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WOMAN DIES OF WOUNDS. Nobody Yet Blamed of Killing Mrs.' Estelle Baker. Camden, Sept. 17.?Mrs. Estelle Baker, who was found badly beaten near her home, seven miles east of Camden, Friday, died at the hospital here Saturday morning at 2 o'clock, never having regained consciousness. An examination by physicians revealed the fact that she had not been shot, \ as was first thought, but that th' j wounds made on her hands were received in warding off the blows. Evidence at the scene of the tragedy went to show that she had been fired at, as fresh gun wads were picked up, and the trail of a load of shot as they cut their way through the weeds indicated that the murderer fired from a crouching position concealed in tne weeds as the unfortunate woman was gathering grapes. A coroner's inquest was held Saturday, with Solicitor W. H. Cobb conducting the investigation. The husband of the dead woman, testifying at the inquest, stated that he found the injured woman, ancl that he called to her, but did not offer to assist her in any way. He stated that he and his sons were hauling straw near the house at the time of the attack upon his wife, and stated that he had shot a wasp nest near by. The shirt worn by the husband on the day of t''e tragedy was put in evidence and 6howed evidence of having been freshly torn and had stains upon it. He could not account for the rents in his shirt, but stated the stains were from watermelon juice. ' The jury returne * a verdict to th* effect that Mrs. Baker came to her death at the hands of a .party or parties unknown to the jury. Neither the husband of the dead woman nor any of his people were present at the funeral. Mrs. Baker was about thirty years of age and leaves four children, the eldest being a son of fourteen years. She is also survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sinclair, of Camden. The killing seems to be one of the most mysterious in this county in many years. The officers say they have fresh clues and there will be nothing left undone to ferret out the guilty parties. How the Mongolia Met Her Fate. Sydney, Australia, Sept. 15.?Survivors of the sinking of the Peninsu/ lar & Oriental Company's steamship Mongolia by a German mine of^ Bombay on June 23 have arrived "herej with further details of the disaster, which cost the lives of about twenty white persons and Lascars. The survivors' stories indicate that the mine was one placed by the German raider Wolff. The Mongolia sank within jT' twenty minutes, in water so shallow that the tips of the masts remained unsubmerged. Australians on the vessel included Brigadier General Sir Robert McCAnderson and Lady Anderson; of ^ ' - J ^ Ortl.flrCAn or?il syaney; iaajur ixumau nuu?ovu Mrs. Robertson of Sydney and Justice Booth of Western Australia. General Anderson had been on m'litary duty in England and Major Robertson in Egypt. They agreed that had the Mongolia struck the mine at night instead of at mid-dav the loss of life would have been, heavier. "The wireless apparatus was shattered by the explosion and we were helpless," said Sir Robert. "Although the lifeboats had everything aboard? biscuits and water--demanded by the Board of Trade regulations, if we had been unlucky enough to have been out for some days there would have been a greater number of deaths. "There were two deaths in my boat. One of these was from burns. Lifeboats should be equipped with a hospital chest and first-aid outfit, and I think a proportion should be fitted with engines. With ordinarylifeboats it is not always possible to reach a man in time. We had one poor chap taken by a shark." "When we took our places where our lifeboat should have been,' said Mrs. Robertson' "there was none. It had not been launched because its crew had been killed in the engine room. Some passengers and others tried to launch it but were driven off by escaping steam, which was worse than the explosion. The captain called to us to get into another boat. As three of the men were getting into this boat their fingers were caught in a block and taken off. In entering the boat someone knocked out' the rudder and sail, so there was I nothing for us to do but