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\ ' ? IMPROVING BACK YARDS. Features of a Movement on Foot to Beautify Them. Paris is a city noted everywhere for beauty, not merely of architecture, but of nature and the art which good taste is able to evolve from nature. Particularly is it known for the beauty of its trees and flowers and parks, says Youth's Companion. The chief gardener of the city of Paris has been spending a two months' vacation in the United States studying American meinoas 111 ueveiopmg cii.v parks and gardens. He found much to praise, but had nothing but condemnation for the American city and town back yard. In New York particularly he found the back yards incredibly ugly and neglected?no grass, no trees, no vines, no flowers. The criticism would hold good of almost any American city or town, but the matter is one which young landscape architects are beginning seriouslv to consider. One such man in Bos ton is making a special study of the problem of converting a few square yards of brick pavement into a little secluded bower of greenery where the family can have a restful hour or a pleasant meal in surroundings far more attractive than the average roof garden affords. Manufacturers interested in this young man's work have produced special pieces of garden furniture of cement and terra cotta. A New Yorker has recently told in print of the curiosity he felt at the wording of an advertisement of some apartments to rent One of the attractions mentioned was the outlook on real trees and back yards which were gardens. Later conversation with the agent disclosed the fact that the modest'attempt at beauty which the windows commanded was a real asset It raised the rentable value of the property. CUTTING DOWN A BILLBOARD. How Tacoma Jurist Proved Himself Advcfcato of Town Beautiful. Justice John W. Linck of Tacoma, Wash., recently gave proof of his interest in civic improvement when he set an. example to other advocates of the city and town beantifnl by chopping down a high billboard planted upon his property. The story of Justice Linck's work was told by himself. Said he: *Wbat do yon think I did in the way of getting a hit of exercise the other day? I got a hatchet and, going to my property, I found an excellent form of exercise in chopping down a large, newly painted billboard put up without my permission. *My objection to the billboard, however, was not that It had been erected without permission or upon my lot My objection was to the thing itself as a nuisance which, being upon my property, I had a right to destroy. I did it all myself. It was a stiff job, but finally it fell to the ground. "I have a suspicion/' concluded the justice, "that the billboard agency will not erect any more signs upon my property." TOWN BETTERMENT HINTS. Street Names on 8idewalke?Original ; Idea For Protecting Grass Plots. Two good suggestions for the improvement of a town are furnished by a correspondent of Good Housekeeping, who writes as follows: In passing through a Canadian city recently I discovered something new to me. In the more aristocratic sections of the town the walks were entirely made of cement and at each corner the name of the street was cut in it in large, plain letters. This was a great convenience for any one not perfectly familiar with the localities. There was also an original idea for protecting the wide, turf covered parking at the intersections of the streets. "At .almost every corner a rough < . wall of stone three feet high had been built from the walk diagonally across the grass to the road, and this wall was treated like a rockery, being set with hardy plants and ferns best I adapted to such a position. Such a wall discouraged all passersby from cutting across the grass, while its effect was exceedingly picturesque.5' Public Building Approaches. There are dignity and strength in a long and wide approach to a public building for the loss of which no mere ornamentation can compensate, says the Los Angeles Times. One of the most peculiarly fitting of such vistas is the parked main entrance to the county courthouse in Fresno, Cal., a building surrounded on all sides by ornamental trees which during the hot, dry summers cast a necessary and grateful shade quite uniformly over a much traversed territory. Owing to a plentiful supply of soil mois tore at no great depth certain classes of trees there make a more rapid growth than may be found elsewhere in the state. The Beauty of Hawaiian Yards. The beauty of Hawaiian homes is in the outlook?the turf, the trees, the shrubs, the vines, the sea, the valleys, the mountains, the things no man can own, the beauty?property of everybody having eyes to see and seeing. This tends naturally to altruism, and aside from the theory the fact is that, while this community has faults and blemishes enough, it is relatively free from selfishness, says the Chicago News. The rich, with one or two exceptions, are generous givers, public sympathy is easily aroused, and when these people waken up and get the hang of twentieth century democracy? that fusion of fair play, horse sense, piety and practical politics?a model community will not be hard to find. | IDEAL VILLAGE CLUB,! Its Clubhouse Affords Recreation and Practical Instruction. 