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gag jgg g?| I jpe geralD and ||em I Sntered at the Postofficc- ' v>>-wI rcry, S. C., as 2*k'i class matter. S E. H. AULL, EDITOR. I Friday, January 16. 1914. We note that Representative Welch, or' Richland county, offered a resoluI tion in the house of representatives on Wednesday to authorize the chair[ man of the house committees to rent rooms in a nearby bank building in I Columbia during the session. Without regard to the merits of this particular resolution, we would like to say that if the State is going to con tinue to maintain a department of agriculture, some provision ought to be made whereby this department would not 'have to move its offices every time the legislature meets. If President Wilson gets the votes of all his "doubles," he ought not to have any trouble in.being re-elected. ISLAND OF SAKUKA COVEKED WITH LAVA Number of Japanese Who Perished Will Never be Known.?Big Volcano Less Active. Tokio, Japan, Jan. 14.?Official reports tonight of the disaster in Southern Japan brought out the following general features: Tae small isiand of Sakura is covered with a layer of lava and ashes, under which lie many corpses, whose number probably will never be known. A:.y estimate of the dead must include a large number of refugees drowned while trjir.g to swim to safety. \ Kagoshima, last week a prosperous town of 60,000 is in ruins. The eruption of Sakura?Jima is gradually subsiding. The entire island of Kiushiu, an * area of 3,000 square miles, is covered ittJ + Vi nin a oin rorvino1, r) ontVl H XCU * VAV/UU iV/ ttrOii ? MA J AAAQ vi ?. Prominent scientists declared the j era?' fn had served as a vent for an v acute subterranean activity, and probably had saved the country from even more disastrous eruption. At Kumamoto, north of Kagoshima, more than 1,000 rufugees have arrived. The authorities face the difficulty of housing and feeding the sufferers. Missionaries Keported Safe. V The American missionaries stationed at Kagoshima in the island of Kinshiu, Japan, all of whom are reported by the American consul at Nagasaki to have escaped safely from the disaster are: Miss L. Alice Finlay, Methodist Episcopal church, (East rnnfprpnpp ) h^adcmarters in New York; Miss Harriet M. Lansing and Miss Jessie Xoordhoff. Reformed Church in America, (Dutch.) headquarters New York, and the Rev. P. P. Medling and wife, Southern Baptist conference, headquarters Rich^ mond, Va. Tokio. 500 miles from the volcanic disturbances, has been swept for the 24 past (hours by miniature cyclones, creating the belief that the capital was feeling some of the effects of the eruptions. The wind died down tonight. Animals and birds south of Satsuma were suffering from abnormal uneasiness for several days prior to the disturbance at Kagoshima. The famine in the northern part of Japan continues to give the government much alarm, and relief measures on a tremendous scale will be necessary. Rescaed 300 Persons. Nagasaki. Japan, Jan. 14.?(Vivid descriptions of scenes on the island of Sakura during the eruption and tidal wave of Monday wc;e given today by the captain of a Japanese steamer from Kagoshima. The captain rescued 300 persons. "It was perilous to approach the iai d," levsaid. "because co'umns of wnter burst up continually from the gulf, while on the land pillars o? fire rose into the air from the acres^of blazing sugar cane. Peo/ pie and cattle ran pell mell toward the beach. Steamers in the gulf lowered row boats to pick up the hundreds of people who were drifting helplessly on misshapen rafts or swimming while holding planks and pieces of timber. All were uttering piteous cries. "Hundreds stood along the shore unable to find any me:.us of escape. Some of them waved towels and clothing attached to bamboo poles to attract attention. Many of the people were only half conscious because of their suffering. "Detachments of ambulance men, police and troops from Kagoshima worked lik? madmen in toe mission of (?OY?I>NO:;S MESSAGE [ IN HE STATE MILITIA I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.) | this message, reversing the auditor of i the war department in reference to i the payment of Military companies. In J his ruling, Mr. Downey sustains my ! position absolutely in this military : "muddle/* as some people call it. I know that this opinion made some people sick, notwithstanding the fact that it was in the interest of the militia of their State, but it made me feel good. Read it and see what you think, and you will surely be convinced of the fact that not even the secretary of war himself, or those connected with him, know all the military law and all the rules jind regulations governing the paying out of moneys appropriated for the militia. x ' " - * ' * ?