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The world from the darknes
Swung into the light of th?
Each actor at once advance!
And the play was
From*the heights ot heaven,
Onlookers follow the dran
But how it will end. is then
Shall Bight or shall Wron
Receive, when emerging fror
The final applause when tl
Tragedy, anywav, howe'er it
And the Play goes
Arrayed for battle, vast anr
With pomp and splendor,
Moans of the downtrodden i
Groans of the serf and th?
Still tyrannical might and tl
Still the rich oppress, as ii
Still the poor are grinding ii
And the Play goes
The cynic goes by with his si
The fool sells Hs soul for ;
Men love and men hate: ane
Over hearts that ure break
There are births, there are c
Go down to the vale, wher
There is joy by the cradle ai
And "the Play goes
And ever the watchers will ]
While the wonderful drams
Till the curtain fulls and thc
And the plajr is do
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"It's no use talking," said Mrs.
. Glenfield, energetically. "Poor? Yes,
I dare say he's poor; but so am 1
poor. I need the money for my rent,
ana this is six weeks he's behind. Go
to his room, Ernestine, and take the
"bill; it's high time the money was
paid."
Mrs. Glenfield was a sharp-nosed,
'Jong-featured matron, whose face,
originally pleasant enough, had
grown sharp and acid with years of
weary struggling to make both ends
meet. A wido- who keeps a New
York boarding house has plenty of
'opportunity to look on the shady
side of things, and Mrs. Glenfield,
somehow, found herself growing mis
anthropical as she grew older.
Ernestine, her eldest daughter,
took the proffered slip cf paper,
somewhat reluctantly, and went slow
ly upstairs with it.
She was a slight, small creature,
with bright brown eyes, hair of soft
chestnut hue, and arch, pretty fea
tures. If Ernestine Glenfield had
been the petted daughter of a rich
man, her natural advantages set off
hy swan's-down, silk and jewels, the
world would have pronounced her a
beauty. As it "was, with fate and for
tune against her, she even was re
"murkably pretty.
I She knocked softly at Mr. Hamey's
door, and a dejected voice answered:
"Come in." .
Ernestine pushed open the door
and entered. .*
Wallace Harney sat at the dingily
coiered table, his head resting on his
^fflra^r^ThTliandful of sullen-look
ing red coal glowed like ? vindictive
eye from the socket of the grate. A
pile of papers, loosely tied together,
lay on the tahle, close to his hand,
with an open not?, containing the
"respectfully declined" of some great
' publisher, who had never taken the
trouble to read Wallace Hamey's
carefully written manuscript. .
Mr. Harney was a young man, prob
ably thirty years of age, but he felt
much older. He had been fighting
destiny all his life, and up to the
present moment he had had the worst
of the encounter. No wonder that he
felt almost inclined to despair.
Hb staVted up, however, at the
light sound of Ernestine's footsteps
on the worn carpet.
? -Miss Glenfield!"
"You used to call me Ernestine,"
she said,.half laughing. -What makes
you ?0 ceremonious now?"
"I don't know," he said, vaguely,
pushing the damp hair from his hot
forehead. "Did -you want anything
of .me?"
Ernestine colored and hesitated
then she laid the bill on the table
close to the inexorable editor's note.
Wallace Hamey saw it, and his cheek
grew as scarlet as her own.
"Mamma wishes-that is, she
i hopes-"j hesitated poor Ernestine,
who was a very bad hand at deceiv
ing.
"I see," said Mr. Hamey, " 'your
money or your life'-that is the fash
ionable formula nowadays. But if
you happen to liave no money, what
then?"
"I-I am very sorry," said Er
nestine, meekly.
\ "I do not know why you should
be," said Mr. Harney. "It is six
weeks since I have paid your mother
anything, but it is not bocause I have
not been working hard. "
"Mamma's rent came due last
week," said Ernestine, feeling as if
every drop of blood in her body were
turned to liquid fire, "and-oh, Mr.
