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^tumorous department. Only Fool Present. When Brig. Gen. William Montrose Graham, now retired, was in command of the fifth field artillery back in 1S91. or thereabouts?anyway during the time that the fifth was stationed at the San Francisco Presidio, there was a first lieutenant in the outfit who was perhaps deservedly the most unpopular man in the army. He's out of it now and back in civil life, so it is only fair to say that there is very little doubt that the president of the United States never did commission a more unfit man in most respects in the military service. One day General?the colonel?Graham received an official complaint from this lieutenant to the effect that it had com' to the lieutenant's attention that a private named Brown had insulted him grossly, all of which seemed against good order and military discipline. The complaint recited that a certain first sergeant called the lieu tenant a rooi. ine ni-uiniaiu most respectfully recommended a courtmurtial for Private Brown. Col. Graham was a pretty good hand at making a more or less thorough investigation into a case before he brought a man before a courtmartial, though, so he had the first sergeant called before him to learn the particulars in the case. "Sergeant," said the colonel, "I am given to understand that you heard Private Brown call Lieut. Blank a fool." "I did, sir," was the reply. "Tell me the circumstances," demanded the colonel. "Well, sir," said the sergeant, "there was a group of officers standing on the parade field near headquarters, Lieut. Blank was in the crowd, sir. Private Brown passed the officers and I heard him say: "You fool, I'd like to smash you one on general principles.' " "He specifically mentioned the name of Lieut. Blank, did he?" asked Col. Graham. "Why, no, sir," replied the sergeant. "He didn't mention anybody's name." "How on earth, then, did you know Lieut. Blank was the one Brown meant?" demanded the colonel. "Why, colonel," said the sergeant in a surprised tone, "Lieut. Blank was the only fool in sight at the time." Poor Fellow.?George Ade, apropos of a May-December marriage, relates the New York Tribune, said: "When your octogenarian millionaire weds your beautiful stenographer of 17 summers it is not to the radiant bride, but to the husband, tnat my sympathies go out. "Why? Well, I'll tell you why in a little fable. "Old Gobsa Golde had wedded Tottie Footlites and one evening he called to her from his dressing-room: " 'My dear, for this after-theatre supper at the hotel I don't know whether to wear my dancing shoes or my patent leather boots. Which is the better form for a man of my age?" "In her green and gold brocade kimona the young and beautiful Mrs Gobsa Golde. stretched on a chaiselounge. undergoing the attentions of her manicure and her coiffeur, called back to her poor old husband in a clear, cold voice: " 'The best form for a man of your age, my dear, is chloroform.' " Misjudged.?Gen. Vincent R. Thompson was talking in Milwaukee about the war, says the New York Tribune. "The Germans, in the first place," he said, "misunderstood the temper of the Belgians. They misunderstood, in the second place, the temper of the Russians, of the English and of the French. Actually, from all those nations they expected a feeble resistance or none at all. "The Germans, in a word, misjudged the Allies as Cornelius Husk misjudged the metropolitan restaurant. "Cornelius Husk, on his first visit to New York, entered a restaurant with 1 timid, faltering steps. A waiter brought him a menu. Very red in the face, he studied it for a long time. Finally, to help him out, the waiter said: " 'Table d'hote, sir?' "'What mought tabble dote be?" old Corn Husk asked, feebly. " 'Course dinner, sir.' " 'Don't want her, then," said Corn Husk. 'Ye see, young feller, I'm from ! the kentry, I am, and I git enough coarse grub at hum.' " , m , i Taking No Chances.?one of the J shrewd lairds of Lanrakshire had evi- ' dently experienced the difficulties of collecting money lent to friends. i "Laird," a neighbor accosted him on- I morning, "1 need twenty pounds. If i you'll he guid enough to tuk ma note, ye'll have yere money back agin in I three months frae the day?" j "Nae, Donald," replied the laird," I ' canna do it." ! "But, laird, ye hae often done the like fer yere friends." "Nae, mon, 1 canna obleege ye." "But laird?" ] "Will ye listen to me, Donald? As 1 soon as I took yere note ye'd draw th- , twenty pounds, would ye no?" < Donald could not deny that he would. I "I ken ye weel, Donald," the laird < continued, "and I ken that in three j months ye'd nae be ready to pay me < ma money. Then, ye ken. we'd quarrel, j But if we're to quarrel, Donald. I'd rather do it noo, when I hae ma twenty pounds in ma pocket."