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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-06-30
Copyright By Mt.lo, Brown O. Go,
CONTINUED from Page Four.)

l was convinced that Wick and the
telephone girl were only two-more
than likely two minor members--of n
powerful body of criminals. That 1t
was this same sinister force that had
caused my discharge from the Office
was equally sure. This sort Of thing
took brains-far bigger brains than
WICK gave any evidence OF possessing
peculiar apathy came over me as
l finished readipg the account Never
before had l so fully understood how
thoroughly an innocent man could be
damned by circumstantinl evidence.
knew-Barbnra knew-that l was alb
solutely innocent. I doubted much if
we could get anyone else to believe It.
The cunning web had been woven
with such malicious thoroughncss that
escape seemed impossible. What was
the use Of my fighting further?
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-06-30
Scrintural Quotation.

when YOU say you have escaped by
the skin of your teeth, do you know
you are quoting Scripture7 Look in
the twentieth verse of the nineteenth
ehapter of Job and you WILL find the
Inc: My bone cleaveth to my skin
and my fesl, and am escaped wifi
the skin of my teeth"
y, 'oEs WaJ Is oisC.nse.n
a phnrmncist was dissatisfied with
ayouthful assistant and requested him
20 look for another job, remarllpc to
g customer as the boy was leaving.
g. can dispense without m."-.Boys'
Life. l3{ Ia
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-06-30

For one sweet hour we talked to.
gcther, moro understandingly than
ever before in our lives. Freely and
fully told her everything, even to my
wonderful but hopeless love for Bar
Dara Bradford. She was willing, anx-
ious, eager to aid me-but what was
there that she could do?--what was
there that anyone could do?
1t was hopeless for lone woman of
limited means, unuCquaintcd with the
Dig city and unused to it's ways, to at
tempt to battle against such powerful
and desperate criminals rs were con.
cerned in the far-rcaching plot to
make me the scapegoat Of their helm.
GUS misdecds. I could only advise
her that she see McGrcgor and Cor.
mai and be guided by what they sug-
gcstcd.
When the morning Of my trial actu-
ally arrived entered the courtroom In
state of dull apathy. The night be-
fore had not slept Mt all. had spent
all the black hours reviewing my life,
especially the last year, thinking with
what high hopes and great expecta-
how miserably everything had turned
out for md. Step by step had re-
viewed the events that had brought
lnc, discrcditcd, all but friendless, all
but penniless, into this dismal court
room accused Of horrible, cowarlly
deed, seeking to see wherein l might
nave altered my recent actions or
changed the course Of my life to avoid
having arrived at this shameful goal.
Yet, strange to say, / found myself
after mature reflection convinced that
hnd this last year to live over again
not I'm one iotu would l have done diff
ferently-no, not even If I could have
forctold what the future had In store
for me.
No sense of shame nor OF guilt pos
ScSsed me. / was aware Of having
done wrong to no one. a clear con-
science kept assuring me that it was
misfortune and not error on my part
that had brought me here. At every
point In the strange chain Of circum-
stances felt that I had acted as a
man of honos should have acted. My
sense of innocence upheld me even
though the deliberate malicious plot
ting of evil men might make it appear
to the judge, to the jurors, to the
whole world that I was murderer.
Even though I should be sentenced to
| death for killing woman never had
seen the knowledge that at every point
l had done what still believed TO
have been right, brought me strong
comfort and filed me with new cour.
! age.
Yet 1t was with lack Of interest that
listened to the monotonOus question
ing that formed part Of the selection
Of Jury.
$50 far as I am concerned" I had
said to my counsel in our last chat,
"any sort of a jury will do. Unless
we succeed In upsctting the evidence
against me with q crash that all the
world can hear it makes no differ
| ence."
II guess you are right" he answer
ed. despondcntly, 1t seemed to me,
"and II the worst happens, we always
can take an appeal"
His reply convinced me that he, too.
was anticipating the result, which I
| long ago had decided to be the only
outc1:nc, unless something unforeseen
happcncd-a verdict against me Of
| murder In the first degree.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-06-30
(To be continued.)
Spiders and Good Fortune.

