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r f <$><?>$> & *y <S> <5> ^ ^ <5> <& f <S> | <?> AT THE OPERA HOUSE <?> | I $ | r <$><?><?><5>:?>'$>'$><$><?><?><?<?<$><$><$><$'j BEATRIX MICHELENA IX "THE LlLl OF POVERTY FLAT*" j The fi .e-part photoplay, "The Lily j of Poverty Flat," based on a theme j by Bret Harte, and featuring the beau- i tiful ana gmea ceatnz jYucneitriia, will be presented here on Tuesday, ?ugust 31. Miss Michelena sprung into international renown by her ability and beauty in. the film play "Mignon," which has won the favor of motion pic ture exhibitors and the public throughI out the United States. In choosing for this artist a Bret I -Harte theme, ti:e California Motion I Picture corporation show great wis^jk>m, as Miss Michelena is the physical ^^ype and embodiment of many of the author's heroines. "The Lily of Poverty Flat" of i I course is Beatriz Michelena, and the j scenario provides a characteristic story of Western mining lite, witii a wealth of incident, and a variety of picturesque characters, amidst beautiful settings, in Europe and America. Beatriz Michelena has a part that brings out her delicate art to perfecy tion; she has splendid acting chances, [ comedy as well as dramatic. She is f naturally beautiful to look at; in this i photoplay she becomes positively radiant with loveliness. The scenes of the drama change from California to Paris; then they I return to tnis country, me sior^ embraces a powerful love element wbich never flags. Lily's lover, Joe, passes through a 'variety of exciting adventures and vicissitudes and does not get bis girl until he has suffered innumerable privations, and dared man> perils far her sweet saxe. 9 And wf:en Beatriz Michelena is seen as "The Lily" you will assuredly ^f-.y H^at she was worth fighting and waitWng for. I "The Lily of Poverty Flat," without owi- tm'11 octahlish Miss Michel (CUl.F UV/U K/%.i \?-^-? ? - ~ ena with greater firmness than ever in popular favor. ^ BURNED TO DEATH I Family of (Jen. Jno. J. Pershing Caught L in Burning Building and Wife and m | All But One Child Perish. El Paso, Texas, Aug. 27?tXews of r the death of 5Trs. PerVETng and three of her children reached Gen. Pershing, commander of the Eighth Infantry bril^ade here, today through Associated Press dispatches. Gen. Pershing has been preparing a home Lere for his family. San Francisco. Aug. 27.?Mrs. John P J. Pershing, wife of Brig. Gen. John B J. Pershing, was burned to death with kthree of her four children at her f quarters in tLe Presidio, San Francissoy early today. The children burned were Helen, S; Anne, 6, and Margaret, j 5. Warren Pershing, 5 years old, sur ' ? " 1 n rv\ 15 Vl C\_ il/XpiOSlOll tli C. LI lCLXlip xo uv | L lieved to have caused the tragedy. 0t\rs. K Pershing was a daughter of Senator BTwarren of Wyoming. Her husband is Bp El Paso, in command of troops. A burst of flames from the roof of I the general's big two-story frame Louse, which stands on the parade I grounds directly in front of the headf quarters flag pole, was the first inti| illation of the fire. I The Presidio army fire department rushed to the house and believing that all the occupants had escaped, centered tiieir energies on the fiames. Only the roof of the house was burned. When the firemen entered to look over the damage they found t?e bodies of the mother and her three Attle girls. . The boy, Warren, Mrs. I^kswell, a relative, and her children RBI three servants slept m uuier pans Wot tfre house and escaped. The house occupied by the Persh ings was one of several *??I frame Lfeg^dings scattered about the main Imposts. I Gen. and Mrs. Pershing were marB ried in Washington, January 26, 1905. I The general fought in the Indian wars in the early days and in tfce SpanishH American war. He became a briga a/va >r H lier general in Mrs. jrei?-ius Iss devoted to her home and children HA took interest in suffrage and other ^ Bnen's movements. ^Brranza asks for more i light oy joint appeal Washington, Aug. 26?Consul Silli|kian at Vera Cruz cabled the state department today a communication Ifrom Jesus Acuna, Gen. Carranzasj foreign minister, asking whether SecBretary Lansing and the Latin-Amerifran diplomats acted in their official or wivate capacities in addressing the ren appeal to Mexican leaders for a Re conference. This was tte first ft from the Carranza government prning the Pan-American appeal, it was accepted as an indication that the formal reply probably would < not be forthcoming Tor another w.eek. < It was estimated in official circles ' h at the only response to'Acuna's ques- < tion would be a message calling atten- < tion to the fact that all t'..e other con- < ferees attached their full titles to their < signatures. This, it was pointed out, ' left no room for doubt that' they acted I j officially and with the authority of t'.eir respective governments. Officials were rather at a loss to explain the object of the Carranza minister's query. In some quarters, bo*'- < ever, it was suggested that Carranza i probably desired to delay his firal re- i sponse, which is expected to be an ap- 1 peal for recognition, pending estab- 1 * ' - x / 1. ? ^ ,w /w.4- i Tlf/wirtA / nsnmeilt 01 His govciumcm. ill .ucAitu < City and the jutcome of Obregon's : campaign against Villa forces in the i north. i Conservative Fashions Tills Fall. : Grace Margaret Gould, fashion ed- , itor of the Woman's Home Companion, ] presents a fully illustrated report of [ fcoViinno it-i +>?q Cuntomhor 1<S- ! sue of that periodical. Following is aj< brief extract from her forecast for ( the fall: "First we are to have a conservative , figure?the natural figure?but with a , smaller waist line t..an the historic |, Yenus de Milo. The definite waist is an essential of the new fashions. "Our clothes are to be conservative, , too; that is, when we compare them , with those of last season. The ridiculously sfht skirt is no longer style; it never was good taste The ankle lpnefi'i skirt is the fashion. It must flare, to be sure, but it must not fly off , on a tangent. , "Sleeves are conservative and they are charming too in the way they outline the arm, while color and fabrics carry out just the same idea. The , plain tailored skirt tf-is fall will be more popular than ever in its long useful career. It, too, will be con servative. ; "V.e suit jacket will vary in length from 28 up to 32 inches, but it may vary according to the height and figure of the woman who wears it. This will help to blot out from our memory the fat woman in the short, belted and flaring coat." New Armored Car Shaped Like Turtle. So evidently efficient for war purposes is an armored car recently invented by a naturalized American that the military authorities of several of the warring countries are said to be negotiating with the inventor for its i:se in the European conflict. T!':e body of the car is made of armor plate and is elliptical in shape, so that from a distance the cnr looks like an enor nous turtle. Every part is so curved that a projectile fired from any direction and striking the car at any point will have a tendency to glance up or iown or horizontally. ;Even the wheels arp nrntpptpd hv Curved armor ft at hangs to a point within a few inches of the ground. At the top of the body !s a large porthole for the 4-inch gun that the car is designed to carry, the arrangement being sud: that the gun "an be fired at any angle. At the sides sre smal'er portholes for rifles, ana inside the body is ^pace for four men to stand erect. The driver, who observes the road and the movements of *he enemy through a periscope, is entirely concealed and protected from the fire of the enemy. A picture ol t!':is armored car is a feature of the September Popular Mechanics Magazine. Are All Useful Things Unbeautiful? In the current issue of Farm and Fireside, the national farm paper published at Springfield. Ohio, Herbert Quick, the editor, speaking of the beauty of onion plants gone to seed, makes the point that we are prone to look upon the useful things as unbeautlful. IT'-ere are people still living who re uieinuer waen lomaiws were suppuscu to be poisonous, were grown as ornamental plants, and-called 'love apples.' ; When they were thought noxious, they were beajtiful?like an innocent act falsely condemned as a sin. As soon as they appeared in the soup they ? ceased to please the eye, though as 1 hflo iitifn 1 a o axr&v utuwtiiui v*k? V T UA . "Down in New Mexico tf:.e agricul- < tural college station is experimenting 1 with sweet peas as a winter cover crop 1 and a forage plant. Shall we cease to J admire them and buy them at the flor- ' ist's shops when they are used for c ensilage and plowed down to fertilize < the corn? I suppose so?and the pity 1 of it is that so very many people who : in t'":at case will be sowing, tending t and haresting sweet peas will lose the 1 sense of their beauty, thereby losing i 3.SO a ccrtain proportion of the happi- 1 ness properly belonging to the busi-1 ness of tilling the soil." j 5 No. em |: This it a prescription prepared especially ? for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. 1 Fi*'e or six dotes will break any case, and ] if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better tfcea;' Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 2>e 7 ? ?> <$> <$> 'i? <$> ^ ^ <e> <$> ? > <s> i > THE BLUE-BIRD. <8>, S> ? <?> $ By C. A. D.?In Greenville News. 3> ] $> <S> ; $ <?