The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 13, 1906, Image 6
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES.
Borne of the Complaints Secretary
Reardon Makes Against the Atlantic
Coast Line.
The Chamber of Commerce has taken
np the question of lighting the A. C.
X? passenger station and grounds with
^electric lights, with the head officers
in Wilmington. Mr. F. H. Fechtig.,
purchasing agent of the A. C. L. com?
pany, has written- Secretary Reardon
that the matter has been referred to
General Superintendent A. W. Ander?
son, and that "as a matter of informa?
tion to you, I will say that the price
Of lights at Sumter is too high, and we
have made a reasonable offer for
lighting and they would not accept
it."
The Sumter FZectric Light, Ice and
:Power 'company has informed Secre?
tory Reardon that this company N has
made a reasonable proposition to Mr.
"Fechtig, equally as low as the terms
accepte! by the Atlantic Coast Line
company at Darlington, and Florence,
hut that the proposition made by the
A?antice Coast Line to the Sumter
Electric Light company was below
prices which the railroad company
pays at other places smaller than
Sumter, and where the passenger and
-freight business of the Atlantic Coast
Line is not near as great as it is at
Sumter.
The Chamber of Commerce will try
to arrange an equitable adj*.--.ment
l>etween the railroad and the electric
3ight company, as the present system
cf lighting the station and grounds
?*r??h. antequated and insufficient oil
lamps is not only an injustice to the
patrons of the railroad, but is a very
~" poor advertisement for a town of the
size of Sumter. Other towns smaller
than Sumter are much better lighted
"np around the passeger stations, and
the people of Sumter are getting very
much dissatisfied with the present sys?
tem at the passenger station. The lo?
cal electric light company offered the
Atlantic Coast Line meter rates and as
it is not necessary to keep the depot
and grounds lit up more than five or
> Six hours during the long winter
nights, and not that long during the
.summer months, it does seem that the
railroad is straining at a gnat and
trying to swallow a whale by refusing
to accept the rates offered by the local
electric light company.
The meter rr tes adopted by the lo?
cal company are probably the lowest
in the State with one exception. They
-are lower than the rates in Charleston,
Columbia, Anderson and Greenville
and a number of other towns that
could be mentioned. The service is
now excellent and can not be -better?
ed in the State. By the meter rate es?
tablished for electric fans, the Atlan?
tic Coast Line could also run electric
tans in their depot for one cent per
irour-and it would not be a bad idea
3or such a luxury to be installed.
Sumter is not a country cross-rods
place, she is the leading railroad cen?
ter of Eastern South Carolina, and
does more railroad and passenger bus?
iness in proportion to size than any
ether place in South Carolina, and the
Atlantic Coast Line freight and pas?
senger business at Columbia is not
greater, and in fact on one or two oc?
casions last fall the Atlantic Coast
Line business in Columbia fell b?ind
Sumter by several thousand dollars.
Yet Columbia is given much better
service in all particulars than Sumter
lythe Atlantic Coast Lane, not oniyin
lighting the station, but Sumter has
heen neglected in regard to freight
business and the local accommoda?
tions at the Sumter freight depot are
?simply rotten. The business of Sum?
ter has been materially injured by the
.slipshod, indifferent manner in which
out-going and in-coming freight is han?
dled at the Atlantic freight depot and
?reight yards. If necessary the Chamber
cf Commerce can produce dozens of
specific instances to verify this state?
ment. But the head offices of the At?
lantic Coast Line have been brought
to Sumter on several occasions and
the business men of Sumter, face to
?ace, have told these officers of the
innumerable instances of poor busi?
ness management at the Sumter
freight depot. Easiness men, .bank
presidents, merchant.-:, horse dealers,
and many others have written to Wil?
mington, appealing for better service,
and in vain. Something will have to
be done pretty soon, probably through
the South Carolina Traffic association,
as neither the railroad commissioners
nor the head officers of the Atlantic
Coast Line have ever offered any re?
lief. The wholesale and retail busi?
ness of Sumter is going to other
places because of the great and unus?
ual length of time it takes, not only
to get freight loaded into cars from
the Sumter depot, but because when
it is loaded you never know where it
is consigned to, or when it will get
there.
Freight consigned to Eastover turn?
ed up in Roland, N. C.. the other day.
It takes five to seven days to get
freight to Hartsville, S. C.. and when
car load lots arrive at Sumter, it takes
five days to get the car off of the
Transfer track. It some times hap?
pens that the Seaboard and Southern
lines have to send men to Sumter to
hunt up whole cars of freight, which
have been lost in the Sumter yard.
