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RMJSSIANS STARVING, FACE GRIN WINTER Traveler 1rom Famine District Tells Tale of Horror as White King De. scends on Hapless Land. Astrakhan, Russia, Oct. 3.-Hopeless groups of famine refugees crowd the Wharves of Astrakhan, which happier times were hilled with the tides of commerce flowing to and from Russia and the trans-Caspian plains. Bitter rains of autumn are fallin-g, almost continually and the first snow of the Russian winter has whitened the roofs of .the buildings of the city, but tihe throngs4 of emigrants have no shelter while they wait, perhaps vain ly, day and night, for transportation to the Kuban and Don regions, where they can obtain food. Astrakhan Is a city of misery and .suffering, and death, The traveler who has seen Russia aild the lussians in times of plenty mia y expect to meet with a rosy, rounditt faced people wihII he again cnt ers the country. I)isilln:,;oitment is in Store for- hii, lowevr., for everywicre he sees thin f:ties, th - in of which is seClingiy s(4reel (I ght across the cheekblion es. lie rete Mbhe is AstrN kc han as a city fil led %vitlh in d us!ries and cotiinerce, but he imis it but a shadov of its former self. I ts nviar an(d fishting iidlistries are est imated to have dwvintdlod nearly '70 pr cent. WItere oice 2,000 sih ips daily tiled ul) a1(d doiwin "Mother Volga," there are now harely 101) on that siitream. Death seems to dog tle tootst eps of the refugees. They tre leeing front starvatioii, but many itung ry children and adults (lie frot tit, first food they eat, tihe verY bread they have siiven for proving fatal to their in tiheir weakeniied coniditioni. elat ot bread cost. 3,000 rubles, or about tivc cents per pountd. it ttere are fewN who have mnoncey enough to pay ti price day after day. Diseutse has played its .part in. th( ruin of Astrakhan. lack typihut took a terrible toll during the wintel of 1919-1920, not only in districts fur. ther north, but in this city. Fort: out of eveiry hundred physicians diet during tite awful scourge. During Ut past sumtimter Asiatic cholera and ma laria have carried off thousands of vic tints. When one asks the people the caus of the present terrible condition o affairs, the ittevitable answer is: "There has been no rain." The only ray in the gloom is tl fact that the potato crop was slightl: larger than usual, and for the i'omen This Weel at Burns'e 27-inch Pere le .... ... 1 table spe) ilal this week, 1 ,000) yards Driess (Gingha 30e Ladcu andh I sassie C loth, wee'k.................. 60, at .............. ... .1,200% yards helavy Shirhting and( Chambray. snpecial t. ( ' Plaid IIomtspun, 18 :~i:y lhijds~ and Mt I ecst Dr'tmd L. L Se Islandl this wn-1a..... ........ eil th]i werk..... ... 6 bars I'SI 'ox SlOp ....) Buy Your C 1October I Sale this crop is the solution of the dire problem of -hunger. Medicines cannot -be found .here. In the entire province of Astrakhan, which measures 90,000 square miles, there are only 500 grains of quinine, it Is declared. The correspondent of the Associated Press has visited sev eral homes where malaria patients are lying. In each he has found the mothers or wives of sufferers sittisg In blank despair, saying: "We have no quinine; we can do nothing." A floating hospital is maintained at one point in the delta of the Volga, where sick sailors are taken from e g.hian sea vessels, and 100 deaths itb uunder-nourishiment and lack of n Ricines occurred there in August. Dr. Novanoff, In charge of the hospi tal, wept for joy when given a sup ply of quinine and castor oil. Along the western coast of the Cas plan, stands the Island of Shilol, where one of the grimmest tragedies of ite famine was recently elacted. .lariners noticed the lighthouse on the island was darhened, and landed to in vest .'.ate. They found in the light house the twelve keepers, all dead froi starvation. They had eaten their shoes and had boiled fllr skins Ito maintain life and one by one had -1sncuibed, O ie light going out when tle List of tile twelve saik ill death. WITH i' 'SN ('harge Alleged Atuins loiinit on Trial for 31turder of i Forler 311ite. Twin FalIs, Idaho, Oct. 3.