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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18

betties, just as grandmother might
have planned 1t.
No foolish honeysuckle or climbing
rose shields the porch, for the old
ladies like to see who goes by, and If
the street cars are behind time. Even
the delivery of load Of coal is an
event. 1t is interesting to time the
man and see If he is lazy.
So this one-time store-keeping old
soul withstood other invitations and
went to the home. Her sister. one has
heard, was indignant over it, for the
sisters husband was a rich man, and
she would gladly have given board and
lodging to her relative. But that
house was clamorous with adolescence
The girls and their beaux kept lights
burning late. The parlor was domin-
ated by youth, and the old lady said.
I refuse to be shut up like a dog"
So she wrote her declaration of inde-
pendence and went to the home.
The chain of subsequent events made
her very happy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18
Nephew Puts Ray of Sunshine
In Old Lady's Heart.

A favorite nephew refused to let his
aunt be forgotten, and he has made it
a point, at frequent intervals, to drive
his car to the "home," and take her
out for a spin. with great pomp and
circumstance. This is more of a Joy
than any person out in the world can
realize. 1t gives the old lady a dis
tinction. Her status is established
She hits the high places in life when
her nephew comes for her, and she
counts time by his coming. He is
my Nephew" of whom she can boast
to all those without nephews.
But the apex of this choice consid.
GRAFTON. which has made the old lady's
heart fairly burst with pride, came II
the amending of her scanty locks Of
hair. Many store-keeping men &c
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18
WHAT WILL IT BE AT 20?
SS S4s Ss Gs "a Ss
"HOME" OR CLOTHESLINE?
ES Szs Ss Es Ss Ss
MANY UNTOLD TRAGEDIES
: BE AT 20?

paint your own door sill or plant a
tree in your yard. 1t is through taxes
that the inhrmary is kept up. and you
have right to its benefits.
But there is another side to this. A
certain dumpy old man, who shrank
lengthwise when he was active" al
ways digging bitches in wet mud,
complains that they hang the lineup
too high in the infirmary. What a
nuisance, always to have to ask some
one to get the tin cup down for you
and there is nothing but water to
drink, of course. Even before the war
there was nothing but water.
Then the old women have to wear
blue calico, which is great irritation
to some of them. People generally
have wrong impression that all van
ity fees when failing eyesight comes
on, and "a dullness in hearing" as
Bishop Tuttle describes it. Not so with
women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18
No Cup More Bitter

~ ROM an admiral of the
United States Navy down,
no one likes very well to
be retired. willy nilly. at a certain
age, even though a compensation
goes with it. Worse than this it
is to be "f1red," without warning,
so many worker has been in
civil life as he grew old. Worst
of all it is to be pushed aside by
members of ones own family, "all
his faults observed, set in a note
book, learned and conned by note,
to cast into his teeth"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18

her husbands pride, to see these plants
admired. But here. too, is the sorrow
of not being in ones own home, for
the poor lady sees the carelessness of
the gardener in putting pots of plants
on the edge Of the porch, in cold, late
winter, where the blasts bring death
to all things unprotected. "And II I
were to go out and put something
around them, I'd get a scolding," she
says.
The rule" 1t is, which is hardest on
the old people N homes" Where
there are many, there must be regula-
tions. All must dine at the same time,
and all must take luncheon at the same
time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18

THAI are you going 10 10
w when you get old? If you
are a man, will you peg
rugs in many colors, like a certain
artistic, octogenarian gentleman at
one of the honest" or, If you are
woman. will you keep to the open by
being a lottery nursemaid for babies?
or will you try the clothesline routeH
Heaven forbid!
But, eff you haven't got money, you
needn't come round" seems to be the
growing sentiment with few excep-
tions) toward aged people on the part
of their families. There are no longer
golden-haired little girls with dis
position to lead grandpa around. Chill
dren are too busy developing" at
Montessori schools to waste their time
picking up grandmas spectacles.
Young matrons in America have to
lead their own lives" and their fold
ing-bed apartments have scarcely
space enough for the refrigerating
plant, to say nothing Of ''his" or "her"
parents. Any grandma who has such
thing as rocking chair in her bed
room ought to count herself fortunate.
There is nothing of China in Ameri-
can up-to-date society-Chipa, where
the young wife says mo one is wor-
thy of respect who does not obey her
mother-ln-law."
So the aged man or woman is left
high and dry to carve his or her own
fate. 1t is just as well, in life's hey
day, to anticipate the time when the
sound of the grinding is low and the
golden bowl is cracked at least, IL not
broken. SO what are you going to do
when you get old? ..... ...-
"Over the hill to the Poorhouse
I'm vending my weary way;
I, a woman of seventy,
And only a tride gray"
This was about the saddest story
that Will Carleton could write, and
the poem has doubtless kept large
population from going ION the county"
as they say in New England.
Looking at it philosophically, there
is a certain independence in going to
the place which modern delicacy styles
the "Infirmary." 1t is democratic. One
has paid ones taxes, If not directly, al
least through the landlord, who tacks
on an extra rent dollar every time you
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18
How He Gave Her the Wig Her
Heart So Craved.

