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r 4 ?ljr j&mnuitrr Nruis (8EM1-WKEKL.Y.) R. B. WVLIE. . .Acting Editor PUMjISHEHS" ANNOINCKMKNT: Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing BiwinoaflAPfl n Thfl UOmpuuy, ouvvooov.o ~ Ledger, established 1852; The Review, established 1878; The Enterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION TRICE: (In Advance.) One Year $1.50 Six Months 75c TUESDAY, JULY K. 1013. Benuettsville has organized a chamber of commerce. When are we going to do likewise*' There is a well founded tradition in. Georgia that there lived at one time in that state a man who became extremely rich by doing absolutely nothing else but attend to his own business. Apropos of the accusation that a New York wireless operator used the air without a permit, a fearful citiz zen wondered "if the time will not come when the right to breathe it * will require a license." The farmers have been making ' good use of the past week of dry weather. With one week more of V favorable conditions the crops, both cotton and corn, will have been put in good condition. On page 3 will be found two masterpieces of English literature, Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, of fifty years ago, and Wilson's address delivered last week at the semi-centennial of that great battle. We a**'.' constantly hearing complaints about the telephone service here; so general have these complaints become that we feel it our duty to call attention to them in the hope that the service may be improved. Isn't it disgraceful that Greece, Servia, Montenegro and Bulgaria should be now at each others throats after their splendid victory over the Turks? The great powers of Europe may yet step in and take from them the fruits of their victory. The farmers of Richland county have found that co-operation is the great essential to success in all their undertakings. Co-operation was the keynote of their recent meeting in Columbia. The idea cannot be too strongly impressed on all of our farmers. The Rock Hill Record of yesterday makes a true statement which should be heeded by knockeVs everywhere. It s this: "Your day, and vniir pnmnptit(ir'? lisvu iuut tlto rnnin number of hours. But neither are long enough to swipe a second from for knocking purposes." We fear The State's clever paragraplier is somewhat cynical in his attitude towards the "female of the species." Hear him: "We are willing to concede that in a great many respects woman is superior to the male biped, but there is this to be said for man. You rarely hear of his shutting up a poor little bird in a cage." His tender heart would shrink from caging a bird perhaps, yet many a man shuts up a fragile wife and keeps her in capitivity without once offering her the little courtesies for which her woman soul craves. Why even the "poor little hlrria" h-ivo Hulloooloo nfforuil t lu,m I daily through the gilded bars of their prison homes. OPPOItTlXITlKH FOR LAXCASTKIt HOYS. Senator Tillman has announced that owing to a vacancy at West Point front the state at large there . ' will be a competitive examination for the position to be held in Columbia at the University of South Carolina on Friday, August 9, beginning at 9 o'clock. This is a fine opportunity for some ambitious Lancaster county hoy to win this cadetship, as Lieut. W. C Young did four years ago. This reminds us that as Lieutenant Young has graduated there will be another vacancy in this congressional district. Two Lancaster boys can win these prizes if they just put forth the necessary effort. Will they try? WHO'LL BKLIi THE CAT? We note from The Chester Lantern that Special Judge C. J. Ramage, In his charge to the grand jury, said ''that the grand jury could eradicate the county of every blind tiger in a short time if only a mighty and determined effort w is made." We applaud the sentiment, but who is to "bell the cat?" "Ah, there's the rub." * F1RK I.OSS FOR .ll'NK. Insurance Commissioner F H. McMaster has made his report on the number of iires in South Carolina for the month of June. The number of fires were 30 against 115 for the corresponding *uonth last year and the loss sustained was $92,602.31, u as against $74,810.54 for June, 1912. w Lancaster was one of the few coun- P ties not reported as having had a fire. ^ n SHOULD UK INVKSTIOATKD. g - - . A lion ot the cotton rarmers of this w state