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Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18

They were as much surprised as
was.
1T was such a delightful day that
Aunt Martha couldn't resist the temp
tation to do little shopping" Peaches
ratified on; land then we decided to
come here for a bit of luncheon
hello, Bunch! I'm so glad to see you!
John, hadn't we better take another
table so that your friendly conference
may not be interrupted"
l hastened to assure Peaches that
it wasn't conference at all. We had
met Mr.. Schwartz quite by accident.
Then introduced Ikey to the ladies'.
He got up and did something that
was supposed to be a bow, but you
couldn't tell whether he was tying his
shoe or coming down a stepladder.
When Ikey tried to bend a society
double he looked like one of the pic
lures that goes with a rubber exer-
ciser, price IS cents.
After they had ordered club sand
wiches and coffee l explained to
Peaches and the others that Mr..
Schwartz was a real estate dealer.
Ikey began to swell up at once.
Bunch and l are going in little
deal with Mr.. Schwartz" explained.
He knows the real estate business
backward. He, Schwartz, has a fad
for collecting apartment houses. He
owns the largest assortment of People
Coops in the city. All the modern i'm
, provements, too. Hot and cold win.
dows running gas and noiseless jan.
itors. Mr.. Schwartz is the inventor
: of the idea of having two baths in
, every apartment so that the lessees
will have less excuse for not being
(, water broke"
!, Ikey never cracked smile.
In Mr.. Schwartz's apartment
! houses" l continued, while Bunch
e kicked my shins under the table, "y7l
will find self-freezing refrigerator
and self-leaving servants. All the
rooms are light rooms, when you ligh
the gas. Two OF his houses overlook
n the park and all of them overlool
% the building laws. The floors ar,
made of concrete, 10 that if you wan
n to bring horse in the parlor you car
do so without kicking off the plaste
y in the fiat below. Every room has fold
e ing doors, and when the water pipe
T. burst the janitor has folding arms" 8"
n "Quit your joshing, John! You'll
embarrass Mr.. Schwartz" laughe
h Bunch somewhat nervcusly, but key
d grin never flickered.
rs Mr.. Schwartz deaf and dumb
= Peaches whis0ared
'Intermittently So" whispere
l. back sometimes for hours at a tim
q he cannot speak a word and can hea
b. only(the loudest tones"
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
HoMENgA
TOVRT
10 HELPS
AN OLD BoxWooD BORDER
There Are Some surVlVals OF seaut''
full Garden Ornaments Still
to Be Found.

Time was when the lockwood border
was considered the very top notch OF
frontyard garden ornamentation. And
It was thought to be very beautiful
when trimmed into fantastic shapes
or clipped evenly in rectangular out
line. Take almost any Of the old time
novels, and in them will appear de-
scription of the lockwood borders run
ming a perfectly straight line from the
colonial porch to the front gate. Box
wood hall was favorite name for
many an old time home.
The privet hedge has largely
usurped the place of the boxwood
border, says the Newark IN. - News.
The latter was such a slow grower.
Years after It was out 1t seemed hard
ly larger than when first planted. But
1t didn't send out impudent shoots in
every direction; it grew slowly, Sc
dately and in deliberately chosen di-
rections. It was never in a hurry to
be big. Boys may cut whips from an
untrimmed privet hedge, but no one
ever took such liberties with the dig
nified old lockwood bush. 1t did not
promote corporal punishment.
There were two things about the
lockwood border that none who are
acquainted with it will ever forget;
its dark green foliage, winter and
summer, and its persistently unpleas-
ant odor. The latter isn't like that of
birch, sassafras, sandalwood, willow,
butternut or cedar. 1t is more like
that of the simplocarpus fetidus-the
skunk cabbage. But the box bush
stands up as stiff and dignifed as If
it were disseminating the perfumes of
Araby the blest.
Now and then some very fine speci-
mems of lockwood are found in this
country, and wherever they are they
point out place having history run
ming back a century or two. These
bushes have not been clipped or 9th
erwise mutilated since our grandfa-
Tiers days, and have grown into great
trees-that is, great for lockwood. Just
such bush was recently sighted near
Mount Holly by Long Island million
aire, and he paid a small fortune to
have it removed to his estate. 1t was
12 feet high, more than Is feet in
diameter and with a great clump OF
clay attached to its ramified roots
weighed ten tons. 1t may live in its
new home, but as rule, these grand
old box bushes resent removals after
they are hundred years old.
A fine group of box bushes adorni
the old Elias Boudinot mansions OF
cast Jersey street, Elizabeth, where
both Washington and Lafayette wert
entertained in the old days. Fou
large bushes are still flourishing OF
the Stoudinger property, S53 Broat
street, corner of Clay, in Newark. TIL
house was built in 1882, and the bo,
must have been planted later, bu
each of the four specimens is at leas
ten feet high and as many in dian
eter. Large sums have been offere
for them time and again, but hav
been refused. Doubtless there ar
many other fine specimens of the ole
time favorite box, but a large an
shapely tree is still a valuable an
cherished heritage.
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SEEING LIFE mh
r5qS1 JOHN HENRY
n@ Geo1geVHobart
SeIIS< lMTT John Henry Takes Tango Lesson
John Henry Takes a Tango Lesson

