Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, January 16, 1913, Page Page Two, Image 2
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Successor to the Cheraw Reporter
which was established July 9, 1885,
and entered as Second Class matter
at Cheraw, S. C.
J. N. STRICKLIN,
Subscription Puce *i.uu i?er year.
Editor, Publisher and Business Mgr.
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A CHANGE SHOULD BE MADE.
There certainly should be some improvement
in the arrangements around
the depots?especially those at
the Seaboard. The rails put down to
keep the busses from backing up too
close tcT'the platform are dangerous
to pedestrians, especially is this true
at the Coast Line depot. There are
no lights there and several times the
past week parties getting off the train
at midnight have run over this rail
with the result that they have been
nnrRinr a skinned lex?but, as one
victim remarked, "it might have been
worse."
At the Seaboard it is not quite so
bad as this?the trouble there is that
pedestrians are forced to push their
way across soft roads and between
and around all kinds of cehicles to
get into the depot or else go around
the depot and push through the accumulated
baggage and get in the
way of the employees of the railroad.
At least a light could be maintained
by the Coast Line for the benefit of
its patrons, and the Seaboard might
throw up a good high walk on the
right hand side of the road leading to
the depot so that white people could
reach their depot without having to
contend with the above described conditions.
Word* fail to describe the conditions
at the C. & L. depot during wet
weather. At such a time there is
nothing to it, except to go in some
kind of vehicle or slosh through the
mud and water surrounding the depot.
The Chronicle last year cautioned
its farmer readers and others interested
against the much tooted "Rock
Hill Plan" 8d little good could we nee
in it. We were taken to task about
our position by the originator of the
"Plan" whose letters we published at
the time. In one of his letters he stat
ed that The Chronicle was the only
paper published in the cotton states
that was against the "Plan" and asked
ug to withold our critisms until
the "Plan" was put in operation. Our
contention at the time was that the
money being begged for would no
doubt furnish some nice "tours"
through the Cotton States to some peo1
ie, but we could not see where it
would help the gotton growers. Now
ihat the cotton season is over and
piac-tically all the cotton has been
marketed, will some orri inform us
what good was accomplished by "Th<
Feck Hill Plan."
Under the parcel post law, a farmer
residing on a rural route desiring
a steak for dinner can order it by
telephone from a dealer in the town
in which his post office is located and
have it delivered for five cents, or he
can get it from any point within fifty
miles for eight cents. As soon as the
possibilities of the new arrangement
become generally known the facilities
of the post office are suce 10 oe tax-i
ed to the limit in the interest of the'
retail trade.
There has been much said pro and
con, relative to the result of the last
gubernatorial election. While some
are highly elated others are disappointed
.and despondent. It is simply
impossible to please everybody in a
political way. When you want to
please everybody, introduce a subject
that all will agree upon, viz: the remarkable
fertility of the sail of and
the wonderful crops made in Chesterfield
county.
He Couldn't Work Her.
While a Jewel City girl was Belling
tickets for the picture show, a man
called for tickets and pushed in a fivedollar
gold piece to pay for them, but
the girl shoved it back. The man insisted
It was money all right, but the
girl iBtospaed him that he couldn't
work her, and he didn't. He had tc
go out and borrow a dime. There are
plenty of Kansas youngsters who
norer saw a gold piece.?Kansas City
Star.
Local Merchants AwakeTT**
Greenwood merchants need now awake
to the possibilities of the new
parcel post system. The man who
gets busy and takes advantage, of the
new system is the man for whom its
benefits are stored up. The mail order
houses will advertise to get trade.
The local merchant has the advantage.
He is near the customer and
the rates for sending raauer are ?u
much lower for his legitimate territory
than they are for the long-distance
concerns. But he will not get
this trade unless he goes out for it
it will not come to him. He must let
parcels post. Advertise the fact and
his customers know what he has and
how well he can serve them through
doubly impress it in every way possible.
In this way you beneflt^your
business.?Greenwood Index.
The zone system gives the local
merchant an advantage over the mail
order houses which he did not have
before the establishment of the parcels
post. The large mail order
houses may in time establish branch
houses in every zone, but the local
merchant is already here and by judicious
advertising can have the trade
coming his way before the foreign
concerns come into his home. "The
Lord helps those who help themselves."?Pickens
Sentinel.
Steadier Werk and Better Land Under
Two-horse Farming.