,Harney, I am so sorry!"
The last words broke from her
lips as she saw the pained look of
mortification in the young author's
face. Involuntarily she put her hand
in her pocket, and drew out a rustling
twenty-dollar bill.
"Uncle Jason gave it to mc for a
new dress," she said, "but my old one
is good yet-black silk always looks
well, you know, no matter how long
^jbu have worn it. Please, please, Mr.
gHarnoy, take it."
gi .'He pushed away her soft little hand
g&lmost Irritably.
"Ernestine!" he cried, passionate
ly, "I am not yet fallen so low as to
giake your little capital."
%;-"But you will pay me back some
may," she'urged, sill holding out the
: bill.
"I would rather not risk it."
"Then let me give it to you. Oh,
Mr. Hamey, please!"
ijj?.-'He looked up in her face with a
sardonic sor: of iauyh-the soft, pity
ing light in her eyes seemed to strike
j$ new chord in his heart.
'I will not take it, Ernestine; but,
ieve me, it has done me just as
ich good as if I had spent it all.
si! your mother I cannot pay her
I, hit zhe is welcome to my. poor
belongings here. They will se!1. Irv
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s and depths of space
i ??ew-made dawc^
i to his place,
on.
from the pits of hell,
ia of Life;
? one can tell?
g, from turmoil and strife
ti death struggle throes,
be fight is won?
goes;
on.
lies pass by;
proud nations appear;
?ise to the sky. .
. slave smite the ear,
ie lust of spoil;
i ages gone;
ri mills of toil,
on.
cornful sneer;
ii bauble to wearf
els weep, devils jeer
ing with shame or despair,
leaths: the knight and the knave
e the dank graves yawn;
id grief by the grave,
on.
nope qr doubt,
i of Life goes on,
! lights arc out,
ne.
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something/at least, when I am gone.
"Mr.1 Harney," cried Ernestine,
looking up with wistful surprise,
"you are not going away?"
"Yes."
-Where?"
"To the river, the railroad track,
any lonely, desolate place, where I
can end a life that has hitherto been
of no use to myself or any one else,
that I can see "
"And leave me?"
"Ernestine, it cannot be possible
that you care for me."
"Eut I do, Wallace," she owned,
half laughing, half embarrassed.
"NOT/ take my advice; it may be
worth something, even though I am
nothing but a girl. Wait a little
longer, trust in Providence, and re
member that there is one, at least,
who cares for you."
"Ernestine, my little darling. But
it is of no use," he faltered, dropping
the soft palm he had taken. "Hush!
there is a knock al the door-more
duns, I suppose."
It was a letter which the little er
rand girl threw into the room as if
she too, fully appreciated Mr. Har
ney's social and financial status in
the establishment.
"Miss Tiny," she cried, tartly, as
she did so, "your ma wants you to
come right down stairs d'reckly."
But Ernestine, for once in her life
disrespectful of the maternal behest,
stooped to pick up the letter and hand
lt to Mr. Harney before she left the
room. '
"Perhaps it ls good news," she said,
smiling archly, and then went away.
Mrs. Glenfield was all impatience
for her return down stairs; she want
ed to send her to the dressmaker's
about a dress which was to have been
done, and wasn't done. And the con
science-stricken dame of sewing-silk
and scissors sat down at once to put
on the finishing touches, and so it was
quite dark before Ernestine again
reached home.
"What do you suppose has hap
pened?" said Mrs. Glenfield, meeting
her daughter at the door.
"I don't know," said Ernestine.
"Becky has broken another piece out
of the china set, I suppose."
Mrs. Glenfield shook her head.
"Mr. Hacney has gone."
"Gone! Where?"
"The dear knows-I don't. Paid
his bill and gave Biddy a quarter for
herself, over and above. And he has !
gone."
