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MARK TWAIN.
Astral Joker.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright. 1881

We thought that when Mark Twain
died he had quit his tricks. But 1t
seems the old joker is still busy. and
has gone and dictated a book to some
spirit medium, who is threatening to
publish it, whereat the authors daugh-
ter after the flesh brings suit to re-
strain said medium from publishing,
printing, issuing. selling. composing.
Offering, or otherwise either writing
or lending said book as hereinbefore
described.
AS w. S. Gilbert says in Trial by
Jury:
A nice dilemma
We have here
Which calls for all our Wit. for an our WIN.
And at this stage
1t don't appear
That we can settle It. can settle it.
Has a man, having arrived in tho
spirit world, a right to go on COM
peting with those of us who are yet
here below?
Is it fair? And IL not, how are we
going to prevent him?
The law will please put on fts wig
and address itself to the problem.
- Can an injunction be,fssued restraint
ing William Shakespeare from writing.
through Queen Aiice-or th> Hindu YoGk
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the brim did not turn fatty back from
the forehead, but shaded the eyes bit
a conspicuous feature is the elongation
of the sides.
Flowers were struggling to spring up.
All the best milliners were introducing
them and other trimming on hats.
Immense bandeaux had returned
Some hats were mounted on the very
top of a bandeau that looked like a
Skun cap.
The Chinese coolie hat was brought
out with the Chinese tunic, but instead
of being worn low on the head It was
mounted on a high colored satin ban
deau that looked like an Arabs head
dress. It had rose al its apex.
Capes swung from the slim, little.
splintered figures one saw on the street
They also made their appearance at
restaurants and theaters in the even
ing.
1t was hard to get a seat at a theater.
continued this man, because the Ameri-
cans filled every house from the foot
lights to the top chandelier, and every
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

