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"4ur oOlauoutui an? S?Utlinm. e> -TcmI m% ihr fuMoriUt- at Susufetr, 8. C. ?* ofi? i inm Mauer. Mr Oeo. M. Saunders. of Stateburg, was in town Frida?'. Messrs. R. I. Moaning and John H. Clifton went to Columbia Friduy morning o attend the meeting of the State executive committee, of which the former is a member from thia county. Mr Edwin Branson went to Co? lumbia Friday morning. Mr* Fr?d Gregg and ion, A'fred and eistet:-. Misses Nell and Julia, have returned from Fort Norfolk, Va., after a pleasant visit of two veeks at that place. Mrs. M R. Wll/on. and daughters. Misses Dvie and Elolse Wilson, and Miss Salhe Drown have retuined from a stay at Montreat. N. C. Miss Evs Hall has returned to Ral? egh, N. C. after a short visit to her irents in this city. Mr Macy Rowland. lormerly of 'f -nderson. N. C . has moved his fam? ily to this city and Is now residing wnere he Is in the employ of the At lsntlc Coast Line railroad. Miss Roberta Williamson of Sum? ter Is visiting her sister. Mrs. R. F. Ives on South Dargan street.?Flor? ence Times. Miss Llllth Hulrwlnkle. of Charles? ton. I* vtsting Miss Althea Reardon. Miss Katie Alexander, of Florence, Js visiting Miss Althea Reardon. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Tolar have re? turned to th? city after a stay in the moutnalns of North Carolina. Miss M. C. Jacobs has returned to spending several weeks nd other pl.xces. . A, V. Snell returned irday morning after a two weeks stay nt New York on a visit to relatives of Mr. Snell. Mr. Hammond Bowman Is at home from the United States Naval Aca? demy at Annapolis to spend his vaca? tion here. l>r. and Mrs. J. LaRruce Ward, of ?Georgetown, are visiting relatives In the city. Mr. O. T. Sanders, of Hagood, pass? ed through the city Saturday morning -on his way to Columbia. Mr and Mr?. J. C. Cotton have re? turned to the clt> aft**1 > si.i wirb frond* inn n ? > ? . I Cshmliffield canal* Mr. gheri? y r Solomons. >f Troy, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. chwerin, left Monday morning trlcston and other points. Mayo Rees has returned to la after staying for two weeks wttn relatives In the city. Mr. Will e Marshall spent tho week? end at hoi )p from Manning. Miss Stade Dick returne 1 frugal Darlington Saturday where she has ?o n the guest of Miss Hulcn Woods Mrs. R. M. Jenkins and Miss Elolse Jenkins, of St. Charles, were in the city Monday. Dr. J. M. Quattlebaum. of Columbia, spent Sunday with Mr. und Mrs. J. L. McCallum. Miss Helen Wood?, of Darlington, I* the guest of Miss Susie Dick on Cald weli street Supervise r P. M. Pitts returnel from Hartsvllle Monday morning, wher? he spent the week-end. en? joying a one-day holiday. Mlaj Ines Rethea spent the week? end at Blshopvllle. Miss Laurel Cavr is in Florence spending her vacation at that place. Miss Bridget Gallagher has return? ed to the city after a two weeks' stay tt Baltimore and Annapolis. Mr W. O. Ccurtwrlght, of Savan? nah, Is visiting in the city. Messrs R. J. Llntott and Fred Fed? eral, of i'h ladelphla. are in the city In the interest of the McClamroch Tile and Marble Company. Mrs H (I Mill h,i< r> turned from th? mountains where she has be. n staying for sofM t M Misses Bessie and Edith Owens, of Marlon, are \ lilting Miss Mamie Ives. Neuro Run? Amuck. Willie Richardson, colored, ran amuck Saturday night and had to b* confinel In Jail to prev? hl? injuring of hu family or neighbors, Ho Is now confined In Ja?' and Is ngardtd ss craxy. A few (lav- ago OS r.turmd to th" city nfbr iotgnj away for some tltm-. He claimed to have money in a Now York bank ami went to several of tb? local banks to talk about funds <b p( a,t* I I- tho ,. institutions by htm? self. At the tluo- b,. waa not nir mi? ed ss dan-r? t ous. but his actions S.t utday cairaed hi* arrest. Th.