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OR. COOH ?MBit Hlfi LKTH REPORTERS READ PO? LAR DIARY. Ali*wem Ktwy Inquiry Save Those Krhitiug to Commander Peary? Displays Accurate Memory. New York, Sept. 13.?Dr. Freder? ick A. Cook, seeking reet and seclu? sion with hie family after the boister? ous welcome of yesterday, denied himself to Interviewers today and rs enalned in his sutte at the Waldorf Astoria until bite this evening, when lie submitted cheerfully to one of the severest cross-examinations since he announced his discovery of the pole. The ordeal of the Interview, which was conducted by 40 newepaper rep? resentatives, including several from foreign newspapere, proved at least that he was not afraid to meet the public. Incidentally the city of New York officially recognised hla achieve? ment today when the Board of Ald? ermen passed a resolution commem? orating his discovery and providing for a public welcome at the city hall. The date of the reception will be an? nounced later. As the questions ask. d were put by laymen they did not go deeply Into the scientific aspect of the expedition. Rut Dr. Cook was ready to anawer anything pertient to the Issue. The most Interesting phase of the Interview wss reached when Dr. Cook was asked If he would object to show? ing his diary. He Immediately con? sented, and. after retiring to his room, returned with a small octavo note book which he showed freely to all. It was a thin book containing 176 pages, ?ach of which was filled with 50 or ?0 lines of penciled writing of the most minute characters. The book, hs said contained considerably more than 100.000 words, while he has be? sides other books embracing his ob? servations and other data. The interviewers were rather severe in regard to details, but nothing In? dicated that the polar traveler's mem? ory was at fault even In the most min? ute particulars. Sometimes, when a petty question indicated ignorance he smiled with good humored sympathy at the lack of technical kntwldege displayed. Not once did he refuse to reply ex? cept when the name of Commander Peary was broached. Even then ho said that he had always and did now consider Peary as his friend, l>ut con? versational subjects in connection wtth his rival he avoided entirely, say In* that they could wait. When requested to say what had occurred at hie meeting with Harry Whitney, the New Haven sportsman, he said he preferred to let Whitney tell nis own story, as Whitney was quite unbiased. His reasons for im? posing secrecy on Whitney, on Prltch ard. Commander Peary's cabin boy, and the Eskimos were prompted by his denim to be the first to tell the world of his discovery. He had done the work, he said, ?.nd was entitled to relate how It had been carried out. ?Dr. Abernethy. the great English physician, said. "Watch your kidneys. When fh y are affected, life Is In danger." Foley'e Kidney Remedy makes healthy kidneys, corrects uri? nary Irregularities and tones up the whole system. Slbert's Drug Store The Buchanan-Scott Co., of Green? ville, was sold under bankruptcy pro? ceeding. The stock, fixtures, books and accounts were bid in by W. H. Earle for $10,376. ?Many people delude themselves by saying "It will wear away," when th*y notice symptoms of kidney and bladder trouble. This is a mistake. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy, and atop the drain on the vitality. R eiir.s backache, rheumatism, kidney and bladder trouble, and makes ev? ery trace of pain, weakness, and uri? nary trouble dlsappeur. Slbert's Drug Store. DO IT NOW. niter People Should Not Wait Until It Ie 'loo liste. The appalling death-rate from kid ney dlaease la due In most cases to the fact that the little kidney troubles are usually negelcted until they be? come aerlous. The slight symptoms give place to chronic disorders and the sufferer goes gradually into the grasp of diabetes, dropsy. Brlght's I >!?.?.i.-*.-, ur iwi M<>nw other seri? ous form of kidney complaint. If you suffer from backache, head? aches, dlsxy spells; If the kidney se? cretions are Irregular of pussage and unnatural In appearance, do not de? lay. Help the kidneys at once. Doan's Kidney Pills are especially for kidney disorders they cure where others fail over one hundred thousand people have recommended them. Here's a case at home: Mrs. Wm. Bultman. .". E. Calhoun 8L. Sumter, 8. C, says: "I found Dosulli Kidney Pills to be an excel? lent remedy. My back ached for som-? time and I was In almost constant misery. I finally saw Doan's Kidney Pills sdvertised, procured a box at China's drug store and used them In u< < ordance with the directions. They relieved the pains and strengthened my back and I have not been troubled since. I gladly recommend Doan's Kidney Pills." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cente. Foster-MUburn Co., Buffalo. New York, eole agents for the United States. Remember the nsme?Doan's?and take no other. No. 16. PEAHY'S ACTION A SURPRISE. l>et"ideH to Stay in Seclusion at Home In Maine Instead of Controverting Cook's Story. New York, Sept. 22.?Harry Whit? ney, the big game hunter, to whom Dr. Frederick A. Cook looks to prove his assertion that he discovered the North Pole, is believed to be now on his way from Hudson bay or Baffin's bay to a telegraph point in either Labrador or Newfoundland. With his return te civilization, Dr. Cook expects complete confirmation of his story that he told Mr. Whitney all about his trip to the Pole. Further testimony to corroborate Dr. Cook's claims is expected when Commander Peary'e ship, the Roose? velt, reaches this city from Nova Scotia. In a final statement before re? tiring at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Dr. Cook declared that on the Roose? velt there was more than one person who knew that he had been to the Pole. Pritchard, the cabin boy, has already admitted that he heard Dr. Cook tell Harry Whitney of finding the Pole, and the statement from Dr. Cook indicates that Pritchard did not have that information to himself on the Roosevelt. The sudden determination of Com? mander Peary to remain in seclusion at his summer home at Eagle Island, Maine, indefinitely, has caused consid? erable conjecture. It was believed that Commander Peary would hasten to this city and submit to the public the proofs which he said he possessed that Dr. Cook had not reached the Pole. His announcement that he would accept no public honors and would not attempt to controvert the Brooklyn physician's claims, was the result of ?. telegram suggesting that course by Herbert L Bridgman, sec? retary of the Peary Arctic Club and Qen. Thomas H. Hubbard the presi? dent. At the time Commander Peary announced this determination he add? ed in his emphatic way in an inter? view at Sydney, Nova Scotia, that he was still convinced that he could prove that Dr. Cook had not reached the North Pole. While it is nor known just how long Commander Peary will remain in se? clusion, it is believed that he will wait until Dr. Cook has submitted his data to the University of Copenhagen and it is made public. Dr. Cook is at work on this data now, and it is un? derstood that it will be on its way to Denmark within two weeks. 0 Only Name Retained?Circus En? larged. It is understood that the Great Sells-Floto Shows Consolidated this year have undergone a general re? novation in each and every one of the many departments, and from the monster exhibition tents to the cook tent everything is now, clean and up to-date, the only thing that has been retained being the trade mark and name?Sells-Floto?which means ev? erything first-class. Five long trains of cars transport these immense shows en tour this season, and the biggest and best combination of c'r cus and menagerie attractions ar I presented, to say nothing of the nu? merous auxiliary novelties offered in conjunction with this immense cir? cus. The World Famous $25,000 Armour Dapple Gray Prize Winning Team are also with the Big Show. They are the greatest feature ever toured with any circus. The Sells-Floto Shows will exhibit In Sumter. Oct. 6th. ?"Can be depended upon" is an ex? pression we all like to hear, and whon it Is used in connection with Cham? berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy it means that it never fails to cure diarrhoea, dysentery or bow? el complaints. It is pleasant to tuke and equally valuable Cor children and adults. Sold by W. W. Sibert. Lieut. Stafford H. R. Doyle, of Or? angeburg has been detached from duty on the Birmingham and ordered to the naval academy at Annapolis as an Instructor at the marine school of engineering. This department is a new branch recently added to the Na? val Academy. ?Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is today the best known medicine in use for the relief and cure of bowel complaints. It cures Krlping, diarrhoea, dysentery, and should be taken at the first un? natural looseness of the bowels. It Is equally valuable for children and adults. It always cures. Sold by W. W. Sibert. Miss Julia Hutchison, ne Cl of Ma? Jor J. A. Donnell, of Los Angole?, w'il travel 11,000 miles to Yokohama, Ja? pan, to marry Ralph Hardmg. On their return tour the young COUph ? 