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Hie ptorrtr gtaW, CONWAY, S. C. HTHT WOO"D WA RD Satfr^d at the Post Office at Conway & C, as second class mail matter. Fnfclislied Every Thursday Morning by Conway Publishing Co. ' TELEPHONE 21 "fbURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 12, 1914 1 Great things in life are not to be attained without paying the price. There is a lack of faith in some things which is the real cause of deteat. . . * * * ? It is useless to try to predict the end of the European war with any degress of certainty. * ? When the European war shall have finally ended, we wonder what the newspapers will have to write about. 9 9 9 There are many who use their hands to perfection but they let their brains lie idle for all the years. One of the greatest fields for thought and study in this world is the criminal tendency for men and just what it is causes it to thrive. r h j:" * * f i V Any man who i& willing to throw "his money away for one'thing that is fnnlicll TImII Kn on* /-? ?? it ni?n.. VVKUO^ mil L'C Uf'l W nil un 11 in some manner anyhow. * ? Then *e is always a difference in the ability of men, but there is not a one who cannot improve his faculties as lime goes on and increase his producing power. ? ? ? * An automobile is a good thing to have provided a man's income justifies it. It is the worst thing a man can have where his income is too small to afford it. * + * Have you read all of the amendments that are proposed to the constitution of this State ? It is your duty to read and study them before casting your vote. ? * Reading all of the proposed amendments to the constitution appearing in the election notice in this issue of the paper is labor indeed, but it is also a matter of duty. Time has been when the idea of a war in the air, or war from the air, would have been laughed to scorn. It now appears that England is afraid ?f an attack that may be made upon her bv Germanv's air shins. V V ? 4 * * The pretty girls at the recent county fair made up the best attraction, it was enough to turn the heads of cer tain young men judging from appearances. * * * ?c ' Be glad that the Wav is so far away "from this country.and cease to trouble about the financial difficulties it may cause us for they are small compared to what our troubles might be. * ? * Governor Blease is gone out of politics after his present term is over, but he does not intend to be forgotten for it appears that he has arranged to establish a newspaper in the capital city of this State. ?- ?* A, > mg * * * * XT ihnl i h " -?? nu*v nia',. lilt; X^U1U|H'(1I1 WclF JH Upon the world to stay, and hard times have struck see that you cut out the unnecessary things you have been buying?things that you really did not need any of the time. * What shall be done with the man who believes that the government ?wee him a living, and that no matter what his troubles may be that the government shall t^ke care of him ? The fact is that man made the government and the government did not make men. * 4 * borne people ' speak of shows and I ? i- > even the circus as a bad thing for any ttown. They state as a reason that the management of the show takes away all of the money. This argument will not hold# for wherever a large aggregation of pebple are taking in much money, they are compelled to spend much money. The show is always on the road and has to spend each day much the larger portion of the day V receipts: ! 4 The not ire of election for State and County officers tills a page in this paper. The space is required in order to give notice of the great number of amendments proposed to the constitution of this State, by the Legislature and which must be carried by a vote of the people to become effective. It is the duty of every voter to read these carefully and decide whether the Constitution should be thutf changed or not. * * Much money has been spent on the streets of Conway in the business section of tho town It u'flc itnont- in small amounts from year to year in making temporary repairs to them. Iyong ago is was pointed out that it would be better to build up the streets a small portion at a time with good paving or rock, so that as far as this went there would be a good hard streets that would bear up some load. In the course of time this would result in good hard streets throughout the town. Rut in all these years nothing but clay and grit has been put on them. Enough has been spent in ; hauling sand and clay to pave at least one side of the main business block of the city. Still the work of temporary repairs is going on. It is a work of necessity. One heavy rain is enough to wash away the work of a force of hands for several days. We think it is time to quit these temporary makeshifts and go into something of a permanent nature. ! * * * * THE WRAPPING OF BAKER'S BREAD. It has been said that the making of a perfect loaf of bread is the goal of all those who aspire to excel in cookery. Certainly bread, which forms a part of every well planned meal, is a food of which the palate never tires. Let the loaf be evey so satisfactory, however, with respect to size and symmerty, crust aand crumb, when it leaves the baker's oven, it may never theless experience subsequent changes which sooner or later render it less attractive, palatable, or wholesome. Stale bread does