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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-16
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER.

WHERE wee feet patter down the
or Want and wretchedness and
Where weo eyes shine and wee lips
Upon n dream they may not know
Or where a mother marks their plea
And turns her misty eyes away
From where they cluster at her
knee
TO dream with her of Christmas
day.
God. hear their prayer through snow
and rain
Or wallng wind and driven sleet-
Let 1t not be they call In vain
To find their dream Of Christmas
sweet.
Let 1t not be their eager eyes
Shall look In vain through blur
ring tears
And find beneath Hfe's shadowed
skies
Tho hurt-tho Leartache OF tho
yearR-
God, answer them who stin bold
faith
Or clasp a dream 10 bravo and
true
That Christmas sends no phantom
wrath
TO those whose message wings to
you.
70 those who whisper through tho
night F..
OF one to como at mornings gieana.
o Father Of the Hearth Of Blight.
Give them to know their day OF
dream =
Where love is prone or vanished
far.
Where life's gray shadows haunt
their play.
Give them to know the eastern star
Which guides them to thy holi-
day:
Give them for this their day, at
least,
All absence from the bitter rod
And through the fullness Of their
feast
Tho heart to smilo up to their
God.
-Grantland Rice.
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-16
YOUNGS NEWS.

Youngs, Dec. 14.-Mr. Thomas Brady
and Miss Addie Ruth Mahaffey were
married yesterday by Alexander Alb
ercrombie, trial justice. at his resi-
dence.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. c. Smith visited the
family Of Mr.. Henry Prior's family
near Durham Saturday. Mrs. Prior Is
seriously i'll.
Mr.. lizzie Prior OF Gray Court was
in this section Wednesday.
Mr.. Austin Abercrombie and son,
Worth. spent last Monday night with
Mr.. Mills Cox's family near Lanford.
Mr.. c. e. Wilkie has returned from
North Carolina, with load of apples.
He said he didn't see any cabbage in
the part Of the country where he went
During the recent rain quite large
area of land along Milsl river in N. c.,
was overfowed and a great many
bushels Of corn. still standing in the
fields, were destroyed. Mr.. Wilkie
says a great deal Of grain has been
sowed between here and there.
Several from this community at
tended the entertainment at the
Friendship school Saturday night.
The rogues have begun their work
already this winter. Mr.. J. H. Aber-
crombie reports corn being stolen from
his field and last week. Mr.. J. j. Man
ly had about half Of his chickens stol-
en-. This neighborhood is usually re-
markably exempt from roguery Of this
Sort
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-16
Inspiration.

''At last" cried the musician, ~
have fame within my grasp" How
so?" asked his wife, who had heard
tho Same thing before. You know
Mendelssohn's Wedding March, and
the marvellous repute it brought
him" said tho musician. Eyes, but
what Of it?" We'll, I'm going to write
o divorce march."-Life.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-16
Fire Drill.

Factory Propretor-"Flre drill. II
you please, ladies'! Division A will
endeayor to batter down that locked
iron door; Division B will leap from
the windows; Division G will remain
quietly at the tables until suffocated-
all just as you would have to do in
case Of an actual fire. March!"-Life.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-16
sIimness Of Mr.. Stephens.

Speaking Of Alexander III. Stephens
thinness, perhaps it was never better
characterized than by the man in
Washington who said that when he
was standing on the steps Of the capi.
tol an empty hack drove up and Alex.
ander II. Stephens got out.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-16

Over one thousand people In city OF
LaurenS are eating that old fashion
Corn Meal. this week. 1t must be good
Phone 33.
Eichelberger Bros.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-16

Overcoat weather. We have the
coats at big saving.
Davis-Roper Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-16

Everybody is talking about that peck
OF good old fashion Corn Meal.
Eichelberger Bros.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
WEEKS NEWS
STORIES RETOLD
Events That Made a Stir Con-
densed to a Paragraph.
WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING
News of Interest That Trickles From
the White House and the Various
Observation-Disclosures of
Grimes and Casualties.
War Bulletins

