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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31
had prevented their consumma-

tion.
Suddenly the door opened once more
10 admit the nan who was uppermost
In their thoughts. Behind him APP
peared two servants carrying baskets
niied with choice eatables which they
deposited upon the table and at once
withdrew.
The young man walked up to the
astonished and s~peechless laborer,
saying Ia tremulous tones
MY friend, tonight you have saved
my life. Let me offer you and YOURS
Q small token of my gratude. DO me
tho honor to accept what I brought
you, also this sum of money. And
now, cheer up, for you will have no
more worries IL 1 can help it.n
All shed tears of Joy. Again and
again they showered blessings aud ex-
pressions of their overwhelming graft,
tude upon their noble benefactor /; but
when Mary approached him to kiss
his hand for saving the mother, whose
life was fast ebbing away from sheer
want and ailment, he drew back,
saying
MY friendi 1 have more to tell
you. My name is John Graham, aud,
MS | have already informed you, L have
Inherited great wealth. But l have
no peaceful home, my life Is not-a reg
ulated one. When ~ hour ago i left
you l went To the next police station,
to lind out all L could about YOU, also
TO your former employer, and 20 the
clergyman of this district. l have
heard nothing but good spoken OF YOU,
especially so and in the highest de.
gree, OF your daughter Mary, for
whom lshould like to care exclusively,
ifyou will let me-"
These words wero followed by
silence, unbroken but for the sobbiug
OF Marys mother, who finally remark
ed with suppressed tears choking hes
o~tterance, that Mary was her sole do
she alone cared for the little ones
when their father was away at his
work, and she, the mother, sick In
her bed, thas Mary had never worked
away from home, and was hardly in q
6t condition To Do employed elsewhere.
"EmptoymentE A positionY My
dear madam, you have altogether mis-
construed my meaning, Nothing Ii
further removed from my thoughts
than a desire to see your daughter work
for others. l want her for my own
for my wife, l could not pay the
debt Of gratitu le which l owe the
Iamlly OF the man who preserved my
life appropriately than to hence
forth keep want and distress from
their home. And l ask In return the
permission that would give me the
right to do so by making your beauti
full daughter my wife, providing she
shares my love and is willing to max,
me the happiest of men
Of course, there was no objection
and a few weeks later the marriag,
took place. Two men, tired of life
were fated to become the p%reservers O
two families who heneeforth led
happy and useful existence.
The young couple founded ar asylum
for poor laborers. II you, fair reader
ever SO to London, and while "doing'
the town should have a chance to visi
this institute, over the main ,entranc,
to which Is the motto "Neyer Despair,
you will surely have no difficulty t,
recognize the grayhaired superinten
dent as one of the heroes of this tru,
tale, the old laborer, and by his sid,
his now fully recuperated wife, trying
to do all the good in their power Il
those in need.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

OF Fort Wayne, Ind, writes on Nov. %. 1894:
II was afflicted for forty years Will heart
trouble and suffered untold agony. had
weak. hungry spells, and my heart would
palpitatc SO hard, the pain would be so acute
and torturing, that / became so weak and
nervous l could not sleep. l was treated by
several physicians without relief and gave
up ever being well again. About two years
ago i commenccd using DR.. Miles Remedies.
Ono bottle Of tho Heart Cure stopped all
beart troubles and tho Restorative Ncrvine
did the r~est,and now / sleep soundly and at
end to my household and social duties with
out any trouble.
Sold by druggists. Book sent free. Address
DR.. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart. Ind.
DR.. Niles Remedies Restore Health.
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"P," p. IN. "a" q. m.

Trains 10 md le carry elegant Pufn,ao
nati. w" Ninoan-
Trains leave Spartapburg, A. s. @. diviAoc.
ISestlbnle Ldmited) gouthbound lD a r.
II p nj IL ~ g. m. Westibule I~mited.S
porthbound $50 a. M, 2:I6 D. m. and X ~ rn'onIe
Yesa6ulcd hmitedl; southbound, 10 a. r.
p. m, E2"B p. m. Vestibnled LlmitedH 49,
Pullman Service.
Pullman palace sleeping carr on Trains es..,
", " and ~, on A. and G.. division. o""nu
W. II. GREEN, j M CITIp
Con. Superintendent, Trntb. ,r.,.
Washington, ID. c.. WeshJnatoS
"; iolth ;: II, uARDWICK, "
- WashingtQn, D; Q. Atiantas Ga
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

