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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-26

any and every corn or callus without Is.
without fussing with thick b%andages, ps
harnesses. corn-swelling salves, i~rritatins
ointments. It's applied in . SECONDS.
bling, bing-2 drops, the work Is done, ".
corn shrivels up, your orn agony emu
and the corn leaves foreveri All 70.
limping, the pains that dart to you
hearts core, the cruci1xion Of having Y
wear shoes over screaming corns, w
danger Of blood poison from making tneu
bleed by using knives, razors end Scissor
are gone at lasti "GETS.IT"is the nes
way, the sure, simple, painless why. "
1t for corns. calluses. warts and buniona
"GETS-IT" is sold by druggists ever
where, Csc a bottle, or sent direct BY =
Lawrence & Co, Chicago,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-26
WOULD SERVE FOR SIS, 900 A YEAR.

DR.. W. B. Martin, a prominent citizen
Of Indlan0Ia, has announced for Sheriff Of
Sumt]oWer county and pledges himself, if
elected, to serve for a fixed salary Of S., 600
per year, turning into the treasury all fees
in excess of that amount "tO be applied to
bringing back to par all county warrants
and to reducing our too heavy and burden
some taXation." DR.. Martin takes a very
patriotic view Of the matter, and his exam
pie is worthy of emulation throughout the
State. The eXorbitant salaries paid in quite
a number Of counties under the obnoxious
fee system are surely going to be outlawed
when the next Legislature assemblies, and
all officers will be placed upon a reasonable
salary basis which should have been done
years ago. The State officers are all on a
salary basis, except the Revenue Agent, the
Attorney General and the Clerk Of the Su-
preme Court and the Legislature should
include these positions in the straight salary
bill to be introduced and adopted.
The Commonwealth is not playing any
favorlteS in the agitation of this question.
We want to see official salaries reduced
whenever and wherever necessary, and
favor the curtailment of all other public en-
penseS as much as possible until the present
excessive rate Of taxation is materially re-
duced and until our county warrants are
again placed on a par value basis.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-26
COUNTRY" OPPOSES THE PRESENT
FEE SYSTEM.
Editor The Commonwealth:

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Dear 2If;-l fead win great interest
Whal you mao 10 say iaSI week IN regard 70
inc zee system OF SherlllS ana taX-coilec-
TORS ano ceTkS; NOW, d X our Snerlll Tor
an example, ne got !gIoSSJ over 9!o,Voolh
laSC year. l Ihllk that ehtlrely 700
Lnuch lof any man TO get out OF county OIL
II'c' PAW WouI1 Dc d goou salary anu
mere are plei'y OF 8ood men UlaI Wou,u o oOe
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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-26
Swish! corns Gone!
We Use ''GETS.ITw
Q Seconds, 2 Drops - Corns Vanish

For everybody with corns, there Is ri
every drug store in the land one OF tbs|
real wonders of the world, and tha'i
"GETS.IT" for cornsI It's the first ana
only corn-cure ever known that removes
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-26
Subscriptions EI.@o PER YL
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-24

line, the joining concealed beneath
length of grosgrain ribbon The sail
or collar and cuffs are also of Sros
grain ribbon. The skirt shows the
newest shape which is circular and
falls in graceful folGs.
+ = j.
Mrs. w. NJ. Barnum entertained her
sewing club Thursday at their first
meeting of the season.
j. % II
The Searchers club will have it's
first meeting of the season Saturday
Mulvane street. The principal paper
for the afternoon will be on the Pana
ma Exposition, by Miss Mamie
Schenck.
Miss katheryn AIbaugh gave a din
ner party Thursday night for Miss
Azure Hyatt, who will leave Saturday
for Ann Arbor. Mich, to continue her
work as student in the University of
Michigan. The t. BILE decorations
were in red and white. A basket of
red and white dahlias tied with red
Covers were laid for: Miss Hyatt
Miss Alice Hughes, Miss Marguerite
Nicholas, Miss Juliette Brown, Miss
Winifred Greene, Miss Mildred Here.
man, Miss Miriam Ring, Miss Beatrice
Rush. Miss Helen Griffin and Miss AL
baugh.
The alumnae chapter of the Beta
sorority will meet Saturday, October
2 with Mrs george :. M :!
Some of the fashionable women of
New York. they say, have been asked
not to order their fall suits until after
the strikers in the tailoring establish
ments have won in the disagreement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-24

