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AND STOVE MAN.
Well, hasn't that old stove taken all the religion you ever had \ Gladden the trash pile with it and see E. A. Jen
kins, "The Stove Man "
Food cooked in his stoves never give indigestion, as it is always well baked. The Buck and Floyd Wells Stoves and
Ranges are the right kind?on easy payments.
Tobacco Barn Flues are one of my specialties
Very little Water is enough for some people. How is it with you ? Domestic water works installed by me at reasonable cost. Force and
Lift Pumps put down on short notice.
Phone No. 27?. Next door to Express Office.
N. B?Tinning done by competent workmen. I can save you money. JSTXIVITIICH. S3. O.
THE SMALLPOX SITUATION.
Health, Officer Reardon Stakes a State
sent to Reference to the Measures
Taken to Prevent an Epidemic.
In discussing the smallpox situation
in this city. Health Officer E. I. Rear
don said: "We have had four cases to
date?three in one house and one in
another house near by?all colored.
Two adults and one five year old and
one eight year old child. AH on
Second Bed and White street, Ward
No. 4, near the suburbs, but in a very
thickly settled section of colored peo
ple. The first case was that of a five or
six year old boy, which was so mild
as to be mistaken by his parents for
chicken pox, bat which I diagnosed as
smallpox. This boy's father subse
quently developed a well defined case
of modified smallpox: and his mother
% a very virulent case of smallpox; the
* two latter undoubtedly being infected
from the first case of the boy, showing
conclusively chat it is possible for a
person to have smallpox so mild as to
be taken for chicken pox; yet which
can easily infect a second or third per
son so that the most virulent type of
the disease follows. All of these cases
which I diagnosed as smallpox have
been subsequently pronounced small
pox by Bra. Hofman, Baker and Archie
China. A close watch has been kept
by the Health Officer on all of the
territory of the A. C. Railroad; and
also in other sections. Repeated house
to house visits arermade daily by the
same officer for the purpose of examin
ing all suspected places; and vaccinat
ing and re--vaccinating the population
adjaced to the infected territory. An
epidemic is not possible as the popu
lation is too well vaccinated; the
territory too well watched and all re
ported cases looked into immediately;
and if at all eruptive; kept under
. surveilance nntil its correct nature is
found out. A great many people have
also been vaccinated in other parts of
the city as follows: Colored, 275;
White, 125. Making a total by the
health officer of 400. Physicians have
also vaccinated, estimated about 100;
mostly white. So that at least 500
people have been vaccinated.
Delay in securing vaccine virus has
impeded the progress of totally sup
pressing the disease: but we have it
under control; and within five days if
no more cases appear, it will be safe to
conclude that no more cases wiil devel
op from the original case. It is possi
ble, however, and quite probable that
there will be sporadic outbreaks from
time to time as long there are any per
sons not successfully vaccinated.
Sarah Burroughs, the woman patient,
has a very virulent case. She has
been critically ill and is not yet be
yond danger. She is covered from
head to feet; with the disease, the pus
tules being as large, on an average; as
the head of a collar button, and run
ning into one another. She suffers
agony despite the fact that everything
known to medical science has been
done to alleviate her suffering. She
is better today, but it will be two or
three weeks before she is able to be
dischaaged..
If some of the "ruthers" who
would ** rather have smallpox than
be vaccinated" could see this case
they would hasten to be vaccinated.
Some of the people are in danger of
varioloid by mistaking unusually large
vaccination pits, which were produced
by l%rge ulcerated and inflamed sore
arms, for particularly safe vaccina
tions. As a matter of fact some of
these kind of vaccinations were caused
by mixed infections rather than by the
vaccination alone. I have seen dozens
of persons contract severe cases of
varioloid, who had repulsive looking
vaccinations. The small or medium
sized, well defined vaccination pits
are, in the light of our past experi
ence, much the safest. Another thing,
most people imagine and some family
physicians hold that once vaccinated
you are immune for life. I have cases
in mind of persons who died of viru
lent confluent smallpox who had been
successfully vaccinated years before.
