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1 . \ \ I ' I \ i ' v*"1 1^ sem,_ weekly. " ^MM^^^^ MBiBMiHHB^ i^MM^^BM H B^MMm I ^** ? ^^^ l. m. grist's sons, Publishers. ^ Jfamilg $c icspap^r: ^or the promotion of the political, Social, .^rjrirultural and (fo miner rial Interests of the people. TERM^Lifc5pYfJiRvi?NciSTOANCK * ' 1|T? <V| established 1855 YORK, S. C., FRIDA.Y, DECEMBER 12, 1919. , NO, 99 v VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or I Less Interest. ?PICKFD UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Storie* Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed for Quick Reading. "Partridges come pretty high like everything else this year whether you kill them yourself or let somebody else do it," observed a Rock Hill man yesterday. "I like to eat partridges but I can't kill them although I know a negro .who can. I gave him a box of shells some time ago and told him to get me a mess of birds. The shells cost me (1.25. In a few days he brought me eight birds which I estimated cost me little more than fifteen cents each to say nothing of the cost of cooking, etc., which would bring the price away up. tiui men pannages iu cm are fvorth to me whatever they might coat any day." 8ays He is Going to Stay. 9 T. G. Riley of Greenville, salesman for Luzianne coffee, full blooded. Irish and one of the best known traveling men on the road in South Carolina was in Yorkville and York county this week making his regular rounds. "Luzianne is just as popular if not more so than ever," said Mr. Riley, "and I am getting along just as well as I ever did, despite the fact that I am getting older every day like everybody else. Luzianne is going unusually good^in York county and do you I know I believe the Yorkville Enquirer f has got a lot to do with it." Profits in Real Estate. "About ten years ago I built a residence in a York county town," said a man yesterday. "The lot and the house complete cost me 51,sou. adoui three years later I sold it for $3,500. The other day I had occasion to make inquiries about a home and made a break at buying my old place back. The man to whom I sold it said he would take $6,500. I offered him $5,000 and told him hie day would come when he would be glad to take that sum. He laughed. I made a profit of $3,100 on it and he wants a profit of $3,000. When I made my profit $2,100 was $2,100 and43,000 now Isn't $3,000. What 1 would like to know is?who is the profiteer?" Getting the News. "You are on to your Job all right without any assistance from me," said the fleshy stenographer in-a York county man's office the other day "and I know it wouldn't do to print pure gossip in The Enquirer; but if you want to get all that is going and then some, cultivate a clerk or two in 's. They have a meeting of the gossiping geese when they arrive at the store the first thing in the morning after primping their hair and powdering their faces and they tell things that are so and things that are not so and things that they would like to have be Just so." And the Interviewer thanked the fleshy one politely and went off wondering if the other clerks could be any more gossipy than she was. Trouble in the Family. "Speaking of domestic troubles." said J a local man, "I don't have them although you might think 1 am a liar when I tell you. One of my neighbors walked out of his house and into me the other day, with his face looking like the storm after the lull and he said, said he: 'Well, darned if I haven't stood it as long as I can. I can get more out of life working for $2 a day and by myself than I can living with that woman. Why you know, she takes all I make and all she makes and she won't give me nothing?no nothing. "Look at these clothes?why I haven't had a new suit in so long I wouldn't , know how to distinguish a serge from a worsted. I am getting tired of it, I am telling you, and ready to run. I know I am no hero and just an average man; but I am clean in my per sonal habits and try to De honest ana square. But nothing satisfies her and 1 am about ready to believe there ain't any more hell after this. Of course she has the property, or most of it; but ain't the husband entitled to just a little consideration?' Well I am not saying my private say about whether he is right or she is right; but I am telling you every body you see smiling and happy and serene