The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 17, 1912, Image 8
FROFiT IN ALLIGATORS
BUSINESS OF RAISING THOSE SAU?
RlANS PAYS WELL.
Aquariums, Munumi and Tourists
Buy the Young One*?Many A.ti?
des Are Made From the Hides,
Teeth, and Bones.
Alfator farming Is a business that
la far from overcrowded and the few
enterprising men who have taken It up
In the last few years have practically
ail found their farms to be paying In?
stitutions almost from ths start, ac?
cording to a writer In the Scientific
American. Although ths supply of
wild alligators is being reduced to sn
alarming extent, raising alligators for
their skins ak>na can not be seriously
considered until the wild supply is
much smaller than It Is now. As It
takes several hundred years for alli?
gators to attain their full growth. It
ml/ht seem that returns would rath?
er slow. However, bsby alligators are
always in good demand from aqua?
riums, museums and tourists, and from
their sals and the fees of admission to
ths farms ths chief present revenue Is
derived. Ths skins, too, begin to be
come valuable when ths alligator la
six or seven years old.
Until 19 or 20 years ago, no alliga?
tor skins wsre used for any purpose,
and] tor several years after that only
the smooth portion which was found
oa the stomach was utilised. Now the
bach or horny portion Is regarded as
the Bsost valuable, and not only la the)
aids of the alligator used, but his teeth
and bones also contribute to various
articles from suit cases to paper
knives aad whistles. In the Florida
Ever glad es several bondred persona,
mostly Bemtnols Indiana, make their
living by alllgstor hunting. Ths Flor?
ida supply Is rapidly diminishing and
la the lsst two years Mexico and Cen?
tral America along ths gulf have
hssm Invaded. Extermination seems
likely unless drastic measures) for pro?
tection are taken..
One of the nooet widely known alli?
gator fau-ma is at Palm Beach, Fla.,
at which a collection of over 1.000
seatiaas la kept, raaging from tiny
saves Just hatched to Jumbo Jos, sup?
posed to ha 900 years old, msasurlng
II fast 4 inches. In this collection
is also a crocodile, 'he largest in cap?
tivity, estimated to bo 1,000 years old.
It If IT feet T laches long. Ths larg?
est col lection of alligators Is at Los
Angeles, Cal., on a farm owned by 8.
V. Ernest, on which there are over
2.000 alligators. Ths largest. cAught
only a few months ago In the Ever?
glades In Florida, Is 15 fast long and
weighs shout 000 pounds
A large female alligator lays from 50
to 00 eggs every summer, and a small
ons from 25 to 30, and | practically
every c,<g will hatch. Special Incuba?
tors for them are used st ths farms.
Alligators require n food from Sep?
tember to May. The rest of the time
they eat meat Uaby alligators up to
three years of ags, at which time they
will not exceed 18 Inches in length,
find ths readiest market and are sold
st from ons to four dollars. Larger
ones are usually sold at practically so
much a foot, a 10-foot alligator bring- j
lng as much as 20. and the very large
ones from 15 to 19 feet long, which '
are desired mainly for aifuariuma,
from $75 to $100. , | m
? ? ? ? ? ? j
Soap Bubbles snd Monkeys.
Prof. C. V Boys. F. R. S., has been
trying the effect of soap bubbles on
the orangoutangs, chlm pan sees and
monkeys at the London Zoo. When
ths first bubble scared into the cage j
where an orangoutang was confined an '
Inquisitive amaxement could be seen 1
in Its attitude Hut as so >n as it no- j
tlced that these flying bombs explod?
ed without any dluaster It gained
courage. - .
Csrefully, nervously, when a bubble
entered It stretched Its hand nearer
and nearer, and suddenly caught it
Then, tremendously pleased at the
novel game, It put Its murzle through
the bars, snd the professor blew a
bubble so that It settled on Us nose.
Thereupon the tongue was curled ur
and th* bubble was licked In with
real smacking of the llpa.
