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Established 1544. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. i Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months .75 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. __ Friday, Feb. 8, 1918. ALONG THE WHITE WAY. Monday ,two weeks ago, we Spent ho fircf worklpRs. fnelless and heat W.X, , less Monday. We came down town early, walked around, looked for; something exciting, couldn't find it, tried to getj up a game of set-back, couldn't find anyone to play against except Furniture Kerr and Dick Sondley, whom our partner could beat alone, went home took son Bill . hunting, went home again?empty handed, read the newspapers ,'< through three times, went back down town, walked to the depot, saw the big Seaboard Air Line train go by, did the same thing Monday of last week when we thought and said *- - ? * ?ITT iff J to ourseil, "xou may puii, anil yuu may blow, but we will ride you next ^jgj? Monday." 1 The Work of a Meddler. So last Monday came, and when the "Best Mule" arrived at Abbe? vt ville headed towards Atlanta, we were right there. We never dream- 1 < .ed that while we were away someone would write a piece about the boys.1 in town and sign our name to it and j1 get it in The Press and Banner,' which everyone reads. We were much surprised and pained when we arrived home to find that such had * taken place. For the information ^ of all concerned, however, we will say that we have read the article, 1 and we have concluded that some- r . . times a person says that a thing is !1 so to make people believe it is not * ' . . c SO, vice versa, sic semper tyrannis, e pluribus unum, and so on. The; 1 irate mothers may be comforted, ] , then, to know that the article referr-; 1 i ed to came under one of these! h heads, and that what was really! meant by the writer was that all i I the boys mentioned were good boys, t brave, tender and true. And may it ( ever be thus. < We Were All There. l As stated we were there when i 4he big mogul puffed by, and so : were Supervisor Stevenson, Col. I < Will Lesley, and Col. James Gilliam, j 1 nil nf the best farmers in Abbeville j county. They were on the road to | ] Atlanta to see the mules and "things" over there. Of course they!: would have looked at the mules in (" Abbeville had they known there i were any here, but they examined ( last week's Press and Banner and, said each to himself, "If there is a stockman in Abbeville who wants to sell us mules, he surely would ad-' vertise", hence, not having done so, they rightfully concluded that Atlanta was the nearest point to buy! good mules, and then, maybe, their feet got cold in Abbeville on a I workless Monday. Anyway they were there to board the Seaboard and "ride her" too. On the Observation Car. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Levi came to the station in a few minutes after we arrived and with them the goodlooking nurse, Miss Friday, who was here to nurse Mr. Philip Rosenberg and stayed to nurse Mr. Levi. We cannot understand how Mr. Roseaiberg got well so quickly,?that is, after looking at the nurse. They stated that they wanted to got seats on the observation car, and as we wer;e in the observation business ourself. we concurred on all points. Mr. Levi was on his way to Atlanta to consult a specialist. We W2re glad to see him looking so " ' Illnwj nn(1 WO well aitcr rus scvac muv?? ..? 'hope that he will come home very soon fully restored to health. Mrs. Levi was along too to look after him. We advised him to get a more homely looking nurse if he wanted! to improve fast because we began g to feel a little faint ourselves be- t % fore we arrived at Shops, S. C. Dr. ] ii Jim Hill was^along too to see after n Mr. Levi. He had a bottle of alco- I hoi for Calhoun Falls?he said it i: was for Calhoun Falls. j a On the observation car we found h Lieutenant Fowler, of Laurens, S.. i: C., on his way to Ft. Oglethorpe to j i: join his command. He had been j c home on sick leave for ten days and: t was. returning. He told us that r Roddey Devlin, who formerly lived. p in Abbeville, is an officer in his'p company, and that they are friends, ^ z which was a recommendation to f the young officer on board the train 1 h with us. We didn't go far until v two good looking ladies came back a and joined us; one was from New-1 berry and the other from Clinton. | The sick man and the lieutenant en-| gaged their whole attention from b start to finish, and Jim Hill, who * had the bottle of alcohol to deliver 0 at Calhoun ?alls, (but who may.P have gone up to the front to take a drink, we do not know, except that P he stumbled a good deal when he " came back) and your humble ser- J vant could do nothing but hold the: calf. Finally, when they began to P make inquiries they did ask us if ^ we were not Dr. Neuffer and if Dr. j y Jim was not our son, which made! ^ son Bill mad when we told him. i b When we advised them to, the con- ^ trary on both points, they stated ^ that they "had heard so much of Dr. Neuffer" that they concluded it must be he as there was a sick man- *0 in the crowd, and we were with, ?