WORLD PEACE; A Written Debate
Between William Howard Taft and
William Jennings Bryan. New York:
George II. Doran Company.
AMERICAN SOLDIER BALLADS. By
F. B. Camp. author of Mexican
Border Ballads" Los Angeles:
George Rice & Sons.
JOURNALISM FOR HIGH SCHOOLS,
Guidebook for Students in Con.
Quoting the School Paper and in
Preparing Themselves for Newspa-
per Work as u Profession. By
Charles Dillon, formerly professor
of Industrial journalism in the
Kansas State Agricultural College
at Manhattan. New York: Lloyd
Adams Noble.
THAT ROOKIE FROM THE 18TH
SQUAD; Cartoons. By Lieut.. P. l..
Crosby. New York: Harper & Bros
GUIDE TO THE LAW AND LEGAL
LITERATURE OF ARGENTINA.
BRAZIL AND CHILE. By Edwin
NJ Borchard, professor of law. Yale
University. formerly law librarian,
Library of Congress. Washington:
Government printing office.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF
EDUCATION FOR THE YEAR END
ED JUNE 30. 1917. 2 volumes. Wash
ington: Government printing Office
THE SUNNY SOUTH AND ITS PEO-
PIE. By C. w. Johnston, author of
along the Pacific by Land and
Sea" Chicago: Rand, McNally &
Co.
THE HARPER CENTENNIAL, 1877
1917; A Few of the Greetings and
Congratulations. New York: Har-
per & Bros.
AMERICA AT WAR, A Handbook of
Patriotic Education References,
Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart for
the committee on patriotism through
education of the National Security
League. With preface by James M.
Beck. New York: George H Doran
Company.
THE RECORD OF A QUAKER con-
SCIENCE. Cyrus PrinEle's diary.
With an introduction by Rufus M.
Jones. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
THE ARMY AND NAVY LIBRARY OF
DETECTIVE FICTYON-MIDNIGHT
AT MEARS House, A Detective
Story. By Harrison Jewell Holt, au-
thor of THE Calendared Isles"
New York: Dodd. Mead & Co.
THE ALL HIGHEST GOES TO JERU.
SALEM, Being the Diary OF the Ger
man EmperOr's Journey to the Holy
Land. Translated from the French
by Frank A1vah Dearborn, New
York: George H. Doran Company. I,
THE GREAT SIOUX TRAIL, A story
q Msentain and Plain. BY Joseph
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~ OSES have come back for hats
TX Brims of hats are lined with col
ored silk Ribbon trims few hats.
but soft silk makes draped crowns-
Pantaloons of jersey weave are Of
fered as a substitute for pettieoats un-
der the narrow skirts. Short jersey
petticoats are slit up the front or back.
1t is not possible to wear the old kind
of petticoat.
Skirts are narrow. but not uncom-
Portable. Hips are not fitted. they are
draped by means of pleats or umbrella
folds.
Effort is being made to have all de-
signs large. Immense roses are en-
brotdered on jersey cloth and stamped
into satin The use of wooden beads is
widespread. Many American Indian eff
fects are used by the French.
New French wraps are luxurious dol
mans.
There is no decrease in Chinese ef-
fects- Tassels, embroidery. brocada and
all Chinese fabrics are employed in the
new French gowns. Black tulle, en-
other kinds of lace founces are among
the first French fashions for dinner
gowns.
for the zouave jacket, which every
woman cannot wear. There is one that
ties around the waist, surplice fashion.
and finishes in a big bow at the back
Sometimes these bows are lined with
fur or made entirely of it.
Plaid gingham collars are worn on
the new serge and crepe frocks. Some
ere tied about the neck. handkerchief
fashion Organdy collars are piped
with Bingham Filet lace is still in high
fashion for high and low collars Young
girls are wearing the round Buster
Brown collar with the black tie. In
Europe this is known as the Eton COL
lar. and goes with the short Elton
jacket. PiQue is used for a vast ma
jority of collars. Separate cuffs will be
worn more than ever.
The new sweater is made of narrow
satin ribbon instead of worsted. The
first one brought to this country from
France contained a thousand yards of
baby ribbon, yet the cost was less
than the average silk sweater. These
sweaters are promoted by the French to
conserve wool. The idea is very clever
and will undoubtedly appeal to hun
dreds of women who can do the work
at home.
Short waistcoats are more exploited
for American wear than the long ones
Some of them are. half blouses. They
are made of jersey, striped silk and
braided cloth. Usually they have a mar
row belt. fastened in front. of suede or
satin. They are immensely effective
under the new short coats that have
a wide facing in front
Sleeves that open at the wrist. in old
italian style. insist upon being fashion
able Sometimes they roll back upon
themselves with soft cuff: again they
are lined with striped Roman silk.
There is rarely an undersleeve The
effect is not usually becoming to the
arm and hand For, dinner and theater
wear the baby sleeve has met with sue
cess. 1t is short, tight and often en-
broidered with metal threads
The voluminous tulle veil that drapes
the hat, is wound about the neck and
drops to the waist is the success of the
season Half the smart women in Paris
wear black tulle in this fashion over
brilliant hats. There are Partisan tur-
bans, Russian turbans and beaver-dam
turbans made of brocade, trimmed with
bands Of beading or formed merely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17

A Altsheler, author of SThe Shadow
of the North" etc. illustrated by
Charles L. Wrenn. New York: D.
Appleton & Co.
GREEN FANCY. BY George Barr Nc
Cutcheon. author of "Graustark,"
etc With frontispiece by c. Allan
Gilbert New York: Dodd, Mead &
Co. Washington: Brentano's.
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from drapery of colored silk, and each
of these has the voluminous tulle veil
that goes over the entire hat and is
draped about the neck and shoulders.
Smart women are also wearing gold
colored tulle wells over black hats. Few
of these volumnous wells cover the
face: many of them reach only to tho
nose. Their purpose is drapery.
There is no diminutfon in the FASH
ion for the outside blouse. They have
sashes instead of girdles, and the full
ness over the hips is taken in at the
side seams. The newest material for
these blouses is Bingham, plaid or plain.
A red-and-white checked Bingham OUT
side blouse has a short sash OF Turkey
Jersey skirt
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sive gesture that took in all Of Parfs<
he added that the women there wer0
dressing better than they had sfnc0
July, 1914; that fashions were most all
Turing; that clothes were brilliant and
costly. and that there seemed to be no.
lack of anything to make feminine ap-'
pareI as seductive as ever.
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Paris Are Better Dressed Today Than Before the War Began

was at these restaurants, he explained,
that one saw the smart women wearing
capes swung from the shoulders at the
back by jewels, and made of chantilly
lace, embroidered tulle or iridescent
gauze. Gold flashed over the surface
of everything.
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How Are Thew Biting.

