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wjd and Personal News By Mi** Nettl#V__ Growing OHM i ?(, ,.?rlin?-wUh 'l'Y?'IUiT' J ,! .My <-be.*V . . l.,sii>K n.HM the dimples Ji if ih^ ilfishinn jojr *h?y speak/ g*J (Vdiu, , , '? U ,V, wttVV goldeu bairY J*;"1 iindinK oh the forehead 1^9 Hue* thought and car.-'.' ' ), dropping. ?? tlw wjjB* ? their sweetuew over blown. ?!? held names that oik* were dearer, S , familiar than our own f f meeting on t he pathway y ' , strange '??<> gl?"ces cold, luie the *>?1 with moan aud shiver J{i>l*r? Wdb' "Growing old ? k|l frowulnir "t the folly ft the H'drnt hopes of youth.' ; It cynic melancholy. ;i? ?br 'rarity of truth/ j ,iMHsbflief in loving? Elfish hate, or miser'* greed i EL ,U(.|i blight of Natures noblest J? .Js,wi.w ?1?V Indeed. . L ,j,e silver thread that dhineth Svjl(,|v in the thinning tress, l,d the pallor where the bloom was, jL 'n,?t toll of bitterness. lad the brow's more earnest writing Where it once was marble fair, jqv be but the spirit'* traviug ^"thc peace of answered prayer. u jhc smile has gone in deeper, And the tears more quickly start, Both together ineet in music taw and tender in the heart; lDd i" others joy and gladness, / I'hen the Jife can fiud Its own, Barfly Angels learn to listen 'o the sweetness of the tdne, Nothing lost of all we planted h tlw time of buddiug leaves; ObIj sowietliiugs bound in bundles Apd wt by our precious sheaves ; Only treasure kept in safety. Out of reacli and out of rust, Till we clasp it grown the richer Through the glory of our trust. Ob the gradual sloping pathway Ai the passing years decline. Gleams a golden love-light falling Far from upper heights divine. And th? shadows frown that brightens Wrap them softly in their fold. Who to celestial whiteness Walk, by way of "Growing old." - ? Selected. AN ENJOYABLE BRIDGE IKA AND RECEPTION On Saturday lust, a lovely bridge tea kid afternoon reception was given at the attractive home of Mrs. I). O, Houser a Fair Street, with Mrs, Ernest L. Wooten us an assistant hostess. Bright fires *l?>we<l in the open fire places and quantities of autumn flowers gave an additional touch of beauty and cheeri m to the rooms, tfliere were six tables irranred for bridge, the score prise, a lord; pot plant went to .Mrs. Laurens Milj*. After cards quite a number of Invite^ guests cuune in to informal wption. Delicious refreshments, eon isting of block cream, fruit cake, >and ia were served. About fifty ladies called liriof the afternoon. 'RESBYTKRIAN BAZAAR Next Friday is the day that the Y. ft*. A. of the Presbyterian Church have MM upofi for the Christmas bazaar id entertainment that the society's uiem ?r?hip Has been working for and plan itof for during the past few months, lerf will an attractive Christmas ootb, whore all manner and kiu<l of tetty articles, suitable for Christmas ifts will be on sale. These articles ?ve been contributed and will be sold t the moat reasonable prices. Do not lil to see them. Cakes will also be I uie and in thin tixue when sugar is > icirce, a cake is a delicious rarity. Ik ladies will also serve a luneheo* ? Friday from 12 o^clodc to 8 Jiters, chicken salad, sandwiches coffee k will be served. Remember the datef December 5th, and be sure to '** the ladies- y?>ur patronage. |Majestic Theatre Program TODAY. FRIDAY, NOV. 28TH jGoldwin Presents Louis Bennison in "THE HOAI) CALLED STRAIGHT" Alv) a Burton Holmes Travelogue. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29 Mick Henrietta Greatest' Comedy iJjWe Tom Without Th? C?bl*" |M,ph we personally guarantee, to be the funniest comedy that you ? ever witnessed Aljo a Fox Sunshine (?omedy "A MILK FED VAMPIRE** Ami a new episode of "TlIK GREAT GAMBLE**' MONDAY, DECEMBER 1. Maurice Tourneau's \ "THE LIFE LINE" pub Jx* Holt, Pauline Btark, Lewis I r<*ly and Tally Marshall. You will bo Kr?*a tly pleaded with most unusual offering ^thtiimion 2.V Childrem 15c. TlESDAY, DECEMBER *? _ |if'!