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HUNDREDS KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE CATASTROPHE IS REVEALED IN GAERTER MAGNITUDE THAN FIRST REPORTED. THOUSANDS ARE IN DISTRESS' Five Hundred Reported Killed at Vale lenar and in the Surrounding - District Alone. Santiago, Chile.-With partial re establishment of communOetions, Chile's earthquake catastrophe is re vealed in even greater magnitude than Arst reports indicated. It is estimated that at least 1,000 are dead, and many thousands are in distress, needing food and shelter. In addition to heavy casualties and Injured at Copiaco and Coquimbo, it was reported that 500 were killed at Vllenar and in the surrounding dis trict. Vallenar was virtually destroy ed, and the survivors are in a critical condition. It seems certain that there have been casualties in other towns and villages around Copiaco to the south concerning which there was no news available. Already 24 bodies have been recov ered at Coquimbo where it is known that there are 100 or more dead. At Chanaral a number were killed by falling houses. It was an earthquake and a tidal wave combined that accounted for the vast destruction in the provinces of Antoiagaista, Atacama and Coquimbo. The movement oi the ocean is de clared as prenomenal. It ga- e evi. -dence of a terrific disturbance LA the bed of the Pacific itself. There must have been such a tearing- at the bottom of the sea that immense quantities of water were sucked through, causing a tremendous recession of waters along the Chilean coast. Several times the ocean swept out ward and came back in the shape of a great wave, flooding the seasports and in some instances sweeping away the waterfront. The violent effects of the tidal waves were felt from Antofa gasta on the north to Valdivia on the south, covering about 16 degrees of - latitude, or more than 1,200 miles. All types of craft lying in the va rious harbors were swept ashore and wrecked or left high and dry, and a score of small port wharves and quays were destroyed. Chilean naval vessels in the harbor at Talcahuano, about 300 miles south of Valparaiso, when they felt the force of the waters, clipped their cables and proceeded to open sea. President Alessandri has ordered the various government departments to take steps for the relief of the suf ferers in the stricken districts, those most sorely afflicted lying between Coquimbo and Copiapo. The navy de partment has sent ships along the coast to aid in the work. The report of the .seismological in stitute says that the apparent focus of the earth shock was 200 kilometers from Santiago; the intensity of the movement was recorded between num bers 8 and 9 of the official scale, which runs up to 12. The total dura tion was three hours 40 minutes and the estimated radius 1,200 kilometers in a transversal direction to the An des. The meteorological institution says the earth shock coincides with the passage of a sun spot over the central meridian of the sun. The earth shock commenced at the termination of a day of abnormal heat. The sun spot referred to made its appearance No vember 5 and was the largest observed this year. Fuel Situation More Promising. New York.-Continuation of the per * fstent improvement in industrial con ditions is indicated by the var'ious bus iness and financial advices which be came available during the past week. Loadings of railroad cars with rev enue freight show further, gains, both In local and general merchandise. The total loadings for the week ending Oc tober 28 amounted to 1,014,000 cars, which is only 4.000 cars less than loadings in the week ending October 15, 1920, whetn the high record for all time was set. It is clear, furthermore, than an even larger volume of traffic might be moved if the transportation facilitis were available. Soft coal production has been es tablished at a level of approximately 10,700,00Ptons a week, and the whole fuel situation is growing distinctly easier. Stocks are returning to some thing like normal proportions and the sch'edule of shipments to the north west by way of the great lakes, which enjoyed priority, has been met. Turks' Attempt at Coup Feared. London.-Fear that the Turks are concentrating their forces at Constan tinople, planning a sudden coup against Allied troops and nationals, was expressed in official circles. Members of Bonar Law's cabinet were requested to remain in London or vicinity over the week-end, ready to participate in a "'war-sessiOn" if the startling reports from the Near East were officially confirmed. All direct communi~cations5 with Con antinonle is interrupted. BUY ADVERTISED GOODS Advertising benefits the consumer E -most of all. Advertised goods are - trade marked to protect the consum- t er for cuality and quantity. I Think of the infinite variety of pre- < pared foods, from which the greater t part of a wholesome meal may be I prepared with almost no work for the housewife. Think of the household conveni- t ences and business conveniences-the 