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PLANS FOR COMMENCEMENT !' NO WASTE OF TIME IN PREPAR- | ING THE PUPILS TO SHOW H OFF WILL BE PERMITTED. (Proper-Gander) In view of the fact that some time was lost by quarantine and also on ?j? the general principle that the time Jj required for preparing scnolars to B "show off", can better be utilized in ij| building up the standard of the H school, the commencement exercises |g will be limited to one day?June 4. B The address before the graduating jig chss and the presentation of State jjg diplomas will take place in the Opera ^ House on the morning of June 4 and the class play will be given that evening in the same builing. Full* announcement of these exer- == cises will be published in the May jj| number of Proper-Gander to be is- j|? .1 _ i x. 1.1 o riL _ J? i.1 ? i-t. .i sued aDout me ^oiri 01 uie muuwi. Examinations will commence for aii but the eleventh grade on May 27th./while those for the highest ^ grade will begin one week earlier. ' 3 In lieu of a series of closing exer- S cises extending several days a high H scaool annual will be published in y June, advertisement of which appears H? in this issue, which volume will serve U as a tribute to this year's class for H years to come. !?! Various pictures of scnooi athlet- ?H ic teams, grades, buildings, etc., are being made this week by Hays, the photographer, and cuts of all these pjl pictures will appear in the annual, So new subscriptions of Proper- tgl C ;nder \vill be received until next jit fall but one copy of the annual will Pg be furnished each old subscriber of gig the school paner. To ail others the price is $1.50 a copy, but the money ijjj will be well spent. Every rormer and present citizen of the city will be proud of a copy of this volume which im will contain all of the interestingfeatures outlined in the page adver ti&ement in this number. , Mf CONFEDERATE PRESS FOUND IN BERMUDA The State. It is not often that a newspaper ?jg| c: r>.:iover?y is productive of much S material good,, but one that was B waged in The State some years ago ' UK has just resulted in the locating of H the press of the great seal of the jg Confederate States, which was lostljjjgj en route to this country in 1864 and i H was, therefore, never used for the j M F-.roo^e for which it was made. In 1S(J4 Lieutenant Chapman ofj??j| tha Confederate r.avy,. was detailed ill to bi-ing the seal to Richmond. When S3 he reported to Secretary Benjamin Sj{ in Richmond he had the seal to tarn H ovrer, but announced that the press Iff for'it had been unaccountably lost in i?| oermuaa. =7 When Richmond was about to fall ^ ir 1803 Secretary Benjamin directed gig ' J. W. Bromwell, one of his clerks, to Hp pack up the record; of the depart- US orient and take them to a place of ?j?j safety. Bromwell took them to Charlotte, N. C., where he hired a garret W\ and stored them. Some years after ??j the war Col. John T. Pickett, who had jg-1 formerly been a department clerk in uJup;;m Richmond, but was then conducting a curio shop in Washington, employ- - ; eu Bronnvell as :< clerk. Verv soon 1*1 v.- J thereafter Colon?! Pickett offered t< ^ sell the records cf the Confederate p;v suite department to "he Unite. State.l ovcrnme::'.. "When a tvaiL wa.s^maiiy closed- Lieutenant Thorn* x. C. Seutu..4t.\ Jr., United State? stQ1 navy was directed to proceed to a : cerfcr.tr r-Vnt in Canada to receive IC *he records from Pickett. ?FReproduction for Sale I Sel' About this time Colonel Pickett sffered for sale ?old, silver and it * 1% t*AnTA ^TvfxTrtii vonvn^npfinnc r?f tll0 tiie great seal of^tne Confederacy. **<>' One of these in bronze in now in the ^ omce of the historical commission of Ric South Carolina. Accompanying each pre of these reproductions is a facsimile nev copy of a certificate from the maker? | wo: of the great seal setting forth the j sto genuineness of the seal and stating dro that so perfect a copy could not have | Sa\ been made save from the original, j sec What Pickett haci done with the j bev r.iginal seal couiii never be learned! wit by aoy one of the many people in-jor Crested in the matter until a few j Th< years ago when Gaillard Hunt, then;Jr., of the library of omrress. acquired n"? f.v-nie letters whiefc Pickett had writ- J+rSen to Selfridg? v.:i which showed I' ui Shat Pickett had eiven the seal to ? r Selfridere. Mr. Hurt revealed the|a 1 secret of his discovery to a few of his J in? friends. Some tini? after that a for-jvH ' i I When you buy a comp] you not only same money b in perfect harmony. I Bright Our complete display of brighten the home. If you interested in our wonderful hold Furnishings. You wi] briuhten up the Home from / FROM APRIL "GO The time has come again pinting the furniture for his to si I in, a table as somethii 1.