When one of his giggling sisters was
about to be married, he wrote subtly
aattering note to his aunt, telling her
that he wanted her to look very beau
tiful" at the wedding (Which he in
sisted she should attend), and he sent
her, without any undue reference to it,
a wonderful suit of silvery white hair,
the very most expensive on the mar
ket (because least plentifuD, all made
into a transformation" Then when
the day of the wedding came, he did
not make the mistake of going for her
himself, but sent hired taxi. just as
il she had been a society belle, with a
great bouquet of pink roses on the
seat Her appearance was so improv-
ed that her own sister scarcely knew
her, and in the excitement of the
wedding proceedings she became
speedily unconscious of the trans
formation" and was soon holding her
head high.
This little instance is one way OF
tanning" old people. 1t is often heard,
in intimate family conversation, that
Uncle So-and-So is so peevish. He
criticises the children. and he is un-
tidy, and being deaf, he suspects other
people are talking about him. Oh, he
is absolutely "unlivable." Or the
same traits may be mentioned of PA"
or "Ma," who are getting so childish. u
All Of which could be very different il
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18
AT 90, SHE LABORS FOR
DEAR SON" WHO IS 20

VISIT old persons home brings to light small
sells
- that dear of 70,
have his "old
who
reward house,
secretly by those of less happy disposition.
"I wish write
goomyong She around
her, that's what she does And then she
Huh! Anybody could
the dining
like of water with breakfast
get myself. Oh against Bosh!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18

bald-headed, and nobody thinks the
worse of them. but for womna, oh.
my! Women who had no nephews
could nevertheless possess good heads
of hair, and the condition was hard
to bear. Her nephew had never
spoken of the subject, being a young
man of kindly tact, but he knew it
was grinding, so he thought out a
way.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01

asked to aid in similar organizations
throughout the state, but, of course |
can't spare the time from my duties
in Washington. But the work is of
the greatest Importance, and it should
be done, even If the farmers he re-
quircd to do it on their own initiative"
Commissioner Lever was asked for
his opinion regarding the scheme of
w. p. G. Harding, governor of the
federal reserve board, :. scheme for
the organization Of farmers and bus
mess men OF the South into the cot
ton export corporation with sufficient
capital to sell to Europe on long
credit.
Il never opposed that scheme"
said Mr.. Lever, 1T lis all right. There
is danger, however. in the fact that
the farmers Of htc country have
never considered the necessity OF
paying the right man handsome
salary The farmers would have the
voting strength and it might happen
that they would name a man as head
of the corporation whose brains could
be measured in thimblc, and think
that they were indulgng in charity
when they agree to pay $4,000 per an
mum.
The head Of the corporation
should be man with big brain
with an understanding Of European
finance and politics. a man like MIR.
Harding or Charles Schwab, descrv
ing salary Of from $4,000 to $aO,-
O00."
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01
WEEVIL RAPIDLY ADVANCING.
Actual Weevil Line has Advanced FIJI
teen Miles Since August 2Gth.

Clemson College. Sept. 29.-Sincc
August 26th The actual wccvi, line has
advanced fifteen miles, according to
reports of the Crop Pest Commission.
The comparative scarcity of squares
(which constitute the weevil's pre-
ferrcd fooD and the favorable season
able conditions are the causes of this
rapid migration, which will continue
until the wccvil is forced into winter
quarters by cold weather between the
last OF October and the middle of No
vcmbcr. Last fall the ,weevil was ac-
tive into December because OF the
unusually mild weather.
The attention Of cotton seed ship
pers is directed particularly to this
rapid wccvil movement and the consc-
quent necessity that the Crop Pest
Commission change the doll wccvil
line and the quarantine line frequently
during the next month.
Just received, car load OF Bedroom
Furniture In Oak, Mahogany and Wal
nut.
S. NJ. & T.. II. WILKES & co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01
LEVER DISCUSSES
COTTON PROBLEMS

