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oUNTY FAIR AGAIN. An Enthusiastic Citizen Digs Up An Old Proposition. Editor Daily Item: Seeing in some paper that it is sug? gested that an Eastern Carolina Fair Association be organized, with Dar? lington as the place for holding the fair, recalls to my mind a suggestion made over a year agc that Sumter or? ganize such an association, with Sum? ter as the most convenient place for an annual fair. While it is true that Sumter has gone to sleep over the proposition, and while it might look like we would be trying to steal Dar? lington's ammunition to now start such an enterprise, nevertheless I be? lieve that the people of Darlington would be willing to sive way to Sumter and support such a fair in Sumter. When an effort was made over one year ago to organize the Sumter Fair Grounds Association which was really chartered, officers elected, and something like three thousand and five hundred dollars subscribed as stock, but which was never collected because the commit? tee of eight business men who were to raise the balance of the ten thou? sand dollars stock never did any? thing toward raising the other six thousand and five hundred dollars, the people of Darlington certainly showed a disposition to help out, and some of them subscribed to our as? sociation as much as* one nundred dollars; each. Sumter is the largest town in eastern South Carolina, with her eight fines of railroads, with her twenty-eight passenger trains a day, with schedules which allow people from all points of the compass to come to Sumter in the morning and to go home in the evening, giving all visitors ample time to see the fair in the day time, and to get home early in the evening, and with many other advantages in favor of Sumter which it is not necessary to mention, there is every- reason why . Sumter should organize such a fair association. The writer has been urged for some time to write something to your paper to stir up the enthusiasm of our citi? zens over such a fair. The owners of fiTtc? stock, racing horses, fine cattle, driving horses, riding horses, and also farmers, manufacturers and many others, have requested me to start the ball rolling for an annual fair a" Sumter. While it is true, that our wide awake and liberal merchants have suffered much from the hard times j incidental to a poor crop year, yet there are bright times ahead as there have been in the past. Then, again, it would seem to me that the harder times are. the less' trade our mer? chants are getting now, the more they should stive to bring trade to Sumter. There is nothing like get? ting a move on you when old hard times knock at your door. Extend the trade territory of Sumter as far as we can. Reach out and try and in? duce people from other towns and counties along the lines of our many railroads to' come to Sumter on our many trains to see what our mer? chants have to offer, and what our manufacturers are doing. Let stan gers be invited, yes, induced to come here and look around. Columbia, Charleston, Georgetown, Orangeburg, Florence, Darlington, Bishop ville and other places are reaching out for more trade. Our Chamber of Com? merce has been having more trade drawing trains, and schedules put on. It has had more postal clerks added to our trains to facilitate mail order business for our merchants and man? ufacturers. It has advertised Sumter far and near with pamphlets and in various newspapers, and. in other ways and done much good. But the best way to get more customers for our merchants and . manufacturers is to get special railroad rates to your town, and to have something like a fair, cr fall festival to attract them. Everybody benefits by a crowd of visitors coming to see your city. Every occasion of this kind induces some one to move or locate here, and to rent or buy a house and lot More customers are added to those our merchants already have. The business men, real estate dealers, merchants, hotel men, real estate owners, in fact , every one in Sumter is interested in building up the trade and population of Sumter. Then, why not get together and have an an? nual fair in Sumter? The entire east? ern portion of South Carolina will be interested, and advertised, and bene fitted. Progress. Senator Latimcr declines to pay in omo ta? on the ground that he is an employe of the United Sf ates govern? ment and therefore not liable. The annual convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy will meet in Chester next year. It is reported that Savaunah will build a railroad to Port Royal and use that harbor as a deep water port of entry for Savannah's commerce. CASTOR IA For Infants and Chi??ren. The Kind You Hare Always Bought Bears the Signature of SHIP SUBSIDY GRAFT. REPUBLICANS PLANNING TO PASS THE LAW GRANTING SUBSIDY. Surplus is Accumulating in Treasury So Rapidly That Some Means Must Be Devised to Spend It or a Revis? ion ol" the Tariff Will Become Nec? essary. Washington, Dec. 6.-The Repub? lican leaders in congress believe they must pass the ship subsidy bill to get rid of the accumulating treasury sur? plus or revise the tariff. Today the surplus in round figures is $16,500, 000. At the present rate of accumu? lation it will be over $50,000,000 by the close of the fiscal year. ' Unless something is done to get rid of the surplus all the money cf the country will collect there soon. Th Republicans wont touch the tariff and the ship subsidy looks good os a means to prevent the growth of a surplus and they are now planning to pa? the subsidy bill. STILL A MYSTERY. Mr. John S. Baskin Says He Knows Nothing About the Gaillird Mur? der. From the Daily Item Dec. 5. Mr. John S. Baskin, who is a material witness in the Gaillard murder case, but who was not pres? ent at the trial of Spivens and Mc Coomer, wras arrested on the street this morning by Deputy Sheriff Hat? field, taken before Recorder Hurst and required to give bond for appear? ance at court if he should be wanted. He gave bond in the sum of $250. He arrived in town last night from Georgia, in which State he left Cole r?ros. circus, with which he left Man? ning o.: the night that Mr. Gaillard was hilleJ. He remained with the circus for several weeks after joining it in Marking, going with it to a number oi towns in this State and Ceo.gia. Sine leaving the circus he has be^ii : ^kir.j his way back to Sumter by ?ow stages. ' To Deputy bheriff Hatfield he stat? ed that he knows nothing about 'the killing of Mr. Gaillard.