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luraorous gepartmrtJt. A Maker of "Skate*?"?Representative Samuel E. Wlnslow, skate manufacturer of Massachusetts, is a large, round person with a vast wealth of girth and a round face, ornamented with a neat little set of whiskers of chef-like cut When you say that Winslow is a fat man, you have said the sole unkind thing that could be uttered against him, for he is a person of philanthropic impulses, abstemious habits, and a clever character. He was, a great athlete in his Harvard days, ] but of late years he has been unable to cope with a tendency to take on weight It is not Winslow's fault that he is fat and round, and he has never been attacked on that account but once. Scores of members of the W. C. T. U., were here one day urging members of congress to favor Representative Hobson's proposal for national prohibition. As Winslow was strolling from the office building over toward the | Capitol that morning, four or Ave of the W. C. T. U. women flew over and circled about him preparing to alight One of them pounced on him. "Are you a member of congress?" she asked. "Yes," Winslow owned up, swallowing. "And are you going to vote to let Mr. Hobson speak today on his temperance measure?" Winslow couldn't think for a moment, what she meant and paused to clear his throat before replying. That moment of hesitation was fatal "There's no use talking to him!" spoke up another woman. "Look at the man. He's a brewer himself I'll venture. The idea of sending men like that to congress!" "What is your business?" asked the first woman. "I dare not tell you," replied Winslow, and he scampered away. "You see, if I had admitted that I'm a skate manufacturer," says Winslow, "they might have thought I meant the woman's guess was correct."?Washington Post. "President Wilton's Church."?The phone bell rang: out cheerfully In the office of the vice president, and a voice said it was the pastor of President Wilson's church who was doing the talking. He desired a five-minute conference with the vice president at 11 o'clock. Secretary Thistlewaite bade him come, and welcome. Promptly at 11 o'clock a quietly dressed man entered the office door. He looked Just like any other minister, except that he was a colored person. "I'm the man that called up and made an appointment for 11 o'clock," he explained. "I'm the pastor of President Wilson's church." Secretary Thistlewaite was anxious to hear the thing through. If President Wilson had Joined a colored church, he wishec' to know the full particulars. He ushered the visitor into the private office. "I'm the pastor of the president's church," the minister repeated, after he had greeted Marshall "That is, you understand, when the president first came to town, he picked out one of the Presbyterian churches to attend. Since then our folks have bought that church and we're fixing it over." He went on to say that he earnestly desired for the vice president to be there and address them at a special big meeting the following Sunday. 'Td like to come mighty well," said Marshall, "but I've got another engagement that day. It seems to me, though, that the logical person to have would be President Wilson himself." "Do you suppose he would come?" asked the minister. "I can't say as to that," admitted Marshall, "but if I were you I should certainly ask him. He ought to go. It's his church, isn't it? Well, then, I don't see how he can refuse."?Washington Star. A Sure Thing.?According to a nurse in one of the big hospitals, a visiting surgeon recently caused a robust patient almost to collapse by joking with him after an operation. "What are my chances for recovery?" asked the patient "Splendid," said the surgeon. "What do you mean by splendid?" "Why, you have one chance in twenty for recovery." "That is not very encouraging. I can't see how my chances are as splendid as you say." "Well, I'll explain," said the surgeon. '"In this particular operation it is generally conceded that there is one chance in twenty for the patient to recover. The last nineteen patients I have operated upon for your complaint have >14aA ar\ vaii nro fVin Ano nilt nf thp twenty who ought to recover."?New York Tribune. Tommy's Hobby.?The following happened In a Manchester school the other day. The teacher had been speaking of unique and valuable collections of objects of art and interest, and spoke of the fabulous wealth that had been expended by some of the collectors on their peculiar hobby, says Tit-Bits. Thinking to obtain some idea of the characters of the members of his class in this direction, he asked them what they thought they would like to collect if they had plenty of money. Up went the hand of a boy who was not noted for particular brilliance in fact, answers from him were very scarce on any subject, so this opportunity was seized by the teacher. "Well. Tommy, and what would you collect?" "Rents, sir," was the prompt reply. The lesson was changed, and that teacher is recovering from the shock. Making and Breaking.?Senator Hitchcock was talking about New Year resolutions, according to the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "Resolutions are a good thing to make, a bad thing to break," he said. "Too many men seem to make resolutions only to break them afterward. i tic j ai c imc kjm/iuc. "When Smythe came home very late on January 2d, a cigar in his mouth, and an odor of alcohol about him, his wife said, bitterly. "Only yesterday you swore off late hours, whisky and tobacco, and now? look at you! You've broken all three of your resolutions.' " 'Well, dearie?hie?what of it?" said Smythe, in a hurt voice. 