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I fOG 18I4ND l*AH8IN(J. Ship Yftnln Are IWiir KapitJIy Demoblliied. tlog I bland, the great shipyard near Philadelphia. whore tlu* government i3T6,000.000 1* today?,almost de mobilised. When' oikv an army of .'50,000 men labored fr.t III if,lily l<? Inilhl >hlp*? and more shlim, wrecking crew* are now at work, willi acetylene t"i"he.s nml mihor lU8t4'UU?ei?lH of dostraction. The government decided to dispose of the great shipyard piecemeal. after lit tempt to dlxjKiKc of It as aji entity had cjroked only very low bid*. Near ly every day auction Males are held to dispose of thing* ranging from houw tu?jd furniture to i(ool in i<m>,<m>o ton lot*. It 1* estimated tluit some |25, 000,000 will be Tonilsed on steel a net equipment hy the time tho last sale cloaca In December. But the 0^0 acre* of Hog Island, which were swamp iKifor.o tin* war, will not i?e useless, for government engl* neers Juive mad** It habitable. It is expected tTiat some large factory, will 7>e located there after tJio- ships have Ixicii removed as i|t In Ideally located for such purposes, Hoys Capture Owl (.reenWOOd, Nov. 2.??FJve great owls have Immmi captured In the tower of Main Str<?et Methodist church here, tt block from the heart of the business nectlon. The owls- had Iksmi hatched and had grown to full owlhood above <ho roar of traffic on one of -the mow I congested business street.* The l)oys oliml>ed into the church lower Sunday and found a number of deftd rats and uikK*. Further investi gation led them to the owl nest where five full grown birds were found. Since their capture, the big birds have gone on a hunger strike and have attacked their captors with beak and claw every time f?p|K>rtunity has offered. liocal naturalists assert that the birds are barn owls and that their favorite brtssling place i* eh u nil s fee lies. Anderson Mail Sued for IJhel. Anderson. Nov. I -?Asking damages in the sum of $.*>0,000 of the Advoeah* Publishing Coiniiauy, 1'. Hrownc, as alitor ami publisher <?f the Anderson I>ally Mall, Samuel M. Wolfe, attor ney general of South Carolina, has in Ntltut<sl proceedings, alleging that tlie defendants allowed to be published in the columns <?f the Dally Mail nowspa articles signed by John V. Strib ling. In Connection with the recent Georgia-South Carolina boundary suit, which made.. "vituperative and libel ous attacks ujkui the plaintiff." Dr. C. F. Spwell DENTIST (Office Over Bruce's Store) CAMDEN, S. C. COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN & HULER STS. Phone 71 ? COLUMBIA, S. C. Renew your health by purifying your system with alotab t? Of " 4 The purified and refined calomel tablets that are free from nausea and dangc. No salts necessr.ry, ac Calotabs act lik<* calomel and salts combiru d. De mand the genuine in 10c and 35c packages, bearing above trade-mark. DR- R. E. STEVENSON DENTIST Crocker Hoilding Cimdfn, 8. C. * FOR THE EYES OF POSTERITY Satisfactory Way Oald to Have Bean Found to Preserve Newspapare for Indeflnlti Pariod. j How to so pickle newspapers that they cun be preserved Indefinitely In the public libraries is m problem which hits apparently been solved, according to the American Paper aud Buip aas?> cimii.n Right yea re of experimenting. par .tlelpaied In by three hi# New York newspapers at a cost of $fl.O(K> a year .-a< li. uinI?*r Hie .supervision of the New York public llhrury, has taught llhrurtaua how to preaerve for poster* Ity newspaper files. The solution seems simple, being the mounting of em h utMs sjmpi'i between two sheets of thin Japanese tissue, shut* ting the air froto the orlKlnal sheets, reducing Its legibility hut alightly. and strengthening the page. Bound vol tijuea of the mounted pagea are im>w In I constant dally use, and aro free from the wear and tear which de stroyed the untreated newspapers. The New York experiments have been hp successful that a big Western newspaper has aent representative to New York to atufly and adopt the practice for use there. The first investigation was made in Ilostou. and the library there tried to 'persuade th? newspapers to print library editions on an extra paper, but the expense waa too great. ? This Is now done by a London paper, and was tried by a Brooklyn fiaper, but the cu*t was prohibitive. In the New York experiments silk was first