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There is now plenty I >of time to organize the association ?0.^ and arrange for the holding of a fair next fall. ; The fact that President Wilson, in ? his speech-making campaign for preparedness, met with the biggest re- . fep ception in Milwaukee would seem to ^ Sl- S indicate that the popular belief that l fft'" if this country should become em-| I broiled in the world war the hyphenated Americans would not respond to the country's call, is not correct. Milwaukee is the home of many Gei*-| * mans, and the president's ahdience ||g- there was composed largely of Germans. It seems to be the desire of the !%:' * general assembly to do something toward making the prohibition law really prohibit. With this idea in S view, why does not the general asf* :? sembly start the thing right be rer-S pealing the gallon-a-month law? The |v v * people have voted for State-wide pro. hibition. It is to be. presumed that j they want State-wide prohibition. The general assembly would be en- ^ ^ tirely justified in repealing the law, , allowing anyone to order a gallon a f; month, ^This law does more than ? ' v ' , . * C r~_ anything else to prevent the enforce- f &r';C; ?ment of prohibition. It opens an ^ avenue for blind tigers to get their \ goods. They can order whiskey in t any quantity by simply hfeving it t ' ' " ->- * * ~ J J ! snipped to uiuereui auuiessca. auu ^ the officers cannot touch the whiskey thus ordered. The house now wants t to grant a $50,000 appropriation to t enforce the law. A much smaller e Vsum would be needed, if any at all, c N if the law allowing any whiskey at all s to be shipped into the State were tak- c en the books. The legislature ap- a pears to be very careful in trying to c do nothing the people* don't want t them to do; then let the legislature c be honest about it. The people have t voted for prohibition; gentlemen give a the people prohibition: ^ A Cargo of Skulls. c With mileage behind her equal to t p;V' twice around the world, and with j . three years' seafaring since she left f Southhampton for the South Seas, j the schooner yacht, Mana, Capt. Har- ( ry Gillam, came through the heads ^ bearing as cargo many crates and 5 fe' boxes containing skulls and other c firruearfine remains of former resi- + f;\ dents of Easter island in the south \ Pacific, says a San Francisco dispatch c m of January 21. r The yacht is owned by R. S. Rout- z ledge, of London, who has been col- ( lecting anthropological specimens for the British museum. Accompanied - by his wife, the scientist arrived here by steamer from Honolulu two weeks < : V <- ago and will go home to England 011 ( the Mana when he can pass through 3 , the Panama canal. 1 In February, 1913, the Mana, regis- i tered with the Royal Cruising club, s left Southhampton with her owner and his wife on board and a crew of 1 ten all told. To the south Pacific < they'came, via Magellan, using sails 1 except in calms, when the 38-horse < power engine was put into commis- . p? sion. i At Easter island, Routledge -es t tablished headquarters, and for nearIy two years dug abound among the ruins of the little dot on the Pacific. He unearthed specimens of prehistoric peoples and has them all cased and labeled for shipment to Great Britain. , J# ; \ Sao OL1) TIME HEME DIES. ! Old Time Folks Were Foolish About j 1 Patent Medicines like Folks Now. Because Americans buy and use such large quantities of patent medi1 1 cines that many manufacturers have 1 made large fortunes in the business i one might naturally conclude that I there is a great deal physically wrong c with the people of this country ana i that this is the age of patent medicines, but it appears that secret medi- I cal preparations were made and vend- c ed in large quantities many centuries t ago. Indeed a few of their secret f remedies became so popular and i were considered of so much value to ( ailing humanity that the reigning t monarchs in past, centuries bought the secrets from their discoverers, i paying them large sums of money. It has been found, for example, that i King Louis XIV, of France, paid j handsome sums for three such prep- i arations, namely Helvetius' ipecac ' remedy, Glauber's kermis mineral i and Talbir's cinchono remedy. It would seem that some of the ? early secret remedies must have pos- i sessed some merit for some that were patented as early as the sixteenth ] and seventeenth centuries are now ] standard remedies, being highly es- < teemed and sold in large quantities. ] An interesting and unusual fact in i connection with some of the inedi- j cines which made their debut as pat- z ent remedies is that they are now beld in good repute by the practicing r physicians