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I FIFTEEN THO LIFE IN FIRE, t APPROXIMATELY TWENTY THOUSAND WERE INJURED PERMANENTLY AND MADE PUBLIC CHARGE ON CITIZENSHIP. Boston.?Last year nearly 15,000 J*, . persona were burned to death with approximately 20,000 injured, a large percentage of whom were in_ ' jured permanently, and made a public charge on our citizenship, T. Alfred Fleming of the National Board of iFire Underwriters of New York rto on+nmAHvp ap<rfcion of VllrjTy WIU VUV v. . the National Safety Council congress ere recently. A classification of these losses shows that over 70 per cent are women and children of school age and urtder. This classification shows "that the home and the school have A J ibeen neglected in our great scheme of safety education. It also shows the effectiveness of the general campaign of safety in the shop and factory. "Co-incident with this loss of life, the destruction of properly during 1920 as quoted by Mr. W. E. Mallal| i ieo, general manager of the National . v Board of Fire Underwriters, almost doubled that of any previous year of our history reaching an enormous total of over $505,000,000?which does not include the stupendous losses in forestry 90 per cent of ' which is due to carelessness of citizens. This waste of our national weal th of nearly one and one _ half millions a day is paid for by every citizen of the nation. It is generally considered that these losses are k borne largely by insurance com. panies. As a fact the insurance com panics are only collecting and distri. buting agencies and of necessity are compelledto require oincreased losses Every product purchased for the : ' home or for the factory has in its cost to the consumer an amount to cover the insurance and overhead - cost. It is the largest and most unnecsary leakage of the country's resources, and is almost entirely avoidable and unnecessary. ? Paul C. Redington, of the forestry division of the United States, in . an address in California recently ? , stated that of 20,244 forest fires i caused by campers last year, 76 per cent, or over 15.000 were due to smokers' carelessness. It would seem % ' that the only way to obviate, these tremendous losses of life and proper ty would be to conduct the longest I possible continuous campaign of education for their elimination. "The sections where safety has been most neglected are in the home and school. It is an appalling fact that not one busines man out of every 200 has ever applied the knowledge of safety he tes used in his factory to his home. He has forgotten to call a "cabinet meeting" of die members of his family and servants to instruct them how to turn in an alarm, how to extinguish a fire i. in its msipiency, how to avoid danger from articles used in the hotae and how to use the extinguisher he .has installed. In other words, financial value, in production has 1,000 per "?nt mors Vrtp and oversight than N the priceless jewels of human life in the home, and yet the nation is only , I as large or as strong as its homes. "Similar negligence is snown in the care, maintenance and construc* tion of our schools. A very small percentage of the members of our present boards of education have assumed more than the financial burden of school activities while they are equaJly responsible for the moral and physical safety of each child under their care. There is a great .disregard of properly establish' ed rules in the construction of new buildings and the remodeling of old structures. ^ has ibeen found by experts that over 90 per cent of the school buildings are more unsafe either structurally or in maintenance than the Collinwood school when it burned, causing the death .of 13fi children and three teachers. Over five schools iburn i<n , tjja.