?Tit Bits. < ? I A Valuable Hound.?A real estate ( buyer had been out in the country to , look .it a piece of property, and the old ] farmer accompanied him back to town to close the deal. After traveling several miles the farmer was much survn*. hi* <t,iir crawl from undt r . the seat for he had no idea that it had ( followed him. As the train slowed up ( at a junction the farmer put the dog off and chased him aawy. , "That's too nice a dog to lose," remarked the property buyer. "Does he , know his way home?" "Does he? echoed the old farmer, j ( "Why mister, I've sold that dog four times."?Philadelphia Record. Pursuit Unsuccessful.?"Would ye do ' something for a poor old sailor?" in-1 ' quired a seedy wanderer at the gate. |' "Poor old sailor?" s.iid the lady at i ' work over th- wash tub. "Yessum. 1 followed the water fori1 sixteen years." ' "Well," said the worker as she re- ' sumed her labors, "you certainly don't look as if you ever caught up with it." ' m i i Willie Obeyed.?"Did you do as 1 told 1 you. Willie?" inquired the mother. : "and not ask Mrs. Winters for pie > i second time?" 11 "Yes'm," said Willie, proudly; "It didn't have to ask more than once; 1 got the first piece without asking." i ittisccllanrous Heading). LEGISLATIVE BUGABOO. Senator McLaurin Tells Joke at Expense of Doubters. Senator McLaurin told a good story in his speech before the senate, on Thursday morning. He said that every time you tried to help the farmers, somebody shouted, "U nconstitutional." "When Horace Greeley was the farmers' candidate for president, that farmers all over the country sent him pumpkins, potatoes and all sorts of farm produce. One day two roosters came to the office. They kept crowing and pecking at each other, until the boys concluded they would have some fun. There was an old drunken tramp printer, who was kept, because he was the only one who could read Mr. Greely's horrible handwriting. They took the roosters and put some paper on the tloor, then they rubbed printer's ink on their feet and dropped them on the paper. They fought all over it and when they finished, it looked exactly like one of Mr. Greely's editorials, then they cut it in strips and hung it on the old printer's hook at the type case. He came in after awhile, just off of a big drunk. He looked at the paper, studied it awhile and then went to setting type. He set away until he came to a great big streak where one of the roosters had slipped. Then he went in to Mr. Greely and asked him what that word was. Old Horace looked at it and said, 'Why, you fool, don't you see it is, 'Unconstitutional?' "That is about the way it is with acreage reduction, elimination, the warehouse bill or anything else for the farmers, when they are out of logic or facts; it is 'Unconstitutional.' "No wonder it is occasionally said, 'To hell with the constitution,'" concluded the speaker. FOR CONSIDERATION Appeal of Figures for No Cotton Crop in 1915. The following statement prepared by Dr. Wade Stackhouse, was laid on the desks of members of the legislature last week: Supply and Prospective Supply and |-> 1 A i?... ?i L/crrid(1U n; w<j/3 uuihi UI r i iwo v. All Things. Cotton Statement. Crop 1914, say 15,000,000 bales at 15 cents $1,125,000,000 No Cotton Crop in 1915. Estimate corn crop on Cotton land 1915 400,000,000 Cotton crop 1916?16,000,000 bales at 12 cents 960,000,000 Five million tons cotton seed of 1914 crop at $20. 100,000,000 Five million tons cotton seed of 1916 crop at $30. 150,000,000 Total $2,735,000,000 Compared With Cotton Crop 1914-15.000.000 bales at 8 cents ....$ 600,000,000 Cotton crop 1915?10,000,000 bales at 6 cents 300,000,000 Cotton crop 1916?11,000,000 bales at 6 cents 330,000,000 Five million tons cotton seed from 1914 crop at $15 75,000,000 seed from 1915 crop at $10 40,000,000 Four million tons cotton seed from 1916 crop at $10 40,000,000 Total $1,385,000,000 Difference in favor of no cotton crop 1915 1,350.000,000 This statement clearly shows that the planters of the south can if they wish, make $1,350,000,000 for themselves by abandonment of cotton production in 1915. Will they do this and eradicate the boll weevil? This is your opportunity. McADOO TO HENRY Secretary of Treasury Discusses Government Loan Proposition. The plan for direct Federal aid to cotton growers to the extent of $400,000.000 was the subject of sharp criticism in a letter to Representative Henry of Texas, made public Friday night, by Secretary McAdoo. The letter is in reply to recent statements to the house by Mr. Henry. Mr. McAdoo announces the proposal to sell $350,000,000 of Panama canal bonds to bolster the cotton crop is not practicable and generally objects to all the features of the Henry plan. He calls attention to the fact that those