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He ChestuUJd Advertiser 1 Paul ft and Fred G. Ileara , Editors ___ s PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY | *" i Sub*~riptiar R-rtes: $1.50 a Year; six '.i Conts.?Invariably in ' advance. Entered as second-class matter at the postofbce at. Chesterfield, South Carolina. TURKEY WANTS PEACE TREATY News comes from Constaninople | that Turkey wants to make a peace treaty with the United States and also wants to get a loan. As Uncle Sam has been loaning so much money to European countries Turkey presumes that this country has money to burn. Also she may think that about Thanksgiving time is a good time to apply for a Turkey loan. The cable says that Turkey has drafted treaties with the following six countries: France, Persia, Afghanistan,Russia, Caucassian republic and Italy. As none of those countries are in the loan business. Therefore the Turkish minister of foreign affairs was instructed to fine out whether the American government would object to a Turkish mission coming to the United States to negotiate for a loan by offering important mineral rights as security to American firms willing to advance money. The term the unspeakable "Turk is sometimes used as describing the brutality and wickedness of the Turks but who"n that countrv wants monev it can speak loud and long. JAPAN PREPARES FOR WAR Japan is said to be pushing work on 223 war vessels and it is also said that the Japs are trying to keep it a profound secret as to their war preparations. The Japanese minister of the navy is called Baron Tomosabure Kato. As Byron remarked, "Phoebus, what a name!" THE PEACE CONFERENCE Here is a brief summary of the proposed work of the Peace Conference at Washington: "First. A demonstration that war between the United States and Great Britain is impossible because of any situation that is concerned in this Conference, or in any situation even remotely apparent, and, especially, that peaceful relations between the United States and Great Britain can not he broken in any way through operations of any present or future Anglo-Japanese alliance. "Second. An acceptable plan whereby Japan's face may be saved, her need for expansion because of her growing population recognized, her national dignity conserved and her exact and proper status in the Pacific defined. "Third. Some enforceable and definite plan that will guarantee to Great Britain the free and untrammeled access to the seas so necessary to her national existence in case of war. "Fourth. An ngreenVnt that will be respected over th0 open door in China. "Fifth. A satisfactoy and guaranteed relief for the apprehensions of France that she may be left alone in case of a future attack on her by Germany." The attitude of the United States toward Far Eastern problems is broadly defined in her policy of "The Open Door" foe. A FINANCIAL NEST EGG Postmaster J. E. Meehan, of Chesterfield, S. is engaged in an effort to protect the citizens of this com munity from the dangers of speculative investment which last year cost the American public $500,000,000 in fraudulent stock transactions. To counteract this menace, the Postmaster has addressed a strong letter to a number of representative citizens urging the safe-guarding of their savings by investment in United States Treasury Certificates. The Postmaster's letter stated a "Nest Egg" for future financial success was waiting at the post office in the form of United States Treasury securities exactly suited to every one's pocket-book as they are issued in denominations of $5, $25, $100 and $1,000. These securities are insurable without cost against every form of loss to the purchaser and bear four per cent intcre.st, compounded quarterly, if held to maturity. They are particularly attractive. not onlvr in ttn.ir cn/nintu U..+ ... ...v.. ?Ul they are not subject to market fluetuaton, and can be converted into cash at any tim,. at a higher price than is paid for them. The rapidity with which even small asvings grow, the Postmaster states, is indicated in the fact that $ and a few additional cents a week, saved and invested in two $."