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Two thouaand votera on the outside of the jail, clamoring for the life of the prisoner, whom it was the sworn duty of the aherlff to pro? tect, was evidently an over-powering spectacle to the sheriff. entrenched within with arms In his hands to make good his defense, bad he been mind? ed to vindicate his own manhood and uphold the majesty of the, ?aw. This overpowering of sher? iffs Is a polite fiction that is the cus- 1 tomary explanation of the failure of an officer to protect his prisoner against mob violence A poor ex? cuse may he better than none, but we have yet to hear of a jail being storm? ed or a aherlff overpowered when the IsM was defended by an officer who was prepared and determined to kill or be ktled in the discharge of his. duty. It is the overpoweringneas of a mob of voters and the complaisance of the average sheriff that renders the storming of Jails, the overpowering of* sheriffs and the lynching of prisoners s popular and safe pastime. nan If the Mexicans will not listen to weil meant advise to make peace In a psgceable mannn It may be neces? sary t?? remove all restrictions and let them have a free hand to settle their differences after the manner of the Balkans Then. when they get through there will not lo* enough of rnm left to formulate another revo? lution OOS The afffjuasent n*J Chnlrsnna Omsj i>f the eorren? ?onunitt?*? <?g*i?nfM the use "i i?toi, .\ar*dio"M cert III ?M(rs .?- MM'atrr*' ;?u lo.m* uci !? COUMIU lllg lo illlAlK +hyj K,,.. I norhlng g<?od collateral, save stock* an* bonds that have been listed on the New York stock exchange, but he will never convince the great mass of the people that cotton, corn, wheut or oats ttored In a bonded warehouse is not as fond secur'ty for a loan as the stock or bond* g| a railroad, bank, steel] trust harvester trust or some other corporation. If it would he unsound banking and Immoral, t>esides, to lend money on warehouse certificates, be- . < aus?? It may. perhaps, lead to specu latlop. wherein is It less unsound and less Immoral to lend money on the clsss of collateral on which Wall etrest bow lenda money to atock ex- ? ehangs speculators at one-half ths rats of interest sxacted of southern and Western banks that haws need of fuads to mov# ths crops and carry on bustnses enterprises of a productlvs charsstsr? Why 1H> We I wink More? Columbia Record Collections of "Uncle Sam's Inter? nal revenue for 1112-13 break all | previous records. according to the treasury report Just made public. There sre increases In the receipts from all sources, but especially ia this true of the Increases from liquors and tobacco, explain It as we may in vlsw of the apparent gains made by ths prohibition and other reform movement* The following are the prln< Ipal Items of Inc rease not ?? d Idstllled ?plrlta. |7.4s7.S&4.77. Manufac tured tobacco, lie hiding cigars, c igarettes arid snuff, f6,1*5* ? 173.11 Fermented IPpiors. !_'!?!? s, Jl >' These Im revs? s are recorded m spits of the fac t that I ollections of especial taxe* from retail Inpior deal? ers fell ol InJBtttl, from wholesale dealers |,?.203, fron? retail beer 11 censes $42.SSI snd from WstetOCOle beer licenses $7*.52?. It la argc.ej by BOnM that thai in? crease In the traffic and consumption of liquor at a Ilm?? when prohibition laws haw- sees aYtdelj enacted and psjsjssnjsl sustained by public optn? not m the states whore the) ha\. sees ena? t*>d. Is proof presumptive that p| ..Mbit la m ? " resp.oiiihle f.?r tin- in IM ise Apparent as tin* in is SSSSS, ho*e\cr. such an argument Is obvious |\ paradoxical ami untenable. Misuse Ruth ictui Myrtle Hnrnei rfrg I harming x.oing IndtCf ol Mulllns have rOtUmS I hntne after a week' slay with th. ti . omon? Mm*** lessb snd I ? Ol II H pet AMERICAN'S FIjY1?ESS TOWN. How the Town of Hollands, In Cali? fornia, suit-coded in ltlddlng It so If of nie??. Itedlands, California, Is not a big place, aavs the Christian Herald, but It has recently attained wide fame as the only "flyless" town in the United States. A worth while distinction for any place, big; or small, when we remem? ber the millions and millions of dis? ease-breeding flies turned loose every summer to plague man and beast. ' About a year ago the fly question was reached in Itedlands. It was high time. The weather was hot and the town seemed to