who deal in tobacco naval stores, copper, silver and other commodities have sought government tun. "If we disregard every suffering interest except cotton," he said, "and make it the sole beneficiary of governmental favor, what becomes of the Democratic principle of 'equal rights for all, special privileges to none?" "If we enter upon the course you suggest we must help every distressed industry impartially. To do that would necessitate the issue of many more than $400,000.OftO in bonds and greenbacks and dangerously involve the credit of the government. Tt would be a hopeless undertaking, in defiance of every sound principle of finance and economics, with certain disaster at the end." Representative Henry introduced in the house a compromise loan proposal presented in a bill framed on Thursday night by a conference of southern members of congress. It would reduce the proposed loan to $2f?(l, 000.000. While Mr. McAdoo was writing his letter, the committee of St. I^ouis bers and hankers, head?*d by Festus J. Wade, was in conference with a ommiltee of the Federal reserve board over the proposed $150,000,000 lotton loan fund to take care of the surplus cotton crop. No decision ivas reached and the conference was resumed on Friday. Mr. McAdoo's letter to Mr. Henry went exhaustively into the aid so far L-xtended by the treasury to national banks in the cotton states showing that it has issued to them sitae the war begun $fiX,o<io.oot) in current y: that its crop funds amounted to $11,337,000; that its regular deposits in the south total $16.o6f,.oon and that there is available for southern banks In compliance with the law, $ 1 I.tiini,900 more in additional national bank ui tent y. "What is really wanted," said the letter, "is a restored market for t niton. The value of cotton h is been Injured during the year by the ICuro[iean war. This injury cannot lie retrieved nor the market restored by legislation." In bis letter, Mr. McAdoo denied that h-- hitd the right to deposit treasury funds of which Mr. Henry nad said there were "several hundred millions" exclusively in the south. The titutcs required, he said, that such funds be distributed as far as practicable "equitably between the different -t 'tes and sections." "If the government had several hundred million dollars in the treasury." Mr. McAdoo said, "congress would not be engaged now in passing t new tax bill to repair the loss in revenues occasioned by the Kuropean war." In conclusion the letter says: "The powers and resources of the aiuthern states should be employed ' FRENCH TLhCCS Hi Squad of the tierce-Uguting Turcot German equipment captured by them Aieaux. for tht benefit of their people and the national government should not l>c expected to do things which are beyond its power. I am glad to state that the Federal reserve banks throughout he country are now practically organized. The resources of these banks will be available in the very near future for the further relief of the financial institution and for the benefit of all kinds of business." BULLETS FIRED UPWARD Experiments as to What Becomes of Them. It is believed among the soldiers, says a London letter, that bullets fired vertically upwards at aircraft never descend as bullets, the intense and prolonged friction of their flight to the limit of the trajectory and the siihsemit-nt descent nf what is left nf them, completely dissipating them into vapor. Thousands of bullets have recently been tired at aircraft, but none has been positively known to descend. I'ntil the advent of aircraft just what happened to the bullets when fired perpendicularly into the air was a matter of purely academic interest; it has now become a question of vital practical importance. Very few ballistic investigators have ever troubled to experiment with vertically fired bullets. The first man to do so was Benjamin Robins, the "Father of the Modern Art of Gunnery," who in a hook published in 1742, placed on record his experience in this direction with a smooth bore. As a matter of fact, Robins did not fire truly vertically possibly because he was afraid that the returning bullets might cause him considerable personal inconvenience. Instead, he fired at an angle somewhat out of the perpendicular and to windward. He claims to have recovered the falling bullets, and as trend as intimated that the distance which the bullets did fall out of the vertical was due entirely to the effect of wind upon them. Coining to more recent things, we have the experiments of Dr. F. W. Mann, an American rifle enthusiast. Mann's leisure is spent entirely in rille experimentation, and his hook. "The Bullets' Flight From Powder to Target." is devoted to an account of many years' labor in the field of small arm ballistics. The problem of the vertically