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LOVE IN THE ORIENT ? - ' ? COURTSHIPS THAT OO ON UNDCfl MANY DIFFICULTIES. *.v- ,-y.v * x.;---. -j. . In Soma Tribes Several Swains Served Their Adored Ones Until th* On# Chosen From Among the Oth ers Has Been Designated. Some customs prevailing in certain (tarts or the Sudan have been enter tainingly described in a series of let ters which an tCnglish traveler, a min ister of education, lias written to bis wife who is visiting America. He came across certain tribes w hero the *oinen, he sa>s, "seem to have passed the limits of even American women," and lie naively adds that but for tbq^ distant e f rom Cairo and tho wilducsu of the country be would will ingly pans several months in the midst of these good folk in order to iearu the meaning of virtue In both the an cient and the modern sense of the word "One girl may have as many as from seven to fifteen wooers, who court and' flirt with her for a whole year In the sifcht of her parents. They not only visit her in the daytime, but re main at night near her dwelling to mount guard outside her room, going so far even as to keep watch within her room in order to be at her serv ice in case she should awake. "If she asks for water, as many calabashes of water are offered to her as there are lovers in attendance. Should she desire to pay calls on her friends the whole of her lovers offer to carry her palanquin, and again it is the aspirants to her hand who under take to anoint her with butter every morning The period of courtship lasts for a year, at the end of which period the beauty must make her choice. When she does so the un successful wooers go away to repeat their performanee with another girl." These maidens are black and, nom inally at least, Mohammedans, but in ' the matter of rights and liberties they have little to learn. The Shllluks of the White Nile, on the othor hand, are as far as possible from being Moham- j rnedaAs, yet their women have simi lar privileges. "With the Shilluks it is the women that rule the household, the young women themselves that choose their husbands and that, once married, as sume the post of command. The strongest and most 1ui(-headed man dare not beat his wife, forTte-tf ould be looked down upon immediately and would be unable to find a second wife to succeed his llrst. No missionary ef fort affects the Shilluk woman; it is practically impossible to convert her either to Christianity or to Islamism, for she Is the guardian and depository of the Shilluk traditions, religion and historical customs." ? Philadelphia In quirer. Zinc Has Big Place In War. Zinc i 8 bo essential in wartime that it ha3 risen enormously in price in the past year. Costing originally only two-fifths as much as copper, it now costs decidedly more than copper. In spite of the fact that copper itself has sharply increased In value. , Zinc is a constituent of cartridge brass and shell-fuses, and is used also as a covering for iron barbed wire fencing. In 11*13 the I'nited States, Germany and Belgium were the lead ing producers of zinc. Of tho three, only the United States smelted domestic ores. Belgium and Germany relied mainly on zinc con centrates that they imported from the Broken Hill mines in New South Wales, where, for one reason and an other. it does not pay to do the snieit lng. France, Spain and Great Brit ain also produce substantial quantities, but not enough to supply their own needs. Austria and Germany have consider able deposits of ore in Silesia. Hun gary. Carinthia and the Tyrol. As tho tine smelting furnaces of Great Brit ain are not well adapted for dealing with the Broken Hill concentrates it buys the bulk of its supplies from the United States. Save Your Paper, Says Uncle Sam. Save your old paper and rags! By bo doing, according to the department of commerce, vou not only will hr> en riching yourself to a certain extent, but will be aiding paper manufacturers to solve what promises to become a very r.cricus problem ? the shortage of raw materials. The department is sending broad cast letters to business firms urging them to conserve their old paper. Something liko 15 000 tons of paper are manufactured every day In the United States and a large proportion of this, after being used. Is thrown away or burned, with the result that Just so much raw material must be obtained Most of this paper can_be_u?ed_ again in the niauufactur? of a