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Why In Optimism Pratlcal? The Scotch Optimist. It should be scarely necessary to repeat that a real Optimist is not one who says he thinks that everything Is good but rather one who lem.ws that the best is always possible of attainment, and therefore he aims at its establishment in all his business activities. A llttlo consideration will ?linw I that such an aim la not only practical but when put Into practice as a business creed It is also highly successful. Most of tho men who attained business success have been Optimists to this extent at least, that they believed In success, In them-, selves, and In their power to achieve, j They have also been Optimists In practice by amlng at the best, by working for efllclenfllcy in their mothods, and persistently attempting to Improve on their own or their competitors' achievements. Now It is surely apparent to anyone who has studied the business history of the world that success follows efficiency, and that no real success Is over attained without efllclency, In goods or service. The principle at the root of all business, ayccess is service. Before the dawn of history, primi-l tive man initiated business when ho realized that he could exchange what! he had surplus of for that which he needed more, and when one individual found he could work for the1 many. The man who, either through Nevertheless, I can recognize the fact that Germany is as hypocr^t'ce.1 ?that Germany is as big a liar as any one of the other nations. Germany pretends to be flght ng for national existence; pretends that the war was in a measure forced upon her by England, who was Jeal eus of Germany's rapid growing oommcrcia! power. Hnt German? could have easily avoided this conflict; could have left Austria to take her whipping from Russia. And in that case England woud have kept out. Germany was not bound by race to Austria, for Austria is made of a mongrel and varied stock. She was bound by treaty, but statesman seem agreei*. that she was also hound to respect Belgium's neutralitly. If she could ignore one "scrap of paper" wh*-n the necessity arose, why not the other? Whatever the hidden motives behind German's action .the one clear uiuuniij vii uiiiiiuuu or pernaps in-1 ability to fight or to hunt, started to' make a supply of stone axes or arrowheads for the rest of the tribes was the forerunnor of the modern factory. Whatever form his reward would take it must be evident that the more people he supplied the more he would profit, and the better the quality of his work the eas. ter wluld the profit be secured. If there were more than ono axemaker the man turning out the best work ! would reap the greatest benflts. From then until now and henceforth as long as business will endure this law must he exemplified that i "4he profits more who serves' best" It follows, therefore, that one of the most potent influences in the progress of the world has been n benevolent one. It may not yet be generally accepted but some day it will be recognized by most people that the only influence which makes for progress are those that are good. It is now commonly admitted by business men that no man can succeed by being dishonest. Soon it will be equally acknowledged that no man is ever helped in buisness by the use of wrong qualities of any kind, whether moral, intellectual or even physical. True, a man may attain success and yet have some serious -faults, but his success has not been j gained by the exercise of his faults. | Rather, it came in spite of them, and , because he had enough good quail-! ties to outwelght his bad ones. The truth is, the only power which luunce 11/1 ouiiCBO ill uu?illt*?? 1? 1 good In its multifarious forms, and for that reaon the business Optt-: mists in trying to demonstrate "the cult of the best" are working in accordance with the law of progress, and so must necessarily share in the success which follows all work in harmony with existing laws. That is why optimism is a practical theory and is a help, not only to the indlvi. dual practicing it, but also to the business community as a whole. The liars. Fountain Inn Tribune. To the most of us, a nation is mere ly sb an individual. We think of France as a Frenchman, of Germany as a Teuton. And we are for or "agin" a nation just ae we take sides in a matter of baseball. Personally, I want to see Germany win in the present conflict. I am deeply prejudiced against the ruling 'house and the cruel arlstoracy of Russia (and they constitute Rnssla) and I know that England has been needing a good* sound licking !">r deeades. fact remains that she could have j uvioded the war. Germany lies when Bhe says war was necossary. England lies in the same spirit and almost the same words. She points with honor to the violation of Belgium's neutrality, but sees no ovil in Japan's violation of prostrate China's neutrality. She pretends to dread practical slavery to a German over lord and prates much of liberty but what liberty had she given Ireland and India? She sheds tears over the cruel subjugation of weak Belglum by a mighty Germany, but forgets the Boers sho pillaged. She lr.ys much stresB to win our love, on the