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II AVK t.o\h inmS ON LAIK.K sPF.tlLATIVK TRADK. Many Maintain rkat l'pward Reac? tion 1? Amol 1? Po-edbUlUea?Spln mn, May Hu> ll.avllv New York. Oft 13.?Prices of cot ? toi. have declined on large specula? tive dealing* The Sooth hae SwSS a steady and persistent eeller. crop tn ounu have been favorable, re-j celpts at times iminenee and the epot markets dull. In Weetern Tax aa It la asserted, treble the amount of cotton waa raised than waa raised laat year. -For a month and a half the weather conditions of the South have been ideal. Predietlors of aa hlgn Sjtsjg ae 16,000.000 baits have been current.. Large nickel It - tereate recently identified with the bull side. are. it la asaerted. heavily short. Prominent people associated with the bull campaign of last year, when August contract* sold on? - quarter cent over the price of spot cotton, at twenty cents as again/ft It.71 cents, have Sow turned to tfce heart** aide of the agreement. Moreover, prominent speculattvt in tereet* known %s the Waldorf-As? toria e'iinente hava been selling par* st? ently snd heavily and it reeir. s have now the power, the prestige and Incidontalry the profits. In the paat week more than half a million bales of short contracts have been retired by large Interests who believe an upward ractton Is among the poesthiltttea 8ptnnera at home and abroad are buying more freely. Large Fall River cotton mills are starting up. At Manchest? er a fire waa reported which it is I ; aderetood haa deetroyed some t the raw cotton atored there. Later ly, although ralliea have been feeble, nevertheless they have occurred and some resiliency as to prices haa been apparent. Many think that preeent prlcoe amply discount all that can be sad against the market on the scors of a big crop and unaatlafactory trade and that the tendency is to over? crowd the short aide. Frost scares may come at any time. Many think the crop Is being overestimated. Al? so* the price la so low that on any sl|ns of real steadiness spinners. It Is believed, will greatly tncreaae their purchases and are likely to buy much more than they actually re? quire, fearing higher pricee next senson with perhape a smaller crop. Lancashire Is having a good trade. American export* of cotton gcods this year made no ' ad exhibit. Hold? ing back Is beginning to be reported in the South. With its new arches, Sumter truly he* a great "white way" that la as good. If not as long, as any in the Slate. A couple more archea should be erected in between the ones al? ready huns; and this would complete the eystem so that it would appear ai its best. Mr. Mose* stated that the SfWJI SfSJSSg Si Main and Liberty an et corner would be erected In the next ten days. Th* fisherman report that the fish are blttln* ?M these days and that a mesa of them < an he caught with Httlf trouble at almost any time. Friday waa as beautiful a day as one SSejsl gftsa f.,r mwi UlSfi wer. many on the etreets to enjoy its re freshing coolness and bask In the fall sunshine After all the hsilSB summer is about the t.r.st time of th.? \nr A Doufces THvenp*. If we cam. by a moral effort, pull ourselves up to the mesa, the high sands, where move such figure* aa An tooJu* and Llnooln and Jeeo*. if we oan rise thus to the point where we ear feed our enemy If he hunger and five him drink if he thtrai, we have the double satisfaction of triumphing wver him. which la pleasant, ar i over ourseJve*. which la an in finitely yi'wet ar pleasure --Crane Some Cirmwte. "Oh. yes. we have s wnaderful oflV mar?, said the (nan from southern Tstae. "Why, only last SSJSJSSj we raised a pumpklu ao large that, after sawing It In two. my wife used the Salves as cradles in which to -oci the babies " Yea," replied the man from New York; "hut in ciy state It's a common 'hing to And three full grown policemen asloof) on one beat ?Upplncott'a Magazine Truth of the Case. Betty Rlchwood thinks it provoking for a woman who has been working ail day mending her husband'* coal, to find a love letter from another la the pocket That is perfect uonseoae There In not a woman on earth but would find the Mter before *he be gaL to mend tb* coat- and then the coat would not be nieodcd st all Up to Mlm. Tramp- V t> -. SJOSlM ffM *!?