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CLOSE JOES!!! Camping-Out Females Endanj gered by Wild Animals. f Presumably That Was the Way They Would Write Home About It, but Here Are the Facts. She had been out from the "old country" for some time and wild animals aroused no fear in her. In fact fear was something she did not possess and she was also very contemptuous of those who wore nervous or afraid. She had sta-ted a tea house on a mountain top In the Canadian Rockies and two of her friends from England had been so much interested in the descriptions of life in tho West as related in her letters that they had agreed *to come out and help her In her venture. They were to share a tent, while she had one nearby. She gave them 1-1-1- !lli A + comiorrauie iiiuiutry wis ;uiu mvu^m all was well, when she was recalled by them the first night out by being asked In fearful tones If there were wild animals in this part of the mountain. "Oh, certainly." she said. "They're all about." "But will they got into our tent?" they asked. "Oh. I don't believe so?possibly just a little gopher or a chipmunk. Of course, if yo'ti henr a bear you may call me, though I hardly think you will hear one oV see one." Nervously the two wer. ieft alone and went to bed.' Two hours went by. when the hardened woodslady was aroused by shrieks. "Wild animals under our bods," they called. animals. Terrible looking wild animals." Sleepy and annoyed she made her Tray to their tent, her gun in hand. Perhaps, after all. a bear was around. Well, only the female grizzlies were dangerous and they would not be around. Yet? ' "Under our - beds. See! A whole family of then),!" And the terrified girls shivered at the proximity of the wild, wild animals inhabiting their tent. The hardened woodslady looked under the cots. To have disturbed her sleep for this! Furiously she turned upon the two girls. "Go to sleep, you fools." she said. "Those are #on!y porcupines." And she left them?not in tne least comforted or reassured. Ay. Second Hand Teeth $103. Unexpected sources of income were under discussion when a Tuckahoe man turned the conversation in another direction by telling his experience. "Some years ago I picked up a set of false teeth downtown." he said. "How they were lost or who lost them T dirt nnt know T thorn hnnif. showed them-to my wife and gave her a smile, and then I dropped them into a box In which I keep nails, tacks, screws and a few simple tools. They stayed there for years. "Then along came the war and there was a demand for the platinum in false teeth. My wife read in the papers about it, and suggested that I try to sell the false teeth. They are doing 110 good here.' she argued, 'and if you can get two or three dollars for them you will be that much hotter off.' She finally won and I took the'teeth to a dentist, who offered me $80 for them. I did hot have much faith in him. so I took them to a big dental supply house and I was paid $108. My wife has not quit saying 'I told you so' yet."?New York Sun. Post Office Cautions Hunter. Approach of the hunting season prompted- the Post Office department to issue instructions the other day regarding the shipment of bodies of game animals and birds through the mails, the Boston Transcript states. The regulations prohibit the acceptance for mailing of any parcels of this sort where the game has been killed or offered for shipment in violation of the laws of any state, territory or district. In cases of the sending of bodies of game animals and birds lawfully the packages must he proper ly marked and conform to all local <, statutes. Postmasters are cautioned to see that these rules are observed throughout the huntinsr season. At Profanity's End. "Is there any more distressing sensation than that caused by seeing what moths .did. to your last winter's overcoat?" saif! the man on the front seat as he pointed to a network of holes in the shoulder of his coat. "This garment was put away with full recognition of all the rules. First it was cleaned, then packed in a clean trunk with moth balls enough to satisfy a nt hnnrrr moths. This is how my trust was rewarded. The worst part of the whole