I OifCon tferatd. ^ |> ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 16 1909. \ Vo|?J5^m-99~ ? ? MILLIONS IN MONEY |? ^ BRINGS UNHAPPINESS. m |p> Corey, the Steel King, ji*, Divorces the Wife of His sl ^vcouth and Marries An** other whom His Millions se s Cannot Make Happy. ix ** The Chicago-Record Herald so prints a story concerning Corey, R ^ the steel king, that points a mor- ki al. It is a readable story and C1 The Herald reproduces it not he- P ^ cause it is tainted with vellow j journalism and borders on the ci; sensational but because it co I* is such an eloquent argument ^ against the general belief that , riches biing happiness. It is a ju story from real life and is worth ca ^ the reading: co "Almost any woman would be ^ ready to cry her eyes out with sheer envy if she could see Ma belle Oilman Corey's gowns, jewels and the thousands of luxuries P with which her husband. the steel king, has surrounded her. J? Even the most serious-minded of women, those who usually are not carried awav by the follies and ;TU1 cAiiavajjances 01 uic ricn, would 1 ' feci their hearts beat quicker if |K they could wander at will through " the- great French palace where W( * the former actress now lives and see how her husband's wealth has ** poured out the sack of the whole ca world at her feet. She has money ot * untold; she emulates royalty in [ 0 the magnificence of her surroundings; an army of servants wait on a 0 her. There is not a single wish that money can gratify that she ot 0 has let pass unsatisfied. m; "Yet Mabel Oilman Corey is av * unhappy. She has been unable nii . to buy social recognition. The ve people she wants to know do not call. She is surrounded with the glitter of every luxury, but she is alone. She longs for applause and flattery from people in high Clt society; she would be a leader among the socially elect, but they *' will not look at her. ~ "Mrs, Corey's years of life on w' the stage have made applause as ^'c the breath of life in her nostrils, and she misses it now. Surrounded by every magnificence, she 1 finds the days dull and lonelv- . She is now sure that the future 'V holds no promise of a change. ai< To her such a life is as uninspir- ***? ing as playing a part in a bril- j ?* nanny lit tneater with not a soul in the audience. That is why so she is unhappy, and that is why t"1 she desires to go back to the stupe, whether her husband likes it or sn not. In the theater she will find companionship. She can be a "ll leader in the social set there, at least. Her husband's money can make her a star, and that will tai give her a commanding position wc among a small coterie, which is no something that she has been unable to attain thus far elsewhere. ^1 In Paris, usually the easiest lca city in the world for money to buy enjyyment and for the people who have wealth to obtai social . recognition, she is surrounded tl\v. As soon as one lot disap:ars antoher takes its place, ime of these people are French, mie English, some Italian or ussian, and some the Lord lows what. They form a soL*iy of their own, and even in at I have narrowly escaped beg snubbed more than once when have dared to question the soul omnipotence of some near ?unt -or bogus duchess. "1 can go into the shops and ly whatever I please, gowns, wels, anything. I can have >rses and carriages and motor irs. I live in a palace, and iuld have a bigger one if I wartI it. But no person of the kind at I care about calls on me. II I can do with my money is to iv, ouy, buy?things that I realdon't want." "I can't stand this life much nger," she said. "I am going ,ck to the stage. That is the ace for me, after all. I love it id I have never ceased to love it aught never to have left it. I re for it more than e,er now. is the one thing that seems arth while. "Oh, I don't mind the money, oney is a good thing, but it n't hnv Itonrvinnco " 1 ? r .. ? wmj uuppiiivao dllU tt 1UI OI lit: things. I know by heart c list of things that I haven't en able to purchase, and it's long one. I'm so unhappy." Since William E. Corey, one the heads of the steel trust and iiny times a millionaire, put /ay the wife of his youth and arried Mabelle Oilman a few ars ago he and his new wife have ?t been recognized by society, ley tried to make headway by dng abroad for a time, hoping force an entrance to the social adels of those who considered emselves among the electley failed. They saw actresses from chorus girls up to stars? 10 had married titles and who :re received in good society, it society abroad would not acpt the Core.vs. 