Farmers Should Sell Staple During
Twelve Months OF Year. Thinks Au.
thGriIy.
Washington, Sept. 233--Thc trouble
confronting the cotton producer is the
necessity OF dumping his production
on the market at one time and the
remedy consists in taking ADVANTAGE
OF ,hc warchousing and financial op-
portUniticS offered in Inc provisions
Of The farm loan act.
The above is the statement OF 4. f..
Lever. commissioner Of the farm loan
board, made this morning
Under present conditions" said
Nr Lover. "practically all cotton pro
duccd leaves the possession Of the pro-
ducor in September, October. Novcm-
Der and December. The market is
sluttcd. If all the eggs produced were
marketed in four months would not
the egg market fare in identical man
ncr. and wouldn't the price OF eggs
drop? The producer of cotton should
sell during II months--at times when
the price OF cotton is highest. lie can
do this if warehouses are built by
farmers and bankers in cooperation
The farmer can preserve his cotton
from weather damagc-which usually
amounts to $15.o00.0O0 per annum--
and hold it for a more advantageous
market simply by paying for the use
OF the warehouse and his insurance
premium. Such cost would be mere
ly nominal.
Nov, should the farmer, having put
his cotton in the warehouse and taken
receipt for samc-thc staple having
mcnt OF agriculture who arc honest
mcn-nced money all that he would be
required to do is to submit his receipt |
to any farm loan bank and secure a
advancing money on such warehouse
receipts would not he considered a
great risk-and that 80 per cent Of
the value Of the cotton could be OBJ
than IS per cent. But the principle |
is the same, and the boon to the
farmer is apparent.
The South should bcstir itself |
Some weeks ago I addressed meet |
ing OF farmers and bankers in Spar
tanburg They were so delighted with
the ODpOrtunity as explained to them |
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01
Use "Gets-It' and Dance, Even Nth c.

ooe SetaAt and Dance. Even Nth Cornsi
lty using few drops OF "Gets-It" on
me calluS, you will be able to peel it
of with your fingers, I'M one complete
piece Just as yolh would/a banana peel.
1t leaves the skim freY and smooth as
though you never Mad callus. You
need no more fussS/ plastcrs, sticky
tape. "packagey" bandagcs, knives or
scissors for corns or calluses Gets
IT. is the national corn remover the
biggest on earth, used by millions. 1T
never fails. You'll work, play and
dance at ease in spite Of corns.
"Gcts-It' the only sure guaranteed,
moncy-ack corn-remover, costs but
a triflc at any drug store. Mrd by
f.. Lawrence & Co, Chicago, Ill.,
Sold in Iaurcns and recommended
as the worlds best corn remedy by
laurcns Drug Co, Powe Drug Co.
Eureka Drug Co.. Putmans Drug
Store
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01
JONES NEWS.
!"

Jones, Sept 27.--Rcv. VIM. Buz-
lent sermon here on second Sunday.
Though somewhat late We wish to
add our tribute Of respect to the mem
Dry OF our schoolmatc and lifelong
friend w. p Harris, Of Gray Court.
who recently passed away. He was a
very successful planter, ardent patriot.
warm hearted friend, hospitablc gen
tlcman, affcctionatc husband and fa-
thor, and the bcrcavcd family have our
tcndcrcSt sympathy.
Rev. Wood. pastor OF the BaptiS'
cuhrch at Ware Shoals, assisted BY
Rev. McCucn. OF Anderson, has just
closed a very successful revival meet
ing.
We extend congratulations to Mr.
Jas. Chalmers and Miss Annie Belle
I.avindcr OF Ware Shoals who were
recently married.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Graham.
on end inst. a son.
Misses Gabcl Bcacham and Vivian
Martin have returned to Lander Col
legc.
We are indebted to Drs. Towncs
Jones and J. p. Workman for recent
kind favor.
Miss Hortensc Long, Of Ehcraw,
recently visited her aunt, Mrs. w. n.
Hughes.
Mr.. J. Henry Oulla has the contract
to build cottage for Mr.. S. e. Richey.
We hope cotton will continue to ad-
vance. The farmers should receive
3J cents or more for the crop is very
short and this is the most expensive
crop ever produced.
We recently met the following
friends: Johnnie McGee and Foster
of North Carolina; Jas. and David
Smith and Carl Wharton. OF Water
loo; Rev. T.. l.. Bramblcttc, Of McCOr-
mick and w. r. Putnam, Of I,aurcns.
We are indebted to the following
friends for recent kind favors: VIM.
Sigh, Jas. Hodges, Jas lMcKittrick,
Jas. Jones. Thos. Dutton, Newton Rog-
crS, J. r.. and Earle McNccly, w. II.
IIill, Newton Golden, T.. B. Sanders,
II. B Whitlock, Marvin Manly, Robert
| R2ddcn. O. * Allen, W. r.. Ridge. Levi
stone c. J. CrcaSon, Jas. TimmOnS,
John Ballcw, w. NJ. Lee, w. A. Grant,
T. E. Marlcr, NJ. n. Reeves, Ernest
Vannadorc, w. T.. Algary Robert
Bowie, Jcter O'dcl and Allen Arnold
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01
Wanted the Odd One.

