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[left] FOUR [center] THE GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1912.

[first column]
GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT
Established 1834.
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Every afternoon except Sunday. At
[235 S. Main St?] Greenville S.C.
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denstein, Inc. 118 East 28th St, New
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denstein, Inc. 506 Boyce Bldg. Chicago,
Ill.
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The Greenville Dail Piedmont will
publish brief and rational letters on
subjects of general interest when they
are signed by their authors and are
not of a defamatory nature.
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orders should be made payable to The
Daily Piedmont.
GEO. R. KOESTER, Publisher
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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1912
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Rainy days are good days for
swatting flies.
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Only a few weeks until the water-
melon season.
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Everybody's going to Chick
Springs tomorrow.
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Wonder what Mr. Cummins would
take for his ten votes?
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June brides will be exactly one
dollar higher this year than last.
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Hoeing cotton would be good ex-
ercise for the school boys after this
week.
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One idea of a mean man is that
Minnesota pastor who stole a blind
man's wife.
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Our idea of people for whom to
feel sorry is the baseball fans of
Spartanburg.
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The strawberry preserves will be
all right after the strawberries
themselves are gone.
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It has been a long time since pic-
tures of Cuba adorned the front
pages of the papers.
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We don't belive that Doc Wiley
would approve of eating cucubers
and we are sure we don't.
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Choosing between Wilson and
Clark will be almost like choosing
between Bryan and Hearst.
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"Hoch die Norfolk" exclaims The
Charlotte Observer. We hope it will
be painless if it does come.
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Mayor John P. Grace of Charles-
ton is turning loose some interest-
ing reading matter these days.
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An exchange describes automobile
racing as "throwing dice with
death." Which isn't so bad.
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What has become of the old fash-
ioned country school that didn't
have what is known as a "graduat-
ing class?"
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We wish Mr. Bryan would get him
a good job of some sort so so
wouldn't always be worrying the
Democratic party.
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It can't at least be said of South
Carolina that Tom Watson, of Geor-
gia, or Marion Butler, of North Car-
olina, ever lived in it.
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The Augusta Herald has an edi-
torial on "The Fly in Poetry." We
suppose it can do less harm there
than any where else.
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That city is mighty poorly situated
where boosters cannot arrange a
map showing it to be the center
of some wonderful sector.
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The Atlanta Journal wants to
know what has become of the old
fashioned men who used to under
"his" from out of town?
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The Nashville Tennesseen says
that for a child, which weighs only
nine and a half pounds that Wiley
baby has made a lot of noise.
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If the Socialists had not been in
such a hurry to hold their conven-
tion they might have been able to
have secured Mr. Roosevelt to accept
their presidential nomination after
the Republican nominate Taft.
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News that Wilbur Wright, the fa-
mous aviator and co-inventor of the
aeroplane, will not recover from an
attack of typhoid fever will to re-
ceived with the greatest regret the
world over. Together with his
brother Orville, he has made a name
that will go down in history. We
hope that he will yet survive the at-
tack of that dread disease.
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Every once in awhile, The Ches-
ter Lantern gets gay by copying a
squib from The Times and placing a
foolish heading on it, thereby mak-
ing a ass of itself—Fort Mill
Times. Does the copying of the
squib from The Times or the plac-
ing the foolish heading over it con-
stituting the "making an ass of it-
self?"

[second column]

FOR THE SENATE.

Thomas W. Lawson, author of
"Frenzied Finance," an unusual
man in many respects, has announc-
ed his candidacy for the United
States senate from Massachusetts to
succeed Murray Crane, who will not
offer for re-election. The announce-
ment of the latter that he would re-
tire was made only last week and
Mr. Lawson immediately threw
his hat into the ring.

My many, Mr. Crane's announce-
ment is looked upon as a concession
of his defeat and that of the admin-
istration. In the Massachusetts pri-
mary, he was a candidate for dele-
gate at large to the Chicago conven-
tion on the Taft ticket and he was
defeated by a very large majority.
He has been recognized as one of
the Taft administration's strongest
friends and it is quite likely that
this endorsement which Massachu-
setts gave to Roosevelt was inter-
preted by him to mean his own
downfall. Rather than be kicked out,
he decided to step out.

