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EST HARD TO OSCOURAU PIgwed, Universal Nisanoe, Has Se6n Known to DrIvp Amaewr Gardenae to Profanity. A pigweed is both an irresistible force and an Immovable body, blend ed into Ane and working overtime. Pigweeds don't ask anything of any body. They don't need to. Even Dame Nature turned round and went away as soon as she'd introduced him. Books on gardening dismiss him with a jaunty direction to "Keep the weeds down." But you can't ostracize a pig weed that way. ,, A pigweed begins making trouble the minute he shows above ground. I gver saw a pigweed that could look more like more kindiof young plants. You can't tell by pulling 'em up, for the pigweed has a long, thin red root, but pulling up little flower and vege table plants by mistake discourages 'em, even if you admit your error and apologize. And, on the other hand, it does not hurt the plgweed. Just let him lie on the ground, and his roots curl into It and he goes on growing as if nothing had happened. * If you mash one into the ground with your heel, you just give him a better start. All they ask is to be near enough the ground to see it. I brouget some Into the house and put them on the window-sill, where they could see out by raising up a bit, and they all grew. You could lock them up in a closet, and if your hands were soiled when you handled 'em, they'd get enough nourishment to live on. The only sure way to get rid of one j to can him and burn the can. Everybody's Magazine. MUD PACKS FREE ON BEACH OCure" That Costs Nothing Is One of the Attractions at Famous Coney Island. Mud packs, which cost $2 apiece at beauty parlors, and which enjoy con sterable fame as wrinkle eradicators and skin beautifiers among the fair sex, may be had for nothing at Coney Island, writes a New York correspond ent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Which explains the amazing sight offered visitors to the beach, when 800 bathers appeared in mud masks,' their faces coated with black and yellow clay. The mud for the masks was obtained where contractors are working on the new Coney Island boardwalk. Sand from sahd suckers is being pumped to build the new beach, pipes a foot in diameter throwing up clay, mud and water. The'elay is caught as It comes from the pipes and applied to the face, where it hardens into a black mass. The bathers then lie on the sand in the sun, in order to get the full effect of the "cure." Lone Ranger Exercises Memory. Alone as a forest ranger in a remote section of-the Cascade mountains, in the state of Washington, George Kil gore, a former Universityef Washing-" ton student, has memorized practically all of tlye New Testament and three books of poems. In addition to the mental exercise he has completed an entire dining room set of buffet, tea table., dining table, six chairs and a fern pedestal from hand split and hewn fir and cednr wood. The furni ture polished in its natural color is worth more than his year's salary. In three winter months Kilgore trapped near his cabin -more than $500 worth of pelts. Acce'nt on Scream. All agreed that she was an exceed ingly pretty girl. Her dresses were in the latest mode. Men were irresist ibly attracted to her. The only draw back was her deafness, a serious handi cap. One admirer after another called, perhaps attended her to some social affair,- but in the end they all fell away. The news that she was en gaged to be married naturally im-' pressed her friends. Two old ad mirers were discussing the news. -"It must have been funp1y probosing to a deaf girl like her," said one. "Funny ! I'll say so," said the other. "It must have been a scream."-New York Times. Wrong Impression. "No, I never hunt for ideas," the inent auffor assured her. "When I in the mood for work, I climb to -ne summit of a hill, and there, with the cent of the mounfain pine in my nost ils. I flrgl my inspiration." "Julgt fancy !" gushed the girl. "And then y' u descend and write it all down. I supp se?" "Indeed I don't. That would be a sure way of losing it. I carry my lit tle typebriter up with me." "Oh, l)ow good of you! But does she-er-'does she never turn giddy or anything?" - Sure of His Job.' "Solomon has a great reputation for wisdom." "How do you suppose he got that way?". "Maybe he had amy le leisure to cul tivate his minid. Unlite modern rulers he didn't have to keev his ear to the ground all the rime to tind out whether he'd die with his cr,.'a on or soon be writing home for m,,ney."-Birmfing ham Age-Herald. Linguists in the Spirit Wcrid. "How was the seance?' "A great success. Mime. Hokus ma terial ized Napol eon B-ona parte. Marie Antoinette and JTulius Caesar."' "Quite a ('st inl.,ukhedl entheying." 'Tes. and I was niot alware unltil after the seance started that all three could speak English fluently."