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v %\ * McBEE SEWS ITEMS * 4* 4* Mr. Robert Horton and sister, Miss Nannie, of Angelus, spent several days in town this week. Miss Flozelia Horton, of Kershaw, is on a visit to her aunt, Mrs. G. T. Horton ; -.irj Miss Thressa Hough and little Miss Mamie Lou McDonald, of Camden, are spending a few days with Mrs. Harry Gregory. Mr. Carl Edgeworth, of Hartsville, spent Monday in town. Mr. L. H. Bolton, chief of police, J spent Sunday and Monday at his home at Dillon. Mrs. S. E. Baker, of Columbia, pass- j ed through McBee Saturday morning for Jefferson, where she will spend several weeks. Mrs. Early Clarke and children left last Friday to spend a week in Camden. Mess. J. R. and C. D. Campbell, of Route No. 1, spent Thursday last with Mr. T. A. Horton. and family. Rev. J. T. Grant left last Friday for Marlboro county where he will spend a month visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Jas. W. King, of Route No. 2, was in town Thursday, the guest of his son, Mr. Maxie King. Mrs. Gurtha Gardner, of Hartsville, and Mrs. A. A. Bolin, of our town, went to visit Mrs. Gardner's sister, Mrs. Dr. Rutledge, at Heath Springs, on last Friday. Mrs. Rutledge is very ill with gall stones. Mrs. J. C. Blackw.ell and children, of Pageland, spent several days last week with the family of Mr. A. J. Raley in our town. They were accompanied home by little Misses Manda and Mildred Raley, who will stay some time. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram, Mess. Clyde McManus, J. S. Steen, J. M. King, and N. A. Boon attended the big day at ? D.I/1A,F Uueravv iasi ruua;. Mr. W. J. Blackwell, of Route No. 1, was in town Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Curtis went to Hartsville Tuesday to see their broDuring the thunder shower here on Tuesday afternoon lightning struck the residence of Mr. J. M. King, causing some damage to the kitchen and doing ooher slight damage. None of the family was injured. A car load of cotton bagging caught fire at the depot here Monday night and quite a number of rolls of bagging were badly damaged. Miss Margaret Grant, who has been visiting relatives here, has returned to Hartsville. Mr. A. B. Jones, who has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Lawrence, left Tuesday for Virginia where (he will anend several weeks before returning to his home in Atlanta. The Civic League is getting up a play, "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," to be given in the near future. Mrs. Lila V. Chandler, of Baltimore, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. N. King, accompanied by (her niece, Miss Lillie M. Banks. A very pleasant evening was spent at the home of Mrs. R. B. King Monday evening. Music was furnished by Miss Lillie Banks, of Baltimore. Dr. and Mrs. H. N. King, Mrs. Chandler a'nd Miss Banks, of Baltimore, spent yesterday at Big Springs. Capt Hugh Knight, conductor on the S. C. W. railway, has our thanks for a fine water melon, presented us last Sunday. The Misses Ridgeway, of Manning are visiting their aunt, Mrs. J. W. Moore. Lieut. Gov. Chas. A. Smith, of Timmon6ville, will speak in the Pres* ?^ n Avf Dyerian cnurcn ai mm i?atc uca<. Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. Mr. Smith is a fluent speaker and a good man and a large crowd should go out to hear him. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Lawrence went to Columbia Monday where Mrs. Lawrence will receive medical treatment. Mr. William Steen and family, of Hartsville came up Sunday afternoon and spent the night and Monday with the family of Mr. J. S. Steen. Mess. J. S. and Wm. Steen spent Monday at Chesterfield on business. A basket pic nic will be ;held at Bethune today. There will be a game of base ball between the Jefferson and Bethune teams and music by the Bethune brass band. % ~~ OLD-TIMER RAISES A WAIL Defects of Rising Generation Pointed Out, as They Were Thousands of Years Ago. "In these days, an Infuriated Missourian wrlteB, a thirty-cent boy starts out In the world with a 925 gun and a $60 dog to shoot a five-cent rabbit" Tou have seen the youngster, of course? His father used to wear trousers banded down from an older brother, and he was In luck If he got a new suit once In three years. Son has to have the latest cut In clothes, and last spring's suit would never do for this season. Father used to get up early and build the fires and help curry the horses and milk the cows and carry In the wood. Son would be Insulted at the suggestion that he look after the furnace or mow the lawn. Father got a job in the summer vacation and worked his head off. Son expects to go camping In thej summer, and It's much too hot for j W?