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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
Flint Impression, of AmarIs..

1t was 8 a m. when we hurried on
deck to greet our new home. Purple
sunrise bathed the glorious bay In
golden glowing colors, and yet the
faint outline Of the young moon was
still visible In the sky. IL WAS an en-
trancing sight, and all the Americans
on board declared that it was only un-
der the Stars and Stripes that there
were such skies and such sunrises and
sunsets.
In the meantime l sat on one Of the
larger boxes awaiting results, when a
long lean Yankee asked me whether I
was here for the first time, and II 1
knew that a new president was elected
that day. His name was Hayes, and
it was very important TO remember
that name for the next four years. ]
laughed and was delighted to meet
such I real onei--Princess Won RAco-
H!."a', A"'cbiography.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
OrtoIans as Food.

The ortolan. bird smaller than our
quail, an inhabitant OF southern Eu-
rope In summer and of Africa in win
ter. is highly priced, especially among
French epicures, for the delicate fla
vor Of its flesh. These birds are net
ted alive, kept in dark place and fed
on millet, oats and other seeds until
they become enormously fat, when
they are killed for the table. This
artificial fattening of the ortolan dates
back TO ancient days OF Rome. A
Partisan paper tells of a financier who
invited four friends to a dinner at
his country place and sent to Paris to
fam GUS restaurateur to provide a
feast for six persons. When the ac-
count was presented 1t footed up 1900
francs; that is. $240. Outrageous"
said the financier. Monsieur" said
the restaurateur, you have had TWEEN
ty ortolans at rs francs each; that
alone is 500 francs" This would be
much like paying IS each for well
fattened English sparrows.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
Here's stIII Another Pole.

The mania for discovering poles has
resulted In the finding OF another pole
on the otherwise obscure little island
OF Dumet, situated near the mouth OF
the River Vilaine, in France. The con-
tnental pole. according to scientists
who have made accurate measure
ments of the earth's surface, Is located
somewhere on the island.
Alphonse Berget, professor at the
Oceanographic Institute, has just
made a series of studies that resulted
in the announced discovery OF the
continental pole. Repeated expert
ments led him to select the island at
the mouth OF the Vilaine river as a
basis of operations. BY tracing a
large circle he divided the earth into
two hemispheres. The continental
hemisphere contains 45.5 per cent
land and 54.5 per cent. water. The
oceanic hemisphere contains 1877 per
cent OF water and only 11.S per cent.
OF emerging land.
Thus, 1t is apparent that any other
point of earth gives two hemispheres
in which the differentiation OF terres-
trial and marine domains is less mark
ed. giving the Island Of Dumet the dis
tinction OF possessing the continental
pole.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
1hn Art of Sleen-

! picked up in letter in the Sun
not long ago the true remedy for sleep
lessness. One of your correspondents
suggested that continuity OF thought
be broken by string of jargon such
as saying in the mind ocean, South
Africa, table, figures, mule, King
George. COW, ink, South America, tree,
Newport, wireless, picture, cold, mush
and milk, subway, candy"
People form the habit Of chewing
things over in the mind after going to
bed. Instead Of going to sleep and
waking refreshed to tackle the prob
lens OF the day with vigorous mind,
they prefer TO think them over at
night. The habit may be all right, but
1t should be controlled like all habits.
Psychologically speaking, a person
should learn to think in words. He
should learn to read without words.
He should learn to sleep by a tumble
of words Motion pictures are splen-
did, but they are teaching us to feel
without words. Thus we dream. Mo
ton pictures are making dreaners.-
Letter to New York Sur.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
Proved Truth Of Answer.

