Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ft* ■ ««>? .^.te^iv..-. •** av,a. •.: i:. : M :“k . . I,- > ‘•mhK V 7*'**M*WWNt*e«0C. -■ ■^—i p i 7-VAh V 4-— •■ r- ^SK- t- • .^- '.n ' f r --. AadMl KectHt Atat B4t1n Beiag •* • hmiml *■ Ehretydaj Affatra In Ctty \jon% An- Indatlnx Birth of Christ—The Arahtu Canal Pnlly Besrrihed Importance of the Waterway to Welfare of the People. correspondent of TW <C»ndon gives some Interesting de- store of cuneiform written talAets recently discovered at the an- clegt town of Dyb&t, near lialiylon. tablets tell In graphic manner story of the citizens, their busl- transactions, disputes and ev- ay life. hey are not the usual royal edicts records, but what may best be ed family archives. They re- to a very early period, being tly dated In thesoalgna of, the ■ecessors of that mighty mon- Halnmurabl, who codified the ylonian lawe, and a° "ere com- id at the period (rni5P"flfsT naby an dynasty. r 0l m'wmmmntj previd|telyj|ec}|diKr^l rtffciencte the roiords of Babylon *e now that Dtlbat was a small Baby- tan town on that great master- ce of Mesopotamian engineering, Arahtu cantfl. 'The canal," eays the correspond- "must have kept near to the at river Euphrates, for It washed southern face of Babylonian's parts and upon it opened one of great city’s gates dedicated to god liras. It led away south- rd to Dllbat, which, as the newly nd records Inform us, was built between tAe Canal and the Euphrates, fir son»e of tihe tablets refer to pieces at propdfty tn land or htruses, de- Jrlbed as within the city or its sub- be, as bounded by ,the river, an'd hers by the canal. As the present gjQlJlMlA 4A d^trlct will not re veal the site of tKelr find we unfor- tOTBfeltT^do net yet know precisely where Dilbat stood. fVlM' Arahtu canai not only wat ered. thff «oll and so prottniaed the crfji, borcarrled upon Its surface thf harvests It had created. Thus ; j fiorni CAROIJMA NOT 80 TEN- DEB WITH CHIMIN A Iri. Many More of Them Are (’/onvlctwl and 1*11111111^1 Than 1h (ionerally 8iip|KMe«l. Notwithstanding the charge brought against this and other Southern States without due consld- erat'on, that convictions are rare, eafwwUHy In murder ease*, tb* re ports In the offlce of Attorney Gen eral Lyon do not bear this out by a great deal. On the other hand, convictions In murder cases are frequent In this State, and by comparison with other Southern Staten, South Carolina is way In the le; •. As pointed out last year In this correspondence, the pei- centnge was about 50 per cent. This year the number. In mur der rases, has been about 4 0 per cent. In the case of manslaughter there has been but one verdict of “uot guilty," according to the record and there were 51 convictions In the year Ip 10. There were 205 murder cases in 1910 in this State. Of this number 10 "ro bills" were returned; 103 were declared to be not guilty and S3 wre convicted. .w^-'or ^a•slaughter, there were 52 HINDIS are; being used in the COTTON FIELDS. REAL TEST OF LOVE DOROTHY DIX GIVES THE GIRLS AN INFALLIBLE KILE, !ca*e.M, irf^udlBg one acqoittaj and 51 -convictions. Thirty cases were brought for ar- .son, and of this number eight con victions W^re had. The convictions In cases of assault :nd battery with Intent to kill and aggravated assault were large. There were brought 4 SI cases and 298 were declared "guilty;” 83 "uot gej'.y," and too cases were dl a - contlnued or "no bills" rendered. There was one conviction under the Cotton Tare Act of 1910. Thla was the case that went op to the Su preme Court from this county. Housebreaking convicted 235 out of 3 11 The good old practice of larceny esught 219 out of 276 cases and con vict'd them Out of 32 cases of criminal assault 16 convictions were secured. . For violations of the dispensary law, there were 407 cases and 2 16 conviction® were had. . It Is danyeroiiH to disturb religious worship In this State, for out of eight cases ei'.’ht convictions were secured- A California Woman Claims to Have Solved the I-abor Propoaitlon to