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WZa Deserving of Pfitle "Seamcn'i Friend" V fluent among several of the PJ ^.riant maritime nations of I'',j il,i- I'llmsoll line, marking BSlktadlng Polnf for vessels. has hitu nnlversul use. It Rfjd,,- pterins of saving the lives r ,afl(jn af m'amen. Before Sain* l!^"UJ?oii Biade his stand for hu* wL, seaint'ii wore at the mercy of Kjrelly "vvn.'is who thought only Kp, of insurance. No thought of fpW|K) would go down with their ^ml tla-lr hands. ' ku en me Samuel I'llmsoll, "The 00-g Friend." He had been proshe had known disaster. Froin of rtilltienoe he had come to ^.0 lodging houses. In them he ^auien and heard their stories. rii roused to a great anger, and p (ml then took an oath that he (Id never rest until he had rethe villainy of the "ship-knack ^ knew Unit before he could anything he had to get Into lament. That meant money. Out pit of poverty he climbed, fie Irle'led to parliament and devoted energies to the measure he had psied for saving the lives of the pjo, In the face of violent oppou he prevailed and the measbecame? lawe-equlring a mark on ,loll Indicating the safety loading t prd "Camera" Derived From Renaissance Toy He primitive Aryan root "knm" j ml "to bend," and the Greek aera," derived from It. was used denote anything with an arched ?r or roof. Hence came the Latin Bera," meaning "a room," and ultltelv, through French, the English ! amber." A common toy of the rich Renaissance times was n dark room [jug in light only through n small i,which threw an Inverted linage of! I scene outside on the wall opposite This was called a "camera ob-'j ra" or''dark room." The problem the inventors of photography was j make permanent the image In the imera ohscuni"; hence the Instru>nt with which they ultimately aei|.lis!ie(l it was called a "camera." Exchange. ./ Scapegoats No one likes to be. a scapegoat. It not natural or normal for anyone carry the burden of blame that ould he borne and fueed by those 10 deserve it. I am not sure it Is not 'ethically ton; (or a person to suffer punishtnt that some one else ought to sufr. At least, It Isn't logical. The tiII; one, apparently, goes scot-free, </m't/iout the very definite discipline punishment, he is more than likely do wron? again. Sometimes we cannot avoid being scapegoat. There are those who In a superior position to us, and who, save their own skin, shift the blame r some mistake on to us. That Is a wardlv business. It is a mean trick foist a failure on to some one who unot he in a position to hit back.? chanc, Ri?e of Workhouse Boy When the visitor in Wales has seen 1 mines, mountains and music, he * to Denbigh, miles from diesr. to see at St. Asaph's workhouse, place where nearly a century ago poverty child called John Rowlands >t?aw the light of day. To be born * gloomy workhouse and reared to. as a child, unloved and unwu? not much promise for a Hut in later life he changed his to Henry M. Stanley and was ?Jn who found David Llylnfjstone IT" " " '? ?*?? unyine g.colein F the age. To become one of Mwld's greatest travelers and ex* ?as his destiny , and Denbigh >r Its own ViSlt f?r hl8 ^ake and also Gae.t, Brought Coffin. rre<|U|l?D1 ?f the Mlddle aKes was retch rr ! ? Party to Ininates of NorH for "l an<i) Great hospital, a hosletnm nien and wo?nen. When Wi" ZlVr nd.,n,tted ye*ra a*?. and i, bnng ft coffln- It was lej . 'r,^er, that the coffin was ?dft-),'la.ni,,,>nard ,n the cubicles, tcntlln S"n"' "f tho old Pe?P'e died *Z "f .U"r" ?? S'owndnys. I ??i. '. 8 ( each man and worn tflhCS 1 n C 1 . . -i t<> provide a shroud. The r ,^ar^'C'd ^onun>ent tees?"""Himcnt occupies the Manii' i. ' I'a,<0 Vlew cemetery, jlSV, ft.. 1 ! "f.1 ?--r'.000, was begun hme,u il *!:i,(,atod ,n 18W- The F^et in i SU 'l'Rh, tower N* o? There are five r? Garti,.i ! .",U1SI,I? dePfcting scenes K? ali?.L. 1 ,ie stal"ed glass itral of Dresentatlon of the tains tho,,:rt;H,, r A 80C0nd cn8kct dw, J ; of Mrs' ??rfleld, the A,f,\ who died In 1918. ScSoo! |, 1|125 Yefcr> QId |src',,?,'| Ilu,,'sit"" F'arolinum," oi In < !' <1)sn:ihn?ck. Which was 'fc . , ' "''einagne, has celehrat Htj.; >ind one hundred and ^ s; "iMversary. It was glv a "nlverslty In 1(W( t|1( ^ '"'j papal decree, bul ^yc:(.v to?