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* * 9 LANFORD 'NEWS 'Lanford, Sept. 19.-Rev. J. .W. watts administered the ordinance of baytisim Sunday morn-ing to the four new ae. cessions to the church. They yere ..lrs. Walter Pr'nee, Misses Vivian and Nellie Burnett and Miss Willie Mae Parson. llrs. alld Mrs. Geo. W. Cunningham, of Tylersville, were guests of Mr. iW. 1). Patterson last Sunday. Miss Fanie ilarion and .Mrs. Martha Hierbert are spending soic tLine in Newherry visiting friends and relatives. iMiss Nannie f~llaford has returned ioie after spending the summer in Atlanta with her sister .\Mrs. Walter O'Dell. She and barby Nell are the guests of Mirs. Ethel Lanford while Mr. O'Dell is in Asheville on a busi ness visit. Mrs. .1. '1. Lipton left Friday miorn Ing for Los Angeles, Calif., where she was suiioned to the bedside of her daughter who Is in tile hospital. Mrs. ElIzabeth Bomar and irs. Dr. 'wdenian and children, of Spartan Colds & "For years we have used * and I have never found any * place," writes Mr. H. A. Stacy C cy, who is a Rutherford Coul Draught as a medicine that sl hold r use in the prompt tre vent them from developing int a H THEDI H BLACK-E "It touchles the liver an declared. "It is one of the I cold and headache. I don't; * family if it wasn't for Black-E 0 dollars . . . I don't see how 1 out it. I know it is a reliable in the house. I recommend never without it." At all druggists. Accept No Batteri Rechai Bring .your aul for recharging, r< ments. We ar ready to give firs Big Reductic and Re< Batteries Previously $14 Also Big R . New B Pre Battery In Vincen burg, were -guests of Mrs. Stella Bomar last week. Mrs. Othello J. -Payne, after spend ing 'the summer In Hendersonville, N. C., Is spending a week with fter fa ther, ,Mr. I. M. Johnson, enroute to her home in Greenwood. Mr. S. L. (ILaugherty, of Gndsden, Ala., is spending some time here and is connected with the pottery of his place. Mr. 1B. W. Johnson and family, of Arcadia, and Mr. Vance Johnson, of Clintoi, spot Sunday with their par ents, Mr. and Mlr s. J. 1). .Johnson. Miss Kath ryne lagquist, the Red Cross nurse for L-au rens county, pald us a very Cleasantt little visit Satur day afternoon. Misses LMattle and Janie Nabors, and .lrs. ILou Ferguson and daughter, of laurens, and Mr. aid Mrs. 11. T. l1ig gins were gutsks of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. 1liggins Sunhay. .\iss Mary Iliggins leaves Tuesna to nter Liimetone college. This is her second yea-r in this institution. Mrs. E..thel Laniford and Mirs. O'Dell were In Woodruff S.atirday. While there they called on Mrs. lenry l'ar sonl, who Is very sick. Rnnonm.,,nEu mm Headache Black-Draught In our fahily, medicine that could take its of Bradyville, Tenn. Mr. Sta ity farmer, recommends Black iould be kept in every house itment of many little ills to pre 3 serious troubles. 'ORD'S RAUGHT d does the work," Mr. Stacy * >est medicines I ever saw for a cnow what we would do in our lraught. It has saved tls many ny family can hardly go with and splendid medicine to keep U Black-Draught ilghly and am U U Imitations I es -ged omobile batteries spairs or replace 'e equipped and t class service. in in Repairs :harging Recharged $1.25, Now 00 eduction on atteries sto Station t's Garage Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents SBy JAMES MORGAN (Copyright, 1920, by Jarnes Morgan.) ASSASSINATION OF GARFIELD 1881-March 4, James A. Gar field, inaugurated 20th president, aged fifty. Mar. 23, sent to senate the nomination of federal officers in New York City. May 16, the senate con firmed the nominations. May 17, Senators Conk ling ?Pnd Platt resigned. July 2, Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau at Washington. Sept. 6. Removed to Elberon N,. J., Sept. 19, died, aged fifty. 1882-June 30, Guiteau hanged. 