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ADVISES BUILDING CF MEM OFWAR SHIPS SECRETARY JOSEPH US DANIELS WOULD INVEST SUMS IN FIGHTING CRAFT. SAYS POWERFUL NAVY Predicts That There Will Re International Conference on Armament After the Present War. On last Thursday Secretary Daniels before the House naval committee defended his two battlcships-a-year construction programme and declared the sentiment of the people of the United States opposed turning the country into a great military power. Meantime a free-for-all national defense do bate occupied the House itself. Mr. Daniels, during" an all-day oxamimttion, said this country already had a powerful navy and that while "with abundant revenues" he might favor the general board's four battleship plan, he thought the two battleship progran.me adequate. Pressed for an opinion as to the world military situation at the close of the Kuropean war the Secretary predicted an international conference on armament Revulsion Against War. "When the war is over," lie said, "those countries will be so exhausted in their resources and burdened with debt that there will be a great revulsion against war. T expect the revulsion will be so great that we will have an international conference on armament?more possible now than ever before?and that we will got some action by which the navies of the world Powers will he used only to carry into execution the agreements the countries reach." Representative Gardner precipitated the military discussion on the house floor with a speech criticising the Administration for "laying the cold hand of death" on his proposal for special investigation of military and naval conditions. He assailed the rules com m it Lee for refusal to grant him a hear ing and the naval and military committees for falure to summoni before them former Cabinet officials and other witnesses lie wanted examined. Short on Ammunition. "If war were to break out to day," said Mr. Gardner, "it would be found our coast defences have not sufficient ammunition for an hour's fighting." Representative Fitzgerald of New York, replied briefly, and promised to make a complete statement later which would make "notoriety-seeking ox-secretaries" less anxious to discuss the national defence. Representative Dies, of Texas, ridiculed the thought * of impending danger of attack. Representative Sisson, of Mississippi, vharged the "war propaganda" to the manufacturers of war material. Representative Prouty, of Iowa, pleaded for international disarmament, arbitration and an internation police, declared a force of trained squirrel shooters could prevent the landing of a hostile force on American jod. Today's discussion seemed to threat en a prolonged debate on both sides of i.ho Ciinifol In iVtn Son'ifn 1.-. row the military situation will be discussed by Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts. Secretary Daniels will continued his statement before the House committee. Crew of Cruiser Emden Captured Certain British warships have captured those members of the crew of the German cruiser Emden which escaped at Cocos Island when the cruiser was destroyed November 10 by the Australian cruiser Sydney. The German sailors went to sea in a Cocos Island schooner named Aysha. Chester Senator Dead from Operation Senator Peter Lawrence Harden, of Chester, president pro tempore of the South Carolina house of representatives, and one of the State's leading lawmakers, died last Thursday night at a Baltimore hospital where he had just been operated upon. Two Persons Dead in Fire. Two persons were killed and a number injured last week in a fire which destroyed a large rooming house in Torre Haute, Ind. A lighted lantern which either fell or was knocked to tne noor was believed to have caused the fire. Unemployed Raid Dairy Lunch. Last week at Seattle, Wash., two hundred unemployed men terrorized the patrons and proprietors of a dairy lunch room hy marching into the place and forcibly taking all the food in sight. Forty men, arrested and placed in three large cells at the city jail, kicked the plaster ofT the walls and broke all the windows. MISTLETOE HISTORy Gathering of Plant Sacred Rite in Druidical Religious Festivals. Also Considered a Potent Remedy for Ills, a Belief Which Still Exists in Some of the Remote Places of Europe. fE decorate our homes with sprays of mistletoe at Christmas time, but few of us know the history of it as a Yuletide symbol. Pretty girls are kissed under it and a great deal of fun and nonsense is , carried on apropos of it, but no one i stops to think of how ancient fi dec- | oration it is or how sacred it was once thought to be. Almost everybody has a vague , knowledge that the Druids of old had something (o do with the