- United , u. States for each day year. Trifle a due to ^V^reiefiiri'ess or through thoughftfulJRSs are the cases of the largest percentage of fire casualties and conflagrations. "It has been said (by an eminent authority that 70 per cent of ?our r?V* US AND LOSE S LAST YEAR SHOOTS WIFE DEAD AND KILLS HIMSELF Wife of George Brennan, Said To Have Been a Gambler, Slain In Home New York, Oct. 1.?George H. Brennan, who, according to the police, operated for years on transatlantic steamships with the notorious gambler "Doc" Owens, shot and killed his wife, Marie Brennan, in the latter's apartment, 327 Central Park West, yesterday afternoon and then killed himself. Brennan was 70 years old and his wife, from whom he had been separated for five years, was some years younger. There are several grown children. Brennan entered the apartment house at 1:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon and told George Walker, ne-j gro telephone and elevator operator, to announce him to Mrs. Brennan as "Dt. Alberton." Walker delivered the message as ordered. Mrs. Brennan epressed some doubt as to the identity of her caller, tout suggested that he be sent up. He was taken to the fifth floor. Miss Mildred Gordon of 50 West Sixty-seventh Street, who was visiting Mrs. Brennan, admitted him to the apartment. Brennan was ushered into the living room and Mrs. Brennan .was summoned from the kitchen by Miss Gordon, who withdrew to another room. "I had hardly closed the door when I heard (Mrs. Brennan say excitedly, "Don't do that." Miss Gordon told the police. "Then I heard two shots in quick succession, followed bv another. I rushed out of the apartment and down to the first floor and called Dr. David Lazarus." 64 BOWLS OF PUNCH 126 Bottles of Port and 48 of Sherry Drunk By 54 British Soldiers Dr. H. R. Benson of Lincoln, England, who is a well-known traveler on the Atlantic, searching the records of the Bull Inn at Market Deeping, learned how many bottles of good liquor were consumed,at a dinner by fifty-four local volunteers on August 13, 1813, while the Napoleonic wars were in progress. The party sat down- at 4:30 p. m., and most of them arose from the" table before 10 o'clock. They were charged lby the landord of Bull Inn for 126 bottles of port, 48 of sher- ; ry, 64 bowls of punch and 20 bowls of negus. Flagons of ale and porter ' were not charged on the bill because the malt liquor was included in the estimate for the dinner.?Exchange. I loss of life is due to unprotected vertical openings. I firmly believe this is true. It is the vertical opening left unprotected that allows 'the fire to be spread through the build-, ing or the adjoining area. Lack of : proper fire windows, shutters, water curtains, open stairways and elevator shafts, lack of fire doors between 1 divisions or of main buildings. This is what traps the workman at his bench or the clerk making her. sales. "The above coupled with improper fire exit facilities, spells the death sentence of thousands. It is a tnavpctv ?ri thp -nrespnt. hi^h standards of mental development to note the useless sham involved in 90 per cent of our present exit facilities. Fire es- | capes constructed against the sides I of buildings and passing ordinary | glass windows, eliminating their | utility after the first puff of flame j from the window below, spiral slides erected inside of a steel enclosure, frequently found locked with a padlock at the exit door below, only prepare a more horrible dkeath by roasting while deluding many with surroundings of apparent safety. I personally found three of these traps locked with Yale padlocks, whose keys were lost?even while fwonfrnAinc n"f tV?P cr?Vinnl they were supposed to serve were in session. "It is the duty of every employer to. help every memiber of boards of education and every home owner to realize that he personally must assume the liability%and provide 100 per cent safety to those for ^hom he is responsible." / DESTROY STt TO FIGHT_ Clemson College, Oct. 4.?The early fall destruction of cotton stalks Is the most important single WOMAN HUNTS BIG ! GAME FOR 'NERVES' London.?If you're a woman troubled with "nerves," try hunting the lion and the gentle rhinoceros for a cure. Mrs. Alexander Daiziel, of New York, did it. She is now in London on her way back from a perilous trip through the East African jungle. Mrs. Daiziel's quest for health was not exactly healthy for the inhabitants of the jungle, for her "bag" included one elephant, two rhinoceros, three