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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07
CHINA REPUBLIC RECOGNIZED.
UNITED STATES FORMALLY RE
CEINES BABY REPUBLIC AS
SUCH
President Yuan Responds to Message
from President Wilson by Thanking
This Country for lis Sympathy.

Washington May 2.-The new
Chinese republic was formally rec
ognized today by the United States
Mr.. Williams, charge at Peking,
cabled that he had delivered the
formal recognition as he was author
lied to do upon complete organization
of the new government.
This governments action has crea-
ted an international situation. 1t
brings to the point the intentions
of the five other powers, parties to
which the United States recently
withdrew, announcing its purpose to
recognize China and urging the 9TH
ers to do so. 1t is known that some
of them at least required more than
mere organization of a national leg
islature and that they originally were
disposed to await installation of a
constitutional president. On the
other hand, the recent action Of Yuan
Shi Kai in concluding a loan for
$125, 100000 with the five-power
group is expected to prove a power
full incentive to those governments to
support Yuan Shi Kai by joining in
Chinas recognition.
The formal recognition Of the Uni
! ted States was extended when Mr..
Williams delivered to President Yuan
Shi Kai the following message from
President Wilson.
THE government and people of the
United States of America having
abundantly testified their sympathy
with the people of China upon their
assumption of the attributes and pow
ers Of self government, deem it op-
perfume at this time, when the repre-
sentative national assembly has met
to discharge the high duty of setting
the seal Of full accomplishment upon
the aspirations of the Chinese people,
that extend. in the name Of my gov
"rnment and of my countrymen,
greeting of welcome to new China.
thus entering into the family Of ma
tions.
I'm taking this step l entertain the
confident expectation that in per-
fccting republican form of govern
ment, the Chinese nation will attain
to the highest degree Of development
and wellbeing and that under the
new rule all the established obliga-
tons of China which pass to the pro-
Visional government will pass to and
be observed by the government es-
tablished by the assembly"
! President Yuan Shi Kai responded:
I'm the name of the republic of
China, l thank you most heartily for
the message of recognition. The ex-
preston Of greeting and welcome
which 1T conveys at once testifies to
the American spirit of mutual help
tulness and adds another brilliant
page to the history of 20 years of un-
interrupted friendly intercourse be-
tween China and the United States.
Though unfamiliar with the re-
publican form of government, the
Chinese people are yet fully con-
vinced of the soundness of the prin-
clples which underly it and which is
SO luminously represented by your
glorious commonwealth. The sole
aim of the government which they
have established therefore is, and will
be, to preserve this form of govern.
ment and to perfect its workings"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07

Maycsville, May 2.-Secretary Tom
M. Morgan of the Florence Chamber
ton to visit Mayesville on Wednesday,
May eth. to confer with the citizens
upon the organization Of a chamber
for this town. The committe Of which
Geo. G. Warren is chairman, has been
working on the plans for an organiza-
tion and decided it would be best to
hear from some experienced man in
regard to the organization. The COM
mittee was fortunate i'm securing the
services of Secretary Morgan who has
done so much for Florence. The or
ganization Of such n commercial body
should mean much for Mayesville ,es-
pecially since the tobacco industry is
being revived in this section and the
market will be opened here this sum-
mer. The meeting at which Mr.. Nor
gan will speak will be held in the X.
OF Il. hall at 3 o'clock in the after
noon.
The petitions asking for an cleo
tion on the dispensary question in
August were placed at the drug stores
here on Monday and already consid-
erably more than third Of the voters
I'm town have signed them. The issue
Is being discussed quite freely but 1t
Is generally conceded that Mayesville
will go for the re-establishment Of the
dispensary as the voters have seen
enough of prohibition"
The congregation of the Presbyte-
rian church worshipped in their new
ly renovated and repainted house of
worship last Sunday and the building
is now almost as good as new. Rev.
Il. l.. Grier conducted services at the
Mission Union meeting in Mt. Zion
church on Sunday afternoon.
The Methodist congregation held
special missionary services in their
church on Sunday afternoon. A num-
ber of the children Of the Sunday
school, assisted by Miss Sarah Hamil-
ton, OF the faculty of the graded
school, recited and sang, giving a
most pleasant and instructive pro-
gram. After these exercises Rev. J.
T.. Attaway, the pastor, delivered a
very interesting and impressive lee
ture on missions, illustrating 1t with
charts. A substantial Offering was
taken up for the cause. This church
viii commence special services on
Sunday, May 11th, the pastor being
assisted by Rev. Mr. Bethea of Lynch
burg.
The Baptists OF this town are max
ing an effort to reopen the church
which has been closed for several
years and on next Sunday, Rev. ]. e.
Myers of Eastover will preach in
the morning and i'm the afternoon. A
good sum has been subscribed by the
Baptists and others toward the reor-
ganization OF this church here.
The Mayesville school will close on
Friday. May %. The scholars are
now preparing for the closing exer-
cises and beginning to look forward
to the summer vacation.
Fishing parties are the order of the
day now and hardly a day passes that
several crowds do not go to the fish
ing grounds for an outing. Fish seem
to be plentiful this spring and as a
general rule the fishermen and fisher
women are successful on their trips.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07
STATE TO BUY LIME WORKE,
Legislative Committee at Gaffney-
Going to Charleston Later.