and he is justly entitled to it. hi COMMISSION Kit WATSON'S WORK j? Commissioner of Agriculture E. J. Watson issued yesterday a warning to the effect that moulded corn meal r is being shipped into Soutli Carolina N' from the corn district of the Central H West. Mr. Watson has directed his l)< agents to seize and destroy eight fr consignments of dangerous corn ^ meal. It was our privilege to hear tt the excellent address of Mr. Watson recently, before the Press Association at the Isle of Palms on the sub- ,* ject of pure food and drugs and it ?l was certainly an "eye-opener." He R stated that South Carolina is becom- n ing a dumping ground for bad foodstuffs and adulterated drugs. Mr. u Watson is doing good work in his de- a partment. w ei WHAT CHESTER WOMEN ARE p no inc tj We have never received a more _ interesting special edition of any j, newspaper than the Civic Improve- pi ment Association edition of The tl Chester Lantern of July 4. It is the work of the enterprising women of w Chester's Civic League. It appeals to us particularly for it shows that (1 the women of our neighboring city 101 are doing through their organization " just what we would have our women ^ do for Lancaster. Any city is lack- g ing in civic pride which is without such an organization and we feel n that we are missing a great deal by having no concert of action along Cl lines of civic improvement. Chester s? is fortunate indeed, in having such o! a band of enthusiastic workers en- s( V! -raged in the work of upbuilding the s( city. The Civic Association num-|y, hers among its membership women I of unusual attainment. There are " excellent housekeepers, talented ; musicians, writers of ability, civic ! j* workers all. wlwse interest in their n home town is doubtless a chief fac- fi tor in the development of the city, b We have frequently urged upon our " people the importance of forming a civic league. Let us plead with our f, j women once again. We have pre- e served this very creditable edition ot i1 f. The Lantern and will be glad to have ^ some of our "forward looking" wo- f men se it in the hope that they will ii _e interested in working out some, p plan for Lancaster to the end that |! we may have a cleaner, more health- s ful and more beautiful town. f t FOR THK COMMON (iOOO. if We hope our people, both in the s county and In the town of Lancaster, ! 1 are as interested as we are In the ^ great conference which is to be held o in Columbia one month hence. There ! are many problems to be discussed j in which we are all vitally concern- j ed. We wish Lancaster to be well r represented at this important gather- o ing for we believe that great good ' will result to all of us from a care-11 - r I ill Miliriiiriit 111 I'UllllllltliiM, lO- f '< ther with the best theories for { helping us solve the manifold prob- s lenis which daily comfort us. Let us see to it that Lancaster reaps her j share of the benefits to be derived , from the conference. v \ Attention is cailed to the editorial 1 from The Qaffney Ledger on page 3, * entitled, "Our Needs." They are ( very great along educational lines as / a glance at the figures will show. While the tire apparatus was on ; ^ its way to the burning building ot' j t| Sheriff John P. Hunter yesterday ' li morning, some one 'phoned to Cen- | d tral that the tire was considerably ? e; beyond tlie city limits, and that there ja was no need of the lire department j going to the place. In consequence ! s| of this message the tire force halted Several minutes. This is a serious J' offense and contrary to the city ordi- jj nances. The city council and man- q ager of the 'phone line should make tl a thorough investigation of this mat- ^ ter and bring the perpetrator of this (,j outrage to justice. sv h< SKXATOlt K. I?. SMITH. 01 oc We are hearing fine reports of the h, speech of United States Senator K. y? D. Smith at Kershaw on the Fourth of July. Senator Smith knows more ^ about the cotton question than any ct man iti the United States. He has al- tli ready accomplished great good in cc educating the farmers along the i? fe lines of cotton production and con- sr sumption and since his ringing gi speeches all over the state, the far- ai mers have been getting a better price for their staple. The Senator has a m warm place in the esteem and afTec- ai THE LANCASTER NKt THK CKITVSItlKli HKl'NION. g c ti?