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/ . n I SPC frald aiiD Jews, l| VOL XLV NO. 74 ' NEWBERRY, S. P.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 1908. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR !************* * ELKS' CHAHITY BAZAAR. -< Automobile Parade. Mr. Horinan Wright lias very kind |f ly offered to arrange an automobile | parade, the cars being decorated in the Elks colors, purple and white I Ho desires that very one owning a | car take part, and hopes to have sev| oral cars from out of town to partiSf cipate. The Elks desire to thank the ladies who.have mailed the bazaar letter* given them, and it can be said in tMs connection that they are having fino results. The next issue will give a complete list, of the handiwork that the ladies have donated. The Elks will be glad to receive something from anybody who feels so disposed to help out this good cause. the Elks desire to thank those merchants who have so kindly given a list of houses, from whom they purchase goods, asking contributions for the Elks' Bazaar, which will be held some time in October. Those merchants who have not been asked for a I list up to this time, will he called on I during this week and it is trusted \ they will see fit to grant same. Below is a list of goods already received on letters sent out. Ewart-Perry Co.?Maxim , hat, Cabinet hat, pair trousers, 44 shirts, pair trousers, pair shoes, cash $2.00, pair trousers, fancy vest, two pairs silk pajamas, suit clothes, three pairs trousers, one suit clot'hes. Daniels & Williamson?Two jewel boxes. Summer Bros.?Suit clothes, overcoat, suit clothes, five pairs shoes, six "Eclipse" shirts, suit clothes, rain coat, pair trousers, four dozen neck wear, carving set, suit clothes, Gillette razor, 30 pounds teas, pair shoes, stiil clothes, Stetson hat. Clary Bros.? Shipment sweet crackers. A. IT. Montieth & Co.?Five pounds Brown's Log Cabin, Cartoon Refined tobacco, Cartoon Prince Albert tobacco, box cigars, 10 pounds Duke's Mixture, box cigars, box toabceo cigarettes, 25 pounds Pride Reidsville, five pounds Old English Curve Cut, one pound New English Curve Cut. Newberry Hardware Co.?Newel post, keg 10D wire nails. J. W. Kiblcr & Co.?Case A. & H. soda, cash $5.00, cash $5.00, five pounds Ogburn's choice, 15 pounds Rich & Waxey, eight sacks Flour-Supreme, two cases Parrot & Monkey baking powder, TOO Havana cigars, two dozen Blue Ribbon extracts, shipment Blue Ribbon candy, case Wesson Cooking Oil, fi sacks Capitola flower, shipment paper. Shelley & Summer.?Carrol smoking set, Carrol Towel case. Elk water set, pair bronze statues, bedside table, stove, rug, rocker, mirror 1G-20, T2 inch cut glass bowl, chiffonier . G. S. Mower Co?Lady's hat. Epting & Werts?Six tables. E. M. Evans & Co.?Shipment fancy groceries, pair shoes, box Red Eyo tobacco. Wm. Johnson?Set Atkins hand saws. - Jas. Mimnaugh?Lady's hat. Newberry Electric Co.?Electric portable, newel light. Joe. Mann?One dozen show knit socks. S. B. Jones?Six pounds Blankc's coffee, 10 pounds crackers. Gilder & Weeks?One dozen International Stock Food, shipment Nuunally's candy. W. K. Pel lui m & Son?20 boxes Whittemore polishes, shipment Pratts Food, case Mariehino cherries, 12m paper bags. No. 2 cooking oil stove, two cases paints, electric portable, box malted milk, two Mcrsehanm pipes, half dozen tooth brushes, three boxes Spearmint gum, ease white grape juice, six bottles Antiseptic wash, one dozen Euthymol paste, one dozen Euthymol cream, one dozen Euthymol Dentifrice, box Menneus talcum, shipment Warn polos antiseptic solution, one case Harris carbonated water, three cases Harris litliia water. Boyd & Lane?100 pounds snip 1 , * ment, two boxes Kola Pepsin gum, * 10 pounds crackers, shipment fancy ' crackers, 16 sack Pinnacle" flour, * 20,000 bazaar bags, two rolls 12 inch * paper, case Heinz assorted condiments, 10 1-pound cans Morara coffee, two 4-pound cans Morara coffee, 30 ' 1-pound cans Duchess coffee, one dozt en handy enamel brooms. R. D.. Smith??-Three cases Glenn 1 Springs water, one case coffees and teas. Ladies Helping. The bazaar managers wish to thank those ladies who have mailed out the * circular letters given them. If there 1 are any ladies, who desire to help by ' mailing these letters, kindly call at ! W. E. Pelham & Son, where C. P. Pelham will give you as many as can be used. The Elks will glndly receive 1 all contributions of any description, which may be donated by the ladies of Newberry. 