Thomas Lawson is known the
world over. His career has been
an exceedingly checkered one. An
exchange says of him:

"Commencing active life as an
office boy in a broker's establish-
ment, he had thorough drilling in
the art of manipulating stocks; and
filled with the spirit of gambler,
freesharer, and adventurer, with a
remarkable intelligence, and having
an unusual state of energy, he
charged headlong into the Wall
Street game and won millions. La-
ter, with the same aggressiveness
he entered the magazine field and
wrote numerous articles on the op-
erations of Standard Oil magnates.
The social object of his attacks was
Henry H. Rogers, famous in big fi-
nance and as the builder of the Vir-
ginian railway. In this campaign of
confession and denunciation he at-
tracted widespread attention and for
a while was one of the most talked
of men in the country.

"Lawson is many times a million-
aire, a veritable product of the
bucket shop, but a man of undoubted
talent and exceptional mental cap-
acity. In point of ability he is prob-
ably Crane's superior, and while the
owner of a vast estate, he would
not lack in sympathy for the cause
or causes of the people. To citizens
of conservative views and strange re-
straint, Lawson's candidacy will not
appleal; but there are others, and the
number of them is not small, who
will regard him as well fitted for the
office to which he aspires. A queer
combination of qualities, some at-
tractive and some unattractive, we
have to doubt that Massachusetts
will think a long time before acced-
ing to his wishes."

We hardly think Mr. Lawson a
fit man to represent Massachusetts
or any other state in the upper
house of Congress. Should he be
fortunate enough to secure the Re-
publican nomination, which is very
unlikely, it is highly probable that
he would be rejected by the people
of his state. The laws of this
country ought not to be made by a
man who has lived in the past as
Lawson has lived.
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ROOSEVELT IN HISTORY

Theodore Roosevelt, as he will go
down in history, will be greatly
different from the Theodore Roose-
velt, who is today so greatly ad-
mired in some of the states of the
nation. The reason will be the atten-
dance of official data in the archives
of the Department of Justice in
Washington which shows beyond
successful contradiction that Roose-
velt is allied and always has been
with the "far-reaching interests"
the same interests which are now fi-
nancing with a lavish hand his cam-
paign for the nomination.

Although the ex-president, past
master of politics that he is, may
be able to lead thousands of voters
to believe that he is really against
and independent of the great indus-
trial trusts which are ever tighten-
ing the screws on the American
public and sending up prices; even
though Mr. Roosevelt may be able
to temporarily fool the majority of
the people in this regard and be
again nominated for the presidency,
he will not be able to fool historians.
The data at the Depatment of Jus-
tice, revealing his refusal to bring
vriminal prosecution against Geo.
W. Perkins for organizing the ille-
gal harvest trust, will be considered
with the sworn statement of the
Roosevelt campaign committee in
New York showing Perkins contri-
buting thousand of dollars in the
attempt to return Roosevelt to the
White House. This chain of strong
circumstancial evidence, showing,
first, Roosevelt, shielding Perkins
from the probability of a jail sen-
tence and, second, the millionaire
harvester trust, magnate showing his
appreciation by contributing his
tainted dollars to Roosvelt's cam-
paign fund, must surely be comment-
ed upon by Roosevelt's historian.

History will have to tell that dur-
ing all the time he was in the White
House, as well as when running for
a third term, Roosevelt and Perkins
were in frequent conference. His-

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tory will show that in the years be-
tween 1905 and 1912, when J. P.
Morgan's partner, showed Morgan
how to dominate the boards of direc-
tors of all the great railroads, steam
ship lines, express, telegraph and
telephone line banks, insurance com-
panies and the big industrial trusts,
to the end that Morgan now has a
strangle hold on a corporate wealth
of over thirty-five billion dollars,
which is nearly one-third of the to-
tal wealth of the nation.

