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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-09-03

The thing we ought to do is TO
take the poll-taX off the ballot, leav-
ing 1T for other purposes if necessary,
and use the ample registration laws
to keep unqualified nergoes from get
ting on the REGISTRATION books. The
registration law of the state, fixed in
the constitute on, says that the appli-
cant for registration must make out
with his own hand, in the presence
OF the registrars, his application to
be registered rs a voter, and must
answer on oath, duly recorded, any
question affecting his qualification as
voter which the regi strars may ask
him. Norfolk Landmark.
ID MT waste your money buying plast-
ers when YOU can get a bottle OF
Chamberlain liniment for twenty. five
cents. A piece of flannel dgnpened
with THE liniment Is superior to any
plaster for lame back, pains in side
and chest, and much cheaper. Sold
by all dealers.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-09-03

We should love our neigh bors as
we love ourselves. quoted the Wise
Guy Which would transfc RIM tie
world into mutual admiration
society" added the Simple Mug.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-09-03

Love nj first sight is IA case of GET
uhg stuck on the spur of the moment
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-09-03

$685..
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-10-06
MILLINERY OPENING THURSDAY.
Excellent Displays in All City stores
At Rra0kS l. Jones.

Last Thursday was one of the bust
est, sprightliest, gayest days of the
whole years calendar on the streets
and in the stores of Laurens 1t was
strictly ladies day, the men being
utterly in the background-until the
first of the month. Hats galore All
kinds of hats; from the smallest tur-
ban effects to the great roof garden"
concoctions, and all the way between.
One can scarcely say the hats are
pretty; such extremes are rarely ever
pretty; but they are stylish and that
is sufficient.
Let it be said that the LaurenS mil
liners are right in line. and the Sc
lections of hats at all the stores are
as good or better than may be seen
anywhere.
AT the Davis-Roper Co, Miss Ger
trude Halle, with Misses Bessie Crews
and Mamie Dorroh as assistants.
showed some beautiful designs. many
OF which attracted and pleased. Here
might have been seen the great $50
hat, beauty too. OF course Tie
enormous cost was dWe 10 the tact that
il had three large diamonds on IT.;
but the hat itself is worth So. Miss
l-orena Fringcr is the millnc. at sim
mons 4 Sons and well did She main
tain the reputation a, lais concern.
Som" OF the pvetticst hats seen wee
at SimmOnS' Miss I'riDCp;'S uu,i. =
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-10-06
LAURENS FARMERS
HOLD ANNUAL RALLY
Three Excellent Addresses
Are Delivered.
GOOD CROWD ATTENDS
Congressman A. F. Lever, Prof. J. n.
Harper and Editor G. F. Hunni-
cutt Instruct Farmers.

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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-10-06
BATTLE OF BALLOTS
AS WAGED LAST WEEK
Miss Hunter and Miss Smith Contest.
ing H0tly for Second Place. Mr..
Roland MOSeIcy Leads.

There are no changes in position
among the candidates in The Adyer-
tiser's Great Popularity Contest this
week, the only noticeable feature Of
which now is the close race for second
place between Miss T. Craig Hunter
OF Ora and Miss Mary Smith of Water
loo. AS will be remembered, Miss
Smith climbed into third place last
w"ek, and this week she is but $40
votes behind Miss Hunter Roland
Moseley still leads with a good mar
gin. Miss Mary Sullivan also made
good gain.
Interest in the contest keeps in
tense. Next week promises to be
one Of the liveliest yet The prizes
that are to be given away have Great
ed such competition as was never be-
fore known here. Has everybody
seen the beautiful piano? If not. step
up in The Advertiser office and take
look: il will he worth your trouble.
This piano was ordered for The Ad-
vertiser by Mr.. l.. A. McCord the
photographer and the piano and or
gan man. And that buggy down at
II. Douglass Gray 4 Co.'S is lust the
thing; Just one glance at it will make
anybody want il. over at Fleming
Bros there is an assortment OF
watches in the show window. from
which the candidate who stands third
at the close OF the contest. may choose
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

II George w. Holdrege should re-
tire from the management Of the B. 4
NJ, which he has so long eficiently
directed, It will mark the closing Of
an epoch most notable in Nebraska
history. Whatever else may be said Of
Mr. Holdrege, he has proven most en-
cient in the direction of the great or
ganization Of which he is the active
and responsible head. His public ut
terance, several years ago that he was
managing his road for the stockhold-
ers, may have been the central
thought Of his policy, but Nebraska
is gridironed with tracks that we're
built under his control for the pur-
pose Of giving outlet to the people Of
the state Mr.. Holdrege, II he does
go, will be best remembered for the
railroad work he has done in Me-
braska.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
Barbaritv of Red Tame.