><$><$><$><$><$><$><?><$><$><$>$><?><$><!><$> I 'Beauteous bit of earth and sky, iW'ith a hint of ocean, Was it at creation's dawn Thou wast set in motion?" Just over the bars, in a sheltered corner of the orchard, stood, or rather leaned, like an old man reach- : ing for his crutches, an ancient apple! tree. Most the top had disappeared? the old tree's tribute to many storms 3f many winters. Only a few branches remained, and, these, all on one side, -^^^ arar frtrin cr tn tnnnh tVlP fPTK^e iccmcu w w-v- I that divided the orchard from the gar-1 den. Tf'.e trunk was gnarled and knot-1 ted by the years?and the bark was ; scarred and ringed by the industrious bills of generations dead and forgotten sapsuckers. An old, rusted horse shoe protrud- ' in.g from the over growing bark, pro-! claimed the fact, that, at some time in the past, the old tree had done J.-x? ~ V? i 4- Z t-. or C f Pot^lioc? C\ f UUIV (X Ct HILL' lllg JJc jl utv/iiv/c u t i snow lay here and there in the or-1 chard, which the April sun had failed | to reach, and, the white buds on tf:ej aged apple tree were blushing pink; and red under the hisses of early; spring. Of a sudden a bit of blue, as' if torn from the blue of the sky fluttered down, and seemed to lodge on a nearby fence post, and, a cherry tru-al-ly! tru-al-ly! the mellow song r>f thp first blue bird proclaimed to orchard and garden that tf:e spring | procession had started. Presently, the singer was joined by another small rift from the sky. The new comer's color was a duller blue, washed with gray, and the cinnamon-red of throat and breast was of a paler shade tfcan that of her soft voiced mate. This pair of blue birds were out inspecting sites for their summer home. They gravely dived down in several rotted out cavi ties, in post Holes, out none seemea 10 be just what they were in search of. A half dozen or more deserted wood peckers' i':oles were peered into, but voted no good. Side by side they flitted over to the old apple tree in the corner of the orchard. Just under the splintered top they noticed a crevice, that seemed to hold out some possibilities. This, the little azure clad lady carefully examined, and nearly fell over herself witli joy when she discovered that it was a passage way leading directly into the shell-like trunk of the tree. Disappearing in the opening, she soon popped out, her little eyes showing how glad she was, even if her bill was too rigidly set to smile. She flew to her lover's side, and, in almost inaudible twitterings, told iMm they certainly were the most fortunate couple in all the orchard?for the app!e tree apartments were ideal?-the front Honv rvnpnprl toward the SOUth. insuring plenty of sunshine?and the big living room was simply a dream And, to crown it all, last year's occupants had left a nice, clean nest, almost as good as newAll it needed was a little freshening up?a little new, dry grass fcere, and a little soft lining there, to make it as perfect a nest as any bird could wish for. These last year's dwellers must have been real nice, folks, too, for they T 1-/M. ii-.' ~ naa leu everyuims iu sucu cy.iv; anu span order. No crumbling egg shells littered the floor?and, the passage way looked as if it had been fresfaly swept. The next morning Mr. Blue Bird forgot to eat his breakfast, so eager was he to get to work, rebuilding the nest in the hollow apple tree. ?ie Drougnt ine loveiiesi anea gra&s he could find, and, some beautiful pieces of red cotton string, and gave them to his lady-love, who patcihed here and patted there?until no living bird could have told it from a nest just built. When the last finishing touches had i been given?the dainty little ard-itect stepped back, cocked her small head to one side, much as an artist views his canvas, and. pronounced it perfect, rhe husband applauded with snatches jf song ti%e housewifely activity of his ivife, but he generously allowed her :o do all the work?and contented himself with the decoration of her virtues. : D' e nest finished, the two flew gayly lown to the bird cafe?the scraggy ] >ld OMna tree back of the barn, and ; unched luxuriously on the shrivelley, fellow berries. In about a week's 1 ime, five greenish-blue eggs gave the ' ast domestic touch to the home in the ] lpple tree, and the mother's time was svell taken up with fcer indoor cares. Perched on a nearby gate post, the 1 small, neatly groomed husband, re- < seated for her benefit, again and again, < he trual-ly! tru-a!