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Vol. 13 No. 8 PAGE LAND, S. C., WKDNESDATiMORNING, NOVEMBER 1^1922^ Sl.OOperyear IT IS SAID Silence is ibe best resolve for him who distrusts himself.?La Rochefoucauld. How victorious is silence!? Longfellow. Everv sin provokes its punishment.?A. Bronson Alcott. There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg.?Emerson. The heavens are nobly elo quent of. the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.?James Hervy. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace?George Washington. Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them. ?Fredeiick Saunders. Better to wear out than to rust out.?Bishop Cumberland. I Moral Geography The longest river is Time. The deepest ocean is Death. The highest mountain is call' ed Success. Few reach the top, save those who watch sharply for the passing of the spirit of the mountain, Opportunity, who carries upward all those that seize hold upon him. The most highly civilized country is Today. The region where no man hath ever set foptis called Tomorrow. thing hath habitation^^c^hedj Yesterday. The greatest desert is called Lite, and ill bath niany oases. These are called Hope and Am bition and Love and Chanty and Home; and of them all, the last is the most beautiful. Besides these, are many others, smaller in extent, whence the traveller obtaineth refreshment during the weary journey through life. ?Author unkown. The Prospective Tariff The big talk of the Republicans about the fat times to be brought about through protective tariff would be laughable were it ' not so serious. Protective tariff enriches the few by robbing the many.l It is special privilege with a vengence. Protectiye tariff destroys competition, creates high prices by restricting production, and the poor pay the bill. Look at the country today. The farmer's wheat is going down to the bottom. Wages keep going down. Merchandise is high. Shoes are high. What the working mail has to sell is going down. What he has to buy is going up. A fine thing, is this robber doctrine, it is a good doctrine, as well!?Union Times. The Missouri River The Missouri is one of the great drainage channels of the United Slates, measuring in total length about 2,400 miles. According to the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, it drains 527,155 square miles, a territory as great as that embraced in all the States south of New York and east oi the Mississippi, except Indiana and Illinois. Although the Missouri is no longer utilized to any extent as a means of communication and transportation, it is destined to play a large part in the development of its drainage basin by furnishing water for irrigation and generating power. A Core 2or Faultfinding The Youth's Companion It is so easy to find fault, so easy to stand by and criticize what others do, to imagine what might have been accomplished and to set it upas a fatal standard for what has been accomplished! To slip into the habit of thinking such things is dangerously easy, and when we think them it is difficult to refrain from saying them. Perhaps the best cure is to say little or nothing; but for < the most part humanity is not < contrived that way. A help to preserving n better attitude in the matter-is to con- < sider not so much what people 1 have actually done as what they tried to do. Once understand i what they were aiming at and i you will understand something /t<f ftntillaikA rt rt/f r\ r\ -V* r ( ' wi men uiiiiLUiuvrd, UIIU ^ciua^/a in the end you will be astonish- i ed, not that they have accom i plished so little, but that they ' have accomplished so much. Also that understanding: will be vastly facilitated if you go ' farther and consider whether in their place you would have done exactly the same, or even less well. You are human as they are, your means and capacity are limited as theirs aie, perhaps ( even more limited. When you estimate the complication of cir- | cumstances find put yourself, ( your own blundering, mistaking, regretting, ever-recommencing ( self, right into them, your tol | erance for the failures of others will be immensely increased. ' For this is the best cure of all: , instead of dwelling upon the j iassawsass-, attention, to your own. It is ( rdally quite as easy to find flaws , in your own liJjrge Jield orTife^ * fn others', m fact much easier, j since yuu Hie even iiiuic i<iiiiinai | wiih your own mistakes than ( with theirs. Tne trouble is that it is much less agreeable, This little unkintlness, that little social awkwardness, the sharp, harsh | word you uttered yesterday when a small matter went wrong?it is much more unpleasant to remember those than to point out a friend's shortcomings. It is, however, much more profitable Those were wise words of Or. lando's, the good wrestler, the good lover, and the good friend: "I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults." ( n . jt viri j .1 rvi.?