drift about. Then a moon soon sprang up and there were 51 of us in a boat intended to hold 46. After having drifted ten hours we managed to attract the attention of a coolie boat by hoisting a woman's white underskirt flag-wise on an oar." Justice Rooth said that the whites, including several women, and the Lascars were crowded into the boat in which he and Mrs. Robertson were. He added: "We had a number of badly wounded men with us no medicine chest. There were white officers in our boat, no w sailors and no one to direct us or us what to do. It was luck n than anything else that we were all drowned." In this boat a others' wounds were bandaged ' pieces of feminine underwear. The Mongolia's Lascar crew i criticised by the passengers. rushed the boats," said Sir Ro Anderson, and their next act wa rush the biscuits. They would row, put up sails or do anyl else.' o Old False Teeth Valuable. Many people no doubt have the advertisements appearing in papers of late offering from $1 to for old false teeth and have wond why a person should want to teeth that had been worn out by y of use. At a first glance a persoi wardly shudders at the though another using second-hand 1 teeth. But it is not the teeth the vertiser wants. Years ago a coi erable quantity of platinum was i in making false teeth and today ] inum is one of the most valuabl known commodities. The platinu extracted from the teeth and teeth are consigned to the junk In times past a set of false teeth anywhere from $50 to $500. It the platinum used in making bridges that ran the cost of manu ture up to such a high figure, bu recent years a cheaper material been used and now it is possibl get a fairly good set of false t for a very small sum. Small forti have been made in recent moi from the sale of platinum extra from old false teeth. o Fertilization of Wheat. The following statement cone ing the fertilization of wheat this was issued by the-department of ricultural extension at Purdue versity, July 31, 1917: ,The fertilization of the wheat < was never more important than it be this fall. From every part of diana comes reports of the excel results Secured from fertilization the very poor yields of wheat seci from unfertilized soil. By fertili the farmer swaps dollars for eai and the profit after counting expe of applying fertilizer, and paying harvesting and marketing the creased crop would be more thai an acre. If this isn't a case of si p/ffg- itotfamr lot eagiVs ft comes i near to it. The Ohio experiment station Wooster, as an average for the twenty-two years, has secured an crease of 8.0 bushels of wheat to acre from an application of nrtiin^e nf oiMrl T>Vir>snVinto tn tho fl J/WUUUO vi. UV4U. vw ?V "Evidence on the profitablenes fertilizing the wheat Is abundant.' 1916 L. M. Waggoi/r of St. Jos county, applied two hundred pov of acid phosphate to the acre, wheat. From the fertilized pari secured 22.4 bushels of wheat to acre, and on the acre?a gain of bushels, due to fertilizing. This year two hundred pound: acid phosphate will cost about $ and wheat is worth $2.00 per bus On this basis the increase secures Mr. Waggoner would be worth $1 The phosphated yield has been bushels and the phosphated bushels. Where 1000 pounds of ash has been added to the phospfc the yeild has been 20.4. bushel: the acre, or an increase of 1.2 bus more than was secured from p phatealone. Even at present pi for wheat and before-war prices potash the increase in the w crop was not sufficient to pay the of the potash. The addition of po to fertilizer containing pnospm and nitrogen will not be profit when applied to clay and loam s Nine farmers out of ten sir fertilize wheat this fall. Ferti' not only increases the yeild dire but the greater supply of avail plant food makes stronger plants with-stand the attack of fungus eases and insects better than t unfertilized. At present prices farmer may exect a return of at 1 five dollars for every dollar spenl wheat fertilizer this fall. The importance of ordering e cannot be too strongly emphasi Those who order early will get \ they want, while those who order will be compelled to tak ewhat is or do without. o Study Your Habit?. Habit accustoms us to doing i n* the overvday things