1 . Senator Johnstone Amused. Mr. Alan Johnstone, nominee to ' the State_senate from Newberry conn- ' ty, was in tlie city yesterday for a few hours on business and received the congratulations of his many friends on his recent victory. Mr. J<;ihnstone related with much amuse- i ment tlie combination on senatorship ' and governor which several endeavored to work against him. Editorials trom the Stale on tlie situation were copied and every effort was made to arouse prejudice against him. Tt failed, however, and Mr. Johnstone believes that but for the ' mins which prevented a full vote 1 from being turned out Ansel would ' have carried the county easily.?Tlie Columbia State. < We had hoped that since the election is over and the result declared ' and no one protesting thai the mat- ' tor would end. There is no doubt that ' it was a great victory which Mr. John- 1 stone achieved and lie has a right to be proud ol' it hut he ought to stale 1 the facts when he talks about it. No .' editorials from the Columbia St ate * were ever copied unless Mr. John- ( stone copied them on the typewriter. 1 And but for the effort of Mr. Johnstone and his friends to make it ap- ! pear that there was a combination in ' the governor's and senate races as i against him the result would very ' probably have been different. There } was no combination. All that Mr. ( An 11 had to say was said on the stump in Mr. Johnstone's presence. 1 Mr. Anil has not complained, and is i not complaining, but after the elec- i tion is over he does not like to see a I misstatement of the facts. THE PESTIFEROUS RAT. | ? , Man at Last Begins to Recognize | Most Dangerous Enemy. ] Unless an international Pied Piper ] of Hamlin can be found to lead all , the rats into the sea, the entire human race may become their victim. The high authority of a noted \ French scientist, I)r. R. Calmette of Paris, backs this assertion. The increasing number of rats, the marvelous hardihood with which they survive long journeys, their pernicious and perilous tendency to carry disease are all given as reasons for the universal warfare now planned on rodents. 1 ft will not be with the dulcet 1 strains of a piper that the rodents ' will be lured to their doom as on an- ^ other occasion noted in history. Science is practical, and believes that 1 poison properly administered is a ' j good deal more efficacious than music ' to piper out a pest. The offering of bounties on rat ' j tails, the adoption of methods to ( i keep them from traveling from point ' to point on ships and railroad cars. ' and the cmploymvnt of professional rat killers all over the world, arc i j some of the .methods by which the i j pests will be wiped out. ; It is now becoming nothing un- i I common for cities to inaugurate rat 1 killing campaigns as a means of put- | i ling an end to plagues. . j The ease of Port of Spain is an exI cclleut instance. Plague broke out j and extended in spite of efforts to j check it. Then exports fell on the ' idea that rats were carrying the in-' feet ion from place to place. Rat killing on a wholesale scalc was ordered, and i 11 a conple of weeks the work bore such excellent fruit that no new cases were reported. It is to be distinctly understood that not all rats are harmful. Every country has certain species which do not damage, but in many cases have a certain utility. 1 lie rat that makes the trouble is the migratory one, otherwise known as the sewer rat, which has been evolved by civilization, and follows man wherever he may go. Hals of the harmless breed have been known ever since history began lo take a record of things, but the dangerous sewer rat is a distinctly modern evolution, whose history cannot he traced back for more than three centuries. L'liat 1100 years of activity is a record of terrible misdeeds, and the amount of property destroyed by the sewer rat in that time and fhe number ot lives taken through the spreading o| disease lias probably made the ra.t a tar more terrible destroyer than all the wart a re of the same period. It is as a native of Persia and Fast India that the migratory rat first U'ets a place in history's pages, and it is not until the eighteenth century that he makes his debut in Europe. The rat got a good start in Europe and throve immensely for a time, but then came a widespread famine. To a large degree that rat had been responsible for the wasting of the food sources, for he had in his irreed devoured the props