University of South Carolina Libraries
ON CAPll ? WMAT5 THAT ABOUT TM? CurrencyI > A J. Willard Ragsdale of South Carolina. First Termer, Would j ^ Not Take Orders From Ad ministration on Currency Bill. By HERBERT COREY. WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. ? It was all fixed for the currency bill to be debated formally in the Democratic caucus. Then it was to be approved. Then it was to be placed on casters and wheeled through the House. No one was to say anything unpleasant to any one. All were to be good little pals together. "J. Willard Ragsdale, Democrat, of Florence, was elected to the Sixtythird Congress." 'Just that single line in the South Carolina section of the Congressional Directory. No one thought anything of It. It didn't seem significant. Even If It had occurred to any one that this Ragsdale person was giving Himself mighty little space for a first termer?that being the time when the average congressman takes up more room in the directory than he ever does again?no importance would have ben attached to it First termers attract just as much attention at caucus time as a bound boy at a husking. Ragsdale became a member of the banking and currency committee because he is a banker down home. Then he began to do things. Whatever may be the value of the things he did. there can be no question that he did them extremely well. He introduced that amendment to the currency bill which provided that loans might be made upon warehouse receipts for farm products as well as on commercial paper. That particularly pot the banking world by the ears. Elder statesmen sought to set Rigsdale right. Then the patient listen. ers outside the caucus doors used to turn to each other and wink with evidences of cynical approval. "Whisht!" said they.* "Ragsdale "tea the floor." Sounds of shuffles, "oot tumults, and evasions always acompanied the process of taking the floor away from Ragsdale. For a first termer he was not only destitute of the quality of sweet humility, but he was a tactician and a rough fighter as well. He has a theory that the fact that he has spent the greater part of his life In the banking business ? when he wasn't practising law?has acquainted him with some of the 'arger facts of that trade. "People have talked finance to me," said Mr. Ragsdale, "whose only knowledge of a bank is that it is a cold building usually 'oc&ted on a principal street" Kagsaaie is president 01 one oanx in South Carolina, director in two more, and is a good-natured man, with a fighter's eye and a warm hand. In debate he just escapes the charge of belligerency. He likes to walk down the aisle toward the other fellow, shouting slightly as he comes. He is very much in earnest and he is largelarge and active?not unwieldly large, but just large enough to har.dle himself well. He began life with no money to speak of and now lives at a club In Washington and keeps a large automobile ready at all hours. # He didn't intend to kick up a shindy when he came to Washington. He wanted to support the administration. It was Ragsdale who secured an "indorsement" of Woodrow Wilson by the South Carolina convention previous to that Raltlmore affair after "instructions" had been refused by a Jug-handled majority. But he didn't like the administration's bill, and be liked it even less after the administration had snapped a whip at him a time or two. The two South Carolina senators and the six other congressmen declare that Ragsdale's all right, hev like his amendment, too. For a first-termer Ragsdale ?ertainly made a good start. ?? Don't Let Baby Sutter with Eczema ami Skin Eruptions. Babies need a perfect skin-covering. Skin eruptions cause them nol only intense suffering, but hindei their growth. DrHobson's Eczema Ointment can be relied on for relief and permanent cure of suffering babies whose skin eruptions have made their life miserable. "Our baby was afflicted with breaking out of the skin all over the face and scalp, Doctors and skin specialists failed tc t~w ua^cjan'e t?07nmc Jltrip. f * C UICU LSI ilUOOUIJ O Ointment and were overjoyed to see baby completely cured before one box was used," writes Mrs Strubler, Dubuque,Iowa. All druggists, or by mail, 50c. Pfeiffer Chemical Company, St Louis, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. For sale by Kingstree Drug Co and M L Allen. adv 8w!m Independence. Switzerland secured its Independence in the A astro-Swiss war. It commenced In 1386 and peace came In 1389. Miss Eva Guess of Norfolk, Va, is spending some time with her par? ? \A** Mra P W HnDOQ nf SvQ 1 - CTULO, 1U1 ouu mto 1/ aa \awvim v? s^?i tere, having been called there on