"A blu has passed the Ohio Legis-
iature by which opera house managers
are Liable to $40 fine for permitting q
patron to have his view III the star o
eestrueted by the high hat or head
year OF any other patron.
Times are changing to such AN ,x-
tent that it will oaly no u lew years UNI
IL parents will be sent ~ bed for talk
ing back.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

A great many people are influence by
what others do, and that is one ofthe
reasons why 30 many take Simmons
Liver Regulator. II was suffering
greatly from Chills and Fever and the
more quinine l took the worse l felt.
| was told OF Simmons Liver Regulator
by a friend in Arkansas, and l didn't
need to take much of it before I was
entirely relieved."-Byron Brady,
Tallahassee. Fla.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

Charleston is arranging to have a
royal occasion during the third week
In April, the most delightful season of
the year to visit the grand old City by
the Sea. 1t is t 1t week of the Floral
Fair and Sc~hutzentest, and tho Con-
federate Veterans of the State win
have a big reunion there. The South
Carolina editors will also hold their
meeting there the same week.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

The Shakers have made q discovery
which is destined to accomplish much
good. Realizing that three. fourths of
all u sutferings arise from stomach
toubles, that the country il literally
flied with people who cannot eat and
digest food, without subsequently suf-
fering pain and distress, and that
many are starving, wasting to mere
skeletons, because their food does them
no good, they have devoted much study
and thought to the subject, add the re-
suit 70 this discovery, OF their Diges.
tive Cordial.
A little beck can be obtained from
druggist that will point out tho way OF
relief at once. An investigation will
cost nothing and will result in much
good.
Children all hate to tAke Castor Oil.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

Leading ~siiversmiths, like Tiffany
and others, have been indicted for
stamping silver articles ''sterling" that
have not the requisite p~roportion OF
pure ailver.
What is that which Is often brought
TO the table, always cut, and never
eatenY-A pack Of cards.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

Close connections at Greenwood for ALI
points on $. A. J.. and C. &C. Railway, and
~ ~Spartanburg with Southern Railway.
For infol nation relative to tickets, rates.
schedules, ETC., address
W.J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agent.
Augusta, Ga.
~,s. Cureton, Agent, G.. II. Speigh.s, Gen
Agent, Greenville. S. G.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31
Heart Disease Cured
BY DR.. Miles, Heart Cure.

Painting. Weak or Hungry Spells, Irregu-
lar or Intermittent Pulse. Flattcrlng or Pal
pitation, Choking Sensation, Shortness of
Breath, Swelling OF Feet and Ankles, are
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

BORT ROYAL y WESTERN GAR
DINA Railway. Augusta and
hshevilie Short Line" ]. b. Ciev land,
Receiver. Schedule In effect Feb 18th,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

Children all hate to take Castor Oil,
but not Laxol, which is palatable.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-31

viii They Como into the Field with a
Straight Ticket f-The Gospel Temperance
Union Being Organized in this State.
Columbia Repiater
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-02