^.1 .v - \ aua I K on n 1 nr?r* 4 rv iJL'll <13 1IIIJIU liiu.ll u. v\j a definite, relationship be character. No one can esc sciously or unconsciously, not think that the most raj ol" a domestic establishmenl objects and arrangements a ting-. THE F The/policy of this Store i sistent with quality. We fu profit, it helps you and it he \l J A w & tie ll? : citizen of Richmond acquired and th< letter press books of Colonel wiicsc kett and learned the same secret, i e iiu t Mr. Hunt had learned. The' -onfocl r discoveries made a newspaper j to ry of the matter for a Ricbn %rs' j'b:j >er and three wealthy and patriot-j v.iut ti young gentlemen immediately) might ned negotiations with Admiral J with it fridge for the purchase of the !cy rec 1 with the result that they secured recipie 'or a liberal sum and placed it in start f Confederate museum in Rich- health, Qd. ::i the Vhen the story of the action of the j U?e pu hmond gentlemen appeared in j post M ss dispatches in South Carolina nothinj vspapers there were some, myth rshippers who believed a fanciful Som ry about Mr. Benjamin having directc pped the great seal into the cal res annah river as the Corifederate wrote 1 retarv of state crossed from Ab- to seni rille into Georgia, and they forth-! muda h expressed their doubts as to the him if rectness of the Richmond story, he des ?y were answered by A. S. Salley, j resear< secretary of the Historical Com- terest :sion of South Carolina, in a letter looked The State, wherein he set forth i lost pi fo.egoing facts as to the seal.! Coiyfei ne days later. Mr. Salley received has ju: etter from a gentleman in Wash-1 James< ton saying that his daughter had had loi !t?<' Rernuula the summer before photos ? . s ... JiBSi. t A lete outfit here lit each piece is louse Cle< 1 en up the Ho the newest and best in good Furniture are a lover of beautiful Furniture yoi Spring Display of the newest and most tl find here anything you need in Qui Kitchen to Drawing Room at real mon lOD HOUSEKEEPING," BY RALPH C - ? ^ ^ " ????? ***l\ An r* rvAHO A1 3 in inis country ui uurs, wucu a jjuiouj > home thinks oT a chair as something lg more than a contrivance on which I sleep. We are realizing more and mc tween the things that we put into our h< ape the judgment that is passed upon 1 by every person who puts foot within )turous protestations by word of mouth t are one-half- so eloquent as the silenl ind color harmonies in the room in whi 'OLICY OF THIS STORE is to give you every possible advantag [ mly believe in a larger volume of sa] sips us. *. ? ere mot ar. old gentleman [to induce devote name he grave, who had showed ale cause to pre press of the great seal of the place with tlie s orncy. ?.Ir. Sall6v sent the let- orate museum, one of jihe Richmond trio who . ress says that u-hl th: .v.v.i an.I suggested ..~.r he bought i ie original, but Io:i(t lost press .vjj0 had acted be obtained 1 y communication ,jj agent for tl s owenr in Eermuda. Mr. Sal- jumpany and i reive 1 a revdy stating that the runners in Berr nt of his letter was about to Needing a press or Europe on a trip for his bought this one . but would leave the matter i ! ltted to it. r in hands of his two associates in S. Wyon, of Lo rchase of his seal, who would -.vrote to Mr. \\ r. Sallev as to their action, but from the descri] ? was ever heard from them, undoubtly had ( Seal Press Located of the press of 1 e time ago Dr. J. F. Jameson, Confederacy wh r of the department of histori- Bermuda in 18 ;earch of Carnegie institution Wyon, had mad to Mr. Sallev that he was about zen then procu: i two investigators to Ber- in Richmond a < to make researches and asked and from that r there were particular matters vate seal which ired exploited in his lines of on the pi'ess ma ;h. Among: the matters of in- owner of the pi to Mr. Salley which he desired refused to sell i into was this one of the lon.tr where the seal ess of the prreat seal of the willing to sell ii leracy. As a result Mr. Salley will be placed v >t received a letter from Dr. >n telling him that hi? agents 666 quickly 1 cated the press. They also sent Biliousness, Los raphs of it which will be used Headaches, due By buyin we "are able values. ming W( me i will serve to IS YOUF 1 will be keenly attractive House- There ility Furniture to ,?? ? J good" ref ey saving prices. er efTicier ERSKINE erator pe, n who is contem- 'new one. more