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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Miss Ottie Harrison is spending this week at home. ?Mr. G. W. Johns, of Baldock, spent the week-end in the city. ?Mr. Sam Rowell, of Clemson col1 ege, spent the week-end at home. ?Miss Leona Brabham, of Coker college, Hartsville, spent the weekend at home. ?Mr. C. L. Etheredge, of Charlotte, N. C., spent a few days in the city last week. ?Miss Dorothy Adams left last week for Kirksev, S. C., where she ",1 "t. iVtin > r>f ov Win leat'il LlliO nmiv.. ?Miss Kate Rentz, who is teaching at Walterboro, spent the weekend in the city at her home. ?Miss Thelma Bailey, of Barnwell, spent the week-end in the city at the home of Dr. J. B. Black. ?Mrs. H. W. McMillan has returned to the city from Aiken, where she has been visiting relatives. ?Mr. Decania Dowling left last week on a business trip to Detroit, Mich., and other northern cities. ?Mr. D. R. Matheny left a few days ago for the Riverside hospital, Charleston, to undergo treatment. ?Miss Leonie Padgett, of Walterboro, returned to her home Monday after a visit to Miss Bessie Lee Black. ?Mr. Tom Harrison, of Augusta, was here last week to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Harrison. ?Mr. J. Z. Harrison and family, of Smoaks, was here last week on account of the death of Mrs. Harrison. ?Miss Moselle Moore, of Winthrop college, spent the week-end in the city with her sister, Mrs. Glenn W. Cope. ?Miss Nell Black, of Winthrop college, accompanied by her friend, Miss Ruth Hodges, spent the weekend in the city. ?Mr. Frank Adams has returned ^ home from Galveston, Texas, where he went to visit his brother, who has been ill for several weeks. Savannah on October zi. When Uncle Sam Spends. There is a striking difference between municipal and federal methods in conducting identical work. The quarantine station at Gallup's Island is now out of the jurisdiction of the local health officials and under the broader direction of the health authorities at Washington. The first year's plans for improvement include the expenditure of at least $100,000, with a new detention cottage for cabin passengers, an enlarged and reconstructed pier, a bath and disinfection building, which is sorely needed; a breakwater and a boarding steamer. It will be interesting to compare the progress of the work with the progress that would be expected were this a municipal undertaking. The federal government does some things well?notably where construction contracts are concerned.?Boston Journal. Just received a carload of wire fence. See me at once if you are in the market for fencing. S. W. Copeland, Ehrliardt, S. C.?adv. ?Messrs. Roy Cooner and Claude Smoak, of the University of South Carolina, spent the. week-end in the city at their respective homes. ?Miss Sarah Clinkscales, of Abbeville, who is teaching in the graded school at Ehrhardt, spent Sunday in the city with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Risher. , ?Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Wilson I arrived in the city Tuesday nigh? from their wedding trip. They are residing at the home of Dr. and Mrs. George F. Hair on Railroad avenue. Notes From Carlisle School. _ * Last week the societies met and elected following members of the Laconian staff: Editor-in-chief, Waldo Lever, Richland county; assistant editor-in-chief, Lawton Wiggins,; Berkeley county; business manager, Arthur Whetsell, Orangebxrrg county; assistant business manager, McGee Bamberg, Bamberg county; literary editor, Dewey Munn, Florence county; assistant literary editor, Miss Lula Belle Stabler, Calhoun county; exchange editor, Miss Octavia Yarley, Colleton county; athletic editor, Austin Moore, Fairfield county; local editor, Clyde Bislrop, Bamberg county. Prof. W. C. Duncan and several of the students were Carlisle's representatives at the State fair and Harvest Jubilee. Marion McCants entertained several of his home folks here last Sunday. Miss Bertha Kinard accompanied her father, Mr. A. W. Kinard, to the State fair last Wednesday. Head Master J. C. Guilds addressed the Sunday-school at North last Sunday at their rally day services. Prof. Fairey and Coach Whitaker accompanied the foot ball team to DOES TICK ERADICATION PAY? South Carolinians Testify to Value of Eradication Work. Washington, D. C., Oct. 31.?The cattle tick has been driven out of 294,014 square miles, considerably more than one-third of the area it once infested. Are the people in this area glad or sorry that they took the trouble to get rid of the pest? In order to answer this question the United States department of agriculture sent out, a year or two ago, a circular letter to stockmen and farmers who had helped in the fight. In this letter these men were asked to state what had been, in their opinion, the increase in their county in the average value per head of cattle, in the weight of cattle, and in the grade or quality of cattle; approximately what losses there had been from Texas fever before tick eradication; whether cattle raising had become more popular since the tick had gone: what increase there had been in purebred stock; and the effect upon the