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Volume 19 . CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNT^||;c.. APRIL 1. 1913 .... ; . Number 21
$<70,900 FOR BELGIANS FJAISED
BY ONE WOMAN.
Mme... Vandervelde Returns Home
With Big Sum For Her
Starving Countrymen
Mme. Lalla Vandevelde, wife of the
Belgian minister of state sets sail
this week for her native country aftex
a tour of United States and Canada.
A most remarkable woman Is this.
She ame six month ago on a mission
from her King to the American people.
Her task has been to raise funds with
which to feed the Belgians who were
farced into starvation when hei
couutry was suddenly turned into one
terrible battlefield. By her own effort*
she has succeeded. It is largely due
to her that tne unitea oiaies is
sending one relief ship after another
to Belgum, and besides food and clothing
ha^ contributed much more 'than a
nriHkm in cash.
Mme. Vandervelde has spoken in
cities in HU parts of the United States
and in Canada, and herself has collecte
dmcre than $270,000.
Though' feeling deeply the wrongs
inflicted upon Belgium by being forced
into the war, Mme. Vandervelde has
succeeded in making her appeal to 'the
American public so nearly netural in
its character that even the pro-Germans
have not been offended.
King Albert himself urged Mine
VanaerVelde to come to America to
plead for his people
From London she sent to the
women of the Uunitie.l States an up
i*??l which was widelv oablished.
Her first engagements were at
such well kuown summer resorts at
Southampton, L. I., Beverly Farms,
Mass., Dublin, N. H., and Oyster
Bay The lesponse to her appeal
was iuirted'i tf and 'iea-ious. Ai
at Beverly Farms an equaTamount
Among those who listened to h> r
when Nhe spoke in Be.tv'v Farms
was H. C. Fritk, who the next day
sent to Mme. Vandervelde his personal
cneck for $10,000. Her first
extended trip in this country carried
her into Canada, and her later
trips across the continent, each
stop netting her tpany th jusawl
dollars.
"I love America and Americans,"
said Mme. Vandervelde, in an interview
the other day.
"Ycjn Americans are ingeniou;
clever hospitable and generous.
The wealth here is marvelous, and
yet you do not permit yourselves
to bind your eyes to the poverty
and suffering in less favored countries.
"The women in the United States
are more resi>ected and are better
' treated than are women anywhere
else in the world. When we started
for thb; country I was told that I
would get sympathy in America
but little money. What <a mistake
that was!
"Only the other day I received a
check for $800 from Virginia. I had
not spoken in that state and the
donor is quite unknown to me. I
have received checks of thousands
jus t as much the small contribit
tions which have come from more
humble sources At one of my
i.itctmgs a workingman came onto
the stage and gave me his bank
luok. It is a contribution of S7.r?0
all that he had. The employes of
> notiortmoivf- utnro i'?vo SHOO to me Jill
saved from their scanty earnings.
"In one place where I was working
with the loccal relief committee
a laborer came into the room where
we were, took his coat off and threw
it on the pile of clothing that was to he
sent to Relgiun. "That is all I have'to
give.' he snidfl, 'but some i)oor devil in
Belgium needs it worse than I do.' He
was gone before we had recovered sufficiently
to learn his name.
"I>o you wonder that I love Americans
when I see their intense feeling sc
practically demonstrated? Do you
wonder that I am eager to get back to
Belgium, that I may put new -heart into
my ]>eople by telling them of the
fountain of love that I have found
bubbling forth for them in the United
States?
"After this terrible war has . lined
and after some of the animosities
have disappeared the United Sim.\will
Ik- 1 letter understood in Europe,
Your greatheartedness and your generosity
v^ill be properly apprea 'hited
Even those who are now embittered
because you do not break your neutra
I
' lity In behalf of the cause which they
embrace will recognize the wisdom
of your way."
A Famous Interview Between Belgium
and German Statesmen
( The New York World prints for the
first time the following interview between
leading statesmen of Belgium
and Germany, which gives the Belgian
, view of the famous case of her neu.
traHty :
1 At an early hour that Monday morn!
ing (August 3) the Minister of Belgium
had asked by telephone to be re
, eelved by the Secretary of State; the
> audience was immediately granted.