^ OsnahrucI ,v' "r'T thoy dr?vc out the ^ nn i rhnr?o of the Insti H "gam bocanie a lilgt K American Family Names Doomed to Extinction Any American who wuuu to perDei " ll(1 fw,n!ly n,,,ne ? ?? ai.rnll hope success un)ens he tun give hie faultymore fertility In the mule line tlmu i? true of average American#. I' lg ures for mule uud female blrtha ""y".,,r * K * Hint IU'"-'e' 'r""' l-'nltfJ tlstkul depart men t of a life Insurance oinpany of New Vork city points out, llv w nU?Ule th? <?hailce ,hwl any fam have male descendants of the ?ame name In the first generation. the second generation, and so on as far as-*wiK cnride* the calculation. Even in ^|K, u,.st generation there , 0,,ly " V,l,y "><>re than an even chance that (the name will survive, for ubout half of the children horn to the average family Hre girls. ??d ,,ot enough hoys ure born to make anywhere nearly sure that the, family name will he curried over. "Among the grandchildren there Is only about one chance In three that the name still will persist. Among the K'eat-grandehlldren the chance falls to not muchk over one In four. "By the sixth generation there Is but one chance in five that the original family name still will be in existence. <>u this basis more than fotnvfifths of the families that settled In colonial America already should he extinct, which is probably a fact. After a thousand years or so more than HO per cent of the family names will he gone."? Literary Digest. Men of Genius Honored for Medical Research 1 he Italian Fubrlcus discovered valves In the veins In 1543. and this laid the way for the founding of modern medicine. William Harvey, horn In 1578, was for 34 years chief physician at St. Bartholomew's hospital. London. ^|8 discovery, and scientific demonstration of blood circulation revolutionized all previous medical theories. He was followed by John Hunter, father, of modern surgery and originator of skin grafting. A contemporary. Edward .Tenner, Investigated a tradition that dairymaids wore Immune from smallpox and as a result of Ids experiments with vaccines Innoculatlon was horn. In the Nineteenth century Sir Humphry Davy produced laughing gas as np anesthetic, and his Investigations along with Sir .Tamos Simpson's experiments upon himself in the use of chloroform were made known simultaneously with the first use of ether In the United States Clean surgery came at the same time when Lord Joseph Lister advanced the antiseptic principle, working on the discoveries of Louis I'asteur. Sir Almoth Wright made his contribution of vaccine therapy In 1800, while at St. Bartholomew's., basing hlk work on the discoveries of Pasteur and others. Cologne Impressive Cologne Is sometimes spoken of as the "Herman Rome," and contains a great number of churches, most of which are interesting, especially St. Marin In the cnpitol, the church of the Apostles, the Jesuit church, the Dominican church and St. Ursula's. It was founded as a Roman colony about A. J D. 51 and In 1025 celebrated the thousandth anniversary of the date since the Ilhineland formed an integral part of the Herman empire, with the exception of the period between 1700 and 1814. when the French were in posses slon. Viewed from the river, the city presents a picturesque and Imposing appearance, with Its medieval towers and buildings, dominated by the ma1 Jestic cathedral. Bobby Burns* Auld Ayr Ayr In Scotland today contains very little that Burns ever saw. but he probably passed or entered many times the old Ijin on High street, now called the Tara O'Shanter Inn. The tourist can get a good meal there. The real "auld" attraction however Is "the auld .. clay biggin," the ancient cottuge of two small rooms, built by Burns' father In 1757, which a trnmcar ride takes you to In a few minutes. It is now a Burns museum and about It are the fields the plowman poet tilled and where his songs were born. You should'also see the Doon, whose bonnle banks his songs