Two of the rhlmpan?eee, u,?an
while, who were watching the exhibi?
tion, huddled In terror, but intensely
curious. In a tSffMf of the cage One
cblmpanr.ee displayed Just the same
eagerness as the orangoutang.
When the lower tribes of monkeys
were tested the response to science
waa less gratifying Thev would not
take any particular aoOoa, but con?
tinued their usual antics after some
cursory gJsnces.
Barkers,
Miss Mary Osrden was talking, at a
dinner party In Chicago, about the let?
ter quarrel that Oscar Hammerstein
had bad with his T?ndon rival, Nell
Poreyth.
"Mr. Hammerstein concluded his
last letter." said Miss harden, "with
ths words: 'My bow. Oscar Hsrnmer
Her Ret sor.
"Mr? Hlooc*ijood i.i M'tidlnc out
rards of Invitaf I u for a little dance "
"Wsnts to ?:.;crta!n a law friend*,
does she^'
"Yes. Mfc4 to Miub a law nvro "?
Harper's Ha/ar
Against All Tradition.
"That millionaire Is I -.cry qts
rhsp'
As to ham r
"Never rlalms hi was happier whan
fte wss paw Always -ays ho Is hsp
pier now "
LtAUTlF?LLY TO LIS
y. . J Woman, Listened to ? n
Luhee' Au.ob: >gtaphy, Expurgate
for Her Ears.
They sat down in the *u!r>- f
V. y s house and talked?'hat la, .!
taked. It was the first tins that
had willingly given out in Rtickci -
ville any of the details of bll patl FM t
now all at on^e It seemed that he hud
an overwhelming desire to pc'i ic
properly expurgated and set forth T0
Amy's admiring ears It was no more
the truth than any other man's past is
the truth when he tells It to a woman.
She inspired him to He about it beau?
tifully, as she inspired Klbert to lie
about his dally existence and as i -
ery good woman inspires every bsi
man to fabricate his autobiogn.pv ?,
As he went on with the tale of h "
adventures be began to see blntf.f
glorifled In the placid, smiling atti a?
tion of ber sweet blind face. Irje wem?
dered why In the world he had be* 1
so secretive about those years in ti e
west.
Jim Bone perceived all at once th-t
be was noftbe rowdy be had supposed
himself to be, but something of a he: o
of the chapter-beading smilec up* a
Amy's lips. Given the tablet of such
a countenance, and the worst man in
existence can make shining scriptures
of an Ill-spent life. The truth is. we
are all autobiographical liars But the
funny thing is that once we see our
selves clarified by such faith a;
Amy's, we accept her version, and ex?
perience a shriven peace that mu<t
distract the God who makes our moral
sense, but does not control It after?
ward. On tbis occasion Bone finish. 1
bis metamorphosis from the outlaw in?
to tbe modest deprecating hero stmpW
by a method of narrative that left out
tbe undesirable parts of his real life.
And tt is one of tbe commonest mira?
cles of conversion practiced by either
men or women ?Corra Harris in the
Saturday Evening Post.
BOY WHO WOULD NOT OBEY
Prococtty of a New York Youth Was
n Mighty >tr>ou? Problem For
Him Mother.
In a dteciisston on "Education. '
held tbe other afternoon at the bead
Quarters of the National League tor
the Education of Women, Miss Jane
Day, who Is a "visiting teacher' ot
school 166, of which John Kelgsrd ia
principal told several stories ot tu r
experiences in her attempt to brir g
tbe school and the home into do. . r
relationship.
"One thing which many of you
upper class mothers donl under?
stand.** she explained, Is the superior
precocity of the children of the poor.
I remember going to call upon t tie
mother of a boy whom his teachers
had found quite lrMnrrrglbke In school
and asking her to mane him behave
himself
"'And how can I make him behave
himself in school, when be wont do It
at homer she demanded "Why be
doesn't cjt9 a bit about a thing 1 say.
When I tel! htm to brtng up the oonl
and take down the ashes he lust
laughs at m* and tells me that he
Isnt fourteen and if I try to make kin
work hell haw the (*erry society
arter me for breaktn the child labof
lawg. Now. what (tin I be doing Witt
a boy like that?''
