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HILE it is now fall suit time, still after all is said, a new suit should not be entirely a ques tionof weather ! It's more a question of personal appearance! Wouldn't a new Suit about now make life a little dearer and inspire you with new ambi tion? ~~ GET IT NoW!. etur you handsomely dressed in a new suit these lovely fall days, before you haveto. hide it with an overcoat. ewfabrics and colorings in Hair lines, Pencil stripes, Chalk lies, Shepherd Plaids, etc., etc. Coeii ervative Styles or the extremely Smart English Models. All the little artistic touches S gonake a Suit beautiful! ' rices No. Barrier.' $10, $15, $18, $20, $25 to'$30 TI CHANDLER COTHINS CO SLJM~TE9. 8. 0 WAM1-SEPT. 16,12 ~BVUY WDNESDAV etton move as-far as it who are able to 166s of ive, ten e - i bles are mot Ed4isk, except in nnin the large - holarereally n~antialaid'in ~ rgoing to be scarce. th van who- has a little u which he does not have ~oherwise~and will invest 'ba1ofcaton at ten cents who ha haito sell it to get 1iveis domg a avor tathe poer fellow and hm putting a little a o a e~iwo and help ~~-nka1nn that~ much. It bel9*r4-upon as an tbuy a 4baWe of t cents but rather and 1 Kris..er cotton will Certainly tod egnkand perhape e aioggestto thos who rable t buy one -or a few bs wver, that hey do not ~Q~aIowieir-spirit of patriotisu sco-evition to be abused ."hifeowwho wants to wort irop-at ten cents, bui ah he purchases be placed where. .they will do the mosi good;and put. the money in ac tnal circulation. We understand that one bi local business firm is receivinE eotton from its customers and placing it on account, and hold -ing the cotton,-ithe farmer to pa] the storage and insurance ani wheuh cottonis sold be is t< receive creditforthe full a of what it brings, less th. n and storage charge alsounderstand that two o srge grocery-houses in C! ton to whom local mer) we accounts are doingthe thing with their mnerchant inomen This is real co-ol tii, and a manifestation of -proper spirit, and enables ' farmer who has given a lien z hold his cotton for better prices and at-thesame time relieve the ierchact whom he owes, and when the meichants are willing in this manner to meet their cus tomiers half .way our advice to the farmers uiiqestionably is to get their cottg out as fast as possible and I -the mere have itunder rms, This is anilmost unprecedented con dition . that we are. passing through,' We do not look for any substantial relief from the government warehouse plan so 7ar asClarendon county is con cerned, because the.government is not.going to place its funds on depositinany but nationai banks, and there is not a national bank in Clarendon county, and we have not heard of any effort on the part of. any- of the State banks in this county to obtain any government funds from the national banks, although it is understood that this is a part of the scheme of the governmed's money placing plan. We hope that if the bonds of the county can obtain any relief from this source they will make the proper efforts to do it. It is a time for real;co-operation, and not a time for oppressive foreclosures. At the same time it it not an oppor tunity to be taken ad yantage of by people uttempting to shirk honest debts and not make the proper effort to give some satis faction to the man whom they owe. We really do not look for any great relief until it can be seen which way this European war is going to terminate, and the exportation of cotton to Eng land is resumed. The present indications now are that if the war is not ended in thirty days the side of the allies will be su aciently successful by that time as that we shall see some L trade resumed with England, some cotton exported, and a cot ton market opened here, at a price wgich, if not satis factory, :ast sufficient for us to sell a and keep business moving. e meantime let everybody teady in the boat" and not -thing rash. A STOR IA Ininn and Children s ForIver30Yar THE DIVINE RIGrT OF KINGS Europe today gives us the logic of the divine right of kings Over in Belgiuni there is a mother who, years ago, when life was Adiant with promise, when love and laughter grew in thbe little garden, when, twilight was but the culmination of the joyous labors begun with the lawn, when the thatched hut was as full of song as the boughs of the little hedge are in the thrushes' mating time, met the lord of her love at the eve uing table. We do not know what the talk was about; it may have been the beets in the garden or. the gossip of the village or the plans for the next market-day; what aver the the subject the content ment of industry, the satisfac tion of toil, the love of those who have found their kingdom and entered into the humble task thereof, permeated the talk and even the trials of life were strangely pleasant. Then came the call to arms. White-faced and dry-eyed the woinar. stands at the door, a mite of humanity held to her breast. She sees her good man, with laggard steps and many a back ward glance, walk down the path between the beet beds and out into the highway. She watches him as he plods away to the village. Slowly his form fades into the mists of the eve ning. The sun has set. The world is plunged in darkness and still she stands, staring into the darkness asking "Why?" BY THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS. The other day she stood again at the door. This time so feeble she clung to the