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'That's the third time ^ a moment longer on that f< , Smith's number? "If Jones won't provi ties for his customers, he elsewhere. Operator, give How do you know tl happen with your single tel [ line; the cost is trifling. 1 day. SOUTHERN BELL T AND TELEGRAPH I* BOX 163, CO! Wanted?-Subscriptions to the Needle- | craft the Ladies Home Journal the \ I Saturday Evening Post, the Country j i Gentleman, the Southern Cultivator, the Progressive Farmer, Farm and Fireside, McCall's Magazine, Wo-! man's World and other papers and magazines. Please give tyour new or renewal subscriptions to me. Cur1 tis I. Epting, 1704 Nance street, Newberry, S. C. I [ANNUAL MEETING. The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of the People's National Bank of Prosperity, S. C-, will be held at the bank on January 11th, 1916, at 30 o'clock a. m, for the election of directors and for the transaction of other business that may come up. R. T. PUGH, Cashier. . (ANNUAL MEETING. The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of The National Bank of ^ewberry, S. is called to meet at fche president's office on January 11th, 1916, at 12 o'clock M., for the election of directors and for the transaction of any other business that may come up.' R. D. SMITH, December 15, 1915. Cashier. i ioi (THEAR YOU C?>te?n Co-. fcA,, u,v\ Os-f! \ V uCv Siill .^o Je-'C^v ess#? ? PPqiFr '% "Busy Again" i A Soliloquy in , ' Two Paragraphs > this morning. I can't wait jllow. Let me see?what is de sufficient telephone facilfcan't blame me for dealing me 437." lis very occurrence doesn't ephone. Have an auxiliary Call the business Office to ELEFHONE COMPANY ftMkB liUMBIA, S. C. I SWAMP ROOTSAVES KIDiNEY SUFFERERS! i You naturally feel secure when you j know that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, j the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, is absolutely pure and con- j tains no harmful or habit producing rimes. (Tie same, standard of purity, strength and excellence, prescribed by Dr. Kilmer many years ago, is maintained in every bottle of Swamp-Root. Swamp-Root is scientifically compounded from vegetable herbs. It is not a stimulant ana is taken in teaspoonful doses. It is not recommended for everything. According to verified testimony it is nature's great helper in re-ieving and overcoming kidney, liver and bladder troubles. If you suffer, don't delay another day. Go to your nearest druggist now and get a bottle. All drug stores sell it in two sizes?fifty cents and one dollar. However, if you wish first to try this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton. N. Y., for a sample bottle. When ?onH r>iantinn t Vl A VpW w l jl Liii g, i/c ouic a.iiv? intuuuu berry Semi-weekly Herald and News. ?r\ ^ ^ _ I V W' I pT AmT NOT ^ - S F" E? NO P*ORP' Ht 1 ' A ^ IGALj-r- AFFECTIONATE jfc *5r ^3 s. ^ /l ?(7 OV)N toid^ r_v j ^oo HE WAS A AFFECTION^ V toU? III 'ft^kSA y' o 6KEAT REtFPTION AT WHITE HOUSE i I 15I51LLIANT OI'KMMi FOR SOCIAL! SEASON. ! ! ; )jrs. Wilson Wakes Her First Wash - ? ! iiitriou Appearance as me msi Lady of the Land. Vashington, .Ian. 7.?A brilliant reception given at the White House ton5ghi by President and Mrs. Wilson crowned the social attentions paid visiting delegates to th;- Pan-American Scientifice congress during the past i two weeks. In numbers present and in splendor the affair surpassed any-! thing of the kind ses-n in Washington ; in recent years. ! mil ?ir n ml hnnii=nme COS tumes lent color to the scene. For more than three hours Latin-American scientists and diplomats, government officials, members of the senate and house, jurists and other invited guests j ^a.-.sed down the receiving line in a steady stream. By the side of the president stood j his bride of less than three weeks, who ! tonight made her first formal appear- j ance as mistress of the White House, j Mrs. Wilson, smiling continually as she shook nands with the guests, wore a white satin gown wi?h a long train, brocaded in silver. The reception wag held in the blue rccm. but the entire first floor of the mansion was thrown open to the guests. In the entrance hall was assembled tne red uniformed Marine band. Thousands Pay Respects. More than 4,000 m, n and women [shock hands wi;h the president and at times tho carriage line outside extended six blocks away. Members of the cabinet and other l especialy invited guests assembled | early and long before 9:30 o'clock, the time set for the opening of the reception, the east entrance of the White TT ? "? ~ VTilif o nr rvo _ riU'USt W cL5 CHJWUCU. .uuua i j auu ua- | val aides were on duty at all points and directed the crowd. The appearance of the president and I Mrs. Wilson was heralded by a fanfare of trumpets followed by "The Star Spangled Banner." All eyes were j turned toward the main stairway from J the second boor. Preceded by the J military and naval aides, the president | and his wife appeartd, walking slowly down the stairway and into the blue room. They were followed by the vice president and Mrs. Marshall and the members of the cabinet and their wives, led by Secretary and Mrs. Lansing. Mrs. William G. McAdoo, daughter of the president, occupied a place in this line as the wife of the secre- j tary of the treasury. Many (Congratulations. | Domicio De Gama, ambassador of Brizil, tiie ranking member of Latin- ! 