The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 22, 1914, Image 5
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Baldpate
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EA1LIDERR BIGGUtS
"HaaJly " The word was at least 00
degrees below the temperature of the
card room
*Tse. really. I won't ask yon to be
but I'm telling the truth. I went
.>! lave yea I* he er led desperately.
to the place where I bad fatuously bid
the ?>o**?*?under a brick of my flre
pteeet It was tone."
How teftlbly unfortunate "
"Tea. lent ttr Mr. Ma gee rejoiced
that she took so calm a view of It
"TTuoy searched the room, of course,
and they found .a money. They're
em top now, but I'm going"?
He slopped, for be had seen her face.
She?takln? a calm view of It? No,
Indeed. Billy Magee saw that she was
furiously, wildly angry. He remem
bemd slwsys haying written it down
that beautiful women were even more
beautiful in anger. How, be wonder
eat bad he fallen Into that error7
"Pleeae do net bore me." aha said
through her teeth, "with any further
recital of what you 'are going* to do.
fee seem to have a fatal facility In
that Una Your record of accomplish
moat Is pathetically weak. And-oh.
what s fool I've been! I believed.
?ren after last night 1 believed "
**! know." he said helplessly, "you're
tarttbly dlasppolnted. sod I don't blsme
yoa. But you will find out thst you've
done ma an Injustice. I'm going"?
"One thing." said she, smiling a
?mile thst could have cut glass, "yon
are going to do. 1 know tbat you
won't fell this time, because I shall
peveonally aee you through with It
You're going to stop making a fool of
saat"
'Tell me." pleaded Billy Magee. "tell
ma who you are?what tbls Is all
about Can't you see I'm wotklog In
the dark? You mnst"
gsae threw open tbe Card room door.
"An English officer." she remarked
stepping out Into tbe other
taught tbe admiral tbe game?
at toast, so be raid. It added so much
romance to It In tbe ayea of tbe rock
lag vhalr fleet. Can't you see?India?
the hot eon?the Kipling local color?a
efeaC. tau tied, handsome men eternal?
ly playing solitaire on tbe porch of tbe
barracks? Has tbe barracks a porchT*
Reused, humllhited. baffled, Mr. Ma?
tes felt bis cheeks burn.
"We shall see what we shall see."
he muttered.
"Why coin tbe Inevitable Into a
bromide ?" she asked
Mr. Magee Joined the group by the
flee. Never before In bis life bed be
been so determined on anything as be
waa new that tbe package of money
eboQiaV return to bis keeping. But
howl * flow trace through tbls mare
of humans the present bolder of tbat
precious bundle of collateral? He
looked at Mr Mux, sneering his lern
ok colored sneer st tho mayor's side;
st tbe mayor himself, nonebalant as
the admiral being photographed; at
Bland author of the Arabella fiction,
sprawling st ease before the fire; at
the tawdry Mrs. Norton and at Myra
Tbomhill. who had by her pleading
the night before made him ridiculous.
Who of these hsd the money now?
Who but Cnrgan and Mai, their faces
serene, their eyes eagerly on *he prep
? ration* for lunch, thelt plans for
earing Bsldpate Inn no dooJt already
made?
And then Mr. Mngee snw coming
do ve tho stairs another neuro -one he
had forgot-Professor Thadden?* Hol
ton. He of tbe mysterious dialogue by
the sanei door On the professor's
forehead wss s surprising red scratch.
iB(j his eyes, no louger hidden by tre
flouble convex lenses, stood revested s
washed out gray In tbe light of noon.
"A inoet unfortunate Hccideut," ex?
plained tbe old lusn. "Most distress?
ing. I have broken my glasses. 1 am
almost blind without them."
"How'd It huppen, Doc?" asked Mr
Cargnn ensllr.
"I came Into unexpected Juxtaposi
tlon with an open door," returned Pro?
fessor Holton. "Stupid of me, but I'm
?lwsys doing It. Iteally, tbe agility
displayed by doors In getting in my
patb Is surprising."
"You sod Mr. Max can sympathize
with each other." said Magee. "1
thought for a moment your Injuries
might bsre been received in tbe same
cause."
"Don't worry, Doc." Mr. Bland sooth?
ed htm, "we'll all keep a weather eye
out for reporters thst want to connect
you up with tbe peroxide blonds."
(To be Continued.)
Plsgmh News and Views.
Plsgah, July 15.?The dry weathor
and winds uro playing havoc with the
corn. Unless we get rain this week
the crop will be short. Cotton is do?
ing very well so far, and is now re?
ceiving its last working. I
Dev. T. L. Cole is carrying on a
meeting this week rt Mlzpah church.
Rev. B. K. Truluck is oldlng him.
Next week he will hold one at Pluguh
church.
