Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WELL ON ROAD TO WEALTH Farmeor Undoubtedly Ha a Great Scheme Unless Some Indignant Motorist Should "Catch On.' Straight ahead lay a long, straight stretch of road, and the man at the wheel of the car settled down in his seat. It was evident he was prepar ing for a sprint. But before he was well under way an honest-eyed old farmer stepped from the roadside toward him and held out a detaining hand. "Thowt mebber ye would be a-goln' to go full steam ahead," he remarked casually when the car slid to a stand still. The motorist nodded in reply. "Well, just take a look through these at that tree over the bend," went on the farmer, producing an elderly pair of field glasses, "and happen ye'll change your mind." "Great Scott!" exclaimed the motor Ist when the glasses disclosed a blue trousered figure perched on a branch In the tree. "I say, thanks most awfully 1" There was the sound of coin clink Ing on coin and then the ifiotor went sedately down the road at about six miles an hour. And at the beginning of the clear stretch of roadway the honest-eyed farmer -was counting his cash. "The idea o' carting the old scare crow from the orchard and perching It In that 'ere tro works out pretty well I" he chuckled as he heard an other car approaching.-ondon Tit Bits. MUSIC IN COST OF LIVING inhabItrLa 0i DCnueiy PiopuiuiCd Flats In New York ltly Begin to Take Alarm. Opening windows on the first warm days of the year bring a warning that this will probably he the most musical season New York has ever seen, says the E0vening Star of that city. The apartment-house court has always been cosmopolitan in its musical tastes and prone to prodigality in its volume of more or less musical sounds in summer, and this time it appears that not only are all the young men home from the army but that the high cost of everything has also made the apart ments more densely inhabited and more continuously so than ever before. The magnets are lacking that once drew folk away from home in the eve ning. Beer Is negligible as a corner attraction. The movies are more ex pensive and more tiresome. Soda bears a war tax paid by the'dispenser and also charged to the consumer. Home has become a rather forc(d haven for all and music is )eing over worked in an attempt to relievo Its tedium. This season we have with us, appar ently, not only the phonograph and the player plano--those resources of the musical and unmusical alike-but there is also an appai'ent return of the child who practices on the plano. Illuminated Traffic Cop. With a view to solving the difflcul ties that beset motorists and traffic oflicers on Boston streets after night fall the officers of the First motor corps are conducting experiments thiau~ghout the city to make a trafic handier visilie to drivers as well as' to piedestrians. An experiment dlemonstrated that with the help of three light bulbs, which humri. cont inuously, white bands crossedl on his breast and long white gauntletis, a traflic otlicer can be0 seen by motorists eyes at the busiest and dlarkest of corners. CI~i~df the lights is placed Onl the trafic guardl's lhat and the other two on his shoulders. They are fed by biatteries in the pocket of his over cirt. 11oth redl andl white lights have been i ed. So far the red lights sem to lbe more sat isfactory.-Uoston Gliobe. Portable Town Given France. Many an Americnn tourst will be surprisedl this sununer to finid just Out side the wvar-torn city, of Leas, Ferance, a quaint Dumtchm vIllage. Theii stranger wvill learn that the villago, is a gift fromi the Ipeople of Holland to the re turning citiz.ens of Lens. Thle houses, all of wood and of an inigenious, knock dIown construction, are nowv awaiting shipmient fromi the Netherlands, where the piarts were sawed andl~ tittell. As sembileid, they will shelter in comfort f500 refugees. When all tie dwellings are occuiniied, the Dutch government will s~end landscape gardeners to lay out flower beds and shrubbery In liar. man with the bullglings.