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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Confidential Ell Chatter
at 3 o. the Clock

1t is thus | came to know "Hahya
Bill" | know him very well now; in
fact, | know a lot more about him than
| do about some of my near relatives.
The very first night learned that Bill
has two kids, who in turn have two rab
bits. one of which is about 10 have
but this is no essay on the domestic
habits of rabbits.
Bills revelations prepared me, in a
way, for the man from Freeport. Long
Island. Usually ride up, in view of the
undreamed-of luxuries the FL affords
around in the morning-such, for in
stance, as leaving call and dropping off
to sleep, if one likes, until the acconimo-
dating guard rouses one at ones station.
But this particular morning was walk
ing up, and he joined me, or perhaps
clamped himself onto me would be bet
ter.
After whirling or hopping about all
the evening on rainbow clouds he had
taken home The Girl. Avid he was
to talk about her. Finally, more to in
terrupt him than to encourage him, !
inquired CAUTIOUSLY, knowing they al
ways are) if she we're pretty.
"Prettyw came the staggering re-
spouse. why, say-that dame has her
nails manicured twicest week.
And her name was Gladys. A few
blocks more and was mentioning
Gladys as freely as he did, Even now |
still feel strong sense of vicarious in
timacy. Whenever noticed any young
thing with shiny, twice-a-week nails and
kinda blooey colored eyes | instantly
decide it is Gladys. Anyway, | proved
such an apt listener that Gladys's young
man. before he took his Long Island
train, stopped at a sort of open forum
and treated me to oysters-because, as
near as could gather, Gladys was nuts
on EN-"
1t may be argued that Freeporter is
not New Yorker, no matter where his
heart may be. No such charge lies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

beggar. Either they keep union hours
or the pickings are poor. Crooks
strongarm men and yeggs are also POD
ularly supposed to come out about this
time for an airing. If so. | have never
found one with sufficiently developed So
cial instincts to disclose himself.
But the others are social enough. In
deed, if | had to point out the main
characteristic of this small-hourS crowd
| should say their cheerful gregarious-
ness. Everybody speaks to everybody
else, or is ready to on the least provoca-
ton. The time. of. night is passed a
thousand times. The weather is such
popular topic you'd think there would
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

be no weather left. A man could make
acquaintances almost as fast as he could
count them, without any more snubs
than there are roses in January. They
seem to want to talk.
At first was little dubious about
this-in New York. My own smile WAS
somewhat doubtful and distant. But as
| unbent the loose change seemed to
remain in my pocket about as snugly as
ever Then | decided on the Compan-
ions-in-Misery theory. But that would
not fit, either-these peopleweren't mss
cradle. All the misery appeared to have
hobbled home somehow before ] start
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

ed. Now have it figured out that these
night-owls simply have the leisure and
elbow room to be their real selves; that
all of us. if given half chance, will nat
urally fraternze. Perhaps the millions
in the day shift would be about the same
if some Cosmic Osteopathist could re-
lieve the pressure from their bones.
1t all began with 'Hahya Bill" "Hah-
va Bill" is the way we greet each other
and the only name | know him by. Bill
is ticket chopper. Ordinarily ticket
choppers are not looked on as human.
Are ticket choppers human beings! as
Mrs. Gait phrases it for the Suffragists.
Mere unconsidered machines, they only
come to life to bawl one out with Here,
YOU, Drop that ticketl' after one has
forgotten it. But the wee Sma's are so
leisurely and their crowds so sparse one
never remembers to forget ones ticket
One pauses, instead, to chat with the
chopper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

case it is a small business. There are
none of your strutting citizens; they are
all at home between covers as safely as
their unwritten checks. Once in while
a dress suit wa6bIes across the ofing.
The man found sitting on the curb and
holding me out nickel. with gargled
directions to let him off at "Fivvy seb-
emp" Street, wore evening clothes. But
he was hours and quarts past strutting.
No. even your good fellow usually
gets home by g. unless he is marooned
by pedal paralysis. By the same token,
after that hour have never encoun-
tered a single pannandler or professional
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
4ONlEWARD BOUND IN THE TWOS AND THREES