* "?e S nickel for a ssstftT f%S> IrlSS "For S glass of t>eer c or Hk l\ Tramp ?"Wotevsr you iay. boas; you're pay IV for it SSSfSS rtnn-crlpt HON. KU H, L MANNING TKLL* WHAT SHK IS DOING. Heul rotate VaJao Jumping, Xcw I HofdncwH Conorrn* Being Formed. I Bank* Incresudng Capital. Hail- I road PriwiMvO? Bright, ami Schools Filled to Overflowing, Suys Bstal? I dent of (.amooiH'k 11 ty. I The Hon. Richard l< Manning, of I Sumter, was among the visitors in I the city yesterday. When seen by a| reporter for The News and Courier J and asked what he intended to do in I reference to the next Gubernatorial I race, Mr. Manning remarked: "I'm not talking politics now; I'm boosting! Sumter?that's my long suit." Those I who know him best know that in Mr. Manning 8umter has a booster I worthy of the name. "Real estate in Sumter which five I years ago so id for $300 per front I foot," says Mr. Manning, "is selling I for $500 today. The city has a nunv I bar of new concerns just organized, among them a $26,000 buggy and! wagon factory and t\ fertilizer com- I pany. of all local men. which will pmbably he capitalized at $100,000.1 The city's banking business i* grow- J mg by leaps and bounds. The capi- j tal of two of the banks will in a| shr.rt while be more than doubled; I the Sumter Savings Bank will in- 1 croeee its capital stock from $25,000 1 to $150,000; the Bank of Sumter will increase from $75,000 to $200,000. "Sumter is backed by a rich farm- j ing section. Agricultural Interests I have been greatly developed within I the lust few years. Farm lands have 1 increased In value*, due largely to j Improved methods in farming and! Increased production per acre. The farmers have done much in the way of diversification of crops, In which I the increased production of grain I has been a marked feature. They I have also entered largely into stock j and cattle raining. "The agricultural extension work I being done by Clemson College, the I State and Federal Government 1 among the farmers is educating them I to improve their methods of culti-1 vatlon. This Is a great work and as I the farmers become more and morel used to scientific methods, the larger I are the yields and the greater the I increase of land values. "Sumter Just now is deeply in- J interested in connection with the j Seaboard Air Line. Engineers are I surveying within a few miles of the J city, and It will not be long before I WS will enjoy the facilities of another I Kroat railroad system. There are I eight lines radiating from Sumter at I present. Kiving connection with two J splendid avstems?the A. C. L. and J the Southern. Our fine back country 1 makes it advantageous to any rail-1 road to seek connection with our I city. "Now a word as to Sumtor's hope. The children are the hope of any city. They represent the future. A look at our schools will Justify the statement that Sumter is looking well to her future. She is training with ears and hands and minds of those who are to carry the success of tomorrow?the children of today. In the past fourteen years the white enrollment of the city schools has Increased from 205 to moro than !??? Fifteen years ago we built a school house for $12.000. The build? ing was soon outgrown, and another school house went up at a cost of $17.."00. This soon became too small and a building cost ins; $2">.000 was erected. This last building is Ailed as well as the first two."?News and < 'ourler. * \U FORMA WOMF.N TO VOTE, suffrage Amendment Wins ? MmO Initiative and Referendum, and R?vall. Ban i ! up isjco, < >< t. 11 Woman ?uffrafli has triumphed In Califor? nia. Returns h?-r?- today wiped OUl tii.? majority previously recorded ftgaliuH the Amendment, and lines IMl turn tie- margin in faVOf "f the imendment has Increased steadily. Totals early tonight were; For suffii-ge lii.esp, asjainel 117.40s; majorttf for in* amendment l,?H7, These (iguns represent lhe. returns from 2.717 precincts, out of 1 total of Mil m tin- itate, Virtual I) all "f the rowselnlna' preclm ti ire in oountlet which have given ?uftrage majorities. Be overwhelming was" the rots In flavor of the other Important amend ments, the initiative ind referendum ami tho steal] including the Judiciary 'iiit tahnlntlon of tn?? returni was suspend.?d wthin ne.irly i thud of lite precincts remaining unreported The Anal count taken showed the follow ing rOent! * lor the Initiate iri?i referendum 1 11,1II, ?galnwl 11 1:.'