Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Retter Wey. "Do you Know," said Green as he ?ove-hauled Davidson on the strett the other evening, "that the wheat -crop la going to be short this year?" "Tea, and it's going to make hard times ' was the reply. "You bet it Is. And they say the hey crop Is short." "Tee." "And the potato bugs are eating up the vines." "Tee." "And thst Psnama Canal Is going to cost fifty million dollars more than they thought for." "I see." "I tell you. Davidson, this country te on the verge. Yes, sir, right on the verge." "Yes. I think so myself." "There will probably be another earthquake soon." "Shouldn't a bit wonder." "Followed by a terrible war v. Ith Japan." "Yea" "And bankrupts will be as thick as ?see around a sugar barrel, and we - shall all go to the dogs." "I can't dispute It." "Tee, sir. go right to the dogs; but, say. Davidson." Tea" ?The druggist on the corner here gives the biggest glass of soda water hi town for a nickel. Let's go In anA hare a cooler to get through the day en." Joe Kerr. Home Sense. There Is a Arm In Washingaon business requires the use of a number of delivery wagons. In each wagon, on the back rest of the driver's seat, there are painted these words, "Be good to your horse." Far ?Veen being maudlin, this sentiment deserves to be recorded in letters of geld. Wise and humane at all times, Jt will, during the next two or three smooths, have a meaning more weighty than at any other season of the year. This motto Is hidden from the srerld. yet always faces the man to sfSjom It appeals as he climbs Into lass seat and takes the reins In hand. The strength of the little sentence Has .a Its moral character. An agent e*T the Humane Society can hold up a brutal driver, and a policeman can him before the courts. Such a Is likely to provoke a desire revenge, and It la only too prob that this desire will be wreaked ess the inoffensive animal under con dUtlons of time and place known eustther to the friend of the beast nor te the upholder of the law. But few words will plead to the heartless, end serve as a needed :k to heedlessness or a passing fit f temper. The automobile has doubtless come i stay, but the horse hss not depart L On the hot asphalt. In the pad or down the last stretch on ly day he counts. \nd In every m the force of the Injuction on the sk of the delivery wagon aeat will lb) application. The merciful man Is merciful to his seat.?Washington Post. The Parade. Too much cannot be said of the ity Haag Railroad Shows' parade ih takes place dally on the public ?ts for everybody and Is one mile length and Introducing features rer attempted by any other show their street pagaent. No parade iplete without a callope and Mr. haa spared no pains or expense this everlasting feature of the le. Not only have the Haag one of the finest callope In world, but have been fortunate igh to secure the service of Slg Limont. who Is considered the linier of callope players and will sset only gladden the hearts of the children but everybody as well with Isle up-to-date selection. They will exhibit in this city on August 31st. A iMvk of Confidence. A minister, frequenlty away from was in the habit of getting le one to stay with his wife and II daughter In his absence. Once, ?ever, he went so unexpectedly and hurriedly that he had no time to Make such provision for them. The wife was very brave until night came, when her courage began to fail. Af? ter exhausting every reasonable ex? cuse for staying up, she put the child te bed with the Injunction to pray especially for God's protection during father's absence. "Yes, mother, we win do that tonight." said the girl, the next time we will make bet arrangements.''?The Delineator. Well PtNgegejA Kva. scarcely MlfOi years old, was walking with her papa near the edKc ?f a sidewalk where some horses were tied. All at once she lei K" Ml hand and. slipping around |0 the safe side of him, took boM of that h;md. ssirtng. "I><>n t bS 'fald (afraid) papa, I'll take care of >?ui." The Delinea? tor The new tariff measure begins Its existence without a single sincere friend. -Milwaukee Journal. The Ten Deuiandments. A Chicago man who has a large number of employes under him has posted up in the various departments of his establishment cards which bear the above caption and the fol? lowing terse rules. These make it very plain what he expects and what he does not expect of those who draw salaries from him: Rule I.?Don't lie?it wastes my time and yours. I'm sure to catch you In the end, and that's the wrong end. Rule III.?Give me more than I the clock. A long day's work makes a long day short, and a short day's work makes my face long. Rule II.?Give me more than I expect and 1*11 pay you more than you expect. I can afford to Increase your pay