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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-02
LAND SALE.
State of South Carolina,
County Of Laurens.

Pursuant to a decree of the Court
OF Common Pleas in the case Of l.. X.
Henry VS.. Dora Stoddard ct al, / will
sell at public outcry to the highest
bidder, at Laurens c. H., S. C. on
Salesday April next, being Monday
the 7th day of the month, during the
legal hours for such sales, the follow
ing described property to witt
All that tract of land situate in
Laurens County in said State contain
ing twenty-eight and LAight-tenths
(2S S-10) acres more or less, bounded
by lands Of Max Saxon, ]. 1. Cook and
h. L. Henry and on the East and West
by the waters of Durbin Creek.
Terms of Sale: cash. Purchaser to
pay for papers. If the terms Of sale
are not complied with, the land to be
resold on same or some subsequent
Salesday on same terms, at risk of
former purchaser.
c. A. POWER,
G. c.. C. p & G. S., Laurens, S. C.
Dated, this March 10, 1913. 33-4t
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-02
PASTURAGE NOTICE.

Darlington Pasture fence in good
repair by March lst. If you wish
pasturage see me at once.
When capacity OF meadow is reach
ed no other cattle will bE enrolled or
admitted. No cattle allowed there
without my permission.
Positively no tresspassing allowed.
Also few acres land adjoining the
meadow on North Harper street for
rent.
See me at once
G. II. ROPER.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-02

You will look a good while before
you find better medicine for coughs
and colds than Chamberlain's Couhg
Remedy. 1t not only gives relief-it
cures. Try it when you have a cough
or cold. and you are certain to be
pleased with the prompt cure which it
will effect. For sale by ali dealers.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-02
REUNION NOTES.

Chattanooga. Tenn, March 81
Chattanooga has decided TO raise tom
$4,000 to $4,000 for entertainment of
the reunion of confederate veterans to
be held here May 27-29. Committees
are at work securing cash and sub
scriptions from the business men ani
concerns Of the city and community
The fund will be secured without de-
lay.
Since the formal organization near
ly two months ago, the. reunion work
has been pushed with energy by thir-
ty committees. The camp for the vet
erans has been selected and named.
1t will be in Jackson Park, a splen-
did location near the business section
of the city. The camp can be reached
by three street car lines, all of which
will operate. special schedules to ac-
commodate the veterans. 1t is plan
ned to have street car pass the camp
every minute.
The camp has been named Camp
Stewart" in honor of the late Gen.
A. p. Stewart, the renowned Confed-
crate chieftain. Tents and cots to the
number of 1,400 and 10000 respective
ly, have been secured from the United
States war department for the camp.
The official program of the reunion
has not as yet been completed 1t
Will provide, however, fr the custom
airy parades. social functions and 9TH
er entertainments.
The first general mass meeting to
hear reports from the various com
mittees was held in the auditorium
Of the chamber of commerce Monday.
March II. This meeting was largely
attended and much enthusiasm pre-
vailed. The question OF parades was
discussed at this meeting, and very
decided sentiment was shown for three
parade. If this plan is finally adopt
ed, there will be n parade of maids of
honor and sponsors, a parade of Sons
Of Confederate veterans and one for
question was not finally settled how
ever, at the mass meeting.
All who may be interested in the
coming reunion of the confederate vet
Grams are assured that Chattanooga
will discharge every Obligation that
was shouldered when the veterans were
asked to come here for their reunion
last year at Macon
An attendance of from 100000 to
100000 is expected and Chattanooga
will entertain it,
Every possible effort is being made
to arrange for the comfort and amuse-
ment of the veterans and other vsi-
tors while here especially the vcter-
ans, for all realize that the veterans
are of first Importance in whatever the
citizens of Chattanooga do.
Aside from the events which are
connected with the reunion itself such
as are held in every city where the
reunion goes, special committee is
| working up a series of amusements.
| Among these will be a very fine spec
tacular display, the familiar story of
THE Pied Piper of Ham lin," acted hy
from 1900 to $500 persons, mostly
children, at Warner Park, the aity's
43 acre playground. There will be
flights in the air once or twice a day
by some skilled aviator. These and
other events will make program for
spare moments, and the principal fea-
lures will be held close to the ve,cr-
ans camp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

