Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ^Jl P pj receiving teher)] MONEY TAKES WIN LOOK! HERE'S THE TO STOP IT! AMAN will start downtown wi1 will pass a bank. If he dep sparing in his expenditures. little currency and a PAT CHECK m elephantine WAD OF GREEK BOOK! BANK OF ] | [ ThinR ah j 1918 Su FERTI * But don't buy a sa have Geo. A. F Kingstn I OAK BEDS, DRESS A carload just receive solid oak, clean-cut and i kind that lasts and looks before the last advance on the freight, and the at our prices. Call and s good values in Iron Mattresses, Kitchen and Window Shade! = Remember, too, that1 Profil-Sharir with all Cash purchases Furniti KINGSTREE The 12ic lb. Paid Choice Beef, Mutton i Highest Prices Pa THE PEOPL H. #. MILLE tVI :h $50 in his pocket. On hie way he osits $40 of his $50 he will be more Money will not TAKE WINGS! BOOK is a better combination than BACKS and an ANAEMIC CHECK KINGSTREE. out Your I nnlv of I LIZER ck of it until you i seen tfcElveen - ee, S. G | ERS, WASHSTANDS i. These pieces are all substantially made?the 5 well. We bought them inin/ifto* puro/l mnnav ill pi iV^CO J OC* f V/U AUV4IVJ y are exceptional values ee our stock. 9 We have Beds, Springs and Safes, Small Rags 5. we give ig Certificates >. -I- > lire Company ; - - s. c. I UsYourCattle Best Market Price Paid for Cow Hides. Pork, Sausage and Veal. id for Hides g Furs E'S MARKET :R, Proprietor. jj Auditor's Notice The Auditor's office will be open from January 1 to February 20,1918 inclusive, for the purpose of taxing tax returns for the fiscal year 1918. Returns must be made for all real and personal property. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, Inclusive, are liable to a poll tax of $1.00, also a road tax ol $2.00, and must be returned. n >4 Ali ;n ontr manner LIUII I I Oil Ul ivig? v? iu try to dodge returning your dog or dogs. All property must be returned in township and school district in which located. Income tax should be returned at the same time other returns are made. Pursuant to law, there will be no appointments for the purpose of taking tax returns elsewhere than in the Auditor's office. A penalty of fifty per cent (50%) will be added after February 20. J J B Montgomery, 12-27-t2-14 County Auditor. Commissioners' Notice. Notice is hereby given that on the first Tuesday in February the Board of County Commissioners will receive sealed bids for the jail, pauper and chaingang medical practice. Bias are to include all medicines and service, and chaingang in eight miles of courthouse. J N Hammet, l-10-4t Co Supervisor. Notice of Application for Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that on the 7th day of February, 1918, I will apply to P M Brockinton, Probate Judge of 1 *? r n;? w nut&Kiisuurx t'uuiajr, iui ucucio 1/10missory as Executor of the estate .of Mrs M E Brown, deceased. R J Brown, l-10-5t Executor. Trespass Notice. All parties are hereby warned against hunting, cutting or hauling wood or otherwise trespassing on the lands of the estate of J J McCullough in Anderson township. Violators of this notice will be prosecuted at law. \ 12-27-4tp A E McCullough, Agt. Registration Notice. The olflce of the Supervisor of Registration will be open on the 1st Monday in each month for the purpose of registering any per on who is qualified as follows: Who shall have h ?en a resident of the State for two years, and of the A'omt v nrio ruor un/! .if t.ho nn'linc nro. uuuuvj vuv /^*** ? " rv"*"o f v jinct in which the elector offers to vote four months bofore the day of election, and shall have paid, sis months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read and write any section of the constitution of 1895 submitted to him by the Supervisors of Registration, or wh< rau show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectible on during the present year, property in this Ltafe assessed at three hundred dollars or more. B E Clarkson, r lerk of Board. Electricity For Five Cents a Day. It is impossible, of course, to say definitely just what DeleoDight will cost to operate. This will vary with the amount of current used and some people use more than others. But we are able to state the usual cost on the average farm. This is about live cents a day, and can be verified by asking any Delco-Light user in this county. Can you imagine anything else that you could buy for five