apparently isn't that way by a jug full." ? Never Again. He is long and tall and lean and lanky. He farms in York county. He is a prominent citizen in his community iand justly so. He pays his debts and goes to church and doesn't speak ill of his neighbor unnecessarily. He was in Sharon the other day and lie was talking about the blessedness of married life despite the fact that he is ^ under thirty. "My wife and I don't V love each other," he said. "We never W did. We admire and respect each other and there has never been a cross word ^ during our married life. I come home before dark at night if nobody is at P home with the wife and I behave myI self and do not heed the call of my T former associates when they come | along with a drink of liquor. 1 say n if 1 feel that way about it and the wife doesn't have a fit about it. 1 give her everything she wants that I can give her and she never wants anything beyond my means to provide. We get along nicely." Then ho was solemn and serious. "Of course." said his friend who heard his statement. "If you were single again as you were a couple of years ago you would get married?" The long one paused awhile ' and then he said: "Well, I wouldn't be in any hurry about it." Is There a Santa Claus? "As the Christmas season approaches I am reminded of that famous reply of the editor of the New York Sun many years ago to little Virginia O'Hanlon, now a grown woman and the j mother of another Virginia perhaps I who also wants to know," said a Fort Mill citizen who was in Yorkville this week attendant upon the court of common pleas. "I read, it first a number of years ago and I. was so impressed J with it that I committed part of it to memory. You remember how it goes: ?Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They fiave been affected by the skepticlsiji of a critical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotidn exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no ^anta Claus? It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginia. There would be no child-like faith, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We would have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The' eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished." CARE OF THE TEETH. j England Learned Great Lesson from Americans. England is going to brush up. What? Why its teeth of courseIt appears that the country which gave us Shakespeare has neglected for all these years the proper care of the teem oi us suojects, llie young aim urn old, the boy and the girl, whether in school or out. Then came the American doughboy and the awakening. Sharp England noticed that each American soldier was armed with a toothbrush, equally important as the rest of his war accoutrements. The English health surgeon sat down to figure it out. They learned that the United States had supplied more than 5,000 dentists for the forces going to France. A glance at the British dental statistics was in order and despite the great preponderance of British fighting men at the front, the best that could be found was that Great Britain had supplied S00 qualified dentists. Did England sit down, and say "Jolly well?" It did not. The British Dental Association took careful note of the good health of the doughboy, his smiling appearance with those rows of glist'-ning white teeth, the tribute to ho tiitcirliiniiu ii?gn of 1 ho tr?r?th li ,'imli. And forthwith the Mritish Dental Association began a campaign for the use of the juvenile muscles of the country in lite propulsion of the tootli brush. Not satisfied with this, the dental association is besieging ihe ministry of health for the establishment of a dental section to take charge of the care of the teeth of the country. Here Is what the association proposes: Dental treatment for expectant mothers and children up to the age of five years. Dental inspection and treatment of all of school age. Dental treatment of all adults whether entitled to national insurance benefits or not. Dental treatment as an essential for the cure of tuberculosis. Perhaps when the Mritish d'-ntal association was forming its plan for the campaign <?f better teeth, it also recalls the voracious appetites of the young men wearing the uniform of the United States. Kngland likes its heof, we all know, hut with better teeth?well roast beef ought to he an increasing popular food when the machinery is at hand, sharp and in trim, for masticating it. ? Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi have suffered terribly during the past few days from high waters caused by torrential rains. Although the rains generally had ceased with the colder ! weather, miles and miles of railroad j tracks were under water in all three I states, and many cities were out of j communication with the balance of the j world except by wire. Train service [ has been discontinued entirely on some I Jof the railroads and in the case of j roads wide detours are being made to! ! reach otherwise isolated towns. Flood j waters readied a stage of 50 feet at j [Columbus, (la., Wednesday and property loss was estimated at not less i than $500,000. At Meridian, Missi- i ssippi, a hundred thousand people, | mostly negroes, are homeless, and a! number of deaths have been reported.] All trains on the Mobile and Ohio road have been discontinued because | I of washouts between Mobile and Mori- i dian. The Louisville and Nashville is the only railroad line open to Mobile, 'and all the other roads are using this 1 line. j OARNEIIED WITH SCISSORS _ Sews From Within and Wilhou the County. CONDENSED FAR QUICK ...BEADING t 9 Some Items of Fact, Some of Comment i and All Helping to Give an Idea of What Our Neighbors Are Saying and Doing. Chester Reporter, Dec. 8: Mr. L. 1 H. Tarduc has disposed of his inter- 1 est in the Chester I*aundry to his 1 partner, Mr. T. K. Hudgcns, and will leaVo Saturday for Fresno, Cal- Mr. A. M. Morrow, of Little Itock, Ark.. 1 an experienced laundryman, has arrived in Chester to be manager of the plant. Mr. Pardue has given Chester a first-class, up-to-date plant, and 1 friends here regret to see him go ? 1 Mrs. Elizabeth Reid Austin, wife of 1 Mr. D. Lewis Austin, died Saturday i1 - -? tr? iiio Snrlnir- I aucrnoon ui nv? nun.^ ... ? stein village after a protracted illness. Funeral sen-ices were conducted at the residence yesterday afternoon by ' Rev. J. E. I'urcell, pastor of Purity ' Presbyterian church, followed by in- ] terment in Evergreen cemetery 1 Dr. \V. J- Henry, who sperlt several days here with his parents. Hon. and Mrs. J. K. Henry, returned to Chicago last week. Dr. Henry is connected ' with the Presbyterian Hospital The present rain, which Mr. J. Mar- ' tin Grant, tho well known weather prognosticator, forecasted with re- ( markable and absolute accuracy, says ' the rainy spell will be followed by ! clearing and cooler, probably high ' wind. He looks for fair weather about 1 Tuesday. About 10th to 12th is the ' center Of a minor storm disturbance, I when he expects rain, probably at- ' tended by thunder and lightning, with I some snow further north. Thirteenth * to 16th there will be a cold wave with 1 heavy frost, and he thinks it a capital time to slay hogs. Sixteenth is centei < of lunar storm period- The First 1 Baptist church of Chester raised a to- : tal of $70,450, -or an over-subscription 1 of $24,600, for the Baptist Seventy-five < Million Campaign. Much of the ere- < dit for this splendid showing is diif Mr. Frank L. Whitlock, who tvns the I Campaign Director," and Mrs. Whit- , lock, who had charge of the work I among the women. 1 Gastonia Gazette, Dec. 9: Mr. and ' Mrs. Paul Titman have returned from 1 Florida and Cuba where they have been 1 on an extended bridal trip. While ' away Mr. and Mrs. Titman took a 1 in'Hi-nniann excursion, going far out over the ocean and alighting on thirl' water. Mrs. Titman was the flrst 1 Gaston ia county woman to make a I flight County Agent and Mrs. C.J1 L. Cowan returned Monday nlghiM from Claxton, (la., where they wen 1 called Saturday l>y the illness am ' death of Mrs. Cowan's mother, Mrs J1 W. It. Wilkins, who died Friday night. I* The funeral services were held Sun- 1 day afternoon..: The Young Men's ' Shop. Inc., i3 the name of Gastonia's 1 newest clothing and gents furnishings 1 store. Mr- Warren Y. Gardner, of the Kirby-Warren Company and other? 1 are the incorporators. The firm will oc- |? cupy tlie quarters at 112 West Main ' avenue now occupied by the Columbia 1 Tailoring Company. They will open I for business January 1. and will ban- ' die a complete line of clothing, fur-JI nishings, etc., for "young men and ' men who feel young." 