Gaffpey, April 30.-Although no
Official report has been received, il
is understood that the legislative COM
mittcc which visited Gaffney yester-
day will recommend that the local
lime works be purchased by the State.
Senator McLaurin is chairman OF the
committee.
On May q they will go to Charles
ton to investigate the phosphate de-
posits.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07
HOTEL FOR big SPRINGS"
Health Waters Near Camden to be
Developed by Chcraw and Bcthunc
People.

Camden, May News has been
erection Of a 50-roOm hotel and sew
erai cottages, and the general de-
vclopment of Big Springs" mineral
spring of curative powers, which is
not widely known outside Of Camden,
Bethune, Darlington, Hartsville, Bish-
opville, Cheraw, McBee and several
other towns. The spring is flowing
one in the sandhills near Bethune
The analysis of it's water by Clemson
college shows that it is as fine as the
water of any of the well-known min
eral springs in this or other States.
Not far from the spring, a bath house
has been built and every season peo-
pie suffering from rheumatism come
from all sections Of the State to bathe
i'm it's waters
Messrs. Maynard and Godfrey and
others OF Cheraw and Bethune are
said to be behind the extensive de-
Vclopment Of the springs.
April 26, 1856, King George III
granted by royal charter to one James
Biggs, body of land containing $50
acres, including the Big Springs. -
Later on a colony Of Scots settled there
about 1900. 1t was acquired by one
of them and remained in the family
until a short time ago, when the pres
ent owners acquired it.
The place itself is a beautiful spot
situated on the Kershaw county side
of Lynches river, about a mile and
half below it's intersection with the
Seaboard Air Line. High bluffs OF
ragged rock reaching an elevation OF
some 100 feet are on the opposite side
of the river. The hills are covered
with mountain laurel, at this season
gorgeous mass Of bloom, filling the
air with fragrance. The land on the
kershaw county side is rolling mass
OF hills covered with a magnificen
CROWN OF virgin long leaf pine, anC
1t is on the top of one Of these hill.
overlooking the spring, that the hote
site has been chosn. 1t is expected
that a, colony Of cottages will grow
up around the hotel.
E. V. Richards, an architect anc
artist, was on the grounds the early
part of this week preparing plans fol
the hotel and other improvements.
! The hotel will be a tws-story build
ing, electric lighted and will be equip
ped with all modern conveniences. I
Will be accessible to Bethune and t,
the Seaboard Air Line railway by ar
automobile buss or a naptha launch
Mr.. Prosser the agricultural and de
Velopment agent Of the Seaboard rail
way, is making an effort to establish
station at the river bridge. A sys
tenn of waterworks to deliver water
to the hotel will be built. A system
Of septisized sewerage will also be in
stalled.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07
BOND FOR HORTON.
Admitted to Bail i'm Sum of s., 800 Inv
Chief Justice Gary.

