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Vol. 13 No. 9 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDN^^^y MORNING, NOVEMBER 8. 1922. $1.00 per year
IT IS SAID
, He who loves so far serves.?
William Ellery Chancing.
No man can lose what he never
has.?Izaak Walton.
Nature is a volume of which
God is the author.?Moses Harvey.
Matrimony,?the high sea for
which no compass has yet been
invented.?Heine.
We love any forms, however
ugly, from which great 'qualities
. shine.?Emerson.
Modesty seldom resides in a
breast that is not enriched with
noble virtues.?Goldsmith.
Mirth is like a flash of lightning,
that break* through a
gloom of clouds, and glitters for
a moment; cheerfulness keeps up
a kind of daylight in the mind,
and fills it with a steady and perpetual
serenity.?Addison.
Dispatch is the soul of busi"
ness; and nothing contributes
more to dispatch than method.
Lay down a method for everything,
and stick to it inviolably,
as far as unexpected incidents
may allow.?Lord Chesterlield.
Mpmnrv itlrp a nnrcp if it ho
over-full that it cannot shut, all
will drop out of it; take heed of
a gluttonous curiosity to feed on
many things, lest the greediness
of the appetite of thy memory'
spoil the digestion thereof.?
Thomas Fuller.
Marriage enlarges the scene of
our happiness and miseries. A
marriage of love is pleasant; a
marriage of interest, easy; and a
marriage where both meet, hapall
the pleasures of friendship, all
the enjoyments of sense and reason,
and, indeed, all the sweets
of life.?Addison.
MV tHoa nf tVio Phriot!on ralinr.
ion is, that it is an inspiration
and its vital consequences?an
inspiration and a life?God's life
breathed into a man and breathed
through a man?the highest
inspiration and the highest life
of every soul which it inhabits;
and, furthermore, that the soul
which it inhabits can have no
high issue which is not essentially
religious.?J. G Holland.
Worth Remembering
God does not demand impossibilities.
Do what you can.?
St. Augustine.
The noblest question in the
world is, Wnat good may I do
in it??Benjamin Franklin.
If you want a really lovely
world without, you must make
the world within bright and lovely.?David
Gregg.
Seek to cultivate a buoyant,
joyous sense of the crowded
kindnesses of God in your daily
life.?McLaren.
Christ has come to live in the
hearts of men, and by that pres
pnrp hp malrpathpm nriPQfa urilrt
himself.?Rev. H. I. Rasmus.
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Yesterday can not be recalled;
tomorrow can not be assured;
today is only thine, which if thou
procrastinatest, thou loosest,
which lost is lost forever.?I eremy
Taylor.
When thou hast thanked thy
God for every blessing sent,
What time will then remain for
murmurs or lament?
T? L
? i rt*ncu.
You can always borrow trouble
without collateral but it is a cinch
that you will have to pay compound
interest at usurious rates.
!f you desire to save a man,
> ou must look for the best in him
not the worst. And you must
let him know it. To tell a person
he is a child of the devil, or
act as though you so considered
bim, is not the way to induce
him to become a child ot God. .
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WITH THE POETS
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Did you ever watch the sunbeams
At play among1 the flowers?
Or ever see the little stars
A-shining after showers?
I think the little children
Were made for shining too,
To make this old world brighter,
Don't you?
Have you ever seen the lambkins
Out in green meadows frisking?
Or spied a gay red squirrel
Along the branches whisking?
I think the little children
Were made for playing, too,
Because they're happy-hearted,
Don't you?
Did you ever see the farmer
His sheaves of ripe wheat binding?
Or ever catch the miller
Just when the corn was grinding?
I think the little children
Were made for working, too,
To be the big folks' helpers,
Don't you?
Did you ever find your pussy
Upon the hearth rug sleeping?
Did you ever watch the chickens
When darkness comes a-creeping?
I think the little children Were
made for sleeping, too,
When each lofig day is over,
Don't you?
?The Mayflower.
A Temperance Hymn
O brothers, lift your voices,
Triumphant songs to raise;
Till heaven on high rejoices,
And earth is filled with praise;
Ten thousand hearts are bounding
With holy hopes and free;
The Gospel trump is sounding.
The trump of J ubilee.
O Christian brothers, glorious,
Shall be the conflict's close;
The cross hath been victorious,
And shall be o'er its foes:
Faith is our battle-token;
Our Leader all controls;
Our trophies, fetters broken;
-tJ&xr napti*"*#,.x?nsoma<L?ouls. x. **
?The Cbristain Observer.
