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VQ4er TSD B 1 E. $ VOL XLV NO. 74 NEWBERRY, S. C.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,.1908. TIEAWE.8.0AYA * * * * * * * *A * * * * ELKS' CHASRITY BAZAAR. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Automobile Parade. Mr. Herman Wright has very kind ly offered to arrange an automobile parade, the ears being decorated in the Elks colors, purple and white. He desires that very one owning a car take part, and hopes to have sev eral cars from out of town to parti cipate. The Elks desire to thank the ladies who -have mailed the bazaar letters given -them, and it can be said in this connection that they are having fine 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 mer chants who have so kindly given a list of houses, from whom they pur chase goods, asking contributions for the .Elks' Bazaar, whieh will be held some time in October. Those mer chants who have not been asked for a list up to this time, will be called on during this week and it is trusted they will see fit to grant same. Be low is a list of goods already re ceived 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 clothes. Daniels & Williamson-'rwo jewel boxes. Summer Bros.-Suit clothes, over coat, 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, suit clothes. Stetson hat. Clary Bros.--Shipment sweet crackers. A. H. Montieth & Co.-Five pounds Brown's Log Cabin, Cartoon Refined tobacco, Cartoon Prince Albert tobac co, box cigars, 10 pounas Duke's Mixture, box eigars, box ,oabeco cig arettes, 25 pounds Pride Reidsville, five pounds Old English Curve Cut, one pound New English Curye Cut. Newberry Hardware Co.-Newel post, keg 10D wire nails. J. W. Kibler & Co.-Case A. & H. soda, cash $5.00, eash $5.00, five pounds Ogburn 's choice,. 15 pounds Rich &- Waxey, eight sacks Flour-Su preme, two cases Parrot & IMonkey baking, .powder, 100 Havana cigars, two dozen Blue Ribbon extracts, ship ment Blue Ribbon candy, ease Wes, son Cooking Oil, 6 sacks Capitola flower, shipment paper. Shelley & Summer.-Carrol smok ing set, Carrol Towel case, Elk wat er set, pair bronze statues, bedside table,.stove, rug, rocker, mirror 16-20, 12 inch cut glass bowl, chiffonier . G. S. Mower Co-Lady. hat. Epting & Werts-Six tables. *E. M. Evans & 'Co.-Shipment fancy groceries, pair shoes, box Red; Eye tobacco. Win. Johnson--Set Atkins hand saws. Jas. Mimnaugh-Lady 's hat. Newberry Electric Co.-Electrie portable, newel light.. Joe. Mann-One dozen s.how knit' socks. S. B. Jones-Six pounds Blanke 's' coffee, 10 pounds crackers. Gilder &~ Weeks-One dozen Inter-; national Stock Food, shipment Nun nally 's candy. W. E. Pelhiam & Son-29 boxes Whittemnore polishes, shipment Pratts Food, case Marichino cherries. 12mn paper bags. No. 2 cooking oil stove, two cases paints, electric portable, box malted milk. two Mersehaum pipes. half dozen tooth brushes, three boxes Spearmint gum. case white grape jaite, six bottles Antiseptic wash. one dozen Euthymol paste, one dozen Euthymol cream. one dozen Euthymol Dentif rice, box Menmess ta1cum,: shipment Wampoles antiseptic solh tion, one case Harris carbonated wat er, three cases Harris lithia water. no-d & Lan---1 poundshipn ment, two boxes Kola P.3psin 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, 36 1-pound cans Duchess coffee, one doz en handy enamel brooms. R. D. Smith-Three cases Glenn Springs water, one case coffees and teas. - Ladies Helping. The bazaar manayers wish to thank those ladies who have maiied out the circular letters given them. If there are any ladies, who desire to help by mailing these letters, kindly call at W. E. Pelham & Son, where C. P. Pelham "vill give you as many as can be used. The Elks will gladly receive all contributions of any description, which may be donated by the ladies of Newberry. Senator Johnstone Amused. Mr. Alan Johnstone, nominee to the Statesenate from Newberry coun ty, was in the city yesterday for a few hours on business and received the congratulations of his many friends on his reeent victory. Mr. Johnstone related with much amuse ment the combination on senatorship and governor which several endeavor ed to work against 'him. Editorials from the State on the situation were copied and every effort was made to arouse prejudice against him. It failed. however. and Mr. Johnstone believes that but for the rains which prevented a full vote from being turned out Ansel would have carried the county. easily.-The Columbia State. We had hoped that since the elec tiou is over and the result declared and no one protesting that the mat ter would end. There is no doubt that, it was a great victory which Mr. John stone achieved -and he has a. right to be proud of it but he ougtli to state the facts when he talks about it. No edito'rials from the Columbia State were ever copied unless Mr. John stone copied them on the typewriter. And but for the effort of Mr. John stone and his friends to make it ap pear -tha.t there was a combination in the governor's and senate races as against him the result w'ould very probably have been different. There was .no conmbinationi. All that Mr. Aull had to say was said on the stump in Mr. Johnstone 's presence. Mr. Aull has not complained, and is not complaining, but after the elec tion is over he does not like to see a misstateme'nt of the facts. THE PESTIFEROUS RAT. kan 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 hu man race may become their victim. The high authority of a noted French scientist, Dr. 