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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919. Life In North (From the Yorkvllle 'Enquirer.) It was "If I had to live there I would not yet a s give my Marlboro farm for the whole filled > state of North Dakota; but when I feet: say that I do not want you to under- " 'A stand me as in the least discounting to Car the splendid people of the North- us wei west." and cl The speaker was Hon. John L. Mc- single. Laurin. He was telling a representa- this c? tive of the Yorkvllle Enquirer about land Ii some of the experiences nnd observa- of whe tions during his recent canvass of the there, state in aid of the Non Partisan word < league. Most of the time was taken we ha< tin with annonh 1 AU- 1 * * * ""*1 4 -r - - .vU ?yvwii uianiilg a I 111 lilt} line; vvimi but, nevertheless, he did not fall to money take advantage of different opportun- promis ltles to learn something of the nutner- to talk oub customs and general mode of life countr of the people. They t "That North Dakota country, ac- and pu cording to geologists, was once cov- All of ered with water, whether fresh water Ing for or salt I cannot say; but It was most probably both. Generall the country UC T is quite level; but occasionally there is a rocky eminence that was once an island and frequently there are lakes, that were at the bottom of the sea. Some of these lakes are fresh water ' ^ and some are salt, or alkaline. Every- ^ where the boII is as rich as it can be and seemingly without any bottom. 1 do not exaggerate when I tell you It ac that generally the soil is of a nature to app which. If brought away in sacks and!*0** offered toordlnary South Carolina up-|Uo" * lands would be as beneficial as most! ??_ , .... . - ii* *11 ui me fertilizers we get here. ( "Rut the great drawback," Senator ^,10? Mcl>aurln continued, "la the climate, uv<e0] which is extremely cold throughout them b the long winter and dreadfully hot He 1 during the short Bummers. Many of ltlt cl the people out there?most of them, Co? in fact?are now comfortably estab- 00*mtr' lished, but when you Inquire into the conditions that confronted them when _ . 15^TlM ? I they first arrived, and consider the r6C#nn situation as you find it now, you can- "Hat not help being impressed with the Amerlc idea that you have had detailed to tau?ht you the development of a miracle. tham. "The head of one of the homes in t which I was entertained was a Swede * by the name of Ole Oleson. The home is an eight-room house of brick, stonei and stucco. It Ib surrounded with a!_. WM Uli thick prove of cotton wood trees, or n saplings, the largest of them about eominc six inches through. The barn 50 yards I lack away is much larger than the house. ?u*liflc It is built in the side of an eminence, o??ilo half above ground and half under- b*1 ground, with rows of trees hedging it cmn in to the north antl northwest. The " the in family circle consisted of the wife and mother, two stalwart sons and three wa ar# strong comely daughters, all of them which apparently accustomed to hard work pressed and plenty of it. Another son lives Americ with hiH family In another house'time fo something like a quarter of a mile whethe away. gsnulnr "I took dinner with the Olesonl J*"*1* 1 chas* o family one day. It was a pretty se-??w ,, I UQW gl vere dinner and I can't say that I en-: xmeric joyed anything about it except theiadepso honest hospitality and the knowl- bappint edge that everything was clean. For ] instance, the principal dish was fresh ITTJpi pork, something I never touch in the U1H/L summer time; but there was some! roust chicken that was good. There, was also some nice bread. Pork,1 chicken, bread, milk and butter, and. Color 1 n !*? %*? -? ? iwuu ui mgniana oerry somewhat j nam suggestive of the gooseberry, hut thej 1 iIce of which I had never seen before, jubj completed the spread. There was su"] looka t gar. salt and pepper, of course, and Mh mUstrat I have said before a most kindly weUj those t come with it all. the wai "Mr. Oleson is about 60 years of iMtlon. age, and is a grizzly giant, six feet.iTlc? HCI sgtkc six inches high and weighs about 2501 ? ... , . . _ to Com] pounds. His head and face are 8UK-;fls moB gostive of the sculptor's conception of mji#I f a Creek or Romun gol, and his gen- back h< erally gentle toned conversation, still "Whi further softened by the tight of his