Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Penitentiary Has Much Food stuffs. During the year just closed the state penitentiary produced more cot ton, grain and other crops and at the end of the year had more assets than ?5? any previous year, according to .the report of Col. A. K. Sanders, su perintendent, and the board of di rectors. The report, made public yes terday, shows that the two farms produced abundant wheat, oats, corn, cattle, hogs and other farm products during the yeai\ Members ofxthe board of directors visited the two farms the last days of December and their inventory of the goods on hand shows that the penitentiary has 1,075 bales of cot ton on hand, including the entire out put for 1919 and 1920, and in addi tion has 18,500 bushels of corn, 2, 200 bushels of wheat, 2,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, 400 tons of cot ton seed, 6,200 bushels of oats, 400 tons of peavine hay and several thousands of dollars worth of other farm products. The report of Colonel Sanders calls attention to the inadequate pro vision made for women prisoners, and sets forth the need for better facili ties for handling women brought to the prison. Colonel Sanders also re commends provisions for better car ing for the health of the inmates, among these being the installing of a dentist's chair and a dentist to care ior the teeth of the prisoners. Has Much Property. The directors' inventory of the property of the two farms "gives some interesting facts on how the penitentiary "lives at home." The products at the Reid farm totaled $40>800, and in addition the mules, horses, cows, ect., were valued at $9, 220. The products at the DeSaussure farm were valued at $14,187 and the stock at $9,605. Capt. M. R. Day, head of the guards, reports that at the beginning of the year the number of convicts -was 257 and th?t during 1920 the penitentiary gained from the courts of the state 139 prisoners, and that by recapture .four others were added to th elist, making a total of 400 for year. The records show that during the "year 72 prisoners were discharg ed after serving their sentences and 14 were lost through escaping, while 21 were paroled by the governor. Nine died during the year. The total leaving prison penitentiary at the end of the year at 184, a gain of 27 for 1920 over 1919. The repon shows that at the end of the year 49 prisoners at the De Saussure farm, 46 at the Reid farm and 189 in the penitentiary proper. Of the total number of inmates 87 were white ?ien, 162 negro men, three white women and, 32 negro women. The directors report that the health was good during the year and that the penitentiary affairs were well conducted under Colonel San ders and his assistants. The only com plaint registered in the report is against>the wording of the appropria tion bill which provides that the in stitution can spend so much money if it makes the money. This .worked a hardship during the last month, it is claimed, as the penitentiary had a considerable sum appropriated, but .could not get the money because it -was thought unwise to sell cotton at that time. During the year the total receipts were $120,284,16 and the ex penditures were $119,987.91, leaving .a small balance to begin the new year on. The unexpended balance of the appropriation was $5,736.09. Colonel Sanders points out that ;the institution is doing its utmost to >care for the prisoners in a humane :manner and recounts the efforts .made for the sick. Good food and jplenty of it is always available for the men and women. No epidemic occurred during the year. Chair Factory Success. Thc chair factory was a success from a business standpoint, netting .$62,704.69 in profits for the year. Colonel Sanders says the peniten tiary will be able to put considerable ?quantities of farm products on the -.market in a short time and believes ithis year the farms will produce (enough-meat to run the penitentiary, this being a big "item every year. A new mule barn was erected on the DeSaussure farm during the year and other improvements were .?iade on the property of the farms. The bonus system inaugurated in, the chair factory has proved emi nently successful and has been a great incentive for the men to turn j out more work. Colonel Sanders re commends a bonus system of ten -cents a. day for all the prisoners who do their work well, especially those <m the farms. This would give the men and women a little for a new -start in life after they- have served their sentences, the superintendent points out. The Rev. J. C. Chandler, chaplain, recommends the establishment of a chapel at the penitentiary and the separation of the tough prisoners from the better class of men.