?; for the recall 141,1ft, against M Iff CHINA IS NOW REPUBLIC. REPORTED THAT REVOLUTION? ISTS HAVE ELECTED PRES? IDENT. Hu*iitCKs Ilus IW-en Sasfietided and Working CSssgaafl Have Taken to Plundering. London, Oct. 14.?A special dts pgtch here from Shanghai aays: "A republic haa been proclaimed at Wu Chang. A strong force of i ?ball have left Hankow with the object of engaging the imperial troops coming from the north. A big battle is expected within two days." The Daily Chronicle today pub? lished a three column statement which purports to give the inner his? tory of the Chinese revolutionary movement. It shows that Dr. Sun Yat Sen for many months has been en? gaged in secret Journeys to England and the United States endeavoring to raise $2,500,000 to Bc-.i i^e re? volt, and gives copies of many ot? ters with nam'? and dates suppress? ed which Sun Yat Sen wrote in an endeavor to secure financial oasis tance. These letters pertly reveal his hopes and plans for the revolution, the aim of which is to start in China a republican form of govern? ment. He claimed to possess guar? antees from a large Chinese bank and some substantial Chinese mer? chant!. San Fransicso. Oct. 13.?Advices were revived here today by the Chung Sia Yat Po, the Chinese Daily World, that the revolutionists in China have declared a republic, electing Li Yuah Hung president. Some Fitrins Dots. One farmer in selling his cotton some time ago remarked that he had already sold 21 loadable bales oft his one-horse farm. He explained his remark by saying that most of the bales weighed over 600 pounds. ? ? ? A darky in telling of his cotton crop tho other day, stated that he would make at least fifteen bales of cotton, and his mule didn't have a tale more than twelve inches long either. The conundrum is how many bales could he have made, if his mule had a tail of the usual length. ? ? ? Still a third farmer was heard to r?-mark that he had made 12 bales Of cotton this year with * fifty dollar horse. It is to be won? dered if he could have made twin as many bales if his horse had cost twice as much. In The Police Court. The following cas?s were disposed of Friday by Recorder Lee: W. If, Graham, violation of health ordinance by keeping hogs in the city limits, discharged. Mr. Graham removed his hogs as soon as he was notified to do so and upon this showing the case was dropped. i>. L. Wannamaker, riding bicycle on forbidden sidewalk, $2.00 or 4 days. Sentence suspended during good behavior. Btngry Conyers, fighting) bond of |10 forfeited A Pedant at Death. Mal herbe, tike Preach poet, on ac? count of a dettcato ear and refined taste, and a habit of criticising every? thing that he saw or heard, was called "the tyrant of wards and syllables." When dying, his confessor, In speak? ing of the happiness of heaven, ex? pressed himself Inaccurately. "Say no more about it," said Malherbe, "or your style will disgust me with TL"? A. P. Russell, Characteristics. "Queer English." These specimens of "queer English" are given by a writer in the Cleveland Review and Observer: "I heard a man talking of a political candidate the other day say: If he only takes the stand when he runs hell have a ??walkover"' and: "A Galveatonlan who has a mule for sale, hearing that a friend in Houston wanted to buy a mule, telegraphed him: DsBW friend? If you are looking for a No. 1 mule, don't forget me.' " Preserving the Bright Side. Then t* always the bright side as well an the dark side When the dark side is uppernu>el let us polish It un? til It If even mote beautiful thau the brlgh*. side. Awkward Observation. Alice's pretty young cousin felt faint, and the handsome physician who happened to he pr?sent fHt her .fluttering pulse wfth professional so? lemnity, but more than professional ortlor Alice convulsed the knowing bystander* b) taget? Inquiring: 'Why don't you tell h<^ La put out u?r lollgne " ?'So Very Straight* Occasionally the man. or woman, who boasti of belni normal la ubnor muiiy normal. BIG FLEETS TO BE ASSEMBLED. AMERICAN WARSHIPS TO GATH? ER IX PACIFIC AM) ATLANTIC Mobilization at Xcw York and Lt>s Angeles Will Bring Together Big. gest Force in This Heiiiljipliere. Washington, Oct. 