( him. We^ thought all the time un-j1,1 til then that w6 were sitting by the P1 i?nn/l_lnnWiioF vniiticf rmrsp nnH talk- ? 5VWU-iVVft???5 ^ ? -? , ing to her. " * PJ The Whistle and the Bell. I ^ The train ran on the track all the1 ol s^ay to Atlanta, "blowing the whiS-j tie and sounding the bell" at every: th crossing, we suppose, and then some, j th md arrived in Atlanta at 8 o'clock f sh where Dr.' Sam Visanska and Col. j be iValter Visanska met Mr, and Mrs. | Levi and the nurse ,together with ' ill and singular Dr. Jim. We saw; ? ' 3 n 'armers Stevenson, Gilliam and Les-i G] ey going out the front door? but xlS is we didn't go to Atlanta to Took it mules, we "driv" up to the Pieddo nont, got a room and being a meat- ^ ess man we soon found ourselves st] ully lined with roast turkey and 6(1 lressing as they told us that turkey ^ s not meat in Atlanta, but foul, vhich we believed for the time bepli ng anyway. ca The Three Musketeers. We walked out Peachtree and'j bu ooked at the new automoblies in1 wi ;he windows until tha turkey went ;o sleep and then we undertook to be lo the same thing, but the slam- ca ning of the door to the elevator ar ind the passing street cars kept us ? i iwake nearly all the night, but ^ iidn't keep us from breakfast in j the morning. We were ready for'p it and soon finished it and as Major j sa r iffnn r\f RraHlov Bnirl nnCP ?f. DllP ' U16W"' ? : ill! West commencement, we were w] ready to "caper on the green." We n walked up and down Peachtree and g[ out Whitehall, stopping here and jf there to buy something to take home, fu and everywhere seeing soldiers, sol- w] diers, soldiers?Kaiser Bill may: think these boys won't fight but we {jn didn't ask any of them if they j j, wanted to fight. They were in the; hotels, on the streets, on the street, cars, at the movies everywhere?j and everywhere they are a manly m set?true sons of U. S. and as true I b< as steel. , j w Finally we went around to the, S1 Atlanta Journal office to see ouri^ old school friend, John A. Brice, now' one of the big men on the Atlanta Journal. We found Mr. Brice as pleasant j J and affable as he was at Due West ^0 twenty-five years ago this January, ^ looking not much older, a little fat-' " tor, still care-free, (which being ( interpreted means unmarried dur- ^ ing the times of the high cost of s living), but he was just the same.| 3 lie expects to get married some v day when he is old enough. He is:c from Fairfield county, akin to the Eriocs of this section, and a Sece-; dor, and therefore, gets there first t with the most men, keeping the ten i commandments and everything else j he can lay his hands on (Andrew. \ Jackson please keep quiet, we said \ it.) _ _ t It is worth a trip to Atlanta ;o through the place of business his big newspaper. We went doi nto the press room when the Joi lal people were printing the Hoi Jdition. The paper was being f nto the press from a big r bout eight feet long, the roll at t beginning being some thirty incl n diameter. It left the roll goi n one end as plain white paper a ofning out at the other end Ath a Journals, printed, folded a eady for quick reference. T >resses were running, the larj irinting, folding and delivering , kind of elevator arrangemt our hundred papers a minute, a laving a capacity of six hundr idien printing base ball extras .11 about the latest Atlanta trage< High Cost of Paper. A countryman like us, when ' ought the active interest in T 'ress and Banner, would think tl f all the cheap things in the woi aper is the cheapest and that t1 ollars worth will print a newsj er for a year. It will perhaps iteresung to know that the Atlan ournal buys more than twenty-fi lousand dollars worth of print p er each month, or more than thr undred thousand dollars worth p ear. Some idea of the reasons f icking against the Paper Trust m; e inferred from this statemer wo warehouses are kept full lis paper all the while, it beii ought and shipped in by the ca iad and sometimes by the trai ad. As the paper is being printe :casionally something new com i, and the matter is set up, tl -esses stopped and the new matt serted so that even one issue of tl iper may be changed many tim 'tween the starting and the endii : the press work. The Journal is somewhat bigg an The Press and Banner, but j e girls say?from Georgia?v ould say, "Believe me,. it is r stter." Subscribe