The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 23, 1911, Image 4
SCORES BLEASE
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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.
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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. *
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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.
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'Oh, Henry, said she blithely tp{J
As he sat him down to dine, j
'I have bought the sweetest cushion jf
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rur ?v uuuai iniiuij - nui';. SllC
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'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
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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
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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.*
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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. *