It is perhaps best for every one to
have a physician or vaccinating expert
examine the vaccination pits or marks.
It is much safer and more sensible
than refraining from vaccination, and
in the mean time substituting burn
ing sulphur, and other disinfectants
around the house, and dosing children
with assafcetida, or hanging it around
their necks to keep off smallpox.
Nothing but a successful vaccination
will protect against or even modify the
disease. The new method of vaccina
tion with giycerinized vaccine in glass
tubes instead of the old time ivory
point has, to an almost total extent,
obviated diffuse inflamation, and
severe nlceration of the vaccinated
area does not usually result, if the
proper precaution is taken. I have
been instructed by the Board of
Health to visit every house in Sumter
to examine vaccination pits and to re
vaccinate all whose vaccinations I
think did not take. I hope that the
citizens one and all will realize that
this precaution is for their good, antf\
co-operate with me in carrying ont1
this order satisfactorily. I do not re
ceive a cent extra pay for this vacci
nating, and it is costing the tax pay
ers considerable for vaccine vims. So
that it is wise to see that successful
vaccination eventually will stamp out
smallpox and save the people money.
As a rule the people who do not have
smallpox, because they are safely
Vaccinated, are the people who pay the
taxes. There are exceptions, however,
to this rule, but comparatively few.
I will vaccinate all who have not been
successfully vaccinated within five
years. In the mean time all persons
are at liberty to have themselves vacci
nated by any physician; it will save
the city treasuiy that much money.
Nearly all of the public school pupils
have been vaccinated. But in the
mean time to have one person pass
upon all vaccinations will systematize
the work and give better results.
There will then be no differences of
opinion and no confusion."
MAYORS COURT.
There were three offenders before the
Mayor last Thursday:
J. N. Edens plead guitly to riding
a bicycle at night without a lighted
lantern and paid the customary
fine?$2.
The other cases were:
Swinton P. Jones, drunk and disor
derly and resisting arrest.
Swinton P. Jones and Sam Weeks,
fighting on Main street.
Under the first indictment Jones was
found guilty as to drnnkness, the
Mayor stating that in his opinion sub
sequent actions were incidental to and
resulted from the drunkenness. The
fine was $5.
Under the joint indictment Jones
was adjudged not guilty, while Weeks
was found guilty and required to pay a
fine of $10.
The circumstances of this case ren
der it somewhat more interesting than
ordinary. Jones is a son of the Edgar
Jones who was arrested last Saturday
by Officer Weeks and pretty roughly
handled at the time. On Monday he
was tried and the charges of drunken
ness and disorderly conduct preferred
against him by Officer Weks were not
made out to the satisfaction of a jury
and he was dismissed. On Tuesday
Jones swore out a warrant against Offi
cer Weeks before Magistrate Folk and
had him arrested and bound over for
trial at the next term of court.
On Wednesday Swinton P. Jones, the
son of Edgar Jones loads up with
liquor and goes up and down the street
cursing Officer Weeks and making
threats against him to every person,
except the police, that would listen to
him. The police on duty heard of his
talk and kept an eye on him.
Sam Weeks, a son of Officer A. H.
Weeks, also heard of Jones's talk, and
when he met him on Main street he
asked Jones if he was hunting his
(Week's) father. Jones replied that
he was, and applied a vile epithet to
Officer Weeks. Sam Weeks thereupon
knocked Jones down and got on him,
but the prompt arrival of Officer Sey
mour saved Jonfcs from a worse beat
ing. +
When Jones wa3 knocked down, an
open knife flew out of one hand and a
flask of whiskey fell from his pocket.
The circumstances appear to large
ly justify Weeks for knocking Jones
down, and the fine imposed was'pretty
heavy for the offense, the provocation
being taken into consideration. Weeks
was at fault in accosting Jones and
thus precipitating the difficulty, but the
reports he had received of Jones'
threats against and abuse of his
father, Officer Weeks, furnish a rea
sonable excuse, for the provocation was
great.