1 time savers in your office or home -the accessories which make your I automobile a greater pleasure. All of these things are rather in tricate. It would cost a small fortune to prepare a few of them for private use. How do you suppose the man who first thdught of these things was able I to make them for you at a price you could afford to pay? It was through advertising-of I course. Advertising organizes co-op- I erative buying units. The man with I a new :Jea knows that he can teil . thousands or millions of people about I his idea through advertising. He I knows that the united buying power of all these people will enable him to produce his idea in practical form at a cost which is only a fraction of what the first article would cost. One of the best examples of how this is done is Eskimo Pie. Within six months after the inventor first had his idea, everybody in the United States knew about these delicious new chocolate covered ice cream bars. This was a spectacular demonstra tion of how advertising can bring a new idea to the whole American pub lic. But in every advertising success, the same principle holds true. But advertising does more than in troduce new ideas to you. It safe guards you in the purchase of any advertised product. You can depend upon it-nothing can succeed through advertising unless the article itself has merit. Advertising a bad product will make just as many enemies for that product as advertising a goo' product will make friends for the good product. And so, if an article has been wide ly advertised for a long time, you can be sure that it is good or te public would never have supported it. You know that the advertised and trade marked product must have a definite quality-and be fully worth the price. You can be sure that you get more real value in an advertised product for every penny you spend, than you will in an unadvertised product, be cause advertising is the cheapest sell ing method there is. You know the advantages of co-op erative buying. You have.heard a lot about the idea in the last two or three years. You belong to a co-operative buying society every time you buy an advertised product. Read advertising. Buy advertised prqiacts. It is the surest way to be certain of satisfac tion and money's worth. COPERSA BUY SAYS BABSON Wellesley Hills, Mass.,. November 18th, 1922. Copper stocks have been howing more life of late and evid nce a tendency to act quite independ ent of the rest of the market. Roger W. Babson accounts for this change by calling attention ,to a shift in the conditions which control the copper industry. "The copper stocks", says Mr. Bab - son, "like any others are governed by a combination of the conditions mn the security .market and the factors that control the production andl con sumption of copper. "The industry", continues Mr. Bab son, "is now in a better position than it has been for the past four years. In other words, it has taken the in dustry practically this length of time t recover from the abnormal pro ducing conditions and heavy stocks built up during the war years. Due to the continuance of heavy stocks which, at the high point in 1919, a mounted to over one billion pounds5, production has been radically curtail ed Prices have slumped from the war-time price of 38 cents for electro lytc copper to a low point of 12 cents rached about a year ago. The in dsstry has suffered in the present period of readjustment to a greater extent than probably any other im portant industry. "The fact that copper in its man ufactured forms has excellent wear ing qualities has worked to the dis advantage of the industry during the pasttwo or three years. For example in the case of ammunition abroad, abl of the shell wvas destroyed except the copper cartridge. This, as you re member, was used again and again and at the end of hostilities, larg stocks of unused braiss and copper cartridges \vent for industrial pur poes. Re-claimed supplies are nowv gratly diminished so that the demand for new copper will gradually increa e from now on. "Production has been gradually in creasing since the first of the year. Production during the war years av eraed vell over 150 million pounds, monthly. Compare this with an out-| put during 1921 averaging under '25 million pounds monthly. In fact, evenj ieavier than the total United State >roduction. Productidn at the pres mnt time is averaging about 85 mil ion pounds monthly. Exports have ended to increase and are around 6q nillion pounds each month. Domesti< onsumption is alsc increasing so thal he statistical position of the indus ry is relatively strong. This doe iot promise any radical come-bac! )u? rather that the worst is over anc hat the long pull outlook is mued etter than it has been for a numbei >f years. This change will bring a )out better profits for the larger ow-cost copper companies. "The producing capacity of the in lustry is still large so that any in :rease in price tends to stimulate pro luction. This, in turn, causes thi narket to weaken. The