Saw His Opportunity. !
The first field -glasses brought to the
Now Hebrides sorely puzzled the i ?
ple-roinded natives, who of COU1
Drought them tbe product of wizardry.
In "islands of Enchantment" Ptorenca
Onugjbj tells how one of tlie mission
clergy was walking along the sho e.
wtum a native at his skie pointed out
a tiny finger In tike distance
"There goes one of my enen i "
MM he
The white man. drawing out his field
glasses, and adjusting tbe focus, hand?
ed than to his companion, who, gazing
through them in excited amazement,
BWhoM his foe apparently close u
hand. Dropping the glasses, he aal sed
his arrows and looked again Tha \
enemy wa-s as far away as at flr?t.
Once more he snatch**! the magic
ulaseeH, onoe more exchanged them for
bll arrows, and onee more was baf
had, To loee si*ch an opportunity was
hard Ind-aed A bright thought sud?
denly occurred to him
"You hold the glasses to my eyes."
?iald he to the missionary, "and I can
ihoot him.-?Youth'a Companion.
Quotation on Wildcats.
The sons of J. 11 Hrower at Gran?
rille have sold their large live wild?
Ml, captured one year ago, to H \t
water of Akron. Ohio, for $8 T!we
"at has be*?n used to kill rats which
Infect Mr Grower's barn.
The animal, which is apparently
>?i<ht or ten years old and weighs 11 f
teen pounds, killed ten rats in lesi
thai five minutes when they were
tbrOWl OM by ana Into Its cage The
-< I had some dangerous sport with
the wiMcal ? fan dayi ag<? wheti ihey
if'ache?d a plough Hue about Its ne 'M
iud pulled it fron the cage Mr
HrOWer It op pad the s|h?rt t?eff?re ?m.
?>f tho iad were attacked by the fa
'?kIous animal It was snipped hy
-xpresa to Akron
A Mdd Arrjumrnt
"Huhhy. <l?> you me ?i di ich
is you did when we were firsl mar
?led9"
i >i ronfaa ? da '
'Si ?ii's to tu?? you don't t? !1 me so
is often m you did "
'Yes, i do Aeam to me you re hard*
to root 'in i'
GIRL D!?L<?!.'.'?3 IN A 'BUS
How Question of Pi dng t> e Fare Wa?
Settled to toe Satisfaction
of All.
Four girls bearded a south! ouna
'bus on Fifth avenue, the other after?
noon, and from their conversation it
was evident thai they were acquaint?
ances who had met after a matinee.
The *bus Jerked its way down olo
block, and than the guard, with his
little nickel money box. stuck his
head hi the door and looked about
him.
"Oh, I have Jun the right change,**
cried the tall dark girl.
I "Well, I haven't any change and I
wanted specially to get some, so
please let me pay," urged the little
blonde.
The girl with the red hair opened a
purse In which four dimes Jostled spar
lngly against a dollar bill.
! "Do let me pay them." she begged,
politely, "I really would co much rath?
er.**
"But I have ':he change, and that
makes It so much easier,** insisted
the large brunette.
"I have the change, too,** murmured
the red-haired one.
"But wont you please let me get
this bill changed T begged the little
blonde, again.
The girl with the red hair make a
skillful effort to extract the four dimes
from her purse, without showing that
only a dollar remained behind.
"Please, let me," she said again.
The tall blonde with broad shoulders
looked from one to the other of the
girl8 with change, and then across to
the small person who wanted some,
and smiled blithely.
"I don't know what you are going to
do about It, all of you," she remarked.
"But I know what I am going to do
right now. I am going to pay my own
fare."
She slipped a dime into the nickel
money box and the others sighed In
relief.
**Tben,** said the tail brunette, and
the little blonde, and the girl with the
red hair. 'Yk> shall I!"
Dtdnt Punish Him.
