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The Fork Shoals Hydro Eledtric Development (Written for The Item ft] V. C. Car won.) fleed' River, | small <ir.-.im Mowing through th?? rolling red ? la> land* of Oreenvllle anil Lau re nit counties ymp tie? Into the Jhtludu river about for? ty mile* south of Oreenvllle and fif? teen miles south of Laurent The riv? er Mows through a country famous for Its well cultivated farms and Vor its Industrious people In n <? *??? t!on "f ?SJ| st.ue have I seen ho many i?r?-tt\ countiv homes, with houses* painted, lawns and heoge*. garden orchards, and ftOWSI gardens as on a recent trie from Fountain livn- to Fork. Shout*. Fork Rhi?aln rs an old settlement and has one of the first cotton yarn mills that was erected In the Stute. The mill was first run directly ft) water power, hut within the last few \ .\u s ? modern plant for electric power has been erec ted about a mile below the mill and something over flOO horse power Is delivered at the mill whi< h now runs clay and night. The dam 1? at one of the numerous raptils on the river and is ahout lr?0 yards long and 1?'? feet high and hacks up water for about two miles, mak? ing a narrow quiet pond of one of the most turbulent of streams. From the dam rune a steel flume live feet In diameter and uhout ' 00 feet long to the site of the power house. The power house is a stone and wood af? fair on top of rather high foundations but when one realizes that at high water even the power house was ut? most covered one has u greater re s|m . t for Reedy river. From the flume the water passes into I greut "horizontal turbine which Cheap Rates ?via? Atlantic Coast Line ISLE OF PALMS, S. C. SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S C. $2.75 to $4.55 t0{ MYRTLE BEACH. S. C. ; Ticket* gold May Hist ami on each Saturday to and Including September 13th. 1913. limited to reach Sumtcr returning prior to midnight Monday next following date of sale. $5.00 to WRIGHTSVILL BEACH, N. C. WILMINGTON. N. C. Ticket* sold each Tfiursday?June 3th to and Including* Septem? ber 11th. 1913. limited to reach Sumtcr returning prior to mid? night of tin* gggfgfjfl Monday following date of sale. Excursion Rates North and East?For any Informa? tion, address T. C. WHITE, Gen. Past. Agt. Wilmington, N. C. 0. V. PLAYER, Ticket Agent, Sumter, 3. C Ii rated at live hundred horsepower. The turbine It belted to a three hun? dred horsepower alternate current dynamo which delivers Its cut rent at about three thousand volts. Th,*' cur? rent li carried t?> the mill on three small wites where it runs the motors for the machinery. The dam at the power house was erected by a South Carolina contract? ing firm and cost about fifty thous? and dollars The western half of the dam Is higher than the eastern half, and here are situated the gates to the flumes and to the sluice of waste water. Over the lower eastern half the wa? ter flows at high water. The lower curve of the dam is so calculated that the water flows over it smoothly and has no greater velocity at the bottom than at the top. This is to prevent erosion of the dam by falling water. At seasons of high water more than five hundred horsepower may be de? veloped ho a gate for another flume is provided for future use. The wa? fer wheel itself is encased in steel and its speed is regulated by a gov? ernor ho that it scarcely varies more than one or two per cent. This reg? ulation is necessary for the size of the yarn at the mill depends upon the speed of the machinery. Besides the Fork Shoals plant there are numbers of others on Reedy Hiver. In fact the whole stream .s one succession of rapids or fallH af? ter another. At Batesville, sixty horse? power; at Camperdown, 75; at Con estae, four hundred fifty; Pelham, sev? en hundred; Vardry, one hundred tirty; Watts, thirteen hundred; and others of less horsepower still to be developed. I was told that there were live power sites within fifteen miles of Fork Shoals some of them already , developed. You may talk about gold mines but Just figure out the above at twenty-five dollars per horse power year, the price which the Southern Power Company gets for its primary power, and then remember that when (a concrete dam is once erected it is there practically for all time, and finally remember that the State of South Carolina has given these sites away without ahy reservation what? ever. ?I Every Dog Has His Day. To be worried with the dreaded I mange. When your dog gets it, don't worry. Strike a bee line for Hearon's Pharmacy or Sibert's Drug Store and get a 50 cent bottle of Osteen's Mange Cure. Soon aftee applying the mange will disappeard and your dog will at the same time become normal and healthy again.?Ad\t. _L_ GEE WHIZ! H. N. KRASNOFF 6 CO. The crowds were so large we were compelled to close the doors in order to serve the trade properly. Were you among