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meow IN DUE A? HE seeing of "the 01 Year out and' Ne\ Year in" throughou the world is generall; accompanied by mucl merriment and some times with mucl noise. But wherea in some countries thi "wild" night has dis \ I appeared and ha; . M, been replaced by cele brations more ii keeping with the passing of a year o past opportunities, and the makinj of new resolutions for the cominj year, on this continent, at least, thi night' has been given up to revelr: strongly condemned by right thinkinj people. At one time New Year's eve in Ber lin was a jime that might have glad dened the heart of the most exuber ant undergraduate, being from dusk t< dawn a succession of practical joke: and good-natured "ragging." But now adays the town shows a more sedat< temper, and if in a very German waj o tioor /-if a tt'lnn "fntirnov" (tr? PI V< sl the German expression) often remindi one in the small hours of what usee to be seen at the same time of th? year in the ancient world, the dayi seem to have passed by when it was unsafe for a cabman to show himsel in the city before dawn, for fear o: havinr some joker ride away on his unharnessed "Polly." In those times the silk hat was more worn than today, and still mors often was crushed in or thrown across the street by some of the more ram pageous. It is said that one coulc ktheii buy a cheap edition of the sill 'hat that had a gloss that would las1 through the evening, and at a prict that made its disappearance quite suf ferable. Today such practical jokes hav< dropped Into the background. Berlii and the rest of the empire indulge ii a celebration or tne New xear ma has something of the French reveil Ion, something of the Scottish festivi ty, and also some reminders of Apri Fools' day and Gunpowder Plot daj in England, and the Chinese Nev Year's "Feast of Lanterns." New Year's day in Germany is thi day for sending the jokes and would be jokes that are generally held ove; until April 1 in France and Englant ?cigars that might seem to be burn ing, references to such rarities as thi peacock's eggs; and all the "sells" tha can be thought of. Then, as the Eng lish of the North may eat toffee an< "parkin" on the eve of the 5th o November, the Germans have a specia fare of pancakes and jam, witn puncn The rattle reminds one of the Orient It is the article of the day, or rathe: of the night. Even the biggest store: l in the capital head their weekly cata logue with a list of the styles of rat ties that they have to sell, and n< self-respecting Berliner is without om when he sallies forth late in eveninj to make a ronnd of the town befori saluting the emperor with the guan In front of the palace in the Lustgar ten at nine o'clock. The occasion also ofTers another ex ample of the extraordinary powers o endurance in the matter of entertain ment that tne Berliner possesses, ai though business beginB at eight, an< in some offices even as early as half past seven, there are as many in thi cafes between two and three in thi morning as one would see, for exam pie, between one and two in Paris? a much more leisured city. And on New Year's eve the com panv does not go home to bed witl the milk, as in the French capital but sees it out until It is a questior of whether luncheon shall come be fore or after the sleep. Supper in the better-known restau rants in the center of Berlin and ii Charlottenburg's fine avenue of Kur furstendamm is much on the lines o: the Paris reveillon. There is no men tion of the traditional "Boudin ave< puree de pommes," but in return th( pancakes and sirup get their place and there Is always some puc,h ir the making. New Year's eve is marked at th? Court of Vienna by a ceremony some what reminiscent of "Hamlet" with out the chief character. The diplo matic body is invited to the Hof burg to wish the emperor the compli ments of the season, but his imperia majesty never attends to receiv< them. Since the days of Maria Ther esa it has been the custom for the grand master of the court to depu tize for his sovereign on this occasion and no member of the imperial familj is ever present. This fprpmnnv. whirh in commonly known as "the homage to Gessler*: hat," is so strongly resented by somj diplomats that they purposely