Ikey belonged to the dis. dose and
dem" push.
Every long sentence he uttered was
full Of splintered grammar.
Every time Ikey opened his word
chest the kings English screamed for
help and literature got kick in the
Stats.
He was short and thin, but it was a
deceptive thinness. His capacity for
storing away free liquids was awe
inspiring and a sin.
think Ikey must have been hollow
from the neck to the ankles, with en-
ergency bulkheads in both feet.
His nose was shaped like quarter
to six o'clock. 1t began in the middle
could. One end of it ducked into his
forehead and never did come out.
His interior was sponge lined, and
when the bartenders began to send
them in fast, Ikey would lower an
asbestos curtain to keep the fumes
away from his brain.
Nobody ever saw Ikey at high tide
Iner6 was surely SOlu6IIluB WIouB
with keys switchboard, because he
could wrap his system around more
Indian laughing juice without getting
lit up than any other man in the
world
But Ikey was the compliments OF
the season, all right, all right.
Ikey had spent most of his life be
ing bookmaker, and when the racing
game went out of fashion he sat dowr
and tried to think what else he 0oult
do. Nothing occurred to him until one
day he discovered that he could pusl
his feet around in time to music; 81
he became a dancing instructor ant
/ could clean up $1,000 per day If thu
: bartender didn't beckon too hard.
/ The luncheon had been ordered AM
Bunch was just about to switch tn
! conversation around to the subject o
2 rebates when suddenly his eyes too
3 on the appearance of saucers and, tar
Z ping me on the arm, he gaspet
2 Look"
= looked and beheld Peaches, Alic
o and Aunt Martha sailing over in ou
direction.
It With a whispered admonition
j. Bunch to keep Ikey still l went TO
n ward to meet friend wife, her aunt an
Il Alice,
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pleased with oliF investment and its
promise of golden returns.
That night Bunch and Alice were
over to our place for dinner. After
dinner Bunch an l sat down by the
log fire in the Dutch room. filled our
faces with Havana panatellas and pro-
ceeded to enjoy life in silence.
Into the next room came Alice and
Peaches and sat down for their usual
cackle.
Bunch and 1 started from our
reveries when we heard Alice say to
Peaches, "You dor't know what a
source Of comfort it has been to me
to realize that Bunch doesn't know
blessed thing about the tango or any
of those hatefully intimate new
Dances"
THE same with me, Alice" friend
wife dhirped in. Il Lelieve If John
were to suddenly display ability to
dance the tango I'd be broken-hearted.
Naturally, I'd know that he must have
learned It with a wicked companion
In some lawless cabaret. And if he
freouOnted cabarets without my knowl-
edge-oh, Alice, what would do?"
I looked at Bunch. he looked at me
and then we both looked out the win
dow.
For my part" Alice went on; 81
trust Bunch so implicitly that don'i
even question lis motive when he tele
phones me he has to take dinner II
town with a prospective real estate
customer"
"And | know enough of human ma
ture." Peaches gurgled. ito be sur,
that IL either one of them could tang
ne would be crazy to show off at home
think we're very lucky, both of us
to have such steady-going husbands
don't you, Alice?"
At this point Aunt Martha buzze
into the other room and the cackl
took on another complexion.
In the meantime Bunch and | ha
passed away.
IT'S cold turkey" l whispered.
i've been IN the refrigerator for te
minutes and I'm chilled to the bone
Bunch whispered back.
Can we get our coin away frol
Ikey?" / asked.
The next morning we had Ike
Schwartz for luncheon with US at tn
ST Astorbiit. The dea being to da
Kle him and get a few of the iron me
back.
Leave everything TO me, Bunc
growled As we shaved our hats an
Indianfilei to trough.
"A quart Of Happys1ds, Bunch o
dered. How about it, Ikey?"
key Dashed a grin and tried to sws
how his palate, SO 1t wouldn't interfel
Nrtth the vet spell suggested by Bunc
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
CHICKENS RELISH A VARIETY
Fowls Need Something Bulky and
Sueoulent to Take Place of Grass
and Green Vegetation.

