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VOLUME XXXVI. . LAURENS9 SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1921. THE NEW SCHE AND I (Abbeville 'Pre The Southor4 Mllway announces that beginning next Sunday two trais will ,be operated over the main line from .A-tbeville to Hodges each afternoon connecting with the Colun 'bi, and Greenville ,branch of this road. This will be good news to a good many people, we think, and it Is in line with the promise made sometime ago to the IPress and Banner and to Mr. Barnes of the Chanuber of Commerce, these two institutions ibusying them selves in the Interest of better sched uiles in and out of Abbeville. For this e nsideration, we feel sure the people, of this city w1ll be duly grateful. But with all our gladness over the announcement, some of us will ,be sorry that we will not -be allowed to wait at -Hodges for an 'hour and a half and that we .will :be denied .all the joys and !privileges which go along with such a wait at the meetingpoint of the main line and the 'branch, 4be cause something is always happening In lodges. For instance, yesterday af ternoon the up-train came .in on time. Two po'or lawyers and one or two ric -men changed for Abbeville, and they waited. As they sat i the 'oach'of the Syfan Special there were many things to .be 'observed. . Over across the railroad two or three stores were open, ready for business. We watched the doors, and we saw nothing going out and nothing going in, except a bee. While the proprietor of one of the stores sat in a split ibottom chair, leaned back against the counter and took a nap, the 'bee got busy and went in an(d helped himself to a -grain of sugar. The Iproprietor didn't know it, all he knew was that the main line engine -backed up the Greenville end of the branch line to turn around, and he didn't know that long, becatuse he only opened one eye to look at it, and then closed it. It 'is a busy life they lead at Hodges Depot. Of course it was not always thus, because at one time there was only one store in town and nine barrooms, we ,believe it was. The. town mas sniall then, and not much attention was given to business. And out-in the yard in front of the station, the waiters saw two druni mers. They w'erd talking-about hot6ls, of course, and how "they feed." That is about all drummers talk about except when they are trying (mind you, we said trying) to sell goods. One -said that a country hotel away off somewhere had 'more good things than he had ever "et" at a hotel before. The other told of a few 'bad hotels lie had seen and heard of. le claimed thjtt he was up in Vermont many years ago and that he heard two other drummers talking about poor hotels, and in the conversation, one of them was alleged to have said that the "Glen-Ethel Inn, at Abbeville, S. C., is the worst hotel in the United States,I have been to all of them." 4loth agreedl that tile hotels are charg lng a good deal just no0w when it is considered just 'how "they feed," and the price of "feed" and that not much is "et" whlen a man is not working hlardl. In fact they about fIgured it out that the high freight rates and the high hotel rates were cutting .down tile travel 'just now. While t-hey were talking Col. Court ney Wilson, of tile Seaboard. was growving impatient. He had gone out to Hiodges to meet Mrs, Wilson and her little brother. wvho were expected from ]revard. ie sat on the blenchl in front of the station for a few minutes, then walked out tn the tr'acks of the road, looked up towards Greenville for a little while, and then wvalked back. He repeatedl this' several times saying nothing oultwalrdly. JudgIng 'by his looks a Seaboard man Iwho waits for' a Southern train should be paid time andl a half for the time he waita. 'But not so with youn'g iWoodrow Wilson. 'ie played .about in the yardl andI 'turnedl rings for ,;laying mar'ble.A with 'lis feet, like tile 'boys did when lhe 1had( real marble shooters 'in this coun-. try. lie planted his heel in the groundl andl carefully stuck down lisa big toe and turned a .perfect cir'cle marking the place for the "middle man" and for the other four. 'When lhe was not dloing this, -ho was busy doing some ihing else equally as interesting to him, A wait at Holdges held( for,him11 'nothinig buit pleasuires and enjoyment, Just then the bell rang for supper at tihe hotel over across the line of DULE -IAPPY HODGES ss and -Banner) the Greenville branch, and we knew that the drummers would -be well taken care of as we saw them go in for a "snack" before taking the down train, because the hotel is well kept -by the good lady who is the proprie 'tor; but we should not be surprised to hear that one of them is dissatisfied at the way "she feeds," while the other declares that -it is the "worst joint I ever et at." Then everything was quiet still in .Hodges. But as you looked towards Greenville you could see the smoke rising here and there from the engine of the locomotive n'which was soon to come to 'Hodges on its way to