abseni themselves from Vienna at this tim< of the year in order to evade it. At Queen's college, Oxford, besides Indian Marriages Recognized. That a marriage contracted betweei members of an Indian tribe in accord anc* with the customs of such tribe where the tribal relations and govern ment existed at the time of such mar riage, and there was no federal statute rendering the tribal customs invalid will be recognized by the courts as i regular and valid marriage for all pur * poses, is held in Buck vs. Branson, 3' Okla. 807. And the same effect is als< given to the dissolution of marriages ider the customs of the tribe, as li i \Walrus Slaughter. That the walrus is rapidly nearin; extinction Is the warning sounded b: the Daily Industrial News of Nome Alaska. That papers describes , th< slaughter caused by one crew in a sin gle season. The catch amounted t< 723, of which 420 were cows am calves. Many' were fatally woundei or shot dead and never recovere^ I full grown bull walrus weighs #'ton The walrus is a tempting bait to th< hunter because of the amount o ,wealth found In hit skin, the oil am ) the pictureique procession of the 1 boar's head at Christmas, a quaint l but less knovn custom for New Year's t day has been retained. After dinner - on this anniversary the bursar pre sents to eacl guest a needle threaded 1 with silk ot a color suitable to his r faculty, and. prays for his prosperity t in the woids, "Take this and be thrifty." Tkis word "thrifty" has no ? connection vith the philosophy of the - late Samuel Smiles, but is, according r to Doctor ftagrath, the retired pro 1 vost, the oli English for prosperous. - To "grew ttrifty" in the sense of to 3 thrive was used in America within t living memory, ine ceremony is a practical No*aian-French pun (aiguille } et fll) upon.'the name of Eglesfleld, f the chaplainlto Queen Philippe, who 1 was the rerl founder of the college. A picturesfue ceremony marks New ? Year's eve Jt the court of Dresden, r A receptioa is held in the evening? 3 generally one of the, most thronged of the year?during which the king in stead of receiving the guests in his 3 ordinary manner, plays cards with 3 his suite. I Those invfjed file past a group of a card-tables, ail the playerB at which 1 are intent up>n the game, except the - king, whose lide-de-camp stands be hind his chai? and whispers the card - for him to th-ow, so his majesty can J devote his attention to. acknowledging the greetings of his courtiers. The king, plays a card, then bows as a curtsying ladj catches his eyes, then another card, mother bow, and so on, until the long procession has passed. The little Scotch fishing village of Burghead, on the Moray Firth, keeps up a strange ijurvivfcl of pagan ritual, ai a "PI o trin " Thlo 4 a ciic uuiuiug u uic viar x ujo 10 - a sort of rudi spoked wheel or tub 1 made from h.ilf a herring-cask and , half a tar-bawel, knocked together 1 without the U|ie of a hammer, for - which a smoo'h stone is substituted. The blacksmitf supplies a long nail. This contrivance is borne flaming 1 on the shoulders of a succession of bearers to thj- town boundaries, and f then to the "6oorie," a sort of stone ? altar, on a small hill. The "Clavie" ; j is then smashed and the crowd scram } bles for the pieces. The custom de , nes explanation ana is immemorial, i The great Scottish festival of Hog manay is celebrated in "the wee, sma' 'oors ayont the 'twal" with unusual zest among th? Caledonians. In every cirner of our far-flung empire, whererer the Scot has car ried his accent; and his Robert Burns, the festival of the Celtic race will find Its earned, if decadent, expres sion in good -wishes and good resolu tions for the n<w-born year. If you have taken part in the festi val in Scotland itself you will be able . to conjure up what the Saturnalia T was In the clasic days. The modern Italian carniva' bears little resem ' blance to that g^at festival in which s the worker in ttq field expressed his 3 whole-hearted dftght that one year t of toil had ended, md that a new, and ; perhaps a better, rear had dawned. Hogmanay is the Saturnalia of s Scotland, and if thb Bacchanalian ele j given to the marrbge relation itself. I 11 Such marriages ar| not to be treated as common law majriages, but