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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-09-23

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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-09-23

ffses t0dxy fs6dffis Msf studies d
IWinthrop college,, She. IL. q, JUNO,
there this year., Mrs. Brown and he,
daughters have been spending the
summer In the mountains and stop
ped In spartanburg few days before
returning to her home In SUMTER
spartanburg Journal.
Miss Nell 0iflis. OF Sumter, has rc.
turned home, after most ENJOYABLE
wish to Miss Helen O'Shaughnessy.-
Charleston Post.
Miss Helena Rultman left Tuesday
mornins for Rock Hill to attend Win
thr0p college.
Mrs. ~. H. Hyman has returned to
her home In Camden, after spenhns
a few days with her sistor, Mrs. C. f.
(Jenkfnson. Mrs. X. D. Briggs, moth
e. Of MRS. Hyman. and Mrs. Jenkins,
accompanied Mrs. Hyman horne
for q few days visit. after which
Mrs. Briggs Will 60 on up to Chariot, /,
TO spend the winter there with her
dAushtsr. Mrs Clyde Webb, at soo
East Avenue. f4
Miss Sara Lee Galphin has returned
to her home at Ninety six, after a
very pleasant visit to Misses Mary
and Sara Calhoun.
Rrof W. 8 schumacher, of CO.
iambix was visitor to the city today
Mrs. Edwin Wilson and daughter,
Mis- RUTH Wilson. Of st. Charles, were
IN the city today.
~ Ne. ana Mrs. 8. r. Walker. who
were married last week. have return
- to the city for q short visit before
settling down In their home at Man.
ninss 4.s. 4. ,sr
Miss sallis n Anderson OF Summer
tom was . visstor to the city today.
Msssss May and Ella wststone of st.
Matthew'S Miss Lucie johnson and
II. Edwin johnson Of Manning, and
Ar. Eugene Myers Of Columbia arc
tAs gussts Of Mr.. and Ms. ]. H.
Jshnson on Brosd street. ss M
Privsts Hush b. Jones Of the Unit
cd states army. who has been at
Honoinlu for the past two years. ar
Nvsd In the city today on his way to
Psovi@snce. where no. will visit his
parsnts. Mr.. and Mira. n. F.. Jones.
Ar. Jenes reports having a compare
eaSsly sasy time IA the army and says
thak the climats whore he II stntion-
81 10 the Ansst In the world. He will
remain here for two months or long
Or ON hAs furlvugh. before returning
to Honolulu. IN making the trip he
Isft dsonolaM on the 7th and spent
nine days on shipboard before reach
ing San Franoisce. from which place
No came direct here. Mr.. Jones was
60 sa,thoss'to WIN the sharpshooters
/. cdl :. 4. Rhams. Of Lynchburg.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27
MERCY ANNE AT BOARDING SCHOOL

"TF Tubby'd get Off that bed and fix her
i half of the room thered be plenty of
places to sit down" 1t was Mary Develle
that spoke, as she picked up a black hair
ribbon and threw it with a disguised air
at the chubby figure that was lolling
luNuriously on a carefully made bed.
The day was Saturday the hour "pick
up time" on every corridor in Miss Stones
school. -
The special hurriedly called meeting of
''The Six Great Secrets" was about to be
in session.
Girls" began Jerry at last. we've got
to do something about Mercy Anne Per
kins. She's. been here just a week and
during, all that time we've been as mean
as-as anything TO her and"
why, she's too silly to notice it," pat in
May Belle. "All she does is keep her mouth
open like she's catching flies why"
''She was smart enough" broke in Jerry
the night we tried to fool her with the
me and you too, that the Battle of Hast
ings was In 1855"
"Yep-p,"' yawned Tubby from the depths
OF a down quilt. II was in on that too I
didn't know Hasting was battle till she
told me-"
''Humph. trying to show on just because
she knows little English history" sneered
May Belle.
WELL" said Jerry. 'I don't think she's
showing on, and I say we take her in."
What" exclaimed May Belle, who be
II known had been taken into the ''six
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27

