Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ry. *^^aj*i\ra? ts the jrir leolB&a for hy *&yfi?tag Woman -while listening to a ^ -a white throat k*T Think of all 5f~-at"da?nx, at twilight and ^te?er powers! poor city il^eTB|Bd? me ^ofcan incident Michigan. A pair S^t^xfer^nest^ a freight W;^*^b?eod was hatched She gr?men, after consul- . teiraphed the situation to ^te^-j?id-?? order tame in- ? sack the ear ?11 :^?^hie> to. leave the^nest | ;?^^i-a^':?.^'-itee''were j par?cJii?r rohins are heck ^?ther^ffti, Ted^ap^l^ucy.. as ' ? always rcnnicg,. on- account Is?? youth, snd who ??Sip?*b American Country ro&ry rnstftutfoaa. pr^wrtion. of whites In. ?b?. fr^|^-^m^^.'.tp' be. taken find|e?tien* of Jjfe intellectual jfto^erR^ ?elJec?aal; Jsensx j?eu??ar. One rof a&AKdean e??Qtries,' with ^eW<^T>fac^^^ j. iHSttan thrcragih Jts one lmpor- j ?rt, its. entire .popuiati<m "Is i?XV&: jmimon, aad of ..this ."a? ar?.Ind3an3 and blacks eoc* ^ejfom\?^ of - L&n&.:a mere one hundred ??wf&-' a noiaiiial Tfttehdanee thousand, do not begin to tor all .lfie j?iii?ren of school ;.*t^ thirty ^ 4o .with no; mere than hunted pup?Ss .all -told. ^1 Andean c<su^ries, however, ^gfees ?sp^gCejPB^t - to -<s31 ^ao to^Uow R professional ca for %fgtter instrhc?on^e thr^^itfer&ties ?f. Quito, qu? andtCj^c?, wtth ?Le pro? -?>rofea -the stebald head has ^^^%^B???^Hw-^e ?JBcers of nj? ) * egairiny in rT5ijjtne^ h^n> ?f whom L|p^ed fi^^c^anin^js and-are "r.or4ng t?-^gr^ inainiatnre Van "peards as -copies of the poet's it ? i?0ke Fiixmfc aviators have adopted ?:?M3se with -greater zeal than other'] a?? cbSl ^themselves "Iron TFontSfal d&eers in their rfaod early twenties have shaved _and are wearing little an effor^ to " look as -of French hoxizm tzgz&S green are worn 'Ann?sz.ic's men with great pride. ?in Japan's.Coal Output ?and ' :Engineering notes ?t ?aci.ike output of coal during the jttst llrn:^ths:of ^s^ur^at 2ftf?5.<K30 tons,-show : ;?b mesease 4at X&O&O -tons, or Xd^per-ewt, S^eempar^ with es3^'o?*the previ '?&tf^'&pie j^hnts?c x^ made^fr^'^^?me ;to%ttfe.-."if. the al elthanstion of the njihes. This attributed;to ihe revival of old es and the increase in the number ! < &nW mmes, ?whig to the profitable >bta3n?W^ the output j ,d?ynshuy which -constitutes 60 -per ! 'ee?t' of ,^he total output, did not ma-* tiaafiy ^c&anae. ftfc"i?ng a Hit I ihad -on ^eagagerae?t one evening ?ttfa-a young Vornan friend, with whanr-1 'wto eisdeavuring to make a hit, wYItee a correspondent. We td?aje theater;,11 walked up to ^e hoz c0ce and asked for two t!ck T&iakipg I had them; my com in . ahead. I -put my .ia^^B7^poeiet, 'Sad, holy, smoke. it?r?kmgfr?t?S-1x> take any money wlih -nsei I-teffied^red-asd-wMte, hut that, was ^ to hew T felt wheu::?;ronergently broke the fcews4md escorted, my gir$ to a door j^rke^* ^exit.^,: UM I make a nit? isfrmot the ehlBs vet. Identify the Wctel. ^James evfdeht^ had a bmtalo nickel of the first vrntagef for he was, haying ti&O&e yith central. In reply to nis r*I;did :drqp a nfckel," central demahd ?d, *Weli, what 'klnxl of a nickel are ^^?trjjiagL to ase?" Ml. dunno what /Hndv'ft'is,M he replied, ?out it's.got a Httle ball on ltw Appearances. .aUfflterty,,, ^d":Mr. Dolan. ?I hear. ifflBfcralls ?re to become fashionable:' "I nope not ^ey'TI put cuffs on ?&e bptfems,- make 'em narrow wa^str ed. m'Cli belt* -In the?haek, and co*. pietel? ruin their appearance." J^c^t^- sSxperts Have Taken That Advocate. tihnnaan -?ame-^is 200 per r^ent i|t?^r?ihg'to^^th#^^t3#?