-Birmingham Age-Herald. NEALIN "WOUNDS" I STEML Prernhsau Has Deised Machin Whlch Is Really a Malrve of inventive Ingenuity. Very remarkable indeed Is a ma chine set up in France for making re pairs to airplanes, remarks the Wash ington Star. This machine is said to be the only one of its kind, and is due to the ingenuity of Gustave Rabin. It may be described as a device for caus ing "wounded steel" to "heal" itself in something like the way that wounded flesh heals. The device is almost automatic, is operated by electricity and Is based upon the galvanic priaciple. It needs only one or two men to watch it, they being guided by a chart, showing in many colors the piece of metal to be repaired, the exact repairs necessary, the composition of the galvanic bath, the current needed, the diameter of the conducting wires and the 'time of immersion. All this Is worked out mathematically to the minutest frac tion. The machine is employed to restore worn or broken parts of delicate mo tors, most of which are difficult to re place. When an American observer saw it there were lying on a table be side it' parts it had just repaired which would have cost $6,000 and much time to replace. In the week previous It had'tirned out 300 pieces, all of great importance, for nothing less is confided to it. REFUSED TO BELIEVE HIM Jury Foreman's Remarkable Explana tion for Declining to Credit De fendant's Plea of Guilty. Some years ago in a Western state, then a territory, a por'ular citizen be came involved with an influential and overbearing character and killed him. Public sentiment leaned toward the defendant, but the law was against him, and when the day of trial came the defendant, his counsel and friends held -consultation. and, fearful of the consequences, they decided that the defendant should plead guilty and beg the court's mercy. The jury was charged by the court and retired. Presently it returned, and the foreman said: "We find the defendant not guilty." The judge viewed the jury in sur prise and said: "Gentlemen of the jury, how be It? This defendant pleads guilty, and you find him not guilty?" The foreman answered: - "Well, your honor, the defendant is such a liar we can't believe him un der oath."-Progressive Grocer. Beggars' Trade Union. A new terror has been added to con tinetal, traveling. A recent report from Constantinople states that tbe beggars of Stamboul have formed themselves into a trade union, says London Answers. The members go to werk quite me thodically. Each morning they hold a meeting in the open space in front of the Bayazid Mosque-they cannot afford other offices, although some of the members are said to be rich-and. here they discuss the business of the (ay. Then after the agenda has been read and qpproved, the brothers in beggary disperse, and set about the business of collecting alms. Just as other trade unions forbid their members to work for less than certain prescribed wages, so the beg gars are not allowed to beg for any sum less than one hundred paras. Any smaller gift is spurned as detrimental to their dignity. Clown. Chew Chew, a health clown, makes the rounds of New York city schools, spreading the gospel of fresh &'r, prop er food and cleanliness. With him is his little dog. Creamo,' whose stunts include pawing his face as If washing when asked what he does in the morning. The school children are going wild about Chew Chew and Creamo. They are absorbing health facts, because the presentation is made in an inter esting way. And they will remember the hea~lth clown and what he taught, in their old age. Making school Interesting is the greatest problem of education. Peo ple in this boresome civilization re member interesting things, forget the uninteresting. Fish Eradicates Scaiet Fever. The Mexican version of "have you a little fairy in your home"' is "have you a little fish in your bomne?" This arises from the use of a pecu liar fish, of the' mammalian species, that eats the mosquitoes and "wig glers" in water. thus preventing the spread of yellow fever. All bodies of water in the city are stocked with the fish, which are provided by health au thorities. In this way the mosquitoes are kept down and yellow fever 'al most eradicated. World's Largest Boiler. ' A boiler capable of heating 1,000 eight-room houses has just been placed in operation in Detroit. It measures 19 by 26 feet inside, .and the height from the grate bars to the top of the pip (Oils -is 35 feet. It can turn 19O.000) poundls of water into steam in' a single hour, requiring 12 tons of' coal to accomplish this feat. Water Lilies as Food. Frou the Iowa conservation board omels the suggestior that we grow vater lilies as a staple article of food, It is climedl that the lily, when peeled and boiled, is as farinaceouS and taste' fu as the potato. MOUNT ZION NEWS Mt. Zion showed old time form on the foot-ball field last Friday. Out weighed on an average of twenty pounds to the man by Kershaw Hi, she battled fiercely to a draw. With gameness that would not fail, she stopped rush after rush on the part of her heavy opponents. And then, not satisfied with merely defensive tactics, at every opportunity she un corked offensives that won ground corsistently. Mt.Zion is proud of her sons. Last week was "full of tests". As usual, some were found lacking. What a pity that all of us do not do o ) -.,j .