The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, December 29, 1921, Image 2
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OUR LEVEL HEADED
CONGRESSMAN
Our Congressman believes in the
truth of the adage that charity begins
at home.
In the discussion in Congress of
fthe starvng people of Russia Congressman
Stevenson took a prominent
part. The speech of Mr. Stevenson
'* ... was charactbried by that sense and
correct judwnent that we, his constituents,
Know our representative
possesses in an eminent degree.
Mr. Stevenson's remarks as published
in the Congressional Record
are in part as follows:
Mr. Stevenson. "Mr. Chairman and
gentlemen, this is a bill which, of
course, is an appeal to our hearts, but
jv we are not sent here to legislate on
1 the state of our hearts. We are sent
%?( here to legislate as trustees, as the
gentleman fram Maryland said,for our
constituents and for ou; country, and
not as trustees to divert funds commiHn/1
tit nnr i?avn tn ho iliggin.'i toil tri '
j-jr ""*vv" v" v"*v> vv "v j -i
every need of all th world.
"Yesterday morning when I reach-1
ed my office I fouu>? a very respect-'
able paper on my uesk, the Wateree |
r Messenger, from the county of Ker- 1
, . ' shaw in South Carolina, one of the i
great and prosperous counties of the '
State, and in my district, with this i
statement:
s. 'It is said there is plenty of food
in the country, yet we know of persons
Who have scarcely anything to
eat of wehr and no money to ouy
I these necessities. Lots of jteopio on
^he farms have no means to work a
crop next year; in fact, :: great many
> persons do not yet know where they
1 will live the coming year.'
1 "In another column I found this
^ statement:
J 'Up to December 1, 1921,there were
/ 12,40t bales of cotton ginned in this
county against 30,832 for the same
period of last year, a ditFerence of
18,432 bales.'
"In other words, that is merely one
of the symptoms that there are in
this country unemployed, thrown out
of work with nothing on which to
live, who are dependent on the charity
of the country in which they are,
and who will think that we are exceedingly
generous with other peo
pies' money if we give it to peopk
three or four thousand miles
and do not attend to those who aiv.
entitled to it. You say this will not
tax them; that it only is a tax of 20
cents a head; hut it is at least a dollar
a head on the head of every family and
it is more than that on the head oi
every man that is able to take care el
those people who are around him. The
people of this country who have
something must take care of people
who have not. If you are going to tax
them you are decreasing their power
to take care of the 0,000,000 unemployed
people in the country.
Only yesterday it was announced
that the Erie Railroad had put upon
half time 5,000 employees. The Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad has closed
its shops, and thousands of employees
are going out at Christmas time with
v no pay check to come.
"The gentleman from New Y'ork
[Mr. Chandler] said a few minutes
ago that we have violated the Constitution
so many times that it has
become a precedent. In so far as 1 am
concerned I do not propose to vote
to establish any more precedents of
that kind. The gentleman from Ken
lucKy Li>tr. v_.am.ruij said mat tins
was Christmas time and we should
vote it as a Christmas pift. (Gentlemen,
the spirit of Christmas is derived
from Him for whom it is named,
and He said sacrifice yourselves and
not the other fellow. I never heard
the doctrine that it was pood to pivc
Christmas pifts by makinp the other
fellow pay. My wife pocs down town
and pets a Christmas pift for me and
V charpes it to me, but that is all in
the family. I do not propose that
somebody else shall vote a Christmas
pift at my expense. I do not propose
to advocate the doctrine of pivinp
Christmas tfifts when there are thou-:
sands starving and crying out for
thread in this country, as the gentle^
man from New York [Mr. Crowther]
asid the other day."
MICKIE, THE PRMTL
I ?u? fu1 J l/gBP- yyBn3BHjBS/7 \ V!j^\
That the speech made a profound
impression is shown by the remarks
of Hon. Bourke Cochran, the- able
and brilliant Congressman from New
York. Although he favored the bill
which Mr. Steveison opposed,he said:
"1 lind a cor J al echo i.i my bosom
of the remark by the gentleman from
South Carolina [Mr. Stevenson] that
philanthrophy and beneficence were
always admirable personal qualities
but never legitimate political enterprises.
I agree that no man has a
richf to inHnlrrn in Knm o 4- ??
pense of another or at the expense of
the Treasury. That contention s absolutely
unanswerable."
WINTER HOMES OF INSECTS
Clemson College, Nov.?Not merely
for the sake of helping to tight the
boll wevil but also to help destroy
the winter homes of various other
insects, there should be a general
full clean-up of farms. Below are
given the wintering places of some
common injurious insects. Prof. A.