the happy thousands in the Purchasing line last Saturday? If not, you still have a chance to take advan? tage of this opportunity to secure high-class merchandise at Schloss Bros, and Isaan Hamburger Clothing, $1.98 to $18.65; Walk Over and Banister Shoes $1.98 to $3.90; Stetson. Knapp and Roelon Hats in Felt at $2.35; Dollar Mark. Cowhide and Bowman Overalls, at 79c; Cluett Shirts at 42c to $1.36; Underwear 14c to 79e. THE STORE OF WITH THE BANKRUPT SALE HAS INDEED TAKEN THE CITY BY SURPRISE BANKRUPT PRICES South Main St. Next to Gas Ottice Crosswell Block ANTI-SALOON Lf AGUE OF SUMTER COUNTY "And Thy Nti&kfar as Thysel+" The recipient of this letter, a most highly respected cltisen of our coun? ty, has urgently requested that it be made public, believing that those who read it, and just THINK, will ?urely Mnd tor thorn .solves the answer to this question of dispensary or no dispensary. Ah the author of this letter, 1 sin? cerely trust that no one who reads it may feel he can detect a spirit of: pedestalismi (a new word) OU my part in making it puhlio. Personal rea? sons prevent my disclosing my frlend*s name. THE AUTHOR, j i Bumter, S. C, May 4th, inn. j My Dear Friend: 1 have read carefully your kind lot- 1 ter of tin- third, and before 1 attempt! a reply, I wish to make an observa? tion here which seems entirely tilting. it has always given me great pleas? ure to seek your advice of both a business and moral nature, and you have never failed me. 1 have felt and apprec iated the strengthening inrlu-| ence of our friendship, and I wish you to feel that 1 now appreciate the motive which prompts you to ask me why I oppose the re-establishment of the dispensary. You have not so stat? ed in your letter, but I know that you are seeking a cleaer light on the sub I ject, and that you wish to change your 1 views, provided you lind mine to be logical and sincere. It did not surprise me to know yon had signed the petition. Many good men besides yourself signed it. I am ! Just about the last man in the world who could rightfully criticize anybody I for signing it, for had It been pre-* sented to me eight weeks ago, 1 would have signed it willingly. My mind ' does change quickly, but it generally carries me clear over. Please be pa tient till I tell you how I got over on this. I About eight weeks ago I had the pleasure of a short railway trip with a gentleman whom we both highly re? spect and admire, and I think you will j know who I mean when I say he is one of our leading educators. Among other things we talked liquor. 1. re 1 marked that it would please me to see the dispensary re-etsablished here. He 1 asked me why? I tried hard to And some more enti. ely convincing reason than that we need the money, but to save my life I could think of none. At last 1 think he took pity on my pre? dicament, and said: New see here . I will not advance a single argument against the dispensary but I will say just three words to you, and if you use'the throe words, and fail to see this question my way, i will admit that your side has merit, from your standpoint anyhow. 1 asked him for the three words, and he gave them like this. You Just Think. 1 laughed and said, all right, but after he left me 1 began to know that ho had loaded me down with an awful re? sponsibility. N?>w I realize why this man has gained a tiational reputation . for his schools He never tries to drive an idea in. He sows the good seed, and fertilizes them rlghly with sincerity and a good living example. The inborn endowment of the true spirit of human nature does the rest of the work for his pupils. Well, at llrst that thought was about as big as a newborn mosquito, but awful busy, believe me. Now It Is bigger than 1 am, by a whole lot. Ev eiy now and then I scale, oft an Idea with which to back up my growing convictions on this subject, and My Friend, some of them make the ice? berg that sunk the TltantiC, seem to my rnind like a summer icicle. Before 1 enxage the moral side of this question, wish to unfold for you a f? w tacts in regard to our late county dispensary in the light of a purely business institution. You are a business man and a former, and it wont lie hard for you to follow the thought. For the last three years we had it here, its average yearly sales were two hundred and eighty-live thousand dol ' lars. In round numbers, fifty thous? and dollars of that represented the so- I called profit, which was turned over to the county and city government. | This leaves a deficit of nearly a quar? ter of a million dollars gone c lear out of this county, never to return, to which you must add the Good Lord knows how muc h to account tor wast? ed energy, lost health and morals, crime. Insanity, and everything else that the consumption of Honor stands for, and against which eivllsatlon and Christianity take a firm stand. it is beyond human power to place u mone> valuation on the amount of uctual wreckage that lies in the wake of 'his yearly business of two bundled und eighty-live thousand dollars, out of which \n e are gathering a supposed profit oi tilts thousand dollars As a business man I look upon It ;ts just about the rottenesl commercial invest? ment that any oommunitj under heav? en oOtild engage in And vet. wondei ? ?f vfolidcls eight ?hOll Weeks ago, 1 . t was K?r the dispensary. 