'I can? hie?make others, c-can't I?'" One Thing Love Can't Do?Kitty? They say, you know, that love makes the world go round. Marie?Maybe, but it cannot make the eligible young men go round.?Boston Transcript. JBisffttancous grading. CONTROL OF PARTY MACHINERY Believed That There Will Be a Stiff Fight Over the Matter. The storm clouds are gathering for a tremendous struggle to control the Democratic state con 'ention, which assembles in Columbia on the third Wednesday in May, writes W. F. Caldwell, the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier. Conservatives and Radicals, Bleaseites and antiBleaseites, and other of the so-called factions of the Democratic party are laying plans to capture the state convention which carries with it the control of the primary election machinery. Realizing that the contest for the United States senatorshlp will be a titanic struggle, followers of Governor Cole L. Blease have banded administration supporters of both branches of the general assembly into a compact organization and administration measures have received the undivided support of the minority In both houses. A regular organization of the Blease legislators has been maintained and frequent caucuses have taken place to determine the course the administration minority would follow. Resulting from this understanding the vetoes of Governor Blease in the house have invariably been sustained, except in two minor instances, when the caucus did not bind its members. Several vetoes met death in the house the past week, the solid vote of the Blease minority preventing the necessary two-thirds to overrule the veto. The administration minority in the senate is not sufficient to sustain a veto. The majority against the governor there is over two-thirds. Well satisfied with the results of their action in the legislative session now drawing to a close, the Blease followers are planning for the Democratic club meetings, which take place tho fourth Saturdav nieht in ADril. At these meetings the clubs are re-organized and delegates selected for the various county conventions, which meet the flrst of May, at which time delegates from the various counties are chosen to the state convention, and the members of the state executive committee elected. The control of the club meetings is the all-important thing; for obviously that will insure control of the majority of the county conventions, and through that the state convention and the state committee. This is the fight and to this end the administration forces are now directing their efforts. Already the cry has been sent forth to the Bleaseites to organize and control the club meetings. But while the supporters of Senator E. D. Smith are not talking they are far from being idle. There is enough surface indications to show that Governor Blease is going to face the fight of his career for further political honors. The doctrine of Antl-Blease is being spread through the length and breadth of the state and everywhere his opponents are preparing for the club meetings and the county and state conventions. They propose, if possible, to again control the state convention and the election machinery and will go into the fight behind Senator Smith to retrieve the defeat of 1912, and if possible wipe Bleaseism from the political map of the state. Not talk, but work, is the motto, as it is evident from surface indications. Unless signs are misleading, another factor will have to be reckoned with in the fight for the senatorial toga. Former Governor John Gary Evans, it is believed, is considering going into the fight, and his friends aver that his entrance would drive a wedge right across the chasm between the Blease and Smith forces and make a new faction out of portions of both the present ones. They say it will be an Evans faction made up of voters ? * AL A T51 ao on rrom (JUlll uie Diease aiiu Aiiu-umuiv camps, and that it will be a formidable wedge. Then it would not surprise political observers to witness still another entrant into this race in the person of Representative W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw. In fact, Mr. Stevenson has told friends in the past few days that he is considering entering the race. He is well known all over the state and is a public speaker well able to hold his own on any stump with any opponent. His hold on the people, his friends point out is illustrated in his re-election from Chesterfield county last election in the face of the fact that Chesterfield went several