The Mayor was too severe both ac
tually and comparatively.
Judy Sanders the notorious, was up
Saturday for public drunkenness and
disturbance of the peace in Harvin
street She was convicted of the
charge and required to pay a fine of
ten dollars.
A Heavy Loss.
Mr. John Terry of Concord, the
burning of whose barn was reported
last week, was interviewed Monday in
regard to the occurrence, and reports
that the fire was discovered about 4
o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Janu
ary 31. He succeeded, with the help
of some hands and neighbors, in sav
ing his stock and in preventing the
burning of other houses, but the barn
and entire contents of corn, peas, cot
ton seed and forage, were destroyed.
He has no idea of how the fire origi
nated. It being in the day time, and
there having been no one at the barn
for several hours and no fire near it.
His loss is heavy at this time.
Whil*; he has not appealed to any one
for help, he mentioned that he has re
ceived through the mail some checks
from a few sympathizing friends,
whose kindness is much appreciated.
A fresh lot of Dennisons crepe paper
just received?10c. per roll. Osteen's
Book Store Feb. 3. Z
PISGAH NEWS NOTES.
Pisgah, Feb. 9.?The wet weather
will retard plowing to some extent.
Much rain fell here Saturday and in
the night.
Very little cotton-seed will be used
under cotton this year. The high
price recently moved about all that
was left. The negroes sold all they
baa" last fall. The whites held theirs
and swapped for meal, 23 hundred lbs.
of seed getting a ton of meaL
The potato crop which was fine
through here, has rotted badly. Some
have lost nearly all they made.
Oats show the wisdom of being
planted early. They are all O. K.
The price for cotton next fall pro
mises to be good. The boll worm in
Texas will shorten the crop, and the
negro renters who can get all the ad
vances they want will not make much
for the merchants after the rent is
paid and that will shorten the crop.
As long as the negro can get a lien, he
won't hire for good wages to those
who will pay him promptly and who
would make good crops, the back bone
of the country so to say. Consequ
ently the best of farmers have no labor
scarcely and what they have is inferi
or as a whole. The lien law seems to
have outlived its usefulness. If an in
surrection was to take place the Govern
or could just call out his staff and go to
it. He would have all the men in
numbers he would want to put down
an ordinary one.
The State of South Carolina asks
more like a child in the matter of col
lecting taxes than a sensible person.
How some fellow wants to extend the
time when we have all the time we
want. Tbe only wise way to collect
taxes is to open the books a month
earlier and close them on Dec. 31st.
This will give ample time to all, and
what is due will scarcely be missed.
The State has coquetted so much in
this matter that people have no con
fidence that the.books will close when
advertised, consequently they are not
in a hurry about paying and,the State
is thereby embarrassed. The legisla
ture mixes things a" great deal, but
anything is law now, so it says it is
all right over the signatures of the
presiding officers according to the de
cisions of our August court.
Congress has adopted Sunday as the
day on which tributes of respect may
be paid to the memory of the deceased
congressmen. A very appropriate day
for so sad an occasion. The memorial
addresses are always fine and shows
what is good in a man can come out
at times. In fact, I did not know so
many good men went to Congress un
til they died, and read of their beauti
ful lives as shown forth in the touch
ing tributes paid to their memories by
their brother congressmen. Surely
there is some good in the land yet, but
in the shadow of death all are united,
and it is so in our highest law making
body.
Mt. Pisgah's Thanks.
The officers and members of Mt.
Pisgah A. M. E. Church return their
greatest thanks to both white and
colored friends for their liberal assist
ance in giving to the many ones who
had envelopes.
Our church is now completed, hav
ing just finished placing our heater.
This church was built at a cost of
$8000 and within three years, a little
over four thousand dollars have been
paid, not from northern friends and
societies nor by a church extension
society, but by the hard earnings of
her members and the generous help
of her white and colored friends in
this city.
The pastor Rev. J. C. Williams,
desires in this public way to thank the
merchants who have again and again
aided him from the start to its com
pletion, and assures them that our
people are very grateful and will show
it by giving them their trade.
