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SCORES BLEASE ? The Governor Is Taken to Task for Vetoing the Commission Bill BY THE COMMUNITY CLUB Accused of Prostituting Office ,4to tiie Purpose of Petty Spite and Peanut Polities," and of the Ambition That tTiarleston Should be His Political Door Mat. The Charleston Community Club at a well attended meeting on Thursday night adopted a letter to be sent to Governor Please as the ofTicial 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. Please, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C.?Dear Sir: Py vetoing the nnnmiiueinn pnvfirnment bill you have Been lit to abuse the powers of a responsible ollice, never expected to be exploited for private or political advantage, and arrogate to yourself the right of limiting the franchise ol the people of Charleston, and of saving that our citizens are to have no further voice in the 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 represented 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 $700,000 to be 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 office as Chief Executive, to abandon even a professed adherence to the principle of local option, which you made mnnb nf in vour eamnaign. 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 pot 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 reasons, 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 numerous or outspoken as you or they or the oflieial count would have us believe. We are quite ready to admit that the form of government we ad-1 voeate would prove disastrous to the political fortunes and ambitions of your friends here. Hut that form of government could not be adopted without a vote of (lie majority of the citizens of Charleston. 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 think that under the careful restrictions of the commission government primaries your friends would not faro so well? "Your fears are well founded. However, he assured, most honorable sir, that commission government is a. \/,n lifiv'n volncrl Iho HUI, UCrtU "i;? iiugi: ,>w.. .....v, .. bill, nor is the vitality of this movement powerless to restore this city to a plane of political decency. A moral issue cannot be killed by your Hit. We 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 the purposes of petty spite a,nd peanut polit ics. "Other cities have waited long for the coming of their political freedom. You will find that the ambition of our people for a clean, free city will outlast yours that Charleston shall he your political foot-mat. It shall also survive your brief opportunity to hamper their efforts. You have confessed to your grievous fear of the majority of the citizens of Charleston, and you shall find that fear fuly justified. The campaign huh of your friendship for Chareston and of Chareston's friendship for you has been effectively called, and Charleston's credit to this extent restored. (Thle much good has been already 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 naralvsis. the disease which lias brought so much harm among children in the last few years, is a germ disease. The germ, it is true, is too small to he detected by any microscope, but its presence and nature have been established in other ways through animal experimentation. Dr. Flexner, who is, as a rule, silent as to the discoveries made at the institute of which he is a director, consented to make this statement yesterday to the New York Times 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 established, and that it might conservatively be said that the achievement of cure is not far distant. "Infantile paralysis," said Dr. Flexner, "is a germ 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 I ho disease has been known for a liftlo more than a year. It is so excessively minute that the most powerful microscope fails to reveal it. and yet there are accurate methods 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 the 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 question. "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 healui> 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 thrown off from the brain through 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 be taken to maintain 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 be carefully isolated during this period and the discharges from the nose and mouth carefully disinfected or destroyed for the period, and, if possible, for many weeks a 1 t or \*r u in 1 "There is reason for believing lhat even after the acute symptoms of the disease have passed, the infection may in some instances he still transmitted by the 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 tho malady." "What are the main sources of infect ion ?" "Infantile paralysis is chiefly a disease of children, but it sometimes attacks adults," Dr. Flexner said. Since tho germ causing it. is carried by those who have been ill, as well as by persons who have been in immediate contact with the patients, it is not surprising to find that tin; beginnings of many epidemics have been traced to schools where many children are assembled; hut any considerable gathering of persons, which includes many children who are brought together during the prcvagalned. The rest will follow. Most unsuhmissively, Charleston Community Club. lence of the disease, may be the means of spreading it widely. "Thus it has been observed that country fairs, Fourth of July celebrations and like events have all proved to be such centres of distribution of the infection." 