Some people say that the force at
the freight depot is too small. We!!.
whatever the trouble may be, whether
it is insufficient force, incompetency or
indifference, lack of facilities or what,
it is the business of the Atlantic Coast
Line to find out what the trouble is
and to remedy it. Some merchams
and other shippers have sought re?
lief by transferring their business to
the Southern Ballway, "and there are
others."
XEW CUKE FOR LEPROSY.
Treatment Applied in Louisiana Said
io be Certain of Results.
New Orleans, May 30.- The hoard of
control of the State Home for Lepers
h - s announced to Gov. Blanchard that
at last a positive cure for leprosy has
been found and that three patients af?
flicted with the disease for years have
been discharged. All three cures have
been affected in the home, it was re?
ported, and eleven others are on the
road to recovery.
The board not only annnounced that
the successful treatment had been dis?
covered, but divulged the drugs em?
ployed-ichthyol, chlorate of potash,
strychnine, salicylate of soda, chau;
moogra oil and ars?nic. It detailed
also the other essential features, in?
cluding daily hot baths, nourishing
food and open air life, so physicians ia
in all parts of the globe immediately
might begin curing leprous patients.
A certain cure for consumption
alone could rival thc- importance cf
that for leprosy, and that only because
the white plague affects a much larger
number of persons than dees the older
scourge. Leprosy for thousands ot
years has been regarded as incurable.
The board of the Lepers* Horns
withheld its report until certain not
only that leprosy could be cured, but
that the disease could be arrested at
any stage. It knew two years ago that
cures could be achieved in certain
cases, but, determining to avoid rais?
ing false hopes, waited until the
treatment has been tested by patients
of ail ages and degrees of the scourge.
The three patients discharged as cured
ranged in age from 13 to 50 years. '
In addition, the board waited until
the medical men of the institution said
they had arrested eight other cases
showing the symptom save pigmenta?
tion and three cases in which the de?
struction of flesh and bone already had
set in when treatment was begun.
"The first case," the rep >-t to Gov.
Blanchard says, "was that of a boy, 13
years old, admitted in October, 1902.
He was discharged on December 1,
1904, as cured, and has been kept un?
der observation since. There has been
no return of any evidence of the dis?
ease. The second case was that of a
woman 50 years old, admitted or.
August 10, 1900, and discharged or.;
December 19, 1905, as cured. The
third case was of a woman, 30 years;
old, admitted on June 2, 1904. ,She
was discharged as cured on April 25,
1906."
As to the patients still in the home,
the report says:
"There are eight with whom the
i disease has been arrested with no ac?
tive lesions and no evidence of the
scourge, excepting pigmentation;
there are three with whom the disease
has been arrested, with evidence of
former destruction. Of those with the
arrested type at least six are being
kept under observation with the view
of their being discharged after a rea?
sonable period of freedom from the
plague."
Regarding the treatment which has
brought about the remarkable condi?
tions, the report says:
"In 1894 regular and systematic
treatment was established, comprising
ichthyol, chlorate of potash, strych?
nine, salicylate of soda, chaulmoogra
oil, arsenic, etc. Since 1902 systemat?
ic treatment has been followed and
with marked results. The best have
seemed to follow the treatment with
chaulmoogra oil and strychnine, and
the three patients discharged as cured
all followed that treatment thorough?
ly.
"The method of treatment is one of
nutrition. If a resistance can be es?
tablished in the patient the disease
will disappear. Leprosy is recognized
by us as a bacillary disease and one
on which the tissues of the person af?
flicted are used as a feeding ground.
Any medicine or treatment, hygiene or
habit, which will change the tissues
into food the bacilli cannot feed upon
will help the patient to a logical re?
sistance. All patients are required to
I take daily hot baths and to eat plenty
of wholesome food, without respect to
. its being fish, flesh or flowl or vegeta
i ble. and additionally it is required that
I they shall spend as much time as pos?
sible in the open air and sunshine."
Dr. Hopkins, visiting physician tn j
the home, and Dr. Isador Dyer, con?
sulting leperoiogist, signed the reports
to the board on which the report to
the goverjf .-r was based. They expect
most if n? ? all of the patients still in
the institi-tion to be discharged as
cured in the next few months.
*If you knew the value of Chamber
Iain's Salve you would never wish to be
without it. Here are some of the dis?
eases for which it is especially valua?
ble: Sore nipples, chapped hands,
burns, frost bites, chilblains, chronic
sore eyes, itching piles? tetter, salt ;
r>eum and eczema. Price 25 cents per j
box. For sale by a 1 druggists. !
j
SUMTER WINS.