as legal marriages accordlK to the customs of the tribe, when sufc customs are rec ognized by congres? as concerning and regulating the domestic relations of the tribe. Johnny Kn?w Them. "Johnny," said tlje minister, "can you name the three traces?" "Sure," replied ne little fellow 'Breakfast, dinner a id supper.' the rich ivory in th tusks. The dis appearance of the ' alrus means the extinction of the Esl mos, who depend largely on this ani: al for food sup ply, fuel, lights, boa 3 and leather. When Was He in "The legislature, age legislature, my Fuller Gloom, "is a wherein nobody kn talking about, ai)d thing about what talking about" ie Legislature? ??" "The aver son," replied J. Jebating society ws what he is 2s not care any nybody else iB PI 1/1' A IV W YEAH ' ment?at all events In the far North? Is a trifle strong, It cannot be doubt ed that enmities are ended and friend ships strengthened in the general re joicings. So then, every Scot, wherever and whatever his lat?Scots Wha Hae and Scots Wha Hinna?will raise the glass to the New Year, and his heart will turn to the Mecca of his hopes, the home of his poet and prophet, Robert ^urns. . Writing to an English friend from Scotland in 1802, Henry Bickersteth says: On December 31 almost yervery body has a party, either to dine or sup, the company almost entirely con sisting of young people. They wait 1 together till midnight strikes, at c which time every one begins to move, f and they all fall to work?at what? 1 Why, kissing! Each male Is succes- ] sively locked in a pure Platonic em- ? brace with each female. This matter c Is not at all confined to those, but \ wherever man meets woman it Is the c privilege of this hour. J New Year's gifts have taken many different forms at different periods from the eggs exchanged by the Per sians and the sacred branches of mis tletoe of the Druids down to the fat capon which the tenants in many Eng lish counties were expected to pre sent to their landlords. i In the sixteenth century, gloves < were often given on New Year's day, c aua mere is reuoru ui ti ueruuu iriro. c Croaker, in whose favor Sir ThomaB 5 More had decided a case, sending the 2 chancellor a pair of gloves with 40 c gold angels therein. "Mistress," wrote More, returning 1 the money. "Since it were against 1 manners to refuse a New Year's gift, a I am content to take your gloves, but, E as for the lining, I utterly refuse it" 1 What precisely is . "Hogmanay?" I Etymologically, it has been derived c from the French "au-gui-menez," * "come on to the mistletoe." The Nor- ? man French "a-gui-l'an-neuf," also an association of the New Year and miB- 1 Illroll.. t liciuc, occiud imcuci Can anyone tell us precisely, what was the origin of the custom in some parts ot England, of the going to the parents' bedroom on New Year's morning with new snow (if it can be had), and the song, New Year's day In the morning The cocks begin to crow Open the doors and let me In And I'll give you some New Year's ?now. The Zulu Trick. The English soldiers who had served In South Africa quickly taught the allies in France how to sleep com fortably on the ground. To sleep on the ground In the ordi nary way, without the aid of thlB South African trick, which the English learned from the Zulus, Is so painful as to be almost impossible. Sleep, In stead of resting, fatigues. The Zulu trick is to dig a little hole to hold the hip bone. The soldier can then rest on back or side with equal comfort. He rises from his slumber on the hard ground as refreshed as if he had slept on a feather bed. The Canny Scot. A Scotchman recently returning home from Russia would now be in a German jail had he not written Brit ish after his name on the passenger list. The naval officer who stopped the ship he was on carefully removed all English, but British escaped the German eagle's eye. An eminent di vine said some 200 years ago: "In all my travels I never met with auy one Scotchman but what was a n.an of sense." If he were alive todaj h? might say it again.?Baltimore Sun. Grim Wit of Douglas Jerrold. Ugliest of trades have their mo ments of pleasure. If I were a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.?Douglaf Jerrold. Perhaps He Had None. A fellow has his face shaved, hair