At the annual banquet of the Notre
Derne society of Chicago Dean Wil?
liam Hoyne, who was recently made a
knight of St. Gregory by Pope Plus,
told of an experience he had had some
years ago at Notre Dame while teach?
ing a pupil who is now a leading mem?
ber of the Chicago bar.
"This young man," said Dean
Hoyne, "had a habit of going to sleep
in class, and this was very aggravat?
ing to me. No natter how important
the lecture was he was sura to he
asleep at the most Important part.
"I finally decided one day to deal
with him severely the next time he
went to sleep during class. The lec?
ture was dry, I will admit that and
the day was warm, and sure enough
my sleepy friend was soon sound
asleep Walking up beside him I
shouted his name at the top of my
voice. He started up and looked at
me bewildered.
*4 'Young man, how do you expect to
learn law?' I demanded. 'By Intui?
tion?"
" 'No, sir,' came the answer quick as
a flash, 'by paying tuition.'
"And the laugh was on me. I had
to let him off and didn't punish him.
and today he is one of the best known
lawyers in Chicago.
WIGWAM HAS PASSED AWA^
Indiana in Canada Now Make Use o
Canvas Tents and Iron
Stoves.
A novelist would find a verltahh
mine of data for stories of tho seven
life in the woods amoTu? any of th<
northern Indian tribes. During mi
stay among the M^ntagnals at Lak?
St John two families descended fron
their winter hunting grounds to th<
post, being forced on the way to hoi
their moeenslns and pelfries for bout
to avoid starvation. Yet these sarm
people were strong enough to trave
and attend to the necessities of theb .
enm?. ^Jjtblfi fiY5 llP?"* tnev return ,
eo again to the Torost. ?????*??
The canvas tents, which have cn
tlrely recced the native birch barl
wigwams, came into general UN
about twenty-Ova years ago. The Mrs I
Indiana to Introduce them set up theh
tents and'made camp In the space a \
an hour without having to rut th?
numerous wigwam polea or dig awa)
the snow underneath, while the olt 1
bark lodge required the snow to hi
cleared to the ground on account r> i
the flro In the center, the whole tasl
consuming about two and ons-hal'
hours. The box Iron stovea heat th<
tents very well and consume lest
wood than the open flres.?Routhen
Workman.
New Byron Memorial In Greece.
Tu further commemoration of the
poet Byron, Whose name is still deep?
ly rovered throughout Greece, the gov?
eminent haa Just passed the plans
for the arsctlon in Maaolongtan of a
suitabio monument, to he'surrounded
by a small ornamental garden, upon
tho pjxit where Lord Byron died In
April, 1824.
Already a monument exists horn in
tho "Heroon." <>r burial place ol
On sk chami Ions ol fr< edom, many ol
whose mortal remains repose beneath
a larco mound
Tho Initiative In connection with
the idea of erecting this further
memorial is due to tho prims mints
tar, M E Venifclos whose admiration
for the English poet and friendliness
for Englishmen lr> nernlly have been
demonstrated upon m< re Mian one oc?
casion
CONDEMNS THE MOTOR CAR
English Writer Says the Automobile
Tourist Missis All the Charm
of Journey.
A writer In T. P. O'Coni c.t'f Lon?
don Weekly holds that the claims of
the motor car to minister to our pleas?
ures and our education are preten?
tious, exaggerated and absurd, and as
euch are to be condemned. He boldly
asserts that the motor car sightseer
may travel hundreds of miles and re?
turn home with no other impressions
of his journey than that he stopped
for a few momenta at this or that
place for luncheon, and supped and
lodged at some other place, from
which he flashed nerxt morning sound?
ing his "honk-honk" to drtve the be?
wildered people of the country to the
side of the road, that the destroying
motor might pass in safety. He says:
"As the motcrlst whisks through
Enfleld does he ever think how
Charles and Mary Lamb "played tru?
ant and wandered among the hills"
there, making believe that the scen?
ery was as good as that of Westmore?
