The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, August 19, 1909, Page 4, Image 4
GOOD FOR EVIL
THE STATE DELIVERS A STRONG
LAY SERMON TO AN
Intolerant Subscriber Who Thinks
That Every One Must Agree With
lHim or be Crucified.
Under the caption ot "Punished
for Our Sins," The State publishes
an admirable editorial in reply to
Mr. W. L. Cave, who seems to be so
purltonlcal that he would crucify
every one that does not agree with
him. Here is the State's article,
which you can read for yourself:
Punished for Our Sins.
Te the Editor of The State:
I see in your editorial on yester
day you are siding with Jones in the
conflict that is fronting the people
of the State. Which is your privi
lege; you are a free man; your paper (
is free, and you are at liberty to do
as you like. !
But to support a man that is not.
in sympathy with me and the cause
I advocate is just a little too much
for me. You will stop my paper,
.and oblige,
W. T. Cave.
Olar. S. C, Aug. 13. 1909.
The offense of The State for which
this summary punishment is impos
ed, lies in assuming that the Rev.
Moward Lee Jones, D. D.. pastor of
?the Citadel Square Baptist church of
XJharleston, a prohibitionist, is con
scientious in preferring the legal
sale of whiskey in Charleston to the
aggravated debauchery of five hun
dred blind tigers; and in contending
that Dr. Jones, knowing his course
would be condemned by those for
whose opinions he has regard, exhib
ited moral courage in declaring him
self.
"Your paper is free." says Mr.
Cave, "and you are at liberty to do
as you like." Evidently the views
of our lost subscriber touching jour
nalism are somewhat circumscribed.
The State is not a plaything, and it
has a serious part to periforra.
"Likes" and "dislikes" must harmo
nize with convictions if they are to
have expression. When The State
'commented upon the attitude of Dr.
Jones it was not considering its
"likes" or "dislikes." Its position
is that matter appeared to he
square, and honest, and broad, but
The State knew quite well it.'would
/have been politic to take auother
position. We could have easily
.pleased Mr. Cave, and thousands
'''like him. But The State is not pub
lished to be politic. . '
Speaking about freedom, how free
is Mr. Cave? There is no freedom
?In Slavery*, and ?Mr. Cave is enslaved.
He knows not the exhilaration of un
chained thought; he can - not go
abroad into fields of tolerance;' 'a
fanaticism that shrivels the -'so?l' i?
his unrelenting and insistant task
master. Mr. Cave parts, corapr.ny
with The State because he can not
endure that we should Regard as sin
care a preacher who says that, be
tween the county dispensaries 'and
the blind tigers in Charleston he re
gards the dispensaries as- the lesser
evil! Assuming to take a moral
stand, in Christ's name, the spirit
exhibited of arrogance and intoler
ance is that of Christ's crucifiers.
We sympathize with ' Mr. Cave.
He needs The State. He will miss
us from his midst, it would have
been our pleasure, and South Caro
lina's profit, to have led him, step
by step out of the shadows of injus
tice, and bigotry, into that state of
citizenship where it is observed that
all questions have at least two sides,
and where it is conceded that the
fellow on the other side is not neces
sary deserving of hanging, without
trial.
And j'et we. of this place and
time, are disposded to sling stones at
Massachusetts ruritans. who, sever
al centuries ago, were inclined to
believe in witches, and to burn them.
Here fs that self same spirit exuding
from South Carolina's cavernous
depths. It is the spirit of the In
quisition, too. It denies freedom
of speech, freedom of thought, free
do. mof conscience. In tho Dark
Ages one frequently had to embrace,
at least in word form, the religion
of the man at the wheel or be brok
en upon the wheel. And in these al
leged enlightened time-*, and in an
alleged Christian State, we have a
Rev. B. Lacy H?ge likening the
Rev. Dr. Jones to Benedict Arnold,
himself a prohibitionist, considered
it would be harmful to the cause of
prohibition, and an encouragement
to lawlessness, to vote for prohibit
ion in Charleston; and we have Mr.