_ tonnlo Father got his spending money by ! earning it, and his Christmas presents j were tippets and mittens that his i mother knitted, and maybe a home-1 made sled. Son has an allowance, and his list of Christmas presents counts ap in real money to a scandalous figure. Father made his success by being thrown on his own resources and being forced to hustle, says the Kansas City Star. He Is doing everything possible to prevent son from making a success by coddling him and keeping him from developing any of the Qualities that make a successful man. TO INDUCE PROPER SLUMBER Careful Preparation for Repoee, and a Quiet Mind, Are the Main Qualification* man should make his toflet as carefully for going to bed aa for the business of the day. Certain physical thlngi are conducive to sleep, such as plenty of sweet, outdoor air, the absence of noises, of lights and of bad odori, and above all a feeling of tiredness. There are also certain mental and spiritual preparations. To be Intensely interested In anything Is fatal to sleep; so also are the memory of a rankling failure, plan-making, problem-solving, apprerenslQn, shame and remorse. The soul must take off Its intereatodness as the body muat remove Its vestments. Passions of any kind, craving and all heats are against sleep. One 1b very fortunate who has a habit of prayer, for there 1b nothing can btill the bouI like purging the oonsclence before God; and cares, pricking annoyances, dreade and all mental tensions can be remedied In no way more satisfactorily than by letting the consciousness of God wash the soul. sense of friendliness and peace to ward the Infinite Is the surest matt cine for sleep. Thoroughly Qualified. A family of four women bought as automobile. In their search for a chauffeur they were very hard to suit At last a man applied whoso quallfr cation could not be gainsaid. Before demonstrating his ability to manage the machine he said: 1 used to be a window dresser, you know, In a big dry goods store." "Indeed!" said the eldest daughter. "And may I ask how that helped yoc to qualify for this position T" "How?" he exclaimed. "Why, greal Scott! didn't I learn all about draplns: figures In artistic style, and can't I pile the robes and furs around you ladies till you will look like regulai fashion plates?' It was fortunate for the women thai in addition to that accomplishment th? young man was also a competent chauffeur, for he got the Job without further questioning. Stevenson on the Bible. Frederic Harrison, in an address delivered many years ago to the Bodley Literary society in Oxford, concluded with these words: "If you care to know the best that our literature give in simple, noble proBe?mark, learn, and Inwardly digest the Holy Scriptures in the English tongue." It Is Interesting to learn what Robert Louis Stevenson said regarding the same theme. In a recent lecture on the author of "Kidnapped," by Oil phant Smeaton, that well-known crltlo and writer tells us how on one occasion, in the old Swanston days, his friend said to him: "I say, Smeaton, have you ever read finer prose than in Ephesus and Phllippl&ns?" According to the same authority, "R. L. S." knew whole chapters of the Testament by heart, but his supreme favorite among the sacred writings was the last fifteen chapters of the Boo't of Isaiah. In the Bible Stevenson found, says Mr. Smeaton, the magic of the finest prose.?Westminster Gazette. DISPROVING AN OLD BELIEF Silly Idea About Career of "Minister's 8ona" la Given a Setback by Publication of a Few Facta. Did anybody say anything about "ministers' sons?" No? Well, anyway, they are coming to their own In spite of the old saw. Three of the 1 last seven presidents of the United States were sons of ministers?Arthur, Cleveland and Wilson. Two denominations have been represented thus by ancestry in the White