land? And "Christopher North?" Do
you remember how he set off to fish
in Loch Tolls, thirteen miles away;
arrived there, found he had forgotten
the top Joint of his rod, walked back,
breakfasted, tramped to the loch again,
fished all day, and then began his
Journey home? But a friendly farm?
house drew him from his track, and
midnight found him finishing a bottle
of whisky and a can of milk. When
he reached home be bad covered sev?
enty miles. But could your modern mo?
torist, with his flabby muscles and his
love of ease, do as much? In bis pas?
sion for speed be never deigns to un?
derstand the charm and suggestion of
a half-obliterated milestone or a de?
cayed signpost, to drink in the spirit
of the countryside, or attempt to sense
a life that harks back to the begin?
ning of our history."
USE FOR HOUSEHOLD PETS
Payohotoolst Saya Carte end Parrots
Would Keep Lonely People From
Committing Sololde.
A new uee for cats, parrots and oth?
er household pets has been discovered
by Dr. Colin A. Scott, professor of
psychology at the Boston Normal
school. He is reported to have said to
an audience of public school principals
In Chicago that one reason why peo?
ple commit suicide is that they feel
their own uselessnesa, and that If an
unmarried woman has a cat or a par?
rot to care for it may give her some?
thing to live for and prevent her from
taking her own life.
Anything else that awakens and
holds Interest in life would serve the
purpose equally well?a fad of any
sort, plants, a garden, whist, novels,
history, charitable work, crocheting,
votes for women. The number of pos?
sible objects to keep a woman Inter?
ested in life is unlimited. Even for
elderly and disillusioned bachelor
maids, who find the world a lonesome
place, there are countless fascinating
subjects of interest.
Perhaps cats are among the least
promising of such subjects, for cats
generally are selfish and self-centered.
They take all they can get and give
as little as they can. No woman re-al?
ly ever owned a cat The cat owns
the woman. And possibly that Is why
the psychology professor suggested
cats as preventives of suicide.
Rural Financier.
Boggs had managed to ditch his car,
and alter hailing a passing farmer
tried to arrange a dicker tor help.
"Why, ya-as, brother," said the
farmer, bringing his team to a stand?
still. "I'll help ye out. Le's see
what it'll come to?one day's use o'
the team, |5?"
"One day ?" retorted Boggs. " Tisnt
going to take ycu a day to haul that
machine out, is It?"
"Why no, returned the farmer,
"but artcr 1 git the $5 1 don't callate
to do no mor" work ontil to-morrer."
? Harper's Weekly
American Manners.
Frederick Townsend Martin, at a
dinner In New York, criticised Amer?
ican manners wittily.
"Kipling," he said, "declares truly
that a gentleman has manner, while a
would-be gentleman has manners.
We should remember that. We lay
too much stress on such details as
taking off our hats when we go up In
the elevator with a scrubwoman.
"In fact, in everything, we seem to
search too uneasily for the correct,
the modish, course. A society editor
told me the other day that be had
fust got a letter from a young wom?
an that ran:
" 'Dear Editor?Please state who
should keep up the Instalments on the
ring when the engagement is broken
off.' M
AH That Was Left.
A lar^o boarding house caught fire
during dinner and much confusion re?
sulted After the '.vorst was over ihe
landlady, who wn? a i htl >scp! h :il
soul, remarked that it was a blessing
thai the Ore had not happen* d at
night, as some life might hav< i>.?ti
lost
A little later the col >r< I boy. who
heard tbls, mysteriously railed her
aside and caution ly exhibited n great
bunch ol dark langled bnli "Don't
say nothln*. N I ? Vorn," he whispered
"1 ?h Hab Is wors< don i' 'p< ???> (>1""
o' item In He in b room ovah d<> U
beri v ?na . r? i burnt up I hen up
dar to nee in' I found her hair.'*?La?
? Ii? i Iom< low nal
A SANITARY INSPECTION.
Dr. Jan. A. Hayne, >tat? Health Of?
ficer Makro an Official VMl and In?
spects ilttll, Depot* and Hutcli
New Rules to Ik* Enforced.
