Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COKN MMI save mmw | vmIw SmwiflTJBVMC txiuszsz*"jj^r+iKZ -* nvw*^^v?*?r%^ -!-r*r-r* i??r*?a?7J^; I vX v%\ sm, \ 1 \ : & \ 1 \v\ ill t ] ill , prnfrTrrp# t 1 J. v_/ J. J. J. _ JL 1 * J it in quality, in i j j s i and inilsap-e, * ? i 1 19 tiie ritfrft ooi- I O I "j* t ^ 3*1 I -n 1*> > pf /!.?. V*i ^4 ^ ^ ry K~* V? v_^r iically-priced j >mobile tire, I Lt BY r Company Weeks Co. y, S. C. I ?? ?? IMB??MMaw _ _ - i -g ? OIVIV flSK^O >t waste Tood \L> "** ^ 6 T kj rV' V tQCM " College STATE OF Z arolina oil ed by the State i ni re ara rrajmacy uncil of Medical Educators of ption. Member ot th \ssociolieges ar.difthe iiuerican Faculties. :dical Ec'uc alien South. quipped laboratories. A full ill-time teachers. . . r iiospital ana very near tne >rding the students more exirch and trainii g. sme teims as men. LISON Registrar, its Charleston, See. Carolina. BUY WATCHES TG GET GOLD ingenious Scheme of Centra! Empire? to Increase Their Supply of the Precious Metal. It is an oddity of the world war thai the jewelry trade is flourishing. A secret nrTicle in the Kerne Suisse d'Kxnortntion of Geneva irives ;m in? west in.U viow of this situation and also sii?pests a method by which the central empires undoubtedly have increased their u'old supply?namely, the impor tation of irold jewelry to be melted in ! > bullion. In the course of the crisis provoked by the Kuropoan war we pass from ont surnrise to another, says the Ilevue, The belligerent countries, one :ift?*r an other, have imposed measures forbiddiner the importation of luxuries and watches. In spite of all these difficulties the orders, particularly for gold watches of medium price, are received in increasing numbers by our watchmakers. while those for watches oi . high and low prices are few. The jewelry trade has passed . through a prosperous period, which i.t nvnr Tn fuct if" i? !lf if> liV't ^ tl U * V-A. i i 1 V ?? V . V height. Everything went well so lone as there were no abuses, but the time ; came when jewelry, especially heavy j gold chains without much workman ship, began to be exported to the Ori! ont. High prices were paid for these ! articles. Gold (fine) in Switzerland is valued at about $720 a kilo (2.S pounds) and in the Orient, or al 1 j ~ i- iTk.k 4f\r\ _ i.n,t i \ lenna, it is quoreu at i>ti- khu i There is, therefore, a considerate ! margin which allows a large profit tr ' our manufacturers and their agents, ! aiso to foreign merchants. These ar i tides, however, are not all destinec 1 for Turkey. A great many of their i find their way into the central em ; pi res. I When steps were taken to check this I trade numerous orders for watehe: with cheap movements in heavy golc cases came flowing into the watchmaking centers. These orders wer< destined for Constantinople. The I scheme was perfectly apparent, nic 1 ? i* 4-1\i Z AC* fA.-*?" guv t; IUi:VllL ilUUH'llUW l?T.i jiUHH,#! i measures to put a stop to the proceed j in?. HOW BIG GUI'] WAS FOUND i French Artillery Officers Made Care fu! Measurements, and the Rest nf the Matter Was Easv. ! Careful measurements of tv.*o hole; made by a single shell in passinj ; throttf%i two awnings in a Paris fnc : torv enabled' French artillery officer: s to locate the great German long-rang* gun by a feat of mathematics. Tin | two awnings were several feet apar ! and the relation of one to the othe ! gave perfect data on the course whirl j the shell had taken as it approache< the earth. After the apertures had ; been measured to the one-thousandtl | part of an inch and the direction o ! the shell's fall exactly established, th< j earlier career of the shell became ; j problem on paper. By applying th< j laws governing the flight of projectiles ana allowing ror ine winu. me muu ! of the atmosphere and other consider i ations, French artillery officers \ver< fable to follow back the course of th< shell to ^e mouth of the cannon m I the forest of St. Oobain, after whirl ; it was speedily demolished by Frencl j artillery. Wisdom of Daylight Saving. ; Who ever thinks