hundred majority for Blease. This is another possible wedge calculated to split into still smaller factions the Blease and Anti-Bleaseites of South Carolina. II the Evans and Stevenson wedges rip open and break up the two factions, the race will be hard to forecast with any accuracy. A four-cornered fight between Smith Blease, Evans and Stevenson would make a race the like of which has never been seen in South Carolina, it it believed. Four better stump speakers could not be picked. Each is the veteran of many a rough and tumble debate and when these four measure strength on the hustings it is likely that much more than fur will fly. With the legislative and public records each has made in public life al their sides the senatorial candidates are preparing for the attack. The prize, the senatorial toga, is dangling in the distance, and while the people wait, the would-be senators are sharpening their forensic weapons and making ready for the titanic struggle due. before the coming primaries. HAITIEN RULERS Few Executives Since 1806 Have Re> tired by Peaceful Means. The republic of Haiti, the westerr end of the island, Columbus called Little Spain," was the earliest exam pie of a nominal constitutional government carried on by black men. says the New York World. Columbus found 2,000,000 friendlj Indians on the island. Slavery killed them oft, and negroes from Africa multiplied in their stead. Of these 1,? 500,000 descendants now live in Haiti Nearly all are pure black; the mulattoes diminish in number. The whitei were massacred or driven away in th< revolutionary wars. The present republic had belonged to France a century when the Frend revolution began. Slavery was ther abolished, a black rebellion took plact and the British invaded the island, bul Toussaint L'Overture, a black Georgt Washington drove them off and set up a constitution. Napoleon sent his brother-in-law, General Leclerc (pretty Pollie Bonaparte's husband), to subdue the blacks. He had peace wit! Toussaint, seized him treacherouslj and sent him to Paris. But the same year, 1803, that Tous saint died in prison there the French fled from the island. Its people were thus the flrst to get the better of Napoleon, four years before the reverses in Spain, nine years before Moscow. Leclerc died in 1802. The Spanish portion of the island broke loose from Spain and was joined tc Haiti, but was separated in 1844, as the Republic of Santo Domingo. This is the record of Haitian chief executives: Dessalines, governor for life, assassinated, 1806; Henri Christophe, king, suicide, 1820; Boyer, president, expelled, 1843; Soulouque, "Emperor Faustin I," exiled, 1858; GeffJ rard, president, exiled, 1867; Salnave, shot, 1869; Nissage-saget, exuea, is<u; Dominique, exiled, 1874; Boisrond-Canal, exiled, 1876; Salomon, exiled, 1886; Hlppolyte, exiled, 1896; Tiresia Simon Sam, ran away to Paris, 1902; Nord Alexis, retired, 1908; Simon, deposed, 1910; Le Compte, died in the burning of the executive mansion, 1912. After Soulouque all were described as presidents. From the beginning no ruler arose except by the strong hand, ruled without tyranny or left office by peaceful means. LIFE SAVING AT SEA Launching Life Boats Always a Risky Business. The Titanic disaster in April, 1912, shattered the comfortable public illusions that there was such a thing as an unsinkable ship, and that great passenger vessels carried "boats for all," says the London Spectator. The natural tendency at first was for uninstructed persons to think that a law requiring boat room to be provided for all would prevent forever the recurrence of such a possibility as men * nl'An ilnu-n In a dllU H UIUCll UCIU6 lanw uwnu sinking ship because there were not enough boats. But further information showed them that the cause could not be stated quite so simply. It is easy to carry enough boats; it is quite another matter to have them at hand on the decks and in a suitable position for launching. Launching a boat in a high sea is a terribly risky business. To lower a boat from the upper deck of a large liner is like lowering it from the top windows of a high house. If the boat is full of passengers and the ship is plunging and rolling in a high sed, it may be imagined what sort of skill is required to get the boat away in safety from the ship's side. If there were many boats being flung about at the same time, the danger would be greatly increased. The recent loss of the Volturno by fire proved that boats may, in a sense, be a source of danger even when they can be launched. The passengers who lost their lives were those who* took the boats. We do not say this in order to argue that there should not be boat room for all?we are convinced that there ought to be?but to point out that boats are only one line of safety, and that security at sea, never wholly attainable, depends upon careful attention to a number of details. In one wreck one thing will prevent loss of life, In another wreck another thing. At least there should be means of every one to float off from a sinking ship at the last moment, even if therg