Dr. J. At Hayne, State health of?
ficer, and secretary oi the South Car?
olina State Board of Health was in
Sutnter Frldi y to confer with the !< cal
health authorities and the coun y
physician about th?- enforcement of
the new State board rules and regu?
lations governing hotels, boarding and
lodging houses, restaurants, ? afes, de?
pots, etc and for the purpose of In?
specting the county jail and seeing
about the custom <.f Incarcerating
with other prisoners those afflicted
with tuberculosis and other com
munica ble diseases.
Dr. Hayne was accompanied in
jail Inspection by Dr. w. E. Mills,
president of the local board of health,
I >r. C. J. Lemmon, county physician,
and Health Officer E. I. Reardon.
Tii?- State health officer found the
plumbing in the jail in an unsanitary
Condition, that the Window and door
wire screens were broken or had holes
in many <.f them, that there were no
provisions for making prisoners take
I i b;ith and washing and disinfecting
their clothing before being placed in
the jail, that no cuspidors or buckets
I a:.- provided in the cells, and these
I matters were ordered attended to im?
mediately. A shower bath for prison?
er's was- suggested as the most con?
venient and sanitary method of bath?
ing.
Dr. Hayne condemned in strong
terms the inhumane and dangerous
practice of forcing helpless prison?
ers to remain in the same room or
cell with those afflicted with tubercu?
losis or other communicable diseases.
He said that the State laws forbid
cruel or unnecessary harsh treat?
ment of prisoners and that the prac?
tice of confining well human beings
with tuberculosis patients or other
contagious diseases was a violation of
the law against cruel treatment of
prisoners.
He said that the local board of
health's authority is practically un?
limited in all matters where the pub?
lic health is endangered. He advised
the president of the local board to for?
bid any more tuberculosis patients
or any others suffering with conta?
gious diseases being placed in the
same cells or rooms with well prison?
ers.
He said that the attorney general,
the state health board, or any circuit
court judge would see that the orders
of the local health board are carried
out.
Dr. Hayne further said that the
Sumter county jail is too small lor
the number of prisoners often con?
fined therein. That the jail is not
creditable to a county of Sumter'a
size and well known progressive < Itl
xenship,
That the county commissioners
should enlarge the jail or build an?
other larger and more modern suni-1
tary Jail whichever thej deem d j
wisest. That if it is nol de? m? d ad?
visable to build another .jail that a
hospital for sick prisoners with sepa?
rate wards f? r communicable diseases
should be built in connection with
ib.- present jail.
Thal th.m missioners should
provide, outside of the Jail, a place
with shower bath for incoming pris?
on.!.-, a place to thoroughly wash
and disinfect their- clothing, and that
where prisoners have no change of
clothing the county should keep on
hand overalls for such cases while
their clothing jusl washed Is being
dried.'
The jail was found in a ' ban and
sanitary condition e\i.pt as noted
above for which Jailer Owens is not
responsible. The prisoners said they
were amply fed and considerately
treated by the jailor.
Dr. Hayne will take up with the
county commissioners by letter the
matters be dCSlt'CS remedied.
In regard to the sanitary rules
governing the management of hotels,
restaurants, cafes, lunch looms, meat
markets, bakeries, etc. Dr. Hayne
conferred with 'be president of the
local health hoard nnd health officer.
The state health officer said that In?
spectors of the State board of health,
and of the department ol commerce,
industries, and agriculture, will en?
force these laws in conjunction with
tbe local health board and health of
ii, t?r. The Stat.- heallh otttcei w ill
send a number of copies of the regu?
lations to the lo.ai health othVer for
distribution among those who are re
(|iiired l?y law to observe the?*e regu?
lations in the conduct of hot, :.-, res
laurants, hoarditiK and lodging h uises,
bakeries, meat markets, depot., man
it fact tiring establishments, etc.
al health oM
with the -hits "!
nea r? si magistral
lu dih oiii? er ill
I I'd
regu
All il
l.itie i?
itlon. Thi
w ill be - tit
(ou thorn liailwa) a gen
pies oi the regulation
governing depo;?, tr tint, etc.
