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?Ir'FI Kl \< i: OF (?IMMUN WH>\<. Dl \I(K iA IS. ?I< - lit tu it t<. ||:?a I?III- S|i lUm-kliiK Xnicitcun \dmliil nu? ll II gfl I- and*. < llIN lp W .1 .:i Rd - l?l) ' I . I I ,1.111 W.nhing.cn. Jan Jv ?ihvlshn th.it exists Within tin Desneefmtfe ranke over grandng in iepen ictu?? to the I'htlppincs was emphasised in the house toduy, ,\ h- n An..1.ran iioin.n istrutlon in th? Islands was made Uu subject of a WVtfi attack by Rep ivs.-ntatue W A Jones, of Yirgini 1. chairman of the h.?us? committee mi insular affairs. Kepr? Mentalis? J.. 11 suh.i'Mi 11 fur I'hllllppme independence which h.iH l> en considered fuvnrahly by President-elect Wilson, was opposed by Depres* ntati\e Siurley (Democrat) of Kentucky while criticisms of Pres? ident Tuft and (lowrnor General Cameron Forh-s brought a sharp re? ply from Representative Muiriy ? Democrat) of Massachusetts. The s| sei,. by Mr. Jones was both a de? in ?nd foi Indepeiub n< e und a movere urrilgnrmnt ??f the American admin? istration In the islands. The fight that ensued over Repre? sentative Jones' speech brought out the fact that an Investigation ot Philippine affairs bad recently been discussed by the Tmuse committee on insular affairs, but no action had been taken. Representative Murray, a member of the committee, declared that nal he known Chairman Jones Intended to make a speech "charging Gov Forbes with being a grafter-'he would have insisted on having Mr. Forbes hrougbt before the committee where he could reply ttr the attacks. T have not charged Qov. Forbes with being a grafter, ' retorted Mr. Jones. "You have been unutterably unjust to him in the speech you have made," sold Mr. Murray. Mr. Murray furth? er declared manv members of the in sular committee "were wondering if It Is wise to commit ourselves and tho party" to the support of the Jones bill. which would give the Philip? pines Independence In eight years. He declared the United States should not withdraw from the Philippines until It had made treaties of neutral? ity with other nations so Japan could not seise the Islands. Mr Jones described American ad? ministration In the Philippines as tyrannical and oppressive. Denounc? ing the action of Oov. Gen. Forbes in exp. ndlng public revenues, "as In bis sole Judgment semed desirable." Mr. Jones declared that "many an official b ? b n impeached for less than this." Twice the legislature has failed to pass any supply bill. Mr. Jones said, because the lower branch had In? sisted noon reducing the salaries of members of the Philippine commis? sion, and because the commission In? sisted upon the rigl t to appropriate large sums for the f 1? p-ruet road, a highway built at a cost of several mil? lion dollars, through a mountain gorge to a resort called Itaguto, to which the government is transferred, fr? m Manila *ev- r il months in ? a< h year. There, he continued. American officers bad handsome homes. club hin?,? p,-lo grounds and other sources of amusement and recreation He charged that when the supply bills failed, the governor general ordered the appropriations of sums c<|iial to the total appropriations for the pre \ |o is \ ? r "?ugulo and 1'enguet road Were lib.rally provided for." said Mr. Joins. n-w sdgOea were created and the salutes ,/ existing aHegfl in? creased." In that action, be declared. Mr. fWfcee acted without the advlcs of th- solicitor sjeneral and attorn* y general of tbe islands and over the prot? ?t of Ctsmftei W F.lliott. a former member of the commission. "NVthmg that osjr gl ve: nm. nt he <lon. in thf Phillip!gee,*' he added, "has srous?d more feeling and cre? ated saufe reeentmeal on I he part of the hetpleaa FMplaos i? has glsaken if aex aV <fayea\ the confidence of tie ni plan peopk n the Americas sei ..f Biles and fair dealing, and re m- v d evef) veataji af sentiment wh n ntaj Ua . ? ? ilatel la favrr oi .