fired bullets was tackled by Mann but he soon gave up the experiment in disgust as being devoid of results. On a perfectly calm day he took a boat into the centre of a large lake. and. fixing a rifle into a truly vertical position, he fired into I the air. hoping to be able to put on record the return of the bullets and the time taken in their flight. Although he fired several rounds of ammunition in this way. he regretfully admitted that he was unable to either hear or see any of the returning bullets fall into the placid waters of the I., Va Among tho English rille investigators. L. Ft. Tippins, of Minningtree, Essex, has also devoted some time to the problem. He was luckier in his results than Mann, and has actually observed (he return to earth of the bullets. J. Hersehel Hardcastle. who is amongst the foremost English ride authorities, after several attempts, is also able to put 011 record the recovery of several bullets dred in the perpendicular position. Speaking theoretically, a bullet dred from a smooth-bore gun held truly perpendicular and on a perfectly still day, should return to the point from which it left the earth. Practically this is never the case. Indeed, the safest position for the brer to remain in is in all probability the firing point. The observations of Hardcastle and GERMAN HO ?nW> ..11 at < 1 1 11 m ^ '''^ Uritish soldiers passing tbrougb L* tbe Marne. SELECTING GERMAN W i trom the French nuiean possessions, in their successful encounter with the Tippins, who worked independently, | tell us that the English service bullet takes somewhere about 55 seconds | in its perpendicular flight in the air ! and return to the earth, and it reaches < a height of between 8,000 and 9.000 feet. This is confirmed by calcula- < ticns based on the resistance of the i air and the force of gravity. The 1 bullet starts off with a velocity of about 2,500 feet per second, but it loses speed very considerably in the upper regions of the air; so much so I that for about half the time of its entire flight, the bullet is traveling at a velocity not much greater than that of a well-hit golf ball. Palloon observations, particularly those made by Llndenburg, show that in the upper atmosphere the wind may blow with a force three or four . times, that at which it blows in proximity to the earth. Again. It has i been found, time after time that on I an apparently calm day the wind in the upper strata is blowing with considerable force. Here, then, we have i an explanation of the soldiers' belief i that the bullet never returns. When ! towards the higher part of its flight j the bullet is progressing at a very I small speed, and is, therefore, easily i carried away by the force of even a i light wind. That the bullet descends is, of course, unquestionable, and it ! does so with very little alterations to I its initial shape and weight. Due to ' the spin given to it by the rifling, i it in all probability returns as it as- < cended?that is, with is point upper- ] most. It returns, too?as a very I practical missile?with a velocity of i between 400 and 500 feet per second, I capable of giving a knock-out blow I to any combatant. SALTED PEANUTS 1 Salting Process Described in an Inter- j esting Manner. ( There are two distinct kinds of } salted peanuts, according to A. P. Grohens, an authority on that sub- ] ject, says the New York Times. The | ordinary kinds are the ones prepared i from Spanish shelled peanuts, unbleached, or, in other words, with the j skins left on. The other class of salted peanuts is prepared from the . Virginia varieties and blanched. The ] blanched salted peanuts are usually ( put up in small paraffined paper sacks to prevent early deterioration, ; To prepare the unblanched varle- < ties of salted peanuts the manufac- i turer makes use of a copper kettle ? or of an Iron steam-jacketed kettle, j This kettle is partly filled with veg- , etable fat or "konnut." When this 1 fat has come to the boiling point the 1 peanuts, by means of a wire basket, , are lowered into the vat and boiled tp a straw color. When done, the t wire basket is raised above the fat ' to allow the oil to drain off and then , the nuts are discharged into a suit- < able vessel or trough, where the salt J is applied while the nuts are still | hot. I The making of blanched peanuts ] requires a different process. The Vir- j ginia shelled peanuts are roasted in a ( special roaster to a light straw color, i After this, and as soon as they are | < tooled off, they pass through the au-lj toniatic hlancher, which removes the , red skins as well as the bitter germs ' or sprouts. The nuts are then salted. ' In order to produce a ready cohension for the salt it is necessary to use a little cocoa oil, which is sprinkled ( over the nuts, and they are mixed hefore the salt is applied. , The Virginia goober differs from , others in that it is blanched whole and is prepared from only the choicest or "umbo" Virginia shelled ( peanuts. X' Most of us already have about all 1 the "rights" we can use intelligently. 