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SHOW GIRLS IN B. C. WHITNU * * * * * * * * * * * AT THE OPERA VOUSE. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "A Knight For a Day." The 'big musical Ha! Ha!'", is the way the Boston Heiold sub-titled B. C. Whitney's musical gaiety, "A Knight for a Day'" and it is said to be an appropriate title too, as the claim is made that there are more laughs in it than ;n -any three other musical comedies combined. In ad dition, it lays claim to one of the most tuneful scores of the past de ca-de. The gaiety is scheduled for an appelarance at the opera house on Wednesday night. December 8, and is promised in its er.tirety as pre sented in Ghicago for 607 times; in: New York for six months and in' Bos ton for three months. The company THE SENSATIONAL CIBROUS SC T.O BUILD NEW CHURCH. -Red Bank Baptist Congregation at Saluda to Haver $10,000 Struc ture. Saluda, Dec. 4.-The members of Red Bank Baptist Church in this town have gone to work .in real ear nest for a modern house of worship under the leadership f their popular pastor, the Rev. J. E. Bailey. The committee on plans recently appoint ed, consisting of Alvin Etheredge, J. E. Smith, J. B. Foy, J. A. Carson, J. H. Banks, W. L. Daniel, W. E. Sawyer,' with t.he pastor as a mem ber ex officio, has engaged the ser vices of J. H. Casey, an Anderson ar ehiteet. Mr. Casey was in Saluda to day in conference with this commit *tee, and he is to prepare plans pro viding for a main auditorium and 'four Stfrhday school rooms all ar -ranged so that the entire floor space tant be converted into one room, with a total seating capacity of 600. There will be an organ gallery and choir loft. The floors will be inclined. The entire structure is to be of brick and the estimated cost is ten thousand dollars. Prior to the Revolutionary war re ligious services were held occasional ly on the site of the present church under a brush arbor. It is a tradition on good authority t.hat Indians at tended these services. The first chuch-as orarnied in 1784. so . . ........ ?'S MUSICAL SUCCESS, "A KNI HOUSE WEDNESDAY DEC. 8. which is under the direction of Ben Falk this season played a successful New York engagement. "Polly of the Circus." Just a true, clean, American play is perhaps the' bost description that can be given of "Polly of the Cir Cus," which will be the attr6ction at the opera house on Monday, Decem ber 13, coming here with the endorse ment of a solid season's run at the Liberty Theatre, New York, and an other season equally divided between Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. There are no -high sounding disser tations on marriage and divorce; no acute analysis of emotions, but just a compellingly, human study of a ten der child, born and reared among the garish life of the circus tent, thrown by accident into the home of a young village, clergyman, an dawakening to love, to knowledge, to hope and to ENE N "OLLYOP HE CRCU DAYNIGT,DECMBE 3 tha Re ak ft-dyhsako itahitryo oehude an wn ty-five ears, an.with.th.possibl :: ..ception.ofZoar' MehditChrh .erCoea'sCosras.i h oldet ora-nied curchin.Slud eounty.~ Columbi T D ECE-MxB-Even iteaphistor ofonllded and twe n-e ty-e past fsandea, within t the il annaleptor of ther tetdi Cucm panies rgceived churth rinroado mision.atds shown Si thertn toa rilroad heCommssion' ha pepl were killed and 7589 injuredI on the rairoads oh State inae bynen, whepoto the tnty-r finjeim ans ecbeiveral thudairoad corn comissiont is sown cmin the sta nutial eport of its cannua eport $320,000 kille ad10ISnjurdY Thibsementhfor the SnatmAfer kl othe rairpensehs Aree Squ ae ryte, ofhthe thsenumr cofisui: fisdayea paidte ons June 0.quo cmision ism now47omp4li7 the sta i X XHT FOR A DAY," AT THE OPERA God. The vain en-deavorn of mis guided and bigotted ehurchwomen and deacons to separate bhe girl arfd the young minister, the eager self-sacri fiee of tho little cieus rider when she realizes that the -clergyman's ca -reer may be imperiled by her love, and the fmal happy ending of the Itbry after the stress, combine to make a play that has brought tears, laughter and sheer joy to hundreds of thousands of delighted theatrego ers. yIf You know -anyone whose ten idency is to pass by on the other side; anyone who is pessimistic or' gloomy, anyone .who has lost faith, in fact, anyone into whose life there has not come sufficient sunshine, send that person to hear from the lips of Polly the old words, "Whither thou goest, I will go, for thy people shall be my people and thy God, my Go AT THE OPERA EOUSB, MON gest amount being $65,000 to Clark Brothers, $45,000 to Fleishmann and' $18,000 to the Schlitz bear people. Other claims paid up this week bring the total up to $219,508. The commission has left ao.im $450,000 which includes about $50, 000 "conscience money," half of which goes to the lawyers. Chairman Murray said to-day that all attorney's fees were paid and all other expenses met and that the som mission would turn in about $320, 000.. I "CONSCIENCE FUND." Amount Received from Firms Who Held No Claims Passes Fifty Thousand Dollar Mark. Columbia, Dec. 2.