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BANKERS Tt> HA VF. INNINGS. Bemswje Owfn Reptle* to Chicago Mm i currency Criticism. Washington. Sept. 1.?Senator Owen, chairman of the senate bank? ing and currency committee, tonight mada public a letter hs had address? ed to Jams* Simpson. Vies President Marthall. Fish) A Co.. of Cttlcago. denouncing 'artificial propaganda" against ths administration currency bill In behalf of private Interests, and denying ths often repeated charge* that ths banking Interests were not given proper hearings by ths rraaiere of ths msasure. Senator Owen commentsd upon a telegram publlshsd In a New York paper from Mr. Simpson saying "We think ths fullest sxchsngs of opinion between framers of the currency bill and bankers absolutely neceseary In order fo avoid mistakes." This had been sent in reply to a query tele? graphed broadcast by the nswspapsr asking for opinion* on alleged lack of co-operation between ths legislators snd banking Interest* Rev awing ths various congression? al hearings and Investlgationa pis csdlng ths drafting of ths pending bill, the senator declared that Just four days prior to the publication of ths rsplles to this nswspapsr Inquiry, ths bankers of ths country had been tnf'tsd to appear before ths senate committee on September 3 and that they already had been gt'en four hesrings before the framers of the bill. "TKe propaganda now being car? ried on. tsd by the National City Bank, of New Turk, which has circularized the country against the t)lll." con? cluded Senator Owen. "is obviously Intended to discredit ths sdmlnlstra tton and to make It appear that ths bankers have not been consulted and that ths committee Is not well inform? ed. Sack representation wlM thus promote ? privats Interest against ths public Interest It Is an open secret that these, great concerns, like Morgan A Co., havs publicity agents to whom they pay very large salaries and wbo art able to create ftcttttout, and false public opinion unduly fa vorsble to ths contentions of these great gnsn tal comparilea "The business men of ths country nasd havs no fear that their Reare ssntatlTsa and Senators in congress will act unadvisedly. Ths repre? sentatives of ths big hank- of the country have beeti given ths most sbundaft opportunity to be heard. And. aftsr they had their Chlcsgo msstlng and presented answ their old contanttons snd requested furthor hearings, thkt opportunity was im mediately afforded them by telegraph snd tha hearings set for 2 o'clock Tuesday. Baptembsr A." RR. HAMB4>N IN ??PARTANHVRt.. Cnaasa lo Addtews Pellagra ( onven tssss seed H%ejeVy aMsJSSMSSw Bpartanborg. Kept. 1.?Dr. Louis W. gambon. ths distinguished head of tha London School of Tropical Med M?s? arrived hers this afternoon from New York city, whsrs he land? ed Saturday. Ms is accompanied by Dr. Bchwarts, also of ths London Be boo I of Tropical Medicine, who will assist him in hi. field work. Dr. Bambon will spend t.vu wesks is Bpartanburg studying pellsgra snd will be the principal spsaker at a conference Wednesday. which will be ai tended ay about thrse hundred o4t-ef-toWQ physicians. Dr. Ham bon has consented to de)l\ - sr a public address. Ms is an Italian, born In Italy of a French father and English mother, bst has lived for a number.of yesrs In Kngland. WALK ICR AND SON HELD. Tooth tho Involved tn Death of Harter. Hampton, Kept 1?Ths coroner's jury of tnquest over the dead body of J.. H Harter, chief of police of Alleadale, who was killsd yesterday afternoon *| Lena, this county, this svengag rendered a vsrd|ot that the ofllcsr Him. to his death by pistol shot , wovnds from a pistol In ths hands of I. K Walker, aided and abet? ted by- Ben Walker, his son." Ben Weiher the 11 yesr old son of Joe IT. Walker, wss arre*t*d today, and the coroner's lury Implicated hlin In the shooting of Harter. Appeal nt?mhe*r?1 In link im. The sppeal In the Heck rase against the Northwestern Hallway has been dlHraieeed by the Supreme Court on the ground that the presid? ing Judge hss the rlaht to allow an amendment of answer at any time be? fore trial. Judge c'raser dissented. Tha rsae >" B4M to MtPttf dam sges for slleged Injuries done by the si'avatlng of sarth along Hide the railroad track at Heck farm The railroad claimed that the dirt was on Its right of way. ReiepoiidetM y. Is often caueed by Indigent Ion and conatlps>?loa. and quickly disappears wbsn Chsmberlaln s Tablets are tak tn. For aalt by a 1 dealers.? Advt. NfcW KX.ECTRIC Iii NR. Aiigeeta-Columbla < obstruction to KUrt. Augusta. Ga., Sept. 1.?After a meeting of the directors of the Car? olina & Georgia Railway company was held today It was announced that con? struction work on the projected elec? tric line between Augusta and Colum? bia will begin In about 30 days. Mi? chael P.. McUrath of New York, con? tractor of the road, who came here direct from Washington State, where he has been delayed by a contract of magnitude, attended the meeting having arrived In Augusta this morn Ing. It was definitely decided that tho electric line shall go by way of Tren? ton and Johnston, after leaving Gran itevllle, instead of by way of Eureka, and that a branch line shall be built from Johnston to Greenwood, mak? ing Johnston a junction