Courage
If on a narrow precipe thou findest
thy way.
Look up?a downward stance
will bring dismay '
And certain death.
Courage!
Or if thy way o'er tiresome plain
doth lead,
Look out, not in. Beholding
other's need,
Forget thyself.
Courage!
Rut vvbpihpr nrprinirp or rtlain
rm Vw.r.?w W f'M.U
thy path,
Look forward with strong heart.
*He victory hath
Who ne'er turns back.
Courage! Courage!
Most Pay the Penalty
Frank M. Jetfords and Ira
Harrison were convicted last
May of the murder of John C.
Arnette in his filling station in
Columbia on May 9 The con
nirlirin urac on a\r
w awwvAA ff Vf?? i?? u.f MU) a A tLUI U
for speed in South Carolina
Appeals were taken and the supreme
court has denied the ap
peals. The State says:
The two cases weie remanded
to the court of general sessions
in order that the date for the
electrocutions may be set, and
the two men will accordingly he
brought before Judge Thomas J.
Mauldin at the November session
for resentencing. Glenn
rr> _ _ ?? ww
ireece, convicum wnn riarrison
and Jeffords of the murder of
A mett, was recommended by the
jury to the mercy of the court
a d is now in the state penilenti
ry serving a life sentence.
A Pleasure Exertion
" Vhy, Nellie dear* said the
liirj girl's teacher, "I haven't
seen you for several days."
"Nome," replied Nellie; "I've
bci n on an exertion with mam
ma."
?< - ' -r -. ... TT.. a
Thomas Netedn Page \ I
The State.
The death of scarcely any oHM
er American could toting to jjm
people of the South a keetw
sense of personal loss and illitQiiM.
than that of Mr. Thomas Ne$Mjt
Page and, though a Virgiutfe
and a Southerner of the warti?gj|
feeling and .oyalty, he will bofe
most equally mourned in ot$ii
parts of the country.
path's and sweetness hat^
equalled his stories of the Sdgjjh
orougm iiome 10 ine country |pe
trials and the sufferings of jjfe
Southern people during andtffttr
the Confederate war, but tnri
were told with a gentleness Unit
could give no offence?his
ture was so generous and fu1ra|
manly goodness that no worjjj^
bitterness escaped bis pen.
may, perhaps, be said that CNg
other Southern writer of fictioS
who has taken the period of tftii
'60s and the years following, m
people and events, for his themghas
succeeded quite so well^il
awakening a n understanding
svmoathv for them in ntral
parts of the country. The uH
plicity and beauty of
Chan" and the tales that foI!M|
ed it were irresistible in their fgS
As ambassador to Italy durittjj
the World war Mr. Page acqtffig
ted himself with distingufailm
credit and served the Repura|
with a rare sagacity. His nftjlgf
alness, his frankness, his huafotjj
were the qualities that not OAfi
commanded the confidenc$B|
the Italian people but endetjjflj
him to them, so thanHg|fl|
their bent of minAfejflH^|
swiftly
in the months followBtp^l^l
mistice, their regartHnfl^
Page was not diminished.
Twice in the last dozen years
Mr Page visited Columbia, his
second visit having been made
in the spring of 1021 when he
delivered two or three addresses.
Many of our people, who cnitie
into brief association with him,
will remember him as the kind
of man to write "Red Rock" and
"Two'Little Confederates" and
they have an affection for him
that no other distinguished visitor
of a few days could have in
spired. With the people of Richmond
and of Virginia and of the
country they sorrow at the death
of the most loyable and brilliant
gentlemen who served so faithfully
and to so great a purpose.
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Padrick Fouod Guilty
Below is press dispatch telling
the world that another criminal
lias been dealt with. When
God's word declares a mao's sin
will find him out it means what
it says.
The fact that the former preacher
was tested us to his sanity possibly
accounts for a life rather
than a death sentence. He 'also
kIpw hie wifp
Statesboro, Ga.. Nov 1.?Ellioit
Padrick, youthful former
Methodist preacher, was found
guilty of fitst degree murder in
connectiou with the killing of
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mamie
Lou Dixon, last June, the jury
returning a verdict early tonight
with a recommendation tor
mercy. The verdict automati
cally carries a sentence of life
imprisonment.
The jury's verdict was reached
after consideration of the case
that lasted since 0 o'clock this
morning.
