Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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gutwrous Department. Hi fUt Even.?An intoxicated ma: boarded a train. When the conductor who weighed nearly three hundrec podnds, called for his ticket he was to* drowsy to hunt for it. The stout con ductor becamii impatient, and aftei attending to the rest of the passengers tickets, returned to the intoxicated man, and, with much authority, demanded r"*?"* 'WoW you'll have i to do one o) ; > . three things;: shew your ticket, pas your fare, or get otf.wr< uii, .r r , r..^ \ . By this time the man.was able tc find hig ticket and >was-more disposed Vto talk, so, S4| the stout conductor was leaving hlra, he called after*him: "Say, Me. here, you'll have to da on< *i three things, too." << .'"What ore those?" asked the amused "conductor. \ ""'Walk more, eat less or bust,"- wan the reply, which started a laugh all afobnd. | \ s h v . J .. m ? ! A Tragedy at the Parsonage.?A < present of a pair of chickens to a country 'parsonage ^rhere there was a targe fhraily and a small income was ^tf'bWhtr and the youngest two childreh (wha were usually pot to hed wttfc a 'simple meal) were promised n *haft* In tbe. family treat, bat, unfor* tunntely. neighboring ministers drh|?p?i in, and the children's mother ' ^had 'to compromise with the little peo pie, A'promise of candy pacified them 'to -wait imti{ toe older people were i. *< * v At the table the chicken wad, fast tdlaftppharin*. When the door?which , had been. eusplciously cracking for ??lotRf'ttmfrr^a* flung wide open. Two /fttdee glared at the visitors, while two chiMJah voices shouted in unigon: "Go ahead?that's 'right. Eat It all #W*NP?S?ISfh ?: O v' ' 'i' 1 ' ? ' I Whieh4h.il it Be.?At a fashionable I','' wedding i) n af' southern city where the cbiUiaicttN? parties were a wealthy wWowgt and a handsome yoking lady, ,;ga.>fsjth|ul old servant, who had lived r. with IjieBlbt wife ail her married lW Waa reporting the festivities N.confl>denU&Uy tlvf next morning to a neigh:*? . & %* ; m , v.\Vhen she (lnished a fellow-sevant gaked: ''is he going to take a bridal WWV': The old woman looked startled, and ground to see that no ?n*Lwas, near, j whispered: "Well, I <jon't JtQQMr ft be will take* bridle to t her if she rets cantankerous?but ha sum dig ftakd .* strap to the other one.?. . * Mis' Quhstioft.y-'A party of young ibex* Were camping, and to avert 'annOytog questions they niade It a rule tfeatHbe'en^who asked a question that the coUld- not answer himself had to * do the dooktngf. gjtg- v One evening, while sitting around the fire, one of the boys asked: "Why ts ItrOwt y a ground squirrel never ' leaves any dirt at the mouth of Its . vTheK - all guessed and missed. So he>waa apked tb answer It himself. ' he ML "because It always . begin* to dig at the other end of the asked, "how does it get *??'ijie*ether end,of the hole?" the reply, 'that's your \ntfnstUKi.W t' " /Hi. pot gven All Right.?A grocer some rather sharp practloe oa,^. 'sustojper. and the latter sihripeA/Ojut'Of the store, roaring; fiinaier, and I'll never ente^ dper Again!" > jNSat day. though, he came back ftikl'bdpght Ave pounds of sugar. "^air/me.* Said the grocer, smiling jfo a forgiving way, "I thought you Were never go{ng to enter my door , Again.? " V;"Well, I didn't mean to," said the \ customer; "but yours is the only bop fg the plage where I can get what I want. I am going to pot some bufb? and I need sand." T*? Mueh Like Work.?The happy mother of a seven-months-old baby, w.hdse chief business seems to be vnakfaf a noife in the world, was paying h?r sifter a?visit, and the other evening young Master Harry, aged even years, was delegated to care for the baby while h(s elders were at dinner. So he wheeled it back and forth.