- talk on tin- Hfoota Mondoj has been a^neraliy of I he eatrome hoot Sunday and the I Ittel p irt of last week. STBLCkJKN BY HFAT. - Engineer llrouu of Northwestern, Rutlioud Overcome on Uuo Satur? day. Saturday morning, on his run be? tween Caniden and Sumter, Engineer Brown, of the Northwestern rallroud. was overcome by the intense heat and his train was on this account delayed foff several hours iu reachLng town. Toon his arrival he was tak?n in charge by the station master and sent up to the hospital until he re? covered from the effects of the heat. TKAIN DELAYED BY WRECKS. Two \\ reeks on Coast Line Cause*. Oreenvllle Truiii to Come In Five Hours Late. Atlantic Coast Line train No. 52 came in Sunday afternoon more than tive hours late on its run from Char? terten, the delay being caused by two wrecks on the line between Charleston and Sumter. The first wreck was near Ashepoo /unction, where train No. 82, the At? lantic Coast Line's fast passenger train between Jacksonville and New York, by way of Charleston and Sa? vannah, was delayed for many hours l y the engine leaving the track. The second wreck was a little further on where a through freight was wrecked near Oakley and a number of cars were thrown off the track. Both de? lays were very tedious and caused the Passengers much annoyance and in? convenience, and what some of those on board had to say during the wait and because of the sweltering heat would not bear repetition, nor would Uncle Sam consent to allow 9uch lan guauge to sent sent In newspapers through the malls. Those who were going off on the train also had a few things to suy about the delay, but the train came In after the wreck had been cleared away sufficiently to allow the train to proceed and after some five hours had passed. The afternoon train from Oreenvllle was running pretty much on time as usual and Monday morn? ing the Oreenvllle train was on time. The Man for the Joh. The following extract from a letter of a "Taxpayer" to the Atlanta Jour? nal is timely and applicable to the situation In Sumter in respect to the selection of a City Manaaer: [our cttisena W?j have, In our muni latpal growth arrived at Mthu parting ; i th ? traj In n .t?:riu. progress uf?oA'?? have guut ahead of our municipal advancement. This is so apparent, even to visitors, that It Is frequently commented up? on. "I do not wonder that the taxpay? ers groan when, after every heavy rain, they see dozens of immense washouts, to be filled up only to be washed out again and again. "They see no possible relief. Sew? ers, the ugh our most expensive as? sets, do not grow larger as the years go by. "Too small today, with the building of every house, the paving of every street, comparatively speaking, they grow smaller; the overflows each year are larger, more frequent and more destructive; and as the dirt with which to till up washouts become;; se trees the repairs Increase In cost with each recurrence. ' It is also, as charged, our streets are in a deplorable condition. No c?ty near our size can boast (?) of streets so bad as ours. Municipally speaking, a stitch Is not taken In time to save nine. "While something must be done to better matters, and that speedily, let us not carry the "business man" idea too far, If by "business man" Is meant one reared behind a counter or one accustomed to the soft chairs <>f a "counting room." 'Many cities have, to their detri? ment, tried too far this Idea. "Mayors, councllmen and members of municipal boards can be made of business men, bill de not select one untrained in construction to he the head of the construction department. We tried something akin to this in nelecting our bond commission busi? ness men. A* a result city officials have informed the public that our new SChOOl bulldlBgS are mlseraUy built and that one of our newer tanks Will not hold water. "When the general governmenl de clded to build the Panama panel the president did red select a business to in to piece in ( harge, but an engi? neer, one trained in construction work and one possessing executive ability. MLel our executive heads <?f depart menta be men technically trained in tin- work they ate to have executed." Monday w u a national but thsi fact did not prevent OOl loot OT I from belnf out f. reo? Porty ?ihres balei of cotton were sold hers Saturday in iking a total of 5*0 for the week. holld i ^. ib.