Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A ln(rw in this newspaper Carolina8" V? es^bllslle,d in South Carolina, . V an Metre s stands as a Jwo features of our service will stand out when you visit our Columbia store?? the immense stocks of everything that is best in homefurnishings, and the intelligent service so helpful in aiding you to choose wisely. Van Met r e's u I ? r hp ? W9 ? , h jl, ir e i lmerurniture COLUMBIA, S. C. Barely alive from asphyxiation, Mrs. Tbwnas II. Nugent, wife of .the man j|?r of the Morris Plan Company, of Savannah. was found in the bath room it her home Friday afternoon. ' By her tide were the bodies of her two daugh ter?, Elizabeth, ;iged 10. and Hannah, 6. , Coming to life in time to attend her m fijoeral was the interesting qxperi n? of old "Aunt Mary" Callaavay, a xpo of Monroe county, Georgia. Aunt Iiry is an interesting figure because ike is roputod to be more than a hun THE BATHING BEAUTIES ARE COMING! dred years old and now she is doubly interesting to the negro population of ( this county by reason of the fact that she came to life just when relatives were arriving for her funeral and when the mourners were beginning to foregather. Berrien county probably holds the record for Georgia, at least in the age of a divorce 'as a result of a trial in the superior court last week,'. In the case of "Rose Brady against Jackson Brady, suit for divorce, the plaintiff, aged 78 years, was granted a final ver dict and her maiden name restored to her, and she walked from the court house with her freedom she remarked that she could probably marry again. Growth of a fox farm on Kukoi island off the coast of Alaska, from 20 animals to a band estimated to be worth $130, 000 has been described by Claudfc Green, a former tra?pperf prosecutor and miner ami i low one- of the proprietor? of the farm. The animals are fed a cooked matth of fish and grain. More than 01)0 foxes with an average market value of $185 for each pelt have been raised, ac cording to Green. Restoration of lie Carolina Special giv ing through service between Charleston and Cincinnatti over the Southern Rail road Lines, effective Sunday, November 9. was announced by the United States Railroad Administration last Thursday. I)r. Covington Lee, who was arrested Saturday afternoon on a' warrant issued by Coroner Smith, charging him with murder in connection with the death at' New Hope, Florence county, of Mrs. Bertie Anderson, wife of Mr.' Walter Anderson, has been released from thn custody of the officers on bond for $5000. I)r. Lee arranged the bond late Satur day afternoon. SSfie Most Beautiful Car in/bneria. "We do not make cheap cars for the simple reason that we have no faith in cheap materials or cheap workmanship. As we have said repeatedly, we believe that Pride and Self Respect have an actual market value, so we build these qualities into every Pai&e that leaves our plant. With such a policy there can be only one result. Our cars &o into service with an honest heritage and a limit less capacity for hard, &ruellin& work. They endure because they are fit to endure. They prove, day by day, that they are worthy of an honorable name plate and the confidence that has l>een placed in them. PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR CO., DETROIT, MICHIGAN CAROLINA MOTOR COMPANY Camden, South Carolin a WILSON'S WORDS CLEARJP DOUBT CALIFORNIA THROWS OVER ITS LEADER, JOHNSON. AND RALLIE8 to LEAGUE. WEST GIVES HIM OVATION All Doubtful Features of Pact Are Explained Away By Pre?lu?nt, and Former Doubters Hastor. to Qlvo Him Their 8upport. <By Independent Now* Bureau, form erly &lt. Clemen* Ny\va Bureau.) Aboard President Wilson's Special Train ? A continuous ovation along tho Paciflo coast and then on his eastward way back toward 'the capital was given to President 'Wilson as he came toward the end. of his month daylong speaking tour In behalf of the League of Nations. California, particularly the delightful city of Los Angeles, went wild In its enthusiasm for him and his advocacy of the League, and It was in that state, perhaps, that he did his most successful missionary work. Hiram Johnson, California's former governor, now her United States sena tor, and considered by he? as the most likely Republican candidate for tho presidency In 1920, had before the ar rival of President Wilson, convinced a great number of citizens that tho ! League as at present formulated was not a good thing. He had told them that the United States, because of tt? wbuld be drawn into every petty European quarrel; he argued that we would lose our sovereignty by joining with the European nations. He had blamed the president for assenting to the possession by Japan of the Penin sula of Shan Tung in China. BUREAU CHANGES NAME The Mount Clemens Newa Bureau, which has been furnishing reports on President Wilson's tour in behalf of the League of Nations to 5,600 papers, has adopted a new naipo and will hereafter be