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STATEMENT BY JNO. G. Rl( HAH!! Late Candidate lor Governor on !Viniarv Results. Columbia. Sept. IT.?John (J. Richards, chairman of the railroad commission. who unsuccessfully, competed with Richard 1. Manning for the nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket in this State, today ontm statement: % (-><*? vut ujv iv/nv?.?n "The second primary is ended and I am defeated by a big majority. I conducted a manly, clean campaign against tremendous odds and 1 have no regrets or apologies to offer. The main question involved, as 1 consider it, both in the first and second primaries, was. shall the people or the special interests control the State government? I fought for the people and was supported largely by reformers of the 1890 type, who believe in a government of and for the people, but not by the newspapers. "I desire to express my sincere gratitude to the 45,099 Democrats who gave me their support and whc remained loyal while every effort was being made by the newspapers and by others, with the free use of their columns, to destroy my character. 1 wish to assure them that I shall en deavor in the future, as in the past, to live and conduct myself in a manner that will merit the support they gave and the great honor they have done me. I have always striven tc give to my State the very best service at my command and I shall continue to the end. "I do not feel the least resentment for those who voted against me from honest conviction. This is their unquestioned right. But there are those who have been outrageously unjust to me and these I leave to the judgv ment of a noble people, the people oi South Carolina, and confidently rely upon the verdict they shall ultimately render between me and these traducers and slauderers." / War and Black Hats. You may have to wear a brown or gray hat next winter whether you like that color or not, says the PhiladelM phia Ledger. One of the things which the flying bullets in Europe have shol to pieces is black dyes. I learn from a large hat factory here that most of the blacks come from Germany, but the war has suspended thfir importation intc Philadelphia. That's why you may have to fall back upon a brown derby Those cannon shots were also heard at Disston's saw works, where some thousands of workmen were f made idle yesterday. A chemical manufacturer is my authority for saying that a certain ingredient for which they paid 17 cents a pound two weeks ago is now worth $1.50. And an electrical supply man tells me that the metal used in tungsten lamps is rapidly becoming scarce as trout in a milk can. Americans can withstand the hardships incident to a cessation of such imports as silks furs, laces, diamonds and champagne The real pinch comes when we can not get the commodities needed by 6c many of our manufacturers. More in His Flock. There w*as a certain bishop whc had a pleasant habit of chatting with anybody he might meet during his country walks. One day he cam* across a lad who was looking aftei some pigs by the roadside, and the bishop pausing to ask him what he was doing, that being his usual opening to conversation. "Moindin' swoine." the lad replied stolidly. V?ic VlOQT 1 UC Uioaup UUUUVU UIO "VV?V thoughtfully. * * "Ah. is that so?" he commented "And how much do you earn ?. ? week?" "Two shillin's," was the reply. "Only two shillings?" remarked the bishop. Then he continued pleasantly, "I too, am a shepherd but I get more than two shillings.' The lad looked at him suspiciouslj for a minute, then he said, slowly: / "Mebbe you get more swoine noi me to moind."?Philadelphia Ledger. A New Sherlock. A joke was played on Sir Arthui Conan Doyle during his last visit tc Paris by a French taxicab driver. i1 a story in the Caulois is to be credit ed. The man had driven Sir Arthui from the station to a hotel, anc when he received his fare, he said "Merci, M. Conan Doyle." "Why how do you know my name?" askec Sir Arthur. "Well, sir, I have seen ir the papers that you were coining from the south of France to Paris your general appearance told nie tha you were English: your hair hac been clearly last cut by a barber o south France. I put these indica tions together, and guessed at onc< that it was you." "That is very re markable. You have 110 other evi dence to go upon?" "Well," sai< the man, "there was also the fac that your name was on your lug gage." *> i ORIGIN OF THE SPLIT SKIRT. English