On visit to St. Louis, Archbishop
Ryan, n noted Philadelphia prelate,
rode in a carriage to the parochial
residence with Bishop Glennon. who is
rather diminutive in size and of slight
build. especially in the stomachic re-
gions, while Archbishop Ryan is tall
and very robust. AS they alighted from
the carriage, Archbishop Ryan said to
his companion: Bishop Glennon, ]
once was asked to explain the differ
ence between a bishop and an arch
bishop. answered" (and the arch
bishop extended his arms in a semi
circle from his own healthy body, al
the same time glancing rather sharply
at Bishop Glennon), 1.-The difference
ls ell in the ARCH"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
Too Late.
'etroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Sweet was the lass, low was the
gas. 1t was the evening she eX
pected him to put across the big
question.
He did not look we'll Something
seemed to be troubling him. He tried
to say something, but the words
stuck in his throat. and noticing this,
the girl turned the gas even lower.
Suddenly he turned to her and
cried, I'm a dub"
NO" she said fOndly, you don't
appreciate yourself as well as some
others do, perhaps. Tee heel"
Yes" he persisted stubbornly,
I'm a dub"
mo" she maintained.
yes" he shouted. I'm a dub!"
She was a sensible girl, and realiZ-
ing that he ought to know best, she
thanked him kindly for warning her
in time and handed his hat to him.
1t was only after the door had slam
med behind him forever that she
realized the awful truth.
He had contracted nasty cold,
and what he had been trying to say
was, I'm in loye!"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
THE REFRAIN.

One grand sweet song he thought his
life
Would be when he acquired a wife
The song turned out to his deep pain
No song at all, a mere refrain,
For she. the sharcr of his fiat
Bade him refrain from this and that;
Refrain from going to the club,
From playing poker, too, poor dub!
Refrain from leaving things around
As was his wont ere he was bound,
His weary form he must not throw
Upon the couch, 'twould muss things
so,
Refrain from entering the hall
With muddy shoes-but worst Of all
Refrain from what he'd done for
years,
From smoking-he was nigh to
tears
So his married life turned out, tbs
plain,
One grand (but far from sweet re
frain
Boston Transcript.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
Who BUYS Red Cross Seals?

In selling Red Cross Seals, looks
are deceiving," says a well-known
Washington society leader, who each
year has charge of a booth in large
department store. ''Aristocratic-
looking men, or elegantly dressed
women with diamonds on their fin
gers, buy five cents worth of seals.
while little children empty their
pocketbooks of all their pennies. Only
the other day a little boy came up to
the table with his mother. Mother,
how many stamps shall ! buy?' he
said. As many as you have pennies
for she told him, and he turned his
pocketbook upside down and gave
fOrty-fve.
At one of the other stores. where
the booth is near the door on the first
floor, the little boy who leaves the
evening paper stopped to examine
the pictures hung around the Red
Cross table. There was one of tu-
berculosis children taken at the hos
pital which the Red Cross Seals help
TO support. Seeing some little color
ed children in the group, the paper
boy asked: What are them smokes
don'?" He wa stold that they were
sick. Then, sying the seals, he asked
what they were for. She told him
they were to sell to help the sick
children In the picture. Digging a
penny from his pocket, he put it on
the table and started to take a pack
age OF twenty-five. He was told that
the stamps were a cent each and he
could only have one for his penny.
Chestfallen for only a minute, he
took the seal and stuck it on one of
his papers. Starting out of the door,
he turned and said as a parting shot:
The next paper 1 sell is going to
bring two cents"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
FARMERS COULD GET
BETTER PRICE E---SM|TH
If They Knew More About
Grades.
TO EDUCATE THE FARMER.
South Carolina Senator Secured an
Appropriation For Federal iGN-
periments With Cotton.