from the furniture department, put
some fine toilet articles on it, with per
haps a vase filled with freshly cut roses,
and add few other kniekknaeks. Then
we Will bring down some of those forms
with wax heads, dress them up appprO-
priately, and we will have q window
worth looking at
''We have about % big windows to
dress here, and the trim ought not to
last much longer than a week, so you
see 1t keeps Us busy. Look at the size of
this window too. It is IS feet square.
That gives US plenty of room for fine
effects, but it also means lots of work.
Now, for the holidays, I am going to
take three Of these adjoining front win
dows and trim them up just as if they
were rooms in a fiat and were furnish
ing them for actual living purposes. In
one viii be a complete parlor set, an
other viii be arranged as a dining room,
and then there Will be a kitchen. There
will be several wax figures in the rooms,
toO-a mistress of the house, a maid
and a cook in the kitchen. 1t viii take
a week or more to put it in this trim,
but I think 1t will attract lots of atten-
ton"
But not all large stores, even in the big
cities, make a feature OF their window
displays Some of the more conserve
tive and solid old concerns scorn such
tactics The stores which depend upon
the transient buyer ard have not reg
ular line of patrons can afford to let no
chance of attracting customers slip by.
One New York firm spends annually
$40, 600 for one dressing Of their win
dows. They have been doing this for
the last III years and evidently think it
pays Their holiday display usually
takes the form of a moving pageant of
historical figures. They do not attempt
to get this up themselves, but give the
contract to a concern which deals in
wax figures and mechanical novelties.
There are several hundred profession
al window dressers at work in the vari-
Gus large cities of the country. They are
we'll paid for their work as rule, for
their salaries range from $50 to SIS q
week. A movement has been started IN
Chicago toward forming a national or
ganization with the object of protecting
its mambers and furnishing a central
source from which country merchants
may obtain reliable artists for the holt
days and other special occasions
CYRUS SYLVESTER.
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out Of all kinds Of kitchen ware, and we
had a crowd around that window every
day for two weeks.
Then he showed me his workshop and
explained how be went about his work.
In great bins running clear up to the
ceiling were piled away scores Of dress
forms, corded up like SO many mummies.
Some were made of wood and others, Of
more modern manufacture, were con-
structed of wires. More carefully boxed
in another partition were dozens of wax
heads, wax busts and whole figures Of
which the heads, arms and busts were
of wax.
Those figures. - he said. represent
thousands of dollars, for they are ex-
pensive. We have them made for us by
a firm which makes a speciality Of this
business, and some of them cost several
hundred dollars each. Here is a figure,
for instance, which was made to show
of a ball gown. That cost $3.50. We
make use Of it only once or twice
year, but it is something which we have
to have.
In other parts of the rooms were stor-
ed Old mechanical devices, relics Of for
mer displays, and a large assortment
of queer shaped forms used for draping
cloth and elUaks upon. A complete car
Tanter shop and a we'll equipped ma
ghinist S shop, with forces Of half q dOz-
en- men each, are also at the disposal OF
the window dressers. Several electric
ians are also employed, and upon these
the window dressers frequently call.
GONE down to the first floor, D." said
the chief, and you can see how we do
our work -
One of the big front show windows
was screened off from the public gaze
by curtains of white cotton, which did
not darken the interior as the heavy
shades would, and behind this two men
were busily at work Upon the back
wall of the window they were lacking
cheap canton flannel of a drab color
with a backing of floor paper, such as is
used to put under carpets.
Tacks with big bronze heads were
used, and they were put in at regular
intervals, so that the wall appeared to
be upholstered III quilted fashion. At
the top heavy curtain cords We're draped,
and at a distance of a few feet the effect
was rich and luxurious. although the
materials We're of the cheapest. men
toned this fact to the head window
dresser, and he replied:
Yes; that's one of the tricks of the
trade. We pay especial attention to
backgrounds. for they lend much to the
appearance of the goods. Now, in this
window we are going to show some very
handsome jackets and capes. OF course
a cheesecIoth background would not be
appropriate, and so we get up this one.
When that wall is finished, we will
spread a big Persian rug down on the
floor, get a handsome dressing table
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-02
coMPREssED AIR MOTOR CAR.

