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riGHT THE FILTHY FLY. A Poleon That I? Not frangerous to Hunnn Life. To warn people of the danger* of flies, gnd to show t hem how to get rid of the pests, the Chicago health de. partment has Issued a bulletin. In which the peaky nuisances ire called a i sorts of bad names. "Flies are the dirtiest and filthiest of vermin." the bulletin says: "They sre born In filth, live In filth and carry filth around with them, only to be scattered upon those whom they touch. Now Is the time to build your lines of defense Prepare to fight them a.* you would wild beasts soeklnr your life." A good fly poison, not dangerous to human life, the bulletin add*, is a solution of bichromate of potAsh. one dram dissolved In 2 ounces of water and sweetened wit i * little sugar. Put some In shallow dishes and place throughout the ho ise. Another Is co? balt chloride, one Irsm dissolved In S ounces of water, placed In shallow dishes as above. To clean'?rooms In which there are la ge numbers of flies bum pyrethrum p< wder or how black flag Into the air of the room. These do not kill the fll?s; they are merely stunned and fsll to the doer. They meat then be gathered up and de? stroyed. Seven dllfsrent varieties ot files are found In our rouses, 98 per oent of which are represented by h? com? mon house fly. Files lay their eggs only In fermenting- or decaylog sub? stances?bj preference In horse ma? nure. Hence, sayn Harper's Weekly, every stable Is a center of Infection unless periodically disinfected. The fly maggot la h?so hatched out In lat rtiee and ash-pit refuse, such as bed? ding strs'v, rags, paper, scraps of meat, fruit, etc.. on which substances the U.rvae subsist after they hatch, which occurs In about twelve days after the e|.g has been laid. It Is esti? mated that a single fly, laying 120 eggs at a time, will produce a pro? geny amounting to ssxtllllons by the end of the season. The number of bacteria upon a sin? gle fly have been proved to range all the way from l'?S0 to f.iOO.OOG. The average for 414 files which were ex? amined st the agricultural experiment station at gitorr*. Conn., last year was 1,110.000 bacteria apiece. This rep? resents about the number of bacteria that enter the human system when et??? ?wnllnw* n glass *>f liquid ln?o which some fly has perhaps fallen, to W removed by a slovenly waiter with? out the Dajuid being, thrown away. TLu Meek Ma,, lleioru. 1 "Fountain pens.", snapped the nag ging wife, "remind me of some huv. "What Is the resemblance?" ven? tured the meek little man. "Expensive. Can't be depended up? on, won't work, and half the time they are broke." That's pretty rough, Martha^ but you couldn't compare a fountain pen with some women." "I guese not." "No, e fountain pen will dry up and eome wives won't. ' And then he made for the subur? ban trolley and made a bee line for town.?Chicago News. Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, of Den? ver, and the newly formed Public Her vice League of Women have suc? ceeded with their protects against an ordinance paseed by the Denver alderman, to permit the feeding of brewery swill to milch cows. Attorney General Lyon was named by \V H. Townsend. of Columbia, as the representative of the State to go over the books of County Treasurer Lnngford. of Hamptoo, who was found short In hin accounts by the comptroller general about $24,000. Treasurer Langford was bonded at $10.000. fUOCUeCO AND DtriHOIO.etodnwiM. mvum nrph->U>. t<>r ftiuxrtbmix nu<l fr?*> rr|?>rt. rntm vTv?.... w t<> oMala ytonf, ir*u? iu*rk?, oovrrtehl* Ma.. |N ALL COUNT IIIS. Bwltsu Jtrtrt v'tlh \l'at>i\tt?tO* 9014$ t\mu% mamry mmJ (itrn iS. fatVui. rata*t i?d Infrhjnunt Practice faclualvely. Wrtto <>c com? to u* Aft ?XI Statt Sawa. 0mm OnlUft State* f%%m\ WftlMINQTON, O. C. GASNOW 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Patents TWADt A/URKg Oisione CoevnioHTs Ac. Aavese seeainf a ikatr-b an4 d?