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Onr delegates leave this week for
the meeting of Presbytery at White
Oak, Ga.
Miss Isabelle Boyd of Anderson
College spent the week-end with
friends in Due West.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Brownlee attended
a wedding in Greenville last
week. The groom was a friend of
Mr. Brownlee.
Rev. J. P. Pressly returned last
week from Chester, fS. C., where he
had been holding a meeting for Dr.
Phillips.
Mr. Perry Nair of Clifton Forge,
Va., joined Mrs. Nair and daughter I
in Due West last week. Mrs. Nair
has been in Due West some weeks.
Miss Janie Agnew returned last
week from Lancaster, S. C. She was
accompanied by Mrs. Lathan of
that city.
The present enrollment of the
Woman's College is 226. Erskine I
135 and the Public school 185.
Ten persons were baptized at the
Baptist church in Due West last
Sabbath morning by the pastor, Rev.
Mr. Coker..
The cotton fields are white to the
harvest in this section. We notice
some fields between Due West and j
Abbeville where not a boll has beeni
picked so far.
Miss Jean Kennedy leaves this
week for Bluefield, W. Va., Clifton
Forge, Va., and other points northward
of Due West. She expects to
be gone some weeks.
The Evangelist, Gipsy Smith, Jr.,
is expected to speak in Due West
Wednesday of this week in the Memorial
Hall at the Woman's College.
He comes in charge of Dr. Green of
Greenwood. Our people are expecting
a treat.
Pleasant reception parties were
given by Mrs. Eleanor Pressly
Brownlee and Miss Jean Kennedy
last week in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
Tvlllis. Mr. and Mrs. Perry
Nair shared the honor also.
Mr. T. V. Miller of this office attended
the funeral Monday of Mrs.
Lee Miller, his sister-in-law, who
died in the hospital at Charlotte. On
Tuesday morning he attended the
funeral of Mr. Wesley Crawford,
the father of Mrs. Tee Miller, wife
of another brother. Mr. Crawford
was 88 years old.
Mr. C. C. Clinkscales' new house
situated between Mr. E. Patton Kennedy's
and the Baptist church is taking
shape. It will be a roomy cottage
of seven rooms/ While it takes
some two cars of brick for the pillows,
chimneys, etc., the building is
being constructed of wood. If you
do not believe that brick cost something
these days, try a,few cars
arbund $30 per thousand. _
The resident Alumnae of the Castalian
Society, Woman's College, en
tertained the present members of
the society at a picnic last Monday
afternoon on the lawn in front of
the residence of Prof. L. C. Galloway.
About 75 present members of
the Society were present and very
much enjoyed the evening.
Dr. J. W. Carson of Newberry, S.
C., spent a day in Due West last
week to the gratification of his
many friends. Dr. Carson came to
consult about putting on four issues
of the paper in which the interests
of the Forward Movement will be
pushed. The first issue will appear
the last of November.
Mr. Frank Wilson, who is Field
Secretary of the Christian Endeavor
Work for the Southern Presbyterian
church in North Carolina and Virginia,,
is spending a few days in Due
West. He was called back as a witness
in the United States court at
Greenville touching a case sent
from this post office, where a citizen
endeavored to make a check off of
Uncle Sam, by raising a post office
money oder. His experience proves
the statement: "The way of the
transgressor is hard."
BELIEVE END OF
BOLSHEVISM IN
RUSSIA NEAR
Washington, Oct. 12.?The end of ,
Bolshevism in Russia is believed by ,
officials of the state department to
be near enough to begin considering
what will follow Soviet rule.