Camden, May 2.-Sydnev Hortop
who is charged with killing Young
Allan kirkley on the public highway.
SIX miles south of Kershaw about 10
days ago has been admitted to bail.
The amount of the bail was fixed at
S2''oo. The motion for the bail was
made before Chief Justice Gary in
Columbia.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07
\ New Enterprise.

The Sumter Stavo Company sf this
city has been commissioned with a
capital of $4,000. The petitioners are
H. j. MCInurln, Jr, II. NJ McIaurin
and j. e. Cooper.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07
THE BARNEY EVANS CASE.
Supreme Court Hears Arguments from
Attorneys on Both Sides and Then
Takes Recess.

Columbia, May 2.--Following ar
gument by attorneys for both sides
the disbarment hearing before the
Suprem" Court against Barnard Il.
Evans was concluded this afternoon
aud decision Will be rendered later.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07

The fellow who finds fault with his
boarding house should try running
one himself Manchester Union.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07
AFFAIRS Az MAYESVILLE.

Meeting To BE Held on Wednesday.
May 9Th, To Discuss Organization of
Chamber Of COmmcrcc-Sccretar
Morgan of Florence to BE Chief
Spcakcr-Dispcnsary Petition Sign
ell Literally - Prcsbytcrians In
Newly Repaired Church-Baptists
Make Effort tn Reopen Church.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-07

marriage license has been issued
{" u. II. Sins an Miss Dana Pigrord
of Sumter.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-09-17

-uia order of Moose Dance ut
colombo lau tonight
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-09-17

li@3I ordcr of Moose Dance at
'uIomIo bail tonight
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-09-17

Ha Oua M N.a-e uu.e
o'W'a $500 ou.-Wt
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-09-17

HUNTINGTON HALL a acaao g2q ags sqagas @ g91l m
PASADENA CAL
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hockey basket ball Anss FLORENCE HoVslI4 Principal
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10
Tucker Travels and Talks

A. B. Tucker, better known as
Barney, arrived here this morning
from Punta Gorda, Florida, his
present home. He comes on a
business trip but takes time to tell
his friends of the great prospects
in his part Of Florida. He carried
with him and exhibited in this
office a pineapple raised on his
premises that weighs 81 pounds
and measures ten inches in length.
clear of the top. He has %, 900
pineapple plants ON II acres Of
ground, that yield in from twelve
to eighteen months after they are
planted. Five years is about the
average life of a pineapple orchard
but while it is growing they plant
grapefruit and orange trees and
have them producing before the
pineapple beds are abandoned.
Barney left with us a sample of
Punta Gorda made cigars that
were right good smokes. He left
for Westport this afternoon to
visit relatives and former neighbors
before leaving for his home. Bar
ney has travelled a great deal and
seen more of the country than
most people, and is now convinced
in his own mind that Punta Gorda,
Florida, is the garden spot of the
world. -Greensburg, Ind, News,
June 23rd.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10
Florida a Cattle Country

Florida and Georgia cattle. The
average, year in and year out, for
each COW has been two gallons a
day. The cost of producing it he
puts at - cents a gallon. 1t re-
tails at 60 cents a gallon, and he
cannot begin to supply the de.
mand.
'sThis is the milk situation all
over Florida, yet the same thing
can be done almost anywhere in
the State-at Tampa, rs we'll as
at Gainesville, Ocala, Leesburg or
jacksonville. Take Tampa, for
instance: There are sixty-five dali
ries in and around that city, which
is fairly jumping ahead in popula-
ton. Some of the richest lands in
the State are adjacent to it.
"Hillsborough and Manatee
counties alone support more than
seventy thousand head of native
stock-about one-tenth of all those
in the State-but / do not believe
there is dairyman in the region
who is not using feed brought a
a distance of twelve hundred or
eighteen hundred miles, when it
ought to be grown at home. All
these larger towns have ice and re-
frigerator plants, which should
lessen the dairyman's difficulties.
The most formidable of those is
the labor. Dairying is a three
hundred and sixty-five day propo-
sition each year, and it needs a
class of labor that is mighty scarce
all over the South.
''Here's a tip to the Florida
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10
GLORIOUS FOURTH
Celebrated at BairdviIIe, Punfa Cor
da Well Represented

