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GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON. MR. ROOT AM? ills NEW JOB. Hpe* toil 8e*alon of <'<>ngre?M to be Cull e*!? Roosevelt Trying t<? Sigimllic Hie Retirement By Overhauling the Navy Deportment I mm Top to Hot Hin. I insu i Washington. Feb. 2.?The head of the Roosevelt cabinet has resigned and It may be said he has already be? gun ) i active work In tht senate for although he will be Ineligible to a aaat In that body until after the 4th of March he has gone to Albany. N\>w Tor*, where before a body composed largely of Republican State legisla? tors he made an address outlining hV vtees on Important basic political problems and stating specifically that ha favored a parcels post. This ?tufo? ment f-omlrg from the successor o( Senator Thomas Platt the president c(' a great express company and Its repre eeatatlve on the floor of the Unite.. Stet?a senate la most significant. Tho ?tau of New York has had*some dU tlngt iahed man aa representatives in the ?Jnlted States senate, as Conkllng aad Reward. It has never had a more experienced aad thorough statesman than It win have In Senator Root. L* so ?ua.n thirty working day. of he present congressional session le? ased rnd at a Joint council of the coot ruling party of the house and sen? ate It has been agreed to confine legis - Jon strutly to appropriation bill*, to leaders or bosses of the senate. Irleh, Hale. Gallinger and. Elkln fjtM that there In barely lime for a oomdd* ration of the regular appro? priation*. The president and aome of the loeinbera of the house are urging the i?aeege of bllia admitting Arixona and Verw Mexico to atatehood but the conti o'm< element In the aenutc Im noc favorable to this measure. It h??* also beer agrtoed that a special s*? ston for the consideration of tariff revtdon -.111 he called for the loth of Maro* or six daye after Inaugura* tic o. Ol cou?. a 1r. Taft who is now ?n i ?mn.li will have the final say to Ih'H dute or another but m ?mbora Of the bouse anc the senate aftet emulation with Senator Knox who lb be the head >f the Taft cabinet re fixed upon March the 10th as a 'able early date to begin work on bill. It la also predicted that the ?easlon will probably adjourn ire the first of July but there are who say that it Is more likely to be in ssaalon until the mlddli of the summer. All the details of President Roosevelt's departure from Washing? ton have been prearranged. He will as Is customary ride with the presi? dent-elect to the capitol and there winess the Inauguration ceremonies aad perhaps attract aa much atten? tion as his successor but he will not return from the capitol to the White House In this repsect he will de? part from an old precendent. He will Svs a private cltlsen drive from the capitol Immediately to the Union Sta? tion and take a train to Oyster Bay. There >at remain to him about thirty days of his remarkably strenuous and the navy department Just is coming In for his reforming. Of aa the boss senators of his party will parhapa put It "meddlesome and mischief-making activity." There la no doubt a great deal of mildewed red tape In use In the navy department. Ita management la by a cumbersome and antiquated system. The presi? dent while assistant secretary of the navy becams aware of thla and it la remarkable that ha haa put off changes and reconstruction until the last month of his term. Now however he seems determined to sat the ball rolllag w|?h the aaaurance that hla successor as the devisee of the Roose veltian policies will carry this out also. It is to be hoped that he may. With a man like Root In the senate, himself well acquainted with the weakness and Inefficiency of the clumsy naval establishment, some? thing may be accomplished. But the prase nt system la firmly Intrenched In various navy yards scattered along the Atlantic coast from Portamouth, Main*, to New Orleana and these navy yard* ars the strongholds of certain Senator? and contain the machinery and urnlah the funda through which they keep their seats. Millions of dol? lars ars yearly appropriated for navy yarda at Portamouth. Maine. Boston. Philadelphia.' Charlestnwn. Port Roy? al. K*y West. Pensacola and New Or? leana None of these navy yards have dry <ocka of sufficient capacity to re? pair large battleehlpe. They are all inaooeselble for the remson that en trance to them Is not deep enough to ad mi large slsed t ml ships but they receive, as I have said, yearly appro? priations for malrtensnce and Im? provement which mean that a larg? number of employ ???