage. Mrs. H. T. Strange, of Mechanics ville. sends to this office the largest cabbage that the writer has seen this season. It is a perfect specimen of a cabbage and weighs 17 3-4 pounds. A Red-Hot Game. . *> L. a red-hot game Broad street was defeated by the Durant team, ,the score being 4 to 2. Batteries for Broad street, Mar? shall, Haynsworth and Nash; for Du? rant, Witherspoon and Montgomery. "Abouc 250 Sumte people spent Thursday to DarhY^ton. The morn? ing was cloudy and overcast, with ev? ery indication of rain and many who had planned to make the trip, re? membering last year's experience, re? mained at home. There was a large crowd in Darlington and the Sumter contingent spent a very pleasant day. The horse and cattle show, driving contest, etc., were minor features o? the day, the interest centering on the ball game Good order prevailed and there was no disturbance of any de? scription up to the time the crowd j left on the evening trains. The sewerage commission seems to be making progress slowly and to be working quietly. The public is fa? vored with little, information, but it is beginning to be whispered around that all is not harmonious in that body and that there is et, wide diver gance of opinion as to what is good business policy and what is not. Per? haps in time the public will be taken into the confidence of the commis? sion. This thing ?of paying irresponsible boys, white, yellow and black, a re? ward of 25 cents a head for each dog captured ' may be a money making scheme for the city, but it will cause trouble. The dog license ordinance is unpopular-and some lawyers say unconstitutional-and the owners of dogs will not stand to have them hunted by a gang of boys. In connec? tion with this matter, it may be of in? terest to state that there is a probabil? ity of the dog license ordinance being taken into the courts. Several dog owners say they will resist paying the tax on the ground that it is not a po? lice regulation, but a retail business in brass badges. The Lee county court house com? mission was here Friday inspecting the new court house with the view of getting ideas that may be utilized in planning their court house. The Sumter Light Infantry and the Second Regiment Band returned home Friday night from Jamestown, arriving in the city about 1.30 o'clock. In respect to the riot on the War Path they say that not a member c i" the Sumter Light Infantry took any part in the fracas and that so far as they know only one man from the Second Regiment became involved in the fighting. The Sumter Brick Works has se? cured the contract to furnish a half million brick for the new schol house to be erected in Georgeown. The contract was won over a number of bidders, quality and price both being taken into consideration. Will Davis and Georeg Davis, charged with being accessories to the murder of Clarence Gist, of Carlisle, have been released on bond in the sum of $500 each. Co.. E. J. Watson, commissioner of immigration, will make another trip to Europe in about tv o weeks in the interest of immigration. C. L Johnson, of Florence-; ha? been awarded the contract for the erec? tion of a new passenger station at .c--^?\r.?>?> THO hi;iMin<r will cost $4??. After the South Pole. The question is often asked, why the explorers are more eager after the discovery of the north pole than they are to get to the south pole. The north pole is more interesting from several points of view, chiefly be? cause the nations that take part in such explorations are in the northern hemisphere, and because several im? portant questions of geography, mag? netism, etc.. would probably be ans? wered by the definite location of the north pole,'while no such importance attaches to Antarctic discovery. Still the south pole has many en? gaging interests of its own; and this summer and next are doubtless to be made memorable in the history of Antarctic exploration. While Well? man is trying to "fly" to the North pole and Peary and others are striv? ing to dash across the polar ice to reach the ultimate "farthest north," a number of expeditions will be trying to edge their way over the more level ice-fields of the far south in their en? deavor to attain the second greatest gc al of human curiosity. At least four noteworthy expedi? tions are fitting out for a dash south. These are the expeditions to be led by Henryk A.rctowski-"Antarctowski" would suit better-who will head the Belgian expedition; Dr. F. A. Cook, of Brooklyn; Lieutenant Shack? leton, of the Discovery expedition from England; and Dr. Charcot, who will conduct the party from France. There are others, but these are the chief. The expedition under Dr. Cook will be, probably, the most remarkable, as