The Minister of Belgium had hardly
uttered a few words when Mr. de. Jagown
interposed: \
"Believe me, it is with a heavy heart
that Germany lias resolved to violate
1 the neutrality of Belgium, and personally
it causes me the keenest regrets.
But what can be done? It is a question
of life and death for the empire.
If the German armies do not wish to
be caught between the hammer and
the anvil they must strike a great blow
against France in order to be able
afterward to turn upon the Russians."
"But" said Baron Beyens (the Beb
gian Minister) "the frontiers of
France are brnd cough for you to
avoid passing through Belgium."
"They are too strongly fori Hied.
Besides, what are we asking of you?
Merely to allow us free passage, and
not to destroy your railways nor
your tunnels, and to allow us to oc^""Ther^T?^1di?^^ifei*'5Snl^r
immediately answered, "a very easy
way to put the only answer that this
demand can have. It Is to Imagine
that France had invited us to do the
same thing, and that we had agreed.
Would not Germany have said we had
l>etrayed her in a most cowardly manner?'
The Secretary of State having left
this pointed question unanswered,
Baron Beyens continued:
"At least," he asked, "have Jyou
anything with which to reproach us?
Have we not always, for three-quarters
of a century, fulfilled toward
Germany as toward all the great
guaranteeing powers all the obligations
of our neutrality? Have we
not given to Germany proofs of our
loyal friendship? In what coin does
Germany propose to pay us? By
making of Belgium the battl? 1 of
Europe, and that knowing what dGustation
and what calamities modem
wnrefare must entail?"
Herr von Jrgow answered. " ; .n
?r.y has. r.? itproach I mike against
1<? pium, nnl the atttt i "le of Bolai;nu
*.? ? alwavs een perfect v correct."
"Well, then, admit." rejoined Baron
Beyens, "that Belgium can give yon
no other answer than the one she
gives, without forfeiting her honor.
It is with nations as with men. and
there is hot for peoples a different
standard of honor to that of individuals.
You must at least admit."
Baron Beyens insisted, "that the answer
is what it should be."
"I recognize it as a private individual,
hut as Secretary of State I
have no opinion to exoicsi."
Institute to he Held at Tlmmonsville.
The Eastern Division of the State
W. M. U. is to hold an Institute at
, Tlmmonsville April 13 and 14. to which
every W. M. S. Auxiliary, R. A., and
, Sunbeam Band is entitled to have a
representative. Mr. and Mrs. Lake,
Mrs. Fizie, Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Car
penter will be chief speakers, and so
i a most helpful and inspirational meeting
is assured,
i The Timmonsville people are pre.
paring to give a most cordial welcome
? and ask that delegates names be sent
I at once to Mrs. Alice Cole, Timinons.
ville, S. C.
Let Welsc Neck have a large representation.
Those having dharte,
i posters, year books or anything helpi
ful for an exhibit of methods are asked
to send them with any needed expla.
nation, to Miss Ruth Pettigrew, Florence,
S. C, by April 8th. if possible,
i Miss Sue Wilson, Supt.,
Society Hill, S. C.
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SUNDAY CAMPAIGN ENDS M
Interesting Statistics of the Evange-lj
list's Work in Philadephia. 1 jjj
I'Mladephla, March 22?Rev m |
litin A. Sunday c'osed his evangoIhti>r||
campaign here lost night and left foi h
hi; home in Wioucma Lake, In<V Here J)
are f.ome interesting statistics of hlsV;
work in this city: I
"Billy" Sunday's personal offering, ft
inclusive of Saturday's contribution^, | (
amounted to $51,135.85. f
largest check receivetl for thank
offering, $5,000. j
Smalest contribution to evangel ist'^fi
fund, one cent. v
Attendance at 146 services in tt?M|
tabernucie during the eleven weekSip
of Sunday's stay in the city estimat&UH
at 2,500,000. -f
Conversions, approximately 45,OOcHj
Current expenses collections,
cured in first six weeks of campaign^
$52,000. Vj
Collections for charity, during Wttefs' J
week of campaign $51,030.03, distrfc ?