11 11 Cleveland Star, Dee. 0: Mr. Joe j Sweezy and Miss Lonn Walls werrj' happily married on last Wednesday. J' Dec. 5, 1910 at the home of the bride. I' The ceremony was performed by Esq. J' A. J. It. Hoylc after which they diovcj' to the home of the grooms parents, |' Mr. and Mrs, Cameron Sweezy where [ a bountiful reception was held- Mr. J' Charles L. Eskridge has arranged for an airplane to visit Shelby for several days when ^hc weather permits tin ' preparation of a landing Hold. Lieu- 1 tenant a. E. Shealey, pilot for the a. E F. corporation will fly to Shelby from ' Gastonia where he 'is now stationed ' and spend several days hero taking 1 passengers who care to ride into the ' air. The two local undertakers ' say they buried an average of oik 1 person a day during tlm month of November. One undertaker says he ennr .... iL. ,,, Vnvf>mbor ' due tea morn iiiuu?m.< ... .. this year than last November when the "flu" epidemic. was on Italph, the three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Charles It. Shull of Hirmingham, Ala. was so badly burned at his parents hotno that he died at the Ilillman hospital Saturday morning after intense suffering. Mr. Shull, the father, is the son of Mr. Chas. II. Shull of this place; and the many friends of the ' family extend their deepest sympathy. The Heaver Ham school building | was burned Thursday afternoon of last week when the roof caught from i a spark from the stove flue. Water 1 was unhandy and although the flame 1 was discovered early, the ladder broke and every effort failed to get the flames 1 under control. All desks and books 1 were saved. School will be finished In j the Heaver Dam church building. THE WORLD'S GREAT WARS _ Usually Come About One Hundred Years Apart. It is at least a curious fact, however little real significance it may have, i that regularly, since and including the ( close of the eleventh century, each ' cycle of a hundred years has been completed with a blaze of wars. In nearly every instance they were con-i i flicts of importance and had a decided bearing on the woe or welfare of mankind. They say history repeats itself, and Lf ijt does the twentieth century will be ' but following a precedent that is 800 years old should it, too end amid the i roar of cannon. At the close of the tenth century there was comparative peace among the European peoples, or as near peace as ever existed in those troublous , times. There were some minor struggles, to be sure, but they were rather in the way of organized brigandage ??o ?-f'> en A h rnn n a r turn lllclll luui naumv. *?. uu./..u wt %1tv made up the booty for which the highwaymen contended, and the Danes were massacred in England In 1002. but otherwise the sunset of the old era and tho dawn of the new were unaccompanied by storm. What vigorous warfare was carried on did not iffect Europe, because it resulted from tho first invasion of India by | Mahmoud of Ghuzni in 1001. But with the close of the eleventh century not only did the crusade begin, but Robert, Duke of Normandy, made war on his brother, Henry I, and invaded England, and so tho last half decade of tho eleventh century was signified by strife that was bounded on the one hand by Jerusalem and on the other by London. In 1195 a series of general wars began with the successes of the Moors aver Alfonso the Noble King of Cas- < tile, and the opening of that great strife which was to shake Europe, the struggle for supremacy between the ilucdphs and the Ghibellines. Pope In- i uocent III, summoned Europe to a new crusade, and that added to the general uproar. A fourth crusade was inaugurated in 12fll, and Philip Augustus wrested one French province ifter another from King John of ongiauu. The war dance of the end of the thirteenth century began with an in rasion of England by Philip the Fair ind John Balliol and the Scots under Wallace supplemented this with a lash of fighting on their own account The French invaded Flanders at the same time, 121)7, and Albert of \ustria, son of Rudolph of Hapsburg, :ook up arms for the dethronement of the German Emperor, Adolphus of Nassau. The Genoese did a little naval fighting. wtUi^the Venetians, and Boniface VIII; had a successful bout with the Colonnas of Rome. In 1302 Jnere was a rising in Flanders igainst the French and in the next fear Edward, completed his congest of the Scotch So the four:eenth century began noisily enough. To jump forward to the