> War Saving* Stamps per month, will yield in 1 Vf0 months, $600 in cash and $300 more, maturity value, payable $120 a year for five years longer, a total of $1200 for an average saving and investment of a littie nrir"; than $3 per month for 120 m >nihs. The Postmaster '.vill be /'ad to answer inquiries about Government Savings Securities, and invites vhe public to call at the post office for , further information. WILL EXCHANGE?1020 Maxwell Roadster; new tires; fine shape for i 1/ Ford Touring cur. i \ tf ?. E. Porter. rHE HELPING HAND OF CHARITY Little has been said by those who tvould destroy the Ku Klux Klan ibout the many charitable acts done jy local Klans in various states, but these incidents stand out prominently in the hearts and minds of those who know of them as proof of the true American brotherhood for which the organization stands. Within the last thirty days reports of these charities have been conveyed to the Imperial Palace from sever al states, particularly from Texas where it seems the spirit of KlanKraft has drawn the Klansmen to many cases where financial assistance was not only worthy but needed. 1 Within that time nearly one thousand dollars was given by different Klans to persons in need and to worthy institutions facing some deprivation because of lack of necessary funds. In the Realm of Texas, Ranger Klan, No. 150 slipped $100 in an envelope with an explanatory note between the leaves of a Bible in the room of Evangelist L. C. Harriso'n, who was conducting a revival in that community. The recipient expressed his thanks in his sermon the following night, thus informing the alien world that the Klan had come to Ranger. The gift followed a sermon by the evangelist in which he attacked vice and immorality existing in the hotels and drug stores of that city. The note told the minister that Klansmen stood "unanimously and undivided behind the ministers of the city in their efforts to better conditions." In several Texas cities contributions for needy persons were slipped by Klansmen beneath the doors of local newspapers with instructions that the money be conveyed to those named. At Loekhart $d5 was receivd by the Post-Register for a woman whose son had been accidently killed. The dire need of a worthy woman ill in a sanitorium at Bastrop, the wife of a man who had failed in his crops, caused Klavern No. 94 to send $50. At Beeville the sum of $50 was smt by Klan No. 11 to a sick man because he was worthy and unable to work. The injury of a restaurant .nan at Arkansas Pass, Texas brought $50 from the Klansmen. Another gift of $2(5 dollars was sent to a woman who had been ill for a long time. The death of a young son of a worthy woman at Vernon, which left her without funds and in need of assistance, brought $900 from the Klansmen of that community. It was dipped beneath the door of tho Ver ion Progress with a request for its lisposition. Down at Fort Worth there were i number of aged Confederate Veterans financially unable to attend the reunion. The Klansmen acted promptly and sent $100 to General K. M. v'an/.andt, commander in chief of he United Confederate Veterans,' vith the request that he use it for lie purpose of defraying expenses. At Jackson, Georgia, the Jim Finicy Klun contributed $50 to the War Memorial Fund of the University of Georgia; and at Abilene, Texas, the uni of $100 was sent by Klan No. ! .'50 to R. W. Haynie, chairman of .he local Salvation Army Campaign Fund, "to match the $100 gift from an unknown soldier." Atlanta Klan No. 1 has contributed $25 a month for the last year toward the support of a widow of a member of the original Klan and intends to continue to do so as long as she lives. Ilefore his death, two years ago, $10 a month was sent him every month. After ht. had gone this was increased to $15 a mo'nth for the widow and later increased to $25. This same Klan several weeks ago dTered to supply school books to needy children unable to buy them. Already several have been cared for and others will be supplied upon notification by the principal of the chool they attend. INTERESTING PROGRAM AT WINGATE On Thanksgiving night the stuciits of the Wingate School presented "The