Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IRisccllanrous grading. , TRAVELS OF A JOKE. Once Started Men Steal Them and Pass Them as Their Own. If Solomon had not "slept with the fathers"?Holy Writ style of saying that a man was dead?and had continued to ladle out his wisdom to the generation now in business or on vacation he might still be writing or rewriting or thinking of that paragraph somewhere in the first chapter of Bcclesiastes, towit: "The thing that hath been, it is that shall be. There is no new thing under the sun." And Solomon wrote this when he had seen a whole lot. It was at the close of his splendid and eventful career as monarch of Israel. If still living, and if he read the "funny" departments of the publications of the day?dailies, weeklies, monthlies agd quarterlies?he would probably add "especially in jokes." Dearly beloved, as the minister fre- 1 quently begins the announcement of ' his text, this will not be a sermon, ar- ' tide or essay on the antiquity of any one Joke or bunch of jokes, rearranged, reconstructed or refurnished and sold at schedule rates. It is a story of a story, its origin and travels and of its reappearance to the man who created it as he made pil- 1 grimages up and down this verdant 1 earth. A traveling correspondent of a really 1 great newspaper was returning from a 1 journey that had taken him far from the home office. By some slip he had failed to connect with a through train on the Chicago and Northwestern rail- ' road. He boarded the next train, 1 which was some sort of a local mix-up 1 with a chair car attachment. The engineer was doing his best to make good a lot of lost time. The correspondent was hungry. He 1 had traveled over the line many times ! and knew that there was an eating 1 house at the station not far ahead. In 1 a moment of near-starvation he hailed ' the sable whlskbroom wielder, who was even then in a state of gleeful an- ' ticipation of the time when he would ' reduce the funds of the lone occupant 1 of the coach. 1 "Does this train stop at Harvard?" 1 gasped the solitary traveler. "No, sah, she don't even hesitate." ' The answer was as quick as the powder flash that makes a snapshot 1 saleable. It was a hair-trigger return. ' Its originality was not debatable. The 1 ebony grafter didn't know it, but he started something that beat Puck's scheme of putting a girdle round about the earth without, of course, any ex- ' pectation of beating Puck's proposed ' time. 1 This story started ever so many years ago. The correspondent put his head against the toweled rest of the chair and closed his eyes. The Sene- 1 gambian reply stuck in his brain like a 1 feather in a bucket of tar. It appeared in the next Sunday issue of the corre- ' spondent's paper. It hit the town, and a big city it was as far back as that?Chicago. Before night the story was read and told in hotels and clubs. Did you ever hear of Billy Mason, a United States senator from Illinois? He was familiarly called Billy before he ? * Vi'v *r\tTO Qrvf? It Rtirks to him. J'Ul Uli l?c kVQU, uuw >. He caught a good story quicker than the champion behind the bat. He knew such a story on sight, and when he repeated it you thought it was original with him. He took this Senegambian story as a fish takes the fly. Or as a woodpecker surprises a worm. The story got another send-off in a Washington newspaper. The paragraph began "Senator Billy Mason, of Illinois, while in the cloakroom today told a new story." Then followed the Senegambian reply, and of course. Senator Mason was the traveler to whom the reply was made. The correspondent was hurried to Galveston, Texas. While waiting for his johnnycake for breakfast he looked over a morning print of the city. I" read that "Representative Bailey (ht was not then senator) arrived in the city last night from Washington. He got here twelve hours sooner xnan ne expected because his train did not 'hesitate.'" Then the story as told by Representative Bailey, what the porter of his car said to him, etc. The correspondent thought it was about time for him to rope the yarn before it went any further. He elaborated the yarn and rushed it to a New York publication that was then paying five cents "the word" for good original stories. A few weeks later he received a check for $5 and something over, enough to pay exchange. The story was in the first person, singular, and the writer's name was printed at the bottom. He looked at himself in a mirror and his face reminded him of something he had heard about a certain little Jack Horner. He reckoned that he had that story lashed to the mast at last. Something happened in Philadelphia and he was sent there to unravel such an unusual thing. It was the day of Mr. Bok's publication of that wonder ful mix of high-brow fiction, layouts or lingeries and stories of Famous People. The story of a colored porter of a Pullman "sleeper,' as related by Senator Depew. was the Abou Ben Adem of the page. The correspondent chanced to look at a calendar. It was the day before New Year. He sat downand wrote his ? " - -U?n nmnrrnvv* nnf Wlie: 1 anuii sniai vu IVNU..V.., .... to drink any more, for drink I never do. but never again to make a funny story. I can't run counter to Chauncey Depew. He has kidnaped my first born, and there's no use." A few weeks later he was in Detroit, the city made famous by M. Quad and Mayor Pingree. He read in the Free Press: "Mr.?, the well-known story writer and author of several in dialect, got to