to temper the heat. The bed chambers
all open upon this court. which Is amply
adorned with handsome flowers in sea-
son, so that artistic taste is gratiaed and
bodily comfort enjoyed. It is an ideal
haven for those whose shadows of life
are falling toward the east and whose
friends have already crossed over the
great divide"
As Stratford- -upon-Avon is known as
the Shakespeare country. SO is Coventry
designated as the land OF George Eliot
MARY Anne Evans). for here is Bird
Grove, the house in which the great au-
thoress resided with her father. and here
is also Ivy cottage, where she SO often
paid those visits of confidence to her
friend, Mrs. c. Bray.
Within brief radius from the town
are three celebrated abbeys, not including
Kenilworth. These are Whitley, Stone
leigh and Coombe. all of intense interest
historically ana great beauty arcnirect-
urally.
At the last mentioned abbey Elizabeth.
daughter of James I, spent her girlhood
and here she retired after the death of
her husband, the Elector Frederick, King
of Bohemia.
Yes, surely Coventry is one OF the by
ways of dreamland, a spot to dream in.
to sigh in. to smile in. To dream of the
fair Lady Godva and her erstwhie glo-
rious pageantry. to dream of the noble
st. George and his boyhood; to sigh for
the splendors of her past that are now
no more and to smile at the nonehalence
of the old scamp. 'Peeping Tom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

character of the English maid is taken
from this play; others maintain that her
name signifies Queen of May and that she
is the legitimate successor of the Ged-
dess Flora in the Roman festival. and
still others that she was character of
pure dramatic fiction.
Her legends differ, some accrediting her
with being the mistress of Room Hood,
others a virtuous maid serving the cut
law in the garb of a page and others
again that Marian was a name assumed
by Matilda, daughter of Robert Lord
Fitzwalter. while Robin Hood remained
in state of outlawry. Matilda was
poisoned by King John at Dunmow pri-
ory, after he had several times offered
her violence.
After the Morris degenerated into a
piece of coarse buffoonery Maid Marian
was impersonated by a clown and the
once elegant Queen May was known as
MallSin.
The fool was the ancestor of our mod
ern circus clown, at least so far as his
garb is concerned. He wore a blue hood,
tipped with a bell, red double and yell
low girdle. His left leg was eneased in
yellow hose with a red shoe and his right
limb with blue hose soled with red leath-
er. His favorite posture was to use
dogs tail as flute, running his fingers
up and down the back of the canius as
though he were manipulating the keys
of that instrument.
The hobby-horse was an unique and
Indispensable character. Ii was construct
ed of pasteboard and encompassed the
figure of the actor who pranced around
in true equine fashion, performed nets
of legerdemain and daring tricks. In his
mouth was a ladle, on an inflated bladder,
in which the spectators cast their pecuni-
airy donations. So indispensable was the
hobby-horse considered to the Norris
dances that when the character was
finally omitted the illusions to the omis-
sion were frequent in old plays. and
Shakespeare uses the line in Hamlet
For o, for o, the Hobby-horse is for
got"
Tom the Piper was a sort of squire
minstrel or minstrel of the superior cr-
der and he carried shield. AS to ililr
I venture to throw out this suggestion
the similarity of sound between piper and
peeper may have been the origin of"Peep-
ing Tom" Both We're named Tom, both
are at least partially armed ana both are
associated with the Coventry pays
In connection with the srear Coventry
fair it will not be inopportune nof l9cl.-
ing in interest to speak briefly of the sim
liar great fairs at one time prevalent
throughout England and of their pecu-
liar features.
They had their origin in the old guilds,
which We're the forerunners of our mod
ern trades unions.
These crafts had to contend with many
OF the same problem that confront labor
today. Their greatest struggle was with
the practices of 'regrating,' 'forestall-
ing and "engrossing." The first consist
ed in buying to sell again at higher
price without having nude any addition
to the value of the goods. the second was
the buying at the place of production
before the goods came into open market,
and the last was the purchasing OIL the
entire stock or "cornering the market. :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
A FLAXEN HAIRED HEROINE
WHO WOULDN'T BE A PRUSSIAN
BY RICHARD $. SCOPE.