1 RSES CAPTURED BY TH l Ferte with horseb winch they capture< AR TROPHIES selecting souvenirs from a heap of kaiser's troops at Neufmontlers, near Ten Dry States. Virginia's adoption of state wide prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicants brings the number of such commonwealths up to ten, says the New York World. The others are Maine, Kansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota. Oklahoma. Tennessee and West Virginia. In Virginia, as elsewhere, the issue was decided by the vote of the country districts, but of the seventeen cities having a population of more than fi.000, only four, Alexandria, Norfolk, Danville and Richmond, voted in opposition to the amendment. Of the f? 1,000,000 people in the continental I'nited States at the last census, ap proximately 16.000.000 are now subject to state-wide prohibitory laws. While sentiment hostile to the liluor traffic has been politically effective mainly in the south, it exists powerfully in many northern states. At the south, prohibition has religious ind racial inspiration, and in some 2?ses has been carried by the whites solely for the purpose of depriving negroes of strong drink. At the north it Is urged now chiefly in resentinenl igainst the dominance and corruption i>f saloons in political management. Probably there are more saloons in .Vew York or Chicago than ever existed in half a dozen southern states, riie influence that they have exerted in public affairs in all large northern cities, has been and still is prodigous. If the movement should gain further headway in this section, it will be directed as sharply against the brewryfinanced saloon in politics as against Ihe beverages which it dispenses. ? Columbia, October 8: The state board of health, meeting in Columbia, yesterday, unanimously adopted what is known as the "model law" regulations for the enforcement of the vital statistics act in South Carolina, which was passed by the last general assembly and approved several weeks ago by the governor. Enforcement of the ntal statistics law will begin January 1. "We have adopted the law in force in North Carolina and Virginia iiid we will benefit by their mistakes," said James A. Hayne, M. D., state health officer and registrar, exDfficlo, under the vital statistics law. i'lider the terms of the "model law," is adopted by the board, the state will be divided into districts to be made up of cities, incorporated towns md townships. The local registrars ire to be appointed by the state regisirar Local registrars will be naid 25 cenu each for reporting deaths and births to the state registrar. When ihe proper certificates have been filed with the county treasurers the fees ivill be paid to the local registrars. Regulations for the enforcement of he vital statistics act will be published n pamphlet form by the state board >f health and will be distributed to indertakers. physicians and midwives. >ne of the important features is that i permit must be secured from the lo al registrar for every burial in the listricts. There is a penalty provided for violation of this section. "This provision," said Dr. Hayne yesterday, will insure accurate reports on deaths n South Carolina." The state board f health will make financial arrangenents for printing pamphlets and certificates for the present. A special ippropriation will be ask to aid in he enforcement of the law at the text session of the general assembly. The full text of the "model law" will e published at a later date by the date board of health. Oh!?"I don't understand precisely lie functions of the supreme court!" "It's like this. You have a dispute with your wife and she decides against rou. That's the lower court." "1 see." "You take the matter to your mother. That's the court of appeals." "L see." "Then your wife takes it to her nother. That's the supreme court."