today. Riding On The Street Cars. Having been in Atlanta all da; id aS brqfher Shuman, late of tV -eenville bar, would say, after t ,d finished his cases in the Si erae Court, (never before), v id to otrrself, "I have been hei [ day and haven't ridden on tt -eet cars yet," so we boar* a car to Decatur, passi.i rough Inman Park, Kirkwoc tting off at the first name ace. Agnes Scott College is I< ted at 'Decatur. It is one of t* st schools in this section. TIi ildings are on a high hill, wit de grounds, wb-11 cleaned apd tt lole institution from the outsic nrc on in^nofrinTlfi <15 WpTT pHt tional atmosphere. We walke ound some, and stopped to catc car back. One lady who vri ere told us which was Greenvil reet in Decatur. (They call sachtree over there, but that is time as Greenville in Abbeville id which was . North Main ar lich was WardTaw. She said A| is Scott a fine place to send rl if you want her to study bi you are going in for style ar in to go somewhere else, all < hich we received as informatio iving a young lady who will be g g away to school one of the: tys. Boys Must Be Boys. We saw something else whi< ight be of interest to the boys, jy was on an automobile driv ay which slopes about like tl dewalk at the side of the Bapti hurch. He had one skate, on whi e put a board, and on this 1 >ok a seat. Giving the skate a stai rid lifting his feet he "airplanei ~>r about a hundred yards at a fc lip, cleaning up all comers as let thorn. It would be worth tr ig, but the boys should keep >ok-out for Dave Hill as they ric fe might be walking along t treet practicing his next spec 11 to himself and get "rr>n ovoi 1 * 1 1 - ?** lrtocf rv-T if mien 10 suy mc ?>. ontempt of court. Heme?Work?East of All. We ?0t back to Atlanta, saw a alked to Andrew White and cai Lome, and here wc are, and it y.st like it was last Tuesday, 1: ve could stand it, and like it, if vere not for the workless days?r hat we like to work, but we like tee other people at it. * M'LAURIN LASHES of ENEMY cvn irme Considers That Blease ed "More Dangerous Th ?n Election Lever to ;he ? les ? ng The Greenville News. ./ nd ?i wjn see you in Hell first," dein~ clares Former Senator John L. Mend Laurin in stating to members of the w0 Anderson delegation that he will not ?er prostitute himself to elect to the hy United States Senate their candisnt date. Furthermore, heasserts that nd he knows nothing that would more ed encourage pro-German sentiment or than "to elect an ex-governor who. ly. has in season and out proclaimed himself a sworn .enemy of the President," that to surround such a man we with the privileges of a United States Senator would, he considers, iat make him "a more dangerous man "Id than LaFollette at this time." He wo adds that if South Carolina elects to ,a~ the Senate a man bitterly hostile to be President Wilson, "it will be a pow'ta erful lever ip Germany to re-kiridle ve hope and prolong the war." ,a" McLaurin's letter was evoked by ee the reply to his statement that er South Carolina would commit a or blunder to elect either Tillman ay or Blease to the Senate made by 'k certain members of the Anderson House delegation in the General Assembly, one of whom is H. Clint ir" Summers, brother-in-law of Forfter ' ' n" Governor Cole L. Blease. The ear-j lier correspondence has been pubes lished in The News. Senator Mcie Laurin's references to the former er governor are pointed and he says ie J of tiie reply "It is the hand of Esau, es! but the voice of Jacob." 'ffj The second McLaurin letter, re-j ! ceived yesterday by The News from erjits author, is as follows: as . re Bennettsville, S. C. ro Feb. 3. 1918. Messrs. W. W. Scott, H. Kelley, Asa Hall and H. Clint Summers. Columbia, S. C. y' | Gentlemen:: Yours of Jan. 31srt. 1G 1 / You withdraw your names from a 16 * petition requesting' me to become a candidate for Governor. You say *j"what we wanted and thought wej *6 i ! would get in making our call was a IGl I bold, honest, outspoken; and truthful man to advocate the principles of the Reform Party of this State, ' j which" we hope to advance.' ' This! ^ j is exactly what you would" get Gen-, "'"jtlemen, should' I consent to become' 161 a candidate, but from your1 Tetter ft10 I I seems exactry.what you' do not want. I kj What principle of the- Reform' 10 I j Party have I abandoned I' merely j declined to support a certain candi-j ^~ | date for United' States- Senator. Inj j your' request for me to be a candT-. 1 date you referred to my "Patriot-j IS ' , ism, Wisdom and Statesmanship."