used, but the Japanese tla sue wu'.s found the best for th<? pur pose, as it hermetically sealed the newspaper pages from the air. Shel lacs, varnishes and other substances were tried, with little success. Under the method now In use the operator wets a glass or steel-dpvered table, lays down a sheet of tissue; with the pasting machine, rice paste Is put on, then In turn the newspaper page, paste and tissue, when the page lit dried and pressed under a gas-heated man gle. CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY Preclpltdfte 'Individual Foresaw Hard Task In Squaring Himself With His Fellow Citizens. (Hud in knickers ?m<l driving homo from college two girls stopped ut Nohlesvllle. While there they went Into the library. When they came out Into the street, moHt of the town was out to see them. Deciding that knickers must not he the thing In Noblesvllle, they hurried to got under the shelter of their car. A man came up to them and Invited them to stay longer us guests of the town. They refused, shying that they were In a hurry to get to Warsaw. "Warsaw?" he stammered. "Why. aren't you the two girls who are hum ming your way from New York to In dianapolis, and whoso picture was In the paper this afternoon? We have been expecting two girls all day and as soon as I saw you go Into the library I thought you were the ones, and hod gone tn to see what the No hlesvllle press had to say about you. and I hurried around and told every body you were here. What'll I do?"-? Indianapolis News. Walking to Learn the World. President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia | has lately given another example' of j hi* practical Idealism and wise fore- j sight He is furnishing the funds for a walking tour of the world this sum- ! mer by students of Prague university. In the group are two Czechs, a Serbian, a Bulgarian and a Russian. After j walking through Jugoslavia and Hul ' garla the students will go t<> Constan j tlnople and then to China and Japan. : Thence passage will be-taken to San Francisco and the leading cities of the United States will he visited on foot. Prague university will publish a re port of the expedition. President Masaryk knows the folly of national I Isolation and the value of Naming something about other nations besides his own ? (^irlstlan Science Mon'tor Toronto's Vacation Schools. I'tllizlng sehoolhouses. churches and i public buildings, Toronto Is maintain ilng this summer dally vacation schools t In the congested districts of the city i More than S.OflT) children are in at tendance, says the Christian Science Monitor While the primary object is to provide n place of refuge from the t hot streets, the school fins also a rlls tlnct educational value. The morning session Is devoted to ' play-work" and Includes basketry, sewing and raffia Instruction, story-telling, kinderga rten activities and occasional moving pic fure exhibitions. In the afternoon come pi<n'c?. hikes and organized Kpnrf ?? Unearth Ancient Roman Oarge Importm.t arch* ' !' glcal <1, <c. \ er'es have been made n' Cafltetlo ill Porto. ; r^r-nr Home The bull of an enormous Itoman barge Ins beer. cxc.i ?v.ited near a small lake. It N pre?.;jn?nbly ? relic of a mercantile fleet which was used to ship wheal from S tctlv to Rome before ( astello ? 1 i Porto shipped hv the Tiber The hull is l'.ke a ?dm liar relic of Nero's fleet at hoolyl.ake Nvm! Kx^sratlons are pr ? ceding and oth'r discover!*-* are expected Newsboy, S?ver>ty-One, Follows Race* David Stevens, a seventy-one-year old "newsboy" of Dublin, has attended every running of the Epsom Derby for ,V> yenr? The week of the great race la his ?rnly holiday. At all other times he Is to he found on the street corner In the Trlsh cnpttal selling paper* UNIVERSITY OF FLYING Advanced School Soon to Bo Es tablished In Texas. Newest Form of Training in Air 8erv [ ice to Be Provided by Uritcd 8Ute* Army?Ninety Lieted in Initial Claw. ( Sun Antonio, Tex.?-Development of 1'HI' of tin* iflfgeat flying bases of the i government air service at San Antonio Is ftXpceted l?.