end of that century we find the Turks and Hungarians fighting,'and Ladislas fighting for Naples with Louis II, of Anjou ' Dwen Glendower led a revolt of the Welsh, and the Percys defeated thc3cots. Tamerlane defeated Bajazet, md all these troubles happened in the ast four years of the fourteenth cen- ' tury and the first two ^,of the fif:eenth. The sixteenth began quite as hopefully. Charles VII conquered Naples ind Ferdinand II recovered it. Perdu Warbeck signalized the death of lie old era in England-by backing his ruetensions to the throne with arms, rhe French coriquercd Milan and Maximilian of Germany made war >n the Swiss. Louis XII, conquered Maples, and so all Europe, practically, .vas in trouble. The next century was near Its be ?inninp when Howard and Essex captured Cadiz. Maurice of Nassau ilso took a rap at the Spaniards, and Elizabeth sent Essex to Ireland to put lown the insurrection uidcr the Earl if Tyrone. Sipismund Vasa was driven out of Sweden, and the French invaded Savoy. Maurice of Nassau defeated Albert of Austria, and so apain we And Europe warring from Ireland to Swcien and south of Austria. ? At the close of the seventeenth cenLury there was a particularly warm time. Villeroi foupht William III in the Netherlands. Savoy finished off i war with France. Peler the Great took Azoy from the Turks and the French captured Barcelona. The forces of Leopold I, under Prince Eugene of Savoy annihilated the Turkish army at Zenita; the Strelitzcs revolted in Russia, and in 1700 Russia, Poland and Denmark entered Into a joint war against Sweden. I'liilip V entered Madrid and the great war of Spanish suecession, which involved nearly all Europe, began iri 1701. The close of the eighteenth century brought the French conquest of Holland, insurrections in Paris, the French campaign by the Austrians, the earlier victories of Ronaparte with the famous "Army of Italy," the cam- 1 paigns of 1790 against Austria and Clermany and a declaration of war against England by Spain. During the last three years of that century England trembled under the , shock of the earlier Napoleonic wars, and there was the great rebellion in Ireland. The English stormed Serin-J, ga pa tarn and in 1301 came the war!, between Tripoli and the United States, j The precedents of history hint at,< war. We have had it; the question, h however, is, Is peace an established' fact? It certainly does not look so. , t<r Nearly 30 per cent of all flowers are white. ( WESTERN BANDIT HUNTERS Bandits Are Game But Bandit Hunt ers Are Gamers. JOSEPH LefORS IS A MAN . OF NOT! Only Two Notorious Train Robber: ever Got Away and They May ye1 bo Arrested?How Tom Horn Wai Run to Earth. When Bill Carlisle, train robber Burrendred to a posse headed b> "Charlie" Irwin, detective for the Un> ion Pacific, the other day out in Wyoming, he added another credit mark tc the record of the brave officers wlu have upheld the law in remote section: of the west. These men have mad< banditry the most unpopular calllnf linvAn.l (hat Inrioiormlnntn moiiilinr where the west begins. Carlisle was captured in a lonelj ranch house where he had been trailec in a bllzaard. When he ' jumper through a window an^ tried to make his "getaway" a shot brought hirr down and he was taken back t< the Wyoming penitentiary seriouslj wounded. He will have plenty of tirm to reflect upon the fact that whih western bandits may be game, western bandit hunters are garner?anc there are more of them. About the only men who essayed train robbing in the west and "gol away with it" are "Butch" Cassid) and Harry Longabaugh. leaders of th? rocalled "Hole-in-the-Wall" gang ol Wyoming. Cassidy and Longabaugt ire now in Argentina, where the> bought ranches with some of th< thousands thy took from trains and banks in the west- Some day tliej may be brought back to this country and it Js almost certain that if thej ire thej man who will do the bringing !s a quiet spoken, sharp eyed citizen it Cheyenne, Joe LcFors, the man wire 'rapped Tom Horn, one of Wyoming's nost noted gun men. LeFoH. Exploited in Novol. LeFors's' exploits in the Ilolc-in-thc Wall country were made the subject af a novel which had a big sale, but his capture of Tom Horn never gol into fiction. Horn was formerly a icout in the (Arizona campaign against Jeronimo. He was packmastcr ir Cuba and was known as one of the Treatest