cut, shoes polished, clothes pressed and hat brushed, then pays no atten tion whatever to his dilapidated con science.?Toledo Blade. ? MUCH FOOD TO FILL CARGO Five Hundred Carloads Needed to Fill the "South Carolina Ship" for Belqians?Sails Jan. 25. Columbia. ? The "South Carolina ?hip," which will carry foodstuffs and clothing to the Belgians, will sail 'rom Charleston about January 25, iccording to assurances from Lindon iiV. Bates, vice chairman of the Amer can commission for relief in Belgium. The tonnage of the vessel will be ap iroximately 6,000, and it is estimated ;hat it will take 500 average carloads :o fill it. For this reason, therefore. ;he Columbia committee desires to im jress upon the people of South Caroli la the need of a more widespread and jenerous co-operation. A greater campaign erf publicity will i'lso be carried on. Bulletins describ ng in brief the plight of the Belgians vill be sent throughout the state, and copies of "The Babes of Belgium," by iVill Irwin, which was printed in some of the leading newspapers re jently have been sent to the county :hairmen, with the request that they lse their efforts in having the artl :le printed in their county newspapers. The commission in New York nas ilded greatly the Columbia Chamber )f Commerce committee, and Robert D. McCarter, secretary of the commis ;ion, telegraphed Bruce Walker Rave lel, chairman, that the general ship ring agents of the commission, Norton, _illy & Co. of Nev York, were in :ommunication with the Strachan Shipping company, with whom an angements were recently made to itore the goods pending the arrival of he ship. Until this matter is arranged, he commission advises that any sup >lies gathered should be held locally o obviate the chance of demurrage. Senator P. L. Harden Dead. Chester.?Senator Peter Lawrence lardin, president pro tempore of the ipper house of the state general as lembly, died a few days ago at a lospital in Baltimore at the age of 58 -ears, following a grave operation re :ently for an intestinal malady. The >ody was shipped to Chester and :arried to his home near Bascom fine, me luuerai viuct wcio uciu it the Richburg M. E. church and the >urial macte In the Unlbn A. R. P. ?. church graveyard. The Rev. W. S. 5oodwin, his pastor, officiated. Senator Hardin served in the lower louse of the Btate legislature for sight years and in the' upper house or 12 years. Last November he was sleeted for another four years. Build Light and Water Plant. Allendale.?The contracts for build ng the electric light and waterworks )lant have been awarded and the :onstruction work la expected to be 'In oi or* aoi*1tt iinfrt WlfVi f Ko imount, $65,000, from sale of bonds roted by the town several months ago, i thoroughly modern plant will be :onstructed not only with full reuire nents for present needs but with tmple capacity that nray be drawn ipon in future as the town grows, rhe source of water supply is an ar esian well which is nearing comple ion. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEM8. The financial embarrassment of nany of the schools in Spartanburg :ounty was relieved with the arrival >f a voucher from the office of the itate superintendent of education for >1,843, which will be divided among !0 schools which are beneficiaries un ler the state term extension act. The large brick plant of the Char otte Brick Company, located near ^ort Mill, started up a few days ago ifter a shut down of ab^ut two nonths. It is not known just how long ne plant *m operate Dut wun pros >ective resumption of business con lltlons, it may operate continuously rom now on. The plant employs ibout 125 men. The secretary of the U. S. treas iry has received an application from he Bank of Holly Hill to be convert id into the First National Bank of lolly Hill with a capital stock of $25, 100. "Cecession Day" was celebrated by nany chapters of the U. D. C. J. Hillard Hook, aged 74, a Confed srate Veteran, died at his home in )rangeburg county recently. One of ftlie leading banks of )rangeburg,'declared a dividend of 8 >er cent. The Sumter chamber of commerce vill furnish tobacco seed free to farm' >rs of Sumter county applying for hem. Rev. W. E. Entzminger, Baptist mis lionary to Brazil from Chester left for tio de Janeiro a few