Explorer RejK>rts iHseovery ' of tlie Vogue in Papua. j It will no doubt interest feminine . readers to learn that the slit skirt is is not exclusively a feature of latter J i day civilization. It seems, indeed, to p be, as some male critics have suspect- i ed. a product of savagery. Where ! i the idea originated is not quite eer- | < I tain. It has been variously attribut-jl Jed to Paris and New York. The dis-il covery has now been made that this Is I latest creation in female attire is in | i vogue in places where civilization is < unknown, where no white women 3 and very few white men have ever 1 set foot, and most of those who have j ( centured there have been killed and ] i eaten. i In a report to the minister for < . internal affairs regarding his recent i , expedition up the Fly river, in Papua, 1 Judge Murray states that he visited < ! parts of the territory which, so far i as he was aware, had not previously 1 i been explored, and one of the most 1 ; interesting of his discoveries was the 1 fact that all the women in one of < the tribes were wearing slit skirts. < This style of apparel seemed to have ] been in use for many years. j i GIRL ARRESTER AS SPY. ( Miss Isoline Campbell Writes of Re- 1 ing Fined in I>resden. > Miss Isoline Campbell, an Atlanta < society girl, was arrested as a spy by the Germans in Dresden several ' weeks ago and heavily fined by the magistrate before whom she was ar- < raigned because she had taken a pic- 1 ' ture of a mob which followed two friends. Dr. and Mrs. George A. Tray. lor, of Augusta, after they had been | arrested. The news of the thrilling experience of Miss Campbell, together with the word of narrow escape from a similar arrest by Miss Margaret McKee. another Atlanta girl, and the daughter of former Postmaster Hugh L. McKee, is contained in letters re> ceived from London by her mother. Mrs. R. O. Campbell. l Miss Campbell and the Travlors : are now on the Baltic en route for home, having 6ailed Tuesday from - Liverpool. s Miss Campbell, who will make her i debut this winter, has been abroad > for a year, in a schoolin Paris. When - the vacation period came she joined . a party conducted by Miss Elizabeth ? Green, of Augusta, and commenced ! a tour of Europe. The party, which > included the Traylors and Miss McKee, together with several other ( Georgians, was in Munich when the t war broke. \Tis* Pamnhell writes most inter - estingly of visiting the hotel and res- ? taurants just after the declaration ; and witnessing the enthusiasm of the i people, especially the military. The party got from Munich to i Dresden without mishap, and there . l they were held prisoners in their ho, tels, not being allowed to leave their . rooms, for three days, i Dr. and Mrs. Traylor tired of the > restraint. Miss Campbell writes, and ventured out on the street. They were halted and placed under arrest ' by German officers. When they claimed that papers at > the hotel would prove their Amerl: can citizenship, the officers expressed ' a willingness to delay their execution. ! until the papers might be inspected. Accordingly the party started to - the hotel, and the crowd which wit> nessed the arrest soon became a ' mob. Miss Campbell saw the mob apI v.- , ?v,? V,?t pruauumg, site **cuv LU cue uaiwu; and took a snapshot of it. 1 A few seconds later she heard the tramp of many people, and a woman. who led the kaiser's troops to her 1 room, shrieked: "There she is." Despite the protest of Dr. Traylor and other members of the party. Miss 1 Campbell states she was led to police headquarters and registered as a prisoner. As her identity had been established, she was allowed to rer turn to the hotel, after the camera was confiscated, and ordered to re1 I port the next day. She was then ' fined several hundred marks, she writes, the judge telling her that the violation of the rule against taking pictures was a serious one. and that . he was being extremely light with , her. [ After her arrest. Miss Campbell writes, the soldiers examined the . camera of Miss McKee, but she esI taped arrest because she had no undeveloped films. She Filled the Bill. 1 i John Sloan, the painter, was lec; turing on "Models" before an art Va,v Wiwl f tui?o til iv/irv. t "Then there is the frivolous 1 model." said Mr. Sloan. "She, unf less very beautiful, is to be avoided. "A frivolous model besought a i friend of mine to employ her. " 'No, no,' he said. '1 only do still - life?flowers