If you increase my profits. Rule IV.?You owe so much to yourself that you can't afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt or keep out of my shops. Rule V.?Dishonesty Is never an accident. Good men, like good wom? en, can't see temptation when they meet it. Rule VI.?Mind your own business and in time you'll have a business of your own to mind. Rule VII.?Don't do anything here which hurts your self-respect. The employe who is willing to steal for me la capable of stealing' from me. Rule VIII.?It's none of my busi? ness what you do at night. But if dissipation affects what you do the next day, and you do half as much as I demSnd, you'll last half as long as you hoped. ? Rule IX.?Don't tell me what I'd like to hear but what I ought to hear. I don't want a valet to my vanity, but I need one for my dollars. Rule X.?Don't kick if I kick?If you're worth while correcting, you're vorth while keeping. I don't waste time cutting speck out of rotten ap? ples?Mail Order Journal. Woman at the Telephone. "Halloa, halloa!" shouted the fire man on the engine house end of the telephone. In answer to a long ring. "Halloa!" came back In feminine tones "la this the firs station?" "Yes; what Is It?" "Well, I want to Inform you that my yard runs right up to the walk that runs along the side of the Cum trdngses' walk next door" "I guess you've got the wrong num? ber, ma'am." "You said thie was the fire station, didn't you?" "Yes; but" "Well, I want to aay that I'm try? ing very hard to raise a respectable yardful of grass and have lately planted grass seed as far as the Cum mingses* walk. Then, besides the grass seed, I had it all tidied up and made ready for planting bulbs, an"? "I say, ma'am, you are mistaken in the telephone number. This" "Isn't this the fire station?" "It is; but" "Very well. Now, I want to say fur? ther that however careless our neigh? bors, the Cummlngses. are with their garden, we are very, very much the other way. In fact, a pretty lawn, adorned with a variety of flowers, is what I artd my husband are looking for next season, and we want our yard to appear as well clear up to the Cum? mlngses' side as It Is possible to have It. Why, I shouldn't any more allow a person to step on my grass seed or" "For heaven's sake, ma'am, what has this to do with the Are station?" "Oh, well, 1 -want to Inform yoj that our house Is No. 200 School street and that the Cummlngses' house next door Is aflre. Now, don't let your firemen trample" But the fireman had dropped the receiver.?Tit-Bits. Misplaced Sympathy. I A traveler passing through a moun- | tain district in northern Pennsylvania last summer came across a lad of sixteen cultivating a patch of miser? able potatoes. He remarked upon their unpromising appearance, and expressed pity for any one that had to dig a living out of such soil. "I don't need no pity," said the boy, resentfully. The traveler hastened to soothe his wounded pride. But In the offended tone of one who has been misjudged, the boy added: "I ain't as poor as you think. I'm only workln' here. I don't own this place."?Everybody's Maga? zine. Hill Jones Is a country storekeei ? i down In I?ulsiana and last spring be went to New Orleans to purchase a stock of goods. The goods were shlp ped immediately and reached home before he did. When the boxes of goods were delivered at his store by the drayman bis wife happened to look at the largest; she uttered a loud cry and called for a hammer. A to Ighbor, bearing the screams, rushed to her assistance and asked what was lhs matter. The wife, pale and faint, pointed to an Inscription on the box w Mich read as follows: Bend us your Job work. The Fly at the Bar. The extermination of malaria and yellow fever by the control of the breeding-places of mosquitoes was a great triumph of sanitary adminis? tration. The house-fly presents uni? versal opportunity for a still greater triumph, says Theodore Dreiser in the Delineator for September. The Merchants' Association of Xew York City, in its bulletins of 1908 and 1909, presents incontrovertible evidence against the house-fly?evidence that every mother and teachers of moth-rs should have, and which may be got by applying to the association. The house-fly has been condemned by a court from which there is no appeal. Health and bacteriological I experts all over the country have pronounced the verdict "guilty." Whereas the fly was once considered a scavenger sent in hot weather to eat up the germs that abound, it is now considered a filthy Insect. Bred in manure, it drinks from cess-pools and dines in prlvey vaults. It eats the suntum on the sidewalk and revels in the garbage-pail. It hovers over the baby's diaper and is greedy Of* the dressings from a discharging wound. It is a germ-carrier. It brings typhoid