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MEXICANS MORE REASONABLE.
FORF.K.N MIMHTFR UAMHOA
?AYS HE HAS FAITH IN
( sin ii MA 1Mb
HtimMoi, |* More Favorable and
PresfctevH Wilson's Policy May
Bring Order out of Chaos ami
Pave Way for Peace In Mexico.
Washington. Aua. 11.?Distinct re?
lief was apparent In official circles
her* today over the course of event*
of Meaico. The sta.ement of Fred
ertco Gam boa. the now Mexican min?
ister of foreign r^i ? ions, that he had
"great faith In ne reasonableness of
the Judgment of the United mates."
holding- the conviction that the diffi?
culties between the two countries
"soon would be adjusted." produced
a very favorable impression in Ad?
ministration circles. Secretary Bry?
an commented optimlstioally on it and
White House officials also were pleas?
ed.
President Wilson pointed out during
the day to callers what seemed to him
conspicuous efforts on the Part of
some people unknown to him. through
published misrepresentations, to in?
volve the United Htates in interven?
tion. He reflerated that the attitude
of this government toward Mexico
In the present situation was one of
peace and friendliness solely.
? The safe arrival In Mexico City of
John Lind, personal representative
and officially designated adviser to
the American embassy, ended some
tenee moments in the situation. Ad?
ministration officials tonight looked
forward, hopefully,to favorable re?
ception of "fyejr efforts to suggest
measure*' of peace In ending the strug
between the contending factions
In Mexico
With the air,cleared of rumors of
noetlllty In the Mexican capital to
Mr. Lind'? presence there, officials
were t disposed to believe the pro?
gramme of the American government
would be carried out quietly at Mex
i< M city.
Capt. Capeheart. of the battleship
Michigan, who proceeded last Thurs?
day from Vera Crus to Cludad del
CuMn^n as the result of a complaint
to the ?t?te department by Mrs.
Phoebe II Hearst that rebels were
threatening American life and prop?
erty In the region of h? r ranch, near
that place, has reported that "Ameri?
can subjects are iot in danger. Amer?
ican subjects have not been thraten
ed and American subjects and foreign
subjects have received proper pro?
tection from (he Mexican authori?
ties."
WHY HVKRTA WAS HM <? .M/.l I?
Hrttftetl Government'* Statement in
Reply to Newspaper CrttlHsm.
London. Aug. 11.?The British Qov
et.tment. nettled by the comment of
certain American newspapers concern?
ing Great Britain's recognition of
President Huerta, declares that the
comment la based on a misconception
of facts. It also repudiates the insin?
uation that the influence of powerful
financial interests was used in bring?
ing about recognition. In a statement
isstjed today the government says:
"The recognition of President Huer?
ta was the recognition of a Provision?
al Pr?sident pending an election. It
was done at the advice of the British
as heist >r to Mexico as being likely to
assist la the restoration of order?
an important consideration In view of
tho Urge British Interests Involred.
'The French and Oero?en govern?
ment also recognised President Huer?
ta after a reception by him of the
whole d*T>lomatlc party, at which a
congratulatory speech was made in
their behalf by the American ambas?
sador."
In The Pol lee Court.
There were several eases tr*<*d by
the Recorder Wednesday for mis?
demeanors of various degrees of se?
riousness.
Watles Anderson fur curbing, vag?
rancy, disorderly conduct and non?
payment of street taxes, was fined e
total of 160 or 100 days.
Tlllman Brown was given a ehol? ??
between $30 or 30 days for carrylnf
< on< Ir-fl w? i n. .n?
?tephen Gary was up for drunl
? nd disorderly conduct and was let
off with a fine of $:;o or bo days.;
William Mranam w?* charged with
non-payment of hack fare and wax
fined II oe or 8 days on this charge,
while he was held up on a b;i< k
debt to the cp.y of $30. due the Ile
???rd?r toi ? fine for the offense of
resisting arrest.
Kufus Washington an.I James
Thomas wro arrente.! for ret hlege
runntjvf of >tu< in ?alle, but the trial
was postponed to Wc<ln?-M<|;i\ after
.n. when the case will *<> l?efore
Jury.
The Canadian governmeni ha* Blip
phed tw*nty-flve million tree seed*
lings to *rmer?, prim I pall] in tin
xn.fft.i and Kegina plains region
The i rot.'.i States dogg not gttppl]
young tree* to the public, except in a
limited area In Wghfwselli aadei Ihe
M i gej af th' \\ ink ild a- L ,
Ills MovhMiMs GMMBLY
WAKill lt BY WILSON.
