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HOw's Thiso

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case Of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.F. ]. CHENEY K CO. Toledo. O..
We, the undersigned, have known
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believe him perfectly honorable in
all business transactions. and dnan-
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tions made by his firm. Walding Kin
nan q Marvin. Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo. O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
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and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonies sent free. Price. 75c.
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
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made on the mosquito you have heard
about from those who can tell you
of it's great value and easy accom-
plishment. Any South Carolina town
which does not take up this measure
for the public health and comfort is
not we'll begun on sanitary regulation.
What Is to be Done.
Many towns are now placarding
with large printed boards each house
which has within a case of mumps
or measles or whooping cough or
german measles or any other Of those
diseases which we were taught in
childhood we are bound to have, and
which perforce should be sought and
not avoided and the matter gotten
through with. The coming gener-
auons will to a large and larger pro
portion go to their graves without
these so-alled minor ailments. And
II cannot be too strongly preached
that none Of them are to be desired.
and that many of them have a large
mortality rate. This scheme Of pla-
carding appeals to us as wise, and af-
fordinS to those who wish to avoid
diseases, the proper opportunity.
The ny problem is our next concern
and We must confidently look f,r its
solution in the near future. When it
Is mastered there will have been re-
moved a disease spreading. disease
producing agency which in the opin-
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tive measures. Physicians have their
hands more than filled with the ills
already implanted with disease in the
concrete. They encourage all knowl-
edge which deals with the purpose
of preventing disease and keeping
people well. SO :. does seem, that the
people are ready for this great work
in their behalf. They must be led
with overzealOus overabundant regu-
lations. 1t is their right generally
speaking to be given a reason; to be
to be given a demonstration Of the
wisdom and of the results Of health
regulations
The First Lesson of Public Health
Regulations.
The first and greatest lesson to be
taught in public health measures as
applied to the individual, is that he
Is mere incident. The measures in
stituted are for the benefit Of the
whole, and benefit him only as part of
the whole. He must be taught that
while he may feel it his privilege to
risk smallpox or to have it rather
than be vaccinated, and many of us
would SO like to see a good healthy
case come upon some of these pesti-
ferrous Observation-Disclosures vet he cam
not be permitted to endanger his own
or his neighbors family by the in
du!gence of his own folly. 4 certain
number will resent and resist the
methods Of cur boards Of health as
an lnfringment of their personal lib
critics, and their rights. They claim
the privilege of assuming the risk Of
sickness and infection if they like.
And with this class of people there is
no argument so efflcacious, as the
mere statement that personally the
authorities do not care a great deal
whether they get sick or not-that
they are after the protection for their
innocent and helpless families and
their neighbors who do care or who
ought to.
Work That Has Been Done by the
Boards OF Health.
In the towns that have paid any
attention to the matter of sanitation
there has been accomplished already
a vast deal more than people are
aware of. The older generation may
contrast the old careless days with
these days which have forever BAN
ished from the communities the pig
and the pig pen; required the dis
position Of excreta Of all kinds: made
impossible the unregulated burial of
the dead in the city limits; protected
the free communication with the in
fectious and contagious sick; relegat-
ed to the past the absolute disregard
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The Agony Of a Baby Under a Skin
Anlicion.

is all the more terrible because it
can't tell you how ii suffers. But
there is relief at hand-not only re-
lief but permanent cure from prick
ley heat. rashes. hives. eczema and
all other skin affections so prevalent
among infants during the summer
months. III you want TO see your
baby rest easy once again--and "a
look OF relief spread over it's little
face. just apply this splendid remedy
zemo. We believe honestly and sin
eerely that In Zemo you will find
the cure you have been praying for.
We can tell you in all truth that we
have made thousands and thousands
Of parents happy with this simple but
sure remedy.
And to prove our absOluts SINGER
ity. We have instructed all druggists
selling Zemo. to refund the purchaser
hts money II the very first bottle does
not bring relief. Used persistently
thereafter Zemo is bound u cure.
Zemo and Zemo soap make the
most economical as we'll as the clean
est and most effective treatment for
affections Of the skin and scalp
whether on infant or grown person.
Sold by druggists everywhere and
I'm Sumter by DeI.orme's Pharmacy
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dent that it is so. They are there
because it IS believed to be healthier
than here. and the low country has
acquiesced in it. Our manufacturing
industries are upstate. Only in very
recent years have two cloth mills
been able to exist below Columbia. 1t
was a tradition that no cotton cloth
mill could succeed below Columbia.
