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.... -? . FEASIBILITY OF ACC FROM AEROPLAI BY UNITED S Flying at Mile-a-Minute Cli Successive Shots Si ; V?: S' , J ' ' V ->*Z ^ -t, * Z ** - ' i ' '' '? " ' - ^ gg if, \\ ^fiaffi^^OHjHHj^HHHHIflDMIjMH Bridgeport, Conn., was recently the scene of a most remarkable aeroplane . achievement. Not only did it thrill the vast army of spectators because of the - reckless daring displayed by the bird* men, but it proved beyond ail question that, with the right make of ride, a marksman can shoot while flying at tremendous speed, with the same accuracy as when on the ground. Army officers have been anything but satisfied with the results obtained with the service rifle, and the flight was planned as a test of a repeating arm of ^ other than government make. The flight took place at the Lake Aerodrome before 10,000 people who paid admission and a far greater number who occupied points of vantage upon neighboring hilltops, housetops Alter a fellow has finished the job it is mighty easy for some other fellow to find faalt. What a lot of motion has been lost reaching for a match and bringing up a toothpick. How many times have you thought i you could deliver a better lecture than the one you jurt heard? People who boast of their crosses are toting a useless load. And if hoop^kirts do come back, how are you going to button your i wife's waist? Clothing hooks wer3 invented by a man to be used by women. If tomorrow would on'y bring forth ; what we have planned today! 1 and trees. When Beachy came npon the field, a violent wind was blowing. Undeterred, he mounted his seat and was soon soaring high above. More than once it seemed to the spectators that his frail craft must surely turn turtle and come crashing to the earth, but every time the treacherous wind threathened, clever manipulation by the aviator held the machine straight and true. After having been in the air a number of minutes, - Beachy pointed his craft in the direction of the grandstand, encircled it twice and, as gracefully as a bird alights, brought it safely to the ground. To every one present it seemed certain, in view of the dangerous antics of the wind, that no more flights would CRAZED BY JEALOUSY SHOOTS YOUNG GIRL. Fearful Deed of a Young Man in Augusta, Georgia. A fio Vs\tt 15 PrahT augUOld) WM vy - ? - v. , jealousy, Ed J. Brazell, a white cob* tonf mill operative, 42 years old, shot sad killed Carrie Belle Duncan, a 16- i j year-old girl, in the presence of Brazell's sick wife this morniDg. Before the man could reload the single barreled shofcgcn and torn the weapon on himself, his wife, though weak and ! feverish from illness,wrestled with him j and prevented him from accomplish ing his porpoBe. Officers soon arrived j and placed Brazell under arrest. Brazell and his wife and the dead girl j and her family lived in the same tene- * ment house. He was enamored with the girl, and was insanely jealous because of her alleged acceptance from another man. While the Duncan girl # | was in the room with the wife and ; just after she prepared breakfast for the Brazells the husband seized a gun and blew the girl's brains out. The wife is prostrated and Brazell refast s to talk, although letters found in his pocket stated that he loved the girl, I was jealons of other men, and that he i intended to kill her and end his own life. URATE SHOOTING ft! DEMONSTRATED rATES GOVERNMENT. p, Lieut Fickel Throws Two raight Into Target Unit**.vmd Umdtrte**d be attempted that afternoon ;TJbt to the amazement of all, Beachy, as soon as he landed, hailed Lieut. Pickel, who was standing- nearby, armed with a Remington-UMC rifle, and invited him to take a seat alongside. This Lieut. Fickel did, and aviator and passenger were soon on their way. To make the trip all the more hazardous, the machine had been shorn of all extra supports invariably carried with passengers for balance. Time and again the big planes could be seen to tremble as if they were about to snap when contrary gusts of wind caught them; and to those below the tilting and the swaying of the monoplane were fore-runners of certain destruction to the aviator and his passenger. When the machine reached the farther end of the field it suddenly turned, and came flying back at lightning speed. At the other end of the fie'd, in full view of the spectators, a target had been rigged. When within firing range, Lieut. Fickel raised hisrifle and sent two shots straight to the mark. It was a wonderful performance and a fitting climax to a meet that