General Carranza's note in which
he named his delegates to the media
tory conference reached Niagara Falls.
The "a. B. c." mediators read it and
telegraphed to General Carranza their
fear that he had not studied their final
communication to him. In this way
they automatically referred to his
failure to declare an armistice as a
first requisite to admission of his
delegates.
Brigadier General Medina Barron,
commander of the federals at Zacate-
cas-, was promoted to be a general OF
division in recognition of his victory.
The Mexican delegates at Niagara
Falls felt that the Washington gov
eminent is acting in bad faith and
that Mr.. Bryan is not observing the
conditions under which President
Huerta agreed to participate in the
mediatory conferences. They made
it plain that unless the United States
changes it's attitude the end of the
negotiations is near at hand.
The rebels failed to penetrate the
federal defences at Za~catecas, only
a few outposts having fallen into the
hands of General Natera. General
Villa, it was said in Juarez, would
soon be in supreme command of the
army in the south.
After reviewing the acts of Presi.
dent Huerta in the last few weeks
Washington was inclined to see in
him an inclination toward concilia.
ton that presaged success for medi
alton.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
Foreign

Germany has decided not to partici-
pate in the competition for the Davis
international tennis trophy this year.
A luncheon in honor of Colonel
Roosevelt was given in London by Sir
Edward Grey, British Foreign Secre-
tary. Premier Asquith was a guest.
Lightning killed six persons, four
of them children, and injured several
others in London.
The Upper House of the Danish
Parliament was dissolved by order Of
King Chr. stan.
The increase in cotton production in
India in ten years has been from
100000 to 5000. 900 bales.
Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian
author and playwright, has joined the
Anti-Collar League in Paris, composed
of students in the Latin quarter who
refuse to wear COLLARS
Another of the Zeppelin airships of
the German army, the 2 1, was wrecl
ed during a rainstorm near Dieden-
hofen. One lieutenant was injured.
A French military aviator named
Bist was killed at Nancy when his
machine fell while trying to complete
a 2,500-mile fight during a rainstorm.
Three large wharves and several
stores were destroyed by fire at Sgd
ney, Australia. The loss is $500, 900.
A prison governor was assassinat-
ed and a number of convicts killed
and wounded as the result of a re-
volt in the Spanish prison of Figueras,
in Catalonia Spain.
Militant suffragettes made a deter
mined effort to destroy the ancient
st. Markaret's Church in Shipstead,
near London, England, by fire. The
blaze was put out by attendants.
The Sports Association of Vernets,
France, has invited Colonel Roosevelt
to take part in a wild boar hunt.
A sergeant, a corporal and two sol
diers were killed at the Aerodrome in
Berlin when a benzine tank exploded.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
BLACK GETS A
PLACE ON Bench
Succeeds Voorhees, as Justice
of Supreme Court
SALARY Is $4,000 A YEAR
Makes the Supreme Court Democratic
for the First Time Since
the Election of Governor
Griggs in 1895.
SALARY IS $4,000 A YEAR

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-Governor Fielder appoint
ed Judge Charles C.. Black, of the
Circuit Court, as an Associate Justice
of the New Jersey Supreme Court
to fill the vacancy created by the
death of Justice Willard ]. Voorhees,.
Judge Black was the unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for Governor in
1904, when Murphy was elected by
5000 plurality. The appointment IS
an ad interim one and the Senate is
expected to confirm the nomination
for a full term of seven years when
it organizes in 1915. The salary is
$12,0 900 a year. Judge Black was born
on a farm near Mount Holly in 1858
and graduated from Princeton Uni
versity in 1878, later took a course
at Ann Arbor, Mich, and was ad-
mitted to practice law in New Jersey,
where he has lived ever since, sue
cessfully practicing until he was ap-
pointed a Judge of the Circuit Court
by Governor Fort in 1908. Prior to
that he had been a member of the
State Board of Equalization of Taxes
under an appointment by Governor
Murphy and a member of the Hudson
County Tax Board. He has prepared
a number of important treaties on
tax questions and is looked upon as
one of the highest authorities in the
State upon this subject.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
Washington