* under the pnt onage of the aerator* from these Ststes are there for usdex* work and expenditure The navy yard for ex? ample at Portsmouth near the home of Senator Hale Is unfit for building any but small slsed ships, such ships are are useless in modern naval war? fare and are In themselves merely moans of further expenditure In the consumption of food, fuel and wi. The navy yard at Mare Island, San Francisco Is another case. Senator | Perl.Ins of California has secured thir- i teen milliona of dollars for the im? provement and malrtenance of this navy yard although It Is Impossible to briiu a battleship into it. n?W TO GET FACTORIES. One Merchant is Willing to Prove Ills Faltli In Sumter by Investing Money. AI intervals, for many years, there has been talk in Sumter of establish? ing manufacturing enterprises and the beat methods to be adopted to at? tract, capital to this city and to in? duce outside capitalists to invest mon?y In factories located here. Ev? ery other man you meet has Ideas on the subject but few of the Ideas hhve ever been put to a practical test. Re? cently the talk of factories has been renewed as a result of a proposition from outside parties to put money in a local enterprise, provided Sumter people would show their faith by do? ing likewise. Thus far nothing has resulted from this talk. R< ferring \o the great advantage of manufacturers locating In Sumter. and especially the advantages to mer? chants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, etc., one merchant says he will be one of twenty-five to make a donation of $50.( 00 to the company that will put up $200.000. and build a manufactur? ing plant doing lnter-state business either on the outskirts of the city or in the city. Would sign a petition to the legislature to empower the county snd city to exempt this plant from taxation for a period of twenty years and sign a petition to the city to fur? nish it with water for protection In ci.se of fire, to furnish its boiler and drlrthtsgl purposes for a period of twenty years free of charge. If we can get twenty-four more, make up of ail tr.e balance of the city, why/not try to got one? Mr. Banker, Mr. Mer? chant come forward and say what you will do. Asking the gentlemen how . he thought this would pay. he said he thought it would pay a handsome dividend from "pickings" that he would get from the workmen and the management of such an enterprise; would not care for any dividend on the capital stock. The one quarter of a million dollar plant would leave In the city every year at least $200.000. While his part as a donator would be $8,000 In trade, If he could only get $2.000, leaving this balance to go to the people who did not donate anything, or who did not donate their share, he would make a gross profit on the $2.000 of $500, being trade he Is not now getting: and not having to employ more men to handle the business, It would be a net clear profit. Two thousand dol? lars costing only $160 Interest, would leave $340 to the good. In other words would make a profit on the $2.000 Invested of $500 annually. As to building railroads, his idea is that It Is not fair to make the citi? zens of a town build railroads until the railroad is In position to pay when It is built. Get the enterprises and get the people, and the railroads will build themselves. The same applies to street railways. PROHIBITION BILL VETOED. Tennessee Governor Objects to Meas ore Outlawing Liquor Making. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 3.?Governor M. R. Patterson today sent to the State senate a message vetoing the bill pro hlbltlng the manufacture of Intoxl cants In Tennessee after January 1 1910. The message In part follows: "If the legislature shall destroy all the distilleries and breweries, why cannot the next forbid the raising or selling of the grains or cultivation of the grapes out of which spirituous malt or vinous liquors are made? ' Shall this or some future leglsla ture prevent the farmer from raising or selling tobacco or the manufactur or from placing It on the market? "If we are thus star .ed, where shall we end? It Is better not to make the start. "In the exercise of my constitution al powers as governor l veto th measure and ask Its reconsideration "First. Because It ruthlessly de prlves the State of revenue wlthou sny sort of corresponding benefit. "Second. It discriminates against our own people In favor of the peo pie of r>ther States. "Third. It destroys the property of the citizen without compensation. "Fourth. It makes a dangerous affffdent, humiliates TsnWSSSSI and lowers th?