he is to try the experiment of auto? mobiles specially designed and con? structed for work on the ice. If, as most explorers in that region affirm, there are great stretches of compara? tively level ice, the automobiles may be able to give a good account of themselves. It is curious that two of the latest devices for traveling should j be put to extreme tests in arctic explo? rations at the ends of the earth. A census taker in Egypt requires to have the diplomacy of ar ambassa? dor, a patriarch's patience and the persuasive power of an auctioneer. The illiterate class in the land of the Pharaohs is a large one. The inspec? tors have powers to penetrate to the inner apartments of the houses. Many have been so conscientious as to enter the harems, and in conse? quence have had encounters with the eunuchs who guard those sacred de? partments of the Egyptian home. The inspectors have power to summons recalcitrant inhabitants before a mag? istrate. Thomas Glanton.' an Edgefield coun? ty man, who was shot by a man nam? ed McDaniel at Modoc, died in a hos? pital at Augusta. It is reported that a controlling in? terest in the stock of the Central of Georgia Railroad has been acquired by the Baltimore and Ohio. % *f* *$+ * NEW YORK'S DISTINCTIONS. l?as More Miles of Street Railway Tracks Than Any Other City. New York city has more miles of street railway tracks than any other city in the world. If its surface, ele? vated and subway systems were in one straighc 'rack it would be 1,020 miles long. Fine clothing brings more consid? eration to a man or woman in New York city than any other city in the world, for here there is more cringing servility to the evidence of weal ch than elsewhere. The New York city clearing house does twice a? much business as ail the other clearing houses in the United States. If the public servants of New York city were equally divided there would be one to each 70 inhabitants. New York city has had a large representation in the national house of representatives for 118 years, yet there has not been one New York city born man among the 40 speakers who have presided over that bc dy. The average age of the people of New York citj- is 26 years, while of the entire United States it is 28 years. New York city is far ahead of all the other cities in the world in the i matter of postmasters. It has 49. Immigrants who enter the port of New York bring an average of $50, 000 a day. About $50,000 is spent annually for cigars and wine consumed in the large clubs of New York city. New York city is now growing at the rate of about 415 persons each day. An average of 3.000 persons land each day in New York city from ocean going vessels. The average age of persons arrested in New York city so far this year has been 23 years. Customs receipts in New York city are running $70,000 more a day than last year. New York city's acreage is more ! than that of Chicago and Philadel? phia combined, or 219,218, as com? pared with 196,757. New York city has 3927 firemen, -besides the members of the 12 vol? unteer companies in Richmond bor? ough. New York city has 105 banks. Roads, paths and walks of Central I Park are 46 miles long. i There are lil steamship lines with j terminals at Manhattan Island.-New ! York Herald. The population of the globe is 1, 400,000,000, of whom 35,214,000- die I evefS* year. The births amount to 36.792,000 every year, or more than one a second. j Three locomotives building at ,' Schenectady for the Erie Railroad I will be the largest in the world, ex j ceeding even the monster Mallet i compound of the Baltimore and Ohio. Sanford Eearly, the negro who kill ; ed Hal Brawster at LaGrange, Ga., jon Monday, was taken to Columbus j for safe keeping. j In Russia the nobility enjoy free '. dom from poll tax; in Germany cer , tain nobie families pay no taxes at ' all. t? i$? ^ if* *t* % % *$* Boys' - ? Wash Suits $1.0 31o\ises I s J. iPHONE NUMBER. 166 COMPARISON OF STRENGTH. Japan Must be More Powerful if She is to Cope With the United States in War. Putting wholly aside the relation which proverbially exists between smoke and fire, this article assumes that there is no friction between the United States and Japan. But since there are many to assert that a con? flict lies within the easy range of pos? sibility, and as the navies of the two powers would in all certainty bear the initial brunt of such encounter, it may be interesting to cast up the relative naval strength of the two powers, and to see wherein the advantage might rest. , Just now this country has a pre? ponderance of naval strength. But that strength is mostly assembled on this side of the world, and with most 01* the seven seas washing between it and the