account of the illness of her mother. OL HILL. HARD LIFE OF BALKAN WOMEN i Their Lot Probably It the Worst of Any of Their Sex In European Countries. In the midst of the success of the Balkan arms against Turkey the fact I must not be lost sight of that the brunt of the hardships will fall on the women of the Balkans, for of all the races in Europe, the lot of the women of the Balkans is probably the hardest. As is the general rule throughout the near east, the women is the mainstay of the family, usually tbe sole worker, and Just now tbe wives and mothers of the men of the Balkan states are preparing to face a bard, cold winter. While their lords and masters are absent on conquest. It devolves on the women to care for the herds and to maintain what family life there is in the wild, half-savage region of the Ralkans. In Servia there is JuBt one time when woman plays a prominent ; part In the affairs of life and that is | on her wedding feast These occasions last sometimes a week and are i times of great ceremony and rejoicj ing. The courtships are conducted by : go-betweens. The wedding feast is so ! expensive that it Is frequently evaded j Dy a weu-arrangeo Kidnaping, toe brides being stolen and taken to the church, where a priest Is In waiting. Real Fog. The whole company had been sp!n? Qing yarns chiefly of the variety known as tall, and It had come to the turn of a quiet country yokel, who, with a yawn, commenced, "I remember one haytime, Just as we were starting work in the morning, a thick fog came on. It was only a ground fog, but It prevented us seeing to work In the fields, so we went to the farmyard and busied ourselves with other work, waiting for the fog to clear. I started thatching a stack we had Just put up, and was getting on very nicely when suddenly the fog lifted, and I fell to the ground with a lot of straw. When I got up I saw what happened. I'd finished one layer - AV. ?S ?M IV. ^A. .V J ouwb uj tue ruoi m tue ubcl, huu bad gone cm and been thatching the fog for fully two yards further. Then, of conne, when the fog cleared there waa nothing to hold me np, and I fell"?Exchange. Lister Methods. A recent number of the London Lancet gives an Interesting account of the life of Lister, the great surgeon, who discovered the aseptic precautions to be taken after surgical operations. Lister, much like Harvey, who proved the theory of the circulation of the blood, was a careful and conscientious man who avoided print until he had thoroughly proved the value of his discovery. The great objection in ) hla mind was that he felt that until every surgeon was convinced of the necessity for asepsis and of the value of the methods he advocated and was efficiently skilled In them, It would be a serious matter to publish successful results of operations which It would be practically criminal to perform unless complete asepsis was secured. Lister was evidently that rare product, even rare In the medical profession, a | modest man. Came to Sense as to Diet. "If you wish for anything like hap " >"? flftfc art nf Ufa." flvdnev |HUCOD 1U mv u?vu ? w . ' Smith advised Lord Murray, "eat and L drink about one-half of what you couid eat and drink. Did I ever tell you ^ my calculations about eating and drinking? Having ascertained the ' weight of what I could live upon so as 5 to preserve health and strength, and ! what I did live upon, I found that, between ten and seventy years of age 1 i had eaten and drunk 44 horse wagon i loads of meat and drink more than , would have preserved me In life and , health! The value of this mass of nourishment I considered to be worth ?7,000 ($35,000). It occurred to me that I must, by my voracity, have starved to death fully 100 persons. mis is a in^nuui uo.icuitu.iuu, uui Irresistibly true.** Caught a Bad Cold. ' 'Last winter my son caught a very bad cold and the way he coughed was something dreadful," writes Mrs Sarah E Duncan of Tipton, Iowa." We thought sure ne was going inio consumption. We bought just one bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and that one bottle stopped his cough and cured his cold completely." For sale by all dealers. adv i JENKINSON BRO Chair Sea s, 5c each. Four quart Agate Saucep U!a/?L' Tl' I, OC \ CJ1LCCJ1 VJLmi I iyiu\_rv XI | Seventeen-quart Blue Ag Crank handled Sieves, 1C Three-quart Blue and \V1 I ues, 10c each. Six-quart, pure White | values, 25c each. Pure Lead Glass Tumble] Fine Clear Glass Tumbler Cotton Homespun Cottoi 35c each. Men's heavy fleece line pants, 85c. Ladies' jersey ribbed Ves while they last. No more < Now, remember this::Lad the suit. Men's heavy fle< match,85c the suit. All kin ladies