The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 16, 1913, Image 4
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Obttusrtes and trtbutee of rsepeet
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The nnmter Watchman was found?
ed) In lilt and the True So a thron In
litt. The Watchmea and Southrsn
ante? has the combined otrculstlon and
tnfieenoe cf both of the old papers,
and la mast fest ly the best advertising
gnedtnsa la norm tor.
"The sheriff of Lsurens was over-1
powered?" 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.
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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
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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.
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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.