against The Vanilla Bean. l met The
Bean while he was out for "a little con-
stitutional," though why he took his
constitutional on the subway at 2:oo
a. m. | have never discovered. He SAID
his name was Bobby. He didn't look
Bobbish or even Robberty. He was
rather portly, stately gentleman-pos-
sibly more Portly than stately. Which
may have explained the fragrance.
though | set it down to Picon with
Vanilla flavor He declared that ne was
an importer and appraiser of Flemish
tapestries | don't know just how we
jumped from Flanders to Paris, but we
found ourselves there-he and mys
and Mrs. Bean, and thence to Lisbon ar
thence to the Azores.
And | give you my word, SIR ne al
firmed. that volcano hadn't been in ex-
istence two months! Ashy-not spear
of vegetation on it. Yet there we stood
on the edge of it And, suddenly, as my
wife started to turn, block of pumce
gave way, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

once-three of them coming home with
a jolly fat father and fatter mother
from some very special party Their
little eyes were bright as beads in their
flushed faces; they looked as though
they might defy the Sandman forever
1t is odd, but sleep seems to be the last
thing most of these people are thinking
about. Naturally, there are some sleep
ers, lollers about and snorers in wait
ing rooms But these are the Involun-
teers and Occasionals, not the Regulars.
Most of those who are out in the small
hours belong there, and have not just
happened. They are about their bust
ness. And undoubtedly in almost every
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
The Lady "WhO Simply
Could Not Wear Pink

Grand Centralw yelled the guard. |
had to leave them, poised on the very
brink. Perhaps, in the next breath,
Bobby the Bean was to become wild
over.
There is no use piling up examples.
The city does loosen up in the small
hours. Try it yourself the next time
you are belated. There seems a CONVEX
sational friendliness in the air, an ex-
pansion in the night, which makes up
for all the dour suppression of the day
None of the women has offered to chat
with me yet, but-oh, yes, one.
She was in the Pennsylvania station
a charming person, all fur around the
hat and collar and all silk below. |
wasn't aware her escort had just
stepped over to the stand for morning
paper. That certainly wasn't the reason
/ dropped on the bench beside her. In
fact. observed her so little (alibi stuff
IldC L scarcely even HOIlCeu IldJ Sic hdu
a beauty spot on her left cheek, and Iii
tie tendrils of straw-colored hair at her
temples, and a most enhancing profile,
or that she was gazing at herself in one
of those concealed mirrors in her hand
bag. But | was no sooner seated than
she informed me quite frankly:
Il simply can't wear pink, dear.
There's no use trying. I've so little color
it makes me look positively corpse-likew
She was mistaken about her color. AS
she turned to me, | assure you I've never
seen any woman with more color. In
deed, it was crimsonly apparent that
she'd appreciate it more if I'd stroll over
for my nightly confab with the soda
water man-which | did. In the day
time suppose the incident would have
been accompanied with hauteur. But
both she and her returned "dear" fa-
vored me with grand grin as we took
our train together.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
A Fitting Name for II Would
Be Insomnia Town

Below Forty-second Street, however
and thence southwark to the sea-" as
the old geographers say, there is still
busy population, even after ! a. m In
deed. the first thing that struck me was
the incredible number of people on the
streets, going, coming or just hanging
around. 1t looks like Insomnia Town.
The Els run every ten minutes and the
subway every seven and a half. The
cars are never empty. They aren't
iammed as they are in daytime; You
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Niqht i'm New York Comes
Only After Midnight

By day, despite the Woolworth
Building, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park
or the Skyline, the most impressive
thing about this city is its mass. The
visitor is first bewildered and then over
whelmed by it; the resident is elbowed,
iostled and crushed by it. Any long
continued contact with it results in one
of two things-either loss of Identity
and weak absorption in the mass, or an
aggravation of identity by means of a
grouchy defensive armor, or the fiaunt-
ing of loud "ThiS-Is-Me" signs-any-
thing. in fact, to counteract the mass
influence. 1t is this tendency which has
produced the typical New Yorker"
myth. Of course there isn't, and never
was. any such creature-nothing more
than a few City Symptoms. But, gosh
How they do stick out on some OF us!
With night land night in New York
only begins after midnight) there
comes a change, subtle, perhaps, but
readily felt. The mass Sits out to It's
individuals. One gradually realizes that,
after all, the city is populated by people
and not by mobs. 1t is less like crowd
and more like a community. And 1t is
a community not only different from
any other. but very distinct from its
own daylight side.
But it is not to be studied in the resi-
dence districts-these remain sleepily
consecrated to nocturnal cats and cops.
Nor on Broadway. Broadway is thing
apart, a Flying Island of the Night.
Under it's white lights, streaked with
yellow or tinged with red, the Pale
Promenade pursueS its hectic life of
jaded joy-chasing in its own way. 1t
would be pitiable to think that the real
New York is reflected in the pool of
Broadway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
When the Night Wave Stops
the Day Wave Begins