hippopotamus and seven lions. "It was really a health trip from first to last," said Mrs. Daiziel. "Big game hunting always appealed to me, and when the doctors said I had to take a trip for my health? something that would take me out of myself?there was no doubt in my mind what that something would be." Mrs. Daziel had one thrilling encounter with a rhinoceros that she is not likely to forget. "We were journeying through the jungle tunnels connecting the water holes when Sir Charles Ross, who accompanied us, hit a rhinoceros as it lay asleep. "The wound was not mortal and the animal disappeared among the bushes. I was some way behind and thought it would be better to take cover, but before I had gone far I heard a thundering noise and the pain-maddened animal charged down on me, sending myself and two natives headlong into the priekly bush by the force of the iippact as it brushed past us. If we had been right in its path I shudder to think what would have happened to us." Another time she shot a lion just as it leaped at her. It struck the ground dead. iMrs. Daziel thinks that big game huntoing is an ideal sport for women. "I know of nothing better for nerves," she said, "and now in the future when I feel that I want a rest and a change I shall fly from the noise and the hustle of New York to seek peace and quietness in the African jungle among the lions and other inhabitants." No Acorn. In Ohio they tell a story of a man who brought for entrance into a college there a 'student, his son, for whom he wished a shorter course than the regular one. "My boy can never take all that in," said he. "He wants to get thru quicker. Can you arrange it?" "Oh, yes," said the president. "He can take a short course; it all depends on what you want to make of him. When God wants to make an oak he takes a hundred years, but he takes only two nionths to make a squash."?Yorkville Enquirer. According to the 1910 census the center of population was in the city of Bloomington. A justice of the peace, of Phoenix, Arizona, has announced that he intends to fine all who are convicted of speeding when tried in his court $1 for every mile an hour they are treveling when arrested. The first 3peeder convicted paid $62. KZENAP Money back without question A" jy\ if HUNT'S GUARANTEED A SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES (Hunt'o Salve and Soap),fail in I IffyTi'l the treatment of Itch, Eczema, f JI Ringworm,Tetterorotheritch- f If/ . /I lng skin diseases. Try this * * treatment at our rUV. McMURRAY DRUG COMPANY. ^fajgJSiaJ3J3IgM2Jg?J3J5JSJ3JSJ3JSMSJSJ5JSJi/5i I PLUMBING and . HEATING I luunuumuuiiuuiitiiHitniiuitaimiuiuiwiiMiiHuiiHMitiuiiHiiiiMiniiHiiiiiiiiiiiiti [21 j Pemoline Super tile |j and porcelain clean- |j ser, guaranteed to I ia remove rust or any 1 I kind of stains from I i enamelware. a ? a 1 aimMMimmtimmiiiimMumiistMnmMmuimfimutfliiiniiimtfraunumiiijti p=n ltiiiiUMiiitiunuuiiitiiiwiiHiuMiiuiuMimiiuimi(iiiuniiuimniiimiiiiuHiiH?tRW LE^ 1] s i Reasonable Prices. I 3 g j RALPH TURNER I Phone 6 . 1 / step in any fight against the cotton boll weevil. So says Prof. A. F. Conradi, s entomologist, who adds that it has been shown time and again in practice and by experiments that the most favorable conditions for the boll weevil to pass the winter successfully are found in those fields in which the cotton stalks, together with grass, weeds, fallen leaves and other refuse are left un disturbed until nearly ume to pianx the following season. On such fields the greatest number of weevils will survive and every farmer should ask himself the question: "Will I'permit my farm to be a winter hotel for the pest?" In other words, will the farmer choose to destroy the weeil this fall or have the weevil destroy his cotton next season? The earlier the stalks are destroyed the fewer weevils will survive the winter. In infested fields it is common to find weevils at the rate of five thousand to twenty-five thousand per acre at the time of fzraiHiiugiEiiUiuiiraiiUiua ou: I! SHO 1 US Qkrtft Prnnc mAan si j 3 duce to the public, [! the first round. HO [j I : tice and careful buy i II prices