slightly in ferior grade. His Quest. "You say you are a wanderer over the faco of the earth?" we asked the shabby, sad-eyed man with the utterly hopeless air. "Yes," he answered with a sigh. "Seven years ago my wife sent ma out with a sathple of yarn to match, and I am still trying to match K." Diligent. "What has he accomplished from studying art?" "Well, he frequently' points the town red. ' * FOUND SOURCE OF REAL FUN ' 'W*I I I - #Mnjcs's Osruonstrstlon ?f extrav agance 8urpri*ed and Pleased at V; th? Same Tlm?. ':v y,. , v. "A ?ult Ilka the blue you e*n wear through |w? n?a?4>it(t." the wlMwoiimn said "Of course the brown Is a good suit. too. but It haan't equally fine lines. 'The difference In price is only five dollars " Eunice Morgan looked at the brown suit an It wat reflected In the mirror; her delicate brown were drawn togeth er In a frowu She had not been pay ing much heed to the saleswoman, but (he last words caught her attention. It suddenly seemed to her that all her life she had been buying the cheaper thing and being discontented with it when a few more cents or a few more dollars would have given her the Joy, of satisfied desires In her revulsion' against the constant fret, she declared to herself that for once she would have what she liked, no matter what else she had to do without. "Well?" Sally Penuock Inquired. Kunlce hud taken Sally along for mor al support ? which, being Interpreted, meant to tell her that the cheaper thing was the most becoming. Eunice drew a long breath. "Ob, I suppose I'm going to be wise," she said, "and I bate being wise." "Lirown la always becoming to you," Bally declared loyally. "I think you'll like it, Eunice ? truly, I do." liut when It game home Eunice did not like it. She liked It even less than she had at the store. She was stand ing before the glass with tears of vex ation in her eyes, when there came a knock at the door, and she turned to see Jennie Scott with her bundle of laundry. Jennie's eyes widened admir ingly. "O Miss Eunice." she cried, "isn't It lovely! Vou look beautiful in it." Eunice smiled. No one could have resisted Jennie's eyes. "1 wish I liked it half as well as you do," she replied. Jennie'B adoring face grew wistful. "It must be so beautiful to match," she said. "Some day ? " she hesitated and then went boldly on ? "some day, Miss Eunice, I'm going to have a whole suit. I have almost five dollars saved. But when It seems a long time to wait, I just remember that everyone's wait ing for something, and then, you know, I grow ashamed." Eunice looked from her own new suit to the shabby, brave little figure. "Jennie." she exclaimed, "1 have an idea! Will you come around once a week and mend for me an hour ? gjoves and skirt bindings and things? I'll gladly pay twenty-five cents a week, and that will be eight dollars to add to your five by next spring." "O Miss Eunice!" Jennie cried. As the girl's happy feet ran down the stairs, Eunice took off the suit. "For once," she said to herself, "I've been extravagant, and it's the best fun I ever knew."- ? Youth's Companion. Pot Shooting at Professor*. Professional Harvard awoke the oth er morning to find itself In the lime light, and many a professor who dropped into peaceful slumber the night before is scratching his head nervously and asking what can be done^ remarks the Boston Traveler. Two rather frisky Harvard under graduates had taken it into their heads to give the members of the Harvard faculty a bad three or four days, so Elmer Klsworth Hagler, Jr., spent his leisure moments in a month by drawing overzealous like nesses of some of the college's most revered professors, and prefacing each sketch with a bit of satire. Rob ert C. Bacon, *16, who received his degree in midyear, published and copy righted the book, which went on sale to a rushing business. Hagler has been in the eye of the Harvard college office before, for his clean-cut editorials in the Crimson, ofteu of a radical nature, have made him more or less a marked man, and his drawings and writings in the Lampoon have been a feature of three seasons. Bacon has Just retired as business manager of the lampoon. "Harvard Inside Out" Is the name of the harbinger of disquietude that has already created a furore at Har vard, and everybody that is some body at Harvard, save Prof. Adolphua Terry, gets a jab from Hagler. The foibles, eccentricities and vanities of more than a score of