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Forget IL.

Ihe best thing we can do is to
forget the war in Europe and turn
our attention to the work of making
thls country what it should be-the
most independent nation on the
earth. We did notrealize how de-
pendent we were on Europe until the
necessities of war cut off our inn
ports from that countrv - Dillon
Herald
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The Greenville Piedmont, which
is disposed to throw off some times
on Mr.. Bryan, pays him the follow
ing compliment: Bryan is a real
leader. He is always in advance
If the Democracy adopted prohibi-
tion and woman suffrage, he would
propose something else" In sub
stance-Excelsior.
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Congressman Serene f. Payne.
for long time Republican mem Der
of Congress from New York, died
suddenly of heart failure in Wash
ington last week. He was II years
of age and was one of the authors
Of the Payne-Aldrich tariff. He was
a leader in Congress. He was given
public funeral by Congress.
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Let everyone try to make this a
sober Christmas. In these straiten-
ed times there is no money to spare
to buy liquor. Drinking men be
sober this Christmas for the sake of
those near and dear to you, if not
for your own sake.
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You will hereby be discharging an
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We advice those who have peep
accustomed each Christmas to
spending money for booze, to deny
themselves this Christmas and give
the money to some charitable pur-
pose.
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Are you committing TO .nemory
the lesson brought on by the fearful
war in Europe? If not, begin to
learn it by heart, it will stand Won
In good stead in the future.
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THE Lancaster Is. c. News has
started 'pay-your-debts' movement.
And is enlisting adherents as we'll
as accomplishing much good -
Augusta Chronicle. Yes, if you owe
any debts. you are entitled to q
place in the picture So come in
early and stay late.
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The Very Latest.
Picken sSentinel.

fICken SSentIneI.
dispatch from London by way
OF The Hafue, via Petrograd, via
Columbia, by wireless from Easley
and Pumpkintown. says the rebel
lious forces have taken a police sta
tion at Hammanskrall, In the Trans
vail. with heavy English losses.
That's our latest war news.
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A period of business depression is
the time for every one to foot up
their affairs and find out where
they stand. There is one thing
sure. unless during the incoming
year you make your expenses less
than your income. you will be in q
bad way
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Remember that the "Pay Your
Debts" movement for Lancaster be-
gan yesterday, the 14th instant, and
Will last for one week. Let every
body take part in this great move
ment
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We are being deluged with Santa
Claus letters from the little folks.
We VIII give as much space as we
can spare to these letters. but make
them short, kiddies. because old
Santa will get so many letters he
may only have time to read the
short ones.
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With the present crop of 10000
600 bales of cotton and a prolonged
war, the end of which no man can
toresee, will he be sane man who
viii plant much cotton next wear?
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1t looks now as if aobson will
succeed in forcing has brother con-
gressmen to vote on the prohibition
and woman suffrage propositions.
How cruel, Richmond P.-how
cruel!
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Your Cold is Dangerous
Break 1t Up--.Now

cold Is readily catching. A run
down system is susceptible to Germs.
You owe 1t to yourself and TO others
OF your household to light the Germs
at once. DR.. Bells Pine -Tar-Honey
is fine for Colds and Coughs II
.oosens the Mucous, stops the Cough
and soothes the Lungs. It's gnaran
teed. Only 25c at your Druggist.
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SO Chanye m shc.IuIe.

The new schedule for the Ian
caster IL Chester railway, which was
to have gone into effect December
20, 1914, and which appears in this
issues, has been anmIled. The pres
ent schedule will remain IN effect
until further notice.
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Don't think for a moment of going
abroad or too near the Mexican
border You might get shot.
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The Greenville Piedmont is one
OF the best papers in the state. Its
Christmas edition is in keeping with
the high standard kept up by the
paper.
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\ Wise SaXinn

Advertising may not bring a void
OF business, but it will bring the
bulk of what there is.-Newberry
Observer.
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Have you made an honest effor,
to pay what you owe this fall? II
not do so at once.
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"Pay Up Week" the Time

1t is better business to pay up
tnan to put off. Pay up week is the
time to put this principle into prac-
tice.-Sumter Watchman and
Southron
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IL WILL.

a Pay Your Bills Movement ou hit
TO help the merchant movement
Greenwood Journal.
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The Thaw and Frank cases lnger
with us yet.
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From Other Papers
Hero in Lancaster

DO your buying at home.-Spar-
tanburg Journal.
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Help All You Can.