huted as follows: Emergency aid,(5
$6,245.94; Associated Charities,
765.27; Police and Firemen's. Reliejfi
fund, $1,108.85; Travelers' aid, $35fc01ra
Juvenile Court Association, $661.29} J|
Country Week Association, $67&82ra
Visting .Nurses, |$740.17; Magdaleo$ra|
home, 493.91; -?WKfren's Seashore^
home, $774.06:
Sunday has preached 146 sermoiutu
of an average pf 4000 words eachw?:
lilllng, in round figures, 584 newgpapefiM
At an conservative estimate, "BllTjwl
has pounded on his pulpit at the tahflj|U
nacle upward of 5,000 times, and Wattjflfl
ed up and down the narrow platfomTa
at least 1000 mile's. Jj
The tabernacle crops of
and nurses jreport^l4-73
More than 5,000 babies and sSell ^
children were cared for at the taber- 8
nacle nursery while their mothers 0
licnnl "TUIlv" nronr-h t
Standing with outstreached arms, li
hands clasped, the men, women and tl
children who have heard Sunday in the a
tabernacle at one or another of the F
meetings would make a line extending a
more than 2,000 miles, or from 1
Philadephia to Denver. Col. a
"Billy's monetary tribute ? from a
Philadelphia, if changed into silver S
dollars, plqced -side by side, would a
mark a glittering line a mile long.
Phlladephia's gifts to "Billy and J
members of the revival party would a
Deposit yovu
The Bank <
Cherav
STRONGER THAN ALL OTHER B
A (Jy compoun
/(j in saving
ro?iuire an ordainury box car for ship- i
ment. . I
Largest ihunlier of trail hitters at ]
any single meeting in all the evan- \
gelist's career, 9G4. This numlier
represents the women who "hit the j
trail" at yesterday's farewell service
for women only.
Four hundred churches cooperated i
in campaign.
More than r>00 outside meetings
were c? nducted by the Sunday aides in i
eleven weeks. I
Two choirs of 1,800 voices each led i
the singing at the tabernacle. 1
Scaling arrangements were In^ charge i
of a corps of l.ooo ushers and doorten- i
dors, who served without pay. j
Tabernacle cost $18,000. 1
It will probably surprise you to 1
learn that the United States Aug flies i
over 8.000 islands, says the American ;
Hoy. According to a report received i
by the National ideographic Society, i
their population totals 10,WO,000. Four ^ I
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R SUXKABI OF ;THE NEWS
Ig Ef THIS IS8UE
Mrs. Mary A., Wife of General
^dtdfcewall" JAckson dead; buried at
texington, Va. (Photograph.)
PjBermans sink two big British pasIgagCT
steamers, 150 persons lost
batteries have been ordered
^Brownsville^ to protect Texas bor' pGencral
von Kluck has been wound^in
battle. / *?
^$flla forces defeated at Matamoros,
f?tnow bringing up artillery.
Battleship Alabama is ordered to
wmptnn Koads for duty.
Submarine F-4 is located, but no
SjwxCfor 21 men. Still searching.
flmrUn cruiser is still at Newport
MPtasiaha are fighting desperately to
Wfc .Hungary.
Kplison expresses confidence in NaKm.
Speaks to Methodists.
LVice-presideat Marshall formally
wdlcated Panama-Pacific Exposition,
frtyfidal weather report for the cotpn
states for coming w?ek. i
^interesting coium (>y "uoserver."
tjThe Act providing for election on
ptestton of "Bonds" for building :
jEpa man could have wishes he would
jtfejtaRtroubles.?Benjamin Frank- 1
fweeptny may taflft-for tlje night, i
rot Jdjr totneth in the Inoroingy?
tlf you have no friends to share or
Uoice ltt' your sucess In life, it is 1
J'ieap incumbent on yonr to move
Iftgfcls the path of duty.?Walter
id each year they aendl to the tJnited '
fladw products to the value of$100,- *
001000. Porto Rico, Hawaii and the <
Lla|?kan Islands have showed start- 1
Ing development since coming under 1
be. Stars and -Stripes. Fifteen years 1
gq/ there was but one sehoolhouse in (
oi/to Rico. Today nearly 200,000 boys '
11* glils are attending school there. '
i'hjfve hundred and sixty-five thous '
nils tons of sugar are now produced (
.unually, as against 65,000 under the (
Spanish regime. Hawaii has shown
. similar prosperity.