Sergear kindly eyes, gives you a swift and French lasting impression that his only con-i we w?r' rern is for thoue around him and QermRn twAttn t those to come afterward. as com] After the dinner I accompanied the ey ja a old Swede and several members of paper, i the family to the living room, which It for c was furnished with tables, chairs, of Ame # bear and buffalo skins. On the walls "Who were several pictures, including pho- ^oyB w< tographs. cromos and prints, and on a shelf a few books, mostly school w^#n ? bonks, and papers. On the center ta-| honlB a ble was a large family Bible that had for rea] evidence of pretty frequent and ref- arality i ular use, and other smaller Bibles eg ? *!< were to be seen. That "Mr. Oleson was not inclined to tar ta'k much. He seeniod rather to want Promise to hear me talk. After doing what I considered to be my share to which j|on(j8 j the whole family gave close attention. that I undertook by questions to draw out look Jul of my host, something of his life his- both ev tory, how he happened to come to the Unci* 1 United States, and especially how he, pramlae happened to drift Into North Dakota. cbliaath THE ? j' did not die, ai ?^ drift sway. I i I lO Ir/xfo wIth a party 1 I 1/ClIVU ICA Of better work there they sei / I work on the G a simple story he told me; but | Between the c itory which Beemed wonderfully road i worked xrlth tragedy. It was to this ef- came to reallz easily have be party of about 26 of us came ??,i ? u??. itle Oarden In 1884. Some of hero and'took e married and had our women have made sli lildren along; and some were you can see wll We had been attracted to I ,.AW. . . . # . . . ' Although t juntry by news of rich, cheap .. . . . A ... .. | the grumble in i America; but we had no idea' ... . . . . son did not ts re the lands were or how to get . . ,. _ . much he realij Not one of us could speak a . . . . , . tt. .. i. .. . r . had been take )f English. Most of us had all . . Al . . ..... ... . inconvenience d tied up in little bundles and years. we had included very little Men came among us and *rom ^r" ted to work. They told us not learned that t : to anybody, not even our own for the most ymen who had come before us. the skins of 1 ook us down into l'ennsylvania mals, and for it us to work tn the coal mines, depended mail us worked there for a bare llv- They burn co some five or six years, all that part; but they ILLS WHAT HE {KEEP GRIP THINKS OF AMERICA WAR S Say* Now I* Tim* For Kv*ry Advertising Cli ? T* Prov* Patriotism? Arv Protsot th* P vsr Found in War Savlno* tou* 81 Stamp*. Various ways metlmes take* the new-comer tors to detect i roclate America. The native- promoters are i i often too cloee to the altua- recently issued > realise what this country lance Comraltt< to the world today. He ia used Advertising Civ hat it offers, taking it as a mat- bulletin indlcal :eurse, and frequently losee the ble signs of th< ia sordid detail; while the diets which oi mer?but listen to what one of Stamps and Lib ad to say. to* consider be s Qeorge E. Rihbany of the valuable securl ass of the Boston High School of northern st< lmerce and he came to this prospective invi r from his native land, Syria, "So far as w< te was 10 years old. In a four- cer**io speech on the value of War reported where i Stamp*, given at the echool ultimate, wortt jr. he aaid hi closing: fered to take I a la not characteristic of the meat for the c an people, but the Germane company. We ua unwillingly how to hale offer to take 1 Mow It la a aln not to hate the piompt the boi he Hun ahowed and not to abot- banker or legit 'rora the face of the earth. Of value of the at ter we are poaitlvely aura, be- exchange for tt the American paaaion for )ue- exchange la an a hundred tlmea stronger than aerve aa a wan a Oerman pa-slon for conquest. "Another eai iver entertained the idea of be- hie attitude wl an orator and I am sure that postpone actios oratorical ability, but such tlon. He will atlona are unnecessary on an thought of con x like this, becauee the only broker of atam it Inducement to a true Anaerl- of course, they the call of hla duty and govern- the stock becau md not even the best oration of their own to as latest speakhr of all times. "In such a ci ither we all realize it or not, vestor might t now In the midst of a period remember that will be known to all the ftp- reflections up< 1 peoples of the world as the | standing who 1 anisation period. Now is the | by-night selesm ir every one of \ia to prove er has been in r he la a sham Americaa or a years and will t American." j business far m practice of thrift and the pur- 1 reason that >f Sayings fltamps are Just I would figure tfc ed Indications of the genuine to deceive. Te an. They make for financial of people who i idence, freedom, prosperity and hoodwinked bee fairy stories." E SAM'S MONEY HAND GRE BEST IN THE WORLD WILLS ?ooks Good To Boys Coming Children Are I e After Beelng Only Foreign Money At C Currenoy for Month*. Will Not how good American money Some 250.000 o a man away from home is will bo ready I ted by the story told by one of Fifth Federal toys who fought In France in August 20. acc< r for the preservation of civil- issued at the V and who afterwards saw scr- of this district, ross the border in Germany. lJJverv one of ant H. H. Coffee was attached was manufactui pany L. 354th Infantry, and for tk>n to the Hur iths was at Trier, Germany, 30 mission cap ar rom Luxemburg. Now he is they are to aeri >me. thrift. Made 1 le we were in France." said they will be le it Coffee, "we ware paid In under seventeen money. And afterward, when a bank. Then, s In Oermany, we were paid in purchase one o money. The difference be- Stainpe Is save he French and German money, the hand grena pared with United States raon- erty of the chil mazing. It Is printed on white I There has I . ? A 1. ?? ... .1 Wa.kln.lAn I .. IliU WHO cm U nwnil WUU Ul m nnum^iuu in omparatively a small quantity ready for dlstrit rlcan money. number that hf n we got this foreign stufT the their new capa< ?re very liberal with It. They eured that they tnmble with It. would lend It Every child v ndle It very carelessly. But souvenir of the re got to Brest on our way by calling at tf nd that money was exchanged August >0 as p American money, all that lib- probably be mi disappeared, and It wan guard- dren in the diet ?usly." grenades, and t Is one of the lessons the war ily limited, ight. American money. any Meanwhile, tt i to pay on the part of TTncle to begin saving mighty valuable in the eyes may have a "ru rorld. That Is why the Liberty grenade hanks round so ready a market, txnd sooner enough r why the War Savings Stamps a War Savings it as good as money. They are hand grenade t ld'mces of indebtedness on and the sooner Sam's part and his written save the sooner to pay. There Is no record be reached. t he ever failed to meet an ?n. Coin Thrift in I LANCASTER NEWS, LANCAST ad then some began to the dung of cows was persuaded to go "The only tret to Chicago on promise jn North Dakota and better pay. From of rivers and otl it me further west to a generation past reat Northern railroad, torn to put out oal mine and the rail- established settlt for 13 years before I tion against snow e that I might Just as terror of long wi en working for myself j8 the snowdrift, the time. Then I came |ng for days at up some land. All I snow mountains ice I have saved, and houses but whoh lat we have around us.' ^ Around isolated here was very little of quently happens what he said, Mr. Ole- apart, and when ill to impress me how] grown, they fum ted the advantage that are of protection n of his ignorance and 1 snow. But notw over a period of 13(tectlon of the t I happens that a ho Oleson and others, ljthe snow and th< he first settlers llvedld,g themselves 01 | necessary to tunn part In tents made of anlraal8 lunalo and other anithe winter fuel they "Work anira^ lly on bufTalo dung. mu,es are turne al now for the most W,nter' and left still collect and keep 8elves untU the They generally t AU YHIIR come8 the w Vis Ivllll ered with a growl AVINGS STAMPS llZ'VuTj;, ing qualities it Libs Issus Warning Ta horses and mulei ublio Against Ublqui- down under the ock twlndlsrs. cafle Qf & b?zzard i for proapaetlva l.raa- by ,n8t,nct 1 the unscrupulous stock |e(t'on of a wind contained In a bulletin I ,,ehind that until by the National Vlgl- out- By spring \ a of the Associated rounded up for 1 lbs of the World. The they are covered os several uumistaka- hair that is sever; 9 "wild eat" stock ped- ,? rn.r, of war I.tU,. . .??" * m*J arty Bonds will do wall r ko ",e hl ifora exchanging their ""ey must be war ities for the offerings stables and furnh jcks. The warning to nnee of good foot eatons la aa follows: barns in that cour s have been able to aa- ter than the hoi igle casa haa ever bean ranch owners lh the pronsoters of a la- mU8t a,RO be hoi ^ ?1' ^e cattle, liberty Bonds In pay:apital stock of a nsw "Horses are ge believe that the very that there is no f Liberty Bond* should as pig feed. Surpi id ownsr to eonsult s j and fed to the hoi :>een some delay in njJ But Bexi a?tt In a the grenades bn] or than i >utlon, due to the Urge [nn] id to be prepared tor frj- j tbqual to a :ltv, but It is now a?