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MAKE PROGRESS IN PHILIPPINES Woman Has Advanced in Profes sional and Industrial Life, Says One of Them. IS HUSBAND'S REAL PARTNER ?h*r.. With Him ?h. C.r.. .' ??'? nets, Especially I" l? ???????' A.p.ct*?Many Tak? Up Legal Profeaslon. New York--Mine. Do Veyri, wife of ono of the representatlvee of (ho Philippine !?!???<*? to t,H> United States, I""* recently beeni vliltlOlI wom en's clubs In New York city, telling what she bus already told the women of Washington. Thoy Imve tine ?y?*?""> of education, she ways. ??od schools, aud a high degree of economic uaefu ? nenH Mine. Oe Ve.vra wore, In giving her talks, one of the beautiful gown* of the Philippines, " delicate pine, apple fabric, band-woven and band embroidered, shaped like a gauzy winged butterfly. ?Things are made very easy fo* Hie Filipino woman In many ways, s Mj said "The professional opportunities are 'us good for her as for the men. Women are already members of he Philippine Bar association?something which Is Impossible for the women of ? Great Britain?they are In business for themselves* and they are success ful practicing physicians. Laws made for our women combine the best of Spanish and American precedents. Made Easy for Women. _ "Everything has been made much more simple for us than for either the American or Spanish women. Married women hold their property In several ty, and they are guardians of their own children. Of the property which accrues to a married couple, the wife \s half administratrix, and these ar# vested rights which cannot be taken from her. It la not unusual for the mother of n family to have not only a household leadership, but economic control. M. I>e Veyra, who Is Interested In history, tells me that before the Spanish came we had a matriarchal system, find this luis made the Plllp pino women gelf-rcspcCtIng and vnl "Of our U,i41 Islands, only 4(H) are Inhabited, the principal ones being Luzon, Mindanao and Vlsayas; jet even In rural little Barrios you will rind some sort of a woman leader. One old woman who has had seventeen children, thirteen having lived to grow up, and who has many grandchildren anil greatgrandchildren, still exercises full sway over the family, and has the last word to say In all financial affairs. The married children as well as oth ers look up to her, not only as a moth er. but as an adviser. "Women, when they marry, go Into partnerships wltjb their husbands. While the men handle the workers, the women attend to the finances, act as cashiers, pay the workers, and o\ei *oe much of the business. Tl?e,y have equality with men in everything ex cept in voting, which the governor gen eral has recommended in his messages 10 the legislature. When it was first recommended the women had ?1Hot made much of an effort to gain the vole, hut. tills year appeals came from he provinces and women's clubs and associations. lu 1907 there were only thirty women's ctuba, but now there are 807. A petition signed by 18,000 women was sent to the Inw-tnakers, who granted a Joint legislative hear ing on woman suffrage. Three Filipino women spoke. Two of them wt're prac ticing lawyers, and the one who was nnld to have made ilie beat speech was Mine. Omicepclon ('nlderoa, widow of ihe man who wrote Hie constitution of MsIIoIoh. Adept With Needle. "Mine. Calderon i* a successful busi ness woniiiit, owning a flsli farm and ;\n embroidery enterprise. This Indus trial problem has not readied the Filipino women to any great extent except through the cigar factories and In embroidery. There are, I believe, the big American embroidery firms in ihe Philippines. ntid one of them In Manila employs 7 in*) women. Kvery thing in the underwear business, ex cept the weaving of cloth. N done by hand; the hetnst ii thing and nen the seams are sewed.4by hand. ?"Women who have children and can not ?o to the factories take the work home ami are paid by the piece. I have heard of one of tlte^e workers, from a woncu vvli<? >> 11 s. n nnb'-fi'derv?blisi ness. V.ho ?-an make *i\ < hcinise* h day at .'!o rent* a ehemise. every sfttch by l.;ii I SUi- h;iv ^:i \ ?>?| ;i great do?il of n.i i . \ I.,-, |cx j i .ii?? i'i" hor . hlbb r'i "A'1 < > I i!ir p ? e i)ip!e ? I.?11? !?< mailf* t'V !} e in !' (?'( |i,i"ie. nil hand ! ... i - unci. !?? sui ..iiliu:u \ car ptiil'-r < 'i ? iv I,;::. ..f i| N >..*<!? ;f (v s!(?w work. :ilid li <? hh'i . <?: i ?! a?Tord to do It Any onc w 11 . a !?? I ,? jf i.nit gi \ ?* a "pp? :i o.,j.r i>..| ? e\|>?-n?i\e. "We :ir. .) ip die I'hiMp ? tti pin.: .- ? .1 lev i-l;i11? 111 In public tie.i t ? 