Ernestine's cheeks flamed up, and ?
then grew pale. Gone! after what I
she had owned to him that very morn- j
ing. Gone! without leaving any fare- !
well word or message for her! Well, j
it served her right for so far forget- j
ting her womanly reserve and maid
enly dignity as she had done. And
poor littlo Ernestine went moping:
about the house for a day or two,1
looking the mere shadow of her for
mer self.
At the end of three days Mr. Har
ney came back.
"Are you glad to sec me, Er
nestine?"
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"I don't know," the little damstl
answered, demurely. "I dare say
mamma will be very happy to hear
how you are getting on."
."I should like to see her," said Mr.
Harney, and Ernestine went to call
Mrs. Glenfield.
"I have come to ask a great favor
cf you, madam," he said, as the worn
looking boarding house keeper came
into the room.
Mrs. Glenfield shrank into herself,
a3 it were.
"If it's lending money-" she be
gan, rather dubiously.
"But it is not,'* said Mrs. Harney,
with an amused sparkle in his eyes.
"'lt is a much greater favor than that.
I want you to give me your daughter,
Mrs. Glenfield."
"But you can't support her," quoth
the downright widow.
"I can, if two hundred thousand
dellars will do it. I have a brown
stone house ready to receive her, and
you, too, if you will honor us by being
our guest."
Mrs. Glenfield stan d at her visitor
as if he were speaking the Sanscrit
language. Ernestine uttered a little
cry of astonishment.
"It is true," Mr. Harney smilingly
asserted, turning to the girl. "You
remember that letter you gave me?
It was the legal notification of the
death of a distant relative, whose
very existence I was almost unaware
of. I was his only heir, and his de
c??.se has made me, all of a sudden,
a wealthy man. Ernestine, you owned
that you loved me, when I was a poor
man; you will not withdraw your j
precious heart now that I am unex
pectedly rich?"
And what did Ernestine answer?
We leave the reader to guess. But
Mrsi. Glenfield's boarding house was
closed at once, and the pearl of Er
nestine's beauty is properly set at !
last.-New York Weekly.
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Seattle is reducing its steep hills.
When the work planned is com
pleted 34,000,000 cubic yards of ma
terial will have been removed. Hy
draulic sluicing is the method em
ployed.
Reinforced concrete continues to
widen the range of it3 application.
The Western railroads are preparing
to build this summer long stretches
of reinforced concrete sheds. Theso
will not only te stronger than the
present timber structures, but they
will he entirely safe from the menace
of fire.-Scientific American.
A new inflammable celluloid has
been patented by Professor A. Gau
tier. The chief feature of the pro
cess is the employment of an ether
silicate instead of pure ether, which
is ordinarily used with alcohol as the
solvent in the agglutination of nitro
cellulose fibers by means of camphor,
-Scientific American.
The University of Paris and the
Pasteur Institute have been author
ized to conduct jointly a laboratory
of radio-activity located in Paris.
This itew^ laboratory will be divided
into two sections, one of which is re
served for scientific researches under
the direction of Madame Curie, while
the otaer will be devoted to medical
applications of radio-activity, and is,
placed under the direction of the Pas
teur Institute.-Scientific American.
The conditions under which a
street lamp should prove its efficiency
are very different from those which
govern the indoor lamp. This was
brought out clearly in a recent ad
dress before the New York Section of
the Illuminating Engineering Society
by Dr. Clayton H. Sharp. He pointed
out that while in the building it is
advantageous to have much of the
light ol! a lamp pass upward and be
reflected by the ceiling, in the cas?'bf
a stree; lamp this would be a great
fault, for the vertical rays would be
lost. Only those rays that are cast
directly downward and horizontally
up and down the street can be util
ized. For this reason he has devised
a reflector consisting of a pair of par
abolic mirrors arranged to throw tho
rays in the direction of the street, so
that practically all of the light will
be used to best advantage. Thus, In
place o? having the street lighted in
spots, as is now the case, a more
contluous Illumination is provided.
Scientific American.
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RLES E. HUGHES.
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decide whether the Standard
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more than a year the great
raiting for the Court's decision
; they can safely determine
kward in creating new trusts
in existence.