-forth and back, the length of the library, giving vent to his sentiments by singing, much to the amusement of t^n family: Gee whiz! I'm glad I'm free, No wedding bells for me." v * " ? She Knew Whereof She Spoke.?At a ..meeting of 'the Women's Foreign Missionary Society in a large city church a discussion arose among the members present as to the race ol people 'that inhabited a far-away land. Some Insisted that they were not a man-eating: people; others that they wfre known to be cannibals. However, the question was finally decided by a minister'e widow, who said: "t bey pardon for interrupting;, Mrs chairman, but I can ussure you thai they aVe cannibals. My husband was a missionary there and they ate him.' ' < m i Not Exaotfy,?"There! You have s black eye, and your nose is bruised and your coat Is torn to bits," saic mamma, as her youngest appeared at the1 door. "How many times have 1 told you not to play with that bat Jenkins boy?" *'Now, lodk here, mother," * said Bobby, "do* I look as if we'd beer placing?" Concerning Matrimony.?"Is sh< making Him a good wife?" ''well, not exactly; but she's making him i d' . .; J *'<< ' * .'V I" - CONGRESS MUCH CONCERNE Prospects of an Industrial War i Through Winter Not Pleasant. 1 Congress is frankly alarmed over the possibility of a reign of industrial f warfare during the winter, says a , Washington dispatch. Out of the turmoil a new political party led by labor and the fanners ' may rise unless the older parties deal with the situation. Senator Walsb, Massachusetts predicts. v Some senators declare, that the industrial situation is almost out of band and that congress is helpless. Others; declare that, a show down between labor and the. government is imminent and th&t force will decide it. . "If either one or both of the existing political parties fail to face this problem and settle, it on line of justice to both interests, I believe We will see e coalition of the farmers and labor interests and a new political party orMniutinn" sflvs Senator Walsh, re gardcd as a friend of labor. This course It was pointed out. has been followed by labor in Great Britain. "It looks to me as if congress will have to undertake srfme legislation to remove as far as possible all Just causes of discontent between employer and employes," Walsh said. "But how much have we really done to reduce the cost of. living," .he asked. "Has not the government a very grave responsibility to grapple with ' this problem? An earnest endeavor , to do this would restore confidence and hope of better conditions 'among the employed and do much to settle unrest ."But I'believe it Is the fundamental right of the employes to claim the right of collective bargaining and until something definite is suggested that will give him a substitute for the strike this country is going to fee face to face with much more serious Industrial unrest than we are now passing through." Senator Frelinghuysen, chairman of the senate subcommittee InvestU gating the coal situation, is conferring daily with cpal operators and public officials in-the hope of .doing soipethiug tc avert the threatened strike ' Unlew -it is headed off. Senator Frelinghuysen plans a move next week which he thinks will avert the walk out at least for the present. MERE MENTION Charges that he had "positive proof' that an effort was being made to "ffame" .him were mode in New York Saturday night by William Z. foster, chairman of the national committee for organizing iron and steel I workers at a mass meeting in Cooper Union. :*I make this statement now." said Mr. Foster, 'so that if dynamite is later found in my possession yov will i know that It has \been placed tW?A iwKo orgs fnllnw _ mere IJ J UeVW>i.iTV0 niiv M.w ing me at every step." .......Bloodhounds from two counties are on the trafi of two negroes, Lige