<iwin Presents Mahle Norman i* lr "PECKS BAD GIRL** 015 w?ll find here a soothing remedy that wearied brow and a? "?i*table invitation for tbet pent-up chuckle. ^tt>NR8DAY, DECEMBER % *m foi Presents Gladys Brock well in . CHASING RAINBOWS" *1 of an American firl who did J* *??d in a Western town ,h?n apreacber a?d a IMdr ?' ??* shooter* MATRONS BKUMJK ( LIB 'Mm. 1>. A. Bo y km was boates* to the Matron's Bridge Club this week. The members of thi> club urv enthusiastic bridge player*, and look forward with pleasure to th*? weekly meeting*. On this occasion It was a particularly pleas ant one. ?' TO MEET WITH 0 <>' MRS. KNAPP. The llobkiik Hill Chapter !>. A. 11. will uiett Thursday, Uemnbtr 4th with Mrs Knapp at 4 p. in. Reports from the. state con fe fence will be giveu ?ud also an interesting program rendered. Many matters of importance will come up and plans fur future work decided upon. All members are cordially invited by the hostess aud /\ ,?rged by the Regent to be ?present. K1RKWOOD HOOK "'"TTTrrT"" OLVB MEETS Dne of the largest and most enjoyable ineetings of the Ki^kwood Wok club was held at the home Of Mrs. Ernest Wooten Friday morning. Thla club has a membership of tweuty ami each mem ber buys a book, these are parsed from one to another until the entire mem bership has read them. The club ex pects to get new books iu the near fu ture. Mrs. Wooten served dainty re freshments during the morning, M^s. Sallle Boykln wlll.be the next hostess, and the cltfb meets every alternate week, MRS. OSBORNB . KNTERMINS One of informal, but pretty affairs of the week, was the luncheon on Thurso day w u rut u if ,~\?hTu ' Mrs, J. IT. Osb. .mo was an agreeable ' hostess at her home on Mill Street. Bach guest carried a piece of fancy work and the hours were spent in social chat and in finishing the Articles that are to make Home one happy at Christmas tide, At noon a tempting luncheon was served. Among those pres ent were Mesdames Hunter Lang^ Llewel lyn, I/eroy Davidson, Latham, vanLand ingham, Le6 Little, Frank L. Zemp. W. S, Iiurnet,' Ralph Stevenson, Win, King, John T. Nettles, Robin Zemp and Mrs. Adlcks of Svork. . . MEETING OF JOHN ft. ] KENNEDY CHAPTER This Chapter will meet next Monday, Decemfber 1st, at 4:80 p. m. at the home of Mrs. N. R. Goodnle, with Mrs. Re bekah W. White as assistant hostess. All members are cordially invited by the hostesses and urged by the President to attend. The U.' D. C. State conven tion .^mccts at the Jefferson Hotel Tues day Dec. 2nd and will 'be In session until Friday Dec. 5th. The following ladies have been elected to represent the chap ter; delegate Miss ILouise Nettles^ alter nate, Mrs. James Burns; delegate Mrs. N. 11. Good&le^ alternate, Miss Leila Shannon ; delegate, Mrs. Edwin Muller, alternate Mrs. W.* F. Nettles; delegate Mrs. F. Leslie Zeiwp, alternate Mrs. C. M. Coleman. If delegates cannot go, they will please notify their alternates, if alternates cannot go they will in turn notify' the chapter President that she may appohit some one in their place, as we are anxious for the John D. Kennedy to 'hare a full representation in Colum bia next week. Musical Club To Be Formed, The recital to be given at the residence of Mrs. H. Q. Carrison nejft Wednesday by Miss Marion Balston, composer r.ud pianist is the first of a series of musical entertainment to be given in Camden with the purpose of forming a Musical Club to be composed of all those deeply interested in music and musical sub jects. The Club will federate wityi the .other musical clubs of the State and encourage the love of music in the community. This club will . fill a long fel^ need. SOUTH CAROLINA GIRL A Belle and Social Favorite in Wash ington Society. We copy from the Charleston Sunday News the following complimentary no* tice of Miss Margaret Simonds, who is a native South Carolinian, and now an acknowledged beauty, belle and social fa vorite in the Rational Capital. Miss Si monds is a neice of Mrs. Anna Calhoun Ancrum, of our city, which fact, makes Hie notice of interest to Mrs. Ancrum's friends : "Miss Margaret Simonds, daughter of Mrs C. C. 