antagonistic statements concerning us made by German writers in years gone by, but meantime sho nonchalantly interferes with our shipping as by divine right. England is a hypocrite and a liar. France seeks sympathy because of the "barbarous Teuton'' trampliug down her fields. But Franco has been looking and longing for this war since Napoleon III was whipped. She has never forgiven the Gormans for taking Alsace and Lorraine from her 1 ?but she wants the world to forget that she stole those provinces from Germany years bofore the Franco1 Prussian war that restored them to j Germany. ! Russia gives tho world to under. [ stand that she Is In the war merely | to keep poor little Servia from be| ing bullied, but Russia lies. She isln the war because sho thought she saw a chance to get down to the Mediterranean. They all lie. They are beasts fighting tooth and nail, blinded by jealosy and prejudice, crazy with avarrlco and greed. The are fighting because they think war?because they habitually talk It, and plan it, and dream It. They are fighting because they wore prepared for It?as the man who totes a pistol seeks an opportunity tq use It or show off. + ? j The poor, the Ignorant, the work worn Clement of the fighting nations world never have voted for war. Tet these fill the ranks and feed the cannon. Well, their rotting bodies will r>ake ferlllcer for crops when the war Is over. Perhaps that will comipensate the overlords. Children as Children. President Hadley, of Yale said not long ago In The Companion, "The most useful knowledge Is that which will make us the best citizen*." Since knowledge is largely experience. rather than mere information, it to)lows that a good pan of the knowledge that makes good citizens must come from actual work for ?'i\ic order, cleanliness and beauty. ; ?Vhat we learn from working on i our own responsibility we nevor for-; get. The natural place for the child \ to get that kind of edur.at'oa in is, i of course the home. The old household "chores" that modere improvements have made no longer necessary are Inadequately replaced by work in the school gymnasium .at the school carpenter's bench and In the schom course In domestic science. These things are all good, but they fail to Inspire in the child the sense of reality and the sense of proprietor ship that are necessary for the best educational results. To supply that need the Junior Civic Leagues are making use of the opportunity oflored by the home plot or the back yard. They set the boy at work first In his own garden.. There he learns by experience something about trees and plants and Insect pests and birds. lie finds out what makes a good path; he perceives that the debris and the stagnant puddles that spoil the fair face of h?s little domain are breeding placae for flies and mosquitoes. It Is easy then to Interest him In the preservation of trees and plants, of birds and animals; the extermination of files end mosquitoes; roadmaking. It la easy to lead him on from pride In his garden to pride In his steeta, his neighbrhood, in his town. Enrolled with other enthusl. asts he wagen war on everything that militates against civic cleanliness, order and beauty. He has mastered the primer of good citizenship. By the time these hoys reach their last year in the high school, they are probably learning something about conditions nnder which they lire. At the stage when they are receiving this information in "civics" it will be most beneficial to them and to the community if some group of responsible men will let them share In work that the town needs. At WinstonSalem, in North Carolina, tho board 1 of trade has recently organized the boys into a sort of junior association and has employed them in gathering statistics for an Industrial survey of the town. It is not hard to guess what effect this carefully supervised. enlightening boys Important work has had on the boys. THE LANCASTER NEW? Fountain Inn Tribune. Often I hear men say: "So-andso hasn't any religion," and I wonder what they mean by the expression. Now, religion is "the outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existonce of a Cod." So far as 1 can recall at present, there isn't a man of my acquaintance who does not show, by word or deed, that he recognizes the existence of a God. So that, to that ex- | tent at least, all men of my ac-1 qualntauce have religion. But if these critics mean by their slighting expression that So-and-so does not, in word and deed, portray me peneci religion or Jesus Christ, | then I will agree with them most i heartily, for I could not name three j men and womeu whom I believe to J bo absolutely consistent Christians, i All of the Christtan religion Is j contained in four words: "Love. God; love one another." You can' add nothing to that. That Is all Christ taught. 1 suppose all Christians love God, but practically all of them fall down on the latter hnlf of the teaching. i In a sense I love everybody. That, Is, I don't hate anybody bad enough to want to Injure him. But there aro some people that I love better 1 and better as they get further and further away from me and I suspect you are in about the same fix. I haven't a bit of Christian charity when it comes to considering the case of the liar and the dead-beat and the sneak-thief. Once upon a time Christ talked to a morally clean young man, and said to him: "If thou wouldst be per feet, go and sell what thou host and give to the poor, and come and follow me." If there are any perfect Christians in this section, I wish the* would come In and let me publish of their names! 