Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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6 TAKKS * \KMKItS TO TASK Spartanburg Herald. "A Salaried Man" addresses a communication to the Charleston News and Courier in which he takes the fanners of the state to task, charging that many of them not only refuse to sell their cotton to discharge their pressing obligation, but decline, positively, to put up their cotton warehouse receipts as collateral for money they might borrow to meet this end. Whilst thsi might bo the case to some extent. 1- 1-1 - 1.1-nl,?t nt u!1 IU Ullil^ a uianivci luuivvuivuv vt ???? farmers on this charge is a little too sweeping. There are hundreds of them in this section of the state who are taking their medicine and going the limit to pay their bills, while there are perhaps others to whom the charge might apply. The News and Courier's correspondent say 8: "Have the farmers of South Carolina lost all sense of obligation? Are they willing to see our chief business enterprises 'go to the wall,' because they do not consider that they are getting a suitable price for their cotton? If so, they are singularly lacking in foresight, for the reason that, if they gratuitously destroy their credit now, from whom do they expect to procure their fertilizers and supplies for another season? Certainly not from the local merchant ,. who in macy instances, is on the verge of bankruptcy on *pf>nnnt of thfi nnnrnrpHpntPil Ludif ference of the farmers in regard to paying their obligations; nor from the fertilizer company that they have likewise failed to pay. Possibly some of them are counting on assistance from the local banks. "It is within your power to relieve conditions very materially, either by selling a portion of your cotton at the prevailing price, or inputting it in storage and turing over the warehouse receipts to your creditors. Are you going to do this, or are you going to continue to hold it on your premises, where it is laily deteriorating in value on account of exposure to the weather, and is of absolutely no value to any one as a means of raising funds? "Your selfish action is having a most demoralizing effect upon the business community, as hundreds of men are being thrown out of employment on account of the stagnation which is the natural result of impaired credits. Under the conditions are you entitled to sympathy or is the salaried man and merchant who see their employment gone and the means of livelihood taken away from them on account of your refusal to pay your honest debts." * Out of the beclouded situat'on that has existed for more than three months now it is becoming more and more clear every day that, while the man on the farm is "betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea." 'lis plight is not so extreme as that of the merchant and the man working on a salary. The merchant who has "carried" the farmer, especially those in the lower part of the state, are facing failure, while the traveling man and the salaried man, who may lose their positions any day, are at their row's end. At first the impulse to aid the injured, the country ran to the rescue of the farmer. of your household to lght the Germs At once. Dr. Boll's Pine-Tar-Honey is ine for Colds and Coughs, It loosens the Mucous, stops the Cough and soothes the Lungs. It's guaran toed. Only 2Sc at your Druggist. but now it is developing that there are others equally as hard put. It is simply the duty o all classes to do what they can. It must beas the bear hunter said of bis course in getting away from a she bear that came on after he ad emptied his gun, "every toe must push a little." Hold on to Your I'aper. Newberry Observer. You say it is "hard times." You will find many to agree with you. It is undoubtedly a t'me calling for genuine economy; not a time to waste money. But do not be led Into a false economy and stint yourself of things that are of so much value to you as a really good newspaper. Such a paper as The Obser vcr, or tuners mat could be mentioned, is worth to any thinking man or woman many times its cost. To be without a newspaper in these stirring times of the 