gathering o!' mistletoe, but just what that some- j thing was is not clear to the average ! mind. The fact is that the ancient Celts in ! their druidical religion had two great | festivals, one in June and the other in 1 December, the latter being equivalent j to our Christmas. In both of these ; great festivals the gathering of the j mistletoe was a sacred rite. Pliny in his "Natural History" do- ; scribes the ceremony. Speaking of the | Druids' worship of the oak, he says: j "They believe that whatever grows on i these trees is sent from heaven and is j a sign that the tree has been chosen by the god himself. The mistletoe is very rarely to be met with, but when it is found they gather it with solemn ceremony. This they do especially on the sixth day of the moon, because by the sixth day the moon has plenty of vigor and has not run half its course. "After the preparations have been made for a sacrifice and a foast. under tho tree they hail it as the universal healer and bring to tho spot two white bulls whose horns have never been bound before. A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth. Then they sacrifice the victims, praying that Clod may make his own gift to prosper with those upon whom he has bestowed it. "They believe that a potion prepared from mistletoe will increase their flocks and that the plant is a remedy against all poison." It was believed to be a remedy for many ills, and this belief is still to be found in many remote places in Europe. In Ilolstein, for example, the mistletoe is regarded as a healing remedy for wounds, and in Lacaune, France, it is always administered by the native people as an antidote for poison. In the northeast of Scotland people used to cut withes of mistletoe at the March full moon; these they bent in circles and kept for a year to cure hectic fevers and other troubles. In somo parts of Germany the mistletoe is especially esteemed as a remedy for the ailments of children, who sometimes wear it hung around the neck as an amulet. * In Sweden on Midsummer eve mistletoe is diligently sought after, tho people believing it to be possessed of many mystic qualities, and that if a sprig of it is attached to the celling of the dwelling house, tlu horse's stall or the cow's crib, the trolls will then be powerless to injure either man or utuiHi. jjrancnes 01 uie plant arc commonly seen in farm houses hanging from the ceiling to protect the dwellings from all harm, but especially from fire, and persons afllicted with the falling sickness think they can ward off all attacks of the malady by carrying about with them a knife which has a handle of mistletoe. .Like their Swedish neighbors, many German peasants consider the mistletoe a powerful charm against evil spirits. A similar belief seems to have lingered among the Romans, whose religion at a very early date was somewhat similar to that of the Druids. When Aeneas descended into Hades he gathered to protect himself from the infernal powers a branch of mistletoe, which Vergil calls the golden bough. South Africa Rebellion at an End. Gene. v.. Louis Bortha, premier of the Union of South Africa, considers the rebellion, apart from the rounding up of a few stray bands, is at an end. He has gone for a short vacation before undertaking a campaign against German southwest Africa. Food Export to Germany Prevented. According to a Copenhagen disnntfV< fft tVifi fonfvn! Mnnre 4-Vixx rv. M vvy vi*\y v/vuvi Ml A1VTTO VI lis gV/VCI II" ment there has ordered all Danish importers of foodstuffs from America to deposit with the government bills of lading and orders showing the disposal of these cargoes with a view of pre venting absolutely any export of food to Germany. 3,000 Pockets of Pico for Pelgians. Thirty thousand pockets of rice will be shipped from New Orleans, La., for destitute persons in Belgium, according to announcement by a local rice concern last week. The shipment will be forwarded on the British steamship Wabana, January 12th. The names of the purchasers wa.: not , given. ^ WHAT YBUCAN GIVE Helpful Christmas Present Sug- j gestions for Those Who Are Puzzled. Unabridged Dictionary Will Be Appro* elated by Children of Kindergarten Age?Other Suitable Gifts for Voung and Old. NUMBER of correspondents who have requested sugges- , ^7) viS tl?118 books suitable for Christmas gifts will find answers to their queries in the following: Among the many attractive gift books for very little boys might be mentioned Professor Rausmissen's "Analogy Between the Monogamous Protoplasm and the Silurian Molecule." We can think of no book that would be a greater source of delight to the child that is not yet out of short dresses. It tells in easy words of eight and ton syllables of the sports and