* Kditor (Jlvw His Impressions 11 About This (ireat Kvent. ' / It was my privilege aud pleasure t 5 attend the great Gettysburg re- t uion and since returning home I ] li ave been requested to give some of i t ly impressions of this great event, j t rhich I will do in as brief way as n ossible. 1t I did not get off with the Lancas- , fl 3r veterans, but followed Monday a ight, the day after their departure, f oing by way of Hagerstown, Md. s .11 the way the trains were crowded l| itli veterans and others bound for c lie historic battielleld. UJi arriving s 1 Hagerstown, about 12 in. Tues- b ay, July I, I concluded to remain a ver there and go to Gettysburg v arly next morning, spend the day j nd return to the city that night. | The remainder of the day was v l>ent very pleasantly in llagerstown. a emembering that it was the home s f our townsman, tlult literary gen- 0 is, the late Dr. J. F. G. Mittag, in t is early young manhood, 1 made in- $ uiry about his relatives and learned r lat he had a nephew, the Hon. H homas E. Hiliiard, register of wills 1 p ?r Jefferson county, living in the f, ty. My informant told me to be v ire to call and see Mr. Hiliiard, that a e was a most lovable person and fj :ie of the most popular men in the a >unty, and as a verlilcatlon of this a ? lias been in tms omce tor ou >urs, ten years as clerk and for ) years continuously he has held le office, being elected every elecon year. Mr. Milliard is a Denioat, and he has held the office all tis time, notwithstanding the j tunty is Itepublican by a good ma rity. 1 concluded to hunt him up, eling that he would like to hear unething of his uncle who spent the eater part of his life in Lancaster id is buried here. So I called at is handsome residence on one of le prettiest streets of the city. 1 et v.'i.h a most cordial reception, id had the pleasure of meeting his Ife, son and two daughters. They lowed me a splendid oil painting of t r. Mittag, the work of the doctor imself, who used n mirror in posg for his picture. They were much terested in hearing of the closing lys of their relatives and of the 8 lly child surviving him, Mrs. Clara . Edmunds, of Rutherford College, g . C., now visiting in this county, tl agerstown Is an Interesting and | ??... I _ ?iftULUUl Ll?/. U The next morning early I started V >r Gettysburg over the Western F Maryland Railroad, traveling part of t1 le way over the Blue Ridge moun- s ilns, where the famed Cumberland 1 alley could be seen for quite a dis- ti nice. I saw thousands of acres of a jrn ranging from six inches to t aoulder high in Virginia, West Vir- t Inia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, a Iso thousands of acres of wheat t htch had been cut and put i ito sheaves, and was being hauled P p to the homes of the farmers. I o pproached Gettysburg from the r est, the railroad running for sev- v ral miles out of the city close to and t arallel with the Chambersburg pike t a mining from Chambersburg to Get- P rsburg. I kept a lookout for the S nttlefleld. which soon came into l' lew, the first thing to greet my eyes eing the equestrian statue of Oenral Reynolds of Lancaster, Penn., le commander of the First Corps of le Union army, who was instantly tiled July 1st, 1863, in McPherson's oods, west of Seminary Ridge. On reaching Gettysburg I found le streets thronged with veterans f both armies and citizens generally, laving been on the battlefield a year go, I knew where to go, and made >r the scent of the first day's fight, topping on the way at the Lutheran eminary, I had the pleasure of leeting Gen. C. Irvine Walker, mmander of the U. C. V. for South arolina and Gen. E. M. Law, who immanded Hood's division on the ?cond day's fight around the border f Little Round Top. General Law r ill looks vigorous despite his ad- a anoed years. I remarked that I had >en him last in Lancaster some 2F> OQfc dffn " Vuu hi) rnvilit.il "whon I was fool enough to run for Con- J| ress." I I decided to go around the battle- ' eld on foot, examining the most in- ? resting points. The year before 1 lade the entire circuit of the battle- , eld, about 25 miles, in an automo- * ile. Hut I was anxious first to see i ,ie Lancaster veterans, and learning i here the South Carolinians were ' uartered, I went there at once, but j >und that they had temporarily left , amp, except Mr. I). L. Adams, who j Dined me on my tramp. We soon j