'American diplomats, with -Mine. Da j vrtavh fYVHY OMLVA" ) IPURP ^OULD > GET IN ANDO\ OF- THAT HOU! /) WOTARCAl F&l LIVE 6>2E0 ?do o' c mm a I WW V ' " vfe- -O A i MP ^ (?, .&? / v V? 'f:\/y^ \ vfyr.*?*'r** u> 4 I Gama, was t'ne first to shake hands with the president and Mrs. Wilson. The- efforts of the president to bring about closer relations between the na-! tions of the 'vVestern hemisphere were in the minds of the South and Central i American diplomats and many of them! a.s they passed congratulated me pres-! idem on his policy. "Vlpmhprs of the cabinet did not re-1 main in the line, but their wives, ar-j ranged in the ord.r of the rank of J their husbands, remained to the right; of -Mrs. Wilson. Eduardo Saurez-Mujica. ambassador j from Chile and president of the con-j gress, was among the first few to be. receivtd and soon afterwards Speaker [Clark, Representative Mann, minority j leader of the house; Chief Justice! White of the supreme court and many i other notable men passed down the line. MAGIC OF IRKIGAIIUN. f f.tory of the Rice Fields of Southern ! Louisiana. j In 18% lowlands in southern Louisi[ ana near the bayous suitable for growing sugar cane, corn and cotton could be purchased for $.>."?() an acre, and the prairie lands back from the bayous could be bought lor .SI an acre. With ! almost the first crop under irrigation, however, the values showed a marked rise and have continued to increase In the first live years the value of the best rice lands rose to #10 an acre, and soon after that it rose to and even $50 an acre. The first people to plant rice in south ern Louisiana, according to the Unit ed States geological survey, were tile Acadians. who. after their expulsion from Nov;. Scotia by the English in 17r>r?. settled in considerable numbers in Louisiana. Their cultivation of rice, i almost primitive .in its methods, was | confine;! to tin* lowlands :iluu? the; bayous, the prairies affording pastur-! age for the Acadians' herds of cattle.; Few of the lowland areas admitted of! satisfactory drainage, and thoy were; too small for profitable cultivation, j The crops frequently failed in years of j deficient rainfall. Attempts were made; to create additional water supplies by j building levees across low sags or! coulees at points higher than the cul-1 tivated areas, but generally either the rainfall proved deficient or the reservoirs were too small. - * - J - Little advance was raaue over mc Acadian methods until recent years. Experiments in unusually wet years had shown that the soils of the prairies were adapted to the growth of rice if sufficient water was at hand. This led to the trial of pumps as a means of raising water from the bayous to the rice fields. So successful was the test that pumps were at once installed at i many points, and in a few years tens of thousands of acres of previously almost useless land, lying ten to seventy feet above the bayous, were put under estivation. The first large pump was Installed in 1894 on the Bayou Plaquemine, in Acadia parish, near Crowley. Only One "BROMO QUININE" To get the genuine, call for fall name, LAXA? TIYE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of E. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold in One Day. Stop? j :c?:sh <ind headache, and works of; cold. 25c & A3?0' jt fam dat so a e oo'nt TU\Kik* I f rrjy M - p# MUCH OF j #rjx\ j 1 Ab t DO OWN I f \ 1 f fwxwvw HE I A\ \ I \ ATA 60 . I BS? /I !! i A.cccv-Tiriwri'TrP;/., h 1 ! BANKS TO FIGHT STATE TAX BODf PETITIONS WILL I'WiE KEPEAL OF MEASIRE. I " I Contest to Kcgin at Next Session of Legislature?Objections to Act Defined. f The State. South Carolina bankers wi-l make a determined tight for ihe repeal of the : law creating the State tax commission at the session of the general assembly convening next Tuesday. The law froviding for the commission was enacted at the last session. Stockholders in many of the banks, it is said, will be asked to sign petitions to be presented to the members of the general assembly from the vari- j ous counties, asking that they support' the effort to have the law repealed. Following is a blank form which was received at the office of the state tax commission and