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tumorous department
Place Had Changed.?"Where's the
old blacksmith shop where I picked
the hot penny off the anvil?"
"The blacksmith organized the Gluetown
Garage and Gasolina corporation
and sold the stock and went to Europe.
"Where's the old oaken bucket from
which I sipped many a cool draught?"
"The health department has it in a
glass case as a horrible exhibit."
"What's become of the little red
schoolhouse?"
"Mrs. Van Coin bought it to use as
a hospital for her Pomeranians."
"How about the Common where we
used to play one old cat?"
"The Confederate league has bought
it and we're going to have a game
there as soon as we get Hal Chase to
jump to us."
"The old tavern is the same, I suppose?"
"No; Billy went out of business
rather than cater to the motorist taste
for drinks with seven kinds of Mquor
and vegetables in them."
"The postofflce?"
"Not much changed; but Joe Gimp
isn't postmaster any more. This postcard
craze drove him blind trying to
keep up with his reading."
"Isn't anything the same as it used
to be?"
"Yes, just one. When you go to get
shaved you'll find that the barber's
conversation and his razor are exactly
the same as they were when you
went away."
Blather and Bother.?A certain lady
in Paris gives periodical dinners at
which assemble most of the best known
wits and litterateurs of the day. The
rule of the mansion is that while one
person discourses no interruption
whatever can be permitted. It is said
that M. Renan once attended one or
these dinners, and being in excellent
vein, talked without a break during
the whole repast. Toward the end of
the dinner a guest was heard to begin
a sentence, but he was instantly
silenced by the hostess. After they had
left the table, however, she at once informed
the extinguished individual,
that, as M. Renan had now finished
his conversation, she would gladly
hear what he had to say. The guest
modestly declined; the hostess insisted.
"I am certain it was something of
consequence," she said.
"Alas, madam," he answered, "it
was, indeed; but now it is too late.
I should have liked a little more of
that iced pudding."
Companions in Misfortune.?Two
men sat at the same table In a restaurant
of the cheaper sort in Berlin.
They were strangers to each other, but
not too proud to talk.
"Hard times," said one, putting
down regretfully his empty beer
glass.
"Very hard times," said the other
as he speared with his fork a last
morsel of sausage.
"I have seen better days."
"And I."
"Only a year ago, too."
"Just about that."
"I mean In my business."
"Precisely. My business is gone
clean to the devil."
"The same with mine."
"And what is your business, may
I ask?"
"I am a dancing master?a professor
of the fox trot and allied arts?
and you?"
"I am a professor of international
law."
His Own Fault.?There had been an
accident on the worst railroad in the
United States. You know the name
of the road as well as I do, so what's
the use of risking a libel suit by
mentioning it?
The sole survivor of the wreck was
sitting up in his hospital cot swathed
in bandages. "I suppose you're going
to sue the company for damages,"
said the friend at his bedside.
"No," said the damaged one, "I
shall do nothing of the kind."
"Why not? You've certainly .got a
clear case against them."
"Clear case, nothing! Any intelligent
jury in the world would bring in
a verdict of contributory negligence.
I ought to have known better than to
travel on the blamed line."
By Inference.?Peter and his small
boy were passing St. Paul's churchyard
when the father pointed out some
of the larger monuments about.
The boy asked why they were
erected. His father explained that
they were in memory of good men
and women. Soon the boy noticed
some stones which arc laid flat. He
pointed to those and asked:
"Do they put those that way to
keep the bad ones down?"?New York
Post.
And There are Others.?"Are you
going to the mountains or the seaside
for vacation?"
"Well, my arms are not strong
pnniip'h to null fnt wnmen nn stppn
places, over rocks, and bathing suits
are not exactly adapted to the model
of legs I fjn wearing this summer, so
guess I'll stay home and invest in an
electric fan."
Impossible.?"The great trouble
with the American people is that they
eat too much," said the doctor.
"Nonsense," retorted the statistical
person. "I can easily produce figures
to prove that one-third of the American
people live in boarding houses."?
Judge.
Start of His Finish.?"Well, old
man, how's tricks?"
"Miss Wallaby accepted me last
night."
"I suppose you are around today.
He married her, thon by and by.
She proved a lemon."
Alarming Symptoms?First She?
My husband says that owing to the
war. capital is timid.
Second She?Yes, when mine has
any he grows pale every time I kiss
him.
Ail But One.?"Everyone seems to
be here for his health," remarked the
new arrival at the summer resort.
"Yes; everyone but the hotel proprietor,"
replied the guest who had
been there three days.?Judge.
Not To His Taste.?His Host?By
the way, what do you think of the
Mexican imbroglio?
Mr. Malaprop?To tell the truth, I
like old-fashioned American fruits the
best.?Judge.
Listening Acquaintances.?Blobbs?
Here comes Talkalot.
Slobbs?Do you know him to speak
to?
Blobbs?No, merely to listen to.
TAX BOARD TO ASSESS BANKS
Attorney General Submits Ruling for
Tax Commission.
RIGHT OF COMMISSION IS CLEAR.
Language of Act Requires State Tax
Commission Board to Assess Banks
?County Boards of Equalization
Have Nothina to do With the Mat
ter.
In compliance with a requ?st of A.
