Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IT lk Have you FO \ I FORC and a FORD alway ^ 1 Lome ana yt ^ I SUMTER,S. HD.CS The F< \ 1-30-tf . I The Fal m K1NGSTREE G8A WI Septem I. All depart in Good V x Parents who intend will please do so during tJ I J Patrons and friends o r to visit the school at any i applying to J. W. Swittenbc Superintends I King fj=2 [J&Sl mWhy suffer i f Aches Protect your family?y< Hare in your home a b ingle preparation any fai It is a Pain Remedy as application. Can be taken safely * diarrhoea, etc. Noah's Liniment is a coughs, colds, asthma ai I[ Noah's | for rheumatism, stiff jc B sprains, sore muscles am R kinds P There is no better rem* k Be ready for the "men & Liniment in your medicir I Best Pain K and sold by all dealers i a 25c., 50c., and $1.00. y If it isn't satisfactory, * ask for the return of youi we want you to have it Made in Richmond, Va., b I FOR SALE. I Brick in any quantity to suit pu B er. The Best Dry Press MachineI XBZ5ICE.) I Special shapes made to order. C pojfdence solicited before placing 1 orders. W. R. FUXg I I Chamberlain's Cough Hem Jy Carts Cold*, Croup *nd Whoopinj Cou [ seen the new R D ? | ) CARS full line of PARTS s on hand. Take a Look. C. PHONE 553. haw Cq. ord Man. ? I Term of the DEO AND HIGH SCHOOL I Began iber 16,1912 i ments are now Vnrkinp- Order ' C* mtering their children in the school tie first week of the fall term. if the School are cordially invited dme. formation may be had - by >rg, E. C. Epps, r? J iT)Z. uierK Down ui xrujsuctro stree, S. C. g f/iese et'er*/ tfa*/ and Pains >ur loved ones?against them. ottle of Noah's Liniment, the best tniiy can have. i well as a Liniment for external for colic, cramps, indigestion, fine preparation for sore throat, id toothache. Use Liniment lilts, neuralgia, strains, i aches and pains of all , -ency by having Noah's J B?; ic closet to-day. It is the gk|; Remedy MSB n medicine ; three sizes, ?wZ it ma m aw fl go to your dealer and sruiErrs Si r money. It is yours and P y Noah Remedy Company. BWBBgr {ant Old Sons, Otmr Imdln Won't Cart The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, rch&e are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. s- ' ?'? ? Uaalinn Oil It relieves maoe X'oricr m nunxj/uv. ?? - ? Paia and Heals at the same time* 25c, 50c, |L00. * you? We prepay postage on all orders amounting to $2.00 and expraes on ? orders amounting to $5.00 or more, gdy Florence Dry Goods Co, p*. 3-20-4t D W Cunningham, Mgr. NIGHT HAWK'S REAL TROUBLE Teamster Who Haa Horse Fall Whllo Streets Are Deserted Surely Deserving of Sympathy. "Arv teamster who thinks he hrs a bard time betting a horse on his feet tl:?t has fallen in the daytime has no right to complain." said the man who ! boards. "The fellow who has a right to do that is the driver whose horse falls in the dead of night. At 2 o'clock on a recent rainy morning I was awakened by the fall of a horse in front of our house. I got up and looked out. A dozen other people in the neighborhood did the same thing. The cabman saw us. "'You folks don't do any good up there!' he shouted. "Come down and help!' "He needed help. The horse could not get a foothold on the slippery asphalt, and there was no one to help bolster him up. Ours is a quiet block, where nocturnal revelers are rare, and there was no one abroad to lend a hand. The horse pawed and slipped, the cabman tugged and pulled, but they made no headway. Finally anoAer man and myself dressed and went to their assistance. It was all the three of us could do to get the horse up. Andfthat gave me some thing new to think about, ur course, horses do fall at night, but I never thought about it before, nor what a difficult matter it is to get them up." ?Boston Globe. 1 SHOWS GEOGRAPHY OF WORLD Record of the Rocke Pointed to by Scientists to Prove Positions They Have Taken. At a recent meeting of the Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific society, A. W. Knapp gave a lecture on "The Earth's Record in the Rocks." The lecturer took each geological age in turn.&nd gave some idea of the life that existed at those times as shown in fossilised remains. He also showed how the geography of the world from age to age could be defined from the composition of the rocks. The limestone. he said, proved that the greater part of England was at one time under the sea, and by collecting evidence of this kind one was able to draw a map representing all the various periods of the world's development The lecturer went on to show how the land rose and luxuriant vegetation grew, to be covered in turn by other deposits, leading to the formation of the coalfields. The earliest remains of man were toward the end of the ice age. Would, he asked, the people of today leave any remains? There would be the churchyards and