Julia was watching her mother pack
hcr fathers lunch and kept teasing for
q piece of bread and butter. Mother
was In great hurry and told her TO
run and play; she didn't have time TO
wait on her So Julia counted tbo
Sliccs OF bread on the table-thcrc
were fvc-and said: Mother give
me this one without any partner"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01
Callus? "Gets-ft"
Will Peel 1t OFF!
Nothing ON Earth Like Simple "Gets.
lt' for COrnS or CalIuses.

callus, or thickened skin on the
sole OF the foot, which often makes
walking a misery is Of the same ma
ture as corn. "Gets-It" removes 1t
as easily as l. does the toughest colns,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03
oANY FOOL CAN FIND FAULT"
Phrase is as True Today as When
Great Man Said It Many
Centuries Ago.

There is nothing however good but
q person may find some fault in 1t II
he is determined to do so. There Is
nothing perfect that is of mans maxi
ing. There is nothing that man orig
mates or performs but what contains
more or less of his weakness. Worth,
like water, must stay below the level
of it's source. 1t is quite natural that
q person should dissent. The scien-
fists dispute as much as the theolo-
gians. Every time one obtains a new
standpoint he changes his opinion.
Every time he meets a friend he finds
that he differs.
So we must make up our minds to
disagree, but this disagreement may be
of advantage if we disagree in the
right spirit. If we don't do that and
our disagreement falls into i'll will and
anxiety, then we become enemies of
the truth and social pests besides. The
person we earnestly and candidly dis
agree with may be right and ourselves
wholly wrong. 1t would make us feel
very absurd sometimes, in the midst
of violent controversy, to have sud
don light let in on the controversy and
show our adversary entirely right. The
safest thing, so far as ones conduct
toward him is concerned, is to remem-
her he may be right and treat him &C
cordingly.-Ohio State journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03
"It was friendly Of you.
III not-I'II not forget it."
(To BE CoNTINUEDD
DIAMONDS HIDE IN AMERICA
Gems May One Day BE Mined on a
Large Scale in This Country,
Say Biologists.

Biologists, according to exchanges,
believe that some day diamonds will
be mined on a very large scale in the
United States. They are confident
there are valuable diamond mines hid
den under this country, because many
loose diamonds have been found in
various sections. There must be par
ent lode, they say, and this is believed
to be in either the Rocky mountain or
Appalachian range. Regular diamond
chiponeys, like those of South Africa,
were found in Arkansas in 1906. They
were filed with periododite, akin to
the famous Kimberlite of South Africa.
A farmer in Indiana, blowing a
gravelly hillside, found the first dia-
mond in America in 1887. More than
20 diamonds have been found in In
diana in the last 90 years, and one
sold for $780, Other valuable dia-
monds have been found in Virginia,
North Carolina, Wisconsin, South Caro-
lima. Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana,
Idaho, Texas, Montana, Arizona and
California. A laborer working in an
excavation in Manchester, Va, found
a stone weighing 23% karats in 1855.
Numerous stones, weighing from three
to 213s karats have been found in
Wisconsin.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03

a painter, Fred, you'd paint mothers
with angels eyes holding imps in
their laps. Me, I'll stick to the old
masters and the cherubs."
Mr. Kinney looked at him musingly.
Somebody's eyes must have been
pretty angelic" he said, IF they've
been persuading you that George
Minafer Is a cherub!'
"They are,' said Morgan heartily.
They're more angelic than ever. :
And as new flourish Of music sound
ed overhead he threw away his ciga-
rette and jumped up briskly. Good
by; I've got this dance with her"
with whom?''
with Isabel!''
The grizzled Mr.. Kinney affected to
rub his eyes. ut startles me, your
jumping up like that to go and dance
with Isabel Anderson! Twenty years
seem to have passed-but have theyl
Tell me, have you danced With poor
old Fanny. too. this EVENING""
Twice !"
my Lord u Kinney grOaned half
in earnest. 'Old times starting all
over againl My Lord!"
"Old times?" Morgan laughed gay
" from the doorway. mot a bit
There aren't any old times. When
times are gone they're not old; They're
dead There aren't any times but
new times !"
And he vanished in such "a manner
that he seemed already to have be-
gun dancing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03
". Il don't expect to go into any
thuSinaSS 0r nr0fnScinn 80