? Louisville Courier-Journal. E BRITISH 1 from tiie Germans in the battle of JUVENILE CRIMINALS New York Man Has Started Criminal Class in Public School. A class of boy criminals in a public school the only one of its kind in the world? is the startling innovation which Itlchard Feier has introduced in Greenwich village, New York, says an exchange. Following the old rule of "keeping bad boys in after school." Feier is having such good success with his work that he has , become known as the "Ben Lindsay" of New York. Feier's class is made up of young burglars, truants, forgers and dis- ' turbers of the peace. It is recruited from the children's court, the truant school, the superintendent's office and the Catholic protectory?a Catholic reform school. The boys all attend school No. 95, situated in Greenwich village, where Feier teaches during the day. At 3.30 when the pupils are let out for the day, Feier's class meets with Feier for handball games, football or some other form of exercises 1 for an hour. Then they are taken to ! the carpenter shop where they are ' kept until six o'clock. After then ' they are allowed to go home ' P'eier is very modest about his ' work. He says that it is very simple ' and that the boys themselves made it a sucess by the way they take hold 1 of it. But he doesn't explain what an observer will notice that the boys 1 "take hold of it" as he says for the ( reason that he knows just how to reach them. He wins their confidence right away and it is Feier largely and not the plan that is such a success. 'fib- olwuit 14 vonr? in lilt? IJ'IJ .1 aiciagc utsirut. jv ?- ... age. They are normal in mind and body, but are just reaching the age when bad influences?fast women, evil men, drink and gambling?fasten upon them. "It's the bad company the boys get into that makes them go wrong," said Feier. "That is all our plan is for? to keep them out of bad company. We keep them off the streets after school and In that way they avoid making bad companions. They are beginning to enjoy studying with the class. In fact, some of them after ' their terms of probation have expired have asked to be allowed to stay with the class. "And none of them are really bad boys. Here's one (pointing to a lad i in a group picture) who was a fence ! for a clothing thief. He had a lot of J clothing. He is a bright lad but Just j got into bad company. Here's an'oth- i er (pointing to another lad in the picture) who forged a check a. ( couple of months ago. I've found out that he isn't really vicious at all at ' heart. He had just got into bad ' company. He'll come through all ( right now. ? "I never have much trouble with 1 the boys. Oh, I've taken lots of : knives and blackjacks off of them. ] I've got the finest little collection of 1 blackjacks you ever saw. 1 "Had one boy in here who had stabbed a playmate. After being tak- i en to the reformatory he stabbed a ' keeper. When he joined the class I f found a cheese knife about five inch- j es long on him. I never had a bit of , trouble with him, however, and he is | making one of the best members of the class. "I have one boy in the class now who is sniffing 'coke!' You know that is getting to be one of the biggest dangers the boys of today face. There are so many unscrupulous persons? coke (lends?going about teaching c hildren' to use the vile stuff. This lad soaks the inside elbow of his coat sleeve with coke before he comes to | school. Then he leans his head down on his arm a dozen times a day or more and sniffs it. I don't know Just how I am going to help him. "The parents? Oh. the less said the better. Usually the father is a drunkard and the mother is too busy raising more children and slaving for a living to watch the boy. When her boy is arrested she shrugs her shoulders as * tnn hnH and she hones 11 IU any it 10 tv/w ?. the others will turn out better." Another feature of school No. 95 which tends to make it one of the best ?if not the best in the city?is its de- ; partment for mental "defectives." These are children not normally intelligent but who are not deemed backward enough for a special institution. There are about thirty of these children at school No. 95 who are given special attention. Two women teach- I ers have charge of these pupils and 1 they teach them basket weaving, the ; making of brushes, simple sewing and the very simplest form of arithmetic. LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS Radical Situations Require Radical Remedies. Says the Anderson Intelligencer: "The Hon. W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, has suggested a plan for financing the state and for tiding over the present serious times. Whatever Mr. Stevenson says carries great weight. He is recognized as one of the great legal intellects of the south. * * * He proposes several big things for the legislature to do. They are so big that the average mind may not readily see their necessity and importance, but we feel sure that if Mr. Stevenson says they are all right before the law the courts will say the same thing." The opinion which the Anderson newspaper holds of Mr. Stevenson's abilities is shared by a very considerable number of South Carolinians in all sections of the state. There are a great many citizens, and not a few leg30 Years'' 30 YEARS THE STANDARD I Come Here and Se J Come and compare the "OwenaborO" ;] any other make. Hitch your team to it J farm, the road, in the wood*?anywhere I Yorkville Ba slators, who