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p I 4 ?Ijp iEattrastrr Nruis1 (SEMI-WEEKLY.) ... * this 1 CHA8. T. CONNORS. . . .Editor Mr C R. E. WYLIE. . . Acting Editor , L. C. BOYEK Manager in? ni The I PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT: , Published Tuesdays and 1,1 Fridays at Lancaster, S. C.. confin by The Lancaster Publishing .. . s Company, successors to The na!" LnriERr. PRtahlUlipri t8S2' Th? J J , (IIIU Vi1 Review, established 1878; The ,, Enterprise, established 1891, as the and entered as second-class Gf thi; matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the . postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., rest, I under Act of Congress of health March 3, 1879 . . , . ? his du SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: willed (In Advance.) ith One Year $1.50 * six Months 75c realize ing ur TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1013. "We need more mails."? Anderson Mail. Not so; you are quite enough for vour town, fore tl The Piedmont Daily of Green- ^ears ville does not want to be forced 01 ^n to go to China to enjoy prohi- til 18 bition. was caster The pardon mill of Governor ter E Blease up to date has ground chosen out over (>00 pardons since his The L; induction into the office of chief more t magistrate. tury, li chronic The latest effusion from the our co %u?*ernor is to the effect that if dings, the blind tigers can't be made went t to <*top violating the law they a peopl must be forced to get their erate t liquor from the dispensaries. ma The upholders of law and or- !^r " II IS Illcll der were doubtless glad that the ^or ^ governor of Virginia came back (jor hurriedly to prevent a miscar- pCOp|e' riage of justice. The same kind .^j ^ of people in South Carolina J)r-n would rejoice if her governor would absent himself occasion- convjc^ ally, leaving the execution of the laws to the lieutenant gov- , R his reai ernor. , , . best in A primary election is being cou y held in the first congressional e district today to select a con- ' {icile I gressman to fill the seat of the P-v ovel late George S. Legare. Messrs. no^ces George F. Von Kolnitz, E. W. 1110,1 * al Hughes and R. S. Whaley of ^e '' Charleston and Solicitor John (M* an H. Peurifoy and J. H. Padgett onnorc of Colleton county are in the *Mlit?>riii race. ' PaP01'- 1 restoraf One Mr. Huntington Wilson, he may a hold-over assistant secretarv and fri< of state from the Taft adminis- In his < tration, got in a huff about carries President Wilson's stand in and be> reference to the Chinese loan, friends. He not only sent in his resig- Leigh nation but undertook, at the priately same time, to administer a lec- editor: ture to the President. His "Abo? n resignation, of course, was ac- 1,1 cepted and he has doubtless NwoU" ^ found out after time for reflec- Vll(1 tion that this great government hi can get along without him and Making his lectures. 1,1 \n angel .H'STK FJ SITRE.ME. The majesty of the law was Am, to , upheld in Virginia Friday, when Floyd Allen and his son, Claude 'What \\ Swanson Allen, met death in the . . , ...... \m! witl electric chair. \ irginia has an unbroken record for the en- Xll A, forcement of law, evidenced in | i< the cases of Claverius, Mc.Cue, 1 ' Beattie and the Aliens. The setting aside of the death pen- '' alty for sentimental reasons does not go in Virginia. In that ti state the majority is in favor Writ.