W. Jones, chairman of the state tax
commission, Attorney General Peeples
last week handed down the following
opinion regarding the right of the
commission to assess the banks and
other corporations for taxation:
"I am in receipt of yours of the 26th
inst., in the matter of the assessment
of banks for the year 1915, in which
you ask whether or not the banks of
this state are to be assessed for taxation
for the year commencing January
1, 1915, by the state tax commission
under sub-division 16 of section 8
of the act creating the commission, or
by the county auditors and county
boards of assessors under civil code
of 1912, sections 345, 423 and 427.
"You state in your communication
that before the local board of assessors
acted on the returns of banks,
unnn its organization in March the
state tax commission notified the
county auditors of the state to require
the banking corporations to give the
itemized information required by the
bank tax returns heretofore used, and
if such information was not furnished
to return the tax returns to the banks
for correction. The commission instructed
the county auditors to place
the returns made by the banks before
the county boards of equalization and
if the boards should increase the valuations
then to give notice to the corporation
of the amount of the increase
and have a time set to hear
their protests or appeal.
"The banks contend that the commission
has nothing to do with the
assessment of the banks and that the
action of the county boards fixing
such assessment is final and not reviewable
by this commission. You ask
if the assessment so made by the
county boards and county auditors
govern for the year 1915, or has the
tax commission the power to review
the action of the county auditors and
county boards in the matter of assessment
of banks, or to make such
assessments so as to equalize the assessment
on them this year.
"The act creating the South Carolina
tax commission, approved February
20, 1915, repealed all acts or parts
of acts inconsistent therewith and
went into effect immediately upon its
approval. Section 6 of this act, among
other things, provides that 'the commission
shall have power to make all
needed rules not inconsistent with
law for the orderly and methodical
performance of its duties and for
conducting hearings, appeals and other
proceedings before it.'
"The act further provides, in subdivisions
1 and 2 of section 8, that the
said commission shall have and exercise
'general supervision over the administration
of the assessment and tax
laws of this state; over all boards of
assessors and equalization, and all other
assessing officers in the performance
of their duties to the end that all
assessments of property be made relatively
just and equal in compliance
with the laws of this state; to prepare
suitable forms for the listing of property
each year and to arrange and
classify the items of all property in
such groups and classes, and from
time to time change and separate or
consolidate the same as it may deem
advisable for securing more accurate
information concerning, and a more
perfect listing and valuation of, all
property of the state; to confer with,
advise and direct assessors, boards of
equalization as to their duties under
the laws of this state, and to that
end call meetings of all assessors in
each county, to be held at the county
seat of such county or elsewhere most
convenient, or at the capital, for the
purpose of necessary instruction from
the commission as to the law governing
the assessment and taxation of
all classes of property, and to formulate
and prescribe rules to govern
such assessors and boards of equalization
in the discharge of their duties,
which rules shall be obeyed and carried
out by such assessors and boards
of equalization.' Under these portions
of the act quoted the tax commission
was clearly within its rights
and authority, in my opinion, in prescribing
the rules referred to in your
communication.
"The act further provides, in subHivioinn
1ft nf ocntinn 8 thot thp mm
mission shall also assess and equalize
taxable values upon the property and
franchises of railroads, etc., banks and
banking corporations, etc. The language
of the act just quoted does not
only to my mind clearly give to the
tax commission the right to fix the assessment
of banks and banking corporations
for the year 1915, but makes
it the duty of the commission to do
so.
"The assessed valuations of property
generally is not fixed by the returns
made to the auditor or by the
assessments made b>' the township
boards, but valuations of property for
taxation are such as are fixed by the
county boards of equalization, section
428 of the code of 1912, providing that
such valuations are required to be
adopted by the county auditor for the
purpose of taxation for the ensuing
year and are required to be permanently
entered of record by him upon the
tax books of his county.
"Before the passage of the tax com
mission act the county boards of
equalization were charged, in my
opinion, with the equalization of the
property of banks and banking corporations,
along with the other real
and personal property situate in their
respective counties, and they were required
by statute to meet on the 4th
Tuesday in March for the performance
of the duties devolved upon them by
law. The time provided for their
meeting and the time for the fixing
of the valuations by the county board,
the 4th Tuesday in March, was after
the tax commission act became a law
and went into effect, and after the said
act had devolved the assessment of
banks and banking corporations upon
the state tax commission. Such being
the case, in my opinion, the county
boards of equalization had nothing to
do with the assessment of banks and
banking corporations for taxation for
the year 1915, except such duties as
were devolved upon them by the rules
of the state tax commission in the
gathering of information, etc., for the
information of the state tax commis
sion in fixing the assessment of these
banks.
"In my opinion the language of the j
tax commission act requires the state
tax commission to assess and equalize
the taxable value of banks and banking
corporations for the year 1915."
CAUSTIC COMMENT
Pointed Paragraphs Concerning Folk <
and Things.
Dyspepsia is the mother of many a (
disagreeable disposition.
It doesn't pay to own things you
care for. I
An excellent way to flatter a woman |
is to keep still and listen. <
The worse a reputation the harder
it is to lose. i
A grouchy man thinks he laughs 1
best who laughs last. <
A wonder lasts nine days?but a
woman's curiosity goes on forever. 1
When a man has his leg pulled he
ought to be glad he isn't a centipede.
And often a girl who married for a
Hnonn't stav there half the time.
There's more power In a woman's
tears than there is in a man's argument.
Every time two women go to a
movie together they call it a theatre
party.
Most old bachelors are ha'rd to
please; they don't think a girl baby
is fit to kiss until she is sweet sixteen.
