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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-12-09

DO you think the war viii Be orr
before longf" Yes. What I'm hop'
Ing Il that ths'r-beacs negotiations
won't precipItslr another one"--
Washington star.
Judge Fite Of Georgia says the
proper place for ticker Is In the fam
ily medicine chest. There are men
In Houston who hold to that theory
and thsy suffer from cramps slxteea
timss day. Houston Post.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-12-09
Bryan pRuocisr
PLEAsEs CUSTOMERS.

Il. r. Emmel reports customers
greatly pleased with the QUICK action
Of simple buckthorn bark. slycerine.
etc. klswa a. Adler.i-ka. This simple
remedy drains the old foul matter from
the bowels so THOROUGHLY that
ONE SPONNFUL relieves almost ANY
CASE Of constipation. sour or gassy
stomach. II is 80 powerful that Il Is
used successfully In appendicitis.
Adleri-ka never gripes and the IN
SLANT action Is surprising.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-12-09

out over your fields and sec the plant
food that cost you hard dollars and
hard work staying where you want II
to stay. And. Incidentally. this e
good farmins The Progressive
Farmer.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-12-09
OPPORTUNITY.



(By Walter Malone.)
They do me wrong. who say | come
no more
When once I knock and fail to find
you In;
For every day I stand outside your
door.
And bid you wake and rise to fight
and win.
Wall not. for precious chances passed
away:
Weep not. for golden ages on the
wsnel
Each night I burn the record Of the
day:
At sunrise. every soul Ia born again
Laugh like q boy. at splendors thai
have sped:
To vanished Joys be blind and deal
and dumb:
Ny Judgment seal the dead past with
Ito dead.
But never blind q moment yet tc
come.
Though deep In mlre. wiring not your
hands and weep;
lend my arm to eli who say. IS
cant"
No shams-tsced outcsst ever sank &C
deep
But yet might rise and be again I
man!
Dost thou behold thy lost youth al
aghast,
Dwt reel from righteous retribu-
tons blow?
Then. turn from blottsd archives o
the past
And find the futures pages white
as snow,
Art thou a mourner! Rouse thee from
thy spelll
Art thou a sinner, Sins may b
forgiven,
Each morning gives thee wings to
flee from hell.
Each nisht a star. to guide thy fee
to heaven.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-12-09

his simple country life. Each spent q
great deal OF time In musical compost
ton. Each wrote works which have
been art models for all composers fol-
lowing. They lived to a ripe old age.
In their latter years both became
blind. Bach died In 1850: Handel In
1859.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-12-09

"You say you can't pay this bill.
and yet see you riding around every
day In an automobile" MY dear
fellow. that's the reason" -Birming
ham Age Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
What Signs Rent for

Quick work is the specially of the out
door advertising company, and when an
order is received for billboard picture,
painted directly on the boards, though
the picture is to be block long, the en-
tire job will be finished within twenty
four hours. Where bill posting is required
longer time is necessary, since there is
printing and lithographing to be done.
The prices vary somewhat, according to
the locality and the amount of detail in
the picture; but for the most part the
charge is based upon the space to be occu-
pied and the length of time for which it is
rented. A sign stretching from Amster-
dam avenue to Broadway on Goth street
rents for one hundred dollars a month.
This is a short block and well uptown;
but when one considers the fact that
the design and painting are included
in the price it does not seem unreasOn-
able.
Outdoor advertising companies are now
making a determined effort to improve
the quality of their signs and to make
them more attractive,-less offensive to
the eye of the particular person. This is
no doubt due to the agitation against
them, instigated by an association formed
for the purpose of doing away with all out
door advertising. Today some of the
larger billboard paintings have real artis-
tic merit, and certainly they are a great
improvement over the lurid posters of
other days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

