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MOTHBALLS A WAR LUXURY| Price of Pungent Marbles Has Keen Quadrupled Since Hostilities Began. The war has affected various household aud commercial necessities in the past aine months, but who for an instant thought .that the com- . mon mothball .would- become -n-JtM D O..A 1L. 1 J ui v r ouui i? tut: uase, nuw^viT, aiiu the " housewife 13 just beginning to realise that there is not only h dearth in the supply, but that they liavc in- . creased almost four times in price. And. right in the middle of housecleaning period ana packing away of the winter furs and garments she is learning it to her dismay. To the pawnbroker and storage house proprietor this is also unwelcome news. Before the war mothballs were as cheap as clothespins. Then it was that Mrs. Homebody could run around to the corner drug store uboul this time of the vcar^ind buy six pounds for a quarter. Now that amount will buy her but a little more than a pound of the pungent * crystallized balls. All this, wholesale dealers in phn/macists' supplies say, is due to the war, and thev explain it in this manner: Before the war England sent to this country most of the naphthalene, of which mothballs are made. Since last August not a shipment has been made. HOARD SUPPLIES OF COPPER Germany Making Uae of Other Materials?British Ate Kippers After Mud Was Scraped Off. A Belgiun officer, during a brief holiday from the trenches on tin Yser, told a London Daily Kxpresrepresentative that the buttons on the coats of all the Uennan soldiers recently captured by the Belgians are made of hone instead of copper while the time fuses of Oermai shells are now exclusively made oJ aluminum. Private (leorgf? (Jallon. who i serving in the trenches at La Bas see, writing to his sister in l^eeds says: "We had four kippers fo) breakfast in the trench, and the tier mans started to shell us while the} were coo King, one shell hit the front of the trench and filled tin frying pun full of dirt. So we ha< to scrape the kippers before eatinj. them, but they were quite all right.' An Austrian officer taken prisonei by the Serbians was highly indignant because he was carried to prism m an oxcart?the usual mode of eon veyance in Serbia. He declared "When you hare the honor of tak ing an Austrian officer prisoner von should at once escort him to headquarters in a motor car." The Ser bian replied: "We have that honoi many times, but we haven't so man\ motor cars." AN ERRATIC MOVIE. "Tippler reminds me of a moving picture." "How ?" "Coming home from the club in seven reels." FATHER'S WORRY. "I suppose you worry a good denl lest your daughter niarrv the wrong man ?" "Not so much as I do for fear she may not marry at nil." MISTAKEN IDENTITY. "That woman walking' on the other aide of the street is my lnMe noire." "Oh, no. she isn't. That's Bet Jones." PAW GOT IT FIGHT. liittle IiCinuel?What's a cynic, paw ? Paw?A cynic, son, is a busybody who meddles in the alTnirs of other people ami neglects his own. LOOKED NEW TO HIM. Kandolph?Is that Buxton's new girl with him? Sylvester?Oh, no; that"h just one of hw ojd ones painted over.?Judge. _s THE WAR GOD. Bix?By the way, who i?, or, rather, was, the god of war? l)ix?I've forgotten the duffer'a name, but I think it was Ananias. ! i"" THE KIND. "~i>id that actor who thinks to much at himself, get any notices in lua last engagements?** BENEFITS OF SAFETY WORK When the Motives Are Purely Humanitarian the Best Results Have Been Attained, In an article in Safety Fnginoering it is suggested by George A. P nrrnc *nnnn/*ne ?.. ? ? vunv.7, luauugcl VI I.I1C UUliT-U UI safety of the- Utica Mutual Compen^afon-corporation, "that" the fundamental motive in establishing safety work in an industrial plant should ho humanitarianism. He writes: ."Manufacturing corporations in all parts of the United States have testified that efficient safety organizations, as conducted in their factories, have, on nn average, reduced the number of accidents in their plants at least 50 per cent. In some plants accident records have been reduced as much as (>5 per cent. The industrial accident hoard of Massachusetts has found that, through the organi zation of efficient safety committees J the employees of Massachusetts may eventually save on each injury an average of $10. Statistics show that such organizations have saved at least 50 per cent of the losses in | wages sustained by employees on account of preventable