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OWNS KNOWLEDGE OF SECRET ORDER * LEE PLASTER MEMBER OF FARMERS' SOCIETY. William A. Stuekey Declines to Say Whether of Not the Organization is Political. iTfte State, 5th. William A. Stuekey, a prominent farmer of Lee county, who lives in Bishopville, was in the city yesterday. "What is this about a new society of farmers said to be organized in the State and to have a membership in your county T a reporter of the State j asked (Mr. Stuekey. "There is such a society," he replied. "I am a member of it." "Wi.at is the nature of it?" "That I can't tell you," said Mr. Stuckey, smiling; "the society is secret. I can't discuss its purposes. 11 can only say that if its purposes are j carried out, Lee will be the most pros- ! perous county in South Carolina/' Mr. Stuckey declined to say whether j or not tne organization was ponucai, or to commit himself further tihan as quoted. "At any rate," tne reporter said, "you give me tisis much of a story? that, you are a member disposes of the rumor that it is a society composed exclusively of tenant farmers." Mr. Stuckey is a landholder. When the reporter inquired if he could join tifae order, Mr. Stuckey said that it was confined to farmers. John L. McLaurin, State cotton warehouse commissioner, was asked last night if fce were a member of the new organization of farmers to which Gov. Manning referred to in his speech of T J^acirilla MAnHor JWVVkJ TliiV aUVUUUJ "I am not a member of the organization," said Mr. McLaurin, "and I have been told tihat 1 am not eligible for membership." Mr. McLaurin said that he had beard of the farmers' organization | only in Lee and Kershaw counties and ! knew nothing about it. Tt TF9C l<anrr?P/9 Tact ni^ht "hnt rint from ftfr. McLaurin, that the farmers'! secret organization would ihave a convention soon at some place not yet selected. . The Movies Move On. Augusta Chronicle. Two new developments in movie fashions are to be noted. The all-nigiht movie shows seem to be "here to stay. They have been a success in Chicago And ar#* now invadin? New York Thev call them tfte "Ten-cent Pullmans," because a man may spend the night in * one for a dime, being entertained tlhe while. Night-workers who want a bit of recreation before they sleep find them a boon, as do railroad crews who come in after midnight and go out in j the early dawn. Itae other novelty was a show ex- j hibiting to a group of men wfDo will take a western trip this summer the scenery they will see on their travels. This suggests to railroads a fine meth- ! od of advertising their lines. Railway offices might discard the time-honored fisin on a plank in favor of movie machines. The Oregon Short Line might demonstrate nature's charms, while the Santa Fe showed steaming dishes; of Fred Harvey concoction. The New j Haven?but why continue? The railroads could easily guarantee that if you did not like in real life the scenery shown on the screen beforehand, you could, in any town, visit the movies and spend a night at their expense looking at pictures of scenery somewhere else! April Cotton Movement Heavy. Statistic made public Friday of last week by H. G. Hester, secretary of! the New Orleans cotton exdhange, in-1 "hot rt/vt-tivn -m/worn onto frvt* thA UlVWltUU VJ-AVtl* VV/VVV/XX I \*AMJL VMW4J *v* V-? > montfi of April showed marked in- j creases over the same month for the J last two years. There was brought j into sigfct during the month 922,710 bales,-an increase of 158,829 bales over 1 1912, which has held the April record j for several years. Northern spinners took 317,834 bales during the montfo,: increasing the average weekly taking J this season to 64,640 bales. Stocks at j the seaboard and at the twenty-nine j leading interior centers at ttoe close: of the month were 2,125,811 bales, as j against 1,108,198 bales last year and j 1.020,890 the year before. Surriyor Battle of Gettysburg 111. Charleston, W. Va., May 1.?Gen. Charles S. Peyton, 73, the only surviv ing uomeaerate neia omcer or tne Daitle of Gettysburg, is in a serious condition at his home in Roncebetre, W. Va., as a result of a stroke of paralysis. He is commander of the West Virginian division U. C. V. If all the brides are as beautiful astfce reporters would have us believe, where do all the homely married women come from? Our idea of an optimist is a man wiho hopes for the best, prepares for the worst ,and swallows the dose fate lades out to him with a cheerful grin. A GOOD WORD FOR THE CROW. Despite the Damage He Does He Is a Good Scavenger. In spite of the crow's instinct to feed on the eggs and young of other species (which he shares in common with several other birds), who would really wish to see him auite exterminated, even if it were possible to exterminate so resourceful a fellow? His destruction to crops is certainly far less tlian that of the bobolink in the southern rice fields. He is an efficient scavenger, and his destruction of white grubs, cutworms, wireworras and grasshoppers is of great value. Above all. however, his place in our l-jndicrtna ix Sllfh fh.lt- his DaSSilliT would leave a dreary void. Winter or summer we are conscious of him against the sky, against the fields or sentinel on a patriarch pine. In the misty mornings of summer when the sun has not yet rolled up the curtains of cloud from the mountains we hear his voice far off in the woods. rousing us l'rom slumber, and when autumn has come and our sugar groves are a glory of crimson he is still there, his distant call floating dovn sweetly from the upland woods and testifying in some strange way the height of the peaks beyond.?Harper's Magazine. LAY OF THE