'he story of Ccrey's early life how struggled for fortune and won largely through his first wife's 1 and counsel when they were ung. is well known. The tale how he divorced her in his days prosperity also is well known? well known that it followed cm wherever they went. Only the servants in the hotels liled upon them. Those who lied on them were mostly men? siness friends of Corey, who aid not afford to antagonize him. few of these were able to eajole eir wives into calling. But they ;nt under compulsion and were t slo v to show it. It was even worse than that ten the Coreys returned to Ameri. They stopped for a brief ace in New York and then went * a trip through the West. The est caies less for social tradi>ns than the East, but the Co>'S had only themselves to assoite with there as elsewhere. Now she is ready to give up, is the cards on the table and irt all over again. The editor of The Herald has it returned from a trip through : upper part of the state and if ; farmers of the Pee Dee could ; the crops of the Piedmont ;y would call themselves doub ly :ssed this year. The crops in r section are above the average tile the production per acre in ; Piedmout will not average a le to every three acres. The >pin the up country got a late irt, then the rains came along d stopped farm work for seve rweeks and the recent drouth s completed what it is said to almost a complete crop disas\ The Piedmont has not had rain in five weeks and lots of tton has not had a rain since/ was laid by. The Pee Dee has i best crops in the state this ar. le Dillon Herald $1.50 a year i frtliifilii' ii ivi-j hree State News. Mrs. C. C. Richardson, of (l Lake City, spent a few days last week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Rojjers. Mr. J. W. Rowland moved his v family, to Dillon last Thursday. * We miss them very much. After a week's stay with vela- 1 tives in this section, Mrs. E. C. 1 Newton returned to her home in ' Bennettsville last Monday. 1 Mr. Darffan Odom and sister. ; Miss Emmie spent Saturdav and : Sunday with their aunt Mrs. An- i drew LeCette. Rev. B. F. Allen expects to c leave Thursday for Denmark t where he has accepted a call to , preach. s Miss Virgic McLaurin, of MeI Coll visited friends down here lsst r I vuool* Miss Lorcna Newton of Gibson , who has been visiting Miss Belle ] Moore returned home this morn- , i Mrs. D. E. Allen is visiting her * daughter, Mrs. J. 1*. Wallace of Harts villc. "Cor." | ? ? Bermuda Briefs. ] | l**!**** ? ? ? # ? 1 Dry weather still is in progress . in this place and a good rain would 1 1 do lots of good just now. | A. C. Moody of this place spent last Saturday afternoon at the home of his father. E. V. Moody, of Pleasant Hill section. I). W. Bowcn and family of Mt. Cavalry were in this section Sunday last. W. C. McKenzie of this place has been appointed Notary Public. He received 1ii< cnmniicBi.i.. !....* week and is now ready for business. Private Liston Moody of U. S. Army, stationed at Fort Scriven, Ga., is at the home of his paivnts V Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Moody ot fiiis r place. He has a furlough for r thirty days. Glad to see you back ^ and to see you looking well. Liston. Deputy David Miller of Pleasant Hill was in this section last Monday morning bright and early; J he caught his bird. 2 Hurrah for the new county and ^ new railroad. OLD TOM. \ , ? 1 \ A True Bill. Pee Dee Advocate. The Dillon Herald remarked r some weeks ago that if the races t were kept up they would break up s the summer resorts, because peo- (J pie would not leave the races to go away. Does that explain why our friend, J. B. Gibson, himself an s owner of a race horse and a patron I1 of the track, is gcing to develop f; a auuiMlcl 1CSUII MJflll 111 II1C CCI1* ter of the Pee Dee Driving Asso- t ciation? v Prohibitionits. Over at Newaygo, near Big e Rapids, where it is so dry that the "boys" habitually "spit cotton," there seem to be some ? mighty dry prohibitionists, accord- 11 ing to a story that comes from the ij desert. A Newaygo citizen recently received a letter from a Kentucky r whiskey house requesting him to a send them the names of a dozen it or more persons who would like to get some fine whiskev shipped to them at a very low price. The c letter wound up by saving: ij "We will give you a commision on all the orders sent in by par- n ties whose names you send us." The Newaygo man belonged to c a practical joke class and filled in c the names of some of his prohibition friends on the blank spaces j left for that purpose. He had forgotten all about his y supposed practical joke when Mon day he received another letter t; from the same house. He sup- ^ posed it was a request for more ^ names and was about to throw the ^ communication in the waste basket e when it occured to him to send the j name of another old friend to the j whiskey house. He accordingly t tore open the envelope, and came (1 near collapsing when he found a s check for $4.80, representing his v commission on the sale of whiskey ^ to the parties whose names he had sent in about three weeks before. ?Detroit Free Press. . i i i TAKES THE WET COOPS. Charleston, Sept. 3.?The praciee among the blind tiger element >t (Charleston of using the names >t well-known