Mr. Sam Franklin, who raised the
highest amount on both occasions that
we have appealed to the public, returns
his thanks. He reported last night
$20.53 the pastor. 814.35: Mrs. Har
riett Jackson, $9.39; Mrs. Emma An
drews, $7.16: Mrs. Amelia Andrews,
$5.05: Mrs. R. G. Bernie, $5.0r>:
F. L. Stewart, $4.24: Mrs. Lettie John
son, $3.00, and others from three dollars
down to 25 cents.
It is the hope of the pastor and
members that the influence of Mt.
Pisgah be felt for good throughout
this town in the lifting up of men and
women, and the making of them better
citizens and better Christians.
To make them true to themselves,
and it will follow that they will be
true to all men and true to God.
J. C. Williams, pastor.
Feb. 9, 1903.
After tht* i:xpnlj?ion.
Eve?I'm so sorry!
Atl:'.ni?Too bad! It was a fool's par
adise:- Smart Set.
It is a great deal easier to teach un
old dog new tricks than it is to make
him forget his old ones.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Columbia, Feb. 6.?The House to
day spent almost the entire day dis
cussing and undoing what it had done.
The Pollock bill, as to the dispensary,
was, after an all-morning fight, re
committed and the fight will be re
sumed when the bill reappears. Only
one bill other than the third reading
measures was considered. There were
several pretty word fights during the
day.
When the House met this morning a
number of committee reports were
submitted.
An unfavorable report was made on
the bill to require marriage licenses.
The concurrent resolution asking the
President to approve the bill to au
thorize special courts at Rock Hill
and Spartanburg was taken up for
consideration.
Mr. Morgan showed that it was now
too late to pass resolutions, as the
President had already acted.
The House killed the resolution ap
pealing to-the President by a vote of
47 to 35.
Work of the Senate.
Columbia, Feb. 6.?-The Senate to
day reversed its position on the Rail
way Relief Association and adopted it.
Senator Brown, of Darlington, mov
ed to reconsider the vote whereby the
bill relating to railway relief associa
tions had been rejected. This was
agreed to.
Mr. Mayfield said that a number of
Senators wanted to consider that bill
and he suggested that further consid
eration be postponed until Tuesday,
but he withdrew his motion.
Mr. Ragsdale said that he was will
ing that those voting against the bill
last night and who might be absent to
be recorded in the negative.
Mr. Hood said he had misappre
hended the import of the' bill in sev
eral particulars last night and would
change his vote.
On the roll call the bill was adopted
by a vote of 21 to 17.
Among bills read a second time
were the following:
To further regulate working of the
highways.
To provide for a special assessment
of real property in Lee county.
To fix the time for holding Courts
in the 3d judicial circuit.
To authorize the Bishopville Graded
School to issue school bonds.
To authorize sinking fund commis
sion to loan money to Lee county.
, The bill to abolish the office of
phosphate inspector was made a special
order for Tuesday. The same disposi
tion was made of the bill in reference
disposing of dispensary funds so as to
aid schools in districts financially
weak.
After lengthy discussion the bill to
regulate the traffic in seed cotton was
passed. It provides, as amended, that
seed cotton cannot be sold between
August 15 and December 1, proyided
those who will take out a license and
pay $500 and keep records of all trans
actions may sell in that time, and sea
island cotton is exempt from the pro
visions of the law. It took two hours
and a half to pass this bill.
Senator Brice introduced a pension
bill intended to equalize the amounts
received by the various classes.
Senator Mclver{introduced a bill to
amend the law relative to the distribu
tion of dispensary profits.
THE STRIKE COMMISSION
NOW HEARING ARGUMENTS.
A Lawyer for the Mines Opened
the Speech Making?Six Days
of Steady Talking.