- Qjp also adeqili will shortly he ready. gQ can re( yho would like a real cJj J great war ean get It Ej^j The j^ex te hank as soini after [Ur^ , osslble. for there will fp^j dant speed sre than 260,000 chil- bq] Usual flex net who Win want the ^ addition it lie supply Is necessar- itjc 3fu roominess, ie children are urged smart app at once eo that they nning start" when the are delivered. The pr* w^w w noney la saved to buy ri1] * % t Stamp tne sooner the bn] J ""A ym telongs to the child. &j?y w the child begins to fOc* the desired end will njdj to Thrift 9tanapa. |7j|\JP|lfr?[ltrTI imate broker as to the 1 ?i??? lock that la offered in |?i ruprupnoiOUa te bonds. The offer to 19J earmark which should prfl ning. I Es -mark of ths taker Is [ue ben it Is proposed to ?3 i pcisdlnc an investiga- bm usually sneer at ths ?5 suiting a banker or Be diag, suggesting that. jgS would not recommend 3nl Be they hare stocks of use the prospective In>e sensible enough to 2p] It te the one who casts bnl >n business men of s likely to be the fly- pjc? an. and that the bank- ?=^5 tha community many bffl no doubt coatlnus in any more. He might [U31 an establlabed Arm n'r, . tat it could not afford brfl t there are thousands b'hl illow themselves to bs [Lt1. sause they believe suok jy^j NADE BANKS 1 Cn 100N BE READY g 1 U Irgad to Begin Saving nee 80 That They ^rLoae Any Time. hand grenade hanka tor distribution In tha Reserve District by fgp or ding to a statement t^rO /ar Loaui Organiiatiou The own j an Lexington these hand grenades hj-^ red to carry destruc- ?=j0] bllt also b in, and now, with per- ^jT) id explosive removed. The effic re in the campaign for Qjq Qf a never nto penny-slot bank% ? nt. one to each chiw Lni formance. 1 years old who calls at through rr if enough money to wc neVer need r more War Savings ffr J d In a speclflad time, dnj i-exington de becomes tha prop- Colors. r rER, s. c. and horses for fuel.! in the summer time. I ?s of natural growth] would want any North are along the banks.at un.v time, ler streams, but for "Chickens are also It has been the cus- ground during the wi trees around newly j possible it is arranged t '*"vuio no a piuiec" vu,,,c "p nit? sum ^drifts. The greatest weather; but it is preclo liters of this locality they see from fall to spr Northers, contlnu- "During the first we< a time, pile up the mv stay in North Dakol high, and not only pressed with the fre 5 towns underneath, which we encountered ft homes trees, it fre- as we traveled ovei that a few yards Sometimes we would set these trees are well even a half dozen in a j ilsh a certain meas- "dies. There would be against the drifting b,>r or people at every cl ithstanding the pro- confess it made me ree3, it frequently thought I wns in anothei use Is covered under demic of flu, even more b occupants have to ,h!'t through which we ut. Also it Is often Passed at Bennettsvllle, i el after the domestic 1 commented on the rei cumstance. I was told th t, such as horses and no funerals in North D d loose during the the win,er account < to shift for them- &round- Bodies of t i following spring. *>,aced ln especially prep nake It, too. When ?'es and kept until i hole country is cor- when ,hey are buricd as th of a peculiar kind t,oab,e aft*r the tha known as bufTalo ground* i holds the nourish- . . * . , Losing Their Love< contains and the strangest wedding J, mostly horses, go ber was Just like u fun snow after it. In BM.v was crying. The 1 , the horses seem to on'>' child, the hrldegrooiii flow to hunt the nro- ??*b mothers were wld . , , tvanted the young couple brake and they stay . _ y. ' her, so they finally ctmsi it is safe to come j.jx months each year ?l vhen the horses are you could hear Ijctwc .he summer's work, one mother, then the othe with a growth of "Oh. my. what a great h ll inches in length. 1 11 vp without her!" until . . , . . . ent had the heart to co:i| >e e a argt n ^ ynmig couple, and were irses. They will die. j g]a,j when it was time t? mly housed in great Exchange. >hed with an abund3. This is why the itry are so often bet- Mr' VauRhan. Farmer. 