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A SIMPLE TRA T A maggot trap which will practical prevent the breeding of the house fly is described in a new bulletin of the United States department of agriculture, No. 200, 'A Maggot Trap in Practical Use; An Experiment in House Fly Control." The investivators who carried on this experiment ^fAt the Maryland Agricultural college ^rdeclare that during August and September at least 9 8 per cent, of the larvae breeding in the manure were uestroyeti anu although the tran was uot so efficient when the weather became colder, even then It greatly reduced the number of flies. The principle of the trup is simple it is easy to construct, and the expense is said to be probably less In the long run that the investment which many farmers now make in screens for their dwellings, and sprays and fiy nets for their live stock. In its roughest outlines the trap consists of a concrete basin with a latticed wooden platform erected upon it to hold the manure. The basin is connected by a drain pipe with a small concrete cistern. The bottom of the basin ?s filled with water into which the maggots breeding in the manure drop, as they are about to turn in the pupa or chrysalis stage, and are drowned. At frequent intervals the water is run off into the cistern and is then pumped back on the manure pile. In this way all the liquid manure is saved. The successful operation of this trap rests upon several facts connected with the habits of the house fly which have been thoroughly established by observation. The adult fly lays its eggs tn rresh manure. There they remain until the larva stage is almost over and the insects are about to enter the pupa or chrysalis stage. In consequence if A STITCH It Is not so very long now until the typhoid season will be here. While the disease is generally said to be most common the latter part of the summer and in the early fall, as a / matter of fact it becomes pretty often in the spring and in early summer. There were a number of cases of fever in Spartanburg last year. It may be that the causeB therefor have been removed or it may be that they have not been. There is no unfailing way of telling. The safest plan and the most effective way of ridding the city of the disease is by the inoculation method. The efficiency of this treatment has long been established to the satisfac nun ui me nHMucai iraierntty and of all who have made any study of It. The Inocculatlon treatment Is a simple one, comparatively speaking, and seldom makes the person taking it sick enough to miss his work. Some do not feel it at a^l. It Is certainly to be preferred in every way to the risk of having the dread disease. This would be a good time for all who have not been inoculated to be. They may save themselves suffering and money if indeed they do not save 'heir lives because no man knows when he takes fever whether he will live through It or not. In this connection the following from The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot is very interesting: "The announcement that typhoid Is epidemic in Przemsyl, the great Cal. ician stronghold recently surrendred to the Russians is not at all suprisis. ing. The conditions under which war is being waged in Kurope are highly conductive to the development and spread of this disease. Where men in enormous numbers are crowded into relatively small areas and have to Kvo Ir* V* *v> I?lo* /v# * J .v ion iiikisi in cAirnorciiuury exigencies, opportunities for dissemination of the typhoid germ are, of course, greatly multiplied. Hut, j FARM LKTTKKHKAIM. Ont of Put Sandles' points In his I farmers' week adnress was this Make your farm attractive- the house, the j yard, the walk, the roadside adjoin- j ing it all with trees, shrubbery and t grass .and when it has thus built up a beautiful character for itself give it a ' name and thus establish an identity by which it may everywhere bo j known. Make your home a place ! of beauty, expressive of a love-j ly life within. Then, when ' this is accomplished have letter-1 heads printed with the name of J the farm home upon them and thus , add to the significance of the spot. It; will help along the genuine pride that PFOR HE HOUSE-FLY the manure is placed upon a platform with a latticework bottom the larva, while migrating, will fall through these openings into the water in the basin below. In the case of the experiments at the Maryland Agricultural college a careful count showed that between July 25 and October 1 about 112,000 larvae were killed in this way. This, however, does not I Include the number that were ntnWori up from the basin by sparrows or poultry. Altogether it is estimated I hat during the warm weather the efficiency of the trap was probably 99 per cent. Later, when the temperature was lower, the trap's success was not so marked. This was ac. counted for by the fact that when Ihe air is much colder than the manure heap the larve will not attempt to leave the heap and therefore will not fall into the basin. Another difficulty experienced arose from mosquitoes using the water in the basin and the cistern to breed in. This was overcome by cleaning out the basin at regular intervals and by sprinkling a little oil over the surface of the water ii. the cistern. Properly