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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-07-22
Choice Real Estate for Sale!

| 40 acres of land. known as part of
the Martin Riddle estate. bounded by
lands of lG. NJ. Riddle and Mrs. Elmina
Owings. Price $40 per acre.
23-i acres, known as Duckett house
and lot, bounded by II. ID. Lake and
road leading to Madden station; 1-2
mile OF the city limits of Laurens.
Price 5000.
20 acres Of land, known as part of
the Martin Riddle estate, bounded by
lands of E. NJ. Riddle and others.
Price $50 per acre.
% acres of land known as b. r..
Todd's home, bounded by lands of S.
II. Burton, E. r. Traynham and Mrs.
Rosa Lee Craddock. This is a bcauti-
fml home at Narnie, station on G. &
w. {. railroad, miles from Laurcns.
rms home was built and improved in
i9i". Price S2,75o. Why not buy this
today?
100 2-3 acres, known as the Harris
Riddle home, with eleven room dwell
ing, fine barn and good outbuild:ngs.
Price $50 per acre.
us acres, more or less, known as
O. L. Hunter home. bounded by War
rior creek, NJ. II. Hunter, w. j. Elem
ing and others, with six room dwell
ing and four tenant houses, well i'm
proved. Price $4,000.
Us acres Of land near Ora, bound
ed by lands of Tom Poole, William
Bryson and others. with good i'm
provcmcnts will be sold very, very
low.
40 acres, more or less, known as w.
Z Powers homo, bounded by Y. B.
Taylor r. i. Smith and others, five
room cottage, for $1,000
4 - acres, known as A. b. Burns
home, bounded by A. B. Burns, s. 1,
Burns and Jim Nabors. Price 81 $50.
240 acres, more or less, known as
the Mat Owings place, bounded by w.
X. Cheek, c. B. Martin and others.
Dwelling and other outbuildings. This
Is the property of Mrs. Jane Owings.
who has a lifetime estate and will be
sold at her interest at $1,000 cash
81 3-i acres known as p. n. Owens
home, bounded by Mrs. Jane Curry, N.
ID. Garrett and others. Six-room cot
tage, barn and outbuildings and one
tenant house. Price $40 per acre.
Terms 1-3 cash, remainder in one and
two years.
53 acres, more or less, known as
Holcomb place, bounded by Butler
Garrett, j. II. Holcomb and others,
with four room dwelling and out
buildings. Price $50.
3-4 acres, more or less, known as
e. Il. Blakeley home, bounded by Y. C.
Hcllams, J. j. Dendy and fronting
Church street Eight room cottage
and outbuilding, city water, with
lights. Fine pasture. Price $4,000.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-07-22
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ILLUSTRATED 81 LAUREN STOUT

She do? Would she say anything
Perhaps she would faint. ;"
Shirley started violently. Her hands,
as they drew her cloak uncertainty
about her, tegan to tremble, as If with
cold. Something fell from them to the
bottom Of the surrey
Through her chiffon veil Katharine
noted this with slow smile. 1t had
been easier than she had thought. She
said no more, and the carriage rolled
on, TO the accompaniment of giggles
over the judges peroration AS it
neared the Rosewood lane she leaned
toward Shirley.
You have dropped your fam" said
she and your gloves. too
| might have reached them for you.
Why, we are there already. How short
the drive has seemed!"
Don't drive up the lane, Lige,"
said Shirley, and her voice seemed
sharp and strange even to herself.
'The wheels would wake mother"
Katharine bade her goodby with care
full sweetness, as the judge bundled
her down in his strong friendly arms
NO" she told him. don't come with
me. It's not a bit necessary. EN-
maline will be waiting for me-"
He climbed into her vacant place as
the girls called their good nights
We'll all sleep late enough in the
morning, l reckon he said with a
laugh, but it's been great SUGGEST"
.
Emmaline was crouched in chair
In the hall, rug thrown over her
knees, in open-mouthed slumber. She
started up at the touch Of Shirleys
hand, yawning widely.
Il clare to goodness" she muttered,
II was les fixin' t. go t sleep!"
TIN SO tired, Emmaline Take
the crown. It's heavy"
The negro woman untangled the
glittering points from the meRhine
hair with careful fingers. "Po' Ill
chickydee-dee!" she said lovingly
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-07-22