--Popular Mechanics Magaz.ine. Plane Lands on Street. Thousands of spectators lined the curbs of a buinsiness thioroughifaroe in Oakland, Cal., some weeks ago as a result of thio annonnecement that an airplane was to land( and take off from the street. On schedule time the plane appiearedl overhead, glided down betweeni the walls of the nman-made canyon and touched the pavement. Skidding hero on the slippery asphalt, the plane grazed a lamp-post, swerved to the curb andl damaged its tall skid. Th1e accidlent was trivIal, but served as a warning to the authorities, who promptly forbade the take-off..-Popu ler Mechanics Magazine. Need of a Backyard. "We simply must have c house with a backyard." "F~or the chlfdren to play In?" "No. We have no children, but we've amply got to have a place to throw emptr ans . DDDTS F.VENING IRY TALC 0 rdf w falllh Doxrmer W/notL THE MEAN FLIES. "I was so mean this morning," said the fly. "Yes, I was jus't as mean as 1 could be." "And so was I," said the second fly. "T'eli 111e about it," sali the visitor fly. "I love to hear of iean nets. They mnake m,(? iuiz, with happines.q. Indeed, I enjoy heatring of mean acta second only to doing usei myself. "I like to go on sweets and eat other creatures' food-just nibble at it, you know. I don't care whether I am brushed away or not. I come right back again. "The other day some people were having lunch and some of my brothers and sisters were fearfully annoying. We knew it. We knew we weren't wanted. But that didn't matter to 11. We stayed about and bothered the people dreadfully. "They brushed us off and said: "Oh, dear, those horrible flies, why can't we get rid of them?" "We'd go back again and bother them. We were just as mean as mcan, could be." "I can see," said the first fly, "that you will enjoy our story." "Yes," said the second fly, "I can see that, too. You will appreciate it." "Do tell it to me," said the visitor fly. "Well," said the first fly, "this morning there was a little girl asleep." "Yes, yes," buzzed the visitor fly, "this sounds mean and nice." "It is," said the second fly. "Pray continue," said the visitor fly. "Weli,'' said the first fly, "this little girl had been to a fancy dress party thio night before. She had had a beautiful time. I was on the ceiling when I heard her telling her mother about it. "It was very late when she got home and she had had such a very ex citing time that she was all tired out "She told her mother all about the costumeq and what every one (lid and "We Weren't Wanted.1 said and what games they played ad howt they danced and how everyone fooled everyone else. "Well, -just as her mother was stay ing 'good night' to lher ani was kiss intg her and wishinag herr pleasant dreams andm~ all that foolishness'5, R heard her say: "'Now, dea rie, you enn slaeep late, for tonmorriow is Satumrday. Donu't wa:lm 11p f'or brieakfa:st . You en n ae somae fm-uit and~ tualik any timme youm get tai or you neednm't get uap unttil itunchl imta if youi don't want to. You cnn have a great, long rest.' "'Oh, Im so glad,' soaid the little girl- to huerselfC, 'for T just feel as though I could sleep and1( sleeip.' "That was enaough f'or me."' said the first fly. "And for me,'' said the seo(~tnd fly. "This sounds wonderful," said the visitor fly. "D~o go on.'' "'Well, she was just so tired uad sleepy that tit was funa to be so nmenn,'' said the fhrst fly. "'If' sihe hmadn't beent so tired and Ro sleepy it wouldn't have b~eena half such funm." "You can understand," sai the sec 0n11fy. "Ensaily," said the visitor fly. "And1," said the first fly, "early this morning I began my work, just wh'len she was sleeping so hard beense site was so tired, I got on her face andtu there I stuck until she htad to half wake upl and( brush mte off." "Then," saidl the second fly, "I did the same andl got otn the other side of her face." "Shec tried to lie on one side0 and then on thme other," satid the first fly. "Thten she tried to covers tup her head, and of course shte was most unt comtfortable doing thtat, for shte couldn't btreathte that way," said the second fly. "So between us we wouldn't let her sleep, and she wvas so tired. oh, so terrllbly tired, and so terribly sleepy that it was great fun." "dWonderful, wonderftul," ,saId the visitor fly. "And when she wvent downstairs so early, for she couldn't sleep, and her mother asked whly, sheo said: "'Theo flies simply wouldni't let me