nowadays that 1h< sun is an hour behind the clock? Wh< ! ever tells himself it "really is five i o'clock" when it is six? We so peace ! ably to bed when the clock tells us to I we arise by the same token; we eat ! piny and work by the Promethean in ! strument which, for war and commoi ! sense purposes, is stealii:.:* CO gOlder J minutes every day fr<Sm the sun t< : benefit the human race. And nary i ! vulture of any description is tea-rini ! at the clock's vitals for fiichins? t i ; same. j Here and there is a little petty tliiev ! ery such as the beginning of basebal | games at 3:30 o'clock that used to be j gin at three o'clock; but the public is , too busy with great work, and at pres j ent with the races and golf recreatior j to worry about that. In general, Amer ! ica is living by the clock as it shoulc j do, and the wisdom of the daylight sav { ings law is a thousand times manifest ' ?Louisville Courier-Journal. Italians Save Wood Ashes. | Increased wood-burning and scarcity of chemical fertilizers are reported bj Consul Haven of Turin to be turnini attention in Italy to the saving ant nf wnnd nshps. Of thfc m.ITi; constituents, the potash is of impor tance for fertilizing. The potash ii wood ash averages 6 to 19 per cent anil the quantity per ton of wooc ranges from one pound from spruce tc 3.31 from oak and 8.6 from elm. A ton of wormwood yields 160.93 pounds of potash in 241.73 of ash; fumaria 174.16 pounds of potash in 4S2.S1 oJ ash. Camouflage. j Mrs. Styles?You have a wonderful memory for dress, dear. Mr. Styles?Well, I've soon a lot ! of it. j "You always seem to remember i what. I have worn. Do you recall what | I had on the nisht you proposed marj ringe to me?" "Why, yes; you had sort of a fool! iyh look on your fae.,\" An Exerciser. "P?> you t.Kce exercise r?tr?i!:irly?" "V w " f n!T;>^ \f?? r,fin.vr viris. *1 i i.rani' -ji?i ilivvor um-e >?* 1'our j tirat?s d-#i!y j??i repair .1 !-. 1jo.2S u week." I CLASSIC DRAMA IN JAPAN 1 Beth Chorus and Music Accompany the Pantomime cf the Actors on the Si;age. The actors?sons of the son-; of gencrati >:is of actors passing on as a . h-tracy of mvat price to the right to j act in these sti'.-nige "NV plays of j old 'apan?entered and made their exits l>y way of the bridge. At their approach, Gertrude Emerson writes in j Asia, unseen hands lifted and held hack a curtain of persimmon and iris j colored silk that hum: at the door of the dressing room. Their costumes : had wide *kirtlike trousers and all the ' j fires and conflagrations of an autumn " , wood or a mountain forest burned in j llio color (?f the brocades. Sometimes ! they had tho streaming white hair of ' i ghosts. They stamped with their I white stockinged feet on tho polished ! floor, which gave out a muffled echo. | | AVith their flowing sleeves they hid ' | llieir faces, turning ;ind swaying in { rhythmic dances. With their fans they i wrote the meaning of their dances in '! the air?the climbing of a mountain | , path to a forsaken shrine, n gift of ' j water to a weary pilgrim, the picking | or 11 eras, rne mgnr 01 a mru aeruss ! the sky, the falling of flowers?or ol tears. The chorus sang in suppressed tones, holding their breath interminably, explaining, now the action, j now the thoughts passing through the " mind of the actor. The musicians beat ' on their drums and above all other ' sounds wailed the flute, thin and tremulous, piercingly sad, like a lost soul > tormented of demons. t i FROM CABBAGES TO KINGS - Writer Impressed by Accumulation of Subiect Matter of Every Description in Print i> ?? i Perhaps the most vaiuanie msrru merit for perpetuation is the printing > press, writes Bruce Cummings in Scii ence Progress. No sooner is an event 1 over than it is reported in the daily t press, and the newspaper preserved - in the British museum for nil time. Within the sacred rotunda of the British museum reading room may b( I perused the novels of Charles Garvice, as well as the great Chinese encyclopedia of the Emperor Kir r -hi in 5,02( volumes. In books our knowledge to date is rounded up and