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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-04-19
CHAUTAUCUA PEOPLE
USE SPECIAL TRAIN
Begin Educational Invasion
of Sonth Tuesday
REACHLAURENS
APRIL 2STH

Madame Julia ClauSSen, OF the Chicago
Grand Opera Company, will Come
South in her Private Car and Travel
in 1t Over the Entire Circuit.
An educational invasion Of the
South will begin Tuesday when the
,edpath Chautauqua special leaves
Chicago for Jacksonville, Fla. The
undrcd members of the Chautauqua
i'll be bidding Chicago goodbye un-
! autumn, for their time from April
. until the first week in September
y i'll be spent on the southern circuit.
The first stop will be made at
-jhcville, where the party, under the
direction Of Harry p. Harrison, gen
cr;ll manager of the Rcdpath system,
will be the guests Of f. l.. Scelcy at
the Grove Park Inn. The train will
arrive at Jacksonville, where the first
ChautauuHa Of The season is to be
given, on April 20. From that point
they will gradually work norlhward
The programme begins in Laurcns
on Friday, April 2S. and continues
until May ), with the exception Of
Sunday,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-04-19

Buy your Spring Bill at Red Iron
Racket. You will save money
j. G. BURNS q CO.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-04-19
COUNTY SCHOOL FAIR
DREW THOUSANDS

Continued from Page Onc.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28


He reflected that the Atlantic millions
of human beings were at that very moment
gagged in the dreadful task of killing other human
beings with every invention which ingenuity and
skill could bring forth from the laboratories of
science and the workshops of industry.
In other lands at that very moment tens of
thousands upon tens of thousands of helpless
folk-feebe. aged men and women, mothers with
babes cnging cOnvulsively to their breasts, little
children sObbng in terror vast army of the in
nocent and the anguished-were enduring the ex
tremities of exposure, of hunger, and of despair
rs they fled from their wasted farmsteads and
burning villages, escaping from the pitiless cruelty
of savage men only TO lie down TO suffer and die
under the pitess skies of God in the winter and
the bitter storms.
At that very moment most dreadful hid
half the world in the backneSs of its darkness
and from that horrid cloud rained destruction
upon unhappy Europe-Gpon her ancient capitals,
upon her pleasant cities upon her villages, her
fields, her temples, her treasures of art upon all
the Accommodations of thousand years of genius,
of learning, of industry, of skill and of patient
advancement of the happiness and the civilization
of the race of man.
So he that considered all this wickedness that
was being done under the sun. this drunken dance
of death and hell above the fetd corpses and the
multtudnous graves. this awful nightmare of in
describable and wrath. said in the bitterness
of his heart that no God ruled over such maniac
world and there was thanksgiving due to the
Giver of Gifts clat were not good but everyone
altogether evil.
And when the man had made an end of his
thinking he went and stood in a window and
looked out upon the evening because it was fair
TO see.
He saw in vision at that instant the vastness
of the republic and the multitude of the good and
happy folk who live under the shelter of its
strength He reflected how brief time had thus
magnifed the works of our pioneer fathers and
our pioneer mothers. those brave and simple men
and women whose names should never be men,
toned with anything but profound gratitude.
And to this American, glad with great pride
in the deeds of his people and the story of his
country aud grateful to the Goodness which has
guided and sheltered his fathers and his folk,
lifted up his eyes 60 the night, to the quiet stars,
to the brooding immensely above and said in his
heart
THANK God that am an American
And citizens, that is the one outstanding
splendid fact for which each of us should
soberly and most gratefully thank God on Thanks
giving day this year.
The finest thing you possess or ever can pos
sess is just your American citizensaip 1t is
neither necessary nor becoming. on this day or
on any other day. TO cheaper this hirthrght Of
ours by brag or spreadeagle defamation.
But 1t is highly becoming this Thanksgiving
day to feel a deep gratitude and manly pride
in this heritage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
From the 9th Psalm.