casement for support; her form is bent, her hair is gray, her eyes can no longer see the little knoll from which her man waved his final farewell on that fateful day. long-so long-ago. And now it is the son who walks down the garden path to the road and dis appears in the gathering gloom. Again she stands and gazes with unseeing eyes. Again in her supergrief she is asking "tWhy?") THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS. The picture is pitiably inade quate. It does not approach the truth. The Kaiser, they say, has 5,000.000 soldiers. Multiply this woman's grief-as though it could be multiplied, as though it were not the sunpelative de gree already-multiply it 'by 5;000,000; they say France has 4,000,000 soldiers, that England adds a million, that Russia's forces approach 7,000,000, and there is Austria ana Servia and Japan and the valiant Belgians -take the sum of the men in the field in Europe today an4 multi. ply by that sum this woman's grief and if you. can begin to comprehend the very deluge of sorrow and agony, you, too, will be looking into the gloom of the night and asking "Why?" THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS. Today the cannon in Europe must be sounding the death knell of this murderods folly. Tomor row it must be impossible for a man-A MERE MAN NO MORE IM MORTAL THAN THE PEASANT WHOSE LIFELESS FORM MARKS THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF WAR-to call unnumbered millions from their hearth and send them forth to slaughter. When the dogs and foxes and vultures have picked the last bone in this war and it is given to those who made the real sac rifice to count their gains and contemplate their irreparable losses, what answer will the kings make to those who clamor before their palaces? THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS? THE KING CAN DO. NO WRONG? What infamous blasphemy! Are we to believe that God has given the Little White Father the right to send his subjects out to murder 4heir German brothers? Are .we to believe that the Prince of Peace has con ferred upon the Kaiser the di vine right to send his subjects out to slaughter their French brethren? Is God, then, but a monster who revels in blood and who de mands in the choirs of heaven the minor chord of ten -million stricken women's grief? This is the God of the divine right of kings. He never has existed and he never shall exist. God has surrendered His roy al supremacy to no man. He and He alone has the divine right and His royal edict of peace, ev er peace on earth. He has is sued but one decree. It is "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Many careful students of the trend of events express the con viction that Europe is in the taroes of its final war; certainly the last vestige of belief in the divine right of kings must be crumbling before .every cannon shot. The English people right now are in revolt against the conditions which permit a few men, a king and his advisers, to say that a million men must go out and kill other millions whom they do not know and against whom they can harbor no real enmity. Germany declares war. Eng land declares war. France de clares war, Lies! All lies. Ten men, common mortals as you and I. ten men have declared war and but ten men are interested in the outcome and yet for each one of the ten already has 10,000 men given up their lives. Unutterable folly. The only divine right conferred on man was that of service. "AND WHOSOEVER SHALL BE CHIEF AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE YOUR SERVANT." Let the kings and princes of all lands consider. This and this alone is the "divine right." AMERICAR ROAD CONGRESS. Regarding the public roads as an indispensable part of the transportation system of the country, supplementing its rail roads and waterways, President Harrison, of the Southern Rail way Company, takes an active interest in the good roads move ment, He is vice president of the American Highway Association and will be one of the speakers at the Fourth American Road Congress in Atlanta, the week of November 9. Speaking of the relation of the country highway to the rail road. Mr. Harrison said. "What ever may be the final destination of the farm products, their first movement must be over the country road and if the farmer is to receive the largest measure of benefit from good roads the policy should be adopted of im proving those highways which radiate from market towns and shipping stations and over which the farmers must haul their products. The profit which will be earned by the farmer may depend largely upon the condition of the road from his farm to a shipping station. Sta tistics compiled by the U. S. Department of Agriculture show that the cost'of haulin gfarm pro ducts to shipping points over bad roads is a disproportIonate ly large part of the total expense of their transportation to market This is not always fully realized by the farmer, but if he will take into account the time of himself and his team. the wear and tear of his vehicle and harness made necessary by a .large number of trips with smaller loads, he xill find that the cost amounts up very fast and correspondingly reduces his net profits. Another item of the cost of bad roads to the farmer, which is often over looked, is that he must haul his products to markets when the roads are not in their best con dition with little regard as to whether prices are favorable or whether huling at that time in