Satisfaction with the verdict
and sentence were expressed by
Padrick as he was led from the
court room by Sheriff Joe Tillman
to begin his life imprisonment.
"I will not annual." ht* said: 'I
am well satisfied with the verIdict."
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What a Democratic Vote Means
This Vear
* .
There has never been a na* 1
tional mid-election in which there
were so many important domestic
issues directly affecting the
interests and welfare of all the
people.
a vote tor uemocratic candidates
this year will mean that the
voter is voting against: *
An extortionate profiteers'
tariff act which taxes the American
people between $3,000,000,000
and $4,000,000,000 and in
creases the already high cost of
living.
A ret enue act which relieved
the big taxpayers of over a half
Jbillion dollars with no corre
sponcling relief for the smaller
.taxpayers.
A proposed Ship Subsidy bill
I which would dispose of $3,000,[000,000
worth of merchant ships
or less than one-tenth of their
post and give a bonus of $750, OO.OOO
to private interests commonly
known as the Shipping
Trust, together with a loan of
Bl25,000,000 at two per cent and
xemption front taxation.
Newberrvsm. Daugliertyism
nod Nat Goldsteimsm and the
(scandalous appointments by this
r A policy which created a
{treasury deficit of $8;.0,000,000 for
this fiscal year while the adurinnstration
makes a pretense of
| P A policy which caused the loss
Bf our foreign trade and foreign
greets, resuldngjn bankruptcy
Thomas Nelson Page
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Thomas Nelson Page, diplomat,
scholar, author, and statesman,
died Wednesday November
I. From The State of Nov. 2
the following is taken:
Within the four walls of the
edifice in which the funeral will
be held many distinguished men
and women, who now dwell in
the lore that is Virginia's past,
have bowed the head and bent
the knee. Here his ancestors
prayed for the new republic and
in like manner the dead statesman
had worshipped within
these walls since his childhood.
Thp littlp rhnrrli?"Old Pnrlr"?
so named because of its location
ill the fork of the Pamuakev river?stands
in the middle of an
old field, now grown up with
grass and weeds which obliterate
the pathways leading from the
high road to the colonial edifice
where Patrick Henry, Dolly Madison
and other notables worshipped.
It is a quaint structure, with
its tall columns standing majestically
as proud survivors of the
colonial days, when the "colonial
magnate" Thomas Nelson reigned
on an original grant as the
first settler of that name in eastern
Virginia.
Five generations of Nelsons
and Pages have worshipped withi.t
llto ivallc r?f fhia nnoinl rtlrl
i ?i?v ******** \/? ****** vjuuiiii \/lu
church, where toraonow another
member of these two distinguished
Southern families, who bore
the ancestral name with a dignity
befitting the traditions of his
race, will rest silently as his
friends and admirers throughout
half the world chr.nt the last
words of earthly tribute. .
Monuments to Ihe Doctors
Doctor?"Well, I consider the
i >aicai profession very oaciiy
1 :ated. See how few :i onu1
'ints there are to famous doc1
>ra and surgeons." . . ,
The Patient?"Oh, doctor! look
hi our cemetery."
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OUR EXCHANGES
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Lancaster News.
The original Declaration of Independence
made and signed by
the v Revolutionary patriots of
Hartford county, Md., at a meet
ing in Hartford Town on March
7.7 . 177* tc ctill in oviolonro HTHo
declaration is older than that of
the Mecklenburg, N. C., patriots,
which W88 signed in May, 1775,
and antedates by more than a
year the Declaration of Independence
by the Continental Congress,
July 4, 177b. Hartford
Town is now called Bush and
the house in whit h the meetings
was held was an old tavern, the
ruins of which are yet to be seen.
?Fort Mills Times.
What does the Charlotte Observer
have to sav about this?
Charlotte Observer.
During the progress of the railroad
strike in Tennessee, Charles
Lamer, a shopman, was killed
and three men were arrested on
charge of the murder. The case
was taken up five weeks ago and
the lawyers have succeeded in
consuming all that time in selection
of a jury. It was only : yesterday
that the twelfth man was
accepted. In Ashtville, a youthwas
kidnapped and manhandled.