| "Reck'n she flop all tn feddahs outer
her wings. Gimme that o. tin crown
i like ter lam it out tn winder!
! Come on, now; we go upstairs soft
SOS not ter 'sturb Mis- Judith"
| In the silvery-blue bedroom, she
| deftly unfastened the hooks Of the
heavy satin gown and coaxed her mis-.
tress to lie on the sofa while she un.
iinncd the masses Of waving hair till
they lay in rich surge over the
cushion. Then she brought brush
and crouching down beside her, began
with long gentle strokes to smooth out
the silen threads, talking to her the
while in a soft grooming monotone.
Under these ministrations Shirley
lay languid and speechless, her eyes
closed. The fear that had stricken
her heart by turns seemed a cold hand
pressing upon its beating and an aIgid
Vapor rising stealthily over 1t. But
her hands were hot and her eyelids
burned. Finally she reused herself.
Thank you, Emmaline," she said
IN tired voice, good night now; Tn
going to sleep, and you must go to
bed, too"
But alone In the warm wan dark,
Shirley lay staring open-eyed at the
ceiling. Slowly the terror was selling
upon her, the dread, noiseless and in
tangible, folding her in the shadow OF
its numbing wings. Was her mother
the one over whom that old duel had
been fought? She remembered the
cape jessamines. Was the date Of
that duel-of the death Of Sassoon-
the anniversary her mother kept?
She sat up in bed, trembling. Then
she rose, and opening the door with
caution, crept down the stair, sliding
her hot hand before her along the
cool polished banister. AS she passed
through the lower hail. hound on the
porch. scenting her, stirred, thumped
his tail on the flooring, and whined.
Cropping her way to the diningroom,
she lighted candle and passed
through corridor into a low-ceiling-
cd chamber employed as a general re-
ceptacle--a glorifed garret, as Mrs
cambridge dubbed it.
1t showed strange assemblage! A
row of chests, stored with winter
clothing, gave forth a clean pungent
smell OF cedar, and at one side stood
an antique spinet and O worn set Of
horsehair furniture.
Shirley had turned her miserable
eyes on a bookshelf along one wall.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-07-22

Mrs. Mamie Turner, the old lady
here pictured, lives at one of the
lodges Of Cholm0ndeley castle, Che
shire, England, which has been her
home for more than so years. Though
she is more than hundred years old,
she retains all her faculties and pos
sesses strength which is remafkab ble
In one OF her years. Besides attend
Ing to household duties, she makes
1t her business to go into the woods
daily to gather fuel for the fire.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-07-22

lnvigoratlng to the Pale and SickIy
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria enriches the blood a nd builds mp the sys.
ten. true tonic. For adults and children. SOC
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-18
Helen Keller.

of the United States, is a Socialist
and believes in Union Labor.
81 believe she said, that every
workingman should put his hands in
his pockets and leave them there I'M
til he gets living wage.
THE most terrible thing on earth
to me is that in a world full of plenty
and beauty so many thousands of
useful people, those who do all the
work, should have to live in igno-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-18
HELEN KELLER, BLIND SEES GREAT LIGHT
THAT WILL PURIFY THE WORLD

rance, poverty and disease That is
much more terrible than being blind.
81 am the happiest woman in the
world. Why shouldn't be when
everybody is so good to me?
Being blind doesn't matter! | am
nearer the great soul of things than
many who see My mind and soul
see right and my words and life may
help bring it to the thousands who
are shut in the darkness of ignorance.
am not blind to claims of justice nor
love. l can see the great light that
will purify the world, l see that the
one big obstacle to the coming of
the new day is ignorance.
Nobody has ever given her any
thing but the best. From Carnegie to
the section hands along the railroad,
everybody has brought her some kind
message wherever she has Travelled.
When she travels on the railroad Sec
ton hands along the line leave their
work to run and bring her flowers,
fruit or some other little offering.
But for all this Helen Keller is a
Socialist. To her nothing is right
that is not right for the good of all.
With all her favors her soul is in
tensely and passionately for the suf-
fering masses.
After woman can admire her
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-18