point. The bonded Indebtedness of the road was authorized to be increased from $2.000,000 to $3,000,000 and two new directors, J. A. Lott and J. M. Cranston, were elected. This afternoon James U. Jackson, president of the road, the contractor. Mr. McGrath, Chief Engineer Shand and Mr. Lott left for Trenton and Johnston. They will go tomorrow over the proposed line from Johnston to Greenwood, and, It Is understood, will go from Greenwood to Columbia. Protects and Contests. Klngstree County Record. We regret to learn that there Is a protest or contest being entered against declaring the result of the recent dispensary election on the face of the returns. In a Democratic election, where the voters on both sides are white men, we do not think the prill of the majority should be brushed aside on technical grounds. Should there be a question of fraud, it alters the case; but, so far as we can learn, in th's election there is no allegation of fraud by either party. The Record took no part whatever in this election; as a mat? ter of fact, the editor did not even vote, being content to leave the issue with those who went to the polls to vote according to the dictates of thMr consciences. Had the dispen? sary won by a single vote, we should have made no complaint; but It Beems that, after a thorough investi? gation, the majority, small though it be. la in favor of no dispensary. It la not a question of the size of the majority, or how many voters failed to express their choice, but the principle Is a? stake, whether or not the majority shall rule. Our conception of democracy is that the minority shall yield to the majority. When this principle Is set at naught the genius of democracy is lost. Anyone who has stddied our election laws recognizes the fact that they are so complicated that It is al? most a matter of Impossibility to carry out all the conditions pre? scribed. We have In mind one elec? tion where at a certain poll the man? agers had been drilled by a very ca? pable attorney and yet when the. con? test came, very serious flaws were picked In the conduct of the election at this same precinct. With this in mind, we doubt seriously whether, in the recent election, there was a single pre in. t where the conduct of the elec tion fulfilled the letter of the law. That being the case, the State board of canvassers or the supreme court, even, will be loath to declare an election null and void or to allow the throwing out of certain polls on tech? nical grounds to trim the majority vote below that of the minority. Soya Bean Oil. Attention has repeatedly been call? ed in the Manufacturers Record to the soya bean as a possible source of wealth for the South. The advan tages of its cultivation through the Improvement of the soil and the val? ue of the bean in the manufacture of oil have been pointed out from time to time. A recent Issue of the Times Union of Jacksonville, Fla., reports that L. P. Nemzek, representing the educatlonnl bureau of the Paint Man? ufacturers' Association. has been making a trip through the South urging the cultivation of the soya bean on the ground that oil made from this bean is a good substitute for Unseed oil In paint work and that ithe supply of linseed oil' is docreas 1 Ing. A few weekH ago we published a report from abroad which indicat? ed the possibility of the Hoya b?>an t.r- oming an act Ive rival of cotton? seed for the production of oil. The subject la one which deserves the careful study of the people of the South. Diarrhoen Quickly Cur eil. "I whs taken with diarrhoea nnd Mr. Yorks, the merchant here, per sinob'd me to ?.ry a bottle of Chain berlaia'l Coli?, Cholera and Diar? rhoea Remedy. After taking one dose of it I wan cured. It also cured ethers that I gave It to," writes M. ? Gehhart, oriole. l?a That is not at all unusual An ordinary attack of diarrhoea can almost Invariably be cured by one or two doses of this retn I edy. Fol sale by ull deulcrs.?Advt. giu:atkst air feat on record. French Aviator Makes Letter s and File? l'pslde Down. Juvisy, France, Sept. 1.?The dar? ling French aviator, Pegoud, who on August 20 made a parachute drop from an aeroplane from a height of ? 00 feet, accomplishd a much more remarkable feat today, which at first sight appears to have been a piece of extraordinary" aerial acrobatics, but which experts declare was an epoch-making experiment towards the attainment of safety in the air. Briefly, Pegoud caused his mono? plane to describe a gigantic letter S In the sky during which he was fly? ing upside down for about a quarter of a rhile. The strictest secrecy was maintain? ed prior to the test and only a few persons were present when Pegoud took the air. He mounted rapidly to a height of more than 3,000 feet, de? scribing a curve; then the forward part of the machine was observed ?o incline towards the earth. Through glasses the spectators naw the propeller and the monoplane further incline until It was perpen? dicular with the earth. It seemed as if nothing could stay the head-long plunge. As the machine dropped swiftly the tail dipped again towards the earth and the pilot appeared head downward. Seconds, Which seemed hours, passed. With an al? most imperceptible curve the ma? chine shifted Its course to a straight