town last night. He told the following to the reporter, and it is worth telling, for it is new. Coming into the city on a Michigan Central train, he asked the colored broomist if the train made any stops." Then followed the story that he had started, and which had been credited to Senator Mason, Representative Bailey, and flagged by Chauncey Depew. In 1908 the correspondent was on the road with a lot of spellbinders who were talking for Mr. Taft. One of them was Senator Dolliver, of Iowa. If anybody could tear a page from Joe Miller's book and hand its contents out as "off the bat" it was Dolliver. A night stand was made at a crossroad town in Indiana. Introduction of Dolliver's speech: "Fellow citizens, we were afraid that we would not be here. Some miles back I asked the conductor (not the Senegambian) if his train stopped here and he said' 'Sorry, Senator, but this train don't even hesitate at the town you mention.'" After the meeting' was over, the correspondent asked Senator Dolllver where he got his story. Dolliver told him he got it from Senator Stone, of Missouri and that Stone got it from Jim Sherman and that Sherman stole it from Mark Twain. "You see," said the sly Iowa orator, "the story has quite a pedigree." And the poor correspondent hadn't the "sand" to claim his own progeny. Job Hedges, wit of the New York bar, used it on the road and he got the credit for it for quite a while in the hollar nlata matter sent out by the American Press association. Finally it got on the expurgatorious list and then it was captured or rescued by ! credited to various well-known men. < EGYPTIAN BANKING. Institutions Young, but Numerous and l Prosperous. The banks now operating in Egypt 1 are numerous and without exception 1 very prosperous, says Moody's Magazine. They are of comparatively re- ' cent formation, as previous to 1856 the banking business was quite without 1 organization or efficient direction and < was entirely in the hands of charafTs < (money changers). ' The charaffs reaped large and il- 1 llgitimate profits, as the volume of 1 business handled was enormous and < necessitated the exchange of great ' quantities of gold and silver coins of < different nations. A large class of the ' bill brokers traveled continuously be- < tween the various towns buying and selling foreign exchange bills. < During the time of Mehamet-Ali, who t was Khedive of Egypt from 1799 to < 1841, it was the prevailing custom for < merchants who wished to send money to the interior of the country or to < Syria to deposit it at the moudirich (perfecturs), whence it was trans- 1 mitted through government officials, i ' " ? /% f oomp 1 svnue among meivimms ui uie d?i.v . town or icinity bills of exchange were 1 safely handled and conditions were i safeguarded through their intimate i knowledge of each other by constant 1 intercourse. 1 The original example of what may be called the beginning of the plan for ? -eal banking business in Egypt is found 1 in the scheme of an American by the . name of Alexanian, who, in 1848, was i granted by the Khedive Abbas Pasha l the privilege of utilizing in banking i operations the capital which for many < years had lain idle in the hands of the ' Beid el Mai (a department of the government having custody of the con- i tested inheritances and patrimony of < incompetent persons) upon a basis of 10 per cent annual revenue. The banking operations for the use i of these funds were limited to, first, ] advances to the Khedive and to the government; second, loans to agriculturists; third, discounts of country and I foreign bills of exchange to assist i commerce. But this plan met with the opposition of the Ulema (the pro- 1 'essors of law and religion) who protested against the interest because it ' offended their interpretation of the i paragraph on integrity and honesty in the Koran, by which they explain the meaning of the salary thus: "It is forbidden to loan money at interest because the metal is manufactured by God and God does not accept interest, but it is allowed to loan money on mortgages on any kind of property under the express condition that the borrower shall lose the use of that property during the time of the loan and the sole use of the property shall belong for that time to the lend- , er." The unscrupulous fellahs took advantage of this interpretation of an assumed religious principle and subverted its meaning to suit their own interests and thereby make void their loans and refused to pay them. Alexanian, thus rendered unable to fulfil his engagements, was imprisoned and did not regain his liberty until released by the succeeding Khedive, Said Pasha, who also restored to him a part of his own fortune. The most powerful of all the banking institutions in Egypt is the National Bank of Egypt, established June 25, 1896. It is the only depository bank of the government, also of the Sudan and of the international courts, known as the Mixed Tribunals. It controls the privelege of the issue of paper money for fifty years, from 1898 to 1948, which is secured by the deposit of 50 per cent of the issue in gold coin in its vaults and 50 per cent In securities, whose value is taken at par and which must be acceptable to the government. KILLED WHALE IN RIVER. Monster Stranded on Bar Is Attacked by Japanese. An extraordinary event is reported from Sin Anju, a railway town in north Pyong-an province, in the Seoul Press. About noon when the tide was high, villagers at Wangnong Li, Tong Kyon, in the