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THE L AF A YET In Lafayette Square, nearly op pc bronze and marble memorial to Lafay the Revolutionary War. It waa? ere< work of two French sculptors, Anti America, in front, offers the sword cf ette. On one. side are Rochambeau i and DcGrasse. Wa Co/Ot "H'm. a roll for Widow James' kid at Bluff Ledge! 'Taint often a parcel comes by express for that chap!" wheezed Silas Carr, 'the captain ot the Molly, as he drew a whiff ac his pipe. "Shame about that little feller. I declare! He's so cute with his hands; seems though he makes up for his little: shriveled legs," exclaimed one old skipper. "There's something eise on that bundle besides his name. I hain't get my readin'-specs-what Is it?" "'Deliver before July Fourth."' read Fred Vincent, agent of the local express. "Wall." drawled the weather prophet of the fishing village, "thatys easier writ than done, with this sev enty-mile-gale bio win', and, what's more, 'taint goin' to stop in a hurry; storm signals flyin'." "Oh, the kid can have his parcel i the day after to-morrow; 'taint likely he'll care." "Don't you fool yourself into think ing that, SI; why, Jim says he's\as keen as a whetstone, and a reg-lar good American, allers readin' about the soldiers that died for the country, and-" At tbafmoment the door flew open, and shouts of "Come aboard!" greeted1 the newcomer, a young AeY low, slight and narrow-chested, in ^contrast with the sturdy skippers, but peculiarly lithe and alert. As the wind swept through tho wooden building, the roll which stood in the corner fell across the threshold. "Look ont, don't tread on that! It's fur the kid at the Ledge; got here two days ago with special instruc tions to deliver before the Fourth. Sounds fine, don't-it?" asked a jolly faced^ seaman with a twinkle in his eyesr "Something for little Dick? It's Mr. Saltonstall's writing, and I bet Ifs a flag."S ""Yes," the latest arrival addeG. as he gave the parcel closer inspection, "of .course It'must be, a long roll like this, and then this on it, "To be de livered before the Fourth.' " A long J whistle followed these remarks. "wall, it's one thing to order it sent, and it's another to git it there! City folks don't know nothln' about sech winds aj these," said Silas, with disgust in his voice. "Tt won't be the last Fourth for the I chap-rthat kind allers hangs on, and-" "What kind.?" thundered the voice of the young skipper. "I don't know , as he's to blame because some fool ' chaps nearly burned him to death seven years ago to-morrow, setting off their firecrackers, and never thinking*where they went! The boy's head's all right; I'd like to have his brains. Those New Yorkers sent him a-book on Lincoln last winier, andj I'd just liked you to nave heard him tell me the whole story." "Too bad they didn't git that down earlier," grumbled Dan Farley. Jim Barnes made no reply. In deed, he was known as "Silent Jim." and his speech for the little cripple i of Bluff Ledge was'the longest that he had made for many a day. When there were signs that the company was about ready to disperse, he strode to tho corner, took down the roll, and said quietly, "I'll see to this." ? f*You wont think of goin' sech a fool trip, Jim? It won't be no sea fur Bluff Ledge before another forty eight hours," exclaimed tbe oldest captain along the .water-frpnt. "Your boafll be smashed to smith ereens, ^oy!" said Si. ''You can't do it, n?veri" ? A chorus pf "nevers" was heard TE MONUMENT. isite the White House, is the Imposing ette and his compatriots who served in zted-iy Congress in 1890, and is the aine Falquiere and Antonin Mercier. : liberty to the heroic -figure of Lafay ind Duportail, on tfie other D'Estaing from one end of the shanty to the other. "The Petrel's seen seas before; anyway I'm going to try to reach the Ledge; the wind may fool all of us, and go down." The gray heads shook dubiously, and- blurit Captain Brewster said, I CARPENTER'S HALL. Where First Continental C "Another Declaration of Independ ence, by vuml^Tis Jim strode out? into the night. The next morning found him in his "sow'wester," and cap drawn over his short, curly hair, preparing for the expedition. He had hoped to leave the wharf before the usual row of skippers should be settled in front of the fish-houses, but that was r.he very day they chose to be down early. "You're awful resky, and the game ain't wuth the candle; the wind's dead ahead!" shouted Captain Brews ter. "I know all about it, but I'm bound to have this flag for this Fourth of July, and not the next. We've been told to go through fir?, and water for Old Glory, you know, and the Petrel and I'll try water." The skippers peered through their i glasses until not a vestige of the frail I craft could be seen, then Si ex claimed: "I'm goin' into the tower to watch him es long es I eau. TA there ain't ! a lot of