After a woman can admire her
husband without a white collar on,
that marriage is safe.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-18

happened to have that phial-you're
welcome to it."
Then you saved my life-for
nothingH shouted the excited Moore.
well, not exactly" answered the
young doctor SLOWLY hoped you
would appreciate my services enough
to give me Ruth"
Take her" cried old John Moore
spontaneously.
And he never knew all the truth
about the radium, and Ruth and her
happy husband made up for their in
nocent deception by helping to make
John Moore's last days his best days.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-18

And then the artful young physi-
clan left the house after few words
with Ruth.
The next day John Moore was
well" No more fatal sensations!
He did nothing but eat and, sleep for
a week, making up for lost time.
Then he sent for the doctor
"Curedp' he announced, delirious-
ly happy with relief and hope.
Il guess you are, Mr.. Moore" as
serted Parton. ..
''The radium did it-a terrible bill,
l suppose?"
"Oh, no." replied Parton easily, 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
BENEFITrING THE RAILROADS

TT develops that President Wilson's
proposal to repeal the tolls exemp-
q tion clause of the Panama Canal
law would not only be surrender
of the canal to Great Britain, but
would place the independent shipping
interests of the United States in direct
competition with that of the grea,
American and English owned Mexican
transcontinental railroads
President Taft and a majority of
those in control of the national gov
ernment in 1912, when the canal regu-
lations were under consideration,
realized that there would be no benefit
to the people il the transcontinental
railroads were permitted the use OF
the Panama Canal. They understood
that such a course merely would
transfer the freight monopoly from
rail to water--so they ruled that the
92 per cent. of coastwise vessels owned
by the railroads should not be per-
mitted to use the canal, but that inde-
pendent American ownership might
pass WilHOul charge.
This Republican-made law was de.
signed to curb the great railroad mo.
nopolies on one hand and on the other
to encourage the creation of a grea
American coastwise merchant marine.
Now comes President Wilson to de-
| stroy all this at g. blow and to Civ,
back to the big railroad interests tn,
| advantage of which they were abou
to be robbed; and more than that, tt
protect the English owned Tehuan
tepec railroad. which crosses Mexico
at its narrowest point. This compan,
is dominated by a British syndicat,
headed by Lord Cowdray and the Eng
lish ambassador to Mexico. 1t enjoy
the greatest overland monopoly OF
this continents monopoly that wouls
be put out of business IL American
ships were permitted free use of tn,
Panama Canal Here we find Yer,
special reason why persons Influential
In the English government are insist
| ing on the repeal of the tolls exemp
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
REA,s ASSERTION SUSTAINED

RESIDENT SAMUEL REA. Of
= y the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany, a few days since denied
emphatically the truth of a re-
port that the recent railroad retrench-
ments had been made only for the
purpose of forcing the government to
grant a per cent. increase in freight
rates and not because of any decrease
in earnings. President Rea's asser-
ton is apparently sustained by returns
for February of fifty representative
railroad systems in all sections of the
country, with a mileage of 161, 900,
as reported by the Wall Street Jour-
nal, an authority on statistics Of that
character.
According to the figures of the
Journal, these fifty railroads for the
period named show decrease in gross
earnings of 1888 per cent, while net
earnings decreased 42.1S per cent.
This compares with decrease in gross
of 1853 per cent. and decrease OF
1881 per cent. in net, for January.
February makes the fifth successive
month of the decline in railroad earn
ings and is by far the worst showing,
especially as regards the net. Since
September each month has shown a
greater falling off Of business as COM
pared with the previous year. The
February returns as q. matter of fact
make a poorer comparison with jan
uary earnings than the percentages
would indicate, as the month of Feb
ruary. 1918, showed but small in
creases over 1912.
All sections of the country have felt
the effects of general trade reaction,
although some sections have been
affected to lesser extent than others,
The southern roads report the small
est decreases in both gross and net,
but this showing Is somewhat fictitious,
as comparison Is with a. poor month in
1918 when the cotton movement was
exceptionally small
These returns indicate that the rail-
roads are doing just what any other
business would do--cut expenditures
when receipts fall off.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
STAND BY THE PRESIDENT