who prescribe them for j their patients. Among them are r Fowler's solution of pottassium arse- i nate, which was first made by an t apothecary named Fowler,, who kept t the remedy a secret and refused to t admit that it contained arsenic. An- ^ Dther is paregoric, which was originated by Dr. Le Mort, of the Leyden t University, and still another is Do- 5 iter's powders, first prepared by j rhomas Dover, a doctor and pirate, t Common bicarbonate of soda, which c is universally used in cooking, was t >riginated under the name of "uni /ersal salz," a Berlin apotnecary. c Although all modern physicians t ook with contempt on. patent medi- r lines some of the earliest of the pre- t ?arations were introduced by physh s iians. For example, one Doctor i Gregory, a professor of medicine at 1 Edinburgh, originated a compound of i hubarb; Doctor Turner, a distin- s juished surgeon of London, introluced an ointment?calamine olnt- f nent?and Doctor Sydenham, a not- e ;d English physician, brought out i vine of opium.?Pathfinder. , y Long Range Sea Fights. The fight in the North Sea began s welve miles away. When the \] Bleucher was struck, she was ten ailes from her English enemy. When s 7on Spee and Cradock fought off ^ }hile, they opened fire at distance >f 12,000 yards; and Cradock had a >ld-fashioned, obsolete ships. If oldashioned, obsolete ships open fire at f 2,000 yards, what the superdread- p oughts can do may be guessed. What t hey can do, experts say frankly, is n hrow a 2,000-pound projectile 25 j? niles with such accurate range-find- s ill ?nlv ts mat tne aenecuuu wm uc vinj- p wenty yards for six miles. In fact, $ he improvement and change in naval iqliipment has been so swift and revilutionary that the life of a battlehip has been rated first rank for >nly five years.. In speed, in size, in A ,rmor proof and big gun fire the B hanges have come so fast since 1905 P< hat the nations had either to fight it li ut or cripple themselves financially tc uilding bigger monsters of the sea; md oddly enough, the changes all s< late from a little "cheese box on a te loating saucepan," the Monitor of tc ivil war fame. From the time the c< Jonitor and the Merrimac spat out ti heir fire cracker shots at each other, a: t has been a race among the nations F or speed, armor proof, big guns and ong range. Those best informed de- w ;lare that the big guns and speed g lave rendered secondary both armor C >roof and submarine; but these areln lisputes that will be finally settled in P he present war. Neither side has e lad any monopoly of courage. The c< courage of both sides has been mag- o lificent?almost terrible, but speed ind the big guns have won.?Review h >f Reviews. h m h The Oldest Methodist. n Georgia has the distinction of n Maiming as a citizen the oldest Meth- i< odist in America, in the person of s Mrs. McEIroy, of Clarkston, knojvn j io hundreds of friends by the more t intimate title of'"Granny"' McEIroy, g says an Atlanta dispatch. u She is exactly 100 years old, and a has been a member of Prospect Meth- t Ddist church 90 years. She is a char- e ter member of the church, and the v only charter member now living. She e ininpri when she was onlv ten years u old, and when the church, now stand- a ing close to the city and amid vil- y lages and farms, was a religious land- s mark in the wilderness, on the actual t outposts of civilization. c She still attends the onarterly i meetings of the church of which she I is a member, and still delights to c sing the good old .Methodist hymns, c I V* .7 i,. SHORTAGE OF FFKTILIZFBS. farmers Will Be Compelled to Use Limited Amount This Year. The cessation of potash shipments Tom Germany as a result of the European war has raised the price of nuriate of potash from $25 to nearly ?500 a ton and has reduced the imount of potash put into fertilizer Tom 5 to 1 per cent., according to manufacturers of fertilizer materials. The scarcity of phosphate stores is causing serious concern not only to he manufacturers but also to the armers, who will on account of the ncreased price be compelled to use )nly a limited quantity of fertilizers , his year. The following resume of ? the situation recently appeared in ? the Savannah Morning News: . ''Present indications are said to be that when the present limited supply is exhausted the nation will be en- j tirely without the necessary product. 