University of South Carolina Libraries
f 4 Shr iCauraatrr Nriua (SEMI-WEEKLY.) |MrTtIM JUAN1TA WYLIK Editor 1 of the W. 8. HOUGH. .. Business Mgr. jn PVBIilSHEBS* ANNOUNCEMENT: mary? Published Tuesdays and Frl- nr Ho.... o ? I .... o..o r> I TU. " ua/o aw umiV/OOVUl! O. V/., U Jf 1UC Lancaster Publishing Company, be pui successors to The Ledger, es- i quirini tablished 1852; The Review, |of all i established 1878; The Enter- | . prise, established 1891, and en- |ta tered as second-class matter reside) Oct. 7, 1905, at the postofflce not be at Lancaster, S. C., under Act two y, af Congress of March 3, 1879. Jones SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Iwitb. 1 (In Advance.) not au One Year $1.50 0f tj,e Six Months 75c jorjtv TO SUBSCRIBERS. electlo Your subscription must be the cl paid up to and including year tion? marked on your label. If paper ^.(l Is stopped look at your date and you will probably find you are tion tl behind one year. of the We cannot send each sub- ocrat < scriber a statement. Look at h Your Label. one U 1/ you do not receive your j votin8 paper promptly we would appro- when ciate it if you will notify us and verifiei we will correct the mistake. 0tn<e In the hurry of mailing out the . papers names of subscribers are "ls N sometiT s left off Inadvertently. erates " Augus FRIDAY, MAY 15. I?14. But -?? j reason ?Weather forecast for South \ for vol Carolina: Cloudy Friday, probably shou|,i showers 011 the coast; Saturday fair. . .. electio Who put the tamp in Tampico? 'Uialifj 1 his na Only ono more day of "Clean-up' Week" remains. Have you helped |oue *n along with the good work? Lancas 1 denied Have you yet expressed yourself He net on the matter of the site for the a regis postoflice? If not forever after hold should your peace. book 0 paid h The crack of the deadly pistol is But still heard in the land. Aiken and not be Laurens counties were in evidence lations this week. the De conven It looks now as if Congressman that Hobson will force the members of on Congress up to the prohibition trough ejectio whether they will or nil. ; HI. Has any one beard of the Hon. q_ * Charles Carroll Sims of Barnwell laurel since the Hon. John Lowndes Mc- a n,aRj Laurin of Marlboro shoved him off ejghte? the band wagon. "comm We hope the bill put through Con- KuaRe gress by Senator Tillman to investigate the matter of freight rates on coal will result in a great reduction %an' u in freight rates. ( ant' 1 M. Cai The Pugeland Journal thinks su,cesf "Lawyers are all right in their j "re(' 11 places," but that their place is not attorm in the legislature. How about send- l'ie ing them to the farm? taught _______________ ! deceas( We wonder if President Wilson 'la,l c< will have tents rigged up for the con- named gressional lay out in Washington were I during the summer session of Con- enougl gress in Washington. mortal | conscic Congress is considering the matter duty a of counting the votes of its members ! man. by electricity. If the members could holdini get themselves re-elected by this1 eate oi subtle fluid they would doubtless be had be pleased. ber of ? 1 State i Who know but that Colonel , Roosevelt, on his return from South many t American jungles, may stop by in jnf? fr, Mexico, bag Huerta, and bring him the sta to the museum in Washington along jt j3 with his other curios. light o . , , ernor < It looks as if neither of the would- . be governors. Smith nor Richards of anyj)0( Kershaw county, is willing to per- pjiystc| form for each other's benefit the parpnt Alphonse and Gaston act. tJ o) We are glad that Senator Smith ol 1 1 brought Indiana's grand old Demo- j *nsP^' crat, John W. Kern, to South Caro-1 ^ deter lina and that Senator Kern was work ? pleased with the Palmetto state. white The Augusta Chronicle says that j,,ry when there is less of permitting men victed to ride into ottioe on the anti-liquor nxecut band wagon, temperance will have do HO been given a long shove forward. ?' the not h What has become of that count- calml} less number of people designating man 1 themselves "Many Friends" and "Voters?" Can't they find any can- j ^di didates who will consent to make the Obser race? Just i . summ The Columbia State must be fond the of the damage suit business. If we shouli mistake not, it is defending a dam-1 Why age suit for a large sum now pending didaU against it and it has just become There plaintiff in & damage suit agaiast its natioi evening contemporary, The Colum-jtende bia Record, r discus * BkiL A school trustee of one of the Th< school districts of the county Inform- ,"Why ed us, recently, that out of 150 July white children of school age in his issue, district this past year, only 37 at- advar tended school. Andyet some people the c are violently opposed to compulsory clfero education. raw, THE LANC -j THEIR VOICE CONTROL? THE LAWYER / tfie voice of the tiuiid, time- I<AT ; politicians control the actions The I'ageland approaching state convention itself as opposed matter of reforming the pri- I number of lawyeri It is to be hoped not. If 1 than men of oth< imary is to be saved it must why it takes this rifled. Who can object to re- ' the excellent reco K new club rolls? It is known have made thereir men that the precinct rolls con- under8tand. wm he names of dead men, non- i nt? Mill! nth nr? which uhnnlri on* ?* Hon. W. ] i thereon. After the election The Journal's ow ?ars ago, both the Blease and not see how Clu factions charged each other more ably represt aving committed fraud. Whyothep lawyer of lend the constitution and rules ! ,. . .. know the kind o i party so that when the ma- ( has registered its will in an mei1 as T. ^ Wi n, there can be no room for county, A. G. Brl targe of fraud from any fac-jj. p. Carey of P South Carolina i do not favor more drastic ac- I . .. *i??. the fact that sue Ills year than a tightening up . .. . ... ? and the aforeme rules so that every white Dem- I . .... ... , , , have furnished th can put his name and address ... me upon the club roll of his 8 at "n 1 e precinct, and that the rolls *oars- ?' ae complete, shall be properly to? man- a i and filed in some public the right sort- 1 for inspection by the public. that ar' Mil enable literates and illit- this kln? of worl as well, to qualify for the i PeI"haPs- ^ hett t primaries. ors for this work two years from now we see no jthe,r why the same qualifications i ^ers ar< a" ' ting as in the general election ! fe8slon' and on,y 4 .. . to represeut us, not govern in the primary v . , c . . ,,, .. honor upon their n. Such requirement will dis... . .. . need lawyers ill t ' no white man who sees that ? . 1 best our state afTo me appears properlv on the , . .. vers of characte ation books. Who can cite r , , n . . chosen, we will i stance of a white Democrat in . . , , . u hands, though the ster county, who has ever been I . , i joritv in both hoc a registration certificate?; 3d not be required to produce "What do you itration certificate to vote, but who doeg not tukt see that his name be on the askg The Tugaloo T registration and that he has oplnlon he is just is taxes. citizen imaginable, as wo have said before, we do 1 enough to show , lieve that more drastic regu- the un8elfl8h v,.orl should be put in force until paper ,g doiug fo| mocratic convention of 1916 scribing to iti he es. We do think, however. foum, favorlng a to convention this year should wh|ch makeg for ( record as favoring the general n qualifications In 1916. "There would n of primary reforr (>4)1) 1 KTT1M. lUIRs nv ? i looked after his < ruesday last, at Gray Court, in ler,y .. 8ayR The ch is county, just as the Jury in fop th|U matter t strate's court had convicted an nppd of laws of # m-year-old youth charged with cU,zen deportod hI lon assault, using profane lan- ; Human nature is In a public place and commit- . haH alwayg bee ?predations on the property of dom come8 amias ol building," Joseph G. Sulli- , brother of the young defen- no you belong >rovoked a difficulty with John soeiation? For a tinon, the attorney who hail affords every varii dully prosecuted the case, and our part it is lu ve shots into the body of the jlow people get ah ?y. killing him in the shadow joy ^ood books. court. The young lady who : the school had employed the THK COXFKDF ed to prosecute the youth, who ~ immitted the outrages above *Ipr ^"^ars S ap After the fatal shots That swept eacl ired, the deceased lived long Lfke meteors str i to say that ne knew he was stars . , . And sank wftho !y wounded, but that he was Lovpd son and fa, ?us of having performed his she sent, and b nil that in defense of a wo-- FTer fafth inspired He was a man of influence, Beneath that hi ? the position of judge advo- ir<jr dear lian<f * n Governor Blease's staff and 1 Gfay >en recently annointed a mem- I Our father wrrrf the board of regents of the A shot-Com relfc Sacred to him asylum" She buckled on h this murder Is only one of j And' prayed for .hat are happening with alarm- ! And bade him f equency in different parts of _ word, , ' To win a death! ite. ' not surprising, however, in; the She waited, hopef f the recent speech of the gov- In fortune's trc the state at Spartanburg, in ' ?J1 bin* who reevi , !,.,? ij , From far V^rgi he said that he would pardon Sj)e beside e ly found guilty of killing a Within the war Ian who attempts, against the And gently watch s* wish, to make- an examina ' soldier's eli ' a school girl under the terms gy,e WJM t^e jfart aw providing for the medical For which a N tion of school children. I And here shaFf all it is there in South Carolina to . _ won,^of To challenge Fam the manslayer in his bloody praise. It is the general rule for the Fly trumpet bi? manslayer to be iet off by the I7*01* we crowr And. in the event he Is con- ?*r w<>?en ?* , , . Ceorge Arrasl , people will sign petitions for .ive clemency and whether they Suffrage a or not, the, present governor Woman suffraj ; state will pardon him. Is it ",'est^f>n fn . ^ K like Bniiquo s ghi igh time for our people to at any bidding. / consider how very cheap hu- among ail classes ife is in South Carolina? I***n practically i . h?nlth mrtrnlQ u tor Wallace of The Newberry ir an veT thinks that politics will be with Those of?he is hot in South Carolina this women are either er, as the people will permit ferlors of men. If politicians to make it. Why rowness. To sa; ? . , 'imen in states en J we not have a quiet time? be?inK the qu< will we people allow the can- that woman suffr ;s to stir up strife among us? substantial benefl i are plenty of live issues, both J* been tried, . ' ... .. ... bare facts. For t ml and state that it would be bell<,ve that the , d school. And yet some people ment will refo*i ?sed. will require faV r ; vote to get rid ol b Charleston Evening Post asks aru' to ro?(' w _ .. . Yet, perhaps, the - not have a sane Fourth of pos#> ?f th7^ueHt this year?" But in the same men vote. They waxing patriotic, thus far in thuslastically foi ice of the President's arrival in then tired of It, a harming town. The Post vo- oil iusly exclaims, "Hoo-raw, Hoo- j better still, to Cheraw!" j kitchen.?Jeffersi I ASTER NEWS, MAY 15, 1914. INI) THE LEG IS* ^Journal ex?re8se? ^001 OtkeT PopCT to having a larger 3 in the legislature They'll Also Hesitate. . , . When women vote there shoul >r professions, but a mu8jc machine in the election t position in view of so that they can one-step to rag . ? . to the ballot box.?The State. >rd many lawyers t, we are unable to It Does, Indeed. , ?,? ??? The result in Illinois leaves p undid rec- country as much in doubt as evi P. Stevenson, from to whether woman suffrage is c ? ? able.?Anderson Mail. n county, we can (sterfleld could be On Sparing the Kod. mted than bv an- "sParo th? rod. and spoil man uy an chlld If your ?ule feIiow , his type. We all gets a whiplng. then the rope i f legislation snch lliams of our own Ice of Chester and . , A *?a ??rte' , A newspaper Is like a meal a ickens have given'hotel, says an exchange. You ind are aware of ^kefthe Wishes you like and the few you don t. But when h lawyers as they whole menu is too highly seas< ntioned Stevenson what are you going to do??Orj e only constructive burg Tin,es and Democrat. itate has had for The Mirror of the Soul, ed never fear hav- . The face is the mirror of the iwyer-legislators of ! What doos your face tell? Of Tmn.*,<,i thoughts and clean living? Se he Journal admits jneg8 Qr KeueroU8,ty? Lo?e or t e better titled for I strength or weakness? "As a k than any others thlnketh In his heart, so is he;" ;er fitted than oth- Ithe face will usually tell It.? . why. then, fear berrr 0,'a<'rver ; tho ofllce? Law- Privileges Other Than the Ilnll Honor to their pro-1 "She la a woman; I must re iucli should be sent llpr" Baid ?a?ton Calmette, a ... ... permitted the murderous 1 cannot but reflect, galIlaux to onter hl8 prIvate 0, constituents. We ??i am a woman, you must not t he legislature, the me," said tho lady a few mil rds and when law later, as a porter attempted to _ i ?{,,?? ??? and disarm her, while her vlctlr r and ability are dy,nf? ftt her fefit Remarkablo , lot suifer at their ieKes the women of France en jo; y make up the 111a parently, and they do not vote ei ,8es. i?Columbia Record. " i think of the man. j"Where Does the^Poor Man < ? his town paper? The "poor-man's-frlend" polft Tribune. In our has worked that slogan so long II about the sorriest chestnut, of course, hut still < If he is not man "ve- V "poor man" will # ; stock of his possessions lie will lis appreciation of that there is Tittle among tliem k the home news- has come to him from any man his town by sub- ,a seeking office, or hoidlng o is not likely'to be ,undPrMthat ba"npr- .. a matt< I fact, the poor man is doing e* ny other ageiicv t thing for the politician while town Improvement. > politician Is doing nothing for hi , Spart&nburg Herald. ot be all this need a. if every citizen w War J We published several days ag iwn conduct prop- War Prayer" written by Mark: 'IV arleston Post. llui A correspondent of The Tfalti here would be no j Sun, reading that prayer, recall ,nv kind if ..very j aotual war P yer which was utl in> kind ir every i ,)y Fretferlck the Gr,,at-S Gei mself as he should, j.eopolr, of Anhalt-Dessau, knov the same now tha' "The Old Dessauer," before the 11, and reform sol- ?' Kesseldorf, December 1745: "Dear Cod, graciously assis i today?or should this not be to the Library As- wm?at .east do not help the si minimum cost it drels, the enemy, hut look on *ty of readings For'aWR,t l'ie outcome. ?CToii ird to understand '*''rne8' )nB who do not rn- Gorga* Follow* the Flag". General Gorgas, of the p health service, who made Cuba < IKATK WOMRJf. and prepared the way for the 1) , ing of the Panama canal, by ma icd the Stars and the zone healthful, lias been orti to direct a campaign of sanitatloi i crimson plain the city of Vera Cnrz, where il earning from the1 pears our soldiers vrill be for time to come. In the matter nt a stain, sanitation the Mexican port :her side by sliifc profit by American occupation-, ore her loss; i public health- service will give each man who-Ated city such a cleansing as it has i [ood red Cross!' known before and establish a si and of public cleanliness that rore that coat ef never be departed fhom iff years.?Spartanburg Herald. <! so well,? ' raid away Vagrants. fell; Entombed" somewhere in flit It sv,r"r,f' chives of the town there srfTep ....6 - ordinance that liatr to- do with Co, with cheering gr*ntry who- toil not. neither and yet live- on tile fat of the less meed. wn(f .tatera Meanwhiro the grass grows oi , a.?urn streets where no grass should loninr rlls. r ?? > ,-wn i ~ . , ? "i rni en urru i rfiau Jiift , in/irn r would return filling: trash need** gathering \ nia a mils, There are a dozen or more tome unknown bier n^roos wfio do oo work. Pei ^ ... .. , they all sefl booze for a living, erf w itlh sileren tear Hnjr ra^et when railed upon t >bfng breath. an 0(j(j they Invariably pie previous engagement, yr or a t ause- town council couhf make anon died, nse of these loafers?IT it dan her child rear pause. Each negro who cannot rove and pride. ^ eause for the laziness that is fn e s sweet, unhotight or. pUt ra work 011 tho st . or sent to the gang.?Fountnii mn afar.-- Tribune 1 with fadeless fays the War! !rong WUtiehope. The Politico* Mess. No one acquainted with rond Merc I'We. in St<?ath Onrollna wilt deny thj te is a world-wide 1 ?'t have a political mesa. A"! tics just now. and seeking office whose soh* r.'mbiti 1st, it wffT not down to avoid anything that may pr I11 every age. and them from getting votes. and |i . the two sexes have anxious U? dp anything fn the equal ft? matters of th,rt th*y '"'ay think wfff help ad intelligence. In lt> voies. There Is not a pa d elsewhere, the In- ** Principle InTefved. so far a Is largely Indentical vaf<2 majortty of, these office w other. To say that ' concerned, the superiors or ir,- I-ook at the candidates for | 1 to show one's t,ar- "?r avows himself to repi / that they surpass views of the preaent gov. ift or. patriotism fs Rndt '* ,!* ?? patent as can he nstion. A id to say he expect*. fn this way, to roui age hRR been of a?y ? ? ?= ?"?"?? ???u I to ai\y state whsre them come to the polls in is to go against the CPt>*:td" aBd v?* ??J blF?' Ar, hl^roason wo do not ?*?<Jidate wants Blaaselsm, wl Mtccess of the more- ?r,that "W out of the n the country. It P?^n and he wants this don nore than my lady's caU8e ho ?* ? , ,f J* 18 brought r graft and whiskey. 7t ff?m *?U?5 s and school houses. th*\T*"ld ,OOTne 10 . easiest way to dla- flJh? wh#?,e ^"atlon is so con 1q tible as to disgust honest ci win ni? who have the welfare of the s. a fJw years jfnd heart' and CRUB0 thpm to t,,rn ? n -?|M Hr/? 'rtf I?a ,n disgust. Surely this is th< ar things Win turn ?f theure'Rn of the demagogue. , hope that the camoaign will pr he ehn^rJ ?? onP real manly, pa rlotic dtlie, on JefferaonTan 1s w,,,,n? fo 8erv* h,H CO"'1' Jenersonian. Greenwood Journal. 3 I] THIS NEVER HA - ~ : TO THE MANV/ ?ootli lme : HIS MONEY Si THEo^R/ lesir- /SOME FOOLISHY **J / ( 11 MAM HAS I.O.ST r Mv, !L ^ 3 u.e hi s vail lever :i tax n \r y ?1 Ajjj ave : sned, . ^gr--- ~a / ) inge" J /?, : ; Ts-' F > . pure 5 Did you ever lose money out of late? [ ] feel badly about it afterward? Dii man ^ and ;J money foolishly and "kick" your did? Put it in the bank and you S've ! Besides you'll find it more real en vime! j I than to spend. ouch M We will pay you 4 per cent inter mtes v seize you put in our bank and compoi )Hvi- > every three months. v ap- ? ??r.i The First Natior ^ a : LANCASTER, S. < mec-1 take UNITED MTWIKS DEFOSI1 find V that who i ******* iflffce, ' >r 0f | . - very i the " j; SAFETY AND LO o "A t i vain. | : I t is hard to get the two com mure i a an,! FARMERS' MUTUAL has tered ' at>ral I problem. For 21 vears, >ve 1 rn as, ; 1 bi5~l i protection at a minimum co t m? afford to take chances on v Your oun-' and live stock ? It is up to vo and f 1 * tcord gee R. T. BEATY, JrM Agent at Bank & Trust Co., Lan clean Or write D. E. BONEY, Manag uiiaiking : ^?^mm ^i?n, lered : n for , ? t apHOTn^ AA A A of V V f iz 'p6?1 <|r big claim, but we are fully prepared tc t*T b ? ^'ou ca" a* bank. After yo ,#*At ^ proof we do not see how you can fail 1 t> do e? at once. ad a A. good ^ STATEMENT OP THE CONDI! * THE FARMERS BANK & TRUST ft" I located at l^ancaater, S. C.. at the close of bue ree t RESOURCES. L -l Tim Llftan8 and l*l?- Capital S( counts $111,144.65 in . . . I" Overdrafts 1,726.97 Surplus F Y Furniture and Fin- Undivided ??* tures 2.875.00 less Cui ft ions ? pue from BaaJis penses i k , Z and Bankers 11,332.22 Paid .. horde Currency 3,025.00 Jndlvtdual lfm ? A Oold 1.005.00 " Subject event m Silver and Other Time Cert V Minor Coin. . . . 740.36 Deposit A Checks and Cash Certified C .rttcS A Item8 314 76 Cashier's ?kiw ToUa $182,163.fi Total . A ST\TM OF S9UTH CAROLINA, cover- It . County of Lancastet?as. .rnoV V Before nse came W. H. Millea, Cashier of t ^That I who? ?P?? be'ng duly sifrorn, says that the rid up statement is a true condition of said haak, a have eS of said bask. other V Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10 later- W. P. ROBINS cam~ A ?AU??t: W. T. Or ?gory, W. P. Bei ? ^' - ? . Directors. In It X * ' .. vote? 'jT- - 111 ' ?? % FARMERS BANK & TRUS tizeiis ^ w. T. GREGORY, President W. away J% * T. BEATY, Jr., Assistant C we X* oduce ______ ______________ ,r* - For Results Try a Ne\> I . , - t.4 ? - . ? y *- * ^-1 < * i n ium t MM.'.M* lPpens i MO HAS I \FE IN I lNK. | yj i rj i your pocket and \ d you ever spend self because you mill r\ r\ noitV or m n 1U UV UV4VMVA ijoyment to save 5 * est on the money md the interest ?? : y ial Bank : - : roitY. ? C' W COST bined, but the solved the lflvft 11Art st. Can you our buildings *> the Farmers caster, jer, Yorkville. T Bank X count is V Protection X i i n s t mistakes, i ids and needless iding. That is a ) substantiate it if ^ u have heard our to open an account ["ION OF X ' COMPANY, V Inesa March 4th I?14. . IABILITIES. ;ock Paid ^ *t>u,ueo.oo I und . . .. 1.&00.09 V Profits, A rrent Ex- jT ind Taxes V &.994.71 I Deposits Jf to Check. S9.64S.79 V Iflcates of *1,649.S9 JL /hecks 1,453.74 V Checks 31.,11 ! 91SS.1C1.94 Y he above earned back, J shore ead foregoing * ?* m shows by the books W. H. MII.l.EN th day of March 1914. A ON, Notary Public. inott, . B. Ferguson, J T COMPANY ? , H. MIEIJCN, Cashier. 1 'ashler. f 4 Te rs Want Ad.