For early chrysanthemums an ideal
compost is three parts good garden
loam to one part well rotted manure,
with a sprinkling of bone meal.
When a man or woman gets a good
look in God's looking glass he isn't
finding fault with other people; he
has as much as he can do at home.?
Moody.
There is this difference between a
wise man and a fool, the wise man expects
future things, but does not depend
upon them, and in the meantime
enjoys the present, remembering the
past with delight; but the life of the
fool is wholly carried on in the future.?Epicurus.
Fans are put to all sorts of curious
uses in Japan. At wrestling and fencing
matches the umpire always uses
a large fan, and the various motions
of this fan constitute a language which
the contestants understand perfectly,
and to which they pay prompt attention,
says the New York Evening
Journal. The servant girl has a flat
fan made of rough paper to blow the
charcoal fires with or uses as a dust
pan; the farmer has a stout fan to
winnow his grain. Another variety is
made of water-proof paper which can
be dipped in water, and creates a
great coolness by evaporation.
The telephone line from New York
to San Francisco is overhead throughout
its entire length except for a few
short stretches of cable in cities and
under rivers. Notwithstanding the
improvements which have been made
in underground cables, it is still necessary
in such long lines as this to
exclude as far as practicable all
that would immediately overcome the
effects of the thermit bombs and extinguish
the fires. The antizep is put
up in hand grenades and the Londoners
are advised to keep a grenade in
every room in every house in London.
The cost of a grenade is 5s, 3d, and
this is regarded "as so trifling that it
would be foolish, indeed, for any
home to be without one or more."
Much space is given to fashion and
shopping news, and the New York
market reports take up considerable*
room, "Bethlehem Steel," being conspicuously
quoted. The editorial page
is ponderously heavy. There is one
editorial which would make four
columns in the Observer, evidently
one that is strong and to the point,
as it declares the "next need is action,
not delay." There is a review of President
Wilson's last note to Germany.
The conclusions of the editor are in-'
teresting. He judges from Wilson's
note that "nothing is further from
his mind than to let the subject be
toller! rvn?' In nn oimolirn o n #1
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
'terns of Interest From All.Sections of
UUUlll VdlVllllHi
The South Carolina Conference for
the Common Good, will be held in Columbia
on September 7-9.
Capt. R. Lee Bowden, a well known
citizen of Spartanburg, and a Confederate
veteran, died last week.
Seven cottages at the Fairfield cotton
mills in WinnBboro, were burned
Friday. They were valued at $2,000.
Rev, Edgar Kerr of Newberry, has
been elected to the chair of ethics In
the Presbyterian Theological seminary,
Columbia.
Cicero Goodwin, colored, was struck
ind instantly killed by a through
freight train near Latta, Dillon county,
early Friday morning.
Pitcher Fillingem and Outfielder
Bankston of the Charleston team of
the South Atlantic league, have been
nought by the Philadelphia team of
the American league.
James MacFie has been appointed
sheriff of Fairflejd county to succeed
the late Adam Hood, deceased. MacFie
has been a candidate for the office
in several primaries.
The first tobacco of the new crop to
be offered for sale in Williamsburg
county this season, was sold at Kingstree
Friday. It was of the lowest grade
md brought six cents per pound.
William Bates, a negro chauffeur,
was fined 115.75 in Columbia Friday
for the reckless driving of an automobile,
it being alleged that his machine
inflicted painful injuries upon a
white woman with whom It came in
contact.
The Spartanburg health league, an
arganization which has been in existence
about six years, has been forced
to disband on account of lack of funds,
in the last twenty-one months, 511
patients have been nursed by the
league's nurse, Miss Margaret Nesblt.
William Gray, colored, known
throughout Newberry county as "Chilly,"
who has been porter at a beef
market in Newberry for twenty-four
years, has been obliged to give up
bis position on account of being afflicted
with dropsy.
Miss Carrie West, aged 40, committed
suicide at her home in Spartanburg
rhursday afternoon, by hanging her
lengtns or caDie, nowever snort, aven
with the very best cable and apparatus
known to the art, the distance
through which speech may be clearly
and distinctly transmitted is greatly
restricted when the wires are placed
underground.
IN LONDON
Description of English Newspaper in
Time of War.
A month ago the Observer received
a personal letter from an Englishman
to the effect that as he wanted this
paper to get a correct view of events
transpiring in Europe, he had ordered
the London Sunday Observer sent
us. The paper has been coming with
the regularity of normal times. It is
filled with war news, as a matter of
course, but all the departments usual
with a metropolitan paper are maintained,
there being columns of book
reviews, theatrical notices, court and
society affairs, miscellaneous reading
matter and advertisements of all
kinds. There is a two-column display
advertisement featuring Lord Kitchener's
call for 300,000 recruits to form
new armies, to which, the paper says
in large type, "there is only one reply?that
our king and country expect
from every man who is between 19 and
40 years of age and physically fit?
that is to go to> the nearest recruiting
office and Join the army." Under the
"Roll of Honor/' is printed column
after column of colonial losses, including
officers and privates killed or
wounded in all branches of the service.