\m> rtcan aaa tsattoa." m ? Jeaei said that what the ni 1 and military op? r-'Th-ns on eceoBa! of the Pbillipims has cesg the United Pastes probably will never be inown hu* )(. .1 the e a,ru it" if th hit.' S. ne'or Mo r, ptobal' was nearer COffOCl than fi ???nt official es tlmates. Weslth Derived Pre** Tourists. Were it not for t h? I ravel and tcsi dent foreign popuia'a b attracted by religious int? rest, und the esteaalva charitable and other contribution)! *hlch diev tc it from all over tho aori 1. Jerueeloav nith a population of |b.i .?, anuli] be of \?t.. hinall inipor tai 1 ? sees aie retail; rSillj two-thlrejg Of Iti p pt ?; < R <o:i-letl Ol non pro dur?-i. v.ho are . .:pportcJ from abroad A Gambler's Warning Bv EVERFTI A .WATER Crokcf up to tu?> tiuu' ii? was rorij fears old VM a very successful plill Mgr. About tbt time be reached that Um he opened a gambling house in u large <ity. taking rare to hand over a proportion of bis w timings to the po> If Im- bod had only the polk* to trouble bin he would be running bin place yet. It wasn't the police, but something that shook up his nerves far more thsn ? raid from them i.ud drove him out of gambling altogether A number of |>ersous had Ikh?d ruined playing In Croker's rooms, but the\ I hadn't bothered Croker. What they i did Vfltb themselves tie didn't know i and didn't care. At Monte Carbi even now and then a pistol shot is heard in the grounds and the body of some mil etile Is found who had lost a fortune at the tables Crokers place was on a thoroughfare, ami If any one wished to commit suicide on account of losses at his place he would go where he wup less likely to be observed. At any rate there were no disagreeable happenings whatever till that one occurred which drove him out of the gambling bust net**. ' A young Scotchman. Donald Adalr, on coming of age came over the water to see America l?efore settling down nn his estute und marrying the daughter of a neighboring laird He was ear) much In love with the girl nnd Wils contemplating h happy life. On reach lng New York lie found a friend to show him the town. snd. among other places, this friend took him Into l.'r.i ker's gambling rooms They were sumptuously furnished, nnd an elab orate supper with choice wines was on a buffet Adalr. to pay for hi* sup per. coucluded to lose | dollar or two aa l lost I hundred before leaving the place. The next day he went back to get a return of |RN nnd lost a thousand. And so it went ou. loskig, winning, losing, winniug. till all his letter of credit called for was used up. Then he dree nil the cash that could be raised on his estate and one night walked nwnj from the den of iniquity Wit boll I u shilling In the world. Hut before lent lng he said to Croker: "Look out for tue tomorrow night. I have an Idea that 1 may win all this money back." Croker says that when he said this he looked at him in n way that froze the marrow in his bones. By this time the telephone had POllie Into use. snd Croker conceived the idea of doing some business over it with persons too timid or too eminently respectable to come to his rooms. Ot course whoever played over the wire sent a Pnraug to sag to his interests At>out uti hour after Adalr had left Croker a ruined man a messenger came into the place with $5(1 in gold and left it with the proprietor. A DOT ment later the latter received word b.\ telephone that the DafBOfj who bad sent the gold would like to play roulette over the phone Croker went luto the private room and asked who the party was. The answer came back that it was Adalr Croker shrugged his shoul ders. Having won everything Adait had. he had hoped that he had got through with Man, Hut he couldn't re? fuse to piny and asked Adalr who would represent him. Adalr named one of the employ OOS, Klley. adding that he would give him 10 per cent of an\ winnings he might make, Klley was called In. and the game began Adalr won from the start True, |le would occasionally lose, hut his losses were so small In proportion, to his win nlngs tha? the preponderance was ver\ largely In hin favor. Every tine he gained u good sum he gave directions that his representative should deduct KJ per r ent of It. Ttlis kept Klley III his Interest nnd insured his getting 111* winnings Hut after aw hile those win nlngs neromalated so lamely that Croker naked Klley, taking care to speak in a whisper, that he might not be heard OYSf the wire, to go ba<U on his pritieipal and report losses in stead of winnings, offering blm i large* pereentage to do so. Klley consented, and the nail large sum Adalr won he wired that H had liven a loss 'Tor that lie I will make you pa \ dearly." came over the wire in a voiec that Struck both men >vlth terror The gntne want on, und present h Adalr left ins winnings on a number that paid :i for 1. and SVerj time till , ball spun It won for him Croker p!a.