1 view my past conception of this question with sincere amazement indeed. Have you not noticed that the most unsuccess? ful business men are the ones who re? gard the money drawer as the most important fixture In the store, and who fool thai they are saving money by employing cheap but questionable help, Hoes it seem that a big mer? chant might advance his business ui increase his profits in the large sense, by offering to sell liquor to his clerks? Are we really considering this direct slap in the face of progress and pros? perity, by taxing the poor and ignor? ant members of our population to the extent of these enormous yearly .-ales, every cent of which goes far beyond our borders, never to return, repre? senting a drain on our resources, not only by this large amount of money, but a direct tax on energy, thrift, morality, and health? Why man alive, if I had six boys, would 1 take a i big chance on getting five of them into I the penitentiary, that I might send ! one to college? Just name the sum that you yourself would accept for the ruin of one of your own sons? Assume that your son has sufficient stamina to t escape the risk, what attitude have I [not heard you with my own ears, ad I vise your son to hold with regard to i his neighbor, and his neighbor's son? I If. I voted for the dispensary, what 1 fairer return might I expect from i ! providence, than that one of my own boys become a drunkard? I happen to know that you gave money to help build the Y. If. C. A. and you subscribed liberally towards Iits support, 1 beg to use that fact, i coupled with a few Posslhiities, and bring them all together into your own home in the shape of an argument .which has just occurred to me. To? morrow^ your son comes home in a high stt te of intoxication. He has never been so before, and having ppJs ed the age of corporeal punishment, you decide to wait till the next day, and use moral suasion. Nex; day, then you approach him. "Son, where did you get that whiskey?" "Whv from the Y. M. C. A. father. It's good whiskey, too, for it comes from a good place." Of course that staggers you some, and you come up goggy. "But Son, I want to know what they mean by selling liquor to my boy. I gave a lot of money to help build that ' hall, and 1 pay them a large sum every year." "But father, you know they need the money. Times are hard People are behind in their dues, and new members are hard to get, and as we all think we like whiskey, or most of us, they get along quite nicely from a financial standpoint, by giving us all the whiskey we want at so much per bottle. They are selling a good deal Of it to the boys too. One of the fel? lows went home the other night, and slapped his sister's face, and cursed his mother." "But my son, they have no right to sell it. The Y. If, C. A. is founded and maintained with ita sole object to guide young men into avoiding the very thing that they have now lead you directly Into do? ing." "But father, they don't make 1 us buy it. They Just tell us it is there for us when we want it. 1 will try I to cut it out if you object, but it must be all right if the Y. If. C A. sells it." 'Hut son, they must stop selling it. I will use every means in my power to bring this outrage before the people It will be a fine condition of things indeed when our institutions for the moral guidance of the youth must en? gage In the liquor trafllc in order to meet their expenses. 1 will resign as a member." "Well father, if that is the way you feel about it, you might as well move out of this State and be done with it. You singed that pe? tition for the dispensary election, and you say you will vote for It. You could never convince me that it i? wrong for the Y. If, C. A. to sell 11 i quor or for me to drink it when you are willing for our very government itself to sell it, and for everybody else except me to drink it. our local government here don't need the mon? ey any more than the Y. If, C. A. dos. The two institutions are found? ed on the same broad principles. We learn from our government that there are two ways to go, u right and a wrong way, They teachus that the wrong way. They teach us that the into jail, or the gallows. They teach us that the right way bads into peace and prosperity, and a place of honor among our fellow men. Tell itir fath? er, in what way does our government differ from the Y. M. C. A. as regards the maintenance ol society, and the advancement of civilisation? No father, talk amounts to naught when it lacks the backing of utter sincerity of purpose, an?! u good example It you go down there tomorrow, and take youi name off that petition, the chances are I, as your son, will feel the same wish tu avoid the pitfall f<>r myself, for In the eyes of Qod, i am of no greater value than your neigh? bor's son. i diu not gel tin* bottle from the Y. M. C. A. anyhow, and 1 don't believe that there is a man in this county today with enough money to buy a half pint from them, as bad as I know they need the money. 