terferes with work on the farm. With good roads he can not only haul heavier loads in shorter time, but except as to perish able commodities, he can market his products when prices are most favorable and can do his hauling when it is most conven ient and even when the ground is too wet for work in the fields. "The manifold advantages of an improved highway in reduc ing the cost of drayage, facilita ting social intercourse, promot ing school and church attend ance, expediting rural mail de livery, increasing the value of farm lands, and promoting agri cultural development back. from the railroads are so great that they need but to be enumerated to present a convincing argu ment in favor of road improve ment. "Since several years ago when the Southern Railway Company, in conjunction with the U. S. Agricultural Department and State and local authorities, op erated over its lines a good roads train, carrying machinery and lecturers, and building at entral points object lesson roads, there has beeni very sub stantial progress in the good roads movement throughout the South. This was accelerated in 1911 by the operation of another good roads train in co-operation vith the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the American Eighway Association. The in terest of the Southern people in good roads has been thoroughly iroused and in many localities the country highways have been ighly improved and are being dequately maintained. "I think it is fortunate for the South that the American Road ongrss of 1914 is to be held in Atlanta. This will unquestion ably be one of the most import ant gatherings ever held -in the Southern States. It will bring together the official heads of the State Highway Departments, the foremost experts in roads con struction and maintenance. and other leaders in the good roads 'movement in each State for an exchange building and maintain ing the best types of country highways. Its exhibits of road machinery and of model roads will be highly educational and it can not but serve to increase in terest in the good roads move-. ment throughout the South. CUT OUT COTTON-RAISE MEAT. 'the financial conditions which we have had in Clarendon county for the past sixty days, and through which we are still pass ing, has demonstrated the fool ishness of depending altogether on cotton, and had it not been for the little bit of tobacco that was planted in Clarendon county and sold here this summer there would hardly have been enough money in circulation about in tL e county to pay off the cooks and washer women on Saturday evenings. Already the effect of the past two years of good prices for cot ton has discounted the raising of hogs, and you could hardly go out in the country and buy three fifty pound shotes in a day's ride at eight cents per pound on foot. The farmer himself is largely to blame for this, also the lien merchant who wants to make adyances to him atexhorb itant prices and practically re fuses to make him advances in anything but cotton. But the farmer is an easy fellow t3 put the blame on. Where he has his own land he is entitled to wear a great deal of blame for his con dition, but where he has to rent land and give a lien the proposi ion is very different. Land rents are too high in this county. How ::an a man pay seven dollars per icre rent and pay for fertilizers ind come out on what be makes :n an acre, with the tendency on he part of the landlord being that the more he fertilizes the land and builds it up, the higher the landlord raises the rent. As a rule the bigger the landlord in this county the smaller taxpay er he is in proportion to what he holds his land at. The general policy of the law in South Carolina favors the landlord more than it does the man who has to rent. There is no ques-. tion about that. The landlord has a first lien upon everything that is produced upon the land, regardless of who :furnished the stuff to make the &op with, and that lien upon a dollar and cents.. basis, regardless of whether the. fellow who plants the land makes-a good crop or a failure. as a result of drouth or other disaster. If large landlord own ers paid their proper propor tion of taxes and were made to share upon some equitable basis in what the land made, protected against tenants falling down and doing :nothing and throwing away their crops, conditions - would be much improved, as af fects both the man making the, crop and the man furnishing the supplies. If such were the case a landlord in a time like this would be made to share in seven cents cotton pfices, but as it is when his rents becdme due he can demand it, whether cotton brings seven cents, or twelve cents per pound. Such times as tbrough which we are passing sometimes teach good lessons, but if we had twelve and thirteen cent cotton next year there would be very little meat raised, an insufficient corn crop, land lords would want ten dollars per acre rent and ask seventy-five dollars per acre for ordina-y farming lands, and some farmers would be foolish enough to try to pay it, and thousands and thousands of dollars which could be otherwise more profitably used would be spent for automo biles. Contributed Article. How's This r We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for Man case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by al's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo. 0. We, the undersigned. have known F. J. 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