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JA' ICITICISM p4 NOT JUSTI1FIEDg Posident Spoaks frolt Rear of Train to Snall ('rowd ait ITrbna, 011i. RIlIIic onld. 1ind., Sept. .l.-Critiellsm of Japan be::.aujse or that. country's at titide toward the Sliantintig (uestion is not Justifled, -lTresiient Wilson told a sinall crowd that, gathered at the rear of he traIn at Urbana, OhIo. Jap'in can not act In (lie matter of Shant un, the 1--esident si(, until three montilk after peace comes. "Then , am s 'ure ;e will do so. Criticism of Japan Is not justfiled," he added. "I think you will heat them," some one In il c rowd said, referring to the C. I c. . "Their (ase is so weak," the Presi (.ta ir'l (, "they are i1ot hard to ba .1.' After the riesident's tralna left 'r huana . 'Mr. Wilsoni went Into the chlub cr and ehatted for an hottr with the IeIwSI a er eorrespioniilidents. lIe dis cussed details of the trip an1d of tle treaty. and fold many storIes of hII' 11i010Th3u icidelits colliected with porev Ois s cakin. tours and with the Pais pIeac' negotIations. The Prcsident saId he was wkell lplcascd With his reception In (olum hils aind made clear his liltention as the trip ::ecs on lo follow out hIs plin of taking up dtails of the treaty onet altei a1101ie11 and layltu 11h011m before the peopl. If Inielted Ithat he he lieved tile Is' argument for the Irealy was to expla i In clear IaUnuage jist hat it contalied. ('O1Y S'MMONS FOt RELIEF. 'Stat" (if Soutih Carolina, 01ounty of Lauren4,1S. 'OURT Of CO.MICON P'I.AS. MA RY B. A TLL, CORA C. l1ELLTj, and ANNIE E.. KING, Plaintiffs, against A. W. SETZIUERl, I'tl.AMA SETZIIt and JOIN W. KIO'It IlT, Defendants. To Iie Defendants iaied in the above, Stated Action: You are hereby stumimoiied and re quired to answer the coillailt iI this action of whil a copy is herewith served upvon1 you, and to serve a copy of youl aniswer to said complaint oil the subscribers at. their office at Lau r(ens C. Ii.. South Carolin1a, within I wenty days after the service hereof, excvleive of the day Of such service; and if you fail to answer the com platilnt williln the time aforesaid, the Pliaiitifs in this action will apply to 1he (ourt for the relef demanded in tile complaint. To A\. Hf. SET,ieni. Defend You will please take notice that the su ons ad colliplialit ii this action were lic(I in the office of the Clerk of (,oi .t of coinion Pleas for Laurens County. S. C., at 1ajurens Court. louse, ith ('arolinia, on the 2nd day of September. 1919. I ated Sept. 2nd, A. 1). 1919. 1ICH11Y & RICH1iY, 7 -:.b Plaintiffs' Attorneys. The next time you buy calomel ask for alotab s The purified axnd rcfined calc:.el tah!cts that~ are nausealess, saife arnd Lure. Medicinal vir'tues, retain.. ed anid improved. Sold only in sealed packages. Price 35c. INSIIIANCE' ASSO('IATION. P11'I hlTY I NM i'i;;lS,'M;H,:00. \V1IITl OR CALL. on 0I und ii(erslgnl ('d f(or any1, inlformiatio yOll may13)13 (desire atbout our; plan1 of iinsiiiance. We 31n LIure your1 hproperty a galinst de St rue lion by FI"liE, WINDJ)TORI.I Ol 1(11 TN INO, andl dp so cheaper than laly ((om1painy In ey stanice. tietmemberi, we 9re prepa red to prove tO you3 that our.j is thle safest and~ chicapest pllan 0 jinsuirancee known. Our A ssoclat ion . maw AIggnsed to wr1ite Intsuirance in the cottes of Abbecville, GIreenwood, AleCormlek, Jfrdgefield. L~aurens Sal uda, Leoxington, yoni.J' P'. sident, Columbia, S. C.; J. RI. Greenwood, S. C. D)1IRECTrORs: A. 0, Granh ........Mt. Carmel, S. C. J. M1. (Gambrell . . .. Abbovil. S. C. .1. R1. Blake.. ....Greenwood, S. C. A. WV. Youngblood .. . .Hodges, S. C, J. Fraser Lyon .. .. Columbia, S. C. ~. II. Nicholaon .. .. Edgeflohd,S. C. W. II. Wharton .... ..~atrloo, S. C. WV.. C. Ilates .. .. .....ateburg, S. C. J. RI. .BLAKE, Gen. Agt, Aeenwood, .r. .. NEGRO VURDjyjRER SOUGHT BY POSSE Ogletliorpe Couniit1y Ablawze Last Night, Following Murder of Farmer's Wife by Negro. heat Over IHead with Hoce, Woman Dies at Athens. Negro Flees to Swaiip. Athens, Ga., Sejpt. 8.