spiders. according to superstition,
are omens of good fortune. therefore
TO XII them provokas wrath and in.
vites disaster. Supcrstiiious people
VIII tell that the bride who finds q
spider In the folds OF her wedding
gown may look forward to married
life Of great prosperity
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-06-30
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
sthtc;of South Carolina,
lty nGInIirnns

EWhereas, petitions signed by legal
nnmber of the qualified electors and
frse-holders residing in Waterloo
sshool district No. 1, Iaurens county,
S9uth carolina, asking for an election
,Ron the question, Of voting an addi-
ttonal mill tax upon the property, in
sgd school district, to be used for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
HOW TO AVOID AN EXTRA SESSION

ITZENS of Alabama disturbed by business unrest ana W certainty have heard with increasing uneasnes the ports from Montgomery elsewhere that extra session of the legislature this is inevitable.
 Nobody wants extra session. Certainly the state admin
 aon regrets that is The members of the leg ature do not want it they than enough their attention at home The farmers don't it. their too important to let anything else divert their attention this summer. The business do not want it. law-makng and awchanging always upset commercial lens on hand already.
 How can an extra session be avoided?
 The people of Alabama by patriotic and public spirited operation make it unnecessary.
 The only real for assembling the legislature
 to the shortage the failure of income tax law.
 During recent months the state has had boards each county readusng tax assessments Property values in almost instance been advanced This proper cause Alabama values all higher than they two years Every effort has been creases equitable All have been alike governor has gwen that county duty he will order horizontal increases place them line with the rest of the state.
 make an extra session The valuations VIII yield sufficient revenue to meet the needs
 II everybody rushes into fights the increases the governor Will have no other than session.
 The AgeHerad has always that honest and eoit- aple assessments all the state will yield Alabama all the money It needs If the people will accept the new assessments Ill spH or honesty and fairness they may the disturb Ing effects ot an extra session of the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
LUKE NpLUkE SAYS

A married man can do as he pleases.
 He can either let his wife have her own way or have battle avery five minutes.
 Of course, it is none of our business.
 Put it seems strange that youth
 with a smooth face is expected to take
 off his hat to girl who has mus
 tache.
 Mother has to keep her scissors
 sharp so she can cut goods. That's
 why she uses Fathers razor nto cut twine and sharpen pencils. Many a useful piano movers career is ruined when his Mother insists on him taking piano lessons. A man won't even glance at pair of empty silk stockings in store win dow. But he'll spend an hour looking at them after the right girl fills them If husbands and wives were truthful to each other, there would be ten Di- vorce Courts in each County. When girl has a fever blister she always imagines that you imagine that she got it the very way she didn't get it, A woman will open the door for a new agent so she can buy something 1 on the installment plan. But she won't open the door for an old agent who is trying to collect an installmen' on something he sold her. And what has become of tho Q. f man who chewed cloves and coffee beans before he went home?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
sMeen the Convention

Politics is in fever heat in Chi cago at this time," said Arthur Barton. who has just returned from an ex- tended business visit to that city. "One hears nothing but talk about the ap- preaching republican convention. While there is some talk about the other announced candidates for the re- publican nomination for President, yet the talk of Johnson of Californ1a over shadows them all and 1t is freely pre- dicted that he will sweep the conven- tion.
 That a record-breaking crowd will be in attendance at the convention is evidenced by the fact that at nearly all the large hotels if one got a room 1t was with the understanding that it would be vacated by the first. l was stopping at the Auditorium and I was
 informed by the hotel clerk that the entire hotel was reserved for state delegation.
 There was but little talk about the democratic nominee and it would seem the people there are confident that the next President will be republican"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
THE PASSING OF CARRANZA