When digging potatoes, artichokes
or other crops, store some in place
easily accessible and do not forget to
give your fowls the benefit of them.
The poultry needs something bulky
and succulent to take the place Of the
tender grass and other green vegeta-
tion on which they have been feeding
for months.
Remember, an exclusive grain ration
is to- concentrated.
Give them something filling" for a
change. and see how they will enjoy
1t. Variety is spice for hens as we'll
as humans, and healthy fowls are the
result if this truth is kept in mind.
and incidentally we might say, healthy
fowls fill the egg basket.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18

~ HE idea originated with Bunch
i Jefferson. You can always count
on Bunch having a few freak ideas in
the belfry where he keeps his butter
lies.
Bunch and his wife, Alice, live out
in Westchester county, about half a
mile from Uncle Peters bungalow.
where friend wife and are spending
the winter.
The fact that Uncle Peter and Aunt
Martha had decided to give US a party
was the inspiration for Bunch's bril-
liant idea.
Listen, john" he macchiavellied;
mot one of this push out here knows
a thing about the tango. Most of them
have a foolish idea that it's wicked
institution invented by the devil who
sold his patent rights to the Evil-Do-
ers association. Now, I'll tell you
what we'll do, John: Well put them
wise Well take about two lessons
from good instructor in town and on
the night of the party we'll make the
hit Of our lives teaching them all to
tango. Are you James to the possibil-
ities?"
1T listens like a good SPIEL"
agreed; but will a couple of lessons
be enough for u.s."
Sure" he came back; we're not
a couple of Patsys with the pump!
We can learn enough in two lessons to
make good in this boob community
Why, we'll start a tango craze out
here that will put life and ginger in
the whole outfit and presently they'll
be putting up statues in our honor.
Well, to make long story lose it:
cunning, we made arrangements mex
day with Ikey Schwartz, dancing in
structor, to explain the mysteries o
this modern home-wrecking proposi
tion known as the tango, and paid hin
In advance the sum Of 800.
1t seemed to me that a hundred irol
men in advance was nifty little pric
for two lessons, but Bunch assured m
the price was reasonable on account @
the prevalence of rich scholars willin
to divide their patrimony with an!
body who could teach their feet
behave in time to the music.
We made an appointment to NEE
Ikey at his studio" for our first LEI
son the following afternoon. The
we hiked for home on the 4:14. we
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18

Aunt Martha heard my comment on
keys infirmity and was about to be-
come intensely sympathetic and tell
him how her brothers wife was cured
when Bunch interrupted loudly by ask
ing after Uncle Peters health.
Never better" answered Aunt
Martha. He has spent all the morn
ing arranging tho program Of dancing
for our little party. He insists upon
having the Virginia Reel, the old-fash'
ioned waltz, the Polka and the Lam
GERS. Uncle Peter has a perfect hor'
ror Of these modern dances and
Peaches and Alice and share 1t with
him." Then she turned to key. Don't
you think these modern dances are
perfectly disgusting?"
Poor key looked reproachfully at
the old lady a second, then with gath
ering astonishment he slid silently
off the chair and struck the floor with
a bump.
Aunt Martha was so ratified over
this unexpected effort on Mr..
Schwartz's part that she upset her
coffee and Ikey got most of 1t in the
back Of the neck
When peace was finally restored the
old lady came to the surface with an
envelope which had been lying on the
table near her plate.
rs this your letter, John?" she
asked, and then arranging hel
glasses. read with great deliberation
"Mr. l. Schwartz, Tango Teacher
Care of Kumearly and Staylates
Cabaret, New York"
Peaches and Alice went into thu
ice business right away quick.
Aunt Martha in panied surpris'
looked at me and then at Bunch anC
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
A Hedge Of Hardy Roses, the Lowell.
est Fence Imaginable.
Matter settled.

When the term of the old negro
preacher had expired he arose and
said:
"Breddren, de time am heah TO- de
selection OBJ yo' pastoh for anudder
yeah. All dose favorin' me TO- 20 pas
toh will please say Aye"
The old preacher had made himself
rather unpopular and there was no re-
sponse.
"Ha," he said, silence gibs consent
allus. Is yo' pastoh TO anudder
yeah"
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
His supposItlon.

80 much good advice is constantly
being bestowed upon engaged couples.
and so much of it goes unheeded." re.
marked Professor Pate, that am con.
strained to believe that love also
laughs at jawsmiths. Judge.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
Ambitious Youths.