not appeal to the taste in the same way that fresh specimens of the "staff of life" do; but in addition to the development of stale ness bread may also develop so-called bread diseases caused by micro-organisms, rendering the product unfit for human consumption. Furthermore, like many other unprotected and carelessly handled articles of food, exposed bread may become a purely mechan ical carrier of objectionable organisms. The recent agitation in behalf of improved conditions in the food indus1 1 1 . * " * * mes nits invoiveci not oniy tne adulteration of the products entering into the ration of man and the domestic animal, but likewise the cleanliness of the article of diet intended for human consumption. The plan of clean milk is becoming more prominent than the propaganda for pure milk. Sanitary food legislation is beginning to aim at food that is clean from the point of view of the hygienist. The demand for clean bread has promptly followed the cry for clean milk and unpoluted water. Already in many commuities regulations are in force which compel the protection of bread and bakery products between the oven and the home. Bread wrapped with either porous or paraffined paper is now a common sight in even small villages of the United States. Although this practice has met with public approval in many quarters, it has been claimed that wrapping injures the quality and palatability of the loaf. This claim demands consideration along with the possible sanitary advantages. A chemical investigation of the subject has been completed in the department of food and I drugs of the Indiana State Board of I Health. The wrapping of bread, either in semi-porous waxed or paraffin paper retards the escape of moisture and tends rather to the perservation of the freshness of the bread than to its staleness. Unwrapped bread loses its freshness after the first day, while the early keeping quality both as to the condition of crumb, flavor and odor is enhanced by the use of wrappers. There is, accordingly, says the Journal of the American Medical Association, no occasion at present for discarding what has seemed to many to be a wholesome innovation in the distribution of bakery products. i ? INSTANT DEATH IN CREVASSE One of the Tragedies That Seem Inseparable From Antarctic Exploration. Tragic was the fate that overtook two of Doctor Mawson's companions in the course of their recent explorations In the Antarctic. Thie account Is taken from the Geographical Journal: | "As regards the disastrous sledge jour ney from the main base with Lieutenant Nlnnts and Doctor Mert, Doctor Miwi^n says thai his object in undertaking It was to dash as far east las possible so as to ascertain the nature of the land In that direction. The three men had the assistance of II dogs in dragging a load of over seventeen hundred pounds. On December 14, 1912, the party were in 68 degrees 53 minutes south, 151 degrees 35 minutes east, having covered a distance of 211 miles. The track had lain over plateau heights and crevassed glacial depressions, the totals of the ascents having reached 9,000 feet. All were in the hichest Bnirits j?k nrnannnfa seemed good for a further advance over on unbroken plateau at a safe distance from the crevassed coastal downfalls. The day was a beautiful one and Doctor Merz was leading on ski, Doctor Mawson following with the first dog-team, while Lieutenant Ninnifi brought up the rear with the sledge containing the most vital necessaries. Unexpectedly the faint outline of a crevasse crossing the path was noticed, but both Doctor Merz and Doctor Mawson crossed without halting or regarding it as a cause for anxiety. "The latter called back 'Crevasse!' to Lieutenant Ninnis, but on looking back soon after saw nothing but a blank expanse of snow and ice. Hastening back, the two travelers found a yawning abyss, and at length discerned an injured dog caught on a ledge, but no trace of their comrade, who must have gone down to the invisible depths below?certainly to Inof o n f rlnoth A 11L% ? G - ? ' ovciiik ULUIII. /mn Lulling 1UI I1U11I 2? without answer, they read the burial service and started on their return, with only one and a half weeks' food for themselves and none for the sii emaciated dogs. There was saved alsc a spare tent cover, for which a frame was improvised out of a pair of ski and a theodolite's legs. "The food was strictly apportioned to the distance to be covered, but bad weather was encountered and the dogs gave out daily, until soon none was left. No nutriment was to be extracted from their flesh and by January 3 both travelers were very weak Merz being in the worse case of the two, though still cheerful. Unable tc proceed on foot, his companion dragged him painfully in the sledge, but about midnight of January 8-9 h? passed away. A month of terrible privation for the survivor followed, with miraculous escapes from falls intc crevasses, but Doctor Mawson unex* pectedly came upon a cache containing food, left by a search party, and eventually reached the hut." Space and Eyesight. When we speak of outer space, the space between star and star, as bo ing empty of matter, it is rather interesting to see exactly what we mean We know from observation on the planets that light, in its passage acrosf space to our earth, suffers hardly any absorption, and from this fact