was replete with sensational features. In an interview after the demonstration, Lieut. Fickel said that he found the speed and accuracy of the Autoloader a distinct advantage over the service rifles he had previously used in similar tests, and that he considered it the only practical gtja for use under such conditions. ... ... State News. T1>p "RTpt?V>iiw arrant inrxr nn Tupr day threw oat the indictments against W. A. Clark and Wilie Jone9, of Columbia, charged! with conspiracy in connection with the late Seminole Security company. .T. W. Rideout, general foreman of the Southern railroad at the Spartanburg junction, had his leg cut off by a freight train on Tuesday. The largest yield of oorn ever produced on one acre in Saluda county do what the humble little lightningbug does?make light without heat. so far as|the records show was made this year by Thomas Shaw, a negro farmer of the Penn creek section? 146$ bushels. Craney MoCallough died on Sunday night in Laarens county of wounds inflicted by Jim 8hell?both coloredtwo weeks ago. This is Lauren's first homicide in a year. J. Hampden Brooks, a well known citizen of Greenwood, died on Tuesday, aged 78, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. Q. Marshall. He was captain of a company in Kershaw's brigade and did valiant service as a Confederate soldier. He is survived by his wife and ten children. Burglars broke into the milinary store of Miss Carrie Cave, of Barnwell, and stole $47 in money and a large quantity of valuable furs, cloak suifs, etc. . A trophy cup valued at $1,000, known as the Indiana trophy, will be given to the farmer who shows.tho best ten ears of corn at the Natio lal Corn show to bo held in Columbia in January of 1813. We all like to meet the man who can disagree with us without acting as if he thought we were plumb fools. There's always room at the top, but some of us would rather be a little less successful than a lot more lonesome. Science 13 a great thing, of course, but to date it hasn't learned how to ADVANCE GUARS DRIVERS ARRIVING IN SAVANNAH Trying Out for VanderbMt and Grand Pri2e Races. Savannah, Ga.?The advance guard 3f drivers and cars fer the Vanderbilt 2up and International Grand Prize races and light car races, which will take place in Savannah on November 11 and 30, have already arrived and are daily trying out the famous course Dver the Chatham county roads. With the large number of entries and the world's most famous drivers, these two big blue ribbon events of automobiledom will unouestionably prove the greatest road races ever held in the world. Never before have two events of such magnitude been held it one time. Heretofore t'.e Vaaderbilt Cup race was held at Long Island in October and the International Grand Prise Race at Savannah in November. Owing to the inability of the promoters to get the proper protection for the course during the race and the unequalled facilities offered by Savannah, it was decided this year to hold the big event at Savannah. It ?caa hardly be called a curtain raiser for the Grand Prize, as it is itself such a world famous race, but it will be run first and two days later the Grand Prize race will be run, the two days being allowed to give competitors in the Vanderbilt race ample time to overhaul and "tune-up" their big space-killers for the Grand Prize event. In these races and the light car events it is probable that over seventy-five cars will be entered. The course is seventeen miles long, and with the oars eating up distance at the rate of 80 miles an hour, it will be readily recognized that there will always be "something doing'' on every part of the course. Specially constructed cars have been entered, the most dare-devil drivers in the world have been secured and it is absolute ly certain that the excitement is going to be intense and the races the grandest sport ever held in the South and, barring unforeseen accidents, the greatest the world has ever yet known. ENORMOUS GASH PRIZES IN BIG SAVANNAH RACES Drivers of Big Cars That Win Will Be Made Rich. Savannah, Ga.?With $19,950 in cash already hung up as prize money for the winners of the automobile races in Savannah on November 27 and 30, and with the large majority of the tire concerns and accessory manufacturers not yet heard from, it appears that not only -.'ill the races set up records for the annihilation of distance, but will as well place new figures on prize money carried away by winning drivers. Recently the amounts were added to by offers from the Bosch Magneto ' - c +Vio ttti