Harvard pro fessors have been hit off by the youth iui writer; and the undergraduates and public are having more than a quiet laugh and awaiting results. Alabama Coal. The earliest known record of the ex istence of coal In Alabama was made in 1834, but the first statement of pro duction in the state is contained in the United Slates census report for 1840, In which the amount mined Is given as 946 tons. The mines of Alabama wore probably worked to a considerable ex tent during the Civil war, but there are no specific records until 2870, for which the United States census re ports a production of 11,000 tons. The development of the present great in dustry really began in 1881 and 18S2, when attention was directed to the large iron deposits near the city of Birmingham. In 1914, according to the United States geological surrey, the production was 15,593,422 tons. Ready to Prove It. "I hear bad reports of you, my boy,'* ?aid a fond father to his young hope fuL "Your teacher tells me that yov won't learn anything at school." "That Isn't so, dad," replied the youngster. "I've learned to count up to a thousand. Now, Just sit down ant listen to me." Take a Jitney Joy Ride Here's a trip you will enjoy. The spicy road leads straight to the grocer man? and Zu Zu, the spicy little snaps that please everybody. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY FIVE TIMES IN MEXICO. When Stars and Stripe* Enter ed Southern Neighbor Before. once again as the United States cel ebrated Flag day old tJlory waved on foreign sol). Down In Mexico the stars and strijies are tly in&c over camps of A me lien n troops. For the fifth time in hlstroy the American nation Is engaged in a dis pute with her obstreperous Kouthern neighbor. No other nation on the fact' of tin? glols* has harras^ed onr feelings as provoklngly and as i>crslstently as Mexico. And the end is not yet Tracing the beginning of the trouble takes lis hack to the early days of Tex as. In 1820 Texas was a Mexican pro vince. The territory was originally in cluded In the Loulsinla purchase, 'but had been ceded to Spain In 1819 In the treaty which gave Florida to the United States. Among the emigrants who flocked to Texas in response to land inducements was a ha yd of Connecticut Yankees un der the leadership of Moses Austin, who rode into San Antonio in the fall of is*jo and coolly requested a grant of I land for a colony of Americans. His request was granted. , Slowly the colony grew. By 18.Tr> 15,000 Americans had drifted into it across the border. By virtue of their industry they accumulated power and incidentally aroused the jealousy of Mexican officials. This jealousy xeu tcred in Antonio Ijojiez tie Santa Anna. One of his first acts was to send an army into Texas to overawe the set tlers. The Alamo is a name that has be come a watchword of lovers of liberty the world over. Here in the strong hold of San Antonio Texans took their stand against 4.<?0o Mexicans and fought till they died, and died to a man. "Bcnicinbcr tie* Alamo!" became the slogan of the Texans. Under the lead ership of Sain Houston they met the Mexican* a few days later on the Im mortal field of San Jacinto and gave them the worst thrashing that any army ever received on a battlefield. The next time Americans carried a flag into this region was in 1S4G. when the Mexican war began. This was over the Texas boundary. Our Hag was flown in the Mexican breeze for two years, ami during the entire time our troops won every pitched battle in which they engaged, (ienernl Wlnfleld Scott marched into the enemy's coun try and wrested stronghold after stronghold from the hands of greatly superior forces. Scott then went to Vera Cruz, capturing that city and working his way to the very capital it self, where he raised the American flag to the breeze. Meanwhile, (Ieneral Taylor was sweeping into Mexico. Matamoros was j taken. Monterey followed ; then came Bnena Vista with its overwhelming victory. Soon after the beginning of our civil war France sent troops into Mexico to overthrow the government and estab lish an empire. Archduke Maximilian, brother of Franz Joseph, the present emperor of Austria, was to reign at it'; head. President Juarez, the full blooded Indian patriot, was ordered treated as a bandit. Our government refused to recognize the empire so long as it was supported by France. In July. 18G5, it empha sized its disapproval by massing troops on the border in Texas. 