have Immortalized for us all. * < Ancient Cosmetic* The chemical-pharmaceutical Institute of the Frankfort university has analyzed brown and white face paints . found In the vanity box of a Roman woman who lived some 1',f>00 years ago, and finds that their composition Is almost exactly the same as that of similar cosmetics today. The only dlf, ference Is that the ancient paints eontain particles of metal which have ! since been found to be harmful to the i skin. The box was found In n grave , of the old Roman settlement Nlda, near Frankfort. The Appian Way Tho Applun way of Rome, the an, clent Via Appia is tlie great grandslre of all good roads and of noble avenues, I which for ages has outshone the Unter den Linden and Fifth avenue. It , stretched from Rome to Rrindlsi. It I was built, by Appius Claudius in B. C. t 312 nnd was called the Reglna Viaruin , the queen of roads. Today you nmv walk It In Rome, flanked b$ Its great j tombs of the Scipios, Octnvia, Senecn and others. Fearful and Wonderful, These Colonial Dishes The "good old duys" of our Colonial ancestors hud many culinary high points, the contemplation of which leave* the modern American gasping, hvcit tlie nImple meal time beverages were given twists and turns that threw litem out of all seuiblance to the cocoa, tea and coffee which today's housewife prepares with such perfection. <'hocolute drinks, now among the most popular of all soda fountain beverages, fared the worst at the bands of the Colonial dame. Her favhrito variation of tills delicious wholesome drink was to put several links of sausage Into a kettle of chocolate and then hoj| it. Honored guests were served with bowls of chocolate In which hits of sausuge Moated. This bit of refreshment was eaten with a spoon. Incidentally the cocoa and chocolate industry got Its impetus soon after the Boston tea party. Up until that time hot chocolate had been served only on state occasions. Our forefathers and foremothcrs. too. were particularly addicted to boiling tea in an Iron kettle, draining o:T the liquid and serving the remaining "herbs" buttered, under the guise of a vegetable. The remaining "tea wa ter," us ,11 was called, was then consumed without milk or sugar, simply to help wash down the "greetuSf." Ugh ! Fanatical Moslems in Frenzy of Self-Torture Beating their breasts, scourging their bucks with chains ami cutting their scalps with sword blows, crowds of the Shluh sect of Moslems In Basra and other cities keep alive the memory of a great tragedy. Fourteen hundred years ago. In a battle on the plains of the Euphrates at Kerbuln, the forces of Htissain, trtvndson of the Prophet Mahomet, were extc initiated. Year after year tho defeat Is publicly mourned. Loud chanting is heard, punctuated h.v the rhythmic beating of their breasts by parties of 1.* or *20 men. stripped to the waist, who surround their leaders. The grief symbolized by the breast beaters Is repeated by the chain beaters. These ascetics lash themselves with n kind of cat-o'-nine tails made of chains. In the holy cities, during the first nine days of the month of Moharram. the swordsmen parade the streets and work themselves up to the climax on the tenth day. They form up in.huge circles, chanting and shouting their formula of grief for the dead Hussain. Each circle moves round In quickening rhythm until with a delirious shout the leader brings his sword down on his o\vn head. That Is the signal for all to follow his example. Colonial Mail The following Is from Elson's "His- i tory of the United States"; "The mail was carried by postrlders, who followed the main roads as far as there were any; on reaching the roadless settlements they found their way through the forest as best they could by the trails and bridle paths.