Cave of Olar cutting himseff off from
an exponent of truth, temperance,
liberty, justice, and Democracy, be
cause The State dare conceive Dr.
Jones the right of conscience.
If Cave, H?ge & Co. possessed the
power and the wheel, how the. .liv
ing human bones would crack!
Fanners Are Best Defences.
Deprecating the growing expen
ditures which the United States is
incurrfng in connection with the
maintenance of the army and navy,
and declaring that grain and cotton
fields are stronger military defenc
es than war ships, B. F. Qoakum,
chairman of the executive commit
tee of the Rock Island Company, de
livered an address a few days ago
before the Farmers' Union of Okla
homa at Shawnee.
Prisoners Burned.
At Carlesown, W. Va.. John R.
Johnson, 18 years old, and Charles
IWurlow, 15 years old, prisoners In
the Kanawha county jail, were prob
ably fatally burned in a fire started
from a' lighted cigaretts dropped
on their bed as they fell asleep.
CONQUERED THE MOSQUIO.
By Destroying the Places Where
They Lay Their Eggs
The people of Staten Island, New
York have discovered a great bene
factor in Dr. Doty, who has rid them
, entirely of the striped legged mos
quito, that, besides driving away
many potential residents, has hith
erto made life a burden during the
summer months to those residents
who remained, and he has all but
annihiliated the anopaeles, its mala
ria-carrying relative. The conquets
of the mosquito has increased the
value of real estate on the island
by hundreds of thousands of dol
lars; new houses are going up
throughout its length and breadth,
and residences that have long been
nhabited only by care takers are
being rented.
Dr. Doty's researches show that
the water in which mosquitoes breed
must be continually present for
about two weeks in order to allow
of the full propagation of the insect,
and that they are not produced in
water that may accumulate for two
or three days or a week. They will
breed, however, wherever there is
standing water. The anopheies lar
vae are frequently found in the most
unexpected places, such as old glass
and, tinware, wooden receptlcals, de
fective roof-leaders, and the crotch
es of trees.
As, with the execption of the sol
licitans variety, mosquitoes do not
go far from their breeding places,
if any other are found about the
house it is almost certain that a
breeding-place exists in the immedi
ate vicinity. Filthy water or that
which contains an excess of organic
matter is generally preferred by the
anopheles mosquito for this purpose,
so that obstructed cesspools, street
gutters, and similar places are found
to be the favorite breeding spots.
The mosquito deposits dts eggs
on the surface of the water, usually
at night, and from fifteen to twen
ty hours afterward the larvae are
released. Although the larvae can
live only in water, they are entirely
dependent on air for existance, and
must rise every minute or so to the
surface and project above it their
respiratory apparatus. Pretroleum
dose not poison the larvae, but kills
them by suffocation, as the oil on
the surface of the water plugs up
the respiratory apparatus and pre
vents the intake of air.
The campaign against the mos
quito does not stop with Staten Is
land. The genus culex s doomed
throughout the rest of the city. At
Flushing, in the Borought of Queens,
which has suffered almost as much
as Richmond from the ravages of
the sollicitans, the work of .drain
ing the great swamp comprising
2,200 acres that stretches from
Flushing Bay to College Point Is all
but completed, and the marshes at
Dougleston Creek are being ditch
ed.
Similar work is going on in the
five thousand acres of swamp land
along the Bronx river, and in the
Borough of Brooklyn ditching has
begun in the marshes that stretch
from Spring Creek and Jamaica Bay
to Remson's Landing and from
Gravesend Bay to Bergen Beach.
With the completion of this work the
mosquito will have been" deprived of
living-in-accommodations in the five
boroughs and New York city will be
entirely rid of the pest. *
HAVE NO FUNDS.
Plan to Send Cotton Expert Abroad
Falls Through.