111 travel an additional 2,000 miles through the Orient. TESTIFIES AETEJt FOUR YEARS. ?Carlisle Center. N. Y., B. Burbans. writes. "AbOttt frur years ago I wrote yOU that I had been entirely cured of kidney trouble by taking two bottles Of Po!ey*S Kidney Rem? edy, and after four yr>ars 1 am again phased to state that I have never had any return of those symptoms and I am evidently cured to stay cured." Foley'j? Kidney Remdey will do the same for you. Sibert's Drug Store. WANT ROAD 10 CHARLEolOii. HAWLEY SYSTEM SEEKING AN OUTLET TiiEliE. Owners of the Chesapeake and Ohio And A Iii Hated Lines Reported to be Negotiating for Purchase of a Road To Charleston Tliat Will Give Them A Direct Line to Chicago-?Are Ri? vale of the Norfolk and Western Pennsylvanta Lines. New York, Sept. 22.?The so-called Hawley intersts, the moving spirits of which are Edwin Hawley, Theodore P. Shonts, Frank Trumbull and Presi? dent Jrank A. Vanderllp. of the City (Standard OH) Bank, have practical? ly secured control of the Hocking Valley Railway and coal properties and are negotiating for the purchase of a railroad which will afford the Chesapeake and Ohio, an outlet at Charleston or at Savannah, possibly at both points. Since Hawley entered the Southern railroad field by pur? chasing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and especially since his plans to broadly develop that road were made public, intense rivalry has sprung up between his railroads and the Norfolk and Western-Pennsyl? vania lines. The Chesapeake and Ohio has a shorter line to Cincinnati than the Norfolk and Western's, and by purchasing the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville It has also secured a lower grade from Chicago to the sea? board than the Pennsylvania has be? tween that city and Philadelphia or New York. Hence th struggle for supremacy. A few months ago the Norfolk and Western and the Atlantic Coast Line acquired control of the Winston-Salem South Bound Railway and made a contract to advance the funds requir? ed to complete that road from Wlns ton-Salem on the Norfolk and Wes? tern to Wadesboro on the Atlantic Coast Line, and in this way open a short line from Charleston through the Pocahontas coal fields to Cincin? nati and thence by lines of the Pen sylvania system to Toledo, Chicago, St. Louis and other points North and West. This was a direct challenge to Hawley his answer to It is as stated. The Hocking Valley Railway Com? pany controls the Toledo and Ohio Central, the Kanawha and Michigan and the Zanesville and Ohio, which, with its own lines, form a system al? most 1,000 miles in length, extending in two linea from Toledo to the Ohio River at Point Pleasant and from j there by a single line to a connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio at a point near Ganley, W. Va., numerous branches extends to the coal fields through which the lines extend. When this system is taken over by the Ches? apeake and Ohio the latter will have a line from tidewater to the Ohio coal fields seventy-five miles shorter than the Norfolk and Western's line to the same region, and a lower grade from Toledo to the Atlantic seaboard than the Pennsylvania has. This extension to tidewate r through V'rginia and the Carolinas for which Hawley is nego? tiating will also, it is said, give him a line from Cincinnati and from Cen? tral Ohio many miles shorter than that to be formed by the Norfolk and Western, the Winston-Salem South Bound and the Atlantic Coast Line. From this it would seem that when Hawley's plans are worked out the move of the Norfolk and Western Pennsylvania^ interests to checkmate him will be neatly blocked. The tonnage of the Hocking Valley Ohio Central system now amounts to about 20.000,000 tons per annum, con? sisting in great part of coal from the mines of the Buckeye Coal and Rail? way Company, the Ohio Land and Railway Company, the Sunday Creek Coal Company and the Kanawha and Hooking Valley Railway Company The coal companies own more than 100.000 acres of coal land In Ohio and West Virginia. The Chesapeake ind Ohio's yearly tonnage exceeds 18,000.000 tons, more than two-thirds of which is coal and coke. It is planned to throw much of this coal tonnage upon the new extension to tidewater, so as to relieve the ter? minals at Hampton Roads, and there? by facilitate the movement of grain and general freight which Is expected to seek that outlet in increasing vol? ume when Hawley's pi ins are con? summated. A great commercial cen? tre is likely to spring up at Hampton Roads, which is destined to be one of the principal Wheat exporting places on the Atlantic coast. Charleston will be the great distributing port for coal from Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, and to that end immense coal pockets will be constructed along the harbor. The struggle for supre? macy between the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk and Western st ems likely to result in great bene? fits to Virginia and the Carolinas, if not to the entire South Atlantic sec? tion. WARNING. ?Do not be persuaded Into takln v. anything but Foley's Honey and Tar for chronic coughs, bronchitis, hay fever, asthma, and lung trouble, as it stops the COUgh and heals the lungs. Slbert's Drug Store. SPITTING NUISANCE. Hawking and Spitting is Caused by Catarrh therms. If the local authorities want to stop the disgusting habit of spitting mucous on the sidewalks, they had better instruct the people as to the best method of killing the catarrh germs and curing catarrh. You can easily tell