* [^f^efiiciehey- experts promui^ted be jlore the American Society oflndus I trial iiBgineers in Philadelphia, says l^he ^ew York Evening Sun. Some bt the latty -haveV been -suspecting that ! for years, but the promoters of new I methods of top speed plant produc tion are so sure of it now that they 'are modeling organization plans with ;physicians as tieir advisers. Most of the layouts prepared for the industrial organizations look for nndable-to the averags man. What with their.p^ and con necting curves the structure of a thou sand man plants gives pause even to the modern executive. It is shown that the schemes which have worked the best are after all as-old as the .human *ace, for they are simply arrangemehts^such. ^as may be seen in every ;man's . makeup. The brain, for instance, as explained -hyf C. E. KnoeppeL who has the chair of factory management at New .York nniyeisity,, in his-address to his fellow IndnstrMrexperfs, is the 'same *s the executive bead or the director ef a plant or corporation. The five senses i^iiich keep mankind in his hearings correspond to the control of the fac tory, that is to superintendents and foremen. / The medulla oWongata corresponds to labor, and the small brain or cere bellum which looks after the auto matic functions of the body and-keeps the. arms and Jegs and trunk active, is translated in terms .of production. The relations of the chart for the man factory and those of the perfectly interacting machinery of the heart and brain and muscles are regarded as virtually the same Indianapolis Gir! V/iii Have atp Do Much ?xp!a in ing if Many Ac -$uairitanees' Saw Her. -A senior of Technical high school j who prides herself on her contempt ! for-.rouge and/lip . sticks went , to the I Ver^s. - Several elass .mates j helped stnemselws to ca liberal sup per of ^peint" ..just before .posing, ! febin&lng-tbe pictures. w*uldi be better, i Finally, '^ey yersoacted^tne Senior to | try it just tot 'Ute one time No ^sa I would ever^be 'the wiser. Hesitating- j ly, she applied the crimson puff and the -oUy crimson stick and dashed into thetStndio for the final .pose. j Half an hour later she was on the ! car speeding homeward when she hap- j pened to glance -at the .'woman across 3te aisle. That woman's complexion, she thought was past forgiveness.! How .cjould some people bear to use \ that ..stuff and continue to appear in j public I Well, one thing was certain ; -^nobody would ever-^e her . rivaling an October sunset. Then horrors'!"She remembered -she had forgot to wash aff her : own ^*m?ceup;,'--'^<h"anapolis j News. " ' - ? ?_ ?... . ? j High -Speed Steel Without Tungsten. | A new high speed-steel of British I origin is without tungsten in its - com-! position and advantages of both a j practical and ' economical nature are i claimed. It is cobalt-molybdenum j steel, the cobalt apparently acting as j a stabilizer and as correcting certain j disada vantages said to .exist in molyb- , den um-tungsten steels. The new steel is claimed to possess the highest point of efficiency ever obtained. The hard- j ening temperature required is only in , the neighborhood of 2,000 degrees ? Fahrenheit. The steel is also reported j to machine exceptionally soft and eas ily. The specific gravity of como steel j is reported to be equal to that of the old carbon tool steel, and so, 10 per i cent less than that of" the tungsten j ntgh-speed steels. ?s a result it is estimated that a given weight of como : steel will, produce 10 pet cent more tools than, the same weight of regular ?$gh-$peed steel. J Industrial Research. Again and again during the war it | was insisted hy all manner of authori ties in ^England that one of the great efforts of the. future should be in the direction of encouraging industrial re search. -This was, in fact, a war les son, and Great -Britain evidently has no intention of losing it. -Already a government department 4>f ^scientific ?hd industrial research" has been es tablished ; 'while, according to the chairman at a recent meeting of the Institution of Electric Engineers, "uni versities all over the country, led by< -Univetsity college, London, are re <$Q3?fogfog their training dcpa^eats." The Fickle Men. TJhe two. girls were talking, and one was deploring ,a recent experience. *He promised to teach me to drive his car," she s^Ed, *and I wanted to do it in :;fcne styieV-so I went uptown and bought me a very:fancy pair of gaunt let ^loyes:' Tfte other ^nodded sympathy^ The first continued,' . - "And then what do you-think happened? Why the fickle taiagxEof naa^and: got him a new. girl before I had even got those driving . gloves paid^OK* *Slmp!e Operation. Douglas, three and a half years old, retutned from the barber shop with his hair nicely: bobbed. His mother overhead lsim.fiay to an admiring play mate: * Why, the barber roan did It Just as easy?he Just ran the lectric ten over my ho&L" South tstfs Most/DreadTed Spot, D*a& Valley Bis ; fei^ ^Riade Saf? j for Travelers. j - Death ^ vaHey, once the rerror -ef i&v tr&t?er in -the Southwest and the i last resting.