reason foi ;he slump in most copper stocks a. -ound the first of November wa4 lear enough. The rate of importa ;ion from South America for a mat ;er of months has been increasing ur southern neighbor can produc4 tt low cost, much lower than domes ic companies a fact that has beei olding the domestic price down l'heir producing capacity, however, 1 listinctly limited and as demand in :reases they will no longer set thi narket. The price of electrolytic cop per has been fluctuating around 1 :ents for a number of months. De mand during 1923 should tend t trengthen the market, altho produc ion will be sufficiently large to sup ply this demand. In the event of good building year in 1923, the de mand for copper will improve. I ;hould total at least as much as thi year, and considerably better than i1 1921. The European demand will als be slightly better. Altho there ar still various bearish factors in the sit uation, the, bullish features are o dominant importance. Hence, I ar istinctly optimistic for a gradual re overy in profits. "I am distinctly bullish," conclude Mr. Babson," on the stocks of th, large low-cost producing companies. General business continues its side wise movement in spite of the recen election. The index of the Babson :hart shows activity 5 per cent belo% normal. Figures indicate that ca shortage is the largest ih history. RUBETOWN GOSSIP Everybody meit the train yesterda: xcept Seph Salls. He's still in .ai Jim Spriggs is not now with th contracting company. They mad Jim mad when they said they did no need him any longer. So Jim quii Ed Huggs put several new shin gles on his barn last month. . Cal Steppes spent Tuesday ani orty-five cents in Bugtown last weel .- got a new horse shoer. The last one drank wood al Business is picking up in Rubetowr Two new drummers came in las Jim Jones' went to Scrabble las Tuesday morning. Jim.Jones returnedl from Scrabbi Tuesday night. Bill Futch bought some stocki the Castor Oil Mine of Texas. Dor said he thought it was a good invest ment for Bill as he needed a lot castor oil. The whole town of Raspberry wa destroyed by fire last Friday. Bot houses were completely bu; ned. Si Wilkins lost his bast hcund ha: wek. Tried to bite a tire on thi Coca Cola truck while going throug Rtubetown is fast becoming a mai uactung center in spite of the rev enue officers. John Smith was kicked by his pon last Monday. The horse doctor say the pony's foot should be -well in few days. Another of Ed Brown's girls go married last week. Ed always wa A VoI 0h% otATw OF The Amateur Poet sometimes Pes1 es Editors so Profusely that the Weaken and Print his Obituar Pes and such, but Whenever yo See 'em in the Paper, you can bet th Gold Fillings in your Teeth that th Edito new BeRtter ! TO MEET IN FLORENCE NEIT Woman's Missionary Union of South Carolina Adjourns After Three Day Convention. Columbia.-The Woman's Mission ary union of the Baptist State conven I Uon of South Carolina adjourned after a three-day convention. The 1923 gathering, it was decided, will be held In Florence. Mrs. J. D. Chapman, president, and all other executive of ficers were re-elected with the excep tion of the corresponding secretary, Miss Vonnie Lance, of Spartanburg, being selected to succeed Mrs. Chap, man, who acted in that capacity dur Ing the last year. Other officers of the union are: Mrs. Edwin Carpenter, vice-presi dent; Mrs. C. B. Bobo, vice-president of the northern division; Mrs. E. W. Masters, president of the northwest ein division; Mrs. D. W. Alderman, vice-president of the eastern division; Mrs. C. M. Scott, vice-president of the central division; Mrs. T. T. Hyde, vice-president of the southern divis ion; Mrs. J. S. Harris, vice-president of the western division; Miss Jessie King, treasurer; Miss Bessie Major, recording secretary; Mrs. George E. Davis, Y. W. A. and college corres pondent; Mrs. W. J. Hatcher, superin tendent "Sunbeams." Miss Azilie Wof ford, royal ambassador; Mrs. T. P. Clarkson, mission study; Miss Annie Ulmer, auditor; Miss Wofford, field i worker. - Miss Pauline white, of Brazil; t Miss Lora Clement, of China, and Mrs. H. P. Anderson, also of China, missionaries, were speakers for the closing session of the convention. - Sunday Schools Are Not Neglected. f Gaffney.-Sunday school work was I the subject before the Upper South - Carolina Methodist conference at a session, which was presided over by . by Rev. L. F. Beaty, a member of the conference and chairman of the con ference board and assistant editor of the Sunday school literature of the church. The address of the evening was made by Dr. J. W. Shackelford, general Sunday school secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, r South. He traced the rapid growth of the Sunday school during recent years but declared that the forces of evil working against it were never strong er than at present. Sixty million peo ple in the United States are still with out the church, he said, despite the Increased interest in church and Sun day school work. "The church must e put Christ into the heart of education," t he declared. Three banners were presented to - the sunday schools attaining certain standards of excellence. The, banner gives tW the pastoral charge having attaind the standard was pre.onted - to the Limestone church. A banner -was given to Buford Street church, the host of the conference, and the ban ner for the district'~ whose Sunday school had attained the highest stand ards of excellence of any district was presented to Columbia. tThe Sunday school enrollment of the Upper South Carolina conference is 52,783 as compared with the aggre gate church membership of 64,848. -Physicians Hold District Meeting. Lancaster.