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WAS BUMED IN FIJOWEK BED. Poverty IHHI Two Women to Thus Dispose of Itelutlvo'M Dody. Chicngo, Feb. 16.-The body of Mrs. Nancy M. Chamberlain, 91 years old. whose myslorious disap pearance from the homo of nor daughter and granddaughter, in an artists' colony, has been un.ler inve ? ligation by the police, was found ear ly to-day, buried in the back yard of the apartment on 57th streut i.? which the family lived. Two days of questioning by police brought from Mrs. itu 111 Townsend, the aged woman's daughter, and Miss Marion Townsend, her grand daughter, only cryptic answers, such as "Mother is happy in love." Early to-day Miss Townsend COP tessed that tho aged woman died of natural causes last June and had been buried hy the two women in a flower bed in their back yard, In which the age?! woman hud carefully attended geranium plants. Kvery part of their former home was searched yesterday by tho police ?nd even some purls of tho rear yard were dug up, but nothing was found except bones, which, the doctors as serted, were those of a dog. Dire poverty caused the two wo men to bury the body secretly, Mls'j Townsend confessed to Police Matron Mary Dolan. Ono by one the prized possessions of the family were soul until only the grapd plano, on which Marion had developed an unusual musical ability, remained. "We had neither collin nor burial permit," said Miss Townsend. "We covered up the body and placed the geraniums over the improvised grave. To us she is not dead-Just buried. Mother and I swore never to say anything about it, because wo were happy in love." Evidence that the women had boe i delvers In the occult was found by the police in their studio. Cryptic notes and diagrams were numerous, some relating to theories advanced by ancient Egyptian sun worshipers and others to modern systems of spiritualism. But no ceremony or rites had been performed at tho burial of their mother, and grandmother, according to Miss Townsend's statement, be cause of their belief that there is no death. She said that spiritual com munication was started in the studio Pl e hi M 'ev, I , i)l? \\ : ver ( v "California Syrup of Figs" is Child's Best Laxative Beware! Say "California" or you may not get the genuine "California Syrup of Figs" which doctors recom mend for babies and children of all ages. Nothing else cleans the little bowels and regulates the child's sto mach and liver so gently, HO thor oughly. Directions on each bottle. But you must say "California." Don't be talked into an imitation fig syrup which hasn't the delicious, fruity taste or the perfect "laxative physic" action.-adv, SENATE ADOPTS SMITH'S BUJi. Provides for Investigation of Amount Cotton and Wheal Stocks. Washington, Feb. 18.-The Senate yesterday adopted tho resolution of Senator 13. D. Smith, of South Caro lina, providing for an investigation by the Senate agricultural committee of the amounts of cotton and wheat now on hand in this country, left over from receni crops. The Senator contended, in offering the resolution, that conflicting and uncertain market reports had been made. Regarding his recent statements that he understood Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, was employed by British cotton Mills, Senator Smith to-day told the Senate that be bad been misinformed. He said that ho was now informed that Mr. Hester's only employment was with du.. \ew Orleans Cotton Ex change. Last Beal D. A. lt. is Dead. Asheville. \. c., Feb. 17.-Funeral services were bold Monday for Mrs. A. (I. Gillespie, aged 96, she being tho last real daughter of tho Ameri can Revolution in this section of tho State, it is believed. Her father was an ofneer in the revolution, fighting with North Carolina troops, it is said. Among her survivors ls a son who is a veteran of the Confederacy. It is stated that ono of her descendants bas fought In every war since the Civil War. Elephants' tusks have been known to weigh 17" pounds. GEOIIGIA MOB, SEVEN THOUSAND Strong, Burned Negro ut Stake-Hail Murdered White Woman. Athens, ('.a., Feb. 17.-Seven thou sand men composing a mob from Chuko, Oconee and adjoining coun ties, last night stormed the Clarke county jail, secured John Lee Eber hard!, a negro held for tho murder of Mrs. Walter KS. Lee, 24 years of age, of Oconee county. Georgia, and burned him at the stake after taking him to the scene of the crime, seven miles east of this city. Eberhardt is alleged to have killed Mrs. Lee, the wife of Walter E. Lee, employed ul the Mallison Braided Cord Company, A double-barreled shotgun was used, both loads enter ing tho head and tho back of tho woman. The method employed by the mob In securing the negro from the Jail, which is said to be the most moder* In tho State, established a precedent unheard of in this State. A hugo modern blow torch was used lo gain entrance after Sheriff Jackson resist ed thc mob to the last. It ls said that members of tho mob climbed up tho elevator shaft of tho court house to the top floor, whore the Jail is located. There they put the torch In play on a lock whl secured ono. of the rear entrances to tho prison. While other member.1, of the mob kept tho county officials busy in front the torch melted tho big brass padlock, and an entrance was