Washington Special to Columbia
Record, Nov. Ex-senator Smith to-
day spent several hours at the depart
ment Of agriculture, where he in
spected the progress of the expert
ments being made to demonstrate
the intrinsic value of cotton, express
ed in terms of the relation of the va
rious grades to each other.
The government expert, DR.. Cobb,
and his corps of assistants are in con-
stant touch with the senator. They
express themselves as satisfied with
the results as far as we have gone"
Senator Smith had amazed these eX-
perts by his technical knowledge of
cotton.
At the last session of Congress the
senator secured a special appropria-
ton of $4,000 to conduct these eX-
periments, which will determine the
waste, the tensil strength and the
bleeching quality expressed in rela-
tive values to each as based on the
official government grades.
Senator Smith in commenting on
the experiment said:
"Believeing as do, that every pro-
ducer of a staple product for the mar
ket is entitled to Know, by every
means that the government can
legitimately eXpend, the intrinsic
value of what he produces, L secured
the appropriation for this work.
These experiments Will affect every
department of cotton, the manutac-
turer as we'll as the producer l want
TO educate the farmer as 10 what each
grade of cotton can be manufactured
into, and what is the actual value of
the cotton used in the conversion. l
believe that the farmer is capable OF
taking care of himself provided he is
as we'll posted as is his buyer
The purpose of these eXpericents
is to make available the information,
which conveyed to the farmer, will
give him that knowledge necessary to
place him on a equal footing with the
buyer and the manufactures of his
material, with reference to its in
trinSic worth"
"All farmers" continued the sena
tor, know what they lose on the OF
grades of cotton. These experiments
will show why such conditions now
exist Although the work is in an IN
complete state, sufficient progress has
been made to reveal some startling
results-and every one OF them are
in favor of the producer"
81 want the government to issue
bulletin to the farmer so they ma!
better learn the grades and the valu
of the grades expressed in RELATIVE
terms to each other"
Now" continues the senator, "b,
the word value / mean the rea
manufactured worth of the grades
that is the tensil strength, the bleech
ing qualities, etc.
''I want to help the people to he'll
themselves-give the people prosper
ity-then education and the fine
arts will naturally follow. Prosper
ity is the keynote-for the people al
know that education is power"
Senator Smith expects to haV
these experiments completed in
short time. The government official
are interested in the work under th'
supervision of the senator and art
pushing the experiments to a success
full end.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
Notice..

We, the undersigned citizens of the
Rich Hill section, have decided not
to Kill birds nor have any killed on
our premises for the fall and spring
OF 1913 and 1914. Any person dis
regarding this notice will be prosecu-
ted to the full extent Of the law.
s. b. Hammond. James Baskins.
f. G. Hinson. Willie Mackey.
q. IL. Sims. Olan Bailey.
M. l.. Hinson. Mrs. Ella Baskins.
j. L. X. Marshall. Mrs. M b Hinson.
Mrs. Dora Small. j. e. Blackmon.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
Notice of Discharge.

Notice is hereby given that th8GSn-
dersigned will, as administrator OF
the estate Of Mary e. Cole, deceased,
on the 22nd day Of December, 1918,
maye my final return as such admin
istrator and apply to the Probate
Court Of Lancaster county for letters
dismissory.
j. M. CASKEY,
Admr. Estate of Mary r. Cole, De-
ceased
Nov. 21, 1913.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
Saving His Wind.

New York Globe.
At Highland gathering one Don
aid MacLean had entered for num-
ber of events. The first of these was
a quarter mile. Donald certainly
didn't distinguish himself in the quar-
ter mile. OF eight runners he was
last.
Donald, Donald" cried partisan,
why did ye no run faster?"
Donald sneered
Run faster?" he said contemp-
tuously. "And me reservin' myself
for the bagpipe competitionn"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
A Night of Terror.

Few nights are more terrible than
that of a mother looking on her child
choking and gasping for breath dur
ing an attack of Group, and nothing
in the house to relieve it, Many
mothers have passed nights OF terror
in this situation. A little forethought
will enable you to avoid all this.
Chamberlain Cough Remedy Is a
certain cure for Group and has never
been known to fail. Keep 1t at hand.
For sale by all dealers.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
To Prevent Blood Poisoning

a'.ply at once the wonderful old reliable Dr
PoRTRR'S ANTIsEPTIC HEALING OIL, ST..
gieal dressing that relieves pain aud heals
the same time. Not liniment. 25e. SOC. ST..
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-02
For Weakness and Loss of Appetite

The Old Standard general strengthening tonic
GROVES TASTRLRSS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria and builds up the system. true tonic
and sure Appetizer. For adults md children. SOC.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-08-26

for injuries sustained when grand
stand collapsed during Elgin races in
1910.
Joseph Dohs and Anna PoItrock
placed on trial charged with murder
of their ilIegitimate child. They
claim child was born dead.
John Runtshis, Jr., 5, Indiana Har-
Dor, killed by auto under which he
had hidden during game of hide and
seek"
Diamond kneeIet made its appear
ance on knee of Jane OFT at National
jewelers. convention.
Hugo PaoIi, saIoonkeeper, 531
Rush ST., arrested on arson charge.
DespIaines. street police raided
house of Mrs. Emma BidweIl, 322 S.
Green st., and arrested six people.
Joseph A. Hunk, 1921 N. Oakley
av., has slipped on banan peels eight
times within two months. and filed
damage suit each time.
Thief threw brick through plate
glass window in Barnett Bros jew
eIry store, 1O4 Jackson blvd. Els
capped with tray of diamonds worth
$1,000.
Miss Annette Freeman, a telephone
operator, heard a cry of police over
the phone, then the line was dis
connected. She traced the call to
the OsiceIi & Jakiel bank, then tele-
phoned the West Chicago av. police
station. A squad of officers found
the night Waterman, Romina Dubiel,
lying on the floor, dazed and bleeding
from a cut in his forehead, but the
robbers had been scared away with
out securing anything.
WEALTHY WOMAN HELD For
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-08-26
WALL FALLS-FOUR HURT