'Napoleon III. withdrew his troops from Vera CruE, leaving Maximilian to his fat?\ From that date until 101 1? -compara tive recent, history? all went well be tween the T nited. States ami Mexico. After Diaz came Madero. Madero's power was soon weakened. Victorians Huerta came upon the scene His ca reer as president of Mexico was mark ed by the murder of his predecessor. Madero. Now comes the memorable incident of April 1014. an insult to this na lion'* tin#. The t'nttcd Stntes government upon; helot informed of the Tamploo inei rlent ?leH?aiMled Kit Mpolutfy of Uut>)(4 in the shajH' of a sji 1 it 1 1* to the ting that hud. iHt'it ho unjUHtly insulted. But the val ute w'Hx not forthcoming. Then away went the lutttleshl|M to Vera t i ii/ {following the (Nvu|Mition of. Vera <"ru? active preparations for mobiliza tion were begun. General Frederick Kunstou was went with a |H>rtlon of the army for a march to the <*ity of Mexi co. llut the stream of events were turned in their course. A proposition cnuie from the A. It. <\ i>o.wers of South America, t'oiiipohcs] prMMpany ??f life "?ountrioN of Argentina, (W.ii ami Chile, to allow them, to mediate and settle tin* ?litll< ulty. This was agreed upon. The troops wore withdrawn from Mex ican territory and the hattlcMhlpM from Mexican waters. This bring* history \\soll nigh up to the m-ent raids on the Texan towutt. OflF Day for Beggara. It is pretty well known that a great many apparent cases of distress are fictitious, and at least four-tifths of tin* sheet beggars are lmiKwters* hut. it is to he ho|tcd that very few benevo lent |M?rsons are so highly deceived as the lady who recently Investigated the wants of some pensioners on her boun ty, "Where is the blind man?" she asked of a little girl she met at the door of the tenement house. "He's rend in* the pa]>er, mum." "Ah. where Is the deaf man?" "lie's talkin' |M>ntics with the dumb man." ' "And what has become of the ]u>ra lytic?" "lie's in bed." "That's strange! He ought to !>e running a race," said the lady, sar castlcally. "He is the only honest beg gar in tiie house. Why Is he In bedF' "Because he's dead." W. S. Chadwick, a mill operative and itinerant preacher who was sen tenced to serve fifteen years on the Greenville county ehaingang following his conviction in Greenville two years ago of killing Deputy Sheriff Lindsay made his escape from the gang last week and has m>t l>een re-t.*aptured. WHOLE FAMILY Ker IVt flayed Ih Ab?iult { Fearher hi Im Om For thirty -seven year* w? rviMtrtlux court ptouvdlHgn those lotiu years wc hiV| anything to touch uk with k grec of sadnesa, not even (bed tenee on a murderer, a* tfhi last Thursday, when summoned almost an cutliv fore him to receive seuteth* eourt for assault and Imttffy u ami WfKttiVattKl nature oft a young holy svliool teacher. ju Mtii's hsturo to thoui while i was do lie lu such a teu?U*r. way tlmt It touched the heart <*1 oho who heard It. lie sal<nt, most painful duty to hlia. had enough to ivass sentence negro, hut when it eoni** to sentence \i\nm a whole family , l?eoplc. w ho from hoth a inoftl tolllgeut standpoint, outfit to kn? tor than to commit such a d^j douhly painful, Hut he saltl * pathos and fooling "1 aw n<? sentence on you, Mr. (illbert, t\ family. ?0 flinch as upon the crlino that has heen eomwltti for the vindication of 1^ (t^ law aiid order. The sen tern* < court Is that Mr. Kills Gilbert k tliied at hard lahor for one yetn a tine of $500. Mrs. Susanutki lie cohflimd In the county J?U| year, or pay $500, Misses l Huhy Ollhert he confined In Jail six months or jmy a fli each, Jjawton ami Koton (W\m lahor for six months or pay t| $250 each." The Judge heard Mr. B. argument for a new trial lug sentence, which was n The defendants wore* let vu, pending ten day limit for an j the Supreme Court. ? Hist or and Vindicator. The year-old son of Mr, P. Kvans of Bowman, ... county, swallowed a medium ty pin ; last week. The chlhh to a Columbia hospital for and will probably recover. A new $10, 000 school bulWlagi erected at Chester. WOFFORD COLLE4 SPARTANBURG, S. C Founded in 1854. A Christian College with standards and ideals. Located in. the foothills of n Blue Ridge Mountains. Offers full and thorough courwj Strong faculty. Well equipped Laboratory Next session opens September 20th, 1916. and special information address Henry N. 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