- /V- - - L.ii I i wisn 10 tnanK, irom uie uouom ui my heart, Brigadier General Wilie Jones, Colonels Lewis, Lipscomb and Cogswell, and Assistant Adjutan; General Oscar W. Babb for the hearty interest which they have displayed in this matter, and for their assistance and words of encouragement that they have given to me and to the members and officers of the volunteer militia, i 1 in rallying to the support of their organization and bringing it up to its today standard. I feel that these gentlemen all deserve their part of the, I praise for the victory, and I feel that j the militia of South Carolina, if you j gentlemen of the legislature will do j your duty and assist them as you j should, will move forward with a real spirit prevailing among them, with ! more harmony in their ranks, and j with more enthusiasm in their work j fhan has heretofore existed among | them. I now hand you the record, gentle-! j men, and whatever may be your decis* j i ion in the matter, whether it be satisj factorv to me or not, I shall endeavor i : to vcarry out the plans formulated by j you. ' Very respectfully, ! ^ -1 - T m ^^ UOie. lJ. DIW5C, Governor. | ? WHAT SOBODY KNOWS. Just a Few of the Maiiy Mysteries of >*ature That Are Still Unsolved. j j The most striking thing about a I j really learned man is not the extent | of his knowledge, buj: the extent of i his admitted ignorance. The wiser1 I the iperson is the greater the number j of things he doesn't know. The more universally cocksure and well informed hi seems the more likely it is that he is a .humbug. How little has science made inroad 9 upon that stupendous and limitless nescience that surrounds it as the stel-1 lar universe enfolds the tiny earth. Sir Oliver Lodge the other day, at j the meeting of the British assocfation j spoke of the mystery of sex deter-! riinotinn Snite of all claims, we | know little more *today than did the ! cave man why one child is born a 1 boy ?nd another a girl, and. why the j world ratio keeps about the same. Sir Oliver also expresses his wonder that some plants bore forth male and female flowers. He said thp same sap. comes into the stem, but just at _ that junction where differently sexed flowers branched away from each other there must be some profound change in the sap. "I don't know what it is, and microscopes tell me nothing about it,'* j he continued. "Perhaps if physiologists could find out just what happened in that little plant joint they would ! get some clue to the reason why some ' human being are born boys and the others girls." He might have pushed further his > point of wonder. How conies it that ! the earth juice make here a white j flower and her a red? How is a huge ; oak all folded in a little acorn? ! How can nature make the peach, j \ full of juice and cased so closely in I the thinnest of fuzzy skin that never leaks? iiow dees blood food here create i a hard finger nail, there a liair and there a stony tooth? W..;u is electricity? We .know somewhat of how ii acts. But what: is it? We know little more of it j than does a savage. What is life? What is the secret; force that transforms in a trice a living dog that eats his environment into a dead dog whose environment eats him? What is love? Why does this woman thrill you and that one leave you cold or repel you? WV.at is conscience, that world's policeman that urges us on to what we think right and affrights us at what we think is wrong? What is truth? What is personality? What is being? And these questions are not remote, ~ r:\stions, not such tilings as mixiey ca.uea "lunar poiuis, dui they touch the very nearest and dearer * ^es^'ons of every man's life. We are but dust motes in the sun oysters to our little print in the bod o!' the vast ocean of mystery. All about us is nature, her mind a galaxy of secrets, her thoughts far and strange as the procession of the suns. Nothing benefits us, her children, so much as reverence for her purposes, humanity before her great brain, trust and love \n her vast {heart. No one is so consummate an ass as the one who thinks he knows it all. One Swallow Makes a Panic. "Woman's Home Companion. JL#ittie Alice was to speak in public for the first time at a Sundayschool concert. Wlien it came her j turn she arose and walked across the k i platform very f bravely, but being seized with a sudden attack of stage frigut^ sb# could not find her voice. Something came up in her throat, making her gulp and swallow, but no little poem was fortncoming. Finally, turning a frightened face to her teacher, she gasped, "I've swallowed my piece.'" KITTflHFR FMJSTS MOVIES. i Uses Pictures in Lecture to Reduce Cost of Living. Cincinnati Dispatch to New York Sun. C. H. Bolte, a local meat dealer, has solved the problem of reducing the cost of living. The "movies" are the medium through woich he works. The pictures, however, are supplemented with talks by Mr. Bolte, who appears at a local show house. The butclicr stands in the foreground while photographs of hams, quarters of beef, shoulders of mutton. lamb kidneys and similar deli'? - -j / cacies tiasu upon tne audience. In his talK Mr. Bolte lias this to say: "The only specimens of meat recognized by some ncw.y made brides are the clubhouse steaks at 30 and 40 cents a pound, tenderloin and several other riairtv and hish uriced cuts. "The reason the price of choice cuts is so high is because the quantity is limited and the demand great. "Brisket and shoulder plug are just about as nourishing when cooked properly and they cost much less." Bolte's lectures not only ii.cludj