Her Hatiafartion. Mrs. 8. P. Wiles, a wealthy resi dent of Los Angeles, Cal., who has several thousand acres In cotton thereabout®, ha® solved the labor problem to her own satisfaction by enrptoyiTig Hindus. She spends much of her time on her plantation super intending the work, and she says the Hindus do their work well and cheer fully. Mrs. Wiles has already met with difficulties, not the least of which Is the feeling of antagonism among the whites toward her Hindu cotton plckere, similar to, though not as strong as, that felt against the Chin- eee and Japanese. Mrs. Wiles Is the only cotton raiser in the valley em ploying Hindus, and the result of her experiment Is awaited with In terest by others who are bavin* their own troubles. Rotvert E. Goepel, of Port Gibson. Miss., whoee family has been raising obtton for paany years on their plan tation In Calllvorne county. Mississip pi, is at 1.0S Angeles, arranging for the building of a cottonseed oil mill. HCj-Btlrks to the old Southern ne- froes and will use them on the big plantation his family has purchased there. "Negroe* on our plantation in Claiborne county will be brought here as eoon aa we can begin plant- la? cotton," he aald. "The boll weevil has written the doom of cot ton In Mississippi. The planters are moving away. I know of a number of planters who have bought land in Imperial Valley, Cal., and they will bring hundreds of negroes from tin- old plantations to work the fields “A few year® ago Callbotne county yielded 27,000 bales of cotton In a season. The last crop was only 4 - 500 bales. At one time the Port Gib son oil works crushed 40,000 tons of cotton seed a year. That has dwlndb-d almost to nothing. The passing of cotton In parts of the South Is a tragedy which the planters do not know how to meet. The ne groes know cotton and cotton alone; they will not tend any other crop The only recourse is Immigrat! in. and the planters when they t-ml rate Will take their negro workers with them." classified COLUMN Lee’s Headache and Neuralgia Remedy. For 8*1®—Pure King Cotton S«ed at Poultry Yard, Darlington, 8. 3. For H*l®—Pure King Cotton Seed at $1.00 per buahel. Address, J. J. Littlejohn, Jonesvllle, 8. C. For Sale—Eight hundred bushels se lected Red Rust-proof home raised seed oats, at 60 fents bushel. J*. fM Slmmons, Mountville, S. C. A. - • — ... w _ - an 41d tebt says ft was the 'brlnger of the life to Rftbylon.' Dllbat was probably the great south®™ graneiy for the capital, for Hammurabi, In hit long autobiographical panegyric bfotts that he extended the planta- tfeas of Dilbat and accumulated corn for Ip.' j" “When the Arahtu was first con ■irteted It would be difficult to say, fi lt® benefits to their people nnTked kings always to keep it In re- pnft. and vice versa, Invaders of %ihylonta In war time damaged It I * preliminary to atarvla? out the (tal. * ,< The special deity of Dllbat was 5>, probably a shortened form of Ntnip. and his temple was called Hub! Anum, •Proclaimed of Anu. There wa® a city wall coeval with the foundation of the city, and restored hf King Sumu-Abu, predecessor of Hamnuirabl. The town appeals to have poa®eased three harbors or dice and a market, and one can tmag- iae the busy hUm of commerce upon its streets and wharves. • "The documents respited from Its mint almost hll concern the sale or raatlag of houses and lands and ••Ida or the htrw and pare base of eattle and cropy. Dllbat being the Water of a rich agricultural district The terms ejnployed are common to all the Babylowhra . -ettlefc*^t*The * ground add ' the" houses are clearly defined by the enumeration of neigh boring properties and the names of the reader and purchaser, and at th< end of the bargain the deed discloses comae the oath sworn before the god of the city in the temple and also an invocation of the relgnlnr king. The eerlbes also added a clause AH RENTED FOR Ml'KDKK. WIDOW'S CLXIM DISI'l TED. Two Negro®® I/odged iu •1*11 In For Killing Two Women. Two negroes were brought to Or angeburg