days ago. The annual meeting of the Agricul ural Society of South Carolina will be leld in Charleston January 7. The ociety was founded August 24, 1785. ^he Sea Island association will meet ^ the same time. Commissioner Vatson has accepted an ihvitation to leliver an address. Ke will discuss he future of sea island cotton. Three hundred and eighty cases of uberculosis have been reported to the tate board of health 'this year from 7 of the 44 counties in the state. A. M. Milam was appointed magis rate of Sandy Springs in Anderson ounty, vice Earl Green, deceased. President Wilson lias nominated ohn B| O'Neal to be postmaster at Fairfax. The eight magistrates in Chester ounty last year collected $3,625.65 in ines. The Cherokee County Boy's Corn Mub has just held a successful ex libit at Gaffney. An employment agency for the un mployed of Greenville, operated by \ C. Poag, who charges nothing for lis services, has been established at he Chamber of Commerce rooms. The Stilly and Gleaton Horse com pany of Springfield has been com missioned, with a capital stock of $5, 00. The petitioners are B. M. Sally ,nd Mike Gleaton. The annual meeting of the Ameri an Forestry association will be held n New York January 11. Commis ioner Watson has named J. E. Wan lamaker of St. Matthews to represent South Carolina at the conference. BREEDING OF HOGS TO BE ENCOURAGED SOUTH CAROLINA FARMERS ARE URGED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY. PALMETTO CAPITOL NEWS General News of South Carolina Col* lected and Condensed From The State Capital That Will Prove of Interest to All Our Readers. oyiumuia. L. L. Baker, district agent of tha 'arm demonstration work has been in Florence doing some work. He is stressing the advantages of hog rais ing among the farmers now. He says that he has been very much impressed with the necessity for stressing it very vigorously as he watched the hog killing in progress through the coun try that he has traveled over this winter in South Carolina. The raising of hogs is profit, as well as economy. The cheapest crop that a fanner ,can "foiise is hogs and the most profitable'one, and it Is passing strange that farmers do not pay more attention to it Mr. Baker urges that part of the tenable land of each firm bo devoted to cultivated pastures for hogs. Two and a half devoted to Bermuda grass instead of cotton will keep a sow and pigs in grazing feed. He offers in evidence the experience of farm ers who with one sow raised in 14 months two litter of pigs which pro duced 2.(550 nntinds of meat net weight. The cost of raising these pigs was negligible, the returns far more than could have been gotten by the best and moat cheaply made crop of cotton on the same land and still left some for expense of feeding produce that had been stored on the farm. South Carolina imports each year about $11,000,000 worth of hog prod ucts which can be raised at home and that $11,000,000 put into something that will be wealth and comfort pro ducing. - f Farmers can get bulletins from Clemson College advising them how to make pastures and how to feed hogs and Clemson now keeps two men in the field giving farmers assist ance along this line and every farm demonstrator agent is provided, with the serum made at the Clemson labor atory for inoculation of hogs for chol era, and these men readily answer every call made on them. \ General Offices Will Be Fillled. The next general assembly will fill & number of vacant offices during the session that beeins on Januarv 12. I The most important of( the elections will be that of a judge of the Fifth circuit to succeed the late Ernest Gary of Columbia. Mendel L. Smith of the Kershaw bar, former speaker of the house, and W. T. Aycock of the Richland bar are "being supported by their.friends as candidates for the va cant place on the bench. The terms of A. K. Sanders, J. G. Mobley and J. M. Smith as members of the board of directors of the state penitentiary will expire on the first of the year. Mr. Sanders has been a momhor nf tVio hnnaa frnm' Sumter. It is understood that Mr. Smith and Mr. Mobley will ask for re-election. Among the other candi dates who have been mentionel are Capt. J. B. Bell of Gaffney, A. M. Hjott of Beaufort and G. A. Browning of Laurens, both