> place of dignity she has occupied as one of the proudest and bsq t ooneervntrvs stai >s of the mion. "Fifth. It Violate* the will of ths I.pie twice expressed at the hallo! box, offends against their sense of )nette* and, under the | ha <>f civic rtghtsoussieeB] snorlflees i great moral principle or government at ?he very altur where It should he guarded and defended." The prohibition bill was passed by the senate over the governor's veto this afternoon by a vole of 20 12. The message will not reach the house be? fore tomorrow. COTTON STANDARDS FIXED. COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS REC? OMMENDS ESTABLISH MF NT OF NINE GRADES. Sample Types Representing DilPTcnt Grades to be Kept for Reference hi '< he Department of Agriculture. Washington, Feb. 4.?Reeommftid? ing I hat the standard of the different grades of cotton, as fixed by them, be adopted as the official classification of the government, the committee of ex? pert classifiers, designated by the sec? retary of agricuture to assist him in establishing such a standard, has made Its report to the latter. The committee has made up types repre? sentative of the nine different grades to be designated, middling fair, strict good middling, middling, strict *o\v middling, low middling, strict good ordinary and good ordinary, to be the official standard. The recommendation Is made that in view of the confusion that might arise In case the standards were pro mulgated at once, they should not go Into effect until September 1, 1909. It also is recommended that efforts I should be made to secure the cooper at ion of foreign exchanges In connec- I tidn with the standard. The furthr .* recommendation is I made that congress enact legislation penalizing any one tameprlng with the standards, which are to be kept lock- I ed up at the department of agrlcul- I ture. Secretary Wilson still has the report of the committee under advisement. The belief was expressed that as the J result of an examination of the stand- I ards of this and foreign countries the j least confusion would arise to the cot ton business of the country by adopt- 1 Ing a cl sylficatlon of cotton that wao acceptable to all foreign consumers, hut, owing to the action of congress, the committee found it. necessary to confine Itself to stated names which are In use In this country. The standards finally recommended for adoption are those that are in use in practically every cotton business throughout the greater part of the belt and are the standards accepted in commercial practice between this country and Europe. The character? istics recognized in the establishment of the grades are those generally used In the trade at the present time. It was the express wish of the com? mittee that the government at all times should maintain the strictest supervision ot the preparation of the standards and that the standards pre? pared should be safeguarded in every J way by legislation to prevent their be? ing handled or tampered with. It was strongly urged that steps immediately I be taken to secure the concurrence of I foreign exchanges In these standards, and owing to the fact that at the pres- j ent time on the exchanges in America transactions are being made in con? tract fully a year ahead, it is believed that In order to avoid confusion the standards certified should not go Into use in the trade prior to the time Indi? cated. It was pointed out that it would be unfortunate to have the standards used as a basis of sales in the middle of the cotton season and that they could not be used for the coming season without great Injustice and confusion. In fixing cotton standards the com? mittee acted in conformity with the authority of congress. ?Foley's Orlno Laxative cures con? stipation and liver trouble and makes the bowels healthy and regular. Orl? no Is superior to pills and tablets as It does not gripe or nauseate. Why take anything else? W. W. Slbert. At Kingston, Jamaica, all the coal? ing of ships Is performed by women. Reason Enthroned. ?Because meats are so tasty they are consumed In great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, biliousness and constipation. Revise your diet, let reason and not a pampered appe? tite control, then take a few doses of Chamberlain' Stomach and Liver Tab? lets and you will soon be well again. Try It. For sale at All Druggists. Sample free. Charleston, Feb. 2.?Mr. D. B. Peu rlfoy of Walterboro met his death this afternoon while hunting brids. Alarm? ed at his failure to appear for supper, his sons, J. B. Peurifoy and D. B. Peurlfoy, Jr., went In search of him and found him at the steps of the tar? get gallery with the top of his head blown off. The left barrel of his gun was empty. It is supposed that he was resting and had moved the gun, aocldsntally discharging it. Many Sleepier Nichts, Owing to a Persistent Cough. Relief Found At Last. ?"For several winters past my wife has been troubled with a most per? sistent and disagreeable cough, which invariably extended over a period of several weelu and caused her man) sleepless nights." Writes Will J, llay nor, editor ot the Burley( Colo.