Philadelphia, Feb. 9.?Arguments
for and against the demands of the
union anthracite mine workers which
will continue before the coal strike
commission for the next few days was
begun today when the miners, through
Daniel J. McCarthy of Hazleton,
made the opening argument, Mr. Mc
Carthy was followed by Former Con
gressman Brumm of Minersville, who
made a general argument, and Henry
Oemarest Lloyd of Chicago, who con
fined his efforts to the question of
resolution of the union and yearly
trade agreements.
The operators will begin their argu
ment tomorrow, continuing three days
and closing with George F. Baer,
president of the Reading company.
Then Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago,
the principal counsel for the miners,
will take up all Friday and Saturday
until adjournment in summing up the
case and on answering President Baer.
President Mitchell, of the miners'
union, is expected here during the
week. Whether he will address the
commission depends upon develop
ments.
IMPORTANT BILL TO SUPERINTEN
DED TS OF EDUCATION.
Passes Both Houses--To Discuss
a Veto?Debating Ten Circuit
Bill in House.
Columbia, Sept. 9.?Representative
Johnson's bill changing the charter
fees was killed this morning in the
senate. The finance committee report
ed unfavorably on the bill and the re
port was adopted.
The same committee reported on
Governor McSweeney's veto of the bill
requiring that the state treasurer write
off his books certain bonds (the state
bank bonds lost or stolen.) The com
mittee recommended that the resolu
tion pass, the governor's veto to the
contrary. This resolution passed both
houses last session and on reassembl
ing this session Governor McSweeney
sent in a veto. The' report of the
committee today was made a special
order for Thursday. At the same time I
the unfavorable report of the com- J
mittee on the bill to allow the receiv
ers of the bank to sue the state will be
considered. The amount ^involved is
about $27,000. The bonds are said to
have :been lost or destroyed during
Sherman's raid in this state. Some
people in Charleston constitute the
principal claimants.
There are six or eight bills on the
calendar relating to pharmaceutical
matters. They have been special or
ders for a week. They were supposed
to have been gotten up by the phar? I
maceutical association, but some of
them are not. The doctors seem to
j disagree among themselves and the
senators don't know what it is all
about. So these bills are continued
from day to day in a bunch and the
prospect is that none of them will
pass.
The general appropriation bill came
up in the house today. No items have
been increased. The State college ap
propriations stand exactly as last year,
except that an insurance fund is pro
vided for the Citadel academy and for
the South Carolina college.
The chief items of the appropriation
bill are: Governor's office, $10,550:
secretary of state's office, 85,550;
comptroller general's office, $7,650;
treasurer's office, $7,100: superintend
ent of education, $5,000; adjutant
general, $12,400, including support of
militia: attorney general, $5,475;
railroad commission, $10,000; state
geologist, $3,500; judicial department,
$63,050; health department, $15,000;
South Carolina college, $28,100;
Winthrop, $52,000 and $5,400 for
scholarships; Citadel academy, $25,
000; hospital for insane, $139,200; in
stitute for deaf, dumb and blind, $24,
000; Catawba Indians, $1,000; water
for public institutions, $2,000; light
ing public buildings, $4,000: pen
sions, $200,000; sewerage, South Caro
, lina college, $7,500.
Representative Kibler's bill to re
j quire county superintendents of edu
cation to have a first grade certificate
| as a qualification passed the senate,
: an amendment being added that these
certificates should be obtained from
the state board of education.
A long debate was had in the house
on the bill to increase the judicial
circuits to ten. The debate was about
evenly divided as to members express
ing themselves for or against the bill,
lawyers doing most of the talking,
quite naturally. No action was taken
and debate was continued.
Too Smart.
"It does not always pay to be too
smart," said a lawyer. "At our board
ing house a new waitress was employ
ed, and a young chap asked her what
he should call her.
" 'Call me Fearl,' she said.
"'Are you the pearl of great price?
he asked.
" 'No/ answered the girl. 'I guess I
am the pearl that was cast before
swine.' "?New York Times.
Behind the Scenes.
"Hurry up. Rowland," called the lead
ing lady. "the people are mad because
we are keeping thcin waiting."
"Then I will not go on at all," storm
ed the heavy tragedian.