effected. The same men entered tho prison, went to tho negro's cell and over powered him. They lowered him by way of the elevator shaft and made their escape into thc mass of angry men who were waiting outside. With a mighty shout the mob then began yelling "Lynch him here!" but the ring-leaders placed the negro in an automobile and started off In thc direction of the Oconee county line. Hundreds of automobiles fell in line in rear of the car containing the ne gro. Men by the score ran along at I the side of these machines. One hour later the mob arrived at the scene of thc crime. They formed a circle around the ring-leader's au tomobile, and the negro was then ta ken from the machine and led to a spot near where Mrs. Lee had been shot down. A stake was Immediately driven In I th< ground, and small twigs an: j pine .youd were thrown uro vi nd lt, ii .1 Eberhard t was placed \ In Ihe conter fio \v llo'd (<> th? tfuke and J ?'.<. loree thou applied 'fwoiiiy min i'.' (at?r the lire died bill, ''..i ?. gro's charred body toppled over and fell prone into the ashes. Young Teachers Clubbed to Death. Cleveland. Ohio, Feb. 17.- Misses Louise Wolfe and Mabel Foote, two young school teachers lu the Parma school, were beaten to death on a road In Parma Heights near here early to-day. They were last seen leaving the school building late yesterday. A bloody stick of timber was found near the bodies. Children on their way to school this morning found the two bodies lying in the roadway. A part of the women's clothing had boen torn from their bodies, and there were signs of a desperate strug gle In the snow. Police believe that the teachers wore on their way to board a trolley car for home when killed. Fines Himself for Speeding. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 17.-A prece dent was established in police court hero yesterday morning when Judge Lewis L. Kent fined himself the usual amount for violating the traffic laws, upon evidence submitted by the po liceman who docketed the case. He paid the fine. Several lawyers of fered their service to certiorari the decision. ASPIRIN Name "Bayer" on Genuine Take Aspirin only as told in each package of genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin. Thon you will he following tho directions and dosage worked out by physicians during 2 1 years, and provod safo by millions. Take no chances with substitutes. ' If you seo the bayer Cross on tablets, you can take them without fear for colds, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism, earache, toothache, lumbago and for pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve tab lets cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger packages. Aspirin is the trade mark of Hayer Manufacture of Mononcoticacidestcr of Salicylicacid. -adv. PADEHEWSKPS PIANO PLAVIX? ls at an End-Wtil (jo to His Ramil In California for Long Rest. Now York, Fob. 17.-Tho profes sional plano playing career of the world-famous Padorewski ls at au end. Tho distinguished Polish musician, whose artistry at the- plano l?as de lighted the music lobers of two con tinents for more than a generation, announced his retirement from tho concert stage, confirming recent ca ble dispatchesrupon his arrival lune recently on Hie steamship France. "Plano playing is a closed chapter In my life, although I may do some composing later," he declared when asked If be would resumo his musi cal career. Five years of hard mental labor In tho field of international polith's in behalf of his native Poland have left their imprint on his physical ap pearance. Old ago and worry have whitened tho long and bushy hair of his head, which countless thousands of persons have seen waving hack and forth as he kept time with the music produced by his magic hands, while the line? In his face have deep ened and the sparkle In his eyes has dim med. Plans a Ix>ng Rest. The artist-statesman, who ls ac companied by his wife, will spend a short while resting here, and then visit Pittsburg, and after a brief stay there will go on to his ranch In Cali fornia to take, as the distinguished musician expressed it, "a long and needed rest." Commenting on the signing of the peace treaty between Poland and Soviet Russia, the former premier declared that "Poland expects to live as a loyal neighbor to Russia." Ile also asked newspaper men to convey to the American people the sincere gratitude of the Polish nation for the part America played tn gaining its independence. Quarter Century in America Ignace Jan Padercwskl was >orn in 1SG0, and for the greater pa-t of the last quarter century ho has ap ? penrod on the concert stage of the American continent. Since the war his musical career and fame <s a pianist have been in a measure over shadowed by his fame as a parlot and as a government leader. Hehas traveled from coast, to coast In this I i country and from capital to a pi tal in Ru rope in the Interest of Pound's liberation and economic r*?1 aWtf. 1 ?ion. ? rt': '<>):? poi u ian ty with ti'" ivnssvi led i ... selection aa prluclyil ~u)^?~ man at the peace conference ntl Ver sailles and its first representative in the League of Nations. His ministry lasted less than a year, the pianist resigning late in 1919 and being suc ceeded by bis friend and political co worker, Leopold Skulskl.who became head of the coalition government. BANDITS KILLED TWO GUESTS in Hotel in Jacksonville-Tho Police Havo Two Suspects Arrested. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 17.-Two men who the police believe are the same who, masked, suddenly appear ed in tho parlor of a hotel In this city, within a block of the police sta tion, early last night and shot to death George Alexander Goodrich, 5 7 years of age, a prominent engi neer and builder of Atlanta, Ga., and Walter H. Burden, 60 years old, a woalthy retired business man of Patchogue, L. L, were arrested early this morning at a local rooming house. No charges other than suspicion have been placed against the men, and the police so far have refused to divulge their names or the circum stances .surrounding their arrest. Mr. Burden, his wife and daugh ter. Miss Florrie Burden, and Mr. Goodrich were seated about a card table in tho hotel parlor last night j when two white men, wearing masks, appeared In the door leading into the yard, and. leveling revolvers, de manded their money and valuables. Members of tho card party took tho affair to he a joke, thinking that some of the other hotel guests wero trying to scar o them. The seriousness of the affair bo cine evident, however, when one of the hold-up men reached for a largo diamond worn hy Mr. Durden In his tie. Burden and Goodrich leaped to their feet. The bandits Hied nt tho first move. Threo bullets struck Mr. I Goodrich, one piercing his heart, and ho died Instantly. Two struck Bur ; den In the abdomen, and he died at j midnight at a local hospital, j Roth bandits bolted through tho I door, stopped into an automobile that I had been left standing outside with j the motor running, and disappeared J before the .screams of the women at traded tho attention of other guests. The "fire-tree" of Australia is so , called because its flame-colored flow j era make lt look Uko a tree on Oro. .I* *f* ?J* v *r* *r* *?* *I* *I* 4* 4* *?* "I* .gt MS XT-WHAT IS ITV .I* "I* * *I? .!* ?!* * ?I? -I' v ?I* "What does 'Loaf moan?" Some ono occasionally asks thia question. The word comos iron: tho Anglo-Saxon "Lencten," meaning to lengthen or make long, it also hilo reference to spring, when the days begin to grow lunger. lu tly history of tho church this season of the year, beginning for;y days before blaster, has another j meaning. Since the third century these forty days have been set apart 1 as a time for fasting nndt prayer. Even before the third generation eel- : tain days before .Easter were obsOrv- ! ed, but the Council of Nicon, A. 1 1).. set apart forty days, beginning Ash Wednesday. I Tho number of days chosen CU 111 d | from Bible history. Christ fasted forty days, tho Children of Israel were forty days /.i the Wilderness, the fasting of Moses and the fasting of Elijah. j The Roman Catholic church still observes tho fast. The faithful mem bers are governed by the letters from the pope, regulating the diet on these days. Some parts of the Protestant church diroet the members not to take part In certain amusements and also to restrain themselves from eat ing some foods. The Lutheran church keeps this season for the sake of the Word of (lot! given on those days. The lessons appointed to be read in tho Lenten season deal especially with the menning of Christ's death on the cross, and God's judgment on sin. That means a preaching of re pentance and forgiveness. This part of Scripture emphasizes that Christ died for every man, and that all have ! sinned. Some parts of the Protestant church have annual revival seasons : at certain times of tho year. With I others the Lenten season gives an ' opportunity to preach repentance and the meaning of a Crudded Christ. j The conservative part of the Pro testant church, In the Reformation 1 period, in the sixteenth century, re tained all of the usages of the old . ch ireh, so that the eye reminded the' heart of a place to worship, as Moses adorned the tabernacle under God's , direction. They observed tho feast I days, as Christmas, Good Friady.Eas- ! ter, etc. There was an era of what has been called vandalism, or the, 1 time of the "iconoclasts," tho imago< breakers, when the sculpture still art found in th* churches .verb stripped away and Ir? tn pied under Gui, ;*>... In the streets. Some of those treas ii ref. ita d beeu ?.entuno* in growing. Artists bad put their years of work Into the temples, as memorials, a place of safe-keeping, and for the generations to* follow. Works in gold and of the painter's brush were ground in the dust under the feet of the enraged multitude. This was es pecially true in Holland, where the oppression of the Roman church had been especially severe under the in quisition. Those things were not wrong which the ancient church had, provided they were not evil (In themselves, any more than the Bible is wrong be cause some ovll-mlnded one may mis use lt to lead a soul astray. Tho vital thing is what a man wears in his heart, not what he may wear on his back. This was the posi tion of the conservative church. Tho truth taught was the main thing. If ho wore a long or short coat, sur plice or gown, prayed the prayers of Christendom or bis own-all these things wore of secondary importance to that of having the Truth In his heart and teaching it. Subscriber. DODSON'S LIVER TONE KILLS CALOMEL SAMS. Don't sicken or salivate yourself or paralyze your sensitive liver by taking calomel, which is quicksilver. Your dealer sells each bottle of pleas ant, harmless "Dodson's Liver Tone" under an ironclad, money-back guar antee that it regulates the liver, stomach and bowels better than cal omel, without making you sick - 1 "? million bottles sold.