the Mississippi Valley, and more than
a thousand people have registered as
delegates. At a banquet to be given
during the session George Whitcomo
Riley and Booth Harrington will be
among the guests. A feature of the
congress will be an immense disease
prevention pageant
A very serviceable little school
frock partaking of the characteristics
of the MILDLY blouse, but with skirt at
tached. 1t is made of blue serge and
Iaces in the front The skirt is at
tached to the deep bodice in scallop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-24
Are You Ready
For Your Trip? Take
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MI allied Milk

with you when Yachting, Camping.
Motoring, Fishing, or Golfing
A nutritious, satisfying Food-Drink ready
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hot or cold. A fine nights rest is assured
if you take cupful hot before retiring.
Our Lunch Tablets are the acme of con-
venient nourishment. Dissolve few
in the mouth when fatigued or hungry
Sample free, HORLIcK'S, Racine, Wis.
-No Substitute is 1tJust as Good"
as H0RLlck'S, the Original
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-24

to the Washburn college endowment
fund, or that part of the subscription
now falling due.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-24

ment club Saturday morning at the
money to pay the clubs subscription
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03
n Five Minutes Talk.
Washington (Ga) Reporter.

w tHd.t NSpOIltI.
All of us talk with scores of peo-
pie every day, yet how seldom that
from one of these informal conversa-
tions we get thought or an inspira-
tion that goes with us through life.
The reason for this is that so few
people think. but talk mechanically
Just as talking machines do.
n man walked into our Office last
week and after talking with him for
ten minutes we were more benefited
than by all that we had heard or
read in week. This man is a
Wilkes county man, has been sue
cessful. his heart is mellow, and he
looks at life from the summit of n
long experience, an experience. how
ever. which instead Of bitterness has
brought wisdom and sweetness. We
discussed the conflicts and antagon-
isms of life, the evil passions which
occasionally seem to explode in COM
munities, counties and states. max
ing the way look dark. He admitted
this but was able to see the bright
side of even this shadow, and spoke
OF it as follows. I'm every human
heart there is some good that can be
appealed to, and there is a way to ap-
peal to it so that the impulses of
righteousness may be enthroned in
the hearts and lives Of such people.
Real conflicts seldom arise over what
is RIGHT and what is WRONG, but
generally arise on account of some
selfish advantage which those on op-
posite sides of an issue seek to win,
thereby sacrificing the cause for per-
sonal gain. An unselfish man, arm.
ed with truth, is stronger than an
hundred self-seeking men pleading
the same cause, or one thousand men
pleading a cause that is wrong A
mans strength is determined by his
ability to lose sight of himself, there
by disarming resistance. People
often take sides, not on the merits Of
an issue, but in order to align them
selves with friends or to antagonize
enemies" What sermon Of funda-
mental truths! A man can be right
and yet hurt the very cause be
espouses by an uncharitable attitude
toward those who differ from him.
and particularly, by evincing a pur-
pose to make capital out of his posi-
ton. Oh, that people would learn
the value of gentle methods, that you
can not reform a man by abusing
him. that selfishness never hogcts
sympathy. The lesson is n most
difficult one, but it must be learned
II through good men bad ones are to
he reformed. Let's hold on 10 char
ity, not for the sin but for the sake
of the sinner.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03

and we commend those men who
have left their laboratories and call
ng lists to attend this meeting in
Columbia at their own expense.
We frequently hear the lay world
'riticising the medical profession for
;etting up "scares," etc. This moves
us to wonder how many men now
Walking the streets in good health
would be filling premature graves on
account of intestinal disorders" if
it had not been for the somewhat re-
cent discovery of easy and sure cure
for appendicitis" by the use of the
knife?
Aud those who may be disposed to
rail that there was no such thing
rs pellagra few years ago and that
the doctors are trying to kill off the
whole generation with it" should
realize that this trouble has been
among us for many years but had
never been scientifically classified
and, furthermore, when the doctors
do seggregate the germ and find a
cure for it, they will be deprivina
themselves of large and increasing
source of revenue, for pellagra is not
confined to any one station of life.
Wherefore, we are moved to say
that the physicians of the country
as class are generous, charitable
farsighted, unmercenary and patriot
ic men, and it is anomalous, but
none the less true, that they are ever
trying to place humanity upon a
plane Of good health and clean living,
although the physicians stock in
trade is increased by the presence of
disease, filth, improper living and
poor health.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03
FIVE SIMPLE RULES
FOR WINNING HAPPINESS
From a report of DR.. Charles f..
Barker's lecture, How to Live to
be One Hundred Years Old"