- bill in full EM VEST H ? AT U> N TOO LATE. Effort Should He to Keep Improper rYanorn oil i*oii Lists Before Klee tiuns. U was stated by a well known. cLti ?en of this city Saturday that, In his : opinion, the contests and protests filed before the State and county ex OCUtlVe committees would not nmourt to much, as the proof of P r-*t;ulariiy after the election would be hard to Ket, Ho stated that in ins opinion the only way to regulate the primaries and to see that they were regular and that there was no fraudulent voting was to have an investigation of the rolls before the primary and to see that there were no names on them that should not be there and to see that no person voted at the primary whose names was not on the club roll. He said precautions must be taken be? fore hand and investigations would be needless after the primary election. KILLED A HORN SN AKE. I*. B. llaggott Killed Snake ut Sumter .Junction Several Days Ago. Several days ago Mr. P. B. Baggott, section master on the Southern Rail? way, had the unusual experience of killing a large horned or sting 3nake while engaged in his duties on the road at Sumter Junction. The snake wag five feet six inches long and had a horn on the end of its tail about an inch In length. In this horn was a sting very much like a wasp's sting this probably being the reason for the name of the reptile. The snake had 75 eggs which were prevented from hatching by the arrival of Mr. Bag? gott and the death of the snake. The Solution of the South'* Cotton Problem.. I have read during the past fall and winter the appeals of Southern governors, the chambers of com? merce, of agricultural societies and Farmers' Unions, of bankers and bus? iness men, urging farmers of the South to lessen the production of cot? ton; and side by side with these ap? peals 1 have read in the papers of the terrible suffering of men throughout the world for the want of adequate clothing. I have known and all of us have known, despite our increased production of cotton, that the world is' not yet adequately clad. Thousands J of pep., die am i!lj toi wan; >f the leery raiment i > ' wad*1 mt of cot-l tor., tl 6 product! itch we arel L, to le*U ! ' ..- realized duction of cotton or impoverish our? selves In cultivation under existing conditions, and this has brought me to the knowledge that these condi? tions are wrong, for God has given to each of us the instinct to make two bales of cotton grow where one grew before, and we are educating our fanner boys with this aim in view, that they shall produce more and more each year than their fathers produced before them. But how can ihey work out this God-given instinct and how shall our teaching be other than a failure if we shut our cotton within the borders of the United States by building up a tariff wall against the product of other coun? tries? Foreign trade is but an ex? change of products and is not, and cann??t be, paid for in gold. The cot? ton crop alone would take for its pur? chase all of the gold in the world in a very few years. No. my country? men, let us cease this folly. Let us break down these high walls of pro? tection built around us for the sake of monopoly; let us turn in the for? eign goods of which our Republican brethren are so much afraid. Then we will see a demand for high prices and for more cotton than you can possibly produce, and the God-plant? ed instinct of every man to create more and more will tind its full play and our agricultural education will cease to be a humbug and a farce. Why shall we teach how to grow I more and then combine to prevent the growth of more? I admit our present need along this line. 1 admit the absolute wisdom at this moment Of lessening the cotton production, but I deny the sense, the morality, of continuing th ? conditions which have foroed this necessity upon t.s.?Ex? tract from tie- last Undelivered BupoOCh of Charles B. Aye ?< k. Lei US Hope ami Trust. I lartaVllle Messenger. Though the way looks dark and the pathway drear In South Carolina) we should ever bray and strive that the forces may be subdued. Just so sure ai the sun shims the right wir prevail, and though it requires paii.nee in awaiting the dawn of a b< tt< r daj. politically, th it day is coming Bnd we predict it is not far off The ior.f hands doing the grad? ing on the South Carolina Western Railway In 'hi-- city <??.? bud at it They are now building a curve to the right from Green street up i ?wurds Magnolia street, WARM WEATHER EXPECTED. Weather Bureau Makes Prediction loe Week. Washington Sept. 1.?Warm weath? er over the middle Western and in the Eastern and Southern States Is predicted f<?r the coming week by the weather bureau. Temperatures below* normal are announced for the Northwestern States, the Rocky Mountain and plateau regions and the Pacific coast States. showers in the Northwestern States and in the Northern States from Min? nesota eastward are indicated by low barometric pressure which will pre? vail Monday and Tuesday. This dis? turbance probably will move eastward to the Mississippi