University of South Carolina Libraries
NEW SENATORS WHO ARE . . . JSfThey were swept Into offl Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa, E. Frasier of North Dakota. The defeated draw especial attentioi as members of the upper house WHEN SAM JONES PRAYED ~ H'Not?d Evangelist Once Brought Rich Man to the Light. All America knew Sam dopes1 as a great evangelist, writes Marvin A. Franklin in the Atlanta Journal. The south especially knew and loved him as a foe to evil and a eltympion of righteousness. Georgia v;a& prOud to own htm as her beloved and honored son. But there are many who do not know that he began his ministry as a Methodist circuit rider on the Van Wert circuit composed of Ave churches 1 in Polk, Paulding, Bartow and Floyd counties. ~ Before the civil war, Van Wert was a thriving little town, the capital of Polk countv, with a nappy and contented' people. It has the destinction of being the first town in this entire : section to have waterworks, the water | being brought from a mountain spring two or three miles distance through bored logs. Van Wert was in the pathway of Sherman's army and when the northern troops had passed there was little left save the "meeting house" standing at the foot of the hill. It was to this little town, fifty years ago that Sam Jones came as the "new preacher," fresh from his rehtarkahle J conversion and in the glowing ep- j thusiasm of his divine call to the ministry. For three years ho threw him- j self into the work and his evangelistic ; gifts and powfcr were soon in evidence, j for all over the circuit the revival i fires began fairly to name, and whole communities were literally transform- ; ed. To this day, there are Christians, loyal and true; in this section who dc- , light to tell that they were converted and joined the church under the ministry of Sam Jones. During the three years he was pastor of the Van Wert circuit more than five hundredvpeople joined the church, and the ?i^cuit developed from the poorest invthe conference to one of the bfcst charges. The Rich Man Wh^ Was Sick. Many amustng incidents are related about his ministry of those early days. Mrs. Jones in her "Life and Sayings of Sam P. Jones," tolls the following which was typical of his frankness in dealing with his members. "One of our wealthiest members was taken seriously ill. and thought that he was going to die. tie sent for his pastor to come around and pray with ' him. Mr. Jones called upon him, and ' when entering the sick chamber the member said, 'I have sent for you to pray for me!' ^ 'J " 'Well,' said Mr. Jones, 'I don't see any good reason for asking the Dord i to heal you. If you can tell me any reason why you should live, x u pray , for you; so far as I know you have , CLARA PHILLIPS I I ' Mrs. Clara Phillips, under eei being convicted of killing Sirs, es.cape^ from the county lail.ln I from the window of her cell to iaroHghout the entire State have EXPECTED TO MAKE A NOISE .....V, ' ? ce by the Novembe r election. From K. Wheeler of Mon tann, Dr. Henrik SI circumstances of th eir election and the 1 to this group fro m the West and m will be watched wl th unusual interest. never done anything for the Lord that | I can stand upon, while praying. You I have paid absolutely nothing to the assessments of the church; none of the missionary money for home or foreign cause has been paid by you; .the stewards can't get anything out of you toward my salary; my wife, children and myself have needed the necessities of life, and my horse has had nothing to eat, and you have had an abundance of everything in your home, and feed in your barn, and could have helped us; therefore, I don't see anything to stand upon. There is no use in my asking God to restore you; I can ask him to forgive and save you, and take you to heaven; but there is no reason why I should as!; Him to preserve your life; as you are absolutely worthless to the cause!' PAYS $75,000 FOR BASEMAN. 'i J M Mr. Cornelius McGillicudtly of the Philadelpia Atleticsh, who has bought Sam Halo, the Portland, Ore., third baseman, for a fortune. " You are right,' replied the sick man, there is no reason why I should live, but I will make you a promise if you can stand upon that.' " Very well,' answered Mr. Jones, 'what is your promise?' "The member said. '1 will see that my assessment is paid in full, and that you have the things that you need for your table and horse.' t "Mr. Jones knelt down and told the Lord about the man's promise, saying in his prayer: 'Lord, you know all about him: he may deceive me, hut he can't deceive you, and if he is going to change his way, stand by your work, forgive him. heal him, and save him!" SCAPES FROM JAIL. ! ?~~ " n ' /r; > n . 'i ; ! . i _^V - - ----- ^ ^ ^ j j : ritence of from ton years to life after Alberta Meadows witb a hammer,^, , 1.0S Angeles. Cal. Three bars sawed - -j Id the story' of her flight. Officers beeD notified of 'he sscapo. IN WASHINGTON. ? T jJgy \ left to right they are: Senators tilpstead of Minnesota and Lynn J. personality of the men who n they ilddlo West, and their official acts The man got well and faithfully kept his vow. The little house in which Sam Jones and wife were so happy la still standing, showing its extreme aga and with clinging vines growing over its side. Then there is the quaint church house built in ante-bellum style. It stands almost at the foot of the hill on a rise, overlooking the little village of Van Wert. Its framing is hewn from the hearts of the pines such as once grew in profusion about it. The windows are high and numerous. The Old, Old Bible. The interior is plain and simple, the home-made benches very straight. The Bible, yellow with age, with one back gone, and many pages missing? for it has done service there for nearly three-fourths of a century?still rests on the pulpit. It is easy to imagine i'ao ? ?* o cm atonrHncr i^cllll JUIlt'3 nil.* Jtai o uiuiiu>vn in this pulpit, reading to the congregations that crowded this little church ?and preaching with such power and earnestness that scores sought and < found God about its old-time altar, ] Mr. Jones himself always held the place and the people in tender esteem. J Thirty years after his work at Van 1 Wert had ended, and he had become a j famous evangelist preaching to multitudes wherever he went, he returned J to deliver the commencement sermon for Piedmont Institute at Rockmart. ! RUINED BY POISON. j Boll Weevil Remedies Threaten Exter- j mination of Bees. , One more evil to be laid at the door i of the boll weevil is the responsibility i for the destruction of the bee industry 1 in this section and the shortage of j honey that this year threatens to 1 starve the remaining swarms of bees j during the approaching winter, dc- 1 clares C. W. Creighton, Greenwood j lieekeeper, relates the Greenwood In- i dex-Journal. Other keepers of bees i corroborate what Mr. Creighton says, i and assert that bees are in danger of extinction from boll weevil poisons. \ I'rnrtienllv no honcv has been ob- 1 tained this year by keepers of bees in this section. It wns a bad honey year, even if it bad not been for the poisoned blossoms that were so fatal to the working bees. First, it was too wet ' and then it was too dry for the nectar to How. During Juno when bees are supposed to reap a harvest of honey, the deadly calcium arsenate killed the workers as fast as they tasted the nectar. No Danger of Poisoned Honey. Although tho calcium arsenate wns fatal to the bees there is no danger in eating honey, if any honey can be obtained, for it is pure and has no poison in it. The honey gatherers drank the poisoned nectar and died in the fields, Mr. Creighton points out. The workers in the eotton fields never got hack to the hives with their burden of nectar, and the honey that was made was not gathered from poisoned plants. Dees instinctively recognize plants that are naturally poisonous, but they fall victims to artificial poison. The molasses and water mixture of calcium arsenate is especially fatal to i bees. Highly Organized Workers. A beb hive is a highly organized industrial plant. The bees are divided into groups that have certain tasks to perform. One group does not encroach on another's task. "There is one squad that gathers the nectar," Mr. Creighton explains. "Another group works up the honey after I it is placed in the cells. Still another ; group caps the cells. When the field i workers go out to gather nectar and ue\ <t reiurn, mat siops me industry j in tlio "\vholo hive. The others begin eating the honey already stored, and when the supply is exhausted, they must ho fed or they will starve. "I shall have to feed my be?s this I winter to keep them alive. Most of the honey gatherers were killed in the lipids and the young bees and the oth| er workers have nothing to live on." What Will Happen If Bees Die. if all the bees are killed, what will happen to those plants that depend on bees for fertilization, is a question that is puzzling students of nature here. Many plants depend almost entirely on j bees, going from one plant to another, ! to fertilize them. Without the agency j of bees, the fruits and