_ii * _ aoaium ninety uisinouieu The element sodium is very widely distributed in the earth. It forms about 2.86 per cent of ; known terrestrial matter, according to the United States Geologi- I cal Survey, and is the most abun- ; dant of the alkali metals. Sodium i appears to occur in nature only in combination with other ele < ments, if its alleged occurrence : as the free element in blue rock | salt is neglected. It is an import- , ant constituent of (he feldspars and several other insoluble ntin erals from which sodium saUs are not extracted commerciall* but which are nevertheless re- 1 garded as (he ultimate source at the salts that are soluble in water.?Youtes Companion. Personality Persistency Earnestness Reliability Sociability Optimism lti ontnoco I IIVOJ Assurance Loyalty i Initiative I Temperance i Youthfulness i 1 lie above is an analysis of i ,i1h- personality that wins, by V. L. t'rice. < i \ . Without a Church Charlotte Observer Mr. Hickman, the Baptnl preacher of Gaffney, who was M candidate in the late primaries iol South Carolina, and an open advocate for Cole L. Blease, wA# asked shortly after the electionlQ quit that pulpit. The deacoAftl have later joined in the request, and the preacher has quit. Botj in a public statement in explanation of his retirement, lie indl cates that it was not all on account of his championship of Mf.| Blease. It seems that he has anl un-American war record. For an] established case of opposition t | the Government's war policies h>| was at one time fined $500, and] it is his own admission that this; is his third and last church to lose', "on account of my stand on the wat." About time he was seeking] some charge in Germany. He might find a church over there; to which he could stick and which would stick by him. Bouncing Baby is Found Upon Anderson Porch Anderson, Oct. 24?A bouncing two months-old baby gtrl; wrapped in a luxurious bundleef clothing and snugly tucked away { in a drummer's sample case, was left on Mr.^nd Mrs. 1 E. Martin's! front porch in the lower edge of \ Anderson county the night oil Oct. 24. Awakened by thO baby's cries. Mrs. Martin saw an] juiumuuiie uuve oil ID 106 aarit;i less, and later discovered ? woman's size 2 shoe track in the front walk. I t?k**Jtoua* nadta* For her," Mr. Martin replied yelfe' ierday, when asked if the child would be adopted. "Havei ^ w*rluea vrmnrermother1 is, but she can come to see the* baby if she wants to. Mrs. Marliu and myself wouldn't care" The girl has been christened Mary Louise. - She is enjoying a gallon can of malted milk left beside the sample case. The Good and Bad How's your cotton crop this year?" I asked a Chesterfield pnnnlv furmpr nnp Hav lovi moi.1/ W..W 1MOI ??vvn "I am making a fairly good yield this year," said the man. "You know my farm is sandy and not very fertile, and I'm making more cotton than some of my neighbors who have better land. "Do you think vou,can grow cotton another year?" the farmer was asked. "I know it. This is our third v ears'experience with the boll weevil. With proper cultivation tinn land where cottou does not i?row rank is where we are go ing to make the most cotton Ti e Lord in my opinion nevir put all the good in one spot an<l all the bad in another. Our rwk:ir e-.inrlhi 11 lcinrl ia puminor in. to its own." And the man may be right ? Monroe Enquirer. , VVoodrow Wilson Can Vote In New Jersey Trenton, N. J , Oct. 24.?The ruling made several days ago by the Mercer county board of elections which deprived former President Woodrow Wilson from voting in the slate of New lersey under the absentee voters law was reversed tonight by State Attorney General McCJran. The decision of the attorney general is oaseu on a supreme coun ruling which holds that a voter's residence is deter.i iued by his intention. Under the decision Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will vote as ct t ben 8 of Princeton, N. |. [Time to War on the