11 ii-?*.) siii'es and day nur-ei-Jos and rh"> v. ortvn liave in iro<11wed :? p*iitt i -'.1 ring p an in BI1I bid at-d i>i Iff r ?? Mini *n?ey huV6 ?ntrr^Tr,. ? |T ?? ?l. ?? ? -:tron-> ajid ndns irial l. f.if i insane. ?*Tbe W ?n.an'o '"iub nf M^nl'a ii a ?ueno i>. .if !'.<k of VVonKn'a <'b4*. I'. S A . a;id How the A" oritur* a:T *? r '?* ?~tt7 ^nhr " BOTH SLIGHTLY IN ERROR Physician and 'lovesick Youth Were Al.ks Too Quick to Jump to Conclusion*. There'* a curtain physician In f<oe Angeles who admit* the Joke's en hiin. incidentally, he will shortly lose his 4ftttfbJUfcfe He tells It this way; "1 wus In inv study when the door was Hum,: open and lu came Jack, "i I know him well, uiKj^luHt u glance told mi- that ho was ^r from bring his usual Self,- Imfred, ho looked positive ly ill. "Without welting for him to speak 1 commenced an examination. His heart was Muttering, his brow was trwr iieni, his pulse wag racing. "1 sprung toward the phono, crying "vor in.v >li<iuMer, 'You're a case for the hospital, young man.' " 'Sure/ ho adtultted; 'hut you might have let me ask you firstT " 'A?k tue what?' I demanded lu as tonishment. " *1 want to marry your duughter,' ke said, and then I realized that I hsd made the wrong diagnosis and that he had iliiscoustrued my refer ence to the hospital."?Los '? Augelea Times. HISTORIANS HAVE NOT SAID df Course There Is Just a Possibility That 0rt. Patrick Henry Wat Unsympathetic. They were having one of the usual fuiully quarrels over his having been ?t a meeting at the Commercial club while she was "ut home all alone and ?o lonesome." "You don't wish me to have any city or country spirit, either," he Anally told her hotly. "I wonder where our country would be today If all the men who huve lived In It had stayed at home And pet tod their wives all their off hours an you are wanting tue to do for you?" "Well, the women always suffer," she retorted. ''Public men never haro time to appreciate their wives and sympathize with?" ~ Then he interrupted her. "Oh, that cry for sympathy" (he was angry uow). "I suppose that It's a nation old cry. I Imagine that while Patrick Henry was at the Virginia legislature making hIk famed speech, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' that Mrs. ? Patrick 11. was at home walling, 'Give me sympathy or give me death.'"? Indianapolis News. Shakespeare Down to Date. Justice Wayue, dramatic actress, tlruls an explanation of the question as to why Shakespearian plays, seldom win finun&al reward lu tfhut she terms Shakespeare's Inability to give Ids productions catchy titles. She sug gests a repertoire of the bard's plays recluistened to meet popular demands for stlmqlatlng titles. She suggests 'How Could You, Juliet?" as more ap propriate than plain "Romeo and Juliet." She also would substitute 'Call of the Flesh" for "The Merchant of Venice;" "Strangled In Bed" for "Othello; "The Nutty Princess" for 'Ilamlet f "Henry, Whom Do You Love?" for "Henry V;" "Big Dick" for "itiohard the Third;" "The Knife" for "Julius Caesar" and "Moonlight and Honeysuckle" for "Midsummer Night's Dream." The Cheerful Exterminator. On . moving Into our honeymoon apartment we discovered that it was saftly In need of the services of an ex terminator. With a bride's ignorance' of apartment house life and the club by ways of the cockroach, I regarded this as a personal disgrace, tuid took j great care to keep It a profound se- | cret from our friends. One day, while exhibiting uay shiny ? new kitchen equipment to a girl friend, I answered the back-door bue- ! zor, and there was the exterminator, ? Inquiring in a loud, cheerful tone, j "Well, how are the cockroaches?" . ( The situation reduced my mind to such a pulp that i babbled. "They're ' well, (bank you!"?Exchange. The Bite That Failed. As a rule the relations between Russians and Japanese soldiers in Si beria have been friendly enough. But j at a town on the Tflanslberlan railway, ' which had Just been freed from the foul tyranny of bolshevlst rule, h Jap anese soldier haled a big. staring tnoujik Into the presence of his com manding oflleer. "What has be been doing?" asked tin* colonel. "I gave lil in a cigarette," said the soldier, "and then he irled to bUe ine !" Kiss inc. evi?n between members of (he op posite is not a Japanese cus tom. ?4 M A GREATEST mm ?. >r-r Headland shoulders above the crowd stands Thomas A.Edison! Head and shoulder^" above (he crowd of .ordinary phonographs and "talking machines" stands Edison9s great contribution to the World's enjoyment? THE NEW DIAMOND AMBEROLft <<>* ** No product can be bigger than the brain that evolves it. No other brain in the world today has the inventive ability of Edison's. That fact alone is sufficient proof of the absolute superiority of the Amberola. But the Amberola can quickly and easily prove its own superiority. Its tone?oh, what a revelation, compared to metallic "talking machines"^ and shrill-sounding phono graphs!. Wone but Edison could work that miracle of tone, \ Then the Amberol Records, made for the Amberola alone! They are practically unbreak able and everlasting?what a contrast to thecostly fragileness * of other phonograph records. ^ And for range of music? the widest in the world?