cents a day that would give you anything like as much comfort or help you half as much in your work? Agency for Williamsburg Co., J V Carter, HEMINGWAY, S. G. A Delco-Lighl (lehWIliJLWllW. will be made at your home at any time on request. Lamps uuiai ia Suspended from tall ] oles that are to be found on the banks o! rivers in China are quaint lantern* that sway back and forth in the wind, adding a picturesque touch to the landscape by day and weird illumination by night, says Popular Mechanics. Each of these lantern* has been placed by relatives of some person who has been drowned in the nearby stream in i'r* hone that the spirit of the deceased may see the light as it journeys in search of heaven. W Ci SOQHK? (Billiards and Something Else \ : His Chance Came With a Lesson i 1 In the Game. _ By M. J. PHILLIPS The trouble was that, while Carrick admitted his offense and was , anxious to present his excuse, Miss Welland by her manner ignored the A # iW? 1 1 . ' existence 01 an oitense ana so maae excuse impossible. At first blush that : sounds aH right, but it wasn't. For how could a fellow secure freedom from his grievous dungeon when the pardon board publicly and officially pretended to believe that he was enjoying the sweet atmos phere of liberty? That was the question which bothered Carrick. He felt that five minutes' talk with Miss Welland would set everything right. But she was graciously and firmly unapproachable. She insisted on treating him just the same as ever, only more so. And Carrick rattled his dungeon chains, while Miss Welland smiled sweetly on Purves Bland. Carrick wasn't really to blame. They had been going to the theater Wednesday evening after having waited three weeks to get tickets because everybody else seemed to want to go too. And that very | . Wednesday alternoon tne manager had sent for Carrick. "Be here at 8 o'clock tonight," he directed. "There will be a special meeting of the board for the purpose of discussing your carbon improvement plan. If we take it up? His pompous smile was rich with promise. For a young man whom opportunity had seized by the nape of the neck and was thrusting headlong into prosperity Carrick was singularly unappreciative. He knew how Miss Welland was anticipating seeing "What a Woman Would Do" and the impossibility of securing other tickets during the remainder of the run. Miss Welland's slightest wish was more important just then than a good many other things, so he mentioned "another engagement." "Then you mn6t break it, Mr. Carrick," said the manager quite decidedly. "Mr. Kern, who is our president and heaviest stockholder, will be here from the west tonight on his way to New York. He can stay only two hours. We can do nothing without his approv ai. 30 you see uuw ucil-sboi * n m that you attend the meeting." There seemed no way out of it. Carrick wrote a note to Miss Welland, explaining the circumstances, sealed it and rang for a messenger. When a diminutive representative of the A. D. T. arrived Carrick was smitten with a brilliant idea. Why not send the tickets so she could go anyway? So he wrote another note, inclosed the tickets with it and handed both envelopes to the messenger. And the one containing the tickets was never delivered. All unconscious of this fact, Carrick went back to the office at 8 o'clock. Fifteen minutes later word < came that Mr. Kern was delayed by a wreck and that the board meeting would be held next morning. On the chance that he might yet he In time to escort Miss Welland to the theater he rushed off to find her, only to be informed by the maid that she had gone out. He went on home then, where he was promptly pressed into service by his sister Beatrice, who wanted company as far as Gladys Burton's. And at the Burton door they had encountered Miss Welland. That young lady had smilingly ; cut short his explanations before they were begun. Later, when he i heard of the nondelivery of the tickets, he tried again. But Purves Bland was now in the play, and explanations were impossible. He never saw Miss Welland unless the hint impervious Mr. Bland was at her *elbow. He haunted balls and recitals and tea fights in an endeavor to tell her of the meeting that didn't come off, but in vain. Weeks of plotting and planning and waiting for opportunities that never came left him worried and hungry looking. Why rejoice that his carbon improvement scheme waa a go when the onlv girl in the if l.ori roor?Viu/l fhof efncrp I wouldn't look at him or, worse still, [ looked at him precisely as she looked at everybody else? 1 But his persistence won finally. 