The two-horse farmer can adopt a
system of diversified agriculture in
which the time of men and teams is
better distributed throueut the year
than is possible in raising cotton and
corn alone. The number of days of
crop work?not miscellaneous work
n n/1 ttmA #a?i ihn
auu iwui iiu^c iui iuu cwivu-vvi u
farmer for a whole year does not exceed
130 to 140 days as a rule, and
the number of days that the horse
or mule works at actual crop work,
does not usually exceed 100 days in
a year, hence there is a great amount
of lost time for men and teams on a
cotton-corn farm, unless there Is
much miscellaneous work todo; which
there is not for the average tenant
or for the average one - horse
farmer. Under a properly diversified i
system, however, the two-horse farmer
can work 200 days in a year at j
aotuftl crop - xvosKf bublUtff 2??iOl OTI
time devoted to miscellaneous work, ji
and in working a greater number of:
days in a year, he tends a much larg-1
er total area and gets a larger income.?A.
D. McNair, in The Progressive
Farmer.
Now is the time of the year when
the split-log drag is ^specially useful.
The clay roads get full of holes
and ruts in which the water stands, j
Each passing vehicle cuts deeper in-,
to the soft mud.
A little cleaning of the ditches and;
rounding and smothing of the road-j
hoH wnrira wnnrtprs on roads where I
the water stands in the road. There!
is nothing that smooths and fills the)
holes and ruts better than a good split ]
log drag used in the right way and of-!
ten. The time to begin is before the (
road gets in bad condition, but it is!
never too late. Begin now to make'
the road by your farm the best stretch
of road in the whole community. Put
plenty of weight upon it, and" drag
often, especially after each rain.?The i
Pageland Journal.
We can never, in a commercial way
secure the prices we ought for our
products until undesirable kinds are
weeded out. No wonder we are not
able to sell cotton directly to the
mills. Each farm has several varieties.
and each public gin handles
dozens and hundreds of vareties,
mixing the seed so that it is almost
impossible to have any pure seed ofter
the first year. The writer was
badly taken in by an honest famer
who sold cotton seed of what was a
splendid big-boll cotton five years before.
but mixing at (public gins had
so degenerated it that half of the
stalks should have been pulled up.?
E. D. Dabbs, in Progressive Farmer.
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Old French Furniture.
The old French cabinet makers
like the old masters In violin making
had the fashion of stamping theii
names on their manufactures. Todaj
a cabinet or secretaire with the nam<
of an old French master cabinet mak
er, maltre ebeniste, may bring a great
price. Such was the case a short tlm?
ago when a commode signed C. C
Saunter, M. E., brought in Paris |26,
100.
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UTTLE TOT'S READY ANSWER
Fit Very Nicely, Considering Step nether
Got Her "Ready Made,"
Replied Mies Polllkins.
She was a pretty little tot, and
everybody who knew her took pleasure
In pausing to ask her some kind
of a question, merely to show an In
terest and for tho pleasure of hear
mg the musloal cadence of her voice.
Some of the questions were what
might be termed leading, but for all
she Invariably had some kind of an
answer. Among these latter inquiries
was one from an Intrusive busybody
who was old enough to know bettor,
but who belongs to a class of person
who never learn. Knowing that
the little girl had only recently beoome
the possessor of a young and
attractive stepmother, with a curiosity
Inborn she asked her very
frankly:
"Well, Polllkins, how do you like
your stepmother?"
* The child raised her blue eyes
gravely, and with her face Rowing
with hannineas renlied:
"Oh, very much, indeed, Mrs. Bkilllngton!
We lit very nicely, considering
that she got us ready made."?
Judge's T.ihrmrr
Kept Her Word.
Senator Root was talking about a
certain resourceful corporation. "They
ran get around anything," he said, a
touch of admiration In his Toloe.
"They remind me of a Narragansett
girL
"A Narraganset girl, driving a 60
h...u>i>iiiii giaj i??ju?i<^aminttea:
"'Yes, I've accepted David.'
"'Why,' said the girl beside her,
'you told me positively that If Dave
proposed to you your answer would
be a word of two letters."
"The other girl, blushing a little,
said softly:
'But I answered Dave in German.'"
A Philanthropist.
A north side lumber dealer contracted
to supply a lot of lumber to a
stranger. On looking it over he
found It full of knotholes and told his
customer about It frankly.
"You may not want this" lumber,"
be Bald. *
"Why not?"
"I'll have to be honest with you.
It 1b full of knotholes."
The Btrarger only laughed.
"I'll take It." he declared. "The
lumber Is o go around some baseball
grounds. Knotholes won't hurt
matters an:. I was a kid myself
once."
HE KNEW.
Mr. Askltt?Why L It, doctor, that
so many men are avlng nervoua
prostration. They dld't used to have
in the old days.
The Old Doctor?N<; the old
days, you see, we use< to call It delirium
tremens.