Personal Representative of President
ami Mexican MIiiKut of Foreign
Relation* Haw I'liomctal Mooting.
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Washington, Aug 1.2?News from
Mexico City that John Lind, personal
representative of President Wilson,
and Frederico Oamloa, Mexican min?
ister of foreign relations, had estab?
lished unofficial relations today by a
personal meeting brought encourage?
ment to administration officials here.
It was felt by them that the first step
in the programme of the American
(government to throw Its influence in
the direction of a quiet and peaceful
settlement of the revolutionary trou?
bles had succeeded.
The incident however, it was learn?
ed from official sources, tonight will
not change the procedure outlined to
Mr. Lind before he left Washington.
He will submit all his representations
to Charge O'Shaughnessy. who will
transmit them in accordance with
diplomatic proprieties to "the Mexican
minister of foreign relations.
The meeting of Mr. Lind and Min
ister Oamboa was looked upon by
officials here as the beginning of
frank though unofficial relations,
through which the Mexican govern?
ment might be informally and the
more fully acquainted with the ideas
of the Washington administration. It
has been left entirely to Mr. Lind's
discretion upon whom to call. There
I? nothing to prevent his -calling on
Provisional President Huerta. but It
is not . 'tnoughf he will unless Invited.
"The statement of the British gov?
ernment?1 explaining that It, as welt as
Germany bml France, has recognised
the Huerta government after Ambas?
sador Henry I^ane Wilson had made
a congratulatory speech to President
Huerta. encouraged administration
officials to believe that foreign pow?
ers would give their moral support to
the efforts of President Wilson
through constitutional processes to In?
fluence the restoration of peace in
Mexico.
Charge O'Hhaughnessy cabled the
state department today that the Situa?
tion1 in Mexico Clt> was peaceful aim
quiet.
, Trie message wan gratifying to ad
i minist nit am officials who desire that
all rnlsuhderstandlngs the Mexican
government may have as to the In?
tentions of the Fnited States shall be
cleared up before any further steps
are taken in the peace policy of Pres?
ident Wilson.
The presentation of a note repre?
senting the views of President Wilson
is expected soon but the various steps
, in the American government'h pro?
gramme will be carried out gradually.
The first note will be transmitted
in duplicate to all foreign govern
. ments represented here and will de?
clare for the first time in formal term*
the attitude of the administration to*
| ward Mexico. AdminiHtration officials
! who are hoping that Kuropean coun?
tries will lend their moral support to
the efforts to adjust the Mexican sit?
uation peacefully were favorably im
I pressed with the statement of the
British government that the recogni
I tion of Huerta had been only *'a rec?
ognition of a provisional president,
pending an election," and was done on
tho theory that It was "likely to as?
sist In the restoration of order."
The added comment from the Brit?
ish government that France and Ger?
many had recognized President
Huerta after the American ambassa
dor, Henry Lane Wilson, had made a
congratulatory speech at a reception
given by President Huerta to the dip?
lomatic corps, was received aM furthei
strengthening the view of President
Wilson that the American ambassador
had been a personal factor in the sit?
uation.
With the elimination of the am?
bassador the United States govern?
ment has made It plain that it could
not recognise any government founded
on Irregular and arbitrary forces ami
that it can only extend recognition to
a regularly established constitutional
government. President Wilson Is said
to hope that Kuropean nations will
Support this contention as one of the
effective ways of securing Stability of
government in l^atln America.
Mrs, Jas. Ptuckuc) I ait'm talus.
Stateburg. Aug. 13,?On Saturday
evening at her home, "Tin- Burns,"
Mrs Jesses S Plnckney entertained
at a fruit nupper in compliment of
Misses Sarah and Krame.- MoorS of
t Charleston.
The color scheme of Pink was
tastefully carted out In both supper
room ind parlor.
After supper the guests adjourned
to tin parlor where several vocal
ami Instrumental selections were ren?
dered.
Those present to enjoj Mrs Plnek
ney h boepltallt) were Misses Sarah.
Frances end Aimer Moon-, Km ma
llarnwell, Virginia Maunders, M;?
l>wtght, llallle Singleton and Messrs
John Ityan. Colin McLaurln, T, U
Hrohum, l>eSaus*ore Moore snd
Paul pnrnwell,
ADDRESS BY E. j. MHL
FOHMF.lt PROHIBITION GAUDI?
DATE DELIVERS IN'TKRKST.
EUG ARRRFss.
Will S|H>ak Again Saturday on Court
House Green In Roar of Court
House? Small Vudicnce Hoard
S|>oakor Discuss Liquor Front n
Sanitary Viewpoint.