constructed, sin li u irap offers no obstacles to the convenient and economical handling of manure. It is essential, however, thai each day's addition to the heap should be sprinkled with sufficient water to keep the manure moist but not enough to cause leaching. The details of the construction of the trap are contained in the bulletins already mentioned. This particular trap was designed to hold the manure produced by three horses for three months, but there is no reason why larger quantities should not be treated in the same way, by building larger traps or by building several of smaller size. IN TIME i while this is ull true, it by no means follows that the resultant situation is I one which can not he more than I measurably controlled. On the coni trarv. timpiv nro/>m.u~? - - * , , ,,.v^uuiiuii, as CUlliCUj sively shown by the British experij ence, will avail to reduce to a mini| iuum the danger from typhoid to i troops in the lleld no matter how I large their numbers or how limited the areas in which they may be congested. ' "Replying to a question asked in the house of commons a short time ago as to typhoid in the British army Mr. Tenant, under secretary of state for war, said that up to that t|me I cases of the disease among the Kng| lish forces numbered 421, of which ! 305 were soldiers who had either not ! been inoculated and he had had only ; vacine at all or incompletely Inoculated. The deaths totalled 35, only one of which was a soldier who had been inoculated and he had only ! one injection of the anti-typhoid virus. At about the same time and in i ine same place, a member of the British medical corps, replying to criticisms of inoculation made by a member of the house .contrasted this record with that in the South African war, In which there were 58,000 cases of typhoid, 8,000 of which resulted fatally. "Other Instances, only less convicing, of the efficiency of the typhoid antitoxin could be cited, but what's the use? Those who are open to conI vxlctlon are already convinced; the comparatively few who wilfully shut their eyes not even a miracle would avail to make see. And what anti. typhoid inoculation has accomplished I and is accomplished among the solI diers of various nations it can also he ma^le to effect in the case of clvilian populations. The community which today permits Itself to become ' the scene of a typhoid epidemic has j only Itself to blame. A preventive is available which needs only to be applied to be effective."?Spartanburg Journal. one should feel for the dearest place on earth. And then have your name on earth, And then have yeur name and your wife's printed on the letterhead and thus Kive her a sense of her own prominence in your life and pur? pose. It will rot only advertise your farm, but likewise your generous spirit and happy-life.? From Columbus (O.) State Journal. Will Abolish Death I'enalty i;i Alaska. Juneau, Alaska, April 22.?The lower house of the territorial legislature yesterday passed a bill abolishing capital punishment in Alaska. It already had passed the senate. THE LANCASTER NEW! ULl'FFEItS. To be rich enough to own a touring car and a limousine, ricli enough j to afford a supercilious butler and a r vulet, rich enough t?> build a gr. ;;i barn-like, unlovely house and hi! i? l with garishly new and showily vul- ! gar furniture?mat is the Great i American Ambition. To be poor?so poor that the child ren look pinched and blue from Oc- J tober, until May, so poor that the grocer asks for the money in advance, so poor that pride is dead and hope departed?that, in America is possible onlv as ttio ???> ??" crime, accident, death or vice. j But to be half way between poverty and wealth?that is, too poor to own a car and yet prosperous enough to think much about the i matter, too poor to keep up with the fashions but w'th money enough to ' make a pretense at vogue; too poor, 1 in fact, to afford any showy luxuries and yet with a longing to jnake a show before the neighbors?-that is typical of the majority of people in this bully country, and the condition leads logically to the great American game of bluffing. In other countries, where each is ' born Into nis station in life and re- , mains' there, despite the accumula-! tion of money, there is no tempat- ^ tion to bluff, for bluffing has no reward. But here at home, where folk rise ' j in society and in the estimation of their fellows in proportion of the accumulation of money, where aristocracy is merely a matter of a bank I account and "culture" means* notlii ing more than the ability to buy? . here there is a natural ambition to' grow rich, and a natural temptation to pretend to be richer than the size | of the bank balance warrants. Where the amount of money in hand tixes one's status in society, and where clothes, cars, house, furniture and careless spending are the only means by which the world can judge of one's pile, is it any wonder that extravagance has become a national trait? I I believe the great majority of people dress better than they can ; I afford? live better, spend more, waste more. And there could be no grave objection to this?that is, it would be merely foolish and not ; vicious, were it not for the fact that all this useless waste of spending is occasioned by the desire to impress other