According to a letter received at
Commissioner Watson's office in Co
lumbia from the chief of the bureau
of manufactures of the department
of commerce and labor, It will be
impossible to send an expert to
foreign countries to gather data and
information for *he benefit of the
cotton producers of the South. The
reason given is that there is no ap
propriation for the sending of an
agent at this time for the special
service. The request was made on
the National Government as a result
of a resolution adopted at a recent
meeting of the State Farmers' Union
held In Columbia. A similar resolu
tion was also passed at a meeting
of the National Union held at Atlan
ta some time ago. *
Denies the Charge.
The young man, Alex. Jennings,
who was arrested, charged with sell
ing whiskey in violation of lav/, de
nies that he was guilty of any such
thing. He says he is a member of
the Edisto Social Club, and that the
party for whom he got the whiskey
asked him to get it for him, and
having some whiskey in his club
locker, he did not think it was any
harm to let him have a little whis
key to quench his thirst. Mr. Jen
nings is a young man of good fami
ly and we hope he will be able to
make it clear that he did not violate
any law.
Kept Husband Home.
At Scianton, Pa., William Davis
is dead and his wife dying from the
effects of inhailing illuminating gas.
The couple were found lying un
conscious in bed and the husband
died a few minues later. Davis and
his wife were married about three
months ago, and according to neigh
bors their quarrels were frequent.
Sunday night the husband threaten
ed to leave her and It is supposed
that the woman turned on the gas
while Davis slept.
Robbers Surprised.
Two robbers surprised while loot
ing the State Bank at Kiefer. Ohio,
shot and killed City Marshal Ford
and probably fatally wounded Cash
ier Calma Webling. They then es
caped. A posse quickly organized
and hurried in pursuit.
COCAINE SELLERS
MUST BE MADE QUIT THE AW
FUL BUSINESS OR IT WILL
Bring Untold Trouble on the People
of the South by Bebauching the
Colored People.
The cocaine habit bids fair, if al
lowed to continue, to solve the race
problem in the South by eventually
killing off the negroes. We agree
with The State that "while the
alarming prevalence of the cocaine
habit among the negroes has been
widely advertised, it is doubtful if
Southerners yet .realize its terrible
significance. Every day the menace
grows larger." The State says:
"A case in point has just been
demonstrated in Savannah, where
nineteen people, two of them white
physicians, members of the Georgia
Medical society and one an ex-coro
ner, have been arrested charged With
selling the drug. As is well known,
probably the majority of those who
sell 'noses' of cocaine to the ne
groes for sums varying from 10 to
50 cents are themselves brothers-in
black, but there is little question
that throughout the South there are
plenty of drug stores where cocaine
can be easily bought, and numbers
of men with licenses to practice med
icine who will sell prescriptions for
cocaine and other drugs. One of
the physicians arrested in Savannah,
Dr. W. W. Lee, made this statement
to a reporter:
"I have done nothing but what I
thought I ought to do. I have writ
ten these prescriptions in the inter
est of humanity, when these suffer
ing people would come to me and
beg to give them relief. I have nev
er written a prescription for any pa
tient except those already addicted
to the habit and have lost money on
the transactions. I have consulted
an attorney and have looked up the
law on the question and do not think
I have violated it.'
"The witnesses against these phy
sicians testified that prescriptions
could be bought from them for 25
cents each, and the drug store's
charge for filling them were 50 cents.
The detective who investigated the
cases found that in a period of five
weeks Dr. Lee had issued no less
than three hundred and eighteen
prescriptions for cocaine, most of
which read for thirty, forty, and
sixty grains. The city health officer
of Savannah testified that he con
sidered one-eighth of a grain suffic
ient for a dose, but the witness
against the physicians testified if a
dope user was 'on strong,' as much
as 45 grains could be used in two
or three days, and sometimes in one
day.
