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I nWY CORRESPONDENCE.! LYNCHRCRG. Lynchburg;. Sept. I.?Now that the Wacord-breaking and never to be for ? freehet haa subsided, and things hing a normal state, we can view, out further dread or Uabl'lty to erate. Its path of devastation ruin, with a feeling that nothing impossible snd that It Is the unex that oftentimes happens. The taut freshet In Lynch's creek, up *a> this one. ever heard of, was In is55. assd the present one was four or five fleet higher than that, as the writer fjejsaembera It distinctly. Oa last Friday morning, about sun the report spread rapidly that stater was running over the rail la the "back swamp." and soon road eras almost darkened with , young, big and little, of colors, many of whom hurried to a (T), no. It resembles s Th* wstsr was running the railroad for nearly a mile aad em salt with a deafening' noise. At the little trestle, some IS or 10 feet width, aad about 100 yards station, so great was the of water, that It gave a body s Idea of the asses of the Niagara Get away from the holes snd of distress could be dls heard from any direction In flan did districts, which produced ss?sttnn?horns blowing, iliiflhsfl. yelHags, cries for help, barking, cows lowing, snd such siesaeratlen of sounds all at the time, the oases of which If not weald send coalteration Sjs a body's very soul. But be It said %? flse credit of numbers of white among whom were 8. W. Hayn? Frterson. John snd a Du Raa t and several others, they worked like heroes In res a number of poor helpless ne soms of whom would certainly perished. The rescuing force sog merited, of course, by s few the braver negroes. This laborious with s great deal of <? During the time several Bflats and were hurriedly mods snd used Sjs great advantage. One old darkey by his fltful cries, found In the p in s tree, whore he hsd been fear or Ave hours?almost chilled He wss with great difficulty t out on a raft mode of logs bat he, st first, refused to s down the tree, until threats to the tree down were made. Oiiffln, Dennis sad 8. W. loot heavily. Nearly sll the cattle aad ewn chickens In the .flaw sands were drowned. Some hogs wpere round In an old syrup eveporat ssr, ap about three or four feet above She ground. In some places both aad cattle took refuge la the as; aouses, without say In vita river bridge aear South Lynch Is s complete wreck, causing I aeon violence. In some plsces refuse to occupy their They have s suspicion that worse will befall them If return. of life. Darr Corner. Sept. I.?Cotton pick It the order hereabouts st this as all early corn fodder has gathered. Some few farmers are ng their May planting. Cotton paaalag oat bad. There will be a crop la tale neighborhood this That and the lew prices mske feel rather blue shout this Bat wo will have to trust to and start fate la the face, and hearts will be easy If they are In right place. Kola, of the By mores. Is no st last accounts, r. Jim Ardls Is sad has been quite far two or three weeks. flailte Johnston has been to her brother-in-law's, Mr. Geddings, near Pinewood. from aear here went down Pasvllle last Monday to attend the of little Freddie, eight or ten old. youngest sosi sjl Mrs. Laura Ardta i i aar a. J. A. Hodge. J. F. Ingram. D. Jenkins snd G. W. Gedding*? on W. J. Ardls last Monday ?. W. J. Ardls snd Ous Weeks visited r. L. 8. Berwick at Paxvtlle last ssaay. R. P. Weeks snd son. Gum. vlalted Can* Savannah on the 28th ult. Wall, Mr Editor, the first primary over, and aome are safely landed; left In the aurglng political an to buffet Kith the atrong, reat sesa current while othsrs ars left just where they started from, but If sll juet like I do they are glad to left, for I never wanted any office bad enough to aak a man to vote me; ao I am atlll calm snd serene. Wssh Scott, of Cane Savannah, kill? ed 14 rattle anakea one day last week, ease old and II smsll ones. I don't know If It wss a good day for Hnakea ew not. but I think Waah did pr. tty Well. there Is more I could write hat ss my hsnd hurts me I win ring off. Mr. Bdltor, please allow me to all of those who voted for on the 25th ultimo. Their votes were ?urely appreciated by W. J. Ardls. MAX Max, Sept. 7.?Mr. E. M. Truluck was hurt last Friday while moving some lumber and has been .-ick since. Policeman Welm, of Olanta, has been very ill for ?evernl days. Saturday evening was spent by a crowd of young people at Mr. A. J Goodman's in social games and pln der boiling and eating. Leon, son of Mr. W. G. Moore, has been suffering with a broken arm. MU.. Moselle Truluck spent last week at Mr. A. J. Goodman's. Bethel folks were glad to see and hear Rev. B. K. Truluck last Sunday, after his sojourn In the mountains, and his perplexing journey home. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hinds left today for their home in Littleton, Ala. Miss Pearl Truluck. went to Lake City last Friday. Rev. E. M. Hlcka was a heavy loser by the flood. Others who owned less property lost very nesr all they own? ed. The many wsgons loaded with to? bacco seen on the way to Timmons vllle Is evidence that much more to? bacco has been raised this year than for several years past Mr. Zack McElveen said If his mule which died recently, hsd lived two hours longer she would hsve been In his possession exactly thirteen years. ' Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Klrby snd little Miss Katherine Newman, of Co? lumbia, are visiting at Mr. J. A. M. Carraway's. Tim DAL. Tlndal. Sept. 8.?Fine rains fell in this neighborhood on Saturday night. Cotton Is opening very fast and hands are plentiful. Some are gin? ning and selling regardless of the low prices. Mr. J. F. Broiidwoy, of Dsvls Sta? tion. Is spending today In the neigh? borhood. Mr. John Brunson, of Florence, Is spending a few days with Mr. B. R Hodgs. Messrs. O. C. Scarborough, of Sum merton, and J. B. McLauchlln, of BlshopvIPe, spent Monday In the neighborhood. The Woman's Missionary Society of Providence church will have an let cream and oyster supper at the school house or Friday night, Sept. 18th. RJCMBERT8. Rembert, Sept. 8.?The Rafting Creek High Son ool opened yesterday under very flattering circumstances. Prof. W. C. Borden, of Trinity Col? lege, as principal and Miss Annie Keels, of Winthrop, as assistant, and Miss Annie Kate Alford, of Camden, music teacher. The enrollment for the first dsy fsjr surpsssed the ex? pectations of the trustees, snd there will be ss many as twenty-five high school scholars this term. The In? tention of establishing this high school here was to consolidate the small schools In this township snd make this the educational center, however there seemed to be some op? position to this move, so the trus? tees decided to give the other small schools a teacher, hoping all the high school scoolsrs would sttend here, snd with the sdvsntsge of experien? ced educators such ss we now hsve here, children could be prepared for college snd at the same time have home Influences and parental train? ing which would mould their lives snd characters to take them thro' life. The music department which has been sdded to the school this year will draw many scholars which could not have had the advantages of mu? sic unless going to town. I know of one family now here that sent their children fifteen miles to take music lessons and our cltlsens of this town? ship ought to feel proud of the high school and your correspendent urges every father and mother In the town? ship to make every sacrifice possible and patronise this high school. The Misses Felder and Miss Seen of Summerton. S. C, are visiting Miss Adele McLeod. Marlon Reams left this morning for ClenYson College. Sharp Dealing. For csice the American had dlccov ered something British that was bet? ter than anything that could be pro? duced "across the pond." His dis? covery was a fine collie dog, and he at once tried to Induce Its owner, an old shepherd, to sell It. "Wad ye be takln' him to America?" inquired the old Scot. "Yes, I guess so," said the Yankee. "I thought ss muckle," said the shepherd. "I couldna part wl' Jock." But while they sat and chatted an English tourist came up, and to him the shepherd sold the collie for much less than the American had offered. "You tali me you wouldn't sell him," ?a!d the Yankee, when the pur chSKt-r had departed. "Na," replied the Scot; "I said I couldna' part wl' him. Jock II be bsck In a day or so, but he couldn't swim the Atlantic."?Detroit Free Press. ? Mark Twain s Way of Putting It. When one comes across an Item of real worth to the public, he should at once make a note of It. For a day or two past, I have been Journeying through Germany with Mark Twain in his ' li..:::p Abroad." He declares, the pleasure In walking depends largely upon the company in which one walks, and the conversation in du'ged in, and then outlines the topics discussed by him and his friend Har? ris on their way to Oppenau. He says: "We discussed everything we knew, (furlng the first fifteen or twen? ty minutes that morning, and then branched out lnjto the glad, free, boundless realm of things we were not certain about. Harris said that if the best writer in the world once got Into the slovenly habit of doubling up his "have's," he could never get rid of it while he lived, that is to say, if a man gets the habit of saying "I should have liked to have known more about It" instead of saying simply and sen? sibly, "I should have liked to know more about it," that man's disease Is Incurable. Harris said that this sort of lapse is to be found in every copy of every newspaper that has ever been g printed In English, and in