Quite large body gathered at
Bairdville to celebrate the 4th of
July. Several boats, autos and
carriages went from this place to
enjoy themselves. The day was
all that one could wish for, not too
warm and minus the usual rain on
the great fourth in this section.
Too much praise cannot be given
Mr.. and Mrs. Baird and the differ
ent committees for their efforts to
make every one enjoy themselves.
Mr.. Baird met the boats at the
landing with three-ox and one
horse team, upon which he loaded
the ladies', and they were off to the
picnic ground with Mr.. Baird as
tride of one of the oxen. Mr..
Huffman hauled the scribe out in a
wagon to which was hitched a
couple of Texas donkeys.
At - o'clock, every one was
summoned to dinner, which was
spread out on tables under the
trees and was a sumptuous one,
plenty for every one. After the
Rev. Fitzgerald of Punta Gorda,
saying grace, we were ordered to
fall to. There were $50 to 200
people there, and they did justice
to the good things to eat. Mr..
Bailey of Berlnont, the master of
ceremonies, gave us a nice talk
about the progress of the county,
which was well listened to. Then
come several pieces said by little
tots. Not being familiar with
them and not having program, l
cannot give the names of them and
the contestants in the 3-legged
race, the 100 yds. dash sack race
and the donkey and o. X. race.
We had several songs by the
Bermont choir of a natural char
acter, among which was "My
Florida" and that good old never.
Continued on last page.)
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10
Indictment Against Flies

Individual flies have lived in cap
tivity for sixteen weeks. Flies
which have been caught and mark
ed and then liberated have been
found within forty-eight hours a
mile away from the point of liber-
alton. The distance which flies
may trayeI, therefore, carrying
with them whatever foulness they
may be possessed of, is almost un-
limited.
A number of investigators have
shown that the germs with which,
as has been said, every fly is prob
ably loaded, remain active for
material length of time for a
longer period when taken into the
insect with its food and carried
within it until reelected than
when merely attached to it exter-
nally. A fly which has fed on the
bacilli of tuberculosis was found
still to contain the bacilli after
fourteen days. Also the baciIli
having been taken into the fly and
subsequently excretcd, remained
virulent for fifteen days after ejec-
tion. BY merely making a casual
ly caught fly walk over nutrient
culture, really astounding num-
ber of colonies of bacteria may be
developed. A single fly caught at a
refuse-can in London gave no few
er than 116 colonies of bacteria
and ten colonies of fungi, the
germs having all been carried on
the bristles of the insects legs and
body or on its proboscis, as gath
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Adjourned Session Tuesday Night
July I, 1913

City Council met in adjourned
session in the board of trade
rooms Tuesday night, July l.
Present: Geo. S. Stone, President,
and Councilmen Pitt. Rountree
and Chadwick. Minutes of pre-
vious meeting were read and APP
proved.
Contracts in duplicate specify
ing the terms and conditions upon
which the Punta Gorda Ice Co.
proposes to furnish the city of
Punta Gorda with power suffi-
cient to operate the municipal
electric light plant for a period of
ten years, we're read. The Coun-
Gil found no objection to the con-
tract, but turned it over to the
City Attorney for his approval to
be further considered at the next
meeting of the Council, July s.
Mr.. Hiram McElroy of Tampa,
civil engineer, was present and
gave the council information con-
cerning the best plan of putting in
the proposed new water works
and sewer system. On motion the
President the members of the
Street committee-Messrs. Chad
wick, Pitt and Hewitt-and j. +.
Corbett, j. N. Skies and Clayton
Porter, as representatives of the
board of trade, to confer with
Engineer McElroy and determine
the streets in which sewer pipes
should be laid, and the most FEAST
BILE point for outlet into the bay.
This committee to report July s.
Council adjourned till Tuesday
night, July s. X. X. Seward,
Clerk.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10