Boll Wee vil?Now The State. Iritis a great mistake fcr thos respecting to plant cotton nex &rear to assume that the figli wgainst the boll weevil need nc rbe entered upon until the 192 ferOp has been planted, r It there is one thing the ex Lperts who have studied the sut feet, in the schools of both thee ay and practice, are agreed upor nit is that the time to begin th night for next year's productio fe as soon as possible after hai westing this year's crop. Expei Iments have proved that the em net mc cuuuu siuius uie ti mown and plowed under in th wall, the smaller th? number c greevils appearing in the spriui moreover, this method is a soun fearming policy. {'With equal insistance the Hrge the early clearing of fielc Pdges and ditch-edges and th Eirning of the brush. ?The second point of impor Ece on which the experts agre Kthat it is economically disa: Sgpus to nlant land in cotton the Hnuld not produce, if free fror gveevil attack, a half-bale to th Bre. Fighting the weevil su< Htsfully necessitates expense fc material and the going over fror fifeee to six times of every foe pground planted. The cost i n?l greatly different in protec Wan acre that normally woul MBduce a bale than that. iDcui Pin protecting the same acr I'E&t normally would produc one fifth as much. It is oi jfijll^at the ,atter is not worl ^^boll weevil can be anni Ij&L but in-order to a< PConipik^ii A :?v r* .? progressive farming methods wil wave generally to be employe in the South. Those new metl wuj iii v w> ) c aiuuv l?l ill problems, more canstant after tfon to the farm, and a greate degree of energetic work tha heretofore employed. Gambling and Gambling That what is gambling to on person may be merely an innc cent pastime in the opinion c some other people seems to b indicated by the way some peopl who would not think of playin: cards for stakes played gamblini devices ai the recent county fai here quite frankly and openl and seemingly withoutgiving th gambling feature a though Some people who would b quick to condemn a card game fo stakes cheerfully paid the prie A_ II t - _t .. to pucn a oan 101 a cnance ai doll or to try their luck with wheel or some other devict Isn't gambling by some othe name just as bad as it is whei you frankly call it gambling?The Lumberlon Robesonion. Politics In Amen Corner During a recent political cam paign, two deacons of the sam faith religiously, but on oppositi sides of the fence politically, al tended prayeimeeting. "Oh Lord," intoned the Repub Ucan deacon. I pray 1 hue. tha the Republicans may hang tc gether?" "Amen," ejaculated the Demc cr.u. "But not. O Lord," continue) tr ? Republican, "in the sens it!-it my Democratic brothe d rans. but in the sense of accon In d concord." "Any cord'll do, Lord; an; r rd'll do!" was the Democrat' t >sing t h r u s t.?Everybody' Magazine. - The Death Penalty The Spartanburg' Journal. We do not think the Associate ed Press dispatch which follows t has been published here, but if it it has been it is well worth reprint,t ing because of the steadily in3 creasing body of public sentiment in favor of punishing crime as its enormity demands for the common welfare: >. "Detroit, Oct. 18.?The murder rate is increasing in the Unite ed States because, in the opinion n of leading statesmen, capital r punishment is not inflicted in all r. cases of deliberate murder and r because misguided sentimental ,t ists are interesting themselves e in behalf of murderers, Henry ?f Bariett Chamberlain, operating r. director of the Chicago Crime d Commission, declared tonight before the American Prison Asy sociation. j. "Crime, though incurable, can e be minimized and controlled, and capital punishment is a de t. terrent and does reduce murder, e he asserted, speaking on the sub5. ject, "The importance of the it Death Penalty for the Murderer." n "The right of the State to exee cute a murderer does not exist because of the gravity of the >r offense, but solely because of the n necessity for protecting itself ,t from the murder" he said. "Abis olition of the death penalty for t. murder in this country usually d has been for short periods, folr. lowed by its restoration when e the murder rate rose." e "Mr. Chamberlain said he believed irresponsible slayers : ?ert*?itfr*J|ew?p.p?T ?Uu>n>) i he read sometime ago that Mir> responsibles should be painlessly iiflg'J'MiKuuu u..il r d murderer who has been put to death by Law The only safe e Judge is the