- m of punishment for crime. Virginia's example might well be followed elsewhere. it , imo The State of yesterday closes ii its well-considered editorial on V! 1 ,u "The Mighty Arm of Law" with these significant words: t "Governor Mann knew that in I different degrees only there are (ONI a thousand Floyd Aliens in Yir- The ginia and her nearby sisters, United each setting similar example to will tal his sons, and that it is impera- 27th, '2 tive for the vindication of our Chatt.a government, that law be A. Por throned and realization of its Camp, terrible might be forced upon literati the public mind." sent t< THE LANCASTER IARLES T. CONNORS. big preparations are re appears elsewhere in made for the entertainmi ssue a communication of the old soldiers. The ci1 harles T. Connors, tender- Chattanooga has decide is resignation as editor of raise from $50,000 to $ Lancaster News. During for the entertainment ( fteen months he has been veterans. Tents and co ed to his home by illness the number of 1,400 and i been the earnest hope 000 respectively, from th< esire of his heart, as well ted States war depar 1 wish of the management have been given for s paper, that by complete camp. The mayor of he would be restored to tanooga is Hon. T. C. T and be able to resume .son, son of the late Gov. ities again. But God has S. Thompson, which is a it otherwise and it is antee that South Carol jreat regret that we now will be looked after. The the necessity of his giv- famous battlefields of the i *.. l:/- i T /"ii- i p 111m 111WOTK ijuuimhit inuiiiitciiiiy V_>HICK< rlie Connors is unusually &a an^ Missionary Ridge and inherits a talent for are near the city. It was aper work, his father, the pleasures a few weeks a r. M. Connors, having ed- spend a day in Chattanoog tie Lancaster Ledger be- Hie view of the surrou le civil war. For eighteen country from the top of the son was editor out mountain is alone wort e Lancaster Review, un- trip. So we urge upon n 95, when that paper veterans who can conven merged with the Lan- do so make preparatio Ledger and Lancas- attend the reunion in nterprise, when he was tunooga. editor of the new paper, ,.EuNICIOl S ,\< TtVll mcaster News. So, ?lor ,P, ,. . r ,, , I he retirement of lion, han a quarter of a cen- * T 4U . , e ,, . ? , , , JMoore, the head ot the we ,e has faithfully and ably d tment of the rn: iled the happenings in shou,d be ,esson tQ tho3( unty, the births, wed- , , , , , , ir. ' , ,, , would like to hold office, deaths and all that'** i v ? Moore, having been appo o make up the lite of . 4l ... , , ,, _, ' 1 to the position he holds e. It is needless to enum-1 , . , n . eighteen years ago by a R< o those who know him, ,. , . . . .. ? ? , ' bean administration, tollc ny line raits of charac- cusfa> tendered his res luiet and unassuming in U()n t(> th(j President nners. with generous love doubt)e8s with mt)e jdea tl fellow men, it is no won- . . , , . * , . .. . , ,. , , would be accepted. Rut it s it he is idolized by the 4 e that alter the election of ot our county, let, with , . ur1 , ident Wilson there bega gentleness, when matters, , r *, . . . , , campaign by Professor Mo ciple were involved, he L- , . . . . , . friends to have him appo remained true to his ? ... . , secretary of agriculture n mnc Hie mlii/MMoh, lrtl" ,evei ! cabinet and it is supposed to the moral uplift ofi4. . . 1 , , , the professor was not wit dors and advanced the1, , , e . , . | knowledge, even if not a j terests of his town, to the c j himse|f and state. Mis warm . any ratfi, President wjlson specially prompted h.s him at hig wor(, n()t as t< ,en when recording hap-1 scerotH1.y!ihip of agricul its. while his obituary ag to his resiKnation ol were replete with senti-,post he hel(, and s0 the nd good taste. i fess..r goes by the board, eel that we have sustain- )hHSC who a,.e hankering . irreparable loss in Mr. I., K0V(.,.nIncnt job, whi|c r is retirement from the (U.nt Wi,son is in evidence> 1 management of the ,)ctter not be too pernici( rut we still hope for his nct,ve at)out R :ion to health and that he spared to his family STILL STICKING TO II ends for years to come, i Some time ago, The 1 enforced retirement he berry Observer, seeking t< with him the sympathy | culcate "Obedience to L ;t wishes of hosts of which is so very necessary The following lines of South Carolina, especially Hunt may be appro- this time, very aptly applied to the retiring "Preach it, talk it, think it, by it. It is no hardship t tfii Ailhent ( iiih> his tribe onire anv nmn nnil mmi-v m. < I obey the law." one niBhi fro,,, ? doop Th,, Au usta chronicle < roam