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PREHISTORIC AGES HAND DOWN COITON Commissioner Harris was much impressed with an exhifit of cotton more than 5,000 years old d,spiayed at the Grunewarld hotel in New Or leans durinc the World's Cotton con ference last week. He says that the modern waves show very ilttle if any improvement over these ancient ex hibits. The following account of the displa yis given in the New Orleans Picayune: 'Cotton 5,00 years old, bits of cot ton cloth, spindles and yarn dating before the Christian era and all of American origin, are a part of the exhibition of the American Museum of National History sent to the World Cotton conference at the Grunewald, in charge of M. C. D. Crawford. The oldest specimens come from prehis toric Peru and the scientists can fur nish ng more accurate date than to say that the arts of spinning, weav ing and cotton cultivation were high ly developed several thousand years before the Spanish conquest. "When Spanish Pizarro led his sol diers against the hordes of the Inca he passed through ruined cities in which the architecture was more magnificent and in which the evi dences of material culture was great er than he had left in Europe. It is from the graves of this people that the modern scientists have rescued these priceless 'fabrics. The dyes have defied thousands of years, the colors are as varied and as rich as anything produced and every weave we know today was known to these old mas. ters. "This exhibition contains as well spindle whorls from Central Americ and Mexico, bits of modern fabric from the Southwest and Guatemala showing the high degree of skil: among these people in the textil arts. There are two very interesting maps of North and South Americ[ Just Ir Hecker's famous S. Hecker's famous Oo Hecker's famous Fl Apalachicola Put up like Mac fine Mackeral. Lik the price it's cheape Seeded Raisins, Ne Nuts and Walnuts. Other new Fruit C. by us as soon as fresh g The Mannin, The ft II isa i sonality. showing the distribution of cotton cultivation in ancient times. "Curiously enough cotton was not cultivated before modern time in the present states. It extended from the Southwest through Mexico, Central and South America to about the mid dle of the Republic of Chile. In Peru, cotton was cultivated by irrigatin and there are records to prove that it was grown 8,000 feet above sea level. "The staple was of two kinds, rough and red and a fine white grade as delicate as Sea Island but rarely more than one inch and a quarter in length. There are examples of yarns as fine as 250. These collections have been used extensively by the design ers of fabrics and costumes as the basis of American designs." 0 SOUTH CAROLINIAN FLIES SECOND IN TRANSCONTIN ENTIAL CONTEST Mineola, N. Y., Oct. 20.-South Carolina captured second honors in the transcontinental air flight and re turn when Capt. J. O. Donaldson, land ed at Roosevelt field at 10:30 today, the winner of the army air race from this place to San Francisco, Cal., and return, having been Lieut. B. W. May nard, of Wake Forest, North Carolimi who reached here Saturday afternoor at 1:50 o'clock. Capt. Donaldson, who made the 5, 400 mile journey in a single-seated S E.-5 airplane, is a native of Greenvillk S. C. He was in Europe fourteer months as a member of the Americar general headquarters squadron anc also saw service with the Britist army near Dunkirk. Capt. Donadson took part in sever of the major operations of the Ameri. can army, and while flying over Doua shortly after the Chateau Thierr' drive, was attacked by three Germar planes. Be brought down two of then but was captured by the third later however, escaping to Belgium. R. Buckwheat. Ltmeal. ap Jack Flour. i Salt Mullets keral. They eat like e Mackeral, all but r-22c pound. v Citron, Fancy Brazil ske materials will be had oods come on the market. Grocery Co. ~rmture in yo 'eflection of y ISYOUR furnitu imp~ressionl of friends-does it tru ideal of what home No time like Fa like this store-to se -set or these distinct have in mind. Trhe arranged here for J has never been eque Won't you come in ar Vhan Me --"LIFE TIME FURA~ Columbia, 5 a aaau Aa~Ac4 a a AA REPORTS PROPOSED LOAN 1! New York, Ot. 20.-J. P. Morgan and Company announced today a pro posed hoan of $50,000,000 for the Brit ish Government in the form of three and ten-year government securities. The proceeds will be used in part to retire the outstanding bonds of about $135,000,000 British Government 5 1-2 i per cent note maturing November 1. The remainder will be available to the British Government for its require ments in this country or for those of British merchants to whom the gov ernment may sell dollar exchange. This is the largest financial pro- i ject undertaken by American bankers I since the close of the war. Its flota tion is expected in financial circles to stabilize to a considerable extent the long prevailing weakness of ex change on London in this market. S - o -- TELEPHONE FACTS 11,000 separate telephone companies in United States. 