House. Mr. Arthur was the son ?one of nine children?of the Rev. William Arthur, a BaptlBt. Mr. Cleveland's father was the Rev. Richard F. Cleveland, Presbyterian, while President Wilson's father, the Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, was not only a Presbyterian clergyman, but also a professor i In a theological seminary. It Is esti-1 mated that there Is one clergyman in j OOA osluH man I me u 11 neu ounce iu hum auua ?? >. So the ministers, through their sons, are getting much more than their share of representation In the executive chair. They are doing even better through their daughters. Mrs. Wilson Is the daughter and the granddaughter of Presbyterian ministers. She will be the seventh mistress of the White House of clerical descent Abigail Adams was the daughter of a Congregational minister. Mrs. Fillmore's father was a Baptist clergyman. Mrs. Pierce came from the family of a college president, the Rev. Jesse Appleton, head of Bowdoln. While Mr. Arthur was president his sister, Mrs. McElroy, presided at the White House, as did President Cleveland's sister, Miss Rose Cleveland, In the first part of his first administration. Mrs. Harrison was the daughter of the Rev. J. W. Scott, president of Oxford seminary. Altogether, then, three sons of ministers and seven daughters will have lived In the White House, which is doing pretty well.?Kansas City Times. ENORMOUS DEMAND FOR OAS Annual Increase In Consumption, Due to Advancing Needs of Modem Civilisation. To light and heat the surface of the civilised globe 620,000,000,000 cubic feet of gas was made last year. In the manufacture of this huge output ome 60,000,000 tons of coal was used, which produced, besides the gas, 80,000,000 tons of tar and Ihe equivalent of 660,000 tons of sulphide of ammonia. London, city of fogs and darkness, leads the world In the amount of gas consumed per head of population. In 1912 every man. woman and child In the world's metropolis used on aa av? A aaa Wl. MAW trt|6 IDOVl g,wu cuuiu ictw York comtt second with 6,000 cubic feet tor miT Gotha mite's annual supply, followed closely by Part*, Am terdam and Berlin. This la a substantial laosaass orar a daeada ago, dua to tha graatar nsa of Uhxminattng gas tor baa ting and for manufacturing purposes. Exports figure that by 1M0 all tha groat cities of tha world will be using 10,000 cubic feat annually par bead of population. All illuminating gas Is not of the same quality. As laid down by Prof. W. J. A. Butterfleld, one of London's foremost gas experts, tha requirements tor good gas Include tha greatsat number of beat units at the lowest coat, an odor not too strong, a flame of some natural luminosity, and no field on combustion of products harmful to life or destructive to property. Canvassing and Suffrage. If you should happen to meet a handsomely gowned woman carrying what looks like a mop handle In one 1 -? J - -? *1 ?? ?V,? ntluir LIUI1U UliU a 1UV Ui UUWBl? IU wuv wm? do not Imagine she Is moving. She Is merely working for the cause, according to the New York Times. One of these workers who was encountered by an acquaintance explained the system. In order to get inside the homes she was selling a vacuum washer and while she explained its saving qualities she put In a word for woman suffrage. In the Fifth avenue and West Side homes she talked to laundresses, but on the East Side she saw the women of the house. All of the profits made on the washer are turned orar to too organisation. Thlf particular worker, who Htm In tha fashionable part of th? cfty, aald aha had flra lieutenants out working otbar districts. Precocious Youngster. Three-year-old Louise's father had1 slapped her hands for holding the screen door open, as the files were extremely annoying. Her mother said to him In a low tone: "She doesn't understand why you are punishing her." A 6hort time after she did something naughty and, as she spied her father coming towards her, she said: "Don't, papa; Louise don't understand." SHREWD SCHEME IS WASTED Man Who "Beat" the Cuatoma Inspector* Might Be Excused for Feeling a Uttle Annoyed. The exacting regulations of the customs service bear heavily on the American returning from a trip abroad. The man or woman who cannot find more than the legal limit of $100 to Invest In