Colonists Maid." The characters were Misses Alma .Moore of Charlotte, N. C.; Mildred Smith, of Ruby, S. C.; Jeannetts Morgan, of Mar ?hvilli*, N. C. and Hazel Wright, of Wingate, N. C., and Messrs. Howard Williams, of Monroe, N. Walter Myers, of Jefferson, S. Clyde Lippard, of Thomasville, N. C. and Irvng Sawyer of Camden, N. C. i Ths was a very lively comedy full of fun and surprises. In addition to the play there was thanksgiving services at tht. church it eleven o'clock and a basket ball ?ame at Ihroo-thirtw Like the Old Folks. A bachelor who is forever putting his foot In it, recently visited the proud fin rent 8 of n new hoy. The mnilier held up the bundle for the Inspection of the bachelor and asked gayly. "Tell us, now, frnnklv. which of us do yon think he Is like?" After a enreful examination of the mite the bachelor answered: "Well, Marie, of course, Intelligence has not yet dawned In his face, hut he's wonderfully like both of you." Thief's Peculiar Booty. Six sermons of Kev. George T.,. Pat? lerson, pastor of the South Congregational church of Salem, Mass., were stolen while he was on a tour through the West, from which he reccntJy returned. A thief broke Into the church ind made off with the manuscript!. GIVES POUND i CHAIN OF BANKS American Amateur Banker Develops Successful Method of Financing Bankrupt Provinces. INNOVATION PLEASES PEOPLE With Borrowed Fund# Farmers First Fed Families, Then Set Out to Rebuild Homes and Prepare for Their Crops. Now York.?Chains of thing* nre no longer a novelty in this country. Wo are accustomed now to 10, 15, 25-cent stores, tea stores, sausages, drug stores, self-service groceries, and beuu1 ty parlors, all done in chains. In P?>latid they have taken up this idea, starting out by establishing their hanks !n chains. Not Just a few huge regional affairs like our federal reserves, hut hundreds of little farm loan banks scattered among the villages of the Lublin and Choliu areas. To be sure, the system was installed by an American and it was American money that filled the empty, dusty vaults. That is, where there were any vaults. l>r. John A. Morehead, European commissioner for the National Luther Council of America, Is the amateur banker who set up this notably successful method of financing whole provinces of bankrupt, homeless people of Kit rope. Works Out Simple Method. Perhaps It was the commissioner's very greenness at banking technicalities that did the trick. He worked out the simplest, easiest, quickest methods, because he did not know any better. What he did know wns that thousands of fertile farm lands In the devastated sections of Poland were lying barren and desolate, and that the farmers, most of them returned "Xilcs. were helpless, robbed of tl>cs \ L>r. John A. ivlorchcad. SuipSi-Hirnts, ami with their homes In ashes. Furthermore, he knew what miracles American iimnev nmi<i iirino w -' ?* about if loaned to those sturdy, courageous peasants. Also, he had the cash that American Lutherans had sent. That was all that was necessary. Without n single ttoiil'lsh of red tape, Doctor Morehead got busy, and through local committees u long string if little hanks were opened. It took to load up the tills, because by the time it passed through that highly prejudiced European exchange, it was transformed Into stacks and bales of purple, green, and gray-blue marks, opening ceremonies were extremely Informal. Crowds attended however, many standing outside for hours for their turn to pay their respects to the note teller. The committees had economized upon floor space. I'sually the hank occupied one coiner of the blacksmith's shop, or a hack room in a seed store. First Bought Food. With their borrowed funds the farmers first bought a square meal for their families, and hauled timber from nearby forests to build new homes. Farm tools and i^e stock were so scarce that many long shopping trips had to tie made. One enirer / ton -i -< II inmm 70 miles for a spade to dig up his garden. Many a mail walked *J0 to '<0 miles ami returned leading his now horse loaded with seed hags, and drag r'ng a plowshare. Two hamper c/ops have been produced hy the clients of tills chain of hanks and much of the money has already heen repaid, with 4 per cent interest. Not only did they save their own provinces from famine, hut they sent great shipments of food products into neighboring stricken sections. Naval Reserves Mustered Out. Washington.?The naval reserve of the railed States is virtually abolished under an order issued by Secretary Dcnby disbanding nil classes except one and six. and affecting appro*!Illfitill v* I V. lintl ? nivil i't ||IC I I'BtTVt, Work Without Cost. Stroid. Kngland.?Rev. [,. Hammond hud 11*He funds to prepare the foundation for the parish hall building. So ? *.