Tuesday, evening and lodged in lall charged with the mor der of the old woman and her niece found in a tenant house that wa, burned on Mr. W. I. Dellavs' pine* In the Providence sect lea last week It will be remembered that the char red renmins of the two women were found In the ashes of the house It now turns out that they were mur dered and the house set on fire to cmwea! the crime. W'e do not know what proof there Is that the persons -ommitted the murder Orangeburg Times and Democrat Train Wreck. More than twenty passengers were Injured, several seriously In the wreck of Southern Pacific train No 10, east hound, near Palisade. Nev . Tuesday evening Seven of the cars left the rails and were tumbled In a confused mass of twisted steel and Iron. Rock Fell on Them. At Birmingham. Ala , Frank What ley, boss at the Songo Ore Mines, and Riley Dumas, a colored con- ra< tor, were Instantly killed Tues- 1 ay when a roc k fell on them while they were at the bottom of a slope. "l ■ .re placing the ones of any subseuent dis- jUite of the deed upon the seller. ‘For all the contests concerning the property A.'B.) la resixinBlble.’ Fin ally follows the names of the wit nesses. and often also the scribe of the tablet, and generally several sig net* of the persons concerned. "Legally the vender should always seal the tablet, but If he has not a signet then some or all of the wit- neaaes applied their®. Properly apeakIng also, the tablets should have beefc in duplicate. The first was in- ■erttiMl iiBd baked and copied, then a cov|r of soft clay placed over or mroibd It and the document re-en- gro®sed upon this cover from the ebj^io that It could be referred to at fifty time by paying the required feept the Becord^offlce. case of a dispute a® to its ac- y for an extra sum the outer tope was broken and compared Its Interior duplicate text, and litigant who proved to be In er- ,In hla allegation that the two oa were not Identical paid a considerable forfeit, and a now outer ca®e was placed over the original tablet and retnscrlbed. This pro cedure la mentioned In the Old Tes tament a® Inqulrljfig of the outer and the inner taiblet of a deed. - The fellihln with their picks and shovel® have, howerer, broken most of the outer covers of the Dllbat These methods for the Hljfrr^TT me- ormahtlea to en- be cited as ‘evidence’ rtf. the shifticlpal in on* case, at least, .t|rj«flge):WerjiLolin- «t other contemporary dftkh,* bat tlley posse*® phraseology, pro- hie own type school of scribes and solicitors doubt less crowded the shady corridors of Us temple and the halls of the god's tribunal. ' v ‘ Truly its properity was but a re flex of that of Babylon, but the city's existence was not ephemeral, for it Behold, Another Arises and Compli cations Follow. The St Matthews correspondent of The News and Courier savs the office of J C Redman, Probate Judge, Cal houn county, presented an animated scene Monday afternoon and remind ed one of a miniature Chicago Di vorce Court. Frank Simpson, col ored. a holder of considerable val uahlo real estate near Gaston, dl-d about s' x months a <>. without a wil. Me stood high among the whites and there was no evldi nee of t he sllghtc.-t ripple iiiion the domestic waters. He lift a snug Insurance policy to "my wife, Vlcey Simpson " A law- ver appeared iijain the scene and for bade Mr. Symmes, the Innuran agent paying the money upon the ground of a newly dls ovend wife by right of priority. The company unsympathetically pro'-e*-ded to p the money as directed The wHe, of old. then instituted legal pro eedin... to oust the late widow, in showy weeds, as administratrix and heiress of the old man's broad acres. The lawyers concerned in the caKo are: A H Moss, of Orangeburg, and A \V. Holman, Mann and Sta bler. of St Matthews. The case w ..s hard fought and the Judge feels keenly the responsibility of being an arbiter In such affairs, he has reserv ed his ' decision. Such cases as this Is somewhat unusual in these parts, but they hob up occasionallv How to IHstinguish