of poaro, , . ,, i ? , within tin- moonlight in above added pie is room. ably apropos of certain aut it rirh ami like a lily in bile regulations." loon)- i The Yorkville Enquirer writing in a hook of gold; . , . .. .. . . its last issue, quoting the a g pea re had made Hon Ad . makes it the subject til an ho presence in tho room ho tonal in which it says, >i?i 1 Governor Blease's act in h; mi i thou nifl vision hjs automobile driver run ilsed his head, I ? i *i i_xi , ,, those aut mobile regulations li a look made of all sweet not so much with a view t( d. The nana of those who dating the law as with a vit >vo tho Lord.' emphasizing the fact that < aid Ahou. 'Nay. |)(,()pj(. were disregarding law and no attention was 1 the angel Ahou spoke I I In ? k * * * n icirc i o v. l""vl l" ll" ' :ii\ All. ar.'I I pray arc in Columbia, as in al iee, then, ' | every other town, people O one who loves his m-1 consider it their especial ! rogative to be above the lav el wrote and vanished. I li? . t there an? town officials pi again with a groat waken- cally everywhere who acfju liKlo. | in the acknowledgment o ..vol the names whom love ( unlawl'ni privilege derna f God liad blessed, i . ,, , , . .. , , ? 1 It is the people who assum Urn Adhem a name led all 11 hP rost!" privilege of doing things other people are forbidde KDKRATE REUNION, law to do, that we conside annual reunion of the most dangerous element c Confederate Veterans ciety, and on the theory <e place this year 6n the the governor was putting it !8th and 20th of May at this kind of people, we a nooga, Tenn. Mr. W. G. toll sympathy with his act ter, commander of Dixie The concluding part o has just shown us some sentence we make in large ire anent the reunion jit will be remembered tha > him which shows that governor's negro chaufTeui % NEW S, APRIL 1, 1913, being running at a break-neck speed |W>' ent of through Main street in Co ty of lumbia in violation of the ,city ; id to ordinance in fall view of a po 75,000 liceman, was taken up and .fined I >f the the pitifully small sum of $3.75. > ts to The governor thereupon issued I 10,- a pardon to the negro and made i Uni- threats against the city au- > tment thorities as to what he would v the do if the money was not refund Chat- ed. And now comes The York- J homp- ville Enquirer and says "We are Hugh in full sympathy with his act." guar- It is true The Enquirer %d<>es inians come around at the close of J three the editorial and says, "We be- * * i war, lieve in the observance of law." J amoii- rlo j ^ -- * - ^1 MltMU- . .... itllMk UV 1 UCUCVlUJi 111 111C all observance ot law amount to, if y ; our the act of the chief magistrate y go to of the state in seeking to* over- Z a and ride the law is endorsed by The y % nding Enquirer? We do not know y Look- (and venture to say that The y h the Enquirer does not) that other y 11 the people are violating the speed iently limit laws in view of the police- ; ns to men of Columbia and even if it ; ,s Chat- is being done, it does not justify y; " the governor in doing so, or y The Yorkville Enquirer in up- V 1^* holding him in it. No, we ar,e ; * ^ ill is prepared to see the governor do ; at her a]m0st anything, but we were ? ment. no^ prepared to see The York who vi]je Enquirer in its admiration ! Mr. for him, uphold him in his delinfpH ^ nance 01 the law, even though Ij! some, others may be violating it and ! ! epub- are no^ pUnished. ! ! CH wing Yes, Brother Grist, let as all >! r igna- advocate obedience to the law, >! but even on the part of Governor *)? >? ...j. 1 iat it Blease. eems Pres- Senator John W. Kern's tirult"' ... . , , seen hi n a whiskers will no longer feel ^ho ha ore's lonesome. They will soon be of inse inted joined by those of Jim Ham been k i the Lewis, recently elected senator . _ . Wint that from Illinois, it is true they any m, hout are not the same color, but both vice larty sets are Democratic all right ahull. a At and of the progressive kind at ('omi,,K , ,. , has ch< took that. tn the ture! The