Recruiter-"What's your age?"
Buffer determined to do the patri.
otic thing and get to the 'front.'
twenty-five" Recruiter-T said
your age-not your chest measure
ment."---London Sketch.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
Don't Use Diseased Fowl.

No fowl should ever be used in the
breeding pen that at one time in its
life had a contagious disease. But no
harm can come from using birds that
had been afflicted with slight colds or
frozen combs.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
Best Layers Of Ducks.

The little Runner duck is claimed
to be the best layer of the duck fam
lily, and, in some instances. had pro
duced 100 to 15G eggs year, accord
ing to the stories of those who Keep
them.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
Gull Non-Lavers.

Find out which are, the good layers,
and market the rest. Twenty-Five
selected hens will give better results
than double the number of good, bad
and Indifferent ones.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
No Effect on q 90 Production.

Cutting the wings of hens, to pre-
vent their flying over the fence, will
have no effect whatever on egg pro
duction.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
Give Scraps to Fowls.

Be sure to feed :he table scraps TO
the fowls. Milk IS one of the best
feeds for egg production.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
Care Of Imnortanne.

Feeding young chicks is important,
but of less Importance than the care
they have.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDESQIOOL
LESSON
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 1s
DEFEAT THROUGH DRUNKEN.
NESS.
(By o. f1. SELLERS, Acting Director Of
Bible Institute)

LESSON TEXT Kings 2O:1O-21
GOLDEN TEXT-Wine and new wine
take away the understanding. Hos. 4:u
R. "
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-03-18

In the building was stored a
quantity Of feedstuff and a
Studebaker automobile, all of
which was burned. There was
a small amount of insurance on
the burned property.
The Southern Railway is ad-
vertising a special train to be
run April 3rd from Fort Mill to
Yorkville and return on account
of Field Day exercises at the
latter place. The special train
will leave Fort Mill the morning
of the 3rd at $50 o'clock and
the round trip fare to York
vile will be: Children, 4C cents;
adults rs cents. 1t is expected
that large majority of the
pupils of the local school and a
number of others of this city
will make the trip.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-03-18
The News Of Gold Hill.

Times Correspondence.
The party given by Miss Kath-
leen Blankenship last Saturday
night was the most pleasant we
have attended in quite awhile.
Over thirty couples were present
in which Fort Mill, Steel Creek
and Rock Hill were we'll repre-
sented.
Mr.. G. c. Blankenship, with
Misses Ethel Bigham and Lillian
Harrison, spent Saturday and
Sunday with his parents in Gold
Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Gardner
of Steel Greek, spent the day in
Gold Hill Sunday.
1t seems that rain is playing
sad havoc with the farming in
dustry of this community, but,
we are glad to say, it has caused
our Supervisor to take advantage
of this fact and many of the idle
hands and teams are being used
now to transform the rough,
impossible road into a modern
pike" Hyperion.
Gold Hill, March Is.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-03-18

MONEY TO LOAN Applications re-
ceived for loans from $100. 90 to SIC, 900
on improved and unimproved town
property and farm lands. Interest
8 &c straight. Interest payable an
nually or semi-annually. Time: one to
ten years. Applicants for loans will
please give description, location and
valuation of property offered as Sc
curity for loan. State improvements
and valuation of same. We want
County representatives to receive ap-
plications for loans, appraise property,
and serve as our exclusive representa-
tive. Attorney or real estate man
preferred. Applicants for loans, and
applicants for agencies positively re-
quired to furnish at least two character
references and forward postage, five
&c stamps, for application blanks, full
particulars, and prompt reply. Write
Southern Office, Southeastern Mort
gage Loan Assn, Fourth Natl Bank
Bldg, Atlanta, Ga.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-03-18
Clean En-

Why not have that last Sum-
mer's suit cleaned and pressed?
We call for and deliver goods in
town on short notice. Parcel post
packages will receive special at
tentiou.
Panic Prices as Follows:
Mems Suits, cleaned and pressed 4Oc to $125
Boys Csc " $I.0O
Ladies SOC up
Palace Barber Shop
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-03-18
To the Citizens of Fort Mill and
Vicinity.

For fully thirty-fve (35) years the
l.. & M. Semi-Mixed Real Paints have
been extensively used throughout the
United States and also in South
America. They have therefore been
subjected to the tests of every sort of
climatic conditions successfully
thereby proving their extreme dura-
bility and superior value.
See our advertisement on other page,
telling property owners how to make
their own paint, and thereby save sixty
cents a gallon on every gallon used.
LO NC M AN &t MARTINEZ
Paint Makers, New York.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-03-18
FOR SALE, WANTED, LOST, FOUND.