13.?The mobil? ization of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets of New York and Los Angeles October 20 to November 3 will mark the gathering of the greatest force floated in the waters of this hemis? phere. This prohably will be the last assembling of present-day war? ships with the United Statee of America standing second in the list of great maritime powers, for it is certain that at the rate of development of the pians of Germany that nation within three years at least will move up to second place unless congress should authorize each year additions to the American navy at least dou? ble those now provided for by the existing naval programme, which contemplates the construction of but two br.ttleships yearly. The navy department today made public the full list of tie vessels to erather at New York and Los Angeles ?ind while the number combined does not equal the 135 ves? sels reviewed by the Ger ?mperor at Kiel last sum? mer, the 126 American warships with their tremendous displacement of 693,844 tons are really more pow? erful than the German fleet. HARMON CANNOT COME. Governor of Ohio Writes President Hudson and Commissioner Watfton As to Invitation. ? Columbia, Oct. 14.?Judson Har? mon, governor of Ohio, will not at? tend the second South Atlantic States Corn exposition to be held in Colum? bia during the week of December 11. He has addressed letters to Commissioner Watson and A. D. Hudson, president of the exposition, stating his inability to attend. Gov. Harmon states that he will visit South Carolina on October 19 to at? tend the Union county fair, and that he will spend the month of December In California. Gov. Har? mon evidently thinks that the Union fair i3 the State fair. ! The following is his letter to Pres? ident Hudson: "I am greatly honored by your in? vitation to attend your association in December, and if I were free I should be glad to accept it, though I am to be at your State fair next week. As 1 have never hoen in South Carolina except to pa.ss through, I should not object to being there twice this year. "But I have to go to San Fran? cisco, under a law passed last win? ter, to locate the site for the Ohio exhibit at the Panama exposition, and this prevents my making any engagements for December, as I ex pect that trip to take all the njpith except the holidays. "Please accept for yourself and your associates my hearty thanks for remembering me." The following telegram was re? ceived bv Commissioner Watson: "Your dispatch received. I am sorry 1 can not accept the invitation. I am inclosing a copy- of my letter to Mr. Hudson explaining why. I enjoyed very much the corn exposi? tion held here last winter. It was very Interesting and Instructive, but I must forego the pleasure of being with you this year." WRIGHT'S NEW MACHINE TEST? ED. Orville*! Latest Aerial Piidoctlon to be tried at Kill Devil Hill in North Carnlinn. Manteo, N. C? Oct. 18.?Orville Wright's newest flying machine ar? rived this afternoon at the combina? tion hangar and cottage on the sands of Kill Devill hill In which Mr. Wright and ins guests are spending what the former declares is merely a vacation. The machine was land? ed from a steamer at Collington bay, near Kitty Hawk station, early this morning and was brought to the Wright camp in a box ear. About six hours' work will assemble and put it in shape for operation and Mr. Wright says there will be a flight tomorrow if there Is a 20 or 26-mlle breeso blow Ing. Reports that the new flyer >* to i?o a world-startler are belittled by Orville Wright. Marriage license Record. Marriage licenses were Issued frndav and Saturday to Mr. West} .1 Bradley and Maggie H Nunnery of Sumter and Mr. \rthur O. Wal? ford ..f flrogdnti and Mary Jam ? >w ens of Wedi efleld. Mr. Bradley and Miss Nunnery we?-., married in the court house by Mr. Junlus Parrott, Ihe deputy cljrk < f court. Embryonic One?,. They bad been at school together. They bad fought both shoulder to shoulder and face to face. Now, after the passing of years, they met again. "How's the world treated you?