displayed; you may ? read a hook on a lump of coal, a grass blade, a seaworm, on hair combs, car 3 p^ts. ships, sticks, sealinc: wax, cab s hages, kings, cosmetics, Kant. A verj thfpfc- volume indeed was rmblishec 1 last year upon the thorax of a fielc ^ cricket. It would require a learnec r man to catalogue the literature thai ] deals with such comparatively trivia' 2 subjects as the history of the Punch j* and-Judy show, or the history of play ^ ing cards. j At the present rapid rate of accumu 0 lation the time must come when the J British museum, thousands of years a hence, will occupy an area as large as f London, nnd the Encyclopedia Britan' !j nica be housed in a building as big as " the Crystal palace; an accumulatioE a of learning to make Aristotle anc 1 Scaliger turn pale. 1 1 Airplane Needs Strong Wood. 3 A modern airplane propeller is on( of the strongest and most perfecl products of man's handicraft. Some airplane engines run at 1.70( a revolutions a minute and can he gearec ^ up to 2.000. An engine of this powei ^ would use a nine-foot-six-inch propel ler and the speed of the blade ends would be in the neighborhood of G0( miles an hour. Revolving at this terrific rate, the slightest imperfection in the wooc rvyrvnrjl 1 Arc avo mnfl# ^ XIU111 lll\^ VJ Ui v ^ would tend to disrupt them and caus( thera to fly to pieces. For this reason only the best anc ] hardest Vood from the heart of th( tree is used for propeller blades. H take 2,000 feet of timber in the rougi j to furnish 200 feet of wood gooc enough for propellers. Black walnut is the very best kinc of wood for propeller blades, for, be i sides being immensely tough, it doe* not splinter when hit by a projectile ^ Next in the order named, come mahog any, white oak,- ash, maple, birch anc cherry. No Alimony From Soldiers. The supreme court of New York a lincj r> a r\nnr/it* f a An f ArAQ on At*. Old lc: nao ix\j punti iv ^uivx w uu v* ^ der for alimony against a soldier ic 7 the United States army, declared JusJ tice Aspinall in the supreme court in Brooklyn in the case of Mrs. Florence Merriman against Rapley P. Merriman, a private. It is the first decision oi 1 its kind here. Justice Aspinall gave ! the opinion in acting upon the request of Mrs. Merriman's attorney, who de) mnnded Merriman be forced to ppy ^ $40 on the first business day of each s month. "It is obvious that the defend? i-I ?i- ~ ?* i.u ^ .i: An , ant L'Uliiu mil comply wuii a tuicmuu that he pay $40 on the first business day of on eh month." said the justice, "when $40 is more than the rate of pay of his grade, and the time of pay^ mcnt of a soldier is necessarily very irregular."?New York Evening Sun. No Respite. "Hooray!" shouted the boy in the brown sweater. "Our teacher is going to Franco and bo a Rod Cross nurse." "What good is that to us?" objocted the boy in the scout suit. "They'll ? ? T - - ~ ^i\n /iK AW f A f olrA uu: v .Nwinvr ?jiuvi" icucuci iaa? hrr place." Smart. N'^I?Whnr would you zivc to iiuve =v<*h h;\?? ns mine? T>(1!1?I ?!<>n't know?wh.>r dni you q!\ c 4 I' ?;* t1 )i.i x'- * A ' ?* ipt? IS ANCIENT CUSTOM i Ko One Knows Who Originated the '"Round Robin.'7 Long in Use cn Shipboard for Determining Each Sailor's Watch?Often 1 Employed in the Form of a Petition. That watch kept on hoard ship at night, while lying at anchor, is called i the anchor watch. Generally speaking it consists of one officer and one seai man. whose duties are to watch out for the safety of the ship, see that the ; anchor light is kept burning brightly,' > jiiid take care that the vessel dots not! ] drag her anchor. If there are eigiit | hours of darkness to he covered and 1 , eight men constitute the crew, these! i men are required to watch one hour j each. If there he more or less men ! i the question arises who is to go on ' i watch first or last, or, perhaps, who 1 , Is to "lay over" until the next day. j j It thus becomes necessary to ascer- j i tain who is to go on duty at a cer-: ;j tain hour and each man must know] j when his turn comes. Arrangement ; j for this is made by forming a "round ! ! robin," or putting it in another way, ; by "chalking for watches," which is ac- j j coir,piished in such a way that each | sailor has the time for keeping his ' watch determined by lot, one not bej ing favored more than another. The i tiling is decided in this way: j One man draws a large circle *on | the lid of a chest, or, if that is not con1 veni^nt. the deck. The circle is sub| divided into as many divisions as there are men; and each man makes his mark in one of the spaces. This may be a cross, a circle, a triangle, or any other sign that will suffice to identify I him. During the time the sailors arej ' | placing their marks within the division ! of the circle, one of their number is de tained outside on de?k and kept in ignorance of the identity of any an thor of any mark. When all have 11 made their marks the round robin is - complete. The man who was on deck - is now called, someone else having " made a mark for him. This man now * proceeds to er ise the marks, one by one. The owners of the marks are ! numbered from number one up, In sue' | cession, as he erases them, and their 1 numbers are chalked up on the sides " of the berths; those above number ten lying1 over until the next niEcht. As the '! mnn who erases the marks dc&?. not I i Know who made this or that, ne canI j not show any partiality. II The round robin is sometimes put to 11 other use when the crew of a vessel 1 at sea wish to present a grievance in fhe form of a petition to the captain. heir complaint is made out in writ.iig, and the signature put in the form * of a round robin, which prevents the i writer of the document from being > singled out and treated, as a ringlead' er, with undue severity. A famous ease in example of similar use of th^ **ound 5 j robin in the army within recent times t was the "Roosevelt Round Robin" durI 1 4n(r tho fsnnnich war "i*~? ; Where the custom originated no one knows. 3 Spain Is Buying Pianos. - The American government is buying mules and blankets in Spain and pay* * Ing for them with pianos made in the ' United States, according to George W. Ponnd. manager of the National Piano * Manufacturers' association, in calling 3 attention to one of the striking devel* cpments at the present time in this country's export trade. 1 <4\c? ?c? p.ico irif-h nontrnls <ren -AO IO UiV VUCV ??* *.?. v. v. ?... 0 J erally," Mr. Pound said, "much of J Spain's population has profited largely 3 t)v the war, and the demand for pianos lias persisted in spite of the fact that '! the prices of all musical instruments 3 in Spain have doubled and trebled t since the war began." ? Mr. Pound said that the American 1 manufacturers were thereby offered an unusual opportunity to help the govI ernment pay the war bills as well as to * j meet the foreign demand for our goods. * In this connection. Mr. Pound said, pi. i ano manufacturers can only export j their pianos through government liII cense. New Generator Finds Favor. An acetylene generator supplying c fuel for propelling motorboats is the device of a Norwegian captain and is i reported to be in great demand, al though the average cost is 21 cents i r.or hnrc? nnwpr honr. The zas siven t-v ? ?- , w w J off as water is dropped upon calcium , carbide, is led to the carburetor, where ' It is purified and fed to the motor. Though this apparatus is adapted only : for the ordinary gasoline motor a mod ification is being worked out that is ' expected to serve for engines designed i to burn kerosene. "Tacking Down Edges of Fight." Things were stirring along the front. Miles away we could near trie battery heavies thundering and drumming and once in a lull we detected the hammering staccato of a machine gun tacking down the loose edges of a fight that will never be recorded In history, with the earnestness and i briskness of a man laying a carpet : in a hurry.?Irvin S. Cobb in the Saturday Evening Post. i tn j. i Mucn Lumoer wasted. It is estimated that American lumj bermen, accustomed to a wealth of J material, waste two-thirds of.it; and 1 that by utilizing nil parts of the tree ; the long-leaf pine industry would yield j daily '10 Ions of paper, 3,000 tons of jro^in; 3<)0,000 gallons of turpentine and' great quantities or ethyl products. STTCKSSKI'L JIKETINf; IV HONOlt OK COLOKKi) SOLMKRS The meeting that was held af T'ethlr-h ''i r-nptist. church m Thursday night was quite a success. Addresses were delivered by the following persons: Rev. F. E. Dibble, pastor of Central Methodist church. Dr. George I>. Cromer. Miss Mamie L. Abrams and Rev. R E. Brogdon, pastor of Sln'oh A. M. E. church The audience was the largest one ever yet had for ?ac-h an occasion. There were hundreds who were ^ot r')le to ^et inside the building. the order was pprfert and each speaker got- the attention of the people who listened attentively to the addresses that, were delivered. rPV^rw vv-mcri n frv nil f 1*/\ r\/> l li?T nvicvtcu ? v/ :r>uii i ri " cp.sion and was romlered nicely mder thp direction of John Andrews. A new selection was sung by Andrews to the delight of all about "Chasing the Kaiser T'p the Sour Apple Tree." Affer the services a!! the soldiers went to different stonnine: nlsce^ that had been arranged for them by the members of the council of defense ; and on Friday morning each one api peared at the court house and answered to the roll call, after which j they all marched to the station and i left on the 10 o'clock train. Committee. Frrdy-Rice. ! I I Spartanburg Herald, 21st. i The'borne of Mr. and Mr? L. B. ; "sVidv, of South Church street, was j the scene of a pretty wedding Thurs. I d-y afternoon, when their sister, ; Miss Catherine Leonelle Fridv. be! : cnme the bride of Mr. Guy Rice, of I Greenwood I t j T1-a ceremony was performed, by i thp bride's father. Rev. j. M. Fridy, j ;n fho pres?n<"e of near relative's a^-d j friend?!. T'le borne was artistically fio?nr-?t''f? fo" the occasion in tureen | ?.nd whifo. Shasta daises being "sei i in nrofus'on. j Af^?r the ceremony ^h? vo'""' cou' left bv auto for a trip through i fhe mountains of North Carolina, af? j ter which thev will be at hom? in ! Columbia. S. C., where t.M <rro^m ! boTd? a re?nonsible position in the I base ho?nital rf Camp Tackson. | RAI\ FOR \EWBERRY. | j Storm Showers, Considorablo Damned, i Xp-\rvprfv ro^ritv bad tfr.o r^'n^ last "*eek. which w?re ruifh needed, as fv10 f-opc bad bppri suffering for ten fin re pi. rno-o, Th^ rain Fridav fell | rrpnflr for the rnost rj^rt. and soaked. ! Tn <?or cp^tioris there was a. s'onj , r"**i of On .T w.Iliam Smith's nlfritfltion near Kinard* a i 'n-n tenant ho"?p. occupied "by ToM.' T.ooi^ his wife, was struck hr~ lie-^trir!? anrl badK* damaged Fri: ^-v. Tb? pennants were out at the ! apH pcfaned. b"t their horse, ^'hioh stood nnder the eaves of the ; hon?e. was killed. i | \ TKJ\KS T.WL.lf IS "GRANDEST REMEDY" "Tn a Week Tanlnr Had Me FeeJIns T,ifcr- ^eTn^is'*?Hiehly Praises V?fonM TTflriHy Tveep O'U of Bod YTher Sh? Started Taking Master i 7tl>rticine. i "Tanlac gave me back my strength ' and made me feel fine in every way. ! I think it is the grandest medicine i j in the world, and I can heartily recI ommend it to anyone who suffers j from the complaints I had." was the emphatic statement, given !by Mn.^. : Lizzie Bryson. of Piedmont, S. C.. in ! endorsement of Tanlac c p May 9th. I "When I began taking Tanlac r was j so weak and broken down I could hardly keep out of (bed. I had no ap, petite. I could not sleep well and I | was nervous to kill. j "The Tanlac gave me back my ( health and strength, though. I soon had a fine appetite. Mr nerves became strong and steady and I feel ! fine in every way. In a week the I ; Tanlac had me feeling like new wo; man. It was two months ago that I stopped taking Tanlac." Tanlac. the master medicine is sold | by: Gilder & Weeks. New>^*ry, S. C.f Prosperity Drucr Co., Pros^rity, Little Mountain Drug Co., Little Mountain, S. C.. W. C. Holloway, Chappells. S. C.. Whitmire Pharmacy, Whitmire. S. C. ! THURSDAY 1 CsTE MEAZ. ' Z '2^ WHEAIXESS rM8^: tor i?o niVFAK. cSikaizn^i. wf-wOf !''"i-7 TASTKH <SX KUJ?*X*<T PJUl>5 v! OOSTUKIMC ^MJXAT ! : ( ^ -----'