thing was that I couldn't find a moth upon which to vent my rage, and I've stopped swearing." Wild Animals Near City. A man who lives only seventeen miles from New York city says that predatory wild animals have made It impossible for him to raise poultry. Among those that kitted his chickens were foxes, raccoons, skunks, opossums, red squirrels, nfnks. weasels, rats, hawks, crows, snapping turtles anrl OlacK snnup^. u: imp nunureu and forty chickens and ducks that were Juit'-hed not one manager! to get more than half grown.?Youth's Companion. ' iViAKE HOBBY OF HRIEVANCE iE I Probab'y Many of Us Know Persons Whs Closely Resemble Tilis Sensitive Cousin Lucy. !i i ? lb; ! Cousin Lucy seldom coos any pin re ^ ; that site doesn't got her feelings hurt. | In fact, she spends the greater portion : of her time nursing a grievance of . ' some sort or other. At the last fani- I*1 j ily dinner, which lias been a custom .a* i of the family for several generations, j J 1 she had the following to say over the Jv< i telephone to someone who has man- ^ I aged to keep from offending her for ^ ! severii 1 weeks. i . i "Well, you can say I nm too sensl- J' : tivo if you want to." she said in a ; ! voice that tarried all the feeling of ; sc ' an early Christian martyr, "but I c: guess you v.ouid be, too. if someone ; tl; i made a remark to you like Aunt ; jri : Sophia did to me about th?? President i ^ i when she knew my husband worked j" for his election as hnrd as anybody J around here. It was just another way i 10 of insinuating that John's judgment j w was poor, and I'm sure it's as good |lii as Uncle Samuel's. Of course Aunt J 0( I Sophia says she never meant a thing [sj | by ft snd that I know she always has !oj been a Democrat. but then, if she'". I ^ S1 j,didn't mean anything, why say it to j _ j me of all persons when she might i have known I would resent it? ! ca I "John never pays any attention to I m ? things like that and says I'm foolish |2? to do it. but I tell him I don't like to " have inv day spoiled by having someJ cs one picking at me, and I'm not one of { these two-faced p.'ople who wiil get'e' mad about ^omerhing and never say a word about It. 1 don't mind being h( slighted, as I frequently am. and often ec suggest staying away from the family th dinners since I seem not to be badiy m wanted, but mother always went ;ind ^ so I'll continue going unless I am told to stay away. But I notice a lot of m things people may not think I do. It's I -vc rr/it- irA M-tinn T n>Av? mv rtV(>r T?1 'lil | where some of the others are talking, el: | they don't seem nearly so lively anil ec l kind of quit talking. So, of course. I ?;i I can't help believing they were talking > about me. can I? Or else they don't to want me to hear what is being said. Then, maybe, I imagine it, but it seems to me they all look relieved when we leave early. Not that I care, , bi but I can't think of a thing I have er ev?r done to make people dislike me it] or want to get rid of me. Well, all j q right. But it seems queer to me that ^ someone always comes to your door when I call you up." sa And Com sin Lucy slams up the re- ru ceiver with a new grievance to nurse, hi ?Kansas City Star. ec th Arctic Possibilities. sa Donald P>. MacMillan has returned sc from his year's exploration of Baffin with r'n. nows thnl" V.IJ IM ?'t ...... .. co the western coast of Baflin land has been incorrectly mapped and its m waters misleadingly charted. There Sl1 are many who will say, "Interesting. c0 but what of it?" nc But there is this about MacMillan's C< discovery. It is not at all impossible c! that it will have a very real and 0f practical value. The economic potentialities of the Arctic we know very ? little about. Explorers have, as a rub?.' ( been little concerned with the econom- I ^ ic features of the northern wastes,* but there may come a day when the co v.orld will bo much concerned about in them. Oil has been found far north, 0i and some day there may be oil wells in Baffin iand. The charting of the ;<j waters of Baffin bay will then assume _ a new importance.?Xqv York Herald. T1 Not Bad. There is a brilliant youn? Britisher In Washington, the