of the field, and his loulness had spread tlisease among the cattle. Having spoiled one favorite liannt. the rat Hegnn to spread all iver the world. The famous crossing of the Volga in 1727 is an inci? lent thoroughly authenticated. Millions of the rats swain over tlio river into Furope. Twenty-three fears later they made their appearance in Prussia, and three years latsr thi' French kingdom was made lie unwelcome host of the rodents. kveu at the early stage Paris was irouscd to the dangers of the rat invasion and met the newcomers with i determined warfare. Within a week more than 10,000 rats were 'lain, hut still they kept, coming in muni less numbers. I lie I nited States was long exempt from the visitations of the sewer at, which seems to withhold his vists till cities have grown to the size hat there will be ample shelter ami ibundant food. It was about the time thai the United States had ended the Civil >\ar of. 18f)l-(),) that the rat decided :o become an American citizen. He lad to make a long trip across the H'can, but that, presented no problem, for the rodent, is as skillful in the vater as on land. The docking of ships at the wharf s a favorite time for him to embark, mt even it a ship lays out at anchor x quarter of a mile it is by no means safe from taking on unwelcome passengers. Tn such eases Mr. Hat takes ad vanage of his skill as a swimmer, makes lis way out to the boat, climbs swiftly up the anchor chains and gets nto the hold, the operation being performed so swiftly under cover of light that not often are sailors able o catch the intruder. Along the coast and in various sea>orts the rat made his appearance in lie 1'nited States in 180."). It took live years to get out as far west as Missouri. In ten years he had made lis way lo the coast, and hundreds >1 thousands of his kind undoubtedly met death in the San Francisco imrthquake and fire. Now the rat has completed his dominion of'the North American continent, and stretches over it all the way from Panama to the permanent ice bell. The outlying islands of the new world have been a favorite /orking place for the rodent, and there they have wrought almost incredible devastation. In the West Indies, in the Azores and in the Cape Verde islands hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of coffee, banana, su gar and orange plantations are fi ! ing a victim to the rapacity of ; rat. ; One island is instanced that v pnoe completely covered with r grass, which kept in good condit all the year around three thousu cattle. Although the island is hal i mile from the mainland the day ea when the rats picked it out as i suitable place for pitching their tei By swimming they reached the land and took possession. That v fifteen years ago. Today there not a blade of grass left on the land. A pair of rabbits could 1 find nourishment on what was 01 an ideal stretch of grazing land The whole island lias been so a!) lately honeycombed by the rats tl today it cannot be reclaimed by < tivation. There it lays in the ocei useless, an eyesore, a sample of wl man's foe, I lie rat, can achieve the way of destruction. The rat will eat anything. On i of the Channel islands it was kno that an army of rats had th home. Curiosity was aroused as what they lived on, for the isla had been stripped clear of even blade of grass. A scientist made an examinnti j and dug out the holes of a ntunl t of rats. To his amazement he fon ! in them crabs?live crabs! Tl j had not come of their own will, I .each crustacean had legs cut off. Investigation showed that the w rats were in (lie habit of doing th crabbing at low tide. To make si thai I lie crab would do no harm, was swiftly deprived of his chn Then dragged to Hie hole of the r the crab was a food supply to drawn on whenever needed. The damage that rats do to t cargoes of ships and in warehom j has been estimated at tens of milliu j of dollars. I{:it insurance has beooi a necessity of business since ll I rodent got a hold in this country, I Wats scratching matches a j starting them into flame, rats m< : in?? around greasy waste rags a causing spontaneous combustion I he explanation of many a inysti ions fire. J There is hardly anything that J rat will not eat from meat and po try to hark of young trees. Ducks, chickens and other sm fowl fall a victim to the rat, bei killed by a grip on the t'hroal by t sharp teeth of the ugly rodent. 