Rev. J. W. Truluck is expecting
I to aid him.
Mr. Len White was here this week.
He has many friends here who are
I always glad to see him.
Mrs. T. M. Rogers Is visiting her]
sick mother in Columbia.
Ellison Durant Smith voted for
Judge Haskell In 1890, thereby en?
dorsing his independent candidacy.
Hampton, Manning and Earle voted
for Tlllman, the regular nominee.
"An Independent is worse thun a
radical,' so said Wade Hampton. If
the papers quote him correctly.
(Can Mr. DuPre establish the truth
of this charge? If it be true that
Senator Smith voted for Haskell In
1890, it Is passing strange that the
charge was not made against him
when he was a candidate for the leg?
islature a few years later, when fac?
tionalism and bitterness was rife in
Sumter county. If Mr. DuPro's mem?
ory is good he recollects that Mr.
Smith was elected at the head of the
ticket, receiving the largest majority
ever given, up to that time, to a can?
didate for the house of representa?
tives. We have never heard that Mr.
DuPre or others of those who op?
posed Mr. Smith* made the charge
against him during that campaign.?
Ed.)
Mr. L. D. Jennings has a poor opin?
ion of the people of tho State, if he ex?
pects them to believe his assertion
that Qov. Bleaso won't get more
than 10 per cent of the vote cast. If
he will try again may be he will say
something after awhile thut the peo?
ple will accept
Coca Cola Habit, a Gohst.
We have all heard of ghosts, but
none of us have ever seen one. It's)
tho same way with coca cola "fiends,'
you can hear j bout them but you
might search for them until doom's)
day and you would never And one.
Physicians who have treated hundreds!
of thousands of drug-habit cases, In?
cluding opium, morphine, cocaine, al?
cohol, etc., nay that they have never|
seen a case where the uue of Coca
Cola has so fastened Itself upon the
Individual as to constitute a habit in
the true sense of the word. Al?
though millions of glasses of Coca
Cola are drunk every year, no Coca
t'ola fiends have ever made themselves
visible at the doors of the sanitariums
for the treatment of drug habits.
The Coca-Cola habit is analogous to
the beefateak habit end to the straw?
berry habit and tho ice cream habit.
People drink ('oca-Cola first because
they see it advertised and thereafter!
because it tastes good and refreshes]
their minds and bodies. They drink
It when they can get it and content?
edly do without ft when they can't
get It. If you had ever witnessed
the ravings of a real drug fiend when
deprived of his dr.jg, if you had ever
observed the agony he suffers, you
would never arT.iln he so unfair as to]
mention Coca-Cole in tho same
breath with the "habit-forming"
drugs.?Advt.
BIG i:.\( I RSION
Crom Mulllns and idtermediate Point*
to Charleston. S. C, Thursday, ?fuly
'J:trd via A tin nth Const Line Hall
road.
Train leaves Smter nt 1.41 n. tn
Hound trip $l.r??. The most delight?
ful, convenient an?! satisfactory ex?
cursion ever devised.
Separate cars for white and color?
ed passengers.
W. .1. Craig. Passenger Truffle Man?
ager; T. ('. White. Hcncrul Passenger
Agent; T. II Knight. Adverting Dis?
tributor. Wilmington, n. c
The first open ? ??tton boll has been
IfqpertS4 and thf firs' lole Is due aboul
I August 1st to 7th.
Court's Dectetou Clarifies Pure Food
Law,
On June 13, 1!?\< the United States
Circuit Court cf Apicals, sitting at
Cincinnati in the Sixt?< Federal Dis?
trict, handed down a decision con-j
firming the judgment of the Lower
Court in the Coca Cola OMO. This
case was originally brought before
Judge Sanford of the District Court
of the United States for the Kastern
District of Tennessee on M uch IS,
1911 and wus tried ut great length be?
fore a jury at Chattanooga, Tcnn. A
score of scientists, including the most
eminent chemists, phr .-mucologists
And physicians of America, testified
as expert witnesses. At the conclu?
sion of the trial the government with?
drew all of the charges expect two and
on these two the Court instructed the
Jury to return r. verdict in favor of
the Coca Cola Company.
The caso wao then appealed, and
the recent decision of the Circuit
Court of Aprcea'.s at Cincinnati, con?
firming the judgment of tho Lower
Court, sustains the c'.alm of the Coca
Cola Company, that Its product Is
neither adulterated nor misbranded
within the meaning of the Pure Food
Act.