News !lnd Couricr Puts puked f the Iwe^ w^en ^ says that Gov- uve ox ernor Mann in resisting the ap- smokes peals of more than 100,000 'aakes e> . maudlin sympathisers with a ?toof 1 alter j . * favoriu 'resi sb?cking crime was of such tion , v. i stuir as the Romans were made h! <1 of. T"" ' Misly liai ^ea I < it does FROM OTHER PAPERS tnie ? IM. but the \TCW- who ru Huntington Wilson has gone, but hind tt ' the government at Washington still 0f fron aw, lives.?Haiti more Sun. such tf i in a muu Willis L. Moore has resigned, but . the Dutch weather prophet in Co- shau o said, lutuhia is yet on the job. Ander- H. i. .... aud ' T , live son Mail. , . God is ' new spa ? ?> r /A i wi vininiriT Mil til*" HPT . . ill to ' hush is great disasters of natures outpour- S(M>ju? ing are more than matched by the JUOt- indomitable courage ami powers of MPI'1 Slim- recuperation of iier people t'harOUIO ieston Post. l'optlhtt The Auora, 111, physician who * 1 uc ' lived sixty days on peanuts has Just ^ j .bove j weddeil the Ottawa lady who exedi j i ted ninety-two days on apples. ' ,au<dSl 'that at last is tin- combination that M**- tt. r' will beat the high cost of living,?- Hoar ^ | Columbia Record. caste over I Dear I was 1' that South Carolina wild* man which > vio- r'*a?y became insane while hiding period * ^ from officers of the law he is to he y??ar, pitied for his ignorance, lie should pvrmati >th(M |iaVe surrendered and then naked to do t the for it pardon. Miami (Kloridat I long a joiner Herald. aa 0<n, "hero w hi<h An institution Unit serif. bov iv./.jt tauce i II ivij* i tomorrow's men wit It clean, u . M > i wno w hob'some environment and Chris- , . . ,i i taking in,-- ..wii in it inin 111 <111 iiiirtiru ve iiiitri .1 < # i i along ? 1, nml wortliy of Its DlaCC 111 ItIIV , "nu . ... . publics coinmunitv. Sueh an Institution in ractl- , , ... trons r Spartanburg is the toiing Men h liesce christian Association. ? Spartanburg i """k " r ?u , sonal 1 I the Herald. . .. ? . ... .. of who ndoi! Don t lose heart at the continu- . . 1 1 1 ! S 1 ( ' K 11 t' H e the "lls ra'"s- " m?y be that next fall ' ?ve ean see where it happens for the a best. A bad beginning often makes n by a good end and a small crop often | r the means more money than a large one. >f SO- Watch expenses and raise ail sup- "Wh th'it i'"os at home and leave the rest to "I n I'rovldenee. Wlnnsboro News and "We over ?,.rn,(1. should re in to ."""J i A Houston girl writes us that she ji0 wa, f the ,nat'? ^he Kabter hat matter so easy telling ; for lier father that he doesn't feel hie." ypo. ,, ajj aIuj t|,aj 8jlf) jmg H poae.h of ,)i(l it the ii hat. Wo haven't seen the hat and ?r r Was Iwreforo ean not conllrm her hor- 1 Bold b; k&btml MM ITS A COLD iUT A BANld ^Vv5\RWi FJ AND A 5ECUR i?/ ? V tf /rt./ (ieor/re /*\ SJ n-] ?'/ ,.i' u < r. - " ?" "? rs in Chiongo, who todn I,()<)() ti minute, fi^st tmnU '/iyes to Itiiy one steer. li Do YD U li 1* ante in Ye puy 4 percent interest rhe First Nati OF LANCAS 'AS D JONES. Presiden t E IN f LIE. Vice-Presrdent ral classification; bnt we have ing er daddy and can testify that prep b not exaggerated the degree at li usibility into which he has life's ,nocked.?The Houston Post, expr tude ?d and toasted as much as thos< m in the country is the new givei President, Thomas R. Mar- news Marshall's talk and stories are j c to the front and his picture rlchi alee space, for the new man each Ol/iranri a uua U1 lUO RPHSltP Jn popular fellow and already t|je for a favorite. The diniinu- keep -governor of Indiana. who wag a cigarette with the hoys. apie epigrams and looks like ,iutic lafk is going to be a prime with the new admlnstraSalisbury Post. daily press is as full of spiritching of a kind as the Uible. not preach sermons, it is r tag on morals to its news, ( lessons are so plain that he at ins may read. Shining bo- to ^ le tragic facts of multitudes et* t page articles one may read <)cto1 ;rrible texts as "Whatsoever men soweth that shaLL he also cont* "He that soweth to- the