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f ? ITWO ABBEVILLE MEN ARE TRAGEDY VICTIMS Calhoun Cason of City and Pat MeKelvey, of County Drown in Savannah River. 'News and Courier. Abbeville, July 30.?J. Calhoun CaAKViorilla on/I T5-31 VfriTfoluor nf ^VU VI xxuuc * auu i. mv .tlvtkv* ? v; v* I Mount Carmel, this county, were drowned this afternoon in the Savannah, river, at Millwood, several miles from Calhoun Falls. McKelvey's body has been recoveied, but at a late hour tonight the body of Casor. had not been found. Both young men were above, 24 years of age. The victims of this deplorable tragedy were membeds of a camping party that went to Millwood Monday for a week's outing. Details of the affair are meagre, but from what can bej learned it seems that a number of the j campers were in bathing at the time and in some manner these young men lost their lives in the water. Mr. Cason was a clerk in the Abbeville postoffice, where he had been employed about six years. He was a son of tiie late Samuel C. Cason, an attorney of this bar, and Mrs. Lizzie Mar-j shall Cason. He is survived by his mother, a sister, Miss Marian, and a brother, Henry, of Anderson, besides two half-sisters and a half-brother. Calhoun Cason was popular with a wid-e circle of friends and acquaint j V?oo aiices iiere ?uu ujb? uummcij cuu brought sorrow to many. . m LANDING IX HAITI COSTS TWO AMERICAN LIYES Washington Learns of Casualties Among Bluejackets Landing In Port an Prince. Washington, July 30.?Two American .bluejackets were killed last night in an attack by natrves on Port au Prince, Haiti, held by Rear Admiral Caperton witfr 400 men from the cruiser Washington. The attacking party was beaten off and order was maintained in the city itself. No sailors were wounded and the loss of the attackers was not reported. The dead are: William Gompers, seaman, of Brooklyn, and Cason S. Whitehurst, ordinary seaman, of Norfolk. Reinforcements had been ordered to Haiti before word of fightiDg was received. ; The battleship Connecticut will sail from Philadelphia tomorrow with 500 marines and the navy transport Hancock, at Philadelphia, also will go, it j is said, although it is not known what force she will take. ' Admiral Caperton's message gavej few details. It showed, however, that he had been warned of the intention of the Haitjens to attack, and early in ^ the evening Capt. Beacon of the Washington, commanding ashore, moved his men out to the edge of the city, leaving strong guards to maintain order In the town. Haitien soldiers and civilians within the city were disarmed yesterday to prevent sniping. Attack at Sight. The attack came at 8 o'clock last ?* iV /v VI f V? A ii.ig.ut, Luc uiucjativcLa ucanu5 brunt of the fighting from the brush i "beyond the last thouses. The snipers opened the fight. The attackers were driven off, but not before Gompers and Whitehurst lhad been billed. The following summary of Admiral Caperton's terse report was given out at the navy department: "Admiral Caperton reports from Fort au Prince that, owing to a report that the town would likely be attacked during the night, he made disposition of his forces for defense at 5 p. m. Attack from ! south about 8 p. m. Sniping from brush in outskirts of town. Two killed I in the seaman battalion, none wounded. Successfully repulsed attack. Maintained quiet and order in interior of city throughout night." TALK OF ELECTION I> NEAR SEPTEMBER Correspondent Discusses Prohibition Question to Be Decided Soon in South Carolina. ? To the Editor of The State: [Please allow me space in your valuable columns for some more talk concerning t"ie election set for September 14. In my simple-mindedness I thought, when I wrote on July 5 (without really examining the act) that the battle was to be all along the line, for I did not suspect that the object (for the present) was only to override the will of the people of the dispensary counties. Since then I see that the purpose is to set aside the principle of local option and have the (rest of the State to manage the business of those counties; in other wodds to take from them the privilege of getting wholesome beverages, and leave them to seek their stimulants through blind tigers, bootleggers and ''dope" medicines. The prohibitionists are more cunning tiban I thought them. They expect to marshal their forces throughout the tSate, and they expect anti-prohibitionists in other counties to be indifferent to the fate of the 15 [ counties. That is, they expect us I "antis" in 'Newberry to say to ourselves, "We need not trouble ourselves about the dispensary counties, and, therefore, have no need to vote." And I predict that very many voters in the; non-dispensary counties will act ac- j cordingly?that is, will not act at all. j So this movement is a wedge, like the /"> __ J ~ +iVt/-v Pncoionc I Vjrfruictu unvcs agaiuoi cuc nucoiuuki. 