the great cities like London, while the denosits In the Black country, which looked so mnch like volcanic dust, might mislead the scientists of some future age. Occupations of College Men. Occupations of college graduates In this country, as Indicated by returns from 37 colleges and universities, covering the period from 1642 to 1900, have been studied by the federal bureau of education, and the data obtained has been analyzed by William B. Bailey of the economics faculty at Tale for the next issue of the Independent. Teaching, it appears, now attracts one-fourth of the graduates, a proportion much larger than that of any other profession, though It was engaged In by comparatively few down to 1825. Formerly most of the graduates became clergymen; at the close of the seventeenth century the ministry was chosen by about two-thirds of nil thp eraduates. One hundred years later only about one-fifth adopted this profession, and by 1900 the ministry was receiving less than six per cent. Law drew to its service more graduates than any other profession at about 1800, but since then it has lost In relative importance, although the actual number of graduates entering this field has Increased. Business claims an Increasing proportion of graduates; at present nearly one-fifth enter commercial careers.?Columbia (S. C.) State. Womanly Touch. Adam was showing Eve through the cave. "This is the living room," he said. "It Is furnished as luxuriously as possible In these prehiptoric days; I have spared no expense on it, and ret it lacks something or other, some Qnal touch that I cannot name." Eve took a swift look around. Then she pulled the magazine table out a j little from the wall, gave the Morris shalr a twist, laid a book on the window sill, and kicked the tiger-skin rug back a foot from the door. "Wonderful?" cried Adam, and gazed open-mouthed at the magical Iransformation. The cave was more than a cave Sow. It was a home. Thpre'a no Dlaee like home.?New irk News. Book Disinfection. It has been charged against books .hat while they disseminate informalion and entertainment, they may at :he same time be carriers of disease, and that public library books may scatter scarlet fever. The Journal of the American Medical Association gives as a practical method for general book disinfection a mixture?of course, this should be compounded by i capable chemist or pharmacist?of gas machine gasoline and two per ;ent of phenol crystals. The books are to be Immersed in this mixture for 20 minutes, removed and placed before an electrician for two minutes and then set on end to dry tor from M to 48 hours. SHOWING VAGARIES OF FAME How Rubinstein, at the Height of Eminence, Refused Offer That Meant Great Distinction. Teresa Carreno, the eminent woman pianist, indulging In reminiscences of her career of fifty ycnrs before the public, tells a story of TschalkowskI and Rubinstein, which. In one respect, ( Is illuminating. ; Rubinstein, the great Russian master, composer and performer of bis time, is seated in his study when Tsohaikow6ki arrives and humbly asks permission to dedicate to the great man a concerto for piano and orchestra. Rubinstein examines the composition hastily; flies into a terrible rage; Bhakes his leonine head and asks the affrighted Tschaikowski how he dares to offer to dedicate this "trash" to a man of such eminence. Thereupon, Tschaikowski leaves the house, and by chance, meeting the conductor Vcn Bulow,'offers him the dedication, which is accepted. Observe the mutations of time! Rubinstein was a great musician, a remarkable performer, but not a composer of the first rank by any means. Tschaikowski nas sprung into the first rank of composers and is generally regarded by musicians as one of the greatest musical geniuses Russia has produced. A dedication by him of one of his works is in Itself title to unusual distinction, and will make for the perpetuation of any one's fame, while, as the years bring a lessening of memory of Rubinstein's wonderful playing, his reputation is bound to dimimsn. Thus, even the pet of fortune and circumstances can afTord to be courteous, for posterity often rewards courtesy and properly punishes overweening self-esteem. < TELLS OF BROTHER NOVELIST Interesting Reminiscences Related by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Qeorge Meredith. Sir Arthur Couan Doyle, speaking at the annual dinner In aid of the Newsvenders' Benevolent and Provident Institution, gave some personal reminiscences of George Meredith. In the year 1894-5 Sir Arthur visited the novelist at his residence at Boxhill, in Surrey. "When I went there I inadvertently offended him in one way. He met me at the door. He told me he had just come frpm the ton of a hleh hill near the park. I expressed my amazement. He asked me why I was so surprised, and