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PERSONAL MENTION. ~ i People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Miss Thelma Faust, of Macon, a., has been visiting relatives and friends in the city for the past week. ?Mr. N. H. Hays, of Apalachicola, Fla., is spending some time visiting relatives in the city. ?Miss Jeanie Simpkins, of Edgcield, who is teaching with Miss Alice Smoak, in Orangeburg county, spent the week-end with her here. TA r-n pAnolor* H ic "* iJlCUt. JL/. VJ? x auarn *? pending some time in the city. Lt. Copeland recently returned to America from service abroad in the service of the navy. ?Miss Alice Smoak, who is teaching in the St. George rural graded chool, in Orangeburg county, is at her school beins closed on ac ount of the influenza epidemic. ?Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Brlggs left Monday for Greenwood, where they will visit for a while before going to Oconee county, where Mr. Briggs will take up his duties as farm demonstration agent. WORLD'S DIAMONDS. Satire Supply Hardly More Than a Wagon Load. If all the diamonds mined in history and existing today as cut and polished gems were gathered from the ends of the earth, they would hardly form a pile about as large as a wagon of coal dumped on the sidewalk, says a Chicago statistican expert. The pile would contain 43,155,474 carats and the gems would weigh tend and one-half tons. If the pile were in the form of a cone, it would have a base diameter of eight feet and a height of five feet. Reckoning the diamonds at $300 a carat, it would have a value of $13,906,142,200. It would contain 710 1-3 gallons worth $5,529,023 a gallon; r 76 1-3 bushels valued at $51,570,729 a bushel. All the world's d'amonds could be packed in an ordinary clothes closet or a kitchen pantry. This estimate is based on an approximation of the total output of rough diamonds in the world's entire fcistory. India, it is estimated, has v produced, all told, 50,000,000 carats; Brazil 15,000,000; South Africa 170,?74; Borneo 1,000,000; British Guinea 50,000; Australia 15,000; China 2,000; Siberia 500; United Stdtes ?00. This is a total output of 236,777,374 carats or 55 3-5 tons avoidupois. Only about 50 percent, of rough iiamonds are cut into gems and lose about 60 per ceht. of their weight in being cut and pol'shed. Diamonds are yractically indestructible and the ret diamond ever mined may possibly still be in existence. But the estimate allows for the loss of at least 1,000,000 carats by flood, fire, shipwreck and otber disaster. These refactions and losses leave a total of at and polished diamonds at 46,3'6,473 carats. The estimate of $300 a carat is the Minimum price at which diamonds an be bought today. The popular demand for diamonds was never so great and they have become the gem f working people as well as the wealthy classes. yhey are worth three times as much now as before the war and sell at from $300 to $1,000 a carat. ? < > ^ A Popular Make. "The officer says you use bad language." "When he stopped me I was in a tantrum." "Never mind the make of the car." ?Judge. ? ! ! ? Big-Minded. "He seems very narrow minded in am argument!" "Not at all. He admits that there axe two sides to every question; his tide and the wrong $ide!"?Cartoons Magazine. ) * m The Easy Way. An enterprising dealer in electric wares hangs out the sign: "Don't kill your wife with hard work. Let ur washing-machine do the dirty work."?The American Legion Weekly. m m Helpful Hint. * Borem?"Now, what would you do if you were in my shoes, Mrs. Cutting?" Mrs. Cutting?"I'd point the toes toward the front door and give them a start.'"?London Tit-Bits. Naturally. She?"Why do they put corn meal n the dance floor?" He?"To make the chickens feel at home."?The Pith Panther. Bees suck over 3,000,000 flowers to gather one pound of honey. I His Line. ; "What do you work at, my poor man?" "At intervals, lady."?St. Paul , Non-Partizan Leader. I -? ? His Father Authority. ' ' "His father is an authority on policemen." "Why, has he ever been one?" "No, but he's gone with thorn lots cf times."?Penn State Froth. Strategy. Mr. Jones?Can't I ever induce you to stop wearing your hair over yourj ears?" Mrs. Jones?"Oh, yes; by buying | me diamond earrings."?Judge. One certain way of beating the \ game is to raise something beside; prices and Cain.?Dallas Journal. Enhance the enjoymen "along the route. Take along a box of ou it will keep your thoughts in The Herald I BEAT THE CO KING'S EAR H Having accepted fifi die the King's Ea: 18 Seed, I am prepa 1m for same, and ad IE in using them ^o h| .At once, as supply" 88 to the strong dem; ?8 weevil conditions. | J. T. O'Neal, I "RTTT TT TMV& "MO GO ~ "unless it is pu tion so: Until you are read; ings a safe,patriotic* a bank account whei increased credits on construction and bus Your funds deposited wi immediately availal I their full p? . RESOURCES OVI INTEREST SAVIMGS ACCOUNTS E Distinctive Social : r/m^ERx One of the surest evidences of good taste is the stationery on which you write to friends and acquaintances near and far. This line we are showing is essentially a line of good taSte and refinement It will be a pleasure to show it to you and a pleasure for you to use it. ar q vs. |p|# Ji I Distinctive / Social ^\w Stationery The pleasures ^Jp-i of touring are many t of your friends by notes * r dainty, refined stationerygood company. Book Store HON WEEVIL 1 LY BIG BOLL 1 X Sn i the agency to han- Bg rly Big Boll Cotton H red to take orders ' n [vise all interested R| place their orders |H will be short, owing SB and because of boll H $ mfm 3amberg, S. C. 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