riders, surest shots and im ilacable of foes. He was suspected ol nany killings in tho cattle and sheep otintry -of southern Wyoming; anc lorthem Colorado. Horn had beer hired'by some big cattle outfits thai vore having trouble with homesteaders and sheep men, and it was sus?ectcd that he was using heroic mea3ires to rid the range of his employers nemies. Finally Willie Nlckell, thr ion of a homesteader in southern Wyoming, was found on the range ;hot dead. A stone was under th? hoy's head, something which had hecr noticed in other cases where ranchers >r sheep men had been killed. LePors knew at the first intimatior that he was. suspected Horn would till. lie caught Horn off his guard when the gunman was drunk. A stenographer was "pfanted" near at hand by a' capable district attornej ind soon the state was in possession nf Horn's own statement that he had killed young Nickcll and that a stone inder the head was the bad man's net hod of identifying his own vieUrns. He was arrested and was dtilj hanged, though certain cattle interest? made a hard fight for his life. "Black Jack" Had Ignoble Finish. A few years previous to the appearance of the Cassidy gang in the western theatre of action a train robber known as "Black Jack" Kctchum hat! the ofTlcials of several states consider tbly worried. Unlike Carlisle, "Rlael lack" never worked alone. He had ? humorous and straight shooting gang including his brother, Barn Kctchum Bob McfSinnis and others. "Rlaci Jack" seemed to have a spite against the Colorado & Southern railroad ir particular. He and his gang held u| r>ne C. & S. train after another. They had beautiful opportunities t( work because the Colorado & Southern runs though an unfrequented par of northern New Mexico, after cross ng the Colorado line. That part o the country is pretty well settled !>j dry farmers now, but in "Black -lack's' day it was a train robbers' paradise When it became evident that a stroni gang of robbers had picked the C. <K S. for its prey, members of the trail crews began to go "heeled." Speein detectives were put aboard tHe train: and among these was one \\*. H (Billy) Itcno. likewise among tin train crews was a conductor nanus Harrington who was to prove "Blue) lack's" undoing. "It would be foolish to call Bill farlisle the "last of the bandits." Probably there will be train robbers as loni ' 1?* > i i?rvl?i ??/v. as i mins i'msi?.inn winn talc their place no doubt there will be aerial Mutch Cassidys and (Slack Jacks ANCIENT ARABIC PRESTIGE A Wonderful People Once. Can The> Come Back? The origin of the Aral) race is a matter of conjecture, but the Arab.' were a unified political body with a king of their own long, long before the Christian era. Just now there are perhaps ten million Arabs, and for convenience of classification they art usually separated into two divisions? "A I Medoo," or "The Dwellers in th< Open Land" (commonly called BeA 11 douins) and "A1 Hadr," or "Dwellers I in Fixed Localities." The Bedouins, roaming with their herds all over Arabia and even up into Mesopotamia and Syria, are better known to American missionaries, officials and travelers than the Hadr ; class. They are nomads from necessity ' and not from choice, and, as the country comes under better rule, roads, , trade, and irrigation, will undoubtedly t reduce the number of Arabs forced to . lead this wandering life. Although Bedouin and bandit are almostysynonymous terms in some parts . of Arabia, this is hardly fair to the . Bedouins when we consider the way . they have to live. When they hold up , a Mecca caravan, for example, and , exact a sum in cash for "protection," , they look on this merely as their right> ful share of taxes, habitually collected r and kept by border officials. A re, form of these desert manners and methods will most probably ensue as a t result of the British mandate over ) Arabia. \ Although nominally a Mohammedan, , the average Bedouin is said to worry , but little about the Korean's rules or j whether his mode of living would r please the prophet. The wilder tribes > even worship the sun, trees, etc., or > else have ne religion at all, it is said. . Marriage is early and easy and divorce I simple and frequent. About 80 per cent, of all Arabs live I in towns, villages, or other fixed places [ of abode and belong to the "Iladr" r class. In this group is found the