Help the Belgians and those
nearer nom, too.-Laurens Adver-
tiser.
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Query: Will he turn the balance
OF them out?
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Let economy be the watch word
these days.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER Is. 1o1l.

Just ten more days. kids, until
Christmas.
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Weather forecast for South
Carolina: Fair Tuesday, colder on
the coast; Wednesday fair.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-10-15
Cats,

Cats are urban nightingales, sing
on key. Their note is plaintive be-
cause they are genuine artists, their
luck is rotten They turn instinctively
to minor key because the major, or
house, key has been turned on them.
They would be pastoral could they but
browse off the heather, but their
tastes are table d'hote and hereditary
sorrows have driven them to milk.
Having destined them for sorrow,
fate has been consistent and made
them flexible and limp so that they
VIII not be broken. Like hash and
actors, they have nine lives, and all
of them like the lives of hash and
actors. When they have gulped their
NIL Of woe nine times a wagon runs
over them and they vanish.
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Nautical Speed Terms,

Knot" the conventional nautical
mile per hour, is assumed to be $3.50
feet. A statute mile is $3.50 feet. For
navigating purposes a mile of latitude
and a minute of latitude are consid-
cred to be Of equal value. Consequent
ly a nautical mile equals the length
of minute of the meridian, and,
strictly speaking, is different for every
latitude. The United States sea
mile is 6,OS2.66. For charting and
other purposes ten cables equal one
knot, although a cable length is gen.
orally assumed to be 600 feet. The
term knot" originated from the fact
that knots were tied in the log line
which was used to ascertain the rate
OF speed a ship was making through
the water.
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DALLAS.
Oct. II, 1914.

OCUs u, lolfs
Mrs. Phillips spent a part of last
week with her son, Carl.
d. @. Taggart and wife, of Spring
field, spent last week with the latter's
parents, @. N. Grove and wife.
T. j. Grove visited friends near
New Vienna Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Mozelle Hopkins spent the
week with Il. M. Grove and family.
Fred Hixson, wife and daughter
spent Sunday with Pearl Stephens
and family.
Miss Eva Hiatt, of Springfield, spent
from Thursday until Saturday with
Miss Fay Grove.
Rev. Walker has been employed to
preach at the Christian church for the
coming year.
W. s. Davis and family, of Lees
burg, called on friends here Sunday
afternoon.
G. W. Easter and wife and Mrs.
Vernie Finnegan, of Hillsboro, spent
Sunday evening with Mrs. Catherine
Deakyne.
Mrs. j. M. Thompson and son, Stan.
ley, visited friends at Highland Sun
day.
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they had been married, and he with
her. She was not of the intellectual
type; but she was pretty and dainty.
and the face upturned under the SUM-
bonnet was marvelously sweet and
good-tempered.
We'll! Have you two old fogies
found something remarkable?" she
asked.
Henry Price was an old bachelor,
and reputed to be woman-hater. His
affection for John, whom he had known
a good many years. had managed to
survive Johns marriage. In time he
even brought himself to the point of
feeling at home when he called. But
his distrust and fear of womankind
had never left him; and then. too, he
had never overcome his feeling of
jealousy toward the woman who had
come to share Johns life.
Don't tell her. john" he whispered.
covertly. IF she knew that strawberry
was worth fortune"
Il know what you want to show me,
dear" said Minna. IT'S that funny
ticed it this morning"
Eyes, my DEAR" answered John in a
choking voice. And please remember
that it is to be preserved very care
fully" But though he seemed calm
enough he was angry with Price. What
right had the old fogy insinuating that
Minna was"
He knew why he was angry. Price
had suggested that Minna was mental
ly slow. And, John knew it was true.
Pretty Minna Hilton was not an intel
iectual woman though she made none
the worse wife for that.
"All right, Johnny" answered Minna.
"But l really think you might have
waited till after dinner. However, I
know how interested you are In the
garden"
She turned on her heel little huffily
and John surmised that she had seen
Prices nudge. Minna was not very
fond of Henry Price; she tolerated
him for her husbands sake.
John" said Price, as he stood at
the door. saying good-by. "Pm sorry If
l accidentally"
20, that's all right, old man." an
swered John. His good humor was
completely restored by that time; he
never bore grudges very long.
"But, John," persisted Price. "for
heavens sake dolt say a word about
It to anybody. You understand, don't
you? If the story got bout. what with
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EVENING UP THINGS
BY HAROLD CARTER.