fever, diarrhoea, dys? entery and tuberculosis to the very gateway of the human body. After Its repast of filth It crawls over your freshly-frosted cake, swims in your lemonade, cleans its feet on the bread brought in a sealed paper bag. Direct from the neighboring privy it crawls over the sweet lips of your sleeping baby or settles on the steril? ized nipple of Its nursing bottle. The fly that you fish out of your baby's milk, milk for which you have paid fifteen cents a quart, may have been feeding on the excrement of n patient recovering from diarrhoea or typhoid fever. The flies on the fruit you buy at that street corner for your chil? dren may have last fed on the sput? um of a consumptive. As many as six million six hundred thousand bac? teria have been found op a single fly. Yet the house-fly is tolerated every? where. Milk and hot weather are blamed for the great number of infant deaths from diarrhoea or "summer com? plaint." A careful study of the sea? sonal prevalence of flies by means of daily counts from fly-cages made In different parts of New York City by the Merchants' Association shows that flies were active In large num? bers only In the comparatively few hot weeks of summer, while the health statistics showed that these were the very weeks when an abnor? mal number of cases of typhoid fever and diarrhoea were contracted. These diseases rose with the rise in preva? lence of flies and fell with the decrease in the numbers of flies trap? ped. When we consider that one fly laying one hundred and twenty eggs at a time will have a progeny of sex tillions at the end of the season and that milk Is the best germ-culture known, It is easy to see the fly's part In spreading intestinal diseases. Screen all doors and windows as soon as the fly season sets in, espe? cially the kitchen, dining, room and nursery. Wire netting is more ser? viceable, but cotton netting at three cents a square yard'keeps the flies out. Keep flies away from your baby. Keep flies off your food and milk. Do not buy food exposed for sale un? screened. - Don't forget that the breeding place of flies is in nearby filth. It may be behind the door, under the table, or in the cuspidor. Tf there is a nuisance In the neigh? borhood, report it at once to the health department and demand abate? ment. Every health department should distribute pamphlets warning the people of the danger where flies lurk. Doctrine of Election. "I heard a Presbyterian preacher tell a good story the other day," said a traveling man. "He had been preaching a series of interesting ser? mons and he told his congregation to go to the old darkles who were reared by good Presbyterian families If they wanted to know the doctrines of their church. Once, when I was not quite certain about the mening cf 'election,' I called on an old negro man and asked him If he belonged to the church. "'Yas, sir, boss, I's a chuich mem? ber.' "'How long have you been one?' I asked. " 'dwine on forty year now. sir.' " 'What church?' " 'Presbyterian.' " 'What do the Presbyterians mean by election?' " 'Yas, sir. Well, boss, you know dat de election is gwlne on all de time?' " 'doing on all the time?' "'Yas. sir. De Lawd an' Satan is votln* all day an' night, an' people votes When its deyer' time. When yo* time conn s you vote -an' de way dat makes two to one on de Lawd's side, but ef you vote Wld de devil, den it makes tWO to one on de devil's side, an' fur you It's all over; de devil i' sho' gut you. " 'Yas, sir. marster, dat's de way it looks to me.' "?Charlotte Observer. Religious Tolerance. A subscriber writes to a newspaper of this .State to say: "You are siding with Jones in the conflict that if? fronting the people of the State. That is your privilege; you are a free nan; your paper is free, and you at liberty to do as you like. But to sup? port a man that is not in sympathy with mo and the cause 1 advocate is just a little too much for me. You will stop my paper and oblige," etc. Anyone in reading this letter wouid be apt to think that the writer had had "just a little too much." We mav say that the Jones referred to is the Rev. Dr. Howard Lee Jones, a fol? lower of Christ and a man called to minister to others. There was a time in South Carolina when wearers of the cloth received some respect. Not so today. Prohibition has been forced into politics and men have un? dertaken to arrogate to themselves the functions of Deity. The Rev. Dr. Jones has suffered In no wise by the attacks of narrow minded men. Some have lowered themselves in the base remarks which they have made concerning him. Unable to answer his logic, and put to flight when endeavoring to combat him under the rules of de? bate, they have sought to wound him by senseless and emotional appeals. The men who cast their ballots to? day