From the St. Louis be-Democrat.
Hokus-The devil always uses such at
tractive bait. =
Pokus-Oh, don't know. He can catch
some people With q hare hook,
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Stuart, and the bulk Of tho hair was
careiessly coiled into big loop.

Stuart, and the bulk Of tho hair was
careiessly coiled into big loop.
Contrary to the expectations of the
buyers, there were few. If any, smart
gowns that had high collars The
French women are tired of them. The
American women. if they follow the
fronts that loosely tied across the back.
Cheruit had made this garment smart.
and America would probably like it as
much as the French.
Sleeves were short. Women were even
wearing five-inch sleeves in the after
noon. with long suede beige-colored
gloves pulled well over the elbow.
Capelike sleeves were good for the
evening. made of tulle or lace, and
they were caught in at the wrist with
conspicuous cuffs, deep jeweled wrist
lets that called attention to the orien-
talism Of the whole fashion.
At smart restaurant and dinner par
French fashions, will revert to tho low
neck in every garment.
Blouses, gowns of all sorts and coats
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Bally Rags.
From the Passing Show.

From the Passing Show.
Military Policeman-"Here. me lad,
you're not allowed to walk about like
that. You should have your puttees
onY'
Percy Fitz-Percy Gust called up)-
But say. old thing. they've got SO
beastly common"
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to be plentiful still everything was
costly No more SO than here, he said,
but costly in comparison to what
French prices were in other days. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17

Musarats are building high this year
indicating something or other Wei
probably have it.-ChicaEo News
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actress was playing to the American
soldier only. 1t was also difficult to
get a table at a restaurant in the after
noon or evening, and while food seemed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17
Trifles That Count i'm
New Spring Clothes,

IN OSES have come back for hats
TX Brims of hats are lined with col
on ored silk Ribbon trims few hats.
but soft silk makes draped CROWNS.
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FRANCE BEARS THE BURDEN. By
Granville Fortescue, author OF Al
the Front With Three Armies" etc
New York: The Macmillan Company
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Pantaloons of jersey weave are Of
fered as a substitute for petucoats un-
der the narrow skirts. Short jersey
petticoats are slit up the front or back.
1t is not possible to wear the old kind
of petticoat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17

The voluminous tulle veil that drapes
the hat, is wound about the neck and
drops to the waist is the success of the
season Half the smart women in Paris
wear black tulle in this fashion over
brilliant hats. There are Partisan tur-
bans, Russian turbans and beaver-dam
turbans made of brocade. trimmed with
bands of beading or formed merely
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Skirts are narrow. but not uncom-
Portable. Hips are not fitted. they are
draped by means of pleats or umbrella
folds.
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

The following list, arranged by SUBJ
jects. includes some of the latest addi-
tons to the Public Library.
The lists which appear in this column
each Sunday are reprinted, at the end
of the month. in the library's monthly
bulletin. Copies of this may be obtained
free at the library, or will be sent by
mail for Is cents year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
SERVICE OF PRAISE
AND THANKS SUNDAY

The Session of the Abbeville Pres
byterian Church at its meeting on
Wednesday, Nov. IS, 1913, unani-
mously passed the following resolu,
ton:
That the churches of all denomi-
nations of the town and county be
invited to unite in a service Of
praise and thanks for victory and
peace at the Presbyterian church.
Sunday night, Nov. 18th, at 7:3O
o'clock.
The Session is very desirous of
'nolding such a meeting, and believe
that as far as possible it should be a
meeting representative of the entire
county. 1t will be full moon on Sun
day night, and with the pleasant
weather we are having now, we
feel sure that the members of many
of the country churches will be able
to join in such a meeting. We hope
% make it a meeting of praise and
thanks in which a great manw will
take part.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
WAR CASUALTIES
NOT OVER 100000
Estimates by Officials
for American Expedi-
tionary Forces.
THOSE MISSING INCLUDED
Deaths From Wounds Probably Will
Not Be Reported For Some
Time.