( Bulle? tin. "Various remedlei were tried tach year, with no beneficial results. in November last the cough again put In an appearance and my wife, noting on the suggestion Of ? friend, pur chased a bottle of ('hainberlaln's Cough Remedy. The result was in? deed marvelous. After three doses the cough entirely disappeared and has not manifested Itself since." This remedy Is for sale by All Druggists CENSUS TAKERS NEEDED. Within th6 Next Three Month* 3.000 GOOll Mm Will be Filled?Over 100 Of Them Will Fall to Citizens of This State?Salaries, Etc. Within the next few months about 3,000 positions in the census depart? ment will be filled by the government. In 1910 the matter of taking the 13th census will begin and the work of se? curing the vast army of employes necessary for this work is shortly to be taken up. Five thousand office people and 5, 000 special agents will be necessary for the work of taking the census. The clerks will receive from $60 up, and the special agents lrom $3 to $10 a day and expenses. The government has a strong force of clerks and spe? cial agents employed now in the cen? sus department, but it will require the addition of 3,000 men and women be? fore the work of beginning the census is taken up. The way in which these employes are to be secured is now being thresh? ed out before congress. They will either be appointed from the civil ser? vice lists or through members of con? gress. As soon as the method has been determined, the work of ap? pointment will be begun. By summer, it is probable that the full corps of 3,000 additional employes will have been appointed. No matter how the appointments are made a hundred or more people from South Carolina will be appoint? ed. The waiting lists of the civil ser? vice commission in South Carolina are full and there will be no trouble In securing enough appointees, should the government decide to turn to the civil service commission for aid. In case the appointments are made through the recommendation of con? gress, each South Carolina congress? man will have the power of recom? mending a fat number of appointees, who will then be examined and ap? pointed, provided they pass their ex? aminations. It will require about five years to take the census, and it is usually the government's policy at the end of the censustaking, to provide for its em? ployes, who have been engaged on that work by assigning them to other departments. For this "eason, not only are good salaries paid for the time being, but a future is offered. By July the laying out of schedules and the work of dividing each fctate into enumerators' districts will be be? gun. There will probably be twenty enumerators' districts in Greenville County. For every congressional dis? trict a supervisor will be appointed. The civil service commission and all other departments of the government are now anxiously waiting for a de? cision by congress in regard to the method of appointments. Good to Know. "I believe cotton seed oil is a whole? some, palatable, nutritious cooking, salad, and table oll. I intend to work for it until some one shows me it is unwholesome. It is for the 85,000, 000 of the inhabitants of the United States. It is a wholesome and nu j trient oil. One unit of cotton seed oil will furnish two and one-half times as much heat and energy as the ?ame quantity of grain."?Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. "Ask questions, raise objections if you will. After profound study, ma? ture thought and years of observation and experience, I am here to meet and answer them. To be on ground as firm as the Rock of Ages, or Gibral? tar, I affirm that not one of the 4,714, 000 head of work-stock in the South today, without regard to age, condi? tion or accompanying ration, should be possibly injured by feeding it one pound of cotton seed meal a day, or could pos8Slbly escape tremendous benefit by such a practice. The only objection to this practice would be that it would require for such feeding annually 860,305 tons. This would be 160,000 tons more than is now used for all purposes in the South.