pastimes of the protoplasmic family and draws beautiful moral lessons from the corpuscles of the carboniferous era. It is handsomely 'illustrated with representations of tlie agile animalcule and will be sure to delight the heart of the little hoy or girl who finds it in his or her stocking, as the case may he. Another dainty idea for a child of three or four years is the Unabridged Dictionary. The simplicity of style observed in this interesting narrative recommends it at once for children who have reached the kindergarten aye. The plot is not so complex and the characters are sufficiently varied j to hold the unflagging interest of the ' little ones. We have in mind a gentleman who gave his little son a die- : tionary Inst Christmas, and ho assures us that the lad simply devoured the book. A pretty present for a child is the clinical report of the county hospital. This comes nicely printed on clean white paper, with bizarre illustrations showing the rise and fall of the temperature, amount of protoids oaten, a __j 1 The Intortype j Up to the time that the issue of this peek was put in type,.the big heads t'ver the news articles, which by the Ivay, were complimented on many hides, were all entirely hand set from c. case of head-letter type purchased *V>r that purpose. It took a printer our or five hours to .set the heads for , lie news items. This week when you p. . ay.o.vl your copy of the Herald you may now that not only the bedy part of too news articles you read, but also pl<e heads, both hip and. little, were ket ^ jj,. machine, and instead of into the suur mac ,?{,./??! to sot mouths to steal away their brains, and will be of valuable assist nee to any person who wishes to apply satisfactory tests and determine whether or not he has been equipped with brains and would inspire larceny. "One Thousand Ways to Cure a Cold." by Burton Bales, is a beautifully written book, giving all the remedies for cold that were suggested to its author in one day. There are 80 variations of the quinine and whisky treatment, arid the other Oil remedies consist of the same prescription without the oitter quinine. This is a good book to have in any house. "The Servant Question and Its Answer" will deceive many people, but it might do for a gift to a young married couple. The answer i3 quaintly given: "Board." WILBUR D. NESBIT. "They are to bo married on Christmas day." "Would you call that 'Yule-tied?'" J Claimed Gernvany Planned to Annex | Switzerland. As proof that Germany made plans to annex Switzerland, the Martin, I | Paris, France, prints photographs of German 10 and 25 pfenni stamps across which are printed in black letters "Schweiz, 10 centimes" and i "Schweiz, 25 centimes." The editor claims he has stamps #f this kind in his possession. Police Looking for Bandit's Loot. Cincinnati police last week sought for the $13,100 obtained by Frank G. Hohl, automobile bandit, from the two banks he held nn nrwl vnbbod lncf ? r- v Wednesday before he was shot and mortally wounded in a pistol duel with three policemen. Contractors to Fill Contracts on Time. Contractors who agree to furnish the navy material must hereafter fulfill their contracts on time or suffer a penalty. If delivery is not completed in time the paymaster general shall be at liberty to buy the articles at the contractor's expense,, any additional cost to be collected from the bondsmen. DID UP THE CHAMPION J AMERICAN SOLDIERS HAD BIRD I THAT WAS SOME FIGHTER. Some Might Have Called It a "Ringer/1; I But Main Thing Was That It Lowered the Pride of the Filipinos. The Doverlc, Captain Harper, a British steamship, which lay at the Ameri! i can piers, Tompkinsville, N. Y.J I brought from the far East a yarn con- I corning several United States infantry- < men in Manila, one bald-headed eagle, | ' one Filipino game cock and several 1 guileless Filipinos. According to the story tho Iloveric'e 1 officers went to a cocking main at Ma- t nila. As they entered tho enclosure' the sailors met a party of United States infantrymen, one of whom car- 1 ried under his arm a canvas bag. Several fights took place of minor importance. During this time more soldiers kept entering until there were more than a hundred in the enclosure. finally a Filipino. bearing under his arm a beautiful fowl, stopped into the place and made an announcement that caused much excitement. "That's the champion bird around here," a sergeant told the reverie's people. "lie's beaten everything that has lx en put up against him. but now he's going to get what is coming to him. More goes." and ho clambered down into the plaza. The owner of the game cock had just finished challenging all comers, when the sergeant, his bag under his arm, clambered down beside him and dumped