>rmod a "diggers' brigade" fr?>m fie men In his congregation and had tli? work done free. ???? Nothing equals S A POLIO V\ \ : scouring ^ J polishing ?-^A/ cut.ory. Makes all metalware { look liko new ? ittn im giMliiftiitatlT HVr V Three Inseparables One for mildness.VlRGINIA One for mellowness. BURLEY One for aroma.TURKISH The finest tobaccos perfectly aged and blended OOforiy * 111 "iKW.ftX*L WIRE HOLDS MILLION VOLTS Electrical Pressure Secured for First Time Carries Current 1,000 Miles. ruiMieiu, ?AI I ne nitRnflfl plant ?>f the General Electric company, for the first time In history, the tremendously high voltage of 1,000,000 volts was obtained, generated and transmitted by engineers of the company, working under the direction of the chief engineers of the plant. The pressure will curry electricity 1,000 miles. Officials snld that much valuable data were gathered Indicating the commercial possibilities of such a high voltage. An official statement snld: "The pressure of 1.000,000 volts and over was generated by transformer equipment designed along standard lines, with a current at ordinary household frequency of sixty cycles per second. The physical laws upplying to the behavior of high voltages were found to hold good at this enormous " pressure." City Geta Big Fund. Manchester, England.?A pageant parade brought In $25,000 for the benefit of Mezleres, France, which has been adopted by Manchester. The rebuilt French city Is dedicating a street to Manchester In return. + mm m ~ m m. m m m % ? ?. \ Huge Buck Deer j ; Attacks an Auto \ \ rittsfield, Mass.?With both J r iivnuiigiua suiasiicu and tne mud- t i guards of Ids automobile bent, * Walter C. ltucholo of this city t t says his car was attacked by a J * great buck, estimated to weigh t t 4(H? pounds, itoclielo was pro* J * ceeding toward i'lttstield when * t he saw the herd of deer In the t * road. Four bucks and three * t does jumped to one side, but the # ' leader snorted and, with horns * * lowered, leaped at the auto, $ t which was going slowly. The * Imp*** stopped the touring cur # J and stunned the buck. * L ,4 An Enthusiast. "You are wasting n lot of tllm. Why don't you stop shooting when I hand out the word?" "I got excited," explained the new cameraman. "I ojierated a machine gun during the bite war."?Louisville Courier-Journal. A Surer Way. Ruth?"Only n foolish woman angles f. * compliments." Rapl eel? "Yes ? wise one depends mora upor curves." TAX BOOKS OPEN Books open October 15 to December 31 without penalty. J. A. Welsh, Treasurer. CARDUI HELPED REGAIN STRENGTH Alabama Lady Was Sick For Tbrea Years, Suffering Pain, Nervous and Depressed?Read Her Own Story of Recovery. Paint Hock, Ala.?Mrs. 0. M. Stegall, Of near here, recently related the following interesting account of her recorerv: "I Vfifl O waelfA?AJ , - .U * nvucuvu audition. I was sick three years In bed. suffering a great deal of pain, weak, nervous, depressed. 1 was so weak, I couldn't walk across the floor; Just had to lay and my little ones do the work. I was almost dead. I tried every thing I heard of, and a number of doctors. Still I didn't get any relief. I couldn't eat, and slept poorly. 1 believe if I hadn't heard of and taken Cardui I would have died. I bought six bottles, after a neighbor told ma what it did for her. "I began to eat and sleep, began to gain my strength and am now well and strong. I haven't had any trouble since ... I sure can testify to the good that Cardui did me. I don't think there is a better tonic made and 1 believe It saved my life." For ovor 40 years, thousands of wo* men have used Cardui successfully, in the treatment of many womanly ailments. If you suffer as these women did# take Cardui. It may you, tan U aU draodsta. * i ' . 