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- ) wis THE SUN Has More Than Doable The Circulation of Any Weekly Paper in The Tenth Congres sional District, Comprising "Thirteen Large Counties. I ' '.2 V ' Has More Than Double The , Circulation of Any Weekly -Panei in The Tenth Congres sional District, Comprising Thirteen Earge Counties. , .. VOL. 6. NO. 6. RUTHERFORDTON, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST iK 1905. $1.00 A YEAR. THE SUN HAS DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION OF ANY W EEKJ LY NEWSPAPER IN THE TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. "A .-.si " 'ah t i iu - u - i -, - f ON GALLOWS FOR ANOTHER'S CRIME C. H. Franklin Convicted of Mur der He Never Committed. REMARKABLE EXPEREINCE He Stood On The Scaffold With The Noose Around His Neck A 20 . Minute Reprieve Secured Com : mutation To A Life Sentence : The Deathbed Confession Of The True Murderer Secures His Re lease An Effort Now Being Made To Get The Georgia Legislature To Remunerate Him For His Long Years In The Penitentiahy As An Innocent And Persecuted Man How it feels to stand upon the gal lows with a rope around your neck, believing that in a few seconds your soul will be launched into eternity; what frightful sufferings of soul and r body are undergone at such a cruel : moment; the effects of the terrible reaction when there conies a sudden and unexpected reprieve; what au agony it is to be tried, convicted and sentenced for niurderj What it is to serve a lifetime sentence with all hope - gone wife, children, home all blotted out forever; how mortal man can stand all these fearful ordeals and know in his soul that he is not guilty of the crime laid at his door, are vividly and -tbrillingly told in the story of his life as related by Charles Henry Franklin. Arrested, tried and convicted in Bibb county, ua., for a murder he never committed, Franklin stood on the " scaffold with the noose around hiz neck; a twenty minute reprieve se cured a communication to a ute sen tence, and for more than a score of years he toiled in convict stripes, on ly the deathbed confession of the true murderer securing a release from a life worse than death. Bowed with age and the effects of many years of arduous toil, Jthe man who suffered for another's crime came out of the convict camp like a prison er from the Bastile to find his wife dead, his only child, whom he had never seen, married and a mother, be reft of friends, and home, ill and a pauper, were the more recent exper iences of this victim of a foul plot for revenge. THE CRY OF INNOCENCE. Such terrible sufferings come to but few men in this world, and through them all through the trial, where perjury stifled justice, through the solemn words of the judge, "to be hanged until you are dead," through the hopeless days in prison, the awful moments on the grim gallows, and through all the long, weary years of toil, there ever rang the heartrending cry: "I am innocent!" Franklin is in Atlanta awaiting the result of an effort which is being made to get the legislature to remunerate him for the years he lost while work ing as a convict when he was an inno . cent man. From his own lips I heard the story of his life, freighted with more suffer ing of mind, soul and body than can be conjured up in the tales, of the Bastile and the Inquisition. Franklin is 65 yearsold. He is stoop shouldered and there is a furtive hounded look in his eyes that only comes to the convict of many years. He says he has never taken a drink of alcoholic liquor in his life, and this probably accounts for his being in very fairhealth. His health, however was broken while in the penitentiary, . and when a hand was cut oh in a saw mill he laid in bed many months. Af ter he was pardoned he went to a hos pital where he remai aed for over a year. He is a pauper, too old and weak to begin life over again; he de pends upon the State that made him - suffer giving a competence for the few remaining years of his life. ' Eecently he has been sleepi ng at the police barracks, and charitable peo- pie have -given him enough to buy food. When asked about his life as a convict, he said: STOOD ON THE GALLOWS. . " Whenever I think of .the time I stood on the gallows with the hang ' maa's rope about my neck, I shudder aQd cold cnills run down my back. I " dream, sometimes of 'the awful mo- merits when I look back upon ti-5P tbey now seem like an age. Be ' for ib' day set for my execution , I .r& friMoed, but . when I at last r &f that the titna bad :- ( I tttr perfectly calm, I da not believe people who hang have any real fear. 1 did not, and I felt a . kind of curiosity about what I was going to see when I was dead. I even became