-The semi-annual meet ing of the Fifth District Medical socie ty met here. -The society embraces Lancaster, York, Chester, Fairfield and Kershaw counties. This meeting was one of the best yet held. There t were 48 physicians present and a most interesting and instructive program was carried out. The officers are: Dr. R. G. Hamilton, Winsboro, president; Dr. S. L. Allen, Lancaster, vice-presi dent, and Dr. George A. Hennies, Ches ter, secretary. The following was the program: Prayer, the Rev. R. W. Jop ling; address of welcome, R. S. Stew art; papers, by Dr. W. S. Rankin, of 1Raleigh, N. C.; Dr. J. A. Haype, of Co lumbia; Dr. W. P. Cornell. of Colum t bia; Dr. T. C. Bost, of Charlotte; Dr. SC. A. Mobley, of Orangeburg, and Dr. C. M. Rakestraw, of Chester. No Loafers Wanted. Greenwood. -No loafers wanted is the theory on which Judge H. H. Watkins operates in excusing jurors from duty on the United States court grand jury, according to an announce ment made to the grand jury when tle court convened. "If any of you gen tlemen have no business or profession of any sort, the court will excuse yo't1," Judge Watkins said. "There are certain classes excused from jury duty by law, such as phy sicians, bank cashiers, etc., and I might add, those who have no business of any sort. If you are not worth any thing as a business man or profession al man, you are not worth anything on a jury. The court wants men of af fairs on its jury. Now, gentlemen. if any of you have no business and want to make that excuse, the court will not require you to serve on the jury." - Community Fair Held in Edgefleld. Edgefield. - The women whe comn pose the Civic league are being warm ly congratulated over the splendid success which they made of the com munity fair which consisted of chrys anthmumls, roses, ferns, palms. fancy ywork, canned fruits, preserves, pickles, Scakes and pastry of all kinds were at Stractively arranged in the vacant store e of the hotel building ou long tables. e where >hey have 1-en viewed by hun dreds of adme-' ' viitors from Tren ton, Johnd:t2 r . . as well as y the 9eople of tlx teWn. TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN GIRLS Kipling at His Best Wrote With Com plate Comprehension of Their Many Charms. Thirty years ago, Rudyard Kipling found the American girl above com pare. In "American Notes" he said of her: "Sweet and comely are the maidens of Devonshire; delicate and of grairous seeming those who4ive in the p. asant places of London; fascinating for all their demureness the damsels of France clinging closely to their moth ers, and with large eyes wondering at the wicked world; excellent in her own place and to those who under stand her is the Anglo-Indian 'spin'-in her second season; but the girls of America are above and beyond them all. They are clever; they can talk. Yea, it is said that they think. They are instructed in the folly and vanity of the male mind, for they have asso ciated with. 'the boys' from boyhob, and can discerningly minister to both vices, or pleasantly snub the possessor. As certain of their own poets have said: Man is Are and woman is tow. And the devil he comes and begins to blow. "In America the tow is soaked in a solution that makes It fireproof, in ab solute liberty and large knowledge; consequently accidents do not exceed the - regular percentage arranged by the devil for each class and climate under the skies." SMALL BOY'S PLAN WORKED Whole Lot Better Than Keeping Con stant Watch for Marauding Band of Chickens. One time when Frank Wallace, state entomologist, was a small boy! says the Indianapolis Star, his father as signed him to guard a garden from a marauding band of chickens from a neighbor's coop. Frank did not like the idea of wasting his precious boyish time on unprincipled chickens and set his wits to working. He bored poles through grains of corn, tied notes to the end of a thread atached to the grains and set the bait. The foolish raiders fell for the trick. Frightened by the fluttering notes a few Inches from the ends of their bills and the sensation of the threads in their throats,'the chickens went fly Ing home and tore around the yard. This attracted the owner and the hickens were caught and notes read. This Is what they read: "rve been over to Wallace's this afternoon." The next day the same thing oc curred and