-The State. ? j About Smallpox. Several years ago this column pre dicted a outbreak of smallpox at Niagara Falls during the following winter. The epidemic arrived on schedule time and the state board of health found it necessary to step in and take charge of Niagara Falls and vaccinate practically the entire town. During the last year when small pox was raging in southern Ontario, Niagara Falls, relatively secure against the disease yet surrounded by infected communities, must have been grateful to this column for the service rendered them several years ago. For months we have repeatedly carried articles on smallpox because it was evident that the disease was to be unusually prevalent this winter. Since the smallpox season holds on until July 1 there remains consider able time to repeat these warnings. Many letters are being received asking us as to the efficacy of vac cination. The charges of inefficiency made by the various healing cults lined up in the anti-vaccination so cieties apparently are gettnig more of a hearing than any of their other wild and wooly statements. . To begin with let us understand that pne successful vaccination does not_ guarantee lifelong immunity to smallpox. There are some people who are made immune for life, but no one is justified in assuming that he belongs to that group. Research indicates that the danger of smallpox becomes fairly consider able five years after successful vac cination. However, in health depart ment practice it is assumed that one is fairly safe for seven years after successful vaccination. When the vaccination is unsuccessful there be ing no vesicle or ulcer due to pus cocci, the socalled vaccination con fers no immunity. Let us also understand that small pox vacine easily becolnes inert. If kept too long or too hot or in a place that is too light or exposed to the air it quickly becomes inert. They have just gone through an epidemic in Glasgow, among those good, hard headed old Scotch people who nee to get bumped occasionally in order to learn a thing or two. They care for 477 people with smallpox in their hospital. Of these 128 were children under 15, of whom 98 were unvaccinated and 30 were vaccinated in infancy. Of the 30 vaccinated.in infancy none died. Of the 128 never vaccinated 32 or 33 per cent died. Of the entire 477, 364 were vaccinated in infancy, and of them, 54, or 15 per cent died. One hundred and seven were never vaccinated and of these 38, or 35 per cent died. No nurse, physician or other attendant working in the smallpox hospital contracted the dis ease. The Glasgow report is no better than that from Chicago. The Chicago vaccination creed says: "Not one of the 2,702 cases of smallpox discovered in Chicago in in the last 18 years was found to have been vaccinated-as defined in the preed. The four articles of the creed make plain what is meant by successful vaccination.-Dr. W- A. Evans, in The State. When Yoy Are Bilious. To promote a healthy action of -the liver and correct the disorders by biliousness Chamberlain's Tablets are excellent. Try them and see how quickly they give you a relish for your food an dbanish that dull stupid feeling. WANTED: The people to know that I now have Giles Butler, who is an expert horse shoer in "my employ ment. Let us shoe your horses and mules. Satisfaction guaranteed. Don't forget also that we do all kinds of repairing in wagons, buggies, etc. . -, A. L. KEMP. FOR SALE: Native grown Ful ghum Oats at $1.25 per bushel, also one young horse and several young work mules from three to five years old. Reason for selling have rented out my entire farm for the year. M. C. PARKER. l-l 2-41. FIRE!! Insure your cotton in the Seed or in Bales. I can give you insurance for short or long term-one day up. The same for corn and other farm pro ducts. Better Be Safe Than Sorry. E. J. NORRIS, Agt. SEES GOOD IN THE TEA CUP Doctor Eliot, Aged Educator, Goes on Record as Having Faith In That Moderate Stimulant . Dr. Charles W. Eliot, now In his eighty-sixth year, confesses to a devi ation from the strict rule of abstoral ousness which cannot but cause con cern in the inner circles of moral re form, saj'S the New York* World. Though he has always indulged in "stimulants like tea, coffee and al cohol," and in tobacco not at all for more than half a century, he yet finds a certain virtue in tea drinking. "I have used tea most;" he says, "because lt seems to me to facilitate the men tal effort of writing and speaking." If the venerable ex-president of Harvard university had merely said that he derived some dietlc benefit from tea. no exception would be taken to the statement. It Is his frank ad mission that he uses tea as