people. And the pitiful part of it is that the whole effort is wasted. In a city, perhaps, where all are strangers*, , men do judge one another by clothes I ?by "front." But out here in the country we judge one another by | what is known to be underneath the | clothes. Each of us knows, approximately ' what is each other's spending ability. Each of us knows the value o' each other's property and the amount of the mortgage on it. Then what does it profit Mrs. Blank to wear a new gown to church each Sunday. We all know that some grocer has to wait in order to I provide those dresses? that the 1 11 A ' * I inimren neeaeu unaereioines much more than their mother needed outer ones; and while we cheerfully acknowledge that Mrs. HIank looks swell in her duds, we as cheerfully state to one another that she is making a fool of herself. And yet, while we rather openly sneer at the silly pretending and fJ!'.il'llllllllll,.' ll!!!ll!l!!!lllllllllll||li;illllHlllllllll||ll!llllllllll!l [I The Rayo Res I I * I VHE bright, yet soft ligl I A rests your eyes as sure J J is injurious to them. Scient { of an oil lamp ? and the I I I is the best oil lamp made. j | Ask your dealer to shoi j | glare, no flicker. Easy to 1 j STANDARD OI ! I Wubtnrton, D. C. (NEW JE 1 1 Norfolk, Va. DAI TIIU I I Richmond. Va. BAl. 1 llV | f v S APRIL 27, 1915. binding of each other family we continue naviely running a like bluff of our own. It really isn't worth wliile. Just ? MUle common sense would lead us to the conclusion that the impression made by spending money we can't afford isn't worth half what it has cost us. The "friends" made through the medium of extravagant? are not friends at all. The> will eat your food, admire your iiuuw, nuu in your car, smoke your cigars. But if you should lose your money tomorrow or, better yet, have an attack of common sense, these friends would drop away. Bluffing, in the country, deceives no one. It is waste, nothing more.? Fountain Inn Tribune. THE GAME OF LIFE. Life is but a game of cards, which which each one has to learn; Each suffles, cuts and deals the cards and each a trump does turn, "ome turn a high one to the top while others turn a low; Some hold a hand quite flush of trumps while others none can show. When hearts are trumps we play for love, and pleasures deck the hour. No thought of sorrow checks our joy in friendship's rosy bower. When diamonds chance to crown the pack 'tis then men stake their gold, urge sums are often lost and won b\ gamblers young and old. 'Tis then men become the dupes of rogues and rogues each other cheat. And he indeed is a wise man who never meets defeat. When clubs are trumps look out for war on ocean and on land. For horrid things are often done when clubs are in the hand. But the last game of all is when spades turn up the hand of time; 'Tis they that finish up the game in every land or clime. No matter how much each may win or how much each may save. You will find at least that spades turn up and dig the player's grave. ?Baltimore Evening Sun. "AMKHIC.t FOIt MK." Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town with flowers In her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice and it's great to study in Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home. I know that Europe's wonderful, yet i something seems to lack; The. past is too much with her, and i the people looking back, But the glory of the present is to make the future free? We love our land for what she is and what she is to be. Oh, it's home again, and home again. America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plow the rolling sea, To the blessed land of Itoom Enough beyond the ocean hars. Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. ?Henry Van Dyke. lllllilllllllllllllllllM^ J I ts Your Eyes || ht of the RAYO Lamp j j ly as a harsh white glare J { ists recommend the light I LAMP < | j v you the Rayo. No k j ight and care for. I 1 L COMPANY ! RSEY) Charlotte. N. C. ] i/Nnn CbirUrton, W. Vi. I ! lUKfci Charleston. 9. C. I H I FREE! ABSOLUTEL And no Stri I AM GOING TO GIVE DOLLAR FLORENCE AUTO first of May, to the one holding number will not cost you anj part of it. Every lady enterii VT 1 ...111 . iu i?irt,y x, win receive a ticke each time you come, so come buy a thing to get a tickeet? entitle you to it. WATCH THE DATE & COI Remember it don't cost you and each time you enter you g is going to get the lucky one. tickeet will get a Twenty-Five Oil Cook Stove, without cost. Automatic Stove it will be woi Come any time and we will be one. REM EM HER THE DATE Hoping you will have a cool t Stove in vour kitchen, I am, v< | J. B. MAC <'tiring ox- Itniii Victims. The country is slowly waking up! i to the reality of the "drug fiend" I problem. The enforcement since the s ! begining of the month, of the new i federal law restricting the traffic in habit-forming drugs has already ' driven thousants of victims to the public authorities for help. In the hig i cities the situation is particulary disstressing; but nearly everv town in tlie country has its victims?many of them, as the public is surprised to i learn, not lost souls of the under! world hilt lid'..lit I1-! snared by the drug-craving through no fault of their own. It is not yet universally understood thut the Harrison