Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jp?? i | We Beg I We will beg i; ; ll I H. B. \& 1 ; LET HIM READ ? Should Rejoica if -LadShowa Lore of Raadinf. . . , To a troubled mother who has asked the editor of The Kansas City Star what she should do to stop her 12year-old son from "reading everything he can lay his hands on," he wisely answers, in effect, "Do nothing." Also, in effect, he tells this very unnecessarily anxious inquirer that, instead of being alarmed by the boy's liking for literature and the' catholicity of his tate, she should rejoice in both and be assured that nei*-i i (.tier ?i> auiue iiur iu *mjr uuianto) public or private, likely to be accessi' ble to him is there appreciable danger that he will find anything at once comprehensible and harmful. In this^case, at least, however it may be in others, confidence in editorial omniscience was justified. Boys eager to read, and especially boys glad to read all sorts of books, not only those made especially for thetn ?written down, that is, to the supposed measure of their intelligence i. \ ?have been rare at all times, and to some, of us they seem to be particularly rare at present. Every one of them?and such girls, too?should he encouraored^jiot restrained. i " i They, may learn things which their fond parents think they are too . young to know, but they will learn those things anyhow?unless they are brought up an innocence that is oifly a dangerous ignorance?and it is better to learn them from books than from the worst boy or girl in school. And, as a matter bf fact, it is more than doubtful if any knowledge whatever is harmful to . anybody, young or old, and the possibility that knowledge may be misused, though real, is far from being a decisive reason for withholding it. ' If more reading were done by boys and girls?more reading of real bcoks, that is?perhaps not so many of them who come out " of . colleges fVioco Have wruilH make statements and ask questions that make them seem, to the possessors of an oldfashioned education, little if any better than illiterates. , ELEVATOR MAN MACON FIRE HERO Macon, G^., Aug. 25.?With Solicitor General Charles Garrett examining witnesses, Coroner Lee Wages and a jury Thursday resumed the investigation of the explosion and fire, which destroyed the Brown house here early Monday morning, resulting in the loss of at least six lives and the injuring of eight persons. All of the dead and injured, with the exception of otae, were guests of the hotel. . . George Clowers, negro . elevator \ * boy, was the first witness Thursday. ' ^ He declared that when he started the \ car to answer a call from the upper floor he heard a buzzing sound be. neftth. Then there was an explosion which sent\the lift to the top floor and instantly hurled it to the basement. While he was endeavoring to -escape he asid, there was a second explosion. Clowers said passengers had complained of a peculiar odor in the elevator, but it had not oc^ eurre'd to hi.-n that it might be gas. He testified sparks came from the i . * i., , ^ , motor wnen/tne elevator, was in mo-jlDn. / ' vvA / IS fj?' J dkt 8H liiSl RRHflSMHafiSHfflHS AN to Annou t > * ' I S.iV il /-I J * ' [in Business at Complete Line ol -"''"T'V Yoi - jr 1 w 'ISBY - V ii> J - ' c.? :i ** 'J "?y v . - 1350,000,000 IN OLD CLOTHES .230,000 Buys in .Year of Methodist "Good Will" Shop : Chicago, Aug. 25.?Sale of old clpthes and household goods to the poor by the Methodist Episcopal church runs into an annual total of I $850,000,000 if waas announced today by the Methodist Committee on Conservation and Advance. This field has beeen entered in a large scale by the Methodists in their "good will" program. They have nineteen establishments in as many big cities, with property held* in trust of more than $1,000,000. They project twenty-one more plants by 1924 These activities were reviewed for the conservation committee by Dr. David D. Forsyth of Phfladelphia, Secretary of the Metlodist Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. In summarizing his report the committee said: "These plants are engaged in gathering cast off clothing, shoes, fumi tore, books and other articles necessary to the household. These are-renovated and sold in stores to the poor at ridiculously low prices. * "Men and women out of employment "for any reason whatsoever may obtain to salvage human beings from economic work at these plants. Their purpose is and moral wreckage, and their motto is "Not charity, but a chance.' Profit is no object, i "During the past year $408,000 ' * *- _ OAn CAA J ? was paid out in wages, ?ui,uuu uajs work was furnished to the unemployed and 5,000 persons received this kind of economic aid. More than 250,000 poor bought at the stores. The materials were furnished by 115," 000 homes of the well-to-do. Fotfriteen different trades and handicrafts are regularly taught. "The parent plant in Bostofi has been in operation for. twenty