look to Mr. Stevenson as me of our leaders of legislative bought. They are ready to trust his udgment in many matters even beyond their own. His aggressive championship of any cause with which he is dentitied has commanded their respect ind at the same time they have considered him "safe." He has acquired a eputation for keeping his feet on the ?round. Mr. Stevenson is now before the public in what for him is rather a new role. He is a leading proponent of several measures all of them extremely radical. It will be interesting to see what he will have to present in Justlication of the legislation which he proposes for the relief of the present extraordinary conditions. The need of intelligent leadership tias seldom been so great in South Carolina as it is right now.?News and rv... When the Strife Ceases. In Europe, when the war is done? may that day soon be greeted!?when some their victory have won, and some have been defeated, 'twill be a country jf the old, the halt, the maimed, the flying; in unmarked couches, 'neath the mould, the young men will be lyng. Afar the youthful hosts are Hung, like grain that waits the reaping; for war takes harvest of the young, and leaves the old men weeping. In Europe, when the war is done, and rust Aims sword and sabre, in barren fields, from sun to sun, old men and dames will labor. The patriarch must guide the plow in fields yet red from slaughter, while hitched like horses are the frau, the grandma and the daughter. Perhaps some cripple from the wars may help to do the seeding, while groaning o'er his varied scars, and old wounds freshly bleeding. Some veteran on wooden legs, whose strength is swiftly dwindling, may milk the cows and fetch the eggs, and split the daily kindling. But everywhere the weak and old must do the heavy toiling, must strive the little farms to hold, and keep the pot a-boiling. Old men and dames, the harvest waves! Go forth and do the reaping, for in their red and shallow graves, your strong young men are sleeping!?Walt Mason. SCIATIC RHEUMATISM CURED Five bottles of Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy cured T. H. Harrison, Clerk Superior Court, Yancyville, N. C? of sciatic rheumatism. The blood is purified, the body built back to health and strength and all the ills resulting from impoverished or poisoned blood, such as rheumatism, nervous dyspepsia, gastritis, indigestion, eczema, scrofula, etc., are completely overcome by Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy. Phis remedy has been successfully used for forty years, and hundreds of testimonials declare its superiority as i blood medicine. It is scientifically compounded of vegetable ingredients af the highest purity. When you suffer those ills, you need Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy for your blood. Your druggist should have It; if he hasn't, we will supply you. Large size Pottles one dollar. Remedy Sales Corporation. Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Joe Person's Wash should be ised in connection with the Remedy for :he cure of sores and the relief of inlamed and congested surfaces. It is especially valuable for women, and should ilways be used for ulcerations. To Oar Fari We are doing our very be friends to buy their Dry Goo Groceries, etc., at the Lowes your business, and when you or Flour, or anything else in c this way for your want. Our i with good Shoes for you, your up to you to come and see wh We have had nothing but 1 pie who have taken advantage erybody has been kind enough and our Good Goods. We ar Your money do its very greate have been here say we are stric us?it will pay You to drive t our goods. We talk a lot about our Sh< have an extra good line?Larg from the Best Makers and Th "The Star Brand" Shoes?N01 line of Shoes, and they have bi have a good line of Shoes at to know about them?to see 1 If You need a pair of Sho< Your Children. We can pleas and Prices. Let us show Yoi who have visited this Sale, tell things and that we are especia The Ladies are especially < our lines of Dry Goods and N< of values and we appreciate th In "The Cross Roads Stc doing our levelest best to give eties, Qualities and Prices as ^ stores?We believe you will < "Cross Roads Store." Now, to be plain about i Business?Large or Small, an day to deserve it and to keep Store and these Roads are E> the clock is striking n. Goo Be sure to See Us for Fl< 3^*" During the Next Ten I Bushels of Cotton Seed and W el for All You Bring us. A. M. McGILL, "THE CROSS ROADS STOI ^ wagon to M 1 increase in pop building an hones v.