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Established 1844. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. The Press and Banner Co. I r ] Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. _ j Entered as second-class mail matter at Dost office in Abbeville, S. C. | Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 J Six months .75 Three months .50" Payable invariably in advance. __ j ; Britfay, Jan. 25, 1918. THE POOR HOUSE. I i ? The condition of the Abbeville County Almshouse, commonly called the Poor House, as revealed by re- \ port of the Board of Charities and| Corrections, printed in another col-: umn of this issue, will not commend | itself to the people of Abbeville j County. It need hardly be said' t.hnt. t.hprp is nn pypiisp fnr the cnn. I ditions, and the authorities shouTd lose no time in correcting them. It is true that only a small number of people are at the poor farm, and we ' do not now recall just what money the county appropriates for the support of the farm, and inmates, but we. believe the farm itself, in j' capable hands, will furnish enough i income to support nineteen people in ' a decent manner, give them the ne- 3 eessities of life, furnish them with elean quarters, and clean beds on which to rest at night. It is disgraceful in a civilized community that a board organized in the state to look after these matters 1 should find the poor in Abbeville j < county sleeping on beds infested' with vermin. The fact that the mat-1( ter was called to the attention of the authorities many months ago, and that nothing has been done to correct the intolerable conditions j ? prevailing there does not speak well1 ^ for the present county management. | j If the county authorities as now | constituted cannot look after these poor people better than they seem to!. be doing, the legislature should pass an Act at this session appointing a County Board on Charitable Insti-j tutions, which might look after the', affairs at the poor farm better than they have been looked after in the!. past. j It is squarely up to the Supervisor , of Abbeville County and the Sub-! . Supervisors to say whether the peo-'t pie who unfortunately are forced to r live at the poor house shall be fur- j ther subjected to the present condi tions. Will they De corrected: t THEIR PET HOBBIES. . I1 . - : ( M-. : ; ' i . ' If somebody were to compile a i volume oh the avocations of busi- i ness men, it would be most interesting. For example, an obscure drug -gist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, { is one of 'the world's '- greatest authorities on Arabic and possesses a! . - library full of tombs and manuscript i ^ unsurpassed anywhere. In the same! city a merchant on a small scale has j . one of the most notable collections , of portraits of Napoleon in the Unit- ( kv ed States. It is understood that , August Kohn, a business man of ( Columbia, and Ambrose E. Gonza- j >- lea, publisher of The Columbia , State, have remarkable collections i of South Carolinians, or books and j pamphlets relating to this State. Mr. Gonales, by the way, is an authori- ( ty on the Gullah dialect of low- j country negroes and is contributing ] a most entertaining and edifying ] * series of articles about it to The J ^ Slate. Harry L. Watson, editor of ^ The Greenwood Index, is an author' itv on South Carolina historical lore 1 | and has a large library of rare vol-j f umes on the subject. The list could! be multiplied indefinitely. Thoreauj was a surveyor, Hawthorne a publicj official, Lanier a teacher, Simms a1, journalist, Bagby a doctor, and so!, on. Many men of great wealth, like . the late J. Pierpont Morgan, spend ( millions on art collections.?The , I 1 Greenville News. i L j RUNNING STRONG. ' a ou The reports from Columbia as th: published in certain newspapers and repeated by visitors to the capital no city bring the refreshing news that the race for Governor will be be- pa tween Cooper and Bethea (Andrew ^ Jackson) and that Bethea is "runaS ning strong" and winning more ground than any of the candidates ?r in the last few months. We opine now that if the man ag responsible for these kind words ^ were hunted down and shot "Pat- . ^ rick Henry of the Pee Dee" would sj. not be able to fumigate the state with his peculiar brand of oratorical vapor during the coming summer j,c months. m ar A petition asking the merchants; of of Abbeville to close every day ex- th cept Saturdays at 6 o'clock, to save, ns fuel, was signed by every business; w] house in the city except one. Why tu may not Newberry do likewise?? ch Newberry Observer. j th Abbevile Press and Banner: "O'.iri son, Bill, tells us that he does notjw* erre if Mr. Hooker does put a stop j ne order on soap ar.d water." Bill's po-j en sition has general endorsement by!