- He says he was in car No. 7 of the circus train when the shooting occurred and he neither saw nor heard anything that occurred outside z.% the time. He also says that he never heard that there was to be a trial of men accus? ed of killing Mr. Gaillard until the circus was in Georgia. He knew nothing about any of the circus em? ployes being wanted at the trial and did not hear that he was wanted as a witness. . It was thought by many who heard the evidence in the trial of Spivens and McCoomer that if Mr. Baskin could be put on the stand that he might be able to throw some light on the mystery, but his statements to Mr. Raffield indicate that he knows noth? ing about the case and that -'the mys? tery that has enshrouded it from the first is to remain unrelieved. WROTE BOGUS CHECKS. Chief Of Police Owen Daly has been warned against two young men who worked the bogus check game in Camden yesterday. Giving their names as J. M. Cole and W. J. Bai? ley, they presented a check for $75, bearing the alleged signature of the Chattanooga Hardware Company. Shortly after it had been cashed the check was found to be worthless, and efforts were made to arrest the men, but they had gone toward Sumter and could not be located. Both the men are smooth-shaven and apparently about thirty years of age. Cole is usually the spokesman. -Columbia Record. A Great Comet in 1910. The most famous of all comets, though not the largest ?.nd most bril? liant, will again be visible in 1910. This is Halley's comet, so called from its identification by the great astron? omer who was the friend of Sir Isaac Newton. Halley's investigations of astronomical records led him to as? sert that the comet which he had ob? served in 1612 had appeared in 1531 and 1607 and to predict its reappear? ance in 1759. The fulfillment of his i prophecy excited the most intense scientific interest and established be? yond doubt the Periodicity of comets and their mow -.ents in orbits deter- I mined by the law of gravitation. Its j last appearance was in 1835, its pe-1 riod varying between 75 and 66 years ; on account of the perturbing attrac- J tions of Jupiter and Saturn in certain I parts of its orbit. It was by that time possible to calculate its movements wuh so much greater accuracy than before that it made its perihelion passage within four days of the pre? dicted date. It was not then a very grand object to the naked eye, but the light of its nucleus surpassed that of second magnitude stars and was comparable with that of some reddish stars of the first magnitude, such as Aldebaran and Antares. Its tail, while the comet was approaching the sun attained to a length of 20 de- j grees.-Leslie's Weekly. I STATEBUG WEATHER SECTION. ! Aa Interesting Description of the Community anti Surroundings by Mr. J. W. Bauer. I This station was established by the 'signal corps, U. S. army, in ISSI, I with Dr. W. W. Anderson^ M. D., as \ co-observer, and with but slight ! breaks that do not materially impair the record Dr. Anderson has taker daily observations ever since. State burg is in latitude 33 degrees 55 min? utes and longitude SO degrees 23 min . utes; its 'elevation is approximately I 500 feet. Stateburg was named by I Gen. Thomas Sumter, who lived there during and after the Revolutionary war. It is located in the western part of Sumter county, on a spur of "The High Hills of Santee." The region is peculiar in its topographic features, being a miniature range of moun? tains forming a perfect dividing ridge for nearly 50 miles, between the Wa teree river on the west and the Poco taligo river on the east, and to the southward the hills abut on the swamps of the Wateree river near its junction with the Congaree river. The immediate vicinity of Stateburg is a moderately level tableland, hav? ing an average width of about five miles. Dr. Anderson's premises occu? py the highest point of this tableland, with gentle slopes in every direction. For seven and a half years after the establishment of the station, the thermometers used were made by J. Kendall & Co., and for the first year were exposed on the outside of a window facing north with only the ordinary window-shutters for a shel? ter. This was unsatisfactory and they were removed to the north win? dow of a small Pise outbuilding, in 1SS2, within a small lattice-work shelter. Up to ISSI the dail^mean temperatures and the daily maxi? mum and minimum . temperatures were obtained from ordinary ther? mometers. In August, ISSI, a set of maximum and minimum ther? mometers was received from the sig? nal corps, and the' same instruments have been used ever since. A stand? ard cotton region shelter was receiv? ed in January, IS98, and was set up about 60 feet to the westward of the dwelling, in an open space, and the location has not been changed to date. In February, 1893, the method of de? ducting the mean daily temperature was changed from using the 7 a. m., 2 p. m. and 9 p. m. readings of an or? dinary thermometer to that ordinari? ly used, which is half the sum of the maximum and minimum for the day. The rain gauge used from ISSI to February, 1S93., was a 9-inch conical gauge made by Benjamin Pike, and was exposed about 30 feet south of the dwelling in an open space. In February, 1S93, a standard weather bureau rain gauge was received and exposed in the vegetable garden in an open space of more than 60 feet from any building or tree, and about, two feet above the surface of the ground. , Temperature. The following table summarizes the record of temperatures obtained: High- Low Mean, est. est. January.45 78 12 February.49 80 2 March.55 87 20 April .62 71 32 May.72 101 44 June.77 100 53 July.79 104 59 August.78 105 58 September.74 99 42 October.64 89 33 November.. .. ..54 84 21 December.47 75 6 Average annual ..63 Following is the amount of precip? itation in inches from 1881 to 1905: Aver- Great- Aver? age est age Total. 