The danger of anarchy and chaos 1
in Russia following Bolshevism is s
real, it was said today, by an official 1
of the department who, however, ex- <
presed the belief that the Zemstvos 1
IN THE WORI
FARRAR SINGS
GOUNOD'S FAMOUS
SPRING SONG
Other Gems Offered by World's
Great Artists
ERALDINE
FARRAR has
^/y Ox ^4 captured the
very sessence ?;
ed beyond doubt
1 \ by her most re^
. cent addition to
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Jti list of Victor
yPr successes. It is
amongst the new
very libation of
gracious melody. Spring Songs are ever
popular, astwitness those of Mendelssohn
and Grieg; yet never perhaps has
composer so happily interpreted the
spirit of Spring's delicate beauty as has
Gounod in this flowerlike song. Nor
could a better medium be found for its
interpretation than the golden voice of
Geraldine Farrar. Her voice is at its
best?sweet, fresh, ringing, flexible;
dwelling here and there on some lovely
note as though loathe to part with anything
so beautiful. Listening to her full
throated harmonies one seems to see
the world reborn; to see a silver lance
of light pterce through and through the
night as harbinger of dawn.
In line with this, yet different in its
fundamentals is Antonin Dvorak's
Largo from the "New World" Symphony.
Inspired by the composer's love
for American Negro and Indian themes,
this movement, which is the/second, is
a test that may well daunt the most
careful of orchestrations. The Philadelphia
Orchestra has, however, risen
triumphant above the difficulties of the
composition and added another laurel
to the crown ot their achievement.
Mysterious, slow, swelling chords introduce
passages of even greater and
more compelling beauty; fragments of
melody rise and tall ana tne tremuious
strings and golden horns weave a rare
tapestry of shimmering loveliness. The
"Largo" breathes a message of rest?
the rest of Eternity; and of life; not
that of the body, but of the Spirit.
Fmilio De Gogorza's phrasing and enunciation
are always wonderful?in
his rendering of "En Calesa" ("The
Carriage Is Waiting, My Dainty Marquise")
he surmounts the obstacles of
volleying, staccato passages that would
tax powers less swift and accurate. The
song is in a dazzling bolero-rhythm,
announced in the full orchestra to the
rapid clatter of castanets. It alternates
between swift, fiery passages and long,
langorous phrases and always the voice i
of the singer rings out sweet and clear, ?
surmounting marvelous changes of key,g
including those temporary shifts sotl
characteristic of Spanish music. The g
song is noteworthy even in the extra- T
ordinary series Mr. De Gogorza has recorded
in half a dozen tongues.
In the hauntingly beautiful waltz
from Tschaikowslqrs "Serenade" music
lovers will hail with enthusiasm Jascha
Heifetz's first record with full orchestral
accompaniment and will instantly
recognize in it new high levels in recording
art. The composition is itself
almost indescribably beautiful, interwoven
with forever changing rainbow
hues of tone. Throughout the main
theme is delicate and brilliantly sustained
passage work, the soft basses
well in evidence. The effect is electrifying!
Above all echo and re-echo the
poignant strains of Heifetz's violin,
each note clear and sweet, producing a
culminating effect of elfin harmonies.
The composition dies out in "low,
sweet sounds; like the farewell of
ghosts," followed by soft chords, faint
cloying melody?then silence.
"Honour and Love" are themes dear
to the heart of that Irish minstrelsy
from which John McCormack, in his
vniin rf r Hav*.
drew so much inBspiration.
B o t h
sieur *Beaucaire."
McCormack sings
this number in a
t&Cmmli
gether his own,
reserving some of his best effects for
the close of the piece. It adds one
more to the long list of lyric songs
which he has recorded with such artistic
success and popular approval.
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Titta Ruffo Triumphs in
Solo From Africana
"Truly marvelous" is the unanimous
yerdict of those who have heard Titta
Ruffo's great baritone roll forth in
"Adamastor, re dell 'onde profonde,"
the half savage invocation from Meyerbeer's
'opera' "Africana," that is an
important item in this month's list of
new Victor Records. The song begins
lustily, the tremendous voice of the
great artist lending itself to the music
and dramatic action with splendid and
powerful certainty. At no time has
Ruffo madt a greater record?evidently
he found in it inspiration. In it he
displays perfect and swift enunciation
and a strength of delivery beyond the
power of all but a very few singers.