"Those who vote for the dispensary
in the election on next Tuesday, cast
their ballots for death and disease in
Sumter County" said the Hon. E. W.
Chafln. former candidate for the of?
fice of President of the Cnited States
, on the prohibition platform. In his
interesting address before a small,
but mixed, audience of the citizens of
Sumter in the Academy of Music
Thursday morning.
Mr. Challn further gave facts and
figures to prove this statement. He
did not discuss the liquor question a
rabid, dogmatic or even an argumen?
tative way. He simply spoke in an
interesting style of the harm that
liquor does the people, who drink it
and the children and descendants of
the people, who drink it. and allowed
his hearers to derive their own con?
clusions. Mr. Chafln proved himself
( a pleasing talker, for his address was
I full of humor and wit and he gave
many illustrations and told a number
of anecdotes and cited Instances to
explain and amplify his points to his
audience.
The meeting was opened by prayei
by Rev. Walter I. Herbert, presiding
eld?r of the Sumter District of the
Methodist Church, who asked the Di?
vineifelessing on the work which thifc
tttcetfng was seeking to accomplish*. .
^-Mrttft, O. Turdy, the chairman* (Uten
uVu few words stated the object of. the
meeting. He said that the dlapeh*
I sary advocates were saying that*jib/*
prohibitionists were fighting liquor,
hut such was not the case. The li?
quor advocates had started the fight,
not the prohibitionists, and the pro?
hibitionists were simply fighting back,
defending and standing lor what they
already had. They did not wish to
h?.ve the legal sale of liquor establish?
ed In this county, and wanted to put
their stamp of disapproval upon nil
movements to establish the logal
sale of lb,nor.
He might be mistaken in his <t+mw
of the sale of liquor, but he-and the
prohibitionists were working for what
they considered the best interests of
the city and county and State, and if
they were mistaken, he thought that
they Would die with this mistaken
id.-a.
Mr. Chafln stated at the outset of
his talk that he would discuss the li?
quor question purely from the stand?
point of sanitary science. The health
of a community was valued more
than anv other feature, this was why
he would discuss this feature. The
Cnited States government had s|>*nt
j $5,One,000 to make the Panama dis?
trict healthy and were spending $2,
000,000 a year to keep the dead mos?
quito dead, showing at what cost they
valued health. He defied any mem?
ber of the liquor interests or any agent
to answer him on this platform on the
point of health, alone.*
The speaker then went on to show
that successful quarantine laws had
been applied to emigrants and to dis?
eases and he advocates the applica?
tion of quarantine laws to the whis?
key traffic. A point of interest and
one which few people probably know
waa that alcohol is not a stimulant, it
Is merely an Irritant. Alcohol Is not
absorbed by the human system, but
gradually comes out for the period
of thirty days, and when It escapes
from the body it is the same alcohol
In the same form it went in. The
j body does not absorb it, which shows
that It therefore i?j neither a food, a
drink or a medicine. In injuries the
human body and cnuses disease.
In Kansas, Mr. Chafln said, the pro?
hibition laws have been carried fur?
ther and 'been in effect longer than
in any other state in the union. In
this state the death rate had been
decreased from 17 per cent., the ave?
rage In other States, to 7 1-2 per cent.
Drunkenness was a disease caused by
alcohol, which should therefore be
quarantined. He referred to Hobson's
great lecture "The Great Destroyer"
In which Mr. Hobson had shown by
farts arrived at through six yearn
work that more people were killed in
one year in the world now by liquor
or because of alcohol, than were kill?
ed during 21 hundred years in all'of
Ihe wars of tin- world, live hundred
years before the Christian era.
Hobson's figures showed 750,000 per?
sons killed annually by alcohol, and
18,000,000 injured or diseased by it.
in one gallon of denatured alcohol
alone there was more power than in
t n\ o gallons of gasoline,
He stated that science had shown
that man) children were born dead
because "f the injurious effects of al?
cohol on the mother and that many
children were horn crippled because
"f tin- Injurious effects of alcohol on
iie- father,
m i ?'hafin's le< lure a as listened
to attentive)- and could nol tail to
impress b|| w i*.. heard it with Ihe
soundness >C his dot trine.
WOULD GOVERN MONEY LOANS
TREASURY DKPAUTMKNT WOULD
NOT SUPPLY MONEY FOR
SPECULATION,
Banks That Lend or Borrow for
Speculative PgYpoeea Arc to Be De?
barred from Share In $50,000,000.
Washington, Aug. 12.?Banks that
borrow or loan money for speculative
purposes will be denied any portion
of the $50,000,000 of government
funds about to be deposited in na?
tional banks to assist in moving crops.