because ] shall have to pay three
marks more taxes" said materialistic u
rich
Because the Prussians are brutes," said
idealistic Dorothea. 'They eat cock
reaches"
This conflict between materialism and
idealism precipitated the tragedy. In the
week of the deputation Herr Ulrich's un-
Gle died and left him five COWS and twelve
acres in the district of Mansfield. Herr
Ulrich was pleased. His pleasure passed
when he discovered the land badly needed
draining, and could not be drained salts
factorily because clrcumjacent Prussia
controlled all water rights. A diabolical
thought flashed on Ulrich. He .remem-
bered that if the bill handing Sollnitz and
Mansfield to Prussia became law he would
be able to drain his land He could afford
to pay the three marks taxes, as drainage
would increase his land in value by a
hundred, And he fell. He took the side
of drainage and Prussia; seeded from
Dorothea and the Sollnitz villagers, and
joined the caitff faction which proposed
to abandon Anhalt to the hereditary foe.
When the news reached Sollnitz Doro-
thea's blue eyes flashed fire. She indited
fierce note to Herr Urich expressing
her loathing, and added sooner than
marry you | would marry a horse" She
hinted that she would take terrible ven
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
By Ways and Thy Ways To Drean11ard

mass OF brick and debris made famous
by Sir Walter Scott. and chasing the
sheep that Craze increasingly within
the enclosure, I embraced the oppor-
tunity to take a run up to Coventry
and interview that old scamp whose
curiosity had rendered him blind. that
jolly scapegrace known as @Peeping
Tom," and whose acquaintance I had
long desired to make.
It was probably not so much for the
love of "Peeping Tom" himself that l
desired to cultivate him, as for his
association with that sweet legend of
self-sacrifice connected with the Lady
Godiva and the sweeter inscription,
Il, Lurichi, for the love of thee, doe
make Coventry tol-free."
I found him in all his glory peeking
boldly out of second-story window ON
Hertford street. one of the chief thor
oughfares of the city, for Coventry is
now place over 10000 souls.
1t was back in the 11th century
when Tom acquired his fame and the
town was a county seat under the
rule of Leofric. Earl of Mercia, and
to commemorate the episode in which
the scamp participated occasional pro-
cessions have been held there ever
since
Leofric had imposed hard and griev-
Gus service upon the people of Coventry
and his countess, Godiva, frequently
implored him to free them from the
imposition. Finally, in a moment of
irritation, the lord declared that he
would never accede to the requests of
his wife unless she would consent to
ride divested of all raiment from ono
end of the town to the other in the
sight of the inhabitants. The lady's
gently replied was, But will you give
me leave to do so?" I.eofric was COM
PEELED to reply in the affirmative and
Godiva went through the terrible or
deal screened only by her long flowing
locks of hair which fell to her knees.
The husband, however, relented of his
harshness and before the good patron
ess performed her task, an order was
issued requiring all the inhabitants,
on pain of death, to remain within
their houses during her progress. A
tailor, however, whose curiosity was
not to be restrained by this penalty,
resolved to have peep at the fair
countess, but he paid for his presImp-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

ton by the immediate loss of mis- sight
and has ever since been known as
''Peeping Tom
The effigy of Tom. is very old, IS
more than life size and is hewn from
simple piece of oak wood. The
figure is followed out in the back to
reduce its weight, and originally was
clad in complete armor except that
the crest of the helmet was cut away
to make room for a flowing wig.
When the enlarged procession was
instituted in 1878, the appearance Of
Tom, who participated in the parades.
was considerably altered. He was
painted to show the resemblance of
clothing, a long cravat and huge
shoulder-knots adorned his person and
his head was supplied with d hat cor
responding to the style of the period.
But hat, cravat and shoulder-knots
have not all vanished and military
chapeau now adorns his Uranium.
Again, the figure originally had the
lower portion of the arms, which are
now missing, attached to the trunk by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

The fairs we're chartered BY the King,
but they were under the direct super
vision of the guilds of the localities where
they were held. THY belonged to private
persons and at first were held IN he
churehyard. but this practice was pro-
hibited by law later as a scandal. Then
they were located in field or upon a
gentle hillside just outside of the town,
where wooden booths were erected in long
rows. To try and punish cases of fraud
courts were established known as pie
powder from the French pied poudre,
or dusty foot. indicating that SO ready
We're the litigants TO adjust their claims
that they came to court with the dust
of the market road still upon their SHOES.
Juries were frequently drawn consisting
of merchants of the fair who were not
personally Interested in the dispute. The
members of the guild were responsible for
the laches of their respective members
and the property of any individual might
be attached for the wrong Of the delin-
quent one
So jealous were the marketmen, guilds,
and towns of foreign trade that merchants
from abroad were required by law TO re-
main in the town not longer than 40
DAYS and should not patronize an inn. but
board In the household of local mer-
chant who could thus keep an oversight
upon his movements and who was held
responsible If his guest violated any mer-
camille or civic law. The great fair of
Mini Novgorod, in Russia. Is the last
remnant of the fairs that were once so
powerful and so popular throughout Eu-
rope.
Coventry also possesses in st. Michaels
church one of the finest ecclesiastical
buildings in England. The edlice of red
sandstone is noble specimen of the per-
pendieular style of architecture and its
spire rises to the height of 312 feet. 1t is
the largest parish church in England.
One of the most interesting spots in the
city is Ford's hospital charitable insti-
tuition which still preserves the domes-
tic style of the sixteenth century. l
know of no more placid or comfortable
scene than that of its aged inmates in
the court of the building with its log
pilasters and it's wooden rafters, a COM
bination of quaintness and eontentment.
The court is covered with glass for the
enjoyment of the sunshine in winter.
which glass may be removed In summer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
THE BEST OF LASCALA DANGERS
WANTS TO BECOME A DOCTOR
BY a. b. CoLMAN