and Nathan South, who shot Henry Grier, At for* mer deputy sheriff uf Laurens county, Miss., following a (1st light between white and negroes in Dublin, Miss Sales of leaf tobacco on the Danville Va., market for the past week aggregated 2,536,150 pounds at an average Of 541-2 cents per pound, the highest price paid being 41.15 per pound. The American flag was hissed when it was unfurled at Flume, Italy Friday evening in the Phoenician theatre and when the orchestra played the Star Spangled Banner the audience cried "Down with America. Down with Wilson. Long live Greater Italy and Flume." i What was termed as the largest' .distillery in northern Ohio since the advent of promm township near Cleveland, O., by deputy sheriffs, detectives and federal agents. Eighty-flve gallons of raisin whisky, nine stills and sixty caa*s o' raisins were seized. In addition several thousand dollars' worth of merchandise stolen \from railroads an< a stolen automobile were found Sir Joseph Lawrence, chairman of the International Linotype Company, Ltd. and a .director of the Mergen^haler Linotype Company of New Yorjj, died in L.onaon on rnaay wrs. oianuilawa Lypchtniski charged with the slaying two years ago at Isadore, Mich., of Stater Mary John, a Fellclan nun, was convicted of murder f the first degree by a jury in circuit court ...Fourteen defendants were acquitted and mistrials resulted in the' cases of five others charged with having committed felonies in the assault on the Nnox county, Tenn., jail .at Knoxville, Tenn., August 301 Nineteen charred bodies have been removed from the wreckage of a passenger train which collided with a freight train near Kranowitz, Denmark last week. After the collision the cars took flre Lady Astor will probably be a candidate for the house of commons in England to succeed her husband who died recently By a vote of 9 to 7, the senate banking committee on Saturday recommended rejection of .the nomination of John Skelton Williams to be comptroller of the currency Sixtjr-flve thousand girl' scouts of America started a national campaign Saturday for associate members, volunteers, women leaders and funds with which to furnish their work. The campaign will continue until November 1 The British dreadnaught Iron Duke, with Admiral Sir John Jelllcoe aboard, has picked up two white men and a native on Christmas Island who threat ened a landing party from the battleship with revolvers, believing them to be Germans. They did not know that the war was over, having been cut off from the outside world for eighteen months Fire in a grain elevatoi at Fort Worth, Texas early Saturday destroyed 20,000 bushels of wheat and 5,000 bushels of oats. The loss was estimated at $75,0000,000 The anniversary of the birth of Mr. Roosevelt was observed throughout the country yesterday. Fire at Columbus, Ga., last Sunday destroyed property valued at $250,000 C. C. Walker, 62, assistant superintendent of transportation in passenger service of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad died at Richmond, Va., of heart failure SunAa\r Hnv Wllllnma whn nn urday night shot and seriously wounded Judge Paul Little at Fort Smith, Ark., has been released on $5,000 >>ond. He is charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Williams who is the judge's brother-in-law, claims he shot in the belief t^at Little was a burglar. The judge, though in a critical condition, has a chance to recover, according to physicians........ Tlie dead bodies of two negroes were found in a creek near Washincton, N' C? last week John M. Wood, 49, foreman of the car department of tlu Georgia, Southern and Florida railroad shops, shot and killed himself at Macon, Ga., Sunday President Karl Seitz of the Austrian republic on Sunday signed the peace treaty with the allied and associated governments. .A special edition of the Charlotte Daily Observer was delivered in Gastonia by aeroplane yesterday morning Drug clerks of Richmond, Va), have recently organized a union Nine persons were drowned at Bonner's Ferry, La., Saturdaj night when an overloaded fiat-boat was overturned The congress of ' Spanish employers sitting at Barcelona Sunday declared a general lockout of workmen throughout Spain. The lockout order becomes effective i next Tuesday, November 4 ? - . STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. ? t? Items of Interest Gathered From All iv Sections of South Carolina. ? SeVeral automobile thefts have re- rr cently occurred in Aiken and Charles- h, ton counties. ir man was killed last Monday at Andrews, when he fell from the top of T a box car. j ,c T ? Arthur Jones, negro escaped from the Kershaw county chaingang last Thursday. % ? J. Foster Ifijalker, veteran clerk of Richland cpunty is undergoing treatment in a hospital at Charlottesville, n< Virginia. _ . fcV * ^ ? A barn and contents on the place tt of W. M. Campbell near Johnston, ce was deatroyed by ftr<s last .weak. The loss is placed ab $5,000. I;' ;. C1 ?1 Robbers entered a mercantile es- 51 tablishmeDt at' Andrews, last week and got away with goods valued at woo. , . ; r ? Six negroes, are under arrest in b< Florence charged with the theft of w goods from the American Railway Ex- c< press company at that place. ~ ?George Richey Simpson, 1, died Wednesday night at the Columbia hospital from injuries received when he was struck by a Powell Fupl Company truck. ' , ,? "Ppg Leg" Brabham and Ernest Grimes, qfegroes, were arrested in Bamberg county last week by officers who charge them with operating a large distillery whirt^ was dostroyed.. ?? Henry * Williams,. Columbia negro has been bound over to the court of general sessions on charges of highway robbery. His accuser 1b' Hwnry Fox, young white man who claimed that Williams choked and robbed him after he had employed Williams to locate a boarding house for him. ? J. H. Horton of Anderson, , has brought suit against the Southern Public Utilities Company for $5,000 . damages because of qlleged injuries sustained October 10, when a car of the public utilities company struck his automobile. ? <j ? Quarters occupied by Louis Weil, well known man of Columbia, were ^ raided by liquor officers Friday. About I > seven and one-half gallon^ of liquor, a part of it moonshine were captured along with Well, who gave bond for his appearance. - ? T. J. Roberts, well kpown contractor of Columbia, and Catherine Richburg, 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. Sumter Richburg of ' Columbia. ' are under arrest In A\igudta, Ga., on charges preferred by Federal of fleers. Roberts is charged with violating the white slave law. r' ' > . . , 11 . ' (jflKEOKLY DEEDS TH ARE THE [M * * * \ THE ONLY RESOLUTIO! ARE THOSE THAT , ESPECIALLY STRONGIs the person who co: deed of MONEY DEPOSIT EACri'lNDIVIDUAL Strong Jiank gives them, a One Jime or another needs ance. * This Bank is Strong E Interest?Strong Enou Assistance. 1 It is our pleasure to hel] nitj7?to help YOU?Help we protect the money yo placed on deposit with us. When You Think Bank, T1 THE FIRST NATION A 'Toil Had Better Be S I FERGUSON'S LIVE ; E SIIARON, - . H We now have at,our B; | the best Missouri Mules ai | to Sharon. We want you t ^ Every one of these animals \va 5 picked for this mnrket. E In this lot we have some very 1 S Driving Marcs. - If you need a good Farm Mule v - COMB AN'D LOOK THEM OVE 5 not. r Every one of those animals will 2 he just as represented, lather Cash E: If you have any CATTLE TO SE1 ~ We will appreciate a part of you S it pleasant and satisfactory to you. z B. B. FERGUS 1" Three enlisted ^nen who were sen-* ?nced to death at Camp Jackson, Cojmbia, last January by an army couft irtlal for attempting to create a LUtiny among negro labor troops, ave had their sentences commuted to nprisonment for ten years, the war epartment announced last Friday, he men Involved were Privates Headiy Braveboy, Pomeroy Jackson and om Nelson, all members of the Four [undred and Forty-fourth labor bat nion.. ,j( Ginning Lags Behind.?Cotton gtnsd prior to October 18 was 4,879,483 inning bales, including 55,575 round lies, 8,958 bales of American, Egyp-? an, and 1,791 bales of sea island, the snsus bureau announced last Saturiy. To October 18, last year, glnIngs were! 6,811,351 running baies inuding 111,605 round bales and 10,13 bal^s of ,sea island. ? Controlling interest in the Record ubiishing company of Columbia, pubJhers of the Columbia Record has sen sold to JL Charlton Wright and isoclates by Edwin W. ftobertson of alumbia. ( I ^ WSrfJFt n P "DURO" Deep Well Systems JUST the thing to bring suburban or country home right up to date. Pumpa water from wells, where depth to1 water level ranges from 22 to 150 feet, and supply it under treasure for all purposes about the ouse or grounds. "Built like a battleship," economical and entirely automatic in operation. / T Ask us about the "DURO." FOR SALE^BY ^ ^ jr. u. xaiuujjh. .I. ii i * : r ' ninrr at cqunt- 1\ ;thatSedonem MS T3J?T COUNTARE CARRIED OUT, i 0. ' 'j ' nstantly' performs the ?INO. needs the protection a md everv individual at %> ^ some financial assist nough to Protect Your gh to Render You 3 our town and commuyou make money while u already have, when liink "First Natipnal." L BANK OF YORK Safe Than Sorry'" STOCK COMPANY ( . . s. c. :: J f?i - 1 1 ~c ? am at snaron a iuau ui = id Horses ever shipped | o see them. = s carefully selected and hand- 2 'ast Trotting Horses and Fancy 2 ic can suit you in one or a pair. 2 , !R whether you want to buy or 2 be .' old under Our Guarantee to 5 or Credit. 2 LL WE WANT TO BUY THEM- 2 , r business and will try to make ' COME TO SEE US. 2 ON, Manager. 1 j Built To serve lor Tires are big serve you mi Handsome, t and light sid< They are bui "To bethel the Square. Next 1 BUY York Furnitu * 1 Hardw I l ! 1 'j F j , v - r\ ' -?!' I ... X f AI C'C HOT BLAST l/VLE, 0 HEATERS Arc without a peer from the standpoint of ECONOMY and , SERVICE.\ We have an extensive line of tho famous COLE'S HOT BLAST HEATERS and will take pleasure In demonstrating them to you. i Cook Stoves ^nd Ranges In all sizes and at a vanety- of attractive prices. # IF IT IS A STOVE You want see FORD before you buy. M. L. FORD licensed EmbaJmcrs and Undertakers. CLOVER ? 8. O. f > \ % r \ * Coming? / * v4, f > . . ' ' THE GLOBE TAILORING CO.'S MAN WILL BE HERE ON THE 13T1I AND lOTTI OF GCTOBFIl TOMORROW AS 6 THURSDAY, i WITH A FULL LINE OF SAMPLES FOR MEN'S FALL AND WINTER MADE-TO- ' MEASURE CLOTHING. WE ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE A FIT. CABBOLL BBOTHEBS LIPE'S GARAGELi. P. LIPE, Proprietor There are lots of old Tires wh'ch have been discarded as worthless, but which if properly vujc&nized and retrcaded will be worth two-thirds of their original value. Wc Vulcanize and R??trcad and We Guarantee Our Work. We Weld and Braze accordlng.to the most approved methods. We Burn Carbon out of Cylinders at 50 Cents per Cylinder. We know what to do with any k'nd of a car, whatever may be the matter I with it, and We Guarantee First-Class, Workmanship. If a job is not satisfactory to you it is not satisfactory to us and we make e\rrything Satisfactory. LIPE'S GARAGE h. P. LIPE, Proprietor 1HERM0S BOTTLES I / Some thing that every homo should have is a Thermos Bottle?keeps Its contents hot or cold as may be desjred. i Fihed with hot liquid it will stay hot | for 24 hours. Filled with cold liquid it will stay icy cold for 24 