*'?Judge Henry C. Hammond. Fire In Manning. Manning, Feb. 2.?Fire destroyed the building owned by Mr. J. W. Mc Leod and contents of the store oc? cupied by H. B. Bradham & Co., gen? eral merchandise. The fire started at 9:10 p. m., and was under control by 10:05, owing to the ve:y efficient ser? vice of the Manning fire department. The building was worth $2,500 and was insured for $1,500. The contents of the store was valued at $5,000, insured fur $3,000. Had it not boon for two fire engines well manned and a splendid and ade? quate water supply it would have proved a very dletastrous fire. The Secret of Long Lifo? ?A French scientist has discovered one secret of long life. His method deals with the blood. Bui long ago millions of Americans had proved ESlectrtc Bitters prolongs life and makes it worth living. It purlflee, en? riches and vitalises the blood, rebuilds wasted nerve ceils. Importe life md tone to the entire system. It's a god? send fo weak, sick and debilitated people. "Kidney trouble had blight? ed my life for months," writes W. M. Sherman, of Cushlng, Me., "but Elec? tric Bitters cured me entirely." Only 50c at Slbert's Drug Store. GATUN DAM NOT UNSAFE. This is Hie Statement of the Scientific American?No Trulli in Published Criticism of Great Dam. There is nothing in the published c-'. icisim of the Gatun dam, on *l 4 Panama earn;;, we are assured by rep? utable engineering journals. The re? ports that the dr.m i:- unsafe are stig? matized at lOIUatlonnl and misleading, and we are told that it is not only safe, but actually much stronger than necessary. The true story of the sit? uation is thus told editorially in The Scientific American (New York,) of December 25: "The Gatun dam, as completed, w'.U consist of an artificial mound of sand and clay, 136 feet in height, about 1. 800 feet In width, and extending for 8 ('00 or y,000 feet across th.; valley of the Chagres river, from hillside to hillside. This huge mound is to be formed by means of suction dredges, which will pump sand and clay, mi ic? ed with water, from the bed of the Chagres river below the dam, on to the site of the dam. Here, as the wa? ter drains away, the sand and clay will settle into a mass of very close consis? tency, so close as to be impervious to seepage. In orer to confine the de? posited material within the proper width of 1,800 feet, and prevent it from flowing away with the water, two walls of loose rock are being built entirely across the valley, one at the foot of the slope on the upstream side or lake side of the dam, ahd the other on the downstream side. The wall along the upstream toe, as com? pleted, will be 30 feet broad at the top and 60 feet high. As the rock-flll was being built out across the valley it crossed the old French canal chan? nel, which runs through the site of the dam. During the past 20 years this channel had become filled with silt and soft mud; and the engineers decided ^ that, Instead of excavating this material until firm bottom was reached, it would be more economical to dump the rock directly upon the mud, and allow the fill as thus form? ed to settle through the mud until it reached firm ground. As the fill was raised in height, its weight at length became such that the expected dis? placement occurred, the rock settling down and 'orcing the mud up into mounds on iither side of the fill. So far from tho settling causing any con? cern to the engineers, it is exactly what they expected to take place; and the greater the settlement, the more they will be pleased. There is noth? ing new in this, and certainly nothing to warrant the attempt to stir up pub? lic apprehension, to say nothing of congressional anxiety, regarding the stability of the dam. Railroad em? bankments are being made every day by this very method of displacement; and when the rock-fill at the toe of the Gatum dam has finally reached the underlying solid material, which it will do long before the dam is com? pleted, the public need have no anxi? ety as to further settlement." The editor of Engineering News (New York, December 24) makes use of some pretty strong language on this subject. He says: "The structure at Gatun is as sound and safe as any engineering work could possibly be. Indeed, the critic? ism of the design made to us person? ally by one well known engineer ex? pert in earth-dam construction Ls that the dam is so absolutely safe that at least half its width is wholly useless. It is undoubtedly the case that the long toe of the dam on the seaward side is a concession to the fears and the ignorance of some of the engineers originally connected with the work who were better posted on bridge and railroad work than on dam construc? tion. "It is not at all difficult, as we have shown above, to account