^ place of many^ early-day j prospectors, Is being made safe for . travel both day and night j This erstwhile barrier to humau Lprogress has been conquered by the I automobile. Its trackless waste of : j sand has been sign-posted and its bid {den water :hoIes marked by . Uncle; -Sam. Not content with merely mak i lng the desert easy to cross for trav elers fn daylight, the Automobile Oub ; of Southern California is" going far I rher and "is jplacing signs tri such map j ner .:that the*rays of the headlights ; from passing machines will fall upon j them and-guide the night tourist as I safely and surely as'the day traveler, 'j The Automobile club also will* sign ipost all lateral routes of the famous j Death valley district Included in the j Sign posting being done will he a com I piete set ;of iroad signs-directing tour jists to picturesque Palm canyon, on j the edge' of the desert?one of the imost unique spots in the world, j This oasis -in the sandy wastes is I to be made ^ national monument by | j the government. Its distinctive fea- j ? ture is the presence of "ancient palms i |of weird be?nty, standing in straight j jrows, appajrently planted by the hand | !of man, hut antedating history of the ; ? first human beings in this section. NOT ALL DUE TO COMEDIAN Part of Laughable Entertainment Was j Being Furnished by Original Tenants of Barn. j Speaker Sweet ^said the other day j ,.In the Kew York state legislature at; | Albany: "Because, an agitator gets a lot of I newspaper space it , does not necessa ? rily mean that vhe is a /great man. i-Newspaper space may mean something ; else. It reminds me of-a story, i **A -rich man -hired a comedian to j j entertain the workers on his estate j one evening. The entertainment was j i staged in the barn, and I? went well, j ' almost too well. The "comedian, In j fact, had.hardly got under way when { the barn began to shake with shouts j of laughter. Soon the laughter became j so nproarlous! that the rich man rose j and said: . i "^Friends, I know how difficult it Is to restrain our mirth when Mr. Back chat is on the stage,-but really, yon know, If we don't hold ourselves In just a little the.perfbrmance will hard ly be over hy midnight' "Then a burly plowman rose in his | turn. I " 'Excuse me, boss,* he. said; 'It ain't j i Mr. Ba^chat were langhin* at ,but i j somebody left the door open and all ; 1be.p*gs have got In, and they're nearly i Dushin *ns off our seats.'" Flowers. To dream of picking flowers signi fies future fortune. Of holding, seeing or smelling them In season means j pleasure, but if out oi season, ob- j stacles and lack of success. If the ?flowers are w?te the obstacles will i be less; it . yellow, they wil 1 be. pain- j fnl,.and lf red, they foretell the dream er's serious; illness. If you dream of being bedecked with flowers it means a short happiness is coming to yon. If you dream of buyiu^ them you will hear some good news.?Chicago Amer ican. No Imitations foe Her. j A young physician took h?s best girl j to a local picture house. Aekertise ! menrs were being thrown on the j screen, among them this one: "Make j them happy with a photograph of ydnr j self at: Christmas. Our shop, etc.'' ! The young man turned to his girl j with the facetious remark, "Would a j photo of me make you happy?** ! She j&pok her head. *1 don't like : Imitations," she pouted. *Tm..used to j receiving real things.