impatient for the hangman to spring the trigger. While walking up the steps to the scaffold I reviewed my whole past life. I thought of enough to fill a book in four or five seconds. I watched with the keenest interest the sheriff while he got everything ready. I almost felt like helping him. But the terrible time was to come. When my lawyer cried out that he had a reprieve, a fearful reaction came, and I was awfully frightened. I could feel my heart beating against my ribs like a sledge hammer. My breath came with sucn difficulty that I co'uld scarcely breathe. I looked upon the gallows and the rope and screamed in fright. My God, it was a horrible ex penence. J-o you Know, at tnat very hour my wife was dying? The thought that I was to die upon the gallows kill ed her, and she left a little girl only three days old. Then came all the years, twenty-one of them, when worked as a convict. When I stood on the gallows, when I toned in the stripes, there was but one cry in my heart, and it was that I was an inno cent man suffering for another' crime. I don't Know how a man feels when he is to be hanged for a murder he committed, but 1 know when he stands on the gallows au innocent person he has feelings that no words or pen can describe. Franklin was asked for a full story of nis life from the time he was ac cusea or muraer, ior wnicn ne inno cently suffered, and he replied: STORY OF THE EX-CONVICT. ' I was born in Maine, in 1840, and came to Georgia in 1&61. I enlisted in the confederate army in the Griffin volunteers. After the war I went to Macon. In 1380 1 had a fight with Fred Knight, and whipped him. That same year, in July, Mit Bryant was found stabbed and in a dying condi tion. Knight informed the officers of the law that I had done the stabbing and I was arrested and placed in jail Bryant was engaged to be married to Knight's sister, and after he was stab bed he married her. It was thought he was getting well, and he went to Augusta where he died two months afrer he was stabbed. I believe that Knight stabbed Bryant because he did not want him to marry his sister. Knight did not say this in his death bed confession, but I think that such was the case. I was placed on trial in October, ioou. jvnignt swore tnat ne saw me with Bryant a short while before the stabbing, and he stole $900 from his latuer wuu wnicn ne nired two ne groes to swear against me. One of the negroes testified that he heard me say that I would fix Bryant. I was convicted and sentenced to hang by Judge T. J. Simmons, now chief ius tice of Georgia. My attorney made a motion for a new trial, and Judge Simmons granted it. I was defended by Bartlett & Dessau. " 'At my second trial in April, 1881 I was again convicted, and sentenced to hang on July 1, 1881. When the appeal to the supreme court had fail edigaveup all hope and prepared for death. Three days before the day for my execution my wife gave birth to a little girl, our first born. I heard that my wife was very ill, and not ex pected to live. She died on the morn ing of July 12 and it was my expected death that killed her. . "V 4.1 m T -m - kju tue morning oi j uiy lz 1 was dressed for the gallows, and all the last formalities were gone through with. I heard the death warrant read without a tremor. I had been afraid in the days before, but I was calm and selfpossessed. I used to wonder how a man felt when about to be banged, and thought as many others do, that there was a terrible fear and a fright that was horrible, but I know better now. The good God that nrenares a man for death under other circum stances, is with him on the gallows, and mercifully gives courage for the ordeal. I was made to stand on the trap-door, the trigger having been set and the noose was tied about my neck. I closed my eyes and made a short, fer vent prayer. SAVED AT LAST MOMENT. "One of my attorneys, Charles Bart lett, the congressman, ; jumped upon uue scauuiu ana saia : "Xhis man is innocent, and 1 will die by him." "Judge Simmons had granted a twenty minute reprieve in order that Governor Smith, who was then ' gov ernor of Georgia, could be heard from by wire about a petition asking that my sentence be commuted to life im prisonment. The governor wired to the sheriff that my petition had been granted. The noose was taken from my neck and I was told that life was mine. Life? What had I Rained? I had made np my mind to die, and even courted death, and now I was to be given a living death that was to last for years and -years, until my hair grew gray and my body was old and feeble. I believed when 1 stood od the scaffold that I was going to heaven, and now I was tube placed in a hell on earth. Still " life - is sweet, and knowing I was I d