Washington, Nov. .13.-Officials
here estimate that the total casual.
ties of the American expeditionary
forces in the war will not exceed
$1,000, including the men killed in
action, wounded, died of wounds,
disease and accidents and the miss.
ing who never will be accounted for.
Some of those who have been miss.
ing probably will be accounted for
when the prisoners are returned
from Germany.
It was said today that it will be
probably several months before the
record of casualties can be COM
pleted. 1t is regarded as almost GER
tain that many of the casualties in
the recent heavy fighting by the
First and Second American armies
have not yet been reported. Lists
also must be compiled of unreported
American casualties in British and
French hospitals, especially from
among the United States forces bri-
gaded with Allied units. Deaths
from wounds probably will be re-
ported for some time, while lists of
slightly wounded being sent by cou-
rier may be delayed.
The lists for several days have
consisted of approximately 1000
names daily. Secretary Baker has
indicated that considerable number
of reported casualties remain to- be
given out, but that these will be re-
leased as rapidly as newspapers can
handle them.
An unofficial tabulation of publish
ed casualty lists, including those of
Novembre IL, shows a grand total
of 1880 men. Careful estimates
made today,based on knowledge of
the battle conditions faced by the
First and Second armies in the days
Immediately preceding cessation OF
hostilities and on the average lists
heretofore, lead officers to believe
shat all unpublished and unreported
casualties will not exceed 10000.
Estimates based on revised rec
ords fix the total marine casualties
u France at less than 5000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
THE WILKINSON BOYS.

Mrs. ]. M. Wilkinson has had news
of all her boys in the last two or
three mails and they all are in fine
spirits, they have escaped being
wounded and are happy and we'll.
Alvin, who is with the 81st Medi-
cal detachment, writes that he has
heen paid off in French money and
he knows that from the amount he
-: either a Rockefeller or a Wander
bilt. He says he is we'll equipped
for the North Pole as he has rubber
boots, sweaters and fur lined coats.
He says he will soon be home with
enough stories to entertain the fam
:ly for three years.
Julian, who is in Headquarters Co.
312th, in France, says he has gain
ID so much flesh that it will take a
special boat to bring him home. He
says he is well and happy though he
would give a whole farm just to see
John Perrin.
Claude Wilkinson writes that W.
D. was taken sick one day of the big
battle from the effects of gas and
was carried to the rear and is now in
hospital. He says that Paul Sui
ivan is improving rapidly.
These boys write such cheerful,
entertaining letters that it is a pleas
ire to hear from them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
VISITING THE OLD HOME.

Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Marshall are
here from St. Louis on a visit to
the old home. Mr.. Mrashall is the
Oldest son of the late DR.. Marshall
and the older inhabitants among our
people remember him we'll and are
glad to see him. This is the first
visit Mrs. Marshall has made US in
forty-three years and save for the
addition of electric lights and other
modern improvements she finds the
old home much the same. The old
trees, the old shrubs and old friends
are still here to give them a well
come.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
EXAMINATIONS TO PROCEED

The Local Board for Abbeville has
received the following telegram:
Local Board, .Abbeville, S. C.
Provost Marshal General directs
that the examination of all Regis
:rants placed in Class one between
ages of nineteen and thirty-six in
elusive, and of eighteen years pro.
ceed with the utmost expedition.
Directs that registrants, who on
September 12, 1918, have obtained
heir thirty-seventh birthday and
who have received questionnaires
need not fill cut such qustionnaires,
but they are to Immediately return
such questionnaires to their Local
Boards.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
THE sMATHERs MOTOR CAR CO.

The Smathers Motor Car Company
has opened a sales-room in the Press
and Banner Block, next door to the
Office of The Press and Banner.
This concern handles the Auburn
car as well as the Maxwell. 1t has
the news models of the Auburn in
its sales-room and the manager is
anxious to show them to prospective
customers. Mr.. Smathers has been
in the automobile business for a
ong time and knows all about good
cars. He will be glad to demon
strate to you the merits of the cars
which he is handling. Read the ad-
vertisement in this issue.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
FOOD FAMINE MAY
COME TO EUROPE NOW
Hoover Says Famine Breeds An
archy and Own Interests If
Not Humanity, Demands Our
Action.