From the New York Times.
 IF the Mexicans were a people of
 ideals and devoted to men who die ~ for them they would inscribe upon a stone raised to the memory of their last murdered president: But will fight it out." Thls resolution was commu- nicated to one who talked with Carranza as he was setting out on the adventure that ended in pitiful tragedy. He la of Mexico had failed as the country was beginning to prosper and the first install ment of interest upon the national debt was about to be paid. The civilian could not prevail against the soldier. Charged
 with trying to force Bonillas upon the people, the president defended himself
 by saying q was only looking to the
 interests of my country" He inveighed against the generals who were plunging
 Mexico into another civil war. Their
 kind was It's calamity. Neither Obregon
 nor Gonzalez was fit to rule. the one a sturdy rebel who had not concealed his
 purpose, the other venal and treacherous. Gonzalez had proffered his loyalty in consideration of the command of the army and gift of money, but the presi- dent had declined to make the bargain. At the last he was willing to withdraw his support from Bonillas if there could be fair election But by that time he had found that he could trust no one. Pacing the floor snervously, he exclaimed: My most intimate friends. men whom
 made, have turned against me- But l will fight it out."
 What Carranza meant was that with troops remaining loyal to him he would l try to fight his way to Vera Cruz, there set up government and resist the gen erals to the last for the sake of Mexico It was a sorlorn hope. He developed unsutpected qualities of valor and con stancy in the days that were to follow,
 The theorist and philosopher turned sol dier and leader. If he would surrende,
 he could have safe conduct to Vera Cruz, but he was true to lis resolve te fight it out" If he could not get tt i the sea. then he would retire to the
 desert and keep his colors flying in the hope of rallying men of his mettle ts
 his side. The end of the tragedy came | when in his extremity he trusted a ren.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
COLUMBIA'S AZ AUTHORS

ord of continuity at the Cort theatre, New York. There is a wholesome en- joyment. too, of Stewart Edward Whites tales of the west, a mainten- ance of o. Henry's popularity: . delec- table absorption of poems by John Masefield; a. hearty consumption of novels by Joseph Conrad. once hailed as writer flor the few" And though the Cervantes of the Columbia list rests in the repository for musty books, the American public is avid for the latest word of his modern countryman, Blasco Ibanez Then there is Booth Tarking- ton. whose popularity increases; and there is Mary Roberts Rinehart, whose Amazing Interlude" sold into the hun dreds of thousands.
 Here are the books which for the past two months have enjoyed the widest reading throughout the country: Theodore Roosevelts Letters to His Children" ''The Education of Henry Adams" "The Seven Purposes" by Margaret Cameron, Theodore Roose- velt," by Thayer; "Raymond." by Sir Oliver Lodge; Abraham Lincoln" by John Drinkwater, and Belgium" by Brand Whitlock. That's on the whole wholesome list. It would be inter- esting if the Times had told us whether we in the south shared in so large a measure the popular craving for liter ature which concerns Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. But the Times says this: "Out through the southern Atlantic states, the western states, the north central and the south central states, they are more interested in
 things psychical than are readers in New York and New England. Ray ! mond' is among their favorites. and Hy- slop's Contact With the Other World
 ranks next"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
e. O. P. Tells Us
 Facts Already Known

5S HE nearer the republicans ap- 4 proach their national conven- tion the less they find with which to assail the democratic administration.
 The high cost of living committee of the party's advisory committee on politics and platforms has agreed that Successful attack on high prizes must include vigorous avoidance of further imitation in our government borrowing"
 Everyone knows that and everyone has previously come to that conclu- sion. Nothing new there.
 The committee urges increased production of goods and revision of taxes as necessary to bring down prices"
 President Wilson told the repub-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
Sold Too Quick

q am afraid that the good prices re- ceived by the farmers for their prod ucts during the last several years have not benefited very many of 7 them" :" says "Jud" Inzer, a planter of St. Clair county. My reason for such a state ment comes from the fact that only a few of them realized the necessity of laying by something for rainy day. Money flowed in freely, but 1t went out easier All of my tenants told me they had enough corn to run them until another crop and l sold around 2,000 bushels at $1.50. Now some are out and the price is in the neighborhood of $2.50, which means must advance the money and to buy at the higher price. Things are never going to be cheaper until more peo- pie begin to produce and use common economy. There has been veritable spree of spending all along the line"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
ROMAN COIN BRINGS s14o