I Dr. H;?n cpoke in \-ry compli?
mentary erms ol :-jrr.tei '.- progress
and sti ted that there was more in
terest displayed in r*umter in general
sanitati? n man any place he knew 01".
He was therefore - irpriaed that Hum*
ter county had s jail which Is not in
keeping with the rest of the city and
county,
Th?- Ti'-^i ?? tuberculosis patient
who was conhned in the jail, by the
name ol Farmer has been released
from further service of his sentence.
The local health officer, backed up
by I ?r. Mills, the president, and the
entire health board, has mads a strong
tight for better jail conditions and
against placing tuberculosis patients
I In the county jail. The grand jury
has condemned the Inhumane and
dangerous custom, ;tnd has condemn?
ed the jail as Inadequate in size, un
Sanitary, and otherwise unsuited for
a county like Sumter.
If the committee on Health and
Sanitation of the Chamber of Com*
merce, the physicians of Bnmteff
county, and the county legislative
delegation will now get together and
back up th?- county supervisor and
county commissioners, who want to
do something, a larger and more
sanitary jail, with hospital conven?
iences will probably he started short?
ly.
1 >r. Hayns -aid that he desired to
Impress upon the Bumter people, and
all others that in this da: <>f world?
wide interest in sanitation that a city
county, or State could get no better
advertisement than by maintaining
proper sanitary conditions. That the
little town of Hartsville had already
become famous throughout the coun?
try by virtue of its tight against mos?
quitoes, and that Hartsville's sanitary
measures and mosquito warfare were
the subject of a long article in the
"World's Work" magazine.
Chambers of Commerce are rnag
nitieent organizations. But Dr. Hayne
contends that a well organized, well
equipped, working health department,
and an intelligent, efficient, and hust?
ling health officer are the very best
advertisements a city can possibly
have under any circumstances. A
citizenship interested in sanitary con?
ditions, Dr. Hayne thinks, is the best
possible kind of town or city-building
citizenship. The health department
and chamber of commerce are in
seperably linked together (or adver?
tising and progressive purposes, and
should work together.
Dr. Hayns congratulated the local
health authorities on their successful
warfare against mosquitoes, on their
fight against tuberculosis. on their
tew eases of typhoid fever occurring
in Sumter, (four for 1912) and urged
better drainage, and a persistent ight
on the part of the health officials for
constantly Improving sanitary condi?
tions.
Dr, Hayne went to Bennettsvtlle
from sumter.
1 IKI MI N PREPARE roil TR!I\
Animus to tao to Faycttcville to Con?
ler*! in North Carolina Tournament,
The hie h..ys aie getting more and
more interested in the proposed trip
t.. Fayetteville to the North Carolina
State Firemen's Tournament which
is to he held on the tt, 21 and 25th
of this month. All plans for the trip
have been made and the hoys will be?
gin their practising Monday after?
noon on Washington street, so as to
he in shape for the races.
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
has granted tree transportation for
the horse and wagon and other equip?
ment and reduced rates for the lira
men and others attending the tourna?
ment and the Sumter h rys hope to
me,t with no impediment which will
prevent their going. As they pay all
of their own expenses ami are ab?
sent from the city only two days it is
probable that the members of coun?
cil will not object, especially as it is
by such races that the Interest in the
company is kepi up. The first prise
carries with it a reward of ||6S and
the Sumter boys are especially anxious
to win this and feel sure that they
can do it if they can get their horses
to run in good form, as they know
that they are right there on the con?
nections
a great many attractions have been
arranged it Fayetteville for the tourn?
ey and the Itoys expect a big time if
they go. '?ne of the features of the
race will he the contest sgalnst New
hem, which team carries the int? r
natiotial record for the 200 yard race
to s!|o\\ water.
.lust because a man happens to he .
newspaper man Is that any rea*oi
why he should not be allowed th<
same privilege as other rltlsens?
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