painting and the advertising space. Ideas
are therefore necessary in every case. If
an advertiser has ideas of his own, he
does not suggest them until he has found
out what the company has to offer,
since the idea is included in the price of
the job
1t is an odd thing that some of the men
who apply for work as painters and fail at
that find their real field in tho designing
department and succeed as illustrators.
As a general thing men who have a natur-
al talent for painting pictures, or who have
received any sort of instruction in regular
lines of art, are unable to take up sign
painting with any degree of success; for
their training is along other lines, and
their knowledge of color is "A real handicap
to them. Another reason why they fail
is that they cannot be made to under
stand what different effect is required
for picture that is to be shown out of
doors and must be effective both at short
and at long range.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

to be exact. 1t is not one that many peo-
pie would ever notice. Not long ago the
bachelor head of the family, John Gott-
lieb Wendell, died. Then New York
learned that the greatest owner of real
estate in the city had passed away. Not
only that Wendell owned more valuable
real estate than any man in America. 1t
was worth upward of 100000 600.
1t is commonly said that New York City
is owned by the Astors and the Goelets;
but ncitherof those families owned so much
as this aged man, who left the whole of his
fortune to his four sisters, of whom the
youngest is fifty. The Wendcls always
have left their money to the nearest kin.
In all America there is no family more
thrifty than the Wcndels. The last male
of the line did all his business in a dusty
little office without telephone or type
writer. He never sold and never i'm
proved his property.
The -Four Women of Mystery
THESE four sisters, who inherited up
ward of "a hundred millions, are women
of mystery. But one is married, the second
sister, Rebecca, who is now seventy-one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
The Men Who Paint the Town

TNIFTEEN feet above the sidewalk
II hangs man. With the sure, rapid
touch of one who knows his work, he
is painting a woman's head, his feet
spread wide on the scaffoding to keep his
balance. Beneath him is gathered Il
group of fascinated spectators, ranging in
age from six to sixty, all craning their
ncckS in interested wonder as they OBJ
serve the marvellous rapidity with which
he lays on the strokes of his brush From
a mere outline the woman's head has be-
come a finished portrait in less than seven
minutes. How can he do it?
If you We're to go the rounds of the art
schools of New York, you could not find
student nor an instructor who could
take this mans place and do his work; for
before the end of the day he will have
painted picture one block long and TWEEN
ty feet high, correct in every detail, and
as convincing when seen at Il distance of
five feet as when viewed from fifty.
Good Sign Painter Earns $50 a Week
HOW can this be? Why is it that this
man, who is rated as an artisan, can
outstrip finished artist The reason is
this: Painting picture for a salon is an
art, but painting picture for a billboard
is business. And in business time is
money. Nothing is left to chance. Every
thing is foreseen, everything provided for.
When this man first started to paint
signs he did not attend an art school to be
taught drawing. He put on a pair of
overalls at the works of an outdoor adver-
Using company and went to work as a
painters helper. His pay was just one
dollar a day. Today he is a frst-class
painter, and his pay is fifty dollars a week.
His name may never go down in history
as that of the creator of a great work of
art; but he is under no necessity of starry
ing in garnet while waiting for recogni-
ton. He has all the work he can attend
to; for there are not more than five hun
bred sign painters of this sort in the entire
city of New York, and sometimes there
are not so many as that.
How does he do it, Not through his
knowledge of art, for the chances are he
could not draw a decent picture of a cat,
if deprived of the aids furnished by his
employers; not from inspiration, for half
of the time he does not even know what
the completed picture will look like, con-
sultng his design, as he does for only one
detail at a time 1t is system.
When he starts out in the morning he
is furnished with the two things abso-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

Late in life she became Mrs Swope. She
lives with her husband, formerly tutor
Miss Mary Wendell, the eldest sister, is
seventy-three, tiny, white-haired lady
who wears her hair in the Victorian STYLE
Miss Georgina Wendell, the best looking
and most talented member of the family,
is sixty-fivc. Miss Ella Wendell, who
owned the dog with the $5OO,OOO play
ground, is fifteen years younger.
Not in the Social Register
n all New York few people are so little
known as the city's four richest sisters.
For half a century this has been so. AS
the years have gone on they have with
drawn more and more from the outside
world For twenty-five years they have
been recluses. Their names do not appear
in the telephone book, the city directory,
nor in the social register. Though they
have lived nearly all their long lives on
the busiest street in America, which they
have seen pass from the most exclusive
residence section of the country to it's
fashionable retail center, and, for all their
wealth, scarcely anyone in New York
knows them, even by sight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
A Dogs $500y000 Playground

