Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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_ WEDSi?gX)jtY,:3iARCH 7, 1894 . How^fearettes are Made. Do you care to know bow cigarett are made ? I think I caa enlight you. An Italian boy, only, 8 yea o?d? was brooght before a justice Sew York Cffty as a vagrant, or, other words, a yoong tramp, bat wi what did the officer charge bin Only with picking ap cigar-stumj from tte streets and gutters. 1 prove thia, he showed the boy's ba ket, half full of stamps, water-soak* and covered with mad. "What de you do with these Vy as ed His leonor. What do think wi his answer ? "j seB ifceriv to a ras for ten^cents a/"^onnd, io be used i making cigarettes." Not a partied: agreeable piece of information, is i boys? Id our large cities there are a grei ca^K?^^^ertain^^ not a " Sai^^^^ verw?)ropriat^^ sloft^nfpr?rtreets wlearch of^hfl burnt cigars and stumps, which ar dried and then sold'to be used i making cigarettes. f Bnfeti?Jgrt aB, not even tb worst of ?i? ^nese cigarettes Bav been analyzed, and physicians an< chemists; are surprised to find hov much opium is put into them. ? to bacconist himself says that "the ex tent to which drags are used in cig arettes is appalling." "Havanm flavoring" lor this same purpose ii sold everywhere by the thousand bar reis. This flavoring is made from th< tonka-bean ; which contains a deadly poison. The wrappers, warranted t( be rice paper, are sometimes math ont of common paper, and sometime* ont of the filly scrapings of the rag pickers, bleached white with arsenic What a cheat to be practiced on peo pie ! Thick of it, boys ! The next time you take up a cigarette, drop it as you would a coal of fire. The latter would simply burn ?our fingers : but this burns np goon health, good" resolu? tions, good manners, god memories, . good fealties, and often honesty and truthfulness as wei 1. A bright boj of thirteen came under ibfcfcp^l of cigarettes. He grew stu? pid, and subject to nervous twitch? ing, tili finally be was obliged to give up hie studies. When asked why be didn't throw away his miserable cigarettes, the poor boy, with tears, jrepfied that be bad often tried to do ?0, but could not. Another boy of eleven was made crazy by cigarette smoking, and was taken to an insane asylum in Orange county, New York. He was a vio* lent and dangerous maniac, exhibiting some of the symptoms peculiar to hydrophobia. The white spots on the tongue and inside the cheeks, called smoker's patches, are thought by Sir Morrell Mackenzie to be more common with users of cigarettes than with other smokers. "Does cigarette smoking injure the lungs? asked some one of a leading New York physician. For his answer the doctor lighted a cigarette, and in? haling a mouthful of smoke, blew it through the comer of his handker? chief which he held tightly over his mouth A dark brown stain was dis? tinctly visible. "Just such a stain," said the doctor, "is left upon the kings." If you ever smoke another cigarette, think of the stains you are making. The Dispensary Figures. Have any of our readers tried to comprehend the array of figures given by the State dispenser at his last quarterly report? We confess that we were dismayed by the formidable -document and have not attempted to grapple with it in detail ; but being encouraged by the remark of our Columbia correspondent that "the most satisfaction is to be had from the general recapitulation," we have faithfully studied the "recapitula? tion," aud have not yet finally deter? mined whether the correspondent was in jest or in earnest The "recapitulation" begins with the following remarkable statement of credits and liabilities. The heading "credits" does not appear in the report, but it is evidently to be understood : CREDITS Nov. 1, stock on hand $ 39,831.43 Machinery and office furniture 2,589.97 Amount due by dispensers 82,953 50 Kevenue tax advanced dis? tillers 10,336.24 Cash in State treasury 7,514-55 Feb. 1894-stockon hand Feb. 1, (new) 15,927 59 Amount due by dispensers and others 101,481.87 Cash in State treasury 19,713.11 ?280,34727 LIABILITIES. Feb. 1, 1894, appropria? tion S 50,000.00 Bilis payable November 1 61,027.53 Bills payable Feb. 1 69,985.58 Amount to balance 99 337.16 Total $180,347 27 Profits to February 1 99,337.16 The first matter of remark aa to the assets is that we find "casa in State treasury November. 