'Calhoun, by a former mar riage to the late Andrew Simonds, of Charleston,- S. C,? was -obviously one of the great belles of the short royal sea son as the prince not only repeated his invitation to dance several times, but called upon her and her mother the fol 'owing day, accompanied by Rear Admir al Sir Lionel Halsey, on whom rests the chief responsibility for the health, hap - piness and well-being of the future king throughout his present tour. Col. F. W M Grigg, the military secretary of the party, and Major General Biddle, U S. A., were appointed to attend his royal highness. "Miss Simonds, who is a petite and perfect blonde, with all the charms of the old aristocracy of her native city, wore a one-piece ^own of dark bine cloth over a narrow skirt of self-colored satin, th$ cloth overdress slit panel fashion to the waist line and cnrveless bodice only slightly open at the throat. This was topped by a small turfcan, like the gown, Paris-made. of the bine cloth, with Ita scant well-placed trmming of narrow vel vet- ribbon in French blue <?nd tiny pink roses. Her evening gown at Mrs. Gil hlWm party was equally smart, on sim ple Bm? of white talle." QUAINT OLD FINNISH TOWN ?verythlng In Bore* 8 eeme to Oa Back to About tho Earliest Period, of History. v The Aral glimpse of Borga from tho water Is a cluster ?>f old wooden build ings carelessly assembled along the skyline. You gather (hat the town i? red, owing to tho bulky, crlmson-palnt- . od packhousea In the foreground, but upon climbing up the steep. cobble* atoned street to the town, you change your mlml; and decide that It la going to be yello.w. For all the funny^/old fashioned houses are painted that color. A little farther on. however, It comet* upon you suddenly that Horga possesses a color scheme? that all the red and yellow Is just a background for the splendid, solemn grayrtess of Its ancient cathedral, which complete ly dominates the town from the deptha of a walled courtyard of the typo that was popular.ln tl\e ttirly fifteeuth cen tury. < Borga began about thirteen hundred and something, and must have reached !M height about the seventeenth cen tury, for It contains very little of a later date than that. The cathedral contalus nothing more modern than an organ, for example. vIts white and gold pulpit was carved In the sixteenth century, and its wall sconces and won derful crystal chandeliers are een=^ turies old. Other Finnish towns have replaced tbfclr marvelous chandeliers with less beautiful but n\ore practical fixtures of the current century, but Borga proudly upholds the past. The Borga cathedral'stlll. measures time- by means of a quaint old hourglass tilled with sandi* > ^ m It was in this cathedral that the em peror or Russia, Alexander I, received the oaths of allegiance of the newly conquered Finns, a iftw days after he had sighed the constitution which gave them their freedom. The house in which tho constitution was signed ? a modest. lUtle, frame structure with old-fashioned, blue-painted blinds ? Is also pointed out with reverence to the traveler, aftd If you are duly sympa thetic, the Borgans will then lead you up to the site of an old fortress re ported to date back to an obscure period, even before the cathetSral, when the Finns were heathens. It must be admitted Jhat this site is any thing but Impressive now. There are some peculiar ditches, which, one Is assured, are moats, and several barb \vlre fences which are supposed to In close the ancient and venerable eiu battlements. \ Nevertheless, the place must have atmosphere, If you can only find It, for It was here that Walter Runeberg, the great Finnish poet, used to find the Inspiration for so many of his splendid songs. \ ? ? ' ? Prehistoric Skull. The bureau of American ethnology has made publltf the discovery of a human* skull "In concrete/' filled with hard