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 earry disease are all given as reasons for the universal warfare now plan ned on rodents. It will not be with the dulcet 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 poison pr-operly administered is a good deal more efficacious than music to piper out a pest. The offeriing of bounties on rat tails, the adoption of methods to keel) them from traveling f'rm point to point on ships and railroad cars. and the employnent of professional rat killers all over the world, are some of the~ .methods byv which the pests will be wiped out. It is nOW becoming nothing un common f.>r cities to inaugurate rat killing c'ampaigns as a means of put ting an end to plagues. The case of Port of Spain is an ex cellent instance. Plague broke out and extended in spite of efforts to check it. Then experts fell on the ide that rats were carrying the in 1 fection from place to place. Rat killing on a wholesale scale was ordered, and in a couple of weeks the work bore such excellent fruit that no new eases 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. The 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. Rats of the harmless breed have been known ever since history be gan to take a record of things. but the dangerous sewer rat is a distinct ly modern evolution, whose history cannot be traced back for more than three centuries. That 300 years of activity is a rec ord of terrible misdeeds, and the amount of property destroyed by the sewer rat in that time and the num ber of lives taken through the spread ing of disease has probably made the rat a far more terrible destroyer than all the warfare of the same period. It is as a native of Persia and East India that the migratory rat first gets 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 Eu rope 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 greed devoured the crops of the field, and his foulness had spread disease among the cattle. Having spoiled one favorite haunt. the rat began to spread all over the world. The famous cross ing of the Volga in 1727 is an inci dent thoroughly authenticated. Millions of the rats swam over the river into Europe. Twenty-three years later they made their appear ance in Prussia, and three years lat er the French kingdom was made the unwelcome host of the rodents. Even at the early stage Paris was aroused to the dangers of the rat in vasion and met the newcomers with a determined warfare. Within a wveek more tha-n 16,000 rats were slain, but still they kept coming in countless numbers. The United States was long exempt from the visitations of the sewer rat, which seems to withhold his vis its till cities have grown to the size that there will be ample shelter and abundant food. It was about the time that the United States had ended the Civil war of 1861-65 that the rat decided to become an American citizen. He had to make a long trip across the ocean, but that presented no problem, for the rodent is as skillful in the water as on land. The docking of ships at the wharf is a favorite time for him to embark, but even if a ship lays out at anchor a quarter of a mile it is by no means safe from taking on unwelcome pas sengers. In such cases Mr. Rat takes advan tage of his skill as a swimmer, makes his way out to the boat, climbs swiftly up the anchor ebhains and gets into the hold, the operation being performed so swiftly under cover of night that not often are sailors able to catch the intruder. Along the coast and in various sea ports the rat made his appearance in the United States in 1863. It took five years to get out as far west as Missouri. In ten years lie had made his way to the coast. atnd hundreds of thousands of his kind undoubted 1': met death in the San Francisco earthquake and fire. Now the rat has completed his do minion of- the North American conti nent. and stretches over it all the way from Panama to the p)erman~ent ice belt. The outlying islands of the new world have been a favorite i:orking place for the rodent, and there they have wrought almost incredible de vastation. In the WVest Indies, in the Azores and in the Cape Verde islands hundreds of thousands of dars' worth of coffee, banana, su gar and orange plantations are fall ing a victim to the rapacity of the rat. One island is instanced that was once completely covered with rich grass. which kept in good condition all the year around three thousand cattle. Although the island is half a mile from the mainland the day came when the rats picked it out as a i suitable place for pitching their tents. By swimming they reaelied the is land and took possession. That was fifteen years ago. Today there is not a blade of