were down an jjj COATS ij I j You must have one [ j to give comfort and [ I why not get a good i j looking one for the S[l same price? For the baby up to fVio Miaaoc U5 LilC XlXlOOVkJj JL X iwu s j $5.00 to $15.00. S* Misses to Grandmother $15 to $50 |j SHOES j S For Infants, Misses a [ I Our Fall line is corr j | Prices from $1.00 t j \ Best quality Outing 3J Best quality A. Ging rfi Best quality Sea IsIj 1 ] [l Best quality Percal< i J Best quality Shirt Mj i I j Skirt Plaids $2.J [3 Kiddie Cloth ffi Dress Gingham jfj 3f 1 | MIL] PHILS \LK EARLY BOLL WEEVIL first frost. It is a well known fact that the weevils developing late in the fall are the ones most likely to survive the winter, as they are not worn out by long flights and the re ar ing ofth eyou ngas aret he rearing of the young as are the olderer weevils. For this jeason, development of weevils in late fall must be prevented as the first step in making the next cotton crop. Therefore, we should start now a cleaning campaign such as South Carolina has never before witnessed. Tho ;Vinll urppvil is a T>psf. with a tflr. rible amount of fight, and to meet this situation our farmers must develop the best fighting spirit of which they arg capable. Early walk destruction and clean farming with cover crops, constitute the most powerful gun that can be used against the pest at this time. Whatever method of cleaning is employed, one thing' is certain: The weevil's winter hotels must be destroyed. In the words of General Neville before Verdun, "They shall not pass."' fmETgjiijanifaiiiraJHniJiira R PRU VS. RT CR \ lort profits, and it is oui prices that will knock < WCAN WE DOIT? E ing, and this year by hiti id out. SUITS We are in a position this Fall to save you money that would be worth your while on Suits. We have a J nnl A/lllAVt ' SpitJllUIU SC1CCUU11, and prices made right by good buying and short profit. Priced from $15 up. | ,nd Ladies. One lot oi \ iplete. College Si o $10.00. Fancy Sw< 20c. Best quali ham lOci Good qua! and .. 10c. Good qua] 3 25c. Cadet Hos idras Thompsor 25c to 40c. . Cores >0 to $5.00 Robe 35?* Knit Skirt _ 20c, 30c, Waists an >c and 40c Knitting 1 LINERY OF Tj ON & I fifiRfifiaaHKRfitfaa NEGRO KILLS AGED MAN Greenville, Oct. 1.?G. W. Smith. fi??y-six, night watchman was instantly killed in the subuifos of the; city at 5 o'clock this afternoon by a negro, Will Hood ,a former prisoner in the city stockade. Hood was (being pursued by officers when Mr. Smith got into his path and was in' stanlty killed by the negro, who fired three shots into the aged man's heart. Hood was himself seriously, if not fatally, injured by officers joining in I /tVioc^ wnro fVi a-n -f/\r*4~tr aVi aIc bliv vllOtJv^ W* V* XViWJ CiiUtO uv~ , ing fired. Eugene Bearch, negro, who was with Hood was also arrested and both are being held In tfye county jail tonight. Talk of mob violence may cause Bearch to be transferred, to Spartanburg for safe keeping. Officers stated Hood and Bearch are alleged fo have entered a store at a . [ local mill village this atfernoon and were being pursued by a number of officers and citizens, Mr. Smith hearing of the chase, stepped into his 1 back yard at 32 Alonded street when ! the negro pulled a gun and fifed four times, three bullets pierced Mr. Smith's heart and the fourth entered his arm. As Mr. Smith fell mortally wounded the officers began firing and Hood was seriously wounded before .being captured. CES j! |! e [ Ano ir .Kjro I ! p pleasure to intro- l : :>ld hard times out in j J ly long years of prao? ! 1 :ing the market when j! DRESSES |j Never before has [!' our Dress depart- Ij ment b^en more beautiful in designs I j and materials?at g! flip most tprrmtino* Cc " ir -o prices. g 2 \ Priced from $6 up. j1 iVEATERS [ | 'Slipovers $3.00 |j weaters ........ $10.00 | i saters $5, $6, $7 & $8 ij ty Silk Hose .... $3150 j! !ity Silk Hose .. $1.75 [ | lity Silk Hose.. $1.25 [! 20 -Pnr f^Vnlrlrpn 50c I JV JLVA V/AXAAVAA -W** .. WW l's Glove Fitting " ? ts .... $1.50 up to $4 $ s $2.50 & $5.00 ? s 75c to $2.50 K d Blouses $7 to $10 3 farns, ball 40c. jg \ste[ i IENRY - ^?J2ffJ2TS2I2I2nI2nIsi