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OF HIVERY RACE AND TONGUE All P goples of the Earth Represented in the Millions Seeking Homes In This Country. Art Iles equal In size to the one we sent l:o France land every two years' ol iur shores, t4 ll tithe present tine Iillions are said to be waiting to enl ter*. SinIce 11900 1110re (1h.11 thirteellI Illilli ol ililigrans have enee this couilt::y, and approximately one-third of our gresnt I itain of' iniore than) ()ne hundri Iniliilns alimm grants., or thle chibi1ren of' lituuigranits. Trwo-thirds or' thle plhiition oft Nkew York sitite and hr-orhsof that of our. great Cities aret foreign born*1 or the children of foreign-born Ji' ilits. F'roin a l'ouirth to a hmaf of th11e popull.toll of the large cltiles of the South a t' egros. Already we are tile Ilost lieterogItli'ous peopile on1 earth' here are foui rpresiltativs of every 'ace and hinglie and etillire In the world, and still they Coilniitie to comlte inI ellorliolls 111111ihers. It Is doubtfl iwilether tiny other illgratiol in tile history of iankindi 1 olial're's In magnitude with that whilch has been Converging oil A Itlericn du1ting tI 11t:1Mt twen'ity years. 'lhe sources 111141 tilng nitu(de of this iiigration are indilete'd by the following general sulim1ar1y: Of 111re than thirty million persols in this Country who are i'foreign born or the childrell of foireign-born parents there are fOmn eight to nine "iloll (leria ns. 111 to live million Irish, ab1ou11 three miiiheuillionli frot Great Brit ain,. aboult thril. million Slav". fr oma two to three' million Scandimllavians. mlore than11 two 111illion It11alan, and1 a)uIti1 two 111ihili liubr'Ws, while all other races andl nat ios constit te abou)lt flive mIIons-Ewi Grant Conklin, in Seriiners. NEW PARISIAN DANCE STEPS Pleasure Seekers of the French Capi tal Practice Futurist Movements With Warlike Names. Paris has something new in dane Ing. She is litroducing no fewer than three futurist lianes; the inichil gun, thel shrapnel and the airinain's dance. A poet of fiturist tendeivles is the Culprit. Ilellin conservative en1oulgh to love the wa Iltz and colfei'r-sIng, unl) ashamedpf t,, mant~y happy maoinents dur n t11he hwl s, we trust that rmnorse will be his lot. So far wk. have only read a brief description of oie of thest tuvaslre's, tile alIin:m's u:1nuce. and that shilpily t4lls its that th4 llin'mrs i1n1tat1 the mlotions ol' a1 mnophule starting onl a flight and sonring away. The shrapiimnel dalce s1ould he easy (nough. for It is only ntecessary to turn uiip at any dancing hall and see people who r4eii1nd 111one Inst incti vely of a creeping barrage. There are also plenty of duds to hlghten the efieet. What to imake of tile iachin1e gun dance, however, puzzles us, for al though there are mlen 1nd even \w) men, who can talk as fast a4 it 1m11 hIne gun firing, we have n'ver seen a dance that was anything like the real thing. London Tired of Jazz. Ti'he "Jazz" Is (lead in London, says P. J. S. lii'hardsor., one of the fore iniost EnglIsh authorIties on dancIng. H~e declare i.s thnat 1n0 new thinees wtill he4 polar11ized'I thids yeiar, butt tihe fox trot, oneL-St4'p and14 tango, wh'lih have held int er'naltional IInterest for' two or Ithree seaisonsI, w~'ill be standallri zedi. "PrevIously those taught tihe 51ame1 dances biy (lifferenlt teaLC~cs found themseilv4les hopiiele'ssly alt sea wh'ier. the4y trid to rinne.' toigitheri," he saId. "Through stan41 drizaio o111(n wvhich thle maI2jorItIy io'111 dacing instructors In London hiive now algre(d, ai co~lion frai nowork in) the1 steps will lbe In) sure w'4ithou1141t elim1inatin11 g 1111 chance of IintrP4dn1ing 1 irJIvirIhmll vaiatIonLI1s. Fireak ish and eeenItrIe 'light1 gymonas ties1' such1 1as exaigge'rated forms of 'jaizz' aire raIdIIl~y passing out," * "Sees" With HIs Ears. Paul Donehioo, blind~ law1yer aind muleC~lan, wiho is 11n town'1 01n a vIsIt from Atlanta, gets aroundo over the ('Ity and overI the whole United States wIthout an1y assistanr'e, becaiuse lhe "hears'' the wa'lls and11 1)osts 1and every othier mnuterial obstacle In hIs pathi. "'I can follow t 11ht bIldInog line allonig thle shiewalk by souii,'" he4 says. "I cnn hear ai tree or poist very distinctly. I thInk It Is a sense tat every one 11as, butt thait one0 dpes not dlevelop unless 5 he Is b)1Itnd. I call It sound1 bei cause 1 find( that wvhlen there Is an overwhelmIng niolse I cannot do It.44 'Mr. Donehoo watlks fearlessly about the stPrets, turns1 without hesItation at corners and1( canI e'ven es'tima1teC very accurattely the wIth of the sIdewalk, always knowvIng when'f It bCcomles widi er or nlarrolwer.