Why? Because the mill people. in
common with all other up-country
people, believe to come to the low
country means to be sick and in bad
health. And they do not come and
will not come, and our section has
not the population to create his la
Dor centre which is the very life of
the manufacturing Piedmont. The
Piedmont did not originally have
people of their own either, but it is
well known that the labor problem is
one of the lesser ones up there, ard
that North Carolina and Tennessee
pour into that section all the labor
they need. Today thousands Of their
help are idle by the closing down of
the mills. Will they come to Dar-
lingtOn or to Hartsville? Not on any
inducement. for we are in common
with all the low country believed 10
be unhealthy. Some Years since !
made these same remarks before a
meeting Of the Pee Dee Medical AS
sociation. The attitude towards it
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WILD CARS CRASH INTO TRAIN.

Asheville. y. c.. July 13.--Five
cars hcc !ly loaded with stone. broke
loose on steep grade from a shift
ing engine this afternoon at Granite
Quarry, on the Yadkin branch of the
Southern Railroad, ran out to the
main line and crashed head-on into
Passenger Train No. 80, bound from
Salisbury 10 Norwood y. c.. severely
injuring Engineer \. J. Heilis, Of
Norwood, slightly hurt six passengers
and gave the others a bad shaking
up. The fireman saved himself by
jumping.
II" locomotive Of the passenger
train was completely demolished, the
track torn up for some distance and
the stone cars wrecked. One Of the
pccUliarities of the accident was the
dcmolishing of the Luggage car next
to the engine, leaving the baggage
man unhurt.
The cars broke loose just before the
passenger train, running to make up
lost time, arrived at the siding, ran
ON To the main line and both cars and
train met at full speed. The impact
was terrific.
Engineer Helig was badly sCalded.
bruised and injured internally. lie
was taken To Salisbury Hospital.
MI of the passengers injuries
were slight.
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ION of many sanitarians, is respon-
slble for more OF our troubles than
almost all other factors combined.
AT first blush it looks to be very
big problem. But circumstances. are
going TO aid us in this fight to this
extent. The automobile which is
rapidly replacing the horse except on
the farms, will soon remove the horse
from our towns and thus remove the
stables which are almost entirely re-
sponsible for their breeding. When
the horse is gone it will be no great
hardship to prohibit the keeping Of
either horse or COW in the city limits
for after all it is an anomolv that
those Of us who enjoy the many privil-
cges Of the cities-should not be re-
quired to give up the horse and the
COW as we'll as the pig which are
distinctly the comforts and the an
purtenances Of the farm.
Public Health as an Economic Fac
tor.
There are many here who will sup
port my statement that the portion
of this State lying below Columbia en-
joys the reputation upstate of being
distinctly unhealthy. and uninhabi-
table for the hot months. Up coun-
try people believe that one cannot live
down here and escape malaria and
they do not come here willingly or
even visit here except after frost
We physicians know that it is suffi-
cient for a person from this part of
the country to get sick upstate, to
have the diagnosis of malaria made
by doctor and layman. You know
the expression: lit is that low coun-
try malaria coming out" Whether
it is Indigestion, or hiiousness, or
headache or what not il means up
there malaria and Quirine.
Now our own people are largely
responsible for this tradition. What
. more natural for the up-country
folks to believe a thing that the low
country planter himself believed and
lent color 10 year after year by NOV
ing his family up-country with the
first hot days.
This belief that we are malarious
and that our country is not healthy
has done lower South Carolina great
harm. I have waited for some years
for some one TO point out the econo-
mic aspect of this matter; drive home
the fact that we cannot ever come in
to our own in the way of intellectual
and material advancement until we
demonstrate it's absurdity, and attract
that outside population which is es-
sential to the best development OF
any section or community Consider
for moment that our big colleges
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BOARD OF HEALTH METHODS.
Lecture Delivered by DR.. EgglestOn at
the Court House on Sunday, June


II.
This subject was assigned to me
by one OF the clerical members Of
your committee, and / am going TO
avail myself of the privilege which
his profession so generously practices.
and ignore my text very largely.
The Laws as to Boards of Health.
The laws of this State provide that
in towns Of five thousand inhabitants
or less, it becomes the duty of the
Mayor with the consent Of the council
to appoint five persons not members
of council as a board of health. One
member of this board shall be a
reputable physician of at least two
years practice. In towns of over
five thousand inhabitants this board
may be increased to twenty.
The members of this board are to
take the same oaths of office as is talk
en- by the Mayor and council. They
are to organize by the appointment
of Secretary and Health Officer;
both of whom the law contemplates
shall be paid officers. This board ii
required to meet at least monthly.
Necessity of a Board of Health.