Zarodnik reading magazines? Zapp ex-
claimed. sam couldn't even read electric
signs In words of one syllable like Lunch
and Cafe I said he was moving away
from Sth street on account of other people
reading magazine stories, Birsky, which IL
you read anything from magazines. Birsky,
you would know II that every magazine
has got in 1t at least two stories where
the scene Is laid in a studio close to Wash
ington square, and what nearly happens
In them studios, according to the stories,
Birslky, has created such a demand for
studios close to Washington square that
all the furriers and cheap clothing con-
tractors has got to move away from there;
and the old, rundown houses they used to
occupy Is being made over into studios and
filled with magazine readers at rentals
which a furrier or a clothing contractor
would consider high for n sprinkled fire.
proof loft with two elevators and light On
three Sides"
"Aber what does all the people want
studios for7" Birsky asked. "They ain't
Listen, Birsky zapp said. "If all the
people which rented studios in New York
was artists, y'understand, the competition
in the picture painting business would make
the cloak and suit business look like II
was run by virtuous monopoly. AS a
real estater you should know II, that from
reading magazine stories a lot of people
has come to consider as a studio any cold
water fiat above the third floor without
elevator service and within 10 blocks Of
Washington square, and in changing over
such flats into studios, Birslly, the only
that the landlord must do is to
raise the rent from $50 month up to $50.
a month, payable strictly in advance.
"well" Birsky commented, "it's time
somebody done something for the real
estate business in New York"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27

The Guilty Dollar Is marvellous, grip
ping, genius-inspired story of the Iowa
Platinum Mines, yunderstand, and is 2
mastery and accurate study of the prob
lem Of mining capital and labor, verstehst
du i1foh they want to find out what II is
about First, the acting general manager
reads It and says to the second assistant
vice president what some people wouldn't
do for money! And to make note In the
story they used machine guns on the strik-
ers. When the second assistant vice presi-
dent got through with II, he said that
feller who could imagine such rotten
state Of affairs in any big industrial
community was a tiger in human form and
made a memorandum of the bull-ring idee,
the shutting off Of supplies to the strikers,
ncludir milk for their babies, and one or
two other pointers about strikes. and then
he passed II on to the head actuary and
says TO him that no wonder people hated
the trusts when such lies were allowed to
be printed about them. and that he should
look over the story and report tomorrow
morning at the latest what could be done
to equallze the wages of the foreign mine
laborers out in Colorado with the foreign
mine laborers in the story"
"Aber don't people get no good tdees
out Of magazine stories?" Blrsky asked.
We'll" Zapp said. II myself got
couple designs for waists from magazine
covers and figured I made 5 per cent. OF
NooN
goods didn't use in the neck and sleeves.
You could of made more than that If
you would be as spdrsdm NIT dress goods
as the artists that draws some magazine
pictures" Brsliy said "Tf lady would
select the kind and amount OF clothes that
some magazine artists thinks plenty sutfi'
Client for their pictures, and If she would
wear such clothes on Fifth avenue, Zapp,
before the patrol wagon arrives she would
attract a crowd OF 10000 people"
But there wouldn't be no magazine
readers among them" zapp retorted. "The
magazines has given people very liberal
idees in the matter of dress and etiquette,
Birsky. Yes, Birslty, lot of people has
changed their ways of living from reading
magazine stories. Some of 'em moves into
other neighborhoods on account of IL. Take
for instance Sam Zarodnik, of Zarodnik &
Karpas, in the fur business, and Sam tells
me he is going to move from Sth street to
26th street..
ITS funny how people changes" Birsky
said. "Ten years ago when zarodnik &
Karpas signed checks Karpas wrote the
Zarodnk and the Karpas and 1t was as
much Sam could do to write the and
Yet nowadays that feller is reading mag
azines yet"
what are you talking, nonsense-sam
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27
MISTER ELEPHANTS EYEsIGHT
n Farmer Smith

Il have finished washing the dishes"
sald Mister Elephant TO his good wife one
day
That's good" answered Mlssus Elephant
please don't interrupt me-lts very
zs1de I have finished washing the dishes
and ] want 10 ask II l may go down town
for 4 few minutes" Mister Elephant looked
longlngly az his wife.
Eyes. II you hurry back. / want you to
help me move the piano" replied Aiasus
IsIephant WheneVer she had nothing for
her coed husband to do she always had MIN
nlove the piano Many was the time ne
wanted 70 do something and she would
aake him stop and move the piano up
stairs or down, as the case might be-
well. Mister Elephant hurried down
town and when he got half way who should
- aea but Jimmy Monkey. Hello you lit
tle rascal What aFe you 10 70 nowf
Jimmy had nothing to a. and 30 he
thought ne would have some fun with the
~ fellow He turned his head slowly and
Iaakad At the sky. DO you see that
zzaad4a
''Yss. see that cloud" said Mister
Izrtanl slowly.
WeII right on the tip Of that cloud 10
3 ~ DAINTY hy and he IS crawling aion6
zzeI - sIoWly-slowly and
tIoek 81 exclaimed Mister Elephant.
Sell slipping slipping. On, dear ne da is
zsiaF 4Diaa Jimmy he lillie - 4
fte hsrs ~ s H.eAt o4 the
z zeser
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27