100D PLACE FOR BOTH SEXES Facilities Afforded For Healthful Amusements ? Good Reading and Smoking Rooms?The Housekeeping I Classes For Women and Girls. Some suitable place where the j young and the old may spend an hour or two pleasantly and enjoy healthful recreation is a good thing for any town. Such an idea has been put into effect by the citizens of a Massachusetts town. The little town of Ludlow, Mass., is very fortunate in the possession of a beautiful village clubhouse, called the Stevens Memorial building. It is a i handsome brick building built in 1005 j as a memorial to the late John E Ste[ vens, formerly agent for the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, says the Springfield (Mass.) Union. Under its roof can be found facilities for every healthful recreation. Here when their clay's work is finished the people of Ludlow gather to enjoy the ideal reading ond smoking rooms, pool room and bowling alley, women's reading room, gymnasium and swimming pool. There are also several class rooms, where the women and girls learn many things which will help to make good, thrifty housekeepers. The pool room and bowling alleys are among the best of their kind in the vicinity of Ludlow. The bowling alley contains three alleys, and there has been many a hard fought contest be tween the different bowling leagues. One alley is reserved for women on Thursday evening. The pool room contains nine pool tables, and this room is also open to women on Thursday evening. The women also have a pool room of their own with one table. Dr. Eoline Du Bois, formerly of Cambridge, but now of Ludlow, is the social director of the institute. For a very small annual fee the members are entitled to the privileges of the building and an additional fee for the classes. The classes started on Oct 1 with an enrollment of 160 women and 75 children. The swimming pool is 48 by 16 feet and is lined with white enamel bricks. The water is being purified constantly by passing through a filter. The room which contains the pool is fitted with dressing rooms, lockers, hot and cold shower baths, needle baths and tub baths, which each person is required to use before entering the pool The gymnasium and assembly hall is used for concerts, dances, tneamcais. etc. Here the gymnasium classes meet and dancing classes are held. The physical culture classes, which include instruction in swimming, Indian clubs, dumbbells, wands, marching, full standing exercises, apparatus work and popular games, including volley ball, center ball and basket ball for the girls, meet Monday and Friday ' afternoons. The boys meet in the athletic field after school on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and have one hour's open air play. All sorts of games, including Rugby andALSsociation football and baseball, are played, the boys themselves choosing the games. They usually play the games that the older boys are playing, and each one tries to imitate his particular favorite as 'near as possible. H. Udell Pease of the Technical High school of Springfield has charge of the boys. He teaches them the proper way to play the popular games and makes sure that each boy gets fair play. He also endeavors to promote a general feeling of good fellowship among the boys. After the hour's play they march to the Stevens memorial building swimming pool, where they spend thirty minutes in the water. There are more excitement and fun crowded Intc| that short half hour than all the rest of the week put together. Miss Buscall conducts the dancing classes, and the pupils are taught all the popular steps, square dances, fancy dances and ballroom etiquette. The cooking classes are personally superintended by Dr. Du Bois. Here they are taught the scientific as well as the practical side of cooking. Monday and Friday evenings the millinery classes meet There are three classes for the adults in dressmaking every week. Many men in Ludlow who otherwise might frequent undesirable places for the sake of the companionship arc seen in the smoking room every evening. Boys and girls who would otherwise be walking the streets or loafing around corners are found in this ideal village club indulging in healthful recreation. Vacant Lot Cleaning. Every municipality should have an ordinance and enforce it requiring all