1 tacks on children and old perse are often reported, the rat seemi to know by instinct where it c most safely make an attack. Cities all over tiie world ha learned the terrible lesson of h< rats can carry plagues, and when is considered that within two yei a single ordinary pair <?f rats w multiply to 1 ,f?rt(> rats, it will be se how many of these disease carrii are constantly being loosed on t world. The situation has indeed resolv itself into a matter of destroying t rat or being destroyed by him. Rochester Democrat. Decoivera. There is an old fellow who lives fa "dry" New England town who li a very poor opinion of New York, which metropolis he recently made visit. It may be remarked in passi that the old gentleman is one of t pillars of the church in his native v lage. Upon his return home he .< for some time upon a sugar barrel i the grocery and then suddenly bin out: "Them fellers down to New Y?i lis as bad as thieves! Cheat your e; 'teeth out 'fore you know it!" | "Gosh, Hiram! You don't mean J say you got buncoed at your age j the storekeeper demanded, droppi | the nail tongs. "Yes, I do, too!" was the am. reply. "1 went to a sody water foi ! tain an' asked the feller for his b sarsyaprilla an' give him the regu I wink." "Well?" "Well, by heck, I got it!" was I disgusted reply. Iieinforced concrete has been fou successful as a facing for wood le1 banks on the lower Mississippi. till- PERUVIAN GUANO. (T the ? Careless Methods Arc Responsible T vas For Rapid Exhaustion. ich ion To t'he people of Peru the piano inmd dustrv is of the highest importance, tr f a Not only has guano a great money <> me value for pu<r|K>scs of exjiort, hut it is tli , a ?absolutely essention to tlie agriculture er it$. ?f the country. The destruction of iui i?. the industry would he a public calam- A /as ity. Hi is H.V not a few people it is supposed en is- Ihjit |he aecumuliitions of guano in mi lot Peru are something like eoal dejiosits 1Ce i" that they represent the very gra- f? dual aeenmiilations 4?1" a vast amount on so- oI time and that their deposition is int ,mw an end. so n 1- I'his is not the ease, since guano jp ttn, >s being deposited today just as for- ju lat aierly, but in mueli less ipiantity than sv in formerly, since the birds which pro- ca dure it are far less numerous than hi me they used to lie. On the other hand ex vvn .unano produeed today is valual)le sh eir ?perhaps even more valuable than g|, to that deposited years ago. ud IIk1 deposits ol old guano are being to a rapidly (exhausted, and when these are sa exhausted, there will remain only the tli on annual product, which under present co )er conditions is cerlain to grow less and nd less. I hi* is true because the birds w ley that produce il arc wholly disregard- sli Tor ed, lor the contractors who collect I he o| gaano do so without the slightest ref- So ilv erence to the birds on which the sup- |>, eir pl.v depends, driving them from I heir )? ire nesting places and destroying the eggs .t he and young. The whole subject lias }|() vs. \ been carefully studied by Senor Lar- tx at, '"a hurey Correa, who recently suhmitbe ted a full reporl to (he Peruvian government. 11 ' e The 'wo principal birds which de- ,,,, <es posit litis valnalih* product are a cor- lm ins Morant and a pelican, and these birds \y me spend the greater pari of their time j], lat during the whole year on the nesting , ground, unless frightened awav hv v-|( nd man. To secure the best results from |,M >\ - I licit presence lltey should he etieour- S(. ltd aued to remain on these grounds, and f;, is inslc-'d of beinu treated as wild ani- |,] er- inals whose iiselul product men size jt, and carry away, lltey should be treata ed as domestic animals, engaged in sti ul- useful labor and producing a crop j'n ('? the harvestin,u of which the highest lll( all intelligence should he devoted. w\ I he birds should not he driven away il, he Iroin their nesting grounds. The pres- v?i *t- enl tendency to a decrease in tunn- it uis hers could be <die(d<ed. Protection In "U will result in a great increase, and ar an sn(.