From the New York Times.
 The sale of the late Henry c. Miller,s coin collection was continued by the Elder Coin and Curio Company. 21 West Thirty-f fifth street, yesterday. The top price was $40. paid for the celebrated "Eid Mar" silver denarius. struck by order of Brutus. and intimating by caps and daggers the restriction of lib- erty to Rome by the assassination of Julius Caesar.
 The denarius by Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. and Marc Antony went for s75. Tho large bronze coin of the Emperor Vitellius brought $112.5o. the record price In this country. The silver coin of Pescennius Niger, who was put to death as rebel in A. D. 1s4, brought sso.
 Three coins of the vandal Kings. 974-T6, sold for $4s.50. A fine exam pie of the Sextans, female head with peaked cap. brought $50. The bronze com of Nero, fine and rare. went for $s6
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01

lican congressional majority all that as soon as it had assembled after the war. The party's answer is the bonus bill with another addition to the na- tional burden.
 The committee adds this: "Govern- mental and individual extravagance coupled with the 50 per cent deprecia- tion of the dollar due to the gross expansion of the United States cur rency and credit are responsible for present prices"
 The governmental extravagance was in the name of the fighting forces. No republican dared raise his voice while this extravaganza was in vogue. Personal extravaganza is not the fault of the government, but the outcome of worldwide conditions that have made it as much the vogue in Europe as in America.
 While the republicans are talking about the stoppage of imitation, the federal reserve board, a democratic creation that piloted the ship of state safely through war-whirling gales, has successfully inaugurated that process:
 There is bigger job ahead of the republicans, that of explaining the altruistic motives of the interests that have donated millions to advance the presidential claims of the leading republican candidates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 WNTHAT do the people read now-a-
 WY days? According to the ad-
 ministration of Columbia Uni- versity. they ought to be reading among other things the works of Ho- Tier, Kant and Nietzsche, to name only three of the forty-two authors pro- posed to candidates for general honors; but alas and alack! what they are ac- tually reading is The Recreation of Brian Kent" by that card catalogue author, MT Harold Bell Wright. There Is no escape from the charge. for the records of libraries, booksellers and publishers are open to the eyes of the ferreting journalist of the New York Times, who has set himself the task of finding out The moral teachings of Marcus Aurelius. the histories of Macaulay, the plays of Euripides. the high songs of Milton, the Lives" of Plutarch. the scientific disquisitions of Darwin and even the romances of Victor Hugo gather dust upon the shelves, while forty copies of the latest novel by the author of The Shepherd of the Hills" cannot meet the demand made upon single metropolitan li- brary.
 The public, however. even a public consuming the eloying sweets of the tireless creator of "Pollyanna" or a million copies of "Dere Mabel" isn't a hopeless, headless creature. Book rec ords show that hundred thousand copies of Irving Batchellor's "A Man Tor the Ages have been insufficient to satisfy the demand for the romance of great American. If further proof were needed one might look to John Drinkwater's drama of Abraham Lin- coln," which promises to set new rec-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
Nine IdIers in a Bunch

There is no doubt of the need of en- forcing the law against vagrancy,' lustration to the point: A few days ago I was out in search of cook. This led me to negro quarter, where was advised to inquire at certain num- Der.
 in I entered to find nine negro men. mostly young and all able bodied, sit ting and lying about in different pos- tu1es I have no doubt I had disturbed scrap shooting game. That was 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Think of that number of idle men at that time Of day in one house."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
RELATIVE VALUES

How wonderful it is to be an artist and put ones soul on canvasr ex- claimed the temperamental young woman.
 Tt doesn't seem so wonderful" re- piled the artist. sadly. after you have put your soul on canvas and a war millionaire protests that you want to charge him more for the picture than he pays his department heads for a years work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
THE HOME COMING