ABOUT the rarest thing in New York
~ is a front yard. The only one
of really respectable size on Fifth
avenue is that of Andrew Carnegie at
Dist street but then everyone knows that
it is MIR. Carncgie's great ambition to
spend all his money before he dies. Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has a very little one,
and on Riverside Drive Charles M. Schwab
has fine yard. He seldom occupies his
grand house there: perhaps the reckless
extravaganza of his grounds Expresses him.
One of the few front yards on Fifth
avenue is invisible to passcrsby. 1t has a
high board fence, studded with nails to
keep out intrudcrs and to safeguard Trxy,
for whose pleasure it was maintained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
A House That Nobody Sees

TRIXY was dog, and that front yard,
which was her playground from the
$5OO,OOO. 1t occupies full lot in the
heart of New York S fashionable uptown
shopping district.
The lot is next the house at 442 Fifth
avenue, at 39th street. The house has
been there many, many years; since 1856,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

lutcly necessary to do his work, =
colored design showing the picture
that is to be painted, and paper
outline for use in tracing the pic
ture on the board. These designs
are drawn by artists in the employ of
the advertising company. The same
design is furnished to painters in all Sec
tions of the country where the sign is to
appear. When the design is completed it
is traced upon a piece of paper in series
of little holes, perforations resembling
those made in dress pattern or a piano
player roll. If it is a small picture, he
may get the whole paper design in one
piece: but if ii is a large one, the design
will be done in sections All of these de-
signs are drawn to scale
With the perforated paper spread upon
the board, the painter dusts the surface of
it with powder bag, which gives him the
outline of the picture. All he has to do is
to fill il in. The faster he can work, the
better painter he is. He is allowed one
helper. If this man is experienced and
efficient, he will be paid anywhere from
twenty-five to fifty dollars week. If he
is a novice, his pay will be less. If he is a
raw beginner. he will get dollar day
and instruction. Most of the minor work,
such as lettering, is done by the helper.
An Artist Cannot Paint Signs
ITO qualify as a designer in this line
man needs to be an illustrator rather
than a painter; though of course some
knowledge of color is necessary Most
important, however, is that the designer
shall have some good advertising ideas,
understand the nature of the work, and
know just what sort of picture will appeal
to the public and will show up we'll on
sign that must be shown in heroic proper
tons. 1t is customary for the company
to furnish ideas for pictures, as well as the
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-14
INJURED ON SOUTHERN ROAD.
e. H. Scrcvcn, Basgagcmastcr, Hurt
When Coupling Cars.

T. u. Screven of this city. but for
mcrly OF Charleston, was injured on
wednesday morning about 6 o'clock.
when coupling up cars just prior to
the departure OF the Southern train
from Sumter To Kingville. Mr.. Screven
who Is baggagemaster on the road,
was on car fixing to- couple it with
another car. when he saw that the
two were coming together so that il
he remained where he was, nc would
DO crushed. Rather than do this he
threw himself Off the car 10 one side
clear OF the train, but injuring his
back In the fall lie was taken to
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Seattle, where ne was reported today
as not getting along well, after suf-
fcring considerable last night.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-14
UNITED STATES ACTS ALONE.
NO JOINT REPRESENTATION TO
LONDON.
Swedish Plan to Send Identical Notes
on Trade Rejected by Washington
Government.

