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BAREFOOT DANCES POPULAR. | Makes Fat Ladies Tliin and Sylph- J Like, Says Teacher. Debutantes dancing in the dew! Dainty debuntantes whirling over the ( grass on bare, pinktaed feet and wav- 1 ing white arms gracefully to the ( rhythm of their fluttering Greek ( | draperies! ' That is what will happen if New ? Orleans society girls take up the out- 1 door dancing fad which Miss Mar- ( garet Rafferty has started in New ( York, Washington and other cities. New Orleans is a big country place, 1 with a wonderful garden to it. There c on the thick, damp grass, the wood t i nymphs, tree fairies and bacchantes will dance this spring?maybe. Cho- 6 pin and Greig melodies will set the 1 measure for the dance. The garden 1 will furnish the right setting, and the t fairies will be interpreted by New t Orleans society girls in knee-length s Greek draperies?very probably. s In Washington Miss Rafferty taught c the ladies of the embassies how to be c fairies. Some of them were not ideal E material at first, but their vigorous $ barefoot tripping soon made some of f them almost thin, says Miss Rafferty. 1 t . "This dancing becomes very popu- s & lar for the reason that it furnishes F the right kind of outdoor exercise, s besides teaching grace of movement t and encouraging the interpretive fac- s ulty," explained Miss Rafferty Tues- t day. "The loose Greek draperies, $ ! sleeveless and reaching to the knee or 1 ankle give the body plenty of free- $ dom and a chance to become grace- a ful. As early as the weather permits p the dances are taught in the open." s Wounds in This War. ^ 1 Wounds inflicted in the present . ^ - war are far more serious than in any ^ previous modern war, declares Sir ^ Anthony Bowlby, the king's surgeon, who treated King George after his recent accident in France, and noth- . ing is more astonishing than the damage done by very small fragments of r high-explosive shells. . Lecturing to the Royal College of j Surgeons, Sir Anthony Bowlby show- |* ed how a bomb barely as big as a|P "baseball exploded into hundreds of j pieces ranging from large fragments iv to a kind of thick dust. He -illusCy. J} trated this by film, showing the number of fragments from a British 11 P bomb exploded under water to pre?&f?erve the pieces. Thirty thousand of these bombs, ^ said Sir Anthony, were used by the * British in the attack on the Hohen- 0 zollern redoubt, and each of them ? cost to manuiacture. Wounds inflicted by modern pre- ^ r.;,- < jectiles, he said, could in no way be compared with those of the Boer war. The bullets of the South Afri :. v " can battles produced much less ^ smashing and rending wounds than V tbe pointed bullets of today. Wounds &|* from shellfire, Dtot.very frequent in South Africa, were not as numerous as those inflicted by bullets. The iniff;it < juries seen in the Boer war were . Infinitely less severe and the com- . plications due to them far fewer and less serious than those of the past year in France. In dealing wTith the effects of shell- ' fire wounds, the royal surgeon said c< the wounds were such as he had never seen in the worst machinery ? aiim'I Ufa TJa l"i o rl eoon tttX'lUCUkS \JL Vlfll iliC. uuu uvv/u gaping wounds as large as a clench- ' ed fist caused by quite small fragments, which evidently owed their ^ pjower of destruction to the extraordinary velocity with which they ^ traveled and to their ragged edges. n This rending asunder was the . special characteristic of all typical ^ gunshot wounds, and it had been " L-*'/ * t ^ shown that the injury caused by the cl bullet was wholly due to the wave of compressed air which the bullet drove in front of it and which ex'> panded within the tissues. "T think," said Sir Anthony, "that 11 the thing that would strike most ? ' forcibly any observant person v brought into a room filled with a ' large number of wounded men just p brought down from a big fight is that nearly all of them are asleep in spite of wounds which one would think would cause such suffering as c to render sleej impossible." An extraordinary operation has \ hoon norfnrmprt nn a wounded JUOt WW*4 W ?? .. British soldier at Sunderland hos- t pital. When at the front a piece of shrapnel struck him on the head and i dislodged a piece of bone. The Sunderland surgeons took strips of bone from the patients shin and filled them * into the skull cavity, which was 3 inches by 4 inches. The new bone ^ knitted with that of the skull and the patient rapidly Recovered. He J is now walking about, with- no sign of his injury except for the scar on * his head. His Sense of Humor. "Every time the baby looks into my face he smiles," said Mr. Meek- r ins. "Well," answered his wife, "it may 1 not b.e