correspondent of ^ a famous British journal, who has not been able to realize that the United W States has really voted itself dry. This has become somewhat of an obsession on his part, and many incidents of pi everyday life afford him opportunity jn for witty sallies in this relation. Resc cently he attended a musieale. and after an artist had rendered "Drink to w< Me Only "With Thine Eyes," the Iiriton ca was asked by some one who was the composer. "Really, for the moment j I have forgotten." he replied, "but one;C? might say that, whoever be the com-'in poser, it is opus IS." He That Kind of Art. An unusually caustic critic was be-J pt ins shown through one of the Paris j r art salons by an enthusiastic friend.!^ They stopped before some of the most | modern of modern art. It was the handiwork of a woman, and might have heen a life-like portrait of anything from a sand storm to a steam roller. ?ed "She seems wedded to her art," the i in enthusiast declared, enraptured. lc "Yes, and every picture she has painted is sufficient reason for a di- ... - M 1.. 1 V vorce, was rut- remv. i... H* Our Apple Crop. The total apple crop of the United! States this year will h'e approximate- fr ly 207.000,000 bushels against 98.100,. 000 bushels in 1921. The commercial crop of the United States is expected to amount to 32.(500,000 barrels against the 1021 crop of 21,200.000 barrels, and 33,90r>,000 barrels in 1020. Washington state, as usual, leads with 7,845,000 th barrels. New York is second with m 5.830,000: Pennsylvania is eighth with 1,234.000 barrels. Biggest British Power Station. The largest and most wonderful of T1 Great Britain's power stations is that be on the Thames embankment, at ChH- ^ SPll. in 1.1'miUJl. ririr ricvii.iiii ran ^ v represeminj: 120,000 hoivepoiver? " jjronter than that generated ?:t any '^rn of the Niagara stati?.ns--is prod^cerf k J arid ustvl for <Trlvinir the underground St railways of the metropolis St DUCATORS TO REFORM THE "LITTLE RED SCh'OOLHOUSE" New York, Aug. 10.?Add to tht st of idols smashed to smithereen: y the efficiency of modern scieiut lat quaint institutions of Ameriear iral life?the "little red schooljusp"?now denounced by educaonal experts of Columbia university j "a danger to national progress." tixperinients conducted for the past :ar in a tiny school in Warren eoun x- t m Dr. Fannie -\ . !l . f liillV. J/iu.v u k ~ . _ unn of Teachers* college, Columa. that tli-.* problems attending the .'ils ol' the "cult of the little red hool house," as Dr. Dunn calls it, in be solved by the same methods lat have brought progress in teachZ the young of the cities "how to loot." Forty-four pupils attended the typal school house in Warren county hich was seven miles from a trunk ne railroad, two miles from a postfice, and out in the open country. A ngle teacher w-is forced to instruct ght grades. There are still 200.000 milar schools in the United States, i<=t 100.000 too many, Columbia edoit ors say. They hope to cut the amber to 40,000. Changes that seem jpallinglv revolutionary to Amcri ms who remember tne i\g.u ist demeanor that was exacted of rery country schoolboy who wa? irced to attend the little red school;u<e of years ago, are recomniend1 for those one-teacher institutions lat will remain. Unrestricted moveem about the room, the installation pupil helpers for the teacher, a ore "clubby" spirit among the rangsters, and the application of e "automat" idea in teaching the lildren to gain a large part of the lucation themselves from the school jrary, are part of the new plan olved from the Warren county sts. Despite Whittier's legend of the mous schoolboy of the 'Til red rilding," whose 4*fcet of an" betokied splendid health, Professor lomas W. Wood of the Eye Sight mservation Council o? America, ho is interested in the experiments, ys that ST per cent of the pupils in ;ral schools in New York state have alth defccts, as opposed to 72 pernt of unhealthy city children. In e whole United States, Dr. Wood ys, 15,000.000 of the 24,000,000 hool children have bodily defects. So oppressing are the faults of the untry schools, the experts say, that uch of the congestion the cities reIts