known W The Independent News Bureau. But Mr. Wilson, with clear logic and with compelling eloquence, answered to the entire satisfaction of Califor nia's people every objection which Senator Johnson had made to the League. And thousands of the state's citizens deserted the Johnson stand ar4 immediately and rallied to the sup port of the president. More than that, they came forward and said, "We were against you, Mr. President, .but you have cleared everything up and now we are with you heart and soul." Still more than that, they let Senator Johnson know that they were no longer with him apd that they disap proved of the speaking tour which he himself was making In opposition to the League and so powerful was the volume of public opinion which reach* e4 "him, that the senator almost Im mediately abandoned his tour. The Shan Tung question, because of the anti-Japanese feeling which undoubted ly exists along the Pacific coast was the most serious which the president had to answer. He explained to the people that he had been powerless to prevent the rich peninsula from being given to Japan. England and France, through a' secret treaty, had promised it to Japan for entering the war and remaining In It That treaty had to be carried out. Anyway it was not China that was losing Shan Tung, but Germany, which had seised the terri tory from China in 1898 and held it ever since. Japan had promised, the president explained, to return Shan Tung as soon as the peace treaty was ratified and it was only through the ratification of the treaty with the Leaguo of Nations Inclusion, that Chink could ever expect to get hei former property back. And she surely would get it back, he declared, through the ratification of the League. There fore, through the same instrumentality no other nation could again prey upon the "Great, patient, diligent, but help less kingdom." As to our being drawn into any European conflict. The pres ident pointed out that no direct action such as the sending of troops to any part of the world to maintain or re atore order could be t%ken by the Council of the League without a unani mous vote of the council members, therefore our vote could at once nega | tive any such proposition as sending our soldiers where we did not want them sent. Beside* Mr. Wilson argued, "If you have to quench a fire In Call I fornia you don't send for the fire de partment of Utah." But, he argued, there probably never Vill be another war, If the League la established, for the members promise either to arbi trate their difference and accept the decision of the arbitrator, lay the dif ferences for discussion and publica tion before the Council of the League (or a period of six months, and then, If possible, accept the council's advice. That failing, they agree to refrain from war for a further period of three months and nine months of "oooling off," the president contended, would prevent any armed conflict. These clear explanations satisfied every reasonable hearer and destroyed the "Bugaboos'* which Senator Johnson and others had taised against the League. Through rugged Nevada Into Utah, the land of Mormons, the 'president swept to find that tfcflW fine people were heartily with hfm for the League aad * |ar manency of Placet ? THE CR00KEDE8T RAILROAD IN THE WORLD. TIIK Mount Tamalpals and Mulr Woods railway runs from Mill Val ley, California, to (ho top of Mount Tamalpals ? the guardian of our fa mous Golden Gate, the entrance to San Francisco bay. This miniature rail way Is but 'JO miles long. The longest piece of straight truck Is 418 feet. It contains 281 curves. In one place the track parallels Itself tlve times In a little more than 8(H) feet? forming an almost perfect double bow-knot. So crooked Is this line that If all the curves were continuous, they would make 42 complete circles. It Is one of the most wonderful pieces of engineer ing on the American continent. The curious looking, oil-burning loco motive squirms Its way tall first, push ing tho train up the toftuous track, on a grade averaging six feet to the hundred, to the summit, 2,M>2 feet above the valley below. The reason for It all Is, of course, the view from the top of this peak | which stands on the very edge of the U. S. A. Here, the eye, In one far reachlng sweep, commands a panorama of mountains, forest, bay. island, city and sea, lying between the Sierra mountains and the Pacific ocean which, 'tlfi said, Is not surpassed from the summit of any other mountain peak In the world. Worth mentioning In passing, too. Is tho fact that tfie government record ing station here, shows more sunshine per day than any other recording sta tion t ii t*.is country. The return trip is made by gravity ?tin* train roasting all tho way down. WILL ROAR TOWARD GERMANY I Position of Sculptured Linn on Fa mous Battlefield of Waterloo Is to Be Reversed. The lion on the battlefield of Water loo is to fuce the other way, and before long It will stand with open, ponderous