sleep.' "Wasn't that great?" said the first fly. "Yes, damnt it?" added the second '1. ."Oreattn hised the visitor fis' PUNISHED FOR KINDLY DEED English Magistrates Seem to H-ave Dealt Harshly With Man Who "Broke" the Sabbath. John Bull is an English publicatlon. The letter we are reproducing from its columns was written to the mnagis trates of the English town of Reading. One wonders if they ever heard of the distinction between the letter and the spirit of the law, remarks Our Dumb Animals. "Your Worships: I gather you don't go to church on Sundays as a regular thing. Let me tell you why I gather. On a Sunday during the strike a po liceman dug up the Sunday observ ance act in order to convict a poor devil of a drover-Charles Palmer, to wit-of driving cattle through the streets. The man had fetched the beasts from the railway station, where they had arrived from Dublin. They were then in a bad state. If they had not been removed to be fed and watered they would have been the victims of callous cruelty; and though on this particular Simday that which is written, 'Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not straightway pull bim out on the Sabbath day' was part of the gospel, you made the drover pay the costs of his proseention. To all intent and purpose, therefore, gentlemen, you might as well have convicted and fined hUn. What a pity it is that the act of 1677 doesn't prohibit Reading mag istrates from walking or driving through the streets on Sunday in or der to catch their dinner." VOLCANOES AWAKE TO LIFE Mount Katmai, in Alaska, Especially, Shows Signs of Preparation for Destructive Outburst. Affording an awe-compelling specta ele of nature in a sullen mood and awakening memories of the ghastly details of the eruption of eight years ago, Mount Katmai, most powerful and restless of North American volcanoes, is again in violent activity, according to Capt. Charles A. Glasscock and Purser Gary Bach of the steamer Ad miral Watson, which reached port re cently from southwestern Alaska, says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A sable pall of smoke from the fun nel of the belching crater broods over the northern sky for a radius of 40 or 50 miles by day, while fretful tongues of flame can be seen by ves sels a score of miles at sea at night, according to the Seattle mariners. Knight's peak, a neighboring vol cano, has also been stirred to.spectae ular efforts by the outburst of its more deadly companion, qnd wreaths of smoko hang over numerous peaks of the rugged Alaska boninsula. A slight earthquake shock was ex perienced at Kodiak island the night of April 8, a day before the arrival of the Adniral Watson. Tvo days later those on the Admiral Watson had a rate view of the volcano. 'Submarine Radio. The last annual report of the bu reau of standards states that members of the bureau's staff have developed very successful methods of communi cating with submerged submarines by radio-telegraphy. With a single-turn coil or loop attached to the outsidle of the suhmarine, signals can he received as well when the vessel is submerged as when it is at the surface. It Is also possible to transmit from a sub merged submarine a distance of 12 miles. Thuis it becomes possible for a ship and a submarine to exchange recognition signals. A coil aerial is a satisfactory direction findler whmen sihmerged anid readily receivyes signals transmit tedl thousads of mliles, jumst the same as when tised in the air. Th'le navy has t'oiu lppedi its hlarger suhitnma rines wit h this appoaratus.-Selentille Amierican. Airmen Guide Cavalry. 'i'hiie te Fouiirteenthi cavalry wasl Ion the mnarch recentliy f1youm Fort Sam Houston, Tex., to Fort Rtin ggold, Tex., an aviator, whlo chancell to pass over their heads, acted as their volunteer guide. The observer ini the airplane saw that, instead of the Trio City road, they were following what is knowni as the Somerset road1. He advised them of their error by a message Airopped in front of the moving column, and the troop detoured to the correct road. Thme air-service of!lcern roprtod th~e ineidlent to the chief of operationms at IKelly field upion their arrival, and 25 minutes later a map showing the route to their destination, F~ort