I said I thought he was an invalid. He said that would be the sort of compliment one would pay to an octogenarian. "Subsequently a maid servant brought in a Jelly or blanchmange, and Meredith, looking at the shivering lump, expressed himself In a characteristic phrase?Just such a one as he would put in the mouth of one of his characters. He said, 'The jelly seems as treacherous as a Trojan horse.' "Meredith was fond of a bottle of wine, but his state of health when I saw him forbade him taking any intoxicant He had a bottle covered with cobwebs brought up for me, and asked If I could drink some. I said I did not think there would be any difficulty. I flii!8hed the bottle, and Meredith expressed his gratiAcatlon, saying that on one occasion some one only drank one glass of a bottle he had opened and he had the mortification of seeing the rest of the contents was' -d."?London Mail. Instalment Plarx The late Police Captain William H. Hodgkins, of New York, who died fram cardiac strain that he brought on by reducing his weight over fifty pounds in three weeks, hated corpu* -? -1? 1 _ J VI. leuce, aziu uiteii icgai^u mo mcuuo with anecdotes that had corpulence for their butt "I went to a melodrama the other night" Captain Hodgklns said one afternoon to a p>llce reporter. "The heroine was fat?fatter than myself. 'In the second act she fell overboard, and the hero, a little, scrawny chap, plunged after her. and seemed to be having a good deal of difficulty In swimming with her toward the yacht "As the hero splashed and struggled under his heavy burden a god yelled from the gallery: "'You'll never do It that way, bo! Save what you can now, and come back for the rest Make three tripe, If necessary.'" When Murray Tackles Oedipus. Classical scholars have not exactly complained, but have pointed out that when Prof. Cilbert Murray trans- | lates Euripides into English verse he slides that dramatist over his rough spots by doing mediocre Euripides into gorgeous and splendid Murray. It is better than Euripides, to be sure; but It isn't Euripides. There will be no difficulty of this kind in Professor Murray's newest task, the Oedipus Colonus. Murray at his murrayest will have all he can do to keep up to the sustained elevation of Sophocles. But there is hardly a living hand worthier of the task, and joy be the consequence.?Boston Transcript. Asking Too Much. A large shepherd dog owned by Dr. George W. Bowers was run over by an automobile on High street at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening and waa killed. The occupants of the automobile stopped and returned to the scene, but the dog ran away.?Mobil* Item. You would scarcely expect it to remain and be killed a seoond tinM? would you??Houston Post. CENSUS STATISTICS FOB SOUTH CAROLINA. (Continued from page two.) State, representing 25.7 per cent of the total population 10 years of age and over.as compared with 35.9 per font in 1 QOO Tho nornontnoro nf 51 V,V.AAV AAA AA/VV. AIIV ? literacy is 38.7 among negroes, 10.3 among native whites and 6.8 among foreign-born whites. It is 10.5 for native whites of native parentage and 1.4 for native whites of foreign or mixed parentage. Illiterates are relatively fewer in urban than in rural communities,the percentages being 15.6 and 27.7, respectively. The rural percentage exceeds the urban for each class of the population except the foreign-born whites, most of whom arrive in this country when past the school age. Among them the percentage of illiteracy is slightly higher in the urban population than in the rural. For persons from 10 to 20 years of age,inclusive,whose literacy depends largely upon present school facilities and school attendance, the percentage of illiteracy is 19.1. MARITAL CONDITIONS. In the population 15 years of age and nver. 35.5 ner cent of the males and 29 per cent of the females are single. The percentage married is 59.7 for males and 58.4 for females and the percentage widowed 4.4 and ,12.1, respectively. Although the law granting divorces in South Carolina was repealed in 1878,the number reported in 1910 as divorced is believed to be too small, because of the probability that a number of divorced persons class themselves as single or widowed. That the percentage is smaller for women than for men is due largely to the fact that women marry younger. Thus 17.4 per cent of the females from 15 to 19 years of age are married, as compared with 3.1 per cent of the males, and 60.5 per cent of the females from 20 to 24 years are married, as compared with 41.6 per cent of the males, in me next aire group,25 to 34 years, the difference largely disappears, and among those in the next two age groups the percentage married is higher among the males. That there is a larger proportion of widows than of widowers may indicate that men