line, the pilot in the same position. How long he remained upside down the anxious watchers could not de? termine, but it was long enough to cause them to believe that he would never right himself. Presently the monoplane dipped again and, with a graceful curve, as? sumed an erect poslton. Pegoud fiev.1 foi a few minutes to and fro and de? scended by a series of beautiful spir? als. On landing the aviator said: "Everything went splendidly. The levers answered tho slightest touch. I remained for a long time head downwards because I wanted to, not because I couldn't help it. The sen? sation is strange, but not unpleasant, and the machine did not pitch at all. "I went very slowly so as to avoid subjecting the machine to too violent strain, but had I wanted to I could have righted myself much more quickly." Pegoud's experiment was prompted by the theory recently expressed b\ Louis Bleroit. that in the paramount problem of attaining safety in the air automatic self-righting devices and parachutes are beside the ques? tion; that they are lust as much at the mercy of a Sudden violent gust ns the ordinary air craft. BOYS KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Several Others Shocked When Stroke Hits Cotton House In Lee County. Bhihopville, Sept. 1.?Grayer Col? lins, white, aged 18, and John Austin, a negro, aged 15, were killed by light? ning during an electrical storm in the Antioch section of this county late Saturday afternoon. Several other boys received a severe shock but will recover. They were picking cotton at the time and when they saw the ap? proaching ptorm stopped In a cot? ton house, which was struck by light? ning. Vandalism In Greenville. Greenville News. One acre of cotton was destroyed and fiv? cows were poisoned on the place of Constable Green Howard on Thursday night, and in spite of the fact that Sheriff Rector scoured the Goavansvllle section with his blood? hounds no trace of the guilty parlies was found. A telephone message reached the ctly yesterday morning that the trouble had occurred In the Gowansville section and Sheriff Rec? tor rushed to the scene immediately. It was found that unknown parties had poisoned five of Mr. Howard's cows with parls green and that they had destroyed about an acre of cot? ton by beating it down with a flail. It is understood that the officers have a clue to the guilty parties and that ar? rests will follow. None of the cows have died as too much paris green was used, the cows refusing to eat much of the food with which it was mixed. A very sad accident occurred at Workman last Friday. Two little sons of Mr. W. S. Kennedy were playing with a shot gun, when it discharged and one of the boys received the load in his right arm tearing the arm nearly off, so much SO the arm had to be amputated. Th?* boy also received a Mesh wound in the left arm?Man? ning Times. "Last winter my son caught a very bad cold <ind the way he coughed wsh aometing dreadful/' writes Mrs. Sarah B, Duncan, of Tiptoe, Iowa. "We thought sure he was going into consumption. We bought just one bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem? ; ad* and that one bottle stopped his cough and cured his cold eoinplete : ly." For sale by all deulcrs.?Advt. t aught a Had Cold. TOJBASH NOT TO BE CANDIDATE Interesting Story About Governor Printed In Andntnon Paper. Under the caption "Will Governor Blease Be a Candidate for Any Office in Campaign Next Summer," and with headlines four columns wide and ex? tending nearly half way down the front* page, the Anderson intelligen? cer, "which has been one of the lew newspapers in the State to support the Governor through thick and thin, printed on Tuesday a story that will, no doubht, be read with Interest by the people of South Carolina, particu? larly in view of the oft-repeated dec? laration of the Governor that he will be in the race for the United States Senate. The article Beems to have been based on several paroles recently Issued to Anderson County prisoners, and is as follows: That Governor Cole L. Blease will not he a candidate for office next summer is the opir on of many lead? ing Anderson County Bl-?ase support? ers. Recent actions of the Governor in extending executive clemency, af? fecting Anderson County, is the cause of this belief, and is shared by many of the most prominent Blease men of the county. Actions of the governor in these in? stances were a complete surprise, as much so here as anywhere in the State, and his supporters are lined up now on both sides. Friends of the men paroled claim that his action in releasing them from the penitentiary will strengthen him, while others are as thoroughly confident that it will lose for him in this county at least 2,000 votes. The whole matter has resolved itself into just this: Many of Governor Blease's most influential supporters are openly con? demning him for his recent actions, and declaring they will fight him if he ever again offers for office; while on the other hand, large numbers who have heretofore been lukewarm to? wards, him, because he had not taken favorable action in the cases of their imprisoned friends, now declare they will take off their coats and pull for Blease. for the senate. It is being freely talked by many Blease and Anti-Blease