Washington, Aug. 9.-The United
States will continue to act alone in
representations to Great Britain re-
garding neutral trade. 1t was learned
tonight that negotiations begun by
the Swedish legation here to obtain
American cooperation in proposed
concerted action Of neutrals to pro-
test against the British orders in
council have brought no results.
The State department rejected q
previous suggestion by Sweden for q
joint note of protest and the latest
proposal contemplated identical notes.
Some details of the Swedish posi-
ton, it is said, differ from American
views. Reports of strong German
sympathies in Sweden also are be-
lieved to have been considered by the
state department, although the for
NAL reasons giver for refusal are
largely technical.
The plan, contemplating joint pro-
test by the United States, the Scan
dinavian countries and Holland was
rejected on the ground that the
United States could not involve itself
in any agreement that might be in
| terpreted as contracting "entangling
European alliances" The new pro-
posal suggested that. all neutral ma
tions suffering through the British
war measures send Identical notes to
London.
Negotiations progressed to point
where the Swedish and American
governments prepared tentative pro-
posals to be sent to Great Britain but
when the Swedish proposals were
submitted to the state department
they were found to be unsatisfactory.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-14
REJECTS Vienna PROPOSAL,
AMERICA DECLINES TO CONSID.
ER EMBARGO ON MUNITIONS.
Washington Maintains That Law and
Precedent Alike Permit Such Expor-
tations and Will Stand by Rights.

washington, Aug. 10.-The United
States today dispatched to Vienna q
note rejecting the Austro- Hungarian
views that the great scale on which
war munitions are being exported
from America to enemies of the Ger
manic allies lis not in consonance
with the definition of neutrality"
The note was cabled to Ambassa-
dor Penfield, who presented it Thurs
day Though friendly in tone the re-
ply is understood to repudiate fatty
the suggestion that the United States
has permitted violation of neutrality
and to stand firmly on the right of
American people to sell and send war
supplies to belligerents
The United States always has held
that this is an unquestioned right un-
der international law. Preccdents
also have been quoted where in pre-
viOus wars Germany and Austria i'm
ported arms extensively. The Aus
tro-Hungarian note suggested that
the United States might redress the
state of things complained Of by in
forming the enemies of Austria Hun
gary that the supply of foodstuffs and
war material to them would be sus-
pended unless legitimate trade in
these articles between Americans and
neutral countries were permitted.
| According to Berlin dispatches
this complaint was sent after a con.
ference betweeen the Austro- Hun.
garian and German foreign offices
Similar notes, it was said, soon would
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-14

dertaking in these times by a Balti-
more flnancier was very we'll re-
ceived in financial circles. 1t was
pointed out that Mr.. Warfelds plans
had their inception three years ago
when he acquired for himself and as
sociates the large block of Seaboard
preferred and common stock then
owned by the Cumberland corpora
ton controlled by the then socalled
Ryan-Blair interests, and it is said
he is now the largest single owner
of Seaboard stocks. BY this pur-
chase he brought the South into a
commanding position in the Seaboard
and not only was the entire executive
management located in the South.
but among others entering the board
OF directors were such well known
Southern men as Robert f. Maddox.
Atlanta, Ga; Mills b. Lane, Savan-
nah, Ga; A. II. Woodward, Birming-
ham, Ala; j. p. Taliaferro, Jackson
vile, Fla; George w. Watts, Durham.
n. c.; Fergus Reid, Norfolk, Va; w.
j. Harahan and Charles r. Capps.
Norfolk, Va. (president and vice pres
ident respectively; ]. William Mid
dcndorf and Townsend Scott, Balti-
more, and Mr.. Warfeld, who became
chairman Of the board and of the cx-
ecutive and finance committees. The
directors believe this programme will
be recognized not only as one Of the
most important pieces of constructive
railroad financing accomplished for
some time, but as significant of a
policy of far-reaching benefit to the
various States travprsed Ivy the Sea
board system.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-14
ANDERSON MILLS RESUME WORK
Employees Idle OH Account of Strike
VIII Return to Their Duties Friday.