20th century is to be almost out of the world?a > # hermit, a recluse, cut off front n. knowledge of the great events that are taking place on the earth and (tom interest in the marvelous m4yements that are demanding the attention and sympathy and help of all who Jove their fellow man. And, so, not with an altogether elfish motive, we would urge every one to keep up his paper, and thus keep up with the world in which he * j.r? Your Cold is Dangerosn Break It Up?Now A no Id is readily catching. A rundown system Is suscepdhe to Germs. You owe it to vourself and to others ST ATE-WIPE PROHIBITION. Movement (iaining Strength in the State. To the Editor of The News Never before has the outlook for prohibition been so promising. In every county of the state there r.re men at work circulating the petitions for the referendum. Four counties have already called for additional MankB, these beli-g Laurens. Par?ington, Marlboro and Clarendon That prohibition can prohibit, and j will prohibit when wo have faithful | men in office, is proved by the exi ample of Russia, and the experience j of Kansas. This great corrective measure was imposed upon the peo, pie by the Czar, and the benefits J have been so apparent that we may I expect it to continue in force permanently. (In The Outlook of December 16, is a fine study of prohibition, which I very earnestly commend to your consideration.) Our temperance forces are united in the demand for prohibition. We favor the petition for a referendum because the legislature will be much more ready to grant a referendum, thereby submitting the question to the people, than to enact a law outright, without a clearly expressed demand by the people; furthermore, n. ramn.ilrn for nrohihition will he not only educative, but will evoke a compelling sentiment for prohibition which will tend powerfully toward the enforcement of the law. This Is our time, and we must not leave any step untaken which will contribute to a happy issue. We are opposing a business deeply entrenched and heavily armed, j For our success we must have the 1 unstinted co-operation of all who favor prohibition. Yours very sincerely, J. K. I3REEDIN, Secretary. Columbia, S. C.. Dec. 28, 11? 1 4. Fighting. , Fountain nil Tribune. When men fight fair?that is, when they stand on their two feet I and use their fists in the m; nner prescribed and followed wherever j men love clean sports and love fair ! play? a bout between two ?i< gry citizens may last for a considerable ! length of time. For they tight by the rules laid down in thU age tor gentlemen and rulae alway.i hamper free action and impose restrictions. On the unrestricted contrary, I when men who have no respect for j rules, and who reserve the right to i kick and gouge and bite and clinch, engage in an altercation that termi| i.ates in violence, the battle that j tollows is usually as short as 't is 1 spectacular. ' The same truth holds with ia! tlons. War, even i r.'er the modern and I rc-cnlled ";i -"'m" rules, is a na?ty : In siness. Hut without rules it would l> * forty de*(e?? worse than Dante's hell. The other day my friends, the Qermans, broke one of the generally accepted rules !>y bombarding several unfortified Dnglish towns. And the act has caused the layman to wonder why rules were : made, and who shall punish the nation that breaks them. Any civilized nation, like any civilized man, will fight in a clean and orderly fashion while there is hope j of winning in that manner, but when the moment of final test comes, when defeat seems inevitable, and defeat means disgrace and national death, then all rules will be thrown into the disregard and nations will adopt whatever tactics i seem best fitted to accomplish the business of destruction. Since the business of war is to destroy, why have rules at all? War under restrictions will continue indefinitely. Savage, brute war would hurry to a merciful close. | When an invading army dest-oys I every farm and fence, levels every city and town, and burns whatever it cannot carry away, the invaded ' country is definitely and unquestionably conquered. I have no doubt that under such a system fewer lives would be sacrificed, and less and shorter suffering 1 caused the neutral peoples of the I world. A thing that is worthy of the do, ing merits thorough doing. If there ' be merit in killing the citizens and ! destroying the property of another country, then by all means make a thorough job of it. Destroy utterly. And do It quickly. / War is no gentleman's game. It is the pastime of hell. Then let hell direct it sown, and complete the task in the shortest possible time, so that those of use who are engaged in the prosaic business of making a living may resume the even tenor of our way . Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fall* to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrndlag Pilea in 6 to Mdaya. The Brat application gives Ease and Raat. 30c. THE LANCASTER WBWB. , ?. . . . * ? t * - ?. * - - IV * ( Rayo Make 1 A Ple? I J * I VHE full mellow glow | J X your eyes and makes r? 1 I absence of glare and harshne I to you. It is this quality t I recommend the soft light jsayi> lis I I t : :i 1 xi_ _ iciliuii ill uii iainy>. nu k light always. Rayo Lamps a.e easy to lig pensive?yet the best light ai Your dealer will be glad to ! STANDARD OI I I WuklnttOB, D. C. (NEW JE1 I I Norfolk, V?. DAI Tilt r] Richmond, Va. BAJLUM < fel IB LIQUOR IS FOE TO LONG LIFE [ Stutly of Life ami llisk Insurance a Companies IC11 ti Keveals Interesting Facts. New York, Dec. 28.?Tlie loss of '' i five hundred thousand men as the ? result of the present warfare could I be made pood in less tlinn ten years ' , through complete abstinence from j I alcoholic drinks by all the inhabi| tants of Russia, acording to Arthur Hunter, a New York actuary, who reported to the convention of the Association of Life Insurance I'resi- ' dents here some ofthe results of an 1 exhaustive mortuary investigation just completed by the life insurance companies into 2.000,000 insured 11 lives in the past 25 years. c Mr. Hunter is chairman of the central bureau of the Medico- ^ Actuarial committee which has charge of the three and one half year inquiry. The investigation j dealt with the experience of fortythree of the leading companies of r the United States and Canada in a j i great many groups of insured persons supposed to have a higher than , the average among insured lives. ( While the fundamental object of the investigation was to enable the com- ( panics in determining what risks in , the future sliould be accepted, rated i up or declined, Mr. Hunter said that ( the results also could he utilized to . lengthen human life. Taking up some of the specific re- < suits of the investigation, Mr. Hun- \ tor said: "Nothing has been more i . conclusively proven than that a steady use of alcoholic beverages, i or occasional is deleterious to health ] i In my judgment, it has also been < proven ueyonu perauventure or t doubt that total abstinence from al- 1 cohol is of value to humanity; it is t certain that abstainers live longer t than persons who use alcoholic bev- i j erages. Among the men who ad- t mltted that they had taken nleohol oeeaslonally to excess in the past. ( but whose habits were considered ; ' satisfactory when they were insur- j j ed, there were 289 deaths w hile , there would have been only 190 had f this group been made up of insured , lives in general. The extra mor! tality was therefore, over 50 per , ' cent, which was equivalent to a re- j I duction in the average life of these '? | men of over four years." < One of the most significant results | of the investigation, ho said, was tho < high mortality experienced among railroad men. Among locomotive t engineers the mortality was 60 per | WHENEVER YOU 111 A MIL TQHI The Old Standard Grove's Ta? Valuable as a General Tonic b Drives Out Malaria, Enriche the Whole System. For Grc Yon know what yon art taking when ye aa the formula ia printed on every label a! tonic propertiea o' QUININB and IRON, tonic and ia in Taateleaa Form. It hae n< Weakneaa. geoeral debility and loaa of ap Mother a and Pale, Sickly Children. Ri Relieves nervous depression and low spir purifies the blood. A Trne Tonic and Sure No family should be without it. Gaaruatn DECEMBER 29, 1914. *" "" r \ r ? y >."ji ? 