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SCORES BLEASE Tke Governor Is Taken to Task for Vetoing the Commission Bill BY THE COMMUNITY CLUB Accused of Prostituting Office *4to till* l*urtwwp of I'pffr Snitn nowl Peanut Politics," mid of the Ambition That Charleston Should be Ills Political Door Mat. The Charleston Community Club at a well attended meeting on Thursday night adopted a letter to be sent to Governor Mease as the official protest of the club against his veto of the commission government bill. This letter is now released for publication and Is as follows: "Charleston, S. C., Mch. 6. 1911. "His Excellency Cole L. Mease, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C.?Dear Sir: Ily vetoing the commission government bill you have seen fit to abuse the powers of a responsible oflice, never expected to be exploited for private or political advantage, and arrogate to yourself the right of limiting the franchise oi the people of Charleston, and of saying that our citizens are to have no further voice in tlie choice of their form of government. You have, without justification or pretext, other than the selfish interests of a small minority in this city, who have done you signal service at the polls, undertaken to veto a permissive, local option bill, passed by the General Assembly of the State, at the re quest of fifteen hundred responsible citizens of this community, representing over ten million dollars of property interests. This petition repre sented the desire of a substantial number of Charlestonians, in all probability a number greater than gave you their votes last summer, for a form of government which would give the people of this city a larger voice in their own home government and which would make of the $7 00,000 to l>e yearly administered in this city a business responsibility and not a jack pot, or the waste material of an experimental laboratory. Why you have chosen, in the limelight of your otllce as Chief Executive, to abandon even a professed adherence to the principle of local option, which you made much of* in your campaign, and to blazen abroad your opposition "in toto" to the Democratic principles of home rule embodied in the terms of the Act you have set aside and your disapproval of any attempt to safeguard the public purse, (where it did not contemplate the salving of a provate sore.) is for yourself to understand. The purpose of this communication is not ito remonstrate against an act that was partially anticipated and is for the present irrevocable. It is only to acquaint you with the indignation and censure that your autocratic and partisan conduct has aroused among the citizens of that city to which for your own rensons, you pretend to owe your election. Your utter disregard of their rights urges either a degree of insincerity in your former protestations of friendship, which should henceforth make your utterances in this respect less likely to deceive, or else a frank admission that your Charleston friends are not so nunvrous or outspoken as you or they or the official count would have us believe. We are quite ready to admit that the form of government'we advocate would prove disastrous to the political fortunes and -ambitions of your friends here. 1 tut that form of .government could not be adopted without a vote of tiie majority of the citizens of Charh-ston. You are not misled, Mr. Governor, it would seem, by the top-heavy vote of the summer primaries, and not so confident in the finality of that verdict of six to one in your favor. Is it that you tluuk that under the careful restrictions of the commission government primaries your friends would not fartso well? "Your fears are well, founded. However, be assured, most 'honorable sir. that, commission government is not dead because you have vetoed the bill, nor is the vitality of this movement powerless to restore this city to a nlane of nnliticnl tloccncv .\ momt issue cannot ho killed by your !i it. Wo know of nothing more effective toward bringing the people of South Carolina to their senses than the object lesson they now have of a dignified public office prostituted to tin purposes of petty spite and peanut polit ics. "Other cities have waited long foi the coining of their political freedom You will find that' the ambition ol our people for a clean, frep city will outlast yours that Charleston shall be your political foot-mat. It shal also survive your br.ef opportunity to hamper their efforts. You hav< confessed to your grievous fear o' tlie majority of the citizens of Chat leston. and you shall find that feai fitly justified. The campaign bur of your friendship for Chareston am of Chareston's friendship for you ha: been effectively called, and Charles ton's credit to this extent restored This much good has