"Why not?"
"Because I refuse to play to a mad
house."?Chicago News.
A Self Evident Fact.
"Time was." said the tramp sadly,
"when I owned a big plantation."
"You seem to have a good deal of real
estate on your hands yet," replied the
woman of the house, casting a cold and
sarcastic eye upon his grimy paws.?
Washington Times.
He who is false to present duty breaks
a thread in the loom and will see the
defect when the weaving of a lifetime
Is unrolled.
COVERED DISHES.
The Reason They Were Introduced
During the Middle Ages.
From the days when our ancestors
took their food in their hands and ate
it with as little ceremony as a dog
gnaws a bone to the, present time of
elaborate dinners is a long step, bat a
gradual one. It was a number of cen
turies before dishes of any kind were
used, anjl knives and forks as adjuncts
to eating are later still. The fear of
poison which haunted the mind of
every person of quality during the mid
dle ages gave rise to certain curious
customs and even to certain supersti
tions. When dishes are now served
covered, it is understood that it is
merely for the purpose of keeping them
warm. This was not, however, the
principal reason why they were not
served covered during the dark ages.
It was the fear that poison might be
introduced into them surreptitiously
between the kitchen and the table
where they were to be served to the,
kings or the lords or even to persons
I of inferior rank.
The covers were not removed till the
master of the house had taken his
place. All dishes afterward served
were brought on the table in the same
manner. It was the custom originally
when the dishes were uncovered for
some of the servants to first partake
of them, but this custom was after
ward in part replaced by the servants
touching the food with one of several
objects which were regarded as infalli
ble preservatives against poison.
Barry the Persuasive.
It was said of Barry, the player, that
he had a voice which might lure a bird
from a tree and at the same time an
address and manner the most prepos
sessing and conciliating. The Dublin
theater of which he was proprietor
failed, and he was considerably indebt
ed to his actors, musicians, etc. Among
others, the master carpenter called at
Barry's house and was clamorous in
demanding his money. Barry, who was
ill at the time, came to the head of tfee
' stairs and asked what was the matter. .
"Matter enough!" replied the carpen-;
ter. "I want my money and can't get
it!" I
"Don't be in a passion," said Barry.
"Do me the favor to walk upstairs, if i
you please, and we will speak upon the;
business."
"Not I, Mr. Barry!" said the carpen
ter. "You owe me ?100 already, and
if I come up you will owe me ?200 be
fore I leave you."
Too Angelic.
There was a certain young minister
in Maine who on his first charge was
called upon to preach a funeral sermon
over a woman. It was his first funeral
sermon, and he laid himself out to
make an impression and succeeded.
The woman had had her faults, but
the minister forgot them. This was to
be expected, but he extolled her so
highly that the poor bereaved husband,
sitting there listening, couldn't recog
nize her by the description. Finally, in
a glowing peroration, he pictured God
and the archangels and the angels and
all the hosts of the redeemed joyously
forming a parade to welcome to heaven
this "one of the very best of all wom
en." The husband comd stand it no
longer, and, leaping up, interrupted
him with beckoning hand, gasping out:
"No, no. elder. Not quite that! She
was only 'bout mlddlin'."
Tbc Black Cap.
The black cap has no specific relation
to the hanging of a criminal. Its sin
ister reputation, its color and the fact
that a judge when pronouncing a capi
tal sentence always wears it have com
bined to attach to it a meaning and
symbolism which it does not possess.
It is really nothing more than a part
of the full dress of a judge.?Genealog
ical Magazine.
A Rich One.
The Visitor?And what are you going
to make of him?
Mamma?I want him to be a philan
thropist
"Why, there's no money in that."
"But all the philanthropists have
been very rich."
Forgetful.
"Is Bronson as forgetful as ever?"
"More so. Why, that fellow has to
look himself up in the directory every
night before he goes home from busi
ness?forgets his address."
Reputations which have been forced
into an unnatural bloom fade almost
as soon ara they bave expanded.?Ma
caulay.
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