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THl ftSDAT, SEPTEMBER S, 1127. \ _ i TM \on8 d**- tano« 6 operas m « l, ' i ” RBI , \ p y 0 w 0 VBmI ^ c<* your toW c» w ** Vv . v SSis # lx>ng pittance Gcdls is a simple matter* T ono distance telephone service is now used -■“V universally because it is easy and convenient to make all classes of calls. ^ ... . ■ -r,: To make a station-to-station call, you monely tell^the operator the number of the distant tele phone. The charge begins when the called tele phone answers. To make a person-to-person call, you tell the operator the name of the party to whom you wish to talk. The charge begins when communication is established with the person called. If you do not know exactly how to make a long distance call, let the operator help you. She. will cheerfully give you all the necessary information. “BILL SYSTEM” SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ■ fm mi m. dUi iNcoarotATiD ♦ * ° :: Vickery Bros. :: < * :: Automobile Specialists Garage Service Filling Station WE Specialize ia remedying automobile ills. No matter what tilment your auto may be sufferng from we can give it **a ckun bill of health.” s EXPERT skill in repairing and thorough knowledge of every part of an automobile qualify us to put your car in perfect run ning order. AN auto that ia in good condition ia a good investment. Let us examine your cars, and save yourself the annoyance of.won dering what ia wrong. Our rates are reasonable^ Our service is yours for the asking. :: Tires, Gasoline i; LONG TERM MONEY to LEND i! * ' 6 per cent, interest on large amounts Private funds for small loans. BROWN & BUSH • ‘ :* * LAWYERS BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1! 1 __ ^ • <i NOV/— O Leonard Building Room No. 406 n That the faster ruth is over—i* .the best time to get a permanent wave. You will enjoy it through the Spring and Summer months. Phone or write for an appointment. Leonard Beauty Sboppe* { . MRS. A. DBAS, Prop. Rhone No. 2287 Augusta, Ga. e ■' (Prepmr*4 to tHe National Oeoaraphle Society, Washtnaton. D. C.) T O GET a mental picture of Tokyo one must hold clearly in mind that Japan’s capital la —^ot really a city but a eellec- tion ot towns and villages, grown t6- gether. These settlements preserve their entity In the 15 “wards” fre quently mentioned In dispatches re lating events in the city. Tokyo has a peculiar sentimental tie with our own national capital, be cause the Japanese cherry blossom trees In Potomac park, in Washing ton, constituted a gift to us, which was recognized by sending to Tokyo a consignment of American dogwood trees. There they form an annual magnet for thousands of Japanese res idents at the time of their blooming. When one aalla up the hay of Tokyo to Yokohama, and buys a rail road ticket to Tokyo, he senses the distinctive group form of Japan’s capital. For the ticket reads “Shlna- gawa,** or “Shlobashl," not “Tokyo." The Imperial palace la in the aristo- cratlc, ward, or “Ku,” known as Ko- jlmorhl-Ku. In this palace, originated by Ota Dokwan In 1450. formerly lived the Tokugawa Shoguns. This palace bears witness to the frequent casual I ties of Tokyo; It often was burned, the Isst time In 1875. It Is not ac cessible to the public. A Japanese guide-book naively aaya, “Ordinary people are allowed to approach only as far as the end of the first bridge outside the outer gate." The palace grounds are surroumled by two moats; the perimeter of the outer one la about five miles. In this ward also la the central railway station, with buildings occupying two acres. One of four entrances Is reserved for the use of the Imperial family. The I^tln quarter of Tokyo ilea In Kanda-Ku. Here Is the Tokyo Higher Commercial school, the first school of that kind established by the govern ment when It launched upon a pH Icy of adopting western business methods. Upon the grounds of this school grow pine trees which are survivors of tke grove standing there when the school , tract was part of the Shogun’s pleas ure park. This ward also la famous for a willow-tree thoroughfare. Its second-hand dothqfi stores, and a Shinto