former members-of the house, and J. H. Wharton, former rail road commissioner and former state senator. Form Poultry Clubs in Chester. C. C. Cleveland, a poultry expert of the federal department of agriculture, has been in Chester county organizing poultry clubs. He was accompanied by Miss Jo Yarborough, who has charge of the county's canning and do mestic science clubs, and will likewise look after the poultry clubs. Several strong cluljs were organized with a strong membership. Both felt greatly encouraged over their initial efforts. Many New Enterprises Authorized. Notice of an Increase in capital from $10,000 to $50,000 has been flld with the secretary of state by the North Augusta Warehouse and Fertilizer company. The Arcade Place (Inc.) of Colum bia has been commissioned with a capital of $10,000. The petitioners are E. B. Cautey, Jr., and Harry Can tey. The Catawba Fertilizer company of Lancaster was given the right to in crease its capital from $80,000 to $100,000. The J. T. Mayes company of New berry has been commissioned by the secretary of state with a capital stock of $10,000, The petitioners are J.'T. Mayes and G. L. Summer. A general mercantile business will be conducted. The Seaboard Building and Loan association of Charleston has been commissioned with a capital stock of $150,000. The petitioners are R. G. Rhett T. T. Hyde and G. H. Moffett. The Enterprise Furnituie company of Walterboro has been commissioned, with a capital stock of $3,000. The petitioners are Benjamin Olasov and C. H. Koger. The Laurens Motor Car company has been commissiond with a capital of $20,000. The petitioners are J. W. McKee and J. D. McKee. The Farmers and Merchants' Ware house company of Summerton has been chartered, with a capital stock of $3,000. The officers are: C. M. Davis, president; W. D. McClary, vice president, and W. H. Anderson, secre tary and treasurer. The DuBose Cotton Warehouse com pany of Pineville has been commis sioned with a capital stock of $1,000. The petitioners are T. S. DuBose, Jr., and L L. DuBosa Clemson to Have Modern Hospital. Clemson college was reported to be in good condition by the committee of the state board of health, oharged with the inspection of schools and col leges in South Carolina. The com mittee, consisting of E. A. Hines, M. D., of Seneca and D. B. Frontis, M. D., of Ridge Spring, visited Clemson December 11, and the following report is the result of their inspection: "The health of the cadet corps has been very good so far this term. . It is highly gratifying that the recom mendations for an entirely new hos pital, which the committee has pre sented for a number or years, are un der way. We went over the plans carefully with the authorities and heartily commend the wisdom and foresight of those who planned the hospital. There will be provision for 36 cadets.; there will be two floors and a basement, with one large ward and about 12 private rooms. A spe cial feature of the hospital will be a modern operating room. The present financial crisis has delayed somewhat the construction of the hospital for which part of the material had al ready been placed on the grounds. The committee was assured that this delay will be only temporary. "We investigated the food and found same to be a well balanced ration at a remarkably low cost, ap proximately 8 cents a meal for each cadet. V Attorney General Names. Clerks. Thomas H. Peeples, attorney gen eral, recently! announced appoint ments to the 'engrossing department of the general assembly. Thirteen appointments were made. "More than 200 persons applied and I would have been delighted to ap point all of them, but there were just so many places to be filled," said the attorney general. Following is a list of appointment*: Chief clerk, J. C. Townsend, Colum bia; Miss Kate Schroeder, Abbeville; Miss Eubank Taylor, Anderson; Miss Kittie tycFaddin, Harvin; Miss Isa belle C. Patterson, Allendale; Miss Ann E?. Bellinger, Columbia; Miss Elizabeth Sawyer, Orangeburg; Miss Nellie Adams, Newberry; Miss Esther Sims, Columbia; Miss Virginia Simv kins,/Edgefield; Miss Mabel Bowman, Sumter; Miss Effie McTaggart, Flor ence; Miss Ada Williams, Lexington; W. L. Gleaton, Springfield. To each of the appointees the at torney general addressed a