swarm with these in? sects. The mayor of that city recent? ly remarked: "That 'swat the flies' advice is all wron^. There Is absolute? ly nothing to it in our town and we have made Itedlands the most un? healthy burg in the land for a tly to to live In." "Well what do you do to get rid of the tiles? the mayor was asked. "Go out In the streets of our town and see for yourself, and hunt up Chapman, our official ily-catcher. He is the only one in the world, I think, and he has made good. Hear what he has to say about files," was his re? ply. This advice was taken. At the first street corner was noticed a curious ob? ject, which proved, on close inspection to be a screened frame, twelve Inches square and over two feet high, about the sire of a big waste basket. It was a My "cage." The bottom sat about two. Inches from the ground. In this bottom was a cone-shaped scrorn, with the large opening down. Under this was placed | banana peel or other fly delicacy. Investigation demonstrated that the pests go under the screen, and the light, being above fly up into the cone and thence | through the small hole Into the cage. 1 Naturally. It wouUl take a rather smart tly to find that llitle hole again , and get out. Files Instinctively fly up and towards the light. So that the cage, with no effort whatever, ?utches flies by the thousands. It is mo complete that the duties of the municipal tiy-catcher consist sim? ply in dally halting the traps, collect? ing the tiles and burning them. Ac? cording to the report he tiled at the end of the month In office. Septem? ber. 1912. he killed 3,750.000 tiles. I He had emptied fifty gallons of flies from loo traps scattered through the business portions of Itedlands. and ho ??.Omit??i that there were 7f?,000 ? ? to l i lllon. At this rate of II - no wonder Iteldunds lyless town, present over five hundred tly traps are distributed over the little city. They are to be seen in every . plat e?in front of the municipal build? ing, the postofhee, the railroad sta? tions, many of the big shops and along the highways, but recently the daily task of the official fly-catcher has been light. It was In July a year ago that Mr. Chapmaa built his tlrst "fly-catcher" I and began experimenting. He found that if the trap could he shaded so that the light would show higher through the cone more flies would en? ter the eone. He also found that the traps on the shady side of the street would always catch more flies than those on the sunny side. It wan quickly discovered, in con? versing with Redlands', fly-catcher, that he has made a deep study of the psychology of files. He knows how. when and whsre they breed, how much damage they do and how necesjsary it is to the health of any community to get rid of the pests. "Everyone knows," he haid, "the real danger of the housefly. It has been spread broadcast until there is scarcely an intelligent community but contains people who know how the fly can carry all sorts of foul disease germs, how typhoid, tuberculosis and many other dread diseases?even in- | fsntile paralysis?can be spread by riles. mm "It probably seems to almost every householder that winter kills off all the flies; even a month of cold weath- 1 er SSeSM sutheient for this; but if you will investigate in the early spring, you will be amazed to Und mans Hies about your borne Look in your cel? lar and you will doubtless find these flies patiently dozing away around the' hot air pipes, in corners of the celling, in the rafters and crevices around the kindling piles, behind barrels and boxes stored away, and in many such pmces. In the early April days, or in the South, as early ai the Aral of March. the female tly thst so cleverly lucked herself away in some warm nook of your house will begin t<. awake from her kHIfl "deep. flutter ll?T Wings. shiver ? few shivers and then fare forth to multlpl) "This female tl\ has from 1 t" ISS eggs which sin- want* to deposit and which she will deposit if there Is nej*sj|nnie si hand, sin will dcimalt those eg^M in the garbage P?n, 01 even In the earth ol your rubber plant or ferns ?r palms Hhe will llnd some place In deposll Ihese eggs anj plnCS Where there || exposed o|rui|. material, "Now, if the weather is fairly warm, every female fly that was hatched from the 200 eggs deposited by our first fly (the one that passed through the winter sleeping) will begin