Bright, joyous, versatile?these words
but faintly express the Flonzaley Quartet's
rendition of Smetana's "Allegro
Moderato a la Polka." Those familiar
with the magic of Smetana's music; his
-?enius for spontaneous rhythm, will
have been so well organized that
they will be bale to maintain in or
%
der until a new and stable government
is set up.
Advices received recently by the
Jepartment from various sources
tvere said to indicate tnat the Russian
people are pinning more faith
;han ever to the Zemstvos, which
organizations have been preparing
For the time when each of them will
OF MUSIC |
thrill with delight as they recognize thasubtle
handling of tempo and the delicate
shading of each gem-like passage.
The melodies are pure folk melodies,
torn, as it were, from the very heart
of the simple peasantry and translated
eloquently by the mastery of genius.
Never was waltz more deservedly
popular than Victor Herbert's "When
You're Away" which was one of the
big hits of "The ^
Only Girl." Never .
song and jBKPSPHHBK,
Gar-jl
prolonging a tone
here and th e.r e
most successful?
a simple song may make a deep and
lasting impression on its hearers. Just
so does Reinald Werrenrath assure the
success of his little "Gypsy Love Song."
It is as sweet as a Summer's day and
yet has in it the rollicking freedom of
the vagrant wind. Werrenrath is always
sure of a hearty reception?how
much more so when he comes to us
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Cortot'a Piano
Sings in " Rigoletto "
Alfred Cortot has used his marvelous
genius to bring to us the message of
Rigoletto, a message that rings sweet
and clear in one of the new Victor
records for October. In the famous
Verdi-Liszt arrangement for piano he
has found the perfect expression and
even the least musical cannot fail to
feel the power of his playing. After
the few introductory passages he breaks
into the pyrotechnic splendors of the
fimmortal quartet and under his deft
fingering each voice is clearly differentiated.
The whole performance is
overlaid with a delicate tracery of
scales, runs, arpeggios and cadenzas,
largely in locking octaves. The climax
is a wonderful display of masterly
technique.
"Faust" is ever popular and none of
its songs are more deservedly so than
the "Dio Possente"?that touching outpouring
of brotherly affection and farewell.
In its singing Giuseppe De Luca
rises to new
The melody, indeed,
is simple,
calling for no
bravura display;
the real achievement
lies in the
perfection of the
clear, sustained,
masculine tones;
the subtle repression
that is so essentially
in character.
. Simple
though it be there
is vet no higher or
nobler theme ; the
very essence of
truth and beauty.
Rarely do a mother and daughter
share in so great a gift of song as doe*
Madame Louise Homer and her daughter
Louise. In the "Quis est Homo"
from Rossini's "Stabat Mater" opportunity
is given for both to set free
their glorious voices and the old Latin
canticle is given new beauty thereby.
In it is triumphant proof of the close
kinship of devotional feeling to pure
The modern ballad has won a place
in the public's heart?it welcomes a
pleasing sentiment in appropriate setting.
Therefore, William Robyn can
rest assured of the success of his two
lovely offerings "I'm In Heaven When
I'm In My Mother's Arms" and "Down
The Trail to Home Sweet Home." Both
charm the ear and contain Just the right
mixture of humor and seriousness. This
may also be said to be the case with
Jdhn Steel's two numbers "Tell Me,
Little Gypsy" and "The Girls of My
Dreams." The latter is more the song
for the lighter moments; the hearer
can't restrain a smile, while in the
former one feels all of the attraction of
the great world of outdoors. In hot*
the melodies are enchanting.
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Dance Hit*
From the 1920 "FolKet"
Unusually attractive are the dance
offerings presented in this month's list
of Victor Records. Two splendid fox
trots from the Ziegfeld Follies can't fail .
to make a hit and "Cuban Moon" some
how conveys an ot tne languorous
abandon of the tropics. Both are played
by Joseph C. Sniith's Orchestra but
make no surer appeal than does "Beautiful
Hawaii" (a waltz) and "Hawaiian
Twilight" (a fox trot), both of which
are guaranteed to set feet a-tapping in
impatience for the dance. Bill Murray
and Ed Small offer the "Dardanella
Blues" a sequel to "Dardanella" and
certain of the same success; while the
Peerless Quartet puts across "Swanee"
in the Snappy stvle that one has come
to expect from them.