Colum bla. Here and there you could see it. First it would come up in a great cloud over -towards Ware Shoals, and fthen you would not see the smoke again for awhile, then after a time the engine would send up another cloud away towards the West, and from East to West and from 'West to TMast the train wound its way until It finally stol;ped at Hodges. There the passen -gers alighted for the main line to Abbeville. Mrs. Wilson was glad to be on her iway back to the fairest city In the state. Woodrow smiled when he saw the little brother coming too. They came in the train, and sat side by side in one of the seats. Neither said much but constantly they looked at vach other and- smiled and each understood the other. Col. Wilson was busy all the while telling Mrs. Vilson how hard he had worked and how "reg'lar" he had gotten ull in the mornings and 'gone to rest in the evenings while she was away. And there iwas another home com Ing. Mrs. Horton, the good wife of the editor of the Medium was on her way from Williamston. She looked yotmng and happy as if she had been where the "water is good and the peo j)le are good.' She (lid look like it, but 'we know that she was on her way home to collect the money from the Thursday's advertisements which ap peared In "husiband's" paper yester day. It is not enough, we fear from our own experience, to pay for a bunl galow. Aler all Hodges is a fine place-for ipeaches and grapes and bees. ABANDON ALL HOPE OF RESCUING C(IEW Seven Persons Apparently Lost on Barge Blown Away In Lake Su perlor. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., May 15.-All hope had been abandoned' tonight for the captain, filve members of the crew and a woman cook of the barge Miz tee that broke from the steamer Zil lah off White Fish Point, Lake Su perior, during the storm Saturday morning. Those missing are Capt. K. Pederson of Buffalo, Florence Peder son, cook; Mate Robert Cam pbell, of Tonawanda, *N. Y., Seamen Eric John son and Louis Florence of Ihay City, Mich., Seaman John D~ecker of Titus ville, 'IPa., and an unidentified seaman who shipped from Port Huron. The barge Pestigo that also 'broke from the Zillah 'was pihked upl today by the Zillah and brou'ght her~e. The Pestigo lay to after .brealsing her tow. The 'Pittsburgh Steamship com puny's steamer Maulnolao, which grounded on a sand bar at Cedar reef last night, was refloated today after 300 tons of iron ore had -been removed. DOCI RESO'UES CHlD! SOU01HTl BY CROWD) Two Year' Old Boy Waniders Off lnto Mouintaiuns andu is Lost. for Two Day),. Winchester, Va., May 15.-The famn Ily dlog rescued the two year 01(1 son of George Getz, living noar' here, from plerishing in the mountains whlere he hlad wandered for two clays. A plarty of modre t han '300 men hlad searched thle mountainside (lay and night for the tot and just as they were about to give lti; the task the clog heard a w~all far lp on the mountain and( raced aiway throughl the brumsh. WVhen tile men arrived thley found thle clog -w'lh wagging tail standing over~ the child. Trhe boy was three miles from home, dlreneched to the skin from heavy rains and Was almost fam.. ihhml. "Thae Virgin of Stambloul,"____ P toms1 of the Trk and the Arab, fromn silo saw as she knelt there, heor eyesthnheiaevradbfraig "The Virgin 6f tliol a--- master-oh vr a bfre avn "The -Virgin *6f Stamlboul," a miaster*- thle mnosque ati Constantinople to the lifted to Allah, will make tile blood of beenr written especially for- h~r by 141. feature p~rodluced ;by Universal-Jeivei, great Arabian (desert. It lays opent the the bravest tian. boil, allo is thle boginl- l.. Van Loan. Wheeler Olakmlanl as thle with Prisollp 'Dean as the star and heart of Stamboul with Its 111th and ing of a fusialand of tense situations directed by 'ro4 Browning, is the an- wretchedness, Its sin end iniquity. It folo inug each other, nwiit machinfe Ncalace oer) the l k , orE. A.rp nouncement for next Tuesday at the leads through the (101 of the sacred gun-like rapidity. Princess Theatre, which has aroused temple, through the forbidden portals 'WVh'oie strets ad sectios of Stan,.. ron vi Yusef Bey, Edward Burs as such unusual Interest among the thea- of the haremi, through the vast stretch- boul, "the wickedleat city Ill thle Estthe young American tourist, Nigel (10 tregoers of this state. es of the arid aste. have been reproduced for this produ- l ier as te Arbian chief, Eugen ie "The Virgin of Stamboul" is herald- It shows what happeped when a tion, and many weeks were spet oil o as ed as one of the'important Iphioto-pro- beautiful beggar girl, Sari, turned hei the desert for certain scenes in this ductions of the year, presented in a footsteps towardii tie mosque, tere to i4hltodrama. tie favorite of tie harem aul thols big :way. It unfolds tile life of the lift her voice I sup liation to a God The role of Sari s el whii gives Of othets coitrihte to the ste mysterious ast and reveals the eis- le had never knon before. 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