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•v- TEA AT ALLENDALE. kwlale, Not. 8.—On Friday after- f doon of the home of Mrs. Darlington, Jr., were thrown >,atatea given by the Woman’* hg club in hon^r of Mr*. Uwton er, a bride of a few weeks, and Mi*a Sar* Gray, a bride-elect of this month. The parlors were never lovelier than in their autumn dress of yellow chrysanthemums, which sounded the .major note in the decorations. Among those present were two other brides of the near future, Misses Eva Mae Owen* and Nina Flowers, and the mothers of the bride and brides- elect. * — The guests were received at the door by Mrs, J. H. Warren, the presi- cent of the club, and after meeting the guests of honor were served with sandwiches and tea. During refresh ments Mrs. R. 0. Montogomery played on the piano. v The club recieves Mrs. Maner, who has besn a member for two years as Missiftt^rine Ball, but regrets the loss of Miss Gray, whose marriage will take her away to another State. Mrs.W. R. Darlington, Jr., entertain ed four tables of bridge on Thursday morning. After a spirited game a two course luncheon was served. Miss Agnes Lesair won first prize. Mrs. Alfred Patterson cut the consolation. • The Honor Roll D. P. Johnson, Blackville* E. F. Boylston, “ . Blatt, “ L^V. Bodiford, Tobin, Greer. ). Still, Hilda. I Black. Mrs. V. A. Woodward, Dko. A. E. Hair, “ Miss Agatha Faust, Barnwell. M T. Willis Denmark. Mrs. J. T. Load holt, Jenny. 0. T Loadholt, *• J. L Hazel, Barnwell. C. D. Kinard, Ulmer. R. A. Duncan, Bellinger. J. P. Gray, Allendale. Nick Codin spent a couple of days in Augusta this week. Jake Levy went over to Augusta Tuesday night to attend the fair. 0. M. Greene, Esq., was called to Bamberg on professional business Wed nesday. Medames C. A. Best sndG. M. Greene attended the State Fair in Columbia last week. Barnwell and Blackville will met/>n the latter's gridiron Friday afternoon for a game of football. John B. McNab left Wednesday morning for Waynesboro. Oa., where he will spent about thirty days. Misses Sallie Pate and Lai Richards, of Swansea, and Gordon Pate, of Clem- son College, visited Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Greene last week. Salt Water Cataracts. There are a good many salt water cataracts In existence. They may be found tn Norway, southern Chile and British Columbia, where narrow fiords, or arms of the sea, are obstructed by barriers of rock. The rising tide flows over aud filters through such reefs Into great natural reservoirs beyond, ^kth^ water Is held back at the ebb it breaks over the obstruction In tit Irresistible torrent Most curious of all Is the waterfall at Canoe Pas sage, where tbe Island of Vancouver approaches tbe British Columbia main land. Here the flood Ode from the gulf of Georgia to the southward Is ^ held back at a narrow cleft between two islands until It pours over In a boiling cascade eighteen feet high, with perhaps double the volume of the Rhine. At tbe turn of the tide, how ever, the waters from the north rush back into the gulf, producing a cascade of equal height and volume. The wa terfall actually flows both ways. Carload of Stock. I will have in a carload of fresh stock, direct from ther West, on Monday, November 15th. Prospective purchas ers are invited to make their selection from this superb lot of Western beau ties. C. F. Rteer;. r Olar, S. C. Notice—Sale of Land. Notice is hereby given that I will sell at public auction in front of the Court House in the town of Barnwell during the legal hours of sale, upon Monday the 6th day of December next, the same being salesday in said month, the fol lowing real property, known as th" late residence an 1 lands of Maitha E. Baxley, deceased. The sale being for the purpose of a division among the heirs at law: All that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being ie town of Dunbarton and said to Ninety Three (93) acres, more and bounded on the North by ttnrA! C. L. Railroad right-of-way and lot of Denson Dicks; on tne East by lot of Denson Dicks, B. F. Tisdall and Hickonr Street; on the South by Mrs F. H. Cater and on the West by lands of T. A. Green. Walter L. Baxley, Agent Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pry for papers. this tne 9th day of November.1915. 