more often remarry than women, but since husbands are generally older than their wives, the marriage relationship is more often broken by death of the husband than by death of the wife. For the main elements of the population the percentages of married persons among those 15 years of age and over are as follows: For eign-born whites, 58 for males and 59 for females; native whites of native parentage, 58.3 and 59.5, respectively; native whites of foreign or mixed parentage,51.6 and 46; negroes, 61.1 and 57.8. These percentages by no means indicate the relative tendency of the several classes as regards marriage. To determine that, the comparisons should be made by age periods,since the proportion married in any class is determined largely by the proportion who have reached the marrying age. Similarly, the proportion widowed depends largely on the proportion past middle life. The percent ? -1 - i 1 * age married, botn ror maies ana ior females, is higher in rural than in urban communities. The total number of dwellings in South Carolina is 302,842, and the total number of families 315,204,indicating that in comparatively few cases does more than one family occupy a dwelling. The average number of persons per dwelling is 5, and the average number per family, 4.8. Coughs and Consumption. Coughs and colds, wnennegieciea, always lead to serious trouble of the lungs. The wisest thing to do when you have a cold that troubles you is to get a bottle of Dr King's New Discovery, You will get relief from the first dose, and finally the cough ( will disappear. Q H Brown of Muscadine, Ala, writes: ' My wife whs down in bed with an obstinate cough, and I honestly believe had it not been for Dr King's New Discovery. < she would not be living to-day." Known for forty-three years as the ' best remedy for coughs and colds. Price 50c and $1.00. Recommended by Kingstree Drug Co and M L Allen. adv j For pa his hi the hade a rood remedy 1 Is Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain PHla. < # i KINGSTKEE HIGH AND t GRADED SCHOOL NOTES, j HONOR ROLL. n _ J. 1 uraae i. Julia Hall 96 Robert Smith 95 Grace Kinder 95 Genevieve Reddick _ ? ?95 Mary Sue Harrington ..94 Frank Holroyd 94 Hat tie Thames 94 Hazel Epps 93 Patty Scott Epps 93 Ola Cockfield ?93 Peden Montgomery 93 Alvina Burgess 93 Emmie McConnell 92 Grade II. John Harrington 94 Grade III. Doshia Sexton 96 Blanche Funk 94 Wm Gordon 94 Alice Funk 93 Grade IV. Ethel Anderson 95 Sam Nettles 93 Hubert Speigner 93 Bertha Ragin 93 Madge Blakeley 92 TT..I X rt 1- 01 n.uyen runs JJJ. Janie Gamble -.91 Madge McCants 91 LeKoy Epps 90 Maude Allene Kinder -.90 Lucile Hurt - 90 , Grade V. Mary McCants .98 Serena Lee 97 Hampden Montgomery 97 James Sullivan 97 William Cooper 97 Lizzie Gordon 93 James Benton 93 Dewey Mims 93 Grade VI. Luther Aull 97 Delle Sexton 95 Grade VIII. Leora Gamble 93 rv rii A A ' 1 uaisy aircng Grade IX. Jennie Lee Epps 96 Grade X. ..* Walter Sullivan 99 Elizabeth Speigner 98 Louise Barr 97 .ntniriiininiimiiH ' \ TRIO GRADED SCBOOL \ Trio, April 1:? HONOR ROLL. Grade II. St Claire Johnson 98 Bessie Lockliear 94 Troy Thomas 83 Grade III. Neal Shepherd 90 Annie Files 90 Mary Etta Moore ; 87 Grade IV. Virginia McCullough L. 100 The! ma Lockliear 97 Mable Hawkins._ ~ 96 Robert Hawkins 92 Miss Effie Simmons, Teacher. I j Entertainment at Lanes. Lanes, March 31: ? Mrs M L Baggett entertained very charmingly last Friday night in honor of her ? . > daughter, Miss Mamie, who is at ?. home for a few days. Miss Baggett is a student at Lander College, Greenwood. The amusements most enjoyed by the guests were cards and dancing. Punch was served at 10:30 o'clock by Misses Mary Flem ?J XT?D?A * 11. Hlg QI1U nuuic uiunu> nv ix.uv o'clock a delightful salad course was served by Misses Mary Fleming and Mary Mouzon. The guests who enjoyed Mrs Baggett's hospitality were: Misses Margaret and Louise Bass, Mary Fleming, Geneveive Mitchurn, Nonie Brown of Lanes, Kimmie Johnson of Manning, Mary Mouzon. of Florence and Beatrice Thompson <. n tl \g a?i:~ mm:,. 01 sailers: iviessra aijuic auu inmc Brown, Elliot and Bennett McCollough, James Hearsey, Carlton McFadden.Lex McClary of Lanes,Pressley ty)gan, Willie Rhodus, Marion Montgomery and Alvin McElveen of Greelyville, Edwin Johnson of Manning and Cantoy Orvin of Georgetown. Guest.. Drive Sick Headaches Away , Sick headaches, sour, gassy stomach.indigestion,biliousness disappear quickly after you take Dr King's New Life Pills. They purify the blood and put new life and vigor in the system. Try them and you will be well satisfied. Every pill helps; every box guaranteed. Price 25c. Recommended by Kingstree Drug Co and M L Allen. idv A Natural Mistake. A Kentuckian's nose was shot off the other day by a youthful hunter ? who mistook it foraredbird.?News ind Courier.