we can deduce conclusions respecting the den?1tv nf niirh muftor ac pviotu In mitci ' space. If the degree of rarefaction in outei space is, for example, in the neighborhood of the one hundred-millionth part of an atmosphere, the appearance of Jupiter, for instance, would be as if our atmosphere had twice its present opacity. So that such matter as exists must be in a much more rarefied state. But after all these terms are only comparative. Suppose our atmosphere were allowed to expand up to the limits ol the visible universe, as far as the milky way, then its raefaction would be such that it would bo quite impossible, by any optical means, to detect the presence of any matter. Nevertheless, there would be about five thousand molecules per cubic centimeter throughout space. Heavy-Handed. Postmaster General Burleson smiled, at a luncheon in Washington, over the suggestion that the parcel post's rivalry of the express companies was bad for the people's transport trade. "Bad for the people?" said Mr. Burleson. "Well, sir, when you say that, you remind me of one of our oldest post office stories. "According to this story, a postmaster said to a customer: " This letter won't go for two cents.' " 'What's the matter with it?' " 'Too heavy.' " 'Too heavy, hey? Wall, that's Just about what I expected. My son wrote that letter, and I told him at the time he was writin' too heavy a hand; but he kep' bearln' down and bearln' down ?Here, give It back. I'll take it bome and ma If A him Ha ft nror fn IaoH ru>n. oil.' "?Chicago Record-Herald. Ignorance la Bile* .."Don't you know that I don't allow any man to kiss my daughter?" said the Indulgent father. "Well, how was I to know ehe wa? your daughter, sir?" replied the young man. Important. Tommie?And did Noah only ban two of each kind In the ark, pop? Father?So we are told. "And were teeth fleas on one ?f thi <MP, JK?P?" QUEER LAND TENURES CEREMONIES OF ANCIENT DATE OBSERVED IN ENGLAND. la Appear Somewhat Ridiculous In Thlt Day and Age, but Aro Regarded With Conalderable Seriousneaa Aefeaa the Water. ^ ? ^ - Our British cousipt still oting to home curious customs with respect to land tenures. Whenever, for instance, a certain estate at Chingford, in Essex, passes into new hands, the owner, with his wife, man servant, and maid servant, aroesi on hon?*?hnrk tr> iht* n?r. ? . - ' W ? ? ? ? ? W f? nonage and pays homage by blowing three blasts on a horn. He carries a i hawk on his wrist, and his servant , leads a greyhound, both supposed to be for the use of tho rector that day. The new owner then receives a chicken for the hawk, a pock Gf oats for his horse, and a loaf of bread for his greyhound. After dinner the owner blows three more blasts, and then with his party withdraws from the rectory. Another curious proceeding is known as "The Castor Whip Tenure." On i Palm Sunday every year a servant from the Hroughton estate attends service at Castor church with a new ! cart whip, and, after cracking it three times on the porch, marches with it to, the manor house. As the clergyman begins to deliver his BPrmon the Servant quits his seat. A purse containing 30 pieces of silver is fixed at the end of the whiplash, and, kueoling on a cushion, i he holds the purse suspended over the head of the minister until the end of the sermon. Then purse and whip are ( left at the manor house. Tho "Whisper Court" at Roc.hford, I in Essex, is a strange Michaelmas obi Hprv.'nirfl unflnr thft niinnirna r?f 1 the steward of the manor. The business of the court is transacted at midnight in the open air. The absence of a tenant is punishable by a line of double his rent for each hour he fails; to be in attendance; no artificial light except a firebrand is permitted; the proceedings are recorded by means of j one of the embers of the brand. The' l roil of 14 tenants is called and answered in a whisper, and then all kneel and swear allegiance. ' In explanation of tills odd ceremony it is said that many years ago the lord of the manor, after an absence from his estate, was returning home at night. Passing over what is known as j Kings hill, he accidentally heard some ; of his discontented tenantry plotting his assassination, and, thus warned, went home by an unexpected route. 1 He enacted that from that time forth ' the tenants on his estate should as- < semble every year exactly at the same < : time to do him homage round a post j which he caused to be erected on the precise spot where the 'plotters met.? Illustrated Sunday Magazine. Only a Minor Difference. An artist relates that a newly beI trothed lover commissioned him to paint a certain Becluded nook in the | rocks on the shore, because there he ' had declared his passion. The picture was painted, but before j it was done the lover said to the I artist: "Of course, I will see you through on that picture, but our engagement I is off, and naturally, It would be pain- j fully suggestive to me. If you can! j sell it to somebody else, I will take another picture, and be extremely obliged besides." The painter assented to the arrange- i ment, but within a week his patron presented himself. "It's all right," he announced. "I'll take that picture." "Am I to congratulate you on the renewal of your engagement?" the artist asked. The other seemed a little confused, but quickly recovered his 'self-possession, and