Washington Warning agains
famine and anarchy in Europe, Her
bert Hoover Tuesday declared tha
the American people must conserve
food along new lines that Europe
may be fed. 49,
famine, he said "is the mother
of anarchy. If we value our owr
safety and the social organization
Of the world, if we value the pre-
servation Of civilization itself W.
cannot sit idly by and see the growth
Of this cancer in the worlds vita
side.
"There are 40,OO0,00o people il
north Russia to whom little foot
can be gotten to this winter. I ex
pect the most dreadful results o1
starvation beyond all human powe,
to allay."
His Appeal.
Hoover's discussion on the fooG
situation in Europe was made to 8
gathering of state food administra.
ors. He appealed for the necessity
of continuance of organized food
conservation in the United States
even though the armistice is signed
Food Must Come.
"From the inability of governments
to secure food for their people," he
said, "grows revolution and chaos
From an ability to supply their peo.
e grows stability of government
md the defeat of anarchy. Did we
put it on no higher plane than ou1
interests in the protection of our
institutions we must bestir ourselves
in solution of this problem.
"There are millions of people now
liberated from the German yoke fol
whose interests we have fought and
bled for the last 18 months. It is not
up to US to neglect any measures
which enable them to return tc
health, self support and their ma
tional life! This is the broad outlook
of some kind of food administration
Turing the next twelve months. Al
% what the detailed structure of oul
organization may be can be develop
ID from time to time to suit neces
sity. 1t will be months until forma
,aace. In the meantime the organi
zation must remain intact if we are
70 serve the high purposes I have
outlined and after that we car
decide our courses upon the basis o1
national unity"
Hoover told the state edministra
tors that "a new world situation ir
food' requires a change in domestic
cod policies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
THE NEWS ON NORTH MAIN.

In our search for news Thursday
a lady friend on North Main street
told us that the sick was all improv-
ing. Mrs. Haigler, who has spent a
weary time in the hospital, is we'll
enough to be at her machine again.
Mrs. Lila Mabry is out visiting
her friends, and Mrs. Jordan Ramey
and her young baby are both recov-
ering from struggle with the flu.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
MRS. GAMBRELL BETTER.

The friends of Mrs. C. G. Gam
brell are glad to know that she is
much better after her recent severe
illness and hopes soon to be up again.
DR.. Gambrell will return to his work
when his ten days furlough is up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-11-15
TO DRAW PROGRAM
FOR PEACE TIMES
President Considering.
Construction Com
mission.
WOULD BE ADVISORY BODY
Commercial, Industrial, Labor, Agri'
cultural and Social Interests to
Be Represented.

Washington, Nov. 13.-President
Wilson has under consideration the
appointment of a reconstruction
commission to develop a comprehen-
sive program for the nations con-
version from a war to a peace basis.
The commission would be advisory
rather than executive in functions
and the plans developed and coordi-
mated by it would be carried out by
existing government departments
and agencies.
GAS now considered, the commits
sion would be representative of
commercial, industrial, labor, agri-
cultural and social interests; its
membership would be small and it
would deal with all phases Of the
great problem of easing the country
rom war to peace.
Prefers Specialists.
The President is understood to be
distinctly opposed to the suggested
plan of having a congressional COM
mittee prepare reconstruction pro-
gram. He is said to prefer men who
have made special studies of eco
nomic and social problems. The
President is said now to be consider
ing what emergency legislation may
be necessary before the government
can proceed Systematically to turn
I'll resources of the country to peace
time production.
How to shut off further war pro-
duction without closing plants, throw
ing men out of work and causing
financial strain, is the most immedi-
ate reconstruction problem facing
he government. Hundreds of tele-
grams Of inquiry reaching govern
ment departments today disclosed
..nxiety of business men over this
question.
No Wholesale Cost.
Government authorities having
charge of the placing of war con-
tracts are considering a plan for di-
ting raw materials from war in
:,uztries where they can be used at
once for reconstruction. War orders
will not be cancelled in wholesale
;'cy until such a plan is deveoped
i. is believed.
IN this connection the Chamber of
Commerce of TIE United States to-
day made public letter to Presi-
dent Wilson citing evidence Of anx-
icty among business men over the
governments future course, suggest
ing a development of uniform poll
cies for all departments.