& %,! Shculd. HOW ouch trouble it would save! How many explanations it would save! Those who did their duty last month-and there are many, we are glad to say -fee' so much better than the few who did not. Lets make next month better than the last. The new building is beginning to take definite shape. Each day now, adds to its attractive appearance. Mount Zion is at last to have the quarters she is entitled to. The foot-ball squad goes to York on Friday. The fellows have "blood in their eyes", and mean to take that game. Here's hoping they will not be disappointed. If clean, hard fighting! can do it, we will win. The Board of trustees gives us two holidays for the State Fair. We ap preciate it, and we ought, when we come back to work on Monday, show our appreciation by increased effort. The girls are beginnig to dream of basket ball. This year we hope to put out a winning team. Practice' Prac tice! And obedience to the coach.will turn the trick. We have the material. Lets make up a real team. Miss Leila Russell, representing the Extension department of Winthrop College, organized a Study Center, last Saturday, for the teachers of Fairfield county. About twenty teachers met Miss Russell in the Com munity house. There are about sev enty teachers in the county, to every one of whom a card announcing the meeting was sent. Twenty out of seventy was pretty poor attendance. There should have been not less than sixty present. Where were they? If the taxpayers are to keep salaries at the present level, teachers must show they are worth them. These Study centers are certainly worth while-worth while, if for nothing else, merely to get the at titude of the teachers toward their profession. A teacher who, without good reasons, fails to meet with these study centers, is a drag on the pro fession. The authorities who elect teacher: should notice and doubtless will-the attitude of applicants toward these meetings. Wide awakes, earnest teachers make good schools and good schools make good communities. The next meeting of the Study Cen ter will be on Saturday, Novembe the 4th at the Community House in~ Winnsboro at 11 o'clock. It was abour decided at the first meetin~g th..t th1ere would be rno meetings dluringth months of January and February, the roads in Fairfield being all hut im pasable (during those months. Good roads in this county would go far to ward solving our school problems. AMERICAN LEGION CONVEN TION New Orleans, October-The roar of speeding propellers, the steady purr of countless high-power motors, the noise and clamor of all types of air craft used by the United States army, navy and marine corps, will hold the attention of New Orleans next week, when some of the best aviators in the military service stage daily sham bat tles in the air as a part of the pro gram attending the fourth annual conventoin of the American Legion, October 16th to 20th. Twelve of the largest hydroplanes owned by the United States navy will participate in the battles. Night flights will be made also during the convention week. Headed by Major Frank Brown, commanding officer of the Montgomery intermediate air de pot, who will pilot a big De Haviland plane, six planes will come from the 22nd Aero Squadron for the maneu vers. Five planes will be sent by the .35 aerial observation squadron of the Alabama National Guard. These will be under the command of Major J. A. Maissner, who is one of the widely known American Ex pedlition ary Force Aces, flying with him, will be Captain William M. Robertson and Lieutenant J. E. Kirgham. From Kelly Field, Texas, undler the direction of Commanding Officer J. H. Howard, will come six DH-4B ma chines equipped for battle action as they were in France (luring the active periodl of the war. These machines will be parked at Fellman Field and will be on exhibition at all times when tions will be a feature to be staged by the Kelly Field aviators. Three machines will be sent to the' convention from Nashville, Tenn., byI the 136 Aerial Observation squadron, the Tennessee National guard. S..G. Irwin and "Daredevil" Mason, two stunt fliers, will furnish the ex hibition thrills. Mason is to make a parachute drop and is planning to land as near the intersection of Canal and St. Charles Street as possible. Leroy Carison, of the Carlson Aerial Advertising Co., will be another stunt flyer here dur ing the convention. For the first time in history, ac cording to those making arra ige ments for the event, an aerial derby is to be held in New Orleans, Thurs day, October 19, on the next to the last day of the Legion Convention. All airplanes in the city are eligible to enter the race which will be flown over a triangular course of 18 miles. The planes will fly the course five times, starting from the center of Fellman field, then to the grain ele vator at Westwego, then to the flag pole at the Southern Yacht club and back to the %field, making five laps over this course. The aviator com pleting the five laps in the shortest time will be awarded a loving cup to be given by New Orleans legionnaire. . The flights will start at 2 o'clock on derby day, and the contesthnts have agrreed to fly as low as possible. just skimming house tops and tree so that spectators may hav4 better opportunity to view the race and dis tinguish the pilots. LOANS FOR 33 YEARS. I am authorized to receive appli cations for loans on farmin.- lan -U for $1,000 and more. Terms 83 yeen at 6 percent. Seven percent per uin num pays the principle and interest W. D. Douglas, Attorney. An ugly cut ? MENTHOLATUM is antiseptic and C!heaj ALADDIN SKIURITYOIL PE~RFECION Oil katders Notice is hereby given that all per sons indebted to the estate of Dr. J. R. 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