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PFAIRFIELD COUNTY NEWS, TOLD BY CORRESPONDENTS (Continued from page three.) Wi4 some one tell us just what the government means by per cents in estimatiig the crop yield? The July report was 70.8 or 11,400,000 bales; now the August report is 57 and a crop of 10,600,000 bales. Here a drop kof 13 per cent is less than - one million bales. According to this proportion a crop average of 100 per cent would be only I about 8,000,000 bales. What on earth is getting wrong with Fairfield politi's? Heretofore have had clean politics, but this the mud slinging is all in pri v1 and not on the stump. It's right to tell the tru-.h on a fellow, and if you know that the candidate is unfit for the office it's your duty to tell your feliow men, but don't lie on him. Tomorrow will settle the political atmosphere, at least for a while. Here's to the fellow that wins out! You've fought a good fight, you've been mighty polite. thus the salary is yours for four more years. And to the fellcv: who loses. die game; it's better to hu:ve fought and lost than never to have fought At all. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again.' WHITE OAK. Miss Rebecca Philhps, of Winns boro, has been visitir.g Miss Mabel Gibsoi. Miss Dot Jennings, of Union, is the guest of Miss Florence Patrick. Miss Rena Wilson has returned 4om a visit to her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Banks Rateree and children and Miss Estelle Rateree are the guests of their parents. Miss Katherine Hedgepath has gone to Albemarle, N. C., to attend the school in that place. Miss Janet Patrick has returned from a visit to Wrens, Georgia. 'Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Parkinson have returned from a weeks visit to Due West. Mrs. R. A. and Jennie Patrick spent a week in Newberry with Mr. And rew Patrick. Mrs. J. B. Patrick and her son, John Blair, of Columbia, are visiting relatives. . Miss Mary Wylie has returned to take up her work as primary teach er in the school. School opened-with a good attendance Monday. The road from Winnsboro to Black stock is very rough, Ulue to lack of work. Will not this county make a progressive step and vote road bonds, and get ott of the ruts ? - LONGTOWN. This community was visited Sun day by a generous shower, also on Monday. It was very much needed on everything, especially the young corn, tp~rninps, fall gardens, etc. Rev'. G. G. Mayes, of Winnsooro, was with us Sunday afternoon, and gave us a very forceful message from God's inspired word. He also received into the church six little candidates fior membership, v'hich was the result of the weeis's meeting wh.:h was carried a e'. . he eittuet Christian young men, Mr. McMahon, of Liverpocol, England, who has been - over here a few years and is now at the Columbia Theological Seminary, and Mr. WV. K. Blake, who was a most wonderful leader in singing, espec Sly for' children. Mr. Blake is also a seminary student. Miss Marie Mayer, Mrs. B. P. Weir, of College Place, and Mr. Blake added much to the services with special music. The men's pray er meeting met before each service on the outside of the church, while the ladies 'held a short prayer service in the church. There were two ser Wes a (lay. WAa a whole our community exper ienced a great spiritual revival. Mr. .Blake, after spendin'g a few days in Rock Hill with his parents, returned to Longtown to spend last week-end with Mr. B. F. Mayer and family. .On last Friday the Longtown Sun day school held its annual picnic on the school house grounds. There was an interesting game of ball before, and after dinner, games for the little folks were conducted by Misses Ma rie Mayer and Naomi McEachern. A bountiful dinner was spread on a table under the shade of the pines, and free ice-cold lemonade and pears were served during the afternoon. *It was surely an all-day picnic, as it was almost sun-down before a tired, happy crowd turned their faces homeward, wishing that the picnic was more than an annual a.(fair, and .that Mr. Blake c.Juld be with us al ways, instead of having o go back to the semimary. -George Moore, Jr,, has returned from a visit to relativ'ts in Winns boro. Mr. R. L. Peay and family spent Sunday in Winneb->ro avith relatives. Miss Marie Mayer is visiting rela ~tives in RidgewaLy this week.. 'Misses Dot, klatleeni andl Laurie Matheson have gone to take up their dum- at their respective schools, as teshers. Mrs. B. C. Matheson and little daughter, Elizabeth, went to spend the week-end at State Park with Mr. B. C. Matheson. Miss Emma McEachern, of Savan nah, Ga., is on a visit to her uncle, Mr. J. J. McEachern. Miss Moore. of York, and Miss Es telle Rabon, of Lugoff, were recent visitors to the latter's ancle, Dr. J. W. A. Sanders. HILLCREST. Miss Jennie Milling left Friday for Columbia, where she will teach this session. Mr. George Kerr spent the week end here with friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. Mac P.. ., Miss Thelma and Shaw Park spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Jones, of Bethel. Professor Lindsay Lemmon has gone to his school at Ninety Six. Miss Mary Park is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. Hugh Park. Mrs. Annie McNaul is spending ,-is week with her sister, Mrs. J.