letter, as folows: "It gives nfe pleasure to notify you that I have this day selected you as one of the clerks .of the engrossing departments for the session of the leg islature convening on the second Tuesday in January, 1915. You may, therefore, report for duty to the chief clerk of this department In the state library, at 9 a. m. on the above date. "la accepting this appointment I desire to impress upon you the im portance of strict attention to your duties in every way and that you are subject to remoal et my pleasure. "Wishing you a merry Christmas and happy New Year." Hearing on Grain Rates. The hearing on grain rates In South Carolina before the railroad commis sion will be htfld on January 13 and not January 6, as previously announc ed. Business men, railway officials, representatives of Chambers of Com merce, farmers and others are invited to attend the conference. The rail roads will be asked to reduce the rates on grain from interior points to the South Atlantic ports. The peti tion for the conference was filed t/y B. F. McLeod, president of the Char Irtton Chamber of Commerce. Seeks Agricultural Information. Commissioner Watson recently has been sbliciting information from over the state with reference to the most notable things done in 1914 in the way of agriculture. Every county has been asked to contribute, for It is hoped to get enough of this information to present It in permanent form, but the responses have just begun to come in, as it requires some time to get up the data. It is hoped that enough mater ial will be obtained to show that something else can tofe produced in this state besides cotton. Mail Free Flower Seeds on Request. Representative A. F. Lever announc es that he has a number of packages of flower seed for distribution and any woman desiiing an assortment can ob tain them by addressing e postal card to him at the house of representatives, Washington. Decisions of the Supreme Court. G. W. Tldwell, appellant, vs. th State, respondent. James H. Price and H. K. Towns for appellant; So licitor Bonham and This. P. Cothran were heard for the state; Mr. Price in reply. Charley Crumley et a}., appellants, vs. Sovereign camp, Woodmen of the World, respondent. Continued. Order filed. C Border State Lumber company, vs. H. A. Edwards et al. respondents. Transferred to Eithth circuit. Order filed. ' Money Weight Scales company, ap pellant, vs. Gordon Merchantile com pany, repondent. Transferred to Eighth circuit. Order filed. City of Greenville, respondent, vs. Will Foster, appeiiam. imuBicucu w Seventh circuit. Order filed. J. B. Grainger, respondent, vs. Greenville Steam laundry et al., ap pellants. Arthur L. Gaston for ap pellant; E. M. Blythe fo^ respondent; C. F. Haynesworth In reply. Willie Porter, respondent, vs. F. W, Poe Manufacturing company, appel lant. Transferred to Eighth circuit. Order filed. Morgan Austin company, respond ent, vs. S. J. Massey et al., appal lants. Continued. R. M. Osteen, respondent, vs. South ern Railway company appellant. Con tinued. Saymour Forrest, respondent, vs. Greenville, Spartanburb & Anderson Railway company, appellant.^ Con tinued. R. W. Anderson, appellant, vs. Jor^ dan Munn Construction company, re spondent. Continued. J. P. Murphy, appellant, vs. At lanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway nomoany. respondent. Continued. PRIZES AWARDED OH IMPROVEMENT 1 -Xir Kit-; FORTY-THREE SCHOOLS SHARE IN DISTRIBUTION OF THE CA8H PRIZES. COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT State Association Has Done Muoh During the Year to Better Rural. Schools. . V , U-'J- in' -'<? >M Columbia.?Prizes were awarded to t3 schools by tbe executive conitoft tee of the South Carolina School Im provement Association, which met in Columbia. The coramitee received applications from 355 schools from 35 counties. These applications showed a total expenditure of $306,748.89 for school betterment The past Jbbe was # the most successful in the history of the South Carolina School Improve ment Association. The association raised and spent $18,162.90 for the improvement of schools Jn the state. The echols winning first prizes .of $50 each offered by the association were: Dunbarton, Barnwell county; Sunpy Plain, Calhoun county^Cdhi