be done in such close quarters as shipping
goods A gollef grounds is about the size
of New York Assembly District, and when
a hundred felers plays on 1t at one time,
y'understand, they're already terrible
crowded, which you can figure to yourself
Brsky, IL as many as 100000 New Workers
played gollef, they would require within
committing distance of Times Square a
piece of land equal to Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts,. Vermont and the
Northern Tier Counties of Pennsylvania"
"And yet you say people gets good idees
out of magazine stories," Birsky COM
mented.
81 said they get Idees," Zapp admitted,
but not always GOOD idees. For in.
stance when them mining people run off
that strike there in Colorado, they got
their idees from a serial story by the name
The Guilty Dollar which at the time he
bought 1t the magazine editor said was ter
ribly exaggerated because in this day and
generation, yunderstand, when a million
aire has got sense enough to make a hun
dred million dollars in platinum like SEN
ator Carruthers-Steel Trap Carruthers
they used to call him on the Platinum Elk.
change-it stood to reason that he wouldn't
stand for his associates shooting down
strikers and their wives and children In
cold blood, Birsky., The magazine owner
also says to the author that he ought to
be ashamed to write a story where an
American mine owner paid foreign mine
workers such miserable wages, yunder-
stand, and that for writing such an exag-
gerated and untrue story he couldn't give
the author the regular amount for the story
but paid him $35 for it, which the author
figured was at the rate of 6 cents an hour
for his work. Later the magazine owner
got to like the story better, 80 naturally
when them Colorado mining people reads
on the front page of the magazine that
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27

take here the other day a lady which lives
over In Brooklyn and rents for q few dol
lars n week n furnished room, y'understand
and the poor woman actually has got an
uncle die on her and leave her 100000,
Zapp."
"Nebfchl" Zapp exclaimed 1T must Of
upset her something terrible"
Ordinarily IL wouldn't" Birsky agreed.
THE chances is she would of got just as
much pleasure out of such thing as you
and me, Zapp, II II wasn't that she read
this here Steel Trap Carruthers story, Zapp,
and what does she do, Zapp, she turns
around and goes to work and refuses to
take the 100000 on account II is tinted.
1t seems, Zapp, her uncle was in the second
mortgage business and could be persuaded
to once In while accept a bonus over
per cent. per annum, and also occasion
ally foreclosed for nonpayment of principal
the same like other dealers in second mort.
cages in and out OF magazine stories, the
only difference being that in stories, Zapp,
all property under foreclosure Is owned by
widders with small children. while in real
life nine times out of tell the defendant is
for example the Klotzplck Construction
Company-Harris Klotz, president; Jacob
Pick vice president and treasurer, and IL
they decide to let the foreclosure suit 20
to a sale, all them two felers is got left
In the world is million dollars worth of
improved property around Riverside drive
and seth street. But this here lady in
Brooklyn refused to take the money, Zapp
because she read the magazines so long
that she didn't believe in real life no more"
Neither does a whole lot of other peo.
ple." Zapp declared, editors of papers for
example. Every New York newspaper ed
itor has got an idea that anyhow 15 per
cent. of the Leute which lives in New York.
or 100000 people. takes such a big inter.
est in gollef, y'understand, that it's neces-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27

Aapp uisregarded tho interruption. =
Another idee people gets from masa
zine fiction" he continued, is that spsc
tacles ain't matter of eyesight no mora
Birsky. They come under the hsaa I,
clothing, and young feller that reads IA
stories In an up-to-date magazine world
consider himself practically naked II n.
was seen on the streets without his rubber
tired spectacles. Then, again, In formst
times young feller was lucky II he had
three suits of clothes, y'understand-A
working clothes his best clothes and suit
OF clothes he kept to go fishing in, suppos
ing he ever did go fishing--dber nowadays
not alone does young fellers like to act
in real life like the young felers In mag,
aZine stories, but they also want to look
like the Illustrations An up.to-dats young
feller has got different suit Of clothes
for every purpose mentioned in magazine
story, even II he has to go without lunches
to do 1t. Yes, Birsky the magazine artists
which is always drawing pictures from 4
young man in full dress suit, cutaway
or tuxedo leaning over a grand piano
while a lady is playing her hardest to keep
the blood circulating SO she wouldn't freeze
from the waist up, y'understand, such
magazine artist is doing more to make
young men who are good dressers Eais
checks, GAMER the petty cash and ,practcs
double-double entry than all the pool rooms
race tracks, poker games and roulstis
wheels In America"
"Then, after all, Zapp," Birsly said
magazine stories has a bad influence
mot on the dress suit, tuxedo and cut
away business" Zapp replied, NOR on the
rubber-tired spectacle business neither
And how about gollef?" Birsky asked
'I got no kick about golef Blrsly,T
Zapp concluded. 'If my competitors only
devote enough time to 1t, Birsky, am say
isfied."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27