exactly polite, but it shows he has a sense of humor." MAKING POWDER. IJefore War 60 to 66 Cents a Pound, 1 Since About $1 to $1.25. It is understood that the volume )f war orders booked by Du Pont las reached an aggregate of $4 00,)00,000. A goodly portion of this mormous business was, of course, illed in the fiscal year to December 31 last, and was t.h? potent factor n the production of the $57,840,758 )f net profits to which the company confessed in the late year. While in years past Du Pont's net 1 1 " -J _ U ? * OA r\ t* las reguiariy lumieu auuui pci ?ent. of gross it is unsafe to assume hat this ratio prevailed during the ate year. It was undoubtedly high- 1 jr because of the high prices which )owder commanded. The highest )rice at which powder sold before ; he war was 66 cents a pound, and he customary range of prices was ilightly under 60 cents. It is under- 1 itood, howrever, that in 1915 the 1 ompany actually delivered its pow- 1 ler under its war contracts for < >rices running between $1.00 and 1 11.25 a pound. 1 On the other hand, it must not be 1 orgotten that the price of the es- 5 ential ingredients entering into the 1 iroduction of powder advanced very 1 harply. Sulphuric acid, of which < he company is a tremendous con- { umer, advanced last year from less 1 han $10 per ton to $25 and even 1 28, while for higher grade concen- ] rated acid fancy prices as high as 45 a ton were paid. Likewise pot- i sh, which is an essential feature of < owder, was steadily climbing to sen- i - * t _ 3 _ _ ^ < ationai levels, a normal graae 01 ? otash salts is today obtainable only 1 a small lots at $480 to $500 a ton. 'he same story is true of alcohol, 1 rThich Du Pont buys in huge quanti- t ies from Distillers Securities and In- 3 ustrial Alcohol. The usual price t or this alcohol is under 30 cents a 3 allon (wine measure). Today i rices are around 65 cents and dur- t ag the last half of 1915 it ruled i ver 50 cents a gallon. It must also be borne in mind that t he powder manufacturers in'1915 < fere making a remarkable plant ex- 1 ansion. t To fill its huge war orders, Du t 'ont had to grow, and grow quickly, i 'his meant that at the high point as t iany as 20,000 men were engaged < ii new construction at different ] lant centres. And, of course, this ( ew construction was charged to re- i eipts and formed part of the cost of i lling war orders. These are some < f the facts which make calculation l f gross based on a normal ratio of i et to gross extremely impractical.? j Vail Street Journal. s Ten-l^ear-Old Marvel. j t? AmonVflii Magazine f 1X1 Lilt/ l*jaiV/il auiv/>iv?u . 3 an account of Raymond Ray, of s ,os Angeles, California, the ten-year- c Id marvel who at his present pace t ill have his Ph. D. at the age of 5, outstripping in actual learning the g erman wonder of the last century, t [arl Witte. While his contemporar- ^ is are locating the Atlantic ocean he t ; engrossed in advanced Spanish and s tiemistry. c "As soon as Raymond began to t ike notice of the world about him, is mother taught him to distinguish c olors, the most striking onies like j rhite, black, red, and blue being tak- t n first. She always talked to him c s she would to an adult, scorning aby talk, as degrading to his intelli- I ence. Pictures were used a great t eal. Before he was ten months old \ e learned to call the presidents of f tie United States by their right ames. His progress in reading was ist as remarkable. At the age of a ear and a half he knew his alphabet, t three he could read and write, and t five he read 'Hiawatha' in public. "The boy is well developed physially; strong, athletic and keenly live to his finger tips. He has a atural talent for music and dramatic rt and has repeatedly appeared in ublic. His mother claims that he > not a prodigy and that any normal ov could accomplish as much with roper training." To the Mocking Bird. )h sweetest of songsters! The South's best loved bird; Vhen 'mid sunshine and flowers Your dear notes are heard; Lnd in lone silent watches 'Neath the moon's clear pale light, 5our pure notes and fond trillings TVU/N Tr/\/irk 1 +V> n n i t iviitrvc vuv-ai mc uignu. v 3ut than all else far dearer, In the wake of the storm Yith the gray sky still lowering; Chilled spirits to warm, fou fill the tense stillness With carols so gay, ' U1 is changed in a moment By lilt of your lay. >o we love you, fair songster, < You lover so true, < Tis heart throbbings you're pouring When her you'd sue. dore varied than nightingale i Or linnet or lark four music unceasing In daylight or dark. ?Elizabeth G. Legare. 