paws roaring silently, after the manner of your fierce but consid erate sculptured lions, toward Ger many instead of Frhnce. Fortunately for the quiet of the countryside the roar Is Imaginary or the lion would 1 long ago have become a nuisance ' whichever way he faced. The lion ?was set up by Belgium after the bat tle of Waterloo, und stood as a warn ing to France not to engage In any more Napoleonic dreams of conquest ; and year after year It looked toward France, while behind It Germany pre pared for the next effort to dominate other nations. It maintained Its atti tude while Germany carried through the program that separated Alsace-* Lorraine from France; but presently behind the lion's back Belgium began to fortify, and eventually left him In the ridiculous position of looking In one direction while the Belgian fortifi cations looked in another. A tame Hon, one might ?ay, roaring for the edi fication of tourists and with no per sonal feeling about' It. But now Bel glum decides to turn him round and let him roar toward Germany as a The Wonders of America By T. T. MAXEY solemn reminder of 1 1??* unwisdom of droAms of world conquest. THINK TERM 1$ . EFFEMINATE Some Tennis Player# Object to Word "Love" as at Present Employed in Scoring Syetem. Thorn is talk among the overlords of tennis or finding anotlior word than "love" to mean "nothing" In tho scor ing system, for, although it may sur prise many to hoar it, the game in some t linos spoken of oh effeminate, und this hit of terminology is hold re sponsible. Nobody has ever explained why "love" means "nothing" In tennis, hut there is a footnote in an old and rare hook about card-playing which refers to an old Scottish word which meant "nothing," and this, per haps, may have been somehow trans ferred into the game of tennis. Or, again, tho term may he of far eastern origin, where a word sounding like "iovo" was used In the old form of tennis that was once (popular in the orient. Whether or not the termin ology undergoes change, the game Is in no Immediate danger of filing off In popularity, and the repeated shout ing of these seeming endearments across the tennis net has occasioned much innocent merriment. ? Christian Science Monitor. Honor Cuban General#. Cuba Is to pay honor to the memory of General Maximo Gomez, the Island republic's military hero, by erecting a cofetly monument. A first prise of $25, 900 was^ awarded recently to Aldo Gaba, an Italian sculptor, for a model of the memorial, which Is to cost $200, 000. Second and third prizes went re spectively to Huertas Cabarrocas, a Spanish-Cuban, and Gutson Korglum, wn American. General Gomez became popular as the leader of the Cuban forces In the war for Independence from Spain, from 1805 to 1898. He hIbo took a prominent part In the Ten dears' war, a revolt which began In 1808. On the day of his death, June 18, 1905, the general's family was pre sented with a gift of $100,000 by the government of Cuba. At the conclu sion of the Spanish-American war, General Gomez was honored at a pub lic reception given by the American forces occupying Havana at that time. ? Popular Mechanics Magazine. Helium Gas Cheapened. Up to 1915 the total output Of helium gas In all the world had prob ably been less than 100 cubic feet, and It was worth about $1,700 a cubic foot. But Just before the armistice was signed a shipment of 150,000 cubic feet of helium gas was sent to Europe, and It costs less thart 10 cents a cubic foot. Helium gas was first discovered on the sun, by spectroscopy. It Is the best gas for use In balloons, because It Is not Inflammable. It Is now ex tracted from the natural gas of Texas and Kansas. * The method Is delicate and com plex, but Is based upon the fact that the prfnclpal constituents of natural gas liquefy when cooled to about mtnu* 329 degrees F., but that helium re mains a gas at that temperature, and hence Is easily separated. Titan 10-20 Kerosene Tractor THIS tractor is designed and built to operate from start to finish on low priced kerosene (coal oil), or distillate. It does ' more than simply run on kerosene ? it delivers its full rated horse power or does any kind of work within its capacity on any kind of oil fuel above 39 degrees Baume. What This Means to You It means that at the present prices of gasoline and kerosene in this locality you will save fully one-half your fuel costs over a tractor of equal horse power operating on gasoline. At Drawbar and Belt ' A Titan 10-20 will furnish dependable power in all seasons. For field, road, or belt work it can be used day and night if the case demands. It will do this work at the least possible expense because it operates oi\ low ~ grade fuels. It is worth your while to examine the record of the Titan 10-20* Find out what it is doing fojr others and then apply that to your qtwn case. Then give us your order bo that you can get delivery of your tractor when you want it. ~ -s r . ?? ? v SPRINGS & SHANNON CAMDEN, S. C.