shrine which dates to the Eighth century. “ IT fa ah ^dfficial" City. ^ While each ward retains distinctive characteristics of the time when It was a s4>arate town, and each has Its own business section, Tokyo as a whole has a distinctive Individuality, ft is an “official” cljty, and frankly so. Official hours, official guides, official guide books and official seasons for various sights and scenes are officially proclaimed. You come'away with a sense of having beep officially con ducted through a fairyland of cherry blossoms, of noisy lotus flowers that bloom with a detonation, of doll’s festivals, of Geisha girl dances. The old survives alongside the new. The Geisha gfti-continues to perform though the cafeteria has ma^e Its ad vent in Tokyo. The Geisha girl is an institution hard for the western mind to comprehend.* Her most comparable functionary In the western world was the court jester—long since passed away. She Is‘a modern prototype of the private enfertainers of wealthy medieval nobles. She Is of a class dif ferent from the women of Japan who cling to. their semiseclusion ‘amid the tnrsads of modernism; but she is not of the tyife which westerners. class as the demimonde. j_. Restaurants and tea houses In Tokyo stilj have their Geisha girls. The Japanese business man, student, official, or visiting fanner are the patrons. More often it Is a party at men friends whom the Geisha girl en tertains'‘with song, dance and mono logue, and for whom she acts as a sort of hostess. \ - Cnstera does not fill these restau rants with husbands and wives, men and their fiancees, or friends of op posite sexes, aa In America. Bat the wish to have members of the other sex preeent la jnst as strong In Jnpan ns alaswhari. Hence the Geisha girl. Ootalda the pervading wmm of offi cial regulation there la Infinite variety In Tekye. Exdnrive Kajlmschl ia very A Studious Tokyo Newsboy. different from hourgeolse Kanda Busy, bustling Mlhombasbl, with it< “Broadway” and “Billingsgate” Is a far cry from Shlba, village of the tower gate and giant hill, nktive re* taurants and distinctive dances. Easy To Find Your Way Around. For the humble traveler by the tram, it la exceedingly difficult to gel lost In Tokyo. Each car bears th« Dumber of Its route and Inside, st the place where. In America, one would see hosiery and washing powder ad vertisements, there is a comprehen give map of the city criss-crossed and circled by lines of many colors con responding to the numbered route* A knowledge of the language Is super fluous. From the guide-book map, of • better from the free map furnished bj the Japan Tourist bureau, whirl seeks to make Japanese travel d* • lightful, one locates the place he seek! and the place where be stands. The* lit Is a mere matter of matching nun» | hers and colors to any spot wlUiliMhr circular railway which forms the fin of the transportation wheel. This Idea of placing a map of thi ; Hty In the cars themselves Instead ; of on some sequestered wall around iths station may rob the traveler « the cultural advantages of temptlni pictures of butter and motor cam, but it makes It easy to wander from vll j Uge to village within the city limit! ' with the minimum of delay and slgi i language. Nlhotnbaahl Is a principal bustnesi I quarter of fits dty, although each m tbs wards Is more Independent, com ' menially, than tke various sections a incut cities. The •center of Nlhom basht and of Tokyo, Is the brldg* ! which In olden times was a measurini • point for distances to places through out the empire. Formerly It wai wood; It iPas rebuilt In 1011 of gran i Its. It la the thoroughfare from eacl ! end of this bridge which popularly li • known as “Broadway.