Under a subhead is given names
of those killed or suffering from poisoned
gas. They speak of Zeppelin raids
as things to be expected and guarded
against. But it appears that there Is
but one way in which the population
of London can minimize the effects
of the Zeppelin bombs and that is in
the extinguishing of the fires started
by the explosives. One of the warning
notices carries this paragraph:
"As everyone knows, it is not the
mere dropping of a bomb that is so
much to be feared as the serious
after-danger from fire, owing to the
fact that these bombs are charged
with thermit, a terrible compound, <
which upon ignition immediately gen- ]
erates the enormous heat of 5,000 de- ?
grees Fahrenheit, which can best be j
realized when it is stated at this heat j
cast steel runs like melted tallow." j
Only the day before this paper had ,
been printed there had been discovered
a new chemical called "antizep,"
which was advertised as a compound
uous correspondence," and, also, that
"his interrogatories have been so t
framed that, even by shutting her i
mouth, Germany cannot avoid giving j
them an effectual answer. Placable (
?in 11 in in nil hi, uir uiairtuv: ui mo i
two notes is in essence almost merci- i
lessly ineluctable."?Charlotte Observ- \
er. j
sen wun a rope in a uiuhci in ner
home. She attempted suicide about
eighteen months ago by cutting her
throat with a razor.
The body of a man, later identified
is Edward Bailey, of Texas, was found
near Ravcnels, Charleston county,
Wednesday. Blows had been rained
upon his head. Robbery is supposed
to have been the motive for the murier.
J. R. Davis, J. D. Lisp, Lee Carpenter,
W. P. Hinson and R. L. Montz of
Rockingham, N. C., were fined $100
;ach in Darlington last week for transporting
whisky. The men purchased
thirteen gallons of whisky at the dispensary
in Florence and were arrested
n Darlington while on their way back
Walker White, the man who shot
Chief of Police Holcombe of Greenville,
several weeks ago, inflicting
wounds from which the chief died a
[ew days later, died in a Greenville
lospital Thursday, of the wounds he
received during his battle with the
police officers.
A train on the Southern railway,
carrying fruit and produce, was wrecked
near Rockton, Fairfield county,
Friday. Four refrigerator cars filled
with cantaloupes were smashed to
pieces. L. H. Matthews, conductor of
:he freight, received serious and probibly
fatal injuries. A broken beam on
ihe rear of the train caused the cars to
leave the track.
A. W. Knight, owner of the Bamperg
Herald, was married in Newberry
Wednesday to Miss Caroline Elizapeth
Spearman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Spearman of that city. Col.
Elbert H. Aull, editor of the Newberry
Herald and News, and Miss Mae Smick
pf Newberry, were also married at
the home of the bride in Newberry
last week.
During the month of June the state
Jepartment of agriculture shipped out
sufficient nitro-culture to inoculate
seeds for 4,000 acres. The culture is
sealed and stamped by the department
ind has been distributed in every
section of the state. It is placed in
pottles known as the "one acre" and
'five acre" bottles, which are dated
md sent out with detailed instructions.
Governor Manning held a conference
with W. H. Dunkin, T. C. Mehrtens
ind M. S. Connerly, Jury commissioners
of Charleston county, Thursday,
rhe Charleston blind tiger cases which
recently came before the court of
general sessions in Charleston were
liscussed and the governor suggested
that Jurors be drawn by the commissioners
in which Jurors would be governed
by evidence.
Harrison Ferguson, former magis;rate
of Spartanburg, who was brought
nto the limelight during the gubernatorial
campaign four years ago on
iccount of the "Ferguson letter" from
Senator Tillman regarding Governor
Blease, has brought suit against the
street car company of Spartanburg for
110,000 damages on account of alleged
injuries received when he stepped
'rom one of the defendant company's
;ars.
Governor Brumbaugh of Pennsylvania,
has refused to honor the rejuisition
of Governor Manning for the
eturn of Joe Grant, a negro, wanted
n Edgefield county for the alleged
nurder of J. F. Durst, a white man at
lohnson, on April 14, 1906. Counsel
'or the negro have made strenuous efforts
to keep him out of the hands of
he law, their main argument in the
proceedings instituted to bring the
legro back to South Carolina, being
hat he will be lynched if returned to
:he scene of his alleged crime.
Associate Justice Hydrick of the
state supreme court, has signed an
jrder enjoining A. W. Jones, J. P.
Duncan and W. G. Querry, members
jf the state tax commission, and Thos.
H. Peeples, attorney general, from
'taking any further action in attemptng
to charge and collect the three
nill annual license tax upon interstate
commerce of the Southern railway
and the Blue Ridge Railway company"
Similar Injunctions have been
nstituted by several other railways.
\ hearing in the matter will be held
luly 15.
Columbia State: A bill will be inroduced
in the legislature at its next
session to put a marker at the birthdace
of Andrew Jackson in Lancaster
:ounty or to place a statue to the disinguished
South Carolinian in statlary
hall, Washington. "If the state
vould erect the statue," said a citizen
yesterday, "it seems to me that that
would for once and all settle the dispute
about whether Jackson was a
son of South Carolina or not," whereupon
he launched into a dissertation ;
upon the folly and groundlessness of
North Carolina's claim.
WITH THE EDITORS
Annual Outing of the South Carolina
Press Association.
The annual convention and outing
of the South Carolina State Press association
latt week has been voted by
those who took it all in to have been
one of the most pleasant and enjoyable
In the history of the organization.
They are not only agreed that
the business and social features of the
convention proper at Chick Springs,
were up to the highest standard heretofore
set, but that the trip to Montreat
and Mount Mitchell compares
favorably with the best of previous
trips.
