The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, June 30, 1920, Image 13
Scriptural Quotation.
When you 8ay you hive 9scaped by
the skin of your teeth, do yoU know
you are quoting Scrilpture? Look in
the twentieth verse of the kineteenth
e)Ipter of Jot) and yoi Wll" find tie
Ijne: "My bone cleaveth to my skin
ltid my fleshi, 111( 1, anf Aiped witt
the skin of I'y teeth." -
X . "A pharmaelst was dissatisfic(d With
4,youth fu assistant and requ'ested hin
t6 look for another Jot), remarking to
customer as the boy was leaving
can dispense without. "-noys'
life.,
a NOTICE OF ELECTION.
8*ste of SWIutilo'rolina,
M .unt..o 'Line9
,jWhereas, petit-lons signed by a legal
mber of the qualified electors and
f .e-holders residing in ,Waterloo
8 toot distI.ctgjl9. 1, :Laure49 9unty,
tuth Carolina, asking for an election
il On the (ilestion. of voting anl add
t nal 4 iffil th'x mpon -the prooMfty In
s d school district, to be used for
ITS A
SeU RE
FRIEND
Did you earn that mor
it, didn't you? Why can't y
it in the bank each pay day
work for you?
Vou wont always be a
well. Then it will be a finc
you banked, while you coul<
it.
We add 4 per
Make OUR bar
The Enterprise
N. B. DIAL, President
FARMS'
.Davis place, 3 miles
soil road, containing 116,
170 acres, 6 miles west
2 217 acres, 9:miles~of Li
56 acres nice land near
360 acres, near Boyd's ]
234, acres, 6 miles w<
proved.
100 acres, 4 miles of Le
52 acres, 6 miles of Lau
One 32 acre and one 60
Tavern.
75 acres east of Lauren
137 acres near Gray Col
143 acres in Greenville
church.
100 acres near Ware SI
103 acres at Mountville
Other' good farms that
you. Rrices and terms ri
I also have all kinds of
One nice new store fore
I buy and slel all kinds
Call and see the olde
BiM
Lauremn
school pidrposes, have been filed with
the county board of education, an clec
tion is hereby ordered upon said ques
tion, said Mlection- to be held on the
15th day of July, 1920, at Alt. Gallagher
.building in ,said district, under the
management" of tile trustees of said
school distridt.
-Only -such elections as return real
or personal property for taxatiofn ani
who exhibit their tax receipts and reg;
istration certillcates as required In the
getgeral election shall be allowed to
vote.
. Those favoieing the 4 mill additional
tax, shall vote a ballot containing the
word "YEDS" written or printed therei
on1 Those. *gainst -t6 ,4., mii add.
U'mal tax Ifaill vote...,baIlot contain-'
ing the word "NO" .yritten or printed
thereon. Polls shall open at the hour
of8 o'lock In the torengon and:,shal
T tafn -opjen until the. hon' of 4 o'clocit
in 'the afternoon when they shall bt
closed and the ballots counted.
I The trustees shall report the resul
of thp election to ti ecoungaudito
ad county superintendent 6T'educa
tiop within ten days thereaftep.
' --R. T. IX -SON,'Suipt.
50-2t By order of 'County -Boardt
ey? Well you worked for
,ou put some little piece of
so that some day it can
ble to work. even ifjyou are
i feeling to have the money
I work, whioh is now. Bank
-4
cent. interest.
ik YOUR bank.
National Bank
C. H. ROPER, Cashier
Eden.
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oust omauensttel picmo
brens.or.eeniyo r
fceln toacterh micony
cert neet
County, bnakLbao
atinaBn
C. shal beOgEad toshiew
wet onfas Lainn stetop
of Latocks
t Reaf Lsae elr irn
rt. W LF
Cutnar Lebano
The House
of Whispers
WHUIAM
JOHNSTON
. IRWINMDIERS ,.
.. opriht byMWtu, BrownA go.
(Continued fi'om Page F'our.)