F. Conradi, entomologist, suggests
that each farmer look over his farm
and decide how much hospitality he
will show the pests this winter.
The boll weevil,?in old stalks,
rubbish and waste places.
The corn stalk borer,?in the root ,
of corn stalks or stubble allowed to
remain in the field during the winter.
'Ihe corn ear worm,?in soil of
corn and cotton land about two and
one-half inches below the surface in
an ingeniously constructed earthen
cell.
Cotton root lice,?On roots of
"rabbit tobacco" and several other
wiul weeds that live on terraces and
w. ste places during winter.
Chinch bug,?on old corn stalks,
aiound stumps and trash on the farm.
Corn bill bug,?in corn stubble,
I. w the surface of the soil. The
b 11 bug and the corn stalk borer
f .1 . I 1... : . : -i
A i c vjc**. iit?j oiuc uy ?*>i?.i*r HI i no
same burrow in the stbbblo.
lJud worm of corn,?in rubbish
a 1 waste places. It depend> to the
i atest extent for its fall, winter
!i. I early spring metis upon the
h .es of "rabbit tobacco" allowed to
r lain on the farm.
.ted spider,?on lon^stensmed viob
, base of poke weed, ^reen leave
o:' blackberry and wild asters or; a
gCctcd terraces and other waste
pi. ces.
Cotton leaf lice,?on the pig weeds
allowed to remain on the fields.
Cut worms and white grubs,?in
grassy lands and weed covered l.elds.
"Aren't you going to invite Mrs.
Biank to your dinner party?"
"Certainly not; 1 entertained her
once before and she never recuperated"?London
Opinion.
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The Finest Fresh Meats
The Best Fancy Groceries
High Grade Canned Goods
The Best of Everything for the
Table
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prompt treatment of indlges- H
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H writes Mr. Fred Ashby, a Ej.
McKlnney, Texas, farmer.
D "My medicine Is El
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Idoses after meals. For a long Ki
n time I tried plll3, which grip- El
ned and didn t give the good , *
results. Black-Draught liver ?
\z medicine is easy to take, easy Li
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Oct a package from your
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NEBRASKA MATES
IN 033 REMAND
Omaha Sheriff Who Accommodated
One Applicant Is Deluged
With Letters.
SHOW TERSENESS AND SPEED
Lonaly Ones of Ueth Sexes Eager for
Spouses From the Plains?Letters
Come From Almost Every
State.
Omaha.?All the widows In New
York and a lot in other states as
well seem to be hunting for Nebraska
husbands. Ani^ half the widowers in
New York and a lot In other states us
well seem to be on the lookout for
Nebrnsku wives.
Sheriff Mike Clark of Omaha has
about a bushel of letters on his desk.
\ And the letters are rolling In on Sheriff
I Clark at the rate of ubout fifty every
day. Two months ago SherlfT Clark
I found a husband for Widow Dunham
' of Newark, N. J., who had evolved the
, theory that all she had to do to get a
j husband was to write to some Western
' sheriff. She picked out Omaha. And
sure enough, in about three weeks she
was married to Albert Henry Thomas,
a railroad man of Omaha.
I Her story got into the newspapers?
and Sheriff Clark thereby got his foot
In it. Cor everv widow nmnmi ttm
country who read that story Immediately
wrote Sheriff Clark for a husband.
And every widower and every
old bachelor under whose notice the
article came wrote the sheriff to find
j thetu wives nniong the hundreds of
women who had written him for husbands.
Show Terseness and Speed.
Mrs. S. Brick ley. 7 East Broadway,
New York, wrote one of the shortest,
right to-the-point letters of them. "I
am looking for u husband; can you do
anything for me?" she asks the sheriff.
.lames George, box 340, Mount Vernon.
N. Y? is also very laconic iu his
demands; "I want a wife; put me in
touch with one, quick!" he writes
Sheriff Clark.
I Charles Olsen, 74 Woodhuli street,
Brooklyn, i.-, not qUitc ,-u it-ise. Tils
letter to the sheriff says: "I am a
machinist, a former chief engineer on
a Danish ship. I want a home again,
but don't know ? woman whom I can
usk? Please send the names of several
who want husbands." Sheriff Clark
, pent him the names of half a dozen or
so.
Avery G. Wooden. 122S I,age avenue.
Rochester, N. Y., writes the sheriff he
is twenty-seven years old and that h?
wants a young widow.
Charles Ryan, Clifton Springs. N.
J Y? told the sheriff he is a farmer, but
I that he lias taken two years in a medical
college and expects to complete his
course, lie wants a wife.