1 WARNING AGAINST CHAMOIS. The Deadly Combination of Elec- \ tricity and Gasoline Pointed Out. Garage men, beware! Autoists, attention! There is death in the 1 chamois strainer. Whenever you fil- v ter gasuime uuuugu tiiamuia >uu aie I playing hide and seek with one of s the deadliest combinations known t to man?electricity and gasoline. \ If your tank is under the seat, be y careful when you fill it, says the c Timken Magazine. If you are not k you will be as foolish as the man a who looks for a gas leak with a light- s ed candle. t< Never strain gasoline through a c chamois. Now we'll tell you why it i is dangerous. r Gasoline and chamois do not get v along. They are "incompatibles." c Let us assume that you are about i to fill your tank. The funnel is in a the nozzle. A chamois strainer is in k the funnel. The gasoline is turned d on and as it pours through the a ihamois it generates static electrici-jo ty. Static electricity may be defined n as electricity that is at rest. It is an ]< agent neither of construction nor de- I struction, so long as nothing is done s to unleash it. Unleash it, knowing- n [yor unknowingly, by brushing a h ilumsy finger against a natural law, n and you have to deal with the most n iiabolical physical agent known, a r torce that destroys with the quick- jj less of lightning. a ? ' ' _ 1 9 J1 Static electricity, as we nave saia, y s now in the funnel. The funnel is a charged with it. So long as the fun- ^ lei fits securely into the mouth of :he tank, thus creating a "ground," fou are safe. Now, for the sake of excitement, n et us assume that you did not allow ;he funnel to rest inside the nozzle of a four tank, as the gasoline seeped n ;hrough the chamois skin. Either ^ fourself or someone else held the a * rr :unnel in midair, or it rested free of ;he sides of the tank. No "ground" f vas formed. 15 We have seen that gasoline, a vola- c ;ile substance, passing through v ihamois forms static electricity, * svhich charges the funnel. When ^ ;he amount of electricity is sufficient ^ ;o produce a jump spark, that spark, ^ .'ollowing the enevitable law of elec- e :ricity attraction, jumps to the near- d sst "ground," which is youB tank. n [n doing so it must pass across the P jpening between the end of the fun- u lei and the edge of the tank through | s vhich gasoline vapor is rising. Sud- ^ ienly there is a violent discharge, a ike that of lightning, which is, after $ ill, a gigantic jump spark. All those 0 :n close relation are, as it were, struck by lightning. ^ Many have been burned and scar- b *ed for life through ignorance of this a lend of elctricity. Many more, it is sad to relate, have been measured b >ut on their last cool bed. No one vas able to tell just why they died. & The moral to be derived from this! r irticle is this: Do not put gasoline ^ hrough chamois skin. But if you n vill insist on taking chances, be sure * hat you have a "ground" on it, by seeing that the funnel touches the " >pening of the tank. Be doubly sure h hat you take this precaution. d Fire department statistics of many ^ :ities show that an overwhelming t x - * ? ?*?? *?<. n-ra no 11CO hi' I SI )er ceni. 01 auiu mco Cli C VUUW MJ | ising chamois with gasoline?a fatal " :ombination. We are indebted to Francis R. and '>ed C. Henderson, truck manufac- tl urers of North Cambridge, Mass., 0 vho have furnished us with the in- ^ ormation that prompts this article, s Bitter experience has recently been c< heirs?an experience that nearly de- ^ )rived them of son and nephew. ^ Bound to learn the reason of this ie :asualty, as well as of four fatalities nn the city of Boston during the past ?: rear, from an identical cause, the T( wo brothers searched for a clue that u night lead to the overthrow of this C veird genii of destruction, by drag- ?: ?ing him into the light where men iould see, know and evade him. At- t< ;er diligent study and almost constant thought they pried up the n c? ;ruth, which we have related here. 0 It might not be out of place in this p irticle to state that thousands of tl people do not know that the vapor ^ rising from gasoline, when mixed a tvith the atmosphere in proper proportion, is one of the most dangerous C explosives. ^ What He Would Do. As the subject for their weekly essay the schoolmaster asked his pupils to say what they would do if they i had $500,000. T At once all heads were bent save G one, and pens scratched busily. The t< one exception was little Willie. He calmly sat doing nothing, twiddling his fingers and watching the flies on the ceiling. At the end of the time the master collected the papers and Willie handed over a blank sheet. I "How's this. Willie?" asked the master. "Is this your essay? Why, all the others have written at least c two sheets, while you do nothing " C "Well," replied Willie, "that's y B what I would do if I were a mil- 3 lionaire!"