Mikado's far away fleet. And contiguous to the mailed squadrons of the Rising Sun are those remote possessions of ours, the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands. I had rather, said Napoleon, see the English on the heights of Montmarte than occupying Malta. The English occupied Malta, and he died a British captive at St. Helena. ??In or.e respect, the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands are to this country: today what Malta was then cd military or navy office rsichfianKK io France. And there is no well-in? formed military or navy officer who doubts that Japan could not seize both, and possession of them would hove an immeasurable advantage, as their loss would deprive this country of bases of supplies, coaling stations, and that big dry dock which was re? cently towed to Manila, itself a great asset in war. One thing is certain. If Japan means to force a war on this countr", she must do it before the completion cf the Panama Canal, for after that water-way is cut she must needs be infinitely more powerful than ?he is at present to wage successful conflict . with America. But the completion of the canal is some years distant. To get back to the present. Owing to the fact that Japan made such work of the Czar's warships, it is popularly supposed j that Japan has a very superior navy, j The Mikado's navy is doubtless all j right. But competent observers who i followed the Russo-Japanese war i testify that it was not so much the j excellence of Japanese preparedness, ( statistics, and gunboats that won as i it was the absence of these qualities on the Russian side. If Japan, said one of these to the writer ever goes against a first rate naval power she will find the dif? ference. It was not so much what the Japs did as what the Russian didn't do. Matched, ship for ship, America could look ""-Uh utmost complacency upon the outcome. But there is a ,-time worn adage about being first on & ^ i? tl? ?fc *i? ^ ers' Fi Blouses ad - Suits. 0 to $4.00, >0 to 75cts ALE B? HER C10T1 SUMTER. S tho spot with a superior force. In our Atlantic fleet we have now a battle? ship armada that could undoubtedly destroy all of Japan's navy were the war declared tomorrow, and this fleet in striking distance with its bases of supplies and its coaling stations han? dy. But does any one doubt that Ja? pan would instantly seize these sta? tions were this fleet to be ordered to the east? Then the advantage would rest with her, and in a ratio that can j not be approximated. Once more Na? poleon and Malta. What American president but who would rather see a Jap'army encamped on the Poto? mac than to see the Mikado's flag waving over our Maltas of the east? There could be no doubt of the fate of the one, but there would be serious doubts about the other.-Harper's Weekly. Books Never Balanced. For the last sixteen years, says a dispatch, the Chicago posto rhee has had a surplus of 1 cent on its books No one has been able to find the source of the surplus or t? whom the? me ney was due. until yesterday, when W. I*. Clucas, a special agent of the North American Life Insurance com? pany, notified the postoffice authori? ties' that he held a draft for 1 cent on the office. It was issued January 5, 1891, to his father, W. J. Clucas, of Lebanon, 111. W. J. Clucas was post? master at Lebanon, 111., in the admin? istration of Grover Cleveland. At the end of Cleveland's term of office Mr. Clucas sent in his statement. It then appeared that he had sent in 1 cent too much. It was returned to him in the form of a draft. Mr. Clucas; wishing to keep the draft as a re? membrance, never cashed it. After his death in 1889 the draft was turn? ed over to his son, who kept it as a relic. After the settlement of the es? tate Mr. Clucas found it never could be cashed, as his father had not en? dorsed it in his name. For this rea? son the postoffice auditor never wiH be able to balance his books unless Mr. Clucas takes the matter into court.-Ex. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Yale University conferred the hon? orary degree of Doctor of Laws on United States Senator Philander C. Knox. The prohibitionists won the elec? tion in Lowndes county, Ga., by a heavy majority. A total of 2,600 violent deaths were reported by* the coroner of the Pittsburg district in one year. Henry Arthur Jones, the English playwriter, is now in this country, ta remain until September. The same force that moves a ton oit a smooth highway will move eight tens on a railway or ?2 tons on a canal. A century ago France had 26 per cent, of the population of Europe. To? day only one European in ten is a Frenchman. ?end ?! CO JO. CA. * 4 4 4 ?I* ?j* ??& *h *fc 4* *fr *$* ^