grass left on the is land. A pair of rabbits could not find nourishment on what was once an ideal stretch of grazing land. The whole island has been so abso lutely honeyoombed by t:e rats that 1 today it cannot be reclaimed by cul tivation. There it lays in the ocean, useless, an eyesore, a sample of what I man's foe, the rat, can achieve in the way of destruction. The rat will eat anything. On one of the Channel islands it was known I that an army of rats had their home. Curiosity was aroused as to what they lived on, for the island had been stripped clear. of even a blade of grass. A scientist made an examination and dug out the holes of a number of rats. To his amazement he found I in them crabs-live crabs! They i had not come of their own will, for 4 each "-rustacean had legs cut off. Investigation showed that the wily rats were in the habit of doing their I crabbing at low tide. To make sure that the crab would do no harm, he was swiftly deprived of his claws. 1 Then dragged to the hole of the rat, ' the crab was a food supply to be f drawn on whenever needed. The damage that rats do to the cargoes of ships and in warehouses has been estimated at tens of millions of dollars. Rat insurance has become a necessity of business since that c rodent got a hold in this country. Rats scratching matches and r starting them into flame, rats mov- t ing around greasy waste rags and causing spontaneous combustion is i the explanation of many a myster- r ious fire. There is harrdiy anything that a f rat will not eat from meat and poul- i try to bark of young trees. t Ducks, chickens and other smalli fowl fall a victim to the rat, being killed by a grip on the throat by the sharp teeth of the ugly rodent.~At tacks on children and old persons I are often reported, the rat se-eming to know by instinct where it cans most safely make an attack.t Cities all over the world have .' learned the terrible lesson of how i rats can carry plagues, and when it is considered that within two years 2 a single ordinary pair of rats will multiply to 1,536 rats, it will be seen < how many of these disease carriers < are constantly being loosed on the a world. The situation has indeed resolvedt itself into a matter of destroying the t rat or being destroyed by him.-3 Rochester Deinoerat. , Deceivers. There is an old fellow who lives in a "dry" New England town who has a very $oor opinion of New York, to which metropolis he r.eeently inade a visit. It may be remarked in passing that the old gentleman is one of the pillars of the church in his native vii lage. Upon his return home he sat for some time upon a sugar barrel at the groery and then suddenly burst out: "Them fellers down to New York is as bad as thieves! Cheat your eve-H teeth out 'fore you know it!"' "Gosh, Hiram! You don 't mean to say you got buncoed at your age c"~ 1the storekeeper demanded, dropping the nail tongs. ''Yes, I do, too!'' was the angryt ~reply. "I went to a sody water foun tain an' asked the feller for his best sarsyaprilla an' give him the regularK wink." "Well?"' "Well, by heck, I got it !" was the disgusted reply. Reinforced concrete has been found successful as a facing for wood levee banks: on the lower Mississippi. PERUVIAN GUANO. careless Methods Are Responsible For Rapid Exhaustion. To the people of Peru the guano in lustry is of the highest importance. got only has guano a great money value for purposes of export, but it is dbsolutely essention to the agriculture )f the country. The destruction of :he industry would be a public ealam tv. By not a few people it is supposed :hat the accumulations of guano in Eeru are something like coal deposits' n that they represent the very gra lual accumulations of a vast amount )f time and that their deposition is iow at an end. This is not the case, since guano s being deposited today just as for nerly. but in much less qr ntity than ormerly, since the birds which pro luce it are far less numerous than hey used to be. On the other hand he guano produced today is valuable -perhaps even more valuable than hat deposited years ago. The deposits of old guano are being -apidly exhausted.~and when these are !xhausted. there will remain only the mnual product, which under present onditions is certain to grow less and ess. This is true because the birds hat produce it are wholly disregard ,d, for the contractors who collect the tano do so without the slightest ref rence to the birds on which the sup )ly depends, driving them from their testing places and destroying the eggs mnd young. The whole subject has >een carefully studied by Senor Lar -a burey Correa, who recently submit ed a full report to the Peruvian rovernment. The two principal birds which de >oit this valuable product are a cor irant and a pelican. and these birds pend the greater part of their time luring the whole year on the nesting rround. unlesz frightened away by nan. To secure the best results from heir presence they should be encour [ged to remain on these grounds, and nste: d of 'heinz treated as wild ani nals whose useful product men size nd carry away, they should be treat