*- The postman left a city, not nt regular intervals, but only when he received enough mail to pay the enpenses of the trip. The remote settlements were fortunate If they received mail once a month. Benjamin -Franklin was appointed postmaster general In 1753, apd he served about 20 years. He soon made the service a paying one to the crown. Yet even then the amount of mail delivered In the whole country In a- year was less than that now delivered In the city of New lVirk.ln one day." Buzzard Attacks 'Plane Various observations have been made on the behavior of birds when encountering airplanes, and not the leaSt Interesting of these Is sent by Mr. G. Abbey, Norton Manor gardens, Sutton Scotney, to "Bird Notes and News": "During the late autumn of 1930 the common buzzard was seen nbout hero many times. One day a ' ontbing airplane came over and was at once attacked by a buzzard. The bird flew over, under, in front, uud at every angle; just 1 opt clear; returned to the attack, and finally made off. and was out of sight In half a minute. The eagle-like size made it appear at first to be a Moth airplane attacking the giant bomber."?London Mail. Village of Blooms Boskoop. in Holland, is known as the village of the rhododendrons. Here the famous "pink pearl" was raised. Each house Is approached over the canals by its own drawbridge, and the average holding is about six acres, where bloom flowering shrubs and roses of every variety. The men work in the large nurseries, but find time to cultivate their own gardens, which have nearly ail been created front "made soil." T'.iev haw made the desert frtts to blor i :n as the rose, the azalea, the rhmhah ndron and a galaxy of other floral trees. Blockheads for Apprentices Appentlce barbers at Erunkfort. Germany, learn to shave l?y using strange looking blockheads. Since it Is difli cult to get customers for the young men who arc being taught to use the razor, wooden effigies of human heads ure used. These remain culm and quiet while the students go over them with their sharp instruments, says Popular Science Monthly* * * * Fall Burning Gets | 1 ecan Twig Girdler nerasun College, Oct. 21.?To control the pecan twig girdler all that is necessary m t0 gather the severed' branches and burn them during the fall and winter, advises Alfred Lut-1 ken, extension entomologist, who cau-! tions that all branches that have lodged in the trees, as well as those on the ground, should be collected. j The adult pecan twig girdler, which is a gray beetle a little over onehalf inch long, neatly girdles the! twigs of pecan, hickory and porsim-j mon trees during the fall, Mr. Lut-! ken explains, and deposits three to] 40 eggs in each twig. About three j weeks alter the twigs are severed, the tiny white larvae emerge from the eggs and begin feeding on the wood. 1 hey develop slowly during the winter months, but more rapidly in the warm weather pf spring and summer. In late summer, the adult beetles emerge from the twigs and soon begin the process of twig-girdling and egg-laying. Owners of pecan groves are warned by Mr. Lutken to take careful note of hickory and persimmon, and to cut out all such treoa near pecan groves, or gather the severel twigs and burn them each winter. * How To Prevent Diphtheria Usually from November to February there are more cases of Diphtheria occurring than at any other season of the year. About eighty per cent of these' cases are in children between the ages of two and five years. There are more than one type of the disease as shown by clinical symptoms when .the child becomes ill. Where the membrane is found on the sides of the throat or in the back part which is the pharynx, the diagnosis is quite easily made upon examination of the throat. There is another type which involves the lower air passage or the larynx which is equally as serious or more so since the membrane cannot be seen when the throat is examined. These cases present the usual symptoms of croup and the parent and | sometimes the physician is slow in announcing the diagnosis of diphtheria. Therefore, the safe measure to adopt is to give the antitoxin immediately. Each child between the ages of six months and six years should have the diphtheria toxoid or toxin-antitoxin. Neither as a rule, causes any reaction either local or general. The protection afforded by the administration of the toxoid occurs in about three or four weeks and that produced by