is not room for everybody In the boats. The Titanic sank in a calm sea. If only there had been more rafts a much larger number of passengers might have been saved. The requirement of the convention is that there must be room in the boat for threequarters of the maximum number of passengers and crew, and that room for the rest shall be provided either in boats or pontoon rafts. Wireless telegraphy, as a matter of fact, has saved very many more lives than have been saved by ships' own boats, because it has brought other ships rapidly to the rescue. If the appliance which provides the greatest amount of all round safety had to be named, few people would deny the place of honor to wireless telegraphy. The careful maintenance and working of the wireless apparatus is the first line of safety; and we are very glad indeed to note the wide reach of the rules laid down on this matter. REPUTATION WON A BATTLE Russians Ran When Nogi's Men As* sailed Them. It often happens that the reputation of a successful general and his men has a great effect in winning other battles. Such was the case with Baron 1 Nogi and the third Japanese army, 1 which he commanded. This daring and relentless officer led the famous flank1 ing movement on the Russian right at ' Mukden. Says Stanley Washburn in 1 "Nogi:" To the privates of the Siberian step1 pes and the peasants drafted from the 1 valleys of the Volga and the far-off Neva, this man Nogi was the incarna1 tion of fury, the demon of war. His > men were pictured by camp tires at night as devils of blood and fire, who ' would stop at nothing, who eagerly f sought death in their efforts to reach a ' hand-to-hand encounter with their foes. Again and again the story of 203 ' Meter Hill, where the Japanese sacri flced fifteen thousand men in order to ' gain an observation station, was told 5 in the Russian ranks. The soldiers told one another also how the Japanese infantry, in one assault, exhausted and with ammunition spent, refused to re' treat, and remained and threw stones : at their enemies until the last man was killed. The great dread in every division of the Russian army was that Nogi himself would be thrown against them. When at last the attack came, there could be no doubt of where and how 1 Nogi was striking. At the first point of I contact, the veterans of Port Arthur, who thought fighting in the open was ' nothing after storming the grisly ? heights of the beleaguered fortress, appeared suddenly, without warning, on r the Russian flank, and well toward the rear. Their first assault crumpled up the Russian defense like paper. With characteristic Japanese subtility their officers had taught them the battle cries in the Russian language, and they advanced, screaming between their banzais: "We are Nogi's men from Port Arthur!" The instant this fearinspiring cry was heard on the Russian flank, the battle was lost. The spirit of despair spread like a prairie fire, and soon the whole great army was in retreat, not the retreat of sheer panic, but the stubborn withdrawal of men who knew the victory was impossible. Since 1909 Japan has more than doubled its output of toys. W The new civil code has Introduced important reforms in Switzerland since it gives both parents equal rights over their children. SCENTIFIC CO-OPERATION (Continued from Page One.) erage, whereas under more normal conditions there should have been a steady increase in the yield, making farming not only more profitable, but the product less costly. The question involved here is not one of better methods or intensive farming, but of marketing present crops at proper prices. Better methods will come with better profits. A careful examination of the methods of marketing the crops will demonstrate this contention, to meet which I have offered the warehouse bill. THE NEED OF THE FARMERS State Warehouses Will Help Solve the PrnhlAm. Discussing rural credits, in the last issue of the Progressive Farmer, E. W. Dabbs, president of the South Carolina State Farmers' Union, says: "First, I do not consider practical nor desirable the rural credit system of Europe based on unlimited liability of the membership, nor upon the close scrutiny of the use made of the loans by the neighbors. We are not in any part of :he state that I know anything about, reduced to the necessity of such a system, nor are we so thickly settled as to make it practical to operate. Second. Marketing and credit are so closely allied that we can hardly discuss one without the other. Therefore, I think we need to have a closer supervision of the grading and packing of farm products; that state warehouses should be built in which to store non-perishable farm products? such warehouses to be operated at cost. Receipts should show the grade and be an absolute guarantee of quality and of the delivery of the article called for, thus giving to the farmers' produce an availability as an asset wuri me nignem euiuineiuai lauwg upon which he can secure such loans as will enable him to market his crops in accordance with the laws of supply and demand. "Third. The