to de? posit eggs at the end of ten days. "This little fly thai first deposited eggs the first of April will have been responsible for descendants by the first of next September that will amount to ten raised to the thirteenth power, or more than one hundred thousand million! If one fly can do this, what can a house full of flies do? "The remedy is to begin In the early spring and fight the flies. Search your house as though you were look? ing for a two-carat diamond you knew was there; hunt up every fly in every cranny and crevice and kill it. I When the warm weather comes up ' tight with screens and traps, and. ! above all, with searching out the I breeding places and destroying them. "Working on the basis that the best way was not to swat, so general J ly advocated, but to capture in large quantities. I devised the fly-catcher. ! How successful they have been only j Rcdlands know. They have kept the dwellings, and even the meat markets, I grocery stores and fruit shops almosl entirely free of flies, and each day thousands and thousands of the pests are caught in the traps. "The most important thing in the use of the fly trap is the bait. Bread and milk is the best, and should be frequently renewed. It should always be fresh and never allowed to dry up. for it then loses its attractiveness. The best way to kill the trapped Hies Is ffc Immerse the top portion of the tnup in boiling water: then destrO) the .ead flies by burning. thUl destroying ill the jerms that are on them." HOW THE PEOPLE VOTED. The Vote for and Against the Dispen? sary Four Yenrs Ago. The result by precincts of the dis pensary; election held four years ago at which time the county dispensary was abolished by a majority vote of the qualified electors of Sumter coun? ty, will be of interest to everybody, in view of the election, to be held next Tuesday The vote Is given by pre? cincts us follows: Dispen- Prohiid sary. tlou. Ward 1. 25 40 Ward 2. 88 120 Ward 3. 57 til Ward 1. 19 89 Shiloh . .,. 4 5 81 Mayesville. 11 33 Halting Creek.... 8 CO Stateburg. 8 18 Wedgcfleld. 7 33 Providence . 9 46 Concord. 42 45 Privateer. 4 ti 37 Oswego. I 24 Bloom mil. ? K 7 3X6 I Majority 191 for prohibition. Secretary Waterman l,ca\ci. Mr. O. A. Waterman, who has Tilled the position of Secretary of the Sum? ter chamber of Commerce since De? cember 1st liu?t, left yesterday for Baton Houge, Ha., where he will en? ter at once upon the discharge of his duties as Secretary of the Board of Trade of that city. Mr. Waterman made many friends here, who part with blm with sincere regret, 'and their best wishes follow him. The call to Raton Houge was a marked compli? ment to Mr. Waterman personally as well as a tribute to his ability and worth as a commercial secretary, for 1 he lived in Baton Houge for several years and was identitled with the town gl managing editor of the leading dally paper. He was not an applicant for the position, for he was not aware that a vacancy existed until he re? ceived a telegram tendering him the plate and inviting him to visit Baton Rouge at the expense of the Board of Trade. When he went to Baton Houge ho found that he had been tendered the position on account of his work In Pensacola, Kia., where he was com? mercial secretary for four years. He had been recommended and endorsed for the Baton Rouge position by the business men of Pensacola, who were, familiar with his methods and work' and Who are still receiving increasing benefits from his labor for the up? building and betterment of that city. Mr. Waterman's stay In Sumter was comparatively brief and while there are no conspicuous or outstanding achievements to his credit in the way of manufacturing and Industrial en-: terprtses established and it must be admitted that neither the times nor the existing financial conditions were prosperous for such undertaking?bul his work was along safe, sane and constructive lines and the publlclt) that Sumter gained through bis ef? forts has been of substantial benelll and will continue t<? bring results in the future, He was loyal Sumtei while he was a i ItiSen "I Sumter and whcrcvci he inaj go he will always be a valuable nssel in ine (lame t'is k CMjr. Cotton Picking ! While you are getting ready for Cotton Picking, we have picked over our entire stock and have picked out the right prices, to get off our shelves all the Summer goods, and