deed seem to slumber in the soft bed of long
enjoyed peace and security. But let war come
against the land and no man need doubt that that
spirit will spring up instantly awake.
We cain rghtfully be grateful that it has fallen
to our happy lot to live in this most wonderful
of all ages and to be citizens of this most won
derfdl of all the nations.
Let your hearts swell with just pride as you
contemplate your country, so august, so splendid
renowned in the EARTH
Look upon your flag as it streams its bright
folds yonJer above your heads with proud and
happy eyes. Remember how honorable is it's
story, and forget not how many thousands of
brave and good men died that it might wave yon-
der the ensign of a free people
Tell to your children the story of their fore
bears, of those and who, amid the
wilderness and forests that stood where now
stand mighty cities and stretch cultivated farms,
erected with hardships and endurance and most
heroic faith and valor, the noble edfce of our
republican liberties.
Speak to them of Bunker Hill and Valley Forge
and Saratoga and Yorktown, and of the great
Decaration-that most famous Charter of HUI
Freedom.
Tell them to thank God for their fathers and
mothers hardihood and courage, for the wars
they fought, for the victories they won.
Tell them to salute their flag with high and
proud hearts
Tell them to thank God this THANKSGIVING day
that they Americans.
And then do you soberly, gratefully, proudly
thank God yourself that you are an American.
Oh, dear and mighty motherland what better
gift or more to be desired could God give than to
be born and to die strong Daughter of Liberty,
between thy shining et!-From the Chicago
American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

A gold coin loses 5 per cent OF us
value during 16 years of constant use
Cigars - inches long and seyerai
inches thick are smoked in some paris
Of the Philippines.
Experts have estimated that Ecua'
dor, by the application Of scientinc
methods. could increase its present ag'
ricultural Weld by 80 per cent.
BricklayeSs were the highest paln
men In the bhIding industry in Mich
igan during 1915, according to figures
Just made public by Labor CofniniS-
sioner James V. Cunningham.
According to a report on the Gran
brook forest district. British Columbia
If is estimated that the timber cut iof
1915 will be from 100000 to logi
600 900 feet. In 1913, which is tns
year in which the previous largest guy
was made. it amounted TO l4S'VVVVOO
feet.
The Berlin arms mandatory hs'
reduced the working period Of us =.
ooo woman employees to eight hours
daily The yorwaerts urges that o.
similar establishments follow its - =
ample. as long hours. combined VIZ ~
underfeeding, are proving most
furious to the women.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

All letters for the troops dealt with at the
nome base Office in London where the work of
sorting is performed. There is separate mail bag
Tor every unit, both for letters and parcels. All
the base shops are similarly treated. About 10
ooOOOo letters are dispatched to the armies every
week and about three-Quarters of million parcels
The mails are made up not only for the forces in
France. Unt for the troops in Egypt Saloniki
Mesopotamia, East Africa and other parts OF the
world. Colonial sections deal with colonial letters
both At the London base Office and at the front.
All the croSSchannel routes are used. and thraa
special trains are run daily for the army mails
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
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MUCH IN LITTLE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Thames carries to tie sea an
average of 1,s65.903 cubic feet of sedi-
ment year.
Harry Brown of Dana, Mass. who
drives jitney. could not imagine what
the matter was with the engine, and af-
ter much work he discovered the trou-
Bile was caused by a fiy in the car
bureter.
incubation was first tried on Grim
inals with success in 1921.
The farm woodIots Of the United
States contain about 10 per cent of the
total standing timber in the country.
Middlesex (Eng) war agricultural
committee proposes to give instruc-
lions to women in milking at five cen
tiers in the county.
During 1915 the number Of vessels
which passed through the SUez canal
gas 3.708. Of which 2.736. representing
10 per cent Of the total tonnage, car
ried the British flag. The number Of
troops borne through the canal was
1882.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