The Senate adopted an amendment
increasing the appropriation for the
collection of the income tax from ST.
100000 to $~1,500,O0O.
President Wilson sent a telegram of
coincidence to the son of former Vice
President Stevenson, who died on
Saturday.
The Supreme Court denied the petit
ton of Harry K. Thaw for release on
bail pending consideration Of his e
tradition from New Hampshire to New
York.
The Senate adjourned as a mark of
respect to the memory of the late AID
miral Adlai E. Stevenson, who was
vice-president in the second Cleveland
administration.
1t was announced that President
Wilson will leave Washington in
March, 1915, to oficiate at the open
ing of the Panama Canal at a date
to be determined later.
Patrolman Timothy O'Connor of
Brooklyn, was awarded a Congress
sional gold medal for saving the life
of two boys in Jamaica Bay last
winter.
President Wilson nominated NAL
colin A. Franklin, of Columbus, Miss,
to be Collector of Customs for the
District of Hawaii.
Senator Salisbury, of Delaware,
introduced a bill providing territorial
government in Porto Rico.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
DISSIPATION IN THE HORSE
Many Thousands of Dollars Lost to
Farmers From Cause That Might
Be Easily Prevented.
CBy GEORGE H. GLOVER. Colorado Ag-

(By GEORGE H. GLOVER. Colorado Ag-
ricultural Colege)
Judging by the number Of cases OF
fatal obstruction to the bowels in
horses that come to the notice of the
veterinarians of the Colorado Agrieul-
tural college, there must be many
thousands Of dollars lost to farmers
every year from this cause. And this
is a condition that might easily be
prevented.
In the winter time the roughage is
dry and s~ucculence must be provided.
A horse with good teeth and fed al
falfa, timothy, bluestem, r other we'll
cured hays, combined with grain and
plenty Of water, will seldom be af-
fected with impacted intestines. but a
ration of straw. or bleached alfalfa
stems picked up in the fields. COM
bined with a low vitality, cold, pool
teeth, and only snow or otherwise a
limited amount of water, will furnish
conditions which make fatal obstrue-
ton of the bowels possible.
The poorer the feed the more an ami
NAL must eat, and a ration of straw Or
poor quality Of hay, does mo- furnish
sufficient nutriment to make it pos
sible for a horse to eat enough to sup
port life. He eats inordinate a
titles of this highly ~indigestible food
which produces %distention, atony and
finally paralysis of the bowels.
Most of these cases cannot be
treated successfully but prevention is
easy. After all, it does MOI pay to
keep animals unless n knows how
and is willing TO care for them from
the day they are born.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
N. j., FRIDAY. JUNE 10. 1914.

Magistrate MCGUIRE in the Coney
island On. " Court fined 20 young
men from So to S. each for parading
on the beach in one-piece bathing
suits.
James w. Gerard, Ambassador to
Germany, denied the report that ne
would be a candidate for Governor of
New York.
The State Board of Prison Directors
issued orders barring vaudeville and
boxing as ~recreations in California
prisons.
The rinderpest, or cattle plague, FOX
the prevention of which the Legisla-
ture appointed provincial boards, is.
rapidly spreading in the Philippine
Islands.
The Federation of Women's Clubs
at Chicago have planned another
march OF the White House. President
Wilson will be asked to receive a
deputation Of women on June 80.
Captain Ernest E. West, recently
dismissed from the Marine Corps for
conduct unbecoming an officer, sho;
hth1oO4L Ill d uOC6l DIT CudLLduOOSd,
Tenn.
The thermometer registered 1O4 at
Yuma, Ariz.
J. R. Manley was struck by light
ming and killed while riding on a
street a at Westonburg, w. Va.
J. o. Gill, an n of Mount
Sterling, Ohio, was killed by falling
1000 feet when his parachute failed
to open.
The Rev. DR.: J. Ross Stevenson, of
Baltimore, was elected to the presi.
dency of the Princeton Theological
Seminary.
James G. McReynolds, Attorney.
General of the United States, is the
guest of the Tennessee Bar Associa-
ton at Nashville.
The first big wool sale of the sea.
son was made when nearly 1000, 900
pounds from Texas was sold to q
Boston firm.
President Wilson attended the re-
union of the class of 70 at Princeton,
of which he is a member.
Joseph F. Fischter, a confidential
employe of a jeweler in San Francis
co, was arrested in the mountains
near Santa Cruz, CAL, charged with
stealing jewelry valued at 100000.
The Cuban training ship Patrie ar
rived in New York on a four-month
cruise. The first request was for the
latest baseball news.
Two persons were killed and 20
houses destroyed during a severe cleo
trical storm which swept the vicinity
of Wheeling, w. Va.
Harold Lescard, six years old, of
Boston, was struck and killed by an
auto owned and driven by S. S. Childs,
the New York restaurant man.
The Kansas City Terminal Railway
will settle with the Fuller Construc-
ton Co. to take over the incompleted
Union Station and finish it with non.
union labor.
Frank w. Eddy, of Detroit, n of
the city's prominent business men, died
as d result OF the extreme heat. His
death makes the fourteenth fatality
in Detroit.
A report states that forest fires in
the vicinity north of Cornell, Mich.
have broken out with renewed vigor
and unless rain the damage
will be enormous.
Quincy Shambo and Frank Shran,
students at the Government Indian
School at Pipe Stone, Mimi, were
killed by a wind and rain storm which
demolished several buildings.
w. 1. Umphrey, of Dalton, Ga, a
Confederate veteran, II years old, was
sentenced to die for the murder OF
Joseph Pritchett, a neighboring far.
mer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19

