Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DO WE STAND UP STRAIGHT? Well, Apparently We Do Not For Any Great Length of Time. Naturalists have distinguished us from the higher animals by the l';a t kthat we stand upright on tw?? i But do we? Wateli a crowd standing about a street orator ar.u >ee how many are really standing on both legs, or try yourself to stand on two legs and see how soon you are ready to fall from fatigue. The truth is we 1mdt? not yet absolutely acquired the upright position jM**ihed to us Lt the scientists. Even in the wiqt, where oomfort i* always sacrificed to trku appearanoe, the oommand "Stand at ease." which i^ow the roldw* U> throw Be kg back and paop themoelve* upon it, ktowe bow Hipoestbk a perfectly aprnghi pontioB ie to maintain tor any kngth oi tkot. And have row ewer noticed that afi seafaring man acquire the habit of walking back and forth, even when ashore? On board rhrp the rolling of the ship makes the resting poai9 tion on one kg diflWukt, ao the sailor Saces back and forth across hi* eck, e*en though he mar be able to take only two and a half steps each way. As any anatomist will tell us, we are still built very much like the monkeys. Standing perfectly upright can only he done by a very complicated cros? strain. one set of muscles pushing -d. mother holding back. V ry movement we make a ? >t;nent of +tioco miicr-los tak( > n'ai The trouble is nil with our hip bones. If they fitted vertically into the pelvic girdle and not at an angle and if the spine were directly above it all that would be required to stand perfectly upright would be a slight amount of balancing. * Therefore to rest these muscles L we place one of them at rest by throwing one leg to one side, allowHE ing the other to do the work. When one leg has rested sufficiently it j takes up the strain, and the other takes a spell. Nor does it matter how much we strengthen our leg muscles bv walking or other exercises, the perfectly upright position is still a hard one to keep.?Pittsburgh Dispatch. Retention of Heat. In human beings the skin is the principal means of heat I06S, being responsible for the loss of 87.5 per cent of the total heat lost This is not so in some animals?the dog, lor instance, whose hairy coat does not permit its skin to perspire. The dog loses heat largely by its expired air and by the radiation and evaporation of wafer from its tongue. Thus it panes and puts out its tongue cm a hot day. Obviously 9 ear clothes pie vent the loss of beat, and the move effectually as they are bad conductors of beat. For this reason flannel, woof and furs are so much "warmer" than linen or otton, materials from the vegetable kingdom and therefore not the nat o uul ckrthing of animals. World's OkJwt City. The city with the longest continuous history is Damascus. It was a place of considerable importance away back in the time of Abraham, 1900 before Christ. Its actual foundation is lost in antiquity. Nobody knows when Damascus did not exist. It is possible that there were cities in Babylonia or Egypt before the Syrian metropolis arose, but we know nothing about them. The old Syrian town today has a population of some 200,000, is the center of a fine trade and still merits its fame of being one of the most beautiful places mi earth. Hi* Pocket* Were Empty. h Damoreau, an actor, fought a due! in 1331 with an orator named Manuel. The orator proved the bet ter swordsman and would have run Damoreau through the body had not his sword struck a five franc Bf piece which happened to be in the actor's pocket. This drew from a K rmtr?rirm?slv imopounious ionrnalist I the exclamation, "Alas, if I had been in Damoreau's place it would have been all over with me!"?New York Post. Rivaling Boston. A little Chicago girl was crying. "What's the matter, Noreen T* asked her father. "I fell and bumped my patella," she replied. Father 'm* was sympathetic. "Poor little girl," he said, and proceeded with the beat intentions to examine her elbow. Noreen broke awav. "Huh!" she sobbed. said my patella! That isn't my elbow. My elbow is my great sesamoid." Father went for a Latin dictionary.?Exchange. No Quarantine Necessary. "1 am delighted to meet you," said the father of the college student, shaking hands warmly with the professor. "My son took algebra from you last year, you know." "Pardon n:c," said the professor; "he was exposed to it, but he did not take it." I ANOTHER PROBE INTO HIGH COSTS. COAL OPERATORS MAY BE PROSECUTED BY U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Washington, November 7:?Attorney General Gregory has autor; ized the following formal announcet | liiVKVt i "The department of justice is inI vestigating the recent abnormal and j suspicious increases in the prices of J various necessities of life, especially coal. "Whenever any such increase is found to have been due to conspiracy or other unlawful action, the department will invoke gainst the offenders the severest penalties which the lsw