Elmira. N. Y., on October 23,
?d clearly and pointedly where
:s. He said: ,
ag which will Interfere with
want anything which will in
give opportunities for labor.
Beult for men to find employ
we do want to make it difficult
o unite together and prevent
'cetly fair and just treatment.
: in business.
let. I nm against the unfair
are deprived of their chance to
ndependents have a hard time
3 policy that has been adopted
ible for secret agreements, for
ix to put down the independent
oking at things in this world,
.ou can deprive your neighbor
er in for your own enrichment
people down by grasping and
: drop of blood you can get out
is a very poor way. The other
a the notion that if you have
run a business, if you have
rprise and make it successful,
sat matter, why all the greater
DU because of the great oppor
fellow mer.
in the world. We cannot split
ry. We have to go up or we
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SAFE AND SANE Fi
Cig Decrease in Casualties in Unite
Observance of the Day-La
injured by Fireworks and
Chicago.-The value o? a'sensible
and restrained observance of the
Fourth has again been demostraied
by the casualty list of this year's .cele
bration. In almost every city and
town where the sale and explosion of
fireworks were prohibited or restrict
ed there has been a decided falling
off in the number of deaths and .in
jured, compared with previous years!
This year's list of dead .throughout
the country, so far as reported, is 24.
Last year the total was 44. The
whole number of injured last year
was 2361. This year there were only
12 94. These figures show enormous
conservation, not. only in human Hie.
but less injuries to arms, ears and
WOULD ABOLI
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David Starr Jordon Ranks Game \
National Educational Association
to Excel at Such Sport-Fav<
Boston.-David Star Jordan, presi
dent of Leland Stanford University,
declared In an address before the
! American Educational Association that
football as played by the athletes of
American universities ls a combina
I tion of the elements of pure brutality
I and pugilism. He said that the worst
feature of the athletic life of the mod
ern college is the love of the sordid,
the same love of the sordid, he said,
that compelled the interest of nearly
the entire country to focus itself upon
a ring away, out ju. far Nevada, where
a black man and a white man were
pounding each other.
"Some day," said President Jor
dan, "the college presidents and
behool heads of this country will per
haps be called cowardly and brutal
because they did not put a stop to the
dangers of football, a sport that de
IF YOU FLIRT ON THE STREET
WILL HEAR FROM Tr
Baltimore, Md.-The Woman Spl-.
frage Club, of Baltimore, intends to
put an end to all street flirtations, to
keep many of the young people who
swarm the streets at night at home,
and to prevent any behavior that is
not decorous and mannerly by older
men and women.
A committee from the club called
?noon the State's Attorney and asked
his advice and co-operation.
The State's Attorney will be ap
pealed to particularly to discover if
lt is possible to appoint women as
sistants to the police officers at the
suburban resorts abd on che down
town streets, whose duty will be to
look after street moral?.
\ When the suffragists appealed to
the police board recently to secure the
appointment of-women policemen at
the resorts the board declared euch
action not within its power, as the
resorts were outside of the city limits.
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NO POSTAL BANKS THIS YEAR.
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Plans to Be Taken Up With Presiaent
Taft at Beverly.
Washington, D. C.-Such meetings
of the Board of Trustees of the pro
jected postal savings banlrs as are
held during the summer will take
place at Beverly. This has been
agreed upon by the three members,
Postmaster-General Hitchcock, Secre
tary of the Treasury MacVeagh and
Attorney-General Wickersham.
The organization of postal banks
has been informally discussed by
members of the board, but no plans
will be made for putting them into
operation until the board has had an
opportunity to ' talk over the matter
with the President. It' Is not be
lieved that the first of the postal
banks can be opened this year.
Will Abandon "Biblical Fables."
Chicago.-The rise of a new type
of Christianity is heralded in the cur'
rent number of the Biblical World, or
gan of the University of Chicago Di
vinity School. It will be ethical, sci
entific, social and' altruistic. Biblical
fables and stories that conflict with
scientific truth are to be abandoned.