* In Nlhomhash! Is the Bank of Japan j occupying a building especially de ' signed to be earthquake-proof. On< part of the building has three storiei | underground for strong boxes, ant | this part can be flooded aa protectioi 1 against fit*. In this same section a modern banks and office buildings is I Shinto shrine where c(isruis Ire dls pm serf which are euppeeed to be of Acs clous tir vonr diverse emergenctei as shipwreck, child delivery and betai the victim of a liar. » “Newspaper Row” Is in Kyobash! Ku. Here are practically all the piin clpal journals. Shlba-Ku contains tht mortuary temples of the Tokugawi Shoguns. A concession to foreign vis itors is Indicated by the announce ment, “Boots need not be taken off, si covers are provided to slip ovei them." In Azahu-Ku is a Buddhist temple Tpemento of the years before Shinto ' Ism took firm hold. Shintoism hat been kept alive In Japan from thi dawn of the empire. Tokyo, as Japan’! capital, became a stronghold of Shin tdlsm because officialdom of Japai support It ardently. Three Dangers to the City. The Introduction of western build logs greatly enhanced the danger fron earthquakes in Tokyo. The fragllf houses might be burned and oftef were, but could hot malm their occu pants under piles of mortar and stone., Fireproof warehouses were provided for groups of,such building! and when the alarm of fire was sound ed the oecnpahts carried off their val uables to these storage places. Tokyo has had three partlculai furies of her own to harry her ovet SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM ANNOUNCES GREATLY REDUCED ROUND TRIP-kXCURSKlN FARES ATLANTIC CITY —AND— NIAGARA FALLS ? * The foflowing roond-trip fares will apply from Stations shown below: to Atlantic City to Nizjtra Falla, TELL — __ 626.40 .$36.25 GARDEN — 22.96 32.80 COLUMBIA - i. 24.16- 84.00 DENMARK 1. 26.36 36.20 ORANGEBURG L 25.95 86.80 Proportionate fares from intermediate points. TICKETS GOOD FOR 18 DAYS INCLUDING DATE OF 8AL& ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Selling dates: via. P. R. R. June 21, July 5, 19, August 2, 16, 3,; via B. and O. June 29, July 13, 27, August 10, 24, Sept 7. Excursiam fares as above *pply via. Norfolk, Va. Reduced round-drip fare* to other Nek Jersey < senshort resorts. ‘ NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. Selling dates: via. P. R. R. June 22, July 6, 20, Angust 8, 17, 31, Sept. 14, 28; via B. and 0. June SO, July 14, 28, August 11, 26^ Sept 8, 22, October 6. Stopovers permitted on return trip not to exceed ten days within fimal^unit at Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, etc. Call on nearest ticket agent for further information, tions, etc., or address B. M. TODD, D. P. A, W. E. McGEE, D. P. A. Columbia, S C. Columbia, 8. C. HALL & COLE, Inc. 94-102 Faneuil Hall Market < BOSTON, MASS. Commission Merchants and Distributors of ASPARAGUS. One of the Oldest Commission Houses in the Trade. Send for Shipping Stamp. HC TEH lie TO LEHB Farm Loans 6 per cant, largo amounts. Town orty in Barnwell, residential and business, 7 par Loans procured promptly st lowest cost Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell Counties. THOMAS M. BOULWARE Attorney-at-law - Barnwell, S. C. and over again: peatllence, fire and earthquake. From the close of th« Sixteenth century when the old flail ing village of Yedo blossomed into a city at the order of the ruling Shogun, these three have from time to time taken heavy toll of life, and the lattet two, of property. Perhaps the most terrible of the many fires that have destroyed great blocks of the Inflammable houses oi Tokyo occurred is 1667 when 107,000 persons are said to have loot their lives in the Same*. The number ot palace* dsatrhyed la placed at 500 and the residence* of other nobles at than ffOQ, while between 300 and Vacation Time TRY THE COOL PLACES IN THE | Southern Appalachian Mountains ;• • OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA •• EASTERN TENNESSEE ” * * - * AND NORTH GEORGIA | ‘‘The Land of the Sky” v Jersey Seashore Resorts Virginia Beach, Including new Hotel Cavalier Beaches at Charleston, Savannah Brunswick and Jacksonville Mountain Region of New England Resorts fin the Great Lakes Lake Region in Canada Canadian Northwest Pacific Northwest Colorado * California Resorts, Etc. . m REDUCED FARES TO , - . . 4/| T. ON SALB DAILY ' BEGINNING MAY 15th, GOOD UNTIL OCTOBER flat .'V , -r_ Write for List of Somuar Resort Hotels wmi ■Mf: also Boys’ Camps sad Olds’ Camp*. 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