1 ises in which the Iost A1! H,s f,ri/? S< 'e. Pigs and hogf "Sometime ago sent ai ised as carefully a? pedigreed seed corn. Pui ney sack and hung it or pended from roof. Rat* merally so plentiful. how beats me, but they tale for them except ? dead whoppers in lus horses ire killed aftor tryin* HAT-SNAP.1 lus horses are killed 25c 50c no. Sold am ?s. 1 never eat pork by liennett-Terry Co. MAN Sl5T"V2 r Those \A a Liveabl ler-prestige won and held by the is I is due not alone to its efficiency, p;e ecause it has sufficiency. (m iency of the Lexington consists I -to-be-doubted certainty of per* ort* In congested traffic, on hills, md or sandy roads, the driver 1 worry about the ability of the ?"> to come through with flying by IOC ington sufficiency reaches forth- vre ts excellence of performance. of < 11 road demands, the Lexington ing ately fulfills every purpose that uired of a motor car. ma ington has ample power, abun- tha within reason, easy control, un- the ibility, sturdy endurance. In has sufficient size, with ample C luxurious comfort, refinedly See earance, rich appoinments. It you ANS & WILS LANCASTER r-n rrtinpn rpn rpn po/ph ^ijpirpn n=?n rpruprupq'pnjpri . ... at PAGE THREE don't Think T ~ " A" Abou* ~T ~ ' " In a hen * egg only one-fifth of the Dakota pork foibstnnce 1r nutritious. One-ninth la refuse, and the greater portion, about kept under- two-thirds. Is water, nter. Where Judged by the amount of nutriment, that they can a goose's egg Is the moat valuable; ight in good m>xl ln or<ler are duck's, guinea fowl's, u? little light ""*??' , ... , Kggs contain a large quantity of sulphur, which Is purifying te the ?k or two of u?,i good for the complexion. ta. I was lm? To get the best egg you must feed quency with your fowl on grutn. ineral prooes- And to cook It ln the most digestible r the country. *'?)' J'?u must not boll the water. Heat . one two OI the water to ISO degrees and leave lourn'ey of 20 I ,,ie lu lt for tvu "dilutes. You will then digest every morsel. But If you a large nuin- jlojj jt for minutes no less than turohyard. 1 one-twelfth of It will fall to be dlnervous. 1 gested.?Short Stories. r terrible epi i severe than Self-made never boast of their anhad already eestors. and of couise When a doctor gives a patient hope narkable oir- ^ expects pay for it. at there were . akota during _ __ of the frozen Jf AY FEVER he dead are WM ared reoepta- IT Me,t Vapo.Rub \n a spoon and inhale /?.l7A jumraer time ^ ^ the vapors. V_aY Iff) soon as prac- _ T wing of the VICKS YAPORUbSJ YOUR BODYGUARD**-3Of.6O<T?T20 I ran'remem- $25.00 Reward . prnl. Every>rlde was an i an only son. FOB CAPTURE AND RETURN TO ows. Kaeh CHAIN GANG OF ESCAPED to live with voted to live CONVICT th each one. James Dunlap, who escaped from en sobs, first chain gang camp in evening of Tuesr, would say: jujy jsti j9i9t was sentenced in ?ss , how inn March term of court to serve four no one presgratulnte the years on chain gang for breaking into ? more than Bennett-Terry Company's store. He ? gw home.? is about five feet, four inches tall; dark, ginger cake color; looks as if he didn't have much sense; walks, Vlls How 17,- ta,ks an(l works very slowly; slightly , Hat nose. ['? <! ( orn. A reward of twenty-five dollars Mt in 7un wi" pa,<* *or thi3 convict's return i a rope sus- to the chain gang camp at Lancaster, ? got it all? S. C. did becAse 1 JOHN P. HUNTER, the morning . Sheriff. 1 guaranteed H. H. KESTER, t County Engineer. J! /ho Want I m m e Car ? fittingly correct for all social needs and t^j asingly suitable in any environment. It ^ ets all demands at all times. spj Economy of fuel and proportionate in- ^ ase of horsepower are effected through 1 Moore Multiple Exhaust System. An- p3 ing squeaks and rattles are banished p* the construction of the frame, in wPi/*Vi rue > separate parts are eliminated to give [|j| ater strength and lighter weight. Ease control is promoted by the positive act- sp , one finger emergency brake. fjp t is the sum of these features with !H^ ny others, all in harmonious relation, t constitute the sufficiency which makes Lexington a truly liveable car. 5m Carload shipped from factory August 1. sfa us and get a demonstration, and select ir car. They won't stay with us long. SON, Dealers 1 7 So \ e p iy J. i