His Broken Neck Set by
a Bloodless Operation.
Columbus, Ohio.-By a bloodless
surgical operation Jack Bowers, a coal
miner, of Nelsonville. 0., was relieved
of an injury to his heck involving
both dislocation of vertebrae and frac
ture, suffered three weeks ago. Un
der an anaesthetic, the vertebrae were
restored-to their proper relations by
hand manipulation and the head
strapped ri. idly In a normal position.
Bowers stood the operation well and j
an hour later was talking and laugh
ing. I
Feminine Notes.
Mr. ami Mrs. Roosevelt took lunch
eon with King George and Queen
Mary at Marlborough House.
The skirt which fetters women at
the ankles ls denounced by leading
artists in Paris as unsightly and de
forming. .' ,
A canvass of New York clubwomen'
revealed a strong opposition to tho
Cincinnati plan to abolish kissing as
unbealthiul. . lJ . *iJ
Miss Ellen Emerson, granddaugh
ter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ls a
trained nurse in the Massachusetts
aonorai Hosnital in Boston.
KNOCKOUT.
bnpD?B sf?j .Viii ?-.-ro-Jt ?ssir^ji?
)on by Mucauley, ia, the New York World. . .
OURTH A SUCCESS.
id States as a Result of Restrained
ist Year Dead Total 44-650
1108 by Cannon This Year.
. eyes, which are so frequently the bat
tered targets of destructible explo
sives.
Casualties in Chicago and its sub?
urbs showed a remarkable diminu
tion from the number a year ago. On?
death, due to the accidental discharge
of a pistol, was reported, although
the day;s celebration must also.be
d?bited with a second death that re
sulted June 21 last from a riflo
wound, self-inflicted, while a boy waa
clearing a small rifle. .
Of the injured thl6 year 650 were
hurt b;- fireworks, 10S by cannon, 178
by firearms, 69 by torpedoes and 97.
by toy pistols.
I The fire loss wa? $317,815.
ISli FOOTBALL.
Vitt Pugilism-Declares Befpre. the
That No Intelligence is Required
irs the English Football Game.
stroys the best there is in American
youth.
"No intelligence is require* In tho
game of football. Blacksmiths and
boilermakers can play the game as
well as men of finer Intellect; in fact,
blacksmiths and boilermakers are
considered the best raw material for
the game."
The remarks of President Jordan
were called forth by the preceding ad
dress delivered by Clark W. Hether
ington, physical director of the Uni
versity of Missouri and himself a
Stanford graduate, who had deliv
ered an eloquent appeal for the exten
sion, of athletics in American colleges
and had defended football as the
greatest of intercollegiate sports.
Dr; Jordan favored the. entire abo
lition of football as played and'the
substitution of the English game.
IN BALTIMORE YOU
IE ASSISTANT LADY POLICEMAN
JNpw State's Attorney Owens will be
asked for aid, and if he declares that
the appointments are impossible the
women will wait until the next legis
lative session, when a bill will be
framed providing for the appointment
of the women assistants to the police.
Meanwhile many of the suffragists
will;appoint themselves unofficial po
licemen and will look out for the
conduct of the people on the streets.
Mrs. Emma Maddox Funk, the presi
dent of the club, says:
"We are not planning this cam
paign because we feel that the police
men are lax in their duty, but we
think that there ls much to be done
for morality that the police have not
time to bother about. If we succeed
in getting women assistants to the
police to do duty on the downtown
streets and at the resorts then we will
feel that we have accomplished some?
thing worth while."
BOY AND GIRL DROWNED.
In Rowboat at Midnight When It Cap
sized Near Stony Brook.
Stony Brook, L. I.-The. capsizing
of a rowboat at midnight caused the
death by drowning of Miss Eugenia
Fitzgibbons, twenty, and Leroy Nor
ton, eighteen. Two other young men
who were with them in the boat strug
gled ashore.