enlistment of a division of markets that will not only direct grading and packing in the interest of honesty and economy, but will through its complete organization, prevent the congestion of some markets to the point of waste, and the scarcity In others to the point of want at the same time, and prevent as far as possible the waste of unnecessary transportation. "Fourth, I think we need to have our corporation laws so amended that true co-operative associations may be formed where one man will have only one vote, and there will be no proxies; where capital will be limited to a moderate dividend, say 6 per cent with 2 per cent to be placed to the surplus fund, the balance to be divided annually on the basis of patronage. "Fifth. For the purpose of buying a home or of making permanent improvements, I favor the measure of Congressman Bathrlck of Ohio, that the government sell 4 per cent 50-year bonds and loan the proceeds to home buyers, or home improvers at such a rate of interest that on the amortization plans the loan will be paid off in 50 years.* 'Conclusion: Paragraph No. 1 shows what we do not want. "Paragraphs Nos. 2, 3 and 4 state briefly what we need in the ordinary routine of our farming and business operations. "Paragraph No. 5, points the way to long-time loans for permanent improvements and home building." AFRICA A MYSTERY Native Legends Tell of Fair-skinned Natives. "Ex Africa semper aliquid novum" (from Africa there always comes some th ng new) was a popular saying In Rome 2,000 years ago, which Is equally apt today, writes F. CunellfteOwen In the New York Sun. The Dark Continent has been traversed in so many directions during the last 150 years, has been visited by so many exploring expeditions that people were tempted to believe that all its mysteries had long been exhausted. Yet barely a decade has elapsed since the discovery of the okapi, a creature partaking both of the giraffe and the zebra, the existance of which had until that time been wholly unknown to the zoologists of the civilized world. Nature may have other revelations of the same character still In store for us in the remote regions of central Africa. Only within the last quarter of a century has It been ascertained that the pigmy tribes of the darkest recesses of the Congo valley forests, vaugely referred to by Herodotus 400 years prior to the Christian era, are not mere myths. Stories of purely native origin Insist that there are in the mountain fastnesses of equatorial Africa, races of white-skinned, blondhaired, blue-eyed men and women en ureiy cut oil since nine iiiiiuciuuimi from any contact with the outei world?stories used as themes for romance by Sir Rider Haggard and other novelists. And now comes Majoi C. Percival, an officer of the British army, who in a most interesting article in the Geographical Journal foi the month of September, discusses, or the strength of the experiences which he acquired while recently employed by the governor general of the Sudan the native stories, according to which there are in the Mungaiyat hills of tht Bahr-el-Ghazel and also in the French spheres of central Africa entire systems of temples hidden away in tht caves of those regions that equal, II they do not excel, in splendor thos< already discovered in Egypt. There is no record of these cavef having been visited by any white man They have never been explored bj any European or American, yet everj African traveler has heard of theii existence. Gustav Xachtigal Schweinfurth and others who have penetrated intc Borun Wadi, the further confines ol Darfur, and Bahr-el-Ghazel. refer tc them as impregnable strongholds ol native rulers, retreat to which aces.' is kept as far as possible secret. One in particular, heard of both by Majoi Percival and the decades previousl> by the German explorer, Nachtigal near Ndele, now within the limits ol the French sphere, has been referred to by them us the headquarters of the grand master of the great militant Moslem Order of the Senussi. They were informed that the cavern was more than a mile long, traversed by a subterranean river bordered with rushes. But they were never permitted to penetrate these mountain fastnesses or to approach even within miles thereof. Hence the civilized world is wholly dependent upon na tlve sources for information concerning: them, and if the caves in question are used as fortresses today by those dusky races which have been combating with the utmost tenacity the advance of the white man, with Christianity an<f western civilization in his train, there is no reason why they should not have in ancient times been likewise arranged for worship, and for the celebration of the rites of those wonderful religions of years ago, to which the world is indebted for such noble ruins as those of Mem | phis, at Philae, at rneDes ana elsewhere along the valley of the Nile. Rahama Zobehr, celebrated in his day as the slave king of central Africa and who died not long ago at a very advanced age at Geili, his estate not far from Khartum, is described by Lady Lugnrd, when she saw him in captivity