aris> tocracy of Arabia. Here are old, repul table families, with records of births, i deaths and marriages, deeds and honors, running back through genera> tions. I Perhaps the most noted family in r modern Arabia is the house of Koreysh, , tracing its connections back to the r prophet. The men of this family bear j the title of Shereef of Seyd; and it was i the Shereef of Mecca lho led Arabia's > break for statehood. Education, however, as we regard it in America, is almost unknowr among Arabians. The few with culture are a class to themselves. Most learning is 1 rnnfinprt to thn clnssirs nf relic-inns t and secular literature; the Korean is / 1 learned, by rote. In the smaller towns there are no schools at all. Yet it was Arab learning and skill, i in the long ago, which started the civilized world on the way to its present high efficiency. Under the cali;>hs, schools of therapeutics were set up at i Bagdad, and botany was studied as a I branch of medicine. As one writer i says, "the principal mercurial and arsenical preparations of the materia medica, the sulphates of several metals, the properties of acids and alkalis, and the distillation of alcohol were, with their practical application, known to Er-Itazi and Geber, professors of Bagi dad. In fact, the numerous terms . borrowed from the Arabic language? alcohol, alkali, alembic and others? i with the si^ns of drugs and the like ! still in u^ie among modern apothecaries, show how deeply science is ini debted to Arab research." I / All of which leads the Christian I world to believe that Arab people, as a nation can "come back."?Frederick Simplch in the National Geographic Magazine, i i m I PREMIER CLEMENCEAU > * ' kHasn't Acquired Very Much Love for 'Em Yet. When Premier Clemenceau visited ' Keil, Germany the other day he walked rapidly to the end of the great bridge which crosses the Rhine to Strassburg, " winked gaily at the gallic cock that replaces the Prussian eagle on top of the bridge and then turned to face a bat1 tery of photographers and moving plr' ture men. : "Go ahead, snap away but don't for1 get that you must include that old bird up there in the picture," he said to * the camera men. k Leaning over the railing he noticed a big pile of coal on the pier below and 1 pointed it out to M. Claveille, the min' later, saying to him: "Don't let me hear another complaint ' from the Parisians about the lack of coal." ' M. Claveille's reply could not be heard but evidently it was not satisr factory for, addressing the newspaper [ men, the premier shouted: "Boys, send a telegram to your news' papers in Paris something like this: ' "Plenty of coal in Keil but Claveille will not transport it." 1 Returning to the waiting automobile 1 through the muddy main street lined with low houses from behind the cur' taincd windows of which faces peered ! : I - s>oucrltt clffht nf ' I i:ui luuai;, ^iviinru^au ? , ! tliree frock coated men, standing top ' { iiats in hand in the driving rain: "Who arc these people?" asked Premier j Clemenccau. He was informed that tticy were the Cierman mayor of the | ' city and his two a^des. They advanced | " i toward him and the premier stopped. I j The German mayor, after excusing i himself for his faulty French said: "I | j hope you have had an enjoyable stay i and will have a pleasant journey." i Noting that they were still uncovered, '' Clemenccau said; somewhat gruffly,] I "put on your hats." Then he hesitated , i for a moment, looked about him, finally J i beckoned to the three Germans to come i to him, and replied with punctilious ; but dry. politeness: "1 thank you for ! your good wishes." I Then, he made as if to go out impuli j sively as if overcoming a strong reso lution, he extended his hand which the i mthree Germans took and bowing deop | ly they withdrew. . ? i INFLUtlNUfc Uf UUiun. Different Shades Affect People Dif-% ferently. A New York physician who fives more credit to nature than he takes for himself In the cures he has wrought is a great believer in the effeet of colors on the human faces. To a patient who showed signs of getting into a critical state as the result of extreme nervousness he handed out the following advice in a light, half joking manner, but with enough seriousness in his tone to warn his hearers of the latter's condition: "Hike to the mountains as fast as you can get there. Get away from the depressents that are so numerous in the city. Nature is the best teach- er in these things. You will And in your surroundings in the country no black and very little red. Blue and yellow are combined in the restful, reviving green." There is no doubt, the doctor con tends, that the wearing 01 di&ck n?? an evil effect on both health and spirits. Those who have made a specialty of occult studies point to the fgict that black is the color of Saturn, the planet of gloom, misfortune, fatality and other evil things. Black was never worn by the ancients, who made a study of these matters. Even their mourning was white. If one wishes to be happy and brilliant blue is the color to wear, In tbe opinion of those who have the idea that they have delved into things occult. It is said that the spirit of evil hates blue intensely and flies at the j sight of it. Blue also calms the nerves and therefore it is a good color for roofn decorations. Red should be excluded from the room of persons who are 111, as it has an exciting effect and tends to Increase fever. The Bolshevists and the anarchists probably studied the effects of colors when they adopted the red flag as theh- emblem. BIRDS CLAIMED THE AIR Eagle and Airman Battle for Supremacy. Eagle and airmen have met in a-contest for supremacy of the upper air and the eagle has been defeated, says a Paris dispatch. The eagle was encountered high above the Pyrenees in the half light of early morning recently when a British officer was piloting a single seater scout machine from Paris to Madrid. The airman was flying at a rate oMOO miles an hour when -a big eagle soared ' up to* meet jj him. "It was as if the fe&gle had thrdWn me a challenge," says fhe airman, "but the daughter died on my Hps wfie.i I . thought that perchance a lucky dive by the bird, or maybe a collision in ; mid-air would send me crashing to the rocks beneath. : , r. "The eagle lumbered around me at -y.'jj about 90 miles an hour and I throttled down to the same pace while We todk stock of each other. The air by then was crystal clear and I could see every feather on him as we circled about, for all the world like, two antagonists above the western front. The eagle started to climb and I went after him yard after yard. Un&Di* to resist any longer. I opened the throttle, put my no'se down and looped right over him. He made one great effort to catch up and with It his strength failed. His wings gave a feeble beat and with every appearance of a shot plane, he nose-dived to earth. I followed him a good 1,200 feet and saw him flatten out and land near a village in the foothills, completely exhausted." All THE FISH. Do Not Live in Rivers and Creeks and Branches. Monday afternoon an unknown stranger can>e to Saluda and took out- probably several hundred dollars of good Saluda money by a shrewd and new method (so far as Saluda Is concerned.) The Ashing was good with him, the suckers falling all over themselves to bite relates the SaliuUi Standard. First he sold Anger ring* for 50 cents each, afterwards returning the money paid in by each of the ' 1 ? <rivinir double their nuyers <1UU OU ouute 0.. ...0 ? money back. Then he sold razors for $1{.00 each, likewise returning their money. Then he sold a number of $1 bills for 50 cents and 15 bills for $4. When he had them baited real well and the suckers were falling all over themselves for a chance to take the hook and run under a log with It, he commenced selling watches at $5 eachSome say that as many as 100 were sold, some men buying one, some two, some three and some as many as four, all of them expected to have their money returned and to be allowed to keep the watches. However at the end of the watch selling, there was no talk of any refund and those purchasing went away sadder and wiser men. Some of Saluda's staid business men bit like little school children and now If crwmo friend tries to sell vou a watch and chain that looks like gold, don't ; bite, for all is not gold that glitters." Tho unknown stranger was taken in by Pol iceman Edwards and Sheriff Sample after his little game had been played, and contributed 5500 to the county's coffers for peddling without a license. He had previously paid the town license of $5. ? Mayor R. S. Stewart was on Tuesday re-elected mayor of Lancaster. He defeated E. H. Croxton by a majority of 133 votes. . , .. j ..