Miss Fitzgibbons was the daughter
of Mr', and Mrs. John Fitzgibbons.
Norton was the son of Mrs. Winfield
Norton, a widow.
The two young men who saved
themselves hurried to where. some
guests still llagered at a beach party
given by Miss .Bessie Hawkins and
gave the alarm.. Many hurried to the
creek and after repeated efforts re
covered the body of Norton.
Government to Ran Model Farm.
Washington, D. C.-Modern meth
ods of handling dairy products will be 1
exemplified by the Department' of (
Agriculture on a farm ol 475 acres,
near Beltsville, Md., a few miles
north of this city. It is stated that a i
herd of milch goats will be bred on (
the farm, besides other dairy stock.
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I Aviator Crawls Out Fron? Under .
Wreckage of Macliine Unhnrt. (
Pittsburg, Kan.-Arch Moxsey, in 'i
j a Wright biplane, dived almost (
straight downward from a height of a
hundred feet here after his engine .
had gone dead. The machine was de- .
mollshed, but Moxsey crawled from a 1
mass of planes and wires unhurt.
Moxsey was soaring along evenly
at a height of 500 feet when his ;
motor stopped. Moxsey. tilted his ]
planes and floated dowu.. When one ?
of the plane stays gave way the ma? ,
china crashod to earth.
Newsy Gleanings.
The Fourth was observed In all the
large European capitals.
Great anti-clerical demonstrations 1
were made in Madrid and other Span- <
ish cities. 1
The first Dental Hygiene Confer- <
ence and Exhibit was held in New I
York City. . i
At the International Railway Con- j
gress at Berne fifteen hundred dele- |
gates were present.
Report? from various cities showed
a decreased number of casualties, due
to a "safe and sane" celebration of 1
the Fourth, ' ?
INTERESTING STATE NEWS
Column of Current Events Caught
in Every County From Goa.it to
Mountain Oap.
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Colored Fair for Aiken County.
A movement is on foot to organize
a colored ' fair association in Aiken
county. It is the purpose of the pro
moters .of the. scheme to hold a fair
just after the Aiken county fair. The
consent of the directors of the Aiken
county fair, has been secured,, and it
is probable that the colored fair will
be held. Those hehiud the scheme
are: F. A. Peters of Gr?niteville; W.
T. Kenner,of Ridge Spring and E.'
G. Hay of Aiken, all of whom are
sturdy colored citizens, who h?ve the,
respect .'and ;support of the white peo
ple. '': ' ; '' . . -, -' t j g
They , are attempting to organize, a
colored fair association with a capi
tal of ..$1,000.' :
' ' ' " Another Mill for Laurens.
- Application has been made to- the
secretary' of state foi- a commission
under which will' be organized a com
pany for the purpose, of building a
new ? cotton- mill in Laurens. The
corporation will be capitalized at
$400,000 and it is proposed to break
dirt for the erection of the plant as
early as practicable after complying
with formalities incident to effect
ing the organization of the company.
What Amount is Income Tax?
Comptroller General Jones will,
within the next two weeks, call upon
the county auditors of the State for
a report on the income tax returns.
The total amount received as income
taxes b.V the Statevfrom last year was
$?6,236.57 which was double the
amount received during; ?the] year
1908.
In 1898 the income taxes amount
ed to $G,890.?o ; 1899, $4,829.63 r 1900,
$975.37; 1901; $609.22; 1902, $292.08;
1903, $1,476.74; 1904, $1,281.26; 1905,
$2,130.61; 1906, $12,201.42; 1907,.
$10,687.34, and 1908, $8,431.52. The
total amount received since the law
went into effect is $66,042.31.
Opinion Wanted on Fertilizer Act.