almost all of our books. He said he had observ? ed in Kickham's Grammar and in Ma cauray." What Harris remarks is true. There are few errors of written speech more common. It is found in the produc? tions of some of our most entertain? ing and best educated writers, and Is general'y the result of thoughtlessness and not always of Ignorance. In the sentence, "I should have r":ed to have known more about It," the time of the transaction is fixed by "should have killed" as belonging to the past; why make a second attempt to fix It, or to fix it more securely, by adding "to have known," when "to know" Is all one needs to make the sentence grammatical and the sense complete and perspicuous? I Urn still slowly jogging along, with Mark, and we have come now to Lucerne In our travels. It is the sec? ond day of September, the first of the fall months. There Is a tinge of cool? ness In the wind that characterizes fall and not summer. The summer birds are now flying homeward from every section of the country, from mountains and seashores?all coming home gladly, and declaring that one can be more comfortable at home than elsewhere. What they say Is true, but we must go away from home now and then in order to get hold of this truth. We learn some lessons with difficulty, and these lessons are not worth 'milch which cost nothing. There are some good folks In Sumter sitting now with their legs spread out beneath their own tables, grumbling at every dish set before them; and the cure for this Is to spend a month, at a boarding house. This experience will put a quietus upon all complaints for a long time, be the boarding house good, bad or indifferent Even though the hus? band may not need It, I have an Idea he should be sent away from home for a month during the summer time because of the good that would result therefrom to his wife. On his return home, his wife would think him a new man, or that the growling old fellow hud undergone an experience of gen? uine and permanent religion. His con? tented and uncomplaining manner, hit spirit of general satisfaction would make It easy to live in the same house with him, and all would result from his having spent a month in a board? ing house, where decency required him to eat In silence what was set before him, and where a row with cook or housekeeper, in which he would vent his spleen, was an Impossible thing. There la no longer any doubt of the thing, that a summer vacation Is high? ly beneficial to some persons, and there are others who never take a rest who surely need It?If not for their own sake, then for the wife's. As a cure-all for the average male growler, my advice Is that the wife try to lay up enough funds during the year to send him away from home for a month during the summer. At the summer boarding house he will imbibe lessons so salutary and helpful, that for months after his return home, his shut-mouth and contented spirit will bring In the reign of a ScHfhtf :1 do? mestic calm. I make r.o charre for this prescription. Mnny a WOniAil Wiil send me a free-will offering if the good advice Is adopted and followed. I hope to come home In a few days, and to be In my pulpit on the second Sunday In September. It charmed my eyes to read the cheerful notice sent out by my clerical partner, \V. B. Duncan, telling of his ventures and of his safe arrival at home. I tried to Induce him to fol'ow me, but he de? clined. If he had been drowned in one of those up-country rivers, he would greatly have regretted not be? ing In my company. This last sentence reads somewhat like an awkward hi bernlclsm; but the breakfast bell Is ringing, and I cannot now revise my copy. Let It stand as it is. Duncan has interpred some very obscure statements made by me In my best and most pellucid style of composition, and ho will not stumble over this one. If others fall to see Into it, so much the worse for them. The man who spends his life explaining things will And but little clear profit at the farther end. I trust the Item will convey my best regards to everybody, whether they! be in this or in Other lands. C. C. Brown. Beaufort, B. C. NOISELESS GUN AWES. Ofllciul Tests Show Fearful Possibili? ties?Inaudible at 130 Feet. Springfield, Mass., Aug. 29.?In the presence of a committee of United States army officials, Hiram Percy Maxim, the veteran inventor, today demonstrated beyond all doubt that the noiseless gun which he has con? trived is a succ- ss. He proved during the tests held today in the armory and in the fields near North Wilbraham that his new gun can be fired with? in 150 feet of a person without de? tection by him. To make clear to the minds of the officers the tremendous revolution which this gun would cause in war? fare, Maxim utilized a little cricket which was found in & bush. The offi? cers could hear the cricket chirp at a