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The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23
PLAIN TALK.

With a smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use Starch that does not stick to the
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23
TRUE RESIGNATION.

Old Maids it really true that mar
1iages are made in heaven?
Doctor-Yes, believe so.
Old Maid (resignedly)-O. then
doctor, you needn't call again.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23

The good times we long for will not
come in the guise of Ascent watches.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23
Hard to ConvineA Him

Hard to Convince Him.
$50 you're going to marry old Got
rox' daughter, eh? Well, you know
two can live cheaper than one."
II know, but l can't convince her
father of that fact
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23
A Domestic combustibie.

A Domestic CombustibIe.
Doctor-Did you give your husband
the powder left, Mrs. Mulligan?
Mrs. Mulligan-1ndade, Oh did, sor
An he's been blowin' me up ivir
since"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23

SUCCESS FOR SEVENTY YEARS
Thisisthe record of Pankiller (Perry Davis) A re-
liable remedy fordiarrhea dysentery and all bowel
complaints. Get the genuine. 25c, sc and 6Oc.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23

Separating an easy mark from his
money is nothing to boast of.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23
Cau9es Of CITY Fires-

OF the 3,238 fires which occurred In
London in 1908, electricity is said to
have been the cause Of 101, and 355
were attributable to gas.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23

Where All Are Agreed.
will do human nature the justice
to say that we are all prone to make
other people do their duty.-Sydney
Smith.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-23

Young Johnny went a-fshing
But the pond was dry,
And all that young Johnny got
Was wasp sting in the eye.
Young Johnny hurried homeward
AS hungry as could be.
But all that young Johnny got
Was that which you here see.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28
A PRAYER UNANSWERED

No answer came. The father perished. The storm of execraton terrified his executioners Alfonso pleaded ignorance of that nlial prayer The ministry became the scapegoat monarchy in its trembling daughters imploring hand that had failed her father proved powerful enough to rival Ssmsons fin overwhelming his executioners.
 Paris first, and then the world, turned eyes of won der upon this woman. previously known simply of talent Her photograph avidly seized upon for reproduction, bought by the millions. All Europe demanded to the face of her who had all most baked Spanish vengeance.
 Great of thick dark hair framed a face at passionate and fascinating She looked Span ish beauty, yet of that peculiar combination of strength and refinement which attracts all men. Her darkly lustrous glowed under heavy lashes and yet heavier. level eyebrows Her lips de- Iiciously pouting possessed the rmness characts tic of her father while the round resolute chin the promise of the whole feminine yet wful and defiant countenance. She beautiful her father had been handsome and distinguished a
 For the time the world of eager artists. players journalists, people of public affairs joined by the dent proletaria seething under every form govern nent in Europe paid her homage only the faithful devoted daughter. whose grief sanctaed her But in the midst of the notorety attaching to the settlement of her fathers fortune there the last touch which raised her to the lofty level Lears
 Fsrrer the lamented martyr. even at the hour when his beautiful daughter striving for safety had her and her sister Trinidad who supports herself by husband poor mechanic in the support their little home.
 By stroke of his pen, in signing the win that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28
Natures w ashtub

MINIATURES gifts widely ana vMsicuslvf a s IN tnnutsd Tn one place the clements of thip@s esa
 given to bs made avaii4bis by isber: ssswhs4 | she provides things ready for mans To gain en bread the seed must nrst be sown. and mouths ate the grain harvested thfeshed and a1 sund- But sA native of the Pacihe isles packs his bread tn breadfruit tree. Our druggist with his aeid& con cocts the cooling soda water; but in tiny rocky is in the middle of Clear Lake. Cal. thsre is perpseuG soda sountais from which gushes better soda water than the chemist can produce
 Perhaps nature foresaw the overworxed and nos overstrong housewife. to whom washing day" is dread and a burden. when she sstabshed here and there natural washtubs and washing machines, and in places even provided ready made soap. .s.i
 Tn the Yellowstone National Park the family washing easily dtapoaed The soiled bedding ana clothing is put into stout hag which is hung one wander about sghtss.nE When taken out the elothss
 On one oeessen party hung thsir bag of clothes wandering of, were absent longer than they Intended the xarmenfs were thrown high in the afr torn int shreds and scattered. Some time afterward bits Of of these petrfactions are stnl exhibited. ''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