trinkets, presents, and various personal articles of apparel Is rare. To be held up like a criminal and be forced to discuss with inquisitive custom Inspectors the value of every little article in one's baggage is vexatious. So people frequently resort to subterfuge. . A man who had been In Siberia on business had an opportunity to buy there at very reasonable rates some beautiful sable skins. He decided that It was too good a chance to make his wife a desirable gift to be overlooked; so out of hundreds of skins he selected a dozen of great beauty. On reaching New York he sought the cooperation of several men friends, and each of them slipped a skin or two down the legs of his trousers, tying them with twine to his suspenders to prevent them from dropping too far. It was a very hot day, and as they stood about on the pier waiting to be passed by the customs men the skins got warm and smelted villainously. Finally, passed by the Inspectors with their baggage, they hastened to a place where In seclusion they could remove the sable skins and turn them over to the owner. Later the latter told the house that was to make them up of his ruse, and was considerably startled when the manager said: "That was a good deal of trouble to take with an article that Is not dutiable."?The 8unday Magasine. GREAT NAMES HAVE GONE Long List of Mon of Qenius Whoso Lino Is No Longer Reprooented on the Earth. When one considers how many families there are which trace their ancestry in a direct line for many generations, it is rather a surprising fact that there is not a single living de J A 1le?A A# OATflO Of Bcenaam iuhuii uud uuo ?i ?vuv the greatest men the world has ever produced. For the preservation of onr Illusions regarding genius, it probably is far better that there should be no disappointing ortMnary persons left in the world to rejftsent the men whom ire delight to honor. To find a Milton engaged in the Insurance business, or a Byron on the stock exchange would Jar dreadfully on one's sense of the fitness of things. The following is a list of some of the illustrious men whoee line never will be represented on the earth again as long as the world stands: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spencer, Milton, Cowley, Butler, Dryden. Pope, Cowper, Goldsmith, Byron, Moore, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, Drake, Cromwell, Hampden, Monk, Petertorough, Nelson, Bolingbroke, Welpole, Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Washington, Canning, Bacon, Locke, Newton, Davy, Hume, Gibbon, Maoauley, Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, David Garrlck, John Kemble, Edmund Kean. Us Gender. A somewhat angular, serereJooklnj * -?? " ? ?v, _ piniter tu nuomi UU UIV PMMMIf platform outside a mall coach. Inspect Lng with undisguised curiosity the Ingenious net arrangement which Is able to sweep In mall bags while the train la In swift motion. "Is she working all rlghtf asked one of the officials. "Aye, aye, Bill," replied his mate when suddenly the lady touched him on the shoulder. "Why do you call It 'she'?" she Inquired, as usual athlrst for Inform* tion. "Because, madam, Its a mall catcher," replied the courteous official. And the sniff of the angular splnstei almost drowned the shrill whistle ol the engine, then preparing to more on. ?London Answers. a-.a. al. OA -J-?J uuh rux xno owinuiru iyir? Among the scores of replies to the question "What constitutes the Ideal woman for a wife?" which a Hanford. Cal., citisen of inquiring mind sent broadcast among the young men of that city, the following was considered the best: "The ideal woman for a wife should have these qualifications: The voice of Melba, the talent of Paderewski, the figure of Venus, the grace of a sylph, the vivacity of a coryphee, qyes like the soft glow of a moonlight eve, an alabaster-like complexion, the virtues of a nun, the charm of Cleopatra, the meekness of Moses, the patience of Job, the forbearance of Lazarus, the zeal of a Trojan, the constancy of Caesar's wife, the capabilities of a charwoman, the purse of Hetty Green, and hair of her own." I CREAM OF GOTHAM "SOCIETY" Knickerbocker Group the Moet D? aired and Sought After of Any Coterie in America. To the true old New York Knickerbocker all the modern world le a