prescribes." Three separate investigations into j the abnormally high price of com! modities, it was said at the depart! ment. are in progress, with a view j of criminal prosecution of persons or corporations responsible for the increases in the prices of milk, bread and coal. The interstate commerce commission is also conducting an in I quiry into the alleged shortage of coal cars which middlemen claim is i responsible for the rise in the price 1 of coal. It was said in a high administra! tion quarter that facts have been J uncovered which indicate a conspirj acy on the part of coal operators and the coal-carrying railroads to force up arbitrarily the price of coal. In substantiation of this belief, it was pointed out, the weather conditions have been excellent, so there could be no shortage of coal cars due j to congestion or blockade. The rail! roads claim they cannot handle the jcoal output of the minqa on account | of the car shortage, but at both the ! HonoMmont nf instire and the inter state commerce commission it was declared no condition exists which would cause a natural shortage of , cars. It was added that coal cars were built especially for the purpose of transporting coal, and that they cannot be well used for any other purpose except by structural changes. It was said the number of coal cars on the various railroads was large i enough to take care of the needs of : the country. In further support of the charge that a conspiracy exists, it was said that all sections of the country are i suffering equally, although there would be no cause for distant points to be affected seriously because long hauls are favored. If the allegation of a real car shortage were true, it was declared, only those places immediately affected, which would be the shorter hauls, would suffer, and then for only a short time. It is expected that the interstate commerce commision's inquiry will develop evidence concerning the car situation which will warrant action by the department of justice. It is understood the department will have representatives at the hearings to be conducted by the commission. From all parts of the country complaints have been received by 'he department of justice, and considerable data has been gathered bearing on the situation, both from private peri ortnc onH from the offices of district 0V1IC Uti\4 ? M W attorneys. All sections of the country have demanded federal action, and during the past month the department has become canvinced that the coal situation is acute. It was hinted that unless relief is obtained immediately Congress may be called upon to pass extraordinary legislation for the welfare of the country. The coal operators are understood to maintain that they cannot afford to mine more coal than the railroads can handled, and that the facilities of transportation now are such that it would be financially disastrous for them to increase their output. There , is a charge against the middlemen, I also, that because of the scarcity of ' coal, they, for speculative motives, are withholding from the market the supplies piled up in their yards, sell*A ~ T.rinoc i inp 11 oniy <11 caui uiiaui knuvg, ! ??????._______ Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Elood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. ' WITH TIMMONSVILLE GUARDS ' tY ' 56 On Hike of One Hundred and Seven Miles, Round Trip, w Eiitr r County Record: On Sunday, October 1, the Tenth Division, under Bripr Gen Morton. ^ left Camp Owen Bierne, E! Paso, )n for a test march of 107 miles round lr ! trip. The column was nine miles j ar I )/\n?r ir\/>ln^iniv PorAlina Hhin i ,U"R' VWUM. V.U.U?UU, | Michigan, Kentucky, Massachusetts, infantry, cavalry, artillery, signal j corps, engineering corps and hos- ur pital corps. ? Leaving camp at 7:30 a. m. we ^ marched through El Paso, going ar twelve miles the first day, stopping twenty minutes for dinner. At 4:30 Kl p. m. we reached Camp Courchesne. m Our camping ground was covered with bushes, and each company had to clear their own ground before oc pitching tents. The dog tents con- to sist of two shelter halves, one half carried in the blanket rolls of each. ex ? - . . .. . Sn The front and rear rank men pi ten tents together. The company is in first formed, then given right or w< left face, as the case may be, then take intervals until the whole com- ap pany is formed with the men four ^ paces apart. Then the bayonet >s co stuck in the ground at the right heel. The halves are buttoned to- Cli gether, and one gun is used for the pole in front, and the bayonet used ^ in the back. We then place our ponchos on the ground, two blankets tr' on top of it, then we have two to pr cover with, and our bed for the night is complete. When a man no marches all day, he will rest as well ro in the little tent as he would on a ne feather bed. The boys were all very P'1 dusty and thirsty, and as soon as w< tents pitched and their thirst quench- ^ ed from the water wagon, they all t0 rushed