1 bought this liquor from a blind tiger. I did not think you cared much, be? cause you did sign that petition you know, and that means a heap more to your boy than you think." Now. my good friend, what are you going to say to that boy? You are not going to say a word to him 'till you get your name off that petition, for he has you down to the mat with a toe holt. No, you are just going to Think, the same as I did. They say we should have the dis? pensary back because certain people break the laws. Blind tigers, social clubs, etc. Of course they do. When the time comes with us that people ( ease to break the laws, we can tear Idown the court houses and jail, and I discharge all the judges. Taxation I would be about half a mill or less. The things we need is Enforcement of the laws. If I had six boys, and one of them harder to manage than all the rest, is that a good reason for me to let them all go to the Devil? Ar.fc n, they say we will fall to en? force prohibition here until the Na? tional Government forbids the mak? ing or importation of liquor. True enough. True also, however that a majority of the States must become prohibition by legal enactment be? fore the National Government can take a hand. Please pardon this long letter. I became interested in the subject, and forgot even the time. It is so dark now I can scarcely see to write. When you come down next week, I trust you ' will not forget to come in for a lit? tle chat as usual. In closing, I wish to say this. From the bottom of my heart. I find not the slightest feeling of criticism towards any man who signed that petiton. Morally. I am ! just the average man. Like most young men who have had their own wav to go, I feel that in my youthful haste down the highway of life, I have passed and missed many of the best things we are allowed to live for. Fate has been extremely kind to me in many ways, however, and one of the greatest blessings I now possess is a happy home, and a growing confi? dence in, and regard for my fellow man. After considering my own case, I feel convinced that our people will take this question to heart and if they do, the result is sure. Any man who puts his hand on his heart and looks straight to his God for the answer will net fail to get this thing right. Yours most sincerely, T. B. Jenkins. I j Note: The undersigned were ap 1 pointed as a committee to formulate I and publish a letter to the public bearing on the dispensary question. .Mr. Jenkins as a member of this com? mittee has submitted the above letter to us, stating that the man who re? ceived it has requested its publication. We heartily indorse every sentiment contained in the letter, and we feel that very man and woman who reads it will easily find in it the touch of human nature that makes the whole [ world kin. J. if. Chandler, D. W. Cuttino, Committee. Friends, this is going to be a hard and expensive campaign. We need both moral and financial support. Slip us a little change right now while your mind is on it. Yes, we need the money too. Fill In this blank and mail it today. ____________ D. W. Cuttino, Treasurer, Sumter, S. C: Please put my name down as a member of the Sumter County Antl Saloon League. If my name appears on any petition calling for a dispen? sary election, I authorize you to re* move It at once. Find enclosed here? with!.as my subscription offering. Signed. We want every human being of any age or sex as members of this league. Come right in, the water is tine.?? Alivr- _ MBS. APPELT ASKED TO KESIGN. - Reported for Not (living PoMtoftice Work Personal Attention. Washington, May 19.?The first as? sistant Postmaster General has called for the resignation of Mrs. Appelt as postmistress at Manning, because the inspectors report .shows that she is not attending to the office personally. This is carrying out the policy recent? ly announced by the Postmaster Gen? eral, that postmasters must give their personal attention to the business of their offices. It is Stated that the res? ignation of Mrs. Appelt will be ac? cepted, if tendered immediately. For some little time the postoffice department has been conducting quiet investigations all over the country to see if postmasters are paving the proper personal attention to their work, and it is likely that there will be a good many other cases slmllsr to that at Manning.