1 Where, however, the line is broken,. we may expect a general advance. If the majority for prohibition is great, I count upon the poor little one-1 gallon privilege to be swept away at the next session of the legislature, for tf'at will only be "'following the crowd," as astute politicians are always expected to do. Then we must take our chance with the blind tiger, the boot-] legger and "dope"?which things will j v"o a wonderful business. Those who, | like me, are afraid of the tigers wares i and the apothecarys' drugs, must then j ?do without. Unfortunately great! numbers of our people have not any I dread of those things. Thousands of i them have already been driven to "dope" medicines by the furious clamor j against "liquor." I recally at this moment only three! integral communities of white men au-j thentically reported in i-istory to have used no alcoholic stimulants. One of these was a German (or Gallic) tribe, which fought Julius Caesar. They fought well; but they were conquered by the wine-drinking Romans. A. second was the Rechabites. Treir worth I is pretty plainly shown by their sowing no seed and building no houses. They soon disappeared and the world; did not miss them. The third are the; Tudks and their Mohammedan brethren?who are hindmost in all science, art and material prosperity, and murder Christian men, assault Christian women and make slaves of their own women. I Our people ought to learn a few facts. In a population of more than 60,000,000 in the registration States and cities of the United States, there were, in 1912, 838,251 deaths, of which only 3,183 were caused by alcoholic | drink?a little more than one in every! 20,000 of population. And in most of those States there is the destructive saloon. At the same rate, in the remaining States of t)'*e Union?these raving about 30.000,000 of inhabitants ?the deaths would be about 1,600 from j alcoholic drink, which would make: less than 5,000 deaths from that cause in the whole population of more than 90.000,000?less than /one person in every 18,000. Yet, in t)':e face of these ITrtKc/\n nf 4-V? o hnnalo a f i I<iV;LO, nuuovu, iuC u.*,i v ut mv wwua'v v.* Santiago, and one' of the leaders of prohibition, had the effrontery to say, in congress on December 22, 1914, that alcohol kills 2,000 people in America per day, or 750,000 per year. More men were killed in each of the battles of Gettysburg and Chicamauga ti':an dies in the United States *n a year from alcohol, and from May 4 to June 4, 1864, in Virginia, fully twice as ! many men were killed as dio> in a year j j from alcohci in the same country. Yetj Hobson sa's we lose more men by j aeam rroni aicouoi every year iuau j have been killed in battle in 2,300 years! | I ;WLat faith is to be placed in the i statements of speakers for a party | wf:en a chief champion and mouthpiece deliberately utters such outrageous fabrications? I have not space here to set forth the details, but any one who will examine official statistics will find that in the matters of mortality, crime, pauperism and divorce, there is no material difference between the "wet " States and the "dry" ones?although most 01 tne "wet" 'have the evil of the saloon. Alcohol, as much harm as its excessive use does, is not (to bodrow a word from the -Greeks) the panolea, or killall, and prohibition is as little the panacea or cure-all. J. F. J. Caldwell. ^ Newberry. SNAKE MAKES MILK PUXCH. Lacteal Fluid, Eggs and Steel Tool Found in Its Stomach. Win-ham, X. Y., Dispatch to the Xev? York World. Peter Mattoon, the genial mayor of this village, has lately been complaining of the falling off of the output of his cows and hens. He knows tbe cause now, for upon the matutinal visit to the barn-garage toaay ne espiea a seven-foot milk snake milking one of his cows. Grasping a tire iron, Peter dispatched the snaks, and, curious to lear the nature of sundry bulges and lumps adorning the anatomy of tlhe reptile, performed an autopsy. The following was disclosed: One pint and a quarter of milk. One new-laid egg. One partly digested egg. One five-cent steel center punch. N. B.?Windham is a "dry" town. Windham's only druggist, for conscientious reasons, will not handle Sunday papers. Mr. Mattoon has no use for any liquids more potent t?an maple syrup. i WHEN DUST GOES BANG. Some Domestic Commodities As Explosive as Gunpowder. Manv mysterious pxnlosives which at one time baffled the ingenuity of our keenest detectives, have been recently explained by (the cold, methodical researches of our chemists, who, it will be remembered, also warned the government not to let Germany have cotton to manufacture gun-cotton. The men of science have not been able to wipe out the miseries that have been caused to (the thousands of persons who i_ave been convicted or condemned of arson, and other similar crimes, without a cause, but they have certainly succeeded in teaching the police to be very careful before they blame any householder or manufacturer or servant for an explosion and the key to ti':eir researches has been always the same?dust. How many cooks, for example, realize that the ordinary everyday flour they use in their kitchens is one of the most dangerous of explosives? Recent calculations show that the con tents ot a zo-pouna sick or nour mixea with 4,000 cubic feet of air, will, if ignited, throw a mass of iron weighing one ton 45 miles through the air. Indeed, many disastrous explosions have occurred in big flour mills from this cause, wrecking huge buildings and causing fceavy loss of life. -Unhappily flour is not the only domestic commodity that is as dangerous in its destructive effects as gunpowder, and hourly threatens our .lemes with red ruin. Every now and then a sweet factory get blown up in spite of i:he vigilance of the government inspectors, the wata":fulness of the insurance companies, and tl':e zeal of its foreman. Such an explosion occurred not long ago in Boston. It originated in a room where marshmallows were being made. These sweets are coated with fine!