-One of the niost brutal and heliouis mur'ders in the h1istorY of crimue occurred this af tornoon at 2 o'clock, when a negro, nalied Abe Cox, assaulte(I the wifo if it prominent. Oglethori) cointy farm er, four miles (east of Lexington, Ga. The negro beat his victim over the head %fwih a hoe, and althouigh she was 1 mitumiediately riushed to St. Nl\ary's Ilos plital, this city, as fast as a speeding alittoiobile could carry her, medlical skill was of no avail, the blow causing conieussioit of the brain. She died at -: 15 o'clock. An armed posse consistlug of fully 4Mmen I blt on aven )vgi deed, is now scouring the coun itryside in anl ef fort to loalne the munr1derer. The wires, iconnecting ithe neighborin towns are 4ire:iding the n ews 'of tbe crime and a(very fow minittes ia now iember Is add to the posse. The excit(ement in an1d arolun Id exington is growing inl ohimie and intensity. As tIhe hours pass, strong, giniii, delermlined men are silently but surely forming a huii 1ial net around the 11111rde'rou s fugi tive and the white light of morning will probably see the criime av(iged. Lexingt on is practically emupty to nighi save for the old men, women and Ihildren, 1as almost every able-bodied 111111 in] town has joined the band. Illoodhounds were sent fiom Athens ebol 8 o'clock but up until 1 o'clock, the negro had not been apprehended. The son of a white neighbor was the only one near11 the house when the crime was comnitte(i, According to his story the negro, who 'was employed as hand on the place, went up to ithe farmers wife and asked her foi' some turpen tine. She gave himli the turpeni fiin( and lie walked in the direction of an outhouse. The little boy started home and lie saw the negro sit down behind t he house, but thought nt hiig of it. Ile had gone about 200 yards when lie heard a scream. Rushing back to the lioise he found the planter's wife hiud (edl1 oi the floor in a dying condition. The negro had lilt her several times across the head and neck with a ho leaving an awful gash in heri head. 1I i(' was immediately summoned hut before the rescuers arrived on the scne the negro had fled. A posse was (l<l(kly formed and the.man hunt. lie gi1. Efforts have It that the negro was last seen going toward the swamps and every effort is being made for his (apture before morning. The victim was the wife of a well-to-do Ogle thorpe farmer. She is survived by her husband and two children, one thir tIein years of age, and the youiigest. a 'aby of six weeks. Girl Sells Self to Save Her Friends. . "The Price of Iinocence" with Stellh Tialbtot ini the irole (of .\ary. Ahli'oni, a sq iuatter giril , w..ill be presented'( at thle O1:era: llouse5 Tl'imirsday of' Ithis week. Th'ei story of the product ion itictures0 squatt11er life on "GCoose TIsland (,"'3 ind mIi ihar ltr ag ic att emputs to1 pie -'we t.he: on I yahodes they I row fromi he effor tS cf a w'.eal thy young land .'li>~ Tlalbt a.s .\ary Aidrion, enacts Sthe plan 1o dlisposses.5 heri el)ei4, but1 . the( cost orflth e ionfldce an he. c he viwi el cnd justines the iIne j Sk/zsch tL~tl ' BLAN ( 7 -7 Opera House Next Week AGAINST WAGES FOR WIVES Gathering of Women R'dlcule the Idea, Labeling it as "Commercializ. Ing tho Home." Wages for wive. were turned down by an audinaence large-ly of woien here the other night after a dhebate on whether hilsbinids shoult he requirej to pay such wages, says the I'hiladel phia Evening l1Bulletin. One speaiLkr drew a dismal picture of the future of romance with wives working for wages. "Iningine a scen(- like t his," lie said: "Hfoney, dto you love file?" "Of course I love you." "Then will yon Imarry mite?" "Well, m9.ybe. flow inuch do you pay?" "Suppose the w!ves were to join the soviet of walters-t1i nil cliarge triple wanges for waiting upf nights for husbaids," he said. "Imiagline a wife going into society and being labelel i $15-a-week wife. A womian (nin take it hist-yentr hat and make It look like new. Itt when she signed a contract for $15 a week there would be no hiling it from the neIgh bors." Another speaker pleaded that "woml an shall not he brought down from her pedestal as a qlueen and nitude a mere employee! of man." ' In d'-jlet ting tlit future of roniancet under the wage sys tem lie sail the marriage ceremony would have to be revised to rend: "WIlh this ring I hire thee, anid will pay thee $15 a week by the aid of the world, the flsh an1 Ithe Ievli." Notiees like ft foilowilg hie pre dicted wonid be published: "M1arried--John l'-rown and Mlary Smith, by Rev. Itiusell FT. Conwell. They will live in Logan and the wife's wages viII be $15 a week." Scenes like the following in court were foreenst: "Judge, he hired tme for $20 a week and he is now two weeks overdue in my pay. I'm going to gnet a new boss." LOOKING AHEAD A FEW YEARS Remarks That Will Be Merely Ordi nary When the Blimp