Mr. Roosevelt's history will also
relate that while he was president
Burdette D. Townsend, one of his
assistant attorneys general, investi-
gated the harvester trust, reported
that it was a monopoly of the most
viscious character, that it was hold-
ing up the farmers, that all the
plans for its organization and mani-
pulation had been conceived and ex-
ecuted by Roosevelt's friend, Geo.
W. Perkins, and that Mr. Roosevelt's
answer to the recommendation of
the investigator to prosecute the
trust was an order to his attorney
general not to start suit, which ac-
tion saved Perkins from a possible
penitentiary sentence and the trust
from prosecution.

Not one out of a hundred persons
the country over knows of these
facts, and it is impossible to educate
all of the people on a subject like
this in a short time. But Mr.
Roosevelt's historians will find it all.
And perhaps even more. So, al-
though Mr. Roosevelt may be able
to fool the people of his own time
his acts will live against him in his-
tory!
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GIVE THE FACTS.
The Greer News-Leader in the
issue of last week said:

"It is about time the State legis-
lature should pass some law prevent-
ing newspaper reporters from har-
rowing the feelings of people with
graphic descriptions of the condemn-
ed criminal's last horrible moments
in the death cell, his march to the
chair and the contortions of his body
and face as the deadly current
strikes his frame. What good can
come of the rehearsal of this?"

To which The Columbia Record
replied:

"We can not agree with our con-
temporary in advocating a law to
prevent the publication of the de-
tails of legal executions. "Harrow-
ing" they may be, and shocking to
the sensitive mind, but the publicity
given such executions as that of
Clarence V. T. Richeson in Boston
and Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., in
Richmond, serves a purpose other
than satisfying the craving for the
morbid.

"A legal execution is very hard to
justify, but it is an established in-
stitution and the justice of it does
not belong in this discussion. The
law was never designed for revenge
or to influct physical suffering upon
the murderer. It was not designed
primarily to punish the perpetrator
of such a crime, but to demonstrate
that retributive justice follows the
commission of such an act. A legal
execution is more in the nature of a
warning to others who may contem-
plate taking the life of another. The
life of a murdered man can not be
restored through the destruction of
the life of the man who killed him.
But the executions of murderers
have had a salutary effect upon those
who have no respect for the lives of
others. The legal execution has pre-
vented thousands from taking hu-
man life, and the example set by
the law will fail in its mission if
publicity be not given. The more
harrowing the details, the more ef-
fective it will be upon those for
whom it is intended. By all means
let there be publicity of legal execu-
tions that the whole world may know
what will happen when murder is
done."

We agree with The Record. When
Beattie was executed the same dis-
cussion was provoked and at the
same time we stated our belief that
publication of the full details of
these electrocutions would lend to
warn others from putting them
selves liable to a like fate.
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OUR CLIMATE.

Spring has just come to Greenville
while Rock Hill is in the midst of
summer. That is just about the dif-
ference in the two places. Green-
ville behind and Rock Hill ahead.—
Rock Hill Herald.

We will say for the benefit of
Brother Fain that we have spring
weather the year around. In the
winter it is pleasant here just as it
is in the summer. We sympathize
with the Rock Hill folks who are in
the midst of the summer heat al-
ready. They can find relief by com-
ing to Greenville.
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We cannot help but wish that
Governor Wilson will win out in the
New Jersey primary today. If he
has done anything good at all since
he entered politics it was the smash-
ing of the rotten political machine
which existed in the skeeter state.
This machine is making an awful ef-
fort today to come back at him. The
machine has the support of none of
Governor Wilson's opponents so it
is declaring for an "uninstructed"

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delegation. We cannot help, how-
ever, but think how differently Mr.
Wilson's opponents have acted from
Mr. Wilson though. In Ohio Wilson
let Harmon's enemies use his name
but in New Jersey Harmon wouldn't
let Wilson's enemies use his name.
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[cartoon spans top of columns 4 and 5)
A LOAFER
By Miss Hilda Wadsell Illustrated by Wellman

I met a man-once on a time—
Who seemed inclined to shirk.
He said his clothes were seedy, so
No one would give him work"

[Cartoon image of two gentleman facing each other. The one on the right, a smartly dressed gentlema says: WHY DON'T YOU WORK. The one on the left is wearing dirty trousers and says: I LOOK TOO SEEDY.

I helped him out with things to wear
Complete from head to toes.
But now he says he cannot work
'Cause that would spoil his clo'es.