But for the most part the night traf-
fic flows in scheduled waves there is
kind of pulse and beat to it. If you are
a keen observer you will learn to recog-
nize certain squads of certain hours,
even particular faces. Quitting time
seems to fall usually between midnight
and a. and until then the waves roll
continuously uptown. But a o'clock
marks the turning of the tide. About
40 comes the descent of the scrub
women upon the office buildings,
mighty invasion that makes the famous
seven maids with seven mops' a mere
sud in the bucket. Do not look for our
old friends Pathos and Bathos among
them. If their stories are sad ones, and
they must Of necessity be, they appear
unconscious of it. They are staccato,
rafting, chattering. chatting lot. and
their downward trains, hating at the
stations, sound like aviaries, though not
of canary birds. Perhaps Providence
reserves some special compensation OIL
cheer for women so much of whose lives
is spent upon their knees.
Except for these scrubwomen, though,
lower New York al night is pretty much
a mans world OF course there are tel
ephone girls, brisk. independent bodies
not in the least afraid of the clock. Now
and then there are well-bundled house
wives, evidently merely in course of
transit. and more frequently budding
misses vainly striving to hide behind the
backs Of cross seats in the "El'' as they
curl up against their callow escorts. And
have seen, and turned away at seeing.
furtive Anonyma still parading through
the snow at o'clock, bedraggled Night
ingales with none to heed their music.
II is hard to face the wind at that hour,
with nothing to mark the night but
ones footprints slowly filling up with
ylush. Children | have run across Just
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

can ride without ruff1ing either your
plumage or your temper, but every sta
ton has its little group for every train.
Where on earth do they all come
from? Search me! Cooks, | suppose,
and walters and bartenders from mid
night cafes, bakers who have been get
ting out the mornings batch of bread,
newspaper persons and printers, vaude-
vile artists" from club benefits, musl-
clans, late travellers from Brooklyn, So
cial workers and doctors, servers IN
night shifts, and the professors of a
thousand and one trades | never
heard Of
Every night brings some new element
"a negro band off duty, gay of uniform,
lavish of laughter. burnt-cork piano.
rama of rolling eyes and flashing teeth.
Or a Fishermen's Club starting out be-
fore dawn to intrigue the whiting and
the cod-sturdy fellows, with corduroy
caps and hampers and tackle, full-blood-
ed Young fellows who will be round and
rosy old ones, and old ones round and
rosy still.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
And Now i'm Conclusion,
Comes the Noon

That train, by the way-my train--is
like Old Home Week. Everybody on it
knows everybody else-on the smoker
at least
Then comes the solitary walk through
the quiet landscape-just the RICH. in
terval for Eliminating. The other night
as ! was locating the keyhole | hap
pened to glance over my shoulder at the
moon, riding so silvery in the icy sky. |
wondered if, by any chance, its dark
side could be half so merry and cheer
full as its bright side is bleak.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

Nv Health has fed, my Wealth is sped
But I'm rapidly getting Wise,
So I don't care if Pm late to bed,
And don't care when | rise,
And ! wouldn't trade my job for yours,
Or the life that fellow sees
Around this town when he's chucked his chores,
Along in the IS and S.
4 S ABOVE mentioned, have job
N (three rousing cheersD which
disgorges me and sends me home any
where from 2:30 to a in the morning,
The mere statement of such conditions
of servitude, | know. invites questions:
"Why GO home?" or "Why HAVE
home?" To all these and sundry | re-
spond that l do, that have and that
| get there-eventually.
And in that word eventually" lies, to
me. what has proved the real, the most
vivid, appeal of Manhattan. | live in
a suburb, and my earliest homebound
train leaves its terminal quite spell
after I knock off work. Thus | have
time to prowl about, loafing and invit-
ing peoples souls. Perhaps / have not
managed to locate the soul of New York
that would be an o. Henry task-but,
at least, it is a reassuring discovery to
have learned that she has one.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-10-24
Dangers of Extravaganza.