- adv. Brewers Must "Cleon House." Washington, Feb. 17. Stockhold ers of four Pennsylvania breweries seized by tho government for manu facturing beer containing more (han one-half of one per cent alcohol were warned to-day by Internal Revenue Commissioner Williams that they must "clean house" if they expect to be permitted to resume business. The commissioner, in a letter to the stockholders of tho Pennsylvania Central Browing Company and the Standard Brewing Company of Scran ton, Pa., tho Keystone Brewery Com pany of Dunmore, Pa., and Bartel's Brewery Company of Wilkesbarrc, Pa., declared it was not tho^intention of tho bureau to render worthless tho property of Innocent persons, but that the law must be obeyod. $H&? ?T<II5TS??? *SH&? ?K?? ??????0041 The Willard was first, Thu Willard is better built, The Willard lives longer, The Willard is used most. THEREFORE, You want and must have The Willard Battery in Vour Car. Wc have a complete linc on hand. The name Willard is a guarantee of perfection in the battery world. Our personal guarantee goes with every battery, Hughs Garage, Main Street, !-! Walhalla, S. C "Satisfied Customers" is Our Motto. & *?> i?i ? ? iii & ?? ? & ? @ @ @ ? @ 0 & @ & flt Here's Your Chance Progressive Farmer,] $1.00 year, The Keowee Courier, $1.00 year, $1.50 For Both For 12 Months Either paper well worth Combination Price of Both, Order yours now. i V i:> I ION 1 . V> I *TMl\STEIL Health of Community (mod Except for Mumps and Pneumonia. Westminster, (West End,) Feb.17. -Special.: The health of our section i.s very good at present, with the ex ception of a few cases of mumps and pneumonia. If such flue weather continues, old Mother Earth will soon discard her winter overcoat and come marching out In her new spring bonnet, and dress before Easter. The West End school ls progress ing nicely under the management of our capable and efficient teacher,Miss Ollio Phillips. Master William Cobb, who ha3 been a victim of pneumonia, is able to bo out again, much to the delight of his plny-fellows, and especially to his parents. Little Miss Pauline Cobb ls a con valescent of the mumps. | D. A. Browning and family, of ! Toccoa, (la., have moved Into our midst, and Mr. Browning has opened ? up a first-class shoe and repair shop ' In the Brake old stand, over the Mathewson hardware store. Mr. I Browning will be glad to have ill | who aro In need of a "shoe doctor' give him a call. I Miss Lula Cleland, of Chnrlofc, ; N. C., spent last week-end with her ; homefolks here. Paul Cleland, of Elberton, Ca.,wa.-' ! a recent, visitor nt Hie home of his j father, W. P. Cleland, j Miss Birdie Lawrence, who ls tho ! i principal of the Madison school, was j j among homefolks here during the , past week-end. j Misses Addle Cleland and Bessie I Leathers, Messrs. Charles Cleland, j . Fred and Eugene Cobb attended a ! : rook party given by Misses Maud and \ j Ora Cleland last Wednesday night, j I-,-, VOTING ? QpCTKKOT OF E i The KoOWOO Courier, Walhalla, S. C Gentlemen : My cholee for Queen of Pnlmafcsta Name. I A dd ross. (This Coupon good for one vote. A Hon lo Tile Keowee Cornier will ont DeOcioii? .fiVoninnents cu' hov dwe la hi H??I . tko ?vere ser\ cd. Mrs, W. P. Cleland and sons. Mus ters Harrie and Rival, spent th ? past week-end with Mrs. Cleland's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bolt, of An derson. Mr. Editor, if this escapea tho waste basket you may hear from mo again; otherwise l will do worse than the ground-hog on tho second of February (If that day happens to be a sunshiny day.) for he will re treat for six weeks, but I will go back forever. Miss Cecil Singleton, one of Ta bor's efficient teachers, and Miss lOvio .Tones, of . Eastminster, were recent spend-the-day guests of Miss Adaline Cleland. Miss Jones left Tuesday for Greenville to take n course as a trained nurse. In conclusion, I would just like to say that 1 want to shako tho hand of Harry R. Hughs, of Walhalla, and If it is ever my good fortune to get over there again I shall certainly take the trouble to hunt him up and tell him how much I admire his courage In rebuking our good editor tho time ho did-not that I blame the editor so much, for The Courier is a clean paper and is a credit lo any community and something to bo valued in any family; but "mistakes will happen In the best regula tot' families," nnd truly The Courier has a big, big family. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure Itching, Dlind, Dlccdlng or Protruding Piles. Instantly relieves Ilching Piles, and you can get restful sice/) oiler tho first aDDil?ntlOQ. Price (?Oe. Negro Killed by Train. Sp.irtanburg, Feb. lt!.-Sam Tuck er, colored, committed suicide at Woodruff this morning by stepping in front of a Charleston and Western Carolina passenger train. He was killed instantly. 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