** ask? ed the long, thin one. "Uke a lord," said the short, fat one. "Oot my own business, wife and three youngsters, two thousand a year. And how are you?" "Hnwr replied the thin man. "Oh, any how r "Dear me! Sorry to hear rt Let me think. You went on the stage, didn't you?" "Yea. Hot I had to give rt up." "Why was that?" asked the city man. "Oh, I thought it best*" said the otb e*. "1 had a few hints that I wasn't quito suited to the profession." "Oh, I seeT nodded his friend know Ingly. "The little birds' told you. ehr* "Weil, not exactly," answered the ex? actor, with a palnfuJ smile, "But they would have been birds?rf they had been allowed to h^tch."?London An? swers, French 8oHootboy Knowledge, It does not seem to ho a difficult matter for the pupils of primary schools to obtain certificates, if one may Judge from uome specimens of their answers at examinations pub? lished by the Piris Journal Here is a sample, among others, of a written an? swer to the questions "Which period of French history do you prefer, and why?" The period of the history of France that I prefer is the war of 187a Bis? marck said to Napoleon III., *Es-to protr* ?Yes,' says the other. *I have not a gaiter button wanting.' Thea Napoleon III. tells McMahru to come, But McMahon, who was on the tower of Malakoff. replies, *J*y suis, J'y res La' I detest war because It is a barba? rism," As the Parts Journal remarks, it Is sad to think these tads, who are on the point of becoming apprentices, will probably never open a book again and In a few years will be electors.?Paris Cor. London Telegraph. Origin of "Plagiarist." Ooe who appropriates?that ts, steals ?the literary work of another to use it as his own thought, the child of bis own brain, is guilty of plagia? rism, as everybody knows, yet few are acquainted with the derivation of the word or know that the plagiarist is lit? erally a child stealer. Among a cer? tain class of criminals tn Rome in the time of the earlier Caesars, there ex? isted the damnable custom of stealing children and selling them as slaves. According to Roman law, the child steal era, when detected, received as a part of the penalty for their crime, a severe flogging, As the Latin word plaga signifies a stripe or lnsh. the ancient kidnapers were termed "pla giari"?that la, deserving of stripes. So both the crime and the criminals re? ceived their names from the castiga tion inflicted. The Coup de Monserrat The history of the sword strobe the Parisian fencers call the "coup de Monserrat" is romantic. The hero of the story was a young Parisian mu? sician engaged to be married to a young lady of Bordeaux. Quarreling with a cousin of his fiancee, he got his ears boxed at the Bordeaux club. Ignorant of fencing, he dared not re sent the insult and renounced his en? gagement But he also took fencing lessons from one Monserrat, a maitre d'armes of Toulouse. Monserrat taught him one trick only, and he practiced It for a year. At the end of that time he returned to the Bordeaux club, slapped his man's face and. being call? ed out, instantly ran his opponent through the body with his cunning lunge. Grease Versus Gravity. A professor in Yale university de? lights in telling of his experience with an inventor of the unlettered genius type who came to the professor with a mode! of a perpetual motion ma? chine. "II'm; looks plausible," observed the professor, "but it won't work. What are you going to do about gravity?" "Gravity!" said the visitor scornful? ly. "T'ell wit' gravity; we'll use plen? ty of grease."?Cosmopolitan. The Good Time Coming, Hop Sing is a Chinese laundryman with a cheerful though somewhat un? usual philosophy. After bewuliingthe hard times and lack of business he added smilingly, "Blmeby evrybody be lieh, relly lieh, blmeby." "How's that?" "Alia poor people got no money; no can eat Then alia poor people die."?Argonaut Carried to Extremes. ?'She is simply mad on the subject of germs and sterilizes or Alters every? thing in the house." "How does she get along with her family?" "Oh. even her relatlo'is are strained." ?Stray Stories. Correct. Defeat eil Candidate?You encouraged me to run for office. You know you did. You said you thought I wouldn't make a bad alderman. Trusty Henchman?Well, the returns seem to show that I was right?Hart? ford Times. A Stickler. "Say. pa." "Well, what?" "What is (he difference, between see? ing your own flnish and drawing your own conclusions?" In one completed man there are forces of many nwu.