\ ed QUtll he dared go DO further, then telephoned that he had Mulshed for that Ulght No reply entile to this, and he naked what he should do with Adalr's winnings Adalr must have left the phone, for not a whisper CS nie hock. "1 don't like this business.*? Croker said to fttlej "You take his pile and turn it all over to him when be call? for If ' Klley m o..;?d up the winnings, and Croker went home very muck rattled, The next morning when he took up the paper he saw nil account of the suh Idf of Ilona Id Adalr. He had gone direct1 ly to hi* hotel from Croker s, stopped the doorg and windows with the bed clot bee and turned on the gas Tills is the story as t'roker tells it Klley onlj knows what passed in the roulette room Nobody believes the yarn, at course Hut how comes it Croker was driven out of a lucrative business for no other tanas nnd how beet U man of shattered ne wine*.'. Anyway the doctors can't ? 1 SAVING PLATINUM A Little Drama Enacted In Uncle Sam's Assay Offices. SCIENCE IN THE STAR ROLE. T-hg'irVow Professors Filled Up the Cast, and, Wuh Acids and Precious Metals as Stage Properties, They Scored a Brilliant Success. Bvetl tU<P United States government has become possessed of the present day fever to eliminate any waste and ?top leaks in the methods of dolug things The results, particularly In the mints and assay offlcee. Iiave beeil remarkable. For instance, the old method of ex? tracting gold from baser metals when it came from the mint consisted merely of treating the smelter bars of gold with nitric Held, Which dissolved out the baser metals, leaving the gold with u small percentage of impurities that could be removed by fusing with niter tier many went the United States one better In this. The professors OVOI there, men whose genius for scientitic detail is unsurpassed by those of any other nation, perfected a process for refining by electricity. Simply stated. It Is nothing more nor less than electric plating. The smelter bars are placed in the plating bath, .and the gold is de? posited in an absolutely pure state, leaving the base tnetnls l>ehind In solu tion It was this residue that interested I the high brow professors. The fact that plutiuum Is frequently found with gold has been recognized ever since the science of metallurgy was in swad dllug clothes; also the fact that goid and platluutn have one quality in com? mon?i. c?.. that uo single acid known will dissolve them. It takes a combi? nation of nitric and muriatic acids to get either'of these two metals in solu? tion. Silver, on the other band, is readily soluble in nitric acid. N<> one ever thought of testing a nitric add solution of sliver for the presence of platinum because of the theory, sound as religion, that platinum could not be dissolved by nitric acid Therefore, it was argued, if there wasn't enough silver in the solution to make it worth while to extract it. then, of course, there could not be any platinum. s:? into the sewer it went The professors began to experiment At the first step they uncovered the dusky gentleman in the wood pile They discovered a curious fact?name ly. that, while plntinum alone was not soluble In nitric acid, some of its al? loys with silver were soluble. For instance, a composition of ."