1st, 1893 and "cash in State treasury" Febru? ary 1st, 1894, added together as part of tbe assets Now if the dispeuser bad $3,514 15 ; cash* in the Stat?, treasury ou November 1st, 1893, and only $19,718.11 cash IL tile St^te treas? ury onrFebruary Hw* 1894,either the former sum is part of the latter, or it had been expended, and in either case j the two should not be added together to swell the amount of assets. We come to the conclusion, therefore, that what Mr. Traxler means is that up to November 1st, 1893, he had paid into the State treasuary $7,514.55. and that from that date to February 1st, 1894 he had paid in an additional $19,713.11. Another discrepancy, however, is not so easily explainable. We find among the assets, or credits -'stock on had November 1, 1893, $39,831, t" and ''stock on han cf (new) Feb ry 4,-1894, $15,9?6.60." The latter item is all right, but how about the former ? Has none of the stock -on farad tra November 1, 1898, been disposed of? It was a good credit ^o^e^bol-, ?SS&t?bok; surely?? it can ^o?aff be t?re now ? ; v t Tbesanae diificultvconfronts ii* with regard to the amounts. due^ by dispen ?ers.-;_VVe find stated $. as assets November 1, 1883 amount due by dispensers,. $82.953.56," and again February 1, 1894, "amounts due by dispensers and others, $101,481.87." and these are added together as if the dispensers now owe the State $184,. 435.37. , Can it be possible that the dispensers have paid up nothing of their indebtedness since November 1, 1893 ? If they have, then the whole of their indebtedness can not stand now as a credit for the State dispen? sary.-Johnston Monitor. - ? ? - Mrs. Virginia D. Young, of South Carolina, was in attendance o poa the recent woman's suffrage convention in Washington, and read a paper dealing with the condition of wooten io South Carolina, io which she declared that womeo would vote ere long io this State. This is only Mrs. Young's opioioo, to which she is entitled beyond aoy question, and it must be founded upon the fact that two or three legis? lators have signified their desire to con? fer suffrage upon the other sex. Cer? tainly, if it were left to the womeo themselves, Mrs. Youog would be found in a hopeless minority.-Greenville Mountaineer. He"Leftait. "Did you ever find aoythiog of value. Uncle Sy ?" I asked after telling bim about finding a pearl ring that morning". "Yeh, sah ; I fouo' a pus once, wid ten dollars io it." "Did you? Well what did you do with it-you dido't keep it, of course?" "Yeh, sah; I did that berry ting, l's strictly honest ; ? woold'nt take no man's pus. [ lef it where he could git it ; bat I took de mosey out fust. You see, he dooe los' de money 'twaro't his'n no mo.- I done fia* it; it was my money deo. Bot de pus was his'n, V long as I live I ain't gwine to take no man's pos.' For Over Fifty Years. Mas. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diar? rhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. When Saby was sicfc, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castorif BROWN'S IRON BITTERS j Cures Dyspepsia, In- j digestion & Debility, j Capt. King's Masterpiece The opening chapters of the popular novelist's latest and greatest story entitled FOES IN iT AMBUSH IN THIS PAPER YOU CAN'T A7F0RD TO MISS IT The Great Farm. Industrial and Stock Journal of the South. OK'S TEAS FOB $1. Sample copies will be mailed FREE on ap? plication to THE CULTIVATOR PUBLISHING CO., Box 415, Atlanta, Ga. DEM. M EMMI DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE, Er trance on Maia Street Between Brown & Brown and Durant & Soo. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock April 9. 2 !- ?. "'. S ! i nm ?m in -? Liberty Street Next to P. O. SPECIAL ATTENTION Given to Compoaoding Prescriptions. PIKST ULM JOB WOKE AT BOTTOM PRICES* WATCHMAN A NH M?NIRIIV JflB HPPIIIE SUMTER, 'S. C ARDWARE s FOR Everything in this Line -GO TO R. W. DURANT & SON. Paints, Oils, &c, &c. Cooking and Heating Stores, Guns, Pistols, Cartridges all Household articles and Plantation S>xx;p;plies. Oct. 4 J. F. W. DeLORME, Agent -DEALER IN Toilet Soaps, Perfumery and all Kinds ot Druggist's Sundries Usually Kept in a First Class 13 ir CL s Store. Tobacco, Snuff fand Cigars, Garden Seeds, &3., also Paints, Otk, Varnishes, Glass'Putty, &e.