THE GAME COCK TEAM EASILY
BEATS MECHANICS.
Some Light on the Team-The Beau?
tiful Work of Estridge.
From The Daily Item, June 6.
The first plume of the season was
added yesterday to the already bril?
liant attire of the Game Cocks. The
Sumter boys had an easy thing of it
with the Mechanics of Columbia; they
won hands down by a score of 6 to 2,
and it was only by the merest chance
that the visitors scored at all'.
The writer finds himself at a great
disadvantage in trying to give an ac?
count of the game, as he was not pres?
ent to form for himself an idea of the
merits of the game of the players who
composed the teams, and he is forced
to resort to the chatter of fa?dom for
an idea of the pl?y.
It seems to be the concensus of opin?
ion that Estridge, the fly-catcher ? in
left garden, was the conspicuous bright
star of the game. He covered his ter?
ritory in fast style, took in everything
that came his way, and, best of all,
he batted like a fiend. He was up five
times and is credited with a three
bagger, two two-baggers and a single.
A lady in the grand stand was heard to
say: "Yes, Tippy, he's all to the
squmch." Say, what does that mean?
Smith, at third base, also attracted
much attention by the way he covered
the critical sack. He is a little stiff
yet, but when he gets into shape there
will be no better player on the team.
Turner's pitching gave the manage?
ment much satisfaction. He pulled
out of several critical holes without al?
lowing men on bases to score and de?
livered the merchandise in a highly
satisfactorily manner.
Thompson was right behind the
plate to receive the goods as they
came over, and every now and then
he wculd throw a sample down to
Phelps at second to put on one of the
visitors.
Earkesdale is one of the best men
in the league and the proper one to
general the Game Cocks to victory.
He will show the fans how to play the
initial sack and how to make the ball
look like a pea as it goes over the j
fence.
Well, boys, the fans are right be?
hind you, and they will be there when
the pennant is won.
Sumter's line-up was: Thompson,
c.; Earkesdale, 1st b.; Phelps, 2nd b ;
Smith, 3rd b.; Gillespie, ss.; Dunn, r.f.;
Hyatt, c. f.; Estridge, 1. f.; Turner and
! Jordan, pitchers.
Will Cure Consumption.
A. A. Herren, Finch, Ark., writes: "Fo?
ley's Honey and Tar is the best prepa?
ration for coughs, colds and lung trou?
ble. I know that it has cured con?
sumption in the first stages." You
never heard of any one using Foley's
Honey and Tar and not being satisfied.
Durant's Pharmacy.
Do not sigh that winter has depart?
ed-the hammock on the porch is just
as effective as the sofa by the fire.
Greesboro Industrial News.
?The sincerest tribute that can be
paid to superiority is imitation. The
many imitations of Dewitt's Witch
Hazel Salve that are now before the
public prove it the best. Ask for'
Dewitt's. Good for burns, scalds,
chaffed shin, eczema, tetter, cuts,
bruises, boils and piles. Highly recom?
mended and reliable. Sold by all drug?
gists.
Mr. L. M. Green, of Sumter, a rising
senior at the University of South Caro?
lina, was unanimously elected by the
Euphradian and Clariosophic socities
editor-in-chief of the Carolinian. This
is one of the highest honors at the
university, and one that is well merited
by Mr. Green's great ability with the
pen.
Death From Lockjaw
?Xever follows an injury dressed with
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Its antiseptic
and healing properties prevent blood
poisoning. Chas. Oswald, merchant,
of Rensselaersville, X. Y., writes: "It
cured Seth Burch, of this place, of the
ugliest sore on his neck I ever saw."
Cures cuts, wounds, burns and sores.
25c. at Sibert's Drug Store.
The case of the State vs. John Hen?
derson, indictment for murder, was
heard by the Supreme Court last we^-k. ?
The appeal alleged error of law j
in the judge's charge and error in ad- j
mitting certain statements made by j
the defendant while in the custody of j
officers. It will possibly be a month
beiore the decision is handed down.
Deadly Serpent Bites
*Are as common in India as are stem- j
ach and liver disorders with us. For
tiie latter, however, there is a sure
remedy: Electric Bitters, the great
restorative medicine, of which S. A.
Brown, of Bennettsville. S. C., says:
"They restored my wife to perfect
health after years of suffering with j
dyspepsia and a chronically torpid
liver." Electric Bitters cure chills j
and fever, malaria, biliousness, lame !
back, kidney troubles and bladder dis?
orders. Sold on guarantee by Sibert's I
i
Drus Store. Price 50c.
AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATION.
Many Have Made Application to Clerk
o? Court Part ort. *;ut He Could
Not Register Them.
The failure of the automobilists of
Sumter to comply with the law enacted
at the last session of the legislature,
which requires, among other things,
that each owner of a car shall register
his car with the county clerk of court
and receive a number, which number
shall be prominently displayed on the
car, is not due to their disregard of the
law. Quite a number, if not a large
majority, of the automobile owners
have made application to Clerk of
Court Parrott for registration. He
was not able to register them and as?
sign them numbers, as required, for
the reason that he has not been fur?
nished with the proper blanks and
books for registration. It is the duty
of some one to provide these blanks
and record books, and this official
whoever he might be-has failed to
provide them, and consequently Clerk
Parrott has not been able to comply
with the request of the automobilists
for registration. As a matter of fact,
the automobilists of Sumter are anx?
ious to comply with the law, which
they regard as just and reasonable in
its requirements, and just as soon as
Clerk of Court Parrott is ready to
register them they will do their part.
THE BLACK-LYON AFFAIR.
Attorney General Yomnaris Renders
An Opinion That Does Not Set?
tle the Matter.
Columbia, June 5.-Attorney Gen?
eral Youmans today rendered an opin?
ion as to the legal phases of the Black
Lyon affair, touching the question of
the governor's action in the premises.
The tendency of the opinion is that the
governor has authority to remove for
the offense charged, but the attorney
general advises the governor to first
have the charges fully sustained by
sworns proof by summoning Black to
show cause why he .should not be re?
moved, Black to give his side at this
hearing and the committee to be also
represented. The governor has not
yet acted under the opinion, which
reached him late.
In the Supreme Court today, on mo?
tion of Prof. Herndon Moore, the fol?
lowing young men in the law depart?
ment of the university were sworn
in as attorneys of the court:
J. B. S. Dendy, Stephen Elliott, J.
Team Gettys, A. C. Hinds, T. M. Lyles,
Paul M. McMillan, E. C. Mann, E. S.
Oliver, A. R. Williamson and B. F.
Wyman.
How to Break Up a Cold.
*It may be a surprise to many to
learn that a severe cold can be com?
pletely broken up in one or two days'
time. The fir-- symptoms of a cold are
a dry, loud cough, a profuse watery
discharge from the nose, and a thin,
white coating on the tongue. When
Chamberlain's Cough remedy is taken
every hour on the first appearance of
these symptoms, it counteracts the ef?
fect of the cold and restores the sys?
tem to a healthy condition within a
day or two. For sale by all druggists.
Attention is directed to the expose
of the washing machine graft that is
being worked in .the state.
The Very Best Remedy for Bowel
Trouble.
?Mr. F. M. Borroughs, an old and
well known resident of Bluffton, Ind.,
says: "I regard Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the
very best remedy for bowel trouble. I
; make this statement after having used
j the remedy in my family for several
years. I am never without it." This
remedy is almost sure to be needed be?
fore the summer is over. Why not
buy it now and be prepared for such
an emergency? Sold by all druggists.
FRECKLES AND PIMPLES
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When Buying' a Fence *
/-.?..'
The weight per rod and size of wire must he
taken into consideration ; also the CONSTRUCT
tion of the FENCE. Ag
Heavy wires and the best galvanizing are^|
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tity already in service on farms is good evi?
dence of its merit.
The HINGE JOINT on the American allows ?
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springing back to place the instant pressure
is removed.
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CAROLINA HARDWARE CO.
The Chief Function of a Bank is to
Receive Deposits and Loan Money
We are prepared to do both in a manner satisfactory to our patrons.
We are steadily adding to our list of patrons the strongest and
best men in the community. If you are not already a depositor of
oursj allow us to snggest that you become one. We believe you will
soon appreciate the wisdom of this advice.
Lean not upon others, but rely upon your own strength ; earn your
own dollars and deposit them with
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Lime,
Cement, i
AND
HAIR,
BUILDERS' - - HARDWARE '
All First Class Goods.
The Durant Hardware Co,
Ring up No. 30-That's the Daily Item's Telephone number
when yon want to place an advertisement that will bring results.
N. Q. Osteen, Jr., Dentist, |
-18,West Liberty Street, Over
Sumter Book Store.
Hours : 8.30 to 1: 2 to 0.
OFFICE PHONE 30. HOUSE PHONE 383 $