Kasan district (of the same province) were amazed to see a big black object swimming in the River Tailyong, running near by. They did not know what the monster was and watched its movements with great excitement and interest. Soon after, the monster sent up a column of water and disappeared. On the following morning at about 7 o'clock Tomlzo Tashiro, a Japanese railway linesman in service at Sin Anju station, while patrolling the line, was astonished to see a whale struggling to go down stream at a point about five cho above the railway bridge on the Tailyong river. It was low tide and the water having considerably re ceded the river was only about five feet deep. The whale had evidently stranded on a shallow place and was unable to move. Tashiro was overjoyed to find the unexpected spoil and tried to kill it by firing: at it with a fowling piece he was carrying. He fired at it eighteen times, but the whale seemed to be none the worse in consequence. Tashiro concluded that it would not do to try to kill it in that way and running to the nearest village collected several Koreans told them of his find, and each armed with an axe, they returned to the spot. The whale was still there, the water having further receded. They rushed into the stream and by striking the monster on the head with the axes they at last succeeded in killing it. The whale was about 35 feet in length and was valued at about 1,000 yen. The Aristocratic Montenegrin.?The Bulgarian may not have a liking for domestic service, but he is a born agricultural laborer. According to a recent traveler, if you give him a barren piece of land he will make it blossom like the rose, while his Montenegrin brother will stand and look on. On the other hand, the Montenegrin placed in a drawing room always behaves like a gentleman, while the Bulgarian in the same environment cannot help being a boor. "But then." says the London Chronicle, "it is said the Montenegrins are the descendants of Servian aristocrats who fled to the mountains to seek freedom. The explanation is thin but pleasing. Of one claim to culture however, Montenegro cannot be deprived?she established a printing press at Obod only twenty years after Caxton began his labors, and she printed beautifully. Put the Turks made 'pi' of everything, and the press was not re-established till 1832." ODD CURES FOR INSOMNIA Methods of Getting to Sleep That Have Been Found Effective* A sufferer from insomnia, says Le Temps, retails a number of counsels he has received of which the first comes from the poet M. Leconte, who says: "Open your window wide. Lie with your head as low as possible and you will sleep like a post." Another very well-known man writes: "Accustom yourself to take an hour or two's rest in a deck chair after every meal. Take down from your shelves some old-fashioned novel of which you have an affectionable remembrance as one of the joys of your youth, and read it while you are in your deck chair. The more you are wearied by it the better you will sleep, The secret of a good nigni is nui iu me juuiocu wm the evening, but to idle away the time, to get comfortably bored until the time comes for going to bed. The more your brain is dulled the better night you will have. "An important point, though a difficult one, is to avoid any dread of insomnia. Personally I derive benefit, though it may have Just the opposite affect on another person, from calculating the multiples of 12 or 3 as far as t can go, thus 2?4?8?16?32, etc. Or slse I count elephants; one elephant and one elephant make two elephants, two elephants and one elephant make three elephants; three elephants and one elephant, etc. "Finally, knock off your black coffee, aven your morning cup on rising, and take no meat in the evening. For lunch aat nothing but fruit stewed for prefarence, and for dinner a vegetable soup, vermicelli, mashed potatoes, and one or two biscuits. "If this does not do the trick, as a last heroic remedy put a damp napkin round your head at night covered with a piece of oilskin and tied on with a bandage. Sleep should come in ten minutes. But I look upon this device is calculated in the long run to impede the natural action of the organs of the body." Another of my fellow sufferers recommend's magnetism, which he says has cured him after ten applications. Another writes: "No drugs should be used except in the case of very obstinate insomnia, when it is necessary, at all costs, to get three good nights. No other person should be in the room. The sound of their sleeping is irritating. Smoke very little in the evening and abstain from all stimulants, tea, coffee, grog,* etc. Don't read in bed. If sleep refuses to come get up for a few minutes and occupy yourself with some trifling duties, such as arranging papers, folding up your clothes, wash ing your hands. Don't let business come into your head. Don't mind a slight feeling of chill, and get into bed again at the end of ten or twelve minutes. If in spite of all this sleep re uses to come try reading. But don't read anything lively or interesting. In my own case it is very rare that insomnia does not succumb to two, or three pages of Plato's 'Phaedo.'" TWO FORMS OF CURRENCY Essential Difference Between Bank Notes and Money, The distinction between money, the character and soundness of which is protected by the government regulation, and bank note circulation, which is essentially a part of the credit and exchange system of a country, is explained In an article prepared