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&{je fl$attbman aiti jMutjjnm. Published Wednesday and Saturday. ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTEK. C. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum?in advance. * - Advertisements: One Square flist insertion.Si.bo Xvery subseqmmt insertion.60 Contracts (or three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All ogsnmanice lions which sub serve private interests win be charted tar as advertlsetnenta. Obltnartas and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sunter Watchman was foand ?d in i860 and the True Southron In IS ft. The Watchman aad Sournron bow has tho combined circulation and influence cf bath of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising modtnm In Sum tor. The News and Courier never miss an issue, no matter what calamity Is Charleston. Neither earth? quake, hurricane nor political up? heaval can put it out of business, and It came off the press on time the morning after the election of Col. Grace just as If nothing had hap? pened. Even the excitement of being besieged by a mob of Orace partisans, who broke the plate glass windows with rocks and raised a rough-house generally in Broad street around the News and Courier building, was not sufficient to disturb the even tenor of its way. ? ? ? The refusal of Oov. Blease to call an extra session of the legislature to consider the cottor situation has not been received kindly by the commit? tee representing the Marlboro coun tv farmers who made the request, and Chairman Evans of the Marl? boro committee has come back at Gov. Blease in a red-hot open let? ter We do not always agree with the governor, but in this instance we endorse his action, for we cannot see that the extra session would accom? plish any good whatever, while it would cost considerable money. The general assembly of South Carolina is a political organization first, last and all the time, and an extra ses? sion would be too busy playing poli? tics to give more than a passing thought to cotton. One session of the N?gislatun. a year is more than ample? >m ? i ? se?.->nd r ? fourth year would be sufficient, a e ? ? Thf. order (gjueda through th< :< lice department of Charleston, to the blind tigers that they must remain closed on election day or be pre? pared to suffer summary punish? ment, was official admission that on all other days in the year the blind tigers do business In violation of Saw and are unmolested. Everybody krows that Charleston is a wide-op-?n tpwo and that the blind tigers are open bar-rooms, but it was scarcely expected that official cognizance would be taken of the fact. SOS [ Speaking of blind tigers that are not blind, brings to mind the state? ment, made by one of the visitors to Columbia during the State Fair, that a wide open blind tiger was do? ing a rushing business in Columbia. Some months ago Columbia had a spasm over the sale of soda water on 8unday and a big hullabaloo was raised because the drug stores were not closed, but nothing is being said about the Fair week blind tiger that dispensed fire-water to visitors from the dry rural districts. ELECTRIC ( II UK FOR lilvYITIK. Virginia Supreme (ourt Refuses In* jwal From Sentence. Richmond. Va., Nov. 13.?By re? fusing today t . grant .in appeal In the case of Henry Clay Boa'tle Jr.. com ' vd in Chesterfield cpunty on September h of murder of his wife, the Virginia supreme court ;<?? k sway from the condemned man his last hope of escaping o.e. utlon on November -'4 unless Qov. Mann should interfere. Whili declining tonight to earn* met;', on the court's ruling. QOV, |far< announced thai he would is jaic i U nc t tomorrow. There Is bfti ? possibility that the governor vi 11 ? int a brief respite. jri ih? pre* m ?? of the entire court Chief Justice lames Keith made ?1 is otncial statement to the clerk: "In the Heattie case the court ?>e. ing of opinion that the Judgment of the low. r ' ourt is plainly rieht, doth refuse th? petition for a writ of e? ? ror." Karly this afternoon H. C. Beel St.. went to the penitent irj and i escorted to the death chamber, where he. in a faltering voice, notified his v<.r, th.it the appeal had been denied. The prisoner's nerv? did not desert him. He did not ' i to feel or comprehend its meaning;, l"it ? n iieevored manfully to comfort his ol 1 father, whose grief was intense. I PROTECTION FROM FIR KS. Address M?de by Franklin II. \\cut wort Ji. St. Paul, Minn. Nov. 10.?A com? plete scheme for fire protection in cities and towns and in the home was outlined today by Franklin H. Wont worth, of Boston, at the Minnesota Fire Protection Congress. Mr. Went worth, who is secretary of the Nation? al Fire Protection Association, de? clared that the American people were awakening to a consciousness of their collective