To forget?that Is what we need. (
u.st to forget All the pretty annoynces,
all the vexing irritations, all (
? I
I
r money in
c r?i
or \^neraw
/, S. C. ./
ANKS IN COUNTY COMBINED
Lded quarterly
s department.
(
the inoan words, all the unkind acts,
the deep wrongs, the hitter disappointments?just
let them go .don't hang on
to them. I^arn to forget Make a
study of it.Pratice it. Become an expert
at forirettimr. Train the faculty
>f the miiitl until It is virile. The the
memory will have fewer tliiugs "to
remember, and it will become quick
and alert in remembe ing. It will
not be cumbered with (disagreeable
things, and all its attentions will be
cciven to the beautiful things to the
worth-while things. No matter what
business you are pursuing 110 matter
what literary subjects you are studying
110 matter what liernry subjects you
lire studying, no matter what seintiflc
problems you are trying to solve,
take up the study of forgetting.. The
irt of fonrettinir will nrld lustre to all
your literary, business or seintiflc
attaiiitcments, and it will n<ld
measurably to health of mind and
l)ody.
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OBSERVATIONS .
BY OUR MAN ABOUT TOWN. \
xxxrn
The new law regulating the sale
of "dope" drugs Is showing to ,
what deplorable extent these harmful
drugs have upon their .
victims. It Is a horrible plctuie of .
suicide murders and insanity, and .
the condition is growing worse.
It goes to show to what extent
the dope habit has grown all over s
<viiintrv on/1 tho ffnvprniri<>nt is
T ? I
getting Its eyes open to the sltua- {
tlou. Every town has drug vlctms ^
by the Score and Cheraw ,
has more dope fiends than ^
many people think. This condition y
of affairs was brought about no doupl j.
largely by physicians and druggists be t
coming too reckless In the prescrib- .
lug and Selling of the drugs, and f
while the new law comes too late ,
I
to save ten of thousands of victims
who are too far under the control ^
of the drugs to be saved from the
terrible doom that awaits them
yet the law will keep hundreds of
thousands from becoming slaves to
a habit worke than strong drink. |
It Is a good law and the officers ^
should see to it that it is enforced c
to the very letter. i , e
A gentleman at one of our boarding f
houses, after having beans shoved at j
him each meal for two straight weeks, t
asked the waiter to please read -the D
eight verse of the thirteen chapter c
of Hebrews. We imagine this will t
make some of our readers get the dust (j
off t'leir Bibles, ' , ?
v
Al>out as good a way to study hu- {
man nature Is when you are driving ^
on the public road. If a man Is will- f
lug to observe the laws and the cour- .
md shows he Is willing to do the I ^
gentlemanly thing about it But I'
vheu you meet one who takes every J ^
wantage 01 uiuae uc unw,
mlds the road for his own selfish self,
ifteu to the great dlscomfgort of those ^
ae meets, or will not allow them to !I
iass, we are almost sure to think of c
pork In conneeetlon with such drivers. h
Did God make you and us purpose t!
;o superintend His universe, and every- 'l
lody's affairs and assume the control "
)f the "free will' he gave men? Is this e
the purpose and plan of our existence *
ind destiny to forever be meddling with 41
wmebody's business? It gives us "that
tired feeling" to think of the pains some
people take to gather the smallest Item
of "news." They leave their own gar ?
ilen to grow full of weeds while they
are trying to hold up before every- J
body the few they pull from their 1
neighbor's. They do everything but h
mind their own business. They never P
speak of their own faults or follies.
ISTo, indeed; by the time the* whole
town is criticised and Judgement pronounced,
they have not a moment left ^
to do more than congratulate themselves
on their good works.
We have Just been thinking about e
present day "hobbies" and they create r
- r
within us a longing for the return or ~
the good old days of our forefathers;
days when calloused hands warmly
clasped each other and kid gloves
were unknown; days when at eventide
the family gathered at the old place
and enjoyed the pleasures of home.
How different now . Take the average
family today and the servant girl
is usually the only one home after
the evening meal. The father has
gone to lodge, the raotbeT to her club,
lane's to the music circle, Kate to the
card party, Robert has gone down
town for a game of'bllltards, Peter to
the Club room. Verily, we live in
a progressive age.