** I Blue-Jay Ways, j Last "spring a^ pair of blue .'Jays j nested !n the crotch of a maple just i below my study window. What a time I they had of nest building! The female I insisted on building In a crotch below, j while the male thought a crotch'higher j up afforded a more advantageous loca j cation. They talked and scolded, f building nrst In one place then in the : other.' In the end the female had her i way, and the makeshift bunch of twigs j and brush was collected. The birds I were silent for weeks, tending strictly I to family cares; the half of which the male bird assumed without a murmur or complaint All summer long they f were silent, bnt toward fall they joined their voices with .those of the other Jays In the neighborhood. It was a new slant on blue jay 'methods, and j hereafter I:shall regard the birds with a wee bit more-apprecIation.--Chris- j tian Science Monitor. ' ! Poor Father. Marian is eleven years old and thinks'that she is old enough ^o stop having her hair bobbed and let it grow out ahd-he braided as do the other lit tle girls In her class. But .her-moth er has different ideas. So, of course, there Is an argument every time hair cutting time arrives. Last time moth er brought forth a new argument. "I want your hair to be pretty and thick when you ,gbow up," she said, "and there is nothing' which makes your hair grow better than to cut it often." Marian's eyes opened wide. "Then why dont yon begin It on fatherT she said. "He says himself that he is get tlBg bald," ' . . ?^t-Qrandfathtr.?f President FIT*. 1 ?moreCoerced into Sailing: ?rtder | ^ : the'?lack.Flaa. i John Fillmore, greatgrandfather of 3fillard FiTlmore, the thirteenth presi dent ?f the United 'States, was a pi rate, though he was a pirate in spite of .himself. The story begins with the. first Quarter of the -eighteenth century, , j when the freebooters, Bluebeard, Low j jjind Phillips, swept1 the Atlantic coast j ^trom Jemaica to Newfoundland. Phil ! lips captured the Dolphin of Cape Ann, i* a vessel commanded by Andrew : ! Harriden. I j Harriden discovered among > the . pirates* crew two joung men, John j-Fillmore and Edward Cheesman, i whom Phillips had captured and ! made pirates against their will, i They had determined either tO-es 'cape from , the pirate's clutches or to eapture his vessel and bring him I and his crew to justice. They -fixed ; I an appointed hour for making the j : attempt 'at escape, after reaching j i an agreement with Harriden. j j The signal was given when only j J three were on deck, one, of whom j I was Phillips. One of the men was ; i thrown overboard, and the other two j I were killed. This was done while the j crew was below in the hold of the j ship. The captors then sprang into j I the hold and placed the rest of the j j crew in chains, steered the vessel j j for feoston, and arrived there May 3, j 11724. Two of the pirates were hanged, J ! while Fillmore, Cheesman and his con- ! federates were acquitted! ?L--:?~ FORESEE APPROACH OF DEATH j Writer Tells of Instances Where Ant- j mais Evidently Sensed Dissolution I and Feared It. I am perplexed at the way In which j ?the lower animals-sometimes have a J premonition of death and fear it, while j at other times they appear to be per? | fectly Indifferent to death. I have: known a dog to beg not to be ? taken on a railway journey, when usu ally he used to dance about with de- i light when he saw these preparations j being made. On the occasion on which he-exhibited distress he slipped off the j platform, was run over and killed, j I have known a horse who was a \ very free jumper refuse obstinately a j sn*all fence and, when bis rider forced him over it the feorse broke his back. A. bullfinch?not a pet, but merely one of a cageful of birds?dropped down screaming; I took him out and i so long as he lay ?nmy hand he was j quite quiet, but he screamed if I at- I tempted to put him back on some cot- I ton wooL He lay in my hand for a i quarter of an hour and died quite j quietly. i I- have"had "a~ horse" refuse to pass uliler a tree under which he had .pass ed every day for years. It was a j perfectly calm day. I drove him round the tree, and as I did so a big branch fell upon exactly the spot on which we would have been if I had not let the