The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 07, 1909, Image 7
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.
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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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To our patrons is just a
little better than necessary.
I
WHY?
Because it don't cost any?
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?See Us?
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Is that our house is the favorlta
purchasing place for builders who
have the reputation of putting up
the best residences, public buildings
and stores in Sumter. You get
nothing but the best h*?re, whether It
be lumber or sash and doors, and
oui prices are beyond competition.
The Sumter Door, Sash & Blind Factory,
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We welcome the small depositor.
^ Bank of Sumter.
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present offers you exceptional opportunity to make a start. Business has
been rather quiet the past two years, and there are a number of bargains
to be picked up here and there from parties who want to turn their prop?
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