Between the "Near” Complaint and That Which is (lironio, A young woman, says Dorothy Di\. asks me If I can give her any reliable recipe by means of which she can diagnose her own feelings and tell whether she is In tore or not. She say® she Is engaged to be married to a nice young man, but that she does not thrill at bis approach as the be roes of novels do under such circum- stanees, and this leaves her In doubt as to the real state of her feelings. Firet, I should say, by the amount of a man's yawning. A poet has said: ‘Tnless you can muse In a crowd all day on an absent face that 1 has fixed you, then never say you love.” Rats! Anybody can muse on> an absent face. It's the present face that is the trouble, and unless you For Sale—Utility Rhode Island Red can spend, say, a long, hot, summer | Cockerels, $1.50 to $2.00. Flue day In joyous conversation with a man, and still pine for more of his society when it is over Instead of | feeling that you are a Candidate for rest cure, then you may be ver> sure you are not in love. The second test/ls to call a halt on : the love makitvk, and see if you'll 1 like the man ns well when he Is di»- Cuselng the political situation, or the financial outlook, as you do w-heu he Is telling you that you are the nio-'t beautiful creature on earth, with the most fascinating ways, and that he fell In love with you at first sight. All of us, little sister, just warm up to a man while he is fiatt- ring us. an a kitten snuggles up to a hot tirifk. Unfortunately, however, tie- language of matrimony is not couched in complimentary terms, and the question is whether a man has a charm for you that will make you hang upon his utterances, no matter what he says, or whetlur you merely enjoy him because he jollies you. A third test of love Is to be found in whether the man, alone, is so' ticlcnt to you. or whether lie has to be perpetually offering a ehromo with himself, to get you to take him. if you prefer spending the ev nin s with him, quietly conversing in the back parlor, you may be sure tha' you are hard hit for k*eps. but if vou like him best when lie is taking you to the theater, or out to supp*-. or doing something else fur ><> -r amusement, you ar>- not g--iuiiiei_. ;n love You care more for Hie g od Safely Surely Speedily For Sale—Eggs from pure bred White Plymouth Rocks, Flshel strain. Price $1 50 per setting of lf> K. H. Patrick. White Oak, S. C. ik You fan Make IHg Money selling portable fence right. Every far mer needs it Write B. T. Stam- baugh, Woodsboro, Md., for par ticulars. Eleven Kentucky Jacks, twenty-one Jennets for sale. All of my own raising, with guarantee as strong / as can he made. J. W. Riley, Gracey, Ky. Took, $5.00. One excellent Irish Pointer Dog, $50.00. W. B. Pear son, Strother, S. C. For Sale—S. C. R. 1. Reds, White and Brown Leghorns, Black Lang- ehang, Plymouth Rocks. Egg® for setting. 15 for $1. M. B. Grant Darlington, R. C. Cures Headache and Neuralgia no matter what the cause. Numer ous testimonials on file in our office bear us out iu this statement. Read the following: 1 I have been a constant sufferer from headache for 12 years and could not get any relief until it had run Us course or take morp ne. 1 tried Lee's Headache and Neuralgia Remedy and found permanent re lief. I heartily endorse It as the best thing 1 have ever tried. (Signed) H. A. GANDY, llartsvllle. S. C. Sold evervwhere. Price 25c and 50c. Manufactured by Burwell & Dunn Co., Charlotte, N. C. Full st--'ck Barred Plymouth Rocks. White Sherwoods and Rhode le- biiid Red chickens and eggs for aab- Address Mrs. Mary E. Lit tlejohn, Jonesvllle, S. C. S. ('. Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn eggs for hatching. None better, few as cood Satisfaction gv ir infeed. Write for prices. Bayslde Poultry Farm, Guyton. Ga. The Little Tell Tale which tells the Truth. A complete egg record of the day, the week, the month, and fin- year Price i op Address, Mrs. M. B Roberts, Dade City, Fla. Fight to ten dollars week made, spare tim-\ man or woman, each local vy, attend adw rfising material, make reports, represent us Ex- v h inge Agency Brokers, Ixandon. t 'anada. Girl or Woman—ea h locality, good pay made acting as represet. t ve, ad lr-ss envelopes, fold, mail circulars, material, stamps. fu« times he gives you than man. !o t t; nisbe.) free Rex Mailing \gencv London, Ontario. Talked to Them Straight. Senator Owetl. of Oklit.o'1.1, the Republican- Hi Hie Sena'e straight talk when the sii sid> was u tnler discussion ’ n t n i • In a forcible, lutin* speech a. ttie measure he advised Hi- S to adjourn and go lioiio-. Thi.- gress has aeen repud: it- d -v American people ' said Senator Owen, in a clear ringing voice ■.nil yet it cotitinin s in -e-s -n m an effnrt to put through di-cr" lit H legislation like the sl.-p s-lb-'t-iy tel. The people repudiated l he ; :.i : v i:. po w er because of i ’ s a d v M. a gave Meal -Oil .i:\-t n a - coll t tie I or Sale—Whippoorwill Peas, $2 . p» r i-hel Clay Mixed Peas. $2 20 per b'l-hel Ripper Mixed Pea ' _’•> per bus>'el Write for prices in Urge quart .ties F. A Bush t 5. . Pres' m. (ia I rop-j < ti ed—.Snor'. ness of breata r> lieva 1 t. 3'6 to 4 x hours Re duce- sw ••'! ng in 15 to 2u days ('.11 or write Uoll .m Dropsy Ram- vlv Uompaiiv Dept o 51;’ Ante!' Uldc \t in’a Ha. make good monev. Write at once for prnpo-it Ion to L. B. alariin. Box 110, Richmond.. Ya. In order to introduce my high grade Succession Flat Dutch and Wake field Uabbage Plants to Dios- who have not used them before 1 will give with each first order for a thousand plants at $1.12, a <b“- lar's worth of vegetable and flower seed abs lately free. W R. Ham. Plant Grower, Enterprise P. O S. U. If you want more mom y for your cotton crop, plant "Acme Upland Long Staple \' rv productive superior staple Two babus i l"2,i lbs) this variety sold in le-sron. Nov., 1 9! it. for $2 x I 5 2 Seed $ 1,5b per bushel, 1" or more bu- • els, $1.25. Add r* -s A M Hug gins, Lamar. S U Ref rein e Merchants & Planters I’.ink. La mar, S. (\ Wanted—Every m w n. in an! rt i!d in Sou’h U ’-o' n.a to h ni.w that the " M o" brand of Sa-h Doors and Blinds are Ho -. ; are made only y t he lugns a Lumi'-T Uorii-i my who •• tn-.r'o ture everything m Lninber and Mill work and wHio-,. a.i-i : word "Duality " Write A itu.-t.i Lu... her Companv. \ ig'ista. 'b-orgia for pric-s on .di . order large o; Htil II11 Manager Frank J. Shaugh- * nessy, of the Viririnia League Champions. found Noah’fi Liniment best for Sore Muscles bruises, scratches, stiffness. One trial will convince you. Noah's Liniment penetrates. Requires but little rubbing. Here’s the Proof "T have had orraslon to use Noah’* Liniment on two of my players' arma, anti the ruHult wrh moM gratlfyin*. Both were Immediately relieved of aore- nees an<i aide to resume throwing with Lhelr former speed Have alao used It myself, and consider it the best lini ment I ever tried It Is flne for brulaea, scratches, stiffness, etc Frank J, Shau*hnessv, Manager, Koanoke Cham pions, Koanoke, Va. ' Egg- Bar red UUmoith K<i k- l*lv mouth Rock j. Uo •• f :..i) Red- A'k’iowb-ig I to fe three tie-t g- to r i! p it'po-e vet (lev e'o ed ( i i r ; ■ ' - i r- po8*'d of the ere', 1 ': of I I -I - stock . till Side t w ' h f'- e ’ of keening p our wotld t' • I t _ I Hus \Oted It Out. The Circus Owners' Association has voted that billboard advertising is no good and that its members will use the newspapers exclusively here after If the b'llboard does not give comnn-nced with the first regioii* °f .the circus satisfaction, what val ie (he great neighboring cities' Kings p haV( , for any one at . iU * It md endured until the Persian era. emphatically is an eyesore and a pub- "The majority of the tablets found often merely register plots areas or locations, for most of the litigation was alxnit boundaries Others, how ever. are for loans or hiring agree ments. one being for a period of ‘hree months only. Huzutum hires a bW from the great tempt! gods of Sippara, Shamash and Ala for a