oil in with two Yankee veterans, tie from Michigan and the other t rotn Vermont. We went down Seninary Hidge and stopped to view the < edestal already erected by Virginia, pon which the equestrian statue of * he immortal Lee is to stand. This i tatu" will stand on the place where : Mckett commenced his advance on ' he left center of the Union army on { 'emetery Kidge. We then crossed the ( immlttsburg road to the Union side, topping at the peach orchard, where j Cershaw's brigade aided so gallant- j y in dislodging the Yankees from ! hat strong position. We then went n to the wheat field where (Jen. . )aniel R. Sickles lost ills leg. Gen- ] ral Sickles was at the reunion. He j s now f>2 years of age. Both Mrs. 'ickett and Mrs. Rongstreet, widows ecpectively of the famous generals >f that name, were also at the r? ] inion. We pursued our way on : lown to Devil's Den, where in the | . . I... T Kaaama tM K > I aovllv*nnt'n, 1 iirrniur nrpai airu rom Mr. Adams, after viewing Plum tun and the Round Tops, both little tnd big. I I then took a street car to the most i nteresting, to me, of all points on he battlefield, the "Bloody Angle," >r, as the Yankees call it, "the high i vater mark of the rebellion." But i vhat attracts me most to this point s a spot marked by a small granite j i icroll about four feet high with the , ollowing simple Inscription therem, "Brigadier Oeneral Lewis A. , trmlatead, C. s. v Fell here July I, 1 H68," The gallant Armlstead ommanded one of the three brigades ! VS, JULY 8,1913. ?f Piekett'8 division which held the enter of the immortal 15,000 who nade the assault on the entrenched losts of the Union army. When trmistead reached the stone wall tehind which the federals were eurenched, he mounted it. Placing his mt on his sword, and calling for his nen to follow, he dashed through he center of the federal line and fell nortally wounded just as he placed tls hand on one of the cannon being Ired by the gallant Cushing, who, ifter discharging the piece, also ell near Armistead. Only fifty men ucceeded in breaking through the 1 ...OK A ,1 Tl,,> uallant uir v* im m aiioioau. i uu q?(iwuv harge of Pickett is acknowledged by urvivors of both armies to have leen the chief event of the battle. I tepped the distance from the stone trail to where Armistead fell. It is ust forty feet. But about the reunion. There >ere 7.000 tents, eight men being ssigned to each. The tents were pread on the battlefield southwest f the city, from Cemetery llidge. he federal battle line, to Seminary tidge, the Confederate line, the teritory covered being about a mile quare. The Union veterans occuied their old territory and the Conederates theirs. The tented city ,'as regularly laid off into streets nd it was easy to find the veterans roru any state. Splendid sanitary rrangements were provided, as well s good, cool water ana goon meats liree times a day. Congress appropriated for the renion $150,000. and the state of 'ennsylvania a like sum. and "when liat great state found that the 300,000 would not be adequate, she tided another $150,000, making the mount spenton the reunion by Pennvlvania and the federal government lie grand total of $450,000. During lie reunion it was found that many f the old veterans had lost their reiirn tickets, whereupon the goveror of the Keystone State notified tie officer in charge that the state ould pay the return fare of all such eterans. The best feeling prevailed between lie one-time enemies. The veterans f the Blue met the men from the outh with open arms. Many of hem suggested the idea of having; he United States government penion the veterans of the South and ome said they were going to sugest the propriety of such action to heir congressmen. : One of the most affecting incidents m f the reunion was the march ot the , ~ 'irginians over the ground taken by r 'Ickett's men and their reception at I he "high water mark," with hand I hakes by the Pennsylvania veterans. ?t was interesting,, though pathetic, o sit near a group of the veterans v nd hear them talk of the days gone j iy. There were many gray uniforms o be seen at every place in and round Gettysburg, and often both R he Blue and the Gray would mingle t n one group. The weather was opiressively warm, but the very best if arrangements were made for their eception and the cordiality with khich the Southerners were met by he Northern