been alread: REMEDY MAY BE FOUND SCIENCE WILL YET DEFEAT INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Dread Disease, Caused by Germ, May Be Prevented, Thinks Dr. Flexner of Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller institute declared yesterday that It has now been thoroughly established that infantile paralysis, the disense which has brought so much harm among children in the last few years, is a germ disease. The germ, it is true, is too small to be detected by any microscope, but its presence and nature have been established in other ways through animal exi>erimentation. Dr. Flexner, who is, as a rule, silenc as to the discoveries made at the institute of which he is a director, consented to make this statement yesterday to the New York TimeB in explanation of one of the arguments he brought forward at a hearing at Albany last week in defense of the use of animals in medical research. He then stated that the means of the prevention of infantile paralysis has already been estab'ished, and that it might conservatively bo said that the achievement of cure is not far distant. "Infantile paralysis," said Dr. Flexner, "is a gerin disease that attacks the spinal marrow and brain, and by merely injuring or by totally destroying the delicate tissues causes either a temporary or permanent paralysis of the muscles. "The germ of the disease has been known for a little more than a year. It is so excessively minute that the most powerful microscope fails to reveal it, and yet tliero are accurate tnerhods through the employment of which the nature and presence of the germ have been determined with certainty. "The proof that infantile paralysis is a germ disease, and almost all our accurate knowledge concerning th? nature of the disease." Dr. Flexner went on,? "has been secured through experiments on animals, and could probably have been obtained in no other way. "Where does the germ reside?" the doctor was asked. "It is not known to reside anywhere in nature," he replied, "except in connection with human beings, who either have had or have been in contact with some one who has had infantile paralysis, or in relation with some object in close association with patients suffering from the disease." "How is the disease spread?" was the next qifestion. "By persons sick with the disease or by some one who has been iln contact with a patient suffering from the disease. The evidence at present available points to the fact that the germ of the disease can be carried by healthy persons who have come in contact with the sick and themselves will not contract infantile paralysis, but who may transfer the germ to other healtn> persons, who will develop the disease." Dr. Flexner went on to explain that the germ of infantile paralysis enters the brain and spinal cord chiefly; if not exclusively, by way of the nasal passages. In the course of the disease, he said, the germ is also .... is nit vjii ii tun mi' Drain mrougli the nose and mouth. Hence, protection can be best secured by disinfecting or destroying the secretions of the nose and mouth of those ill of the disease, and by preventing the contamination of persons or objects with these secretions. Imperial pains should lie taken to main tain in a state of cleanliness the hands, nose and mouth of all children exposed to the disease, either directly or indirectly. "For how long a time is a patient in danger of spreading the infection?" Dr. Flexner was asked. "This question can not be answered with absolute precision at present," he replied, "but it is believed that during the first three or four weeks of the disease the danger of transfer is greatest, and hence patient should he carefully isolated during this period and the discharges from the nose and mouth carefully disinfected or destroyed for the ne riod, and. if possible, for many weeks afterward. "There is reason for believing that even after the acute symptoms of the diseaso havo passed, the infection i may in some instances he still trans-, niltted by tlie patient by means of the nasal secretions. It is for this . reason that the secretions should be cared for over a longer period than is embraced in the acute stages of the malady." "What are the main sources of infection?" "Infantile paralysis Is chiefly a disease of children, but i. sometimes attacks adults," I?r. Flexner said. ' Since the germ causing it is carried I by those who have been ill, as well as 1 by persons who have been in lmmelI late contact with the patients, it is not surprising to find that the begin nings of many epidemics have been f traced to schools where many chii dren are assembled; but any consldr erable gathering of persons, which I includes many children who are 1 brought together during the prova gained. The rest will follow. Most