its contents on the ground. The contents consisted of one bird, the most disreputable fowl that anyone in iho assemblage ever laid eyes on. A howl of derision greeted the appearance of the strange object as it staggered to its feet and gazed about. The Filipino readily agreed to match his beautiful bird against the shapeless mass of feathers that huddled in the pit. The bets were made, spurs were put 011 both birds and they were left alone in the ring. The American bird shook his logs a couple of times, then huddled again. The Filipino cock saw the other fowl ^ notiole of Rj ? wmw??mm t/% ir/.cryjt">rwa n >:rra latest invention in the art of printing, not only in this article, but in several others published last Spring when the machine was first installed. It can easily do the work of six men working by hand at the type eases. One great beauty about it is that the printer never runs out of sorts. He is never j pushed to death on press day trying 'o get up an article by hand that must fpe published regardless of the labor c.nd over time that it may take, and I there is always plenty of type. There ts no distribution of type after the pa-; aicr has been printed. The : bigs used n the paper for printim:: this week f ,re simply thrown cut of the form ^nto the molting not a; d used over and c?\er again. The groat saving of time! pan hardly bo estimated, i .There is another great advantage j Sviiieh is found in having a brand new! c.vpo face each time that the paper is j printed. With tvpc set from tlie casesi t he same faces are used week after m veek for months and rears, The faces F a>ecomc broken and flattened by ustige, so that the appearance of the printed page is not clear and sharp giving tb.at pleasing appearance so dlear to the printer's heart, and which nakes his product easy to read. It is greatly to the' advantage of the msincss man to get his printed work ^'one on short notice and in neat readSI nble slyio. AH such things help him tfi his business and they save his time. dVc have born laboring for long past o equip this office to be of tl\o greatest value to ihe man with an idea. wtlbh? tire what counts and printing Its more to do with the use of ideas CJ ] j ghan any other one industry. Of pourse the Herald office is fitted with p.ll of the latest stylos of job type that les now east by the type foundries. We I ? an supply almost anything that is r<Vantcd, but above all we can now Nfive you in machine set faces absolutely new each time the job is n >nnte<l, all of the following sizes and .'aces of the latest styles: THE NEW iNTERTYPE oTHE NEW INTERTYPE t,THE NEW INTERTYPE tThe New Intertype 8The New Intertype THE NEW INTERTYPE. The New Intertype. THE NEW INTERTYPE. The New Intertpye. I ' H Those who have never seen such a ^naehine in operation are welcome at ny time to call at our plant and see ?ovation. YEVER TENDER FATHER [ -EO TOLSTOY NOT A MAN TO INSPIRE AFFECTION. i -Us Son Writes That He Only Said "Good Night" and "Good Morning" i to His Children as a Matter \ of Duty. t There was one distinguishing and, V it lirst sight, peculiar trait, Ui my fa- i Lher's character, duo perhaps to the ? fact that ho grow up without a mother, aid that was that all exhibitions of tenderness were entirely foreign to him. I say "tenderness" in contradiction to heartiness. Heartiness ho had, and in a very high degree. His description of the death of my Undo Nikolai is characteristic in this connection. In a letter to his other brother Sergei Nikolaiovitch, in which lie described the last day of his nromer s nu\ my lather tolls liow ho helped him to undress: "lie submitted, and became a different man. Ho had a word of praise for . everybody, and said to mo: 'Thanks, my friend.' You understand the slgniticanco of tlio word a as between us two." It is evident that in the language of the Tolstoy brothers the phrase "my friend" was an expression of tenderness beyond which imagination could not go. The words astonished my fa-1 I tlicr even on the lips of his dying brother. During all his lifetime I never re- jj ceived any mark of tc nderness from him whatever. Ho was not fond of kissing children, < and when he did so in saying good j y morning or good night, he did it merely ii as a duty. a It is therefore easy to understand that he did not provoke any display of t tenderness toward himself, and that f nearness ami ilr??imns? u iMi til mi u'ni'd never accompanied by any outward manifestations. It would never have como into my * head, for instance, to walk up to my father and kiss him or to stroke his hand. I was partly prevented also from that by the fact that I always looked upon him with awe, and his spiritual power, his greatness, predated me from seeing in him the ore man?the