sham and a froth. For them there la no United St&tee west of Buffalo; no one of any respectability lires, above Fourteenth street; and to have been born poor and dishonest enough to have x made a fortune is much less reprehensible than paying money for marrying ' " * * 4U ? trMllO In a title, wun iu?lu iuc luiol T....v ? life Is to have been born rich and honest; i. e., In the "set." These form the most exclusive cli> cle In social New York. They see nc one but each other. They have no country relatives, because the family has never been permitted to marry outside the little group. They refuse to recognize the pervenus who have come In and are making things hum. In their eyes all American authors are dead and all living authors Europe* ans; hence they permit themselves no Intellecutal diversion. Their mental life is one of dead memories and livlng reproaches. Their social life Is one of mediocrity and echoes. Yet this group is the most desired and most sought after of any in America. Many a new millionairess would write a substantial check with alacrity to be Invited to one of these shabby old downtown homes. Such Invitations are sought for, prised and commented on more than any other. It Is comparatlvely*easler to be presented at almost any European court, except the Russian and the Turkish, than to be properly presented to aa old Knickerbocker family. OVERWORK BRINGS OLD AGE No Human Being Was Meant to Labor on and On Without the Proper Rest Industry's a fine thing, but a virtue may easily ran to seed and become a fault And don't work too fast Donl rash. Take things quietly and steadily. Don't excite yourself over every little trifle. Don't be restless and impatient It is the mean and petty traits of character very often that bring lines and wrinkles to the most open face ?the small spites, the petty jealousies. They have a knack of steadily * " I. Mini! Ana tureiy WUO| up Ml um w mm and wholesome in the character. And / as moral Ills react phAcally, premature age comes on wlBall Its undeglrstfWhHgas. ju^gSes der control. A burst o? passion often^ ' does one Incalculable' harm. It Jars the nerves and upsets the whole constitution. Very hysterical people are frequently quite prostrate for days after an outburst of temper. Wrinkles are often caused by fads! contortion?manerlsms. like con-, stantly lifting the eyebrows, when tailing, frowning when In thought, twisting the mouth up and that sort of thing. Try to cultivate the reposeful face. It need not be Wooden or expressionless. Not a bit of it Bat talk with your mouth, not with every muscle of your face.?Philadelphia he Qulrer. Why Wear Clstheef Therefore it la that I better*, that as slants, tress and animals and all thine* that hare Ufa are a??n to bo by Nature sufficiently clothed and cohered to defend them from the injuria* of the weather, so were we; but a* thoae who by artificial light put out that of the day, so we by borrowed forma and fashion# hare doctroyed our own. And 'tis plain enough to be eeen that 'tie custom only which renders that imposaible that otherwise la nothing so; for of those nations who hare no manner knowledge of cloth* " tho unit log, BOID6 W inuawu uuuv* temperature as we are, and some la much colder climate*. And besides, our moit tender parts are always exposed to the air, as the eyes, mouth, nose and ears. Had we been bora with a necessity upon us of wearing petticoats and breeches there Is no doubt but Nature would have fortified those parts she intended should be exposed to the fury of the seasons with a thicker skin, as she has dons the finger ends and the soles of thg feet?Montaigne. Wit and Tsars. A witty old Judge had before the baa of justice a woman who wept most bitterly over her misfortune. Her sob " *- art/I hM DlD( BOOO& Ule CVUIUWU1) ? - m ? tears of no mean sixe coursed In a great stream down her cheeks to the floor. While she wept thus profusely, Lass yer Flnnnlgan chanced to come 1* who, seeing the prisoner and hearing her cries, anxiously asked of ths prisoner and hearing her cries, ans lously asked of the bench: "What In the name of all the saints of Heaven Is the matter with the pool gurrul before the bahr of justice?" "I'm sure I don't know," was ths I Judge's reply. "Apparently she's walb ine to be bailed out."