citizens for the impose of getting liquor and beer tasscd into the city by police guards may lessen when the ieheme of a gentleman here heroines generally known. He arrived home recently to be old by his 1 letter half that a bar-1 el of export beer had Iteen deV ivered to him. The gentleman tad ordered no beer, but he wis atrprised to see a barrel of expert iddressed to himself very plaihly ind standing bodlv on his b?ck torch. H e got "wise" and cilrny tpencd the barrel and extracted a lozen "buds" for icing. The text day a driver came t< the louse and called for the beer, saving the stuff had been delivered 'by mistake," but the person never ippeared. \ The beer is almost gone totow. This custom of getting liquor in - i II.IUIV.-M uiui rucu laving it delivered by "mistakW' nay be broken up by the sehcinS jf keeping the gratuitous beverige. YOL) DINNERS LOOK HERE. We have just received a ear load >1 the "Famous Stover Oasoline lingincs, can make immediate shiplicnt on >, 3, 5, 6, 10, 16, 12, ay nvelopes. "(>n the last pay day the paynaster ean.e to a tine looking roung fellow, and when he was isked to sign the card aeknowedging the receipt of the money, vas informed that he could not vrite. One or two ot the hands n the vicinity were asked to write lis name for him, but for various easons they did not do so, when he negro boy took the pen and igned the young fellow's name m the card. This illustration is forcible argument for compul ory education and can be used irotitably by those who are in avor of the measure." This is respectfully referred to Senator Tillman and the others irho have been opposing compul ory education. The negro children are being J% 1 n ' uucaicu?an 01 tnem. Many of the white people, from ne cause or another, are allowing their children to grow up in ijnoranceCompulsory education would lot affect the negroes, tor they re getting an education without t. Hut it would help those white hildren who are growing up in jnorance. In short, is not the State cuinduing a crime against these white hildren who are growing up illitrate? rack Laying on N. & S. C. Railway. IcCall Times: The road bed of the North & iouth Carolina Railway has been raded to Dillon and the rails are eing placed between Clio and )illon- Mr. Bonsai says that he xpects to operate trains between lamlet and Dillon before (>etober st. When this link is completed he company expects to give a nuch more satisfactory passenger! ervice than at present as they I vill then have exclusive p.assenfer trains. The Dillon Herald $1.50 a year. V Didn't Walk all the Way. "Down in Alabama," said John 1). Feat-hake, in the Woman's Home Companion, "there's a deputy marshal who doesn't let any such trifles as extradition laws stop hi nyf < >ne day ho rode into toyrn on a mule leading* a prisoner whom he had caught in or? 'vf hrt . . A ' nauL in_ n .1.1 wilt til lilt of ouf day, and his death at 61, with some of his vastest dreams unrealized?that of adding the New York Central to his system of roads, for example?leaves a vacant place in the financial world which no one man is likely to fill. Raleigh ?Progressive Farmer. m m A little girl, the two years and six months old daughtei of the late Ragland Brunson, of Dillon is in the Florence infirmary here suffering from an unusual malady. The child swallowed a 25 cent piece ot money at her home i ? Dillon yesterday afternoon and ;i lodged in the esophagus, causing much pain and suffering. D . McLeod located the piece of m< iey by means of an X-ray shor iv after the child was entered in the infirmary, but he is undecided as to whether to perform an operation or not. Should an operation be performed it will libely be performed this evening, sometime. Since the above was put in type an operation was successfully performed the piece of coin removed and the child is doing nicely. The little two-year-old daughter of Mrs. R. R. Brunson swallowed a 25 cent piece Sunday night and it is feared that the money has lodged in her throat. Mrs. Brunson took the little one to Florence Monday morning and a telephone message from there Monday afternoon stated that she was not doing so well. There is nothing new in the New County situation. So far as can be learned Prof. Colcock is making the calculations on his test survey of the lines run by Messrs. Hamby and Beatty and it may be two weeks or a month before he is ready to report to the governor. If Prof. Colcock's report is made within the next month the;e will be plenty of time to hold an election before jan. 1. If an election is not held by the first of the year it is not likely that one can be held early enough in the new year to get a bill through the general assembly creating the New County, and in, that event it will be another year before the New County can be formed, provided it prevails at the i polls, which is not all improbable, if one is to judge by the sentiment of the people. 'M