as if she were human baby and see what happened And Hamyn amused. said all right. but he wasn't pre- pared to much come of it. .
 Diana, you must know, came or tramp steamer. where she the of the crew and the butt their jokes their rough they tried to b. kind Diana but 1t to tease her because she barred her strong teeth them and gibbered.
 Before that she the property of savage on ths who captured in the inland jungle while or rubber expedition Between capture by the black man and her arrival Hamyns probably three months eapsed-hree continual for Diana She of everybody and everything but she sprang into Mrs Hamlyn's and cudded. And her pendu- lous under lip quivered like babys And her eyes were human and filled with trageGy.
 After Diana other monkeys. some chatterng and mischievous. ugly and unfriendly. some broken spirited sick heart Mrs. HaInlyn took them ss they came administered them according to their individual needs she coaxed another she petted another she chded and another she spanked
 Out of her experience she evolved system When a new monkey is brought her 1t becomes at once A member of the family. Once its fears and suspicious are quieted the rest is who has pauence
 At night the monkey undressed. washed, 1t cleans its teeth and is put to bed. It has its own ped and sleeps between sheets.
 In the morning 1t is bathed dressedin stockpgs shoes underclothes and an-and goes downstairs to breakfast which 1t eats with the rest of the family has it's chair the table its plate cup and saul cer it's own knife fork and spoon. and its own 'bh
 Being initiative, 1t decorously because 1t sees others eating decorousy. r
 It sees Mrs Hamlyn putting the house in order sweeping dusting scrubbing making beds. If helps. There was one chimpanzee"Jackey. who Is now doing
 roller-skating in Paris theater-who regularly washed down the stairs every morning. Diana could polish furniture Pansy cleaned the kitchen knives
 "You see" said Mrs. Hamlyn. they me doing these things and they initiated just as children do and by and by they not only how, but why these things done"
 She does teach them tricks. That is, she never eonpes a monkey to toy at shoulder arms over and again. day after day. most trainers do It is who carries the toy the monkeys watching
 Hip! Hip-she marches around the room. the mon keys looking jealously They interested. They want to it, too. By and by she lets them and they all march. It's fun.
 T got that tip from the kindergartners," said Mrs HamIyn.
 That proves she says that monkeys are really back ward babies. Tell monkey baby that t must carry at shoulderarms for so long every day,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

sohieh is not strong on Shakespeare in Paris, feet, Eving parallel for the A-ased, faifhfal Cordelia of King Lear" The discovery, coming as t does apon the heels of the tragedy svhieh thrilled all fhe peoples of Europe, has elevated her upon pedestal of fiial piety and grief saeh as Paris forevsr longs to worship. As the living incarnation of thaf most faithfM haioed acifh the virfaes, ia spite of incongrni- find ansssing. And becaass her plea for her fathers life sDas rejected all Europe scas in Gn aproar for sDeeks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

divided his property between Portet associate in his political propaganda and the woman Soledad Villa franca who referred to his second wife Ferrer had earned for himself the supreme reproach his tory must forever attach to the memory of Jean Jacques Rousseauthat of abandoning his children to the mercy of the world.
 But where the philosophie Jean Jacques reckoned that his brats had earned nothing protection and had right to the protection the founding asylum. to whose wicker baskets he intrusted them Ferrer had refused to lift the his unnatural hatred from daughter who all but saved him from his fearful doom.
 What had she done to that paternal detesta- tion? At first Paris fancied that it She lived her life of actress with children of her but with none of the formalites of marriage legtima tize them or her own maternity An. there was shame no father much less Spanish father could for give!
 But the sinful celebacy of handsome Paz Ferrer ai- most instantly took much milder shade of evil when Ferrers own teachings brought to bear in explanation. His daughter was his most consistent disciple. .-----. .-.~----.4-1..-..--.-
 Marriage and its obligations he himself had de- nounced as anathema together with all theseTother laws and rubrcs of religion and society which he de- ciared outworn She had merely practiced what her father preached she had only his paternaI bid ding the very wesprings of her conventionaiity in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