FOR SALE-Eggs for Matching from
pure bred Buff Plymouth Rock chickens
Phone, write or call on lack Spratt,
Fort Mill, S. C.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-03-18


in which to pay State and county
taxes without penalties.
Friends of Sam w. Merritt
are pleased to see him on the
streets again, after an illness
of pneumonia.
Mrs. S. M. Garrison, of Steele
Creek, and Miss Cora Edwards,
of Pineville, are visiting Mrs.
Mary Kendrick, of this city.
Mrs. w. L. Boyd, of Charlotte,
spent several days of the last
week in the home of her mother,
Mrs. Augusta Culp, in this city.
Announcement is made from
the comptroller generals office
in Columbia that the time for the
payment of the State income tax
without penalty has been ex-
tended to July 1st.
w. M. Carothers and family
are arranging to move to the
dwelling next to the one they
now occupy on White street, the
latter to be taken in short
time by j. E. Williamson.
Construction work was COM
menced Monday morning on a
new store room on Main street
to be occupied by L. j. Massey.
The building is to have modern
front and inside fixtures.
1t is reported on the streets
that Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Russell
will move in a few days to the
McGinn plantation. in Harrison
church neighborhood, which Mr..
Russell has rented and will
cultivate this year.
Mill No. 2 of the Fort Mill
Mfg. company, which had been
closed down for several months,
began operations Monday morn
ing. 1t is stated that majority
of the employees who were
formerly engaged in the mill
were present Monday and took
up their old jobs.
Sam w. Parks and ]. H.
Patterson left Fort Mill Monday
at noon for Charleston, where
they are spending several days
as representatives of the local
Woodmen lodge in the biennial
convention of the State grand
lodge.
The services of a night police
man for the town of Fort Mill
were dispensed with at a meet
ing of city council the last week.
The position of night officer was
created by council early last fall
and Mr.. Frank Hunnisuck has
efficiently filled the place since
that time.
1t is stated that a large num-
Der of packages containing two
or more gallons of whiskey. have
been returned to the shippers
collect from the Fort Mill and
Rock Hill express offices since
the gallon-a-month law became
effective on last Friday.
The next 10 or IL days tenn
peratures will decide the fate of
the fruit crop. The average
date of last killing frosts in this
vicinity is March 81, this being
the average for 81 years. For
the past 10 years the average
date of last killing frost is about
10 days earlier, there having
been two years in that time on
which the last freeze occurred
in February.
Jury notices, which will be
followed 10 days later by the
drawing of petit jurors and IL
grand jurors for the next term
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-12
REFERS TO THE TIMES OF LONG
AGO.

Dear Sir: AS you know, ever since
l met you in old Screven county,
when you were but young man,
teaching school, and studying law,
| have been your friend and admirer.
I thank God that / have lived to see
you Championing the cause of the
doWn-trodden, poor, and helpless
people Of the State, and of the Union
as well; but most especially since
reading what you have had to say
in the Leo Frank case, and how you
have stood by little Mary Phagan
who, in my opinion, died fighting to
defend her virtue, feel, if possible,
| am greater friend to you than
ever.
am sorry that John M. Slaton
committed the sentence of Leo M
Frank, for in doing so he has brought
down upon himself the righteous in
dignation Of rs per cent of the people
who once admired him and who
stood by him in his political career.
But we read in the Book, "Be sure
your sins will find you OUT
We all admire, love and respect
you for the fearless stand you have
taken for Right and Justice. Your
friends are increasing by the thous-
ands. I know many who used to
curse and abuse you who are now
speaking in the highest terms Of you.
May God spare you for many years
to fight the battles of the poor, help
less working people of Georgia.
| am truly and sincerely yours,
Ga. H. g. EDENFIELD.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-12
HE WAS AT THE WATSON HOME
COMING" IN 1892: HE UNDER
STANDS IT, NOW.

Dear Sir: Some twenty-five years
ago, when you came from Congress,
my father, who was a Watson man,
and I, drove twenty miles to Thorn
son to hear you make a speech
remember when the train came up
how the people shouted and hur-
rahed. They toted yor to a carriage
which was driven to a piece of pines
| would say, east of Thomson, where
you told the people what was being
carried on in Congress. l did not
understand what all this toting and
shouting for Watson meant But as
I have grown to manhood and
watched you through life 1 see that
you are doing more for the poor and