distance of fifty yards. And they heard it chirp even when the Maxim gun was fired. j Those present at the test, which was the official government one, was Mr. Maxim, Major Morton, Capt. Al? len, Lieutenant Meals, Henry Southey, city engineer of Hartford, Conn., and six enlisted men. The party went to the armory* where tests for penetration, nolseless ness and accuracy were conducted. One of the soldiers, a crack-shot with the rifle, fired the regular army gun several times, the explosions ringing out above the noises of the factory where Uncle Sam makes small arms. Then Maxim adjusted his "noise-kill? er" to the weapon. The .sharpshooter took aim at a tar? get far down the yard and pulled the trigger. From the white plate, more than a hundred yards away, there came a sharp metalic ring. The bul? let had ploughed Into the steel?but not a sound excepting a soft one, as of fingers snapping, came from the gun. , Then, showing, a slight hissing, so slight as to be hardly audible was heard, and the officers looked at one another In bewilderment. The soldier who did the firing looked at the weap? on In his hands and held It from him an Instant, then laughed In a childish way. ? 1 The party adjourned to the fields. Forty regulation cartridges were given to the marksman. The officers posted the motives 2,000 yards from where the sharpshooter stood, and he was given the word to fire. Method? ically he sped bullet after bullet into a distant target, each time the service gun emitting a roar that was audible 6,000 feet away, in the village. After Maxim adjusted the "noise killer," the soldier fired again and eight times he hit the target. All the time the officers were coming closer to him. They could hear the steel projectile smash against the target but nothing else. Finally, when within 150 feet of the soldier, they heard a faint sound. It was the hammer of the gun striking the cartridge. But they heard nothing more, nor did they see either smoke or fire coming from the weapon. Not contented, Maxim invited the experts to the lake near North Wllhra ham. One of the soldiers was posted across the water five hundred yards distant. A target was erected near a little booth he occupied. Eight times he heard the steel jacketed bullet plunge Into and flatten on the disc bitt he heard no other sound although the* place Is a wilderness and even low murmurs of the town do not pen* etrate It. > / The officers made calculations and agree that the gun Is 74 per cent, noiseless. It was a moody, cogitating group that returned to the armory late in the evening. The men bore no air of triumph. Each probably was thinking of the dreadful possibilities shut up in that little secret device which had been adjusted to the ordi? nary service guns. An idea of the severity of the tests may be gained from the fact that 40 grains of smokeless powder were used in each cartridge, a charge capable of hurling a bullet more than 1,500 yards with fatal results. He Guessed Right. A one-armed man entered a restau? rant and seated himself next to a dapper little other-people's-business man. The latter noticed his neigh? bor's loft sleeve hanging loose and kept eyeing it in a new dld-it-happen sort of way. Finnic the Inquisitive one would stand it no longer. He changed his position a little, cleared his throat and said: "I beg pardon, sir, but I see you have lost an arm." The one-armed man picked up his sleeve with his right hand and peered anxiously into It. "Bless my soul!" he exclaimed, looking up with great surprise. "I do believe you're right!" ?Everybody's. Fair in the Interior; showers on the coast tonight or Wednesday. 01 OR School Suits are made to our special or? der by Makers who know how. We select the most durable fabrics?we see that all seams are doubly sewed with the strongest thread?that all parts, where there is strain, are well stayed?that the buttons are put on to stay on, and not a feature overlooked that could better the Suits. Boys1 Russian itnd Sailor Made Slits, 4 to 8 Years, $4, $5 to (7. Bop' Double Bream ed fc Norfolk Suits, 8 to 16 Years, $2.50, $3.50 to $8. Boys' Long Troiser Slits, 14 Years Upwards, $8, $10 to $18? The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co., Phone 166. _.. Sumter, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA IS PARADISE. /_ Compared to Springfield, Says a Negro Who la Coming Back. At the Union depot Sunday after-1 noon, waiting for a train to Augusta, was a negro woman who was on her way to some point in South Carolina. While in the waiting room she fell to talking to some of the negroes in the room with her, and from the con- { versation it was learned that she was j from Springfield, and was returning to her old South Carolina home. She said that seven years ago her j people went to Springfield, because thpy had been assured that