Y AMLYN has been buying selling animals H1 many years His place is down by the London A N docks. just three doors of the Blue Anchor
 in St. Georges street, which is not pretty its
 In St. Georges street many sailor men, of many shades of complexion and morals the Blue An chOr their headquarters between ships, is they have christened Hamlyn the ''beastie man"
 Occasionally newcomer. extra frugal, fresh from the tropics and shverng in the London fog makes Hamlyns place with crate under his and departs thence richer by pound or two.
 Within Is animal slum. House and the court be-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

7N PARIS, sphere fragedy is sDelcomed 10
 lets fhan bHrle,que, # only t give 4 jaded ssnsibif;ties fresh fllip, fhersis . aesD beauty, q mew heroine. PGris has elected 70 sporship her 50 sa4denly that from the cyitical seis;sg of ths Emeiis ssage she has, overnighf as t scere, leape1 into not merely international fame, but info fhe sr0rmfh of popular adordtion.
 Paz Feyrer is Her name, fhs dSaghfer of fhaf famous Spanish revolutionisf, Professor Francisco Feyrer. srho 50 yecenfly paid susth his life for she sangHinary burden of h;s feaeh- ings.
 IL is only now that drana';c learning,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

practice at the piano dust the paror furniture and the thing at becomes dsasxssabls task to be dcns if one absolutely must but to be shirksd possible.
 And there are shrking monkeys as we'll as shirsang children And there naughty. rsssiious monkeys as well as wiiing obedisnt monkeys.
 "A nsishbor of mine. mother of sisht told me whAa to do." said Mrs. Hamlyn.
 a"If monkey bites me-and they often do; sec the scars my handsI bite in the same plaea Nos too hard of not enough to break the sdn but hard enough to hurt If they strike with stick strike them with the stick That is the way nv nesbor corrects her children and they well behaved youngsters 4, ta
 When the average trainer wants to reward snonhsy for obsdisntiy performing trick has taught it. As gives It something to do than that pst 6 and kiss It, and tell 1t Is its ittis bac- ward baby.
 "when was s very little girl remember tAaa some times my mother had to punish and send to bsd would lie thsrs. crying and thinking bitter thoughts was sure could never forgive my mother
 INTERFERING IN FED
 But presently the door would open softly and she would come tiptoeng the bed. And then suddenly. and in gush oftears ai bitterness would so away and we would have great smuggling and comforting very model little girl
 "It is with monkeys when they so to bed dis grace can hear them whimpsrins and sobbng in tho dark Then when go to them. the bitterness goes and they utter queer te tearchoked cries. while thsv hands caress my cheek.
 Next morning 1t Is all forgotten They are exs empary monkeys for the whole of that day at least
 The newcomer is a handful. It must be washed and fed and dressed It Is scared do nothing for it self After month it has trouble at all. Tn four months # is accomplished monkey. ready for the stage
 After the first month it washes and dresses tssif-s even to buttoning its shoesand brushes it's OWE teeth. r-~ .tNt f .e4
 rushes meals when the bell rings It springs ints the right chair and puts it's bih" The newcones play tricks with the bowl, but not for long try to pull the tail feathers of the parrots op poke sticks the beara take liberties with the horneC toads and lizards But not more than once twice.
 Then, by and by somebody comes and pays MrS Hamyn anywhere $500 to 5000. and takes away trained monkey for which, four months before fruga sailor glad get tak
 Of her work Mrs Hamiyn says 1t is the only pro fspsion she knOws of for which women are eminentS qualified.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

hind 1t alive with furred feathered and creeping things
 When buyers come representing geological societies menageres and vaudeville circuits and evnee an interest in monkeys Hamyn says; 'Youn have to talk with Mrs Hamyn. That's her department"
 It has been her department ever since Dlana came discovered that the the west coast of Africa monkey after ali but poor httie' backward baby.
 So because Diana was only baby. and because she had babies her own she took the chInpanzee to her heart and became mother to it.
 She told Hamyn she intendes to treat pane exactly
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