> per cent platinum in silver is readily soluble Right there was the clew lending to the discovery th.it for years out of mem ory untold quantities of the precious metal, essential above all others In electrical manufactures, bail been run nlng Into the sewer. All solutions were carefully tested. Salts of Iron were added, precipitates supposedly of sliver were analyzed, and since then plati? num nt the rate of $">.OtX> a month has been offered for sale by Uncle Sam. It is interesting to trace the sources of this gold In th.it the fstcts suggest that sooner or Inter deposits' of plati? num In large quantities are going to be found. Little of the gold coming from the western 1'nited states and Alaska contains platlnu i. It is found almost entirely in the void mined in Mexico and South America. Cold from these districts Is coming in larger quantities year after year. It is found, for instance, in what la popularly known ns 12ulnett gold. Guinea gold has a peculiar luster all its own. It is highly prized in the Jewelry trade for tills same pecnitur color. There are vast reaches of wilderness in South America th.it. tilled with mlnsmic swamps and lurid savages I armed with poisoned .arrows, have sn far resisted the advance of the white man It seems not too much to expect that sooner or later, when these dis? tricts are exploited, platinum in large quantities will be discovered Some Ilret Harte is prol ably a horning now to *ln\r the romance nf Platinum gulch : The romnni e of gold Is founded ouvthe material consideration nf $20.tli^an ounce, which the governments nf the earth have decreed must be Its price now and for evermore. They win have to build a second story c\tcti slon on the romance of the metal that is wortl. twice as much ns gold Now chut Uncle Sani Is Unding this mine ol platinum in the supposedly nn alloyed lairs that the Gil: retlulng com pnnies are sending In from their smell ers. the Interesting question is arising, Who owns the platinum. Uncle Sam or the refineries'* Fncle Ham bought their gold, refined it for them at cost and paid them dollar lor dolltii1 out ol his pocket. Actually he was out on the transaction. Now that he h:is stoppe?! the leak In hi< drainpipe, he is a little ahead Naturally, it one run play ill u game tWO Can play III the KUlllC game. Some of the bigger smelter companies, whose output is siifhcieiit, have undertaken the task ot recovering this platinum themselves it Uncle Sam can help out his pa\roll with platinum residue there is no reason why n privately con ducted smelter cannot do the same thing So ti.lectiical method of re lining Is coming more and more Into use, and the highbrow professors in the mints who have been searching for platinum have discovered that the smelter bars sent In for coinage are nl most |00 pet cent fine, without s?i much as a sr.eii of platinum III them I Irving Anderson In New York Tribune PLEASED WITH EXPOSITION', Sumter People See Many Interesting Things at (?real National t orn S how. There were a large number of Sum ti r people to spend the day In Co? lumbia Tuesday and Wednesday morning there were almost as many more to g-? over for the day to the kt* ;ii Fifth National Corn 1-3x m >si i Ion, Those who spent Tuesday in Co? lumbia camt home with wonderfully Interesting things to tell ab? ut the corn show and what they had seen there, Everybody teemed to be im mensely plessed with tin* exposition and they told enough about what they hud seen to make all of their neighbor! who had heretofore been undecided about going, determined to visit the exposition before it clos? ed. one thing which many of those who visited the exhibition at the Ar? cade weie especially pleased ;it and commented on was the tact, or what they thought to be such, that the Sumter exhibit was the best <>n dis? play at this building. Many persons were heard to say on the street Wed? nesday: "Our exhibit was the best of the lot." one fact that many were grieved about was that there were so many things to see at the exposition grounds that they didn't have time to see the things UP street, while Others stated that they went over the grounds and up town, but they could not see it all in a day. Some of those who went Tuesday to spend the day only, staved longer, while others de? termined to go back again later to spend another das As one visitor's apply phrased it. "I can tell you about it. but to know what it is you will have to see for yourself." UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES. Messrs. Win. Hauler, of Dillon, and l\ A. Wllcox, of Florence, Added