accidents. Kmplovers may expect, therefore, ultimately to save the entire cost of insurance on the preventable cases. At least 00 to TO per cent of all accidents are preventable. No employer should, if he desires to mujee it a success, organize a safety committee i solely for pecuniary gain, Humanitarianism should be the primary motive to inspire employers to perfect such an organization." TESTING HIS WARES Hodge?What docs that mail next door mean hy yelling all the time? Dodge?That's his business! lie invents college veils and is getting ready for the coming football season, i TOO WISE TO BITE. , Maml?Don't you think there are j just as good fish in the sea as ever j were caught ? 4 Marie?I don't know. But they i are smarter, anyway.?Boston Evening Transcript. OBJECT OF STUDY. "What is tjiat class of girls doing?" "Studying fossils." "Well, I used to object to being ..oll.wl U..1 f T>" I mini win-, IIIIt I gllCSS I 11 OWIl Up to it now." i AND GRIND ITS IVORIES. "So Mina Hanger played for vour She claims that she can make the piano speak." "Well, I'll bet if it spoke it would sav: 'Woman, vou have nlaved me false.'" PROVIDENT DUFFER. I'lltroil?I want some fish halls. Dealer?What for? Patron?I'm going out golfing, and I want them to drive at the water hazards.?.Judge, DISCOURAGING. X urse?The doctor told me to take your temperature. Patient?All right. You can tell mm U s all A ve got lie can take. APPROPRIATE ACTION. "John aiwt his wife had a quarrel I over her not wanting to mend his clothes." "Oh, they patched that up." THEIR KIND. "There goes a man noted for his dork deeds." "Is he a crook ?" "No; a coal heaver." HER SPECIAL NEED. "What is that seamstress fussing liout tb* hotel co for?" "She is trying to find a needle j?UL" OUR PUBL VIII.?c. ~~~Z On Railway President Wll | problems, said ii oiys whole econon iV- | the very heart of <v|L , and private, by n JU~1~ * There Is no other ^ fare of the coontr; im railroads will also SH JrW can^or and justic< ijplljB When the first ? I ance of understan HSW ?5t3KaaM| roads, certainly th a careful study of the problem. C. 1 railway company, when asked to out roads Investments, said in part: "It may be said thai the railroa phantoms which exist only in the i there have been a few so-cal'?d 'railrci prominently in finance, many people 1 of the country are largely owned by nothing could be farther from the tru billion dollars of American railroad se or ever has been, in the hands of thes the newspaper headlines?while thp o1 two million investors, large and smal modest savings of a lifetime into the lay away n competency for old age. securities is depressed or perchance fold greater upon thousands of everymillionaires, good or bad, who have Hundreds of millions of dollars c insurance companies, savings hanks, ti institutions are invested in railroad b the soundness of these bonds is callei these myriad Institutions?directly affi holders and bank depositors?Is grav years, many millions of dollars repre charged off the bookB of concerns 111 railroads have become a vital part of Their continued efficiency is absolute in the land. In blindly striking at the railroad sands who have committed no wrong. We should remember how interdepend republic of ours?that each is in trut! Keeper, and tliat wo need to act and tt zeal we destroy those who, like our goods the toll and sweat of years has OUR PUBl IX?Petei On "Back to th When Wall Hk usually goes back J thoroughfare is s HpjS V have plowed bare wiiL^ J eaten corn bread i i J their early days. lfTtj.. p \ reins of business Mttimules, shear a sh jflH man is better equ ?m^> i4y|P ln y0"1*1 ^aa I to 8c^??^ court m*. pitchod horse sho spent the moonlight nights of his you meetings and occasionally turning doi has the right sort of stuff in him to n officials of most of the large busines were, with a very few exceptions, ra reek, pitch hay, chop wood, milk th they can run world-wide business Inst The farmers look to these eapublt the solution of the business problems to be capable of financing everything f finance agriculture? It is not sufflciei lend to a local banker, to lend to a bi the landlord to lend to a farmer. St house that Jack built, and is just abou plete when money is furnished buyers wants is money to hold the crop Whs house receipt for a bale of cotton, a t why will such securities not travel by The American farmer is a capable ways will fill the nation's granary, lai to say in fixing the price of bis produc crs of