The Board Of Health should be an
integral part Of the municipal gov
ernment Of each town. 1t is much
more important in the final analysis
than the water commission, or the
street commission, or any other COM
mission. The public is being educated
with wonderful rapidity to the value
of health conservation. Public health
measures and general sanitary laws
are rapidly assuming an Importance
that was undreamed of even five
years ago. In a short time the Con-
servation that deals with the health
and life Of our people will vastly over
shadow that Conservation Of national
resources about which We have heard
so much of late.
Personnel OF the Board.
1t Is a necessity nowadays that our
boards Of health be selected with some
view as to the qualifications of the in
dividual members. The old custom
of appointing such kindly disposed
men as would serve out Of sheer pa
triotism must be abandoned. Men
must be gotten on these boards who
will give their best and homes, eff
forts to the problems which are press
ing for their attention. And it fol-
lows that sooner or later they must
be paid for their work. There may
be those who will gladly contribute
thc.T time ir a taur. u I.I. sf.d
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vas one Of complacent toleration D.
Florence or Darlington or Bennetts-
Vile or Marion or any other town
outside the Underwater region could
he ignOrantly included in the term
IcW-cOurtry. But they are included. 4
sumter is included also. Every Sec
lion south of COLUMBIA is included. Is
t-ere any one here who will contend
that this has not been a serious handi-
cap and hurt TO this section Of our
tate? Is il not likely to continue to
h1rt US? OF my own personal knowl-
edge there would have been a million
dollar mill constructed in this sectionl
five or more years since had there
been any chance Of getting the labor
to run it. Figure the amount Of mon
ey which this one project has de-
prlVed the people Of that community
Of. And such instances can be duplti
Gated many times.
NOW the error of this tradition
must be established, our healthful-
ness must be preached constantly and
We must insist on being distinguish
ed from that small area near the coast
which is not inhabitable by white
man. We cannot get about this mat-l
ter better in my judgment, or make
greater progress by any other means,
than melting the towns of our low
country to greater diligence in sani-
tary matters. Keep and publish vital
statistics and You will be agreeably,
surprised to find how favorable they
compare to the towns of any part of
the State or the South. And it will
give an argument which cannot be
cOntroverted.
Fight the mosquito. Malaria is our
chiefest sin in the eyes of the up,
country. 1t is a very manageableV
thing. Careful consistent work will
sooh make malaria a thing of the past
and at the same time remove the
comfort-destroying mosquito. II
seems to me that the malarial prob
lem has been avoided from a false
sense Of the magnitude of the worl3
Our people talk drainage, and i'm
mediately associate this with State or
national aid. 1t will be years before
the national government can ae per
suaded or the State governrent be
come able to undertake ths WORK.
And then it will have no gre ehec}
on the malarial problem. Draina ee
is purely an economic problem-its
results are material, and beneficial to
health only incidentally. The drain
age in Charleston neck has made in
habitable and tilable land which was.
worthless. but it can be safely stated
that 1T has not materially decreased
the mosquito nuisance or malaria in
--- '57#~ .,-aus ct tne city. And
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Never leave home on n journey
without bottle OF Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy. IL Is almost certain 10 be need
cd and cannot be obtained when on
board the cars or steamship. For
sale 10y all dealers.
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DR.. Wiley has been attacked almost
constantly since the pure food law
went into effect. 1t has been claim
cd that his rulings have been unduly
harsh and unjust. He has regarded
DR.. Rusby as one of his most valuable
assistants.
DR.. Rusby charges there was a one
sided presentation of the case To the
Attorney General. He also says he
had no means of knowing the arrange
ments made with him was Irregular.
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foley's Honey and Tar Compound.
Is effective for coughs and colds
in either children or grown persons.
No opiates, no harmful drugs. In the
yellow package. Refuse substitutes.
w. w. Sibert
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distance. This one problem conquer-y
ed and our freedom from malaria es-
taolished and much of the prejudice
against the low country will have
been destroyed.
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DR.. WILEY CONDEMNED.
CHARGE OF IMPROPER USE OF
POWER PREFERRED.
Agricultural Committee Asks that
Food Expert be Permitted to Re-
sign"

Washington. July 13.-Dr. Harvey
w. Wiley. chief Of the bureau Of
chemistry Of the department of agri-
culture, has been condemned by a
committee on personnel Of the de-
partment of agriculture with recon-
mendation to President Taft that "he
be permitted to resign"
1t is charged that DR.. Wiley per-
mitted an arrangement to be made
with DR.. III. III. I:usby. a pharmacon-
osist of Columbia University. for COM
pensation in excess Of that allowed
by law.