Anderson, Aug. 9.-Following a
conference with committee repre-
senting the heads of 1862 families en-
ployed in the Anderson cotton mills.
President Hammett announced this
afternoon that the machinery will be
started again on Friday morning. The
weavers and carders went on a strike
July 80 and the machinery has been
idle since then. The committee stated
a canvass Of the help had been made
and that three-fourths of the help
wanted to go back to work under
conditions that existed prior to the
strike, with the understanding that
the same wage scale would be used.
In order that those desiring to go to
wOrkwork might do so and to guard
against suffering, President Hammett
decided to start again and announced
his plan for Friday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-14
EUGENIC WOMAN FORETOLD.
VIII bc Taller and Plump and Will
Dress Scnsibly, Says Hygiene Pro-

San Francisco, Aug. 6.-Taller
darker women clothed in more Sem
sible dress will typify the "eugenic
woman" of the future, DR.. A. j.
Reid, professor of hygiene in the
normal school Of Physical Education
at Battle Creek, Mich, told the in
ternational conference on race better
ment at the exposition. The ideal
woman of the eugenic age would be
plump and we'll rounded, but not fat"
said DR.. Read. Her complexion will
be ruddy or brown, not pale as that
of present day women, because the
pale skin is a badge of disease rath-
er than of health. Present day fash
ions are advancing toward health
fashions. Women's dress is much
more sensible"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-14

the necessity of doubletracking the
Hamlet-Columbia line where traffic is
being congested. The territory to be
opened up between Charleston and
Savannah is generally we'll adapted
to the growing of vegetables corn,
rice and sea island cotton and will
put the Seaboard Immediately into
Charlestons heaviest vegetable pro-
ducing section.
1.-The Seaboard Air Line Railway
company (the new company will
have it's first and consolidated mort
gage securing an authorized issue of
100000 variable interest rate
and maturity bonds. This mortgage
will be Immediately first lien on the
416 miles Of main line track between
Hamlet and Savannah, via Charles
ton. Lanes and Georgetown, S. c.,
and on the lines runnig from Nc
Bee. S. c., located on the Hamlet-Co-
lumbia line, to Florence, Poston,
Sumter and Timmonsville, s. C. There
will be pledged as collateral under the
new mortgage a majority ($22,361,-
O0O) of the outstanding per cent.
refunding bonds of the Seaboard Air
Line railway.
There will be presently issued un-
der the new first and consolidated
mortgage $22,S93,OOO of 6 per cent.
80 year gold bonds; part are to be
used in exchange for underlying
bonds of constituent properties, the
balance has been sold, the proceeds
to be used for the construction of
the new line from Charleston to Sa
vannah; for the retirement Of equip
ment trust obligations falling due
during the year ending June 80, 1916,
for the retirement Of the $4,000, 900
three year notes due March 1, 1916;
for the acquisition Of certain new
property; for improvements and bet
terments, etc.
1t was believed to be to the best
interests Of the property to make
immediate arrangements for the near
future as well as present financial
requirements. In the financing of the
nations at war interest rates have
already materially increased, necessi-
tating the procuring of large amounts
OF money for American enterprises on
an increasing interest basis
Subject to the carrying out OF
agreements for the exchange of
bonds Of the underlying railway
properties to be consolidated with
the Seaboard Air Line railway, ar
rangements have been made for the
sale Of the bonds of this issue (series
Al as above stated.
The directors have left the details
in connection with the general plan
to the finance committee, of which
Mr.. Warfield is also chairman. The
Continental Trus. company, Balti-
more, was appointed as agent Of the
railway to carry out the details of the
consolidation, etc. The new issue of
bonds have been sold to a banking
syndicate headed by tho Guaranty
trust company. National City bank,
Chase National bank, Bankers Trust
company. New York; the Continental
Trust company, Baltimore; and other
financial institutions in New York.
Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, st. Louis, Clevc-
land. Cincinnati, San Francisco, Mil
waukec. Detroit, Atlanta Savannah.
Louisville, Columbus. Ohio, Seattle,
Denver, New Orleans, Buffalo, Syra-
cuse. Rochester, Wilmington, New
ark and Albany.
The success of such q large un-