can now understand what it Is all about. A vote for prohibition meana a vote, apparently, for men? tal slavery. Men are no longer to be allowed to think. They are to fol? low like a flock of sheep. We have a new Inquisition, and it is none the less terrible than that of the Span? iards. If our reason rebel then shall we be forced to do what other men think is right. We shall not be per? mitted to proclaim a farce a farce, but shall be forced to change the "a" to an "o." So let it be. Our Columbia con? temporary has answered its subscrib? er as he deserved. A decent news? paper is a "little too much" for its loBt reader, and perhaps there are some men in South Carolina who "are a little too much" for the rest of us.?News and Courier. Fully Occupied. "Now, my dear sir," earnestly be? gan the sauve stranger, with the up tilted cigar and unauthenticated dia? mond, according to Puck, "these handsomely engraved bonds of the Consolidated Mexican Milkweed Rub? ber Company, which are positively guaranteed to return a 69 per cent, semi-annual dividend, and ?" "I don't really 'spose you can do much dealing in 'em around here, Mr. Sllckmith," frankly interrupted the landlord of the tavern at Skeedee Cor? ners. "You see, the only man in the community who might otherwise take an interest in your glittering proposi? tion has been for some time engaged in the payment of an election bet wherein he was solemnly sworn to roll a peanut eight miles by means of a toothpick, which, speaking in round numbers, will be likely to keep him so busy till along about the later part of next May that he won't have time to make a fool of himself in any other way. Looks considerable ilike rain, off to the south'rd, don't it?" Our New Husband. Elizabeth's father had died when she was a tiny baby, and for four years she had ruled her mother, and every one with whom she came in contact. Much to her surprise she was one day introduced to a "new papa." She looked him over careful? ly, then, after much coaxing, she climbed upon his knee and listened as he told her of the many nice things he would do for her mother and her, finally asking whether she would love him just a little. She looked him squarely in the eye and said: "Yes. if you do all you prOIPiM I may like you, but I tell you n >w if you try to be boss around here we just won't have, you for our hus? band!"?The Delineator. Love's Laws. Be sure your right then lose your head. A ring on the hand is worth two at the door. The fool and his money are soon married. A little debutante Is a dangerous thing. Proposals make cowards of us all. There's no fool like a bold fool. The longest way round is the sweet? est way home. One good kis; deserves another. Tis love that makes the man come 'round. Kisses speak louder than words. He loves best whose love lasts. People who live in glass houses shouldn't hohl hands. The woman who deliberates is won. Where there's a will there's a wed? ding.- Carolyn Weils, in Broadway Magalne. The President has taken to boxing, lie had to do something to support the impression that he is continuing the Roosevelt policies.?Philadelphia Record. 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C. -Dealer In Pure Drugs and Medicines, CHOICE PERFUMES AND FINE TOILET ARTICLES, COMBS AND BRUSHES, PATENT MEDICINES AND DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, A FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. :: :: :: :: :: OUR MOTTO: PURE AND RELIABLE GOODS. in Our stock is complete and we cheerfully solicit your patronage. :: :: :: Saving? Has been advised through all the ages. The cumulative power of compound interest is one of the greatest factors in growing fortunes. We pay compound interest on your savings. ^ Bank of Sumter. RICH. I. MANNING, Pres. M. MOISE. 1 st V-Pres R. F. HAYNSWORTH. 24 V-Pres. W. F. RHAME, Cashier. NOTICE ! If you have farm property in Sumter or Clarendon County which you wish to sell this season, you should list it now, in order that it may be inspected and properly advertised forthe fall business. 1 have a number of prospective buyers for well improved property, and if your prices ara right, we should be able to do some business. CITY. FARM AND TIM? BER PROPERTY HAN ?LCD. REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED. 26k N Main St. R. B. Belser, REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY. Sumter, S. C. MONEY INVESTED IN REAL ESTATE MORT? GAGES LET ME INVEST YOUR IDLE MONEY AT 7 AND 8 PER CENT A Fair Proposition In the daily routine of business the banker should be reimbursed for actual outlays; and not only for this, but for the use of his capital, time and labor he should be fairly compensated. Upon the basis of this prop? osition, we beg to tender you our very best service. First National Bank, of Sumter