Has Been Finally Perfected. Augustus Tiliver, the soap king, strode wrathfully it of his stateroom aboard the blinip and seized the arm of the porter. "Idiot !" he roared, "why didn't you give tie a call this morning? I told you I hald to be in London for a di rectors' meeting 4t 1) a. m. sharp, and now Londo is Lorl knows how many thousands of miles iA our rear." "Ah pounded on yo' door, boss, but yo' refuses to waken," replied the porter. ' The soap king pulled out a watch. "Elevei-thirty," he grunted dis gustedly. "Where tire we now?" "Je.st passed over St. Louis, boss; we'll be back in N'Yawk at 12:05." "Oh ! well," said Tolliver, "I can attend thtt 12:3t) meeting of the soap powder people and catch the 1:30 blimp for London." Rht Gkins for Leather. The suggestion has been ninde that the rat problem might be best solved by naking use of the skins of the rodents for the puripose of leather. oniehotly with the gift of guessing computi-s tht there ire ,0.0001111) in this nutr ty, uand the ix dnmxiue t hey do woulil feed a goodi-sizedi at-my. It would take at least 5,000 skitng a day to siupply a sall mItioderna taninery. Nobiody wantis thle rait s, they belong to aniybiody tha t can catch thiem. That ,is thei proldetm-to n-at eh ntem, and thienr deliverci the gnn'uls. Ther-e is not enough leathier- to go art-umla. F'isht skints ar' suisc(-pt iibe of Ian niung, trnu thlere aren i-at skins wleih imake good' lenate, la rge enough for matny pttrpnoses. Cure for Poison Ivy. Mrs. IEvilyni S. Tr-:nii b.h wife of the liev. ItobierI W. Tireunhth . ireu t-r of St. N. Jr., has (Ot coftei at hoon n on sutffer..~ ers ftrom pison. ivy by annil'ounc(Iing ta remeidt y wle h Itho se who Ihave tii dIt s-tiy is a most efieanelous iremendy. It is simply th lit-e~ien leaves of (coutnnno til the juice runs. Ti'is ne-vert fulls, Mtrs. 'lTrenhtnlh sauys, nO mtiter howt aie~tdvantced th''exiasi taty he, aind Is slitiple to iue, -spially ini the i-is'' of chilb iei. Tine la nt grow uisualtly int gi-exat abntundiance bhintd oi barni-is. tawnl is sa l tio be. so an onis tie tio the' Ivy that if plant-ui nearn It thei Ivy uilsa pli-ars. Volcano That Emits Lava. The fonllonwintg is r-epornte ib y ian oh change~is are' ini proiiress" at Kih~itn, itnd thletre is ino ititeint ion whaxntsre-ver of a'iny eesstln mmcf t he miio itentanl risinig if Ithe e-ntlti vast hiavai n-otutn. Overt thle snou thwe-st br-Iink a widle strnaini Of g.ilstnitng lava is sluggishly flow ing in [he dlireection of the' K alit deisert, riot withI thle spen-uelar lxiacis cudling torrintIs of the soulIlthisten tlowvs of last .Mart-i, lint with a steaudy, ittealthy gihting, whieh gatis groiund slowvly ait its baisi, liut w~hieh piles tip Into trinendo'us imasses fromtt its sou rc forwar d. Dry Lead for Batter-ies. A diry bai Ittry litI iitig irn-i lead, in stenad of thi' utsual m an mgantiisi comn poutnd, hans been lia tented by ii. (zantyt. It Is cla imed' lbhat thle red leaid ba ttery lasts longer thtan the typen niw In vogute, maity he kenpt I intlIve for ttuonth s without any del t-ror-atlon nsid nity be recharged iat least ten timies, with each rcecharge as eihcieint as any pres *nt battery. WANT TO MAKE AN INVESTMENT IN OIL STOCK? FORTUNES ARE BEING MADE ON SMALL INVESTMENTS IN THE OIL FIELDS OF THE SOUTHWEST We warn you that the element of chance is largely predominant, and you should not risk money you can't afford to lose, but the chances of large re turns on small investments are almost unbelievable. We are licensed brokers---right in the field---and can sell stock in any reliable oil company. Our connections insure latest and most reliable information on any company. Your Inquiries cheerfully answered. Your orders given prompt and careful attention. We recommend the purchase of Texas Produc tion Company's Stock. WHY: Because it is paying Dividends. REFERENCE: Dallas County State Bank, R. G. Dunn or Bradstreet Mercantile Agencies WM. H. FOWLER & CO. Linz Building Dallas, Texas. NOTICE! Schedule of Warehouse Charges Laurens, S. C., Sept. 1st, 1919 50cts per bale for first month and 40 cents per bale per month thereafter. These charges cover Storag'e adIn.. surance at full value of cotton on day of fire; weighing and handling into and out of the Warehouse one time. Additional handling 10Octs per bale. Insurance on Platforms and rio uder Sprinklers cost Imuch more. Laurens Bonded Waeos C. Merchants and Farmers Bonded Warehouse Company