The following quotation from tho
jfflclal court rejord will prove inter?
esting alike to the manufacturers and
consumers of food products as it gives
a clear exposition of one of the most
important sections ofthe Pure Food
law, and also defines the character of
Coca Cola, the popular soda fountain
leverage. It reads as follows:
"There lb a middle view, which is
sufficient for the purposes of this case
and which will recognize the com?
posite meaning of "added deleterious"
rather than the sepurate meaning of
each word. This view is that in using
the word "added" with reference to
a possibly deleterious food ingredient,
congress had in mind an addition
above and beyond the quantity in
which such ingredient was normally
found in usual and customary articles
of food, and that no such ingredient
should be considered as "added" if it
was present only in the quantity In
which it existed in these common ar?
ticles of food with which every
member of congress was familiar, and
which had generally been thought
wholesome. For example: Creosote
and other products of destructive
wood distillation are, Independently
considered, injurious, but they have
always been present in smoked hams.
Can the addition of the same preser?
vatives to the same extent to the
same meat be something that congress
intended to prohibit? Tho boric aei?,
found in apples ,is a preservative. If
certain apples which are to be pre?
served are not up to the maximum in
this element, did congress intend to
forbid supplying the deficiency by the
same element from another source?
Acetic acid may, of course, be inju?
rious, but if, by its use, an artificial
vinegar is made which is chemically
and In every way equivalent to the
natural vinegar familiar to the mem?
bers of congress in muny compounds,
would they have thought of It as a
deleterious addition? No example is
so clear us the very one here involv?
ed. Every member of congress had
been familiar, from childhood, with
tea and coffee; perhaps most of them
drank it. The average cup of coffee
contains more than two grams of caf?
feine; tho average cup of tea, one
and onc-hulf grains. A glass of Coca
Cola, as consu:.ied, contains one and
one-fifth grains of caffeine Tho
chemical qualities and the physiologi?
cal effects of the caffeine which is in
the tea or coffee und of tho caffeine
which is in the Coca Cola are pre?
cisely the same. We ure quite con?
vinced that the use in an artificial
beverage of a certain element which
had been one of its characteristic ele?
ments for many years, and when such
use was In a less proportion than the
same element was known to make up
in different natural beverages than In
universal use and generally thought
wholeHome?that such an element so
employed could not have been wdthln
the meaning of congress when it chose
the words "added deleterious ingre?
dient."
FIOAST OF CHICKEN SPREAD.
Young Men of St. I'aul Give Delight?
ful Supper.
Summerton. July 19.?One of the
most enjoyable events of the season
was a chicken supper, given last Wed?
nesday evening by the boys of St.
Puul. After the crowd arrived a
chicken course was served, followed
by ice cream and cake. Just before
the guests departed frozen water
melons were pa seid around and
areetly enjoyed. Everyone declared
himself to have had a most delightful
time, ami it i.s certain that no one
Wtnt away hungry.
Mrs. M. W. Gordon has returned
after a short visit to her parents.
Mr. Bennie Bprott Is visiting Mr.
Bennle Broadway.
Mr. and Mrs W. W. Williams and
their daughter. MlsH Marie, left Wed?
nesday for a trip to the North
WAS ONI! OF BRIDESMAIDS.
Number of Unests Here for Cooper
Hose Marriage.
Miss Carrie Younglner of Columbia
was one of the bride's maids in the
Cooper-Hose wedding Wednesday
nlghl Mi Uraee Baptist Churehi her
name being Inadvertently omitted
from Ihe Hat of bridesmaids given In
the story of the marriage In Thurs?
day's item.
There were several out-of-town
guests here for Ihe wedding, among
them being Mr. W. s Cooper ?>f Or
angeluirg; Mr. and Mrs <;. c Cooper,
of Si Mall hews, brothers of the
bride; Mrs. Hrown of Marlon and
I Miss Mamie Hook of Kustovcr.
Candidates' Cards.
Announcements of candidates will
be printed in this column until the
close of the campaign for $5. No
cards accepted on credit.
For Congress.
I hereby announce myself as a can?
didate for the nomination as Con?
gressman from the 7th Congressional
District and pledge myself to abide
the result of the Democratic pri?
mary. A. F. LEVER.
The Senate.
I am a candidate for re-election to
the State senate from Sumter Coun?
ty in accordance with, and subject to
the rules of the Democratic party.
JOHN H. CLIFTON.
I hereby announce that I am a can?
didate for election to the State Sen?
ate from Sumter County, subject to
the rules of the Democratic party.
R. D. EPFS.
House of Representatives.
I hereby announce myself a can?
didate for the House of Representa?
tives, subject to the rules of the Dem?
ocratic party.
D. D. MOISE.
Believing that my four years ex?
perience and my study of the State's
affairs have put me in a position for
effective service, I am a candidate for
re-election to the House of Repre?
sentatives, subject to the rules of
the Democratic primary.
R. B. BELSER.
I am a candidate for the House of
Representatives from Sumter Count)
subject to the rules governing the
Democratic primary.
A. K. SANDERS.
For Supervisor.