- I"j [ 0 | j plead' guilty of the charge and cheer ( **' fully acknowledged that you- were | ie! , I j correct as to my possessing in an; , I eminent degree these cardinal viriH I tues. I r3a I suspected, however, Gentlemen,! . tha'; you were not very deeply con-' ^ cerned about "Wisdom, Patriotism j or Statesmanship," and as T did not. wish to "obtain goods under false! ' j pretenses," I gently informed you I that for certain reasons I did not se ; think it the part of "Wisdom, Paj tricitism or Statesmanship" to elect' j either Governor Blease or Senator! j Til lman to -the United States Sen-! Ai?te. j1 -i You say that in this I forsake I . 1 i Reform Principles. I draw -a distinc;_^|tion between the personal ambition cj. i of Men and the principles underlying ing popular government. If your ^ | theory is correct then I was *deceived 4>?, it the Mourners Bench. I never had ,S? Religion at all and it was merely ingestion that made me shout, groan ... : and sav Amen. No Gentlemen, I inJ " ' ?!fer from your letter that What you le want, is not a "bold, outspoken, ]ln hcnost and truthful man to advocate ch the principles of the Reform Party" .? but somebody with brain and 'the ljC trift. of "gab" who will prostitute j himself to help you elect the Broj ther-in-lnw of one of you to the I United States Sennte, and I cheern(' fully inform you that I will see you 1,10 In Hell first. I am no . office seeker, 13 I have declined since leaving the ???<: ^enaie a. siiui/ uu mc x-^u. it | and a place on the Philippine Comiot mission. The only thing that would to induce me to take office would be that thiia State norsdii somebody to BLEASE AS TO THE PRESIDENT As Senator Would Be tan LaFollette"?Says Prolong the War* * ' ? I | pull her out of the mire and mud | of Factional Politics. I have been a | Refromer since 1885 not for office I hut. from nrinrMnlp. I endeavored to so word my letter as to not offend your sensibilities and there is nothing in it to warrant j the cheap insults which you have i thrown at me. I declined to sup! port Governor Blease because I did J not believe with his attitude to! wards President Wilson that he 1 could properly represent South Car| olina in this crisis. I declined to j- support Senator Tillman because of his physical condition. What Principle of Reform Do I I ' Violate? i ; * Is the* promotion of one man's I political ambition the cardinal prinj ciple of the Reform? This is what [ your letter means and it is because I good men like you have allowed yourselves to be hoodwinked and deceived that the Reform element in ' this State is discredited and shorn of power. I am trying to save it ' from utter destruction. I helped it ; to success in 1899. Who did more ! to keep yotr out of the ditch in 1916? j 11 am trying: to Keep you irom going in again and I might even go in the ditch with yotr as I did then, were j there not other issues of grave import. I fear that you do not realize the seriousness of this situation. We are 1 just getting into this war and we ] will suffer as other nations are suf- 1 fering before it is through. The Ger- ] mart army, in this country is our l deadliest menace. Million of dollars were sent here to fifire newspaper j editors' and public man. Eight million dollars were traced to one Ger- < man Afent for distribution, it is i known where some of this money ] went. The result is shown in the j systematic spread of German Pro- ^ TV./MT tioir^x Kilvno/4 lYYV mil? d pa^auua. x ucjr uu?^ - uua ??vv. M<t> ,, .lion of dollars of 'property; they 1 have used poison in water and food 1 and all the time are sowing the < seeds of dissension. This war can j only be won -by self sacrifice and \ unity of action. >Tf the confidence of the country in President Wilson could be destroyed we wOuId be an ' easy prey to Germany. I have stud- i fed this subject carefully and if we < do not conquer Germany in Europe , we will have her to fight fn this < country. The same causes ,now op- , eratfng here overthrew Russia, and ( bat for drastic action would' have ( destroyed England the first year of ? the war. In France a former "Prime j Minister", has been proven tor have ^ been in the pay of Germany. I am } not making charges against anyone. . in Sonth Carolina at this time. I ] think our real trouble- is more a lack j of understanding than- of disloyalty, j Germany would have Been defeated ^ before this if it had not been for I] her spy system. If "Russia had fought ! on six months longer the war would ( have been over, but German agents undermineded the confidence of the i I- * people and gave the Kaiser a new } lease of life. The same thing hap- \ pened in Italy, her troops frater- j nized with the Germans instead of ^ fighting them and now Italian women are being dragged into the trenches and outraged where their j screams can reach their helpless brothers in the Italian trenches. , Their only nope is ior tne uenuan army here with poison sedition and . fire to undermine