to Board. special to The Dally Item. Columbia, Jan. 29. ? Messrs. Wm. Hamer, of Dillon and P. \. Willcox, of Florence, were elected University Trustees by the general ass, mbly to? day. .Marriage License Record. Licenses to marry were issued Tuesday and Wednesdaj to the fol? lowing colored couples: ..' W. haw and .Mary B. 3umter, Sumter; Preston F. Brown and Llszle MoLemore, of Wed gefiel d, and Thomas Boyd an I Julia Sargeant, of Rembert. PSave Feed Bills O and get better results from ? A 1 I BlliuU ggJgfKfe R your stock. Add small Animal Regulator ?R... an'?, amount ol Regulator ?k to the dally ration. Strengthens and stlrau- ^sssss^ lates dtgestlre organs and Tlntiur?n stock receWlng SnS^ns full benefit of food. In ? packages to Milt ?.:<\ 60c, ? ?1; J?-lb. palls. S3 60. ? ^ T"Y.?ur money buck If It MKfsl falls." m Get Pratts Profit-Sharing g Booklet. ^l-L S1913 Almanac FRBB \\. T. Drogdon, Brogdon, s. t\ Geo. H. I lurst. c\di;bt.\Ki:n ami i.mbai.mfu Prom pi attention 10 day or niglM calls. AT OLD .1. D. CRAIG STAND. 202 \. Main Street. Day Phone 53?. Night Phone 201. ^BSSSSSSJSSmS t? ? ??'? r-.wl i^.. J* Vs. Extravac a nee <>n the word of one of the wisest philosophers of ihe uge, you may set i. down us a truth ?thai a man I'll 11 better afford the uiosl economical of extra illguitces than llie most extra VagHllt of Ci < lU'llbe-. It's ExtrOvnganl ICconoiny to wear your old Ultisses if 111 are not exactly suited to you, We ran show you whether lite) are. and it won't eost yon everything to know. Urtttluule optIcittii in ? lutrge, \Vc grind our own lenses. Lei us bli your prescription, Ml work gtiurunteetl. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and Optician (>. S. Main Sumter. v C. We Have fill Line of the M?lme Implements on hand consisting ol* tbe following: Blue Bird turn plows and middle busters, Moline Cotton and com planters, 16*18-20 Inch Disc barrows, captain Kidd Coitirators, one and two horse wagons, ete. V lull lino ,>t budgie*., surries, harness, horses and mules. Terms and prices right ItlS IVwd automobiles and Ford parts, DC SHAW Pft mm> . l>. OIB/4VV 1>U. SOUTH CAROLINA New Crop Garden Seed We have just received our new seeds, which we think is the most complete assortment we ever had. We'll gladly suggest what is best to plant at this time we have a seed man of ex? perience to tell you. EXPECTING DAILY?Our Seed Irish Po? tatoes, which include the old original Irish Cob? bler, Red Bliss and Early Rose. Keep us in mind when vou are ready to plant. Phone 283 your wants. Siberf s Drug Store, W. W. Sibert, Prop. Sumter, S. C. t:;::::: i::::::::::: i::;:: t: i:: t:: i:: t;: i::::;:;: i: i::: i; n;: i; 11:::::: i: t: i: t CANTALOUPE SEED. We offer for sale our Celebrated Eden Gen cantaloupe seed, grown and reeelected at Rocky Ford, Colorado. nnd*W tbe personal supervision of our Mr. S. C. Mayo, of Roddick, Fia. There are none better to be had. Prices on application. JOHNSON-BROWN CO., Albany, Ga. I Or S. C. Mayo, Reddick, Fla YOUR OLD TEETH. You will be surprised to know what Dr. C. H. Courtney ean do with your old teeth. He can increase their usefulness many times; ean possibly add others to them improv ing your looks as well as your health. Delays are dangerous and always so with decayed teeth. Sumter Dental Parlors, OA. ': H. COURTNEY, Prop. OVER MRS. ATKINSON'S M1LIJN CRY STORK. WHEN IN NbED OF A GOOD WORK I SHOE I EASY, HONEST AND WELL MADE. I Ask For the I CRAFTSMAN LINE ,. im m i ? i _ _ i ii i imium t ?,^mmw,|mm,ii ??? f > anufactured By Witkerspoon Bros. Shoe Mfg. Co. SUMTER, S. C. Sold by all RESPONSIBLE merchants. Buy them and cut your Shoe bill 25 per cent. Satisfaction guaranteed. LAND LIME. We are prepared to furnish this product at prices that will enable every farmer to use it. We hav< .1 very Ion price this year and nothing will do your land mon good, especially run down lands, or l-w and sour land, it i net ssary foi all leguminous crops such ua Alfalfa, clover, vetch, peas, etc, del oar prices la ear lots or In smaller quantities, Samples on request, BOOTH-HARBY LIVE STOCK COMPANY. 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