sary to get once a week a funny golef
picture done by the newspapers cartocnist.
Now, as such a cartoonist la paid salary
equivalence to the President of the United
States, supposIng Mr.. Wilson also received
q royalty of 10 per cent on the rights to
reproduce in moving pictures as comics the
caryings-on of the Senate and House of
Representatives, y'undcrstand, take one.
seventh Of such n cartoonist's salary Birsky,
and II makes gollef a very expensive game
for newspaper even supposlng II was as
popular as the editor nobich thinks 1t Is.
However Birsky, If you was an editor
and was able to read all the magazines free,
you wouldn't act no differenGely, because 1t
don't make no difference If a SchriftStcller
Is writing a love story, business story.
detecative story oder sea story, he thinks
he must got to ring in something about
gollef, the idee being to make the rest of
the story sound more refined and give peo-
pie the impression that although writing
under an alias he is really MiShpoChd to
the Astors and Vanderbilts"
What is there so bekovet about playing
gollef?" Birsky asked.
We'll, for one thing. it's taking exer-
cise," Zapp continued, (which taking exer-
else is considered such a Mitsvdh nova.
days, Birsky, that when some fellers tell
you about the exercise they are taking,
y'understand, they act like they would be
admitting that they just give a hundred
thousand dollars to the Belgium Relief
Fund"
IF taking exercise is such a wonderful
thing" Birsky said, "a shipping clerk must
be big Tsadek already"
He Is Just such a Tsddek as n gollef
player is, anyhow" Zapp said, because
packing and shipping goods is a great deal
like playing gollef, Birsky II exercises
every part Of the body except the head
the only difference being that gollef couldn't
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27

| Siaeine~ %sf;l...~ n

Great Secrets" but a short three days ago
A young lady who speaks carelessy o.
thousands here and thousands there ana
can stretch forth promises OF house parties
on yachts Is not to be ignored.
Take her into the Six Great Secrets
echoed Mary.
'why-ee. Jerry" exclaimed KathleaL In
a rebuking tone.
Hastily Jerry overlook herself IL
didn't mean exactly that" she expainee
In a rather injured tone. In truth, she naa
meant exactly that. II thought maybe W
could kind Of try her out" sudden gIeAI
Thought came TO her rescue. you SNOW
girls, the third amendment to the consu.u,
tion--the one that you wrote, May bsiis'
"why. of course" shrieked May bels
delightedly, in second her pre1udlce con
pletely drowned in the enthusiasm OF sselpb
her pet plan put into execution.
Amendment three to the constitution "
the six Great Secrets read: ANY AlsE
ment about taking in new girls snali y
settled by making above said girs y
through trial by fire, to be PLANES y
the writer of the amendment ana 0'n'
mittee." y.
In less than a minute the writer Or "
amendment without her commits4 ~
planned enough trials by nre 70 tss
regiment OF Mercy Annes. -,
The committee, self-appointed' W. 49,, ~
silent long. Suggestions were peasslnl, allr
Out of the mix-up of them all there 49, W
developed one plan that was genefAps -
solemnly agreed upon 49,, 1uns
A party was to be given, ana Mslps a.
was to be watched as an invited susss
(To be continusd)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27

