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aLtuion N Uce' SATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. CoNTY OF FAIRFIELD By W. L. HWfley, Probate Judge. Wheras. A. J .Mobley. made sui - me, to grant himLetters of Admir stration of the estateand. effects of Mobley. . .These-are therefore, to cite and at ih a.l and sin;ular the kindred at ditors of the' said N. F. Moble: .diceased that' they be and a] 0befre me, inthe Court of Probat bd-at Winnsboro on the 13th 'March, ext, after publication here< -jlio'clock in the forenooh, to sho cae . an ..they have, why the saj ar-fnistratio should not be- granted. Givan'uder my hand this 26th d2 of lebruay A D 1916. W. L. Holley. Judge of Probate. taon Notice. y EIeProbate Judge: e p6o LlW.Lyles. C. C. P to grant him Lettei tai othe Estate at eft Mary M. Taylpr. aese areitherefore, to cte ar alfand singular the kindre :ifretors of the said Marry An T*ry deeeased that they be and al eaWforu,e me. in the Court of Pr< "beheld at Winnsboro on 21! ~Ma~h~ nxt, after publication bert dck- in the forenoon. I SZe s ny they have, why ti j stiatioin should not I S3,e m yilan' this 7th day W. L HOLLEY, adge of Probate. rWNofice. sadministrators i G.fD~a?Prtes deceas deaisO against ti .hereby notified topr< tetimep?escribe a rso indebted to it eftatare requeste to make pa: DesP teu nF. A. DesPorte -' .~ . Administi-ators. Wm e 7H a tHyt ~~ N~it-a LIw on-e saWVdSdesign. Itl.t with .at nnovingth slidintgives.th ese fclgt-h thtwoI hr ad(}Jdo'theaave vespoftrofo. im bun ayithe~ saymoli A ddein oSercurion aidtin eigs t resuhts wa any prodctmtatbing com fort and nomy t them Akor them byonme.rt Match~les iuiP lss t~ando as dra H ose ntl Lubricanm&The eur nEurfe Hreoi Micheay ixl tesymo our dfcencr-donomcrr these writs toeouriaet SOtYtion. Lmsn (Ntewrerar Match-ess D.-C. idarloss.N.C EdoreVa .Hareson W.i V William Shakespeare. Dear Mr. Editor: I'm sending you a sketch of William Shakespeare, as written by a Fairfield girl, Miss Mary Robertson. It was. o- originally written for and published in an other paper, but to me i0seems j- nothing but fair it should .be pub d .lished in The News and Herald. Some. one has already whispered in our ear, "Miss Robertson is a born writer." She only confes ses "I would love to write." Vithout doubt she can write and very probably will do it. A good d start is all she needs. She has 1the head to keep it up. Fairfield needs a few more girls like this one. A Friend. April 23, 1564, is a red letter day in English literature, we may -say the literature of the world. For on that day in the little vil lage Stratford-on-Avon, William Shakespeare was born. His parents were of humble but hon s orable lienage. the sir name sig d .nifying ability in wielding the spear. William was the son of di John and Mary Arden Shakes d peare, and the eldest of a family n of six children. His education was such as he received at the! -free grammar school before he 1 t was thirteen. For at that age he was taken from sehool and to a o great extent given the responsi e bilities of -the family. His father! e had received a' reverse in for tune and he knew that in William lay his only hope. Probably no one i ealized, when young Shakespeare was going about his daily tasks or walking from.eight to ten miles to see the plays of some strolling band, that the mind of the world's greatest genius was developin. But it was, and not a light to come as a e flash, shine a day and' be no k more. During that time he was d married to Arine Hathaway. e . The real literary career of, this t wonderfal man did not begin un til he was about twenty-three. At:that time he became associat-, ed with "The London Globe Thea ter," and soon became both actor - and playwright To say he was an actor does not'necessarily call shame' on his.- name.. For it is - noteworthy that the tragic pagan ism of the 'modern drama dis appeared ivith Shakespe if his.plays were/-rimm i in ,gir issue their logic i . invariab5 and inflexibly orth.ox. There is no do bt that he is the world's gre est poet. Liter ary hyeam 'are still prowling jaround his' ye.> He wears the girland - imniortality. For his d{~ul w ds music, his life blood war rest art. There Was neyer a.n of more 'fexible mind. There was. nejer a rwiitenhose &-wo~ks were nore based upon'his torical faci:and:hijgh principles. 