*:-. every user, for every e the "OwensborO" W ' part by part with I If you don't find that i and try it out on the lighter, rides easier, c ?any way you like. | satisfactory wagon f< nking & Mercanh Unseen, Unknown Future.... f Many years ago the late Charles A. ^ Dana wrote a letter to a little girl who asked if there was a Santa Claus. Here are some extracts from It: "Ye**, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus; he exists as certainly as love, generosity and devotion ex- A ist. * * * The most real ~ tilings In the world arc those tilings that neither men nor Children see. You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise Inside, but there is a wall covering the unseen f world which not the strongest man nor the united strength of all the strongest men can tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside the curtain und view uie glory beyond. Is it real? Ah, Virginia, in ull tills world there is nothing else real and abiding. Xo Santa Claus? He lives and lives forever." "There is a wall covering the un- *M seen," there is a wall covering the future, and those beautiful sentiments, "love, generosity and devotion," demand that provision be made for that unknown future. Xo better provision can be made than by means of a life insurance policy in the Staunch ? /O.I nl fit SAM M. GRIST, Special Agent, TAX NOTICE?1914 Office of the County Treasurer of York County. Yorkville, S. C., Sept. 14, 1914. f NOTICE is hereby given that the TAX BOOKS for York county will be opened on THURSDAY, the 15TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1914, and remain open until the 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1914, for the collection of STATE, , COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL # TAXES, for the fiscal year 1914, without penalty; after which day ONE PER CENT penalty will be added to all payments made in the month of JANUARY. 1915. and TWO PER CENT penalty for all payments made in the month of FEBRUARY, 1915, and SEVEN PER CENT penalty will be added to all payments made from the a 1ST DAY OF MARCH to the 15TH DA y OF MARCH, 1915, and after this date all unpaid taxes will go into executions and all unpaid Single Polls will be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I * will attend the following places on the days named: At Yorkville, Thursday, October 15. At Smyrna, Thursday, October 22d. At Hickory Grove, Friday and Saturday, October 23d and 24th. At Sharon, Monday, October 26th, At McConnellsville, Tuesday, October 27th. At Tirzah, Wednesday, October 28th. At Clover, Thursday and Friday, October 29th and 30th. At Yorkville from Saturday, October 31st, to Tuesday, November 3d. At Coates's Tavern, from 8 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, November 4th, to 8 ^ o'clock p. m. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, November 6th and 7th. At Rock Hill, from Monday, November 9th, to Saturday, November 14th. And at Yorkville from Monday, November 16th, until Thursday, the 31st % day of December, 1913, after which date the penalties will attach as stated above. Note.?The Tax Books are made up by Townships, and parties writing about taxes will always expedite matters if they will mention the Township or Townships in which their nKAnartiaa orn 1 r?r>Q f |JI UJJCl Ul |^1U|/CI VIVO l*? V wvwvww. HARRY E. NEIL, W Treasurer of York County. ner Friends * st to help our customers and ds, Notions, Clothing, Shoes, t possible prices. We want want Shoes, Clothing, Sugar ur line, we want you to come counters and shelves are filled wife and your children. It is lat we have to offer, commendations from the peoof our Special Fall Sale?Ev- ^ i to commend our Low Prices e trying to Help YOU make st buying, and the people who :tly on the Job. Come and see en miles to get our prices and >es, because we know that we rA \A/a11 Selected finod Shoes ey are Priced Right We sell ne are better, and the Beasley ut few equals. We know we Right Prices. We want You them?to buy them. ;s for Yourself, Your Wife or f e you in Quality, Styles, Sizes 1 Our Shoes. All the Ladies us that we have so many nice lly strong on Shoes, romplimentary when they see )tions. They are good judges eir visits and kind remarks. >re That's Different" We are You as good service in VariIou can find at the larger city ippreciate this service at the the matter, We Want Your d we are working night and it. All Roads Lead to This ttra Good. As we write this H Ni<rht ~ 0?Dur, for Sugar and for Shoes. )ays We Want to Buy 2,500 ill Pay You 30 Cents a feushNo. Yorkville. * *E THAT'S DIFFERENT." itation iaj arm Wagon I ff it takes a mighty good hold up for 30 years and p; iularity and sales every year. That's H e "OwensborO." Just because the 1 o Wagon Works have persisted in I it wagon for "perfect satisfaction" to If purpose, year in and year out. g agon for Yourself it is better built in every way, runs I ] arries more weight and is a more K'i >r your money, bring it back. H ^ lie Company I