people, both veterans nd their sons, made a lasting im- a >ression on the visitors from the t. iouth. It is the concensus of opinon that the reunion has wiped away .11 remaining feeling of hostility be- 8 ween the North and the South and y he general opinion of the Southern *f eterans is that it is best that the c k-ar ended as it did and that there ins issued rrom It a reunited nation, lurifled and strengthened as it never fc ould have been except by the war. c )ne significant outcome of the re- ? inion is that a movement has already f aken shape for a permanent organl- <1 atlon of an association of the Blue fc ind the Gray. More anon about C larper's Ferry, Antietam and Winhester, which I also visited on this rip. R. B. W. t r SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. " I Moderation is the silken strand r unning through the pearl chain of ' .11 virtues. Fuller \ We can help make people bright ~ ly our keenness, but we can never Leconipllsh anything toward making >eople good except by our tender- i less.?Parkhurst. x \ Tread all life's ways with awed, ex- i pectant feet; t den jostle Heaven in every common i street.?Langhridge. s I Int.iking and outgiving?-getting , tood and giving good?that is our . naln business.?C. G. Ames. He who will never do anything he ? inn pani inr, win soon reach the 1 jlace where no one will pay for anyhing he does.?Christian Register. Self-reverence, self-knoweldge, selfcontrol, rhese three alone lead life to sovereign power.?Tennyson. It does not take a great man to be i Christian, but it takes all there is >f him.?The Evangel. \ hen once laid a golden egg And reeled from joyful dizziness, Its owner grabbed it by the leg And put it out of business. 'I care not for your golden lays," He muttered: "not a particle! ! It means more coin these days, ' To lay the real article." < ?Ex. 1 An Eye <>|>ener. i Lecturer?All statistics prove that ( the blonde woman Is more difficult *' to get along with than the brunette. ' Astonished Man in the Audience 1 (starting up)?Are you certain of 1 he fact? 1 Lecturer?It is a fact. Aston Ishet. Man?Then I believe ' my wife's hair is dyed. For Weakness and Loss of Appetite ' The Old St unit nil general utrengt hening tonic, . DROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drive# out Malaria and hiifM# up the -vatem. A ti tie tonic J ndlMAppetiMr, loraduUsantlctaildreu. SQc. ' v \ : A/e. yp/y co/ frJCt>r/S> 2/oirc * R an A ybifjr Every man looks forward some day, but whatever any r be acquired over-night. If y fixed SOME DAY, you mus account NOW. Your mone your keen interest in seeing grow is the thing that will mt />o 1 'OLT/e bitnl Hre 4 />ei* oe/it //iter< The First Ns OF LANC "DESIGNATED DEPOSITARY :ly^Avwv.v..'.'.'.v.'.'.vr; FROM OTHER PAPERS ! We were afraid the Wilson girls vere too good to keep.?Columbia j teoord. Will Sylvia Pankhurst insist on j retting the cell that mother used to ake??The State. The fifth of July Is not a bad day, rovided one was good on the fourth. ?Charleston Post. The peaches that grow on trees ,re scarce. Also the lemons, same lasslfication.?Anderson Mail. , Many a poor chap koes to the sea- ' hore or the mountains this time of i ear to find health, when he could Ind what he's looking for between orn rows.?Sparta Star. Collect on delivery feature has een added to the parcal post depart- i nent of the postal service. If Uncle !ain will be so obliging as to collect or some papers we have already lelivered through his mails we will e under much obligation to him. Chesterfield Advertiser. Some our citizens are setting for he rest of us a fine example by re- I noving all rubbish, cutting weeds ! ind trimming the trees about their ' tomes and business houses. In our ounds we notice also many trees vlth white-washed trunks. Congratuatlons, gentltmen. It's an example | vorth following by all our citizens. ?Kershaw Era. No. 47. Yes that's our phone num>er! Just call the above number vhen you know something that you vant other folks to know. Let us lave the local huitDcniues. telephone hem in or write us about them, lon't get mad because you know lomethtng that you thirk ouRht fh je announced in the paper that is lot. Let us have the local news. ?Jefferson Jeffersonian. From every section of the country, hrouRh the newspapers, complaint s heard about the reckless driving >f automobiles. The kick is not a personal one