I Was convInced that Wiek iInd-' thi
telephone girl were only two--noro
than likely two itinor- ietibers-+of a
powerful blody of crininals. That it
was tills samne siister force that had
caulsed my disehargo fron the oflice I
was equalily Aure. This sort of thing
took blrailns-far bigger brains than
Wrek gave any evidlence of possessing.
A peculliar apathy came over ie as
I finisled readivg the account. Never
before had I so fully understood how
thorodghly an innocent nan could be
damnned by circuinstantial evidence. I
knew-Unrbara knew-that I was ab
solutely inniocent. I doubted much If
we could get anyone else to believe it.
The cunning web had been woven
with such mallelous thoroughness that
escape seemned inssible. WhAt was
the use of my fighting further?
CHAPTER XIII.
Coning as it did as a (lire climax to
all my other troubles, the shock of old
Itufus Gaston's tnurder sent me into
an apathetic state from which It
seened itnposslble for tue to arouse
myself. Without hope an11d even with
out interest I dully awaited the ap
proeach of n trial for murder.
While there never had been an op
portunity for any bond of affection to
become established between ny aged
relative and myself-in fact, I had
seen him only three or four times in
my whole life, and then only for brief
periods-still his unexnected and
dreadful end lad hereft me of practi
cally every hope of being acquitted (if
the ahsurd charge against ine. Wick,
it was plain, intelded to dischlini all
knowledge of iy relationship to Mr.
Gaston, and now there was no one
else to explain how I happened to be
living in the buiildirg at the time of
Miss Lutan's murder. Unfortunately
I had destroyed both Mr. Gastont let
ter to me and the note from my
mother whleh had first told mne of the
old mian's intent ion. My great-aunt,
I learned from the newspapers, had
been completely prostrated by the
tragedy and had been unnble to come
to the funeral. The shock of the newA
of her hilpusind's violent end had left
her in a very critical condition. It
seeined to have wholly deranged her
aged brain, and the physieians stil
moied to the Maine camp where she
was refused to perinit her to be re
mioved fron there or to let anyone
talk wth her, declaring that tle least
excitement of anly sort would be apt
to hove 'fatal results.
To be sure- there was mys mother,
who could prove tiny retltoship, bit
I felt there was little uste of draugginig
her into it. Ona reading of her uncle's
E(inthi shle had lasteUned on fr-oun the
West to attend his funeral and had
bleeni pl~lVed and n1 larmed by not finid
Sig me th1ere. All the title I had( bteen
ini pri sont I ha~d been wi-itinug her- til
utsutal wo-k-ly hetter-, nttee.tinag a cheer
funess i wats fuar fromtt feelinrg anud tell
Intg heri nothIinig of \vhat htad haippened'a,
fleri let tears to tane, aiddr-essed to the
GIranddeck, htad btteen forwvtaded by the
post offi1ce, so thtat until sifter shbe a
rived in the city she knew niothinag of
miy plighat. [t had been my hope Itat
I wvoldl be able to citoeal evertytig
fronm her umntil aift er I had been Iatrim
phiatl y sauit ted. If I were-a tnot slae
wmould knowv the wvors-t soon enouiigh.
When'a she fitrst learnemid, or trom
w'ha Sic ofa!C mb ty pared(i('ament I waus
unatware', I dlid noit e-ven ktoaw oft her
presenice ini te city un t il tin<by after
my grefht-uncl(le's fiunernl, whien-just
twenit-fourm hours before tmy tial wuas
to begli-a keeper brought tme waordt
that sihe was waitting dtownstaiies to
s-ee tme.