breccia, which was found on the coast of Florida. ' The skull, collected by Samuel L. King of Bristol, Tenn., from Demere Key, off Fort Myers, Is believed to be of prehistoric origin,, because, like other human bones discovered by scientists. It is so placed In a strata of earth and pebbles that the age of the bones can be ascertained geolog ically. t Other bones mineralised by age and believed to be from 20,000 to 40,000 years old have been discovered in Florida, Peru and California, giv ing proof/of the existence of prehis toric man, as well as the prehistoric huge 6 beasts; but man, It would seem, were not so much larger than those of today. Students of these 'fossil remains be lieve that some of them were men who died during the glacial period, and that since then the shifting of the earth burled them under from 75 ' tb 100 feet of* gravel "which water partly eroded, which makes it possi ble to estimate that at least thousands of years have elapsed since the man died. - 1 - - - , - Cold Electrlo Light. Electric llghta heat up, and an inven tor, William Barnard, comes for ward ? that la to the patent office ? with * a scheme for making your elec tric tights cold. Heat is cumulative. You turn your llghta en. They bright en Immediately, but It takes them a few minutes to grow warm. This In ventor purposes turning off the light before It has had time to develop any great heat. That Is, he provides an In candescent electric lamp with numer ous filaments, Instead of the usual sin gle one. These filaments are connect- I ed with a rotary switch which turns each filament on and off at Intervals, but the periods of luminosity of the filaments are so spaced that a contin uous Illumination results. In other words, when one Is switched off others are switched on, so that there la no discontinuity. Jurt the 8ame. "Do you act toward your wife as jou did before you married berT" "Exactly. I remember Just bow I used to act wben I first fell In love with. her. I used to lean ore r the fence In front of her house and faze at her shadow on the curtain, afraid to go In. And I act Just the aame way now when I fet home late." ? London Tlt-Blts. ?hoot Him on the Spot. gome Connecticut chump la about to ?Brace the people of that state by re calling that roe shad were once ob tained for 20 cents each, instead of $2M) a a now. A man who woeld re call each things in i time like this ought to be put la stacks. ? Bouatoa Post. ? NICK'S HARD FATE t ?; One Romanoff to Whom Country Has Been Ungrateful. (ft pry of Qreat Ruwlan Military Com mander Mog Amazing Romance ?f the W??-HI? Splendid Gen eralship U Recalled. Prora Mat i'ii, 1017, till October, huh, Grand Puke Nicholas Romiyioff, for mer commander In chief of the Rjas alan armies and one of the moat bril liant generals of the great war, was a prisoner In the town of Yalta In the Crimea. He In now In Mllati with hla family, humhly housed. The story of "Big Nick" Is one of the moat amaz ing romances of the war, the Pitta, burg)) Gazette-Times states. ? When the bolshevik) gained control ef Russia Nicholas was residing at Tlflls, where he had been governor un der the czar and under the Lvoff regime. He was summoned to .Yalta by the bolshevik authorities aud obeyed the summons. Ills brother, hid wife, his slster-ln-luw and other member* of his family and his suite were Impris oned with him. Twenty-flve bolshevik soldiers were detailed to guard the dis tinguished prisoners. .Late In the summer of 1018 It was decided by the Yalta soviet to execute all the prisoners. The bolshevik gnards absolutely declined to permit the sen tence of death to be executed aud sent the firing squad back to headquarters. Three times thereafter executioners were sent to kill the prisoners, but In each Instance the guard prevented the carrylng-out of the ^entence. When the Germans came to Yalta Nicholas declined to permit the Ger mans to enter the 'house that had been his prison, declaring his utter loath ing of all things German. Soon after this- the allies took Yalta aud Nicholas was rescued. , All the private fortune of the grand duke has been lost. His lands have been confiscated. At Milan he lives comfortably, but very unostentatiously. 