That Equalize! it
She (pouting)?You dn't love me
as much aa you did. You^sed to hold
me on your knees a who& hour, and
now you tire In 45 minute.
He?I love you Just as nuch, darling,
but you know while you were
away this summer you galt*i 25 per J
cent In weight.
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FORCED TO LIVEN THINGS UP
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Just an Example of What the Re*
ourceful Hostess Will Do When
a Party Drags.
Miss Charlotte Van Cortlandt Nicoll \
recently gave in the surf off Long
i I'ranch a bathing tea party, a man
: servant wading out with a boat shap
i fd floating tea table perfectly apI
pointed, wherefrom Miss Nicoll and
j Iter friends, in five feet of water, partook
of buttered toast, caravan tea.
muffins, scones and cakes.
Congratulated upon this novel'parly.
Miss Nicoll, who Is a sister of De
Lancey Nicoll, smiled and said:
"I believe In the hostess who is resourceful?the
hostess of Mrs. Blanc's
type.
"Mrs. Blanc was giving a tea party
on her yacht. The affair, for some
reason, was dragging dreadfully.
The guests talked of nothing but the
weather, and even in this talk there
would come long, deathly silences.
"Suddenly Mrs. Blanc, losing her balance,-fell
heavily agakist her mother*
in law, who sat beside the low rail, '
and with a moaning cry the dear old
lady went headforemost overboard.
"Of course, she was rescyed; but
afterwards Mr. Blanc took Mrs. Blane 1
privately to task.
"'How clumsy you were.' he said,
'to knock mother into the water Ilka
that. 1 m afraid she won't care to
visit us again in a hurry. Tou really
ahould be more careful.'
" 'Now. George.' said Mrs. Blane.
'be reasonable. I had to do some*
thing. 1 simply had to. Didn't you
see bow our party was dragging?"*?
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
MAN OF SAVING DISPOSITION
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Wives Will Know How to Sympathise ]
With the Unfortunate Better c
Half of Mr. Graball. j
OM flmhill la m?in?rantlv bum. 1
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He once built * bottie. and nearly gava himself
brain fever deciding which a
was better?a lot of windows?which t
were cheaper, but needed soap and wa>
ter for cleaning?or more bricks for
wall space.
One day be came home and found 4
that his wife bad saved money out of
bis housekeeping allowance, and was
repapering the dining-room. And then
be started to rave.
"1 don't object to the money being
spent, although new paj>er is Just extravaganre
when the n](1 seven
years, he gasped, rtd
and hoarse with rage, "but I do object
to the way you have put it on. Oh,
how dare you paste it on!" he finished,
with a wail. ^1
"How else could I put it on?" asked
Mrs. Graball, in surprise.
"How pIbp?" hp retnrtoil n-han ha
could speak. "Why. tack It on, of
course! You don't suppose we shall
live in this house for ever, do you?"
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Habits of the Democracy.
Arthur I. Vorys, a regular and optimistic
Republican, was voicing his
opinion that in the next election the
Democrats would repeat their many
former experiences and bury their
hopes at the polls. It reminded him
of the experience of Ihe middle-aged
woman u ho went into a shop, and, without
hesitation, made straight for the
ciape counter. The girl who handled
this funeral material was extremely *
affable. II
"We have a large stock of crapes."
she explained. "Let me show you some
new French goods, very popular at
this time for every kind of mourning,
and designed to express every degree ^
of grief. If you will Sell me for whom c
you ure In mourning, I can flx you out
In exactly the right thing."
"Husband," replied the customer ^
briefly.
"In that case." said the girl, gr>
ciously, "I can tell you Just what " '
"Young lady." interrupted the older 3
woman angrily. "You needn't bother
yourself. This is the fourth husband
I'va hnrlpil anil I know oil nhnnl if"? i
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The Popular Magazine.
When the Small Boy Talk*.
One day recently a coterie of young
women In West Philadelphia completed
plans for a moonlight excursion on j
the river, and when the evening of
the trip arrived it was noticed that
one of the most charming members
of the party wore a shawl about her
shoulders. One of her companions
wondered at this and to her query as ^
to whether the wearer was afraid of
taking cold received a negative reply.
Another suggested that posBibly she
had malaria. This was also emphatically
denied. At this juncture the Irrepressible
small brother of the shawl
wearing young woman volunteered to *
explain matters, and despite bis sister's
vehement command to keep silent.
said: "The reason sis wears that
snawi 11 so mai wnen bob ii on me
boat Bob can put his arm under it j
and hug her, and she thinks nobodj
can sea through the game."
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