"TKTHAT are you foolins aay your time
w reading that Machshovosp Louis
BlrslSy. the real estater exclaimed as he
seated himself opposite Barnett Zapp in
wasserbauer,s Restaurant
That's what Old Man Zeppelin used to
nay" Barnett zapp, the waist manufac-
turer, replied as he laid down the current
Issue OF sultry Stories. Every once in a
while he would find his youngest son, Pin
Gus Zeppelin, reading dime novel and he
would catch him a Potch on the ear and
ask him what would become OF him, and
that he had a kind father and a good
mother and this is the way he repays them,
and to look at his brother. Sig which never
read nothing but the papers and now runs
one OF the biggest RoIontdltodren, delica.
tessen and fine grocery stores In Immen-
dingen, Wurtemburg whereas Plncus Yep
pelln couldn't forget the time he fooled
away over Ned Harrington, the Boy Avi-
Rtor,' In the Ned Harrington series till II
affected his mind, Brslsy. He becomes crazy
on the subject of airshps and before he
recovers his senses y'understand he stands
q show to get away with anywheres from
ten to twenty million dollars"
You are talking now from one single
Jeeted, "dber the shoe could pinch on the
other foot, too, Zapp. II would read, for ex-
ample, In a i0-cent rnagasine that Ned
Carruthers' uncle left him $4,000. 900 profits
from the Cruller Trust and Ned wouldn't
take cent of the money on account It
was tinted from being ground out of the
blood Of working women which has got to
sit and see their husbands die because
there isn't so much as n lcruller In the
house, and that's the way Old Man Car
ruthers-Steel Trap Carruthers they used
to call him on the Cruler Exchange Jnade
his money, yunderstand. reading such
Aaohshopos couldn't do me no harm, Zapp.
II wouldn't make me turn down any
e2,0o0,ooo legacy from my uncle, even
though as reward l might stand show
90 marry girl with s5,00o,oO0, the way
Ned Carrutners did in the story because.
in the first place, Zapp, such things only
happen In stories, and in the second place.
arpposing / had an uncle. the chances II
that up to tbs day of my death he would
be sehnoTTin0 from me $40 week to keep
him out of a Home for the Aged yunder-
stand, and that at my funeral he would
90 round telling how for years he begged
me shouldn't make a god out of my
while 1 let my own mothers
brother practically starve So you see
Zapp, reading such a story amt going to
make me lose nothing but my time and 10
cents for the magazine. Zapp, aber you
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27
KEEP ON
The
FIRING LINE!
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Children gentleman these
it"
n time
the
his right the ands o ii.
writing
years. S a
you
doing of things which
enabled chdns editor and KNOW what YOU want
of like would
much PREFER to write
dsendi something like this:
Dear FarmeGet back hdren stories We regret that
novel;"
m 1 do?
long lifetime that all. Every day
hepfun aid the great
of making THINK FOR YOURSELF.
a chidrens
OF sleep 81 HAVE MADE AT
LEAST CHILD HAPPY THIS YEAR"
S wonderful, wonderful
FARMER SMITH,
ndren's Editor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27
Rirda

BY Elizabeth and Isabel Mcnamara.
cherry tree A few days ago we heard
something like a knocking on this tree.
We stopped TO look and there IN the tree
was little bird with a red head psctine a
hole IN the tree After IL went away we
looked at the hole and found Il as round a.
II II were carved 1t was the "red-headsd
WOodpeeker' that had been there.
Another noted bird Is the robin. Even II
Il does steal cherries IL pays up for II bv
keeping insects out OF the garden The robin
Is OF dark hue with red breast Here arc
The names of three hirda VIII sons 81 ~
members Try 70 guess them
tnhors FoNu snq FeH4paa
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27
A Homemade Rainbow

Sent In by CHARLES WEIsBERG.
Do the members OF the Rainbow Club
want to see something nice? Well. then take
circular piece OF cardboard and draw on
it three lines that win cross each other in the
centre of the cardboard. Do the same on
the other side. Fill in the parts formed by
the lines with colors in erayon OF paint in
the following order; Red, white. blue, yell
low purple and orange Now make two
holes In the centre of the cardboard, draw
string through both Of them and lie the
ends. Put your hand in both loops, OF the
string swing the circle a few times ana
begin pulling gently to and fro with the
hands. The cardboard will twrl around ana
then you will see a rainbow on the card
board.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27
" And" Continues Zapp,
Packing and Ship
ping Goods Is a Great
Deal Like Playin G
Gollef-It Exercises
Every Part of the
Body But the Head"

Il Got No Kick About Gollef,"
He Concludes. "If My Com
petitors Only Devote Enough
Time to 1t, Birsky, / am Salts
fied"-The Whole Discussion
About "Gollef" Becomes
Hopelessly Entangled With
Magazine Stories, Business
Affairs and the Social Condi-
tions of New York's Washing
ton Square