stand. That's no way to talk to your
Elders. No way at all. Tell me at
once just what you Mean
1.-The Yellow Chicken was Fright
ened by his Mothers Cross Tones, and
so began at once: You see,' he said,
4 began by saying thought it was
fine to be Modern, and Whitley asked
me what it Meant to be Modern. Then
when 1 began to Explain he said he
knew at once what l meant
so l did, chimed in Whitley. You
meant an Alarm clock-something that
wakes up on time like old Father
Rooster
Seems to me that's a pretty good
Guess cackled Mrs. Hen.
But it wasn't what l Meant, said
the Yellow Chicken almost in Sobs
Hurry, hurry, hurry, and tell US
what you Meant!' said the Mother
Hen.
81 Meant that it was very Modern
for us to have Telephones in the
Chicken House so the Farmer can
Telephone to the Barn and to the
Stable and to the big House and to
the Tool House. Every one of those
places have Telephones. l heard the
silly little Bell Ring in each one when
/ went to find out. And | heard the
Farmer say to friend of his, well,
we must be Modern you know and it's
very great Convenience to have a
Telephone" SO then ] knew Tele-
phone was Modern! See? But what
/ don't quite know he ended sadly,
is what he Meant by Convenience
81 know, said Whitley.
What? asked the Yellow Chicken
excitedly.
He Meant it was Useful There
1 do know something even if l thought
you Meant Father Rooster was the
Modern Object you were talking
about
"'Who called me an ObjectT came
from Father Rooster who Walked in
the Chicken House at just that mo-
ment.
L said you were an Alarm Clock
and very Modern, said the White
Chicken.
And so l am, my dear said Fa-
Their Rooster Growing delightedly.
will give you nice little Worm for
that And Father Rooster gave the
White Chicken the finest Worm he
had been able to get that day.
Notwithstanding, sounded q
little Bell.
"'Therer said the Yellow Chicken
1 said the Telephone was Modern.
$50 it is, said Father Rooster, and
l vii. give you a Worm too for being
so Wise. But for. my part l don'i
see any more use to Telephone than
/ do to a Motor Car. They may be
Modern, but they're Of no use TO me = ,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

And so we firmly believe you do feel.
We all hear it repeated that patriotism is a
thing of the past; that our people have become
commercaiZed; that the masses have no deep
rooted loyalty to the country; that rich men
put dollars above the obligations of their citizen
ship that poor folk care little for the ideals
of free government; that we Americans are de-
cadent in the virtues and valor which marked
fathers
That is not true.
If there be any power in the world which plots
war against US Americans and promises itself vic
tory over us on the assumption of our decadence
in loyalty, that power will find how terrible was
its mistake when country calls her sons to
battle in her defense.
We have it is true, in our capacity as a col
lective. people, left undone things that should
have been done and done things which should
have been left undone; and there is more truth
than there should be in much that is jeeringly
said by those who hate us.
We acknowledge that much of our politics Of
tends common decency.
We see, here and there painful evidence of cor
ruption among lawmakers and even among the
judges who should know only justice and in
tegrity.
We see rich men who do betray their country
and foul their hands and soil their souls with
profits.
We see Americans who do put the dollar above
every consideration of right and duty, above the
claims of our common humanity
But while these things are true, it is true also
that the heart and conscience of the American
people, take them a nation, are sound and
and wholesome.
The blood of our fathers still runs in the veins
of their sons. The spirit of the nation may in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

men turned out in a body to wish him good luck.
God bless you, Charlier Here's good luck to
you, Charlie.' they shouted.
do know him Well? said one grizzled en-
ployee at Homestead. is it Charlie Schwab you
mean? ShUre, don't mind the first day he came
here? An didn't work wild him for years? Wild
him. mind YOU Not for him. Shure l helped cut
the first piece of steel that ever went out of this
mill- There isn't man hers THAT don't give his
good will TO Charlie Schwab. There'd be no strikes
in Ameriky if ivry boss was like him. The first
day he come l says 10 him, says l. Have you
matchg' 4 have four" says he, "an' you're well
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
IADDY'S IVLNLVG
FAIRY TALE e M4RYl
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80 20 e 90. s!!|.RE. J
MODERN CHICKENS.

