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Wf i .tlT riilF.S IN NKW YOKK. WAlmr Wright end Glenn Curtis* f\ 'liif^ve Knccc***, While Baldwin Ami ttNuliiiMiM Fall at Start. ti.'w York. Sept. 29.?Wilbur Wm;ht c.m?d the great Statue of Ul?e? ty tit t..e entrance of New York hart? H m hi* aeroplane today, while In the upper part of the city two hege dirigible balloons failed Inglor loasiv is their task. This?the first day of (light of the Hudaon-Fulton celebration?was a victory for the ivlei than elf machines. Beth Wright and Glenn H. Curtlss fcred aucceasfully from the aero dropi ? of Governor's Island in their mot n pr ?pelled biplanes; both great riirtgtbl ?s. manned, respectively, by Capt Thosaas Baldwin and George L. Tomliri^n. entered In the New York WorlJ'* $10.000 New York-to-Albany race were forced to deacend because of morhstii?<t difficulties before they were well under Way. Wtlimr Wright made three sensa? tion 11 d^ghu and Curtlss made one brief th lugh successful test spin of ,10 eex mds doritlon. Baldwin with his diiigHiie landed in the Hudson river I ?>* than an hour after the start, while Tomlinson. after remain? ing In (he air from 11:30 a. m. until t> ?ii . came to earth near White Plain*. M. Y. 22 miles from the Start Ina point Neither of the dlrglble pi? lot* w.u. injured, nor was either craft seriou.lv damaged. COTTON WEIGHING ISSUE. Ooevrtitntioauitltir of .-Wet Brought Into Oo-arte la Columbia. .Columbia. Sept. 30.?The constitu? tionality of the statute enacted Feb? ruary ff?, tv09, requiring all wagon or street cotton sold In the city of Colombia, to be weighed by one of the euMic weighers on the public platform is to be tested In the higher court;. Th ? initial move to this end was the srre.it of Mr. J. D. Blakely. a well known buyer, and his being brought before Magistrate Fowles to answer e*er violation of the statute. The r*eu 'ally for such violation pre? scribe t in a (Une not to exceed $60 or ImpriirMiment not to exceed 10 days for ea- ?? offeone. a nominal sentence was im41Med. that the defendant shoub p.ie a aae of >r# or serve one day Mr. .la Berry Lyles represented the denef ^ol in this case, and at the cond?,i m of the hearing, he gave notide of appeal. Xh? v.arrant on which the cas> was brought before the magistrate was ?worn etoi by afr. J. C. Turner, rep fiaoattwn the Farmers Union. The wnrraot charges that on September 1. IMS. Mr. BUi ety bought two bales of cotton from Mr. J. T. Harmon, the eottoa not having been weighed on the public platform as required by the statute. Mr Turner testified to harfcig witnessed the purchase of the cotton b? hfr. Blakely. and that It was net weighed at the platform pro? vided under the law. . Mr Blakely pleaded not guilty, setting ui? the defense that tho act In e}SJtotlon srss unconstitutional. Ho did aot sinke denial of the occurrence of the fcaesaction as alleged in the wares oi It tree hrought out In the hearing that an ?ther buyer, Mr A. M. Wyse was ereyeejed In the business of buy? ing entten Just outside the city boun dai i IIa 'u, and the defendant's at? torney, f.'e Lyles. that the act is dUccii'i ? ?ting against the corporate limit* ai ehe rity in favor of thos ? who gu tust outxide the boundary to buy Al..(i. it ?.?.4 Insisted that the law i. ?iiibiguou, in that it fails to epeei? ?tiiy stipulate lha( the cotton muct be w.'igh d by the public weigher befor,- tbe sale takes place. I>r W. 0f. Bay appeared In behalf of tbe I aimers' tin Ion. He said that the ptiipi-te of this trial was not t?< pani*h any one. and that there was no rsn oi in bringing the action, but that b ?in the buyers and the farmers end off) i?t>. desire to ascertain the corm?i i i uii stitus of the statute aaade ty gorern tbe sale and purchase Of wsgiif* cotton in Columbia. ???ightrul l'sie Averte?!. ?"I * ?n$d have been a cripple for life ?i ??n a terrible cut on my knee cap." writes Fi .ink I?isberry. Kelli her, gfftna "without liuoklen'a Arni? ca Sslx ! which seen cured m?\" in? fallible i 4i nenn de cuts and braises. It aeo ? 'eres Burns. Scalds, Old Bono, r ?<i. Skm Brnnttosal World's peat lei Met lie at sibert s brag Store. Now l.i. : f 5? y I if when the iu ? . k? f ajaratulati hlnv ?elf tii i aehedi m seen lag home to i?k? ?v > tb.il he spill Ink on the par? lor cni s??*l, broke the l>est coffee pot and lag! ibe windows open for the rail, t ? iuin |hs < urtaine.?From "Ite :t?aa? sf a Bachelor Girt." CASTOR IA Foe infanta and Children, 111 KM Yn Rut Always fj?gM the era of GARNER'S FERRY. Commissioner Watson's Report on Conditions. Apropos of the statements made by Mr. E. A. Jenkins In his interview with a representative of The State, in his fifth annual report Commis? sioner E. J. Watson says in relation to the river crossings, with special reference to the Garner's Ferry crossing, after making a thorough in? vestigation: "That the swamp conditions on the Sumter side of Garner's Ferry are such as to necessitate the construc? tion of a long stretch of causeway, which would probably prove costly, but not too costly for the benefits to be derived. "That the investigation of all