|, increase will mean the** addition m to Peru's dollars' worth of guano each III ive year. KveryMiing should be done to tb dw increase the number of birds, for the it greater the number of the birds the irs greater the amount of the guano profill dueed. Action should be taken at ten once, for the pelican, I he more useful ns of these two birds, is gradually dis- J. lie appearing. It. is necessary to watch the coned tractors who remove the guano from he the islands and see that they do it -- with due regard to the safety of the J! birds and the future supply of the product. It would be well also to close each of the various guano isin lands in rotation for a term of years, iaH thus leaving the birds on the different M to islands unmolested for periods of ( ft years as long as possible. A great n* ng S'?P VillK;0 has been made in rehe r'M,t years by establishing a closed M 'il- s<,asnn for the islands, during which <at I"' worked; but this f<] at mft:,s,"e after nil, only a palliative. (?] rs| P does not strike at the root, of the evil. . 11 (J.|{ j I he agriculture ol Peru is dcpcmlk.pJ<?)l ?ii the supply of guano. The de-j , , ntands of (he export trade are insa- ' ' j liable. I'lte time is coming when both ! I these demands cannot be satisfied. It : ^ | is I?i -? 1 > lime tlint a >troiur effort shall ] ''' " j be made lo increase the supply, and | Mltis can only he done by protecting! ' j t' le breeding grounds of lite birds.? U . 1* opcsl and Slreain. A esl lnrj ? 1 I he stream of blood Jeaving the , human heart covers a distance equal ,, llJt, ' to 01,000 miles each year. ^ nd j France produces the most wine in w /e? the world, 1,710,900,000 gallons a fi \ year. \ HE ADVENTUROUS ENGINEER. ho Third Man in the Great Army of World Conquerors. In the order of conquest (lie conacting engineer is but the third man i the spot?first- the missionary; ien the soldier; then thy contracting igineer. After that come tho orditry mortals known as imputation, nd only by the previous efforts of esc three and over their white bones n the world's population and comiM'ce proceed. lie learns to take .'10 miles a day on ot as a mere constitutional, to sleep i the ground, to steer by the sun, to less his altitude by the trees, to use the eharactcristics of the coun\ he journeys in as a sportsman dges a horse. He must ride and >*im (in water or quicksand, as the se may be), and not be afraid of gh places <>r deep tunnels. He must plore trcacluvrous rivers in an egg*dl ot a boat and not miss a sine tealure which he passes nor turn > missing himself, lie is supposed be able to get ashore somehow in fet\ when rolled out of a boat in e heavy breakers of an unknown asl. I have met more than one of hint ho had fought cannibals; so 111a! M"hl. no doubt, be put down as om> his accomplishments Joo. And metiines lie has to rccovcr from a oken leg or a fever with nobody il a supers! iI ions ("holo woman for nurse and a fragrant mud hut for a spitill and goodness knows who for doctor. All the while he is roaming over d learning the planet in its natural igni I icence, he is studying how to ike it. possibly not so magnificent, it- vastly more convenient to live in. here you sweep gracefully round e curve on the cliff ami hang for moment in the mid-air on the great el cantilever and catch a flashing >k at what the guide book calls it-, lenlilic marvel, you will |)(. making ' better lime than I lie fellow who iisled out | he curve and climbed by lies down one side of | |,c gorge "M ' he other leaving n string of ne piers behind In n ; t,l fo- co rl ;""1 ? yon will be |r,._ ['iidouslv more fortuiiale. but you ill never see |.in> region as he saw when lie was hewing his way ami ?ur way through it, ?or ever knew as lie did when he lived in a little il on I lie ledges and watched his my working and heard the fa in I; ise ot his machine.rv drifting down e weird, lonesome valley, with (he in smoke ot his donkey boilers. Advertised Letters. Fidlers remaining in the postofiiec Newberry. S. C.,' for week endiii" !|>l. r>, 1008. Mr. W. A. Andrews. Miss Alice Bishop, !<'. S. Brown (2) La u sou I towers, Miss Maggie Bufr, Mrs. Mary Liza Butler, Mr. J. at Blum. Mfr. I{. ( . C aldwell, Mr, Washin wolic, Miss Ethel Counts, Mr. W. (olinan, Mr. ,1. W. Cromer, Mr. ary A. Council. Miss Mondie Davis, Ida L. C, Dens. Miss Ollie Mae Fallow, Furniluro fg. Co. Mr. Henry Cullman, Maggie K. lenn, Mr. H. <Cordon, Miss Lulu Ivmp. Mr. Lawson Hair. Mr. M. C. ?;it It. Rev. .1. ( . Jackson, Mr. Daniel ickson. Mr. Levi Kilder. Mr. \\. I'. Leaphardt, Mr. Farrice ng, Mr. A. M. Long. Mr. W. A. Miller. Mrs. Klla Means. Anlone Wcyhenl, I. Kicker, \\r. M. ice, Mrs. Lucy li-odgers, Mrs. manda Kodger-. Mr. .Ininn Sea se, Mr. (J. F. Smith, r. ,1. W. Sliroul. Mr. 10. T. Worts, Miss Ceorgiaua 'illiams, Miss Mary Wood, Miss una Young. All person calling for these letters ill please say that they were adverted. C. J. Pureell, P. M.