"Some Chickens were talking the
other DAP and Boosting for all they
we're worth, said Daddy.
what about?' asked Nancy.
yes chimed in Nick. Il don't think
Chickens have much tc Boast about. "
WELL" said Daddy. you will be
Surprised when you near how much
they did have to Boast about.
g It's very fine to be Modern, said
one little Yellow Chicken.
"'Whatever do you mean by Mod
ern?' asked small White Chicken.
81 mean, continued the little Vel
low Chicken, ito be Modern is to be
Up-to-Date, Right up to the Time,
and to know everything that is going
on at once.
g ,Oh, oh, Oh Cackled the small
White Chicken. I know just Who you
are thinking of-and just What you
are thinking of too
"'You don't said the Yellow Chick
en- Grossly.
81 do SAID the White Chicken. And
they began to Quarrel. Soon their
Mother came along to the Corner of
the Chicken House where they were
Playing. for they felt the Cold too
much to go out on the first sharp days.
"'Children, Children she called out
In horror Stop this Quarreling right
away, What an Example for my
Chickens to set to the other Chickens.
And whatever are you Quarreling
about?
81 said came from the White
Chicken. that Understood what he
meant and it made him Angry
"'Don't you want to be UNDERSTOOD
asked the Mother Hen Laughing in her
funny Cackling way. Most Folks and
Animals are forever trying to make
themselves Understood
"You don't Understand, Mother,
said the Yellow Chicken.
"There you go! The idea of tell
ing your Mother she doesn't Under
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

This little brown-haired, blue-eyed
boy of three years was found at De-
lancey and Clinton streets, New York
city, October 80, and was taken to the
Children's society rooms. The child
wore Il gray overcoat, wine-colored
suit of some coarse material that had
been woman's dress, blue blouse,
black button shoes and white stock
lngs. From marks on his clothing the
police ascertained that he had been in
several middle Western cities. AS he
cannot talk, the police can learn moth
ing more. There is tiny mole under
his left ear, at the angle of the jaw,
and a scar like that of boil back of
his right ear on his neck. Does he
belong in your town?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
HOW BRITISH ARMY GETS ITS MAIL.

The British may pride themselves on the eff
nclency OF their transport of both men and mails
One of the biggest armies ever raised "a any
country has been conveyed over the sea without
the loss of single unit. and prodigIouS amount
OF mail matter is handled with similar elective
ness.
The army postal arrangements. which ;,re on a
vast scale. are working admirably. Letters sent
from England to the expeditionary force in France
take three days 10 reach men in billets and four
days for soldiers in the trenches.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

Charles NJ. Schwah. the bethlehem steel king is
probably the most beloved 'boss's-in America. His
men say there would be no strikes if Others were
like him. The American Magazine prints an ar
ticle about him in which this occurs:
They call him Charlie at Homestead; he is
Charlie when he goes back there now to visit the
boys Those who were there in the old days
he StI knows by name. and Just how long they
have been on The job When he went down To
Homestead To say good-by after resiguing as presi
dent Of she Carnegie Steel company. five thousand
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

In the pursuit of Villa and his bandits through
the arid regions of northern Mexico the United
States troops trayersed region whose only vege-
tation is the barted and forbidding cactus. To
any but cowboy or trained plainsman of the
Southwest, inhabitants themselves of the cactus
belt" this plant seemingly has no more value than
the veriest weed but it MY well be that it may
prove of great value to the troops in the absence
of water fodder, or even food for human beings.
In the punitive expedition there are many COW
punchers of the cactus belt' serving scouts
and III the cowboy and the Indian of the South
west the lowly cactus has its greatest admirer for
they know what game struggle for life this plant
has to make against unlaved desert soil. Even
their ponies and cattle and the poor beasts of the
desert know of these uses of the cactus for water
and fodder, says the New York Herald.
There are some thousand varieties of this mon
strous vegetable family, not counting the 300 va
rieties of the agave. century plant-incorrecty
included by many-in northern Mexico. The va
rieties of the yucca palm and all other forms of
vegetation known to the arid region have the same
faculty of sucking up from the soil every drop of
the all too little moisture in it and storing up in
their tough and leathery leaves and roots.
OF the many varieties perhaps the most remark
able is that member of the family known to those
Schooled in desert craft the water barrel This
plant is shaped somewhat like beer keg and is
about the same size. Through all the years of its
growth it has been sopping up what moisture the
famished earth contained and retaining it, Ii is the
sole reliance of desert jewellers in time of drought
and the troops, far from water holes and with wa
ter scarce. may vet be obliged to drink from it
The water barrel is tapped by slicing off the
top with sword or machete and pounding the
pulp until the water contained in it wells up into
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
A Hard One