I hereby announce myself a candi?
date for the office of County Super?
visor subject to the rules governing
the Democratic primary.
W. S. THOMPSON.
I i.m a candidate for re-election to
the office of County Supervisor, sub?
ject to the rules of the Democratic
party.
P. M. PITTS, Supervisor.
I hereby announce myself a can?
didate for the office of Supervisor for
Sumter County, subject to the rules
of the Democratic party.
L. E. WHITE.
County Superintendent of Education.
I hereby announce myself a can?
didate for re-election to the otllce ot
County Superintendent of Education
of Sumter County and pledge myself
to abide by the rules of the Demo?
cratic primary.
J. H. HAYNSWORTH.
I hereby announce myself a candi?
date for the office of County Super?
intendent of Education for Sumtet
County, subject to the rules of the
Democratic party.
S. D. CAIN.
For Coroner.
I hereby announce myself a candi?
date for Coroner of Sumter county,
subject to the rules of the Democratic
party. S. W. RAPPIBLD.
I hereby announce myself a candi?
date for the otlice of Coroner of
Sumter County subject to the rules
governing the Democratic primary.
WILLIAM J. SEALE.
For Magistrate.
I hereby announco myself a candi?
date for reelection to the magistrate's
olilce, Ith district, Sumter county.
J. A. HODGE.
WHAT
TIME?
A good time right now, before
you go away on your vacation to
have your watch cleaned and re?
paired by our expert workman.
Or if it's a bit of brokon Jewelry,
bring it here, mid have It lived
right, by an expert.
W. A. Thompson,
JEW FL Fit AND OPTICIAN.
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Geo H. Hurst,
Undertaker and Embalmer,
Prompt Mtentlon to Day or
Night Calla,
AT I. D. Cralu Old ttantf, *.N. Main
Phoftet Sfohtwi
Aff Your Dime Can Duy
And one fourth more than it has ever
bought before. Other cans give you only
sixteen ounces of the Solid Lye for your dime.
In POWDERED Lye, Mendleson's can gives you six?
teen ounces for a dime, against the twelve that some others
give you.
Mendleson's is pure Lye, without fillers or adulterants.
It goes farther, docs more, lasts longer than any other Lye.
Every can warranted full strength. Three cans for a quarter.
Mondleson's Twenty ?Ounce ('an beats the best records of other dime
cans in soap making. It saponifies eight pounds of grease, and givea vow
the best hard or soft soap you ever uaud. Every can gives lull directions
for gotting best results.
MENDLESON'S LYE
MOST ECONOMICAL
One of the handiest articles for household or farm. Cheapest and
be.'st cleanser and disinfectant. Leaves floors sweet-smelling. Drives
away dirt and grease; kills disease germs, fine for cleaning kitchen furni?
ture. Remedy ami conditioner for uogfl and useful in the care of poultry.
A use for it every day.
Cef better value for your dime by buying the Twenty-Ounce Can of
Mendleson's Concentrated Lyc at any of the following dealers:
WHOLESALE DEALERS:
CrOttwell JtCo., Sumter, S. C. In ion Brokerage Co., Sumter, S. C.
RETAIL DEALERS:
I>evi Hros., Sumter; W. S. Brogdon, Brogdon: J. W. Spencer,
Mayesville, S. C; J. V Boykin. Providence, R. F. D. No. 1; I. R.
Kirkley, Remhert, S. C, K. F. D, 5; J. J. Chewning, Oswego. S. C,
It. F. l>. I; W. D. Hancock, Elliott, 3. C; Tindal ,t Cuttino, Tindal;
T. E. Hodge, Tindal; Willie Shaw Co., Sumter, R. F. |).5;J. M. .lack
son, Tourney; W. I>. F rasier, Oswego, R. F. 1>. 1; s. A Harvin. Sum?
ter, R. F. |>. 2; P. B. Harvin, Sumter, R. F. D.2;(iillespie ft Huges,
( laremont, S. C.
Our Lady Patrons
Will find that in tho arrangement of our NEW HOME we have
nuitle special provision* for their comfort. In addition to a cozy
corner of the lobby, provided with writing tables and comfortable
seats, we have a special ivst room tor the ladies, and we cordially
invite them to make use of It.
The First National Bank
OF SUMTER
The Peoples Bank
CAPITAL $100,000.00
We pay interest in savings depart?
ment at the rate of 4 per cent from day
of deposit. We pay 5 per cent on time
certificates of deposit.
Come in and Let Us Talk the Matter Over With You
1905 1914
The Bank of South Carolina
SUCCESSOR TO
THE FARMERS* BANK (& TR.UST CO.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $350,900.00.
Our ability increases each year. In every depart?
ment of banking we arc prepared to make good.
C. G. Rowland, Prest. G. L. Warren, Cashier