-rovidenIce .Journal. Over the Earth's Shoulder. Ocean voyatges are4 somIfetIimes short ened consIderably by goIng "over the shotulder of the (earth." as tihe nlavIga tors say, tile Nebraska State Journal ob~serves. The same1 thling is true, of course, of aIr travel. When) an1 at tempt Is made to fly over thle P'aclle o'ceanI from Sian Frantelsco the short est way wvill not b)e dlirectly aceross, aIs at stud(y of the map11 w1ould( Indleate. In~steadl, the fIler's wIll go hundreds of miles4 ntithward, skirtinug thle Aleuitiap IdlanIds 'and) in thiIs way savIng a great dlistance 11s well ais secutrinig the ad vanltatge of moore n)umerCous ilnding places.' Tile earth will soon be chlartedl for aIr travrel and1( tile lInes for long dis tance flight3 wiell be circular more Often than11 dlrecti FORlY-THREE MILLION LIVES Lost ':o World Through the Great War, According to Figures Given by Statistician. A stidy of the different statistics of thel actual and potential loss of life die to the recent war reteals the fict that (iouit forty-tlree million lives have hleen lost to the world either d rectly from the war or from eauses induced bly It, lticlird P. Strong, M. 1)., writes in the North Ameriean Hte vitw. Tiese( losses are made up of, first, aippro.ximately 13,000,000O deaths which occurred in the mulitary serv ice ; 0evofonly, a surplus mortality lbove that which occurred in normal timeits inl thle elviliain popuilations~ aillotilting to ipproxi mately 10,000,000, dilue to Iepidellii ani other diseases, privation, hardship, physleal exhiaus k100, :.nld siltilhir cau 1ses; a thirdly, it potential loss of 20,01-X),000 lives due to the decreased birth frequency below that which occurred undler nor matl conditions before the war. The ailit limle poplulat ion in imaniy Euro leain countries has been reduced by froin 14 to 20 per cent. The figtres of Alonzo Taylor show uis that there are bet weenu 541,(X110,000 and C0.000),(K)I, pen ple in E 1.0rople who have lost their prewar o('Clpations owing to tile fiet that thilt nuarkets for their products 110 lonuger exist, havilng been chnged oil' itken iwaty from them by other ('411unmtries. ManIy of tilese people have or sooin will hevoinle refilgees in Eu rope.w amlong.1 whllel hlss (of peoplle, nolt 'lnly p)overty and hardshilp, but aiso dliv:sase alwalys4 reigls, resiilting In a1 hih liltres in deati rate and (le crease inl irlth ratle. LOOK ON WALKING AS JOKE People Seem to Regard Primitive Method of Locomotion as Alto gether Out of Date. Charles Ilanson Towne writes In the Century: When I refer to the dillicul ties of walkinhg, 1 do not refer to the infirmlit its of age, to flat feet, or to avoirlduois. Not it ll. I mean that it Is ha1 rd ifntlel in theme rushing tines to go afoot, even oln the most dhistant by-rouils, without being con shiered eeentri'. People stare at you as though you were some kind of freak or criminal. They vast suspi ('louls glanceos youir way, never dream Ing tIhuat lierhais you prefer your own feet as a ieins of pleasait locomIijo tioln. I isked it certiIn friend if he would not icc'oi'mipy mue. My friend turned to m114, and iistiantly said: "My car Is out of order." "But I (hil not ftm to go in a cur," I as qui'kly answered. "Why," he repliel, looking at 1me as through. I had gine quite mad, "how else voul we go?" "Oui foot," I bravely made answer, yet realizing that this confirmed New Yorker wouhd never thinhk the same of tile again. And It wits so. I shall not forget, if I live a hundred years, his final disgusted glance. If aly thing further was nelhedd to crush me utterly, I (1o not know what It could be. Adult Iliteracy in Mexico. Instruction for lilterates in the ter ritories of the republic of Mexico is provided by ai law promnulgatedl re cenitly. The lnw authtorizes the employ tmnt of piersonis ini every loenlty who wIll undertake the instruction of one o'r moilre liiteraites. Ch ildlren unider fifteeni years of age who live in dis tricts plrolvbled with schools are not inc'l~ledi in the applicntion of the law. Thle Almerl(ean 'onisul ait Me'xical I, Mex leo, who repolfrts the piroinulgation) of the law, sitates that it wililnt only tend( to uplift the peon claisses, but It will talso creadte a letter feelinig