New York.-America lost the Inter
national Challenge Cup presented by.
the Westchester Polo Club of New
port in 1886 to England when four
STRAIGHTFORWARD British c~avalrymen
won the second and deciding match
of the international polo series by a
score of 4 to 2 "a. The American
team, outclassed at the start, made
a desperate squirt at the end of the
game, and for a brief time held the
lead in the hard, thrilling contest.
With the score 3 IA to 8 in Amer
ica's favor in the last period, the ardor
and enthusiasm of the leaders spurred
them on with too great abandon, and
when Milburn fouled Capt. Cheape,
the game was lost to America, for the
half point penalty made the score 8
to 2 "a.
Then, while the crowd of 5000 peo-
pie yelled madly for the Yankee four
to ride roughshod over the invaders,
Major Barrett, the British leader,
dribbled the ball through the Ameri-
can defense and saFagely chopped it
through the goal posts for the final
count, which made the score 4 to 2 ga.
Nottingham did not have the easy
time it had in the first game. The de-
tenders, with Milburn at back, and
Larry" Waterbury at No. 8, played
like a new team. There were flashes
of the old dash and team work, which
made the "Big Four" famous. But it
was moi until the sixth period that the
Meadow Brook team found itself. It's
reckless horsemanship and terrific hit
ting then got into full play, and for
the first time the English players
were thrown upon the defensive.
America came on with a rush. Dew
ereux Milburn, the plucky American
back, forgot the pain of his battered
rib. Hanging over the neck of his
pony, Aeolus, he became a whole team
himself. When the forwards missed
the ball Milburn would sweep through
the melee of s~currying ponies and take
the ball from under the hoofs of the
English mounts.
Then it seemed that America might
win Hurlingham's invaders, the
flower of the British Army, were put
to a severe test. With the tide of
battle turning against them, the Eng
lish shifted the offensive tactics to
the defense.
In the last period, when a beautiful
goal by Milburn put the Americans in
front, for once the crowd went wild
with joy. There had been little chance
for American cheers in the matches,
and all turned loose pent-up enthusi-
asm. With a lead of but one-fourth
of a point, it was expected that the
American four would play safe and
hold their own. But there was no
s~ubduing their onrush now that vic
tory was almost theirs. In the thick
of a whirling scrimmage, Milburn
cross fouled Capt. Cheape and Ameri-
cas- chance was gone.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The country is passing through the
third serious epidemic of hog cholera
of the past 30 years, according to the
department of agriculture. The first
period reached it's climax in 1886 to
1887, when the loss amounted to
about 134 per 1000 head in n year.
The second outbreak developed in
1894, and reached it's climax in 1896
to 1897, when losses amounted to
IA per 1000 head. The present ex-
tensive epidemic Of hog cholera began
to be serious in 1911; during the ten
prior years the loss of swine ranged
from As to So per 1000 per year; in
1911 it jumped to 80, then to 10 in
1912, and to 119 last year, about 80
per cent of which may be attributed
to cholera. 1t has thoroughly ravaged
the heart of the hog-producing belt
during the year just past. In the
state of Iowa alone, losses amounted
to nearly 1900, 900 swine, over a fourth
OF the entire number in the state. In
many counties over half were lost,
and in some townships over nine
tenths.
The losses Of swine from disease
are estimated by the department at
119 to every 1000 hogs in the country
which exceeds last years heavy loss
of ITO per 1000, and the average year
ly loss in the preceding ten years of
$40 per 1000. Probably more than
so per cent of the loss was from
cholera. The percentage of loss ap-
piled to the estimated number of hogs
on January 1 indicates a total loss of
zoos, 900 head, which, at 5000, the
value per head on January 1, indi-
Gates a loss of $73, 900, 900. The aver
age weight of a hog on the farm is
about $50 pounds, therefore more than
one billion pounds of hog meat were
destroyed by disease, mostly cholera.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
Sporting