*?ipMnn may e*M*r* aanrutn our opmtoa frea ?h?th*r aa ln??ntl?n \? Pf >H?blf MMutablC '''?nimuiilp?. i*mittrU*\tr<>i?fl<UnllaJ. NASOBOOt ot. PUfiiU 0mm% ttrnm* tiM?s 0mmn0f for Meorltic n?t?? i?. Mt' ti ua?? throufh Muna A Co. r?o?lr? sjeiaaleaUia, without eWg?. \u th<? Scientific flnwrlcait. A igaSaUBOff llreatfaftea weestv. Laraeat etr ??tat ton of any ?Ateens? Kwaal Terms. $1 ? Wnmm\ oatee, km F SC. Washlestoa. I*. C. The Bedtime Story. Half-pant buttercup, half-past clover Dreams of the night where the winds . blow over; Half-past nid-nod. half-past noddy, Oh. what a tired little, dear little body. Half-pest goldilocks, half-past story Of the Prince and tho maid and the wild fairy glory; Hulf-past Riding Hood. half-past eight, Down |0 the hars, and the dream's at the gate! Half-past Jack-And-The-Bean-Stalk, dear, And the bedtime folk are a-hovering near; Peterkln, Putterkin, Puck and all. Peas bloom short and Mustard Seed Uli; Half-past ding-dong, Pussy's in the well, The little lady's garden of the cock? leshell; Ships on the sea and wind on the l'oam, Home again, darling, in the dreams of home! Half-past dandelion, half-past daisy. Half-past little feet growing awful lazy; Half-past sandman sitting on the Bill And the gray, gray mists on the far green hill; Half-past Sin bad and Captin Kidd, And the click-cllck-cllck of the katydid; Half-past cuddle In the arms of lore With the dear, dear Qod keeping watch above! Ha If-past story of the bedtime, sweet Rest, little arms, and rest, little feet; Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle go the dream? land bells Where the sheep of the stars cltmo the hills and the dells. Half-past buttercup, half-past clov? er. Down come the dreams, and the trip's all over; Rest as the rose rests, sleep as the dew, And dream as the deep dreams all night through! Passing of the Indian. A hundred years ago the great Mis? sissippi valley and West were given up to the Indian. When the settlers rsme Che Trtd'on had for d upon h.in a new mob* ?.f life. Rebellion nvturally followed There were wars, massacres But back of It all was the I .. hand und the Inexorable law of piogie??. the Indian was expected to acquire In a few years what the white race took centuries to acquire The load of civilisation was toe heavy; he broke down under it. This is the story of his going, and only the utmost care will avail to prevent ex? tinction. Had Been Anticipated. A London composer waa one strum? engaged on the score of an opera, an? as the weather was very hot h worked with the windows of hit stud open. This fact was taken advantag of by his neighbor, a lady, an ftfconi plished musician, with a very quid and retentive ear. to play upon hi n s harmless practical Joke. One morning he completed and tried over a new march, and the lady on tu< same afternoon seated herself at net grand piano, opened her windows cm. rolled forth the air fortissimo. Tb< composer rushed distractedly into bl garden to bis wife and. tearing hi hair in anguish, cried out: MMy dour. I give it up! I thought I had composed an original tune, but It must be a delusion, for my gram' march?my chef d'oeuvre, as I thought it?Is only a reminiscence and is al ready the property of some music pub llaher!" When Breton Shuddered. "The superior I teilige: ? of Bostot continues to eg< lt< the ?nvy of her sis ter cities." recent y observed a proiul nent ilosionhuv "and I pre post to ad fuel to the Dsmu b; citing tiio newes instance thereof. A little boy In th? Back Bay district, at wlio-.e bouse oc cur mmy netting! of a certain liter ?ry club, was asked not long ago by u returned Bottonlan what pad becouu of a family nenied Peering " 'The Detrtnger said the boy. 'Oh they're not ask til here any more They're no longer on mother's list.* "'No longer ou the list? What'a th< matter?' "'Why, haven't you heard? Drusill.i Deerlng sent a sonnet to the Atlantic that contained twenty Hues!'"?Lip plncott's. A wltnefis in an Trlsh court talked so loud that Charles Philips, who was counsel on the other side, said, "Pel low, why do you bark so furiouslyT* ??Because," said the man. looking hard St Philips. "I think I see a thief!" Retribution. Tommy?Pop, what Is retribution? Tommy's Pop?Retribution, my son. Is something that we are sure will even tunilj overtake other people.?Phils nVlpbla Record. In a recent speech Sir Robert Hart called attention to a remark made to him years ago by the Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Hslang: "You had bet? ter let us sleep on; if you will awaken us, we'll go farther and faster than you'll like." Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Library. Some time ago Dr. Charles \V. Eliot 1 announced that the books necessary to give a liberal education could be placed In a five-foot book case. Peo? ple looked forward with considerable interest to his announcement. Read inx the list suggests an old Latin quo? tation about mountains and Uiice. Here is the list: "Autobiography of Benjamin Frank? lin." "Journal of John Woolman." "Fruits of Solitude," by William Penn. Paeon's "Essays" and "New Atlan? tis." Milton's "Areopagitica," and "Trac? tate on Education." Sir, Thomas Brown's "Religio Med? ici." Plato's "Apology," "Phaedio" and "Crito." "Golden Sayings of Epictetus." 'Meditations of Marcus Aurelius." Emerson's "Essays." Emerson's "English Traits." The compete poems of Milton. Johnson's "Volpone." Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Maids' Tragedy." ? Webster's "Duchess of Malfl." Mldd'.eton's "The Changeling." Dryden's "All For Love." Shelley's "Cencl." I Browning's "Blot on the Scutch ecn." Tennyson's "Becket." ?, Goethe's "Faust." Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus." Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations." "Letters of Cicero and Pliny." Bynyan's "Pllgrlin/s Progress." Caucer's "Canterbury Tales." "Imitation of Christ," by Thomas \. Kempis. Dante's "Divine Comedy." Darwin's "Origin of Species." "Arabian Nights." Now what do you think of it? Did vou ever see all the books mentioned? Would you read them If you had them? A reporter of the New Yorl American visited the public libraries ^f the city and found that the book* mentioned were mostly covered with dust. For instance, In the month of April, there were 25,105 readers at the As tor and Lenox libraries, but for only four of the forty books on Dr. Ellot'f list was there any considerable de mnnd. They are Goethe's "Faust," "Arabian Nights." Adam Smlth'5, "Wealth of Nations" and the "Auto? biography of Benjamin Franklin." 'The books Dr. Eliot has chosen foi his 'five-foot shelf* are certainly sur? prises," said Leon Nelson Nichols well known author and assistant librarian at the Astor library. "There Is absolutely no demand for any of the books in Dr. Eliot's list," declared William Rickey, director of the Booklovers* library. 'We former? ly carried some of the volumes, but there are none now among our 10,000 titles. People, and New Yorkers espe? cially, will not stand for heavy clas slcal reading matter any more." "There is no demand for Dr. Eliot's books here," said a Lenox librarian. 'Of the total number of volumes call? ed for at our library last year almost sixty per cent, were American gen? ealogies and local histories, so, you see, there was not much room for Dr. Eliot's books. Although the demand here for Browning and Tennyson was greater than the Astor library, still is was trifling." Marches and Marchea. A schoolteacher In a small town saw some of George Eliot's works display? ed In the window of the "general store" and went In to Inquire If they had "Middlemarch." "No, we haven't that," said the red cheeked girl who served as clerk, "but we have lots of others. Will one of Sousa's do?" Considerate. Mr. de Club?My dear, a great Ger? man physician says women require more sleep than men. Mrs. do C?Does he? Mr. de C?Yes. My dear?unt? er?you'd better not wait up for me tonight. No Myatery This Time. Mr. Popp?By gosh, for once in my life I know where my cuff links are. Mrs. P.?Where are they now? Mr. P, ?The buby'a swallowed'em!?Cleveland Lender. It is all right to vote for the coun? try's prosperity, but you must work for your own.?Ate bison Globe. A Conselentlous Sentry. An officer, at a State camp, decided to see for himself how his sentries were doing their duty. He was some? what surprised at overhearing the following; "Halt! Who goes there?" "Friend?with a bottle." "Pass, friend. Halt, bottle."?Ev etybody's Magazine. 1 Textile workers in the United Kingdom are 1,171.000, of whom 482, 000 were men and 689,000 women. The total wages paid in 1906 amount? ed to over $240,000,000, or an aver? age per head of $211.68. The ave? rage for men per week was $6.8 3, for women $3.75, for boys $2.53, and for girls $2.17. WOMAN'S FIHST DUTY TO MAN. A disquieting dispatch from New York reaches us. Fifty unmarried mtmliers of the Progressive Woman': Soff rage Union of that city have sign? ed a pledge not to marry any man who will not formally agree not only to support woman's suffrage but to take an active part in the fight for It. The movement is expected to grow. J and its promoters are convinced that the pledge will be signed by 