1 want to see just one perfect human before I die, any-1 way. - .. . j There are many near Christians In this town. They are assured of a butter world than this one after crossing the Valley; they find a peace right hefd (bat money couldn't buy; they take Christ aft a partner In their business; they actually love mm as & rriend who undent* r.nds and helps and they are so well satisfied w'th His love and His good wll'. that they don't care a whrop In a rain barrel what anybody else thinks of their "religion" or lack oif It. And If that kind of religion is j good for a ticket into glory, 11 reckon it's good enough as a sched-; ule of living in this vain world. HAILED AS AUGURY OF BETTER TIMES Wilson's (setter Causes Stir in Wall Street?Some of the Good Factors. New York, Nov. 18.?President Wilson's reassuring statement to the I secretary of the treasury in connec-i tion with the inauguration of the: new banking system is almost the main topic of discussion in financial j circles today. Taken in conjunction with the compltion of the cotton pool it was hailed as an augury of betterment in other directions. One more step towards the restoration of normal financial conditionh was recorded during the day, when the committee of bankers and bond dealers, which was organized soon after the outbreak of the war to supervise dealings in unKsted bonds and unlisted guaranteed stocks, an nounced its retirement. There was another conference between leading banking interests and stock exchange authorities relative to the advisability of an early reopening of that institution. But the result was once more inconclumIva Industrial conditions offered greater promise, according to trade advices. Purchases of pig iron have In ceased matrlally. Buying of flnishod steel this month was considerably in excess of the preceding month. Some of the larger railways came into the market for new eqirpment. Business for Paris and Berlin was the smallest In some weeks. All continental rates were higher. The Imperial Bank of Germany again showed an increase of gold holdings. The more detailed statement of the country's exports for October dlsmlosed the fact that shipments of breadstuffs for that month were almost three times as large as in the an mo m or*# K In 1 Ql o Don't Delay Treating Your t'ongh. I A slight cough often becomes serious, lungs get congested, bronchial tubes fill with mucous. Your vitalitly Is reduced. You need Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar Honey. It soothes your Irritated air passages, loosens mucous and makes your system resist colds. Give the baby and chil- I (Iron Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar lloney It's g uaranteed to help them Only ; 25c a>. your druggist. S NOV KM ISKK 20. 1!M 1. i i'-'I America's Gri Ore The mott endorsed Tested s? l Will gro1 UOOQ to the Pi / other pis V duces S0< M. VII \ hay per i \ soil, reeii if 41bs. of i may lbs. broa o become a OCCQ per lb. at next yoai *- higher a; r orage ing. we parcel pc Silage freight < monoy a money r E 1 I i : LAUGH AT CLERK'S SALE. STATB OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster. In Common Plena. Robert S. Floyd, In his own right, and as assignee, Plaintiff. / TS. Annie Shflelds, James Shields, Wilbert Stttalds, Adah Shields, Mura Shields, Ebrman Shields, Lizzie SHlelds, Etlel Shields. Bessie Hollls and /Lula Walker, Defendants. / Pursuant/to a decree made in the above stated case by Special Judge C. M. Kflrd.Xdated Nov. 10th. 1914, I will sell Republic auction to the highest bidder\at Lancaster Court House on the Arst Monday In December next, within the legal hours _j ?<..le, thj following described real estate, to-wit I All that certfiin piece, parcel, or lot of land, being, lying and situate in the county ol Lancaster, State of South Carolina, Yontaining *wo (2) acres, more Or leSB, and having the following boundaries, to-wit: On the north by lands of John J. Bridges, on the east and south by Berry Mobley, and on the west by the right of way of the Southern Railway Company. Terms of Bale, cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. PAUL MOORE, C. C. C. L. C. H. HINES, Plaintiff's Attorney. CLERK'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster. In Common Pleas. M. Robert Witherspoon et al, Plaintiffs, \ \ (.oorge W.^VWttherspoon, et al, Defendants. A Pursuant to A decree made in the above stated daso by Special Judge C. M. Etlrd, /dated Octover 27th, 1914, I will Aell, at public auction, to the highelt bidder, at Lancaster Court House,\n the first Monday in December nextX within the legal hours of sale, tlyb following described real estate, UJ-wit: Ons whole square in tho Town of I>ancaster, containing about three t2) acres, more or less, and bounded on the north J by Barr street, south by Meeting street, east by White street an\j west by Main street. Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser or purchasers to pay for papers. PAUL MOORE, r> e e i. r> JONES & JONES, Plaintiff's Attorneys. T-3t CITATION. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Lancaster. By J. E. Stewman, Judge of Probate. Whareasi J. B. Caskey has made suit to mtl to grant him letters of adminlstrakon of the estate and effects of S. Caskey, deceased These are, therefore, to cite and admlnish all and singular the kindre i and creditors of the said deceased, that they TK and appear before me. in the courn of probate, ro be held at L&ncaatetl on 1st day of December next^afteV publication thereof. at 11 o'clock iiDthe forenoon, to show cause, if anr they hare, why tho said administration should not bo granted. Given under my hand, this 17th da) of November, Anno Domnlul, m*. J. H. STEWMAN. Probate Judge. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. All persons having claims against the estAte of W. E. Roberta, Sr., deceased, Bee^hereby notified to file the same, daly verified, witlh the undersigned, ui those Indebted to said estate wlll\^?as? make payment likewlee. \ W. U. CLTBURN, Admr. Estate of W. E. Roberta, Sr., 1 Deceased. Oct. 26, 1914. 0-27-N3-16-17 j An Arrive Liver Means Health. 1 If you wiant good health, a clear ' complexion a>vd freedom from dizzl- * ness, const] pinion, biliousness, 1 headache and lndlfcwetlon, take Dr. I King's New Life Pills. They dflrt out fermenting and undigested 1 foods, clear tno blood and cure con- ' stipation. Onlj 25c at your drug- 1 gist. ! 1 iatest Grass Comes >w Sudan <ir i wonaerrui grass or the age lntrod highly by the U. S. Agricultural De iverely by the farmers In all parts ur anywhere sorghum does from tin iciflc. Makes more and better hay .nt known. Under ordinary condlt ) to 600 lbs. of seed and 3 to 6 tons acre the same season. Adapted to a itlng drought and standing rain. T( jeed to sow an acre in drills and 16 dcast. Quality of hay equals timoth livestock oat it better than alfalfa. p^t. Last spring the seed sold for id thVse who grew it then expect to p It us now selling for $ 1 per lb. ui i the aipply is limited and the dcraan will sV^d pure Sudan Grass seed r >st for lb. in lots of 60 lbs. i than one lb. considered. Larger :hoaper. Better order your seed nov nd be suro of getting it besides a text year. Address I n gene K si lox, IS, Aldlne, Harris. <V>unty. Text DROUGHT?SM11 The Pon a "LOREN" I? The Huli\v is hei'a a!r< Now is the time to got thi his account. iLid get votes may work foX you iu thii best line of Now Nuts, I Cakes, Cranberries and a serves and Canned Good THIS IS HEADQUAB GIVING AND CH] Our New Orleans Mol Cane will be here next ^ yet. Come at once. Bennett-1 Beef and N. Cattle are kept for two purposes; f duction and for milk production. To they must be healthy. There is nol keep them in continued good healtt them well quicklyViJj^n sick, than a I BeeDee^agj Stirs up the liver?Drivi disease poisons away. t resh Cc Celery?Ci Silver Slice Pmmd Cake Chocbjate cake Fresh shipment t Edwards < Get yonr coal from i turns cold. We sell I < Notice of Election. Whereas, one-tlrd of the freelolders Aid one-third of the electors of thh age of 21 years, residing n Hell Town school district, No. 21, save petltl\ped the county board of iducation tlk order an election to ietermine whether or not a special ax of 4 mllllLshall be levied on all oal and persoVil property for school purposes. \ We hereby o\er said election to , !>e held by the t^stees in said Bell j Town school district. No. 21, on Wednesday, Dec. 2/Spt tho school louse. I 7 From Africa. luced and partmont. of Texas. i Atlantic m a i than any iVlakC iona proof choice a M 11 sorts of IVloney ? iu ' to 2 4 lbs. 1X7L. y and all W 11611 Will not *i to $4 rt.i ^ lant more V^UlCl ad will ko d ineroas- P??/\f\c repaid by V^rOpS and under lots by PaSl r and save * t*U ak* m ore L> I 1*111 1 M. .E AT RAIN , l y is Here 3 HIS NAME. d and a perfect gem it is. e votes. Ask papa to pay >. Your uncles and aunts s jvay, too. We have the taisins, Currants, Citron, i full line of Pickles, Pres. tpdq Pr?T> nrrr * itttm ix-uivw x va x n mi ivpaiSTMAS GOODS. asses are fine. Georgia veek. Aluminum at Cost ferry Co. [ilk A-plenty for boef prodo either right Anr time any of my cathing better to tic get anything wrong I, or to make with them I give them a ew doses of? few doses ot BetDet STOCK MEDICINE. They soon get well. Johft S. Carroll. 01 CINE Moorhead. Mis*. SS 33c, ftOc and (1. per can. At your dealer'*. ??6i >coanuts anberries h each j ... 10c wice each week A & Horton is hefarp thp wpatHor brick and shingles also At which election only nueh electors as return reel or personal property for taxation and exhibit their tax receipts and rogistratlon certificates shall be allowed to vote. The ODenlne anrl Hnnlnc shall bo the name aa in all general elections. V. A. L.INGL.E), J. K. CONNORS, W. B. TWITTT, Connty Board of Education. Piles Cured In 6 to M Days Vonr druggist will refuud money if PAZO OINTM KNT fail* to cure anv ca?e of Itching, Blind, Bleedingor Protruding Pitea in 6to 14day*. The first application given P.nse and Rest. 30c.