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> __________ Compulsory Ed C Compul We speak often of the uneducated man's limited earning power, of his inability to be a ' 1 leader of his fellows or to keep abreast of the times, of the loss that comes to the state and the community from his lack of knowledge and ability; and all these things are indeed worth considering. There is, how r ever, another question of equal importance with any of these to consider?what must it mean to a man to be unable to share in the thought of the world, or to commune with other men, only in so far as he can talk with those he meets? Must he not feel at times almost as if he were among beings of a different class who have powers and pleasures of which he can know nothing? It must be so. The illiterate man, no matter how fine his character, or how strong and clear his mind may be, is, by virtue of his inability to read, placed, to a certain extent, in a position below that of the men who have this ability, and worst of all, is doomed, as long as he is illiterate, to remain in this position. Perhaps no stronger statement of the position such a man occupies can be found anywhere than iii Charles Dickens' account of Jo, the street sweep er, in "HiacK House:" "It must be a strange state _ to be like Jo! To shuffle thru * the streets, unfamiliar with the shapes, and in utter darkness as to the meaning of those mysterious symbols, so abundant over the shops, and at the corners of streets, and on the doors, and in the windows! To see people read and to see people write, and to see the postman deliver letters, and not to have the least idea of all that language?to be, to every scrap of it, stone blind and dumb! It must be very puzzling to see the good company going to the churches on Sunday, with their , y books in their hands, and to think (for perhaps Jo does think, at odd times) what does it all mean, and if it means anything to anybody, how comes it that it means nothing to me? It must be a strange state * * * to see the horses, dogs and cattle go by me, and to V know that in ignorance I belong to them, and not to the superior beings in my shape." Is not this tragedy, real tragedy, this deprivation from any reasoning person, for all his life, of a source of strength and delight shared by all those about him? The burning words of grim old Thomas Carlyle might have applied dircetlv to Jo: "That any man should die ignorant, who had *he capacity for knowledge?this I call tragedy, though it wore to happen more than twenty times in the minute, as some computators sav il docs." And they apply, gentle render, to that boy and girl of your own community who are growing up illiterate, shut in by the darkness of ignorance from all the light struck out in the great world by the thoughts and uic<uii? itmi ueeus oi an men whom they do not personally know. It may seem to you a thing to be sorry for that some parent you know neglects to educate his children, but it is more than that. It is tragedy?deeper and more pitiful than would be any material loss that could come to them. Under your very eyes, those children are being doomed to a life in which there will be no chance for them to develop to the full ability that, that God has give nthem. Right there beside you, those boys and girls are being denied the privilege of ever being what other boys and girls mav be. Many persons fear compulsory education; but is not compulsory education better than compulsory ignorance? And compulsory ignorance it is, because it is idle to talk of children from six to ten years choosing for themselves whether or not they will grow up illiterate. This choice is made for them by others, by their parents or society. Men and women of the South, these boys and girls of our homes and our communities are lucation? >r w ^ sory Ignorance7 our richest possessions. It is the duty of every one of us to see, so far as is in our power, that each and every one of them is given a fair chance in life. We are not doing this?we are doing the very opposite?if we willingly or carelessly permit one of them to grow up into an illiterate man or woman. There is none of us who would turn a hungry child away unfed, L 'I it is not less shameful for us to idle and see the minds of children starved. These boys and girls do not know ? cannot know ? what they are missing except as it comes to them in some blind, helpless