\ air srrvlee ollleluU with ! the transfer of the primary and oWser vnti'Mi ichw>lc to this point recently. The Intent development of tlie flying tune here is the establishment of an advanced llylng school. The opening of the advanced school, designated l?y alp service officers an a "fiytng university," Ih the newest form of training In the air service, accord ing to MnJ. John tf. Reynolds, officer in charge of the new courses. The school Is located at Kelly Held. Thirty cadets and tH> ottieers have entered the Initial classes, and It Is expected this number will be Increased greatly with the opening of thx? fall term In Sep tember. The advanced Instruction offered In the "flying university" is divided Into four branches?bombardment, pursuit, observation and attack, the primary groups of the air service, Kmbryo flyers will be graduated from the pri mary school, Just removed from Carl strom field, Florida, to Hrooks field here, and then advanced to the higher training. The two schools will bear the same relation as high school and university, air officials state. 'Hie present strength of Kelly field Is 1,10ft men and 108 officers, accord ing t<> ?ilr service officials, while that of Hrooks field Is 350 men and 45 of ficers. This number will be greatly In creased with the opening of the fall course, when 1H0 planes will he put In operation, at Brooks field, It Is said. Approximately 1(K> planes are now In operation at Kelly field. POLANO'S CATTLE INCREASE Census Shows Horses Are Also Near ing Numbers of Pre-War Times. Warsaw.?A census of Poland's hows *nd cnttle shown that, In tin1 territory of new Poland, the totals gradually Hie approaching those of the pre-war perlo.il. The country now has Mt200.<XWl horses, as compared to 3,500,000 \ lit 1913; 7,JKK),(x?i) head of cattle, as com pared to 8.1(H),000 ; 2,200,000 sheep, as compared to 3,000,000, and 1)^200.000 hogs. as compared to 5,000,000 In th? Inst year before the war. New Serum for Cancer. Herlln.?Announcement of a new se rum for the treatment of cancer has been made in Karlsruhe by Doctor Muhlebein. The physician declared that he has treated a large number of people wllh complete success. He claims, also, to have perfected another s^rum which will restore falling sight nlmost instantly. Find $5,000 In Stolen Silks. Hiitnmond. lnd.? Five' thousand dol lars' worth of silks consigned to a Chi rac department store was found strewn along the Pennsylvania rail road near tlu> county line where thieves had stolen them from a train. The thieves bad evidently been fright ened away. Jury Deliberates Fifteen Days. Pittsburgh. Pa. James J. Flannery, wealthy elubinnn. charged with the murder of his voting wIf** In Kehruory, was acquitted after the Jury had dellb erated fi ft ? en nights and fourteen days It was the longest deliberation <>f a Jnr\ in 1!h> history of A'hgheny county. Bullets G'ance From HeJW of Man. Hilling". Mont. -Two bullets *hleh struck his forehead but glanced away without serious injury prevented Prod P. Mill from shooting himself after he shot his alsterlnlaw, Mrs. Henry Stroh, In the leg. The woman's wound is not serious. Mill wai Intoxicated at the time, police say. Girl Is Underwatsr Soprano Wushiugton. - P.ernlee Hackney la an underwater soprano. She inter tains h?*r friends by singing while un der waiter She doesn't know how she doe* tt She says she simply .-pens her month and sings, while her friends hold their ears to the surface of the water and listen Are Extinct Bufl*. l.ivingston. Mont ? Inserts, buried for thousand* nf years in a Klnclfcr in Yel lowstone park, known as (iras*hopper clacler. are not grasshoppers at all, On' an ur.c'.asgiflert insect now eT'lnct, according to William C Alden ' vpert m whi'Mftl reolnr". f or 'tie I' rrW^l S'a'es u''?%> rnment Police Sergeant Saved Own Son From Drovsn-ng I'o't. o >t-r?'t < ?;:trl#4 I v ?f \ nnc?n\c~ P. (' cr dllic |. r z I v wV-n \t" h?- ,rd '! e i ? r \ < f " b ? > \ rWC r ' r. g 1 . 1 v <!reused J.e J' ?'d into the 11 trr and *<H^ed ; ?? lad. who ?,is r.i *lnlKvf'">r the third *!' <? T "Mrs th.? 1 ? ?d? n^'K.r#? h< eoM*red h?? lad e<?