Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Satisfaction gu ;ch or clock is out of oi Bags ing Out Fine Noti snnedy Milli i they are closing out t' a greatly reduced pric( onsists of Laces, Glove its, Fancy Work Mate Is. ds will be sold at cost t intend to conduct an < after January 1,1914. ED and EXHAUSTED of our up-to-date TOES, STEWS out that we DreDare daily for : you are tired and exhausted, >u sip away on one of our rs DEINKS irt, soul, body and mind. jARETTES, ETC. A DIFFERENCE.** and lea Cream Parlor NOEKt Proprietor ? . .. . ___ ' \ f rrs: u; Store |l loods Co.) || iy friends and the j ted a new f ' I 3re ie readers of this | y new, up-to-date f Watches, Rings, I ants, Lockets, Etc. I id Silverware. FOR WEDDING PRESENTS o $40.00. 11 be given to all | iaranteea. I rder bring it to ;ett's ions nery Co. heir entire stock 1 ?/ is, Collars, Belts, rials, Auto Veils ill Ck\T QVO AO- II /Ill \jlX\sJ UI \s V/XV/O exclusively minis' <J A noteworthy list of properties in the "For Sale" column today. If you have idle capital at the moment 1 ? 1 ? better look them over. IJ Nothing more substantial, or sure of profit, than real estate. ^ \ ^ SIRES AND SONS. President Wilson is said to dote on charlotte russe. Vice 1'resident Marshall loves cherry pie. and Secretary , Bryan is fot d <'t" antaloupe. r?r. Pattl S. Keins. It. chosen as the i now American minister to China, lias been protVssor of political science at the University of Wisconsin since 1001. lie was burn in Milwaukee iu 1SG9 and was educated in Berlin. Rome and Paris. Henry Clews is one of the few American men of business who have been translated into nobility by for- ( eign potentates. He is embellished with the imperial decoratiou, the highest honor the emperor of Japan may | confer upon a foreigner. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, chief justice of the high court of Australia, now on a visit to England, is the son of a Welsh Congregational minister and was taken to Australia at the age of nine. He was called to the Queensland bar when he was twenty-one Major General James Madison Drake, reappointed historian of the Army and Navy Medal of Honor Legion, has held that position for twenty years. During that time he has written 1,600 sketches of the valor of his companions. He Is a veteran newspaper man. Education Notes. Practical work in sewing, cooking and other household arts is required in all English schools for girls above the Infant grade. In Minnesota the need for trained teachers of agriculture and domestic science is so great that the School of Agricultural Technology at the state university has taken for its main work the preparation of teachers for these subjects. The Ohio State university has introduced an apprentice course in animal husbandry that includes two years' study at the university and two years of practical work on a stock farm. The students are paid for their work while on the farm. The plan has interested a number of the leading stockmen of Ohio and other states, and they are co-operating with the university In carrying It out Fashion Frills. After all, the X ray skirts are only a logical extension of present fashions. ?New York Sun. The latest novelty in dresses Is one that has only two hooks In the back. Cheers by overworked husbands.? Cleveland Leader. Newport reports the appearance of the nose veil. If It Is anything like the nose bag we are willing to let Newport corner the market?Chicago News. The diaphanous skirt originated In Egypt Crude pictures show it Probably, if the truth were known, Cleopatra set the style There Is nothing new nowadays.?Portland Oregonlan. The Royal Box. King George of England aa a boy was a proficient carpenter and can still handle a plane and chisel In the deftest style. King Alfonso of Spain drinks neither wine nor spirits, nor does his mother. Queen Christina. His consort. Queen Victoria, occasionally takes a glass of wine. The kaiser has a highly trained army | of valets to look after his vast array! of luggage when he travels. He is a I great stickler for etiquette, carrying about with him a sufficient number of uniforms to allow for changing his dress every ten minutes If required. Pert Personals. m?j now niflv Bernard Shaw is said to have reached his "limit" We refuse to believe It?New York Post By going broke to the tune of $100,000 Frltti Scheff demonstrates her ability to make a success of anything she undertakes.?Washington Post Marie Corelll Is suing an actor who staged part of one of her novels. He will deserve any verdict she may get against him.?Pittsburgh Dispatch. Andrew Carnegie gets a grand cross for his