grit in that small parcel, then j my name ain't what it is! But, I tell you boys. Jim's goin'to ketch it!" r\r two hours the Petrel seemed to be making no headway, and not until the point of land that projected j far out into the sea had hidden the j boat from the, captain's, sight did the latter leave* the tower, muttering to himself as he limped down the stairs, " 'Twan't no use talkin'; when Jim's jaw is set that way, we'd might es well save our powder, but he was clean crazy!" The skipper of the Petrel was fully aware of the dangers that were be fore him. He stowed the roll care fully away, covered lt with an old "oller," lighted his pipe, set it firmly between h!s lips, then gave himself to the battle with the wind and wave. Jor hours it seemed as though he were no neSj^er Bluff Ledge than two hours before, and it looked exceed ingly doubtful how long the Petrel could last in such a sea, when some thing loomed up on the unbroken stretch of ocean - the life-boat, manned by the crew from the station, was coming! It needed skilful management to go up^alongside of the Petrel; but, after frequent attempts Jim was pulled aboard, drenched to the skin, and holding the roll in its covering. "What in creation is this? Are you wild to start out In such a gale?" was the first question after the Petrel had been fastened to the life-boat. "I could have made a la. ling all right," said the plucky little fellow, wheezing as he spoke, but with suf ficient presence of mindynot to touch the whisky that was offered. __"No/^ ho said, "I'll bo all right, ?nd I mustn't touch a drop of that." Little Dick who had been anxiously watching the angry sea all the fore noon, scarcely leaving the window long enougb to eat his dinner, had tho greatest surprise in his life when a dozen men came up the walk to his home. As soon as he caught sight of his; friend Jim, he turned pale, and called to his mother. "Jt's my Jim, and he has been saved by the wreckers." It was a very Jolly wrecking-party thit stood In the little, lox.' room, .while Jim, bashful and conscious, ex claimed, "I have brought you some thing for your Fourth, Dick, and, thanks to these men, I've got here before sunset." "No, you don't!" they shouted, "he was coming all right, Dick, but we helped him along." .Dick trembled as he attempted to untie the hard knots. "Here, lad, take my knife-there's no time to ful5s-there now!" exclaimed one' of tho brown-faced men. "That's the talk-my, isn't it a beauty?" The boy's eyes sparkled, his breath came in quick gasps as the whole glory of the Stars and Stripes lay be fore him. Tenderly his little hands traced, the outline of thc stars on their blue background, while the weather beaten se?men, -with Jim in their midst, and the delicate little woman looked on in admiration. ^ "Now I'll fetch a pole, and we'll haag it, Dick." "MIPS COLUMBEY" AND HER AT TENDANTS TN A PATRIOTIC CEL- < EBRATfONr AT DETROIT. -Fred G. Wright, Michigan. "No, Jim, you sit still," suggested Dick's mother. "I've got some hot cofl.ee for you and a piece, of steak; I thc other men will see to the flag." I Kow bravely it was flung out on [the piercing northwest gale, while I Captain Sawyer brought forth his harmonica, and Mrs. James led the PHILADELPHIA. PA. Congress Assembled, 1774. men's voices in "America," in which little Dick's sweet soprano mingled. Dick threw his arms around Jim's neck, and exclaimed, "This is the very best Fourth of July I ever had, and alf because you brought me the flag in time." ? * The letter that went to the Salton stalls was so full of the praises of Jim that, when the family came to Bluff Ledge in August, the faithful fellow was engaged to act as their skipper, and not a year passed but some token of their esteem was sent to Dick's color bearer, who had felt 1 no effort too great to carry to the lit-f tie cripple of Bluff Ledge his coun try's flag. / Among the Missing. His Ma-"Earlie, I told you not to fire any cannon crackers. Now you come right.in." Earlie-"Yen, ma, in a minute. I'm lcokin' for somethin'." His Ma-"What have you lost?" Earlie-"Nothin' but a thumb." Choice. Lady Anne-"James, you want tho phonograph for your party downstairs to-night, don't'you?" "Yes, m'm." "Well, you may take the opera records, and the orchestra, but Tm afraid you can't have my favorites, 'Yip-I-addy-I-ay' and 'One of the Girls.' I 'simply can't risk them be ing scratched!" London Opinion. x ? IN OLD SOOTH CAROLINA Cream of the News Gathered From All Sections of the Commonwealth For Om* Many Readers. State Candidates. At noon June 22 was the last hour given candidates to* file their pledges. Those who "signed out" are made public by Gen. Wilie Jones, chair man of the executive committee, and is as follows: For Governor-Cole L. Blease, Jno. T. Duncan, C. C. Featherston?, F. H. Hyatt, Thomas G.