than a thing poor refri to put food, and a |\yo se >re that there is j j j j ( ouses and our own j J . \ be in youi lim, whether con- [ , I ! inside an< his doors. I do from the mistress I Kitchen. I I t testimony of the j n*e bill ;n cli we may be sit- j nnrl meat We wil obligation e in price, conies' at a smallei ' pi tWhf* Tins STORE sail pic can obtain S || H a jy forts at a minim It safeguards rying the best li Every one int Cthe advantage o ing. The same cou come to buy or careful deliverie IIS 2cs to the Confeder- McCORMICK QU )curc the press and seal in the Confed- McCormick, May The owner of the morning city council some years after the nance requiring all it from a Mr. Bourne t'le town 10 'Je vaccins as Confederate con- nuarantine will be nu lie Cunard Steamship ,s 0,1 account of agent for blockade smaJ1PO.\. nuda during the war. ^or some time thei > in his business he sn,a'lpox here but and had his own seal ^aken ?f it, it being ding the name of J. the matter was no br ndon, on the press he ^ention of the board ryon who replied that city authorities. ption he had given he 0n request the ch ome into possession ^oard ?f health inves Ll , , - ,, ana tne patient was < the great seal of the . * . , , , , ... is declared that the p ach had been lost in ? . . , ,. , , under quarantine for 64 and which he. , _ ? , ... then came down towi e. Our Bermuda citi. cases of smallpox ha' red through a friend Irawing of the seal ' . , . A case of scarlet fe [rawing had the pn. , , ported on being neai he subsequently used de therefor. The CROP DIVERSIFICiA vss has several times j INCREASED 5 t,. but since learning SOUT] is now located seems t if assured that it Encouraging, inr ith the seal. J figures compiled by t ! Department, which sh relieves Constipation, I thern farmers are r s of Appetite and i realizing the value of to Torpid Liver. Icreaser acreage in i llMillllllllMllllMlllllilllllllllllllllilll g in unusually large qua to offer you these won iek ? REFRIGERATOR GOOD FOR ANOTHER Y is no such thing as a " rigerator?a refrigerator i< it or inefficient. If your i rants warm air to leak in, / ' The food and ice wasted igerator will pay fdr a goc asons. \ show'you why the Randall r home this season. Snow \ out, it is an ornament t( t will save many dollars oi iid many more on your g bills. II be glad to show you \\ i. i 3LICY OF THIS STORE. ! is to act as a mediunv>whereby household necessities, ""luxuries i ,um price. the people against inferior good nes whether it be for cottages oi erested in home improvement i f consulting a specialist in home rtesy and welcome is given whe not. You are assured of pror s, freight paid. ARANTINED j less in cotton. i grow more tha 12.?Yesterday . c"1^0'2 piociuce . .Stares, miscella passed an ordi-i , >.it. ! from 14-.C oer ( persons witnin i . , , , . . ported cron aci ited and a strict' .. . | years 1910-191 it on the town.1 the past five yi recent cases of I cent in the last , , , ! In these hea1 *e has been talk .. States on 1 v no notice was i. > .i . tctal reported t reported that , . . . ton last vear, v ought to the at , ... for the past fiv of health or , ? cent, ajid for tl , that (1910-191 airman of the . . i acreage of tho tigated the case , Tj_ between 191oluarantined. It , . , , aged ofl.l ner c atient remained , , " , , area of these S two weeks and , , ... , , the bulk of the ti. Three other ? , Manuafacturers ve later deveJ- ,, , Mu. ver has been re- 666 cures r McCormick. Fever, Bilious Grippe. It kills kTI0N .u r causes the fevei !5 PERCENT laxative and ?e H LAST YEAR Don't wait f< leed, are the | jn. cyiartev a tuj he Agricultural'^ o\v that Sou-j . nore and more ^ We are prou ' planting in-'l-dbctors, druggi< "oodstllffs and j have in 666 Ch wrnammm ntities derful ?=ssi 'EAR? 'pretty 3 eith efrig ' m buy a by n )d one should white | ) any ! | m n your j rocery j rithoiit 1" M the peoind coms by carr castle. is given furnishsther you npt and A. * I In ten States which :i 05 per cent of the d in the United neons crops increased :ent of the total re ea>;e in the five 4 to 22.4 per cent in ears and 25. (i per year. t'y cotton-producing I per cent of their :rop area \vas in cotvhereas the average e years was 38.5 per le five years before 4) 44.5 per cent. The one food crop, corn, 191D, inclusive, averent of the total crop Itates, which supply. ? country's cotton.? i Record. Baltimore Malaria, Chills and Fever Colds and Lathe parasite that r. It is a splendid neral tonic. :>r your ship to eorae et and go out and meet d of the con fidence its and the public ill and Fever Tonic.