for the National Citizens' league by J. Laurence Laughlin, professor of political economy in the University of Chicago. "Not infrequently it is said in connection with measures for banking reform, that it is against public policy to allow a monopoly of note issues to an institution formed by private capital; and that the control over money always has been, and always should be, a function of the sovereign state." says Professor Laughlin. "There has been much vague thinking on this topic, which of all others, due to its basic importance, HpmQnHQ nlpurnpatj itpnptrntlnn anrl good sense. "By their very nature, banks are institutions for collecting and loaning capital. So long as capital is necessary to production, banks render an unmistakable service to industry. What kind of a banking system we have is, then, of direct concern, not merely to bankers, but to all borrowers, to producers and labor and an evil system which entails injury always hurts most the man at the bottom. Vast Exchanges Without Money. "Our vast exchanges of goods?valued at billions of dollars?are performed mainly by checks drawn on deposit accounts in banks. We have the gold standard, in which contracts and prices of goods are expressed, and in which our various media of exchange are directly or Indirectly convertible, but gold is seldom used as a medium of exchange. We have gold and silver certificates, greenbacks and national bank notes but the amount of the transactions in goods performed by them is insignificant as compared with those performed by checks drawn on dennnita fWV.%W. "A glance over the totals of the items for all national banks from 1866 to the present day, shows that the increased business of the country has been met, not by any significant increase of the note issues, but by an extraordinary increase of the deposit-currency?i. e., checks drawn on bank deposits. While notes have risen from about 300 million dollars to 700 million dollars, deposits have risen from 600 million dollars to 4,400 million dollars, and the figures for banks outside the national system strengthen this showing, for they issue no notes and provide only deposit currency. 150 Billions Paid With Checks. "The real extent of the use of the deposit currency as a medium of exchange can be approximately seen in the amount of clearings. Transactions to the amount of over 150 billions are performed annually in the United States by the deposit currency as a medium of exchange. In other words, modern business has created methods of exchanging goods by first expressing their worth in dollars; borrowing on their value thus expressed, which accordingly appears in a deposit account to the credit of the borrower, and on which checks are drawn to be used in paying maturing obligations. Thus, goods on the way from the producer 10 the consumer are coined into means of payment. What Government Cannot Do. "The state has passed general legislation about checks just as it has about contracts and the like; it determines when a check is legal, and it looks after forgery and similar acts; but, withir. its supervisory sphere, it leaves the amount and uses of the deposit currency to the laws of trade and experience. And yet, as has been shown, this deposit currency is our principal medium of exchange?which is an admitted function of money In all lands. One point then we must all admit: The evolution of modern business has created media of exchange so connected with private transactions that they cannot, in common sense, be performed by the government. This does not mean that the service should not be supervised by the state; it rrtoano (hot tho sfntp pnnnnt in nnv practical sense, directly perform the service itself. "If the government should not undertake the work of private banking1, functions, it cannot create the deposit currence, our chief medium of exchange. This conclusion is too obvious to need further discussion, but it leads to something more. Bank Notes and Checks. "The particular service rendered by a bank note is very much the same as that rendered by the deposit currency. When a bank makes a loan, its profit is the same whether it grants to the borrower its demand obligation in the form of a note or of a deposit account The two differ, however, in some matters of duration and distance of circulation, which are well-known and obvious. But the borrower should have choice, without difference in expense, between the deposit currency and the bank note. Because he lives in a rural community, away from a city, and wishes to use notes, there is no reason why his medium of exchange should cost him more than the deposit currency does the city man (as is now the case). Government Control of Money. "The sovereign control over 'money' remains. Our gold standard and Its direction lies above all private modification. It is patent that the proposed reform makes no change in the issue of greenbacks by the treasury. Whether wise or unwise, that question is not now raised. Likewise, the issue of bank notes has long been permitted to the national banks, although the supervisory action of the state is exercised in many ways under the national banking law, by regulations, examinations and the like. "The proposal to reconstruct the system of bank note issues, raises no new nor fundamental question. It is not a choice between government issues and bank issues. It is merely a matter of re-arrangement by which the national banks may retain their present issues ?if they prefer?or Tiave them