for the Rio Grande, and in a an few minutes several thousand were seen in the river. They kept com- mi ing and going until call to quarters that night. On the first day's be march we carried only our fighting ^ packs, until we were within a mile ba of the camp, then we were halted ha until the wagon train caught up and unloaded our blanket rolls which we an had to carry on into camp. Blank w? ammunition was issued to us before *rl leaving camp, in order to have a d? sham battle on our trip. During mi the night the boys from different an companies fired several shots, and mf the officers never did catch any of them. But the next morning all as the companies were formed, and each man made to show the clips utl that were given him. This was we done to catch those who fired the^ of shots the night before. afl We left camp about 10 a. m.,jth< marched about a mile, were halted ' in a sand bed, where we remained ! on until ii p. m., and only had one quart j tri of water to last us all day,and had to i ra go easy on H20, which was very hard | g" for us to do, it being about 90 de- ^j( grees in the shade, and there is ca none in Texas. We continued the co march on to Montoya, which we j reached about 4:30 p. m.. covering the distance of six miles. We pitch- i jn ed our dog tents upon grass, which | po was about one foot high. This was j du the best camp ground we had on our I entire trip. j Tuesday morning, the 3rd, we left ou camp at 10:30 a. m., marching a Bi distance of fourteen miles through 1 ms the dust and heat. Some of the;tlr IT0 on sion that they could get more water ?j, than their daily allowance, and sev- th eral hours before we reached camp, eq a great many of their canteens were empt, and cries for H20 could be ^ heard all along the column. We 1 nj, were marched by water tanks as*we wc neared camD in single file, and al- J pa lowed to dip one cup of water as we passed by. After three days' hiking on macadamized roads, a great many ge) of the boys' feet were sore, and Th some of them were a mass of blist- th era. The General decided to let us an Th remain over Wednesday in order! ^ that we may rest up. Here is where I (jL, we had an opportunity of another'ie bath in the Rio Grande. This was cr our first stop in New Mexico. Here,. ^ also, we saw our first irrigated farms and apple orchards. The boys \ made good use of these apple orch- J I ards, which cost Uncle Sam $125.00. ~ j TCI Leaving Anthony at 8:30 a. m.: Be. ' TI Thursday, marching through the! Qu rin fertile fields of New Mexico, along ioc ) le Sante Fe railroad, we began toi e a few trees, which was the first! e had seen since entering Texas, g re went into camp at Mesqite at 2 I m., covering a distance of tenj r i!es. The boys hadn't had a bath ; t three days, and there was a large j J rigation ditch right near our camp,' r id in a few minutes after our tents j I ere pitched they were all in the t tch. r The Third Battallion, 2nd S C Inf, a ider Maj J W Bradford, composed j Companies "I" of Timmonsville, v of Florence, "L" of Sumter, a id "M" of Orangeburg, were call- t ! up at 4:30 a. m. for provost q lard duty in Las Cruces, N M. We F ade a record border march, led by b ipt J B Keith of Co I, marching e reive miles in three hours, going v i guard immediately after entering r wn, and remaining on duty for ten f iurs, without dinner or anything, d cept apples, which were plentiful, v me of the boys who were posted p the residential section of town ii ?re called in by the kind ladies and i a ven dinner, which was very highly : s predated, being very unusual in w is community, as a soldier is not d unted anything at all in El Paso, S lich shows how much they appre- c ite our sacrifices in leaving our! mes and business to protect them, e remained on provost duty Satur\j Qt-nrlov onrl hpinor I J ^UI'UUJ UIIU i.iuuvjuj, W ?"r? ?ated as if our services were apeciated in keeping order among e troops. Our duty was to allow i enlisted man to enter the baroms, thus preventing drunkenss and disorder, also to guard ap-1 ? orchards, etc. The troops were! ill behaved and won a name for e division in Las Cruces. This wn is situated in Mesilia valley d is of about five thousand popution, being poepled and governed ostly by Mexicans, the Sheriff and ayor both being Mexicans of the tter class. A strange thing about is town of 5,000 people with five r-rooms, is the fact that they ven't a single policeman. Monday night it rained all night, d at 4:30 Tuesday morning we . re called out to start the return p. We had to back out of our g tents in the pouring rain and ad, roll our packs which were wet d heavy and, without breakfast, irch to Mesilia Park, N M. two les away to do guard duty there the onlnmn missed through. Wei irched the distance in thirty min- _ es. While the column was passing ? had breakfast, which consisted g cheese, crackers and hot coffee, g ter which we fell in the rear of g e column and continued the g arch, covering the same ground g the return