She mastered dancing; and beat rival
pupils in everything that's taught-in
Italian, in history, in geography, in
music, in foreign languages. Her con-
duct and manners were model. When
she reached seventeen she even c5eyed
the schools Draconian DO not hfrtr
And then last spring with almond eyed
Lisa near her eighteenth birthday
came the little tragedy which made the
duke so sad
With five other maids the dukes
brightest protegees Lisa was to appear
for the first time publicly on the Scala
stage. All the audience, she was told
would applaud; and some would throw
nosegays. Lisa would be famous. Said
Lisa. 81 have headache;" and she did
not dance. Next morning she flew to
her patron. the duchess, and said. tear
ful-eyed: Il will not dance cverr
And why?" Because / am going to be
doctor l am learning Lat
in ." Learning Latin?"
''Yes secretly re-
fuse to be a ballet girl l apol-
oigize to the duke, my segneur. my
patron"
less noble duke would have
mourned his $4,000, and plauged his ill
luck at rearing a woman sawbones
when he. hoped to rear a Taglioni. But
when this duke heard of Lisa's way
wardness he said magnanimously:
Then she shall be a DOCTOR" And he
planked down another $4,000 for Lisa $
studies, for Lisa's support in comfort
while she dissects dead ballet girls legs.
La Scalla's ducal ballet school is high
up under the roof. The duke pays
every cent of the cost; his father paid
it before him. and his ancestor, famous
Duke Guido. founded 1t, and brass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

/" HE poet well knew whereof he
sang when he gave US
4 Highways and byways. blatant
ways and shy ways;
Paths of all the universe. old roads
4 and new
and to a majority of travellers 1t is
the byways that appeal most pctently
to them in their rambles along the
thoroughfares of the earth
10 be sure. one must traverse the
highways to become a cosmopolitan,
/ but to acquire graduation in the art
of travel one must also possess
thorough knowledge of the innumer-
able side paths that entertain. please
and instruct.
The highways of the old world TEEN
and allure with art centers and ruins.
the blatant ways of the orient and far
east fascination with the curious and
unconventional which is theirs, but Is
the shy way and the byway that al
lure us irresistably with either their
exclusive charm of scenic beauty or
the halo of legendary glory with which
they are enveloped. Some OF them
have names indelebly emblazoned upon
our memory by their association with
nursery rhymes learned at tho side of
crib or cradle. for there are indeed
few of US who have not ridden "a
cock horse to Banbury Cross. or who
are not familiar with the .Dr. Foster
who went to Gloucester in a shower
of rain;' others again have left
haunted spell that was woven in the
golden, dreamy days of adolescence
and still others have been the nectar
and ambrosia for our mental appe-
tites of youth or middle life. whether
the prandia1 sweet was enjoyed in the
hammock of a soft summer afternoon
or by the glow of winter enening's
hearth.
Nearly every visitor to England
shapes his intinary to include the
Shakespeare country with drive to
the castle of Warwick and an hour at
the ruins of Kenilworth. This is COM
mendable and almost indispensable but
how few have ever visited Coventry?
and yet that peculiarly historic town
is but fifteen minutes ride by rail
from the latter place.
While some of my companions a
few years ago were raving over that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