1 S Reading j isure 11 of the llayo Lamp rests |-| ading a pleasure. The j f ss will be a distinct relief I j hat causes scientists to 1 j of the oil lamp. The j ! the highest point of per- j j lare, no flicker, correct I I ht and care for. Inex- I J I any price. | j show you the Rayo. { j L COMPANY fcSEY) Ch?rlo?t?, N. C. || IODE Ck*rle?ton, W. V*. ] 1 lUKb Ch*rU*toa, S. C. I ( ent in excess of that amone the in ured as a whole, which is equivalent o five years' reducton in the averse life time. "There is a general impression hat saloon keepers do not live as ong as persons in non-hazardous iceupations," he continued, "but it j now generally known that most lasses which are connected with ithor the manufacture or sale of iquor liuve : high mortality. Among a.loon proprietors whether they utend the bar or not, there was an xtra mortality of 70 per cent; the auses of death indicated that a free se of alcohol beverages had caused uany of the deaths. In the foureen sub-divisions of the trades conlected with the manufacture and ale of alcohol, there was only one lass which had a normal mortality ,nd that was the distillery proprieors." The Duty of Citizenship. Augusta Chronicle. The position of citizen in a com nunity carries with It a respond.bil ty?an obligation. To be a citizen of a community ii o be a part of thet community anc o contribute, each in his own vaj ? for all citizens must do one thiu; >r the other?either to that coin nunity's betterment or detriment. No man In a community the Bi : ) ' Augusta can live unto himre' ilone, or for himself alone. Then s a certain sort of obligation h< )w?g to his neighbors, and a muel greater obligation that he ow a t< .he community as a whole. Every citizen receives a bene:! From the community n which hi ives?the companionship ani so liety of his fellows; the blessings o ichoolo and churches; protection ti ife and property, as well as protec lion to health, and other btreut loo numerous to mention - -aud.. so n good proportion, at least, he we. i debt to that community. The man who is best dischargin. hat debt is the man who th* o rnd deals with public question* an public movements in terms of ilu community as a whole?ui.d i.o lolely, or oven primarily, from tin itandpoint of self-interest. The privilege of citizenship phue: jpon him the responsibility of meet ng public questions fairly an iquarely; never dodging tln m, neve compromising with them ? ?1 vay giving his best to their solution a: 3od gives him the light to see it. A man may not shirk this respon nihility by saying to himself, or ox plaining to his neighbors, "Oh. :ED HI GROVE'S iteless chill Tonic is Equally ecause it Acts on the Liver, s the Blood and Builds up >wn People and Children, ______ m take Grove's Tasteless chill Tonie lowing thst it contains the well knows mm mm mm mm IUC PUVU|(tl( 1/lllCI > equal for Malaria, Chill* and Fever, petite. Give* life and vigor to Nursing moves Biliousness without purging, its. Arouses the liver to action and Appetizer. A Complete Strengthener. id hy your Pruggiat. Wa mean it. 50c. am out of tho active run of things," 2 or "I am willing to leave il to 1* others." For, so long as ho has the a Health and strength to* participate, | and so long as his personal o.* busi- s ness interests are of consequence to e himself or othero, it is as much his 8 duty to speak his mind and d*s- f charge the services of a citizen as it is the duty of any other man. It is not alone his duty as a citizen to assist, as far as he is ?ble, in all worthy movements?oe they of ^ a business nature or purely human- p I Itarian?that make for his city's li advancement and betterment, but it ? | is equally his duty to favor or op- Q | pose questions of public policy; a particularly when they touch tho j moral life and welfare of the com- * | munlty. j 1- l Lancaster & Chester Ry. Co. Schedule in EfTect Dec. 27. 11*14. ? Eastern Time. ,, WESTBOUND, j Lv. Lancaster ...6:00am?3:30pm | Lv. Fort Lawn ..6:30am 1:08pm Lv. Bascomville .6:47am?4:28pm j Lv. Kichburg ....6:58am?4:43pm Ar. Chester .... ! 7:40am?5:25pm EASTBOUND. Lv. Chester .... 9:00am?6:45pm Lv. Kichburg ... 