responsibility for fire waste. This was a year of hope, he said, in spite of the fact that the fire loss promised to be the highest since the year of the San Francisco fire. "There is a way to solve this con? flagration problem," he continued, "not absolutely, but at least relative? ly. You cannot be expected to tear down your cities and rebuild them of fire-resistive metal; the cities must be protected as they stand. In the heart of nearly every one there are streets crossing at right angles, along which for a very considerable distance are buildings of brick, stone and concrete. Looked at upon the map this shows a more or less com? plete Maltese cross of buildings which are not wooden, and which operate to divide the wooden-built district into quarter sections, and which might hold a fire in any one of those sections if they were equip? ped to do so. Thes* brick and stone buildings are ordinarily valueless as fire stops because their windows are thin glass and their window frames of wood. At Baltimore and San Francisco the conflagration attacked such buildings easily; breaking out the panes; consuming the frames, and converting every story of these brick structures into horizontal flues full of combustible contents. Brick and stone buildings are logical and capable fire-stops if the fire can be kept out of them. The small city that will trace out its Maltese cross of such buildings and equip them with metal window frames and wired glass will immediately possess the equivalent of substantial fire walls crossing at right angles in its center, dividing it into four sections. By such a simple, inexpensive, but yet strategic procedure many a city may save itself from the destruction which now awaits only the right kind of a fire on the right kind of a night "1 har? referred in tins plan merely to the smsit^r cities, but it Is ObVfOUS -hi\' UUS plan Oi ;.r. ?.. tt< i ts eouaily impoi ?? In fY" eric ,1 stone and concrete district* -?f large cities where gr?at values are housed In close proximity. Fires in the large cities entail an enormous waste because of the great values as? sembled here. We must come event? ually to the equipment of all com merical, factory and office buildings with metal window frames and wir? ed glass. This will mean the abo? lition of the conflagration hazard in our cities. Fires wib tnen be unit ' tires, extinguished easily by a "orn- . petent fire department within khe1 buildings in which they originated; 1 for the protection of window' opeii ingg not only prevents fire from en tering but prevents fire from issuing out of the burning building. We may expect an occasional exceedingly hot fire to break down the defence of an adjoining building, but it is obvious that a conflagration could not get un? derway among buildings of fire resis? tive construction with properly pro? tected window openings. "Having thus fortified city build? ings one against the other, extensive fires within industrial structures can be prevented by the use of the now well established automatic sprinkler system. The automatic sprinkler ap? plies the water without the help of human agencies while the fire is still incipient. It will operate in a dense smoke as well as in a clear atmos? phere. It will not throw excessive deluges of water in wrong plaeos as the fire departments are continually forced to do. With our window open? ings protected and our buildings equipped with such extinguishers the conflagation hazard in mercantile districts will be eliminated. There will then remain for consideration our immense residence districts con? structed almost wholly of wood sur? rounding the mercantile centers, like fagots around a funeral pyre. We can lessen the loss here by the abol? ition of the use of wooden shingles. It will not be necessary to remove all shingle roofs immediately. An effective city ordinance might re quirequire all roofs constructed in the future to be of incombustible ma? terial and that all roofs that shall hereafter require repair to the ox tent of one-third of their area shall be replaced with incombustible roofs. The modern shingle is thin and the machinery, which now makes it leaves a fuzzy surface, which after a pe? riod of drought, becomes like tinder. Without shingle roofs flying brands would not be carried over the brick centers of the city by the wind. "Outside of the abolition of the > shingle roof, we must look for the protection of our homes to the cor? rected habits of our people. We must look carefully after the heating appa? ratus of our homes, giving them the constant and necessary attention de by receptacles containing building of proper flues neys is especially necessary ction with residences. The most vital matter in the home, how? ever, is the proper use of the match. Every match is a potential confla? gration, as every