^McLeod, John G. Richards, Jr. For Lieutenant Governor-K, Walker Duval], Charles A. Smith. For Secretary of State-R/M. Mc Cown. For Comptroller General-A. W. Jones. . For State Treasurer-R. H. Jen niiurs. For Adjutant General-T. 1 K. MeCully, Jr.,/ W. W. Moore, Charles Newnham, J. M. Richardson. For State Superintendent of Edu cation-J. E. Swearingen. For Attorney General-B. . B. Evans, J. Fraser Lyon. For Railroad Commissioner-Jas. Cansler, G. McDuffie, Hampton, G. ?. Mahon, 0. C. Scarborough. For Congress-1st district, Geo. S. Legare. J. H. Lassasne. , 2d district, L. P. Boylston, Jas. F. Byrnes, C. W. Garr?s, J. 0. Patter son. 3rd district, Wyatt Aiken, Julius E. Boggs, Coke D. Mann. 4th district, Jos. T. Johnson. 5th district, Thos. B. Butler, D. E. Finley, J. K. Henry. 6th district, Geo. W. Brown, J. E. Ellerbe, P. A. Hodges, B. B. Sellera 7th district, A. F. Lever, W. W. Ray. The six candidates for Gubernaior^ ial honors this year are: Cole L. Blease, of Newberry; John T. Dun can, of Columbia; C. C. Featherstone, of Laurens: F. H. Hyatt, of Colum bia: Thomas G. McLeod, of Bishop ville, and John G. Richards, of Lib erty Hill, Kershaw county. Gas-Electric Cars on Southern. Following the announcement made by the Southern Railway Company on May 31 that^the- use of gas-electric cars in some of the, more congested districts along its lines was contem plated, it is definitely announced by that company that its steam passen ger train service in. the Greenville territory is to be supplemented in July by the inauguration of regular gas-electric motor, car service. Pending the completion of three motor cars now being built for the Southern Railway Company, the management, determined not to delay the inauguration of^vihe new service, has arranged with, the General Elec tric Company for the- return of the gas-olectric car which was used ex perimentally with very satisfactory results on the lines between Manas sas and Strasburg, Va,, last sum mer. . " Gas-electric motor ear service will be furnished in the Greenville terri tory by this car until the delivery of two improved gas-electric cars, being built especially for the Southern Rail way Company by the General Electric Company, and a gasoline car being constructed by the McKeen Motor Car Company of Omaha, Neb'. These cars will be completed in a few months and will be put into regular service as soon as delivered to fche Southern Railway Company. South Carolina in "Pork Barrel." A careful inspection of the figures shows that South Carolina has been well provided for, the following be in? the provisions: Camden, $50,000; Gaffney, $10,000; Orangeburg, $10, 000; Columbia, $75,000; Bennettsville, $50,000; Marion, $7,500; Laurens and Union, each $10,000; Newberry $10, 000. _ Prosecute Grafters July Fourth. Attorney General Lyon announces that the trial of the alleged dispen sary grafters would come up at the term of court commencing in Ches ter on July- 4. Among those to bo tried will be Jodie M. Rawlinson and John Black. They are charged with conspiracy. The trial of Hub Evans will come up at Newberry at the next term of court for ?bat county accord ing to Gen. L}-on. Rich, Unused Lands on Coast. In the opinion of Mr. A. G. Smith and so expressed in a recent bulletin issued by the Department of Agri culture there are thousands of acres of land in the low country of this State'that could be made most pro ductive and paying farms by the in troduction of tile drainage. He thinks that the capitalists of the coast counties should erect tile factories. There are only two tile factories in the State and these are owned by in dividuals for their personal use on farms owned. Where They Speak-July 1-16. Yorkville-Friday, July 1. Winnsboro-Saturday, July 2. Lexington-Wednesday, July 6. Saluda-Thursday, July 7. Edgefield-Friday, July 8. Aiken-Saturday July 9. I Bamberg-Saturday, July ll. Barnwell-Tuesday, July 12. Hampton, Wednesday, July 13. Beaufort-Thursday, July 14. Walterboro-Friday, July 15. Charleston-Saturday, July 16. Gov. Will Appoint New Judge. Governor Ansel will' name a judge to sit during the interim between now and the session of the General assem bly next February, to succeed Judge Dantzler. When the Legislature con venes a successor to Judge Dantz ler will be elected. Judge Dantzler recently wrote the famous Jones de cision from Union county. Tile Drainage to he Inauguarted. A camprehensive system of tile drainage is to be inaugurated in the lower sectiou of this State. INTERESTING STATE NEWS Column cf Current Events Caught in Every County From Coast to Mountain Cap. The Seminoles Security Co. Trouble. Taking the testimony of trustees and officers of the Seminoles Se curities Co. -will commence on Juiy 12. The referee was appointed by the Richland. county 'c/Durt as .the result of receivership proceedings which were commenced against the trustees and officers of the company. Mills Subscribe to Stock for Car