". T don't expect to go into any
business or profession"
"No?"
Certainly mott" George was en-
phatic, being sincerely annoyed by 9
suggestion which showed how utterly
she failed to comprehend the kind OF
person he was.
''Why not?" she asked mildly.
"Just look at 'em y he said, almost
with bitterness, and he made a ges-
ture presumably intended to Indicate
the business and professional men
now dancing within range Of vision
That's fine career for man, isn't
it! Lawyers, bankers, politicians
What do they get out of life, I'd like
to know! What do they ever know
about real things? Where do they
ever get?"
Re was SO earnest that she was
surprised and impressed. She had q
vague, momentary vision Of Pitt, al
twenty one, prime minister of Eng
land; and she spoke, involuntarily IN
lowered voice, with Difference:
''What do you want to be?" she
asked.
George answered promptly.
"A yachtsman," he said.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03
CHAPTER v.

Having thus, in a word, revealed
his ambition for career above
courts, marts and polling booths
George breathed more deeply than
usual, and, turning his face from
the lovely companion whom he had
just made his confidant, gazed out al
the dancers with an expression IL
which there was both sternness and 9
contempt for the squalid lives of the
unyachted Midlanders before him
However, among them he marked his
mother, and his somber grandeur re
Taxed momentarily; a more genial
light came into his eyes.
Isabel was dancing with the queer
looking duck; and it was to be noted
that the lively gentlemans gait was
more sedate than it had been will
Miss Fanny Minafer, but not less dex.
ferrous and authoritative. He saw
George and the beautiful Lucy on the
stairway and nodded to them. George
waved his hand vaguely: he had q
momentary return Of that inexplicable
UuGuSluGSS anu 1GSCuJAlOAth W04NA 4ACAN
troubled him downstairs.
How lovely your mother is!' Lucy
said.
II think she is" he agreed gently
"She's the gracefulest woman in that
ballroom. How wonderfully they dance
togetherl'
"WhO?"
'Your mother and-and the queer
looking duck" said Lucy. "Tm going
to dance with him pretty soon."
81 don't care so long as you don't
give him one Of the numbers that
belong to me-"
''I'H try to remember" she said
and thoughtfully lifted to her face
the bouquet of violets and lilies, q
gesture which George noted without
approval.
.Look here! Who sent you those
flowers you keep maxim such fuss
over?"
"He did,
t'Who's hep"
"The queer-looking duck"
George feared no such rival; he
laughed loudly. II s'pose he's some
old widower!" he said, the object
thus described seeming ignominious
enough to person of eighteen. with
put, additional Characterization.
Lucy became serious at once. Eyes
he is widower," she said. II ought
to have told you before; he's my ia
ther."
George stopped laughing abruptly
"Well. that's a horse ION me. If I'd
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03

no All saw was a remarkably
good-looking foolboy with the pride
of Satan and a set of nice new draw
ing-room manners that he probably
couldn't use more than half an hour
at a time without busting"
'Then what"
Mothers are right" said Morgan
Mothers see the angel in US because
the angel is there. If it's shown to
the mother the son has got an angel
to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts
somebody's throat the mother only
sees it's possible for misguided an
gel to act like devil-and she's en-
tirely right about that y
Kinney laughed and put his hand
on his friends shoulder. 81 remem-
Der what fellow you always were
to argue" he said. "You mean Geor-
gle Minafer is as much of an angel
as any murderer is, and that Georges
mother is always right
'Tm afraid she always has been, .
Morgan said lightly.
The friendly hand remained upon
his shoulder. "she was wrong once,
old fellow. At least, so it seemed to
me-"
NO." said Morgan. a little awk-
wardly NO"
Kinney relieved the slight embar-
rassment that had come upon both
of them he laughed again. wait till
you know young George little bet
ter he said. Something tells me
you're going to change your mind
about having an angel to show, if you
see anything Of him !"
''You mean beauty's in the eye of
the beholder, and the angel is all In
the eye of the mother. If you were
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03

had
Major ANDERSON laid development with and satua
built himself
quite in keeping
he
OF