The feature of the convention prop
er, outside of the regular reading of
papers and the transaction of routine
business, were address by Rev. J.
Deane Craln, "the Man of the Mountains,"
Hon. Richard I. Manning, governor,
Hon. John L. McLaurin, state
warehouse commissioner, and Gen. M.
L. Bonham, of Anderson.
Rev. Mr. Craln is a Baptist minister
and a unique character. He hails
from the "Dark Corner" of Greenville
county, where he was brought
up as a moonshiner. On attaining the
age of manhood he was seized with
a determination to secure an education,
and alter laboriously lighting his
way through the primary and high
schools he matriculated at Furman
university, and got practically all that
was to be had from that well-known
institution. Since then he has been
preaching, with a power and earnestness
that never fail to make itself felt.
He had been pretty well introduced to
the editors during Monday afternoon
and Tuesday, and when he mounted
the platform in the evening it was to
face a large, attentive and expectant
audience. His subject was the "Police
Duty of the Pulpit and Press,"
and he handled it in a manner that
was most masterly. The address contained
a number of interesting personal
reminiscences descriptive of life
in the mountains, some amusing, some
pathetic, and some full of honest
pride; but all most clearly pointing
out the need of the mountain people
for the people of the cities and towns,
and the benefits that were to accrue
to the people of the cities and towns in
supplying that need. He said he had
made liquor before he knew any better;
but it was honest liquor that was
chemically pure, instead of being
made of chemicals. But most of his
address was Intensely serious and the
audience listened with closest attenion
throughout. At the conclusion
f Mr. Craln's remarks the audience
roke into vociferous applause, and
Governor Manning and Senator McLaurin
led in the hearty and sincere
congratulations that followed.
Governor Manning arrived Tuesday
afternoon and spoke on Wednesday
morning. His address was devoted
mainly to a review of his efforts to
enforce the liquor laws and other
laws. He explained that there were
many laws on the statute books that
he does not consider the wisest that
could be made; but that is not his
concern at present. He had sworn to
enforce the laws, and that was what
he proposed to do to the best of his
ability. He told of what he has been
doing in Charleston and what he proposes
to do. He assured the audience
that many of the Charleston people
were giving him their fullest co-operation,
and he felt that much good was
being accomplished; but he does not
intend to leave one stone unturned
until his work is completed. He appreciated
the fact that the newspapers
could help and he desired their
co-operation; but he did not want to
be understood that he desired exemption
from honest, helpful criticism.
He proclaimed the necessity of land
title registration laws that would do
away with the present cumbersome
and expensive system, and also he
earnestly desires the establishment of
a rural credit system that will facilitate
the more common ownership of
farms, homes, etc. He touched at
length on the educational problems,
pointing out the backward condition
of this state in that regard, and emphasized
the necessity of greater effort
in order that South Carolina may
take her place with sister states. He
reviewed the state hospital situation at
length along the lines that are generally
familiar, and in conclusion gave
his endorsement to the state warehouse
system, which in co-laboration
with Commissioner McLaurln he is
trying to improve. He said that it is
his purpose to recommend in his annual
message to the general assembly
the creation of a board of warehouse
commissioners to assist in the conduct
of the business. Also he announced
that he had sent for the jury commissioners
of Charleston for the purpose
of having a conference with them. The
governor's address was heartily applauded.
The next speaker was the Hon. John
L. McLaurin, who had been especially
invited to tell the editors about the
state warehouse system and the facilities
it affords for the financing of cotton.
Mr. McLaurin, as usual, had a
carefully prepared address, covering the
whole warehouse subject as already
fully set forth by him in The Enquirer.
He spoke offhand, however, in a
very eloquent and impressive manner
that commanded the closest attention
of his audience throughout. In his
introductory remarks he expressed 'lis
high appreciation of the invitatio . to
talk to all the editors of the state at
once, a privilege that was the greater
because intellectually and otherwise
the newspaper editors of South Carolina
constitutes as intelligent and patriotic
as well as influential a class as
there is in South Carolina. He described
his efforts as being bent solely to
the proposition of securing to the cotton
producer a full share of the proceeds
of his labor, and relieving him
as far as possible of the burden of
supporting so many of the people he
is now supporting and who have no
Just claims upon him. He explained
the whole system in detail and
summed up in a beautiful peroration
on "dreams," that told in graphic
style of the birth of the phonograph,
the aeroplane, the wireless and other
indispensible utilities as the result of
dreams.
On Wednesday afternoon Gen. M.
L. Bonham treated the press association
to a delightful reminiscent talk
on the subject of the "Newspaper Men
1 nave jvnown.
After Gen. Bonham's address, the
editors were taken in charge by the
business men of Greenville and taken
over to that beautiful city by way of
the Suburban. At Greenville they
wer? met by a large number of automobiles
and driven about the city for
an hour, after v^hich they were returned
to the station and taken back
to the Chick Springs hotel.
Wednesday night there was a grand
banquet, tendered by the business men (
of Greenville. There were several
hundred guests and it was a splendid
spread. By request, Senator McLaurin
led the speaking with a repetition
of a portion of his address of the ,
morning, including the beautiful peroration
already referred to and there
were also bright, pleasant speeches by i
Major W. F. Robertson and Joe
Sparks, followed by a brief talk from ,
Dr. E. A. Hines, secretary of the South
Carolina Medical association on the 1
subject of hook worms, sanitatio and |
patent medicine advertisements.