for the alarmist reports concerning the Pana? ma plans and work. Besides the inter? views given out by the disgruntled ones, whose ideas did not prevail, we have the undoubted fact that the news? papers give large space to every scare story from Panama and practically Ig? nore statements of responsible engi? neers giving the real truth. The set? tling of the waste rock dumped in the mud in the old French canal channel along the south toe of the dam has been magnified into a disaster of omi? nous portent to the whole work. Stories concerning it have been pub? lished in ten thousand newspapers while hardly one has published Un? real truth?that the settlement of the rock was expected to occur and saved the nee-Hess expense of dredging out the layer of soft mud before dumping rock." Soldier Balks Death Plot. ?It seemed to J, A. Stone, a civil war veteran, of Kemp. Tex., that ? plot existed between a deeperate lung trouble and the grave to cause his death, "i contracted a stubborn COld/' he writes, "that developed a COUgh that stuck to inc. in spit*' Of ill remedies, for years. My weight ran down to ISO pounds. Then I be? gan to use Dr. King's New Discovery. width restored my health completely i now weigh 178 pounda." For sever* colds, obetlnate coughs, Etemor rhagee, Asthma, and to prevent Pneu monta It's unrivaled. S0c and $i ot Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Si bert's Drug tSore. ALABAMA MINK BISASTER. Seventeen Men Killed in Ml ml Coal and Iron Co.'s Workings. Birmingham, Feb. 2.?Soventeer* men are dead as the tesult ot an ex? plosion in the No. 2 Short Creek mines of the Birmingham Coal and! Iron Company this morning. Five of the dead are white and 12 are negroesL The eucalyptus sheds its hark, ln> stead of its leav?m CASTOR IA For Infants und ChUdren. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature DR. JOHN IL MORSE, Grad. University of Penna. VETERINARIAN Office: Smith's Stable. Office phone, 172. W. Liberty St. Residence phone, 12. ll-16-3m?i&w FOLEY'S H0NEY?TAR The original LAXATIVE cough remedy. For coughs, colds, throat and lung troubles. No opiates. Non-alcoholic Good for everybody. Sold everywhere-. The genuine FOLEY'S HONEY and TAR is fas a Yellow package. Refuse Substitutes? Prepared only by Foley A Company, Chicago* SIEBERTS DRUG STORfc. Croup t When S child wakes up In the middle of the night with a severe attack of croup as fre? quently happens, no time should Is* lost In experimenting with remedies of a doubtful value. Prompt action I? often Decenary to save life. CKamberlain's CougH Remedy has never been known to fail In auy case and It has been in use fur uver one-third of aer?* tury. There is none better. It can be de* pendedupon. Why experiment? It ?> pie:is?af to take and contains no harmful drug. Price. 25 ceuts; lartxe size, f*? cents. PATENTS IROCURED AND DEFENDED-ff1**m<xJ**?I rawing or plioto. for ex | >crt ?*? arrh and free ivporV I Fn*e auvioe, how tu obtain patent?, trado uLtxka, | copyright*, cux, (N ALL COUNTRIES. Business direct with Washington saves tint**] money and often the patent. Patent and Infringement Practice Exclusively. Write or come to us at 023 Ninth Street, op p. falte* Statte Patent Of&e*.| WASHINGTON, O. C. GASNOW TAX NOTICE. The County Treasurer's office Isr Court House building, will be open fot* the collection of taxes without penal? ty, from the 15th day of October to* the 31st day of December, 1908. The' levy is as follows: For State. 5 1-2 mills. For County, ordinary, 2 3-4 mill*: For Sinking Fund loan of 1901, 1 mill. For Sinking Fund loan of 1908, 1-4 mill. For Constitutional School, 3 mille. Polls, $1.00. Capitation Dog task 50 cents. Also Special School tax as foHoensr School District, No. 1, 2 mills. School District, No. 2. 2 mills. School District, No. 3. 2 mille. School District. No. 4, 2 mills. School District, No. 8, 1 mill. School District, No. 11, 2 mills. Schood District, No. 12. 3 mills School District, No. 13, 3 mills. School District, No. 14. 3 mills School District, No. 16. 2 mills. School District. No. 17. I mills. School District. No. IK, 2 mill*. A penalty of 1 per cent, added" fbr month of January, 19e:?. Additional penalty hf 1 per cent, for month oJ February, 1909. Additional i enalts? of 5 per cent, until 15th day of MtvrtH. 1909. when the tax books wil rtoee for the collection of taxes foi fiscal year, 190S. T. W LK W Co. Treas. for Sumter Co.. S. C. 10-7-mchl3,09 & ILL the COUGH urn CURE the LUNC8 WITH Dr. King's New Discovery PRICE soo a si.ra FOR Irlaf AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. guaranteed satisfactory! ob money refunded.