trip as we did on the g p out, with plenty of mud and v in added, as it rained every day c the way back. We passed the S ate Agricultural College of New ? exico and saw where part of the ? mpus had caved in (which is very * mmon in New Mexico) and filled 5 thwate r, making one of the pret- j >st ponds we haye ever seen. The ? ?es and a barn are still standing ? the center of the pond. Over the { nd we saw several thousand wild ? icks 3wimming about. V Friday, the 13th, our last day's ? arch, we covered two days' hike, Z x.: oa ?:i? o u n ircniriK nine* in o uuuis, wicu- ^ t dinner, reaching Camp Owen erne at 4 p. m., without losing a t in out of our company on the en- 2 e trip. Out of the five States g presented, South Carolina lost * ly one man to the others' twenty. ? ice reaching camp, it has taken ree days for us to clean up our uipment and clothing. | Having covered the entire pro- $ amme mapped out for us by the J ar Department, we are now begin- g ig again in the A B C's, where we V ire when we were at Styx. S C, to C ss away the time. ? As for the discipline of Company 1 and for the whole Xd South Caro- | a Infantry, it was marvelous to J * how well behaved the men were. C lere was no boisterousness at all, C e only noise being that of cheers f d other expressions of happiness, i le regiment is due, and has reeeiv- f , praises for the good discipline i iring the march to Las Cruces and * turn. The men were certainly a ? edit to their regiment and the ? ate of South Carolina. Thomas Chandler. Camp Owen Bierne, ? El Paso, Texas, * October 26, 1916. e Quinine That Does Not The Hi* cause of its tonic am' laxative efect, VE BROMO Ql'ININl is better than oni. ...r; inine and does not cause nervousness mo 1 Kiug in head. Remember the tall name and { ;lc for the signature of E. \V. GROVE. 2bc. C. Irvln Meyer Dead. The sudden death of C Irvin Mey r Wedr.es lay at his residence on St Tulip str *et is the source of deep egret to the many friends of this might and promising young man. rlr Meyer was a salesman in the furlishing goods department of the iirsch-lsrael company, and while in he employ of the firm for only a few nonths, had endeared himself to his is80ciates by his cheerful nature, is a worker, his employers had only /arm praise for the young: man's bilities, and he had already begun 0 attract attention by his sterling ualities. Mr Meyer was a son of 1 A Meyer of Charleston and had ieen in the city only a few months ifter an absence of some years. He /as obliged to leave the Hirsch-Iaael store Tuesday on account of eeling ill, but his absence Wednesay did not occasion alarm. He died ery suddenly Wednesday morning. ls a mark of respect to an employe 3 whom the firm had begun to take n unusual interest,the Hirsch-Israel tore was closed during the funeral, /hich took place at 3:SO p. m.Thursay from the family residence, 127 t Philip street.?Charleston Ameri. in. Here Is th Save I The table is tl of expense in eve it is the aim of e\ keeper to hold tl so far as is con living. Let us s with anything ir pie and Fancy problem of the"h n i I will disappear. Britton < "The Pure ] Phone 108, - LIBERAL ADVi | on all consignments of Si | We make a specialty of h | EXTRA STAI e and secure best results 1 g signments handled on cor j PORTER SN< | Cotton Factors and C( I CHARLES" I THE m I B1 1 J. L ST | HAS 1 Horses a 1 For Sale or | J- L. ST Livery, Feed t y Lake City, SOLDIERS GOT RELIEF I 11MESS I Boys on the Border Relieved Their Pains and Aches with Sloan's Liniment. Once upon a time Norman Jones, serving in the National Guard at El Paso, returned to camp after a strenuous jo miie nixe iooi-sore anu legweary. lie had not been long in active service and his shoulders, back and limbs felt the after-effects of marching. Remembering Sloan's JJniment, : Jones applied it to the sore spots and j went to Ded. He writes * " I arose the , next morning feeling fine; in fact I had entirely forgotten about the hike and irent out for a four-hour drill in the sun as spry as ever." Private Jones passed the experience along, and many a boy on the border relieved the agony of sprains, strains, bruises, insect bites, cramped muscles, rheumatic twinges, etc., by the use of Sloan's Liniment. Easily applied without rubbing. At all druggists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 ^ I A FT I ? & Cftambsriain's Griugti Comedy CnresColds. Cronpp.nc! V.'hoioi ^ C ueh. -j e Place To VIoney le principal source imr Vi rm coin rtl rl q n rl I J. j xi\j uio^nv/ivt j cuiu rery thrifty houselat expense down sistent with good Supply your larder 1 i the way of StaGroceries and the igh cost of living" Try us and see. ?' i & Hutson rood Store" - Mngstree, a. t. | ______________ ANCES MADE! taple and Upland Cotton, g andling g 'LECOTTON 1 55? rV :or our customers. Con- g5 nmission only. ?s OWDEN CO., I immission Merchants, ? TON, S. C J Ji IS ON j uckey| BOTH I nd Mules | 1 Exchange. I UCREY1 ind Sale Stable gj South Carolina |j _ *c|