wonder such as came to those in the back row. Concentration. (By George Matthew Adams.) With steadiness, courage, dare-determination ? burn a hole into things. No matter what the thing at hand may be. Concentrate. The wheel of action and of business moves by steady turns around one central hub. In success, rim, spoke, hub hold tight together, and as though human, think, plan, move as one. Concentrate. Results come always to the persistent. Opportunity goes out of its way to get hold of the hand of tho rrv?" uoivnvi . Ill*; fJfC <) 1 the boss is drawn irresistibly to the desk of the doer. Concentrate. Concentrate. Draw the details together. Formulate your day's plan. Strike a pace. Make every minute and every move count. Concentrate. And the finished job will be the day's goal?twentyfour hours of life well worth I while. 1 to little Jo. Often their careless parents do not know. But we more fortunate ones who, through our ability to read, have the key to the world's great treasury of knowledge, do know. Can we be selfish enough to permit any child to live and die with we know not what latent possibility in his mind and soul undeveloped, to live and die shut in from the great aspiring thought of the world, to miss the happiness and the chance of service that rightfully belongs to him? Surely we cannot, for it is not a small thing to cause one of these little ones to stumble or to require that he walk in darkness.?Progressive Farmer. JURY CLEARS BEACH OF ASSAULT CHARGE New York Millionaire is Acquitted in Aiken Court? "Nothing Against You," Declares the Foreman. Aiken, Feb. 7.?Acquitted of 4.1 -1 m * ' * I me cnarge 01 committing a murderous assault upon his wife, Frederick O. Beach, the wealthy New Yorker, enjoyed the additional satisfaction today of hearing from the lips of the jury foreman that there was "absolutely nothing against him." Beach was not in the court room when the jury filed in at 3 o'clock after being out just one hour and 45 minutes. Judge Spain had declared a recess for dinner when the first half hour's deliberation had failed to produce a verdict and Beach, with his wife, had gone to their hotel. Every one of Beach's lawyers was in his seat scanning the faces of the waiting jurors for some sign of their favor. Two minutes passed and Beach didn't appear. Then the court directed the clerk to poll the jury and ask whether they had agreed upon a verdict. Foreman A. H. Mc Carroll, who is a cotton mill superintendent, merely handed the clerk an envelope containing the verdict. As the words "not guilty" reached the ears of those in the packed court room there was a slight stir, but no applease, not a sign of. a demonstration of any sort. An instant later the familiar figure of the New York society man appeared in the doorway, his face beaming. The good news had reached him in the hall. Without pausing even to greet his lawyers, Mr. Beach walked over to the jury box and shook hands warmly with every juror in his reach. He waved and bowed his thanks THE LANCAST] HAS YOUR PUBLIC SCHOQ A FIRST-CLASS LIB No public school can duty by the community it has a good library; and there is one, the teacher encourage both pupils ai rents to use the books utmost. About the main busin the school anyhow is to ci the reading habit. It i enough for a teacher mei teach the child how to rt must teach him to readjoy reading. The teache teaches only the mere p ciation of words and th servance of punctuation is not really teaching r? The teacher should be { direct a child to deli books and magazines and papers that will give him for reading and so cause utilize the mere mecl process of reading that 1 acquired. "I confess," says TI somewhere in his "Wi "that I do not make any distinction between the ateness of my townsma; cannot read at all and th erateness of him who has ed only to read what is fc dren and feeble intel How much narrower, should be the distinctio tween the "illiterateness ( who can not read at all" a illiterateness of him training has been such t regards reading only as to be shunned! People where are now beginning the mistake pointed out, ago, by President Eliot essay, "Where in Populai cation Has Failed." He s <4Wp h n \'p ovpf nf avn r t t v. >iit v v/ iivi vvvyi ui v/ jJ much confidence in the acquisition of the arts oi ing and writing .After arts are acquired, there is to be done to make them tive for the development