?Philadelphia Record. I SEARCHING THE BOTTOM. Vice Drag Parties That Secure Accurate Surveys. The old method of sounding with ead lines gave very incomplete sureys of coasts and wire drags have eciently revolutionized hydrographic urveying. The report of the secreary of commerce shows that the four vire drag parties maintained last 'ear by the United States at a total ost of $80,000?two parties in Alas:a and two on the Atlantic coast? .chieved great and even startling reults. Submerged dangers were deected even in the oft surveyed waters >f .Massachusetts bay, near so old and mportant a port as Boston. One ock with 25 feet of water over it vas found where 51 feet had been harted; another with 21 feet over t where 41 feet had been recorded; ,nd a 15 foot boulder was made nown near Scituate, where the least epths previously indicated were 26 nd 28 1-2 feet. Similarly, dangerus unknown rocks were revealed tear New York city in the .channel wading from the East river into Long sland sound. In Alaska, a short eason of three months brought to otice 21 dangerous submerged rocks a 4 2 miles of chann.el, and one pinacle surpassing the Washington lonument in height, was found to ise to within 17 feet of the surface a water charted from the soundings s 654 feet deep. In the middle of Vhale passage, a vessel lately struck n uncharted rock with but 15 feet of rater over it. Fighting Drug Use in Prisons. Apparently so long as prisoners, rug victims, desire "dope" and have ccess to money or friends with loney to spend for it, it is difficult _ a prevent some keeper from acting s e^n-between. savs the New York O ~ " 7 ^ ? 'ribune. Every little while an offiial of the Tombs or the penitentiary 3 discovered to be peddling drugs or arrying them to the prisoners to ,rhom he has access. It is a risky rade, and obviously the wages are igh?higher far than the city's pay or honest service, which accounts or the ease with which the prisonrs find somebody to smuggle in the rugs. According to a scale of paylents disclosed by the arrest of a enitentiary keeper yesterday for this nderground traffic, it cost $25 for a ingle trip of the go-between to Manattan or the Bronx to obtain drugs nd deliver them. ' A special rate of 17 a trip, though, could be obtained n a six months' contract. It is evident from the frequency nth which these smuggling cases are rought to light that the authorities re vigilant. No great detective skill s required to know that drugs are eing used by inmates of the penientiary, for instance; but much inenuity and patience are needed to un down the guilty drug handlers, lore than circumstantial evidence lust be obtained. These are cases 'here to make a mistake would be a srrible handicap to the authorities i future. Miss Davis and her aids ave determined to stamp out the rug habit among prisoners?at least ffiile they are prisoners. It is grati ping that they are, on the wnoie, ncceeding so well. SCHOOL ELECTION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that upon le written petition of more than ne-third of the resident electors, ad a like proportion of the resident ee-holders of Hunter's Chapel hool District No. 16, of Bamberg Dunty, S. C., at the age of 21 years, a election will be held at the Hunt's Chapel school house on Tuesday, pril 11, 1916, for the purpose of jvying a special school tax of 4 B lills on all real and personal prop- = rty in Hunter's Chapel School Dis ict No. 1 6. Only such electors as ?turn real or personal property for ixatiofi, are residents of Hunter's hapei School District No. 16, and xhibit their tax receipts and regis*ation certificates as required in eneral elections, shall be allowed 3 vote. Electors favoring the levy of 4 lills special tax will cast a ballot ontaining the word "YES" printed r written thereon, and electors op-^ osed will cast a ballot containing* tie word "NO" printed or written hereon. The polls will be opened at 7 a. m. nd closed at 4 p. m. J. H. Fender, D. O. Hunter and D. >. Steedley are appointed managers o conduct said election. R. W. D. ROWELL, S. G. MAYFIELD, J. H. A. CARTER, County Board of Education. Bamberg, S. C., March 21, 1916. nvigoratlng to the Pale and Sickly 'he Old Standard general strengthening tonic, DROVE'S TASTELESS chi'l TONIC, drives out lalaria.enriches the blood.and builds uo the sys?m. A true tonic. For adults aud children. 50c FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. C. Yhenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless hill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because' it contains the veil known tonic properties of QUININE ind IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives >ut Malaria, Enriches the Blood and luilds up the Whole System. 50 certs. 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