noceat, there wo the bope that Borne day justice would be done. It came at last, but it came late, very, very late. "My first work in the penitentiary was done on the Old Town farm in 1 Jefferson county. I stayed there only three weeks when I wa removed to the East Tennessee railroad, now a part of the Southern svstem, where I worked grading the roadbed for about four years. I was not used to such work and I suffered terribly. When the grading was finished I was taken to the Alexander quarry in Fulton county, where 1 helped to get out rocks with which Atlanta's streets were paved. In May, 1884, I went to Cole City to work in the coal mines and 1 stayed there twelve years, when I was removed to James' lumber mills and farm in Emanuel county. It was there that I had my left hand cut off in the saw mill. When I had served six years in the mill I was pardoned. Knight had confessed on his deathbed that he killed Bryant and that I was innocent. He confessed, I suppose, be- cause he wanted to make peace with uis uou oeiure ne uieu. May vjihi iui - , A ; T. give him for what he did to me. It . ? rf a 1 1 J! 1 M m 1 Jt I was worse, far worse than the murder of Bryant. FREEDOM GAVE NO joy. They say it is a glorious thine to be told you are a free man when you are a convict, but I did not feel that way. I was too old to begin life again. I went into the penitentiary when I was only 44 years of age, in the prime of life. Everything I had on eartn had gone to pay for my defense in the courts, and I was a pauper without home and friends. I was in feeble health. I went back to Macon and re mained in the hospital several months. When I was strong enough I tried to make my living by serving as a night waicuman. 1 naa spent twent,y-one years as a convict, ana me Desi years of a man's life. "I had never seen my daughter. I ascertained that she was married and living in Fernandina, Fla. She help ed me to visit her, and saw a grown woman, who was a babe three days old when her father stood with the hang man's rope ready to strangle him, She was a mother, and I was a grand father. It all sounds very strange, doesn't it? Just like some of the sto ries vou read in the old time dime nov els, but it is ail true yes, too true. How was my daughter raised and educated? That is another story. You koow that convicts are allowed to work overtime and they are paid for extra work. I worked in this way as often as 1 could, and every dollar I made I gave to the education and the raising of my child. 1 am tiying to be thankful for what blessings have come to me late in life, but the shadow of IfiA irallnwc q rwl tlio nanitant iurv ia 1 over ib an. When the old man had finished hls story he arose abruptly and walked away. "He will go into the woods some-My where and troubles," remarked a police officer whoknows Franklin and his history, 'He has spells of melancholia very of ten when he speaks of nis terrible ex periences." ine diii ior tnerenei or f ranklin is now pending in the legislature. He has been told that as much as $50,000 might be given him, and he will re- main in Atlanta until the legislature adjourns. Gordon Noel Hurtel in At- lanta Constitution. Smith have purchased the mill property oi Dir. xv. m. McEntire, near Nam to, and took charge of the business Wed nesday of last week. These are two of the county's best business men and that they will succeed goes without saying How Is YourHeart? Is your pulse weak, too slow, too fast, or does it skip a beat ? Do you have shortness of -- breath,- weak or- hungry spells, fainting, smothering or choking spells, palpitation, fluttering, pains around the heart, in side and shoulder ; or hurt when lying on left side? If you have any of these symptoms your heart is weak or diseased, and cannot get better without assistance. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure strengthens weak hearts, and rarely ever fails to cure heart disease. Try it, and see how quickly you will find relief. "About January 1st, 1902. I took down . with weakness and dropsy, and gradually grew worse. I was told by myi'famHy physician that my case . -was hopeless. My neighbors and fam ily had given me up to die. My limbs and body were swollen to one third, larger, than normal size, and -water bad collected around my heart. For at least three months I had to sit propped up in bed to keep from smoth-,-erlng. I sent for five: bottle of Dr. Miles Heart Cure, and by the time I . had taken them all I was entirely cured. I feel better than I have for' twenty years, and I am able to do any Kina or woric on my farm. My attending physician told me that if it hadn't been for Dr. Miles' Heart Cure : I would now be In my grave." L. T. uuiUJ, wiimore, Kyr Or. Miles' Heart Cur I cold your druggist, who whi guarantee that tn first mum win neneat. If It fails tie wilt refund your money. Mil ttctics!Cft, V&ztt, U4 BIG NEW ROAD IN THE SOUTHWEST. Line In Virginia Three Hundred Miles Long. TO COST OVER $15,000,000. Great Coal Properties For Sea board System Wythe And Dick enson Counties To Be Opened Up And New Mining Fiefds Develop- 6d BOOm For The SOUthweSt. ( Richmond, Va., News leader. 