Palace of Peace at The Hague. For some of his libraries in America he got the grand double cross.?Philadelphia Ledger. Train and Track. The railway station at Galara, In Peru, is 16.G34 feet above sea level. There were 1.011 fatalities on British railroads last year, flfty-nlne less than the year before. A novel signaling system is being tried on German railways. Parabolic mirrors about eight and one-half feet long are fixed on an axle, on which they are revolved by means or electricity. They are "worked" during the day by sunlight and during the night are lighted up by electricity and are discernible at a great distance even during foggy weather. Automobile Runs. The way of the transgressor Is hard on the Joy rider.?Philadelphia Record. 1 Accidents will happen even In the best regulated families, but the best regulated families minimize the chances by driving their automobiles carefully.?Chicago Newa In Georgia the court of appeals has 1 declared "automobiles have no monoj> oly of the highways nor any priority of right in their use." But Georgia la such an old fashioned state.?Phlladei-, pfela Ledger. _ \ DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. A Chicago girl whose business Is to piau the electric wiring of thousands of Hashing signs throughout the country is Miss Nettie Lieppe, who Is twenty-four years of age and earning $2UU a month. Sarah Bernhardt, .Marie Corelli, the ' ( Countess of Warwick. Ella Wheeler I Wilcox, Florence .Morse Klngsley, 11 Grace McGowau Cooke. Mrs. Hobert I Van Wyck and other wtll known woBien are among the vegetarians. 1 At Liege there is a "schoolgirl" aged 1 seventy. She is a widow, Mine. Ortrnans, and she has just finished a > course of studies In an elementary i school by taking a prize. Three years ago she could neither read nor write; but determining that she would master these rudiments, she entered her name on the register of the local school. Lili Bouianger, who won the Grand Prix de Rome for vocal music this year, Is the first woman who has ever carried off this honor. She Is nineteen years old, the same age at which her father won the prize which she has beeu awarded. Her vocal training, began by her father, has been continued by her mother since the former's dealt Current Comment. Mr. Carnegie's peace palace at The Hague has been "Inaugurated" and la now ready for business. Probably, however, war will not be Immediately abolished.?Boston Globe. There la to be a worldwide movement for street safety. One very Important point will be to prohibit the use of city streets aa race courses for speed lovers.?Baltimore American. The powers now say that Turkey must respect her treaty with the Balkan allies. Turkey's trouble is In finding allies that will stay allied long enough to be respected. ? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Aerial Flights. To M. Pegoud we are Indebted for putting tne lnmai a m any. ? nw** York Sun. Massachusetts arrests and fines all aviators falling within the state without a permit. It musses up the landscape. Aviators must go over Into Rhode Island for their falls.?Mlnne-, a polls Journal. Summer over and that aeroplane flight across the Atlantic not attempted, and yet the newspapers are accused of being ungenerous with their space to publicity seekers.?St Louis Globe-Democrat Woman's World. There are 372,636 women teachers and professors In the United States. In Bombay women exercise the municipal franchise and therefore Indirectly control the legislative councils, some of whoee members are elected by tha m 11 nlci nail ties. Magdeburg, Germany, la to have a school for the special training of women and girls as shop clerks. The city of Berlin has already provided such training by means of a special course for salesgirls In the new continuation sehoolFaCtS From France. Paris will use automobiles to collect ashes and rubbish. Of the BO,000 cab horses In Paris twelve years ago but about 7,000 remain. France has spent $35,000,000 in planting trees on the watersheds of Important streams. By a law approved on July 4 last France now grants official assistance to large families In poor circumstances. Large In this case means more than three children. German Gleanings. In Germany three times as many men as women kill themselves. Berlin's population Is now estimated at 2,001,000; but, counting Its suburbs, It has 4,000,000. For the lighting of Berlin proper (population 2,070,000) 44,170 lights of various kinds are In use The National Union of Women Clerks, founded twenty-one years ago in Berlin, Is one of the best organized unions In Germany, numbering more than 25.000 members. Town