be One Hundred Years Old"
Cultivate the habit of always look
ing upon the bright side of every ex
perience.
Worry and anxiety are the great
killers. Worry has the physical effect
of breaking down the nerve centers
and making one less able to do ones
work or to meet any difficulty. Don't
cross the bride before you come to
it. Meet every trouble as it arises.
II.
Accept cheerfully your place in life
while you are in it, believing that it
is the best possible place for you.
This does not mean that one
should not strive to better his condi-
ton. but ii means that while you are
in one position make the most OF il
and don't be envious, fretful, and
jealous of others. "Oh," you say.
'if / just had something else, or
were in some other situation, l
could be happy" No you would not
be. If you cannot command happi-
ness in your present position you
could not find it In another.
III.
Throw your whole soul and spirit
into your work, and do 1t the best
you know how.
No matter what your work is,
while you are in it you must make q
delight of doing it well or you will
never be happy.
".
Get into the habit of doing bits of
Kindness and courtesies to all those
who touch your life each day.
This means at home, principally.
Any one can be polite and pleasant
and thoughtful when out on dress pa
rade. But the folks who love you
most and whom you most love are
those in your own household or i'm
mediate surroundings. Try thought
fulness, kindness and courtesy with
them-husband to wife. wife to hus-
band, children to parents, parents to
children, brothers to sisters and sis
ters 40 brothers.
| v.
Adopt and maintain a simple, child
like attitude OF confidence and
trust in God as your own father.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03
JUST LESSONS.

Troubled little ten-year-old, doubled
in your chair,
PuZzling over lesson books, filed
with black despair.
Just outside the breeze is warm and
all the skies are blue,
And not bird or butterfly has any
sums to do.
The care-free rabbits romp and run
along the shaded lanes
With never any grammar books to
tangle up their brains.
But how can little prisoners have
any time to play
With lessons, lessons, lessons all the
long, long day?
On the sunlit river shore the quiet
turtles bask,
Nor care about the answers In tbe
questions teachers ask.
The brindle pup is sleeping in some
soft and sheltered nook
He doesn't need to learn to read
from some dull prosy book.
The silver trout are leaping where
the marsh-fiies skim the pool
AND no one tries to wash them I'D
and send theR/off to school.
But here one cannot laugh nor lark,
one cannot even speak:
It's lessons. lessons, lessons all the
long, long week.
Alas! while rolls this weary world
around the shining sun,
We never find that happy day when
lesson time is done.
When from the dog-eared number
books the little boy shall turn,
He still will find a myriad of lessons
yet to learn.
And when across the path Of life the
twilight shadows fall,
He'll know that no one in this world
can ever learn them all.
For life Is but a smile or two and
toll and pain and tears,
And lessons. lessons, lessons all the
long, long years.
JOHN J. MONTAGUE.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03
, HARNESS THE IDLE ACRES.
Progressive Farmer.

Progressive Farmer.
In farm management two well
recognized principles are Cd that
each acre shall be required to pro-
duce maximum crops and (2) that a
sufficient acreage be cultivated to in
sure for men and teams as nearly as
possible a maximum of employment,
under working conditions best suited
to efficient effort. In other words,
every acre must yield good crops, and
enough acres must be cultivated to
insure fair wages to the farmer.
In actual farm practice cotton belt
farmers are too often falling short of
these ideals. 1t is rare indeed thai
we find farm that is averaging fifty
to seventy-five bushels of corn and
one to one and one-half bales of cot
ton per acre; yet such yields are
economically possible on large
areas, and the farmer who falls short
of averaging them over his entire
fam is correspondingly failing to
realize on his opportunities. How
put our acres on a maximum profit
yielding basis? Of course the use OF
clovers and other legumes as we'll as
manures is absolutely essential in
any we'll ordered system, but this
week we wish especially to en-
phasize other points that are scarcely
less important.
l. Demand Of each and every acre
on the farm that it do it's share. This
simply means, where a man has 80
acres Of land and has only 40 of it
open, that the unusued 40 acres
should either be put to work in some
way or else sold and the proceeds
used to improve the remainder of the
farm. Just as the expert dairyman
weeds out and sells off his COWS that
fail to show profit, so should we in
sist that each acre we own be re-
Quired to render a good account of
itself.
2. Drain the wet spots and nil the
gullies. Who has not seen in nearly
lows, feet deep in the richest soil on
the farm, producing nothing but
crop Of weeds? Who has not seen
the gullies, dozens and hundreds of
them, that cut our broad fields into
patches and waste our soil fertility?
The presence of these undrained
productive spots and soil-wast-
ing gullies means that we must learn
more about tile and terraces and how
to use them to make our farms yield
us greater returns.
3. Don't tolerate stumps, trees
and bushes in the cultivated fields.
We believe in orchards, shade trees
and wood lots, but they should be in
their proper places, and this means
that they have no business in the cul-
tivated fields. Their presence, along
with a sprinkling of stumps, simply
means that we can never use to ad-
vantage the labor-saving machinery,
that is absolutely essential if we get
maximum returns for our labor. We
we'll know that ridding fields of such
nuisances is no easy job, but it is a
lob that should be taskled with de-
termination that will never slacken
until it is finished
Let us repeat, that good farming
consists of getting from each acre the
maximum returns that are econom'-
cally possible and in handling an
acreage sufficient to insure low labor
cost through the use OF improved
achinery. And right now is the
time to plan and work for these
things for another year.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03
WHAT Is PELLAGRA?