1 Premarital 1 *• It Was Not a Settlement ♦ e ; of- Property, kit 7 * of Principle * e • | By EDITH V. ROSS 7 •♦•♦•I * . ' , We canfaot Judge of tbe whole by a part To say that because some peo ples are uot fitted to govern themselves uo people are fitted to govern them selves is a non aequltur—that U, the conclusion does not follow the premise. Because some women are so interested in home, husband and children that they do not care to take part in poli tics we are not jnstifled In assuming that womea had much better leh poli tics alone. Differences of opiuion, of fitness, are the wheels of progress. A people of one mind on ail subjects be comes stagnant. Elsie Harbeson was an example of a girl who was tempted to enter the fray for the rights of women without fit ness therefor. She was n lovable crea ture, very feminine aud not especially gifted In a scholarly way. At any rate, while In college she had received the lowest possible rating, especially In logic. She was neither nu officer of her class nor on any of the committees. Indeed, Miss Harbeson was not In any way fitted for a leader In the great and absorbing struggle for the political ad vancement of her sex. When Elsie met "her fate" she found a man who was drawn to her on ac count of tbe feminine mold in which abe was cast rather than her aspira tions. Tbe Scotch saying that we would be blessed at being able to see ourselves as others see us pertained especially to her. To Herbert Win ston. her lover, it was plain that the cause of women would lose nothing by tbe defection of tbs girl be loved. He bad no preferences for or against tbe cause, but be was opposed to Elsie wasting became In a matter which other women were far better fitted to push than abe. But Herbert wa« giv en to diplomacy rather than to open opposition and had no mind to fly In tlie face of his fiancees views. Ha made no comments whatever on these particular opinions. Elsls bettered that a matter In which she was Inter ested and upon which her fiance seem ed indifferent should be settled be tween them before marriage and. brae ing herself for a straggle, opened the subject "Herbert." she said, "there is one matter for us to consider before oar marriage, a matter on which my heart Is set. upon which you seem to be In different. but which is liable to make trouble unless there is a distinct un demanding while we are still free ” "There Is nothing to settle before marriage, because I propose to glv# way to you lu everything.” •Tbat'a very sweet of you. But you don’t seem to realize as 1 do that there is a good deal that D practical In mar ried life, that romance changes to com panlonsiilp, which la far more endur Ing. and that companionship is de- |*endcnt upon a husband aud a wife having the same vlewg." "That doesn't cut any Ice In our case. Iiecatise. ns I have told you. your views shall be my views." There was rather too much subservi ency in this to suit her; but. since she , could not find fault with it, she took refuge in a side Issue. “1 am sorry to see that you are be coming slangy. It would have sound ed better for you to say ‘make any difference.’ But, to take up a far more Important matter. 1 am very much in terested in the struggle for the ernaucl- patlun of women that has t>een going on for many centuries. It is one of the elements that have entered into the civilization of Europe and Amer ica.” ‘‘How?’* "How? Why. Professor Howland mentioned it In his; lecture on civiliza tion I" "It seems to me we are getting away from the subject which you consider of so much importance. I don't think it would pay us to enter upon a dis cussion of what goes back several thousand years. We'd have to put off our marriage indefinitely in order to get down to modern times. How would it do for us to make a compromise ou this matter of the emancipation of wo men—I to have no opinions concerning It, you to have whatever opinions you like?" . "And express them?’’ •‘Certainly." “Aud act Upon them?" “Of course.” “That's lovely of you. I didn't think you would be so liberal.’’ “1*11 be more liberal yet If you like I’H conch you on the arguments per taining to the cause you are to advo cate." “Will you?” “Certainly." “When shall we begin?" “Any time—now if you wish It” “Very well: mention some..of the main arguments.” Tbi* was very mean of him. He had no business to lead her into such a trap. Having embarked in a straggle to wrest from man the rights of wom an. she now signified' her reliance ou man by accepting his services to In struct her as to how to go about her wort, f ' - - “Man.” he said, "when left to him self. without woman’s influence, be comes brutal. - Ergo, be has In him the nature of a brute, which can only be kept In anbJecU-in by hie wife. Seer rwi 1 "' ■ te this startling. ■ follow Jt all at once, so i ■M 11 "Please don’t nee that wort *8eer Why not aay, ‘Do yon understand '■or*" "Just ae. I think R wtU be admit ted by aay women who Is or has boon married that keeping her hosband In subjection requires a lot of time. Then there Is tbe household to look after, end tbe children, end n lot of other things"— “I thought you were going to glvo me arguments In favor of the emanci pation of women. You ari proceeding to prove that a wife la too busy look ing after her domestic affairs