0 JAMES A. GARFIELD fell a sacrl flee to the spirit of faction and of the spoils system. Although this gen tie, kindly man was not of the Loroic stuff that martyrs are made of, his blood became the seed of better things in our politics. Rarely if ever has a president taken up the burden of the office with a larg er measure of good will from the peo ple, regardless of party and of fac tion, than flowed out to Garfleld as he stood on the steps of the capitol in the sunshine of his inaugural day, the picture of robust American manhood in its prime. His first kiss, after kiss ing the Bible in the presence of a multitude of witnesses, was for the aged mother, who, in a forest hut, had started him on his way to the White House and who held a place of honor beside the schoolmate sweetheart who had been his faithful companion all along the road. "'One thing though lackest yet,' and that is a slight ossification of the heart," John Tay had written to the president-elect. This lack was fatal. Had his heart been harder, Garfield .......... ......... .. : ~ . . LucretIa R. Garfield. would have made his administration wholly his own, lifting it above fac tions, and he might have lived through a prosperous term. Instead, he re mained his few months in the White House what he had been in congress, a lieutenant of Blaine, whom he ap poinlted t'o the secretaryship of state "with the love of a comradeship of eighteen years"-andl v,''ho became at once the power behind the throne. The only president to step directly from the capitol to the White House, he was without executive experience or tastes. His whole training had b~een to dlebate rand compnromise, not to act or dleeide on his sole responsibility. Garfiold himself was rather indiffer ent to factions, liking to get along with all men. HeI appreciatedl Conkling's reluctant but timely support in the campaign and invited him out to Men tor in the winter to talk over the New York patronage, He thought of invit ing him into the cabinet itself, until Blaino whispered no. Less than three weeks after he toek his seat, Garfield toldl the senator that ho was not yet ready to consider the question of filling the New York of fices. Only 48 hours afterward, he fill ed them, nominating for the highest of those ofmces Blaine's best friend and Conkling's worst enemy in New York. With Garfield's hand, Blaine had thrown down the gauntlet to the haughty chieftain of the "Stalwart" clan andl a duel of factions was on in blind fury. The administration suc ceeded in beating Conkling in the sen ate, where he opposed the confirma tion of the offensive nominee. But the senator andl his colleague, Thomas C. P'latt, resigned their seats and appeal ed to the New York legislature. to re elect them as a vindication of their course. When the conflict was bitterest and when the "Stalwarts" were losing at Albany, a disappointed place hunter at Washington, Charles 3. Guiteau, con ceived the mad Idea of saving the sit uation with a pistol shot, and he posted himself at the railway station, where his victim was to take a train for Mas sachusetts. The president was going back to WIlliams college, the goal of his struggling youth, and was smiling like a boy off for a vacation as lhe entercd ine waiting room at thme rail way station with Elaine at is side. Ln two flashes of a reolver ho fell. PRETTY LEGEND OF SILKWORM Father's Treacherous Act Believed by Chinese to Have Brought Bless. ing to the Earth. 'I'lTe head of tihe silkworm is strik. Ingly Ilike that (of i horse. There is it Ivlealend sipposed to account for it. In the olden iys, when gods lived among the people, there wits at man whose proslierity had been chlanged to poverty by tle ralvages of a dreid. fiul wari P. lie possessed but one trens ure, at hn11(mile horse wichl had been brave and loyal throuighiiut all trials. 1In his tihne of distress the silrlI!el horse offeretd himself for the work of at comomon pack hor-se, and14 mne 4h1y, wheni Ie. caie to4 i halt, weary friom1ii unacclishied labor, tile ulnn urged h11im1 forward. "Valk, my good friend," he siihl; "wheii better days come I wIll rev:ird your aitfullness, My eauItifui dagh. ter shall le yollr brle The horse sprang forward with joy, anild from that limte wais mIlore failthiul than ever, tind(] the man's fortune grew botter. day by day. The daughter was very lovely, id one day the governir saw her and asked her it mr'riage. WN'hien tie father proudly consented, he was so Indignintly upbraided by the horse for hIs forgotten promise that the man, In rage. killed the horse and hung the hide with