what kind of meat the houoowlvco should buy but a practical demonc-tfoHrvn oc tn hnw it chrmlr? Iip nrp pared for cooking and a detailed account of how it should be cooked. j SPECIAL TEACHERS' EX A3H NATION. i A special examination for teacbers will be held in the court house Saturday, January 17. The examination will begin at 9 o'clock. Applicants will furnish stationery. The following is from letter from V. ? CH a f a An rJ Ar? + r\-? A/lurtcf i/>n II1C Oiauc iupciilltCiiucuL V/l cuuk/aut-u. "I am authorizing as directed by the State board of education, a special teachers' examination for Newberry county, Saturday, January 17th." Teachers and all who desire to become teachers please take notice and govern yourselves accordingly. Geo. D. Brown, Co. Supt. of Education. j STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, Court of Common Pleas. John C. Halfacre, individually, and as A A t>>in "of re trvr> r?f tVin norennal DC ^TV. UllUiliOli C4 L V,'X vy A. tliu UUUUA Vwi tate of Lula A. Halfacre, deceased, Paul S. Halfacre, Frank H. Halfacre and Eunice J. Halfacre Hipp, Plaintiffs, i Against Ruth Amelia Halfacre, et al., Defendants. By virue of an order of court herein, I will sell before the court house .at Xe'wberrv, S. C., to the highest bidder, within the legal hours of sale, on Monday, February 2nd, 1914,. the same being salesday, a'.l that piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and beincr o ill f-iHiitv nf berry, State of South Carolina, containing two hundred and ten acres, more or less, bounded oil the north by land of John C. Xeel and Mrs. Mary Xorris, cn the east by land of Lee Q. Fellers, on the soutn by land of James McCullough and a public road and on the west by lands of John C. Xeel and John C. Wicker. Terms of sale: One-third cash and the balance payable in tw-o equal annual installments, with interest from day of sale at the rate of eight per cent, per annum, interest payable annually, secured by a bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises sold, with leave to the purchaser to anticipate payment of the credit portion in whole or in part; the mortgage to provide for payment of ten per cent, attorney's fees ijf the event it faas to be foreclosed or placed in the rv P r?r? ftffAwnav f + 11CL Uv1.0 UI a. It CllLUl iiOJ AVI V.UiitV/UVU, 'Purchaser to pay for papers and recording same. \ H. H. Rikard, ^^Mafeyr~Kewberry County, S. C. ?; *i2a&SE32BEBm i &nr AA im | TO BE GIVEN AV Robinson's 10 ( LOOK! LOOK!! 1 rmrp wliitp 42-nipr?p rlirmpr set. value II Gold lined 42 piece Dinner Set, value 1 Decorated 42-piece Dinner Set, value .. 1 Forty-four-piece Japanese Tea Set, value 1 Ten-piece decorated Toilet Set, value 2 Water Sets (Engraved), value $1.00 each 2 Punch Bowls with Cups, value $2.00 eac 2 Decorated xparlor Lamps, value $1.25 eac 6 Statues, high bronzed, value $2.00 each . 2 Carving Sets, value $2.00 set ....... 1 Manicure Set, value 4 heavy blue and white 8 qt Enameled Ket 4 ?5eautiiul Pictures, size 2UX24, value i 8 2 sets highly polished Knives and Forks, v< 1 China Nut Set, (7 pieces), value 1 China Saiad Set, (7 pieces >, value 4 large and beautiful China Cake Plates, v; 2 large and beautiful China Salad Bowls, ^ 2 large ornamented Bronze Clocks, value : 1 lovrrn RiWo 179 lnA / I -I. X 11.11.1 J JL/iViV) IU1UV # 1 large Teacher's Soft Covered Bible, value Total ....... Do You Want Any You May Have What You Want by Goi Do Your Trading I I Commencing Saturday, and. continuing every day until 2. o'clock p. we will give you, with every 25c purchase, , The stub of this ticket which bears Jhe exa ticket which you will keep, will be deposit Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, March 31st be drawn in order for the prizes as shown draw will be for the white 42-piece Dinner No person can draw more than one prize. All contestants must be in the store at tl Here's a chance for everybody to get son I value, by simply spending your nickles and something you need every day in the year, prices as low and our goods as good as any REMEMBER: I Come to the Ten Cent Store FIRSX. W I with every 25c purchase get a ticket that n some premiums named above. These Premiums Will rv... J Iuur vv inuows jaiu Look Them 0 n_L: K 11 MDMdUll 5 II I Everything, Every time 11 / . i i .j^rftftfrflfrl'.TiffigEgMSd!;*. ' T /AY BY I I Jent otore L LOOK!!! I e . $3.00 5.00 5 00 j 7.00 - i 4.50 1 i ' ? 200 :h 4 00 h 2.5U lz.00 , ties, value 85c each 3.40 , J )0 each 4.00 ' - m ilue $125 set .2.50 Vj 1.25 ^ - 1.00 x | . 1 alue $1.00 each 4 00 ralue $1.00 each ..... _. 2.00 $2.00 each 1 4.00 I ! 2.00 1 ' y $77 65 | ' S \ . ~C I - ' U1 A llCSCi I ng to the Ten Cent Store to ??- h ? ? ^ January 17th, I m, Tuesday, March 31st, a ticket bearing a number. ct number shown on the A ed in a locked box, and on , 1914, lucky numbers wil 1 above, for instance, first - _ J # Set, etc. I I le time of drawing. I lething of service and good | dimes with us. We have I and we GUARANTEE our 8 I you will find in town g V )on't Forget! 9 e will save you money, ar*d lay win some of the hand- I ""W % I I i Be Shown in j J rday,. 17th. | 1 ver. 9 )c Store. H for Everybody. ! HH t I