To what unjust uses governmental
red tape may be put is we'll illustrated
in the case of Paul Ruggiero, now de-
tanned by the commissioner of immi-
grafton at Ellis Island. Ruggiero came
to this country at the age OF II. For
six years he has been married, and his
wife and children have their home in
New York. A few months ago he
caught severe cold, and his physician
recommended sea voyage. He sailed
to Italy, stayed in that country one
week, and returned here, where an
order for his deportation was promptly
issued because 1t was found that he
had developed tuberculosis. Had he
taken out naturalization papers in this
country, he would have been permitted
to land without question.
Instincts OF humanity dictate that he
ought to be. permitted to proceed with
out delay to his home in New York,
both for his own sake and for that Of
his family, but the rule of the red tape
system is inexorable, and the commits
sioner held that he had no alternative
but to follow the strict Interpretation
of the immigration code. Fortunately,
the victim of the laws injustice has
active friends, and these have made an
appeal to Washington, with what ef-
feet remains to be seen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
The Street Lighting Contract.

Several points have turned up within
the last few days which reflect no
great amount OF credit on the city
council. 1t had been known for
months that the contract between the
city and the electric lighting company
for street lights would expire very
soon. 1t had also been known that
there is a controversy between the city
and the electric lighting company as
to the rights Of the latter on the
streets and other public property. It
had been known, too that some mod
ihcations in the street lighting system
are very essential in order that the
service may be improved to something
like a modern standard.
With all this knowledge at hand
the city finds itself at the expiration
Of the lighting company's contract con-
fronted with a proposition from the
lighting company which embodies
nothing in the way OF improvement
in service. This contract has been re-
jected on the advice of the city at
torney, and the matter has been re-
ferred again to the council committee
without definite instructions. Whether
this committee has a comprehensive
plan for improvement in street light
ing service, or whether it has no plan
at all, 1t should make early report TO
the council in order that the rights Of
the citizens will be fully protected.
The desirability of renewing the
contract or entering into a new con-
tract covering a long period of years,
while the suit to test the rights Of the
company is pending in the courts, may
we'll be questioned. 1t would not be
unwise II the council we're to limit
the time of the contracts duration to
the life OF the council, at least. 1t
might even be we'll to let the contract
for no longer than a year, especially
in view of the fact that the suggested
changes in the street lighting system
can hardly now be installed within a
year. This course will give the coun-
ell time to take measures for securing
the improvements needed. and would
obviate the necessity Of hasty action
another time,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
Benefit Of State Supervision.

Lack OF any form OF governmental
inspection seems to have been respon-
sible for the conditions which led to
gross Irregularities in the conduct Of
an Important fire insurance company
in the east, now disclosed AS is usual
in such cases, the directors are sud
denly plunged into great activity, but
no evidence is at hand to show that
when their vigilance would have
counted they exercised the supervision
that would have prevented the fraud.
State supervision seems to be the
most suitable safeguard against this
sort of thing. The public mind rested
content in the matter of insurance
after the disclosures of few years
ago, satisfied that New York state,
where the largest insurance interests
Of policyholders centered, had taken
effective steps to protect the public
from any more Juggling with assets.
But IL appears that too much was
taken for granted. In enacting strin-
gent rules against life companies, the
fire interests seem to have been over
looked, and now we have the amazing
disclosure that the New York insur-
ance department has made no exam
ination of fire companies in years.
Amy form of insurance is not
matter Of private enterprise, but is a
public concern. The insured has the
right to a reasonable guarantee of the
stability and safe conduct of his COM
pany. State supervision OF all insur-
ance interests is as fundamentally
essential to the general welfare as is
similar espionage over banks. The in
surance company is the depository of
funds upon which man expects to draw
in the day of misfortune; and If there
has been laxity in administering the
affairs Of any one company, the pres
ent is a good time for governmental
regulation Of some adequate form to
be inaugurated.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
AUTos IN THE ARMY.
historic Mule Likely 10 BE Separated
from the Service.
ro.Iiar'a Weakly