men that the Governor sees the handwriting on tho wall and has determined to clean out the penitentiary. Some few in the ranks of his strongest supporters are of the opinion that he will throw wide the gates of the penitentiary be? fore he leaves the governor's chair. But ^his extreme view is taken by only a few. The Intelligencer does not care to express itself on the recent paroles, especially on the more noted one, since it has friends on both sides. Every citizen is familiar with the facts and will express himself as either favoring or condemning this particular act as well as the govern? or's whole course during his adminis? tration, at the polls in the next elec? tion, in case the governor offers for office. He has that right, and the governor himself has declared that, God permitting him to live until that time and his health to be retained, he certainly will be a candidate for a seat in the senate of the United States. COCHRAN READY TO Qt'IT. United States District Attorney to Send In His Resignation Now. Anderson, Sept. t.?It was an? nounced from the law offices of Quattlebaum & Cochran here that Er nest F. Cochran, a member of the firm had decided to tender his resignation as district United States attorney for the district of South Carolina within the next few days. Mr. Cochran sent the announcement to Anderson from Watkins Glenn, N. Y., where he now is staying for the sake of his health. ! The cause of Mr. Cochran's decision to resign the district attorneyshlp Is declared to be hiy desire not to stand in the way of the plans of the pres ent administration. Mr. Cochran was appointed district attorney by President Roosevelt to succeed John G. Capers. He was re appointed by President Taft in 1910 for a term of four years. This would expire January 1, 1914, but his resig? nation will mean the appointment ol a Democrat to this office immediately. A number of men have been men? tioned in connection with the ap? pointment for district attorney, among them being J. Fr?ser Lyon, former at? torney general of South Carolina; Francis H. Weston, State senator from Hichland county* and J. William Thurmond of Edgetleld, for a number of years circuit solicitor. Mother of ttighteon Children. "I am the mother of eighteen chil? dren and have the praise of doing more work than any young woman 111 m> town," writes Mrs. C. J. Martin, Boons Mill, Va. "I suffered for five years with stomach trouble ami could not sal ai much as a blscull without suffering. I have taken three bottles of Chamberlains' Tablets and am now a well woman ami weigh 169 pounds, 1 <an eat anything I want to, and as much as i want and fool bettor than 1 have at any time in ten years. I refer to any one in K?nne Mill or Vicinity and they will Vouch for what 1 sac.'' Chamberlain's Tablets are for sale by all dealers.?Advt. [II i|f Wrnth of the Soiitli. "For years the southern section of the United States has been slighted in the apportioning of the nation's bounty among the states and sections of the country," says the New Orleans Picayune, "ami for some yean to come this one-sided bestowal of favors will continue, because a great mass of the population la in the eastern and north Atlantic states of the union, and because the greatest amount of the manufacturing is done in those States. But the time will come when the American people will realize that the greatest part of. the food supply of the country is grown in the Missis? sippi valley, and that nearly all the material that is wrought up in the New England, New York and New Jersey mills and factories is grown or mined in the great valley, and in or? der to get to those* mills and factories it must make long sea voyages, or be hauled over the mountains to the sea coast on railroads. The manufactur j ed articles must then be handled back over the u<ounlains pel w ho eonsimre them, v will the people realize th? waste and useless expense of this excessive transportation, hut they will act on their knowledge by moving ovec the mountains into the great valley where the food supply is grown and where the mtaerial for their industries is found, but the capitalists will start the movement by establishing their mills and factories at the headquar? ters of all supplies." FOR RIG HOTEL. Contract for Structure at Big Springs Awarded. Florence, Sept. 3.?The contract for the plans and specifications for the big hotel that is to be erected at Big Springs, Kershaw county, the pro? posed new health resort, has been awarded to Richardson & Harper, ar? chitects of this city. It will be a two and a half story building of brick and frame construction, to cost $36,000. It will be a very handsome building. CORNO Horse and Mule Feed We offer a limited quanity of Corno Horse and Mule Feed in 175 pound bags at $1.50 per hundred. Best feed for your stock. Better see us quick O'Donnell 6 Co. j Sumter. S. C. FROM Florence, Pregnalls and Intermediate Points ; To Augus ta, Georgia ?Via? ! The Atlantic Coast Line j Tuesday, Sept 16, 1913, On the schedule and at the rate shown below: LEAVE SUMTER AT 7.23 A. M. Hound Trip ^],^Q l^cumd Trip Returning Will Leave Augusta at 7.3$ P. M. J Augusta I* one of the most t>eaiitifiil cities in the South. 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