Linc. The directors of the Pelzer Manu facturing Company have decided to subscribe 25 cents, per spindle to the capital stock of the Greenville-Spar tahburg-Anderson trolley line. The Pelzer Mill has 135,000 spin dles, and the subscription will total about $33,000. The Belton Mills also subscribed on the same basis as Pelzer, their subscription, amounting to about $14,000, based on 59,000 spindles. Erects Her Own Monumeni. Sue Peters, the colored woman who holds the distinction of being the only person from Sumter to at tend the Paris Exposition, has had her own monument erected in Walk er cemetery. Her monument is in the center of her lot and those of her husband and son stand on eitl?er side of it. The three stones are alike. Sue's husband and only son are both dead and Sue gives her rea son for ha\ing her monument erect ed now as that she knows of many people who accumulated something of this world's goods who did not even have small slabs to their graves. She does not care to leave this mat her to others. On -Sue's monument is this inscrip tion : "Mrs. Sue Peters, wife of Andnew D. Peters and mother of Walter D.. born 1S55. Au earnest Christian, faithful wife and loving mother. The three stones cost about $2,000. Two Native Sons Get Jobs. Claude I. Dawson of Anderson has been appointed by the president to be. consul at Puerto Cortez, Honduras. Mr. Dawson attended school in Wash ington years ago and left the law school there to enlist in the Cuban war. He was secretary to several gov ernment officials in Puerto Rico and has for the past five years been sec retary of the Anderson Traction company. Julius D. Dreher, of Sehvood, for mer consul at Tabaiti, Society Islands, was transferred to Point Antonio, Jamaica. Dispensary Auditor West Resigns. After a service of three years as State dispensary auditor, W. B. West has sent in his resignation to Gov. Ansel. Mr. West has resigned to take the position of chief inspector in the department of agriculture in the enforcement of the pure seed and commercial food stuffs acts. He asked that Iiis resignation take effect on July 1. Col. Edwin R. Cox Resigns. Col Edwin R. Cox, of Darlington, has tendered his resignation as com mander of the Second Regiment, South Carolina National Guard, after a service of twenty years. Col. Cox was first lieutenant of Co. A, Second Regiment, South Carolina volunteers, and was one among the most popular officers"in the regiment. The soldiers will never forget him. Mail in South Carolina. There are in this State 750 rural letter carriers who handle 100,000 pieces of mal matter per day, from 354 postoffices. Pellagra Claims Two More Victims. Miss Mary Stelling is the second victim of pellagra to die in Columbia. Miss Stelling died Sunday afternoon. Her case had not been absolutely diagnosed as pellegra at first ?and there were other complications. The ' other death was reported Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Green of Lancaster be ing the victim. Mrs. Green died late Saturday night. Variety of News Briefly Stated. W. W. Ball of Columbia has been appointed a member of the board of trustees of the South Carolina In dustrial school at Florence to take the place of Dr. T. A. Crawford, who resigned. The Florence city council -has let the contract for the erection of the new city jail, which is to cost $6, 750. S. B. Aiken, of Greenville, has been awarded a lieutenancy in the army, which is annually awarded the grad uating class at the Virginia Military institute hy the secretarv of war. The Tri-State Aerie of the Order of Eagles, in Convention at Bruns wick, Ga., decided hereafter to hold but one annual Convention of the three State aeries and the organiza tion perfected was made permanent. The 1911 Convention will be held at Charleston. The Retail Hardware Association of the Carolinas meets in Charles ton, July 12-14. Mr. T. W. Dixon of Charlotte, is secretary and treas urer of the association. Col. J. C. Stribliiur. commander- ! in-chief of the Red Shirt Men, has" issued an order for the reunion to be held in Spartanburg, August 17-18. ! Columbia Bonds Sold. The Columbia city council has ac cepted the offer of e. Baltimore bank ing house for the old city bond issue, 1 amounting to $850,000. Under the ar rangements the banking house will parry Hie issue for one year at G 1-2 per cent. The bonds are'to be retired on July 1, and Unless the present arrangement falls through or a more advantageous effer is received the bonds will, be retired as above stated. WORK FOR CAROLINAS Extracts From Address of Clarence Poe, Editor of The Progressive : Farmer and Gazette, Raleigh, N. C., Before the South Carolina Press Association, Glenn Springs, S. 0., June 14, 1910. Both Carolinas need and must have a larger proportion of white people, The whole South, in fact, is still too sparsely settled. Our eleven South ern States, excluding Texas, support only 16,000,000 people of both races,, and only 10,000,000 white people, whilp the same arc1, in Europe sup ports, over 160,000,000 white people. And it must be remembered that up to a certain point which we shall not reach for centuries yet, and other things being equal, prosperity depends upon density of population. Popula tion makes wealth, provided that it is normally intelligent and efficient. The Sort of Immigration We Need. Of eour?, we do not want the low er-class European immigration. If we can get immigration from England. Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Sweden, etc.,-the countries whose blood has gone to make up our vigor ous American stock-it would be of great help to us. We are all of us such immigrants ourselves or descen dants of such immigrants. From some countries of Southern and Eastern Europe, on the other hand, immigration is of a decidedly lower order and objectionable because of a IQW standard of intelligence and effi ciency. On the very same principle, how ever, immigration of a normal or high standard of intelligence and efficiency is desired. Such immigration can be liad, and ought to be had-in some measure perhaps from our English, Scotch, Dutch, and Irish kinsfolk across the sea-but chiefly from our Northern and Western States. For years now hundreds of thousands of the most enterprising and progressive farmers in the Middle West have been going into Canada with its long hard winters and bitter climate, not only giving up American citizenship, but actually paying two to three times as much for land in that inhospitable region as land of the same fertility commands in the South. We ought to have brought these men to the South. They know our institutions, our language, they are industrious, thrifty, wide-awake, and many of them are of Southern ancestry who should naturally cqme back home. Let's bring them back. Immigration to Solve the Race Problem. If there were no other reason for advocating such immigration from the North and West, I should favor it as our surest deliverance from our race problem. The proportion of ne groes to whites is too large in every Southern State, and my hope is that ultimately the tides of migration and immigration will equalize population until the proportion of negroes in no State will exceed 20 per cent. "We must train the negro;-the more ignor ant he is the greater the burden on the South-but at best the process will be slow, and at present it would probably not be too much to say that in considering our whole population, including our great constructive lead ers and captains of industry, the average negro in the Carolinas in economic worth and efficiency fis only half as useful as the average white man. In other words, in rating gen eral average of efficiency we should put the Avhite man at 100 and the negro at 50, so that a county half white and half negro would have, an average efficiency of 75, or a handi cap of 25 per cent as compared with a county with an exclusive white population of a normal degree of efficiency. , Whether or not the difference is as much as I have indicated, certain it is that the larger the proportion of whites, the higher the average of. ef ficiency, the more prosperous will be our every industry, and the better it will be for every individual citizen, including the negroes themselves. Two Ways to Build Up the Carolinas. There are just two great ways to build up the Carolinas. First and of paramount importance is Education of all our people; and I should only supplement this by putting more ear nest emphasis upon practical educa tion, education that trains for effi ciency, not education suited to the great urban centers cf Europe and the North, but education suited to the needs of a great, awakening agricul tural citizenship such as ours is and must be. And second only to Education, is Immigration. 3,000,000 Instead of 600,000 White South Carolinians. Now let us start rieht-not by seeking immigrants from Southern Europe, but by advertising our re sources to the thrifty, enterprising and Progressive farmers of the North and West-men of our own stock who now only need an invitation to make them come. Emerson was right wher he said that "every man who comes imo a city with anv purchasf.b'r talent or skill in him gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth," and if an ignorant negro* slave in the old davs was worth $1,000. certainly we may assume that a thrifty and in telligent white Westerner, bringing not only himself, but in most cases substantial accumulations as well should he worth man" times as much as an asset to the State. The last census year North Caro lina had only 1.200.000 white people It should have 4.000.000. South Car M The Farmers ! ?lina had less f?an 600,000 whites when it should have 3,000,006-and would then be, even with its 800,000) negroes, only one-third