COLLECTS w cchiNs
Shall we sing a requiem for the army
mule? He received his death sentence as
burden bearer Of the army when those
short-coupled. high-powsred automobile
trucks used in the invasion Of Boston last
summer began totinE eOmmissaries at
twenty five miles an hour out to cavalry
outposts which II would have been i'm
possible to feed In mule style. We have
reflected as follows: l. The mule can
hold his own only q pack animal
for mountain trails and boggy country.
q As a wagon-pulling animal on road
he ,oses to the auto-car because equal
efficiency is gained for Is per cent of the
cost: the mule is always as tired as the
soldier when a days march Is over, and
his load-haulinE speed is about the same.
The auto-car. with drink Of gasoline, is
ready to carry provisions on out from
the main camp TO the outposts and cavalry
scouting camps-branches Of field service
that have always gone hungry In actual
warfare, through isolation from the wagon
train. s. To replace the wagon train
OF an army brigade on the move, an auto
car train Of from thirty 70 forty cars
would be needed, one OF the cars to be
fitted up as a travelling repair shop. Each
car would haul load equa, to six-mule
team. T. The auto-car for this service
is still undeveloped. There are suitable
engines and underparts, but the bodies
lack adaptability for the armys needs.
They must be suitable for sleeping quar-
ters. built 20 Withstand the roushest kind
OF usage and capable Of rapid repair
when injured by underbrush or other
cause. They must solve the problem the
old-fashioued wagon bow solved for the
prairie frsighter 8. The most practicable
step that could be taken Immediately
would be 10 appoint commission Of three
army officers, engineers who are thor
oughly familiar with automobiles, and set
them at the task Of developing model
army car. which model In time Of emer-
genoy could be furnished TO builders along
With specifications that w6uid guarantee
the greatest utility in the field. 6, There
is no reason why the next time an army
takes the field II should not go almost
Tnuleless. with It's base OF supplies tucked
away with its rear guard, and AZ mobile
as It's cavalry scouts ahead.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
PROSPERITY OF THE FARMERS.
Calculations and Comment Inspired
by Rich Fields.

Philadelphia Record.
We are eating more than we used to,
and that is the reason-or one reason
why our food costs more. Secretary Wilson
says that beef costs more because farmers
are feeding high priced corn to their stock.
But why is corn high? Fourteen or fifteen
years ago there was a big crop of wheat,
and the demand for It was so poor that
the price was low, and in one year the
farmers were estimated to have fed 7500O,-
900 bushels Of wheat to their stock. But
that did not make the stock high.
The bureau Of statistics calculates that
in the last twelve or thirteen years the
per capita consumption Of wheat has in
creased more than bushel and a half,
That is an increase Of nearly one-third,
We know Of no attempt to show how much
meat we eat, but the figures of the Gin
cinrati Price Current show that the total
number of cattle killed at the four great
western centers of the beef industry and
the total hog killing In the west increased
close to 30 per cent in the last ten years.
The total consumption Of meat may not
have increased as much as that The
eastern hog killing showed practically no
growth. But while these figures are suffl
Client proof they suggest larger consump
tion of meat per person. During the ten
years covered by the comparison we have
made the exports Of hog products fell off
more than one-fourth, and the Department
Of Agriculture reports that the number Of
cattle in the country has increased almost
50 per cent in ten years. Yet the price
goes up presumably because more people
are eating meat freely.
This is the best year the farmers ever
had and they have had thirteen years Of
unbroken prosperity. They have had only
two short crops in that time and in both
cases the high prices more than made up
to them the decline in quantity. The pros
perity OF the farmers makes the country
prosperous. because the farmers buy so
much when they have plenty OF money.
But how can the farmers have high pros
perity unless there Is a keen competition
for their products? We despair OF Identify
ing the point at which this circle OF pros
perity may be said TO begin. The con.
sumers Of food buy freely, and that gives
the farmers money enough to buy freely
OF manufactured goods, and the Industrial
population is well employed, and being well
employed It buys more wheat bread and
beefsteak which means prosperity for the
farmer, and so It goes around and around.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
PERSONAL NOTES.