"As every one who has made any
study of the negro cocaine fiend
knows, the confirmed "dope" will
go to any extreme to obtain the
drug?its hold is fully as strong as
morphine or any other of the nar
cotics. One negro in Savannah sent
her shoes to the pawn shop, another
stole a neighbor's bedquilt,' a third
stole $1.00 from the family she
washed for, etc. One woman, asked
as to the effect of the drug, said:
" 'It makes you feel so good?like
you wanted to fly. And it takes
away the tired feeling that comes
from hard work, and wakes a per
son up. The effect of a 'nose' of it
lasts me over an hour. When I
take it I always go home. Then I
dcn't mind my work. The effect ot
it is not Mke wn.?key '
"Par.'^ue is ^-mrorarily bitiished
by stimulation of the nerve centers,
but the after-effect is depressing and
this of course calls for use of the
drug again and again.
"Excepting the two white men ar
rested in Savannah, all the defend
ants are negroes, including one phy
sican. Of these the police justice
before whom the cases were tried,
bound over to the City Court, a high
er tribunal, only the physicians,
claiming that it was chiefly through
them that the drug was circulated.
The drug stores, he held were not
to blame as they did nothing more
than fill the prescriptions. This
point is well taken. It is at these
physicians, who unfortunately are
located in many other communities
than iu Savananh, that the blow
must be aimed.
"Of coure in some cases proof is
very difficult to obtain, but it can
got through determined effort, and
with the material once in hand, the
courts seem to be the next step.
Surely the medical associations in
which such suspected men hold
membership would do something to
ward depriving them of their licenses J
to practice." * [
Guessed About Right.
On last Saturday we pubUshed
the following: "The Times and
Democrat predicts that fifteen coun
ties of the twenty-one that will vote
on the liquor question next Tuesday
will banish the dispensaries, and
that when the legislature meets next
January it will pass a state-wido
prohibition bill." The returns of the
election as published proves the pre
diction made by t^is paper, that
fifteen counties out of the twenty
one that voted on the liquor ques
tion Tuesday would banish the dis
pensary to have been correct. The
other prediction will also come to
pass in January.
Neeses vs. Livingston.
Neeses, Aug. 14.?Special: The
Xeeses second nine defeated the f,iv
ington first nine today in an inter
esting game. The feature was the
pitching of Neese, who was especially
effective. With men on bases, twice
was their chances to score cut down
by double plays. Final score 5 to
0. Batteries, Livingston, Harley and
Hoover; Neeses, Neese and Neese.
Umpire, Williams.
SMI GOING UP
PRICES OF COTTON ADVANCED
SOMT3 ON TUESDAY.
The Fact That the Growing Crop
is Going to be Short is Now
Realized.
There was a further advance in
the price of cotton on the New York
market on Tuesday, chiefly as a re
sult it seemed of bullish crop crop
news from the Southwest and the
market closed strong at a net gain
of 13 to 18 points. The opening was
Arm at an advance of 7 to 12 points
and during the morning active
months sold 15 to 16 points net high
er in response to firm cables, reports
of very high temperatures in the
Southwest, expectations of bullish
national pinners' report, scattered
covering, a renewal of foreign de
mand, and moderate support from
some of the local bulls.
On the New Orleans market fu
tures opened steady at an advance
of 12 points on very favorable ca
bles and the worst weather report of
the season in the western section of
the belt. Many Texas, Oklahoma
and Arkansas points reported maxi
mum temperatures yesterday of from
100 to 110. Accompanying these
were complaints of grave crop de
terioration. The market held steady
on this news nearly all day, but
around noon some weakness was dis
played on the rumor that a promi
nent New York bull had sold the
bear leader 50,000 bales of OctOi
ber. During the last half hour of
trading the market strengthened
again on fear of more bad weather
reports 'tomorrow mornling. Pric
es rose to the highest of the day?
22 points over yesterday's last quo
tations. The closing was very steady
at a net advance of 20 to 21 points.
COTTON QUOTATIONS.
Good middling was bringing 12
cents on the local market yesterday
New York Futures.
Open Close.
January.12.33 12.22-23
March.12.34 12.24-25
October.12.38 12.24-25
December ... ..12.34 12.23-25
NEW POST CARDS.