Ring gold, was droppmed in the middle of Ithe marching column. Just What Did He Mean? Little lienry loanhammer is a tyj teal Ihoosier youngster, who uses his ears to good ad~vanltage. Since purohi bition has been enforced in Indiana he has heard a great many remarks made by people who in the past were accus tomed to imbibing occasionally. But at Christmas he electrified his fam ily by his own opinion. The Christmas tree was aglow and everyone was talking about its beauty, etc. Finally it came Henry's time to say something and he did. H~e looked at the brilliant tree. "Gee, it's all lit up," he sighed. "and I sure wish I was, too."-Indianapolis News. Hard Luck. "I was born too early," he sighed. "Wlhat's tho mnatter?"\ "I had to wvenr overalls \ivhen they were a hbadgei of hard labor, \'nd n'ow that wearin' 'em Is fashionable~t'm out at the !enma?.. Pulp Yields 20 Commodities. Twenty commodities manufactured from near-sIlk made from the pulp of fir. spruce and hemlock are being ex hibited by the West ;Coast Lumber. men's association in 'Portland, Ore. The exhibit wits prepared in the Unit ed States forests products laboratory of the University of Wisconsin and Is being sent to alliparts of the country for Inspection. i'he commodities in elude silk cloth, silk stockings, gun powder, paper absorbent (a substitute for absorbent cotton), paper bagging, rope and twine, linoleun, shingles, reed fiber for furniture and matting, paper lath, rug yarn, paper webbing and phonograph records.-Indianapo. Ils News. War Brides Aweary. Incompatibility of American and French customs has caused 12,000 of approximately 50,000 French war brides to return to France, according to Mrs. Reginald H1. Johnson, presi dent of the recently organized L'Espoir Franco-American club In Pittsburgh. The club, formed ht the suggestion of Mile. Odette de Bouglon of Paris, who was In Pittsburgh recently, Is expected to broaden the Interests of French girls who became the brides of Americans overseas, and to make then contented In their new homes. Pictures Show Effects on Tires. Slow motion plItictres of the type that have amused movie fans by slow Ing down swiftly moving bodies to the point where every action may be ana lyzehd have been utilized by a tire con paniy for a scIentifle study of Just what happens when a heavily loaded motor truck climbs a curb, drops oY an ele vation or bumps over a railroad track. This Is the first time this very yalu able form of photography has been used by a tire company. Among the (Iuesti-orP the pictures will aId in solv lug are the effects of heavy blows on highways, trucks, loads and tires. Colds Cause GrIp and Influenza LAXATIVE DROMO QUININE Tablets remove the cause. There is only one "Bromo Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 3c lAIMILA T A-1 Nearly 400,000 well how thrifty really is. Men in the tra other cars often us 8sion "as thrifty as F->)ecial steels aI lying cause of Ma, These are stee Maxwell's own fo: years of tests, analy which make possi construction of g: and light weight. They give a IN ITS A SU R E0 F RI EN Did you earn that money? Well you worked for it, didn't you? Why can't you put some little piece of it in the bank each pay day, so that some day it can work for you? Vou wont always be able to work. even ifkyou are well. Then it will be a fine feeling to have the money you banked, while you could work, which is now. Bank it. We add 4 per cent. interest. Make OUR bank YOUR bank. The Enterprise National Bank N. B. DIAL, President C. H. ROPER, Cashier he Thrift of a i XWELI com its specia~l steels owners know ability to stand wear, strain, a Maxwell twists and jolts that other cars much larger and heavier would :le in selling have difficulty to resist. e the expres. But they make a Maxwell a Maxwell." light. They climinate useless ethe urnder-. weight; they ease the burden :well's thrift. on the engine and thus gas, oil and tires render long mileage is, made to results. inuad stery Hence, the ever growing re blean theudeal spect and admiration for l~eteiel Maxwell the world over; and reatstregth its conseqiuent fast growing numbers. Nearly 400,000 in [axwell the use today; a year hence 500,000.. olina Auto Company J. Y. MILAM. Manaer i