- OLITtCS will be forgotten at the
- national capital to-day. AS in
i every previous situation fnvolv-
ing the honor of the country, all
factions of Congress will unite in
supporting President Wilson in what
ever policy he may recommend in
dealing with Mexico.
We may believe that the invasion
now impending might have been pre-
vented by a show of frmness earlier
in the administration, but this does
not alter the fact that we are now
face to face with condition not OF
our own making and which demands
for President Wilson the unqualified
support of every good American.
The President has been forbearing
in the present incident almost beyond
the limits of patience. He has given
Huerta every opportunity in the world
TO save himself. The Mexican pro-
visional President, nevertheless, has
persisted in his ununderstandable
course. There is nothing left for us
to do but what we have said we would
do.
But it should be borne in mind that
the United States has no quarrel with
the people of Mexico as a whole. We
have no grudge against Mexico as a
nation and If we do go into Mexico,
as is now apparent, it ought to be with
the set purpose of establishing a firm
and stable form Of government. We
ought to be prepared to pursue the
same course there as we did in Cuba.
We are interested only in seeing law
and order re-established south of the
Rio Grande and it may be that the
Tampico incident will pave the way to
that end.
At all events, this is not time for
criticism. Politics should be forgot
ten, as they undoubtedly will be. The
President should, and doubtless will
have the hearty support of the whole
American people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20

expects prominent men for it's speak
ers at next months function.
-Dimmick will be here tonight on
his way to Carlisle.
Palmer has not yet put up that
car for Judge Garman
Congressman w. d. b. Ainey will
be candidate for congress- -at-large.
-Philadelphia single takers endors-
led Ryan for governor at meeting
held yesterday.
Bull Moosers appear to be suffer-
ing from internal combustion just like
Democrats.
Congressman Rothermel is eX-
pected to meet Dewalt in debate with
in q few weeks
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
A NAvIGABLE sUsoUEHANNA

'-HE current issue of the Bulletin
of the Atlantic Deeper Water
i ways Association calls attention
to the fact that widespread In
terest has been aroused throughout
Central Pennsylvania by the bill in
troduced in Congress by Mr. Moore for
a survey of the Susquehanna river.
The Bulletin asserts that nowhere
else in the United States has stream
of the magnitude of the Susquehanna
been so neglected by the government.
Attention is called to the fact that the
tically blocks the stream. was built
on the mere order of tho War Depart
ment, declaring the river not navi-
gable above the Maryland line.
Says the Bulletin. commenting on
this:
We do not know the reason for
such an order, or the difference as
between the Susquehanna and the
Mississippi for instance, above the
keokuk DAM Rapids exist. in both
streams, and. while navigation may
be obstructed at certain points, 1t
is going long way to condemn the
whole stream as not navigable.
Both these great dams were de-
signed by the same engineer and
built for the same purpose, but tho
people along the Mississippi We're
more alive to the value of their
river, and saw to 1T that an ade-
quate lock was included in the Mis-
sissippi dam, while it was only with
considerable difficulty, and after the
completion of the McCalPs Ferry
dam, that even so much as a fish
way was built there. 1t Is with no
desire to injure the power COM
pany that attention Is called to the
unusual nature of it's privilege,
but, in fairness to the millions of
of the Susquehanna, something
should be done to revise the de-
partments order and to provide
for the construction of a lock at
the McCalrs Ferry, and in any dam
built above that point.
Whether or not the Susquehanns
will ever be open to navigation as fal
north as Harrisburg is much mootet
question. but at all events the govern
ment should at least see to it that n,
obstacles are put in the way of suc1
a project If ever undertaken. TIL,
power dams that in the course O
time it is logical to suppose will mari
the stream at frequent intervals
should, as the Bulletin points out, b,
made helpful rather than hindrance.
to navigation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20

ton clause-they are patriotic because
their personal pocketbooks have been
touched. :
Thus 1t will be seen that the main
beneficiaries of the Presidents policy
would be the big railroad interests
here and abroad and that the victim,
as usual. would be poor old Mr.. Com
mon People. However, it must not
be forgotten that President Wilson
has a reputation to sustain in tho
English newspapers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20