Berton Braley. in the New York World. Bring back our dead from Flanders,
 From all the fields of France, For what to us is sod wherson
 They stemmed the 4iuns advanceY TLe spirit of their splendid youth
 Is but bygone romance. We have no care for Flanders,
 For we are now grown wise. We hold aloof. What matters it
 If Europe lives or disss For they are only "foreigners-
 Who once were our allies. Cur feet have trodden on the dream
 For which our soldiers died: They would not rest at peace in France
 Knowing that dream denied Their hope of human brotherAocf From which we stand as Bring back our dead from 4aadeex, For while we let they s, ' The little crosses row rows Remind the world alwsy Of that brave dream they died so savs--
 The dream that we beixay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
Spokane Is Decidedly
 Neither Dead Nor Dying

THE Spokane Chamber of Com
 0 merce, disturbed by the un- favorable showing made by Spokane in census figures published May T, asks permission to state "the other side of the question"
 Although the recent census report indicates that Spokane decreased in population during the past ten years, business men of Washington City de- clare that Gin every other particular except population Spokane has made remarkable progress" The school population has increased 29 per cent; sixteen hundred new homes and fifty apartment houses have been erected and are now occupied; city water ac- counts have increased three thousand; :; telephone installations are % per cent larger; bank deposits have increased 58 per cent and bank clearings 168 per cent.
 Hydro-electric development in Spo- kane has been extensive during the ten-year period. It is now an import ant factor in the city's industrial life. TT~~o oro ,,,oro +bop txuoy+xy +b ro a thousand commercial motors in use. Spokane's annual output of manu- factures is valued at seventy-five million dollars, and it's wholesale trade is fifty million dollars.
 But Spokane need not protest it's greatness to the country at large. It is splendid city and shares honors with Seattle as a gem of the Pacific coast. There was some shaking of heads when the population figures Avere published and insinuations were made here and there that with an ex- cess of civic zeal somebody or other had done little padding in 1910.
 Birmingham is too far away to pass Judgment on such a delicate matter involving the honor of a sister city and is pleased to accept the explana- tion offered as "key to the situa- tion" by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. According to this au- thority, "The census of 1910 was taken when ten thousand transients had been brought to Spokane by the yreat railroad development which cached its peak in that year. These lransients have passed on to other fields and have been replaced by per manent residents"
 This statement should clear the 'scutcheon of Spokane and convince the most skeptical that it is "big- ger, better and stronger city today than at any time in it's annals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
Snail's Pace for Bonus
 Bill in the Senate

II INDICATIONS are that the soldier 0 bonus bill is doomed to a long sleep in the United States Senate.
 The tremendous vote in it's favor in the house, 2S9 to 92, is not to be regarded as expressing the real con- victions of legislators. It required nerve for man to register himself openly against it at time when na- tional party interests are at stake. The fear of provoking antagonism is quite as potent as the impulse to cul- tivate favor.
 It seems a pity that Congress oan- not separate the claims of the needy soldier from those of the four million. Had this been done, the various agencies for enabling the maimed to earn a livelihood, others to take up farm lands and help their country while helping themselves, and direct support of those unable to care for themselves at all, could by this time have been satisfactorily worked out.
 A common agreement on working plan to do the humane thing never involved difficulties.
 It was when soldier aid and the pork barrel" began to bear re- semblance that the soldiers them selves experienced their first falling out after leaving the fighting ranks. They will never agree OH a bonus.
 The soldiers and everyone else knows that the country is in no po- sition to stand further tax drains, and the soldier knows that his coun- trymen did generously for him when he bore arms. The bonus just can not fit in right with the idealism that made the Argonne and Chateau Fhier- " possible.
 * * *
 In a recent speech Chancellor Mueller said Germany must show that she has had enough of war for all eternity and that no fool, crowned or uncrowned shall drag Germany into a war of re- venge." But. deep down in his Teutonit
 soul. does the chancellor mean it? * 4 *
 | If Dr. Butler of colu@bia were elect
 ed President it is reasonable to suppos, there would he no split infinitives il state papers. but is that the sole qualit cation needed for the presidency?