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.
!
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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.
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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 ;
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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
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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
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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
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72.