tiesh ***ws f the Mesh reap corruption," he wages of sin is death." Iut'et speaking loudly in every at 1 per in the country. The , aflame, yet men pass by un- New? Christian Endeavor World. PcoP the roit CON NOItS RESIGNS. lines corn r Newspaper Man Give* I'p tivati His Ijfe Work. will following letter was recelv- the I week from the editor of The 8c'on Ler News: peals K. Wylle, Chairman of the d of Directors of the Lan- 1 (jw.m r Publishing Company. i t()Wn Sir: ?Continued ill health, j has already extended over a | of considerably more than a and being without hope of i I yji ent improvement, impels me i hat which I should have done '"'s ' go -tender my resignation ? :or of The Lancaster News, '' ' 1 now do with great reluc- ' iDil inexpressible sorrow. , . . . ! .' 'imm mm so long delaying j this action is tliat I have all sll? ' arnestly desired to write for t isn 1 tion a farewell to the pa- wor'< >f the paper, an overwhel- i no|,': lajority of w hom are my per- j Heads, and many hundreds <>nou in have during niy prolonged s in various ways shown 1 kindly feeling and sincere 1 hy in my atlliction. K?'tti having* despaired of ever be- (a"s Is pi Why lie Was Late. calls at made you so late?" an i jet Smlthson." I soinr 11, that is no reason why you . he an hour late getting home Nr." I"I ? :now, but I asked him how In, ; s feeling, and he Insisted on ?ure me about his stomach trouan a I you tell him to take Cham- l"?h I s Tablets?" e, that is what he needs." . y all dealers. ' ' 7=?- - <<*? H WDRLD, : BobK 15 I RIEND I . E ONE. # t A- Co., the hig pnvk- ' y tlo n f)ii.s/nes.s of J red enough front his ! 'nnk vour nio/iev. g with t/S. o/i su rings deposits * V V ????????? ' V V ionalBank j TER. I E M CROXTON, Cashier a E CURTIS MAC KEY. J Ass't Cashier a mentally and physically able to are a formal valldlctory, I am ist constrained to lay down my i work without Klvlnc nubile ession to the boundless gratiwhich I feel to one and all of b who for so many years have i me their loyal support In my ipaper activities. The best that an do is to pray that God's >st blessings may rest upon and every one of them, conclusion I desire to thank board of directors for so long ing open my "job," when there little or no hope of my being to resume the discharge of its !S. Yours very truly, CHAS. T. CONNORS. ing el' Colored l air Association. j litor News: ?The officers of the red Fair Association will meet ineaster, S. C., April 3. This is known as the Lancaster Colorair to be held the last week in t?er, 1913. All colored boys or who are going to enter the ?st for raising corn, hogs, , etc., will send in their names i. 1). Lee, the president. We at the colored school building 1 o'clock. The premium list be published in The Lancaster i. We want the good white le of the county to encourage colored people along these by giving them an acre of and instruct them how to culb for the greatest yield. It help you as well as strengthen Interest of the colored man in tific farming. The glory of prosperity of the county apto white and colored alike. negroes will fight if you tell that Lancaster is not "a good They love It M. D. LEE. The Vi'M Worse Life. ie preacher lias a hard time. If tair is gray, ho is old. If ho Is ung man, he hasn't had oxper- w ^ . If ho lias ton children, he has 9^ nany. If he has none, he should , and Lu't settling a good oxo. If his wife sing in tho choir, s presuming. If she doesn't, she interested in her husband's It a preacher reads from *, he is a bore. If ho speaks nporancously, ho is not deep gh. If lie stays at homo In his i', ho doesn't mix enough with tieonlo If ' ? -.-ii around on streets, Ik ought to be at home ng up a good m rmon. If he on some very poor family, he aylng to tin* grandstand. If he at the home of the rich, he ia iristocrat. Whatever lie doea, > one could have told him how > better He has a fine time 11voff donations which never come ind promises that never ma- \ Next to being an editor, it is .wftil life.?Seneca, Mo., Dlsiancaster Leads. J