-ly! of his song 1 ?never once waiting for an encore? i stopping occasionally, just long enough i :o present her with a lunch of early ? Derries, or a toothsome insect. When 1 ;he babies emerged from the eggs they Evere nearly black?not so much as one 1 little (lash of blue to show their an- ' cestry. If this was a disappointment to the fond mother, she kept the se cret sorrow to herself, but si-e was pleased beyond measure, one day, when j a neighbor blue bird exclaimed: "Why! the babies are the living image of tiieir father! They don't look a thing like ! you, Mrs. Blue Bird!" About a week ' later, one beautiful morning after the ! / .n I1 V*0/3 V\nnn f /I +V?/-\ n OCT ^iiiAUicn nau itu an u LUC utci tidied up, the mother left for a little j outdoor exercise. While si e was away j a newly mated pair of English sparrows?a >.ery aggressive, ill-bred appearing pair they were, too, spied the crevice in the old apply tree. They at once proceeded to investigate with a view 01 Duuaing. me long sianung ? passage, and the roomy hollow within looked good to them, and, witi an utter disregard of others' -Tights, they began carrying in all manner of straw, rags, chicken feathers and strings, and began at once the building of their own nest. The blue birds' babies did not understand all this hub-bub and commotion, neither did they fancy being stepped on and prodded by si arp ends of straws and twigs as the sparrows worked over them??o they set up a commotion of their own?their ! five yellow throats wide open and cry- j ing for all they were wort!. I The mother bird hurrying home, and I i earing their frightened yells, rushed !( in and made one dive for the bold, ; brazen female who had invaded her home. She was getting the best of the feather pulling tournament when her i husband appeared on the scene, drop- j ping a fat cutworm, he didnt' take | time to remove his blue coat, but; rushed to the assistance of his brave : little wife. The fight so^ changed j into a complete rout for the sparrows, j They were hustled and scratched, j arH rmshpri until thev were I! tlad to escape. 'With many heated remarks about English sparrows in general, the excited blue birds returned to their nest, quieted the babies and straightened up in the dishevelled apartment. The damage they found to be but slight, most that needed to be done was to carry out the trash the intruders had brought in, and to untangle a string that f: ad become twist- | ed around the legs of one of the children. In anctfter weeK, me young Diras were gradually coming into their splendid heritage of color, and the blue of the sky was showing on many of the largest and oldest feat)':ers? and not many days would they have to waft before they would don the bright blue top coats, and the scarfs of connamon-red that are the accepted dress of all blue-birddom. A cATn wrvp AX VAFR A Wlil/ AU.ML1JLJ V-1 AW*. A Read How These Girls Found Theirs and Then Look For Tours. Progressive Farmer. In a newspaper that had come wrapped around something?and I remember now that that tiling was canned corn, which we should have grown and put up ourselves?we saw an adver tisement for girls to work in a factory that made fruit boxes and crates. When we decided to go mother cried some, and father said we'd soon come home when we found tfe fr.ad to work. We had to walk two miles to the factory, which was in , a town of about 300 people. We were to get $3 a week each. That first week was very hard for lis. and night time found us almost too tired to walk home. But that $3 com ing to us Saturday mgJt wouia nave made us, who had never owned as much as a 50-cent piece in our lives, walk through fire and water, I think. The first Saturday night we walked home on air, fcappy and rich. Some thing in mother's look when we got there made me offer her half my earnings. The other two did the same. Mother held tften in her hand more money than she had ever called her own at one time before or after her , marriage, and she broke down and cried. That does not sound kind to my father, who is a good man, and always 1 wants to do his best, but he had old- ( fashioned notions about his providing for the women, and their not needing any money of their own. I know now that a great deal of a woman's selfrespect and industry comes from having a little money of her own. Now this is how we turned from our foolish way. It ':ad rained all week ?tnd one day the bridge was gone and } we could not get home. We went back up to a white painted house and the t woman said we could stay there all night. l We could not cross the rrver for a ( week, hut we did not care, for we j were having fine things to eat?smok- t ham and corned beef and all kinds T >f preserves and canned fruit and veg- j. tables. One day one of my sisters said K ey must be pretty rich to have all ^ :hose things. The woman smiled and r said she was rich, and would show us ; now rich she was after breakfast. ^ She took us later to a room in the back of the