- M. Jones, of' Bethel. :.i1s Marie Lejimon left Monday for her school at Hops. Tihe young people of the. community enjoyed a party at the, home of Mr. Archie Park last Friday evening. ORIGIN OF TERM "UNCLE SAM". Samuel Wilson, popularly known as "Uncle Sam", was a government meat inspector at Troy, N. Y., during the war of 1812. A contractor named Elbert-Anderson purchased a quantity of prbvisions, and barrels were mark ed " E. A"., initials of purchaser, and "U. S." for United States. Letters "U. S." were not familiar to Wil son's assistants who inquired what they meant. A facetious fellow ans wered, "I 4on't know, unless they mean "Uncl Sam". The joke spread, cartoonists took it up and the name "Uncle Sam" has been in popular parlance since. -At least that is pop ular idea of its origin, though some autliorities think that soldiers first applied term of the "U. S.". on knap sacks in war of 1812. McCORMICK GENEROUS WITH WIFE. It was reported at Paristhat Har old F. McCormick who recently mar ried Ganna Walska, the opera singer, signed a contract settling $100,000 a year on her for life, in addition to giving her a string of pearls worth $200,000. and an engagement , ring costing $40,000. Mme. Walska also received from her former husband, Alexander 'S. Cochran, whom she divorced, $20,000 a year for life and a home in a fashionable part of Paris. FLIES HOURS WITHOUT ENGINE. All countries have been giving at tention to the motarless airplane, but Germany has far outstripped the others. While French and American "gliders" were undergoing tests for prizes at Clermont Ferrand in France, the best staying in the air only a few minutes, the announcement came that at Grsfeld, Germany, Herr Hentzen, a tudent flyer of the Han over technical school, had remained in the air more than two hours. A little later the German made another gliding lasting three hours and 10 minutes. It was learned that Ger man scientists had made a detailed study of the subject for several years, using birds for models. Other fliers from the scho~g succeeded in remain ing in the air without a motor for over an hour. The flier takes off from an elevation and requires a wind. AMERICANS FALL ,IN PLANE. Five Americans were aboard the Paris-London airplane that crashed near Boulogne, wrecking the machine. None of the passengers was serious ly ,hurt. The plane had stopped to let off a passenger and as it rose' engine trouble developed which forc ed the plane down. STORY OF LOUIS XIV's HEART. Since ancient times hearts of roy al and other important persons have been objects of special veneration. Hearts of kings have in past receiv ed' separate burial. Urns contain ing hearts of Hapsburgs can be seen at .the church of Augustine Friars at Vienna. Heart of Louis XIV was preserved with others in abbey of St. Denis near Paris. In 1792, during revolution, his heart was stolen and sold to Earl Harlourt of England. Dean Buckland of Westminister abbey was invited to inspect the heart. He was eating at the time and a waiter passed it to him on a silver tray. Heart was shrunken to size of a small nut and Dean Buckland, being short sighted, ate it in mistake for a piece of bread. He died not long after wards. There is also a story. that Napoleon's heart was eaten by rats. Last English sovereign whose heart das,removed to be separtely preserv ed was Queen Anne. Frequent Headaches "I suffered with chronic constipation that would bring on very severe headaches," says Mrs. Stephen H. Kincer, of R. F. D. 1, Cripple Creek, Va. "I tried different medicines and did not get relief. The head aches became veryfrequent. I heard of ,,Thedford's BLACK-DRAUGHT C id took it for a headache, and the relief was very quick, and it was so long before I had another headache. Now I just keep the Black-Draught, and don't let myself get in that condition." Thedford's Black-Draught (purely vegetable) i b been found to. relieve cons ipation, and by stimulating the action of the liver, when itis torpid, helps to drive many poisons out of your system. Biliousness, indigestion, headache, and similar troubles are often relieved in this way. It is the natural way. Be naturall Try Black-Draught. - Sold everywhere. E9 NOTICE OF FINAL RETURN AND PETITION FOR DISClARGE. To All and Singular the Kindred and Creditors of Thomas Cloud, De ceased: Notice is hereby given that on Fri (lay, the 29th of September, 1922, at eleven o'clock, a. m., I will make first and final return as administrator for the estate of Thomas Cloud, deceased, and on that (lay will apply to Hon. W. L. Holley, Jydge of Prfbate for Fairfield county, at Winnsbbro, S. C., for letters dismissory. James Henry Cloud. Administrator for the Estate of Thomas Cloud, Deceased. "NOT WORTH A RAP". Do you give a rap about the origirk of the expression "not