this Is what the notes said that day: "I scratched out Wallace's oniqs bed today." On the third day the notes read: "Say, now listen: This Is the last day rm going over to Wallace's and come back alive." There was no fourth day to the story except that the owner of the chickens and the father of young Wal lae nearly got into a fight. Topography of the Air. Explorations of the air have re vealed an astonishing definiteness' of arrangement in its layers, although, of course, the details are continually changing. Ley, in England, has di rected, his studies of floating balloons to a solution of the question of the influence of the topography of the earth's surface on the state of the air above it. He finds, among other things, that the disturbances produced by hills and valleys are transmitted to. an un expectedly great elevation, affecting te lower and middle strata through out. A general effect noticed is that the velocity of the wind, or of a cur rent of air, is increased over a hill and diminished over a valley. It is thought that similar observations, gen erlly distributed, would furnish us with a real topography of the air. Washington Star. Mont St. Michel Abbey Restored. .Tourists who visit Mont Saint-Michelk off the coast of Normandy, will find the Benedictine abbey which crowns Its summit restored for worship. As early as the EIghth century Mont Sint-Michel, possessed religious as. sociations, but the present buildings only date from the Tlrilrteenth to the Sixteenth century. The height of the church exceeds the height of the rcock upon which it5 stands 165 feet, and the granite of which It Is built was brought by boat from the- Isles of Chausey and hoisted up the steep side of the hill. Since 1874 the Mont has been under the care of architects -ap pointed by the Ministry des Beaux Arts, and by their research and res toration the abbey fortress now ap pears in almost its former grandeur. Frozen Eggs All Right. Frozen oggs are good eggs. So con cludes S. K. Robinson of Chicago af ter finding that microscopic examina tion, freezing test, incubation, shaking test, and effect of air and light tests were met as well by the solidified as by the fresh egg. He declares that fine mayonnaise dressing which held well In a warm room for 30 days had been made from the refrIgerated product. Unless Humanity Changes. "Do you think that the troubles he tween capital and labor will ever be permanently adjusted ?" I"I don't kinow," replied Se'nator Sor-* ghum. "I'm afraid there will alwa:ys e eople who want work without pay Ing for it and other people who will nt pay without working for it." TAX NOTICE In accordance to law, the tax books Aill open on October 15th for col ection of taxes and remains open to December 31st without penzlty-; and or the month of January one per cent n delinquents; for the month of Feb uary one per. cent additional on de linquents; and for 15 days in March, st to 15th, five per cent additional )n delinquents; on all real and per ;onal property. Mills State purposes 7 rdinary county 25W Special county Constitutional school 3 Special Tax for Schools District No. 1 6 District No. 2 8 District No. 3-.6 District No. 4 District No. 5 District No. 6 District No. 7 District No. . District No. 9 District No. 10 District No. 11 % District No. 19 District No. 136 District No. 141 District No. 15 13 District No. 16 10 District No. 17- 8 District No. 18 - - 12 District No. 19 __ District No. 20 - 7 District No. 21 District No. ?? 7 District No. 27 Disrict No. 24 D 'et No. 28 District No. 27___ .---10 District No. 28g ___6 District No. 29. District No. 30 8 District No. 31 8 District No. 39 7 District No. 33 4 District No. 34- 10 In addition to the above taxes, the following districts have special lev ies for bonds, as follows: District No. 13 2 mills District No. 14 -5 mills District No. 16 -5 mills District No. 34 8% mills District No. 11 (road)-7% mills Also one ($1.00) dollar poll tax on all male citizens fromj% the age of 21 to 60 years old; alsi a commutation road tax of $3.00 on all. citizens be tween the ages of 18 and 55 years, except duly ordained ministers and teachers actually engaged in school work, and payable from Oct. 15th, 1922, to March 15th, 192; also a cap itation tax of $1.25 on all dogs, pay able only during the month of'Jan uary, 1923. Office will be kept open during le gai hours for the collecteon of same A. -LEE SCRUGGS, Treasurer of Fairfield County. K U U ~ . a Giv. aCaint f U ,'.> Pesna tainey" - iv Cabinet of Sainr w i the name and address of* the one to receive ite eadsh notehead and ope. This makes a wonder ful gift or prize and is notI expensive. IThese Cabinets contain i 250 Letterheads and 250 U Envelopes to match. There . are sizes for men and worn- U . en and styles for personal, U professional and business* use. 3This is anew idea. See3 one of these Cabinets be.. U fore you select your gift. *We have an unusually well * U selectdline of U Personal Greeting Cards " H. B. CROWSONI Winnsboro, S. C. H~OLATUM