at Gibraltar, as having waxed eloquent on the subject of those wonderful cavern fastnesses and about the temples which they contain. Now the wife of General Sir Frederick Lugard, governor general of British Nigeria, she was at the time when she saw him at the Rock, still Miss Flora Shaw, is acknowledged to be one of the cleverest writers on African subjects on the staff of the London Times, in wnicn paper sne published an extremely Interesting account of her Interview with Zobehr. My acquaintance with Zobehr antedated hers by many years. I first met him at Cairo during the closing months ol' the reign of Khedive IsMall, and then renewed my amicable Intercourses with him in the summer and winter months of 1884-85, until he was deported from Egypt as a state prisoner to Gibraltar. He was very fond of talking to visitors, seemed eager not only to set himself right In their eyes but also to Interest them, and I recall on a number of occasions his expatiating on these alleged cavern temples in the westerp Soudon, especially when I happened to be accompanied by any friend interested in Egyptology. Zobehr was one of the most extraordinary and interesting figures it has ever been my lot to encounter, and it is amazing that so little, relatively speaking, should have been written about him, since his career would furnish themes in abundance both to the novelist and the short story writer. Belonging to the Jaalin tribe and member of a family claiming descent from Abbas, the uncle of the prophet, he set forth as far back as in 1850 from Khartum as a young fellow of 20 to seek his fortune among the Negroid Arab ivory dealers and slave hunters in the district of the White Nile and the Bahr-elGhazel, and 15 years later had succeeded in establishing himself as sovereign of a great central African empire, with a force of many thousands of well trained, well armed soldiers whom he used alike for slave redding purposes, for conquest and for defense. Indeed, from 1860 to 1876, he was the principal source of supply to the slave trade, sending forth immense caravans of this ?orm of African produce to Tripoli for dispatch via Tobruk on the Mediterranean to various Turkish ports, to the slave marts of Morocco and of Tunis, and to the east coast for transport by sea to i Arabia, and via the Persian Qui to the dominations of the Shah. The German traveler Shwelnfurth, who visited him in one of his strongholds in the Kordofan in 1871, gives in his book dealing with central Africa, a most wonderful portrayal of the very barbaric splendor of his court, of the soldiers and guards in armor and carrying two handed swords and arrayed from the Saracen foes of St. Louis; of the lions fastened to either side of his throne by silver chains; of the wealth of gold, of silver and of ivory BAKIN6 Absoluf I I Cakes, hot biscni other pastry, are In the American h ing Powder will digestible, whole | | Ho Alum?Ho L ' * * f I * 1 % ! | Imperial High ! ' | FOR Si Y ! LOUIS ROTH, , * V ; I r ? | Winter! I [M IF IT IS WINTER GOOI 1 ARE HERE WITH THE < 1 SERVE YOU, ESPECIAL rII SHOES. AND CLOTHING. i IF IT IS SPRING GO( 1 SEWING, YOUR BEST C 1 THIS STORE?OUR GOO . II MOST FOLKS. LET US F tjhlie Yorkville and of the wonderful authority which he exerclaed over all his subjects. A man of education, which he obtained, it is said, in the missionary schools at Cairo, he combined the western knowledge which he had thus acquired with great devotion to Islam, whether real or affected I could never discover, and at the time when visited by Schweinfurth, his name was more widely known and dreaded an infinitely greater extent throughout the length and breadth of Africa than avan that nf Tlnnn Tin who e?m? ftf ter him. Probably there was no one man in the 19th century who was responsible for the destruction of so many lives, of so much property, of the devastation of such immense tracts of country, formerly covered by prosperous towns and villages, and above all for the sending into slavery of such great multitudes of men, women and children as Zobehr. A SON OF 80L0M0N Interesting Personality of the late King Menelik. Whether or not the legend is- true that King Menelik of Abyssinia was descended from King Solomon, the remarkable old monarch often showed a wisdom that was worthy of Solomon at his best. A man was once brought before Menellk because ne naa iciiiea anoiner by falling on him from a high tree while the two were gathering nuts. To be sure, a branch had broken, and the wholly involuntary fall had nearly killed the man who fell as well as the one on whom he landed. Nevertheless, the family of the dead man, taking advantage of the Abyssinian law, sued the survivor for "blood money," and in default of it, demanded his life. When the case was Anally appealed to King Menelik, he said, "Very well; you have a right to this man's life, but the law says that he shall die as his victim did. Let one of you, therefore, climb that tall fig tree, and fall on the culprit." The family of the dead man preferred to let matters stand as they were. Solomon himself could