in partic ways, and we consciously turn mind to them only when they chi to be done differently. The dlvl line between efficiency and Inefflct is largely right here. Anyone stops to think about It can easily that innumerable little habits o up a very lnrge part of our lives Is Indeed well worth while care! to study the host of little hnblts breed and hide In the most secret of brain and muscle. None of the too small to be worth attention.change. and WHEN SHIP BECAME A FAR* ? no ; hite 8tory Is Told of the Experience < te]i Lato Major Archibald Butt With acre " Cargo* Oats. not Truly, there is nothing new und< 3 ln the sun. Here's the good ship Poi w*th hook, carrying a fine cargo of drlc codfish from where there Is ampl vere codfish to where the hungry nativ< They are yearning for codfish. She sprin* bert a seam, ln flows the Atlantic. Tt s tQ codfish drink copiously and swell u] not the straining timbers cannot stac the strain and the Ponhook goes f g pieces. A yarn of the sea of the tn salty flavor, but Is the Incident unique Not at all, says the New London Da; They used to tell a story ln Washlnj ton years ago about the late Mg read ^"^bald W. Butt and hts cargo < oats that makes the tale of the Poi 8 hook sound like plagiarism. ?15 In those days Archie was not a mi ered jor| neither had he attained to tt buy proud position of military aide to tt ears president of the United States. B i in- bad been a newspaper man and bs t of bnt lately entered the army as a llei iVa nnortflrmoQtop'a ilDTlflF 13,180 lcuaul> AU U'V ?|UHk iV4UMM??V? V ?~r , ment His first "assignment" was f 1 chaperon a Cargo erf oats from Sa Francisco to Manila on one of thoi used weird transports which the goven plat- ment always managed to find In son e of out-of-the-way dock In Spanish wi m Is times. Half way to Guam the old tt the shipped a heavy sea and a couple < pile. tons ?* WQter sluiced Into the hoi cos^ It was what the oats needed. The sopped It up and called for more. The was became Insistent Their lmpatlenr the burst all bounds, until the ship couldn lfac* hold them. They swelled and swelle it In and finally sprouted, has When the young quartermast* e to reached Manila finally he had no carg eeth of oats, but he had a splendid fan jnes <->ats were P'ow10? out ?* tbe hatche aths ^ey mast8? they festoone about the bridge, they burst throuj every seam and hung down the sid< of the ship like an Illinois quarter se tlon afloat The army authorities t Manila canceled an order for a ne ern- machine gun and ordered a couple < fall reapers. And Archie Butt didn't kno ag_ whether he would be court-martial* Uni or be secretary of agriculture. TaJ about codfish. CF?n Th? Pent,ty Liberty. In the matter of discipline John Bu In~ kin's mother was a Spencerlan befoi lent Spencer. "Let your penalties," saj and that austere philosopher, "be like tl jred penalties Inflicted by Inanimate natur ziDg Inevitable. The hot cinder burns ,les child the first time he seizes It; 3 ' burns him the second time; it bun nses him every time; and he very so< for learns not to touch the hot cinder In~ That was Mrs. Buskin's method. ' i $5 illustrate her way of teaching leas vap- Buskin used to tell the followlne^, rery Adrearfy* mother was fond of relating. UC ot "One evening, when I was yet in m . , nurse's arms, I wanted to touch tt as tea urn, which was boiling merrily. 3 was an early taste for bronzes, I~sm the pose, but I was resolute about it M 160 mother bade me keep my fingers baci ere. I insisted on putting them forwar< s of My nurse would have taken me awa ? in from the urn, but my mother said: >eph '"Let him touch it, nurse.' mds "?? 1 touched It and that was m flfo* locoiin In mennlntr of the WOI liberty.' It was the first piece of 111 he erty I got, and the last that for son the time I asked for."