Judge who proi nounces the penalty prescribed T by law fox the crime committed Q by th. murderer, the manslayer, the rapist, the firebug, the thief arraigned for sentence before the Court. The only safe State or community or county in which to live is the State, community e or county whose official representatives do not shield the crim^ inals, but who execute the law. e e A Beetle Story ? [r A beetle weighing two grains is able to move a weight of five and one-half ounces, or 1,320 j times its own weight. A man e weighing 150 pounds, if proporg r tionately strong, could thus move e 198,0OO pounds, or nearly a huna dred tors. Some years ago I captured a very handsome beetle [ and placed it under a beaker?a r thin tumbler used in chemical a analysis?on a shelf of my laboratory. A few hours after the beetle had disappeared very mysteriously, the beaker remaining inverted. He was recaptured and again placed under the beak er. I watched the result and presently found that the beetle e walked the tumbler along the J5 shell till it reached the edge, then crept out and fell as soon as the overhang was sufficient to afford room for escape.?W. Mattieu lt Williams in Gentleman's Maga? zine. God's almanac has but one day, , that is Today. Satan's almanac has but one e day, that is Tomorrow. The fool s almanac has but one day, that is By and by. A man must be either a Christian or an unsaved sinner; there s is no neutral ground. Which are you??Exchange. MORAL ISSUES ? . > i A Belter Way If we notice little pleasures As we notice little pains; If we quite forgot our losses And remembered all our gains; If we looked for poeple's virtues, And their faults refuse to see, What a comfortable, lnippv, Cheerful place this world would be! ?Youth's Companion. The Blessfng of Work One of the best things for any young man is work. Idleness is the devil's trap. Work is the liberation of energy, the channel of achievement. Whatever one may lack of native talent may be compensated for by patient and persevering drudgery. The young man who does not have to work is to be pitied; the man who won't work is to be condemned; the man who is wilting to work but can find no work to do should have our sympathy and our uid. But work is a generic term. One can work with his brains as well as with his hands; on his knees as well as on his feet; with his pen as well as with his pick; with his pocketbook as well as with his plumbline; with his prayers as well as with his possessions. God has not held any of us up to one single line of duty. Obligation is as wide as lite, and our energies should be as expansive as our vision and ns generous as our prayers.?Christian Observer. The Worth ot A Soul I, ; . * In the shop of a diamond merer all brought to bear on what seemed to be a,small piece of glass. One might be sure of the if he would but loofc'arounlPJSfft spp what skill and lahnr wprp hp ing expended upon it. God has laid out lor the good of a soul the watchfulness of angels, the providence of this world, the glory of the next, the councils of eternity, Himself and all that he hath, the Holy Spirit and all His Divine influences?yea, He spared not His only Son. Say, soul, what must thou be worth thus to have all Heaven's thought and power and love laid out for thee? Ca1 iJtltVIVVJ . When one enters into the common life, resolved to live it in the spirit of lesus, bringing into all its occupations, even the homeliest, the faithfulness, the thoroughness, the courtesy, the consideration, the gentleness ot ideal demeanor, then to him is given, in answer to his gift, the blessing of the wise men, and under his own roof, through the street he lives in be narrow as that in which the carpenter and his family were lodged, the Lord Christ shall appear daily.? Geo. Hodges. Rothschild's Rules When Meyer Rothschild, founder of the great banking house in Frankfort, Germany, died, he left something better than wealth ?an example that has become a tradition in this noted family. He also left precepts. Among them were the following: Carefully examine every der\f t'/Mir Kncinocc laiA \ji j v/ui uuoiuvao< Be prompt in everything:. Take time to consider, but decide positively. Dare to go forward. Bear troubles patiently. Be brave in the struggle ot life. Never tell business lies. Make no useless acquaintances. Pay your debts promptly. Shun strong liquors. Employ your time well. Do not reckon on chance. Work hard. ?American Boy. S