transferred to a common agency representing all the banks, yet supervised by government officials; and so that this co-operative agency may issue in the common interest such emergency circulation as may be needed in any time of stress." STAMPS ARTISTS UNDOING Careless Work Greatly Offended Some of King George's Subjects. A piece of careless engraving is reported to have led to the withdrawal from circulation, on political grounds, of two of the recently issued Indian postage stamps bearing the likeness of King George in robes of state, says Tid-Bits. Among the insignia worn by his majesty in Mr. McKennel's portrait, is the Order of the Indian Empire in the representation of which a diminutive figure of an elephant is shown. Now, on the majority of the stamps there is not the slightest room for doubt as to the animal that it le intended to represent, but on the two annas and three annas values the elephant is poorly executed and bears a remarkable resemblance not to the stately lord of the jungle but to the humble domestic pig! This fact did not pass unrecognized by the Mohammedan population of our eastern dependency, by whom the lowly porker is regarded as an unclean animal, strictly forbidden by their caste and abhorred of all true Moslems. The grave affrort to their religious prejudices arising from the necessity of applying their tongues to this profane image, caused an immediate outcry among the native followers of Mohammed, who declined to have anything to do with the despised stamps, and as a concession to their scruples it was decided that the offending values should be called In and a fresh printing made with the unfortunate elephant correctly delineated. This is by no mea is the first occasion on which the postage stamp has been the subject of internal and even diplomatic contention, particularly in respect of religion and party politics. A case in point is provided by the first issue of Soudanese postage stamps under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. with its familiar figure of a native camel postman. The paper upon which these stamps were first printed was watermarked with a curious device known to architects as a quatrefoii?a cruciform flower, characteristic of the Gothic style, but its near relationship to tne Manese cross itpimum; unobserved by those responsible for the issue, or they failed to appreciate its dangerous significance in a Mohammedan country. No sooner had the stamps been placed in use, however, than urgent representations were made to the Sirdar, Lord Kitchener, by the local sheikhs, protesting against the presence of an emblem of the Christian faith on the stamps of the Soudan, and it is said that a native rising was narrowly averted by the immediate issue of an order for the watermark to be changed to the more appropriate Star and Crescent of Islam. PRISONER'S FIRST FRIEND. Many Men Out of Jail Aided by Chicago Man. Superintendent F. Emory Lyon, of the Central Howard association, Chicago, is big brother, or "first friend," to probably as many, if not more, paroled prisoners than any other man in the country. Yet the association which he neaas is comparatively uuseure. This Is partly because the work it does, can be better done in a quiet, unostentatious manner, says the Christian Herald. Under the parole laws of the states In the middle west, certain prisoners may be released on condition that some individual qualified as "first friend," guarantees employment and general oversight of the one thus given his liberty. Hundreds of prisoners appeal to this association for such help. Mr. Lyon either signs the papers of approved applicants as "first friend" or secures them employment. The work of the organization is not confined, however, to merely released prisoners and standing by them until they get upon their feet. It champions the cause of the friendless transgressor in other ways. Those brought before the courts without friends or funds to aid them in their effort to secure justice have found help and practical encouragement from Mr. Lyon and the Central Howard association. Destitute families of prisoners are frequently provided for. and better laws for the handling and care of prisoners have been placed on the statute books because of this earnest work. / PLANTS THAT GIVE LIGHT < I Some Animals Also Shed Strange i Glow in the Dark. To the city dweller the phenomenon , of animal phosphorescence Is rarely If ever presented. Still. In spite of Its apparent rarity, animal phorphorescence Is a common occurrence in likely localities, says the Boston Herald. It is of wide dlstribu- ' tion, being1 seen in the high Alpine snows, in the deepest ocean valleys, wnne me property 01 emuung ngm. is possessed by bird, beast and fish. Very few of the higher animals are phosphorescent, but notable exceptions are the night heron and blue crane. These birds have been observed repeatedly, and there Is little doubt that the greasy patches of down on the breast and thighs are visibly luminous up to a distance of fifty yards. A hunter states that In a heron he shot, the light was as bright as a hand lantern, and that his gun sights were plainly visible against it. The light quickly disappeared after death and does not j recur. The eyes of certain monkeys are sufficiently bright in complete darkness to Illuminate objects within a radius of a foot. This is a different phenomenon from the brilliant eyes of a cat, j which shine only by absorbing and reflecting light near at hand. Many