fcouse. It had shelves all To the We have with us pert Harness M: M l^i an* Any work left v prompt attention. IT 1 newoerry School If you sell Sc Stationery an Supplies you to come to T1 before you bi MAYES' BOOK ANI The House of a ' l around it, and was filled with hundreds of glass jars and tin cans of everything from corn to raspberries. Thsre were stone jars of things and all kinds of meats, dried herbs and - * itr ] bottles of fruit juices, sne saiu, i am ricn in the energy to grow these and put ti em up. You girls are just as rich, but you don't know it." I believe that the seeds of ambition are in every one, and they were in us. Our ambition started to grow right there. Before the end of the week it was arranged that I was to stay and help her for 52 a weeK ana sne was iu j teacfa me. ; I learned just everything that fall, i For Christmas she gave me "The Progressive Farmer," and a starting of hens and a lot of garden seeds. That was five years ago. T ovnont T am nrottv rvrrmri to tell * VV1. A. X you about it, but I see so many girls just like we were tbat I just must do it, and maybe they wilTtry to do what we are doing. We have three cows and five pigs, and two calves and almost 300 hens. We have a fine garden and a canning outfit witfa a supply of tin cans and two gross of glass jars in which we put the things we show at the fair | and eat at home. And what is best, we can sell all the j butter and meat and eggs and other tibings we have for the highest price. Ojf course, we could not have done this without the help of what we read and what the State officials have lone to help us. One man came and stayed tfaree days to show us how to nake butter, and another one spent a ;vhole day showing father how to plant ind spray trees. Our neighbors have J .vormv fruit every second year. 'We lave had perfect apples, peaches and )lums every year so far, and are seting out pecans this fall. We take four magazines and two japers, and have a good many books. )ur ouse is painted and so are the )arns. we nave a driving nurse anu i wo-seated carriage and are saving: io\v for water and plumbing in the [ louse. Also we have insured our lives. Don't think we have not worked itfrd, for we have. But we are happy md have good times, too, and I think ve ftave more and better friends than re once did. Subscribe to THn and News. Public Mr. Price, an exiker and Reoair I A nth us will have Hdw. Co. Sunnlies hool Tablets, id Stationery will do well le Book Store uy.'j ' 1 D VARIETY STORE rhousand Things The Albert medal of the Royai Society of Arts, England, which is award% ed annually for distinguished merit for promoting arts, manufactures and commerce, was presented to Guglielmo Marconi this year. The medal was instituted in 1863 when the prince con~ * i-1 .*-A son was presiuem ui me society. ""notice to stockholders. Notice is hereby given that a meetj ing of the stockholders of the Little Mountain Oil Mill and Fertilzer Coml pe.ny will be held at the offices of the company, Little Mountain, S. C., September 1, 1915, at 4 o'clock p. m., to consider the following resolutions, adopted by the board of directors July 30,1915, proposing that preferred stock be issued: *tf ! ReSOlVed. T,lftT*S IWnnntQir.l Oil Mill and Fertilizer Company issue 1,350 shares of preferred stock, of the* aggregate amount of $13,500; tfcat thestockholders and directors who now liable for the debts of the com"-' pany, either as makers or endorsers A4 n "t * - vi ito liULC'O, suau uave tiie preierence of taking such preferred stock in proportion to the amount of their respective liability; tJlat such preferred stock./ shall be a lien upon the net profits of the corporation and, if the property of the corporation should be sold under foreclosure, or in liquidation, such nrfif pf/vnl* cVioll V?A ? "* ? i tu O.IWA OUUil UC Cm 1 ICXi UJJVJLI the proceeds of sale, after paying expenses and the debts of the corporation; t'bat no dividend shall be paid upon any other stock in any year until the preferred stock authorized by these resolutions shall have received a dividend of eight per cent.; that such preferred stock is to be regarded as col lateral to secure the payment of notes and obligations of the company on wfcich the holders of *uch are liable, and any payment made on this preferred stock out of the earnings of the corporation, or out of any sale of its property, is to be regarded as a pay mem, uu tut; i/uugautrus assumed oy tl:e respective holders of said stock, and the payment*in full of such obligations cut of the earnings or property of the company shall retire sucl'3 preferred stock in full. By order of the Board of Directors. T\T T> T^l : ~1_ *?. X A/CHiCfi., President and Secretary. 8-2-4taw