---A pois onotis sllbstiiet' u(sed as ai iisect ex teril t suliui?led he about which was wovel the stories of tlt first two 'witileses of tle state to testify inl tht (se (of LdIl .\(0'ye Southard, charged with the murde of idward F. "M'eyer, a former hus band. The state claills to hlave evi ,dence that pohion seclired fromi ih exterinlator was adinlistered h. lts. SouItharid in her husban1('s food The opeilig stateient by P'ose eniting Attorney Frank L. 'Stephian, i delivered Inimediately following thc securing of a jury, did not go outsid - the case of the death of Meyci'. al . though Stepian has stated that he I prepared to submit evidence shiowin her to be responsible for the death o threo former husbands and a brothe of one of these, the alleged crime it eachi instance, the state charges, be ing committed by me1cals of poison de rived from the' exterminator. t The flrst witness for the state, Mri' 0 CT Burns .... ..12 1-2c Oct< 0-inmgh amls, mns, thi~s week l4sSi .....15c Men's Suit. p~iecial tis 1 case Men .... ...25c(I Dra inmg, No.,.. C'hevi ots iis wook . .15c 36-~iieh go . . sale 'prie . -- - -- -80 ig sale 11 r'iples', tlhis Il hildren( . ..121-.2c $1.50 juauli worth 18Se, ... ..15 1 yoodl pill slando. spe- Cutra . .. . ..12 1-2c omltr[1 aedl Sugar 69o Cbx0a ....... ..25c 3 bars Palt ctton Goods ant Your Fall Bi 3 2 DEPARTA -No. 1..,210 W. Lanrei Carrie Rowe of Muscatine. (Iowa, boarding house keeper at the Blue Lakes ranch at th'e time of the death of Meyer, told of thd defendant ,bringing packages of the extermi nator to the ranch and setting it about the 'house in sucers of water. She described in detail the illness of Mey er and of conversations in which the defendant said "She would call a doc tor and then no one would have any thin.g to say." She testified that fol lowing the removal of $Meyer from the ranch to a hospital sh found two packages of the poison In a drawer underneath sonie pal)ers In the room occupled by the leyers. Granville laight, manager of the ranch 11pon which Mieyer was em ployed as foreman, told of being present when the poison was found and testified rega.rding his indorse maent of a purchase note on an auto mobile previously acquired by the then AMrs. M1eyer which note was sign ed by the defendant as .\lrs. Ncalf lie although this 'was subsequent to her marriage to .\eyer. SAY EXPLOSIVES CAUSE OF WItECK Deliberatelv aic'ed on Raillroad Track. On Road In Georgin. Washington, Oct. 2.-Deliberate placing of explosives oil the rails of the Atlanta, Hirmin ugham & Atlantic railroad at Cascade Crossing, Ga., caused the wreck of Soptemuber 7 in which one trainnian Was killed, and thrvee iniured, ac(cor(inlg to enigi neers assigned by the interstate commerce cmm011 issioni to investigate tile affair. I,abor troubles have existed on the line for imiany umonths, the wrecking of the freight. train and shooting of an engine#2er having been the subject of investigation by tihe state authorI ties. Tle commission's engineers found that- a high exv)losive.hiad been placed beside a rail, and set off by a ne tonator 'which was aelated by thc drive wheels of a freight locomotive passing over the spot. A crater wias formed in the road bed, the raib twisted, and ties scattered for a con. siderable distance around. Discovery of pileces of wire, presumed to havc been used in lashing the charge in place, and iarticles of the explosive the report said, all supported th. theory that deliberate attempt ha been made to wreck the train. The report tincluded a copy of - train order sent. to the crow of th wrecked freight in which they wer warned to iproceed with ususual car )BER ber Clothing Sale Now On . .. .. ...$4.95 u1'p to $11.39 ~, speciall sale $12.39 to $29.95 's heavy fleeeed Undoershirts .ers, special t his week . . 49c ni Suits sale this week. ... .... ......... ......98c >d WooV~l Serge this week, r' per yard ......... ....69c )siery for mnen, women 1111d this week at .... ..10~c to 49c ty Lad(ies' Silk JIose . ... 