John Hilton stopped down and
raised small, speckled object out of
the mud of his garden. His friend ad
justed his spectacles upon his nose,
stopped down also and began examin.
ing it.
John" he said solemnly, arising,
you area lucky man"
Then" began John Hilton, with
trembling voice
1T Is just what you thought" an.
swered the other. ut is the blended
strawberry"
WORTH"
"A plant like that would be worth
about two thousand dollars" said
Price. But you must take care of it,
John. How in the world"
John Hilton told him. The blended
strawberry, which would bear fruit all
the summer, had already been created
six years before, by Bergback. But the
plant died, and fifty thousand cross
ings had failed to develop it again. II
was, In fact, sport" a cross be
tween two species that would not pro
duce fruit, though it was a simple mat
ter to induce a luxurious growth ol
leaves. John had seen the possibilities
Of strawberry culture. And he, only
a commuter, toiling all day in stuffy
insurance office, had grown this won
| der.
The seeds of the strawberry would
be fertile. There was no doubt of that
But the plant had borne only one fruit
Just as Bergbacks had done. Berg
backs had died in nipping frost tina
swept down upon his plantations. Blu
this was June, and there was no feal
of frosts any more.
| "Minna!" called John Hilton excited
ly, as he saw the lilac ribbons of sun
bonnet appear at the back porch
"Minna, come here! Come at once!"
A pretty little woman made her wa,
toward the excited pair. Minna Hiltol
was bride of eight months. She wa
still as much in love with John as whel
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and yet he lost no time.
"S'arch him for weepins!"
A second man stopped forward and
passed his hand over the man in the
chair, but found nothing.
What does this mean, Bill?" asked
the landlord, finding his voice at last.
WAL, this ere is Tenderfoot Char
lie," was the reply, 1.-The feller that
killed Abe Shotwell over at ST. Claire
last week"
Sure of it?'
"Sartin sure"
And what are you goin' to do with
him."
Hang him to limb! The boys will
be yere purity quick"
The man in the chair lowered his
hands and searched for a match to
light his pipe. All looked at him, but
he hadn't word to say. He smoked
and looked around in careless way,
and finally Bill remarked
"Hev yo' nuthin' to say, Charlie?"
"Nuthin', 'cept thar won't be any
hangn'," was the answer
the boys with the rope! Stranger,
thar's goin' to be leetle exhibishun out
on the squar', and it's free to all. Cum
along, prisoner, and If ye try any
tricks on me it'll be death by shoot
in'w
The prisoner was marched out and
everybody followed. About thirty men
had gathered outside, and the crowd
tramped down the street and around
the corner to the public square When
the moose had been flung over Charlie 8
! head and drawn tight the man called
Bill sung out:
Nov, then, hev you any remarks to
make before the barl is kicked away?''
I'D just like to say that thar won't
be any hangin'," replied the man.
Don't joke in the presence OF
DEATH"
Say, now, who you got yere!" called
voice in the crowd.
| "Tenderfoot Charlie!" chorused a
dozen men.
Jest wait minit!"
A man advanced, took the lantern
and held 1t up to the prisoners face
and then cried out:
Waal, you are nice crowd! That's
no more Tenderfoot Charlie than be !
Don't nobody kick that bar1!"
Stranger, who be you?" asked Bill,
as he came forward.
Joe Strong" was the reply.
why, the feller who has just ben
lected to the legislchur?"
'The same"
Then, why in Texas didn't you say
! so?"
Then, why in Texas didn't We ask
me? Besides, I'd a leetla rather be
hanged than go to the legislachur'
and so ye can go ahead with yer
chokin!"
They didn't, however. 1t was Bills
treat, and considering the size of the
crowd and the amount Of water in the
whisky, 1t was we'll done.
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CAREYTOWN.
Oct. II, 1914.