Attorney'General Lyon'has'been re
quested by the fertilizer department
of Clemson college to give his inter
pretation of the act passed at the last
session of the general 'assembly re
quiring that every package of com
mercial fertlizer or fertilizing ma
terials sold or offered for sale in.the
State"shall.contain either 100 pounds,
or 200 pounds each and that' the'
weight be plainly printed on the pack
age. The penalty for violation of the
act is a fine of $10 for each package
and imprisonment not to exceed 30
days. The opinion will be given by
Attorney General lyon during the
present week.
Insurance Agents Put on Guard.
A number i of charges of rebating
by insurance agents have been filed
with' the insurance department from
various- sections of the State! Insur
ance Commissioner McMaster has
taken' the charges under considera
tion and will-make <a thorough h>
vestigation. He recently issued a cir
cular letter relative to rebates by in
surance agents.. The circular explain
ed the law and penalty. Should an
agent of any insurance company do
ing business in South Carolina 1 be
found guilty of rebating his license
will be revoked.
The case against an insurance
agency | in Columbia for over-insur
ance on property will be heard by Mr.
McMaster on July 23.
New South Carolina Industries.
Among the nsw industries in South
Carolina, the following are noted in
the Tradesman:
Anderson-Automobile company.
Chester-$10,000 automobile com
pany- ' I M
Need Men for Government Jobs.
It was announced at Washington
by the civil sen-ice commission that
at the following' places,'on the fol
lowing dates,. examinations would be
held in South Carolina to fill vacan
cies in the Government sen-ice: An
derson, September 14; Charleston,
October ll, September 14, October 12;
Columbia, October 12, September 14,
October 12; Greenville, October 13,
September 14, October 12.
Congressional Names on Ticket, j
The official list of the candidates
for congress has been addressed to
the county chairman of the Demo
sratic party bf the State by Gen..
Wylie Jones, the State chairman, call
ing attention to the fact that the
?ames of candidates for congress in
primary elections shall be put on the
county primary tickets. The matter
sf arranging-and having printed the
county primary tickets is left to the
county chairman.
Killed hy a Mosquito.
Miss Muriel Weston,, sixteen years
Did, daughter of Thomas P. Weston,
Hed at Alexandria,'Va., as a result
Df being bitten hy a mosquito.
While in her yard, Miss Weston
ivas bitton on her chili, j A few days
later a boil developed and the young
Lvoinan suffered considerable pain.
Physicians decided that an operation
ivould bo necessary.-.. The place ton
lier chin had become infected, which
resulted in blood poisoning. She is
i native of Congaree.
Another New County Wanted!
Gov. Ansel has received a letter
from Augusta, in which it was stated
that the commission recently appoint
ed in the matter of the proposition to
?stablish Heyward county had been
jrganized and that S. B. Mays had
been named as. secretary of the com
mission with L. J. Williams,-former
chairman of the old State dispensary
beard, as ohairmau of the commission.
The new county would be formed
3ut of parts of ridgefield and Aiken
counties, with North Augusta as
sountv seat.
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:reanr-.-of ?fee N?ws? Gathered Ftont sieso!
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All Sections of tne CommonwealU
For Our Many Be*??!0*?51
r? 0 cJrmooeiQ boa 8naoJ
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?. ; Magnificent Job for M^./Wsvlio?Wn?a
Col. E. J. Watsor?fJ^g^^^ ?Da
af; Agriculture of South CaroiinapanuD
who addressed the South C^rp^n^ ^jjg
Cotton Seed Crushers' Associatio^^fcjfo^rfj
Wrightsville Beach, announced that;
ie had been tendered an important
post by the national government, a
?ewly created position that will take:,
jne to various parts of the world 'toV7:^1^
exploit American manufactures,." tte an'?-"
work is in line with that he has been'i
loing for South Carolina; though onV -'p,,
i more extensive scale. Colonel WafcO ot
son was called to Washington one day '.Vr.<\
last week 'and found that his nam?
bad been suggested in connection
with the new: position recently, de- ? 3
termined upon by the Cabinet.,-, fi '
The position is one of. the , most.
attractive in the gift of the govern- 9?W3?0
ment at : a salary larg. than, the/.:4".!^
governors of the States, save . ten, lia? io
and, in effect, better perhaps than
that of United States Senator. It is
understood that the salary ' exceeds.