child's intelligence. If h soning power is to be dev through reading, he mu guided to the right sort o ing. The school must tea only to read, but what t< and it must develop a tai wholesome reading." And for the purpos Eliot has in mind, the nothing better than a school library, a treasure of the world's best litei If your school hasn't a 1; ask your county superint how tr? crpf nno Tf ? o~~ ? library, try to raise at le to $20 a year to buy more for it. Keep it live and ing?getting bigger and useful all the time. Ge' children to bring home for reading these long nights. See that the cl get the reading habit, i who reads is going to sch his life.?Progressive F Advice to Students, (W. J. Bryan in The moner.) Mr. Earl Cranston, Jr. Side High School, Denvc Dear Mr. Cranston: Yo quote me as saying: A r from a student to one wl passed middle life can b granted by a response will be useful, and the < tion to make such answer greater, when, as in this it is to reach a large num students. I need not dwell upon t eessitv fnt* ii-iti assumed that those to these words are address ready appreciate the vit portance of mental tr; They need rather to he v against the temptations come with education, and are two which most d consideration: The first temptation is 1 get God; the sin of the fir: in the Garden of Eden grt of a determination to tru head instead of the heart could not see why limit were placed upon them, therefore they resolved disr?hprH#?nr*o T'Kn w~WM*^>IVV| A IIC 1 1 I 1 I 111 not think of itself too h it is not the commander-ir to man's destiny. Fai greater than reason, truly says that "the heal reasons that the reason ci understand, because the is of an infinitely higher a Learning is good, but r< bei always that "the f< (iod is the beginning of dom.'' Religion is the practical thing with whicl has to deal, because it gives him a conception o and furnishes a foundatit 0 SB NEWS* FEBRUARY 12, 1913 )L on which a moral code can be R ARY? The second temptation is tc put selfish interests above the do its CQrnmon t??od?the temptation I to regard education as a moans where of ?etti"P ahead of others should rather tha" 'Is f means of larttnd Da- er servlce- Let not the train. Pl " ing of the mind wean you from sympathy with your fellows. f Education will make you ess of stronger; put that larger levelop strength at the service of those s not who are weaker and learn a lesrely to soil of naramnnnf o 14 -iur I ' ... "Y^.J * i way, as has been pruned beyond quesil* Col. tion to be the snivel and quickest remU may ?dy f?r I ' ? Aci</ Troubles known to eouost ,n,,<lical science, iuo matter how long , i , standing. It reifthes ami removes the lit) IKIS root ,?t the trouble (I'rlo Aoid) and est- be purifies the blood. which Till-' SOLACE CO. of Battle Creek obliga- are the sole lT. S. Agents and have is the thousands of voluntary testimonial let, g.?^g ters which have been reoeivod from V ' ' grateful people SOLACE has restored Ibei OI health. Testimonial letters, literaj ture and FHKE BOX sent upon rehe ne- quest. Iiay be I B- IMorris, President of the First whom National Bank of Chico, Texas, wrote . . the Solace Company as follows: iecl Kl- , vvant you to send a box of Solace al im- to my father in Memphis, Tenn., foi lining, which 1 enclose $1. This remedy hnf earned keen *>v some friends of mine here . and I must say its action was wonder* that fui, (Signed) R. L. Morris." there Put Up ill '25c, 50o and 11.00 boxes. eserve it's mkiiity fink to iik wki.i I AND YOU CAN SOON BE SO BY tO for- ' TAKING SOIiACK- "No Special t rviir Treatment Schemes or Fees." JUST f MOLACK ALONE does the work. iW Ollt Write today for the free box, otc. 8* the SOLACE HKMKDY CO., ? I hey 2G-44-w Battle ('reek, Mloh. ations r and Money to Loan. upon I am prepared, an heretofore, to must negotlay loans of iflOO.OO and upitrhlv ward OB first mortgage on Improved ? ' cotton farina ii> Lancaster County l-chiet | on long time,-' repayable in annual th is Installments.-at 7 per cent. Interest Pascal on $7,000.00 and over. No ' 'commhKTons charged. Only a roall | sonable fee for furnishing abstract in not1 Of title. R. E. WYLIE. heart 6 mos. Atty-at-Law. rrler." I V I (act, he namely, that life is measured, 4?" no^ we K?t ou^ the r who WOrld, but by what we put into ronun- the world. e ob- j venture to offer these two marks suggestions for your annual, in 'ki n+* the hope that they may, in some Kff l amah degree, strengthen your ightrul readers for a large contribution news- to the welfare of society and a zest thus justify a large return from him to society. lanical he has Keceipe For a Good Town. Grit. loreau, vim ilden," . Push, brond Snap, illiter- Energy. n who Schools. ie "ht- Morality, learn- Churches. !