the head attached oin the garden wall. The niaden saw it and the said eyes touched her heart with pity, but the father laughed and ex claimed : "I promise again. Win and taker' No sooner had the words left the mans lips than a ferce typhoon caine whirling through the air and caught up the horse's hide into its darkness. The thunder god rolled an( crashed his whirling drums, the wind god loosened his hold on the great bag of winds, and all the world was filled with roar and tumult and terror. The father called and called for his daugh ter, but the beautiful maiden was gone. As the typhoon whirled away, one dark cloid drifted back from its inky trail and fell to the grcund, not a cloud, but the horse's hide, and twisted c(l~oseyI3 in its folds was the maiden, calim and beauftiful, but dead. Then the father knew it was a god he had wronged, and, deeply sorrow ful, burled the two together with lion ors. The next morning the sunshine glis tene( softly on the grave. The dewy grass was covered over with a cloud like silken web, and within the filmy meshes sat numberless fairy spinters with long, twisted bodies and gentle, swaying horselike heads. So camne the blessing ot the silk. worm to the world. -Indianapolia N'ews. Bank 'Keeps Gold Under Water. No other bank in the world is pro tected-as.the Bank of Ingland, writes William S. Walsh, who collects odd bits of information. This unique pro tection Is due to an artesian well in the bank. This well supplies the bank with its water independently of the rest of the city ; It is 400 feet deep and supplies 7,000 cubic feet of water anl hour. The bullion department, which holds the ingots of precious metal, is nightly submerged in several feet of water by the action of special machinery. Any. One attempting to rob the bank, then, must ho an expert swimmer and (liver. In the morning the water is pumped away and the ingots are readily ac. cessible again. hlowever, tihe water still protects the other departments of the hank. lIt supply is almost unli11mit ed, thle bank knows, and1( its proitect ion is practI cally absolute when It ia used. The bank lhas ver'y deil icate mnineryi~C( ar. rangedl so that even the lifting of one coin from a ple wIll release a catet which in tur ret'leasi(Ies a suipply o1 wvater. Mummy of Famous Queen. Tihe mnummy3 of the hi st orically (a. ,ous mnorganntic wi'ife of the 1EgyfIian king, Amteuophis Ill, who diedl :lhout 1420O B. C., has just been ree''d at the mnuseum of the IEmory w uversity3, Atlanta, (On., oine of the larger inst itu. tions of the Methodist E~piscopal church, South. TJhe mummyin3, together with Innlost a carloadl of prh'less reiords, wasI brought to this country by Dr. W. A. Shelton, professor of Semitic lan guiages at Ibmory', who spent a yent in excavations of lost cities. Queen Tri, the nni'ne of the bride of Amenophis IIl, was famous in het time through the fact that the king in marrying her defied the world by choosing a bride for love. She wa. considlered a woman of rare beauity. h~er son, Amenophis IV, abandoned the gods of hIs fathers and built noltara to a new god-a one God. To Raft Logs Across Ocean. F'roim Vani1couver, B. C., to 'oko hiamn, JTapan, the dhistaince is 4,285 miles. Bietwi~een the two rolls the v' o~eatn t hat bear is the . renssu ring i,,, of J'aclflc. As a rule, it Is not so stormy as the Atlantic, but It has its days3' of r'age, nIotwithlstainJg its name. Undiaunted biy this great distance sud the dlangers of storms, a firm oi .Io panese lumber Importers proposeo 'o raft timber from Brit ishi Cohlta to Jahpat. Tihe.. Davis raft plan is ta lbe uisedl. The essential of this p~lan consists of an outslide row of logr. laced with strong cables. The raft will have a superstructure of piled ligs, all strongly laced. If the venture succeeds, a grer.t quantity of timber wvililibe transported to ,',u.. at a munch less coht thani woutld be entailed by carrying It across thle Pacific on board shin-. O W E N BROS. MARBLE & GRANITE CO. DESjNERS MANUFACTURE4 RS ERECTORS Dealers inl everything for the neme tery. The largest and best equipped inon U- uCit:1 milhs il tLe Carolinas. GREENWOOD, - - - S. C. 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