as far as the newspajers are concerned, as they merely /oice public opinion in speaking of he matter. It seems that running in automobile causes some peo pie ;o lose all consideration for those ,vlio walk or drive anything less exjenslve than an automobile. The aws will have to be so framed that lolemn lessons can be taught these people. If the laws previously enicted in this state are not sufficient, :hey ought to be strengthened. Au- j lomobile speeders and joy riders diould be forced to slow down in :heir recklessness.?Rock Hill Herald. The state and federal governments ire all becoming more and more Interested In the building and maintenance of the public roads, and the people generally are filled with enusiasm for road improvement, but is stated in an article by the director if public highways, while tho people ire spending enormous sums in the construction of superb roads almost without exception they are making [?o provision to care for the roads lfter they are built. This is the point that we have been endeavoring for several years to lay stress on. We have seen It In :>ur own county within the past few pears. We have had some excellent roads built., but for lack of attention ind care for their maintenance they won became worse than they were before their building. The mainten p OSE ANY T7MEH fiforicrh/y' : bw be//'you money NOW : to beinj? comfortably fixed nan looks forward to cannot J ou want to be comfortably t beja:in by starting a bank y is safe in the bank, and >! your balance in the bank ike it grow. *| king with US. La.St Oil Hitviii<rs <leposit9 > ?______ itional Bank j FASTER. * OP THE UNITED STATES." > V >>y.yM>>>?>>>>>>>y?>>>>^ ance of the roads s just as important as the building of them.?Newberry Herald and News. During all this celebration at Get tysburg the thought has quetly supped into our mind more than once? "But the two great men whose souls would most deeply have felt the blessedness of this occasion aro not there! Not any loss, it may be to them, but what a loss to us!" If the great commander in gray, whose heart was nearly broken over the dreadful havoc wrought in his faithful and superb army?all for naught, and the sad-faced, patient war President in the White house, not less grieved over the awful destruction of men, could both have been present yesterday, they would have shaken hands with a mutual respect and a depth of feeling surpassing speech, while all the nation stood breathless with exalted joy. But Lee and Lincoln were there, if at all, in the spirit?forbidden by the unknown laws of their present abode from uttering themselves to mortal men or revealing even for one brief instant their well known forms on that field. And so, almost It seems as if this great celebration were the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out.?Spartanburg Herald. IN MEMORIAM. K<lwarii I-.ee Crenshaw. Dear husband, you have gone to rest, We have laid you in the tomb; Your sweet, noble voice did hush so still When (iod did call thee home. A precious one from us has gone, A voice we loved is stilled; A place is vacant in out home. Which never can be filled. Ood In His wisdom has recalled, The boon His love has given; And though the body slumbers here, The soul is safe in heaven. Oh, darling husband, we love you so. Our hearts can only tell, Hut Ood saw best to take thee home, In that bright land to dwell. We cannot call thee back again, 'TIs true wo know it's well, Hut we can sometime go to thee, And there forever dwell. Peaceful be thy silent slumber, Peaceful in thy grave so low; Thou no more will join our number, Tho' no more our song will know. Yet again we hope to meet thee. When the day of life in fled; And In heaven with joy to greet thee, Where no farewrell tears are shed. A LOVING WIFE. IN MKMOHIAM. Little Geneva Lee Crenshaw. Darling Neva, she has left us, I^eft us, yes, forever more; But we hope to meet our loved one, On that bright and happy shore. Thy gentle voieh now is hushed, Thy warm true he#rt is still; And on thy young and innocent brow la r*? otlntt rlisn ?1> " ' 1 - * ... ?.vue ucmu ? cuill ('Mil. Thy hands are clasped upon thy breast, We have kissed thy lovely brow, And In our aching hearts we know We have no Neva now. No now. hut In the coming years, It may he In the better land; We'll rend the meaning of our teara And there, some time we'll understand. MOTHER. I