Quite a number of the newspapermen
left for their homes during Wed- 1
nesday afternoon and evening; but l
about forty members of the party re- i
mained over until Thursday morning (
to go on the trip to Montreat and Mt.
Mitchell as the guests of the North
Carolina Press association.
It was about 1.30 o'clock Thursday |
afternoon when the South Carolina
party arrived at Montreat. The hos- '
pitable North Carolinians, as tine a
set of newspaper editors as the editor (
of The Yorkvllle Enquirer has ever
seen, were on hand to receive them. ,
and in a remarkably short time every- '
hotly had heen comfortably quartered <
and refreshed with a good dinner. t
After dinner there was a joint meet- .
ing of the two associations, beginning
with an address of welcome by Editoi
YV. C. Hammer, president of the Nortl
Carolina association, and responded t(
most pleasantly by E. H. DeCamp, Jo<
Sparks and August Kohn. The principal
business of the afternoon, so fai
as the joint session was concerned
was the unanimous adoption of t
strong set of resolutions, proposed bj
Wade Harris, editor of the CharlotU
Observer, endorsing the entire cours<
of President Wilson in his conduct o:
the difficult problems and situation)
arising out o? the European war, ant
expressing confidence in the ability o:
the president to properly meet an}
eventuality.
On Friday a party of more than t
hundred ladies and gentlemen mad<
the trip to Mount Mitchell, the high
est peak east of the Rocky Mountain:
and rising over 6,000 feet above set
level. The trip is made over a rail
road that was constructed for logging
purposes, and which runs along the
high mountain range for a distance
of about twenty-seven miles, begin
ning at Black Mountain and oassini
through the Montreat grounds. Thi
railroad is reached by a climb of i
mile and a quarter from the front dooi
of the hotel, and in that distance thi
climber ascends very nearly 100
feet. Then there is a a run of abou
seventeen miles, during which th<
cars mount by means of "switchbacks
and steep grades to up near the toi
of the range, at points looking dowi
on the Western North Carolina rail
road track more than 2,000 feet be
low. At Mt. Mitchell station the pas
sengers get ofT the train, eat luncl
and then make another climb of a lit
tie more than 900 feet, over a dlstano
of a mile and an eighth. The climl
is no Joke to those who are accustom
ed to it, and to those who are unac
customed to it, it is heartbreaking
but everybody in the party, all excep
those who failed to get to the railroat
from the hotel, reached the top. A
the top of the mountain is the grav
of Dr. Mitchell, who established fo
this peak its distinction for altitude
and who lost his life by falling into i
pool somewhat lower down. There i
weather station on top of the moun
tain, and also a flag pole on whici
Old Glory floats In the strong breez
that is always blowing.
The temperature on the summit o
the mountain last Friday was quit
low, and the people who had she<
their coats In the ascent, were glad t
have them on again. Some reall;
seemed to suffer from the cold, am
were glad to pay 10 cents a cup fo
the hot coffee that was served by tin
man in charge of the weather station
Several hats were blown off, but al
were recovered.
The descent of the mountain thougl
not nearly so trying as the ascent, wa
quite trying.
Everybody slept well Friday nighl
and on Saturday morning most of thi
party left for their homes, a few re
malning over for a Fourth of Jul:
barbecue at Black Mountain.
W. D. G.
THE LINOTYPE.
History of Machines Used to Set Typ
for The Enquirer.
Sargon, king of Chaldea, had a 11
brary. The books were baked clay
The imprints on them, beautiful an<
minute, were made with bronze punch
es while the material was soft.
That was 4,000 years ago.
King Sargon became forgotten
Chaldea became forgotten. Europi
became great.
Columbus was born. It was 3,SOI
years after King Sargon. Books stil
were being written by hand.
Columbus was growing into a la<
when the first effective improvemen
came. It was in 1454. Then Johani
Gutenberg made the first book witl
movable type.
Men had printed for ages. The:
had even printed in colors, from woo<
blocks and with other devices. Th<
greatness of Gutenberg's achievemen
was not in printing, but in the success
ful use of separate type. In that mo
ment the human spirit found mean:
of expression; and knowledge possess
ed till then by the few, was given t<
all.
Columbus found the New World
Spain lost it, then France, then Eng
land. The young Republic flung it
banners of states across the Appala
chians. Printing still was almost a
laborious as in Gutenberg's day. Th<
printing press did not accompany th<
pioneer.
Our Civil war came. Its news wai
set by hand as Gutenberg had set hii
first book. The compositor reachec
into his case of type for each lette:
separately, and separately dropped i
into place to spell each word. To se
a page no larger than an ordinar;
book the compositor's hand had t<
move one-half mile.
It was 1886, four hundred and thir
ty-two years after Gutenberg's firs
type was set, before the printer wa
emancipated from this painful useles
labor. In that year there appeare*
the first copy of a newspaper whosi
type had been composed not by hand
but by an Instrument.
The newspaper was the New Yorl
Tribune. The instrument was th<
linotype.
That was only thirty years ago. To
day newspapers composed on the lino
type greet the sun in its flight arounc
the world. They are in Africa, nortl
and south. They are in Siberia, In
dia and China, Japan and the Philip
pines, Hawaii, even the Ladrone is
lands of the far Pacific know the lino
type. They tell the news in Alaska
They print it in Spanish and Portu
guese under the snow-helmeted An
des, and a thousand miles up the Ama
azon river.