100,000 girls. The lady Who favors us with this property says that a man who doei not believe in woman suffrage | will beat his wife. This last propost- I lion is going just a little too far. Tt always gives us acute pain to differ frcm our friends of the Suffrage I Union, but we really do think that I there are men who do not believe in woman's suffrage who have never ha? bitually beaten their wives. These I men may be misguided, but if thev ever beat their wives, it is not habit? ual, but only casually and from tim? I to time. Whether women who do be- I litve in female suffrage are in the ha- 1 bit of beating their husbands is an-1 other matter. But the threat of refusal to marry I is a serious business, and if we believ- I ed that these lad'es would decline to I make any concessions, we would be I really worried over it. But there is a I stcry, with which some of our reader:- I are doubtless familiar, that serves to I illustrate the kindly and conciliatory I nature of women. A certain ladv I promised to marry a young man upon I condition that he would prove his I worth by some achievement. "Gt I vVest," she said to her suitor, "and I ?arn $20,000 and bring it back with I \ < u. Then I will marry you, but un- I der no circumstances will I marry I vou until then." In a few years the I young man returned, and his fiance I isked him whether he had made his I 520,000. "Not all of it," he said, "but I 1 have $150." Then the lady declared I that she would not' hold off on a mere I technicality and that $150 was neat I enough to It. And so we are disposed to hope I that these ladies in the Antimatrimon-1 al League will also make some conces- I slons when the hour and the man ar- I rive. It is woman's duty to reform I man. That is the charge she has u I keep. She must save the never-dy- I 'ng soul of some man and fit it for thf I sky. The accepted and perhaps tht I >nly way for her to accomplish thb I i.4 to first marry her man and then I nve him. To refuse to do this would I <o a refusal to perform a duty, and a I weman la a slave to duty?of thh character. It is not one of hei I characteristics to stand aside like e broken bow, even as the children <f I Ephraim who turned themselves bac* in the day of battle and became av Zeba and Zalmunna and the men ot Succoth. There are in the United States not lees than 6,752,892 unmarried ladies Including widows. If an election wa* held giving them the choice between a husband and duty on the one sidt and the ballot on the nher, we are ready to wager that the Antimatri monial Suffrage League would suffe) i defeat so pronounced that in the returns they would figure only in the column of scattering votes, or at the best they would be classed as those who "also ran." Our faith in woman is unimpaired. ?Baltimore Sun. Conscientious Bill. "Bill had charge of tUe animal tent," said the old circus man. "and among his.pets was a leopard, the only one we had with the show, and quite enough too. This leopard gave Bill more trou ble than all the rest of the menagerie put together. It was certainly an ugly brute. "Well, one day when we were show lng In the Midlands I had come up to London to arrange about some advance business. I was eating my dinner In the hotel when a telegram was banded to me. It was from Bill and read 'The leopard has escaped. Prowltnjl about town. What shall I do?' "That was just like BUI. lie had to have explicit directions, even in an emergency like this. He didn't warn to make a mistake. "I immediately wired back to Bill 'Shoot him on the spot.' 1 didn't think any more about it until a couple o1 hours Inter, when I receive! another telegram from conscientious, careful Bill, asking. 'Which spot?'" - | Cornered. Five young men went into a shop recently to buy a hat each, says By? stander. Seeing they were in a jok Ing mood, the shopman said: "Are you married?" "They each said "yes." "Then I'll give a bat to the one who can truthfully say be has not kissed any other woman but his own wife since he was married." "Hand over that hat," said one of the party. "I've won It.' "When were you married?" "Yesterday," was the reply, and the bat was handed over. One of the others was laughing heartily while telling bis wife the Joke, but Suddenly pulled Up when she said: "I say, John, how was it you didn't bring one?"?Galveston Tribune. 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