make room for the fall trade. Here are some pickings for you : Susine Silks in various shades, val ue 50c, Picking price, per yd. 19G 27 in. Kmbroidcrcd Flouncing, val- r\ I ~ ue 50c, Picking price, per yd_ L 11) Silk Chiffons, in dainty patterns, j A/> value 50c, Picking price, per yd. 1 J\) Flowered Lawns, in all shade. . val ue 12c, Picking price, per yd .v.a! 5g Ladies' Pure Silk Long Gloves, val- J A/> ue $1.00. Picking price, per pair 1 JV) Ladies' Silk Lisle White Hose, value 25c, Picking price, per pr. 12G Ladies White Lawn Dreeses, trimmed with lace and embroidery, assorted pat? terns, value $2.30/ Picking price each. 89G Ladies ^ilk Waists, fully embroidered, value $2.50, Picking price, each.? 98c, Ladies' Lawn Waists, beautiful patterns, value $1.00, Picking price Kach. 29c Men's Stetson Felt Hats, value 55, Picking price, each. 2.35 Men's and Boys' Straw Hats Kach . 24G Arrow Shirts, good assortment, < I p value $2, Picking price, each... I ? I J Cltiett, Price and other Shirts, value Si.50, Picking Price, each. 98c All 50c and 75c Shirts in all shades, Kach . 43c Men's Lnderwear, knitted and nainsook, Picking price, p^r -,iut Men's Silk Hose Per pair.,. 14g Everything in the store marked down correspondingly. This is no set sale, for a given period, hut will continue till we sell all our surplus stock, hut it is to your advantage to come while the assortment is full and get your selections before the rush starts. H. N. KRASNOFF 6 CO THE ONE PRICE STORE South Main Street Look tor the Red Umbrella. Next to Gas Oftice A Chicago policewoman says one Isok from her will squelch a masher. Judging from her photograph, it is her face that makes the masher cave in.?Wilmington star. n 1 _ 1. A GRADUATE NURSE??>f How? ard University, the department of Preedman's Hospital, am here to he Kin work. I assure you my work will be satisfactorily done. When? ever you need me Phone 315, 22 S. Purdy street. Elisabeth E. Wln gatc. rnii RENT?A large and commo? dious store house, centrally locat? ed in the midst of a good trade, together with the privilege of rent ing another year; a lirst class farm of from two to six horses, schools and church right at hand. Full par? ticulars given by JV. L. Saunders, Sumter, S. C, R. F. D. 3. WANTED?At once mafi':of "ability, able to furnish team",'"tO*ssll sew? ing machines In I*ee County. Call on or write Singer BeWtng Machine Co., 41 South Main Street. Sumter. S. C. WANTED?To buy a good young horse at once, weighing 9">0 to 1, 0Ui\ pounds. Call on C. A. Blanton at Singer Sewing Machine Co., 11 S. Main St. Morphine ? HABIT AISOLUTELY CURED IN SIX DAYS Or Money Refunded. A New Discov? ery. All correspondence should be aldres?sd to Box 3S3. Sumter, s. c, or to Dr. G. F. Lee's Humane Sanitarium, 220 Broad St. Sumter, S. C. Geo.H. Hurst, UNDERTAKER AM) I MIIM.MI K Prompt attention to day or ulght calls. %T OLD J, 1). t Ulli? STAND, 101 N Main Street, Day IMione ?3*. \lKln Phon? 10 . 4Per Cent 11 Make Good 1 5 I Gent LIFE HOLDS FOR YO? WHAT YOU 6IVE IT TO HOLD. There is always room at the top. Save your earnings, be energetic and prudent. Bank with the The Farmers* Bank & Trust Co. and be prepared to take advantage of business opportunities. 1905?$125,000. 1913?$750,000.00 A STANDING INVITATION. n ? '/ 1 " I ? ? ? n' ? You are?arways welcome at our store, either as a visitor or customer, or both. Our large and complete line of Ladies* Ready to Wear and General Outfitting will just fill your needs to a l*T.M All we ask is that you come to see us often. The Ladies' Outfitting Co. J. D. Lemmon, Mgr. Mr?. L. Atkinson, Milliner. 17 S. Main St. Sumter, S, C. Bailey Military Institute Formerly the S. C. C. I. of Edgefield, S. C. A Christian military institution offering instruction in classical, scientific and com? mercial courses Large new brick build inp,s Modcrnly equipped. Steam heat. Klcctric lights. Hot and cold water in every room. It you want to place your son in a school where his health will ;>e carefully looked alter, his mind thoroughly tnined and where he will be taught habits of odcdicncc, punctuality and industry, send him to our institution. Here each cadet is under the close per? sonal control and watchful care of the teachers from the time he reaches the school until he leaves for his home. I or Catalog and other information, address: Bailey Military Institute, 6?????. s. c.