An English teacher gave the class
the following sentence to punctuate
At first you will say there is no sense
to it. II certainly looks lige a foolish
tumble of words. When properly pune
tuated it is simple enough Try it.
Here it is:
That that is is that that is not is not
is not that it it is.
The correct form reads:
That that is, is; That that is not, is
not; Is not that it? 1t is.-Boys Mag
azine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

the saucer thus formed. The pulp itself is pure
and the water stored in it is likewise pure and re-
freshing
Not all the water-bearing cacu are as gracious to
furnishing man, however as the "water barrel" for
most of them have protected themselves against
the mafaudings of those who would drink and live
by imparting bitter taste to tn. water they con-
tain. The peyote" especially, which abounds In
the plains and deserts of Arizona, has trick of
discouraging depredations upon it, for its plump
and juicy pulp secretes bitter and poisonous
juice.
In the last dozen years scientists have interested
themselves in the study of the cactus for its posi-
bties as food, fodder and economic by-products.
DR.. Leon e. Landone foremost in the study of this
desert plant several years ago conducted extensive
experiments in Los Angeles to ascertain the value
of the thornless cactus as an article of food for
human beings. In effort to prove his conten-
ton that it contains food properties sufficient to
enable man to work IS hours day. he and his
two secretaries for two weeks lived on daily diet
of the leaves and fruit of the cactus the former
being served green or fried and the latter either
raw or cooked. While the cactus squad" sur
vived the experience and professor to have en-
Joyed their novel Diet it is fact that the cactus
never has attained the popularity of filet mignon
In the whole vegetable kingdom probably there
is not another plant family having so many diff
feientiations of form as the cacti For it is Dos
sihle TO find among them species that crawl and
creep like vines, other than stand erect in single
unbending stalk, like green living monument of
the desert: still others that are rooted to the spot
with their highest growth close to the ground and
bearing almost resemblance to usual forms of
vegetation and others, again. that branch out in
thick unbooming branches.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
The Feminine Habit

Now that women are to go to
congress, things win be in a pretty
state"
Yes. debates on the fate Of the
nation will have to be kept waiting
while the congresswoman powders her
nose"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
Had a Familiar Sound.

81 wish to inform you,2 said her
lawyer, that your wife has filed bill
for divorce"
"Oh, of course" responded the busy
banker, tits nothing but bills, bills,
bills. How much is this one?"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
Unhappy Success.

A prudent man has his moments OF
depression when IL seems as if his
wife's running account at the dry
goods store must be trying for the
sprinting record and, what is worse
succeeding Columbus (O.) Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

alone The number of letters sent home from the
front exceeds 5.000O00 weekly and this vast cor
respondence has TO be handled in the first instance
at the base. The sorting is done in London. Sew
eral hundred women employed in this work
and their numbers increasing every day
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
THE BRUTE.

Mrs Wis-Wake up. joint Wake up.
Mr.. Willis-What's the matter?
MIS- Willis-I hear a harsh, grating noise l
think someone is trying the door.
Mr.. Willis-Nonsense. Its some rat trying that
cake you made today.-Iife
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

If you ever feel that life isn't worth
living and that friends are untrue. just
turn your attention to your liver and
see whether by toning it no according
TO the directions Mrs. SyIneS gives to-
day you can't PIT a rosy hue o. life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

The fermenting power of brewers
yeast has been increased by five min
utes' exposure to ozone.
A piece Of insulating tape is said
to make fine substitute for leath-
er' belt for driving light machinery.
1t is folded over itself and is joint
less.
William S. Hunt of Lynn, for 40 con-
secutive years has made trips over
the White mountains. In this time
he has climbed the mountains 139
s;mes. This year he went up Mt.
Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

Onyx-My wife burst into food of tears the
other night
Bronx-Did she cause any trouble?
Onyx-I should say so. Swept away forty-eight
dollars for new hat in the first torrent-Chs2-
araL
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28
Its Effect.

How did the audience look on the
orators plea for wet Iegislation:"
There wasn't dry eye in the
house"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-28

0OD be e and bless and his
W Seh That thy may be known Earth thy saving
health all nations Let the people praise Thee God let all the
people praise Thee Earth weld her increase; and God
the Earth shall fear him. the Pmhn