a stimu lant and finds that lt helps his mental processes which will be challenged. Can there be good In any stimulant? Can the willful excitation of the mind by any kind of brew be other than Immoral In its essential nature? All simon-pure reformers of the drink evil will feel sure that the Ose of tea has drugged Doctor Eliot's intellect and robbed it of its highest productivity. But what the world has lost In that particular will count as nothing to the self-revelation jthat this distin guished champion of temperance ls not 100 per cent" perfect in his pro hibition views. NEW ROUTES OF NEAR EAST Railroad Lines Will Bo Materially Ex tended as the Result of Oper, atlons of the Great War. The military operations of the war gave a material boost to railroad de velopment In the near East, says Lew is Heck, In Asia. After their success ful campaign at the end of 1917, the British extended their track line from Egypt to Palestine, connecting at Ramleh near Jerusalem. The line then went on to Haifa, which the British. are planning to make their great port In thc East and the principal terminus on the Mediterranean for a new short Une railroad to Bagdad and India, con necting Egypt and the African posses sions with India. The war gave the Bagdad railway extensions In Clllcla, northern Syria and Mesopotamia British prisoners of war furnishing much of the labor. The tunnels through the Taurus mountains were completed. Trains now run from Con stantinople through Aleppo to Nisbin. At the eastern terminus of the line Bagdad-trains run northward as far as Tekrit. Between Nisbln and Tekrlt !s an unfinished section of a few hun dred miles. . Before the war, trains did not run at night on this line, but this was changed by stern necessity. When normals trafile conditions are re established, the journey from Constan tinople to Bagdad and on to the Per sian Gulf can be made In a few days. Shakespeare Farm to Be Sold. Among the. numerous landed prop erties which are coming Into market during the next few riionths- is one of more than ordinary Interest, namely, the Grendon Underwood estate, Buck inghamshire, says the London Tele graph. This belongs to Mrs. Pigott, a member of a family resident In the dis trict for centuries, who lias decided to sell. This village has many historical anrj literary associations, which chiefly center round Its westerly portion, whore stands tho old Elizabethan hab itation now known as Shakespeare farm. It was here, when the house was a wayside hostelry, then named the Old Shlppe. that Shakespeare, lt is affirmed, used to stay when Journey^ lng to and from Stratford-on-Avon. Find New Fertilizer. An Important addition to the fer tilizer suppl? of the United States ls to be made. About 2,500.000 acres of lands In Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Montana, containing valuable phosphate depos its have been divided Into areas not exceeding 2.500 each, according to the Journal of Industrial and Engi neering Chemistry. For years these lands have been awaiting congressional legislation ? In regard to the leasing of phosphate de posits in public lands. Regulations In this connection have now been ap proved by Secretary of the Interior Payne. Applications for leases are to be filed with the local land office for transmission to the secretary of the Interior.-Chemical Round Table. Alabama Is the leading stare In peanut production, with 6,840,000 bush els to her credit In 1919, while five other states produced from 3,400,000 bushels to 5.500,000 bushels each. The total production of peanuts In the United States last'year was 33, 863,000 bushels, having a cash value of $80,000.000. Last winter the aver age price paid for peanuts was $2.40 per bushel. Trucks Grow In Favor. There were 953,093 trucks In use at the end of the year 1919. as compared with approximately 700,000 for the ? preceding year. This 19 a gain of 27 per cent, 16 per cent greater thanithe Increase shown by passenger cars. Only eighteen states make compila tions of truck registration. New York leads with others following in thia or der: Ell tools, Ohio. Pennsylvania, Cali fornia Iowa and Texas. Nevada with TOO Is at the foot of the Usu Peanut Production. j"?