law does rot necessarily deprive victims of their ^ accustomed opium, morphine, heroin E or cocaine. It meraly makes it intpos- t ' sible for them to get it without a doctor's prescription; and any physician is at liberty to prescribe the drug at his own discretion, provided he keeps a record of the transaction. Knowledge of this fact shout save many victims from the suicide that is their instinctive refuge, or from the intolerable torture of deprivao tion. The only rational method, how- s ever, is to take the victims and ' cure them, instead of temporizing e with the evil. And every victim wants to be cured and made a free, normal man ct woman again. Many communities throughout the country are tackling the orobletn in this practical way. Chicago, which is ; said to have at least :{.r>,0ft0 victims, I has undertaken to provide anti-drug a treatment on a big scale, even using . a school building for a hospital, and already has accommodations for near- < ly 2,000 patients. New York city is s doing much in a quiet way. In At_ lantic City dozens of heroin addicts e have submitted to nrrp?l iti nfloi- -> be committed to the municipal hospital for treatment. Th ? federal government may decide to open its ir.aiine hospitals all over the countiy for the same merciful work. ?Augtiusta Chronicle. h y Women anil Sheep. p Why don't more women raise c, sheep? In two years my flock has } netted me .141 per cent. My only loss *by death has been two lambs. The 51 yearlings I now have gave fourteen pounds of wool during last May. w They are good grade, Lincolns and h Shropshires. I bought nine of oneh an<l raised one sheep which was \ cross. Fifteen sheep cost about as much as nine cows. The cows would yield a larger income than the sheep hut would require more care. My .. flock needs twelve acres of pasture e| in summer. The winter feed is clover 1 cannot understand why more farm women do not become sheperdesses. ?From Farm and Fireside. 3 FREE! Y FREE ings to This AWAY A TWENTY-FIVE MATIC Oil. STOVE on the I the lucky number, and the ,'thing. That is the pretty rig my store, from April 15 t, and you will receive one often. You don't have to your visit to the store will HE & GET A TICKET anything to enter my store ;et a ticket free. Some one And the holder of the lucky Dollar Florence Automatic If you haven't a Florence *th your trouble to see one. i glad to show you through , APRIL 15 TO MAY 1. summer with a Florence Oil >urs trulv, XGRELL SOUTHERN RAILWAY, "Premier Carrier of the South." ?ASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES. T-ains arrive Lancaster from: Jo. 118?Yorkville, Rock Hill and intermediate stations 8:31 a. m. Jo. 113?Charleston, Columbia and intermediate stations lu:05 a. in. Jo. 114?Marion, Blacksburg, Churlotte and intermediate stations, 1:35 p. m. Jo. 117?Col rabla, Kingsvllle r~d intermediate stations. 7-48 p. m. Trains leave Lancaster for: .'o. 118?Kingsville, Columbia and intermediate stations, 8:31 a. m. Jo. 113?Rock Hill, Blacksburg, Marion, Charlotte and intermediate stations. 10:05 a. m. 7o. 114?Kingsville, Columbia. Charleston and Intermediate stations 1:35 p. n. Jo. 117?Rock Kill, Vorkv'lle and intermediate stations, 7:33 p. in. N. B.?Schedule figures are pubislied as informa n only and are iot guaranteed. For Information as o passenger fares, etc., call on W. B. CA.UTHEN, Agent. W. E. McGEE. A. G. P. A., Columbia, S. C. W. H. CAFFEY. D. P. A.. Charleston, S. C. NOTICE OF ELECTION. Whereas, cne-third of the t'reelolders and one-third of the electors f the age of 21 years, residing in leasant Hill and Oak Ridge conolidated school district, No. 31, ave petitoned the county board of ducation to order an election to decrmine whether or not an additional ax of 4 mills shall be levied on all ?:1 and personal property for chool purposes. We hereby order said election to held by the trustees in said conolidated Pleasant Hill and Oak lidge school district, No. 31, on 'uesday, May 4, lit 15, at the Pleasnt Hill school house. At which election only such as ream real or personal property for 'tion and exhibit their tax reeipts and registration certificates hall be allowed to vote. The opening and closing hours hall he the same as in nil fonoroi lections. V. A. L1NGLE, W. B. TVVITTY, J. K. CONNORS. County Board of Education. NOTICE OF ELECTION. Whereas, one-third of the freeolders and one-third of the electors the age of 21 years, residing in lid way school district, No. 4 2, have etitioned the county hoard of eduation to order an election to deterline whether or not an additional ix of 4 mills shall he levied on all si and personal property for school urposes. We hereby order said election to held by the trustees in said Miday school district. No. 4 2, on Tuesay, May 4. 1915, at the Midway ool house. At which election only such as turn real or personal property for ixation and exhibit their tax rets and registration certificates mil be allowed to vote. The opening and closing hours tall be the same as in all general lections. v. M.Mii.i;, W. B. TWITTY. J. K. CONNORS. County Board of Education, YOUR MONEY AT HOME, h Carolina Custom Hand Made ridles, etc.. at factory pr.cc*. il Order will prove o.:r asserjuy Hides and Tallow at highWrite us your wants and ofFerVILSE W. MARTIN, Columbia, S. C.