than the danger of having a house fall
on you when you walk down Broadway.
They claim more power than the cleo
trio cars, and hence the ability to move
at greater speed On an up grade. And
they say they can run the air motor cars
at 1 to cents per car a mile less than
the electric cars-that is, One-sixteenth
to three sixteenths less. The electric
cars are operated at about is cents per
car a mile The cable cars in New Ork
and Chicago are operated at about s
cents per car mile.
The HOadly motor has been run ex-
perimentaly On the LenOx avenue line
in this city at intervals for some time,
and it is said the Metropolitan Traction
company, which owns this line, ia
thinking seriously Of adopting the mo-
tor and equipping several small routes
with it Immediately, but on this ques-
ton there IS said to be a split IN the
board Of directors. The Hardie motor
has been in regular service on the One
Hundred and Twenty fifth street line
since July. 1t has run commercially,
two Of the motor cars making the 4 u
mile round trips in place of the regular
cars of the line. There have been break
downs, but none, Mr.. Pettee says, that
show any weakness in the plan Of the
motor. Weaknesses in construction are
not hard to correct.
The Hardie motor uses air compressed
to one-hundred- and thirty sixth of its
natural bulk. Into each cylinder, with
g capacity for 81 cubic feet Of free air,
are compressed 6, $50 cubic feet Of air,
giving an initial pressure Of 1900
pounds to the square inch. This air is
first heated at the power house to drive
out the moisture, and under ordinary
conditions 1 pound Of moisture is ez-
tracted from every ], coo feet of air The
air IS then cooled and impressed, and
under pressure it's temperature runs
down below zero. It would be possible
to run the motor with the cold air be-
cause, the moisture having been taken
from it, there would be no danger Of
the motor freezing up. But it works
twice as efficiently when warm. So the
motor is provided with a hot water
tank, which heats the compressed air.
In the HCadly motor the air is heated
by a lamp or coke furnace.
lit takes from one to two minutes TO
fill the tank on the car with pressed
air, and this can be done on the street
with q flexible hose. Then the car is
ready for a nip of IS to II miles, de-
pending on the grades to be mounted,
before recharging. The controlling
power is in a little box on the platform,
like the upright box on the platform of
the trolley car.
IF all that is claimed for the air mo
tor is true, it should superEede the cleo
trlc motor in many places. If the eff
cIenoy Of the two is even the same and
the cost of operating no greater, the iui-
tial cost of eQuipping road would de-
termine the competition in favor of the
compressed air.
tt is q battle Of the traction giants,
and, whichever wins, the public seems
likely TO benefit IN more rapid transit.
GRANT HAMILTON.
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NORTH TOPEKA.

All news items for the State Journal
should be left with the Kimban Print
ing company. S35 Kansas avenue
Mrs Kline of Rossville is visiting in
town.
sen Camel coal. Try a ton. z. P.
Ewarr-
Gail on E. P Ewart for coal. 1912 N.
kan avenue
Parkhurst & Davis are dfsposing of
the COllisi stock of groceries.
Harry Lukens walks with a crutch
as the result of a football game
Mrs. Jacob DeCon of Larned Will ar
rive today to visit Mrs. F. NJ. Tuttle.
The Rev. n S Thomas of Leaven-
worth was a North side visitor yester-
day
Freda Belts. the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Belts, is sick with
scarlet fever
Miss White of Lawrence has accept
ed the position of cashier with the firm
of S Barnum & Co
Rev. Alfred Brown of Hutchinson is
visiting in town Mr. Brown was form
erly rector of the Good Shepherd church
here.
The remains of Mrs. Sawyer. who
died of CONSUMPTION. Monday, were ia
ken to Brookheld last evening for in
terment.
The Ladies guild of the Church of
the Good Shepherd will meet tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 with Mrs Woodman,
corner Park and Harrison streets.
Christmas .Photos.-Cut this out and
present at Gallery and you will be en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-02
TWO TRACTION GIANTS.
They Are Battling over Electricity and
Compressed Air.