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, almost 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 cases 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 promptii i - x - ; i xi. _ s r xi u ? i i. Lucie to iivoici uie lniecuoii ui outers. "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 Hoston and New York 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 nart of the civilized world. The dis ease is prevailing in many European countries at the present time, as in the United States and Canada." Then Dr. Flexner went 011 to describe the available means of coinbating 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, lie 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. O11 the other band, 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 most humane, method of dealing with any disease, is to prevent rather than to attempt to cure it. Hence, tno enort to control tnis lernnie 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 the 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 wo 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 two 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 separators and build silos. In short, we wish to inspire him with high ideals, to make him ambitious to do better farming, to get more work stack and moro 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 them of three tools, we should la4 (loins thout a wonderful service. These, too, any energetic farmer can have; and if ho will manage to have his land broken and harrowed with good 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 power. The implements we refer to are: (1) a good planter, (2) a good weeder, (I.) a good cultivator. The onehorse farmer who has these will soon he able to get two horses; the man who is without them should not rest until he gets them.?Raleigh (X. C.) Progressive Farmer. * Guilty of Murder. At TTartington, Neb., a verdict of first degree murder with imprisonment for life was returned by the jury in the case of Maggie Davis, the slayer of Ira Churchill. It was alleged that Churchill had promised to marry Mrs. Davis. On the evening of the wedding ho marrie t inother woman. * +. ?. Land Frauds, At Chicago on Thursday nine men were indicted, charged with having defrauded the Government out of 10,000 acres of Alaskan coal lands. CLASSIFIED COLUMN For Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed at Poultry Yard, Jarlington. S. S. For Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed at $1.00 per buehel. Address, J. J. Littlejohn, Jonesvllle. S. C. Money Maker Cotton improved and selected by T. J. Kirven is the best. Seed at $1 per bushel. T. J. Kirven, Providence, S. C. For Sale?1,800 acres line farm land near Macon, Ga., for less than $15 per acre. Address J. L. Bragdon, Sumter, S. C. Buff Wyndottes; S. C. White and Buff Leghorns, Stock and eggs at bargain prices also O. I. C. hogs, W. E. Carroll, Normandy, Tenn., Route No. 1. For Sale?Jig Saw, cost $90.00, will sell for $40.00. Six inch Moulder, cost $300.00, will sell for $140.00. Best condition. J. H. Cole, Randleman, N. C. For Quick Sal???Six million feet One unbled long leaf timber. Price3 and terms right to party meaning business. McCallum Realty Co., Sumter, S. C. For Sale?S. C. It. T. Reds, White and Brown Leghorns, Black Langshang, Plymouth Rocks. Eggs for setting, 3 5 for $L. M. B. Grant, Darlington, S. C. Eggs in incubator lots or single sittings from S. C. Reds, $1.50 per 3 5; $S.00 per hundred. Nice cockerels, $2.00 each. Eugenia Hammond, North Augusta, S. C. Hustling Agents wanted to sell accessory indispensable to all automobile owners; very liberal terms. Write for particulars. Henszey, Box 54 2, Troy, N. Y. Cabbage Plants?05c thousand, for balance this season; oldest grower here; Fishel White Rock eggs, $1 per 13, from beautiful birds. Tlios. W. Blitoh, Young's Island, S. C. For Sale?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. Girl 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, $2.25 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. Dropsy C ired?Shortness of breatn relieved 'n 3 6 to 4 8 hours. Reduces swelling in 15 to 20 dayj. Call or write Coll urn Dropsy Remedy Company, Dept. O 512 Austell Bldg., Atlanta Ga. Dohhs' Single Comb Rhode Tsland Reds and "Crystal" White Orpingtons win and lay when others fail, stock and eggs for sale. Send for mating list. G. A. Dobbs, Box B. 24, Gainesville, Ga. Wanted?Men and ladies to take three months practical course. TOxpert management. High salaried positions guaranteed. Write for catalogue now. Charlotte Telegraph School, Charlotte, N. C. 1 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 rase. Diseases of Stomach, Howels, Kidneys, IJver, Lungs and debility f either sex) permanently eradicated by Natural Methods. . Interesting literature free. C. Cullen liowerton, Durham, X. C. Reds, Roth Combs?First winners ? at the greatest shows in the United States, 1st cockerel in class, 127 Rods, Silver cup for best cockerel, in show. Medal for best cockerel of all breeds, I 010, Tennessee and ? Indiana State fairs. Catalogue. i.Mrs. Fmily Cibson, Portland, Tenn. ? Laney's Improved Cotton Seed?Plant the best. Won first prize from < Planters' Phosphate Company, of Charleston, S. ('., and State Fair Association for largest yield. Small 1 variety, very early. 