1 Though a number of substitutes have been tried the experiments have been , attended with small success. It was ^ stated that the entire world is dependent on Germany for potash. "All that now remains was brought here from Germany. The last shipment from that country reached here ^ pver a year ago. Gradually the stores have been drawn on and as these diminished the prices of the various * grades of the chemical soared higher md higher. "There are five grades of potash. The lowest is kainit, which contains ibout 16 per cent, of pure potash. * The highest grade is muriate of potish, containing about 50 per cent, of he pure material. Kainit, which sold )efore the war at $8 a ton, now c >rings $108. Muriate of potash was vorth $35 a ton two years ago. f "The element is contained in cot- c ? on seed meal and ground tobacco items in small quantities. It was minted' out that the solution was not c o be found here, however, as the 1 luantities of the two substances con- 1 aining potash are limited. "Fields of potash in various parts 1 >f the country are being worked with * at slight success. It is said that ; Pintail colatilizes the substance prac- c ically as soon as it is forced to the an ace. One field in Peru has been s \ ccated, it was stated, but the prob- ^ en: of shipping it without exposing I t to moisture has not^ as yet been olved. ' c "One person connected with the I ertilizer and chemical trade is quot- ( d as saying: 'There are certain soils a n this couhtry that will cease to ^ ield and become absolutely barren ^ - * ' ? ?-l i? a f tne potasn raaen out uy umiam ? rops is not returned in the form of i ome inexpensive fertilizer contain- s ng potash, and at present pricas that 1' 5 impossible. The situation is more erious for farming interests than the t [ye situation is for the dyers.' \ i "Farmers have been converted by , German phosphate propaganda, it t 5 declared, to the continued use of t ertilizer containing 5 per cent, of hosphate. It is said that the reduc- ? ion of the ratio to 2 per cent, has net with considerable objection. . It 1 > probable that the quantity of neces- ^ ity will be further reduced. One t er cent, phosphate fertilizer is pre- d icted." ^ t South Carolina Generals. d s At the opening of hostilities on d pril 12-14, 1861, Gen. P. G. T. E eauregard, of Louisiana, was ap- e Dinted to command the South Caro- y na forces in and around Charles- c >n. ' t After the surrender of Maj. Ander- v )n and the evacuation of I^ort Sum- t jr. Gen. Beauregard was transferred C ) Virginia and appointed to the y jmmand of a brigade of Confederate o 'oops. He was a great strategist f nd won the title of "The Hero of fc irst Manassas." r Of the native South Carolinian^ t ho attained the rank of brigadier eneral and major general in the < onfederate service, we will first \ lention our own well beloved Wade a [ampton, who rose from major gen- t tral to lieutenant general of cavalry, g ommanding all of the cavalry forces t f the Army of Northern Virginia. Of his fame we need say nothing z ere as his name has gone down in ( istory as being second to none in I is branch of the service, .and of his a oble deeds after the war closed we eed mention only that he was the t ?ader during the great effort to ( hake off the rule of the Yankee car- c )et bagger and nefarious government c hat was forced upon our State by the e overnment of the United States and nder which we were forced to live i nd submit from '68 to '76, at which t ime the white people arose and call- J d to the leadership Hampton, under I /horn we won our second independ- s nee and finally rid the State of the - ? * -1 - - ---1- - U - ^1 4 inprincipiea norues wuu uau iuuucu i nd misgoverned us for eight long t ears. No son of South Carolina de- c erved or received greater praise c han Hampton, nor should we ever t ease to love and honor his name. Maj. Gen. Matthew C. Butler, of f "dgefield. commanded a division of i avalry under Hampton and was one f ?f the best fighters in the service, j FAVOIIS TAX COMMISSION. Senate Votes to Kill Kill Seeking to llepeal Act Creating Body. * Columbia. Feb. 2.?The senate went on record today by a more than 4- ^ ^ t ? in fo t'av r\ f* roto in_ L ? U LU U11C V UlC 111 lai ui wi imuiuing the State tax commission. The bill seeking to repeal the act creating the commission was killed by a vote or 29 to 13, after an extended debate for and against the commission. The fight to repeal the act was led by Senator Stuckey, of Lee county. After the close of the war he was elected to the United States senate and served in that capacity until the Tillman dynasty effected his defeat and retired him to private life. Martin W. Gary, also of Edgefield county, attained to the position of a brigadier general, serving in Hampton's corps of cavalry. Gary was Dne of the most daring officers in the service, being very popular.as an officer and idolized by his men and though he was the prince of fighters he never received the promotion that he deserved, which was a great disaDDointment to him as well as his friends. After