Uncle Sam WU1 Furnish a Better
Grade Next Year.
Those who have the postal card
writing habit should rejoice. Be
ginning with January 1, 1910, Uncle
Sam is going to have better postal
cards. They will not be so close
kin to blotting paper and the de
sign on the address side Is to be more
artistic than at present.
Mr. Hitchcock, postmaster gener
al, is convinced that the United
States post cards do not compare
favforably with the po3t cards of
other countries and has given sanc
tion to a plan for improvement In
design, color and printing.
One of the innovations of (the
new card will be a card much smal
ler than the present size which can
be conveniently used for index pur
poses. Business men who send out
post cards for collection of statis
tics and similar purposes have made
it known that it would be very con
venient if there could be a size of
cards just large enough to be used
for index purposes. The postoffice
department has adopted the sug
gestion.
With the exception of the index
cards the other cards will be the
present size, but the design, color
and finish of the paper will be im
proved. *
Heat Wave Broken.
The weather bureau issued the
following bulletin Tuesday night:
"The severe warm wave in the
Middle Western States will be brok
en In the plains States and Missouri
valley tonight and in the State of
Middle and Upper Mississippi and
lower Ohio valleys on Wednesday
and the fall in temperature In these
States will be attended by showers.
The next disturbance from the Wets
will appear in the extreme North
west on Thursday, advance over the
plains States, central valleys and
Great Lakes on Friday and Saturday
and reach the Atlantic coast about
Sunday."
Will Kill Flies.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal of the world, says
that the best and simplest fly killer
is a weak solution of formaldehyde
in water (two teaspoonfuls to the
pint.) Place In plates or saucers
throughout the house. Ten cents
worth of formldehyde will ast an
ordinary family all summer. It has
no offensive smell, is fatal to disease
organisms, and is practically non
poisonous except to insects. Pyre
thrum powder, which may be bought
at any drug store, burned in the
house will also kill the flies.
Natural Gas Explodes.
At Cleveland. Ohio, seven men and
throe women, two of whom may die.
were injured early Monday when an
explosion of natural gas wrecked the
four-story building occupied by the
Wirick Moving and Storage Compa
ny. The debris caught fire and prac
tically all was consumed. *
Vanished at Night.
I Beautiful Lake Como. at Hokah,
Minn., a suburb of LaCross. disap
peared during the night, and when
1 the residents of the village arose
' Tuesday morning they saw only the.
sandy bottom. A dam three hundred
feet long at the foot of the lake had
broken. ?
THE HUUiE FLY
SOME RULES FOR PROTECTING
PUBLIC AGAINST ILLS.
Precautions Needed to Guard the
Public Health?Easy Enough to
do If You Will do it.
The following interesting and val
uable circular is being sent out by
the merchants association commit
tee of New York.
Flies are the most dangerous in
sects we have. They are much more
Idange^ous 4han bjees for horned;
these may sting you, and the sting
Is painful, but you soon get over
the pain. Flies do much more harm
than this. They walk over filthy
places like sewers and garbage cans,
and after eating which they find
there, they come into your house
and walk on the food and eat, car
rying on their feet the tiny germs
which live in filth just as you live in
a house. These germs are not only
filthy and disgusting, but many of
them cause such diseases as ty
phoid fever, cholera infantum and
summer complaint. When the flies
bring them from Borne dirty places
to your food or leave some of them
when they crawl on your face or
hands, you may swallow the3e germs
without knowing it, and be taken ill
with one of these diseases. So the
fly that seems so harmless may do
you much more harm than a bea
or a hornet.
Your parents should place screens
at their doors and windows during
the warb weather, to keep the flies
out of the house. If they cannot
screen all the rooms they should
screen those in which food is kept;
and if anyone is sick in the house,
flies should ge kept from the sick
room, so that they may not carry
germs from the sick person to the
rest of the family.
Children may help to keep flies
from swarming In and around hous
es and from carrying germs of sick
ness from one person to another.