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 oRpELrA when she spoke those moving words ( did more than Daraphrass the thririns' des-
 A perate appeal senorita Ferrer made to King AL
 sonso that he spare her fathers life.
 The staging of that tragedy in real life was the most Impressive the world beheid for many years
 spaiu in it's stern determination to make the pun ishnent of Barcslona's riots an exempiar for the future with famous Ferrer fin the grip of courts swayed by mingled terror revenge, imagined that the scene was set only within the amphitheater of its own borders Never was there vainsr aeiasion
 The enthralled spectators of that dramatic trial were people of the eaFth ranged tier on tier pre- cseiy as In some vast ancient forum with those near est to the bar and to the darky looming most concerned in the prisoners fate instantly tive of every play emotion and of every fatefui word.
 All synpathetic socialism ragged among that count less audience in futile effort to intimdate its champion's prosecutors. All democracy stirred un- easily vaguely conjecturng whether was witnessing another martyrdom.
 The sentence was pronounced and went forward to It's nexerabs execution while these nations of spectators seemed to stand aghast as though some silence chilly with the of the yawnins grave were fallen upon them
 Then out of that awful appalled, stiffness came the letter of appeal mercy the daughter in Paris like shrek Of womanly anguish piercing every tense. expectant ear.
 She implered the young king to spare her father. She made such appeal possessed more than the of Shakespeares Cordeia impiorng pity and aid the miserable Lear. because it the voice of real daughter sssaying the salvation of father whose forewritten the mimic boards the annals of irrevocable history to be history itself be made unmade the king might
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

"HIS is scientific.
 Mrs. Hamlyn looked into Diana's eyes
 Diana looked into Mrs. Hamlyns.
 Why" said Mrs. Hamlyn, "you are not a monkey. You just poor little backward babyp
 That was 6 great discovery, considering Mrs Hamlyn had never read the Darwinian theory and never had contemplated the fossil bones of pre- historic men. But Hamlyn, the "beastie man of London" laughed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

"Baby, eh? Look out the baby doesn't bite you; it has good teeth for a baby. Call it baby if you like, missus, but caIl 1t west coast chIn panzee."
 Later on Hamlyn had to admit, though, as professional animal man it went against the grain, that his wife was not far wrong. It isn't theory. It is discovery. It has put thousands of dollars into Hamlyn's pocket. Incidentally, it has intro duced new pursuit for women.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

medatsiy guaranteed sucisnt to render bosn Porter sfsters Immune from absoiuts want in the future
 Ths outcome of the Fsrrer tragsdy at nrst seeming to be the undisputed apotheosis of the father as martyr to the advancing of socialism. ap- rears to Dc the sxatatfon him the bsautifui danshter he taught eviiy and dstssted 70 resnt- lessly. ~
 While sociaiism. and even some conservative sis- meuts among the plain democracy of Europe. rsmsin attached to Ferrsrs memory. and while the numerous threats of rsprisals his execution have asSursdy hunE over the head Of spsns young king the Dsoolss sword which must ever menace the life. of Rusns's esar. much of the giamour has departed from this latest martyr to the cause
 Ferrerh the light of the dfvorcs his wife rsad- fly secured from him the ground Of his relations with Mile Meunier. who endowed him with fortune in Paris real ssstecouId bear banner for the do longing to the childhood of mankind He astuts speculation in eompstition vita the astuts nnan- ciers of Paris Hs capture by spensh itiss occurring it did hs was tAs verge reneuncing hs nationality and pisdging ctissnshp Francs. was made possible only because he went to Bsrceiona not to suffer with his but to carry through coup in gas stock
 That he did much. and that unsslnshly Cor the spread of education distinct religious and ncnarchcal principles the world which instinctively revoited against his slaughter always coueede. But that he was Tostoya living saint. vewsd to the virtues of chastty poverty and merey~aht that sayp Europe now. is another story.
 And 1t turns its regard. at once pttyng and adAr. ing the beautiful Senorsta Pas Ferrer the daughter who has riyaled cordeia whers the fnsAsF had not the masnaniuntty Co emulate Kiux xeae
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
Long Winded Preachers.

Dean Lefroy. who expressed the
opinion that ten minutes is long
enough for sermon, would have met
With scant sympathy from some d.
vines OF past centuries, says the West
minister Gazette.
Thomas Hooker considered three
hours fair average allowance for a
sermon, though. on one occasion, when
ne was Ill, he let his congregation off
more lightly. Pausing at the end of
hfteen minutes. he rested awhile and
then continued his homily for two
hours longer. Cranmer's sermons were
each small book when set up in type.
and Baxter. Knox, Bunyan and Calvin
rarely reached Lastly, my brethren"
under two hours.
George Herbert once said: "The par
son exceeds not an hour in preaching.
because all ages have thought that a
competency" but certain rector of
Bilbury. Worcestershire, was of an.
other opinion. for he never sat down
under two hours. The squire, we
learn. usually withdrew after the text
was announced, smoked his pipe out.
side and returned for the blessing.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
A Gale by Another Name.