and children. Jenkinson Bro | (Stacklej I -m Endurance fHENyo and one the opei stands o windbes and warping the wc iron? It's the wa stored away, dry an work for short seasc the year around, is heavy burdens, ah X T A. mem. xi can i sia for many years ui Weber Columbus it has built into it toughness, and stu built of wood of v as good as they lc don't find any cro! faulty timber. Ev for the wheels, yel sides and long leaf selected from first inspected. Every soned by two or tbi All steel and iror same end in view longest life. Exp part. Before the must pass many tl timber, metal, sha] every detail must b Buy one now, v your farm, and mar! will be on the IH C is our ultimate aii wagons have wood in i Lsieei rung nave sv dealer's. Getcatalc International Harre Columbia | Jenkinson B I has just returned from i KTE2TT I they Somethii that will^t Every Man, 1 in Williamsburg c I Look Out for 1 and what we have to | Jenkinsoi Let Us Print You I i THERS CO/S ANNEX >ans, 25c each n Dish Pans, 15c each. I ;ate Dish Pans, 25c each. f: lc each. ? lite Agate Pudding Pans, big valAgate Pudding Pans, wonderful rs, 30c the set. s, 20c the set. n Picking Sheets 72 x 80 inches, d Undervests 45c; suit, vest and ;ts,20c; suit, vest and pants, 35c, Jl at this price after these go. ies' ribbed Vests and Pants at 35c 2ce lined Undervests and Pants to ds of Winter Underwear for men, i I A nnnv I II1C1 9 V/U, 3 nilllUA I r's Old Corner) | ; counts most | ur sheds are full of machines B or two are crowded out into | 1, which is it that invariably | utside with the sun and the iting on it every day, drying iod, or with rain rusting the gon. Other machines are ? d covered, yet many of them >ns only. The wagon works i always under the strain of j ivays getting rough treat- | .nd the strain of such a life nless, like I H C wagons? New Bettendorf Steel King Via lifm/Ncf n( on/lnnnro rdiness. IH C wagons are ery best quality, every bit >o? Look them over, yon ss grained, knotty, split, or ery stick?oak and hickory How or bay poplar for box yellow pine for bottoms, is grade lumber and carefully stick is toughened and sea^ ree year: of air-drying. 1 parts are chosen with the r?greatest durability and erts test and verify every wagon is ready for you ft horough inspections. The | ping and fitting, painting, I e just right. yatch its steady service on It this ? vour future reliance I wagon. That future order fy m. Columbus and. Weber | gears; New Bettendorf and I eel gears. See them at the j| >gues from him, or, write the ister Company of America ncorporated) S.C. I, =1 ros.Co.'s Buyer J the Northern markets and ? 1 will have j rig' to Say I )e of interest to j Voman and Child s /-vnn+xr Arroir? WP CQV 1 |Us Next Week f say will mean something. ? n Bros. Co. I Some Office Stationery >1 I O I WAYS 1 Begin right. Know yourself. , Limit your expenses. Q Watch the leaks. Stop the leaks. Have a home ban Avoid gold-bric Own a home. Don't be a , Be a mar ^ Take a DWe will start you right, on which we will pav 4% cor The Bank D. C. Scott, President. F. W. Fairey, Cashier. Wm. W. Ba 11 1 M fir fill IL/U11 J UlU UUIl And SCHOOL FOR YOUR CI J.W.< Where You Get 31 Than at any oth Grot Shoes, Hats ai 7 POUNDS GOOD GR I HOUSEK MADE bib Cookei Breakfast Strip, all kinds of Cure been sliced and ] Jennings' Nei Call and see it w Our 1 PASTRY, CAKE ANI Is fresh daily bakery, and we from 6 a. m. to 8 Telegraph, tele cook to trade wit Milhous & (Incori The best equipped =3 01 I0C30 I ro SAVE I 1 o| n I :k schemes. 9 "good fellow." J are of your health Q M $1.00 will open an account up- |1 1 npounded every three months. - Ij" of Kingstree j] J. A. kelley.Vice Pres. II N. D. Lepesne, Asst. Cashier. 11 v rr, Jr., Teller. II v r?tt-^=3Q I ill ill MM 11 Uil UK XAIU^NIA VU I Buy a SUPPLIES 1 HILDREN FROM toward \ [ore for Your Money er Place id Town. k ;enes nd Underwear EEN COFFEE FOR $1. "i 4 EEPING EASY j . mying d Ham, Chipped Beef and j d Meats that have I ready for use by j n Meat Slicer . ork. j 1X1^/ VI I 0 MOTHER'S BREAD J from a hygienic I deliver anything I p. m. I phone, or tell the -1 I Jennings ] >o rated) j Orocerv in the Citv J ' 1 The Corner-stone oi Success 1 is laid by a man when he opens a bank fl account. It gives him a standing in the fl community to be able to refer to his fl 1 ? l- # * * obok wnen reierences are requirea, ana a the advantages of being able to pay all bills by check are so plain we need not I emphasize them. We are desirous of "I inereasing the number of our depositors fl and should be glad to have you call and B see our cashier regarding opening an ^1 account in our bank. T "" Wee Nee Bank h ,7L fill