years. It has 75,000 bags in as many homes and does an annual business of over $200,000. Its goods require eight separate stores in various poor quarters of Boston. "Other plants are at Jersey City, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Duluth, St. Paul, Denver, Los Angles, San Francisco, Lowell and Oakland. "New ones' will be established in the future at Toledo, Des Moines, .Washington, Rochester, Louisville, Syracuse, * Portland, Seattle and Spokane." Clowers is accredited with saving at least three lives. He said that after he escaped from the building he went to the side of the hotel and caught two women and one man in his arms as they jumped from windows on the second Aoot. He said he had to beg one man to jump and he hesitated until flames swept through the window where he stood poised on the ledge. Clowers then ran to the front of the.iburning building, and assisted in |ne rescue of A. E. Weems, pro prietor of the hotel, and his family. His heroic acts during the fire have /been much commented on. Relatives of Harry Turnipseed, of Hafbpton, Ga. missing railway flagman, Thursday took charge of a body taken from the ruins. They indentified it as Turnipseed's. aaaH8g?Bttftfi9is NOUN ince to the 91 South Main 5 f Fancy and Hea ir Patronage W Phone i I SB Y & ; .v. .--j m ; m m ? jrefanjEnimizrajzrejznLn LIKE WEATHER INSURANCE \ *. . / Protection Against Rain More ^ Sought of Late. New York Times. Weather insurance a novelty a Q year ago, has now taken a firm hold ^ in this country and, following the v example of Great Britain, Americans e are now insuring every variety of event against loas toy rain. More than $1,500,000 was underwritten c In rain insurance on July 4, it was y estimated (by a (broker yesterday, and ^ Labor Day is expected to break that record. Fortunately lor the insurance companies, fair weather was 11 general on -the Fourth of July, and B leas than >$100,000 yaa paid to poli- ? cy holders. Five major league iba*lball clubs 0 this season have thus safeguarded e themselves on all of their Saturday,', Sunday and holiday dates, while many minor league teams 'have protected themselves by Pluvlus insur- ' ance policy as that class of risk is ^ termed. A .British company underwrote a $750,000 rain In'urance poli- ^ ? ? Ta? .Pinliaivl o a ? nrn+(v*t.inr tJF J.V4. iva' ?Tivint?? "" **"" ? 1 report that horse racing promoters elements might have caused on July s 2, the day of the Dempsey-Carpen- ^ tier fight, the premium of this policy r was reported to have (been $75,000. a The field for rain insurance has ^ broadened. Colleges have ibegun to 8 insure their football games, and ^ State and county fairs also have taken up the practice. Underwriters s and excursion, boat owners are 0 among their best clients. In the Win- ^ ter they insure ice-skating rinks on y the temperature remaining below 11 freezing. Summer hotels insure them Selves against bad weather over week ^ ends and' department stores do the 1' same thing on days when.special bar- 0 gains are advertised. ' ^ Rain insurance is said to be like playing a five-to-one shot. The in- a surance companies charge premi- urns ranging from 2 1-2 to 25 per cent., and even * higher in rare instances. The usual method is to insure againbt one-tenth inch of rainfall during stipulated hours?usually 24, 12, 6, or 4 hours. Pluvius insurance policies are flexible and can foe written to cover special conditions or localities ,ot in blanket form to cover a series of " events.. Every class of this form of inurance is ' now toeing written. I | There tare policies under the terms J of which if the income from any r event does not equal the expense in- < curred the company pays the differ- J ence. Another form of agreement i makes the company lialble for the dif- 1 ference between a valued amount c and the actual receipts. Snow, sleet I ' '* ' 1- J. J xl I , I ana nan are now mciua-eu m -wic ? risks. . t One line of weather insurance c that is being developed is crop in- c surance. In this form of underwrite ( ing the companies will take either r j side. They will insure against fair i i weatther when the crops need rain ( j or they will insure against rain when ] | crops have ibeen cut and the coming r | of rain would be a calamity to the I i farmer. ' f Rates are based on the average c : rainfall in any location over a ten- 1 ! yeair period and on the month in t which the event insured is to take r : place. Reports of the United States Weather Bureau are taken as evi- c dence of rainfall and policies are paid on s^th reports. i jErarami!n!faji!jaji!JHJ?-fi CEME : Public til itreet. [ J. T. E ivy Groceries, F s \ill FU A nnrpri; AAA A 333-1 ^ : BAN] Ar t 4?f m ~ m m* I ' # ? * janmuiiiiuziiUiLnmMa GIVES LIFE FOR SISTER Dies Attempting To Rescue Sister from Drowning. Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 23.?The body f Miss Jewell Searcey, who was rowned in Little river, near Troupe ille, SimdSay afternoon, was recovred Monday morning about 8 o'lock, being found iby C. D. Price nd Walter Simpson, of Brooks ounffcy, in an eddy several hundred ards beflow the place At which the xowning occurred. The body of James Searcey, who eriahed in an attempt to rescue his ister, was found Sunday afternoon nd recovered by Grover Carter, a ormer fireman and expert swimmer ? jii j_ _?i.? mi "S > 3 k I Tjfus City, i ne coupie were uruwnd while on an outing of the Searcey amily, the parents and six children em# in attendance. The river was up three or four eet and tihs little girl was playing bout a boat and swimming to the ranches of some trees wfhenNshe lost er hofld. The river is very swift at hat 'place and ranges from ten to wenty feet deep. When the girl wis wept into the stream and went unler, her older brother rushed to her oemio (knf fuma li-nnlklo ?rhATld gainst the whirling current. ,The wo grappled in the prater and the Til drowned,'the Ibrother going farher down the stream .before he final; Ir disappeared. Another brother, Stephen Searcey, tried to rescue,the thers, but both disappeared before e could reach them. Not being a e'ry good swimmer he had difficulty i getting back to the bank. Frobaibly a thousand people went o the sqene of the drowning and a arge party remained there throughat the night dragging te river for he ibody of the little gihl.. The victims were buried Monday rt a double'funeral. MASTER'S SALE -/ rhe State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. Court of Common Pleas. Z. H. TAYLOR and S. J. HESTER, Plaintiffs'. against r. J. GEORGE, Defendant. By authority of a decree of sale )y the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, in said State, nade in the above stated case, I will >ffer for sale, at public outcry, at Abbeville C. H., S. C., on salesady n September, A. D. 1921, within the egal hours of sale the following des :ribed land, to wit: All that tract, >iece or parcel of land situate, lying ind being in Abbeville County, in ;he State aforesaid, and in the town >f Calhoun Falls, more accurately lescribed by a map of the town of Dalhoun Falls Investment Company nade by DesCamps and Cunningham n September 1907, and revised Dy j. J. DesCamps, December 14th, 1909, said lots being shown on said nap as lots three and four in Block tf, and having a frontage of twentyive feet each on Cox Ave., a depth >f one hundred and six feet and laving thereon two two-story brick mildings, occupied by Mrs. Wein aub and by N. D. Sanders. TERMS OF SALE: CASH. Purhaser to pay for papers and stamps. THOS. P. THOMSON, Master A. C., S< C. Vug. 19. 3t-oaw. J iiraj?j?!n!jan!Ji!n!JznLnirHJTi :nt ~i t 1 ' ; W%rt tat on Sept .v /> : ; ovr Ivans' old stand 'eed and Notioni / , ' . % \ ited V C ' CY %J G. C, BijmfanniaaaBftgm Sare The Sledge. "J Arkansas Thomas Cat. A couple of negroes were digging a hole in hard ground under a sidewalk. One, down in the half finished hole, held af small iron pipe upright upon the end of which the other pounded with a large sledge in order to loosen the dirt. 'The sledge wielder swung the heavy tool rather recklessly, and it lookd as though he might miss at any moment and strike his companion's head, just below. A passing white man cautioned: "Better Ibe more carexui, Tom, or you'll iDnng that sledge down on Andy's head." "Ail right, boss," replied the sfedge j swinger, seriously: "Ah" be more , careful; dis am de only sledge we fcot." Within the past six months Ger- ; many has delivered to Belgium a t?- ] tal of 30,000 ihorses, 125,000 sheep, 90,000 cattle. i . Am Gi DESI ERE( \o I Free Water tion on any r CITY G Abbeville, i i ember 1, |] ] We have a !j BE . l! 11 11 * RANK'S i} " JJjiauzmanniiiBraianS ; % : . ...: % BURIED ALIVE ' Detroit, Aug. 25.-?Buried alive after his arms had been cut off, a former member and victim of the "good/ killers," carried his secret which the gang sought to force from ' him by torture, to his living grave, it was learned today. '$ Andrew Lacotta, who, acting under ^ orders .of the/'good killers," murdered Police Sergeant Emanuel Rogers-here in 1917, later fell from the v good jjraces of the gang, and was cut to pieces. > ' , Then, while still alive, he was . ] thrown into a freshly dug grave in . \ the murder ring's pwn burying ground, while members of the band cursed their failure to extract sc# " -' * crets which he held. Lieutenant Frank McPherson, chief of Detroit's blackhand squad, brought rr _ 1 l! ' 1 ne nas u^eii quesuumiig ubivuiu Fontano, whose confession started ?' world-wide investigation' of Italian nurders. . . 1 .*' . x J V wen Brothers arble and ranite Co. gners ufacturers :tors * argeat and best equipped monv ental mill* in the Carolina*. GEENWOOD, S. C. 1i i ' ~ ?I 1 ' I' <'} . # ; ' ' * !-fi - ; . l v . / * ? ' 1 . ? T *> * .* t % > ' / : rerusing to quit at I the end of its fc years written guarantee BATTERY and Inspecnake battery ARAGE - - s. c