[Cartoon image of the same two gentleman. Both gentleman are smartly dressed. The first gentleman is saying "WELL, WHY DON'T YOU GET A JOB NOW?" The newly smartly dressed gentleman is walking away saying "WHAT! SPOIL ALL THESE GOOD CLOTHES? NIX!

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It is a sad commentary upon a
man's interest in affairs of state and
nation if he doesn't take a daily
newspaper now. With both state
and national politics at fever heat,
it would seem that every person who
can read would be subscribing to the
daily papers.
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Colonel Henry Watterson declares
that Roosevelt is a maniac and that
he ought to be in an asylum. Oth-
ers say he ought to be in jail.
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Tom Felder first had a big row
with Cole Blease. Now he is en-
gaged in one with Tom Watson.
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Back at the Piedmont
Has Quit.

Greensboro News.
Booker asks: "Planted any cane
yet?" Naw, done quit raisin' it.

Pshaw.

Greensboro News
The Greenville Piedmont, in a
grouchy frame of mind, says: "A
man moved from Winston-Salem, N.
C. to Greensboro the other day. He
is entitled to neither sympathy or
congratulations. [oSort] of stand off."
He is to be congratulated that he
was smart enough not to move to
Greenville.

Campaign Slug.

Greenwood Journal.
The Greenville Piedmont has un-
earthed the fact that one of the
campaign slugs used by the Blease
people is that Judge Jones is a Rus-
sian Jew.

IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

(By Ada Foster Murray—Mrs. Henry
Mills Alden—in Harper's Weekly.)

Through the woods of Carolina
Starry banners light the shadows,
For the dogweed is in blossom—
Dogwood; and the yellow jasmine,
And the maples' coral fringes,
And azaelas flushed with morning.

Up the twilight of the marshes
Green the tide of spring is creeping,
Where the sheeted oaks are lonely
In their mosses, gray and solemn.
By the tall pines, gazing downward
In the swamps of Carolina,
Stark and [pallied] are the spectres
Of the ancient trees departed.

Sadness, dreams within the woodland,
An enchanted melancholy
As a web hangs from the branches
Sorrow brooding on the waters
Lifts the brow of wistful beauty,
And her voice is music sighing
Through the woods of Carolina.
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SPARKLERS '

PROGRESSIVE ECONOMY

Walter G. Doty, in Judge.
For simon-poor economy she surely
set the pace;
She made her own cheap dress at
home and trimmed it with old
lace;
And then to match the lace she
bought a forty-dollar hat,
And a twenty-dollar parasol to har-
monize with that.

To give the hat a jaunty cast she
needed much new hair,
And then her gloves were out of
tone, and so got a pair;
And next she bought some dainty
shoes—ten dollars more or less
And last a sixty-dollar gown—then
threw away the dress".
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Catholic Standard and Times

Hard Lines—"You haven't really
broken with him!" exclaimed Miss
Ascum. "Why, I thought he was
your ideal." "So he was", replied Miss
Fickell, "but as soon as I find a man
who sizes up to my ideal, it just
seems to be my luck to have the fash-
ion in ideals change."
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Judge's Library

Unauthorized Liberty—"Why
Mrs. Jocko, you seem vexed! What's
the trouble?" "Trouble enough, Mrs.
Tiger. Dr. Leo is using my portrait
to advertise his beauty parlor."
"That's a compliment." "Not much!
Dr. Leo has labeled my photo, "Be-
fore Taking Our Treatment."

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Judge's Library

"Oh, sweet bucolic maid," he cried.
"You whom the poet's terms ox-eyed.
Although the term be hazy;
Your hair is of that golden hue
The daisy's hear owns, so must
you
Be called an ox-eyed daisy!".

"Excuse me, youth," the maid re-
plied,
"But do you praise me or deride?
Yours words, indeed are hazy.
For, let me tell you plain, sir
I am that which I am, a per—
A—peroxide daisy."
Houston Post.
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Judge's Library

Wasn't a painless dentist—"My
dentist has retired from the practice
of his profession." "Is that so?
Why?" "He couldn't reconcile his
business with his religion." "What
was the trouble?" "He's a Christian
Scientist".
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[Cartoon image of a smartly dressed gentleman with a walking stick, tartan trousers, waistcoat and hat. Talking to a smartly dressed woman holding an unopened umbrella and wearing an extravagant hat]

LOGICAL.