9:45am?7:27pm " Lv. Bascomville .10:00am?7:38pm | Lv. Fort Lawn ..10:30am?7:55pin Ar. Lancaster ...11:00am?8:25pm p Connections?Chester with Southern. Seaboard and Carolina & North- s 1 western Hallway's. Fort Lawn, with Seaboard Air p; |L ienltallway. i.aucasier ,wth Southern Railway. A. P. McLURE, Supt. h TAX NOTICE. h ; Auditor's Notice for Tnv Returns for 1014. The Auditor will make the fotlow- ^ ! ing appointments In person or by ideputy : ^ I Osceola Monday, January 4th. Pleasant Valley Tuesday, .January 5tli. ^ Helair, Wednesday, January fitli. i Van Wyck, Thursday, January 7tli. i Dwlght, Monday, January lltli. Trade8ville Tuesday, January 12th Taxahaw, Wednesday, January 13th. A .S. Mungo, Thursday, January ,, 14th in tiie moraine. I( Flat Creek, Thursday, January 14tli, in the evening. Welsh's Friday, January 15th. Kershaw Monday and Tuesday, I January 18tli and 19th. II Heath Springs Wednesday and {Thursday, January 20th and 21st. ^ . I Pleasant Hill Friday, January n January 22nd. ,1 Carmel Saturday, January 23r(J. J Jj All persons between Nthts ag?s of Fresh Co Celery?Cr Silver Slice J ? Pound Cake | p ^ | Chocolate cake , , Fresh shipment h j Edwards <! Get your coal from u turns cold. We sell b f! _________ ? i if GREETING! s Did you have a GOOD ; did not, let us tell you wl give us your trade the pas Now we wish YOU a p and will look for it this CALLS and hearty CO-Ol and ourselves. Our stock is COMPLE1 promptly. But tout wife a WHITI Wtil sell it Bennett-l I and 60, except those exempt by aw, shall pay a $1.00 poll tax, also II persons between the ages of 21 nd 66 shall pay a $3.00 communtaion tax for road purposes. Returns hall ,be made of all personal proprty and transfers of all real estate hall be noted. 60 per cent penalty or non-returns . JOS. W. KNIGHT. County Auditor. Notice of Klcrtlon. Whereas, one-thrld of the elctors nd one-third o fthe free-holders of ho age of 21 years, residing in telle Town school district No. 21, iave petitoned the county board of ducation to order an election to deermine whether or not a special tax f four (4) mills shall be levied on 11 real and personal property. We therefore order the election o be held by the trustees of said >lle Town school district, No. 21, t the school house on Wednesday, )ecember 30. Only those who return real or peronal property and who exhibit their ax receipts and registration cert'Icates shall bo allowed to vote. Tho opening and closing hours hall be the same as in all general lections. V. A. LINGLE, J. K. CONNORS. W. B. TWITTC, County Hoard of Education. SOUTHERN RAILWAY "Premier Carrier of the South." ASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES. Trains arrive Lancaster from: To. 118?Yorkville. Rock Hill and Intermediate stations 8:31 a. m. Fo. 113?Charleston, Columbia and Intermediate stations lu:06 a. m. ro. 114?Marlon, filacksburg, Charlotte and Intermediate stations, 1:36 p. m. ro. 117?Coi?mbla, Klngsvllle c^d intermediate stations, 7:48 p. m. Trains leave Lancaster for: lo. 118?Klngsvllle, Columbia and Intermediate stations. 8:31 a. m. ;o. 113?Rock Hill, Blacksburg, Marion, Charlotte and Intermediate stations, 10:05 a. m. H>. 114?Klngsvllle, Columbia, Charleston a^.d Intermediate stations 1:35 p. m. Jo. 117?ltock Hill, Yorkv!llo and intermediate stations, 7:33 p. m. N. B.?Schedule flguros arc pubshed as informa n only and nre. ot. guaranteed. For Information a* i p. sponger faros, etc., call on W. B. CAUTHEN, Agent. \V. L. McGEE, A. G. P. A.. Columbia, S. C. W. H. CAFFEY, D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. tie Quinlnp Thet Does Not Affect The Head iccnuse ol its tonic anil laxative effect. LAXA'IVH IiROMO QUINlNi; is better than ordinary luinine and does not cauae nervousness nor inging in head. Remember the full name and x>k (or the signature of B. W. GROVB. 35c. coanuts anberries * each ).... 10c vice each week Jr Hortnn s before the weather rick and shingles also ?_T0 ALL CHRISTMAS i If you liy. ecaiiHc you did not t year. rosperous year for 1915. [>ugh the CONSTANT PERATION of both you CE a*id we will sefve you S SEWING MACHINE, at COST. i-J . 'erry Co.