Peter Grub. box 270, Erie Railroad
V \ f A 1 XT T ........ I
liis letter: "I see where you have lots
of wives to give away. Give me one."
Thaddeus Stargeskl, 200 Waverly avenue,
Newark, N. J., Is delighted with
the prospects. "Just read the Joyful
news of an unlimited supply of letters
from females wanting husbands,"
he writes Sheriff Clark. "1 am a graduate
electrician. Send mo some letters."
Wants a Sensible Widow.
"Your name sounds good to me,"
Frank Ryan, 005 Lenox avenue, New
York, wrote to Sheriff Clark. "I want
a sensible widow."
Charles F. McDonald. 283 West 147th
street. New York, Is searching for an
uncle who disappeared thirty-live
years ago. The uncle's name was M. O.
Connor. An estate in Ireland cannot
be settled until he Is found. "Help me
find my uncle and I'll marry any woman
you want me to marry," he tells
Sheriff (hark.
Miss S. Mornnd, 382 St. Murk'^
place, Touipkinsville, Staten Island,
New York, is just 19 years old, and
"has hopes," she writes the sheriff. "I
have the very highest ideMls of Westerners,"
she says in her letter.
Miss Rita C. Wuleker, 205 West
101st street, Manhattan, New York,
( says: "I hear you nave a supply ol
I married men on hand. 1 want to settle
uown xu noiue me. 1 ain u million
! nurse, 40 years old, brown hair, gray
, eyes."
George Mulr, 351 West Thirty-ninth
j street, New York, has a real reason
for wanting to get married: "I have
I nose bleed and the doctpi says if I can
get married it will cure the trouble,"
j lie wrote Sheriff Clark.
New Jersey "bids" nil more
than 100. Letters from j,. .eiicnlly
every state in the Union are included
in that bushel of letters which standi
on the sheriff's desk.
R. L. McMANUS
Dentist
Chorrw, JS. C.
At Chesterfield Monday and V/cdne
day evenings.
At Pageland Tuesday.
At Mt. Croghnn Wc-dnesdny morn
"ifr.
At Mc'Hon Thursday.
At Cheraw Friday and Saturday.
By Charles Sughroe
k Wetfrm Nf*?upfr Union
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MOUNTAIN IM
IS LIKE AURORA
Curious Electrical Display in
IU.iL A I? 5*- -
i iiuriu Carolina txcues in- ?
terest of Scientists.
ONCE THOUGHT TO BE PHAHTOH
Suddenly and Without Warning Light
Sometimes Blazes Out on Crest of
Mountain, Moves Down Side
and Fades Out.
Washington, D. C.?"Tired professors
and business men who sought
surcease from their sorrows In the
mountainous regions of western North
Carolina have during the past few
summers given up some of their muchneeded
hours of sleep to chase what
most of them believed to be nothing
tnore than a phantom, or the witch
fires of some maker of mountain dew,
hut the Brown mountain light Is now
! coming Into Its own as an accredited
electrical |#ienomenon," says a bulletin
of the National Geographic so1
ciety. Issued from its Washington, D.
, headquarters.
I "Brown mountain lies 17 miles from
Blowing Hock In the Blue mountains
In the western part of the state, nod,
though plainly visible from the resort,
is in an uninhabited and sparse);*
wooded section. Suddenly and without
warning a light sometimes blazes
out on the crest of the mountain, slowly
moves down Br side and then faces
out; sometimes It seems to rise from
the top of the mountain and hang suspended
In the air where It fades.
A Wraith of I -.finite Variety.
{ ?Tt l...w .10 ...I. 1 ...-.J
4.V Iiwo UO Iiiuu%y ? iiiiua UIIU IUUHU3
as a temperamental artist, sometimes
appearing several times dump
one night, now stationary, now si .v,
again swift in its flight, r id
: sometimes It cannot l>e seen f<?
comparatively long period of time, u
i usually is most active w' ?" he
, 8Jty is clear ; g^u.'n a ?
who have siuU< *
say that it er'
j star fr stiug s...
1 tllOllgll 111 CU ... "* e" i tlia. 's
sometimes red and s> s yet
1 due probably to the c-? ..on of th
! atmospliere.
"Scientists were at nrst prone to
cuvii at the stories which came oui of
the mountains with tlie tourists, tli uk]
In.it perliaps that locomotive head
lipids or wily mountaineers were p'ay
ing tricks on active imaginations, but
! tmlay !>r. \V. sT. limnplir physicist
j of the United States v < bureau,
j and other meteorologists of note, believe
t lint there occurs otmd the
mountain's crest a bra- i dis^hu'. -vf
lightning, siiaii ir to ti.o famous Am s
lightning, or the St. Ikmo's tire, which
j gir rise among t ie ancient Cr< eks
I to the myth of Castor and I'o'lnx.