Perry—Yes, I thought all the world of
her.
Kitty—Then why did you give her up?
Perry—I could not support the whole
world.
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NO TROUBLE
To Attach a Pair of
"VELVET"
Neverslip Plus
RUBBER HEELS

Wear a pair on your shoes
today. Attached by
G.W. PIEGLER,
Court St. Greenville, S.C.
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[advertisement for Piedmont Lumber Co.]

FOR FURNITURE
of all kinds and all
interior woodwork.
Just Use
CAMPBELL'S
The Original
VARNISH
STAIN
Good for Floors too
your dealer sells in
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For Sale By

A R. THOMPSON,
GREENVILLE, S.C.
and
PIEDMONT LUMBER CO.
PIEDMONT, S.C.

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[advertisement for Smith & Bristow, spans cols. 6-7]

ALL THE GO.

Every man wishes to be neat and at the
same time comfortable. That is why the

Negligee Shirt with soft collars

is becoming more and more popular as the
sun's rays become more trying on man. They
are cool, airy and don't fit the neck like a paste-
board band, but lay loose and comfortable.

Prices 50c to $1.50.

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Corner Main & Washington Streets.

[advertisement for People's Bank of Greenville, spans cols. 6-7]

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A QUARTER CENTURY
THE
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S.C.

A BANK of large resources and
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[advertisement for Red Seal Spices]

USE
"RED SEAL SPICES"
ON YOUR TABLE
FRESH, CLEAN AND APPE-
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[advertisement for Mountain City Foundry]

[image of a man standing at sign post with the words "DO YOU KNOW THE WAY?"]

YOUR INSTRUCTION BOOK

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If your machine is getting "noisy"
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[advertisement for Shoe Shine Parlor, spans cols. 6-7]

Shoe Shine Parlor,
Now Open.
For Ladies and Gentlemen
AT
The Up-to-Date Shoe Repairing Co.
222 N.Main Street.

______________________________________________
[advertisement for Southeasern Life Ins., spans cols. 6-7]

WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!

"WOMEN and Children first!". This order from the deck of
the Titanic has suddenly set the world afire as if with a new
ideal. Artists have illustrated it with striking cartoons, minis-
ters have thundered it from pulpits and newspaper writers
have drawn its obvious moral and inspiration with pens that
varied from stupidity to genius. It is no new ideal. Life in-
surance agents and companies have preached and persuaded it in
the United States for seventy-five years until a monument
worth nearly thirty billions of dollars has been erected by
fathers, husbands and sons to the one vital and revivifying ideal
of the great Republic. It is the Titanic of the great social seas
and every dollar paid in for life insurance is a life boat in
which "women and children first" are to be rescued when the
captain of the family takes his last plunge from the bridge of
his domestic ship. Is it any wonder that the race of men who
have learned to sacrifice day to day for safety of these wo-
men and children should die with courage and resignation when
the crisis appears? Life insurance has had more to do with
ingraining this practical ideal into the race and making of men
alike is the presence of of the threatened family than any other
social business movement. Life insurance has always been and
will continue to be the one practicable life-boat for women and
children endangered in the mid-ocean of life.

Southeastern Life Insurance Co.
of South Carolina.

W.E. HOLBROOK,
General Agent. 314 Masonic Temple.

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[Advertisement for motor cars at Gibbes Machinery]

Chalmers
MOTOR CARS
GIBBES MACHINERY CO.
Spartanburg, S.C.
and Columbia, S.C.

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[advertisement for Piedmont Savings]

"Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean,
And the pleasant land"

Remember to have
heard this when a
child, don't you?

It is true today,
and one dollar opens
a Savings Account.

THINK IT OVER.

PIEDMONT SAVINGS
& INVESTMENT CO.,
HAMLIN BEATTIE, President,
LEWIS W.PARKER, Vice-Pres,
F.F. BEATTIE, Sect'y & Treas.