dairy industry. To these questions something over 1,000 replies were received from Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. From these replies it appears that the average value of cattle in the tick-free portions of the eleven States increased after tick eradication $9.76 a head. In Texas the increase was placed at $13.79, in South Carolina $9.25, and in Alabama at only $7.70. The increase in weight ranged from 11 per cent, in Texas to 23 per cent, in Mississippi, the average for the entire tick-free territorybeing 19.14 per cent. In other words, the cattle are considered to be one-fifth heavier in the counties from which the tick had been eradicated. The quality for the eleven States was placed at one-fourth better than when under quarantine conditions. The estimate of losses before tick eradication from Texas fever ranged from 9 per cent, in Georgia to 15 per cent, in Mississippi and North Carolina. The average for the eleven States was placed at 13 per cent. These figures, of course, do not take into account the depreciation in value due to stunted growth, discrimination in markets, shrinkage in milk production, etc., but refer only to actual deaths. The increase in milk production following tick eradication was placed at 23 per cent, per head for all the States, the greatest in" ~ ~ ? ? XT iL crease being zo per cent, in i\urui Carolina. In Mississippi and Oklahoma, however, the increase was estimated at 24 per cent. In replying to the questions in the circular letter already mentioned, a number of the farmers and stockmen took the opportunity to express in other ways their personal opinions of the results of tick eradication. One Alabama man wrote from Sumter county: "There is as much difference between ticks and no ticks as there is between an up-to-date business man and an old fogy. In fact, if we had kept the ticks we would have been knocked out in ten years." From Baxter county, Arkansas, another man wrote: "We consider the eradication work has been worth thousands of dollars to Baxter county. As our county is not very good for farming, we depend mostly on our cattle for a living and we can't raise cattle and fever ticks in the same county with any success." In regard to its effect upon the dairy industry a Putnam county, Georgia, man said: "Tick eradication and the dairy industry have pro- j gressed hand in hand here in Putnam county. It is generally conceded^that our creamery (the only successful cooperative one in the State) is successful because of tick eradication." From Mississippi a \ stockman wrote: "To show you an instance of what tick eradication has done for us; on yesterday I soid to a feeder from Kentucky a carload of feeders (Angus grades) for $6 per hundredweight, weighed up on my own farm. This is the highest priced load of this class of cattle that I have ever known to be sold in the State." If this man's county had still been under quarantine it would, of course, have been impossible to have sent his feeders into Kentucky at all. An otner .Mississippi man saia. 1 nave been in the cattle business myself in Chickasaw county for twenty years and I regard the eradication of ticks as a great benefit to the cattle growers of Mississippi. I am shipping my cattle now to East St. Louis and they go into the free pens. They bring 50 to 75 cents per 100 more than they would in the quarantine pens." An Oklahoma man brought up the matter of importing pure-bred stock. "I have just shipped in," he wrote, "one car of pure-bred calves and I have two neighbors that have shipped in a car each. Before tick eradication we could not handle this class of cattle as they would die of fever." From Stonewall county, Texas, a stockman wrote: "I figure that two men by bringing in ticky cattle have N II Next We I IN SOU A cordial invitation over and see what the to represent their sect I will have. There will TUESDAY, NO"\ WEDNESDAY, : THURSDAY, N( FRIDAY, NOV. REDUCED RATES ' Midwav Attractions ffl I times daily on ground H I ture every day. I FOOT BALL G Carlisle will meet P U ?amb( I Southei I W. W. SMOAK, Secretary. ANDREW CARNEGIE. ' CHIIXATt Schwab Tells How the Magnate Got' _ . , i ^o Other Telepl His Start. ' ; ~ ~TT7T ~~ Chinese dialects cost the county from $7o,000 to ^ uarter A $100j000. One man lost about 50 .. U/er' . v _ , , scnber does not ( out of every 100 head and several . . , ? girls must reme others lost heavily. ei ~ ^ ? number of all s1 From South Carolina. . . , , ... memory which Tick eradication has put new life . _ _ American 'centn into cattle raising in our county. If j * we could only get like cooperation in j ^re you raisjr the stamping out of hog cholera, our or mongrels? people will then turn to hog rais- ^est an(j is no ing.?J. A. Woodley, Marboro coun- keep< ty. Have watched the cattle proposition since the eradication of the - < ?w tick, and everyooay gives 11 praise, j m*Have particularly noticed the better |l J grade of cattle; also have never heard j J ol or seen a tick since the work was j done. I hope the good work will con-j are the only one tinue for the South.?S. P. Clark, *or a shabby ; 0 . . , ers judge you, 1 Spartanburg county. but what vou a I lost $400 or $500 from the ticks, though you be d myself before I knew what it was.' of fashion if yoi Lost some of the best milk cows I: neS^ected, you ar ever owned. The money spent for I -n aetBarber ?ShoJ tick eradication is money well spent, ordinary place. Best thing the government has done service, and do s for this section. Cattle that sold here an(* us show for 3 to 4 cents on foot now sell from _ _ ^ 4 to 5 1-2 cents right here on my |m/| A farm. I used all my influence in as- ATA ?m. sisting your men here in their work. R A RRC 1 thank you for what you did for me. Ur*I\iiL I hope you will continue the work.? "Satisfaction or ^ A. W. Rodgers, Greenwood county. ' BAMBi In the November American Magazine Charles M. Schwab says: # "No other tele "Andrew Carnegie first attracted i found in our attention by using his head to think town branch of 1 with. It was when he was a tele- St. Nicholas. "It graph operator on the Pennsylvania of Orient am railroad under Col. Thomas A. Scott, from the street, i One morning a series of wrecks Pekin, set dowi taugled up the line. ' Col. Scott was an^ its curvii ! absent and young Carnegie could not oddly out of pla locate him. Things looked bad. ventional brick 1 "Right then Carnegie disregarded *t. It is a bit < ' one of the road's strictest rules and j highly colored | sent out a dozen telegrams signed i ture from a fan. j with Col. Scott's^name, giving orders ' "The visitor I that would clear' the blockade/ teously received I " 'Vnnntr man ' said tha stmerin- tive garb: but a tendent a few hours later, 'do you versation reveal realize tLat you have broken this business man? company's rules?' everything but h " 'Well, Mr. Scott, aren't your It is Mr. Loo Ki tracks clear and your trains run- the Chinatown < ning?' asked the young telegrapher, cal expert and efi "Col. Scott's punishment was to of fourteen oper make Carnegie his private secretary, done by this cen A few years later, when the colonel city and out of retired from office, he was succeeded' the Chinese. The by the former telegrapher, then only sand telephones , 28 years old." ter, and calls up are handled evei He Did. little Oriental gi | work clad in tl c "I really don't believe," said' 0wn people. Tb Gladys coyly, "that you particularly | tionally well ed' wanted to hear me sing." j were taught in "I did, indeed," her admirer pro- public schools, a tested. "I had never heard you."? perfect knowledi they have a comi lek is Fair rHERN CARC is extended to every citizen of Bamberg folks of SOUTHERN CAROLINA have don, and to enjoy with them the BIG 1 be four big days?every one a good day J. 7?Educational Day?School Athletic NOV. 8?Automobile Day?Foot Ball G 3 V. 9?Farmers' and Ladies' Day at the 10?Negro Day?Big Speaker and Schoc ON ALL RAILROADS. 0 are the best obtainable. Excellent fre Is. One-half mile new race track will ma AME WEDNESDAY orter Military Academy in a hotly co %j * ?/ %. ?rg folks will want to see Bamberg win. For any information write *n Carolina >. C. L. HIERS, Superintendent. )WX BRANCH hone Exchange Like phone exchange may If for AN OLD S' San Francisco," says S| u?i?gj|A*F A is a strange mixture 91 | \ I Clril r?T i wV^ I J t is a like a bit of old ^ lg roof-lines seem j ice between the con- r? ^aSSS Duildings that adjoin,, few moments of contis race and costume* um Shu, manager of i fflSV r=i^y ixchange, an electrihcient head of a staff ^ %ls II ^\ n. nam. town calls between sre are about a thou- ? ? in th^ Chinese quar- J&CK licIS 'to 8,000 in number - * * ' *%t y day by the dainty gl?Mll ^-OI ^ iris wno sit at uieir ie costume of their 4 Per Cent. Intere: iese girls are excep- CAPITAL AND SUE ucated; all of them the San Francisco _ nd, in addition to a YY^ ?e of-our language, JL J. U V?J[ ? nand qf the different fi that are spoken in ~ s the Oriental submil by number, these mber the name and mbm mhh h* ubscribers, a feat of M" 911. 'B1 ? 1 would baffle most _ M H III ^ Uii 1 11J lg pure-bred poultry Pure-bred pays the more expensive to Big Fair No 0 Orangeburg offers you There is the big foot ball son-Citadel teams. Don't to be held responsiappearance. Strang- , !Ot by what you are I Some new ltenls read: .ppear to be. And I Collars, ressed in the height I rTA,mC ? r hair and face are I KID GI.OVES?the ne e considered shabby. I NEW COAT SUITS?S 1. 1 p is." "For' this "is'no PRETTY CL0AKS AN We render efficient SHIRT WAISTS, SILK o promptly. Come in you. CK'S M O S :r shop Orangeburg, S C kVhiskers Refunded." erg, s. c. m wSI )LINA I county to come gotten together time everybody H to visit Walter- jg Events. ame at Noon. H Fair. >1 Parade. I OME VISIT US I e acts several ike racing a fea- H AT NOON I x - yl? HH ti'Ufi ntested game. I i m '--m M ' /?SI killed the ugly debt and worry. st Paid on Savings Deposits. PLUS ..... $100,000.00 ' Banking Co. K READY j FOR THE vember 14th to 17th 41 a big, jolly time. So it's here for you. game Thursday, November 16th?Clem; let anything keep you away. y for you?Georgette and Broadcloth w styles, $1.50 and $1.75. i 1 -a j air aa i? jo' aa lynsn ana goou, ?ia.uu lu .piu.w/. D SPORT COATS?$5.00 to $18.00. AND COTTON?$1.00 to $5.00. f ELEY'S .1 Telephone 500 8 ' :| ' .J