horse.go round.?From the Conti nental Edition of the London Mail. M?st Earn Nature's Favors. Nature will not reveal her beauty, ; her joy, hersplendor, her magnificence j or her sublimity to the selfish or the j hurried soul. She thinks too much of j her great treasures of marvelous mys- j tery to fling them out to the'pe mrious, I greedy, hurried human being, to the casual eye, to those who are rushing along at railroad speed. No one can successfully woo and v. in her who is not willing, to study her, take time to observe, her, and listen to her voice. She tells her. secrets, reveals her mys teries and beauties only to those, who ! know how to wait, who take time to j think, to ponder; to those who can j appreciate and love these things well ! enough to spend time with her.?Ori- j son Swett Marden in Chicago News. No High Cost of Clothing Here. When a hole Is worn in tapa cloth it is only necessary to moisten the edges and beat them together. Tapa cloth was once woven or pounded into shape in many parts of the South Sea island's. It is made of the barks of the banana, breadfruit or mulberry. The rough outer, bark is first scraped j off and the inner fibers are beaten to- j ge'ther and allowed to ferment. So ; fine is the texture of the cloth that | one would never imagine it had been prepared in this crude manner. It isj bleached to a dazzling white color in \ tfhe sun,, and when made into gar meats is practically indestructible.? Boys'Life. - i Manhattan in the Indian Tongue. We had a sad shock the other day when we learned 'from one of* our learned clients that Manhattan, in the Indian tongue, is said to mean "The place where they all get drunk." . Ac-1 wording to William Loring Andrews' j book, "The Bradford . Mapn '<lS83), i shown by James F. Drake, the na-j tive name was coined in-happy mem ory of the greatly regrettable revel that transpired when Peter, Minuitv (we think it was) put over his dea[ with the- Indians with the ajd of a nagon of schnapps. We tru>c Mr. An derson will take immediate steps to i have the name of the island changed i '?Christopher Morley in New York j Evening Post ' ' Sure Thing. *T toJd Jiggers that If he kept on I indulging in that absurd fad of his i he wowlS be 6tung." "That was only to be expected wltl i a be* in his bonnet." War^gr^ereW?o Neglect to Sot Oown Their priceless ?Discoveries. A. .-noted-author -in 4he-Setespost writes: "The commonest sign- of ^ia tigtie is found in feeling of weari ness." i There are times when we are almost I led into believing that this is true, i Equivocal and ambiguous as the state I ment may seem, at the first reading; I it becomes clearer when read over four or five times. In fact, we don't ' know when the proposition has been stated with more clarity, after one I masters the language in which it is couched. Have you not often read things and said to yourself: "How often I have thought that very thing. Why did I not put it down in imperishable ? words*?" It is so with this. Doubtless* in your humble way you have often thought that your weariness was a sign of fatigue. At those times you thought a living truth, but did you write and tell some magazine of your priceless discovery? No. You al lowed somebody to come along, per haps years after, and do It The moral is that when yon think a great thought, put It down on paper at once. Even if yon <lo put it away somewhere" and forget It, posterity may find 4t Now, many times in our career we have had feelings of weariness. Some of our friend9 have been misguided enough to attribute it to laziness?an awful 'word; particularly , among friends. But, when we were weary, it was not laziness that ailed us. It was fatigne. Aqd we never knew the truth until we read the magazine article men tioned. We ha\e been slandered for years by a wrong Idea.?Exchange. HIGH HONOR FOR SMALL GIRL Face of Ten-Year-Cid Has Appeared ' on Millions of Coins of the United States. The government of the United States In 1835 made an offer of $lfiOO for the most acceptable design to be placed upon the new cent coin soon