this nation today is marketing farmer c.ganlzing for concert of actio interests in marketing the crop. A America and the only one that has n< SAVE VESSEL FROM SINKINC Sailors Have Two Methods of Stop piny Leaks Caused by the Shells of the Lnemy. Alter the conflict Jack Tars have several met hods of stopping the in coming water when a battleship hai been hit below the water line. Foi instance, if a small hole has beet made in the vessel's aide, an appara tus like an umbrella is used. The is thrust througli the hole, point first and then drawn buck so that it wil open like an umbrella?leaving the canvas outside. Of course the pressure of the water effectually forces the canva* against the shin's side, thus ston ' ? I ping the leirk : hut to make it more seetire the handle of the umbrella which is formed like a screw, is fastened by a nut inside. In the case of a bigger leak?wher the ship has been stove in below the water line?a largo mat made of canvas and oakum is used. This has tc l?e fixed into position by means ol ropes. But the fixing is not a ver) easy matter, as one rope has to b< got right under the keel, to the othei side of the ship, in order to drag the mat down to the hole. Two 01 three other ropes arc also required al different angles to guide the mat tc its right position. PICKLES AND GIN FOR BAB^I Father Rebela at ""Diet and Success fully Asks Court for Custody of His Son. Alleging that Ins wite, Mrs. Kdith Fies, had fed her six-iuonths-old son, Frank, picklrn, and wiwa toad that x . . V ' .1&. W ^ ' * : .ic forum]! E. Schaff . Investments son, recently referring to our railroad 1 part: ."Thej- are indispensable to nic life and snrnritlna oi-o > * most investments, largo and small, public ! idivlduals and by institutions. interest so central to the business wel?\ as this. No doubt, in the light of the new understandings, the problem of the i be met and dealt with in a spirit of ? " D citizen of the land stresses the importiding and dealing justly with the rail- j e American plowman can venture upon 3. Schafi, president of the M. K. & T. j line the relation of the public to rail- ! I id world is encumbered with a lot of : popular fancy. For instance, because id magnates' whose names have ligured lave come to believe that the railroads a few rich men. As a matter of fact th. Out of the colossal sum of twenty curitles, less than Ave per cent 1b now, "j e men who have figured prominently in j = ther 95 per cent is in the hands of over | I. who in many instances have put the ae securities in order that they might When, therefore, the value of these I destroyed, the hardship is a hundredday citizens, than upon the handful of figured prominently in railroad circles, if the assets of our great life and fire rust companies, educational and fiduciary ends?and the moment, therefore, that d into question the financial solidity of ecting the welfare of millions of policy- n ely menaced. During the last severa* r isenting depreciated values, have been ke those enumerated above. American the very woof and fabric of the nation, ly essential to the smallest community a our blows fail not m?r?iv unnn but. In the last analysis, upon ourselves, lent we have come to be In this mighty h become more and more his brother's link circumspectly, lest in our mistaken selves, need whatever of this world'r bequeathed to them." j = ,ic forum] Radford ie Soil With Wall Street" Street wants good business men she to the soil to get them. That^ financial aid to be honeycombed with men who (footed, who have drunk branch water, and molasses and slept on the floor In A man is more capable of holding the i who knows how to drive a team of eep or put a ring in a shoat's nose. A lppcd to meet the problems of life who walked the log across the creek to get ed the girls at husking bees and es Saturday afternoon. A man who has th possum hunting, going to protracte* *n the community at a spelling match lake a good business man. The active is organizations of America it is said ised on the farm, and could swim the e cows or slop the hogs as easily as itutions. > and loyal sons of the soil to assist in of agriculture. Wall Street 1b reputed rom a Y. M. C. A. to a war, so why not it to lend money to a correspondent to -oker to lend to a merchant, to lend to ich a financial system sounds like the it as useful. Neither is assistance comto "move the crop." What the farmer it better security is there than a waresack of wheat or a bushel of corn