and fruit." i " 'Well,' said the model, looking t up at him, reproachfully out of lim pid blue eyes, '.well, ain't I a peach?' " XKW SKA ROH LAMP. VIany Times More Powerful Tlian Old Types. A new type of searchlamp which at i distance of five miles will produce Humiliation as the ordinary types will is being experimented with by he, United States navy. Heretofore n the attempt to produce more powerful searchlamps large reflectors bave been used and large currents iave been made to flow through the ire between relatively small carbons. The latter method 01 developing in intense light has until now been imited by the fact that carbon volatizes at extremely high temperatures ind is therefore consumed very rapidy. In the new searehlamp, described in the Electrical World, the dimensions are kept small without causing the carbons to deteriorate rapidiy. oy rotating them in a stream of alcohol vapor. Although the vapor ignites and burns with a non-luminou6 flame its tetnperature is so much lower than that of the carbons that it actually cools them. The cooling also concentrates the arc and keeps it at the focus of tne reflector, thereby causing the light rays to extend in practically parellel lines from the reflector and to produce intense illumina Lion even at great uiMauv.cs. NATIONAL BATTLE HYMNS. God' Save the King and Watch on the Rhine. Following are the German "Watch jn the Rhine." England's "God Save Phe King," and Russia's National Anthem: England?God Save Our King. God save our gracious King. Long live our noble King, God save our King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious. Long to reign over us, God save our King! 0 Lord, our God, arise, Scatter his enemies. And make them fall. Confound their policies, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hearts we fix, God save our King! Thy choicest gifts in store, On him be pleased to pour, Long may he reign. May he defend our laws, And ever give us cause, To sng with heart and voice, God save our King! Germany?The Watch on the Rhine A voice resounds like thunder peal, 'Mid clashing waves and clang ol steel; The Rhine, the Rhine, the Germar Rhine! Who guards today my stream divine? Chorus. Dear Fatherland no danger thine: Firm stand thy sons to watch tli? Rhine! They stand a hundred thousam. strong, Quick to avenge their country's wrong; With filial love their bosoms swell. They'll guard the sacred landmark 'A ell. The deed of heroic race From Heaven look down and meei their gaze; They swear with dauntless heart, "C Rhine. Be Germany as this breast of mine: "While flows one drop of Germar blood, Or sword remain to guard thy blood While ribe rests in patriot hands No foe shal tread thy sacred strand! "Our oath resounds, the river flows In golden light our banner glows: Our hearts will guard thy stream divine; The Rhine, the Rhine, the Germar Rhine!" Russian National Anthem. Lord, God. protect the Czar! power ful and mighty; .May he in glory, in glory reign. Chorus. Lord. God. protect the Czar! Power ful and mighty: May he in glory, in glory reign. He is our guiding star, great ir. peact and war. Our faith's true protector, long live the Czar. Chorus. He is our guiding star, great in peact and war. Our faith's true protector. Ion? )iv< the Czar. "I despise a hypocrit." "So do I." "Now. take Jackson for example he's the biggest hypocrit on earth." "But you appear to be his bes friend." "Oh, yes! I try to appear friendlj toward him. It pays better in th< end." FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT. I : Plans Announced by President of tl State Organization. Columbia, Sept. 20.?Miss Ea May Hite, president of the Soul Carolina Rural School Improvemei association, has announced the fo lowing plans: Now that many rural schools of tl State are beginning their year work it is well to call attention some of the plans of the South Car lina School improvement associatio This organization stands for a mi: i imam school term of seven month a local tax in every district, the ei ; rollment of every child of school ag . the regular attendance of every pup: l at least one teacher to every 50 pi pils^ modern buildings with model ; equipment, and hearty cooperatic , between the home and the school. It is along these lines that tl president of the association, in c [ operation with the county superi: ; tendent of education and the coun . organizer, has worked OEe week : each of the following counties: Dar