In the first place, they should not
buy candy, fruit or other food which
oeirs left in front of stores or any
where else where flies may* feed an I
walk on it. Flies lay their eggs
chiefly in stable manure and if thu
is left without screens or other cov
ers to keep the flies away great num
bers will be hatched in every sta
ble. If you know of stores where
food is not covered from flies, or of
stables that have swarms of them
around, get your father or mother
to write to the Board of Health
about them and the Board will make
the store-keepers or stable men obey
its rules. But before you repbrt
other people for being careless and
dirty and so making it possible for
flies to become a nuisance, be sure
that your own house is clean, and
that no garbage cans or boxes are
left uncovered to attract fles.
If you and all the people you
know will follow this advice, there
will not be nearly so many flies to
plague you in hot weather, and there
will not be nearly so much sickness
and death, especially among chil
dren, as now.
?Keep the flies away from the sick,
especially those ill with contagious
diseases. Kill every fly that strays,
into the sick room. His body is
covered with disease germs.
Do not allow decaying material
of any sort to accumulate on or near
your premises.
All refuse which tends in any way
to fermentation, such as bedding,
straw, paper, waste and vegetable
matter, should be disposed of or
covered with lime or kerosene oil.
Screen all food.
Keep all receptacles for garbage
carefully covered and the cans clean
ed or sprinkled with oil or lime.
Keep all stable manure In vault
or pit screened or sprinkled with
lime, oil or other cheap preparation.
Cover food after a meal; burn or
bury all table refuse.
Screen all food exposed for sale.
Screen all windows and doors, es
pecially the kitchen and dining
room.
Don't forget, if you see flies, their
breeding place is in nearby filth.
It may be behind the door, under the
table or in the cupboard.
If there is no dirt and filth there
will be no flies.
If there is a nuisance in the
neighborhood write at once to the
Health Department. *
Notice to Cotton Growers.
The Kershaw Oill Mill Company,
of Kershaw, S. C, has established
a warehouse in this city on spur of
Southern Railway leading to county
Dispensary for the purpose of buying
;and exchanging cotton seed mcai
for cotton seed. They will keep con
stantly on hand meal to exchange
for seed and for sale, and will pay
the highest cash price for seed. Will
open September 1, 1909.
R. N. OWEN, Mgr.
Two Believed Lost.
T. F. Callaghan. of West Seattle,
and Jos. W. Stevens, of Trenton, N.
.1., are believed to have lost their
lives while endeavoring to ascend
Mount Tacoma. A rescue party
found the Alpien stacs and packs of
the lost men ten feet from the cra
for. The two men left camp at 2:,'5 0
Saturday morning without a guide.
They had but little food and it is
believed they perished from hunger,
fold, or accident.
Pretty Large C'lmir.
One of the largest chairs ever built
for anybody has been built recently
for Mr. W. W. Graham, of Branch
ville, who weighs 410 pounds. The
chair is large enough for a whole
family and still have room for com
HE FEEDETH ALL.
What the Farmer Is Doing for This
Country.
The tariff is behind us. In many
respects it is imperrect, but the agi
tation is out of the way and the Am
erican people will now adjust them
? selves to conditions, as they exist,
says the Manufacturers' Record,
which goes on to point this glowing
picture:
That we are entering upon a pe
riod of vast business expansion
seems to be beyond question. Con
sider for a moment the fundamental
conditions in the fundamental bus
iness?that of agriculture.
Unless present crop conditions ma
terially change it Is quite probable
that the total value of agricultural
products for 1909 will aggregate
$8,300,000,000 or in the neighbor
hood of $500,000,000 more than the
total of 1908, which was nearly
$400,000,000 greater than the pre
ceding year.
The most remarkable fact in our
business history is this amazing pro-i
gress In agriculture. The farmers
of this country are enjoying great
er prosperity than was ever known
before by the agricultural interests
of this or any other land.