>r .7 Harmony. llects- Cordiality. then, Advettising n he" Talk about it. Wri*o about it. nd the Cheap property, whose Speak well of it. hat he Healthy location, a task Help to improve it. every- Advertise in its papers, to see Patronize its merchants, yeiirs Good country tributary. irL his Elect good men to office, r Ldu- Honest competion in prices, ays: Faith exhibited by good >ut too works. mere Make the atmosphere heal: read- thy. these Fire all croakers, loafers and 1 "iv, deadbeats. Let your object be fi?~ the welfare, growth and proof the motion of your town and its people. Speak well of the Dub lie-spirited men, and also be one p of them yourself. Be honest u6a I with all your fellow men.? ch not Qaffney News. ) read, 3te for Hero is a message of hope and good cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin e Dr. Boone Mill, Va., who is th? mothei re is ?' eighteen children. Mrs. Martir \ was cured of stomuc)r*'trouble and good constipation by Chamberlain's Tabhouse lets after Ave yean of suffering, and rature. now recommeiras these tablets tc ibrary' the Publl?^?old by all dealers. w endent ? har,a try solace at our expense iast 10 i books Money Back for any case of grow- Rheumatism, Neuralgia 01 more \ Headache that Solace books Fails to Remove winter SOLACE HKMKDV is * recent lildren medioal discovery of three (iermaii \ man Scientists that dissolves Urlo Aoid i ' 11 Crystals and Purities the Blood. It i? iOOI all HaSy to take, and will not afteot th? ariiier. stomach. It Is guaranteed under the Pure Food . and Drugs Uw to bo absolutely free Com- ' ^rom 0P'atos or harmful drugs of any I description. , I U I" A. 1 . 7 THE OLD CABINET MAKER SAYS That It k Nn WnniW ? > AV 1 IV V V V11UV1 I Metal Beds attained such a great popularity. Take ! for example the durable, ideal bed upon which we are having a special sale 1 this week. It is sanitary, and inexpensive; and its graceful lines make an artistic addition to any bedroom. Our line of iron and brass beds is extensive, covering everything from the most ina expensive iron bed to the highest examples of the metal workers' art. Come in 1 T J |and inspect our lifte. See Display in Window I LANCASTER HARDWARE CO. i FROST PROOF CABBAGE PUNTS ''if: )f GUARANTEED TO SATISFY CUSTOMERS 1 j from the obgdul cabbage plant growers n WliSwBBwKSZ!K555 mn?m> ouki?ipa. ~ APOUTr. TXPCERtL~<^~aitcnrr m?mp JI U 'ablM* gkJ"* fcrtlii ^ 1 I | -r^A-'T. DUTCJ?L. r J I _ TWAOCXARKCQPTRir.HTtP Established 18G8. Paid in Capital Stock $30,000.00 We grew the first FROST PEOOF PLANTS In IMS. Now h?vo over twenty thousand satisfied customers. Ws haFlt ,rova sud mldwor. nlihs,. plant, th.n .U nth.r persons In 111. Southern 8t.tr. rowbtbed. w IIV i Because our plants must please or wo send your money back. Order now. It Is time to set thcse(Hants In your section to get extra early cabbage, and they are the ones that sell for the most inafley. WE SOW THREE TONS OF CABBAGE SEED PER SEASON. t Earn Your Plants for a Slight Service?Ask Us How Flints ?nHyablma!i J I I Fostage raid SB cents per 100 plants. By express, buyer paying express charges, which under special rate Is very low, *00 for (100; 1,000 to 4,000 |1,M per thousand; 5000 to (000, (I.2i per I thousand; 10,000 and over (1.00 per thousand. > WM. C. GERATY. CO.. Box 194 Yonpps l*land. ?. ft. ' I' ? ? IWe have an enormously large stock of I "Everything For the | Building" j ' ' We are badly crowded for storage room. A M ' , large part of this various material was bought 1 ; 1 ( before the recent advances in lumber prices, m > 1 ; This being the time!'of year when farmers can ? build add repair?we are going to make spec- I ! ial prices for cash as an inducement for quick S | business. / J < ' Better "get bitsy" we are afraid we can J ? never sell lumber so cheap again. - | 1 We can stfve you money on "Everything , | ; for the Buiiefing" especially SHINGLES as j ; 1 well as make a little profit for ourselves. | Moore Lumber & Mfg. Co. ! ', "Everything For the Building." | . W B MB - HI i, , Hi t, i .