n n ore whn company ojl ^>?,uuu iv& n.. are equipped with Bosch magnetos and by the Findelsen & Kropf Manufacturing company, makers of the Rayfield carburetter of $2,500. These with the previous offer of the Remy Electric company of $4,250 to those winning with Remy magnetos and the offer of the Savannah Automobile Club of $12,500 in gold to the winners of the events, make the total, which will be greatly swelled when the other offers come in. The letter of the Findelsen & Kropf Manufacturing company is for the winner of the Grand Prize race $1,000, the winner of the Vanderbilt $500, second man in the Vanderbilt $200, winner of the Savannah Challenge Trophy $250 and winner of the'l'iedeman Cup Race $250. The offer of the Bosch Magneto company is $500, $200 and $100, respectively for first, second and third place in the Grand Prize; $200, $50, and $50 for first, second and third in , the Vanderbilt; $100, $50 and $50 for the Tiedeman Trophy and the same for the Savannah Challenge Trophy. All these prizes are offered with the proviso that the winners must be equipped with the product of the com- ! pany offering the prize. The gold prizes offered by the Savannah Au- j tomobile Club are without restriction ! to go to the winners. j I WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS j WILL BE AT SAVANNAH Never Before Has Such a Galaxy Been Gotten Together. Savannah, Ga.?Among the famous drivers who will pilot cars in the great Vanderbilt cup, International Grand Prize, Tiedeman Trophy and Savannah Challenge Trophy races, which will be held in Savannah November 27 and 30, are Bruce-Brown, Burman, Wagner, Basle, Dawson, Hemery, Bragg, Grant, Mulford, DePaima, Tatzield, Kearn and a score of others. These drivers are all world famous. Never before was SUCH a Kci.ia.xy Ui vrui iu-ianiyiis tuivers assembled in one place. The greatest rivalry exists and it is known that these men will enter the races to win at all hazards. It is "do or j die" with them, for the race will make the driver and the manufacturer of the machine rich and world famous. Xo amount of money could purchase the prestige which winning these races will give the cars. The manufacturers have spent many thousand dollars building special cars and speed madness will be rampant in Savannah during the otherwise calm days cf our Indian summer. 1 EtESSFlK MUM ON SfflNIMI Savannah, Ca.?The eyes of tfee a*Lomobile world are axed on Savannah and from now until the first day of the big races there late m this Hoatii Savannah will he the Meeea for every one interested in the world, famous events. The railroads have offered reduced rates, numerous newspapers bare conducted contests in which tree trips to the races were offered as prizes, a big "uround-the-state-teur" has been projected and will end in Sarannah, automobile clubs in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Charlotte, Durham, Columbia, Charleston, Jacks onriHe, Atlaata, Au-.. I gusta, Macon, Birmingham, New OrI leans and many other cities will have | cross country "runs" to the races, and | It is certain that there will be more | people In Sarannah during the first four days of Thanksgiving week than were ever before there. The races are to be the greatest the world has | ever known and every on who haft I any way of gtting to Savannah and I can spare the time is going to be i there. The representatives of numer| ous foreign automobile clubs will be ' on hand, and all foreign entries must ! be made through the recognized clubs, whioh are Automobile Club de France, | Royal Automobile Club of Great Brit: I ain and Ireland, Automobile Club of Italy, KaiserlSch Automobile Club,, Au* tomobile Club de Belgique, Oestarre* i ichische Automobile Club, Automobile Club of Canada, International Racing ! Association of Cuba, Dansk Automo* v.n? r*inH Mcuiarlflnri1a/>hA Automobiel Ull* UIUU, i1VUV>U?? , Club, Magyar Automobile Club, Auto* mobile Club of Guadalajara, Auckland Automobile Association, the Automo| bile Club of Porto Rico, Royal Automobile Club, Automobile Club of Rou! mania, Automobile Club of Moscow, | Royal Automobipe Club of Spain, I Kungl. Automobil-Klubben and the ! Automobile Club de Suisse. Of these France, Italy, Fermany and the United States are the most interested, for they have the largest number of entries in the races. It will be truly an international, universal race meet and the winners will get not only the enormous cash prizes offered, but before duck falls on those eventful days their names will have been flashed to the four corners of the