The value of farm products in
1880, 1890 and 1900, and for each
year since 1905 have been as fol
lows:
1880 .$2,212,000,000
1890 . 2,466,000,000
1900 . 4,717,000,000
1905,. 6,415,000,000 N
1906 . 6,794,000,000
1907 . 7,412,000,000
1908 . 7,800,000,000
1909 (estimated) 8,300,000,000
In the ten years from 1880 to
1890 the increase in the value of
farm products was so triflingly small
that it averaged only one per cent
a year, or $250,000,000 for ten
years, hardly one-half of what the
Increase In the present year will be
over last year.
In other words, the Increase in
the value of farm products In one
year Is now tice as great as the in
crease In ten years between 1880
and 1990.
Between 1890 and 1896 there was
very little progress, but then began
a marvelous advance which has con
tinued without abatement ever
since; by 1900 the total value was
54,717,000,000.
Since \trien the momentum has
! continued until in the last three
years, estimating 1909, the aggre
gate value of farm products Is about
$23,500,000,000. This is more than
twenty times as much as the com
bined capital of all the national
banks In the United States.
To this wonderful advance, this
amazing growth in wealth, is largly
due the quick revival of business
from the panic of 1907. It was this
condition that saved us from a long
period of great Industrial depres
sion, and it Is this fundamental con
dition for maverous development
which assures an expansion of busi
ness much greater than our country
has yet seen.
Present Indications point to the
possibility of a corn crop of over
3,000,000,000 bushels, possibly 500,
000,000 bushels more than last year.
With the high prices ruing for
wheat, corn and cotton, abounding
prosperity seems to be assured.
With the tariff out of the way;
with mangniflcent crops, some har
vested and some practically assured,
the decks have been cleared for ac
tion. The winner of the battle for
to do business; who makes his
success will be the one who is ready
readiness known far and wide. The
way to do this Is to advertise. ?
Should be Stopped.
There is a craze among some of
the small boys of this town, which
doubtless extends to many other
towns, to secure the pictures of
baseball stars which the American
Tobacco ComDany incloses )in the
packages of cigarettes it offers for
sale. The Fort Mill Times says from
a business standpoint, this was a
happy thought o nthe rart of the
cigarette makers, whose sales have
largely increased through the de
vice, but it has meant resultant de
moralization of a great number of
small boys who, in their eagerness
to secure the baseball pictures, have
become cigarette smokers. There Is
a law on the statute books of this
State against the sale of cigarettes
to minors under 18 years of age,
and it would be well for the officers
of the law to keep an eye for viola
tors of the law. *
What We Breathe.
Atmosphere is the name applied to
the gaseous envelope that surrounds
the globe. It consists of a mechani
cal union of nitrogen and oxygen, In
the ratio of four to one, together
with a relative small amount of
carbonic acid gas and a little water
vapor. Its thickness Is about fl.fy
miles, although it probably extends,
in an attenuated form, as far as f.ve
hundred miles. This is Inferred
from the observation of luminous
meteors. It exerts a pressure of fif
teen pounds to the square inch at
the earth's surface, and weighs over
I eleven and a half trillions of pounds.
I Each adult Inhales one gallon of air
j per minute, and consumes thirty
, ounces of oxygen daiiy. An ordina
ry gas-jet consumes as much oxygen
j as five persons. Be sure that you
breathe your full share If you want
: to enjoy good health.
Crazed by Heat.
Believed to have been driven in
sane by the Intense heat, John Bus
hy, a well to do farmer of north
eastern McLane county, III., killed
his wife Saturday Three of thslr
children wro w.tmssed the crime
lied in time to save their lives. Bus
ry took refuge In a barn w?ere h<*
was found dead, having cut his
throat. ?
LOCAL MEWS ITEMS.
PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BY OUR
REPORTERS.
What Is Happening in the Country
as Well as in the Cities and
Towns.
What dfd you think of our elec
tion report?
A very enjoyable dance was given
last evening in the Elks Hall.
Some of the worst drinkers in
town voted against the dispensary.