The campaign for greater economy
and for wise conservation which has
been propagated by the various
branches of our national government
cannot fail to be of benefit to the
people of this country. Times have
been very prosperous for several
years. Many have allowed their
wants to increase until they are using
more of the nations resources than
is wise or judiclous for thrifty,
frugal people.
But there is another and perhaps
a greater danger that has not i'm
pressed many. That is in public
waste. Just as individuals have in
creased their standards of living and
been willing to take hazardous risk
in investments and consume more
than health and frugal, industrious
living would require, so have govern
ment officials increased their de.
mands till enormous appropriations
are made. Will not the war show
the people of this country the
dangers of extravaganza and the
necessity for simple, frugal living?
If so, the war will benefit this coun-
try Notwithstanding its enormous
cost.
The people are the court of last
resort. They, and they alone, must
demand economy in every depart
ment of government if their nation
is to lead the world in good govern
ment.
War has 6emoralizing effect up
on governments and peoples who
authorize governments. Let US be
wise, cautious and honest with our
selves and not waste our substance
in riotious living nor wreckless
government expenditures. f m
and Ranch.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-10-24
More Two-horse Power Brains.

One of the most gratifying sights
we see in travelling over the South
is the steadily increasing number
Of farmers who are using two-horse
plows, harrows and cultivators in
stead of the old onehorse imple-
ments that have done SO much to
keep the South poor.
In the more backward portions
of the world there are yet poverty
stricken farmers or peasants who
have no horses and work only with
their own muscles. Of course, they
are miserable paupers hardly able
to keep SOUL and body together.
The farmer who gets to the next
stage and adds the muscles of an OK
to his own does much better. Then
the farmer who has advanced one
stage further and uses horse does
better still.He is the man who by ear
nest effort can 'sorter get along" and
earn decent, passable living in a
civilized land.
But the real profit in farming
comes when the man has added the
muscle not merely of one-horse but
two, three or four horses. As we
have so often said, the great reason
why the Southern farmer is poorer
than the Western farmer is, that
the Southerner runs his brain with
one-horse power while the Western
er runs his with two, three or four
horse power. 1t is worth while to
repeat again DR.. Seaman A. Knapp's
famous remark:
'Where the South Carolina far
mer uses one mule and one man to
plow, accomplishing less than an
acre per day from three to four
inches deep, the Iowa farmer uses
at least three horses, and plows
four acres per day six to eight
inches Deep
So metimes we have heard of men
saying, THE Progressive Farmer is
opposed to the one-horse farmer. "
If were inclined to be- harsh, we
should say that such a man is either
a rascal or fool. The Progressive
Farmer is more anxious to help the
oae-horse farmer than anybody else,
but the best way to help him is to
fire him with a determination to
make a two-horse farmer of him
self.-Progressive Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-10-24
Looking Forward.

Fortunate indeed is the farmer
who turns his face forward and
looks into the future. He is the
man who will be ready to make use
of new and better opportunities; he
is the man who will be prepared
when short crops and poor markets
bring encouragement to his neigh
bors.
This is the time for men to look
forward and not backward. This is
the day of progress. Those who
wait for next years opportunities
will not be ready to make use of
them. Today is the time to prepare
for tomorrow's opportunities. :,
Young men who begin farming
will find it expedient to look into
the future. Enough can be deter
mined as to the future to enable
young men to prepare for such
advantages as always come to those
who anticipate them.
The time for progressive farming
is, here. Conditions have changed
80 rapidly recently that one must
look ahead to be successful farmer.
That many are doing this explains
why 80 many are more prosperous
than in years past.
We plow, SOW and cultivate, ex-
pecting the harvest in due season;
we should do these things with de-
finite aim and well-planned system,
knowing that we shall reap in due
season if we faint not" We will
not fail because we have not failed
to look forward and meet conditions
which we know must be met. Farm
and Ranch.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-10-24

No. Ill, l3l, 1872 make flag stops
above stations except Trenton which
is a stop. Time shown as informa-
ton only and confers no rights.
B. w. BROOKS,
Chief Dispatcher.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-10-24
Southern Railway Company.
Columbia, S. c., July 90, 1917.
BULLETIN:
To All Honnarnad.