from the inability to make untry life attractive. Efforts are * - *. >w being made througn met'iii:g> at jlumbia of such educators as Miss larl C. Williams, recent president ' the National Education assoeiajn; Mrs. Katherine Cook, of the ?deral Bureau " Education and i*. Kenyon L. i^utterfield, presi:nt of Massechusetts Agricultural llego, to bring acout the changes rural education that will end the aint of the modern schoolboy: 'm getting. Ch so sick f reading and arithmetic? lat's why, we gave the teacher the sack, nd, we're never gonna come back, she doesn't like it she can sit on a tack, e've got the schoolhouse blues." The earning capacity of our pcoe is the largest determining fa-tor their ability to pay for good rural hools. The better educated people 2 have the larger is their earning pacity. The chief income of South Carolina mes from the farm. The working telligence of our people largely dermines our profit from farming. The standards of living of our ople determine the? price of labor id the price of labor reflects on the andard of living. If *.ve would raise the price of cotn in South Carolina, and in the >uth, we must increase the knowlIge of our rural people and thereby crease their standards of living. So ng as our people are willing to acpt poor homes, and poor schools in turn for their labor we will make tie progress. It sometimes happens. A Boston ee verse writer has gone crazy. And sometimes, too, an emptyheadt chap wears the largest hat. When Greek meets Greek now, ere is talk of changing the governent. Nursing Bottles Attract Them! Baby's nursing bottles attract rats! ley will do anything to got at the ittle. If they do, they will infect e milk with disease. For health's 1? ? ' 1. ? j- ? t r? rv i Kt- \sipt* uul ra\.s: i.se noyai uuariteed Rat Paste. Positively DErROYS all rats. 25c & 50o tubes. >ld and guaranteed by May.*-> Drug ore. > AMERICAN LEGION NOTES ? ; : j? ? 1 hlscwhere ;n this issue you will iind a letter of appreciation from <>ne ol the patients at the l". S. Veteran."' If) hospit.ii Xo. i2(>. That was our iirst A visit to our comrades up there, out i ^ dare say :t will ii >t be our iast. Our comrade m.-y rest assured that tiie|C benefits and pleasure derived from tills visit were not all confined to one ? side. 1 venture to say that no sew- ' , ' ice the post has ever rendered ^ 1 brought move genuine pleasure to lh. @ ' participants, or did more to bind the ^ ties of comradeship closer together ' between the members of the post, :thnn lii-.i this little service at the ho:.- G? P-t?':l. @ We did not deem it necessary to ^ express our sympathy to the boys in ^ words. We wanted our actions to speak for that. The sole mission of 0 ' our visit was to let them know we ^ had not forgotten them, and that we gn ' still looked upon them as our com- " rades. We hoped to make them forjget, for the time being at least, theif ? 'physical infirmities. To know that we j 0 succeeded, in some small measure, "'nj? ( U-.- o t *nakf?s us hao-I _ pv indeed. ? 'j Everything is sct for Patriotism Q day, December ">th. The committees A arc ready to fill their appointments. ^ ' f The hearty response given 'by the ? members of the post and the auxili- ? ary ha/ been very encouraging to the ^ members of the central committee. ^ Committees, consisting of renresentatlves from :oth organizations, will ,visit every white school in Newberry @ county on this day and present a ^ United State* flag to the school and Snake a short tall: on "Respect the ; Flag." The itinerarv mav bo found w a :in the Observer of Xov. 24 and the ^ Herald and News of Dec. 1st. It is a hoped that the patrons will visit the ^ I schools on this date. ? ! Don't for<ret the regular meeting of 1 t:ho post Monday night at 7:30. There @ : is going to bo "something doing'' at this meeting. The entertainment com- ^ mittee is planning an interesting ~ , program. There will be "stunts," smokes, and other things. The post's ^ orchestra will be on hand. You can ^ not afford to miss this meeting. ^ Come cut and bring some one with 'you. Quite a number of the boys ? have already paid their dues for 102 j. $5 ."Boo" Scurry is ready to give you a ** ; receipt for yours. Dues for 1923 are $3.00. Two dollars are forwarded to @ I state and national headquarters (for | which you get the Legion Weekly, a corking good magazine); fifty cunts ? goes into the Boy Scout troop fund; and fifty cents is retained in post's % treasury. Come across with your ** dues while you think about it. Then ? you can look "Boo" Scurry straight ^ in the eye and tell him to go away ^ ' back and sit down for the next twelve . __ . . months. All together now for ros: ^ ; No. 24. @ John B. betzler, @ Publicity Officer. ^ I Nov. 25th 1022. J Mr. Gaude Sanders, ? 