to”— She hesitated. “To keep her husband In subjection r “How absurd!" “If you don't like that argument I’ll give you another. I presume you stud ied |>olltical economy while in college. , “Yes, indeed, and it made me a free trader.” it was now the man’s turn to be startled. He had not been able to fathom the free trade-protection prob lem bimself. and be was impressed that Elsie had succeeded in doing so. “You know.” he went on, “that the old political economy of a half a cen tury ago has all been upset by mod ern big business." “Has it?" “Yes. but It still holds good in small circles—the family, for instance. You know that the theory of the free trader is that each community produces what it is best fitted to produce, tbe wbofe going Into the general market and each community selling what it is fitted to produce and buyiug of the others what It doesn’t itself produce." “i see." “I thought you didn’t like that ex pression.” “They are not tbe same. You said ‘See?’ I say T see.* There to a great difference." "My way to more phonetic.” “Go on." “In tbe family, carrying out this same principle, tbs husband does tbe providing and tbe wtfe takes cere of tbe household and tbe children. When tbs husband breaks In on bis wife's prerogatives bs's monkeying with the bozsssw." “Oh. beacons! What a horrid way of putting It!" “Anyway he's liable to get scratched." “Worse and worse. But complete your argument" “Per contra, if tbe wife breaks In upon the husband's prerogatives there to likely to be a monkey and parrot buslneee In tne family.'’ Seeing an opportunity to get In a blow for her sake without inveighing •gainst slang, sbe said quickly. “I don't • dmit that pollthe to tbe exclusive right of tbe husband.'' % "In that esse but one of two roar to open to as. Either I must give up at tending to tbe duties of s citizen to you or we must l«oth atteod to them. Tbe latter course would be a violation of the economic principle.’’ This argument resulted In silence be tween the couple for some minutes Elsie saw that, pretending to give her an argument for her cause, be was arguing on the other side. Sbe believed that there was • valid answer to his •tMtement. but It did uot occur to her. “It seems to me." she said at laat. "that we each have duties of cltlzeu ship to attend to lu accordance with our consciences." "The pn>of of the pudding to hi the eating." was hla rejoinder. "Since you prefer that course, so ahall It be." "But you would prefer that one or the other of tis should attend to the duties of citizenship for the family.” “I believe in a division of labor or. If you like another way of putting It l»etter. In certain things being attend ed to by (he wife and certain other things being attended to by the bus bunq. but If we both decide to go to the 'Jodis to register our votes I have no objection to our doing so. At any rate, we can try It. Nevertheless I see no use In trying to cross a bridge till we come to it We are not married yet. When we are all such matters will reg ulate themselves. But I reiterate se riously that If there is anything objec tionable or useless in our both going to the [>olls to vote 1 will defer to you." "What do you mean by useless?" "Suppose we vote on different sides. We might in that case pair." "Pair? What do you mean by pair?" “We might do what we're going to do In marrying. If we intend to vote on different sides and neither of us votes at all the result Is the same ns if we voted. I, a man, and you, a wom an, marry. There's one less bachelor aud one less spinster. In other words, we are paired." "I do think." she said, lookingMip at him with n pair of soft brown eyes, "that you use the funniest arguments I ever heard." “They will be plenty good enough when we are married." “How is that?” "There are only two arguments which count for much between man and wom an. Her best argument is tears; bis to kisses." With that he drew her toward him and kissed ber. There is no record as to Mrs. Win ston's services in tbe cause of the amelioration of the condition of wom en. Winston is not reliable In his tes timony. and what he aays should be taken with a grain of salt. He declares that whenever there to an election he and his wife are on.opposite sides and the result is a pair. However this may be, tbe Winstons are s very happy conple, and a fine crop t>f children are growing np about them.,) Mr. Winston’s statement that it is better not to try to cron a bridge befors reeching it has turned out te be true. At any rate, the family differ ences are settled amicably from day to f 4ay. X r People. The Largest, Livest, Newsiest Paper Published in Barnwell County. • J 8 TO 24 JP-A-GKES "WE] $1 a Year in Advance •I OUR JOB DEPARTMENT * is thoroughly-equipped for the production of \ \ finely printed work.