89c Cotton led Blankets at $1.98 es-'special . . $1.49 iup to $3.48 cehes. special ......... ....5c a Olive Trilet Soap .......25c I Winter Goods ll. Our Prices a IURNS lENT STORES IN us St. Red Iron Racket Old S "and look out for trouble." The order was ,Issued, the report said, because officials had bem warned of activities aimed at the road's operation. C t Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Druggsts refun money if PAZO 0INTME51fall .o cureItochIgg.t fud. Bam~igot Protrudin le !ntnlrellqves tthn 4V1L Mndyo - ee after the drt avol a. 'IcNA b Chilly rooms made comfor And you don't h With delightful autumn days l come chilly nights und frost) You dislike to start up the stean hcater until it is actualli Next to the great convenience feetion Oil Ileater is its unusui It burns for about 10 hours gallon of kerosene which costi half what it did last year. It is an expensive luxury to ke used roons and hallways hei time. Hundreds of thousands PEI _ Oa SPEC .2 Depa Shoe Sale Shioes for the whole fami'ly orn pries8. 'Bring the whole fa fit them up. Frosty morning - here. L~atet creationsM right f roir room in Baltimore. 'Special values going at $1.98 Fine Hats, goodJ quality and1 in style. 1"ine quaility '-il~ki andl Satinl yard .. .... .... .....$1.6 1 'lot Men 's good heavy Work Apecial this week. .. .. .. . Special ypjlues in (hitingsi thi at .... ........ .....12 14 TPhese are the best heavy 4 arnad are 'worth 25c now. Right Now and are Below the iM & COM) LAURENS, SOUTI Lnd No. 2...North Side oi FINAL SiTiM OENT Take notice that on the 5th day of October. 1921, I will render a nal ac- ) ount of eny acts and doings as Guard in of 'the estate of William A. Babb, in he office of the Judge' of Probarte of 4aurens county, at 11 o'clock, A. M. All persons having claims against aid estate will preseut them on or efore said date, duly proven, or be table in a few mi ave to "drive" your coal/i icre always will cut dowvn their coal bill mornings, winter by using tho Perfecti furnace or iliary heater. Acep the hou necessary. the coal heater but usc the make tie lving rooms comif of the Per- The Perfectitin Oil Heater r i economy. of an exposed door or wind< Dn n single drafts warni and healthful. only about Your hardware, housefurni partment store probably cart ep seldom- lienters. Ask tkc sulesmta ited all the their simple, sturdy constru of families smokeless wick adjustment. TANDARD OIL COMPANY (New JAtrsey) IFECTI ] Heate IALS rtment Boys' goodl 0 this week. Ut rock hot- I lo Laies'] nily mi and -back, spneelt Viii soon be Special value week ... Sour work Oct. ready Ladies' Unde: upi to $4.95 lLdies' IUde iMen's heavy up to now wveek's sale 1 lot Men 's hi s, per special this 9 andl $1.98 Rig sale Men ' Shirts, 'Men's fine Ft .... .75c . week . Fine lot of ~M s 'Week Glet your V !c typ to 19c 1 lot of Men's )utings $2.00, this 2 pairs 'Men 's Save 15 to 35~ larket Value. PANY . I CAROLINA Square ini Burna Block Qrer b~arred 0. 0. THOP1W . Probate Judg. Lugust 31, 1921. 1-6t-A Read "The Oriole" 'by Booth Tark ngton, -beginning in this issue. Engraved Cards and Invitations. Advertiser Printing Co. IERFc.TION AIADDIN BU 0 uater s this fall and S[IRITYOIL onI 0s tin flux- SA IA io wa-- irm with Perfection t-. Drtablc. :ik your dealer laced in front about the Perfection >W will mako. Oil Heater Contest $5,000.00 in prizes. shing or de ics Perfection n to explain otion and tho O -N rs . This Week at .Burns'es Stores veralls, heavy, well made, ...... . . 75o and 98c Ail IHose, Fashion- Seam 1 .. . .. . . . ... . 35c a in tMeni's IPants~ thi . . ...$1.25 up to $7.50 Cor 'winter weather. wvests and Pants, specia'l 48c rvests, a good value . . . . 75c ri'bbed Ujndervests, this .... ......... .... ..75hc mJvy ri'bbedl Union 'SUits, week . ... .. .. .. ...$1.48 arid Boys' Cawps, 50o to $1.98 tr Hate, special sale this . .. .. .. .. ..$1.48 to $4.95 *n's D~ress sktirts 98c to $3.49 rinter supply now. best heavy Overalls, worth heavy gray Soeks for . . 25c Per Cent On At Both1 SStores