'Newberry, S. C. ^ Dear Comrade: ^ j Just a few lines to let you and ^ I your good post know that the play S that was put on here by your post @ 'has received more comments than ^ anything that has ever been here in ^ the last year and a half that I have ^ been here. Every one who saw the play enjoyed it, and those who failed to see it have expressed regrets that @ they missed it. ^ You and your comrades came up ^ here like men and entertained us in a manly way. Not like a number of ? 'other organizations who come here with a sad and pitiful look or expres- a sior. on their faces, and begin their * program by expressing their sympa- vS thy for us, and reminding us of it | during the program and closing in the ^ isame way. 1 ! As a rule, we have real men here. men with ordinary intelligence, and ? f we do not want sympathy. We want ? to be treated as other men are. That ^ is the way your post has treated us, and that is the way we desire to be @ treated. We appreciate your kind- a 'ness in coming here and giving us | something new, and something we rcaiiv enjoyed. ! We realize we have made a great sacrifice for a just and pood cause, i but we don't care to be reminded of it in a sympathetic way. That is one i reason why your show was appreciated by all who saw it. I am a native of Georgia, but I belong to Leroy Belt Post Xr>. 17, j Camden, S. C. I hope some time to ! have the opportunity of visiting your Ipost. I know you have a live post. A era in let me thank vou and vour Soori comrades for your goodness and kindness in putting on your wonderful show here. Wishing: you and your post all the success that a comrade can wish for others, A Comrade, Ben W. Pulliam. J U. S. Veteran* Hospital Xo. 20. B Greenville, S. C. _ .7 ???9??????@?@@l B?12vK*MEH33BBBfSH5H8a Cooperation amc customers Has placed nance in Newberry, works beautifully her in and suggest improi We are helping !: as many more. Peop in and make your v." r irouoies vamsii. Since we have a commanding place in State, New Berry can < .tion among her varies stretched hand. OF NE C. C. MATTHEWS, * T. K. JOHNS' President Vice Prcci* n *? ? i* . t ' Member ofr the > > ) r > A comfortable ol you start a bank acc Money is too hard ?o quick" scheme." We give you safe compounded January ZZT * *1T! 3 ? V7 v" wii/i aiay gi'A (50c) who will deposit on or before Decemb' bank as long as one y cir-r^n TPS 1 " i ne isa i Sub Herat? 4 8e$????@e?@$@< DP? I fia H i| l: 3 W vi /> wA tHg *?? ?3 ^ sJE ^.1 ?&> A J, ^ rr? i * ^ 4r*-?? I,/* ^ U'jr this Bank in the fore The cooperative s? 'e. We will thank ycements, Ir you can, mndreds and stand re !e worried never pros it)is known. Then ^ srce from behind to ilipi finances of this ss accomplish the same I 1 institutions. Here WBERRY, S. . TONE, W. W. CROMER, Jcnt Cashier Federal Reserve Syst < to Enh [d age will be yours 3imt and add to it e; wet to risk it in scm ;ty and pay 4 per cei and July on your sav 5 to each boy or girl c in this bank as muc sr 21, provided it is ear. ?t$o (h, J Id# JU ink of the People" ?$??@?@@??@?? iscribe to >0 a Yeas . q ? i ? 1 ? i m ? ? m l \ ; I K ? ^ ? ' ? ' ? 5?r3?k3 . a? 9 tlrkvpes ;"> nn @ j front of fi- @ ' ;rvice plan @ I 3U to come ? J ? J '1 ady to help ? ^ per, Come * //atch your ? y ? . ' occupy the f ciion of the @ a )y coopera- J is our out- 2 I ? i & I a ? 0 9 ; ? . F. G. DAVIS ^ Assi. Cashier ? ? ? em ? 9 * }? 9????? ? V. >???????? 9 niw ? %/ ? ?_ ? ? d 1 to enjoy, if ? 1 ? /> H ich month. % e get rich $ nt interest, ? 'm%s- ? fifty cents % h as $4.50 @ left in the ? W ? 1 ! ^ ? ! I I ws 4 r i J