the war closed he became an ictive worker for the State and took iiis rank among the deliverers from >ur political enemies and was one of ;he leaders of the celebrated Wallace house in 1876. After the war jlosed he became an active worker 'or the State. He was thought to be m aspirant for the office of governor, but failed of the object, which ;aused him very painful disappointnent and probably caused his early leath. Gary was a brave soldier, a levoted son of a widowed mother and i loyal citizen of the State. Some other generals of South Car>lina were "Fighting Dick" Anderson, Stephen D. Lee, Benjamin Juger, J. B. Kershaw, Stephen Eliott, Ellison Capers, Milledge L. Bonham, Micah Jenkins, Barnard E. Bee, Samuel McGowan, Abner Perrin, John Bratton an dothers whom I lo not recall. Among South Carolinians who lerved the cause from other States vere Generals Hill and Longstreet, ^aw and Young. ; Of those first named Anderson :ounty lays claim to only one, Ste>hen D. Lee, who not only served the Confederacy with rare distinction as i brilliant and successful leader in rar, but, who after the close of the yar became a distinguished educator, ,nd was made president of a college n Mississippi, where he proved himelf to be eo,ually successful as a eader in peaceful pursuits. Gen. Lee was born in Charleston, lis father, Dr. Thomas Lee, removng to Anderson district prior to the war and settled near the present own of Starr. Gen. Lee was a relaive of Gen. W. W. Humphreys, of Anderson,- and often visited here phile a resident of Mississippi. Gen. Ellison Capers commanded :he Twenty-fourth South Carolina Volunteers and.served in the Army of he West after promotion to brigaiier general. He was transferred to Virginia, where he continued until he surrender. He returned to Anderson where he made his home for a ho^t while, taking up the* study of divinity, preparatory to entering the episcopal ministry in which he servd long and acceptably, being for e^rs bishop of the diocese of South Carolina. His father was bishop 01 i nTinrnVi nri Ar f t~\ flip I1U Jl^lliUUldt U11U1 til pnui tv v**v par and died in Anderson. His son,he Rev. W. T. Capers, was rector of Jrace church, Anderson, for several ears and is now an Episcopal bishop if Texas. Nothing could be said of Cllison Capers but good, for he emlodied all of .the Christian graces tecessarv to his holy office, he was a rave soldier and model citizen. Gen. Milledge L. Bonham, father 3f the present Gen. M. L. Bonham, ras a native of Edgefield county and iter serving as brigadier general in he Confederate army, was elected governor of South Carolina during he early days of the war. Gem Samuel McGowan was a citi" 1 1 " 11 - T T ^ r.rt*Trn/4 llnrlor I Gil OI AUUevilie. lie aci *cu uuuvi Jen. Pierce Butler, of the famous ^almetto regiment of South Carolina, ind won distinction. . Gen. Abner Perrin was also of Abjeville county, served under McJowan and after promotion to brigalier general was placed in command >f a Mississippi brigade and was killid in battle. Had the war lasted a little longer Anderson would have had two addi-: I ional generals in the persons of Col. | ioseph N. Brown and Maj. W. W. Humphreys, but promotions were ilow. Gen. Barnard E. Bee was killed at j he first battle of Manassas, being s he first South Carolina general to iffer up his life on the altar of his -f i ountry. His grave is in oia renaieon. That these sketches are written rom memory may account for their lot being in proper order and also or any lack of detail.?By Eliza Ma-! ior, Palmetto chapter, Anderson. jM UNDER the provisions of the nev money is SAFER THAN EV stands guardian. Periodical e are made for the benefit of deposito] against its liabilities is kept with th the PERSONAL INTEGRITY of tl institution. NEW ACCOUNl CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 4 Per Cent. Interest Pa W% 1 bamberg b FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that I, G Frank Bamberg, Executor of the estate of Shady S. Broughton, deceased,, will on Saturday, March 4th, 1916, at ten o'clock, a. m., make application before G. P. Harmon, Judge of Probate, at his office at Bamberg, S. C., for a final discharge as. executor of the said estate of Shady S. Broughton. G. FRANK BAMBERG, Executor. Bamberg, S. C., Jan. 27th, 1916. NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. All persons interested in the estate of Annie Carter, deceased, are hereby notified that the undersigned administrator of said estate will make his final return to the Probate Judge of Bamberg County on the 29th day of February, 1916, and at said time will ask for an order of final discharge as such administrator. J. E. 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