by reading the symptoms below whether you have catarrh or not: Offensive breath, frequent sneez? ing, discharge from nose, stoppage of the nose, husklness of the voice, tickling in throat, droppings in throat, a cough, pain in chest, loss of strength, variable appetite, spasms of coughing, low spirited at times, raising of mucous, difficulty in breathing, loss of vital force. J. F. W. DeLorme has a suitable remedy (money back if it falls) for catarrh, called Hyomei, which Is a vaporized air so antiseptic that when it is breathed over the Inflamed and germ infested membrane, it kills all' germ life and cures catarrh. The price, including hard rubber inhaler, is only $1.00, and money back if it doesn't cure. Extra bot? tles, 50 cents. "I have tried almost every catarrh cure on the market without beneiit. Have been using Hyomei for one week and feel like a new man al? ready."?Wm. V. Goode, Newark, O., June 21, 1909. 9-17-29-10-8?W-9-29. Mrs. Joseph Anderson, of Des Molnes, Iowa, whose Indian name is "Wompuncaca," a poor washerwo? man, will receive from the govern? ment $60,000 for land once owned by her forefathers. A NARROW ESCAPE ?Edgar N. Baylisa, a merchant of Robinsonville, Del., wrote: "About two years ago I was thin and sick, and coughed all the time and if I did not have consumption, it was near to it. I commenced using Foley's Honey and Tar, and It stepped my cough, and I am now entirely well, and have gained twenty-eight pounds, all due to the good results from taking Fo? ley's Honey and Tar." Sibert's Drug Store. _ Onion ti^ ? ? ? ? We have just received shipment of Onion Set:-. Now is the time to plant them for an earh crop. 10c Quart Red and White Sibert's Li Stoic W. W. SIBERT. Telephone 283. - 8 S. Main St. Glasses and Glasses. Some people seem to think that if they only wear Glasses it will be al? right with their eyes. There would be Just as much sense is prescribing the same medicine for every dis? ease. We give an Examination that can Leave no Defect Undiscovered. I have a graduate Optician in charge of my Optical Parlor. All work guaranteed. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and Optician, ft S. Main Street - Surater. S. C. ?jg* Tto Farraers' Bank & Trust Go, Has to Say Satisfaction with one's efforts puts the breaks on progress. There 1? a future ahead of the fellow who is sorry when the whistle blows. The Farmers' Bank and Trust Company is continually reaching out for new business, and is getting it. If you are not a patron we invite you to become one" C. 6. ROWLAND, Pre*. R L. EOMUNDS, Cashier. GUY L. WARREN, Teller, A, S, MERRIMAN, Bookkeeper. H. L. MoCOY, Asst. Bookkeeper. IIIIIHHRAHMMHISIIIIHIMIIHI ft 'ft ft Advancing ft Their 5 Interests. ft ft W E ENDEAVOR to advance the business interests of our customers in every legitimate way. In so doing, our motive* may be somewhat tinc? tured with selfishness, for, upon the prosperity of its patrons hinge? the success of every bank. First Nationl Bank, Sumter, S. C. ft ft ft ft ft ?ftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftHHMftftftftftft The Small Depositor is Welcome at This Bank A hundred small accounts make a bank stronger than a dozen large ones. This is one of our rea? sons for urging the man of limited means to trans? act his business with us. Large accounts are welcome too, for it is our purpose to serve all classes, whether the business be small or large. l? Bank of Sumter NOTICE! If you have farm property in Sumter er Clarendon County which yon wish to sell this season, you should list it now, in order that it may ha inspected and properly advertised lor the fall business. I have a number Of prospective buyers for well improved property, and If your prices right, we should be able to do some business. CITY, FARM AND TIM? BER PROPERTY HAN OLcD. REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED. 26% N Main St. Ra B. Belsen REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY. Sumter, S. 0. MONEY INVESTED IN REAL ESTATE MORT? GAGES. LET ME INVEST YOUR IDLE MONEY AT 7 AND 8 PER CENT ? ? For Qcilp.! FARMING LANDS, A \JK VjClKKy ? ,n the Following Sizedjracts: One Place.-.-300 Acres. One Place.-.- 76 Acres. One Place_.-.-._.-105 Acres. One Place.?.~.$66 Acres. One Place.357 Acres. One Place.1.-381 Acres. All of the above within six miles of Sumter on good public road. One Place.277 Acres, three miles from Wedgefield Two Places._.-loo Acres each, near Privateer, S. C. Three Places.40 Acre? ^each* near Privateer, S. C All at prices that are right. For particulars, see SUMTER REAL ESTATE & pNSUf ANCE CO,, Sumter, South Ccrolina Farmers! 1AI E can supply you with BAGGING and TIES. * ? Call and get our prices before you buy. We know that we can save you money on these articles|J besides jjiving you goods that have quality. Don't forget us whe.i you are [ready to purchase. A. A. 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