1 It has been reported for some time that persons representing the Ryan- Blair-Coolidge interests of the Sea unrA Air- t c,rCf busv , - , , . , - . buying or obtaining control of vast . & areas ol coal lands, hither undevel oped, in the Crane's Neck field. It is understood that Messrs. Ritter ana Keara ano- associates are direct 1 1 -n -a lj interested and actively engaged in the enterprise. These reports are confirmed and explained by the following in the New York Herald of yesterday: Interests behind the Clinchfield corporation have decided on plans to build a 300 mile railroad to their extensive bituminous coal lands in Virginia, an enterprise which will involve an expenditure of fiom gI5coo,ooo to $20,900,000. Iuthis connection they have engaged the services of Alfred Walters, former ly president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Air. waiters will be made presi- dent of a holding corporation which 1 t t ' m is to provide 1 unas tor the enterr prise and he will later become head of the road. The building opera tions will be carried out under his directions. The properties of the Clinchfield corporation embrace about 250,000 acres of coal land in Wythe and Dickenson counties and extending into a third county The company at present owns a branch line, the South and Western Railroad, which wjn be the nucleus of the new road The Soutil and Western road - is . , , , M parting irom jonnson city, lenn whence it now runs to Spruce Pine, N. C, it will be extended for near- It r ?t a a. t r f 1 4 205 mues 10 me iuncnneia coai nects witn tne lMorioiK ana vves- . 1 . -m,-r r i ttt 1 tern road, and it will cross the Sea- board Air Ljne at Rutherfordton and the Southern Railwav and the I Atlantic Coast Line at Spartanburg. engineers are now at work en gaged in surveys, selecting routes and making estimates of the cost. They expect to get a grade of about one-half of one-per cent . Details of the holding corpora is roughly estimated that it will be called upon to provide funds to the amount of$ 15,000,000 to $20,000, 000. The new railroad will take coal out of the first large coal lands south of the Pocahontas fields. The bi- tuminous product will be marketed in the South and Southwest and al so sent to the Seaboard. The Clinchfield Corporation, which has a capitalization of $2,- j 300,000, is controlled by the Sea-1 board Air Line interests. It acquir ed, last January, control of the South and Western, and also the! Crane s JNest company, owning about 1 12,000 acres of coal lands. S. & W. PUSHING WORK. (Manufacturers' Record.) Chief Engineer Kent of the South & Western Railway is reported as saying that men are at work at Spruce Pine, N. C. , and other points beyond there for the eastern extension, and on the northern ex tension a force is employed at Dun-t -gannon, Scott county, Virginia, while work is being started at other points in tne laiier oiaie. a re- . .1 , . . r. . I port from New York says that Al- f red Walters, formerly president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, has been engaged by the syndicate back of the South & Western Railway to manage the construction of a 300- I mile railroad. Thomas F. Ryan, James A. Blair, of Blair & Co. , and John B. Dennis, all of New York; T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., of Bos- ton, and Norman B. Ream, of Chi- cago, own the Clinchfield Corpora- tion property and . controlling the I South & Western; They are all 'directors iii tbeeeaboardir WtusJwltS : PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Things The Sun Man Finds On His Raunds To Write About. Mr. L. H. Wells, of Bostic, was in town Monday. Mr. J. H. Bradly, of Gilkey, was in town Monday. ' Mr. A. C. Higgins, of Bostic, was a caller Monday. Mr. A. B. Martin, of Duncan, came to town Monday. Mr. D. W. Cowin, of Cliffside, was in the city Monday. Mr. W. P. Kistler, of Island Ford, was in town Monday. Mr. Will Brisco, of Big Island, was in the city first Monday. Mr. Hall Martin, of Bostic. was a visitor in town Monday. Mr. W.