I Thut glow which accompanies tlie
slow discharge of e 'trinity to the
earth from the atmosphere, in southern
climates, during thunderstorms,
seen -n the tops of masts, si>! "es, or
other pointed objects was muivd S'
Kline's tire by- sailors after one or
their patron saints, lieeause 11 -y f"'t
that when the sign appeared thei
! :'! nothing further to fear from the
storm.
Compared to Andos Display.
"I'eihaps the most remark.hie feature
of the electrical discharge whirl
lakes place either from the earth to
Ihe clouds or from the clouds to the
earth around Rrow? mountain Is thnt
It Is silent. The same thing Is true
of the electrical displays In the Andes,
which have ioeg been known tc scientists
and travelers in the South American
continent as the Andes lightning.
It appears as a ?sileut l>. very luminous
discharge of electrl.Uy uh ic '
crest of the Cordillera Ileal in Chile,
In a region where thunderstorms are
practically unknown.
"Its visibility Is sometimes very
marked, having been noted by ihe former
director of the Meteorological
and Geophysical Institute of Chile,
while he was out at sea, mo-e than
800 miles from the head cordlllera.
The actual discharge, In which the
mountain acts as a lightning rod between
the clouds and the earth, resembles
a glimmer, but sometimes the
: flashes which take plnce at the point
I of origin are strong and powerful,
j then gradually diminish In Intensity
i and finally disappear Into the night
i The light flashes over the mountain
I from late spring to fall, and the tlls|
plays grow less brilliant as one grs's
farther south.
"The ? ? I im phenomenon has c'so
been not ;i the Swiss nips. :j?
?> ,cr\cPk niter n long |>er1o?l of rot
nml dry went her. reported thnt he
seen n sueeesslon of semi ?lrci litr
' shot np from mo mtlli.i
?
sio'inll.v Uglitiii,
S;i.*li it's] ' 'vs i
liberies; ee to tn
e\eept li. ?t to ?'neii h
he'ghts."
ra^ F INT?Store i. use at Teal's
? Mill. See Dr. Teal. It
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I Statement of the
'Home Building ant
j ..ocated at Chesterfield, S. C., at the
RESOURCES ,
Stock Loan Account ....$30,342.00
Bank Accounts 296.70
TOTAL $30,038.70
Directors elected for year as fol
Dot* .lass, James Ross, B. F. TeAl,
Knight, and H. E. Wilson.
Officers elected for the year as fol!
Ro Vice-President, C. C. Dou-lass,
and D. L. Smith, Loan and Budding >
New series of stock opens Octoh
chase of stock see any of the follow
soliciting: J. A. Welsh, J. A. Knight,
Wilson, G. M. Smith, F. S. Bluir,
i THE RE.
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in life, but what you gain by hoi.
successful. What are you doing to
funds for futute ne da by startin
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President Vice-I
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LIABILITIES
Capita] $23,8<?C.00
Money borrowed G,000.00
Profits 1,758.70
ruiAL ?an,638.70
lows: J. C. Rivers, J. A. Welsh, C. C.
G. M. Smith, D. L. Smith, J. A.
ows: J. C. Rivers, President, James
Sec.-Treas.; J. A. Welsh, B. F. Teal,
Committees.
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members, of committee on stock
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C. P. Mangum.
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| MADE HISTORY
By JAMES C. YOUNG.
i ?j?C8caMc?^c0ce><ie?c??oac0O8C0?oec8ce3eo0CfiS
(It) by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
THE FIREBRAND OF THE REVOLUTION.
IF IT had not been for a woman
the French Revolution might never
uuve iHKen piace. 11 wun viciooer u,
1789. Outside the palace of Versailles
a mob of women from I'nrls cried for
bread and the head of "the Austrian
woman," Marte Antoinette. She and
Louis XVI looked from the windows,
and Marie nsked: "\Vhy don't they eat
cake?"
The women had dragged cannon
from Paris, which they could not fire
because the ruin had wet their powder.
Versailles was protected by the
royal bodyguard and a regiment of
Flemings. The local post of the Garde
Nationale was In sympathy with the
women and would have helped them,
but they had no cartridges.
At this point enters Theroigne de
Merlcourt. already a heroine ot republican
I'nrls. and a vampire who had
laid waste many hearts. She appeared
before Versn llles In a red silk dress, a
big hot with a feather, and a satire at
her belt. She went among the women
and picked willing spirits to uttuck
the Flemings. Their "attack" was mnde
with kisses?a kiss for u cartridge.