seeds of these i plants will not mature, and the plants 1 themselves will shortly become ex-l tltfct. . : i The bee is of more importance than j merely a honey maker. The bee is an HELPING WAR BLIND. Berlin Factory Is Seeking to Aid Sufferers. One of the most practical and at the same time, psychological solutions of the problem of the "war blind," seems to have been found by the SiemensHnlske Works In Berlin, probably the largest electro-technical concern in the world. This firm has Just celebrated its seventy-fifth birthday. "Siemons City," as it is called, is accepted In every w^ as the model workingman's settlement. It was In conformity with this policy that the employes of thfc firm who were called to the colors were promised that thefr Jobs would be awaiting them upon their return. This nromise has been interpreted as I , > not only meaning the able bodied, and those who sustained only slight injuries should be put back on the J payroll, but literally, the "lame, the f halt and the blind," arc back in the r work rooms. ^ To the Siemens-Halske firm belongs ^ the crediting of creating an independ- I g ent working sphere for a group of blind workmen. A special work room has been set apart for them where they H are engaged in the product on of quan- * tity articles. As the visitor enters the "blind wards," humming and throbbing with v the noise of scores of electrically- r driven machines, his eye is arrested by c the unexpected presence of a herd of r shepherd dogs, each of whom has his place under the table of the particular workman to whom he has been assign- 11 ed as "a guide. T These animals have received a thor- r ough course of training and have been r warned specially of the dangers of elec- a trical machines. Their intelligence is t nothing short of astounding, and their s presence here bespeaks the care and thought that has been expended upon v every phase of thid problem. c As originally planned, the blind j workmen were to be housed in a spe- t cially constructed building in Siemen's ^ City, whereby the problem of trans- j r important economic factor, whose e smallness is counteracted by his busy- s ness. h SDoirt Get h THAT OUR CHRH CONFINED ALON! CRACKERS AND . THAT KIND WE HAVE THE LARGE! Watches and Jewell H carried and all of tl: 4 PRICED RIGHT. ^ INCLUDED AMONG TH] 1 Watches, Watch C jg Stick Pins, Rings c Fraternal EmblemsM you might name in 1 WHILE YOU ARE SHO] ^ Come early to this fir, choice of hundreds S# gathered for you to I J M. BRL |j 11E. Liberty Street. I ffiNE NO I YES, OUB TOYS are ( Call in and make your sc lievc that by doing this yo Also, as you know, the it impossible for lis to give y can give you NOW. nr i nniT A ni | MA5UMD1 S Such as Butcher Knives, Sg Cake Pans, Graters, Egg-> S' and last, but not least? I THE CALORIC PIP 3* With one of these in your' S weather for Christmas. I ?. one. You will be pleasec Sj- short notice. I* Give Your Wants to t We appreciate them. I YORK HARE II I >ortntlon would be easily and efflcienty solved. But economic conditions lave so far interfered with the ealization of this plan, and the rusty canine guides must share with .lie members of the men's famiille3 the :e.sk of conducting them to and from heir work. They are carried gratis on he electric trams and 3ubways, and is soon as they have entered the fac:ory gates, pass over into the hands >f the institution. Everything possible has been done to nsure the bodily safety of these men. The machines are protected by strong ron casings and adequate insulation >y means of pads eliminates any dan; rer of injuries about the head and face. Ml the drills and.screws are carefully ncafed by a protective apparatus vhich can bo mounted and dismounted, vith ease. The wormecrew and the damping presses remain motionless intil started by th$ workmen by neons of a safety lever. That deep isychological understanding also plays i part in the treatment of those aflicted men, is demonstrated by the 'act that their immediate co-workers ire women instead of men. This has been done to avoid even the emblance of diminished efficiency, aB vould have been the case had they >ecn placed In direct competition with ible-bodied men. The blind men, as a vhole, accomplish more than their wonen companions, and thus a feeling if self-confidence and courage is creLted, ading immeasurcably to their general efficiency. While the "blind ward" at the Slenens-Ha'lske Works was not intended rimarily as a marriage bureau, it has levertheless, had this effect, and a lumber of happy marriages have reulted from this juxto-position >f the ouchingly helpless men and their ympathetlc women comrades. The first Impulse to employ blinded rorkmen in the -German factories ame from Dr. Sllex, the well known lerlin occulist, as early as 1916, but he Slemens-Halskc firm was the first >ig concern to put the Silex theories nto practical application. The blind nen in their workrooms have acquir d an astounding degree of proficiency, ome of them receiving as much as a lundred marks an hour. he Idea | 3TMAS STOCK IS ?