Oct. II, 1914.
Mrs. Mary Engle spent Monday and
Tuesday in Leesburg, the guest of
relatives.
Mrs. Richard Woodmansee and two
children spent Wednesday with her
parents, Thomas Priest and wife.
Elsie Michael spent Saturday and
Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Andy
Firnneau
@. N. Carey and family had as their
guests Sunday, Homer Grove and
wife, of Wilmington, Lonnie Terrell
and family, of Highland, Isaac Dun
lap and family.
M X. CLANCY, t. B. Smith, w. ID.
and Fred Carey spent Sunday in Gin
cinnati
EOna Greed and wife and Glenn
CLANCY spent Saturday and Sunday in
Berryville.
Mrs. Q. n. Carey and daughter,
Ethel, were shopping in Hillsboro Sat
urday.
Chas. Diven, wife and two children
spent Sunday with Dick Ridgway and
family,
Dora Martin, of New Vienna, spent
from Friday until Monday with her
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Engle.
Careytown and Berryville played
ball Sunday, score rs to 2 in favor Ber-
ryville.
Arthur Carey and wife, of Samantha,
called on G. B. Carey and wife Sunday
evening
Howard Fisher, wife and baby took
dinner with B. G. Carey and family
Sunday.
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Pass the Vineoar.

A gaily gowned and garrulous house
maid sat down by an acquaintance on
a trolley and at once said:
Hello, Sadie! Where YOU nvin'
now?"
"Nowheres," was the reply.
"How's that?"
"I'm married"
"You ANTI"
Sure thing. Look at that!"
She held up her ungloved left hand
in triumph; for there on the third fin
ger was shining new wedding ring.
Staring at it in wonder for a mo-
ment. the other girl asked, well, who
got stung gT"-Associated Sunday Mag
azines.
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the interest in BergbaIks expert
ments, our garden would be racked
fine as a toothcomb on the first dark
night. John, you have fortune in tnat
single plant"
Certainly it did seem as though the
only safety lay in absolute silence. The
single fruit was invaluable. Berg
backs experiments had shown con-
clusively that the blended strawberry
would produce fruit only from the
seed, not from the runners. And there
had been only one fruit thus grown.
The fruit was to be plucked as care
fully as though it were the last hair
from the Buddha's head, and placed in
a pot, and Price was to convey it to
greenhouse, and
1t was, in short, a remarkable con-
spiracy against one poor strawberry.
Thursday was the day set for the ex-
pertinent, and on that afternoon Price
came to tea. Minna made them have
tea before going into the garden. But
both men were too much absorbed in
| thought to eat much. In vain Minna
| tempted them with her scones and
| cakes.
Wont you try little more of my
| jam?" she asked Price coaxingly.
You know, 1t was you and Johnny
who are responsible for it,"
How is that, my dear?" John asked.
why, I've made it from the best
fruit in the garden" she answered,
"and l put the blended strawberry in,
just as you told me-"
What" yelled both men In chorus.
Dear me, how excited you both
are" said Minna loftily. Didn't you
tell me, Johnny. that it was to be pre-.
served carefully?"
"You-you put the strawberry-the
strawberry in that jam?" inquired John
Hilton, gazing at his wife stonily.
Yes, Johnny. Wasn't that right?"
20, yes, it was right enough" re
piled her husband. ''Only-well, you
have lost us a fortune, Minna, that's
all"
Henry Price glared at the poor won
an and then, without word, dashed
out into the hall and thrust on his hat
A moment later the garden gate
slammed to behind him.
This sound, indicative Of his final de
parture, relieved the tension of the sit
uation. Minna put her head dow1
upon her folded arms. John rose vi
awkwardly and came behind her an(
put his arms about her.
Never mind, dear" he said. 1T wal
my fault, and you couldn't hav,
known. I'll try again, Minna. Don
cry!"
The tears were streaming dow
Minna's face, but she was not crying
she was laughing Historically.
20, Johnny" she said, 'T-it-well
it wasn't true!"
mot true! You didn't put the blend
ed strawberry"
mo. It's still there where it wa
growing. But | just wanted to pa
that old Henry Price for being s.
and"
"Minna," said John, solemnly, fiv
minutes later, when he had satisfie
himself that the straberry was reall
there, Il guess things have bee
evened up now. You'll forgive oil
Henry, won't you? And we'll ask hir
to tea tomorrow"
"All right, dear" answered Minns
"And we won't say any more abou
preserves, will we?"
Copyright. 1914. by w. G. Chapman)
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LEESBURG.