con? ditions, agricultural and otherwise, lends invariably to the conclusion that the opening of these arteries of travel is of greatest importance, that immense benefit would accrue by rea? son of such public highway connec? tions, reducing travel distances in many instances 40 miles and more, between Columbia and east Carolina points, and that steps should be taken to establish these connections with the least possible delay. "That in the case of Sumter the greater burden of construction would fall on that county; that each county, In each case receiving equal benefits, I would recommend that, if the pow? er not now be given by law, such leg? islation be enacted as will enable these counties, upon petitions of free? holders, to undertake the establish? ment of ferries . . . the expense of construction and maintenance to be borne equally ... by Richland and Sumter couties. i "A conservative estimate of the cost of the ferry, including flat boat and complete installation by the drop ca? ble system (avoiding interference with navigation), telephone service and weather houses is $1,600. The cost of maintenance would probably be $40 1 per month, which would amount to $480 per annum. "The construction of the causeways leading to the old Garner's Ferry has been estimated by a construction en? gineer who has examined the old em? bankment, to cost not exceeding $250 per mile, Including such wooden bridges as would be necessary to span gaps. This estimate would entail, I therefore, a cost on the Sumter side side of $1,200 "Garner's Ferry, which is almost due east from Columbia, on a direct line to Eumter and thence to all prin? cipal points In Lee, Clarendon, Dar? lington and Florence couties, is prob ably the most needed of all the pro I posed public highway lines of trans | portatlon. . . In order to go by ve? hicle fiom Columbia to Sumter and Clarendon points, at present one must traverse from 40 to 60 miles more than would be necessary should either of these ferries (Garner's and the old Singleton) be opened. "On the Richland side, about one and a half miles approach would have to be reconstructed, but this could be done by the county chaingang. A splendid public road leads to within a distance of two miles of this ap? proach. On the Sumter side, four and one-half miles is through the Wa teree swamp. The old causeway Is there, but there are several gaps that have been washed from It. and It Is grown up in a thick underbrush and timber from long disuse. Once hav? ing passed through the swamp, the public road Into Sumter is in very j good condition and could easily be improved."?The State. English ami American Officers, j Boston Transcript. j A lleut >nant. writing in a London newspaper and treating of the status Of officers says that the explanation j of the shortage of officers and the 1 falling off of applications for admis? sion to Sandhurst is found in the ' fact that the army as a profession i "does not pay," bluntly speaking. It ! is not, to quote a British authority, "a prosperous profession," if the party is compared with the invest? ment. The writer asks In what other profession would he, a well-educated man of 32, after an expenditure of $10,000 capital and twelve years' ser? vice or experience, be expected to be contented with a "salary" of $2 a day. Answer is not easy, and appar? ently none is attempted beyond the vague assurance of a minister that the government hopes at some time . to give the whole subject of officers' pay consideration. I Th reference by this British sub? altern to the expenditure of capital is en light ning as to the difference ex? isting between the method of officer Ini the army In his country and In ours. Not only do we pay officers a wau-e calculated with some reference: to the expenses which the service en tin Is. but we pay young men to go through the fours years' course nt West Point. In Great Britain the ixnotljf opposite policy is followed. I The cadet at Sandhurst pays for the Instruction he receives. Many a woman considers marriage ? failure because she la unable to get a divorce. DEMOCRATS NAME GAYNOR. Convention Names State Supremo Court Justice for Mayor of Greater New York. New York, Sept. 30.?Justice Wil? liam Jay Gaynor of the New York State Supreme Court was tonight nominated for mayor of Greater New York by the Democratic city conven? tion. PEARODY' SCHOOL CHARTERED. Directors of Million Dcllar College for TeaelvTs Incorporate Institution to Re Located at Nashville. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 30.?A char? ter for the new George Peabody School for Teachers, to be located in Nashville, which recently received the $1,000,000 endowment from the George Peabody fund was granted by the secretary of state here today. Whllford R. Cole, Geo. N. Tillman. E. A. Lindsay, all of Nashville; Bol ton Smith, Memphis, and Edward T. Sanford of Knoxvllle are the incorpo rators, having been chosen by the Peabody board as the first directorate of the school. They elected 12 other members already designated by the Peabody board, to serve with them? selves as trustees of the college. EXPERT ON CLOVER. Mr. A. G. Smith Gives Some Interest? ing Information. "People of South Carolina are only making about one-seventh the amount of crops on their farms as are the northern farmers," said Mr. A. G. Smith of the United States de? partment of agriculture, office of farm management, who was in Union recently, when speaking to a Prog? ress representative. The thing for the Southern farm? ers to begin to realize is that they must grow more winter cover crops, in other words must revolutionize or at least evolutlonize their methods. The winter cover crop which seems to be most practical in this section of the country is crimson clover. Crimson clover is an especially val? uable crop as it not only Is a winter cover crop but it takes the nitrogen from the air and puts it into the soil, having the same effect on the land as the cow pea. It works, however, through the fall, winter and spring, while the cow pea only works through the summer. It also prevents washing away of the top soil which is very essential on the hill sides of the country and the washing will be reduced to practically a minimum in the winter. Crimson clover also absorbs a certain amount of the fer? tilizer that the cotton or other plants will not take up. A ton of crimson clover turned under is equal to four tons of barnyard manure, besides it is a very veluable forage crop. A ton of crimson clover will bring am? monia into the soil vhlch one will have to pay from seven to eight dol? lars for in nitrate of soda. Mr. Smith continuing said: Fif? teen pounds of seed should be sown per acre, about the latter part of Sep? tember or first of October and unless the land has grown crimson clover successfully before It should be well prepared and the soli from other fields where crimson clover had been sowed should be applied to the land so as to inoculate it. "The following directions will be found to be a good guide for the man who has not yet grown crimson clov? er successfully heretofore, but If he has grown crimson clover on the land before, the land most probably is al? ready inoculated and the using of lime and the soil for inoculation will not be necessary. "Plow and thoruoghly pulverize the soil. "Apply all barnyard manure possi? ble up to ten loads per acre, disking In immediately after spreading so as to prevent drying. "Apply per acre: . "1,500 lbs. air slacked lime. "125 lbs. acid phosphate or basic slag. "125 lbs. cotton seed meal. "125 lbs. kalnit or 35 lbs. muriate of potash. "Work the lime and fertilizer well into the soil. "Just before sowing the seed, ap? ply some soil from a field where crim? son clover has previously been suc? cessfully grown, and work well into the soil immediately after scattering." Mr. Smith has an office in the State House at Columbia and is spending all his time In the State just now making a specialty of helping the farmers to grow crimson clover, burr clover, red clover, alfalfa and vetch. He will send any one directions for planting any of these crops who asks for them, telling where to secure the seed, all the material necessary for planting and each step In preparing and fertilizing the land.?Union Prog? ress. ?Foley's Honey and Tar clears the air passages, stops the irritation in the throat, soothes the inflamed membranes, and the most obstinate OOUgh disappears. Sore and Inllamed lungs are healed and strengthened, j and the cold Is expelled from the I system. Refuse any but the genuine I in the yellow package. Slbert's Drug Store. WEATHER AND PAIN. In\estimations Show' a Close Connee tlon Between Them. The well known Inclination of many patients to blame weather changes for the appearance of pain in connection with their maladies is usually discounted a great deal by the younger generation of physicians, brought up on the modern views of the pathogenesls of disease and Its symptoms. Not Infrequently, however, a phy? sician himself, who has fallen prey to such a disease as gout or rheumatism, discovers some constant relation be? tween any sudden Increase In his dis? comfort and the changes in the weather; he is then unpleasantly con? verted to the belief that the clinical observations of more experienced men, as well as the statements of patients, are found upon more tangible evi? dence than imagination. Writing in the Munchener Medh.ln sche Wochenscrife, Lugwig Miller communicates the results of a careful study of this matter, carried out upon a number of patients in the hospital and In private practice. He has found that many patients suffering from chronic rheumatism could foretell weather changes with almost the ex? actness of a barometer; painful sen? sations referable to the affected joints were felt invariably two or three days before the appavanco of bad weather, whether wind or rain. Several patients affected with scia? tica and others suffering from arthri? tis deformans could also trace all ex? acerbations of pain in their cases to the same cause. Most of them were quite ignorant of the aim* of Miller's investigations, reporting to him by mail any sudden Increase in discom? fort. In such cases a study of the weather conditions showed the exist? ence of