24-hour. Snow? fall. January.3.4 3.21 1.0 February.4.2 3.12 3.9 March.3.7 1.91 T. April.3.1 3.75 0 May.3.3 2.92 0 June..4.9 3.38 0 July.5.0 4.97 0 August.5.4 3.75 0 September.3.2 4.60 0 October.3.1 5.47 0 November.2.1 2.06 0 Average annual. 44.4 ... 5.1 Highest temperature ever record? ed, 105 degrees, August 20, 1906. Lowest temperature ever recorded, 3 degrees, February 14, 1S99. Greatest monthly precipitation ev? er recorded, IS.42 inches, June 1903. Least monthly precipitation ever re? corded. 0.56 inches, October, 1901. Creates precipitation ever recorded in 24 consecutive hours, 5.47 inches, October 17-18. 19 06. Greatest snowfall ever recorded in one storm, 14.7 inches, February II? IS, 1S99. Warmost year, 190(1, wit Ii an aver? age temperature of 65.1 degrees. Coldest year, 1SS5, with an avorage temperature of 60.5 degrees. Wettest year, 1903, with a total precipitation of 59.99 inches. Driest year, 1SS6, with a total pre ciuitation of 32.61 inches. Latest date of killing frost in spring, April 19, 1905. Earliest Jete o? killing frost in au? tumn, Oetoucr ll, 1906. Average date of latest killing frost in spring. April 1. Average date of earliest killing frost in autumn, November 16. Cause of Discontent. In the Xew York Times of Friday a correspondent who signs himself "Workingman," writes from Rah way X". J., to refer to a Times editorial on "Discontent :" "I am neither slothful, incapable, nor inefficient ; neither am I one of the hysterical kind that you so often refer to. I have been employed in the same place for twenty years, and have not lost a day's pay in all that time. I have the confidence and re? spect of my superiors, and they have mine. I am morried and have several children. I have the most economi? cal and industrious of wives. My wages have been increased during the last 10 years 25 per cent., and I am now earning what you very probably would consider good wages, $3.00 a day. Here, you say, is truly a con? tented man. But, alas ? It is not so. I am very much discontented, and my grievances, both political and economical, are real. "With the advance in wages of 25 per cent, I find that there has been a shrinkage of 43 per cent, in the purchasing power of my dollar. This I find by actual figuring myself, com? paring the prices of today with those of ten years ago. And I have more confidence in my own figures than in those so-called experts, which are often inaccurate. Not only can I not buy as much with my dollar, but the quality of what I buy is al.;o much inferior. Food is not as pur'e, cloth? ing, shoes, furniture; e^c, have dete? riorated in quality 100 per cent. Last year I had to deny my children thc healthiest fruit-apples-owing to the prohibitive price, which was $4.50 to $5 a barrel, and twice as much if bought in smaller quantities. At the same time, I used to see hundreds of barrels being shipped daily to foreign countries, where, I was reliably in? formed, they were sold at an average of $3.50 a barrel. "Having stated to you my own case truthfully, I ask, have I just cause for being disconted? Here ? have toiled years, and through no fault of my own, today I am only a few months removed from starvation; This is my reward for constant toil and for assuming the respons'bility of parenthood. New, Mr. Editor, there are millions situated, as I am, and millions more "still worse off. Let the Times investigate and it will find that there is discontent and plenty of it. ? . "Politically I am not only discon? tented, but disgusted, and so is the average American citizen. During the last campaign one party was financ? ed, so it is said, to the tune of $2, 000,000 by our captains of industry, the very men that are responsible for the present economical conditions. Now, as to the remedy, there is only one, and that is for the people to own and control the means of pro? duction and distribution. Subsidized newspapers, corrupt labor leaders, and the use of money will fight hard to prevent this. But not much longer will the masses tolerate the few to exploit them. He that cannot see what is coming is blinded by either prejudice or influence, or both." ANNA GOULD ECONOMICAL. Since Getting Rid of Boni She Has Saved $35,000. Paris, Dec. 6.-Mme. Anna Gould, formerly the Countess DeCastellane, has been learning to economize since she separated from Boni. In nine months she has saved over $35,000. This fact was brought out in the hearing of creditors who are trying to collect the Boni debts. One bill of Marquereau, the well known furni? ture and tapestry dealer, is for 187, 000 francs. Marquereau says that Anna Gould has been using the title of Countess DeCastellane since her divorce, instead of calling herself Madame Gould, as the French law provides, and this makes her respon? sible for Boni's debts. Do You Enjoy What You Eat ? You can eat whatever and whenever you like if you take Kodol. 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