unsuhmlsslvely, , Charleston Community Club. lence of the disease, may be the i means of spreading it widely. ' "Thus it has been observed that I country fairs, Fourth of July cele- ] brations and like events have all proved to be such centres of distribution of the infection." I The period of greatest prevalence of the disease. Dr. Flexner explained, is in the summer. As an epidemic It is a summer disease; that is, al most all cases arise in the summer ? months, and by far the greatest number in July, August and September. However, the disease does not wholly disappear at other seasons, . but a small number of eases arise In | the spring and fall months, and even in the winter months. Whenever a case arises, whether in summer or in winter, it should be isolated and . treated with great care and prompt!- ] tude to avoid the infection of others. "Is infantile paralysis a new disease?" "It Is not a new disease," Dr. Flexner said, "but the epidemics of it are new to this country. The disease has ] arisen in this country from time to time for almost half a century, but in very rare instances have any considerable number of cases been grouped together until the last three . or four years. ] "The present epidemic first appeared around Boston and New Yoik about three years ago, and has gradually, continuously and insidiously extended over North America from . ocean to ocean and from Canada to ] Cuba. Prior to this period the epidemics were limited to Norway and Sweden, where they have been prevailing regularly for more than a quarter of a century. The present epidemic in America is part, of the | general epidemic, or pandemic socalled. of the disease affecting a large part of the civilized world. The disease is prevailing in many European countries at the present time, as iu . the United States and Canada." I Then Dr. Flexner went on to dcscril?e the available means of combating the disease: "At the present time," he said, "there is no specific remedy or cure . for infantile paralysis. The disease < once established can not, therefore, be controlled by the application of any remedy known to medical science. Luckily, the disease is not a highly fatal one, although it is one . of the saddest of diseases because ] of the large amount of crippling it causes. On the other hand, the outlook has been greatly brightened by reason of the recent knowledge which has been acquired concerning the nature of the cause of the disease . and the mode of its transmission. "This knowledge permits the application of intelligent preventive measures, which, if effectively employed, will serve to diminish the number of persons affected with it. The most scientific, as well as the ni nat * u.w?>, iiuuiuuc, ineiiiua or dealing [, with any disease, is to prevent rather than to attempt to cure it. Hence, the effort to control this terrible disease should be in the direction of prevention. The various States are making a determined effort to deal with the malady through prevention, since they have required notification and quarantining of the disease." The Implements tlie Farmer Needs. Few farmers need all farm implements. The man who has no cows does not need a separator; the man without live stock has no use for a manure spreader; the man who raises only cotton does not need a pea huller; the man with only one horse could not afford to buy a twohorse plow. We admit all this. What we wish to impress upon our readers is that it will pay a man to grow peas and save them for seed; that he should get twe horses ami then a two-horse plow will follow; that he can make money by keeping live stock, and that when he gets the live stock he can afford to buy manure spreaders and cream f para tors and build silos. In short, we niou iu 11 i>ii. 111111 wun nigu ideals, to make liim ambitious to do better farming, to get more work stack and more machinery, and thus to make more money and live more comfortably than he possibly can while he works only one horse and uses only a few of the more inefficient tools. If we could only convince our onehorse farmers, however, of the value to tliem of throe tools, we should he doing them a wonderful service. These, too, any energetic farmer can have: and if lie will manage to lia\e his land broken and harrowed with rood two-horse machinery, he can do just as good cultivating with them as anyone can do. although it will inevitably cost him more than it would with more team nnwor mi.,. implements we refer to are: f 1 ? a good planter, f2> a good weed, r. a good cultivator. The onehorse farmer who has these will soon ]>e able to pet two horses: the man who is without them should not rest until lie Rets them. Rah i-h ( N. C.) Progressive Farmer. * ( iiilty of Murder. At Hartlngton, Neb., a verdict of first desrree murder with imprisonment for life was returned b\ the Jury in tiie case of Mangle Davis, ;hslajer of Ira Churchill. It was al leged that Churchill had proa;!.