flowers and plants have been observed to be luminous for short periods after sunset. The flowers of the nasturtium possess a lightning- j like phosphorescence. Common marigolds sometimes have an aura of pale cnl /Ion voIIaw rVl n f nloir f rn m notol f rt 5V1UWH j vnun tuaw ^ia.r tiuui j'ciai iv petal, and smoky finishes of green flame have been seen on the scarlet long-haired poppy. Several of the Illy family are luminous In very dry weather. Many bushes also give out light. Decayed and fungoid wood Is also "fox fire." On one occasion some of this was used for a camp fire, and many of the broken fragments were . scattered over the ground where the men were sleeping. The fire died out during the night and one of the party awoke, and in his fright awoke the ( rest, who were equally terrified, believping that they were lying among live , coals. Many reasons have been assigned as the cause of animal and vegetable luminosity, but until rtcently none had been put forward that were worthy of consideration. The recent researches on radio-activity have shown that within the atom lies a mighty force that man has not succeeded in utilizing. So tremendous is the latent energy that were it possible to loose only a part of it, a boy, by turning a crank, could manufacture sufficient electrical energy to drive the engines of London's countless workshops and factories. Radium owes its wonderful properties to the fact that its atorr. - are in a state of decay, and the disintegration I piuuutcs a uci laiu amuum ui energy* It has been thought that to some creatures the secret of using this Interatomic energy has been revealed, with the result that they can transform the light. Beyond the Big Cities.?According to the government reckoning, the United States is divided into three distinct parts, a writer in Richardson's Annual says. First (because they are most frequently forced on our attention) come the big cities. There are only fifty-one of them, with a population of more than 25 000. Next come the small town people? those who live in towns of 25,000 down to 2,500. Uncle Sam differentiates these from the 25,000 and more, because they live "nearer the soil." Many of their people are retired farmers or merchants, depending on farm trade, and all are more or less close influenced by agricultural conditions. Last, we have the ruralists?the fnrmpra nr thnsp dirprtlv In tmir-h with agriculture. The last census shows that this class outnumbers the other two combined, totaling nearly fifty-four per cent of the people. But we will find, if we turn to statistics, that these bulk figures are misleading. New York state, for example, with its number of cities, has a rural population of only twenty-one per cent, whereas in the central, western or southern states?the big farming section?the per cent of rural population I Good Garde fj PROVIDED 1 I BUIST'S I rVT IULi iliLiifi nM FOR EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS SEEDS HAVE BEEN THE STAN CA, AND ESPECIALLY HAVE B1 WITH THE MOST SUCCESSFU AND FARMERS THROUGHOUT NOT A SEED IS OFFEREE THAT IS NOT OF KNOWN QU. WITH ORDINARY ATTENTION VATION THE USER OF BUIST ABLY SURE OF PROFITABLE A CROPS. PLANT NO OTHER. WE HAVE A FULL LINE O AND ALSO HAVE PEAS, BEANS ONION SETS. PLANT Bl*IST SI UDPfTiT. MP M 11 y U11 \> ant anj mi uviiiu ?.j P them for you at once. I GARDEN P WHEN YOU BEGIN YOUR & YOU WILL NEED SOMETHING E HOES. WEEDERS, GARDEN PLC HAVE EVERYTHING YOU COUL M AND YOU WILL FIND OUR PRK | IF YOU HAVE A HAIIDWAI PLY YOUR WANTS. | Yorkville Ha DON'T FORGET TO CALL ONT I. W. JOHNSON FOR THE BEST COFFEE? AND ALSO FOR THE BEST GRADES OF MOLASSES? ALSO FOR SNOW WHITE, SNOWDRIFT AND Pl'RE LARD. I W. JOHNSON iften runs up over eighty, and sometimes close to ninety per cent of the state's people. Probably three-fourths of our population is either rural or closely allied with rural conditions. Whom "Labor" Really Meant.? From the census of 1900 we can roughly estimate that of the 25,000,000 perBons engaged in Industry 6,000,000 are farmers and 4,000,000 are farm laborers; 12,000,000 are wage earners and salaried employees; 1,500,000 are professional persons, and about 2,000,000 are employers. Moreover, of the 12,000,000 workmen 5,000,000 at the most may be set aside as salaried employees and as perBons working in the smaller establishments, says World's Work. This leaves i.a ??. --n... r\t i Ann nne wniyo pamsra uo an a* iuj vi ifvvvtvw .. MOv ? who may be said to be working for 300,000 employers, and the majority of these employers are not human beings, but corporations. That is to say, of our whole population in 1900, about one-third, or 29,000,000 were "engaged in gainful occupations," and of this number the militants may be said to be 7,000,000 wage earners on one side and 300,000 wage distributors on the other. This compilation eliminates the farmer and his help, because there is practically no wage war on the land. The domes- I tic servant, the employee of the little r establishments and the salaried employee Is likewise eliminated from the controversy. A salary somehow is an Industrial sedative. The "black-coated proletariat," clerks, bookkeeprs, etc., i often earn less than mechanics and bricklayers. But they wear boiled shirts and are meekly content with their neat jobs. We have, then, narrowed down the forces that make the "labor problem," and they are only a minor portion of the population. 