It is an achievement of our gener
ation and typical of it. Thomas A
Edison says it is one of the ten won
ders of the world.
It is not a "type-setting" machine
It has not a piece of type in it. I
makes its own type?a new letter ev
ery time; and every time it forms ?
sentence it does twenty-three separat*
and Intricate things.
To tell how this complex, marvel
uus instrument was ueviseu, improver
and made perfect is to tell a story o:
courage rather than mere inventlv*
ingenuity.
The orginal device did not hav<
even the germ of the linotype in it
It failed again and again. It sueceeded
in nothing save In impoverish
ing all who had anything to do wit!
it. Put it planted in their brains anc
spirits a dream.
They raised more money. They en
gaged Ottmar Mergenthaler, ther
working as a mechanic in a Baltimon
shop.
From that time on the story is th<
story of improvement after improvements
that refused obstinately for al
their wonderful ingenuity, to product
a successful machine. More than on<
great invention or discovery, besei
with such difficulties, has been abandoned
in despair, to lie idle and forgotten
for years or even generations
till new men found new courage tc
take it up again. This invention, fortunately,
had men behind it whc
would not give up. They stayed. They
heartened each other, and they heartened
the inventor, ever and again,
Ever and again they refilled the everemptying
treasury.
Today, perfected to a degree that
Mergenthaler would not have considered
possible, there are 30,000 linovues
working around the world.?
Bxchange.
r FACT, FASHION AND FANCY
i
\ Paragraph* Calculated to Intereat
York County Women.
r Sandwiches are said to have been
invented by the fourth Earl of Sand,
wich, who was so much addicted to
i gambling that he would rarely quit
i playing for dinner.
f
\ When you cook dried apples try
f adding a little grated orange peel to
f them before the stewing process. This
i robs the apples of any flat taste they
i may have and gives an added zest.
- Grate only the outside skins as the
3 white inside skin Is bitter.
; Tartar, one of the greatest enemies
s of the teeth, may be kept away by the
s daily brushing of the teeth and the
j use of a few drops of myrrh In a half
2 glass of water. Use a moderately
i stiff toothbrush. The teeth should be
r brushed after each meal, but where
q this is not convenient, cleanse them
t thoroughly every morning and evenis
ing.
5 A veil has been brought out which
- is supposed to improve the complex
ion in a pronounced degree?a chalk
white tulle veil, worked with blue
i
. threads, the spots far apart and ire
regular. Ivory white tulle with spots
b of black chenille is also improving to
* the complexion for a young woman
; and one who has just passed her first
t youth.
d *
* The ordinary correspondence card
r has fallen into disfavor, yet one atf.
tractive style for those who prefer the
a card to note paper is being used. It
. has about one inch of the card folded
h back to form a flap and the monogram
fe is in the center of the flap. A new
1 type of paper for engraved formal
e invitations and receptions, is the
d panel sheet. An impressed border
0 about half an inch wide runs around
j the edge, and the paper itself is long
r and rather narrow. Although more exe
pensive than the usual formal style,
'j it is distinguished in appearance.
Sealing wax is still in vogue and ofti
fers much in the way of charm in the
8 appearance of a letter.
p Here are a few fashion hints which
. might be well to observe:
y Large hats should be round and
flare slightly at the left side.
Silk crepes are excellent for the new
types of plaited gowns.
The large hat is apt to show a
fancy feather sticking out at the side.
In the new lace flouncings the mesh
is so fine one can hardly see it.
Tnnnintr n hliiA hmoHrlnth aiiit nf
j military cut, worn recently at a
smart luncheon, was a small beige
color straw brimless hat.
To keep a skirt from sagging when
8 two bias pieces come together, sew
the seam by the machine, then stretch
) it with your Angers as much as the
I material will permit, allowing the
thread to break. Then sew the seam
] again, keeping it well stretched all the
I time. This method, may be applied to
} any fabric, but it is especially good
j for wash materials, and a cotton or a
linen skirt carefully sewed in this
^ way will not sag at the sides or back.
] Before finishing the lower edge of a
e skirt?and let this be the last thing
t you do to it?try it on and mark all
. the bias places, then put it on a skirt
. hanger or form, and attach small
3 weights to each marked edge.
*
) Did you know that:
Equal parts of ammonia and tur:
Rebuilt Tyi
3 STANDARD TYPEWI
the uniform price of $100.00 1
r ' sometimes they can be bough
t had it a week it is "second hz
price you paid if you wanted
[, enced Typewriter salesman c
about the little uevices that
machine has?point out its c<
it #
8 bon, back spacer, tabulating d
3 that his machine is the only o
?that is exactly what he is
reasons why you pay $100 fc
asked to pay this price in ord
< keting the machine?and of c<
e imate and part of the busines
Aside from the pride you m
model" typewriter with all tf
any more REAL TYPEWR
have had you bought a REB'
Machine will not write any 1
any easier or anv plainer thai
to doughnuts that it won't
This being TRUE do you th
New machine at $100.00, wh<
built Typewriter of exactly t
saving of from $35.00 to $50.1
are flush with the coin of th
generous to the Typewriter
n..:i,i? 1 <t.,
| UUUUCid anu pay iut.111 ua ?pi<
. I is perfectly all right and furtl
| ness. But if you are buying
. I let us urge you to investigat
t before you buy. Tell us wh<
to make you a price and the
1 Look these prices over?The
; saving you will make in buyi
PRICES ARE VERY LOW
| Remington No. 6, Blind W
Remington No. 10, Visible
Smith Premier No. 2, Blind
? Oliver No. p., Visible Write
Oliver No. 5, Visible Writei
Royal Standards No. 5, Vis
Monarch No. 2, Visible Wr
Underwood No. 4, Visible ^
Underwood No. 5, Visible ^
L. C. Smith No. 2, Visible 1
! L. C. Smith No. 5, Visible 1
A TYPEWRITER IN YOU
Will prove its value in
learn to use it and the knowl<
1 years?your wife can use it fi
? age?A Smith Premier No. 2,
i advantages to the beginner, 1
t use of a "shift key" for Capita!