fire Is of the same size when it started. No match that should be admitted inside a home ex cept the variety which ignites only on the box. Hundreds of women and children are burned to death in America every year by the type of match which will ignite on any sur? face. These matches are allowed to lie Indiscriminately at out the home. Small children are imitative, and if they can secure euch a match, will attempt to ignite it, generally getting tire to their clothing. No father who has proper regard for his family will allow a "strike anywhere" match in his home. The observation of the precaution I have indicated would mean an almost immediate reduction of the fire waste by perhaps fifty per cent." BARGAINS FOR BARGAIN BAY. The following merchants will of? fer bargains for sale on Bargain Day and have subscribed to the Entertainment Fund: Automobiles and Supplies*?Shaw Mo? tor Company. Bicycles and Supplies?Hill, Ralph; Reynolds, W. S.; Tisdale. H. L. Books, Stationery?Knight Bros; Par rott's Book Store. Cigars, Pool Room?King, J. E. Clothing, Furnishings?A1 pert, L.; Chandler, D. J. Clothing Co.; Chand? ler, Joseph M.; Gordon Bros.; Krasn off. Perry; McCollum Bros; Stubbs Bros.; Sumter Clothing C-0. Drug Stores?DeLorme's Pharmacy, Hearon's Pharmacy, Sibert's Drug Store. Dry Goods?Averbuek, Alex; Cash Dry Goods Store, Schwartz Bros.; Shaw & McCollum, Sumter Dry Goods Co. Fruit, Candy?Boston Candy Kitch? en; Baula, Vlck; Costin, George; Gazes, V.J Schiadaressi, E. Furnitur?', House Furnishings?Cra ig Furniture Co.; Scaffe. T. C; Swin son & Taylor; Witherspoon Bros. Fur? niture Co. General Merchandise?Barnett, B. J. Dennis, W. T.; O'Donnell & Co.; Levl Bros; Strauss, R. Groceries?Cuttino & McK night. Franklin, Sam; Levy & Moses. Strauss, A. A. & Co. Hardware?Burns Hardware Co.; Du Rant Hardware Co. Hotel and Cafes?Hotel Sumter; Charlie's Cafe; Dixie Cafe; Star Cafe. Ice Cream. Candy, Cigars?Savoy Ice Cream Parlor. Jewelry?Folsom, L. W.: McCormack Jewelry Co.; Thompson, W. A. Live Stock, Feed, Grain?Booth Harby Live Stock Co. Meat Markets?Campbell, D. M.J Citizen's Meat Market; Hogan & Son; Weeks' Meat Market. Optician?Thompson. W. A. Organs. Mantels, Sewing Machines Rand le, M. B.; Vogel. E. W. Preising Clubs?Franklin, J. Shoe Stores?Bult man Bros; Sumter Shoe Store. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure Absolutely has no substitute Many mixtures are offered as substitutes for Royal. No other baking powder is the same in composition or effectiveness, or so wholesome and economical, nor will make such fine wood. Royal is the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar In The Civil Court. I The suit of Shelly Lawrence vs the j Atlantic Coast Line Railroad cum- ; pany for 2,500 damages for personal injuries sustained by him at the hands of the defendant was resumed Saturday morning and still going on when court adjourned for the usual mid-day recess. Messrs. L. D. Jennings and J. H. Clifton represent the plaintiff and L. W. McLemore and Mark Reynolds the defendant. Sale of Unclaimed Express Matter. On Saturday, December 16th. 1911, the Southern Express Co? will sell at Public Auction to the highest bid? der for cash all unclaimed Express matter that has been on hand six months or longer. H. R. LUCAS, Agent. ll-14-ltaw-4t. i Try an ad. in the Daily Item, and watch results. ID Thursday, Nov. 23 "This is a Bargain Day Store." Notice this sign in the windows of the Sumter Merchants. The Merchants having these signs will have especial bargains on sale on Bargain Day. There will be Bargains that will be Real Bargains. Prices will be cut on that day and that day only. All Bargains will be at strictly cash prices. Time for Bargains, Time for Fun. Races, Parades, Ai inents Going on All Day. Lyric Theatre. Special program. Academy of Music, B? of Grauftarb. Mi totals' ten. -=75,000=EEE VANADIUM STEEL FORD MODEL T CARS FOR 1912 One-third of all Cars made in America in 1912 will be Fords?what a Val? uable Message to the World. That old, reliable J-cylinder, 5-passenger Model T Touring Car, unchanged during its four years before the public, except for a few refinements, put on the market now for $690? equipped to the last detail. The Model T Commercial Roadster for $590. The Model T Tow n Car for $900. And a new De If this were the announcement of a new model you might be skef Ford Model T is the best known car on earth. More of them an world than there arc of any other motor ear. livery. Wagon on the same Model T Chassis for $700. These prices include full equip? ment: Extension Top, Auto? matic Brass Windshield, Gas Lamps, G( aerator and Speed? ometer. Is there any wonder that 'When Ford speaks the World listens." the car's merit, but I * highways of the The Chandler Automobile Company, 29 West Liberty Street. Sumter, South Carolina