year. Dbuhtleae the Joint deities had a ahrlne at Dilbat and a farm for sac rificial cattle and did a thriTing trade In stud cattle and rams. "People also hired out chariots and agricultural implements, but loans were mostly in money and need corn". The Interest for the latter sometimes affiounted to 3 6 per cent, but it was payable In kind out of what it provided, and if the farmer had parted in the previous season with his reserve of seed, because of a specially high offer for it he could afford to pay such interest to obtain a fresh supply. “Some deeds concern the hiring of harvesters, and they were often reg istered before the engagement ma tured by th^ cropa ripening. A clause was therefore inserted that If the mflp conttaeted for failed to ap pear Uj! farmer could hire others at '♦he prlOP P® ,d t* 1 ®* hy th® King or t^i* own estates, and It may be~prfliumev that the p*rson who had promised to a^PPly the men made up th* differ esc®, £ *“*• "Such was Ufa Dllbat, about ?.«00 yean before*the ChrlatUn era. aa revealed iiy the a®*’* 11 tablet* that the patUftt IndooUV' ot mAny^n- «■ cotapantlTely an ftftJJect* have for Uua lo# lie nuisance in various other ways. When the average person became able to read Its end was near at hand, Held for Court. Geor.-e Anderson, leader of the l»atid which held up Southern ims- sengcr train No. 36, near Gainesville, was committed to Jail there by Judge Slm« in default of $10,000 ball. Charles Hunted and James Hanford, other bandits, who have confessed their part in th# rotTbery, waived the preliminary examination. Handita Not Found. A Gainesville, Ga., dispatch says two poeses of the three that went out Id" search of the five men who on Sat urday morning held up and robbed Southern passenger train No. 3 6 near there, returned without having discovered a trace of the hold up gang. Killed in Wreck. A railway train jumped the track on a bridge near the American Bra den (Topper mine in Chile Friday and plunged into the ravine below. Fifty persona were killed or wounded. Sev eral Americana are among the wounded. Entire Village Dead; A telegram from Harbin reports the gruesome discovery of a Chinese Tillage near there in which the en tire population was dead from the of science plague. Many hodlee lay in the open air and were covered with snow. subsidy an 1 oth'-r s-ibsid >•« r 1 ! salisi rv teni t- to Hie at s!•' • r- -: This speech grated on r'.- sen- ' ' Dies of S'|ch emiiii t:t tr'-' •• •', o.-;t •. - and defender.- ;i> \ : •• I’l • - o- lit Sherman. >• tia'ors |.or.::i« r. I'e e-.v A Id rich . I .od ge and oHo r- ol t!. j ' ilk. tint t b e v could Hof -ay i w r! ; n reply, as thev knew Senator Owe:, was telling the truth, and if ilo-v <ie- nled it. he would prove U by -e.il-nv the returns of the last elertjoix, wio n the Democrats carried everything, even Teddv's Paliwick I ►olds' single < oml> Rhode Island io d.- a- ! "Ur.s'al" W hite Orping- • w in end lay win n other* : . '. ' o' k it,,! * g- for sit le Send • H.g ': -t r, A IK) »:>.*. Box i: t r o io - v I le. Ga \V i i,t• ••! — v -n :n11 lad'es »o take H : • - . • • - p rn-ica I c-iu'se Ex - ' n t t High salaried no- ;ot« - uarantei-d W rite f(,r - ■ v ue to-vv Uliarlotte Tele bool. Charlotte, N U. idi in ry k Ea-xter is Coining. Cent begins next W i-dtie.-dav I Ash Wednesday and tin- Lent -ea are reckoned seem.- to In a my.-' to some peopb I.en' alwavs is n oin-d from Easter Stindiv. m many people tins is enuailv in -t* n oils. Easter Sunday alw-avis ' first Rundtry aftcr’ttie first f iii innoti after tiii- spring exiiuinox. Marcdi ; - If tile full moon is on Sunday, : ''--t- is ttie Sunday following, conn s April 1 6 this v- ar. ways is forty days before There usually are six Rutida veiling, but they are not counted in The forty days. This makes Lent al ways begin on Ash Wednesday U always* is preeedt-d by Shrove Tues day, which is the last'day befn:. I.ent. Wanted—Men to take thirty days pr.t ti)-a! c urso in our machine Hid le.trn automobile tnist- i • - ib-itoiiis secured gradu- (t.