4 0 per cent lint. $1.00 per bu.: 10 hu., 90c. U. H. Laney, Rt. 1, Cheraw, S. C. ; Wanted?Fvery man. woman and \ child in South Carolina to know that the "Alco" brand of Sash, Doors and blinds are the best and are made only by the Augusta Lumber Company, who manufacture everything in Lumber and Mill work and whose watchword ie LEE'S HEADAC NEURALG Safely Surel; Curea Headache and Neuralgia n ous testimonials on file in our oilice I Read the following: I have been a constant sufferer 1 could not get any relief until it had i I trlfid T,pn'R find Nftnrnliria 1 lief. I heartily endorse it as the best tl (Signed) H. Sold everywhere. Price 25c and 50c. I Bur well & Dunn C< No. 14 McWh Fertilizer D will distribute in two furrows from side and top dress growing crops, or ' Price f. V>. I>. Factory Other machines both larger and smal selves in the saving of labor. If you do without this distributer. Order W. M. Patrick, W "Quality." White Augusta Luin- P> t>er Company, Augusta, Georgia, I for prices on any order, large or I umall | Seven per rent prime cotton setd meal, car load fifteen ton minimum car at $25.50 per ton car Augusta, $26.00 Savannah or Charleston. ' Above any quantity from one to twenty cars. Let us quote you hulls delivered your station. The B Flash Hunter Com. Co., Atlanta, Oa. 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?. B. Martin, Box 110, Richmond, Va. 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 $2 81.3 2. Seed $1.50 per bushel, 10 or more bushels, $1.25. Address A. M. Huggins, Lamar, S. C. Reference: ? Merchants & Planters Bank, La- a mar, S. C. | For Sale?120 bushels Iron Peas at I $2.50 per bushel, 200 bushels Cleveland Big Boll Cotton Seed being best of seven.dJU'fereiit varieties by test for two yfears by me, and free from disease, therefore I have abandoned all other short stables, also 30 bushels Long Staple left, sole lint at 2 0c. Dec. 23, good and bad, all delivered F. O. B. New berry, S. C., at $1.00 per bu. J. L. Mayer, Newberry, S. C. ~ cid IIK WILL A FT 10 It THIS. wo . st r ? no 'Oh, Henry, said she blithely tp{J As he sat him down to dine, j 'I have bought the sweetest cushion jf 1 '? ?? *? .1 1 1 <? ? ?\ I n aI n I rur ?v uuuai iniiuij - nui';. SllC , , 'of 'It was bargain day at Stanley s, And they advertised it so mat the store was fairly crowded, For the prices wero so low." Ha "I I'm!" he coughed and looked askewly. "As sure as I'm alive, ,y We are selling that, same cushion At a dollar twenty-live." (n? Oh Not a word then broke the silence Till his wife, with many sighs, Softly said in accents tearful, "And why don't you advertise?" sid ?Shelton (Conn.) Booster. Co ? ? a The Senate is a thing of the past tei with one, and with tho other it la nif neither a thing of the past or of the I It future. ed < :he and ilA REMEDY/" Y Speedily o matter what the cause. Numer>ear us out in this statement. from headache for 12 years run its course or take morphino. ^ lemedy and found permanent re- * ling I have ever tried. A. GANI)Y. Hurtsville, S. C. Manufactured by 7 ? j O; Charlotte, N. C.v* lorter Horse istributer 3 up to 5 feet or more wide broadcast perfectly 6 feet wide Hopper capacity 250 lbs. fertilizer. ler. They soon pay for themuse fertilizer you can't afford to today. Address, oodward, S. C. DON'T SUFFER WITH Neuralgia when a 25 cent bottle of Noah's Liniment is guaranteed to drive this terror away?or money refunded. At the first twinge, applied as directed, Noah'a Liniment will give immediate and effectual relief. It quiets the nerves and scatters the congestion, penetrates and requires j very little rubbing. Nonh'* Liniment Is the best remedy for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lamo Hack, StilT Joints and Muscles, Sore Throat, Colds, bruises, Colic, Cramps, mamim Neuralgia, Toothache, C3GE2EJ |iitff and nil NorvG. Done and I UluSifi Musclo Aches anil Pains. if The genuine has Noah a MR Ark on every package J||8| nnd looks like this cut, T TgBjTOe jimS but has RED band on i Brli|Ki aa front of package and A, AuaULEJ nw " Noah's Liniment" ill- 1 7llaU!ll Hp ways in "RED ink. lie- lulllMUl HE ware of Imitations. BH Largo Ingtle, 25 cents, . .. ? and sold by all dealers In ., .H 1 medicine. Guaranteed HI / or money refunded by *? ? ?? MB "T Noah Remedy Co., In<?., ? ?*w <mrm H| Richmond, Va. RnfflnBMffiSE liaised a Uncus. Birmingham, Ala. was given a deed shock when an unknown young man appeared on the down-town eets in a harem skirt. There was question ahout its interfering with flic. The curious grew to a rogu- * mob and no less than 500 peoi followed her for the few blocks > walked before rushing into one the big buildings for protection.* ? Log Cough III in. Caught under a lingo falling log, rry J. Habn, vice president of the z Stick Lumber company and a 11 known lumberman, was instantkilled at the plant of the company \Iontieth, Ga., Wednesday. He no to Savannah live years ago from io. Serious Charge. Hrooks Scruggs, a white man roling near Chesnee, Spartanburg unty was lodged in jail Friday 011 warrant charging him wi:h atnpting criminal assault upon a woin whose home Is near Arrowood. is alleged the assault was attempton March 4. *