to be issued, gome Indian chiefs traveled from the northwest to Washington to visit the Great Father and then Journeyed to Philadelphia to see 'the mint, whose chief, engraver was James Barton Longacre, who invited them to his home. The engraver's daughter, Sarah, aged 10, greatly enjoyed the visit of -her father's guests and during the eve hing, to please her, one of -the chiefs took off nis feathered helmet and war bonnet and placed It on her head. In the -company was an artist, who Im mediately sketched-her and handed the picture to her father. Mr. Longa cre^ knowing of the competition for a like ness to go upon the cent projected, under the Inspiration of the hour, re- j solved to contend for the prize offered i by the government To his delight the j officials accepted it and the face of his daughter appeared upon the coin, j which was circulated about the nation ? for nearly a century. There were j mere than a hundred competitions. J The cent bearing the face of Sarah j Longacre has gone into more hands than any other American coin. How England Grows. ' A great deal of interest is taken In England In the question of coast protection. The ocean, assailing the j cliffs, gradually tears them away, but I this very process furnishes a defense for the land by /building up* long j beaches of sand and shingle which ar; j rest the waves before they can attack the cliffs. An effort is making to pre vent, or better regulate the removal of ! this material for construction and road ? building, because. In many places its | removal has permitted the sea free I ly to ,exert its power of erosion. The ordnance survey has ascertained j that in the last half century England ?has lost 6,640 acres by sea erosion and gained 48,000 acres through re claiming land the existence of which Is mainly due to material brought down byfihe rivers. ~ Growth of the Cities. A Cleveland editor once said that Cincinnati's chief business was "pork and politics," observes GIrard In the Philadelphia Press. You have been told In advertise ments a million times that a certain beer "made Milwaukee famous." Everybody knows that Washington. D. C, has one big Industry?holding down government jobs. The new census figures from these cities, all above 400,000, are signifi cant. Pork population Increased only 10 per cent in a decade, while beer popu lation expanded 22 per cent. Both look small compared with the growth In government job population of 32 per ceut Two Vials. "A feller 'way down there on Fid- j die Creek found a bottle floating in the water tnther day," related an acquaint ance. "In it was a note from a lady, saying she was being held for ransom by a band of brigadiers, or whatever you call 'em." "Humph," replied Heck Tarpy oi Straddle Ridge. "Tobe Swoller found a bottle in the road, whur It had prob 'ly struggled loose from some feller, and it was half full of bone-dry lick er that made Tobe holler that he was so to .a he could climb a honey locus!} tree batfewards with a wildcat undei each arm and never get a scratch.**-* Kansas Citr Star,_ ,.- XBy Old -F-Ogy) The Daily Item, I presume; is sit posed" to be - run in the ? in terest" th^se w^o own it^and je. the "ia^fe est:of thdse who-are its patrons This 4>eing-the case;. -all the-gcw)d >fmt:.It. can-, produce\^sfe^^d>:tfe-^iiien: --??^g.. it: To aid iu-the*accomt?!^men.t: ol this end.-I give the following unasked for advice: rA^Wcted to Advertisers. Quite a number of "Want" adver tisements appear in the Item, and' they are doubtless read by many per sons daily. The strange custom largely prevails among these advertisers ot omitting their names at the end of the cards they pay for and publish. Why this is done, has not been ex plained. .It seems to* be peculiar to. Sumter advertisers. They refer one to phone number or to.street number,, without giving'their own names. In many ways, this detracts from the effectiveness of their card. Un less one is of a doubtful character, the addition of his name .will . help him to sell whati he has to sell. To refer us to phone 4006 or to 348 