Swear off, old man; swear off, be
cause liquor is going to be hard to
get?after awhile.
Them fellows over In Calhouu
county hated to give the dispensary /
up, but it had to go.
Now that the whiskey election Is
out of the way, we must turn our
attention to the municipal election.
Had it not been for the sturdy
prohibitionists of Cameron and Ad
vance, Calhoun county would still
'be a booze seller.
If we are in order, we would move
that we now take a vote on the so
cial club question. They will have
to follow the dispensary .
We held back Tuesday's irsue of
The Times and Democrat in order to
get the election returns, which we
are sure our readers appreciated.
I Orangeburg county gave the larg
est majority against the dispensary
of any county that voted on Tues
day. She never does things by half.
If the advice given by a doctor
that people should eat the skins of
fruit, keeps the sidewalks clear of
banana peals it will not have been
given in vain.
The Times and Democrat was not
an original prohibitionist, but it is
in the fight now to the finish. It
will use all of its influence to make
prohibition a success.
The Times and Democrat is not a
dally yet, but the way it "rehashed"
the election news for the benefit of
its thousand'; of subscribers on Tues
day night put it in the big city daily
class.
After the last day of October,
Orangeburg county will know the
dispensary no more forever. It will
have served its day and will have
to take its place among the has
beens.
That cool week in August was bad
ly needed a few days ago, but as
old Sol has let up a little, it can be
held in reserve a little wile longer.
But we hope the weather man will
keep it handy.
The people of Orangeburg county
has declared for prohibition by a de
cisive vote, and it is the duty of
every patriotic man In the county,
regardless of how he voted on Tues
day, to help enforce the law.
There is some talk of bringing out
a prohibition municipal ticket in the
approaching election. Whether the
talk will ever materialize in action,
remains to be seen. If it does there
will be a hot time in the old town,
sure.
When it comes to predicting the
results of whiskey elections The
Times and Democrat is Johnny on
the spot. If you don't believe it,
compare the prediction we made
last Saturday with the reseult of the
election.
As the people of the county was
so overwhelmingly for prohibition,
we are glad that this city voted that
way, too. The vote shows that this
city is in accord with the people of
the country districts. This is aB it
should be.
The Alabama Legislature has
made made it unlawful to even print
the picture of a whiskey bottle, and
the Augusta Herald says the man
who should dream of a little brown
jug will keep It a secret if he doesn't
court trouble.
Bishop Williams, of Michigan, says
"nothing so saps human will power,
hypnotizes and enslaves a man,
wrecks and ruins personality, as gam
bling." Remember this, young man,
and shun the gaming table as you
would a pestilence.
The Times and Democrat is Indebt
ed to Dr. H. N. Fair, of St. Matthews,
for the Calhoun county returns. He
phoned them to us about ten o'clock
Tuesday night, which enabled us to
give a complete record of the vote.
We appreciate your kindness, Doc
tor.
Capt. W. W. Ball, of the Columbia
State, kindly phoned us the result of
the election in the State about eleven
o'clock Tuesday night, for which we
hereby return our thanks, and hold
ourselves ready to respond any time
the Colonel or The State commands
us.
The Times and Democrat's elec
; tlon report compares favorably with
I the reports published by the dally
papers. If you don't believe it make
the comparison. All of which goes
to prove that if you waat the news
in this section you must read The
Times and Democrat.
Mr. James Izlar Sims, of The
Times and Democrat, appreciates the
mention of his name In connection
with aldermanic honors by our local
contemporary, The Sun, but he begs
to say that he Is only eighteen years
of age, which disqualifies him, and,
besides, he is too much engaged in
his business ventures to ever think
of standing Tor a political office.
In simple justice to the gentlemen
who have managed the dispensary in
this county we take pleasure in say
ing that It was managed in a thor
oughly business way, with a due re
gard to the strict enforcement of
the law under which it was oper
ated. Orangeburg county has never
had more conscientious officials than
these gentlemen have proved them
selves to be.