laughed as he said: "Well, not exactly; it was the same place, but the girl was different." Expensive Flowers. The conversation in a Washington club turned to flowers the other night, when Congressman James L?. Slayden of Texas unfurled a gentle smile. He said he was reminded of the declaration of a certain Mr. Smith. Smith was walking through the cuburbs with a friend one afternoon, when they came to a house where the gar doner was doing the spring planting. For a moment they stood and watched the work. "Speaking of flowers," remarked Smith as the pair passed on down the street, "I doubt if anything along that line is quite so expensive as sweet peas." "Sweet peat," wonderingly returned the other. "I didn't know they were so very expensive." "Oh, yes," was the positive rejoinder of Smith. "Thirteen dollars for a small bouquet. I just ruined a five-dollar pair of shoes, and an eight-dollar 1 pair of trousers putting in the seeds ' at home." Of Course Not. Mrs. Church?Don't you think the fashions adapt themselves to the ' times? Mrs. Gotham?Oh, my, yes! Why, * when we wore bustles we didn't have > these little flats. Oldnt Know Him. Bacon?Tou say he asked ypu to > -loan him five dollars? Egbert?Yes; and I hardly know him. * "That's the reason he asked you, probably." I'll Show 'Em, Durn 'Em. I*ve stopped the paper, yes I have, I didn't like to do it, But the editor he got too smart, And 1 allow he'll rue it. 1 am a man who pays his debts, And will not be insulted, So when the editor gets smart I want to be consulted. I took the paper 'leven years And helped him all I could, sir, But when it conies to dunning me T, .l.'J.'i *- _ ! 1 -1. t a uiuh t tuuik ne wuuiuy ?irf But that he did, and you can bet It made me hot as thunder; I says, "I'll stop that sheet, I will, If the doggone thing goes under." I huntoti up the editor And for his cunnin' caper, I paid him 'LEVEN years and quit ! Yes, sir, I stopped the paper. India and the War The importance of the rank and file of literate Indians understanding the reasons why Britain went to war has been realized by the Christian Literature Society for India. "We are doing' our best," writes the Rev. Joseph Passmore, the secretary of the Christian Literature Society for Indians at Madras, "to circulate through the society information that will enable the Indians to understand the situation, not only in English, but in the vernacular. I had an appeal from an American missionary lady begging me to get out some literature describing what she spoke of as 'England's just and great cause." In Best Health. According to a Central News dispatch from Copenhagen, the German minister there, Count Von Brock doff Rantzau, has issued a statement categorically denying the report that the German crown price and Prince Albert were either wounded or killed. He states that both are in the best possible health. Potato Disease. Discovery of powdery scab in Franklin and Clinton counties, N. Y., caused the department of agriculture 1 to consider last Friday the advisability of putting into effect in that State federal quarantine regulations against this potato disease. Production of Grain. That a meeting of farmers of Sumter county was to be held to hear addresses by the party of experts conducting the campaign to be inaugurated within the next 10 days by the state department of agriculture to arouse interest in the production of ?rain crops was stated last Friday. Potato Peeling Distinction. A. B. C. writes to us about a delicate point in use of words. Our correspondent object8 to the use of the, word "peeling" as applied in the story of Sacca Bonna and the potatoes, a few weeks ago. The word should have been "paring." There is authority for the contention that raw potatoes urc pared, while potatoes boiled with their jackets on may be peeled. It is a fine distinction, but logical. You pare a| thing by taking a knife and removing Its outer integument?together with some of the substance of the thing itself. Hut to peel an apple or a potato or a case of sunburn, you seize the already loosened integment itself and eimply strip it off?it's hard to put into words, but you see how it la don't you? ?Cleveland Plain Dealer. They Ate a Few Cherries. Cherries were known In England E,000 years ago, but their systematic cultivation dates only from the beginning of the sixteenth century. From the first Kent was the great cherry county, and it was once a favorite amusement in the Kentish orchards to try who could eat the largest quantity of the fruit at a sitting. Husino, Venetian ambassador at the Court of James I, witnessed one of these contests when the winner, was a young woman who disposed of 20 pounds of cherries, beating her nearest rival by only two and one-half oounds. Mean Hit at Noble Game. A lunatlo was being eacorted to an asylum some distance away, and consequently journeyed to It by train. It was raining hard, and as they passed a large field the lunatic noticed several men grouped together. Some of them had umbrellas raised over their heads, and these were looking at two men "putting." Turning to the attendant by his side, the "soft" one remarked: "What are the people doin'T" "Playing golf," answered his burly guardian. "Then," said the other, after a pause, "hadn't we better atop for them 7" Nothing Missing. Mrs. Benton tasted the saTory mor ol ?VtA Had J-*J 1 ? >V> ?UV tiMU vaiciuil/ vvu/puuiiueu 1U the chafing dish, and looked at her husband somewhat apprehensively. Then she said: "Somehow it don't taste just as Mrs. Mink's did the other night. Yet I thought I remembered the recipe all right. 