Attorney General Wickersham rec
commended approval Of the commit
tees action in an opinion submitted TO
the President.
IL Is claimed that the arrangement
was to put DR.. Rusby on the pay roll
of the Government at $1,000 year as
an employee Of the bureau Of chem
istry, an agreement being made with
him that he should bn called upon to
perform only such rervice as this
salary would compensate for and he
was to get $50 per day for laboratory
investigations and $50 per day for at
tendance in Court.
Attorney General Wickersham held
that the law permitted the payment
OF only 80 day. this sum later be-
ing increased to s11 day.
The committee and the Attorney
General also have recommended the
dismissal Of DR.. Rusby and the re-
duction Of DR.. A. f. Kebler. chief Of
the division Of bureaus of the depart
ment of agriculture. The committee
further recommends that DR.. w. d.
Bigelow, assistant chief of the bureau
of chemistry. also be given an oppor-
tunity to resign.
President Taft has not indicated
what action he will take in the cases.
The matter has become public only
now, although the investigation was
begun last March. Attorney General
Wickersham's recommendation on
the case bears date of May 13.
President Taft has forwarded all
the papers in the case to DR.. Wiley.
and will take no action until he re-
ceives a personal statement from him.
The President f1- hirr --~0-d ro-
him for his administration ~ the pu-
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The Hon. T. G.. Mcleod. of Bishop.1
vile, spent Thursday in the city.
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iie' "i,..i ..~J .1.l .. -,.i. ...
certain duties and expected to show
results.
Consequently l say that the sooner
the boards Of health are paid for
their work in common with other
municipal servants the sooner will We
gel something tangible from them.
The Powers OF the Boards.
boards of health with very large
powers There is no paucity Of law
to handicap their most advanced ideas
If public health requirements. The
courts have sustained repeatedly the
local boards in their efforts for the
protection of the community and the
individual.
Public Sentiment and the Board.
II is very necessary that the board
have behind them the support and
the cooperation of the Mayor and
council. Otherwise they can make
little headway. The problem of san
itation has been so simple in our lit
tie town because we have always had
II Mayor and council ready to enact
suggestions into ordinances, ard to
enforce them vigorously. The danger
that is at hand and demands action is,
as | have said, amply provided for in
the laws Of our State. But the dan
gers which are to he forestared. the
public health measures which deal
with the prevention of some evil Of
the future are the ones which de-
mand the sympathy and support of
the council to whom they are sug-
gested to be enacted into law.
1t is necessary to a larger extent
that the public cooperate with the
health boards. And here we come to
the question of Board Of Health
Methods proper. Health ordinances
should generally speaking be promul-
gated one at a time, and each en-
forced kindly and firmly until it is
aCquiesCed in The enactment and
arbitrary enforcement Of several
drastic health laws will largely de-
feat their purpose. Public sentiment
must be behind no law to a larger ex-
tent than sanitary law. 1t is after
all matter Of education. But peo-
pie are reasonable. Our older peo-
pie to whom this wonderful gospel of
the preservation Of individual and
community health, comes as a start
ling departure from the customs of
their youth, are ready to listen and
to learn. our schools are turning ont
from year to year hundreds of chill
dren whose young unbiased minds are
filed with the teachings of personal
and public cleanliness. Disease and
sickness are things for general dis
cussion and general information to-
day more than ever; and it is best
SO from every angle. II 1t inculcates
at the same time the knowledge OF
personal hygiene {
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-12
DAN 0'NEIL WILL PUT FAST
 AGGREGATION IN WATERBURY
Takes Pitcher Reggie Brown With Him to
 Brass City Club

Hartford, July 12.-For nearly four hours the directors of the Connecti- cut baseball league sat closeted here last night at Hotel Garde, devising some way to hold the Waterbury club In the league to save the organization from total destruction. Owner Prince was at hand ard said he was ready to quit. He said Carl Pace had rob- bed him of about $2,000, and he was through with state league baseball. It was exactly the same case as con- fronted the league directors a short time ago, when the Holyoke and Northampton team owners appear ed before. the beard and chucked up their franchise. The Waterbury club is in badly financially. and the play CTS are owed considerable money in back saIaries, the same as was the case with Northampton and Holyoke.
 But the directors couldn't afford to throw out the Waterbury club the way they did the other two clubs and so the magnates got their hea ds together and schemed some way to carry the Waterbury club along for the remainder of the season to keep the league together.
 Boss O'Neil offered to take the Waterbury club and pay the players their back salaries. He figured that with proper management in Water bury the club will pay it's own way and so he had the franchise put in