?Youth's Companloj 9.9 Self-Hypnotism Nearly Fatal, s of Records for keen Imaginations wei 2.25 shattered In the case of Edward Co thel. rlgan, who almost succeeded In killli j by himself with thought, a Los Angel< q g q dispatch says. ' Corrlgan is a young engineer ar ' had been going with a girl, with whoi 19-2 he had quarreled. "The end will con Pot" in a couple of hours," he said In se; iate, ulchral tones. Shortly afterwards 1 s to was found in bed In a comatose cond hels tion, and when his folks entered tl hos- room he asked for a priest to admlnl ar Inot rJtps. ices fcV* w"v "*v" * . \ Police Surgeon Zorb made a mlnu 01 examination and thought Corrlgan hf taken poison. His eyes were dilat< cost and his outward condition indicate tash poisonous symptoms. Treatment a; orus piled caused Doctor Zorb and other e able perts called in to believe that the cai oils, was one of self-hypnotism causd t ould mental depression. When Corrlgt U returned to his senses in the hosplt he broke out in tears, saying he wi J' despondent over his broken love affal able that A Significant 8urvey. dls_ One of the most significant educ bose tional surveys yet conducted in th the country is the one planned for India east apolis. It will include the first lnte t for slve Investigation of social and ec nomlc conditions cf graduates fro public trade schools ever made In tl ;arly United States. The data on this poll I zed. 5e use(j to determine whether tl vhat graduates of trade schools have ma< late as much progress In life as the grad left, ates of the academic schools. The r port will be presented to the Nation Society for the Promotion of Indu trial Education and will form the has of action by that body In making 1 nost recommendations on the preparatl< 'ular of students for their life work In tl *he high school Instead of in college. ance _ .. _ ?... uiujj Modern Houses tor Filipinos. ency n v{ew t0 improving the hou ing conditions of the poor, the Phili see pine health service has constructed Qakc number of model houses of new fir 14 proof material consisting of cemer sand, and lpa, or rice husks. These cr that be built for a little more than the pre ce,'s ent insanitary dwellings and, It m is estimated, will last more than twice i _Ex" | long.?Popular Mechanics Magazine, ft ! Why He Joined Air 8ervlce. Few men, I am sore, would eonfei If to so strange an Immediate cause f< I Joining the aviation service as that r lated to me by Drew, as we sat ov< ! our coffee and cigarettes, on the ev y ! nlng of our first meeting, writes Jam< a-1 N. Hall In the Atlantic. He had con id to France, he said, with the lntentlc le ! of Joining the Legion Etrangere as o is j Infantryman. But he changed h rs mind, a few days after his arrival I ie Paris, upon meeting Jackson of tt p, American Aviation squadron, who wr id on leave after a service of six montl to at the front It was all because of tl ie manner In which Jackson looked at Turkish rug. -He told him of his a< y. ventures In the most matter-of-fai g. way. No heroics, nothing of that sor j. He had not a glimmer of lmaginatloi )f he sold. But he had a way of lookln a- at the floor which was irreslstiblt which fascinated him with the sent a. of height' He saw towns, villages, network of trenches, columns of tc re troops moving up ribbons of road?a [e In the patterns of a Turkish rug. An ,d > the next day, he was at the headqua a- ters of the Franco-American corps, 1 ?i/> Chamna Vlvaaaa maHnv snnllfi to tion for membership. m fe Unfortunate Force of Habit > Two girlhood friends were exchanj ie lng confidences over their afternoo ir tea. ? ^ . lb "I saw you in church, dear, yeste; jf day," murmured the younger one. d. "Oh, you were there? I didn't se >y you/' gurgled the other. .y "Yes. And I was glad to se * that you finally Induced your husban ft to accompany you to divine woi A, ship." v "Yes," Frank came along with mi >r He'd much rather go to the theatei jo but the theaters are not showing an: a. thing on Sundays now. But he dlt g, graced me." id "Really? In church? How pray? [h "The minister read four chapter >a from The Acts of the Apostles,' an c-, my husband Insisted on going out af it er every act"?Harper's Magazine, w | Jf ? w NOTICE OF COURT. id - _ I* "Court of General Sessions for Chef terfleld County, fall term, will coi vene on Monday, September 24tl 1917. Grand Jurors, Petit Jurors an * witnesses take notice. I. P. MANGUM, ij^fept. 12, 1917. Clerk of Coun B MASTER'S SALE. j? Vhe State of South Carolina. ' County of Chesterfield: ^^ y virtue of a decree of his Honoi T. H. Spain, dated August 3( Jrln the case of Flora