12,004,325 telephone stations. 23,281.150 miles of wire in Bell system. Sixty per cent of mileage is in un derground cables. -1,045,900 daily toll connections. 31,263,600 exchange connections daily. Over 10 billion calls a year. 100 calls for every man, woman and child in United States. - --o EXPECTED EARLY MOVE BY VILLA Rural Population Ordered to Leave Home Says Report. Washington, Oct. 20.-The reconcen - trado system made famous by Gen. i Weyler in Cubia, and afterwards used F by Caso Lopez and the Iluertistas i against Zapatistas in Morelos, has been inaugurated by the Mexican Gov ernment against the Villistas of the State of Chihuahua, advices received here today through official chanels said. Gen. Diequez, military com mander of the Carranzista forces in Chihuahua, the dispatches said, has been ordered to direct the abandon ment of all small towns and villages in Chihuahua and to have the rural inhabitants Concentrate in the large cities of Chihuahua, Jiminez and Par .al. Protests, the advices said have been sent to Mexico City and a delegation of citizens has gone to present the 1 protests of the people of the rural districts of Chihuahua before Presi dent Carranza. It is argued in these protests that the enforcement of the order will drive hundreds of small farmers and business men into the I ranks of the Villistas, is they will be unable to make a living for themselves and their families if they are com pelled to abandon their homes and move into the cities, where suffering from a shortage of food is already great. Reports have reached Mexico City, j the advices also state, that since the abandonment of one campaign in Northern Chihuahua, following the in tervention by United States forces at .Juarez, Villa a nd hiis chief of staff. Gen. A ngeles, have dlouled'( their ef fedive troop~s by recruiting in Du rango, Zacatecas and Coahuila. Villa ur home our per re creating a good you among your ly rep~resent your should be ? ir' Week-no p)lace ledt that new r'oom We 0odd pices you furniture exhibilt 'air' Week Visitors tl tiled in this State. id let US show you? tre 'S li ITUJRE"F Colum 1619 M; Specially De For the Young Women For the Stout Figure Special Faii WE have arranged esp selling an assortment of 1 Georgette and combinati colorings and many attra These are offered at the p lrice of I Out of Tow of Railroad is reported to have more than 6,000 I men, well armed and equipped, in camp in Northern, Durango, near the towii of Membrera, ready for imme- i diate service. Carranza leaders are sasaid to frankly admit in Mexico City that a forceful Villa movement is im pending, and this fact is causing in creasing desertions fro mthe Carran zista ranks. NOTICE OF DISCHARGE 1, will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon County on the 17th day of November 1919; at 11 o'clock a. nI. for Letters of Discharge as Guardian for Georgia Anna Cohia, now Georgia Anna Hancock, former ly a minor. Benjamin B. Cobin, Guardian. Manning, S. C., Oct. 14, 1919. at-pd Buying a Pai grade first Mo est of the inv has never f'uil, Each car that two groups a daily service, faith that ha wor'thy of ev Paige name pl PA TAE-DETRO Carolin bia's Most Modern Apparel Shop xin St. COLUMBIA, S. C. signed Coats, Suits, Dresses WE have gone to specialists to secure styles es pecially adapted to the young women and the wo men of full figure-specialists who devote their en tire time to creating modes suited for one partie - lar type of figure. That is why one finds such variety, such style distinctiveness here in the new Fall Suits, Coats, Street and Dinner Gowns. And this highly specialized service makes no higher cost than you must pay elsewhere for less attrac tive aprarel. Week Offering of Dresses ecially for Fair Week 250 dresses in Satin. AT ons, including all sizes, ctively individual styles. extremely reasonable -- - - -- -.. _$25.00 t i Shoppers Receive Refund Fare on Purchases of $50 _ STOP that leaking nine Have your plumbing looked after before coldl weather. We are here to do that kind of work. We absolutely guarantee our work, and our prices are the cheapest in town. The Shop next door to Express office. R. L. DOWDY Phone No. 233. y - - IG E H1mt b autiu Cawirtfliericu e car is very much like buying a high rtgage Bond. Both the principal and inter estinent are protected by a company that d to meet its obligations. is produced by this factory must satisfy ,f people - our owners and ourselves.' 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