- ! to marry Mrs. Davis. On the evening of tlie wedding he marrie l ?r.othor woman. laiiul Frauds. At Chicago on Thursday nine men were indicted, charged with having defrauded the tioverniuent out of lu,000 acres of Alaskan coal lands'. CLASSIFIED COLUMN For Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed at Poultry Yard, Darlington. S. S. ?or Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed at >1.00 per bushel. Address, J. J. Llttlejohn, Jonesville. S. C. Honey Maker Cotton Improved and selected by T. J. Ktrven is the best. Seed at $1 per bushel. T. J. Kirven, Providence, S. C. For Sale?1,800 acres fine farm land near Macon, Ga., for less than $15 per acre. Address J. L.. Rragdon. Sumter, S. C. Ruff Wyndottes; S. C. White and Huff Leghorns, Stock and eggs at bargain prices also O. I. C. hogs. W. E. Carroll, Normandy, Tenn., Route No. 1. For Sale?.Tig Saw, cost $90.00, will sell for $40.00. Six inch Moulder, cost $.100.00, will sell for $140.00. Rest condition. J. H. Cole, Randleman, N. C. For Quick Sale?Six million feet fine unbled long leaf timber. Prices and terms right to party meaning business. McCallum Realty Co., Sumter, S. C. For Sale?S. C. R. 1. Reds, W Re and Rrown Leghorns, Rlack Lar.gshang, Plymouth Rocks. Egsrs for setting, 15 for $1. M. IT. Grant, Darlington, S. C. Kggs in incubator lots or single sittings from S. C. Reds, $1.50 per 15; $8.00 per hundred. Nice cockerels, $2.00 each. Eugenia Hammond, North Aucusta, S. C. Hustling Agents wanted to sell accessory indispensable to all automobile owners; very liberal terms. Write for particulars. Henszey, llox 54 2, Troy, N. Y. Cabbage Plants?65c thousand, for balance this season; old<>et grower here; Fishel White Rock eggs. $1 per 11, from beautiful birds. Thos. W. B lit oh, Young's Island, S. C. Kor Sal**?On account of consolidation, will sell large or small Steel Screw Door Manganese Bank Safe, also Vault Doors. Best condition. The Peoples Bank, Randleman, N. C. The Little Tell Tale which tells the Truth. A complete egg record of the day, the week, the month, and the year. Price 10c. Address. Mrs. M. B. Roberts, Dade City, Fla. fllrl or Woman?each locality, good pay made acting as representative, address envelopes, fold, mail circulars, material, stamps, furnished free. Rex Mailing Agency, London, Ontario. For Sale?Whippoorwill Peas, $2.2F> per bushel; Clay Mixed Peas, $2.10 per bushel; Ripper Mixed Peas, $2.10 per bushel. Write for prices in large quantities. F. A. Bush Co.. Preston. Ga. liropsy C ired?Shortness of breatn relieved 'n 2 6 to 4 8 hours. Reduces swelling in 15 to 20 dayj. Call or write Collum Dropsy Remedy Company. Dept. O 512 Austell Bldg., Atlanta Ga. I (obits* Single Comh Rhode Island Itods and 'Crystal" White Orpingtons win and lay when others fail, stock and eggs for sale. Send for mating list. (I. A. Dohbs, Mox II. 24, Gainesville, Ga. Wanted?Men and ladies to take three months practical course. Kxpert management. High salaried positions guaranteed. Write for catalogue now. Charlotte Telegraph School. Charlotte, N. C. Wanted?Men to take thirty days' practical course in our machine shops and learn automobile business. Positions secured graduates, $25 per week and up. Charlotte Auto School, Charlotte. N. C. When Medicines Fail, will take your case. Diseases of Stomach, Mowels, Kidneys, ldver. Rungs and debility (either sex) permanently eradicated by Natural Methods. Interesting literature free. C. Culler, llowerton, Durham, N. C. I teds, Moth Combs?First winners at the greatesi shows in the 1'nited States, 1st co kerel in class, 127 Reds, Silver cup for be t cockerel, in show. .Medal tor lu st cockerel i of all breeds. IP HR Tcnti see and! Indiana Stat*- fairs. Catalogue. | Mrs. Kniily Cihson, Portland, Tenn. IjiIioj's Improved <'niton Seed? IM.int the best.. Won first prize from Planters' Phosphate Company, ot Charleston, S. C., and State Fair A Kocintlon for largest yield. Small variety, very early. 