as thiekty 1 settled as ' Massachusetts ! Consider for a moment how much more in fluential our papers would be, how much more important every institu tion in the State would be, how muck more varied would be our industries, how much easier it would be. to get good roads in counties in Which the white population is now too small Vi maintain them, how easv it would be to do?ble the usefulness of our pub lic schools, how quickly we should build railroads in sections which must otherwise remain dormant and back ward for long, long, years how import ant our cities should become and how much more attractive -would be eoun* try life in our thickly settled com? munities, and how much easier it would be to get telephones and water-? works and trolley lines and local ll-? bi aries and all the advantages of twentieth century rural life ! Let us take as our watchword "Ed% ucation and Immigration-Both of the Right Sort." ? Dream of South Carolina's Future*. In the last census v ar 234,062 na tive sons and daughters of Soutii Carolina were living in other States (to say nothing of the million sons, and daughters of South Carolina, emigrants), while South Carolina, had received from other States and count tries only 60,744 settlers. /For seven tv years now our Caro linians have been going West to build up the new States of the great empire. Now let us welcome back their chil dren and neighbors to help us build two great, prosperous and populous Commonwealths, where the masses of the peopled trained to as high stan dards of efficiency as anywhere in the world, shall develop a . symmetrical and well-rounded civilization : & splen did and forcible democracy of traine ed, intelligent and thrifty home? owners from among whom shall come not only a Jefferson and a Marshall* not onlv a James J. -Hill' and. av Thomas A. Edison and a SeamanWLB Knapp, not only men whom all th? nation shall know as leaders in indus try and in public affairs, but poet**" and seers, sculptors and *artists>^? not a Titian at least a Reynolds or a Millet, if not a Michael Angelo- at least a St. Gaudens or a Ward, i? not a Shakespeare at least a Brown ing or a Tennyson, if not a Savona rola, at least some great religious; leader who shall put the church intot vital relations to modern thought and give it a new baptism of spiritual power-all these until our long and tragic years of war and- struggle and rebuilding shall find their fruitage in an outburst of achievement such, as our fathers yearned for, and it ia now our high privilege to help brins ?about. FASHION "NOTES. While most of the coatsteeves a _ long, one also sees elbow-sleeves and no sleeves at1 all, the- sleeves of the blouse supplying sufficiency. Socks of a solid color with' plaid tops will be worn by the small folks? even more extensively than last year. White socks with colored bands, too, will >be in favor ' "Salome" is a fabric in great favor for gowns, and has just enough o? the uneven threads to give distinc tion, and lustre dull enough to be cor rect.. It drapes beautifully. Anything that is draped is fashion able. Tulle and Irish lace are frequently* combined. \ Fewer turbans are seen as the sea son advances. The latest hosiery shows more elab orate patterns. Jabots of net and lace are often, stenciled in color. Most of the new tailored Suits have long plain sleeves. V Pendants and brooches In empira designs are favorite ornaments. Sleeveless coats of lace and chiffon are a feature of the season's modes. Deep 'blue that is almost " black is a much favored color for* gowns and. hats. .Sleeves of the new models of blouses and dresses show fullness at the elbow. The fascinating striped wash silks of the season' are as serviceable aa pretty. Some of th? new linen frocks are embroidered in Japanese colors and -lesigns. Linen suits are in old blue, mus tard, raisiu, brown, green, catawba and lavender. For evening wear there is a return of colored Irish lace, dyed to match, the gown. In spite of the chantecler vogue? flowers were never more promiaenfc in millinery. The chantecler pump has a- high, heel and a decorative narrow toe. It is unusually arched. Cypress green, pewter gray and Si delicate fawn shade are soft tints that ?re popular. [ IMPROVISED KTNDL3NT1. If the kindling box shows a yawn ing cavity at the moment when taa family calls for a grate fire in the li brary, it isn't necessary to despair A go~d iblaze can be started without a bit of wood. Just take a sheet ot newspaper, fold it crosswise, spread a little fat on it, then fold into a bani: a few inches wide and make into a little roll around the hand. Maki twa or three of these rolls, tuck then? in the bottom of the grate, surround them with small knobs of coal and touch with a lighted match. In a few moments there will be a good, strong blazing fire-New York Tribune. & BYRD Wejreprcsent the Bes* & 8YHD> Bank of Edgefiel?