1 te J. ARTHUR KNlGHT Attora?y-*t-Law Office in Courthouse ChcttarfieU, S. C. A. F. DAVIS MARKET Tha Fhait Fresh Meets The Rest Fancy Qvocariai High Grade Canned Goods The Best of Everything for the ^ Table A.F. DAVIS MARKET! Wamble Hill Ni Farm L< Open to negotiat< County on improved f Federal Land Bank of ( Association charges 1 paid with each application. Parties must exhibit application. See me at office in Banl information on loaning to fa promptly as possible. B. J. Douglas Wamble Hill THE RE, Not what you get by chance or in in life, but what you gain by hoT successful. What are you doing tc j| funds for future no * 'ji by stanir THE FARMERS I j -M. L. RALEY. J. S. McGRE President Vice-t DIREi F. D. Seller, J. S. i , T. H. Burch, She OF CHES Will Appreciate Your Busin |; ^uu,i Oar customers and friends he nted of accommodation or yoi ! | to see us. Guaranteed Lury } Let us show you this wonder. 1R. B. LANKY, President CHAS. P. MANGUM, Cashier r= s S&aiikof t 1 The Oldest, Larg j Bank in Chc? | 4 Par Cant. Paid on Savings Dc I Saa C. C. Doug] R. E. Rivers, President. M. J. Hough, Vica-Prasidant. IThe Best Family Ren y* I P Because it woi |j remedies have c< I IsL I Chesterfield I 8 D. H. DOUGLASS, President M W. J. DOUGLASS, Vice- Pres. ^ ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, E *8HHI8BllHRilB53HiHHR TROTTI A P ARK, D?tal SwrgMM Chesterfield, S. C. Office on second floor in Ross Building. ( ? | i ? | L? 1 1 1 ?''T " ' R. L. McMANUS PtaUit Cheraw, S. C. At Chesterfield Monday and Wednesday evenings. At Pageland Tuesday. At Mt. Croehan Wednesday morn ing. ' At McBee Thursday. At Cheraw Friday and Saturday. itional >an Associaton 5 loans for Cnesterfield arm lands through the Columbia. . per cent, and requires $10 their deeds at time of filing < of Chesterfield Building for rmers. Will serve you as s, Sec. Treas. N. F. L. A. A.L TEST iheritance, not what you start with lesty is what will make you truly > better conditions? Accumulate ig a savings account HERE NOW. j 1ANK,RUBY,S.C. i GOR, MISS ALICE BURCH 'resident Asr istant Cashier II 3TORS . I Smith, J. S. McGregor M. L. Raley, I II '&?' %ank j TERFIELD 1 ess. Total Resources OWr j moo : Iped us to do this. When it? 11 i have money to deposit, come I lar proof and fire proof safe. A cordial welcome awaits you G. K. LANEY, V,-President J. A. CAMPBELL, Assist. Cashier Iheaterfield est and Strongest terfield, S. G. . - 1 iposit*. 91.OO Starts An Accowat I Us Ak I lass, Csshiar. D. L. Smith, Assist. Cashiar* D. H. Douglass Assist. Cashiar l i % nedy . 1 rks when all 'olBer eased to work?ife Insurance joan Sins. Co. C. C. DOUGLASS, Sac'y A Mcr. GEO. W. EDDINS, Treasurer. [EALTH, HAIL, LIVE STOCK BANCS 1 I Eat?U M?fMy , I Stories of *** Great Scouts IV*t*om I ?, Western Newspaper Union. OLD JIM BAKER'S DUEL WITH A FRENCHMAN Next to Uncle Bill Hamilton's duel with the Ehigllshman, the strangest one in frontier history was thut which Old Jim Baker, friend of Kit On r son, Jim Brldcer and TTncla Dick Wooffon. fought with a Frenchman In the early days of Wyoming. Baker hnd established a trading store where the Ore- , gon trail crossed the Green river. He was doing a good business with the emigrants passing over the trail until a Frenchman opened up a rival Store nearby. A quarrel between the two men soon resulted. The quarrel ended In a challenge. Both men ran to their cabins, seized pistols and from the doors of their cabins, which were only about 100 yards apart, they began firing at each other. Neither was hurt at the first shot, for both the Frenchman and Old Jim had been drinking heavily and their aim was unsteady. Then the duelists retired to their rooms, loaded their guns again-and, taking another drink to keep up their courage, they opened fire once more. The bullets flew wild. For several hours the duel continued, each man becoming more unsteady all the time. At last, finding themselves unable to hit each other, they gave