As for humor?well, Walter C. Kelly
must be heard to be really appreciated.
His "Virginia Judge" (in two "sessions")
is a perfect masterpiece as a
laugh producer while in a different vein
Sally Hamlin, whose recitations of
childhood have earned her a nation
wide name, further cements her popularity
by telling the story of "The
Three Little Pigs" and by reciting
Eupene Field's lovely poem "The Duel."
The public is assured that any of the
above will more than repay their interest.
Those* who already own a
Victrola know this from former experience.
In any event the reader
should not fail to take advantage of
the opportunity to hear some unusually
fine music. Any Victor dealer is al
ways ready and wining to piay any ot
the new or old Victor records?and to
hear them is a liberal musical education.
have to administer the affairs of its
own districts,
General Wrangel is reported to be
receiving considerable support from
the population of the territory under
his control in South Russia and
as his area of control increases his
system of government is being installed.
The anti-Bolshevik leader is
sub-dividing the big estates so that
the peasants are obtaining land to
cultivate.
I STATE FAIR OPENS
1 TWO WEEKS HENCE
Exhibits To Be Larger This Year?
Secretary Efrid Reports Tbat
Much Interest Is Being
Shown In Exhibition
Columbia.?The state fair begins
two weeks hence and indications
are that the exhibits this year are to
be larger and more varied than any
previous year.
Extensive preparations are being i
made to accommodate the crowds
which come to the state capital each
fall for the agricultural jubilee. Chief
among these improvements i
is the large new entrance gates,11
which are so aranged as to prevent i
congestion of traffic and provide !
adequate equipment for ticket dis- 1
tribution. ,
Another marked improvement is |
the new race track which has just j
been built for the horse racing j
wVii/?Vi will a IYIATO iTYinrpcifiivf* j
feature this year than heretofore.
This is one-half mile in length and is
within the one mile track which is;
reserved for the automobile races.'
Extensions aire being built for the j
crowds who will attend the races.
New Hog Barn
Last year two large hog barns
were erected and at the time it was
felt that no additional accommoda-1
tions for swine breeders would have
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ture. With the opening last fall,
there was a great overflow, many
exhibits coming from neighboring
states, and scores of pens had to be;
put built on the outside of the hog
barns. To prevent a duplication of
this overflow, a third new barn has^
been constructed to accommodate
several hundred hogs. All pens havej
floors, this third barn being a dup-'
lication of the other two new ones.
Wash racks have also been provided
which were badly needed.
Improvements have also been
made in the cattle barns. These
have been so arranged that four
rows of cattle, may be tethered
through each bam. A pavilion has |
also been built between the cattle [
barns where spectators may view f
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each day. The barns have all been
whitewashed both without and within.
More Inquiries
D. F. Efrid, secretary of the
State Fair association, says inquiries
and applications are 100 per
cent better this year than ever before,
particularly for cattle, hogs
and poultry. '
The poultry show, which has been
steadily developed from year to
year, should be a banner event this
season as the offiical state show of
the American Poultry association
will be held in Columbia this year
during fair week. This will bring
exhibits of prize taking birds from
Tennessee to Florida and Mississippi.
The South Carolina Poultry
Breeders' association now has a
membership of more than 300. i
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The admission fee this year is $1.1
This will admit to the horse races, '
but not to the automobile racing
events. Children will be admitted at
half rate or 50 cents.
A lower rate is offered for school
children when tickets are bought in
bulk in advance from D. G. Ellison,
treasurer of the association. The
bulk rate is 30 cents but the tickets
can not be purchased at the fair
grounds.
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A large nest of wasps will acco '.tfor
at least 24,000 flies a day, says
one naturalist.
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