an unmistakable relation be? tween them and the symptoms com? plained of. Just as evident was such relation in cases of locomotor ataxia, in which lightning pains appeared and disap? peared with barometric changes. No less an authority than Erb corrobor? ated bu "h findings in the case of this disease. Among other conditions that made "walking barometers" of pa? tients were hemlplegla, extensive scars, amputation stumps, etc. Miller considers one by one the possible factors connected with weather changes that may be held responsible for the clinical phenom? ena, among them changes in atmos? pheric pressure, disturbances in elec? trical conditions in the air, dampness, etc. In no case, however, can any single one of these be considered as the sole cause of the appearance of an exacerbation of pain in the class of patients studied by him. However that may be, the mere fact of such relation betweeen the weather and the subjective symptoms of disease seems to be quite evident from his in? vestigations.?Medical Record. Gave Him One Guess. Pittsburg Press. He was a fine type of the old Sou? thern colonel, the fiery scion of a race of cavaliers. Also, he was ex? ceedingly wrathy. He had just re ? celved a letter from a man, a low sort of pushon, suh, I assuah you," which displeased him immensely, and he was debating inwardly how best to convey to his vulgar corres? pondent an adequate expression of his (the colonel's) opinion of him. But his stenographer was a lady. The colonel snorted, made two or three false starts, and finally dictat? ed: "Sir: My stenographer, being a lady, cannot transcribe what I think of you. I. being a gentlemen, cannot think it. But you, being neither, will readily understand what I mean." ?Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has become famous for its cures of coughs, colds, croup and influenza. Try it when in need. It contains no harmful substance and always gives prompt relief. Sold by W. W. Si bert. A decision of importance in relation to the automobile industry was ren? dered by Judge Hough in the United j States Circuit Court at New York last week. In this decision Judge Hough held that several patent claims of George B. Seiden were infringed by a number of makers or sellers of auto? mobiles. Much interst has been man? ifested In the statement of Judge Hough to the effect that if the de? fendants infringed it was because the complainants owned a patent so fund amental and far-reaching as to cover every modern car driven by any form of petroleum vapor and as yet com? mercially successful. A considerable number of American manufacturers will not, however, be adversely affect? ed by the decision. Both Boys Saved. ?Louis Boon, a leading merchant of Norway, Mich., writes: "Three bot? tles of Poley's Honey and Tar abso? lutely cured my boy of a severe cough, and a neighbor's boy, who was so ill with a cold that the doctors gave him up, was cured by taking Foley's Honey and Tar." Nothing else is as safe and certain in results. Slbert's Drug Store. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of - and has been made under his per? sonal supervision since its infancy* ? J^ccAx^i Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-os-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment? What is CASTORIA * Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, troric, Drops and Soothing Syrups* It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium* Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee* It destroys Worms and always Feverishness* It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic* It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* The Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend* GENUINE CASTORIA ?LWAY8 Bears the Signature of The Kind You Hare Always Bought * In Use For Over 30 Years. TMS ?KJVTAUR OOMMUtV. TT MUMMY STMKCT, NEW TON? Orr?. Birimie's Drug Store, 5 W. Liberty St. Stjmter, S. C. Dealer In Pure Drugs and Medicines, CHOICE PERFUMES AND FINE TOILET ARTICLES, COMBS AND BRUSHES, PATENT MEDICINES AND DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, A FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. :: :: :: :: :: OUR MOTTO: PURE AND RELIABLE GOODS. in Our stock is complete and we cheerfully solicit your patronage. :: :: :: SURVEY OCR S1X)CK of superior building material and you will be convinced tbat you can't flr.d better quality or a more ^complete stock than you will at our yard. We have anything you may need in gttfe kinds of sash, doors, blinds, mourn? ings, rough and dressed lumber. The Sumter Door, Sash & 3lind Factory, J. W. McKeiver. - - Proprietor -_. m m Seed Oats, Seed Wheat A ppler and Red Rust Proof. Smooth and Bearded Varieties Seed Rye and Barley. -Grain Pasture Mixture CompcfO *>f Winter Turf Oat<. Wheat, Rye, Barley and Vctr; The best winter Horse, Cow and Hog Pastor? you can possibly plant. :: :: :: THERE WILL BE A ROLLER FLOUR MILL IS SUMTER BY JAN. 1910. to., BEST LIVERY IN SUMTER. SUMTER, SC. N. G. OSTEE1N, JR., Dentist. 18 West Liberty Street-Up Stairs. Hours-8.30 to 1-P. M-2 to 6. Office Phone?No. 30 - - - House Phone 382