'Amoirlist Shakespeare exceis. i-There breathes 'th'ri all his work .so great a belief in virtue, united Sto such a vigorous tone of honor, as testifies to 'the author's excel' -Iene as a Christiad. To -read -Shakespeare is to elevate the mind, broaden the. thought, in crease the vocabtilary and culti vate the imagination. Beside >.eing well posted on the past, hie was a man of fore "sight. ~He dreamed of woman as ~a professionalist; and -her inyas ion on'the stage, or else he wotdd ~never have given us the charac ters of Porter and Lady Mae bhth. Poets lived before Shakes peare,, but none, reached: his .height. Poets have lived 'since Ihim, they 'have strained their talents, searched their brain, and Ioften fallen' back on his quota tions to give their work a' tinge of beauty. At a first thought, taking' all professions into consideration, it would be difficult to say who 'is the work s greatest genius. It has been truly said, "tL.e con ception of things made current by the writers of a country count more in the lonig run than the act of the politicians." The work of the latter .is important once often for a long time; but time passes and all things change. SThen only the idea of their work is handed down. If it were not for literature and writers these ideas would be lost. The power of military, political, econiomical ~and industrial geniuses is great, -but it is only thru the literary -genius it can be made of per petual use. Spoken words pass away and are. forgotten, but writers words are everlasting. Their stamp is indellible either for good or evil. Since the time of the apo'stle Paul a writer is looked upon with an envious eye from his fellow men. Looking from this view point, and proba bly excepting the two greatest Biblical writers, Moses and Saint Paul, the name of William Shakes peare stands preminent of all; mortal men. Julius Caesar laid the foundation for the Roman Empire., Alexander the Great. and Napoleon brought more land unde-r their control than other -men who ever started for con quest. But th'ey have passed away and the world today is' scarcely effeeced by their having lived in it. Each year they are that muel- 'arther in the past. But not with Shakespeare. When on e 23rd of April three hundred ears ago that great poet pa' d from this life to the land of ,ternity, he was farther men than he is today. The work] of military men and politicians is not of long duration. But the work of Shakespeare abides and will. while the English tongue is spoken or the love of pure, re fined literature lives in the heart' of men. Mrs. Jane Neil Buried. Mrs. Jane Neal, the oldest per son in Chester county and one of the oldest in the State, passed away Thursday morning at 2 o'clock at her home on the n->rth ern outskirts of Blackstock, death coming as the natural finale to length of years and gradual breakdown and not being a sur prise to friends and kindred. H&d Mrs. Neal lived until May 4 she would have been 102 years old. Mrs. Neal was born in County Antrim. Ireland, and came to this country at the age of 6 years. In those days there were no fast ocean liners and the trip across the waters in a slow sailing ves sel required three. months. Though she left Ireland when a mere child, the iecollections of her birthplace were stamped up on her memory and she cherished most vivid recollections of her childhood days. Her memory was remarkable, events that transpired in the past being held in her nind with perfect detail and her' recollections in %!nnec tion with many events and hap penings being of. incalculable value.and interest to those inter ested in the lore of bygoie times. Mrs. Neal was able to.repeat the psalms perfectly and also had a fine knowledge of Milton's and Shakespear's poetry. Her advie to the young . was ever to read only the permanent and lofty in literature and to cast aside and have nothiiz -to -do with so much of later day writ ing that has no value and is to have no permanency. Mrs. 'eal is survived by one-brother, L. Strain of the Ettajane section in Cherokee county,- and two chil dren, Mrs. Lydia Wooten of Blythewood and Green Neal -' lackstock; also by. us grandchildren.. An !M'resting fact in connectio ti Mrs..Neil and attestinr er great"Age'is that tour. enerations were living in.the b use in which she died. Mrs. eal ias i an earnest and fife ong member of the Methodist eurch.' Funeral services were held at Concord Presbyterian church Friday morning, by Rev. George Gary Lee. Mrs. A. H. 1witchelIl who was badly hurt when herggouusine was demolished' bygalserie train in Spartanr iast$AS#id day. s still i aiostfritieal .on (Two branches of grape vines th That on the left was properly pruned. The habits of growth and fruit bearing of the bunch grape make it easy to prune and the work can be done much more systematically than with most other fruits. Furthermore, it will stand very severe pruning with out injury. The fruit is borne on new shoots from the preceding year's growth and unless the vine is con tinually cut ba-,k, the fruiting area will become farther removed from the main stem each year and will produce ong, naked canes, which serve no purpose other than to convey plant food to the more remote fruit-bearing parts.' Moreover, if the vine is left to itself. more fruit will form than the plant can properly develop. The im portant objects in pruning, then, are to get the most bearing wood in the smallest space and to limit the bear ing wood according to the ability