There has long been a feud be-
tween the newspaper fraternity and
the medical profession on account of
the chance expression of some wag
that newspaper mans mistakes
are emblazoned on his front page
for in the grave yard"
However, if some men are skepti-
cal. others place an implicit faith in
the doctors prescriptions; and of
these was a man in Limerick, who
went to the undertaken to order a
coffin for Patrick.
Dear me-" said the undertaken.
''is poor Pat dead?"
mo, he's not dead yet" answered
the other, "but he'll die tonight, for
the doctor says he can't live till
morning, and he knows what he gave
HIM"
The old feud between the news
paper man and Aesculapius is found
in the formal code of ethics, a some
thing-or-other which the doctors say
is the sine qua non for keeping their
profession upon high plane, and to
prevent charlataury. But the news
paper man has different idea.
He says that the ethics of the med
ical profession is but a plan to make
1t as hard as possible for a newspaper
to get information, especially from
hospitals and such institutions in
the founding of which the news
papers feel that they have had a con-
spicuous, If not useful, part because
OF the boosting given to societies"
and fairs and booths and what-nots.
For If doctor in an occasional flash
OF intelligence gives a newspaper a
good story, he is pounced down
upon by his loving brethren, who dis
sect his professional career as merci-
lessly as a new bride in a community
is preened by the old maids sewing
circle.
Leaving persifage aside, there is
growing understanding on the part
of the newspapers that the medical
profession must have a code OF
etiquette and of morals, and the doc
tors are learning that the newspapers
must have the news, not so much for
themselves as for inQuiring friends
and loved ones of the i'll. In the
great war against disease, the news
papers and the medical men are lined
up together, and along with other
agencies are doing a great work for
this country.
We submit to the scientists trying
to solve the mystery of pellagra that
the newspapers have done their part
in this fight, and they will keep it
up as they have their efforts for
other things for the benefit of the
physical, moral and spiritual condi-
tion of the world.
This is great, unselhsh under
taking on the part of most of the
medical men Of this country, and we
wish them godspeed in their efforts,
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03
have YOU Been SICK?

Then you realize the utter weakness
that robs ambition, destroys appetite,
and makes work burden.
Torestorethat tstrepgthandatamina that
is 50 essential, nothing has ever equaled
or compared with Scott's Emulsion, be-
cause Its strength sustaining nourish-
ment invigorates the blood to distribute
energy throughout the body while it's tonic
value sharpens the appetite and restores
health In natural, permanent way.
II you are run down, tired, nervous,
overworked or lack strength, get Scott'a
Emulsion to-day. It ia free from alcohol.
Scott & Bovine. Bloomfield.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03
TO Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up Tho Systens

Take the Old standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing II 10
Quipine and Iron i'm a tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. so cents
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03
NOTICE.

Write me and I will ex-
plain how / was cured in 4
days of q severe case of
Piles of 40 years standing
without pain, knife or de-
tention from business. No
one need suffer from this
disease when this humane
cure can be had right here
in South Carolina.
II. Nj. JOSEY,
Route d.. Lamar, s. G.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-03

Adopt and maintain a simple, child
like attitude OF confidence and
trust in God as your own father.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26

A wise man reflects before he speaks /;
n fool speaks and then reflects on what
he has uttered
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26
AT THE DENHAM.

Having the permission of her man
ager. John Cort, to present the play in
which she is to open her New York sea
son in the fall, in Denver, Florence Rob
erts will close her engagement at the
Dcnbam theater next week in a striking
drama called "The Claim"
1t is said to be remarkable play.
one that will place another jewel in
the crown OF this brilliant actress, who
has charmed Denver audiences for nearly
a fortnight. The Claim" is full of ac-
ton; of glowing American spirit. 1t is
of the human kind with scenes in it a.
big as any to be found in "Arizona,
''The Virginian," and "The Great Divide
1t gives opportunity for Miss Roberts
undeniable emotional gifts.
Mr.. Anthony will give adequate sup
port to Miss Roberts and the manage.
ment will give THE Claim" stunning
scenic investure.