it up in disgust, and the oddest duel In history ended. Baker was born In Illinois In 1806, and went west with a fur-trading party about 1823. Old Jim was a mighty hunter. At one time he was attacked by two fullgrown grizzly bears. The old scout was armed only with his long hunting knife hut after a Jerrlfic struggle, In which he was almost torn to pieces, he killed both hears. In 1837 linker was a guide and scout for (Jen. Albert Sidney Johns ton on his expedition ntnlust the Mormons In Utah. Returning from that trip, he wandered bnck to Colorado :tnd became one of the first settlors of Denver. Later in life Old Jim drifted to northern Colorado-. On the hanks of the Little Snake river he built n block house, which became a rendezvous, for all of his old trapping communions and a place of refuge when the Indians went on the warpath. linker died in 1808 after a life that had been filled with nioro adventure tlini. tl-' of any other man of his time, excepting possibly Old Jim Brldger, whose close friend he was. \ | "VAMPS" WHO $ | MADE HISTORY ? I By JAMES C. YOUNG. g I ?{) by McClur* Niwiptptr Syndicate ) , A QUF.EN OF TRAGEDY, ON AND I OFF THE STAGE. IT CANNOT he doubted thnt Adrlenne Lecouvreur was a vampire. But It may be believed thut the beurta which she broke were mended, whereas her own was shattered past repulr. At thirteen Adrlenne nppeurcd lu a neigh, boyhood company of children, speuking the lines of the great Corneille with a dramatic power which gained her some celebrity. And she was scarcely fifteen when the opportunity came to Join a company of provincial players. She was twenty-Ove when Paris drat suw her. She had spent ten bitter years in smuii companies. She also had at least four serious love affairs with more or less prominent men and. In her own words, she was done with j love. "I know that one doesn't die of grief," site wrote, and the line has lived. | It wns in 1717 when Farls glimpsed this delicate beauty, and Immediately she was the queen of her time. And love, which she had renounced, would not let her alone. For a time she patron* ized half the great men of Paris, then cast them aside. But the vampire was not to go uncaught. In 1721, after four years of success enough to have turned any head, she met Maurice de Saxe, held b.v many to Jje the greatest soldier and adventurer of his time. Immediately Adrlenne loved hlin and three blissful yeurs followed. Then the duchy of Courlund was offered for I sale, with the rights of a reigning duke. y This was the eluiuce of De Snxe. Adrl- ? enne knew ttiat if lie succeeded she would lose him. Put she pawned her Jewels to help obtain the money. It appears that several other women also helped. Hut with this war chest raised by women De Saxe was not successful. The money escaped him. He came back to Paris, broke. Adrlenne.took him In, and was happy. Then the duchesse de Bouillon, u very rich and very disreputable great lady, cast her fancy upon De Saxe. Adrlenne protested vehemently. There were scenes, heart-wrenching grief. News of the Impendlug break spread to the boulevards and the duchesse wns mentioned In anything but complimentary terms, for Adrlenne was the darling of Paris. Then she took suddenly 111. "Poison/* whlsnered I'HiiR, nnd looked at the duche*se, but there was no proof. Adrlenn# died a broken-hearted vamrlre.'' FOR . SALE?Choice S. C. Rhode Inland Red Cockerels and a few pullets, at reasonable prices. 3t-48 A. R. RIVERS, * At Redfearn-Rivers Store. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will he pleased to learn that there Is at least eae dreaded disease that eelenoe baa been able to cure In all Its stapes and that Is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly Mbeaced by constitutional conditions saaVdfep constitutional treatment. Hall's Gatame Medicine la taken Internally and i?cts ttr.u the Blood on the Mudous Surfaces *4 the System thereby destroying .-the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by building up the eosUstHutloa Mid assisting naturs In doing Its work. Tke proprietors have so much faith Is Mis curative power or Halt's Cstsnji Medlclne^that One j^J yWO- Wag Mb - ^ -