Doubtless there were man puzzled
readers when deep sea ski, b. rolled
into this harbor few days ago and
reported that his ship had been be-
lated by gale which had piped up to
force TO-" Force TO-" it was ex-
planned, meant something like hurri-
cane. 1t is term borrowed from the
Beaufort scale, scheme of wind
measurements devised by the British
admiral Beaufort before the days Of
ocean going steam. Force / was a
calm, force 2 light breeze, and so on
up to the hurricane velocity. Perhaps,
too, the Beaufort scale may give a
clew to those who have been wonder
Ing for some time at the title of a
popular German picture. 1t is just one
expnnse Of frowning cloud and storm
tossed billOw, and the artist has named
1t "windstarke 10, 11."-New York Sun.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20

nOple in order to take back into their
own country the ladies of the haren1
who belonged to them. For several
days these Circassian villagers have
been arriving i'm the city wearing
their picturesque costume, with dag
ger in girdle.
Tht reunion Of the long-separated
kinsfolk is thus described: Tears, ca
resses and cries of enthusiasm and ex-
element prevailed. The girls recoa-
nized fathers, brothers, uncles or cou-
sins; they kissed, they wept, they ut
tered eXclamations of joy at the re-
covery of the dear relatives from
many years.
"They asked for news of their
mothers, their sisters, their brothers
and their friends. Some there were
who did not know their relatives from
whom they had been taken away
in early childhood. The recognition
was made only by reference to fam
lily names and names Of the villayets
from which they had been exiled."
The young women are described as
being heartily glad to leave the per-
petual seclusion Of the harem for the
liberty of peasant life. These ladies,
who lived like princesses of fairyland,
in a sumptuous palace, who wore be-
witching dresses and ate off plate,
who floated in gilded shallops on en-
chanted lakes and still were unhappy,
are suddely snatched by social re-
volution from the shores of the Bos-
phorus and sent back to the isolated
villages Of Asia Minor. Here their
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
Revenge In Ceylon.

A system of Cingalese "black magic"
peculiar to the island is still practiced
In some parts Of Ceylon. 1t Is stated
that there are 4,44O different methods
OF causing Ill to others. Here is q
translation Of one Of these methods Of
dealing with your enemy:
"On Sunday eleven peya"-one peya
equals twenty-four English minutes
"after sunrise Yama Devi"-the god Of
death and judgment-"goes to the west.
Start at this hour; take a meal Of
blush rice; dress in red colored gar
ments.
Take root of ginger at the time Of
the zodiac Of Aries; write on it the
name Of your rival. charm it 1OS times,
wrap 1t In a golden colored cloth and
place 1t in your waist.
when you meet your rival, look
straight into his face and break the
root in your hand. Within nine peyas
he will be killed by an elephant, and
when seven months elapse six other
persons of his family will meet their
doom."-CeylOn National Review.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
Linked Eyebrows.

1t is popularity believed that II ones
eyebrows meet 1t indicates deceit
Charles Kingsley indorses this belief,
but Tennyson has other ideas and
poetically speaks Of married brows."
In Turkey meeting eyebrows are
greatly admired, and the women use
artificial means to bring the brows to
this condition, and II art cannot in
duce thin eyebrows to grow they make
up by drawing a black line with paste.
1t would appear that the Greeks ad-
mired brows which almost met, and
the fashionable inhabitants Of Rome
not only approved of them. but re-
sored to pigments to make up the
lack which sometimes existed.
Some proverbs state that the person
whose eyebrows meet will always
have good luck, while others state ex.
actly the reverse. The Chinese say
that people whose eyebrows meet
can never hope to attain to the dig
nifty OF minister Of state" and in
Greece Of today the man whose brows
meet Is said to be a vampire, while in
Denmark and Germany 1t is said he
Is a werewolf.-London Standard.