Topics. New York has about the biggest of everything, including a public debt which beats that of the United States. ?Philadelphia Press. Now that the oyster Is In season again Baltimore begins to spruce up. The oyster Is Baltimore's most famous citizen.?New York Sun. Smoke costs Pittsburgh about flO,000,000 a year. Considering what it covers, It may be worth twice the money.?New York World. Home Helps. First wash the kitchen table with vinegar and then scrub In the usual ' way. All stains will be removed In ; this way. After having washed and dried tins place them near the fire for a little while, as this prevents any chance of their rusting. White enameled furniture can be cleaned by dissolving one tablaspoonful j of baking soda In one pint of warm j i water. Saturate a soft cloth aaA wash the furniture. j H STATE and GENERAL ( i TOPICS ? i Capt Albert A Springs, a wellknown citizen and prominent man of affairs of Georgetown,died Saturday, October 4. , XXX ? Walter "Wilcox, a negro, was shot __ and instantly killed Sunday night at Dillon. Jim Filmore, another negro, has been arrested in connection witl. _ > : the crime. XXX When President Woodrow Wilson / ij affixed his signature to the document Friday night a little after 9 o'clock,the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill became law. XXX Students at the South Carolina University have been put on their <i honor to cease from hazing and to report any cases of hazing that come under their observation. XXX 1 Ratcliffe Morris, the 12-year-old son of Mrs Ella T Morris of Sumter, Bhot himself through the heart with a pistol Saturday afternoon of last week. No reason is known why the boy should have ended his life by his own hand. XXX Joe Kinsey was shot and killed by , Victor Kearse Saturday evening, 2 the shooting taking place on the 1 main street of the town of Olar. Kinsey and Kearse were associates in a lunch room business at Olar and the fatal quarrel is said to have grown out of business differences. XXX Thoma3 H Neal, a farmer living about four miles below Cross Hill, Laurens county, shot and instantly killed Isaac Smith, a negro farm hand, Friday shortly after midnight. Neal claimed self-defence and surrendered to the Sheriff Saturday morning. He was admitted to bail by Associate Justice Watts at Laurens Saturday afternoon in the sum of $1,000. XXX Harry Spencer, the alleged slayer of Mrs Allison Rexroat, a dancing 1 * r>u: ? Viae leacner ui viiimkui ion mu made a confession in which he related twenty-five killings in several States of which he was guilty. "I hit 'em with a hammer or shot 'em, whichever was easier, when I needed money," he said nonchalantly,after eating a hearty breakfast and _ lighting a strong cigar. XXX James Kennedy was shot to death Saturday night at Florence and Wm Crawford is charged with the crime. Crawford ran and hid after the killing, but was soon overhauled and placed in jail. Crawford is a Florence negro and is said to be a bully. Kennedy came from Savannah and bore the reputation of being a peace9AAma f A K o HOit ncgru. mete ocvuio tv IWIV been little provocation for the murder. XXX Aaron Henderson and Milledge Washington as principals and Joe Rouse as accessory are in jail at Aiken charged with the killing of < Louie Martin, a white man, at a negro hot supper Saturday night at Jackson Station, in Aiken county. There seems to have been a free fight in which knives and pistols were used. Martin was shot twice and lived only a short time. All the prisoners are negroes, XXX Glen Woodley, the 6-year-old sotf of Mr and Mrs E J Woodley of Jackson Springs, N C, while playing on a pile of seed cotton in an outhouse with his younger brother last Saturday, fell head foremost into a hole in the cotton and wa3 smothered. His little brother tried to pull him out but his efforts were vain.The body of the unfortunate chiltf was brought to Clio, S C. the former home of his parents, and interred . . n _ j.? ^ tnere last aunaay. XXX Senator Smith has given out the following letter from the postoffice department, the contents of which are of interest to many citizens of Williamsburg county: "Referring to mail service on the extension of the North & South Carolina railway between Dillon and Georgetown junction and the extension of the Georgetown & Western between Georgetown junction and Andrews, we are pleased to advise you that orders fnr thp PRtahlishment thereof from October 20,1913, have been issued," Mr Merchant, The Record goes into nearly two thousand Williamsburg homes every ?eek. Don't you think it would pay you to let the paper carry your business message to these good people?