toxin-anti-toxin is from five to six months. In the mean time, should the child be exposed to diphtheria, d& not hesitate to have it take the anti-toxin, since the two will in no wise conflict. The occasional death of a child in the county from diphtheria should serve as a warning to all parents to | have their children protected at once j from a disease that is entirely preventable, says A. W. Humphries, M. D., Director of Kershaw County Health Department. Man Accidentally Kills Himself' < Sumter, October 23.?Arthur H. Wilder, 50, fire insurance agent here, died instantly shortly after 8 o'clock .Friday moving , when his shotgun accidentally disoharged a load of bird shot point-blank into his ide. Mr. Wilder had been shooting rabbits which ravaged a flower garden he and Mrs. Wilder tended in their back yard. He returned to get his shotgun from a woodpile where he had left it. The second trigger caught in a nail in the.wood as he pulled it muzzle foremost toward him discharging the shot. Premier Pierre I^aval of France, arrived in New York on a visit to Washington to talk over international affairs with President Hoover. Premier Laval was given one of the greatest ovations ever extended to a visiting statesman to the United | States. The first thing that he asked to see was the Statue of Liberty, the gift of France to America. COATED TONGUE, BAD TASTE *T suffered from heartburn and xndlgostion. My tongue would get coated, and I would have a bad taste In my mouth. I had gas pains, and If I t elched it would be right bitter. My. moth -r told me to try Black-Draught, which I did. After I had taken a few doses, I felt much better. The. gas pains would stop, ray mouth would feel clean, and my food would tasto much better. I know that Black-Draught helped pie."? Hubert Dailey, Gaincsboro, Georyta. Insist on Thodford's ruA-t I Black* [Bramgltt So'.) bi druKRlsl% tn 2S# package* Hogging Corn-Beans Cays Beaufort Man Beaufort, Oct. 24.?An average i daily gam of 2.IS pounds per day for hogs and a return of. $1.11) per bushel of corn was realised by () H Bishop, St. Helena Island farmer, from grazing 07 pigs on ti 1-2 acres of corn and soybeans fgi 12 days, demonstrating clearly the possibilities of corn and bog fanning in ibis part of the slate, says T. II. Soubrook, county farm agent. "The 07 pigs weighed 0,000 poundwhen turned on the field and at the end of the period hud more than doubled their weight, weighing 12,332 pounds. A self-feeder containing 300 pounds of fish meal was put in one corner of the field/' Mr. Sea-' brook states, explaining Mr. Bishop's experience. "The yield of corn was 288 bushels i costing 50 cents per bushej. The! beans cost $8.40 including seed, and the fishmeal $8.70. The gain made I by the pigs on this amount of feed was 6,272 pound* and netted when marketed $344.10. Therefore Mr.i Bishop sold 2KH bushels of corn fori a profit of $183.00, according to records kept by Mr. Bishop, himself. The hogs, it must be remembered, did the harvesting, thereby saving further cost had this corn been gathered. "When wo consider the fact that corn is now selling for loss than 50 cents per bushel in this state, and that Mr. Bishop's net profit was 18 cents per bushel above the best offer we have had from the milling companies, these results are really remarkable," Mr. Seabrook concludes. Calvin M. Burke, 54, of Texas, was sentenced at Atlanta, (la., Wednesday to serve five years in Federal prison for using the mails to defraud. Burke's game was to marry women whom he had wooed through the mails and then defraud them of their savings. lie had marrjed five women from May, 1930, to May, 1931, and realized approximately $10,000. All! of the five women appeared against him at his trial. Asa Keyes, one time district attorney for i/os Angeles county, Cal., has been paroled from prison after serving 19 months of a ten year sentence for conspiracy to commit bribery. s Economy and Service In Portable House _______ ** Clerrison College, Oct. 24.