< urd <> \ r> fop ARMY IN NEED OF LIEUTENANTS Examination in September De signojJ to Meet Demands of New Appropriation Bill. ARE GIVEN CHOICE OF BRANCH Scarcity of Officers Means Every Man Who Passes Should Get Commit si on?Regulations Provide Uiberal Exemptions. Washington, ? Kxanitfi&tion* con ducted by the war department to tin up the rnnks of the second lieutenants among 1,771 officer* rtMjulro<l hy the new army appropriation hill will he started throughout the country early In September. The number of second lieutenants now with the colors is ex ceptionally small, so that It Is ex pected that every man who qualifies will receive a commission. Appointments will be tendered suc cessful candidates as soon as prac ticable after December 31, 1022. These appointments will be made In all branches except thee Judfce advocate general's department. It is the pol icy of the War department to appoint an officer in the branch of his choice. If possible. For this reason candidates will be asked to express their prefer ence. Preliminary examinations will be conducted to determine the physical, moral and mental qualifications of ap plicants In order to avoid incon veniences and unnecessary expense both to the candidate and the gov ernment. Subjects Embraced. The elementary portion of the final examination embraces the subjects of history, grammar, geography, arithme tic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and physics. The advanced part of the examination consists of a large number of subjects, including mathe matics, advanced mechanics, survey ing, languages, literature, electricity, chemistry, law and .minor tactics. Examination is required' In but three of the subjects of the Advanced group, these to be selected by the can didate. Candidates for appointment in the air service, engineers, signal corps and ordnance department are re quired to satisfy certain technical re quirements, either by examination or by having graduated from technical schools. The regulations provide liberal ex emptions from examination in various subjects according to education, train ing and experience of the candidate. The granting of exemptions hns been placed entirely In the bands of the examining bourds and requests for ex emption cannot, therefore, be consid ered by the War department. Where to Apply. Application blanks may l>e secured from the commanding general of the corps nrea in which the candidate lives. All information concerning the examinations may be obtained from the same source or from the adjutant general of the arm v. The location of the various corps aren commanders is as follows: First corps area?Army base, not ion, Mass. Second corps area?Governors Is land. New York. Third corps area?Standard Oil building, Baltimore, Md. Fourth corps area?Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta. G?. Fifth corps area?Columbus bar tracks, oliio. Sixth corps area?1810 W. Pershing road. < 'lilcago. 111. Se\cnth corp area?Army building, Omaha. Neb. Eighth corps area ? Fort Sam Hous ton. San Antonio, Tex. Ninth corps nrea?The Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. GIVES HIS BLOOD TO ADMIRAL Texas Sergeant In the Philippine# Gives Life Fluid to Aid EThtiah Officer. Manila. P. I.? Sergt. Andrew II. Penlang of Corpus G'hrtsti, Tex., sta tloned with the modlcal detachment here, gave more than ten ounces of blood in a transfusion operation In an attempt to save the life of Admiral John S. Punmaresq of the British navy, it was announced nt army head quarters here. Sergt. Penlang was thanked l>y Prltish Consul General Harrinpton ~ Needle in Baby's Back. Paintsviile, Ky.?A needle two Inches long wn? taken from the back of the year-old baby girl of Mr nnd Mrs. Mont ford Dixon of this city by Its mother The baby had been In delicate health for some time, and what was thought to be a boil ap pcared i>n its ba<k and a physician was called. The next duy while the mother wu^ dressing the wound she found the needle German Ponon Kill? After Four Years. Berwick. Pa. -A drink of water from a well poisoned by the (lermans In France more than four^jears npo recent 1\ 'caused the death of Kmll Wright, thirty years old. of this place, following an l!lne<?? which begnn bo fore the war ended. Wright filled ? nn?een nf a wqII left by refrer.t'.ng Germans and beer.in* ill soon after drtcklng tlx water. HISTORIC IIOI'SK BURNS. Place Where Noted K Ian* man Wtt' Stioi to Death. ?i i Nov. 7>- -The Major Wil liamson Williams home, an historic luikIiuhi'K In this county, where TJlck Kortner, a noted Ku Klux K!?n*iuan. w#* xhot to death l?y fellow Klansmen during Uo<*onst ruction time#, burned in the lower part of this county Saturday night, according to information re .?I?ivtsi here togay? Tbt fire is 'h? Ueved to have been of incendiary ori gin. No one waf? llvthg In the house at the time. The house was built many years lie fore the War Retwcen the State's Prom It *lx 80118 of Major William# went to the Confederate army, four of them never returning. During Re construction days l>lek Partner, Ku Klux Klansmau, who had been shot by negro'troops at Newberry, was left wounded at the Williams ltouse by his fellow Klandmen. Fearing that he FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one mouth from this dai?