Compressed Air.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-Some time in
December a new motive power viii be
put experimentaIly on the Sixth Ave
rue Elevated road. Ever since she New
York legislature passed "a law requiring
the Manhattan ''L' to light its cars de-
Gently within a certain time there has
been a scramble by the motor people. It
was the general belief that the ssL'' PEG
pie would put IN electric motors of
some kind, because with the electric
power would 60 the electric Light, and
the owners of other motors hurried their
preparations for demonstrating that
they had something superior to cleo
tricity, because they knew if the 'tL''
people once put IN an electric plant it
would 60 in to stay
The new motor, which will have a
test pulling train of five cars on the
Sixth avenue line, is a compressed air
motor made by the American Air Pow
er company of New Y ork, which owns
one of the two motors which are now
struggling for Introduction on the streets
of New York city. One of these motors
is the Hoadly. Tt is owned by a compa-
owners Of the Metropolitan Traction or
Broadway line system. The other-the
one which is to be tried ON the s'L"-
is the Hardie motor. The motor for the
Il" trial is all ready. The company is
waiting the completion of a compressed
air plant in Greenwich street before
putting it into service.
Both the Hardie and the HOadly mo-
tors are now in use in New York city.
and the competition between them is
keen. The HoadIy has the advantage Of
being owned by the street railroad PEG
pie; the Hardie is backed by some Of
the best known capitalists in New York.
Compressed air is not new motive
power. lit has been in use ia Paris for a
long time successfully. The attempt to
introduce it in America has been delay
ed by the powerful opposition of the
electric companies. These companies
there are only two of them now. and
these two have an understanding which
kills cOmpetitiOn=have enormous inter
ests in traction companies all over the
country and ia the motive power which
these companies use. Hence they have
done what they could to hamper other
motor companies, and when an expert
ment with two of the Paris motors wa
made at Westfeld. Mass, they bought
up the Westfield Traction company and
took the air motors out of service.
They claim for the air motor system
that it is safer than any other system,
the danger being no more, they say,
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lows for holiday dress which shall be
more splendid and elaborate than that
of their rivals. The proprietor of the
emporium in small city usually
picks cut the clerk who seems to have
the most artistic taste for this sort of
work and sets him at it. The result is
somewhat crude, but perhaps it answers
the purpose.
But how different is the appearance
of the show windows of the big city
stores. There are displayed not only
novelties such as you would expect to
find in big establishments, but they are
arranged in such a way as to delight
and please the eye. The most inexperi-
enced wayfarer can tell at a glance that
this IS the work Of no novice, and it
does not require much perception to IN
derstand that the hands and eyes of an
artist planned that deft arrangement of
stufs, those rich com binations of shades.
In fact, window dressing has come to
be an art or a profession, just which
you choose to call it, for natural talents
Of an uncommon order are required of
an expert window dresser. So the trim
ming OF the great show windows, upon
which the big city stores depend SO much
for trade getting, is not left to any clerk
who may choose to experiment in the
work, but is put in charge of competent
and experienced nen-men who do this
work and nothing else, and who have
to be paid good prices for doing it.
The professional window dresser does
not select in haphazard fashion a lot of
goods from stock and pile them indis-
criminately into the window. He does
not begin his work until he has a scheme
or plan for that particular window all
worked out in his mind. Neither does
he depend upon his own skill with tools.
but he has at his disposal the services
of two or three carpenters who execute
his ideas under his personal direction.
He has them make any sort Of skeleton
or framework which he may need, and
after the shavings and sawdust are
swept out he begins that part Of the
work which he has to do personally.
I spent an hour or two the other day
with the window dressers of one of the
biggest department stores in the world.
Window dressers?' said a lordly
hoorw alker near the main entrance. II
think you'll find them somewhere on
the fifth floor. -
After walking through a half mile,
more or less, Of narrow aisles, bounded
by bins of merchandise of all descrip-
lions, which was being held until such
time as it would be wanted in stock,
the place on the fifth floor was reached.
Partitioned off from the rest of the
floor was a big square room, in which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-02
IN THE SOCIETY WORLD.
General Notes of Society and
Personal Items.
Recent Social Events in Topeka
and Vicinity.
Items of Interest About Topeka Peo-
pie and Visitors in Town.

Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hood of En-
poria have issued invitations for the
marriage Of their daughter Alice, to
Mr.. Theodore Dudley Hammatt on
Wednesday morning, December is. at
IL o'clock. at their home, e11 State
street. At home cards enclosed read
after January l. at 1901 Taylor street.
Topeka. Kansas.
The bride viii be attended by her
niece, Miss Lucille Newman, as the
maid Of honor. The bridesmaids Will
be Miss Leila Little and Miss Hattie
Laizin of Emporia and Miss Margaret
Dudley of Topeka
1fr- Hammatt's best man viii be Mr.
Ned Osborn of this city A number of
Topeka people win attend the we'd
ding.
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The WINDOW DRESSER
How He Goes to Work to Make
a Show For Shoppers.
$4,000 FOR A HOLIDAY DISPLAY.

Men Who Trim windows For the Big De-
partment stores Must Be Artists In the
Use Of Wooden Forms and Wax Figures.
Tricks of the Trade.
From now until after Christmas we
are to become a nation Of window gaz-
ers. Every storekeeper in the land real
ICES this fact and lays his plans accord
ingly. He is willing to indulge our taste
for this pastime to its utmost limit, for
he knows that his kindness will help
him to entrap the unwary dollar of ths
gazer.
So just about this time Of year the
storekeepers begin to arrange their win