NIGHTINGALE. Why It Stops When the Little Birds Come Out of the Shell. It is generally assumed that a bird sings because he is happy, but science goes deeper for an explanation of the why and wherefore of the bird's song. Nature's optimistic joy in constructive progress is expressed in the singing of the male birds who charm their mates to further their wooing and continue after eggs are laid to encourage the fulfillment of hatching. The song stops when the little birds come out of the shell. The nightingale for weeks during the period of nest building and hatching charms his mate and human ears near him with the beautiful music of his love song. But as soon as the little nightingales come from the eggs the song changes to a sort of guttural croak, implying anxiety and sense of responsibility. If the nest and contents were destroyed the nightingale would at once resume his beautiful song to inspire his mate to help him build another nest and start all over again the loving work of being fruitful and multiplying.? Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Economizing Labor. Two laborers were engaged to deepen a well which had become dry. One of them sent his mate down into the well while he sat at the top and directed the work. He first ordered the other man to "dig a bit on this side," then "dig a little more on that side," until the latter, tired of both the work and the orders, exclaimed, "You sit up there and use your tongue, while I have to do all the work!" "One man here giving directions," said the man at the top, "can do as much as ten men down there." Thereupon his mate threw down his pick and climbed up beside *x other man. "What are you doing here?" inquired the latter. "Two men up here," answered his mate, "can do as much as twenty men down there!"? London Strand. Skiing on the Water. The ski Is recommended as both a life saving device and a pleasure craft, combining safety with novelty. It cannot sink, makes better speed than a swimmer and does not tire the rider as swimming does. It is more practicable for long distances and can go through water where there is a heavy undertow, as it sits so high in the water that it is not caught in the grip of the undercurrent as the legs of the swimmer are. It doesn't take a long time to master, as the surf board does; requires no skill in balancing and stick ing on ana nas tne great aavantage or being equipped with a motive power, whereas the ordinary surf board must be pushed and peddled'out to sea before it can be ridden in.?Outing. Where Art Ceases. All art is a matter of nature or life acted upon by man; a part taken out of its accidental surroundings and given artistic form. At either side of the field of true art is a waste place where art ceases to have beauty. And the waste on the one side is reached when the artist becomes so enamored rsf JifA thnt. he fonrets to interpret to give artistic form, and only brings forth a photographic image, while the waste on the other side is reached when the artist perfects his form but forgets to put life into it?Sheldon Cheney. Th*. Outdoor Life. "The doctor says I don't take enough interest in outdoor pastimes." "Are you going to profit by his suggestion ?" "Yes. I'm going to sit down and read every word on the sporting page." ?Washington Star. Cause of the Pessimism. Orator?On the surface things are often right, but it is when we explore the depths of things that we see the deceptions of our fellow creatures. One of the Crowd?Guvinor, you've been buying a barrel of apples, haven't you?? London Tit-Bits. The Real Need. Book Agent?This book will teach you how to economize. The Victim? That's no good to me. What I need Is a book to teach me how to live withoct economizing.?Philadelphia Ledger. The song that nerves a nation's heart Is in itself a deed.?Tennyson. AN EVEN TRADE It Wasn't Made Simply Becausa tho Law Wouldn't Allow It. A traveling salesman for a Gansevoort street wholesale grocery firm, recentty back from a trip through rough lands of a neighboring state, tells this possibly true tale: "One day 011 my last trip I bad a six mile ride to make to the county seat, and the small village in which I was had only one horse that I could hire and 110 other form of conveyance. I may say that a friend had landed me j in the town that morning from his ear. I and I had sold goods enough to pay the | expenses of the trip. "Well, I got away on the sorriest specimen of a horse I ever straddled. 1 and I was to send him back by the mail carrier, though not as a parcel post package, it took me two hours to cover the distance?1 was sorry enough I hadn't walked?and as 1 passed the county jail on my old bag of bones a face grinned at me from between the i bars of a small square window. I was ; too sore, to smile, but 1 nodded to the ! grin, and the prisoner cailed to ine: | " 'Say, mister,' he said, 'how'd you like to trade that critter for thirty days in jail?' "Just then I would have been glad enough to have traded, but the law wouldn't let me, and I rode on."