the negro was more respected in that section of the country, and had every right that I white peop'e had. The children went to the same schools they ate in the same restaurants, and there were no Jim Crow cars, and that there was no distinction in anything on account of color. She says that to some extent they found this to he true, especially as to the mixed schools, hut there was no real mixing of th ? races otherwise, and they kept to themselves. They found that while it might be.under? stood that there was no distinction, and that the white women called a negro woman Mrs. So-and-So, there was no such thing as calling socially, and but for the fact that they were there and could not: get away, they would have returned. In the recent troubles at Springfield th<* negroes were treated worse by the Whites than they ever were in the South and every negro who could sell out and move was leaving. This wo? man was threatened with whipping and her own family were compel'ed to leave. She does not know where they went, because in the confusion there was no stopping to hunt for kinfolks. She only knows that before the sepa? ration they all. wanted to go back to Sotuh Carolina, and she was going there, knowing that if alive they will sooner or later meet her there. She said that down South, in South Carolina, or elsewhere, the mob went after the one negro. In Springfield, they went after the whole bunch. In the South, she said, the negro had a good chance to live in safety and peace as:anybody, so long as he be? haved himself. In Springfield not only were they after the bad ones, but the good ones. No negro was safe, and she had noticed that this feei ng against the negro was growing strong? er and stronger every year. She pre? dicts that in a very few years thr?re will be separate schools for whites and negroes all over the West and North. South Carolina was a paradise to the West for the negro, she said, but the fool negro didn't know it until he spent all his money getting away, as he couldn't get back. One old negro woman sitting in the waiting room, who had been listening to the ta'k In silence, threw up her hands and rolled her eyes upward, and exclaimed: "Ain't dat the trufe." Macon Telegraph. WILL CONQUER TUBERCULOSIS. Dr. Flick Says It Will Not Exist in Philadelphia After 15 Years. I Philadelphia, Sept. 4.?The pro j gram of the International Conference j on Tuberculosis, which will be held in* [ this city September 23-26, was made I public today by Dr. Lawrence P. 1 Flick, head of the Phipps Institute for 1 poor consumptives and chairman of j the conference. The International I Congress on Tuberculosis, to be held in Washington this month, will also ' ! be under the direction of Dr. FMck. I The conference is an organization of representatives of national associat | ions from all parts of the world for the study of tuberculosis. The society ' was formed In 1902, when the first coincident met in Berlin. Since then - the conference has met in Paris, Co? penhagen, The Hague and Vienna. "Each year since its inception," said I Dr. Flick, "the members of the con? ference have had a story to tell of great strides made toward the event? ual conquering of consumption, and the conference this year will he re? markable for the telling of a progress twice as great as has been made in any year before. ? "In Philadelphia alone a reduction of 300 has been made in the death rate of the last six months from the same six months of 1907. The total num? ber of deaths from consumption last year in the city was 86,000, and if the same rate of progress is kept up for six years to come consumption will be stamped out here." Asked if, In his opinion, this result would ever be brought about Dr. Flick said: "I am sure that In 15 years or less tuberculosis will be wiped out. All that is needed is a wider knowledge of how to prevent its spread. If we could teach everyone the simple method of preventing contagion we could immedi? ately stop all further progress of the disease, and in a few years it owuld be gone. Their wide educational value is the reason for holding the national conferences. This year we intend to reach as many peop'e as we can through the papers, exhibits and pop? ular lectures." Among the countries to be repre? sented by from 1 to 15 delegates will be Belgulm, Denmark, Germany. Eng? land. France, Italy, Greece, the Neth? erlands, Norway, Austria, Roumania. Russia. Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Hungary. Plenty of Meat. We broke the meat famine on Sat? urday by the receipt of an assor'ed car of Butts, Plates a.'d Rib* which we are selling for much lr^s than the prices prevailing during the flood. 9-7-2t?w O'Donnell & Co. The chief of police of Chester, Pa., is attempting to cool off periodical drunkards by making them whitewash the city prison.