is a single keyboard, blind wi
visible writer?all of these m
reach (sec prices above) and
The price of Rebuilt Machine
, Builders' Number?the higher
the price?Express Charges, 1
THINK THE MATTER 0>
Sec if you do not think a T;
worth the price?and then see
L. M. GRIST'S J
Yorkvil
pentine will take paint out of cloth,
no matter how hard or dry it may be?
Saturate the spot two or three times,
then wash in soap suds.
For sewing on buttons silkateen is
much better than common thread.
A wire rack put In a kettle or
roaster under meat that Is boiling or
roasting will keep it from burning.
If you have no wire rack, an old cover
with holes punched in it with a hammer
will answer the purpose nicely.
Colors may be restored to faded
goods with a first class dye and they
will be fast colors, too. One of the
most practical uses to which dyes are
put is in coloring faded or worn carpets
on the floor. They may be made
lo JOOK aimosi iikc new u me uibwjived
dye is applied with a brush, like a
whitewash brush. Just as you would
apply paint.
A two-pronged rivet, such as farmers
use In mending harness, will mend
a cooking utensil in an emergency. Mj
put the prongs of the rivet through
the hole, with the head on inside of
vessel. Rest the head on something
solid, open the prongs on the outside
and pound them down securely, and
the kettle is ready for use again.
English Jumbles are similar to rich
cookies, but are cut in rings or fancy
shapes. They are always acceptable
served with dessert at dinner or at
tea or luncheon, and are delicious for
picnics when packed so that they do
not break. Cream together one
cupful of butter and two of sugar.
Add Ave well beaten eggs, one cupful
of thick sour cream, into which a teaspoonful
of soda has been beaten; a
teaspoonful of orange or lemon ex**~v
tract, and flour to make a soft dougK
which can be easily rolled out. Floui*
the molding board well, turn out on It
a tablespoonful of dough at a time,
! dredge lightly with flour and roll thin
with a floured rolling pin. Dip a fancy
cutter into flour and cut the dough Into
cakes. Place in a buttered dripping
pan and bake until nicely browned.
These may be varied by sprinkling
them with sugar Just before baking,
or in combining two sets of dough so
as to make fancy or "marble" Jumbles.
frofmlonal qw&i.
T. L. GLENN~
Veterinarian
OFFERS his Professional services
at reasonable rates, to those In
need of the same.
Address, Torkvllle, S. C., or Call
Telephone No. 92. 46 f ISt
DR. WM. M. KENNEDY
? DENTAL SURGEON ?
Office On Second Floor of the Wyllc
Building:?Opposite Poetofflce.
Telephone?Office, 99; Residence 166.
JAMES B. SHIRLEY
DENTAL SURGEON
First National Bank Building
YORKVILLE, 8. C.
W Office Hours: 8.SO A. M., to 6.SO
P. M. S f ly
Geo. W. 8. Hart Jos. E. Hart
HART & HART
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Yorkvills 8. C.
Witherspoon Big., Second Floor, Front.
'Phone (Office) No. 58.
oewritersUTERS
practically all sell at
lach?That's the "list price"?
it for less?and when you have
ind" and you could not get the
I to sell. Of course the experian
come along and tell you all
his machine has that no other
jnveniences?its two color ribevice,
etc., and make you think
ne to buy. That's his business
paid to do?that's one of the
ir a new Typewriter?You are
er to help pay the cost of marourse
that is all perfectly legits.
But where do you come in?
ay have in the "very newest
le "newest kinks," you haven't
lITER value than you would
[JILT MACHINE. The New
harder, any faster, any better,
i a REBUILT, and it's dollars
look any better to your eye.
tink it good business to buy a
in you can buy - Factory Rehe
same make and model at a
do or more? Of course, if you
e realm, and want to be real
Salesman and the Typewriter
oo anyway, why of course that
icrmore it is none of our busia
Typewriter for business use,
e the FACTORY REBUILT
it you want?We will be glad
n you can decide for yourself,
y will give you an idea of the
ng a REBUILT MACHINE:
riter $19 to $21
Writer $42 to $55
Writer $18 to $20
r $22 to $25
$27 to $38
ible Writer $42 to $45
iter $32 to $46
Writer $38 to $57.50
Writer $41 to $65
Writer $32 to $45
Writer $48 to $55
R HOME? I
tL. _i.:i J_._ ___ I
many way a? mc (.nuutcu can
?dge will be of value in later
requently and to good advantwith
double keyboard, has its
because it doesn't require the
I letters?the Remington No. 6
iter and the Oliver No. a, is a
achines are easily within your
will give entire satisfaction,
s is governed by the Serial or
the Serial Number the higher
isually about $1.50?are extra.
/ER
/pewriter in your home will be
us.
SONS, Printers,
le, S. C.