- 'l'^ -?; <f'I- -I- -tOl- .I1 <. ? ? <? <. '?vl^'l' ?? t IFSEASY TO PREVENT % J COLDS * ? * Keep the liver and kidneys in * 4. perfect condition. They throw J ?5? off the germs and make colds im- * + possible-if in perfect condition. * + A correct regulator will be * J found in * Dr. Hilton's Life * + + for the liver and kidneys. + * ? *. + Immediate relief is given in + t cases of constipation, indigestion * 4. and biliousness. ? ? It is pleasant to take, excites ? .i- a pleasant sense of warmth in -j. * the stomach, diffusing itself + * through the system. ^ + Your druggist sells Dr. Hil- + * ton's Life with a "satisfaction ? * or money refunded" guarantee. * * Colds and influenza are success- ^ 4? fully treated by using Murray's + T Horehound Mullein and Tar in * * conjunction wiih Dr. Hilton's J * Life. + |i Manufactured by % .i* 'S* % MURRAY DRUG CO. % * COLUMBIA, S. C. J * + Abbeville-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Asso ciation. ORGANIZED 1892. Property Insured $8,875.360 WHITE OR CALL on the nndei signed for any information you ma; desire about our plan of insurance We insure your property againr ' destruction by PIBE,' WINDSTORM or LIGHT NING .nd do ao cheaper than any Com pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared U prove to you that ours is the safes* and cheapest plan cf insurance known. Our Association is new licensee u write Insurance in the co un tie) of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCor mick, Edgefield, Laurens, Saluda, Richland, Lexington, Calhoun and Spartan burg. The officers are: Gen. J. Frasei Lyon, President, Columbia S. C., J. R. Blake. Gen. Agent, Secty. and Treas., Greenwood, S. C. . DIRECTORS. ''J ? -t ii A. 0. Grant, lit Carmel, S. C. . J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. J. R. Blake, Greenwood, S. C. A. W. Youngblood, Hodges, S. C. R H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. J. Fraser Lyon, Columbia, 3. C. W. C. Bates, Batesburg, S .C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R, BLAKE, GEN. AGT. Greenwood, S. C. January 1, 1920. Auditor's Notice. All persons owning property of any kind whatsoever, or in any ca pacity, as husband, guardian, execu tor, administrator or trustees are re quired to make returns of the same to the Auditor under oath within the time mentioned below and the Audi tor is required by law to add a penal ty of 50 per cent, to all property that it not returned on or before the 20th day of February in any year. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years except those ex empt by law are deemed taxable polls. The 50 per cent, penalty will be added for failure to make re turns. For-the connvenience of tax pay ers, I or my representative will be at the following appointed places on the dates mentioned to receive tax returns : Ropers, Monday, January 17. Meriwether, Thurmond's Store, Tuesday, January 18. Collier, Wednesday, January 19. Red Hill, Thursday, January 20. Cleora, Friday, January 21. W. R. E. Winn, Saturday, Janu ary 22. Pleasant Lane, Monday, January 24. Meeting Street, Tuesday, January 25. Johnston, Wednesday, January 26. Herrin's Store, Tursday, January 27. Trenton, Friday, January 28. The office will be open to receive returns from first day of January till the 20th day of February, 1921, as prescribed by law. j; R. TIMMERMAN, Auditor, E. C., S. C. lllPk'l CN'? 'S THE OWLY GENUINE ARNICA SALVE We Can Give You Prompt Service on Mill Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber on hand for Immediate Delivery. Woodward Lumber Co. QUALITY-SERVICE Corner Roberts and Dugas Sto., Augusta, Ga, Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us | . When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tile. Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Etc. Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. ? . . Telphone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA THE FARMERS BAN? OF EDGEFIELD, S. C. Capital and Surplus Profits Total Resources Over - - . $190,000.00 - $800,000.00 SAFETY AND SERVICE IS WHAT WE OFFER TO THE PUBLIC Open vour account with ns for the year 1920. Invest-your savings in one of our Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit. Lock 6oxes for rent in which to keep your valuable pa pers, etc. ? All business matters referred to ns pleasantly and carefully handled. We Solicit Your Business. OU MAKI UT WHAT OU SAVE THAT COUNTS Coprrieht 1909. br C. it 2immerman Co. -No. 66 EVERY DOLLAR that you spend foolishly, every proportion ate amount of money that you earn that it would be possible to save and do not, is only money that you have to work for again. On the other hand every dollar you put in the bank is money ?ff that is going to constantly work for you. Which is the best; money always working for you, or you always working for your money. Come in and start that bank account. Don't put it off another day. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President; A. S. Tompkins, Vice-president; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, M. C. Parker, A. S. Tompkins, J. G. Holland-, E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen.