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4 She Canraatrr News ! (8fiMl*WKEKLY.) v in A NIT A WYLtK Bditor J W. 8. HOUGH. . .Business Mgr. PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT: Published Tuesdays and t Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., 4 by The Lancaster Publishing t Compauy, successors to The Ledger, established 1852; The Review, established 1878; The . Enterprise, established 1881, and entered as second-class * matter Oct. 7, 19US, at me v postofRce at Lancaster, S. C., under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION PIUCE: c (In Advence.) ( One Year $1.50 I Six Mouths 70c i TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1?, 1013. " * J5 The days of the straw lid are t numbered. \ What has become of Vardaman , siuce he took his seat in the senate? ( The jolly corn shucking is about to take the place of the picnic sea- . son. \ Keep up tlie good roads agitation, oven if soni" one should begin to j fling dirt. These may be melancholy days to some people, but not to the coal dealers. One good bill the legislature might pass is one requiring the stitching up of both the slit skirt and the hip pocket. If we are too lazy, selfish or indifferent to organize a chamber of commerce, we wonder what we are ' good for anyway. The adoption of the Clark amend- ' meat sent cotton down $2.2 5 a bale. < This is not the kind of protection the i cotton growers want. I From Sulzer's experience In New < York it looks like a governor had i better mind how he calls an extra session of the legislature. The Frank case, then Thaw, then Mrs. Godbee?what next? An ex- J pectant public awaits the answer with breathless interest. With the big sister they call the color a "beautiful coat of tan," but when found on thp face of her small brother, they immediately pronounce it dirt. L'ucle Hardy says if he could just | vail back 2 0 years and his faithful , dog. "Jerry," he would sure have ( Dlenty of fat 'possum to go with his .sweet taters. The Anderson Mall wants to know the names of all those fellows run- ' nlng for governor. It is not so important as to who they are. but for what they stand. The Greenville Piedmont remarks. "We have failed thus far to see any , port on the damson crop." Oh, i es, he's been reported as having ' spanked his father. The public health and safety should be considerations of prime i importance. But we fear that the matter of sanitation is not given due , thought by our people generally. ' ] _ 1 ' Now that a jury in Georgia has I had moral courage enough to convict j a woman of murder, convictions of ] men for the same offense might fol- i low more frequently in South C'aro- > lina. , ' < South Carolina is justly proud of I such West Pointers ns Colonel Galllard ana Naval Academy men like Blue, McCully and Richardson. By the way, we believe the two latter ( hall from "Billy" Banks' town. t The Greenville Piedmont savs 1 plainly, "If Mrs. Pankhurst comes to ' Greenville, it will not he on our in- ' vitation." We likewise assure our < readers that Lancaster will not get I Emmeline to come here on ours. , 1 The News anil Courier thus bids < adieu to Coaticook, "Good-bye Coati- < cook. Thy brief day of glory hath 1 departed." Not necessarily so. She may Thaw out as did Duluth after Proctor Knott hade her a similar , adieu. i And John L. Mcl,aurin has at last decided to break his long silence and j tell all about the Standard Oil Coin- ! pany and his Archbold letter. So says ' The Columbia Record, which has made a scoop of the forthcoming revelations. It seems that North Carolina has no law, authorizing the governor to appoint some man "learned in the law" to hold the term of court of a judge who is sick or otherwise disabled from presiding. South Carolina has such a law, hut br things are just at this time the man appointed ^ THJh o preside must not only be "learned ! u the law," but in Bleaseisiu U Revise. So for the time being,' we are 0 u not much better tlx than the Tar p leels. l The Greenville Piedmont, In its J*, searching Inquiry into the various rop yields, has so far failed to ask ^ ifter ''locust and wild honey." That Paris gown which was made 8 n twenty minutes must have had a gl ilit skirt; otherwise the achievement S vas impossible. P s We hope that every school house " 11 1-ancaster county will soon be ome a real social cenier, wnere im- u lull monotony of the coming winter L nay be relieved by frequent gatherngs of neighbors and friends. e JS One of the best arguments we have g teen in favor of planting tobacco is j y he following from The Sumter ? rVatc' an and Southron: "The boll p veevii a wicked beast, but It hasjil lot acquired tne vice of tobacco ! d hewing. This is a fact worth re- t ? nembering since the weevil is due ^ o take up its permanent residence 1 n n Sumter county within four or five P rears." It( P Senator Simmons of North Caro- a ina and Representative Underwood, , F hairmen of the committees of their | d espective houses, having in charge ^ he Democratic tariff bill which will ^ j| ioon be enacted into law, deserve the js hanks of the whole country for the i * | rvoat ability and tact displayed by , ^ hem in their management of the bill c in its passage. They have both proved themselves the right men in the ight places. Certain paragraphers have recent- ( y seen fit to joke us about clamoring ( so long and loud for watermelons. r Certain others have gallantly invited v is to come to their towns and enjoy s ;he season of the luscious fruit. We 1 [nay have made known our fondness Q for it rather frequently hut we were finally rewarded without having to 1 :>ffor prizes therefor, as some of our contemporaries have had to do. ? "It is not the severity of punish- ' ment but its certainty, that deters from crime. If every man knew he * was certain to get at least two years ' for homicide the number of killings f in South Carolina would be reduced ' more than 1 alf."?Abbeville Medium. ' This point well taken. A jail or j chaingang sentence for carrying a 1 pistol would be another very salutary ' deterrent. Hut can a judge be found v with backbone enough to pass such a * sentence? t TO Ot lt BOYS \ X I) Ollt LS. Tlie Monroe Enquirer of last week gave such good advice to the boys and girls who are now leaving every . day for college that we pass it on to our hovs and girls, in the hope that they will read it and heed it. The Monroe paper says: "Here's to the boys and girls going away to school. May your school ' year be a busy and profitable one. c Don't waste your time and your t daddy's money, for you have no time { to spare, and probably poor old daddy had to borrow the money to send you j ' to school with and he will have to 1 i work many a weary hour to pay it f back; but be that as it may, do not waste his money. Don't play the Fool if you can help it?of course if cou are so made that you cannot be natural and not play the fool, why that is a misfortune that you are not responsible for. Hut be the very best student it is possible for you to ' be. Don't flunk. Don't be a con-ii "cited ass about your ability but at e the same time believe with a whole r heart that you can amount to something and that you will. Don't give ni) if vour task seems hard Buckle |S town to business and don't be as luitter. God Almighty hates a | juitter." POST CARD DAV. i Tlip serretary of the chamber of ommerce in a North Carolina town iias sprung a new idea in suggesting that that town have a "Post Card Day." The idea is to set apart one lay when each citizen is expected to , <end out picture post cards of the town, showing the business houses, principal streets, residences, etc. it is a great advertising scheme. It would be a splendid thing for I,anfaster. If all our people would send 3ut one or more cards, quite a number of people would be reached, and n o liolInun that nitnit/ t\f tliiu n nnihor would bo sufficiently Interested to * pome over our way. Then if they i should come and see the advantages ( we have to offer them, we are sure ^ we would soon have many new citi- . zens. New life helps spur us on to,, larger accomplishments. Therefore we always welcome new people here. ( Let's try the post card plan. WHAT'S IN A NAMR? Says The Greenville Piedmont: "Oh, no. there's not a thing in a name. We know a man named Cross who has one of the sweetest ' dispositions we ever saw." Mr. Booker evidently has reference to our expert linotype operator, whose name and nature differ very widely. % ; LANCASTER NEWS, SEI SOUTH CAROLINA ALL RIOHT. Despite the adverse advertisement f South Carolina by Hon. Benjamin c<> yan Tillman and the Hon. Coleman Ivinjtstone Blease, we are glad to ar now that such outside papers as The 'ort Worth Record still have a good bU pinion of us. This from a recent ssue of The Record is most encour- a[, King: do "Hon. Benjamin Ryan Tillman, pe enator from South Carolina, has t. tirred a hornet's nest. Dr. Anua haw is going about the country com- an aring South Caroliua with other kn tates. She says South Carolina has o compulsory education law and hat It ranks third lu illiteracy. It as no child labor law. no woman ibor law and no white slave law. th >r. Shaw could have added that It ml as a large negro population, and hat the bulk of its negroes are Hiltrates. She could have added that j Northern carpetbaggers and rene-1 J ades stole what remained after four 11 ears of bloody war. She could have dded that South Carolina has no dlorce law, that South Carolinians t0 rotect their own women to the death f necessary, and that there is little emand for a white slave law in that ne ommonwealth outside of one or two Sp Ities. South Carolina has a clvilizaion of its own and when it comes to lorals, public and private, the peo- t|u le of the Palmetto state are willing hi a be placed by the side of the peole of Massachusetts. New York or v>.i? r f?|. ??,1 Milu ivi u tan ??.?wv n.s just verdict by an impartial jury. ' W] 'or upwards of 125 years the code M; uello was the unwritten law of the j almetto state. It compelled men to | ,-elgh well their utterances in pubIc or private. It warned them that is lander was a crime punishable on , he so-called field of honor, and as a | esult civil tongues in the mouths of do nortals was the rule and not the ex- nv eption." ? THK DKAHIiV IMSTOh! do Much of the bloodshed in South uj 'aroliua is traceable to the pistol Pc arried about the person of the slay- j r. Nine times out of ten the man j k ho puts a pistol in his pocket before 0f ;oing about his business in the C< uorning, does not do so for purposes j if self-defense but from a heart ' m nil of malice and "fatally bent on t8 nischief." With the pistol in his a >oeket he is easily provoked to M inger, and, knowing that he is "heal- j >d." upon the slightest provocation, h* le whips it out and shoots his ad- si ,-ersary. Whereas if he was without P' i pistol he would come nearer obey- . 11 ng the Bible injunction of returning ?ood for evil, thereby avoiding a(w jloody tragedy. As a rule no really* 'J' irave man will carry a weapon about ' lim, save in exceptional cases. There p r, a law on our statute books pro- j libiting the carrying of concealed veapons, but public sentiment is not drong enough to cause it to be en- |t1 orced. It is common knowledge in hat pistols are carried often into the I . cry precincts of the court room and nto places of religious worship. It a] s high time that public sentiment b< diould crystallxe against the pistol " 'toter" who is one of the worst enenies to society. ?. I GKOItGI.VS (i(M)l? KXAMIMl]. ' Two persons, a man and a woman, ni nfluential and well-to-do, have re- sc ently been convicted in Geargia for ,0 aking human life and have been sen need by the courts, the first to be jj innged and the other to a life term ' 11 the penitentiary. The man was 'rank, who murdered a young girl md the other, Mrs. Godbee, who j, nurdered both her former husband In md his second wife. In both cases ill possible influences were brought ^ o bear to secure the acquittal of the )? larties, but the Georgia juries, hav- ' ng a proper sense of the obligation >f their oath and their duty to so- ^ iety, acquitted themselves as men. v, Solicitor General Moore, In pre- it enting the state's case to the jury, ?"l: p, "You've got to stand as an example n or the youth of the land. You've tot to let your children know that sj hat commandment, 'Thou shall not ni will,' means something, that the gov- ni irnment, the law and the church itand for something. You have to n onvict for the moral good it will do tt n preventing other crimes. That is p, he purpose of all human punishnent." solicitor Moore caned tne courts or l' he United States "too lax." The ^ >nly country to compare with he ? taid. Is Italy, the home of the hot- t leaded Italian. g "In this country, we have 115 lomlcides to every million Inhabi- * Lanta annually. In Germany there ?1 ire 13; In France lit; in Great Brit- 8 iln 27. We have got to go to the Hot-headed Italians to find a parallel. : rhere are 105 murders every year ror everv million inhabitants." p a Judges, lawyers, juries and the a public generally have got to come to t< it realization of the same thing iu * South Carolina, before the terrible {l blood shedding In our state will \? cease. II ' tl The Abbeville Medium Is at a loss ^ to know why less than 500 votes 1 were cast for the dispensary In the R recent election, when more than 1 eleven hufidred qualified voters sign- [J ed the dispensary petition In Abbe- n ville county. "Where wore the other p six hundred?" asks The Medium They doubtless signed FER It but v voted AGIN it. t MEMBER 16. 1913 ON "RAISING CAIN." "Anyway, Spartanburg Is never rrupt and contented. If there is a wn in ail this country that doea Ise cain when things dou't go extly right. It is this one." This is the boast of The Spartanrg Herald, and should be the boast every good town. A town should ways "raise caiu" when things n't go right. We know that oui ople are too indifferent. We wist ey would enter complaints oftenei d help right the wrongs which the> iow exist. Who was the guy that first namec e monthly bill for electric lights e "light bill?" It was certainly t Ibnomer. >ROM OTHER PAPERS Doting women are far preferabh their voting sisters.?The State. Those bandits showed a willing as to take Parr for their stock.? lartanburg Herald. It's about time for Governor Col litt to live up to the last half o s name.?News and Courier. At all events. Harry Thaw is no crazy as those Canadian womei tio worship him as a hero.?Colum a Rprnril When everything in a prohibitioi wn is as tight as drum, then i as sober as judge.?The State. Huerta is evidently like the litth >g in the phonograph advertise ent. He knows it when he hears it -Florence Times. The Kaiser is one umpire wh< esn't have to worry about the pop arity of his decisions.?Charlestoi >st. It's in order for somebody to nom ate Charles W. Fairbanks prestden the International Refrigeratioi ingress.?Greenwood Journal. Some people will never be satlsfiei itil each convict In the penitential*: provided with a private bath am sun parlor to his room.?Andersoi all. A Canadian was killed last weel r his mother-in-law because he In sted on his wife cooking hot sup ?r. And yet men keep on marry ig.?Greenville Piedmont. Governor Hlease is not satisfie ith the way the church is manager udas Iscariot had ?ome sort of rouch against the church too, w idieve.?Orangeburg Times an emoorat. It is time for sensible bus'ness me nd good citizens generally to ceas iking the question, "What is tlier i it for me?" and ask "What is ther i it for us?"?Florence Times. The four men who carried the ma ck of the palsy are splendid e> mples of what all citizens slioul ?men who are willing to lift ttle for the good of humanity. Blessed lie the man who wears nlle and hears a burden!?Chestei eld Advertiser. The best add that any town, big n itlc, can have is that it is cle&l orally and physically. Lawless pei ins may want to go to a wide-ope i w n hopniiKP ll.nv thrlvn In tlm >rt. at the expense of the town; bij io law-abiding want a clean town.? ewberry Observer. "History Is one of the most usele? ibjects taught In the eommo bools," says the president of th ldlatia State Normal School. Maj ? it is the sort of history they tear the Indiana schools that is oV ctionable. Honest history. In ii df. is a most useful study.?Cc mbta Record. The city Authorities are allowin splendid crop of grass to gro' long the edge of the sidewalks I irlous sections of the city. In fa< is one of the finest crops reporte lis year, and the manner in whle is flourishing should be a matter c ride to the administration. A lough the gruss Is evidence of nef >ct and lack of progress yet Its tin loots laden with the gentle dews { lorning are pleasant reminders t lany inhabitants of the dear ol ays down on the farm. And fc lis reason, who says the grass alon le sidewalks does not serve a pui ose??Concord Times. We note that Mr. Theodore I rice, the cotton picking machtr lan, has changed the name of h eekly publication from Cotton an Inance to Commerce and Flnanc< he first time we see Price we wi ive him to understand that he hi one the wrong thing. Cotton is tt t*ynu?nr w? commerce. upon u ir ummerelal world gets Its impeti nd finance is to a great extent go1 rned and controlled by it. Cotton le biggest thing In the whole coui ry, and Price, being engaged in tl erfectlon of an invention that woul dd still another laurel to Its bro s king, has small call to underlay j wipe It out for the commonpla< rord of commerce. Wc shall expe 1m to restore the former prestige < Is paper by restoring its name, an re bid him lose no time In doing [ he counts on coming South agal his fall to pick cotton.?Chariot >bserver. YeRterday there was a faint sui estion that winter Is on the wa 'or the first time in four months lan could feel really comfortable a ay inside his coat?provided he wi ot a left-out candidate trying to e lain how it happened. All day tl rst of the leaves to die and pa ,-ere floating down to earth. Such days bring wanderir bought.) of corn iu the shock ar ; aKHMNMHHK wglBBrolRBOHG : ?1 i ; ^ijiKlllw m /wSBHMnvvKIUy < 11 , : Vro&pe : foo somei : /fyou B? ; your/noi f y The man you s< J began with smaller t >! depriving himself o I r* was able to start a I enjoying the luxuri< > he does not miss; ? comfort he enjoys II > EARLY ECONOMY M I>o & , ! We pay 4 per cent int I ; : The Fin : < # I l C. D. Jones, y President. y P'** 1 1 frost on the pumpkin?fa dreams that clip Into the ^ out again, changing one's harmonize with the subtl coming over field and for r_ All of which is to say?I the watermelon once more, prince of August fruit, wh (j corn blades rustle and ti I bolls are small. But when a j has gone to the stack and *e picker takes his row, It 1 ^ the watermelon to leave And we have come agaii days. They were red ripe, n plentiful this season of 1! I we say it sighing?let theni ,e ?Spartanburg Herald. e The panic that was a| with such terrible velocity n first of the year seems to c- itself somewhere in the d ocean. According to the ] a of the calamity howlers tl was to have been swept by a worst cyclones of business r-jthat it has experienced memorable year of 189 3, b I bacco selling at from 1 5 t >r a pound and cotton selli i. cents, with good prospect r- ; centse market before the c n vested, there Is nothing dc Lt calamity line. There wa it when the visible gover ? Washington was control! invisible one in Wall sti such a panic as the one is with so much unction an n sense about the first of e might have materialized, have changed since the cor h nation's affairs have he< >- ! over to the White House, t- look for a period of Ind >- tlvlty in all lines of hus never brighter.?Dillon Hi J j MORK HOUSES NEI n ' ;t Other Suggestions to l! I Cit3r* ,f To the Editor of The New 1- I I am very glad to see tfc 5- doing everything that y through your valuable pap >f or improve our town. I 0 very much to assist you lr <1 ness of booming our town, ?r It an uphill business, as I g on almost daily by some | r- wishes to move to town, t< where they can find a va I and I am compelled to in I. that there Is not a vacau 10 town. There are several is vacant lots inside the 1 d limits of the town, beaul e. ing lots, in the most des 11 of town, but the owners wl is houses to rent or sell th< ? -=-?== ir IR V1 CSlife: id : it In Located I am better prepare a and prompt service, satisfaction with ev as | FRAP KB , Wa IK >T7S7S757*7S7S,r7*'S7y?l?7S75T,y5,5,r57^ Be riding by in his automobile perhaps J income than you- have now. But by > f a few unnecessary extravagances he bank account. It grew. Today he is es that he pays for out of money that > because money makes money. The y today is only the interest on his J Y. Start a bank account NOW. YOUR Banking with US. y priest compounded quarterly. V y it National Bank I )F LANCASTER. R. E. WYLIE. E M r.ROYTON Vice-President. Cashier. J y ? ??.?.*.?.*-t.*AtA*.*.*.*.*A*.*A*.*.*.*.'.'.**.*.*.'.'.'i? Int. vague reasonable price. So this la one mind and great reason why our town does not i mood to Improve. The town council has e changes spent several hundred dollars 1mest. 1 proving some of this property, by farewell to opening up streets through It, and It is the they get very little revenue from it. lie yet the So some suggest that we will have to ne cotton have a few first class funerals before the fodder our town will improve much, but I the cotton think there is a better way than that, s time for If some of our most substantial cittthe stage, zens would take a little more Interi to those est in the welfare of the town, and sweet and | their fellow men. and not think so H.I, but? much of self, and all pull together, i pass now. we would soon have a good town. Now winter is on us again and there hasn't been anything done to impproaohing prove the town. So we will have to about the l',e mu<* ankle deep another have lost w'n,<>r. CITIZEN. i Atlantic ! predictions /\n Estimate of "The News" by a He country . Subscriber. one of the _ depression To thfi Editor of The News: since the ' It has been said. "Comparisons are ut with to- odious," and still it is often true that o 35 cents only by comparison are we able to ng at 13 arrive at a just estimate. Indeed It s for a IS is through comparison that we satlsrop is har- fy our minds as to a high or low >ing in the standard. To come at once to the s a time, i"mllk in the cocoanut," we have been nment at guilty of making some comparisons led by the j in the stnnding and in the standard of reet, that | the weekly and semi-weekly papers predicted of South Carolina, and we believe it d so little our duty, as well as pleasure, to tell the year you that The Lancaster News loses but times nothing in this contest of excellence itrol of the In which all the publications of South ^ sn moved Carolina are consciously or unconThe out sclously engaged, ustrlal ac- | Your paper contains more reading iness was matter for the price of the sheet than ?rald. any publication in the state and the i Rplrlt of progress is manifest in all rnFI? ' editorial utterances. ' I In looking over the editorial and local pages one cannot fail to be ImIlelp our pressed with the nicety of arrangement, the freedom from overcrowding of cheap and unworthy advertiss: ing, which is seen in so many papers, lat you are Order, simplicity, and a high purpose you can pervades these pages and these qualer to boom ities are bound to place your Jourwould like nal in the highest rank of the semit this busi- ! weeklies of the state. , but I find Lancaster county need fear no am called comparison along this line so long as person that the present excellence is approached, o tell them and we believe the people are showcant house ing and will continue to show their form them appreciation of the work you are it house in doing. hundred A SUBSCRIBER. Incorporate tiful build- It is said that the farmer is the irable part most independent man in the world. 11 not build Maybe so, maybe so. When his wife b lots at a ! Is not at homo. . ?-as ' Frank T. Mcllwain ^ . r Y; Formerly Watchmaker and En* graver for Hohinson-Latlian Co., IS NOW it the 10 (Hs. Store d than ever to give you high-grade work A fair trial is all I ask. I guarantee ery piece of work turned out. IK T. McILWAIN * tclimaker and Engraver. ??????