on our herdler. Undler the Amerlcan i mmiigrn tIon law lilliterates' are niot allowed to enter the United State hs, al though their mlore fortunate feliow country me)(n may cross and1( reCrossl the border at wili. Speech Strangely Restored. Antoine D)umas, a farmer living near YssIr~geux, who for three years had been wv itt the pow~er of speech, was cuired in an unulsulal mnannier with out the cost of a cent. Dunmas served in the French artill-ry during the wvar. During one0 of the heavy homn hardmllents his volco ceasedi to -fune tionl, and although scores of army doctors tried to aid( him, no or.e had1( ever b'(een able1 to restore his piower of spee'ch. While wvorking In the hay loft of his bairn hie slipped and fell to the grollmd. Farm hands wh'1o ran to his aId discovered that while is onily injury was a smalll bump at the hack of the hlead, Duminas wa's able to curse as loudly and colorfully as the rest of the farmers. Evelyn Pass. In the great government reserve on the eastern sidle oif Ye'llowhead pass in~ the Itocky mountains, known as Ja~spm'W parIk, Alberta, Is a pass lead In~g fromu Athahaska falls, on the Atha baska river, to Mallgne lake. Thle ge'ograiphic hoard of Canada has re cently namiedi the pass Evelyn, after Evelyn, diuche'ss of' Devonishlre, wife of his excellency the gover-nor general, and dlaughiter of the marilirs of Lans downe, who was governor general of Canada fr'om 1883 to 1888. Th~e duch ess of Devor~shire visied the pass, nlow~ nanmed laftr he' 1r, diuing last sum mer.-Molntr~eal Famliily Itei'aid. Hidden Features, "TurLkish ladles conceal teIr faces." "So dQ we," replIed Miss C'ny'nne: only we use0 cosmueties lnstead of 'yashma~lks'" BAPTISTS PAY IN OVEt $25,000,090 Report. of Commission Shows Over One Third of Seventy-Flye Million Pald Ill. Chattanooga, May 13.-Total cash collections for the causes fostered by the $75,000,000 campaign since the launching of that movement have rachedi the sum of $25,086,342, ac cording to the relport of the conserva ion commission, through Dr. L. It. Sexiborough, chairman, to the 66th annual session of the Southern Bap tist convention here today. Of this sum $12,907,813 has been collectedi during tihe past convention year, the remainder having been re torted a year ago. Regarding the fiture ilterests of the campaign, Chairman Fearborough rcommetnded that (u1ring the sum iller and early fall months all the forces of Southern 3aptists go ailid fr winning souls for Clhrist; that as speedily as possible all the local clurches be broug'ht to a system of rcigular and systematic giving to the Causes of the campaign, rather thani Men's SPECI One spec hats that for a few See Win( Displa: Is $35JA Then lool ing this w that form Special lot of fords, worth up Special lot of 1M to $10.00 pair, Special lot of IN to $10.00,. Whari Laurens. S. C. depending upon special roundups and that either through the cohtinuation. of the conservation commission or some other medium the convention promote a unified program for con serving the interests of the campaign and a vigorous program of pubilicity. The first official act of President l.". Y. Mutllins was thle appoitimenit of the collilittee onl comnittees, whicl is charged with the duty of naming all the special colmittees that will serve at this session of the conven tion. The commnittee includes the four newly elected vice presidents, along with iOr. Livingston Johnston, of Ilaleigh, N. C.. Dr. J. W. Gillon, of 3Mayfleld, Ky., the ier. 13. V. Fergiuson of Fort Smith, Ark., the Rev. S. 11. llennett of 'Montgomery, Ala., and Dr. S. J. Porter of Oklahoma City. G.SOLINE SYSTEMS Oil Tanks and Pumps, Air Com pressors, Couiputing Scales, Floor Scales, Show Cases, Account Reg isters, Rel (iilt Cash Registers, Safes, Store Fixtures. THE IAMLTON SALES CO. Columnbil, S. C. $5.00 AL This Price f< ial lot of men' formerly sold I r days at the v low )O Your : over the wond eek in men's co erly sold for $5~ $35.0 Men's Shoes and ( to $10.00 pair,. en's Pants, worth $7 len's Hats, worth $7 ton Clot] CASH CLOTHIE] hat Glance Out ofthe corner of' er eye is to see iChebrought POWE DRUG COMPANY Hat Values .95 EACH >r Cash Only s colored and black felt Lt $5.00 each are offered ery special low price of Good Styles and 5 All Sizes Price for a Suit? erful values we are offer lored and blue serge suits .OO to $70.00, for SUIT :Special $5 Pair *5 Special $5 Pair *5 Special $5 Each bdng Company RS---"'SUITS ME"