1 By the assistance of Dick Sargent, 1 engaged and consequently sympathetic, he was assured of a monopoly of Miss Welland and the bil1 liard room during a dance at Bur1 ton's one night. Dick promised fif1 teen minutes if he had to tic Purves ! Bland wi'b the portieres. !{ "Miss Welland," lie began breathlessly when Bland had been lured , away by Dick and the future Mrs. Sargent, "you know the night < *What a Woman Would Do*"? "But you were to teach me t gay billiards, you know," remarke iss Welland. "But I want to explain," he urge< "I got your note,*' Miss Wellan reminded him. "And Beatrice h? told me about the loss of the ticket So thafs all over and forgotten." Being equipped only with th wun uicuiai \jl mvi man, Carrick was somewhat daze by this information. For weeks h had been preparing himself to tak the enemy's fortifications by storir To find that there was to be no wa was surprising, to say the least. "Yon know all about it?" he que ried stupidly. "Yes." "And it's all forgotten?" "Yes." "Forgiven too?" "I suppose so." "Then," said Carrick, with a ra diant smile and a glint of determi nation in his eye, "we shall take u] the billiard lesson?and something else." Miss Wei land . chose to ig nore the remark. "First we will send the balls t the lower cushion to see who get the first shot. That is a bank." "What a funny name!" "Yes," said Carrick. "The won is usually applied to the edges of i river; also," with a sidewise glance "to institutions where young mei who are contemplating matrimon; hoard up their money." "Hadn't we better ioin the oth ers?" asked Miss Welland irrever ently. ".No; tney said tney a De oacic 10 no n HE. "O-ohl I missed that one," sai< the girl presently. "Aon don't hold the stick prop erly," pronounced Carrick. "It' like this." And he calmly took pos session of both her hands as the; rested on the cue. "Isn't billiards very difficult ti learn?" asked Miss Welland. "Why?" "It takes so long to learn how t< hold the cue!" The lesson progress ed better after that?for a time. It came Carrick's shot. Th balls had stopped in the form of i triangle. A clever "draw" earnei him the billiard. Miss Carrick ap plauded. "It came as though i magnet were attracting it," she said "That being nav ball," expoundei the teacher, "the same forces ac upon it as act on me. A magnet ha been drawing me for about tw< years now.- And doesn't the re< * 11 1 - / Dan remind you 01 some uuei or how closely it has stayed near you ball since we've been playing!" "Why shouldn't it? queried Mis Welland saucily as she shot an< missed. "And, anyway, resemblance have nothing to do with the game You're teaching me billiards, re member." "Billiards?and something else,1 said Carrick. "See how the re< ball sulks at the lower end of the ta ble. I'm going to stir it up." His ball clicked Miss Welland' cue ball gently and doubled th? corner just in time to be stopped b; it They met square on its returi from the cushion and stopped, a fe\ inches apart. "See how near they are," sai< Carrick?"no chance for a misun derstanding, no opportunity fo theater tickets to get lost en rout from one to the other. The red bal is the length of their world away That's the way tnev oeiong, siae d; side, always/* "What is it called," asked Mis Welland hurriedly, "when one bal prevents the other from going, liki that?" "That," said Carrick, laving dowi his cue with a certain finality an* advancing around the table, "is call ed a kiss!" Dick Sargent is in favor of a dou ble wedding, "for," he says, "a fel low needs the moral support of hi kind in a crisis." Carrick is build ing a house with a billiard roon in it. Torpedoes. It costs between $600 and $1,10' to fire one of our largest guns. Th average cost of a torpedo is $1 pound, and the usual weight of th kind in use by submarines is abou 3,000 pounds. In a torpedo th "-* ? ?? -i. ii "cnarge cone at me apex usuau contains moist guncotton, in whicJ is placed a tube of drv guncottoi furnished with a fulminating ca preceded by a plunger, and whei the plunger strikes a solid object i explodes the charge. The lates models contain more than 22 pounds of guncotton or some othe powerful explosive. The Dominant Air. As through an opera runs th ~il ATvunnr^f oil* Q my l JLllil UL UllC uuiuuauv an t u through men's lives there rings i dominant note, soft in youth, stronj in manhood and soft again in oli age. But it is always there, and whether soft in the gentler period or strong nmid the noise of the peri hclioii. it dominates alwav* an? gives its ton* to the whole life. >f . 