earth. It is small wonder that the people are literally wild over the coming races. SAVANNAH PREPARING TO CARE FOR THE CROWDS I Bureau Has Been Formed With This End in View. Savannah is making great preparations to take care of the crowds that will come to the races. Naturally tho regular hotels and boarding houses could not possibly accommodate the hundreds of thousands who will be on hand, and the bureau of informaaVi n o o Tra n iro/1 n I10I1 IOT ILtt; ICl^CS UUa M regular clearing house at which visitors can get all the information they want as to other accommodations. Every person in Savannah having spare rooms or other accommodations has been asked to communicate the information to the bureau, which is in charge of Mr. W. R. Finnegan, and he has received word concerning thousands of rooms that will be available for strangers. No one need fear that he will not be taken care of. In addition to these accommodations the railroads and steamship companies have arranged to park their sleeping cars and dock their vessels, so that many can occupy comfortable quarters there during the races. Special and private cars and steamships will be provided with all conveniences. Numerous special train will be run, and the railroads have made a half rate for the occasion. FREE RUNS TO SAVANNAH RACES WILL BE GIVEN Jackson Argus and Other Papers Get in the Game. Savannah.?As an evidence of the great amount of interest being taken throughout the state in the coming Grand Prize, Vanderbilt and light car races at Savannah during Thanksgiving week, nothing is more convinc- '' *? nnmViop nf I I ing tnan me acuuu ui a. auuiu^i vi | Georgia papers in promoting "free runs" to> the races. The Jackson Argus was probably the first weekly paper L the state to inaugurate these contests, under the conditions of which trips to the races are given in return for subscriptions, the persons sending in the largest number of subscriptions in each militia district being awarded an automobile trip to the races, with ail expenses paid. The arrangement has proven a splendid thing for the publishers, and will probably serve to increase the attendance on the races. It is certain that the crowds will be larger than ever before and that the events will be the greatest ever held in the history of automobile racing. i S THAT IS FEED! l I. . . NAMELY: ... I 3 per cent, ammonia, cot- fg ton seed meal and hulls I for cows; fresh sound corn m and cob ground together | * ' I for hogs; and fresh corn meal and grits for people. We Make and Sell Them AU and at the RIGHT PRICE. I Our tolls for grinding corn is one-eighth for S table meal and hog feed and one-sixth for h grinding and screening grits. We also carry a I good stock of pipe and pipe fittings, lime, ce- B ment, selected brick, etc., all at reasonable B . prices. We also buy cotton seed and good, B sound corn. Call and see us. ? LITTLE MOUNTAIN I THANKSGIVING. It is splendid to think of a great nation suspending work for twenty-four hours in order that its people may offer thanks for the many blessings enjoyed. The measure of an individual's gratitude is not necessarily in proportion to his bounty for some people are more appreciative than others but almost invariably his satisfaction is effected by the consciousness of self-accomplishment. The man who can feel that his honest efforts have enabled him to take care of all of his current obligations and still have something left over, will give sincere thanks be_ cause his appreciation will be genuine. If your thankfulness this year is not flavored with the satisfaction of accomplishment, begin now to add this zest to the enjoyment of next season. Saving?patiently and persistently Banking a small percentage of your earnings each week?will, before the next season of thanksgivng comes, add another element of gratitude to your feelings which will make a new man of you. 1 BANK OF CHAPIN I CHAPIN, S. C. I J. S. WESSINGER, President. J. F. HONEYOUTT, Cashier. fl IN NEW QUARTERS | J I have purchased the Sphaier Building in Gaston and have moved my stock of General Mer- w* chandise. I am better prepared to serve my customers than ever. I have a full line of dry *] goods, notions, shoes, hats, caps, etc., hardware, , : staple and fancy groeeries. I have just added a full line of furniture, and am prepared to sell the same at Lowest Prices. I make a specialty of cotton seed meal and ? i hulls, also buy cotton seed in any quantity. < Satisfaction guaranteed. (live me a call. JOSEPH G. FALL AW, "THE LEADER." GASTON, . SOUTH CAROLINA. ^