- K, Mc Daniel, of Island Ford, was in town Monday. Mr. K. T. Davis, a good citizen of Henrietta, was in town Monday. Mr. A. H. Mc Daniel, a good citizen of Forest City, was here Monday. Mr. H. P. Hines, one of Gilkey's good citizens, was a caller Monday. Postmaster Davis, of Bostic, was in Ratherfordton on business Monday. Mr. H. S. Harrill, one of Ellenboro's good citizens, was a caller Monday. Mr. B. P. Koon, of Cuba, was among the callers at The San office Monday. Mr. P. B. Hall, of Spartanburg, wag among the many visitors here first Mon day. Mr. C. D. Davis, of Poor's Ford, was in town Monday and gave The Snn a call. Messrs. Posy Flack and Dave Brid ges, of Forest uity, were visitors in town Monday. Mr. J. L. D. Green, who lives on Ratherfordton, R. F. D. No. I, was here Monday. Mr. C. C. Lovelace, of Green Hill, was a pleasant caller at The San office Monday. I Mr. B. C. Francis, of Henrietta, gave The Sun a pleasant call Monday and left his subscription, Mr. W. K, McDowell, of Island Ford, was on the streets Monday shak ing hands with friends. Col. Bill Horn, merchant, postmas ter, and an all-ronud good fellow, of Cuba, was in town Monday. -Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Lynch, of Ayr, were m town last week, stopping with Messrs. M. L. Gross, Joe Long, G. W. Long and Mack Freeman, of Logan's Store, were in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hood and child, of Baltimore, are at the Iso-Thermal Hotel, to remain some weeks. Mr. A. C. Miller, a good citizen of Forest City, R. F. D. No. 1, was in town Monday and gave The Sun a call. Mr v came down Saturday and will spend several days here visiting relatives, Messrs. Grover King and liinsey Hunter, two of Forest City's prominent young citizens, were in town Monday. Kev. S. A. .bridges, or Myrtle, was in town Monday and says he is going to Pacolet in a few days to visit his daugh ter. Mr. G. F. Green and family went to Gastonia Thursday last to visit his I father-in-law and will be gone several days. Mr. M. K. Whitaker, of Henrietta, an old friend of The Sun's, called and renewed his allegiance to The Sun's sup porters Monday. Mrs. E. B. Johnson and children, of Norfolk, arrived here Friday and will spend some time visiting relatives in the wn county. Among the Forest City citizens vis iting town Monday we noticed Messrs. J. C. Harrill, G. W. Trout, J. T. Carver and W. M. Young. The ice cream supper for the. benefit of the band on the graded school lawn was well attended last Friday night. The proceeds amounting to something over twelve dollars. Mr. T. A. Dorsey, of McKinney, Texas, is here on a visit to his brother, Mr. J . W. Dorsey. Mr. Dorsey is ac companied by his daughter. The Snn wishes them a pleasant time while here Mr. J. W. Hines and son, Tom, of Rockv : Mount, came up Saturday to snend a few days with Mrs. Hines and other children who are rpending the summer here. All are stopping at Mr, and Mrs. K. J. Carpenter's. -Messrs. Jas. P. and F. A. Mitchell, two old Rutherford county boys, were 3 ie th 0,,e years airo. The Sun waa glad to " . J - - " have a call from them Monday. Prof. Horace Flsxsk came home ft&n Washington. D. C, last Saturday , wbire he Yfa college for some' months, He toro to John. Hopkinrin Septii- ber. Hu many friends iti. ail -parte ol the county 'ww glad to. vee him .nuaie Si- . , ') ' ' ; i - S ' ; --Rev, Clareee Davie and his brother , Mx.'FormaaCaTis.oim &yxJrt 6t - pWiviUe.TeaP-. beenfjtt janty this weekivte"i.g frieqds andrwlatives. Theytfaeia BuUrof!i liqpoj battel h a THE "BIG HUMP. New Subscriptions And Renewals Continue To Come In. The following persons have paid for The San and renewed their subscription since the last issue. The amount appear ing opposite the names is the amount re ceived at the office. If you have subscribed, renewed or paid back dues on your subscription and your name does not appear in the 'hump' ' it has not been received at this office and we respectfully ask you to report same at once to the office, giving amount paid and to whom. Weldou Walker, Ellenboro H. S. Harrill, Ellenboro ..... . . . D. W. Cowen, Cliff dale M. K. Whitaker, Henrietta. .-. . . D. C. Francis, Henrietta., i. L. S. Nash, Ratherfordton. James L. Morgan, Marion J. T. Carver, Forest City. . . . . . . Lee Andrew BryantV; Ruther-. . . C. J. Jackson, Nanney Millard Hufstettler, Lattimore. . Mrs. E. J. Rucker Green Hill. . S. C. Biggerstaff, Seneca, S. C . A. W. Pannell, Ellenboro C. O. Painter, Cherokee, S. C 25 00 50 25 25 25 50 25 25 25 25 25 25 50 50 C. C. Bridges. Lattimore 25 J. J. Lancaster, Ratherfordton. . C. M. Lewis, Green Hill Col. Bill Stowe, Mt. Holly 25 A. C. Miller, Forest City Jas. P. Metcalf, Inman, S. C. L. H. Wells, Bostic A. C. Higginc, Bostic 25 A. C. McGinnis, Green Hill 25 I. S. Williams. Green Hill N. W. Morrow, Ratherfordton 50 25 25 25 25 50 S. S. Womack, Rutherf ordton . . P. W. Morgan, Itom P. D. Carpenter, Forest City . . . T.