There is nothing that causes so much
trouble among nelglilwrs as chickens.
Poor chickens! If they are blamed for
till the enemies they have made in this
world they have scores of black marks
against them. It seems strange that
/toople will let their chickens run.
They certainly are no improvement to
i pretty lawn. -Now is the time when
w-koiis can do tho greatest damage
to flower gardens. Now is the time
when jieople lose their temper the easiesi
over trifles. Keep up your chickens
and keep the good will of your neighbors.
I was reading in some <?r the dai'y
papers the other day some of the
i stories of Joseph H. Choate, a distinguished
lawyer and raconteur, who
iras at one time ambassador to Gretfl
Brltian. He la now advanced in year*
>ut retains to a remarkable degree bis
youthful apperances and his'sunny
ind happy disposition. When asked
low he managed to do It, he replied:
"By keeping good natured and always
looking an the bright side of
ife. I believe there Is nothing that
iffords greater relaxation than a good
ioke. Men like Depew are the real
ife-savers of the country. It Is a fact
hat a good meny men take them>eivca '
ind everything else too seriously.'
Now, he spoke a parable when he
aid that, and I want to commend it
o a great many of out fellows citizens
n Cheraw. Don't take yourself too
eriously. You art not the only peb>le
on the beach and there are lots
if other fish In the sea just as big as . '
%
ou. And many of us when we do deMirt
hence will leave a mighty little
lole In the water. Then be good naurcd
and pleasant with all of your
ellow men as you meet them from
laj- to day. And ycu will live to a
ipe old age and still be young in uplearanee
and in disposition. There
s 110 use for any one to grow old.
A newspaper article from Washngton,
D. C., says: The Department
as been testing various poisons to disover
the most efficient means of
radicating the troublesome dandelion
rom lawns, and, although others
lave been found quite satisfactory,
be common salt is best for general
ise because there positively can be
10 danger accompanying its appllcalon.
The best way to kill the lndlvj.- %
lual plants(is to cut off their tops p?
iear the grounds as possible. This
vill leave the roots protruding thru
he ground. About a thimbleful of alt
should be poured ,dhrectly up6n the
rnse, so^^bould be used carefully.
During last few years, so a
a per from that state says, the superitendent
of parks in Grand Forks.
r n. has been studying different
lethods of eradicating the pest His
onelusions are about the same as
ave been given in previous suggesions
in this column. Where there are
ut few plants, cut the tops and pour
asoliue or kerosene onto the roots
xjjosed. He differs with the above
uggestion only in using the liquids intend
of salt Where the plant
!ready has jtaken possession of a
twn, he suggests the use of a sulphate f
iron spray, as mentioned last week,
le advocates a stronger mixture,
owever, advising a pound and a half
f the sulphate to one gallon of water,
his, he says, should be applied on a
right morning when there is little
robability of rain that day.
A VFfESSITY OF THE TIMES
Some merchants start the year wrong
y cutting out their advertising,
ays the Orlanda, (Florida.) Reporter
5tar. This is nothing new in the
xperience of any newspaper
uan. There are some v who
egard advertising as an expenditure
ather than an investment The busiless
man who looks upon his adver- '.A
ising as"an investment rather than as
in expeiLse is on the way to realize
he profits which always Come from
vell-directed advertising. The time is
last when any argument is left as to
whether advertising pays. The great
lublicatlons could not exist if it didn't
iay Pusiness men do not spend hunireds
of thousands of dollars annually
ip advertising for the simple gratification
of seeing their names in print
Tliey get returns. No business that
amounts to anything can exist for long
without advertising. It is a nesesity
vf the times.
Another Country Dwelling Destroyed
by Fire.
Last Friday morning the dwelling
house of Mr. John W. Burr, a hard
working farmer living about a mile aid
a half from the Court House, together
with almost its entire contents, was
destroyed by fire. The fire originated
at the top of the house aud quickly enveloped
the building in flames. Mrs.
Burr was 'the only member of the
family at home at the time, but help
arrived shortly after the smoke house
had caught and although this house
was also burned, 'the meat in it was
saved. Mr. Burr carried insurance in
the sum of $1050.00.
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