X 4 ILAN, October o-Cspecial.)-Mii-
MI lionaire Duke de visconti Mo-
Avx drona is sad. Almond-eyed Lisa
Panchetti-prettiest, slimmest, himblest.
sweetest of all his Scala ballet school
maids-obdurately declines to dance,
and makes the pale excuse that she
wants to be a doctor. She has beer
studying Latin, she says. and she
doubts whether dancing is as high a
trade as medicine. Millionaire Duke
di visconti Modrona is sad.
Millionaire Duke di visconti Modrona
is the richest, bluest- -blooded. bravest,
most generous of Lom mbardys dukes.
He is Milans only Maecenas. He
planks down the cash when La Scala
is hard up; and he supports entirely the
Scala ballet school. which aspires he
roically to sustain Italian dancing and
shame the upstart Russians back to
their hyperborean dens. How much
money the munificent duke spends OIL
this is known only to his banker and
himself, but he spent on Lisa Panchetti
alone a round $4,000.
Lisa Panchetti is golden. Duchess
kdi visconti Modrona first saw that. In
Corso Venezia one balmy summer eve,
her horses ran down seven-year- Lisa.
The duchess bore Lisa to her palace,
fed her with purple grapes, and bid her
sing. Lisa lifted her ragged skirts and
began to dance. That is not singing
said the duchess. 1T is" said Lisa.
.People sing with their lips." said the
duchess. They don't" said Lisa. And
she danced The wondering duchess
handed her over to the duke as a prom
Using pupil for his beloved Scala ballet
school.
Lisa did miracles. She won all prizes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Paints Street Lamp Globe

Because the new arc lamp in the street
at Fifth and Belle streets, Alton. shone
into his bedchamber and lighted 1t SO
he could not sleep. Alderman Max Rub
enstein of the Second ward Yesterday
painted the globe of the lamp black, says
the st. Louis Republic
Alderman Rubenstein left small por-
ton of the globe unpainted on the side
opposite his house. When he mad fin
ished he dared any man TO scrape the
paint off.
The matter has been referred 10 the
mayor, who said yesterday thae SO long
as no one complained, he would let it
so. but that if there was Il complaint a
new unpainted globe will be paced ON
the lamp,
Mr.. Rubenstein prosecuted the fight for
the white way on Belle street and worked
to get the lights on his street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

geance. IF my vengeance prevents you
and me being turned into Prussians," she
ended, then I heartily rejoice" This
dark hint at murder and suicide fright
ened Herr ulrich. He told the police
Next day blue-eyed Dorothea met him in
Il coppice and fired a bullet at his head.
She missed
Thereafter all joy went out of his and
his Dorothea's $ life. Dorothea sits In
Dessau jail. Herr Ulrich welded a maid
named Tuehter from Bitterfeld. who ran
away with his shepherd week after the
marriage Anhalt has finally resolved
to cede the lands to Prussia. Dorothea
Is said to take things philosophically. She
still persists that she is happy in having
escaped becoming a Prussian, and the ex-
amning magistrate (who holds that the
shot was probably not seriously meant)
reports the following dialogue:
"Were you aware that shots even if
fired without intent to kill would get you
into jail?''
IT was" said Dorothea, but a free
woman lodged in an Anhalt Jail is happier
far than slave at freedom in Prussia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
No Trouble About Sticking

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
First Drummer-"Confound 1t, Half the
sales / make don't stick
Second Drummer-"Get into my line
and you'll have no trouble. l sell muci-
lage"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-03-13
PERSONAL,

D. N. Undertake is here from
Weston.
Edgar f. Fighter is here from
IshS1nston.
s. A. Hays, of Glenville. is guest
at the Waldo.
W. W. Bishop, of Weston, is Wis
itor in the city.
Charles A. smoot Of Parkersburg,
is a visitor here.
R. s. Hutchinson, OF Fairmont, is a
city business visitor.
S. NJ. Stephen, of Wheeling. is in
the city on business.
Mrs, Lee Borgess. was here Thurs
day from Shinnston.
George I. Keener, of Weston. is
business visitor here.
M. B. Davis, of Salem. was here
Thursday on business.
"A. B. Davis. of Salem, was here
Thursday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Kelly were here
Thursday from Wallace.
Lucius Hoge, sr.. of Wheeling, is
visiting his sen, Lucius.
Bruce 7. Southern, of Terra Alta.
is city business visitor.
n. R. Reardon was here Thursday
from Folsom oh business.
o. J. Prunty. of West Union, is
transacting business here.
J. B. Catlett and family, of Mounds
Vile, are visiting in the city.
Cecil B Highland. of New Martins
vile, is a ely business visitor.
Clarence l.. Musgrave, Fairmont
undertaken, was a city visitor Thurs
day. = atE8M
Miss Garnet and Wilma Gaines, Of
Meigs avenue, former pupils at De
Sales Heights Academy at Parkers-
burg, left this city Wednesday after
non to be guests during retreat CIV
en- at that institute by the Sisters Of
the Visitation.