^u the boys of the country.?Green-1 ville News. i ise< fy The Abbe isle Press and Banner ra: is informed that the price of wood , is $12 a cord in Abbeville and sug- ingests that the price should be limit- an ed by the fuel controller?just as the price of coal is limited. If that wj. is not a fair suggestion, what would no be? Every seller of wood in South Carolina is directly or indirectly th( benefited by the limitation on the g0 price of coal.?The State. flu ? em A TRUE BILL. am ret M. O. McCaslan, Foreman. dei The Spartanburg Journal * thinks in that Code Commissioner Rion Mc- an< Kissick resigned rather than write a i 'bone dry" prohibition law into the na1 :ode. rig An Important Point. foi (Columbia Record) an< Lieut. Gov. Andrew Bethea in his ac* speech yesterday said that the "home | ni*1 ires" ought to be kept burning, but, of le didn't say. where the coal was! 1 :oming from to keep them burning, wo be TO THE FARMERS OF be ABBEVILLE COUNTY. an< _____ he? Notice has been given you through ^ ;he press that you are to make apilication for Nitrate of Soda thru he County Agent, R. H. Moseley, ra^ L,owndesville, S. C., A. D. Kennedy,! ' 2L Due West, Dr. J. A. Anderson, An-1 _ for reville, H. W. Lawson, Calhoun ralls, and W. F. Nickles, Abbeville.a ? rhese were all supplied with appli;ation blanks and all you have to do s to go to one of the above named, . , 1 isti gentlemen and fill out your appnca;ion. Remember that you must. nake your application for the soda; >n or before Feb. 4, 1918. I will be j ^ n Abbeville on Saturdays to take* , ipplications. Be sure and fill your] g. ipplications before Feb. 4th. r W. A. Rowell. car " ' . I an< DPTIMISM AND BUSINESS PROS-, at PFRITV F51PNTIAI TO WIN. !Mn NING THE WAR ing ' hoi This nation must throb with activ- bib ity and prosperity, or else it connot wo absorb the bond issues which must be i cei oated as long as the war lasts. Tax- "R ation must be so adjusted as to entourage business rather than to ham- yei per and harass it. It is encumbent doi upon Congress and the Administra- fe> tion to regard business prosper- sh( ity, big business and little business, n< farmers, merchants, manufacturers, the transportation interests, all as allies Pr in the winning of the war. Every, ha' move made in Congress or by the Ad-| frc ministration or elsewhere to restrict ^ and hamper by unwise legislaion or Pn by unjustly laid taxes the broad ^ei prosperity of the country's business 1 will necessarily restrict the people's ability to operate business protably, and invest in new bonds. s*s1 Prosperity, prosperity and more sor prosperity, can alone enable us to dai meet our duty as a nation to produce and keep on producing more coal pat and iron and steel and ships, more tivi :otton, more grain, more meat, and nore of all the things which enter j 1 nto the ability of the nation to wage yov J vast and successful war, cutting km t of course, every non-essential fl* ing. j W More business than usual, except of | n-essentials more profit than usual, | HJ ?her wages than usual, more ex- 3] insion of transportation facilities 13] an usual, must be the order of the'Hll ,y, and be superior to the "business Jjfi usual" thought as generally inter- Mp eted. This latter thought, indeed, Mf its broader sense, we think, never Dc eant simply doing the same thing US i before, but pressing business in- jtf rests in a spirit of optism as dis-jQi ict from the pessimistic idea'ofljjj opping everything because of the-ft Optism in business, founded ortjR mndless faith in our country, in its 3 arvelous Heaven-given resources, ! { id in its ability under the guidance !S the Almighty to win victory forijf e world optisism as to our army andj jfj ivy, optimism, rampart optimismi||f hich though it sees the full magni-jjf de of the task goes at it with an e:c,g aiige, in us l uuiu jluii aw <xy in an; _ e wide ramifications of the nation's e- \ We shall make mistakes, of course;:! lat nation does not? We shall 1 ed courage to turn the incompet-j| ts and mistake-makers out of office: | t we shall have it. We shall have]? me heavy disasters ;no war could jf waged without them. We shall !r j some days dark enough to satis- j ] the gloomiest pictures of the ] nkest pessimist, but these are the jl ] urs when the optimist must show " j i faith in the nation, in its cause!" i _i ii. . i _ . I ^ a in me ijroa wno guides us. ? n Let the nation take up its task I th the realization of these facta I j t depressed by temporary difficu!