Mulberry street, is not as effective as to end the card by putting the name of the advertiser where ; all can see it. The editor ought to give help to .these timid and retiring souls, who have something to* say to the public, but are so bashful that they ?cannot afford to display their names before an unsympathizing worU. The writing of an advertisement means much also. Some of 'them are so pooriy gotten up that they disquali fy the thing offered for sale. The words "See me," which occur at the end of so many of them ought to be relegated to? the junk pile. What do I want to see you for?. Are you worth looking at? Didn't the last man who got a'look at you stay in a dead faint for two days? And yet you say so blandly and boldly, "See me." Moke your card respectable by giving it personality all its own, and to do this, it must be properly and de cently phrased." May be the editor would write it out for you for twenty five cents additional. ? A Word of Advice to the Movie Peo- , pie. The movie chows are getting to be too long, and some patronage is lost thereby. The length of the show has gradually grown from 20/minutes to and hour and a-half or two hours. This is made worse by the fact that, not knowing when, a picture begins, one finds on entering that he has comei while it is just at its middle. One must sit then throug;h the remaining half and sit again, through the whole picture.'often making his stay, more - than two or two and a-half.hours to length. This fact deters some who would otherwise patronize the show. Very few people who have work to do can give to and a haifi -hours to seeing a picture. This condition is being remedied in many of the . cities. As a rule, the management knows or can find out how long it will require to run off any given reel. Knowing1 this, a card is placed at the theatre door, or, better still, is inserted in the &aily ^paper, , telling when each showing of t^e^jpic^, ture begins, as, for instance: . First picture, 3 p,m: . Sepond picture, 4.30 p. m. ? Third picture, 6 p. 4n., and so on tili the time of the last picture is given. Five . minutes-is-giv en between the pictures, while the old audience moves out and the new audience comes in.' This plan will enable the patrons to, know when to be on hand,-and will save them the inconvenience of having to see parts - of the -same . picture twice. Let us hope our movie men will take thought about this matter. < LUMBER PRICES FALL General Decline Msfde,Effective in Kansas City. Kansas City, June 23.?A general reduction of about 10 per cent, in lum ber prices today was made effective in all retail lumber yards m. Kansas City. The reduction ranges from $5 to $15 a thousand. Chicago,. June 23.-?Lumber .prices generally throughout the country.have declined from 12 to 2.0 per cent, dur ing the past month, according to a large Chicago lumber company which owns its woods and mills. The reduction-from what was term ed the "hysterical'high levels", pre- . vailing earlier in the" season was brought about, it was said, by the larger dealers, who sought to stabilize the market and increase building. MARRIAGE IiICEXSES White: Mr. Perril j M. Morris and Miss Eunice Morris, Sumter. Mr. Marvin Council, Dickson, *Tenn., * and Miss Mae Belle Prerson, TindaL < Mr. D. R. Pearce and Miss Alma Elise King, Sumter. Colored: James Arthur and Estelle Hunter, Sumter. Ryland Vaugh and Florence John son, Sumter. ; -Warter L. Ross and Leila Jackson, Sumter. Charles Ellerbe, Remberg and Hattie ;Grant, Sumter . William: Loyd and Leila Miller, Wedgefield. Jasper Bell, Oswego, and Armeda Tummon, Sumter. ; Richard C. Scriven and Bertha E. Nelson, Sumter. Lower California*0?ttte. In addition tu cattle, many-excellent mules are raised in Lower California Horses are rarely >ased. The faith ? ful burro is the principal: means of transportation. Except for a few thou-' sand in .'La Frontera, there are no do mestic sheep in the country. In the southern part there are numerous flocks of goats. The largest cattle ranch on the peninsula comprises al most 1,000,000 acres.