man who was so plain(ve and weary at times, tho feeble d man who so much needed warmth Bui rest. 1 Tho years will pass. Tho accumu^ted incrustations which hide tho < *uth will pass away. Much will bo iped out and forgotten. Among otlir things my father's will will bo forotten?that will which he himself Hiked upon as an "unnecessary out^ard means." And men will see more SK1 early that legacy of love and truth ^Jti which he believed deeply, and ,'hich, according to his words, "canot perish without a trace." Tn conclusion, I cannot refrain from "noting the opinion of ono of my kins0 ion who, after my father's death, read s io diaries kept both by my father and b iv mother during the autumn before (j yoff Nikolaievich left Vasnaya Polypi na. p "What a terrible misunderstandlg!" ho said. "Each loved tho other ith such poignant affection, each was 1 offering all the t.ima on the other's P ehalf, and then this terrihlo ending! . . I see the hand of Fate in this." I -From Count lb a Tolstoy's "Remin- 1 C sconces of Tolstoy." in the Century. '< i y II s Agricultural Expert. t> An American congressman In his .,>st election was opposed by a man ho owned a farm and posed as a reat friend of the farming interests. J he congressman had once owned a ' irm and a herd of Jerseys, but had ; money at it and given it up. But!? e e did not intend to lot his opponent h avo him at a disadvantage, so ho isuod a challenge. "We'll go to any dairy farm you soect," ho said, "and if I don't milk more owe than you do in the course of an lour, I'll withdraw from the contest. * f I win then you withdraw." f But his opponent refused to accept ' ho challenge. "IIow many cows can you milk pet our?" inquired a friend of the chalmger. ( "How do I know till T try?" ho re- k died. "I never milked a cow in my life."?London Tit-Bits. What They Expected. "Ma. better lock up the bathroom nd get out the old wooden tubs." i "Why, pa?" "And hide the phonograph and those I \even-dollar records." ! 1 nl l' "For goodness sakes?" "And while you're at it youM better j ut away your fancy dishes and get j ut those old blue things you hate (o." "What's gettin* into you, pa?" "We've got a few summer boarders cDming hero from tho city and we've ot to give 'em the sort of country life \ 1 icy expect."?Detroit Free Press. House Cat Mothers Baby Wildcat. Frank T. Robinson, a Baltimore A * ^diio engineer of Cumberland, Md.,I as a house cat that is mothering a aby wildcat. Two kittens, tabby's} : |Wii, share with the wild ono the ivors of the mother. ( < A groundhog hunter ran across a ten of four wildcats near Foley, a few, | tiilos, north of here, on top of the^ < | llogho.rtios. He brought two home " rid gave one to Robinson, who placed re i^ttle wildcat with the mother cat, rid "it Is thriving, being nourished long with the kitten*. 1 IV ^ MTJt^VWg I RAT CORN? I Host Tftt nnd mloo exterminator irade. j Kills quickly and absolutely wlthoutodor. Mummifies?thus provcntlntf deoon?j>os4lion. Belter than all the traps In Lho world. Insist on (Jenulno 11AT CORN. 2-'?e. 50c, $1 at dealers or by mall, posfr* paid. V BOTANICAL MFG. CO. S^" 4th & Race St*.. Philadelphia* Ptu W. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon, CONWAY, S. C. ? It. H. WUUUWAKU, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY, S " m R. P?. SCARBOF Attorney at 1 CONWAY, S HAL L. lU'CK. * * I'ire Insurance * * Otlice Conway National Hank Conway, - - - S. C. We have bought out. the stock of * tS /-I . i > v itaMjiio jo, un ine corner op>osite the Horry Tobacco Warelouse We carry up-to date iStaple .nd Eanev Groceries, Beef, P'ork, Sausage, Etc. Give us a call and >e convinced that our goods are resh. Yours for business, J. T. Proctor Jr. & Co. ' ii i ??? GEO. LUM LAUNDRY. CONWAY, S. C. Beginning July 1st. 1913 All persons must take ticketslfor work left hero. Possitively no vork delivered until ticket is proven tod. .Laundry not called for in 10 days will be sold for charges. GEORGE LUM CHICHESTER S PILLS ^ Tit K DIAMOND lilt AND. A ' / . Lud'cul A?l* }'<mr Drucirlnt for /A 4\ Oil rlici'tcr'a IMnniiMMl tirond/AX I'lllrt in It f?k ft ml 4^ _ . Jj boxen, sealeG with Illue Ribbon. M v<<J TultO no olh??r. liny of your ^ / ~ fjf l?ru(r?lNt- .'??.kfor4,ll KH-TERSl I C jP i>LVai??Ni> r.itANl* imi.i.h, for &a> \ V KJ ye.irs Known as Host, Snfest, A hv?ys Reliable *">?r SOI 0 (1Y OOTOjSTS FVFKYWHFREi J. M. JOHNSON, CIVIL ENGINEER Marion, S C. [tailroad, City and Land Surveying; ind Drainage. Road-building an Sewers Draughting and Hlue Printing H. C. CAIN IN ON General Land Surveying. Office?Buck Building CONWAY, S. C. W C SINGLETON ATTORNEY AT LAW Conway, S. C. Office up Stairs Buck Building ENOCH S. C. 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