well, Chester . county; Mt Croghan, Chesterfield county; uburp, Darling- , ton county; Minturn, Dillon county; HarleyvHJe, Dorchester county; Gray Court-Owinga, Laurens ounty; West Middle, Orangeburg county; Dispu tanta, Spartanburg county. .. ' Additional prizes, a Smyth system . beater, valued at $100, given by the Smyth System Heating Company, awarded to Hunter-DeWalt, Newberry county. The schools winning second' prices of $25 each were: Cattle Creek, Dor chester count/; Hammond, Anderson county; Turbeville, Clarendon county; Picket Post Oconee county; Sham rock, Kershaw county; Mitford. JJTaiiv field county; West Dunklin, Green ville county; Donalds, Abbeville coun ty; Pleasant Hill, Lancaster county; ML Zlon, Edgefield county; Coronaca, Greenwood county; Red Knoll, Le?- _'^ ingtnn county; Elliott, Lee county; Double Bridges, Richland county; Ruhamah, Pickens county;' Murreljjs Inlet, Georgetown county; Wittee, Williamsburg county; StatehiuS* Sumter county; Wampee, Horry cpun ty; Cotton Belt, York' county; Celes tia, Saluda; Stokes, Colleton county; Zion, Pickens county; St. Ltikes,-New berry countjh Dovesville,\ Darlington county; Rock Bridge, Laurens coun- . tv: Pleasant Hill, Dillon county; Laurel Creek, fl-eenivlle county; Barker's < AndersOn county; Hardshell, Kershaw county. Additional prizes?Woodl-and Spring sanitary fountain,, from fhe Dial Steel Products 'Company ^ valiied i at'' $14, awarded to Mack's school, Lexington county; Foster^ historical charf and a 12-inch slated glpbe, from the Rand McNaHy' Company, valued at $25, awarded to Canaan school, Orange burg county. Subject for (nter-State Debate. Columbia,?The queiy for the Ten nessee-South Carolina-Georgia debate which will be held next spring at Knoxvllle, Tenn., - Athens, Ga^ and Columbia, simultaneously, has., been selected as follows: "Resolved, That the United States government should own and operate all railroads (steam and electric) doing interstate busf-' ness." Each university will be repre sented by two teams, both debating away from home. Georgia and Ten nessee will meet here. This league replaces the Virginia-South Carolina Georgia league?that Is, Tennessee has replaed Virginia. Coal Loading Plant Ready 8oon. Charleston,?W. H. Wells, chief en gineer of construction of the Southern railway, said here after making an in flection of the coal loading plant be ing built on the Cooper River, that ft should be in operation Dy next Apm. This statement is especially interest ing in view of the ftict that this time is considerably earlier than was at first announced. The huge car dump ers and loading machinery is now at Cleveland, Ohio, practically ready for shipping. Pier and trestle work here is going forward rapidly. Expert Public Health Director. Spartanburg,? Thomas tV. Jackson, M D., of the United States public ' health service has arrived in Spartan burg to become director of the city's public health department, succeeding Dr. B. F. Kaupp, recently resigned to accept a position at the Agricultural and Mechanical college of North Car olina. Dr. Jackson comes to Spartan burg highly reccommended by Surgeon General Blue and by Dr. J. F. Siler of the Thompson-McFadden pellegra commission. Tfte health department Is greatly plear#ed with Dr. Jackson's. Reclaim *?ale of Cotton. Barnwell,?T*?e second step in the promised revolution of the cotton growing industry in the South was take nat Barnwell recently when a bale of beautiful cotton was produced from frost-bitten tail-end bolls by the Hall cotton reclaiming process, under which the bolls were placed in a huge incubator and opened like a cotton orop in full bloom. Barnwell people have signed a certificate of unqualified endorsement, petitioning the cotton reclaiming company to establish its manufacturing plant at Barnwell. $40,000 Fire at Georgetown. Georgetown.?Half a block in the heart of residence section of'the city was burned recently. The residences destroyed were those of W. H. An drews, mayor, and general mana ger of the Georgetown & Western railroad: A. P. Webber, local chief clerk of the Baltimore A Carolina Steamship Company; M. P. Moorer, M. D., surgeon of the murine hospital service, and Miss Minnie Daggett. The loss will approximate $40,000 partly covered by Insurance.