-all FREE T r 1 a I Offer We will place an Amberola in your noma for J Day' Trial, which will not put you under the slightest obliga tion or expense. Come here, select an Amberola and a number of records and we'll send them to jour home. At the end of 3 days, if you do not want the Amberola, well call and take H away. If you da want It, we'll ar range terms of payment to suit you. PRICES $41:2? & up the best, all the greatest, all the latest. An encUeas feast of fascinating melody. ; Yet the biggest surprise of ^all is the price/ This wonder / phonograph costs less than in lienor competitors! There is not a single draw-back to your ' owning an Amberola right now! Don't listen to the claims of other manufacturers?listen to their machines? Then come in and compare the matchless tone of the Amberola* Edison's wiz ardry will win you every time. We'll expect you in today? now don't forget. Camden Furniture Company, Camden, S. G. NEGRO FLEECES NEGROES Works The Old Pocketbook Game With Much Success. A one-armed negro swindler, who hu8 been operating in and around Spartan* hurg for a week or more, has succeeded in fleecing two prosperous colored farmers of the <?ounty oiit of substantial f*uma, says a Spartanburg diap&tch of Friday. !!<? fleeced Gus Pilgrim, of Well ford, out of $000; and he got $1,000 from Henry Sims, of the Glenn Springs sec tion. If he has succeeded in getting from others they have kept their I..KXCK to themselves. lie used the old pocketbook swindle. While in company with his victim he wouM pretend to find a voeketbook, and opening it, would display a large roll of bills. He would then pretend to count the money and announce the si?e of the pile at about what he figured his victim could raise. He would then propose that if his victim would give bim half of the amount supposed to be is the pooketibook they would divide the find between themselves and keep the matter a secret. Ous Pilgrim thought so well of the scheme that he went to a local bank and drew $(>00 of his savings and turned it over to {fee strange negro. The stvau jeer tlun made some excuse for disap pearing for a few minutes and Guk hadn't >*een him since. Henry Hims didn't have any money in the hank when his new friend "found" the fat i>oeketbook on the street, but he had a lot of eotton at home. He drove home ami got the cotton, sold it and Rave the stranger *? cool thousand dol lars of it. He had been led to believe that then- was $2,000 in the poeketbook. The stranger took {Tim's money. (Accused biiiitclf for a moment and Sims has heeu hunting ever since and has asked the police to aid h~fip in the search! Up to last night the search had l>ecn un Huccewrful It is said that the swindler is a uiu Tf Ho and is one-armed. He is evidently one of the fllckest negro swindlers that nver cajne tbk? way. ' U Majestic Today D. W. Griffith's "BROKEN BLOSSOMS;' Honor Koll for Pleawuit Grove School. ? First grade?Maldonio Melton, Myrtle R<>hin?oi?, Geneva Young, Corbett Young, Ernest Bradley, Carl Ivee Ray, Carl Spear Leroy Elliott,. Charley Ray, Clyburn Peach. Second grade?Lottie Peach, Janctte Young, Shcorn Thompson. Third grade?Wess Spears, Albertus Robinson, Ernest West, Corson Elliott. Fourth grade?Marvin Elliott, Molitc Spears, Emmie Young, Lillian West. - Fifth grade?Annie Ree Baker, Max well Thompson, (Hyde (Cornell. Sixth grade?Shannon Walters. Seventh grade?Ruby Cornell. _ Eighth grade?Claude Thompson. NIntbgrade~-d?rls?kinc Thompson, 8m D. W. Griffith's : "BROKEN BLOSSOMS" At Majestic Tofey Why fl? W?b Contented To Q*. An uncanny prediction is reports an Iowa paper. "Shortly before came", runs the obituary, "he his hands and said that everything w* going higher, and quietly and peaceful be /ell asleep."-?Chicago Tribune, Vf ti*ni folded JW? DR. WADE HAMPTON * Osteopathic Physician 9 Liberty National Bauk Buillinf Colombia, S. O. ? In Camden at Commercial Hotel every Sunday from 7:30 A. Af. to 11 P. M. Leave Calls at Commercial Hot*! * Ill ? t