1 BURIAL 5912 YEARS AGO. Skeleton of Woman Who Lived Centuries Ago is Found. The mummy known as Ra-Nefer, which is in the museum of the Royal college of Surgeons in London, has been described as the oldest mummy known, says the New York Sun. The date as- * signed to it by Prof. Eliot Smith was ? the age of Senefru the beginning of Egypt's fourth dynasty, about 3700 . years B. C. Some human remains, however, have now been discovered at Sakkara, about fifteen miles from Cairo, belonging to the period of the end of the second and the beginning of the third dynasties, about 4000 years B. C. Among tnem is ine skciciuh ui a woman about thirty-five years of age, vvTiich was found completely invested In a large series of bandages, and next to the body was a corroded woven cloth. The corrosion, says Professor Smith, was presumptive evidence that some material, probably crude natron, was applied to the surface of the body, with a view to its preservation, and he has thus been able to trace to a higher antiquity than had previously been done, the use of this method for preserving the body of the dead. WOMEN SHOULDN'T PAINT That Is Not on Canvas, an English Artist Says. | Although a successful woman artist, Miss Nellie Harvey does not believe that women should indulge in painting?at least, not on canvas; the subject of facial frescoing was not dis- ( cussed, says the New York Tribune. Miss Harvey is an Englishwoman; but she lives in Munich, has another studio in Madrid and paints wherever the , spiru moves ner. , "Strange as it may seem, although I ( love my art and would sooner die j than not paint, I don't approve of wo- j men as artists," she said. "It's too serious a science?for I consider it a science?too complicated, too many-sided for a woman. Most women lack the necessary power of concentration to grasp it. "Of the thousands of young women who take up painting, few succeed. I know of women who have started with brilliant prospects and who never get anywhere. Few ever make a marked success. They suddenly seem to come to an end. I put it down to physical causes. They are not strong enough to keep up the struggle. In England and Germany competition Is very hard with the men artists. There are shoals , of women, mere amateurs, who do a ' little fancy painting and so spoil things Tor trie proressiunai wuiuau yauii? who takes her art seriously. If an American girl aspires to an art career, it is absolutely necessary for her to study abroad. ms Assured k'Ol* PLANT WEN SEEDS ' THIS STORE BUIST\S GARDEN AND FIELD } DARD THROUGHOUT AMERILTST'S SEEDS BEEN POPULAR L GARDENERS, TRUCKERS THE SOUTH. ) UNDER THE BUIST NAME I vr.rrv AXn FRESHNESS. AND AS TO PLANTING AND CULTI SEEDS CAN FEEL REASON ND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY f iii'i st seeds in packets, . CORN IN bulk, and also have :eds for sure results. IEDS we will be pleased to order a TOOLS I GARDEN WORK, OF COURSE IN garden tools?RAKES, )WS, ETC. THEN SEE US. WE ;D DESIRE IN GARDEN TOOLS L'FS JUST RIGHT. W he want, WE want TO SUP- 1 irdware Co. I At McFarland's ] no. 4, yorkville ( 1 1 You will find a complete assortment ? of all kinds of Farm Supplies?Every- i thing to eat, as well as the many 1 things that you will need to prepare j your land, plant your crop and culti- j vate It to the best advantage. J DRV GOODS AND SHOES t t You will also find at McFARLAND'S s a well-selected stock of DRY GOODS s and SHOES. Including practically 1 everything you will need to wear. I have s the goods, low expenses and my prices j are low enough to make It worth your I while to do at least a part of your S trading at this store. s M. A. McFARLAND Ilnckney Road. No. 4, Yorkville Securities Which You Buy MAY GO UP OR DOWN, BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS DE- j PEXD ON THE FACT THAT EVERY DOLLAR YOU DEPOSIT IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT WILL ALWAYS I BE A DOLLAR, PLUS THE INTEREST IT EARNS YOUR PRINCIPAL WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE. WHICH CANNOT BE SAID OF ALL FORMS OF INVESTMENT. j If YOU are not already a patron of THIS Bank. WE invite i YOUR account We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest, compounded yuaneny, On All Savings Deposits. The National Union Bank, ABSOLUTELY SAFE Rock Hill, - - - S. C. | THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DEPOSITS WITH THIS BANK W. J. RODDEY, President. IRA B. DUNLAP, Cashier. The Everything Store CITY MEAT MARKET ? BUTTER AND EGGS. 5Ve always carry a full stock of The Butier and Egg market Is not so lively now, but we are still taking DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, all the butter and eggs we can use. CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, When you want Choice STEAKS or ROASTS come to the City Market We BOOTS AND SHOES, make a specialty of the Best HomeRaised Stall Fed Beeves and also sell HEAVY AND the Choicest Western Meats. FANCY GROCERIES. JUST ARRIVED? A shipment of BONELESS BOILED Remember: That If You Trade Here HAMS, CURED HAMS and BRBAKFAST BACON. We sell these by the You Will Get 100 Cents Worth of Pound, the Whole Ham or Whole ~ .. .? Piece of Bacon, and all of It Is of the Goods for Every Dollar You Spend. be8t quality. CATTLE AND CALVES? JUvT onrn /"VT TT1 At al1 times we will buy all the FAT 1V1. O 1 IVvl U 1 CATTLE and all the VEAL CALVES we can get. See us when you have any to sell. Motto: Quality and Right Prices. THE CITY MEAT MARKET C. F. Sherer, Prop. Pay Your Bills By Check And Save The Pennies You owe, say $3.89?with no Bank Account. You