Oct. IL, 1914.
Miss Josephine Higgins, who is
teaching near Oxford, spent from
Thursday until Sunday with her par
ents, @. W. Huggins and wife.
Henry Link and family, of Wash
ington, @. H., visited relatives here
last Friday.
Prof. Elmer Naylor and wife are re.
ceiving congratulations from their
friends over the arrival of young son
last Friday
Miss Lucia Weeks returned Monday
to Mansfield, after spending the past
week with her mother, Mrs. G. W..
Weeks.
Miss Loran Barrett, of Bridges, was
the guest Of her cousin, Mrs. Charles
Moore last Sunday.
Miss Ella BARLEY, of Hillsboro, is
the guest of her niece, Mrs. Bessie
Cox.
Silas Sparks was the guest OF rela,
tives in Washington, G. H., last Sun
day.
Mrs L. E Davis has returned home
from pleasant visit with relatives in
Columbus. She was accompanied by
her niece, Mrs. Edna Snyder and
daughter, Kathleen, who will visit
Mrs. Snyders mother, Mrs. Terwilliger,
for a few days.
DR.. Afford Kester and wife, of New
Carlisle, were guests of Mrs. Kester's S
parents, G. A. Pavey and wife last
Sunday.
Mrs. David Sanders visited her
daughter, Mrs. G. L. Woodmansee, of
Washington, G. H. the last half of
the week.
Mrs. Arthur Naylor and son, Harold,
accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Flora
Adams and son, from near Greenfield,
are In Indianapolis, guests of their
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Riddle, of Coffeeville,
Kans Mrs. Nora Haas and daughter,
Murelle, were guests Sunday of c. e.
Penn and family.
Mrs. Mamie Sanders and daughter
Kathryn, visited her parents in New
Vienna Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. Louis Pausch is recovering
nicely from the operation which she
recently underwent at Hodson's hos
pital in Washington, G. Ell.
Jonathan Ladd, aged father of
Everett Ladd, died last Wednesday at
his home one mile east OF town. Fun
eral services, conducted by Rev.
Frank Miner, were held Friday after
noon in the Friends church. Inter.
ment in Fairfield cemetery.
Rally Day will be observed next
Sunday by the M. e. Sunday School.
The children willhaye a>special part
In the program.
The W. G. T. U. will meet Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. Jennie Cox.
20. Mumma and family had as
guests Saturday night and Sunday,
his brother and family, of Dayton.
The members of the Epwoith Lea
que enjoyed social held Ia the church
basement Friday evening.