2 5 WAR TALKS] 1. By UNCLE DAN 1 ig Number Two 1 Jimmie Collins Tells What He 8aw e What Military Training Doea ' e for Boys. u e "Well, here we are !" exclaimed Bttc lie, presenting his chum, Jlmmle Ool' Una. r "Very glad to see you, Mr. Collin*1" said Uncle Dan with a smile. !- "Aw," said BilUe, "Just call him Jimmle. That's the only name knows. He's the pitcher of our baseball nine, and he's some pitcher, too~ Just feel of his arm." "Well," said Uncle Dan, feeling. "That's a mighty good arm!" "Now, boys," said Uncle Dan, "what . do you want to talk about?" p "Well," said Jimmie, "I was down to L. Galesburg a few months ago when the boys came home from the Mexican, border. They looked fine. Everybody was surprised to see how straight they 0 stood and how manly they were. The 3 boys seemed proud to wear the uniform. I tell you their muscles were aa hard as nails. 1 heard Banker Haskett 1 say that the training and discipline a the boys had had was exactly what , every boy in the country ought te have, and that now these boys could ' get a better job at higher pay than they could have had before. Do you. think that's so, Uncle Dan?" Uncle Dan repUed: "I have a. friend who employs hundreds of young; men. He always gives boys having r had military training the preference; be says it pays to ao so. lie anas i they are more alert, more prompt. more courteous; they know how t? . carry out orders; they are quicker to s think and to act than those without training. He said from his experience v. he believed that six or eight monthsof intensive military training would add at least 20 per cent to a man's o j AFTER FIVE MQNTW8. Ths two pictures ere of the saw* younp man. The first was taken tfea . day he enlisted and the second after s he had had five months' military trahK e Ing, His Irama ie In North Carolina. i earning capacity, and that It was tin 7 best investment any young man coold make. j "Billie, if yon will go up to my room and bring my small handbag, I wfll let yon see two photographs of tie sam e young man, showing what only I five months of intensive training on * the Mexican border did for him." The bag was brought. Uncle Dan. f" showing the pictures, said: "Weil, here they are. They tell their own 8 story and it is a mighty interesting I one. The young man. before training, o has a discouraged look; he has seen ' Thpfp WAR UlU UlUC Ui UK nw?? , very little in his surroaodings to bring j him ont When he joined the colors and Uncle Sam took him in charge, life for him took on a new meaning. He saw a chance to do something and " be something. He woke up. His cap tain says he is twice the man he was s when he joined the army. This may - be one of the extreme cases," said ! Uncle Dan. "I can tell you, though. that war or no war. no one thing wHI do the young iu< of this nation s? much good in so snort a time as a few q months of intensive military training. It fits a man to fight his own life bate ties in the business world as well as a to defend his country and its flag. ? "Nearly every civilized country gives t its boys military training. It is con* e pulsory. It is based upon the fact that rv" it is the duty of everyone to help deli fend his country; and as war is now n carried on, no one can do much unLess p he is trained. Also, the records show n that the killed and wounded among t untrained troops is nearly three times ^ as great as it is with well-trained men _ who know how to fight and how ts protect themselves. By this plan a r nation has trained men to defend her and the individual is a stronger ami *?J-4-? ?? ? froInlntr ueiltrr uiau iui un "It the Chamberlain Bill for Mille tary Training is passed by congress, 0 as it ought to be, the same thing would a be done for millions of other young % men throughout the land. Everybo# j ought to demand of his congressman 1 and senators the passage of this ' bill." s "All right, sir, exclaimed Jimrnie, we j will see Judge BrowneII, Mr. Haskett sud Profos?nr Slocum, and get them hu>v '