go to the bookkeeper, draw $5.00 of your salary, pay the $3.89?the FIVE DOLLAR BILL IS BROKEN, and the ? change Is foolishly spent BEFORE YOU KNOW IT. BUT?PAY IT BY CHECK and YOU STILL HAVE THE CHANGE IN THE BANK. This is JUST ONE of the many ways in which a Banking Account SAVES YOU MONEY. We solicit YOUR Account, regardless of size. ! Loan and Savings Bank v S. M. McNEEL, President J. P. McMTJRRAY, Cashier - - - -- - I REST STYLES IN MEN'S Order By Mail ^ ^ ^ * , ... We are showing the very NEWEST Our Mail Orders have grown until shapes ln MEN'S SPRING HATS? It is quite an with us, and the reajjy snappy, nobby, wantable, styreason for it Is because we have what llgh shape8^ ln SOFT FEltS and ln w?.? ?w. st05k* ,fan^ ^vewi DERBIES, in the most fashionable Mall Orders prompt attention. We sprjng shades. If you are a good send every day. Goods and Prescrip- dresser and want a reaHy Up-to-the tions to all parts of the county. Or- m|nute Hat, I have for you?Styles flers are filled the same day they are tliat wjjj pieaae the man best posted received and satisfaction is guaranteed on style8 for men Quaiitlee that are In all cases. ag gQod as can be made. Shapes that IMPE0I?TA\'TY0^ illaseanblflnc?ie3aI1lSSwfth???oi? IMPORTANT PRESCRIPTIONS. reach?High enough to buy the Best REMEMBER. EVERY PRESCRIP- ?Low enough to meet your approval. TION FILLED AT OUR STORE IS This line of Hats is the famous HowFILLED BY A LICENSED AND artl brand?better hats v/ere never REGISTERED DRUGGIST. made, although others sell at higher price. Shieder Drag Store aril Hats-?Today is'^'good time. THE NYAL STORE J. 0. WRAY COTTON SEED H j M l I have a CORN. PEA and COTTON W UVU " SEED PLANTER, and I want you to call and see Its many good points. _ # 0 __ . . Covington, the manufacturer of this f ity* nfl Ar IVIrtvlII HnilO Planter, says that you can plant your x?*"'" ** IrllUIII III*VC seed and get them at practically any desired distance apart that may be TU**?* -?* desired. The dropper will drop the I flclfl Ul VtOI/cli seed in hills, 10, 13, 18, 20, 24, 27, 36, 4 0, 54 and 72 inches apart. This arrangement should suit any farmer WE HAVE JUST GOTTEN IN A with any kind of land. The seed are CAR LOAD OF HORSES AND not wasted or bunched. This Planter MULES, PERSONALLY SELECTED can be operated on any kind of land BY US FOR THIS MARKET, AND and in any kind of preparation. The WE INVITE OUR FRIENDS AND Planter weighs about 85 pounds and THE PUBLIC GENERALLY TO can easily be operated by a small boy. COME AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE Come and see it, and ask for testimo- AND WHAT OUR PRICES AND nials from users, who tell how this TERMS ARE. Planter is a saver. This Planter will save half to two-thirds of the seed as QUINN & McGILL compared with hand planting. See this planter when convenient. Clover, S C. W. H. HERNDON 94 8W tf THE BEST MULES TJ|E MAfl WHO We have a carload of the BEST KENTUCKY and MISSOURI MULES TJ T T T T C jver brought to Yorkville. We lay |j I J I 1,11 special emphasis on the BEST, be:ause that is what we have. Disinter- Wants and has a right to expect to get jsted judges will tell you that our the very best Lumber and Building -laim to having the BEST Mules ever supplies that his money will pay for. jrought to Yorkville, is correct. That is what you get when you buy We will be pleased to have every from ug> with a knowledge born of nan who wants a Mule or a pair of years of experience, we know what Mules, come and see what we have. Lumber ought to be and can furnish we can please you, no matter how ex- our customers with the right kind of ictlng you may be as to size and Qual- materials. When you are ready to r? ^Ur ^ are i Young, Fat, build, come and see us for the Lumn Perfect Condition, and you will find ber needed hat our prices are JUST AS NEAR vijnfmivr rrir,Ivr RIGHT AS PRICES CAN BE MADE. 1 Simvr We will sell you for the cash or on pa- cii t? cupiJiw' ?er. with liberal terms, or we will sS\J fraK orfyou buy?a We have' tta DOOII& WINDOWS. FRAMES, Shty|oodS at rSt prlcS BOTDDERS- HARDWARE, ETC. You will find our Qualities and our SMOAK-BROWN CO. . Prlces Just rl*ht TORKVILLE. S. C. ' J. J. KELLER & COMPANY 4 Furniture Pointer THE PLace to buy Right NOW is a good time to buy Furniture, whether you buy from us f"i ? /^ )r from some other dealer. We say t*YOQn IwYf\f*0**fOQ TOW, because Furniture prices have K I Coll Vif l/Cc! (CO jeen during the past year steadily idvancing and the tendency NOW Is We thank one and u f t ipward Of course you 1 always be fa and ,nvite t com Q?ten ible to buy "cheap furniture, but at jn ^ 913 he same time you will be paying a ligher price than you did last year FRESH ARRIVALS jerhaps, or a few years ago. The upvard trend Is steady and buying now BARREL PICKLES, s eond business spnse. If vou exDect BOTTLE PICKLES. ;o buy Furniture this year, the best SALMON, lme to buy Is right now, and we are SWEET CORN AND PEAS, lure that you can buy it to the best TOMATOES, tdvantage at this store. Our stock GREEN BEANS IN CANS, s large and It Is varied enough to KRAUT IN CANS, satisfy the most particular. When STRAWBERRIES, rou are ready to buy Furniture and HONEY IN JARS, louse Furnishings, Ranges, Cooking JELLIES AND PRESERVES, 5toves, Paints, Oils, Etc., be sure to APPLE BUTTER. see us. We will give you the benefit FRESH CANDIES. CAKES, >f the Lowest Possible Prices. PLATES, CUPS AND SAUCERS. __ | ? , A few Water Sets left. See them. York turmture to. j. m. brian company.