hours- Especially fine where baby's milk has to be kept warm for night feeding- Have Thermos Bottles in pints and quarts in several styles. Also have Thermos Lunch Boxes?dandy for hunters or for workers who must be away from home at dinner time. Call in and ask to see J l hem. STATIONERY? We are showing an elegant line of Correspondence Stationery?the kind desired by folks who know. Shieder-Snelling Drug Co.; LOANS AT f? % INTEREST A RRANGED for on York County Farms. Long-terra. (6 1-2 '% through Federal Land Bank). Why not stop paying higher rates? Charges reasonable. C. E- SPENCER, 01 ) Attorney. 1 x ; tv , I i : } t t * ^ : for a Pui tg, hard miles of. real u jger and stronger and s ore faithfully than you'\ oo, with tough, black t 5-walls. It to an ideal! Beet Concern in the World to st Concern in Existence to do I rime ; 4 FISK V ire & 1J rare Company IS! itiiiiiimtiiHiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiinuiiiuiiiii I TRY TONTFFI T ? ^VVillUUU A' z OF TWENTY-SIX DIFFE s T1IF FACE OWDER, FA< = AND PERFUME?ALL O | We are Agents fo | J. E. bison, Prop. CITY r- >? "THE SFRVl iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimituiiiiiiiiiiitiii k 1 | WE HAVE RECENT j; ADDED TO OUR I READY-MR \< > which enables us to slio < ? . A ' < A * : Z > OUR liAKOfi READy-TO/y | very much better thpn1 I Dresses'of all kinds| Tricotines, etc. I Satin Dresses?the bes | Wool Serge Dresses?s I styles?Priced? I Tricotine?makes 'the hi | the best dresses?Pi II OUR SUIT S and getting more every can fit you in what you | Priced? | COATS FOR ALL LA I j CH] | Ladies' Coats?in veloi I tones, Plumett, Tins | Let us show them to I Children's Coats?In al 14 years?Piiced j KIRKPATRICKBETTER BUY NOW NTCE DAY? Yes, it is fine, but t morrow may be rough and the roai may perhaps get bad. Have done before. Suggestion: DO YOUR FAI BUYING NOW. COME TO SEE U Wo are ready with SHOES of all tl good kinds and at right prices: OU' INGS, GIN'GHAMS, SWEATERS, etc A good line of CAPS for men and fi Boys. PANTS for Boys and Men. WORK SHOES SPECIAU5? HUNT CLUB?the "Best shoe undi the Sun at' $.>.00 to $0.25?worth $6.! to $S.50?wh(!e they last. Sizes 6 to S $5.00: 9 to lis at $0.25. BUT BUY EARLY. G. W. WHITESIDES & C( i MT Typewriter Hiblktns on sale ut T1 Enquirer offiee. 1 I " ' J i h " rpose , sefulness, Flsk tuiuy ? jubi w ?>? ; re been sehred. I ion-skid treads * j II 'II II > II || \ Work far and J 3iainmwith." } It * It A7:" ?T. . ? H V" V XV fl "< jA* II ^ rrZSr- ;7 (ft ' VC?-' ji ' j*#> ?&$$! ' 4'ffvt'A! ** MI #1 ntinHiiHHwiifliiiMiHiiiiiwHiiiiymwyni HE NEW OMR I * JRENT FrX>WKBflL, wb have I E CREAM. TAJjOTW POWDER . 5 F IT ELEGANT. ;< 2 r all REXALL Goods. if. r PHARMACY Ctawr, S. C. I rCK TtlWG RTORE" ? ? iinnmniiinuHmininiiwimHiaiwtunifui wc could heretofore.' & j ?Satins, French Serges,*1 | < K ' 1V . \ A t styles?Priced? . r $9.wto I36.W5 ;;r r { ; jj. ' if < > nappy, up-to-the-minute 5 ; $9.96 to $39:95 1 , **f ? m. i andsomest of dresses and j' 1CC<1~ $29.96 to $39.95'" TOOK IS Bid few days. We believe we i f I want? < ' ' $9.95 $0 $46.00 f I 5i 1 1 dies, [LDREN AND INFANTS |;; irs, Broadcloths, Silver- < el-tones and Frost Glow ;; \ A L '" - s I / you?Priced ' , ][ $9.75 to $79.96 1 cloths, sizes 2 years to $2.98 to $36.00 -BELK COMPANY j! . *G00D BEEFSTEAK3; It You don't get it ever? .time you ask for it. do you? Suppose/you try Sanitary Market Beef. Many of our cusie tomcrs say thatthey get tlie beet beef P- here. We believe they are right, as we are selling only the.best to bo bad." # ' Also rcmfember us for Fresh Eiah on Fridays and Saturday. Git FEN HIDES WANTED * >0 (st We are in the market for all the Green Hides we can get and are paying j 25 tents a Pound Cash for them* - The SANITARY MARKET 1ft ,> IJ2WIS Q. FERGUSON,, frop. v'' 'X -51- ' y-'X ilJUSBUHK,