>_k,on Saturday, December 2, 1022, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Executor of the estate of Essex Hall, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to tho said Court for a final discharge as said Executor. * L. T. MILLS, Executor. Camden, S. C., November 2> 1022. TRESPASS NOTICE. All iK.Msoii8 are hereby warned not to let their stock run at large on my place, ten miles southeast of Camden, nn the I Hack Kiver roa<l. Parties are also warned not to hunt or t res its in anv wnv on these land". /. HARFIELI > 32-04 :| d "FINAL DISCHARGE Notice Is hereby given that one month from this (late, on Monday. De cember 4th, 1022, 1 will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administratrix of the estate of Henry P. Davis*, deceased, and on the same date 1 will apply to the .<ald Court for a final discharge as said Administratrix. EMMA V. DAVIS. Administratrix. Camden- S. C., November 8, 1022 ESTATE SALE. I'nder and by virtue .of an order granted by lion. W. L. MclHwell, Judge of Probate of Kershaw County, South Carolina. I. as Administratrix <>f the estate of Henry P. Davis, de ceased. will Sell at the homo (place of the *aid Henry P Davis at Cassatf, S C-, on Monday. November .27th, 1022. commencing at 10 o'clock a. ni., the fol lowing articles of j>ersonul property <?f the said estate: 2 mules, 'J wagons, plow gears, farm implements. HO bushels of corn, cotton seed. 11 bales of cotton in warehouse. 1 automobile and 5 hogs. Terms of sale?cash. EMMA V. DAVIS, Administratrix. Camden. S. <\, November 0th, 1022. would **rry out thrents td reveal thf names of Kktuwmeu to Northern troop, er#, tbo Klansmen Inter returned and whot htm to death. Bullet fatal ooqUJ \h? *een in the wull* and In ,tiu> old four iHWter l>ed until destroyed by fire Saturday night. ??'. May Discontinue Trains. The Yorkville, Enquirer has |nfor. mation that the tWvi.sdon Jtbperintetl. dent of the Southern ltallway has ,??. dered a ihirt.VHiuy check-up of foe number of imssenger* curried on trfilns Nos. 117 and 118 twtweeu York an<| Kook Hill. No. 117 leaves York f,?r Bock Hill at 7:2?5 a. m., and No. 11$ arrives in York freon ?|oluud*la ?t 7:05 p. m. The belief among sOQie of -the best Informed railroad men U that this order protoalbly looks to dh continuance of the trains, which m-, the most valuable the town has. Sim ilar -trains between Branchvlllo and Augusta were discontinued TeeeiUly under *4mllar circumstances; but the i>eoplo Interested were able to males sufficient nodse to have the trains r? stored.?Dnquirer. Honor Roll for Oassatt Behold. tirade 1 Kaeelne Davl*. tirade 2?J. T. Brannon. Grade &?Buby Mosier, Pl.ummor Davis A. L. Young. Oracle 0?.Tanle Mosler, ?elo*Hn Young, 'Annie Parker, Margaret Lancr. Urade 7? Willis Parker, Coy Mom I or. (irade K?'Pauline Young. tirade 0?-Wade l'arker, Leo Parker, Jim Surtivan. Stella A, Hall, Principal. jf)\iua Ross, Assistant. The Quick, Sure Soap Maker ??the choice of thousands of wo men for making pure soap quickly ?easily. Use waste grease, wa ter and Red Devil Lye?^that's all. Easy, successful recipes for hard and floating soaps on the can label. Insist upon the gen uine?pure, strong, lasting. Ask for it by name at your grocer's Train yourself to! the need for Saving Preparatoy training makes easier the attainment of what ever one starts out to accom plish. To attain victory in money saving, means consistency and regularity in deposits?a never let-up policy and grim determi nation?a training that wins the day. Start a savings account in the First National Bank. Nev ?er let a week go by without depositing some amount, be it ever so little. It is safe, secure and accumulates interest to vour benefit. WE ARE SAVING MONEY for thousands of others in cleaning and dyeing Win ter Garments, Carpets, Rugs, Blankets, Comforts, Curtains, etc. We will be glad to serve you. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS Cleaners-Dyers. Cumberland, MtfyUnd*