To All Concerned:
Effective Tuesday, July "a, will
restore service between Trenton and
Edgefeld as follows:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-10-24
NJ: e. Church's
Pastor Praises
Iron Remedy
Doctors Had Almost Given
His Daughter Up to Die.
No One Thought She
Could Live.
WAS A LIVING SKELETON
Through Use of Acid Iron Miner
al Daughter Was Restored To
Health Says Rev. c. B. Newton.

The following tribute to medi-
cine from Reverend O. B. Newton.
Pastor M. E. Church, speaks volumes
for the medicinal value OF natural
iron as it is not concentrated, tested,
and bottled by the Ferrodine
Chemical Corp. under the name of
Acid Iron Mineral. He said:
my little girl suffered from gas
tritis, acute Bright's disease, and
developed symptoms of pellagra,
For several months she was an in
valid and reduced almost to a
skeleton. No one who saw her
thought she could possibly live.
The best medical skill available was
applied but with no results. She
only grew worse until physicians
told us not to be surprised at her
death at any time. Our attention
was first called to a kidney and
bladder pill and we gave her part of
one fifty cent bottle, after which we
gave her Acid Iron Mineral regular
". She is now well and has all her
faculties we'll developed again and
vol would not guess she had ever
had sick day in her life by her
appearance. We have recommend
cd Aim TO several friends and do
most heartily recommend it to any
one suffering from any trouble which
it claims to relieve" Respectfully,
(signed) B. B. Newton, Pastor. M.
e. Church, South Chatham, Va.
Unlike many prepared remedies
containing iron, Acid Iron Mineral
does not act as a laxative, but the
necessity Of keeping the liver and
bowels working normally being so
apparent, tie Ferrodine Chemical
Corp. puts up an AIN Liver Pill
in Csc. boxes which are recommend
ed as part of the treatment when
using Acid Iron Mineral. These
little pills are the best we recon-
mend and arc very inexpensive.
NGTE:-Acid Iron Mineral is just
a highly concentrated form of natural
medicinal iron, non-alcoholic and
very economical. Whole families
should take it. 1t never Injuries the
teeth, goes from two to six times as
far and is many times more powerful
and efficient than other inferior pre-
parations. A half tesspoonful in a
rumbler of water after meals makes
delightful, invigorating and most
unusual tonic, stomach, kidney, and
bladder regulator. Cleansing the
blood, enriching and purifying 1t,
watch how quickly the appetite in
creases and the user gains weight.
Most druggists sell Acid Iron Miner
al in both a large and small size
bottle. Get bottle today.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-10-24

Editor Hawville Clarion. Look
here, Pastor Harps, it strikes me
that you are taking a mean adVant-
age of my son."
Rev. Mr.. Harps-"How so?"
Editor.-"Well of course my son
is in love with your daughter and
she doesn't seem to like 1t very
well. And he is learning the print.
ing business under me. But in spite
of this, I hardly think you were
warranted in preaching from the
text you chose yesterday: My
daughter is grievously tormented
with a devil. Judge.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-10-24
Notice of Final Dis.
charge.

To All Whom These Presents May
Concern:
Whereas, Henry Salter, Guardian
has made application unto this
Court for Final Discharge as Guar
dian in re the Estate of Willie
and Ruth Salter, Minors on this the
18th day of October, 1917.
These Are Therefore, to cite any
and all kindred, creditors, or par
ties interested, to show cause be-
fore me at my Office at Edgefeld
Court House, South Carolina, on the
goth day of November, 1917 at IL
o'clock a. M, why said order of
Discharge should not be granted.
W. T. KINNAIRD,
J. P, E. @.
Oct. l3, l9l7-4t.