1 suppose I must have left something out." Mr. Benton tasted, reflectively. "I don't think so," he remarked. Mrs. Benton's face brightened visibly. Then her husband continued: "There's nothing you could leave out," he said, "that would make it taste like this. It's something you've put ial" * FAT ItiAN MOVED OVER LITTLE INCIDENT THAT MAD? 1 MR. GOSLINCTON SMILE. Retributive Justice Was Abroad and Wrtr-kinn That Momlna. Though It It Not Often In Evidence* In a Railroad Car. ~ s !> * ' __ "Whenever I take a seat In an ele. at^ or a. subway car," sold Mr. 5osllngton,^I am careful to sit square* ly In the middle of It so that I shall not unduly crowd anybody that may be sitting at either side, but I do not flnrl (hat everybody respects my rights. In like manner. "This morning, for Instance, when I had seated myself in my accustomed fashion in a subway car there came in and took the vacant seat next me on. my left a big, thoughtless, fleshy man, who was quite regardless of my rights and comfort, to which. Indeed, he was plainly quite Indifferent. He dropped Into that seat any way he happened to. which proved to be two-thirds on j that seat and one-third on mine, or rather on me. And then he stayed right there where he had dropped, making no effort whatever to shift over. "I stood this for a minute or two so as not to appear disturbed or impatient, and then I moved one seat to the right, that next seat there happening to he vacant, thus leaving the place I had lately occupied free, or two-thirds so, the other third being still taken up by the big fleshy man. "And now there came into the ear another large man. bigger than the other, but not fleshy; a big man who wns bony, angular and muscular, and who had also a resolute cast of countenance. ^ "This large, bony and resolute man made for the seat which I had Just left, and did he simply sit down on its front, edge, leaving the fleshy intruder upon it In undisturbed possession of the remainder? "No. This large and bony newcomer appeared to be a man of keen dis- 1 corn merit as well as by nature resolute. At a glance ho saw that about one-third of the fleshy man's own proper seat at his left was vacant, while he was sitting over on about one-third of this one. So now the newcomer did not just sit down on the front edge, but he sat well in toward the bock of the seat, and then ho dropped himself into it, solidly and squarely. "The fleshy man turned toward the big, bony, resolute man who had thus sat down on him and looked at him really quite sourly; but then within a short moment he moved over. And as I saw him move I felt that what { the big man had just done to him far more than made up for what he had done to me." No Tango or Motors. There is one place where the tango is as yet unknown, and that is Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, according to Heed Paige Clark, t/ie receiver of the general customs there, who is now on six months' leave of absence. Ragtime and the movies, however, flourish there, Mr. Clark says, but there is not an automobile in the whole of Liberia; in fact, there are no wheeled vehicles at all, as there are nn rntwlc on/1 ?/-? ? j __ _ , vyiuu UIIU U\l 1 Hill UttUH. L.ife at the capital is village-like In its simplicity. The people are kindly and courteous, and Mr. Clark is delighted with the treatment he received during his two years' residence there. Mr. ("lark says his British, French and German colleagues work harmoniously, although there is some friction on political questions, but this is of no great importance. The port of Monrovia is showing & wonderful increase in shipping. Mom than 400 steamers called there during the past year with cargoes which exceeded a million tons. Bergson Dislikes Popularity. j Henri Bergson is growing very I weary of his popularity, which, since his election to the French academy, I has increased so much that there ia never even standing room at his lectures at the Sorbonne. Mr. Bergson, who lives a solitary life in his Ivory Tower at Auteuil, is bored by his fashionable audiences, and by lecturing as abstrusely as possible tries to frighten them away. But it does no good. One afternoon a woman, whose name is historic and whose clothes are the envy of Paris, went up to the philosopher at the close of a lecture on the psychology of laughter. "Master," ehe said, "I do not know how to thank you. You have made me think." "Please accept my sinceto apologies, Mme. la Duchesse," said Bergson. Somebody Getting Hie. Church?I see a trolley line In a western city 1b going to be knocked down to the loweet bidder at auction. Gotham?It won't be the first time that the "knock" trick has been know* to trolley lines. He'd Gondolaed There. Bacon?It 1b stated that Venice la wrestling with the peculiar problem of a rapidly-Increasing population without being able to enlarge the city. Egbert?Why, I should think they could easily do it by irrigation. A Mover. Patience?1 hear Mrs. Flatte baa lived in 16 different apartments in 12 months. Patrice?She must be "this queen of the movies*" l . lu. ?mrnm r