} pulverized sugar and the hot and dry aL* on a summer's day laden with sugar dust, witlh the result that the mixture ignited, a lot of workers were injured, and many of the buildings were set on fire. It is nothing new to hear also of explosions of starch in starch mills, and of rice in rice mills, and in each instance the blame is to be attributed to nhe innocent-lookng commodities, and not to tne malice or carelessness of the employes. Oatmeal, too, lias been known to go off with dire results, and z great breakfast commodity mill no" loug cpo was sent en bloc heave.';wards rwin^ to some maize dust mixed with air. Spice dust in spice mills has also wrought similar damage, and all linoleum is now manufactured under special precautions against fire because siiH fvnpr'flnpo Itas fhftwn hnw pasilv corK dust ana the cement used in linoleum manufacture will ignite, or even take tire of t-. eir own accord. Scap is another domestic suspect. It has set tire to a ship in the mouth of the Thames Only a few years ago thx?re was a great c-xplosion in a soap factory engaged in the production of finely powdered soap. "Some enemy ha.h done t:is muttered the proprietor, but as a matter of fact he and the detectives who hunted for cnrmnaii were for months on tne wrong seeni. "Soap is fat, and therefore combustible," the chemists reminded bim, "Your soap powder was dry, and got freely distributed through the air when it exploded with more violence and greater heat than flour or starch." Zinc has been known to cause explosions. T;'.:e story is often told how a workman once handling a quantity of rineiy powaerea meiauic zmc wnen ne got a spell of laziness, and no save further trouble, threw a shovelful into a flaming furnace. There was a teriffic explosion. The blade of his shovel was driven into the roof of the building, and he got half killed. Malt mills are also not immune from perils of explosion. In fact, detectives nowadays, when tf':ey are faced with explosions, the origin of whicfo they can not fathm, are always instructed by their superiors to remember human agency may not be the cause, hut? dust.?Pearson's "Weekly. Off the Course. A good many years ago a steamer was sailing down a certain river, with s shrewd old Yankee captain in command. Suddenly the engines stopped and the steamer remained motionless for several minutes. The passengers began to talk among themselves, ana one of them, a portly, pompous person, advanced to the captain. " What seems to be tite trouble, captain?" rne inquired. "Why have we stopped ?" "Too much foe:," answered the cap tain, curtly. "But I can see the stars overhead quite plainiy," argued the persistent individual. "Mebbe ye can," admitted the captain, grimly. "But unless tfce b'ilers bu'st, we ain't goin' that way!" CAN ( ALL WIFE CHICKEN. I So Rules St. Louis Judjye When Wo. j man Complain*. St. Louis Dispatch to the Louisville Herald. A 'man has a right to call his wife j o /"?Vi i r* 1? TD 1 i /-?/* Tn ^ rr t\ TJTrvrron Arl in cl i. uiii^c 0UU5C iiuaau i uitu ill a special case. He added that the wife oug-h to have liked it, particularly if | she was getting toward the age at which a woman is sometimes designated an "old hen." Charles E. Watkins, a clerk, was arraigned on the complaint of his wife, j Anna Watkins, of 4194 Manchester avenue, that i.e had called her "-vile names," among them "some chicken." Judge Hogan dismissed the case. Mrs. Watkins, who is very young looking, was married nineteen years ago and is the mother of four children. She and Watkins separated five years ago. Mosqquitoes. o? ? v,,, ^ i oycti Lctiiuui g nriaiu. Til 3 department of public health of ; the cicy devotes the front page of its j bulletin for June to pointers for a! successful war on the mosquito. So : far, Mr. Mosquito has not arrived, but it is perhaps just as well to consider a few days in advance of his j schedule the character of the reception to be given him, in case he should put in an appearance. Here is a little information alboutt mos- i quitoes that the fcealth department would have you store away for your guidance in cooperating with that rienartment in eliminating: the pest: j "No standing wa>:er, no mosquitoes.! Xo malaria, no yellow fever. Mos-1 quitoes breed only in water, either fresh or polluted. They do not breed in grass; but rank grasses, weeds and other forms of plant life affords a , safe shelter for the adult insects. It is therefore desirable that rank weeds and grasses be closely cut. "Inspection by the health department