10 per cent lint. $1.00 per bu.; 10 bu.. !)0c. It. I'.. I.aney, Itt. 1. Cheraw, S. C. Wanted?Kvery tnan. woman and child in South Carolina to know that the "Alco" i rand oi Sash. Ooor and Blinds are the best and are made only h\ the Augusta Lumber Company, who manufacture everything in I.umber and Millw-ork and whose watchword is LEE'S HEADA< NEURAL( Safely Sure] Cures Headache and Neuralgia oub testimonials on file in our olllce Read the following: I have been a constant sufferer could not get any relief until it had I tried Lee's Headache and Neuralgia lief. I heartily endorse it as the best I (Signed) H Sold everywhere. Price 25c and 50c. Burwell & Dunn C No. 14 McWl Fertilizer E will distribute in two furrows from side and top dress growing crops, or Price f. o. b. Factory f&l.OO. Other marKinps kntli iamor ?m" ? ?W. i/Vill IUI UUU 01I1C selves in the saving of labor. If yo do without this distributer. Orde W. M. Patrick, "Quality." White Augusta Luml>er Company, Augusta, Georgia, for prices on any order, large or small. i Seven per cent prime cotton setd meal, ear load fifteen ton minimum car at $25.50 per ton car Augusta, $2(1.00 Savannah or Charleston. Above any quantity from one to twenty ears. I,et us quo.'e you ' hulls delivered your station. The Flash Hunter Com. Co., Atlanta, Ga. Good Live Agents wanted in every town to sell a meritorious line of medicines extensively advertised and used by ever family and In the stable. An exceptional opportunity for the right parties to make good money. Write at once for proposition to L. It. Martin, Box 110, Richmond, Ya. If you want more money for your cotton crop, plant "Acme Upland Long Staple. Very productive superior staple Two bales (1023 lbs) this variety sold in Boston, Nov., 1010, for $2S|.;{ 2. Seed $l.r.O per bushel. 1 0 or more bushels. $1.25. AddresB A. M. Hue pins, Lamar, S. C. Reference: Merchants &. Planters Rank, Lamar, S. C. ! Tor S;ile?IL'n bush-ds Iron Pens : ' $2.fit) per bushel, 200 bushels Cleveland Rip Roll Cotton Seed lit in? best of seven different varieties by te.-d for two years by mo, ami free from disease, therefore I linve abandoned all other short stables, also 30 bushels l.onp Staple left, sole lint at 20c, I>ec. 2:'.. pood and ' bad. till delivered I'". <>. R. New- berry, S. C., at $1.00 per bu. .1. L. Mayer, Newberry, S. ('. Ill-: Wll.l. MTI'.lt THIS. s "Oh, Henry." said she blithely As he sat him down to dine, I "I have boiipbt the sweet st ctishion , | For a dollar ninety-nine. - "II was bargain day at Stanley's, And they advertised it so That the store was fairly crowded, For tl'i prices were so low." ' I I'm!" he couched and looked as- 1 kewly. x "As sure as I'm alive. We nr<- selling that same cashlon At a dollar twenty-live."' Not a word then broke the nilenco Till his wife, with many s! lis, .-softly said in accents tearful, "And why don't yon advert! ft? Shelton (Conn, t I'oostor. ' The Senate is a thin - of the past t with one, and with the other it. la i neither a tiling of tlie past or of thai I future. e< :he and alA REMEDY. ly Speedily nn matt or tpKot fv?*% ?" *' VT num i no lause. i\ umer- ^ bear us out in this statement. ^ from headache for 12 years and run its course or take morphine. Remedy and found permanent rething 1 have ever tried. . A. GANDY, Hartsville, S. C. Manufactured by :o., Charlotte, N. C. iorter Horse distributer 3 up to 5 feet or more wide broadcast perfectly 6 feet wide Hopper capacity S150 lbs. fertilizer. tiler. They soon pay for themu use fertilizer you can't afford to r today. Address, Joodward, S. C. DON'T SUFFER WITH Neuralgia when a 25 cent hottle of Noah'* Liniment is guaranteed to drive this terror away?or money refunded. At the first twinge, applied as directed, Noah's Liniment will give immediate and effectual relief. It quiets the nerves and scatters the con (jcmiuii, pciicitnies unu icquiies very little rubbing. Noiih's Liniment 1 tie t o t remedy for Kli' imiiiti- in, Sfiiit Laiin' Itiu'k, Still .l.ilnli ! Mi.? ti . t- . 1 < Til rout, Colds, strnlllr, H|,i.ii;.-i, tut . '^8 i ,: " ' lyTWTTTWlllraB i , ,1! Now.-, it. ,1 I /C _ \-. I |.'!3B 'In < !( in. 1 I' jltj ^ IIMB '1 lo- V 1 I MB! A'!, on i1 ;,:it lli'Ml 1 ' niTy?ij/j ij,*yj I ' I L KI > li I, (lfil|Kl ii'laB ( \ I iiiTjiilr j I I'lOS " Nonh'n Lininjent" '!- IliM)^]jig jlfME w.iv.- in !;;;!? ink. it.,. Hliiliil lfclll J Li? " S?i I..iryo I Itlf. crut MB le.tt ! > nil 'I. m Iit- in Hfl I'; I ''.I1MI .lilt < I |H < i" i r.'fiiii'lo'l l,v "[LOT Nonli I! < : iioly Co., Inc., IfW (tii'.iin, n,i, \ it. rTtrnfivTRH b^p liuiscil u linens. Birmingham. Alt. was given a debled shock when an unknown young soman appeared on the down-town itreets in a harem skirt. There was to question about iis interferiri-' with raflle. The curious grew to a reguar mob and no les.-, than .">on penile followed Iter for the few blocks he walked before rushine int.) one m me in.; miiiMini's tor protection.* l.o? ( nu^li 11 i in. Can lit under a huge !". 11 i n cr log, lurry J. Uahn, vice president of tho :ig Stick Lumber company and n veil kjinwn lumberman, was Instanty killed at the plant of the company it 'Montieth, (Ma., Wednesday. Ilo :nme to Savannah five years ago from V >hio. Serious < liarg . lire* k rii . a v. I te man renlin n<-,ir Cli Spart auhttrg 'out y wa lodged i:i jail Friday on 1 warrant churgiu him vvi h atemptina criminal assault upon a wonan whose home is near Arrnwood. It is alleged the assault was atteiupt1 on March 1.