--, $ 5 pep week and up. Char- Auto Eohool. Uliarlotte. N (' lot’ \\ anted—I took ke-mern, stenogra- p'o-r-. clerks, write us if d u sirin- en toymen* W •• pl ace competent to -ine-s help and are no! able to -1r :-1 y demand. Carolina Audit A.- Ry-tem Co, Skyscraper, Coltitn- a. S (' I-. i -t • ■ .e'l! al Easter - inter f’oal Omte Burned. Tuesday morning about 2 o'c'i ck the coal chute of the -'oiitherti Rail way' company nt BranchviTIe was'de stroved by fire. Tile fire was dis covered by an engineer and fireman as they were taking coal. It is sup posed to have caught from a spark from an engine. There were about 250 tons of coal in ttie chute, anil when it fell it covered the main line about 10 feet deep. and delayed traffic about six or seven hours, un til a track could he build around tin mass of burning coal. A water tank about 20 yards from the cluite. which has just been completed, was also destroyed _ The pupils of the high school nt Paletine, a small town in Illinois, re fused to attend school on Washing ton’s birthday, and deserted their desks and paraded the streets in an enthusiastic demonstration of pa triotism. From the seniors down to the children in the first gride, 172 j in all. the boys and girls marched about the town for two hours. ».r» envvoud Grows—Could you tie lu ll mt-d to come and grow with us’’ Wi- o'fi-r in our agency great bar uns in Red Kstate; Farms. Dwellings and Lo's nt reasonable prices. Call or write for infor mation. Goodwyn & Spence, Greenwood, S C. t or x-nle—■-'-elp r -f«d M irtboro Prolific .-eid Corn, first at Georgia expeil- in- nt staCons tests last year, and the blue ribbon variety for manv years past. Unshel, $2 HHI; half bushel. $1.25; peck, 75c. Pure Vi-ncy Maker Cotton Seed at $1.00. .1. II Nlyers, Sumter, S. C., R. F. D No. 4. For Sale—Milch cows, registered Jer sey colors. Golden Lnd, Flying Fox and st i.ombert strain. Bronze Turkeys and eggs. Also eggs, it. I Reds. White Leghorn. Barred Plymouth Rocks and Pit Game, one dnli.ii - per doz. White '' a ]ij L . puppies, registered. M. R. Sams, ! Jonesvllle, S C. Cents Wanted—Make big money sell ing photo pillow lops, 25c; bro- midoi, 25c; portraits, 25c: oilettes, 3 0c. We iTodtice works of art guaranteed, lowest prices, largest studio, prompt service, credit giv en; samples; portrait and frame catalogue free. Ritter’s Art Stu dio 1213 Madison, Chicago, Jll. !d of I ,<v t h. i i r t ru in; He ; .iCi" C 1 T. I- V c ' ‘ i- b found Fee-' 'n ; .-r 15 S- n * ! fn f i]r»* r v Poultry 1 • r• -. i’ \\ .-st Rau ;gh. ' \<>• h'■ I.lnlmeat is the best remedy for Htieuniatiam. Sciatica, Came Back, stlfT Joliita and Musclea, Sore Throat, Co Mr, S’rain*, Sprains, Cuta, Brutsea, Colic, i' r a m p e . i Neuralgia. Tooth- actie and all Nerve, Hone and Mu»cle ActiPR and Calnx The gen uine has Nontis Ark on every p.ii kav; v , cts. S"M ti> dealerR In rnt iili l ne S a m - pie by mall tree. Noah Remedy Co^ Richmond. V*, NOAHS NT \ \\ M \,vi Barg*ins lands land prod n ii • - ati r : i -• r i' r i. c : , • I v .• good I ,V ( M- Tl - a r i--i ( n ,■ • • ip. ' I v ;• Nnis..- inilf- <> r tl-v. f. " to ir• ■ i'• -ra 1 fir" - 1 ng I'm - $ ; a 1 r»-R P •(■ 11 ed ' ■ ai re- open. a I land Ii-r w.-ll a five d w p'! i n " tctiunt Ion'-- g: n tu-rv. ptc Ci of $2 1 * per a r* ni'le from ran" acres in cultiv n on tlinbor. lam! pr<"l and n-i w ak'p .! w i tpnant housps. '] pi and gasolinp • a . in*- Co salp. can bp!! f t $ 1 ‘ If you arc in Hi - i* a rk < fine farm and n ■ -i bo- u to see ns. Do not ibdav prices we have now. -are .-cure lo go higher Addr- - Allen .v Cro-k- ett, Aniericu-s, Ga. i lin'IU IDI. \T BiiNVKTTSV ll.i.K. — < l,. IGvi-r- shot nnd Killi-d t>) HU I ’.roi lo r-1ii- I aw . A • t - v . i' LaCayet'e H v- ■v - - • r.d in-tantly klllcl - . 1 . * • v. • - - k- bv W Gary Smith, • - - - ! a a ' n:: d in the neck ' 1 f ,. o, ui r, d in a hack -on building on a, , ;-e » a* pres ' f ""--i the : r>- .matances. it l 1 at Rr. t s fired t;ie '’ret shot. - ' i" i rr ed e o ti o: t • r 's ».a- n t’ood t< rm s t-o fsr \ j :g. partly filled w 1 ti r• v w is found in the room M N . : u , ■ r i k ■ ■ v n k ■ v h H hi .