has shown that there are many mosquito breeding receptacles to be found in back yards, vacant lots, al-! leys, areas in and about stables, sheds and the space underneath verandas,! such as barrels, garbage buckets, tubs, pails, water-troughs, glazed flow-, er pots, cans, bo:tles and boxes. These receptacles should be emptied of water and should be broken and buried. "If a barrel, bucket or other receptacles must contain water, it should be emptied and washed Out: every four, or five days; or covered, or J screened tightly to prevent the en- ' trance or exit of mosquitoes. "Before leaving for tlhe summer thoroughly cleanse the house garbage bucket and place it empty in the house cellar. It should never be left standing with water in it, either in or outside the fcouse, during the mosquito season. "House gutters frequently become obstructed and defective. They should be cleansed and straightened that they may drain thoroughly. "Stable cellars very often contain stagnant water. (These cellars should be thoroughly drained. "Catch basins, cesspools and stagnant water should be oiled every itwo weeks. Use one ounce of oil to every ten square feet of water surface. "The suppression of mosquitoes is furthered by efficient drainage or filling of wet areas. Kerosene oil can /Iroinintr nr 11 in C IS Ut; USCU niiCiC uiaiuiug un."0 impracticable "Trouble from mosquitoes about your house indicates standing water either on or closely adjacent to your premises. "Mosquitoes as a rule do not appear very far away from their breeding places." USED APPENDIX AS BAIT. So Alleges Patient Whose Physician Friend Caught the Fish. Smith, La., Dispatch to the New Orleans Item. I . Bill Case is mad. He says that it is all right for Doc Holmes to be a fisherman, but he'll be dog goned if Doc didn't carry it too far with him, and that f:.e is entitled to the three-ounce trout Doc caught. Bill and Doc went fishing the first two days of the season and brought in nice catches. A couple of days later Bill was taken sick. His wife called up Doc on the 'phone and caught iMm just as he was start ing fishing. Doc hustled over to Bill's house. He diagnosed the cast as appendicitis, got out his instruments, performed the operation, got Bill back to bed and hurried off to go fishing. He came back to see how Bill was doing and brought in the big trout to show bis patient, who nearly naa a relapse. 'Now Bill declares Doc just operated on him to get his appendix for bait and that lie caught that big < trout with it. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard urn era 1 strengthening tonic. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria.enriche ;tie blood.and builds apthesystem. A true tot c . For adults and ct Idren. 50c "FRIENDSHIP UN AN EMBLE "LOVE SINCERIfY A Purchase now a link of Ste them a "Peace offering Froi link suitably engraved cost give a Velvet Wrist Band r< friends keep adding the link thereby forming a Bracelet mental, but a substantial gif ure for years to come. An I This is the only friendship li Automaticly. They are mad for sentiment, and we repk link which should prove uns Sterling Silver links Includii MAYES'BOOK AND The House of a The ATTENTION Ml We are ready for your g and wheat. We have t can please you- by givin and the quality, we wil wheat shipped to us, -v yuur siucfc, tins ia uur to get your wheat in sh; don't bring damp wheat time nor space to sun yo man or mill can grind i want your grinding and you the best service th? Farmers J. H. Wicker, ] ""Nik, \ulHKv^STCV <f^.^WJ57Sgf ?<ifiBP^ -wu * 3BHE *jfl j?. , j? TBL Chevv^Sp 5c. the packet or tv cent at all the better s "DOBS" is A< ^ ?thewir of chewing gi) Outside allt ?fresh and pc The heart of the happiest gum yot "Bobs" at Store NOTICE TO TBUSTEES. tru me It is utterly impossible for the en* County Auditor to know the location and amount of real and personal prop- tur erty in districts having a special tax, anc unless he has tihe assistance of the 111 trustees of the special districts. I therefore request and urge that all 7 ??? K BRACELET" M OF ,ND HAPPINESS" rling Silver, each of n Your Friends." One 25c, with which we jady for wear. Your s until its completed, that is not only orna't which you will treasilverlasting Memento. 1 T~* 1 _ .L _ 1 _ nk bracelet max iocks e for wear as well as ice without cost any atisfactory. sg Engraving 25c Each VARIETY STORE msand Things [ FARMER! rinding, both corn ;he mill that we g you the grade I takft care of all fill take care of irt. Your part is ape for grinding, ; to mill. I haven't ur wheat, and no damp wheat, we will strive to give it is in us. n:i a/mi V/ll IV till Manager. HHBninBnnBMHi .wr* r ? "^.MBBS iflb* MF * ^flHjj i^"Bobs" vo "Bobs" for a tands and stores. :e of Hearts ininfr tnimn ULiilig U UilA|# im candy. 0 the candy ipperminty. ; heart is the 1 ever chewed. s and Shops stees of special school districts et in the Auditor's office at differtimes between now and the loth of ?ust, 1915, and check over tJbe rens and place the amount of real ' : "tj I personal property due to be taxed their respective districts. Eugene S. Werts, -27,td County Auditor.