- L. Cole, Forest City C. Sane, Twitty 25 F. I. Nanney, Union Mills W. W. Crawley. Union Mills 50 J. D. Fiucannon. Gilkey 50 J. R. Geer, Gilkey 25 H. R. Haynes, Nanito. 25 R. R. Webb, Bostic 25 J. E. Miller, Poor's Ford 25 Ice Cream Supper Friday Night. An enjoyable occasion was the ice cream supper on the lawn in front of the graded school building Friday night, for the benefit of the Rutherfordton cornet band. Seats and tables were erected in the beautiful grove, and while the band played some excellent airs the large crowd feasted on the ice cream and en joyed the delightful music made by this new organization for the firs.t time in public. The band has made rapid pro gress since its beginning and promises to be one of the best in this part of the" State. Hollis High School. The Sun learns with pleasure that the Hollis High School is meeting with great success. The school opened with seventy-five pupils the first day. Since it is learned that one hundred are now enroll ed. This speaks well for the able prin cipal, Prof. D. M. Stallings, and his "co worker" Mr. J. P. D. Withrow, who al ways takes hold of anything determined to make a success of it. Prof. Carlisle Delivers Address. Prof. J. B. Carlisle, of Wake Forest College, was here Saturday and deliv ered an excellent educational address to the teachers and a number of Ruther ford county citizens. Those who heard it pronounced it a great effort and one that will do much for the cause of edu cation in this county. Every man owes it to himself and his family to master a trade or profession. Read the display advertisement of the six Morse Schools of Telegraphy, in this issue and learn how easily a young man or lady may learn telegaphy and be as sured a position. icious 4 . 4 fi- ; Chocolate II: Forest "Mhm om Evtry glee." TO THE PEOPLE OF, HENRIETTA1 AND, 0AR0LEEN,N:C. 4 Parts Forest City And In All Of Rutherford County. We have the Clothing, the Shoes and Gents' Furnishing Goods the best the newest and latest styles at prices not marked up to three fimes its value or worth.- Our goods are not old rotten material which . has been on the shelves for 5 or 10 - t years, marked and remarked and retagged, but are standard goods from the biggest and best houses in the country brought to Ruther fordton within the last 12 months. Other goods are coming in daily. When you want to be treated right and given a real bargain; in good material, come to our store; we guarantee our goods. Remember we are going to give away a $400.00 Stieff Piano. i SIMMONS-ANDERSON CO. Rutherfordton, N. C. GIVE IT ELBOW ROOM. V Don't Be Afraid Of Using Sufficient, bpace For An Ad. (Memphis Commercial Appeal.) ; Suppose that two clothiers merchants of about equal standing should divide equally between themselves a very large purchase of goods, thus being able to of fer to the public stock of approximately even value. Suppose that the advertisements of the two merchants were practically alike in text prices and descriptions of goods ac tually duplicated. But suppose that one merchant confin ed his advertisements to one column bf space in this newspaper and that the other used a whole page, is there any doubt at all about what the result would be. Would any one imagine for a mo ment that the merchant who used a coir umn of space would do as much business as tne one who nsed a page, even though" everything else were equal. v-y Most experienced advertisers will agree that in this kind of a case the results would be very nearly in direct propor tion to the space used. Size is still so much a factor in the world it decides so many things in bus iness as well as in statecraft that the ad vertiser who ives too little considera tion to it handicaps himself in the race. In many an instance the mere doubling of the space occupied by a store adver- ' ' tisement in this newspaper would dou ble the store sales resulting from it. An advertisement will not "stand out" in an eye catching way if it is crowded for 1 space, if lacks "elbow room," ,: The advestiser- who has "learned things" about publicity is as careful to provide space in which his advertisement ' may "come out and be separate" as he is to make his text matter dignified and convincing. 1 CANCER f 1 HOSPITAL f We want every man and woman in the J5 United States to know what we are do- ft ing. We are curing Cancers, Tumors and g Chronic Sores without the use of the v$ knife, and are endorsed by the Senate and Legislature of Virginia. I you are S seeking a cure, come here and . yjoa will $ get it. We guarantee our enfes''o . The Kellara CancerHaiital, RICHiVIOIND, VA.' ' g 3 Carvdies! Bon - Bons. Gityv X lf "A. ;' ' : , - 6 ft v : A'. i . i i. if
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