. Y
cred while feeding on the refuse in
the can..
That flies are every day similar
ly collecting germs and subse-
quently walking not on well guard
ed cultures but on chiIdren's bread
and butter and on the eatables in
shops and kitchens and our tables,
lis obvious. Nor are household
refuse cans the worst places which
flies visit. or in which they feed
and breed. 1t is probable that a
large proportion of the deaths
from typhoid, both in the south
African war and in the American
war with Spain, were due to the
instrumentality of the flies that
swarmed about tho camps; and it
is equally likely that they bear
share in numerous lesser outbreaks
oftyphoid of which the cause is new
er known. in addition to typhoid
it is also believed that flies are
active carriers of tuberculosis,
opthalmia, anthrax, cholera, and
other terrible maladies, besides the
infantile diarrhoea or enteritis
which causes SO heavy mortality
among the children in our cities
every summer.
The house-tiy breeds with an al
most appalling rapidity, the entire
life-cycle, from the laying of the
egg to the maturity of the perfect
insect, taking under favorable con-
ditions no more than from three
weeks to month; and a few days
after the perfect insect emerges
from the pupa it is ready to lay
again. sit has bean Calculated
says Mr.. Hewett, ''that if the pro-
geny of q single pair of flies assum
ing that they all lived, were press
ed together at the end of
summer they would occupy
space of a quarter of million
cubic feet" Without pretending
to follow or venturing to dispute
the calculation, what is evident is
that, taking 600 eggs as reason
able number Gas it seems to be)
for a single tiy to lay, the progeny
Of a pair, if all survived, would at
the end OF three months amount to
some 81, 000, 900. London Times.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10

farmer: Cattle feeders in the
West and Northwest are max
ing contracts for several years
ahead with Texas farmers to
take to annual crop of calves seven
months old, at prices ranging from
$25 to $2S a head, depending upon
breeding. This season two hum
dred thousand head of cattle will
Continued on last page.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10

When your girls nestles up to
you and tells you she dreamed that
you and she were married, it's
time to hustle around and see
where you can buy a ring on the
smallest installments.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10
THE INDIANS
IN FLORIDA
United States Government Max
ing First Attempt TO Care
For Them

The United States government
is just now making the first reason
able attempts to care for the Flor
ida Seminole Indians that have
been made since the greater part
of the tribe was removed to the
old Indian territory just after the
Seminole war in this State.
A special commissioner, Lucian
A. Spencer, lately dean of the
Episcopal cathedral at Orlando,
who has had much experience in
the work, has recently been ap-
pointed and has just made his first
report to the authorities.
In view of the fact that the
drainage of the Everalades will
drive out the remnant of game up
on which the Seminoles chiefly
subsist, the question of saving
them from starvation becomes a
pressing one. The commissioner
reports that tanners are no longer
buying alligator hides and that
one great source of revenue has
thereby, been cut off from the In
dians.
Willie they cultivate the soil to
some extent, they are in no sense
farmers, and unless something is
done to put them in the way of
producing their living from the
ground, they will soon starve to
death and disappear. Notwith-
standing the disadvantages under
which they have lived since the
white man took possession of the
edges of the Everglades the COM
missioner reports that the Semi
noles are increasing in numbers.
About the only practical thing
that has ever been undertaken for
the Improvement of these Indians
is the work done under the
supervision of Bishop Gray by an
Episcopal mission on one of the
reservations. This mission has
established school that has had a
sort of success, but owing to the
fact that the old members of the
tribe are averse to education OF
any kind, not a great deal has been
accomplished. Reporting on the
question of educating these people
the commissioner said that while the
present council, composed of the
Oldest men of the tribe, still lived,
the educating of the Young would
be discouraged by them, but that
promises had been made that when
the old people died off the younger
people would not object to their
children receiving education both
in books and in trades.
The serious question seems to be
to secure sufficient land to allow
eighty acres of land to every head
of q family that shows any dis
position or ability to make suc-
cessful farmers.
1t is encouraging TO note that
the government is at last taking
hold of the question in earnest.
That it will solve the problem is
assured. Miami Herald.