have done no more than Menellk in welding many hostile tribes into a united and independent nation, to which he gave at least a veneer of civilization. He hud a strong and interesting personality. Europe learned respect for him in 1896, when he crushed the army that Italy sent against him, and won general recognition of Abyssinian independence. He was an absolute despot, yet a benevolent despot, dignified courteous, and far-seeing, who asked nothing more of the world than respect for the integrity of his kingdom. He attended personally to the conduct of government affairs, down to the smallest details, yet regarded it as in nowise beneath his dignity to rush from diplomatic parley in order to help catch a calf that had escaped from the royal barnyard. Menellk once described the country ove * which his stripling grandson will now rule as "for fourteen centuries an island of Christianity in a sea of pagenism." The Abyssinian form of Christianity is of the Coptic rite, and quite distinct from that of the Roman or the Greek churches. It has successfully resisted all the attempts of European missionaries to change it. The country itself is "the Switzerland of Africa.'' a mountain citadel that overlooks the broad valley of the Nile. 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ED1ST0 Hl( FERTI FOR SA LATTA Yorkvilh Rebuilt T TODAY We are able t< Rebuilt Typewriters that we The Prices below are based on pre nn a T.imitpH MnmHpr nf sold Prices Will Be Higher. Will Buy It NOW you can S Rebuilt Machine. We do not but order from the Rebuilder: within One Week from day ol Buy a Rebuilt Typewrite them learn to use it while the] forces good spelling, where p< poor penmanship. The printe of the poor speller. Use a Tyj your friends will thank You fc No. 4 Underwoods No. 6 Remington (Blind No. 10 Remington (Visibl No. 3 Olivers (Visible Wr No. 5 Olivers (Visible Wr No. 2 Smith Premiers (B1 Royals (Visible Writers) No. 2 L. C. Smith (Visibh The Above Prices are for Prices will be quoted on ai above. Rebuilt Typewriters i and will do any work, run as 1 machine, as all working parts chines have new type, new pla ly enameled, making the mac new one. You will be more t and what it saves you. L. M. GRI! TYPEWRITERS, R * Grower Guano ILE BY * I., Yorkville, S. C. J m ???? REAL ESTATE Know all men by these presents that gf I am prepared to give you efficient advice. My offerings are numerous and attractive. Drop in and let's talk the ^ matter over. John N. O'Farrell Residence?On Charlotte Street. 5-room dwelling. A U>..4 1 U4 I# nuuui i-ttcrc IUI. isvu i ucmy 11 you want It. If. E. Plexico Residence?On King's Ml Street. Nice piece of property, and the price is right. What say YOU? Miss Ida deLoacfa Residence?On ^ Cartwright Avenue. Take a look. Now Listen?I have a beautiful lot on East Liberty Street, part of Steele property. 100 feet front, that's a bargain for some one. 8ee me. Miss Rosa B. Steele 40-Acre Farm? Adjoining J. W. Betts and others. ^ It's up to you. I'm at your service. If you don't see what you want, ask me about it Geo. W. Williams REAL E8TATE BROKER. 0 i_/Ti /Vq-a..Tl -a./TiA, - Pv Vx*i TvT TiTVrS/ t*!?T TVT wT*? TVT hL flunnfk I/IC UUUIIV j VLE BY 5 Yorkville, S. C. j z L/Jl /ftAify AifVA T? vV wTv w%* X^VXD VwV wW F^T Eventually, Why Not Now? There are scores of men in Tork county who are convinced by reason of the overwhelming testimony inai has been placed before them during the past fifteen years that the MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE CO., offers' the BEST there is in life insurance and who expect eventually A* to apply for a policy. Many of them have voluntarily told me of their convictions and Intentions. To each and 4 every one I beg to reiterate the fact that "Life Insurance is pre-eminently a NOW proposition," for the reason that no man has a guarantee that he * will be living tomorrow or if he is that he can successfully pass the rigid medical examination required, and besides, it will never cost any individual less to start with than NOW, but will COST MORE as the days go by. Attend to the matter today. SAM M. GRIST, Special Agent ^ c WW For the Best Job Printing send your orders to The Enquirer Office. ;h grade LIZER lLE BY ^ BROS., i, s. c. * ypewriters i > quote the Lowest Prices on have ever been able to quote, i quotations from the RebuildMachines and when these are [f You need a Typewriter and ave several uoiiars even on a ; carry any machines in stock, s and make deliveries usually j! : Sale. r for Your Boy or Girl. Let ^ / are young. The Typewriter Dor spelling is often hidden in ' :d type will not hide the work ' aewriter yourself, and perhaps 6 >r more legible letters. $32.00 to $60.00 Writers) $20.00 ' le Writers) $45.00 iters) $27.00 iters $40.00 ind Writers) $20.00 $33.00 to $46.00 : Writers) $39.00 Machines Delivered Free, ny make of Machine not listed are in every way satisfactory well and last as long as a new are renewed when worn, matens, new nickeling, and newhines look quite as well as a han pleased with the machine ST'S SONS * IBBONS, PAPERS. %