\ Dye Stuffs. Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispa:ch. The public will find my srock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of best quality. Call aod see for yourselves. Night Calls Promptly Attended To. JEWELRY. Watches, Diamonds, Sterling and Flated Silverware, LARGE STOCK SUITABLE FOR WEDDING PRESENTS Clocks, Optical Goods, Fine Knives, Scissors gtfid Razors. Machine Needles. &c. SOM. SIGN OF THE BIG WATCH. ESTABLISHED 1868. Sumter, S. C. Densmore, THE WORLD'S GREATEST TYPEWRITER. The Machine that took the only award for Typewriters at the State Fair, Nov. 8,1893. .'NO MACHINE COULD BE ANY BETTER. IT IS PERFECT. Private statement of one of the Judges. THE ONLY AWARD WAS ALSO .MADE -TO US FOR TYPEWRITER- SUPPLIES. County Agents Wanted. J. W. GIBBES & CO., GEN. AGENTS, COLUMBIA, S. C. The '94 31odel just out is Unrivalled. Nov. 29. PURE VINEGAR. T MADE LAST SUMMER for my 1 own use a lot of Vinegar, from a mix- ? - ra rr * K,: n ^ ^ ture of FRUITS (mostly grapes) AND I K ffl W g |S; | M |f1 HONEY. It ia very fine, both in IJBfc?HUKvSsTO^^K?l^fe;? Obtained, and ail /vl7?vA/ /;> .-?.w-v? flavor and strength. I have about ten ;;?:;;^;';i?:\^:^:?//.M!:t/;..V I, , . ..i I UlJu^'ulcntsiii less iiir.-t !!:I?:I ;!-.*.. . ..>.'..::;<:!. gallons to spare, and persons wno will I njsiII.\GTOX. st-i:?i Moj}?r? ;>?:.\ u :M; or 3 , -, _ - -A j PHOTO ni invention \\.. . - : . ?..-ite::t send to my residence can get it for OV , amityfree orchard anil wo mai., liM.'iii " ! i'.Y/./V.vs PA TEST 'ts shu : . cents per gallon. j Fur circular, advice. terras HU.] :. ...:. : tvs t. j actual clients in yous own state.!"' :mty. < itv <T Satisfaction guaranteed or money j Town, write u> MKWSI^rawyyWSy returned N. G. OSTEEN. Opposite Patent O fice. Washington, D. C for Infants 2nd Children. " Casto ria is so well adapted to children thc t [j Castoria cores Celie, Constipation, ! recommend it as superior t o any prescription j Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, l.uows to me.? H. A. Asesta, 3L D.. Kills TTorms, gives sleep, aid promotes di? ll! Go. Orford Ct., Brooklyn, N. Y. j-estiou, i Without injurious medication. "Thc use of "Castoria is io uni cereal and ::s merits so well known that i: seems a work of supererogation, to endorse it Tew are the intelligent families wno do net keep Castcria within easy reach." CAZLOS MiKTgt, D. D., New York City "For several years I have recommended your 'Castoria,' and shall always continue (o do S3 as it has invariably produced beneficial results." EDWES F PAEDEE, 31. I>., l?5th Gtreet and 7th Ave., New York City. TEE CESTAVR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STHEET, NEW YOKE CUT. Said the Bicycle j To Its Rider j Take a Tumble. THE LEADERS, Have said the same to the PRICES of SHOES THIS SEASON. Our SHOES were being made up and most of them finished when the Disastrous Storm struck us. We laid in a Stock for a Now we MUST sell them. If you are looking for Bargains in Shoes SEE US. We have just opened a Shoe to catch young men, Genuine German Cordovan, Hand Sewed for $?*00* Never seen before in this country. Our $3.00 Shoes still Lead all others. Our $2.00 Ladies' Button Boots, are Unexcelled. WALSH & CO.. THE LEADERS, Monaghan Block - Sumter, S. C: Oct. 4. Glenn Springs Water, ls unsurpassed and invalids find sure and speedy relief by its use Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Hepatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver and General Debility, following upon Malarial Diseases, Dropsy, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Constipation, Hemorroid.s Uterine, Renal and Cystic Diseases, Homaturia, Rheumatism, Catamenial Derangement, and OTHER FEMALE COMPLAINTS, Highly recommended by the medical profession. For circulars containing certificates, etc., apply to Paul Simpson, GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. ?FOR SALE BY Dr. A. J. China, Dr. McKagen, J S. Hagbsor. & Co., J. F. W. DeLorme and W. R. Dellar, Jr. ?fi7"e ^l"W?tys Lead First Class / / WOVEN WIRE SPRINGS/^. / ./<o$*?y /OUR At $2.50. y^^/^ We make themX ^"sV / _0F_ while you Furniture - / PICTURES COME AND f AT^V^V AT SEE ,T/<fcS^ / is no^_?omplete. wv;.. / /.Just watch our prices. / & /rhey cannot be equaled. CHEAP OAK SUITS OUR SPECIALTY.