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CLINTON, S. C, AUG. 14, 1919
12 PAGES
RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS.
Even In ordinary conditions, with
out the reconstruction problems fac
ing us, we find It difficult to be con
tent to plod along at what we may
consider Insignificant, monotonous
work. We long to try our wings In
the high places above us; we watch
others rise to heights that seem far
beyond us and we note t|ielr success
with feelings of envy and Sometimes
of bitterness.
always labored In vain, or so we be
lieve, for those things that others find
so easy to attain we do not make the
effort to make the most out of what
we have in hand. It occurs to few
persons, as a rule, that a man who
cannot succeed in small things bus a
poor chance to succeed In big things.
It is necessary that he understand the
smaller affairs of life before he can
hope to master Its larger questions.
A great deal depends upon the founda
tions upon which we work; If they are
unstable we shall not be able to build
very high; if they are solid they will
carry a proportionately greater weight,
says Charleston News and Courier.
Giveti a solid base upon which to rear
our lifework, anil the ability to carry
^tf~fbrtvar3 stekdlly, and-te-wttl- not be
long before It will reach far into the
heights above us. So. too, In the pres
ent conditions, life is only a repe
tition of what has gone before; we do
the same things over and over, per
haps In different conditions and with
different ideas, hut In the end It is
always true that we work toward a
goal that at the time seems most de-
Irable.
Never was the land so musical as
t has been made by community slng-
. ng, by the custom of peforming na-
jonal airs in all places of public as-
•emblage, by the teaching of song in
he camps. The public taste Is far
nore discriminating than It was for-
nerly. The music that used to suit
s not good enough except for the low-
‘St- of the low-brows. Examine the
irograms of park band concerts and
t Is astonishing to note the place the
'classics” now hold along with the
igbfer order of music which,, how-
•ver frothy and ephemeral in Its na-
ure, often betrays a scholar’s knowl-
dge of orchestration and discloses
lauy a felicitous effect ic its bar-
lonies.
One hundred years ago the average
nnual production of wheat in France
as 129,290.000 bushels. Steady ad-
ance was made fd 327,74S;600 bush--
1s per year irv the period 1906-1910.
Dllowed by decline to 314,683,(XX)
ushels In 1911-1914. During the war
eriod the production fell to 222,776,-
X) bushels In 1915 and to 144,149,000
ushels In 1917.
Following Lloyd George’s declara-
lon that the ex-kaiser would soon be
ut on trial In London. Belgian mu-
icipalities have been asked for docu-
lentary evidence of atrocities in Bel-
ium to be used in the trial of'Cer-
mn officers. This looks like busl-
a i6M»————— - •• •
The queen of Holland has appealed
o the ex-crown prince’s honor not to
— mbarrass her country by breaking
Is parole. The tjueen could not have
ollowed the Hun course during the
• ar with much attention to put confl-
ence In the result of such an appeal.
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The New York Tribune, enumerating
»e losses, of. the war,, has, this Item:
Killed, 70,000,000.” It couldn’t mean
en. since there were not more than
500,000 killed; and R couldn’t mean
ie cooties, because there were 70,-
i,000,000,000,000 of them.
It doesn’t require a doctors’ conven-
m at Atlantic City to warn Amerl-
ns against the danger lurking In pea-
its. All native-born Americans are
dinctlvely on guard against the tnis-
havior of peanuts and rabbits.
Almost any father of four or five
vs could have told the American
ny officers what would happen
en they ordered the American sol-
rs In the army of occupation not
speak to the German girls.
? you happen to be a yeung man
vlng to make a start in the world,
ulre. the lot first, the bungalow
t, the wife next and seven children,
n you will have something to ride
ie car with.
n’erlcan-made motortrucks are to
lete with camels In southern Asia,
the trucks have even more liquid
ige capacity than the camels,
h ought to be an Item in the bid-
ne gentlemen Indicted under the
.gage act cannot complain of un-
uiste by the government In push-
hem to trial before they die of
ge.
»re’s one good thing -about the
g fever-^-tbey don’t quarantine
or It
iselr.,” exclaims a nationally
n writer, “must be Shved.* And
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disciplined nation.
America Is the best disciplined na
tion in the world. The proof la over
whelming. For instance, there was
conscription. Who would have thought
that the people would consent to It
without a referendum? Canadians
would not; nor would the English or
the Australians. They held that con
scription, except on referendum, was
repugnant to democratic institutions.