-I. Troeger, who did business with the old State dis pensary, has forwarded, through Col. Felder, of Atlaata, $9,000, to be add ed to the 'conscience fund." This places the amount received from various firms past the $50,000 mark, being $54,000 in all. The lar gest co.tributor was the Bernheim firm, which handed across $30,000. Then came Weiskopt with $7,500 and other firms with smaller amounts The present contributor is from Cincinnati. Negotiations have been - oing on for some time in the collee ton of money from Troeger, and there have been some talking over the 'phne to Atlanta. Attorney HAT TON BUR You Are Loc By not investin: Newberr Real Come to Auction Sale DEC. 15, Terms of Sale: One- - hird Cash, be er to pay for Dapers. SIX LOTS THESE THREE ON MAIN SEWER LINE. No. 1. Ten -oon house andlot.on Nance Street, in one block of Public Square, size of lot 86 x 114 ft. deep. No. 2. One lot on Nance Street, with a two room tenant house. Lot 62 x 123 ft. deep. No. 3. One lot on Nance Street, (cor ner lot) with a two room tenant house. Size of lot 62 x 133 ft. deep. If you are waiting for lower prices J. A. BURTON, Agi. eneral Lyon, who had just return d to the city, has received notifica tion of the payment of the $9,000. f this amount the State received $4,500 as half of the "conscience h money'' goes to the Atlantafim HEAVY LOSS AT CAMDEN. TreBuildings Demolished ad '~ ONE D Costly F'ire Follows Severe Explosion. SeCO1 Caden, Dec. 2.-Cjamden sustain- g d quite a sensation as well as a -~IB disaster shortly before 8 o'clock to night when an explosion occurred in 6 the office of the Southern Express Company, demolishing the express office, the buildings on either side, burying two men in the wreckage, shaking the whole town and start ing a fire which destroyed the ex- 4 press office and the two other build- j ings wrecked and several other stores. The property loss is estimated to-night at $100,000. The EJ The cause was a great mystery to every one, but the most reasonable *ig solution given is that there was a piece of presto ear1bon in the offie, ' SEE-I which had been ordered from Colum- Gil,Lte bia for use on an automobile. This ~H ear-',Litl article was only about one foot long iin He and about five inches in diameter. The .4 yli lue explosion was so great that it com- Ote. pletely wrecked the express office PRICES and also the adjoining buildings on _ either sid:e. The express agent and 4.$ $ his help had finished their work and - had closed up only a few minutes before. Next south of the expressanJnirOd, office was the green grocery of Wat- Manuis. Thdese kins Brothers. Mr. A. L Watkins Mhics proert,si and Mr. A. G. Whitaker were rescued1 anThe nroet bi by Mr. J. H. Clark from the wreek, samced wThe two badly hurt. The extent of their in- owined was the E.F. juries is not known, but it is feared ownebyur. d F.e they are seriously hurt. Immediate- Lanbug,grc and ci ly after the explosion fire broke out,' g plmbr ndh and while the firemen made heroie plumbern area efforts to subdue the flames, they P. DuBose, real e spread so rapidly that at least $2, lis Brothers' barb 000 worth of property was destroyed damaged. bthe following buildings were con- brn aen ibln sumed: -b,osien in theistreet The Southern Express Company' si deofte stt office, with all of its contents; Wai- Pbu ppetyl oetr kins Brothers' store, and its con- 3s bu icle ohat ets, including books and accounts, isaoir,al statedi d what money they had in the menugh asr saeriul store; the Baruch-Nettles Mercantile o'eloc tefre sel Company 's store, one of the largest o'clockthef wandS and handsomest in the city, and the Tmthei stock cosi building occupied by them, and owned byhming tok ons. b James H. Barns; B. D. Trapp s~b mvng i ou.Godl store of goods, building owned ,by of andi NR.goodain Lewis and Christmas, in which was o .ergosi aed th alln of the Odd Fellows condition, especial) HAT TON BUR$ ;ing Money 7 in a piece of Estnbt p0 of Hatton Prope 11 A. M. dance in I and 2 years. Purchas TOGoo No. 4. One lot corner Caidwell and . Hatton Streets, with four room cottage. Size of lot62x 116ft' eep. No. 5. Lot with four rbom S)ze of lot 62x 107 No. 6. Lot 87 x 107. Syouwibe disaofpointed NANCY L. HATTON Admxll Withfu Woom Annexed. ~era110 fte idTrumphTou ofou hom Soutag .WINEY6. SUMPTUOUS07 PROCY.HTION , Adrn IGHT ORY DAY"TH. DIRECTION OF BEN FALK A. Girly Affair of Peculiar Charm tresh From a New York Engagement .With Cast and Chorus Intact ect ical See-Saw of 1000 Glimmer Lights The Funniest Elopemnent Scene Ever Staged. 'e Candle Light Girl, Corsican Girls, College j Girls in Blue. 'Life is a See-Saw", Garden of Dream", "Little '. 'Whistle as You Walk Out" And Twenty -25c to $1.50 SEATS ON MONDAY. United AmericanUopa ni. orders lost all Utopia Farmers Union will nieet hout any insur.. Friday at 4 p. m. All members are Iding to the co. urged to be present as business -of story corner store importa-nee is to be attended to. Watkins, of Spar. J. R. Perdew, ed by Bruce and Presideit. N' R. Goodale, second floor was NOTIOCE. Ld the office of C. INotiee is hereby given that certil state agent. Eng- eate No. 92 for two shares of the er shop was badly capital stock of the Farmers' oil Mill, standing in my name, has been s windows were lost or misplaced. An applicatin s on the opposite has beeni made for a new eertificate. The insurance on ID. L. Ham.. cyed will not ex- 11.30-09-4t. Itaw. -half its value. It L lives were lost, TRESPASS NOTICE. above, two young The undersigned hereby forbid injured. At 10:30 trespassing upon their lands either. under control. W. by hunting, fishing,,or in any other th and Lewis had manner. This is also applies to stoek derably damaged unning at large. Bruce and Langj W. Q. Boland. saved a good dealt C. C. Boland. a badly damaged 3. A. Boland. v the former. Jaaob Fellers. / *