worth a rap"? If you do it might be interesting to know that the word "rap" was the name of a coin circulated in Ireland during the reign of George 1. It was a base half penny, actually worth only about half a farthing in English money, issued temporarily by the British government because of the great scarcity of small coin. Later a counterfeit was passed for a rap and it became custorpary to say "1 would'nt give a rap for this or that," meaning that one wouldn't give much. The reader may recall a similar ex pression which had its origin during our Revolutionary wvar. The paper dollars issued by the continental con gress without any~ bullion by which to redeem them became so notoriously worthless about the third and fourth years 'of the war that when a person wanted to say a thing was extremely worthless he would say it was'nt worth a "continental", referring to the continental dollar bills. Tough Ancestry., "Of course, I don't know," began the sarcastic boarder, "but it strik'es me this. chicken "Now, what's the matter with the; chicken ?" interrupted the landlady. "Oh, nothing," answered the lodlger, "only it is evidently the offspring of a hard-boiled egg." NATION MOURN$ MICHAEL COLLINS. Apparently all Ireland joined in mourning for Michael Collins, slain head of the Free State, first at Cork and then at Dublin. Thousands with uncovered heads passed before his coffin lying in state, and the leader of the republican band that ambuished him, Tom Hales, threw down his arms and offered to join the national side. Collins and his little party, it was re ealed, fought the much larger at tacking party until the latter were put to flight, and it was at the end of the fray that the Free State lead er received his death wound. The republicans no longer hold any town of importance, but they have continu ed to carry on ambushing expeditions and sniping operations in various parts of the dountry. A hard fight occured on the grounds of Blarney castle, near Cork, where 12 repub licans were killed and a large number wounded. Outlying p6sts in Dublin were also attacked during the night but the republicans were repulsed. There has been much speculation as to who will succeed Collins as head of the government. FOR SALE-Cotton Seed Meal, at $1.85 per sack, for cash. M. W. E1C9NOQJC LAWS INXOQ -.BL&,' "The law of supply and' demand calls for a return to normalcy, and wage workers, while aiming blows at employers, are really bucking up against inexorable natural laws. These laws rlrmitted high wages for workers and high interest rates for capital during the war period. Since then these laws have forced the in terest rate down, and they will not permit the retention of war-time wages. "It may be a hard pill for both Capital and Labor to swallow, but the fact remains that they are sub ject to he law of supply and demaild and they cannot escape it. Regard less of outside interference, "wage earner-employer" difficulties will al ways be settled in accordance with the requirements of natural laws and all the ills an# hardships of the struggle between the two factions result from resistance of these laws. "It seems to me that the time has come when we, as a nation, should take steps which will enable the nat ural laws to operate without the pain ful and damaging struggles which are now the rule, and which are not pro ductive of permanent good to either employer or employee. DIVIDING THE PROFITS. "The fight between employer and wage earner has been described as having to do with a division of. the profits. If that were true, the prob lem would be much simpler than it really is. Division of the profits is merely a phase of the matter: the big probiem is to make the profits in the nearest pace. It is astound ing how much ignorance there is rel ative to the profits of business. The lay mind assumes that the margin between the original cost and the ulti mate selling price is profit. The part that operating costs and overhead ex penses play in wiping out this mar gin gets scant consideration. "When a business pays a dollar for raw material and sells the finished product for $2.00, the layman says there is a drllar profit, but as often as hot such a margin between cost and price means a loss. It may cost onsiderable' to turn the raw product into the finished article since the lab or involved and the equipment used may be a very big expense. On top of that there will be storage charges and freight bills and sales . costs. There are a dozen charges that enter in and conspire to wipe out the mar gin, and not the least of these is rep resented by the tax that the business pays. "The sum total of all jts operating and overhead charges may easily wipe out what appears to be a wide margin between raw product costs nd finished article prices. Men work for a livelihood and Capital works for interest, and there always will be room for difference of opinion as to what constitutes a good liveli hood and a good interest, but there need be nd iluestion about this fact neither men nor moi y will work without a return. TE PROBLEM F WAGE EARNER AND EM PLOYER THEN, IS NOTP TO DI VIDE PROFITS BUT TO ASSURE PROFITS, FOR CERTAINLY THEY MiST BE NMADE BEFORE THEY CAN BE DIVIDED. DIVIDING 'HEM IS A MIGHTY EASY JOB ALONGSIDE OF' MA KING THEM. fOTICE OF SALE OF LAND. State of South Carolina,, County of Fairnield. In the Court of Common Pleas. 