I stIeeled tmyself for- the inteirvtew
withb het-. Naturtially I expIected'( tht
she would be terily~ hiorror sii~trien
andt~ sho(-ked tit my plight, but whuat
heri a5ttitudte towaird tme woutld be I
coiuld rnot conjecturte. I family e-xpacteda;
niothintg butt r'eprioaches fr-om ther. She
h11 a en rP itposed to tny cottaing toa
New York-l thIaut I fe-lt cetain thait Ishe
would Intsist that' m iy conducttt musist hae
respionible) tot- miy being where I no0w
wats. For yeatrs, it seaetd to mie, the
relations betweeni my mot~thaer and1 myt~
aelf hadt been not hinrg btut 'onltinuoults
ratisu utlesItadintgs. T1( omy grea5it
nmazl ?emnt andt howildermet'i taot tall
utnkind~ word anor the suagge'stio o(11f ai
r-epr-oachfill thaought camse from het'
"Oh, may lboy, imy bony," slat land e'ried
as shte sawv tae, "I know youm didln't tdo
it. I knmow may 1toy is innocent I Whtat
cain I (do to help1 youY"
In thatt glorious, wonder-ful muomaent
of reanctioan all ires-entment-t I haid felt
towarttd her fore'ver vianished. I htad
0110 acred, unftorgettabie gitnpse of
the etral gr'eatntetss of the Maothe
heart, ever- readly to tot-give, ever- quick
to cormnlrehiend. eve-rnemnit toaid,:
lPor 010 sweet hour -we talked to
gether, moro uiderstandingly than
ever before in our lives. Freely and
fully I told her everything, even to my
Wonderful but hopeless love for Bar
bara Bradford. Sie was willing, anx
ous, eager to aid me-but what was
there that she could do?--what was
there that anyone could (o?
It was hopeless for a lone woman of
limited means, unacquainted with the
big city and unused to its ways, to at
tempt to battle against such powerful
and desperate criminals as were con
cerned in the far-reaching plot to
make me the scapegoat of their hein
ous misdeeds. I could only advise
her that she se McGregor and Gor
mim and be guided by what they sug
gested.
When the morning of my trial actu
ally 'awrived I entered the courtroom in
a state of dull apathy. The night be
fore I had not slept at all. I had spent
all the black' hours reviewing my life,
especially the last year, thinking with
what high hopes and great expecta
tiorig I had conie to the metropolis and
how milserably everything had turned
out fo'r in(. Stop by step 'I had re
viewed the events that had brought
iae, discredited, all but friendless, all
but pennilless, into this dismal court
room accllse(l of a horrible, cowardly
deed, seekiig. to see wherein I might
have altere(d my recent actions or
changed the course of my life to avoid
having arrived at this shaneful goal.
Yet, strange to say, I found myself
after imature reflection convinced that
had I this Iast year to live over again
not in one iota would I have (one dif
ferently-no, not even if I could have
foretold what the future had In store
for m1e.
No sense of shame nor of guilt pos
sessexI me. I was aware of having
(one wrong to no one. A clear con
scinece kept assuring me that it wvas
aisfortime and not error on imy part
that had brought me here. At every
point in the st'range chain 'of circuni
staices I felt that I had acted ag
mon of honiw should have acted. My
sense of innocence upheld me ven
though the deliberate mallei6us- plot
ting of evil men iight mnake It appear
to the judge, to the jurors, to the
whole world that I was a murderer.
Itven though I should be sentenced to
death for killing a woman I never had
seen the knowledge that at every point
I had done what I still believed to
have been right, brought me strong
comfort and filled ine with new cour
age.
Yet It was.with lack of interest that
I listened to the monotonous question
Ing that formed a part of the- selection
of a jury.
"So far as I am conceined," I had
said to my cotnsel in our last chat,
"any sort of a jury will (to. 'Unless
we sticceed -In upsetting the- evidence
against ine-with a crash that all the
world can hear it makes no differ
ence."
"I guess you are right," he answer
ed, despondently, it seemed to ite,
"and if the worst happens, we always
can take all appeal."
Ills reply convinced me that lie, too,
was antlelpatng the result, whlh I
long ago had deeided to be the only
oittl1n nlessA something unforeseen
happened-a verdlet against me of
urder In the first degree.
(To be continuefi.)
Spiders and Good Fortpne.
Sipiders, accordmIinmg to super-stIt iorl
are Omelns of good forinne11, theare-fort!
to kill theam provokqs Wanth and in
vites disaster. Supierst itious people
will tell that the br-Ide who finds a
splider In the folds of her wedingi
gown many look forward to a married
life of irrent nrosneritv.
INSI
F
Pro
L. C. Barksdale
J. J. McSWAIN
Candidate for
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nI tu Ihere are t hose who seek to express, inl the pianos they
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WRITE
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