?5,000 a year with expenses in addi
tion.
Colonel Watson stated that the oD
duties would be in the nature of those
of a special representative of the
Washington government and of a
purely constructive and non-political
character, being, the execution of a
recently developed determination on -
:the part of the government to push
with especial vigor American trade
and commerce into the fartherest' *
sections of the world. The person. 1
discharging the duties will have the '"
world as a field, first for some years
in the Orient, China/ Japan and
Mongolia, and then to South Africa,
and other countries. .The duties
would be such as to enable one to
accomplish1 much for the textile in- '.'
dustry of the South as well as of the
country at large, and perhaps to do a
great deal in all matters pertaining
to cotton-. . rf JO', baa ' - :
Colonel Watson is given reasonable
time to decide whether or not he will
accept the position.
Gen. Teague for Commander U. C. V. ... (^
At a meeting of Camp Hevward,
Nb. 462, U. C. V., held at Walterboro,
its delegates elected to the State Ber;
union were instructed to vote first,
last and all the time, for Gen. B. IL
Teague for division commander, .as ' : ? ,
the- proper and : logical successor; in I
military parlance, "to' pur greatly-?sH'\ l
teemed friends and commander,'Gen.'
Zimmerman Davis."
To Vote on Slicing Oconee.
Gov. Ansel has ordered an election
to be held on September 15, on the.,
proposition of annexing a portion of .;
Oconee county to Anderson county. 0
Clemson college is located within the -
territory ?which ii is proposed to .
annex to Anderson county. This ac
tion of Gov. Ansel followed a pe
tition filed with him and the report
of the commissioners appointed to
make an investigation.
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Columbia Undertaker is Punished.
The special committee of the South
Carolina Funeral Directors and Em
balmers' Association, found D. P.
Collicut, a Columbia . undertaker, - ?
guilty of violating the code of ethics
of the Association in?advertising'
prices in the newspapers and of **un- 'M<
professional conduct."- He was fined
$10. on the first charge and the second
charge was held open....
Daniels Dispensary Auditor.
J. Mortimer Daniels, -of Columbia .
has been appointed as dispensary
auditor succeed W. B. West, who
resigned to accept a position in the
Agricultural Department.
Hard Examination for Pharmacists.
Of the 32 young men taking the
examination before the State phar
maceutical board, at Spartanburg,
only 17 passed.
Cotton Seed Crushers Fine Meeting.
The South Carolina Cottonseed
Crushers' association completed its
annual .meeting at Wrightsville
Beach, N. C., with the election of
officers for the ensuing year and the
indorsement of the North Carolina
association's legislative suggestion
presented through W. ?. Reynolds of
Charlotte, rounding out a very profi
table session and laying she ground
work for a future policy of co
operation which is expected- to be
of much benefit to'the members of
the organization and to South Caro
lina farming and manufacturing in
dustries.
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Florence to Eave $200,00 Mill.
.The books of subscription to the" " "
Florence cotton mills, ' have been,- .
opened.' The proposed stock is $200j
000, of which about half is already
in sight and the rest'ean be raised
with very little trouble. All bf the
moneyed men of the city are inter
ested and are subscribing to the *
stock and many of the wealthy farm- - ?
ers have expressed interest in it, as - .' ?
well as bankers from Timmonsville
and other points in the county.
Farmers' Union to Open Bank.
A resolution was adopted at a
meeting of the Colleton County Farm
ers' union looking to the establish
ment of a banking institution for the ':.{
union. The committee appointed
under the resolution consists of Jas.
E..Peurifoy. chairman; L; C. Padgett Sj
and J. D. Risher. It is the purpose
of tliis.committee to begin at once the .
work of perfecting the organization
and getting everything in readiness
to open thc bank by September 15.