H. BALDWIN,, state Fire Marshal,
has issued cleanup" bulletin,
10 which gives fire protection as a
reason for Spring renovation.
Mr.. Baldwin says that large num-
bers Of fires have been caused by care
lessness and putting off until to-mor-
row what can be done to-day. After
a neighborhood fire, he asks, have YOU
not gone home and looked about to
see If there was not some such cause
for fire about your own place and
cleaned up and in a little while for
sotten all about 1t, and maybe in a.
short time had a fire in your own
house, from possibly the same cause,
and have ever since been struggling to
build new home and get out of debt Z?
Would it not have been better to
have kept cleaning up? asks the Mar
shal. Getting rid of fire caused by
trash?
Join at once the fire prevention cru
sade that is sweeping the entire coun-
Try, he advises, and get your neighbora
together In thorough cleanup. Let
your motto be CLEAN AND KEEP
CLEAN" Look after your buildings.
See that they are in good repair; If
not, put them in repair and keep them
30. Remove all rubbish from, in or
about your buildings. Keep gasoline.
oils and other like combustibles ont
of them. See that the chimney of your
house is clean before putting up stoves.
See that matches are kept in safe
place and away from children, rats
and mice.
This is a new line of thought on
cleanup week, quite as important as
the health reasons outlined in Mayor
Royals proclamation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
Petitions
Roll Into
Capitol
POLITICAL SIDEuCHIS
Saturday nights meeting

Saturday nights meeting does not
seem to have met approval in Market
Square.
The warning Democratic faction
leaders will concentrate their efforts
in the vicinity of Philadelphia to-
day.
The war scare was nothing COM
pared to discussions among Democrats
of estimates of the attendance at Sat
urday nights meeting.
Ryan is going to follow up Nc
Cormick in northwestern counties.
Paste April 20 In your hat. It's
the last day to register in Harrisburg
The Harrisburg Republican Club
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
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"yyHERE'S. MY UMBRELLAr'
BY Wing Dlnger

BY Wing Dinger
hate these rainy days, because
They always cost me money;
To buy umbrellas every time
Long since ceased to be funny.
I'll buy a bran new bumbershoot
And to some places go,
The rain slacks UP, it's left behind,
But where, 1 do not know.
Because / never think of 1T
Until next time it pours,
And ! must have protection IL
/ want to go outdoors.
think and think, but strange to say,
No matter how I try,
cannot think where it was left,
Another 1 must buy.
1t wouldn't be so bad, If those
Who come to my office
Would leave their umbrellas behind.
But theirs they always miss.
And by some happy faculty
They always can recall
Just where they left them, and com
back
And all my fond hopes fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

From the Telegraph, April 20, 1891
Eggs is Cents
The prices of marketing are grad
ually declining. This morning butter
was offered at 35 to 40 cents, eggs at
| Is cents
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
Enemy Suffers Loss

New York, April 20.-A slight slkir-
mish took place at Compte, on the
End, ten miles above Grand Ecore, be-
tween the rebel General Marmaduke's
forces, numbering about 1000, and
the advance of Colonel Dudley's cav
airy. in which we lost ten mortaIly
wounded and seven slightly. including
four officers. The loss Of the enemy
was much greater.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Make II. mine

Make it. mine
To feel amid the city's jar
That there abides peace OF
thine
Man did not make and cannot
mar Matthew Arnold.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
JUDGE KUNKEHS POPULARITY
JUDGE KIJNKEI,'S nonular;+,, -.

JUDGE KUNKEL's popularity over
the State is well attested by the
petitions filed at the State De-
~ partment on Saturday. More than
10000 signers OF fifty-two counties
have pledged themselves to support
him for nomination as State Supreme
Court judge. More are to follow and
by the close of the week every county
in the State will be represented at the
State Department by a Kunkel nomi-
mating petition.
Judge Kunkel has we'll merited the
announcement his candidacy is meet
ing throughout Pennsylvania. No bet
ter qualified man ever submitted him
self for the high place OF Supreme
Court Judge. His friends In Dauphin
county are pleased to note the recog-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20

milton he is receiving at the hands OF
their neighbors in surrounding coun-
ties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
NL%Saf & R1lIRssTISFtkS tkSAe

tFrom the Telegraph. April 20, 1851
Banks Leaves Grand Ecore
st. Louis, April 19.-General Banks
army left Grand Ecore on the 9Th, and
the boats last out of the Red river re
port the fleet to be within q hundred
miles of Shreveport, and the men ex-
pected to reach there by the 18th.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20
Dedicate Wesley Church

On Sunday morning next, at 10
o'clock, the dedication of the Wesley
Union Church, corner South street near
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-20

Tanners alley, will take place. SpeI
cial arrangements have been maze fo|
the accommodation of the white Iopu
lation.