valley by Wednes? day and prevail In the Eastern States the latter part of the week. There are no present Indiactions. according to the weather bureau, of a disturbance In the Wast Indies. Women Who do Not Marry. (By Polly Paget.) Every nice, ordinary commonplace woman knows that it will be a hap? pier lot for her if she marries than if she remains single. Because she is nice she knows also that marriage without love is a bondage so dreadful that she could not even contemplate It, and she must therefore face the possibility of end? ing her days in single blessedness. If she Is wise, she will cheerfully face the poasibility whilst youth i* still hers, and facing it, so fill up her life that it snail be neither lonely nor unprofitable. The one thing no woman can ever bear in meekness of spirit is the knowledge that she is not necessary to the happiness of some one. The woman who does not marry should surround herself with treas? ures. She may still live in the old home, may have only her own room to deck and tend, yet the girl who will find her unmarried lot not only bearable but full of happiness, is ^he who will take the same amount of interest in slocking her bottom drawer as though an engagement ring decorated her finger. The woman who does not marry must make her interests, yet having attained them they are hers for all times, as are the friendship and love she wins. In order to keep youn? in sp!r:? she must keep In touch with youth In the world much eork is I waiting t' be noi *. \ lagra'a Nations * . >??..? Savannah Morning Newt Pellagra continues to spread. The other day a woman died from an un? mistakable case of this disease at Hornell, N. Y. It Is said to be :he first on record in New York State and has attracted great interest as such. It did not ocur in any of the large cities and could not have been im? ported from any other region, It had its whole history in the heart of rural New York. How little the people there know about the disease as yet may be inferred from the explanation in a New York Times special that "pel? lagra is the medical term for hook? worm, which has been more preval? ent in the South than elsewhere." Of course, there is no kin whatever be? tween pellagra and hookworm, so far as .present medical knowlege goes. Hookworm belts the warmer re? gions of the world, occurring farther north only in mines, tunnels and oth? er special conditions of that kind. On this Continent north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers it apparently has very little hold. Not so with pellagra. That disease is about as prevalent throughout Ilinois as In any Southern State. It has found many yicttmi all over the Middle West. Now It has found a Victim in the East. Unlike hookworm, it appears to be encour? aged by strong sunlight from brilliant skies rather than by high winter tem? peratures. As the former condition obtains hardly less in the northern than the southern half of the country pellagra is not prev< nted by climate from pervading bo'h. It is thus not only a nationa. problem, like hook? worm, because of its importance, but also because of its sweeping extent. And, whereas, wo now understand hookworm and are dealing with it ef? fectively, the far deadlier disease re? mains an unsolved problem atlll. Marriage License Record. i'barley Singleton and Lizzie Brad? ley, colored, oi Sumter, sectored a marriage license and were married by the deputy clerk of courl Sunday. The county books of registration l were opened Monday for the first time in two months and there ware ?iiiite a number ot persons on band when the office was opened Monday morning t" secure their registration .. rtlllcatcs. Notwithstanding the fact thai Mon day was a legal holiday the regular sales of the f:r-i Monday In the month w< re held, s go< d crowd ; ein \ in ai i. ndance upon the sales, HOW TO DECREASE WATKK DAM? AGE. Head before the South Carolina 1 Firemen'! Association in convention I at Hock Hill, B. C, by Henry B. Welle of the Newberry Fire Depart? ment. When the question of "how to re? duce the water damage" 1? correctly answered, the financial loss from Area will be reduced at least twenty five per cent. When a building that contains a stock of merchandise or I household goods is partly consumed the damage occasioned by water will, in most instances, be equal to the loss from vthe flames. It is absolutely im? possible to entirely eliminate water