ington, Kershaw, Cherokee, Lexin ton, Oconee. Abbeville, Fairfield ai Edgefield. It is indeed gratifying ' find such keen interest shown in tl betterment of the country schools i has been four d in these eight corn ties. 1. Fair exhibit: At the State fa next month there will be an educ tional exhibit under the manageme: 5 of the school improvement associ tion. This display will consist county exhibits from Laurens, NTei 1 berry, Dorchester, Kershaw, Ocone I Anderson, and possibly other cou ties, together with a booth fitted \ as a model schoolroom with ide equipment. Though this is the fir attempt at an exhibit of this kin yet there is every reason to belie1 that it will prove one of the most i teresting features of the fair. 2. Clean-up day: "Clean-up da: observed in the schools of South Ca olina last year, served as. a great fa tor in the improvement of educatio a! conditions. Again this year \ will observe "Clean-up day" in tl scnoois on tne nrsi rnaay m .Novei ber. Every community, every boa of trustees, and eve:*y teacher shou cooperate in observing this day early in the session as practicable. 3. Prizes: Through the support the State department of educatio the school improvement associate is able to offer $1,250 in prizes to awarded in 1914. This amount h been divided into 40 prizes and w be given to the schools of the Sta showing the greatest amount of ii provement during the given leng of time. There will be 10 first priz P of $50 each, and 30 second prizes $25 each. Regulations governing i 1 award of these prizes are as follow 1. Improvement must be made b tween October 1, 1913 and Deeemb 1, 1914. 2. Only rural schools can compe (or these prizes. Districts barred > the State high school act or by t State rural graded school act are i eligible to enter the contest. . 3. Prizes will be awarded by t State executive committee of t . school improvement association 11 mediately after the entries close. 4. All applications must be se . through the county superintende of education, the rural school supe visor or the county organizer school improvemeint associations. t 5. Prizes will be awarded in chec sent from the office of the Sta ) superintendent of education. T money will be deposited to the tree of the district in which the priz winning school is located. Tt { money must be spent for the furth improvement of the school winnii it. 6. All reports must be made ( , the printed blanks furnished by t school improvement association. 7. In making applications for prize, the "Clean-up day" sco card, a photograph and any evidenc of improvement should accompai l the regular prize score card. Last year in response to our off of prizes we received applieatio from 147 schools, whose valuation . improvements aggregated *:>7.77: Is it too much to hope for least a ".0 per cent, increase tli year? (Signed) MARY EVA HITE.. " Pres. S. C. School Improvement A sociation. Kvery Man to Hi> Trade. Mark Thistlewaite, private seer - tary to Vice President Marshall, n across a HO-page, hand-written lett from a crank in the office mail oi morning. After reading three pag of it he decided, with a grin. i brighten his chief's clay bv lettii him wade through the documen and accordingly laid it on top of tl pile of letters on his private desk. Vice President Marshall came , with a cheery greeting ana passi into his private office. There w t silence of almost a minute, then tl buzzer sounded. '.Mark." he e r claimed as the secretary appeare i "when I keep a dog, do you suppo I'm going to do my own barking?" >n ^ ' I it ic WAim^iMitwrT#<rnnATrrTIx/aHrv le || IO TUUf\ UUI I ivrrvw luwitiuuna FAMILY WITH VA BANK ACCOUNT ? WHAT WOULD4BECOME OF THEft !? SHOULD YOU DIE PENNILESS*# j S" I id t0 Just look at this picture and THINK. ie as Make OUR bank YOUR bank ir We pay 4 per cent, interest, com- I of pounded quarterly on savings deposits | ; I ? 2 Farmers & Merchants Bank I 1 J BNRNARDT, S. C. J I WEEK-END AND SUMMER 1 E Excursion Rates 11 To The Seashore Via The i ? Atlantic Coast Line || ^ The Standard Railroad of the South. a* ROUND TRIP RATES te -From Denmark to Washington, D. C $21.20 a- From Denmark to Baltimore, Md $21.20 th From Denmark to New York City $30.20 ** From Denmark to Boston, Mass $34.75 he Tickets on sale every day until September 30th, s: ' via Norfolk and Steamer, with final return e- limit October 31st, 1914. From Denmark to Wilmington, N. 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