Three men were arrested tor the
ottense, were tried, found guilty
and sentenced to the penitent!
ary, all within the course of three
M
days. It seems that the lawyers
can almost always and generally
Aiken Journal and Review.
| Tho arroet n/ n " *
a. iiv mi t vi a III1UI91C1? 1U
the upper section of the state, for
violation of the national prohibition
act is the latest. The minister
was arrested Sunday night,
October 1st, for having in his
possession a quart of corn whiskey,
which was carried in the
same bag with two Bibles. This
arrest took place after a prohibition
sermon?Next!?Tugaloo
Tribune.
Against that minister, by the
way, who was a simple mountaineer,
we can point to thousands
of ?Jod fearing, booze hating
clergymen who practice daily
in their lives thelessons that they
teach. This parade of the weakwilled
unfortunate teacher who
fell does not lessen the fact that
drink is a raw curse of the laud,
and the holding up to ridicule of
the poor weakling who tripped
by the wayside cannot and does
not gild or garnish the booze
bottle, the booze maker or the
bootlegger. Rather, in our opin
ion, such exposition only serves
with a smarting sting to show
the cruel fangs of the snake. The
mountaineer Baptist preacher
caught with "moonshine" in his
Bible sack is no sample of the
great army of Christian gentlemen
who are fighting the liquor
curse for the salvation of men's
souls. Why search the bin for
the specked apple?
Mrs. Brown s Joke
"1 could have laughed outright,"
said Mrs. Brown, "when
we were, going round Barnum
and Bailey's menagerie on Fri[day."
"Why, what happened?" asked
Mrs. Jones.
"Well, Mrs. Smith called an
animal a seraph. Of course, she
meant a giraffe; but the fun of it
Was, it wasn't a giraffe at all. It
was a camomile.
MORAL ISSUES
Daily Ftfod
The Bible should be the Christian's
daily bread. A child, to
grow in size and strength, must
have good food and plenty of it.
'C/V tVia ? r?t? #* -? matin# frv/>/4
Vjv lil^ V/lllMUtlll UlUdl ACCU piciltifully
upon God's Word. Moreover
he must feed with appetite.
The child that finds no pleasure
in three meals a day needs medicine,
or exercise, more than food.
So the Christian who does not
find God's Word sweet to the
taste, should look tor the cause
of his distaste.?Sermons for Silent
Sabbaths.
inanK ana mink
It was no accident that extracted
the words "think" and "thank"
from the same root. So count- *
less are our blessings that one
has only to set his mind reflecting
and his heart will at once
leap into praise. Nor was it a
bungling hand that built the
word "contemplation" (con-plustemplum).
He who begins to
meditate upon the goodness ot
God is ushered forthwith into a
great temple where worship becomes
an instinct and a delight.
?John Balcom Shaw.
Ad Evening Thought
Certainly in our own little
sphere it is not th.e most active
(fcupiu IU WllOIIl Wl! UW*S
most. Among the common people
whom we know it is not necessarily
those who are the buslight
of their bright and faithful
being, up to which we look and
out of which we gather the deepest
calm and courage.?Ex.
Power In Weakness
It is otten the strong man that
falls before the power of eyil. If
Samson had been a weaker man
he might have been a safer man.
He would have been less selfconfident,
more vigilant and
cautious. But he believed himself
equal to any emergency. It
is sometimes the voung man of
brilliant talents, superior advantages,
and splendid fortune who
goes down in time of temptation.
Let not the strong uvaa glory in
his strength. Trust in the Lord.
"They that trust in the Lord shall
be as Mount Zton, which cannot
be removed, but abideth forever."?Exchange.
The}Two Extremes of Life
"If I can put some touches of
rAfiif ounent i n frv #Vi a 1? f n /\f nn?r
t KJOJ 9UUOCI IUIW IUC illC V/l UlIJ
man or woman," says George
Macdonald. "then I feel that I
have wrought with Gc.d." To
make an old person happier
more comfortable, more hopeful?that
is, to put the touch of
rosy sunset into a human life is
one of our most sacred privileges.
It is a special privilege of youth
to cheer old age. How naturally
an old person turns to a young
person for sunshine! It is beautiful
to see the sympathy that
a<? l\ nintfl I * affititnn lUn inrsx a v
' 9UU9I9I3 UCIWCC11 tilt; l?YU IA"
tremes of life. In some respects
youth and age are as like as sunrise
and sunset; and it seems to
be God's blessed will and plan
that each should turn to the other
for help. It is in the power
of every young person to bring
sunlight into the life of some old
person, to impart that "touch of
rosy sunset" which is so sweet to
the aged pilgrim who is drawing
near the close of life.?Selected,