damage, but that damage can be, and ought to be, reduced to the minimum. It is impracticable to lay down and impossible to follow iron-clad rules in reference to this matter. No two fires originate identically in the same way or can be fought In the same manner, consequently every fireman J must be controlled somewhat by the peculiar circumstances presenting themselves at that time and be guid? ed by his former experience and best judgment. Every fireman knows that there Kre two elements of destruction connect? ed with a fire; first, the loss occa? sioned the actual burning of proper? ty; and second, damage from misdi Irected and unnecessary amount of water used in attempting to extin? guish the flames. In almost every case of partial burning of personal property the monetary loss occa? sioned by the use of too much water at the wrong place is as great as the damage from the fire itself. The first lesson a young fireman should learn Iis' that he must fight the fire and not llight the smoke. The old adage that j "where there is a smoke there must be fire" is applicable in most in? stances, but a fireman should always remember that where there Is a fire there must be smoke, and lots of it, and he must find the fire and let the smoke take care of itself. Throw wa? ter on the flames and you will put out the smoke, but If you throw water on the smoke you will only succeed in adding damage to loss and in no way extinguish the fire or stop the confla? gration. Organization Is the keystone to the arch of success in all undertak? ings of a private, public or general nature. A successful fire department is marked by the fact that the Indi '';;.! member loses his . ^dividual Ta*. b ? e? vjvi' id? rt.:t' .?* an.ru*? i foi a common purpose '.r.d for flic . 0?^?. *>ua wOeA caiu ioa.1 i the battle of Waterloo was won on the playground at Oxford; that is to say, that the great Duke of Welling? ton learned when he was a school? boy that to succeed in any undertak? ing in life he must realize the neces? sity of organization and thorough j training. His early realization of that j great principle swept Napoleon from jthe field of Waterloo and dashed to I the ground fprever a scepter and a crown. What is true of Wellington is equally true of every fireman In South Carolina. In order to succeed ! he must know that nothing practica? ble ox permanent can be accomplish? ed without thorough and complete organization and frequent and close I training. We all know tha> when : fighting a tire the pipe-man is "the , man behind the gun" and he must be J a man with a cool head, steady nerve and quick Judgment. Right there is where organization and training will j tell the most. He must be taught , that throwing water on smoke has , not and never will put out a fire. He ' must find the base of the fire and get I at it. One gallon of water at the base [ of the fire is worth more than one hundred gallons somewhere else. He ?must stick to the text: "Play low and i get close." The pipe-men of every organization are the ones who direct and control the "water damage" of this country and it ia to them that we must look for relief from this evil. They must first locate the base of the fire and then hit the spot. Any suggestion 1 might make in reference to locat? ing the base of a fire would be "car ryij g coal to Newcastle" so far as the trained city fire departments are concerned, as they are organised, j trained and directed by veteran firemen far more able to sug- ? st than 1 am. However. I i v ill take the risk of being guilty of ihe indiscretion of "talking of war in the presence of Hannibal" and will say a few words alontf that line to some of my brother firemen who. like myself, claim a country town as their local habitat. In case you lo? cate the Are in a cellar, get your noz? zle through a window, door or cut a o hob- in the door, anyway so that the full force of the water can hit the Arc without deflection, l??'n't ilood I the floor above the cellar and Iherebj waste the water and add to the "wa? ter damage" of the occasion. A H ? j between walls of a building is an ugly customer to handle, it le dim i cult to locate and harder to get -11 When you have once definitely locat od the base of the tire, you have won half the battle. The fire can then be fought from below or above, or both, as the circumstances and the geo? graphy of the building may suggest. Don't throw water against the wall