- Hu)wer-Lytton. j Mr \ C. Burroughs, <?f Congan waa in the city Saturday. Kxtcnding the "t nwi1tt?'n I^aw." The trial and acquittal of Joseph J. Dunlap who killed Charlee Middle ton, a negro, in Sumter, widely ex? tends the "unwritten law." Dunlap had no malice in his heart against Middleton and harbored no grievance against him whatever, but because a third person had injured Dunlap. attempting to invade, so it is s.iid, the sanctity of his home, Dunlap shot the black, at night, whom he mistook for his enemy. The * unwritten law" as thus con? strued by the Sumter jury is that when a home has been invaded and upon the head of it has fallen the duty of enforcing the law by the in-? flictlon of the death penalty, the public must beware. In case a citi? zen of Sumter, prominent or lowly, happens to stray within gunshot range of another man who on ac? count of an insult to his family, "is not reasonably responsible for his action" and the citizen intercepts a load of buckshot, he is simply an unlucky sacrifice to "unwritten" jus? tice. Manifestly, when Smith is shot to death by a person who is angry at Doe, the family and friends of Smith have no r'ght to complain. They should bear up bravely, re? membering that if the "unwritten law" be not enforced, the country will go to the demnitions, and they have the lasting consolation that the life of Smith was yielded up to its vindication and perpetuatio^. Meanwhile the position of the third party in the Sumter case, the man who was not shot for the act that the dead man did not do, is in? teresting and anomalous. True it maybe that no man was ever so flayed by a lawyer in the Sumter court house as he was flayed but, in spite of that infliction one sus? pects that he is a subject for con? gratulation?upon being alive. There are those who would rather be a subject for congratulation than a subject for something different? dissection, for instance. Undoubted? ly, the "unwritten law has its vic? tim?Charles Middleton. The victim of the eloquently spoken law, the "flayed" man, is alive and hearty and is perhaps as good a life in? surance risk as is the average citi <>7.n of Sumter. The demands of the "unwritten law" have, presumably, been satisfied, the identity of the man dead being no longer of special concern. j The beauties of the "unwritten law" have been greatly enhanced. Its flexibility, its ductility, its broad? ly convenient application to the ex? igencies of clients, have been point? edly emphasized. Our hope is that the citizens of Sumter will be cau? tions in future and that none of thorn will be so unfortunate as to wander unwittingly into the danger /.one of men to whom the d<?ad1y ex ecution of the "unwritten law" has been delegated. A bullet speeding in the dark is no respector of persons.? The State. - i Child's Request. Bobby's aunt had often brought him some tiny ohocolate mice, which ha liked very much except for their sla?a One day he sidled up to her coaxtn# ly and said: "Auntie, next time yon buy chocolate mice, won't you please buy rats?** Sick headache is caused by a dis? ordered stomach. Take Chamber? lain's Tablets and correct that and the headaches will disappear. For sale by all dealers. The Gun Camera A remarkable method of making birdseye photographs Is by the use of a 4 gun camera," which Is shot several feet into the air from the top of a standard in the head of which la an explosion chamber. The camera is set to expose from one to ten seconds after the explosion, when it reaches its full height tt must be caught in a net when It comes down to pro vent It from being smashed. J. \V. Copeland. of Dayton. Ohio, purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for his boy who had ja cold, and before the bott'.e ffM all used the boy's cold was gone. Is that not better than to pay a five dollar doctor*! bill? Vor sale by all dealers. 1L - . . HUNT'S . LIGHTNING is the one uul tiling SCfentUsC dressing which Instant!) relieves ami |Kkraaaiieutlj ein? ?, all hurts, CVta, burns, brsisee, sprains and wounds of o\ery kind. Fain leaves at once because the air is exeludod. and the oil covering acts as artificial skin. The queek <'-t. fastest healing oil known? HI NT'S LIGHTNING OIL. 25 cents and :>U ovnts bottle^ V IV RICHARDS MEDICINE CO. For Sale by Siberi'3 Drug Store.