-'S s or mistakes, but determined that ? j >s who make great mistakes must | I , regardless of any political in-! J J ence, and go straight forward to j J courage business and prosperity, ? ] d make it the duty of the people to - J louble their activities to work har- ! j r than ever on the farm, in the shop I j the counting-room, in the pulpit, " 1 i everywhere else. Then let us as ? a >eople dedicate to the cause of the I tion and of humanity every dollar E j it can be spared after the most E j id personal and family economy,'J j Liberty bonds, for Red Cross ? * i Y. M. C. A. work, and all other [ 1 ;ivities which make for the win- g i r\ f fVifl uroF an/4 IVia nwf 10 VA wiv nai uuu | a| mankind. N Let the idle, rich or poor, man or ffl man, the waster of food or of time af| counted as a slacker, a traitor, and Sh ostracized socially and in church J i in business, by every honestirted man or woman. :f the Administration and Congress Kj 1 fully recognize this situation, and 5i J constructive in word and act, 71 her than destructive as in much "fi islation of the past, we shall have Jfj people fully employed^ bringing JjCi th abounding prosperity, which U| ne can enable us to finance and Q2 It the war adequately, and a well- On inded national life, free from the Q= lgers of the socialistic and anarch- QJ c class hatreds. ijji MRS. MATTIE WILSON. lj& Mrs.- Mattie Wilson died Wednes-lyfl r after an illness of only a week. !aH a -had . inflammatory rheumatism,! jfi ich. affected her heart. Her death llfi ne as a great shock to her friends i relatives. The funeral was held jfi her home at Mrs. S. C. Seal's on;M5 rth Main street yesterday morn-!K : at eleven o'clock. Rev. Mr. Hill-iBj use read a few passages in thejUj tie and with a few appropriate; Of rds concluded the services at the UJ netery. "Asleep in Jesus," and US ock of Ages" were sung. ;Hj Mrs. Wilson was about forty-two :g ars old and had spent her life in in Lng good. She was one of the j jj v people who give a tenth of all,Q i made to the church. Her God R d her church were her principal in >ughts. She was a member of the!51 esbyterian church at this place,.3 ring moved her membership here i 9 >m Lebanon. The interment was 3 Bethia beside her husband who SJ] ceded her to the grave many!W irs ago. I ft She is survived by her parents, '. and Mrs. Edwards of Cedar rings, three brothers and three US f-orc q r>H fAni? nhil/fooii Wni? fnrA IP is live near Abbevile and her two' U! aghters are in Clinton. j3j rhe bereaved ones have the sym- Jfc ;hy of a host of friends and rela- rtj ?ay up your subscription before j!| ir name is cut off. 3T jiiiiaHnnmaaaaiiMiMBiBB i TU I in 1 bji Kosenoerg in DEPARTMEr Three All *11 stores AbbeviIJ p ! -SH Depar This department is really a complete shoe store. We have studied the shoe business and know it is a proposition to have "A Shoe for Every Foot," which we claim, and we do not make claims which we cannot back up. For the tiny infant, quilted moccasins, in pink, blue and white. For babies too young to walk, Soft sole kid and cloth shoes in all solid and fancy colors. For the baby learning to walk, First step shoes. For the little Qne from eighteen months to three years, black kid and patent leather spring heel shoes with flexible "Can't > Slip" soles.SHOES ARE NOT GET! DON'T TRY to WAJTI Right now we some real vai that are lil | much hig 1 ! Lome in and you while you th Rosenberg M innnHnnnnpiPiPLPiinri rinnrtp uuuuuuuuuuuui. SUUULiuui IE | 2 lercantfle Co. j MT STORES 11 I C f* Many ffi 10j Departments K 0E~ I tment I] For little boys and little girls, (1 any shoe you wish for any oc- i | casion. IJ For big boys, dressy, gun metal | j lace shoes for dress, and Boy IJ Scouts for school. ! i For big misses, English walking j j shoes with neolin and leather jj soles, tan or black boots in all g I leathers. I j For men, Howard & Foster j S and Chas. A. Eaton's line of j j Men's Shoes in all shapes and {I leathers from the newest Eng- [ { lish to the Munson army last. I! For ladies, all kinds of boots in [ j high heel and military heellasts, in black, tan, white or ? colored leathers. S For old folks, plain toe, kid 06 shoes, or soft cap. 83 Work shoes of all kinds at about jfi any price you wish to pay. ? 1NG ANY CHEAPER. jg r?v inw nriARTFiK i IUIIAMT yunillliiw ? ! are offering ;! lues in shoes ;] kely to be jj her later - j! i let us show j; i can get a fit ;! rr [? ercantileCo. [ inugniniiiUiUE^^ t