WALL FALLS-FOUR HURT
Charles Edwards, 2251 South Park
avenue, was injured internally; VIM.
Ryan, 1107 N. California avenue, had
his back spTained; DOminiCk Shun-
eka, 907 Townsend street, had left
knee sprained, and George CaIogno,
831 Milton avenue, was badly bruised
today when a back wall which they
were building in the addition to st.
Chrysostom's Episcopal Church at
1921 N. Dearborn avenue, collapsed.
All were given medical aid and taken
to their homes.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-08-26

Great moral upIift in Joe BaiIey's
state! Wichita, Tex, mans con-
science has compelled him to con-
TESS to absconding with $500.
Standpat Republicans talk of
fusion with Democrats to beat Hi
Johnson in California. Maybe it's
Hiram who is encouraging such talk.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-08-26
WEALTHY WOMAN HELD FOR |
ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE

New York, Aug. Z6.-Mrs. William
L. Velie, wife of the wealthy auto
mobile manufacturers of Moline, Ill,
was held in $1,000 bail for action by
the grand jury today when arraigned
in Hoboken, N. J., before U. S. Com
missioner E. r. Stanton on a charge
. attempting to smuggle goods into
his country. Mrs. M. J. Lilly, who
was arrested with Mrs. Velie, was
acid in $500 bail.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-08-26
is ARRESTED IN CONNECTION
WITH WOMAN'S DEATH
D. q. !.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 26.-On tech
nical charge of violation of the state
law regulating the practice of medi-
cine, DR.. Anna R. BaTtram, prOmi-
nent Osteopath and student of meta
physics, was placed under arrest in
connection with the death of Miss
Pauline B. Loos, the Grafton school
teacher found drowned in the Ale
gheny river recently.
1t is declared that Miss Loos, fol-
lowing several years treatment at
the hands of DR.. BaTtram, went in
sane, and while in the grip of hallu-
cinatiOn waded to her death.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-08-26
1T LOOKS LIKE A STRIKE AT THE
STOCKYARDS

Last night the 700 members of the
clearinghouse Transfers Union No.
TO voted unanimously against sub
hitting their cause to arbitration.
Another conference will be held with
the bosses this afternoon, but it
doesn't look hopeful.
If the strike is called Cattle Butch
ers' Union may go on sympathetic
strike.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04
PLANTERS WILL
ABANDON LONG
STAPLE COTTON
NO PROFIT in The BUSINESS
BuIIOCh Planters to Turn to
Short Staple

Statesboro, Ga, March 3.-If the far
mers of Bulloch county do not make d
crop this year it certainly will not be
for lack of favorable seasons. I'm
like last year, when they experienced
more rain than ever before, this year
has been affording ideal weather and
10 time is being lost by the farmers.
1t is understood that the fertilizer
movement is far ahead of last year.
Just what the farmers are preparing
to plant is not settled. Owing to the
decline in the sea island market there
is a determined effort on the part of
the buyers and among many of the
large planters of this county 40 aban-
don completely the culture of this sta
pie and in its stead upland cotton is
urged.
1t is claimed the farmers lost money
in the culture of sea islands last year
and many of them are determined not
to plant again.
One of the largest planters in Bull
loch county is quoted as saying that
he had planted his last seed of sea is
land. Bulloch county has always been
considered a sea island producing
county raising one-eighth of the en-
tire crop, and if the effort to have it
abandoned is successful the coming
crop will be materially reduced.
A meeting has been called for the
first of the coming week in the court
house when the question will be fully
discussed A committee has been APP
pointed with representatives from each
part of the county and it is understood;
that systematic plans to fight against
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04
SECRETARY COOK
SENDS WARNING
FOR LAST time
TO CORPORATIONS IN STATE
Having Failed to Pay Tax
Required