of the vine to produce well developed fruit. Not infrequently vines are al lowed .to retain too much bearing wood and there is a consequent waste of energy in the production of many small, inferior bunches. For best re sults, our.common varieties more than four years old should be pruned so as to bear not more than from seventy to one hundred clusters. The method of pruning is determin ed in part by the kind of training practiced. There are several good systems. One of the simplest, which Is also one of the best for the South. is that known as the double Kniffin system of training, in which are de veloped two trunks, each 'of which carries two arms trained to - a two wire trellis. UJse a one- or two-year-old vine foV transplanting and cut back the top to three or four strong buds. That vig orous canes may be produced, rub off all shoots that appear during summer, except the stronigest three. Only two shoots are necessary. but it is well State Teaclers' [ The State Teace Associa.;; tion-meets in Colw ..Marc 16-18. We hope to hM"'a redoid breaking attendance 'of Fairfield. teachers. We earnestly urge all. the boards of trusteed to grant their teachers leave of absence during those days. .We are of the opinion that the new ideas and inspiration receivedwill more than offset the time-l6st fromi the school room.- The teachers are advised on their arrival in Columbia to go to the Capitol wh'ere there.. will be a bureau of , information and Boy Scouts to act as guides. All teachers will register and be given- badges of membersh. The meetings will be held in the State house and the Columbia theatre. The first I general session wilt be held Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock. Most of the teachers can attend all of the meetings with the lossI of only one day, Friday from t'A schooliroom. A number of egan-I ties are in the race for the tibphy cup to be awarded to:the.ounty that enrolls as me ' ers the largest percentage o teachers. i Dillon won the curAast year and i Laurens in 1914./ Why can not Fairfield win tiat cup? Let us make an effort! any- way, and I hone the trustes will.encourage the teachers -to attend, and see that the way ih open for them to go. J W. -W. -Tur ner Mrs. Beulah McFaden and Mr. W. B. - Meredith, both of Rock Hill, .ere married in Col umbia last, Tuesday. They left immediate y after theceremony for a trir to Florida. Mrs. Mere dith is aunt of Mi Drake, superin endent of tfie weave room at the Fairfield cottoa mills. Las weeek the,Grad Jury in Union' returned "no bill*in the -case' f Dr. Theodore Maddox. who . was- charged wit7 man slaa hter for failing tV properly, a nd Hurley- Stoddard,--a b Y 'o died fromnguiisotwo received accidentally. Yesterda'y as s eds day, and Lenth I take this:neans fing my fendsant Ithat I have moved-. -' bisi ess,froi the comer, -dow. whih fIn onefo-hi the past *te cnstructin th-rli)-env h Secrely ie yde the rsamte form Tth on pranet tas o thue atnl. In -thed thear follectn woe (tr conesrcoing ota the etrellsmi~oety wfeachetrunk an trencanem angu bathoseiremningoe directionsst wire arms the othrate them opacke Secrel iethoo threshe formet this dpemnint trnktesi ofl theie vine - ther yesarelect of strone cantecmn tr utn erk.etemt ofecPrunk n trainouthe andobsg quent ars co'nshrtn ctting back new aes tof tw budshee or entirl fe thsnepewingo the arsb cutigor the u anvrining ote canes tae thcoe toethe trnk.m eas o h rb pruning On the outh hand sthea-. utiear cnsists inc cust tgc news connedw bud lontiely ril caueia thick, obyectting thms out andr tann nculaes alo take their plae. Iot desiroablways' possibleine trenew pan mbeash- the proet abl ack thereb stn caeprng to t plae. iOnd thenoterand,.o the prac tace of sixttightac nhes at to buds,vntied aetting me, illa the renewa lan prop er spure, eth. The caestwe itimes to prunebuc gae arm to sprsn, jtbor theta bds come out. Do not dela'y until the season Is too far advaiced. That pruning produces results is -shown In. the accompanying fllusdation, the only difference between ~hesa - two bunches being that the ~e of. one was pruned, while that thohe was not. F.:J. fnR Associate Professor of* clue Clemson Agricul Cfee ,T.HURSDAY William Fox ST. El A Stirring 6 1 of a. Soul's Briefly told the Sto Sth Elmi,"the high- strung ist rati family, dis -overs a s inend -e W.:.le-!en hi fae and hi 1 .1on In al nf ntzy of.O d0 kl him pedinsduela a' iin~itergof the oue. av anmanknd,a his mra proptl. Th secon Ae stoc mpan wodan coeler senvtigti so mend yetp yof an se ano cents a'nd~ by contachet saare doe ouht tohre ens but mw almiste otch hce gaospe hau prmTlye hme secon P -reSen S M -1 NIGHT Presents MO0 keelSty Sal atio' r,y isasflos sensiti-e sciono clandestine loe ef~ bangsUs t fn tgec, M - h-- - 6 e hes n - A -.- - s -~* vis herdna Ewf~nin - drt she o 8 edoc RR R/ entd onirtual reenfrti 1 acoin heforld~ . d1 as hold 8h pricslockh on od Piture g