vacant lots to be kept clean at all times and not make a raid on them once a year, for the task is well nigh gigantic if undertaken in a large city or town but a single month each year, says the Los Angeles Times. Nonresidents who will not improve their property and who therefore are valueless to a city or town should be sharply ^ dealt with in this matter and be given < to understand tnat some aeuon win ue ' taken, no matter if their property is purposely "stagnated." Any owner who allows his premises to become so untidy as to offend the taste of good citizens harbors a nuisance which should be summarily suppressed or eradicated. It gives the city an unfavorable reputation and depresses the price of surounding property. < ATLANTA NEGRO GETS MEDAL, i First Colored Person to Receive Re- j ward From the Carnegie Fund. Atlanta, Nov. 26?John B. Hill, j the negro who for saving several j lives in a runaway on Peachtree street was awarded a Carnegie hero medal and a sum of money, has received the check for $500 from the hero fund commission. He is the first negro to receive a reward from Carnegie's fund. The act for which Hill received the award was a daring one. The teams of Henry Inman and J. E. Hunnicut collided on Peachtree street, causing both to run away. In the Hunnicut carriage were two little children. As it dashed past the residence of Willis Ragan, where Hill was working, the negro despite weakness from a recent 111 ---i. j 4-lA u AWIAfl illness, ran out anu sci^cu luc nuisw by their heads. The frenzied animals dragged him for a block before he succeeded in bringing the carriage to a halt. Ross Acquitted of Murder. Barnwell, Nov. 28.?The jury in the case against J. B. Ross, charged with the murder of Johnson Pender, returned to the court room at 12 o'clock Wednesday night with a verdict of not guilty on the first count, in the indictment; guilty of carrying a concealed weapon. Judge Memminger gave him the maximum for this offense, $100 or 30 days. By consent of jurors and prisoners, court continued in session Thanksgiving day. W. D. Rhodes, the negro charged with shooting Mr. C. B. Ellis, at Martin station, Oct. 22, 1907, was put upon trial. He was not represented i hv rvmn.cpl. Mr. Ellis, who is totally blind from the wounds inflicted upon him, was in court. In a very few minutes the jury returned a verdict of guilty. The evidence against Rhodes was conclusive and he was sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. In sentencing him Judge Memminger stated the law was inadequate, when for this attempted assassination the defendant could only be sentenced to 10 years. Doc Grant, a negro charged with murdering another negro, plead guilty to manslaughter and received a sentence of four years. John Coleman, who was found guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday, was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary. ID. J. DELk CARRIAGE WORKS ANVTHINfl ON WHEELS I * . ' Delivery wagons, one ana two horse farm wagons, ice wagons, log carts, sewing machine wagons, or any kind of special work built to order on short notice. First-class repair and paint shop, does pipe work and carries piping and fixtures, brass fittings, engine supplies, injectors, steam gauges, engine oils, large stock of buggies, harness, lap robes and whips for sale cheap. All work will be appreciated t'and satisfaction guaranteed D. J. DELK BAMBERG, S. C. UUIMTCni VVHI11LU i Fifty Colored Laborers at Once For Logging, Railroad and Sawmill Work. STEADY WORK GOOD WAGES Paid Every Night With Checks which may be turned into office every two weeks to be cashed. House Rent Free Also can use white labor Call or Address BREON LUMBER GO. ULMERS, S. C. Located on 5. A. L. Railroad. IW. P. RILEY I ? FIRE, LIFE I ACCIDENT 2 J \ INSURANCE! i [ BAMBERG, .... S. C. WHYMMLORDERSWIR Paul E. Faust Shows Mistake of Manufacturers and Retailers. UNLEARNED IN ADVERTISING. They Neglect Papers For Farmers, Who Should Constitute Large Part of Their Customers, Says an Agent. How to Meet Mail Order Competition. "Why do manufacturers of general merchandise, grocers' goods, wearing apparel, musical goods, household furnichinrrc nnrl sitnilnr nrodlicts. who Sell through dealers, so generally overlook the publications reaching farmers, including such powerful papers as the Weekly Star?" That question was put to Paul E. Faust while he was visiting Kansas City. Mr. Faust looks after the interests of an advertising firm west of Chicago, says the Kansas City Star. "That's an interesting question," Mr. Faust replied. "*or the productiveness of the big weeklies?we call papers like the Weekly Star national weeklies? isn't the question, because in placing our volume of $4,000,000 annually in advertising we distribute hundreds of thousands each