» U nrnn nrynptnrt tn Amprfca. NpW
comes prohibition. Its acceptance
forces on a large part of the popula
tion—the majority, for ail anyone
knows—a radical departure from their
accustomed way of life. If anyone
had suggested five years ago that July
1 wtould see America dry—without ap
proval or referendum—he would have
been derided. Yet here it is. and come
to stay, says Buffalo News. And never
a word of vigorous protest; only a lit
tle grumbling here and there. It is
discipline; It is discipline raised to a
point never dreamed of In a democ
racy.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS
A meeting of the Stockholders of
the Peoples Bonded Warehouse, of.
Clintoh, S. C., will be held Septem
ber 9, 1919 at 5 o’clock p. m., in the
Directors room of First National
Bank, Clinton, S. C., to decide upon
an increase of the Capital Stock, and
to transact such business as may come
before the meeting.
Yours verv truly,
jikA-pi rs prrvnirri wa»it»ot^ F
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B. H. BOYD,
President. *
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Over the same air routes where onca
allied planes went to battle with th«
Germans, aeroplanes are now carrying
4ood a«L.£.iotyng tn the devastated
villages of northern France, says
World Outlook. No other means of
transportation to many of these vil
lages is open, for not only are the
railroads destroyed, but 'for miles the
roads have been so cut to pieces that
motors cannot pass over them. The
aerial relief service began Jan. 25,
1919, when seven planes, loaded with
condensed milk for the children^ flew
from Bourget to Valenciennes. The
next day more than two tons of food
and clothing’ were carried through the
air to the devastated villages. More
planes, including two boche escadrilies,
hate been added, which every flay
■carry tons of provisions to villages In
need.
When the bureau of markets re-
•C
ports that the cold-storage ’ holdings
of all kinds of meat and meat prod
ucts. Including lard, amount to hun
dreds of millions of pounds, perhaps
considerably over a billion pounds,
the opinion is formed that there Is
much hoarding. Stocks In cold stor
age were large at the time of the re
port for January 1, 1919, and their
total was 1,296,000,000 pounds of meat
and meat products. At the average
rate of consumption for the United
States In 1918 this quantity of meat
food, enormous though it may seem,
was after all sufficient to last the
United States for only 23 days If no
other meat were eaten.
A British general says the R-34 Is
practically obsolete, and that one
twice or five times her size will be a
possibility In a year or so. These
times are certainly breaking the
speed limit. Scarcely is on invention
completed andVroved than Its succes
sor In wonderful achievement is tag
ging at its heels.
What became of all the dreamy
looking young^nen with large, plung
ing Adam’s apples, whb wore sport
shirts a few summers ago? One sus
pects that they have put the shackles
of the bourgeois white collar upon
their anatomical handicap and have
now become leading citizens.
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Valuable Farm Land
When ^ome people cannot think of
anything else, in an argument or a
controversy, their-Idea seems to be
that the way to clinch all doubt is to
announce that their opponents are
prompted by pro-German motives.
The chief trouble with the average
man Is Ignorance. Lemonade with a
sprig of mint and a cherry In It has
just as musical a downward gurgle as
a. highball, but the Ignorant gumps
don’t know 1L
Spain has started a monument to
the Spanish sailors killed at Santiago
and other places during the Spantsh-
Amerlcan war. She has evidently
been giving the matter thoughtful
consideration.
There may be some question as to
the advisability of barring foreigners
from the United States for two years,
but there Is no argument against send
ing back home some that are already
here.
- Ancient and modern history cams
into sharp contrast in London when
officers In medieval costume , pro
claimed peace with an airplane hov
ering over them.
It now costs $250 a 'day to Uvo In
A
Petrograd, and one of tbo great mys
teries of modern times Is why anybody
considers life In Petrograd worth that
sum.
One way to live long Is to be a rich
uncle for whose death all relatives are
waiting.
This summer’s motorist may. proceed
without any fear of gasolineless Sun
days.
Chin talks but nobody cares. It
hasn’t a look In; It hasn’t even a peek-
In.
FOR SALE
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Monday Sept 1st 1919.
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We will sell at public auction on Sale day,
Sept, ,1st; at Laurens Court House,—daring
the legal hours of sale, the following property.
44 acres, known as the Lindsay home place,
11-2 miles from Ora, S. C., on the main
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Laurens road.
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188 acres, known as the old Lindsay farm,
one mile back of Mrs. Jane Craig’s place on
the Laurens road.
This is good farm land, well located and
is being sold for division.
Terms of sale: It) per cent cash day of
sale, 10 per cent Jan. lst, T920 when posses
sion is given, and balance Feb 8th, 1920.
* MRS. E. B. SLOAN,
MRS. R. D. LEWIS,
JOHN E. LINDSAY,
^ MISS ELIZA LINDSAY,
Owners.
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