} E TO TOYS, FIRE- & ARTICLES OF S 3T LIKE OF S y that wc have ever jx lesc articles are Ej EM ARE j| hains, Cuff Buttonss, k >f all kinds, including jg ?Most anything that !5 rligli Class Jewerly. ?PING EARLY? rs" -1 i. 77i: 4. W ; f^tore ana gut j? nst of articles that we have -v& pick from. f* AN CO. 1 YORK, S. C. | %?iR >W "SSI 3ii display TODAY. jw elections early. We be- Ig iu will be better pleased. |rc ish at the last, makes it jfc ou the attention that we $ E GOODS I Meat Mills, Lard Cans, vhips, Turkey Roasters, 'ELESS FURNACE | home you can have June t is a real comfort. Try I. We can install it on jS ' ' I he "RED W STORE." jf )WARE CO. I Politics .and labor questions are eliminated from the blind man's sphere in the Siemens-Halske Works, and these men are glad to leave strikes and labor disturbances of all kinds to their fellow workingmen, who can afford to risk a "lock-out" and a suspension of wages. ? A blue-winged teal, banded in I^ake Scrugog, Canada, 1C miles from Lake Ontario, was found in Trinidad, 3,000 miles away, two months and seven days later. TOWN ALMOST WIPEI ii mil i minim Minimi?in mm?*-, iflBfilSi Twelve hundred Were made fire which almost totally destroy Quebec. The place has the ap] with smouldering ruins, half f*l tured here. Fire brigades fror were rushed to the scene to help estimated at more than a millioi |j Real Rug Values tha fl ' OUR ASSORTMENl !*4 largest in the upper pai values that you can't aff I[ time soon you will be in r In our stock you will BAGDAD, BAI MECCA SEAM Also a complete line of \ ALEXANDER SMI From the Cheapest to the Best al FROM $25.< ALL RUGS ARE ADVANCINi if you make your purchase# now. I W. G. REl "F.VFT7VTTITXG 1 H ROCK HIL] **& *?5Ks*^^K*?& ?*&- **& <*& XMHM!MWHX"J,!";MXMt"X^%,,X"XMXM^ I Quality, Pri ? When you buy a Suit ? to be sure you have a rij | limit of QUALITY for t X X And along with the ? pay, you have an additi 1 STYLE that will he in k $ ual personality? | THAT IS WHAT1 f these when you buy Clotl | THIS STORE especi $ sells nothing but the BI $ and our Prices will comp t try this out if you doubt $ the Style, the Fit, the Pj ? $ Our Men's Clothing i ? ner & Marx, Schloss Br< X and for the boys we hav ?{* and Clover Brand?as go ? Suits and Overcoats f ? sizes, in pleasing fabrics ? priced. J j RAINCOATS_AND_RU: \ We can supply you wi ? Shoes for the wet weathe '? which is about due. ! J. M. S' % v-n nvr ? Rubber-block paving is to be placed on St. Martin's I^ane, London, England. Rubber, in addition tfo being noiseless, gives a hard, solid foundation, and lasts longer than ordinary paving material, although the initial expense is greater, according to paving experts. ? The vicar of St. Kcvernc, In Cornwall, England, found a vestment chest of Spanish workmanship, 300 or 400 years old, in a load of firewood delivered to him. > OUT IN GREAT FIRE." . -vf " Ji B*. homeless and a life lost in a great ed the little town of Terrebonne, pearance of a war stricken area,' lien walls, bare chimneys, as picn many nearby cities and towns i light the tlamcs. The damage is i dollars. v, ") ; ' r ?, t can't be duplicated k 1 OF RUGS, which is the jj i; of the State, contains* ord to overlook if at any teed of Floor Coverings, jjS IGOR AND , u v!\'| LESS WILTONS? 5 TH & SONS' GOODS .? l prices ranging jjj? )0 70 $90.00 A 3 in price and you will save mdriey E5 ID & SON J ?OR THE HOME'' Ci, - - s. c. - > St vl PiR :Si\ ?^ ? 1' ices 3 ... y "?s . A < I of Clothes or an Overcoat !: i' i H J 1 i t^lit to expect the highest ; lie Price you pay? P? ; ( Quality at the Price you ?J onal right to expect the .n; eeping with your individ- ! ' . . fOU GET?all three of v ling at STROUP'S. \\ i i " .1 ially reminds you that it ! i SST in Quality and Style ;; . arc with anybody's?just ;! it?Consider the Quality, fl j J ice? " ;: > ! f' J neludcs the Hart, Schaff- ? os. and Griffon Clothes, ; e tlic Dubbclbilt, Griffon I iod as can be found. ' ' ! ! -A * 1 or Men and for Boys?all ;; good styles and rightly ' ? BBER SHOES? i j . ith Raincoats and Rubber ; r that is here and more of : i TROUP * * ; JH H