year to these so called agricultural papers. But this is largely for implements or farm machinery, mill work, building material, seeds, separators, incubators, maP order merchandise, stock remedies, etc. This is 9J 1? i.U quite eveiuy uiviueu ueuveeu uiese goods sold by mail to the user and those sold through retailers. Such advertisers have proved beyond all argument that the farm papers pay. The result getting value of the agricultural press as a class isn't a debatable question. "Of this fortune, placed by us each year for clients in farm papers, a very small percentage is for manufacturers of food products or wearing apparel or general merchandise selling through retailers. "Now, why? "The only answer is that the makers of the goods mentioned in the question as a class haven't arrived. They are on the wrong scent Those who do use the farm papers and advertise judiciously almost without exception find a gold mine of returns." "Whose fault is it?" "Largely the manufacturers'; partly the publishers'; partly the fault of the uninformed advertising agents. "It is the manufacturers' fault because they haven't learned a lesson from the tremendous successes of mail order houses and because they close their eyes to advertising opportunity and often because they haven't brand ed identifiable goods that lend themselves to advertising. "It is the publishers' fault because they haven't got behind the issue and pushed it Publishers are generally poor advertisers. They don't promote. They don't take their own medicine. They think that printed matter Isn't read, that letters are wastebasketed. that advertising journals are useless, and their own publications, which should be valuable advertising mediums, are entirely overlooked. It Is sure that publishers haven't told the manufacturer half enough of his opportunity. "Then there is the fault to be laid to the door of the uninformed advertising agent He may not know what a golden harvest the farm papers offer. He may encourage his client in using the publications the client thinks he wants, or he may not know how to utilize the agricultural papers, though recognizing their value. "The majority of manufacturers will eventually take up farm papers or the mail order houses will still more effectually dominate in the trade with the farmer. Today country retailers in many lines are comDinmg to ngni mall order houses. They are barking up the wrong tree. Their complaint Is logically against the manufacturers they buy of. They should draft resolutions praying their manufacturers to reach their consumers and drive demand to the retailers instead of resolutions condemning mail order practices. Mall order methods are here to stay unless some other plan Is Invented that will self quality goods to the consumer for less money. "No. The mail order competition can be met only by brand goods popularized by advertising and sold only through dealers. Then when demand is created for a product the encyclopedia-like mail order catalogue can't supply it "The manufacturers who realize this are garnering large profits, because they do not have to sell goods on a cut price basis to get business. They sell products in brands which they alone can supply. They make demand and control trade and protect retailers with reasonable profit margins. "But at this time the mail order merchandise house has a rosy future. So much publicity has been given mail order selling to the consumer by reason of retailers' associations and their fight against mail order selling that the people have heard of direct to consumer methods as they never did before. "To get down to statistics, half the people of the United States are of the agricultural class. The majority of manufacturers overlook this half. A.bout a billion dollars a year are spent by farmers for machinery, implements, building material, etc. But about the only people who remember that this rich farmer is a customer for eatables, wearables, etc., are the mail order men. "When will the other manufacturers wake up?" c '\ " y.r/JL .? ? ? IZaTbrabha^ @ OLD LINE ? I FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE I >9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* *9* tiLADIESlij S J I i"t M H h We are pleased to know we have > 3[ 3: S pleased you. Our hats are going * :: ?? < fast, but still coming in. We jj to can always please you in style, ^ 3 quality, and price. * & * * * n|} ^ ill ~Shli !! ! . I?J if 8 Mrs. K. I. Shuck & Co. !$j J J Bamberg South Carolina ; fail: :Ii il; il: il: il: ili ;Ii il: il: il.' ;I? il: il! !li ? iB SB iB ip Si 8 f| IincwTIITMSI I HE If THLL CUUtfOp 1 Have the Largest and Beat Assorted Stock 1 Have Ever Carried Anticipating a good crop and high prices, I bought 5? heavily. 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