and thereby flood the building, but go right after the lire itself. Cui a hole In the wall either above or below the base of the fire and put water to the flames in a steady stream, and ev? erything will soon be in shape for the insurance adjuster to come around with his smile or his frown as the occasion demands. In all events. I there will be but little "water dam? age"' to be paid for or reckoned with. The water damage is necessarily greater when the base of the fire Is located in the ceiling. That is one time when there is obliged to be more or less damage caused from water. It is understood that there are hun? dreds of gallons water thrown at a fire that do not actually hit the flames, and that water has to go somewhere. In this instance, the water flows through the ceiling to the floor be? neath and generally causes consid? erable damage to the contents of the building. All you can do in a case Jof this kind is to minimize the dam? age by not throwing any more water than is actually necessary to extin? guish the flames. When you have put out the tire, cut off the water. No fire department can do good and efficient service unless it is equip? ped with the best and modern apparat? us for fighting fire. Loyalty, enthu? siasm and ability in a fireman can count out little when he has to fight fire with an Inadequate water supply, rotten hose and imperfect nozzles. A town that is so "penny wise and pound foolish" as to attempt to economize on its fire department sooner or later pays dearly for its mistake. A fire department is like a Texans' pistol, he doesn't need it often, but when he does he needs a good one and needs it quick.. Most of the towns in this State that h. ?re 'up-to-date fire departments have been taught that lesson and have paid the price. A department that is equipped with modern apparatus can and will reduce the "water dam? age" to such an extent that the amount saved would pay for the equipment in a.few yesrs. Another way to help reduce water damage is to keep outsiders out and .away from the building so that they will not interfere with the work of the firemen. When a fire oc ry,T9 ty* ??->'>,, *"-.? . -v' fl ?. AS? T It. ' 1 *;? the OfOWd ?*. re nee vent ? >m ?oir... the efaV e <*nt work they cot.'. otb . ?. t&e -ir . y - . ? .. pipe-me n &r< pushed and shoved about by the crowd, it is a physical impossibility for them to. put the water where they ought to put it and the damage from water Is increased to that extent. In case you reach a fire In its infancy, such as an explosion of a lamp, or a small fire in a store, it is best to use a chemical extinguisher or a small nozzle, size about 3-8 of an inch. Nozzles of this size are made in connection with the regular shut off nozzles and either can be used in? dependently of the other, By that means a conflagration C?n be effect? ively prevented with little or no water damage. These suggestions are grounded on the supposition that you have reached the scene of the fire before it has gained much head? way. Of course, if you reach a build? ing when it is on fire from cellar to roof, there is nothing to do but to sail in with gloves off, regardless of "water damage." or anything else, except to extinguish the flames and keep the fire from spreading to ad? jacent buildings. The duty of a fireman is two-fold, viz: to protect property and to save lives that may be imperiled. His elm should be not only to extinguish a fire, but to do so in such a manner as to keep down property loss to the owner and financial loss to the insurance company. A fireman should use as much effort to save un burned property from damage as he uses in extinguishing the fire itself. There are many other ways to de? crease water damage, but these few suggestions are presented to this body of firemen to be taken for what they are worth. The hoisting of the big blocks of granite for the walls o;! the Bank of Sumter was an attraeti >n to a num? ber of people on the streets Monday. Father Time is a great artist?as his line work will prove. NOTICE. Notice i- hereby given that an elec? tion will ho held In Privateer school District N<>. 5, at the Bethel school Mouse. Wednesday, September 1Mb, 1912, between the hours of I a. as. and I p. m.. for the purpose of vot? ing on a two l'.' I mill addition, l extra \ >. for ?< booi purposes, By order of the County Board of i Education T. r. UODOE J, M KOLB. s. a. HARVIN. District Trustees.