J- O'Coi Dlolnfiffa orroinof TP j ]UVi auu vvuci of A ii?AUb?4Bf y j N. Coppedge and another, Defendant ^ If will offer for sale before the Cour [tflHouse door at Chesterfield, S. C., o: ViMonday, October 1st, 1917, withl: yjMp legal hours of sale, the followin j^Bscribed real estate, to wit: (a) All that piece, parcel or trac land, situate, lying and being i Bne county and state aforesaid, cor lyTalning one- hundred and seventy-flv d 175) acres, more or less, and bound t>* Id on the South and Southeast b ie lands of F. H. Hall and Mary E k Groom; North by lands of Joe Db i on and Sam Moore; same being th tract conveyed to R. J. W. Redfearr ^ P. N. Coppedge and R. T. Hunley b lg deed dated May 9, 1900 and recorde ?3 in Book 16, page 601 office of R. M C. for Chesterfield County, id (b) that piece, parcel or trac m of land situate, lying and being with 10 in the county and state aforesaic containing three hundred and flft (350) acres, more or less, in Col ie Hill townhsip, deeded to the Sinkin s- Fund Commission by the Sheriff c Chesterfield County on February cejigyz, ana Dounaea Dy ianus ui r^ua id; Crawley and estate lands of Alexar ^ der Willis. This land was sold b the sheriff for taxes as the propert ? of N. S. Ogburn, the same havin 3e|been deeded by the commissioner c jyithe Sinking Fund to Redfearn < in Coppedge by deed dated April 11 al j 1900 and recorded in Book 16, pag is 595 office of R. M. C. for Chesterfiel >T- County. (c) All that piece, parcel or trac a> of land, situate, lying and being i jg the county and state af#resaid, cor n. taining one hundred and fifty (150 n- acres, more or less, sold for taxes a o- the property of Hugh,Hall, Jr., an same having been conveyed by th ie Commissioner of the Sinking Fuqjl t Redfearn & Coppedge by deed date April 12, 1900 and recorded in Boo 179, page 550 office of R. M. C. fo Chesterfield County, al Terras of Sale: One-third cash &- and the balance in two equal annuf ls installments, to be secured by th notes of the purchaser, or purchaser; and a mortgage, or mortgages of th " premises, such deferred portions t bear legal interest from date of sal* with the privilege to the purchase] g. or purchasers, of paying all cast pjThe land to be sold in separate tract! a<but the purchser of two or mor eJ tracts to have the right, at his optior it, to have all his purchases embraced i ,n a single deed. Purchaser, or purchas s" ers to pay for all necessarw paper: M I. P. MANGUM, Specll Klastei Aug. 31, 1917. ? j t ?o ahead is # 'i You might as we a of that building you are pla 'J to be gained by waiting, id prices going down for son * over. Go ahead and let yc a- When it comes to the ro saving, and get a better roc ; Certa Roof 3 CERTAIN-TEED is not cheap* p. but because it is a less expensive i better, not only because it is chea; g. weight, weather-tight, clean, san r, practically nothing to maintain. It is now recognized as the prefer buildings, factories, hotels, store; buildings etc., where durability is 19 CERTAIN-TEED is guarantee* J ing to thickness (1, 2 or 3 ply). There are many roll roofings c CERTAIN-TEED. It pays tog to lay a CERTAIN-TEED roo roof, but there is a vast difference the quality of a roofing by looks or 3" label. Be sure that it is CERT 1* rtvtnm. nt nn.lifii onA 69* d" Certain-teed Slate-Surfa are supplanting wood and slate shingU art Just as good looking, wear better, w are fire-retardant, a&d do cot have to b< ^ Certain-teed Painti are the best Quality jfjjDf ground and mixed witl MB curacy. Made for all I^Hj colors. 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They cost less, on't fill off, buckle or split. They j painted or stained. I and Varnishes \x mechanical ac 1 uses and in all ittlMg2=?*) is with roofing, pOBmrai N-TEED is IbKM md jdActlflQ. SHMbmI rCTS CORPORATION on, dohrtb. ismoo. Sydney. Havana- ^ LEYS Over Some i I IGiEYS j i Keep your soldier or j sailor boy supplied. j| Give film the lasting J| refreshment, the pro- ?| fcction against thirst, j I the help to appetite ! I and digestion afforded j i>y Wrifiley's. J it's an outstanding j feature of the war? J fill the British Army j Is chewing it." ; AFTER EVERY MEAL j i The J ' ' Flavor J I Lasts M 1.50 a year.