Eddie Collins, second basemaa Of
the Philadelphia American League
team, was offered a salary of $4,000
a year to play with the Brooklyn Fed,
erals.
All things being equal, there ap-
pears to be so little difference be-
tween the Resolute and the Vanitie,
one of which it would seem is sure
to be chosen to defend the Americas
Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's
fourth Shamrock, that lovers of
yachting will be satisfied no matter
which boat is selected.
The Resolute again defeated the
Vanitie in the final race for the cup
candidates off Sandy Hook by two
minutes, 35 seconds.
1t remained for the Pittsburgh. Reb-
els to take the measure of Doc Gran
dali, the defeat of the Doc being his
first as a Federal Lacquer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
General

Boston bootblacks voted to strike
for a wage of 50 a week and tips.
The Senate restored the mileage al
lowance for Senators and Represents.
tives.
President Wilson nominated John
B. McGouran, of Denver, to be Sur
v-eyor-General of Colorado.
More than 10000 cars will be needed
to transport the 1914 wheat crop from
the Oklahoma fields.
Peter Brown of Buffalo. and Clar.
ence Davis of Newcastle, Pa, were Sc
verely wounded in a pistol battle with
police on a train near Ellwood City
Butler, Pa.
Ralph Peters, five years old, Of
Skowhegan, Me-, is puzzling special
lists by reading and explaining pas
sages from the Bible and remember
ing music and words of a song after
hearing it nee.
The annual convention of the Inter
national Police Chiefs Association d
United States and Canada was held al
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Adlai E. Stevenson former vice.
president of the United States, died
in Chicago, aged 70 years.
Five persons were killed when 2
Hooking Valley Railroad train was
wrecked near Macarthur, Ohio.
The Cliff House, a large summer
hotel at Cape Elizabeth, Me-, was
destroyed by fire at a loss of $4,000
The Illinois Supreme Court decided
by a vote of four to three that the
woman's suffrage act of 1918 is con
stitutional.
The Secret Service announced the
discovery of a new counterfeit S. note
on the First National Bank of Platts
burgh, Mo.
The most important prize at Yale
University, the John Addison Porter
award of $500 for Original effort,
was won by Philip B. Whithead, o.
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
What is said to be the largest flag
pole in the world. an Oregon fir, 23t
feet long and six feet in diameter
at the butt, was raised in the
San Francisco Fair Grounds.
E. G. Gillian, superintendent If the
Raven Coal mine at Raven, Va, ant
w. J. Lewis, and two other person:
were drowned In a vain attempt tt
rescue a boy from drowning.
Henry Lewis, of Philadelphia, /;
years old, is in a. hospital In Balti
more suffering from an ailment which
battles the physicians. He has beer
gaining steadily in weight and nov
weighs 100 pounds.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
EYEsoRE ON ORCHARD TREES
Silken Webs Filled With caterpiIIars
Should Be Cut Out and Burned
With Kerosene.
(By E. VAN BENTHUYsEN.)

There is no greater eyesore in coun-
try surroundings than the silken webs
filled with ~dark-colored, white-haired
caterpillars which abound on the trees
of orchard and lawn.
Those should not be confounded
with the tent caterpillar, which
abounds In early summer. They are
the larvae Of a moth which flies at
night, and varies in color from pure
white to white thickly studded with
brown spots.
The moths emerge in May or June
from pupae which have passed the
winter under loose soil and rubbish at
the foot of the tree.
The eggs are placed in clusters near
the tips of the branches. On Matching,
the process of web-building and eating
begins, and soon a large cluster may
be formed.
Cut the nests and burn with kero-
sene, or spray with arsenites, using
sufficient force to penetrate the web.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
Value Of Corn Ausks.

Corn husks, If they are not dry, are
just as valuable for feed as the stalk
or leaves of the plant. However, il
the corn is left to mature thoroughly
and the corn husks get very ripe and
dry, they are of little value. Much OF
the starch and sugar is then turned
to woody fiber and they are so dry and
ripe that they are very unpalatable
and contain a large amount of fiber.