: Soon the Garde Nutlonale fired on the
bodyguard. The next day Versailles
was stormed. Marie escaped In her
petticoat.
Hack In Paris, Theroigne was acclaimed
n queen of the Revolution. On
Aliens! 10. 170*2. she ted in flie ntliu-k
on the Tuileries and the massacre of
the Swiss guard. The sinister
Robespierre. revolutionary leader, was
said to have been one of her Intimates.
But before he came to his
greatest power suspicion pointed to
Theroigne In n plot to assassinate
Marie. She was kidnaped and carried
to Austria in a carriage, and there pitt
J on tr'al for her life. She succeeded
In reaching Leopold II and "vamped"
her way to freedom.
Then came the tremendous event? r.f**'
| I7!t *>. Robespierre rose to ho t' < '"r"T
| man < f the state, rut T' ??' no anj
notineed thrf she had "wit. n I r
confidence" from him and " d ins
enemies. Her opposition m
.strenuous that Robespierre hire*' a
( hand of \vo:nrn to tr.5:c hi r:wnr.
I They intercepted Theroigne Sortie : .
; Tuileries. the scene of li? r glory in
17S2. This time she did not wear low
sabre. The wnnvn overpowered
i Theroismo, turned iter pett'erars ever
j her head and spanked iter before the
Parisian crowd.
No human reputation could have
| withstood such Ignominy. The sty
I Robespierre had struck Theroljrne 3
j death blow. Paris laughed, her great
deeds were forgotten and only her
i shame known. She lost all political
power over n'ght and not long afterward
her mind as wOll.
I? ? i.
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Stories of *'**
Great Scouts w7,L
<t\ Western Newspaper Union.
I FORS YTH'S SCOUTS, THE ORIGINAL
"F.OUGH RIDERS''
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I This is me story ot .>i scouts, Inj
stead of Just one, for together they
I won undying fume in one of the
fiercest battles ever f<>u;:h\ with the
Indians on the frontier. \To> were
Forsyth's Scouts, the* "IioV;;li 11 dors
of 18<5,S." Gen. George A. Forsyth was
their leader?"Sandy" Forsyth, he hud
been called In Civil war days.
The scouts left Fort Wullace, Kan.,
in puiatit of u hand of i?og Soidier
Cheyei ties who had been raiding in
western Kansas. Early one September
morning while they were camped . ? ?.
on tin; Arlcknree river in eastern Colorado
the Indians appeared and tried
to stampede their horses. As the
I BtMnns prpp?"'?i i'? mount anu give
battle, Sharpe Grover, their guide,
touched Forsyth on the arm. "Oh,
heavens, general!" he crtei, "look at
the Indiana!"
In the next Instant the surrounding
hills and valleys were nllve with savages,
who charged down upon the
scouts, but were driven off by a 'ew
volleys. Surrounded and hopelessly
outnumbered, there was hut one thing
for Forsyth to do. In the center of
the stream was a little Island on which
grew a few small trees. "Make for
the Island, men!" shouted Forsyth.
"It's our only elinnce."
They reached the Island Just In time.
While Indian riflemen along the hanks
of the stream poured In a hot fre. a
picked body of 500 warriors led by
the Cheyenne chief, Komnn Nose,
charged down upon them, intending to
ride over Forsyth's band In one red
wave of destruction. The Ind'rns
were beaten hack, they settled flown to
besiege the scouts.
Twenty-three of the 51 .'<>rt< l.ad
been killed or wounded who <>vcii
came. Forsyth was su: er from >
three wounds and I.leut. Fred F echer,
I lie DCIUIIU ill c-f (III 11 ill rm, IIM O IXH'll
killed, us had the only surgeon In the
command.
For nine days. In spite of hunger
and wounds, the little hand of scouts
heat off the Cheycnnes, until t\*n of
the scouts managed to slip tlsrou h
the Indian lines at night and guide a
force of cavalry to their p-seue. Onc?
Forsyth gave the unwounded scouts
a chance to try to escape, leaving him
and the other wounded to the'r f.tfe.
htit they refused. "We've fought together,
and we'll die together. If we
must!" was their heroic answer.
The Island was named Ite??cher*s
island, lo honor of their lieutenant,
and today a monument stands on it
to mark forever the place where Forsyth's
Scouts fought so bravely.
Pleasnd at B'owout.
Tuba City, Cal.?Ted O'O nnor of
Sun Franel|cn Is hailed here as t?>?>
only autolst in the world who has , ; \
found genuine pleasure In a blowout.
While on a motoring trip w'tli fcls
wife through the JKuba county hills a - Jjj