-^A portable hog house adapted to the average farm mi South Carolina is being recommended by the extension agricultural engineers, who advise that proper housing for hogs, often last thing iu lk> given consideration in farm building, re*ults in better health for tin* hogs and a more sanitary fu mislead ( v> \\ Strouian, assistant ugricultuiul engineer, bus prepaivd mimeographed t iii utar No. 11 giving doscription and illustration of tho recommended house, the essential advantages of which are warmth, dryness,_ light and direct sunbglK, shade in summer, wntilution, safety and comfort, convenience, serviceability, sufficient size, durability, reasonable first, low maintenance and pleasing appearance. The house is boarded tight on three sides to provide warmth and diyneaa, while air, light and direct sunlight are admitted through the open front. A panel or gate ipay be used across the front to keep the sow and little pigs in at farrowing time. Being portable, it promotes a more extensive and economical use of forage crops, and a means of obtaining better sanitation by changing the surroundings, separating' tho herd and isolating sick animals. Such a house seven feet wide and eight feet long is light enough to bo dragged from field to field by a team of mules and can Ik* used for farrowing and later moved to the pasture for a shade or shelter. An Indian girl told the police of Lumberton, N. a story on Tuesday that will probably send at least seven persons, including her mother, to prison for a murder committed four years ago and long since written off as unsolvable. The girl's name is Lucille Commings, and her story was of the killing of Sandy Brooks. Following the killing, according to the girl, she heard her mother say to one of the men involved, "You've got the wrong man." Colonel T. L. Kirkpatrick of Charlotte, has been re-elected president of the United States Good Roads association, holding its annual session in Birmingham, Ala. fPiit an Tircston* Tires and get these extra values npHERE are lots of good reasons why your next tires should he Firestone. We haven't room to mention them all . . . hut just look at these three: , (1) Longer tire life. (2) Greater protection against blow* outs, due to the two extra cord piie? under the tread. (3) Longer Non*Skid wear. _ ANCHOR TYPK ? Super Heary Duty (iome in today?compare actual tire sec- j lions. See for yourself the extra values Firestone give* at no Vsxtra cost. j COMPARE PRICES Tirestont OLDFIELD TYPE ^(8p*cl?I r Our Brand Our Caah Mail Ordai Caah Priea Tire Prlea filae Each Pric# Each Per Pair i 4.40-21 $4.98 $4.98 M.6O i 4.50-21 f.69 5.69 ll.lO | 4.75-19 6.09 6.65 ia.90 5.00-20 7.10 7.10 18.90 5.25-18 7.90 7.90 IS.IO 5.25-21 8.57 8.57 1O.70 6.00-20.... 11.47 11.47 aa.io n.D. H. D. TRUCK TIRES 30x5 17.9S 17.95 94.90 32x6 19.75 29.75 S7.9? All Other Sizca Proportionately I.ow Tir*$ton* ANCHOR TYPE SUPER HEAVY DUTY - Special Oar Brand Oar Ctih Mall Order Oaeh Price Tlra Price 81*e Each Price Each Per Pair 4,50-20... tt.ff $8.70 4.50-21... S*7f 8.85 &?.?* 4.75-19 f.7? 9.75 it.fo 5.00-20 11.as 11.30 ai.fbl 5.25-21.. .11.9S 13.00 %t.*b 5.50-20. 13.70 13.75 ao.70 6.00-20 ...if.?o 15.25 a$.fo 6.50-20 17-If 17.15 33.3? 7.00-21 ac.if 21.80 39.IO All Other Sizes Proportionately I.ow ! Tlrtsfotte COURIER TYPE - Special Our Ilrand Onr Ca?h Mail Order Caah Trice Tire Price Slxa Each Price Each Per Pair 30x3 Vx $3.7S $3.75 $730| 4.40-21 3.8f 3.8*9 7.?3| 4.50-21 4.4$ 4.45 8.03 BATTERIES We eel I and ee price the complete line of, Fireetona Batteriea. We will make yon an allowance for your old hattery. Drive in and eee the EXTRA VALUE.; |._ ? -pt^J A "Special Brand" tire is made by a manufacturer for distributors such as mail order houses, oil companies and others under a name that does not identify the tire manufacturer to the public, usually because he builds his '"best quality" tires under his own name. Firestone puts his name on every tire he makes. Double Guarantee?Every tire manufactured by Firestone bears the name "FIRESTONE" and carries Firestone's unlimited guarantee and ours. You are doubly protected. CITY FILLING STATION J. C* GILLIS, Proprietor CORNER DeKALB AND LYTTLETON STREETS