The entire amount will go to institu?
tions that earnestly strive to meet the
1 current demands of the agricultural
1 sections. This policy of the trade was
announced today when the acting
j comptroller of the currency, Mr. Kane,
in connection with a call for the enn
i dition of national banks at the close
I of business August 9, asked every na
, tional bank in. the country to report
detailed information of all money
loaned or borrowed. Upon the basis
of this data, expected to be available
in time for the distribution of the
$60,000,000, the treasury department
will differentiate between banks that
borrow or loan in connection with
t speculative operations or are chronic
borrowers and those that endeavor to
relieve financial strain wherever it
exists.
Information of this character, it
was announced, now will be regularly
obtained by the comptroller of the
currency as a feature of his calls for
the condition of national banks in or
! der that the treasury department
might know what sections of *h
country are in need of Additional oir
culation at various periods of the
year. This innovation is a forerunner
of other material changed In the
character of information banks will
be required to furnish the govern?
ment. The forms which have been
in use for years are being studied
with a view of further steps to ob?
tain detailed information.
Much additional Information is t<?
he obtained from the call made to?
day. The treasury department wants
to know how banks in different sec?
tions are attempting to relieve the
demand for cureney. Acting Comp?
troller Kane issued this statement:
"All banks have been requested to
send in on special forms furnished lor
that purpose detailed statements of
all money loaned to other banks as
well as all money borrowed from
other banks in the form of redis?
counts, bills payable or in any other
manner." The new form will enable
the comptroller to more easily deter?
mine what sections of the country are
> t tii ...
In need of additional circulation at
stated periods of the year; what banks
accommodate their correspondents In
such sections and in addition should
also enable the comptroller to more
easily ascertain what banks bor?
row in order to meet legimitate dis?
counts and varying conditions, and
what banks should be listed as
chronic borrowers?that is, those
which borrow to reloan In normal
times.
"This amplification of reports of
condition is in line with the policy to
obtain from those reports as much
, information as Possible to serve prac?
tical as well as statistical purposes."
One primary purpose in seeking de?
tailed: information is to discover which
banks are borrowing for speculative
purposes and which are borrowing to
meet the legitimate financial needs of
the country. , The treasury depart?
ment, it was said, wants to single out
the institutions that are not using
their resources to help the crop mov?
ing period, so that it would be in ?
position to decline them special de?
posits of the government to relieve
stringency and place the money with
I banks that are sending currency to
districts where it is needed.
The Information collected probably
will be available to congress for use
in connection with the question of
amending the pending currency bill.
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A MONSTER RATTLER.
Snake hi Hol by Negro on E. W. Par?
ker, Jr., Mace at Providence.
Mr. K. W. Parker, Jr., of Provi?
dence brought In to town with him
Tuesday morning a bi^ rattlesnake
I which had been killed by one of tin
hands on Iiis place. The snake \va:
a diamond back and measured some?
thing over live feet. It was turned
over to Mr. J. J. Pox to be skinned, so
that the hide might be saved und
tanned.
Mr. Parker stated that there was
another snake In the same neighbor?
hood, larger than the one which was
killed, judging by the trail left by the
reptile In crossing the road.
Every farmer In the county would
be benefited by attending at least one
of the farmers' institutes which are
to be lo in in this county on August
15th and 16th, at Mi. S. .1 Whites
farm and .?t Bethel K< hool, respective?
ly. The lectures by ihe farm ex?
pcrti front Clcmson College and from
the l mu d states department of ag
riculture will begin their talks at ll
L. ALPERT'S
END g&Jg SALE
Gives you the chance of buying what?
ever you may need to wear during the
balance of the warm weather for a big
saving. Our Mr. L. Alpert goes North
soon to buy a heavier winter stock than
we have ever handled, and we must have
the room to receive it.
Drop in and let us show you some of
the values we have to offer ? values
which no other store in town can dupli?
cate. It won't take but a minute to
convince you that our prices will move
the goods and move them quick.
L. Alpert,
13 N, Main St. Sumter, S. G.
F
L
FLOUR
U
R
Several cars just received
and we are now prepared to
give you bargains in very
best patents and half patents.
While some eatables have
fbeen advancing, Flour is
cheaper. See us.
O'Donnell 6 Co.
Teeth and Refinement.
You can't appear well with poor teeth, and you
know and are conscious of it. Your mirror reflects
it and you are ashamed of it.
See Dr. Courtney; don't suffer this mental
strain.
Sumter Dental Parlors,
DR. C. H. COURTNEY, PROP.
OVER SHAW & McCOLLUrA.
SUMTER. S. C.