?Now York Sun. TUC TUIDH M A DDI ETHM i nc mmu ivmi ulluh. I Spicy Pen Picture John Hay Drew of the French Emperor. One of the best things John Hay ever wrote, says William Roscoe Thayer in his presentation in Harper's of Hay's unpublished diaries, is this pen portrait of Napoieon III.: "Short and stocky, he moves with a queer, sidelong gait, like a gouty crab, a man so wooden looking that you would expect his voice to come raspI ing out like a watchman's rattle; a j complexion like crude tallow?marked i -? -.ti ?i J_~i-i. ior ueaiu wuenever ueaiu nauis mm? to be taken some time in half an hour or left, neglected by the skeleton king for years perhaps, if properly coddled. "The mustache and imperial which the world knows, but ragged and bristly, concealing the mouth entirely, are moving a little nervously as the lips twitch; eyes sleepily watchful?furj tive< stealthy, rather ignoble, like servants looking out of dirty windows and j saying 'Nobody at home,' and lying as they say it. "And withal a wonderful phlegm! He stands there as still and impassive as if carved in oak for a ship's figurehead. He looks not unlike one of those rude, inartistic statues. His legs are toe short, his body too long. He never looks "well but on a throne or on a horse, as kings ought." ^ conserving tne Joy or i_iTe. The most hopeful feature of the de! relopment of a new attitude toward | youth is the willingness to conserve | the spirit of the joy of life?the great J gift which youth has to offer to life. To youth has been given this great joy of life, and it is the right of the individual to carry its spirit on into age. making it fuller t?nd deeper as the years roll on. The new movement is asserting the right of youth to its joy, recognizing that this is the creative force which will raise life from a dull level. It means less of the disenchantments of age, a keeping alive of the glow or lire, CUlllVUUllg au eta uecpening optimism, so admirably expressed by those simple lilies of Browning: Grow old along with me. For the best is yet to be. ?George F. Kearney in Forum. A* - ? ! rs.I I - L ma King a v^ridnyeiosa in?\. In shops where it is damp or chemical fumes are present it is usually difficult to cause labels to stick to bottles or cans. An ink for use on such containers is made as follows: Shellac, 20 grams; dissolve it in a hot solution of borax containing 30 grams of borax to 400 cubic centimeters of water; filter i white hot and add a solution made oi aniline black, 8 grams; tannin, 0.3 gram; picric acid, 0.1 gram, and ammonia, 15 grams, in water, 10 grams. It will be found that this ink works nicely and resists the usual chemical and corrosive fumes.?Cincinnati Commmvnol TVihnnf* Golf Ball's Strange Flight. That a golf ball does not travel in a parabolic curve was asserted by Professor C. Vernon Boys during the trial of a patent suit in the British chancery court Professor Boys, who had been called as an expert 011 ballistics, de1 scribed experiments he had made with ! mechanically propelled golf balls and -1 1 . 1 ll .1 V/1 *WAT?/\ SillU LUc! 1/ LU^t' WLlt'll umtrn iuuic than counteracted the attraction of gravity. "A goud flight," he said, "is very nearly straight for a long time, then gradually rising and then falling." Aztec Emeralds. Among the Aztec treasures of Mexico J 0 were found many fine emeralds. They were exquisitely cut, and it is from this source that the magnificent emeralds now forming part of the royal collection of Spain were supposed to have come.?Exchange. j Imagination. ' "A poet needs a great deal of imagination." "Yes; if oe really waded around in the wet grass looking at sunrises and listening for robins he wouldn't last long enough to write much poetry."? Washington Star. Limitations. Jack?I hear that you have quit th* literary game. Jill?Yes; I despaired of ever writing up to my publishers' j printed estimates of my work.?Life. TU GDLLECTOft HJBS OLD Expected to Resign on Aceount of Feebleness ? Gained Strength and Twenty-four Pounds by Taking Vinol. | Corinth, Miss.: ? "I am a city tax | collector and seventy-four years of age. i I was in a weak, run-down condition so that I became exhausted by every little exertion. My druggist told me about i Vinol, and I decided to take it. In a i week I noticed considerable improve- | ment; I continued its use and now I i have gained twenty pounds in weight, j and feel much stronger. I consider ! I Vinol a fine tonic to create strength for ; ! old people."?J. A. Price, Corinth. I ! Miss. i As one grows old their organs act I 1 more slowly and less effectually than in l youth, circulation is poor, the blood j gets thin, the appetite poor and diges- : ! tion weak. Vinol, our delicious cod liver I and iron tonic, is the ideal strengthener : ' and body builder for old folks because i j it creates a good healthy appetite, ! strengthens digestion, enriches the ! i blood, improves circulation and in this j ; natural manner builds up, strengthens j i and invigorates feeble, run-down, nerv- j | ous and aged people, and if it does not do j all we say, we will pay back your j money. iGILDflR A<ND WEEKS DRUGGISTS: NEWBERRY, S. C. | Try "GETS-IT," It's j Magic for Corns; New, Simple, Common-Sense Way ' You will never know how really easy! j ; it is to get rid of a corn, until you have i tried "GETS-IT." Nothing like it has j ever been produced. It takes less time I tn annlv it than it rinpc tn reari tl..is. 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Pursuant to the authority of an act of the General Assembly of tf:e State of South Carolina relating to Nexberry School District, passed at the last session thereof, and resolutions of tie Trustees of Newberry School District, passed in pusuance of said act, an election will be held at the Council Chamber in the town of Newberry on the 13ti: day of May, 1915, between the tours of 8 o'clock in the forenoon and 4 o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of voting upon the question of continuing the one mill levy, heretofore levied for the purpose of repairs and improvements to buildings, as an addition to the general fund of the -lis- : trict. Those voting for the continu- , ance of said levy shall cast a ballot whereon sftall be written "For continuing the one mill levy." 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