d as domestic animals, engaged in iseful labor and producing a crop o the harvesting of which the highest ntelligence should be devoted. The birds should not be driven away rom their nesting grounds. The pres nt tendency to a decrease in num iers could be checked. Protection vill result in a great increase, and ueh increase will mean the addition o Peru 's dollars' worth of guano each rear. Everyt-hing should be done to nerease the number of birds, for the :reater the number of the birds the ~reater the amount of the guano pro luced. Action should be taken at nce,'for the pelican, the more useful f these two birds, is gradually dis .ppearimg. It is necessary to watch the con ractors who remove the guano from he islands and see that they do it vith due regard to the safety of the >irds and the future supply of the m>oduct. It would be well also to rose each of the various guano is ands in rotation for a term of years, hus leaving the birds on the different slands unmolested for periods of rears as long as possible. A great Cep in advance has been made in re ent years by establishing a closed eason for the islands, during which hey are not to be worked-, but this aeasure is, after all, only a palliative. t does not strike at tihe root of the vil. The agriculture of Peru is depend nt on the supply of guano. The de nands of the export trade are insa inble. The time is coming when both hese demands cannot be satisfied. It; s highi time that a strong effort shall >e made to increase the supply, and his catn only b)e dlone by protectingI he breeding~ grounds of the birds. Nurest and Stream. The stream of blood .leaving the muman heart covers a distance equal :o 61,000 miles each year. France produces the most wine in ;he world, 1,710,900,000 gallonsa THE ADVENTUROUS ENGINEER. The Third Man in the Great Army of World Conquerors. In the order of conquest the con tracting engineer is but the third man on the spot-first the missionary; then the soldier; then thg contracting engineer. After that come the ordi nary mortals known as population. And only by the previous efforts of these three and over their white bones can the world's population and com merce proceed. He learns to take 30 miles a day on toot as a mere constitutional, to sleep n the ground, to steer by the sun, to ;uess his altitude by the trees, to sense the characteristics of the coun try he journeys in as a sportsman judges a horse. He must ride and swim (in water or quicksand, as the ease may be), and not be afraid of high places or deep tunnels. He must explore treacherous rivers in an egg shell of a boat and not miss a sin 3le feature which he passes nor turn up missing himself. He is supposed to be able to get ashore somehow in safety when rolled out of a boat in the heavy breakers of an unknown coast. I have nr. more than one of him who had fought cannibals; so that should, no doubt, be put down as pne of his accomplishments too. And sometimes he has to recover from. a broken leg or a fever with nobody but a superstitious Cholo woman for a ntrse and a fragrant mud hut for a hospital and goodness knows who for a doctor. All the while he is roaming over and learning the planet in its natural rnagnificence, he is studying .how to make it, possibly not so magnificent, but vastly more convenient to live in. Where you sweep gracefully round the curve on the cliff aid hang for a moment in the mid-air on the great ,teel cantilever and catch a flashing look at i '.,t the guide book calls its scientific marvel, you will be making Far better time than the fellow who blasted out the curve and climbed by inches down one side of the gorge and n the other leaving a string of stone piers behind him: rnd for co:n fort and convenience you will be tre nosymore fortunate, but you will never see the region as he saw it whien he was hewing his way and your way through it, 'nor ever knew tas he did when he lived in a little hut on the ledges and watched his army workinA and heard the faint noise of his machinryr drifting down the weird, lonesome valley, with the thin smoke of his donkey boilers. Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in the postoffice at Newberry, S. C.,'for week ending Sept. 5, 1908. Mr. W. A. Andrews. Miss Alice Bishop, F. S. Brown (2) I. Lawson Bowers, Miss Maggie But ter, Mrs. Mary' Liza Butler, Mr. J. Nat Blum. Mr. R. C. Caldwell, Mr. Washie Dosolie, Miss Ethel Counts, Mr. W. it. Colman, Mr. J. W. Cromer, Mr. Mfary A. Council. Miss Mondie Davis, Ida L. C. Den 11S. Miss Ollie Mae Fallow, Furnitumre EIfg. Co. Mr. Henry Gallman, Maggie K. J'lenn, Mr. H. C. Gordon, Miss Lula 31ymp. Mr. Lawson Hair. Mr. M. C. Eeath. Rev. J. C. Jackson. Mr. Daniel Jackson. Mr. Levi Kibler. Mr. W. P. Leaphardt. Mr. Farrice Long. Mr. A. M. Long. Mr. W. A. Miller. Mrs. Ella Means. Antone Reghent, I. Ricker, W. M. Rice, Mrs. Lucy Rodgers, Mrs. Amanda Rodgers. Mr. Juinn Sease. Mr. G. F. Smith, Mr. J. W. Shrout. Mr. E. T. Werts, Miss Georgiana Williams, Miss Mary Wood, Miss Anna Young. All person calling for these letters will please say that they were adver tised. C. J. Puree!. P. M.