4 Democracy owes much to Grand Duke Nicholas. He was, in fact, a stanch upholder of the old Russian al? solutlsm. But first of all Nicholas was a Russian. He knew Russia's salva tion depended qy tho vanqulshld* of Germany. He w(\s a leader of con sntatriote skill and it Is more than prob able that only his splendid generalship prevented Germany from wlptiiiitf the war in the early stages. Ills ffctreqt before the tremendous attack of Mack esen and Hindenburg, which resulted In the saving of the Russian armies, was one of the most notable chapters of the \var. Between the bolshevist Russia of to day and the old autocratic Russia for which Nicholas fought, practical stu dents and statesmen find little choice, but It must be admitted that the au tocracy produced great men, while the gutter communism has found only Scoundrels for Its leaders. In the awarding of Justice there should be some provision for this gigantic Rus sian, *Vho In 1014 and 1015 prevented Germany from marching to easy vic tory. ? No Horses on Largest Farm. A 200,000-acre farm, the largest In the world, which Is the direct reault of the government's efforts to stimulate the growing of wheat, is described by Robert H. Moulton In Everybody's. "The farm is devoted entirely to wheat, and If it produces somewhere around the country's average of twen ty* eight bushels per acre, which Is. practically certain. It will add approxi mately 5,650,000 bushels to the 1019 wheat crop," says the writer. "All of the work Is being done with tractors. Last fall when the first ground was broken, there were fifty monster machines at work tearing up the prairie sod. They plow on an j average of one acre a minute for the working time. A record was made one day of 1,880 acres turned and broken. All the seeding, harvesting, etc., win also be done by tractors, and then, of course, there are the thrash ing machines. Hence, the absolute no-account ness of horses about this place." . 7 Prlco of Labor. An Indiana suffragist, who is a wide ly-known speaker, went to her door the other morning to buy some blackber ries of a young country woman, re ports the Indianapolis News. The ber ries were fine, but the suffragls't wish ed them at a lower price than they were offered. "Why, they Just grow along the roadside so plentifully that all you have to do Is to pick them," she told the woman. "Don't you think you are charging a rather exorbitant price for your laborT" The country woman put her boxes back into her basket. "I've known of higher-priced labor." she retorted tea-i tlly. "Words are more plentiful than> blackberries and yet our club had to pay you $25 last winter for putting a bunch of them together.** His Reaalve. "It Iji better to. do your losing early In the season* | "I know that Axiom,** raid the base ball manager, "but If I happen to win a few fames Pit endeavor to bear It with resignation." ? Louisville Courlar Joarnal. Na Loaa af Animation. "I suppose Orbnaon Onlfh Is caieter since the bar clobai." ^ "Not yet," nM Oaatms Joa. "IB |W?i got to do la ta ray *proMMttCB* and everybody begins ta argoa at tbt top af hla sslea." ? ? - j_t ' ?? STYLE HEADQUARTERS Wfcert itacfrtgVnmh C&uxtlpft v ?n**4 ejC D.'?a 4 You will get real pleasure out of one of our Society Brand Overcoats; ; You'll find here" one of the smart est selections to be seen anywhere. I We have overcoats of all weights, all sizes and all fabrics, in our large stock. They embody every over coat essefitial, Warmth, Wear, Style and Fit. You cannot be better pre pared for winter than whfen equip ped with a Society Brand overcoat out of our immense stock. O > . . ' " ' 3 The price range is sure to suit you. No matter what price you pay here, it represents 1 00 per cent. -value. ? :**i - ' . - : c 1 ;;