'hos. H. White, Jr., and M. S. Lewis, Plaintiffs, against John May and The Winnsboro Bank. In pursuance of an order in the Court of Common Pleas, maide io the above case, I will offer for sale on the. 2nd of October, 1922, that being 'the first Monday, '>efore the court house door in Winnsboro, S. C., with in the legal hours of sale, to the high est bidder, the following described tract of land: All that certain piece, parcel or plantation of land, known as the Fer rell Place, containing two hundred acres, more or less, lying, being and situate in the County of Fairnieid, in the State of South Cai'etina, and bounded by lands of A. Mack Park, Estate of Ferrell, the W. H. Macfle Home Place, lands of Monroe H~erder son, of Jim Park, -and of Jake Davis, and being the tract of land eonveyed to John May, by Emiline R. Macfie. TERMS OF SALE. One-third of the purchase money to be paid in cash, and the balance in two equal annual installments, computing from the date of sale, with interest thereon from the date of sale at eight per cent per a'nn, payable nnlly. at the same rate until paid, and the purchaser to pay for all nec essary papers, recording the same, including revenue stamps. If the purchaser fails to comply with the terms stated, the Clerk may resell same at any subsequcnt soaesday on~ the same terms. JOHN W. LYLES,I Clerk of Court, Fairfield County. NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina. County of Fairfield. Whereas petitions signed by a le gal nuinber of the qualified electors and freeholders residing in Bethel school district, No. 18, Fairfield county, S. C., asking for an election for the purpose of voting 4 mills for school purposes, have been filed with the County Board of Education, an election is hereby ordered upon said question, said election to be held Sat urday, September 29, 1922, at school house. Trustees of said district be ing managers. Those favoring the additional tax of 4 mills shall vote a ballot contain ing the word "YES", written or print ed thereon, and those against the said tax shall vote a ballot contain ing the word "NO" written or print ed thereon. Polls shall open at the hour of 9 o'clock in the forenoon and shall remain open till the hour of five, o'clock in the ..:'teaoon, v:hen they shall be closed and the ballot', counted. . The trustees shall report the re sult of the election to the County Auditor and Secretary of the County Board within ten days thereafter. By order of the County Board. J. L. Brice, Co. Supt., Sec. CALL.. FOR COUNTY... CONVEN TION. At the request of representative citizens in meeting assembled and by authority of the County Democratic ION-- SHAFTING - Just received carload of ] Just received carload of Q Just received carload of E Have enroute carload of C Have full stock of Belting, Fittings and Machinery T COLUMBIA SUP 823 West Gervais Street HANAHAN' BATTERY REPAIRS VULCANIZLNG. AUTO RE H. W. HA This new sugar-'coated gum delights .4 young and old. It "melts fi your mouth". and the centet remains to brighten teeth~ and and throat. There are the othe friends to choose fre Executive Committee, a(uidi Con vention is hireby called to meet, n der the Rules of the Democratic Party, at the Court House, Winnsb6ro S. C., at 11 o'clock a. m., on Monday, the 18th of September, 1922. The object of the said Conventin will' be to consider and pass upon the' question of submitting to the demo cratic voters of the county the issue of not less than $509,000 of county bonds for the purpose of establish ing, constructing, or repairing, a system of good roads, bridges and highways throughout Fairfield coun ty. I hereby request the President of the respective Democratic Clubs in the county to call their clubs together for the purpose of selecting delegates to said Convention, and I suggest thaj a suitable time for such meet ings will be on the, day of the second primary election, on the 12th day of September, 1922. Each club will be entitled to elect one delegate for each twenty-five vozers, or a majority fraction there of, as shown by the vote in the last primary election held on the 29th day of August, 1922. I respectfully urge that each club send 3 full delegation to this 'convention, in order that ev-e ery section of thAe County may _ be represented, to the end that the best interests of the whole county may be 0 intelligently consid'red and that this important question may be fairly and impartially determined. J. E. McDonald, County Chairman. - PIPE - ROOFING 3ar Iron hafting lack and Galvanized Pipe alvanized Roofing Packing, Pulleys, Valves, ols and Supplies. PLY COMPANY Columbia, S. C. S GARAGE AND CHARGING kND GENERAL PAIRING NAHAN gum in the, aid digestion, soothe mouth r WRIGLEY C28