Atlanta, March Booth the state o.
Georgia and the United States, are hot
after the corporations doing business
in Georgia Many of the Georgia cor
porations and the foreign corporations
in business in this state have no.
squared themselves with either, ana
there is a likelihood of the enforcement
of some penalties at both ends of the
line.
Saturday was the day when all cor
porations doing business in the state
were required to have their returns in
the hands of the collector of internal
revenue, but despite the fact that many
small fines were assessed last year
against delinquents, the number who
have so far ignored the law is large.
The law requires that these returns
shall be made showing the corpora
tons income. whether it has made any
money during the past year or not
Those corporations which have made
less than $4,000 will have to yap no
tax, although they are required to
make annual returns just as the 9th
ers.
Where they have earned more than
$4,000, the tax is one per cent. of Their
net profits. The penalty for not hav-
ing returns in on time is $1,000. This
penalty was not strictly enforced last
year, but District Attorney Carter Tate
says that here is no excuse now for
ignorance of the law and this time no
leniency will be shown.
Secretary of State Phil Cook is not
4AbC oO SCFCAS Al 1llS dIIALuuS tOWdFu
corporations who have failed to pay
their registration tax to the state
Several hundred corporations, both
foreign and domestic, have failed to
cowply with the Georgia law and are
subject right now to a penalty of $50
fine if the Secretary of State saw fit to
enforce it.
But Secretary Cook has decided to
give them one more chance. He has
sent out letters this week to all the
tardy corporations written in red ink,
though he is not using the squll and
cross bones, in which he states that he
viii accept the registration fee now if
they will pay at once; otherwise he
says the fine goes.
By making prompt settlement with
the tsate, the delinquent corporations
can save this $50, and to man up q
ire it looks like good business to do it
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04
DEATH CLAIMED
JEFF D. WHITE
VERY SUDDENLY
AWAY IN CAROLINA
Wealthy Resident Of Sumter
Died There

The announcement here on Sunday
of the death of Mr.. Jeff D. Whittlc,
which occurred the evening previous
in Blackville, S. c., where he had
formerly resided, was a surprise 10
his friends here and much regretted,
for while not in the best health r.
Gently, none suspected that the end
was so near at hand.
Mr. White left Americas several
days ago for Blackville, where he had
long resided before removing to Amer
icus and where he has large interests.
He was seized with sudden illness on
Saturday evening and passed away
within brief time
The funeral and interment, it was
stated, occurred there on Monday af-
ternOon. He is survived by his wife
and one young daughter, who are in
Blackville.
Mr. Whittle was a planter of large
means and of aggressive ideas. Be-
sides possessing very valuable landed
interests in South Carolina, he owned
also the fine Bagley plantation of 1000
acres near Americas, which he had
purchased upon coming here three
years ago, at price exceeding $685.
900. .
1t is stated that Judge James A.
Hixon, of Americas, was named in M.
Whites will as executor of his estate.
He carried life insurance of about
$4,000.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04
(By Edna K. Wooley.)

There still remains an idea in the
feminine mind that it's a cinch to be
married. Our novel-reading and pic
Notwithstanding girls continue 70
believe that the easiest job on earth is
that of the wife.
Did l say job? A mistake. They
continue to believe that the wife
hasn't any job at all The unmarried
woman unconscious.y is of the same
opinion as the United States govern
ment, which puts down the married
woman as a person of mo occupa-
ton
One would think that after a girl
has observed how her mother must
bear burdens, both physical and men,
tall after she had learned that every
body has time to spare for herself eG-
cept mother; after, perhaps, girl has
left home to get away from the drearJ
routine of household duties and home
impecuniosity; one would think,
say, that she would fight shy of such
conditions for herself.
But among the mass of femininity
there's an inbred faith in man as 4
miracle worker. 1t comes from gen
erations of womans enforced depend
ence upon men as providers. Men
haven't always provided well, by anv
means. Still, they keep up the bluff,
and woman still feels that if she can
only get husband she may be an ir-
responsible lady of leisure for the rest
Of her life.