the support of President Wilson. I tell you plain- . ly that jf LaFollette distates a successor to his recently deceased colleague and we elect from Democr-tic South Carolina a man bitterlv hostile to President Wilson, it will be powerful lever in Germany to rekindle hope and prolong the war. Tt will cost the lives of the thou- , sands of the dear boys in kh lei, and1 I would rather save one of them j than to have any office on earth. I; -1_ i. nf amrfliinfr flint. Wftlllfl I LIU IIUL 1W1UW Vi t, give more encouragement to pro-j German sentiment tin .i to elect an ex-governor who has in season and i out proclaimed himself a sworn j enemy of the president. Surround J him with the privileges of a United (: States senator and I consider him a; more dangerous man than LaFoll-t | ette at this time. You can do as you I m please but I am going to stand by V; the men charged with the . conduct ^ of this war. It is the only way w'e can concentrate our power for self ! a defense in this most terrible epo<& . ^ of human history. This is all there ' *>[ is to it gentlemen. You mis understand my references to obtaining m support for the Warehouse Bill. I said "I had to reckon with the veto v' o-y power of the governor." Factional feeling was so intense that I knew. the only chance of passing the. meas-. ure was to make it an administration bill and then get such support i4 from the other side as I could on j "4^ its merits. In most countries that Si would be considered statesmanship. ' Jjrjj Your communication is a sad justi- .^4 fication of the letter I wrote' and your reference to "principles" a ' pathetic illustration of blunted moral sense in public affairs. My friends I performed an unpleasant dpty* because I felt that' somebody "oiught to talk out in-meeting" and if .seemto be up to me. I recognize the r fountain from which 5/ou draw your inspiration. "It is the hand of EsaU ' but the voice of Jacob." I wantrf , to be square and straight. I kno^ what you boys expect, but I cannot , ^ "come across." It won't do .ahy\f,*-0 good to abuse me. "The truth ia mighty to prevail." You cannot away from it. 1 Yours very truly, JOHN L. McLAURIN. NORWAY'S PLIGHT ? PERPLEXES HER NOW Face* Starvation on One Hand and War On Other, She Sa??. < Christiania, Feb. 6.?Norway is anwilling to comply with America's : '% proposals for cessation of trading ^^ ivith Germany, but wishes to retain ier commercial relations with the United States. . This formal anouncetffent . was nade today: I "Norway cannot break: comme?- ,;vB :ially with one belligerent1 without ' mperiling its neutrality. The^e is I 10 doubt but that the Unitetf ^tatesr I xnd the Allies will' understand Nor*ivay's difficult situation. We justly /"SB :Iaim we should not do without ) '%:'fl bread and are thus confronted' with I the alternative of complete' distress >2l%B sr an agreement that might' endan- "I ?er our neutrality and possibljr ex- V; ' pose the country to war." . H DEATH OF JOHN McMILLAN~ j| a The people of this city were ' H shocked to learn late Monday, ev^ning that Mr. John McMillan; Bad' H ;hot himself at Dyson. IH health I ,7ns the cause of his act. O'nfy r^-I gently he returned to Abbeville1 ;er an absence of fifteen1 years ' Bfl spent in the West. Sometime liast fall H le went to a hospital in Oklahoma m have an operation for chronic ippendicftis but it was discovered! ifter the operation that he- had", tujerculosis of the bowels ami' that - flfl lis condition was hopeless. He re:urned to the home of his youth and /isited with his relaitves for awhile. tie had gone to Dysons to spend .' 2.T virifU- Ufa Wm k 1 11IIIC 1X1 UIC aii VT1W1 UM WA?r-her, Mr. J. L. McMillan.' HH At the time that the impulse to 2nd it all came he was ih the house IH ased as a residence at the brickyard. His death came about an nour after he shot himself in the :emple. His body was brought to Abbeville Tusedav and the funeral < services were held at the home of his brother, Mr. J. L. McMillan on Magazine street at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon and the inter- 9 T r> D?tt t t; mem was <xl Ljvug ncvt v?. ?? Daniels conducted the services. Mr. McMillan was never married. ,.HH He was in his fiftyrfirst year. He is. |^H survived by three sisters, Mrs. Laui-a Faulkner of this city, Mrs.^ "T. Graydon and Mrs. J. C. Miller of Columbia, and five brothers, Messrs- HHj J. L. and Eugene McMillan of this city, Sheriff T. W. McMillan of Greenwood, Edgar McMillan of Hen-.iersonville, N. C. and Foster Mc?.lillan of Columbia. Much sympathy is expressed for the family. BIRTHS. Corn?At Abbevile, Feb. 4, 1918, to IMr. and Mrs. J. B. Beauford, a Born?On Route 5, Feb. 5, 1918, to Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Cochran, fl .-a