and the side of government bonds? plowman. He always has filled and al-der and wardrobe, but he has nothing ts. The problem confronting the farmand its solution depends first upon the n and Lko co-operation of the financial griculture is the biggest business in n u financial system adapted to its use. ; pickles were not good for a baby, had replied thnt if the hoy got cramps . she would give him gin to drink, Joseph Fies, the child's father, asked .Justice Nathan Bijur in the supreme court for the custody of the hoy. The pickles and gin incidents were sworn to in an affidavit made L by Mrs. Ix>ttie Ullman and submit- "" tod liv Fiea. Mr. Fiea also told the court that lust February, when the boy had chicken pox and bad been ordered I segregated by the board of Health, he came home to find that the mother had put the child in bed with another child. Fies contended that these incidents showed that the mother is not a proper guardiun for her son, who is now three years old. Justice Bijur, ' after reading the affidavits, awarded the father the custody of the boy.? i New York World. FILLING THE BILL. I i Penelope-?Count Umallup says r he wants to sec America the worst wav. Percival?Hp might try the rear ! , seat of a tandem motorcycle. HIS BEST FRIEND. ' Bix?Whom do you consider your best friend, the one who would do ( the most for you ? Dix?My wife's husband. NECESSARY STEPS. She?So Phil's married at last! He?Yea; he was so hopelessly involved financially there was nothing ! eise lo do.?Judge. " '. - ' i ; Bl 31 IS I How M Do You P KKtKttft^BKHESSSBnBEASEm The Net Premiu the Union Central L Policies written in 1 lows: For $1,000.00 Kind of Policy. A pre 20 Ordinary Life $14.38! 20-Payment Life 22.39 15-Payment Life 27.33 " 10-Payment Life 37.46 5-Year Term "8.07 We write all for and rates are propoi Ask for specimen pc Bailes & Li : Si . =11 I Ell i VERY LOW RATES Panama Pacific SAN FRANCISCO, C Opened February 20th, Closes Panama-Califor SAN DIEGO. CAL Opened January 1st, 1915, CIos VIA Southern I Premier Carrier of Tickets on sale daily and limited Good going via one route and ret Stop-overs allowed. From Round-Trip Fares Columbia, S. C... $82.45,. Charleston, S. C. 85.15.. Orangeburg, s. c. 82.15... Sumter, S. C 84.15, Camden, S. C 84.14 .. Aiken, S. C 79.15... Chester, S. C. ... 82,90... Rock Hill, S. C 82.90... Spartanburg, 8. C 81.50. Greenville, S. C 80.00... Green'** *od, S. C. 79.20... Newl ry, S, C 81.10 .. P portionately low rates from other tr\r rates to Seattle, Wash.; Portland, i rr any other western points. Full information regarding the variot i aednles, etc., gladly furnished. Also - quest. Let us help you plan your trij Why pay tourist agencies, when our ; S. H. McLKAN, Division Pass. W. H. Tayloe, P. T. M., H. F. Cary, G. Washington, P,C. Washington, BUILD While the buil and the savin; If you contemplate the erection barn, or outhouse, or the remodel present buildings, DO IT NOW. if you act at once, for you can do al 1 1 now man you can possimy ao n a 30 or 60 days, we verily believe th have passed. Labor will become Building Material market is alread know say that prices will be back We will supply you at close figures nish you estimates on what your v Take advantage of conditions an Build T Fort Mill Li Phone V-. ~,;r * * S -.-'"* > j 1 t=ll =? '*==j I. I UU1 'ay? ? I m charged by ife this year on ? * 914 is as folInsurance. Age 25 Age 30 Afce 40 $15.93 $18.32; $25.33 24.09 26.58 33.30 29.35 32.30 40.05 40.11 44.04 54.20 8.39 8.90 10.67 I i L ~ ~? E ms of policies, ' f 1 V T- l/NVi. HWllClLd^y 1UW. Jicy at YOUR age. 1 _ District Agents ITAVj Fort Mill, S. C. ]Q I IE ?b==L i account Exposition, ' :alifornia. December 4th, 1915' nia Expos'n .1FORNIA. es December 31st 1915. Railway, the South. d 90 days for returning:. % urning via another. One way via Partial, OrtfM ..$104.24 106.85 104.79 105.65 106.05 ; 102.45 102.32 102.32 101.00 101.00 101.00 102.81 points. Also very low roundOre. ; Vancouver. B. G , and is routes, points of interest, descriptive literature upon >. services are free? Address? Agt., Columbia, S. C. P.A., W. fcfc McGee, A.G.P.A > D.C. Columbia, S. C. NOW ding's good g is great. of a new home, tenement, ing or repairing of your You will be the winner > the work cheaper right nine later, u you wait e tfojden opportunity will : higher, the Lumber and ^ ly firmer, and people who to normal in a short while. 3 and will cheerfully fur/ork will require. * id *4ow. imber Co. 72.