The recent death Of Richard Watson
Glider makes the volume OF essays entitled
Lincoln the Leader" his last book, as II
is also his first and only book Of prose.
John Masterson Burke who in 1902 gave
$4,000 600 for the institution and mainte-
nance Of a home for convalescents, died Of
bronchial pneumonia in New York in bis
9Sth year
Lord Stratheona, the veteran high com
missioner Of Canada, has returned home
from London. He is SO years old and holds
the record as a transatlantic passenger
having crossed and recrossed more than
15o times.
The fact that the estate Of the gentleman
who was host to the president last sum-
mer amounts to SO o00o 600 may be no sur
prise to the heirs, but the figures surprise
the assessor about nine and q half million
dollars worth.
Final accounting in the estate Of Blood
good II. Cutter, the farmer poet" who
died at his country home at Little Neck
on September 26, 1906, was filed at Mineola
L. l., by Richard w. Smith, as executor,
1t shows that the estate of the dead pnet
amounted to $676,977
When the cruel war is over and the
smoke Of battle cleared away, 1t is to be
hoped that whoever caused the Prairie to
butt into Delaware mud will come forward
with something in the nature Of explana-
ton and apology. Even landsman knows
that the ship OF the present is lmperfectly
equipped for cutting across lots.
John Hays Hammond is chairman of the
National Civic federation's committee on
prevention Of mining accidents Other
members Of this committee are John Mitch
ell, DR.. j. A. Holmes, mining expert of the
United States geological survey and d. w.
Brunton, president o9 the American Insti-
tute Of Mining Engineers
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

But my impression is that It was some-
thing like the third degree "-washington
Star.
"Pop2"
What is It, SOM"
rs an osteopath an end man in a min
strel shown
Gracious, no, childl What put such an
idea into your hehd?"
We'll they told us at school he was a
specialist in bones. Baltimore American.
"If you want TO be an orator, my boy,
you've got to practice whenever you have
an opportunity"
Il do, uncle, but never can get anybody
to listen to me and what's the good OF
talking to yourself2"-Chicsgo Tribune
''You and that playwright are fast friends
since you fought duel"
Certainly" answered the French play
wright. Have we not risked our lives 10
advertise each otherT'-Indianapolis News
Have you any place open for me IN this
establishment" asked the conceitod young
man.
"Two or three places" said the stern en-
pioyer.
what are they, please7''
THE front, side and back doors,"-St
Louis Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
A MARVELLOUS STORY.

w. d. Nesbit IN Chicago Post
Her hair was wondrous fine
And brighter than spun gold,
An aureole divine
OF graceful coll and fold;
Heaped high upon her head,
or bound within a net,
or, glinting gold and red,
Wound In q coronet.
Such hair as poets sing,
Such hair as artists paint
In loop and strand and ring,
In curls both odd and quaint
The sunlight came to play
Amid It's glossy strands
When It she would array
With her bedimpled hands.
Men paused to give her praise,
Not for her comely grace,
Not for her gentle ways,
Not for her lovely face.
But for her wondrous hair,
Which had the subtle CLEAN
OF sunbeams In the air
Above laughing stream
And when It was unbound
n 1t fell below her waist
ITS waving ringlets wound
The curves that beauty traced.
Such hair the mermaids combed
And sang their siren lays
When brave Ulysses roamed
The seas In olden days.
But 1t is not OF this
We started out to write;
The point of all Wen miss
If tits not kept In sight.
The wonder OF her hair
That all so fichly shone
And was beyond compare,
Was-it was all her owni
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
RAILROAD EXPANSION.
some Comparisons Calculated to Ex-
cite Wonder,
Vur.Nt..
.eslie's Weekly.