given out for publication bv A. W. Jones, chairman of the commission: '^To the Senator and Members of the Legislature from County: "We the undersigned stockholders in the bank of , located at , S. C., in regular meeting assembled, this the day of , A D. 191?, do enter our most earnest and solemn protest against the action of the state tax : commission in raising the assessments for taxation of the various banks in South Carolina for t'ne year 1915. "By such arbitrary power exercised by the State tax commission, instead of equalizing taxation as was contemplated by the act creating said commission they have merely raised the I assessment of that class of property in t'ne state well known to have been already assessed out of proportion to the other property in the state. Against this action on the part of the tax commission we now enter our protest and appeal to you, who represent us in the general assembly, to relieve the banks in our state from this man!- j fest act of injustice perpetrated by tne said tax commission and to tha'. end we urge that you aid in the passage by the next session of our general assembly of an act requiring a refund by the various county treasurers in the state of so much of the taxes as any bank pays agove what such bank's taxes would have been had it? assessment not been changed by the tax commission. "No other class of property, save and except that owned by certain corporations, and especially the property of the banks of t'ne state, has been changed or tampered with by said tax ccmmission in the matter of assess ment for taxation. The same countj board of assessors that fixed the assessment for taxation on your property fixed and determined that of this bank. The assessment as fixed by n _ y /v & PKs J your and our county board of assessors on your property has noi been raised. Why should ours e.en if it is a bank? Our money is invested in its stock and it is unfair and unjust to have an arbitrary board asstss our property as they see fit?as the state tax commission has done?while your property remains as it was assessed by the county board of assessors. We appeal to you as fair-minded men to right this wrong perpetrated on us and flcrjjin o c lr ~ ^ ~ ~ * ? mat JUU Sup^JUlL CJUCII 'd. measure as that suggested above. "We go further and urge that you also support an act repealing the act creating the state tax commission for the reason that the commission under the terms of the act creating it are clothed with arbitrary powers; from their action there is no appeal and no three men on earth in any state should have the power in the matter of taxation that is given to the tax commission. ! "We shall watch with great interest your attitude toward such measures ! as those referred to herein. (Signed) " ^ NO DRY BATTERIES. I j They Al! Contain Moisture or They Would Be Useless. So called dry batteries are in common use for small electric call bell systems and private telephone lines and were use.l o*tensively for ignition on earlier makes of automobiles. Applying the word "dry" to the battery is misleading. for there is no such thing as a "dry" battery. There never was, nor will there ever be. If it were dry no current would generate, as it requires moisture to produce chemico-elertric activity when the circuit is completed from the plus j to the minus elements. The so called dry battery is really an j "inclosed wet battery," which retains | its moisture to its nunt or me, wiiecner in service or not The limit of lite depends on the stored capacity, how frequently the circuit is applied to it, evaporation due to age and deterioration of the conducting elements. The battery consists of a zinc cylinder case containing a carbon in the center, the intervening space filled in with a paste compound of one part i zinc oxide, one part sai ammoniac. | three parts plaster of paris and two parts water. The quantities arc* greater as the capacity of the battery is increased. As soon as a circuit is completed a chemical combination is started, and flAn-e frAtn tha intopnfll | luc LUUCUl UV??|J livuji VUV AMW*? part of the zinc to the carbon, then out from the carbon to the appliance and returns to the zinc. The external terminals of the battery are the reverse of the internal. When the battery is exhausted it can be recharged by sending current into it from a close circuit battery, such as a nitric or sulphuric acid cell Pouring water through a small hole at the top of the battery is an aid to the return of its life, but neither this nor ' the former will restore the battery to ! its original efficiency. ? New York ; World. I ' TU? 1 vLJ J MA'HA1. 1 W j AM HE OR ? i W AVNT HE | flflT A DAWO? ?o . I itjJ JXVY \SE 0O?N0 AWV -1 FROM WERE SIMON.', NNWBN ? 0ET6 B^CK Ul ^\^~\ (INTRO DUCE.TO A REAL Ataji A^cuT I ' xp >r