- Hi . t:, p. :: • - iin, h i r ■ i - We!! w : h - I V I ; i 1 Ilk j • , shoot Hi.- d tie coroner's charged S-i'i'h with the crime i., tlov In :p .1- t: Drink M ore Water. A prominent man "i Mis-miri lo-: his iiealth and was tak, n to a sana torium near Chiea.y). After io k ing the p-itii-nt over for some dav-s and questioning t 1 ’** man about In habits. file great < , o*"or said' " Yo need to drink. miM i4^ alcr Natnr- cannot do - bet work property wit > -II "plied the average man utile* with some eight or ten gla-.-es of fluid, counting coffee anil all. within ttteTWPnty’-fotir hours'" The patien' j recovered under this supple treit-j ment. Years ago the present editor! of the leading Baptist paper at Sp Louis, then a young man. was quite thin and wrinkled. Recently look- ini ten years ' younger, he said, in answer to a question about hi- im provement: "It is due to drinking more water. 1 saw a naragrupli k. *■'!eel Trn-t i- shrewd. I 'r Hurt a *v i!.e llpaHien I'liinee" ' - a *.. |e ||. ; .1 red W U h t tie Steel \ r-'-a r i ■ t • of trtde and com- : i' 1 "! 1 - ir file a!, the trust, so it . . aa.J_ Jitbi aru-ind Hie ililiii uity by ' - •• -n (it • ;.;h " riy kindness ’ 1 u i ' i a ' ii in of t tie Golden ’ a 5 n j ■ pjn a bii!it,M ire i In other o' ' oi r .-’(" I com-ern*' are exp«rt- '1 to *(iov ibis "r.eighiiorly klnd- o -s' - not opposing tfie trust. If i' i'■ i, '-i'n -lioiihl he -o forgi'tful Us n:‘-r*- -t-s as to do it, other ron- • ■ - . - p;’US' 'IIv infPiruiby the t t"'sts. ;u-p to labor w ith file unneigh- •otd ■ nt o’i. If ii proves obstinate uq uhe kntTWjj w.liaL viquid h.apjien. to t"H ruvone c-rut iiiakp a shrewd 'Uttss. Tiier.• are some wonderful nd ingenious wavs of keeping the ii Uor. ail a Uw and of breaking it in rit. Ilia' is the way Carnegie "nde his millions. He is trying to a.-e his cartsifiptice by giving th^m away, hut he hari't. Thinks for Herself. Ihnt Cinada is a!)lo to negotiate conimercial treaties with other coun- ti'i-s show - how near to being an m- To include the counties of Ker shaw, Calhoun and Orangeburg in the prohibition of the killing of foxes, was one of the new acts passed by the legislature. about- it in the pap-r, and so, us I 'dependent nation she has become in went about the citv attending to my I r> cent years. 1 his'is again seen in work, whenever I happened io pa.-s | h' ! ' possession of a separate army a suitable place or even a piaieH 1 "'! navy, in lie.r coina e and postage, that was not suitable I would stopj H, i'! in the right to make her own tar- and take a drink of water And forj’' !fs To bo sure the crown has the years my health has never been so 1 right of veto on any measure the good." | Canadian parliment may pass, but » ♦ — ■ — - that right would never he exercised on any question upon which Canada Iceland does not permit a drop of liquor to he made on the island it has no Jail, no penitentiary, no court a/id only one policeman. There is not an illiterate person on the island or a child ten years of age who. can not read. Such is the decl.nratu*i. made by travelers of this incompara ble and ideal land. The same con dition would exist in the United Good Live Agents wanted in every town to sell a meritorious line of medicines extensively advertised and used by ever family and ih States If the government would pro- the stable. An exceptional oppor- hibit the making of liquor in tins tunlty for the right parties to ( country &s they do in Iceland. mi'-ht make up her mind. In the present reciprocity treaty there are people in Great Britian who wopld like that veto to be used or for the British parliament to go counter to Canada's action. .But Canada would take with ill grace any such interfer ence,, and it would but serve to weak en the tie which although sentiment al rather than political, binds the daughter to the mother and which at preeent is very real and strong.