have a capital Of SIS 900 100000, which is
almost equal to the value OF the country $
entire property OF all kinds at the time OF
Lincoln's election. Its gross earnings for
a single year, Sc. 600 600 OoO are nearly three
times as great as the whole Of the interest
bearing debt OF the national government.
The 10000 persons on the payrolls OF the
railways OF the United States represent
larger force than were under Grant. Lee
and the rest OF the union ana confederate
commanders at Appomattox. They are a
bigger army than japan and Russia COM
bined had IN Manchuria when, IN 1906
President Roosevelt brought the peace pf
Portsmouth
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

TnITNutIpIIIN INNUUIU
One enthusiastic motor fiend proposes
the building of a motor highway from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast, with road
houses and garages established, five miles
apart for the convenience Of travellers. At
matter OF precaution there should be no
trees OF telegraph poles on either side OF
the proposed motor course. Such obstacles
to miscellaneous looomotion, as the daily
newspaper reports show offer lnvincible
temptation to the average chauffeur. The
road houses should also be heavily insured
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
A Future Probability.
Buffalo Express.


The withdrawal from entry by the presl-
dent of 100000 acres OF petroleum lands in
California, Wyoming, Utah and oregon
does not look as II there would be any re-
taxation by this administration Of the pol
icy Of conserving natural resources. One
reason for the withdrawal is the need for
assuring fuel supply for the oil-burnins
ships Of the navy. Possibly the time will
come when the government will be pump
ing oil from it's own wells and doing its
own refining.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

The wild west must have a persist
ent virility when 1t can overcome the
traditions of Berlin opera and get itself
set to music under royal auspices. AS
a lyric legend, the red man is reported
as tickling the kaiser's fancy. Ger
many ought to be able to stand for one
American opera after all that we have
stood for from that side.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

The University of Budapest has
offered an important chair to an Amer
lean whose lectures woke up its stu
dents. The more Europe investigates
American scholarship, the more 1t
realizes that the old world no longer
holds the patent rights on learning.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

Heart whole and fancy free for half a
century, Miss Louisa Even Of New York,
one OF three bachelor daughters Of Cen
eral John Even, eloped with and married
bogus German baron, Boto Won Koenits,
asst week. Boto, as he is called for
a jail record and some escapades that
would not look we'll In print. In his zeal
for money TO maintain himself in life
OF ease he commissioned matchmakers to
secure him an American heiress, and dill
gently searched the country from the At
lantie to the Lakes New York proved
to be the best market for a matrimonial
swindling game, and Boto stuck to 1t
unit, he landed the prize. One OF the
sisters Of the victim is convinced the bogus
baron hypnotized Louisa Two days after
the elopement she issued a statement from
the honeymoon retreat at Lakewood. N.
j. indicating only a partial return to
consciousness She said
NY husband has told me Of his past
and am sure that whatever the mistakes
he may have made he will not err again.
don't care what they may say about
him, believe in him and love him, and
will stay by his side"
A few days before the elopement the
bride-to-be executed mortgage for $4,000
on her home at % West Eighty sixth
street When the reporters cornered Boto
after the marriage he flashed a wad Of
bills at the bunch, exclaiminE, II am no
fortune hunter"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

made for their support at rate which
promises bountiful deficiencies for the
next legislature to take care Of. This
will not astonish anybody who remem-
bers the career Of the state institutions
under the last demo-pop administrs-
tion.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

West Point reports that each cadet
graduated represents cash investment
of $4,000 on the part Of the govern
ment. Proper education Of the Ameri-
can young man for a commanding
position in This, as in any other walk
of life, is worth all 1t costs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

Iconoolasts have attacked the gene
alosy of Boston's famous old elm.
Shades Of oliver Wendell Holmes! Is
none Of our ancient institutions any
longer safe from ruthless attack?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
-Yindicntion OF Graft.

Cleveland Plain Dealer y
The people of San Francisco apparently
have more consideration for Abe Ruef's
health than they have confidence in his
honesty. They have LET him out of Jail
because confinement behind immovable
bars threatened to give him mollygrubs or
something of that sort